Redeye Label of the Month Q&A
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This Issue: Jim Olsen at Signature Sounds
How did you personally get started in the music industry?
My introduction to the music industry began with college radio in the 70’s. I grew up in the NY area completely obsessed with music and the radio. Once I got on the air, my career path was set and a bunch of radio gigs followed. I also got involved in producing live music pretty early on and was a founder of the Green River Festival 40+ years ago.
When and where did the label begin?
Signature Sounds began in 1994 in Western Massachusetts. I was programming a commercial AAA station, 93.9 The River at the time. We had a local music show called Homegrown and we hit upon the idea of doing local compilation albums as a benefit for the food bank. We recorded much of the music for those albums at Signature Sounds Studios and the owner of the studio Mark Thayer became my partner and the name stuck.
Is the label tied to a specific geographical area, and if so, how is this reflected in your releases?
The label started to promote the local music scene in Western Massachusetts, which had a super fertile music scene in the 90’s and launched many great bands such as The Pixies, Dinosaur Jr and Sebadoh plus great songwriters like Dar Williams, Ray LaMontagne, Martin Sexton and others. All of our early releases were from Western Mass artists and we still represent great locals like Chris Smither, Heather Maloney and Winterpills.
How has the label changed since it started?
The label was started with very modest ambitions and a complete lack of experience so we had a long era of trial and error before we found our footing. We started in a completely different era, when everything depended on CD sales and there was no internet music. I’m proud of the fact that we were able to navigate and thrive through all of the changes that have happened over the years. All along our goal was to sign young artists and be a driver of artist development. That is still our ethos today.
What was the biggest challenge for you and the label during the Pandemic, and is it still a challenge?
Oddly, the pandemic was a good period for the label. When things shut down, we immediately pivoted to producing live stream shows for our artists and others, producing over 100 shows in two years and helping keep everyone afloat. We also saw a significant increase in our direct product sales and streaming numbers.
Who or what has been a new find (on the label or otherwise) you’d like to rave about?
I still do a 3 hour weekly radio show on The River which is focused on roots music and Americana. I spend a lot of time checking new music for the show. I also see tons of live music as well. As for recent favorites, I’m digging the new albums by Dean Johnson, Clover County and the band Fust.
What’s the wildest marketing promotion you’ve ever worked on for any release?
We tend not to get too wild with these things, but for the 10th anniversary of Bad Self Portraits we created 4 unique artwork versions of the album with different color themes and new artwork with lots of bad self portraits of the band.
What is your stance on color vinyl? What’s the most unique color LP or overall packaging you’ve ever seen or released?
I love making colored vinyl releases as it’s such a cool extension of the album artwork. Our most unique LP color was definitely Clown Vomit (look it up!)
How do you feel about the rising costs of vinyl records? And what about the continued popularity of the CD format?
I must admit that I thought the vinyl resurgence was going to be a passing fad. It’s literally the only instance that I can recall where we brought back a dead technology years later. I’m still amazed that anyone would pay $35 for an album. I’ve always been a CD fan and continue to collect them, mostly because they are best to play on the radio.
What in your opinion has been the biggest change in the music industry from when you first started compared to now?
I think the biggest change is the ability to have direct contact with your fans. In the pre-internet days you had very limited ways to connect with the folks buying your records. Now you can connect instantly.
How do you view the issue of being environmentally sustainable within the music industry?
That is one downside of the return of vinyl. Every step of the process from production to delivery is inefficient and environmentally detrimental. CD’s aren’t much better. We have to make a collective effort to figure out a better way forward.
How important are issues like mental health and social justice to you and the label?
I feel like we are on the front lines of First Amendment rights, and it’s our duty to allow artists to express themselves through their art even when you might not agree with their views. So many of our favorite artists have struggled with mental health issues, and having an artistic outlet to express themselves is a benefit to everyone.
Want to shout out a personal favorite record store or retail establishment? Now’s your chance: There are so many great ones!!! If I had to pick one, it would probably be Waterloo Records in Austin…one of the oldest and the best!
They say our sun will explode in about 5 billion years or sohow would you like the label to be remembered? We’re not gonna last 5 billion years!
Reveals the superb material as the missing, debauched L.A. link between “Exile on Main Street” and “Appetite for Destruction”. –– LA WEEKLY
BACK IN STOCK
Largely overlooked at the time of its release, “Kill City” is now seen as a dark rock and roll classic. Recorded in 1975, the album offers a vivid, unflinching portrayal of rock decadence, street life, and self-destruction. The songs are gritty and often nihilistic, yet they retain moments of poetic beauty and even vulnerability. In many ways, Iggy’s depiction of his own life—and of Los Angeles during that era— echoes the worlds conjured by John Fante, Raymond Chandler, and Charles Bukowski. Guitarist, producer, and songwriting partner James “Straight” Williamson contributes some of the most memorable rock riffs ever recorded, including the iconic one on the title track, “Kill City.” The album was originally released with a muddy mix, but this remixed and remastered version, overseen by both Iggy and James, finally restores its brilliance. Today, “Kill City” stands as one of the greatest proto-punk records ever made.
Street date : NOVEMBER 28th 2025
BICEP
CHROMA 000 - SPECIAL EDITION CASE
Release Date: November 14th, 2025
Bicep close out their ambitious CHROMA project with a definitive special edition case designed by visual collaborator David Rudnick and Terrain studio Since its launch in 2024, CHROMA has acted as a home for the duo’s most adventurous output — spanning euphoric 90s-inspired riffs, heavy club cuts, ambient experiments, and collaborations under their B.D.B and DOVE aliases. From the explosive opening to the final single release, each track reflects the project’s ethos: “from Acid to Alkaline,” bridgingthe spirit of 90s club culture with Bicep’s forward-facingsound
The special edition case compiles all ten singles from the series across two vinyl records, plus two alternate versions of fan favorites A.L.O.E and TANGZ, availablephysicallyforthefirsttime within thepackagethathasbeenmeticulouslydesignedasa collector’s item. A testament to their evolving creative world,thereleasecementsCHROMA’slegacy—from sold-outLondontakeovers and festivalheadlines atGlastonburyandCoachella, to a groundbreaking newAV/DJshow.
The CHROMA special edition case marks both an endpoint and a beginning: a closing chapter in this phase of Bicep’s journey, and a blueprint for the sonic andvisualworldstheycontinuetobuild.
CAT NO: CHROMA000
UPC: 5054429204971
Box Lot: 5
￫ 140g black 2LPin bespoke “Terrain6” hyper-color printed outer sleeves
￫ 12” neon acrylic sheet with laser etching (x4 unique versions, 1 per product)
￫ Housed in translucent brown Mylar wrap sleeve, Pantone screen printed
￫ Limited to 5000 copies worldwide
SIDE C
C1. BICEP& ELIZA– CHROMA008TANGZ
C2. DOVE & KEHINA– CHROMA009 KR36
C3. BICEP– CHROMA010 BRILLO
SIDE D
D1. B.D.B – CHROMA011A.L.O.E II
D2. BICEP& ELIZA– CHROMA012TANGZ II
SIDE C
C1. BICEP& ELIZA– CHROMA008TANGZ
C2. DOVE & KEHINA– CHROMA009 KR36
C3. BICEP– CHROMA010 BRILLO
SIDE D
D1. B.D.B – CHROMA011A.L.O.E II
D2. BICEP& ELIZA– CHROMA012TANGZ II
Genre: Electronic
Key Markets: LosAngeles, NewYork, Chicago, Toronto, Montréal, Santiago, Mexico City
Recommended if you like… FourTet, Floating Points, Orbital, Underworld, Overmono, Caribou
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NEW RELEASES
Street Date: 11.21.25 | Order Date: 10.31.25
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A Holly Jolly Jill Barber Christmas
For Jill Barber, nothing signals the start of the holiday season like the needle dropping on her most cherished Christmas albums: the cozy familiarity of Bing Crosby’s smooth baritone on White Christmas, getting dolled up in holiday glam to the soundtrack of Ella’s A Swinging Christmas, the glimmer of hope you feel when Nat King Cole’s buttery voice sings “chestnuts roasting on an open fire,” or the childhood wonder you experience when The Muppets perform their playful rendition of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" It’s this feeling of lightness, hope and nostalgia that inspired her to create her first-ever collection of holiday songs, "A Holly Jolly Jill Barber Christmas"
Produced and arranged by Grammy Award-nominated Drew Jurecka, the album is wrapped in Drew's lush string arrangements and tastefully decorated with the jazz stylings of Ewen Farncombe (piano), Nathan Hiltz (guitar), Chris Banks (bass) and Davide Direnzo (drums) and features a charming duet with her big brother Matthew Barber on the family classic "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer," a sexy rendition of "You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch," a swinging version of Kelly Clarkson’s "Underneath the Tree" and two brand new original Christmas songs, written for the occasion by Jill herself.
