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Music Releases 01-13-23
- Margo Price
Strays [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Purple Smoke LP] - Belle And Sebastian
Late Developers [LP] - Mumford & Sons
Babel: 10th Anniversary [Cream LP]
Video PlayARt - The Goose
Undecided EP [Black/White Vinyl] - Gaz Coombes
Turn The Car Around [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Yellow LP] - Dayglow
People In Motion [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition LP]
Video PlayARt - Joesef
Permanent Damage [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Eco Mix LP] - NOFX
So Long And Thanks For All The Shoes: 25th Anniversary Edition [Neopolitan LP] - Bob's Burgers [TV Series]
Music From The Bob's Burgers Movie [Yellow LP] - Sarathy Korwar
Kalak [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Dark Green LP] - feeble little horse
Hayday [LP] - Obituary
Dying Of Everything [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Halloween Orange LP] - Ernie Vincent
Original Dap King [LP] - Bob Weir
Ace: 50th Anniversary Remaster [SYEOR 23 Exclusive Translucent Red LP] - Chicago
Chicago IX: Chicago's Greatest Hits [SYEOR 23 Exclusive Picture Disc LP] - Goo Goo Dolls
Chaos In Bloom [LP]
Video PlayARt - Kid Cudi
Entergalactic [LP] - King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard
Live At Bonnaroo '22 [Orange Buzzsaw LP] - Angels & Airwaves
Love, Pt. 2 [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Grape 2LP] - Nervous Eaters
Monsters + Angels [LP] - Circa Survive
Two Dreams [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Pink Marble 2LP] - Beyond The Black
Beyond The Black - Jared James Nichols
Jared James Nichols - Rachael & Vilray
I Love A Love Song! [LP]
Movie Releases 01-17-23
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Music Releases 01-20-23
Sylvan Esso
No Rules Sandy [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Tiger's Eye LP]
Describing their first three albums as a trilogy that is now complete, Meath and Sanborn see No Rules Sandy as the beginning of a new period, with songs that are wilder and stranger and more cathartic than the band used to be, as Nick Sanborn puts it. It feels like who we actually are, Amelia Meath adds. It just feels like us. Were not trying to fit into the mold, just happily being our freak selves.
Cruel CountryWilcos universally-acclaimed 12th studio album will be available for the first time on vinyl and in a standard retail CD format via dBpm Records on January 20th. The double-disc packages are comprised of 21 Country Music inspired tracks, recorded at the bands Chicago studioThe Loft.
Originally released in May 2022 (digital only) and in a limited pre-release CD edition for the June RSD drop, lead tracks Falling Apart (Right Now) and Tired Of Taking It Out On You have already become staples on non-commercial, public and AAA radio. Cruel Country songs and graphics have been featured throughout the bands June European tour and August/September/October North American tour.
A new music video for A Lifetime To Find will be released in conjunction with the pre-order announcement.
Bandleader Jeff Tweedy has commented a length on the concept and recording process of Cruel Country in numerous podcasts, online interviews and print articles:
There have been elements of Country Music in everything weve ever done. Weve never been particularly comfortable with accepting that definition, the idea that I was making Country Music. But now, having been around the block a few times, were finding it exhilarating to free ourselves within the form, and embrace the simple limitation of calling the music were making Country.
Jon Pareles in The New York Times wrote: Wilco makes an understated magnum opus. Its tone is naturalistic and understated; the album was recorded largely with Wilco playing live in the studio as a six-man band, quietly savoring the chance to make music together after pandemic isolation.
Jon Dolan in Rolling Stone wrote: Their latest is a beautifully rootsy album with a broken sense of patriotic concern. ****
Tagged in multiple publications mid-summer Best of Albums of 2022 (so far) Lists including
Variety, Rolling Stone, Spin, Uproxx and Paste.
The plan was to start driving north and not go home to Los Angeles until I was done with a record, Five Easy Hot Dogs is a collection of instrumental recordings from Macs time on the road. Kind of like being on tour, except there werent any shows and Id just be burning money. All of the songs on Five Easy Hot Dogs were recorded and mixed in the corresponding city from each song title and the tracklisting reflects the chronological order in which the songs were produced.
Darker and more danceable and demonic than 2021s Huffy, We Are Scientists new album Lobes features the singles Operator Error, Settled Accounts & Less From You. On their second self-produced outing, the bands assurance and perversion have blossomed. Limited edition, 140g Cathode Blue translucent vinyl available exclusively for indie record stores.
