• Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams

  

  At just 20-years-old, Arlo Parks has seen her profile steadily rise since the release of her debut single, “Cola,” in 2018. Parks is quick to note the impact independent record stores have had on her, and her ascension in the music world. “I spent a lot of time in indie record stores when I was a kid and I’m really grateful for all they brought to me,” said Parks. “They’re a place where you can really delve into music, explore new music and discover whole worlds of sonic palates.”
  
  Since releasing “Cola,” Parks, a London-based musician and poet, has emerged as a favorite on “artists to watch” lists thanks to a prolific output of delicately-soulful tracks like “Sophie,” “Eugene” and “Hurt.” Along the way, Parks has received praise from the likes of artists like Billie Eilish, Wyclef Jean, Clairo, Florence Welsh and Phoebe Bridgers.
  
  The next stop on Parks’ journey comes on January 29 with the release of her full-length debut, Collapsed in Sunbeams. Parks describes the album as “a series of vignettes and intimate portraits surrounding my adolescence and the people that shaped it. It is rooted in storytelling and nostalgia – I want to feel both universal and hyper-specific.”

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• New Release Round-Up 01-22-21

  

  The Dead Daisies - Holy Ground - SPV
  The Dead Daisies have started the next chapter welcoming new band member Glenn Hughes. Also known as "The Voice Of Rock", Glenn has taken over lead vocals and bass guitar, joining guitarists Doug Aldrich, David Lowy and drummer Deen Castronovo. With the addition of Glenn Hughes, The Daisies supercharge their front line through his rock solid bass grooves and unmatched vocal intensity. As all fans know, the man is a true original, inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame, with a rich history of music that features heavy weights like Deep Purple and Black Country Communion as well as a successful solo career. One might say: "They don't build rockers like him anymore". Followers can expect more High-Voltage Rock songs, indomitable grooves and spellbinding lyrics, all the ingredients that have made this music so timeless, out-living trends of the modern day. The sound of The Dead Daisies is entrenched in the Hard Rock way of life we all love but as a living, breathing rock band, they are constantly evolving & bringing new dynamics to a classic style.

  
     
  
  
  

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
  
  
  Bring Me The Horizon - Post Human: Survival Horror
  Bicep - Isles
  Perry Farrell - The Glitz; The Glamour
  Guided By Voices - Styles We Paid For
  Brian Eno - Film Music 1976 – 2020
  Kiwi jr. - Cooler Returns
  Rhye - Home
  Moon Taxi - Silver Dream
  Seasick Steve - Love & Peace
  Steve Hackett - Under A Mediterranean Sky
  Cub Scout Bowling Pins - Heaven Beats Iowa EP
  Nicholas Lens / Nick Cave - L.I.T.A.N.I.E.S
  Bob Mould - Distortion: 1996-2007
  Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Bang!... The Greatest Hits Of Frankie Goes To Hollywood
  Spice Girls - Forever [Deluxe LP]
  Old Dominion - Meat And Candy
  Jason Bieler & The Baron Von Bielski Orchestra - Songs For The Apocalypse
  Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968 [SYEOR 2021 2LP]
  Genesis - A Trick of the Tail [SYEOR 2021 Easter Yellow LP]
  Genesis - Duke [SYEOR 2021 White LP]
  Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms [SYEOR 2021 2LP]
  Dire Straits - Communiqué [SYEOR 2021 LP]
  Dire Straits - Dire Straits [SYEOR 2021 LP]
  Dire Straits - Love Over Gold [SYEOR 2021 LP]
  Dire Straits - Making Movies [SYEOR 2021 LP]
  Dire Straits - On Every Street [SYEOR 2021 2LP]
  Curtis Mayfield - Superfly [SYEOR 2021 Opaque LP]
  
  
  
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  For more information on these and other releases out this week, check out our New Releases charts by week section.
  
