New Stuff!

David Cross- Bigger and Blackerer (CD/DVD)

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There’s an ease to his delivery that belies the album’s overblown title, but Bigger and Blackerer is indeed a bigger to-do than any of Cross’ previous projects, and not just because it was recorded at two consecutive shows at Boston’s Wilbur Theatre, a venue considerably larger than those that provided the staging grounds for Shut Up, You Fucking Baby! and It’s Not Funny. The two shows aren’t cut together into a seamless string of highlights, but rather presented as one CD and one DVD containing the two different performances, which turns out to be a bit of a godsend for comedy nerds who can now linger in the minute differences between the two performances, hearing how Cross twists the same material just a few hours later, following the different detours in each performance. No other comedy album or video has been presented like this, and it helps make Bigger and Blackerer something a little bit more than a very good comedy album. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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Smokin’ Joe Kubek & Bnois King- Have Blues Will Travel

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With Have Blues, Will Travel, Smokin’ Joe Kubek & Bnois King take another giant step forward. Kubek and King wrote or co-wrote all twelve songs, and, along with their road-tested rhythm section, they ignite a blues fire with enough heat to fuel an all-night party. The chemistry between Kubek’s blistering fretwork and King’s savvy vocals and unpredictable, multifaceted guitar work creates a roadhouse blend of muscular blues-rock, hip-shaking shuffles and slow-burning blues that is simply impossible to resist. Each song is infused with deep, from-the-heart musicianship, carefully crafted, true-to-life lyrics and delivered with the occasional wry smile. King calls Have Blues, Will Travel the best record the band has ever made.

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Bill Kirchen- Word To The Wise

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Bill Kirchen’s sophomore release for Proper American, celebrating more than 40 years in the business with featured performances by longtime Kirchen collaborators Elvis Costello, Paul Carrick, Nick Lowe, Dan Hicks, Maria Muldaur, Chris O’Connell, Commander Cody, Norton Buffalo and Blackie Farrell, among others.

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Flying Lotus- Cosmogramma

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When global bass music matriarch Mary Anne Hobbs recently told The Fader ”Flying Lotus, for me,is like the Hendrix of his generation”, it seemed more than an audacious opinion, and with the arrival of Cosmogramma, it’s revealed as a revelation. In the past couple of years since his debut album, Los Angeles, Flying Lotus has grown into the position of being far more than a producer, he has helped materialize a far-reaching strain of musical ideology that has encompassed not only a global family of like-minded artists, but also a nearly infinite palate of planetary (and interplanetary) sonics. No longer simply an outgrowth of Ellisona’s machines, the music here is also the product of live instrumentalists from the worlds that Cosmogramma engages. There’s the constant bass presence of ”Thundercat”, a cornerstone of Sa-Ra Creative; there’s Rebekah Raff’s harp connecting the dots between the music of Harry Partch and Ghostface Killah (both of which she’s performed); there’s an appearance by the tenor sax of Steven’s cousin and jazz royalty, Ravi Coltrane, and by the voice of one Thom Yorke, an Oxford bloke taking respite from singing in the most influential rock band of the 21st century.

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Nas & Damian Marley- Distant Relatives

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International Hip Hop superstar Nas and Grammy-winning artist Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley join creative forces to release this highly anticipated and exciting 2010 collaboration. This is an album created by the two serious artists to explore and celebrate the correlations and deep-rooted connections between reggae and Hip Hop, tracing both sounds back to the African motherland that is both the cradle of humanity and the wellspring of mankind’s music. The project features the signature instrumentation and musicianship of Marley with the hard-hitting beats and lyrics of Nas. Distant Relatives traces the direct line from Dancehall Reggae’s breakthrough moment 40 years ago to the rise of Hip Hop several years later.

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The National- High Violet

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High Violet, the new full-length record by the National, is a nervy, melodic, explosive and beautiful set of songs that find the band at the height of their collaborative powers. The music is wide-ranging in its moods, by turns intimate and rough, expansive and spare, full of stark angles and atmosphere. Berninger’s singing—wild, half-broken, sly—evokes a feeling of being haunted, by love, by paranoia, by something just out of reach. High Violet may be The National’s most thematically twisted record to date but it somehow also manages to be their most infectious and immediate. Record Theatre’s CD stock has the “Limited Edition CD with Deluxe Foil Package & Bonus Poster Designed by the Band”. This title is aslo available on vinyl & is selling fast!

