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Traffic Entertainment Group and B-Boy Records are proud to present one of the most influential and original albums in music history: Criminal Minded by Boogie Down Productions.  A true classic, Criminal Minded was included in Vibe Magazine's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th century. KRS-ONE's combination of street slang and Webster's dictionary knowledge backed by Scott LaRock's hard hitting, minimal beats helped set this album apart when it was originally released in 1986. With this now-classic debut album, BDP's hardcore styling's helped to redefine the New York rap music scene. Criminal Minded elevated the standards and proved that rap could be a dynamic and consciousness-raising medium. Since it's release, KRS-ONE has gone on to become one of the most prolific and critically-acclaimed artists in Hip Hop history. 

With such iconic tracks as “Christmas Time is Here” and the instantly recognizable “Linus and Lucy”, the Vince Guaraldi Trio’s soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Christmas remains the second–best-selling jazz title in history, and was certified 4x Platinum by the RIAA in late 2016. 

Caamp (Taylor Meier, Evan Westfall, Matt Vinson, Joe Kavalec, and Nicholas Falk) is set to release their highly anticipated new album Copper Changes Color on June 6th, 2025. The album features a collection of songs written, performed and produced by the band, with recording and co-production by Beatriz Artola and Tucker Martine. The album was recorded over the course of two years in various locations, including Sonic Ranch and Sear Sound. Reflecting on the album, Meier shares: "Take your rings off and wash your hands."

• 1 Millions
• 2 One True Way Ft. Madi Diaz
• 3 Brush
• 4 Porchswing
• 5 Fairview Feeling
• 6 Shade
• 7 Waiting Up (For You)
• 8 Mistakes
• 9 Ohio's Ugly
• 10 Living & Dying & in Between
• 11 Drive

Brand new digital transfers from the original 1/4” tape mixes by Rob Schnapf & Joanna Bolme. Remastered by the official Elliott Smith archival team of Larry Crane (Jackpot! Studio/Tape Op) and Adam Gonsalves (Telegraph Mastering).

From A Basement On The Hill is Smiths final recording and finds Smith returning to an edgier, guitar-driven sound, alongside his trademark heart-rending balladry. From a Basement on the Hill was originally released on October 19, 2004 on ANTI- Records and is now proudly re-issued by Kill Rock Stars - now home of all of Elliott's indie releases.

Guitar is the first studio album from Mac DeMarco since 2019's Here Comes The Cowboy. Following the two most recent releases - the 199-track One Wayne G and the instrumental, tour-inspired collection Five Easy Hot Dogs, Guitar features 12 new songs written, performed and recorded in its entirety by Mac between November 16th-28th in 2024 at his home studio in LA. Mac writes, “I think Guitar is as close to a true representation of where I’m at in my life today as I can manage to put to paper.”

RSD Essential 071 - Among My Swan is the third studio album by Mazzy Star. Released in 1996, it is the follow-up to the multi-Platinum So Tonight That I Might See. The album continues the band's dreamy pop and quiet vocals. Key songs are ""Rhymes of an Hour,"" and ""Cry, Cry."" The RSD Essential LP is pressed on bone colored standard weight vinyl.

RSD Essential 070 - She Hangs Brightly is the debut album from guitarist Dave Roback and vocalist Hope Sandoval. Released in 1990, it is an incredible mixture of dream-pop and layered psychedelic rock sounds. The album features songs such as "Halah," "Ride It On," and "Be My Angel." The RSD Essential LP is pressed on aqua and black swirled standard-weight vinyl.

Aurora - What Happened To The Heart?

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Echo of My Shadow
• 2 To Be Alright
• 3 Your Blood
• 4 The Conflict of the Mind
• 5 Some Type of Skin
• 6 The Essence
• 7 Earthly Delights
• 8 The Dark Dresses Lightly
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 A Soul with No King
• 2 Dreams
• 3 My Name
• 4 Do You Feel
• 5 Starvation
• 6 The Blade
• 7 My Body Is Not Mine
• 8 Invisible Wounds

Brain Drain is the eleventh studio album by the Ramones, released on March 23rd, 1989 and is the last Ramones album to feature DeeDee Ramone.

