Noctourniquet And then everything went black, at least for a while, at least for The Mars Volta. In the months and years following their fifth full-length, Octahedron, Omar kept on at his usual fearsome creative pace. In fact, he ramped up his output considerably, starting up his own Rodriguez Lopez Productions label and releasing a…
The Messthetics James Brandon Lewis – The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis On their Impulse! Debut album, Washington DC s experimental jazz punk trio the Messthetics (guitarist Anthony Pirog with drummer Brendan Canty and Joe Lally of iconic band Fugazi) join forces with acclaimed jazz tenor saxophonist, composer and bandleader James Brandon Lewis. Together, they…
Vinyl LP pressing. The Meters defined New Orleans funk, not only on their own recordings, but also as the backing band for numerous artists, including many produced by Allen Toussaint. Where the funk of Sly Stone and James Brown was wild, careening, and determinedly urban, The Meters were down-home and earthy. Nearly all of their…
Limited 180gm audiophile vinyl LP pressing. There is funk, and there is Funk. This here is of course the latter. Struttin is the third studio album by the funk group The Meters, originally released in 1970. The first single was the song Chicken Strut . It reached #11 on the U.S. R&B Singles chart. It…
Vinyl LP pressing. Recorded in the wee hours of Good Friday 1960, this charming and impromptu Pacific Jazz session captured the easygoing alchemy of The Modest Jazz Trio featuring Jim Hall on guitar, Red Mitchell on piano, and Red Kelly on bass. Good Friday Blues would be the trio s sole album, a sublimely swinging…
In the summer of 1973 two childhood friends living in the Trenchtown area in Kingston Jamaica, Maurice Blacka Wellington and Eric Bingy Bunny Lamont formed The Morwells. Both with backgrounds and great interest in the music industry. Bingy Bunny had recorded with the great Bongo Herman Davis for Derrick Harriott while Maurice was an active…
Frank Zappa & the Mothers – Live At Fillmore East, June 1971 – The iconic 1971 release gets expanded for it s 50th Anniversary. Featuring the original single LP, newly remastered, with two additional vinyl discs of period-perfect vintage mixes from the Vault. Includes the John Lennon and Yoko Ono encore and the original Billy…
Vinyl LP repressing. Weasels Ripped My Flesh is the tenth studio album by the Mothers of Invention, released in 1970. It is the second posthumous Mothers album released after the band disbanded in 1969, preceded by Burnt Weeny Sandwich. In contrast to it s predecessor, which predominately focused on studio recordings of tightly arranged compositions,…
Originally released in October 2000, The Coroner s Gambit finds John Darnielle between physical and sonic spaces, five of it s sixteen songs recorded in Simon Joyner s Omaha, Nebraska, studio, five more at home in Colo, Iowa, and the rest in Ames. The album came together slowly; The Mountain Goats had released music every…
Originally released in October 2000, The Coroner s Gambit finds John Darnielle between physical and sonic spaces, five of it s sixteen songs recorded in Simon Joyner s Omaha, Nebraska, studio, five more at home in Colo, Iowa, and the rest in Ames. The album came together slowly; The Mountain Goats had released music every…
The very same group that the Mamas & the Papas sang about in “Creeque Alley!” Before each musician found their way to stardom, Mama Cass & Denny Doherty teamed up with future Lovin’ Spoonful guitarist Zal Yanovsky and “Summer Rain” hit songwriter Jim Hendricks to form the Mugwumps! Only lasting eight months, this pop-folk treasure…
The Muppets perform the classic Dickens holiday tale, with Kermit the Frog playing Bob Cratchit, the put-upon clerk of stingy Ebenezer Scrooge (Michael Caine).
The Murlocs – Bittersweet Demons – On their fifth album, The Murlocs reflect on those who leave a profound imprint on our lives: the saviors and hellraisers and assorted other mystifying characters. The most personal and boldly confident work yet from the Melbourne-based five-piece (which includes two members of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard);…
Limited orange colored vinyl LP pressing. The Murlocs, lead by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizards Ambrose Kenny-Smith and also featuring Gizz s lead guitar player Cook Craig, make psych-laced garage blues rock. Recorded at Melbourne s Newmarket studios, Manic Candid Episode was produced by Stu Mackenzie (King Gizzard) and mixed by NYC musician Jarvis…
Wewantsounds present the first official release outside of Japan for The Mystery Kindaichi Band s The Adventures of Kindaichi Kosuke, originally released in 1977. The imaginary soundtrack to the cult detective book series by writer Seishi Yokomizo is on many DJ want-lists. Arranged by soundtrack master Kentaro Haneda and featuring a mysterious group of the best 70s Japanese Funk musicians,…
A raw-nerved hybrid of elemental Merseybeat, lugubrious surf-noir and sheer sonic assault, the remarkable legacy of Long Island s Mystic Tide has long been venerated within the 60s garage rock pantheon, even if their existential racket only slipped out on a series of painfully rare 45s. Now, the fruit of Joe Docko Jr and friends…