Encore Records

Heart

Night At Sky Church

HEART: NIGHT AT SKY CHURCH, filmed at Seattle’s Experience Music Project this past March, features the ladies and their band performing all of their hits plus songs from their newest album Red Velvet Car

Cowboy Junkies

Demons

Demons is basically a tribute album to singer/songwriter Vic Chesnutt, who died in late 2009.

The Cowboy Junkies cover tunes from all across Chesnutt’s career, from early nuggets like “West of Rome” to “Flirted with You All My Life,” which hails from the last release of the songsmith’s lifetime.

Demons presents an alternate universe in which Michael Timmons’ songs have mysteriously become considerably more caustic and cutting, or one in which Chesnutt abjured his own creaky-voiced renditions of his material in favor of making the honey-voiced Margo Timmins his mouthpiece.

Whichever way you look at it, it’s a provocative proposition, and certainly one that requires bringing a fresh pair of ears to the veteran band’s output here. At times, the extra grit quotient in Chesnutt’s songs seems in turn to inspire a tougher approach on the part of the Junkies, but more often, the late songwriter’s quirky, agreeably crooked structures are given a fulsome, flowing quality that would probably never even have occurred to Chesnutt as a possibility.

PJ Harvey

Let England Shake

Let England Shake was recorded in a 19th Century church in Dorset, on a cliff-top overlooking the sea. It was created with a cast of musicians including such long-standing allies as Flood, John Parish, and Mick Harvey.

What is remarkable about Let England Shake is bound up with its music, its abiding atmosphere and in particular, its words. If Harvey’s past work might seem to draw of direct emotional experience, this album is rather different.

Its songs centre on both her home country, and events further afield in which it has embroiled itself.

The lyrics return, time and again, to the matter of war, the fate of the people who must do the fighting, and events separated by whole ages, from Afghanistan to Gallipoli. The album they make up is not a work of protest, nor of strait-laced social or political comment. It brims with the mystery and magnetism in which she excels.

But her lyric-writing in particular has arrived at a new, breathtaking place, in which the human aspects of history are pushed to the foreground.

The Dears

Degeneration Street

Degeneration Street, the fifth album from The Dears,reunites the original lineup that brought you “Lost in the Plot” and delivers the passion and soul that has earned the adoration of fans and critics worldwide. From the electrifying nihlist pop anthem Thrones, to the star-scraping heights of Galactic Tides; from the grimy opener Omega Dog, to the Motown sci-fi of Lamentation,Degeneration Street is, definitively, The Dears.

Off!

First Four EPs

LA-based OFF! features Keith Morris (Black Flag/Circle Jerks), Dimitri Coats (Burning Brides), Steven McDonald (Redd Kross), and Mario Rubalcaba (Earthless/Hot Snakes/Rocket From the Crypt).

Limited edition CD collection with cover designed by Raymond Pettibon, includes a 12 page booklet with an introduction by Pettibon, exclusive photos and artwork celebrating the band and their individual legacies.

Twilight Singers

Dynamite Steps

Released five years after Powder Burns, Dynamite Steps marks Greg Dulli’s return to the Twilight Singers. Ani DiFranco, who duetted with Dulli on the previous record, makes another appearance here, as do vocalists like Carina Round, Petra Haden, and Leta Lucy.

Bright Eyes

People’s Key

The People’s Key is the eagerly awaited follow-up to 2007’s acclaimed Cassadaga.

Since 2006 the once revolving cast of Bright Eyes players has settled around permanent members Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis and Nate Walcott, with additional musicians joining them in the studio and on tour.

Fully realized and bursting with charisma, The People’s Key is an assured and accomplished album, artfully arranged and filled with the engaging and mesmeric songwriting for which Oberst is renowned.

Mogwai

Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will

2011 release, the seventh album from the Scottish Post-Rockers.

Mogwai was birthed in the halcyon days of the mid-‘90s and helped Glasgow become one of the real bright spots in the musical universe again. Not everyone gets Mogwai, but that’s what makes them great.

Theirs is a majestic, powerful sound where barely a word is spoken yet it is the antithesis of background music. Album and song titles bemuse, confuse and delight in equal measure and live, they are utterly unstoppable.

Thin Lizzy

Jailbreak (DELUXE EDITION)

1976’s “Jailbreak” is Thin Lizzy’s sixth studio album. This album proved to be Thin Lizzy’s commercial breakthrough in the U.S. with the massive singles “Jailbreak” and “The Boys Are Back in Town” (the latter being Thin Lizzy’s biggest ever hit). One of THE classic rock albums of all time, this deluxe version contains a BBC session from the time as well as previously unreleased tracks.

Voormann & Friends

Sideman’s Journey

Voormann played bass on many of the old solo Beatles albums. He was on Ringo’s first solo album Sentimental Journey, he played on John Lennon’s Imagine and on George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass. On A Sideman’s Journey, Voormann is joined by old mates Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, Joe Walsh, Yusuf (AKA Cat Stevens), Dr. John, The Manfreds (members of Manfred Mann), Bonnie Bramlett, Jim Keltner, Max Buskohl, Van Dyke Parks, Albert Lee, Don Nix and many others.