Tracks:

1 I Believe in Miracles

2 Zero Zero UFO

3 Don't Bust My Chops

4 Punishment Fits the Crime

5 All Screwed Up

6 Palisades Park

7 Pet Sematary

8 Learn to Listen

9 Can't Get You Outta My Mind

10 Ignorance Is Bliss

11 Come Back, Baby

12 Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)

PIXIES / DOGGEREL - VINYL LP - The iconic Pixies forged an influential path for alt-rock during their first era, while their post 2004 reunion has seen them alchemise more sophisticated dark arts - a return which has them add another three UK Top 10 albums to the three they achieved on their first run. Now as fired up as ever before, Pixies will release their eighth studio album 'Doggerel' via BMG, including lead single 'There's a Moon On'. 'Doggerel' is a mature yet visceral record of gruesome folk, ballroom pop and brutal rock, haunted by the ghosts of affairs and indulgences, driven wild by cosmic forces and envisioning digital afterlives where no God has provided one. And all the while, right there on the news, another distant storm approaches.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Nomatterday
• 2 Vault of Heaven
• 3 Dregs of the Wine
• 4 Haunted House
• 5 Get Simulated
• 6 The Lord Has Come Back Today
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Thunder and Lightning
• 2 There's a Moon on
• 3 Pagan Man
• 4 Who's More Sorry Now?
• 5 You're Such a Sadducee
• 6 Doggerel

R.E.M. - "Chronic Town" - 40th Anniversary Edition of the debut EP from R.E.M. featuring "Gardening At Night," "Wolves, Lower," and more. Available on a double-sided picture disc featuring the album cover's iconic gargoyle and 1982 image of the band. Indie Exclusive.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Wolves, Lower
• 2 Gardening at Night
• 3 Carnival of Sorts (Boxcars)
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 1,000,000
• 2 Stumble

HAIM / I QUIT - LP includes two 140-gram [Indie Exclusive Translucent Blue 2xLP] HAIM's highly anticipated fourth studio album, I quit, will be releasing on June 2025. The 15-track album was written primarily by HAIM and Rostam Batmanglij, with production by Batmanglij and Danielle Haim. The album radiates the raw energy of seasoned performers whose deep reverence for classic rock shapes songs that are built for live performance. The album features previously released album tracks "Relationships" and "Everybody's trying to figure me out," which were both met with critical praise. Pitchfork noted "what's that sound? Is it the first song of the summer?" while Vulture raved, "Haim is back... they're not taking anything too seriously except for the quality of what they put out into the world," and Stereogum hailed it as, "a return to the sleek genre-hybrid sounds of classic Haim." I quit is the first new album since the band's 2020 album Women In Music, Pt. III, which earned them a Brit Award for International Group. Women In Music, Pt. III received two GRAMMY Award nominations, including the prestigious "Album of the Year" recognition. With this nomination, HAIM became the first all-female rock group to be included in the GRAMMY's top category. Women In Music, Pt. III debuted #1 on the U.S. Album Sales chart, as well as the Rock and Alternative charts and entered at #1 on the UK Album chart. [Indie Exclusive Translucent Blue 2xLP]

Charley Crockett - "Dollar A Day" [Pale Cornflower Blue LP] Dollar A Day is the new album from GRAMMYr Award-nominated artist Charley Crockett. The second installment in The Sagebrush Trilogy, the album sees Charley reunite with co-producer Shooter Jennings for 15 electrifying new recordings. Like it's predecessor Lonesome Drifter, Dollar A Day was recorded at the fabled Sunset Sound Studio 3 in Hollywood. In Charley's words, "With Lonesome Drifter, it felt like we opened the portal. With Dollar A Day, we stepped through and came out the other side." Available on pale cornflower blue color vinyl with alternate cover art. Limited Edition. Indie Exclusive.

Lonesome Drifter is the new album from GRAMMY Award-nominated artist Charley Crockett. Crockett co-produced the album alongside multi-GRAMMY Award-winning musician and producer Shooter Jennings. Over the course of just 10 days, they cut 12 tracks live at the legendary Sunset Sound in Los Angeles. Crockett’s Island Records debut is a culmination of all that has come before, with the same unapologetic spirit, die-hard work ethic, and no- nonsense honesty that has driven his artistry across his 14 previous studio albums. In the end, Lonesome Drifter takes stock of Charley’s road in the rearview as it paves a path into the future.

Available on Limited Edition Indie Exclusive Silver vinyl with alternate cover art. 

Track List:

1.Lonesome Drifter, 2.Game I Can’t Win, 3.Jamestown Ferry, 4.Easy Money, 5.Under Neon Lights, 6.This Crazy Life

1.The Death of Bill Bailey, 2.Never No More, 3.Life Of A Country Singer, 4.One Trick Pony, 5.Night Rider, 6.Amarillo By Morning

Tame Impala’s fifth full-length album, Deadbeat, available exclusively at Indie Record Stores on Coke Bottle Vinyl. On it, Parker sculpts a collection of wickedly potent club-psych explorations as a vehicle for some of his most direct, brain-wormy songwriting to date, recasting Tame Impala as a kind of future primitive rave act in the process.

