• New Release Round-Up 08-06-21

  

  Barbra Streisand - Release Me 2 - Sony Legacy
  The only artist to ever achieve #1 albums in SIX consecutive decades, Barbra Streisand's Release Me 2 is yet another musical gem in her unparalleled career.  The follow-up to her acclaimed 2012 album, Release Me, this new collection contains previously unreleased tracks from Barbra’s vault, including duets with Willie Nelson and Kermit the Frog. With songs by Burt Bacharach, Hal David, Barry Gibb, Paul Williams, Randy Newman, Michel Legrand and Alan & Marilyn Bergman, Harold Arlen, and Carole King, Barbra describes Release Me 2 as, “A lovely walk down memory lane…a chance to revisit, and in some cases, add a finishing instrumental touch to songs that still resonate for me in meaningful ways.” 
  
    
  

  

  Guccihighwaters - Joke's On You - Epitaph
  Guccihighwaters is the artistic persona of 21 year -old, artist/producer, Morgan Murphy. Since his debut single in 2017, Murphy has exploded in the cloud rap community and his music has been streamed over 200 Million times. His new album, Joke's On You, is his debut for Epitaph Records and will be his first available on vinyl. Guccihighwaters is the keystone to the label's dedication to this sound that we feel is the future of Alternative music. Spending his formative years growing up in rural Ireland, Murphy was shy and when his family returned to their native New York, that shy 15 year-old turned to home recording/bedroom production and starting making his own beats. He began to indulge his musical vision by exploring community on the internet, finding a place to belong that he had not found prior. As a singer, Murphy was a bit of an outsider to the SoundCloud rap world he'd begun to orbit. "I was grouped in because of the time and place and platform," he says. His use of original piano with a classic touch and his angelic singing gave him an original voice within the scene's crowded world. Even if he wanted to blend in, he didn't know how. With Jokes On You, he says, "basically my goal was to make it sound like me. " Some members of that community, like Powfu and nothing, nowhere, feature on the album, adding their voices to Murphy's signature sound. Guccihighwaters is a top digital artist in the Indie Pop/Cloud Rapspace, releasing his music on vinyl for the first time. Album features include lo-fi sensation powfu , top emo rapper Convolk and popular alt/hip hop artist, nothing, nowhere. For Fans of powfu, Lil Peep, nothing, nowhere and Lund
  
    
  

  

  Brian May - Back To The Light: Remastered - UMe
  The original album newly remastered by Bob Ludwig from the original master tapes and personally overseen by Brian May. The CD is presented in a 6 panel digipak with a 24pg booklet containing rare photos and album notes. The second disc, Out of the Light, contains alternative versions, B-Sides and live tracks. The LP is presented in 180g heavyweight white vinyl in spined sleeve with printed inner bag. The whole package comes in a 12” lift lid box with 2 X CD in wallets and enamel badge.
  
  
  

  

  George Harrison - All Things Must Pass: Remastered - Capitol
  In celebration of the 50th Anniversary, George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass is being celebrated with a suite of new releases highlighted by a stunning new mix of the classic album by Grammy Award-winning mixer/engineer Paul Hicks, overseen by executive producer Dhani Harrison.
  
  
  

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
  
  Drive-By Truckers - Plan 9 Records July 13, 2006 [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Spring Green 3LP]  
  Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand 
  Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better 
  Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand 
  
  
  Hippo Campus - Good Dog, Bad Dream EP [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Red Marble Vinyl]
  Kississippi - Mood Ring [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Jawbreaker LP]
  Bob Mould - Distortion: Live [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Signed 140-Gram Clear Splatter 8LP Box Set]
  Movements - No Good Left To Give B-Sides [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Grape Candy Purple 7in Single]
  Leah Blevins - First Time Feeling
  Paul Thorn - Never Too Late To Call
  Benet - Game Over! EP
  Chris Young - Famous Friends
  Sponge - Lavatorium
  BTS - BTS, THE BEST
  Staind - Live: It's Been Awhile
  Liars - The Apple Drop
  Will Young - Crying On The Bathroom Floor
  Night Ranger - ATBPO
  LCD Soundsystem - The Long Goodbye (LCD Soundsytem Live At Madison Square Garden)
  
  
  
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  UPCOMING RELEASES

  

  Watchhouse - Watchhouse - Tiptoe Tiger Music
  On April 21, 2021 the duo of Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz — who over the past decade have achieved grassroots success as Mandolin Orange, going from coffee shop performers to festival headliners — announced that they are now called Watchhouse. Says the band in a new statement: "This past year has been the first time we’ve stayed still since we were 21, and the pause gave us the opportunity to sit with ourselves and set intentions. We have long been burdened by the dichotomy between our band name and the music we strive to create—if you’ve heard the songs, you know they are personal. Now that we can see a future where music is a shared experience again, we're defining the space we share with you on a stage or in your headphones, and making it one that welcomes our creativity and anyone who wants to listen." Watchhouse's self-titled album is the first under their new name, and is co-produced by Josh Kaufman, who has produced records for The National and Bonny Light Horseman, and also played on Taylor Swift’s folklore and evermore. The album represents a seamless reinvention as a band at the regenerative edges of subtly experimental folk-rock. Challenging as they are charming, and an inspired search for personal and political goodness, these nine songs offer welcome lessons about what any of us might become when the night begins to break. The first single "Better Way" pairs their own honest songcraft with bold, otherworldly sonic explorations that signify a new sense of confidence and ambition for the band.
  
