A live performance of the "Ragged Glory" album, recorded at a club in Toronto in 2023

“Why do these old songs live so vividly now? They do to me.”

Neil Young with Crazy Horse in all their “Ragged Glory”.

Neil & The Horse have played together for over 50 years and the performances of these songs is a true highlight of that long relationship.

9 songs over 2LPs with the original song titles replaced with selected lyrics. (“Farmer John”, being a cover, retains its original title.)

The album was recorded in 2023, with this line-up:

Billy Talbot – Bass, vocal
Ralph Molina – Drums, vocal
Micah Nelson – Guitar, vocal, piano
Nils Lofgren – Guitar, vocal, piano
Neil Young – Guitar, vocal, harmonica

Neil: “In the spirit it’s offered…made this for the Horse lovers. I can’t stop it. The horse is runnin’. What a ride we have. I don’t want to mess with the vibe. I am so happy to have this to share.”

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Another live document from one of the most storied and legendary figures in the music business. Fu##kin Up shows Young and the band in fine form, with captivating performances (obviously) and a stylistic fluidity that such a well-heeled collaboration fosters.

TRACK LISTING

1. City Life
2. Feels Like A Railroad (River Of Pride)
3. Heart Of Steel
4. Broken Circle
5. Valley Of Hearts
6. Farmer John
7. Walkin' In My Place (Road Of Tears)
8. To Follow One's Own Dream
9. Chance On Love

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This is a live performance of the "Ragged Glory" album, recorded at a club in Toronto in 2023

Until now, Art Feynman the eccentric alter ego of accomplished producer Luke Temple has strictly been a solo act, a way for the artist to explore surprising sonic landscapes without the burdens of identity. Slightly twisted takes on Kosmische musik, worldbeat, and art pop can all be found scattered across the Art Feynman discography, but with his new album Be Good The Crazy Boys, Feynman fully immerses himself into pools of collective madness.

Unlike his first two albums, Crazy Boys was recorded live in the studio with a full band, a first for Feynman, capturing a spirit of restless anxiety that recalls the most frenetic work by Talking Heads, or Oingo Boingo at their darkest. Despite these callbacks, the collection remains firmly rooted in modern concerns, with songs about fearing the end of the world and struggling with FOMO narratives that would be relatable if they didn’t sound so completely unhinged.

With Be Good The Crazy Boys, Art Feynman proves to be more than just a character. He represents the part of the modern collective consciousness that’s struggling to maintain balance in a toxic, chaotic world. In less skilled hands, that concept could result in a very somber listen. Fortunately, when Art Feynman gets his hands on the chaos of the modern age, it simply makes you want to dance.

TRACK LISTING

01. Early Signs Of Rhythm
02. In CD
03. Therapy At 3pm
04. All I Can Do
05. He Dances Light
06. Passed Over
07. Chasing My Life
08. Desperately Free
09. I Do

There are certain albums in the extensive Neil Young Archives that take on a unique life of their own. Maybe it's their rarity, or a galvanizing reputation that sets them apart. One of the most anticipated releases in this ongoing musical march is the live collection ODEON BUDOKAN, recorded with Crazy Horse, scheduled for September 1st, release via Reprise Records, Neil Young's home label for over 50 years.

Originally recorded in 1976 almost a world apart at two overseas venues: Hammersmith Odeon in London and Nippon Budokan Hall In Tokyo. The ten-track album includes an electrifying range of songs, from well-known classics to true surprises. Tracks on Side 1 were recorded in London March 31, 1976, and feature Neil Young's solo set on guitar and piano from the first half of the concert. Side 2 tracks were recorded two weeks earlier on March 11, 1976, with Young and Crazy Horse at an early electric apex.

This is the first official vinyl release of the previously unissued ODEON BUDOKAN. It has only been available on Compact Disc as part of Neil Young's ARCHIVES VOLUME II box set.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
01 The Old Laughing Lady
02 After The Gold Rush
03 Too Far Gone
04 Old Man
05 Stringman
Side B
01 Don't Cry No Tears
02 Cowgirl In The Sand
03 Lotta Love
04 Drive Back
05 Cortez The Killer 

A pianist, songwriter, producer, and vocalist from New York he is a mystical figure for record collectors, one of those artists where if you found an old dusty record with Don's name on it, you'd buy it on sight. He is best known for his 1982 magnum-opus, the eponymous album that featured the all-time classics 'Heart's Desire' and 'Holding You, Loving You'. He also collaborated with other greats such as Bernard Wright, Weldon Irvine, Roy Ayers, and Lenny White.

We couldn't believe it when Chicago DJ/ digger/ producer, Marc Davis, told us there was a vault of unreleased Don Blackman material. Marc had reached out to Don's children, Irene and Kyle, in 2019, building a relationship with Kyle with whom he shared a musical affinity. To Marc's delight, Kyle confirmed that there was indeed a treasure trove. As Kyle described it, "In 2013, shortly after my dad's passing, my sister and I collected all of his possessions and put them in a storage unit. I came across forty years' worth of music history. Hundreds of cassettes, CDs, Disks, reel- to- reels, paperwork, photos and VHS tapes. It took about ten years to organise and digitise everything. All of this magic was almost thrown away in the trash, never to be seen, never to be heard forever."