November21,2025
AvailableonDigipackCDorJackPineEvergreenLP withcustomizablegifttagsticker
Whether you’re seeking to add some seasonal sparkle to your holiday cocktail party, or ready to curl up with a mug of hot cocoa in the glow of the Christmas tree, "A Holly Jolly Jill Barber Christmas" is sure to bring romance, comfort and joy to your holiday season- for many years to come!
20TH ANNIVERSARY REISSUE OF THE 2005 CLASSIC
The Suicide Machines’ classic 6th studio album! The Detroit four piece cranks it up a few notches with “War Profiteering is Killing Us All.” These are some of the heaviest, loudest and politically charged songs the band has ever done. Produced by Mr. Bill Stevenson (Black Flag, ALL, Descendents), the 2025 remaster is by Nicholas Townsend. Brace yourself!!!
THAO & The Get Down Stay Down KNOW BETTER LEARN FASTER
(15th Anniversary Remaster)
STREET
DATE: NOVEMBER 21, 2025 SIDE A
The Clap
Cool Yourself
When We Swam
Know Better Learn Faster
Body
The Give SIDE B
Good Bye Good Luck
Trouble Was For
Oh. No.
Fixed It!
11. Burn You Up 12. But What of the Strangers 13. Easy
• 15TH ANNIVERSARY VINYL REMASTER
• DIE CUT LP JACKET
• PRINTED INNER SLEEEVE W/ LYRICS
• LETTER FROM THAO DISCUSSING THE ORIGINS OF THE ALBUM
Claps and stomps through the wreckage of heartbreak. Jangly guitars and jubilant horns disguise the sharp edges of emotional neglect, asymmetrical desire, abandonment, and longing—while the music mirrors the fevered shifting of blame. Never bitter but brutally honest, Thao recounts love’s collapse in a delicate balance of near-obsessive detail and poetic ambiguity. A soundtrack for sad people who dance—even if it’s on the ruins of love.
Produced by Tucker Martine
with guest appearances by:
• Andrew Bird
• Blitzen Trapper
• Horse Feathers
• Laura Veirs
• Tune-Yards
: Apparat (15th Anniversary Reissue)
Sascha Ring aka Apparat’s work as a producer, artist, musician, live act and DJ has always been in a constant state of metamorphosis, while simultaneously always managing to stay true to his trademark musical sound.
There is a unique spirit that lives within his projects and productions or rather they all have this special vision of music which becomes more distinctive with every release and spans his ‘Multifunktionsebene’ and ‘Walls’ albums on Shitkatapult, his ‘Moderat’ album made together with the boys from Modeselektor on Bpitch Control and his DJ-Kicks mix for !K7.
Following on from Kode9 and his friend James Holden, Apparat offers a wonderful mix and insight into the tracks that have influenced and roused his passion for club productions over the years as well as his current favourites in his box.
The mix includes an exclusive track ‘Sayulita’. Together with this mix, it also symbolises a nice reference point in an important chapter in Apparat’s own history – club music This is a chapter that is by no means finished, for the more he succeeds in re-writing the narrow parameters of techno music, the more important it remains as the driving force in his life
KEY POINTS
Apparat is one third of the Moderat project Features tracks by Four Tet, Pantha du Prince, Thom Yorke, and many more Released high profile remixes for Moby, Röyksopp and Johnny Cash
Special 2LP colour repress following !K7s 40 Anniversary th
Includes limited DJ-Kicks playing card
Release Date: 21st November 2025
Artist: Apparat
Title: DJ-Kicks: Apparat
Cat/Barcode:
K7270LP40 / 4062548120493
Packaging: 2LP Marble Blue Vinyl
For more information please contact Adam Calman adam@k7.com
Dominik Eulberg – Lepidoptera
Lepidoptera—the scientific name for butterflies, meaning “scale-winged”—is also the title of the seventh studio album by renowned music producer, bestselling author, ecologist, and knowledge mediator Dominik Eulberg. More than just an album, Lepidoptera is an artistic manifesto: a celebration of butterfly diversity and a profound ecological statement.
Set for release via !K7 Records, Lepidoptera blends his signature sound with an urgent ecological message It marks the pinnacle of a music career spanning over three decades.
Eulberg’s fascination with butterflies began in early childhood and has since become a lifelong passion. Drawing from years of experience as a producer and DJ, Eulberg presents his most technically ambitious work yet
At the heart of Lepidoptera are twelve native butterfly species, handpicked by Eulberg from the 3,700 known species in his homeland. Each track is inspired by one species, shaping the album's structure and grounding its creative focus.
The result is a richly textured and immersive journey that moves fluidly between pulsating, danceable rhythms, ambient soundscapes, and orchestral flourishes.
KEY POINTS
Educational tour throughout Germany alongside album campaign
EU and UK tour dates during campaign
Special 2LP gatefold with butterfly animations and educational content
Pressed on sustainable PET vinyl
Release Date: 21 November 2025 st
Artist: Dominik Eulberg
Title: Lepidoptera
Cat/Barcode:
K7449LP / 4062548118193
K7449CD / 4062548119268
Packaging:
2LP Gatefold PET vinyl / Digipak CD
FOR FANS OF
Dixon, Âme, Recondite, Robag Whrume, Extrawelt, Oliver Koletzki, Stimming, Mano Le Tough, Anja Schneider
Violent Vira is an electrifying alternative rock/metal vocalist and songwriter, celebrated for her powerhouse performances and distinctive sonic edge She made her striking debut in September 2021 with “I Don’t Care,” which exploded online and has amassed over 69 million streams to date Building on that momentum, she delivered the fierce “God Complex” in April 2022, solidifying her presence in the rock scene.
Her 2023 debut EP , Till’ Death Was Never Enough, marked a major leap in her artistry, sparking a sold-out self-booked 34 city tour and landing her on the 2024 Sick New World festival lineup where she captivated a massive crowd
In January 2025, Vira unveiled “Saccharine” via Mom+Pop Music, produced by Grammy Award winner Jennifer Decilveo, diving deep into themes of inner conflict and the search for validation She followed with the incendiary “Burn Me With A Bible,” which she describes as, “It’s not anti-faith, it’s about burning down the lies I was told in the name of it ” Her singles “Saccharine,” “Burn Me With A Bible,” “I Don’t Care” (64M+ Spotify streams and counting with 100K+ daily), and “God Complex” have gone viral, collectively driving 100M+ Spotify streams in the past year alone
Often compared to Hayley Williams of Paramore, Violent Vira channels raw emotion through soaring vocals, gritty guitar-driven hooks, and unapologetic intensity, carving her own lane as one of the most compelling new voices in modern rock
HIGHLIGHTS
Upcoming 26-City Chasing Ghosts Part II - North American Tour
Self-booked and SOLD OUT debut U S headline tour across 32 cities (18K tickets sold)
Performed at Sick New World Festival (2024) and upcoming performances at Aftershock, Louder Than Life, and Riot Fest
TOUR DATES
Featured on multiple Spotify editorial playlists like ALLURE, Hard Rock, New Noise
Overall social footprint of 1.5M+ followers including Instagram, TikTok, Spotify, and YouTube.
TRACK LISTING
A BRAND-NEW-YET-CLASSIC ALBUM GATHERING NON-LP HIT SINGLES FROM HIS EARLY ’60s PEAK CURATED, DESIGNED, AND PRESENTED AS THE GREAT RAY CHARLES ALBUM THAT COULD HAVE BEEN
PERIOD-PERFECT COVER ILLUSTRATION BY REKNOWNED ARTIST PAUL MANN
REMASTERED BY MULTIPLE GRAMMYWINNING ENGINEER MICHAEL GRAVES WITH VINYL MASTERING BY JEFF POWELL
PRESSED ON TANGERINE VINYL
SIDE ONE
MY BABY DON’T DIG ME
With his newfound fianancial and creative freedom, the early ’60s became the most prolific and profound phase of Ray Charles career. Exploding with ideas and hitting one peak after another, even Top Ten hits were left in the dust, never finding their way on to any of his groundbreaking albums of the time.
No One Does It Like . . . Ray Charles! finally gathers those orphaned singles into one instant-classic LP, meticulously crafted to sit musically and visually alongside his other landmark albums of the era—as if it had been there all along.
Packed with the Top Ten R&B hits “No One,” “Hide Nor Hair,” “At the Club,” “Don’t Set Me Free,” and “My Heart Cries for You,” this isn’t some cleanup collection of leftover rarities. It’s an album showcasing an icon at the very top of his game, proving the title’s point: no one does it like Ray Charles.
