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Alt-pop icon Gus Dappertons vast and ambitious album Henge builds a new world tugging the listeners between night and day, socializing and solitude. With nearly 2 billion collective streams across his career the Warwick, NY native constructed the album with the concept of entering an underworld as the sun goes down and trying to get home before dawnor risk being stuck in a time loop. Sonically the album delivers a contemporary eclectic sprawl, at times landing between 80s new-wave and 70s funk. Collaborators include Cruel Santino, Ocean Vuong, and BENEE who Dapperton reunites with musically following their double-platinum viral hit Supalonely which has amassed over 1 billion streams. Dappertons music maintains the intimacy that made his previous offerings so resonant including singles Horizons, Wet Cement, and Dont Let Me Down.
Since announcing their arrival with debut album in 1991, Blur went on to revolutionise the sound of English popular music with six successive UK #1 albums and a string of Top 10 singles, including two No 1s, helping to propel the band to mass popularity at home and abroad. One of the biggest British bands of the last three decades, Blur have released eight studio albums and collected ten NME Awards, six Q Awards, five BRIT Awards and an Ivor Novello Award, and played live to millions of devoted fans across the globe.
Whilst they are an iconic band, the new music truly feels like they have re-invented their sound for 2023 and we should really amplify the commercial viability and youthful leaning sound to reach new audiences.
The album is truly incredible body of work which is beautifully layered, with real stand-out singles which is understandably described by the band as one of their best creations.
Atlantic Records is proud to announce Barbie The Album, the groundbreaking and star-studded musical companion to the highly anticipated summer event film Barbie, starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling as Barbie and Ken and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. The album will feature new tracks from an unprecedented lineup of artists including Nicki Minaj and Ice Spice, Dua Lipa, Lizzo,KAROL G, Charli XCX, PinkPantheress, Ava Max, Dominic Fike, Khalid, The Kid LAROI, Tame Impala,HAIM, GAYLE and FIFTY FIFTY feat. Kali. Barbie star Ryan Gosling also joins the robust roster of soundtrack artists with his iconic original song performed as his character, Ken. Barbie The Albumarrives in stores and at all online retailers on Friday, July 21st in conjunction with the theatrical release of the feature film.
But Here We Are is the new album from Foo Fighters, and marks the bands return after a year of staggering losses, personal introspection and bittersweet remembrances. A brutally honest and emotionally raw response to everything Foo Fighters have endured recently, But Here We Are is a testament to the healing powers of music, friendship and family. Courageous, damaged and unflinchingly authentic, the album opens with Rescued, the first of 10 songs that run the emotional gamut from rage and sorrow to serenity and acceptance, and myriad points in between.
But Here We Are is in nearly equal measure the 11th Foo Fighters album and the first chapter of the bands new life. Sonically channeling the naivet of Foo Fighters 1995 debut, informed by decades of maturity and depth, But Here We Are is the sound of brothers finding refuge in the music that brought them together in the first place 28 years ago, a process that was as therapeutic as it was about a continuation of life.
Rancid
Tomorrow Never Comes [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Eco-Mix LP]
Rancid - the legendary Bay Area punk rockers are back with their 10th studio album, Tomorrow Never Comes on Epitaph Records. Emerging from the blue-collar swamps of Berkeley, California, Rancid has now been a living, breathing punk rock band for over a quarter century.
Back in 1991, after the demise of their much beloved and still influential first band, Operation Ivy, founding members Tim Armstrong (vocals, guitar) and Matt Freeman (bass, vocals) decided to do the impossible start an even better band. Thus, Rancid. Signing with Epitaph Records, the band released their first album, Rancid, in 1993. Shortly thereafter, Lars Frederiksen (vocals, guitar) joined the band and they went on to release incredible records from Lets Go. (1994) to their classic - platinum selling And Out Come The Wolves. (1995). Drummer Branden Steineckert joined the band in 2003, cementing the line-up that rocks out till this day.
Seeing Rancid live is a life changing experience and steady touring is in the plan for 2023, kicking off in Las Vegas at the legendary Punk Rock Bowling Festival in late May - the band will hit Europe in June and the rest of the world soon after.
