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Atlas Maoul
Mish Maoul
Release Date: 04/25/06
Label: Beggars Banquet
CD: $16.98
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As benefits her globe-trotting lifestyle and influences, Middle Eastern singer Natacha Atlas continues to create a body of work that refuses to be neatly categorized. Over the past decade, she has entrancingly fused North African and Arabic music with western electronic beats to produce a unique dance music hybrid. This sound has constantly been fed by fresh musical passions and testing in new sonic settings. With her latest, exciting album Mish Maoul, however, her career comes full circle to touch base with her roots. The new album harks back in its sound and traditions to the music she grew up hearing in the Moroccan suburb of Brussels, particularly when the Golden Sound Studio Orchestra of Cairo makes its entrance. It also reunites her again with Temple of Sound's Nick Page a.k.a. Count Dubulah, with whom she first worked in Transglobal Underground and who helped produce her very first solo album Diaspora (and many subsequent collaborations.)
Genre/Style: World / Dance
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Stax Profiles
Various Artists
Release Date: 04/25/06
Label: Stax CD
CD: $11.98 each
| Specially priced classic soul collection being reissued by Stax. The ten artists include: Albert King, Eddie Floyd, Booker T & the MG's, Staple Singers, Otis Redding, Little Milton, Rance Allen, Rufus Thomas, Carla Thomas, and Johnnie Taylor. All tracks are hand selected from the people who had their hands involved with the creation of Stax or musicians who are fans of the label. These people are Elvis Costello, Huey Lewis, B.B. King, Mable John, Steve Cropper, and many more. A series well worth checking out.
Genre/Style: R&B / Soul / Funk
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Coup
Pick A Bigger Weapon
Release Date: 04/25/06
Label: Epitaph
CD: $13.98
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Hailing from Oakland, CA, this duo takes well thought out, radical politics and infuses them with the energy of artfully inspired hip-hop. Soulful funky beats and cleverly crafted rhymes make the politics of the record easily accessible to a wider audience.
Genre/Style: Hip-Hop |
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Eleventh Dream Day
Zeroes and Ones
Release Date: 04/25/06
Label: Thrill Jockey
CD: $15.98
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Twenty years into the partnership, this band retains its youthful enthusiasm. The music has evolved greatly, but the spark and the drive remain the same on this, the first new record in six years. Zeroes And Ones is about the difference between gravity and floating away, reality or dream, looking for something to grasp or simply letting go. Theyve crafted the finest album of their long career. The guitar playing and song writing is elevated, the raw energy honed and undiluted by the passage of time. The band includes Janet Bean (Freakwater), Doug McCombs (Tortoise, Brokeback, Pullman), and Mark Greenberg (Coctails, Archer Prewitt).
Genre/Style: Rock / College Rock |
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Elf Power
Back To The Web
Release Date: 04/25/06
Label: Rykodisc
CD: $15.98
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A haunting, twisting journey weaving its way through heavy psychedelic haze, to soulful, melodic folk, to stomping T Rex styled rock. Back to the Web is full of the bands signature, lovely pop melodies, but a distinct progression is evident in the songwriting and the lush, full production. The folkier tunes are laces with strings and the heavier ones scream psychedelia.
Genre/Style: Rock / Folk |
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Fever
In the City of Sleep
Release Date: 04/25/06
Label: Kemado
CD: $12.98
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On their sophomore album The Fever mix up their love for junkyard clank, Sun Studio reverb, Stax abandon, Fellini-esque circus music & 50's noir to create an intense & mysterious landscape.
Genre/Style: Rock
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Mark Knopfler | Emmy Lou Harris
All the Running
Release Date: 04/25/06
Label: Warner Brow
CD: $18.98 Sale: $16.98
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For several years, the iconic Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris have been quietly recording a remarkable collection of duets whenever the Grammy winning artists could steal away from their own illustrious careers. The extraordinary result is All the Roadrunning. All the Roadrunning is Knopfler & Harris making music and, as they lyric for "This is Us" puts it, making history.
Genre/Style: Rock / Pop |
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Mr Nogatco AKA Kool Keith
Nogatco
Release Date: 04/25/06
Label: Hollywood
CD: $13.98
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A new classic is born from Hip Hop's most outrageous and unpredictable artist, Kool Keith (Black Elvis, Dr. Octagon, Dr. Dooom). "Nogatco Rd." is Keith's most inventive and highly anticipated album in years. Complete with UFO conspiracies, alien autopsies, coded space raps, and an amazing array of some of the most original tracks in years. Nogatco Rd. features strong and intricate Hip Hop production that is dusted with a dabble of hard rock, electronic and celestial soundscapes.
