In the summer of 1973 two childhood friends living in the Trenchtown area in Kingston Jamaica, Maurice Blacka Wellington and Eric Bingy Bunny Lamont formed The Morwells. Both with backgrounds and great interest in the music industry. Bingy Bunny had recorded with the great Bongo Herman Davis for Derrick Harriott while Maurice was an active…
It s rare to come across such specific and purposeful prose in modern pop. But, alongside Bright Eyes Conor Oberst and the Decemberists Colin Meloy, John Darnielle is helping bring fine lyric writing back to life – NY Daily News.
The Muppets perform the classic Dickens holiday tale, with Kermit the Frog playing Bob Cratchit, the put-upon clerk of stingy Ebenezer Scrooge (Michael Caine).
The Murlocs – Bittersweet Demons – On their fifth album, The Murlocs reflect on those who leave a profound imprint on our lives: the saviors and hellraisers and assorted other mystifying characters. The most personal and boldly confident work yet from the Melbourne-based five-piece (which includes two members of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard);…
Limited orange colored vinyl LP pressing. The Murlocs, lead by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizards Ambrose Kenny-Smith and also featuring Gizz s lead guitar player Cook Craig, make psych-laced garage blues rock. Recorded at Melbourne s Newmarket studios, Manic Candid Episode was produced by Stu Mackenzie (King Gizzard) and mixed by NYC musician Jarvis…
A raw-nerved hybrid of elemental Merseybeat, lugubrious surf-noir and sheer sonic assault, the remarkable legacy of Long Island s Mystic Tide has long been venerated within the 60s garage rock pantheon, even if their existential racket only slipped out on a series of painfully rare 45s. Now, the fruit of Joe Docko Jr and friends…
The surprise companion to The National’s April release First Two Pages of Frankenstein, Laugh Track is the band’s most freewheeling, all-hands-on-deck album in years. If Frankenstein represented a rebuilding of trust between group members after 20+ years together, the vibrant, exploratory Laugh Track is both the product of that faith and a new statement of intent. Reveling in the license to radically…
The surprise companion to The National’s April release First Two Pages of Frankenstein, Laugh Track is the band’s most freewheeling, all-hands-on-deck album in years. If Frankenstein represented a rebuilding of trust between group members after 20+ years together, the vibrant, exploratory Laugh Track is both the product of that faith and a new statement of intent. Reveling in the license to radically…
Trouble Will Find Me, The National s highly anticipated sixth album will be released on May 21 on 4AD. The band s previous 4AD release, High Violet (May 2010), was met with critical acclaim and impressive sales, debuting # 3 on the Billboard chart with 295k scanned to date. The National will be touring the…
I Love You is the debut studio album by alt-rock band The Neighbourhood, which was released worldwide on April 22, 2013. The tracks on this album expresses a series of angst-ridden themes based on both the vibe and lyrical content of the songs. Bryan Sammis explains: I think that at least in terms of the…
The soundtrack to the holiday film, The Nightmare Before Christmas, features Danny Elfman, who has scored many of Tim Burton s imaginative films (Edward Scissorhands, his two Batman films, etc.), is a perfect musical partner for the somewhat macabre director, and never more so than here, where, in fact, Elfman gets not only to write…
Tim Burton s The Nightmare Before Christmas soundtrack features 10 ghoulishly delightful songs and score by renowned composer songwriter Danny Elfman, lead singer of the popular rock group Oingo Boingo. Embracing the traditional musical structure of 10 songs and underscore, Elfman creates a musical landscape in which the story narrative is wholly integrated into each musical number. Allowing…
The Obsessed – Gilded Sorrow Gilded Sorrow is as good as it gets. This album is crushingly great! Gilded Sorrow is a pivotal moment for THE OBSESSED from Maryland. The band is one of the earliest purveyors of Black Sabbath-influenced doom metal in the US and set the standard for the so-called Maryland doom sound….
Americana is the fifth studio album by punk rock band The Offspring. The original was a major success, debuting at #6 on the Billboard 200 and is the band s second best-selling album to their 1994 breakout Smash. Americana has sold more than 10 million copies worldwide, with over nine million copies certified, while achieving…
 Ixnay on the Hombre is the fourth studio album by punk rock band The Offspring. Produced by Dave Jerden, the album was released on February 4, 1997 through Columbia Records. After the massive commercial success of their previous album, Smash, The Offspring entered the studio in the middle of 1996 to record a new album….
The Offspring s seventh studio album, Splinter, was originally released in 2003. The gold-certified album features the singles Hit That and (Can t Get My) Head Around You. Out-of-print on vinyl for over a decade, this 20th Anniversary edition is presented on 12 picture disc vinyl exclusively for Record Store Day.