On October 12th & 13th, 2024, American Football performed two sold- out shows at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles - part of the band’s 25th anniversary tour for their self-titled debut album. Featuring guest appearances from Ethel Cain and M.A.G.S., these special shows were recorded for American Football’s first and only live album, 'American Football (Live in Los Angeles)'. To coincide with the album’s release, the band teamed up with Prophet Media and director Steph Rinzler for the release of a full-length concert film, featuring candid interviews with the band, Ethel Cain, Yvette Young, and M.A.G.S. Both the film and album captures the legacy and unexpected staying power of a group that helped define a genre.

After quietly releasing their self-titled debut album in 1999 while still in college, American Football disbanded after the album’s release to focus on other projects, only to reunite 15 years later to a fanbase that had been consistently growing throughout the underground / emo scene. The album later appeared on Rolling Stone’s “40 Greatest Emo Albums of All Time” list at #6, with Pitchfork giving its deluxe reissue the “Best New Reissue” title, calling it the “most influential album in the genre.”

TRACK LISTING

1. Five Silent Miles
2. The Summer Ends
3. Honestly?
4. For Sure Feat. Ethel Cain
5. You Know I Should Be Leaving Soon
6. But The Regrets Are Killing Me
7. I’ll See You When We’re Both Not So Emotional Feat. M.A.G.S.
8. Stay Home / The One With The Wurlitzer

When Katie Gavin, Josette Maskin, and Naomi McPherson were just three music students at USC, they formed MUNA and set a goal of eventually playing The Greek Theatre. Ten years later in the fall of 2023, they did just that; in fact they not only crossed it off their bucket list, they did it twice and to sold out crowds. The magic of those shows was captured on Live At The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, released digitally last year and now pressed to vinyl for the first time.

With over twenty tracks assembled, 'Live At The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles' spans the band’s entire catalog, and features virtually all of MUNA’s most beloved songs, including 'Silk Chiffon' (featuring Phoebe Bridgers on her verse as well as Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus on backup vocals), 'What I Want', 'Kind of Girl', 'One That Got Away', 'I Know a Place', 'Anything But Me', 'Number One Fan', 'Stayaway' and many more.

“We have loved touring this record so much & it’s been a goal of ours to put out a live album. It was a dream to be able to do it at The Greek in LA, a venue we’ve wanted to play since we first formed the band over 10 years ago.” - MUNA

TRACK LISTING

1. What I Want (Live At The Greek Theatre In Los Angeles)
2. Number One Fan (Live At The Greek Theatre In Los Angeles)
3. Solid (Live At The Greek Theatre In Los Angeles)
4. Stayaway (Live At The Greek Theatre In Los Angeles)
5. No Idea (Live At The Greek Theatre In Los Angeles)
6. Runner's High (Live At The Greek Theatre In Los Angeles)
7. Everything (Live At The Greek Theatre In Los Angeles)
8. Never (Live At The Greek Theatre In Los Angeles)
9. Loose Garment (Live At The Greek Theatre In Los Angeles)
10. Shooting Star (Live At The Greek Theatre In Los Angeles)
11. Winterbreak (Live At The Greek Theatre In Los Angeles)
12. Kind Of Girl (Live At The Greek Theatre In Los Angeles)
13. Taken (Live At The Greek Theatre In Los Angeles)
14. Pink Light (Live At The Greek Theatre In Los Angeles)
15. So Special (Live At The Greek Theatre In Los Angeles)
16. Loudspeaker (Live At The Greek Theatre In Los Angeles)
17. Anything But Me (Live At The Greek Theatre In Los Angeles)
18. One That Got Away (Live At The Greek Theatre In Los
Angeles)
19. Home By Now (Live At The Greek Theatre In Los Angeles)
20. I Know A Place (Live At The Greek Theatre In Los Angeles)

The three-way ‘Los Angeles’ collaboration was born out of a curiosity which just wouldn’t die. Made up of two of the most illustrious and inventive drummers of the post-punk era, The Cure’s Lol Tolhurst, and Budgie from Siouxsie & The Banshees and The Creatures, along with stellar producer and multi-instrumentalist Garret ‘Jacknife’ Lee, this unlikely alt-supergroup have spent the last four years spiriting up one of the most extraordinary albums to appear in 2023.

Perusing the tracklist, with its guest credits for, amongst others, LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy, Bobby Gillespie, Civil Rights avant-gardist Lonnie Holley, Starcrawler wildchild Arrow de Wilde and The Edge from U2, you may rightly wonder just what the 13-track long-player holds in store.

The answer: a hard-hitting and compulsively exploratory 55-minute electronic mindscrew, founded on unrivalled rhythmic expertise, fleshed out with an armoury of synths, guitars (Jacknife’s forte) and supplementary percussion, often overlaid with elite-class strings and brass, then universally twisted, manipulated and quite masterfully sculpted by Lee, with his super-producer’s hat on.

