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Bon Iver's debut full-length For Emma, Forever Ago made major waves in critics' circles based on the strength of an early artist-pressed advance CD and a couple awe-inspiring sets at CMJ back in October 2007. The New York Times called it "irresistible" and Pitchfork stamped it's early review of the album with a Recommended tag. For those of you hiding away in a cabin of your own, it's time that you hear the story, and more importantly, the music.

• 1 Flume
• 2 Lump Sum
• 3 Skinny Love
• 4 The Wolves (Act I and II)
• 5 Blindsided
• 6 Creature Fear
• 7 Team
• 8 For Emma
• 9 Re: Stacks

The American punk rock band Social Distortion formed in 1978 in Fullerton, California. Frontman of the band is vocalist, guitar player and main songwriter Mike Ness. Since it's inception the band lineup has been a virtual revolving-door of talent, with many members coming and going with the only constant member being Mike Ness. Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell is their fourth studio album originally released in 1992. It continues the melding of country and rockabilly influences with punk that began two albums before with the album Prison Bound. Clear influences include Hank Williams and Johnny Cash. The album also marks the first time that a Social Distortion line-up had not changed in three consecutive studio recordings.

• 1 Cold Feelings
• 2 Bad Luck
• 3 Making Believe
• 4 Born to Lose
• 5 Bye Bye Baby
• 6 When She Begins
• 7 99 to Life
• 8 King of Fools
• 9 Sometimes I Do
• 10 This Time Darlin'

After a nearly five-decade (and counting) career as one of his generation's defining rock bassists, Flea releases his first full-length solo album, Honora, March 27, 2026, on Nonesuch Records. Time and space have finally allowed him to return to his first musical loves: jazz and playing the trumpet. The song "Traffic Lights, " co-written with Thom Yorke and Josh Johnson, accompanies the album announcement.

• 1 Golden Wingship
• 2 Plea
• 3 Traffic Lights
• 4 Frailed
• 5 Morning Cry
• 6 Maggot Brain
• 7 Wichita Lineman
• 8 Thinkin Bout You
• 9 Willow Weep for Me
• 10 Free As I Want to Be

Kill Rock Stars is proud to re-issue Roman Candle, Elliott Smiths first solo album, originally released on Portlands Cavity Search Records in 1994. Roman Candle is now remastered for the re-release by Roger Seibel (SAE) and Larry Crane, editor of Tape Op Magazine and archivist for Elliott's family. Roman Candle had quite an impact on Slim Moon, Kill Rock Stars'founder: "In 1994, I had been asked to be on this five-person solo-act tour called Pop Chord with Tammy Watson, Carrie Akre, Sean Croghan and Elliott Smith. The first night at the Crocodile in Seattle, I didn't pay too much attention and people talked all thru Elliott's set. Sean Croghan got up next and said "all of you people who just talked through Elliott's set are bummed because you just missed something very, very special." The next night of the tour, at The Bottom Of The Hill in San Francisco, I listened very closely to Elliott's set, and it was basically one of those lifechanging moments. Instead of watching the rest of the performers, I went out to the tour van and popped Roman Candle into the player, and listened to it on endless repeat for the rest of the evening and beyond. It completely blew my mind. I have never heard music as heartwrenchingly, gut-checkingly honest, intimate, and wise - before or since."

Having put out the soundtrack to the all-time great rom-com Sleepless in Seattle on vinyl, we HAD to release You've Got Mail, too! After all, the two films shared the same writer/director (Nora Ephron), co-stars (Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan), and even kinda the same plot with a little help from The Shop Around the Corner (except this time instead of a radio show it's an online chat room that brings the two lovebirds together, complete with hysterically out-of-date, dial-up email graphics). But most importantly, both movies boasted boffo soundtracks; like he did in Sleepless in Seattle, Jimmy Durante has the last word (with "You Made Me Love You)" but You've Got Mail also features three tunes by Harry Nilsson and songs by Carole King, Stevie Wonder, Bobby Darin, Roy Orbison, and more, with a nod to the more contemporary set with Sinead O'Connor and the Cranberries. Our release comes complete with an inner sleeve containing a ruby platter. An iconic soundtrack from an iconic film!

