The Miniature Tigers' Fortress Demos is the result of their decision to release the home demos of their outstanding album Fortress on its one year anniversary. They released a few songs from the album each week for three weeks leading up to the culmination on July 27th. MT - Gold Skull (demo).mp3 Miniature Tigers - Gold Skull (Demo version) Download Miniature Tigers - Gold Skull.mp3 Miniature Tigers - Gold Skull (album version) Download [...]
Edsel — "Draw Down the Moon" On September 18 + 19, the good folks at Comedy Minus One will release digital remasters of two long out-of-print albums by 90's rockers Edsel . Putting out four LP's and handful of splits/singles before their disbandment in '97, the D.C. group combined the rough angularity of Polvo (with whom they shared stages) with the melodic edge of acts like Archers and Sebadoh . Detroit Folly [...]
Seminal power pop band live in 1978 Originally released as part of the omnibus box set Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Rubinoos , the band has released this period live performance on its own for separate download. Taped at London's Hammersmith Odeon on April 1, 1978, the concert shows off the band's stellar harmony singing, tight guitar rock, super-tuneful songs and broad stage humor. Jon Rubin's voice (which still sounds great today) is d-r-e-a-m-y, Tommy Dunbar shows off his killer guitar skills, and the band's rhythm [...]
Clams Casino — "Numb" The great minds at Type Records have done the right thing and given Clams Casino 's breakthrough Instrumentals mixtape (previously a digital freebie) a proper vinyl release . If you forgot just how great this thing was, jog your memory with "Numb", which remains as haunting and head-bobbing as it was back in March. The 2XLP isn't officially out till next week, but Boomkat [...]
Trans Am — "Futureworld" 1999's Futureworld is arguably the finest single-album statement from Tortoise -meets- TRON rockers Trans Am , so it's entirely apt that Thrill Jockey would be giving it the deluxe reissue treatment . The newly-mastered edition lands September 13 and features two digital bonus tracks, including an outtake from the original sessions that's been mixed by James Murphy . Above you can hear the propulsive, [...]
MP3: Trans Am - Futureworld In preparation for next year's 20th anniversary, Thrill Jockey is giving US a gift by reissuing Trans Am 's seminal 4th LP Futureworld on vinyl, out Sept 13th. From the label's mouth: The re-mastered Futureworld LP will be available in a limited edition on September 13, and is available now for pre-order . The LP will be packaged in a high gloss jacket with high gloss inner sleeve, and for the first time will include a [...]
I cant stop playing this! "Until Brooklyn's Truth and Soul label recently reissued Timothy McNealy's "I'm So Glad That You're Mine," most of what anyone knew of this Dallas funk and soul veteran was as an instrumentalist. In the late '60s, the keyboardist had been a member of Bobby Patterson's Mustangs band, but he broke out solo in 1970 and formed the Shawn label. His output on Shawn was meager, but when funk collectors discovered singles such as "Sagittarius Black" and "K.C. Stomp," they clamored for one of the scarce original copies. Strangely, though, [...]
Thank goodness the dour art-damaged early-80's are over, allowing us the emotional distance to observe bands like Danny & the Parkins Sisters from a safe distance. The Mein Leben ist Scheiße Welt mindset on such tracks as This World is Bleak , War (Is On Your Doorstep) and On My Block (with its deliciously overwrought delivery of such couplets as Black boots/Bag o' loot/No one's gonna/Tell you the truth! ) is enough to make you mainline [...]
Thank goodness the dour art-damaged early-80's are over, allowing us the emotional distance to observe bands like Danny & the Parkins Sisters from a safe distance. The Mein Leben ist Scheiße Welt mindset on such tracks as This World is Bleak , War (Is On Your Doorstep) and On My Block (with its deliciously overwrought delivery of such couplets as Black boots/Bag o' loot/No one's gonna/Tell you the truth! ) is enough to make you mainline [...]
From his blog: " Recently I regained the rights to my first album from all the way back in 1996, so I decided to celebrate with a very limited edition cassette re-issue and digital release, featuring a re-made version of the title track, plus a few previously unheard remixes. The tapes are available exclusively from BLEEP and come with a free download. After the tapes are sold, digital sales will be as normal from all good online music places ." [...]
