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Earth (Black Sabbath)

The Legendary Lost Tapes 1969

    Before they became Black Sabbath, the band were known as Earth - a blues-driven powerhouse already making a name for themselves in the mid-60s. This new release presents rare early recordings from that era, remastered from long-lost tapes and acetates. Featuring previously unheard tracks, demos, and alternative takes, the collection captures Earth’s evolution as they pushed toward the heavy metal sound that would soon change rock music forever.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Blue Suede Shoes
    2. Evenin’
    3. Wee Wee Baby
    4. “Untitled”
    5. Free Man
    6. Song For Jim (Guitar Version)
    7. Song For Jim (Flute Version)
    8. Wicked World
    9. Warning

    Young Fathers

    White Men Are Black Men Too (10th Anniversary Edition) - Black Friday 2025 Edition

      THIS IS A BLACK FRIDAY 2025 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON FRIDAY NOVEMBER 28th FROM 10AM ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

      IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING COPIES THEY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT 8AM ON SATURDAY NOVEMBER 29th).

      Released for the first time on double LP alongside a brand new dub mix of the album from the band on the second disc, pressed on special effect ‘white line on black’ vinyl and housed in a gatefold sleeve with brand new alternative artwork including a taped hidden message.

      TRACK LISTING

      1. Still Running
      2. Shame
      3. Feasting
      4. 27
      5. Rain Or Shine
      6. Sirens
      7. Old Rock N Roll
      8. Nest
      9. Liberated
      10. John Doe
      11. Dare Me
      12. Get Started
      13. 37 Dub
      14. Various Big Cats Dub
      15. Jesus Demon Dub
      16. I Heard You Call Dub
      17. Congo Square Dub
      18. Real Milk Not Nestlé Formula Dub
      19. Jane Dub
      20. How Can We Be Free Dub
      21. Devil Boots Dub
      22. Shameless Dub
      23. Spin The Bottle Dub
      24. It’s All Over Dub

      Big Head Todd And The Monsters

      Sister Sweetly - Black Friday 2025 Edition

        THIS IS A BLACK FRIDAY 2025 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON FRIDAY NOVEMBER 28th FROM 10AM ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVED BASIS, LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

        IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING COPIES THEY WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE ONLINE AT 8AM ON SATURDAY NOVEMBER 29th).

        Led by singer/guitarist/songwriter Todd Park Mohr, Big Head Todd and The Monsters have been mainstays of the jam band scene for 35 years, bringing their easygoing blend of blues, funk, and rock to stages across the country (and are touring right now!). So, you’d think 'Sister Sweetly', the biggest album of their long and illustrious career, would have made it to wax a long time ago. We mean, like a LONG time ago. After all, this 1993 release went platinum, spawned three hit singles in 'Bittersweet', 'Broken Hearted Savior', and 'Circle', and stayed on the charts for over a year! But, go figure, it hasn’t…so finally we at Real Gone have hooked up with the band to put this ‘90s classic on vinyl. Sea blue vinyl, to be exact, remastered for the format with an insert with lyrics to boot. Limited to 3000 copies!

        TRACK LISTING

        1. Broken Hearted Savior
        2. Sister Sweetly
        3. Turn The Light Out
        4. Tomorrow Never Comes
        5. It’s Alright
        6. Groove Thing
        7. Soul For Every Cowboy
        8. Ellis Island
        9. Bittersweet
        10. Circle
        11. Brother John

        Icona Pop

        I Love It (feat. Charli XCX) - Black Friday 2025 Edition

          THIS IS A BLACK FRIDAY 2025 EXCLUSIVE.

          Celebrate the global success of Icona Pop’s hit single 'I Love It' (feat. Charli XCX) with the original track and a journey through its standout remixes for RSD Black Friday, including Tiësto’s high-energy remix and Cobra Starship’s electric take on the hit. Ranked among the best songs of the 2010s by Stereogum (#117) and Pitchfork (#197), I Love It became a cultural phenomenon and instantly recognizable, charting across multiple Billboard charts, earning worldwide certifications, and surpassing 1 billion streams. On Glow In The Dark Vinyl.

