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new releases / august 31 / 2010

Bare, Bobby Jr – A Storm – A Tree – My Mother’s Head
Black Milk – Welcome (12″ – first single from his upcoming album)
Broemel, Carl – All Birds Say
Cephalic Carnage – Misled By Certainty
Charred Walls of the Damned – S/T (LP)
Common – Resurrection (deluxe edition)
Davis, Miles – Bitches Brew (legacy edition)
Devil’s Brigade – S/T (Matt Freeman from RANCID, CD/LP)
Disturbed – Asylum
DNTEL – Dying Songs Mix Parts 1-3 & Bonus Beat
Film School – Fission
Florence & the Machine – Lungs (LP)
Frisell, Bill – Beautiful Dreamers
Goo Goo Dolls – Something for the Rest of Us
Great Lake Swimmers – Lost Channels (LP)
Haack, Bruce – Farad: the Electronic Voice (CD/2xLP)
Heart – Red Velvet Car
Hero Destroyed – Throes
Hives, the – Tarred & Feathered (7″)
Ill Bill & DJ Muggs – Kill Devil Hills
Jenny & Johnny – I’m Having Fun Now (LP in stock – CD’s shipped to our distributor late. We’ll have them ASAP)
KRS-ONE & True Master – Meta-Historical
Madlib – Madlib Medicine Show No. 8: Advanced Jazz
Myth, Sahara – Myth of the Heart
Perry, Lee “Scratch” – Revelation (LP)
Pitch. Richy – Ye Fre Mi Richy Pitch
Raconteurs – Broken Boy Soldiers (LP reissue)
Selway, Philip – Familial (CD/LP)
She & Him – Thieves b/w I Knew it Would Happen This Way (7″)
Smith Westerns – S/T
Sonny & the Sunsets – Tomorrow is Alright
Street Dogs – S/T (CD/LP)
Taylor, Fed – I’m Not a Rapper
Thompson, Richard – Dream Attic
Tub Ring – Secret Handshakes
Weepies, the – Be My Thrill (CD/LP)

DVD
Jane’s Addiction – Live Voodoo
V/A – Best of Soul Train (single DVD & 3xDVD available)

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BILL ORCUTT IN-STORE ANNOUNCED!!!

After more than 10 years of silence, ex-Harry Pussy guitar legend BILL ORCUTT returns to music, playing avant hardcore acoustic blues that sounds unlike anything else. Mr. Orcutt is in Chicago as part of WIRE MAGAZINE’s Adventures in Modern Music Festival. Reckless Records is proud to host this rare in-store performance at 12 NOON on WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8th.

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new releases / august 24 / 2010

!!! – Strange Weather Isn’t It? (CD/LP)
Abe Vigoda – Throwing Shade b/w Vivid (7″)
Antony & the Johnsons – Thank You Your Love (CDEP)
Apocalpytica – 7th Symphony
Bad City – Welcome to the Wasteland
Campbell, Isobel & Mark Lanegan – Hawk
Carey, S – All We Grow (CD/LP)
Cho, Margaret – Cho Dependent (CD/LP)
Collins, Paul – King of Power Pop! (CD/LP)
Cotton Jones – Tall Hours in the Glowstream (CD/LP)
Dead Confederate – Sugar
Eels – Tomorrow Morning
Fitz & the Tantrums – Pickin; up the Pieces (CD/LP)
Goldmund – Famous Places
Grass Widow – Past Time (CD/LP)
Grey, JJ & Mofro – Georgia Warhorse
Hamburger, Neil – Hot February Night (LP)
Ill Blu – Bellion (12″)
Ion Dissonance – Cursed
Kataklysm – Heavens Venom
Land of Talk – Cloak & Cipher (CD/LP)
Laner, Brad – natural Selections (CD/LP)
Magic Kids – Memphis (this will be arriving at our stores ON TUESDAY at some point, sorry!)
Malevolent Creation – Invidious Dominion
Mirah – Gone are all the Days (12″)
Mogwai – Special Moves (CD & DVD)
No Age – Glitter (7″)
No Age – Glitter (12″)
Perry, Katy – Teenage Dream
Ra Ra Riot – Orchard (CD, deluxe CD, LP)
Royal Trux – Cats & Dogs (LP reissue)
Slowdive – Just for a Day (2xCD)
Slowdive – Souvlaki (2xCD)
Sword – Warp Riders (CD/LP)
Tallest Man on Earth – Shallow Grave
Usher – Versus
Vaselines – Sex With an X (7″)
Wildbirds & Peacedrums – Rivers (2xCD)
Zorn, John – Filmworks XXIV

DVD
Electric Light Orchestra – Live: the Early Years
Slayer – Live Intrusion
V/A – Roots of Rap

BOOK
MoonLit #4

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new releases / august 17 / 2010