  

      

  UPCOMING RELEASES

  

  Lucero - When You Found Me - Liberty & Lament
  Like the great river that flows through Memphis, the music of Lucero keeps rolling on, twisting and turning through the years, the same dark and brooding steadiness always at work.  Since forming in late the ‘90s, this group of Memphis road-dogs has mixed heartfelt lyrics with the sounds of early rock and roll, classic punk, country-folk, and deep-fried Southern soul. It’s a sound that stands on the pillars of American music, born more of feeling than technique, delivered night after night to legions of fans in dive bars and theaters, and on stages as august as Red Rocks Amphitheater and the Ryman. In short, it’s music that is built to last, impervious to trends.  For their tenth studio album, When You Found Me, the band continues its natural evolution, this time tapping into a more atmospheric, widescreen vision (one that wouldn’t seem out of place on a Reagan-era FM dial) while still staying tethered to its roots.  “I wanted a very classic rock sound for this album,” says songwriter and frontman Ben Nichols. “I wanted it to sound like stuff I heard on the radio growing up. I didn’t want to make a retro record at all, but I did want to reference some of those sounds and tones and moods. I think we struck a nice balance between nostalgia and something that still sounds like contemporary Lucero.”

  
     
  
  
  

  

  Arlo Parks - Collapsed In Sunbeams - Transgressive
  Twenty-year-old, London-based musician and poet Arlo Parks, has been very steadily climbing the ranks as an artist to watch since the release of her confessional debut single "Cola" in 2018. Arlo has received praise from artists such as Billie Eilish, Wyclef Jean, Clairo, Florence Welsh and Phoebe Bridgers during the past year while growing her fan base exponentially. Arlo's debut album "is a series of vignettes and intimate portraits surrounding my adolescence and the people that shaped it. It is rooted in storytelling and nostalgia - I want it to feel both universal and hyper specific." On a personal level, Parks struggled with her identity growing up; a self- confessed tom-boy who was super sensitive and "uncool," she says it was like "I'm a black kid who can't dance for shit, listens to emo music and currently has a crush on some girl in my Spanish class." By the time she reached 17, she shaved her head, figured out she was bisexual and produced/wrote an album's worth of material.

  
     
  
  
  

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• New Release Round-Up 01-15-21

  

  Beach Bunny - Blame Game EP - Mom & Pop Music
  Beach Bunny release their new EP Blame Game out via Mom+Pop Music. The new EP follows the band’s 2020 Billboard Top 10 debut album Honeymoon, which received 4 STARS from Rolling Stone - and a print profile - a multi-page critic’s essay from The New Yorker and features with The Cut, i-D, Paper, Nylon and many more. Where Honeymoon centered on the highs and lows of new love, Blame Game takes aim at toxic masculinity, sexism and the emotional labor of unreliable relationships. Blame Game was written in quarantine and recorded in Chicago over a week in August. The four new original songs are produced by Joe Reinhart (Hop Along, Joyce Manor, Modern Baseball, Remo Drive).

  
     
  
  
  

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
  
  
  Eminem - Music To Be Murdered By - Side B (Deluxe Edition)
  Jeff Tweedy - Love Is The King
  Tyler Childers - Long Violent History
  You Me At Six - Suckapunch
  Sleaford Mods - Spare Ribs
  Zayn - Nobody Is Listening
  Accept - Too Mean To Die
  Bill Withers - Greatest Hits
  Why Don't We - The Good Times And The Bad Ones
  DaBaby - BLAME IT ON BABY [Deluxe 2LP]
  Matthew Sweet - Catspaw
  Trampled By Turtles - Blue Sky & The Devil
  Trampled By Turtles - Songs From A Ghost Town
  Fleetwood Mac - The Best Of Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
  Buffalo Springfield - Retrospective: The Best Of Buffalo Springfield [SYEOR 2021 LP]
  Talk Talk - It's My Life [SYEOR 2021 LP]
  Billie Joe + Norah - Foreverly [SYEOR 2021 Orange Ice Cream LP]
  Danny Elfman - Batman: Original Motion Picture Score [SYEOR 2021 Solid Turquoise LP]
  Danny Elfman - Dick Tracy (Original Score) [SYEOR 2021 Transparent Blue LP]
  Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song/Hey Hey What Can I Do [Vinyl-Single]
  21 Savage / Metro Boomin - SAVAGE MODE II
  Lil Tecca - Virgo World
  Pop Smoke - Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon
  Kurt Vile - Speed Sound Lonely KV EP
  
