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Nigeria Rock Special Psychedelic Afro Rock And Fuzz Funk In 1970 S Nigeria

"Nigeria Rock Special" shines a light on the flipside to the well-documented sounds of Highlife and Afrobeat coming out of Nigeria in the 1970s - young bands caught up in the wave of psychedelic & prog rock that was sweeping Europe and the States at the time. Spurred on by Cream drummer Ginger Baker's visits to Lagos and his band Airforce (featuring many Nigerian musicians), the sound of fuzzed out Rock reverberated around the Universities and nightspots of Lagos and Ibadan. The craze that followed hit the youth & student population of Nigeria hard - mixing fuzz-guitar & heavy African rhythms with elements of Led Zeppelin, Santana, Traffic & the Chambers Brothers. 15 of the best cuts from the scene are available here for the first time in 30 years. Includes rare tracks from Mono Mono, Ofege, The Elcados and The Hygrades. CD comes in a deluxe Digipak and includes a 20 page booklet with extensive liners, rare photos and cover art.

Anna Calvi

Domino is proud to announce the release of the self-titled debut album from Anna Calvi, on 17th January 2011.

Co-produced by Rob Ellis and recorded in London and France, Anna Calvi’s debut is an astonishingly confident record; the unique strengths of her songwriting, singing and guitar playing all jumping out of the speaker together.

The ghosts of Nina Simone and Maria Callas lurk in the corners of Calvi’s muse, as does the classical romanticism of Ravel and Debussy, a set of disparate influences informing Calvi’s thoroughly modern music.

Rider To The Sea
No More Words
Desire
Suzanne and I
First We Kiss
The Devil
Blackout
I’ll Be Your Man
Morning Light
Love Won’t Be Leaving

The King Is Dead

The new album The King Is Dead is set of 10 concise, country-based songs and marks a deliberate turn towards simplicity after the band's wildly ambitious and widely acclaimed 2009 song-cycle The Hazards of Love. Produced once again by Tucker Martine, The King Is Dead features special guest appearances by Americana luminary Gillian Welch on seven tracks and legendary R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck on three tracks. The King Is Dead showcases the ways in which The Decemberists sound just as glorious in simple, stripped-down compositions as they do on the elaborate structures that have defined their work for years. The album was recorded in a converted barn at Pendarvis Farm, an 80-acre estate of lush meadows, forest, and Mt. Hood views outside of Portland, and it was the concept of the barn as recording space and as attitudethat informed the making of The King Is Dead.

Don't Carry It All
Calamity Song
Rise to Me
Rox in the Box
January Hymn
Down by the Water
All Arise!
June Hymn
This is Why We Fight
Dear Avery

We're New Here

In February 2010, Gil Scott-Heron released 'I'm New Here', his first album in thirteen years. Produced by XL Recordings head Richard Russell during various studio sessions in New York, the album was enthusiastically received by fans and critics alike. Meanwhile, the last eighteen months have been meteoric for Jamie xx. His band The xx's debut album (which Jamie produced) received huge acclaim, picking up 2010's prestigious Mercury Music Prize, while Jamie garnered respect for his remixes (in particular Florence & The Machine's 'You've Got The Love') and solo productions (forthcoming single 'Far Nearer' on Numbers).

So what happens when one of the most exciting young producers around reworks one of the most acclaimed albums from a true legend? The result is Gil Scott-Heron And Jamie xx's 'We're New Here' which sees Jamie xx remixing thirteen tracks from the original 'I'm New Here' album sessions.

I'm New Here
Home
Ive Been Me
(Interlude)
Running
My Cloud
Certain Things
(Interlude)
The Crutch
Ur Soul And Mine
Parents (Interlude)
Piano Player
Ny Is Killing Me
Jazz (Interlude)
Ill Take Care Of U

Kiss Each Other Clean

"It sounds like the music people heard in their parents' car growing up... that early-to-mid-'70s FM, radio-friendly music. There are a lot of live horns and synths too." Sam Beam

Iron & Wine delivers the new album Kiss Each Other Clean on 21 January 2011. It's been more than a three year wait since Iron & Wine released the previous album The Shepherd's Dog. Kiss Each Other Clean was recorded in Chicago with long-time producer Brian Deck at the helm. A number of familiar names pop up to contribute musically, adding layer upon layer, rhythm upon rhythm with acoustic guitars and whispering vocals added for good measure. In a recent interview Sam said that the resulting ten tracks make for a "more focused pop record," albeit with "straight-up jazz, blues and African elements" experimentally thrown in.

