Encore Records

Mother Mother

Eureka

EUREKA offers up an evolved Mother Mother, complete with 12 new hook laden pop-meets-rock songs complete with their signature cleverly crafted lyrics and intricate harmonies

Screeching Weasel

First World Manifesto

It’s been a long 11 years !!!

Buffalo Tom

Skins

The album is everything you want from a Buffalo Tom album - its rock pummels and its ballads ache—and reminds you why they hold such a strong place in so many people’s hearts.

Still comprised of the original trio of Bill Janovitz (guitars and vocals), Chris Colbourn (bass and vocals) and Tom Maginnis (drums), the songwriting is as sharp and poignant today as it ever was.

New York Dolls

Dancing Backwards In High Heels

The follow-up to 2009’s “Cause I Sez So” was created at Blast Recording Studios in Newcastle, England with producer Jason Hill (LOUIS XIV/THE KILLERS) and features original NYD members, David Johansen (vocals) and Sylvain Sylvain (Guitar) together with Brian Delaney (Drums), Jason Hill (Bass) and Frank Infante (Guitar).

Rise Against

Endgame

2011 album from the Chicago-based Punk act.

The lyrics of the album touch on real world events, such as Hurricane Katrina and the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

According to Mcllrath, although the lyrics discuss grim topics, they actually take on a positive view and were written from the perspective of: ‘What if the place on the other side of this transition is a place we’d all rather be living in?’

J. Mascis

Several Shades Of Why

2011 solo album from the Dinosaur Jr. mainman. Nearly all acoustic Several Shades Of Why was created with the help of a few friends. Notable amongst them are Kurt Vile, Sophie Trudeau (A Silver Mount Zion), Kurt Fedora (long-time collusionist), Kevin Drew (Broken Social Scene), Ben Bridwell (Band Of Horses), Pall Jenkins (Black Heart Procession), Matt Valentine (The Golden Road), and Suzanne Thorpe (Wounded Knees). Together in small mutable groupings, they conjure up classic sounds ranging from English-tinged Folk to drifty, West Coast-style singer/songwriterism. But every track, every note even, bears that distinct Mascis watermark, both in the shape of the tunes and the glorious rasp of the vocals. Ten brilliant tunes that quietly grow and expand until they fill your brain with the purest pleasure.

Robin Trower

At the BBC 1973-75

UK two CD set, the most comprehensive collection to date of the British guitarist’s recordings for the BBC.

Includes tracks; from his first John Peel session in March 1973. Additionally, recordings for Bob Harris including such classics as ‘Day Of The Eagle’ and ‘Alethea’ are featured.

This set is completed by a concert recorded for the BBC in January 1975, where he performs songs from his first three LPs, including breakthrough album Bridge Of Sighs and his then new album, For Earth Below.

Children Of Bodom

Relentless Reckless Forever CD

Limited CD/DVD edition includes bonus DVD. 2011 from the Finnish Heavy Metal maniacs.

Relentless Reckless Forever was recorded at Finland’s Petrax Studios, during August and September 2010.

“We worked super hard on this album, at least for me it was pretty much no sleep or rest for six weeks,” stated vocalist Alexi Laiho. “But we were determined to make the best COB album ever, so we were willing to do whatever it took.

Of course, having our producer Matt Hyde kicking our asses 24/7 definitely made the results even better, so obviously we’re more than anxious to get this album out there”

Raekwon

Shaolin Vs Wu-Tang

Shaolin Vs. Wu-Tang is the long awaited concept album from Raekwon the Chef.

Back with the gritty tales from the street that have made him a Hip Hop legend, Shaolin Vs. Wu-Tang captures Raekwon at the top of his lyrical game.

Guest features include The Wu-Tang Clan members, Rick Ross, Jim Jones, Raheem Devaughn, Black Thought, Busta Rhymes and others.

Praxis

Profanation: Preparation For A Coming Darkness

Bassist/producer Bill Laswell’s industrial-funk-metal supergroup Praxis, featuring guitarist Buckethead and drummer Brain, hasn’t actually done anything new in quite a while.

This album was originally scheduled for release in 2005 via Sanctuary Records, but languished after that label went bankrupt; it eventually appeared in 2008, but only in Japan.

Now, at last, Laswell is putting it out on his own M.O.D. Technologies imprint.

It’s the most guest-laden of all the Praxis albums.

While 1994’s Sacrifist featured many contributions from friends like Mick Harris (Scorn, Napalm Death) and Yamatsuka Eye (Boredoms) (players Laswell knew through his friendship and collaboration with saxophonist John Zorn), plus former Parliament-Funkadelic members Bootsy Collins and Bernie Worrell. Worrell reappears here, as does rapper Rammellzee, a longtime Laswell friend and collaborator, but they’re surrounded by a dizzying array of vocalists: Iggy Pop, Mike Patton, Serj Tankian, Dr. Israel, and Killah Priest of the Wu-Tang Clan each take the lead on one track or another.

Musically, the album is closer to traditional metal than anything Praxis has done before. Buckethead’s solos aren’t that far afield from what he did with Guns N’ Roses, and the songs have conventional verse-chorus structures, rather than being the furious riff-versus-turntable noise-fests of the past. The production is extremely dense, with layers of distortion and squelching synths as well as impossibly deep bass; “Galaxies,” featuring Killah Priest, is a thumping hip-hop track with no metal guitar at all, while “Sulfur and Cheese,” Serj Tankian’s track, is a roaring bulldozer of high-tech thrash, and “Ruined,” as its title may suggest, is a ferocious, electronically manipulated duo piece for Laswell’s bass and drums by Tatsuya Yoshida of Ruins.

This is an assaultive but extraordinarily carefully assembled record that should have been made available to U.S. audiences years earlier.