As the legendary duo Sam & Dave, Sam Moore and Dave Prater were principal pioneers and architects of the classic American soul sound in the '60s and '70s. Infectious, spirited, and resonant, their seminal recordings for Stax and Atlantic epitomized Southern soul. This double-disc, 30-track collection includes such hits as "Soul Man, I Thank You, and When Something Is Wrong With My Baby."
Though they still tend towards pastiche, the Dandy Warhols' third full-length, Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia, presents a bakers' dozen of their most focused and cohesive songs. Where their earlier albums were eclectic to the point of being scattershot, this release manages to limit the band's style-switching to dreamy, sweeping epics like "Godless" and "Nietzsche, sussed, sleazy power pop like Horse Pills" and "Cool Scene, and country and gospel ventures like Country Leaver" and "The Gos
Rocket Ship Beach introduced Dan Zanes' special brand of children's music, which mixes well-known songs for kids, standards, and traditional country and folk songs with a hand-crafted sound and plenty of affection for both the music and its intended audience. The "friends" who help Zanes with Rocket Ship Beach include Sheryl Crow, whose duet with Zanes on "Polly Wolly Doodle" gets the album off to a strong start; Suzanne Vega, who lends a lilting guilelessness to "Erie Canal"; and the Wonderland
A full-color four-panel foldout jacket with a 28-page booklet of lyrics, chords, and wild new Donald Saaf artwork. Catch That Train! features the songs "Catch That Train!" (of course) and "Let's Shake" as seen on Playhouse Disney. Dan's first family cd since 2004's grammy nominated house party is a new frontier in 21st century all-ages family social music! Special guests: The Blind Boys of Alabama, Nick Cave, The Kronos Quartet, and Natalie Merchant.
Rapping with cartoon characters was artistic suicide until Gorillaz dropped a bomb in 2001 with a platinum album and what turned out to be a surprisingly long shelf life. Next out of the box is Danger Doom, the stunning and welcome collaboration of two of hip-hop's most innovative artists, both of whom already have close ties to the world of animation -- Danger Mouse not only named himself after a cartoon but is also a part-time Gorillaz beatmaker, and the rapper MF Doom has imagined himself var
Personnel: Paquito D'Rivera (soprano & alto saxophones, clarinet); Carlos Franzetti (arranger, conductor); Lawrence Feldman (alto saxophone, flute); Andres Boiarsky (tenor saxophone, flute, clarinet); Dick Oatts, Thomas Christensen (tenor saxophone, flute); Roger Rosenberg (baritone saxophone, bass clarinet, bassoon); Lew Soloff, Bob Millikan, Diego Urcola, Gustavo Bergalli (trumpet, flugelhorn); James Pugh (trombone); David Taylor (bass trombone); John Clark (French horn); Allison Brewster Fran
Pere Ubu: Tom Herman, Scott Krauss, Tony Maimone, Allen Ravenstine, David Thomas (vocals, various instruments).It is hard to believe that such noises could come from so deep in America's heartland, played by a group named after a French absurdist play. The debut album by Pere Ubu, The Modern Dance is the realization of group leader David Thomas's (a.k.a. Crocus Behemoth) high-concept vision of a rock band whose sound was always just on the verge of falling apart. Avant garde and not terribly
This album is not just about the southern Italian tarantella dance; it actually proclaims itself as an antidotum Tarantulae, an antidote to the bite of the tarantula. Both the spider (which is not the same animal as the feared tarantula of the southwestern U.S.) and, indirectly, the dance are named for the city of Taranto in southern Italy. La Tarantella presents tarantellas interspersed with other songs of the region, some traditional, others with known composers. The texts of the vocal pieces
Pennywise: Jim (vocals); Fletcher (guitar); Jason (bass); Byron (drums).Recorded at West Beach Recorders, Hollywood, California.Pennywise: Jim (vocals); Fletcher (guitar); Jason (bass guitar); Byron (drums).Named after the evil clown in Stephen King's novel IT, Pennywise debuted on Epitaph Records in 1991 with this fierce 14-song album. Unmistakably influenced by veteran hardcore band Bad Religion (whose guitarist Brett Gurewitz founded Epitaph), the California quartet offers up an assu
From Reznor's textured ambience and scorched earth synths, Williams has crafted harder beats here than on anything he's done before. (It's more focused than anything Reznor's done in recent years, too.) If anything, this feels like the dense, layered steel noise laid down by the Bomb Squad with Public Enemy, updated for the 21st century -- check the constant loop of Chuck D's voice from Welcome to the Terrordome as a rhythmic device on "Tr(n)igger." This is Saul Williams unleashed. The shredded
While they were seriously accomplished experimental musicians in their '60s heyday, Perrey & Kingsley sure could come off like a couple of goofballs. They spent hours of time and miles of tape meticulously crafting space-age mod-pop out of looped tones, blips and bleeps, and their beloved Ondioline--an odd vibrato-producing proto-synth. Yet the often hilarious results belie their arduous creative process.Still, given that the Beastie Boys, Air, Stereolab, and Beck pushed many a unit with nods
Re-release of Pendulum's classic debut album 'Hold Your Colour' on Adam F and Fresh's Breakbeat Kaos. Pendulum have created a hybrid mix of drum 'n' bass, nu-skool breaks and classic rave, and have managed to keep their underground roots while crossing over to the mainstream. The album features the singles 'Slam' and 'Another World'.