"Beam has redefined the artsy folk rock resonance Iron & Wine is known for, implementing hints of electronic dreaminess It's reminiscent of the singer/songwriter's earlier awe-inspiring, Southern sounding repertoire." Prettymuchamazing

"See's him leave his folk roots behind for a more radiofriendly, 1970s pop sound. Beam has also experimented with other genres on the record as well as classic AOR." Rough Trade Shop

Walking Far From Home
Me And Lazarus
Tree By The River
Monkeys Uptown
Half Moon
Rabbit Will Run
Godless Brother In Love
Big Burned Hand
Glad Man Singing
Your Fake Name Is Good Enough For Me

The Deep Field

Joan As Police Woman AKA Joan Wasser release her third album entitled 'The Deep Field'. The title refers to a tiny and far distant part of space, and follows the critical and commercial success of her previous albums, 'Real Life' and 'To Survive'.

The Magic
The Action Man
Flash
Run For Love
Human Condition
Kiss The Specifics
Chemmie
Foerver And A Year
I Was Everyone

Train Bound For Glory

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Write About Love

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You Am I

YOU AM I is a riveting address to the nation. Produced by ARIA Award-winning engineer Greg Wales and mixed by James Cadsky, the album was recorded over various sessions, studios, and combinations to create the band's most well-woven and expressive record yet.

We Hardly Knew You
Kicking The Balustrade
Lie And Face The Sun
The Good Ones
Shuck
Crime
The Ocean
Pinpricks
Waiting To Be Found Out
Trigger Finger
Let's Not Get Famous

Harlem River Blues

Harlem River Blues is the brand new album from the charismatic, enigmatic, prolific Justin Townes Earle and his third album in under three years .... Woody Guthrie once said, "Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple."

On Harlem River Blues, Justin has chosen the simple route. The record's not a wall of sound produced to the rafters. It's rockim' and reelin' at times, sweet and slow at others-and it's great. Like good fried chicken, a well-cut suit and a handmade guitar, there's heaven to be found in the beautifully crafted simpler things. Harlem River Blues straddles not only the Mason-Dixon line, but time itself. As versed in Mance Lipscomb as he is in M. Ward and sporting Marc Jacobs suspenders, Justin Townes Earle is a man beyond eras. With Harlem River Blues, a record that's perfect for summer nights on either the front porch or the fire escape, Justin's found yet another way to be a timeless original.

Harlem River Blues
One Night In Brooklyn
Move Over Mama
Working For The Mta
Wanderin
Slippin and Slidin
Christchurch Woman
Learning To Cry
Aint Waitin
Rogers Park
Harlem River Blues (reprise)

Le Noise

Le Noise is a new studio album by the legendary Neil Young the album is produced by Daniel Lanois (U2, Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel, Brian Eno). Young stated in an interview with Rolling Stone Magazine that "We cut a couple of solo acoustic songs, but the rest is very electric" and "There's no band, but I got in there with my sonics."

Walk With Me
Sign Of Love
Someone's Gonna Rescue You
Love and War
Angry World
Hitchhiker
Peaceful Valley Boulevard
Rumblin'

Swanlights

"Swanlights" is the fourth Antony and the Johnsons album and the follow up to the critically acclaimed smash "The Crying Light" which topped year-end best of lists across the globe in 2009. Antony burst into the international spotlight with his second album, "I am a Bird Now", which won the UK's prestigious Mercury Music Prize. Antony & the Johnsons have toured Australia on three occasions, the last being earlier this year for two sold out opera house shows and two sold out perth festival shows. While "I Am a Bird Now" was arresting in its simplicity and vision and "The Crying Light" is a masterpiece of austerity, "Swanlights" may be Antony's most wide-ranging emotional work to date. It is a record that is at moments excruciating and tender, and at other times has a wicked gleam to its teeth. Musically it's the most maximal of his work to date. Whereas on "The Crying Light", Antony paired everything back to its most distilled and essential, on "Swanlights" the vines have become overgrown and the sound palette has become more exotic, strange percussive elements, John Cale-esque string drones, heavily distorted guitars and symphonic voicings thread the song cycle together.

Everything Is New
The Great White Ocean
Ghost
I'm In Love
Violetta
Swanlights
The Spirit Was Gone
Thank You For Your Love
Fletta
Salt Silver Oxygen
Christina's Farm

Exile On Main Street (Remastered)

