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Pacific Rhythm is elated to present a grounding offering from Oakland's Space Ghost entitled Private Paradise as our first release of 2022 The LP is an ode to Space Ghost's time spent at Sea Ranch on the Northern California coast, a place he and his partner visit to refresh their spirit and regain optimism and enthusiasm for the... -
Arca doubles down on the psychosexual thrust of her ‘KiCK’ series with a more “manic, violently euphoric and aggressively psychedelic” gush of queered reggaeton energies in its wild 3rd volume Where the parallel release of KiCK ii’ was more locked to reggaeton’s 100bpm bracket, this one ramps the tempos and conceptual... -
Restless genius Arca pulls in Garbage’s Shirley Manson, No Bra, Planningtorock, and Oliver Coates for the 4th - and notably more introspective - volume of her ‘Kick’ album bounty After expending her wilder energies in searing variations of dembow experimentalism and operatic composition in previous instalments, Arca here... -
Arca ropes in Ryuichi Sakamoto's guest vox for the quietly reserved, 5th and final instalment of their epic ‘kiCK’ series The closing chapter to one of this decade’s most ambitious pop projects thus far, ‘kiCK iiiii’ completes Arca’s magnum opus with a suite of heartbreaking ballads and torch songs rendered in... -
Ninos Du Brasil returns with their fourth and dangerously festive album of ragged junk percussion, crushed bass, and deja vu gang vocals that make you sing along to something you have never heard Expert and vast production by Rocco Rampino brings a new weight to the thick and invasion sequencing that pretty much wins over all... -
Light in the Attic is thrilled to announce the first official reissue of Nancy & Lee: the highly-influential 1968 duet album from Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood This definitive edition of Nancy & Lee features newly-remastered audio by the GRAMMY®-nominated engineer John Baldwin and includes an array of exclusive content,... -
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Panamá-born, Chicago-based drummer Daniel Villarreal is known to many for his work in Dos Santos, Wild Belle, The Los Sundowns, Valebol Rudy de Anda, and many more He's one of the busiest players on the Chicago scene If you're in the Windy City, find him almost any night of the week at a bar, club, or venue near you, either... -
"I'm considering, I'm considering, a move to Gothenburg Alongside being in possession of the last great previously untaken band name, Treasury of Puppies arrive with a debut album that adds increasing cogency to the argument that Sweden is producing the most interesting new music in the world right now, with Gothenburg its... -
Organist Ronnie Foster has collaborated with many greats over the course of his career from George Benson to the Jacksons to Stevie Wonder who brought the organist in to record on his seminal album Songs In The Key Of Life But Foster first caught the ear of Blue Note Records co-founder Francis Wolff with his standout performance... -
Organist Brother Jack McDuff came to Blue Note in 1969 and made one of the most ambitious albums of his career with Moon Rappin’, which was released in 1970 and featured five funky, spaced-out originals including “Oblighetto,” which would later be sampled by A Tribe Called Quest as the foundation of two of their classic hip... -
There isn’t much to go on other than the soundscapes when it comes to Civilistjävel! What is rumoured to be a figment of the pre-internet era tapping into a similar consciousness as Biosphere, Chain Reaction or early Fax +49-69/450464 is ultimately left up to second guessing For the average listener crossing paths with the... -
Music from Gabon can be hard to come by outside of the Central African country’s borders, and even in Gabon, it’s been tough to track down Papé Nziengui’s late ‘80s, postmodern masterpiece Kadi Yombo is Gabonese harp music, which is mostly played in sacred Tshogo rituals, mixed with synthesizers, a male voice and female... -
2022 repress Reissue, originally released in 1982 "Junjo Lawes ruled the dancehalls in the early '80s, with a huge militant sound laid down to fiery perfection by the Roots Radics The producer's incendiary riddims supported Jamaica's biggest stars and launched a new generation of toasters straight to the top of the charts This... -
Famed free jazz concert registration of an early New Direction for the Art performance Recorded in 1971 The performance by Takayanagi Masayuki New Direction for the Art at the Gen'yasai festival on August 14, 1971 was an intense, bruising collision between the radical, anti-establishment politics of the period in Japan and the... -
Ferocious JP/US free jazz bomb A rare meeting between the NYC free jazz scene and the Japanese free music scene Following hot on the heels of the first, mid-sixties generation of Japanese free jazz players like Kaoru Abe, Masayuki Takayanagi, Yōsuke Yamashita, Motoharu Yoshizawa, etc, an exciting second wave of younger players... -
Minoru “Hoodoo” Fushimi’s most wanted and impossible to find first album Thanatos Of Funk is finally reissued for the first time ever, in collaboration with Fushimi himself Thanatos Of Funk is a milestone in Japan’s underground music and electro funk/early hip hop history Entirely self-produced, designed and distributed in... -
