Rock

The Claypool Lennon Delirium - "South Of Reality" The Claypool Lennon Delirium's sophomore album, South of Reality, is just the antidote this sick world needs. With music so potent it could repel an asteroid impact from space, these seasoned warriors of psychedelia have crafted timeless songs that may as well be chiseled in stone. Produced by Les Claypool and Sean Lennon and mixed/engineered by Les at his own Rancho Relaxo studio in Sonoma County, California. Amethyst Edition 2 LP set pressed on cloudy blue/purple vinyl in a gatefold jacket.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Little Fishes
• 2 Blood and Rockets: Movement I, Saga of Jack Parsons - Movement II, Too the Moon
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 South of Reality
• 2 Boriska
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Easily Charmed By Fools
• 2 Amethyst Realm
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 Toady Man's Hour
• 2 Cricket Chronicles Revisited: Part I, Ask Your Doctor - Part II, Psyde Effects
• 3 Like Fleas

Rattle and Hum was the album that saw U2 build a bridge from the studio to the silver screen, with some superstar collaborations along the way. The incredible global success of The Joshua Tree was an undeniable staging post in a story that was already more than a decade old. But U2 have never been a band simply to press repeat. Now they saw the opportunity to create something different again, a record of what they had just achieved and a signpost to where they were heading next. Hence the typically innovative combination of a full-scale film to commemorate the epic tour for The Joshua Tree, and a companion double album that contained live elements, but also stood tall as their sixth studio release. All of this little more than 18 months after the album that had rewritten industry records and taken the band to the very top of their profession.

The Rattle and Hum movie was filmed in Denver, CO at the McNichols Sports Arena in November 1987. It captured the overwhelming ebullience of a U2 concert, from the opening cover of the Beatles' White Album romp "Helter Skelter" to valedictory closer "Pride (In The Name Of Love)." But, far from taking the easy option of a simultaneous album equivalent to the film, by the spring of 1988 U2 were at work on a very different type of companion release. Even as they oversaw post-production of the Phil Joanou-directed rock documentary, the band started to lay down new material, both in L.A. and Sun Studios in Memphis, for what would become Rattle and Hum, the album. At the end of September, U2 announced their return with one of the most exhilarating singles of their career. "Desire" was a breathless, vein-bursting nod to the punk-before-there-was-punk sound of the Stooges, itself distilled from a nucleus of the Bo Diddley beat. After a UK debut at No. 3, which equalled their best-ever peak with "Pride" four years before, "Desire" climbed to the top to give U2 their first British No. 1 single. It went on to land a Grammy for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group With Vocal.

Hard on its heels, the album rattled and hummed into view in October. Time magazine called it "the best live rock album ever made," but it was even more than that. Produced by Jimmy Iovine, it incorporated recordings from the Denver shows, others from San Francisco, New York and Tempe, Arizona, as well as new studio material and some truly striking collaborations. Rattle and Hum debuted on the British chart at No. 1 and by November was sitting atop the American charts as well. Its four hit singles - "Desire," "Angel of Harlem," "When Love Comes to Town" and "All I Want Is You" - kept U2 in singles top tens all over the world for months.

LP1

1. Helter Skelter [Live]
2. Van Diemen's Land
3. Desire
4. Hawkmoon 269
5. All Along the Watchtower [Live]
6. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For [Live]
7. Freedom for My People
8. Silver and Gold [Live]
9. Pride (In the Name of Love) [Live]

LP2

1. Angel of Harlem
2. Love Rescue Me
3. When Love Comes to Town
4. Heartland
5. God, Pt. 2
6. Star Spangled Banner
7. Bullet the Blue Sky [Live]
8. All I Want Is You

Damn The Torpedoes, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers' third album (and first on Backstreet/MCA,) proved to be the breakthrough for the singer-songwriter-guitarist and his band (guitarist Mike Campbell, keyboardist Benmont Tench, bassist Ron Blair and drummer Stan Lynch). The album was released in October 1979, after a highly publicized lawsuit in which Petty made a groundbreaking stand for artist rights, refusing to be sold by one record company to another without his consent.

