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LISTINGAfter 16 years, THE CURE is back with their 14th studio album, SONGS OF A LOST WORLD. Songs from the record were previewed during their 90-date, 33-country ‘Shows Of A Lost World’ tour for more than 1.3 million people to overwhelming fan and critical acclaim. Speaking about, “Alone,” the opening track on the album, Robert Smith says, “It’s the track that unlocked the record; as soon as we had that piece of music recorded, I knew it was the opening song and I felt the whole album come into focus... that was the moment when I knew the song – and the album – were real.” Robert Smith created the sleeve concept and Andy Vella, a longtime Cure collaborator, handled the album’s art and design. The cover art features ‘Bagatelle,’ a 1975 sculpture by Janez Pirnat.
Following Wilco’s acclaimed 2023 album Cousin, Wilco revisited unfinished material from these sessions to craft ‘Hot Sun Cool Shroud’. Collaborating again with engineering mixer Tom Schick, the band crafted six tracks that expand on the sound of Cousin. According to Jeff Tweedy, they have “a summertime-after-dark kind of feeling. It starts off pretty hot, like heat during the day, has some instrumentals on it that are a little agitated and uncomfortable, and ends with a cooling breeze.”
“You have to see them in concert,” is what fans of The National have been preaching for years. “The songs transform. It’s a whole other level.” Recorded live (without overdubs) in June 2024 at an architecturally stunning venue named for famed Italian film composer Ennio Morricone, Rome is the definitive live document of The National. The 21-track double album is truly career spanning, and showcases scintillating versions of beloved songs like “Bloodbuzz Ohio,” “Don’t Swallow the Cap,” “I Need My Girl,” “The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness,” “England” and “Fake Empire”; plus sharpened readings of recent tracks “Eucalyptus,” “New Order T-Shirt,” “Tropic Morning News” and the boundary-pushing “Smoke Detector.” The National’s setlist changes significantly show to show, revisiting their 25-year catalog to cast fresh light on hidden gems. For Rome that includes the show opener “Runaway,” “Lemonworld,” “The Geese of Beverly Road,” “Lit Up” and a tour de force pairing of “Humiliation” from their critically acclaimed album Trouble Will Find Me into Sad Songs For Dirty Lovers’ “Murder Me Rachael.” The Rome encore features the election anthem “Mr. November,” and, from High Violet, “Terrible Love” and the show-closing fan singalong, “Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks.” The live album was mixed by the band’s longtime collaborator Peter Katis. Reviewing a National performance this summer, NME wrote that “every song is played like it could be the last.” Rome captures that playing-for-keeps urgency on record and serves not merely as a concert souvenir but the latest vital addition to the band’s peerless catalog.
Hackney Diamonds (1 Year Anniversary) - [Blue Splatter Clear Opaque 2LP]
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Living in the Material World (50th Anniversary) - [Super Deluxe LP Boxset]
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The new album from Tears For Fears, Songs For A Nervous Planet, features four new studio tracks plus live recordings of Tears For Fears on tour and at their best. The album features live performances of hit songs like “Shout”, “Head Over Heels”, “Everybody Wants To Rule The World”, “Mad World” & more. Spanning all eras of the band from The Hurting to The Tipping Point and beyond, this record takes you on the incomparable sonic journey that is a Tears For Fears live show and their career to date.
01. Say Goodbye To Mum And Dad
02. The Girl That I Call Home
03. Emily Said
04. Astronaut
05. Tipping Point
Side B
06. Everybody Wants To Rule The World
07. Sowing The Seeds Of Love
08. Break The Man
09. Mad World
Side C
10. Woman In Chains
11. Bad Man’s Song
12. Pale Shelter
Side D
13. Break It Down Again
14. Head Over Heels
15. Change
16. Shout
Across 6CDs, Elvis Costello: King of America & Other Realms traces his musical travels from Hollywood – where the King Of America album was recorded in 1986 – to a brand new take on “Brilliant Mistake” cut in Cape Fear early in 2024, via Costello’s recording adventures in New Orleans, Oxford and Clarksdale, Mississippi, Nashville and Memphis, Tennessee and guided by Costello’s own 35-page essay which includes numerous rare and never-before seen photos.
The collection is anchored by CD1: a new 2024 remaster of the album King Of America from the original master tapes.
CD2 collects the solo demos from 1985 including six performances from the unheard Red Bus Studios session with radically different lyrical drafts, shedding new light on the intention of key songs from the King Of America album.
CD3 is a never heard before 17-song concert recorded on January 27, 1987 at The Royal Albert Hall in London in the company of James Burton, Jim Keltner, Jerry Scheff, Benmont Tench & T-Bone Wolk.