Two tracks were selected, 'Your Love Makes Me Crazy' and 'Say You'll Be Mine'. 'Your Love Makes Me Crazy' is as funky as it gets, with infectiously catchy vocal hooks, and a serious jam, whereas 'Say You'll Be Mine' is a classy, soulful boogie, instrumental number, that shows off Don's masterful piano playing. Both tracks warrant full attention and capture a master at work. He was also a one-man show when it came to production, playing all of the instruments when recording these tunes in his home studio in South Jamaica, Queens.

On first hearing the tracks, Marc knew he wanted to extend the songs and enlisted fellow Chicago legend, Tone B. Nimble, to work on the project with him. Their extension/ edit of the songs was conducted in a way that was respectful and true to how the tracks were originally recorded by Don. They extended and resequenced the groovy parts of the songs organically for the DJs and dancers.

The final words on this release are best coming from Kyle, "We are very excited and thrilled to continue to share all of this unreleased magic with the world. We hope that this music will help, heal, and inspire a new generation of artists to never give up, and to strive for what their hearts desire."

TRACK LISTING

Say You'll Be Mine
Your Love Makes Me Crazy

This expanded edition of the third album by Anna of the North includes 3 new tracks, ‘Swirl’, ‘Try My Best’, and ‘Ridin’ which do not feature on the original digital album. Also includes the singles ‘Meteorite’ feat. Gus Dapperton, and ‘I Do You’.

TRACK LISTING

SIDE A
1. Bird Sing
2. I Do You
3. Nobody
4. Listen
5. Living Life Right
6. Red Light
7. No Good Without U

SIDE B
1. Dandelion
2. Meteorite
3. 60 Seconds
4. Let Go
5. Swirl
6. Ridin
7. Try My Best

The Choctaw, Assiniboine, and Texan poet, journalist, visual artist, American Indian Movement activist, and musician Roxy Gordon (First Coyote Boy) (1945–2000) was above all a storyteller, known primarily as a writer of inimitable style and unvarnished candor, whose wide-ranging work encompassed poetry, short fiction, essays, memoirs, journalism, and criticism. Over the course of his career he recorded six albums, wrote six books, and published hundreds of shorter texts in outlets ranging from Rolling Stone and The Village Voice to the Coleman Chronicle and Democrat-Voice, in addition to founding and operating, with his wife Judy Gordon, Wowapi Press and the underground country music journal Picking Up the Tempo. Along the way he cultivated close friendships with fellow Texan songwriters such as Lubbockites Terry Allen, Butch Hancock, and Tommy X. Hancock, as well as Ray Wylie Hubbard, Billy Joe Shaver, and, most famously, Townes Van Zandt, whom he called his brother. Although his work covered a vast array of topics exploring strata personal, local, global, and cosmic alike, Gordon’s primary subject as a writer, musician, and visual artist was always American Indian culture, specifically the ways it collided and coexisted with European American culture in the South and West and within the context of his own life and braided identity.

The ten songs on Crazy Horse Never Died, his first officially released and distributed album, were recorded in Dallas in 1988. “Songs” is perhaps an imprecise taxonomy for what Roxy captured on this and his other albums, all of which remain out of print or were released in instantly obscure limited editions of homebrew cassettes and CD-R’s. (Paradise of Bachelors plans to reissue remastered, expanded editions of his catalog; Crazy Horse is the first.) He only occasionally attempted to sing, and his musical recordings are primarily corollaries of, and vehicles for, his poems. His sharp West Texan drawl, tinged by formative years of reservation living in Montana and unmistakable once you hear it high, lonesome, flat, and cold-blooded as a bare rusty blade instead patiently unfurls in skewed sheets of anecdotal verse and discursive narrative rants. His songs are essentially recitations over backing tracks of fingerpicked guitars, rubbery washtub bass, and buzzing, oscillating keyboards. On the stark yellow and red jacket of Crazy Horse, which he designed himself, Gordon describes these recordings as innately ambivalent in terms of form, content, and identity: These are poems and/or songs about the American West, white and Indian.

Crazy Horse Never Died comprises songs that span the personal and political arcs of his writing practice and the poles of his native and white ancestries. His introduction to the almost-title track in the strikingly illustrated poetry chapbook supplement to the album (included in the LP edition) draws explicit parallels between the oppression and displacement of Palestinians by Zionists and the similar treatment of Native Americans by Europeans, justifying the historical necessity of resistance to racist imperialism through terrorism.

In his 1984 essay “Breeds,” from the fine collection of the same name, he concludes with a note of hope:

The voices of these continents are not stilled because, for a few centuries, this land is overrun by human beings who cannot hear. Over years of cultural and racial genocide, over centuries of lies and misdirection, That Which Is still calls . . . and the old American blood in us listens.

Roxy’s friend and fellow poet-turned-musician Leonard Cohen had kind words for Breeds, writing: “It is strong. The word goes out. Can a change come on dove’s feet?” Bestir that old American blood and listen.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Crazy Horse Is Alive
A2. Junked Cars
A3. Living Life As A Living Target
A4. Flying Into Ann Arbor (Holding)
A5. I Used To Know An Assiniboine Girl
B1. The Hanging Of Black Jack Ketchum
B2. The Western Edge
B3. An Open Letter To Illegal Aliens
B4. The Texas Indian
B5. Why Do I Miss Someone?

