Townes Van Zandt is widely held in high regard for his poetic and often heroically sad songs. Much of his life was spent touring various dive bars, often living in cheap motel rooms and backwoods cabins. And for much of the 1970s, he lived in a simple shack without electricity or a phone. He suffered […]
Clamshell Box • Celebration of the mid-60s Swinging London scene at its brash, colourful zenith. • A cornucopia of club-friendly mod R&B/soul, era-defining pop hits and cult TV/film themes as England swung like a pendulum do. In April 1966, American magazine Time ran a front-page feature, captioned “You Can Walk Across It On The Grass”, […]
The American blues, jazz and rock guitarist Robben Ford was named as one of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of the 20th Century” by Musician Magazine. He was a member of L.A. Express and Yellowjackets and has collaborated with greats such as Miles Davis, Joni Mitchell, George Harrison and Kiss amongst others. In 1979 he released […]
“This is the eponymous debut studio album by the American Rock band the Modern Lovers, originally released in 1976. Six tracks (“”Roadrunner””, “”Astral Plane””, “”Old World””, “”Pablo Picasso””, “”She Cracked”” and “”Someone I Care About””) were produced by John Cale. The Modern Lovers were formed in 1970 by teenage singer, songwriter, guitarist Jonathan Richman, augmented […]
For Malcolm Pardon, there’s beauty in our universal, inescapable demise. Like the romantic notion of the orchestra on board the Titanic playing their repertoire as the ship went down, on his second solo album Pardon looks past the bleak or macabre to observe death as a multi-layered, lifelong acquaintance. “It’s not meant to be threatening […]
GOLD VINYL IRISH EXCLUSIVE Following the release of their universally acclaimed, Mercury and Ivor Novello Award Nominated fourth studio album False Lankum, which collected Album Of The Year honours from UNCUT magazine, The Guardian, Loud & Quiet, The Quietus, as well as very high rankings from MOJO, NPR, DIY, Crack, Songlines, Music OMH, The Line […]
2 LP The cult of Craven Faults continues to grow. Second full-length album, Standers, will be released on black vinyl and INDIES ONLY Dark Fell Green (Non-Returnable) vinyl limited to 1,000 copies for the world. Packaged in a gatefold sleeve, initial vinyl copies will include a 20-page photobook. In addition to a single CD in […]
Colin Newman & Malka Spigel’s Immersion project sees the 3rd Volume of their Nanocluster collaboration series. The third album in the Nanocluster series is a mid-Atlantic melting pot of ideas that have created a brand new third way. The album sees a collaboration between the European post-punk electronic discipline of Immersion meeting the American ambient […]
Disc 1 1Whiskey, Mystics and Men 2Petition the Lord With Prayer 3The Soft Parade 4Love Me Tender 5Rock Is Dead #1 6Woman Is a Devil 7Rock Is Dead 8Queen of the Magazines 9Pipeline 10Rock Is Dead 11Someday Soon 12Rock Is Dead #4
2 LP The Gloaming is a contemporary Irish music group made up of master musicians Martin Hayes, Dennis Cahill, Iarla O Lionaird, Caoimhin O Raghallaigh and Thomas Bartlett. This band of trailblazers take contemporary Irish music into hitherto unchartered waters, enhancing the traditional rich, melancholic tones with modern hues of jazz, contemporary classical, chamber, post […]