Genre/Style: Hip-Hop
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Nobody & Mystic Chords of Memory
Tree Colored See
Release Date: 04/18/06
Label: Mush
CD: $14.98Sale $9.98
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Tree Colored See is a collaborative effort between Nobody (Elvin Estella) and Mystic Chords of Memory (Chris Gunst and Jen Cohen). Building off of successful guest appearances on each other's past releases, the trio began collaborating on the project in the spring of 2004. After a year-plus of road trips and mail-order production efforts, the result is a perfectly crafted blend of psychedelic hip-hop and sunshine folk-rock. Nobody proves himself a producer/arranger in the classical sense, using his sample-based tool set to create the foundations for the album. Chris Gunst continues to mature as a songwriter and along with partner Jen Cohen, adds wistful vocals and accomplished musicianship to each song. For those who have followed any of these artists throughout the courses of their respective careers, this album proves to bring out the best in each of the participants.
Genre/Style: Rock / Garage |
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OM
Conference of the Birds
Release Date: 04/25/06
Label: Holy Mountain
CD: $14.98
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Comprised of two songs that build on OM's use of cyclical rhythm, riff, and vocal intonation, the duo's new album Conference of the Birds blends metal, chant, drone, dub, and psychedelia. The band's lyrics expound upon the structure of the universe, potentiality, and freedom from the physical body. Engineered by Billy Anderson and produced by the band, Conference of the Birds progresses beyond their debut, Variations on a Theme, with more fully realized songwriting and production.
Genre/Style: Metal / Doom |
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The Rakes
Capture / Release
Release Date: 04/25/06
Label: V2
CD: $14.98
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One of the most exciting and significant London bands to emerge in recent years. Their debut highlights the lyrical and musical eloquence of which most other hyped London groups are bereft.
Genre/Style: Rock / Pop |
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Secret Machines
Ten Silver Drops
Release Date: 04/25/06
Label: Reprise
CD: $14.98
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New York City-based Secret Machines blend songcraft and melody with their acclaimed power to sculpt epic, dreamy, neo-psychedelic soundscapes on their second full-length album, Ten Silver Drops.
Genre/Style: Rock / Pop |
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Starlight Mints
Drowaton
Release Date: 04/25/06
Label: Barsuk
CD: $13.98
| Their love of archetypal pop and AM radio has provided, over the course of two acclaimed albums, a rock-solid foundation for a whole bunch of inspired unusualness, all baked to perfection under the hot Oklahoman sun. Their unique brand of instrumentally complex, surrealistically worded pop contains a blend of classic string arrangements, cheeky boyish vocals, catchy melody, and ornate surrealism. You might call it bubblegum psych. Church bells, horns, piano, violin, tambourine, triangle, synths, and sound effects complement the usual suspects of guitar, bass, and drums to paint a broad sonic palate.
Genre/Style: Pop / Rock |
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The Streets
Hardest Way to Make An Easy Living
Release Date: 04/25/06
Label: Vice
CD:$14.98
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The new Streets album The Hardest Way To Make An Easy Living, out April 25th, is a completely autobiographical record that covers everything that has happened to Mike over the past few years since hes become a well known figure in the UK. Theres love, loss, scandal, violence, sex, drugs and a whole load of bad behavior and regret. This true story begins with the first single, When You Wasn't Famous.
Genre/Style: Hip-Hop / Grime / Garage |
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V/A
Invaders
Release Date: 04/25/06
Label: Kemado
CD: $12.98
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18 tracks of unreleased and rare material from the cream of today's heavy rock including The Sword, Black Mountain, Witchcraft, Pelican, Wolfmother and more.
Genre/Style: Rock / Metal |
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Tom Verlaine
Around / Songs and Other Things
Release Date: 04/25/06
Label: Thrill Jockey
CD: $15.98
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Around picks up where the last one left off. Varied tones move effortlessly from melody to rhythm and are at once panoramic, pastoral, and atmospheric. Its largely an improvised record and features Toms old Neon Boys bandmate Billy Ficca on drums.
Songs and Other Things is his first vocal album in sixteen years and it includes instrumentation from Television bassist Fred Smith. This record finds Verlaine's songwriting at its most colorful. With so many years between this and his last vocal record, hes got a lot of storytelling to catch up on, which makes every track here a gem.
