• New Release Round-Up 12-03-21

  OUT THIS WEEK
  
  Volbeat - Servant Of The Mind
  Ice Nine Kills - Welcome To Horrorwood: The Silver Scream 2 [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Ultra Clear 2LP]
  TOMORROW X TOGETHER - Chaotic Wonderland
  David Lee Roth - Diamond Dave
  NCT 127 - The 3rd Album Repackage 'Favorite' [Catharsis ver.]
  Gregory Porter - Still Rising
  Kenny G - New Standards
  The Cast of Netflix's Film tick, tick... BOOM! - tick, tick... BOOM! (Soundtrack from the Netflix Film)
  Geese - Projector
  Osees - LEVITATION Sessions Vol. II [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Double 12in Vinyl]
  Tasha - Tell Me What You Miss The Most
  Spencer Cullum - Spencer Cullum’s Coin Collection [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Green LP]
  The Tragically Hip - Road Apples: 30th Anniversary [5 LP/Blu-ray]
  LP - Churches
  Gillian Welch & David Rawlings - All The Good Times
  Travis - The Invisible Band: 20th Anniversary [Deluxe 2 CD/Clear 2 LP Box Set]
  Nina Simone & Her Friends - An Intimate Variety Of Vocal Charm [RSD Essential Indie Colorway Transparent Emerald Green LP]
  Ghost Woman - Lost Echo's [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition White/Gold Splatter 7in Single]
  Czarface - Czarface Meets Metal Face [RSD Essential Indie Colorway White LP]
  Danzig - Always On My Mind [Pink Vinyl Single]
  Bloodred Hourglass - Your Highness [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Red & Green 2LP]
  Like Pacific - Control My Sanity [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Baby Blue and White Marble LP]
  Andrew Gabbard - Homemade [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Camo Green LP]
  No Bragging Rights - No Bragging Rights [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Half Gold/Half Clear w/Heavy Black Splatter 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

  

  Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Barn - Reprise
  Barn, the new Neil Young & Crazy Horse album was recorded in a remote, restored, 19th century log barn. This musical family has played together for a half century, yet they continue creating new music. Neil and the Horse fans have long shouted for “more barn” and here it is… 10 new songs that capture the wild, rock and roll spirit, the idiosyncratic raw sound and the lyrical beauty that epitomizes a classic NYCH collaboration. The last song appeared on the last morning and was recorded just an hour later during a pounding hailstorm and during the full moon. The album was recorded this summer over a handful of days. The ten new songs encompass all that Neil Young with Crazy Horse are known for, beautiful romantic acoustic ballads, powerhouse electric rockers and insightful rollicking tunes that stick with you. Niko Bolas was parked adjacent to the barn, in an exquisite analog mobile recording truck, Le Mobile ready to capture and mix the album on the spot. 
  
    

  

  Green Day - BBC Sessions - Warner Records
  Between 1994 to 2001, Green Day would visit the BBC’s Maida Vale Studios in London four times and record live sessions for Radio 1’s “Evening Show” and its popular DJ Steve Lamacq. This compilation documents those sessions, and includes many of the band’s hits including “When I Come Around”, “Basket Case”, “Brain Stew/Jaded” and “Minority”.
  
    

  

  The Band - Cahoots: 50th Anniversary Edition - Capitol
  The Band celebrates the 50th Anniversary of their fourth studio album Cahoots with an all-new remix and remaster by Bob Clearmountain. The Super Deluxe Box includes the new stereo mix, bonus tracks and a previously unreleased bootleg concert at Olympia Theatre, Paris 1971, on 2 CDs. Also included, is a surround-sound Blu-ray, a 180g half-speed master LP, a 7" single, booklet, all-new liner notes and collectable lithographs.
  
  

  

  Brian Wilson - At My Piano - DECCA
  Genius, icon, trailblazer - he revolutionized music as head of the Beach Boys. Now, legend Brian Wilson retraces his steps and reimagines the most iconic songs from his back catalogue into their purest form, him alone at the piano. Featuring God Only Knows, Wouldn't it Be Nice, California Girls, Good Vibrations and many more on solo piano.
  
    

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• New Release Round-Up 11-26-21

  OUT THIS WEEK
  
  Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit - Georgia Blue
  Grouplove - Never Trust A Happy Song: 10th Anniversary Edition [Limited Edition Green LP]
  Mogwai - e.p. x 3 [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Curacao, Clear & Yellow Vinyl]
  The Acacia Strain - It Comes In Waves [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Neon Pink LP]
  Black Label Society - Doom Crew Inc. [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Clear & Black Ice W/Grey 2LP]
  Deep Purple - Turning To Crime [Limited Edition Crystal Clear 2LP]
  Riki - Gold [Red in Clear LP]
  B.B. King - Indianola Mississippi Seeds [Translucent Red Audiophile Limited Anniversary Edition LP]
  Danzig - Sings Elvis [Pink & Black Haze LP]
  Steve Earle - I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive [Limited Edition Cherry Red LP]
  Steve Earle - Washington Square Serenade [Limited Edition Metallic Gold LP]
  Insane Clown Posse - Yum Yum Bedlam
  