Beauty, disposability and fragility of the culture that surrounds us, and the exhilaration of freeing yourself from those structures these are the themes Ladytron return to on TimesArrow, their seventh album.
Driven by analogue synths, distorted chimes and hallucinogenic soundscapes, Ladytron crash-landed into electroclash at the turn of the century, using the dancefloor as a bridgeheadto the collective unconscious. On Times Arrow the group add new richness, distant shimmers and a shoegaze-adjacent glow with Helen Marnie and Mira Aroyos trademarkunderstated voices now inhabiting a space somewhere between cloudscape and dream.
Announcing their debut album Leisure in 1991, Blur continued to revolutionise the sound of English popular music with second release Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993). Five successiveUK #1 albums followed - with Parklife (1994) and The Great Escape (1995) helping to propel the band to mass popularity in the UK and beyond. The eponymous Blur was released in1997 and seventh album Think Tank (2003). In 2015 the band returned with The Magic Whip It was the band's first studio album in 12 years.The album received acclaim from musiccritics. It debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart, marking Blur's sixth UK number-one album. It has been certified Gold.
In recent years, his film and TV composing work has included soundtracks for Netflix sci-fi series The One and BBC Ones technological crime thriller The Capture.
Bryan Adams has re-recorded a selection of his biggest hits and deep cuts, now featured on vinyl! The 2LP package features 14 tracks including classic hits like (Everything I Do) I Do It For You, Summer of 69 and Heaven. Side D features an etching.
The Bad Ends
The Power And The Glory [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Transparent Orange LP]
Deluxe Hardcover Casebook CD with 32-page Booklet and 5 Photo Cards
After stepping into the spotlight thanks to her own cover versions of blues & rock classics on YouTube (500K subscribers - 105 million views), Laura Cox managed to become the guitarist & singer with the most views in the French rock scene thanks to her amazing first albums Hard Blues Shot (2017) & Burning Bright (2019).
After outstanding performances at renowned European festivals (Hellfest, Pol'andRock, Rock Palast...), not only the honor of interviewing the legendary SCORPIONS for Arte followed, but also an own documentary for one of the biggest German TV stations, WDR.
In 2022, she is the rising star of rock in Europe with her new album 'Head Above Water'.
With 11 sparkling new tracks recorded at the legendary ICP studio in Brussels by Erwin Autrique and mastered by multiple GRAMMY award-winning Ted Jensen, 'Head Above Water' breaks all boundaries and proves Laura Cox's undeniable talent.
Fan favorite dark dance outfitBoy Harsher have contributed a sumptuouslyeerie track for theDavid Gordon Greendirected finale to the iconicHalloween franchise. Sacred Bones andNude Club (Boy Harshers imprint) are joiningforces and releasing a proper 12 maxi single containing four versions of the trackBurn it Down, to be released in tandem with the original score provided by John Carpenter,Cody Carpenter, andDaniel Davies.
Boy Harsher said of the experience: During an extremely brief period of rest between tours, we got this call from the music supervisor ofHalloween. The director,David Gordon Green, had listened to our music and wanted to use somethingfor the final installment in the trilogy -Halloween Ends. We flew to New Yorkthe next day to meet the team and discuss the possibilities. It was totally surreal.Obviously were huge fans ofCarpenter and the franchise is a fav, but to workwithGordon Green was also so special, his early films (George Washington,Undertow, Snow Angels) were heavy influences on our work. The real kicker is thatHalloween Ends was shot in Savannah, GA - the birthplace ofBoy Harsherandwhere we met. Unbelievable. It all felt too synchronous, and we knew we had tomake something work although we were about to leave for a multi-month tourthat week. We flew home to Massachusetts, dug through old demos, and foundBurn It Down. In the end it was the perfect energy for the bittersweet love affairbetween Allyson and Corey, so during a couple days off - we cleaned it up andmade it come alive."
Sampa the Great
As Above, So Below [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Seaglass Blue LP]
Having started her professional career outside of her home of Zambia, Sampa The Great returned at the beginning of the pandemic to Africa. As Above, So Below is the result of this return to her roots, embracing the sounds and themes of her origins. Sampa has reconnected with a different side of herself, one closer to the younger artistry that was nourished growing up. Now, in an age of authenticity, meet a 360 Sampa, a higher version of herself. No mask on, or role to play.
