1. Middle Cyclone, Neko Case
2. 21, Adele
3. Bon Iver, Bon Iver
4. Sigh No More, Mumford & Sons
5. Helplessness Blues, Fleet Foxes
6. Live at Stubb’s Vol. 1, Matisyahu
7. Blessed, Lucinda Williams
8. Hot Sauce Committee Pt. 2, Beastie Boys
9. Culture of Fear, Thievery Corporation
10. The Grand Theatre Vol. 2, Old 97’s
11. Rave On Buddy Holly, Various Artists
12. Revelator, Tedeschi Trucks Band
13. David Comes to Life, Fucked Up
14. Modern Love, Matt Nathanson
15. Whatever’s on Your Mind, Gomez
16. Queen of the Minor Key, Eilen Jewell
17. Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites, Skrillex
18. The Head and the Heart, The Head and the Heart
19. A Treasure, Neil Young
20. Paper Airplane, Alison Krauss and Union Station
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Radiohead Little By Little (Caribou Remix)/Lotus Flower (Jacques Greene Remix) 12-inch — the first in a series of limited-edition (2,000 copies each) indie exclusive 12-inches featuring remixes of tracks from The King of Limbs!
OTHER RECENT EXCLUSIVES:
Radiohead Supercollider/The Butcher 12-inch (UK Record Store Day release now available in the U.S. — features two new tracks recorded during The King of Limbs sessions!)
The Dodos All Night 7-inch (features three exclusive tracks)
Candy Golde self-titled 10-inch
Cheap Trick In Color audiophile vinyl LP
Disc Genie Cleaning Cloths
Dispatch EP CD
Eastern Conference Champions Speak-Ahh CD
Garland Jeffreys The King of In Between CD
Graham Cotton Pacific Coast Eyes CD
Joe Purdy 4th of July CD
The Silos Florizona CD
All Time Low Dirty Work Deluxe Edition (indie exclusive with bonus tracks)
Neil Young A Treasure vinyl LP (two versions) READ MORE HERE
Mark Kozelek Live at Union Chapel and Sodra Teatern vinyl LP
Toad the Wet Sprocket All You Want CD
Joe Purdy This American Life CD
Pete Droge A Lot Like You Soundtrack CD
Glasvegas Euphoric/Heartbreak vinyl LP
Foster and Lloyd It’s Already Tomorrow CD
Glitch Mob Drink the Sea vinyl LP
Grand Magnolias Grand Magnolias CD
Tres Mts. Three Mountains CD. A project comprised of Pearl Jams bassist, King’s Xs Vocalist and guitarist and the Fastbacks drummer.
Brendan Benson Lapalco vinyl LP
Vanity Theft Get What You Came For CD
Vanity Theft Anatomy EP
Black Lips/Strange Boys Bruise Cruise Vol. 4 7-inch
Quintron and Miss Pussycat/Turbo Fruits Bruise Cruise Vol. 3 7-inch
Wanda Jackson Thunder on the Mountain/Dust on the Bible 7-inch
Dungen Oga Nasa Mum/Highway Wolf 7-inch
Riley Grandma’s Roadhouse vinyl LP
Booker T and the MG’s McLemore Avenue (Abbey Road covers) vinyl LP
Kate Bush Hounds of Love vinyl LP
Kate Bush The Sensual World vinyl LP
Harry Nilsson A Little Touch of Schmilsson vinyl LP
Dex Romweber Duo Third Man Live 02-04-2010 vinyl LP
Conan O’Brien and the Legally Prohibited Band Third Man Live 06-10-2010 vinyl LP
Pujol Third Man Live 05-21-2010 vinyl LP
Tyvek Third Man Live 09-27-2010 vinyl LP
Gregory Alan Isakov This Empty Northern Hemisphere vinyl LP
Josh Ritter The Animal Years CD reissue – includes bonus CD with live acoustic performance of entire album!
Hellogoodbye Would It Kill You? vinyl LP
Pearl Jam Live on Ten Legs CD and vinyl LP
Josh Ritter The Animal Years vinyl LP (first time on wax – includes CD with live acoustic performance of entire album!)
