The Lords Of The New Church – Is Nothing Sacred? (1983/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz  | Time – 42:55 minutes | 927 MB | Genre: Rock
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The shadow of the Rolling Stones, the classic role model for bands who embrace rock’s scuzzy, dangerous, vaguely satanic side, looms large over Lords of the New Church’s second album. The influence of Mick Jagger on Stiv Bators’ lippy, sneering delivery has never been more apparent. Brian James emulates Keith Richards’ rhythm-oriented guitar parts, leaving Dave Tregunna’s bass as the lead instrument. Nicky Turner may not be Charlie Watts (who is?), but he provides a dependable backbeat. Is Nothing Sacred even offers such Stones-y song titles as “Black Girl/White Girl,” “Goin’ Downtown,” and “Partners in Crime.” You’d hope this was a conscious homage, but it sounds more like the Lords were having trouble deciding on a direction and fell back on old habits. Still, if Is Nothing Sacred were a Stones album, it’d be a pretty good one, well played and entertaining throughout. “Dance with Me” — funky, slinky, and goth-tinged with lyrics that invoke voodoo and bondage — is one of the Lords’ best songs and, coincidentally, one of their biggest hits. “Live for Today,” a surprisingly straight cover of the Grass Roots classic with slick production and keyboards by Todd Rundgren, closes the album on an uplifting though incongruous note. As a follow-up to the Lords’ promising debut, Is Nothing Sacred isn’t a disaster, but it is a small step backward, rather than forward. ~~ AllMusic Review by Bill Cassel

Tracklist:

01. Dance With Me
02. Bad Timing
03. Johnny Too Bad
04. Don’t Worry Children
05. The Night Is Calling
06. Black Girl White Girl
07. Goin’ Downtown
08. Tale Of Two Cities
09. World Without End
10. Partners In Crime
11. Live For Today

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The Lumineers – Cleopatra {Deluxe Edition} (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:04  minutes | 867 MB | Genre: Indie Folk, Folk Rock
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Platinum-selling, Denver trio, The Lumineers, announce their long-awaited return with news of second album ‘Cleopatra’ – the follow up to their multi-Grammy-nominated, self-titled debut.

Maybe the Lumineers got tired of hearing other bands replicate the big-footed stomp of “Ho Hey,” an aesthetic that was impossible to avoid in the wake of their eponymous 2012 debut. So many bands adopted this thunderous folk that it no longer seemed to belong to the Lumineers; it appeared communal, perhaps existing to the earlier generations the Lumineers so clearly loved yet never quite replicated. Given this omnipresence, maybe it’s not a surprise that the trio avoid any semblance of infectious rhythms on Cleopatra, their long-awaited second album, yet the sobriety of this 2016 affair is striking. Melancholy and sullen, Cleopatra feels like a conscious reaction to the idea that the band was merely a boisterous retro-throwback, a band that existed primarily on the surface. Apart from the lead single “Ophelia” and “Cleopatra,” this sophomore set avoids tempos that could be called sprightly, and melody comes second to mood as well. Sometimes, the Lumineers are quite effective at being evocative: there’s a certain dusky shimmer to the album, an atmosphere that tends to hang as heavy as fog as the record rolls along. This sequencing, where the relatively hookier tunes are pushed toward the front, is typical in the 21st century — albums are front-loaded to pull in casual listeners, making the bet that the serious fans will stick around for the serious stuff that arrives at the end of the record — but this also robs Cleopatra of velocity, with whatever energy there was dissipating by the album’s conclusion, when the record winds down with its quietest moments. Nevertheless, there’s something admirable about the album’s solemnity: the Lumineers are on a quest to be taken seriously, and even if they overplay their hand, the earnestness is ingratiating. ~~ AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Tracklist:

1. Sleep On The Floor 3:32
2. Ophelia 2:39
3. Cleopatra 3:21
4. Gun Song 3:36
5. Angela 3:21
6. In The Light 3:51
7. Gale Song 3:13
8. Long Way From Home 2:32
9. Sick In The Head 2:31
10. My Eyes 3:36
11. Patience 1:36
12. Sailor Song (Moitessier) (Bonus Track) 2:24
13. For Fra (Bonus Track) 1:42
14. Boots Of Spanish Leather (Bonus Track) 4:42

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The Magnetic Fields – 50 Song Memoir (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 2:30:58 minutes | 1,62 GB | Genre: Rock, Alternative
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Merritt began recording on his 50th birthday: February 9, 2015. Unlike his previous work, the lyrics on 50 Song Memoir are nonfiction—in Merritt’s words, “a mix of autobiography (bedbugs, Buddhism, buggery) and documentary (hippies, Hollywood, hyperacusis).” As he says in the album’s liner note interview with his friend, the author Daniel Handler, “I am the least autobiographical person you are likely to meet. I will probably not write any more true songs after this than I did before, but it’s been interesting working on it.” In addition to his vocals on all 50 songs, Merritt plays more than 100 instruments on 50 Song Memoir, ranging from ukulele to piano to drum machine to abacus. In concert, the music will be played and sung by a newly expanded Magnetic Fields septet in a stage set featuring 50 years of artifacts both musical (vintage computers, reel-to-reel tape decks, newly invented instruments), and decorative (tiki bar, shag carpet, vintage magazines for the perusal of idle musicians). The seven performers each play seven different instruments, either traditional (cello, charango, clavichord) or invented in the last 50 years (Slinky guitar, Swarmatron, synthesizer). The stage extravaganza will be directed by the award-winning Jose Zayas (Love in the Time of Cholera, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter).