The first of a three-volume set of mind blowing LPs compiling the finest of the 60’s and 70’s output from the most legendary Argentinian label of all time: Music Hall. And what a start this is! An amazing selection of soon to be rediscovered hits ranging from pure garage madness to exotica, soul, instrumentals, 60’s beat or hard rock.

The first of a three-volume set of mind blowing LPs compiling the finest of the 60’s and 70’s output from the most legendary Argentinian label of all time: Music Hall. And what a start this is! An amazing selection of soon to be rediscovered hits ranging from pure garage madness to exotica, soul, instrumentals, 60’s beat or hard rock.

The first of a three-volume set of mind blowing LPs compiling the finest of the 60’s and 70’s output from the most legendary Argentinian label of all time: Music Hall. And what a start this is! An amazing selection of soon to be rediscovered hits ranging from pure garage madness to exotica, soul, instrumentals, 60’s beat or hard rock.

18th November sees the release of a brand new album from Neil Young with Crazy Horse entitled ‘World Record’. It is the follow-up to last year’s acclaimed ‘Barn’ record.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: It's impossible to overstate the importance Neil Young has had on the world of music, and here he returns with possibly his most famed collaborator, Crazy Horse for another impeccably put-together selection of well written melodies and skilful musicianship.

TRACK LISTING

1. Love Earth
2. Overhead
3. I Walk With You (Earth Ringtone)
4. This Old Planet (Changing Days)
5. The World (Is In Trouble Now)
6. Break The Chain
7. The Long Day Before
8. Walkin’ On The Road (To The Future)
9. The Wonder Won’t Wait
10. Chevrolet
11. This Old Planet (Reprise)

The gift that keeps on giving, Purple Disco Machines' 'Exotica (Deluxe Album)' is being treated to some epic remixes of your favourite songs now available on vinyl.

On show here, ‘Opposite of Crazy’ gets a juicy rework by The Emperor Machine and the one and only Art Of Tones takes on ‘Loneliness’ in trademark style.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Opposite Of Crazy - Feat. Bloom Twins - The Emperor Machine Remix
B1. Loneliness - Feat. Francesa Lombardo - Art Of Tones Remix

Neil Young announces the release of his near-mythical 2001 studio album, Toast. Recorded at Toast Studios in San Francisco around the turn of the millennium, Toast features Young’s legendary musical collaborators Crazy Horse at a ragged and thundering apex.

For the past two decades, Toast has been whispered about in collectors’ circles in hushed tones, as Young has dropped pieces of information about it here and there, especially as it contains three never-before-released songs.

Last year, in his virtual daily newspaper, The Times Contrarian, Young wrote about the album in-depth. “The music of Toast is about a relationship,” he said. “There is a time in many relationships that go bad, a time long before the breakup, where it dawns on one of the people, maybe both, that it's over. This was that time.”

Aptly, Toast is heavy and distressed, brimming with electrifying tension. Even its sweet-sounding opening track, “Quit,” features the refrain, “Don’t say you love me.” “Standing In The Light of Love” and “Goin’ Home” let the Horse off the tether in fields of overdriven guitar; an out-of-work logger grapples with his faith on the breakneck “Timberline;” and on “Gateway of Love,” Young dreams of a less painful future over a hypnotizing 10 minutes, leading into the somber, brokedown “How Ya Doin’?” The songwriter sums up the album best during its shadowy finale “Boom Boom Boom”: “All I got is a broken heart, and I don’t try to hide it when I play my guitar.”

TRACK LISTING

01 Quit
02 Standing In The Light Of Love
03 Goin’ Home
04 Timberline
05 Gateway Of Love
06 How Ya Doin’?
07 Boom Boom Boom

"During lockdown we delved deep into the Crazy P vaults to see what might be lurking in there. Plenty of buried treasure to be found, but these 2 little beauties grabbed our attention and seemed to fit well together. The lead track, If Life Could Be This Way, was a jam we had between the 3 of us, the vocal's a bit of a one take wonder from Dani, and we didn't touch it! It featured in our set and was the title of our last tour Nov 2021".

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: Most Mancs with an ear to the streams will be aware of this highly adorable record dropping this week. Already championed by James Holroyd, Ron Basejam and Neil Diablo - one of the most poignant, heart-fluttering, down-right-beautiful songs this shining gemstone of a band have ever created.

TRACK LISTING

A: If Life Could Be This Way
B: How Could I Know?

Neil Young’s 41st album and his 7th project since lockdown began. It was recorded with his longtime backing band Crazy Horse in ‘a restored off-grd 19th-century barn high up in the Rockies’.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: There are few more legendary pairings in the musical world than Neil Young & Crazy Horse (not *that* Krazy Horse of Manchester open mic fame), and their latest has all of the appeal of Young's legendarily vast discography, showing that there really is no end to his musical talents. Another wonderfully written LP from Young & co.

TRACK LISTING

01 Song Of The Seasons
02 Heading West
03 Change Ain’t Never Gonna Come
04 Canerican
05 Shape Of You
06 They Might Be Lost
07 Today’s People
08 Tumblin’ Through The Years
09 Welcome Back
10 Don’t Forget Love

First vinyl pressing of this ultra rare & killer, French post-punk tape (talking £200 rare here :) ) from 1985, on the essential Camisole label.

Limited and remastered from original tapes. Available for the first time on vinyl.

