One of the more enigmatic bands of the classic 4AD era, Swallow was formed by Louise Trehy and Mike Mason, who met in early 90’s Camberwell, London. both were deeply involved with the independent music scene of the time; Louise co-founded Setanta Records (home of The Divine Comedy, Edwyn Collins and Into Paradise with whom Mike would occasionally play), and Mike traversed between bike courier, video director, and lighting designer for Spacemen 3, Slowdive, Spiritualized, Curve and Chapterhouse. Prompted by Louise, they started writing songs together, drawing inspiration from a healthy mix of sources: CAN, noise, post-punk, and American forces of nature like Captain Beefheart and Butthole Surfers. Their first songs quickly surfaced and were recorded…
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Thirst, originally released in 1981 is a stone-cold post-punk classic. While still retaining the sharp experimental edge of their debut, White Souls in Black Suits, Thirst stretches out and offers up some cleaner and more hooky moments as it moves away from pure improvisation. “Between White Souls and Thirst, the guitarist changed from David Hammond to Paul Widger,” explains Newton. “David introduced the perfect guitar sound for DVA, whereas Paul brought in a more rhythmic style more towards early Ry Cooder. The material we were developing was a more defined series of pieces, more structured and exact than the improvised works on White Souls.”
45 years on from its original release (on Fetish), it’s a record from the era that sounds like no other.
Black Editions presents the expanded and definitive edition of White Heaven’s brilliant third album Next to Nothing. Originally released in 1994 by Tokyo’s Noon Disk, the full album was only ever available in a limited vinyl pressing of 250 copies. Since then, it has become one of the most sought after artifacts of the 90’s Japanese underground and is regarded as a highpoint of Japanese psychedelic rock. Led by vocalist, songwriter and conceptualist You Ishihara, the album finds the group in a phase of refinement. Taking a more intricate and open approach, the music is buoyant and light yet at the same time, nocturnal and introspective. Next to Nothing marks the first time guitarists Michio Kurihara and Soichiro Nakamura appear together on record after having separate turns as lead…
…a freshly refurbished and expanded treatment of 2005’s ‘Tommyland: The Ride’, Tommy Lee’s second solo album after his short-lived side project Methods of Mayhem. ‘Tommyland Rides Again’ also introduce a brand-new bonus track, “Stupid World (feat. Chad Tepper).
Released in conjunction with his book of the same name, as well as his new reality television series Tommy Lee Goes to College, Tommyland: The Ride is the Mötley Crüe drummer’s second foray — not including Methods of Mayhem — into faux-solo land. Tommy Lee lends his name, drums, and some vocals to 12 rockers, power ballads, summer anthems, and emo-drenched exercises in futility that employ the voices and guitar playing of pretty much anybody available.
The Pale Fountains make a strong claim for being one of the great “lost” bands of the first half of the 1980s on this career retrospective — The Complete Virgin Years — which gathers up their two albums (1984’s Pacific Street and 1985’s …From Across the Kitchen Table), all the singles and B-sides, plus a healthy number of extended versions, rough mixes, and demos.
The group were equally inspired by the mystical garage rock of Love and the sophisticated craft of Burt Bacharach while sharing the smooth production of contemporaries like the Style Council, the psychedelic shimmer of Teardrop Explodes, and the take-no-prisoners approach of Dexy’s Midnight Runners. Their songs — like quite a few bands of the day — were full of fretless…
Following the success of 2025’s first Singles Live compilation, Popstock Records present The Fall: Singles Live Vol. Two 1980-83 in association with Bella Union. Commenting on the release Paul Hanley says: “In marked contrast to Singles Vol. One this compilation showcases an altogether more stable line-up – the one that recorded Hex Enduction Hour to be precise, notwithstanding some to-ing and fro-ing on the kit between me and Karl. As with previous releases, there are some revelatory versions here, and the mastering is a wonder to behold, or whatever the aural equivalent of ‘behold’ is. The earliest, ‘Putta Block’, from May 1980 was recorded at the Beach Club, a short-lived Manchester venue that also saw New Order’s debut gig. The latest, ‘Ludd Gang’, comes…
The soulful Philly jazz spirit resonates through all of the Visitors’ fourth and final album, 1976’s Motherland. Led by brothers Earl Grubbs (soprano and tenor saxophone) and Carl Grubbs (alto saxophone), the Visitors emerged in their native Philadelphia in the late ’60s, drawing inspiration from John Coltrane, whom they met while he was married to their cousin Juanita “Naima” Grubbs. Signed to Muse, they released four albums that showcased their vibrant saxophone interplay and featured other luminaries, including at various times, Kenny Barron, Buster Williams, Albert “Tootie” Heath, and Stanley Clarke. Produced by Michael Cuscuna, Motherland finds them leading a group with pianist Joe Bonner, bassist John Lee, and drummer Victor Lewis.
Fall of 2023, Andy Hull & Robert McDowell took up residency at Union Chapel in London for 3 nights of unprecedented, intimate duo performances spanning the history of Manchester Orchestra. Andy’s voice paired with Robert’s meticulously plucked strings, eerie instrumentation, & understated harmonizing echoed against the gothic walls & stained glass windows of the chapel. A liturgical experience of introspection & sound community, transforming their most beloved songs into an iconic piece of music.
