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Music Releases 05-06-22
- Arcade Fire
WE [Indie Exclusive limited Edition White LP] - AURORA
The Gods We Can Touch [LP]
Video PlayARt - Black Crowes
1972 [LP] - Hermitude
Mirror Mountain
Video PlayARt - The Head And The Heart
Every Shade Of Blue - Eddie Vedder
Ukulele Songs [LP]
Video - Sheryl Crow
Sheryl: Music From The Feature Documentary [2CD]
Video - Sunflower Bean
Headful Of Sugar [Orange Crush LP] - Belle And Sebastian
A Bit Of Previous [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition LP] - The Who
My Generation: Half-Speed Master [LP] - The Who
A Quick One: Half-Speed Master [LP] - Awolnation
My Echo, My Shadow, My Covers and Me - Halestorm
Back From The Dead [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Translucent Ruby LP] - !!! (Chk Chk Chk)
Let It Be Blue [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Blue LP] - The Americans
Stand True [LP] - Tom Morello
The Atlas Underground Flood [Sky Blue Grape 2LP]
Video - Simple Plan
Harder Than It Looks - Midland
The Last Resort: Greetings From - Stand Atlantic
F.E.A.R. [Transparent Orange LP] - Three Days Grace
EXPLOSIONS [LP] - Emeli Sande
Let's Say For Instance - Neil Young
Royce Hall 1971 - Neil Young
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion 1971 - Neil Young
Citizen Kane Jr. Blues 1974 (Live At Bottom Line) - Pink Mountaintops
Peacock Pools [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Splatter LP] - Miloe
Greenhouse EP [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition 10in LP] - Ibeyi
Spell 31 [LP] - Sharon Van Etten
We've Been Going About This All Wrong [Marbled Smoke LP] - Billow Observatory
Stareside [Blue LP] - Warpaint
Radiate Like This [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Transparent Yellow LP] - Culture
Two Sevens Clash [RSD Essential Clear w/ Blue & Yellow Smoke LP] - Aaron Raitiere
Single Wide Dreamer [LP] - Leyla McCalla
Breaking The Thermometer - Sadurn
Radiator [Coke Bottle Clear LP] - Soft Cell
*Happiness Not Included [Yellow LP] - Jim Lindberg
Songs from The Elkhorn Trail [LP]
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Music Releases 05-13-22

So Far So Good is the fourth studio album from Grammy award-winning and Billboard Chart topping artist/producer duo The Chainsmokers. The 13-track full-length album was written across Hawaii, Joshua Tree, New York City and LA from 2020 to 2021. It was written and produced by Alex Pall and Drew Taggart with additional contributions from frequent collaborators Emily Warren, Ian Kirkpatrick, and Whethan.
Debut Album Solidifies Mallrat's Reputation as a Master of Clever, Timeless Pop
Available On Limited Edition [COLOR] Vinyl + CD Mallrat's prized pop songwriting has become a beacon the music industry eagerly follows, and on her debut album Butterfly Blue, she embodies the spirit of it's titular creature - but without the delicacy that keeps you at a distance. Over a dozen clever and open-hearted tracks, Mallrat - aka Grace Shaw - draws you in close and shows you the world through her wide, hopeful eyes.

The Dillinger Escape Plan
Irony Is A Dead Scene EP: 20th Anniversary Edition [Tangerine with Black/White Splatter Vinyl]
Vinyl: $26.98 Buy
A collaboration between Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Fantomas) and The Dillinger Escape Plan, this four song EP is a wildly progressive amalgam of musical styles that combines the feral intensity of hardcore, the technical precision of metal, mind-boggling tempo changes and sonic textures usually associated only with experimental electronic music. Irony Is A Dead Scene pushes the limits of speed, composition and complexity. Perhaps the most extraordinary track is a cover of Aphex Twin’s “Come To Daddy” which brilliantly and significantly serves to blur the distinction between “electronic” and “live” music. Reissued on vinyl to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the original release.
Record-breaking, award-winning, GRAMMY-nominated RAMMSTEIN – one of rock’s most individual and successful names – release a special, limited edition 7" vinyl of their single "Zick Zack" and "Zick Zack (RMX by Boys Noize)."
TOMORROW X TOGETHER (aka TXT) is back with a brand new release. minisode 2: Thursday’s Child is available in 3 versions: HATE, END & MESS. All versions include a CD, 64-page Photo Book, Lyric Card Set w/Envelope, Stickers (6 pieces), Logo Paper Toy Set, Poster, Post Card (random 1 of 5 of each version), Lenticular Card (random 1 of 5 of each version) and Photo Card (random 1 of 5 of each version). Box dimensions: 150 x 210 x 22 (mm).
Apollo’s long-awaited debut album IVORY brings him to another level in his career. Crossing genre lines as well as language barriers, the full-length showcases even greater musical diversity from the already boundless creator. Despite being at this pivotal moment in his career, Omar feels like he's just getting started. The artist who once called himself “just a kid from Indiana” is breaking new ground, abandoning all comfort zones, and never looking back.
