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Heartbreaker” that “kicks down the door of this next musical chapter” (American Songwriter) and the title track, “Honkytonk Hollywood.” 2 LP set on forest green color vinyl. Limited Edition. Available at Indie Retailers.

Caylee Hammack will release her 2nd full length album that will feature 13 new tracks including the already released songs- “The Hill” & “Breaking Dishes”. She co-wrote all the songs on the new album and has been featured on several tracks with other artists including- Ashley McBride, Miranda Lambert, and others. She has been nominated for the ACM-New Female Artist of the Year.

Mumford & Sons are back with their 5th studio album Rushmere, produced by Dave Cobb (Brandi Carlile, Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson). The 10 track album is a triumphant return to form, with upbeat foot-stompers Rushmere, Truth, & Caroline alongside tender ballads such as Monochrome & Where It Belongs. Available on 12" vinyl, CD & cassette via Glassnote Music.

Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Jason Isbell is one of the most respected and celebrated artists of his generation. The North Alabama native possesses an incredible penchant for identifying and articulating some of the deepest, yet simplest, human emotions, and turning them into beautiful poetry through song. Isbell sings of the everyday human condition with thoughtful, heartfelt, and sometimes brutal honesty. After releasing multiple albums and touring the world with his band, the 400 Unit, Isbell will begin 2025 with a change of pace. He will hit the road on his own, performing solo this winter and early spring at historic music venues across Europe and the US. In conjunction with these much anticipated shows, Isbell will be releasing a new album featuring only his voice and an acoustic guitar, an all-mahogany 1940 Martin 0-17. These recordings further demonstrate his pure talent as a songwriter and musician. Produced by Gena Johnson and Jason Isbell, and recorded at Electric Lady Studios in NYC, ‘Foxes in the Snow’ is set to be released on March 7th.

Because of their mix of hellified gangster shit and progressive compositions, I once jokingly called Clipping "Deathrow Tull." Well, it's not a joke anymore. While Clipping's last few projects have been record-long concepts like classic prog rock, their cyberpunk-infused new album Dead Channel Sky is mixtape-like, a carefully curated collection in which every track is a love letter to a possible present. It sounds crisp and classic at the same time. When something strikes us as retrospective and futuristic at the same time, it's a reminder of how slipshod our present moment truly is. Juxtaposing high-tech, corporate command-and-control systems (the "cyber") with the lo-fi, D.I.Y. underground (the "punk"), cyberpunk proper starts in 1982 and ends in 1999, from Blade Runner to The Matrix. Concurrently, hip-hop matured, went through it's Golden Era, then melted into further forms: it went from from Fab 5 Freddy to Public Enemy to Missy Elliott. While other genres flirted with it, hip-hop was fickle and fey. Rap and rock birthed mutant offspring maligned by most, and hip-hop's relations with electronica rarely fared any better.What if someone explicitly merged hip-hop and cyberpunk - those twin suns of the '80s and '90s - into one set and sound? After all, both movements are the result of hacking the haunted leftovers of a war-torn culture that's long since moved on.On Dead Channel Sky, Clipping texture-map the twin histories of hip-hop and cyberpunk onto an alternate present where Rammellzee and Bambaataa are the superheroes of old; where Cybotron and Mantronix are the reigning legends; where Egyptian Lover and Freestyle are debated endlessly, and Ultramag and Public Enemy are the undeniable forefathers; where the lost movements of 1980s and the 1990s are still happening: rave, trip-hop, hip-house, acid house, drum & bass, big beat-the detritus of a different timeline, the survivors of armed audio warfare. Clipping are no strangers to sci-fi: two of their records were nominated for Hugo Awards (one of science fiction's top literary prizes), and a novella spun-off from their music was nominated for a third. On Dead Channel Sky, Clipping's co-conspirators include everyone from the guitarist Nels Cline, to their labelmates Cartel Madras, rapper/actor Tia Nomore, and wordsmith Aesop Rock. Diggs is known for intricate lyrics and rapid-fire rapping, and the tracks that Snipes and Hutson build in the background are no less complex. All of the above serves to give us a glimpse of an adjacent possible present, where hip-hop and cyberpunk are one culture.Binary stars are often perceived as one object when viewed with the naked eye. Like those twin sun systems, it'll take some special equipment and some discerning attention to pull the stars apart on this record. As Diggs barks on the fire-starting "Change the Channel": Everything is very important!

