Heavyweight 180gm virgin vinyl LP repressing of this 1972 album. Nick Drake’s third and final album, many consider to be his finest moment, was a radical departure from his previous work, stripped of the lush orchestral arrangements, Pink Moon featured Drake alone on vocals, acoustic guitar and the occasional piano accompaniment. This starkness was matched in brevity, with …
How is it that Kid A’s opening track, laden with an electronic vocal stuttering “bleh, bluh-bleh bleh bluh” is the most fascinating statement made in rock & roll this year? Because somehow, even when Radiohead blathers and blips nonsense, it’s profound. The band’s future-perfect musical grammar may be hard to decipher, and the melody is even more subliminal, …
Radiohead’s third album got compared to Pink Floyd a lot when it came out, and its slow drama and conceptual sweep certainly put it in that category. OK Computer, though, is a complicated and difficult record: an album about the way machines dehumanize people that’s almost entirely un-electronic; an album by a British “new wave of new wave” …
Any music fan can tell you exactly where they were on July 13th, 1985. There had never been a concert event of such magnitude-the biggest names in music performing in a concert broadcast live from 2 continents to an audience of over 1.5 billion. It is estimated that 85% of the world’s television sets were tuned in to …
After 2004’s U.S. breakthrough success with Absolution for U.K. favorite Muse, the band’s second album, 2001’s Origin of Symmetry, finally earned its stateside release. Absolution had hit #1 U.K., “Time Is Running Out” reached the Top 10 and “Hysteria” the Top 20 on the U.S. Modern Rock chart, and Muse won two 2004 European MTV Awards, for Best …
Renegade English soul-rockers The Heavy are happy to announce the release of their new album, The Glorious Dead, on August 21 via Counter Records/Ninja Tune. The Glorious Dead is the band’s third full-length LP, and the follow-up to their acclaimed sophomore record The House That Dirt Built (2009). Self-produced and with their unique, raw eclecticism fully intact, it’s …
A portion of the proceeds of this 13-song collection will benefit Toys For Tots. Tracks include “”Maybe This Christmas”” by Ron Sexsmith, “”God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”” by Barenaked Ladies and Sarah McLachlan, “”Snow”” by Loreena McKennitt, and “”Have Yourself” a Merry Little Christmas”” by Coldplay.No Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: MAYBE THIS CHRISTMASTitle: MAYBE THIS CHRISTMASStreet Release …
To celebrate the 21st anniversary of their debut release, Blur s last (to date) album Think Tank has now been expanded across 2CDs, with an entire disc of bonus material added to the original 2003 release (which was the band’s fifth consecutive No1 album). The Think Tank Special Edition collects together b-sides from the Out Of Time, Crazy …
2008 release of their fourth album. The Seldom Seen Kid is a welcome return from the band, driven by a thunderous riff that reminds listeners of Elbow’s love of the heavy as well as the delicate. Produced by keyboard player, Craig Potter, the album is the follow up to 2005’s universally acclaimed Leaders Of The Free World. The …
