Released in 2014 and charting at number six in the UK (and number four on the Billboard 200 in the US), Adams’ self-titled album, produced by the artist and his recording partner Mike Viola, earned two nominations at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards in ‘Best Rock Song’, for lead single ‘Gimme Something Good’ and ‘Best […]
LP + BOOK Action Adventure is DJ Shadows seventh solo LP, an inward-looking project, made for Shadow alone without any collaborators. DJ Shadow explains, “This album is about my relationship to music. My life as a collector and curator. All my records and tapes.”“Ozone Scraper” is the lead single of the album campaign. It represents […]
Whitelands’ second album Sunlight Echoes builds on their elemental debut – that won them fans from Slowdive to David Jonsson – with a more expansive sound that takes them out of the shoegaze shadows to somewhere bigger, better and brighter. Produced by long-time collaborator Ian Flynn and mixed by double Grammy Award-winner Eduardo De La […]
Blue Note Classic Vinyl Reissue Series!180g Vinyl LP!Mastered by Kevin Gray from Original Analog Tapes!Pressed at Optimal! The underrated hard bop pianist and composer Freddie Redd first gained a degree of prominence as the composer of the remarkable score for the acclaimed stage play The Connection, in which he also appeared as an actor playing […]
Since the 1940s, Library Music has lurked in the shadows, peripherally touching our lives through TV and film.Among the stalwarts of the industry was UK’s Studio G, with cues heard on Doctor Who, and sampled by the likes of The Chemical Brothers, and Tyler, the Creator.Jazz Dispensary’s Dream a Dream with Studio G: Cratedigger’s Archive […]
2 LP Rough & Rowdy Ways the new album from Bob Dylan will be released on 31st July. Dylan leaves the Great American Songbook of Shadows In The Night, Fallen Angels & Triplicate aside to release his first album of entirely new material since 2012s The Tempest. Rough & Rowdy Ways includes recent singles the […]
12” EP – Standard Edition Black Vinyl (8 tracks).Sit at the Kids Table.Go to prom.Try a new SSRI.Deface a mural.Flip the mattress.Help a bird.Dissociate.Last vacation.These landmark occasions are inscribed on the board-game-inspired cover of the new Bright Eyes EP, Kids Table.And therein lies the chiaroscuro of Bright Eyes’ music, perpetually teetering between rogue optimism and […]
The follow- up EP to 2024’s “Five Dice, All Threes” which received glowing reviews from DIY, Uncut & others. EP features Hurray for the Riff Raff and cover of Lucinda Williams’ ‘Sharp Cutting Wings (Song To A Poet)’ Bright Eyes will be touring all summer in Europe, including a sold-out date at London’s Shepherd’s Bush […]
65 years ago, on October 17th, 1959, Cliff Richard and The Shadows hit the No.1 spot in the UK with ‘Travellin’ Light’.This was the first single credited to Cliff Richard and The Shadows – re-named from their original title – The Drifters.This notable anniversary will be marked with a brand-new collection which focuses, for the […]
Following the departure of Wire’s drummer Robert Grey in 1990 WIR had risen phoenix like from the ashes of the acclaimed UK post-punk band after and were created to fulfil the final phase of Wire’s Mute Records contract. With a more sequence based sound, WIR saw the band breaking all their own rules by creating […]
