"Straight up, no one is having more fun than me when we're up there!" beams DRAIN frontman Sammy Ciaramitaro, whose face is perpetually glued in a grin. For anyone that's seen the Santa Cruz hardcore firebrands live, there's no mistaking that fact. Drain isn't just a good time as Sammy presides over the chaos of stage diving bodies and mic-grabbing frontline; it's a party-and everyone is invited. (Dolphin shorts and boogie boards are optional but encouraged.) "The vibe of it is, enthusiastic, hectic," says the vocalist. "Five people deep singing and stagediving, then kids going berserk behind that. It's a great vibe and I think people pick up on that." That, in a nutshell is DRAIN. The trio inject a serious dose of relatability-not to mention catchiness-into hardcore's penchant for toughness and brutality on their new Epitaph album, "... IS YOUR FRIEND". Ciaramitaro's desperate, snotty howl rides roughshod over thrash-leaning riffage as rhythms bounce in a big way. If you're picturing the Pacific Ocean waves that rise and fall along the coastal town, occasionally violently so, you're not far off.
Tracklist:
Stealing Happiness from Tomorrow
Living in a Memory
Scared of Everything and Nothing
Nothing But Love
Can't Be Bothered
Loudest in the Room
Nights Like These
Who's Having Fun?
Darkest Days
Until Next Time
UPC: 045778812028Label: EpitaphRelease Date: 11.7.25Format: CD
DRAIN – the Santa Cruz, CA based hardcore band, whose energetic live shows have propelled them to peak underground popularity (during a global pandemic) and they are ready to break wide open in 2023.Living Proof is the band’s Epitaph Records debut and follow up to their 2020 breakout release, California Cursed. The new album is a testament to the hard work and heartfelt ethos that’s at the center of DRAIN’s good-time psyche. There are a couple surprises on the album. Rapper Shakewell appears on the track, “Intermission”. There’s also a cover of “Good, Good Things,” a nearly four-decade old melodic punk carol by the Descendents: slam-pit forebearers to DRAIN if there ever were any. “It’s crazy because the song’s been out like forty years, but lyrically it’s a DRAIN song!” exclaims vocalist Sam Ciaramitaro. “It just hits on everything that I love, that I’m about.”What Sammy’s about is plenty wholesome. “I hope with this record that when someone hears it, it gives them hope,” beams. “If we were able to get through the tough times, anyone can. I can’t wait to play these songs and hear a room full of people singing back to us. We’re what the title says, the Living Proof.”Produced by longtime friend and multi-instrumentalist Taylor Young (God’s Hate, Suicide Silence), then mixed by John Markson (Drug Church, Koyo), this is hardcore for everybody. “As the band gets bigger, I try and keep that feeling alive,” says the smiling singer. “Every night I set up the merch and run it until it’s time to play. I want to be the guy that everyone says hello to. I want to thank every single kid that comes out for being there.”
Tracklist:
Run Your Luck
FTS (Kys)
Devil's Itch
Evil Finds Light
Imposter
Intermission (Feat. Shakewell)
Weight of the World
Watch You Burn
Good Good Things
Living Proof
UPC: 045778783922Label: EpitaphRelease Date: 5.5.23Format: CD
An album announcement that is fifteen years in the making, GRAMMY®-winning, progressive music titans Dream Theater return with their sixteenth studio album, Parasomnia. The album marks the first album featuring the iconic lineup of vocalist James LaBrie, guitarist John Petrucci, bassist John Myung, keyboardist Jordan Rudess and drummer Mike Portnoy since 2009’s Black Clouds & Silver Linings. The album was produced by Petrucci, engineered by James ‘Jimmy T’ Meslin, and mixed by Andy Sneap. Hugh Syme returns once again to lend his creative vision to the cover art. From the opening track “In The Arms Of Morpheus” to the closer of “The Shadow Man Incident,” Dream Theater returns with a collection of songs that showcase what has earned the band a loyal following for four decades. Clocking in at 71 minutes, Parasomnia takes the listener on a musical journey that has become synonymous with the band since the beginning of their career. The album is available on several formats including:Ltd Deluxe Box-set – includes Ltd Deluxe 2CD+Blu-ray Artbook (Incl. CD1: full album, CD2: instrumentals, Blu-ray: Dolby Atmos & 5.1 Surround Sound - mixed by Mark Gittins, High-Resolution Stereo Mixes, animated visualizers for each song created by Wayne Joyner, + 68-page booklet), Ltd Gatefold 180g Dark Green 2LP (feat. alternative cover artwork), Majesty-logo dream catcher keyring, Sleeping mask, Dream journal, 60x60cm poster & hand-numbered, foil-stamped certificate of authenticity. Limited to 3500 copies worldwide.Ltd Deluxe 2CD+Blu-ray Artbook - (Incl. CD1: full album, CD2: instrumentals, Blu-ray: Dolby Atmos & 5.1 Surround Sound - mixed by Mark Gittins, High-Resolution Stereo Mixes, animated visualizers for each song created by Wayne Joyner, + 68-page booklet)
Tracklist:
In the Arms of Morpheus
Night Terror
A Broken Man
Dead Asleep
Midnight Messiah
Are We Dreaming?