(THERE IS
SMILE
DON’T SET ME FREE
SOMETHING’S WRONG
AT THE CLUB
4. WORRIED LIFE BLUES 2:50 5. WHO YOU GONNA’ LOVE 2:01 6. MY HEART CRIES FOR YOU 2:32
LP TRC22501 Box Lot: 30
GENIUS LIVES ON TANGERINE
Lot: 30
Founded by Ray Charles in the 1960s, Tangerine Records is home to the recordings that tranformed him from artist to icon. Each album in the Tangerine Masters series is restored and remastered under the direct supervision of The Ray Charles Foundation.
505 Eno St. Hillsborough, NC, 27278 redeyeworldwide.com
The Salt Collective · A Brief History of Blindness
NOVEMBER 21, 2025
THE SALT COLLECTIVE
A Brief History of Blindness
A Brief History of Blindness is a follow-up to Life, the critically acclaimed 2023 album debut from French songwriter-guitarist Stéphane Schück’s international collaborative project, The Salt Collective The new album features contributions from Aimee Mann, Mike Mills (R E M ), Andy Partridge (XTC), Matthew Caws (Nada Surf), Jason Falkner (Jellyfish), Mitch Easter (Let's Active), Pat Sansone (Wilco), & Chris Stamey (The dB's), among others
TRACK LISTING
A Brief History of Blindness (feat. Lynn Blakey)
Waiting for the End of Time (feat Jason Falkner) 3. Cloud to Cloud (feat. Matthew Caws) 4 You Swallowed the Sun (feat Chris Stamey, Pat Sansone) 5. The Waiting Game (feat. Aimee Mann) 6 In the Shadow of the Moon (feat Lynn Blakey, Mike Mills) 7. So Sad (Don’t Let Go) (feat. Matthew Caws) 8 Ex Post Facto Kids (feat Mitch Easter) 9. How We Breathe (feat. Lynn Blakey, Matthew Caws, Kimberley Rew) 10 The Quickening Sky (feat Django Haskins, Faith Jones) 11. All the Rage (feat. Chris Stamey, Aimee Mann)
UPC: 634457227408
GENRE: Post-Punk, Art-Rock PACKAGING: Vinyl - Standard Jacket w/Printed Inner Sleeve
BOX LOT: 25 EXPORT: World
Surf, Aimee Mann, XTC, Pink Floyd, R.E.M.
ITEM NUMBER: CD-PSR-029
UPC: 634457227392
GENRE: Alternative
PACKAGING: CD - Gatefold
Sleeve with Printed Booklet
BOX LOT: 30
EXPORT: World
Shika Shika is a label for music without borders The label was founded in 2015 between Berlin, Mexico City, Buenos Aires and Paris to give a platform to emerging artsts from around the world, focussing on artists exploring global folk roots, organic sounds and electronica Since then, the label has released music from over 90 artists from 30 countries, including 36 digital and +15 vinyl releases Shika Shika is also a non-profit organisation, developing unique projects where the music, art and culture that inspire us can come together in service of the social and environmental issues we are passionate about
Shika Shika shikashikaorg
/ Berlin / Buenos Aires
The20th AnniversaryVinylEdition Released21st November2025onChemikalUnderground
TrackListing
ThevinyleditionofMalcolmMiddleton’sseminalsecondalbumhasbeenoutofprintsince itsoldoutin2005.Thealbumisnowbeingreissuedonwhitevinyl.
IntoTheWoodsis,inshort,aslightlycynicalyetneverdiscouragingtour-de-forceofpop; anundeniablystrongrecordbroughtintobeingwitharareeyefordetailandMalcolm’s carefularrangements.
TherearenotableappearancesacrosstherecordfrommembersofMogwai(Stuart Braithwaite&BarryBurns),Delgados’PaulSavageandAlanBarrandfellowStrapper AidanMoffat.In2005thealbumreceivedcriticalacclaimacrosstheboard.
Mojo5/5
“achievesABBA-likemomentsofpopgreatness”
Uncut4/5
“Blearilybeautiful”
ObserverMusicMonthly “BruisedMagic”
BBCCollective
“Arecordthatstrikesyoujoyouslyinthehead,heartandfeet”
FOREVER GLYDERS
DC966 LP/CS
Street Date: November 21st, 2025
NO EXPORT TO AUSTRALIA, UK, NEW ZEALAND, THE EU — SELL GLYDERS FOREVER IN ALL OTHER TERRITORIES
Track List: Super Glyde Moon Eyes Stone Shadow Hard Ride New Realm RTZ
Steppin’/Tell Me About The Rabbit Thousand Miles
ALSO AVAILABLE ON COUNTRY THYME RECORDS VIA DRAG CITY:
Look what glyded in, y’all drop Forever on the platter and get the house party started! Glyders been dreaming up this sound for ages over years, with different players, countless shows and many late nights at the tape machine. It’s been a long ride to Forever but now that they’ve arrived, the vibe’s lightning and the blink of an eye.
Guitarist/vocalist Joshua Condon and bassist Eliza Weber started up in 2014, but even when they put together their 2023 album debut, Maria’s Hunt, they still had a revolving door on the drums. Then they met Joe Seger, who fit on the kit like a glove and in their sound like a brother. Since then, the three have ridden together, building up Forever while playing shows all around the US and Europe. It’s been an awesome couple of years for Glyders, in all real senses of the word, the blood, sweat and tears of life made better by their shared bond. This makes Forever ’s spirit high and tight, its sinews rumbling with communal joy. They really get off on it! And they’re not alone. These new jams have been kicking ass at all the shows too.
Yep, the song nugs of Forever sprouted branches and spokes on the road, the increased physicality driving their mellow licks and riffs with a great depth of rolling bottom, its groove taking them further into their own thing. After all this time, the streamlined new chassis feels mighty fine, making this the first real band album for Glyders. Listen to “Super Glyde”: the humid bluesgasm kicks off Forever with three distinct waves of sheer rock energy. That same spirit is bottled like an almost krauty reserve for “Hard Ride,” trippy but compellingly taut. “New Realm’’’ll rock yuh too, and even the first song they wrote as a new band, “Tell Me About the Rabbit,” sheds and shreds with life as recorded we can feel it still growing as we listen.
Glyders got a mess of old-school tuneage in 'em, a rich vein of ore mined from the rock masters y’know, Creedence/ The Band/JJ/ T. Rex / Leon Russell/and lots more shaping the immaculate forms of “Moon Eyes” and “Thousand Miles.” These sweet tunes punctuate and emphasize the wind and rain in the hair of Forever ’s driving jams. Glyders like to keep shuffling the deck. Like with “Stone Shadow” one minute, Josh is singing, “Ain’t got no money/I just wanna have a ball,” then he’s bringing hard steel on the other side of the street with, “it’s time to realize/I’m in it for the rest of my life.” Fuck yeah!
Taped at their own Studio “G” in Chicago’s Humboldt Park, with Josh getting the sounds they like, then mixed by Cooper Crain at Sweat Loge Studios down in Pilsen, Forever is super rich, crackling with the raw details of real life. The title comes from a battle cry within the band, something they hear at shows too. Eliza 's amazing art emphasizes this for life credo, mixing classic roots with punk collage style drawn from years of flyers. It’s like a family/club vibe, the kind of thing you get tattoed into your skin.
Forever lands smooth, its lightning-quick 37 minutes leaving you plenty of time to live. Flip it over and let it go again, then! Meanwhile, Glyders roll on, magnetized by the horizon, making tracks to parts unknown Forever ’s just getting started!
Maria's Hunt CNT102 LP
ON BEACON HILL ANTHONY MOORE WITH AKA & FRIENDS
SALES BAN: NO EXPORT SALES TO AUSTRALIA, EUROPEAN UNION, GREAT BRITAIN, NEW ZEALAND. SEND ON BEACON HILL IN ALL OTHER TERRITORIES
On Beacon Hill: at twilight we find Anthony Moore, roots winding backwards to the halcyon days of Slapp Happy and the ‘70s progressive art rock scene, at guitar and piano. With the atmospheres and accompaniments of AKA & Friends, he breathes infernal new life into songs from his six decades of multivarious music making. This new delivery system is unto a séance, a communal incantation, twining Anthony ’s avant and pop traditions together in a darkly radiant coil of folky chamber music; a rope to lower the listener through cobwebs and murk, unveiling new life beneath Anthony ’s mad old lines.
It is new life that we will need if we hope to reoccupy this cursed earth.
