| Spotlight Upcoming Releases |
 | SWEET HEART SWEET LIGHT
- SPIRITUALIZED
$12.28 Buy
2012 release, the seventh album from the eccentric British Alt-Rock outfit led by Jason Pierce (aka Jason Spaceman from Spacemen 3). The band spent two years recording the album, in three different cities and frontman Pierce spent another year mixing it at home. "I Am What I Am" was co-written by Jason and "Mac" Rebennack (aka Dr. John). |
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 | NEW BLOOD LIVE IN LONDON
- GABRIEL, PETER
$15.45 Buy
Recorded at Hammersmith Apollo in March 2011, "Live Blood" captures Peter Gabriel performing live with the 46 piece New Blood Orchestra. The repertoire mixes cover versions from his "Scratch My Back" album with classic tracks from across his solo career in brand new orchestral arrangements. Gabriel is a renowned live performer and his onstage charisma and instantly recognizable voice combine brilliantly with the orchestral sound palette to breathe a new sense of wonder into familiar songs. This is truly a live experience not to be missed. |
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 | BLUNDERBUSS
- WHITE, JACK
$11.62 Buy
"...an album I couldn't have released until now. I've put off making records under my own name for a long time but these songs feel like they could only be presented under my name. These songs were written from scratch, had nothing to do with anyone or anything else but my own expression, my own colors on my own canvas." - Jack White |
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 | MARLEY: ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
- MARLEY: ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK
$18.86 Buy
An integral companion piece to the critically acclaimed documentary, the official soundtrack from MARLEY is released as a 2-CD collection. The CD contains 24 tracks, hand-picked by the Marley family and Chris Blackwell, gathering together some of the most significant musical moments of one of the most beloved and cherished artists of all-time. Featured are classic studio recordings, a special Kindred Spirit dub mix of "Exodus" and tracks from various live performances including, for the first time on record, the 1978 One Love Peace Concert performance of Jammin'! |
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 | BLUES FOR THE MODERN DAZE
- TROUT, WALTER
$14.22 Buy
Walter Trouts passionate new Blues for the Modern Daze cuts right to the core of his art and his heart. His 21st album returns the contemporary guitar legend to his hard-core blues roots and finds his songwriting at a creative and personal zenith. |
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| Employee Picks |
 | WASTELAND COMPANION
- WARD, M.
$14.22 Buy
The album, consisting of 12 stunning tracks, was made with 18 musicians and recorded in eight different studios in Portland, Omaha, New York City, Los Angeles, Austin and Bristol (UK). Ward's honey-soaked vocals, deft finger-picking, innate sense of melody and beguiling lyrics have already cemented his reputation as one of America's true musical treasures and A Wasteland Companion features some of the finest songwriting and most striking delivery of his career. |
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 | LIVE AT HAMMERSMITH ODEON '75
- RUNDGREN, TODD
$10.31 Buy
Todd Rundgren's Utopia: Live At Hammersmith Odeon '75, captures the iconic progressive rock band performing their first UK concert. While the concert recording has long been a fan favorite, it has never been commercially available until now. This album features the lineup of Todd Rundgren, John Siegler, Roger Powell and Willie Wilcox, which would later become Utopia, with backing vocals by future soul star Luther Vandross and Anthony Hinton. |
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 | FOLILA
- AMADOU AND MARIAM
$14.22 Buy
Folila is Amadou & Mariam's first studio album since 2009's acclaimed Welcome to Mali. The album features contributions by Santigold, TV on the Radio, Nick Zinner, Theophilus London, Bassekou Kouyate, and others. "The result is richly textured," says NPR. The Daily Telegraph gives the album five stars. The Independent says the album shows "how adeptly Amadou & Mariam straddle both local and global, with a truly 'world' music." |
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 | MYSTERIUM TREMENDUM
- HART, MICKEY
$11.68 Buy
Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart releases his first studio album in five years, the follow up to his 2007 Grammy winning Global Drum Project, with Mysterium Tremendum. Hart is pushing the boundaries of what we know as music, creating a genre of his own. "I have always thought of life, the world at large, as music," says Hart. "This work is a representation of that notion. I have combined sonic images of the formation of our universe with sounds drawn from musical instruments." |
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 | CREATOR SPIRITUS
- PART, ARVO/PAUL HILLER/CHRISTOPHER BOWERS-BROADBENT
$17.34 Buy
Paul Hiller curates this collection of Arvo Part's instrumental and choral chamber music drawn from different periods in the composer's career. He brings together his celebrated vocal ensembles Theatre of Voices and Ars Nova Copenhagen along with chamber group NYYD and long time collaborator organist Christopher Bowers-Broadbent to produce another powerful recording of ethereal sacred music. |
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 | MARBLE DOWNS
- TREMBLING BELLS/BONNIE PRINCE BILLY
$14.62 Buy
It'd be daft to even attempt an exhaustive list of whats gone musically into this enormous bubbling cauldron of ideas. "Theres folk, theres rock, theres psychedelia, theres beauty, theres noise, theres sex, theres gloom, theres humour, theres fun. Its often over-the-top but sometimes perfectly restrained. Its totally, gloriously, f**king nuts!" (Sounds XP). |
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