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Reflection Eternal - Revolutions Per Minute

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Since 1997, Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek have achieved critical success as the rap & producer collaboration known as Reflection Eternal.
Talib Kweli has established himself as one of rap’s premier acts, delivering stunning, uplifting singles like ‘Get By’ and acclaimed, well-rounded and thought-provoking albums like 2007′s ‘Eardrum.’
Hi-Tek has become one of rap’s go-to producers, working extensively with Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, 50 Cent, G-Unit, The Game and Ghostface Killah, among others.

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Bettye LaVette- Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook

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Bettye LaVette brings the British Invasion home to its American R&B roots on Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook. Produced by Bettye, Rob Mathes and Michael Stevens, the album is a 13 song journey through compositions by the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd among others, concluding right where the very idea for Interpretations started: Bettye s visceral rendition of The Who’s Love Reign O er Me from the 2008 Kennedy Center Honors, which appears here as a bonus track. That performance which first brought Bettye together with Stevens (the event s producer) and Mathes (its musical director) showcased for a national television audience what her devoted fanbase already knew: Bettye LaVette is without parallel as an interpreter of popular song. The success of this performance lead to another astonishing moment on the national stage, her duet of Sam Cooke s Change Is Gonna Come with Jon Bon Jovi at the Obama Inaugural Concert.

