The Aquabats! Super Show was the first success of many attempts to bring the comedy rock ska group to the small screen, thanks in part to Christian Jacobs and Scott Schultz, creator of ‘Lab fave Yo Gabba Gabba. Reminiscent of Sid and Marty Krofft’s 70’s work and Japanese tokusatsu (Power Rangers, Kamen Rider, Robocon… We could…
Record Store Day Exclusive. Rare cover versions on vinyl for the first time just for RSD BLK FRI 2016! Launched in 2005, the blog Aquarium Drunkard has become a daily destination for many on a never ending quest for musical discovery. In 2011, AQD established The Lagniappe Sessions featuring some of the site s favorite artists…
Creature Comfort is a standout track from Arcade Fire s 5th studio album, Everything Now, and Geoff Barrow re-rubs the tune over Sleng Teng riddim. The fully-synthesized, instantly recognizable instrumental sounds great under the song (especially the chorus – On and on, I don t know if I want it ), and the Portishead member…
Two tracks for the fans! Arcade Fire offer up two outtakes from the recording sessions for Reflektor. We ve heard Get Right before, performed live and as part of the commercial the band released for Reflektor. It s a bluesy piece that sounds closer to modern indie rock than the inventive material that Arcade Fire have…
It s about being there for each other and helping each other through scary times and anxiety. Ariana Grande released Sweetner about a year after the devastating bombing at her 2017 Manchester show, and the global star puts it best when she says: I wanted to give people a hug, musically. Pharrell handles more than…
Collection of Arthur Russell s instrumental sessions from the mid 70s to early 80s. The first set, Instrumentals 1974 Volume 1 , collects a series of sessions recorded at Chelsea multi-disciplinary art space The Kitchen when Russell was 23 years old, had just moved to New York City and was crashing on Allen Ginsburg s couch. Volume 2…
The many facets of Arthur Russell seem to reveal themselves one album at a time. The avant-garde cellist was as just as comfortable stretching out on the dancefloor as he was performing solo pieces at the Kitchen, the storied experimental performance space in New York City. For every Loose Joints 12 that s been pressed up, there s…
UNINTELLIGIBLE! shouts the marketing sticker, and we can t really argue with that. World Of Echo was originally released in 1986 on Rough Trade Records (!) and sounds timeless to this very day. Arthur Russell s deconstructed cello songs float by like lullabies conjured rom the ether. It s the most authentic personal statement that he ever…
Non-Zero Possibility. Many of us spent the entire duration of The Mars Volta’s run praying that Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez would just put down the peyote and come back to punk, as At The Drive-In called it quits just as the head-splitting ferocity of 2000’s Relationship Of Command positioned the crew to be one…
translucent red colored vinyl pressing limited edition of 1,500 printed inner lyrics sheet remastered sound from the original tapes recorded + mixed in Studio Fredman, Gothenburg, May – July 1995 part of the Metal Matters reissue series music label: Earache Records 2018
Limited edition reissue of Ataxia s second album. AW II contains the final half of the sole 2004 recording session from the original Ataxia lineup consisting of former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante, current RCHP guitarist Josh Klinghoffer on drums, and Fugazi s Joe Lally on bass. Here the short-lived group takes a more experimental and lo-fi…
You know those movies where the picture just starts to slow down… and melt? Then catch fire? Well, that s Berlin… Official soundtrack to the 2017 film based on Antony Johnston s graphic novel The Coldest City starring Charlize Theron. Includes cues from Tyler Bates score slotted alongside a few notable classics revolving around the film s…
first vinyl edition, colored with animated etchings edition of 1000 20 year anniversary edition of the sole non-FCC-violating An*l C*nt album. Beautiful acoustic guitar ballads with lovely falsetto singing. “Sensitive Seth Putnam serenades you with heart warming ditties such as “I Wanna Grow Old With You , “My Woman, My Lover, My Friend , and “In My…
Aziz Ansari took a more inward look with his third comedy special. The Parks and Recreation star had recently turned 30 and saw the people around him getting married and having kids. The routines on Buried Alive are centered around love, relationships, marriage and parenting rather than the social experiences of Ansari s earlier material….
Great Scott! It s the Back To The Future soundtrack on pic disc! Relive all the moments from Robert Zemeckis  1985 film with the official OST featuring classic tunes from Huey Louis And The News ( gotta get back in time! ), Eric Clapton, Etta James, Marvin Berry & The Starlighters, and more. Easily one of the greatest…
Bad Brains first LP from 1982. Considered by many as one of the best hardcore LPs ever, the Bad Brains self titled debut brought a new dynamic to the Hardcore scene. Not only could the band blaze bonfires with their speed and intensity, but they could also chop the bpms in half inna dub style….