Insert with band history and unpublished pictures.

After the repress of their single "Eyes / Morning Rain", Camisole Records  reissue the entirity of Coldreams tape  "Crazy Night".

Recorded in 1984-1985 by a gang of young students passionate about post-punk this record represents the culmination of the band first period.

Haunted lyrics and melancholia were already the basics of their sound and from "Don't Cry" to "Crazy Night / Burning Passion" it's difficult to imagine that they were only 18 to 19 years old at that time.

"Bulbs and Bubbles" and "Turn the Button" show their pop appeal which definitely takes them apart from their contemporaries and all-around gloomy feelings infuse these six tracks which unveils another part of Coldreams history...

TRACK LISTING

A1. Coldreams - Don't Cry
A2. Coldreams - Crazy Night
A3. Coldreams - Burning Passion
B1. Coldreams - Bulbs And Bubbles
B2. Coldreams- Turn The Button
B3. Coldreams - Don't Cry (reprise)

Recorded on November 13th 1990 in Santa Cruz, CA, where the band were rehearsing for their upcoming Weld tour, Neil Young and Crazy Horse played a club show at The Catalyst which is now released here for the first time.

The show comprised three different sets along with a 12 minute encore of Cortez The Killer and all 3 sets including that encore are brought together here in over 2 hours of music.

Said to be one of the great live shows that Neil Young and Crazy Horse performed, the album includes live versions of songs from their Ragged Glory album, released just prior, along with classics from across their catalogue.

TRACK LISTING

Deluxe Box Set
4LP/2CD/DVD IN FOIL NUMBERED BOX
4LP:
Side A:
01 Country Home
02 Surfer Joe And Moe The Sleaze
Side B:
01 Love To Burn
02 Days That Used To Be
03 Bite The Bullet
Side C:
01 Cinnamon Girl
02 Farmer John
03 Over And Over
Side D:
01 Danger Bird
02 Don’t Cry No Tears
03 Sedan Delivery
Side E:
01 Roll Another Number For The Road
02 Fuckin’ Up
03 T-Bone
Side F:
01 Homegrown
02 Mansion On The Hill
Side G:
01 Like A Hurricane
02 Love And Only Love
Side H:
01 Cortez The Killer

2CD:
Tracklist As Vinyl Across Two CDs
CD1 Tracks 1 – 11
CD2 Tracks 12 - 19

DVD:
DVD Of The Concert

Half Japanese return with another thrilling ride into unknown charters encountering beasts, celebrities, and menaces.

Purveyors of noise and indie rock for over four decades, Half Japanese have inspired generations of fans from musicians and critics alike.

Now set to release their 19th studio album ‘Crazy Hearts’ continues with their detuned, outsider pop capturing you in the way that only Jad Fair ever can.

A philosophical psych-tinged journey, these whip-smart observations are uplifting with life-affirming sentiments (‘Wondrous Wonder’) that we are familiar with. They meld melodic classic rock riffs with heavier bass lines and darker, more twisted tones on ‘My Celebrity’ and ‘A Phantom Menace’.
Their last excursion saw Uncut praising them for their “unchanged, more ecstatic musings on love and science fiction” that continues to resonate here.

Half Japanese deliver another well-wrought album with their usual DIY ethos and art punk spirit at its core (‘Undisputed Champions’), all whilst wearing Jad’s heart firmly on its sleeve (‘Crazy Hearts’).
Recorded across various studios in Spain, France and the US, Jad Fair is accompanied by his longstanding band members John Sluggett, Giles Vincent Rieder, Mick Hobbs and Jason Willett. Mastered by Brian Pyle and mixed by Jason Willett of the band. Album includes artwork from American illustrator and cartoonist, Gary Panter and David Fair.

TRACK LISTING

1. The Beast Master
2. Wondrous Wonder
3. Dark World
4. And It Is
5. My Celebrity
6. Late At Night
7. Undisputed Champions
8. Crazy Hearts
9. As Best You Can
10. A Phantom Menace
11. A Job Well Done
12. Let It Show

Return to Greendale is the next installment in Neil Young’s Performance Series and features a concert (audio & on film) from the historic and unique 2003 tour supporting the release of the Neil Young with Crazy Horse album Greendale.

On the 2003 tour, Neil Young and Crazy Horse were joined on stage by a large cast of singers and actors to perform the story Neil Young wrote about the small town of Greendale and how a dramatic event affects the people living there. The ten songs from the powerful original album are performed in sequence, with the cast speaking the sung words - adding to the intensity of the performance.

The live album Return to Greendale is released on November 6 in several formats: Double vinyl, a 2 CD set, and a limited-edition deluxe box set that includes a Blu-ray of the full concert, a DVD of Inside Greendale (the making of the album documentary), 2 LPs and 2 CDs.

The film of the ambitious live show captures the vibrancy of Neil Young and Crazy Horse on stage in a unique multi-media experience. It seamlessly blends together the live performance, the actors portraying each song, with the story occasionally enhanced by scenes from the Greendale - The Movie.

