So Far’, so far out. By 1972, Faust had already dismantled the concept of a rock album. With their self-titled debut, they tore through convention with tape edits, abstract structures, and a scathing collage of cultural detritus. Its successor, recorded just six months later, was not a retreat from that radicalism, but its evolution. Instead […]
In celebration of their 2000 debut album Identity Crisis, Thrice presents the album on vinyl for the first time in over a decade.This unique pressing includes a special scrapbook of exclusive photos from the original Identity Crisis album cycle that the band unearthed from their archives.This release is included in the inaugural band event featuring […]
Anyone who has paid attention to Icelandic music this century knows how Ólöf Arnalds can mesmerise a room with nothing but a small guitar and her distinctive soprano voice.Across five albums in nearly twenty years, her gently plucked guitar, charango, violin and koto have provided the bedrock for vivid narrations straddling the mundane and mythological, […]
Celebrating 50 Years of MC5 – Recorded Live in Concert Emerging from the gritty streets of Detroit in the late ’60s, MC5 revolutionised rock’n’roll with their blistering fusion of garage rock, blues, soul, free jazz, and proto-punk.Infamous for incendiary live performances and a radical left-wing stance, they challenged societal norms with anthems like “Kick Out […]
FLY or DIE II: bird dogs of paradise is the much-anticipated follow-up to composer, trumpeter, and (now) singer Jaimie Branch’s debut Fly or Die, which was dubbed one of the “Best Albums of 2017” by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, NPR Music, WIRE, Stereogum, Aquarium Drunkard, and more.Written (mostly) while on her first […]
Captured from ABC-TV’s live broadcast at the height of their 1970s dominance, Grand Funk Railroad: Live at Madison Square Garden 1972 is a thunderous testament to the raw energy and blue-collar spirit that defined America’s biggest rock band of the era.This electrifying performance finds Mark Farner, Don Brewer, and Mel Schacher firing on all cylinders […]
Recorded live in Brussels during the band’s dynamic 1974 European tour, Gentle Giant are captured here as one of progressive rock’s most adventurous and inventive groups at the height of their creative powers.Touring in support of The Power and the Glory, Gentle Giant delivered a performance that exemplified their rare ability to fuse complexity with […]
Homespun brings you this live radio broadcast of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.Recorded in 1966 at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium, this electrifying performance captures them in full flight–raw, fearless, and reshaping the sound of American blues for a new generation.At a time when the San Francisco scene was just beginning to explode, Butterfield and his […]
Album of the Week – Swans – Birthing Staff Review Birthing is the 17th studio album from Swans, Michael Gira’s ever-evolving band. Known in their initial 1981-1997 run for traversing no wave, post-punk, industrial, folk, goth, and noise-rock, the band’s post-2010 output including The Seer and To Be Kind marked a period of colossal, uncompromising experimentation. Recent releases suggested […]
When Dame Vera Lynn’s daughter, Virginia Lewis-Jones, recently moved out of the family home – the house in Ditchling, East Sussex, where Dame Vera Lynn had lived with her husband, the saxophonist and clarinettist Harry Lewis, for nearly 40 years – she donated the entire collection of her mother’s records to The British Library.Archivists have […]
