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After 16 years, THE CURE is back with their 14th studio album, SONGS OF A LOST WORLD. Songs from the record were previewed during their 90-date, 33-country ‘Shows Of A Lost World’ tour for more than 1.3 million people to overwhelming fan and critical acclaim. Speaking about, “Alone,” the opening track on the album, Robert Smith says, “It’s the track that unlocked the record; as soon as we had that piece of music recorded, I knew it was the opening song and I felt the whole album come into focus... that was the moment when I knew the song – and the album – were real.” Robert Smith created the sleeve concept and Andy Vella, a longtime Cure collaborator, handled the album’s art and design. The cover art features ‘Bagatelle,’ a 1975 sculpture by Janez Pirnat.
Elvis Costello: King of America & Other Realms – The collection is anchored by CD1: a new 2024 remaster of the album King Of America from the original master tapes. CD2 is a collection of songs featuring studio recordings, previously unreleased demos, outtakes & live recordings from this wild and wonderfully odd odyssey.
Raised in Long Beach, Lil Peep (born Gustav Åhr) launched his career through the self-release of his music online as a teenager. He garnered attention in 2015 following the success of a slew of singles and his first solo mixtapes, "Lil Peep; Part One" and "Live Forever". Over the course of two years, Peep amassed millions of fans, who connected with him through his gritty lyrics that explored themes of love, loss and loneliness. Branded "the future of emo" by Pitchfork in January 2017, Peep's genre-bending style contributed to his reputation as a pioneer of the late 2010s post-emo revival, dishing out a handful of full-lengths and several extended-plays all before the release of his debut album "Come Over When You're Sober, Pt. 1" in 2017. After his breakthrough 2016 mixtapes "Crybaby" and "Hellboy" made waves in underground circles, Peep toured the United States and Europe, walked the runways at Fashion Week and began collaborating with increasingly prominent artists between New York, Los Angeles and London throughout 2017. At the time of his death just two weeks after his 21st birthday, Peep had achieved status as one of the scene's most promising rising stars. Since his emergence in 2015, he has racked up 5 billion views on YouTube and over 20 billion streams across all platforms.
Often revered as one of the most important debut albums of all time, Weezer’s “blue” album celebrates 30 years with
an extensive Deluxe 3CD boxset.
The album has been newly remastered from the original analog tapes, and the set includes 50 tracks, 36 of which
were previously unreleased, including 8 Kitchen Tape Demos, 22 early practices and live recordings, 6 BBC radio
recordings (2 never broadcasted), and 4 tracks from their LMU sessions.
Karl Koch updates the history of the album with new liner notes in issue #18 of the Weezine, along with laying out all
of the artwork throughout the box set filled with unreleased photos.
The boxset comes with 4 lithographs, a poster for the garage, song-themed sticker sheet, 12-sided dice and an enamel
Bokkus pin.
DELUXE 3CD
CD ONE
- My name is Jonas
- No one else
- The World has turned and left me here
- Buddy Holly
- Undone – the Sweater song
- Surf Wax America
- Say it ain’t so
- In the garage
- Holiday
- Only in dreams
- My name is Jonas (Live on BBC Evening Sessions) - Previously unreleased
- In the garage (Live on BBC Evening Sessions) - Previously unreleased
- No one else (Live on BBC Evening Sessions) - Previously unreleased
- Surf Wax America (Live on BBC Evening Sessions) - Previously unreleased
- Buddy Holly (Acoustic – Live on Greater London Radio) - Previously unreleased
- Undone – the Sweater song (Acoustic – Live on Greater London Radio) - Previously unreleased
CD TWO
- Say it ain’t so (The Kitchen Tape Demos)- Previously unreleased
- The World has turned and left me here (The Kitchen Tape Demos)- Previously unreleased
- Paperface (The Kitchen Tape Demos)
- Undone – the Sweater song (The Kitchen Tape Demos)
- Thief, You’ve taken all that was me (The Kitchen Tape Demos)- Previously unreleased
- My name is Jonas (The Kitchen Tape Demos)- Previously unreleased
- Let’s sew our pants together (The Kitchen Tape Demos)- Previously unreleased
- Only in dreams (The Kitchen Tape Demos)
- I can’t forget this way (Third Practice) - Previously unreleased
- Undone – the Sweater song (Third Practice) - Previously unreleased
- The World has turned and left me here (Third Practice) - Previously unreleased
- Windows down (Garage Practice) - Previously unreleased
- My name is Jonas (Garage Practice) - Previously unreleased
- Only in dreams (Garage Practice) - Previously unreleased
- Superman (Garage Practice) - Previously unreleased
- Dawn sets upon us (Garage Practice) - Previously unreleased
- Just what I needed (Rehearsal Demo) - Previously unreleased
- Buddy Holly (Rehearsal Demo) - Previously unreleased
CD THREE