Band of Horses/Cee-lo Green split 7-inch (Band of Horses covering Cee-lo, Cee-lo covering Band of Horses)
The Decemberists The King is Dead deluxe box set
Bing Crosby and David Bowie Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth 7-inch (red vinyl)
John Fahey Volume One/Blind Joe Death vinyl LP
John Wesley Harding Sings to a Small Guitar Vol. II CD
The Duke Spirit Kusama CD EP
Os Haxixins Noites Brancas 7-inch
Right Now 7 to 10 7-inch
Right Now Carry Me Home vinyl LP
Carbon Leaf Christmas Child CD
The Knife Seeds 12-inch
Fitz and the Tantrums Santa Stole My Lady 7-inch
The Greenhornes Saying Goodbye 7-inch
Laura Marling Blues Run the Game 7-inch
The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldiers 180-gram vinyl LP
Dead Weather/Third Man vinyl: Tons of new 7-inches, 12-inches and full-length LPs from Jack White’s label, including six Dead Weather titles as well as new cuts from Jack White, Dex Romweber Duo, Conan O’Brien, Carl Sagan, Dan Sartain, Wanda Jackson, Jon Wayne and Secret Sisters.
Keith Richards Life book
DJ Shadow4 Track Era vinyl LP
Widespread Panic Johnson City 2001 3CD set
The Shipping News One Less Heartless to Fear CD
The Answering Machine Another City Another Story CD
Scott Miller Christmas Gift CD
Wingless Angels (Keith Richards) Wingless Angels CD EXTREMELY LIMITED!
Wingless Angels (Keith Richards) Volumes I and II CD Box Set
Bad Books Bad Books CD
Bobby Long Stranger Songs vinyl LP
California Guitar Trio Andromeda vinyl LP
The Shipping News One Less Heartless to Fear vinyl LP
Jill Cunniff City Beach vinyl LP, available on red/yellow or orange/pink colored vinyl; both versions come with a bonus 7-inch! Limited to 250 copies (that’s in the entire universe).
Keith Richards Vintage Vinos CD (retrospective from out of print studio albums, plus live tracks)
Matisyahu Shake Off the Dust … ARISE CD (reissue of out-of-print, fan-favorite indie debut!
Biffy Clyro Only Revolutions CD
Broken Spindles Document No. 2 (handmade CD, extremely limited)
Dapose Positive Feedback limited-edition vinyl LP
Touch People Everyone Is Not Alive limited-edition vinyl LP
Brendon Benson Well & Goode 7-inch
Paul McCartney and Wings Band on the Run 7-inch. Taken from the forthcoming Paul McCartney Archive Collection reissue of Band On The Run, this limited-edition, highly-collectible vinyl 7-inch replicates the original U.S. single release that shot to the top of the Billboard Hot 100 back in June of 1974. Housed in a deluxe picture sleeve and digitally re-mastered from the original tapes, this is sure to become a sought after Paul McCartney single release for years to come.
Elvis Costello This Year’s Model 180-gram half-speed master vinyl LP (only 5,000 made!)
Elvis Costello Armed Forces 180-gram half-speed master vinyl LP (only 5,000 made!)
Pixies Bossanova 180-gram half-speed master vinyl LP (only 5,000 made!)
Klaxons Surfing the Void CD
Puscifer “C” is for … vinyl LP
Wingless Angels (Keith Richards) Volume I and II
Shadow Shadow Shade Shadow Shadow Shade CD
Soundgarden Telephantasm 3LP vinyl version. Read more HERE.