  
  
  
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• New Release Round-Up 01-08-21

  

  Passenger - Songs For The Drunk And Broken Hearted - Nettwerk Records
  Mike Rosenberg, better known as Passenger, is a multi-award winning, platinum-selling singer-songwriter from Brighton, England. Although still known for his busking, he long ago made the journey from street corners to stadiums – most notably with 'Let Her Go', which reached number 1 in 19 countries and which has now notched more than two billion plays on YouTube. For his latest album "Songs For The Drunk And Broken Hearted" Rosenberg explains, “I chose the album title because a lot of the songs are about drinking and the emotions felt around it” he explains. There are personal references Rosenberg adds, “I’ve recently gone through a break-up, which is always a rough time but can actually be very inspiring too. I spent a few months going out and drinking too much which was fun and heartbreaking and awful all at once. Some of the material is personal and some of it is about other people, either people I’ve met or fictional characters. That’s always been a Passenger thing: sad stories about people drenched in disappointment with that sense of what could have been.”

  
     
  
  
  

  

  Barry Gibb - Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers' Songbook (Vol. 1) - Capitol
  A lifelong bluegrass and country music fan, legendary singer, songwriter and producer Barry Gibb has long dreamed of a project that would bring him together with some of the artists he admires the most. With the help of Grammy Award-winning producer Dave Cobb, that dream has become a reality with Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers' Songbook (Vol. 1)—out this week via Capitol Records. Featured artists roster includes Alison Krauss, Brandi Carlile, Dolly Parton, Keith Urban, Sheryl Crow and more.

  
     
  
  
  

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
  
  
  Morgan Wallen - Dangerous: The Double Album
  Aaron Frazer - Introducing...
  Lewis Capaldi - Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent: Finale
  Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump 20th Anniversary Collection [4LP Box Set]
  Steven Wilson - 12 THINGS I FORGOT [Vinyl]
  Beck - Hyperspace: 2020 Deluxe Edition
  Becca Stevens - Wonderbloom
  Melody Gardot - Sunset In The Blue
  Viagra boys - Welfare Jazz
  Greg Graffin - American Lesion [White LP]
  The Cars - Shake It Up [SYEOR 2021 Neon Green LP]
  K.D. Lang - Invincible Summer: 20th Anniversary Edition [SYEOR 2021 Yellow Flame LP]
  Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues [SYEOR 2021 Sky Blue LP]
  Talking Heads - The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads [SYEOR 2021 Red Opaque 2LP]
  Strung Like a Horse - Whoa!
  Various Artists - Goodnight Songs For Rebel Girls
  Paul Weller - Wake Up The Nation: 10th Anniversary Remix Edition
  Oliver Tree - Ugly Is Beautiful
  Call Me Spinster - Call Me Spinster EP
  
  
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• Employee Top Picks Of 2020

  

  Every year we like to share our employee's top picks of 2020.  Here's the folks that wanted to share their lists with you as we wrap up the year.

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• New Release Round-Up 12-18-20

  

  Paul McCartney - McCartney III - Capitol
  50 years following the release of his self-titled first solo album McCartney, featuring Paul playing every instrument and writing and recording every song, Paul McCartney releases McCartney III. Paul hadn’t planned to release an album in 2020, but in the isolation of “Rockdown,” he soon found himself fleshing out some existing musical sketches and creating even more new ones. Before long an eclectic collection of spontaneous songs would become McCartney III: a stripped back, self-produced and, quite literally, solo work marking the opening of a new decade, in the tradition of 1970’s McCartney and 1980’s McCartney II. Recorded earlier this year in Sussex, McCartney III is mostly built from live takes of Paul on vocals and guitar or piano, overdubbing his bass playing, drumming, etc. atop that foundation. McCartney III spans a vast and intimate range of modes and moods, from soul searching to wistful, from playful to raucous and all points between — captured with some of the same gear from Paul’s Rude Studio used as far back as 1971 Wings sessions. And Paul's array of vintage instruments he played on the new album have an even more storied history, including Bill Black of Elvis Presley's original trio's double bass alongside Paul's own iconic Hofner violin bass, and a mellotron from Abbey Road Studios used on Beatles recordings, to name but a few. Just as McCartney’s 1970 release marked Paul’s return to basics in the wake of the biggest band break-up in musical history, and the 1980 avant-garde masterpiece McCartney II rose from the ashes of Wings, McCartney III finds Paul back on his own, turning unexpected circumstances into a personal snapshot of a timeless artist at a unique point in history.