Four-time Grammy® Award winner Delbert McClinton celebrates his coming-of-age musical heroes and influences with his 27th studio album, Outdated Emotion (Hot Shot Records/Thirty Tigers), coming on May 13, 2022. The 16-track collection features Hank Williams, Jimmy Reed, Ray Charles, and Little Richard standards, as well as five original songs written or co-written by McClinton.
Delbert has spent much of the COVID isolation in Kevin McKendree’s Rock House Studio in Nashville. This new album brings his music back to where it started. Outdated Emotion pays homage to McClinton’s earliest influences, Hank Williams and Jimmy Reed with a salute to Ray Charles and Little Richard, as well as five of his own compositions, influenced by the sounds of his heroes. Along with Kevin and his son, musical prodigy Yates McKendree, Delbert has created the album he has often dreamed of.
“I’ve always wanted to do an album of the songs that influenced me the most. Hank Williams songs, Jimmy Reed songs, and songs that I love. And this was the perfect time to do it. It’s important music from another time. It’s music that people need to hear again, or for the first time. Nobody knows about them. Or has forgotten about them. Or was never turned on to them. There is a whole generation, maybe two generations now, who don’t know this music. My whole idea here was to show them how it was and how we got here. Hank Williams, Jimmy Reed, Lloyd Price, Ray Charles. These songs take me to my youth. They are good if not better now than they were then, and they were great then. They are songs people should just get to hear.”
Rolling Stone calls Delbert McClinton the “Godfather of Americana Music.” In a career that has spanned more than six decades, his honkytonk blues sound and signature smooth voice have provided a soundtrack for American music history. He is a four-time Grammy winner (Traditional Blues Album in 2020 for Tall, Dark, and Handsome; Contemporary Blues Album in 2006 for Cost of Living and 2002 for Nothing Personal; and Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal in 1992 for "Good Man, Good Woman"), and received the Americana Lifetime Achievement Award in 2019. Growing up in Lubbock and Fort Worth, Texas allowed Delbert McClinton an early appreciation for the best of 20th century American music, with the songs of postwar America, honkytonk country, and southern blues. Delbert remembers where he was when he heard his first Hank Williams song. And he knew he wanted to play music for a living when he first heard Jimmy Reed. Leading the house band in the desegregated roadhouses on the outskirts of Fort Worth, Delbert backed Jimmy Reed, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley and other blues legends, while making a name for himself as a regional player in the birth of rock and roll, opening shows for Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis and other pioneers of the new sound; and even headlining shows in Great Britain with Bruce Channel (“Hey Baby”), with a little-known Liverpool quartet. The Beatles as the opening act. In the early 1970s, as his “Two More Bottles of Wine” reflects, Delbert “went out west with a burning desire to set the west coast on fire….” He teamed up with Glen Clark for the Delbert and Glen sessions (Clean Records) and released two critically acclaimed albums before returning to Texas as the progressive country/blues awakening movement was starting to happen in Austin. Hippies and cowboys crowded together on sawdust dance floors watching history in the making as Delbert, Doug Sahm, Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan, Freda and the Firedogs and Asleep at the Wheel set the stage for a new sound coming out of Texas. There, Delbert began to develop his signature sound, mixed rocking blues and hardcore country to create the unique style that has served him well through the last half century.
Further solidifying his sound, Delbert went into the famed Muscle Shoals, Alabama studio and called on the Muscle Shoals Horns, who had recorded with everyone from Jimi Hendrix to Elton John. They joined his longtime band to create his next album. That signature horn sound has remained a mainstay in Delbert’s music.
When Texas became the rage in New York City, a music venue called the Lone Star Café served as capital of Texas chic. Austin musician Cleve Hatttersley was the manager of the Lone Star. He said, “Everyone who was anyone came through the door on any given night: Mick Jagger, Johnny Paycheck, Tommy Tune. Jerry Garcia… and Delbert was the biggest star of the bunch. Delbert is the absolute heart and soul of Texas rhythm and blues. We had James Brown, George Strait, Elvis Costello… but the one that all the other stars came out to see was Delbert.” Delbert had succeeded in creating his own genre, a melting pot of American music, and people still cannot get enough of it. From those early days in Fort Worth roadhouses until the recent COVID crisis shut down touring shows Delbert and his band have crossed the country playing festivals, theatres, and iconic music institutions. From Farm Aid to Carnegie Hall, his popularity grew, and Delbert continues as a “musician’s musician,” influencing many artists along the way. Delbert released Tall, Dark & Handsome, (Hot Shot Records/Thirty Tigers) in 2019, to celebrate his 79th birthday. The album earned Delbert his fourth Grammy® for Best Traditional Blues Album. He also received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association, and has been featured several times in the Country Music Hall of Fame’s series of live performances, programs and podcasts.
In May of 2021, Delbert announced his retirement from touring. Fans and music journalists speculated about what he would do next. This was to be the first time in 64 years that he was not traveling interstate highways and backroads, playing a rigorous schedule. Outdated Emotion brings Delbert McClinton full circle to the songs that started it all.