    
  

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• Down In The Valley Voted Best Record Store in Minnesota 2021

  

  We are honored and humbled to be voted “Best Record Store in Minnesota”!  We very grateful for our loyal customers and VIP Members, who’ve been shopping with us the last 49 years.  Also, we could not be awarded something like this without having a dedicated, passionate, and hard-working staff.  Did someone say 50 years?  Yes, next year we will be celebrating our 50^th years in business and will have many events to celebrate this award and our longevity as a record store in Minnesota! Thank you all!

  Minnesota's Best - Record Store 2021

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• New Release Round-Up 07-30-21

  

  Son Volt - Electro Melodier - Transmit Sound
  2020 was not quite what Jay Farrar was expecting for the 25th anniversary of Son Volt, the band he started in 1995 after leaving the seminal group Uncle Tupelo, whose No Depression album helped define the alt-country and Americana genre. The group had just finished an Outlaw Country Cruise when the pandemic hit and sent them into their homes on lockdown. Instead of a triumphant tour marking the illustrious landmark, Farrar was forced indoors by the pandemic, and his “Reverie” during that time helped define Electro Melodier, Son Volt’s 10th studio album – and third for influential Nashville indie Thirty Tigers. The title, taken from the names of two vintage amplifiers from the late ‘40s and early ‘50s, also describes the disc’s unique blend of folk, country, blues, soul and rock – an electric troubadour with melodies that hit and stick. Social protest songs like “Living in the U.S.A.” and “The Globe,” the former about the promises of this nation gone wrong, the latter referencing the street protests accompanying the Black Lives Matter movement, exist side by side with odes to long-term relationships (specifically his 25-year marriage) in “Diamonds and Cigarettes” and “Lucky Ones.” Once again accompanied by the current Son Volt line up – keyboardist/steel guitarist Mark Spencer, bassist Andrew Duplantis, guitarist Chris Frame and drummer Mark Patterson – Farrar takes a slight turn from 2019’s politically pointed Union to a series of songs that asks questions rather than demanding answers – think of “Living in the U.S.A.” as Farrar’s version of Bruce Springsteen’s “Born in the U.S.A.,” Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World” or Patti Smith’s “People Have the Power,” an anthem to unite the populace. One listen to Electro Melodier, which opens with “Reverie,” describing Farrar’s contemplative state gazing out his window, enlivened with Mark Spencer’s “Wichita Lineman” guitar riffs and the lush Big Star melodies, and you wonder why no other rock ‘n’ roll bands or singer/songwriters are making albums like this about what we’re all going through. With tour dates scheduled before the end of 2021, Son Volt is ready to return to what they know best after a welcome period of introspection. The songs of Electro Melodier help remind us to be thankful of what we still have – new music from Jay Farrar and Son Volt. 
  
    
  

  

  Parker McCollum - Gold Chain Cowboy - MCA Nashville
  Parker McCollum will be releasing his major label debut- Gold Chain Cowboy on MCA Nashville on July 30^th.  He is born and raised in the Houston-TX market and has been based in Austin-TX since he released is first independent single and EP in 2013.  He has performed and will headline numerous radio station festivals during the summer.  The 10 Tracks on his debut album will feature the #1 Platinum-"Pretty Heart" and his current Top 40 hit- "To Be Loved By You". 
  
    
  

  

  Los Lobos - Native Sons - New West Records
  Los Angeles based band, Los Lobos, have always been inspired by their surroundings and the place they call home. Their music is influenced by rock and roll, Tex-Mex, country, zydeco, folk, R&B, blues, brown-eyed soul, and traditional music such as cumbia, boleros and norteños. With Native Sons the band set out to showcase all of these influences with their own take on the songs of Los Angeles from some of the cities greatest songwriters. Native Sons features 13-songs from well known LA artists such as Buffalo Springfield, WAR, Jackson Browne and the Beach Boys as well as deep cuts from the Jaguars, The Basters and The Premiers. The album title track is the sole original composition written by the band. 
  
    
  

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
  
  
  Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Deep Brown 2LP]
  Prince - Welcome 2 America [Deluxe 2 LP / 1 CD / 1 Blu-Ray]
  Clay Walker - Texas to Tennessee
  Yola - Stand for Myself [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Hot Pink LP]
  Torres - Thirstier [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Peak Opaque Red-in-Translucent Yellow LP]
  Blues Traveler - Traveler's Blues [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Blue LP]
  Naia Izumi - A Residency In The Los Angeles Area
  Son Lux - Tomorrows [Limited Edition 3LP]
  Grouplove - This Is This
  Durand Jones & The Indications - Private Space
  Needtobreathe - Into The Mystery
  Bleachers - Take The Sadness Out Of Saturday Night [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition LP]
  Dee Snider - Leave A Scar
  King Woman - Celestial Blues [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Milky Clear w/Gold and Silver Splatter LP]
  Slayyyter - Troubled Paradise
  Peaches - Pussy Mask [Vinyl Single]
  Patrick Page II - If I Fail Are We Still Cool? [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Smokey Translucent LP]
  Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! - Gone Are The Good Days
  Erasure - The Neon Remixed
  
  
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• New Release Round-Up 07-23-21

  

  Paul McCartney - McCartney III Imagined - Capitol
  Hailed upon its release last year as "vital and comfortable taking new chances” (Rolling Stone) and “cheery, resilient, forever looking forward” (The New Yorker), Paul McCartney’s McCartney III, which topped album charts across the world, is now literally moving into the future in the form of McCartney III Imagined.  Personally curated by Paul, McCartney III Imagined features an A-List assortment of friends, fans and brand new acquaintances, each covering and/or reimagining their favorite McCartney III moments in their own signature styles. The result is a kaleidoscopic reinterpretation of an album Rolling Stone accurately tagged “an inspiration to us all”—one that serves as an extension of the instantly beloved McCartney III while standing on its own as brilliant and adventurous milestone in the McCartney discography.
  