Indie-rock darlings the Meat Puppets didn't miss a meat, er, beat with their move from SST to the major London label and their release of 1991's Forbidden Places. In fact, the album arguably represented a step up from their late-period work at SST, displaying that offhandedly brilliant charm that won the band so many fans in the first place. The album opener "Sam" is a frenzied rocker that recalls the early days with maniacal, "auctioneer"-style vocals, and the album closing, pickin' and spinnin' instrumental "Six Gallon Pie" is equally breakneck in tempo and dazzling in execution. "No Longer Gone" offers a hit of that desert mysticism that leavened albums like Meat Puppets II and Up on the Sun, and "Whirlpool" showcases Curt Kirkwood's underrated guitar chops. In short, an essential piece of the Puppets' catalog, finally widely available at retail on vinyl for the first time since it's release 35 years ago. Coke clear with yellow swirl pressing, complete with a printed inner sleeve sporting lyrics!

• 1 Sam
• 2 Nail It Down
• 3 This Day
• 4 Open Wide
• 5 Another Moon
• 6 That's How It Goes
• 7 Whirlpool
• 8 Pop Skull
• 9 No Longer Gone
• 10 Forbidden Places
• 11 Six Gallon Pie

TRACK LISTING (from LP cover) Side One 01.  My Babe - 2:52
02.  Sad Hours - 2:37
03.  You're So Fine - 2:49
04.  Last Night - 3:23
05.  Blues With A Feeling - 3:08
06.  Can't Hold Out Much Longer - 2:59
07.  Don't Need No Horse - 3:15
Side Two
01.  Juke - 2:47
02.  Mean Old World - 2:57
03.  Off The Wall - 3:01
04.  You Better Watch Your Self - 3:23

05.  Blue Lights - 3:08

06.  Tell Me Mama - 2:40

07.  Don't Have To Hunt No More -3:02

• 1 I Just Want to Make Love to You
• 2 Long Distance
• 3 Louisiana Blues
• 4 Honey Bee
• 5 Rollin' Stone
• 6 (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man
• 7 She Moves Me
• 8 I Want You to Love Me
• 9 Still a Fool
• 10 Sugar Sweet
• 11 Don't Go No Further
• 12 I Feel Like Going Home
• 13 Mad Love
• 14 Just Make Love to Me
• 15 Manish Boy

Vinyl LP pressing. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of AFI's seventh album, DECEMBERUNDERGROUND, this iconic release is now available on vinyl for the first time since 2006. The new pressing faithfully recreates the original LP on standard black vinyl in a gatefold jacket and features all 12 tracks, including the hit "Miss Murder." "DECEMBERUNDERGROUND is a time and a place. It is where the cold can huddle together in darkness and isolation. It is a community of those detached and disillusioned who flee to love, like winter, in the recesses below the rest of the world." - Davey Havok.

• 1 Prelude 12/21
• 2 Kill Caustic
• 3 Miss Murder
• 4 Summer Shudder
• 5 Interview
• 6 Love Like Winter
• 7 Affliction
• 8 Missing Frame
• 9 Kiss and Control
• 10 Killing Lights
• 11 37MM
• 12 Endlessly, She Said

The 1985 Metal classic - reborn on exclusive limited edition clear vinyl! Blackie Lawless launched W.A.S.P. on the unsuspecting world in 1983 and before long tales of their outrageous music and intense stage shows were legendary

• 1 Wild Child (5:13)
• 2 Ballcrusher (3:28)
• 3 Fistful of Diamonds (4:15)
• 4 Jack Action (4:18)
• 5 Widowmaker (5:18)
• 6 Blind in Texas (4:22)
• 7 Cries in the Night (3:43)
• 8 The Last Command (4:12)
• 9 Running Wild in the Streets (3:31)
• 10 Sex Drive (3:03)

W.A.S.P.'s eponymous debut album remastered at half-speed and reissued on exclusive limited edition clear vinyl! • W.A.S.P. first exploded onto a raucous 80's metal scene in 1984 with their genre-defining eponymous debut album W.A.S.P. With an unwavering swagger, a singular image and their fair share of controversy to boot, W.A.S.P quickly established themselves as a force to be reckoned with in the world of heavy metal. Recorded at Los Angeles' Record Plant in the summer of 1984 and produced/co-produced by frontman Blackie Lawless and Shrapnel Records founder Mike Varney respectively, W.A.S.P. was the first, and remains one of the finest, examples of a band with little regard for the rules, an outlaw attitude and the razor-sharp music to back it all up.

