RSD2025 Everything Else

A Tribute to Jack Johnson Combines Electric Fusion, Slashing Rock, and Aggressive Funk: 1971 Miles Davis Set Features Guitarist John McLaughlin, Sounds Vibrant on Vinyl LP

Michael Henderson launches into an enormous boogie groove with Billy Cobham and John McLaughlin. Miles immediately leaves the control room to join in with them. He achieved exactly what he wanted for the soundtrack of the documentary devoted to the black boxer Jack Johnson by creating the effect of a train going at full speed (which he compared to the force of a boxer). That's how side A of the 1971 LP A Tribute To Jack Johnson begins. By chance, Herbie Hancock had arrived unexpectedly and started playing on a cheap keyboard that a sound engineer quickly connected. Later, Teo Macero taped McLaughlin's riff on "Sing A Simple Song" by Sly Stone. Side B begins with a bass riff inspired by James Brown's "Say It Loud" and ends with "Willie Nelson," a piece recorded in a previous session. An a cappella improvisation by Miles, arranged in a variety of ways by Macero, was featured as a leitmotif throughout; a phrase spoken by Brock Peters was superimposed as a coda. Columbia didn't believe in this album and hastily released it. Today it is a cult record and strong seller.

Musicians:
Miles Davis (trumpet)
John McLaughlin (guitar)
Herbie Hancock (keyboards)
Michael Henderson (bass)
Billy Cobham (drums)
Steve Grossman (saxophone)

1. Right Off
2. Yesternow

Vinyl LP pressing. 2013 album from the Seattle/Grunge legends. 25 years in, Vanishing Point affirms that, even in an age where only the newest of the new can survive, Mudhoney still have plenty to say and more to offer. These are songs written from the rare vantage point of a band who went through the rock n' roll meat-grinder and not only lived to tell such a tale, they came out full of the wisdom and dark humor such a journey provides. Vanishing Point is filled with dread, psychoanalysis and Nuggets-on-fire riffs; the sort of uninhibited rock music that is harder and harder to locate these days. With Vanishing Point, Mudhoney makes it easy.

• 1 Slipping Away
• 2 I Like It Small
• 3 What to Do with the Neutral
• 4 Chardonnay
• 5 The Final Course
• 6 In This Rubber Tomb
• 7 I Don't Remember You
• 8 The Only Son of the Widow from Nain
• 9 Sing This Song of Joy
• 10 Douchebags on Parade

Ska-punk pioneers The Mighty Mighty BossToneS deliver their eleventh studio record When God Was Great. Co-produced by longtime collaborator Ted Hutt (The Gaslight Anthem, Dropkick Murphys) and Rancid frontman Tim Armstrong (Transplants, Jimmy Cliff), When God Was Great is the culmination of their extensive and all-embracing career and sees the band bringing back friends, tourmates, and bandmates from the past for a sonic celebration that stresses the power of perseverance and human connection during tumultuous times. The album features 15-tracks that initially arose out of a collective sense of loss.

"We were lightly writing songs before the insanity without any sort of timeline in mind. All of a sudden, the world changed and benchmark events in a very long career that we were looking forward to, such as playing with the Madness at the Greek Theatre, were taken away from us," explains frontman Dicky Barrett. "With all of this time on our hands, we started writing at a quickened pace and we were really inspired. As grim as everything around us was in the outside world, this was the most fun we ever had making a record."

LP1

1. Decide
2. Move
3. I Don't Believe In Anything
4. Certain Things
5. Bruised
6. Lonely Boy
7. The Killing of Georgie (Part III)
8. You Had To Be There
9. When God Was Great

LP2

1. What It Takes
2. Long As I Can See the Light
3. The Truth Hurts
4. It Went Well
5. I Don't Want To Be You
6. The Final Parade

Deluxe Colored Vinyl 2LP Edition of Folklore Sister Record featuring Haim, The National and Bon Iver Plus Two Bonus Tracks!