    
  

  

  Descendents - 9th & Walnut - Epitaph
  Formed in L.A.’s South Bay in 1978, Descendents began as a power trio featuring bassist Tony Lombardo, drummer Bill Stevenson, and guitarist Frank Navetta (d. 2008). The band recruited vocalist Milo Aukerman in 1980 and began establishing themselves as major players in the Southern California Punk movement. Over the years, the band has sustained a potent chemistry and shared vision, further cementing them as punk legends.  In 2002, the original four-piece lineup — Frank Navetta, Tony Lombardo, Bill Stevenson, and Milo Aukerman — got back into the studio to finally record their first-ever songs. The songs were written by the band from 1977 through 1980, before recording the Fat EP (1981) and the Milo Goes to College LP (1982). Put simply, this is the DESCENDENTS’ earliest material, representing a “lost” pre-MGTC album. Most of these songs have not been heard—until now.  Every element of DESCENDENTS’ genre-creating sound is here: Stevenson’s hyper-caffeinated surf-beats, Lombardo’s intrepid bass, Navetta’s crunching attack, Aukerman’s impassioned, infinitely relatable singing—and all those great melodies and harmonies.
  
    
  

  

  Rodney Crowell - Triage - RC1 Records
  'Triage' offers a rare look inside of the songwriter. This album finds Rodney Crowell introspectively looking for answers and for healing, resulting in what he has called his most personal record yet.  This new collection of songs was written during the great political, environmental and economic upheaval that has marked recent years. The noise of that chaos encouraged Crowell to look inward for solace and answers. The result is this series of songs that contend with these themes, but approaches them from a place of healing, love and solution. That they are being released while we find ourselves walking through a global pandemic, is a gift of perfect timing.
  
    
  

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
  
  
  Molly Burch - Romantic Images [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Coke Bottle Clear LP]
  David Crosby - For Free
  King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Butterfly 3000
  Lacuna Coil - Live From The Apocalypse [CD/DVD]
  Leon Bridges - Gold-Diggers Sound [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Alternate Cover LP]
  Jackson Browne - Downhill From Everywhere
  Taylor Swift - folklore [Beige 2 LP]
  Pennywise - Land Of The Free [Red LP]
  2pac - Until The End Of Time [4 LP]
  Erika de Casier - Sensational
  Various Artists - Bills & Aches & Blues
  Darkside - Spiral
  Piroshka - Love Drips And Gathers [Limited Edition Red LP]
  Glen Campbell - Live From The Troubadour
  R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe: Original Hib-Tone Single [7in Single]
  Spice Girls - Wannabe 25 [Silver Cassette]
  Anika - Change [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Red & Silver Galaxy LP]
  Page McConnell/Trey Anastasio - December [Barn Board LP]
  Mudhoney - Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge: 30th Anniversary [Deluxe Edition 2LP]
  Miley Cyrus - Plastic Hearts [2LP]
  Brothers - March 10, 2020 Madison Square Garden
  Christone "Kingfish" Ingram - 662
  Joshua Radin - The Ghost and the Wall
  
  
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• New Release Round-Up 07-16-21

  

  RSD Drops is back this Saturday and we are super excited to celebrate and thank you for supporting Indie Record Stores. Now is the time for you to look over those lists and see what you will be spinning this weekend.  Check out the list of titles available here and of course hop over to RecordStoreday.com for more details.
    
  

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
  
  
  John Mayer - Sob Rock
  Clairo - Sling [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Dark Green LP]
  Ida Mae - Click Click Domino [Indie Exclusive Mystery Melt LP]
  Cautious Clay - Deadpan Love [LP]
  T.A.T.U. - 200 km/h In the Wrong Lane [Coke Bottle Clear LP]
  J. Cole - The Off-Season
  Aesop Rock - Appleseed [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Clear & Black Smoke LP]
  Acid Dad - Take It From The Dead
  Tedeschi Trucks Band - Layla Revisited
  Wavves - Hideaway [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Orange LP]
  Barenaked Ladies - Detour De Force
  Opeth - Blackwater Park: 20th Anniversary Edition [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Silver 2LP]
  Chet Faker - Hotel Surrender
  A Place To Bury Strangers - Hologram
  Bob Mould - Distortion: Live [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Signed 140-Gram Clear Splatter 8LP Box Set]
  Nathaniel Rateliff - Red Rocks 2020 [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition 2CD]
  Willow - lately I feel EVERYTHING [Red LP]
  Tones and I - Welcome To The Madhouse
  Lonelady - Former Things
  The Allman Brothers Band - Live at the Atlanta International Pop Festival July 3 & 5, 1970
  Various Artists - Space Jam: A New Legacy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  Luke Combs - The Trilogy [10in Single]
  Various Artists - Dark Nights: Death Metal Soundtrack [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Electric Smoke 2 LP]
  Rise Against - Broken Dreams, Inc. (DC - Dark Nights: Death Metal Version) [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Red 7in Flexi Disc + Comic]
  Grey Daze - Anything, Anything (DC - Dark Nights: Death Metal Version) [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition 7in Flexi Disc + Comic]
  Denzel Curry/PlayThatBoiZay - Bad Luck (DC - Dark Nights: Death Metal Version) [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Yellow 7in Flexi Disc + Comic]
  Black Pumas - Capitol Cuts - Live from Studio A [Red LP]
  
  
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• New Release Round-Up 07-09-21

  

