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Ambulance LTD
New English EP
Release Date: 03/14/06
Label: TVT
CD: $9.98 |
New English collects rare and unreleased material
including demos from LP, a cover of the Pink Floyd classic Fearless and 2 new songs, New English and Arbuckle. A new full length is planned for later this year.
Genre/Style: Rock / Pop / Dance |
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Haram
self-titled
Release Date: 03/14/06
Label: Lovitt
CD: $11.98 Sale $9.98 |
The latest addition to the Lovitt Records roster,
Haram's members boast an impressive hardcore pedigree, a resume that spans a decade and over 1000 shows between the individual members with stints in Majority Rule, PG. 99, and The Out_Circuit. Haram
Comprises seasoned veterans whose foray into territory most reminiscent of Drive Like Jehu and Sonic Youth is informed by the urgent ferocity of their previous bands. On this spectacular debut, Haram mines disparate facets of punk and noise to conjure something
wholly cohesive and engaging. Unrelenting and forward, Haram possesses a mature, tempered confidence that only comes with experience and do-it-yourself resolve. Their first full-length effort is truly a moody and atmospheric masterpiece.
Genre/Style: Punk / Post Punk |
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Hard-FI
Stars of CCTV
Release Date: 03/14/06
Label: Atlantic
CD: $14.98
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One of the most eagerly anticipated releases of the
year, "Stars of CCTV" is the acclaimed debut album from new British
sensation Hard-Fi
Genre/Style: Rock |
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The Herbaliser
Fabric Live 26
Release Date: 03/14/06
Label: Fabric
CD: $18.98 |
FabricLive 26 flies in a Hip Hop heat haze. Member's
Ollie Teeba and Jake Wherry perform turntable gymnastics, throwing down bumping rhythms and energetic cuts and mixing up the rare, the obscure, the loved and the lost. This is an irresistible, addictive and infectious mix, blending the past, present and future of body rocking, dancefloor sounds. Features tracks by The Roots, Eric B. & Rakim, Breakestra, Diplo, Bugz in the Attic, RJD2, Million Dan, and The Herbaliser.
Genre/Style: Hip-Hop |
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I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch In The House
Live at Dante's
Release Date: 03/14/06
Label: In Music We Trust
CD: $15.98
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Playing the Taphouse 3-28!! No holds barred Rock n Roll that pulls no punches in its outspokenness against homophobia, racism, and an unruly administration led by one George W. Bush, Portland, Oregon's loudest rock band, I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch in the House. Live At Dantes, is the truest representation of their live sound that you can find on record. Thats because it's a live record, recorded at their favorite Portland, Oregon club, Dantes, a club that has supported them since their inception in 2002.
Genre/Style: Rock |
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Lanterna
Desert Ocean
Release Date: 03/14/06
Label: Badman / Jemez Mountain
CD: $13.98
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Debut release on Badman Recording Co.'s new instrumental- only imprint Jemez Mountain. The ten songs on Desert Ocean were inspired by Henry Frayne's recent travels across the U.S. and Europe and conjure the natural beauty the guitarist soaked up while touring in support of his last album. The winding roads, mountain canyons and beautiful scenery he experienced are marvelously captured in the album's ambient guitar-scapes. Amazingly, Frayne achieves this through relatively modest means. Employing just a few classic guitars and joined only by recording mate Eric Gebow on drums, Lanterna's sound is completely enveloping, harkening back at times to the psychedelic sonic washes of early Pink Floyd.
Genre/Style: Pop / Instrumental |
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Leaving Rouge
Elsewhere
Release Date: 03/14/06
Label: Greyday Productions
CD: $14.98
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After releasing the White Houses EP in 2004, Leaving
Rouge locked themselves inside a Detroit warehouse for over a year to write and compose. The result is Elsewhere, the bands third release and first fully realized album. Elsewhere sees the band focusing more on songs and less on the atmospherics and textures that marked their first releases, resulting in a rich, well-crafted piece of Midwestern damage (a la The Replacements or Red House Painters) with nods to indie rocks roots (The Smiths, REM) while retaining the bands hard- earned sound and naked lyricism.
Genre/Style: Rock / Pop |
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Billy Martin
Illy B Eats Vol. 3
Release Date: 03/14/06
Label: Amulet Records
CD: $15.98
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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: Rock / Funk / Jam |
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Stephen Merritt
Showtunes
Release Date: 03/14/06
Label: Nonesuch
CD: $17.98
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Showtunes features pieces from Magnetic Fields
songwriter Stephin Merritt's scores for three recent theatrical productions, all collaborations with Chen Shi-Zheng: The Orphan of Zhao, My Life as a Fairy Tale, and Peach Blossom Fan.
Genre/Style: Soundtrack |
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NOFX
Never Trust A Hippy
Release Date: 03/14/06
Label: Fat Wreck Chords
CD: $7.98
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NOFXs long standing dislike for hippies has just taken
on a whole new meaning, with the realization that the hippy of all hippies was in fact Jesus! The six new songs on Never Trust A Hippy arent just about hippies and Jesus, although both are scrutinized sufficiently. NOFX remain on course in their quest to demolish the boundaries of punk rock with the dub/post-punk/beatles-inspired Marxist Bros.
