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Music Releases 11-17-23
- The National
Laugh Track [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Clear Pink 2LP] - Iron And Wine
Who Can See Forever Original Soundtrack [Limited Edition Glacial Blue 2LP]
Video - Post Malone
The Diamond Collection [Deluxe 2 CD]
Video - Dolly Parton
Rockstar [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Alternate Cover, Deep Purple 4LP] - Frank Zappa
Over-Nite Sensation: 50th Anniversary [Super Deluxe 4CD/Blu-ray]
Video - 2 Chainz/Lil Wayne
Welcome 2 Collegrove - Keith Urban
#1’s Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 [2CD]
Video PlayARt - Shania Twain
Greatest Hits: Remastered [2LP]
Video - Daft Punk
Random Access Memories: Drumless Edition [2LP] - Toby Keith
100% Songwriter [LP]
Video - The Polyphonic Spree
Salvage Enterprise [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Lemon LP] - Kurt Vile
Back to Moon Beach EP [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Coke Bottle Clear LP] - Andrew Bird
Outside Problems [LP] - John Vincent III
Songs For The Canyon [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Dandelion Yellow LP] - Vince Clarke
Songs Of Silence [LP] - Juliana Hatfield
Juliana Hatfield Sings ELO [Metallic Gold LP] - Plain White T's
Plain White T's - Deafheaven
Sunbather: 10th Anniversary [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Orange, Yellow & Pink Haze 2LP] - Emeli Sande
How Were We To Know [LP] - Evanescence
Fallen: 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition [Indie Exclusive limited Edition Pink & Black Marble 2LP] - Little Richard
Little Richard: I Am Everything (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Bill Evans Trio
Sunday At The Village Vanguard: Original Jazz Classics Series [LP] - Daniel Pemberton
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Original Score) [2LP] - ENHYPEN
ORANGE BLOOD [ENGENE Ver.]
Current Week
Music Releases 11-24-23
Snoop Doggy Dogg
Doggystyle: 30th Anniversary [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Green & Black Smoke 2LP]
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Snoop Dogg's multi- platinum Doggystyle, heralded as one of the most important albums of all time, Death Row Records will be bringing this back to retail with the original 1993 track listing on vinyl. This new 30th Anniversary edition will include the track "Gz Up, Hoes Down" which has not been on the album since its pressing in 1993. For new and old fans alike, this is the definitive version of the classic album that launched Snoop's solo career and helped define the sound of Los Angeles in the process.
10th anniversary deluxe edition of Mac Miller's second studio album Watching Movies with the Sound Off on heavyweight galaxy vinyl. Includes a bonus 10" zoetrope picture disc with bonus track "The Star Room (OG Version)" and a never before released vinyl exclusive track "The Quest."
Busta Rhymes returns with his eleventh studio release executive produced by Pharrell Williams, Timbaland, Swizz, along with Busta himself. The new album contains lead off singles “Beach Ball” featuring BIA, “Luxury Lifestyle” featuring Coi Leray, and “OK” featuring Young Thug along with a host of other features.
For years Feeling Figures have tinkered away at the edge of the Montreal scene, never fitting neatly into the ebb and flow of the city's cultural trends or its more traditionalist camps. A geographer, a music therapist, a writer, and an underground arts biz maverick, the four Figures have long been friends and collaborators in various musical formations and continue to propel multiple projects.
Legendary hip hop pioneer DJ Muggs and frequent David Lynch collaborator Dean Hurley join forces for the original score to the 2023 Sundance-premiering feature film Divinity. Equal parts sonically punishing and ethereal, the soundtrack delivers a unique punch that further intensifies the mind-bending, acid-trip experience of the film.
Divinity is a sci-fi dystopian odyssey produced by Steven Soderbergh and helmed by visionary director Eddie Alcazar. Set in the distant future, scientist Sterling Pierce dedicated his life to the quest for immortality, slowly making progress developing a serum named Divinity. Jaxxon Pierce, his son, now controls and profits from his father’s once benevolent dream. Society on their barren planet has been entirely perverted by the supremacy and pervasiveness of the drug. Two mysterious brothers arrive with a plan to abduct the mogul, and with the help of a woman named Nikita, they set on a trajectory hurtling toward true immortality.