          TRACK LISTING

          1. I Love It (feat. Charli XCX)
          2. I Love It (feat. Charli XCX) - Tiësto Remix
          3. I Love It (feat. Charli XCX) - Cobra Starship Remix; Radio Edit
          4. I Love It (feat. Charli XCX) - Steven Redant 90s Bitch Club Mix
          5. I Love It (feat. Charli XCX) - Wayne G & LFB Remix [Radio Edit]
          6. I Love It (feat. Charli XCX) - I Don’t Care 2022 Re-Edit
          7. I Love It (feat. Charli XCX) - Nari & Milani Remix
          8. I Love It (feat. Charli XCX) - Style Of Eye Remix
          9. I Love It (feat. Charli XCX) - Sazon Booya Moombahton Remix
          10. I Love It (feat. Charli XCX) - The Sick Individuals Club Edit

          Animal Collective

          Love On The Big Screen / Buddies On The Blackboard

            “Love On the Big Screen” and “Buddies On the Blackboard” were produced by Avey Tare and Adam McDaniel, engineered and mixed by McDaniel at his Drop of Sun Studios in Asheville, North Carolina, and mastered by Dave Cooley.

            TRACK LISTING

            Love On The Big Screen
            Buddies On The Blackboard

            Lisa MacKinney

            Dressed In Black : The Shangri-Las And Their Recorded Legacy

              Sisters Mary and Betty Weiss, together with twins Mary Ann and Marguerite Ganser, were schoolgirls when they formed the Shangri- Las in 1963, and had a meteoric rise to fame with songs like 'Leader of the Pack' and 'Remember (Walking in the Sand).' Their career was cut short for reasons largely beyond their control, derailed by the machinations of Mafia-linked record executives, and heartbreak and tragedy followed. Historian Lisa MacKinney marshals an impressive array of new evidence to tell the Shangri-Las' story, dispelling many myths and long-standing mysteries along the way. Equally importantly, Dressed in Black radically rewrites the accepted narrative of the Shangri-Las' place in rock history. As young women, they were permitted little agency within a male-dominated industry that viewed teenagers as fodder to be manipulated and exploited by producers, songwriters, and label owners. This has long served as an excuse for critics to deny the musical input of the group members, to trivialize the Shangri-Las as a 'girl group,' and to assign their work a lesser rank in the canon of 'authentic' rock and roll. MacKinney's achievement here is to foreground the Shangri-Las' considerable abilities, and establish the centrality of their performance of their songs to the group's underappreciated artistic achievement. This is not to deny the critical role in the group's success of the legendary writer/producer George 'Shadow' Morton, but MacKinney's clear-sighted account reveals Morton as part of a complex ecosystem of musical relationships. He crafted highly emotional material specifically for the Shangri-Las because he knew they had the skills to make his mini-operas both believable and enthralling. The group members channeled personal anguish into their extraordinary performances, which are central to the songs' impact-no less so than for such classic singers as Ella Fitzgerald and Elvis Presley, who also relied on producers and songwriters for their material. The Shangri-Las' impassioned delivery elicited a massive response from their audience of fellow teenagers at the time and has continued to connect profoundly with audiences ever since. MacKinney backs up these arguments with in-depth analysis of key recordings, and makes a powerful case that their achievements warrant a far more prominent place for the Shangri-Las in the history of popular music.

              El Michels Affair & Black Thought

              Glorious Game (Instrumentals)

                The Instrumental version of the underground classic El Michels Affair & Black Thought collaborative album Glorious Game.

                When Leon Michels and El Michels Affair released their fi­rst record, Sounding Out The City, in 2005, it was hard to guess what was next for Michels and his then-introduced, now-patented “cinematic soul” sound. Now, four EMA studio albums and scores of tribute and remix projects later—all while producing for some of the biggest names in the industry—Michels has trademarked his sound, with each project taking audiences somewhere new and pushing the boundaries of what he is known for. The man is a river, not a lake and this time he takes his golden touch into the realm of hip-hop laying down a musical bed for one of the greatest to ever rhyme into a microphone: Black Thought of The Roots crew.