Antagonist – World In Decline
Arab Strap – Week Never Starts Around Here (2xCD reissue)
Arab Strap – Philophobia (2xCD reissue)
Blitz the Ambassador – Stereotype
Chief – Modern Rituals (CD/LP)
Darker My Love – Alive as you Are (CD/LP)
Exile – AM/FM
Grouch – Three Eyes Off the Time
Haggis Horns w/ Nia Saw – Keep On Movin’
Hawthorne, Mayer – I Need You (one-sided 12″, laser-etching on b-side)
Hoover – The Lurid Traversal of Route 7 (LP reissue, remastered, green vinyl)
Ignition – The Orafying Mysticle Of . . . (LP reissue, remastered)
Iron Maiden – Final Frontier (regular CD & deluxe)
Kem – Intimacy: Album III
Lamontagne, Ray & the Pariah Dogs – God Willin’ & the Creek Don’t Rise (CD/LP)
Leonhart, Michael – The Seahorse & the Storyteller (LP)
Lissie – Catching a Tiger
McCormick, Megan – Honest Words
Miller, Lloyd & the Heliocentrics – S/T (CD/LP)
Ministry – Mixxxes of the Mole
NOFX – Longest EP (CD/2xLP)
Numaads – Now EP (12″)
PackFM – I Fucking Hate Rappers
Parton, Dolly – Fairest of Them All
Slayer – War at the Warfield (DVD)
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin – Let It Sway (CD/LP)
Superchunk – No Pocky For Kitty (CD/LP reissue, remastered)
Superchunk – On the Mouth (CD/LP reissue, remastered)
Touch, Tony – Guru Tribute Mix (CD-R)
Wilson, Brian – Reimagines Gershwin

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new releases / august 10 / 2010

Hey! Here’s a bunch of new stuff! All on CD unless otherwise noted . . .

Abscess/Population Reduction – Split (LP)
Bauhaus – . . . And Remains
Beachcomber Trio – Live at Khaki: Columbus, 1965 (LP)
Bonded By Blood – Exiled to Earth
Budos Band – Budos Band III (CD/LP)
Colour Revolt – Cradle
Elsinore – Yes Yes Yes
F-Bombers – Sick of it All b/w Made of Gold (ex Lower Class Brats, 7″)
Forensics – Things to do When you Should be Dead Anyway (LP reissue)
Gehenna/California Love – Split (7″)
Ikonika – Edits EP (new on Hyperdub, 12″)
Integrity – We Are the End (one-sided 7″)
Killah Priest – 3 Day Theroy
King Midas Sound – Waiting For You (2xLP)
Land of Talk – Swift Coin (7″)
Lost in the Trees – All Alone in an Empty House (CD/LP)
Modest Mouse – Moon & Antarctica (10th anniversary reissue)
Numan, Gary – 1979 Live Tapes
Perry, Lee “Scratch” – Revelation
PVT (Pivot) – Church With No Magic (CD/LP)
Reed, Eli Paperboy – Coem & Get It
Spencer, Jon Blues Explosion – Year One
Spencer, Jon Blues Explosion – Extra Width (2xCD reissue)
Stornoway – Beachcomber’s Windowsill (CD/LP)
Street Sweeper Social Club – Ghetto Blaster EP (CD/10″)
Thermals – I Don’t Believe You (7″)
This Will Destroy You – Moving on the Edges of Things (2-song picture disc LP)
Thou/The City is the Tower – Split (LP)
Thou/Moloch – Tears That Soak a Callous Heart (split LP)
Wild Beasts – We Still Got the Taste Dancin’ (10″)
V/A – Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (soundtrack)

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new releases / july 27 /2010

Avenged Sevenfold – Nightmare
Best Coast – Crazy For You (CD/LP)
Bolan, Marc – The Electric Boogie Volume One (LP)
Bombay Bicycle Club – I Had the Blues but I Shook Them Loose
Clubfeet – Gold On Gold
Cold Pumas – Beat Mystery b/w Party Drip
Conan – Horseback Battle Hammer
Cruel Hand – Lock & Key
Curren$y – Pilot Talk
Cut Chemist – Sound of the Police (CD/LP)
Decrepit Birth – Polarity
Eminem – Recovery (2xLP)
Gaslamp Killer – Akuma No Chi Ga Odoru
Hospital Ships – Carry On b/w Bird In Furs (7″)
Jackson, Shawn – Brand New Old Me
Jones, Tom – Praise & Blame
Jorge, Seu & Almaz – S/T
La Gritona – Demasiado Tonto Para Los Ninos Listos (2xCD discography)
Major Lazer – Lazers Never Die CDEP
Menomena – Mines (CD/2xLP)
Menomena – Double Seven Inch (2×7″ – duh)
Miniature Tigers – Fortress (CD/LP)
Night Beats – H-Bomb EP (7″)
Madlib – Medicine Show No. 7: High Jazz (CD/3xLP – 2xLP delayed).
Menace Ruine – Union of Irreconcilables
Olson, Mark – Many Colored Kite (CD/LP)
Slum Village – Villa Manifesto (full-length CD)
Slum Village – Villa Manifesto EP (six-song 12″)
Sticks N Stones – Is It You? b/w Telling the Truth (7″)
Super Chron Flight Brothers – Cape Verde
Tropical Sleep – (Hadita) Girl With a Diamond Tooth b/w Bury My Body (7″)
V/A – Far Out Spaced Oddyssey (2xCD)
V/A – Tres Presents: Seis, Mixed by DJ Lowkey