Both the live concert film and the Inside Greendale documentary are directed by Bernard Shakey and produced by L. A. Johnson

TRACK LISTING

Side A
01 Falling From Above (Live)
02 Double E (Live)
03 Devil’s Sidewalk (Live)

Side B
04 Leave The Driving (Live)
05 Carmichael (Live)
06 Bandit (Live)

Side C
07 Grandpa’s Interview (Live)
08 Bringin’ Down Dinner (Live)

Side D
09 Sun Green (Live)
10 Be The Rain (Live)

"Colorado" is the first new Neil Young with Crazy Horse album since 2012's "Psychedelic Pill". The album will be released on October 25th and features 10 new Neil Young compositions. It includes several songs that Neil has been playing live in the past few months (eg: "Rainbow of Colors", "Green Is Blue" and "Milky Way"), and the epic 13+ minute track "She Showed Me Love".

The vinyl version of the album comes with a bonus 7" single, featuring an album outtake "Truth Kills". The 7” also includes a live, solo version of "Rainbow of Colors" from Portland, OR, on May 17, 2019 - the first time Neil ever performed this song live.

This incarnation of Crazy Horse is Neil Young on vocals, guitar, piano, harmonica and vibes, Billy Talbot on bass, Ralph Molina on drums and features the return of Nils Lofgren on guitar and piano, almost 50 years since he last appeared on a Crazy Horse album (1971). The album is produced by Neil Young and John Hanlon and was recorded in Colorado in April & May 2019.

TRACK LISTING

01 Think Of Me - By Neil Young With Crazy Horse
02 She Showed Me Love - By Neil Young With Crazy Horse
03 Olden Days - By Neil Young With Crazy Horse
04 Help Me Lose My Mind - By Neil Young With Crazy Horse
05 Green Is Blue - By Neil Young With Crazy Horse
06 Shut It Down - By Neil Young With Crazy Horse 07 Milky Way - By Neil Young With Crazy Horse
08 Eternity - By Neil Young With Crazy Horse
09 Rainbow Of Colors - By Neil Young With Crazy Horse
10 I Do - By Neil Young With Crazy Horse

Melody (vocals, synth), Casey (vocals, synth), Bill (bass), Scott (guitar) and Marcus (drums) united through a shared post-punk sensibility and began experimenting with some angular drum and guitar give-and-take, layered with duelling synth refrains.

Over this Melody and Casey worked-up their vocal harmonies through impulse, developing an interplay reminiscent of The Go Go’s at both their most serene and severe. The pairs vocals drift through each track, punctuating the profound and guiding us through each song’s uncanny terrain.

After a busy year of local shows and bouts of instinct-first songwriting, Red Channel chose a number of their most resonant songs to record with Andrew Schubert at Golden Beat. These were subsequently mixed by Eric Carlson and then mastered by John Hannon for this debut 7” EP on Upset The Rhythm entitled ‘Crazy Diamonds’.

The title track launches the listener through a stratosphere of cascading notes, swoonsome lyrical turns and tack-sharp pivots in rhythmic practice. ‘Crazy Diamonds’ is an exhilarating rush of a song, both wistful and defiant. Melody explains that it is “about the forever fluctuating reality that weaves in and out of ecstasy, loneliness, yearning and destruction. It’s about women being free from a superficial beauty, it’s about the cessation of ideals and power worship.” ‘Giver’ is a similarly sprightly yet pointedly questioning track, “alone in your room, alone with your thoughts, of sleepless shadows, but what do I get?” sing Casey and Melody in spooked unison.

‘Demons’ swirls with minimalist pop moves, a trailing backing vocal and a tumbling bass motif, whilst a dream-like quality pervades the guitar and keyboard lines. Melody then peppers the song with references to extinguished lights, evil forces, bags of sugar, floods and heaven on earth, drawing us so close that we enter the vision too. ‘Slowness’, which brings this debut EP is a close, is another triumph of illusory lyrical association and punchy gesture. In fact the band sound “caught in a fragment, non-corporeal” throughout all the four tracks. Opalescent passages freewheel into splintered eruptions, there’s a duality constantly in play, “somebody dies, somebody’s born”.

The songs collected here are manifestly catchy, conjured in cyclical patterns that are distorted by a desire that tends towards stream of consciousness. It’s this willingness to wake-up in the unreal and see each moment reflected in the mirror which really sets apart Red Channel’s first record.

TRACK LISTING

1. Crazy Diamonds
2. Giver
3. Demons
4. Slownwess

From cool instrumentals and rockabilly weirdness through to the wild, the incensed and the insensitive. New trance crazes, devil worship, all the usual stuff with screams and hollering as needed. For the esoteric-minded and the exotica-consumed, with added jungle noises, death-defying car chases, teen torment and a host of dazed and confused lunatics in tow. Rampant with scuzzy garage riffs, overflowing with deranged plans for the betterment of the mundane. Spoken in post war parlez, punctuated with irate ideas and parent-bashing conceptualism. Remastered from the original sound sources with sleevenotes by MOJO magazine’s Dave Henderson.