Serving as Taylor Swift's ninth studio album overall and the sister record to Folklore (the No. 1 selling album of 2020), the universally acclaimed Evermore bowed at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 as the beloved singer/songwriter's second No. 1 on the chart in five months and third No. 1 on the chart in sixteen months. It also eclipsed global sales of one million in under seven days. Featuring the hit singles "Willow," "No Body, No Crime" and "Coney Island," Evermore was created with Aaron Dessner, Jack Antonoff, and Justin Vernon and includes guest contributions from Haim, The National and Bon Iver. This deluxe colored vinyl 2LP edition of the album also includes the two bonus tracks "Right Where You Left Me" and "It's Time To Go."

"To put it plainly, we just couldn't stop writing songs," Swift says of her second album of 2020. "To try and put it more poetically, it feels like we were standing on the edge of the folklorian woods and had a choice: to turn and go back or to travel further into the forest of this music. We chose to wander deeper in. I've never done this before. In the past I've always treated albums as one-off eras and moved onto planning the next one after an album was released."

NME wrote in their five-star review: "If Folklore is an introspective, romantic older sister, Evermore is the freewheeling younger sibling. Folklore was Swift's masterful songwriting spun through a very specific sonic palette. Evermore feels looser, with more experimentation, charm and musical shades at play. The new album reaps the rewards the stylistic leap of faith that Folklore represented, pushing the boundaries of that sonic palette further still."

1. Willow
2. Champagne Problems
3. Gold Rush
4. ‘Tis the Damn Season
5. Tolerate It
6. No Body, No Crime
7. Happiness
8. Dorothea
9. Coney Island
10. Ivy
11. Cowboy Like Me
12. Long Story Short
13. Marjorie
14. Closure
15. Evermore
16. Right Where You Left Me (bonus track)
17. It's Time To Go (bonus track)

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing. On February 7, 1960, tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley with pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Art Blakey, laid down what would become his masterpiece: Soul Station. The crystalline six-song set was a showcase for Mobley's lyrical flow from the breezy opening take on Irving Berlin's "Remember" through bluesy originals like "Dig Dis", & the swinging up-tempo number "Split Feelin's." Soul Station endures as a jazz classic for the ages.

• 1 Remember
• 2 This I Dig of You
• 3 Dig Dis
• 4 Split Feelin's
• 5 Soul Station
• 6 If I Should Lose You

Kelsea Ballerini launched onto the country music scene in 2015 with her debut album The First Time. Her career skyrocketed with three consecutive No. 1 songs including “Love Me Like You Mean It,” “Peter Pan” and “Dibs,” making her the only female artist in country music history to achieve this milestone. Her sophomore album Unapologetically further demonstrates Ballerini’s staying power and continues where The First Time left off.

Ballerini wrote each of the album’s 12 tracks and shares the ups and downs of her past two years. Whether she’s dealing with heartbreak or falling in love, Ballerini’s relatable lyrics and captivating music keep the listener intrigued. Following the success of The First Time, Ballerini enlisted the help of co-writers Shane McAnally, Ross Copperman, Ashley Gorley and Hillary Lindsey, among others, for her most ambitious release yet.

• 1 Graveyard
• 2 Miss Me More
• 3 Get Over Yourself
• 4 Roses
• 5 Machine Heart
• 6 In Between
• 7 High School
• 8 End of the World
• 9 I Hate Love Songs
• 10 Unapologetically
• 11 Music
• 12 Legends

The biggest star in country music today, Luke Bryan, debuted his What Makes You Country album at No. 1 on both the Billboard Top 200 and Top Country Albums charts, his third consecutive record to take the honor on the Top 200 and fifth consecutive on the Top Country Albums Chart. It was produced by Jeff Stevens and Jody Stevens and contains 15 songs, seven of them co-written by Luke including lead single "Light It Up," which became his nineteenth career No. 1 and tenth straight Billboard Country Airplay leader. In referencing the meaning behind the album's title track he shares, "what makes me country is where I was raised in Leesburg, Georgia. I was brought up with manners and raised with a work ethic that has played an important role to where I am today."

