IGGY POP – Every Loser CD/LP (Atlantic)
Available on black and limited edition blood red vinyl. 2023 release from Iggy Pop, widely acknowledged as one of the most influential artists and dynamic live performers of all time. The album features musical assistance from Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith, and others. Includes the single “Frenzy”.
RAMONES – Subterranean Jungle LP (Rhino)
40th Anniversary of the seventh Ramones album. Subterranean Jungle marked a return to the roots of the band. Limited violet vinyl.
JUSTICE – A Cross The Universe LP reissue (Because Music)
A Cross The Universe and back to 2007 when Justice’s cult debut album, Cross, was released and followed by a dedicated worldwide tour and unique live equipment set-up. A Cross The Universe is the live album released in 2008.
VELVET UNDERGROUND – Loaded LP reissue (Rhino)
Lou Reed’s last album with the Velvet Underground has remained a reliable fixture on Rolling Stone’s 500 best albums of all time, and others. Reissued on limited clear vinyl.
JOHN COLTRANE – Olé Coltrane LP reissue (Rhino)
The final album recorded by Coltrane under his own supervision for Atlantic Records, Ole Coltrane features several of the players from Africa/Brass, which was recorded two days earlier, and is widely considered one of the premiere statements of Avant Garde jazz as well as the moment that Coltrane moved from an accessible artist to a more daring and complicated one.
TORI AMOS – Little Earthquakes [Reissue/1992] 2xLP (Atlantic)
Tori Amos became the voice of a generation of young girls when she delivered her first solo record in 1992. Each of the tracks on Little Earthquakes painted an evocative picture, and the album delivered five singles: “Crucify”, “Silent All These Years”, “Winter”, “China”, “Me And A Gun”. The album has already received the deluxe treatment in 2006, and this double-LP is the first time the tracks have been remastered for this format.
RUN THE JEWELS– Cu4tro CD/2xCD (BMG/RBC)
A complete re-imagining of Run The Jewels classic release RTJ4 with all new music in a Latin American vibe. [An indie-store exclusive deluxe double-CD edition is available.]
ANTI-FLAG– Lies They Tell Our Children CD/LP (Spinefarm)
Pittsburgh’s Anti-Flag has made it abundantly clear for nearly 30 years that their message and presence will always feel relevant at any given time. Never afraid to offer raw and unfiltered critiques on the failings of the modern political landscape, or position themselves across multiple genres, Anti-Flag is committed to constant evolution. Now, with their 13th studio album Lies They Tell Our Children, Anti-Flag re-emerges as energetic as ever. [A limited-edition white color vinyl pressing is available.]
SEA AND CAKE – Moonlight Butterfly LP reissue (Thrill Jockey)
Limited reissue on opaque tan vinyl. The Moonlight Butterfly has the core elements of the utterly unique Sea and Cake sound, while introducing a more experimental approach to the song’s textures and structures. The songs are more extended in form and cinematic in feel. The band’s singular guitar-based pop sound is filtered through pattern based ideas that slowly morph the linear into the modal. The album is filled with extended instrumental passages that bear the markers of Prekop’s recent solo explorations of analog synthesizers. The song ‘Inn Keeping’, for example, focuses on the synthesizer as the main armature of the song, a constant to play with and against.
FELA RANSOME-KUTI & THE AFRICA ’70 – Afrodisiac [Reissue/1972] 2xLP (Knitting Factory)
Double green and red color vinyl LP pressing. Afrodisiac is the fifth in the series of celebratory Fela 50th Anniversary reissues. Like its predecessors in the series, this double LP edition is on color vinyl; the A/B side is green marble and C/D side is on red marble. The songs on Afrodisiac were tracks that Fela and the Nigeria 70 (Later Africa 70) re-recorded at Abbey Road Studios in 1972 after they had become hits in Nigeria.
JOHN FRUSCIANTE – Inside Of Emptiness LP (Record Collection)
Limited 150gm vinyl LP pressing (plus download) of this 2004 album from the eclectic guitarist. Although John Frusciante is best known as the former guitarist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, he also has an active solo career, having released 11 albums under his own name. His solo recordings include elements ranging from experimental rock and ambient music to New Wave and Electronica.
SCOLOHOFO – Oh! LP reissue (Blue Note)
Scolohofo – the supergroup made up of guitarist John Scofield, saxophonist Joe Lovano, bassist Dave Holland, and drummer Al Foster – first played together as a band in 1999, but the musicians’ associations stretched back decades and this masterful 2002 album of originals brims with comradery. Part of Blue Note’s Tone Poet Series featuring all-analog, remastered 180-gram vinyl in deluxe gatefold packaging.
ZZ TOP – Eliminator LP reissue (Rhino)
40th Anniversary of the groundbreaking and chart-topping album. On limited edition Golden Nugget vinyl.
OTIS REDDING – The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads (Mono) LP (Rhino)
Available on limited edition light blue vinyl. This 1965 collection from The King of Soul is as fresh and urgent now as ever. Featuring “That’s How Strong My Love Is” and “Mr Pitiful” among this beautifully curated collections of soul ballads, this is a foundational record in any collection.
FLOATING POINTS – 2022 12” (Ninja Tune)
Four new tracks from Sam Shepherd aka Floating Points. “Grammar”, “Vocoder” and “Problems” were met with widespread praise including a Best New Track from Pitchfork and a glowing review from Resident Advisor describing Shepherd as “one of electronic music’s undisputed MVPs”. “Someone Close” changes track completely, something Shepherd has done effortlessly across his career, capping off a run of releases that have showcased the many strings to his bow yet still holds together seamlessly.
SUN RA – Prophet LP (Modern Harmonic)
What happens when a Prophet meets a Prophet? The answer lies within these grooves. Amongst the hundreds of recordings issued by Sun Ra and his Arkestra, under their various guises, the majority were recorded in concert or in makeshift studios such as their early 1960s set-up at NYC’s Choreographer’s Workshop. Beyond those, roughly 22 albums were recorded at Variety Recording Studio in New York’s Times Square. However, on August 25, 1986, Sun Ra and cohorts entered Mission Control, a state-of-the-art 24-track studio north of Boston, which was teeming with electronic keyboards and otherworldly sound generators, including Sequential Circuits legendary Prophet-5 and Prophet-10. Created using microprocessors, a then-new technological advance, under the auspices of engineer Dave Smith in 1978, the Prophet-5 revolutionized electronic music as the first polyphonic and, most importantly, programmable synthesizer. Ra was intrigued by the Prophet (surely by the instrument as well as by the name).
COMING NEXT WEEK!!
MARGO PRICE – Strays CD/LP
CHARLIE MEGIRA – And The Hefker Girl LP/CASS
NOFX – So Long And Thanks For All The Shoes LP reissue
COIL – Queens Of The Circulating Library CD/LP
NATHAN SALSBURG – Landwerk No 3 LP
MUMFORD AND SONS – Babel LP reissue
KID CUDI – Entergalactic LP
BOB WEIR – Ace LP reissue
PHISH – LP on LP 04 LP
KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD – Live at Bonnaroo 22 LP
