Sometimes, Mitski says, it feels like life would be easier without hope, or a soul, or love. But when she closes her eyes and thinks about what�s truly hers, what can�t be repossessed or demolished, she sees love. �The best thing I ever did in my life was to love people,� Mitski says. �I wish I could leave behind all the love I have, after I die, so that I can shine all this goodness, all this good love that I�ve created onto other people.� She hopes her newest album, The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We, will continue to shine that love long after she�s gone. Listening to it, that�s precisely how it feels: like a love that�s haunting the land.

�This is my most American album,� Mitski says about her seventh record, and the music feels like a profound act of witnessing this country, in all of its private sorrows and painful contradictions. In this album, which is sonically Mitski�s most expansive, epic, and wise, the songs seem to be introducing wounds and then actively healing them. Here, love is time-traveling to bless our tender days, like the light from a distant star.

The album is full of the ache of the grown- up, seemingly mundane heartbreaks and joys that are often unsung but feel enormous. It�s a tiny epic. From the bottom of a glass, to a driveway slushy with memory and snow, to a freight train barreling through the Midwest, and all the way to the moon, it feels like everything, and everyone, is crying out, screaming in pain, arching towards love. Love is that inhospitable land, beckoning us and then rejecting us. To love this place � this earth, this America, this body � takes active work. It might be impossible. The best things are.

Killer Mike�s MICHAEL marks the celebrated MC�s first solo project since 2012�s R.A.P. Music. MICHAEL introduces the world to the totality of Michael Render, a lifelong rap fiend whose consciousness is steeped in the sounds of community that raised him � multiple eras of southern rap flows, Sunday church service and barbershop discourse. A 14-track album produced by No ID featuring the likes of Future, Young Thug, Ty Dolla $ign, Curren$y, Andr� 3000, 6LACK, EL-P, Blxst, Eryn Allen Kane and more! 2 LP set includes a 24� x 12� pull-out insert.

The indie exclusive of STONE LP is a ruby red LP housed in a heavyweight printed inner sleeve inside of a spot UV gatefold jacket with black flood and a four-panel lyric booklet. All artwork by John Dyer Baizley. Produced by Baroness, mixed by Joe Barresi, mastered by Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering. Only available at independent record stores.

Grammy-award nominated heavy rock outfit Baroness mark their much-anticipated return with new album, STONE. Their sixth record overall and third released via Abraxan Hymns, STONE finds the Philadelphia-based quartet of John Baizley (guitars/vocals/illustration), Gina Gleason (guitars), Nick Jost (bass), and Sebastian Thomson (drums) streamlining the momentous multi-genre vocabulary of its critically-acclaimed predecessor Gold & Grey (2019). This is still very much Baroness�just refocused for efficiency and rethought as a consequence of stability. STONE�s most prominent tracks, "Last Word,� �Beneath the Rose,� �Shine,� and �Anodyne," reflect thoughtfully, groove deeply, and refract tumult effortlessly. They, of course, rock.

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The Goo GooDollsDizzy Up the Girlis the sixth studio album by the Goo GooDolls. Originally released on September 22, 1998the album is now celebrating it's 25th anniversary. It is the band's best-selling album with over 5 million sales in the US. Dizzy Up the Girlfeatures five hit singles: "Iris", "Dizzy", "Slide", "Broadway", and "Black Balloon" and the limited edition 25th Anniversary vinyl is pressed on metallic silver vinyl.

End, the enigmatic new album by Explosions in the Sky, was inspired by darkness, but became a loud, dramatic, wild rumination on life and death. "Our starting point was the concept of an ending-death, or the end of a friendship or relationship. Every song comes from a story, or an idea one of us has had that we've all expanded on and made it's own world. Maybe it's our nature, but we kept feeling that the album title was ultimately open to a lot more interpretation-the end of a thing or a time can mean a stop, but it can also mean a beginning, and what happens after one thing ends might pale in comparison to what it becomes next," says the band about the album. End is perhaps the "grandest" Explosions In The Sky album - melding the quiet restraint and crushing feel of their early releases with the sonic texturing and ornate experimentation of their later releases, and their increasingly deep film and television scoring catalog, influenced by personal tastes stretching from classical to soul to experimental ambient music.

