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Legendary hip-hop duo Eric B. & Rakim first formed in Long Island, NY, in 1985. The premier DJ/MC team, not only was their chemistry superb, but individually, each represented the absolute state of the art in their respective skills. Between 1987 and 1992, they released four acclaimed albums, the platinum-selling Paid In Full (1987), Follow The Leader (1988), Let The Rhythm Hit ‘Em (1990) and Don't Sweat The Technique (1992).

Paid In Full caused a stir in the hip-hop music world due to its novel sound, approach, and subject matter. Their songs were the first to really impart hip-hop music lyrics with a serious poetic device sensibility while their gritty, heavy, and dark beats, marked the beginning of heavy sampling in hip-hop records. As a disc jockey, Eric B. reinstated the art of live turntable mixing and his soul-filled sampling became influential in future hip hop production. The dynamic duo's unprecedented five-year run ended with their fourth and final album to date, Don't Sweat the Technique which found them going out on top with hip-hop masterpieces like the title cut, "The Punisher," "Casualties Of War," and Juice theme song "Know The Ledge."

Eric B. & Rakim reunited in 2017 for a string of one-off shows commemorating the 30th anniversary of Paid in Full. In 2018 they will undertake their first major tour together since their initial break up in 1993.

1. What's On Your Mind 
2. Teach The Children 
3. Pass The Hand Grenade
4. Casualties Of War
5. Rest Assured
6. The Punisher
7. Relax With Pep
8. Keep The Beat
9. What's Going On
10. Know The Ledge
11. Don't Sweat The Technique
12. Kick Along

Vinyl LP pressing. After signing with Asylum Records in the early 1970s, Tom Waits recorded a series of acclaimed albums whose noir tales about the after-midnight underworld transformed the seedy into the sublime in songs laced with both dark humor and profound longing. Decades and several musical evolutions later, Waits' Asylum years still hold a special place in the hearts of many fans. Waits' first seven albums on Asylum have been remastered and will be re-released via Anti-Records. Released in 1980, Heartattack and Vine was Waits' final album on Elektra Asylum and it built on the raw blues approach of Blue Valentine with the incendiary title track, the funky, organ driven "Downtown" and the stomping NOLA blues of "Mr. Siegal." This album also contains some of Waits' most popular ballads, including "Jersey Girl" which was famously a hit for Bruce Springsteen. "On the Nickle" is a moving song about the homeless people who lived on 5th street in downtown LA, and "Ruby's Arms" is a beautiful song with a lovely Bach-like melody.

• 1 Heartattack and Vine
• 2 In Shades
• 3 Saving All My Love for You
• 4 Downtown
• 5 Jersey Girl
• 6 'Til the Money Runs Out
• 7 On the Nickel
• 8 Mr. Siegal
• 9 Ruby's Arms

The second in a series of classic vinyl reissues featuring original artwork painstakingly restored and hot-stamped with gold foiling, Beneath The Shadows is the second studio album by the American hardcore punk band T.S.O.L. (True Sounds of Liberty), released in 1982 through Alternative Tentacles. With the addition of keyboardist Greg Kuehn to the lineup, the band moved away from punk rock in favor of a gothic rock sound in the vein of The Damned and Siouxsie and the Banshees. Although the album was critically well received, it was all too much for their hardcore punk fans at the time, and after an appearance playing live in Penelope Spheeris' 1984 film Suburbia, founding members Jack Grisham and Todd Barnes left the band and for the classic line-up it was all over until they reunited 16 years later.