THE ROLLING STONES ICONIC EXILE ON MAIN STREET TO BE RELEASED WITH NEVER-BEFORE-HEARD TRACKSAlbum Launch to Coincide With New Documentary Stones In ExileUniversal Music Group is pleased to announce the re-release of The Rolling Stones album Exile on Main Street with an additional 10 never-before-heard tracks. Regarded as one of the greatest albums in rock n roll history and one of the most defining of the Stones catalogue, Exile will be available May 17, 2010, in the U.K. and May 18, 2010, in the US. Upon its release more than three decades ago, Exile on Main Street innovatively wove varying musical genres, instruments and even artists into a compelling rhythmic masterpiece. This new compilation features 10 tracks originally recorded during the Exile era and only recently discovered while working on the reissue project. The unearthed tracks which include such titles as Plundered My Soul, Dancing in the Light, Following the River and Pass The Wine have undergone a unique evolution, while staying true to the essence of the 1972 album. Alternate versions of Soul Survivor and Loving Cup also are a part of the Exile bonus materials.As a complement to the release of Exile on Main Street, a documentary, Stones in Exile, has just been completed for fans to view on US Network television and through BBC Worldwide internationally. The documentary features rare, never-before-seen archival film, photos and interviews as well as new conversations with the band and the artists they influence. Produced by Oscar -winning filmmaker John Battsek and directed by Stephen Kijak, who is known for award-winning work on Cinemania, and Scott Walker: 30 Century Man, Stones in Exile offers an uncommon glimpse into the lives of the band as they created one of the greatest albums of all time.The original 18-track double-album was recorded in various stages at multiple locations, including Olympic Studios in London, Keith Richards mansion Nellcote in France, and in Los Angeles where the literal Main Street influenced the album title. These atypical circumstances surrounding the recording process greatly affected the albums outcome which was highly reflective and influenced by the sociopolitical turbulence that marked the late 60s and early70s. The Stones nixed the influences of a flower-child era and directed their creative process with the edgier, excessive, more is more approach of the `70s. Exile reveals a sprawling mix of genres with undertones of blues, country, R&B and gospel mixed with lyrics that fervently demand for release and liberation. The album pulled together an electric array of talent including Dr. John, the late Billy Preston and pianist Nicky Hopkins. Guitarist Mick Taylor, who replaced Brian Jones in the band shortly before Jones died in 1969, is a magnificent blues player who brought an intensity and elegance to these epic tracks. At times, these musicians and others lived on the recording studio premises with the band creating an extremely open and creative collaboration for the album.

Rocks Off
Rip This Joint
Shake Your Hips
Casino Boogie
Tumbling Dice
Sweet Virginia
Torn And Frayed
Sweet Black Angel
Loving Cup
Happy
Turd On The Run
Ventilator Blues
I Just Want To See His Face
Let It Loose
All Down The Line
Stop Breaking Down
Shine A Light
Soul Survivor

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Lustre

ED HARCOURT releases his fifth full studio album LUSTRE on Piano Wolf on June 14th. His first for four years, it's a dazzling statement of intent and rejuvenation from a singer/songwriter/musician who hasn't always received the acclaim his gifts deserve. Now a proud father and a much-in-demand writer/producer, he's delivered a set of songs about birth, love, light and darkness which glistens with genius. The album was recorded at Bear Creek Studio, just north of Seattle, with co-producer Ryan Hadlock (Blonde Redhead, The Gossip) and mastered by Gavin Lurssen (O Brother, Where Art Thou?) "If my last album was weighed-down, this one is a buoy," remarks Ed. "It floats. It's about that gleaming quality the vitality, the passion that drives you to keep going and not give up. It poured out of me. I've always been ready, but now it's like nothing I've ever felt."From the opening euphoria of "Lustre" to the lupine howl of "Heart Of A Wolf", from the sunny yet subversive Beach Boys pop of "Do As I Say Not As I Do" to the beautiful truths of "Fears Of A Father", this feels like the finest Ed Harcourt album yet. Between 2001 and 2006 he released Here Be Monsters (Mercury-nominated), From Every Sphere, Strangers and The Beautiful Lie. Having now parted ways with Heavenly/EMI, worked with many of the biggest and best names in music (from Patti Smith to Mark Linkous, from Paloma Faith to Tom Jones), and started his own studio (Werewolf) and his own label (Piano Wolf), he's "in a good place, confident and in control." The first single from the album will be 'Do As I Say, Not As I Do'.

Lustre
Haywired
Church Of No Religion
Heart Of A Wolf
Do As I Say Not As I Do
Killed By The Morning Sun
Lachrymosity
A Secret Society
When The Lost Don’t Want To Be Found
So I’ve Been Told
Fears Of A Father

Goanna Dreaming (Deluxe Edition)

A Goanna enlists a Dingo to create a powerful and sublime Australian album. Shane Howard releases his long awaited new studio album, Goanna Dreaming. Produced by Kerryn Tolhurst, (Dingoes) and Howard, this trans-Pacific recording project began in Tucson, Arizona in Tolhurst's studio and was completed back in Australia. Deluxe Package CD Book.