Damn The Torpedoes became the group's first Top 10, remaining at No. 2 for seven weeks (only Pink Floyd's The Wall kept it from the top). It sold over 5-million copies, and had 3 top 40 hits and 4 top 5 rock-radio hits. The album was an immediate critical success, with Rolling Stone declaring Damn The Torpedoes "the Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers album we have all been waiting for."

Produced by Petty and Jimmy Iovine, the album reached double platinum quickly and catapulted the band to arena performances where they played such classic cuts as the infectious Top 10 hit "Don't Do Me Like That," blistering rockers "Refugee" and "Here Comes My Girl," and the exhilarating "Even The Losers." Bursting with full speed ahead American rock ‘n' roll, the album brought together rock, folk, country and blues in what has become Petty and the Heartbreakers' signature style.

The release garnered Petty his first Rolling Stone Magazine cover in February 1980. In 2003, nearly 25 years after its release, Rolling Stone honored Damn The Torpedoes on its list of "the greatest albums ever made," and in 2002 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, during their first year of eligibility. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are one of the very few artists to score a top five record on the Billboard charts in five consecutive decades.

1. Refugee
2. Here Comes My Girl
3. Even The Losers
4. Shadow Of A Doubt (A Complex Kid)
5. Century City
6. Don't Do Me Like That
7. You Tell Me
8. What Are You Doin' In My Life?
9. Louisiana Rain

• 1 Dreams
• 2 Linger
• 3 Zombie
• 4 Ode to My Family
• 5 I Can't Be with You
• 6 Salvation
• 7 Free to Decide
• 8 When You're Gone
• 9 Animal Instinct
• 10 Promises
• 11 Analyse

Maggie Rogers - "Don't Forget Me"

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 It Was Coming All Along
• 2 Drunk
• 3 So Sick of Dreaming
• 4 The Kill
• 5 If Now Was Then
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 I Still Do
• 2 On& on & on
• 3 Never Going Home
• 4 All the Same
• 5 Don't Forget Me

Sophie Allison aka Soccer Mommy's debut Clean is an emotional album, heavy on themes of growth, isolation, and change, but balanced by a lightness of touch, and with hooks to spare. "Still Clean" is a stunner of an opening track, with the signature warmth of Allison's voice coupled with one of her best refrains. Her growth as a lyricist is most evident on "Cool," a sharply observed character study describing an aloof stoner girl, so cool and untouchable, and the agony she inflicts on her boyfriend. "Flaw" is the comedown from a song like "Cool." A melancholy ode to lovesick self-loathing that finds ecstasy in sadness. "Scorpio Rising" crystallizes these themes of identity, jealousy, and the desire to be someone else. Clean – the cohesive record Allison dreamt of making – is a true step forward, a strong and mature album from an artist just coming into her power.

1. Still Clean
2. Cool
3. Your Dog
4. Flaw
5. Blossom (Wasting All My Time)
6. Last Girl
7. Skin
8. Scorpio Rising
9. Interlude
10. Wildflowers

Twenty One Pilots - Breach - CD

TWENTY ONE PILOTS / BREACH (CD) hello Clancy. Hello Blurryface. Meet Breach. Following the epic cliffhanger from the band's last record Clancy, new album BREACH brings the highly anticipated finale to the 10-year-long saga the band has crafted since 2015's Blurryface. Twenty One Pilots, one of the most influential modern acts in rock, with the #1 Rock album of the 2010s, is back with their genre-bending sound and masterful storytelling. Through themes of rebellion, freedom and healing, we meet Clancy where they are, and notice there has been a breach in the system... let's finish this.