Through it all, Rancid has remained fiercely independent, never losing their loyalty to community or each other. Their music confronts political and social issues, while balancing personal tales of love, loss, and heartbreak with attitude. Rancid gives their listeners a community where everyone can belong. By carrying on the traditions and spirit of the original punk rock bands that came before, Rancid has become a legend and inspiration to punk bands that have come after. They are the living embodiment of East Bay punk. And if you dont know all this by now -- youre not playing their music loud enough!

Avenged Sevenfold
Life Is But A Dream [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Cobalt Blue 2LP]
Vinyl: $46.58 PREORDER
Avenged Sevenfolds new album, Life Is But A Dream is a timeless work of art that blurs genres. Best served as a whole and consumed en masse to truly appreciate its musical breadth and sonic depth, it marks their boldest statement and most revolutionary work to date. Written and recorded over the span of 4 years, it was produced by Joe Barresi and Avenged Sevenfold in Los Angeles and mixed by Andy Wallace in the Poconos, PA. Inspired by Albert Camus The Stranger, the album is a journey through an existential crisis; a very personal exploration into the meaning, purpose and value of human existence with the anxiety of death always looming. Immerse into this experience

A collection of unreleased songs from Kenny Rogers' archives that tells the story of the love, life, loss and faith between Kenny and his wife, Wanda, and their two children. The album features the long sought after "Goodbye" written by Lionel Richie, interpretations of Eric Clapton's "Wonderful Tonight" and "I Wish It Would Rain" originally recorded by The Temptations, and "Tell Me That You Love Me" a lost duet between Kenny and Dolly Parton.

An indie pop duo whose music has a cool retro vibe buoyed by smooth melodies, a naturalistic sound, and warm harmonies, Purr is a collaboration between songwriters, musicians, and longtime friends Eliza Barry Callahan and Jack Staffen. The two previously worked together as Jack + Eliza, but while that project emphasized spare and stripped-down accompaniment, Purrs recordings feature a fuller sound with a larger palette of instrumental flavors that often references 60s pop. Purr introduced themselves to the world with a 2018 single, Bad Advice b/w Painted Memory, that showed off their talents as both writers and vocalists, and they further refined their style on their first full-length album, 2020s Like New and continue that on forthcoming album Who Is Afraid Of Blue?
To make it, the duo teamed up with their close friend, producer Jonathan Rado (Weyes Blood, Father John Misty, The Killers), whom they worked with on Like New. They went to his North Hollywood studio, a small building behind his home. This was during Omicron, so they kept recording small, just the three of them in a room for most of the time. Programmed drums on an 808, that kind of thing. While they recorded, they screened movies. Ranging from Barbara Lodens Wanda, to Paul Thomas Andersons Magnolia, to Dr. Strange and The Avengers. It all provided texture to the songs. Like making a score. Its a really hermetic record, says Staffen, which ended up feeling really special.
Sonically, Who Is Afraid Of Blue? isnt beholden by genre. It is an omnivorous recordyou can hear glimmers of Aimee Mann, Radiohead, the Cocteau Twins which is fitting because Blue is in some ways a record of their process of falling in love with music all over again.
Who Is Afraid Of Blue? also exists lightly in conversation with a short novel Callahan wrote (forthcoming via Catapult, 2024), an auto-fiction document of a woman losing her hearing. And all of it comes back to those Newman works: Purr makes music that functions like those large-scale paintings so very saturated with color. Blue is a vast record, with lyrics that bend towards abstraction. But make no mistake: in that abstraction there is intense clarity. Blue is blue: a color, a feeling, a signifier, a way of looking at the world.
Jack Johnson
In Between Dub [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Milky White LP]
Vinyl: $50.18 PREORDER
In March 2020, Jack Johnson reached out to Lee Scratch" Perry to produce a dub remix album based on Jacksmost loved recordings. On August 29, 2021, the project was brought to a halt as Scratch departed this physical world.In 2022, Jack and Subatomic Sound System, Perrys band of the last decade, connected directly and discovered theyhad all the pieces to bring Lee Scratch Perrys three creations to completion. The LP also features dubs fromDennis Bovell, Scientist, Mad Professor, Nightmares on Wax, and more. Indie Exclusive Milky White LP.