  
    
  
  
  

  

  Aluna - Renaissance - Mad Decent
  The desire for change stirs from the inside. We either listen to it-or not. Aluna chose to listen. After widespread critical acclaim as one-half of multi-platinum duo AlunaGeorge, the singer, songwriter, and producer established an unpredictable and undeniable signature sound on her 2020 solo debut, Renaissance.

  
     
  
  
  

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
  
  
  Taylor Swift - evermore
  Drive-By Truckers - The New OK
  Mac Miller - Swimming In Circles [4LP]
  Mumford & Sons - Delta Diaries [CD Book Set]
  Conan Gray - Kid Krow [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition CD w/ Autographed Booklet]
  Childish Gambino - Because The Internet [2LP]
  The Brummies - Automatic World
  Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Soul (Original Motion Picture Score) [LP]
  Jon Batiste - Music From And Inspired By Soul [LP]
  The Kinks - Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround, Part One
  Fit For An Autopsy - The Sea Of Tragic Beasts [Black/Green/White Splatter LP]
  Blind Guardian - Imaginations From The Other Side: 25th Anniversary Edition
  ENHYPEN - BORDER : DAY ONE [Dawn Version]
  Skip Marley - Higher Place EP
  NCT - NCT - The 2nd Album RESONANCE Pt. 2 [Departure Ver.]
  James Blake - Before EP [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Vinyl]
  Jay Electronica - A Written Testimony
  The Black Keys - Brothers: 10th Anniversary Edition [Deluxe 2LP]
  Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard - The Non-Stop EP
  Lil Baby - My Turn [Deluxe]
  George Thorogood & The Destroyers - Live In Boston 1982: The Complete Concert [Deluxe 4LP]
  Between The Buried And Me - Colors [2020 Remix/Remaster 2LP]
  The Wedding Present & Friends - Not From Where I'm Standing
  Maggie Rogers - Notes From The Archive: Recordings 2011-2016
  
  
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  For more information on these and other releases out this week, check out our New Releases charts by week section.
  
  

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• New Release Round-Up 12-11-20

  

  Sturgill Simpson - Cuttin' Grass - Vol. 1 (The Butcher Shoppe Sessions) - High Top Mountain
  Since breaking through in 2014 with his Grammy nominated Metamodern Sounds in Country Music album, Sturgill Simpson has established himself as one of the most daring and most acclaimed artists of our time. His music stretches across genres and styles, from the psychedelic soul of 2016's A Sailor’s Guide To Earth (Grammy nominated for Album of the Year and winner for Best Country Album) to the fuzzed-out rock attack of Sound & Fury in 2019. Now Simpson returns to the music of his native Kentucky with his first bluegrass project, Cuttin' Grass - Vol. 1 (The Butcher Shoppe Sessions). A true "mixtape for the fans", as Sturgill calls it, sees him reimagining songs from across his catalogue backed by some of Nashville's finest acoustic virtuosos.

  
     
  
  
  

  

  Kacy & Clayton and Marlon Williams - Plastic Bouquet - New West Records
  Every December, Christchurch, NZ  enjoys the start of summer as Saskatoon, SK  begins to freeze over. For as far apart as these places may seem, you would never know it from the sound of Plastic Bouquet, the debut collaborative album between Saskatoon duo Kacy & Clayton and Christchurch singer and songwriter Marlon Williams.  While on tour across Europe in 2017, Kacy & Clayton quite literally stopped Marlon in his tracks. As if playing by divine design through the radio, the pair’s “Springtime of the Year” immediately enchanted him.  Soon thereafter, Marlon hopped a flight to Saskatoon and they wrote and recorded the bulk of what would become Plastic Bouquet. They unlocked undeniable chemistry.  With Plastic Bouquet, these three musicians find common ground in dusty country spun through a kaleidoscope of psychedelic soul and dreamy fifties delivery.  They created an ethnosphere that is more than the sum of its parts. It’s also the beginning of something very exciting.

