rock

Born to Run

“Writing about yourself is a funny business…But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I’ve tried to do this.” —Bruce Springsteen, from the pages of Born to Run   In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl’s halftime show. …

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High Violet [Vinyl]

High Violet, the new full-length record by the National, is a nervy, melodic, explosive and beautiful set of songs that find the band at the height of their collaborative powers. The music is wide-ranging in its moods, by turns intimate and rough, expansive and spare, full of stark angles and atmosphere. Berninger s singing wild, half-broken, sly evokes …

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Another One

Like the days of Steely Dan or Harry Nilsson releasing a classic album every year (or less) comes Mac DeMarco’s Another One, a Mini-LP announced one year after the release of the meteorically successful Salad Days. Written and recorded during the downtime between a relentless touring schedule, Another One is an eight-track release that expands the arsenal of …

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Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not

Musically, there are bits of The Stone Roses, “What’s The Story Morning Glory”, and “Nevermind”. As catchy as those reference points are, it’s the songwriting that has won the band a fiercely dedicated following; a mix of the observational storytelling of Davies and Weller crossed with the harsher documentary eye of Mike Skinner of The Streets and “Ghost …

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Supermodel

Supermodel is the highly anticipated new album from Foster The People featuring first single “Coming of Age.” Produced by Paul Epworth, the globally influenced album is the follow-up to the group’s critically acclaimed 2011 debut Torches. Recorded in various locations around the world, Supermodel began as frontman Mark Foster and producer Paul Epworth set up a writing studio …

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Multi-Love

The threads of our past never unravel, they hover like invisible webs, occasionally glistening due to a sly angle of the sun. On Multi-Love, Unknown Mortal Orchestra frontman and multi-instrumentalist Ruban Nielson reflects on relationships: airy, humid longing, loss, the geometry of desire that occurs when three people align. Where Nielson addressed the pain of being alone on …

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Teen Dream [LP + DVD] [Vinyl]

Recorded in upstate New York, in a converted church called Dreamland with producer/engineer Chris Coady (who has worked with TV on the Radio, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Blonde Redhead, and a bunch of others) Teen Dream is the third album from the Baltimore-based duo Beach House, and their Sub Pop debut. The new album gives voice to a full …

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Juno [Vinyl]

Original soundtrack to the 2008 coming-of-age comedy directed by Jason Reitman (Thank You for Smoking). The narrative centers on whip-smart Juno (Ellen Page, in a breakthrough role), a teenage girl faced with an unplanned pregnancy from an afternoon with the charmingly unassuming Bleeker. Juno finds her unborn baby the perfect set of parents in Mark and Vanessa Loring …

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Somewhere In The Stratosphere (2CD/2DVD)

Somewhere In The Stratosphere is a deluxe 2 CD/2 DVD package that includes audio and video from two full live sets, one acoustic and one electric, from platinum recording group Shinedown. Somewhere in the Stratosphere includes performances from a Washington state concert and their most recent Anything and Everything: An Acoustic Evening With Shinedown tour.Shinedown’s live performances (both …

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