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Aereogramme
Seclusion
Release Date: 04/04/06
Label: Sonic Unyon
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Seclusion is a six-track affair recorded by the band themselves. It also, contains a short film that is a collabortation between the band and acclaiming up and coming Scottish director, Steven Morrison. Originally conceptualised by Craig B, it is a respectful homage ti Aerogramme's favorite Japanese horror directors that will both shock and challenge the listener.
For fans of: Mogwai, Ride, & Isis
Genre/Style: Rock / Pop |
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Babyshambles
Down In Albion
Release Date: 04/04/06
Label: Rough Trade
CD: $17.98 Sale $14.98
| Down in Albion is the highly anticipated debut album from Babyshambles, featuring Pete Doherty (formerly of The Libertines). The sixteen-track album was produced by Mick Jones and mixed by Mick Jones & Bill Price. The album contains the bands Top Five UK hit "Fuck Forever" and a new recording of their first Top Ten UK single "Killamangiro".
Genre/Style: Rock / Pop
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Beans
Only
Release Date: 04/04/06
Label: Thirsty Ear
CD: $15.98
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Features the legendary jazz talents William Parker and Hamid Drake in an unusual Rap/Jazz odyssey, showcasing Beans soft eccentric and eclectic rhyme styles. Beans is among the most unique voices in hip hop, from his days with the Anti Pop Consortium to his solo work and collaborations with Prefuse 73, to Vernon Reid, to Mike Ladd. Only contributes meaningfully to the ongoing dialogue between hip hop and jazz.
Genre/Style: Hip-Hop / Nu Jazz |
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Tom Brosseau
Empty Houses Are Loney
Release Date: 04/04/06
Label: Fat Cat
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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! A natural songwriting talent coming from such disparate influences as Nick Drake, Cole Porter, and Woody Guthrie, Tom sings songs of lost love and poetic observation that shimmer like aural tintypes. Ostensibly a collection of highlights from his recorded history to date, augmented by several new recordings, Empty Houses Are Lonely works as a fine introduction to Tom's plaintive, eloquent, timeless music. The ingredient in this mix that will flat out give you chills is Brosseau's voice, which sounds eerily like a high-lonesome reincarnation of Jeff Buckley. High, limber and sometimes vibrato-tinged, it seems to hover between the masculine and feminine. His playing elicits a hushed reverence from admiring listeners blessed with the intimacy and emotional immediacy of his live performances. His songs have the quality of an intimate conversation at the next table that you just can't pull your ear away from. He can be hauntingly moody and atmospheric, and avoids the typical garden-variety verse-chorus-bridge song structures in his writing. Tom Brosseau is on to something new by way of something old -- deep, heartbreaking, and entirely worth hearing.
Genre/Style: Folk / Acoustic |
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Concretes
Concretes In Color
Release Date: 04/04/06
Label: Astralwerks
CD: $14.98
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Highly anticipated new album from this critically
acclaimed Swedish rock act.
Genre/Style: Pop / Rock
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Daft Punk
Musique Vol. 1 93-05
Release Date: 04/04/06
Label: Virgin
CD: $17.98
Limited Edition: (CD/DVD) $21.98 |
All their monumental hits plus hot remixes now available in one collection. Tracks include "Musique", "Da Funk", "Revolution" "Human After All" and more.
Genre/Style: Dance / Rock / Robot |
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Ani Difranco
Carnegie Hall 4.6.02
Release Date: 04/04/06
Label: Righteous Babe
CD: $15.98
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A precious live recording of Ani DiFrancos solo
performance on April 6, 2002. Exposition style song introductions and anecdotal musings elevate this show into a masterful performance. DiFrancos powerful set is politically relevant and sonically scintillating. Unlike prior live recordings, this one is unparalleled in its intimacy. For the first time, Ani recites the epic poem self evident to an audience of New Yorkers, which she describes as one of the most intense moments I have ever experienced on stage. Still breathing the dust of their broken skyline, this recording captures a moment in history where art holds space for humanity.
