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VA – The Rough Guide to East Coast Blues (2015)
The East Coast blues is a style born in the Piedmont region of the US, which lies between the Appalachian Mountains and the coastal plain, running from Richmond, Virginia, southwards through the...
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VA – A New Life : Private, Independent and Youth Jazz in Great Britain...
Diving into the unknown world of the private pressing, Jazzman Records presents some of the rarest and wildest British jazz ever recorded. The major stars of British jazz such as Stan Tracey, Michael...
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VA – Hard To Explain: More Shattered Dreams Funky Blues 1968-1984 (2014)
The first thing that is “Hard To Explain” in context, is that this disc is a collection of funky blues from a variety of artists. This is not a single or indeed even a couple of artists performing, it...
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VA – Speak Easy: The RPM Records Story Volume 2, 1954-1957 (2014)
The second and final volume in Ace’s overview of the Modern subsidiary label RPM, featuring many previously unissued performances, compiled and noted by Tony Rounce. Last year, Rounce created a...
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VA – Dylan, Cash, and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City (2015)
A companion to the 2015-2016 Country Music Hall of Fame exhibit of the same name, Dylan, Cash and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City is a double- disc history of the moment when country met rock — or...
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VA – Mojo Presents: My Generation, 15 Tracks of ’60s Beat-Filled Teenage Mod...
1. The Pretty Things – Don’t Bring Me Down 2. Bo Street Runners – Bo Street Runner 3. Larry’s Rebels – It’s Not True 4. The Mike Cotton Sound – Make Up Your Mind 5. The Stormsville Shakers – Number...
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VA & Holy Ghost! – Work for Hire (2015)
Brooklyn disco duo Holy Ghost! haven’t shared any original music since 2013’s insanely groovy Dynamics, but they’ve been busy remixing cuts from Blood Orange, Katy Perry, MGMT, LCD Soundsystem, and the...
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VA – The Brighter Side: A 25th Anniversary Tribute to Uncle Tupelo’s No...
Not many groups have invented an entire subgenre of music. Even fewer can claim to have done it over 13 tracks. Uncle Tupelo, the trailblazing band that spawned Wilco and Son Volt, released their debut...
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VA – Peru Boom: Bass, Bleeps & Bumps from Peru’s Electronic Underground (2015)
This bass heavy and potent collection features the key Peruvian producers and DJs that have helped build Lima’s reputation as ‘jewel in the crown’ of South America’s rave & party scenes. Tropical...
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VA – Take Me to the River: Music from the Motion Picture (2014)
Memphis has long been one of America’s greatest cities for music; it’s hard to imagine what the history of blues, jazz, soul, gospel, R&B, or rock would be without the input of the many legendary...
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VA – (When the Sun Sets Over) Carlton: Melbourne’s Countercultural Inner City...
It’s more than fitting that, as Australia mourns the passing of one of its most culturally progressive leaders, an album borne of the same revolutionary era is released. The cultural shift that helped...
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VA – Nina Revisited… A Tribute to Nina Simone (2015)
Nina Revisited… A Tribute to Nina Simone is an incredibly difficult project to come to terms with. That’s partially due to an inability to come to terms with Simone, whose penetrating breadth and...
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VA – Par Hasard: Chance Composition 1913-1951 (2014)
Par Hasard is a unique collection of avant-garde music by Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes and John Cage, all composed during the first half of the 20th century using chance...
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VA – Classic American Ballads from Smithsonian Folkways (2015)
In the days before YouTube, Twitter, and “Serial” podcasts, newsworthy events “went viral” in the form of song. Certain tragedies and grisly crimes captivated the American imagination, and...
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VA – Parchman Farm: Photographs and Field Recordings, 1947-1959 (2014)
In 1947, ’48 and ’59, renowned folklorist Alan Lomax went behind the barbed wire into the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. Armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck — and, in 1959, a camera —...
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VA – The Rebel Kind: Girls with Guitars, Vol. 3 (2014)
The third volume of Ace’s Girls with Guitars series focuses once again on all-female and female-fronted garage rock bands from the mid- to late ’60s, as well as tougher than average solo acts from the...
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VA – Modernists: A Decade of Rhythm & Soul Dedication (2015)
It’s a wonder that the title “Modernists” hasn’t already been used for a collection of mod-related music, but Ace’s 2015 set, Modernists: A Decade of Rhythm & Soul Dedication, lives up to this...
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VA – Dore L.A. Soul Sides 2 (2015)
Dore L.A. Soul Sides 2 is the second and final volume of Doré Soul story. As with the first volume, it’s strong on harmony groups, uptempo dancers and quirky one-offs from the vivid imagination of...
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VA – Mojo Presents Life Companion: 15 Tracks That Shaped Keith Richards (2015)
1. Scotty Moore Trio – Have Guitar Will Travel 2. Chuck Berry – Little Queenie 3. Little Richard – Lucille 4. Bo Diddley – Diddley Daddy 5. Buddy Guy – First Time I Met the Blues 6. Pat Hare – I’m...
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VA – Music City Vocal Groups: Rock ‘N’ Roll It, Mambo, Stroll It (2014)
The second volume of forgotten 45s and unreleased material from the vaults of the Berkeley-based Music City Records focuses on a different sound than its predecessor. Where the first volume, Greasy...
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