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Alice in Chains’ acclaimed Jar of Flies is being reissued in celebration of its 30th anniversary. The EP made history as the first of its format to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in its first week of sales. Hit tracks like "No Excuses," "I Stay Away," and "Nutshell", extended the group's popularity.
For the past 20 years, Jason Boland & the Stragglers have dazzled audiences all over as one of the leading ambassadors of the Oklahoma and Texas music movement. Millions of fans cheering him on, over 500,000 records sold independently and 10 albums later, Boland is a career musician whose legacy continues to grow. From his early days touring in cramped vans and playing in front of tiny bar crowds to the packed venues he performs in today, Boland’s uncompromising approach has grown his profile dramatically, especially in the past handful of years. Add to that the legions of musicians who are influenced by Boland, and his impact on the scene is undeniable.
Prior to the pandemic, Boland was hard at work on his most ambitious project yet. The groundwork he laid in 2019 saw the singer-songwriter roll through songs that would be a bold step forward. Strumming through the material with the Stragglers at a rehearsal in Colorado, Boland knew he had something big. However, that session took place a day before the lockdown and put the kibosh on the project for a year.
In early 2021, the time felt right to get the project rolling again. At a time when pandemic albums are popping up left and right, Boland zigged when everyone else zagged. Titled The Light Saw Me, the acclaimed singer-songwriter decided to go deeper than he’s ever gone before to create a multi-layered sci-fi concept album. Once again teaming up with his frequent co-conspirator, Grammy-winning producer Shooter Jennings, Boland hunkered down in a Los Angeles-area studio to bring The Light Saw Me to life.
On the surface, The Light Saw Me traces a cowboy living in Texas in the 1890s who is abducted by aliens and ends up in Texas in the 1990s, but there’s way more to it. Packed into three distinctive interlocking parts, The Light Saw Me is layered with vivid imagery that touches on old legends (such as a spacecraft allegedly crashing in Aurora, Texas), conspiracies, and other accounts that run contrary to reality.
Hidden behind the grandeur of the storyline, the message that Boland aims to share is a universal one: Everyone and everything is connected by love. In classic Boland fashion, The Light Saw Me tackles stories and themes that are integral to his writing beyond his world-class use of metaphors, like who we are, where we’re going, and whether love is something that people feel internally or just connected to consciousness and humans’ fear of their own mortality.
For most of his career, the only thing you could expect from Boland is to do the unexpected. On what’s now his 10th studio album, he not only does that, but he did it in his own organic and authentic way. He’s making the music he wants while continuing to please the people who want to hear where his artistic journey takes him next. With a catalog like his, that’s no easy feat.
Soundgarden-Badmotorfinger - Badmotorfinger is the third studio album by American rock band Soundgarden and was released through A&M Records. Soundgarden began the recording sessions for the album with new bassist Ben Shepherd in the spring of 1991. The album maintained the band's heavy metal sound while featuring an increased focus on songwriting as compared with the band's previous releases. Considered the album's music to be "surprisingly cerebral and arty"; alternative tunings and abnormal time signatures were present on several of the album's songs, and lyrics were intended to be ambiguous and create imagery.
Limp Bizkit's breakthrough album 'Significant Other' will be released for the first time on vinyl. The record was their 2nd studio album following debut release 'Three Dollar Bill, Y'all $'. Produced by Terry Date (Soundgarden, Deftones, Slipknot), the album includes the singles 'Break Stuff', 'Re-Arranged', 'Nookie' & 'N 2 Gether Now'. The album has sold well over 7 million copies in the US to date.
4LP Boxset
4 180 GRAM LPS
2024 REMASTERED VERSION OF UP TO HERE + LIVE FROM THE MISTY MOON, HALIFAX
NOVA SCOTIA, 4/26/90
4 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED STUDIO TRACKS
A FULL LP OF 1988 DEMOS + 28 PAGE BOOK
1 PURE AUDIO BLU-RAY
DOLBY ATMOS OF UP TO HERE + LIVE CONCERT FILM OF THE MISTY MOON SHOW
Up To Here is The Tragically Hip’s diamond selling debut album, originally released on August 8, 1989.
