'A Man From The Future' is an audio/musical biography of computer pioneer and codebreaker Alan Turing written by Pet Shop Boys with Turing biographer Professor Andrew Hodges.

Originally performed as part of the BBC Proms in July 2014 at the Royal Albert Hall, with the BBC Concert Orchestra, the BBC Singers and narration from actor Juliet Stevenson. It has been revised and rearranged in this new production by Pet Shop Boys and Sven Helbig.

Pet Shop Boys recorded the album in the last year in the UK and Germany. The album features the Manchester Camerata Octet, the Manchester Gammar School Choir and narration from Juliet Stevenson. String and vocal arrangements are by Sven Helbig.

TRACK LISTING

1. Natural Wonders Every Child Should Know
2. He Dreamed Of Machines
3. The Enigma
4. Other Ranks
5. The Memory And The Control
6. The Trial
7. Only In His Death
8. A Man From The Future

They did not seem arrogant or entitled. I didn’t see them bossing around their staff or being horrid to studio assistants. But they did worry if this was all there was.

All this fame and fortune, was it really all that great? The world saw them as an overnight success, who had come from nowhere. But they knew from whence they had come. Perhaps that’s what kept them grounded.’ Hunter Davies, the only authorised biographer of The Beatles, revisits his treasured 39 notebooks filled with remarkable interviews to explore the lives of John, Paul, George and Ringo as they were growing up and coming of age.

Drawing on a wealth of never-before-revealed, intimate material, and his own experience as a boy of similar age from a working-class Northern background, Hunter now tells the story of where they came from, what it was like, how it shaped their hopes and aspirations. Hunter spent three years with The Beatles, visiting all their homes, and each of them visiting his. He also spent time with their parents, school friends, teachers, girlfriends, members of the Quarry Men and many others from their inner circle.

Their conversations often harked back to the War, with memories of air-raid shelters and rationing, to the NHS coming in, the eleven plus and grammar schools, and council house life in the 1950s. We all know what they became famous for, but here Hunter takes us into the much more private world of their formative years, for this colourful, richly detailed, personal portrait of the young boys who were destined to come together and revolutionise music and pop culture.

The Adventures of the Hersham Boys by punk band Sham 69 was released in 1979. It is their most successful album, peaking at No. 8 in the UK and launching two major chart singles, "Hersham Boys" and "Questions and Answers". On their first album, Sham 69 sounded like a gang of energetic punk rockers, well-meaning and enthusiastic, but things had taken a turn by the time they'd cut The Adventures of Hersham Boys in 1979. Where their early recordings took a lean, stripped-down approach, like a Cockney version of the Ramones, this album is dominated by "anthemic" melodies.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Money
2. Fly Dark Angel
3. Joey's On The Street
4. Cold Blue In The Night
5. You're A Better Man Than I

Side B
1. Hersham Boys
2. Lost On Highway 46
3. Voices
4. Questions And Answers
5. What Have We Got?

‘Damn Those Eyes’ and ‘Never Mind the Botox’ were recorded last year at The Planet Of Noise Studio in Limmared, Sweden. Both songs are taken from The Boys sixth official studio album to be released December 2026.

Along with the Sex Pistols, Clash and The Damned, The Boys were part of the first wave of the mid-1970s UK punk explosion. Armed with an arsenal of killer Steel/Dangerfield songs The Boys became the first UK punk band to sign an album deal in January 1977. Highly regarded by the music press and their contemporaries, their well-crafted songs, together with Steel and Dangerfield’s love of harmonies, led to them being described as ‘The Beatles of Punk’ but they could (and should) just as deservedly have been compared to the Ramones ­– fast, alternately brattish and tongue-in-cheek, and gloriously anthemic.

The new single features original founding members and songwriting team Matt Dangerfield and Casino Steel, along with long time members Chips Kiesbye & Kent Norberg (from mega Swedish band Sator) & Martin H-Son (ex-Backstreet Girls). Renowned international filmmaker, and ex bass player from The Crybabys, Danny Garcia makes a guest appearance on ‘Never Mind the Botox’ as well as providing promo videos for both songs.