Jake Shears
Last Man Dancing [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Orange Marble LP]
Vinyl: $41.42 PREORDER
On Last Man Dancing, Jake Shears turns his lifelong love affair with club culture into his most ambitious pop music to date. The album was brought to vivid life by Jake Shears and a close crew of collaborators, including head-turning features from Kylie Minogue, Jane Fonda, Iggy Pop, Amber Martin, and a pre-Renaissance turn from the iconic Big Freedia.
Shadow Kingdom presents Dylan performing revelatory 21st century versions of songs from his storied back catalog including fan favorites like Forever Young and Its All Over Now, Baby Blue, and deep catalog gems like Queen Jane Approximately and Wicked Messenger. Originally reinterpreted for an exclusive streaming film event, which aired in July 2021, Shadow Kingdom will now be available on vinyl, CD, and streaming platforms for the first time. The album's setlist includes 13 original songs handpicked by Dylan for his Shadow Kingdom performance plus the closing instrumental, "Sierra's Theme."
Tom Waits
Closing Time: 50th Anniversary [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Clear 2LP]
Vinyl: $32.22 PREORDER
Closing Time foreshadows the distinctly lyrical storytelling and original blending of jazz, blues, and folk styles thatwould come to be associated with Waits. It is on this debut album that Waits performs enduring classics of his career Ol 55 (famously covered by the Eagles), the heartbreaking Martha and the gentle acoustic folk of I HopeThat I Dont Fall In Love With You. Reissued for the first time as a double LP to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the landmark debut with newly half speed mastering at Abbey Road Studios.

Brooklyn bedroom-pop trailblazers Beach Fossils' new album Bunny is a triumphant return for one of the 2010s most influential NYC bands. Bunny is a precise blend of the luscious dream-pop atmospheres they notoriously honed on their earliest projects, the post-punk vigor expressed on Clash The Truth, and the warm sophisticated songwriting of Somersault. Composer Dustin Payseur peppers the album equallywith descriptions of the joy of fatherhood and the existential pleasure of smoking cigarettes out of a car windowwith friends --Bunny features Beach Fossils' most personal lyrics to-date.
Colin McCann didnt pick up a guitar for nearly ten years. TheNorthern-California-based songwriter, previously performingunder Long Dog Bird, had been creating music with longtimefriend and collaborator Brian Gossman for much of their adultlives with early-00s Baltimore-based band Wilderness. So whatwould cause such a stagnant period? And how could McCannfind his way back to the joy that music had once so easilyconjured? The answer was to go back to the very beginning,where the kinetic forces that urged McCann to make music inthe first place could emerge once again. But first, he had tomake space in his internal world; a kind of silence where hecould hear the exhale of his past, and the blossoming of a newsong.
That blossoming would soon become the first songs forMcCanns latest project Vulture Feather. The bands debutalbumLiminal Fields exists on an intangible plane: a crack inthe concrete, a gauze between worlds. For as long as McCanncan recall, hes been using music as a vehicle to try andconnect with an underlying, indescribable nature that only thesonic world seems to be able to reach. Theres a feeling ofecstasy that comes when one merges with music, he says.Its what calls us all back again and again to listen, to sing, andto play. McCann had been striving to reach this outlyingenvironment throughout his career, often stretching in waysthat eventually came to negatively impact his life, and hishealth.
7 Inch includes a studio version of the track 'We're Gonna Get There In The End' and an acoustic version of 'Pretty Boy'
Protomartyr
Formal Growth In The Desert [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Blue LP]
Vinyl: $29.46 PREORDER
Ben Folds
What Matters Most [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Autographed Color LP]
Autographed Color LP
More than anything, I wanted to make an album that was generous, that was useful, says Ben Folds. I want you to finish this record with something you didnt have when you started. Indeed, Folds masterful new collection, What Matters Most, isnt so much a statement as it is an offering, an open hand reaching out to all those wounded and bewildered by a world that seems to make less and less sense every day. Recorded in East Nashville with co-producer Joe Pisapia, the album marks Folds first new studio release in eight years, and its a bold, timely, cinematic work, one that examines the tragic and the absurd in equal measure as it reckons with hope and despair, gratitude and loss, identity and perspective. The songs are bittersweet here, hilarious at times, but often laced with a quiet sense of longing and dread: a text message goes unanswered; an old classmate descends into the dark depths of internet conspiracies; a relationship unravels in the middle of a lake. And yet, taken as a whole, the result is an undeniably joyful record that refuses to succumb to the weight of the world around it, an ecstatic reminder of all the beauty and promise hiding in plain sight for anyone willing (and present enough) to recognize their moments as they arrive.
