Encore Records

Leon Russell

Live In Japan

This will mark the historic album’s first release outside of Japan and its first time on CD anywhere.

The original album was recorded live on November 8, 1973, at the historic Nippon Bukokan Hall and will see its nine tracks complemented by a bonus set of an additional seven previously unissued live performances recorded at the Sam Houston Coliseum on April 22, 1971.

Magnetic Fields

Strange Powers

Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields, the documentary film about Stephen Merritt and his Magnetic Fields project is now on dvd !

Special features include a commentary track by Stephin and his longtime manager and collaborator Claudia Gonson, as well as two Gonson–directed music videos for the Magnetic Fields songs “Strange Powers” and “Born on a Train”, and five deleted scenes.

Trivium

In Waves

This fifth album from the Floridian metallers is the eagerly-anticipated follow-up to 2008’s Shogun. Deliberately stripping away much of the excess which characterized their last two records, the band have reverted to a simpler, more uncluttered style, focusing on straight-ahead riffing and catchy hooks. The album was produced by Colin Richardson (Machine Head, Funeral for a Friend) and is the first to feature the band’s new drummer Nick Augusto.
Limited CD/DVD verison available here!!!

John Hiatt

Dirty Jeans & Mudslide Hymns

With Dirty Jeans & Mudslide Hymns, Hiatt has created one of his most dynamic albums in the past decade. Produced by Kevin ‘Caveman’ Shirley (Silverchair, Aerosmith, Joe Bonamassa), Hiatt’s timeless songwriting is paired with the aggressive blues guitar. Hiatt is back in the studio with his touring combo (Kenny Blevins on drums, Patrick O’Hearn on bass and Doug Lancio on guitars).

The Horrors

Skying

Skying is the third album from The Horrors, who continue to explore the blend of post-punk and krautrock that gave them such notoriety on 2009 s Mercury-nominated Primary Colours. For the first time, the band self-produced the record in their London studio and the results are captivating. XL Recordings first teased Skying with Still Life , displaying singer Faris Badwan’s gentler vocal style, while the music forms a layered and atmospheric backdrop

Keb Mo

Reflection

Keb Mo’s 2011 album, The Reflection, is two years in the making and captures his musical spirit and virtuosity at its peak.

Collaborating with such artists as India.Arie, Vince Gill, Marcus Miller, Dave Koz, and David T Walker, the songs have a deep emotional connection and show Keb to be a master at blending Blues, Jazz, R&B and Soul through melody and rhythm.

Jimmie Vaughan

Plays More Blues Ballads & Favorites

Recording in mono—oddly not noted on the sleeve notes—and live in the studio provides a batch of hot-wired, energized performances that do justice to songs that were likely originally recorded under similar circumstances five or six decades ago.

Only the most obsessive of blues fans will recognize some of the artists such as Jivin’ Gene, Teddy Humphries, and Annie Laurie who first recorded these minor gems, let alone the songs themselves.

Vaughan digs deep to unearth seldom heard, let alone covered, tracks associated with better-known figures like Ray Charles, Jimmy Liggins, and Hank Williams, Sr.

Archers of Loaf

Icky Mettle

2 cd reissue of this classic !

Boston Spaceships

Let It Beard

Robert Pollard has called the epic 2011 double-LP Let It Beard ‘‘a subconscious concept album about the sorry state of Rock ‘n’ Roll.’’

A 75-minute thrill ride through the many forms Pollard has mastered in his three-plus decades of writing and recording, it’s ‘‘the White Album meets Quadrophenia meets Jesus Christ Superstar,’’ in his words.

Let It Beard features strings, horns, keyboards, a female soul singer and guest turns from such luminaries as Colin Newman from Wire, J Mascis from Dinosaur Jr, Steve Wynn from the Dream Syndicate, Mick Collins from The Dirtbombs, Dave Rick from Phantom Tollbooth and Mitch Mitchell from Guided By Voices.

Mike Oldfield

Incantations

Digitally remastered and expanded deluxe two disc (CD + NTSC/Region 0 DVD) edition of this 1978 album.

With remastering overseen by Oldfield himself, the packages contain a variety of rare material and contain a brand new 5.1 mix by Oldfield on DVD, as well as footage from his 1979 concert tour that supported the album.