Earth Is Singn'
Back In Time
Miss Me Darlin'
Come Down Moses
Clancey & Dooley & Don McLeod
Struggle & Strife
Kimberley Rain
Oh Life
Down By The River
Don't Give Up On Us
Mountains To The Sea
She Called Me Up

Cinema

Since 2001 they have amassed a huge worldwide following - selling multi-platinum albums, celebrating number 1debuts, winning a whole load of awards, headlining the globes greatest and most prestigious music festivals, andperforming on some of the world's biggest entertainment shows like Letterman and Leno.2010 sees the international release and world tour of Cinema, the band's fourth studio album.The Cat Empire CINEMA serves up a set which captures the inexorable force- and sheer joy - of their live performances,delivered in a format perfect for lounge-rooms, backyards, BBQ's, cafes,road trips and parties all over the world

Waiting
Falling
Feeling's Gone
Only Light
All Hell
Shoulders
The Heart Is A Cannibal
Reasonably Fine
Call Me Home
On My Way
Beyond All

End Times

EELS is the ever-changing project of singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Mark Oliver Everett (aka E). End Times follows on the heels of EELS' critically acclaimed 2009 release Hombre Lobo, hailed by Vanity Fair as "anti-anthems that get your dopamine pumping instead of your fist" and praised by Rolling Stone for its "muddy roadhouse rockers." Largely self-recorded on an old four track tape machine in the basement of Everettt's Los Angeles home, the "end times" he writes about isn't "Mayan calendar conspiracy theory bullshit," says Everett, but, "the state of the desperate times we live in. The bottom line-ness of it all". While Hombre Lobo was written from the point of view of a fictional character (namely, the Dog Faced Boy of EELS' 2001 album Souljacker), End Times is purely real life as Everett sees it: a "divorce album" with a modern twist.

The Beginning
Gone Man
In My Younger Days
Mansions Of Los Feliz
A Line In The Dirt
End Times
Apple Trees
Paradise Blues
Nowadays
Unhinged
High And Lonesome
I Need A Mother
Little Bird
On My Feet

Triple J Hottest 100 Volume 17

2CD compilation of this year's Hottest 100 - 42 tracks from Animal Collective to Mumford and Sons and including all this year's Australian hits: Lisa Mitchell, Washington, SIA, Hilltop Hoods, The Middle East, Karnivool, Philadelphia Grand Jury and more more more

Disk 1

Mumford & Sons - Little Lion Man
Phoenix - Lisztomania
Art vs Science - Parlez-vous Francais?
La Roux - Bulletproof
Muse - Uprising
Hilltop Hoods - Chase That Feeling
Gossip - Heavy Cross
Bluejuice - Broken Leg
John Butler Trio - One Way Road
Kasabian - Fire
Florence + The Machine - Dog Days Are Over
Miike Snow - Animal
Simian Mobile Disco - Audacity Of Huge
Lisa Mitchell - Coin Laundry
Weezer - (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To
Powderfinger - All Of The Dreamers
The Middle East - Blood
The xx - Islands
Kid Cudi feat. Mgmt & Ratatat - Pursuit Of Happiness (Nightmare)
Bag Raiders - Shooting Stars
Sia - Buttons

Disk 2

Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden - Bonkers
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll
Vampire Weekend - Cousins
Passion Pit - Sleepyhead
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Home
Lily Allen - Not Fair
Paul Dempsey - Ramona Was A Waitress
The Temper Trap - Fader
The Bloody Beetroots feat. Steve Aoki - Warp 1.9
Karnivool - Set Fire To The Hive
Metric - Help I'm Alive
Sarah Blasko - We Won't Run
Seth Sentry - The Waitress Song
Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
Basement Jaxx - Raindrops
Miami Horror - Sometimes
Philadelphia Grand Jury - The Good News
Jamie T - Sticks 'n' Stones
Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning
Washington - Cement
Animal Collective - My Girls

Down The Way

Travelling has been an integral part of the Stone's musical story so it's not surprising they opted to record their new album "Down The Way" in a number of diverse locations around the globe; an old sawmill on the river banks of Fowey in Cornwall, a studio in Brooklyn, a water tank in Coolangatta, their second home - London - and Queens in New York.

"Down The Way" marks their debut as producers, taking full control of their sound without losing the spirit of what made the first record so special. There has been a subtle shift of gear, represented by a growing confidence in their abilities as artists and the music follows suit as it flows easily through sparse and rich textured arrangements without losing any of its etherealness and charm.

Hold On
Black Crow
For You
Big Jet Plane
Santa Monica Dream
Yellow Brick Road
And The Boys
On The Road
Walk It Off
Hush
Draw Your Swords
Im Not Yours
The Devils Tears

I Learned The Hard Way

Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings are already well known as an exciting act for both their explosive live shows and their prolific output of gritty studio recordings. Their breakout release, 100 Days, 100 Nights, sold over 150,000 copies worldwide. This April the band will release I Learned the Hard Way, their fourth full-length on Brooklyn’s independent Daptone Records. The record marks a bold step forward for a band who almost single handedly stewarded today’s return of soul music to its more traditional sound.

