RSD2025 Everything Else

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.

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. American blues guitarist Buddy Guy released his eighth studio album Feels Like Rain in 1993. It was produced by John Porter, whom had previously worked with The Smiths, Bryan Ferry and Killing Joke. The album features Guy's take on songs written by the likes of John Hiatt, John Fogerty, James Brown, Ray Charles and Guy's frequent collaborator Junior Wells. He also collaborated with some renowned musicians: John Mayall, Bonnie Raitt, Paul Rodgers and Travis Tritt can all be heard on this album.

• 1 She's a Superstar
• 2 I Go Crazy
• 3 Feels Like Rain
• 4 She's Nineteen Years Old
• 5 Some Kind of Wonderful
• 6 Sufferin' Mind
• 7 Change in the Weather
• 8 I Could Cry
• 9 Mary Ann
• 10 Trouble Man
• 11 Country Man

Vinyl LP pressing. Tommy Boy Records celebrates 30 Years of House of Pain's debut album House of Pain (Fine Malt Lyrics) with this remastered edition. Everlast, DJ Lethal & Danny Boy formed House of Pain while attending high school and were signed to Tommy Boy Records after fashioning themselves as rowdy Irish-American hooligans, hitting the local rap and alternative music scene. House of Pain (Fine Malt Lyrics) went multi-platinum and the self titled debut album spawned the successful producer DJ Muggs, who produced the single "Jump Around". The song was also remixed twice by Pete Rock, one version featuring a verse from him and one without. "Jump Around" became a hit in 1992, reaching number 3 in the United States. The album also featured Cypress Hill member B-Real on the song "Put Your Head Out" and Funkdoobiest's Son Doobie on "House and the Rising Sun", both members of the musical collective known as Soul Assassins.

• 1 Salutations
• 2 Jump Around
• 3 Put Your Head Out
• 4 Top O' the Morning to Ya
• 5 Commercial 1
• 6 House and the Rising Sun
• 7 Shamrocks and Shenanigans
• 8 House of Pain Anthem
• 9 Danny Boy, Danny Boy
• 10 Guess Who's Back
• 11 Commercial 2
• 12 Put on Your Shit Kickers
• 13 Come and Get Some of This
• 14 Life Goes on
• 15 One for the Road
• 16 Feel It
• 17 All My Love

...Like Clockwork, the 2013 album from Queens of the Stone Age, Josh Homme and friends featuring the return of band members Dave Grohl, Nick Oliveri and Mark Lanegan, plus guest appearances from Elton John, Trent Reznor, Alex Turner, Jake Shears and James Lavelle. With Like Clockwork, Homme has written the most intense, personal and beautiful songs of his career. While the thunder of Queens past is still evident, there are a number of gorgeous ballads, meditations on time passing, the struggle to create art, and the nearness of mortality. The music features some of Homme's finest guitar work, at times recalling past greats such as Brian May or George Harrison. Double vinyl LP pressing.

Tracks

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Keep Your Eyes Peeled
• 2 I Sat By the Ocean
• 3 The Vampyre of Time and Memory
• 4 If I Had a Tail
• 5 My God Is the Sun
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Kalopsia
• 2 Fair Weather Friends
• 3 Smooth Sailing
• 4 I Appear Missing
• 5 Like Clockwork

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.

Released on "marbled white and stronger than blue" vinyl. Success for Pantera continued with 1994's Far Beyond Driven, notable for being one of the most abrasive and uncomprimising albums to ever debut at #1 on the Billboard chart. The album included "I'm Broken," "Becoming," "5 Minutes Alone," and the band's startlingly mellow version of Black Sabbath's "Planet Caravan."

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Strength Beyond Strength
• 2 Becoming
• 3 5 Minutes Alone
• 4 I'm Broken
• 5 Good Friends and a Bottle of Pills
• 6 Hard Lines Sunken Cheeks
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Slaughtered
• 2 25 Years
• 3 Shedding Skin
• 4 Use My Third Arm
• 5 Throes of Rejection
• 6 Planet Caravan

Mitski warmly recalls a quote from sculptor El Anatsui, "Art grows out of each particular situation, and I believe that artists are better off working with whatever their environment throws up." With this nerve exposed lyrically, and having dived into her new beginning, Mitski chooses her 2014 breakthrough album Bury Me at Makeout Creek to explore uncharted sonic territory, trading in large string arrangements for guitar and bass. While studying composition at SUNY Purchase's music conservatory, she previously recorded music with a full orchestra. However as college graduation inched closer, Mitski moved away from the concert hall and into the campus' active DIY scene. Upon relocating to New York following graduation, she entered stages at Death By Audio, Silent Barn, and Bed Stuy basements, entrenching her songs of love, fear, lust, and brilliant clarity into entirely sympathetic ears.

