RSDBF2025 Everything Else

Vinyl LP pressing. Digitally remastered edition. Bad Religion has become synonymous with intelligent and provocative West Coast punk rock and are considered one of the most influential and important bands in the genre. Over the past three decades the band has continually pushed social boundaries and questioned authority and beliefs armed only with propulsive guitars, charging drumbeats, thoughtful lyrics and an undying will to inspire and provoke anyone who will listen. Stranger Than Fiction is the eighth album from Bad Religion, and one of their most popular. First released in 1994, the album has been certified Gold and features hit singles" 21st Century Digital Boy", "Infected" and "Stranger Than Fiction." Features guest appearances from some of punk's greatest including Rancid's Tim Armstrong (vocals on "Television"), Jim Lindberg of Pennywise (vocals on "Marked") and Wayne Kramer of the MC5 (guitars on "Incomplete".)

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Incomplete
• 2 Leave Me to Mine
• 3 Stranger Than Fiction
• 4 Tiny Voices
• 5 The Handshake
• 6 Better Off Dead
• 7 Infected
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Television
• 2 Individual
• 3 Hooray for Me
• 4 Slumber
• 5 Marked
• 6 Inner Logic
• 7 What It Is
• 8 21st Century (Digital Boy)

25th Anniversary Vinyl LP Reissue with 9 Replica Polaroids/Lyric Cards!

Sony Legacy presents a vinyl LP reissue of Pearl Jam's platinum-certified 1996 album No Code in celebration of its 25th anniversary. Available on the format for the first time since its original release, it features recreations of the original packaging, including the set of nine replica Polaroids/lyric cards. The 1996 sessions for No Code featured longtime producer Brendan O'Brien (his third consecutive collaboration with the band) and drummer Jack Irons, who'd joined the group at the end of the Vitalogy sessions. PJ explored new approaches to writing and recording here, developing songs out of jam sessions and eschewing their stadium-grunge style for self-examining ballads, garage rock and even psychedelic sounds. No Code became the band's third consecutive No. 1 album, with lead single "Who You Are" topping Billboard's Modern Rock chart.

1. Sometimes
2. Hail, Hail
3. Who You Are
4. In My Tree
5. Smile
6. Off He Goes
7. Habit
8. Red Mosquito
9. Lukin
10. Present Tense
11. Mankind
12. I'm Open
13. Around The Bend

The Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace On Vinyl LP

In 1997, Foo Fighters teamed with alt-rock production cornerstone Gil Norton to make their best album, The Colour and the Shape. Ten years later, they've regrouped with Norton for a disc that's more sophisticated and diverse, if a tad less rockin'. The curveballs include "Stranger Things Have Happened," a solo soul-searcher where leader Dave Grohl's accompanied by just his acoustic guitar and a ticking metronome, and "Ballad of the Beaconsfield Miners," an acoustic guitar duet for Grohl and guest virtuoso Kaki King. Plus "Summers End" tickles the Foos' classic-rock fetish with a dead-on Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young arrangement. There's still enough of the intense, snarling power-pop that's Foo Fighters' longtime forte. "The Pretender," "Erase/Replace," and "Long Road to Ruin" combine sheer thrust, zeal, and melody like no other group currently on the charts. Yet the finale, "Home," makes its clear that this is a changed band--or, at least, that Grohl's a changed man. With only his piano for company, Grohl's pleading voice reveals fragile layers of insecurity and loneliness as he sings "all I want is to be home." Seems this rock & roll road warrior's mellowed some, albeit without compromising Foo Fighters' vitality.

The Foo Fighters Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace Track Listing

1. The Pretender 
2. Let It Die 
3. Erase/Replace 
4. Long Road To Ruin 
5. Come Alive 
6. Stranger Things Have Happened 
7. Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running) 
8. Summer s End 
9. Ballad Of The Beaconsfield Miners 
10. Statues 
11. But, Honestly 
12. Home

From the moment she began writing her new album, Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner knew that she wanted to call it Jubilee. After all, a jubilee is a celebration of the passage of time – a festival to usher in the hope of a new era in brilliant technicolor. Zauner's first two albums garnered acclaim for the way they grappled with anguish; Psychopomp was written as her mother underwent cancer treatment, while Soft Sounds From Another Planet took the grief she held from her mother's death and used it as a conduit to explore the cosmos. Now, at the start of a new decade, Japanese Breakfast is ready to fight for happiness, an all-too-scarce resource in our seemingly crumbling world.