TRACK LISTING

1. Damn Those Eyes
2. Nevermind The Botox

For nearly a decade, Lucia has been carving out her place as an artist in the UK indie scene. Her latest record, Picking Petals, is the culmination of that hard graft and bold vision — an album rooted in her Scottish upbringing and shaped by the creative community she has built around her in Glasgow and beyond, featuring collaborations with Lauren Mayberry of CHVRCHES and Abigail Morris of The Last Dinner Party.

Lucia’s debut, Burning Castles, was streamlined and statuesque, built on metronomic beats and synth-led pop. The intention behind Picking Petals sharpened into focus in the face of this. This time, it was crucial to capture the essence of Lucia & The Best Boys’ live shows— loud and electric. In recent years, Fairfull has shared bills with a new wave of women in alternative music: joining Wolf Alice on their Blue Weekend tour in 2022 and, more recently, opening for the aforementioned The Last Dinner Party. In summer 2024, she toured alongside fellow Scottish icon Shirley Manson on the UK and European leg of Garbage’s live shows.

The Scottish synchronicity feels poignant. This rich and historical landscape is where Picking Petals came to be, Lucia heading north to write in weather-beaten bothies alongside the band or in solitude. Likewise, the songwriter was insistent that acclaimed alt-pop producer Yves Rothman experience her stomping ground rather than sun-drenched LA, hunkering down in Mogwai’s Castle of Doom studios, a Glasgow townhouse transformed into a citadel of sound. For some people, Picking Petals will be a coming-of-age album. For Lucia & The Best Boys, it’s just coming home.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: A soaring, anthemic mix of classic rock, folky acoustic guitars and melodic indie music that's both warmly evocative and showcases Lucia's brilliantly powerful vocals and the band's undeniable chemistry. Hushed reverence and quietly blooming melodies turn into powerful waves of instrumentation and roaring, stadium-ready choruses. Ace.

TRACK LISTING

Side A
1. Back Inside My Heart
2. Lonely Girl
3. Wolf Cry
4. Better For The Worse
5. You Look Like Somebody In Love

Side B
6. Picking Petals
7. Pleasure And A Prayer
8. Forgot The Arrow
9. Big Romance
10. Ephemeral

This is a reissue of a rare killer single by The Moon Boys (aka The Hippy Boys) and The Pioneers as initially produced by Joe Gibbs and released in 1969 on the Amalgamated Records label in Jamaica and in the U.K. that same year. It was only reissued once by Trojan in a box of singles called “Spirit Of '69 - The Boss Reggae Sevens Collection” which is also quite rare today.

TRACK LISTING

The Moon Boys - Appolo 11
The Pioneers - Love Love Everyday

'The Boys of Dungeon Lane' is a collection of rare and revealing glimpses into memories never-before shared, along with some newly inspired love songs, from one of the most culturally significant figures of our time. These extraordinary new songs find Paul writing with rare openness about his childhood in post-war Liverpool, the resilience of his parents, and early adventures shared with George Harrison and John Lennon long before the world had ever heard of Beatlemania.

TRACK LISTING

1. As You Lie There
2. Lost Horizon
3. Days We Left Behind
4. Ripples in a Pond
5. Mountain Top
6. Down South
7. We Two
8. Come Inside
9. Never Know
10. Home to Us
11. Life Can Be Hard
12. First Star of the Night
13. Sailsman Saint
14. Momma Gets By

Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Beach Boys' legendary masterpiece, 'The Pet Sounds Sessions Highlights' features selections from the 1997 Grammy-nominated 4CD box set 'The Pet Sounds Sessions'. It includes 25 'Pet Sounds' acappellas, alternate versions and tracking sessions, along with new liner notes. Released on May 16, 1966, 'Pet Sounds' was produced and primarily composed by Brian Wilson and is considered a masterpiece of pop music and one of the most influential albums in history. It features the classic singles 'God Only Knows', 'Sloop John B' and 'Wouldn't It Be Nice'.

