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Basia – Time and Tide [Deluxe Edition] (2013)
Cherry Pop reissue label’s released a greatly-expanded edition of Time and Tide, the solo debut album by Polish singer/songwriter Basia. Basia Trzetrzelewska (pronounced Basha Chechelevska) first...
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Hiss Golden Messenger – Bad Debt [Deluxe Edition] (2014)
From the opening notes of Bad Debt, one can tell that Hiss Golden Messenger’s M.C. Taylor is a man who has the uncanny ability to put his heart into a song. While Taylor has received wide acclaim for...
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Uncle Tupelo – No Depression [Legacy Edition] (2014)
After several years in the making, the landmark debut album by alt-country pioneers Uncle Tupelo reissued as a 2CD Legacy edition by Sony. No Depression, originally released in 1990 on the Rockville...
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The Armoury Show – Waiting for the Floods [Deluxe Edition] (2013)
The Armoury Show remained largely unheard in their heyday in the mid-1980s, despite featuring several eminent new wave musicians. At the start of that decade, the Dunfermline-born punk band the Skids...
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Everything But the Girl – The Language of Life [Deluxe Edition] (2013)
By the release of The Language of Life, their fifth album, in early 1990, Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn found themselves at some distance from the scratchy leftfield jazz inflections of essential 1984...
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VA – Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration [Deluxe Edition] (2014)
In 1992, the 30th anniversary of Bob Dylan’s career was celebrated with a star-studded tribute concert at Madison Square Garden. The entire show was broadcast live on Pay-Per-View and later partially...
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Bottle Rockets – Bottle Rockets / The Brooklyn Side [Deluxe Edition] (2013)
In many respects, the Bottle Rockets were victims of bad timing; when they arrived on the scene with their first album in 1993, many alt-country fans were looking for music that was serious and “said...
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The Family Rain – Under The Volcano (2014)
Bath brothers William, Ollie and Timothy Walter were previously in the Rock Pirates, a Darkness copy group who sang, with no little irony, of having “balls of steel.” Having sensibly regrouped and...
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The Blue Nile – Peace at Last [Deluxe Edition] (2014)
Having released their last album, Hats, in 1989, the eclectic trio of Paul Buchanan (vocals/guitar/ synthesizers), Robert Bell (bass) and Paul Joseph Moore (synthesizers) were finding themselves as...
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Silkworm – Libertine [Deluxe Edition] (2014)
On top of the original 1994 LP, the expanded edition includes alternate takes and bonus tracks dubbed “The Marco Collins Sessions,” and two more songs recorded at Pachyderm Studio in Cannon Falls, MN....
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Bob Mould – Workbook 25 (2014)
“Sunspots” — the gentle, two-minute instrumental that opens Bob Mould’s 1989 solo debut Workbook — may be the softest, saddest “fuck you” in recorded history. Still stinging from the acrimonious...
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The Bonniwell Music Machine – The Bonniwell Music Machine (2014)
The Music Machine are one of the most respected and best loved American bands of the 1960s, renowned for their powerful sonic assault and intelligently crafted repertoire. Big Beat’s Ultimate Turn On...
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Game Theory – Blaze of Glory [Expanded Edition] (2014)
Game Theory were only a few months old when they began recording their debut album, 1982’s Blaze of Glory, in a makeshift studio in the home of singer, guitarist, songwriter, and all-around idea man...
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The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground [45th Anniversary Super...
The Velvet Underground. This band’s eponymous 1969 release, so different from 1968’s White Light/White Heat, is the sound of a band finding clarity through subtraction. Gone was John Cale, and with him...
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Old 97’s – Hitchhike to Rhome [20th Anniversary Edition] (2014)
Many bands blend country and rock, but few brew this concoction as well as the Old 97’s on Hitchhike to Rhome. Energetic frontman Rhett Miller commands attention as a charismatic vocalist and clever...
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Yo La Tengo – Extra Painful! (2014)
There’s little doubting that, when they look back at the music of the Nineties in years to come, indie rock will dominate discussions. There’s also a good chance that one particularly noteworthy group...
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Jethro Tull – War Child [The 40th Anniversary Edition] (2014)
Jethro Tull’s War Child was the 7th album from the band, at that time featuring Ian Anderson, Martin Barre, John Evans, Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond and Barrie Barlow. It was originally devised as a...
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Diana Ross – Why Do Fools Fall in Love / Silk Electric / Ross / Swept Away /...
Diana Ross is well-known as the Queen of Motown, but for real record geeks and catalogue enthusiasts, it’s her post-Motown works – released in the U.S. on RCA Records and on Capitol/EMI worldwide –...
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Pixies – Doolittle 25: B-Sides, Peel Sessions and Demos (2014)
Doolittle 25 features 50 tracks: the original album, two Peel Sessions, six B-sides, the entire album’s demos, and seven bonus tracks. After 1988’s brilliant but abrasive Surfer Rosa, the Pixies‘...
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Songs: Ohia – Didn’t It Rain [Deluxe Reissue] (2014)
Deluxe Reissue featuring an entire second disc of demos that formed the skeletons of the sparse tracks on the album, including an alternate unheard version of “Ring the Bell”. After the densely...
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