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Acid Mother's Temple
Starless and Bible Black Sabbath
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Alien8
CD: $13.98 |
Easy listening for the hard of hearing or party music for the terminaly stoned, Acid Mothers Temple present is with their interpretation of Sabbath and King Crimson.
Genre: Psyche / Stoner / Rock |
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Arab Strap
Last Romance
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Transdreamer
CD: $15.98 |
The Scottish rock and post-emo duo Arab Strap return with The Last Romance…the bands most aggressive album to date.
Genre: Rock / Pop |
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Arctic Monkeys
Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Astralwerks
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The reference points are wide and varied. Musically there's musical bit of The Stone Roses, Whats The Story Morning Glory?, and Nevermind. As catchy as those reference points are, it’s the lyrics that has won them this fiercely dedicated crowd. Mixing the observational storytelling of Davies and Weller crossed with the harsher documentary eye of Mike Skinner of the Streets and Ghost Town-era Specials.
Genre: Brit Rock |
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Nick Cave / Warren Ellis
The Proposition
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Mute
CD: $15.98 |
Nick Cave composed the film's soundtrack in conjunction with Warren Ellis, his longtime Bad Seeds collaborator and multi-instrunmentalist frontman of The Dirty Three. Incorporating soft chamber pieces, ghostly moodscapes and whispered laments, these 16 tracks are as starkly beautiful as the landscape of the film. Story and music closely intertwined.
Genre: Soundtrack / Pop |
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Chicago Underground Duo
In Praise of Shadows
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Thrill Jockey
CD: $15.98 |
The 9th Chicago Underground release and the fourth as a Duo, In Praise of Shadows finds cornetist Rob Mazurek and drummer Chad Taylor returning the focus to improvisation. While In Praise of Shadows is similar to Twelve Degrees of Freedom in concept the record deals with dyad relationships such as tension and release, space and density, sound and silence. It also plays with sonic contrasts, low tone and high tones as well as contrasting approaches juxtaposing free jazz with modern composition.
Genre: Jazz |
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Coldcut
Sound Mirrors
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Ninja Tune
CD: $15.98
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Let's just say it right from the start.Coldcut have made the best album of their long and illustrious career.It's not something you can say lightly, but there you are. Their production has never sounded better, their ideas have never been more varied or interesting, they've never had such a great cast if guests and then integrated them into their sound so well.
Genre: Hip Hop / Electronic |
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Das Oath
Mini LP
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Dim Mak
CD: $14.98 |
In case you’re not familiar with them, Das Oath are formerly “The Oath,” an American/Swedish hybrid punk/hardcore monstrosity. Members of a random assortment of big name bands (Charles Bronson, Devoid of Faith, Monster X, Mainstrike, Oil, and Holy Molar) come together every few months to write these ear-bleeders. Their style of hardcore is similiar to The Germs, Black Flag, or Void, but somehow without coming off as kids trying to live in the past. Rather than playing the same kind of punk the aformentioned bands did, these guys use their stellar musicianship to forge something altogether new. Hints of bands like Refused, Some Girls, The Locust, and Guyana Punch Line are fairly prevalent after a few listens. With only nine songs (at around 24 minutes), I’d say this album is a better introduction to the band than their self-titled full length. They recently released a one-sided LP with a live radio set on it, and that also represents them succinctly, but well. Das Oath have pulled off what so many punk bands never think to try, they’re writing old-school punk rock without ripping off the bands they learned from. -Ryan Aircraft
Genre: Punk / Hardcore |
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Destroyer
Destroyer's Rubies
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label:Merge Records
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Vancouver's Dan Bejar returns with his sixth full length release under the moniker Destroyer. As expected, it is a thoroughly unexpected collection of clever pop music that takes no prisoners and asks no pardons. Destroyer's Rubies, weaves a narrative of loves won or lost, missed opportunities and artistic integrity familiar to long time Destroyer fans. Reassembling much of the band in 2002s spawling This Night, Destroyer Rubies is a return to the more expansive and sometimes jarring full band arrangments explored an Streethawk A Seduction.