TRACK LISTING

1. Wouldn’t It Be Nice (Vocals Only)
2. You Still Believe In Me (Vocals Only)
3. I’m Waiting For The Day (Vocals Only)
4. Sloop John B. (Vocals Only)
5. God Only Knows (Vocals Only)
6. Here Today (Vocals Only)
7. I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times (Vocals Only)
8. Wouldn’t It Be Nice (Stereo Track and Backing Vocals)
9. Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder) (Brian Wilson’s Instrumental Demo)
10. I'm Waiting For The Day (Mike Sings Lead)
11.Sloop John B. (Carl Sings First Verse)
12. God Only Knows (Sax Solo, Alternate Version)
13. Hang On To Your Ego (Alternate Mix)
14. Here Today (Alternate Version)
15. Wouldn't It Be Nice (Highlights from Tracking Date)
16. Trombone Dixie (Highlights from Tracking Date)
17. Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder) (Vocal Snippet)
18. Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder) (Vocals Only)
19. That's Not Me (Highlights from Tracking Date)
20. Here Today (Stereo Backing Track)
21. I'm Waiting For The Day (Vocals Only)*
22. Caroline, No (Stereo Mix, Original Speed)
23. God Only Knows (Highlights from Tracking Date)
24. Good Vibrations (Highlights from Tracking Date)
25. Good Vibrations (Stereo Backing Track)

The Cure release the 1986 mix of 'Boys Don’t Cry' in line with its 40th Anniversary. Initially released as a standalone single in the summer of 1979, 'Boys Don’t Cry' became the title track of the US edition of the band’s debut album, 'Three Imaginary Boys'.

The song went on to become one of the band’s signature tracks and achieved international success in 1986, when Robert Smith re-recorded the vocal and remixed the backing track. Although this new version was created to promote the best of collection 'Staring At The Sea – The Singles', the LP itself featured the original recording, and the 7-inch version of 'Boys Don’t Cry (New Voice – New Mix)', now retitled 'Boys Don’t Cry (86 Mix)', is being released for the first time in 40 years.



Boys Don’t Cry (86 Mix), the 12” mix, and the B-Sides, Plastic Passion, Pillbox Tales, and Do The Hansa have been remastered by Matt Colton.

TRACK LISTING

1. Boys Don’t Cry (86 Mix)
2. Boys Don’t Cry (86 12" Mix) 
3. Plastic Passion (79 Mix)
4. Pillbox Tales (86 Mix)
5. Do The Hansa (86 Mix)

THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2026 EXCLUSIVE AND WILL BE AVAILABLE INSTORE ON SATURDAY APRIL 18TH 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 8PM (BST) ON MONDAY APRIL 20th).

1 LP special effect vinyl featuring original art cover by official KPop Demon Hunters vis dev artist, Marion Bordeyne. Includes fold-out poster, sticker sheet, and 3 snapshot cards (3 of 12 versions).

KPop Demon Hunters (Soundtrack From the Netflix Film) has taken over the world as a true pop-culture phenomenon. The biggest soundtrack of 2025, it has topped the Billboard 200 at #1 and is certified RIAA Platinum. Leading the charge is “Golden,” the #1 most-streamed release of 2025 globally, which dominated the Billboard Hot 100 for eight weeks—marking the longest #1 reign of the 21st century by a female group. Applauded by fans and critics alike, the film and soundtrack have received five GRAMMY nominations including Song of the Year, two Academy Award nominations including Original Song, three Golden Globe nominations including Best Original Song, and won two Critics Choice Awards, including Best Song for “Golden.”
Record Store Day Exclusive.

THIS IS A RECORD STORE DAY 2026 EXCLUSIVE LIMITED TO ONE PER PERSON.

1 LP special effect vinyl featuring original art cover by official KPop Demon Hunters vis dev artist, Marion Bordeyne. Includes fold-out poster, sticker sheet, and 3 snapshot cards (3 of 12 versions).

KPop Demon Hunters (Soundtrack From the Netflix Film) has taken over the world as a true pop-culture phenomenon. The biggest soundtrack of 2025, it has topped the Billboard 200 at #1 and is certified RIAA Platinum. Leading the charge is “Golden,” the #1 most-streamed release of 2025 globally, which dominated the Billboard Hot 100 for eight weeks—marking the longest #1 reign of the 21st century by a female group. Applauded by fans and critics alike, the film and soundtrack have received five GRAMMY nominations including Song of the Year, two Academy Award nominations including Original Song, three Golden Globe nominations including Best Original Song, and won two Critics Choice Awards, including Best Song for “Golden.”
Record Store Day Exclusive.