- Let’s sew our pants together (Live at 8121 Club) - Previously unreleased
- Paperface (Live at 8121 Club) - Previously unreleased
- Only in dreams (Live at 8121 Club) - Previously unreleased
- Conversationalist (Wax Cover/Adaptation) (Live at Coconut Teaszer) - Previously unreleased
- Undone – the Sweater song (Live at English Acid) - Previously unreleased
- My name is Jonas (Live at English Acid) - Previously unreleased
- No one else (Live at Club Lingerie) - Previously unreleased
- The World has turned and left me here (Live at Club Lingerie) - Previously unreleased
- Jamie (Live at Club Lingerie) - Previously unreleased
- Lullabye for Wayne (Live at Club Lingerie) - Previously unreleased
- Say it ain’t so (Live at Club Lingerie) - Previously unreleased
- China Grove (Live at Club Lingerie) - Previously unreleased
- Jamie (Take 6 – LMU Sessions)
- My name is Joans (LMU Sessions) - Previously unreleased
- Jamie (Take 5 – LMU Sessions) - Previously unreleased
- Luallabye for Wayne (LMU Sessions) - Previously unreleased
When Gaerea emerged out of pandemic limbo, the masked band came branded with a vision of black metal that was guided not by myths or pagan beliefs but a purging of emotion. The world quickly came to share that vision, following them from the gates of Hellfest to tours through China and the U.S.
But with ‘Coma’, Gaerea are no longer strictly black metal. Though once again produced by trusted confidant Miguel Tereso, their fourth album broadens their signature sound by taking it in two seemingly opposed directions. There are more moments of intense beauty, but they only heighten the ensuing blows.
“World Ablaze” ignited this new era of Gaerea by holding a more conventional song structure over fiery tremolo picking. “Hope Shatters” upends even the loftiest of fan expectations; after the song collapses under its blistering heaviness, the melody hangs perilously in the air, like a swaying chandelier, before it’s smashed to pieces by hammering bass and concussive blast beats. “I’ve known faces within me”, their unnamed vocalist cries in the wake of a slow and somber guitar solo before “Unknown” snaps into a razor-sharp hook. “I transform with every passing moment”.
With ‘Coma’, Gaerea surface to the top of extreme metal.
Halsey - The Great Impersonator - CD
Halsey's fifth studio album The Great Impersonator is due out on Columbia Records on October 25th. In this confessional, concept album, Halsey explores who she would be as an artist and a person if she existed throughout different decades. Jewel Box CD with 4-page booklet.
“Christmas is constant,” says Ben Folds. “Allowing you to take stock of what’s different, to understand who you are and all the ways you’ve grown and changed.” That notion lies at the heart of Folds’ brilliantly titled new holiday collection, Sleigher. Built on an eclectic mix of originals and reimagined classics, the album examines thepassage of time through the lens of Christmas, reflecting on memory, loss, and longing as it explores the variety of ways the yuletide season marks the chapters of our lives. The songs are playful here, full of humor and cheer, but they’re also laced with an inescapable sense of melancholy, a looming darkness that always seems to hover around the periphery of those late December nights. Folds’ performances, meanwhile, flirt with the standards while stretching the boundaries of tradition, at times offering up flashes of Vince Guaraldi and Burt Bacharach while still remaining true to Folds’ singularly virtuosic brand of off-kilter indie pop. The result is not so much a Ben Folds Christmas record as it is a Ben Folds record set at Christmas, a meditation on the inexorable turning of the calendar and our ever changing selves as observed at the most wonderful—and challenging—time of the year.
Jovin Webb dazzled millions of viewers on American Idol with his bayou mystique, his humility, and his distinctive gravelly vocals. Now, the Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based artist steps forward with his debut album, Drifter, produced by multi-Grammy winner Tom Hambridge (Buddy Guy, Susan Tedeschi, Kingfish). The 12-song collection is a vibrant mix of growling low-down blues, Jovin’s wailing harmonica, heartfelt soul ballads, and rowdy, Little Richards-style rock n’ roll. After hearing Jovin for the first time, R&B superstar Lionel Richie gushed: “This is what barbecue sauce sounds like.” Best-selling country music star Luke Bryan added: “I could sit and drink a lot of bourbon listening to that voice.” Drifter is the sound of a blues life searching for a gospel redemption. “It’s me trying to figure out religion, women, my career, and everything I’ve gone through,” Jovin says. The twelve tracks on Drifter evoke a blues classicism without ever feeling nostalgic or derivative.
The latest album from BONZIE, When I Found The Trap Door affirms her as the rare pop visionary with the power to transform our perception of the world. Since releasing her debut project at age 15, the Chicago-bred singer/songwriter/producer/mul