Bend the Clock
The Shadow Man Incident
UPC: 198028437424Label: Inside OutRelease Date: 2.7.25Format: CD
In 2024, GRAMMY®-winning, progressive music titans Dream Theater celebrated their 40th anniversary as a band, as well as the return of founding member Mike Portnoy, with a mammoth tour starting at London's legendary O2 Arena and continuing across the globe. 'Quarantième: Live à Paris' is a live presentation of that tour, filmed and recorded live in Paris in front of a huge audience at the Adidas Arena. Performing tracks from across the band's career, as well as material from their most recent acclaimed studio album, ‘Parasomnia’, this stunning audio/visual release documents a very special time in the band's history. Presented in several formats, with artwork by longtime collaborator Hugh Syme, 'Quarantième: Live à Paris' will be available as a Limited Deluxe 3CD+3Blu-ray artbook, including 68-pages of photos and artwork as well as bonus material on one of the Blu-ray discs. It will also be available as a Special Edition 3CD+2Blu-ray Digipak, Limited Deluxe 180g 4LP boxset & digitally. The blu-ray includes the full show with Dolby Atmos, 5.1 Surround Sound, 24-bit high-resolution stereo audio.
Tracklist:
Metropolis Pt. 1 (Live a Paris 2024)
Overture 1928 (Live a Paris 2024)
Strange Deja Vu (Live a Paris 2024)
The Mirror (Live a Paris 2024)
Panic Attack (Live a Paris 2024)
Barstool Warrior (Live a Paris 2024)
Hollow Years (Live a Paris 2024)
Constant Motion (Live a Paris 2024)
As I Am (Live a Paris 2024)
Orchestral Overture (Live a Paris 2024)
Night Terror (Live a Paris 2024)
Under a Glass Moon (Live a Paris 2024)
This is the Life (Live a Paris 2024)
Vacant (Live a Paris 2024)
Stream of Consciousness (Live a Paris 2024)
Octavarium (Live a Paris 2024)
Home (Live a Paris 2024)
The Spirit Carries On (Live a Paris 2024)
Pull Me Under (Live a Paris 2024)
UPC: 198029631029Label: Century MediaRelease Date: 11.28.25Format: CD
Recorded in Denver, Colorado on June 15, 1981 and broadcast on European radio networks, this performance captures The Dregs during a period when their blend of rock, jazz fusion, and instrumental interplay had earned them a dedicated following. Led by guitarist Steve Morse, the band moves easily between intricate passages and driving rock sections, giving a clear picture of how their music translated to the stage. The result is a strong live snapshot of one of the most distinctive instrumental groups of the era.