A surprise solo acoustic performance following a Ry Cooder show on May 16, 1974 Notably features songs that would be included on “On The Beach” The album title comes from Neil introducing the opening song with that title; a song that later became “Push It Over The End” The original bootleg has been restored and... -
180-gram double LP 60th Anniversary 2022 Remastered Editon (Strereo/Mono)"Each track of this album is a joy to revisit" — 5/5 stars, Lindsay Planer, AllMusicRhino is celebrating the 60th anniversary of John Coltrane's classic My Favorite Things with a deluxe edition on 180-gram vinyl double LP This version features new stereo... -
A Deluxe Edition fully Remastered with a whole extra Disc of Outtakes all but one previously unreleased, with liner notes by Grammy-winner writer Ashley Kahn, photos and Atlantic memorabilia In May of 1957, Art Blakey and his Jazz Messengers went into the studio with Thelonious Monk to record a one-off album for Atlantic The Jazz... -
“The following story might be bullshit (drug use and memory enhancements): years ago I was sitting at home staring into the middle distance and the phone on the wall rang (that should denote how long ago this was) On the other end was the booker from The Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco, who had never called me before She was... -
On Oct 9, 2007, Robert Pollard simultaneously released two albums on Merge Records: Standard Gargoyle Decisions and Coast To Coast Carpet Of Love Both now out of print, Pollard has reimagined and condensed the two as Our Gaze, a single fifteen song album Because it’s... -
Jon K & Elle Andrews' MAL imprint returns with its second release - a long rumoured excursion from Equiknoxx skippers Gavin “Gavsborg” Blair and Jordan “Time Cow” Chung operating under the Gav & Jord masthead for the first time It’s their most probing x tight set of productions thus far - showcasing that... -
Tim Zha aka Organ Tapes makes a hyperjump to Worldwide Unlimited with an emotionally slushed set of singer-songwriter pearls spiked with his own idiosyncratic production moves An investigation into big-hearted American alt-country and acoustic pop, it sounds like a DIY inversion filtered thru the autotuned hypersonix with avant... -
When words trail off at the beginning of claire rousay’s “everything perfect is already here,” ornate instrumentation is waiting to fill a void left by the breakdown of language Yet it becomes clear as we trace rousay’s collaged sonic pathway that breakdown, of meaning and also of melody, is also a place to rest everything... -
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The unreleased 1984 follow-up to the groundbreaking albums Kakashi and Mariah's Utakata No Hibi, Kiren is Yasuaki Shimizu's work for experimental dance music Employing cutting edge production to create lush new wave soundscapes, it bridges the gap between his early 80s recordings and his later work with the Saxophonettes, filling... -
Y2K prepper-rock for the underemployed Tracked at home in 1999, the 1975 EP expands on Stratosphere’s slacker-positive dreamscape, with layers of guitars both clean and fuzzy, humming organ, and—gasp!—a drum machine Needle down, candles... -
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Best listened to from inside the womb, Duster’s 1998’s debut Stratosphere simultaneously capped off and reinvented the slow core’s first wave A four track dreamscape that will wake the neighbors and then lull them back to sleep Hazy, arpeggiated guitars layer over a deliberate drummer with no real place to be, as... -
Big Earth Energy plumbs the depths of his multimedia mind and naturalist heart, spinning an impressionistic narrative world off of cultural touchstones like the PC game MYST and the work of Japanese composers like Hiroshi Yoshimura, Yoichiro Yoshikawa and Studio Ghibli's Joe Hisaishi Using those inspirations and guided by Sean... -
Tony Allen (1940 - 2020) has long been acknowledged as Africa's finest drummer and one of the continent's most influential musicians Together with Fela Kuti (with whom he played for 15 years) Allen co-created Afrobeat - the hard-driving, horns-rich, funk-infused, politically insurrectionary style which became such a dominant force... -
“Really Really Happy is the album that kicks off the second phase of The Muffs career” So begins Roy McDonald’s liner notes for the expanded reissue of the band’s fifth album After eight years and four albums, The Muffs had written, recorded, and toured non-stop After a break, the group was ready to do it all again, and... -
1974 Prog-Rock Landmark Mastered from the Original Analog Master Tapes and Pressed on MoFi SuperVinyl Electric Light Orchestra leader Jeff Lynne did more than figuratively reach for the sky on Eldorado Daring to be bold, and creating imaginative worlds that invite the listener to escape the mundane, the visionary composer-musician... -
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First-time ever, 180-gram gatefold double LP Numbered, limited edition reissue By 1967, Thelonious Monk was being criticized by the jazz press for getting a bit stale, using the same personnel and performing the same songs as he had for the past few years In reality, Monk was still able to bring vitality to his performances... -