  Various Artists - Almost Famous: Soundtrack - Geffen
  Celebrating 20 years of the Academy Award winning film by Cameron Crowe, the Grammy® winning Almost Famous soundtrack is reissued as a deluxe 2CD with 35 songs from the film including Stillwater, Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, and many more. Unreleased songs: “Tiny Dancer (Almost Famous Version)” with Elton John & cast and the unique mix & edit for The Who’s “Amazing Journey / Sparks (Almost Famous Version).” Newly expanded artwork includes unreleased photos and an introduction by Cameron Crowe. Also Available: 2LP and coming 8/20: Super Deluxe 6LP and Super Deluxe 5CD
  
  
  

  

  Half Waif - Mythopoetics - Anti
  With her musical project Half Waif, Nandi Rose dives deep into the waters of artistic expression by layering evocative vocals and synths to create a powerful form of pop music. On Mythopoetics, Rose ex- plores a full spectrum of sounds that sparkle with memorable hooks, otherworldly production and uplifting grooves. “This is the record I’ve been trying to make for 10 years,” Rose says. Previous albums The Caretaker (2020) and Lavender (2018) garnered acclaim for their compelling journeys through solitude, desire and the search for independence. Half Waif declares a new chapter on Mytho- poetics, a collection of 12 new songs – mythical stories that transcend time, each sung with a glorious contralto wrapped up in synths and electronic percussion, and her lyrical piano serving as the backbone. It is an essential reminder that we have the power to shape the stories we tell and the myths we make of our lives. This is music that you feel.
  
    
  

  

  The Flatlanders - Treasure of Love - Rock'em Records
  Almost 50 years after the sessions that would make them an “accidental Texas supergroup” (Rolling Stone), The Flatlanders have returned with Treasure of Love, their first new album in more than a decade. Completed during COVID-19 lockdowns with the help of longtime friend and collaborator Lloyd Maines, the record finds the iconic trio of Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Butch Hancock in classic form, serving up a rollicking collection of twang-fueled, harmony-laden performances full of wry humor and raw heartbreak. While a few songs here are never-before-heard originals, the vast majority of the tracklist consists of tunes the band picked up during their half-century together, some stretching as far back as the group’s earliest performances in the honkytonks around Lubbock, TX, where you might have spotted Willie Nelson or Townes Van Zandt in the audience.
  
    
  

  

  Marco Vezzoso and Alessandro Collina - Italian Spirit In Japan - ITI Records
  Marco Vezzoso and Alessandro Collina, the jazz duo that has conquered the countries of the Rising Sun! Italian Spirit In Japan collects 10 of the most beautiful songs of Italian music reinterpreted in a refined instrumental version for trumpet, piano, and percussion. The artists offer a skilful reinterpretation of unforgettable pieces, creating a generational bridge between pop music and jazz. This live version is also a tribute to the artistic partnership between Vezzoso and Collina, which began in Japan and reached China via Cambodia, Indonesia, and Malaysia. In the 'Italian Spirit live' project we decided to invite the percussionist Andrea Marchesini. Andrea is a highly talented and experienced musician who, like us, loves contamination between genres. It was therefore easy for us to integrate Andrea's artistic vein, who adapted very well to our playing. Indeed, he did much more, enriching the pieces with rhythmic details, sometimes almost melodic, without ever being invasive. 
  
    
  

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
  
  
  The Wallflowers - Exit Wounds [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Purple LP] 
  clipping. - WRIGGLE (EXPANDED) [LP] 
  Damon Locks - Black Monument Ensemble - NOW 
  
  Oliver Wood - Always Smilin' [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Clear LP]
  Anthrax - I Am The Law, Discharge, Madhouse, Time [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition 3in Bundle]
  BTS - BUTTER
  King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Teenage Gizzard [Magenta & Yellow w/Yellow Splatter LP]
  The Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang Live On Copacabana Beach [2 CD/Blu-ray]
  Little Steven & The Disciples Of Soul - Summer of Sorcery Live! At The Beacon Theatre
  Mayhem - Atavistic Black Disorder/Kommando EP
  Inhaler - It Won't Always Be Like This
  Muse - ORIGIN OF SYMMETRY: XX Anniversary RemiXX [2LP]
  Andrew Lloyd Webber - Cinderella: The Musical (Original London Cast Recording) [3 LP]
  Two Feet - Max Maco Is Dead Right? [Limited Edition Opaque Light Blue LP]
  Spacehog - Resident Alien [Limited Edition Pink 2LP]
  Lucinda Williams - Lu's Jukebox Vol. 2 - Southern Soul: From Memphis To Muscle Shoals
  The Infamous Stringdusters - A Tribute To Bill Monroe
  The Monkees - The Monkees [Limited Edition Deluxe 2LP]
  The Goon Sax - Mirror II
  
  
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• New Release Round-Up 07-02-21

  

  Tom Petty - Angel Dream (Songs From The Motion Picture She's The One) - Warner Records
  Angel Dream is a special reimagining of the album She’s The One to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its original release. This also brings to a close the celebration of Tom Petty’s masterpiece Wildflowers, as most of the songs on this album were recorded during the same time period.  She’s The One included some songs that were left off the original Wildflowers album, recently included in the Wildflowers & All The Rest re-issue. To take the place of those songs, four previously unreleased songs have been added here – two Petty originals (“105 Degrees” and “One of Life’s Little Mysteries”), a cover of JJ Cale’s “Thirteen Days”, and the instrumental “French Disconnection”.  An extended version of “Supernatural Radio” is also included. The album has been remixed & remastered and brand new cover art commissioned – emphasizing that this is a Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers album, rather than a soundtrack album.
  