Genre/Style: Rock
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Flaming Lips
At War With The Mystics
Release Date: 04/04/06
Label: Warner Bros
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Cosmic, consciousness-expanding and mind-shattering, At War With The Mystics, the highly anticipated follow-up to The Flaming Lips' Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots brings together the expressiveness of recent albums with the heaviness, volume and intensity of the band's earlier work. At War With The Mystics is personal, political, psychedelic and powerful pop.
Genre/Style: Rock / Pop |
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Gregor Samsa
55:12:00
Release Date: 04/04/06
Label: Kora
CD: $13.98
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This four-piece Richmond band exhibits a talent and grace well beyond their years. After the release of two stellar EP s, Gregor Samsa delivers their much anticipated debut full length. 55:12 is an eight-song journey submerged in dreamy, multi-layered atmos-pherics. The band blurs the lines of ambient and indie, from heavy and dark one moment to hushed and serene the next, all while lullaby guy/girl vocals drift overhead.
Genre/Style: Rock / Ambient |
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HiM
Peoples
Release Date: 04/04/06
Label: Bubble Core
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Sometimes a revolving lineup is a good thing. For the latest and seventh HiM album, Antibalas founder Martin Pera and trumpet player Jordan Mclean joined in the fun, as well as Need New Body bass player Griffin Rodriguez, and singer Christian Dautresme. Together with the core of Doug Scharin (Codeine), Adam Pierce (Mice Parade), and Josh Larue (Sorts), the band stayed in Japan after their tour for recording sessions in Tokyo. The resulting mayhem brings
burning African song structures alongside Sun Ra-esque vocal parts, pushed by an unparalleled rhythm section and covered by a soothing pop umbrella... not a typical album by any stretch.
Genre/Style: Rock / Jazz |
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Islands
Return To The Sea
Release Date: 04/04/06
Label: Equator
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Islands is a seven piece band founded by former Unicorns front man Nick Diamonds and drummer J'aime Tambeur. Following the untimely disbandment of the Unicorns right as they were on the cusp of breaking through, this highly anticipated debut release by Islands entitled Return to the Sea, with it's quirky sounds and refreshing, catching melodies, contains collaborations with members of Arcade Fire, Wolf Parade, and Beck. Probably NIck's most accessible work to date, this album picks up where the Unicorns left off and without departing from their unique and peculiar appeal takes things to new
heights.
Genre/Style: Pop |
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Antonio Carlos Jobim
Favorites: Sun, Sea, and Sand
Release Date: 04/04/06
Label: Wrasse
CD: $14.98 $9.98
| HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! Wrasse Records rolls on with the newest installment in the Brazilian Composers series and now, it brings us the greatest Brazilain composer of them all - Antonio Carlos Jobim. A 23 track collection from this brilliant Brazilian composer.
Genre/Style: Jazz / Bossanova |
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Massive Attack
Collected
Release Date: 04/04/06
Label: Virgin
CD: $16.98
Limited Edition Price: $29.98
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With their critically acclaimed albums clocking up millions of sales worldwide, a clutch of awards and a new album due for release in early 2007, the time felt right for a Massive Attack "Best Of", an apt reminder of their musical legacy to date. The album is entitled Collected and features all their key tracks and the new single "Live With Me" which features Terry Callier on vocals.'Collected' is a compilation that highlights the finest moments of the Bristolian trip-hop pioneers, Massive Attack. Whether on their own or collaborating with artists such as Tricky and Sinead O'Connor,
the band have always sought to expand on their atmospheric, dark brand of trip-hop, managing tostay one step ahead of the pack whilst many of their contemporaries have fallen by the wayside. Includes the hits 'Unfinished Sympathy', 'Teardrop' and 'Karmacoma'.One side of the disc contains audio, while the other side offers DVD content NTSC/Region 0). The dual disc features additional new tracks, unreleased material, rarities, remixes, all of their videos to date, including the new single and rare live footage.
