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The Road from Memphis starts with a young Booker T. Jones hauling his stack of newspapers to Phineas Newborn's front yard where, while folding them for his after school delivery route, he could listen to the jazz great practice piano. It ends with Booker...

The Return of... [LP] As a young, university-trained musician looking to find his way in the tropical space, Pachy Garc?a (aka Pachyman) became obsessed with old Jamaican dub records like those from King Tubby and Scientist, determined to recreate the...

The Residents released of their third album, "The Third Reich 'n' Roll" in 1976. People have speculated whether the Residents were hinting that Rock 'n' Roll has brain-washed the youth of the world. When confronted with this possibility, they replied,...

The Residents had passed their own punk stage in 1976 with the release of "Satisfaction" and were feeling that 1979 disco, while using the studio in new ways, did not actually offer much in the way of depth. So they decided it was a good time to make the...

The relentless Bluebeard now has a soundtrack thanks to Dutch saxophone pride Yuri Honing. Yuri Honing dedicated his new album to the gruesome heritage of Bluebeard, title character of the 17thcentury French fairytale. The duke with the seven wives...

The record may not be seen as a turn in the ReWork sound, it's rather a logical progression of the band: With new female singer Sascha Hedgehog they are keeping in touch with dance floor culture and at the same time opening up to a more new wave...

The record is part of the "Ultimate Supreme Ninja Champion" series which is loosely based around 1980s bootleg ninja movies. The a-side is a rap song called "Supreme Ninja Training Montage" featuring DMX with the songs instrumental and drums also...

The record is a sibling to the last Blackout Beach record, Skin of Evil. But the longing in Fuck Death is not romantic; these are deserter's songs, coward's songs. I am all for reassessing cowardice. The most important lyric on Fuck Death is "run away"...

The raw inspiration for Vague Tidings, Elephant Micah's third effort for Western Vinyl, comes from a DIY tour of the 49th state. It was a trip that went off the beaten path-sometimes a bit too far for comfort. Now, over a decade later, listeners find...

The punk-metal heroes return with a new studio album-and, to amp things up, they've invited Slayer's Dave Lombardo to smash the drums this time around. Things get beautifully brutal as you behold "I Love Destruction," "F.U.B.A.R.," "All Kinda Crazy,"...

The punk rock treat that tricked it's way into the heart of punk rock fans everywhere in 2017 returns with a brand new volume of Halloween-themed songs recorded by modern and legacy bands! Features brand new studio recordings by legendary punk bands...

The Promise Ring were formed in 1995 in Milwaukee by guitarist Jason Gnewikow, drummer Dan Didier and bassist Scott Beschta. The band was eventually rounded out by frontman Davey von Bohlen, who at the time was a new enlistee into Midwest darlings Cap'n...