Genre/Style: Rock / Singer-Songwriter / Instrumental |
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Refused
Refused Are Fucking Dead
Release Date: 04/25/06
Label: Epitaph
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A huge influence on most of today's punk bands, post-hardcore punk band Refused broke up in 1998, but continues to have a presence among punk fans today. Released in 2006, this documentary gathers live footage from the band's final tour (including renditions of songs including "New Noise") with music videos and additional bonus material. In 1997 Refused wrote and recorded their farewell record, the seminal The Shape of Punk to Come, hailed by many as an undisputed masterpiece of the emerging post-hardcore genre. Now comes Refused Are Fucking Dead, a perfect summary of this acclaimed and influential band. With stunning live performances from their final US tour, rare live footage from their early days in Sweden, and interviews with band members mapping the band's rise and fall, this DVD will be a must for their still-growing legion of fans.
Genre/Style: Hardcore / Punk |
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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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Concretes
In Colour
Release Date: 04/04/06
Label: Astralwerks
CD: $15.98 |
In Colour is the follow-up to The Concretes critically acclaimed seld titled debut. The album was recorded in Stockholm and mixed in Nebraska with producer Mike Mogis (Conor Oberst's longtime co-conspirator, live musical director and producer for Bright Eyes, Jenny Lewis & Rilo Kiley, The Faint, et al). The album is very much a step on from the last one in terms of song writing and marks a change in the band's sound too. For the first time there are lead vocals from Maria on 'Grey Days' and Lisa on a duet with Romeo from The Magic Numbers on 'Your Call'.
Genre/Style: Rock / Pop
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Drive By Truckers
A Blessing and a Curse
Release Date: 04/18/06
Label: New West
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RECORD OF THE WEEK.The South has risen again and the Drive-By Truckers are leading the charge. “A Blessing and a Curse” is this neo-southern rock band from Alabama’s seventh cd, and one of those albums was a double cd concept album about the rise and fall of Lynyrd Skynyrd (“Southern Rock Opera”), so you know they are an ambitious bunch. Led by three singer-songwriter-guitarists, Drive-By Truckers are varied enough in their performances between hard edged rockers and melodic ballads to keep you interested over the long haul of this album of songs about debauchery, lost love and southern gothic philosophy.
The three singers proudly flaunt their southern accents over the densely layered electric guitars and pounding rhythm that make up their unique, signature sound. Patterson Hood’s voice is the most memorable with his straining but lovable high tenor. Mike Cooley and Jason Isbell’s voices are perfect change ups from Hood’s and some of their songs (“Easy on Yourself”, “Daylight” and “Space City”) are among the best on the album. The band rocks like a cross between AC/DC and early seventies Rolling Stones and the songs never stoop to sentimentality while they tell of broken relationships and the damage that results.
At the end though, is the song that provides the light at the end of the tunnel. “A World of Hurt”, with its spoken word verses is a masterpiece of positive thinking. “To love is to feel pain” concludes Hood, “The secret to a happy ending is knowing when to roll the credits, better roll them now before something else goes wrong” and as the steel guitars swirl around him, eventually his logics leads to this theory: “Its great to be alive.” It sure beats the alternative! -- Paul Shugrue
Genre/Style: Rock / Americana
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Bruce Springsteen
We Shall Overcome: Seeger Sessions
Release Date: 04/25/06
Label: Columbia
CD: $19.98 |
Springsteen's twenty-first album features personal interpretations of thirteen traditional songs associated with legendary folk singer Pete Seeger. Recorded with a large ensemble of musicians in a DualDisc format with full album on one side and 30 minute DVD content on the other. The DVD contains extensive behind the scenes footage of the recording sessions. The DualDisc package will also contain two bonus tracks and special booklet.
Genre/Style: Rock / Folk |
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Jason Collett
Idols of Exile
Release Date: 02/07/06
Label: Arts n Crafts
CD: $14.98
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Idols of Exile marks a powerful move forward for Collett; a summary of his time spent juggling a burgeoning solo career and a family, all the while honing his song craft touring the world with Broken Social Scene. The album features performances from many of Jason's closest friends; including most of Broken Social Scene (Kevin Drew, Brendan Canning, Justin Peroff) and extended Broken Social Scene; Metric's Emily Haines and James Shaw; Stars Amy Millian and Evan Cranley; Apostle of Hustle's Andrew Whiteman and Julian Brown; Do Make Say Think's Charles Spearin; and Feist.
