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Various Artists: CBGB - A New York City Soundtrack 1975-1986

4CD in uscita il 30 gennaio a 42.90€
"CBGB was a place for the dirty people." - Jimmy Destri of Blondie
"Afterwards, I took off and went crosstown to CBGB's, the stronghold of the unknown, to be with my own people." - Patti Smith. In December 1973 Hilly Kristal changed the name of his roots music bar from Hilly's on the Bowery to CBGB and altered his musical policy to hire mostly rock bands. He was indifferent to many of them ("No one is going to like you guys, but I'll have you back," he told Joey Ramone), blissfully unaware of how important his scruffy little club would soon become. In the span of only 15 months, the five groups that comprise the CBGB's pantheon all debuted: Television in March 1974, followed by Ramones in August and Blondie in October, then Patti Smith in February 1975 and Talking Heads four months later. Those five groups all quickly got record deals and became popular enough to outgrow CBGB's. By the fall of 1977, Smith was the only one who was still playing there. What succeeded the Big Five was an array of new and retro styles, all of which feature here: No Wave (Sonic Youth, Mars, DNA, Bush Tetras), post-punk (Ritual Tension, Unknown Gender, Khmer Rouge), mutant funk and R&B (James Chance & The Contortions, Mink DeVille), art-rock bands (R.L. Crutchfield's Dark Day, The Revelons, Erasers, Jeff and Jane Hudson) hardcore punk (Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Vatican Commandos, Beastie Boys), and lots of power pop (Sorrows, The dBs, The Rudies, The Miamis, The Paley Brothers) .
The club's best-known bands are present on this compilation but we've also revived interest in dozens of unfairly forgotten acts that, for a moment in time, made an album, EP, 45, or even a demo that crackled with innovation, wit, and joy. CBGB no longer exists, at least not in the physical plane, but what happened between those soot-filled, beer-stinking walls continues to reverberate around the world.

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Sleaford Mods - THE DEMISE OF PLANET X

The Demise Of Planet X" rappresenta una vita vissuta sotto un'immensa incertezza, plasmata dal trauma collettivo", dichiara il frontman Jason Williamson. "Quando abbiamo scritto l'ultimo album, il tema era la stagnazione, un Paese che sembrava un cadavere senza vita. Tre anni dopo, quel cadavere è stato squarciato dalla guerra, dal genocidio e dalle persistenti conseguenze psicologiche del Covid, mentre i social media si sono trasformati in una forma grottesca e contorta di ingegneria digitale. Sembra di vivere tra le rovine. Un abominio multistrato inciso nella nostra psiche collettiva".

in uscita il 16 gennaio
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LP NEON GREEN MARBLE VINYL INDIE EXCLUSIVE a 30.90€

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John Doe - Forever Hasn't Happened Yet

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This is the first time John Doe's critically-acclaimed 2005 record Forever Hasn't Happened Yet has been available on vinyl. In celebration of the album's 20th anniversary this year, the album is being pressed on clear teal color vinyl and features the previously unreleased bonus track "Burning House of Love." The album has been remastered for vinyl by Dave McNair and is limited to 1,500 copies worldwide.
Recensione del 20/07/2005 di Christian Verzeletti su Mescalina.
"Forever hasn't happened yet" non è comunque tagliato solo da pezzi rock, anzi, suona per certi versi oscuro e moderno: sarà per una necessità artistica personale o per il fatto di vivere a Los Angeles e di lavorare nel mondo del cinema, ma ogni disco di John Doe ha qualcosa di cool, da cui tanti presunti rockers moderni dovrebbe imparare. Basta prendere "Hwy 5", un duetto con Neko Case su un ritmo che suona come un pezzo bruciante dei migliori X, con tanto di giro di basso a scuotere tutto oppure il beat ansioso di "Ready" o ancora la conclusiva "Repeat Performance", una ballata romantica che arriva a sfiorare certe atmosfere grunge. E poi ci sono pezzi in cui John da buon marpione va a tirare il folk-blues e ad arricchirlo con dosi minime di organo, vibrafono, percussioni.