  
  
  
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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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• Record Store Day- Black Friday

  
  We are excited to get all of you the exclusive Black Friday titles offered this year.  We will have tons of BF titles as you've come to expect over the years.  There have been some changes to the list and we have those details at the bottom of the email.  It's unfortunate but with all of the pressing plant delays, it was inevitable that some of the titles were not going to make it.  The good news is that most of those titles will be coming in December and for Record Store Day 2022. 
  
   
  We open the doors @ 9am on Friday at our Golden Valley and Maple Grove locations.  Our Crystal location will be open at 10am for those that would like to avoid the morning rush for non-music items. 
   
  We'd like to remind you that these are limited in quantity so we cannot pre-order, hold, or save any titles before we open. It is common that we have a line at open but this moves quickly as we shuffle everyone through the store to grab their picks.
   
  All Black Friday titles are limited to 1 copy of each title per customer, no doubles.
   
  Down In The Valley V.I.P. Members can choose up to 6 different BF titles the first time through the line.

  Non-VIP Members can choose up to 4 different RSD titles.

   

   ***You can go through the line as many times as you'd like. We’ve run our RSD/BF event in this manner for over a decade and continue to get rave reviews because customers like that it’s fair and organized. Our events are not free-for-all situations and our customers prefer it this way.

   

  ***Please have your BLACK FRIDAY picks ready when you get to the table to eliminate delays for the folks behind you in line.

   

  Of course we are promoting the Black Friday titles but this is also an event to kick off the holiday season.  We have the biggest stock of NEW VINYL we've ever had. We recommend starting your holiday shopping now for reasons we've been saying about the supply chain issues in the vinyl industry. We're stocked and ready for you.
  

   

  Our used vinyl bins will also be stocked with freshly-priced USED VINYL gems. We've had so many excellent collections come thru the doors the last 2 months and you'll like what you see.  Make sure to peruse those racks when you're in this weekend.

   

  Finally, We've held back some of our DOWN IN THE VALLEY EXCLUSIVE titles to offer to you this weekend as well.  We'll have limited copies of the SLOWDIVE - Self-Titled exclusive vinyl on a violet colorway. This is limited in total to 330 copies.  Also, we'll have BAD BRAINS debut 7" on white vinyl, limited to 300 copies.  Grab those while you can!

  *We will be selling the remainder of the BLACK FRIDAY stock on Monday in our online store on Discogs.

  There have been some cancellations due to delays in manufacturing so please see the complete list of titles here: https://recordstoreday.com/SpecialReleases
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• New Release Round-Up 11-19-21

  

  U2 - Achtung Baby: 30th Anniversary Edition - Island
  A limited-edition black vinyl release of the Grammy-award winning U2 album Achtung Baby, to celebrate its 30^th Anniversary. Produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, and recorded between Berlin’s Hansa Studios and various locations in Dublin, Achtung Baby was released to critical acclaim in 1991 & is regarded as one of U2’s most seminal albums. The album featured five singles: ‘The Fly’, ‘Mysterious Ways’, ‘One’, ‘Even Better Than The Real Thing’ and ‘Who’s Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses’.
  
  

  

  Kiss - Destroyer: 45th Anniversary Edition - UMe
  In 1976, KISS dropped the bombshell on the world being DESTROYER, an album that originally received resistance from fans due to the band exploring a new sound and has long become the quintessential and all-time best selling KISS studio album. Exploding with concert staples and KISS Army favorites like “Detroit Rock City,” “Shout It OutLoud,” and “God Of Thunder” – the album’s new sounds came from the softer side of songs like “Do You Love Me?,”and songs heavy with orchestral arrangements including “Great Expectations” and their surprise hit single “Beth.” For the 45th anniversary, UMe is releasing the most comprehensive Super Deluxe Edition 4CD + Blu-ray Audio boxset that will melt the KISS Army’s minds. The original album on CD 1 is newly remastered by Abbey Road Mastering, CD 2 features 15 demos from Paul Stanley’s and Gene Simmons’s personal archives – 9 of which are unreleased. CD 3 loads up with studio outtakes, alternate versions / mixes and single edits – most notably a brand-new stripped-down mix for “Beth (Acoustic Mix)” where we found the acoustic guitar stems recorded for the entire song but originally only used in the last several closing notes of the song on the album. CD 4 features a ripping performance from the band’s visit to Paris France at the L’Olympia on May 22, 1976. Steven Wilson was brought in to create a first-ever Dolby Atmos and 5.1 surround mix of the original studio album plus 2 bonus tracks “Beth (Acoustic Mix)” and “Sweet Pain (Original Guitar Solo)” the latter featuring Ace Frehley’s original recorded guitar solo that was not released on the studio album (this track is available on the 2012 Destroyer: Resurrected project.) Packaging features a lift top-style box loaded with so much ephemera even KISS fans may need to seek medical advice upon receiving this boxset. Also available Deluxe 2CD and Deluxe 2LP.
  