  
     
  
  
  

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
  
  
  The Avalanches - We Will Always Love You
  The Kills - Little Bastards
  Laura Jane Grace - Stay Alive
  Belle And Sebastian - What To Look For In Summer
  Coheed & Cambria - Good Apollo I’m Burning Star IV, Volume 2: No World For Tomorrow
  Fiona Apple - Fetch The Bolt Cutters [Deluxe]
  M. Ward - Think Of Spring
  Mumford & Sons - Delta Tour EP
  Deftones - White Pony: 20th Anniversary [Deluxe 2CD]
  Various Artists - Willie Nelson American Outlaw (Live At Bridgestone Arena 2019)
  Jeezy - The Recession 2
  The Rolling Stones - I Can't Get No Satisfaction: 55th Anniversary Edition [Limited Edition Emerald 12in Single]
  Soulwax - Nite Versions [Limited 15 Anniversary Edition Pink & White LP]
  The Killers - Imploding The Mirage [LP]
  Big Sean - Detroit 2
  Neil Young - After The Gold Rush: 50th Anniversary Edition
  Def Leppard - Hits Vegas - Live At Planet Hollywood [Limited Edition Translucent Blue 3LP]
  Less Than Jake - Silver Linings
  Puscifer - Existential Reckoning
  John Prine - John Prine Live
  Guided By Voices - Styles We Paid For
  Majestica - A Christmas Carol
  
  
  
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  For more information on these and other releases out this week, check out our New Releases charts by week section.
  
  

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• Curbside & Online Options

  Curbside pick-up is still an option we offer

  In addition to shopping in our stores, you can also choose to use the curbside pickup option. 

  Curbside Pick-up: All Products
  
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• New Release Round-Up 12-04-20

  

  Shawn Mendes - Wonder - Island
  Grammy nominated Shawn Mendes returns with his fourth studio album Wonder, the follow up to 2018’s platinum Shawn Mendes.  Includes the first single, also entitled “Wonder” and 13 other tracks recorded over the course of 2020.  “Wrote an album. It’s called “Wonder”.  "It really feels like a piece of me has been written down on paper and recorded into song. I tried to be as real and as honest as I’ve ever been.  It’s a world and a journey and a dream and an album I’ve been wanting to make for a really long time.”

  
     
  
  
  

  

  Frank Black - Christmass - Demon
  Demon Records is proud to present a new series of vinyl reissues from American singer-songwriter Black Francis / Frank Black. The first release in this new series is 'Christmass', a collection of acoustic performances from Frank Black's 2006 US solo tour. Recorded both live on stage and in hotel rooms whilst on the road, the album includes tracks from across Black's career. Highlights include stripped back renditions of Pixies' classics 'Where Is My Mind?', 'Cactus' and 'Wave Of Mutilation' along with 'I Burn Today', 'Bullet' and 'Nadine' from Black's solo albums. This new definitive vinyl edition is pressed on two 140g 'cactus' green vinyl.

  
     
  
  
  

  

  Green Druid - At The Maw Of Ruin - Earache Records
  2020 release from this metal band spawned in the mile-high city of Denver Colorado, the first city to legalize marijuana. Green Druid was nominated for 'Best Metal Band' at the 303 Magazine Awards. Album closer is a cover of UK trip-hop pioneers Portishead's 'Threads'.

  
     
  
  
  

  

  Amy Winehouse - 12x7: The Singles Collection - Republic
  A 7” singles box set comprising all of Amy Winehouse's singles from the Frank, Back To Black and Lioness: Hidden Treasures albums. Tracks include ‘Stronger Than Me’, ‘Rehab’ and ‘Love Is A Losing Game’, all of which won the Ivor Novello Award for Amy in 2004, 2007 and 2008. The set also includes the Grammy Award winning ‘Body and Soul’, a duet with Tony Bennett. The singles are housed in individual picture sleeves and pressed on black vinyl. The box also features a 20-page lyrics booklet and a set of art cards.
  