Genre/Style: Trip-Hop / Down Tempo |
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Morrissey
Ringleader of the Tormentors
Release Date: 04/04/06
Label: Sanctuary
CD: $18.98 $16.98
Deluxe Price: $19.98
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'Ringleader Of The Tormentors' is the eighth album from the iconic Mancunian vocalist Morrissey. In a departure from his previous albums, Morrissey has chosen to incorporate Morricone-esque strings and arrangements into these songs. This makes for a sound that is both sweeping and cinematic, however, his usual themes of rejection and redemption are as prevelant as on his 2004 "comeback" album, 'You Are The Quarry'. Deluxe Edition comes with a DVD
Genre/Style: Rock / Pop |
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Georgia Anne Muldrow
Worthnothings
Release Date: 04/04/06
Label: Stones Throw
CD: $11.98 $8.98
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Georgia Anne Muldrow is one of Stones Throw Records newest signings, and is the only female vocalist signed to the label. In line with the label's other multitaskers (ie. Madlib, J Dilla, Oh No and lately Koushik and Aloe Blacc), and inspired by solid '70s soul, free jazz and a bottom-heavy hip-hop thump, Georgia paints a unique musical canvas that has the underground stopping to gaze and take it all in. It's just one 22-year old woman behind such a breadth of sonic expression -- she does her own vocals, background vocals AND the beats. Georgia springs from a family of creative musicians, whose roots run deep in the '60s and '70s progressive jazz scene: her father invented instruments for Eddie Harris, and her mother performed with Pharoah Sanders. Their innovation passed to their daughter, who approaches her labyrinth of keyboards, synthesizers and various instruments with a fresh perspective every time. Her colorful, stream-of-consciousness sound got noticed early on by fellow L.A. space-hop trendsetters Sa Ra, as well as Detroit's Platinum Pied Pipers -- both of whom tapped her for collaborations.
Genre/Style: Soul / R&B |
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Rahim
Ideal Lives
Release Date: 04/04/06
Label: French Kiss
CD: $13.98 $10.98 |
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! Debut full length from this NYC based indie rock trio. Blending elements of the Talking Heads, The Beatles and Blonde Redhead for a unique sound all their own.
Genre/Style: Rock / Punk |
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Rainer Maria
Catastrophe Keeps Us Together
Release Date: 04/04/06
Label: Grunion
CD: $14.98
| Catastrophe Keeps Us Together is Rainer Maria’s fifth studio album and first proper release since 2003. The record brims with tightly structured songs, deep atmosphere and contagious melodies. Equal parts restraint, taste and power, this album shows Rainer Maria maturing and challenging themselves as they focus their expression without losing the signature edge that has gained them legions of adoring fans over the years.
Genre/Style: Rock / Pop |
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Soul Position
Things Go Better with RJ and Al
Release Date: 04/04/06
Label: Rhymesayers
CD: $14.98
| You may know RJD2 from his two critically acclaimed albums Deadringer and Since We Last Spoke, or his numerous production credits for artists like Aesop Rock, Cannibal Ox, Massive Attack and Unkle. You may know Blueprint for his solo debut 1988 or work with his group Greenhouse Effect. But when these two join forces they form one of the most cohesive one MC/one producer duos in Hip Hop. Its true, Things Go Better With RJ and AL.
Genre/Style: Hip-Hop |
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South
Adventures in the Underground Journey to the Stars
Release Date: 04/04/06
Label: Young America
CD: $14.98
| An ambitious step forward for the London trio South. A renewed feeling of urgency pulses throughout the innovative material on their third album – Souths signature melancholy is still there but its as if they have found answers to their questions and simultaneously acquired a newfound confidence.
