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The Undertones formed in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1975 and released their third album Positive Touch in 1981 which peaked at #17 in the UK Charts. Positive Touch marks the departure from speedy pop-punk of their first two debut albums though the songwr

The Undertones formed in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1975 and released their follow up album Hypnotised in 1980 which peaked at No. 6 in the UK Charts. The themes on this title follow suit of their debut, focusing on teenage angst, boisterousness, and hea

Recorded for Bethlehem Records in 1956, Duke Ellington's Historically Speaking is an album of updated arrangements of earlier Duke classics, including "East St. Louis Toodle-Oo," "In a Mellow Tone," and "Creole Love Call." The orchestra, with the recent r

Suicide’s third studio album, celebrates its 35th Anniversary in 2023. This Rarities EP on Colour Vinyl will act as a pre-cursor to the full album reissue by BMG in May 2023 and includes a selection of unheard rarities found in the band’s archive includin

John Coltrane's all-star jazz session In the Winner's Circle was recorded in New York in September and October of 1957 and features the musicians who came first or second in Down Beat's critics' poll of that year including Donald Byrd, Kenny Burrell, Art

Duke Ellington Presents, recorded for Bethlehem in 1956, is unusual in that it consists mainly of standards. On it, Duke Ellington and key soloists work wonders on such chestnuts as "My Funny Valentine," "Summertime," "Laura," and the Rosetta Stone of be-

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers' Hard Drive is a classic album from the hard bop era. The seven track collection was recorded in New York City in October of 1957 and released on the Bethlehem label in December of that same year. It finds drummer/leader B

East Coasting is a lesser-known gem in the Charles Mingus catalog recorded in New York City in August of 1957 and released on the Bethlehem label in December of the same year. It finds the bassist/leader supported by Bill Evans (piano), Clarence Shaw (tru

The Montreux Jazz Festival takes place for two weeks every summer in Switzerland, on the shores of Lake Geneva. Created in 1967 by Claude Nobs, the Montreux Jazz Festival has become over the years an essential event, generating fantastic stories and legen

The iconic Pixies forged an influential path for alt-rock during their first era, while their post 2004 reunion has seen them alchemize more sophisticated dark arts – a return which has them add another three UK Top 10 albums to the three they achieved on

Out Friday, Sept 16!
Orange vinyl! Formed in Oxford, U.K. in 1993, Supergrass scored an unbroken run of five Top 10 albums, among them three platinum sellers generating millions of worldwide sales spawning ten Top 20 singles. The Brit, Q, NME and Ivor No

In tomorrow! The Kinks' 1971 classic Muswell Hillbillies has been remastered from the original audio source for the album's 50th Anniversary! This period's first Kinks album, Muswell Hillbillies, is for many fans their favorite record from the band. It co

Danger Mouse and Black Thought – two of contemporary music's most exciting, respected artists – deliver the joint album, Cheat Codes. It serves as Danger Mouse's first hip-hop album since his Danger Doom collaboration with the late MF Doom, and follows Bl

Originally released by Bethlehem Records in 1959, ‘Nina Simone and Her Friends’ is a compilation album comprising several unreleased tracks from the ‘Little Girl Blue’ recording session, plus songs recorded by two other former Bethlehem artists, the power

The Jazz Experiments Of Charles Mingus is a fairly obscure collaboration between Mingus and John LaPorta that contains both modern classical and cool jazz compositions plus Mingus' piano debut. This six-piece set is highlighted by fresh arrangements of "W

Hailing from the Detroit jazz scene, trumpeter Donald Byrd and baritonist Pepper Adams join forces with guitarist Kenny Burrell, pianist Tommy Flanagan, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Louis Hayes (aka "Hey" Lewis) to form the all-star sextet heard on 1

Formed in 1984, Sepultura are arguably Brazil's biggest music export having enjoyed huge global success throughout their career to date. This five album box set represents the second phase of the band's career when vocalist Derrick Green joined the band o

Black Sabbath: Black Sabbath LP