Genre: Rock/Pop |
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Dilated Peoples
20/20
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Capitol
CD: $14.98 |
Latest from LA based rap trio includes guest performances from Capleton, Defari, Talib Kweli and others. The first single to Urban radio is "Back Again", produced by Alchemist. The only reason we cut and pasted this was because it said "Urban Radio".
Genre: Hip Hop |
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Grupo Naidy
Arriba Suena Marimba: Currulao Marimba Music
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Smithsonian Folkways
CD: $17.98 |
The marimba is a vivid legacy of the African presence in Latin America, but only on the Pacific coast of southern Colombia and northern Ecuador does it keep its close connections to a strongly African culture. Hailing from small towns along the river-ridden Colombian coast, the seasoned women singers of Grupo Naidy raise their voices to the accompaniment of marimba and drums performing their unique styles of music known collectively as currulao.
Genre: Folk / World |
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Howling Hex
1-2-3
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Drag City
CD: $15.98 |
This is a CD of all Howling Hex's long out of print vinyl releases. Each song is a diamond of soulful tunage prepared to incite and excite and invite further investigation into the world of Howling Hex.
Genre: Rock |
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Janis Ian
Folk Is the New Black
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Cooking Vinyl
CD: $16.98 |
The glowing reviews come as no surprise to her loyal fan base, who gave her website a stunning quarter million hits per year even though she hasn’t had a top twenty record here in three decades. Ian has had great success as a co-writer with cuts by Bette Midler, Kathy Mattea, John Mellencamp and a host of others. But Folk is the New Black is the first album since 1981. Restless eyes that seen Ian writing 100 percent of eveything.
Genre: Folk |
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Le Volume Courbe
I Killed My Best Friend
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Astralwerks
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It's a lo-fi punk record, but punk in attitude rather than musical style. It's a strange, otherworldly concoction of sounds filled with fragile vocals and haphazard guitars, flowing like an enchanting and elusive diary of dreams.
Genre: Rock / Pop |
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The Loved Ones
Keep Your Heart
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Fat Wreck Chords
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Members of The Curse, Kid Dynamite and Trial By Fire pooled their talents and banged out one of the finest punk n' roll records. And with a resume like these guys have, you wouldn't expect anything less.
Genre: Punk |
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The M's
Future Women
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Polyvinyl
CD: $13.98
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Future Women, is the far-reaching and ambitious sophomore effort from The M’s. Gorgeous, sweeping three-part harmonies punctuate Future Women recollecting fuzzed out 60s-era Britpop and 70s-era T. Rex cut and re-formed with a glimpse toward the future.
Genre: Rock / Pop |
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Make Up
Untouchable Sound Live
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Sea Note
CD: $15.98
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Untouchable Sound- Live is a 13-song live album recorded in DC, at the Black Cat in 2000. Hear the sounds of this legendary group as they holler, flange and fuzz through a bacchanal of bestial orthodontal arrangements.
Genre: Rock Party |
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Man Man
Six Demon Bag
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Ace Fu
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Junkshop, kitchen sink, musical Tourette's, with a heart. Predatory and prey. Peter Pan's "Lost Boys" grown up and bad and seething for the taste of the kill. And Wendy. For fans of Captain Beefheart, Zappa, Wolf Parade.
Genre: Rock / Experimental |
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Maximo Park
Missing Songs
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Warp
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One of the most exciting acts from the UK, return with a collection of unreleased tracks and songs only previously available on their European singles.
Genre: Dance Punk |
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Jonah Matragna
There's A Lot in Here
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Equal Vision
CD: $12.98
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CD/DVD - The CD contains some of his greatest songs and most rare recordings all in one place. The DVD features two complete live shows and 11 videos, one for each song off of the ONELINEDRAWING album The Volunteers released on Jade Tree. Consider this the first of many releases from the person that will play a show in a sold out club, or outside for three fans that couldn't make it in. Jonah gives it his all every time, regardless of the amount of people in attendance. There's A Lot In Here is interactive, explosive and heartbreaking. Jonah Matranga is an artist with a fresh outlook on what a songwriter is and can be. Just wait, there's a lot more to come.