  Also Available: The Collection [5CD Box Set]

  
   
  
  
  

  

  Yusuf / Cat Stevens - Tea For The Tillerman: 50th Anniversary Edition - A&M
  Tea For The Tillerman is arguably Cat Stevens’ best known and most cherished album. Originally released in November 1970, Universal Music will be celebrating it’s 50th anniversary in style on 20th November 2020 with a multi-format release suite, including a very special 5CD/BD/1LP/12” Live E.P. Super Deluxe Edition reissue of one of music’s most classic albums.  The Super Deluxe set features a brand new 2020 Remaster of the record, as well as a brand new 2020 Mix (overseen by Yusuf Islam producer / engineer David Hefti), with audio mixed from the original 1970 Island Records multi-track master tape. The 2020 Mix also appears on the 1LP which is 100% exclusive to this box set. CD3 features Yusuf’s brand new interpretations of these wonderful songs, Tea For The Tillerman², which is released on stand-alone formats on 18th September 2020. Yusuf has chosen to include it here in order to present the very most complete edition of the original album, and to show how these songs have evolved over their 50 year lifespan. CD4 features demos, outtakes and alternate versions, including two wholly previously unreleased tracks (“Can This Be Love?” and “It’s So Good”), while CD5 features 25x live performances including 5 previously unreleased tracks recorded Live At The Troubadour, 4 previously unreleased live performances from the 8th December 1970 show at Fillmore East, and 6 previously unreleased live from British, French and German TV performances in 1970/71. The Live At The Troubadour performance is also included in full on the live 12” E.P. (exclusive to this box). The Super Deluxe box set is rounded out with a BluRay featuring HD 24bit/96khz audio of the 2020 Mix, as well as 8x previously unreleased live TV performances, 7 tracks performed live at KCNET studios, Los Angeles, and the official “Father And Son” video.
  
   
  
  
  

  

  Yusuf / Cat Stevens - Mona Bone Jakon: 50th Anniversary Edition - A&M
  Back in 1970 and following a period of illness and recuperation, singer-songwriting troubadour Cat Stevens re-emerged with a new record deal with Island Records and a spiritual and artistic rebirth. ‘Mona Bone Jakon’, his first album for Island, showcased a markedly different change in direction for Cat, unveiling with it a remarkable set of new compositions that included classics like ‘Trouble’, ‘Maybe You’re Right’ and the UK hit single ‘Lady D’Arbanville’. To commemorate the album’s 50th anniversary comes this definitive super deluxe box set of ‘Mona Bone Jakon’. Sounding as fresh as the day it was recorded, the original album is represented here by a brand new 2020 remaster of ‘Mona Bone Jakon’ by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Road, overseen by original producer Paul Samwell-Smith 2020 on CD, as well as a new 2020 Mix by David Hefti on both CD and LP. The set also includes an exclusive third CD of previously unreleased demos, and a fourth featuring 18 live performances from 1970/71. This box is rounded out with a live 12” etched vinyl E.P. of a rare audience recording of ‘Live At Plumpton Jazz & Blues Festival’ from August 1970, and with a BluRay disc featuring the original promo video of ‘Lady D’Arbanville’, plus eight live TV performances, and the HD audio of the new Mona Bone Jakon 2020 Mix. Also included is a 98-page beautifully illustrated hardcover book with extensive new sleevenotes. Finally there’s also a selection of memorabilia including Island Records press kit, two Island press photos, a replica 1970 Plumpton Jaxx and Blues flyer, a Cat Stevens tour sticker and ‘dustbin’ greetings card and pop art print in a card envelope.

  
   
  
  
  

  

  Grandson - Death Of An Optimist - Fueled By Ramen
  Grandson's debut EP trilogy of Modern Tragedy 1, 2, and 3, which turned Canadian-American singer, songwriter, and musician Jordan Edward Benjamin into a vocal spokesperson on some of today's most pressing political and social issues, Death Of An Optimist continues grandson's dynamic search for meaningful change with some of his most clear-eyed and assertive songwriting yet.

