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  • What's New 10-11-24

    Immanuel Wilkins
    Blue Note

    Saxophonist/composer Wilkins' third studio album is a soothing balm for anyone searching for peace, and for Black people trying to reconcile history in a country that tries to erase it. It explores 'blues' as a symbol of radical optimism in the face of adversity and 'blood' as a symbol of all things ancestral and generational.

    Myles Kennedy
    Napalm Records

    Alter Bridge frontman Myles Kennedy discovers the art of turning up the ante and the volume on his third – and best – solo album. His skyscraping voice, alternating from broody warning to unbridled celebration, continues to be an immediately identifiable calling card, but this time, as the title suggests, Kennedy goes for what feels right.

    Nate Mercereau
    Third Man Vinyl

    An exquisite album of spontaneous solo composition, nuanced improvisation, and exploratory world creation featuring living legends Laraaji, Luis Pérez Ixoneztli, and André 3000. Samples of his studio sessions with Kamasi Washington, Shabaka Hutchings and others pervade Mercereau's psychedelic quests and adventures as well.

    Samara Joy
    Verve

    Born out of her time on the road, Samara Joy took her touring band into legendary Van Gelder Studios in February of 2024. This record, appropriately entitled Portrait, is a collection of standards (as well as one original) and features her singular voice, alongside arrangements from this tight-knit young group.

    The Linda Lindas
    Epitaph

    No Obligation further advances The Linda Lindas’ unironic, joyful, and exciting trajectory of mashing up L.A. punk with alt-rock, garage rock, power pop, new wave and rock en espanol. It’s a dazzling window into growing up right now, borrowing from and building on previous generations of feminist passion and energy.

    The Funeral Portrait
    Better Noise Music

    The emo rockers’ second album tells a story of religion and violence within the titular city, a rundown of its history and everyday activities. The band have recruited an amazing roster of featured vocalists from bands like The Used and Ice Nine Kills, all of whom lend their voices in narrating this epic tale.

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  • New Release Round-Up 10-11-24

    The Offspring - SUPERCHARGED
     

    The Offspring - SUPERCHARGED - Concord Recordings

    Following up on the global success of their album "Let The Bad Times Roll,"ť legendary So-Cal punk group The Offspring release their 11th album SUPERCHARGED. Produced by Bob Rock, the record continues the band's legacy with some of their best songwriting to date and unmatched musical energy.

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    Jelly Roll - Beautifully Broken
     

    Jelly Roll - Beautifully Broken - Republic Records

    Jelly Roll - "Beautifully Broken" [Clear/Gold Splatter LP] Beautifully Broken is the new studio album from Jelly Roll, releasing October 11, 2024 and featuring the hit single "I Am Not Okay. " Clear/Gold Splatter LP. Limited Edition. Indie Exclusive. EXPLICIT

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    Samara Joy - Portait

    Samara Joy - Portait - Verve

    Born out of her time on the road, Samara Joy took her touring band into legendary Van Gelder Studios in February of 2024. This record, appropriately entitled Portrait, is a collection of standards (as well as one original) and features her singular voice, alongside arrangements from this tight-knit young group. The recording tells the story of the community she’s created with a new generation of young players and is evocative of the energy of her incredible live show.

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    Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue - Blue Note Records

    Guitarist Kenny Burrell debuted on Blue Note Records in 1956 and over the following 7 years made a series of excellent albums for the label that culminated with his masterwork Midnight Blue. Recorded in 1963, the album waded deep into the blues, conjuring an alluring late-night vibe with a profoundly soulful cast including tenor saxophonist Stanley Turrentine, bassist Major Holley, Jr., drummer Bill English, and Ray Barretto on congas. Burrell originals including “Chitlins con Carne,” “Midnight Blue,” “Saturday Night Blues,” and the stunning solo guitar piece “Soul Lament” set the tone for this timeless classic adorned by one of the all-time great Reid Miles cover designs.


    Hank Mobley - Soul Station

    Hank Mobley - Soul Station - Blue Note Records

    Tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley had already led nine dates for Blue Note Records by the time he arrived at Rudy Van Gelder’s studio on February 7, 1960 with pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Art Blakey, but on that day the quartet laid down what would become his masterpiece: Soul Station. The crystalline six-song set was a showcase for Mobley’s lyrical flow from the breezy opening take on Irving Berlin’s “Remember” through bluesy originals like “Dig Dis” and the title track, and the swinging up-tempo numbers “This I Dig of You” and “Split Feelin’s.” Soul Station endures as a jazz classic for the ages.