Six years after "Hello Nasty", an older, wiser and entirely essential Beastie Boys re-emerged with "To The 5 Boroughs", a passionate love letter to NYC written in the wake of 9/11. As usual they deliver their irrepressible tag team rhymes, mixing up celebrations of their home city with witty put downs of George W and his policies, and of course their usual stoopid bragging, but this time dropping them over stripped down backing tracks, that give a nod to the past (check "Triple Trouble" with its Sugarhill Gang samples), while obviously being influenced by hip hop and R'n'B's more recent electronic styles.

This deluxe edition features 11 bonus tracks, including remixes and B-sides.

TRACK LISTING

1. Ch-Check It Out
2. Right Right Now Now
3. 3 The Hard Way
4. It Takes Time To Build
5. Rhyme The Rhyme Well
6. Triple Trouble
7. Hey Fuck You
8. Oh Word?
9. That's It That's All
10. All Lifestyles
11. Shazam!
12. An Open Letter To NYC
13. Crawlspace
14. The Brouhaha
15. We Got The
16. Brrrr Stick Em
17. And Then I
18. Now Get Busy
19. Ch-Check It Out (Just Blaze Remix)
20. Triple Trouble (Brainpower Remix)
21. Triple Trouble (J. Wizzle Remix)
22. Triple Trouble (Dexter's Triple Decollte Situation)
23. Triple Trouble (Graham Coxon Remix)
24. Rizzle Rizzle Nizzle Nizzle
25. MTL Reppin' For The 514
26. RRNN: Straight Outta Shibuya 

Available for the first time in general retail, this 12" combines Viagra Boys explosive debut EP 'Consistency Of Energy' (2016) with the enigmatic 'Call Of The Wild' EP.

Featuring stand- out tracks like 'Research Chemicals' and 'Call Of The Wild', this edition comes in a embossed + foiled jacket with both original covers (designed by singer Sebastian Murphy) printed on the inner sleeve.

TRACK LISTING

1. Research Chemicals
2. I Don't Remember That
3. Can't Get It Up
4. Liquids
5. Baby Teeth
6. Upside Backwards
7. Call Of The Wild

"Further Adventures Of The WTF Band", because three letters are cheaper than
therapy. The Idjuts and Minjung Kate Kim continue their campaign to replace BPM with LOL, deploying two wigged-out, psychedelic drug chuggers littered with incomprehensible vocal murmurings, flange-attacked & echo-drenched perc hits, and wild free improv stylings. Perfect for soundtracking your next ketamine fueled art launch or a psychedelic tea party on Mars. Bonkers /// brilliant - it's the Idjut Boys alright! 

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: WTF indeed! Idjuts stick to their remit - delivering an audio injoke which only the most seasoned acid house casualty will be able to decipher. Jokes aside, if you enjoy playing wigged out music to freaks in dark rave caves, this disjoined and discombobulated number should sit nicely next your records by Toulouse Low Trax, Madteo, Don't DJ and other drugged-out warehouse mutations.

TRACK LISTING

A1. WTF - Word Salad Version
B1. WTF - Conical Squares Version

Swarming hymns of second generation psychedelic pop mastery. Main man Robyn Hitchcock, along with demon guitarist Kimberley Rew, bassist Matthew Seligman and drummer Morris Windsor manage to bottle 60s guitar pop, shake it up with caged teenage fury and cut it all with a healthy dose of lyrical levity.

"Underwater Moonlight" - seen as fatally un-hip when originally released – would go on to be seen as a seminal album and become a catalyst for 80s jangle pop and college rock, directly inspiring bands like R.E.M. and The Decemberists.

The Soft Boys mystified many in their day, but would now be categorized as psych-punk-meets-art-rock. Underwater Moonlight has long been considered a classic record: "Big Star and us were the rickety bridge between the Byrds and REM", says former SB's mainman Robyn Hitchcock.

TRACK LISTING

1. I Wanna Destroy You
2. Kingdom Of Love
3. Positive Vibrations
4. I Got The Hots
5. Insanely Jealous
6. Tonight
7. You'll Have To Go Sideways
8. Old Pervert
9. The Queen Of Eyes
10. Underwater Moonlight

Hand-break off, SPORTS TEAM are back. With musical pedals to the metal and saxophones at full throttle, the Mercury-nominated six-piece bring us their third studio album, Boys These Days. After their first two, Top 3 records – the Mercury Prize-nominated ‘Deep Down Happy’ (2020) and ‘Gulp!’ (2022).