                Releasing on Big Crown Records, the LP is called Glorious Game and it is a remarkable debut partnership in more ways than one. Michels provides his bottom-heavy, soul-tinged production for Black Thought who gives us some of the more personal and transparent verses we've ever heard from him. Michels and Black Thought have been in each other's orbit for a while now. The two ­first met in the 2000s when Thought was fi­rst getting familiar with the contemporary soul scene. "Out of that whole world, Menahan Street Band was probably my favorite," recalling the funk and soul group Michels was a founding member of back in 2007. Fast forward a few years and musicians from that collective Dave Guy on trumpet and Ian Hendrickson-Smith on sax —are now full time players with The Roots. This connection eventually led Leon and Thought to doing a few fundraising events around NYC and Philly together. "Before long, Black Thought was coming around the studio and

                would jam with us from time to time," Michels explains. "Then, fast forward to 2020 and COVID lockdowns, he just hit me up out of the blue, wanting me to send him stuff to write to. We both were looking to stay busy."

                Being that Black Thought is the co-founder and emcee for, hands down, the best live-band group in hip-hop. Michels took a decidedly different approach to this project and instead of sending recorded tracks of live compositions, he pulled out the sampler and sampled himself and some records from his collection. "I'm a big fan of soul music," as if Michels has to remind us. "And part of hip-hop's appeal to me has always been the sample-based production" For Glorious Game, Michels would make wholly composed and recorded soul

                songs in his studio, sample himself, then chop and/or loop up his sounds and create instrumentals for Black Thought. On some tracks he took a more traditional hip-hop approach, starting from samples of other people’s music but then adding live instrumentation on top. But for the most part, it's him reinterpreting his own compositions into something new. The result is an organic feel of loop-based tracks that breathe and fluctuate enough for Black Thought to flex on.

                TRACK LISTING

                Side A
                Grateful (Instrumental)
                Glorious Game (Instrumental)
                I’m Still Somehow (Instrumental)
                Hollow Way (Instrumental)
                Protocol (Instrumental)
                The Weather (Instrumental)

                Side B
                That Girl (Instrumental)
                I Would Never (Instrumental)
                Alone (Instrumental)
                Miracle (Instrumental)
                Glorious Game (Reprise) (Instrumental)
                Alter Ego Feat. Brainstory (Instrumental)

                Big Black

                Racer X - Vinyl Reissue

                  Big Black was started by Steve Albini in 1982 while he was attending Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Lungs, the first Big Black release was recorded by Steve on a borrowed 4-track. He played everything on the EP himself - except the sax bleating courtesy of pal John Bohnen and the drums courtesy of Roland. Soon after, Steve recruited Jeff Pezzati (Naked Raygun) on bass, and Santiago Durango (also Naked Raygun) joined them on guitar. In 1983, together with live drummer Pat Byrne, they recorded the Bulldozer EP. By 1984, the band had done some touring and recorded the Racer X EP and the start of the Il Duce 7". After that, Jeff returned to Naked Raygun and was replaced by Dave Riley. In 1985, Big Black recorded their first full-length, Atomizer, as well as finishing the Il Duce 7". Atomizer was released in 1986 along with the release of the Hammer Party compilation CD. In 1987, the Headache EP and Heartbeat 7" were released. That same year, the band recorded and released the 7" of The Model/He's A Whore as well as their second full-length album, Songs About Fucking. They toured extensively (for Big Black). And they broke up.

                  TRACK LISTING

                  1. Racer X
                  2. Shotgun
                  3. The Ugly American
                  4. Deep Six
                  5. Sleep!
                  6. The Big Payback

                  Big Black

                  Songs About Fucking - 2022 Repress

                    Vinyl now remastered By Steve Albini And Bob Weston.