Amy Correia You Go Your Way CD
Darden Smith Marathon CD
Fever Ray Mercy Street 7-inch
Lloyd Cole Broken Record CD
Nicole Atkins Vultures 7-inch
Cee Lo F**k You CD single, only 99 cents! Read more HERE
Maroon 5 Hands All Over Indie Store Version with bonus tracks
Weezer Raditude Photos 144-page color photo book
Puscifer Sound Into Blood Into Wine CD
Puscifer “C” is For … CD
Sea Wolf Turn the Dirt Over 7-inch
Hayley Taylor One Foot in Front of the Other CD
Mason Jennings Live at First Ave. CD
Brad Best Friends? vinyl LP
Corinne Bailey Rae The Sea vinyl LP
Paper Bird When the River Took Flight CD
Record Store Days book
Coconut Records Nighttiming vinyl LP
Crooked Fingers Forfeit/Fortune vinyl LP
Josh Ritter Golden Age of Radio CD
Josh Ritter S/T CD
Patton Oswalt 222 CD
Right Away, Great Captain! The Eventually Home CD
Warren Haynes The Lone EP
William Fitzsimmons Derivatives CD
Brad Best Friends? CD
The Coral Butterfly House standard/deluxe CD
The Damnwells Golden Days DVD
John Wesley Harding Sings to a Small Guitar Vol. 1 CD
Kristin Hersh Crooked CD
Neu! Vinyl Box Set
Earl Greyhound Suspicious Package CD
Shonen Knife Live at Mowawk Place 2009 DVD
Donavon Frankenreiter Revisited vinyl LP
Various Artists Eat, Pray, Love soundtrack CD
Beck Sea Change half-speed master vinyl LP
Cowboy Junkies Whites Off Earth Now! half-speed master vinyl LP
Elvis Costello My Aim Is True half-speed master vinyl LP
Faith No More Angel Dust half-speed master vinyl LP
Megadeth Countdown to Extinction half-speed master vinyl LP
Pixies Surfer Rosa half-speed master vinyl LP
Pixies Doolittle half-speed master vinyl LP
Bad Brains Live at CBGB 1982 vinyl LP
Builders and the Butchers Where the Roots All Grow CD
Earl Greyhound Soft Targets CD
Filter Inevitable Relapse 7-inch
Junip (Jose Gonzalez) Rope and Summit vinyl LP
Matthew Ryan Dear Lover Acoustic Version CD
Via Audio Animalore CD and vinyl LP
William Fitzsimmons Derivatives CD
Donavon Frankenreiter Revisited CD
Guggenheim Grotto Universe is Laughing CD
Hurricane Bells Tonight is the Ghost CD
I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody’s Business The World We Know CD
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds The Mercy Seat 12-inch (limited edition white vinyl!)
STS9 Ad Explorata vinyl LP
The Glitch Mob Drink the Sea CD
Mz Streamz It’s Alive CD
Shannon McNally Coldwater CD
Snow and Voices Anything That Moves CD
Toots and the Maytals Flip and Twist CD
Record Store Day exclusives. We still have limited quantities left of select titles!
Nirvana In Utero 180-gram yellow colored vinyl LP
Nirvana MTV Unplugged 180-gram red colored vinyl LP
Nirvana Nevermind colored vinyl LP
Slacktone Warning: Reverb Instrumentals CD
Randall Bramlett The Meantime CD
Lou Reed Satellite Of Love 7-inch
The Replacements I’ll Be You 7-inch
The Ramones California Sun 7-inch
Kate Nash My Best Friend is You Indie Store Version with bonus track.
The Ravenna Colt Slight Spell CD and vinyl LP.
Vampire Weekend Contra indie-store version bundled with a limited-edition bonus CD featuring three exclusive tracks!
BlakRoc BlakRoc CD and vinyl LP, ONLY VERSION WITH LUDACRIS/ODB TRACK “COOCHIE” and it’s going quickly! Get it while you can — very limited quantities remaining of this first pressing!
Old Crow Medicine Show Greetings From Wawa limited-edition CD reissue.
DJ Shadow In L.A. 10-31-09 CD
Jack Johnson Brushfire Fairytales limited-edition CD
Josh Ritter Hello Starling vinyl/double CD reissue
The Beatles Abbey Road vinyl box (w/ t-shirt and poster)
Zac Brown Band Live From Bonnaroo CD EP
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THE VINYL WORD: ALISON KRAUSS & UNION STATION ‘PAPER AIRPLANE’
July 5, 2011
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If Alison Krauss felt any pressure when she went in to record Paper Airplanes, her follow-up to 2004’s triple Grammy-winning Lonely Runs Both Ways and Raising Sand, her collaboration with Robert Plant — which went on to garner an additional six Grammys – it is impossible to hear it anywhere on the album. Whatever blood, sweat and tears were shed during the creation of this beautifully realized cycle of songs are invisible as each performance comes off as exhilarating, natural and blissfully unforced. In every instance, Paper Airplanes rises to the impossibly high bar set by its predecessors to form what may well be the finest album Krauss has ever released.
