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Music Releases 02-19-21
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The Hold Steady
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Tash Sultana
Terra Firma [LP]
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Grandaddy
The Sophtware Slump.....On A Wooden Piano [LP] -
Icon For Hire
Amorphous [LP]
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Frank Zappa
Zappa Original Motion Picture Soundtrack [3CD]
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Mogwai
As The Love Continues [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Transparent Yellow LP] -
Edie Brickell and New Bohemians
Hunter And The Dog Star [LP] -
nothing,nowhere.
Trauma Factory [LP] -
Loathe
I Let It In And It Took Everything [Gold/Black 2LP]
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BTS
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Ricky Warwick
When Life Was Hard And Fast [LP] -
Devonte Hynes
We Are Who We Are (Original Series Soundtrack) [2LP] -
Bon Jovi
2020 [Gold 2LP] -
Koe Wetzel
Sellout [LP] -
Wild Pink
A Billion Little Lights [Light Blue LP] -
Sheila E.
The Glamorous Life [Teal LP] -
Aretha Franklin
Young, Gifted And Black [Burnt Orange LP] -
Eric Hilton
The Impossible Silence [LP] -
Donny Hathaway
The Best Of Donny Hathaway [Translucent Gold Audiophile LP] -
Wilson Pickett
The Best Of Wilson Pickett [Translucent Gold Audiophile LP] -
Hearty Har
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Porter Robinson
Look At The Sky [Vinyl Single]
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Philip B. Price
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Ominous Ruin
Amidst Voices That Echo In Stone
Movie Releases 02-23-21
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Music Releases 02-26-21
Named for the city that launched the original Alice Cooper group on the road to success, “Detroit Stories” follows last year’s “Breadcrumbs” EP as a modern-day homage to the toughest and craziest Rock n Roll scene there ever was.
In 1970, fledgling producer Bob Ezrin walked into a farmhouse on the outskirts of Detroit to work with the Alice Cooper band. Abandoning flower power Los Angeles, because they were the opposite of the hippie peace and love ideal, Alice had brought his decidedly darker gang back to his birthplace to the legendary rock scene that gave birth to hard rock, garage rock, soul, funk, punk...and more.
Ezrin drilled the band for 10 hours a day to define their signature sound. Whenever they nailed a song, the inmates at the hospital for the criminally insane across the road cheered and thus the classic Alice Cooper sound was born.
“Los Angeles had its sound with The Doors, Love and Buffalo Springfield,” says Alice Cooper, “San Francisco had the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. New York had The Rascals and The Velvet Underground. But Detroit was the birthplace of angry hard rock. After not fitting in anywhere in the US (musically or image wise) Detroit was the only place that recognized the Alice Cooper guitar driven, hard rock sound and our crazy stage show. Detroit was a haven for the outcasts. And when they found out I was born in East Detroit... we were home.”
50 years later Alice and Ezrin gathered some legendary Detroit musicians in a Detroit studio to record Detroit Stories, Alice Cooper’s new album that celebrates that spirit for a new era. If 2019’s “Breadcrumbs” EP laid down the trail to the city, Detroit Stories drives like a muscle car right down Woodward Ave.
Discover Detroit Stories as they were meant to be told.
Life is Not a Lesson is Glitterer’s second full-length album, featuring Ned Russin, bassist/vocalist of seminal hardcore-punk band Title Fight. This time Ned has produced the record himself, notwithstanding some recording and performance help from his twin brother, Ben, and some other friends, as well as mixing and mastering by Arthur Rizk (Code Orange, Power Trip). It may surprise you to hear that, irrespective of worldly doom and gloom, the new songs are even catchier and bigger-sounding than those from his 2019 release, Looking Through the Shades. With roomier drums and more electric-guitars-per-square-inch than ever, Life is Not a Lesson has a way of evoking an alternate-universe version of Guided By Voices, one with a hardcore-punk background. Life is Not a Lesson proves to be a rigorous reckoning with the life of the mind at a time when there’s not much life outside the mind.

The self-titled, full-length debut from Bones Owens is a selection of songs both gloriously gritty and undeniably euphoric. In a bold departure from the moody Americana of his acclaimed EPs Hurt No One and Make Me No King, the Missouri-bred musician’s first release with Thirty Tigers delivers a powerful sound deeply inspired by ’60s garage-rock, Hill Country blues, and the swampy roots-rock of bands like Creedence Clearwater Revival (“the first record I remember stealing from my dad when I was ten and just starting to play guitar,” according to Owens). A potent showcase for his formidable guitar work—a talent he’s displayed in performing with artists as eclectic as Yelawolf and Mikky Ekko—Bones Owens arrives as a full-tilt expression of Owens’ wildest impulses, all swinging rhythms, and swaggering riffs.
Amsterdam's Altin Gn have built a strong reputation for fusing past and present to make brilliantly catchy, upbeat pop music, as seen with their Grammy-nominated second album, Gece. Yol, their third album in as many years, continues that trend; while unveiling a number of sonic surprises in their continued exploration of Anatolian rock and Turkish psych-folk.