Tracklist:
01 – ’66: Wonder Where I’m From
02 – ’67: Come Back as a Cockroach
03 – ’68: A Cat Called Dionysus
04 – ’69: Judy Garland
05 – ’70: They’re Killing Children Over There
06 – ’71 I Think I’ll Make Another World
07 – ’72: Eye Contact
08 – ’73: It Could Have Been Paradise
09 – ’74: No
10 – ’75: My Mama Ain’t
11 – ’76: Hustle 76
12 – ’77: Life Ain’t All Bad
13 – ’78: The Blizzard of ’78
14 – ’79: Rock’n’Roll Will Ruin Your Life
15 – ’80: London by Jetpack
16 – ’81: How to Play the Synthesizer
17 – ’82: Happy Beeping
18 – ’83: Foxx and I
19 – ’84: Danceteria!
20 – ’85: Why I Am Not a Teenager
21 – ’86: How I Failed Ethics
22 – ’87: At the Pyramid
23 – ’88: Ethan Frome
24 – ’89: The 1989 Musical Marching Zoo
25 – ’90: Dreaming in Tetris
26 – ’91: The Day I Finally…
27 – ’92: Weird Diseases
28 – ’93: Me and Fred and Dave and Ted
29 – ’94: Haven’t Got a Penny
30 – ’95: A Serious Mistake
31 – ’96: I’m Sad!
32 – ’97: Eurodisco Trio
33 – ’98: Lovers’ Lies
34 – ’99: Fathers in the Clouds
35 – ’00: Ghosts of the Marathon Dancers
36 – ’01: Have You Seen It in the Snow?
37 – ’02: Be True to Your Bar
38 – ’03: The Ex and I
39 – ’04: Cold-Blooded Man
40 – ’05: Never Again
41 – ’06: Quotes
42 – ’07: In the Snow White Cottages
43 – ’08: Surfin’
44 – ’09: Till You Come Back to Me
45 – ’10: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
46 – ’11: Stupid Tears
47 – ’12: You Can Never Go Back to New York
48 – ’13: Big Enough for Both of Us
49 – ’14: I Wish I Had Pictures
50 – ’15: Somebody’s Fetish

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The New Pornographers – Whiteout Conditions (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:18 minutes | 495 MB | Genre: Rock, Alternative
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Indefatigable Canadian Indie Rock supergroup the New Porngraphers celebrate 18 years as a band this year, and they’ve just released their seventh album, Whiteout Conditions…

The New Pornographers have spent their career seesawing between two sides of their collective musical personality, contrasting straightforward peppy, poppy records—Mass Romantic (2001), Electric Version (2003) and 2014’s Technicolor Brill Bruisers—with melodic, less accessible and at times gratuitously weird LPs (2005’s Twin Cinema, Challengers from 2007 and 2010’s Together).

Whiteout Conditions breaks the tie, unmistakably throwing its lot in with the former group. It’s a fitting introduction to spring, a blast of synthesizers and harmony and aural smiles. They sprinkle the album with unconventional touches, but they avoid the self-conscious oddballism of, say, “Spyder,” instead relying on the strength of AC Newman’s writing and the band’s performance. No doubt some of the record’s pop emphasis stems from the recent departure of songwriter/singer/instrumentalist/Vancouver musical generalist Dan Bejar. Though he only contributed a few songs per album, the erstwhile Destroyer leader’s enigmatic lyrics, skewed melodies and unusual singing voice (at times, he seemed to channel three different Dylan phases simultaneously) offset the more accessible tracks, giving each record more texture, if slightly less cohesion.

While Newman’s knack for melodies is on full display here—every song on Whiteout Conditions invites head-bobbing or singing along—the album’s success stems at least as much from his penchant for experimenting with arrangement and structure. Verses flow into choruses with such little fanfare, it hardly seems fair to call them choruses. Instead, the songs come off as collages of uniformly important, but musically distinct melodic lines. The daydreamy album opener “Play Money” shifts from verses into the refrain “For a fee, I’ll fight any foe” with no flourish at all: no drum fill, no chord change, not even a cymbal crash. Instead, the song glides conversationally from section to section over a steady synth-pop heartbeat.

In the past, The New Pornographers have generally laid spidery keyboard hooks on top of a guitar-based foundation. On Whiteout Conditions, though, the band opts for a more explicitly new-wave feel; synths provide the bulk of the sound, with splashes of guitar for color. Sonic references to the ‘80s abound: the title track owes a debt to OMD’s “If You Leave,” while “High Ticket Attractions” and “Darling Shade” wouldn’t sound out of place on The Breakfast Club soundtrack.

If the NPs have always benefitted from the strength of their singers, Whiteout Conditions absolutely revels in their versatility. Newman, Kathryn Calder and the always arresting Neko Case trade lead duties throughout as well as pitching in harmonies, countermelodies and bright vocal chords, often in a song’s first minute. “Second Sleep” opens with a collage of vocal samples, parading their six voices (bassist John Collins, new drummer Joe Seiders, and keyboard player Blaine Thurier all provide rock-solid backing vox) past the listener, savoring the diversity of the instruments at their disposal. Elsewhere, “Juke” features a staccato three-part arrangement in which Case, Newman and Calder alternately harmonize and provide rhythm for one another, and the sparse instrumentation of “We’ve Been Here Before” confirms that the band’s voices alone can carry a song.

Three years ago, an elated Newman described Brill Bruisers as his “celebration record,” a return to more straightforward, listener-friendly power pop after the self-conscious eccentricity of the last three albums. Whiteout Conditions keeps that celebration going. And while The New Pornographers’ appealing quirks abound, their melodic gifts rightfully steal the show.

Tracklist:
01 – Play Money
02 – Whiteout Conditions
03 – High Ticket Attractions
04 – This Is The World Of The Theater
05 – Darling Shade
06 – Second Sleep
07 – Colosseums
08 – We’ve Been Here Before
09 – Juke
10 – Clockwise
11 – Avalanche Alley

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The Paul Butterfield Blues Band – In My Own Dream (1968/2015)

FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96kHz | Time – 36:28 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Blues. Rock
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In My Own Dream is a 1968 album by The Butterfield Blues Band. It continued the trend of its predecessor The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw in moving towards a more soul-oriented sound, supported by a first rate horn section, (featuring a young David Sanborn), but was not so well-received either by critics or the public as its predecessor. The title cut features a long solo by Sanborn. The drums were handled by Philip Wilson, who went on to jazz renown in the Art Ensemble of Chicago. This album is also notable as the last Butterfield record with original members Mark Naftalin and Elvin Bishop who both moved on to solo ventures of varying success.

