STAFF PICKS Lindsay – Anna Calvi, The Smile Dario – Flower Festival and M. Ward reissues Kimber – William Elliott Whitmore Jake – The Smile Zach – Flower Festival, MIKE, Ty Segall, and The Smile SMILE – Wall Of Eyes CD/LP (XL) The Smile is Radiohead’s Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood + Sons of Kemet’s […]
STAFF PICKS Lindsay – Colter Wall reissues Dario – Mary Halvorson Kimber – Swervedriver reissue Jake – Spiritualized and Mid-Air Thief Zach – Daniel Johnston, 90 Day Men, Mid-Air Thief Danny Brown – Quaranta CD/LP+MP3 (Warp) As the intro notes, Quaranta is Italian for “forty.” According to Brown, Quaranta is the spiritual sequel to XXX, […]
STAFF PICKS Lindsay – Marika Hackman Dario – X-Ray Spex and Sampha Kimber – Lush reissues Jake – Dinosaur Jr reissue Zach – Sampha VACCINES – Pick-Up Full Of Pink Carnations CD/LP (Super Easy) Torchbearers for British guitar music, The Vaccines are back with their sixth studio album Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations. The title […]
STAFF PICKS Lindsay – Danielle Ponder Dario – Sound Dimension Kimber – Velvet Underground reissue Zach – Denzel Curry reissue Jake – Velvet Underground reissue VELVET UNDERGROUND – Max’s Kansas City LP [Reissue/1972] (Rhino) Limited orchid and magenta pressing. 2LP expanded edition of the legendary final concerts with Lou Reed recorded in 1970. […]
STAFF PICKS Lindsay – Big Crown Comp and Stinkweeds Holiday Gift Guide Dario – Cotton Jones reissue Kimber – Grant Green reissue Jake – Mac Demarco Zach – Mac Demarco and Cotton Jones reissues Mac DeMarco – Some Other Ones [Reissue/2015] LP (Captured Tracks) Canary yellow colored vinyl. In the summer of 2015, Mac DeMarco […]
STAFF PICKS Lindsay – Michael Nau and Jackie Mittoo Dario – Michael Nau and Big Thief reissue Kimber – C-Clamp Jake – Patrick Shiroishi and Michael Nau Zach – C-Clamp and Denzel Curry reissue Big Thief – Masterpiece [Reissue/2016] CD/LP+MP3 (4AD) Masterpiece, Big Thief’s debut album, is filled with characters and visceral narratives, songs that […]
STAFF PICKS Lindsay – Lucinda Williams Dario – Khanate Kimber – Neko Case Jake – Braniac Zach – Atmosphere and Passion Pit Travis Scott – Utopia 2xLP (Epic) Diamond-certified, eight-time Grammy Award-nominated Travis Scott returns with the long-awaited Utopia. The fourth full length #1 studio album contains 19 tracks including “I Know?”, “K-Pop” with Bad […]
STAFF PICKS Lindsay – Tirzah, Thandi Ntuli and Sinead O’Connor reissues Dario – Thandi Ntuli Kimber – The National Zach – Andrew Bird and Deafheaven reissue Tribe Called Quest – The Love Movement LP (Sony Legacy) The Love Movement is the fifth studio album by A Tribe Called Quest. Originally released on September 29, 1998, […]
Staff Picks Kimber – Wes Montgomery Lindsay – Vincent Neil Emerson and Goat Dario – Zach – Bad Books, Beirut, and Actress Cat Power – Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert CD/2xLP (Domino) Last November in London, Cat Power took the stage at the Royal Albert Hall and delivered a […]
Staff Picks Lindsay – Tkay Maidza and Marnie Stern Dario – Marnie Stern and Ella Fitzgerald reissue Zach – Poolside and They Might Be Giants reissue Caroline Polachek – Desire, I Want To Turn Into You CD/LP/Cassette (Caroline Polachek, LLC) Desire, I Want To Turn Into You is the fourth studio album by singer-songwriter […]