Alabama Shakes Grammy-nominated 2012 debut Boys & Girls marked the arrival of a major new rock n roll band. Peaking at No. 6 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and No. 3 on the UK Albums Chart, it serves up a vibrant fusion of swampy, dirty Southern rock, blues and soul delivered with punk rock fervor. From the highly…
Alabama Shakes Grammy-nominated 2012 debut Boys & Girls marked the arrival of a major new rock n roll band. Peaking at No. 6 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and No. 3 on the UK Albums Chart, it serves up a vibrant fusion of swampy, dirty Southern rock, blues and soul delivered with punk rock fervor. From the…
2021 is shaping up to be the year of Alan Vega. Every year should be but, this year is definitely it. The announcement of the opening of the Alan Vega archives which will be unleashing an untold amount of unreleased material dating back to 1971 via Sacred Bones, the release of Mutator (a lost album…
Alan Vega s work with Suicide is revered by just about every electronic music artist who s tapped a keyboard or moved a mouse; his snarling, rockabilly-styled vocals teamed with Martin Rev s ominous, repetitive soundscapes blazed a trail for post-punk, synth pop, industrial rock, techno…the list goes on. Vega s solo career substantially overlapped…
This item is a cassette tape, not a vinyl LP. Havoc and Bright Lights marked a rebirth for Alanis Morissette, the first album she recorded as a newlywed mother. Delivered a full eight years later, Such Pretty Forks in the Road is the second act of the story, an album about learning how to find contentment at middle…
First New Studio Album Since 2012 s Havoc And Bright Lights! Revered singer songwriter Alanis Morissette returns with her highly anticipated ninth studio album, Such Pretty Forks In The Road. Morissette s first original album since 2012 s Havoc And Bright Lights is introduced by the urgent pop tracks, Reasons I Drink and Smiling, which were co-written by Alanis and…
Alanis Morissette s The Collection on 2LP Available for the First Time Internationally renowned singer songwriter and folk-rock high priestess Alanis Morissette released her greatest hits album The Collection nearly 20 years ago, and now – for the first time ever on vinyl – this collection of hit records is being reissued as a double LP. Beautifully assembled and repackaged…
Alanis Morissette s The Collection on 2LP Available for the First Time Internationally renowned singer songwriter and folk-rock high priestess Alanis Morissette released her greatest hits album The Collection nearly 20 years ago, and now – for the first time ever on vinyl – this collection of hit records is being reissued as a double LP. Beautifully assembled and repackaged…
A meetings of minds and cultures well-suited to the Alasdair Roberts’ syncretic fervor: responding to the invitation of Norwegian fiddler Hans Kjorstad, he found a group of musicians well-versed in folk, jazz and free-playing. Their diverse musics deeply inform this collection of Roberts’ originals and Scottish and Norwegian traditional song
Albert Ayler’s Love Cry Newly Remastered from Original Analog Sources and Pressed on 180g Vinyl LP at Third Man Pressing in Detroit as Part of the Verve By Request Series 1968’s Love Cry mixes Albert Ayler’s free jazz with a catchy combination of nursery rhythms and brass band marches, resulting in a peak example of experimental jazz…
Strokes guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. crafted his fifth solo album Melodies on Hiatus in a most experimental style. Albert teamed up with his writing partner, Canadian songwriter, and poet Simon Wilcox (whom he never met during the process) and had lengthy conversations via the telephone; Simon would jot down notes from Albert s stream of consciousness, and…
Beach Music was the first occasion on which (Sandy) Alex G (Alex Giannascoli) did not write all of the album s songs in one sharp burst. Instead, he wrote the songs around his touring schedule, the result of which is an eclectic album that oscillates wildly in style, depending on what he was listening to…
“God” figures in the new album from Philadelphia, PA based Alex Giannascoli s LP’s title, its first song, and multiple of its thirteen tracks thereafter, not as a concrete religious entity but as a sign for a generalized sense of faith (in something, anything) that fortifies Giannascoli, or the characters he voices, amid the songs’…
House of Sugar – (Sandy) Alex G’s ninth overall album and his third for Domino – is a highly meticulous, cohesive album: a statement of artistic purpose, showing off his ear for both persistent earworms and sonic adventurism.
Alex G announces Live From Union Transfer, a limited-edition vinyl-only live album. The album features live renditions recorded over the course of Alex’s three sold-out hometown shows at Philadelphia’s Union Transfer that capped off his 2022 fall headlining tour in November 2022; the 14-song tracklist includes much of his universally acclaimed 2022 album God Save…
TRICK and RULES, two early albums from the prodigious Philadelphian singer-songwriter Alex G, are now back in stock on vinyl. Alex’s third and fourth albums were originally self-released digitally on his Bandcamp, but received the physical attention they deserved following the release of his breakthrough fifth album DSU, remastered and issued on vinyl in 2015…