Tracklist:
Divided We Stand
Pride O' The Farm
Twiggs Approved
Kat Food
Lime Rock
Odyssey
I'll Just Pick
Punk Sandwich
Rock and Roll Park
The Bash
Cruise Control
Rod and Steve Jam
Strawberry Fields - Hendrix Channeling - Cruise Control
Take It Off The Top
UPC: 630428400320Label: Audio Files RecordsRelease Date: 5.29.26Format: CD
On Dropkick Murphys' 13th studio album, the stories run deep, the memories push hard, and the joy remains infectious. Across the album’s 12 songs, the Boston band imbue the same kind of joy one might celebrate with family and friends. And even when the moods are sad and pensive, it’s hard not to feel personally invested in the band’s emotional spectrum. For The People shows courage and confidence, speaking up against the injustices happening in the United States, doing so with the strength and power that harkens back to Dropkick Murphys’ earliest punk rock roots. Whether it’s politics, family, friends or simply “life,” Dropkick Murphys continue to write music that regular people can identify with. The poignant album cover was created by renowned social/political artist Shepard Fairey's design firm Studio Number One, and the album was produced and mixed by longtime Dropkick Murphys collaborator Ted Hutt.For The People includes guest features form Mary Wallopers, The Scratch, Bill Bragg, and original band member Al Barr.
Tracklist:
Who'll Stand With Us?
Longshot (feat. The Scratch)
The Big Man
Chesterfields And Aftershave
Bury The Bones (feat. The Mary Wallopers)
Kids Games
Sooner Kill 'Em First
Fiending For The Lies
Streetlights
School Days Over (feat. Billy Bragg)
The Vultures Circle High (feat. Al Barr)
One Last Goodbye "Tribute To Shane" (feat. The Scratch)
Dropped on My Head
Take Your Bow
Straight Edge (I Liked You Better)
A Hero Among Many
Sirens
UPC: 5400863189556Label: Play It Again SamRelease Date: 10.10.25Format: CD
Dropkick Murphys history with Woody Guthrie dates back decades, from covering "Gonna Be A Blackout Tonight" on their 2003 album Blackout, to using some of Guthrie's writing about Boston in their immortal hit "I'm Shipping Up To Boston". But on their latest album, This Machine Still Kills Fascists, Dropkick Murphys have crafted an entire record around the seminal American folk icon, bringing Woody Guthrie's perennial jabs at life-many of which are from the 1940s and '50s-into the present, with the resulting music eerily relevant to today's world. The idea for the collaboration had been percolating between Guthrie's daughter Nora and the band for more than a decade, with Nora curating a collection of her father's never before-published lyrics for the band over the years. The result is one of Dropkick Murphys most unique releases, and the culmination of two like-minded rebellious artists collaborating, albeit nearly a century apart.
Tracklist:
Two 6's Upside Down
Talking Jukebox
Ten Times More
Never Git Drunk No More
All You Fonies
The Last One
Cadillac, Cadillac
Waters Are A'risin
Where Trouble Is at
Dig a Hole
UPC: 5400863089221Label: Dummy Luck MusicRelease Date: 10.7.22Format: CD
Drug Church is the logical limit of heavy alt. Like the Bee Girl from the Blind Melon video pitting hard for Helmet. Hit Your Head, recorded with Jay Maas, fully embraces the futureless aesthetic the band hinted at on previous records. This is worst-body-on-the-beach music. These are fired-from-your-window-tinting-job songs. An album for people on probation for crimes that aren't even cool. Big riffs and petty concerns.
Tracklist:
Banco Popular
Aleister
Aging Jerk
Bagged
Drunk Tank
Green Like Me
Park and Ride and Park and Ride
Hit Your Head, Greedy
Then Try
Big And Shitty
What
UPC: 810540039022Label: Pure NoiseRelease Date: 6.5.26Format: CD
Paul Walker is the debut studio album by American post-hardcore band, Drug Church. It features 10 tracks, including "Thinking About Joining Drug Church", "Reading Youtube Comments", and "Clifton Country".
Tracklist:
Thinking About Joining Drug Church
Reading YouTube Comments
Clifton Country
Shopping For a Belt
Donny's Woods
Learning To Speak British
Attending a Cousin's Birthday Party
Deconstructing Snapcase
Thrill Hill
Riding the Bus To Schenectady
UPC: 810540038995Label: Pure NoiseRelease Date: 6.5.26Format: CD
Drug Church, monsters of alt-rock, have weathered a year of dope shows and fan adoration since the release of their seminal punk masterpiece Paul Walker. Now, the chickens have come home to roost. The band has dedicated itself fully to a true ‘sophomore slump’ EP full of indulgent missteps and overreaching stabs at pop crossover. All that being told, they’re “the sickest band ever” has yielded real results.On Swell, Drug Church push their idiosyncratic blend of punk and alt to new heights of sick. Recorded with J. Robbins (every band, ever) in a big, professional studio, Swell delivers the biggest Drug Church sound to date. It’s pretty much the life-changer you assumed it would be.This new repress of the album includes remastered tracks.
