RSD2025 Everything Else

Japanese Breakfast's Soft Sounds From Another Planet is less of a concept album about space exploration so much as it is a mood board come to life. Over the course of 12 tracks, Michelle Zauner explores a sonic landscape of her own design, one that's big enough to contain her influences. There are songs on this album that recall the pathos of Roy Orbison's ballads, while others could soundtrack a cinematic drive down one of Blade Runner's endless skyways. Zauner's voice is capacious; one moment she's serenading the past, the next she's robotically narrating a love story over sleek monochrome, her lyrics more pointed and personal than ever before. While Psychopomp was a genre-spanning introduction to Japanese Breakfast, this visionary sophomore album launches the project to new heights.

1. Diving Woman
2. Road Head
3. Machinist
4. Planetary Ambience
5. Soft Sounds From Another Planet
6. Boyish
7. 12 Steps
8. Jimmy Fallon Big
9. Body Is A Blade
10. Till Death
11. This House
12. Here Come The Tubular Bells

Hip Hop Icons Return on Def Jam with First Release on the Label in Over Two Decades!

Legendary hip hop group Public Enemy returns to Def Jam - a cultural institution that they helped build - for their first release for the label in over two decades with What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down? The loaded 17-track affair boasts a powerful lineup of guests including Nas, YG, Rapsody, DJ Premier, Black Thought, Questlove, Cypress Hill, Run-DMC, Ice-T, PMD, George Clinton, Daddy-O, Jahi, The Impossebulls, Mark Jenkins, S1Ws Pop Diesel, James Bomb and Mike D and Ad-Rock of Beastie Boys. The album is led by the single "Fight the Power: Remix 2020," re-conceptualized by Public Enemy with Nas, Rapsody, Black Thought, YG, Jahi and Questlove for the 2020 BET Awards in June 2020, and officially released as a single along with the album announcement. It also includes Public Enemy's recent single, "State of the Union (STFU)," produced by DJ Premier. The track holds nothing back as it calls out Donald Trump and his destructive reign.

1. When The Grid Goes Down ft. George Clinton
2. Grid ft. Cypress Hill and George Clinton
3. State of the Union (STFU) ft. DJ Premier
4. Merica Mirror ft.. Pop Diesel
5. Public Enemy Number Won ft. Mike D, Ad-Rock, Run-DMC
6. Toxic
7. Yesterday Man ft. Daddy-O
8. Crossroads Burning (Interlude) ft. James Bomb
9. Fight The Power: Remix 2020 ft. Nas, Rapsody, Black Thought, Jahi, YG, Questlove
10. Beat Them All
11. Smash The Crowd ft.. Ice-T, PMD
12. If You Can't Join Em Beat Em
13. Go At It ft. Jahi
14. Don't Look At The Sky (Interlude) ft. Mark Jenkins
15. Rest In Beats ft. The Impossebulls
16. R.I.P. Blackat
17. Closing: I Am Black ft. Ms. Ariel

Peach Pit was brought to life in 2016 with the release of their now coveted debut EP, Sweet F.A. The group melds teenage angst with bummer summer vibes that have them sounding somewhere between Mac Demarco and Homeshake. With their laid back sound and lush lead vocals, their songs tell stories of backstabbing best friends and dying end of summer romances. In 2017 the group issued their debut LP, Being So Normal on the legendary indie record label Kingfisher Bluez, featuring the irresistible singles "Drop The Guillotine" and "Tommy's Party."

Tracks

1. Drop the Guillotine
2. Being So Normal
3. Techno Show
4. Alrighty Aphrodite
5. Chagu's Sideturn
6. Not Me
7. Hot Knifer
8. Private Presley
9. Tommy's Party

Limited vinyl LP pressing. Cosmic Thing is the fifth studio album by new wave band The B-52's, released in 1989. It contains the singles "Love Shack" and "Roam". The success of the album served as a comeback after the death of guitarist Ricky Wilson in 1985. Six of the album's songs were produced by Nile Rodgers in New York City, and the remaining four by Don Was in upstate New York. The band embarked on the Cosmic Tour to promote the album.

Tracks

• 1 Cosmic Thing
• 2 Dry County
• 3 Deadbeat Club
• 4 Love Shack
• 5 Junebug
• 6 Roam
• 7 Bushfire
• 8 Channel Z
• 9 Topaz
• 10 Follow Your Bliss

Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain on LP + MP3

To coincide with Pavement's 2010 reunion tour and the release of Quarantine The Past: The Best Of Pavement, Matador Records is launching a new vinyl series featuring all 5 of the band's essential studio albums plus the Watery, Domestic EP. An indie-rock touchstone, Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain placed the band on a huge platform and demonstated the group's creative growth with indelible melodies and clever lyrics. 

