The debut album by Agitation Free followed a somewhat different path than your average Krautrock band, veering unexpectedly toward the Middle East, specifically Egypt, in search of atmosphere and material. Underneath the dueling guitars and spacy synth work, desert rhythms ...

Merzbow is Japan's leading experimental/noise composer. But then again, Merzbow is the world's leading experimental noise composer. Talent like that of Masami Akita cannot be limited to one region of the world. What he does and has done since the ...

The band's third album finds guitar hero Mike Bloomfield MIA and replaced by a horn section including the very young David Sanborn. (Ironically, Bloomfield departed to start his own horn band, the ill-fated Electric Flag). Stylistically, the band was inching ...

180 gram gatefold vinyl set the features his 2 albums 'I'm John Lee Hooker' (Vee-Jay records, 1959, and 'Travelin'' (Vee-Jay records, 1960). 24 tracks

Track Listing: Home; Medicine; Youth; Love;

This reissue includes a prologue featuring Orson Welles that was not used on the original release, as well as newly recorded drums, guitar and synthesizer parts. The maiden voyage of the Alan Parsons Project, 1976's TALES OF MYSTERY & IMAGINATION, finds ...

Track Listing: Come On; Indian Tents; We Bring the Rukus; Real Live Shit; Last Man Standing; 45s and 38s; Fair Play;

Led by the charmingly adenoidal Daniel Treacy, whose disregard for the niceties of production and arrangement doesn't hide his deceptively brilliant lyrical and melodic abilities, the Television Personalities first burst on to a moribund U.K. punk rock scene in the ...

New Orleans-born pianist Mac Rebennack had been making a living as a Los Angeles session musician for years before he adopted the persona of Dr. John, a name taken from a 19th-century witch doctor. Under that guise, he crafted a ...

History comes alive in the voices of the Beatles as Broadcast Journalist Larry Kane joins them on every stop of their historic 1964 and 1965 tours of North America. In these interviews, narrated by Larry, the Beatles take on world ...

Recorded in Hollywood, California, Chicago, Illinois & London, England. Includes liner notes by Andrew Loog Oldham. This is a Hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both Super Audio and regular CD players. Early Stones recordings don't get much better than this. Firmly ...

The self-titled debut from Washington, D.C.'s quintessential exponents of hardcore appeared on the (then) tiny Dischord label run by the young and energetic Ian MacKaye, who as vocalist for the band exhibited some of the most incisive lyrics, not to ...

From the minds behind the two volumes of Funky Fräuleins, Beat Fräuleins winds the clock back slightly further, focusing on the mid-'60s and a parade of solo German females with a variety of arrangements -- most of them pretty sophisticated ...

1966 debut album.

THE WORST OF JEFFERSON AIRPLANE features material from 1966-1969. The title, of course, is an ironic joke and very much emblematic of the Airplane's sensibility; this was a group, you'll recall, that would go on to give its own version of ...

THE WANDERER was also Summer's final collaboration with songwriter/producer Giorgio Moroder, whose trademark krautrock-inspired machine rhythms gave Summer's disco-era singles their unique sound. Moroder's integration of rock instrumentation on this album sounds like it was influenced by his recent work ...

Canibus is back in furious form with this hard-hitting release. On "Genabis," the rapper known to his mama as Germaine Williams launches his verbal assault over an eerie gothic soundtrack. "Levitibus" follows with a battery of samples and a surprisingly ...

Track Listing: Sagen Sie, Frau Zimmermann; Die Grune Witwe; Jeder Hat an Andern Schmah; Berlin; Hans Emmerich; Sunburst; Dein Brief; Das Zahlenspiel; Ich Wart Auf Die Nacht; Kikiala Hawaii; Dancin Daddy; Kleiner Mann; Special Agent; Der Wassermann; Blueberry Hill; Goldene ...