Jubilee finds Zauner embracing ambition and, with it, her boldest ideas and songs yet. Inspired by records like Bjork's Homogenic, Zauner delivers bigness throughout – big ideas, big textures, colors, sounds and feelings. At a time when virtually everything feels extreme, Jubilee sets its sights on maximal joy, imagination, and exhilaration. It is, in Zauner's words, "a record about fighting to feel. I wanted to re-experience the pure, unadulterated joy of creation...The songs are about recalling the optimism of youth and applying it to adulthood. They're about making difficult choices, fighting ignominious impulses and honoring commitments, confronting the constant struggle we have with ourselves to be better people."

Throughout Jubilee, Zauner pours her own life into the universe of each song to tell real stories, and allowing those universes, in turn, to fill in the details. Joy, change, evolution – these things take real time, and real effort. And Japanese Breakfast is here for it.

1. Paprika
2. Be Sweet
3. Kokomo, IN
4. Slide Tackle
5. Posing in Bondage
6. Sit
7. Savage Good Boy
8. In Hell
9. Tactics
10. Posing for Cars

Operation: Mindcrime [2 LP] Operation: Mindcrime is regarded as one of the greatest concept metal albums of all time. The band's 3rd album, originally released in May 1988, is based around Nikki, a recovering drug addict, who becomes disillusioned with a corrupt society and joins a revolutionary group to assassinate political leaders. This new version was remastered at Abbey Road Studios and brings together all the available recordings to tell the story of this remarkable album on 2 LPs.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 I Remember Now
• 2 Anarchy-X
• 3 Revolution Calling
• 4 Operation Mindcrime
• 5 Speak
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Spreading the Disease
• 2 The Mission
• 3 Suite Sister Mary
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 The Needle Lies
• 2 Electric Requiem
• 3 Breaking the Silence
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 I Don't Believe in Love
• 2 Waiting for 22
• 3 My Empty Room
• 4 Eyes of a Stranger

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?

Florence And The Machine Lungs on Vinyl LP

Florence Welch, an art-school dropout from South London, first gained fame at home with two bombastic singles; "Kiss With A Fist" and "Dog Days Are Over." Not two years after she was discovered while singing Etta James in a club bathroom, she was awarded the 2009 Brit Awards Critics' Choice. She found herself wowing attendee's with her incredible live performance and her now legendary set of pipes.

Her debut album is co-produced by Paul Epworth (Bloc Party, Maximo Park), James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Last Shadow Puppets) and Steve Mackay (PULP, M.I.A), and has already amassed a hefty amount of critical acclaim in the UK. Lungs is made of harps, choirs, drums, quartets, strange electronic wailing, while incorporating countless other instruments and emotions along the way.

The songs are full of Gothic imagery and fairytale flights of fantasy. Her seven-piece band includes long-term collaborators; Rob Ackroyd (guitar), Chris Hayden (drums), Isabella Summers (keyboards) and Tom Monger (harp). Lungs was nominated for the prestigious Mercury Music Prize as one of the 12 best albums to be released in the UK this year.

Florence And The Machine Lungs Track Listing

1.  Dog Days Are Over
2.  Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)
3.  I’m Not Calling You A Liar
4.  Howl
5.  Kiss With A Fist
6.  Girl With One Eye
7.  Drumming Song
8.  Between Two Lungs
9.  Cosmic Love
10. My Boy Builds Coffins
11. Hurricane Drunk
12. Blinding

THE MISFITS/LEGACY OF BRUTALITY (LP)

Legacy of Brutality compiles a variety of Misfits rarities and outtakes, including the entire unissued portion of the band's unreleased 1978 debut, Static Age (several of its tracks that appeared on early EPs are not included here). Also present are the A-sides of the non-LP singles 'Halloween' and 'Who Killed Marilyn?,' the latter actually a Glenn Danzig solo record. As an entity unto itself, the compilation plays a little inconsistently, and with the various reissues in recent years, it's not quite invaluable any longer, but it's arguably a better way to hear this material than the Static Age reissue, especially since a couple of Legacy's better songs are not on any of the other single-disc compilations.