STAFF COMMENTS

Liam says: Absolutely bonkers how stacked with talent this LP is! With guest spots from James Murphy and Bobby Gillespie, this supergroup odyssey from Tolhurst, Budgie and Jacknife is an eclectic collection of rhythmic set-pieces that have plenty to show-off!

TRACK LISTING

This Is What It Is (To Be Free) (with Bobby Gillespie)
Los Angeles (with James Murphy)
Uh Oh (with Arrow De Wilde And Mark Bowen)
Ghosted At Home (with Bobby Gillespie)
Train With No Station (with The Edge)
Bodies (with Lonnie Holley And Mary Lattimore)
Everything And Nothing
Travel Channel (with Pan Amsterdam)
Country Of The Blind (with Bobby Gillespie)
The Past (Being Eaten)
We Got To Move (with Isaac Brock)
Noche Oscura (with The Edge)
Skins (with James Murphy)

Los Angeles Forum - April 26, 1969 presents an extraordinary live performance by the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Before a raucous, sold-out house, Hendrix, drummer Mitch Mitchell and bassist Noel Redding tore through a unique set featuring highlights such as "I Don't Live Today," "Purple Haze," "Red House," and an astonishing medley of "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" and Cream's "Sunshine Of Your Love". This pristine recording, newly mixed by Hendrix's long-time engineer Eddie Kramer, captures the original Jimi Hendrix Experience in their unrivalled, peak form.

A portion of this performance was previously included as part of a short-lived Westwood One radio documentary box set [Lifelines 1990-1992] but has been unavailable in any form for two decades. The CD release with a 24 page booklet--complete with liner notes from ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons who witnessed the show first hand--gives this seminal performance its proper platform, presenting the complete performance mixed directly from the original eight-track master tapes.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
Introduction
Tax Free
Foxey Lady
Side B
Red House
Spanish Castle Magic
Side C
Star Spangled Banner
Purple Haze
I Don’t Live Today
Side D
MEDLEY Voodoo Child (Slight Return) / Sunshine Of Your Love / Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

Friends! I am so pleased to announce A Night At The Little Los Angeles - the 4-track version of Sundowner. Recorded at home and in my back shed - aka The Little Los Angeles - in suburban Kansas during the summer and winter seasons of 2017 and 2018. This is quite simply the sound of me alone in a room with a four-track to catch my songs as they fell out of my mouth. When I later went into a proper studio to make Sundowner my goal was to capture the essence of these initial recordings, and here you will now have access to the very essence I was chasing. In many ways, this feels like a proper album to me, as it’s my initial attempt to capture the Kansas sunset and put it into sound, where as Sundower was an attempt of an attempt. I love and am proud of them both, of course, but am happy to - for the first time - share this vulnerable side of my songwriting process with the public. Many of my favorite recordings have been made inside of an artist’s home without regard of the outside world, but instead deep in their own world that they’re creating in real time. And with that - I’d like to invite you into my own little world here and now and ask you to please....step inside of....and spend A Night At The Little Los Angeles! - Kevin Morby

****** Sundowner is Morby’s “attempt to put the Middle American twilight -- its beauty profound, though not always immediate -- into sound.” Released in fall 2020 on Dead Oceans, Morby’s distinctively conversational and reflective writing style was received with open arms and was beloved by fans and critics alike. Pitchfork lauded it as “a vision of the Midwest that feels mythical and enormous.” Sundowner’s vision was further fleshed out in comprehensive features in Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, Stereogum, The FADER, Vice, Aquarium Drunkard, and more. In addition to traditional music publications, Morby appeared on Adult Swim’s Fishcenter and Office Hours with Tim Heidecker. Morby also made his network television debut on CBS This Morning, where he performed the songs “Campfire” and “Sundowner” as part of a special joint performance with his partner and fellow songwriter Katie Crutchfield, aka Waxahatchee.

TRACK LISTING

1. Campfire (4-Track Version)
2. Sundowner (4-Track Version)
3. A Night At The Little Los Angeles (4-Track Version)
4. Wander (4-Track Version)
5. Velvet Highway (4-Track Version)
6. Valley (4-Track Version)
7. Brother, Sister (4-Track Version)
8. Don’t Underestimate Midwest American Sun (4-Track Version)
9. Provisions (4-Track Version)
10. U.S. Mail (4-Track Version)

Hip hop has come a long way since the days of Adidas shell toes and 'yes yes, ya'll', splintering into a variety of guises, from blinged-up cartoon gangsterism to the most leftfield, underground 'but is it hip hop?' sounds. Steven Ellison, using his Flying Lotus moniker, falls into the latter camp, producing some of the most interesting, subtle and beautiful hiptronica / wonky-hop around right now (alongside the likes of Rustie, Hudson Mohawke, Dabrye etc). On his second long player "Los Angeles", the tracks (all 17 of them) are built on standard hip hop beats-and-samples foundations, but then take the left-hand fork in the road, crunching and distorting those neck-snapping beats and slicing the samples up into intricate snippets to create layered textures of woozy future electroid psychedelia. If you fell in love with Burial in 2007, and are ready for something with a bit more oomph, then look no further.