From their early days of busking on the streets of South-east London to headlining the OVO Arena Wembley, The Dualers have built up a massive following of fans all around the world.Having stormed the singles charts twice before and achieved a No.11 position in the UK National Album Charts, with their 2019 album “Palm Trees and 80 Degrees” and extensive play on BBC National daytime radio, South London’s much-loved Ska and Reggae band return with a brand new album of original ska and Reggae songs Entitled ...
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From their early days of busking on the streets of South-east London to headlining the OVO Arena Wembley, The Dualers have built up a massive following of fans all around the world.Having stormed the singles charts twice before and achieved a No.11 position in the UK National Album Charts, with their 2019 album “Palm Trees and 80 Degrees” and extensive play on BBC National daytime radio, South London’s much-loved Ska and Reggae band return with a brand new album of original ska and Reggae songs Entitled ...
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20th Anniversary release of Agalloch`s classic early recording, now remastered and equipped with extended artwork in a nice package."The song “Of Stone, Wind, and Pillor” is significant for a couple of reasons. First, it’s one of our oldest songs having been written by John after the From Which of this Oak demo and was the oldest song in our live set. Second, it was the first time we became a “band.” John played everything on the demo while I only provided guitar solos ...
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The 2015 black metal hammer re-issued on limited edition transparent orange/black marbled vinyl!"Instinctus Bestialis", black metal icons’ GORGOROTH’s tenth studio full-length was recorded and mixed by drummer Thomas Asklund in Monolith Studio, produced by Infernus & Asklund and mastered at Cutting Room / Sweden by M. Lindfors, Infernus and Asklund. It features guest appearances on lead guitar by Chris Cannella, Fabio Sperandio and Henrik Ekeroth, while the recording line-up exists of Infernus, Asklund (ex-DISSECTION), Bøddel (Frank Watkins, ex-OBITUARY) and Atterigner.TRACK LISTING1. Radix Malorum2. Dionysian Rite3. Ad ...
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FeaturesNew Age Travellers On The Road: A chronicle. From shackle‐free early’60s beatniks to ’80s bus livingDiesel Park West From Leicester with love. The return of the out‐of timejangle‐pop obsessivesThe Staple Singers How the first family of gospel‐soul became hitrecording artists and figureheads for Black self empowermentBlondie Pure pop inspired by The British Invasion and ’60sgirl groups, forged in Manhattan’s art and earlypunk scenes. The origins of the band that had it allRegularsThoughts & Words Your letters, tweets and emailsShindiggin’ What’s ...
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Audio and video collection of UK progressive eccentrics Patto at the height of their powers on stage in the form of a previously unreleased recording of the band rocking and looning at the Torrington in London in January 1973, plus their surviving TV appearances from 1971.The Patto's virtuosity and eclecticism are in full swing as they perform an inspired set which includes most of their (then current) third album, Roll 'Em Smoke 'Em, to an enthusiastic but intimate crowd. Includes a never released Halsall ...
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Sonora Sunrise is a Russian band from Altai. Altai is a sacred land of ancient mountains that are stillkeeping secrets and old shamanic rites. The culture and wild nature of this land inspires the musicians. Sonora Sunrise music is transparent and light, like the wind blowing from the mountains.Sometimes it is merciless, like a storm in the desert.TRACK LISTINGSide One:1. Welcome to The Sand Land 11:042. Unexpected Trip 07:24Side Two:3. Poison 07:254. Canyon 07:005. Millions of Snakes 07:17GENRE: Psychedelic Space RockBARCODE: ...
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They started rocking young during the ‘50s down in Spartanburg, South Carolina. None of the four members in Joe Bennett and The Sparkletones were past their mid‐teens (Bennett’s diminutive vocal partner and rhythm guitarist Howard ‘Sparky’ Childress was all of 14) when they roared up the hit parade in 1957 with their blistering rocker Black Slacks. That youthful vigor defined everything the band cut for the ABC‐Paramount and Paris labels.Bear Family Records®’ new 10‐inch album collects the young band’s hottest rockers, including their signature smash ...
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TRULY ORIGINAL, GROUNDBREAKING ROCK AND ROLL1‐CD (Digipak) with 36‐page booklet, 28 tracks. Total playing time approx. 79 min.You can’t judge a book by the cover, according to the song by Bo Diddley ‐‐ but you sure can tell a record made by Bo Diddley.For that reason, this is one of the most important discs in our Rocks series. Here is a full CD of truly original, groundbreaking rock and roll, presented as only Bo Diddley could, and as only Bear Family Records® can. Bo ...
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Like almost no other contemporary, Vince Taylor embodies the early heyday of British rock 'n' roll. Borrowing from the sound and stage show of his great idol Gene Vincent, he began copying U.S. originals in the late 1950s. But he took the next step and recorded immortal classics like Brand New Cadilac and later Jet Black Machine.Vince Taylor's myth is based on his wild, ecstatic live performances, which in those late fifties days must have eclipsed anything seen or heard up to that time ...
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The whole world was Twisting during the early 1960s. It was the dance craze to end all dance crazes, bands around the globe jumping on the bandwagon to add their own variations to the theme. We ended up with a massive repository of Twist recordings, two dozen of them comprising ‘On The Dance Floor With a Twist.’ Naturally, the man who started it all, Hank Ballard, is aboard, though not with the anthem that you might expect. Jerry Lee Lewis tearing through I’ve Been Twistin’ ...
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LE CHIFFRE is a secret ORGAN-ization of French origin and instrumental equivalent of our favourite French gentlemen, the fabulous GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENTS. They are the 4 treasurers of the Groove and Music Illustration Union, controlled by the Hammond Organ Meridional Syndicat (HOMS). After their first two fabulous singles on vinyl they recently presented you with a fantastic 12 inch of the name “The Loved Ones” and now, to accompany this faulous debut album, the boys have a special treat for you: a single release including alternate takes ...
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MARTIN SAVAGE & THE JIGGERZ are a supergroup international power trio!We have the French‐Japanese rhythm section from King Salami & the Cumberland Three, EricBaconstrip (The Ulcers, Parkinsons, Paul Collins Beat, The Nips) & Kamikaze U.T., who also played inthe Chinese Lungs together, teaming up with their old pal, Sweden’s garage‐punk legend, MartinSavage (The Blacks, the Locomotions, Tokyo Knives, and a dozen more…). With the Jiggerz’ fourthsingle after “Time To Get Out” and “Get Away” on Folc Records and “Between The ...
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THE SINO HEARTS are a fabulous 70s Punk PowerPop/Garage-band based in in Beijing, China. After their debut album “Leave The World Behind” (MONSTER ZERO, D.O.G., P.R.) and their second album “Mandarin A Go-Go” (TOPSY-TURVY RECORDS), the trio now releases their third studio album “Lightening the Darkness” on TOPSY-TURVY RECORDS.It follows their craze of retro power pop like their two previous releases, yet it also continues to explore the depths of late 70s oriented pop music and approaches musicality and instrumentality differently from the band’s previous ...
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HISSING is an extreme metal group based out of Seattle, WA. Founded in 2014 out of a mutual interest in mutilating sounds and exploring the outer limits of black and death metal, the group aims to desecrate expectations with each subsequent release. Their new album “Hypervirulence Architecture”, which is their first album in four years following their “Permanent Destitution” debut LP, sees the trio take their sound into more nightmarish, trance inducing, mercurial and mind altering sonic dominions.TRACK LISTING: 1. Cells of Nonbeing, 2 ...
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