Dinosaur Jr. are set to re-release there first three albums on vinyl later this year. On October 4, Jagjaguwar will reissue " Dinosaur ", " You're Living All Over Me ", and " Bug " on vinyl. The albums were all originally released on the Homestead and SST labels in the 802s and will be re-released in the same form and track list as the originals. Check out the track listing for the three albums below. Dinosaur (1985): Forget The [...]
Paul Simon expands his catalog of jazz-, soul- and gospel-inflected pop After a lengthy world tour and live album ( Live Rhymin' ), Paul Simon returned in 1975 with his third post-Simon & Garfunkel studio album. Simon's comfort with his solo stardom is signaled in part by the return of Art Garfunkel for the album's top-ten "My Little Town." He also shares the microphone with Phoebe Snow and the Jessy Dixon Singers (the latter of whom had toured with Simon in '73 and '74) on "Gone at Last." On the [...]
Paul Simon live in 1974 With Paul Simon having licensed his early solo catalog to Sony, the Legacy branch has taken the opportunity to reissue four key titles on their original Columbia label. Of the four (which also includes Paul Simon , There Goes Rhymin' Simon and Still Crazy After All These Years ), this 1974 live album is the only one to get a fresh remastering (by Dan Hersch at D2 Mastering) and the addition of two [...]
Simon expands his reach with third solo effort Simon's third solo album (including 1965's The Paul Simon Songbook ), found the singer-songwriter expanding upon the freedom he'd displayed on the previous year's eponymous release. The branching out displayed with reggae, Latin and South American sounds was now expanded with bluesy doo-wop, New Orleans pop, gospel and Memphis soul. Simon deftly choreographed an impressive guest list that includes The Dixie Hummingbirds, The Roches, horns arranged by Alan Toussaint and strings arranged by Quincy Jones. His mastery weaves multiple studios, dates [...]
Paul Simon sets out on a brilliant solo career Though not technically Paul Simon's solo debut – that honor goes to the acoustic performances he recorded for 1965's The Paul Simon Songbook – this first post-Simon & Garfunkel album does represent the true beginnings of Simon's massive success as a solo artist. Released in 1972, it came two years after Simon & Garfunkel bowed out with the Grammy winning Bridge Over Troubled Water , and the same year as the duo's greatest hits [...]
"In my music there is nothing to understand. It is so superficial that I can't find anything to say. My music is ingenuous, there is nothing inside it and it is for this reason, that I like it. It can be listened to while sipping tea, watching television, or while speaking with a friend. Even in a moment when one has nothing to do or is bored, the music can be listened to attentively and millions of little changes can be discovered. It is certainly not the ideal music; it is just one type of [...]
Faces on Film, the alter ego Boston-based songwriter Mike Fiore, recently reissued his second album, Some Weather , on the Nice Music Group label. Originally self-released, the record now gets the wider exposure it deserves, and with good reason. Faces on Film's sound has a welcome familiarity about it, landing Some Weather squarely in the "more of a good thing" category. Fiore's vocals sound very similar to a hybrid of My Morning Jacket and Fleet Foxes. Musically, Faces on Film treads a bit more of the experimental folk path, in a Devendra Banhart way rather than say [...]
listening to the 25th anniversary reissue of R.E.M.'s Lifes Rich Pageant didn't spark the kind of nostalgia I perhaps expected, and if I think about it, that's not a surprise. Nostalgia comes from remembering the past. But with Lifes Rich Pageant, I've never allowed it to gather dust, to fall out ...
Newly reissued through Captured Tracks , it's the Wake's '89 single "Crush the Flowers." The New Order fan in me is having a fit right now.
REM's much-maligned exercise in glam rock, Monster , is the logical conclusion of the universally adored Lifes Rich Pageant, which has recently been reissued on its twenty-fifth birthday by IRS Records. This record would usher in REM's artistically and commercially successful middle period, and it would put the band on the road toward the record that seemed to break the back of their fan base. Drawing a line between, say, "Superman" and "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" is not really that difficult; what's harder to do, of course, is explain how the band moved from the majestic " Fall [...]
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