Jenny Lewis fifth solo album, JoyAll arrives June 9th. JoyAll finds the singer-songwriter embarking on a new era, in a new town and on a new label, as she joins the iconic roster of Blue Note/Capitol Records. While JoyAll pulls from a bounty of sonic inspiration from classic soul to 90s R&B, as well as country and classic singer-songwriter records the albums rich, intimate and warm live sound is the hallmark of eight-time GRAMMY-winning producer Dave Cobb. Recorded at Nashvilles historic RCA Studio A, JoyAll includes new single Psychos and the previously released single Puppy and a Truck.
Niall Horan's `The Show' - his third solo album and first since 2020's chart-topping `Heartbreak Weather' - will be released on June 9, 2023. Preceded by its lead single "Heaven," the album matches the pure emotion of his globally beloved past work with a powerful new element of soul-searching reflection. Each vinyl copy of `The Show' includes a randomly selected print of a letter handwritten by Niall about a song from the album.
Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit
Weathervanes [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Natural LP]
Vinyl: $34.70 PREORDER
A Jason Isbell record always lands like a decoder ring in the ears and hearts of his audience, a soundtrack to his world and magically to theirs, too. Weathervanes carries the same revelatory power. This is a storyteller at the peak of his craft, observing his fellow wanderers, looking inside and trying to understand, reducing a universe to four minutes. He shrinks life small enough to name the fear and then strip it away, helping his listeners make sense of how two plus two stops equaling four once you reach a certain age -- and carry a certain amount of scars.
There is something about boundaries on this record, Isbell says. As you mature, you still attempt to keep the ability to love somebody fully and completely while youre growing into an adult and learning how to love yourself.
Weathervanes is a collection of grown-up songs: Songs about adult love, about change, about the danger of nostalgia and the interrogation of myths, about cruelty and regret and redemption. Life and death songs played for and by grown ass people. Some will make you cry alone in your car and others will make you sing along with thousands of strangers in a big summer pavilion, united in the great miracle of being alive. The record features the rolling thunder of Isbells fearsome 400 Unit, whove earned a place in the rock n roll cosmos alongside the greatest backing ensembles, as powerful and essential to the storytelling as The E Street Band or the Wailers.
They make a big noise, as Isbell puts it, and he feels so comfortable letting them be a main prism through which much of the world hears his art. He can be private but with them behind him he transforms, and there is a version of himself that can only exist in their presence. When he plays a solo show, he is in charge of the entire complicated juggle. On stage with the 400 Unit, he can be a guitar hero when he wants, and a conductor when he wants, and a smiling fan of the majesty of his bandmates when he wants to hang back and listen to the sound.
Janelle Monae
The Age of Pleasure [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Alternate Cover Orange Crush LP]
Vinyl: $29.10 PREORDER
As we enter into The Age Of Pleasure, Lipstick Lover is our freeassmothafucka anthem inspired by f.a.m. for f.a.m. This is our oasis made with love, rooted in self acceptance, throbbing in self discovery, and signed with cherry red kisses from me to you.
- Janelle Mone
Janelle Mone, musics foremost freeassmuthafucka, has shared her scintillating new single, Lipstick Lover, available now.
Arriving on the heels of her showstopping Met Gala appearance, Lipstick Lover heralds the arrival of Mones hugely anticipated new album, THE AGE OF PLEASURE, due out June 9th. Pre-orders/pre-saves including limited edition vinyl are available now.
THE AGE OF PLEASURE also includes the acclaimed new single, Float (Feat. Seun Kuti + Egypt 80). Hailed by Pitchfork as swaggering, brass-heavythe sound of a top-tier talent doing a little victory dance, the track is joined by an official dance video.
Janelle Mone is without question one of the most celebrated artists of the modern era, an 8x GRAMMY Award-nominated singer, songwriter, producer, performer, and fashion icon known worldwide for her inimitable style and visionary sound. With multiple celebrated albums, THE ARCHANDROID (2010), THE ELECTRIC LADY (2013), and DIRTY COMPUTER (2018), numerous critically-acclaimed theatrical and television performances, and her unwavering activism for social justice and the LGBTQIA+ community, Mone continues to be one of the most compelling and important artists of this generation.