Featuring some of the bands most beloved songs ‘Blow At High Dough’ and ‘New Orleans Is Sinking’ – both #1 radio singles in Canada as well as fan favorites ‘Boots Or Hearts’ and ’38 Years Old’
The expanded reissue of Up To Here is a must-have for collectors, presented as four double LP sets on 180g vinyl, plus a four CD set alongside a book documenting the history of the debut album era. The reissue includes a 2024 remastering of the original album, a recording of Live at The Misty Moon the special filmed for MuchMusic in 1990 from The Misty Moon in Halifax with accompanying 1 hour concert film on Bluray, plus the demos from the original 1988 recording session. There are four previously unreleased songs that didn’t make it on the original Up To Here album – “She’s Got What It Takes,” “Get Back Again,” “Rain, Hearts And Fire” – that are shared as part of this expanded package, remastered in Atmos.
4LP Boxset + Blu Ray
Side 1 (LP1 - Up To Here (2024 remaster of the original album)
- Blow At High Dough
- I’ll Believe In You (Or I’ll Be Leaving You Tonight)
- New Orleans Is Sinking
- 38 Years Old
- She Didn’t Know
Side 2 (LP1 - Up To Here (2024 remaster of the original album)
- Boots Or Hearts
- Everytime You Go
- When The Weight Comes Down
- Trickle Down
- Another Midnight
- Opiated
Side 3 (LP2 - Live At The Misty Moon + Previously Unreleased Studio Tracks)
- Crack My Spine Like A Whip (Live At The Misty Moon)
- She Didn’t Know (Live At The Misty Moon)
- Highway Girl (Live At The Misty Moon)
- Just As Well (Live At The Misty Moon)
- Boots Or Hearts (Live At The Misty Moon)
- Trickle Down (Live At The Misty Moon)
Side 4 (LP2 - Live At The Misty Moon + Previously Unreleased Studio Tracks)
- Get Back Again (Live At The Misty Moon)
- Three Pistols (Live At The Misty Moon)
- Fight (Live At The Misty Moon)
- 38 Years Old (Live At The Misty Moon)
Side 5 (LP3 - Live At The Misty Moon + Previously Unreleased Studio Tracks)
- Blow At High Dough (Live At The Misty Moon)
- I’ll Believe In You (Or I’ll Be Leaving You Tonight) (Live At The Misty Moon)
- New Orleans Is Sinking (Live At The Misty Moon)
- On The Verge (Live At The Misty Moon)
Side 6 (LP3 - Live At The Misty Moon + Previously Unreleased Studio Tracks)
- She’s Got What It Takes
- Get Back Again
- Rain, Hearts And Fire
- Wait So Long
Side 7 (LP4 - How We Got Here - The 1988 Demos)
- Hailstone Hands Of God (1988 Demo)
- When The Weight Comes Down (1988 Demo)
- I’ll Believe In You (Or I’ll Be Leaving You Tonight) (1988 Demo)
- New Orleans Is Sinking (1988 Demo)
- Rain, Hearts And Fire (1988 Demo)
Side 8 (LP4 - How We Got Here - The 1988 Demos)
- She Didn’t Know (1988 Demo)
- Blow At High Dough (1988 Demo)
- Boots Or Hearts (1988 Demo)
- Everytime You Go (1988 Demo)
- Just Another Midnight (1988 Demo)
Blu Ray Disc Side 1 - full 1hr concert film of the Misty Moon show
- Blow At High Dough
- I’ll Believe In You (Or I’ll Be Leaving You Tonight)
- New Orleans Is Sinking
- 38 Years Old
- She Didn’t Know
- Boots Or Hearts
- Everytime You Go
- When The Weight Comes Down
- Trickle Down
- Another Midnight
- Opiated
- She’s Got What It Takes
- Get Back Again
- Rain, Hearts And Fire
- Wait So Long
The new Abbey Roadrelease features thenew stereo album mix, sourced directly from the original eight-track session tapes. To produce the mix, Giles Martin working with Sam Okell, was guided by the album’s original stereo mix supervised by his father, George Martin.
Violent Femmes have released nine studio albums and more than a dozen iconic singles, among them such classics as “American Music,” “Gone Daddy Gone,” “Nightmares, “Add It Up,” and of course, “Blister In The Sun.” Their remarkable three-decade-plus career has earned them cumulative worldwide sales in excess of 10 million, with 1983’s Violent Femmes awarded with RIAA platinum certification eight years after its initial release. The Violent Femmes self-titled debut album has reached legendary status that few albums ever attain. Released in 1983, Violent Femmes became one of the most distinctive records of the early alternative movement and an enduring cult classic. By combining elements of Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers with new wave and acoustic-folk and punk rock, the Femmes forged a sound all their own. Currently out of print on vinyl, this new 180-gram LP reissue faithfully reproduces the album’s original artwork, which features one of the iconic album covers of the 1980s.