• 1 City Walls
• 2 Rawfear
• 3 Drum Show
• 4 Garbage
• 5 The Contract
• 6 Downstairs
• 7 Robot Voices
• 8 Center Mass
• 9 Cottonwood
• 10 One Way
• 11 Days Lie Dormant
• 12 Tally
• 13 Intentions

Empire [2 LPs] Queensryche - Empire was originally released in August 1990 and features the Top 10 hit, "Silent Lucidity," which was nominated for 2 Grammys. Featuring brilliant and intelligent lyrics and songwriting complemented by incredible musicianship, with the songs ranging from beautiful ballads, strong melodic rockers, and classic heavy fist-pumpers. This version, newly remastered at Abbey Road Studios, brings together all the available recordings to narrate the story of this remarkable album on 2 LPs.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Best I Can
• 2 The Thin Line
• 3 Jet City Woman
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Della Brown
• 2 Another Rainy Night (Without You)
• 3 Empire
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Resistance
• 2 Silent Lucidity
• 3 Hand on Heart
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 One and Only
• 2 Anybody Listening?

• 1 Dancing Queen
• 2 Knowing Me, Knowing You
• 3 Take a Chance on Me
• 4 Mamma Mia
• 5 Lay All Your Love on Me
• 6 Super Trouper
• 7 I Have a Dream
• 8 The Winner Takes It All
• 9 Money, Money, Money
• 10 S.O.S
• 11 Chiquitita
• 12 Fernando
• 13 Voulez-Vous
• 14 Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
• 15 Does Your Mother Know
• 16 One of Us
• 17 The Name of the Game
• 18 Thank You for the Music
• 19 Waterloo

Emotional Creature - ORANGE MARBLE - Beach Bunny - As lockdown approached in 2020, Chicago-based singer Lili Trifilio was wrapping up a tour in support of Beach Bunny's debut album, Honeymoon. Suddenly, she found herself back at her parents' house, coping with her new reality. To deal, she retreated into sci-fi stories and her always-active imagination. She envisioned new places to travel in her mind, thus dreaming up big, bombastic pop sounds to construct Beach Bunny's highly anticipated sophomore album, Emotional Creature. Simultaneously about personal growth, Emotional Creature is a collection of highly relatable songs that capture the highs and lows of new relationships, the joys and vulnerabilities of letting someone in, the gut-wrenching realities of experiencing anxiety, leaving toxic relationships, and seeing yourself through the eyes of the one you love. These complex feelings are expertly contrasted with ultra-poppy melodies, anthemic choruses, and a slight punk edge. 'The songs have grown with me over time,' Trifilio explains. 'Some of them were written in various stages of life, and I think as we go through different experiences and hardships, you come out stronger. I've grown as a person, so the songwriting reflects that.' With it's openhearted, vulnerable themes and progressive, hook-filled take on pop rock and pop punk, Emotional Creature only further cements Beach Bunny and Trifilio's well-earned reputation as a leading voice of their generation. Entropy Oxygen Deadweight Gone Eventually Fire Escape Weeds Gravity Scream Infinity Room Karaoke Love Song

• 1 Entropy
• 2 Oxygen
• 3 Deadweight
• 4 Gone
• 5 Eventually
• 6 Fire Escape
• 7 Weeds
• 8 Gravity
• 9 Scream
• 10 Infinity Room
• 11 Karaoke
• 12 Love Song

Compact Disc

Produced by Rage Against the Machine and Brendan O'Brien, the 11 songs on Evil Empire were written by the band and recorded in Los Angeles. First single/video: "Bulls on Parade." Other tracks include "Vietnow," "Revolver," "Snake charmer," "Year of Tha Boomerang" and more. Touring in the U.S. and Europe is anticipated in the Spring, with U.S. dates to begin in June.

