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VA – Still in a Dream: A Story of Shoegaze 1988-1995 (2016)
Let’s get this out of the way at the beginning. Telling the story of the overdriven, dreamlike sound of shoegaze without including a song by My Bloody Valentine is like The Great Gatsby without Gatsby...
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Jaco Pastorius – Jaco: Original Soundtrack (2015)
The surprisingly cohesive soundtrack to the 2015 Jaco Pastorius documentary Jaco features tracks the legendary jazz bassist recorded during his short career in the ’70s and ’80s. The first major...
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VA – Wayfaring Strangers: Cosmic American Music (2016)
Spurred by superstars like the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt, country-rock became, in the words of music historian Peter Doggett, “the dominant American rock style of the 1970s.” But for every Eagles...
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VA –¡Chicas! Spanish Female Singers, Volume 2: 1963-1978 (2015)
Spanish pop might just be the last unexplored territory in forward-thinking European music. Over the last 30 years, as Anglo-American attitudes have started to relax and expand, musical connoisseurs...
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VA – Christmas Time Again! (2006, Reissue 2015)
Christmas Time first arrived as a holiday vinyl EP from the Chris Stamey Group in 1986. Seven years later, in 1993, the collection was expanded for a new CD release, with the track count jumping from...
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VA – God Don’t Never Change: The Songs of Blind Willie Johnson (2016)
As time moves on and the genuine bluesmen slip into historical archives, it is a cause for celebration when someone makes the effort to reconstruct the music of one of the true innovators in the blues...
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VA – Don’t Be Bad! 60s Punk Recorded in Texas (2015)
Huey P. Meaux knew what music would sell, which is why he was so hot to find a Texan band that could sound like one of those ravers out of the U.K. He found one with Sir Douglas Quintet, getting Doug...
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VA – Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘N’ Roll (2015) FLAC
Peter Guralnick, author of a definitive two-part biography on Elvis Presley, published the equally definitive The Man Who Invented Rock & Roll in 2015. At 784 pages, the book is appropriately...
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VA – 1st Annual Inner-City Talent Expo (1972, Reissue 2016)
The Eccentric Soul series was conceived of to document the most underground reverberations of soul music culture. Columbus, Ohio’s 1st Annual Inner-City Talent Expo might be the purest, deepest core: a...
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VA – Mojo Presents: Gimme Danger (2016)
1. Iggy Pop – Break Into Your Heart 2. Mark Lanegan – Harvest Home 3. Masters of Reality – Counting Horses 4. Turbonegro – Back to Dungaree High 5. UNKLE – Restless (feat. Josh Homme) 6. Desert...
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VA – Vinyl: Music from the HBO Original Series, Volume 1 (2016)
It’s a curious decision, setting a TV show about the record industry in 1973 in New York and then bulking up the soundtrack with music that didn’t exist until decades later. It’s not like there weren’t...
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VA – 20 Years of Henry Street Music: The Definitive Collection (2015)
Physical copies of Henry Street Music: The Definitive Collection were rather compact, perhaps a bit unassuming considering the set’s scope, but its outer shell holds five discs, or well over 50 cuts...
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VA – Star Wars Headspace (2016)
In April 2015, the emotional juggernaut that was the first two-minute Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer was released online. Drawing heavily on the iconography of the original trilogy — a beached...
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VA – Entertainment: Music from the Motion Picture Sound (2015)
Experience the soundtrack to Neil Hamburger’s existential dread. The Entertainment is the unnervig film account of a traveling comedian lost on the brink. A broken, aging comic tours the California...
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VA – George Fest : A Night to Celebrate – The Music of George Harrison (2016)
George Fest: A Night to Celebrate George Harrison happened at the Fonda Theater in Los Angeles on September 28, 2014 and the whole shindig appeared in a variety of incarnations — CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays,...
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Justin Pokrywka, Loren Barrigar & Mark Mazengarb – Laurence Baer: Across Time...
What do you get when you combine a Grammy-nominated songwriter with the winning instrumentalists of the International Acoustic Music Competition, throw in a fabulous new vocalist? “Across Time – Album...
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VA – The Rough Guide to Psychedelic Salsa (2015)
Psychedelic rock and salsa came of age together in the mid to late 1960s under parallel socio-cultural circumstances of upheaval, unrest and experimentation within the respective youth cultures of...
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VA – Brown Acid: The First Trip (2015)
Some of the best thrills of the Internet music revolution is the ability to find extremely rare music. But even with such vast archives to draw from, quite a lot of great songs have gone undiscovered...
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VA – Uncut: Coming Up (2015)
1. Craig Finn – Maggie I’ve Been Searching for Our… 2. The Arcs – Stay in My Corner 3. Titus Andronicus – Dimed Out 4. HeCTA – Sympathy for the Auto Industry 5. Robert Forster – Let Me Imagine You 6....
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VA – Absence: Compilation of Iranian experimental music (2016)
Absence is a new compilation of Iranian experimental music organized by Flaming Pines proprietor Kate Carr, and curated by Arash Akbari — who also contributes its second track — with a particular ear...
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