  

  

  Yusuf / Cat Stevens - Teaser And The Firecat: 50th Anniversary - A&M
  Yusuf / Cat Stevens celebrates 1971's landmark album with this 4CD, Blu-ray, 2LP, and 7" set in a rigid clamshell box. It includes the 50th Anniversary remaster of the album on CD/Blu-ray HD Audio completed at Abbey Road by the original producer, Paul Samwell-Smith. Featuring 41 previously unreleased demos, sessions, live tracks, and 21 unreleased TV performances. Plus, an illustrated 108-pg essay book, a 44-pg replica of the original "Teaser And The Firecat" book, and a 7" single of "Moonshadow." Also available Super Deluxe 4CD/Blu-ray Box Set, Deluxe 2CD and LP & CD.
  
  

  

  Andy Shauf - Wilds - ANTI
  Few artists are storytellers as deft and disarmingly observational as Andy Shauf. The Toronto-based, Saskatchewan-raised musician’s songs unfold like short fiction: they’re densely layered with colorful characters and a rich emotional depth. Like he’s done throughout his career, Shauf wrote, performed, arranged, and produced every song on his new album Wilds at his studio space in the west end of Toronto.  Over the course of a year-and-a-half, Shauf had written more than 50 songs, and pared down this massive body of work, into a single album’s worth of material, which became 2020’s highly acclaimed The Neon Skyline album. These songs focused on a theme by intertwining the individual characters stories of a group of friends who gathered for one night at the same local bar. Wilds includes songs from those same writing sessions, that did not fit into the Skyline storyline and had their own singular identity apart from that album, though he does revisit with his old friends Judy and Jeremy in this outing.
  
    

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
  
  Adele - 30
  Oasis - Knebworth 1996
  Twenty One Pilots - Scaled And Icy [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Clear LP]
  Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raise The Roof [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition 2LP]
  Cold War Kids - New Age Norms 3 [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Neon Green LP]
  The Darkness - Motorheart [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Clear LP]
  Ringo Starr - Change The World EP [Vinyl]
  Sting - The Bridge
  Lady Gaga - Dawn Of Chromatica
  James Blunt - The Stars Beneath My Feet (2004-2021)
  The Tragically Hip - Road Apples: 30th Anniversary
  Deap Vally - Marriage
  Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band - The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts
  Willie Nelson - The Willie Nelson Family
  Steve Earle & The Dukes - Guy [Limited Edition Red and Orange Swirl 2LP]
  All Them Witches - Nothing As The Ideal [Limited Edition Galaxy Green and Black Mix LP]
  FUR - When You Walk Away
  Eagles Of Death Metal - EDOM Presents: A Boots Electric Christmas
  Charlie Parr - Last Of The Better Days Ahead [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Canary Yellow & Magenta LP]
  Lucinda Williams - Lu's Jukebox Vol. 5: Have Yourself A Rockin’ Little Christmas With Lucinda
  Magdalena Bay - Mercurial World [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Red LP]
  Grateful Dead - Fox Theatre, St. Louis, MO 12/10/71
  Escape The Fate - Dying Is Your Latest Fashion:15th Anniversary Edition [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Opaque Red LP]
  Swallow The Sun - Moonflowers
  Ultra Q - Get Yourself A Friend EP
  Beach Fossils - The Other Side of Life: Piano Ballads
  Calexico - Seasonal Shift [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Summer Sky Wave 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.
  
  

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• New Release Round-Up 11-12-21

  

  Nirvana - Nevermind: 30th Anniversary - Geffen
  Commemorating the 30th anniversary of Nirvana's seminal 1991 release, the Nevermind Super Deluxe contains 5 CDs showcasing the newly remastered album from the original analog tapes along with 4 complete concerts on the Nevermind Tour from Amsterdam, Melbourne, Tokyo, and Del Mar, California. Additionally, a Blu-ray of the complete Live in Amsterdam concert video (newly remastered in HD) is included along with a 40-page hardcover book with unreleased photos. Also available LP+7in, Deluxe 2CD and later next year Super Deluxe 8LP/7in Single Box Set.
  
