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VA – Monterey International Pop Festival (June 16·17·18·1967) [1992] [2013, Reissue, Box Set, 4CD]

VA - Monterey International Pop Festival (June 16·17·18·1967) [1992] [2013, Reissue, Box Set, 4CD]

A sumptuous, four-CD box set with all the deluxe trimmings celebrating the grandaddy of all outdoor rock concerts. With legendary performances by Otis Redding, the Who, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Byrds, and Paul Butterfield all taken from the mobile-unit multi-track masters (not to mention an album-sized booklet that’ll knock your eyes out) Continue reading “VA – Monterey International Pop Festival (June 16·17·18·1967) [1992] [2013, Reissue, Box Set, 4CD]”

Mark Knopfler’s Guitar Heroes – Going Home (Theme From Local Hero) [2024]

Mark Knopfler's Guitar Heroes - Going Home (Theme From Local Hero) [2024]

Mark Knopfler’s Guitar Heroes – Going Home (Theme From Local Hero) [2024]
EAC Rip | FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 278 MB
Label: BMG | Cat#: BMGCAT837CDS | Genre: Pop Rock
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Lenny Kravitz – Blue Electric Light (2024)

Lenny Kravitz - Blue Electric Light (2024)

Lenny Kravitz – Blue Electric Light (2024)
EAC Rip | FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 407 MB
Label: Roxie Records | Cat#: 538939212 | Genre: Pop Rock, Soul

Partway through “It’s Just Another Fine Day (In This Universe of Love),” the opening track of Blue Electric Light, Lenny Kravitz starts singing “lockdown!” — an unmistakable allusion to the limbo of the COVID-19 pandemic. This timely reference dates Blue Electric Light in a way the music painstakingly avoids. Continue reading “Lenny Kravitz – Blue Electric Light (2024)”

Sia – Reasonable Woman (2024) [Japanese Edition]

Sia - Reasonable Woman (2024) [Japanese Edition]

This is more like it. After a period of diminishing returns via one-off soundtrack contributions and her misunderstood Music soundtrack, Sia returns in a huge way with the triumphant comeback Reasonable Woman. Her first proper solo set since 2016, the album features all the sonic hallmarks for those fans who have been pining for that particular “Sia sound” that propelled her beyond the indie-sphere to the top of the charts. Continue reading “Sia – Reasonable Woman (2024) [Japanese Edition]”

Lana Del Rey – Honeymoon (2015) [Japanese Edition]

Lana Del Rey - Honeymoon (2015) [Japanese Edition]

Call Honeymoon the third installment in a trilogy if you will but there’s no indication Lana Del Rey will put her doomed diva persona to rest after this album. Over the course of three albums, Lana Del Rey hasn’t so much expanded her delicately sculpted persona as she has refined it, removing anything extraneous to her exquisite ennui. Continue reading “Lana Del Rey – Honeymoon (2015) [Japanese Edition]”

Lana Del Rey – Born To Die (The Paradise Edition) [2012] [Japanese Edition]

Lana Del Rey - Born To Die (The Paradise Edition) [2012] [Japanese Edition]

Lana Del Rey is a femme fatale with a smoky voice, a languorous image, and a modeling contract. Not coincidentally, she didn’t lack for attention leading up to the release of her Interscope debut, Born to Die. The hype began in mid-2011 with a stunning song and video for “Video Games,” and it kept on rising, right up to her January 2012 performance on Saturday Night Live (making her the first artist since Natalie Imbruglia in 1998 to perform on SNL without an album available). Continue reading “Lana Del Rey – Born To Die (The Paradise Edition) [2012] [Japanese Edition]”

Lana Del Rey – Lust For Life (2017) [Japanese Edition]

Lana Del Rey - Lust For Life (2017) [Japanese Edition]

Lana Del Rey knows perfectly well her Lust for Life sounds sleepy in comparison to Iggy Pop’s full-blooded roar, but that doesn’t mean the title of her fourth album is ironic. Compared to her previous albums, especially its somnolent 2015 predecessor, Honeymoon, Lust for Life is positively ebullient in tone, if not in tempo. Continue reading “Lana Del Rey – Lust For Life (2017) [Japanese Edition]”

Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019) [Japanese Edition]

Lana Del Rey - Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019) [Japanese Edition]

With the creation of her Lana Del Rey persona, singer/songwriter Lizzy Grant stitched together the iconography of a fading American dream with soaring but melancholic pop songwriting, becoming an icon unto herself in the process. Her distinctive approach blurred sadness and longing just as it did past and present, drawing on the influence of classic American pop Continue reading “Lana Del Rey – Norman Fucking Rockwell! (2019) [Japanese Edition]”

Lana Del Rey – Chemtrails Over The Country Club (2021) [Japanese Edition]

Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over The Country Club (2021) [Japanese Edition]

Lana Del Rey’s 2019 album Norman Fucking Rockwell! represented a new level of artistry, as the singer moved further from the disaffected Hollywood starlet persona of her early recordings into something more restrained, subtle, and mature. Continue reading “Lana Del Rey – Chemtrails Over The Country Club (2021) [Japanese Edition]”

Lana Del Rey – Blue Banisters (2021) [Japanese Edition]

Lana Del Rey - Blue Banisters (2021) [Japanese Edition]

If Lana Del Rey’s 2021 album Chemtrails Over the Country Club felt like the atmospheric post-script to her 2019 master statement Norman Fucking Rockwell!, Blue Banisters comes off like the addendum to the post-script. Released just seventh months after its predecessor, Blue Banisters isn’t too far removed from the midtempo, woozy tones that defined that album. Continue reading “Lana Del Rey – Blue Banisters (2021) [Japanese Edition]”

Kerry King – From Hell I Rise (2024)

Kerry King - From Hell I Rise (2024)

Billie Eilish – When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019) [Japanese Edition]

Billie Eilish - When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019) [Japanese Edition]

On her big-league debut, Billie Eilish makes a bold entrance into the mainstream, leaving the fringes behind to embrace her role as an anti-pop star for the disaffected Gen Z masses. With a youthful, hybrid blend that incorporates elements of indie electronic, pop, and hip-hop (assisted by brother Finneas O’Connell), When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? captures the late-2010s zeitgeist by throwing conventional boundaries to the wind and fully committing to its genre-blurring self. Continue reading “Billie Eilish – When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? (2019) [Japanese Edition]”

Billie Eilish – Happier Than Ever (2021) [Japanese Edition]

Billie Eilish - Happier Than Ever (2021) [Japanese Edition]

A subtle triumph in the face of overwhelming pressure and expectations, Happier Than Ever is the sound of an artist coming into their own. Without losing any of the experimental, genre-blurring spirit of her Grammy-conquering debut, Billie Eilish elevates her trademark sound and expands her scope with the assistance of her producer-brother Finneas. Continue reading “Billie Eilish – Happier Than Ever (2021) [Japanese Edition]”

Mark Knopfler – One Deep River (2024) [Deluxe Edition]

Mark Knopfler - One Deep River (2024) [Deluxe Edition]

U.K. journeyman Mark Knopfler returns after a six-year gap with 2024’s One Deep River, his tenth solo record. Since retiring Dire Straits in the mid-’90s, his output as a singer/songwriter has remained remarkably consistent and uniquely his own. Continue reading “Mark Knopfler – One Deep River (2024) [Deluxe Edition]”

Pet Shop Boys – Nonetheless (2024) [Special Edition]

Pet Shop Boys - Nonetheless (2024) [Special Edition]

Pet Shop Boys – Nonetheless (2024) [Special Edition]
EAC Rip | 2xCD | FLAC Tracks + Cue + Log | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 462 MB
Label: Parlophone | EU | Cat#: 5054197903649 | Genre: Synth-Pop, Pop

Pet Shop Boys release their brand new studio album ‘Nonetheless’ on Parlophone Records on April 26. The album is the duo’s first with producer James Ford, who has previously worked with artists including Arctic Monkeys, Depeche Mode, Blur, Gorillaz and Simian Mobile Disco. Continue reading “Pet Shop Boys – Nonetheless (2024) [Special Edition]”