‘Comfort To Me’ is the sophomore album from Amyl and The Sniffers, described by Pitchfork as “bigger, heavier, and more meaningful” than anything they’ve done before MOJO Magazine raved: "Skin-shedding, lethal, self-sufficient, cool: no wonder Amy Taylor digs snakes With Comfort To Me, she proves she can be whoever she... -
"His music filled me with the urge to connect with the world," Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith says of Emile Mosseri She first heard his work while watching the 2019 film The Last Black Man In San Francisco; just minutes in, she paused it to look up who did the score and wrote to him immediately "I love Emile's ability to create melodies... -
Run the Jewels, the super dynamic duo of EI-P and Killer Mike, two of the most distinctive and celebrated names in rap brought you Run the Jewels 2 on mass Appeal records in 2014 The immensely anticipated album includes guests ranging from Zack de la Rocha to Travis Barker amongst others, but the duo maintains that the album is... -
The uncanny duo of Sudi "Space Ghost" Wachspress on production and Teddy Bryant (Urbyne) on vocals, dropping their first single on PPU, successfully securing the catalog # PPU-101 "Introduction to Grown and Sexy Music" Ushering in the next 100 releases for Peoples Potential... -
Desaparecidos is a 5-piece rock band fronted by Bright Eyes singer/songwriter Conor Oberst (vocals, guitar) and featuring Denver Dalley (guitar), Landon Hedges (bass, vocals), Ian McElroy (keyboards), and Matt Baum (drums) Matt and Ian are familiar to many of you from the various incarnations of Bright Eyes' touring band of which... -
This is Sam Goku's stunning debut album, titled East Dimensional Riddims The 11 track record is a journey into his hugely characterful club sound complete with ambient and subtle use of instruments from his Chinese heritage Sam Goku - born Robin Wang - was born in Düsseldorf, yet his upbringing was Chinese for the most part It... -
Legendary New Zealand band The Verlaines are proud to release 'Live at the Windsor Castle, Auckland May 1986' for the first time ever Packaged in a beautiful gatefold 2xLP, the artwork is a replication of the vintage gig poster Sky blue vinyl, complete with download code and liner notes from singer, Graeme Downes: 'This album may... -
The 5th edition of the Future Bubblers compilation An expansion of Gilles Peterson’s network supported by Arts Council England, the ongoing talent discovery and artist development scheme focuses on developing unsigned talent and building audiences for new left-field music With support from PRS Foundation as Talent Development... -
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Old World Underground, Where Are You Now is the first studio album by Canadian indie rock band Metric The album was released on September 2, 2003, on Enjoy Records (now known as Everloving Records) and Last Gang Records in Canada and went gold in Canada It was produced by Michael Andrews, recorded at Elgonix Labs, Los Angeles, and... -
Having assembled 99 collaborators for their previous album The Consuming Flame, on their new album Baltimore-based electronic duo Matmos focus upon just one person: Polish polymath Bogusław Schaeffer Celebrated in his native land but not widely known beyond, Schaeffer innovated for decades across the boundaries of classical... -
It is shocking what your mind will choose to forget Almost always it needs a tear, a clean dash, a straight passage into what you've already known Looking back, West Kensington has achieved that very goal: creating a landscape for memory, an imprint of that horizon, suspended in the cosmos I heard it in real-time, percolating... -
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West African rhythms collide with just intonation guitars, art-fire saxophone, minimalist grooves, and collaged zapdowns on Interventions, the powerful third full-length from Baltimore's Horse Lords The band's Northern Spy debut is also the first Horse Lords album to explore the classic studio-as-weaponry strategies of yore,... -
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Knxwledge (pronounced "knowledge"), aka Glen Boothe, is a producer raised in Philadelphia and New Jersey and now based in Los Angeles, where he is a pivotal figure in the city's new generation of beat makers Knx has long been a part of the Stones Throw Records family In addition to hundreds of remix collections beat tapes... -
Jon Porras draws a staggering array of atmospheres out of even the simplest instrumentation Across his work as one-half of psych-drone duo Barn Owl and his solo releases, Porras welds monoliths and ether into propulsive music that is deeply felt Arroyo, named for the Spanish word for “stream” in a nod to Porras’ heritage as... -
The music of Dewey Mahood is steadfast in its pursuit of transcendence For the past two decades as Plankton Wat, Mahood has contoured his melodic guitar playing into wholly transfiguring pieces His fluid compositions apply ethereal, elastic textures to grounded rhythmic grooves that recall the cosmic and the earthly in equal...
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