                    The Players: Dave Riley - Bass, Santiago Durango - Guitar, Vocals, Steve Albini - Vocals, Guitar, Roland Drum Machine - itself.

                    Big Black was started by Steve Albini in 1982 while he was attending Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Lungs, the first Big Black release was recorded by Steve on a borrowed 4-track. He played everything on the EP himself - except the sax bleating courtesy of pal John Bohnen and the drums courtesy of Roland. Soon after, Steve recruited Jeff Pezzati (Naked Raygun) on bass, and Santiago Durango (also Naked Raygun) joined them on guitar. In 1983, together with live drummer Pat Byrne, they recorded the Bulldozer EP. By 1984, the band had done some touring and recorded the Racer X EP and the start of the Il Duce 7”. After that, Jeff returned to Naked Raygun and was replaced by Dave Riley. In 1985, Big Black recorded their first full-length, Atomizer, as well as finishing the Il Duce 7”. Atomizer was released in 1986 along with the release of the Hammer Party compilation CD. In 1987, the Headache EP and Heartbeat 7” were released. That same year, the band recorded and released the 7” of The Model/He’s A Whore as well as their second full-length album, Songs About Fucking. They toured extensively (for Big Black). And they broke up. 

                    TRACK LISTING

                    Side A:
                    The Power Of Independent Trucking
                    The Model
                    Bad Penny
                    L. Dopa
                    Precious Thing
                    Columbian Necktie
                    Side B:
                    Kitty Empire
                    Ergot
                    Kasimir S. Pulaski Day
                    Fish Fry
                    Pavement Saw
                    Tiny, King Of The Jews
                    Bombastic Intro

                    El Michels Affair & Black Thought

                    Glorious Game

                      When Leon Michels and El Michels Affair released their fi­rst record, Sounding Out The City, in 2005, it was hard to guess what was next for Michels and his then-introduced, now-patented “cinematic soul” sound. Now, four EMA studio albums and scores of tribute and remix projects later all while producing for some of the biggest names in the industry Michels has trademarked his sound, with each project taking audiences somewhere new and pushing the boundaries of what he is known for. The man is a river, not a lake and this time he takes his golden touch into the realm of hip-hop laying down a musical bed for one of the greatest to ever rhyme into a microphone: Black Thought of The Roots crew.

                      Releasing on Big Crown Records, the LP is called Glorious Game and it is a remarkable debut partnership in more ways than one. Michels provides his bottom-heavy, soul-tinged production for Black Thought who gives us some of the more personal and transparent verses we've ever heard from him. Michels and Black Thought have been in each other's orbit for a while now. The two fi­rst met in the 2000s when Thought was fi­rst getting familiar with the contemporary soul scene. "Out of that whole world, Menahan Street Band was probably my favorite," recalling the funk and soul group Michels was a founding member of back in 2007. Fast forward a few years and musicians from that collective Dave Guy on trumpet and Ian Hendrickson-Smith on sax are now full time players with The Roots. This connection eventually led Leon and Thought to doing a few fundraising events around NYC and Philly together. "Before long, Black Thought was coming around the studio and would jam with us from time to time," Michels explains. "Then, fast forward to 2020 and COVID lockdowns, he just hit me up out of the blue, wanting me to send him stuff to write to. We both were looking to stay busy."

                      Being that Black Thought is the co-founder and emcee for, hands down, the best live-band group in hip-hop. Michels took a decidedly different approach to this project and instead of sending recorded tracks of live compositions, he pulled out the sampler and sampled himself and some records from his collection. "I'm a big fan of soul music," as if Michels has to remind us. "And part of hip-hop's appeal to me has always been the sample-based production".

                      For Glorious Game, Michels would make wholly composed and recorded soul songs in his studio, sample himself, then chop and/or loop up his sounds and create instrumentals for Black Thought. On some tracks he took a more traditional hip-hop approach, starting from samples of other people’s music but then adding live instrumentation on top. But for the most part, it's him reinterpreting his own compositions into something new.