AKA are Anthony Moore, Keith Rodway and Amanda Thompson. A pagan family of sound worshipers hailing from that unholiest of all places: Hastings UK, home of Crowley and Turing. Like their sinister forbears in that infamous tradition, this latest trinity shares a passion for subverting pattern and number, factoring unlikely permutations arising from sea and horizon, greensward, the southerly aspect, and the planisphere as half-world. Their equatorial shore speaks of a planet of water and earth, fire and air. AKA’s humble tools of choice for this endeavor are guitar, piano, organ, synthesizer and vocals.
The Friends of AKA are Tullis Rennie, trombone and electronics; Olie Brice, double bass; Richard Moore, violin; and Haydn Ackerley, guitar. They too navigate the shoreline of the south coast, haunt the same taverns and regularly play together in whatever combinations fit the bill.
Leaving the drums (and their drummer) at home to realize anew these dreamladen songs, AKA & Friends ensure that the notes fall around the beat and not on it, so as to define the pulse with absence. As such, time is liberated, prised free from the merciless clock; a rhythm of waves, passing through a steady-state universe of no beginnings and no endings. Discontinuities are dissolved, all is transition.
On Beacon Hill: Anthony Moore with AKA & Friends manifest a sensuous post-devastation lounge act, seeking to re-invoke natural orders by naming rather than cursing the darkness in its many guises. Like final-phase Johnny Cash on a lost episode of Twin Peaks, Anthony ’s innate gravitas is a light through the surreal landscape, as the players combine themselves again and again, their efforts rising and falling in shared space. Their gothic jazz orchestra carves delicately through Anthony ’s songs, releasing the melodies and the melancholy to drift upward, like smoke against a sooty and scorched backdrop.
On Beacon Hill: fantastic, prophetic journeys, dry eyed but deeply affected, through the shadow depths of Anthony Moore’s mirror. As we listen, we gravitate and journey alongside fellow refugees in solidarity and solitude alike.
Release Information: EIS149
MAGIC FIG VALERIAN TEA
11.21.2025
Genre: Psych Rock, Prog Rock, Psych Pop
Configuration: LP - Pink Flume Vinyl Street Date: 11.21.2025
Vinyl UPC: 843563195093
Vinyl Box Lot: 40
Key Markets: San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Portland, Austin, Philadelphia
Lou Salome
Track List:
1.Achilles 2. High School 3.Your Eyes
Immaculate 4 Faith 5 Enemies To Lovers 6 keanu 7 WTV U Want 8 The Seagull 9. Object Permanence 10. Rules of The Game 11 Han Solo
release date: 9/21/25
Casette CD
just something you cared about in high school
Lou Salome is a love story in the form of a band an imagined romance between NYC glam rock poet Leah Hennessey (Pornography, Make Out; stepdaughter of David Johansen of New York Dolls) and L.A. dream-pop actor/musician Jack Kilmer (Palo Alto, Lords of Chaos, Val, Hala, The Nice Guys; son of the late Val Kilmer).
Their debut album, Just Something You Cared About in High School, is a cinematic, fuzz-drenched archive of lost youth, tracing infatuation, collapse, and the ecstatic myth of rock & roll as salvation. It sounds like falling in love on a VHS tape gritty, glamorous, and painfully romantic.
For Fans of:
The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Velvet Underground, Galaxie 500, Iceage, Patti Smith, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Selling Points:
• Debut album from Jack Kilmer (actor/musician, son of the late Val Kilmer) and Leah Hennessey (NYC glam rock mainstay, step-daughter of David Johansen of New York Dolls) • Jack Kilmer Instagram followers of 56,600 • Leah Hennessey Instagram Following of 7,000+ • Strong push and full publicity campaign by Twnty Three PR (James Rainis, Head of US PR) • Limited physical formats: 300 CDs with 12-page booklet; 300 cassettes with 6-panel J-card • All physical formats include digital download • Babe City Records’ flagship NYC release of 2025 • Positioned for strong college radio and press pickup
Babe City Records Washington, DC jon@babecityrecords com / Jon Weiss
Redeye Distribution 505 Eno Street Hillsborough, NC 27278 United States
harrelp@redeyeworldwide com
Karisma Records
Nygårdsgaten 2
5015 Bergen
Norway www.karismarecords.no post@karismarecords.no
OVERVIEW:
Band: Lars Fredrik Frøislie
Title: ”Quattro Racconti”
Label: Karisma Records
Catalogue no & barcodes:
KAR301CD - 7073317003272
KAR301LP - 7073317003289
Format: CD, LP (Black)
Release: 24. October 2025
Tracklist:
01 Il Cavaliere dell’Apocalisse (16:56)
02. Un Posto Sotto il Cielo (06:53)
03. Presagio (06:27)
04. Cattedrale della Natura (16:36)
Quattro Racconti” is a new version of the debut solo album from Wobbler’s Lars Fredrik Frøislie - This time in Italian, with Stefano “Lupo” Galifi from the legendary Museo Rosenbach on vocals! “Fire Fortellinger” became a great success when released in 2023, and when the opportunity for Lars to do one of the songs in Italian with Galifi, he did - and the 10” release of “Un Posto Sotto il Cielo” came out. And later, when Wobbler played a festival in Italy in 2024, Frøislie went to visit Galifi and to record vocals for the rest of the album. The result is stunning!
FRØISLIE who is himself a huge fan of Italian Prog in general and of MUSEO ROSENBACH in particular, explains:
“When I wrote “Et sted under himmelhvelvet”, I imagined an Italian version in my head with just STEFANO "LUPO" GALIFI'S vocals. Not so surprising, perhaps, since he is one of my my favourite vocalists. I have loved his slightly raspy, but powerful and soulful vocals, ever since I discovered MUSEO ROSENBACH as a teenager.
When the opportunity presented itself, I thought it couldn't hurt to ask him, and it gave me much joy that he was actually willing to sing on this. He brings a new dimension to the songs, and it’s incredible that he actually sings just as well today as he did 50 years ago.
For me, it was both emotional and surreal to hear a voice I have known and loved throughout much of my life, singing my songs.”
SELLING POINTS
• The debut solo album from Wobbler keyboard wizard Lars Fredrik Frøislie - in Italian
• With Stefano “Lupo” Galifi (Museo Rosenbach) on vocals
• For fans of Wobbler, Jordsjø, Museo Rosenbach
• Featuring Nikolai Hængsle (Elephant9, Needlepoint, Bigbang + + +) on bass
Band website: www.facebook.com/larsfredrikfroislie
Label website: www.karismarecords.no,
For interviews, info & promo material, contact Karisma Records and Martin Kvam: e-mail: post@karismarecords.no / tel: +47 95 74 92 19
Dark Essence Records
Nygårdsgaten 2
5015 Bergen
Norway
www.darkessencerecords.no post@karismarecords.no
OVERVIEW
Band: Koldbrann
Title: ”Ingen Skånsel”
Label: Dark Essence Records
Cat.nr: KAR274PD
UPC: 7073317003456
Format: Ltd LP (Picture Disc)
Release: 24. October 2025
Tracklist:
1. Ingen Skånsel
2. Et Uomtvistelig Falsum
3. I Unaturens Vold
4. Prosesjon Under Blyhimmel
5. Det Kryper Kaldt
6. Maskiner av Nihil
7. Forstanden Seiler Sin Egen Sjø
8. Fortærer av Minne og Form
9. Rykk Skaperverket Opp med Roten
10. Vorde Eders Farkost en Katafalk
11. Serenade til Dødens Elende
With “Ingen Skånsel”, 2024 saw the triumphant return of KOLDBRANN. After sweeping away all competition, the album was awarded the Norwegian Grammy Award (spellemannsprisen) for best Metal album. In celecration of this, and the album’s one year anniversary, we announce this picture disc edition, limited to 300 copies. Housed in a die-cut sleeve, including insert with lyrics and translations.
“Ingen Skånsel” is KOLDBRANN’s fourth album, and their first full-length since 2013’s “Vertigo”, following the 2023 EP “Den 6. Massedød (Manna fra en annen himmel)”
Even though deeply rooted in the True Norwegian Black Metal tradition, Koldbrann has carved out their own sound within the genre confines and it sounds fresh, raw and different. There’s a fierce nerve running through the album, and the songs stand out from today’s typical black metal sounds. You can feel the aggression throughout the whole album.
“Ingen Skånsel” is one of the most interesting, aggressive and fierce Norwegian black metal albums in modern times!
SELLING POINTS
• 4th album from Koldbrann
• For fans of: Darkthrone, Gorgoroth, Taake, Dødheimsgard, Craft, Urgehal, Tsjuder, Mysticum, Aura Noir, Beastcraft, Ved Buens Ende, Trelldom, Djevel, Whoredom Rife, Ildjarn, Leviathan
• Limited edition picture disc (300 x), with lyrics insert.