Tracklist:
Does It Work?
Mall Swat
Work Shy
Ghost Dad
Zero Zero
But Does It Work?
MallSWAT
Work-Shy
Ghost Dad
Zero Zero
UPC: 810540038964Label: Pure NoiseRelease Date: 6.5.26Format: CD
Secret Love is the finest expression yet of the profound friendships that created Dry Cleaning. Here, the south London four-piece take their place in rock's avant garde, catalysing the Reaganite paranoia of early 80s US punk and hardcore with the dry strut of Keith Richards, stoner rock, dystopian degradation, playful no wave and pastoral fingerpicking, while Florence's delivery, meticulously calibrated to her bandmates' soundscapes, asserts her in a lineage of spoken-word artists stretching from Laurie Anderson to Life Without Buildings' Sue Tompkins.
Tracklist:
Hit My Head All Day
Cruise Ship Designer
My Soul / Half Pint
Secret Love (Concealed in a Drawing of a Boy)
Let Me Grow and You'll See the Fruit
Blood
Evil Evil Idiot
Rocks
The Cute Things
I Need You
Joy
UPC: 191400086821Label: 4adRelease Date: 1.9.26Format: CD
Sudanese-American artist Dua Saleh continues their boundless ascent with Of Earth & Wires, a resolutely warm, spiritual, and frenetic album exploring notions of home, humanity, and renewal.Featuring contributions from Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), aja monet, Gaidaa, and more, Saleh threads and deconstructs indie, R&B, and electronic pop with flashes of Sudanese folk, UK dance, and reggaeton, sounds intrinsic to their story, all held together by ambitious, future-facing production and clear-eyed lyricism.Saleh's soulful, gritty, shape-shifting style has found fans from The New York Times to NME, alongside their breakout role in the Netflix series Sex Education, making 2024's Ghostly International debut, I SHOULD CALL THEM, a proper arrival. The highly anticipated Of Earth & Wires responds to the moment as both a watershed in their career and an urgent dialogue with struggles faced on a universal level.In addition to their musical endeavors, Dua is a rising actor with a breakout role in the well-loved Netflix series Sex Education, where they starred a Cal Bowman for three seasons.
Tracklist:
5 Days
B r e a t h e
Flood (feat. Bon Iver)
Ca'llate
Firestorm
I Do, I Do
Keep Away (feat. Bon Iver)
Glow (feat. Bon Iver)
Speed Up
Anemic
ALL IS LOVE
UPC: 804297847627Label: Ghostly Int'lRelease Date: 5.15.26Format: CD
Duane Betts brings a coastal chill to his new album Isle of Hope, his first on Sun Records. Recorded in the Georgia lowcountry with GRAMMY-award winning producer Dave Cobb, Betts brings his unique blend of Southern rock and roots riffs to tracks co-written by Duane with Stoll Vaughan. Among all the fire on the fretboards is an intimate look at Duane’s sobriety, the loss of his father (Dickey Betts of the Allman Brothers), and his decades on the road touring in the rock and jam band worlds.
Tracklist:
Heartache
Reckless
Into the Void
Pills ; Liquor
Silver Afternoon
Down to Houston
Best Wishes
Manatee River
Winners of War
Keep My Hands Clean
UPC: 015047817825Label: Sun RecordsRelease Date: 6.12.26Format: CD
Paper sleeve packaging. "Duran Duran" aka "The Wedding Album" released in 1993 was a return to form for the band, charting in the top10 on both the UK and US album charts and spawning the world-wide hit's 'Ordinary World' and 'Come Undone'. UPC: 5026854177816Label: Rhino / ParlophoneRelease Date: 4.10.26Format: CD
These songs sum up a time-the early '70s-and a place-southern California-better than just about anything could. Take It Easy; Witchy Woman; Already Gone; One of These Nights; Take It to the Limit; Peaceful, Easy Feeling; Desperado; Best of My Love and more.
