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Supergrass
Diamond Hoo Ha
Astralwerks
'Supergrass has gone from energetic, young and roughshod to energetic, veteran and polished' -Billboard
'Apply megawatt tunes and career-best performances and you’ve got an album to top even 2002’s criminally neglected "Life On Other Planets' -Uncut
M83
Saturdays=Youth
Mute
'Credit M83 for gazing back at the '80s and escaping the revivalist void that traps so many different acts with so many different intentions' -The Onion
'The album has the same nostalgic sparkle as John Hughes' films, a soft-focused mythology of eternal summers and young love.' (8.5 out of 10) -Pitchfork
Sloan
Parallel Play
Yep Roc
'Melodically, every last track offers instant gratification. The record runs the rock’n’roll gamut, toying with ’50s malt shop sweetness, amusingly self-aware garage rock, early rockabilly and ’60s Hammond jams' -Exclaim!
'Something for any guitar-band fan! Fans of The Beatles, Cheap Trick, and Foghat won't be disappointed!' -Greg Glover/The Bottom Forty
My Morning Jacket
Evil Urges
ATO
'Evil Urges explodes the band's sound with the same kind of creative leap that Wilco took on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and Radiohead took on Kid A.' (4 out of 5) -Rolling Stone
'An epic summer jam!' -Spin
Larry Norman
Rebel Poet, Jukebox Balladeer: The Anthology
Arena Rock
'While Norman's faith fuels even the most tangentially Christian-related tracks here, his visionary music should not be limited to Christian audiences' (4 out of 5) -Rolling Stone
'If you don't know who Larry Norman is....you should' -Frank Black (The Pixies)
Goodbye 20th Century: A Biography of Sonic Youth
by David Browne
Published by Da Capo Press
Sonic Youth’s distinctive, uncompromising sounds have provided a map for innumerable musicians who followed, from ’90s groundbreakers like Nirvana and Pavement to current faves like the Strokes and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. More than perhaps any other act, Sonic Youth has brought “fringe” art to the mainstream, helping spawn an alternative arts scene that prospers to this day: a world of punk rock, underground films and comics, experimental music, conceptual art, contemporary classical compositions, and even fashion. In Goodbye 20th Century, David Browne tells the full glorious story of “the Velvet Underground of their generation,” an account based on extensive research, fresh interviews with the band and those who have worked with them (from Glenn Branca and Lydia Lunch to Sofia Coppola and Spike Jonze), and unprecedented access to unreleased recordings and documents. This is a richly detailed portrait of an iconic band and the times they helped create.
$26.00
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