Sam Fender
Live From Finsbury Park [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Red 2 LP]
Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein
Stranger Things Season 4 Volume 1 [Max's Blue World 2LP]
Scored by Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein of S U R V I V E!
Stranger Things is the breakout Netflix original series set in 1983 Indiana where a young boy vanishes into thin air. As friends, family and local police search for answers, they are drawn into an extraordinary mystery involving top-secret government experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one very strange little girl. A love letter to the '80s supernatural classics that captivated a generation, Stranger Things stars Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Matthew Modine, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Natalia Dyer and Charlie Heaton.
- Stranger Things Season Four is split over two volumes!
- LPs contain 80 tracks, about three hours of music, on both Volumes 1 & 2!
- Stranger Things has won seven Emmy Awards, and has been nominated for 216 various awards, with 77 wins.
- Stranger Things 4 is Netflix's most-viewed English-language series of all time.
Features
- Double Vinyl LP
- Transparent 'Max's Blue World' Vinyl
- Gatefold Jacket
- Printed Inner Sleeves
STRANGER THINGS SEASON 4 VOLUME 1 - VINYL LP
Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein
Stranger Things Season 4 Volume 2 [Vecna's Red World 2LP]
Vinyl: $34.98 Buy
The Murder Capital
Gigi's Recovery [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Pink LP]
The Murder Capitals second studio album Gigis Recovery, produced by John Congleton, will be released on January 20, 2023 via Human Season Records. The black LP will be housed in a printed inner sleeve in a single-pocket jacket. Painting by Peter Doyle and designed by Aidan Cochrane.
What does John Cale have that the rest of us dontsome gene that engenders infinite restlessness, a rapacious mind that is never satisfied? For nearly 60 years, or at least since he was a young Welshman who moved to New York and joined The Velvet Underground, Cale has been reinventing his music with dazzling and inspiring regularity. Once again, here is Cale, reimagining how his music is made, sounds, and even works. His engrossing 12-track MERCYhis first full album of new tunes in a decademoves through true dark-night-of-the-soul electronic blues toward vulnerable love songs and hopeful considerations for the future with the help of some of musics most curious young minds.
Movie Releases 01-24-23
On their anticipated sophomore DVD, Listen To The Music, Brothers Of The Heart (Jimmy Fortune, Ben Isaacs, Bradley Walker, Mike Rogers) reimagine country, gospel and pop classics including Ring of Fire, Desperado, Precious Memories and more. Showcasing impeccable arrangements and seamless harmonies from these award-winning talents, this concert recording, filmed at The Grand Ole Oprys Studio A and hosted by country music legend Don Reid, reminds us of the joy of listening to great music.
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Music Releases 01-27-23
- Sam Smith
Gloria [LP]
Video PlayARt - Quinn XCII
The Peoples Champ
Video PlayARt - White Reaper
Asking For A Ride
- Tyler Hubbard
Tyler Hubbard [Cobalt Blue 2LP]
Video PlayARt - The Arcs
Electrophonic Chronic [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Clear w/Black Splatter LP]
- Samia
Honey [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Blue LP+Flexi Disc]
- SG Lewis
AudioLust & HigherLove [2 LP]
- Elle King
Come Get Your Wife [LP]
- Eminem
The Eminem Show: 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition [4LP]
Video - Bob Dylan
Fragments Time Out of Mind Sessions (1996-1997): The Bootleg Series Vol. 17 [Deluxe CD Box Set]
- JW Francis
Dream House [Cream LP]
- Illiterate Light
Sunburned [LP]
- The Cure
Wish: 30th Anniversary Edition [LP]
- Ghost
Meliora [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Deluxe Translucent Yellow 2LP]
- Bass Drum Of Death
Say I Wont [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Ivory LP]
- Avril Lavigne
Let Go: 20th Anniversary Edition [LP]
- Marvin Gaye
Greatest Hits Live in '76 [LP]
- Ava Max
Diamonds & Dancefloors [LP]
- Kimbra
A Reckoning
- Green Day
Nimrod: 25th Anniversary Edition [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Silver 5LP Box Set]
- Elvis Presley
Elvis On Tour [CD Box Set]
- Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats
Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Sea Blue LP]
- Fucked Up
One Day [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Peak Blue In Milky Clear LP]
- Steve Vai
Vai/Gash
Movie Releases 01-31-23
- Bones and All [Movie]
Bones And All
- Dawn Of The Dead [Movie]
Dawn of the Dead [Collector's Edition 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray]
- Road House [Movie]
Road House [4K]