Newly mixed from multitrack tapes – and featuring live renditions of several King Of America titles – Costello is also heard performing songs by Waylon Jennings, Arthur Alexander, Allen Toussaint, Sonny Boy Williamson, Mose Allison, Ray Charles, Jesse Winchester, Dave Bartholomew and Buddy Holly. A truly great American songbook.
The set closes with a 3CD digest of Costello’s studio recordings, previously unreleased demos, outtakes & live recordings from this wild and wonderfully odd odyssey.
Andrew Bird & Madison Cunningham
Cunningham Bird [Indie Exclusive Translucent Forest Green vinyl]
Vinyl: $24.98 PREORDER
Stevie Wonder’s The Definitive Collection is now available on vinyl for the first time. This best-selling, 21-track hits compilation features classic after classic. From early gems, including “Fingertips, Pt. 2,” to “Signed, Sealed, Delivered (I’m Yours),” as well as the timeless No. 1 songs, “Superstition,” “You Are the Sunshine of My Life,” “I Wish,” “Overjoyed,” and many more. 2 LP set on standard black vinyl, featuring rare photos, Braille embossing, full track credits and a celebratory essay.
Before Linkin Park, our first band name was Xero. This album title refers to both this humble beginning and the journey we’re currently undertaking. Sonically and emotionally, it is about past, present, and future—embracing our signature sound, but new and full of life. It was made with a deep appreciation for our new and longtime bandmates, our friends, our family, and our fans. We are proud of what Linkin Park has become over the years, and excited about the journey ahead.
Doja Cat - Scarlet 2 CLAUDE - Vinyl 2 LP
To celebrate the one-year anniversary of Doja Cat's critically acclaimed album, "Scarlet 2 CLAUDE" deluxe vinyl is available now!
The album features 24 tracks including smash hits such as "Attention", "Paint The Town Red", "Agora Hills", "OKLOSER" and more. Her hit single, "Paint The Town Red" spent three weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart at No. 1; that marked the first rap song to hit No.1 on the Hot 100 Chart last year. In addition, the song was No. 1 for a total of four consecutive weeks on the Billboard Global 200 Chart. Furthermore, Doja Cat's fan favorite track "Agora Hills" went No. 1 at Top 40 Radio in February 2024 making it her eighth No. 1 at the format. "Agora Hills" also peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart.
Halsey - The Great Impersonator - Vinyl 2 LP
Halsey's fifth studio album The Great Impersonator is due out on Columbia Records on October 25th. In this confessional, concept album, Halsey explores who she would be as an artist and a person if she existed throughout different decades. Black Double LP, Gatefold, with double sided insert.
Train - Greatest Hits - Vinyl 2 LP
Released for the first time on vinyl, Train's Greatest Hits celebrates 20 years of the band's iconic and storied career so far, pulling together 16 of their smash hits including, "Drops of Jupiter," "Calling All Angels," and the Diamond certified, "Hey Soul Sister." Greatest Hits also includes a special cover of one of front man Pat Monahan's favorite songs, George Michael's "Careless Whisper," featuring world renowned saxophonist Kenny G. The Greatest Hits is a culmination of Train's success, who as a band has sold more than 10 million albums worldwide, more than 30 million tracks, with multiple platinum/gold citations. Train has also won 3 Grammy awards, 2 Billboard Music Awards and dozens of other honors.
Often revered as one of the most important debut albums of all time, Weezer’s “blue” album celebrates 30 years with a 1-LP color vinyl
edition exclusive for indie music stores.
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Long After Dark - Deluxe [Indie Exclusive Turquoise LP]
Vinyl: $29.99 PREORDER
It’s dangerous to put Illiterate Light in a box, especially with the release of their new album, Arches. Are they a guitar-driven indie rock duo? Kaleidoscopic neo-psychedelia? Synth-kissed, harmony-laden folk? What does one do with an album beginning with “fake tits and diet coke,” then pivoting to train derailments in rural Ohio and never-ending black holes? These prolific farmers-turned-rockers have captured the energy of their live shows—fans crowd-surfing, moshing, crying, and crooning—and infused it into their latest release.
“We’ve always been shape shifters, moving between heavy, dark distortion and gentle sweet fingerpicking, writing aggressive songs, introspective songs, and love songs, exploding and embracing,” reflects singer-guitarist Jeff Gorman. “Smashing it all together used to feel strange, but now there's a glue between everything we do. Our fans get it. They care less about genre. All they care about is feeling. And that’s all we care about. Are you alive or not?”
Illiterate Light’s third album, Arches, is not a passageway but an arrival. “We’re no longer striving to define a sound,” said drummer Jake Cochran. “We’re leaning into sides of ourselves that have felt off-limits, sticking to what feels right rather than concerning ourselves with comparison.” Out November 1 via Thirty Tigers, the record is bursting with thunderous anthems, biting lyrics, and lush harmonies.
