This first studio album from Nick Drake, which has garnered posthumous praise and remarkable all-time greatest album ratings, is an exact replica of the original 1969 release: it is pressed on heavyweight audiophile vinyl and remastered from near-original master tapes by the album s original engineer, John Wood. The original tape was unusable and although…
Once there was a dream. And once upon a time – many, many moons ago – there was an enchanting summery twilight – a night full of wishes – on the rocky shores of a North Karelian island. There and then, under the luminous sky and by the crackling campfire, the magic was refined: beautiful…
Unearthing Egyptian culture for inspiration, Nile s exceptional musicianship and creative song writing immediately establish them as one of the premier death metal bands in the world! Worshippers of the dead be warned!!!
Leading off with a string-soaked rendition of that Screamin Jay Hawkins title classic, this 1965 Mercury LP is a Nina Simone pop perfection. Also here: Gimme Some; Feeling Good; One September Day; Take Care of Business, and more.
Recorded in New York in 1967, Silk & Soul is Nina Simone s second album for RCA. This album contains classics I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free , which would become a Civil Rights anthem and It Be s That Way Sometimes , written by her brother Sam Waymon.
2017 EP release from Trent Reznor and Co. Add Violence marks the second EP in a proposed trilogy following the 2016 release of Not the Actual Events. Includes the singles Less Than and This Isn t the Place . Trent Reznor said of creating the EP: Something that we have always felt strongly about is…
2018 release. Bad Witch is the ninth studio album by American industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails. It is the band s first full-length release since Hesitation Marks (2013). In 2016, Nine Inch Nails planned a trilogy of EPs, starting with Not the Actual Events. The second EP, Add Violence, was released in 2017. Regarding…
As a placeholder between the full-length Pretty Hate Machine and The Downward Spiral, Broken packs a serious punch. Angrier and less poppy than Machine, this EP is full of noisy hooks, if such a thing is possible (check out that guitar riff on the full-throttle Wish ), and much closer aesthetically to the industrial subgenre that informs Trent Reznor s music….
Since their inception in the metal heartland and rock stronghold of Cleveland, OH, Trent Reznor s Nine Inch Nails have been pioneers in their field. Broadly categorized in the early days as an industrial rock band they ve stuck to first principles while shifting their focus with each successive album and achieved a level of success based…
HESITATION MARKS is the upcoming eighth studio album by American industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails. It will be their first album since 2008 s THE SLIP, and first release on Columbia Records, making this their first album released on a major label since 2007 s YEAR ZERO. Each version of the album will have…
Nine Inch Nails purists once again have the opportunity to own the original version of PRETTY HATE MACHINE, as it is now being reissued on CD and LP in it s original form, which has been unavailable since a brief reissue in 2005. The album features the breakthrough singles Sin, Down in It, and Head…
Incesticide is a compilation album by the American rock band Nirvana. Incesticide consists of their 1990 single Sliver , demos, outtakes, covers, and radio broadcast recordings. At the time, all of the material on Incesticide was circulating within fan communities (albeit in lower quality). It was widely reported in the music press that the band…
2009 release of this historic live performance by the Alt-Rock Grunge legends. While the show s centerpiece was a performance of nearly the entire Nevermind tracklist, also noteworthy were early performances of three as yet unrecorded songs which wouldn t be released until two years later on in Utero: All Apologies , Dumb and, in…
Recorded in November 1993, less than six months before singer Kurt Cobain killed himself, Nirvana s MTV Unplugged is a watershed document that presents a band at the peak of it s powers. Unlike any other unplugged affair, the diverse album is not a simple stripped-down regurgitation of greatest hits or a cash-it-in set of…
Released in 1991, Nirvana s sophomore album and major label debut elevated Kurt Cobain, Krist Novoselic and Dave Grohl from a critically acclaimed cult band to generation spokesmen who d unwittingly created a cultural shift and musical touchstone. Rising to #1 and ultimately selling over 30 million copies worldwide, Nevermind would come to be much…