Pavement Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain Track Listing:

1.   Silence Kit
2.   Elevate Me Later
3.   Stop Breathin
4.   Cut Your Hair
5.   Newark Wilder
6.   Unfair
7.   Gold Sounds
8.   5-4=Unity
9.   Range Life
10.  Heaven Is A Truck
11.  Hit The Plane Down
12.  Fillmore Jive 

Very much a 20th century band, The Killers have turned their initial obsession with British alternative pop, indie rock and lo-fi into a huge, stadium-filling sound that manages to retain integrity while appealing to the mainstream. In that happy place they've released four studio albums that have sold an estimated 22 million copies worldwide (all four topping the UK charts) and matched the long form discs' Platinum status with massive hit singles.

The band's third studio album Day & Age (2008) is yet another superior modern rock and synthpop fusion overseen by British electronic guru Stuart Price. This collaboration helps make the wondrous "Human" such a special song. Left off the Sawdust compilation, because it was just too good, Flowers sees this as a philosophical meeting between Johnny Cash and the Pet Shop Boys, while others thought it welded New Order to Bruce Springsteen.

The new wave party atmosphere of "Spaceman" and the rootsy "A Dustland Fairytale" are at such a tangent to "Human" that one is struck by Flowers' ability to switch from universal truths to the deeply personal narrative style. That's his skill just as much as the band written "The World We Live In" allows them to inhabit different terrain.

1. Losing Touch
2. Human
3. Spaceman
4. Joy Ride
5. A Dustland Fairytale
6. This Is Your Life
7. I Can't Stay
8. Neon Tiger
9. The World We Live In
10. Goodnight, Travel Well

Marvin Gaye's landmark 1971 recording What's Going On is one of the most important and passionate soul records ever made and it directly influenced other artists to take greater responsibility in the meaning of their music. Gaye co-wrote the songs and produced the album, a social commentary on an American dream which was increasingly being threatened by urban and environmental problems including unemployment and poverty. What's Going On broke the Motown mold and introduced Gaye as not only the company's sexy prince, but also an uncompromising artist with something to say.

1. What's Going On
2. What's Happening Brother
3. Flyin' High (In the Friendly Sky)
4. Save the Children
5. God is Love
6. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
7. Right On
8. Wholy Holy
9. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler)

Brendan O'Brien Produced/Mixed Posthumous Covers Collection Personally Selected and Sequenced by Chris Cornell!

No One Sings Like You Anymore is a posthumous collection of ten cover songs which Chris Cornell personally selected and sequenced to celebrate artists and songs that inspired him. Recorded by Cornell in 2016, the album, which is his last fully completed studio album, features his renditions of John Lennon's "Watching The Wheels," Ghostland Observatory's "Sad Sad City," Harry Nilsson's "Jump Into The Fire," Carl Hall's "You Don't Know Nothing About Love," Electric Light Orchestra's "Showdown," Terry Reid's "To Be Treated Rite," Lorraine Ellison's "Stay With Me Baby" (originally released for HBO's show Vinyl), "Get It While You Can," popularized by Janis Joplin, and a new studio recording of "Nothing Compares 2 U," written by Prince.

Cornell's cover of Gun's & Roses "Patience," which earned him his first solo Billboard No.1 on the Mainstream Rock Songs chart, is also included here. All of the instruments on No One Sings Like You Anymore were played by Chris Cornell and Brendan O'Brien, who also produced and mixed the album.

"This album is so special because it is a complete work of art that Chris created from start to finish. His choice of covers provides a personal look into his favorite artists and the songs that touched him. He couldn't wait to release it," said the artist's wife Vicky Cornell.

1. Get It While You Can
2. Jump Into The Fire
3. Sad Sad City
4. Patience
5. Nothing Compares 2 U
6. Watching The Wheels
7. You Don't Know Nothing About Love
8. Showdown
9. To Be Treated Rite
10. Stay With Me Baby

Music on Vinyl

Limited 180gm audiophile vinyl LP pressing including insert. Long Cold Winter is the second studio album by hard rock band Cinderella, released in 1988. With Long Cold Winter, Cinderella started to move away from the glam rock music of their previous album and into a more blues rock-oriented direction, akin to early 1970s Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Humble Pie, Bad Company and Deep Purple. The record reached #10 in the US and became double platinum for shipping two million copies in the US by the end of the year, just as their debut album Night Songs had done earlier. It was later certified triple platinum. The album features the massive hit 'Don't Know What You've Got (Till It's Gone)'.