Sometimes, one has to wonder whether the youth of the 1960s were really as open to new ideas and new sounds as their press would make you believe. Take the album at hand, In My Own Dream by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band — their fourth official release (though two others have since gone into their discography at earlier points), it marked the point where the band really began to lose its audience, and all for reasons having nothing to do with the quality of their music. They’d gotten past the loss of Michael Bloomfield in early 1967, over which they’d surrendered some of their audience of guitar idolaters, with the engagingly titled (and guitar-focused) Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw. In My Own Dream had its great guitar moments, especially on “Just to Be With You,” but throughout the album, Elvin Bishop’s electric guitar shared the spotlight with the horn section of Gene Dinwiddle, David Sanborn, and Keith Johnson, who had signed on with the prior album and who were more out in front than ever. More to the point, this album represented a new version of the band being born, with shared lead vocals, with the leader himself only taking three of the seven songs, and bassist Bugsy Maugh singing lead on two songs, Bishop on one, and drummer Phillip Wilson taking one song. What’s more, there was a widely shared spotlight for the players, and more of a jazz influence on this record than had ever been heard before from the group. This was a band that could jam quietly for five minutes on “Drunk Again,” building ever-so-slowly to a bluesy crescendo where Bishop’s guitar and Mark Naftalin’s organ surged; and follow it with the title track, a totally surprising acoustic guitar-driven piece featuring Sanborn, Dinwiddle, and Johnson. The playing was impressive, especially for a record aimed at a collegiate audience, but the record had the bad fortune to appear at a point when jazz was culturally suspect among the young, an elitist and not easily accessible brand of music that seemed almost as remote as classical music (i.e. “old people’s” music). “Get Yourself Together” was almost too good a piece of Chicago-style blues, a faux Chess Records-style track that might even have been too “black” for the remnants of Butterfield’s old audience.

Tracklist:
01 – Last Hope’s Gone
02 – Mine To Love
03 – Get Yourself Together
04 – Just To Be With You
05 – Mornin’ Blues
06 – Drunk Again
07 – In My Own Dream

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The Paul Butterfield Blues Band – The Paul Butterfield Blues Band (1965/2015)

FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192kHz | Time – 38:07 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Blues, Rock
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The Paul Butterfield Blues Band is the debut album by Paul Butterfield, released in 1965 on Elektra Records. It peaked at #123 on the Billboard pop albums chart. In 2003, the album was ranked number 476 on Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, moving up to number 468 in the revised 2012 list, and also is ranked at #11 on Down Beat magazine’s list of the top 50 blues albums.

Even after his death, Paul Butterfield’s music didn’t receive the accolades that were so deserved. Outputting styles adopted from Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters among other blues greats, Butterfield became one of the first white singers to rekindle blues music through the course of the mid-’60s. His debut album, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, saw him teaming up with guitarists Elvin Bishop and Mike Bloomfield, with Jerome Arnold on bass, Sam Lay on drums, and Mark Naftalin playing organ. The result was a wonderfully messy and boisterous display of American-styled blues, with intensity and pure passion derived from every bent note. In front of all these instruments is Butterfield’s harmonica, beautifully dictating a mood and a genuine feel that is no longer existent, even in today’s blues music. Each song captures the essence of Chicago blues in a different way, from the back-alley feel of “Born in Chicago” to the melting ease of Willie Dixon’s “Mellow Down Easy” to the authentic devotion that emanates from Bishop and Butterfield’s “Our Love Is Drifting.” “Shake Your Money Maker,” “Blues With a Feeling,” and “I Got My Mojo Working” (with Lay on vocals) are all equally moving pieces performed with a raw adoration for blues music. Best of all, the music that pours from this album is unfiltered…blared, clamored, and let loose, like blues music is supposed to be released. A year later, 1966’s East West carried on with the same type of brash blues sound partnered with a jazzier feel, giving greater to attention to Bishop’s and Bloomfield’s instrumental talents.

Tracklist:
01 – Born In Chicago
02 – Shake Your Money-Maker
03 – Blues With A Feeling
04 – Thank You Mr. Poobah
05 – I Got My Mojo Working
06 – Mellow Down Easy
07 – Screamin’
08 – Our Love Is Drifting
09 – Mystery Train
10 – Last Night
11 – Look Over Yonders Wall

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The Piano Guys – Uncharted (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 45:27 minutes | 525 MB | Genre: Classical
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The Piano Guys, the unstoppable classical/pop crossover music stylists, return with their first new studio album since 2014 with Uncharted. They have become YouTube superstars from their self-made innovative videos that have amassed over 1 BILLION views. Uncharted features all of their recent hits Fight Song/Amazing Grace, A Sky Full of Stars, Hello/Lacrimosa, and Jungle Book/Sarabande, all available for the first time on CD. The album also includes the new original song, Okay, featuring TPG’s own Al van der Beek on vocals plus more new song surprises.

Uncharted is the sixth studio album by YouTube sensations the Piano Guys. It features eight new songs in addition to their previously posted mash-ups “Fight Song/Amazing Grace,” “The Jungle Book/Sarabande,” and the Adele-Mozart track “Hello/Lacrimosa.” Their version of Coldplay’s “A Sky Full of Stars” had also been posted previously. Of note among the new tracks, the original song “Tour de France” by collective member Jon Schmidt skips the EDM beats and electronic additives of the title track, opting instead for solo piano, and “Okay” was provided by Hot 100 alums Dave Bassett and Andy Grammer. (Uncharted did indeed chart, marking their sixth straight number one on Billboard’s New Age Albums chart.) ~~ AllMusic Review by Marcy Donelson

Tracklist:
01 – Fight Song / Amazing Grace
02 – A Sky Full of Stars
03 – Hello / Lacrimosa
04 – Okay
05 – Themes from Pirates of the Caribbean
06 – Celloopa
07 – The Jungle Book / Sarabande
08 – Holding On
09 – Can’t Stop the Feeling
10 – Tour de France
11 – Uncharted
12 – Indiana Jones and the Arabian Nights

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The Secret Sisters – You Don’t Own Me Anymore (2017)
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The Secret Sisters are an Americana singing and songwriting duo consisting of vocalists Laura and Lydia Rogers. The duo’s music has been compared to artists like The Everly Brothers. The duo third release, You Don’t Own Me Anymore, showcases their picturesque songwriting and pitch-perfect vocals on an exceptional set of bluesy country and folk originals. Produced by Brandi Carlisle, this twelve song collection includes lead single “Carry Me” plus “Tennessee River Runs Low”, “Mississippi”, “Til It’s Over”, and more.