• 1 People of the Sun
• 2 Bulls on Parade
• 3 Vietnow
• 4 Revolver
• 5 Snakecharmer
• 6 Tire Me
• 7 Down Rodeo
• 8 Without a Face
• 9 Wind Below
• 10 Roll Right
• 11 Year of Tha Boomerang

Released in March 1996, Milk & Kisses is the eighth and final studio album by Cocteau Twins. And like it's predecessor, 1993's Four Calendar Café, it's yet to be formally released on vinyl outside Europe. That all changes next January when 4AD will reissue both titles in the United States. The second of two albums Cocteau Twins released via Fontana / Capitol Records after their long association with 4AD ended in 1990 with Heaven or Las Vegas, the band warmed the waters for Milk & Kisses with a pair of exceptional EPs where they took their music to new places, Twinlights and Otherness - the first largely acoustic, the second their only sanctioned remixes (done with Seefeel's Mark Clifford). A period of high creativity for the band, renewed after a turbulent time, they recorded and produced Milk & Kisses between their September Sound studio in London and the coastal town of Pors Poulhan in Brittany, France. Featuring the singles 'Tishbite' and 'Violaine' and fan favourites such as 'Serpentskirt' and 'Treasure Hiding', the album is a cathartic listen too with MOJO saying in a glowing review that the album's title "accurately intimates it's soothing, healing powers." Ultimately, Milk & Kisses also proved to be their swan song, bringing the curtain down on 14 years of wonder to leave an incredible legacy that new generations continue to discover to this day. 4AD are delighted to announce that they're working with the band on reissuing both Four Calendar Café and Milk & Kisses in the United States, with CD and black vinyl editions of both titles coming out on January 12th 2024. To do this, Robin Guthrie returned to his original studio mixes and has delivered stunning, brand new 24-bit masters of both titles. A1. Know Who You Are At Every Age A2. Evangeline A3. Bluebeard A4. Theft, And Wandering Around Lost A5. Oil of Angels B1. Squeeze-Wax B2. My Truth B3. Essence B4. - Disc 1 - 1 Know Who You Are at Every Age 2 Evangeline 3 Bluebeard 4 Theft, and Wandering Around Lost 5 Oil of Angels - Disc 2 - 1 Squeeze-Wax 2 My Truth 3 Essence 4 Summerhead 5 Pur

Compact Disc

2015 release, the highly anticipated third full length album from the much loved Australian band. Currents is the follow up to 2012's Lonerism. Kevin Parker, the musician behind Tame Impala, explained that Currents is about the process of personal transformation. He said, "It follows the progression of someone feeling like they are becoming something else. They're becoming the kind of person they thought they'd never become." The cover art for Currents was created by Kentucky-based artist and musician Robert Beatty. Parker has said Currents' designs are based on a diagram of vortex shedding he remembered while trying to visualize the album's themes. Includes the single 'Let It Happen'.

• 1 Let It Happen
• 2 Nangs
• 3 The Moment
• 4 Yes I'm Changing
• 5 Eventually
• 6 Gossip
• 7 The Less I Know the Better
• 8 Past Life
• 9 Disciples
• 10 'Cause I'm a Man
• 11 Reality in Motion
• 12 Love/Paranoia
• 13 New Person, Same Old Mistakes

UFJAN STEVENS/ILLINOISE (LP)

With two states down and only 48 to go, Sufjan Stevens' ambitious musical map of the Unites States of America should be completed, if he puts out one a year, sometime around 2053. It's a daunting task, but if each subsequent record is as good as Illinois, fans who live long enough to witness the project's completion will no doubt find themselves to be scholars of both state history and its narrator's shape-shifting soul. Stevens' soulful folk epics, as played by his signature mini-orchestra, have changed little since his 2003 foray into Michigan, a charge that may cause some grumbling among that album's detractors, but there's a newfound optimism that runs through much of Illinois that echoes the state's 'Gateway to the West' pioneering spirit. Glorious road trip-ready cuts have an expansiveness that radiates with the ballast of history and the promise of new beginnings. Stevens has done his research here.