1. Static Age 
2. TV Casualty 
3. Hybrid Moments 
4. Spinal Remains 
5. Come Back 
6. Some Kinda Hate 
7. Theme For A Jackal 
8. Angelfuck 
9. Who Killed Marilyn 
10. Where Eagles Dare 
11. She 
12. Halloween 
13. American Nightmare

Earth A.D./Wolfs Blood is the last album released by American horror punk band Misfits to feature founding member and lead vocalist, Glenn Danzig. Danzig released it on his Plan 9 label in December 1983, two months after he played his last concert with the band. It was noticeably harder and faster than their previous releases, showing more of a hardcore punk sound. Since it's release it has often been referred to as simply "Earth A.D." amongst fans. Originally released as a 9 song LP, it was later issued with the three tracks of the Die, Die My Darling EP incorporated into the track listing: "Die, Die My Darling", "Mommy, Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight?" and "We Bite". Glenn Danzig has said that the tracks "Bloodfeast" and "Death Comes Ripping" were originally intended for Samhain's first release, but were added to what would be the Misfits' final record in a last-ditch effort to save the band. Metallica covered "Die, Die My Darling" for their 1998 cover album Garage Inc, as well as "Green Hell", which was originally covered by Metallica for their 1987 album, Garage Days Re-Revisited, as part of a medley with "Last Caress". British extreme metal band Cradle of Filth covered "Death Comes Ripping" for their 1999 release From the Cradle to Enslave.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Earth A.D. 2:09
• 2 Queen Wasp 1:32
• 3 Devilock 1:26
• 4 Death Comes Ripping 1:53
• 5 Green Hell 1:53
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Wolfs Blood 1:13
• 2 Demonomania 0:45
• 3 Bloodfeast 2:29
• 4 Hellhound 1:16

This digitally re-mastered version of "No Control" comes with new art and finally allows you to hear this album the way it was meant to be heard! "No Control" is one of the albums that helped bridge the band's more reckless earlier direction with their more focused (but just as pissed-off) '90s-era. The strength of such cuts as "Big Bang," "Automatic Man," the title track, and "I Want to Conquer the World." NO CONTROL is one of the bands best all-time albums and an archetypal blueprint for the genre. Bad Religion has been setting the standard for years; this album is yet another stone in the band's long road to identity and style.

• 1 Change of Ideas
• 2 Big Bang
• 3 No Control
• 4 Sometimes I Feel Like
• 5 Automatic Man
• 6 I Want to Conquer the World
• 7 Sanity
• 8 Henchman
• 9 It Must Look Pretty Appealing
• 10 You
• 11 Progress
• 12 I Want Something More
• 13 Anxiety
• 14 Billy
• 15 World Won't Stop

Live After Death is a live album by the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, originally released in October 1985 on EMI in Europe and it's sister label Capitol Records in the US (it was re-released by Sanctuary/Columbia Records in the US in 2002 on CD and by Universal Music Group/Sony BMG Music Entertainment on DVD). It was recorded at Long Beach Arena, California and Hammersmith Odeon, London during the band's World Slavery Tour. The cover art was done by Derek Riggs, and pictures the band's mascot, Eddie, rising from a grave. Engraved on his tombstone is a quote from fantasy and horror fiction author H. P. Lovecraft's The Nameless City.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Churchill's Speech
• 2 Aces High
• 3 2 Minutes to Midnight
• 4 The Trooper
• 5 Revelations
• 6 Flight of Icarus
• 7 Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• 8 Powerslave
• 9 The Number of the Beast
• 10 Hallowed Be Thy Name
• 11 Iron Maiden
• 12 Run to the Hills
• 13 Running Free
• 14 Wrathchild
• 15 22 Acacia Avenue
• 16 Children of the Damned
• 17 Die with Your Boots on
• 18 Phantom of the Opera
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 LP 2 Hallowed Be Thy Name (Live)
• 2 Iron Maiden (Live)
• 3 Run to the Hills (Live)
• 4 Running Free (Live)
• 5 Wrathchild (Live)
• 6 22 Acacia Avenue (Live)
• 7 Children of the Damned (Live)
• 8 Die with Your Boots on (Live)
• 9 Phantom of the Opera (Live)

Oh, Inverted World, the earth-shattering, indie-rock-redefining 2001 debut album by The Shins, is presented here in its finest form, dressed up all nice for its 20th birthday. The classic tunes get new life by way of a full remastering job under band leader James Mercer’s watchful eye, the art is given a little extra zest via a die-cut jacket and a classy inner sleeve, and the package is rounded off with a big ol’ booklet with vintage photos, handwritten lyrics, and more. 