Genre/Style: Rock / Pop |
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Candi Staton
His Hands
Release Date: 04/04/06
Label: Astralwerks
CD: $16.98 11.98
| Candi Returns to her Southern R&b, Blues, Soul and Country Roots with her First Secular Recordings Since 1982's 'nitelites' LP on Sugarhill Records. These Recordings Are Very Reminiscent of her Classic Late Sixties / Early Seventies Muscle Shoals Recordings that were Reissued as 'candi Staton' in 2004 to Rave Reviews. A Must of Any Fan.
Genre/Style: Soul / R&B |
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FM3 Buddha Machine
Price: $24.98 |
Restocked! 2nd edition now available. A unique 'soundbox' from China, which is causing senstation worldwide. A totally dazzling item which causes jaw-dropping delight everywhere -- Alan Bishop bought twenty-four of these on sight, Brian Eno bought eight (how's that for apocalyptical math?). FM3 are a duo of Christiaan Virant and Chinese keyboardist and computer musician Zhang Jian -- based in Beijing. The Buddha Machine is a hardware loop player, built kind of like a little AM radio (available in 6 different colors, shipped randomly), but without all the nonsense -- total genius from out of nowhere! The Buddha Machine is a small soundbox made in China which comes with an integrated speaker, a volume control, mini jack-out and a switch to choose between nine different loops which are stored on a small chip and can be directly played by this mini soundsystem. |
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Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Long Walk to Freedom
Release Date: Jan 06
Label: Heads Up
CD: $18.98 |
In recognition of the twentieth anniversary of their ascendancy to the world stage and the dawning of democracy in South Africa twelve years ago, Ladysmith Black Mambazo has released Long Walk To Freedom on Heads Up International, featuring guest vocal performances by some of the most progressive voices of the contemporary pop music scene: Melissa Etheridge, Emmylou Harris, Taj Mahal, Joe McBride, Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant and Zap Mama. Also appearing on the guest roster are a virtual whos who of South African artists: Lucky Dube, Bhekumunzi Luthuli, Vusi Mahlasela, Hugh Masekela, Nokukhanya, Phuezkhemisi, and Thandiswa.
Genre/Style: World
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Willie Nelson
You Don't Know Me - Songs of Cindy Walker
Release Date: Mar 06
Label: Dreamworks Nashville
CD: $15.98 $12.98 |
All songs were written by Country Music Hall of Fame inductee (1997), Cindy Walker. At 87, she has a long list of writing credits to her name, which include: "Dusty Skies" recorded by Spade Cooley, Bob Wills, & The Sons of the Pioneers, "Cherokee Maiden" recorded by Bob Wills, Merle Haggard, & Mel Tillis, "Warm Red Wine" recorded by Ernest Tubb and George Jones, "You Don’t Know Me" recorded by Elvis Presley, Ray Charles, Jimmy Dean, Henry Mancini, & many more The single, "You Don’t Know Me" was made most famous by Willie’s close friend Ray Charles on The Modern Sounds of Country and Western Music. "I loved her music," Nelson says of Walker's catalog of playful saloon songs and heartfelt ballads. "Even before we met I felt like I knew her from listening to Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys do her songs. Every night of the week as a teenager I was playing things like "Miss Molly" and "I Was Just Walking Out The Door" somewhere.
Genre/Style: Country |
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Minus 5
self-titled
Release Date: Feb 06
Label: Yep Rock
CD: $15.98 $11.98 |
The Minus Five has always been witty popmeister Young Fresh Fellow Scott McCaughey's baby, first and foremost. And you could say that child reaches total excellent maturity on "The Gun Album," the band's seventh full-length, although it sounds silly to say it that way. McCaughey is of course a "fifth member" of R.E.M., a decent day job but one that's kept Minus Five albums in the "side project" realm for too long. But this is the album that stands on its own, the slightly twisted and wry lyrics perfectly accompanied by tasteful but not too tasteful chamber-rock throughout. And then there's the assembled cast. If you're going to do the guest artist thing you might as well do it right, and McCaughey assembles the
indie-rock version of a Missy album here. Of course you're got longtime collaborator Peter Buck, but there're also all the dudes from Wilco on one song, with Colin Meloy, Sean Nelson, John Wesley Harding, and Kelly Hogan joining in on others. --Mike McGonigal
Genre/Style: Rock |
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Tom Russell
Love & Fear
Release Date: Mar 2006
Label: Hightone
CD: $16.98
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With Love & Fear, Tom shakes off his folk troubadour shackles to bare his soul with his most personal recording to date. First album of all-original songs in over a decade!