For more than 25 years, My Morning Jacket have achieved an incredibly rare feat in rock & roll, upholding a long established cultural legacy while sustaining the curiosity and creative hunger of their earliest days. For their 10th studio album, the band teamed up with GRAMMY Award-winning producer Brendan O’Brien (Springsteen, Pearl Jam) for what may be their most masterfully realized work yet, once again expanding the limits of their sound while elevating their artistry to unprecedented heights. Available on "Blue Iceberg" color vinyl with custom inner sleeve and 4-page insert. Limited Edition. Indie Exclusive.

Billboard Heart, the new album by Deep Sea Diver, immediately puts the Seattle band in the company of St. Vincent, TV on the Radio, and Flock of Dimes, bands that have found newly ornate and magnetic ways to make indie rock by discarding notions of how it must sound or what it must say. It's their fourth album and first for Sub Pop, and it is a coup, a triumph over self-doubt, transforming failure into an opportunity to find new freedom, belief, and strength. In the middle of July 2023 in a Los Angeles studio, Deep Sea Diver mastermind Jessica Dobson took a guitar solo but somehow felt nothing. Just days earlier, her Seattle band played a series of semi-secret shows for devotees as de facto rehearsals for a new record. The sets had gone well, but the new songs seemed muddled, Dobson's conviction lost somewhere in the 1,000 miles between Southern California and the home studio she shares with partner, drummer, and frequent cowriter Peter Mansen. On that first night in Los Angeles, she broke down, wondering what she was doing there, and pondering how to fix it. Deep Sea Diver retreated home without an album. Did they need to scrap it, to begin again with new material? Not at all: Following a brief break, Dobson found a renewed sense of self, a trust in her vision for her band and songs and her ability to capture them. Over dinner with longtime collaborator Andy Park, a humbling confession that she needed help inspired Dobson to reimagine and reinvigorate Deep Sea Diver. This revelation set the stage for the power and brilliance of Billboard Heart, Three years before Dobson's galvanizing dinner with Park, Deep Sea Diver issued it's third album, 2020's Impossible Weight, via the colossal indie imprint, ATO. It was a significant step up, and earned the band a groundswell of exposure and a spot on Billboard charts. But the success caused Dobson to doubt her impulses, to wonder what an idea's impact or reception might be as much the strength of the idea itself. Moments of domestic creation, with her at the piano and Mansen on guitar in their Seattle living room, forged a path forward, and reinvigorated the pair's songwriting partnership. From end to end, the material on Billboard Heart is astonishing. The title track is the one song Deep Sea Diver actually finished in Los Angeles. It's a radiant and magnificent thing, the billowing synths of Elliot Jackson and tunneling pedal steel of Greg Leisz bolstering an anthem for fearlessly advancing into the future. "Emergency" links hardcore's vim to electroclash's instant allure with Dobson's captivating vocals and guitar work in the spotlight. Tender and vulnerable, "Tiny Threads" is a sweeping anthem for anyone trying to hold anything together-life, love, themselves. "If it haunts me, let it haunt me," Dobson sings softly over a stillness framed only by bass and noise. She let's her guitar careen into feedback, then steadily sculpts it into something tuneful. It's a lifetime of anxiety and sublimation, crystallized into 10 seconds. Billboard Heart feels that way at large.Billboard Heart emerged when Dobson trusted her instincts, a personal breakthrough that prompted an artistic one. It is, in turn, the best Deep Sea Diver album yet, a defiant and brilliant exclamation mark at the end of a long period of wandering.