The music, of course, is obviously essential. Aside from a friendly reminder that this is the album with the smash hit “New Slang,” as heard in the hit movie Garden State, we just need to note that the remastering job truly makes this the album James Mercer always wanted it to be. Never quite satisfied with the sonics of the original, Mercer took the 20th anniversary of the album as his opportunity to finally set the (literal!) record straight. And the results sound stellar: great for new fans, and well worth the attention of those already on board!

For old times’ sake, here’s what we had to say about this record back when it came out: Hailing from Albuquerque, NM, The Shins sprung from the ashes of Flake/Flake Music in 1997 (though those previous incarnations date back nearly a decade) – same members, different instruments, different approach. Counterpoint guitars have given way to a single guitar pitted against calculated keyboard passages; swarming indie rock machinations led to pop-based melodic endeavors (who knew?).

• 1 Caring Is Creepy
• 2 One By One All Day
• 3 Weird Divide
• 4 Know Your Onion!
• 5 Girl Inform Me
• 6 New Slang
• 7 The Celibate Life
• 8 Girl on the Wing
• 9 Your Algebra
• 10 Pressed in a Book
• 11 The Past and Pending

All-Analog 180g Vinyl LP of Art Blakey's The Witch Doctor Mastered from the Original Master Tapes by Kevin Gray & Pressed at RTI: Reference-Caliber Blue Note Reissue Helmed by Music Matters' Joe Harley

Recorded in 1961, but not released until 1967, The Witch Doctor features one of Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers' greatest line-ups: Wayne Shorter (saxophone), Lee Morgan (trumpet), Bobby Timmons (piano), and Jymie Merritt (bass). Highlights include Morgan's "Afrique," Shorter's "Those Who Sit and Wait," Timmons' "A Little Busy," and Jordan's "Lost and Found" which closes the album.

Blue Note Records' acclaimed Tone Poet Audiophile Vinyl Reissue Series continues in 2021. Launched in 2019 in honor of the label's 80th Anniversary, the Tone Poet series is produced by Joe Harley (from Music Matters) and features all-analog, 180g audiophile vinyl reissues that are mastered from the original master tapes by Kevin Gray of Cohearent Audio. Tone Poet vinyl is manufactured at RTI in Camarillo, CA, and packaged in deluxe Stoughton Printing "Old Style" gatefold Tip-On jackets. The titles were once again handpicked by Harley and cover the crème de la crème of the Blue Note catalog along with underrated classics, modern era standouts, and albums from other labels under the Blue Note umbrella including Pacific Jazz and United Artists Records. Every aspect of these Blue Note/Tone Poet releases is done to the highest-possible standard. It means that you will never find a superior version.

"The LPs are mastered directly from the original analog master tapes by Kevin at his incredible facility called Cohearent Mastering. We go about it in the exact same way that we did for so many years for the Music Matters Blue Note reissues. We do not roll off the low end, boost the top or do any limiting of any kind. We allow the full glory of the original Blue Note masters to come though unimpeded! Short of having an actual time machine, this is as close as you can get to going back and being a fly on the wall for an original Blue Note recording session."
- Joe Harley

Musicians:
Art Blakey, drums
Wayne Shorter, saxophone
Lee Morgan, trumpet
Bobby Timmons, piano
Jymie Merritt, bass

Features:
• Blue Note Tone Poet Series
• Curated by Music Matters co-founder Joe Harley
• Audiophile-quality 180g vinyl LP
• All-analog mastering (direct from the master tapes) by Kevin Gray
• Manufactured at Record Technology Incorporated
• Deluxe gatefold jacket packaging

1. The Witch Doctor
2. Afrique
3. Those Who Sit and Wait
4. A Little Busy
5. Joelle
6. Lost and Found

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.