Genre: Rock / Pop / Singer-Songwriter |
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Nebula
Apollo
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Liquor & Poker
CD: $11.98
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Smoke weed. Southern California. Stoner Rock. Dune Buggies. Members of Fu Manchu. Psychedelic mind fucks.
Genre: Stoner Rock / Sludge / Groove Metal |
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Oxbow
Love That's Last: Wholly Hypnographic & Disturbing Work
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Hydra Head
CD: $15.98
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In the late 80's the amazing and truly terrifying quadrangle known as Oxbow mangled the undergrounds fragile phyche with the release of nerve fraying long players. Their legacy continued with Let Me Be a Woman Serenade in Red and an Evil Heat. Each recording the men of Oxbow channeled a harrowing psyhic landscape through a devasting gamut of stark murder blues serpentine slide guitar torture and churning predatory noise.
Genre: Experimental / Noise |
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Robocop Kraus
They Think They Are
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Epitaph
CD: $13.98
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They think They Are The Robocop Kraus, their fifth full length but first to be released in the US showcases the bands unique razor wire punk disco noise as it rises above the fads and fashions of the current post punk revival with songs after hooky song already making noise as singles in the UK. They Think They Are The Robocop Kraus delivers the boldest melodies and most spirited album of their career.
Genre: Rock / Pop / Dance |
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Souls She Said
As Templar Nites
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Dim Mak
CD: $13.98
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This is the first full length from Icarus Line frontman Joe Caramone and guitarist Don Devore. The release features nine tracks recorded over the time span of one year and on two continents. These recordings are a departure from the Icarus Line and serve as the more beat driven dark indie rock cousin to Icarus Lines beautifully gory lo fi sound. As Templar Nites still incorporates Cardamones haunting voice and lyrics and Devores perfectly jagged and distorted guitar works.
Genre: Rock / Pop / Dance |
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They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Boo Hoo Hoo Boo
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Kill Rock Stars
CD: $13.98
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They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, is an 8 piece band from Vancouver BC Canada. Their debut album Boo Hoo Hoo Boo is being released on Kill Rock Stars. Their startling energetic live shows have won them listeners and even dancers throughout Canada where they have a distinctive noisy oompa sound thanks to a horn section. The band has been compared to the likes of The Danielson Family, Captain Beefheart and Thinking Fellers Local 242. That is all.
Genre: Rock / Pop
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Tunng
Mother's Daughter & Other Songs
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Ace Fu
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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: Progressive Folk / Electronic |
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Two Gallants
What the Toll Tells
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Saddle Creek
CD: $14.98
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The boxing metaphor is apt, theres opposition and cooperation beauty and violence when this duo steps into the ring. What The Toll Tells demands patience and an emotional commitment. It rewards with understanding and a renewed faith in so called folk music that is music made by folks. These folks Two Gallant have had each other for years. With What The Toll Tells they give a little of themselves to us.
Genre: Blues / Folk / Punk |
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Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice
Gipsy Freedom
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: 5 Rue Christine
CD: $14.98
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You may hear the faint echos of Island Harvest era Albert Ayler on one track, Iommi derived riffage on the next, torch songs that sound torn straight from the Gershwin songbook on the next, and can style epic grooves on the next. Radically different, yet sustaining the band's high level of musical and thematic consistency, Gipsy Freedom is the sound of a band breaking out of the box and using the discarded shapes to construct strange new universes.
Genre: Rock |
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Billy Bragg
Talking With the Taxman About Poetry
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Yep Roc
CD: $17.98
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Braggs third album, Talking with the Taxman About Poetry, was released in September 1986. It was his most successful and accomplished release to date, spawning a hit single, Levi Stubbs Tears, as well as Greetings to the New Brunette, a collaboration with The Smiths guitarist, Johnny Marr. The album was a Top 10 hit.
Genre: Folk / Punk |
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Billy Bragg
Brewing Down With...