                      The result is an organic feel of loop-based tracks that breathe and fluctuate enough for Black Thought to ‑ex on. "What I write about is determined by the equation of the producer's energy and my energy," Black Thought says. "It's about where we meet." So armed with Michels sampled and re-sampled soul cinematics, Black Thought rhymes through personal memories and distinctive.

                      STAFF COMMENTS

                      Barry says: With Michels laying down scattered soul-infused hip-hop beats, and the legendary Black Thought on vocal duties, this was always going to be a superb outing, but it's the ease with which these talented producers work together that is really refreshing. Forging an entirely new sound through their respective, distinctive voices, 'Glorous Game' is even more of a triumph than expected. Brilliant.

                      TRACK LISTING

                      Side A
                      1. Grateful
                      2. Glorious Game Feat Kirby
                      3. I’m Still Somehow
                      4. Hollow Way
                      5. Protocol (feat. Son Little)
                      6. The Weather
                      Side B
                      7. That Girl
                      8. I Would Never
                      9. Alone
                      10. Miracle
                      11. Glorious Game (Reprise)
                      12. Alter Ego (feat. Brainstory)

                      El Michels Affair & Black Thought

                      Glorious Game / Grateful

                        El Michels Affair & Black Thought treat us to an unstoppable new 45. Pulling two standout tunes from their forthcoming Glorious Game record. The A side features the album's title track "Glorious Game", a bouncy, in the pocket tune that lands somewhere between G Funk and Outkast's Spottieottiedopealicious. Black Thought raps about trials of fame and respect but also being the best version of oneself while balanced by patience. KIRBY jumps in on the chorus with her distinct voice and luscious melodies putting the song comfortably at home in the speakers of a Cadillac. The B Side "Grateful" is a thick, low-end banger with a haunting flute line, and a sample of Shabba Ranks "Ting-A-Ling" that sends the message that class is in session. Black Thought's verses lay heavy in the way we've come to love: cadences that walk a line between street teacher and poet, explanation and experience. He pays homage to what's come before him and how it's made him with lines like "I guess the moral of the story is, any sip you pour me is, a toast to the warriors who bit the dust before me, kid." Die hard fans may also recognize the instrumental from the late great Virgil Abloh's Louis Vuitton 2022 Fashion Show video.

                        STAFF COMMENTS

                        Matt says: Off the back the Danger Mouse project (Black Thought's first official collaboration and #2 in our albums of 2022), the Roots rapper must have caught the bug for teamwork, as here he joins with new funk / jazz outfit El Michels Affair for a dynamite hip-hop cut which is joyously the first single off a new album planned by the two acts in question.

                        TRACK LISTING

                        Glorious Game
                        Grateful

                        First Aid Kit

                        The Big Black And The Blue (Love Record Stores Edition)

                          Love Record Stores Edition available from 9am on Saturday June 20th.
                          Limited to one per person.


                          Sea blue vinyl.

                          Hits

                          Loose Cannons / Big Black Car

                            Agitated's favourite album that they didn’t release in 2014 was the amazing bulldozer of australian rock and roll driven by HITS. "Hikikomori" was released in Australia and France, Agitated asked to do a single, a proper old fashioned 7" single. HITS obliged, and the track "Loose Cannons" (from the album) was chosen as the a-side, with the unreleased studio version of Big Black Car.

                            Both songs recorded with Radio Birdman /New Christs' Rob Younger at the desk. Loose Cannons kicks out your speaker dust with a sound that can only be from Australia, loud guitars, riffs a-plenty, hi energy rock and roll with killer vocals. and then theres "big black cars" on the flip, a previously released live version blew peoples ear offs, this studio version is even more proof that rock and roll action from Australia is superior to all!

                            Young Fathers

                            White Men Are Black Men Too

                            When everything is post-post-post-post something older and better where do the exceptions go? When the sci-fi 20’s ‘Urban’ might as well be the atomic 50’s ‘Race’, when R&B has no blues and hiphop is a boom bip with a shorty, a hoe, it’s off to the street corner we go… where does a group like Young Fathers, who ‘pick'n'mix from the popular music sweety shop and fly no flags and swear allegiance to no country’ (© - 100 interviews with the group in 2014) - where do they go?