Think Prefab Sprout meets Roxy Music the band ally a seer-like lyrical insight with their most dynamic musical performances to date, Sports Team are piercing the content abyss. A “carousel of 21st-century sins”, this witty and insightful examination of modern life is both a critique and a celebration of its times. Yes, ‘Boys These Days’ takes aim at everything from advertising hype to relationship dysfunction, stationed at the point where the digital tide crashes onto IRL shores, but their perspective is fuelled by immersion in that landscape as Sports Team are scrolling along with the rest of us.

Though recorded in Bergen, the birthplace of black metal, the sessions at the start of 2024 saw Sports Team create their brightest and most beguiling record yet.

TRACK LISTING

1. I'm In Love (Subaru)
2. Boys These Days
3. Moving Together
4. Condensation
5. Sensible
6. Planned Obsolescence
7. Bang Bang Bang
8. Head To Space
9. Bonnie
10. Maybe When We're 30

In 1979, 2 Tone exploded into the national conscience as records by The Specials, The Selecter, Madness, The Beat, and The Bodysnatchers burst onto the charts and a youth movement was born.

2 Tone was black and white: a multi-racial force of British and Caribbean island musicians singing about social issues, racism, class and gender struggles. It spoke of injustices in society and took fight against right wing extremism.

The music of 2 Tone was exuberant: white youth learning to dance to the infectious rhythm of ska and reggae; and crossed with a punk attitude to create an original hybrid. The idea of 2 Tone was born in Coventry, masterminded by a middle-class art student raised in the church. Jerry Dammers had a vision of an English Motown. Borrowing £700, the label's first record featured 'Gangsters' by The Specials' backed by an instrumental track by the, as yet, unformed, Selecter. Within two months the single was at number six in the national charts. Dammers signed Madness, The Beat and The Bodysnatchers as a glut of successive hits propelled 2 Tone onto Top of the Pops and into the hearts and minds of a generation. However, soon infighting amongst the bands and the pressures of running a label caused 2 Tone to bow to an inevitable weight of expectation and recrimination.

Still under the auspices of Jerry Dammers, 2 Tone entered in a new phase. Perhaps not as commercially successful as its 1979-1981 incarnation the label nevertheless continued to thrive for a further four years releasing a string of fresh signings and a stunning endpiece finale in '(Free) Nelson Mandela'.

Told in three parts, Too Much Too Young is the definitive story of a label that for a brief, bright burning moment, shaped British culture.

Cutting his musical teeth in a Puerto Rican jazz club in the 1960s, Carli Munoz came of age during the countercultural flowering of that era; he lived for music, knowledge, and the mind-expanding magic of LSD. Wanting to expand creative horizons for his successful psychedelic rock band, Munoz flew to New York on a whim with 11 dollars in his pocket and embarked on a deep dive into the gritty scene of gigs, girls, and trips, struggling to fill his pockets with dollars and his belly with food. Free-falling into the dark underbelly of the city, Munoz ended up homeless and penniless until an epiphany on the subway brought him back to the surface. On the cusp of a new decade, Munoz moved to LA to fight for a new life and a second chance. Hanging out in Houdini's old mansion in Laurel Canyon, he watched the free-loving idealism of the '60s melt into the disco-and-cocaine-saturated hedonism of the '70s, until one day he found himself on tour with the Beach Boys. He became close friends with Dennis Wilson - a friendship that ranged from pranking each other to working on an album together to watching him spiral irretrievably into self-destruction. He witnessed the feud between Mike Love and the Wilsons firsthand, as well as the unchecked instability of Brian Wilson. Despite the chaos and power struggles within the band, Munoz was able to create enthralling music with them, as well as with some of the other popular musicians of the '70s, including Wilson Pickett, the Association, George Benson, and Peter Cetera. Populated with an eclectic cast of artists, musicians, clairvoyants, record producers, hippies, hobos, and superstars, A Fool's Journey is a vivid snapshot of an era-defining moment that will never be repeated. Although Munoz toured with the Beach Boys for ten years and partied with rock stars, he was also just an island kid from Puerto Rico, forever in exile, forever 'the other.' The story of his journey is as compelling as it is timely.