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Yep Roc
CD: $17.98
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After seeing how the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher was changing the fabric of British society, particularly with the decimation of the mining communities, Braggs songs became more overtly political. He became a fixture at political rallies and benefits, particularly during the 1984 Miners Strike. Indeed, his second album, Brewing Up with Billy Bragg (1984), opened with the fierce "It Says Here," a strident song of political solidarity.
Genre: Folk / Punk |
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Billy Bragg
Internationale / Live & Dubious
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Yep Roc
CD: $17.98
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Live and Dubious, Billys first album containing live material, combined with The Internationale, an EP of global and historical political anthems and revolutionary ballads. The Internationale features everything from a brass band and a Welsh choir on the title track to the Spanish language Nicaragua, Nicaraguita.The equally fiery Live and Dubious, originally released with the subtitle Help Save the Youth of America, came with this message: I have no vote in your Presidential election yet its outcome will directly affect my future and the future of millions of people around the world ... Remember, when you elect a President, you are electing a President for all of us. Please be more careful this time.
Genre: Folk / Punk |
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Billy Bragg
Life's A Riot With Spy VS Spy
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Yep Roc
CD: $17.98
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Braggs stark musical backdrop for the most part a roughly strummed electric guitar and even starker vocals belied a keen sense of melody and passionate, deeply humane lyrics. The albums opening track, The Milkman of Human Kindness, for instance, was a love song of the most compassionate variety, illustrating the very real humanist approach, which informs his music. It was an early indicator that Braggs work would be infused with genuine insight and humor, as well as a sustained and personal commitment to political and humanitarian issues.
Genre: Folk / Punk |
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Billy Bragg
Volume 1
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Yep Roc
CD: $74.98
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4xCD/2xDVD - The releases include his debut, along with Brewing Up With Billy Bragg, Talking to the Taxman About Poetry, and a disc that combines the The Internationale and Live & Dubious EPs. Each release will feature the re-mastered original and a second disc of bonus material, much of it previously unavailable and handpicked by Billy and longtime Bragg cohorts Grant Showbiz and Wiggy -- a labor of love indeed.
Genre: Folk / Punk |
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Califone
Roomsound
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Thrill Jockey
CD: $15.98
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Roomsound is Califone's first album, available for the first time since 2001. Features guest performances from members of Tortoise, Eleventh Dream Day, The Fruit Bats, Waco Brothers and Brokeback. CD features video footage of Calofone performing live.
Genre: Post Rock / Experimental |
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Phil Ochs
All the News That's Fit To Sing
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Collector's Choice
CD: $13.98
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Phils 1964 debut release was all that and more, sporting not only songs drawn from the tumultous events of the day but also an adaptation of an Edgar Allan Poe poem (The Bells) and a tribute to Woody Guthrie (Bound for Glory)-immediate notice of a major new songwriting talent on the scene. Plus a bonus track: Bullets of Mexico
Genre: Folk |
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Phil Ochs
I Ain't Marching Anymore
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Collector's Choice
CD: $13.98
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As the conflicts and divisions in American society deepened in the mid-60s, Phil Ochs sharpened his songwriting pen on 1965s I Aint Marching Anymore to deliver some of the most passionate and pointed protest songs of the decade. WIth topics ranging from American militarism, civil rights, labor struggles and the Vietnam War, the album may sound dated...or maybe not.
Genre: Folk |
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Tusk
Get Ready
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: Hewhocorrupts Inc
CD: $14.98
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Avant, progged out, psych' helicopter grind. This is what it started it all. Before there was Pelican there was Tusk, comprised of 3/4 Pelican. Get Ready for one hell of a ride. This release has been remastered, contains enchanced video footage, bonus tracks, and new artwork by Arron Turner of ISIS.
Genre: Metal |
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Cracker
Get On With It
Release Date: 02/21/06
Studio: Monkey Boy
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First DVD release from band is a compilation of all their hit videos and some rare live footage. Tracks include "Low", "Get Off This", "Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now) and more. |
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Eels w/ Strings
Live at Town Hall
Release Date: 02/21/06
Studio: Monkey Boy
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CD/DVD Recorded and filmed at New York's Town Hall towards the end of a marathon world tour, this extensive record of the Eels' 2005 string-driven incarnation performing much of their back catalog features covers of Dylan's "Girl From the North Country" and the Left Banke's "Pretty Ballerina." Eight songs not on the audio CD are also included.
