Encore Records

Lou Reed & Metallica

Lulu

Highly anticipated 2011 two CD collaboration between Rock legend Lou Reed and the Heavy Metal monolith that is Metallica.

Beach Boys

The Smile Sessions

Limited edition box set containing five CDs, a double vinyl LP pressing and two vinyl seven inch singles.

Digitally remastered and expanded edition of the legendary unreleased 1967 Beach Boys album, which was scheduled to be the ambitious follow-up to their Pet Sounds opus but was never completed.

Disc One contains the original album plus eight bonus tracks. Discs Two through Five contain a plethora of session outtakes, alternate versions and so much more.
Also available as a 2cd set.

King Crimson

Starless & Bible Black / Discipline 40th Anniversary Editions

The very latest in the Crimson remaster series are cd/dvd sets of Starless & Bible Black and Discipline
Bonus tracks, 5.1 remixes abound !

Black Country Communion

Live Over Europe

The two-DVD live set was filmed with 14 HD cameras and 5.1 Surround Sound during the band’s debut tour in the Summer of 2011. Over three nights, playing to packed venues in the German cities of Hamburg, Munich and Berlin, the 18-song set list (17 originals and one cover) hits on both of Black Country Communion’s albums – 2010’s debut and 2011’s sophomore release “2“.

Peter Gabriel

New Blood Live In London

Filmed at Hammersmith Apollo in March of this year, New Blood Live In London 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. As you would expect the concert is also a visual feast, with graphics, animation and imagery blending to enhance and illustrate the music. This is truly a live experience not to be missed. Bonus Features: Blood Donors the story behind the project including an interview with Peter Gabriel.
DVD and BLU RAY available.

Mutemath

Odd Soul

Odd Soul came together over the course of six months, during which the members of Mutemath locked themselves down at leader Paul Meany’s home studio in New Orleans and didn’t emerge until they were ready to play it for others. “The idea of complete isolation was the only thing that appealed to us. No camera guys, no producers, no engineers, no record label people, no management. No one would hear or comment on what we were doing until we were done,” Meany says. “We didn’t want to make blurry music. We set out to record something that was unapologetically us.”

Arkells

Michigan Left

Having spent the last few years writing new material while on the road, this past spring Arkells retreated to Bath, Ontario to record Michigan Left, living and recording in a converted house on the shores of Lake Ontario.  10 Brand new tracks !

Jane's Addiction

The Great Escape Artist

Spun through a kaleidoscope of tightly wound riffs, hypnotic harmonies, booming beats, and an unmistakable howl, the record announces the beginning of the next chapter for the alternative rock torchbearers.

Writing began in 2010 and by early 2011 the band entered a Los Angeles studio with producer Rich Costey, who introduced Perry Farrell, Dave Navarro and Stephen Perkins to TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek with the hopes of getting him involved somehow.

After a couple of lab sessions, the chemistry was obvious. Sitek stepped into the role of songwriter and bass player for the album with Navarro, and touring bassist Chris Chaney, also sharing four-string duties.

Jesus and Mary Chain

Psychocandy

Deluxe three disc (two CDs + DVD) edition of this 1985 album from the British Alt-Rock icons.

This edition features all the non-album b-sides, as well as previously unreleased demos, rare outtakes including controversial early track ‘Jesus Fuck’, BBC Radio Sessions and much more.

The DVD contains the promo videos for the singles released from the album alongside seminal and previously unreleased TV appearances, including their jaw-dropping live TV debut on the Old Grey Whistle Test, a performance of two songs on The Tube, a studio performance and interview from Belgian TV, and never before seen footage of the infamous riot at North London Polytechnic - this includes excerpts of the band’s performance on the night, highly entertaining interviews with all four original members, and scenes of the crowd destroying the venue!

The Waterboys

An Appointment With Mr Yeats

An Appointment With Mr Yeats sees Mike Scott taking the poetry of Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats and setting it to music.

Produced by Scott himself with the help of Waterboys bassist Marc Arciero, the album is the culmination of a project that Scott had first initiated with a reworking of Yeats The Stolen Child on the 1988 album Fisherman s Blues.