                            They have to go to the place where Beck makes a sandwich with The Beach Boys and Captain Beefheart, where Faust and The Fall tango. In Rock and Pop you are allowed to pretty much be yourself. If you are a blue and green eyed boy from Brixton with the sallowest of white skin you can become the epitome of crystalised soul, itself. It swings both ways. So… Young Fathers are breaking out of the ghetto. Fuck these constrictive selling boxes.

                            For the purposes of this mission, this album, this 'White Men Are Black Men Too', is rock and pop. And hip hop, too No, you don’t box in the R&B Hits 2003 generation that easily. This sticker is only for the business. The listeners can decide for themselves.

                            The sounds are closer on this album, closer to your ears. It sounds as if you are in the room during the recording, possibly experiencing a little existential trauma, but not enough that you don’t notice an earworm hook when you hear one. These hooks, they stay with you. ‘Is that what they mean by pop’? you ask yourself. Could be, Madonna, could be. There are less words than before. Why, for fuck’s sake? Where is the hip hop? It slides in, like a reverse version, a negative, of the hip hop blueprint of eight verses and a sweet, female wail of a hook (while comedy rapper number 6 mutters ‘uh huh, uh huh’, you know, keeping it real). But YFs lob raps into songs that morph into sung verses then back into the tune, with no respect, none! for the law.

                            These are grown men, battle fit and in their prime. There are no celebrations of dole queue theatre, no fake politics - there’s no need. YFs are right there in the middle of the question: what is your ID? Why claim to speak for a dispossessed white or black class or group or generation? When you can only ever speak for yourself.

                            When they chant ‘nigger nigger nigger’ the group are singing their enemy’s song (and you can all sing along) - it’s not a war cry, it’s the off switch, the left hand turn in the ignition, the pop-hiss of deflation. No more war, motherfucker. The tension is sexual, tuneful, it’s only fun about to kick off.



                            TRACK LISTING

                            Still Running
                            Shame
                            Feasting
                            27
                            Rain Or Shine
                            Sirens
                            Old Rock N Roll
                            Nest
                            Liberated
                            John Doe
                            Dare Me
                            Get Started

                            A1. Still Running
                            A2. Shame
                            A3. Feasting
                            A4. 27
                            A5. Rain Or Shine
                            A6. Sirens

                            B1. Old Rock N Roll
                            B2. Nest
                            B3. Liberated
                            B4. John Doe
                            B5. Dare Me
                            B6. Get Started

                            First Aid Kit

                            The Big Black & The Blue

                            Prodigious Swedish teenagers Klara (16) and Johanna Söderberg (19), AKA First Aid Kit, have been gathering fans apace throughout 2009 since the release of their “Drunken Trees” EP in February.
                            Spending their formative years drinking from the fountain of American classics – everything from Buffy Sainte-Marie, to the likes of Conor Oberst – it shaped their way with song writing, arrangements and even the use of a second language. Audiences have been falling at their feet, enraptured by their pure, shimmering voices in harmony. Until now they have been rightfully praised for their astonishing cover versions, such as their infamous YouTube phenomenon of Fleet Foxes’ “Tiger Mountain Peasant Song”, but First Aid Kit are now unveiling some remarkable songs of their own. The first flourishes can be heard on this masterly debut album, built around the sweeping majesty and almost telekinetic, intricate weaving of their voices. Sounding like the dreamy and spectral nieces of the Indigo Girls or Michelle Shocked coming in from the campfire to settle at the Stockholm kitchen table, the Söderberg’s distil all of their collective influences and make them their own.

                            TRACK LISTING

                            01. In The Morning
                            02. Hard Believer
                            03. Sailor Song
                            04. Waltz For Richard
                            05. Heavy Storm
                            06. Ghost Town
                            07. Josefin
                            08. A Window Opens
                            09. Winter Is All Over You
                            10. I Met Up With The King
                            11. Wills Of The River


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