  

  

  Damon Albarn - The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows - PIAS
  The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows was originally intended as an orchestral piece inspired by the landscapes of Iceland. This last year has seen Damon Albarn return to the music in lockdown and develop the work to 11 tracks which further explore themes of fragility, loss, emergence and rebirth. The result is a panoramic collection of songs with Albarn as storyteller. The album title is taken from a John Clare poem Love and Memory. Albarn says "I have been on my own dark journey while making this record and it led me to believe that a pure source might still exist."In a career of perpetual musical shifts and exploration, the record uncovers yet more ground, finding expansive orchestral arrangements nestling with intimate melodies, discordance brushing up against infectious majesty, all set to some of Albarn's most arresting vocal performances to date. Much like the beauty and chaos of the natural world it soundtracks, The Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows vividly documents the emotional ebb and flow of the human condition, in all it's extremes, serving as a soul enriching document for our times.
  
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  They Might Be Giants - Book - Idlewild Recordings
  Book is a new phase They Might Be Giants album presented on 180-gram audiophile vinyl LP, CD, Cassette and Limited Edition Deluxe CD/Book with package design by Paul Sahre. Featuring "I Broke My Own Rule," "I Lost Thursday," and "I Can't Remember the Dream," Book is billed as a beacon of light amid a pretty unanimously rough period of time with the band's John Linnell describing it's songs as "humorously germane to the catastrophe going on around us."
  
    

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
  
  Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time [ALL EYES ON THE PAVEMENT BLUE LP]  
  
  
  Taylor Swift - Red: Taylor's Version
  IDLES - Crawler
  Silk Sonic ( Bruno Mars + Anderson .Paak) - An Evening With Silk Sonic
  Charlie Hickey - Count the Stairs EP [Metallic Silver Vinyl]
  Elvis Presley - Back In Nashville
  Gov't Mule - Heavy Load Blues [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Blue Smoke 2LP]
  Richard Ashcroft - Acoustic Hymns Vol. 1 [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Turquoise 2LP]
  Eric Clapton - The Lady In The Balcony: Lockdown Sessions [Limited Edition Deluxe CD/DVD/Blu-ray]
  Allen Stone - APART
  All Them Witches - Lightning At The Door [Limited Edition Sea Glass with Lavender and Metallic Swirl LP]
  All Them Witches - Dying Surfer Meets His Maker [Limited Edition Pink and Smoke Swirl LP]
  All Them Witches - Sleeping Through The War [Limited Edition Orange and Red Swirl LP]
  All Them Witches - ATW [Limited Edition Tan, Blue, Red and Purple Splatter LP]
  The Seafloor Cinema - In Cinemascope With Stereophonic Sound [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Bone in Clear with Doublemint Splatter LP]
  Aesop Rock & Blockhead - Garbology
  Amanda Shires - For Christmas
  Dave Gahan & Soulsavers - Imposter
  Cage The Elephant - Melophobia [RSD Essential Custom Clear with Smoky White Swirls LP]
  Cage The Elephant - Tell Me I'm Pretty [RSD Essential Custom Clear with White & Blue Smoky Swirls LP]
  Acid Dad - LEVITATION Sessions [Limited Edition Clear Blue with Heavy Yellow Splatter LP]
  Holly Humberstone - The Walls Are Way Too Thin [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Clear LP]
  She & Him - A Very She & Him Christmas: 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition [LP+7in]
  Walk The Moon - Heights
  Cody Jinks - Mercy
  NRBQ - Dragnet
  Rod Stewart - The Tears Of Hercules
  Jerry Garcia Band - GarciaLive Volume 17: NorCal ‘76
  DMX - Exodus
  
  
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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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• Down In The Valley / Josey Record Exclusive! 330 Copies

  

  ***We have sold out of our pre-order limit to ensure our local customers will have the opportunity to purchase on street date.

  We've once again teamed up with our friends at Josey Records for another exclusive vinyl release! This time we present the critically-acclaimed 2017 album from Slowdive in a limited edition one-time pressing of 330 copies on violet vinyl - pre-order your copy today or in-store at one of our three locations today! One copy per customer. Reserve your copy today!

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• New Release Round-Up 11-05-21

  

  The Black Keys - El Camino: 10th Anniversary Edition - Nonesuch
  The Black Keys release a special tenth anniversary edition of their landmark seventh studio album El Camino via Nonesuch Records. El Camino (10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) is available in several formats including a Super Deluxe edition of five vinyl LPs or four CDs, featuring a remastered version of the original album, a previously unreleased Live in Portland, ME concert recording, a BBC radio Zane Lowe session from 2012, a 2011 Electro-Vox session, a limited-edition photo book, poster, and lithograph, and a “new car scent” air freshener. A three-LP Deluxe edition, which includes the remastered album and the live recording, is also available.
  