Celebrate the 5th anniversary of Leon Bridges Grammy-winning album Good Thing. The limited-edition title features a custard color variant, the original track list, and a bonus track �Naomi� originally released on the 2018 Japan Edition. Good Thing was nominated for Best R&B Album, and the track �Bet Ain�t Worth The Hand� won Best Traditional R&B Performance at the 2019 Grammy Awards.�

First establishing himself as an influential poet, then an award-winning screenwriter/actor, Saul Williams then went on to become an MC. His approach to MCing, though, wasn't exactly in line with the traditional school of hip hop. His rhymes weren't really rhymes, but rather his poetry delivered in a frenzied, spoken word manner that was more rhythmic than alliterate. Released in 2004, this self-titled album features guests like Zach de la Roca and members from Mars Volta.

Meteora, Linkin Park's ground-breaking second album, was released in March 2003 and included the global hit singles "Somewhere I Belong", "Faint", "Numb", "Breaking The Habit" and "From The Inside." It has sold over 8 million copies in the US and has been certified multi-platinum, platinum, or gold in 15 countries. Vinyl Reissue

Multi-platinum selling artist Thirty Seconds to Mars makes a triumphant return with their sixth studio album, It�s The End Of The World But It�s A Beautiful Day. The record heralds a new era for the band, one that not only explores the darker sides of the human experience but the hope as well, an arresting reminder that even in the face of seemingly impossible obstacles, there is still beauty to be found in the world.

HUEY LEWIS & THE NEWS' BREAKTHROUGH SPORTS - Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Huey Lewis and the News' third album, Sports. Originally released on September 15, 1983, the album had four top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 and ranked at #2 on the Billboard year-end album charts in 1984. Featuring the hits "The Heart of Rock & Roll, " "If This Is It, " "Heart and Soul" and "I Want a New Drug." Available on black vinyl.

United Blood is the debut EP 7" from New York hardcore band Agnostic Front. It was originally released in 1983 on their own AF Records label.

On From Left to Right, the great Bill Evans plays both Fender Rhodes and acoustic piano simultaneously in real time, trading off themes and improvisations with impeccable taste and unique talent. First released on the MGM label in 1971, the album showcases Evans backed by his trio of that period, featuring Eddie Gomez on bass, Marty Moren on drums, and guitarist Sam Brown.

It's a testament to Jimmy Smith's volcanic creativity that the Hammond B3 organ firebrand recorded not one but two soul jazz classics-Midnight Special and Back at the Chicken Shack-in a single day when he entered Van Gelder Studio on April 25, 1960 with Stanley Turrentine on tenor saxophone, Kenny Burrell on guitar, and Donald Bailey on drums. Smith had been a self-taught pianist before abandoning the instrument in 1954 in favor of the organ, renting a Philadelphia warehouse, and woodshedding for a year until he emerged with a revolutionary style that immediately caught the ear Alfred Lion. The Blue Note boss dubbed him The Incredible Jimmy Smith and recorded the B3 innovator as frequently as he could between 1956-1963. Midnight Special opens with the soulful title track which chugs along at a laid-back pace giving ample space for Smith, Turrentine, and Burrell to state their case. Other highlights of the set include the up-tempo burner "Jumpin' the Blues" and a deeply felt ballad performance of the standard "Why Was I Born?" This Blue Note Classic Vinyl Edition is stereo, all-analog, mastered by Kevin Gray from the original master tapes, and pressed on 180g vinyl at Optimal.

Remastered version of the album, housed in the original jacket with a printed sleeves and pressed on 180gm Coke Bottle Clear vinyl. Indie Exclusive. Limited Edition.

The Remastered albums are available in the following formats: Limited Edition Super Deluxe 10CD/Blu-ray, Deluxe 2CD, CD, LP, Limited Edition Deluxe 4LP, Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Coke Bottle Clear LP, Half Speed LP

Indie Exclusive * Few records helped build the post-hardcore scene as swiftly as the Story Of The Year�s debut, Page Avenue. Featuring hits like �Until The Day I Die,� �Anthem Of Our Dying Day,� and �Sidewalks,� Page Avenue was one of the first albums of its kind to sell a million copies and cemented Story Of The Year�s place in the genre. The album peaked at number 1 and number 51 on the Billboard Heatseekers Albums chart Billboard 200 respectively and has since been certified Platinum in the United States. Singles �Until The Day I Die" charted at number 12 on the Alternative Songs chart and �Anthem of Our Dying Day� at number 10 on Modern Rock Tracks.�

Black Rainbows is a musical project inspired by the objects and artworks collected by Theaster Gates at the Stoney Island Arts Bank in Chicago. Situated at the Great Grand Crossing neighborhoods of Chicago's South Side, Stoney Island Arts Bank is a cathedral to Black Art, a curated collection of Black archives comprising books, sculpture, records, furniture and problematic objects from America's past. As well as being a site for archive, the Arts bank is also a place for convening. Bailey Rae attended The Black Artists Retreat there in 2017 and performed in the space.