The result of a tumultuous couple of years that saw sisters Laura and Lydia Rogers dropped from their label and sued by their manager, You Don’t Own Me Anymore dispenses with some of the retro pastiche of their two previous outings in favor of a more contemporary, though no less timeless-sounding approach. Produced with genuine affection by Brandi Carlile, the 12-track set is a marvel of quiet grandeur and steely Southern pragmatism. Anchored by the Rogers’ impeccable harmonies, which invoke the sibling alchemy of the Louvins, Everlys, Kossoys, and Carters, You Don’t Own Me Anymore begins strong with the languid “Tennessee River Runs Low,” a Southern gothic-infused ode to the stretch of river that runs through their Northern Alabama homeland. The melody is dark and deep, and the gospel feel palpable, suggesting the Andrews Sisters’ “Bei Mir Bist Du Shein” by way of O Brother, Where Art Thou? Elsewhere, the sprightly “He’s Fine” and the feisty, garage-hewn title track find mirth in misery, and a lovely guitar- and cello-accompanied take on Paul Simon’s “Kathy’s Song” proves the perfect vehicle for the siblings’ close harmonic acuity. A brawny union of mountain folk and country-rock that takes the antagonist’s point of view, the inverted murder ballad “Mississippi,” co-written with Carlile, impresses as well, but it’s the album’s quieter moments that land the biggest punches. “To All the Girls Who Cry” and “Flee as a Bird,” the former a swooning sonic hug that sounds like Patsy Cline and Mary Ford re-imagining Ricky Nelson’s “Lonesome Town,” and the latter an unvarnished rendition of South Carolina poet Mary S. B. Shindler’s beautiful hymn, feel both otherworldly and familiar, like setting eyes on the first firefly of summer. However rooted in the past they may sound, the Secret Sisters ultimately connect on such an intimate level that they render any measure of time extraneous.

Tracklist:
01 – Tennessee River Runs Low
02 – Mississippi
03 – Carry Me
04 – King Cotton
05 – Kathy’s Song
06 – He’s Fine
07 – To All The Girls Who Cry
08 – Little Again
09 – You Don’t Own Me Anymore
10 – The Damage
11 – ‘Til It’s Over
12 – Flee As A Bird

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The Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (1995) {Remastered 2CD}
5 discs | FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 352:29 minutes | 7,28 GB | Genre: Alternative Rock
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Digitally remastered and expanded deluxe edition of this 1995 album from the Alt-Rock band led by Billy Corgan. The Deluxe Box Set’s 5 CDs include 64 bonus tracks of previously unreleased material or alternate versions of Mellon Collie era songs. The bonus content and special features were curated from the band’s archives by Corgan, and have been painstakingly remastered for the first time from the original master tapes by Bob Ludwig.

Originally released October 24, 1995, MELLON COLLIE AND THE INFINITE SADNESS would debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart and was certified 9x platinum by the RIAA. It yielded major hits like “Bullet With Butterfly Wings” the band’s unlikely first Top 40 hit the exquisite “1979” and epic “Tonight, Tonight” as well as a thoroughly inspired series of videos. Produced by BILLY CORGAN, Flood and Alan Moulder, the album would also earn a Grammy Award (1996 Best Hard Rock Performance for “Bullet With Butterfly Wings”) as well as seven nominations. Beyond the more obvious hits, though, MELLON COLLIE is a song cycle of unusual depth and considerable range. It is a collection of stunningly beautiful moments when everything lined up–a moment in time that’s still here to be treasured.

The Smashing Pumpkins didn’t shy away from making the follow-up to the grand, intricate Siamese Dream. With Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, the band turns in one of the most ambitious and indulgent albums in rock history. Lasting over two hours and featuring 28 songs, the album is certainly a challenging listen. To Billy Corgan’s credit, it’s a rewarding and compelling one as well. Although the artistic scope of the album is immense, The Smashing Pumpkins flourish in such an overblown setting. Corgan’s songwriting has never been limited by conventional notions of what a rock band can do, even if it is clear that he draws inspiration from scores of ’70s heavy metal and art rock bands. Instead of copying the sounds of his favorite records, he expands on their ideas, making the gentle piano of the title track and the sighing “1979” sit comfortably against the volcanic rush of “Jellybelly” and “Zero.” In between those two extremes lies an array of musical styles, drawing from rock, pop, folk, and classical. Some of the songs don’t work as well as others, but Mellon Collie never seems to drag. Occasionally they fall flat on their face, but over the entire album, The Smashing Pumpkins prove that they are one of the more creative and consistent bands of the ’90s.

Tracklist:

CD 1 – Dawn to Dusk:
CD1 #01 – Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
CD1 #02 – Tonight, Tonight
CD1 #03 – Jellybelly
CD1 #04 – Zero
CD1 #05 – Here Is No Why
CD1 #06 – Bullet With Butterfly Wings
CD1 #07 – To Forgive
CD1 #08 – Fuck You (An Ode To No One)
CD1 #09 – Love
CD1 #10 – Cupid De Locke
CD1 #11 – Galapogos
CD1 #12 – Muzzle
CD1 #13 – Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans
CD1 #14 – Take Me Down

CD 2 – Twilight to Starlight:
CD2 #01 – Where Boys Fear To Tread
CD2 #02 – Bodies
CD2 #03 – Thirty-Three
CD2 #04 – In The Arms Of Sleep
CD2 #05 – 1979
CD2 #06 – Tales Of A Scorched Earth
CD2 #07 – Thru The Eyes Of Ruby
CD2 #08 – Stumbleine
CD2 #09 – X.Y.U.
CD2 #10 – We Only Come Out At Night
CD2 #11 – Beautiful
CD2 #12 – Lily (My One And Only)
CD2 #13 – By Starlight
CD2 #14 – Farewell And Goodnight