    

  

  Diana Ross - Thank You - Verve
  Diana Ross sings “Thank You” to the world.  “This collection of songs is my gift to you with appreciation and love. I am eternally grateful that I had the opportunity to record this glorious music at this time,” said Ms. Ross. Recorded in her home studio, “Thank You" offers a powerful, inclusive musical message of love and togetherness.  With its songs of happiness, appreciation and joy, it wholeheartedly acknowledges that we are in this all together. Her family, friends and loyal and loving audiences all around the globe have been an integral part of her wonderful life’s story. In this special moment, it is time to step into the light. Ms. Ross co-wrote and collaborated on the 13 songs along with award-winning songwriters and producers including: Jack Antonoff, Troy Miller,Triangle Park, Spike Stent, Prince Charlez, Amy Wadge, Neff-U, Freddie Wexler, Jimmy Napes, Tayla Parx, Fred White, and Nathanial Ledgewick. Let us come together in harmony and gratitude with Diana Ross now and for the future. “I dedicate this songbook of love to all of you, the listeners. As you hear my voice you hear my heart.  "Let Love Lead the Way”
  
    

  

  Bullet For My Valentine - Bullet For My Valentine - Spinefarm
  Metal vets Bullet For My Valentine announces their self-titled, seventh album which will be released via Spinefarm Records. It sees the band open a bold new chapter and is easily their heaviest, fiercest album so far.
  
   

  

  Garbage - beautifulgarbage: 20th Anniversary - Geffen
  beautifulgarbage is the third studio album from Garbage, initially released on October 1, 2001. The album expanded on the band's musical variety, with stronger melodies, more direct lyrics, and sounds mixing rock with electronica, new wave, hip hop, and girl groups. Featuring newly remastered audio by Billy Bush & Butch Vig, this deluxe edition includes Beautiful Garbage on 2 x 180g Black Vinyl, as well as a 12" 180g of B-Sides and memorabilia.
  
  

  

  Curtis Harding - If Words Were Flowers - Anti
  Simply calling Curtis Harding a soul man feels reductive. Harding's voice conveys pain, pleasure, longing, tenderness, sadness and strength-a full gamut of emotions. Today his voice takes on an optimistic lilt with his his new album, If Words Were Flowers. If Words Were Flowers is Harding's first new music since 2018, a follow up to his critically acclaimed 'Face Your Fears" album. It features songs like " Hopeful", where Harding croons with devotion over a classic soul groove, textured with infectious horn playing, background singers and modern psychedelic flourishes. Harding fuels his psychedelic sound with the essence of Soul but isn't bound by it. Instead, his songs convey an eclectic blend of genres leaping from the many musical lives he has lived from following his evangelical Gospel-singing mother on tour around the country as a child to rapping in Atlanta, forming a garage band with The Black Lips' Cole Alexander to singing back-up for Cee Lo Green. Through these experiences he fully embraces life's darkest intricacies and conjures dynamic, addictive melodies
  
    

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
  
  Radiohead - KID A MNESIA
  ABBA - Voyage [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Blue LP]
  Brian Fallon - Night Divine
  NCT 127 - The 3rd Album Repackage 'Favorite' [Classic Ver.]
  AHI - Prospect
  Jerry Garcia & John Kahn - GarciaLive Volume 14: January 27th, 1986 The Ritz
  Hanson - Against The World
  Steve Earle & The Dukes (& Duchesses) - The Low Highway [Limited Edition Butter Cream LP]
  Steve Earle - Terraplane [Limited Edition Transparent Gold LP]
  Steve Earle - Townes: The Basics [Limited Edition Gold LP]
  Steve Earle & The Dukes - Ghosts Of West Virginia [Limited Edition Black & Blue Swirl LP]
  Lilly Hiatt - Lately [Cassette]
  Snail Mail - Valentine [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Gold LP]
  Neal Francis - In Plain Sight [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Electric Teal LP]
  Parcels - Day/Night [2LP Box Set]
  Blondie - Yuletide Throwdown [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Hot Pink 12in Single]
  Mr. Bungle - The Night They Came Home [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Orange 2LP]
  Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - The Future
  Houndmouth - Good For You
  
  
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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 10-29-21

  

  Tori Amos - Ocean To Ocean - Decca
  In spite of the various crises that have occurred since 2017's Native Invader, Tori Amos has emerged with Ocean To Ocean, her most personal work in years - an album bursting with warmth and connection, with deep roots in her earliest song writing. Written during the third lockdown in Cornwall this year, Ocean to Ocean is a universal story of going to rock bottom and renewing yourself all over again.
  
    

  

  Mastodon - Hushed And Grim - Reprise
  Mastodon release their anxiously awaited ninth full-length album, Hushed And Grim, via Reprise Records. Over the past year, the group recorded the album in their hometown, collaborating with producer David Bottrill [Tool, Rush, Muse, Peter Gabriel] behind the board. As their most ambitious body of work to date, it consists of 15 tracks, surveying sonic landscapes of rock, psychedelia, punk, metal, alternative, and prog threaded together by the innately expressive musical interplay of these four musicians. At the same time, an atmosphere of loss, loneliness, and longing permeates through the trio of cathartic vocals as they musically say goodbye to old friend, confidant, and longtime manager the late Nick John by architecting a magnum opus that bears the influence of his eternal memory.
  