    
  

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
  
  
  Carlos Nino & Friends - More Energy Fields, Current 
  
  The Go! Team - Get Up Sequences Part One [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Turquoise LP]
  Bobby Gillespie & Jehnny Beth - Utopia Ashes
  At The Gates - The Nightmare Of Being [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Bone LP]
  Frank Turner - England Keep My Bones: Tenth Anniversary Edition [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Opaque Yellow 2LP]
  Chris LeDoux - Wyoming Cowboy: A Retrospective
  Vince Mendoza - Freedom Over Everything
  Bella White - Just Like Leaving
  Bebe Rexha - Better Mistakes
  Jeremy Zucker/Chelsea Cutler - brent ii
  Marina Allen - Candlepower
  Steve Marriner - Hope Dies Last
  Joni Mitchell - The Reprise Albums (1968-1971)
  Laura Mvula - Pink Noise
  Wanderlust - All A View
  
  
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• New Release Round-Up 06-25-21

  

  T. Hardy Morris - The Digital Age of Rome - New West Records
  Heading into the spring of 2020, T. Hardy Morris had 12 demos that he thought would make-up his next album, then, everything changed.  The world took a break and so his plans to record did as well. As we all watched and waited out the storms; viral and societal, we seemed to wake up scrolling through a whole new century, a time Morris began to refer to as The Digital Age of Rome. He scrapped the demos and began a collection of songs in quarantine where the unprecedented times and topics were unavoidable. He wanted to document the era sonically and lyrically in some way. “I wanted it to sound like how the world felt to me in the second half of 2020. Uncomfortable and chaotic, dystopian but still beautiful.”  The Digital Age of Rome was recorded in a deserted downtown Athens, Ga. With long-time collaborator / producer Adam Landry.
  
    
  

  

  Gary Allan - Ruthless - EMI Nashville
  Gary Allan releases a brand new album of all new material this week. Ruthless is Gary's first studio album in over 8 years. Overall, Allan's nine studio and greatest hits albums have produced 26 singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts, including the number one hits "Man to Man", "Tough Little Boys" (both 2003), "Nothing On but the Radio" (2004), and "Every Storm (Runs Out of Rain)" (2013). Seven more of his singles have reached the Top 10 on this chart as well: his debut single "Her Man", "It Would Be You" (both at #7), "Right Where I Need to Be" (at #5), "The One" (at #3), "Best I Ever Had" (a cover of a Vertical Horizon song) (at #7), "Life Ain't Always Beautiful" (at #4), and "Watching Airplanes" (#2).
  
    
  

  

  Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band - Banned - Anti
  Yves Jarvis and Romy Lightman are a pair of idiosyncratic and restlessly creative artists. In the past decade, Jarvis’s ever-expanding swatch have earned international acclaim, while Lightman’s twin-sister-led band Tasseomancy has transfixed listeners since the late 2000s. The Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band marks the duo’s first collaboration, slingshotting both musicians out of their comfort zones into spellbinding territories of lysergic folk and impressionistic rock. Banned was recorded in the tranquil environment of the Tree Museum, an outdoor art gallery in rural Ontario, Canada, hosting residencies for contemporary sculptors over the past 20 years. The pair credit its 200 acres of natural spaces intermingling with human-made creations as the fuel for their unfettered process. Recorded over two weeks in a free-flowing stream of improvisation, the album finds Lightman on synthesizer with Jarvis on drums and guitar, as their voices weave together into an electrified pastoral tapestry.
  
    
  

  

  Vincent Neil Emerson - Vincent Neil Emerson - La Honda Records
  Vincent Neil Emerson is a torchbearer of the Texas songwriter tradition. He channels the straightforward truth-telling and resonance of his songwriting heroes in Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, and Steve Earle into something fresh and distinctly his own. Where his 2019 debut Fried Chicken and Evil Women proved that he is one of the most reverent students of country and Western musical traditions, his follow-up LP, the masterful Rodney Crowell-produced Vincent Neil Emerson, which is out this week via La Honda Records/Thirty Tigers, is a brave step forward that solidifies his place as one of music's most compelling and emotionally clarifying storytellers. His songs are cathartic and bluntly honest, never mincing words or dancing around uncomfortable truths.
  
    
  

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
  
  
  Hiatus Kaiyote - Mood Valiant [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Red & Black Inkspot LP] 
  
  Lucy Dacus - Home Video [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Clear LP]
  Hiss Golden Messenger - Quietly Blowing It [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Metallic Blue LP]
  Modest Mouse - The Golden Casket [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Deluxe CD]
  Caroline Shaw - Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part
  Anthony Ramos - Love And Lies
  Dance Gavin Dance - Tree City Sessions 2
  Josh Turner - Your Man: 15th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
  Nina Simone - Nina Simone: The Montreux Years
  Etta James - Etta James: The Montreux Years
  The Roots - Do You Want More?!!!??!: 25th Anniversary Edition [Deluxe LP]
  Jessie Ware - What's Your Pleasure?: The Platinum Pleasure Edition
  Ceramic Dog - Hope [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition 2LP]
  Selena Gomez - Revelacion EP
  Devin Townsend - Devolution Series #2 - Galactic Quarantine [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Silver 2LP]
  Beartooth - Below
  The Mountain Goats - Dark In Here [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Blue 2LP]
  PJ Harvey - White Chalk
  PJ Harvey - White Chalk - Demos
  Justin Bieber - Justice
  Elvis Costello - La Face de Pendule à Coucou EP [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Neon Coral Vinyl]
  Motorhead - No Sleep 'til Hammersmith: 40th Anniversary Edition
  DMX - Greatest Hits [Limited Edition Splatter LP]
  
  
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• New Release Round-Up 06-18-21

  

  Nick Cave & Warren Ellis - Carnage - Goliath Ent
  Written, recorded, and completed during lockdown, CARNAGE is the first studio album from Nick Cave & Warren Ellis outside of the Bad Seeds and their many soundtrack collaborations. The eight song project - developed amidst the downtime of a long, anxious, global emergency - showcases Cave & Ellis’ typical sonic and lyrical adventurism and stands as a quintessential record for these uncertain times. CARNAGE is shot through with moments of distilled beauty and resonating with an almost defiant sense of hope. In Cave's own words, it is "a brutal but very beautiful record nested in a communal catastrophe."