Wide ranging in it's themes, Black Rainbows' subjects are drawn from encounters with objects in the Arts Bank. Taking us from the rock hewn churches of Ethiopia, to the journeys of Black Pioneers Westward, from Miss New York Transit Queen 1957, to how the sunset appears from Harriet Jacobs' loophole. Black Rainbows explores Black femininity, Spell Work, Inner Space/Outer Space, time collapse and ancestors, the erasure Black childhood and music as a vessel for transcendence. The project will be released in various iterations - live performances, books, visuals, lectures, exhibitions, and more. Sonically, the album is a multi-genre mix of the progressive R&B, neo soul sound that will be familiar to fans but it also contains rock, jazz and electronic elements. The album was produced by S.J. Brown and Corinne Bailey Rae.

Double 180gm grey and white colored vinyl LP pressing. Hollywood Park is a 12-song concept album by The Airborne Toxic Event that draws from scenes and themes in frontman Mikel Jollett's memoir of the same name. Incorporating real audio from his family, gospel singers and orchestral flourishes, the record is his attempt to capture the high hopes of his parents, the difficult times that followed and his ultimate redemption, which came from finding acceptance of self and love of family.

Released on the Impulse! Records label in early 1966, the songs are a mix of new compositions and re-workings of tunes John Lee Hooker had previously recorded, and includes a cover of Barrett Strong's 1959 Motown hit "Money (That's What I Want)." With Panama Francis on drums, Milt Hinton on bass, and Barry Galbraith on second guitar, the result is some of the best John Lee Hooker material with a band that you're likely to come across

The Horace Silver Quintet of 1959 was a hard bop juggernaut featuring the pianist with trumpeter Blue Mitchell, saxophonist Junior Cook, bassist Gene Taylor and drummer Louis Hayes. Timeless originals like "Sister Sadie," "Peace," and the blustery title track make Blowin' The Blues Away one of the finest entries in Silver's formidable discography. Blue Note Classic Vinyl Series features stereo, all-analog mastering by Kevin Gray from the original tapes and pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Optimal. Musicians: Blue Mitchell-trumpet / Junior Cook-saxophone / Horace Silver-piano / Gene Taylor-bass / Louis Hayes-drums

Re-issue of Cate Le Bon's 2016 4 track EP recorded during the sessions for her Crab day album originally released on Drag City. Long out of print and currently copies selling on discogs for $60.00-$75.00 the EP is now available Cate Le Bon self-described the recordings as "Rock Pool is the killed darlings from the Crab Day sessions brought back to life on a classic 2-2 formation. Written under the same banner of the impossibly absurd and emerging to unimaginable bedlam".

Guitar luminary + Tuareg folk hero Omara �Bombino� Moctar knows the nomadic life well. Being constantly on the road for his music while also perpetually on the move throughout the Sahel region of Africa is the norm. So when the pandemic brought the world to a screeching halt, Bombino found himself in an unfamiliar space: being in one place. What resulted was Sahel, the follow-up to 2018�s Deran, a record that turned Bombino into the first-ever GRAMMY-nominated artist from Niger. This new collection of songs, named after the African region spanning East-West from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, is Bombino�s most personal, powerful, and politically-minded work to date. It�s also his most sonically diverse, a quality he set out to achieve from the start, and one that is meant to directly mirror the complex tapestry of cultures and people that make up the Sahel region itself. To bring the songs to life, Bombino worked with Welsh producer/ mixer David Wrench (David Byrne, Frank Ocean, Caribou, Goldfrapp, Erasure, The xx, Sampha), decamping with his bandmates to a studio in Casablanca for ten days to lay down the album. The songs that comprise Sahel range in theme from the plight of the Tuareg, to the ache of lost love, to the follies of youth.

Vinyl LP pressing.

Rapper's Delight: A Taste of Sugar Hill Records (1979-1986) (2LP Orange Crush Vinyl) / A Classic Hip Hop Collection For First Time On Vinyl! Releasing in an Exclusive 'Iced Orange' colorway, this exclusive vinyl includes classic tracks from the Sugar Hill Records vault like "Rapper's Delight", "That's The Joint", "Apache", "White Lines" & more.