    

  

  Alabama Shakes - Sound & Color: Deluxe Edition - ATO Records
  Deluxe edition of the groundbreaking, genre-defying second album by Alabama Shakes. Certified gold and the winner of four Grammys, Rolling Stone called "Sound & Color” a "weirder, woozier, fiercer and sexier record than their debut in nearly every way.” This repackaged set features revised artwork, new photos, and seven bonus tracks pulled from unreleased studio material, b-sides and live songs cut at the world renowned Capitol Records Studio A.
  
    

  

  SUSTO - Time In The Sun - New West Records
  Time In The Sun is the 4th full length album from Charleston, SC band SUSTO. The album was written and recorded in the midst of a lot of life changing events for lead writer/singer Justin Osborne. Like everyone around the world, Osborne was navigating the global issues felt from the pandemic while normal life continued with its own blessings and challenges.. "We were navigating the global and national issues that everyone else was dealing with, but also I became a father and also lost my father. There was a lot of contemplation going on in my brain, a lot of personal evolution going on in my life, and songwriting was my way of working through it all. The title Time in the Sun is meant to be a monument to my own human existence and also a tribute to the human experience in general. I wouldn’t claim to understand what it means to be a human, from the countless different perspectives of the world, but I do have my own experience to reflect on and I want to be able to express and explain that in some way. I guess this album is an attempt at that. At the core though, it’s just a collection of songs about my life and my feelings."
  
    

  

  Bad Wolves - Dear Monsters - Better Noise Music
  Expectations never mattered to Bad Wolves. Instead, the Los Angeles band fused unpredictable metallic intensity and impressive instrumental proficiency to arena-ready hooks, transforming from underdogs into elite platinum-certified hard rock contenders without compromise or apology. Since 2017, the core group-John Boecklin [drums], Doc Coyle [lead guitar, backing vocals], Chris Cain [rhythm guitar], and Kyle Konkiel [bass, backing vocals]-have consistently subverted expectations and accomplished the seemingly impossible. In 2018, the band earned a platinum plaque, topped iTunes, and ruled Active Rock at #1 for three weeks straight. This momentum also propelled their debut album, Disobey, to a Top 25 debut on the Billboard Top 200. In between performing to sold out audiences on multiple continents with heavyweights such as Five Finger Death Punch and Megadeth, 2019's N.A.T.I.O.N. yielded their fifth straight #1 at Active Rock, "Sober," and brought their total stream tally past the half-billionmark-unprecedented for a modern rock band. Not to mention, LoudWire hailed it among the "50 Best Rock Albums of 2019" as Billboard and Consequence of Sound chronicled their rise. In the midst of 2021, Bad Wolves welcomed Daniel "DL" Laskiewicz-previously of The Acacia Strain-as lead vocalist, ushering in a new chapter with their third full-length offering, Dear Monsters,[Better Noise Music], led by the single "Lifeline."
  
    

  

  Save Face - Another Kill For The Highlight Reel - Epitaph
  Save Face are a band who have always prided themselves on taking risks and the New Jersey band have doubled down on that sentiment with their sophomore album, Another Kill For The Highlight Reel. Another Kill For The Highlight Reel, which features indelibly human performances, including a guest appearance from Thursday’s Geoff Rickly on “A.M. Gothic”. “There’s something about the New Jersey kinship [between Geoff and I] that really resonates with me,” Tyler Povanda explains. “New Jersey’s music scene is really something special.” Musically, the album—which was produced by the Movielife’s Brett Romnes—sees Povanda taking influence from his Jersey brethren like Thursday but adds a theatrical twist. “‘GLITTER’ was the first song I wrote that ended up being on this album and it bridges the gap between Merci and Another Kill For The Highlight Reel, ” Povanda says. “I think that song serves as a cool sonic metaphor for the transformation of the band. I would say this album isn’t narrative in the same way as the last one, but it does feel much more immersive.”
  
    

  

  Spice Girls - Spice: 25th Anniversary - Virgin Records US
  Originally released on November 4, 1996, The Spice Girls' debut album Spice celebrates its 25th anniversary this year! The album features the smash singles "Wannabe," "2 Become 1," and "Say You'll Be There" and is the best-selling album in music history by a girl group and one of the best-selling albums of all time. The 2CD set includes the original album along with bonus tracks, B-sides from the hit singles, remixes commissioned for the singles, and previously unreleased demos.
  
  
  

  

  Nat King Cole - A Sentimental Christmas With Nat King Cole And Friends: Cole Classics Reimagined - Capitol
  The new album 'A Sentimental Christmas With Nat King Cole And Friends: Cole Classics Reimagined' weaves Nat King Cole's unparalleled, beautifully restored vocals with new arrangements and contemporary artists creating beautiful sentimental duets of holiday classics. Taking its lead from the GRAMMY award-winning virtual duet of “Unforgettable,” by Natalie Cole with her father, this holiday album features brand new duets with John Legend, Kristen Chenoweth, Calum Scott, Gloria Estefan & Johnny Mathis.
  