"... one of the finest U.S. post-punk LPs ever...Beneath The Shadows being rejected by the hardcore scene was the final straw for me, after many, many straws. Here was this most fascinating outgrowth of punk – they could've been our Damned or Siouxsie and the Banshees – retaining the original guts and drive, taking it into this unique direction. The hardcore audience rejected them, the rock & roll audience figured they were still hardcore, so there was no audience for the music. They broke up. It was a very bad time. It became a rugby game with no meaning." – Jack Rabid

1. Soft Focus
2. Forever Old
3. She'll Be Saying
4. Beneath The Shadows
5. Send My Thoughts
6. Glass Streets
7. Other Side
8. Walk Alone
9. Wash Away
10. Waiting For You

In the wake of his time leading The Healers, Marr’s solo career has given rise to three UK Top Ten albums - The Messenger (2013), Playland (2014) and 2018’s Call The Comet. He now returns with his most expansive work to date, Fever Dreams Pts 1-4. It was created during the long, uncertain period that followed the arrival of the UK’s first lockdown, when his focus was pushed into both his interior life, and evoking the emotional states of others. “It’s an inspired record, and I couldn’t wait to get in and record every day,” he says. “But I had to go inwards.”

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The new album reflects his multi-faceted past, but takes his music somewhere startlingly new. “There’s a set of influences and a very broad sound that I’ve been developing - really since getting out of The Smiths,” he says. “And I hear it in this record. There are so many strands of music in it. I think it’s the most ambitious solo record I’ve done.”

Tracks

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Spirit Power and Soul
• 2 Receiver
• 3 All These Days
• 4 Ariel
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Lightning People
• 2 Hideaway Girl
• 3 Sensory Street
• 4 Tenement Time
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 The Speed of Love
• 2 Night and Day
• 3 Counter Clock World
• 4 Rubicon
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 God's Gift
• 2 Ghoster
• 3 The Whirl
• 4 Human

The greatest bassist leader jazz has ever known, Charles Mingus, with his spirited playing and spontaneity, always kept his ears and fingers on the pulse. “Mingus was something else, man,” Miles Davis wrote in his own book. “A pure genius, I loved him.”

This year marks the birth centenary of Charles Mingus, whose musical legacy is still ongoing. From artists like Kamasi Washington bringing him to a new generation, Chrissie Hynde, whose latest album includes a Mingus cover, Candace Springs, Elvis Costello, to Gang Starr sampling him, and Joni Mitchell writing lyrics to his music.

Originally released in 1957 on the Jubilee label, Mingus Three is one of only two albums led by Mingus in a trio setting, featuring pianist Hampton Hawes and drummer Dannie Richmond. This remastered release includes a whole extra disc of previously unreleased outtakes, discovered by chance, from these sessions, as well as liner notes by Charles Mingus’ friend and colleague Sy Johnson.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Yesterdays (Feat. Hampton Hawes and Danny Richmond) [2022 Remaster]
• 2 Back Home Blues (Feat. Hampton Hawes and Danny Richmond) [2022 Remaster]
• 3 I Can't Get Started (Feat. Hampton Hawes and Danny Richmond) [2022 Remaster]
• 4 Hamp's New Blues (Feat. Hampton Hawes and Danny Richmond) [2022 Remaster]
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Summertime (Feat. Hampton Hawes and Danny Richmond) [2022 Remaster]
• 2 Dizzy Moods (Feat. Hampton Hawes and Danny Richmond) [2022 Remaster]
• 3 Laura (Feat. Hampton Hawes and Danny Richmond) [2022 Remaster]
• 4 Untitled Blues - Take 1 (Feat. Hampton Hawes and Danny Richmond) [2022 Remaster]
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Untitled Blues - Take 2 (Feat. Hampton Hawes and Danny Richmond) [2022 Remaster]
• 2 Back Home Blues - Take 6 - Incomplete (Feat. Hampton Hawes and Danny Richmond) [2022 Remaster]
• 3 Hamp's New Blues - Take 4 (Feat. Hampton Hawes and Danny Richmond) [2022 Remaster]
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 I Can't Get Started - Take 4 (Feat. Hampton Hawes and Danny Richmond) [2022 Remaster]
• 2 Yesterdays - Take 2 - Incomplete (Feat. Hampton Hawes and Danny Richmond) [2022 Remaster]
• 3 Dizzy Moods - Take 2 (Feat. Hampton Hawes and Danny Richmond) [2022 Remaster]
• 4 Summertime - Take 3 (Feat. Hampton Hawes and Danny Richmond) [2022 Remaster]