    ALSO OUT THIS WEEK

    Lady Gaga - Harlequin [Red LP]

    Linda Lindas - No Obligation [Indie Exclusive Translucent Pink LP]

    Various Artists - Punk Goes Christmas [Ruby Red LP]

    Sondre Lerche - Two Way Monologue (20th Anniversary Edition) [White 2 LP]

    Clint Mansell - Doom - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Deluxe Edition) [2LP Green and Orange Smoke vinyl]

    Celia Cruz & Johnny Pacheco - Celia & Johnny [LP]

    Mark Ambor - Rockwood [LP]

    Touche Amore - Spiral In A Straight Line [Indie Exclusive Rose-Tinted LP]

    Goat - Goat [Clear Vinyl]

    Go Team - Thunder Lightning Strike [Indie Exclusive]

    Teddy & Rough Riders - Down Home [Indie Exclusive]

    Immanual Wilkins - Blues Blood [2 LP]

    Ensemble Paramirabo - Voix Jetees [CD]

    The Last Dinner Party - Prelude To Ecstasy: Acoustics And Covers [Transparent Amber 2 LP]

    Old Dominion - Odies But Goodies

    Xavi - Next

    Abstract Crimewave - Longest Night

    Armoires - Octoberland

    Ronnie Baker Brooks - Blues In My DNA [Blue LP]

    Chat Pile - Cool World [Colored Vinyl] [Limited Edition] (Ylw)

    Chesterfield Kings - We're Still All The Same

    Current Joys - East My Love - Olive [Colored Vinyl]

    Dawes - Oh Brother [Colored Vinyl]

    Def Leppard - One Night Only: Live At The Leadmill, Sheffield

    Steve Earle - Alone Again (Live)

    E L U C I D - REVELATOR [Compact disc]

    Myles Kennedy - The Art Of Letting Go [Indie exclusive]

    Justin Moore - This Is My Dirt [Dirt Color LP]

    Woody Platt - Far Away With You

    Propaganda - Propaganda [Colored Vinyl] (Org)

    Jenny Scheinman - All Species Parade [2 LP ]

    Tucker Zimmerman - Dance Of Love [Indie Exclusive]

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    For more information on these and other releases out this week, check out our New Releases charts by week section.

    WATCH VIDEOS AND CHECK OUT UPCOMING RELEASES BELOW

    Dean Lewis - The EpilogueTom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Long After Dark - DeluxeWyatt Flores - Welcome To The Plains

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  • NEW THIS WEEK AT THE SHOP

