2024 release. Only God Was Above Us was inspired and haunted by 20th Century New York City and recorded in such far-flung locales as Tokyo, London, Los Angeles, and Manhattan. The album was co-produced by VW s Ezra Koenig and regular collaborator Ariel Rechtshaid, mixed by Dave Fridmann, and mastered by Emily Lazar. The album…
Spanning the tracklist of the original album, the fresh, exciting, and utterly surprising reinterpretations create new content for longtime Talking Heads fans and introduce a new generation to the magic of the music. The brilliant selection of artists recontextualizes STOP MAKING SENSE in popular music and culture, with a focus on generational and stylistic breadth….
Four years and one pandemic on from Orificial Purge, Vastum, the longest running band on the 20 Buck Spin roster, offers up it s fifth bludgeoning document of psychic malaise and lost faith with Inward To Gethsemane. As before, the abject disgust unsparingly captured in Vastum s unique approach continues to drape the music with…
This reissue of this classic Velvet Underground recording features digital remastering and enhanced packaging. Tracks include Sunday Morning, I m Waiting for the Man, Femme Fatale, Venus in Furs, All Tomorrow s Parties, Heroin and much more.
2021 release. Since their founding in 2015, Swedish post-punk band Viagra Boys have made a name for themselves burning up stages around the world. There s a little Iggy Pop spit and seethe, a David Yow drunken stumble, and a bite of Nick Cave s haunted bark. Add a dash of motorik groove, a pinch…
Ali Farka Touré trekked the world, bringing his beloved Malian music to the masses. Dubbed the African John Lee Hooker, one could hear strong connections between the two; both employed a bluesy style of play with gritty textures that elicit calm and fury in equal measure. While the influence of Black blues music prevailed, Touré created a West…
VIO-LENCE LET THE WORLD BURN – Let the World Burn is an upcoming EP by the American thrash metal band Vio-Lence, to be released in March of 2022, by Metal Blade Records. It will be the band s first material of any kind since their initial disbandment in 1994, and their first EP since Torture…
Violent Femmes is the debut album by Violent Femmes. Mostly recorded in July 1982, the album was released by Slash Records on vinyl and on cassette in April 1983, and on CD in 1987, with two extra tracks, Ugly and Gimme the Car .
Multi-platinum alt-rock trio Wallows have announced their highly anticipated third studio album, Model, following their triumphant return with the release of Your Apartment, last month and Calling After Me, their latest single. The John Congleton-produced album arrives May 24th and is available for pre-order now. – Wallows (composed of Dylan Minnette, Braeden Lemasters and Cole…
The long awaited debut album of Wardruna is the first album in the planned ‘Runaljod’ trilogy which will musically interpret the runes of the elder futhark. This highly visual music is hard to place into any specific genre, and there isn’t really much to compare it with either. The style can perhaps be described as…
The Warning – Keep Me Fed – Alternative Rock CD Keep Me Fed is The Warning’s new album via Lava Republic Records. The Warning draw strength and power from a lifetime of sisterhood and music. They have logged thousands of miles on the road, generated hundreds of millions of streams and left countless fans in…
If you applied a microscope to the late 80s American hard rock scene, looking for one pivotal song that encompassed the period, then you d be hard pressed to get past Cherry Pie , a track that was all conquering at the time, firmly establishing itself as one of the era s calling cards. With…
The American glam metal band Warrant came into the national spotlight with their double Platinum debut album Dirty Rotten Filthy Stinking Rich, which peaked at #10 on the Billboard 200. It featured several hit singles, including Heaven , which reached #1 in Rolling Stone and #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album contained three…
WE ARE WINTER’S BLUE AND RADIANT CHILDREN (WAWBARC) is the new quartet of Mat Ball (BIG|BRAVE), Efrim Manuel Menuck (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt. Zion) and Jonathan Downs and Patch (both Ada). On “NO MORE APOCALYPSE FATHER” they present six modal lullabies drenched in seared distortion, slathered across striding electronic pulses. Ball and…