Encore Records

Ryan Bingham

Junky Star

All 12 songs on Junky Star were written by Bingham and performed by his longtime band The Dead Horses, featuring Matt Smith (drums), Elijah Ford (bass) and Corby Shaub (guitar/mandolin).

Burnett created a recording environment that perfectly complimented the themes and textures of Bingham’s reflective songwriting and gravelly voice.

The tracks on Junky Star range from narratives with vivid imagery (“The Poet”), to introspective confessionals (“Hallelujah”), to bluesy roadhouse stomps (“Direction Of The Wind”) to Sticky Fingers-era Stones (“Depression”). “Yesterday’s Blues” and “Lay My Head On The Rail” showcase Bingham’s gift for writing compelling folk balladry that makes you hang on his every word.

Megadeth

Rust In Peace - Live !

In March of 2010, Megadeth hit the road in celebration of the 20th Anniversary of their classic 1990 album Rust In Peace.

The show was filmed and recorded on the last night of the tour at the legendary Hollywood Palladium, not far from where Megadeth was formed in 1983.

The band played Rust In Peace in its entirety, including all-time classics ‘Holy Wars’, ‘The Punishment Due’ and ‘Hangar 18’. The set list also featured several other fan favorites and Megadeth classics.

Interpol

S/T

On their fourth and self-titled full-length, Interpol return to Matador, the label that released their first two albums.
It is their last album to feature bassist Carlos Dengler, whose departure was announced in May. Mixed by Alan Moulder (Depeche Mode, Smashing Pumpkins, the Killers), there s a greater emphasis on the rhythm section, which carries the band through a set of dark, thematically connected songs.

The Groundhogs

Thank Christ For The Groundhogs: The Liberty Years

2010 three CD set that contains their first five albums for Liberty Records (1968-72) plus bonus tracks. With a career that spans an impressive five decades, the Groundhogs are a veritable British Blues-Rock institution. With a line-up cemented around Peter Cruickshank on bass guitar, Ken Pustelnik on drums and fronted by singer, guitarist and principle songwriter Tony (T.S.) McPhee, this bluesy power trio were joined by harmonica toting Steve Rye for their full length debut, Scratching The Surface released on Liberty Records in 1968. With a reputation hard won by their incessant touring schedule, the band recorded Blues Obituary as a three piece in 1969, followed by Thanks Christ For The Bomb (1970), then hitting #5 with their most successful record, Split, in 1971 and rounded off by the fabulously titled Who Will Save The World? The Mighty Groundhogs (1972).

Ten Years After

Think About the Times: The Chrysalis Years

2010 three CD release featuring albums plus rare tracks all recorded during their time on Chrysalis Records. Their fourth album, Ssssh., issued in August 1969, coincided with their breakthrough appearance at the Woodstock festival, a definite highlight of the subsequent film and LP of that show. Fifth album Cricklewood Green, issued in April 1970, featured their biggest UK chart hit with ‘Love Like A Man’. 1971’s A Space In Time showed a change in direction, no doubt inspired by the more acoustic sounds prevalent in the States at the time. As well as producing their biggest Stateside hit with ‘I’d Love To Change the World’, this set is completed by Rock & Roll Music to the World from 1972, a classic mix of the blues and rock ‘n’ roll that made the band such a successful live draw, with lead guitarist Alvin Lee hailed as one of the fastest players in the world. This set also includes rare b-sides and single edits, appearing on CD for the first time.

Robin Trower

Tale Untold : The Chrysalis Years

2010 three CD collection containing his five Chrysalis albums between 1973 -1976 plus bonus tracks (b-sides, outtakes, edits and previously unreleased tracks). Robin Trower initially found fame in the late 1960s as the guitarist with Procol Harum before embarking on a solo career in 1973. The Chrysalis Years 1973-1976 is augmented by the rare b-side, ‘Take A Fast Train’, single edits of ‘Day of The Eagle’, and ‘Long Misty Days’, previously unavailable on CD, and finishes with the previously unreleased ‘Let Me Be The One’, a rare outtake from Long Misty Days.

Great Lake Swimmers

Lost Channels

U.S. only deluxe vinyl LP edition includes a bonus seven-inch single plus a download code for the entire album. Lost Channels is the fourth album by the masters of ‘Ambient Zen Americana’, Great Lake Swimmers. Often compared to the likes of Nick Drake, Iron and Wine, Red House Painters and ‘After the Gold Rush’-era Neil Young, the new album by Tony Dekker and Co. nods occasionally in the more commercial direction of R.E.M. while simultaneously continuing to deliver the ‘starkly evocative and melodically melancholic’ (Paste magazine) brand of Folk Rock for which his band are renowned. Sony. 2010.

Boris & Ian Astbury

Bxi

A collaboration between Japanese Doom/Sludge Rock trio Boris and British vocalist Ian Astbury, frontman for Alt-Rock band The Cult.

Astbury’s iconic Rock vocals are a perfect match for Boris’ straightforward and laid back but still raw and imaginative songwriting.

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The Best Of Soul Train Volume 1

The Best of Soul Train featuring 18 superstar performances from the Soul Train archives, many of which haven’t been seen in over 30 years, including exclusive performances by The Isley Brothers, Marvin Gaye, The O’Jays, Barry White, Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight & the Pips and more.

Specials

30th Anniversary Tour

Reunion gig filmed in the UK in late 2009.

Brilliant performance and setlist !!