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

Hailed as "gospel titans" by Rolling Stone, the Blind Boys of Alabama defied the considerable odds stacked against them in the segregated South, working their way up from singing for pocket change to performing for three different presidents over the course of an 80-year career that saw them break down racial barriers, soundtrack the Civil Rights movement, and help redefine modern gospel music forever.

The five-time Grammy-winners’ latest album, Echoes Of The South, draws its name from the Birmingham radio program that hosted the group’s very first professional performance back in

1944. Pairing traditional spirituals and long-lost gospel classics with vintage soul and R&B tunes, the collection is as moving as it is timeless, transcending genre and era to touch something deep and fundamental about the human condition.

These are songs of love and friendship, joy and gratitude, faith and perseverance. Uplifting as they are, the recordings can feel bittersweet at times, too: 91-year-old Jimmy Carter retired from performing following the sessions, while two longtime members, Paul Beasley and Benjamin Moore, Jr., have since passed away. Despite the losses, the Blind Boys of Alabama show no signs of slowing down.

“The spirit of the Blind Boys isn’t about what you can’t do it’s about what you can do,” says singer Ricky McKinnie. “As long as we stay true to that, as long as we sing songs that touch the heart, this group will live on forever.”

TRACK LISTING

1 Send It On Down
2 Work Until My Days Are Done
3. Friendship
4. You Can’t Hurry God
5. Jesus You've Been Good To Me
6. The Last Time
7. Keep On Pushing
8. Paul’s Prayer
9. Wide River To Cross
10. Nothing But Love
11. Heaven Help Us All

Building on the success of 2021’s Feel Flows and the Sounds Of Summer product suite, UMe will be releasing 4 new packages based on the 1972 recordings by The Beach Boys from the albums “Carl and The Passions” and “Holland” in November.

The project is expansive with 120 tracks, 80 of which are previously unreleased!

The band is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year and through 2023 and a number of tentpole events will build consumer excitement through next year.

A Look Back - DogTown & Z-Boys is the first short documentary by legendary artist/photographer Glen E. Friedman. The film looks back on an essential period in the history of skateboarding, but more directly on how the original award winning documentary affected the original surviving members of that influential team (Tony Alva, Stacy Peralta, Peggy Oki, Wentzle Ruml and others) and what they thought about the original film itself, 20 years after its release. Fu Manchu provided the entire soundtrack for the film with the songs personally curated by Glen E. Friedman. This official soundtrack recording release features all 9 tracks featured in the film in the order that they appear. The music spans the band’s entire career from “Free And Easy (Summer Girls)” from the band’s 1994 debut album, No One Rides For Free, to “Il Mostro Atomico” featuring Alex Lifeson of Rush, from their most recent full length album, Clone Of The Universe. This is the only release from the band that features two instrumentals: “Out To Sea” from 2004’s Start The Machine and “Hanglider,” which was originally released on the Japanese version of 2000’s King Of The Road.

This limited edition double LP run is pressed on one purple and one green vinyl and features an etching from legendary skater, Lance Mountain. The gatefold jacket features rare photos from Glen E. Friedman including an incredible shot of the late Jay Adams across the inside. 

TRACK LISTING

1.“Trapeze Freak”
2.“Travel Agent”
3.“Hanglider”
4.“Mongoose”
5.“Out To Sea”
6.“The Last Question”
7.“Tilt”)
8.“Free And Easy (Summer Girls)”
9.“Il Mostro Atomico”

In honor of 50 years of The Beach Boys’ timeless and often underappreciated albums, Capitol/UMC will release an expansive 5CD box set titled Feel Flows – The Sunflower and Surf’s Up Sessions 1969-1971 on Aug 27 that chronicles and explores in depth this metamorphic and highly influential 1969-1971 period of the band’s legendary career. Assembled by Mark Linett and Alan Boyd, the team behind 2013’s GRAMMY® Award-winning SMiLE Sessions, the expansive collection features newly remastered versions of Sunflower and Surf’s Up and boasts 135 tracks, including 108 previously unreleased tracks, live recordings, radio promos, alternate versions, alternate mixes, isolated backing tracks and a capella versions, culled from the album sessions.