Critics are raving about What Makes You Country: The New York Times touted, "Bryan's omnivorous approach to country production is arguably more ambitious and musically progressive; it's certainly more in tune with the genre's younger listeners"; Newsday proclaimed that, "Luke makes country hit-making seem effortless"; and Radio.com writes that, "the 15-song project is a versatile one that includes the party songs Bryan is known and loved for as well as the more poignant and introspective ballads that take a look into who we are as people and where Bryan came from."

"My favorite part of making a new album is getting to collaborate with the songwriting community in this town," notes Luke. "It is important to me to continue to push myself to grow on all levels and I feel like we did that on this project."

1. What Makes You Country
2. Out Of Nowhere
3. Light It Up
4. Most People Are Good
5. Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset
6. Bad Lovers
7. Drinking Again
8. Land Of A Million Songs
9. Like You Say You Do
10. Hooked On It
11. She's A Hot One
12. Hungover In A Hotel Room
13. Pick It Up
14. Driving This Thing
15. Win Life

Limited vinyl LP pressing. 2017 release from the 27 year-old Asheville, North Carolina country music sensation. With gritty, grizzled vocals, brazen songwriting talent and one hell of a live show, Luke Combs stormed onto country music landscape as a force to be reckoned with. Combs' debut smash radio single Hurricane quickly became a staple anthem for country fans. After attending Appalachian State, Combs, a true road warrior, built his avid fan base, delivering over 200 rowdy, hold-nothing-back shows per year.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Out There 3:23
• 2 Memories Are Made of 3:36
• 3 Lonely One 3:26
• 4 Beer Can 3:31
• 5 Hurricane 3:43
• 6 One Number Away 3:42
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Don't Tempt Me 3:32
• 2 When It Rains It Pours 4:01
• 3 This One's for You 3:50
• 4 Be Careful What You Wish for 2:55
• 5 I Got Away with You 3:48
• 6 Honky Tonk Highway 3:32

10th Anniversary Expanded Deluxe Edition Vinyl featuring Two Rare Bonus Tracks, Previously Only Available on the iTunes Exclusive Version of the Album!

In celebration of the 10th anniversary of Doin' My Thing, Luke Bryan is releasing an expanded deluxe edition vinyl featuring 13 tracks, including two rare bonus songs, "Ya'll Can Have This Town" and "Favorite Flowers," previously only available on the iTunes exclusive version of the album. Doin' My Thing was pivotal to Bryan's climb towards becoming a two-time winner of the Entertainer of the Year at both the CMA and ACM Awards. It followed the release of 2007's I'll Stay Me, which contained three top 40 country singles and reached No. 2 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart. Doin' My Thing went platinum, also hit No. 2 country and No. 6 on the Billboard 200. The sophomore set contained three major hits: Bryan's first No. 1 "Rain Is A Good Thing," the No. 2 ballad "Do I" and another chart-topper, "Someone Else Calling You Baby," all of them co-written by Bryab. Doin' My Thing also featured his version of the OneRepublic hit written by Ryan Tedder, "Apologize."

1. Rain Is A Good Thing
2. Doin’ My Thing
3. Do I
4. What Country Is
5. Someone Else Calling You Baby
6. Welcome To The Farm
7. Apologize
8. Every Time I See You
9. Chuggin’ Along
10. I Did It Again
11. Drinkin’ Beer And Wastin’ Bullets
12. Ya’ll Can Have This Town (Bonus Track)
13. Favorite Flowers (Bonus Track)

Limited gold colored vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket.

