VIA PRESS RELEASE | Varèse Sarabande and Craft Recordings announce the first-ever vinyl release of Basil Poledouris’ thrilling score for the 1997 cult classic, Starship Troopers. This 2-LP Extended Edition includes 29 cues from the film, remastered by Chas Ferry and Melinda Hurley. The album is housed in a gatefold jacket, featuring new artwork by […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | Originally released in 1973, this year marks fifty years since the release of Tom Waits’ highly influential debut album Closing Time. To commemorate the occasion, new 50th anniversary vinyl is out now. Available in black and clear versions as a double 180g LP cut at 45 RPM with half speed mastering […]
Artists need to be inspired to create their best works, and it’s not always easy to have the wherewithal to clearly see the inspiration around us. In fact, for a musician, the insight to this inspiration is often more important than musical or production ability. Listeners love sounds that touch them on an emotional level, […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | Trojan Records release the final set of releases from their new The Essential Artist Collection—a brand new series of artist-focused compilation albums showcasing some of the very best talent from the label’s esteemed roster, in Desmond Dekker and Marcia Griffiths. Championing their stellar catalogues, the series highlights the most important ska […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | Today, internationally renowned singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette celebrates her birthday. Nearly two decades ago, she released her jampacked greatest hits CD, The Collection, which will see its vinyl debut this summer. The Collection will be available on August 25 as a 2-LP ($34.98) on black vinyl. Pre-order HERE. A transparent grape-vinyl version […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | Jazz Dispensary is proud to announce the next harvest of its offerings from the acclaimed Top Shelf series, with a triple groove of reissues featuring Jack DeJohnette’s Sorcery, Idris Muhammad’s Black Rhythm Revolution!, and Leon Spencer’s Where I’m Coming From. These reissues mark the first wide vinyl release of all three […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | “The divinity of art. The one that upsets us, stirs us, inspires us and makes tears flow. This voice coming from elsewhere, stripped of all artifice to exist only thanks to itself, to its fragility as much as to the unshakeable awareness of its power.” —Raphaël Duprez, Indiemusic.fr Singer and composer […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | Little Richard’s one-of-a-kind career veered wildly from the sacred to the profane, but everything he did was profound; he was one of the greatest gospel and rock and roll singers of all time. And you can scale the dizzying heights of both sides of the man’s mountainous talent on this 15-track […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | Mixed Bag (aka The Mixed Bag) was an all-star project from Detroit/Ann Harbor area who released one of the most obscure albums on the Tribe Records label in the ’70s (and one of the greatest too). The line-up is impressing to say the least: On bass we have Ron Brooks (who […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, has released the full album from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Season 5 (Music From The Amazon Original Series) today, Friday, May 26. The digital album now features songs from the entire fifth season with 6 new songs added, including a Tegan and […]
One of my old film professors used to say that one had never really seen a film unless they had watched it at least once with the sound off. Audio—be it music, or sound—adds so much detail to a moving picture that sometimes the viewer misses a few visual nuances because they’re also busy listening. […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | Welcome to Feel The Wind—maybe one of the greatest team-ups in Jazz history featuring jazz superstars Art Blakey and Freddie Hubbard! Art Blakey (1919–1990) needs little introduction, the American Jazz drummer and bandleader made a name for himself in the 1940s and 1950s playing with contemporaries such as Miles Davis, Dizzy […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | The Last Samurai marked master screen composer Hans Zimmer’s 100th score, and it was and is perhaps his best. The 2003 film starred Tom Cruise as a Civil War soldier who travels to Japan and becomes embroiled in the clash between the Imperial Japanese Army and traditional Japanese samurai culture, lending […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | “Jesse Rifkin pulls the reader along with him on this wild and deeply researched nostalgia trip through New York’s vanished music scene, starting in the Greenwich Village coffeehouses in the 1950s and ending in present-day Brooklyn. This dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker loved it!” —Alice Sparberg Alexiou, author of The Devil’s Mile, The […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | In 1973, Garrett Saracho was an ambitious 23-year-old jazz musician from East Los Angeles, having just released his debut album, En Medio (as Gary Saracho) on Impulse! Records, representing what the New York Times praised as the label’s “West Coast contingent.” Despite receiving a five-star review from DownBeat magazine, the authority […]