• 1 Bad Seamstress Blues / Fallin' Apart at the Seams
• 2 Gypsy Road
• 3 Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)
• 4 The Last Mile
• 5 Second Wind
• 6 Long Cold Winter
• 7 If You Don't Like It
• 8 Coming Home
• 9 Fire and Ice
• 10 Take Me Back

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Holy Wars... the Punishment Due 6:34
• 2 Hangar 18 5:12
• 3 Take No Prisoners 3:27
• 4 Five Magics 5:41
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Poison Was The Cure 2:57
• 2 Lucretia Composed By – D. Mustaine, D. Ellefson 3:56
• 3 Tornado Of Souls Composed By – D. Mustaine, D. Ellefson 5:21
• 4 Dawn Patrol Composed By – D. Mustaine, D. Ellefson 1:49
• 5 Rust In Peace...Polaris 5:36

Beastie Boys Hello Nasty: Remastered Edition on 2x 180g Vinyl LP! 

The Beastie Boys' 1998 release Hello Nasty remastered for the first time on double 180g gatefold vinyl. The original release is certified triple (3x) platinum by the RIAA, peaking at #1 on the Top 200 Album Chart. The album also received a pair of 1998 Grammys for Best Alternative Music Performance and Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group. Features the hit songs “Intergalactic” and “Body Movin’.”

Beastie Boys Hello Nasty: Remastered Edition Track Listing

1.   Super Disco Breakin'
2.   The Move
3.   Remote Control
4.   Song for the Man
5.   Just a Test
6.   Body Movin'
7.   Intergalactic
8.   Sneakin' Out the Hospital
9.   Putting Shame in Your Game
10.  Flowin' Prose
11.  And Me
12.  Three MC's and One DJ
13.  The Grasshopper Unit (Keep Movin')
14.  Song for Junior
15.  I Don't Know
16.  The Negotiation Limerick File
17.  Electrify
18.  Picture This
19.  Unite
20.  Dedication
21.  Dr. Lee, PhD
22.  Instant Death

Beach House Depression Cherry on Colored LP + Download

Limited double vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket including digital download. 2015 release, the second solo studio album by the American rapper. The album serves as a sequel, following his previous album Long. Live. A$AP (2013). The album features guest appearances from Joe Fox, Bones, Future, M.I.A., Schoolboy Q, Kanye West, Juicy J, UGK, James Fauntleroy, Lil Wayne, Rod Stewart, Miguel, Mark Ronson, Mos Def, A-Cyde and A$AP Yams. Production was led by Rocky himself, alongside several high-profile producers including Hector Delgado, Danger Mouse, Frans Mernick, Jim Jonsin, Kanye West, and Mark Ronson among others. The album was supported by three singles: "Lord Pretty Flacko Jodye 2 (LPFJ2)", "Everyday" featuring Rod Stewart, Miguel and Mark Ronson, and "L$D".

Tracks

LP1

1. Holy Ghost
2. Canal St.
3. Fine Whine
4. L$D
5. Excuse Me
6. JD
7. Lord Pretty Flacko Jodye 2 (LPFJ2)
8. Jukebox Joints
9. Max B

LP2

1. Pharsyde
2. Wavybone
3. West Side Highway
4. Better Things
5. M'$
6. Dreams (Interlude)
7. Everyday
8. Back Home

Kids See Ghosts is the eponymous debut from the hip hop duo of the same name featuring Kanye West and Kid Cudi and the third of five 7-track 2018 albums produced by West succeeding Pusha T's Daytona and his own ye and preceding Nas' Nasir and Teyana Taylor's K.T.S.E. Fans have been anticipating an album length project from the longtime collaborators for a decade now and the intriguing Kids See Ghosts is a cathartic and confessional affair with both artists documenting bouts of depression and struggles with drug abuse throughout. "We just have this chemistry that's undeniable, especially when we have to fight for it with each other," Cudi said. It includes contributions from Pusha T, Yasiin Bey, Ty Dolla Sign and a posthumous vocal sample of Louis Prima.