Here is Sweep It Into Space, the fifth new studio album cut by Dinosaur Jr.. during the 13th year of their rebirth. Originally scheduled for issue in mid 2020, this record's temporal trajectory was thwarted by the coming of the Plague. But it would take more than a mere Plague to tamp down the exquisite fury of this trio when they are fully dialed-in. And Sweep It Into Space is a masterpiece of zoned dialing. Recorded, as usual, at Amherst's Biquiteen, the sessions for Sweep It Into Space began in the late Autumn of 2019, following a West Coast/South East tour. The only extra musician used this time with Kurt Vile. Indeed, Sweep It Into Space is a very cool album. As is typical, Lou Barlow writes and sings two of the album's dozen tunes and Murph's pure-Flinstonian drumming drives the record like a go cart from Hell. Lou's songs here are as elegant as always. But there are very few moments where you wouldn't know you were hearing Dinosaur Jr. In blindfolded needle drop. They have a signature sound as sure as the Stooges or Sonic Youth or Discharge ever did. They continue to expand their personal universe with Sweep It Into Space, without ever losing their central core.

• 1 I Ain't
• 2 I Met the Stones
• 3 To Be Waiting
• 4 I Ran Away
• 5 Garden
• 6 Hide Another Round
• 7 And Me
• 8 I Expect It Always
• 9 Take It Back
• 10 N Say
• 11 Walking to You
• 12 You Wonder

A blockbuster deluxe edition reissue of the 1999 album that reunited the classic Quiet Riot line-up of Kevin Dubrow, Carlos Cavazo, Rudy Sarzo & Frankie Banali! Double the metal madness with this 2LP set featuring digitally remastered audio and packaged with rare demo tracks as bonus! Showcased in a gatefold jacket with vintage phots, full-color sleeves and RED & BLACK SPLATTER vinyl!

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• 1 Don't Know What
• 2 Want
• 3 Angry
• 4 Alive and Well
• 5 The Ritual
• 6 Overworked and Underpaid
• 7 Slam Dunk (Way to Go!)
• 8 Too Much Information
• 9 Against the Wall
• 10 Highway to Hell
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Sign of the Times
• 2 Don't Wanna Let You Go
• 3 The Wild and the Young
• 4 Mama Weer All Crazee Now (1999 Version)
• 5 Cum on Feel the Noize (1999 Version)
• 6 Metal Health (Bang Your Head) (1999 Version)
• 7 Thunderbird (Demo)
• 8 Love's a Bitch (Demo)
• 9 Let's Get Crazy (Demo)

Limited silver with black splatter colored vinyl LP pressing. Full Circle is the fourth full-length album by punk rock band Pennywise, originally released in 1997. This is the first Pennywise studio album to feature Randy Bradbury, who replaced bassist Jason Thirsk, who had died from suicide on July 29, 1996. The entire album was dedicated to the memory of Thirsk, who had been a key songwriter for Pennywise until his death, and a close friend of all of those in the band.

• 1 Fight Till You Die
• 2 Date with Destiny
• 3 Get a Life
• 4 Society
• 5 Final Day
• 6 Broken
• 7 Running Out of Time
• 8 You'll Never Make It
• 9 Every Time
• 10 Nowhere Fast
• 11 What If I
• 12 Go Away
• 13 Did You Really?
• 14 Bro Hymn

Bebe Rexha architected a pop opus with Better Mistakes. The opener "Break My Heart Myself" [feat. Travis Barker] hinges on manic bursts of energy and her signature vocal acrobatics uplifted by stadium-ready drums courtesy of legendary blink-182 stickman Travis Barker. Creaky guitar cuts through a glitchy beat on "Die For A Man" [feat. Lil Uzi Vert] as Bebe promises, "I would never die for a man, change who I am." 

