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Oblivion - OST LP
The soundtrack for the new Tom Cruise sci-fi vehicle with original score by M83's Anthony Gonzalez and composer Joseph Trapanese. Soaring with his interstellar synths and a cloud-surfing lead vocal from Susanne Sundfør, the title track weaves the nostalgic drama of M83's dream pop with more traditional string and horn arrangements. It’s a modernized version of Tangerine Dream’s scores from the ’80s (two of which were also Tom Cruise films), and, unfortunately, a fleeting hint of what might have been.
True Blues - Various Artists CD
Guy Davis, Shemekia Copeland, Corey Harris, Alvin Youngblood Hart, and Taj Mahal join forces for True Blues, a collaboration of the best blues musicians currently playing today. Individually and as an ensemble they explore the genre's history from its roots to current day. For any fan of the blues, this super group outing is a must have.
Alice In Chains - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here CD
The fifth album from the Grunge/Hard Rockers and their second since their 2005 reunion. The band features original members Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney plus bassist Mike Inez and William DuVall, who replaces original vocalist Layne Staley.
CocoRosie - Tales of a Grasswidow CD
The fifth album from the Alt-Rock duo comprised of sisters Sierra and Bianca Casady. Tales Of A GrassWidow is their first album since 2010's Grey Oceans. This album marks their first self-released title after having previously been on SubPop and Touch & Go Records. Enriched by a whole host of guest performances, it's a brave record, synthesizing electronic and organic sound to convey a futuristic, back-to-nature feeling.
Della Mae - This World Oft Can Be CD
This World Oft Can Be, Della Mae's Rounder debut, shows that like The Avett Brothers, The Lumineers, and Punch Brothers, the five multitalented young women of Della Mae are respectful of American musical tradition, but not restricted by it, combining centuries' worth of musical influences with an emotionally tough, undeniably modern songwriting sensibility. In a relatively short period of time, the band has become a sensation in the music world, commanding a powerful collective chemistry with vocal, instrumental, and songwriting talent to spare. This World Oft Can Be, recorded at Johnny Cash's cabin in Hendersonville, Tennessee and mixed by Paul Q. Kolderie (Radiohead, The Pixies, Uncle Tupelo), mines time-honored elements to create music that's unmistakably fresh and contemporary.
Eliane Elias - I Thought About You (A Tribute To Chet Baker) CD
On Eliane Elias' second Concord release, the sultry Brazilian pianist-vocalist-arranger wraps her jazz and bossa nova style around classic tunes associated with iconic jazz trumpeter Chet Baker: "I Thought About You", "You Don't Know What Love Is", "Let's Get Lost", "That Old Feeling", and "I Get Along Without You Very Well". Elias is supported by top flight Brazilian and American musicians, including her rhythm section of guitarist Steve Cardenas, drummers Rafael Barata and Victor Lewis, percussionist Marivaldo dos Santos and her husband, bassist Marc Johnson. The album also features special guests Randy Brecker on trumpet and Brazilian guitarist Oscar Castro-Neves, considered a founding figure in bossa nova.
John Fogerty - Wrote a Song For Everyone CD
John Fogerty is one of the most respected songwriters in the history of Rock and Roll. On his new album Wrote a Song For Everyone, Fogerty produces a masterpiece, drawing from his classic songbook of hits and collaborating with some of the biggest superstars in popular music. Alongside these stellar collaborations, Fogerty has also penned two brand new original songs for the album. 14 songs, 16 special guests, one songwriter, and one amazing album.
Keith Jarrett Trio - Somewhere CD
Now in its 30th year, the Keith Jarrett Trio is widely considered, as the NY Times recently remarked, to have set the gold standard for jazz groups, and this sparkling concert recording from 2009 is issued to mark a milestone anniversary. The Somewhere in which the Standards trio find themselves is Lucerne, Switzerland with a performance both exploratory and in-the-tradition. The Neue Zurcher Zeitung headlined its review of the show Kontrollierte Ekstase controlled ecstasy an apt metaphor for a set that begins in improvisational Deep Space modulates into Miles Davis Solar, soars through the standards Stars Fell On Alabama and Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea and climaxes with an extended romp through West Side Story, as Bernsteins Somewhere and Tonight are bridged by the freely associative Jarrett original Everywhere.
Kermit Ruffins - We Partyin' Traditional Style CD
The official party purveyor of New Orleans, Kermit Ruffins, is at it again with his new CD We Partyin' Traditional Style. An intriguing collection of Jazz standards put through the good times grinder by the King of Treme himself, We Partyin' Traditional Style is a rare glimpse into the influences that inspired Ruffins while a youthful New Orleans street busker working toward international celebrity. Pulling classics from the 20th Century like fedoras from his collection, Ruffins' playful nature breathes new life into versions of 'Exactly Like you' and 'Jeepers Creepers.' With more than a little help from veteran jazzmen like Lucien Barbarin and Shannon Powell (both previously sidemen for Harry Connick, Jr.) Ruffins delivers with a sharp musical elegance, one that would certainly make his progenitors tip their hat.
Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle CD
Laura Marling's new album, Once I Was An Eagle, the follow up to 2011's stand out A Creature I Don't Know, is a hugely ambitious album reflecting the poise and confidence of a songwriter far beyond her years (23). Recorded in the English countryside with longtime collaborator and producer Ethan Johns, the album's loose narrative traverses heartbreak, vulnerability, resurgence, confidence, and lastly contemplation. Once I Was An Eagle steps farther outside the conventions of Laura's previous albums, an opportunity to fully explore her songwriting process while abandoning expectations.
Mount Kimbie - Cold Spring Fault Less Youth CD
Since 2009, Dominic Maker and his partner in Mount Kimbie, Kai Campos, have played a central role in forging a new form for electronic music. Their influence stretches far beyond the corner of the dance music underground that birthed them. They have repeatedly confounded expectations, transforming themselves from bedroom-studio producers to creators of one of the most fully realised electronic album-length statements of recent years and refining their live show to incorporate live drums, bass, guitar and vocals. With their second album, Cold Spring Fault Less Youth, finally completed, the perception of Mount Kimbie looks set to expand again.
Paul McCartney - Wings Over America CD
Wings Over America is the monumental live album by Paul McCartney and Wings, originally released in December of 1976. Recorded throughout the band s Wings Over America U.S. tour dates earlier that Spring, the album reached #1 in the US in early 1977. Containing almost two full hours of music, Wings Over America offers a stunning rendition of Maybe I m Amazed, plus Wings classics such as Live and Let Die, My Love, & Let Em In. McCartney also included some Beatles classics into the set list, including Yesterday, The Long and Winding Road and more for the first time since the Beatles had broken up six years earlier.
Popa Chubby - Universal Breakdown Blues CD
Universal Breakdown Blues is a modern urban blues/rock offering that reflects the soul of blues mastermind Popa Chubby. The album features 12 brand new tracks that capture the fire and energy of his live shows. It represents an entirely new level of his tempestuous, soulful playing. Popa puts it all into the simple language of music and invites us all to the party!
Stranglers - Giants CD
The Stranglers are the last true survivors, most highly revered and original British bands to emerge from the late 70s UK punk scene. If the Sex Pistols were the iconic British punk band of the late seventies, The Stranglers were the most genuine, a real reflection of what was going on whilst being the most commercially successful without any compromise. Four decades, 17 albums, and 24 Top 40 hit singles later, the four-piece originally from Guildford, are making a welcomed return to North America for the first time in 20 years. Hit singles such as Golden Brown, Peaches, No More Heroes, Skin Deep, and Strange Little Girl, have secured the band a firm place in the rock and roll history books. Regularly hitting the headlines with an instinctive nose for controversy and confrontation, the band s genuine aura of danger and cool combined with tough, and imaginative songs, they created original and dynamic melodies and bass driven aggression that has influenced so many bands to this day.
Terence Blanchard - Magnetic CD
Terence Blanchard brilliantly continues his life-long exploration of jazz on his latest release. As one would expect of a musician of his caliber, broad experience, talent and passion, the trumpeter, composer and arranger brings his all to every work. On this, his return to the Blue Note label, Blanchard, 51, teams with longtime collaborators saxophonist Brice Winston and drummer Kendrick Scott and again with Cuban-born pianist Fabian Almazan, who debuted with Blanchard’s band on the trumpeter’s Grammy winning album, A Tale of God’s Will, plus newcomer, 21-year-old bassist Joshua Crumbly.
Tony Bennett & Dave Brubeck- The White House Sessions, Live 1962 CD
For the first time ever, the complete Tony Bennett and Dave Brubeck performance from the White House Seminar American Jazz Concert, held on August 28, 1962. The concert was an end-of-summer event thrown by the John F. Kennedy White House for college students who'd been working as interns in the nation's capital. With the Washington Monument as the evening's backdrop, the show was moved from its original Rose Garden location to the larger Sylvan Theater grounds nearby to accommodate the crowd.
Tricky - False Idols CD
latest album from the British rapper, producer and Trip Hop pioneer. One of the finest, most individual MCs to emerge from the UK, Tricky's ever unpredictable path has just taken a new turn with an album released on the new False Idols imprint. Typically introspective, the rapper recently reveals that False Idols is an attempt to re-focus.
