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The iconic debut EP from Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus on colored vinyl with gatefold packaging for the fifth anniversary. Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus formed Boygenius after booking a tour together, but the trio had subco

On March 28-30, 2022, Car Seat Headrest played three consecutive sold out nights at New York's Brooklyn Steel. An air of celebration, community and showmanship was present, made all the more palpable as the shows were far from a certainty - they took plac

Bar Italia are the London based three-piece of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton. They will release their second full length of 2023, ‘The Twits’, on November 3, less than six months after their acclaimed Matador debut, ‘Tracey Denim.’

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Belle and Sebastian’s beloved third album The Boy With The Arab Strap returns on colored vinyl and blue tint cover this autumn to celebrate the LPs 25th anniversary. The announcement comes on the heels of a recent creative outpouring from the Scottish gro

Matador Records celebrates the 20th anniversary of The New Pornographers' second full-length, Electric Version (2003) with a colored vinyl LP reissue. The highly anticipated follow-up to the Juno award winning and plaudit magnet Mass Romantic, the 13-trac

Bar Italia, the hotly tipped London trio of Nina Cristante, Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton, return on Matador Records with the new album Tracey Denim which was recorded and produced by the band with mixing from Marta Salogni. It features the acclaimed s

Steve Gunn in "collabs" with some killer folks! TOUR ONLY EP THAT WE ENDED UP WITH! WHAT?
Side A: Protection with Mikey & Ahmoudou (from Mdou Moctar), Good Wind with Natural Information Society, On The Way with Natural Information Society. Side B: Fulton

In 2021, we started the Mdou Moctar mixtape series. These releases compiled field recordings, cell phone voice memos, interview clips, conversations captured in the tour van, and blown-out board recordings from shows all over the world. As a continuation

In 2021, we started the Mdou Moctar mixtape series. These releases compiled field recordings, cell phone voice memos, interview clips, conversations captured in the tour van, and blown-out board recordings from shows all over the world. As a continuation

Recorded in the same sessions as A Bit of Previous, Late Developers doesn't feel like a collection of lesser-than songs that weren't good enough to go on the "real" record. Rather, it's an embrace of the freedom that comes with a jumbo-sized canvas, skill

2002's Kill the Moonlight finds Britt Daniel and long time musical conspirator Jim Eno destroying the form book and branching into uncharted territory. It is a staggering achievement, with stylistic range and emotional depth far beyond that of prior Spoon

The second installment of Matador's 2022 "Revisionist History" catalog series is a colored vinyl 2LP reissue of Yo La Tengo's undeniable 1997 classic I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One. On this album, the band consolidates their sound as they expand it,

1993's Westing (By Musket and Sextant) compiles Pavement's early singles and rarities showcasing the band's growth from their initial Slay Tracks EP through to the singles and EPs from their first two albums. The 23-track collection features all of the cu

Hot Thoughts is the bravest, most sonically inventive work of Spoon's trend setting career. With all due respect to earlier efforts which have made the quintet both critically acclaimed and a commercial contender, preconceptions about this band are about

Gang of Four was formed in Leeds in 1976 by bassist Dave Allen, drummer Hugo Burnham, guitarist Andy Gill, and singer Jon King. The band pioneered a style of music that inverted punk's blunt and explosive energies – favoring tense rhythms, percussive guit

Horsegirl are best friends. You don't have to talk to the trio for more than five minutes to feel the warmth and strength of their bond, which crackles through every second of their debut full-length, Versions of Modern Performance. Penelope Lowenstein (g

Matador's complete series of expanded editions of Pavement's five studio albums culminates with this deluxe reissue of their 1999 fifth studio album Terror Twilight, originally released in 1999. This expanded vinyl 4LP box set contains numerous unreleased

To coincide with Pavement's 2010 reunion tour and the release of Quarantine The Past: The Best Of Pavement, Matador Records is launching a new vinyl series featuring all 5 of the band's essential studio albums plus the Watery, Domestic EP. An indie-rock t

Originally released on Elektra in 1998, Spoon's cult-classic sophomore full length, A Series of Sneaks hinted at the deconstructed pop perfection that was to come and earned the enigmatic Texas-based band comparisons to guitar-heavy post-punk forefathers

With amped-up acoustic guitars, jumpy song structures, and a punk attitude, Telephono (1996) was the shot across the bow from Austin, Texas' fledgling rock heroes Spoon. The follow-up, Soft Effects EP (1997), features five of Spoon's strongest songs and m

Originally released in 1981 ‘Signals, Calls and Marches’ is an explosive and hard hitting EP with post-punk, hard core and leftfield sensibilities. The accomplished debut offers up instant classics, ‘That’s When I Reach For My Revolver’ and ‘Academy Fight