Tracklist:
Take It Easy
Witchy Woman
Lyin' Eyes
Already Gone
Desperado
One of These Nights
Tequila Sunrise
Take It to the Limit
Peaceful, Easy Feeling
Best of My Love
UPC: 075596051125Label: Elektra / WeaRelease Date: 10.25.90Format: CD
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Tracklist:
Hotel California
New Kids in Town
Life in the Fast Lane
Wasted Time
Wasted Time (Reprise)
Victim of Love
Pretty Maids All in a Row
Try and Love Again
The Last Resort
UPC: 4943674108961Label: Wea JapanRelease Date: 8.23.11Format: CD
Hotel California 40th Anniversary Edition (1CD) includes: Hotel California Original album, a 4/4 16-page booklet, a 4/4 CD Inlay, a Clear jewel case, and a marketing sticker
Tracklist:
Hotel California (Remastered)
New Kid In Town (Remastered)
Life In The Fast Lane (Remastered)
Wasted Time (Remastered)
Wasted Time (Reprise) [Remastered]
Victim Of Love (Remastered)
Pretty Maids All In A Row (Remastered)
Try And Love Again (Remastered)
The Last Resort (Remastered)
Take It Easy (Live At The Los Angeles Forum, 10/20-22/76)
Take It To The Limit (Live At The Los Angeles Forum, 10/20-22/76)
New Kid In Town (Live At The Los Angeles Forum, 10/20-22/76)
James Dean (Live At The Los Angeles Forum, 10/20-22/76)
Good Day In Hell (Live At The Los Angeles Forum, 10/20-22/76)
Witchy Woman (Live At The Los Angeles Forum, 10/20-22/76)
Funk #49 (Live At The Los Angeles Forum, 10/20-22/76)
One Of These Nights (Live At The Los Angeles Forum, 10/20-22/76)
Hotel California (Live At The Los Angeles Forum, 10/20-22/76)
Already Gone (Live At The Los Angeles Forum, 10/20-22/76)
UPC: 081227933210Label: Elektra / WeaRelease Date: 11.24.17Format: CD
Expanded three CD + Blu-Ray edition. The Eagles' One of These Nights (Expanded Edition) features a new 2025 mix of the band's chart-topping fourth studio album, and a previously unreleased full live show recorded at Anaheim Stadium on September 28, 1975, presented across 3 CDs. The set also includes a Blu-ray, which contains Dolby Atmos and hi-resolution stereo mixes of both the original album and live performance. One of These Nights features the Top 5 hits "One of These Nights, " "Take It to the Limit" and the Grammyr-winning "Lyin' Eyes". UPC: 603497820320Label: RhinoRelease Date: 5.1.26Format: CD
Little Miss Sunshine marks a stellar evolutionary leap for North London singer-songwriter Eaves Wilder who first came to attention back in 2020, aged 16, with her self-recorded lockdown release Won’t You Be Happy. Eaves began working on Little Miss Sunshine after a period of reflection which saw her question whether she could ultimately do justice to the music in her head.Time spent with the record will reveal ten songs that look to the cycles of nature to explain and celebrate the emotional weather that makes us human. “At my lowest,” recalls Eaves, who at one point even laughs as she recalls how she resolved to give up music altogether with a view to entering a convent: “I just wanted to be unhuman, unfeeling and unmoved. Like a mountain or a tree. Or the sky. These are all things that have a purpose but I didn’t know what my purpose was. And so what I had to was figure it out, song by song.”On Little Miss Sunshine, it’s a story told in thrilling installments, from the opening seconds of the album’s sonic establishing shot and lead single 'Hurricane Girl', a sensational synergy of diaphanous shoegaze harmonies and elemental rock guitars inspired by watching documentaries about storm chasers, using the metaphor to shine a light on friends who have been compelled to seek out tempestuous relationships. “I feel like this is my Pearl Jam song,” she explains, “The first time I ever listened to Pearl Jam. I was up this huge mountain in Wales. In the same week, I also heard Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette for the first time.”From here, right through to its achingly evocative requiem to childhood 'Summer Rolls', each song on Little Miss Sunshine acts as shining a co-ordinate in an arc of self-discovery. There’s the soaring sonic skyburst of the album’s first release 'Everybody Talks', with its rising crescendo of intrusive voices, which gained widespread radio support on both sides of the Atlantic. For 'Mountain Sized', she referenced Lily Allen’s 2009 