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Battles
EP C B EP
Release Date: 03/28/06
Label: Warp
CD: $21.98 |
This is a UK-only Warp release. "Battles are Tyondai Braxton, who previously collaborated with Prefuse 73 on vocals, keyboardist, guitar and electronics, John Stanier on drums, ex Helmet and member of Mike Patton's Tomahawk, Ian Williams on guitar and keyboard, ex Don Caballero and Dave Konopka on guitar and bass, previously in Lynx. Battles describe their music as 'somewhere between electronic and rock... we don't have to play garage music the way you might if all the members had only been in garage bands. Battles can do what it wants.' Battles should appeal to fans of Fugazi, Tortoise, Godspeed, Mars Volta, Comets On Fire, Black Mountain, Explosions In The Sky, Lightning Bolt, Mogwai etc.
Genre/Style: Rock / Post Rock / Experimental |
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Stephen Brodsky / Ramona Cordova
Boy Who Floated Freely
Release Date: 03/21/06
Label: ECA
CD: $9.98
| New solo material from Cave In's Steve Brodsky, as well as tracks from Denver in Dallas's Ramona Cordova. Put this split together to show their appreciation for one another's art. Includes enhanced material with 3 live performances from Cordova.
Genre/Style: Folk / Pop / Psychedelic |
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Matt Costa
Songs We Sing
Release Date: 03/28/06
Label: Brushfire Recordings
CD: $14.98
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Release is a winding collection running the stylistic and historic gamut of pop music; hues of ragtime, folk, psychedelia, country and rock are cast liberally across the album.
Genre/Style: Pop |
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Create!
Prospect of Freedom
Release Date: 03/28/06
Label: Sounds Are Active
CD: $13.98
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On the 19th of December 2004, Create (!) – augmented by Raymond Raposa of Castanets, Lynn Johnston and Kris Tiner – recorded its first album since the release of Liz Janes & Create (!) on Asthmatic Kitty. A Prospect of Freedom is a beautifully dense album that births equally stunning musicianship over its eight tracks.The music surprises, seeming to bridge the gap between Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians and Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz..
Genre/Style: Jazz |
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Ghostface Killah
Fishscale
Release Date: 03/28/06
Label: Def Jam
CD: $10.98
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I know three things in life:
1- Ghostface Killa is a former member of the Wu Tang Clan
2- He make's some sick rhymes, I make some sick Wu stamped stationary (Contact Guava for some letter template samples)
3- I want black babies and creme colored poodles
Genre/Style: Hip-Hop
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Daniel Johnston & the Electric Ghosts
Electric Ghosts
Release Date: 03/28/06
Label: Important
CD: $15.98
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2006 is sure to be a big year for Daniel Johnston. A Sony Picture Classics documentary of his life is being released internationally on March 31 and is currently in the final stages of being chosen for an Academy Award nomination. His fan base has once again swollen substantially and gallery showings of his artwork in the U.S. and Europe are establishing him as a highly collectible physical artist. The Electric Ghosts is a side project that Johnston and his tour manager Hyperjinx Tricycle bandmate created while touring the U.S. playing shows and searching for salvation.
Genre/Style: Rock |
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Larsen
Seise
Release Date: 03/28/06
Label: Important
CD: $15.98
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Following Larsens critically and commercially successful full length Play on Important we bring you SeieS housed in a deluxe Important Records cardboard gatefold sleeve and printed on matte paper to look almost as good as it sounds. SeieS is Larsen’s fifth full length and work on it began when the band was recording Play. However where Play was Larsens most orchestrated ambient work SeieS tends to be quite a bit more song-oriented. Tracks like The Snow Haula and Marzia are Larsens most sinister compositions disturbing soundscapes that would fit very well in a David Lynch movie. The remaining tracks feature female vocals thanks to ex Swans chanteuse
Jarboe.
Genre/Style: Rock
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Major Stars
Synoptikon
Release Date: 03/28/06
Label: Rapster
CD: $15.98
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Syntoptikon features the new lineup of the Major Stars now with a third guitarist added for extra heaviness. Syntoptikon is the newer, heavier Major Stars who have been dumping amp loads of heft upon Boston stages and now they're bringing it to your home audio system.
Genre/Style: Drone |
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Moore Brothers
Murder By The Moore Brothers...
Release Date: 03/28/06
Label: Plain
CD: $14.98
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The oblique folk pop duo of Thom and Greg Moore has been slaying SF Bay Area audiences for past few years with unexpected songs and note perfect fraternal harmonies. Murdered by The Moore Brothers confirms that these boys are bad and now they're nationwide.
