Past Is Still Alive

With the announcement of their latest and most liberating album to date, Hurray For The Riff Raff (aka Alynda Segarra, they/them) opens the doorway to a language and world that are finally their own. The Past Is Still Alive represents a new beginning in Segarra’s lauded evolution as a storyteller. During a period of pain […]

Love Changes Everything

Emerging once again from the unending waves crashing upon our fragile time-craft (adrift on the eternal ocean, and taking on water), Dirty Three are (a) back, (b) tangled in seaweed, rank with saltwater and possessed of three rather ominous thousand-mile stares (at least!), and (c) not wasting another minute – as nothing is guaranteed. For […]

Country Legends

– 1 – 1. Alabama – Patches 2. Kenny Rogers – Me and Bobby McGee 3. Merle Haggard – the Fighting Side of Me 4. Waylon Jennings – White Lightning 5. Asleep At the Wheel – Hot Rod Lincoln 6. Don Gibson – Country Green 7. Ferlin Husky – San Antonio Rose 8. Lynn Anderson […]

Tokijiro: Lone Yakuza

Weary of the rigid codes of the underworld, gambler Tokijiro (Kinnosuke Nakamura, Goyokin) wanders Japan in search of freedom. But escape proves to be impossible when an obligation to a gang boss leaves him with no choice but to kill a man. To atone for his crime, he vows to take care of his victims […]

Seven Psalms 10″

Black Vinyl While in lockdown I wrote a number of psalms, or small, sacred songs—one a day for a week. The seven psalms are presented as one long meditation—on faith, rage, love, grief, mercy, sex and praise. A veiled, contemplative offering borne of an uncertain time. I hope you like it. Nick Cave Tracks: How […]

Chemtrails Over The Country Club

1. White Dress 2. Chemtrails Over The Country Club 3. Tulsa Jesus Freak 4. Let Me Love You Like A Woman 5. Wild At Heart 6. Dark But Just A Game 7. Not All Who Wander Are Lost 8. Yosemite 9. Breaking Up Slowly 10. Dance Till We Die 11. For Free

Four Calendar Cafe

This re-issue of the Cocteau Twins 1993 album has been remastered by Robin Guthrie and is pressed onto high quality 140g vinyl Cocteau Twins vocalist Elizabeth Fraser, guitarist Robin Guthrie, and bassist Simon Raymonde formed in Grangemouth, Scotland in the late 70s The brainchild of Guthrie and original bassist Will Heggie, by 1981 they had […]

Mordechai

Khruangbin has always been multilingual, weaving far-flung musical languages like East Asian surf-rock, Persian funk, and Jamaican dub into mellifluous harmony. But on its third album, it’s finally speaking out loud. Mordechai features vocals prominently on nearly every song, a first for the mostly instrumental band. It’s a shift that rewards the risk, reorienting Khruangbin’s […]

Pendulum Swings

DISC 1 1. Returning 2. Selah 3. First House On The Left 4. These Words Of Mine 5. Does She Hold You Like I Did 6. Northern Sunrise 7. A Boat On The River 8. Father Of Two 9. Anyway, Always 10. Walnut Shell 11. Ready To Go 12. Leaving British singer-songwriter Katherine Priddy releases […]

Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie:thank U Edition

2 LP Celebrating 25 years of ‘Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie’, the album that brought hits “Thank U” and “Unsent” and “That I Would Be Good”, this ‘Thank U Edition’ is a new 2LP reissue of the original album featuring newly reimagined artwork. After the massive success of Jagged Little Pill (1995), Morissette was considered one […]