1. Feel The Love
2. Fire
3. 4th Dimension
4. Freeee (Ghost Town Pt. 2)
5. Reborn
6. Kids See Ghosts
7. Cudi Montage

Vinyl LP pressing. Toxicity is the second studio album by heavy metal band System of a Down, released on September 4, 2001 by American Recordings. Featuring the heaviness and aggression of System of a Down's debut studio album, Toxicity features more melody, harmonies, and singing than the band's aforementioned album. Categorized primarily as alternative metal, and nu metal, Toxicity features elements of multiple genres including folk, progressive rock, jazz, Armenian music, and Greek music, including prominent use of instruments such as the sitar, banjo, keyboards and piano. The album contains a wide array of political and non-political themes such as the overpopulation of prisons, the CIA, the environment, group sex, drug addiction, and groupies.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Prison Song (Album Version) 3:21
• 2 Needles (Album Version) 3:13
• 3 Deer Dance (Album Version) 2:54
• 4 Jet Pilot (Album Version) 2:06
• 5 X (Album Version) 1:58
• 6 Chop Suey! (Album Version) 3:30
• 7 Bounce (Album Version) 1:54
• 8 Forest (Album Version) 4:00
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Atwa (Album Version) 2:56
• 2 Science (Album Version) 2:42
• 3 Shimmy (Album Version) 1:50
• 4 Toxicity (Album Version) 3:38
• 5 Psycho (Album Version) 3:45
• 6 Aerials (Album Version) 3:57
• 7 Arto (Album Version) 2:13

There is no overstating Judas Priest's position at the very top of heavy metal's Mount Olympus. The long-term association (eight consecutive live and studio albums) between the band and producer Tom Allom includes the cornerstone 1980 classic British Steel, their second LP together. It was recorded in four weeks at Tittenhurst Park, previously owned by John Lennon, and the home of Ringo Starr at the time. It was British Steel that took Priest to the masses at the onset of the '80s with huge anthems like "Breaking The Law" and "Living After Midnight," earning the band their first RIAA platinum Top 40 album in the U.S. and their first Top 10 in the U.K. in the process. Deeper album cuts like "Metal Gods" and "The Rage" would also prove to become beloved concert staples. Universally hailed as one of the most influential albums in heavy metal history, fellow musicians and disciples credit British Steel for unleashing metal from its blues origins.

1. Breaking the Law
2. Rapid Fire
3. Metal Gods
4. Grinder
5. United
6. Living After Midnight
7. You Don't Have to Be Old to Be Wise
8. The Rage
9. Steeler

In theory, epic gothic rockers Evanescence have done everything but live up to their name, which is defined as a "disappearance" or something that merely "dissipates like vapor." Instead, the Little Rock, AR quintet led by charismatic vocalist/pianist Amy Lee have proved to be a powerful presence in the international arena in the 21st Century. Their elusive sound has drawn comparisons with bands as diverse as nu-metal heroes Linkin Park through to intense symphonic metal acts such as Nightwish and Within Temptation, but in truth, Evanescence have always blazed their own trail.

The group's colossal double Grammy-winning 2003 debut Fallen has shipped over 17 million albums worldwide to date and established the group as worldwide tour headliners. Fallen also received a raft of rave critical notices, with Lee's soaring vocal capabilities frequently singled out for praise alongside the breadth and diversity of Evanescence's music, which ranged from angsty, hard-hitting rockers such as "Tourniquet" and the hectoring, rap-infused nu-metal of "Bring Me To Life" to piano-driven power ballads such as "My Immortal" and the grandiose, strings-and choir-enhanced "Whisper."

1. Going Under
2. Bring Me to Life
3. Everybody's Fool
4. My Immortal
5. Haunted
6. Tourniquet
7. Imaginary
8. Taking Over Me
9. Hello
10. My Last Breath
11. Whisper

Limited double vinyl LP pressing includes music on sides A, B and C and laser etching on side D. The Black Parade, My Chemical Romance's follow-up to it's 2004 platinum major-label debut Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge, 'is way more dramatic, way more theatrical, completely over the top, borderline psychotic,' says Gerard Way. 'It's the most pure, intense thing we've ever been involved in.' Produced by Rob Cavallo (Green Day), the album is a celebration of love and death and darkness. Join The Black Parade.

• 1 The End
• 2 Dead!
• 3 This Is How I Disappear
• 4 The Sharpest Lives
• 5 Welcome to the Black Parade
• 6 I Don't Love You
• 7 House of Wolves
• 8 Cancer
• 9 Mama
• 10 Sleep
• 11 Teenagers
• 12 Disenchanted
• 13 Famous Last Words
• 14 Untitled Track