Since releasing Bury Me at Makeout Creek, Mitski has received international acclaim for her distinct, arresting sound and profoundly reflective lyrics. Pitchfork applauded the release as "inventive and resourceful," while Rolling Stone celebrated her "deep-cutting lyrics." NME said of Bury Me, "it's a record that doesn't tug at your heart-strings as much as it mercilessly pounds at them, taking to your emotions like a lead pipe to a piñata." She has also received widespread attention for her "cathartic" live shows as dubbed by The New York Times' Jon Caramanica. "I was so young when I behaved 25," Mitski sings on "First Love / Late Spring," "yet now I find I've grown into a tall child." This veritable thesis speaks to sentiments of the poetry and beauty of struggling up the hill to adulthood.

Mitski follows El Anatsui's humbling advice, cathartically revealing snapshots from her adventures in youth, and the empowerment found in sharing these stories with others.

Tracks

1. Texas Reznikoff
2. Townie
3. First Love / Late Spring
4. Francis Forever
5. I Don't Smoke
6. Jobless Monday
7. Drunk Walk Home
8. I Will
9. Carry Me Out
10. Last Words of a Shooting Star

Southern California alt-rock trio Wallows quickly established themselves as a band to watch in 2018, and they are now poised for their biggest year yet with the release of their debut album Nothing Happens. Recorded at Los Angeles' Sargent Studios, the album sees Wallows reunited with Grammy award-winning producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Alvvays, Future Islands) and captures the band's journey towards adulthood through eleven intimate, introspective tracks.

1. Only Friend
2. Treacherous Doctor
3. Sidelines
4. Are You Bored Yet? (feat. Clairo)
5. Scrawny
6. Ice Cold Pool
7. Worlds Apart
8. What You Like
9. Remember When
10. I'm Full
11. Do Not Wait

Here is Sweep It Into Space, the fifth new studio album cut by Dinosaur Jr.. during the 13th year of their rebirth. Originally scheduled for issue in mid 2020, this record's temporal trajectory was thwarted by the coming of the Plague. But it would take more than a mere Plague to tamp down the exquisite fury of this trio when they are fully dialed-in. And Sweep It Into Space is a masterpiece of zoned dialing. Recorded, as usual, at Amherst's Biquiteen, the sessions for Sweep It Into Space began in the late Autumn of 2019, following a West Coast/South East tour. The only extra musician used this time with Kurt Vile. Indeed, Sweep It Into Space is a very cool album. As is typical, Lou Barlow writes and sings two of the album's dozen tunes and Murph's pure-Flinstonian drumming drives the record like a go cart from Hell. Lou's songs here are as elegant as always. But there are very few moments where you wouldn't know you were hearing Dinosaur Jr. In blindfolded needle drop. They have a signature sound as sure as the Stooges or Sonic Youth or Discharge ever did. They continue to expand their personal universe with Sweep It Into Space, without ever losing their central core.

• 1 I Ain't
• 2 I Met the Stones
• 3 To Be Waiting
• 4 I Ran Away
• 5 Garden
• 6 Hide Another Round
• 7 And Me
• 8 I Expect It Always
• 9 Take It Back
• 10 N Say
• 11 Walking to You
• 12 You Wonder

The Most Beautiful and Satisfying Bon Iver Album Yet featuring Moses Sumney, Bruce Hornsby, Wye Oak's Jenn Wasner and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus!

i,i is Bon Iver's most expansive, joyful and generous album to date. If For Emma, Forever Ago was the crisp, heart-strung isolation of a northern Winter; Bon Iver the rise and whirr of burgeoning Spring; and 22, A Million, a blistering, "crazy energy" Summer record, i,i completes the cycle: a fall record; Autumn-colored, ruminative, steeped. The autumn of Bon Iver is a celebration of self acceptance and gratitude, bolstered by community and delivering the bounty of an infinite American music.

The sales and accolades are well-known - multiple Gold albums, multiple Grammys, chart-topping collaborations and festival headlines. But even more significantly, with each release Bon Iver quietly shifts the state of modern music. From the boundaries of folk, to the rules of autotune, to production work for others, Bon Iver's fingerprint finds its way across the mainstream every time. Justin Vernon has always been a master collaborator, and on i,i that desire becomes maximal, with guests ranging from Moses Sumney and Bruce Hornsby to Wye Oak's Jenn Wasner and the Brooklyn Youth Chorus.

