Encore Records

Mark E Smith and Ed Blaney

The Train

The second full length release from Fall mainman Mark E Smith and former Fall member Ed Blaney.

In 2008, Smith and Blaney embarked on what seemed like a spontaneous project recording and releasing a number of limited edition singles.

These singles were then collected together and released on an album entitled The Fall’s Mark E Smith and Ed Blaney.

Train is the second album recorded by the duo outside of the Fall activities. Recorded in October, November and December 2008, these are field recordings that have been edited in the studio.

Flaming Lips

Dark Side of the Moon

2010 physical release of this eccentric re-interpretation of the classic Pink Floyd album, Dark Side Of The Moon.

The world’s most predictably unpredictable band, The Flaming Lips, have teamed up with their Oklahoma City brethren, Stardeath And White Dwarfs to record their own unique take of Pink Floyd’s 1973 classic album The Dark Side Of The Moon, under the title of The Flaming Lips and Stardeath And White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins And Peaches.

The collaborative project was recorded after several weeks of both bands touring the world together and mutually citing Pink Floyd as one of their favorite bands of all time and The Dark Side Of The Moon as one of their primary influences.

Broken Social Scene

Forgiveness Rock Record

2010 release, the first Broken Social Scene record following the acclaimed Broken Social Scene Presents series.

As a core six-piece who had spent most of 2007 and 2008 on the road, Drew, Canning, Spearin, Whiteman, Goldberg and Peroff spent early 2009 working on new material in Toronto.

The pairing down of the band’s massive personnel list for the first time proved extremely fruitful; they created spacious songs written as a band by a band, resulting in more cohesive, melody-driven compositions than previous BSS output.

Recording both in Toronto and Chicago, and working with producer John McEntire, they found a fresh perspective on their own sound.

The album features guest turns by BSS alumni: Leslie Feist, Amy Millan and Evan Cranley of Stars, Emily Haines and Jimmy Shaw of Metric, Jason Collett, Ohad Benchetrit of Do Make Say Think and Years, John Crossingham, Marty Kinack, Leon Kingstone and Julie Penner.

New Pornographers

Together

The fifth album from Canadian-US collective The New Pornographers, featuring Neko Case and Destroyer’s Dan Bejar, in addition to bandleader and chief songwriter A.C. Newman.

Playing to all the New Pornographers strengths, Together combines the freewheeling, glammy spirit of their debut Mass Romantic with the very personal, emotional songwriting of their most recent material.

As a result, it’s an album that aims to please, as exciting for the New Pornographers obsessive as for casual new listeners.

Hold Steady

Heaven Is Whenever

Singer Craig Finn says ‘‘Heaven Is Whenever is about embracing suffering and finding reward in our everyday lives’‘.

Piano and keys take a backseat to guitar on the new record, which also gets production help from guitarist Tad Kubler.

Recorded in several smaller sessions spread out over a long period of time, the songs on Heaven Is Whenever received the benefit of being tested on the band’s recent tours.

As Finn says this allowed them to see what was working and what wasn’t.

The Fall

Your Future Our Clutter

Another year, another Fall album.

This one is a goodie, reminiscent of the classic Fall of yore but slightly more garagey !

Gogol Bordello

Trans-Continental Hustle

The eagerly-awaited fifth studio album from the Alt-Rock outfit and the first to be release since 2007’s Super Taranta!.

Produced by Grammy award-winning producer Rick Rubin, Trans-Continental Hustle combines the band’s radical invocations of positive primal energy and planetary consciousness with music infused with Ska, Metal, Punk, Rap, Dub and intimations of indigenous Brazilian sounds to produce a party maelstrom of electrifying proportions.

Led by revolutionary change agent and provocateur Eugene Hutz, Gogol Bordello, a nine-piece juggernaut of gypsy rebel soul, has become an international force to be reckoned with.

Hole

Nobody’s Daughter

“This record is about greed, vengeance and feminism,” says Courtney Love of the ragged rock songs on her first LP in six years - and the first she’ll release with a new incarnation of Hole.

Writing began in 2005, while Love was strumming raw folk tunes on an acoustic during a rehab stint.

But as the songs developed - with help from producer Michael Beinhorn, Billy Corgan and Linda Perry - Love says, “S**t got darker, I got meaner, and the tracks got hard and big.”

Dead Meadow

Three Kings

Deluxe CD/DVD edition of this 2010 live release including the CD soundtrack as well as the film on DVD.

3 Kings is a feature-length live movie with short vignettes (ala Led Zeppelin’s Song Remains The Same) combined with the soundtrack of the movie in dual pack.

The performance captures the band at the height of the Indie non-stop touring machine and gives fans the first official live album, almost a greatest hits worth of catalog. Also included is an EP’s worth of new never-before heard material that gives a glimpse of a music career to come.

Black Francis

Nonstoperotik

Solo release from the Pixies frontman (AKA Frank Black).

Already being touted as his best solo album to date, Nonstoperotik is an album about sex.

The songs are infectious and hard to remove from your skull.