• 1 I Wanna Be Somebody [03:44]
• 2 L.O.V.E. Machine [03:52]
• 3 The Flame [03:42]
• 4 B.A.D. [03:57]
• 5 School Daze [03:35]
• 6 Hellion [03:39]
• 7 Sleeping (In the Fire) [03:56]
• 8 On Your Knees [03:49]
• 9 Tormentor [04:11]
• 10 The Torture Never Stops [03:56]

Marvin Gaye always dreamed of being a smooth crooner, "sitting on a stool, possibly behind a piano," delivering velvety songs like Nat King Cole. But Motown had other plans. Pushed between raw R&B and polished pop, Gaye fought to find his own voice, eventually rising to become one of the greatest soul singers in history. Motown Records released the first Marvin Gaye record in 1961 "(I'm Afraid) The Masquerade Is Over", a single intended for (radio) promotion from the singer's debut album. This was followed up by the officially released "Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide" a week later. Gaye scored his first real hit with "Stubborn Kind of Fellow" in 1962, which he had co-written himself, joking about his alleged stubbornness. He found his own unique style with the single released at the end of the year: "Hitch Hike". The foundations were now laid for an enormous series of chart successes: "Pride And Joy", "Can I Get A Witness", "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" and "Ain't That Peculiar" are all Motown classics from 1963-1965 which are still being regularly played today after all these years. The duets he recorded with Kim Weston ("It Takes Two"), especially Tammi Terrell and Diana Ross were certainly at least as good. He scored his biggest ever hit with "I Heard It Through The Grapevine" in 1968. "What's Going On" from the same titled album became a number 1 hit in the USA and the album was received as a masterpiece and is regarded as one of the most important records in pop history. In 1973, the artistically and commercially very successful, "Let's Get It On" album was mainly a musical ode to Marvin's love for his new muse Janis Hunter. His journey continued after a turbulent relationship, addiction and a dramatic creative rebirth in Belgium, where he crafte the global hit "Sexual Healing" in 1982. Marvin Gaye left behind timeless hits, groundbreaking albums, and a legacy that shaped the sound of modern soul. His story, from ambition to artistry, from struggle to brilliance, remains as powerful as the music he created. Music On Vinyl proudly presents a special coloured edition of the Marvin Gaye Collected album which is available as a limited edition of 10,000 individually numbered copies on white (LP1) and silver coloured vinyl (LP2) and includes a booklet with liner notes.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 (I'm Afraid) the Masquerade Is Over
• 2 Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide
• 3 Hitch Hike
• 4 Pride and Joy
• 5 Can I Get a Witness
• 6 Once Upon a Time (With Mary Wells)
• 7 Stubborn Kind of Fellow
• 8 How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)
• 9 It Takes Two (With Kim Weston)
• 10 I'll Be Doggone
• 11 Ain't That Peculiar
• 12 Ain't No Mountain High Enough (With Tammi Terrell)
• 13 I Heard It Through the Grapevine
• 14 Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing (With Tammi Terrell)
• 15 You're All I Need to Get By (With Tammi Terrell)
• 16 Too Busy Thinking About My Baby
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 What's Going on
• 2 Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
• 3 Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)
• 4 Trouble Man
• 5 Let's Get It on
• 6 You Are Everything (With Diana Ross)
• 7 Distant Lover
• 8 I Want You
• 9 Got to Give It Up
• 10 Heavy Love Affair
• 11 Sexual Healing
• 12 Sanctified Lady

Indie exclusive Tye Dye Splash colored vinyl. Mannequin Pussy's music feels like a resilient and galvanizing shout that demands to be heard. Across four albums, the Philadelphia rock band that consists of Colins "Bear" Regisford (bass, vocals), Kaleen Reading (drums, percussion), Maxine Steen (guitar, synths), and Marisa Dabice (guitar, vocals) has made cathartic tunes about despairing times. "There's just so much constantly going on that feels intentionally evil that trying to make something beautiful feels like a radical act," says Dabice. "The ethos of this band has always been to bring people together." 