  
    
  
  
  

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
  
  
  Arctic Monkeys - Live At The Royal Albert Hall
  Margo Price - Perfectly Imperfect At The Ryman
  Beyonce - Homecoming: The Live Album
  King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - K.G.
  The White Stripes - The White Stripes Greatest Hits
  Deafheaven - 10 Years Gone
  Coldplay - Christmas Lights [Limited Edition Blue 7in Vinyl]
  Stevie Nicks - Live In Concert: The 24 Karat Gold Tour
  Britney Spears - Glory: Deluxe [Opaque White 2LP]
  Steven Wilson - 12 Things I Forgot
  Bob Marley & The Wailers - The Complete Island Recordings [11LP Box Set]
  Khruangbin - Late Night Tales: Khruangbin
  Calexico - Seasonal Shift
  YUNGBLUD - weird!
  Steve Perry - Traces: Alternate Versions & Sketches
  Rich The Kid & YoungBoy Never Broke Again - Nobody Safe
  Sigur Ros - Odin's Raven Magic
  Rory Gallagher - The Best Of
  Various Artists - The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners (Original Soundtrack) [Red, Green & Clear Smoke 3LP]
  Twice - Eyes Wide Open (Story Version)
  SuperM - SuperM The 1st Album 'Super One' [Limited Edition Orange Cassette]
  
  
  
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• White Stripes - Free Item With Purchase & Test Pressing Opportunity

  

  On Friday 12/4, The White Stripes - Greatest Hits is going to be released on.  When you purchase the vinyl from any Down In The Valley, you will get a menu and one of the free items that were made to correspond to each track on the album and history of the band.   Also, when you purchase from us you will be entered to win a free test pressing of this album.  very limited!  So stop in tomorrow and pick up a copy along with your free item.  We will ramdomly draw the winner on Monday 12/7 and notify the winner.  Hope to see you all this weekend! 
  

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• New Release Round-Up 11-27-20

  

  
  RSD Black Friday is here, so start off your shopping season the right way by hitting your favourite record store and picking out some awesome gifts for your loved ones (and yourself).  As well as the fantastic variety of record store goodies we stock all year round there will of course be some special releases exclusive to record stores streeting that day. You can check out the list of those titles right here! And you can also head over to recordstoreday.com for more details.

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  Eleine - Dancing In Hell - Black Lodge Records
  After a huge success with their EP "All Shall Burn" late 2019, Eleine now releases their third full-length album "Dancing In Hell". With a natural step into the darker and heavier sound Eleine delivers an album that sets a new standard within the symphonic metal genre with hard hitting, melodic and seductive metal that has become the renowned Eleine sound. With "Dancing In Hell", Eleine share stories of inner demons, strength and loss. You've surely been pushed down and even alone from time to time in the fight you're in, whatever that might be, right? Imagine yourself standing in the center of your own personal hell, but you have a smile on your face because you know that united we have the strength to push through. In "Dancing In Hell", you will find a legion to lean against and be a part of. Get ready to feel empowered like never before.

  
     
  
  
  

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  Miley Cyrus - Plastic Hearts
  Billie Joe Armstrong - No Fun Mondays
  Smashing Pumpkins - CYR
  Little Simz - Drop 6 EP
  Orville Peck - Show Pony EP
  William Prince - Gospel First Nation
  J. Lloyd - Kosmos
  Flogging Molly - Swagger: 20th Anniversary [Box Set]
  The Hold Steady - Heaven is Whenever: 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
  Widespread Panic - Coconut Image / Monkey Image Reissue [Limited Edition Vinyl Single]
  Clutch - The Weathermaker Vault Series Vol. 1
  Jesse Colin Young - Highway Troubadour
  Shakin' Stevens - Singled Out
  Various Artists - An Americana Christmas [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Green/Red LP]
  Hatebreed - Weight Of The False Self
  Cadaver - Edder & Bile
  Dream Theater - Distant Memories - Live In London [Box Set]
  
  
  
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• New Release Round-Up 11-20-20

  

  Nick Cave - Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone At Alexandra Palace - Bad Seed Ltd
  Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone At Alexandra Palace is a concert film and live album by musician Nick Cave. It was filmed by cinematographer Robbie Ryan and features Cave performing solo on piano at Alexandra Palace in London. Idiot Prayer serves as the final film in a trilogy-along with 20,000 Days on Earth (2014) and One More Time with Feeling (2016)-and was described by Cave as "it's luminous and heartfelt climax."

