Ty Segall Band – Live in San Francisco LP NEW. SEALED. Includes mp3 download of album. Castle Face Records Ty Segall pushed the boundaries of his songwriting and his stylistic eclecticism on 2014 s splendid Manipulator, but while that album suggested Segall could go practically anywhere he wanted creatively, there s clearly a part of…
Unwound – Empire 4LP NEW. SEALED. Deluxe 4 LP box set. Numero Group The climactic entry in our four-set Unwound exploration, Empire compiles the final pair of albums by the Olympia, Washington, trio. On 1998 s Challenge For A Civilized Society, the band toyed with conventional verse chorus form, stacking layers of noise and distraction…
The Walkmen – Lisbon LP NEW. SEALED. Fat Possum Records “Don’t get heavy, let’s be light,” Hamilton Leithauser sings on “Woe Is Me,” and that seems to be the Walkmen s creed on Lisbon. the Walkmen were more than heavy on their previous album, the gorgeously moody You & Me, and it’s hard not to…
The War On Drugs – Slave Ambient 2LP NEW. SEALED. Includes mp3 download of album. Secretly Canadian Records On their third album, the War on Drugs essentially continue to stake out their own particular patch of ground in 21st century rock & roll with an indie bent, nodding in equal parts toward older traditions and…
Weezer – Make Believe LP NEW. SEALED. 180 gram vinyl reissue. Mofi Records As a Rolling Stone cover story on newsstands the week before the release of Make Believe made clear, Weezer leader Rivers Cuomo is an odd, ornery sort. He s a genuine rock & roll maverick, at once attracted and repelled by his…
Wendy Rene – After Laughter Comes Tears 2LP NEW. SEALED. Recent reissue + remaster. Light in the Attic Records Wendy Rene isn t a name that comes up much when people talk about soul legends. Never famous, and active for only four short years, her legacy is in the archives with hundreds of other obscure…
West Of Memphis – Voices For Justice OST 2LPÂ NEW. SEALED. Legacy Recordings West of Memphis is a documentary film written and directed by Amy Berg, and produced by Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and others, which follows the heavy hands of misplaced justice after the murders of three eight-year-old boys in West Memphis, Arkansas in…
Widespread Panic – Ain t Life Grand 2LP NEW. SEALED. Recent Reissue. Volcano Records Widespread Panic s fourth album features tighter, more song-oriented writing. The searing guitar of the opening tune, Little Kin, introduces a grittier album than the previous year s Everyday. After touring with the first two H.O.R.D.E. tours in 1992 and 1993,…
Widepsread Panic – Everyday 2LP NEW. SEALED. Recent reissue. Volcano Records Widespread Panic s third album offers 14 southern-fried rock songs, some of which have become the band s most-loved show stoppers. It s also the first album to feature John JoJo Herman s bluesy key pecking. Everyday has been criticized for sounding too uniform….
Zero Boys – History Of LP NEW. SEALED. Includes mp3 download of album. Secretly Canadian Records When punk rock began to evolve into hardcore at the dawn of the 80s, it started at the West and East coasts and slowly creepy-crawled into the Midwest and the Southwest, and Indianapolis Zero Boys were early adopters of…
The Zombies – Odessey & Oracle LP NEW. SEALED. Varese Sarabande Records Odessey and Oracle was one of the flukiest (and best) albums of the 1960s, and one of the most enduring long-players to come out of the entire British psychedelic boom, mixing trippy melodies, ornate choruses, and lush Mellotron sounds with a solid hard…