Housed in a book style package, the set is rounded out with a 48-page book loaded with unreleased and rare photos, lyric sheets, tape box images, recording artifacts, insightful new liner notes by noted radio veteran and Beach Boys afficionado Howie Edelson, and new and archival interviews from Al Jardine, Brian Wilson, Bruce Johnston, Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Mike Love, and others. Feel Flows will also be released in abbreviated versions including 4LP on black vinyl, 2LP black vinyl and 2CD editions.

Six years after "Hello Nasty", an older, wiser and entirely essential Beastie Boys re-emerged with "To The 5 Boroughs", a passionate love letter to NYC written in the wake of 9/11. As usual they deliver their irrepressible tag team rhymes, mixing up celebrations of their home city with witty put downs of George W and his policies, and of course their usual stoopid bragging, but this time dropping them over stripped down backing tracks, that give a nod to the past (check "Triple Trouble" with its Sugarhill Gang samples), while obviously being influenced by hip hop and R'n'B's more recent electronic styles.  Four singles were released from the album, "Ch-Check It Out", "Triple Trouble", "An Open Letter to NYC", and "Right Right Now Now", but it's very difficult to choose a favourite on this career highpoint.

TRACK LISTING

Ch-Check It Out
Right Right Now Now
3 The Hard Way
It Takes Time To Build
Rhyme The Rhyme Well
Triple Trouble
Hey F*?# You
Oh Word?
That's It That's All
All Lifestyles
Shazam!
An Open Letter To NYC
Crawlspace
The Brouhaha
We Got The

American bands have never gotten in the habit of their British counterparts, who tend to release lots of extended singles filled out with not-meant-for-prime-time experimentations. If the Beasties had gotten into that habit, this would be their B-side compendium. Originally released through the Beastie Boys' French fan club, The In Sound From Way Out! is a collection of the group's funky instrumentals from Check Your Head and Ill Communication, with a couple of new tracks thrown in. The Beasties have a flair for loose, gritty funk and soul-jazz, and the stuttering, greasy keyboards of Money Mark give the music an extra edge - he helps make the music sound as authentic as anything from the early '70s.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Ricky's Theme
A2. Groove Holmes
A3. Pow
B1. Son Of Neckbone
B2. Bobo On The Corner
B3. In 3's
B4. Eugene's Lament
C1. Futterman's Rule
C2. Shambala
C3. Transitions
C4. Sabrosa
D1. Drinkin' Wine
D2. Namaste
D3. Lighten Up

The Cure's debut album came out in the summer of 1979 and unlike their subsequent doom and darkness period, it is a fine, catchy piece of clipped, new wave pop. There's a youthful exhuberance here that would slowly dissipate as the band developed.

TRACK LISTING

1 10:15 Saturday Night
2 Accuracy
3 Grinding Halt
4 Another Day
5 Object
6 Subway Song
7 Foxy Lady
8 Meat Hook
9 So What
10 Fire In Cairo
11 It's Not You
12 Three Imaginary Boys
13 The Weedy Burton

The best Beach Boys album, and one of the best of the 1960s. The group here reached a whole new level in terms of both composition and production, layering tracks upon tracks of vocals and instruments to create a richly symphonic sound. Conventional keyboards and guitars were combined with exotic touches of orchestrated strings, bicycle bells, buzzing organs, harpsichords, flutes, Theremin, Hawaiian-sounding string instruments, Coca-Cola cans, barking dogs, and more. It wouldn't have been a classic without great songs, and this has some of the group's most stunning melodies, as well as lyrical themes which evoke both the intensity of newly born love affairs and the disappointment of failed romance (add in some general statements about loss of innocence and modern-day confusion as well). The spiritual quality of the material is enhanced by some of the most gorgeous upper-register male vocals (especially by Brian and Carl Wilson) ever heard on a rock record. "Wouldn't It Be Nice," "God Only Knows," "Caroline No," and "Sloop John B" (the last of which wasn't originally intended to go on the album) are the well-known hits, but equally worthy are such cuts as "You Still Believe in Me," "Don't Talk," "I Know There's an Answer," and "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times."