Meanwhile, elusive galactic hip-hop titan Lil Uzi Vert rolls through with a raw and rare cameo. Then, there's "Amore" [feat. Rick Ross]. Her confident vocals set the stage for Rozay to pull up and do what he does with a gruff and laidback flow. The record culminates on "Mama." Massive orchestral strings resound as she delivers one final anthem, this time, for her mom. The final confession says it all, "I messed up again, but I swear my heart is as gold as it gets." 

"Better Mistakes, my sophomore album, is by far the most challenging yet fulfilling project I have ever worked on," Bebe shares. "I wrote, recorded, re-wrote, re-recorded and then repeated that process in order to deliver an album that truly reflects who I am as a singer, songwriter and most importantly as an artist. I want to give listeners a journey of pop paradise fused with elements of rock and hip-hop. It's important to me that my music continues to recognize ongoing themes of vulnerability, the cycle of self-destruction and self-realization, and female empowerment."

Tracks



1. Break My Heart Myself (feat. Travis Barker)
2. Sabotage
3. Trust Fall
4. Better Mistakes
5. Sacrifice
6. My Dear Love (feat. Ty Dolla $ign & Trevor Daniel)
7. Die For a Man (feat. Lil Uzi Vert)
8. Baby, I'm Jealous (feat. Doja Cat)
9. On The Go (feat. Pink Sweat$ & Lunay)
10. Death Row
11. Empty
12. Amore (feat. Rick Ross)
13. Mama

It was on a mountainside in Cumbria that the first whispers of Cate Le Bon’s fifth studio album poked their buds above the earth. “There’s a strange romanticism to going a little bit crazy and playing the piano to yourself and singing into the night,” she says, recounting the year living solitarily in the Lake District which gave way to Reward. By day, ever the polymath, Le Bon painstakingly learnt to make solid wood tables, stools and chairs from scratch; by night she looked to a second-hand Meers — the first piano she had ever owned — for company, “windows closed to absolutely everyone”, and accidentally poured her heart out. The result is an album every bit as stylistically varied, surrealistically-inclined and tactile as those in the enduring outsider’s back catalogue, but one that is also intensely introspective and profound; her most personal to date. This sense of privacy maintained throughout is helped by the various landscapes within which Reward took shape: Stinson Beach, LA, and Brooklyn via Cardiff and The Lakes. Recording at Panoramic House [Stinson Beach, CA], a residential studio on a mountain overlooking the ocean, afforded Le Bon the ability to preserve the remoteness she had captured during the writing of Reward in Staveley, Lake District. Over this extended period a cast of trusted and loved musicians joined Le Bon, Khouja and fellow co-producer Josiah Steinbrick — Stella Mozgawa (of Warpaint) on drums and percussion; Stephen Black (aka Sweet Baboo) on bass and saxophone and longtime collaborators Huw Evans (aka H.Hawkline) and Josh Klinghoffer on guitars — and were added to the album, “one by one, one on one”. The fact that these collaborators have appeared variously on Le Bon’s previous outputs no doubt goes some way to aid the preservation of a signature sound despite a relatively drastic change in approach. Be it on her more minimalist, acoustic-leaning 2009 debut album Me Oh My or critically acclaimed, liquid-riffed 2013 LP Mug Museum as well

Tracks

1. Miami
2. Daylight Matters
3. Home To You
4. Mother's Mother's Magazines
5. Here It Comes Again
6. Sad Nudes
7. The Light
8. Magnificent Gestures
9. You Don't Love Me
10. Meet The Man

Blue Note Classic Vinyl Reissue Series All-Analog 180g Vinyl LP Mastered by Kevin Gray Directly from the Original Master Tapes and Manufactured at Optimal in Germany

Blue Note Records has announced the continuation of the Classic Vinyl Reissue Series which presents 180g vinyl LP reissues in standard packaging mastered by Kevin Gray and manufactured at Optimal. The pressings are all-analog whenever an analog source is available, with Gray mastering directly from the original master tapes.