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Recent Vinyl Releases!
AC/DC- Iron Man 2
Alice Cooper- Billion Dollar Babies (180 Gram Vinyl)
Andre Williams- That S All I Need
Angus And Julia Stone- Down The Way
Arctic Monkeys - My Propeller
Audra Mae - The Happiest Lamb
Autechre- Oversteps (2x180g Lp)
Avi Buffalo - Avi Buffalo
B.O.B- Nothiný On You (Feat. Bruno Mars)/ Airplanes (Feat. Hayley Williams Of Paramore) (12″ Vinyl Single)
Band Of Horses- Infinite Arms
Band Of Horses- Infinite Arms (Indie Retail Box)
Billie Holiday- Remixed & Reimagined
Billy Joel- The Nylon Curtain (180 Gram)
Black Flag Tribute - Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie: Reinterp
Black Tusk- Taste The Sin
Blood, Sweat & Tears- Child Is Father To T
Bonobo- Black Sands (2xlp)
Braid - Frankie Welfare Boy Age Five
Braid - Movie Music Vol. One
Braid - Movie Music Vol. Two
Braid - The Age Of Octeen
Bright Eyes & Neva Dinova - One Jug Of Wine, Two Vessels
Bullet For My Valentine- Fever
Camp Lo- Uptown Saturday Night
Caribou - Swim
Catherine Howe- What A Beautiful Place
Cheap Trick - At Budokan (180 Gram Audiophil
Citizen Cope- Rainwater Lp
Clare And The Reasons - Arrow
Cocorosie - Grey Oceans
Coheed And Cambria- Year Of The Black Rainbow
Dark Room Notes- We Love You Dark Mat
Dead Meadow- Three Kings (2xlp + Dvd)
Death Cab for Cutie- The Open Door Ep 12\ “
Deftones- Diamond Eyes (White Colored Vinyl W/Download Card)
Devo- New Traditionalists (Clear Vinyl)
Dick Dale- Checkered Flag
Dick Dale- King Of The Surf Guitar
Dick Dale- Mr. Eliminator
Dick Dale- Rock Out With Dick Dale
Dick Dale- Summer Surf
Dick Dale- Surfers’ Choice
Dimitri From Paris- Get Down With The Ph
Dimitri From Paris- Get Down With The Ph
Dimitri From Paris- Get Down With The Philly Sound
Dire Straits- Making Movies (180 Gram Vinyl)
Dr. Dog - Shame Shame
Dr. Lonnie Smith- Spiral
Druids Of Stonehenge- Creation
Elliott Smith- From A Basement On The Hill Lp
Elliott Smith- Roman Candle Lp
Eric Clapton- Behind The Sun (2lp, 140 Gram Black Vinyl)
Eric Clapton- Money & Cigarettes (Vinyl)
Erykah Badu- New Amerykah Part Two: Return Of The Ankh / [2 Lp]
Everest- On Approach (180 Gram)
First Aid Kit- The Big Black And The Blue / [Lp]
Flying Lotus- Cosmogramma Lp
Four Tet - Sing
Freelance Whale- Weathervanes
Frog Eyes - Paul S Tomb: A Triumph
Future Islands- In Evening Air Lp
Gayngs - Relayted
Gerry Rafferty- City To City (180 Gram Audioph
Goatsnake- Flower Of Disease
Growing- Pumps
Hacienda Us- Big Red And Barbacoa Lp
Harlem - Hippies
Herbie Hancock- Head Hunters
High Places- Can’t Feel Born 12\ Ep “
Hole- Nobody’s Daughter / [Lp]
Hole- Skinny Little Bitch / [White Coloured Vinyl W/Blood-Red Label & Sticker]
Holy Fuck - Latin
Horse Feathers- Thistled Spring Lp
Howl- Full Of Hell
Hundred In The Hands- Dressed In Dresden 12\ “
Jamie Lidell- Compass Lp
Japandroids - Arts Czars B/W Racer-X
Japandroids - No Singles
Javelin- No Mas Lp
Jeezy- Lose My Mind (Feat. Plies)
Jesse Malin And The St. Marks- Love It To Life
Johnny Winter- The Progressive Blues Experime
Jonsi - Go
Karma To Burn - Almost Heathen
Karma To Burn - Appalachian Incantation
Karma To Burn - Wild Wonderful Purgatory
Kings Go Forth- The Outsiders Are Back Lp
Kon & Amir Pres- Off Track Vol. Iii:
Kurt Vile- God Is Saying This To You
Kurt Vile- Square Shells Ep
Laurie Anderson- Only An Expert (12″ Vinyl Single)
Lazer Crystal- Mcmlxxx
Ludacris- How Low
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds Of Fire (180 Gram Audiop
Make-Up - Save Yourself
Male Bonding - Nothing Hurts
Merry Go Round- Merry Go Round
Mgmt- Congratulations
Mi Ami- Steal Your Face Lp
Mimicking Birds - Mimicking Birds
Minus The Bear - Omni
Minus The Bear - Omni (Deluxe Vinyl Package)
Moby Grape- Live
Mono - Holy Ground: Nyc Live With The
Nice Nice- Extra Wow (2xlp)
Ninjasonik- Art School Girls
Ozomatli- Fire Away / [Lp]
Painted Hills- Painted Hills (2xlp)
Pat Metheny- Orchestration (2lp 180 Gram W/Bonus Cd)
Pearl Harbor- Something About The Chaparrals
People Of The North - Deep Tissue
Peter Frampton- Thank You Mr. Churchill / [2 Lp]
Peter Wolf- Midnight Souvenirs / [2 Lp]
Peter Wolf Crier - Inter-Be
Phosphorescent - Here S To Taking It Easy
Prince Jammy - Strictly Dub
Rafter - Animal Feelings
Real Estate - Reality
Red Sparowes- The Fear Is Excruciating, But Therein Lies The Answer Lp
Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3- Propellor Time Lp
Rufus Wainwright- All Days Are Nights: Songs For Lulu / [2 Lp]
Sage Francis- Li(F)E
Serena-Maneesh - No 2: Abyss In B Minor
Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings- I Learned The Hard Way Lp
Sightings - City Of Straw
Solex Vs Cristina Martinez + Jon Spencer- Amsterdam Throwdown, King Stre Et Showdown! Lp
Steve Vai- Passion And Warfare
Sweet Apple - Love & Desperation
Taylor Hawkins- Red Light Fever
The Apples In Stereo- Travellers In Space And Time
The Black Keys- Brothers (2 Lp W/Bonus Cd)
The Black Keys- The Big Come Up (W/ Poster)
The Dead Weather- Sea Of Cowards (180 Gram Vinyl)
The Dirty Three- Ocean Songs
The Dirty Three- Whatever You Love, You Are
The Fall- Your Future Our Clutter
The Flatliners- Cavalcade
The Hold Steady- Heaven Is Whenever / [Lp]
The Jayhawks- The Jayhawks (Aka The Bunkhouse Album) / [Lp]
The Joy Formidable- A Balloon Called Moaning
The Locust- The Peel Sessions Lp
The Mynabirds- What We Lose In The Fire We Ga
The National- Bloodbuzz Ohio
The National- High Violet
The New Pornographers- Together
The Poppees- Pop Goes The Anthology (Orange Vinyl)
The Rolling Stones- Exile On Main Street / [2 Lp]
The Sadies- Darker Circles
The Slackers- The Great Rocksteady Swindle
The Tallest Man On Earth- The Wild Hunt
The Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt- I Love You. I Love You And I’m In Love With You. Have An Awe
THE-DREAM- Love King
These New Puritans - Hidden
Trans Am- Thing Lp
Trouble - Psalm 9
Trouble - The Skull
Tunng- …And Then We Saw Land Lp
Twilight - Pains Of Love
Twilight - Still Loving You
Various Artists- Next Stop… Soweto
Various Artists - Eccentric Breaks & Beats
Washed Out - Life Of Leisure
Widespread Panic- Dirty Side Down
Wu Massacre- Wu Massacre / [2 Lp]
Zakk Wylde’s Black Label Society- Skullage Greatest Hits / [2 Lp]

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