TRACK LISTING

1. Wouldn't It Be Nice
2. You Still Believe In Me
3. That's Not Me
4. Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)
5. I'm Waiting For The Day
6. Let's Go Away For Awhile
7. Sloop John B
8. God Only Knows
9. I Know There's An Answer
10. Here Today
11. I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
12. Pet Sounds
13. Caroline, No

The best Beach Boys album, and one of the best of the 1960s. The group here reached a whole new level in terms of both composition and production, layering tracks upon tracks of vocals and instruments to create a richly symphonic sound. Conventional keyboards and guitars were combined with exotic touches of orchestrated strings, bicycle bells, buzzing organs, harpsichords, flutes, Theremin, Hawaiian-sounding string instruments, Coca-Cola cans, barking dogs, and more. It wouldn't have been a classic without great songs, and this has some of the group's most stunning melodies, as well as lyrical themes which evoke both the intensity of newly born love affairs and the disappointment of failed romance (add in some general statements about loss of innocence and modern-day confusion as well). The spiritual quality of the material is enhanced by some of the most gorgeous upper-register male vocals (especially by Brian and Carl Wilson) ever heard on a rock record. "Wouldn't It Be Nice," "God Only Knows," "Caroline No," and "Sloop John B" (the last of which wasn't originally intended to go on the album) are the well-known hits, but equally worthy are such cuts as "You Still Believe in Me," "Don't Talk," "I Know There's an Answer," and "I Just Wasn't Made for These Times."

TRACK LISTING

1. Wouldn't It Be Nice
2. You Still Believe In Me
3. That's Not Me
4. Don't Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)
5. I'm Waiting For The Day
6. Let's Go Away For Awhile
7. Sloop John B
8. God Only Knows
9. I Know There's An Answer
10. Here Today
11. I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
12. Pet Sounds
13. Caroline, No

Do You Love the Sun is the first new Scud Mountain Boys album since Sub Pop released the critically acclaimed Massachusetts in 1996.

After being out of contact for many years, original Scud Mountain Boys band members Joe Pernice (vocals, acoustic and electric guitars), Stephen Desaulniers (vocals, acoustic guitar, bass) and Bruce Tull (electric guitar, lap steel, pedal steel) returned to the scene in late 2011, playing an almost-impromptu reunion in Cambridge, Mass. Soon after, the band announced more shows and reissued The Early Year, a compilation of their first two albums Pine Box and Dance the Night Away. Do You Love the Sun fulfills the promise of a full-fledged recorded comeback. Their latest offering features Pernice’s inimitable marriage of graceful vocals and a resigned tone that the NME (in a 9-outof- 10 Massachusetts review) once described as “the golden voice of the damaged, regret oozing from every word like wounded honey… rendering glorious the utter inevitability of failure.” Though the band was initially lumped in with the alt-country scene helmed by Son Volt, Wilco and the hordes of other disciples of Hank Williams, the Scud Mountain Boys have always taken their inspiration as much from hooky ’70s AM-radio pop as from the dirty country road of Johnny Cash.

For the legions of Scud Mountain Boys fans that have been holding out hope for a followup to the brilliant Massachusetts, Do You Love the Sun is a welcome ten-track return from a band that has been away for too long.

TRACK LISTING

1. Do You Love The Sun
2. Double Bed
3. Crown Of Thorns
4. Learn To Love Him
5. The Mendicant
6. Orphan Girl
7. She Falls Apart
8. Theme From Midnight Cowboy
9. Drew Got Shot
10. You're Mine

Inspired by countless arguments with the other half about Playstations, football and expanding record collections "Girls Grow Up Faster Than Boys" deals with an undeniable fact in life. Uptempo acoustic guitar, maracas and a storytelling, tuneful vocal start things off. Catchy ear tickling guitar licks, sweet harmonies, glockenspiel and economic drumming create a vibe that underpins the message of the song. When the bright plucked bass opens the choruses you're most certainly hooked. Cheerful and breezy.

A sonic mind-fry of face-melting country, blues, psych and noise from this Texas Hill Country band comprised of James Arthur (Fireworks, Necessary Evils, A Feast Of Snakes), Matt Hoopengardner (the White Heat), and Denton, Texas psych/folk legend Wes Coleman. Eleven tracks of pure TX skree that draws from the same well as 13th Floor Elevators, Sir Douglas Quintet, and the Dicks, and will appeal to fans of Cheater Slicks, Alex Chilton, Gibson Brothers, and Lee Hazlewood.