On its raucous 2008 outing, ROCK THE REBEL/METAL THE DEVIL, the Danish ensemble Volbeat mixes metal with a melodic 1960s rock-&-roll influence. Frontman Michael Paulson sounds like a fusion of late-era Elvis and early Misfits Glenn Danzig, particularly on the ...

Feist's fourth studio album was preceded by a flurry of viral videos that offered up choice bits from selected tracks, leading up to the official release of Metals' first single, "How Come You Never Go There." The 14-track recording, which ...

Track Listing: DISC 1: My Final Bullet; S.O.D.O.M.; Epitome Of Torture; Stigmatized; Cannibal; Shoot Today; DISC 2: Invocating The Demons; Katjuscha; Into The Skies Of War; Tracing The Victim; Waterboarding; Splitting The Atom; Ace Of Spades;

Polly Harvey took a more political and less personal approach to her songwriting on 2011's Let England Shake, drawing on her homeland's history to add a fresh approach to her work with longtime collaborators John Parish and Mick Harvey. The ...

With their album-length 2012 EP Take the Kids Off Broadway, backwards-looking concept rockers Foxygen arrived with so many classic rock reference points you could have made a bingo card out of the various nods to various heroes contained in their ...

HELP was the last Beatles album to feature a cover version (Larry Williams's "Dizzy Miss Lizzie"), and is considered a turning point in the quality of their songwriting. Like the previous album's "Im a Loser," "You've Got To Hide Your ...

By the mid-'70s, even Dylan's most ardent supporters began taking his artistic decline for granted. Albums like NEW MORNING and PLANET WAVES were fine works, but lacked the visionary spark of his seminal '60s recordings. At 34 he was already ...

Crystal Castles' self-titled debut helped take 8-bit synth tones into the mainstream. That jagged, strangely naïve sound of old-school video games is so distinctive that it could easily define the duo's music instead of vice versa, but Ethan Kath and ...

Kim Richey's recordings have always too mercurial to pin down. She's stubbornly followed her muse down the lanes of contemporary country, Americana, and adult alternative pop, but has never stayed in one place too long. Thorn in My Heart possesses ...

Track Listing: Brock Graveside; Tuff; Tensssacts; 13 BigMon / Boys As Transformers; Node Wrestling; Thunder-Bro; Damion; Assclamp!; Bolly; Gawker; Spag; In A Spaceage Mood; Warped Carousel; X1 Krash / Woozzy; Fumblestealth; No Vacancy (VB Theme);

Retreating from the hazy Danger Mouse-fueled pot dream of Attack & Release, the Black Keys headed down to the legendary Muscle Shoals, recording their third album on their own and dubbing it Brothers. The studio, not to mention the artwork ...

Track Listing: Black Dog Blues; Nobody's Fault But Mine; Back Water Blues; Meat Shakin' Woman; Easy Rider Blues; Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out; Bulldozer Blues; You Can't Get That Stuff No More; Dark Night Blues; Rock Island Blues; Death Letter;

Of all Gil Evans' orchestral scores for soulmate Miles Davis, PORGY AND BESS is his richest and most ambitious--a watershed of modern jazz harmony which served to secure Davis' pop star stature and define his brooding mystique. Inevitably, even non-jazz ...

Listening to the Naked and Famous' guttingly good 2011 full-length debut, Passive Me Aggressive You, one thing is clear: this band loves a hot chorus. More often than not on the New Zealand indie electronic ensemble's album, songs like the ...

Physical 45 in limited release on colored vinyl with gold label and a hand-drawn, matte, card stock jacket. Big Sir (Michael Lo): Guitar, Vocals, Percussion, GlockenspielBushwick Ronnie: DrumsKeith Avenue: Basswith Dave Scott: Flute Recorded and mixed by Mitch Rackin at Seaside Lounge, ...

When an album begins with a small chorus of young children greeting the artist like he is one of them, you know that for better or worse you're in for an experience. "Hello, Connan!" the kids bellow before the door ...

Track Listing: When the Lights Go Out; 10 A.M. Automatic; Just Couldn't Tie Me Down; All Hands Against His Own; Desperate Man; Girl Is on My Mind; Lengths; Grown So Ugly; Stack Shot Billy; Act Nice and Gentle; Aeroplane Blues; Keep Me; Till I Get My Way;

The "remix companion" to Skrillex's successful EP Scary Monsters & Nice Sprites actually features two new tracks, including the opening highlight "First of the Year," which wonderfully shifts from the cute kind of fluff Boards of Canada might appreciate to ...

Recorded in 1969. Originally released on Takoma (1024). Includes liner notes by Mark Humphrey and original release liner notes by Leo Kottke. This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players. With the 1969 release ...

Long-running New Zealand noise rock trio the Dead C and U.S. high-energy improviser supergroup Rangda come together with previously unissued recordings for this split album. The Dead C's contributions come from far back in their early days, unreleased vault recordings ...

Tracks 1-5, 8-9 and 33 are mono. Tracks 6-7, 10-32 are stereo. PAST MASTERS is a compilation of singles, B-sides and other tracks that did not appear on the Beatles' original British albums. The Beatles as a general rule did not ...

Reportedly the fastest-selling debut in British history at the time of its early-2006 release, the Arctic Monkeys' WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM, THAT'S WHAT I'M NOT is a brash, hook-filled album that immediately warrants music fans' attention, if perhaps not ...