Modern Vampires of the City is Vampire Weekend s third album, and it will be released on May 7th, 2013 by XL Recordings. The album is a bustling world of voices and visions — from the death of Henry Hudson to the Orthodox girl falling in love at an uptown falafel shop, from Hannah Hunt tearing up the New…
This NY four-piece draw on their diverse backgrounds and interests, experimenting with African guitar music, the Western classical canon, hazy memories of Cape Cod summers, winters in upper Manhattan, and reggaeton. Equal parts shruggy New York indie strumming and groovy Afro-pop, Vampire Weekend s organ-and-drum runs highlight narratives about relationships, punctuation, and sometimes both –…
Spanning the tracklist of the original album, the fresh, exciting, and utterly surprising reinterpretations create new content for longtime Talking Heads fans and introduce a new generation to the magic of the music. The brilliant selection of artists recontextualizes STOP MAKING SENSE in popular music and culture, with a focus on generational and stylistic breadth….
This CD showcases a variety of talented artists with their unique takes on the blues genre. With a fresh spin on classic blues sounds, listeners will enjoy a diverse and engaging listening experience. Discover new favorites and rediscover old classics with this collection.
Venom – At War with Satan Coming to prominence towards the end of the new wave of British heavy metal, both Welcome to Hell and Black Magic were major influences on the whole genres of thrash and extreme metal. Often considered the first black metal band, the band even gave a certain band named Metallica…
In this time of strife, insanity and confusion, only one band is depraved enough to offer themselves up as herald. Like sin-eaters if sins had to be ingested from a very small spoon, Viagra Boys have consumed the utterly incomprehensible chaos of our era and distilled it into 12 immaculate tracks of post-truth-cow-funk-kraut-wave-enlightenment.
Ali Farka Touré trekked the world, bringing his beloved Malian music to the masses. Dubbed the African John Lee Hooker, one could hear strong connections between the two; both employed a bluesy style of play with gritty textures that elicit calm and fury in equal measure. While the influence of Black blues music prevailed, Touré created a West…
Violent Femmes is the debut album by Violent Femmes. Mostly recorded in July 1982, the album was released by Slash Records on vinyl and on cassette in April 1983, and on CD in 1987, with two extra tracks, Ugly and Gimme the Car .
From the deep woods now emerges Birna, Wardruna s sixth studio album, scheduled for January 24, 2025 through Sony Music and By Norse Music. Through his never resting dialogue with nature, main composer Einar Selvik has been searching for the voice of the bear. Birna – the she-bear in Old Norse – is a work…
The Warning – Keep Me Fed – Alternative Rock CD Keep Me Fed is The Warning’s new album via Lava Republic Records. The Warning draw strength and power from a lifetime of sisterhood and music. They have logged thousands of miles on the road, generated hundreds of millions of streams and left countless fans in…
WE ARE WINTER’S BLUE AND RADIANT CHILDREN (WAWBARC) is the new quartet of Mat Ball (BIG|BRAVE), Efrim Manuel Menuck (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt. Zion) and Jonathan Downs and Patch (both Ada). On “NO MORE APOCALYPSE FATHER” they present six modal lullabies drenched in seared distortion, slathered across striding electronic pulses. Ball and…
Weezer – Weezer (Blue 30th) [Deluxe 3 CD] Often revered as one of the most important debut albums of all-time, Weezer s blue album celebrates 30 years with an extensive Deluxe 3-CD boxset. The album has been newly remastered from the original analog tapes andincludes 50 total tracks with 36 previously unreleased, incluing 8 Kitchen…
Wicked: The Soundtrack features performances by the stars of Universal Pictures’ new cinematic event, Wicked, with music and lyrics by legendary Grammy and Oscar® winning composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz. The soundtrack includes songs performed by Emmy, Grammy, and Tony winning powerhouse and Oscar® nominee Cynthia Erivo (Harriet, Broadway’s The Color Purple) as Elphaba and…
This 2 CD Expanded Edition features the original album plus a disc with 19 previously unreleased tracks. For the A Ghost Is Born recording, Wilco was Jeff Tweedy, John Stirratt, Leroy Bach, Glenn Kotche, and Mikael Jorgensen; Jim O Rourke, who mixed the band s previous release Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, co-produced the album with Wilco….