TRACK LISTING

DISC: 1
1: Cast Iron Arm - PEANUTS WILSON
2: Come On Little Mama - RAY HARRIS
3: That Crazy House On The Hill - GENE LAMARR
4: Blue Train - BETTY McQUADE
5: Tiger - SPARKLE MOORE
6: Tiger - FABIAN
7: Pow Wow - GRACE TENNESSEE
8: Fender Bender - THE ORIGINAL STARFIRES
9: Did You Mean Jellybean - JOE CLAY
10: Pass The Biscuits Please - ANDRE WILLIAMS
11: John And Marsha - STAN FREBERG
12: Let The Jukebox Keep Playing - CARL PERKINS
13: Chickie Run - HOMER DENISON JR
14: 99 Chicks - RON HAYDOCK
15: I Dig Rock 'N' Roll - EARLE WADE
16: Froggy - DANNY DELL AND THE TRENDS
17: Boss - THE DIAL TONES
18: Slide Her Under The Door - MOSES LONGPIECE
19: Whisper Your Love - THE PHANTOM
20: Only Have Eyes For You - THE FLAMINGOS
21: Valarie - THE STARLITES
22: Knee Socks - THE IDEALS
23: Ding Dong Baby - MARVIN AND JOHNNY
24: I Got The Bug - KENNY OWEN
25: Taboo - GENE SUMMERS
26: Lonesome Desert - YOUNG JESSIE (with THE FLAIRS)
27: Midnight Stroll - THE REVELS
28: Eager Beaver Baby - JOHNNY BURNETTE TRIO
29: Sweet Woman - EDWIN BRUCE
30: Let 'Er Roll - SID KING AND THE FIVE STRINGS
31: Jennie Lee - BILLY WARD &THE DOMINOES

DISC: 2
1: Jungle - THE NINE CATS
2: The Vulture - RONNIE RAY'S PLAYBOY'S
3: Thunder - BOB TAYLOR
4: Nite Owl - THE CHAMPS
5: Imagination - THE QUOTATIONS
6: Unchained Melody( Acappella Version) - THE FLEETWOODS
7: Rotten Cocksuckers Ball - THE CLOVERS
8: Ya Ya Wobble - THE VENTURES
9: Stormy Weather - THE FIVE SHARPS
10: Action Packed - RONNIE DAWSON
11: Bad Mortorcycle - THE STOREY SISTERS
12: Baby Brother - BILL CATER
13: Gang War - GENE MALTAIS
14: M M M M Andre Williams Is Moving - ANDRE WILLIAMS WITH THE FIVE DOLLARS
15: Uh Oh - THE IMPS
16: Wicked - RONNIE ISLE
17: Indian Rock - THE MUSICAL LINN TWINS
18: Hoy Hoy - CLYDE STACEY
19: Teenage Riot - PORTUGUESE JOE
20: My Babe - RIC CARTEY
21: Tongue Tied - BETTY McQUADE
22: Hangin' Around - ERSAL HICKEY
23: Forbidden City - JOHN BUCK
24: Sweet Breeze - VERNON GREEN AND THE PHANTOMS
25: Mr Ghost Goes To Town - THE 5 JONES BOYS
26: Strollin' Spooks - KEN NORDINE
27: Noisy Village - BOB McFADDEN AND DOR
28: Taboo - ARTHUR LYMAN
29: Lust - LES BAXTER
30: Paralyzed - THE LEGENDARY STARDUST COWBOY

A veritable cornucopia of 60 tunes as spun by Lux Interior on his radio shows or lurking within his and Poison Ivy’s collection.

From cool instrumentals and rockabilly weirdness through to female rock ‘n’ rollers, devotees of voodoo and all round devil worship and purveyors of the newest dance trends.

With more than a hint of esoteric exotica, with added jungle sound effects, tributes to Tarzan, dragsters and rabbits and a host of dazed and confused survivors to boot.

Rampant with riffs, overflowing with deranged ideas and sullen sideswipes on the soap opera of life.

Complete with hip jive from ‘Ginchy’ to ‘Gumbo’, an aural extravaganza that’s relentlessly groovy!

Remastered from the original sound sources with sleevenotes by MOJO magazine’s Dave Henderson. 