1. Concerning The UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois   
2. The Black Hawk War, Or, How To Demolish An Entire Civilization And Still Feel Good About Yourself In The Morning, Or, We Apologize For The Inconvenience But You're Gonna Have To Leave Now, Or, 'I Have Fought The Big Knives And Will Continue To Fight...   
3. Come On! Feel The Illinoise!: Part I: The World's Columbian Exposition/Part II: Carl Sandburg Visits Me In A Dream   
4. John Wayne Gacy, Jr.   
5. Jacksonville   
6. A Short Reprise For Mary Todd, Who Went Insane, But For Very Good Reasons   
7. Decatur, Or, Round Of Applause For Your Stepmother!   
8. One Last 'Whoo-Hoo!' For The Pullman   
9. Chicago   
10. Casimir Pulaski Day   
11. To The Workers Of The Rock River Valley Region, I Have An Idea Concerning Your Predicament   
12. The Man Of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts   
13. Prairie Fire That Wanders About   
14. A Conjunction Of Drones Simulating The Way In Which Sufjan Stevens Has An Existential Crisis In The Great Godfrey Maze   
15. The Predatory Wasp Of The Palisades Is Out To Get Us!   
16. They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back From The Dead!! Ahhhh!   
17. Let's Hear That String Part Again, Because I Don't Think They Heard It All The Way Out In Bushnell   
18. In This Temple As In The Hearts Of Man For Whom He Saved The Earth   
19. The Seer's Tower   
20. The Tallest Man, The Broadest Shoulders: Part I: The Great Frontier/Part II: Come To Me Only With Playthings Now   
21. Riffs And Variations On A Single Note For Jelly Roll, Earl Hines, Louis Armstrong, Baby Dodds, And The King Of Swing, To Name A Few   
22. Out Of Egypt, Into The Great Laugh Of Mankind, And I Shake The Dirt From My Sandals As I Run  

The story of Tonic revolves around the longstanding, close brotherhood shared among members Emerson Hart, Jeff Russo, Dan Rothchild and Kevin Shepard. Russo is best known for his work as a soundtrack composer, notably Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Picard and Fargo. The Grammy Award-nominated, multi-platinum trio released their debut album Lemon Parade in 1996 which was produced by Jack Joseph Puig (The Black Crowes, Green Day, No Doubt). Featuring the hit single ''If You Could Only See'', Lemon Parade is available here on 180g vinyl LP for the very first time with an insert featuring the lyrics.

• 1 Open Up Your Eyes
• 2 Casual Affair
• 3 If You Could Only See
• 4 Soldier's Daughter
• 5 Lemon Parade
• 6 Mountain
• 7 Thick
• 8 Wicked Soldier
• 9 Mr. Golden Deal
• 10 Bigot Sunshine
• 11 Celtic Aggression
• 12 My Old Man

Grateful Dead - Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses)

Compact Disc

Fred and the boys are back in your face with their newest realease, featuring the hit single "Rollin" "My Generation" and more.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Intro
• 2 Hot Dog
• 3 My Generation
• 4 Full Nelson
• 5 My Way
• 6 Rollin' (Air Raid Vehicle)
• 7 Livin' It Up
• 8 The One
• 9 Getcha Groove on
• 10 Take a Look Around
• 11 It'll Be Ok
• 12 Boiler
• 13 Hold on
• 14 Rollin' (Urban Assault Vehicle)
• 15 Outro
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 [Untitled Track]

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered edition. On Through The Night, the band's debut album, was released in 1980 and immediately put the rock world on notice. The band were destined for big things with the album charting at #15 in the UK and #51 in the US. Produced by Tom Allom (Judas Priest, Black Sabbath), it featured many of the band's live favorites and some updated versions of early singles. The album achieved platinum status in 1989.

Tracks

1. Rock Brigade
2. Hello America
3. Sorrow Is A Woman
4. It Could Be You
5. Satellite
6. When the Walls Came Tumbling Down
7. Wasted
8. Rocks Off
9. It Don't Matter
10. Answer to The Master
11. Overture