    

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
  
  Ed Sheeran - = [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition White LP]
  Black Veil Brides - The Phantom Tomorrow
  Dave Chappelle - 8:46
  Khruangbin - Mordechai Remixes
  R.E.M. - New Adventures In Hi-Fi: 25th Anniversary Edition
  The War On Drugs - I Don’t Live Here Anymore [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Translucent Blue 2LP]
  Joe Bonamassa - Time Clocks
  Billy Bragg - The Million Things That Never Happened
  Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse Of Reason: Remixed & Updated
  Emily Scott Robinson - American Siren
  Sam Evian - Time To Melt [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Pink LP]
  Iggy Azalea - The End of an Era
  Mouse Rat - The Awesome Album [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Nothing Rhymes With Blorange Orange LP]
  Eddie Vedder/Glen Hansard/Cat Power - Flag Day (Original Soundtrack)
  The Front Bottoms - The Front Bottoms: 10th Anniversary Edition
  Bremer/McCoy - Natten (The Night)
  Wolf Alice - Blue Weekend: Deluxe [Limited Edition]
  Bnny - Everything
  Lindsay Lohan - A Little More Personal (Raw)
  Nightmares On Wax - Shout Out! To Freedom...
  The The - The Comeback Special [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set]
  Tipper - The Seamless Unspeakable Something
  Hayes Carll - You Get It All
  
  
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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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• Bad Brains - Pay To Cum 7" *Down In The Valley/Reckless Exclusive

  
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  Pay To Cum 7" *White Vinyl
  
   
   
  *DOWN IN THE VALLEY / RECKLESS RECRODS
  EXCLUSIVE
  300 COPIES
   
  Release Date 11/5
   

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  Down In The Valley has teamed up with Reckless Records in Chicago for an exclusive vinyl color of the debut 7" from legendary punk band Bad Brains!  Limited pressing of 300 copies on white vinyl - preorder your copy here or in-person at one of our three locations!
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• New Release Round-Up 10-22-21

  

  My Morning Jacket - My Morning Jacket - ATO Records
  On their new full-length - the first new music since The Waterfall (2015) - My Morning Jacket reaffirm the rarefied magic that has made them so beloved, embedding each song with moments of discovery, revelation and ecstatic catharsis. It comes after a near permanent hiatus for the band until performing four shows in summer '19 left them with a new energy. Jim James engineered/produced at 64 Sound in LA where the band spent weeks in intentional seclusion emerging with their self-titled 9th album.
  
    

  

  The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You: 40th Anniversary Edition - Interscope
  Tattoo You celebrates 40 years with the release of a brand new Super Deluxe 5 LP Boxset which includes the newly remastered version of Tattoo You, Lost & Found: Rarities, and Still Life: Wembley Stadium 1982. Also included is a 124-page book featuring over 200 rare photos from recording sessions and their world tour, plus interviews with producer Chris Kimsey and photographer Hubert Kretzscmar. The package includes a special lenticular sleeve. Also available: CD, 2CD, 4CD/Picture Disc Box Set, LP and 2LP
  
  

  

  John Coltrane - A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle - Impulse!
  This newly discovered live-recording of a performance of the Love Supreme suite is a revelation. Recorded at The Penthouse in Seattle on October 2, 1965, this recording transports the listener to a prime seat for piece of musical history. While not studio-quality audio, the power of the performance shines through. This version is also of the full suite and features an expanded band that includes the same Classic Quartet and Pharoah Sanders in his first official gig as part of Coltrane’s group.
  
    

  

  Every Time I Die - Radical - Epitaph
  Every Time I Die is a loud rock institution committed to leaving an outpouring of chaotic passion and blissful malcontent all over their records and on the stage. With boiling charisma and unrelenting energy to spare, the Buffalo, NY band manages not one but two near-impossible tasks. They’ve survived two decades as an underground entity cherished for coloring outside the lines, and contrary to most career arcs, continually improving with each successive album as they charge ahead. ETID makes a glorious hardcore-punk noise. Alchemized by a swampy summoning of Southern rock and coarse poetry, the music swirls beneath sardonic and clever wordplay, cementing them as leaders, not followers. The band’s ninth studio album, Radical, is 16 tracks of peak-ETID, including raucous new anthems. They deliver what you have come to know and love and then diverge into new paths. To say that “All This And War” featuring guest vocals by Josh Scogins from The ‘68 is absolute brutal heaviness is an understatement. It’s an addictive punch in the face, you’ll want on repeat. The boys then run off to explore the dark haunted woods of a more somber and melodic side in the track “Thing With Feathers” featuring Andy Hull from Manchester Orchestra. Radical proves with every track that it is a distillation of the strengths of their past, injected with their unyielding revelry and signature sarcasm while cognizant – and fiercely combative – of the present state of world affairs.
  