The band originated in the Shenandoah Valley in 2015 when multi-instrumentalists Gorman and Cochran began playing music together while working on an organic farm. Eventually, they left the farm to focus on music, adopting the moniker Illiterate Light from a Wilco lyric. After several years of non-stop touring, they signed with Atlantic Records and released their eponymous full-length debut in late 2019. Two years later, they signed with Thirty Tigers and, in 2023, issued their critically acclaimed LP, Sunburned. Shortly after, they released two additional EPs, making Arches their fourth release in two years.
Arches was recorded in two very different locations: small-town Appalachia at Gorman’s home studio and Hollywood, CA at Sunset Sound with producer Joe Chiccarelli (The Strokes, Beck, The Killers). “We wanted the best of both worlds,” says Gorman. “We spent several days with Joe at Sunset. To record vocals in the same live room as so many of my heroes—Neil Young, Paul McCartney, Dylan—was unreal. I knew I was in a holy place.” The LA session was paired with sessions in Virginia, where Gorman and Cochran co-produced the bulk of the record with longtime collaborator Danny Gibney. In their hometown, they experimented with soaring instrumental journeys and had friends sit in on the sessions to keep things lively.
“Having our community stop by the sessions kept us on our toes—we haven’t been able to do that in the past. It helped connect us to the feeling of our live show,” recalls Cochran. Illiterate Light’s live performances, described by the Washington Post as “massive,” feature Gorman on one foot, hammering bass on a foot-pedal synth, shredding big guitar riffs, and spitting out song after song while Cochran matches Gorman harmony for harmony, dancing with his standing drum kit, teetering on the edge of the stage only to dive head first into his next solo.
Arches is the closest you can get to their live show, with heavier songs like “I Ride Alone” and “Bloodlines” encapsulating the best of the writhing, uninhibited front-row experience. The keystone of the album, “Norfolk Southern,” crashes in with Gorman belting, “Here comes the Norfolk Southern / It's off the tracks / and heading for you,” with Cochran chanting, “break, break, break, break” to the ghost of the train that derailed in 2023 in East Palestine, Ohio, releasing 10,000 gallons of hazardous materials into the atmosphere. The song also serves as a metaphor for Gorman’s own turbulent feelings. “I certainly wanted to shine a light on the environmental catastrophe. But strangely, some days I feel just like that Norfolk Southern, barreling out of control at warp speed.”
Gorman lets the lyrics take control. Showing up relentlessly, day after day, to his home studio dubbed “The Bookhouse” (a tribute to David Lynch's Twin Peaks), he can’t predict what will arise. For the album's first track, “Payphone,” the opening lyrics were a surprise to Gorman: “Fake tits and diet coke / Full of undefeated hope / You are the only one I trust.” The jangly and groovy album opener is a pep talk between a woman named Big Red and her man as he faces crippling self-doubt and is self-medicating. She comforts him during a time of despair on a phone call that continues to drop.
Another relationship study, “Montauk,” is a cold beachside dance under the full moon inspired by the central question in Gorman’s favorite movie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. “Do we go for it again—even though we're destined to fail?” he asks. “For me, the answer is a resounding yes.”
“All the Stars Are Burning Out” continues in that reflective vein. “It’s a throwback song, about getting high, going for a drive, dreaming up your future. You’re looking at that wide open black sky of bright stars, and they’re so beautiful and inspiring, and they make you want to follow your dreams. And yet all those stars eventually burn out. It’s a song about going for it even though life is impermanent and full of change,” Gorman said.
The saying goes, “arches never sleep.” Designed to distribute weight evenly, arches naturally rebalance as the structure around them shifts over time. Illiterate Light’s Arches exists within this metaphor in many ways. The album marks a period of artistic strength, a balancing act of identity and possibility. To listen to Arches is to plant yourself within the arch, to stand in the threshold between two worlds and gaze into Gorman and Cochran’s constant motion forward.
American Idiot 20th Anniversary - Deluxe Edition [Indie Exclusive One-Step Edition 2 LP]
Vinyl: $124.98 PREORDER
Green Day’s seventh studio album American Idiot was released in September 2004 and has since sold over 23 million copies worldwide, including 9 million in the US. The album is a punk rock opera masterpiece that won the Best Rock Album at the 2005 Grammy Awards©. Five hit singles were released from the album: “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”, “Holiday”, “Wake Me Up When September Ends”, “Jesus of Suburbia”, and the title track, “American Idiot”.
5 Seconds of Summer - 5 Seconds of Summer (10th Anniversary Edition) - Red Vinyl LP
Originally known via their YouTube chart covers, Australian band, 5 Seconds of Summer rose to international fame while touring with One Direction on their Take Me Home Tour. They became the breakthrough story of 2014 in what would be a momentous year for the band. That year produced four multimillion-selling singles, including "She Looks So Perfect," which would top the singles chart in the UK, "Don't Stop," "Good Girls" and "Amnesia." Their self-titled debut album topped charts around the world, becoming the biggest US debut album of the year and the biggest US debut by an Australian artist ever.