Produced by Bosco Mann and recorded on an Ampex eight-track tape machine by Gabriel Roth in Daptone Records’ House of Soul studios, the record drips with a warmth and spontaneity rarely found since the golden days of Muscle Shoals and Stax. Sharon’s raw power, rhythmic swagger, moaning soulfulness, and melodic command set her firmly alongside Tina Turner, James Brown, Mavis Staples, and Aretha as a fixture in the canon of soul music. From the lush Philly-Soul fanfare that ushers in “The Game Gets Old” at the top of the record, to the stripped down Sam Cooke-style “Mama Don’t Like My Man” at the tail, the Dap-Kings dance seamlessly through both the most crafted and simple arrangements with subtlety and discipline. I Learned the Hard Way is the “Daptone Sound” at its best.

High Violet

High Violet delivers a melodic, explosive and beautiful set of songs that find THE NATIONAL at the height of their collaborative career. The music is wide-ranging in its moods, by turns intimate and rough, expansive and spare, full of stark angles and atmosphere. Berninger's singing... wild, half-broken, sly... evokes a feeling of being haunted; by love, by paranoia, by something just out of reach.

The new album features guest appearances from Justin Vernon (BON IVER), SUFJAN STEVENS and Richard Reed Parry (ARCADE FIRE), amongst others. High Violet reveals deeper musical hues and lyrical riches upon every listen, and is without a doubt The National's most infectious and immediate album yet.

The National's previous albums (Boxer and Alligator) have made countless Album Of The Decade lists, and the band's involvement in curating the Dark Was The Night compilation last year added to their exploding profile. Even Obama used their song Fake Empire in his election campaign.

Terrible Love
Sorrow
Anyone’s Ghost
Little Faith
Afraid of Everyone
Bloodbuzz Ohio
Lemonworld
Runaway
Conversation 16
England
Vanderlyle Crybaby Geeks

Congratulations

Unlike MGMTs platinum-selling debut Oracular Spectacular, which had three chart-topping hits (Time to Pretend, Electric Feel, and Kids), the duo's follow-up is designed to be a congruent album of psychedelic, non-single-oriented material..

It's Working
Song For Dan Treacy
Someone's Missing
Flash Delirium
I Found A Whistle
Siberian Breaks
Brian Eno
Lady Dada's Nightmare
Congratulations

Before Too Long: triple j's Tribute To Paul Kelly

Before Too Long: triple j's Tribute To Paul Kelly celebrated the words and songs of an artist that has consistently excelled and inspired. 2009 marked the 30th anniversary of the recording career of one of our true music greats. This wonderful release is featured across a 3CD set including the entire concert across featuring Bob Evans, John Butler, Dan Sultan, Clare Bowditch, Missy Higgins and more. The 3rd CD features the original songs by Paul Kelly. When it comes to capturing an Australian aesthetic in song, Paul Kelly has achieved that effortlessly and by avoiding any annoying jingoistic clich s. He has crossed generations, genres and cultures with his music as few have done before.

Disc 1:

Ash Naylor - Before Too Long
Bob Evans - Love Never Runs On Time
Bob Evans - From St Kilda To Kings Cross
Megan Washington - Everybody Loves You Baby
Megan Washington - Meet Me In The Middle Of The Air
Paul Dempsey - Your Lovin' Is On My Mind
Dan Kelly - Down To My Soul
Dan Kelly - Crosstown
Katy Steele - Every F---King City
Dan Sultan - Give In To My Love
Dan Sultan - Look So Fine, Feel So Low
Jae Laffer - They Thought I Was Asleep
Clare Bowditch - Deeper Water
Clare Bowditch - To Her Door

Disc 2:

Jae Laffer - When I First Met Your Ma
Ozi Batla - Careless
Ozi Batla - Sydney From A 727
Adalita - Everything's Turning To White
Adalita - Sweet Guy
Intro For - Most Wanted Man In The World
Katy Steele - Most Wanted Man In The World
Paul Dempsey - Dumb Things
Missy Higgins - (You Can Put Your) Shoes Under My Bed
Missy Higgins - If I Could Start Today Again
John Butler - How To Make Gravy
Intro For - From Little Things Big Things Grow
John Butler, Dan Sultan & Missy Higgins - From Little Things Big Things Grow
Intro For - Leaps And Bounds
Paul Kelly - Leaps And Bounds

Disc 3:

Paul Kelly - Before Too Long
Paul Kelly - From St Kilda To Kings Cross
Paul Kelly - Everybody Loves You Baby
Paul Kelly - Meet Me In The Middle Of The Air
Paul Kelly - Down To My Soul
Paul Kelly - Give In To My Love
Paul Kelly - Look So Fine, Feel So Low
Paul Kelly - They Thought I Was Asleep
Paul Kelly - Deeper Water
Paul Kelly - To Her Door
Paul Kelly - When I First Met Your Ma
Paul Kelly - Careless
Paul Kelly - Everything's Turning To White
Paul Kelly - Sweet Guy
Paul Kelly - Most Wanted Man In The World
Paul Kelly - Dumb Things
Paul Kelly - (You Can Put Your) Shoes Under My Bed
Paul Kelly - If I Could Start Today Again
Paul Kelly - How To Make Gravy
Paul Kelly - From Little Things Big Things Grow

Heligoland

7 years after 100th Window Massive Attack returns with their fifth album. Featuring previous collaborator Horace Andy, and a bevy of vocalists such as Martina Topley-Bird of Tricky fame, Damon Albarn of Blur and Gorillaz, Hope Sandoval of Mazzy Star and The Warm Inventions, Tunde Adebimpe, and Adrian Utley of Portishead on guitar duties. Tim Goldsworthy of UNKLE and DFA fame was roped in for co-production on a few songs as well.

Pray for Rain - Feat. Tunde Adebimpe
Babel - Feat. Martina Topley-Bird
Splitting the Atom - Feat. Grant Marshall, Horace Andy
Girl I Love You - Feat. Horace Andy
Psyche - Feat. Martina Topley-Bird
Flat of the Blade - Feat. Guy Garvey
Paradise Circus - Feat. Hope Sandoval
Rush Minute
Saturday Comes Slow - Feat. Damon Albarn
Atlas Air

Live From The Montreal Jazz Festival (CD/DVD)

Urgent. Infectious. Energized. That's how Ben Harper And Relentless7 have been characterized and this special CD/DVD combo filmed during the Montreal International Jazz Festival have captured their blistering artistry in the summer of 2009. The songs from White Lies For Dark Times sound off with both the vast musical depth and experience of Harper, while commanding the pure urgency and intensity of a new band fighting for its life BUY! HERE'S WHY!

A wonderful fan piece full of favorites & great covers featuring including: Another Lonely Day - from Ben Harper's album Fight For Your Mind Under Pressure - Queen & David Bowie cover Serve Your Soul - from Ben Harper's album Both Sides of The Gun Ben Harper & Relentless7's album 'White Lies For Dark Times' has shipped sold over 22 000 copies. They appeared at last years Bluesfest, did a show at the Metro and a national stadium tour with Pearl Jam + heaps of promo including TV appearances on Rove and Sunrise

Disk 1

Cd - Faster Slower Disappear Come Around
Number With No Name
Shimmer & Shine
Lay There & Hate Me
Why Must You Always Dress In Black
Red House (Jimi Hendrix cover)
Another Lonely Day
Keep It Together (So I Can Fall Apart)
Boots Like These
Under Pressure (David Bowie & Queen cover)
Up To You Now
Faithfully Remain
Serve Your Soul

Disk 2

Dvd - Faster Slower Disappear Come Around
Number With No Name
Shimmer & Shine
Lay There & Hate Me
Why Must You Always Dress In Black
Red House (Jimi Hendrix cover)
Another Lonely Day
Skin Thin
Fly One Time
Keep It Together (So I Can Fall Apart)
Boots Like These
Under Pressure (David Bowie & Queen cover)
Faithfully Remain
Serve Your Soul

Volume Two

Second, highly anticipated second album from American duo She & Him.She is actress Zooey Deschanel.Him is acoustic singer/songwriter Matt Ward (M Ward, Monsters Of Folk). She & Him combine Deschanel writes the lyrics and vocal melodies and Ward builds the songs around these. The result is dreamy, lush and charming Phil Spector style 1960s pop with elaborate modern guitar lines and string arrangements.

Thieves
In The Sun
Don’t Look back
Ridin In My Car
Lingering Still
Me and You
Gonna Get Along Without You Now
Home
I’m Gonna Make It Better
Sing
Over It Over Again
Brand New Shoes
If You Can’t Sleep

Go

'Go' is an exhilarating, joyful and fearless album from Jón Thor Birgisson, known to the world as Jónsi, the lead singer of Sigur Rós. The choice to make an album of solo recordings came together as a solution to a backlog of songs Jónsi had written that didn't seem to fit within the Sigur Rós context. The first collection of this material saw its release earlier this year in the form of a record called 'Riceboy Sleeps'. While that was a contemplative instrumental album, 'Go' is an entirely different beast. It is Sigur Ros at it's most jubilant and the majority of lyrics are in English Jonsi collaborated with the talented young composer Nico Muhly (Grizzly Bear, Bjork, Antony & The Johnsons) and is embarking on a world tour in support of the album.