  
  
     
  

  

  Rosie Tucker - Sucker Supreme - Epitaph
  Sucker Supreme is the third album from Rosie Tucker, and first for Epitaph Records. It is a coming of age album that aches with self-discovery, self-definition, and self-redefinition. Sucker Supreme is also just the right follow-up to where their last album, 2019’s Never Not Never Not Never Not, left off: still playfully observed, still sneakily political, still indebted to folk singers of the past – but also much, much bigger, brighter, louder and noisier than anything Tucker has dared before. It delivers mightily on an ambitious M.O.: to be relentlessly catchy and muscular and noisy but also beautiful; be achingly sad and searching, but never too far away from funny, either; and to spotlight Tucker’s empathetic, yearning vocals on top of it all. It takes a unique group of people to make an album that leaps out of the speakers at you like this one. Sucker Supreme is the first record made by Tucker’s current touring band: drummer Jessy Reed, guitarist Jess Kallen, and bassist Wolfy, who also occupied the producer’s chair. It’s a group of people as eager to share their long-dead folk music heroes as they are to pay homage to their still-kicking pop-punk heartthrobs.
  
    
  

  

  Styx - Crash Of The Crown - UMe
  A new era of hope, survival, and prosperity comes calling on Styx's Magnum Opus, Crash Of The Crown, the band's first studio album since 2017's The Mission. Though the 15-track album takes a hard look at some inherently dark subjects, the prevalent light at the end of the tunnel eventually becomes each song's focal point - a persistent fervor to keep moving forward and achieve the greater good. Featuring "Crash of the Crown," "Reveries" & more, available on black vinyl.
  
  
  

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  Ashe - Ashlyn 
  
  Aretha Franklin - I Knew You Were Waiting: The Best Of Aretha Franklin 1980-2014
  James - All The Colours Of You [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Purple/Black & Red/Black 2LP]
  The Interrupters - Live In Tokyo! [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Pink & Black Pinwheel LP]
  Crumbsuckers - Life Of Dreams [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Orange LP]
  The Obsessed - The Church Within [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition White LP]
  Amythyst Kiah - Wary + Strange
  Seventeen - SEVENTEEN 8th Mini Album 'Your Choice' (ONE SIDE version)
  Evolfo - Site Out Of Mind
  Fear Factory - Aggression Continuum
  Rebelution - In The Moment
  Silk For The Starving - The Lounge Society EP
  Amy Helm - What The Flood Leaves Behind
  Now That's What I Call Music! - Now That's What I Call Country, Volume 14
  Now That's What I Call Music! - NOW That's What I Call Country Classics 00s
  Natalie Gelman - Moth To The Flame
  Omar Apollo - Apolonio
  Kid Cudi - Man On The Moon III: The Chosen
  
  
  
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• New Release Round-Up 06-11-21

  

  Mammoth WVH - Mammoth WVH - Ex1 Records
  Mammoth WVH is the debut, self-titled album of Mammoth WVH – the band created by Wolfgang Van Halen. This collection includes the chart topping new single, "Distance” plus “Don’t Back Down,” “Epiphany,” “Mammoth” and more. At the beginning of 2015, Wolf broke ground on what would become Mammoth WVH with producer Michael “Elvis” Baskette [Alter Bridge, Slash] behind the board. Wolf began to embrace his voice, inspired by everyone from his father, to bands like AC/DC, Foo Fighters, Nine Inch Nails, TOOL, and Jimmy Eat World. In addition to writing and singing every song on the self-title debut album, remarkably Wolfgang plays every instrument. “The name Mammoth is really special to me.” says Wolf. “Not only was it the name of Van Halen before it became Van Halen, but my father was also the lead singer. Ever since my dad told me this, I always thought that when I grew up, I’d call my own band Mammoth, because I loved the name so much.”

  
  
     
  

  

  Danny Elfman - Big Mess - Anti / Epitaph
  Big Mess marks Danny Elfman’s first solo collection in more than thirty years, but it’s no return to form. Clocking in at 18 tracks, the sprawling, ambitious double album finds the Grammy and Emmy Award-winning composer breaking bold new ground as both a writer and a performer, drawing on a dystopian palette of distorted electric guitars, industrial synthesizers and orchestra in an effort to exorcise the demons brought about by four years of creeping fascism and civil rot. The songs here call to mind everything from Nine Inch Nails, to David Bowie to XTC at times, balancing dense, harmonically complex arrangements with biting, acerbic wit as they reckon with the chaos and confusion of the modern world. Elfman wrote almost all of the record during quarantine, and while the anger, frustration, and isolation of it all is palpable in his delivery, Big Mess is about more than simply blowing off steam. In making the space to truly sit with his emotions and write without limitations, Elfman achieved a kind of artistic liberation on the record that had been eluding him for decades, rediscovering his voice and reinventing himself all at once in the process. Born and raised in southern California, Elfman began his career as part of a surrealist, avant-garde musical theater troupe known as The Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo. The group would eventually morph into the critically acclaimed rock band Oingo Boingo, whose high-energy performances and genre-bending sound garnered them a fanatically devoted cult following in the 1980s and ’90s. Among the group’s early fans was fledgling director Tim Burton and Paul Reubens (aka Pee-wee Herman), who enlisted Elfman to score their first feature film, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. The collaboration would prove to be the start of a long and fruitful partnership for Elfman and Burton, with Elfman going on to score a string of iconic Burton features like Batman, Beetlejuice, Big Fish, Edward Scissorhands, and The Nightmare Before Christmas. To date, Elfman has scored more than 100 films.
  
