Encore Records

Trembling Bells & Bonnie Prince Billy

The Marble Downs

Just 12 months after the release of their critically-acclaimed third album “The Constant Pageant”,  the Glasgow quartet return to share the billing with a similarly restless creative spirit.

In 2010, a limited-edition 7” “New Year’s Eve Is The Loneliest Night Of The Year” showed what an inspired match the vocals of Trembling Bells singer Lavinia Blackwall and Will Oldham made.

The cut-glass precision of the classically-trained student of medieval music and the worldly, careworn tones of Oldham created an unlikely chemistry.

It must have seemed that way to Neilson too.

He set about assembling a cache of songs with the purpose of further harnessing that chemistry.

The result is an album that has, once again, redrafted the boundaries of what Trembling Bells can achieve together. Indeed, genre-lines aren’t terribly helpful this time around.

M. Ward

A Wasteland Companion

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.

A Wasteland Companion features the added talents of Giant Sand’s Howe Gelb, John Parish, Bright Eyes’ Mike Mogis, She & Him’s Zooey Deschanel, Sonic Youth’s Steve Shelley and many others.

Elvis Costello

Return of the Spectacular Spinning Songbook

CD, DVD, or CD/DVD set.

Elvis Costello returned to the stage in 2011 with his celebrated Spinning Wheel tour and now comes the definitive document of this tour:

Costello once again allowed his set list to be chosen by The Spectacular Spinning Songbook, a monumental game-show type wheel spun by select fans and featuring songs from his latest critically acclaimed release National Ransom, plus new renditions of hits, rarities and very unexpected covers.

Recorded over a two night stand at The Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles on May 11 and 12, 2011, the CD recording was culled from both nights’ performances.

The DVD is from Costello’s show on May 12, 2011 and includes a special guest appearance by the Bangles.

Florence and the Machine

Unplugged

CD / DVD set.

2012 release that finds the British band stripping down their heavenly sound to the divine essentials.

The set list boasts favorites from both of her Universal Republic Records releases.

There’s a hypnotic rendition of her breakout double platinum single “Dog Days Are Over” as well as a chillingly beautiful cover of Johnny Cash and June Carter’s “Jackson” featuring Queens of the Stone Age and Them Crooked Vultures singer Josh Homme.

In addition, she gives a wonderful take on Otis Redding’s “Try a Little Tenderness” for this performance.

Joe Bonamassa

Beacon Theater - Live From New York

Double DVD or Blu Ray

2012 live release from the internationally renowned guitar superstar. Special guests include vocal powerhouse Beth Hart, legendary singer/songwriter John Hiatt and classic rock star Paul Rodgers.

Accept

Stalingrad

talingrad is every bit as voluminous as the band’s legendary releases with new metal anthems that carry on their tradition of excellence.

This vibrant and mesmerizing album harnesses everything that earned Accept the status of true heavy metal legends: thunderous riffs, blinding guitar leads, aggressive vocals and infectious, undiluted metal songs with a bite that are destined to keep Accept ahead of the pack.

High On Fire

De Vermis Mysteriis

Produced by Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou at God City Studios in Salem, MA, the record marks the next devastating chapter in High On Fires gloriously unhinged Metal saga.

The album’s title (translation: The Mysteries of the Worm, ) is a nod to a fictional grimoire conceived by the late, great Psycho author Robert Bloch in 1935 and later incorporated into horror master H.P. Lovecraft s renowned Cthulu Mythos.

Meshuggah

Koloss

The seventh album from the Extreme Metal band from Umeå, Sweden, Tomas Haake states, “As always, we try to take our music in a slightly different direction with each album and with Koloss, we feel that we really nailed what we were going for.

Organic brutality, viscera and groove all crammed into a 54-minute metalicious treat, best avoided by the faint of heart!!” You have been warned!

Flying Colors

s/t

Prog supergroup featuring Mike Portnoy, Dave LaRue, Neal Morse, Casey McPherson and Steve Morse.

Adrenaline Mob

Omerta

Bringing together acclaimed Symphony X singer Russell Allen, former Dream Theater and Avenged Sevenfold drum virtuoso Mike Portnoy, and Sonic Stomp shred extraordinaire Mike Orlando, Adrenaline Mob is a musical maGia of the highest order.