Deadbeat sounds like the work of an artist with a leveled up mastery and bristles with a revitalized energy for experimentation. 12 songs crafted with a newfound embrace of spontaneity for the renowned perfectionist. How that manifests is a distinct minimalism and crunch to many of the tracks, with a clutch of crucial details, timbres and textures that add an ineffably new dimension to the sound, as well as a richer, more playful vocal range than ever.

Idols (Part One) is Yungblud’s rock‐opera style declaration of self, blending theatrical storytelling, UK‐influenced rock, and deep emotional honesty.

1. Hello Heaven, Hello
2. Idols Pt I
3. Lovesick Lullaby
4. Zombie
5. The Greatest Parade
6. Change
7. Monday Murder
8. Ghosts
9. Fire
10. War
11. Idols Pt II
12. Supermoon  

With the release of Cigarettes After Sex's third album, X's, the band finally takes center stage as not just one of today's preeminent indie bands, but as one of the most globally accomplished acts across any genre. Filled with raw, imagistic, sometimes smutty vignettes set to entrancing, slow burn pop songs, bandleader Greg Gonzalez captures every emotion a romantic arc inspires.

The Beaches have spend the past decade building something unstoppable. Their third album 'No Hard Feelings' finds the band blaming themselves (rather than their exes), embracing their partying ways and accepting the occasional semi-self destructive thoughts and actions. The LP includes the last-call anthem "Last Girls At The Party", fan favorite "Jocelyn" and self-reflective "Takes One to Know One."

• 1 Can I Call You in the Morning?
• 2 Did I Say Too Much
• 3 Sorry for Your Loss
• 4 Touch Myself
• 5 Fine, Let's Get Married
• 6 Takes One to Know One
• 7 I Wore You Better
• 8 Dirty Laundry
• 9 Lesbian of the Year
• 10 Jocelyn
• 11 Last Girls at the Party

WET LEG / MOISTURIZER - moisturizer is the bold, second album from Wet Leg, the Isle of Wight five-piece founded by Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers. Joined by Ellis Durand, Henry Holmes, and Joshua Mobaraki, Wet Leg has spent the past few years on the road, evolving into a feral, electrifying live force. This new record captures that energy, delivering a sound that's tighter, bolder, and more self-assured, yet still brimming with the same quick wit and raw, unrefined energy. - Isolated in a remote house in the countryside, moisturizer was written in a creative frenzy, diving into themes of obsession and all-consuming love. While their 2022 debut earned Grammy wins and chart-topping success, moisturizer brings the bite: brash guitars, heavy beats, and a fearless devotion to feeling everything-all at once.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 CPR
• 2 Liquidize
• 3 Catch These Fists
• 4 Davina McCall
• 5 Jennifer's Body
• 6 Mangetout
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Pond Song
• 2 Pokemon
• 3 Pillow Talk
• 4 Don't Speak
• 5 11:21
• 6 U and Me at Home

Jerry Cantrell - "I Want Blood" / Jerry Cantrell's fourth solo album, I Want Blood, is co-produced by Jerry Cantrell and Joe Barresi. Featuring contributions from Duff McKagan (Guns N' Roses), Robert Trujillo (Metallica), Gil Sharone (Team Sleep, Stolen Babies), Mike Bordin (Faith No More) and backing vocals from Lola Colette and Greg Puciato (Better Lovers, ex- The Dillinger Escape Plan). 2 LP set on RED color vinyl with 20-page booklet, 24x24" poster, and 9 bonus spoken word tracks exclusive to vinyl. Limited Edition. Indie Exclusive. [Red 2 LP]

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Vilified
• 2 Off the Rails
• 3 Afterglow
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 I Want Blood
• 2 Echoes of Laughter
• 3 Throw Me a Line
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Let It Lie
• 2 Held Your Tongue
• 3 It Comes
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 Vilified (Spoken Word)
• 2 Off the Rails (Spoken Word)
• 3 Afterglow (Spoken Word)
• 4 I Want Blood (Spoken Word)
• 5 Echoes of Laughter
• 6 (Spoken Word)
• 7 Throw Me a Line (Spoken Word)
• 8 Let It Lie (Spoken Word)
• 9 Held Your Tongue (Spoken Word)
• 10 It Comes (Spoken Word)