“On his second album, MC Gary Clail moves away from the stark electro-funk of Tackhead and begins collaborating more closely with artists from Adrian Sherwood’s On-U Sound stable, [...]
“ON FIRE, Erica Dawn Lyle’s fourth full-length solo album, began with Lyle’s inside joke challenge to herself: could she remake the 1978 Van Halen classic live opener as a trans [...]
b/w Up From The Sea (4 Track Version) Label: Sessions Records – SESSIONS-06 Format: Vinyl, 7″, 45 RPM, Single Country: US Released: 1997 VG+/VG. Sleeve looks like it has a […]
“Die-hard Butthole Surfers fans are often compelled to own every rare recording that they can dig up, and this disc is one that they will be foaming at the mouth […]
A stunning photographic presentation of the guitars that defined the distinctive sounds and style of Johnny Marr with personal reflections and insights from the legendary guitarist himself. The [...]
“Estonian musician Maria Juur aka Maria Minerva emerged on to the landscape of 2011 with a suite of of stellar smeared pop, documented on her daydream debut, Tallinn At Dawn, […]
Compilation of various bands covering Alice Cooper songs. Includes an exclusive short audio interview with Alice Cooper. Label: time STEREO – none Format: Cassette, Compilation, C90, Yellow [...]
“When Grinderman released their debut in 2007, Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Jim Sclavunos, and Martyn Casey created a reckless, drunken animal of an alter ego to the Bad Seeds. The […]
“It’s unfortunate that Seconds can so easily be summed up with a Lush-meets-Stereolab reference, because it does seem that the record adds something interesting to these conventions. [...]
Jeff, Unfortunately is the solo identity of Bridge of Flowers singer/guitarist Jeffrey Gallagher. If you thought his perspective in BoF was coming from a different angle, wait until you hear […]
An expanded double disc edition of the celebrated Christmas album from Les Disques du Crépuscule, first issued in December 1981 as TWI 058. Features Antena, Section 25, Tuxedomoon, Les Deux […]
“After the epic proportions of Abattoir Blues/The Lyre of Orpheus double-disc in which Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds laid out two sides of the songwriter’s melodic and ambitious look [...]
“R&B Transmogrification was Sam Coomes’ and Janet Weiss’ first real statement as a band. Exuding glorious pop hooks over Weiss’ measured drumming, R&B [...]
“In the lead-up to Kyle Thomas’ fourth King Tuff LP, the songwriter/multi-instrumentalist found himself at home in L.A., run down from years of touring, and feeling more and more [...]
“After the smashing success of Oracular Spectacular, it was clear that MGMT were going to be at a bit of a crossroads when it came time to follow it up. […]
“On Electriclarryland, their second major-label album, the Butthole Surfers continue the streamlined direction they began with Independent Worm Saloon, which basically means it’s a [...]
“Buying time and thwarting bootleggers, Nirvana and DGC released the rarities compilation Incesticide toward the end of 1992. Like any odds’n’sods collection, this is uneven, [...]
“Phil Elverum is so skilled at expressing spirituality and mortality in his work as Mount Eerie that it’s convenient to say he’s unusually equipped to transform the loss of his [...]
‘I Dreamed Once I Was May Queen’ is the sophomore album from Bloomington, IN songwriter Kay Krull. The bulk of the album was recorded by her trio live in a […]
Kendra Smith and David Roback with Keith Mitchell. All tracks recorded 1983-1987. Label: no label – no cat Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Compilation, Unofficial Release Country: Released: 2018 [...]
Two records that came out in 2012, packaged here as a pair. Clear Moon is songs about a quiet life in and around a small northwest town, usually buried in […]
“SA the root note in Indian ragas was what Ramakrishna, the much beloved mystic, told his spiritual students to search for underneath all things of this world.” Label: Blue Arrow […]
“For the first Microphones album in 17 years, Phil Elverum chose a title that seems humble on the surface. The name The Microphones in 2020 promises just a moment in […]
Tracks 1-4 are from “The Uncensored,” first released as a 5-track cassette album in 1985. “Ugly Notes On Dirty Brown Paper” has been omitted here. Track 5 is from/the [...]
“Black Duck brings together three pillars of the Chicago music community: guitarist/bassist Douglas McCombs, guitarist Bill MacKay and drummer Charles Rumback. MacKay began releasing [...]
“New England has a long tradition of teenagers being raised in caves. Local histories are rife with descriptions of shaggy teenaged gangs appearing in towns and hamlets, usually in late [...]
The music on Horse Lords’ Demand to Be Taken to Heaven Alive! feels both impossibly detailed and eminently human. The twelve pieces assembled are layered, interwoven, tonally and rhythmically [...]
The San Diego via Boston alt trio’s complete original studio recordings, remastered, restored, and compiled into one lavish box set. Wait A Lifetime gathers the band’s peerless albums Junk and [...]
BASIC – the trio of Chris Forysth (guitar), Mikel Patrick Avery (percussion, drum machine, electronics), and Douglas McCombs (Fender Bass VI) – produced their new 7-track album over [...]
BASIC – the trio of Chris Forysth (guitar), Mikel Patrick Avery (percussion, drum machine, electronics), and Douglas McCombs (Fender Bass VI) – produced their new 7-track album over [...]
A decade ago, three employees of J’s Market and Cafe became Styrofoam Winos. Lou Turner, Trevor Nikrant, and Joe Kenkel bonded over their mutual adoration for Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, […]
A decade ago, three employees of J’s Market and Cafe became Styrofoam Winos. Lou Turner, Trevor Nikrant, and Joe Kenkel bonded over their mutual adoration for Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, […]
NYC-based indie rockers Hiding Places release their debut LP, The Secret to Good Living, on April 3, 2026 with Keeled Scales. Refined through years of live performance and studio work, […]
The first thing you hear is a lone clean guitar and a sweet warble singing about “city scenes caught up in the moment” before the drums enter and we’re off! […]
Austin’s Touch Girl Apple Blossom are no strangers to wearing their hearts on their sleeve. And it may be something in the name we really feel they found their rightful […]
For Kevin Morby, the “little wide open” is the big sky, the small lives, it’s his origins in the Midwest, and every duty and modesty and familiarity and isolation: the […]
Ambient post-rock from San Diego’s millennial post-hardcore retreat. Tracked between Tristeza tours, The Album Leaf ’s sophomore album weaves delicate guitar noodling, tinkling piano, reflective [...]
The realest-deal storyteller in indie-rock today is the Tampa-born, New Orleans-based singer/songwriter Thomas Dollbaum, and Birds of Paradise is his most powerful and dynamic work yet. Following [...]
Jack Callahan and Jeff Witscher were tired. They had each been toiling in the American underground experimental music scene since the turn of the millennium, under names you may or […]
A companion to the 2020 album I Feel Alive, the long sold-out Empty Seats is a fan favorite release, containing some of the band’s most pointed and effervescent material, drawing […]
Greg Mendez has always been an economical songwriter – he wields restraint and simplicity as tools, the core of his songs sharpened into simple, cutting truths. On Beauty Land, his […]
Greg Mendez has always been an economical songwriter – he wields restraint and simplicity as tools, the core of his songs sharpened into simple, cutting truths. On Beauty Land, his […]