Genre/Style: Rock |
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Mark Erelli
Hope and Other Casualties
Release Date: Mar 06
Label: Signature Sound
CD: $17.98 |
On this album Erelli returns to the classic folk rock sound of his earlier releases and tackles social as well as personal issues with his best group of songs yet. Special guests include Lori McKenna and the group Redbird. Don't miss one of 2006's finest releases.
Genre/Style: Alt Country / Singer-Songwriter / Folk |
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Brunettes
Mars Loves Venus
Release Date: Oct 05
Label: Lil' Chief
CD: $11.98 |
A truly wonderful album from one of New Zealand's great young bands. A collection of well crafted and acutely observed songs, brimming with invention
Genre/Style:Pop |
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Forget Cassettes
Instruments of Action
Release Date: Aug 03
Label: Theory 8
CD: $10.98 |
The fifth release from theory 8 comes from Forget
Cassettes, a female fronted 2 piece out of Nashville, TN. The band has managed to redefine the words "stripped down sound" by producing one of the biggest sounding records ever. Their sound is complicated, with vocal stylings in comparison to sleater kinney or perhaps pj harvey and yet, they offer complex song structures in the vein of bands like q and not u. The album was recorded by Mike McCarthy, producer for ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead and Spoon. The Nashville Rage states "Every song on the record benefits from complex, twisting arrangements that frustrate the verse- chorus-verse standard. This combined with the band's ability to switch from quiet meditation to full-on rock riff show off their careful musicianship and will to make rock music just as complicated and expressive as the subjects of their lyrics". For fans of: Sleater Kinney, Q and Not U, Karate.
Genre/Style: Rock
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Billy Martin
Illy B Eats Vol 3
Release Date: Mar 06
Label: Amulet
CD: $13.98 |
This third volume of breakbeats from Medeski Martin & Wood drummer Billy Martin is the final installment - and funkiest collection - of beats produced by Wu-Tang and Prince Paul producer Scotty Hard. Billy Martin will continue to invite artists to contribute mixes using beats from previous illy B Eats records. The past two volumes resulted in two illy B Eats Remixed CDs (Drop The Needle and Antidote), and artists involved included Miho Hatori (Gorillaz, Cibo Matto, Smokey & Miho), Jennifer Charles (Lovage, Elesian Fields), John Medeski, Chris Wood, DJ Olive, Scotty Hard (Wu- Tang Clan, Cyro Baptista) and Calvin Weston (John Luries Lounge Lizards, James Blood Ulmer).
Genre/Style: Funk / Hip-Hop |
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Tuung
This is Tunng: Mothers Daughters
Release Date: Mar 06
Label: Ace Fu
CD: $13.98 $11.98 |
Lush, dark organic rock from this English duo. A
wonderful blend of melodic, quirky, acoustic folk stylings with blips, beeps and beats of contemporary avant pop. Folktronica!
Genre/Style: Folk / Experimental |
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Tom Vek
We Have Sound
Release Date: Oct 05
Label: Startime
CD: $14.98 |
Debut from multi-instrumentalist and incisive lyricist buzzes with a raw garage rock energy, driven by subtle electronic touches and a backbone of rigid, angular funk.
Genre/Style: Rock / Pop |
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Black Angels
Passover
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Built To Spill
You In Reverse
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Calexico
Garden Ruin
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Eagles of Death Metal
Death By Sexy
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Pretty Girls Make Graves
Elan Vital
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Wilderness
Vessel States
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