Go Do
Animal Arithmetic
Tornado
Boy Lilikoi
Sinking Friendships
Kolnidur
Around Us
Grow Till Tall
Hengilas

The Shadow Of An Empire

If "The End of History" was the sound of the countryside and woodland lanes, "The Shadow Of An Empire" is the sound of towns and dimly lit streets; heartfelt and with a ragged edge. Regan has ploughed himself a new furrow.

It's been an interesting couple of years for Fionn Regan. Never one to take the easy route, Fionn could easily have made a safe and predictable follow-up to The End Of History, his 2007 mercury-nominated and critically lauded debut. He could have simply recorded another collection of beguiling acoustic beauties, he could have made the end of history part two, but that would have been too easy.

Instead, Fionn has returned with a very different second album bursting with ideas and a set of dazzling new tunes which are sure to reaffirm his reputation as both maverick genius and one of the most talented contemporary singer-songwriters around.

Coat Hook
Protection Racket
Genocide Matinee
Catacombs
Violent Demeanour
Little Nancy
Lord Help My Poor Soul
Lines Written In Winter
House Detective
The Shadow Of An Empire

Strict Joy *** Vinyl

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I Speak Because I Can

We first met Laura Marling with the Mercury-nominated debut 'Alas, I Cannot Swim', a mature-sounding folk album that was released when she was just barely 18 years old. It featured the lovely track and Triple J favourite, 'Ghosts'. 'I Speak Because I Can' is Laura Marling's coming of age album, its 10 songs imbued with a new richness, ripeness and sophistication.

Marling chose to work with producer Ethan Johns (Ray La Montagne, Kings of Leon, Emmylou Harris). But these songs are no pale Americana interpretation; rather they are tales deeply rooted in England. The creative partnership proved fruitful - Laura Marling will be releasing a second album of new material later in the year. Laura recently completed a sold-out East Coast tour that included stunning shows at the Spiegeltent as part of the Sydney Festival. Plans to return to Australia in support of both albums looks promising.

Devil's Spoke
Made By Maid
Rambling Man
Blackberry stone
Alpha Shallows
Goodbye England
Hope In The Air
What He Wrote
Darkness Descends
I Speak Because I Can

Hardships!

Hardships! is a collection of 13 modern work songs of all times. It contains shimmering in-preparedness-poetry and raw r'n'b, in a way you've never heard it before.

Hardships! feels like salt and pepper on your tongue. And sparkeling as a burning matchstick that you can burn your fingertips on! Hardships! is Jenny Wilson's second solo album.

Dead Wood Falls

This is the debut full-length album from local artist Jen Cloher and on the strength of this recording she should have bright future in the music industry. This recording is full of wonderful songs, all written by Cloher. Throughout the album The Endless Sea provide wonderful backing and support. There are a couple of guest supports from Mia Dyson and Bic Runga. Discovering the talents of Jen Cloher was a very pleasant surprise.

Phil Richards is from Readings Carlton

A Friend Of A Friend

The much anticipated debut album from Gillian Welch's secret weapon, Dave Rawlings, includes appearances by Ketch Secor, Willie Watson, Kevin Hayes, Morgan Jahnig (Old Crow Medicine Show), Benmont Tench (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers), Nate Walcott (Bright Eyes) and Karl Himmel (Neil Young), and of course, Gillian Welch. It's a coming out party for an unsung hero of American roots music, and it's on Acony.

Glitter And Doom Live (Vinyl)

In 2008, Tom Waits launched a sold out national tour, garnering intense critical praise Paste magazine called it the best live show of 2008 and thrilling fans across the country and the world, some in cities where Waits had never played before. Now comes the document of those concerts, 17 performances hand picked by Waits from along the tour. Leaning heavily on songs from his ANTI releases including a haunting Trampled Rose from Real Gone and roaring Get Behind the Mule from Mule Variations Waits also digs into the vaults for tracks like a reimagined Singapore from 1985 s Rain Dogs. Glitter and Doom Live will reside in the Waits catalog alongside earlier live albums like Nighthawks at the Diner and Big Time, both discs held on par with his classic studio releases by fans.

Disk 1 1. Lucinda/ain't Goin Down (Birmingham - 07/03/08) 2. Singapore (Edinburgh - 07/28/08) 3. Get Behind the Mule (Tulsa - 06/25/08) 4. Fannin Street (Knoxville - 06/29/08) 5. Dirt in the Ground (Milan - 07/19/08) 6. Such a Scream (Milan - 07/18/08) 7. Live Circus (Jacksonville - 07/01/08) 8. Goin' out West (Tulsa - 06/25/08) 9. Falling Down (Paris - 07/25/08) 10. Part You Throw Away (Edinburgh - 07/28/08) 11. Trampled Rose (Dublin - 08/01/08) 12. Metropolitan Glide (Knoxville - 6/29/08) 13. I'll Shoot the Moon (Paris - 07/24/08) 14. Green Grass (Edinburgh - 07/27/08) 15. Make It Rain (Atlanta - 07/05/08) 16. Story (Columbus - 06/28/08) 17. Lucky Day (Atlanta - 07/05/08)

Disk 2

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Contra

The second album from US eastcoast indie pop band Vampire Weekend. Features the single track "Horchata".