single 'The Fear' – “because you’ve got this one woman casually listing all the worst things about herself, the kind of stuff you should be too embarrassed to admit.” However, on Eaves’ song, this fomenting anxiety is obliterated by a panoramic chorus which sees her smash through the membrane of her real-world restrictions in order to declare, “But in my mind/But in my mind/I am taller than the highest mountain sides.”The achingly mellifluous 'The Great Plains' sees Eaves interrogating her earliest memories spent idolizing her older sister Dora. “She was so demure and mermaid-like,” recalls Eaves, “and I was ruled by my emotions – and the harder I tried not to be, the more I realized I could never be like her.” In the song, self-acceptance of sorts comes as Eaves looks to the natural world to tell her what it’s ok to be: “As I erupt into a blaze /It’s ok the sky will do the same/Let no-one bat an eye when /Every year I’ll hibernate till May/Because no-one blames the clouds for rain/So take me as I am, tears down my face.”As the sessions gathered momentum, Eaves found drew inspiration from contemporaneous releases. Cases in point included Wolf Alice (“the only band that’s achieved the balance I’m always trying to get – the combination of guitars that go that heavy and vocals that go that high and ethereal”), Mannequin Pussy (“they gave me something of what I missed [in the era of Riot Grrrl] when L7 and Babes In Toyland were touring”); and CMAT’s “straight-up brilliant songwriting”.Other highlights on an album luminous with them are 'Daisy Chain Reaction', whose glistening power pop sheen conceals a lyric about the culture of competitiveness around eating disorders and the queasy mechanized attack of 'Just Say No', a song built around the brutal truths accrued from Eaves and her friends’ skirmishes with abusive men.Over the course of two years, Eaves worked tirelessly to finesse every single verse, chorus, pre-chorus and middle eight on Little Miss Sunshine before entering the studio with the album’s co-producer Andy Savours (My Bloody Valentine, The Killers, The Horrors). This is an album on which every single detail has earned its right to be there, bearing testament to the singular musical vision of its creator.
Tracklist:
Hurricane Girl
Just Say No!
Everybody Talks
Mountain Sized
The Great Plains
English Tea
Ropeburn
la
Daisy Chain Reaction
Summer Rolls
UPC: 656605050423Label: Secretly CanadianRelease Date: 4.17.26Format: CD
Ed O'Brien, the acclaimed guitarist and singer-songwriter known for his role in Radiohead, announces Blue Morpho, his absorbing, second solo album and first under his own name.Named for the iridescent butterfly, Blue Morpho was written during lockdown and recorded at The Church Studio, London and Seven Sound in Wales. The tranquil Welsh countryside proved inspirational, capturing a sense of reflection, healing, and acceptance. Musically the album blends a collage of hypnotic psych-folk, jazz, trip-hop, radiant guitars and rhythm sections. Blue Morpho marks a fresh and deeply personal chapter in O'Brien's musical journey.Produced by Paul Epworth (Adele, Coldplay), with additional production from Riley MacIntyre (Ezra Collective), and mixed by Ben Baptie (Sault, Little Simz). The album features an array of musicians, such as Shabaka Hutchings (flute), Dave Okumu (guitars, bass), Philip Selway (drums), and The Tallinn Chamber Orchestra.
Tracklist:
Incantations
Blue Morpho
Sweet Spot
Teachers
Solfeggio
Thin Places
Obrigado
UPC: 5063176108128Label: TransgressiveRelease Date: 5.22.26Format: CD
Overlooked 1971 album from classically trained British composer Ed Welch, featuring lyrics by American folk icon Tom Paxton. Welch's sophisticated arrangements, from refined orchestration to elegant piano-led melodies, meet Paxton's warm, inviting words across ten songs that move effortlessly between upbeat pop and tender balladry. Often compared to the Elton John/Bernie Taupin partnership, the Welch-Paxton collaboration produced songs later covered by Cilla Black. This first-ever reissue, produced by Michael de Albuquerque and remastered by Prof. Stoned, includes two non-album A & B sides and an 8-page booklet with liner notes by Xander Pas and recollections from George and Michael de Albuquerque.