  Their latest album, I Got Heaven, is the band's most fully realized recording yet. Over ten ambitious tracks which abruptly turn from searing punk to inviting alternative pop, the album is deeply concerned with desire, the power in being alone, and how to live in an unfeeling and unkind world. It's a document of a band doubling down on their unshakable bond to make something furious, thrilling, and wholly alive.

• 1 I Got Heaven
• 2 Loud Bark
• 3 Nothing Like
• 4 I Don't Know You
• 5 Sometimes
• 6 Ok? Ok! Ok? Ok!
• 7 Softly
• 8 Of Her
• 9 Aching
• 10 Split Me Open

Gregory Alan Isakov has been described by Boulder Weekly, "Strong, subtle, a lyrical genious" and has been compared to his influences, Bruce Springsteen, Kelly Joe Phelps, Iron & Wine and Gillian Welch. Gregory's humble presence and his overwhelming voice and guitar style have been treasured by an ever-growing and captivated fan base. Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and raised in Philadelphia, Isakov moved to Colorado at the end of the last decade. He has made a rising impact on the music scene and has been recently awarded Denver Westword's Best Singer/Songwriter 2007, and 2007 winner of Telluride Troubador Competition. Gregory Alan Isakov has shared the stage with numerous touring artists such as Ani Difranco, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Alexi Murdoch, and Fiona Apple. Isakov has performed throughout the United States; and has appeared at music festivals such as South by Southwest, Falcon Ridge Folk Fest, Rocky Mountain Folks Fest, and Telluride Bluegrass Festival.

• 1 All There Is
• 2 The Stable Song
• 3 Black ; Blue
• 4 San Francisco
• 5 Salt and the Sea
• 6 John Brown's Body
• 7 3 A.M
• 8 That Sea, the Gambler
• 9 Raising Cain 1
• 10 Unwritable Girl 1
• 11 The Moon Was Red and Dangerous

The Weatherman, the new album from acclaimed singer-songwriter Gregory Alan Isakov, is his third full-length release and follows 2009's This Empty Northern Hemisphere, which the Denver Post praised as "an artistic masterwork" and Paste Magazine described as "quietly lush" and "deeply vibrant." In celebration of the release, Gregory will embark on a North American tour this spring/summer. Recorded and mixed outside the quiet mountain town of Nederland, CO, the 13-song album was produced by Isakov along with Jamie Mefford. Of making the record, Isakov notes, "I wanted to make something that felt genuine. We recorded everything with analogue gear and mixed it on tape, which gives the songs a raw and vulnerable feeling."

• 1 Amsterdam
• 2 Saint Valentine
• 3 Second Chances
• 4 Living Proof
• 5 Time Will Tell
• 6 O' City Lights
• 7 Astronaut
• 8 California Open Back
• 9 The Universe 1
• 10 Suitcase Full of Sparks 1
• 11 Honey, It's Alright 1
• 12 All Shades of Blue 1
• 13 She Always Takes It Black

GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV WITH THE COLORADO SYMPHONY - [Dark Amber Vinyl] Gregory Alan Isakov with the Colorado Symphony marks a milestone for the Colorado-based singer-songwriter, re-imagining songs from his previous three studio albums- The Weatherman, This Empty Northern Hemisphere, and That Sea, the Gambler -along with the debut studio recording of "Liars," a fan favorite and staple of his live shows for many years. With orchestral arrangements by Tom Hagerman (DeVotchKa) and Jay Clifford (Jump, Little Children) and with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra's Scott O'Neil conducting nearly 70 classical musicians, the songs are cast in new and revelatory hues.

• 1 Liars
• 2 Dandelion Wine
• 3 Big Black Car
• 4 The Stable Song
• 5 Amsterdam
• 6 Master and a Hound
• 7 Saint Valentine
• 8 That Sea, the Gambler
• 9 Living Proof
• 10 If I Go, I'm Goin
• 11 Unwritable Girl