Band websites: www.facebook.com/koldbrannofficial
Label website: www.darkessencerecords.no
For interviews, info & promo material, contact Karisma Records and Martin Kvam: e-mail: post@karismarecords.no / tel: +47 95 74 92 19
Tony Tixier Poems Never End
11/21/2025
'Poems Never End' isa complete, honest expression of pianistTonyTixier's current status as an artist and as a human being, captured in a single afternoon during a whirlwind visit to New York City. Whether in thrilling trio interaction with long-term associate Joe Martin on bass and dazzling young drummer Jongkuk Kim, or reviving old friendships and musical partnerships with special guests Logan Richardson, Seamus Blake and Mino Cinelu, the passion and integrity shines through every note.
Without a predetermined plan for the course of the session, the band set up in the studio and the tape started rolling. This spontaneity is captured on 'Child Mind' as we hear Tony and his colleagues lightheartedly exploring the sonic confines of the environment. 'The Heart Is Lost' has the direct melodic accessibility of a pop ballad deepened by Tony's harmonic sophistication,expressingapleafor communication,whilethefast,straightahead swing of 'Present' compels us to engage with the present moment. This sense of engagement finds expression in the overtly political 'Poem For The Oppressed' where the trio are joined by Seamus Blake and Logan Richardson, each of whom makes a passionate contribution in their unmistakable voices to this paean for those who are excluded from power. Other tracks include 'Pardon My Church', which has the gospel-tinged feel associated with Keith Jarrett's 1970s output, referencing Tony's stint as a church organist in Manhattan, updated and reinvigorated by the trio's effortless spontaneity.
Tracklisting
1. Child Mind
2. Magic
3. Heart Is Lost
4. Present
5. Poem For The Oppressed
6. Pardon My Church
7. Blue For The Real Human Beings
8. Work
9. Chocolate Travels Slowly
10. Tropical Blues
11. Continuity
LP
Item number: WR4833LP
UPC: 5065014356661
Packaging: Boxlot: 20
CD
Item number: WR4833
UPC: 5065014356654
Packaging: Boxlot: 30
NEW RELEASES
Street Date: 11.28.25 | Order Date: 11.07.25
2025 YEAR END VARIANTS
Street Date: November 28th, 2025
Celebrate the end of 2025 with exclusive color variants from New West. All titles have been backordered or out of stock. These are all limited edition, one time color pressings. Get ‘em while you can.
American Aquarium - Lamentations
Config: 1xLP, gatefold, insert, sticker, Dusty Denim Color Vinyl
607396597116
49 Winchester - Fortune Favors the Bold
Config: 1xLP, jacket, sleeve, sticker, yellow+pink+black splatter vinyl
607396597017
Daniel Romano - Finally Free
Config: 1xLP, jacket, insert, sticker, forest green color vinyl UPC: 607396597215
Daniel Romano - Come Cry With Me
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Daniel Romano - If I’ve Only One Time Askin’
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Daniel Romano - Modern Pressure
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The Deslondes - Hurry Home
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The Deslondes - Self-titled
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607396597710
Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation’s Dark
Config: 1xLP, jacket, insert, sticker, crystal fuschia vinyl UPC: 607396597819
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Emily Nenni - On The Ranch
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Jason Isbell - Sirens Of The Ditch (Deluxe)
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Pylon - Gyrate
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Pylon - Chomp
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David Byrne - Live From Austin, TX
Config: 2xLP, gatefold, sticker, rose marble vinyl UPC: 607396596515
Dwight Yoakam - Live From Austin, TX
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Guy Clark - Live From Austin, TX
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John Hiatt - Live From Austin, TX
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Kris Kristofferson - Live From Austin, TX
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About porter robinson
- Lifetime-to-date catalog streams over 1.1+ Billion - RIAA Certified Gold - 'Shelter', 'Sad Machine'
- 2019 GRAMMY 'Best Dance Recording' Nomination for Virtual Self, Porter's side project
- Sophomore Album Nurture debuted at #1 on Billboard Top Dance/Electronic Chart and was the #1 Album of 2021 by FADER
- Nurture tour was the best-selling and highest grossing electronic tour of 2021
HIGHLIGHTS
Nurture press
He's embraced the world of emotional indie rock. Robinson's second album, Nurture, is as stunning as it is heartbreaking, and 'Everything Goes On’ continues that journey NME
Following the release of his latest album Nurture, Robinson immediately knew the collaboration was meant to be when he wasn't expected to write an "EDM banger", and the result ended in a definitively “Porter song” ROLLINGSTONE
one of dance music's great coming-of-age albums..the album is indeed triumphant, in both its shimmering, nuanced production, and in its embrace of an emotional vulnerability that also doesn't deny life's intermittent moments of unfettered joy BILLBOARD
Victory pop at its finest —Entertainment
The Discovery of this generation NEEDLE DROP
Nearly seven years after releasing Worlds, Porter Robinson is back with his sophomore project Nurture. It's a beautiful album, filled with little moments of joy and wonder, and it serves as an introduction to Porter Robinson the pop artist FADER
A joyful return for Robinson, one that expands the scope of his music, while bringing him back down to earth PITCHFORK
of the
6. Kitsune Maison Freestyle 7. Easier to Love You 8. Mona Lisa (with Frost Children) 9. Is There Really No Happiness? 10. Everything To Me
ARTIST Porter Robinson TITLE SMILE! :D LABEL Mom + Pop Music STREET DATE 11/28/25
- Porter Robinson trending: #12 on Twitter, #8 on YouTube and #8 on Reddit
- The Official Music Video premiere had 19K people tune in to watch it live and has 3.2 MILLION+ VIEWS
- The video was TOP 10 TRENDING DAY 1, received the #1 BANNER on YOUTUBE MUSIC HOMEPAGE
TOP MARKETS
Vandelux is the moniker of Vancouver-born artist Evan White, a vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and producer who blends shimmering electronic soundscapes with raw emotion After racking up hundreds of millions of streams and performing at festivals like Outside Lands, Life Is Beautiful, and Bonnaroo, he returns with his second full-length album Closer on Mom + Pop Music Known for breakout tracks like “Matter of Time” and “Motion,” Vandelux has collaborated with artists including Kygo, Nile Rodgers, Marvin Gaye, and Tammi Terrell, and has supported Kygo on a stadium run Closer explores themes of connection, fatherhood, and self-discovery through luminous melodies, intricate production, and heartfelt vocals, cementing Vandelux as one of electronic music’s most emotive and versatile voices
TOUR DATES
9/26/2025 LAS VEGAS, NV TAO BEACH CLUB
10/11/2025 NAPA, CA PALM TREE FESTIVAL
10/15/25 - 10/17/25 SXSW SYDNEY
10/18/2025 MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA NIGHT CAT
10/31/2025 SAN FRANCISCO, CA BIMBO'S 365 CLUB
11/1/2025 LOS ANGELES, CA EL REY THEATRE
11/4/2025 PHOENIX, AZ CRESCENT BALLROOM
11/6/2025 AUSTIN, TX EMO’S AUSTIN
11/7/2025 DALLAS, TX STUDIO AT THE FACTORY
11/8/2025 HOUSTON, TX WHITE OAK MUSIC HALL
11/11/2025 ATLANTA, GA TERMINAL WEST
11/12/2025 CARBORO, NC CAT'S CRADLE
11/14/2025 WASHINGTON, DC ATLANTIS
TRACK LISTING
Side A: Cross The Line (feat Elmar) I Want You Swimming In The Dark Stronger (Feat Stevie Appleton) Last Train Not Letting You Go (Feat Devan)
Side B: Montezuma (Feat Tyler Mann)
Best Of My Love (Feat Zak Abel) Glow Time For Me (Feat Tailor) Where You Are Outro
TOUR DATES
11/15/2025 NEW YORK, NY RACKET
11/18/2025 PITTSBURGH, PA MR. SMALLS THEATRE
11/19/2025 DETROIT, MI EL CLUB
11/21/2025 CHICAGO, IL LINCOLN HALL
11/22/2025 MINNEAPOLIS, MN 7TH STREET ENTRY
MARIBOU STATE PORTRAITS (10TH ANNIVERSARY)
Release Date: November 28th, 2025
Celebrating ten years of Maribou State’s landmark debut album in celebration of RSD Black Friday 2025. Portraits features the huge anthems “Midas” and “Steal” is being made available on non-black vinyl for the first time ever and is being released as a limited edition gatefold format packaged with a second disc including outtakes and remixes from the era - all having their first physical release, including “Manila” which has become one of the bands signature streaming anthems. The album set a new bar in indie-leaning electronica and the influence is still very much heard today, whilst Maribou are enjoying a career high with their 2025 third album Hallucinating Love which was a UK Top 10 charting album upon release earlier this year.
