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Dead Weather

Sea Of Cowards

2010 album from this band formed by White Stripes/Raconteurs mainman Jack White.

Sea Of Cowards is a robust and vigorous second act, filled with primal, bone quaking Rock rhythms and the same stellar urban Blues and throbbing sleaze as its predecessor; but this time The Dead Weather push their sound even further, brilliantly building upon their raw chemistry to create the most vital sounding album you’ll hear all year.

Keane

Night Train Ep

Following the worldwide success and three consecutive #1 albums in their native UK, the members of Keane release the Night Train EP.

Night Train features eight powerful new tracks which were written and recorded during the band’s Perfect Symmetry world tour.

The album takes its title from the band’s favorite mode of transportation during the tour, and includes Keane’s genre-busting collaborations with K’Naan, ‘Stop For A Minute’ and ‘Looking Back’.

Ocean Colour Scene

Saturday

2010 release from the British band, their ninth album overall.

The album marks the 21st anniversary of their formation.

After touring with Oasis in 1995 and chart success with Moseley Shoals, Ocean Colour Scene continued to release new material as well as a stem of successful live albums.

Saturday continues with the band’s brand of retro orientated Rock and was recorded at the iconic Rockfield Studios.

Mark E Smith and Ed Blaney

The Train

The second full length release from Fall mainman Mark E Smith and former Fall member Ed Blaney.

In 2008, Smith and Blaney embarked on what seemed like a spontaneous project recording and releasing a number of limited edition singles.

These singles were then collected together and released on an album entitled The Fall’s Mark E Smith and Ed Blaney.

Train is the second album recorded by the duo outside of the Fall activities. Recorded in October, November and December 2008, these are field recordings that have been edited in the studio.

Broken Social Scene

Forgiveness Rock Record

2010 release, the first Broken Social Scene record following the acclaimed Broken Social Scene Presents series.

As a core six-piece who had spent most of 2007 and 2008 on the road, Drew, Canning, Spearin, Whiteman, Goldberg and Peroff spent early 2009 working on new material in Toronto.

The pairing down of the band’s massive personnel list for the first time proved extremely fruitful; they created spacious songs written as a band by a band, resulting in more cohesive, melody-driven compositions than previous BSS output.

Recording both in Toronto and Chicago, and working with producer John McEntire, they found a fresh perspective on their own sound.

The album features guest turns by BSS alumni: Leslie Feist, Amy Millan and Evan Cranley of Stars, Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw of Metric, Jason Collett, Ohad Benchetrit of Do Make Say Think and Years, John Crossingham, Marty Kinack, Leon Kingstone and Julie Penner.

Gogol Bordello

Trans-Continental Hustle

The eagerly-awaited fifth studio album from the Alt-Rock outfit and the first to be release since 2007’s Super Taranta!.

Produced by Grammy award-winning producer Rick Rubin, Trans-Continental Hustle combines the band’s radical invocations of positive primal energy and planetary consciousness with music infused with Ska, Metal, Punk, Rap, Dub and intimations of indigenous Brazilian sounds to produce a party maelstrom of electrifying proportions.

Led by revolutionary change agent and provocateur Eugene Hutz, Gogol Bordello, a nine-piece juggernaut of gypsy rebel soul, has become an international force to be reckoned with.

Dead Meadow

Three Kings

Deluxe CD/DVD edition of this 2010 live release including the CD soundtrack as well as the film on DVD.

3 Kings is a feature-length live movie with short vignettes (ala Led Zeppelin’s Song Remains The Same) combined with the soundtrack of the movie in dual pack.

The performance captures the band at the height of the Indie non-stop touring machine and gives fans the first official live album, almost a greatest hits worth of catalog. Also included is an EP’s worth of new never-before heard material that gives a glimpse of a music career to come.

Apples In Stereo

Travelers In Space and Time

The Apples’ 2010 album and seventh studio effort, Travellers in Space and Time is the follow-up to their critically acclaimed hit album New Magnetic Wonder and their second release in association with Elijah Wood’s Simian Records.

Travellers finds the studio-obsessed indie rockers continuing the hook-heavy Pop mastery they achieved on New Magnetic Wonder.

James

The NIght Before

2010 mini album from the veteran Britpop outfit.

The Night Before seems fearless in comparison to its predecessors, a product, no doubt, of the way it was conceived: the band set up an ftp site to which they all contributed, downloading and updating each other’s efforts at various intervals whilst Baker knocked things into shape.

This “virtual” recording process (which eventually led to recording sessions in Brighton and Oswestry), was presumably inspired by the band’s history of working with Brian Eno and has brought out the best in James, the results proving as diverse and intriguing as anything the band have attempted before. Seven tracks.

Caribou

Swim

‘Swim’, the new album from 2008 Polaris Music Prize winner CARIBOU (aka MANITOBA), is a masterpiece - the record he’s wanted to bring to fruition for as long as he’s been making music.

From Dundas, Ontario (and now based in England), Dan Snaith has been a leading figure in electronic music over the past decade.

A mathematics scholar and an ingenious multiinstrumentalist/composer, he surprised critics and fans with 2007’s ‘Andorra’, a brilliant, electro-tinged pop breakthrough with a timeless grace that made most year-end “best of” lists and won the aforementioned Polaris Prize.

After the startling infectiousness of ‘Andorra’, ‘Swim’ is a more complex, multi-layered affair—ripe with fascinating rhythms, instrumentation, and vocals (including those of Born Ruffians’ Luke LaLonde) that becomes more alluring with each listen.