The Black Crowes Present: Shake Your Money Maker, the multi-platinum debut by the seminal rock n' roll band celebrates its 30th Anniversary with a suite of reissues. The 1LP Black vinyl version features the original album, remastered.
Reissue on vinyl of the fifth PJ Harvey studio album Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea. Produced by PJ Harvey with Rob Ellis and Mick Harvey, and originally released in October 2000, Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea features the singles ‘Good Fortune’, 'A Place Called Home' and ‘This Is Love’ and includes a duet with Radiohead's Thom Yorke on 'This Mess We're In'. The album won the Mercury Music Prize in 2001. Reissue is faithful to the original recording and package, cutting by Jason Mitchell at Loud Mastering under the guidance of longtime PJ Harvey producer Head.
Honoring the enduring inspiration of Frank Sinatra, That’s Life is Willie Nelson’s second album of classics made famous by The Chairman Of The Board. Willie’s first ode to Frank, 2018's My Way, earned Willie the Grammy for Best Traditional Pop Solo Album, and That's Life finds Nelson (who has penned a few standards himself) inhabiting 11 more of the most treasured songs in the Great American Songbook including the title track, "Luck Be A Lady,” "Nice Work If You Can Get It," "I've Got You Under My Skin," "You Make Me Feel So Young," and "I Won't Dance" (a duet featuring Diana Krall). Produced by Buddy Cannon and Matt Rollings, That's Life was recorded at Capitol Studios in Hollywood--where Frank Sinatra, created a string of album masterpieces--with additional recording at Pedernales Studios in Austin, Texas. Willie delivers 11 new studio performances, coming alive in a musical landscape animated by lush string and vibrant horn arrangements on an album mixed by recording industry legend Al Schmitt (who's recorded and mixed more than 150 gold and platinum albums and won more Grammy Awards than any other engineer or mixer). The album cover features a brand new painting of Willie and his iconic guitar, Trigger, standing in the glow of a twilight streetlamp, evoking classic Sinatra album covers of yore.
Mouse on Mars, duo Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma, approach electronic music with an inexhaustible curiosity and unparalleled ingenuity. AAI (Anarchic Artificial Intelligence) takes their fascination with technology and exploration a quantum leap further. Working with AI tech collective Birds on Mars and former Soundcloud programmers Ranny Keddo and Derrek Kindle, the duo collaborated on the creation of software capable of modeling speech. Text and voice from writer/scholar Louis Chude-Sokei, and DJ/producer Ya'mur Uçkunkaya were fed into the software as a model, allowing Toma and Werner to control parameters like speed or mood, thereby creating a kind of speech instrument they could control and play like a synthesizer. The album's narrative is mirrored in the sound of artificial intelligence growing, learning and speaking. This exploration of artificial intelligence as both a narrative framework and compositional tool, allowing them to summon their most explicitly science-fiction work to date.
Movie Releases 03-02-21
Behind our world, there is another: a world of dangerous and powerful monsters that rule their domain with deadly ferocity. When an unexpected sandstorm transports Captain Artemis (Milla Jovovich) and her unit (TI Harris, Meagan Good, Diego Boneta) to a new world, the soldiers are shocked to discover that this hostile and unknown environment is home to enormous and terrifying monsters immune to their firepower. In their desperate battle for survival, the unit encounters the mysterious Hunter (Tony Jaa), whose unique skills allow him to stay one step ahead of the powerful creatures. As Artemis and Hunter slowly build trust, she discovers that he is part of a team led by the Admiral (Ron Perlman). Facing a danger so great it could threaten to destroy their world, the brave warriors combine their unique abilities to band together for the ultimate showdown.
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Music Releases 03-05-21
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Kings Of Leon
When You See Yourself [2LP]
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Neil Young
Neil Young Archives Vol. II (1972-1976)
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Ron Gallo
Peacemeal [Green LP]
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Adult Mom
Driver
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Tindersticks
Distractions [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Blue LP]
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Jimbo Mathus & Andrew Bird
These 13 [LP]
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The Spill Canvas
Conduit [LP]
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Pat Metheny
Road to the Sun [2LP]
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Chevelle
NIRATIAS [LP]
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Maple & Rye
For Everything
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Zara Larsson
Poster Girl
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Gillian Welch & David Rawlings
All The Good Times
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Sister
Vengeance Ignited [LP]
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A Day To Remember
You're Welcome [LP]
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Pale Waves
Who Am I? [LP]
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Chase Atlantic
Beauty In Death [Red & Black LP]
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Small Sins
Volume II [LP]
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Various Artists
Coming 2 America (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
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Various Artists
Rhythms of Zamunda (Music Inspired By: Coming 2 America)
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Chung Ha
Querencia [Indie Exclusive]
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Beachwood Sparks
Beachwood Sparks: 20th Anniversary Edition [2LP]
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The Explorers Club
Rarities Volume 1
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The Explorers Club
Rarities Volume 1 [LP]
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Ariel Posen
Headway [LP]