CD 3 – Morning Tea:
CD3 #01 – Tonight, Tonight (Strings Alone Mix)
CD3 #02 – Methusela (Sadlands Demo)
CD3 #03 – X.Y.U. (Take 11)
CD3 #04 – Zero (Synth Mix)
CD3 #05 – Feelium (Sadlands Demo)
CD3 #06 – Autumn Nocturne (Sadlands Demo)
CD3 #07 – Beautiful (Loop Version)
CD3 #08 – Ugly (Sadlands Demo)
CD3 #09 – Ascending Guitars (Sadlands Demo)
CD3 #10 – By Starlight (Flood Rough)
CD3 #11 – Medellia Of The Gray Skies (Take 1)
CD3 #12 – Lover (Arrangement 1 Demo)
CD3 #13 – Thru The Eyes Of Ruby (Take 7)
CD3 #14 – In The Arms Of Sleep (Early Live Demo)
CD3 #15 – Lily (My One And Only) (Sadlands Demo)
CD3 #16 – 1979 (Sadlands Demo)
CD3 #17 – Glamey Glamey (Sadlands Demo)
CD3 #18 – Meladori Magpie
CD3 #19 – Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (Home Piano Version)
CD3 #20 – Galapagos (Instrumental/Sadlands Demo)
CD3 #21 – To Forgive (Sadlands Demo)

CD 4 – High Tea:
CD4 #01 – Bullet With Butterfly Wings (Sadlands Demo)
CD4 #02 – Set The Ray To Jerry (Vocal Rough)
CD4 #03 – Thirty-Three (Sadlands Demo)
CD4 #04 – Cupid De Locke (BT 2012 Mix)
CD4 #05 – Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans (Live Studio Rough)
CD4 #06 – Jellybelly (Instrumental/Pit Mix 3)
CD4 #07 – The Aeroplane Flies High (Turns Left, Looks Right)
CD4 #08 – Jupiter’s Lament (Barbershop version)
CD4 #09 – Bagpipes Drone (Sadlands Demo)
CD4 #10 – Tonight, Tonight (Band Version Only, No Strings)
CD4 #11 – Knuckles (Studio Outtake)
CD4 #12 – Pennies
CD4 #13 – Here Is No Why (Pumpkinland Demo)
CD4 #14 – Blast (Fuzz Version)
CD4 #15 – Towers of Rabble (Live)
CD4 #16 – Rotten Apples
CD4 #17 – Fun Time (Sadlands Demo)
CD4 #18 – Thru The Eyes Of Ruby (Acoustic Version)
CD4 #19 – Chinoise (Sadlands Demo)
CD4 #20 – Speed

CD 5 – Special Tea:
CD5 #01 – Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness (Nighttime Version 1)
CD5 #02 – Galapagos (Sadlands Demo)
CD5 #03 – Cherry (BT 2012 Mix)
CD5 #04 – Love (Flood Rough)
CD5 #05 – New Waver (Sadlands Demo)
CD5 #06 – Fuck You (An Ode To No One) (Production Master Rough)
CD5 #07 – Isolation (BT 2012 Mix)
CD5 #08 – Transformer (Early Mix)
CD5 #09 – Dizzle (Sadlands Demo)
CD5 #10 – Goodnight (Basic Vocal Rough)
CD5 #11 – Eye (Soundworks Demo)
CD5 #12 – Blank (Sadlands Demo)
CD5 #13 – Beautiful (Instrumental-Middle 8)
CD5 #14 – My Blue Heaven (BT 2012 Mix)
CD5 #15 – One And Two
CD5 #16 – Zoom (7 ips)
CD5 #17 – Pastichio Medley (Reversed Extras)
CD5 #18 – Marquis In Spades (BT 2012 Mix)
CD5 #19 – Tales Of A Scorched Earth (Guitar Overdub Mix)
CD5 #20 – Tonite Reprise (Version 1)
CD5 #21 – Wishing You Were Real (Home Demo)
CD5 #22 – Thru The Eyes Of Ruby (Pit Mix 3)
CD5 #23 – Phang (Sadlands Demo)

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Thundercat – Drunk (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 54:36 minutes | 628 MB | Genre:  Hip-Hop, Jazz, Funk
Studio Master, Official Digital Download – Source: Ototoy.jp | Digital booklet | © Brainfeeder

Drunk is the third studio album by American Alternative R&B musician Thundercat. This new album is an epic journey into the often hilarious, sometimes dark mind of the Grammy-winning singer/bassist – featuring a few of his friends joining him along the way including: Kendrick Lamar, Pharrell, Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins, Wiz Khalifa, Kamasi Washington and Brainfeeder mastermind Flying Lotus.

Between Apocalypse and Drunk, his second and third albums, bassist Stephen Bruner contributed to a slew of remarkable recordings by fellow Los Angeles dwellers — Flying Lotus’ You’re Dead!, Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp a Butterfly and Untitled Unmastered, Kamasi Washington’s The Epic, and Terrace Martin’s Velvet Portraits among them. Several months before Bruner picked up a Grammy for “These Walls,” off To Pimp a Butterfly, he issued an EP anchored by “Them Changes.” His funkiest, sweetest, most vulnerable song, it reappears as the top highlight on Drunk, a fragmentary and scattered program relative to the Thundercat full-lengths that preceded it. Bruner is still fueled by numerous forms that immediately preceded his birth — smooth soul, soft rock, jazz fusion, synth funk, new wave, all late ’70s/early ’80s — and filters them through his soft-hearted, mischievous personality. He surrounds himself with a slightly different cast of old and newer associates, including the first three figures listed above, keyboardist Dennis Hamm, drummer Louis Cole, and producer Sounwave. For better and worse, there’s a lot of foolishness occurring here. Bruner dreams about being a cat (replete with meowing background melody), pens a tribute to Japanese pop culture (“Just point me to the Pachinko machines”), and delivers a sarcastic jingle regarding social media fatigue (“I’m out here probably doing the most”). At times, the whimsicality sinks into middle school humor (“Captain Stupido”) and misogyny (“Friend Zone”). Love and mortality remain Bruner’s strongest subjects, placed on full display in terse but touching ballads like “Lava Lamp,” “Jethro,” and “3AM.” In “Show You the Way,” another bright spot, he swaps verses with Michael McDonald and Kenny Loggins, two of his heroes, to swirling and balmy effect. Additional guests Kendrick, Pharrell, and Wiz Khalifa add to the star power, but the main attraction is Bruner’s singular combination of tremulous yet fluid bass and aching falsetto. ~~ AllMusic Review by Andy Kellman