    Happy almost-Friday, newsletter readers. We certainly do live in some interesting times these days, and for the purposes of this message, I'm just talking about the records. I'd need a full editorial team to handle the true volume of what's coming out this week, so I'm just gonna hit you with the top 48 or so. First up, THE SMILE. The trio of Thom and Jonny Radiohead plus drummer Tom Skinner is bookending their explosive 2024 with a second album, called 'Cutouts'. I don't want to commit the common flub of taking Thom Yorke literally, but that title would indicate that these are the leftovers from the 'Wall Of Eyes' sessions. Radiohead's already pulled this move with 'Amnesiac', a record every bit as good as its host album 'Kid A', and its the same story here. Polished, pumping, propulsive guitar-forward jams aplenty, with some of Yorke's trademark lyricism. Limited white vinyl available on this one. # We've had a very enjoyable week of listening to APHEX TWIN real loud at the shop, something we can never really do enough. The first-ever proper reissue of 'Selected Ambient Works 2' has landed, with bonus unheard material stretching it to an overwhelming 4LPs. We sold a lot of these at our listening event on Tuesday but still have plenty left. # You know you've hit some kind of upper echelon of the underground when your record label is kicking off the promotional bio for your latest album with philosophical musings like "what is a band anyway?" The label in question is Matador, and the band is THE HARD QUARTET, consisting of indie demigods Stephen Malkmus of Pavement, Emmett Kelly of the Cairo Gang, Jim White of the Dirty Three, and Matt Sweeney of Chavez and Superwolf. Apparently, this foursome joined forces a few years ago without telling anyone (ok they probably told their significant others, and Rick Rubin, apparently), all so they could pull off this October Surprise of an album. As you might expect, this album is just the type of stuff you'd expect from these guys: Malkmus remains an incisive, cryptic, and hilarious lyricist, Sweeney can absolutely shred at will, Kelly and White provide a limber and loose rhythm section. Our initial copies of this album come with a promo photo glossy of the handsome gentlemen. # Dan Snaith continues to party hardy as CARIBOU, which continues to take on the inflection of his housey alias Daphni on his latest, called 'Honey', in stock on yellow vinyl. Guitarist YASMIN WILLIAMS quietly released one of the decade's best albums a few years back with 'Urban Driftwood', which landed her on the Nonesuch for her latest, the graceful and gorgeous 'Acadia'. Everyone's going understandably nuts for MJ Lenderman on the strength of his latest solo album (which we have a few copies of back in stock), so how about a fresh look at his old band WEDNESDAY. Their album of lofi covers called 'Mowing the Leaves Instead of Piling 'em Up' was previously only available at the merch table at shows, but now we've got some!
    Southern crooner LEON BRIDGES goes absolutely "grown folks" on his latest album, fittingly titled 'Leon', sultry grooves augmented by a string section class this one up a lot. Beachcombers COLDPLAY return with a new album called 'Moon Music', in the house on a limited pink vinyl first edition, as well as a short-run zoetrope version, to give you the spins. JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT rewards his lovely fans with a second installment of 'Live From The Ryman' on red and yellow wax. Erstwhile Eilish sibling FINNEAS returns with 'For Cryin Out Loud', plus we've got Rocktober represses from STEVIE NICKS, INXS, and STONE TEMPLE PILOTS.
    The Warp label concludes their archival tribute to BROADCAST with 'Distant Call', a collection of demos for some of the band's most beloved songs from albums like 'Haha Sound' and 'Tender Buttons'. As with the previous collection of Broadcast demos, a lot of these versions sound incredibly different from their finished versions, providing a fleeting window into the sonic practice of a departed musical hero, Trish Keenan, who would have turned 55 this week. Swaggering 70s style soul trio THEE SACRED SOULS return with 'Got A Story To Tell' on Daptone. JORJA SMITH re-interprets her 2023 album with 'Falling Or Flying (Reimagined)'. Sudanese-Canadian folk singer MUSTAFA has a gorgeous new record called 'Dunya', recommended to fans of Michael Kiwanuka. Australia's NED COLLETTE returns with 'Our Other History', continuing his run of albums that revive the sound of Bert Jansch for a new century. Time has redeemed the once-forgotten folk singer NORMA TANEGA; her mixtape classic 'Walkin My Cat Named Dog' gets a fresh color vinyl edition this week.
    Time for bed, kids! Lots of doom, gloom and black metal in the house this week. Social media sensation BLOOD INCANTATION are back with a bang. None of that goofy "oh we're doing an all synth album" business here: 'Absolute Elsewhere' is a full-on Nibelungenlied-style multi-suite prog-metal assault, in the house on gold wax. UNDEATH issue their challenge for the week's heaviest with 'More Insane', that cover art is looking like about a 9 on the pain rating scale. Oklahoma mind destroyers CHAT PILE continues to conquer with 'Cool World', in on highlighter yellow wax. DARKTHRONE's classic 'Transilvanian Hunger' gets a new pressing, plus we have more experimental and noisy affairs from MAMALEEK and PHARMAKON.
    After turning ears in Jeff Parker's group and as a member of the SML ensemble, bassist and composer ANNA BUTTERSS takes on a solo album for the International Anthem label called 'Mighty Vertebrate', and it's a lovely, buoyant set of soft fusion jams. The Gondwana label represses the transcendent album 'Monument' by the PORTICO QUARTET, alongside a new live album from pianist HANIA RANI called 'Nostalgia'. Audiophile jazz LPs this week include TEDDY EDWARDS and HOWARD McGHEE's 'Together Again', BOOKER LITTLE's debut album, and DONALD BYRD's seldom-heard 'Kofi'.
    Montreal's GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR reconvene for another session of apocalyptic post-rock called 'NO�TITLE AS OF 13 FEBRUARY 2024 28,340 DEAD'. GUIDED BY VOICES' mid-90s fanclub only release 'Tonics and Twisted Chasers' gets a legit pressing from Superior Viaduct. Drummer Chris Corsano teams up with legends Joe Baiza from Saccharine Trust and Mike Watt from everything everywhere ever as the CORSANO BAIZA WATT TRIO. Guitar hero THURSTON MOORE returns to the dreamy lilt of 'Psychic Hearts' and 'Washing Machine' on an exciting new solo album called 'Flow Critical Lucidity', and his new UK imprint Daydream Library releases some excellent London art rock from the trio SCHANDE on 'Once Around'. Another New York guitar legend, ALAN LICHT, rouses from his slumber with an incredible album of maximalist folk guitar abstractions on 'Havens'.
    Some of the better news we've gotten lately is that a domestic distributor has finally teamed up with the Backwoodz label to bring us far more affordable editions of records like BILLY WOODS & KENNY SEGAL's 2019 classic 'Hiding Places', a modern masterpiece of twisted and splintered hiphop. The femme-funk duo SAADA BONAIRE made music that didn't sell in the 80s but makes a whole lot of sense nowadays. Their glammed-out take on reggae, disco and italo is collected on 'Saâda Bonaire', a decade-old compilation on Captured Tracks that gets a fresh edition this week on bone colored vinyl and with a bonus flexi disc of covers. The modern boogie funk gem of WILL SESSIONS and AMP FIDDLER's 'The One' is back in print, as well as a newish EP from the pairing of OVERMONO & THE STREETS. Studio legend SCIENTIST releases a new hot plate called 'Direct-to-Dub', and we have a fresh pressing of the exquisite Japanese jazz-funk classic 'Awakening' by HIROSHI SATO.
    Go back to where it all began with a fresh pressing of BLACK SABBATH's mighty self-titled debut, which gets the heavyweight Rhino Hi-Fi treatment this week. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE's noisy folk rollercoaster of wub 'Sung Tongs' turns 20 this week with a new yellow & red vinyl edition, and some live material appended. First-wave noise-poppers MCLUSKY's Albini-produced banger 'The Difference Between Me And You Is That I'm Not On Fire' is back in print, plus we've got a new printing of the mighty DC garage-poppers SLANT 6's 'Soda Pop Rip Off', which is the best record Dischord ever released (after the usual suspects, of course). Last up, new recital music from the Fourth World ambient investigator CARMEN VILLAIN on 'Music From The Living Monument', and an awesome archival compilation of unheard No Wave material from New York's BETH ANDERSON, on the Finders Keepers-released 'I Can't Stand It!'
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  • USED VINYL ALERT