TRACK LISTING

1: No Good Lover - MICKEY & SYLVIA
2: Whistle Bait - THE COLLINS KIDS
3: Ham 'N' Eggs - SKIP MANNING
4: Signifying Monkey - SMOKEY JOE
5: Stutterin' Cindy - CHARLIE FEATHERS
6: Congo - BO DIDDLEY
7: Munch - THE ALADDINS
8: Groovy - JOE DODO
9: Delicious! - JIM BACKUS & FRIEND
10: Here I Am Drunk Again - CLYDE BEAVERS
11: Skull And Crossbones - SPARKLE MOORE
12: Tongue Tied Over You - RUSTY DRAPER
13: Hot Rod Guitar - CHARLIE RYAN
14: Baghdad Rock - THE SHEIKS
15: Lovers Satellite - THE DUALS
16: Shock Treatment - THE INVADERS
17: Sinners - FREDDIE AND THE HITCH-HIKERS
18: Tequila - THE THREE SUNS
19: Green Onions - THE VENTURES
20: Midnight Rain - GARY WARREN
21: Let Me Out - Kenyon Hopkins
22: Hot And Cold - MARVIN RAINWATER
23: Get Lost Baby - HANK & THE ELECTRAS
24: Crazy Vibrations - THE BIKINIS
25: I Hates Rabbits - JERRY NEAL
26: Twistin' In The Jungle - BUDDY BOW
27: Congo Elegy - JAMES ARR SEPTETTE
28: Tarzan - GLEN REEVES & HIS ROCK-BILLYS
29: Voodoo Doll - THE INTERIORS
30: Voodoo Doll - GLENDA & GLEN
31: Straight Skirts - GENE SUMMERS
32: Bumble Bee Twist(The Wasp) - The Ventures
33: Uh Huh - THE ROMANS
34: Hey Jibb - ART WOOD
35: Enough Man! - BOBBY CHRISTIAN
36: Fallout - SIL AUSTIN
37: Wild Wild Party - CHARLIE FEATHERS
38: Twixteen - GENE SUMMERS
39: Misirlou - Martin Denny
40: R.F.D Rangoon - THE FORBIDDEN FIVE
41: Ali Baba's Boogie - PRESTON LOVE & ORCHESTRA
42: Algiers - THE BAMBINOS
43: Boo Hoo - MARVIN RAINWATER
44: Cindy Lou - DICK PENNER
45: Devil Blues - SKIP MANNING
46: Voodoo - THE RED CALLENDER SEXTET
47: Garlic Bread - GARRY AND LARRY
48: Don't Fuck Around With Love - THE BLENDERS
49: Hi Cups - THE EMPALLOS
50: Sexy Ways - THE MIDNIGHTERS
51: Gumbo - SHADES OF RHYTHM
52: The Last Drag - THE VOXPOPPERS
53: Guitarville - ROLAND JANES
54: Ginchy - THE VENTURES
55: Sweetmeats - SPOT BARNETT
56: Limbo Drum Part 1 - YOUNG WILLIAM AND THE JAMAICANS
57: Honeydripper Mambo (Pt2) - ALFREDITO
58: Cuban Get Away - IKE TURNER ORCHESTRA
59: Port Zibee Part 11 - ROBBY RHINES AND THE ROGUES
60: Volcano Rock - TOMMY MERCER AND THE MCBRIDES 

"Having apparently exorcised his demons by releasing the cathartic Tonight's the Night, Neil Young returned to his commercial strengths with Zuma (named after Zuma Beach in Los Angeles, where he now owned a house). Seven of the album's nine songs were recorded with the reunited Crazy Horse, in which rhythm guitarist Frank Sampedro had replaced the late Danny Whitten, but there were also nods to other popular Young styles in "Pardon My Heart," an acoustic song that would have fit on Harvest, his most popular album, and "Through My Sails," retrieved from one of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's abortive recording sessions. Young had abandoned the ragged, first-take approach of his previous three albums, but Crazy Horse would never be a polished act, and the music had a lively sound well-suited to the songs, which were some of the most melodic, pop-oriented tunes Young had crafted in years, though they were played with an electric-guitar-drenched rock intensity. The overall theme concerned romantic conflict, with lyrics that lamented lost love and sometimes longed for a return ("Pardon My Heart" even found Young singing, "I don't believe this song"), though the overall conclusion, notably in such catchy songs as "Don't Cry No Tears" and "Lookin' for a Love," was to move on to the next relationship. But the album's standout track (apparently the only holdover from an early intention to present songs with historical subjects) was the seven-and-a-half-minute epic "Cortez the Killer," a commentary on the Spanish conqueror of Latin America that served as a platform for Young's most extensive guitar soloing since his work on Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere." - AllMusic.

Longtime friends and Baltimore compatriots Jenn Wasner (Wye Oak, Flock of Dimes) and Jon Ehrens (White Life, Art Department) are expanding their work together into a new pop music venture: Dungeonesse. Born of a mutual admiration for Top 40 and R&B and the mechanics of what makes a hit song, the duo and longtime friends began putting jams together remotely. Ehrens would send tracks from LA to Wasner on tour, and they'd bounce ideas back and forth. The resulting songs are part party machine programming, and part homage to the great tradition of R&B vocals which retain an experimental and playful inner beauty while leading the charge to a dance floor of abundantly inclusive and carefree spirits.

As a first taste of great things to come, Secretly Canadian is proud to announce "Drive You Crazy," the first single from the band.

"War Dream", the second album from Baltimore’s Crazy Dreams Band, is saturated with heaviness, psychedelia, pomp and grit, and noticeably lacking any nostalgia hangups. This rock music is refractory and satisfyingly off; put on a slide, manipulated and projected on a screen, or felt through a chain-link fence. Lost love, genocide and forgotten histories collide with raw-dog vocal thundering, slippery bass frequencies, adventurous percussion and seductive guitar ripples.

Opener “Feels So Good” is a swirling dirge that could be a half-figured-out version of “Carouselambra”; “Awkward for Everyone” showcases recent addition Jorge Martins of Lisbon duo Fish & Sheep playing what sounds like a deflating blow-up Les Paul copy that actually has strings - you’ve got to hear the killer solo! The sidelong “Life Is the Knife” is like a secret ritual from an unreleased Billy Jack sequel where he went back
to Vietnam and built a temple that bled the purest opium. Here, Jake Freeman’s adventurous sub-frequencies and Nick Becker’s saucy space wanderings shine on to break the dawn in half. "War Dream" was recorded in three days at Beat Babies in Woodstock, MD, by Chris Freeland (OXES, Frenemies, Long Live Death, Baltimore Rowdies
Collective) with heaping platefuls of assistance from his brother Mickey (Bow ’n’ Arrow, Height with Friends) and a cat that looked like a dirty snowman.

