CDs:
The (Beat) Farmers - Fulmination
The Farmers are back, with a pure, honest, fulminating source of rock & roll swashbuckle. Turn it up and shake a kidney stone loose! These guys have more lives than a cat. They sound like Bo Diddley, CCR, Joe South, and The Yardbirds shoved into a food processor, stuffed into a shotgun shell, and blasted into a beer keg at 3AM in Faron Young's rumpus room.
13th Floor Elevators - Psychedelic Circus
15-song collection represents the best of the live recordings made in Texas and California in 1966 and 1967, when the Elevators were at their peak.
[image-1]Cheap Trick - The Latest
The Latest continues Cheap Trick's reign as power-pop progenitors as they celebrate their 35th anniversary.
Billy Childish - Archive From 1959: The Billy Childish Story 2xCD
This 51-track collection offers a look at the more rock & roll of Childish’s career.
Bo Diddley - Ride On/The Chess Masters, Volume 3 2XCD
All 54 tracks on these two CDs were recorded over a 13 month period from 1960-61 in Bo’s basement studio and delivered to Chess.
Eyedea & Abilities - By The Throat
With biting guitars, fuzzy keyboards, melodic choruses, and some of their most intricate turntable work to date.
Fiery Furnaces - I’m Going Away
Their eighth album and first studio record since 2007's Widow City. "The Fiery Furnaces make music that defies explication, categorization, and most standards of comprehension," -- The NY Times
Bill Frisell - Disfarmer
The late Michael Disfarmer was an odd, curmudgeonly character in the rural community of Heber Springs, Arkansas, who, despite his anti-social character, chose to record the stark images of his fellow townspeople, during the 1940's and 50's, in cheap black-and-white photographic portraits. Decades after the photographer's passing, a cache of work made by this solitary and oft-reviled man was rediscovered, and he has come to be regarded as an important outsider artist. Among the many drawn to his plain yet deeply evocative pictures was Chuck Helm, Director of the Performing Arts at the Wexner Center in Columbus, Ohio, who introduced guitarist and composer Bill Frisell to Disfarmer's oeuvre on the hunch that Frisell might be inspired by it.
[image-2]Various Artists - Galactic Zoo Dossier Magazine+CD
"The world's greatest psychedelic underground hand drawn pro-zine." Interviews with Vashti Bunyan, Djin Aquarian (YaHoWha13), Peter Walker, Mani Neumeier and more. Also includes features on Del Shannon, Eddie Hazel, George-Edwards Group, Kim Fowley, PLUS a CD compilation of totally unreleased magical sounds by YaHoWha13, Vashti Bunyan, Peter Walker, Monster Magnet, Christina Carter and others.
Government Issue - Punk Remains The Same
Five-track EP of new material, in keeping with the D.C. hardcore tradition they pioneered.
Ian Hunter - Man Overboard
In parts raw and expressive, and in others wise and controlled, "Man Overboard" showcases the talents that have made Ian Hunter such a defining example of great and authentic rock and roll.
Incubus - Monuments And Melodies
New single-disc “best of” collection featuring 13 bests, plus 2 new tracks.
Nick Lowe - Brentford Trilogy 3xCD
Gathers three albums, "The Impossible Bird," "Dig My Mood," and "The Convincer" into an inexpensive limited edition boxed set.
Magnolia Electric Co. - Josephine
Magnolia Electric Co.'s fifth full-length, Josephine is a concept album that pays tribute to the life and spirit of fallen bassist Evan Farrell. It contains some of the strongest songs Jason Molina has written. He's approached the universal loneliness before, but never in such a focused, directed manner.
Delbert McClinton - Honky Tonkin’ All Night
The venerable Delbert McClinton is a legend among Texas roots music aficionados, not only for his amazing longevity, but for his ability to combine country, blues, soul, and rock & roll as if there were no distinctions between any of them in the best time-honored Texas tradition. A formidable harmonica player long before he recorded as a singer, McClinton's career began in the late '50s, yet it took him nearly two decades to evolve into a bona fide solo artist.
Portugal The Man - Satanic Satanist
Dave Seaman - This Is Audio Therapy, Volume Two
Double-disc label retrospective curated and mixed by Dave Seaman.
Ricky Skaggs - Don't Cheat In Our Hometown
Reissue with bonus DVD.
Jordin Sparks - Battlefield
I have nothing to say about this. Sorry.
Powell St. John - On My Way To Houston
A little history: St. John performed with Janis Joplin and Lanny Wiggins in a band called The Waller Creek Boys. He also formed the blues-rock band Mother Earth. His songs have been covered by Doug Sahm, Janis Joplin, Boz Scaggs and Roky Ericson. On My Way To Houston is his new album.
Starlight Mints - Change Remains
Starlight Mints are a group of beautiful pop mutants: five singular musical minds whose love for archetypal pop music and AM radio has provided, over the course of three previous acclaimed albums, a rock-solid foundation for a whole bunch of inspired uniqueness, all baked the Oklahoma sun.
Sugar Ray - Music For Cougars
First studio album in six years -- special guest artists include Rivers Cuomo, Josh Freese and others.
[image-3]Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs - Under The Covers: Volume 2
"Under The Covers: Volume 2" finds Sweet and Hoffs moving forward through rock’s back pages to take on a other another decade: the ’70s. From the power-pop of The Raspberries and Big Star to the soft-rock of Carly Simon and Bread, and from the classic-rock of John Lennon and Derek and the Dominos to the prog-rock of Yes.
Kurt Vonnegut & Dave Soldier - Ice-9 Ballads
Kurt Vonnegut's two extended musical works with composer Dave Soldier, both featuring Vonnegut's own acting and narration. For the title "Ice-9 Ballads", the team created nine songs adapted from his novel "A Cat's Cradle" for orchestra, singers, and Vonnegut as the narrator. The second "A Soldier's Story" is a radio opera based on the death of Private Eddie Slovik in World War II, shot for cowardice. It features Vonnegut as the General and radio legend Phil Schaap as the radio announcer, Both are performed by conductor Richard Auldon Clark and the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra. The final work, "East St. Louis, 1968" features Clark on viola, Soldier on electronics & harmonica, recreating a walk by a young violist through the streets.
[image-4]DVDs:
Neil Hamburger - Western Music & Variety
Features live performances of songs from Sings Country Winners.
New Lost City Ramblers - Always Been A Rambler
A treasure trove of recently filmed and rare archival footage, photos, and music, this film includes performances and interviews by The New Lost City Ramblers, Maybelle and Sara Carter, David Grisman, Pete Seeger, Ricky Skaggs, Doc Watson, and many other masters of old time music. Contains rarely seen and never before seen bonus footage, including 24 minutes (8 more songs) of a rarely-seen 1969 color film of the NLCR, plus never-before-seen 1959 footage of the NLCR with Tom Paley (two more songs).
Anita O'Day - Life of a Jazz Singer
Known for her inventive scatting as well as her touching balladeering, O'Day recorded several dozen classic albums, mostly for the Verve label in the 1950s. Ms. O'Day was often as flamboyant visually as she was innovative vocally. A survivor of both heroin and alcohol addiction, she was also the author of one of the great jazz memoirs, "Hard Times, High Times" and the subject of this full length documentary film.