3 LP Packaging: 3 LP 180-gram heavy vinyl edition, 20 new songs.
Christine and the Queens presents his new album PARANOA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE. Includes To be honest and guest appearances from Madonna and 070 Shake.
Milky Chance
Living In A Haze [Indie Exclusive Limited Edition Ocean Blue LP]
Vinyl: $26.78 PREORDER
"In Times New Roman..., the 8th studio album from Queens of the Stone Age is raw, brutal & rough around the edges but with a refinement that reveals itself further with each successive listen and QOTSA founder Joshua Hommes lyrics are as witty and withering than ever. The results are instantly identifiable ; QOTSAs sonic signature, expanded and embellished with new and unprecedented twists in virtually every song, a live in-a-room recording that showcases a band at the height of their creative powers.
In Times New Roman... is a party for the obscene and the clean, the outcasts and the weirdos, and anyone and everyone in between. One of the most important bands in recent rock history is B A C K but its no exaggeration to call this album a devastating rebirth."
Sturgill Simpson
High Top Mountain: 10 Year Anniversary Edition [Translucent Black LP]
Vinyl: $31.18 PREORDER
10 Year Anniversary Edition of Sturgill Simpson's debut albumHigh Top Mountain.The anniversary edition includes an "Old King Coal" blacked out album cover with a glossy embossedjacket, and is pressed on translucent black vinyl.Sturgill Simpson's authenticity stands out like an island of hope in a sea of tacky. Pure and uncompromising, devoid of gloss and fakery. High Top Mountains dozen instant classics evoke the sound of timeless country in its many guises and brings back the lyrical forthrightness and depth that permeated the music Simpson absorbed during his Kentucky childhood. Bonafide mountain hillbilly soul, as pure as you are going to find anywhere.
"In 2004 the Drive-By Truckers released what would become the best selling album in their illustrious catalog. The Dirty South is a concept album that examines the state of the South, and unveils the hypocrisy, irony, and tragedy that continues to exist. The album features live show staples like, Tornadoes, Where The Devil Dont Stay and Puttin People On The Moon as well as rarities like Goodes Field Road and Daddys Cup.
The Complete Dirty South is a band-led rework of the original album. Principal member, Patterson Hood, took the reins and reimagined this record as it was originally intended. The complete version features resequenced audio, three additional tracks, four remixes along with updated vocals. The packaging comes with a perfect bound book featuring liner notes from Patterson Hood, track by track descriptions from Mike Cooley and Jason Isbell as well as never before seen photos along with updated artwork from the late Wes Freed.
This Directors Cut is the way it was always intended to be heard - Patterson Hood"
Throughout the ten tracks in their new album Let There Be Music, you canhear the spaciousness Bonny Doon allowed themselves since their 2018sleeper cult-classic Longwave. Their latest musical journey is one that hasbig payoffs for devoted followers and undeniable rewards for anyone juststumbling across the band for the first time. After extensively touring Longwave by supporting Band of Horses, Snail Mail and Waxahatchee, Lennox andColombo were invited by Katie Crutchfield to collaborate on Waxahatcheescritically acclaimed album Saint Cloud. The experience raised the ceiling onour imagination, Colombo said.
Soon after, Colombo and Kmiecik, whose steady percussion and devotion tothe songs creates a container for the indelible guitar lines, both entered a timeof serious healing, Jake tending to complications of his Crohns disease andBobby to a brain injury and undiagnosed Lyme disease. While these detours ofdoctors appointments and experimental care were taking place, the members of Bonny Doon were also playing on Waxahatachees Saint Cloud tour.These obstacles and commitments drew out the making of Let There Be Musicfor several additional years, and in the process, redefined the record as anachievement in perseverance for the band.
On their long-awaited third album, we get a glimpse into the pure joy of BonnyDoon. The album serves as less of one conceptual story, and each songas their own individual offerings of putting words to the ordinary experienceof being alive. The band is at their most dynamic and the songwriting deftlyexplores new terrain. Let There Be Music is brimming with small truths - bothprofound and mundane, comforting and difficult - and we are invited to revel inthem all.