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Wet Tuna - Vast

"Vast," the new album from Wet Tuna, is the sort of irreverent, playful psychedelia that can only come from the hands of masters. Pleasantly disorienting, secretly whip-tight stuff swerving in and out of focus and locking in on a dime like a zonked out scan across the late night radio dial. A scenic journey through head music in all its finest forms, dubbed out electro, warped R&B, burnout fuzz and scenes invented right here. Never settling in, always drifting and melting into the next station stop. Where are we? Where are we headed? Everywhere. Everywhere. Let Matt "MV" Valentine be your guide.

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lp a 31.90€

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The Black Heart Procession - 1

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Emerging from San Diego's shadowed coastline in 1997, The Black Heart Procession began as the dark-hearted alter-ego of Pall Jenkins and Tobias Nathaniel, formerly of Three Mile Pilot. Their debut album '1', released in 1998, introduced a sound that felt both ancient and cinematic — pianos creaking like ship timbers, guitars bleeding reverb, and Jenkins' voice cutting through the gloom like a late-night confession. '1' remains a record that sounds less like a debut and more like a séance — proof that heartbreak can echo beautifully for decades. FFO: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Calexico, Calla, Sparklehorse, Tom Waits.

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VARIOUS ARTISTS - THIS CAN'T BE TODAY - A TRIP THROUGH THE US PSYCHEDELIC UNDERGROUND 1977-1988

3CD SET DOCUMENTING THE 1980s AMERICAN 'PAISLEY UNDERGROUND' SCENE.
In uscita il 13 febbraio a 39.90€
OVER 65 SCENE SETTING, TASTE MAKING TUNES INSPIRED BY ALL THINGS 60s, THRIFT STORE AND RICKENBACKER. FEATURING R.E.M., GREEN ON RED, THE BANGLES, THE RAIN PARADE, REDD KROSS, THE LAST, THE LONG RYDERS, THE DREAM SYNDICATE, R. STEVIE MOORE, HÜSKER DÜ, THE FLAMING LIPS, MEAT PUPPETS, THE THREE O'CLOCK AND MANY MORE. COMPLETE WITH INTRODUCTORY NOTE FROM ABSOLUTE GREY'S PAT THOMAS AND INSIGHTFUL BAND-BY-BAND BIOGRAPHIES. SCENE STAPLES, UNDERGROUND NUGGETS, LEFTFIELD GEMS AND EVERYTHING ELSE BETWEEN! In 1977 punk gave American kids permission to explore music. Some had grown up in L.A., listening to the Sunset Strip bands in heavy rotation, others worked in record stores with old heads who taught them the secret history of the past, or educated themselves by digging through the vinyl library at their college radio stations. Thrift shops were full of paisley rags and fringed jackets, and young bands started dressing like it was 1966, dreaming of rewriting the history of rock, finding inspiration from songs that didn't get played on the radio and discovering the forgotten weirdness of that decade. 'This Can't Be Today' captures a snapshot of America's second wave of psychedelia, a coast to coast phenomenon that saw bands as diverse as R.EM., The Dream Syndicate, Green On Red, Flaming Lips and Meat Puppets revisit a sound and aesthetic all but blown away by the pomp of 1970s heavy rock, AOR and disco. Knowingly backwards looking and infused with a pop sensibility, many of these bands became household names and legends in their own lifetime, whilst others produced one-off, scene defining classics or became a footnote in a later band's origin story. Inspired by the seminal 'Nuggets' and 'Pebbles' compilations, often with one eye on "swinging London" and working to tight budgets with college radio listeners in mind, this was the polar opposite of Reaganomics, shiny movies and day-glo hair metal. Take a trip to an America the rest of the world rarely got to see. Resplendent in artwork by the inimitable Cally, and compiled by American A&R, production, promotion and artist management veteran James Barber, this is both a time capsule for those who were there and an invaluable entry point for those with an interest in America's response to punk rock and the post-punk scene

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