    

  

  Jackson + Sellers - Breaking Point - Anti
  Introducing Jackson + Sellers and their debut album Breaking Point, on ANTI records. Jade Jackson and Aubrie Sellers, two rising stars who aligned during the pandemic to write one of the most compelling duo albums of the last decade. Drawn together by instant chemistry, cosmic forces and their ability to write intuitive romantic breakup songs for each other, their album is a window into the dissolution of two different relationships and the formation of another: a perfect, platonic, creative union. United in their desire to write a record that reflected their expansive musical interest from 70s rock to raucous roots to indie pop, their LA written, Nashville recorded album is a masterclass in unexpected vocal harmonic convergence. With Breaking Point, Jackson + Sellers will establish themselves as two individual artists who together, share a deep friendship, musical kinship and the ability to craft tight singular pop rock songs that will embed themselves in your ears for the rest of time.
  
    

  

  Sixx: A.M. - Hits - Better Noise Music
  Sixx: A.M. Hits is the Ultimate Sixx: A.M. Collection featuring the first new song in six years and song that compliments his new book - 'The First 21', 2 more unreleased tracks "Penetrate' + "Waiting All My Life" and new mixes of "Talk to Me", " Skin" and the iconic "Life is Beautiful". Sixx: A.M. formed in 2007 by Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx, renowned guitarist DJ Ashba, and producer /songwriter James Michael, and has had #3 US top 20 albums with #9 US Top 20 singles and is best known for their debut album The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack and the #1 hits "Life Is Beautiful" and "Lies of the Beautiful People". Available via limited edition CD digi pack and color vinyl.
  
    

  ALSO OUT THIS WEEK
  
  Lana Del Rey - Blue Banisters
  Duran Duran - FUTURE PAST [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Transparent Red LP]
  Paul McCartney - McCartney III: 3333 Edition [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Yellow/Black Splatter LP]
  Parquet Courts - Sympathy For Life
  Elton John - The Lockdown Sessions
  The White Stripes - White Blood Cells: 20th Anniversary Edition [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Peppermint Pinwheel LP]
  Starset - Horizons
  The Allman Brothers Band - Fillmore East 1970 [Limited Edition Pink LP]
  NCT 127 - The 3rd Album 'Sticker' [Sticker Ver.]
  Deerhoof - Actually, You Can
  Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - B-Sides & Rarities: Part II
  The Replacements - Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash: Deluxe Edition [4CD/LP]
  Wale - Folarin II
  BIA - FOR CERTAIN
  Spiritualized - Let It Come Down: Reissue [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Ivory LP]
  Jarvis Cocker - Chansons D'ennui Tip-Top
  Superchunk - Here's to Shutting Up: 20th Anniversary Reissue [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Peak LP+CD]
  Lady A - What A Song Can Do
  Pennywise - Pennywise [Blue With Black Splatter LP]
  Hiss Golden Messenger - O Come All Ye Faithful [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Bone Green Red Tri-Color Segment 2LP]
  Guided By Voices - It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them!
  Seether - Wasteland - The Purgatory EP
  Hawthorne Heights - The Rain Just Follows Me
  Seventeen - SEVENTEEN 9th Mini Album ‘Attacca’ [Op.1]
  Moor Mother - Black Encyclopedia Of The Air [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Seaglass Wave LP]
  Dream Theater - A View From The Top Of The World [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Tan 2LP+CD]
  The Convenience - Accelerator [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Green LP]
  Young Gun Silver Fox - Canyons [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Opaque Red LP]
  NOFX - Ribbed: 30th Anniversary [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Red with Black Splatter LP]
  Clinic - Fantasy Island [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Blue LP]
  
  
  & More .....
  

  For more information on these and other releases out this week, check out our New Releases charts by week section.
  
  

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• Record Store Day - Essentials

  

  These are pressings available only at RSD stores!  See the list and pre-order to reserve your copy.  They are titles that are essential to any indie record shop.

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• Hippo Campus - LP3 *Minneapolis Exclusive Vinyl

  

  Minneapolis indie pop rebels Hippo Campus return with their third full-length, LP3, on February 4th via Grand Jury. Their strongest and most complete work yet, LP3 is a freshly-inked portrait excavating young adulthood, identity and, more importantly, how that personal identity fits into a larger camaraderie. The album comes out February 4th and we will, once again, have a very exclusive "Minneapolis" version that is only sold in select stores.  This will be a Metallic Silver Swirl colorway that is sure to look sweet on your turntable.  Again, very limited so pre-order yours now to reserve your copy. (click below to purchase)

   

   

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