• 1 Where Did You Sleep Last Night?
• 2 The Bourgeois Blues
• 3 Looky Yonder/ Black Betty/ Yellow Women's Doorbells
• 4 The Gallis Pole
• 5 Big Fat Woman
• 6 Bring Me Li'l Water Silvy
• 7 John Hardy
• 8 Goodnight Irene
• 9 How Long Blues
• 10 On a Monday (I'm Almost Done)
• 11 Blue Tail Fly
• 12 The Boll Weevil
• 13 Borrow Love and Go
• 14 Pretty Flowers in My Backyard

On limited Translucent Purple Ripple vinyl. 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.

Tracks

• 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

Limited silver colored vinyl LP pressing. Death of a Bachelor is the fifth studio album by Panic! At the Disco, and their first as a solo project, originally released January 15, 2016. It is the follow-up to the band's fourth studio album, Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die! (2013), with the entire album written and recorded by vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Brendon Urie, who collaborated with other writers including Jake Sinclair, Morgan Kibby, Lolo, and Sam Hollander. Death of a Bachelor debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200.

Tracks

• - Side 1 -
• 1 Victorious
• 2 Don't Threaten Me with a Good Time
• 3 Hallelujah
• 4 Emperor's New Clothes
• 5 Death of a Bachelor
• 6 Crazy = Genius
• - Side 2 -
• 1 La Devotee
• 2 Golden Days
• 3 The Good, the Bad and the Dirty
• 4 House of Memories
• 5 Impossible Year

A worldwide cultural phenomenon, Back to the Future was executive produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Robert Zemeckis. Starring Michael J. Fox as time-traveler Marty McFly, the film was shot at night to accommodate the actor's daytime commitment to TV's Family Ties. The highest grossing film of 1985, Back to the Future launched one of the most successful franchises in Universal's history. The Back to the Future (Music From the Motion Picture Soundtrack) features all of the songs from the film including everlasting pop classics such as "Power of Love" and "Back In Time" by Huey Lewis and The News, as well as songs by Lindsey Buckingham, Eric Clapton, Etta James, score suites by Alan Silvestri and of course Marty McFly's brilliant (if interesting) interpretation of Chuck Berry's "Johnny B. Goode." Available here on standard black vinyl LP.

Tracks

1. Huey Lewis And The News - The Power Of Love
2. Lindsey Buckingham - Time Bomb Town
3. The Outatime Orchestra - Back To The Future
4. Eric Clapton - Heaven Is One Step Away
5. Huey Lewis And The News - Back In Time
6. The Outatime Orchestra - Back To The Future Overture
7. Etta James - The Wallflower (Dance With Me Henry)
8. Marvin Berry And The Starlighters - Night Train
9. Marvin Berry And The Starlighters - Earth Angel (Will You Be Mine)
10. Marty McFly With The Starlighters - Johnny B. Goode

 180 gram VINYL AUDIOPHILE PRESSING.

• 1 In a Sentimental Mood
• 2 Take the Coltrane
• 3 Big Nick
• 4 Stevie
• 5 My Little Brown Book
• 6 Angelica
• 7 The Feeling of Jazz
• 8 I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good

Limited vinyl LP pressing in single spine LP jacket with a four-color printed sleeve. 2015 release by the pop vocalist. E-Mo-Tion was recorded and produced in Los Angeles, New York, and Stockholm and found Jepsen collaborating with several A-list producers and co-writers, including Sia, Greg Kurstin (Kelly Clarkson 'Stronger'), Peter Svensson (Cardigans, and Ariana Grande 'Love Me Harder'), Ariel Rechtshaid (Haim, Madonna, Vampire Weekend, Major Lazer), Mattman & Robin (Tove Lo, Taylor Swift), Carl and Rami (Ariana Grande 'One Last Time'), Rostam Batmanglij (Vampire Weekend), and more.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Run Away with Me
• 2 Emotion
• 3 I Really Like You
• 4 Gimmie Love
• 5 All That
• 6 Boy Problems
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Making the Most of the Night
• 2 Your Type
• 3 Let's Get Lost
• 4 La Hallucinations
• 5 Warm Blood
• 6 When I Needed You

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

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