Genre/Style: Punk |
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Pepe & the Bottle Blondes
Pambrosia
Release Date: 03/14/06
Label: Geisha Boy Recordings
CD: $15.98
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Think Pink Martini. Nouveau Latin and swing with a
humorous twist. Sung in a variety of languages including French, Spanish, Russian, Calo (Gypsy Spanish) and English from 12 piece Latin/Swing band.
Genre/Style: World / Bossanova |
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Soledad Brothers
The Hardest Walk
Release Date: 03/14/06
Label: Alive
CD: $14.98
LP: $11.98 |
The Hardest Walk arrives a full two years after the
release of their acclaimed third album Voice Of Treason, and is their best work to date, without question. We recorded and played for 14 hours every day for 28 days, explains Johnny Walker (guitar and vocals), we played every instrument - drums, piano, organ, bass, cello, flute, saxophone, harmonica, sitar, lap-steel guitar, Theremin- everything. For Walker, Ben Swank (drums) and Oliver Henry (guitar and saxophone) theres a sense that this record is an important step in the bands artistic evolution. This studio album transcends the rampant garage blues that had so characterized the bands previous work by taking in a diverse range of influences.
Genre/Style: Rock |
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Tame One
Spazmatic
Release Date: 03/14/06
Label: Blazin Records
CD: $13.98
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Exclusively produced by Xing N Fox with no outside
features or guest appearances. Held down lyrically by Newark New Jerseys knotty headed terror Tame One. Spazmatic is a showcase of talents, going against the grain of todays standard rap album. Minimal sampling, creative programming, and witty street lyricism
combine to form a Spazmatic listening experience. Xing N Fox lace Tame One with a broad soundscape of music far from the norm, composing a musical entity well worth listening to.
Genre/Style:Hip-Hop |
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The Green Arrows
4 Track Recording
Release Date: 03/14/06
Label: Alula Records
CD: $15.98
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A milestone in Zimbabwean music history. Released
originally in 1976. Recently reunited for a performance in 2005. With all the hoopla surrounding the Ethiopiques release as featured in the movie 'Broken Flowers' - this type of ultra hip, soulful-funky world music makes this reissue very relevant.
Genre/Style:World |
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Ultra Dolphins
Why Are You Laugh
Release Date: 03/14/06
Label: Robitic Empire
CD: $11.98
LP: $11.98 |
Material collected from two highly sought-after, out-of-
print EPs. This is the prelude to a much-anticipated debut full- length release on Robotic Empire. For fans of FUGAZI, LED ZEPPELIN
and SHELLAC.
Genre/Style: Rock / Punk / Metal |
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Various Artists
Wayfaring Strangers : Ladies From the Canyon
Release Date: 03/14/06
Label: Numero Group
CD: $19.98 |
By 1970 the folk revival was all but over. Gone were the days of 'Will The Circle Be Unbroken' and 'If I Had A Hammer.' ABC's Hootenanny had been cancelled. Broadside was out, Rolling Stone in. Richard Farina was dead. Dylan plugged in. Joan Baez and Judy Collins gave way to a younger, more introspective generation of songwriters. The sound that began in the hills and caught fire on the lower east side of Manhattan was now being reborn in the canyons of California. The fruits of folk's second renaissance are collected here. Wedged beneath the infrastructure of the music business, playing in coffee houses and at church picnics. Deeper than recent crit-revisionist darlings Linda Perhacs, Judee Sill, or Vashti Bunyan, Ladies From The Canyon takes a solid look at folk's private and obscure underbelly. Featuring fourteen tracks by unknowns Carla Sciaky, Judy Kelly, and Marj Snyder, relative unknowns Mary Perrin, Caroline Peyton, and Ginny Reilly, off-the-mappers Shira Small, Becky Severson, and Jennie Pearl, and a mind-melting six minute cover of 'Sister Morphine'.
Genre/Style: Folk / Compilation |
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Sonic Youth / Ciccone Youth
Whitey Album
Release Date: 03/14/06
Label: Geffen
CD: $9.98
LP: $13.98 |
Sonic Youth's eponymous debut EP and their Top 40's
obsessed alter ego, Ciccone Youth, reissued with bonus tracks. Vinyl is being released by Sonic Youth's own Goofin' imprint.
Genre/Style: Rock / Alternative |
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Thurston Moore
Psychic Hearts
Release Date: 03/14/06
Label: Geffen
CD: $9.98
LP: $13.98 |
Finally reissued after more than a decade and
remastered. His solo LP of avant pop magic. Vinyl is being released by Sonic Youth's own Goofin' imprint and comes with tracks unavailable on the CD.
Genre/Style: Rock / Alternative |
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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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Donald Fagan
Morph the Cat
Release Date: Mar 06
Label: Reprise
CD: $18.98 Sale $16.98 |
The first solo album in 13 years from Donald Fagan,
Morph The Cat is another contemporary classic from half of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame duo Steely Dan. Morph the Cat is the newest chapter chronicling the most sophisticated music in rock.
