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After seven years, Japandroids have returned with Fate and Alcohol, their fourth and final full-length. Written in part while the Vancouver duo-guitarist-vocalist Brian King and drummer-vocalist David Prowse-were touring behind their 2017 ANTI- debut, Near to the Wild Heart of Life, the album is at once a return to form and a thrilling step forward, testament to the sort of chemistry that they've honed over the course of 18 years and hundreds of shows side-by-side. Their aim was simply to write songs that they'd enjoy playing live, without sacrificing any of the nuance or ambition that marked their previous effort. Nowhere on this record is that more deeply felt than lead single "Chicago," a song whose sheer momentum feels inevitable and true-from the inherent romance of it's opening chords to the series of snare-led explosions that see it through. Like the rest of Fate and Alcohol, it was recorded in Vancouver with longtime collaborator Jesse Gander, who also engineered 2009's Post-Nothing and 2012's Celebration Rock. "The very first demo we have of "Chicago" was recorded in our jam space on February 4th, 2020," King says, "and if you listen to that, it just sounds like a rough version of what you hear on the record. But it's all there. That, in some ways, is the most ideal circumstance for a band like us: just having something that really rips in your jam space, something that feels good, something that you're excited about."

Recorded with producer Nick Launay at Foo Fighters� 606 Studios in Los Angeles, on the same desk that captured
Nirvana�s Nevermind and Fleetwood Mac�s Rumours, the latest Amyl and The Sniffers album is their most diverse yet. Itstretches from classic punk to the glammy strut of hit single �U Should Not Be Doing That� to the stormy balladry of �BigDreams� to pugnacious punk of �Jerkin.� The Sniffers are back and back with a vengeance � bigger, brighter, smarterand sharper in every way. Doing In Me Lungs Edition � smoke swirl color vinyl in single pocket jacket with printedsleeve and 11x17 poster. Limited Edition. Indie Exclusive.

Zach Bryan releases his highly anticipated new studio album The Great American Bar Scene digitally on July 4, 2024 via Warner Records. The album features 19 tracks comprising 18 songs and a poem. The album will be available on all formats and will feature the recently released tracks "Pink Skies, " and "Purple Gas." The physical products will be released in the fall, with the Vinyl and CD both coming on 10/11.

Trippie Redd releases his highly anticipated album, A Love Letter To You 5. Red/Black Swirl 2 LP.

Slipknot - VOLUME 3 The Subliminal Verses (Violet Vinyl) Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses) is the third studio album by American heavy metal band Slipknot, released on May 25, 2004, by Roadrunner Records. A special edition, containing a bonus disc, was released on April 12, 2005. It is the band's only album produced by Rick Rubin

Wicked: The Soundtrack features performances by the stars of Universal Pictures� new cinematic event, Wicked, with music and lyrics by legendary Grammy and Oscar� winning composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz. The soundtrack includes songs performed by Emmy, Grammy, and Tony winning powerhouse and Oscar� nominee Cynthia Erivo (Harriet, Broadway�s The Color Purple)�as Elphaba and Grammy-winning, multi-platinum recording artist and global superstar Ariana Grande as Glinda. In addition, the soundtrack features the musical talents of Oscar� winner Michelle Yeoh as Shiz University�s regal headmistress Madame Morrible; Olivier Award winner and Emmy nominee Jonathan Bailey (Bridgerton, Fellow Travelers) as Fiyero, a roguish and carefree prince; and pop culture icon Jeff Goldblum as the legendary Wizard of Oz.� Based on one of the most beloved and enduring musicals on stage for the past two decades, the spectacular, generation-defining film adaptation of Wicked is destined to be the most talked-about film of the holiday season. The official soundtrack track list includes iconic Wicked songs �Defying Gravity,� �Popular,� �Dancing Through Life� and more, performed as you�ve never heard them before! Wicked, in theaters November 22, 2024, is the first chapter of a two-part immersive, cultural celebration.�Wicked Part Two�is scheduled to arrive in theaters next year, on November 21, 2025.