    
  

  

  Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Live Bullet - Capitol
  Considered to be one of the best live albums of all time, Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band’s 'Live' Bullet was captured at Cobo Hall, Detroit, MI, in September 1975. The album was released April 12, 1976, and helped to supercharge Bob Seger’s career. To mark the 45th anniversary, the album has been remastered and will be released in its original 2LP format in both black and color vinyl.
  
  
  

  

  Def Leppard - Volume Three [Limited Edition 9 LP Box Set] - Mercury
  The 3rd in four volumes of Def Leppard's complete recorded output, this box set contains all of the recordings from the band in the 2000's and features the original packaging. Housed in rigid boxes, the set also contains a hard-backed book with rare photos by Ross Halfin and liner notes by Classic Rock's Paul Elliott. Band members Joe Elliott, Rick Savage, Rick Allen and Phil Collen have also contributed introductions to the set. Limited Edition 180gm 9 LP Box Set.
  
  
  

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  Sleater-Kinney - Path Of Wellness [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Opaque LP] 
  
  Garbage - No Gods No Masters
  Mr. Bungle - The Night They Came Home [Blu-Ray + CD]
  Lin-Manuel Miranda - In The Heights (Official Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Back The Way We Came: Vol. 1 (2011-2021) [Deluxe 3CD]
  Maroon 5 - JORDI
  The Shins - Oh, Inverted World: 20th Anniversary Remaster
  AFI - Bodies
  Lukas Nelson & Promise Of The Real - A Few Stars Apart [Limited Edition Ink & Paint Black w/ White Splatter LP]
  Joe Bonamassa - Now Serving: Royal Tea: Live From The Ryman
  Leslie Jordan - Company's Comin'
  Marina - Ancient Dreams In A Modern Land
  Kiss - KISS Off The Soundboard: Tokyo 2001 [3 LP]
  The Oak Ridge Boys - Front Porch Singin'
  Faith No More - Who Cares A Lot?: The Greatest Hits [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Clear 2LP]
  Roisin Murphy - Crooked Machine
  Indigo de Souza - I Love My Mom [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Purple Splatter LP]
  Jordan Davis - Buy Dirt EP
  Black Sabbath - Sabotage: Super Deluxe Edition [4LP+7in]
  
  
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• New Release Round-Up 06-04-21

  

  Mike Cooley, Patterson Hood & Jason Isbell - Live At The Shoals Theatre - Southeatern Records
  On June 15th 2014, Jason Isbell reunited onstage with former Drive By Truckers bandmates Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley for a special round-style night in Muscle Shoals Music. The setlist includes acoustic versions of Isbell-era Truckers gems including “Heathens,” “Decoration Day” and “Zip City” as well as post-Isbell Truckers tracks like “Space City” and solo Isbell faves such as “Cover Me Up.” The set opens and closes with a pair of classic Hood-sung numbers, 2004′s “Tornadoes” and 2001′s “Let There Be Rock.”  
  
   
  

  

  Atreyu - Baptize - Spinefarm
  Atreyu ushered in a new movement in heavy music. They've broken into the Top 10 in the Billboard 200 more than once; 2 of their albums are certified gold. Yet, 2 decades since the release of their first album, Atreyu is just getting started. Baptize is a definitive work for a new era. Atreyu recorded Baptize w/ producer John Feldmann. Guests include Jacoby Shaddix & Travis Barker. Songs like "Warrior," "Catastrophe," & "Save Us" are massive.

  
   

   

  

  cleopatrick - BUMMER - Nowhere Special Recordings
  "Listening to the story of Canadian duo cleopatrick is a bit like hearing the plot of the best, most righteously validating coming-of-age film never made. Two friends meet aged four in Hicksville, Nowheretown (real name: Cobourg, Ontario, population 19,000), grow up completely inseparable, form a band and, against numerous obstacles, blossom into a genuine, global underground sensation. There are heroes and villains, highs and lows and, crucially, some of the most poetic plot twists that could seem almost too perfect, were they not completely true.
  
  Take the story of 2017 breakthrough track ‘hometown’ for example. “It’s one of the craziest, most ironic things that’s ever happened,” begins vocalist and guitarist Luke Gruntz. “I was going to college because I was too scared to put all my chips in the band pile, and that’s what ‘hometown’ is about: it’s a song about feeling like we’re doing all this stuff and we’re working so hard and we’re just never going to be heard. It’s literally a song about people probably never hearing our songs. And then by some act of the universe, that song ended up unlocking all the doors for us.”
  
  Today, cleopatrick has logged 77 million streams and counting - all from an increasingly dedicated fanbase who’ve found the duo, completed by drummer Ian Fraser, their own way: no major label, no big budget, just two best pals knuckling down, cementing a unique sonic alchemy and filling a space of honest, empathetic yet undeniably heavy-hitting rock music that they’d been searching for themselves for years. Between multiple sold out tours in Canada, the US and the UK/EU and appearances at Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits and Reading/Leeds, the pair have been crafting BUMMER: a debut album that sees cleopatrick harness all the magic they’ve been brewing over their two-decade friendship and funnel it into a record that aims to reinvigorate the rock landscape from the ground up. Taking the ethos of their New Rock Mafia collective - a group of friends and fellow bands, united in making a more inclusive, equality-driven space in rock music - and imbuing it with the sonic ambition and ferocity of a record designed to be played hard and loud, it’s an album about two friends, who’ve been with each other since the formative first steps that adorn ‘BUMMER’’s heartwarming cover image and made something that’s a testament to the power of sticking to your guns."
  