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Elbow
Leaders of the Free World
Release Date: 02/21/06
Studio: Monkey Boy
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The "Leaders of the Free World" DVD has been created to accompany the 3rd album of the same name and it features a stunning video for EVERY song on the album. We know you love Elbow, so quit frontin'. |
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Kid Dynamite
Four Years in One Gulp
Release Date: 02/21/06
Studio: Jade Tree
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This is a vibrant 90-minute documentary of the all-too-brief life and times of Kid Dynamite. Between 1997 and 2000, this Philadelphia band changed the face of modern hardcore with their poignant and passionate sing-along anthems. Highlighted by nineteen raging live performances and a six song mini-set from a recent CBGB reunion, the DVD reveals Kid Dynamite's guts: the personalities and their stories (as told by the band, friends, and fans), the music and the motivation, life at home and on the road, and the process of putting the band together only to watch it prematurely fall apart. |
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Mastodon
Workhorse Chronicles
Release Date: 02/21/06
Studio: Jade Tree
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This is the band's first official DVD release. Go behind the scenes in over 3 hours of hand-selected footage from the band's personal video archives. Includes uncensored versions of all 3 Mastodon promotional videos. Includes live versions of every Mastodon song ever recorded. Includes interviews and more. |
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Ray Davies
Other People's Lives
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: V2
CD: $15.98 |
Ray's first and long-awaited solo album features 13 stunning new songs. The new release brims effervescently with his heady, unmistakable style and talent.
Genre: Singer-Songwriter |
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Eff Barzelay
Bitter Honey
Release Date: 02/21/06
Label: SpinArt
CD: $14.98 |
"Bitter Honey" by Eef Barzelay is a solo acoustic record by the singer/songwriter of Clem Snide. With just his voice, his words, and an acoustic guitar, Barzelay further confirms the rumor that he is one of the most uniquely talented songwriters around.
Genre: Singer-Songwriter |
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Against Me
Searching For a Former Sense of Clarity
Release Date: Sept 05
Label: Fat Wreck Chords
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As always, expect uppity folk/punk with heartfelt lyrics and great acoustic/electric guitar interplay. An energetic mix of Billy Bragg and The Clash.
Genre: Punk / Country |
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Ibrahim Ferrer
Ay, Candela
Release Date: May 05
Label: La Escondida
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Happy, bright, sparkling, brilliant: in all honesty, there simply aren't enough colorful adjectives to accurately describe the palpable, inherent joy in the music of Cuban master Ibrahim Ferrer. All the shades of the rainbow--and more--are showcased beautifully on Ay, Candela, a vivid, varried collection of classic tracks. The assembled songs span the 1960s, '70s, and early '80s, but they sound as fresh and vibrant as anything recorded in the last few years. -Joey Guerra
Genre: Latin Jazz |
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Blood on the Wall
Awesomer
Release Date: Sep 05
Label: The Social Registry
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Blood On The Wall is the sound of a couch being tossed from the second story to thunderous applause. The feeling that one gets when you have finished off the last of the tequila and it’s on to the beer. That tinge of sadness late into the evening right before the dawn is about to break and the regrets and hopes of your life merge with first chirps of the birds starting their day.
Genre: Awesome |
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A Day in Black and White
Notes
Release Date: Nov 05
Label: Level Plane
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Calling upon such influences as hometown heroes Fugazi, Sonic Youth and Q & not U, A Day in Black & White have given to the listener a record built upon a tight and dynamic rhythm section layered with driving and melodic guitar lines and catchy vocal patterns.
Genre: Post Hardcore |
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Malkovich
Criminal Record
Release Date: Nov 04
Label: Reflections
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Malkovich is known to be one of Sweden's most intense and hardest rocking live acts, combining the groove of JR Ewing and Refused with the apocalyptic yet controlled chaos and intensity of Converge and spicing it up with a little classic Guns 'N Roses.
Genre: Punk / Rock |
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