Tracklist:
01 – Rabbot Ho
02 – Captain Stupido
03 – Uh Uh
04 – Bus In These Streets
05 – A Fan’s Mail (Tron Song Suite II)
06 – Lava Lamp
07 – Jethro
08 – Day & Night
09 – Show You The Way (feat. Micheal McDonald & Kenny Loggins)
10 – Walk On By (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
11 – Blackkk
12 – Tokyo
13 – Jameel’s Space Ride
14 – Friend Zone
15 – Them Changes
16 – Where I’m Going
17 – Drink Dat (feat. Wiz Khalifa)
18 – Inferno
19 – I Am Crazy
20 – 3AM
21 – Drunk
22 – The Turn Down (feat. Pharrell)
23 – DUI
24 – Hi (feat. Mac Miller) [Bonus Track]

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Shawn Mendes – Shawn Mendes (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz  | Time – 44:08 minutes | 530 MB | Genre: Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Island Records

It only took Shawn Mendes three years to realize his pop dreams. After catching a wave of fame on Vine, he steered it into solo stardom with two chart-topping albums, a world tour, and a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden. Then, the Toronto-area native got right to work on his third album, an adventurous voyage of texture and tempo, with songwriting support from pop heavyweights like Ed Sheeran, Julia Michaels, and John Mayer. Lyrically, he’s still the same Shawn—brooding, broken, heart on his sleeve—but age and experience have emboldened him; heartbreak is no longer a curb on his powers, but his creative fuel. With a skillful balance of poise and risk-taking, he explores slick funk (“Particular Taste”), soulful piano ballads (“Perfectly Wrong”), and Kings of Leon-inspired pop-rock (“In My Blood”), showing us just how much he’s capable of.

Tracklist:
1. In My Blood (03:31)
2. Nervous (02:44)
3. Lost in Japan (03:21)
4. Where Were You in the Morning? (03:20)
5. Like to Be You (feat. Julia Michaels) (02:39)
6. Fallin’ All in You (03:55)
7. Particular Taste (02:55)
8. Why (03:58)
9. Because I Had You (02:22)
10. Queen (03:24)
11. Youth (feat. Khalid) (03:10)
12. Mutual (02:28)
13. Perfectly Wrong (03:32)
14. When You’re Ready (02:49)

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Soul Asylum – Live from Liberty Lunch, Austin, TX, December 3, 1992 (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz  | Time – 01:10:36 minutes | 2,82 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Columbia – Legacy

The previously unreleased performance of the American rock band Soul Asylum, recorded in the legendary Liberty Lunch live performance venue in Austin, just a few months after the release of their breakthrough album “Grave Dancers Union”.

Tracklist:
01. Without a Trace (Live)
02. All the King’s Friends (Live)
03. Sometime to Return (Live)
04. Veil of Tears (Live)
05. Get On Out (Live)
06. Runaway Train (Live)
07. Black Gold (Live)
08. Cartoon (Live)
09. Somebody to Shove (Live)
10. Nice Guys (Don’t Get Paid) (Live)
11. April Fool (Live)
12. To Sir with Love (Live)
13. Gullibles Travels (Live)
14. Cry to Me (Live)
15. Keep It Up (Live)
16. 99% (Live)
17. Closer to the Stars (Live)

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Speedy Ortiz – Twerp Verse (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz  | Time – 35:32 minutes | 785 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Alternative, Shoegaze
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Carpark

Necessary brattiness” is the motto in Speedy Ortiz’s dauntless new collection of songs, “Twerp Verse.” The follow-up to 2015’s “Foil Deer,” the band’s latest indie rock missive is prompted by a tidal wave of voices, no longer silent on the hurt they’ve endured from society’s margins. But like many of these truth-tellers, songwriter, guitarist and singer Sadie Dupuis scales the careful line between what she calls being “outrageous and practical” in order to be heard at all.

“You need to employ a self-preservational sense of humor to speak truth in an increasingly baffling world,” says Dupuis. “I call it a ‘twerp verse’ when a musician guests on a track and says something totally outlandish – like a Lil Wayne verse – but it becomes the most crucial part. This record is our own twerp verse, for those instances when you desperately need to stand up and show your teeth.”

“Twerp Verse” was tracked in Brooklyn DIY space Silent Barn, mixed by Omaha legend Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes, Rilo Kiley) and mastered by Grammy-nominated engineer Emily Lazar (Sia, Haim, Beck). The record pulls from the most elastic pop moments in Squeeze’s Argybargy and the seesawing synth-rock of Deerhoof and the Rentals. With Dupuis on guitars, vocals, and synths, supporting guitarist Andy Molholt (of psych pop outfit Laser Background) now joins Speedy veterans Darl Ferm on bass and Mike Falcone on drums – and together they accelerate the band’s idiosyncrasy through the wilderness of Dupuis’ heady reflections on sex, lies and audiotape.

Dupuis, who both earned an MFA in poetry and taught at UMass Amherst, propels the band’s brain-teasing melodies with her serpentine wit. Inspired by the cutting observations of Eve Babitz, Aline Crumb’s biting memoirs, and the acute humor of AstroPoet Dorothea Lasky, Dupuis craftily navigates the danger zone that is building intimacy and political allyship in 2018. Now as public pushback against the old guards reaches a fever pitch – in the White House, Hollywood and beyond – the band fires shots in disillusioned Gen Y theme “Lucky 88,” and casts a side-eye towards suitors-turned-monsters in the cold-blooded single “Villain.” Closing track “You Hate The Title” is a slinky traipse through the banality of this current moment in patriarchy – in which survivors are given the mic, but nitpicked over the timbre of their testimonies. “You hate the title, but you’re digging the song,” Dupuis sings wryly, “You like it in theory, but it’s rubbing you wrong.” Tuned smartly to the political opacity of the present, “Twerp Verse” rings clear as a bell.

Tracklist:
01. Buck Me Off
02. Lean In When I Suffer
03. Lucky 88
04. Can I Kiss You?
05. Backslidin’
06. Villain
07. I’m Blessed
08. Sport Death
09. Alone with Girls
10. Moving In
11. You Hate The Title

Personnel:
Sadie Dupuis – guitar, vocals
Andy Molholt – guitar
Darl Ferm – bass
Mike Falcone – drums

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Ruff As Stone – Put Your Smile On (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz  | Time – 40:41 minutes | 489 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download |  © Bosworth Recorded Music

Ruff as Stone, a London based four piece supergroup, came together after what began as a simple jam session one afternoon in 2009 quickly turned into a writing session, as whole songs started to take shape in no time at all, leaving the group with no doubt that they had something special.
Their music has evolved into a powerful mix of rock and soul, unapologetically influenced by the 70s. This is no pastiche, rather a respectful nod to a time that they all experienced, recorded organically – together as a band.