     
  

  

  Rostam - Changephobia - Mastor Projects
  Changephobia is the 2nd full-length solo record from Grammy Award-winning songwriter, producer, and composer Rostam Batmanglij. An adventurous new direction for Rostam, the songs collected on Changephobia are deeply personal, yet universal for anyone who has ever experienced doubt. In addition to being a founding member of the seminal New York Indie Rock Band, Vampire Weekend, Rostam has been described as "one of the great pop and indie-rock producers of his generation." Rostam has produced & co-written critically heralded recent albums by Clairo and Haim, as well as singles from Maggie Rogers, Solange, Charli XCX, Frank Ocean, Santigold and others
  
    
  

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  Poté - A Tenuous Tale Of Her 
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  Crowded House - Dreamers Are Waiting
  Liz Phair - Soberish [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Milky Clear LP]
  Rise Against - Nowhere Generation [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Flame LP]
  Atreyu - Baptize
  Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend
  TOMORROW X TOGETHER - The Chaos Chapter: FREEZE [WORLD version]
  Japanese Breakfast - Jubilee [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Clear with Yellow Swirl LP]
  Satsang - All. Right. Now.
  Tristen - Aquatic Flowers [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Cool Blue LP]
  Billy F Gibbons - Hardware
  Chris Thile - Laysongs
  Bad Brains - Into The Future (Alternate Shepard Fairey Cover)
  Mndsgn - Rare Pleasure [Limited Edition Yellow LP]
  The Avalanches - Since I Left You: 20th Anniversary [Deluxe 2CD]
  Einar Selvik - Assassin's Creed Valhalla: The Wave of Giants [Opaque White LP]
  Red Fang - Arrows [Indie Exclusive limited Edition Yellow with Heavy Neon Magenta Splatter LP]
  Cheap Trick - In Another World [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Blue & White Splatter LP]
  Night Beats - Outlaw R&B [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Bone LP]
  
  
  
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• New Release Round-Up 05-28-21

  

  Blackberry Smoke - You Hear Georgia - 3 Legged Records
  Throughout their career, Blackberry Smoke has embodied Georgia’s rich musical legacy, honoring the people, places and sounds of their home state. As the band celebrates their 20th anniversary this year, their reverence for Georgia has only deepened. On their latest album, You Hear Georgia, the follow-up to 2018’s critically acclaimed Find a Light, Blackberry Smoke is further celebrating these roots with 10 new songs that feel like Georgia, accented by the addition of Grammy-winning producer and fellow Georgia-native, Dave Cobb (Jason Isbell, Brandi Carlile). “Dave and I had spoken for the last few years about making a record,” Starr says. “Finally, it worked out, our schedule and his schedule, and we said, yes—let’s make a record.”
  
     
  

  

  Various Artists - Get On Board The Soul Train - The Sound Of Philadelphia International Records Volume 1 - United Souls
  8CD Book set with bonus 12 inch single. United Souls, in conjunction with Sony Legacy Recordings, is delighted to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Philadelphia International Records with the eagerly anticipated release of Get On Board The Soul Train - The Sound Of Philadelphia International Records Volume 1. This is the first volume in a limited edition series which covers the first eight studio albums released by the label from 1971-1973. The series, in which all album are re-mastered from the original tapes, will map the history of Philadelphia International Records chronologically. Housed in a stylish 48 page slipcased book, the edition is strictly limited to 2500 copies. It also includes a numbered certificate of authenticity, an exclusive 12" single and a unique poster. The detailed 48 page hard cover book, including rare photographs was compiled and curated in association with PIR artists, engineers and producers, with liner notes by Tony Cummings (Author of The Sound of Philadelphia) and a foreword by Ralph Tee. The eight classic albums included in Volume 1 comprise: Billy Paul - Going East/Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - I Miss You/The O'Jays - Back Stabbers/Billy Paul - 360 Degrees of Billy Paul/Dick Jensen - Dick Jensen/The Intruders - Save the Children/MFSB - MFSB/Billy Paul - Ebony Woman. Exclusive 12"- The O'Jays - Back Stabbers / MFSB - Back Stabbers
  
  
  

  

  Moby - Reprise - Deutsche Grammophon
  Moby’s eclectic career has cast him in the roles of electronic dance music pioneer, singer and songwriter, producer, activist, and restaurateur, but for his latest venture he presents his music in a whole new light. Together with Deutsche Grammophon, he is releasing an album of his best known tracks in stunning new arrangements for classical instruments – featuring Moby himself and a stellar lineup of collaborators from across the musical spectrum. Always a daring and imaginative thinker, Moby’s first classical collaboration happened in October 2018, when he performed a selection of his songs alongside the LA Phil and conductor and friend Gustavo Dudamel. This was the inspiration for the current project, which features not only full orchestral versions but new electronic arrangements, as well as sophisticated smaller-scale acoustic interpretations. The 14-track album includes classic Moby songs like “Porcelain”, “Why Does My Heart”, and “Extreme Ways” in innovative new versions, featuring eye-catching collaborations including both Jim James (My Morning Jacket) and Víkingur Ólafsson on “Porcelain”; Gregory Porter and Amythyst Kiah on “Natural Blues”; and Kris Kristofferson as well as original vocalist Mark Lanegan on “The Lonely Night”. The album concludes with a cover of David Bowie’s “Heroes”.
  
     
  

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  Porter Robinson - Nurture [Ultra Clear 2LP] 
  
  
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  PJ Harvey - The Peel Sessions 1991-2004
  
  
  
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