One of two classic albums by New Jersey alt rockers The Feelies. "Crazy Rhythms" is a masterwork of perfectly honed minimalist rock that leaps and darts into the corners of the listener's consciousness, a true sonic tour de force that Rolling Stone deemed one of the '100 Best Albums of the 1980s'. Fans of the Velvet Underground, Wire and Brian Eno's early solo work will surely appreciate the 'forces at work' (to quote a song title) on this masterpiece.
As the band considers each album to be a discrete aesthetic artifact, the copious bonus material including demos, B-sides, EP tracks and some new live recordings from the re-united group is included on digital download cards.

Neil Young's second album yielded several of his most enduring hits (including the title tune, "Cowgirl In The Sand," "Cinnamon Girl," and "Down By The River") and firmly established him as a solo artist of the first rank. Though it's impossible to narrow the catalogue of Young and Crazy Horse down to one representative document, this is about as close as you're likely to get. This was Young's first collaboration with the Horse, and it's still one of that group's defining recorded moments. As in much of Young's subsequent work, the feeling of despair moves unabated through the album, which runs the emotional gamut from laconically desperate to psychotically desperate. Despite the gloom, the heavy electric riffing on "Cinnamon Girl" and "Cowgirl In the Sand" -two surrealistic odes to an idealized muse - is cathartic and invigorating, easily as riveting as the guitar onslaught of anyone from the Stooges to the Velvet Underground. Young's rootsy, acoustic side comes to the fore on "Round & Round" and "Running Dry". The homespun quality of these songs doesn't leaven the consuming sense of dread that permeates this album, though. Strangely, this expression of angst and emotional disorder became one of Young's most lastingly popular albums, and "Down By The River", "Cinnamon Girl" and "Cowgirl In The Sand" quickly turned into FM staples.

Tracklisting
1. Cinnamon Girl
2. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
3. Round & Round (It Won't Be Long)
4. Down By The River
5. The Losing End (When You're On)
6. Running Dry (Requiem For The Rockets)
7. Cowgirl In The Sand

First was "Neurotic Reactions", then "Some Songs Stuck In My Mind" and now it's "Artificial Faces!" One of the most exciting and higher quality compilation labels is back with another eclectic comp featuring 16 underground dancefloor tracks from the late 60s/early 70s. Groovy psychedelia, freakbeat, garage, hard funky-rock grooves... you can expect the usual dose of fuzz guitars, Hammond organs, drum breaks and psychedelic effects! Including bands and artists from USA, South America, France, Spain. Listen to the crazy electro-psych sounds from Erasmo Carlos, Elevators influenced garage-psych by The Hobbits, female garage by Sonia and Enchanted Forest, Spanish soul-freakbeat by Nino Bravo, John Wonderling with the original pop-sike version of "Midway Down", later popularised by The Creation, heavy phasing-psych by Giant Crab, Brazilian fuzz-freakbeat by Eduardo Araujo, hard psychedelic grooves by Skins, The Bag... and more! Fully remastered sound, great artwork, with detailed liner notes and pictures.

The first release from Neil Young's long awaited Archive Performance series is here with "Live At The Fillmore East". In 2006, Neil Young delivered another hit album, "Living With War", and toured with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Thirty-six years earlier, in 1970, Young toured with CSN&Y and released his platinum album "Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere", after which he performed a series of shows at New York City's then-new Fillmore East with his band Crazy Horse. That concert finally makes its official debut in the annals of rock history with "Live At The Fillmore East", and the circle is unbroken for one of rock's greatest singer-songwriters.

"Crazy Itch Radio" certainly scratches the spot, with Simon Ratcliffe and Felix Buxton swerving from all-out drama on the operatic intro straight into the jet-packed kaleidoscopic pop of the future hit single "Hush Boy" which features live collaborator Vula Malinga, last heard on "Oh My Gosh". Rammed up next, "Take Me Back To Your House" is a sexy, energetic moment of what they're calling 'banjo house'. There's also Balkan folk woven into vocals from Swedish pop sensation Robyn on "Hey U", a hyper grime tune cussing vain boys from East London's Lady Marga, titled "Run 4 Cover" (previewed on one of their Stop label 10"s), and "Lights Go Down", a Wil Malone-scored beauty with legendary British singer Linda Lewis.

A two disc collection containing remastered versions of the "Crazy Horse" and "Loose" albums in their entirety, with a second disc of previously unreleased tracks from the Crazy Horse sessions including Neil Young's "When You Dance You Can Really Love". With their 1971 self-titled debut, Crazy Horse offered a tough, soulful alternative to the mellow, self-satisfied brand of country-rock that had settled over American music at the dawn of the decade. The band's line-up on Crazy Horse (lead singer-guitarist Danny Whitten, bassist Billy Talbot, drummer Ralph Molina, producer-keyboardist Jack Nitzsche, and singer-guitarist Nils Lofgren) never recorded together again. But with Talbot and Molina at the core, Crazy Horse continued to be known as Neil Young's favourite backing band, occasionally making records on their own.

Down To The Bone all starts with the groove and "Crazy Vibes And Things", the debut album for GRP features the same tight jazz funk grooves that made albums like "Spread The Word","The Urban Grooves" and "From Mahatten to Staten" such cult hits. Stuart Wade and DTTB have a blend of jazz, soul and dance that really stands out in the contemporary jazz scene. Think Ramsey Lewis, Lonnie Liston Smith and Roy Ayers with a tight contemporary edge to it all.