10th Anniversary Edition LP on red vinyl featuring alternate front cover sleeve and 2 bonus tracks: "Lost Boy" and "Mrs All American." These tracks were only available on the Australian and American versions of 5 Seconds Of Summer, respectively. Limited
4LP Boxset
4 180 GRAM LPS
2024 REMASTERED VERSION OF UP TO HERE + LIVE FROM THE MISTY MOON, HALIFAX
NOVA SCOTIA, 4/26/90
4 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED STUDIO TRACKS
A FULL LP OF 1988 DEMOS + 28 PAGE BOOK
1 PURE AUDIO BLU-RAY
DOLBY ATMOS OF UP TO HERE + LIVE CONCERT FILM OF THE MISTY MOON SHOW
Up To Here is The Tragically Hip’s diamond selling debut album, originally released on August 8, 1989.
Featuring some of the bands most beloved songs ‘Blow At High Dough’ and ‘New Orleans Is Sinking’ – both #1 radio singles in Canada as well as fan favorites ‘Boots Or Hearts’ and ’38 Years Old’
The expanded reissue of Up To Here is a must-have for collectors, presented as four double LP sets on 180g vinyl, plus a four CD set alongside a book documenting the history of the debut album era. The reissue includes a 2024 remastering of the original album, a recording of Live at The Misty Moon the special filmed for MuchMusic in 1990 from The Misty Moon in Halifax with accompanying 1 hour concert film on Bluray, plus the demos from the original 1988 recording session. There are four previously unreleased songs that didn’t make it on the original Up To Here album – “She’s Got What It Takes,” “Get Back Again,” “Rain, Hearts And Fire” – that are shared as part of this expanded package, remastered in Atmos.
4LP Boxset + Blu Ray
Side 1 (LP1 - Up To Here (2024 remaster of the original album)
- Blow At High Dough
- I’ll Believe In You (Or I’ll Be Leaving You Tonight)
- New Orleans Is Sinking
- 38 Years Old
- She Didn’t Know
Side 2 (LP1 - Up To Here (2024 remaster of the original album)
- Boots Or Hearts
- Everytime You Go
- When The Weight Comes Down
- Trickle Down
- Another Midnight
- Opiated
Side 3 (LP2 - Live At The Misty Moon + Previously Unreleased Studio Tracks)
- Crack My Spine Like A Whip (Live At The Misty Moon)
- She Didn’t Know (Live At The Misty Moon)
- Highway Girl (Live At The Misty Moon)
- Just As Well (Live At The Misty Moon)
- Boots Or Hearts (Live At The Misty Moon)
- Trickle Down (Live At The Misty Moon)
Side 4 (LP2 - Live At The Misty Moon + Previously Unreleased Studio Tracks)
- Get Back Again (Live At The Misty Moon)
- Three Pistols (Live At The Misty Moon)
- Fight (Live At The Misty Moon)
- 38 Years Old (Live At The Misty Moon)
Side 5 (LP3 - Live At The Misty Moon + Previously Unreleased Studio Tracks)
- Blow At High Dough (Live At The Misty Moon)
- I’ll Believe In You (Or I’ll Be Leaving You Tonight) (Live At The Misty Moon)
- New Orleans Is Sinking (Live At The Misty Moon)
- On The Verge (Live At The Misty Moon)
Side 6 (LP3 - Live At The Misty Moon + Previously Unreleased Studio Tracks)
- She’s Got What It Takes
- Get Back Again
- Rain, Hearts And Fire
- Wait So Long
Side 7 (LP4 - How We Got Here - The 1988 Demos)
- Hailstone Hands Of God (1988 Demo)
- When The Weight Comes Down (1988 Demo)
- I’ll Believe In You (Or I’ll Be Leaving You Tonight) (1988 Demo)
- New Orleans Is Sinking (1988 Demo)
- Rain, Hearts And Fire (1988 Demo)
Side 8 (LP4 - How We Got Here - The 1988 Demos)
- She Didn’t Know (1988 Demo)
- Blow At High Dough (1988 Demo)
- Boots Or Hearts (1988 Demo)
- Everytime You Go (1988 Demo)
- Just Another Midnight (1988 Demo)
Blu Ray Disc Side 1 - full 1hr concert film of the Misty Moon show
- Blow At High Dough
- I’ll Believe In You (Or I’ll Be Leaving You Tonight)
- New Orleans Is Sinking
- 38 Years Old
- She Didn’t Know
- Boots Or Hearts
- Everytime You Go
- When The Weight Comes Down
- Trickle Down
- Another Midnight
- Opiated
- She’s Got What It Takes
- Get Back Again
- Rain, Hearts And Fire
- Wait So Long
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