Encore Records

Best Coast

The Only Place

Bethany Cosentino aka Best Coast is prepped to return with another album of melodic beach punk with second album The Only Place.

The pre-released title track and first single, a jangly ode to California as a place that has “the ocean, the babes, the sun, the waves,” asks the question “Why would you live anywhere else?” If its fuzz bass and slightly ‘90s alt-rock underpinnings are any indicator of the rest of the album, The Only Place will be a catchy hook-fest.

Cribs

In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull

In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull marks a return to their classic three-piece status and heralds another chapter in the upwards trajectory of the Jarman brothers.

Heavy Blanket

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Legend has it that J. took a sabbatical in 1984 from his Hardcore band Deep Wound to start something new, something slower, something louder.

Hooking up with Johnny Pancake and Pete Cougar, he formed Heavy Blanket. But before the trio could record any of their music, a series of unfortunate accidents caused the band to split.

In 2011, the trio reunited to tape the album they were destined to record nearly three decades ago.

Marilyn Manson

Born Villain

With their eighth studio album, Born Villain, Marilyn Manson return from the depths of their mid-2000s limbo with almost an hour of the type of evil industrial and glam-infused metal they made their name on in their earliest days

Killing Joke

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The 11 album tracks are an avalanche of sound that are empowering whilst jolting you awake.

They are as fascinating as chatting with Coleman, as he talks of future humans living forever but with no emotions, and of the Age Of Aquarius and the cycles of time, the shift in the earth’s electro-magnetic field, the end of extreme capitalism, the Arab Spring and how his trips to Cairo to record music have added to his belief that when Cairo falls everywhere else follows.

Uncut / Mojo / Classic Rock / Classic Rock Prog

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The June 2012 issues are now in stock !!

Dandy Warhols

This Machine

The Dandy Warhols’ searching, contemplative songs have always been a tantalizing yin to the band’s brash, sarcastic yang, but it wasn’t until This Machine that they devoted most of an album to their thoughtful side.

Judging from how well these songs work, it was long overdue; like Earth to the Dandy Warhols, this is one of the band’s most consistent sets yet.

Jack White

Blunderbuss

The first solo outing from singer/guitarist/actor/White Stripes/Raconteurs mastermind Jack White was recorded at his Third Man Studio in Nashville, Tennessee.

Tindersticks

The Something Rain

The Something Rain brims and bristles with canny narrative thrust.

Slinky, supple compositions are spiked with plenty of barbed edges and sparkling fizz.

Right out the gate, album opener “Chocolate” features David Boulter’s sequel to the spoken-word classic “My Sister” from Tindersticks’ 1995 eponymous release. Boulter narrates the story while the band works up a brilliant, brewing crescendo, abetted by the swirling horns of long-time collaborator Terry Edwards.

This is indeed a new Tindersticks classic edgier, more exuberant and more expansive.

TRUST

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Tales of lust, wax, and erotomania carry along on a dense black vapor of speed, space and tears.  Trust is Robert Alfons and Maya Postepski (Austra).