Contra bustles with fresh ideas, and yet it sounds immediately familiar. In the band's own words they "sound more like Vampire Weekend than we did on the first record".

Horchata
White Sky
Holiday
California English
Taxi Cab
Run
Cousins
Giving Up The Gun
Diplomat's Son
I Think Ur A Contra

Transference

The seventh Spoon album, TRANSFERENCE, was self-produced!

Before Destruction
Is Love Forever?
Mystery Zone
Who Makes Your Money
Written In Reverse
I Saw The Light
Trouble
Good Night Laura
Out Go The Lights
Got Nuffin
Nobody Gets Me But You

The Road Soundtrack

The Road, directed by John Hillcoat and adapted from the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name, features an original score by Nick Cave & Warren Ellis.

Home
The Road
Storytime
The Cannibals
Water And Ash
The Mother
The Real Thing
Memory
The House
The Far Road
The Church
The Journey
The Cellar
The Bath
The Family
The Beach
The Boy

For The Birds

My Villain
Bell
Tijuana 500
Bare
Marlene
Silhouettes
New Ornithology
The Switch
Long Time Death
Swing Low

IRM (Limited CD/DVD Edition)

IRM is a musical collaboration between Charlotte Gainsbourg and Alt-Rock favorite Beck. Over the course of a year and a half of writing and recording together, Beck's role grew to encompass all aspects of the creative process: He wrote all of the music and co-wrote the lyrics and produced and mixed the recording. Beck brought in many of his regular collaborators, including Joey Waronker and James Gadson on drums, Brian LeBarton on keyboards, David Ralicke on trumpet and Beck's father, David Campbell, for string arrangement.

Master's Hands
IRM
Le Chat du Caf des Artistes
In the End
Heaven Can Wait
Me and Jane Doe
Vanities
Time of the Assassins
Trick Pony
Greenwich Mean Time
Dandelion
Voyage
La Collectionneuse

The Courage Of Others

MIDLAKE, one of America's most successful and celebrated acts make their long-awaited return their extraordinary third album."The Courage Of Others". It's ironic that Midlake's new album is titled "The Courage Of Others" because, if anything, the courage is all theirs. Namely, the courage to do what feels right and stay true to the spirit of artistic independence whilst ignoring any pressure to conform to expectations. The result is the Texas quintet's third album, their most complete and beautiful body of work yet, best appreciated as a whole in the old-fashioned sense of an album - which makes perfect sense when you know Midlake linchpin Tim Smith's fondness for the look and feel of past times. So what's changed since The Trials of Van Occupanther, their second, hugely loved breakthrough album? Just as that record was in part inspired by the soft(er) rock of the early-to-mid 1970s - from Neil Young and America to Fleetwood Mac - so Midlake's new album also looks to a slightly earlier, and definitely British, trad-tainted folk sound. It may share the same gorgeously analogue-warm electro-acoustic template as Van Occupanther but it's a slower, darker and more carved record, both eerier and dreamier. Perfect, in other words, for its February release date, at the height of winter. Neither do the new songs feature any hermit-scientists like Van Occupanther, or the mythical Roscoe. The songs that constitute The Courage Of Others, Tim says, are closer to his heart than those of their first two albums because, "I don't feel I'm looking at the songs through someone else's eyes. I've tried to keep it as true to myself as I could." Guitarist Eric Pulido adds, "We didn't want to make the same album as Van Occupanther, so we carried on moving and creating and pushing for a newer sound and emotion."

Acts of Man
Winter Dies
Small Mountain
Core of Nature
Fortune
Rulers, Ruling All Things
All Things
Children Of The Grounds
Bring Down
The Horn
The Courage Of Others
In The Ground

Pop Crimes

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Rush To Relax

The follow-up to the Melbourne quartet's AMP-winning second album Primary Colours. Recorded by guitarist Mikey Young on eight-track in Revolver rehearsal studios in the Melbourne suburb of Prahran. Features the band's "least boring cover art" (designed by the band and snapped by Nicole Reed); two ballads "made for a man and his woman"; two punkers to prove they're still keeping it "mad real"; and three "self indulgent" jam that go for more than six minutes.

Anxiety
I've Got A Feeling
Tuning Out
Gentleman
Walked Into A Corner
Second Guessing
I Can Be A Jerk
Isn't It Nice
Burn
Rush To Relax

Feast Of Wire

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