Genre/Style: Rock / Folk / Singer Songwriter |
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Tom Brosseau
Empty Houses Are Lonely
Release Date: 04/04/06
Label: Fat Cat
CD: $12.98 Sale $9.98 |
A collection of highlights from his recorded history to date, augmented by several new recordings, mostly recorded and produced by Gregory Page in San Diego and Poway, Empty Houses Are Lonely works as an introduction to Tom Brosseau's plaintive, eloquent and timeless music. It is a representation of Brosseau's early days in San Diego, Poway and Los Angeles, where he was affected by the various apartments, houses, rooms and hotels where he lived. Brosseau's natural songwriting talent is influenced by such artists as Nick Drake, Woody Guthrie and Cole Porter -- he can be hauntingly moody and atmospheric, and manages to avoid the typical verse-chorus-bridge song structures in his writing. The most notable ingredient in Brosseau's work is his 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 the feminine.
Genre/Style: Folk / Singer-Songwriter |
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Field Music
Self-Titled
Release Date: 04/04/06
Label: Memphis Industries
CD: $15.98 Sale: $11.98 |
Hailing from the same celebrated North East (Britain) scene that spawned The Futureheads and Maximo Park, Field Music add something more cerebral to the spiked Mackem brew. Comprising a core of three members (Andrew Moore plus brothers Peter and David Brewis) and an ever-shifting crew of local luminaries, Field Music are something of a North East supergroup. Peter was The Futureheads' original drummer; Barry Futurehead was in one of the many early Field Music line-ups and sometime drummer Tom English is on loan from Maximo Park. Their pop is huge, loaded with melody and harmony, and perfect for fans of Big Star, Modern Lovers, My Bloody Valentines, Neptunes, etc.
Genre/Style: Rock / Pop |
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Simon Finn
Pass the Distance
Release Date: 06/24/04
Label: Jnana (Canada)
CD: $17.98 |
The official legit re-issue of this incredibly rare dark acid folk masterpiece, originally released in England on the legendary Mushroom label in 1970, has been remastered from the original two-track tapes. Four extra tracks, including the never-released seven-inch single of which only a solitary acetate remains, are also included on this 54-minute CD. The 20-page booklet, with full-color cover reproduction of the original artwork, contains all the lyrics to the album, photographs of the musicians, and extensive liner notes by Simon Finn, David Toop (who also plays on the album), Vic Keary of Mushroom Records, and David Tibet of Current 93. Tibet cites this album as one of his 10 top records of all time.reconstruction of 19th century German art songs that float in a wash of blissed voice and electric guitar in an almost dreamlike fashion through a salon of her own invention. She makes a case for German as one of the previously unknown romance languages.
Genre/Style: Folk
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Ghostfinger
These Colors Run
Release Date: 11/08/05
Label: Set International
CD: $9.98
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Have you ever wondered what would have happened if Bill Monroe joined the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band? Have you ever whistled the theme to ‘Andy Griffith’ while in the core of a nuclear reactor? Have you ever heard a band quite like Ghostfinger? Probably not. These guys will be playing Relative Theory May 20 and at the Taphouse May 21.
Genre/Style: Rock / Blues / Soul |
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Of Montreal
Deflated Chime, Foals Slightly Flower Sibylline
Release Date: Jan 06
Label: Polyvinyl
CD: $7.98 |
Deflated Chime, Foals Slightly Flower Sibylline Responses is a very limited promotional CD for of Montreal's winter '06 tour. With two unreleased songs, original David Barnes artwork, and a nifty digi-pak, Deflated is only available through Polyvinyl mail-order and of Montreal on their upcoming tour. Quantities are already exceptionally low. Get it now before you have to get it on EBay.
Genre/Style: Rock / Pop |
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Municipal Waste
Hazardous Mutation
Release Date: 10/04/05
Label: Earache
CD: $14.98 Sale $9.98 |
Reeking of punk attitude and bursting with uptempo Thrashcore enthusiasm, Municipal Waste ride the divide between old school mosh and simple hardcore purity with an updated take on a timeless sound. Coming on like 'Dealing It' meets 'Spreading The Disease' the band veer between lunatic Thrash and hardcore crosover stomp. Now featuring ex-Discordance Axis drum king Dave Witte supplying the beat
Genre/Style: Metal / Thrash / Hardcore |
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Black Keys
Chulahoma
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Pearl Jam
self-titled
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Tool
10,000 Days
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Unwed Sailor
Circles
Sale $7.98 |
Wolfmother
self-titled
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Zombi
Surface To Air
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