Tracklist:
01. Cry to Me
02. Lips Are for Kissing
03. Everyone’s a Winner
04. Stand by You
05. Unconditional Love
06. Put Your Smile On
07. See the Light
08. Black Is Black
09. Come Together
10. Midnight Stranger

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Status Quo – The Last Night of the Electrics (Live) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz  | Time – 01:34:07 minutes | 1,83 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © earMUSIC

British rock legends Status Quo will commemorate an emotional moment in the band’s history with The Last Night of the Electrics, a live set culled from last December’s London stop on what’s being billed as the group’s last major tour.

Scheduled for a July 14 release, Last Night of the Electrics is being made available in a variety of configurations, from standard digital, double-CD and DVD/Blu-ray sets to a three-LP 180-gram vinyl version and a deluxe box bundling in a 120-page coffee-table book with the CD and DVD/Blu-ray discs. Fans can pre-order through the band’s official store, which is also offering a number of exclusive and signed options.

As fans are aware, last year’s London date came during a turbulent time for Status Quo; guitarist Rick Parfitt, who’d battled health issues for years, was out of the lineup on doctor’s orders, and died shortly before the end of the year. His funeral reflected the band’s long-running commitment to live performance, with the surviving band members arriving to the service in a tour bus.

“This release captures Quo on incredible form, at a concert that will live long in my memory. It was a difficult time, but we knew what we needed to do and we delivered,” said guitarist Francis Rossi. “This was by no means business as usual, nor should it have been, but the energy of the music, the band and the crowd coming together was palpable.” You can see the band perform “Caroline” from the set below.

Tracklist:
01. Caroline
02. The Wanderer
03. Something ‘Bout You Baby I Like
04. Rain
05. Softer Ride
06. Beginning of the End
07. Hold You Back
08. Proposing Medley
09. Paper Plane
10. The Oriental
11. Creepin’ up on You
12. Gerdundula
13. In the Army Now
14. The Caveman
15. Roll over Lay Down
16. Down Down
17. Whatever You Want
18. Rockin’ All over the World
19. Burning Bridges
20. Rock ‘n’ Roll / Bye Bye Johnny

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Steve Cropper – Playin My Thang (1981/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz  | Time – 34:57 minutes | 1,27 GB | Genre: Blues, Soul, Funk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Geffen Records

Steve Cropper is best known as session guitarist for Stax Records and part of Booker T. & The MG’s. He’s played besides people like Otis Redding, Sam & Dave and Wilson Pickett. He also features in both Blues Brothers movies as ‘The Colonel’. And he co-wrote “In The Midnight Hour” and “Sittin’ On The Dock Of The Bay”. Whoa! Having played such an important role as sideman to lots of Southern Soul stars, it’s no surprise this solo album isn’t gonna blow your speakers. But this second Steve Cropper solo album is an album well worth checking out.

The man whose reputation is well established as a stellar guitar sideman has a big challenge stepping out front, especially considering the decision to take on lead vocal responsibilities. As a result, Playing My Thang is not so much about Steve Cropper’s guitar playing as his singing, the obvious reason the early-’80s release hasn’t exactly achieved classic status. Not that he is a bad singer, not by any means. The title track manages to merge a story told by the singing voice with lead guitar playing, along the lines of the classic “Guitar Man” song and others of its ilk. “Give ‘Em What They Want” is a surprising, thought-provoking opener, although it also presents the first ample evidence that this is going to be a dull album. The cynicism of the lyrics, as well as a somewhat morose groove, make it seem like a self-confessional opus from a singer/songwriter is underway basically the truth, since Cropper wrote or co-wrote many of these titles. In that case, are the musings of a jaded session man really such an attractive basis for lyrical philosophy? Certainly whoever designed the album cover didn’t think so Cropper’s axe is given priority. “Fly” is a bit more of a Stevie Wonder thing; which, along with an aggravated and strange brass arrangement of “Let the Good Times Roll,” are examples of material related to, but not exactly in, what is considered to be Cropper’s forte. A Delbert McClinton cover, entitled “Sandy Beaches,” complete with Jim Horn on flute, brings to mind the Herbie Mann Memphis Underground recordings as well as the prospect that a guitarist could take advantage of such a setting for some picking. Cropper’s main business seems to be trying to pull off the vocal, complete with “I’ll be loving you, loving you” chorus. Any chord Cropper played on any Booker T. & the MG’s album is better than this entire album a realization that, although highly complimentery to the genius of Steve Cropper, is of little help when it comes to concieving just how he could have made a better solo album.

Tracklist:
01. Give ‘Em What They Want
02. Let The Good Times Roll
03. Playin’ My Thang
04. Fly
05. Sandy Beaches
06. With You
07. Feet
08. Why Do You Say You Love Me
09. Ya Da Ya Da

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Steve Hill – The One Man Blues Rock Band (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz  | Time – 01:08:59 minutes | 722 MB | Genre: Blues Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Manhaton Records

When it comes to one-man bands, guitarist and singer extraordinaire Steve Hill has no limits. Anything goes. He is the true exponent of a one-man band. Steve performs standing up while singing and playing guitar, his feet playing bass drum, snare drum, hi-hats and with a drum stick fused to the head of his trusty guitar, any other percussion within reach.

MULTI-JUNO AWARD WINNER FOR “BLUES ALBUM OF THE YEAR”, 2016 MAPLE BLUES AWARD WINNER FOR “ELECTRIC ACT OF THE YEAR”, “GUITARIST OF THE YEAR” AND “ENTERTAINER OF THE YEAR”

Tracklist:
01. Rhythm All Over
02. Go On
03. The Collector
04. Damned
05. Tough Luck
06. Never Is Such A Long Time
07. Hate To See You Go
08. Emily
09. Nothing New
10. Out Of Phase
11. Still Got It Bad
12. The Ballad Of Johnny Wabo
13. Dangerous
14. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

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Sullivan Fortner – Moments Preserved (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz  | Time – 51:55 minutes | 969 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Booklet, Front Cover | © Impulse!