"Brighter days are up ahead," declares Dwight Yoakam on the title track of his new album Brighter Days (Via Records/Thirty Tigers), his first release of new original material in nine years. Written and recorded over the last three years, Brighter Days features 12 brand-new songs written/co-written by Yoakam, as well as two seemingly disparate covers of �Keep On The Sunny Side� by the Carter Family and �Bound Away� by Cake, artfully woven into the same body of work in the unmistakable style that could only be Dwight Yoakam. The infectious lead single �I Don�t Know How To Say Goodbye (Bang Bang Boom Boom),� was written by Yoakam specifically for a collaboration with self-proclaimed Dwight Yoakam superfan, Post Malone. At once timeless and timely, in fact downright cowpunk-tual, Yoakam self-produced Brighter Days, blending a modern reverence for the history of country music with the pioneering rock and roll spirit of California. The result creates a sense of craftsmanship and immediacy that captures the quintessential Dwight Yoakam �cool� that has separated the two-time Grammy winner from his country contemporaries since the start of his legendary career. As usual, Yoakam�s lyrics throughout the album are both deceivingly effortless and poignant. Brighter Days was mixed by world-class engineer Chris Lord-Alge and is slated for release Nov 15, 2024.

With Doechii�s new mixtape �Alligator Bites Never Heal�, rapper, singer and visionary artist Doechii delivers 19 tracks following the weekly �Swamp Session� installments that lit the internet on fire with eye-catching visuals and equally compelling bars. The project captures a rare talent in her rawest form yet, giving listeners 19 distinct windows into her one-of-a-kind artistry.

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Double vinyl LP pressing. 2024 release. Welcome To The Plains is the debut album from Wyatt Flores. Across it's 14 epic tracks, Wyatt writes about home, happiness, family and the place that raised him - Stillwater, Oklahoma. The album is happy on one side and heartbreak on the other. It's powerful storytelling and tight musicianship create a classic album for the ages that is a true front to back experience.

�The San Jose band RIPPED TO SHREDS are rising stars in the metal world thanks to their ferocious, electric take on death metal, largely inspired by their experiences as Asian-Americans.� � Stereogum RIPPED TO SHREDS return with their highly anticipated new album, Sanshi. The band explodes out of the underground with all the blood-soaked hallmarks of the hellacious RIPPED TO SHREDS sound - an onslaught of frenetic dueling solos, blasting drums, and van Drunen-esque vocals that further fuse the grit and grime of old school Death Metal and Grind with the here and now. Helmed by guitarist and frontman Andrew Lee, RIPPED TO SHREDS are as fierce and focused as they've ever been. Conceptually, Sanshi sees the band dig into a morbid fixation on death and the afterlife in the context of traditional Chinese folklore. Tracks like the lead single �Perverting the Funeral Rites,� is a song inspired by obscure funeral rites in Taiwan, wherein exotic dancers perform lithe rituals for living and dead alike. Elsewhere, �Force Fed� delves into the legend of Meng Po�s "Elixir of Forgetfulness", which when drunk by the dead wipes their memories clean before they are reborn into their next incarnation. �Living In Effigy� was inspired by real life tales of photographers traversing remote rural China, taking funeral portraits of the elderly who died in solitude. Sanshi's cover art comes courtesy of Lee�s long-term collaborator, artist Guang Yang, and depicts a scene of Yan Luo Wang, The God of Hell, and the dead who must face his judgment in his demonic court.

THE PLAIN TRUTH=we drifted through it, arguing.every day a new war crime, every day a flower bloom.we sat down together and wrote it in one room,and then sat down in a different room, recording.NO TITLE= what gestures make sense while tiny bodies fall? what context? what broken melody?and then a tally and a date to mark a point on the line, the negative process, the growing pile.the sun setting above beds of ashwhile we sat together, arguing.the old world order barely pretended to care.this new century will be crueler still.war is coming.don't give up.pick a side.hang on.love.

Multiple GRAMMY and Academy Award-winning artist, songwriter, and producer, FINNEAS returns with �For Cryin� Out Loud!� his second studio album. FINNEAS� self-produced solo album was born out of a series of live studio sessions in Los Angeles, bringing together some of his closest friends and peers into one room. In contrast to his debut album OPTIMIST which featured instrumentals written and performed solely by the artist himself, For Cryin� Out Loud! sees FINNEAS expand his creative horizons to a classic studio/band environment, freeing FINNEAS and ultimately resulting in his most uplifting and raw body of work to date. For Cryin� Out Loud! follows the release of his sister Billie Eilish�s third studio album HIT ME HARD AND SOFT which has further cemented him as one of the most critically acclaimed, award-winning producers and songwriters of his generation.

For over a decade, Drug Church have been building a very strong case that they�re the best loud guitar band in the game; their fifth full-length PRUDE�a 28-minute blast of aggression, melody, irreverence, and genuine heart�feels like the undeniable proof. The album is so downright satisfying it tricks you into thinking there�s nothing all that surprising about a difficult-to-pigeonhole punk band from Albany, NY, with a name like Drug Church somehow having a career at all, much less one that would last over 10 years and qualify them as the best band going. But before you start trying to think of who might have them beat (good luck), consider what just might be the key to Drug Church�s unexpected staying power: Don�t take it too seriously.