Here, the music - and band, and themes, and creative space - are bigger than ever!

1. Yi
2. iMi
3. We
4. Holyfields,
5. Hey, Ma
6. U (Man Like)
7. Naeem
8. Jelmore
9. Faith
10. Marion
11. Salem
12. Sh'Diah
13. RABi

Vinyl LP pressing. 2019 release from the Grammy Award winning artist. Produced by Simpson, Sound & Fury, was recorded primarily at the McGuire Motor Inn in Waterford, Michigan, with his bandmates Bobby Emmett, Chuck Bartels, Miles Miller, who all serve as co-producers along with Grammy nominee John Hill (Cage The Elephant, Portugal. The Man, Bleachers). The album - which Simpson describes as "a sleazy, steamy rock n roll record" - is a marked departure from 2016's acclaimed A Sailor's Guide To Earth, which won Best Country Album and was nominated for Album of the Year at the 59th Grammy Awards.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Ronin
• 2 Remember to Breathe
• 3 Sing Along
• 4 A Good Look
• 5 Make Art Not Friends
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Best Clockmaker on Mars
• 2 All Said and Done
• 3 Last Man Standing
• 4 Mercury in Retrograde
• 5 Fastest Horse in Town

Vinyl LP pressing. 22 stands for Justin Vernon. The number's recurrence in his life has become a meaningful pattern through encounter and recognition. A mile marker, a jersey number, a bill total. The reflection of '2' is his identity bound up in duality: the relationship he has with himself and the relationship he has with the rest of the world. A Million is the rest of that world: the millions of people who we will never know, the infinite and the endless, everything outside one's self that makes you who you are. The other side of Justin's duality is the thing that completes him and what he searches for. 22, A Million is thus part love letter, part final resting place of two decades of searching for self-understanding like a religion. And the inner-resolution of maybe never finding that understanding. When Justin sings, "I'm still standing in the need of prayer" he begs the question of what's worth worshipping, or rather, what is possible to worship. If music is a sacred form of discovering, knowing and being, then Bon Iver's albums are totems to that faith. The poly-fi record formed at the congruence of a bold yet delicate sonic palette. These sounds were the way out from the suffocating enclosure and captivity of anxiety. The ten songs of 22, A Million are a collection of sacred moments, love's torment and salvation, contexts of intense memories, signs that you can pin meaning onto or disregard coincidence. If 2011's Bon Iver, Bon Iver built a habitat rooted in physical spaces, then 22, A Million is the letting go of that attachment to a place.

Tracks

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 22 Over Soon
• 2 10 Death/Breast
• 3 715 - Creeks
• 4 33 "God"
• 5 29 #Strafford Apts
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 666 (Upsidedowncross)
• 2 21 Moon Water
• 3 8 (Circle)
• 4 45
• 5 1000000 Million

Slint was formed in the late 80s and released two critically acclaimed albums that remain unrivaled in their intensity and beauty. "Spiderland" was the second album and the first released by Touch And Go in 1991.

• 1 Breadcrumb Trail
• 2 Nosferatu Man
• 3 Don, Aman
• 4 Washer
• 5 For Dinner
• 6 Good Morning Captain

The breakout success of 2016's Puberty 2 saw Mitski hailed as the new vanguard of indie rock, the one to save the genre from the white dudes who've historically dominated it. But the often overlooked aspect of being a rising star is the sheer amount of work that goes into it. "I had been on the road for a long time, which is so isolating, and had to run my own business at the same time," Mitski explains, "a lot of this record was me not having any feelings, being completely spent, but then trying to rally myself and wake up and get back to Mitski. I was feeling really nihilistic and trying to make pop songs."

We want our artists to be strong but we also expect them to be vulnerable. Rather than avoiding this dilemma, she addresses directly the power that comes from appearing impenetrable and loneliness that follows. "With a lot of the romantic infatuations I've had," she says, "when I look back, I wonder, Did I want them or did I want to be them? Did I love them or did I want to absorb whatever power they had? I decided I could just be my own cowboy figure that I so desire." In Be The Cowboy, Mitski delves into the loneliness of being a symbol and the loneliness of being someone, and how it can feel so much like being no one.

Tracks

1. Geyser
2. Why Didn't You Stop Me?
3. Old Friend
4. A Pearl
5. Lonesome Love
6. Remember My Name
7. Me and My Husband
8. Come into the Water
9. Nobody
10. Pink in the Night
11. A Horse Named Cold Air
12. Washing Machine Heart
13. Blue Light
14. Two Slow Dancers