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Travel can inspire in surprising ways: Kurt Vile discovered as much making his first record in three years, the eclectic and electrifying Bottle It In, which he recorded at various studios around the country over two very busy years, during sessions that

2013's Wakin On A Pretty Daze is comprised of sweeping, expansive songs that are both very intimate and conversational. It's a timeless record that would have sounded great 30 years ago, sounds great today, and will still sound great in another 30 years f

Available in 4 different colours cuz, why not!? In Times New Roman..., the eighth studio album from Queens of the Stone Age is raw, brutal and rough around the edges but with a refinement that reveals itself further with each successive listen – and QOTSA

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

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

Yo La Tengo's follow-up to 2000's wildly acclaimed And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out proved to be yet another thrilling chapter in the artistic journey of one of the world's most ever-changing bands. Summer Sun, recorded with longtime associate Ro

For their first album in six years, Queens Of The Stone Age called back classic members Dave Grohl and Joey Castillo on drums, and Nick Oliveri and Mark Lanegan on vocals. In addition, some big names came in to perform: Elton John, Trent Reznor, Alex Turn

Lucifer on the Moon flips Lucifer on the Sofa's rhythm tracks inside-out, and often rebuilds them wholesale. Sherwood supplied extensive additional instrumentation via ON-U's extended family of session players, including bassist Doug Wimbish and drummer K

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,

Coinciding with the release of the Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal 5LP box set, Pavement reissues the Spit on a Stranger EP on 12" vinyl. Includes the viral hit "Harness Your Hopes" on vinyl for the first time plus a previously unreleased live 1999 v

Spoon's tenth album, Lucifer on the Sofa, is the band's purest rock 'n roll record to date. Texas-made, it is the first set of songs that the quintet has put to tape in its hometown of Austin in more than a decade. Written and recorded over the last two y

This new gift from Lucy Dacus, her third album, was built on an interrogation of her coming-of-age years in Richmond, VA. Many songs start the way a memoir might – "In the summer of ‘07 I was sure I'd go to heaven, but I was hedging my bets at VBS" – and

1995's Alien Lanes, the eighth full-length LP from America’s finest exponents of rock’n’roll songwriting and from-the-heartland warmth, contains 28 songs. GBV’s Off-White Album if you will. Genuine and insincere fans alike will recognize classics like "Wa

Little Oblivions is the third studio album by Julien Baker. Recorded in Memphis, TN, the record weaves together unflinching autobiography with assimilated experience and hard-won observations from the past few years, taking Baker's capacity for storytelli

Produced by the band, 2010's Transference is made up of 11 gems that honor the Spoon tradition while pushing the envelope of the Texas art-pop group's sound ever further. "Before Destruction" opens proceedings with a transfixing air of foreboding before "

Continuing with their ever-expanding Revisionist History series, Matador Records presents a 25th anniversary reissue of Yo La Tengo's 1995 album Electr-o-pura. Now in a gatefold sleeve and cut from the original 58 minute master, the new reissue is pressed

Lotta Sea Lice is a conversation between friends Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, documented in raw, unvarnished song, brimming with personal history, crackling with energy and shot through with humor. What started as a loose plan to record a couple songs

Girls Can Tell served as Spoon's stunning follow-up to 1998's A Series of Sneaks as well as their full-length debut for Merge in 2001. The Austin, Texas indie rock outfit's third studio album overall finds the extremely talented Britt Daniel developing in

With amped-up acoustic guitars, jumpy song structures, and a punk attitude, the John Croslin-produced 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 Spo

Traditional Techniques is new phase folk music for new phase folks, with Stephen Malkmus as attuned as ever to the rhythms of the ever-evolving lingual slipstream. Instead of roses, briars, and long black veils, prepare for owns, cracked emojis, and shado