Short n� Sweet showcases the scintillating spirit of Sabrina Carpenter, the pocket-sized popstar with a larger than life artistic presence. One gold album & multiple platinum singles later, it�s no wonder that �Espresso,� the debut single from the forthcoming album, has it all: lyrics that make you giggle and blush and songwriting that makes you wish you�d thought of it first.

For the past decade, SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE have honed an aesthetic like no other. They�ve chopped up samples, chewed them up, spit them back out again, baby birded it. Across four albums and a smattering of EPs, Zack Schwartz, Corey Wichlin, and Rivka Ravede have fully solidified their stance as some of rock�s weirdest and best deconstructionists. 2018�s Hypnic Jerks was a study in noise punk sampledelia. It was a breakthrough for the band. Frank Ocean became a fan, spinning �fell asleep with a vision,� on Blonded Radio. 2021�s ENTERTAINMENT DEATH, was nasty dream pop by way of K-Mart realism and hitting the channel search setting on an old TV set. Their last release, 2023�s i�m so lucky, explored the breakup between Schwartz and Ravede, setting the stage and emotional territory for the band�s fifth record, YOU�LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING. This latest offering is the most crystallized version of the band�s aesthetic, a continued meditation on the end of relationships and the unsteadiness that follows. It is a meticulous, beautiful, and quietly heartbreaking collection of songs. More often than not, it sounds like listening to a walkman from inside of a hurricane, like the YouTube videos you�d watch in bed for 18 hours straight after you break your wrist from a skateboarding accident. The goal in making YOU�LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING was to soften out some of the edges. �Less hard left turns,� says Wichlin. �We wanted to make something intentionally less antagonistic,� he jokes. In practice, this means the record has slightly fewer drastic arrangement changes, and it is more stripped down. Take �I�VE BEEN EVIL,� one of the newest songs on the record, as one such offering. It is straightforward in that its tempo is consistent, in that the song keeps us in the same place. It does not digress. It holds itself steady, with bleary-eyed guitars and hushed vocals. The song is weary, the song is a whisper. The utterance �I�ve been evil,� is like the shrug of a shoulder, a so what, ha ha. Less straightforward is the sublime �LET THE VIRGIN DRIVE,� a genuinely frightening pop track that anchors itself on fucked up Japanese City pop samples and a demented news clip of someone screaming. The song was originally written around the time the band was touring ENTERTAINMENT, DEATH, and took a few years to fully flesh itself out. It is like staring into the sun, like waking up in a body bag �It�s about unrequited love and making up a situation or whole life in your head,� says Schwartz of its thematic underpinning, �The other person finally �sees you� and your �problems are solved,� but they aren�t, really.� The song hiccups and warbles � you can hear the tape hiss, the instability, how it kind of feels like the whole song might get sucked into a black hole�s event horizon. �Heaven is a lie/cause you are earthly/and you�re alive,� Schwartz sings at the song�s outset. YOU�LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING is a record of provocations. It wants you to think it is just normal rock �n� roll music. That it is purely pleasure oriented. But beneath these intentions is a collection of songs that are as complex as ever. The Ravede-led �FOUND A BODY,� is a downtempo smoke cloud of variegated synths. �Found a body,� she sings �No one can touch me.� �SUN SWEPT THE EVENING RED,� starts out disconcertingly chipper, before breaking down into an assault of sludged out guitars, auto-tuned vocals, a flurry of strings. Like all SPIRIT records, It is music made by three distinct voices, written independently and then assembled together. Despite being written all over the globe, with Ravede in Portugal and Schwartz and Wichlin back in Philadelphia, the trio arrived at the same themes: that of the brutality of coming to terms with reality, that of what it means to lie to protect yourself and your heart. Schwartz says he writes songs more or less in a stream of consciousness. The band listens to very little outside music when working. The result is a record that very much is its own world. Where chaos is carefully organized, where being able to ever actually chill out is totally illusory, a trick mirror.

Alice in Chains� acclaimed Jar of Flies is being reissued in celebration of its 30th anniversary.� The EP made history as the first of its format to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in its first week of sales.� Hit tracks like "No Excuses," "I Stay Away," and "Nutshell", extended the group's popularity.