Amidst the film’s extraordinary tapestry of stark aesthetics and themes, the score is a ten ton barbell of sonic weight. Crafted with 8-bit samplers, Wavestation synths, extended choir and string techniques, the soundtrack manages to swing wildly between the arenas of both music and sound design. Like all rich soundtracks, listening to the score on its own re-conjures the imagery of the film in the screen of the listener’s mind, an aural experience that manages to encapsulate and pulse a matched intensity of the film.
Tracks like ‘The Brothers’ and ‘Reflective Dreams’ cascade Vangelis-esque tones, painting with broad strokes of cinematic grandeur and ethereal wonder. ‘Main Titles’ and ‘InfinityTechno’ conversely swing hard into relentless, punishing sonics; with brutal, pulsing energy representative of the twisted, relentless pursuit of immortality. A standout of the album is undoubtedly “Divinity 2 Infinity: The Odyssey,” featuring cult hip-hop hero and lyrical-savant Kool Keith. Written for the film’s end credits, the track is a satisfying throwback to the 90’s original soundtrack cut bespoke-tailored to the film’s narrative themes.
DJ Muggs and Dean Hurley’s synergy yields a soundtrack that takes Divinity beyond the screen and into a multi-dimensional experience, inviting its listener along uncharted aural terrain for an unforgettable odyssey in sound.
An incredibly intense live recording from Dead Moon’s legendary 20-date first tour of New Zealand. Recorded before an audience of about 40 people in Invercargill (Keith Richards called it the arsehole of the world), this is Dead Moon at their most savage and intense, the way they were meant to be heard!
Max Champion
Mr. Joe Jackson presents Max Champion in 'What A Racket!' [LP]
Renowned musician and producer Joe Jackson unveils his latest artistic endeavour 'What A Racket!' – a new album reviving the songs of enigmatic early 20th-century English Music Hall artist Max Champion.
Music Hall (along with its American cousin, Vaudeville) was the first form of mass entertainment created by the working classes. Its raw beginnings were in the pubs and streets of mid-19th century London, and while never really considered ‘respectable’, it was, by 1900, performed in opulent theatres to huge audiences drawn from all walks of life. Prostitutes and princes alike sang along with superstar performers, many of whom are now legendary, and whose songs are still known in the UK.
Those songs, depicting everyday life in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, were most often humorous or satirical, though some were sentimental or patriotic, and others dealt with darker themes such as jealousy and murder. Many were also blatantly sexual, though always expressed in clever euphemisms and double entendres.
One of the most fascinating of the later Music Hall performers was Max Champion. Little is known about him, except that he was born in 1882 in London’s East End, and is thought to have been related to the great Victorian entertainer Harry Champion. As an up-and-coming performer he shared the stage with big stars such as Gus Ellen and Vesta Tilley, but his career (much like the Music Hall era itself) was cut short by the First World War, and his songs faded into obscurity. That is, until 2014, when Max Championsheet music started to surface: first in Malta, then in England, and, intriguingly, in Belgium, where Max probably met his end in the trenches. By 2019, enough songs had been recovered for Joe Jackson to resurrect them with a 12-piece orchestra.
'What A Racket!' presents eleven of Max Champion’s songs for the first time in more than a century. According to producer Joe Jackson, ‘These were wonderful songs in their time, but they’re surprisingly modern, too. Sometimes it’s almost as if Max is speaking, from his London of the early 20th century, directly to us in the early 21st.’
Members from The Offspring, Smash Mouth, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Street Dogs and The Briggs have united to form the new band THE DEFIANT! The members of The Defiant are no strangers to success as individuals but as a group their music stands for so much more on both a personal and professional level. Together the five members create a rock ’n’ roll pedigree that culminates into a riot of melodic punk. The Defiant will release their twelve-song debut album this October with touring to follow. The Defiant is: Pete Parada on drums (The Offspring), Greg Camp on guitar (Smash Mouth), Johnny Rioux on bass (Street Dogs), Joey LaRocca on guitar and keys (The Briggs) Dicky Barrett front and center (The Mighty Mighty Bosstones)
Various Artists
Istanbul 70: Psych, Disco, Folk Edits by Barış K Vol I-VI [LP]
The original 2011 release is one of the first projects that globally focused on the golden era of Turkish popular music of the 1970s. Back then, both originals and a selection of remixes were released and created serious hype in collector scenes with rare (300 copies each) 7"s that have never been pressed again. Meanwhile, the Turkish psychedelic-folk-disco style got more popular and some collectors discovered it via this series.