Joe Henderson had fully hit his stride by the time he made Inner Urge, his fourth album for Blue Note, recorded in November 1964. After a series of quintet dates, this was the tenor saxophonist's first quartet album, and it featured an extraordinary line-up with McCoy Tyner on piano, Bob Cranshaw on bass, and Elvin Jones on drums.

Tracks

1. Inner Urge
2. Isotope
3. El Barrio
4. You Know I Care
5. Night And Day

Blue Note Classic Vinyl Reissue Series All-Analog 180g Vinyl LP Mastered by Kevin Gray Directly from the Original Master Tapes and Manufactured at Optimal in Germany

Blue Note Records has announced the continuation of the Classic Vinyl Reissue Series which presents 180g vinyl LP reissues in standard packaging mastered by Kevin Gray and manufactured at Optimal. The pressings are all-analog whenever an analog source is available, with Gray mastering directly from the original master tapes.

When Lee Morgan recorded his album Caramba, he was only months away from his 30th birthday, making the fact that this was his twenty-third Blue Note recording even more astounding. A full-fledged master, his technical prowess on the horn matched by the emotional depth of his playing, and a composer who could conjure different moods and styles with his writing.

Tracks

1. Caramba
2. Suicide City
3. Cunning Lee
4. Soulita
5. Helen's Ritual

Ten Bands One Cause Pink Colored Vinyl Reissue!

Ten bands re-issue their albums on pink colored vinyl, all for one cause. This is the eighth year for the initiative that has raised over $250,000 for Red Door Community, an organization that provides community support for both those diagnosed with cancer and their caretakers. 2021's set includes releases by The Hold Steady, Grandaddy, The Allman Brothers, Bush, Plain White T's, Less Than Jake, Primal Scream, Umphreys' McGee, Minus The Bear and Tom Tom Club.

2015's American Nights marked Plain White T's' first independent album since 2001. American Nights focuses on everything fans have come to expect from the Plain White T's - summery anthems, heart-on-the-sleeve lyrics, acoustic love songs - while still breaking new ground. It's an album about freedom. An album about looking back while still moving forward. It's also the most collaborative thing the guys have ever done, with three of the band members contributing their own songs to the track list. Tom Higgenson wrote six. Guitarist Tim Lopez wrote four. And guitarist Dave Tirio wrote one.

Tracks

1. American Nights
2. Pause
3. Never Working
4. Heavy Rotation
5. Stay
6. You Belong
7. Dance Off-Time
8. Someday You're Gonna Love Me
9. Love Again
10. Time To Move On
11. Here Come That Sunrise

Released on the legendary Dutch jazz label Timeless Records, Chippin' In features ten sublime tracks recorded at Rudy van Gelder's Recording Studio in February 1990. Although Art Blakey passed away just eight months after these tracks were cut you certainly can't tell by the performances. For these specific recordings, The Jazz Messengers were expanded from its usual quintet or sextet into a septet and they showcase their energetic signature sound with remarkable style, musical knowledge, a dash of good humor and camaraderie you'd expect from a world-class outfit. The line-up on these fantastic sessions includes non-other than Essiet Okon, Geoff Keezer, Dale Barlow, Javon Jackson, Frank Lacy, Steve Davis and Brian Lynch...impressive to say the least!

