For the Record

Ron Pope - Bone Structure (Ltd. Ed. Autographed Black/White Marble)
  • Apr 23, 2020
Ron Pope - Bone Structure (Ltd. Ed. Autographed Black/White Marble)

Bone Structure is not the album Ron Pope originally set out to release. While parenthood has a way of softening hard exteriors and forcing more than a few lifestyle changes, Pope found himself almost unrecognizable after becoming a father in early 2018. Before he found his footing in this extraordinary new reality, a terrifying incident on tour forced him to reckon with his own mortality and consider what it would mean for his newborn daughter if he were to die. He abandoned an album’s worth of recording sessions, no longer satisfied with generalizations and lyrics light on context; soon after, a deluge of deeply personal reflections began pouring through his pen. A change of heart? More like navigating a sea change. 

Def Leppard - High 'N' Dry (Ltd. Ed. 180G)
  • Apr 20, 2020
Def Leppard - High 'N' Dry (Ltd. Ed. 180G)

High 'N' Dry', is the first of Def Leppard's albums to be produced by Robert 'Mutt' Lange and was released in 1981. It reached #38 in the US and #26 in the UK chart, further cementing the bands status.

Sam Doores - Sam Doores (Autographed)
  • Apr 12, 2020
Sam Doores - Sam Doores (Autographed)

2020 release. 'Recording in a foreign environment like Berlin, I was inspired to experiment with more cinematic, psychedelic sounds,' says Sam Doores, 'but my love for old-school New Orleans R&B, Memphis soul and rock n' roll, Detroit Motown and gospel, doo-wop, early blues and folk music will probably always bleed into whatever I do. Recording this album was an opportunity to explore the space between these worlds.' With his captivating self-titled debut, Sam Doores has done precisely that. Written on-and-off over the course of several years, the collection is classic and contemporary all at once, blending traditional southern roots with adventurous sonic landscapes as it reckons with heartache and loss, love and gratitude, fresh starts and, ultimately, a whole lotta change. The performances are infectious in their ease, simple on the surface but built on foundations of deep emotional and harmonic complexity that belie their amiable exteriors.

Grouplove - Healer (Ltd. Ed. Blue Vinyl)
  • Apr 6, 2020
Grouplove - Healer (Ltd. Ed. Blue Vinyl)

Grouplove kicked off 2020 with their anarchistic, high-energy single "Deleter," and show no signs of slowing down on their fourth studio album Healer. The Los Angeles based five-piece has spent the past two years writing and recording their most visceral and cathartic songs to date, all while experiencing and bearing witness to a great deal of change, trauma, and growth. From recording in El Paso within eyeshot of the border during the height of the family separation crisis, to brain surgery for frontwoman Hannah Hooper, to immersing themselves in new creative spaces with producers Dave Sitek and Malay - their new album represents a re-birth and a full-circle return to their initial idealism.

Clem Snide - Forever Just Beyond (Autographed)
  • Mar 30, 2020
Clem Snide - Forever Just Beyond (Autographed)

Forever Just Beyond is the first Clem Snide record to be released in 5 years. It was produced by Scott Avett of The Avett Brothers.

Big Star - #1 Record (180G)
  • Mar 18, 2020
Big Star - #1 Record (180G)

Originally released in 1972, #1 Record is the debut album from Big Star, a critically acclaimed, Memphis-based band which is often credited with creating the power pop sound. Remastered from the analog stereo masters, this reissue will allow fans to appreciate #1 Record as a standalone album. This is the first time in many years that this version of the album will be sold independently of Big Star’s second album, Radio City. #1 Record is the only Big Star album which has the combined writing power of both founders, Alex Chilton and Chris Bell. Fervent Anglophiles, Chilton and Bell employed a Lennon/McCartney style of collaborative songwriting to create their debut—Chilton taking a visceral approach, often laying down guitar and vocal tracks in one take, while Bell added polish with overdubs and harmonies.

The Bruce Springsteen New Century Collectors Series
  • Mar 12, 2020
The Bruce Springsteen New Century Collectors Series

The New Century Collectors Series features 6 great records from "The Boss" Bruce Springsteen released between 1999-2009. Albums included in this bundle: 18 Tracks (140G) 1999 The Rising (140G 2XLP) 2002 Devils & Dust (2XLP) 2005 We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions (2XLP) 2006 Magic (180G) 2007 Working On A Dream (180G) 2009

Khruangbin & Leon Bridges - Texas Sun EP (Ltd. Ed. Orange Vinyl)
  • Mar 9, 2020
Khruangbin & Leon Bridges - Texas Sun EP (Ltd. Ed. Orange Vinyl)

Driving anywhere in Texas can cost you half a day, easy. For example, it'll take you over four hours just to get from R&B singer Leon Bridges' hometown of Fort Worth down to Houston, where the psychedelic wanderers in Khruangbin hail from. The state is vast, crisscrossed with rugged expanses of road flanked by limestone cliffs and granite mountains, forests of pine and mesquite, miles of desert or acres of sprawling grassland, all depending on what part you're in. And it's all baking under the Texas Sun that lends it's name to Bridges and Khruangbin's new collaborative EP. "Big sky country, that's what they call Texas," Khruangbin bassist Laura Lee says. "The horizon line goes all the way from one side to another without interruption. There's something really comforting about that." On Texas Sun, these two members of the state's musical vanguard meet up somewhere in the middle of that scene, in the mythical nexus of Texas' past, present, and future-a dreamy badlands where genres blur as seamlessly as the terrain. It calls equally to the cowboys boot-scooting at Billy Bob's in Fort Worth, the chopped-and-screwed hip-hop fans rattling slabs on the southside of Houston, the art-school kids dropping acid in Austin, the cross-cultural progeny who grew up on listening to both mariachi and post-hardcore out on the Mexican borders of El Paso. All of these things, overlapping in a multicolored melange, purple hues as vivid and unpredictable as one of the state's rightfully celebrated sunsets. A journey through homesick reminiscences, backseat romances, and late-night contemplations, the kind of record made for listening with the windows down and the road humming softly beneath you. Like the highways that inspired it, Texas Sun is guaranteed to get you where you're going-especially if you're in no particular hurry to get there.