Three years after the release of Sullivan Fortner’s charming Impulse! Records debut, Aria, the 31-year-old New Orleans-bred pianist and composer returns with his enchanting sophomore effort, Moments Preserved, which finds him leading a sterling trio with bassist Ameen Saleem and drummer Jeremy “Bean” Clemons. Produced by Grammy-winning Brian Bacchus, Moments Preserved arrived at the end of a productive recording period; Fortner participated on six recording sessions in less than two months. Nevertheless, he hails Moments Preserved as one of the “most honest and emotionally direct” albums he’s made yet. While gathering tunes for the album, he reflected on many key life moments that have occurred since winning the 2008 Leonore Annenberg Arts Fellowship and the 2015 Cole Porter Fellowship. Those moments include concluding his eight-year tenure in Roy Hargrove’s band then emerging as a bandleader.

Released in 2015 by the label Impulse!, Aria was an impressive first album for Sullivan Fortner. After making a name for himself as the designated pianist for Roy Hargrove, Stefon Harris and Christian Scott, the New Orleans native played a classical, yet not anecdotal card. Quite the contrary in fact. His technique was already formidable, his influences (Thelonious Monk, Herbie Nichols) perfectly assimilated, his writing (five of the album’s ten compositions) impeccably on point, but more than anything, it was the characteristic DNA of New Orleans that transpired through his fingers. Three years later, the aesthete impresses even more with his Moments Preserved produced in collaboration with bass player Ameen Saleem and drummer Jeremy ‘Bean’ Clemmons. Sullivan Fortner is no old timer, but a master like you don’t see anymore. Much like the late Mulgrew Miller, his piano combines a toppling technique with a musicality of exquisite taste. No time for smokescreens. With Fortner, everything is refinement, elegance and an acute sense of conversation with his accomplices, including his ex-boss and trumpeter Roy Hargrove on three tracks. Moments Preserved is an unadulterated jazz album. No artificial colours to go with the zeitgeist! Timeless music like only the greatest musicians can produce. Even when he covers Earth, Wind & Fire’s Fantasy, Sullivan Fortner fully makes this massive hit his own, rendering it unrecognizable! Astounding.  – Max Dembo

Tracklist:
01. Changing Keys (Wheel Of Fortune Theme)
02. Pep Talk
03. Elegy For Clyde Kerr Jr.
04. Beans And Cornbread
05. Eyes So Beautiful As Yours
06. In A Sentimental Mood
07. Barbara’s Strut
08. Just In Time
09. New Port
10. Fantasy
11. Monk Medley: Monk’s Mood / Ask Me Now
12. The Solid Rock
13. Phoebe’s Samba

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The Bacon Brothers – The Bacon Brothers (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz  | Time – 42:38 minutes | 493 MB | Genre: Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MRI

Most people would agree that there’s nothing stronger, more durable and occasionally, even more volatile, than the bond between brothers. And when that bond includes the common goal of making music, the results often offer reason for an audience to sit up and take notice. There have been any number of examples in music’s modern era the Everly Brothers, the Beach Boys, the Kinks and Oasis to name but a few. Not that it’s easy or even agreeable, but there is common cause, and that’s generally enough to ensure there’s passion and purpose in its creation.

So while casual observers may be awed by their Hollywood credentials, critics have been quick to note that the brothers -Michael on vocals, guitar and cello and Kevin on vocals, guitar and percussion along with the band that’s been with them since the beginning Paul Guzzone (bass, backing vocals), Joe Mennonna (keyboards, accordion), Ira Siegel (lead guitar, mandolin and backing vocals) and Frank Vilardi (drums) eschew any hint of glitz and glamour in favor of an ethic gleaned from the hard lessons that come as a result of determination and drive.

Tracklist:
01. Tom Petty T-Shirt
02. So-Cal Smooth
03. I Feel You
04. A Road We Know Too Well
05. Driver
06. Two Rivers
07. Broken Glass
08. Beneath Perfection
09. The Garden
10. Boys in Bars

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The Flaming Lips – Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 (Deluxe Edition) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz  | Time – 03:43:48 minutes | 3,67 GB | Genre: Alternative, Indie Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Bros.

Warner Bros. Music will issue a Flaming Lips greatest hits in June, which will be available both on vinyl and as a set. Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 will include singles, B-sides, outtakes and previously unreleased tracks, with audio remastered from the original tape source by Dave Fridmann. While the triple-CD deluxe boasts a massive 52 tracks, the single vinyl LP edition is a extremely condensed 11-track affair.

Tracklist:
01. Talkin’ ‘Bout the Smiling Deathporn Immortality Blues (Everyone Wants to Live Forever)
02. Hit Me Like You Did the First Time
03. Frogs
04. Felt Good to Burn
05. Turn It On
06. She Don’t Use Jelly
07. Chewin the Apple of Your Eye
08. Slow Nerve Action
09. Psychiatric Explorations of the Fetus With Needles
10. Brainville
11. Lightning Strikes the Postman
12. When You Smile
13. Bad Days (Aurally Excited Version)
14. Riding to Work in the Year 2025
15. Race for the Prize (Sacrifice of the New Scientists)
16. Waitin’ for a Superman (Is It Getting Heavy?)
17. The Spark That Bled
18. What Is the Light?
19. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1
20. In the Morning of the Magicians
21. All We Have Is Now
22. Do You Realize??
23. The W.A.N.D.
24. Pompeii Am Gotterdammerung
25. Vein of Stars
26. The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song
27. Convinced of the Hex
28. See the Leaves
29. Silver Trembling Hands
30. Is David Bowie Dying? (feat. Neon Indian)
31. Try to Explain
32. Always There, In Our Hearts
33. How??
34. There Should Be Unicorns
35. The Castle
36. Zero to a Million
37. Jets (Cupid’s Kiss vs. The Psyche of Death) [2-Track Demo]38. Thirty-Five Thousand Feet of Despair
39. The Captain
40. 1000ft Hands
41. Noodling Theme (Epic Sunset Mix #5)
42. Up Above the Daily Hum
43. The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song (In Anatropous Reflex)
44. We Can’t Predict the Future
45. Your Face Can Tell the Future
46. You Gotta Hold On
47. What Does It Mean?
48. Spider-man vs. Muhammad Ali
49. I Was Zapped By the Lucky Super Rainbow
50. Enthusiasm for Life Defeats Existential Fear Part 2
51. If I Only Had a Brain
52. Silent Night / Lord, Can You Hear Me

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