The sound Alison Krauss and her longtime bandmates in Union Station create continues to express an intuition and flow that is rarely heard in country music. Dan Timinski’s pristine guitar playing and worn-in vocals are as essential and impressive as ever, while bluegrass legend Jerry Douglas’ dobro playing is stellar throughout. But, not surprisingly, Krauss’ vocals are the centerpiece, and her mezzo soprano has never sounded as pure as it does on this new set of songs. Her range continues to stagger, and nowhere is this more evident than it is on her cover of Richard and Linda Thompson’s “Dimming of the Day.” While she wisely chooses not to descend into the heart of darkness that washed over the original version, Krauss effortlessly holds each note as she pulls off the long phrases and diabolical range required without ever faltering, effortlessly walking the line between sugary sweetness and tragic desperation to bring the song home. – Paste
OTHER NEW VINYL RELEASES:
Deerhoof/Woom Woom on Hoof
Be Good Tanyas Blue Horse
Big D & The Kids Table For the Damned the Dumb & the Delirious
Deerhoof Milk Man
Father’s Children Who’s Gonna Save The World
Keith Richards Vintage Vinos
Bon Iver Calgary
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“On tour, Lord of the Flies. Aw, hey, who cares? What’s a guuuii-taaaaar?” So begins the sharply titled “On Tour”, a spacious, diary-like explosion nestled just a few minutes into Smoke Ring for My Halo, Kurt Vile’s fourth and finest full-length to date. Strings buzz, strummed patterns double back on themselves and from up above it all, the Philadelphia-native showers everything with cosmic, harp-like harmonics. It’s a song that’s both monastic and vast all at once, the kind of curiously rich work that seems like it was crafted by forty longhairs instead of just one. But Vile has gone great lengths in answering his own question in recent years, finding a way to distill thousands of hours spent with classic American guitar music into one very singular and sublime vision. Whether he’s channeling the energies of John Fahey or Tom Petty or even Bob Seger, Smoke Ring makes clear that the end result is his alone.
But to listen to Kurt Vile is to hear him in conversation with himself: That can be said of his ultra-wry lyrical observations just as much as the elliptical, brick-by-brick architecture of his songwriting. In the past, though, Vile’s words have been written off as mumbled, unintelligible, and listless — a criticism made all the more reasonable given the crude recording techniques he employed. But 2009’s Childish Prodigy, his Matador debut, found Vile wiping off some of the grimy, decidedly “lo-fi” film that had fenced off much of his work up until that point. (Additionally, he brought his sometime touring band, the Violators, into the studio to help fill out those songs that required more brawn. They also appear here.) It was a jump to the relative big leagues that, despite its cleaner approach, offered more in the way of promise than focus. That’s not at all the case here. As hinted at by last year’s Square Shells EP, a “stepping stone” to where we are now, the sonics and vocals have been spit-polished to shimmer — every sonorous detail can now be heard in full, and Vile’s voice has taken on a new, mountainous presence in the center of each song. The conversation’s grown far more engaging.
What we learn is that Kurt Vile has a lot to say. He can be quick, as on the strong-jawed, electric groove of “Puppet to the Man”, when he opens, “I bet by now you probably think I’m a puppet to the man. Well I’ll tell you right now, you best believe that I am.” And he can yank your heart out, as he does a number of times here, perhaps most memorably amid the celestial fingerpicking of “Baby’s Arms”, when he tries convincing himself that, he’ll “never ever, ever be alone.” But he’s actually always alone here. Vile’s lonesome brand of melancholia is still communicated both plainly and unassumingly enough to be missed, but it’s that sense that he seems to be talking only to himself that lends these songs such magnetic pull. Between the two seismic chords of “Ghost Town” this album’s bulldozing climax, Vile wonders aloud, “think I’ll never leave my couch again, because when I’m out, I’m away in my mind. Christ was born, I was there. You know me, I’m around. I got friends, hey wait, where was I, well, I am trying.” Although he stretches those last two or three notes, it doesn’t feel like he’s singing. We’re eavesdropping on the most private of dialogs.
Sonically and compositionally, Vile allows us the space to do that. He’s still cycling between strummers and fingerpicked mazework, but the battery of pedal effects is mostly gone. Rather than stitch loop to loop to loop, Vile’s given every marvelous, carefully placed layer all kinds of room to aerate. In the past, “Peeping Tomboy” may have sunk halfway through its bridge, while single “In My Time” probably would have lost its way mid-jam. But here, Vile has acknowledged limits in length for the sake of depth. It makes for a full-blown journey. Though there isn’t an earworm like “Freeway” — that endlessly replayable, interstate love song from Vile’s 2008 Constant Hitmaker LP — Smoke Rings isn’t that kind of listen. This feels like a family of songs, one whose complexion and course changes as a whole with every spin. In the closing moments of “Ghost Town”, Vile leaves us with, “Raindrops might fall on my head sometimes, but I don’t pay ’em any mind. Then again, I guess it ain’t always that way.” He knows exactly what he’s trying to say. — Pitchfork