Tidal Waves Music proudly presents the first ever vinyl release of Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers' Chippin' In on deluxe colored 180g vinyl 2LP with an obi strip. The jacket features exclusive session pics shot by legendary Dutch photographer Joost Leijen (known for his work with artists such as Chet Baker and Pharoah Sanders), plus an insert with liner notes by renowned author and producer Russ Musto. Chippin' In sounds as vibrant as ever here! Expect supercharged hard bop with striking notes, no-holds-barred musicianship, high swinging solos, screaming choruses and plenty of solid virtuosity to spare. This electrifying set of tracks contains both originals and several eclectic versions of standards...making this release a bonafide hit and a must-have for any self-respecting jazz fan or collector.

Musicians:
Art Blakey, drums
Essiet Okon, bass
Geoff Keezer, piano
Dale Barlow / Javon Jackson, tenor saxophone
Frank Lacy / Steve Davis, trombone
Brian Lynch, trumpet

Features:
• Deluxe colored 180g vinyl 2LP
• First time on the format
• Includes obi strip
• Exclusive session pics shot by Dutch photographer Joost Leijen
• Insert with liner notes by renowned author and producer Russ Musto

1. Brain Stormin'
2. Byrdflight
3. Hammerhead
4. Aquarius Rising
5. Kay Pea
6. Chippin' In
7. Raincheck
8. Chandek's Den
9. Kenji's Walk
10. Love Walked In

Split in two volumes, here is the sum of James Brown's early five-year period 1956-1960, when JB (and his Famous Flames) was obsessively searching for his own sound. Selected from a bunch of 19 two-sided singles, and including super hits such as "Please, Please, Please", "Try Me", and "I'll Go Crazy", this collection represents James Brown's fundamental groundwork for the coming soul music revolution.

Drive-By Truckers released The Unraveling in January 2020 and set out for what was supposed to be a full year of touring. Needless to say it did not go as planned. The New OK is a phrase Patterson Hood found himself saying a lot these past few months. This new album, made up of songs left over from The Unraveling sessions and new ones written and recorded since, hopefully balances out the darkness of our current situation with a hope for better days and nights ahead.

1. The New OK
2. Tough To Let Go
3. The Unraveling
4. The Perilous Night
5. Sarah's Flame
6. Sea Island Lonely
7. The Distance
8. Watching The Orange Clouds
9. The KKK Took My Baby Away

It probably doesn't come as much of a surprise that the good-natured Ringo Starr was the first Beatle to produce an official Christmas album. Ringing in the new millennium with I Wanna Be Santa Claus, the spirited 12-track collection is wonderfully rooted in Starr's famous sense of humor and his former group's signature sound. Available on vinyl for the first time, hear Ringo's charming takes on evergreens like "Winter Wonderland," "The Little Drummer Boy," "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" and "White Christmas"; compelling originals "Come On Christmas, Christmas Come On" and "I Wanna Be Santa Claus"; and of course the album stealing version of The Beatles' "Christmas Time Is Here Again."

1. Come On Christmas, Christmas Come On
2. Winter Wonderland
3. I Wanna Be Santa Claus
4. The Little Drummer Boy
5. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
6. Christmas Eve
7. The Christmas Dance
8. Christmas Time Is Here Again
9. Blue Christmas
10. Dear Santa
11. White Christmas
12. Peace Be With You

Double vinyl LP pressing. New Edition's career-spanning collection showcases 17 essential R&B hits. This latest compilation includes all their major hits from their MCA era, such as "Can You Stand the Rain," "Mr. Telephone Man," "If It Isn't Love," and "Cool It Now."

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Spoken Word
• 2 Cool It Now
• 3 Mr. Telephone Man
• 4 Lost in Love
• 5 Count Me Out
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 A Little Bit of Love (Is All It Takes)
• 2 With You All the Way
• 3 Earth Angel
• 4 Once in a Lifetime Groove
• 5 Helplessly in Love
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 If It Isn't Love
• 2 You're Not My Kind of Girl
• 3 Can You Stand the Rain
• 4 Crucial
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 N.E. Heart Break
• 2 Hit Me Off
• 3 I'm Still in Love with You
• 4 You Don't Have to Worry