Encore Records

Lacuna coil

Dark Adrenaline

Deluxe CD/DVD edition includes bonus DVD, guitar pick, die-cut logo sticker and fold-out art poster. 2012 album from Italy’s greatest musical export. The album was recorded with acclaimed producer Don Gilmore (Avril Lavigne, Linkin Park, Pearl Jam) at the famed NRG Studios in Los Angeles. Dark Adrenaline is another huge step forward in the band’s continuous evolution and marks their first full-length since 2008’s Shallow Life and promises to be well worth the wait.

The Doors

Mr mojo Risin: The Story of l.a. Woman

This documentary examines the recording of the final album by Jim Morrison and The Doors, L.A. Woman. In addition to interviews with the surviving band members, the director sits down with producers, engineers, and label executives who worked with the foursome

Queen

Days of our lives

This epic, feature length documentary tells the story of the legendary British rock band Queen. Beginning with their early days as college students, performing with Mott the Hoople under the name “Smile,” the band’s story eventually leads to unparalleled success, admiration, and respect, filling stadiums to perform classics like “We Are the Champions”, “Bohemian Rhapsody”, “Under Pressure”, and more.

Primal Fear

Unbreakable

If you are discussing today’s top European Metal acts, then the conversation is undoubtedly going to include Germany’s Primal Fear. The band formed by former Gamma Ray vocalist Ralf Scheepers and bassist/vocalist Mat Sinner in late 1997 is certainly one of the premier metal bands performing today.  “Unbreakable” combines the talent of the strongest Primal Fear line-up ever with a well-balanced “back to our roots” vibe. Singer Ralf Scheepers says: “The plan was to record an album for the fans with rough metal riffs, screaming vocals and good melodies…...and finally it became a monster - a tough ‘bang-your-head’ metal album called “Unbreakable”.

The Cure

Bestival Live 2011

Two CD live release from the Goth rockers led by Robert Smith. The band headlined the Isle Of Wight-based festival in September 2011, playing a 32-song, two-and-a-half-hour set. The Cure frontman Robert Smith said of the reasoning behind the album’s release: “We had such a great time in the Isle Of Wight at Bestival that we wanted to release this show as a way of thanking fans and islanders alike.” All profits from sales of this live album will be donated to the Isle Of Wight Youth Trust, a charitable, independent and professional organization which offers counseling, advice, information and support services to young people aged 25 and under on the Isle of Wight.

Alex Chilton

Free Again “The 1970 Sessions”

A collection of 1970 solo recordings from the former Box Tops/future Big Star leader. Alex Chilton was the lead singer of a million-selling band, The Box Tops, but felt like little more than a puppet of the group’s producers. In the era of free love, he’d been pressured into a shotgun marriage and fatherhood. And he’d ultimately come to see himself as the pawn of an unscrupulous business machine, sent to grind it out on the road in a series of silly lip-synched TV performances and one-night stands while someone else cashed his checks. As he entered the studio that summer to make his first solo recordings, the man who would come to define the very spirit of musical independence was still bound in chains. At a time where liberation and self-expression were rallying cries, Alex Chilton was about to break free.

Kathleen Edwards

Voyageur

Produced by Justin Vernon (AKA Bon Iver) and Edwards, Voyageur is less of a departure than it is a journey, and like any transforming trip, it demands that we let go of any preconceptions about the destination.

Voyageur evokes a spectrum of overwhelming feelings within the atmosphere of a lucid dream. Edwards’ characters speak to the grief, loneliness, shock, and confusion that come with endings as well as the hope and irrepressible joy that accompany new beginnings, but the stories are told with a seductively quiet strength.

Aided by the musical support of fellow travelers Justin Vernon and Norah Jones, Voyageur features standout tracks such as “Change the Sheets,” “Mint,” and “A Soft Place to Land.”

Ani Difranco

Which Side Are You On ??

Which Side Are You On? features 11self-penned songs alongside a radically reworked rendition of the classic title song, famously popularized by Pete Seeger nearly five decades ago, but no less relevant today.

Backing DiFranco on this collection is a remarkably diverse line-up of stellar musicians, including members of her own touring band as well as guest players Ivan and Cyril Neville (of New Orleans’ first family of Funk and R&B, The Neville Brothers), avant-saxophonist Skerik (Pearl Jam, R.E.M., Bonnie Raitt, The Meters), acclaimed singer/songwriter Anaïs Mitchell, guitarist Adam Levy (Norah Jones, Tracy Chapman, Amos Lee), and a host of New Orleans-based horn players known for their work in such outfits as Galactic, Bonerama, and The Rebirth Brass Band.

Guided By Voices

Let’s Go Eat The Factory

2012 reunion album from the Indie Rock pioneers, the first album in 15 years from the classic lineup (Robert Pollard, Tobin Sprout, Mitch Mitchell, Greg Demos and Kevin Fennell).

Etta James

The Dreamer

Apparently, Etta James’ musical career ends with The Dreamer.

The legendary vocalist announced a few months back that this would be her final album; she’s retiring from music in order to deal with serious medical issues.

Her musical accompanists include not only her co-producers, but guitarists Leo Nocentelli and Big Terry de Rouen, saxophonist Jimmy Z., trombonist Kraig Kilby, and trumpeter Lee Thornburg.

Her readings of Otis Redding’s “Cigarettes & Coffee” and “Champagne & Wine,” Bobby “Blue” Bland’s “Dreamer,” Bob Montgomery’s country-pop standard “Misty Blue,” Ray Charles’ “In the Evening,” Johnny “Guitar” Watson’s “That’s the Chance You Take” and “Too Tired,” and Little Milton’s “Let Me Down Easy” all contain within them not only their original traces, but the musical experience necessary to bring their subtler, deeper meanings to the fore.

She re-creates these songs not as mere touchstones or mementos from a career, but as signposts to the living, breathing tradition that bears the signature and considerable influence of her life upon them.