Multi-platinum rockers Shinedown present a career-spanning vinyl reissue campaign in 2021 with colored pressings of Leave a Whisper (2003), Us and Them (2005), The Sound of Madness (2008), Amaryllis (2012), Threat to Survival (2015) and Attention Attention (2018). Shinedown - Brent Smith [vocals], Zach Myers [guitar], Eric Bass [bass, production], and Barry Kerch [drums] – has sold more than 10 million albums and 10 million singles worldwide, has 11 platinum and gold singles and four platinum and gold albums, and 14 No.1 active rock hits. Each of Shinedown's 24 charting singles on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Songs Chart has reached the top five – an unparalleled feat.

Rising from the swamps of Jacksonville, Florida, Shinedown's second album, Us and Them proved that they were here to stay. The engaging starpower of frontman Brent Smith combined with the dynamic guitar prowess of Jasin Todd and the powerful rhythm section of Brad Stewart and Barry Kerch was gaining a reputation as one of the most potent in rock music. Lead single "Save Me" is an anthem of hope that realized a whole new audience for Shinedown while fellow singles "I Dare You" and "Heroes" helped propel Us and Them to platinum status.

Colored vinyl 2LP reissue with gatefold packaging. The artwork has been updated in celebration of the 15th anniversary of this album.

1. The Dream
2. Heroes
3. Save Me
4. I Dare You
5. Yer Majesty
6. Beyond The Sun
7. Trade Yourself In
8. Lady So Divine
9. Shed Some Light
10. Begin Again
11. Atmosphere
12. Fake
13. Some Day
14. Save Me (acoustic)
15. I Dare You (acoustic)
16. Some Day (acoustic)

Dream pop band from Puerto Rico, who moved to NYC. Beautiful 7″ on clear coke bottle green vinyl.  Comes with a download card that contains 2 bonus tracks.

Lust For Life finds neo-crooner Lana Del Rey shedding the ennui-laced themes of her last two releases and facing the future. While not mired in nostalgia, the album continues the balancing act of viewing retro-references through the prism of modern day tribulations. Her signature languid delivery remains the same, but the album also has Del Rey trying out plenty of new ideas, from studio production to lyrical themes and collaborations. Lust for Life is certainly her most sonically diverse collection yet, implementing hip-hop based percussion and tapping into her folk and jazz roots, with tender piano ballads and some acoustic guitar numbers. The retro references and doo-wop melodies are still there, but the whole album is underpinned by a persistent mid-tempo beat and melancholic streak. Created with her long-time producer and collaborator Rick Nowels, Lust For Life also marks the first time she's invited others to be featured prominently on her own tracks and includes collaborations with A$AP Rocky, Playboi Carti, Sean Ono Lennon, The Weeknd and Stevie Nicks.

1. Love
2. Lust For Life (ft. The Weeknd)
3. 13 Beaches
4. Cherry
5. White Mustang
6. Summer Bummer (ft. A$AP Rocky & Playboi Carti)
7. Groupie Love (ft. A$AP Rocky)
8. In My Feelings
9. Coachella – Woodstock In My Mind
10. God Bless America – And All the Beautiful Women In It
11. When The World Was at War We Kept Dancing
12. Beautiful People Beautiful Problems (ft. Stevie Nicks)
13. Tomorrow Never Came (ft. Sean Ono Lennon)
14. Heroin
15. Change
16. Get Free

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Everybody's on the Run
• 2 The Death of You and Me
• 3 Aka... What a Life!
• 4 If I Had a Gun
• 5 In the Heat of the Moment
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Riverman
• 2 Lock All the Doors
• 3 The Dying of the Light
• 4 Ballad of the Mighty I
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 We're on Our Way Now
• 2 Black Star Dancing
• 3 Holy Mountain (Remastered)
• 4 A Dream Is All I Need to Get By
• 5 This Is the Place
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 It's a Beautiful World
• 2 Blue Moon Rising
• 3 Dead in the Water (Live at RTÉ 2FM Studios, Dublin)
• 4 Flying on the Ground