Tracklist:
Clowns
Maybe It's Today
I Couldn't Wait to Tell You
Smile Like a Movie Star
It's Another Beautiful Day
It's All Down to You
What Did I Do That Was Wrong
Down in the City
Show Me the Way to Your Heart
The Bird Song
We Can Make It
It Ain't Easy (But I'll Try) [Single A-Side]
Fridays [Single B-Side]
I Should Have Been a Lady [Single A-Side]
All the Way to Richmond [Single B-Side]
UPC: 601570655838Label: Think Like A Key RecRelease Date: 5.22.26Format: CD
Deluxe two CD edition of this 1997 album from the Swedish death metal band. Cryptic is the seventh full-length studio album by Edge of Sanity. UPC: 198029865929Label: Century MediaRelease Date: 4.3.26Format: CD
Rocshire Records: sounds of the early-80s underground. Indie cult classics for fans of West Coast punk, power pop, new wave and synth music. Here, this ultra-rare debut album from rock musician Geoff Edmunds is a mix of rock and roll, country twang and soulful southern horns. Not to be missed for any hunter of unusual 80s gems.
Tracklist:
Lovers
By the Way
I Feel So Hard
One O'Clock Morning Blues
She's Got It
Cathy's Song
Everybody Loves My Rock 'N Roll
Running Free
Butterfly
Ain't Got Nothin' to Lose
In the Movies
UPC: 741869418000Label: Good TimeRelease Date: 6.5.26Format: CD
Insanitia is a transoceanic bridge between America and Italy. Recorded in her father's homeland, Boston-born Eileen Rose blends folk-rock, country, world music and soul into pure "Americana." it's a deep eclectic masterpiece with a stellar cast including Scarlet Rivera, Charlie McCoy, Carrie Rodriguez, Joel Guzman, Bobo Rondelli and The Legendary Rich Gilbert. It features originals and stunning covers from John Prine and Los Lobos to Ivan Graziani and a Tarantino-style Nada hit.
Tracklist:
Dusty Bones
Will the Wolf Survive?
From Away
The Blonde Lady of the Cherry Trees
Kind of Hate You
Storm Windows
Daydream Fail
River of Lonely
Lockdown
The Moment
'Till the Wheels Come Off
Ma Che Freddo Fa
UPC: 7393210307186Label: New Shot RecordsRelease Date: 5.8.26Format: CD
Einar Solberg (Leprous), returns with Vox Occulta, his second venture under his own name and a bold, heavy and symphonic statement, recorded in collaboration with the much-sought-after Norwegian Radio Orchestra. Solberg is out to cement himself as one of experimental music’s most epic-sounding characters: “I want to be seen as the cinematic person in prog,†he declares. “I want to completely own that. This is a very cinematic album, and that’s what I was aiming at.â€â€˜Stella Mortua’, Vox Occulta’s opening track, reflects that clarity of vision. Solberg croons over classical strings, before electric guitar chords emphatically join the fray and the vocalist powers his way through a majestic chorus. From there, each song has its own character – with ‘Medulla’ emphasising its huge, metallic riff and ‘Grex’ being a near-12-minute odyssey.Vox Occulta was co-produced by Solberg and David Castillo, known for his work with Opeth, Katatonia, Amorphis and more. The album features Drummer Keli Guðjónsson (Agent Fresco), violinist Chris Baum (Bent Knee), guitarist Pierre Danel (Novelists) & bassist Jed Lingat as well as John Browne (Monuments) & Ben Levin (ex-Bent Knee). Biffy Clyro alum Adam Noble handled the mixing.Vox Occulta will be available as a Limited CD Digipak and Gatefold white/black 2LP, as well as digitally.