This release marks the first vinyl reissue of the jazz classic by master conguero Mongo Santamaría. First released in 1976, Sofrito combines jazz with Afro-Cuban grooves, funk and soul. From the simmering blues of “Spring Song” to the devastating bass line of “O Mi Shangó” to the rousing groove of the title track, this set exemplifies the heady ambition of ’70s Afro-fusion at its most soulful. This edition features lacquers cut by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio and is pressed on 180-gram vinyl.
Communion, the debut album by Sister Ray, is a raw, meticulously-crafted portrait of momentous, ordinary moments; experiences that define your past, and instruct how you move through the world. . The record is anchored by guitar melodies that bear an undercurrent of turmoil, and echoes with the wisdom of hard-won lessons. It’s a break-up album invested in exploring the motivations behind actions, rather than attempting moral judgment. Out May 13 via Royal Mountain Records.
Jesse Mac Cormack's at last beginning to see what his music is all about. His second studio album is piercing as a look, tender as a goodbye'a collection of electronic songs that lift and crash like waves upon a shore. After a recording process that was by turns nourishing and peaceful, lonely and anguished, the gifts of time, distance and therapy have allowed the Montreal songwriter to finally understand everything he wants to say.
"Whatever you go through, you're always going to be alone with what you're living," Mac Cormack says. This was a hard-won lesson. In the deepest depths of the Pandemic, with a relationship in its ending, the musician recalls finally making a decision: to move forward, to change, to really begin to see himself. SOLO is the sound of that transformation, recorded over the course of a year and a half, marked by its hardships but also its relief.
As on Now, Mac Cormack's acclaimed 2019 debut, he plays almost every instrument himself, surrounded by a soundtrack of one. Across 11 rippling tracks, the singer summons a sonic world that's razor-edged and intimate, influenced by the textured electronics of James Blake, Little Dragon, Caribou and SUUNS. Drum machines stutter under blooms of synths; curses float below swirls of loving sound. Mac Cormack has hidden so much discomfort inside an album that's warm and glimmering, like a storm cloud before its strike. Even now, long after the season's passed, there's lightning in the air.
Toronto-based Deanna Petcoff shaped her unique brand of beautiful and confessional indie rock through years of devotion to music, sharing the stage with Molly Burch, Tokyo Police Club, The Nude Party and many more. She excels with heart-on-her-sleeve, emotive lyricism that showcases her strength as a songwriter and vocalist. To Hell With You, I Love You is a reckoning with the loss of a relationship, documenting the aggressive highs and deeply emotional lows that come from falling out of love.
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Music Releases 05-20-22
- Harry Styles
Harry’s House [LP]
- Steve Vai
Flex-Able: 36th Anniversary [Clear LP]
- Vince Staples
Vince Staples [LP]
- Van Morrison
What's It Gonna Take? [2LP]
- Mavis Staples & Levon Helm
Carry Me Home
Video PlayARt - Train
AM Gold
- Jo Schornikow
Altar [Clear LP]
- Avi Kaplan
Floating On A Dream [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Black Ice LP]
- Porridge Radio
Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky [Forest Green LP]
- Gavin Degraw
Face The River
- Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk
Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk [Deluxe Edition 2LP]
- John Coltrane
My Favorite Things: 60th Anniversary Deluxe Edition [LP]
- Spice
Viv [Orange & Mint LP]
- Tourist
Inside Out [LP]
- Suicidal Tendencies
Controlled By Hatred/Feel Like Shit...Deja Vu [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Fruit Punch LP]
- Weird Nightmare
Weird Nightmare [Limited Edition Cotton Candy Swirl LP]
- Charlie Hickey
Nervous At Night [Opaque Yellow LP]
- Ozzy Osbourne
Black Rain [2LP]
- John Doe
Fables In A Foreign Land [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Black With Gold Swirl LP]
- Cave In
Heavy Pendulum [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Translucent Gold LP]
- Jovan Milovanovic
Away From You
- Craig Finn
A Legacy of Rentals
- The Verlaines
Live at the Windsor Castle, Auckland, May 1986 [Sky Blue 2LP]
- The Clash
Combat Rock: People's Hall Special Edition [3LP]
- The Clash
Combat Rock [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Cassette]
- Norah Jones
Come Away With Me: 20th Anniversary [Super Deluxe 4 LP]
Video - Various Artists
ˇPolicia!: A Tribute to the Police [Indie Exclusive limited Edition Red Blue and White LP]
- Van Morrison
What’s It Gonna Take? [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Dove Grey 2 LP]
- Pusha T
It's Almost Dry
- Los Tigres Del Norte
La Reunion [Deluxe]
- Soak
If I Never Know You Like This Again [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition LP]
- The Police
Around The World: Restored & Expanded [Silver LP/DVD]
- Malevolence
Malicious Intent [Crystal Clear w/ Sky Blue Splatter LP]
- Zero
Naught Again
- Arca
KICK ii [LP]
- Arca
KicK iii [LP]