DVD
Altamont Now
Skateboard: the Movie That Defies Gravity
Specials, the – 30th Anniversary Tour

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new releases / july 13 / 2010

Adicts – Life Goes On
Angel Eyes – Midwestern
Big L – Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous (2xLP reissue – official)
Bitters – East General (LP)
Brotzmann, Peter Chicago Tentet +1 – 3 Nights in Oslo (5xCD)
Carissa’s Wierd – They’ll Only Miss You When You Leave: Songs 1996-2003
Carolina Chocolate Drops – Genuine Negro Jig (LP)
Crowded House – Intriguer
Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse – Dark Night of the Soul
Deep Purple – Made In Japan (LP)
Denny. Sandy & the Strawbs – All Our Own Work
Dunes – S/T (LP)
Flowers of Hell – Come Hell or High Water (LP)
Korn – III: Remember Who You Are
Lantlos – Neon
Love Language – Libraries
MIA – Maya (regular & deluxe)
Mummies – Never Been Caught
Mystery Jets – Seratonin (CD/LP)
Nattsol – Sternning
Norma Jean – Meridional
Panda Bear – Tomboy (7″)
Pumice – Pebbles (cassette)
Pumice – Quo (cassette)
Radio Birdman – Radios Appear (LP reissue)
Reflection Eternal (Talib Kweli & Hi-Tek) – Revolutions Per Minute (LP)
REM – Fables of the Reconstruct (2xCD anniversary edition)
School of Seven Bells – Disconnect From Desire
Soilwork – The Panic Broadcast (CD/DVD)
Sun Dial – Reflector (2xCD reissue)
Superchunk – Diggin for Something (7″)
Tangerine Dream – Phaedra Revisited: 35th Anniversary Edition
Velvet Davenport – Get Out b/w Run (7″)
Wall, Paul – Heart of a Champion
V/A – Unheard Ofs & Forgotten Abouts: Rare & Unheralded Gramophone Recordings From Around the World (1916-1964)

BOOK:
How to Wreck a Nice Beach: the Vocoder From World War II to Hip-Hop

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new releases / june 29 / 2010

3 Inches of Blood – Here Waits thy Doom
AG – Everything’s Berri
Africa Hitech – Hitecherous EP (LP)
Blacc, Aloe – Femme Fatale (7″)
Candlemass – Ashes to Ashes
Cap’n Jazz – Analphabetolothology (LP)
Case, Peter – Wig! (CD/LP)
Ceschi – One Man Band Broke Up (CD/LP)
Chief – Night & Day (10″)
Cocteau Twins – Treasure (LP reissue)
Crystal Castles – S/T (2010 LP)
Delphic – Acolyte CD/LP)
Dojo Cuts – You Make Lovin’ Real Easy (7″)
Dream, the – Love King
Dwele – Wants World Women (WWW)
Enright, Brock & Kirsten Deirup – Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never . . . (LP/DVD)
Escovedo, Alejandro – Street Songs of Love
Eternia & Moss – At Last
Forecast, the – In the Shadows of two Gunmen
Franklin, Adam & Bolts of Melody – I Could Sleep for a Thousand Years (CD/LP)
Herbaliser – Herbal Tonic
Hey Marseilles – To Travels & Trunks
Hirax – Noise Chaos War
Homeboy Sandman – Good Sun (LP)
Knut – Wonder
Kutmasta Kurt – Funky Redneck Visits Nippon (LP)
Maps & Atlases – Perch Patchwork
Marco Polo – Stupendous Adventures of Marco Polo! (CD/LP)
Pernice Brothers – Goodbye, Killer
Petty, Tom & the Heartbreakers – Mojo (LP)
Rush – Beyond the Lighted Stage (LP)
Scissor Sisters – Night Work
Severe Torture – Slaughtered
Spitalfield – Remember Right Now (LP)
To Rocco Rot – Speculation (CD/LP)
Vinnie Paz – Season of the Assassin (LP)
Wildbirds Peacedrums – Iris (12″)
Witchery – Witchkrieg
XTC – Apple Venus Box Set (7″ box set)
Young, Pegi – Foul Deeds

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Record Store Day in-stores announced!

Join us for the insanity on Record Store Day (April 17th). We have lots of live music planned, a little something for everybody. Please note that these times are approximate & may experience subtle changes. See you on Saturday, April 17th.

BROADWAY (3126 N. Broadway)
POISON ARROWS 1PM
GRAVEYARD TRAIN (Creedence cover band!) 2pm
HEAD OF SKULLS 3PM
REGRESS 4PM

LOOP (26 E. Madison)
LOVE OF EVERYTHING 1PM
PLAGUE BRINGER 2PM
SWEET COBRA 3PM

WICKER PARK (1532 N. Milwaukee)
PHIL COHRAN 12:30PM
THE ETERNALS 2PM
PNS from MOLEMEN 3PM
LIAM HAYES & PLUSH 4PM
AZITA 5PM
Rock n’ roll caricatures by Steve Krakow aka Plastic Crimewave (12-5)

RECKLESS djs will be playing records at the HIDEOUT from 11:30 til 3:00