Recorded live during the band’s sold-out three night residency at London’s historic Union Chapel during the fall of 2023, the sweeping 21-track collection is a raw, vocally-centered liturgical experience of introspection…
…includes 20 previously unreleased tracks.
Allen Toussaint experienced a late-career revival sparked, ironically enough, by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. He had to leave his hometown New Orleans after the hurricane, relocating to New York City where he started to play regular gigs at Joe’s Pub and, soon enough, he cut The River in Reverse with Elvis Costello. That 2006 album propelled Toussaint toward a greater audience, leading to more headlining concerts, two of which are chronicled on Rounder’s 2013 release Songbook. Recorded in 2009 at Joe’s Pub, Songbook features nothing more than Toussaint alone at a piano running through songs he’s written over the decades. He sprinkles in a New Orleans standard here and there — there’s…
Headphone Dust is pleased to present a new edition of Hawkwind’s landmark 1975 album Warrior on the Edge of Time, featuring new 2026 Steven Wilson mixes created from the original multi-track master tapes. This release includes new 2026 stereo, 5.1 surround and Dolby Atmos mixes, alongside an exclusive binaural Headphone Dust mix optimised for headphone listening. Please note that Spiral Galaxy 28948 (track 7) and Kings of Speed (track 10) exist without complete multitrack recordings; the 5.1 and Atmos presentations of these tracks are upmixes rather than discrete mixes from original source material.
Also included are a selection of 2026 remasters of some of the bonus tracks originally presented on the Atomhenge expanded edition.
Bruce Springsteen brought his E Street Band to Chicago for a sold-out show on Wednesday night, marking the latest stop on the “Land of Hope and Dreams” tour. As the band made their way through a varied setlist that spanned over 10 albums and 40 years of music, Springsteen struck a balance between respectfully mourning the tragedies of recent history and inspiring an infectious, joyous hope. All the while, the 76-year-old proved he’s still got it, hopping around, hollering, and playing to the crowd in the way only The Boss can.
Springsteen set the tone for the night as soon as he stepped onto the stage. Under a spotlight, the artist made his greetings before laying out his mission statement: “The E Street Band is here in Chicago tonight in celebration and peaceful…
Sony are releasing Bruce Springsteen’s ‘homecoming’ performance in Asbury Park that formed part of the Sea.Hear.Now festival back in 2024.
The live album captures Springsteen’s three-hour hometown show in all its glory. Serving as the first-ever physical release of the performance, Live from Asbury Park 2024 is a 5xLP, 3xCD set featuring Springsteen and The E Street Band tearing through classics like “Thunder Road” and “Dancing in the Dark,” plus early gems penned just down the road, including “Blinded By the Light” and “Growin’ Up.”
Of course, the concert was a major homecoming for the Boss, who grew up and still lives just a few miles from Asbury Park, has played there countless times over his career…
…includes 3 bonus early demo versions.
Toronto duo Ducks Ltd. wasted no time issuing their mission statement on debut album Modern Fiction. The first sound on opening track “How Lonely Are You?” is a wall of bright multi-tracked guitars firing off a barrage of nervous, ever so slightly melancholic chords. It’s jangle pop excellence from the first few seconds, opening up into a powerful but compact rush of simple drum machine rhythms, melodic basslines, and layers of smart vocal hooks. The song is here and gone in less than three minutes, beginning an album of thoughtfully constructed tracks that take notes from some of indie pop’s best artists.
Over the course of Modern Fiction‘s streamlined runtime, Ducks Ltd. channel…
Some albums outlive their era, carrying their magic from one generation to the next. The Jerry Garcia Family and Round Records celebrate the 50th anniversary of Reflections, “one of Garcia’s most artistically unified statements of harmony, affirmation, and joy,” with an expanded 3xLP set for Record Store Day on April, 2026. Reflections (50th Anniversary Edition) presents the remastered original studio album – famously described as “really two half-albums in one” – recorded with the Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia Band, and includes two bonus LPs featuring studio outtakes, jams, and four previously unreleased live recordings.
Originally released in early 1976, Garcia reflected that much of the album’s energy “is really a continuation of…
Back in 2016, The Monkees celebrated their 50th anniversary with their first album of new material since 1996’s Justus. The appropriately-titled Good Times!, produced by Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger, was a true return to form. The acclaimed album reached No. 14 on the Billboard 200, becoming the group’s highest-charting release in 48 years.
Now Rhino is revisiting Good Times! in a 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition which celebrates not only the album, but the 60th anniversary of The Monkees and the memory of Schlesinger, Michael Nesmith, and Peter Tork (all of whom died following its release) and Davy Jones (who had passed away in 2012 but was nonetheless featured on Good Times! via archival material).
Originally released on vinyl for Record Store Day in April 2025, the release in other formats over a month later clarifies how, in more ways than one, Neil Young’s live album with the Chrome Hearts is a mirror image of last year’s studio album with that band. Whereas Talkin’ to the Trees was full of the former Buffalo Springfielder’s observations about life as he sees it right now, from an aged perspective, As Time Explodes finds him rendering more broad, yet focused observations on our contemporary times in the context of his own history.
To that end, the album begins with “Daddy Went Walkin’,” a winsome number taken from the 2000 album Silver & Gold. Ostensibly about the passing of Young’s late father Scott – and…