California-bred singer-songwriter, Jillian Rose Banks, aka BANKS, crafts moody, alternative pop with shades of contemporary R&B. Emerging in the early 2010s with a handful of downtempo, alt-R&B tracks, BANKS created a signature sound that helped build a cross-genre audience. Her critically acclaimed and gold-certified debut album, Goddess, featured songs like “Before I Ever Met You,” “Warm Water,” and “Fall Over,” as well as collaborations with producers Justin Parker, Shlomo, and Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. The album peaked just outside the Top Ten on the Billboard 200. In 2016, BANKS released her highly anticipated sophomore album, The Altar, which featured singles “Fuck with Myself,” “Gemini Feeed,” and “Mind Games,” and peaked at number 17 on the Billboard 200. BANKS returned in July 2019 with her third studio album, III, which featured her synth-heavy single “Gimme.” Additional contributors included Francis and the Lights on “Look What You’re Doing To Me” and producer Paul Epworth (Adele, Rihanna) on “Hawaiian Mazes.” She released a short EP entitled Live and Stripped in 2020, followed by her 2022 album Serpentina, which BANKS recorded amid the pandemic during months of isolation and is tied to themes of shedding old skin and embracing the new. BANKS’s artistry stands out through the rawness and vulnerability that shines earnestly through her music. With so much success under her belt already, BANKS is looking forward to an exciting future ahead. BANKS’ latest singles “Best Friends” and “I Hate Your Ex-Girlfriend” will be included on BANKS’ upcoming fifth studio album entitled, Off With Her Head, for which she states, “In many ways, it’s a big sister album to Goddess. After a decade apart, I’ve reunited with the core musicians and producers who helped shape my debut. At the same time, it’s something entirely different— I’ve grown so much as an artist and a person, and the journey is documented in all these sounds.” Off With Her Head is set for release on February 28, 2025.

GRAMMY-winning band Greta Van Fleet consists of 3 brothers – Josh Kiszka (vocals), Jake Kiszka (guitar) and Sam Kiszka (bass/keyboards) – as well as Danny Wagner (drums). Together, they have performed across multiple continents, sold over 3.5M records and 1M tickets worldwide. Their much anticipated 3rd studio album Starcatcher, produced by Dave Cobb (Chris Stapleton, Brandi Carlile) and recorded at RCA Studios in Nashville, is set for release via Lava/Republic Records. Indie Exclusive White/Glitter LP.

Mariah Carey - Merry Christmas (30th Anniversary) - Zoetrope Vinyl

Celebrating the 30th anniversary of Mariah's timeless album, Merry Christmas with a limited-edition zoetrope vinyl! Features all of the festive hits including, "All I Want For Christmas Is You," "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home,)" "Joy To The World," and more.

Originally released in 1973, Tanx was the first T. Rex album to make full use of the ever-expanding range of studio gadgets. And while the album represented a new musical departure, several tracks maintained a direct link to the old sound.

Tracklist
A1 Tenement Lady
A2 Rapids
A3 Mister Mister
A4 Broken Hearted Blues
A5 Shock Rock
A6 Country Honey
A7 Electric Slim And The Factory Hen
B1 Mad Donna
B2 Born To Boogie
B3 Life Is Strange
B4 The Street And Babe Shadow
B5 Highway Knees
B6 Left Hand Luke And The Beggar Boys

Celebrating the ten year anniversary of Circa Survive’s 2014 album Descensus with its second-ever vinyl pressing.

Tracklist
1. Schema
2. Child of the Desert
3. Always Begin
4. Who Will Lie With Me Now
5. Only the Sun
6. Nesting Dolls
7. Quiet Down
8. Phantom
9. Sovereign Circle
10. Descensus

Acclaimed alt-pop singer-songwriter-pianist Genevieve Stokes gives her EP Catching Rabbits its first-ever vinyl release, on Milky Clear Vinyl for RSD Black Friday. Written by Stokes, with production from renowned producer Tony Berg (Phoebe Bridgers, Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift), the six-track EP features the gifted songstress’ song “Book of Memories”.

Fifteen years after releasing two exceptional postpunk-meets-shoegaze-meets-dream pop albums on Caroline Records, New York-based outfit Springhouse (Mitch Friedland, Larry Heinemann, Jack Rabid) reconvened to record a third album, From Now to OK, co-released on CD with Independent Project Records in 2008.
Now appearing for the very first time on vinyl, the record captures the three-piece exploring a more acoustic, folk rock-indebted sound: still showing their trademark flair for dreamy melodic textures, the ever-Anglophile Springhouse can be heard embracing the late ‘60s influence of Nick Drake and The Beatles.
This newly-expanded edition of From Now to OK comes with a bonus CD of previously unreleased demos and live recordings. Preserved in a beautiful package from master designer Bruce Licher, this custom-cut metallic ink jacket, with super-limited transparent Coke Bottle Green vinyl (200 copies for RSD Black Friday), is sure to be a collector's highlight.

Tracklist
A1 Passion
A2 Moving Van
A3 Time Runs Out
A4 No More Yesterdays
A5 Grateful
A6 Pomegranite Tree
B1 Sea and Rain
B2 Never Impossible
B3 Mercedes Marxist
B4 Snapshot
B5 10 Count
B6 Anew

The debut album from Engine Kid recorded by Steve Albini in his basement circa 1993.
A double LP in a Stoughton gatefold jacket with a pen/ink tribute drawing of Albini recording the session done by bassist Brian Kraft. (“We drove 2037 miles from Seattle to Chicago to record in the basement of some guy’s brick house.”)