    Here is your weekly update for October 3rd. We'll pickup where the Thursday night sneak peek video on our @StrictlyDiscs Instagram and Facebook left off. No frills. Just the artists. The rest is for your 500+ fresh-used digging pleasure downstairs. Some of the headliners this week:

    Jazz: Pharoah Sanders, Jon Hassell, Patrice Rushen, Lonnie Liston Smith, Idris Muhammad, Archie Shepp, Michael Longo, Joe Farrell, Chico Hamilton, Art Pepper

    Soul: Dexter Wansel, Aretha Franklin, Joe Tex, Spinners, Kool & The Gang, Stevie Wonder, Isley Brothers, Sam & Dave, Instant Funk, Sister Sledge, Earth, Wind & Fire

    Rock / Pop: Sparks, Captain Beefheart, Bob Dylan, Dennis Wilson, Velvet Underground, Faces, Beach Boys, Ginger Baker, Hawkwind, Electric Prunes, Gram Parsons, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, B-52s, Violent Femmes, New York Dolls, Death Cab for Cutie

    Country: Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings

    Reggae: Peter Tosh, Gregory Isaacs, Eddy Grant, Toots & Maytals, Third World, Ini Kamoze, Mighty Diamonds

    Contemporary / Hip Hop: Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, DMX, Juice WRLD

    Experimental: Tangerine Dream, Tomita, Dick Hyman, Walter Carlos

    Happy Digging!
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