The White Stripes – Live at Vera Club, Groningen 11/23/2001 (2021)
To jump-start the year-long celebration of the 20th anniversary of the White Stripes third album White Blood Cells it felt appropriate to dust off a solid recording from 2001. Recorded at the...
View ArticleViolent Femmes – Why Do Birds Sing? [Deluxe Edition] (2021)
Craft Recordings is pleased to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Violent Femmes’ Why Do Birds Sing? with a reissue of the bestselling album from the folk-punk pioneers. Why Do Birds Sing? is the...
View ArticleJOHN (TIMESTWO) – Nocturnal Manoeuvres (2021)
Prepare yourselves accordingly because JOHN’s third album Nocturnal Manoeuvres is upon us and it’s a blistering ear-burst of a noisefest. The title itself is mockingly inappropriate; if you were to...
View ArticleKowloon Walled City – Piecework (2021)
Heaviness isn’t measured in volume in Kowloon Walled City’s music. Some of the most crushing parts of Piecework, the Bay Area band’s fourth full-length, are moments of total silence. Tension and...
View ArticleMelvins – Five Legged Dog (2021)
The Melvins, God bless them, always have been an act eager to revisit their canon, to dive deep into the discography, and see what new diamonds they can mine. And so it goes with the trio’s new...
View ArticleBUMMER – Dead Horse (2021)
There’s something supremely on-the-nose about a grinding, gurning noise-rock act naming themselves ‘Bummer’ and releasing a record called Dead Horse – so much so that you might worry about a dearth of...
View ArticleThe Replacements – Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash [Deluxe Edition]...
The Replacements burst onto the scene with 1981’s Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash. The Minneapolis band’s debut arrived on the city’s independent Twin/Tone label, its eighteen punk nuggets...
View ArticleNick Cave & The Bad Seeds – B-Sides & Rarities: Part II (2021)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds released B-Sides & Rarities Part II, a second collection of rare and unreleased tracks that the group recorded over the past decade and a half. The band released their...
View ArticleR.E.M. – New Adventures In Hi-Fi [25th Anniversary Edition] (2021)
Craft Recordings is continuing its ongoing R.E.M. reissue series with a 25th anniversary edition of the Georgia band’s tenth studio album New Adventures in Hi-Fi. Deluxe Edition present the newly...
View ArticleDinosaur Jr. – Emptiness at the Sinclair (2021)
Emptiness at the Sinclair is out through Jagjaguwar, and was recorded live at The Sinclair in Boston. It features tracks from Sweep It Into Space, released back in April, as well as a cover of The...
View ArticleGnod – La Mort Du Sens (2021)
Translating roughly as The Death of Meaning, Salford stalwarts Gnod‘s latest is already something approaching old news, seeing as the band have already recorded another album and apparently moved on....
View ArticleNirvana – Nevermind [30th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition] (2021)
Commemorating the 30th anniversary of Nirvana’s seminal 1991 release, the Nevermind Super Deluxe contains 5 CDs showcasing the newly remastered album from the original analog tapes along with 4...
View ArticleOvlov – Buds (2021)
Following up their 2017 album TRU was never going to be an easy task for Ovlov. It was such a defining statement of heartfelt guitar noise, shot through with shards of melancholy heartbreak, that...
View ArticleSpringtime – Springtime (2021)
There’s a risk with any collaboration between players who each have a strong profile that it will be nothing more than the sum of those parts. Not so Springtime, which sees guitarist Gareth Liddiard,...
View ArticleLydia Lunch – The War Is Never Over (2021)
In a career spanning more than forty years so far, Lydia Lunch has taken on many roles: musician, writer, spoken word poet, self-empowerment speaker, podcaster, and actress, just to name a few. Through...
View ArticleWilco – The Capitol Theater 2014 (2021)
A new collection of historic live Wilco concerts, this six disc standard CD boxset features three full length performances recorded over consecutive nights in October 2014, in front of sold out...
View ArticleEmily Robb – How to Moonwalk (2021)
Emily Robb opens her first-ever solo album with an undulating blast of fuzz, a seesawing riff that lasts only about a minute, but obliterates concisely, without embellishment, a pure show of force. The...
View ArticleVA – Silence is a Dangerous Sound: A Tribute to Fugazi (2021)
Arising from the mid-80s DC punk scene, Fugazi created a wealth of emotional yet immediately absorbing music that countless bands strive to better even now. They crafted a sound that didn’t so much...
View ArticleThe Sisters of Mercy – BBC Sessions 1982-1984 (2021)
This release contains three sessions, all recorded at the BBC’s Maida Vale studios. The first is a 1982 John Peel Session, recorded on 25 August 1982 and broadcast a couple of week’s later on 7...
View ArticleAnna von Hausswolff – Live at Montreux Jazz Festival (2022)
Despite its designation, the Montreux Jazz Festival has hosted all manner of artists and bands over the years, but the organisers may well have wondered what hit them when Anna von Hausswolff and her...
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