WHOA. This is a crazy week for new releases, so let’s get to some highlights! New albums from Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Iceage, Suffocation, Matmos, Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Flea, the Swingin’ Utters, Psychic Ills and Portal. Reissues from the Durutti Column, Cryptopsy, Syl Johnson and Jesus & Mary Chain. Plus the first taste of the collabo between Madlib, Med & Blu, the Bongripper/Hate split LP, a new 7″ from Ill Bill, a reissue of the first Jungle Rot album/demo, vinyl for Oh No’s Disrupted Ads and a split 7″ between Cass McCombs & White Magic. Plus a bunch of other awesome stuff, natch. See you soon!
Jesse Abraham – I Am Water (CD)
Archon – Ouroboros Collapsing (CD)
Atlas Genius – When it was Now (CD)
Beach Fossils – Clash the Truth (CD, LP or super limited LP with silk-screened sleeve & poster)
Black Boned Angel – The End (3×7″)
Black Sunroof! – 4 Black Suns & a Sinister Rainbow (2xCD)
Black Twig Pickers – Rough Carpenters (CD/LP)
Blu, Med & Madlib – The Burgundy (12″ – first glimpse at the upcoming full-length collabo between these three)
Bongripper/Hate – Split (LP)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Push the Sky Away (CD, super-limited 2xCD or LP w/ bonus 7″)
Cryptopsy – None So Vile (CD – reissue)
Cryptopsy – Blasphemy Made Flesh (CD – reissue)
Datsuns – Death Rattle Boogie (2xLP)
Dismember – Where Ironcrosses Grow (CD – 2004 release back in print)
Dobie – We Will Not Harm You (CD/2xLP)
Doldrums – Lesser Evil (CD/LP)
Julie Dorion & the Wooden Stars – S/T (LP – reissue)
Durutti Column – Return of the Durutti Column (CD – reissue)
Durutti Column – LC (CD – reissue)
Eat Skull – III (LP)
Eight Bells – The Captain’s Daughter (CD)
English Boogie – Long Island (CD/2xLP)
Euphoric Defilement – Ascending to the Worms (CD)
Flea – Helen Burns (CD/LP)
Flume – S/T (CD)
Dan Friel – Total Folklore (CD/LP)
Jerry Garcia Band – Garcialive Vol. 1: Capitol Theater (3xCD)
Garbage & the Flowers – Eyes Rind As If Beggars (LP/CD)
Godflesh – Hymns (2xCD – reissue)
Guided By Voices – Flunky Minnows (7″)
Hadez – Guerreros De La Muerte (3xLP boxset)
Howling Hex – Best of Howling Hex (CD/LP)
Iceage – You’re Nothing (CD/LP w/ Iceage flag while supplies last)
Iceage – Ecstasy (7″- limited)
Ill Bill – When I Die b/w When I Die (PETE ROCK remix) (7″ – grey vinyl)
Inc. – No World (CD/LP)
Jesus & Mary Chain – Barbed Wire Kisses (B-Sides & More) (LP – reissue)
Jesus & Mary Chain – Sound of Speed (LP – reissue)
Syl Johnson – Dresses Too Short (LP – reissue on Numero/Twinight)
Syl Johnson – Is It Because I’m Black? (LP – reissue on Numero/Twinight)
Jungle Rot – Skin the Living (CD – reissue of this Midwest death metal classic)
Kiki Pau – Pines (LP – green vinyl)
Mark Kozelek – Live at Phoenix Public House Melbourne (CD)
Mark Kozelek – Like Rats (CD)
Las Robertas – Dissected Affair (7″)
Leech – Tusks (12″)
Left For Dead – Devoid of Everything (LP)
Jens Lekman – I Know What Love Isn’t (7″)
Jamie Lidell – S/T (CD/2xLP)
Lust for Youth – Chasing the Light (12″)
Matmos – The Marriage of True Minds (CD/2xLP)
Maximillion Dunbar – House of Woo (CD/LP)
Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie “Prince” Billy – What the Brothers Sand (CD/LP/cassette)
Cass McCombs/White Magic – Split (7″)
Georgia Anne Muldrow – Akosua b/w In My Heart (7″ –
Hair Police – Mercurial Rites LP
Mello Music 7″ series)
Mudhoney – Story of Mudhoney (DVD)
MV & EE – Fuzzweed (LP w/ CD)
Night Marchers – Allez Allez (LP, now on vinyl!)
Jeffrey Novak – Baron in the Trees (LP)
Obnox – Smoke Woody Haze (12″)
Oh No – Disrupted Ads (2xLP – w/ flexi & etched D-side)
Omar S. – several FXHE titles!
Oxes/Microkingdom – Split (7″ – featuring WILL OLDHAM & SAM HERRING from FUTURE ISLANDS)
Portal – Vexovoid (CD)
Psycho – You Love Us You Hate Us (LP – reissue)
Psychic Ills – One Track Mind (CD/LP)
Pussy – Plays (LP reissue of this psych monster!)
Raven Black Night – Barbarian Winter (CD)
The Relatives – The Electric Word (LP)
Martin Rev – S/T (LP – reissue)
Rumer – Boys Don’t Cry (LP – 180g domestic reissue)
Sadistik – Flowers for my Father (CD)
Shai Hulud – Reach Beyond the Sun (CD/LP)
Shockwave Riderz – S/T (12″)
Shockwave Riderz – 4-song tape (cassette)
The Sound – All Fall Down (CD/LP – reissue)
Suffocation – Pinnacle of Bedlam (regular or deluxe CD – vinyl out in April)
Swingin’ Utters – Poorly Formed (CD/LP)
Swingin’ Utters/Modern Action – Split (7″)
Thergothon – Stream from the Heavens (LP – reissue, doom metal classic!)
Tsjuder – Desert Northern Hell (CD/DVD – reissue)
Voigt & Voigt – Die Zauberhafte Welt Der Anderen CD
Volunteers Park – S/T (7″)
Weekend Nachos – Watch You Suffer (7″)
Wingdale Community Singers – Night, Sleep, Death (LP)
V/A – Disco Love 3 (2xCD/2xLP)
V/A – Latin Noir (CD)
V/A – Son Of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys (CD – crazy compilation with exclusive tracks from Keith Richards, Tom Waits, Michael Stipe, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop and somehow Frank Zappa)