Tracklist:
Stella Mortua
Medulla
Vox Occulta
Grex
Anima Lucis
Liberatio
Serenitas
Vita Fragilis
UPC: 199584276724Label: Inside OutRelease Date: 4.24.26Format: CD
When Ekko Astral dropped their searing debut pink balloons in 2024, it would be another year and change before Trump took office and deployed the National Guard to Washington, D.C. Recorded immediately after the 2024 U.S. General Election, Ekko Astral's second album the beltway is burning was always intended as a real-time historical document in the form of a dark comedy. Each song plays out like a vignette, with Ekko Astral beckoning listeners into their fictionalized version of The Beltway, in which Adam Sandler is a god-president and the DMV has become a demilitarized zone, a wasteland run by butt rockers and Soundcloud rappers.On the surrealist lead single "lil xan goes to Washington," the titular character travels to D.C. to lobby for addiction assistance legislation before succumbing to the cartoonish horror that is K Street, ultimately becoming a sellout himself. Such noisy, absurd caricatures abound on beltway, whose anchors are simultaneously heavier, poppier, and more complex than on predecessor pink balloons.Take the album's pop diamond "lovesick American romance": a 90s rock-indebted anthem that snarls at mainstream culture's embrace of the manosphere. And then there's the album's centerpiece, "this is not a call to action but a lamentation on the situation at hand (or, capital riot)," which sees the band take an entirely new direction in a stretched-out, climactic barn-burner that invites listeners into the band's funhouse version of D.C.Where pink balloons was written to uplift, the beltway is burning is meant to remind you of the stakes. On penultimate track "blood mountain," Holzman asks "if I don't know what's wrong / how can it be righted?" This kind of tension is omnipresent in Ekko Astral's work, grounding beltway in our present reality, injecting urgency and realism into each song despite their surrealist contours. UPC: 634457234888Label: Topshelf RecordsRelease Date: 4.24.26Format: CD
Tracklist:
Sigil to Ruin
Capture/Release
Through Zero
Strata
Sight Unseen
Blighted Age
UPC: 760137208594Label: Blues Funeral RecordRelease Date: 5.29.26Format: CD
ELO combined huge musical ambition with incredible pop smarts in a unique, idiosyncratic and brilliant fashion. This best of contains fifteen Top 40 hits along with fan favorites from a band whose stellar career spanned some fifteen years.
Tracklist:
Mr. Blue Sky
Evil Woman
Don't Bring Me Down
Sweet Talkin' Woman
Shine a Little Love
Turn to Stone
Diary of Horace Wimp, The
Confusion
Hold on Tight
Livin' Thing
Telephone Line
All Over the World
Wild West Hero
Showdown
Ma-Ma-Ma Belle
Xanadu
Rockaria!
Strange Magic
Alright
Rock & Roll Is King
UPC: 827969448922Label: SonyRelease Date: 8.2.05Format: CD
This collection gathers 37 of ELOs greatest tracks on two CDS. Songs featured include "Roll Over Beethoven," "Nightrider," "Xanadu," "Showdown" and more.
Tracklist:
10538 Overture [7" Edit] [Edit]
Roll Over Beethoven
Showdown
Ma-Ma-Ma Belle
Can't Get It Out of My Head [7" Edit] [Edit]
Evil Woman
Nightrider [7" Edit] [Edit]
Strange Magic
Livin' Thing 1
Do Ya 1
Rockaria! 1
Telephone Line 1
Turn to Stone 1
Mr. Blue Sky 1
Sweet Talkin' Woman 1
Wild West Hero 1
It's Over 1
Shine a Little Love 1
Don't Bring Me Down 2
The Diary of Horace Wimp 2
Confusion 2
Last Train to London 2
I'm Alive 2
Xanadu [New Version] [Version] 2
All Over the World 2
Don't Walk Away 2
Hold on Tight 2
Twilight 2
Ticket to the Moon 3
The Way Life's Meant to Be 3
Rock and Roll Is King 3
Secret Messages 3
Four Little Diamonds 3
Calling America 3
So Serious 3
Surrender 3
Latitude 88 North
UPC: 886979775220Label: Sony LegacyRelease Date: 10.24.11Format: CD