Now at its 10th anniversary Nublu Records is compiling these 12 remixes under a special edition double-LP pressed on 180g purple vinyl.
SIDE A
1. Erkin Koray - Cemalım (edit by Barış K)
2. Derdiyoklar İkilisi - Yaz Gazeteci (edit by Barış K)
3. Cem Karaca - Nem Alacak Felek Benim (edit by Barış K)
SIDE B
4. Kamuran Akkor - İkimiz Bir Fidanız (edit by Barış K)
5. Nazan Şoray - Hal Hal (edit by Barış K)
6. Urfalı Babi - Disko Kebap (edit by Barış K)
SIDE C
7. Osman İşmen - Ara Müziği (edit by Barış K)
8. Edip Akbayram - Ayrılık (edit by Barış K)
9. Şenay - Dalkavuk (edit by Barış K)
SIDE D
10. Modern Folk Üçlüsü feat. Ayşegül Aldinç - Dönme Dolap (edit by Barış K)
11. Nazan Şoray - Teselliye Sen Gerek (edit by Barış K)
12. Ersen ve Dadaşlar - Derman Bulunmaz (edit by Barış K)
Legendary goth metal band, Type O Negative was formed in Brooklyn in 1989 by Peter Steele, Kenny Hickey, Josh Silver and Sal Abruscato, who was later replaced by drummer, Johnny Kelly. Affectionately known as the “Drab Four,” Type O went platinum with 1993’s Bloody Kisses and gained a rabid and committed fan base through seven studio albums, two best-of-compilations and concert DVDs. Life Is Killing Me, the band’s 6th studio album and last for Roadrunner was released in 2003. Songs were much faster and shorter than on previous albums, but the underlying humor-element remained.
-2023 is 20th anniversary of the band’s 6th and final Roadrunner album
-This is the first worldwide stand-alone release on vinyl
-Features a 3rd LP of bonus tracks
-Pressed on 3-140g LPs in green and black mixed color vinyl and comes in a tri-fold gatefold sleeve with a lyric insert
Next Week
Music Releases 12-01-23
- Peter Gabriel
i/o [Bright-Side Mix 2LP]
- Hector Tellez Jr.
The Great Unknown [LP]
- Five Finger Death Punch
The Wrong Side Of Heaven & The Righteous Side Of Hell Volumes 1&2 [6LP Box Set]
- Collective Soul
7even Year Itch: Greatest Hits, 1994-2001 [LP]
- Daisy Jones & The Six
Aurora [Indie Exclusive Super Deluxe Edition Milky Clear 2LP]
- Stephen Marley
Old Soul [2LP]
Video - Ateez
THE WORLD EP.FIN : WILL [Vinyl]
- Zach Russel
Where The Flowers Meet The Dew [LP]
- Weezer
SZNZ: Winter EP [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Milky Clear Vinyl]
- TALK
Lord Of The Flies & Birds & Bees [LP]
- Stone Foxes
Bears & Bulls [Crystal Clear w/ Black Wisps LP]
- Tima Volozh
Jubilee
- Saosin
Translating the Name: 20th Anniversary [Limited Edition Picture Disc LP]
- Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes: Remastered 2023 [Deluxe Edition 2CD]
- Bruce Dickinson
Afterglow of Ragnarok [Limited Edition Deluxe Vinyl Single + Comic]
- Lil Durk
7220 [2LP]
- Lil Durk
The Voice [LP]
- Various Artists
The Sound Of Music [Deluxe Edition] - Original Soundtrack Recording [3LP]
- Counterparts
The Difference Between Hell And Home: 10th Anniversary [LP]
- Brainiac
Smack Bunny Baby: 30th Anniversary [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Violet LP]
- Isaiah J. Thompson
A Guaraldi Holiday
- Kenny G
Innocence [LP]
- Mayday Parade
Monster In The Closet: 10th Anniversary [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Black Ice 2LP]
- Omar Apollo
Live For Me EP [White Vinyl]
Movie Releases 12-05-23
- Simple Minds
Acoustic In Concert [Blu-ray/CD]
- Porcupine Tree
Closure/Continuation. Live. Amsterdam 07/11/22 [Blu-ray+DVD]