  
     

  
  
  
  

  

  Tank and The Bangas - Friend Goals EP - Verve
  Grammy-nominated Tank and The Bangas are back with Friend Goals, the follow-up to their critically acclaimed major label debut album Green Balloon. This 6-track EP features collaborations from CHIKA, PJ Morton, and Duckwrth.

  
     

  
  
  
  

  

  Various Artists - Southeast Of Saturn - Third Man Vinyl
  It makes sense that Detroit had a buzzy, thriving space-rock scene in the ‘90s. What American city’s denizens had a more urgent need to disengage and think outside the grim, post-industrial rustbelt realities? With space-rock (and its close sonic cousin shoegaze) being at once expansive and introspective, it naturally appealed to the young, intelligent artists who gravitated toward its vertiginous orbit. The music of Southeast Of Saturn did not arise organically from metro Detroit’s fertile soil. Locally, garage-rock, goth-rock, neo-hippie groups, and the usual preponderance of adequate bar bands dominated the landscape. Thirsty Forest Animals guitarist Andrew Peters summarizes the prevalent attitude among the Motor City’s space-rock contingent: “I don’t think we really noticed the local Detroit scene earlier on. We were more into the bands you would see in the NME / Melody Maker, zines, and records - mostly from the UK - on the walls at Play It Again”. If anything was a major factor locally, it was Play It Again, the independent record store in the suburbs of Detroit that nurtured the scene with its amazing curation of imports and killer used records picked up on owner Alan Kovan’s British record buying trips.  Penned “Detroit Space-Rock”, the scene centered around Burnt Hair Records, Burnt Hair CEO Larry Hoffman’s Life According To Larry radio show, Zoot’s Coffeehouse and bands, such as Windy & Carl, Asha Vida, Füxa, Auburn Lull, and Majesty Crush. It was a modern movement of a more traditional “space-rock” sound, influenced less by The Stooges and MC5 and more by Spacemen 3, Loop, My Bloody Valentine and krautrock bands like Can and Neu!. Even the best-known artists on Southeast Of Saturn - Windy & Carl, Majesty Crush, Füxa - never achieved mainstream success, but within the rock underground, they inspired a cultish devotion that burns to this day.  If you missed their evanescent output the first time around, this compilation will get you up to speed over its 19 mind-altering tracks.

  
     

  
  
  
  

  

  Mary J. Blige - My Life: Deluxe Edition - Republic
  Digitally remastered and expanded edition. The 3x platinum My Life was nominated for a Grammy for Best R&B Album in 1995. In ensuing years, Rolling Stone included the album on their 50 Essential Female Albums (#17), 100 Greatest Albums of the '90s (#63) and 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (#279) lists. My Life is the second studio album by American R&B recording artist Mary J. Blige, originally released on November 29, 1994.
  
  

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  mxmtoon - dawn/dusk
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  Elvis Presley - From Elvis In Nashville
  Sylvan Esso - WITH [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition 2 LP]
  BTS - BE (Deluxe Edition)
  The Dirty Knobs - Wreckless Abandon
  King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Live In San Francisco '16
  Neil Diamond - Classic Diamonds With The London Symphony Orchestra
  Eric Clapton - Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2019
  Seatbelts - Cowboy Bebop (Original Series Soundtrack)
  Local Natives - Sour Lemon EP
  Rilo Kiley - Rilo Kiley
  Iron Maiden - Nights Of The Dead, Legacy Of The Beast: Live In Mexico City
  Jamie Cullum - The Pianoman At Christmas
  Autechre - Plus
  Dame Shirley Bassey - I Owe It All To You
  Five Finger Death Punch - A Decade Of Destruction, Vol. 2
  Annie Lennox - A Christmas Cornucopia: 10th Anniversary Edition
  John Fogerty - Fogerty's Factory
  Mary J. Blige - My Life: Deluxe Edition
  Pink Floyd - Delicate Sound Of Thunder: Remastered
  Dirty Projectors - 5EPs
  Various Artists - '80s TV Classics - Music From G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero
  
  
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