Encore Records

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 !!

Heart

Red Velvet Car

2010 album from the veteran Rock band led by sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson, their first album in six years.

Red Velvet Car takes generations of Heart fans on what truly feels like the musical ride of a lifetime. Powerfully produced by Ben Mink, Red Velvet Car is a thoroughly electrifying song cycle of largely acoustic-based sound and a stunning album with a true and renewed sense of purpose.

Ann and Nancy committed themselves to writing and recording an album that was as authentic as possible, culling from their own personal experiences and some universal themes. The result on Red Velvet Car is an album of breathtaking intimacy and honesty.

Luke Doucet

Steel City Trawler

On Steel City Trawler, Luke approaches his favourite topics - geography, love and the existential labyrinths of human understanding - with a classic rock ethos and a producer, Andrew Scott (Sloan), at the helm.

The creative partnership was a gamble for both, but Steel City Trawler emerged as a cleverly assembled balance of Luke’s observation-driven commentaries on place, family and personal belief with the ABC’s of rock and roll.

Eels

Tomorrow Morning

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any darker for Mark Oliver Everett (aka E)...it doesn’t.

On the third Eels album in 14 months, Everett completes a trilogy that began with the rockist Hombre Lobo in June of 2009, which addressed the ravenous hunger and cost of desire.

In January 2010, End Times detailed in a low-key and acoustic manner, often in sometimes embarrassingly intimate terms, the shattering toll of a broken relationship.

Tomorrow Morning emerges on the other side of both.

This 14-song collection meditates on E’s own eccentric brand of optimism. The tunes carry his requisite catchy melodies, hooks, and compelling arrangements, but the textures are different from anything he’s released before because most of it is electronic and programmed (though his guitar, Koool G Murder’s bass and keys, and Knuckles’ drums are present, too).

Jenny and Johnny

I’m Having Fun Now

Jenny and Johnny first started working together in Los Angeles in 2005, after being introduced by Conor Oberst.

The exuberance of love songs like ‘Scissor Runner’ mask some of the record’s darkness, with Lewis chronicling the economic demise of her beloved California in ‘Big Wave’, Rice’s haunting vocal on ‘Animal’, and both songwriters raising a middle-finger kiss off in the acerbic ‘My Pet Snakes’.

The overall result is genuine and original pop music for ‘Right Now’. This is not a Rilo Kiley record, a Jenny Lewis record, or a Johnathan Rice record. This is Jenny and Johnny

Richard Thompson

Dream Attic

Penned during a short and inspired burst of creative outpouring, the songs were performed during a West Coast tour in February of this year, and the bulk of the performances that made the album come from three shows at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco.

“I don’t think musicians playing on their own are particularly interesting, it’s only when they play in front of an audience that something interesting happens,” Thompson said in an interview at one of the shows.

The musicians appearing on the album with Thompson are Pete Zorn (guitars, flute, sax, mandolin), Michael Jerome (drums), Taras Prodaniuk (bass), and Joel Zifkin (violin, mandolin).

Bachman & Turner

S/T

New album from 2/3 of legendary rock band B.T.O.

Their first album of new material in decades !!

Ill Bill vs DJ Muggs

Kill Devil Hills

DJ Muggs is one of the industry’s most talented and best known producers.

Since Cypress Hill’s formation in 1991, the pioneering Rap-Rock quartet has come a long way from the streets of South Central Los Angeles.

Ill Bill was a founding member of Non Phixion who released their seminal debut, The Future Is Now, in 2002 and has also released two influential solo LPs.

Kill Devil Hills features appearances from B-Real, Raekwon, Sean Price, Everlast, Slaine, Chace Infinite, O.C., Q-Unique, Vinnie Paz and Sick Jaken.