The bands three albums have accumulated well over a billion streams, including over 500 Million across Portraitsalone. Maribou have since released two subsequent albums, both on Ninja Tune, includingKingdomsInColour(2018) and HallucinatingLove(2025).
The band played a packed out debut at Coachella earlier this year, as well as a set at Lollapalooza. This year has been their most in-depth run of North American live dates with multiple sold out dates. They have completed a KCRW session in April whilst also picking up significant support on recent singles from KEXP, WFUV, SiriusXMU and many more stations.
"Portraits is a masterpiece" (8.5) DJ Mag
CAT NO: COUNT063Z
UPC: 5054429206760
SIDEA
A1. Home
A2.The Clown
A3. Rituals
A4. Steal
A5. Wallflower
SIDE B
B1. Say More
B2. Raincoats
B3. Midas
B4. Natural Fools
B5. Varklaa
￫ 2xLPpressed on special effect green and yellow on clear vinyl imitating the cover art.
￫ Housed in a gatefold sleeve on reverse board card.
SIDE C
C1. Fawn
C2. November Nights
C3. Manila
C4. Colours In Sea
SIDE D
D1. Rituals (MS Edit)
D2. Wallflower (Ross From Friends Remix)
D3.The Clown (Axel Bowman Remix)
D4. Midas (Ben Pearce Re-Edit)
Genre: Electronic
Key Markets: LosAngeles, NewYork City, San Francisco, Vancouver,Toronto
Recommended if you like… Bonobo, Khruangbin, Jungle, Jamie xx,AIR, Caribou, Barry Can’t Swim
naretail@ninjatune.net ninjatune.net
YOUNG FATHERS
WHITE MEN ARE BLACK MEN TOO (10TH ANNIVERSARY)
Release
Date: November 28th, 2025
Edinburgh heroes Young Fathers’ visceral sophomore long player gets the ten year anniversary treatment as part of RSD Black Friday 2025. Following up their 2014 Mercury Prize winning debut DEAD, Young Fathers doubled down with their follow-up and it’s themes of racial identity and politics have since become more poignant than ever. To mark the occasion the album has been given a brand new dub mix exclusive to this reissue presented in the style of a pirate broadcasted soundclash featuring idents from the band.
Young Fathers are ‘G’ Hastings, Alloysious Massaquoi and Kayus Bankole and formed in 2008 after meeting at an under-16s hip-hop night in Edinburgh. Since then they have gone on to become one of the most vital and important artists in the UK, as well as one of the most in-demand live performers.
Upon original release, WMABMTwas given five star reviews and crowned an album of the week/month/year from all key broadsheets and music magazines.
“They manage the rare feat of melding pop and politics into a potent mix” 5*
- The Guardian
Young Fathers were handpicked as the main support on Depeche Mode’s 2023 world stadium tour, and have previously toured with Massive Attack, Florence + The Machine, LCD Soundsystem, CHVRCHES and Yeah Yeah Yeahs and M.I.A.
CAT NO: BD264XX
UPC: 5054429200164
￫ 2xLPpressed on special effect ‘thin white line on black’vinyl
￫ Housed in a gatefold sleeve with removable tape on the sleeve
￫ Features exclusive dub edition of the album on the second disc
SIDEA
A1. Still Running
A2. Shame
A3. Feasting
A4. 27
A5. Rain Or Shine
A6. Sirens
SIDE B
B1. Old Rock n Roll
B2. Nest
B3. Liberated
B4. John Doe
B5. Dare Me
B6. Get Started
SIDE C
C1. 37 Dub
C2. Various Big Cats Dub
C3. Jesus Demon Dub
C4. I HeardYou Call Dub
C5. Congo Square Dub
C6. Real Milk Not Nestlé
Formula Dub
SIDE D
D1. Jane Dub
D2. How Can We Be Free Dub
D3. Devil Boots Dub
D4. Shameless Dub
D5. SpinThe Bottle Dub
D6. It’sAll Over Dub
Genre: Alternative Key Markets: LosAngeles, NewYork City, Chicago,Toronto, Seattle
Recommended if you like… MassiveAttack,TV on the Radio, Fontaines DC, LCD Soundsystem
ARTIST: EDEN’S CHILDREN TITLE: S/T
BOX LOT QUANTITY: 30 LP / 60 CD FILE UNDER: PSYCHEDELIC ROCK CD-SUND-5688 UPC: 090771568823
demand psych of the Tangerine Zoo and the Tiffany Shade, Mainstream Records was anything but! Includes a hefty book of Jim Allen liner notes chatting with the bands,
•First ever legitmate CD release of this psych powerhouse!
•Newly remastered and includes liner notes by Jim Allen in conversation with band leader Richard Schamach!
FUZZ-LADEN BOSTON PSYCH!
• Features two newly discovered previously unissued tracks!
Though short-lived, this power trio is defined as one of Bostonʼs cornerstone bands during the late ʻ60s. Their popular Bosstown Sound opened opportunities that included almost constant performances at the Boston Tea Party, the Hatch Memorial Shell and the Psychedelic Supermarket. They were even billed with names like the Velvet Underground. But of groups labeled with Bosstown Sound (Orpheus, Beacon Street Union, Ultimate Spinach), Edenʼs Children had by far the most unique sound.
“The self-titled Edenʼs Children album rocks heavy with psych fuzz guitar, echoing, rotund bass runs and wild drums. Rich plays hard and fast, much like Alvin Lee in the band Ten Years After at times. The softer tunes have intricate guitar runs with overdubbed vocals by Richard, their only voice. The band fits right in with other power trios like Cream, Hendrix, Chariot and Blue Cheer. The only single released was "Goodbye Girl" b/w "Just Let Go" that made the local charts in the east and the LP made the top 200 on the Billboard and Cashbox charts [in 1968].”
– David Handyside (Psychedelic Digest)
INCLUDES TWO BONUS TRACKS THAT MAKE THEIR FIRST EVER RELEASE HERE!
Journey to the Center of Mainstream Records!
A walloping ten CDs of trippy psych albums from producer Bob Shad‘s (grandfather of filmmaker Judd Apatow) Mainstream Records Label! From the debut of the Amboy Dukes (featuring Ted Nugent on guitar) to the indemand psych of the Tangerine Zoo and the Tiffany Shade, Mainstream Records was anything but! Includes a hefty book of Jim Allen liner notes chatting with the bands, the Apatows, the spirits, and more! 090771902016
Includes:
The Amboy Dukes - self titled (stereo)
TITLE: JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE MIND: A MAINSTREAM RECORDS 60’S PSYCH ADVENTURE BOX LOT QUANTITY: 10 CD BOX SETS FILE UNDER: PSYCHEDELIC ROCK
CD-SUND-9020
UPC: 090771902016
Baby Please Don’t Go • I Feel Free • Young Love • Psalms of Aftermath • Colors • Let’s Go Get Stoned • Down on
Philips Escalator • The Lovely Lady • Night Time • It’s Not True • Gimme Love
Tangerine Zoo - self titled (mono)
Gloria • Trip To The Zoo • Please Don’t Set Me Free • Nature’s Children
• The Flight • Mommy and Daddy • Symphonic Psyche • Crystalescent Heaven • One More Heartache
Jelly Bean Bandits - self titled (stereo)
Country Woman • Generation • Poor Precious Dreams • Another August Revisited • Going Nowhere • Happiness Girl • Goodtime
Feeling • September Rain • Neon River • Plastic Soldiers • Say Mann •Tapestries
The Superfine Dandelion - self titled (stereo)
People In The Street • Crazy Town • My Place • Day And Night • Shameful Lady • Janie’s Tomb • It's Raining • Don't Try To Call Me • The Other Sidewalk • What's The Hurry
The Amboy Dukes - Journey to the Center of The Mind (stereo)
Mississippi Murderer • Surrender To Your Kings • Flight Of The Byrd • Scottish Tea • Dr. Slingshot • Journey To The Center Of The Mind • Ivory Castles • Why Is A Carrot More Orange Than An Orange • Missionary Mary • Death Is Life • Saint Philips Friend • I’ll Prove I’m Right • Conclusion
The Tiffany Lamp - self titled (stereo)
An Older Man • Sam • Jaguar City Blues • Very Grand Love • Softly To Me • No Reality • One Good Question • A Quiet Revolution • Not Worth The Pain
Ellie Pop - self titled (stereo)
Seven North Frederick • Winner Loser • Can't Be Love • Remembering (Sunnybrook) • Seems I've Changed • Caught In The Rain • Oh! My Friend • Some Time Ago • No Thanks Mr. Mann • Watcha Gonna Do
December's Children - self titled (stereo)
Trilogy (I 2:30 Casino, II In Between A Dream, III Lady of the Garden) • Sweet Talkin’Woman • Jane’s Song (The Slow One) • Hide The Water • Afternoon • Slow It Down • Too Early To Be Late • Last Monday Night • Back Road Rider • Livin’ (Way Too Fast)
The Orient Express - self titled (stereo) Fruit Of The Desert • Dance For Me • Layla • Birds Of India • Train To Bombay • Caravan Of Silk • Azaar • For A Moment • Impulse (42 Drums) • A Little Star • Cobra Fever
Nucleus - self titled (stereo)
Jenny Wake Up • All About Me and The Spidery Bass • Judgement Day • Lost and Found • Share Your Colour • Communication
PARQUET COURTS
Light Up Gold | Tally All The Things That You Broke | Sunbathing Animal
Early Parquet Courts Catalog Back in Print on Rough Trade Records on November 28, 2025
Light Up Gold
Originally released in 2012, Light Up Gold – Parquet Courts first proper LP – is a dynamic and diverse foray into the back alleys of the American DIY underground. Bright guitars swirl serpentine over looping, groovy post-punk bass lines and drums that border on robotic precision. Lyrically dense, the poetry is in how it flows along with the melody, often times as locked-in as the rhythm section.