Genre/Style: Folk / Rock |
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Mr. Flash
Monsieur Sexy
Release Date: 03/28/06
Label: Ed Banger
CD/DVD: $18.98
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2005 release, last copies, first and only CD on Ed Banger. "A compilation to be listened with your half, a Rated-R compilation recommended by Playboy. A classy record, burlesque, romantic but kinda cheeky...More than one hour of music, all selected
by Mr Flash. Included: three Mr Flash new tracks! Mr Flash is a real 'crate digger,' a record collector, who keeps searching for the buried treasure. He's a French DJ Shadow or Madlib. Some kult, funny & surprising songs inside..." Artists: Mr. Flash, Jacques Denjean, Jean Yanne, Jannis Spanos, Les Apollos, Serge Gainsbourg, Twink, Ann Sorel, Godi, Sophie Daumier, De Giafferi, Jean Morlier, Sven Libaek, Kalyanji Anandji, Rita, Araconga, Philippe Nicaud, Elias Rahbani, Ihsan Al Munzer, Jean Michel Jarre.
Genre/Style: Hip-Hop |
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Pearls Before Swine
Radio Pearls
Release Date: 03/28/06
Label: ESP
CD: $16.98
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Critics called his music acid folk. It trod the familiar 1960s floorboards anti war pro drug get inside your mind kindergarten Zen. Washington Post Recorded in the fall of 1970 for WBAI on Bob Fass legendary Radio Unnamable this release finds Tom Rapp in an intimate live trio setting. Producer and engineer Joe Phillips says, "I recall playing the original tape for Tom Rapp in his living room in Woodstock NY. He would periodically lean in closer to the speakers as if studying the nuances of his vocals and the underlying
implications of his voice and the interpretations of the musical arrangement." He commented that this could be an album. Indeed 35 years later it finally is.
Genre/Style: Folk / Rock |
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People In Planes
As Far As the Eye Can See
Release Date: 03/28/06
Label: Wind Up
CD: $11.98
| Joaquin Phoenix directed the latest People In Planes video "If You Talk Too Much (My Head Will Explode)" at the Ontario, California International Airport. Mr. Jo-Ah-Quin has a super awesome scar on his grill, so the video must be somewhat interesting. This is a solid release.
Genre/Style: Rock |
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Piano Magic
Incurable
Release Date: 03/28/06
Label: Important
CD: $9.98
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A new 4 track EP of brand new material from London's Piano Magic. Brings to mind the mid-'80s 4AD Records ethereal romanticism of This Mortal Coil, Cocteau Twins and Dead Can Dance. It's a glacially produced, though spiritually warm set of songs which evoke beautiful, though bleak, European winter landscapes, lost causes and broken hearts.
Genre/Style: Folk / Rock |
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Rammenstein
Rosentrot
Release Date: 03/28/06
Label: Universal
CD: $15.98
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Rosenrot translates as Red-Rose. The fifth album from the Berlin sextet of Till Lindemann (vocals), Paul Landers (guitar), Christoph Schneider (drums), Richard Z. Kruspe (guitar), Flake Lorenz (keyboards) and Oliver Riedel (bass) make the impossible possible. They bring together what does not belong together: the Brothers Grimm and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Yes, it sounds absurd, but its merely a stylistic device. The title fitting for this Rammstein album. Its a word like a poem, brimming with meaning and import; a poem that unites the beautiful with the ugly, the gentle with the cruel, and life with death.
Genre/Style: Rock / Industrial |
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Slomo
The Creep
Release Date: 03/28/06
Label: Important
CD: $14.98
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'If the doom metal of Khanate is the ideal soundtrack to the 21st Century Odinists' hanging upon the tree of Yggdrasil, then the vegetal music of Slomo is the unfolding, nurturing, ever-becoming ur-ooze that titanically irrigates the roots of that sacred tree. Slomo restores our timeless beginnings and fulfills the Ginnungagap -- motherfuckers.' --Julian Cope. "The Creep by Slomo is one full length track packaged in a deluxe Important Records gatefold cardboard jacket printed on both sides with two custom inserts by Slomo. The Creep was originally released on Julian Cope's Fuck Off And Di label in a limited edition of 100 which sold out instantly. Since, it's quickly gained massive underground status after being propped up by the likes of Sunn O))) and The Wire.
Genre/Style: Metal / Doom |
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This is Your Captain Speaking
Storyboard
Release Date: 03/28/06
Label: Resonant
CD: $17.98 |
Full release of an album that has been subject to overwhelming praise worldwide as a result of the initial pressing on the band's own label last year. Within the seven tracks of sprawling, intelligent, complex, emotive and thoroughly engaging post-rock on Storyboard, the band have produced a staggering debut album with a widescreen, epic and ultimately very powerful end product that belies their inexperience -- the strength being the sensational interplay between the guitars, layered over the drums, with occasional appearances from the xylophone and even a typewriter. The album is self-produced, and was recorded in the library of a primary school. This Is Your Captain Speaking are a three-piece that hail from Melbourne, Australia, and this first opus promises a great deal, with comparisons drawn to the likes of Scenic, Silver Ray and Dirty Three.