Tracklist
Bear Catching Fish
Rockford Files
Treasure Chest
Cabin Fever
1/4 Mile Thunder
Bullfight
Mountain High
Winter Time

K-pop can mean a lot of things, and it’s all music to Vitaminn String Quartet’s ears. Incorporating hip-hop, EDM, funk and much more, icons of global pop BTS make a sound that your favorite classical covers quartet had to put its stamp on. Translating the trap influence of “On” or re-interpreting the South African rhythms of “Idol,” VSQ loved navigating these Bangtan Boys hits. Now it’s your turn to continue the conversation between these strings and South Korea’s princes of pop.

Tracklist
SIDE A
1. Black Swan
2. ON
3. IDOL
4. Boy With Luv
5. Save Me
6. Lights
7. FAKE LOVE
SIDE B
1. Dope
2. Blood Sweat & Tears
3. DNA
4. Life Goes On
5. Spring Day
6. Stay Gold

Hard rock meets funk on this essential entry from Zambian guitarist and bandleader Paul Ngozi’s catalog. A keystone release of the 1970s Zamrock movement, Viva Ngozi, featuring Chrissy Zebby Tembo, was first issued in 1976 on the Chris Editions imprint, and only in Zambia. Until now, the recording has never seen a reissue.
For RSD Black Friday, Now-Again Records presents Viva Ngozi on opaque Orange vinyl, in a package with an 8 page booklet detailing the story of Paul Ngozi and the Ngozi Family’s story, with rare photographs, discography and annotation.

Tracklist
A Side
1. Viva Ngozi
2. Work And Sweat
3. I'm A Beggar
4. Confusion
5. Ngozi Iyo
B Side
1. Listen (Inst)
2. Having No Future
3. I'm Your Man
4. Saturday Night Out
5. Nditandizeni

Tracklist
1. Wounded Indians
2. One Of These Days
3. Wild Seed
4. Too Crazy To Love
5. Old Memories
6. Lies Thirsty For Truth
7. Baby I Was Hurting
8. Hole In The Moon
9. Home To The Bone
10. With Candles Made
11. I Have Loved You

For more than five decades Carlos Santana has been the visionary force behind artistry that transcends musical genres and generational, cultural, and geographical boundaries. To date, Santana has won ten GRAMMY Awards and three Latin GRAMMY Awards, received the Billboard Century Award, is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, received the Billboard Latin Music Awards’ Lifetime Achievement honor, is the recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors Award, and has been cited by Rolling Stone as #11 on their list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.”
For RSD Black Friday 2024, Santana teams up with producers Lino Nicolosi, Nicolosi Team, and Narada Michael Walden (Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey), to present three distinct versions of his composition “Let The Guitar Play”: The Radio Version, The Soul Radio Version, and The 70's Version. The first two feature Run DMC's Darryl McDaniels, who delivers a poetic rap over an EDM-style drum beat, serving as a dynamic catalyst for Santana to intricately weave his signature guitar magic.
This limited edition three song 12” is pressed on tie-dye vinyl.

Tracklist
1. Let The Guitar Play (Radio Version) feat. Darryl "DMC" McDaniels
2. Let The Guitar Play (Soul Radio Version) feat. Darryl "DMC" McDaniels
3. Let The Guitar Play (70's Version)

“Mata leao” means “lion killer” in Portuguese, an appropriate title for this beast of an album, Biohazard’s first as a trio. In this case less is more; with a sound blending so many ingredients (hardcore, rap, metal), the increased focus brought on by the streamlined line-up just hardens the tip of the jackhammer.
Produced by Dave Jerden of Jane’s Addiction and Alice in Chains fame, this 1996 release sees its first US issue on vinyl, complete with printed inner sleeve.
Tan vinyl pressing limited to 2000 copies worldwide.

Tracklist
A1. Authority A2. These Eyes (Have Seen) A3. Stigmatized A4. Control A5. Cleansing A6. Competition A7. Modern Democracy A8. Better Days
B1. Gravity B2. A Lot to Learn B3. Waiting to Die B4. A Way B5. True Strengths B6. Thorn B7. In Vain