Though made up of Texan transplants, Parquet Courts are a New York band. Throw out the countless shallow Brooklyn bands of the blasé 2000’s: Light Up Gold is a conscious effort to draw from the rich culture of the city - the bands like Sonic Youth, Bob Dylan, and the Velvet Underground that are not from New York, but of it. A panoramic landscape of dilapidated corner-stores and crowded apartments is superimposed over bare-bones Americana, leaving little room for romance or sentiment. It’s punk, it’s American, it’s New York... it’s the color of something you were looking for.
Tally All The Things That You Broke
Originally released in 2013, the Tally All The Things That You Broke EP is far more than a stopgap in between full-lengths; it’s the sound of Parquet Courts stretching out. It frames the band coming from a new place, and is a post-millenial NYC anthem, quintessential sounds for anyone who’s ever waited in anticipation of dialing that number, or anyone who’s put on their game face and rode from point A to point B in the snarl of vicious traffic.
Sunbathing Animal
2014’s Sunbathing Animal was the third Parquet Courts album. While heightened in its heaviness and mania, the album also represented a huge leap forward in terms of songwriting and vision. Still rooted firmly in the unshackled exploration and bombastic playing of their earlier work, everything here is amplified in its lucidity and intent. The songs wander through threads of blurry brilliance, exhaustion and fury at the hilt of every note.
Pitchfork noted that “The impeccably structured Sunbathing Animal calls back to their Texan roots, its wide-open sprawl freed of the band’s explicitly urban trappings.”
A1. Master of My Craft
A2. Borrowed Time
A3. Donuts Only
A4. Yr No Stoner
A5. Yonder Is Closer to the Heart
A6. Careers in Combat
A7. Light Up Gold I
A8. Light Up Gold II
A9. N Dakota
B1. Stoned and Starving
B2. No Ideas
B3. Caster of Worthless Spells
B4. Disney PT
B5. Tears of Plenty
B6. Picture of Health
A1. You’ve Got Me Wonderin Now
A2. Descend (The Way)
A3. The More It Works
B1. Fall On Yr Face
B2. He’s Seein Paths
A1. Bodies Made Of
A2. Black and White
A3. Dear Ramona
A4. What Color Is Blood
A5. Vienna II
A6. Always Back in Town
A7. She’s Rolling
B1. Sunbathing Animal
B2. Up All Night
B3. Instant Disassembly
B4. Ducking and Dodging
B5. Raw Milk
B6. Into the Garden
November 28, 2025
Topshelf Records
TSR128
Home market: Hartford, Connecticut
Track List:
5. Your Soft Blood 6. Art School Wannabe 7. Fuschia
8. Using 9. Mononokay
10. When I See You (Timberwolf)
Sorority Noise Joy, Departed
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Info:
• Download Code Yes
• LP UPC 634457196889
• Export Worldwide
• Box Lot 30 LP / 15 CS / 30 CD
Topshelf Records
3303 SE Milwaukie Ave Portland, OR 97202 United States info@topshelfrecords.com
The follow up to their 2014 debut record Forgettable, Joy, Departed is a dynamic and thrilling step forward for Sorority Noise. One year, two music degrees and a whole lot of openness and expression went into the creation of this beautifully crafted record. With an album full of lovely orchestral swells, Weezer-esque guitar solos and cheery pop hits, Sorority Noise shows off their versatility and talent on Joy, Departed, creating a perfect front to back record.
Redeye Distribution 505 Eno Street Hillsborough, NC 27278 United States harrellp@redeyeworldwide.com
For Fans of:
Modern Baseball, Weezer, The Front Bottoms, The Appleseed Cast, Remo Drive, The Hotelier, Oso Oso, and other Topshelf artists: (T-T)b, Artie Tea, Bent Shapes, CLIQUE,Cool Original, Donovan Wol�ngton,Have Mercy,Prawn, Queen Moo,Spirit Crush, Warren Franklin & the Founding Fathers, Weatherbox, You Blew It!, You, Me & Everyone We Know
Selling Points:
• 360,000+ monthly listeners on Spotify.
• LP includes "late winter blue" vinyl, standard jacket, obi strip, printed dust sleeve, and marketing sticker.
• 6th pressing.
"Sorority Noise have learned to channel their energy towards their arrangements, which have become more sophisticated, con�dent, well-produced, and also more vertiginous in all aspects.".
-Pitchfork
“Rocks out quietly, pensively, with strains of folksy pop and eager punk that can defy stereotypes, pissed off and in love at the same time.”
-Consequence of Sound
“Everything you could want from a guitar band: irresistible pop hooks, big Weezer-esque shreds, orchestral swells, grunge breakdowns so heavy they'll crush you into oblivion.”
-Noisey
“Quiet meditation into a surging, DIY-orchestral climax.” -FADER
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November 28, 2025 Topshelf
TSR291 Home market: Los Angeles, CA
Track List:
1. Venus In Nadir
2 Taurus
3 The Band From Northampton
4. Letters
5 Seek and Destroy
6 Down From The Tress
7. Believer
8 Take It (Demo)
Credits:
Music and Lyrics composed by: Joseph Stevens
Produced by: Joseph Stevens. Ian Gibbs is an additional co-producer on The Band From Northampton, Seek And Destroy, and Believer
Mastering Engineer: by Alan Douches
Mixing by: Joseph Stevens except Believer, which was mixed by Omar Yakar
Joseph Stevens performed guitars, bass, keys, and synthesizers
Ian Gibbs performed drums on The Band From Northampton, Seek And Destroy, and Believer.
Olivia Babuka Black performed vocals on Believer
Cover Artist - Liz Moser
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Peel Dream Magazine Taurus
�le under: dream pop experimental indie pop pop
Info:
One year on from the release of acclaimed album Rose Main Reading Room, Peel Dream Magazine return with new mini album Taurus
Spanning eight previously unavailable tracks that were originally recorded for their lush and inviting 2024 full length, Taurus offers a wider glimpse into songwriter Joseph Stevens’ process and creative output from those sessions.
The band, whose name nods to the BBC Radio 1 legend John Peel — arbiter of all things underground, quality, and (it must be said) "cool" — has since its inception been a genre-hopping experiment, jumping from motorik krautrock to shoegaze and space age pop.
On Taurus, Peel Dream Magazine remain explorative, drifting effortlessly across a gamut of styles that range from the twee indie pop of lead single “Venus In Nadir,” the title track’s cozy vibraphones, and the bubbly space-synths of “Seek and Destroy.”
Although unbound by genre, Peel Dream Magazine still inhabit the sonic milieu of warm woodland tones and droning repetition. In the entrancing standout “Believer,” they evoke Rose Main Reading Room’s atmosphere through vocalist Olivia Babuka Black’s mantric melodies and Philip Glass-like woodwinds and mallets, bringing Taurus into focus as a welcoming companion piece to its predecessor.
For Fans of:
Sufjan Stevens, Stereolab, Yo La Tengo, Crumb, Broadcast, Steve Reich, and other Topshelf artists: Bellows, Elephant Gym, Gregory Uhlmann, Mid-Air Thief, Thanya Iyer
Selling Points:
• US college radio campaign through Pirate Promotions.
• Press campaign handled by Tyler Andere.
• Press support in Pitchfork, Aquarium Drunkard, KEXP, Exclaim!, Stereogum, NPR Music, Paste, and more.
• NA booking: Mahmood Shaikh @ Concerted Efforts
• Cassette features yellow shell, download code, and standard J card.
• Previously supported Jessica Pratt, Soccer Mommy, Wild Nothing, Chastity Belt, and more.