Genre/Style: Rock
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Etta James
All The Way
Release Date: Mar 06
Label: RCA
CD: $18.98 Sale $16.98 |
With a range of material that would render most singers
helpless Etta shows that when it comes to music that speaks to the soul, she is virtually peerless. Trakcs range from "Somewhere" to "Purple Rain" to "Imagine".
Genre/Style: Soul / Jazz |
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Little Willies
Self-Titled
Release Date: March 06
Label: Angel
CD: $17.98 |
CD OF THE WEEK! Kickin' and swingin' side project from Norah Jones and her citybilly pals. This record will be everywhere as they make the world one big hony-tonk.
Genre/Style: Rock / Pop |
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Willie Nelson
You Don't Know Me - Songs of Cindy Walker
Release Date: Mar 2006
Label: Dreamworks Nashville
CD: $15.98 Sale $12.98
LP: $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 / Rock |
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Van Morrison
Pay the Devil
Release Date: Mar 06
Label: Lost Highway
CD: $15.98 |
This new country set is comprised of 15 tracks; three
are originals and 12 are covers of some of Morrison's favorite classics including "Your Cheaten Heart", "Things Have Gone To Pieces"& "Big Blue Diamonds" among others.
Genre/Style: Rock |
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Final
Final 3
Release Date: Feb 06
Label: Neurot Recordings
CD: $15.98 Sale $10.98 |
Final serves as an undefinable and experimental
interpretation of Justin Broadricks's more recognized music; encompassing the brutal and the dark, the beautiful and the melodic. The term 'ambient' is often used to describe the sound of Final, but the music is not designed to function purely as background as the term 'ambient' generally implies.
Genre/Style: Ambient |
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Low Skies
All the Love I Could Find
Release Date: Feb 06
Label: Flamshovel
CD: $13.98 Sale $10.98 |
Low Skies second long player, All the Love I Could
Find, is firmly rooted in gothic Americana, but with a contemporary aim that gives a sturdy pulse to the songs. Chris Salveters balladry,guttural and gorgwous, burns with a newfound conviction. His eerie fictional tales of love and death have been largely replaced by equally haunting, yet even more powerful, stories of a very private history. The songs and melodies intertwine creating an oddly cohesive personal study in loss, loneliness, and heartbreak. Its the dark end of the human spectrum thats often feared and avoided, and thats precisely where Low Skies resides, delivering it bruised and beautiful, with teeth bared and arms outstreched.
Genre/Style: Americana / Rock
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Pink Razors
Waiting to Wash Up
Release Date: Jan 2006
Label: Robotic Empire
CD: $13.98 Sale $11.98 |
So Robotic Empire, home to bands ranging from Pig
Destroyer to Cursive, Daughters to Torche, and Isis to Ed Gein has never exactly been known as any particular kind of label; but I’d say it wouldn’t be unfair to expect stoner-metal, tangents of grindcore, and more experimental, heavy punk bands (such as pg, 99, who almost single-handedly put the label on the map), and similarly progressive forms of aggressive music from this Richmond-based troupe. So they threw the music community for a bit of a loop by snagging their hometown’s Pink Razors shortly after their formation. The four-piece Razors play run-of-the-mill pop-punk. The idea though, is that it isn’t so run-of-the-mill. When I say pop-punk though, you must understand that I don’t mean Blink 182 or any of the shit sold at the mall as punk right now. I meanthe So-Cal, East Bay, and Chicago schools of punk. Pink Razors hit all the bases covered by the Descendents, Screeching Weasel, Fifteen, etc. Were they not going bankrupt, I would expect Lookout to have been all over this band. Seriously, good garage punk. Snotty, but not aggressive. This is nothing new, it’s the four friends playing fast, fun music and some friends of theirs put it out for them. And it’s awesome! - Aircraft
Genre/Style: Punk |
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Smoking Popes
At Metro
Release Date: Feb 05
Label: Victory
CD: $14.98 Sale $10.98 |
Capturing their brilliant reunion at The Metro in 2005,
this CD/DVD release highlights 23 of the Smoking Popes' best songs. The Popes paved the way for bands like Alkaline Trio, Fall Out Boy, etc.
Genre/Style: Rock |
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New London Fire
A Wave Form
Release Date: 2006
Label: Eyeball
CD: $4.98 |
If a young, angsty Michael Jackson produced a Cars song everyday for three weeks, you might get a hint of NLF's elegant urgency. The band's gushing melodies are fused with terse and somber samples to create an aural blueprint of a lustrous distinction. - Douglas Smith
Genre/Style: Rock / New Wave |
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Band of Horses
Everything All the Time
Sale $13.98 |
Editors
Back Room
Sale $11.98 |
Liars
Drums Not Dead
Sale $13.98 |
Lifetime
Somewhere in the Swamps of Jersey
Sale $15.98 |
Madlib
Beat Konducta
Sale $13.98 |
Mates of State
Bring it Back
Sale $13.98 |
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