The Menzingers are an absolute institution. The Philadelphia punk legends' multi-decade reputation as road warriors with an unbeatable catalog is cemented as hard truth-and their seventh album, Some Of It Was True, stands as their most immediate-sounding and energetic record to date. The follow-up to 2019's sensational Hello Exile accomplishes the daunting task of capturing the Menzingers' distinctive live energy in the confines of the studio, resulting in a sound that's both rich, raw, and complementary to the group's increasingly prismatic songwriting approach. More than 15 years in, the Menzingers are still holding their listeners square in the immediate present, and Some Of It Was True documents that power in thrilling fashion.

"We wanted to make a fun record and write songs that we wanted to play live, and that's exactly what we did," co-vocalist/guitarist Greg Barnett says "We've always said that we want every album to sound live, but we never recorded an album live before. This was the first time we committed to that idea. We wanted to sound like how our band sounds onstage." Making the process easier: Grammy-nominated producer Brad Cook (Bon Iver, the War on Drugs, Waxahatchee), who joined the Menzingers in El Paso's legendary Sonic Ranch studios and lent his incredible ear for raw, immediate sound to help the band achieve Some Of It Was True's in-the-room live feel. "The Menzingers are as real as it gets," Cook says on his time in the studio with the band. "I had an absolute blast working with these guys and was moved to tears many times. They are truly dedicated to artistic growth, and to each other, in ways I found both refreshing and beautiful. I am now a lifer."

Tenderpunk pioneer - Illuminati Hotties is the musical project founded by producer/writer, Sarah Tudzin. The new self produced album Power with co-production by John Congleton (St. Vincent, Death Cab For Cutie) features the Hotties trademark wit, vibrancy, and is undeniably fun. Tuzdin says about lead single Let Me In, "I find that something I have in common with most people that I talk to lately is the immense fear of and inability to be alone with ourselves. Constant motion, avoidance, restlessness - anything to keep myself from stagnating have always been my coping mechanisms when my inner monologue starts to get loud." Power features Cavetown on single Didn't. To support the album, the band is confirmed for a NPR Tiny Desk performance and kicks off their US/Canada headlining tour on September 25 running through November. Previous tours include support dates for boygenius, Death Cab For Cutie, Julien Baker, The Linda Lindas, The Beths, & Carly Rae Jepsen + Festival appearances at Pitchfork Music Festival. Songs by Illuminati Hotties appear in Fortnite and Netflix as well. The previous album, 2001's Let Me Do One More, landed on multiple Best Of lists, including NY Times, LA Times, NPR, Spin, Paste, Consequence, Pitchfork, & Esquire. Tuzdin contributed a song for Star Wars spinoff show "Ashoka", collabed with Duck's LTD, and produced music for Pom Pom Squad, Speed Ortiz, and Boygenius. Her work with Boygenius was nominated for 3 Grammy awards and won Best Alternative Music album. For Fans Of: Mannequin Pussy, The Beths, RatboysVinyl Color Blue

FALLING IN REVERSE makes anthems that provoke and inspire. Unnervingly ahead of the pack and yet always decisively right on time, their mix of bombastic declarations and intimate confessions connect with diverse crowds worldwide.

Popular Monster, is their first full-length album in over seven years; an eleven song masterpiece, featuring five tracks that are bonafide smash hits, (three certified gold and one certified 2x platinum). Not ones to rest on their laurels, the six new tracks are incredible, and feature unexpected collaborations with some of the music industry hottest hitters.

With hit songs like �Popular Monster� topping the rock radio charts and earning them their first 2x platinum single, the band�s momentum only grows stronger, and their live performances are big reason why. From playing top festivals, to arena opening stints for Avenged Sevenfold, and Disturbed, to co-headlining with legends like Papa Roach, and now selling out headline shows in arenas across the country!

This album package will include a 24-page, 4 color booklet with lyrics and imagery from their YouTube Trending music videos, sized for the formats CD and LP.

Nicki Minaj releases her new album Pink Friday 2 on December 8, 2023. Electric Blue LP.

Critically acclaimed, Orville Peck has long dreamed of making Stampede, a duets album with singers, songwriters, and fellow musicians he�s long admired. And now, music icons, rebels and newcomers join hand-in-hand with Orville on his third full-length body of work to help create a two-part record that tips its hat to music�s past, present, and future. Orville just released the first part to this project Stampede: Vol.1 on 5/10 with duets such as Willie Nelson, Midland, Elton John, Allison Russell, Noah Cyrus, Bu Cuaron and Nathaniel Rateliff. Slant Magazine describes Volume 1 as "a reflection of both the singer�s dedication to the genre and his desire not to be confined by it."