• Previous album Rose Main Reading Room peaked at #14 on NACC and charted for 20 weeks.
"On [Rose Main Reading Room], the Los Angeles-based group confronts the mysteries of memory and time in richly layered songs informed by classic indie pop, classical minimalism, and gentle psychedelia."
-Pitchfork
"Compared to the primarily virtual instruments of Pad, here Stevens took his home recordings and went around to various studios, where he had various other humans play. It results in a fuller, lusher sound that, in the end, makes Rose Main Reading Room feel more like a new destination built on a synthesis of everywhere Peel Dream has been."
-Stereogum
"Stevens' new work as Peel Dream Magazine marks another exciting turn from an artist always in motion. Rose Main Reading Room turns Stevens' music into a delirious maze with surprises at every corner."
-Uproxx
"fuzz bliss"
-NPR Music (Viking's Choice)
"[Agitprop Alterna is] an album that intends to challenge norms of rock music, while acknowledging those that came before."
-KEXP
47SOUL - SHAMSTEP
(10th Anniversary Edition)
RED AND BLACK SMOKE VINYL
RELEASED NOVEMBER 28 2025
VIA COOKING VINYL
47SOUL is an Electro Arabic Dabke (Shamstep) collective formed in Amman Jordan in 2013. The members are rooted in Bilad AlSham, spanning the divides from Amman to the Galilee to Ramallah and the rest of the Palestinian Diaspora. This unique sound of 47SOUL mixing hip-hop, electronica and Middle Eastern melodies and styles has rapidly amassed fans globally. The collective break barriers internationally with shows around the world that end in relentless dance and trance from all audiences involved.
TOUR
Sat, SEP 13 - Manifiesta 2025
Oostende, Belgium
Sun, SEP 14 - Base Aérienne 217
Brétigny-sur-orge, France
Sat, SEP 20 - portoetno 2025
Rijeka, Croatia
Sat, OCT 11 - Fox & Firkin
London, United Kingdom
47SOUL’s Shamstep EP ignited their Electro-Arabic Dabke revolution in 2015. Now it returns on Red & Black smoke vinyl with remixes from some of the Arab world’s most forward-thinking producers Molotof, Toumba, and Hello Psychaleppo bridging past and future Formed in Amman in 2013, the Palestinian-Jordanian collective blends dabke, hip-hop, and electronica into a boundary-smashing sound of resistance, which has taken them from Massive Attack support slots to stages worldwide always ending in ecstatic, unifying dance.
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Theideaofboilingdownlifetoitsessentials Howlittlewedifferfrompetsandbarnyardanimals Appreciatingyetlamentingthegrindthroughbadtimes,gratefulforanyriseupoutofthem.True freedomvspriggish,piggishfundamentalism.Thewaytheroadforwardlookswhenyou'remyageas opposedto,say,mykid'sage
Thenext-to-lastsongontherecord("Can'tBeTheFirstOne")waswrittenbyJasonMolinaforthe survivingmembersofSilkworm,thedayafterMichaelDahlquistwaskilledin2005.Ididn'tlistento itfor15years WhenIfinallydid,Irealizedweprobablyhadtherightbandforit Itcouldn'tbemore perfectforthisrecord,whichcouldn'tbemorereflectiveofthelastcoupleyearsinmylifeandthe livesofmanyofmylovedones.
Anyway,newsflash,wearen'thereforever.
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Istilllovedoingthisthing,I'mveryfondofthisrecord,andIhopeyoufindauseforit.
TimMidyett
TIM MIDYETT vox, guitars in D, baritone 12-string JEFF PANALL drums
JUSTIN BROWN pedal steel, electric guitar in E
MATTHEW BARNHART bass guitar: SILAS PANALL addit’l drums/percussion
JOEL RL PHELPS alto saxophones
Members of Silkworm, Bottomless Pit, Songs: Ohia, Palliard, Tre Orsi, Sunn O))), Downer Trio and Purple Mountains
877-733-3931 x232
MARCO BOSCO X ALTER DISCO
METAL MADEIRA II
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14 November, 2025 (EU) | 28 November 2025 (ROW)
1LP
SNDW203LP
ELECTRONIC, JAZZ, BRAZILIAN
BRAZIL
Experimental textures bridging acoustic and electronic worlds
OVERVIEW:
In 1983, Grammy-winning Brazilian percussionist Marco Bosco released Metalmadeira a groundbreaking fusion of handbuilt percussion, early drum machines, and lush synth textures Four decades later, celebrated Curitiba-based collective Alter Disco (Bárbara Boeing, Phil Mill, De Sena) reimagine the album for today’s dancefloors
Working from the original stereo recordings (the master tapes long since damaged), Alter Disco preserved the organic feel of Bosco’s unquantized rhythms while infusing them with deep, modern grooves The result is a cross-generational dialogue between Brazil’s early electronic avant-garde and contemporary club culture.
Highlights include Pedra, pulsing at 130 BPM with a vintage vocoder line nodding to Detroit techno pioneer Juan Atkins, and Camila, which wraps Bosco’s sharp percussion in atmospheric synths and hypnotic beats.
Metal Madeira II is raw yet refined live instrumentation and electronic production in perfect balance, blurring the line between archive and innovation
12" vinyl mastered and cut by Frank Merritt at The Carvery, London Artwork by Alan Cameron Design by Wolfe Hall Studio
TRACKLIST:
SIDE A
1 Ferro
2 Mata
3.Pau
SIDE B
1.Camila
2.Pedra
3 Vento
Nu Genea, Palms Trax, Toy Tonics, Ezra Collective, Hunee
LISTEN LINK: FOR FANS OF:
Private Stream
MAGNETIC MORNING
MAGENTIC MORNING is Adam Franklin
Fogarino from
The Magnetic Morning story began 20 years ago, over multiple bottles of wine on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. On this boozy winter’s night, Jack Rabid from The Big Takeover magazine introduced Swervedriver’s Adam Franklin and Interpol’s Sam Fogarino and the two recognized each other as kindred spirits immediately. Realizing the only thing to do with this connection was to start a band, they did exactly that. Adam tapped his old friend Jimmy LaValle from The Album Leaf to handle the keyboards, and thus Magnetic Morning’s signature blend of Shoegaze, Krautrock and Psychedelia was born.
Originally self-released by Sam in 2008, A.M quickly sold out and has been a sought-after collectible amongst Swervedriver and Interpol fans ever since. This re-issue has been fully remastered by Tim Turan and features all new artwork, with stunning photography from Pat Graham. (Johnny Marr, Fugazi, Modest Mouse) Pressed on bone white vinyl, this limited-edition reissue is not to be missed!
Tracklisting:
Artist: Magnetic Morning
Title: A.M.
Label: Outer Battery Records
Street Date: 11/28/25
UPC: 634457219083
Cat #: OBR 035
Artist: The Saints
Title: Long March Through the Jazz Age
Release date: 2025-11-28
Label: Fire Records
Track List
A1 Empires (Sometimes We Fall)
A2 Break Away
A3 Judas
A4 Vikings
A5 Bruises
B1 Gasoline
B4 Carnivore (Long March Through the Jazz Age)
B5 Will You Still Be
The Saints – Long March Through the Jazz Age
Long March Through the Jazz Age is the last album by Chris Bailey and The Saints. It’s a moving farewell - a testament to a restless, uncompromising artist who always moved forward, one of rock’s great lyricists and iconoclasts.
Recorded in late 2018 at Church Street Studios in Sydney, Bailey and longtime Saints drummer Pete Wilkinson flew in from Europe to reunite with guitarist/engineer Sean Carey, who had previously toured and recorded with the band. They were joined by Davey Lane (You Am I) on guitar, plus a handpicked ensemble of Sydney’s most exciting young horn, string and keyboard players. From Bailey’s rough demos, Long March Through the Jazz Age grew into a deeply human snapshot of modern times.
Empires (Sometimes We Fall) is the album’s anthemic opener, cast on a bedrock of western guitars punctuated by Bailey’s aching lyrics: “Sometimes we rise, sometimes we fall”. It’s the perfect set up for an album that swaggers with Bailey’s inherent punk spirit while flowing freely in a spacious production. A 12-string adds harmony and warmth to the string-laden Judas, it is a glorious melancholic piece, Gasoline smacks of the Stones country honking for Exile On Main Street, while Bruises is a candid recollection of how this celebrated troubadour got to where he did.
There are moments of Dylan-esque majesty as chiming guitars and strings widen the panoramic scale, while the title track carries a haunting, poetic intensity, its mournful trumpet break as spine-tingling as anything you'll hear. Long March Through the Jazz Age marks the end of Chris Bailey and The Saints’ remarkable journey - over four decades of music making and rule defying.
