Kristen Hayter, the classically trained multi-instrumentalist, performance artist, and vocalist known as Lingua Ignota delivers her Sargent House debut, Sinner Get Ready. A graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with an MFA in Literary Art from Brown University, much of Hayter s work is centralized around abuse. A survivor of domestic abuse for much…
With his rawboned and ravaged instrumentals from the early ’60s, Link Wray single-handedly made the guitar the ultimately cool instrument of choice for a whole new generation. Wielding a Danelectro Longhorn, Link Wray—who created the blueprint for everyone from the Kingsmen to the Cramps with his flame-throwing sound—proceeded to outdo himself with this rare LP…
We were not making an album. For months, we d been destroying and rebuilding our band. The experiments that resulted filled the studio hard drive with diverse, abstract sounds. Amorphous echoes, cacophonous samples, and handmade staccato merged into wandering, elusive melody. Each track felt like a hallucination. We didn t know if any of those…
When the first track from a band s debut album gets added to major rock stations four weeks before its official release, it must be something very special. That s the case with One Step Closer from Linkin Park s first album, Hybrid Theory. Built on an aggressive hard rock foundation, flavored with hip-hop vocal…
Vinyl LP pressing. Lost Demos by Linkin Park is a 14-track compilation of fully realized songs and works in progress that were recorded before and during the sessions for their landmark second album Meteora. Although the release title includes the word demos , the first three tracks are songs that were completed during the Meteora…
Meteora, Linkin Park s ground-breaking second album, was released in March 2003 and included the global hit singles Somewhere I Belong , Faint , Numb , Breaking The Habit and From The Inside. It has sold over 8 million copies in the US and has been certified multi-platinum, platinum, or gold in 15 countries. Vinyl…
2007 s Minutes to Midnight stands to defend Linkin Park s status as the hardest-rockin softies in mainstream music. Like its predecessors Hybrid Theory (2000) and Meteroa (2003), Minutes to Midnight flexes plenty of decibel-heavy muscle ( Given Up, Bleed It Out, No More Sorrow ) and made-to-order, melodic radio fare ( Leave Out All the Rest, Shadow of the Day, In Pieces )….
Linkin Park is an outlier. The band s risky creative choices – swinging wildly from song to song, album to album – are a hallmark of their career. Few artists effortlessly blend genres, emotions, and ideas with a voice as signature as Linkin Park s. They are, after all, the architects of the inimitable Hybrid Theory, the only…
Papercuts is the first singles collection from innovative musical force Linkin Park. The career-spanning 20-track album compiles 18 essential anthems, plus the never-before-released track “Friendly Fire” recorded during the 2017 sessions for their seventh album One More Light and fan-favorite rarity “QWERTY”.Linkin Park were inspired to thoughtfully curate Papercuts by their fans’ passionate reception of…
Raising the game on remix albums, 2002 s Reanimation completely revamps tracks from Linkin Park s 2001 best selling album, Hybrid Theory, each of which are given new identities sonically distilled for the listener to discover. From the band s abrasive guitar work to their turntable acrobatics, Reanimation includes fresh reinterpretations of favorites Points of Authority, In The End, Crawling and One…
Lit will release their seventh studio album, Tastes Like Gold June 2022 via Round Hill Records. Lead guitarist Jeremy Popoff says, We wanted to get back to the old school Lit sound with a modern day approach to the production. It took a minute to get our heads in the right place, especially with all…
Vinyl LP reissue of the soundtrack to one of the most well-known musical horror comedies of all time. The soundtrack is lively and upbeat, and is a wonderful souvenir for those who adore the film. It is a fantastic collection of Broadway-style songs and a mix of doo-wop and lavish songs along the lines of…
Vivid is the debut studio album by American rock band Living Colour, released on May 2, 1988, by Epic Records. It was one of the most popular albums of 1988, peaking at number six on the US Billboard 200 chart and being certified double platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.
Double vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Liz Phair is the fourth studio album by singer-songwriter Liz Phair, originally released in 2003 on Capitol Records. Why Can t I? and Extraordinary were released as singles. Initially, Phair worked on tracks for the album with songwriter Michael Penn as the producer. Phair also collaborated with The…
Double vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Unlike her previous two albums, which dealt heavily with themes of sex and relationships, Whitechocolatespaceegg focused more on motherhood and family, as Phair had recently gotten married and given birth to a son. After graduating from Oberlin College in 1990, Liz Phair attempted to start a musical career…
***Available for the first time, their unreleased early studio recordings. The Lloyds were a popular SF Bay Area Power Pop New Wave band featuring awesome strong female vocals provided by Lulu Lewis. The band was quite a popular live draw in Bay Area new music clubs in the early 80s, they even appeared in the…