Genre/Style: Rock / Post Rock |
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Show Your Bones
Release Date: 03/28/06
Label: Interscope
CD: $13.98
| It's been three years since we've heard from the Yeah Yeah Yeah's, but the NYC trio is back with Gold Lion, their second full length release. It seems frontwoman Karen O has adopted a bowl-cut and tamer sense of squeal these days, while Nick Zinner still knows how to rumble the distortion pedal. I think this album is a step backward from their 2003's Fever to Tell but it will suffice for my Friday night rump shake before I hit Badabings, the hautest club in Va Beach. Hip-Hop dot com gave it a 9.5 out of 10 and that's cuz they know what's up.
Genre/Style: Rock |
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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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Lee Rocker
Racin' The Devil
Release Date: Jan 06
Label: Alligator
CD: $16.98 |
Lee Rocker is best known as the bass player for rockabilly stars the Stray Cats, but he's also an acclaimed solo artist playing energized original Americana roots. "Racin' the Devil" shows off his hard driving vision where feisty roots rock n' roll mixes with hooky country twang, heartland rock, and yes, blistering rockabilly.
Genre/Style: Rock / Country
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Tres Chicas
Bloom Red and the Ordinary Girl
Release Date: Mar 06
Label: Yep Rock
CD: $16.98 |
"When Caitlin Cary, Tonya Lamm, and Lynn Blakey bring their voices together they convey sweet heartache and the world weary acceptance that comes to insightful gals on the tall side of thirty" raves Rolling Stone. The sophomore effort from Tres Chicas was
recorded in London and features the production work of Neil Brockbank and Robert Trehern and guest appearances by Nick Lowe and Geraint Watkins.The broadened instrumentation and musical range found on the new record serves to better highlight the impeccable interplay between their voices and the passionately romantic soulfully earthbound stories of love contained within their lyrics.
Genre/Style: Alt Country |
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Arctic Monkeys
Whatever People Say I Am That's What I'm Not
Release Date: Feb 06
Label: Domino
CD: $11.98 |
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/Style: Rock |
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Beth Orton
Comfort of Strangers
Release Date: Feb 2006
Label: Astralwerks
CD: $16.98
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On her fourth LP Beth re-emerges with a self-assuredness that can be heard and felt in her songwriting, vocals and guitar.
Genre/Style: Alt Country / Singer - Songwriter / 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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Femi Kuti
Best of...
Release Date: May 05
Label: Wrasse
CD: $16.98 Sale $12.98 |
Femi best of is made up of two of his album Shoki Shoki (his debut) and Fight to Win. This has some serious groove and shows Femi walking out of the shadow of his late father Fela Kuti
Genre/Style: World / Afrobeat |
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Plastic Constellations
Crusades
Release Date: Jan 06
Label: French Kiss
CD: $13.98 $9.98 |
“Sending the intensity of Les Savy Fav through a wringer of unshakable pop melodies that boast unexpected twists and shouts, The Plastic Constellations nail their bludgeoning, super-anthemic rock choruses with an energy infectious enough to directly affect your blood flow. Pitchfork Media – (8.5 out of 10)
Genre/Style: Rock / Punk
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Kickball
ABCDEFGHIJKickball
Release Date: Mar 06
Label: Yo Yo
CD: $9.98 |
Kickball makes the kind of songs a slow bear might hum while collecting some breakfast berries. Their shit is heavy like mice whispering in kitchen cupboard caves. But with this, their third album, the slow bear and whispering mice have started to beat it up much faster, and Olympias Kickball has created a dirt-stomping dinosaur that comes bearing the gifts of Lisa Schonbergs rattlesnake drums ticking like bombs that never explode, Jacob Wilsons guitars like pebbles bouncing around in glass jars, and Adam Oelsners bass like the abominable snowman swinging a gigantic fish onto a pan pipe.
Genre/Style: Funk |
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A Northern Chorus
Spirit Flags
Release Date: June 04
Label: Sonic Unyon
CD: $9.98 |
This album reflects a newfound enthusiasm and maturity and is the hallmark of a band that has found its voice. On the cusp of becoming an important name in dream pop.
Genre/Style: Rock / Post Rock |
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Wildstyle Soundtrack
Various Artists
Release Date: Oct 05
Label: Mr. Bongo
CD: $17.98 $14.98 |
All purchases of this gnar gnar early hip hop comp come with a piece of cardboard for breakdancing. Seriously.
Genre/Style: Hip-Hop / Old School / Soundtrack |
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Islands
Return To The Sea
Sale $11.98 |
Babyshambles
Down In Albion
Sale $14.98 |
Morrissey
Ringleader of the Tormentors
Sale $16.98 |
Tom Brosseau
Empty Houses Are Lonely
Sale $12.98 |
Concretes
In Colour
Sale $16.98 |
Flaming Lips
At War With the Mystics
Sale $16.98 |
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