Alternative Rock Archives - Page 13 of 16

Wilco – Ode to Joy (2019)

Wilco - Ode to Joy (2019)

Ode to Joy – the 11th studio album from the pioneering Chicago rock band Wilco – will be released Oct. 4 via dBpm Records. The album features 11 new songs written and produced by Jeff Tweedy and recorded by Wilco at the bands’ own Chicago studio dubbed The Loft.
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Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – Ghosteen (2019) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Ghosteen (2019) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – Ghosteen (2019) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res]
[Official Digital Release]
Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Total Size: 379 MB (CD-Quality) + 1.38 GB (Hi-Res) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Ghosteen Ltd | Genre: Alternative Rock

Ghosteen is the new two part album from Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds. Ghosteen is the seventeenth studio album from Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, following 2016’s Skeleton Tree. The album was recorded in 2018 and early 2019 at Woodshed in Malibu, Nightbird in Los Angeles, Retreat in Brighton and Candybomber in Berlin. It was mixed by Nick Cave, Warren Ellis, Lance Powell and Andrew Dominik at Conway in Los Angeles.’The songs on the first album are the children. The songs on the second album are their parents. Ghosteen is migrating spirit.’ Nick Cave. Continue reading “Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds – Ghosteen (2019) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]”

Pearl Jam – Twenty (2011) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Pearl Jam - Twenty (2011) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]

Pearl Jam – Twenty (2011) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]
Vinyl Rip | Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 192kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Full Scans Included
Total Size: 5.50 GB (Hi-Res) + 1.51 GB (CD-Quality) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Monkeywrench Records | USA | Cat#: 886979603516 | Genre: Alternative Rock

To celebrate their 20th anniversary — marked from the release of Ten, not their formation — Pearl Jam launched a multimedia project called Pearl Jam Twenty, spearheaded by a Cameron Crowe-directed documentary to which this double-disc set provides the nominal soundtrack, both supplemented by a memorabilia-laden coffeetable book. It’s a project not dissimilar to The Beatles Anthology and, appropriately enough, the PJ20 soundtrack is a weird hodgepodge of demos, alternate tracks, outtakes, and live cuts all culled together under a title that suggests it has broader appeal than it does. Continue reading “Pearl Jam – Twenty (2011) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res Vinyl Rip]”

Soul Asylum – Black Gold: The Best Of Soul Asylum (2000)

Soul Asylum - Black Gold: The Best Of Soul Asylum (2000)

Unusually, for a best-of by a band that started indie and didn’t become stars until hooking up with a major, Black Gold: The Best of Soul Asylum spans their entire pre-2000 career, starting with a 1985 track from their second LP. Naturally, their output on the major label that issued this compilation, Columbia, is emphasized; there are just four songs from the Twin/Tone era, and nothing at all from their 1984 debut, Say What You Will Clarence…Karl Sold the Truck. Continue reading “Soul Asylum – Black Gold: The Best Of Soul Asylum (2000)”

Pixies – Beneath the Eyrie (2019) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Pixies - Beneath the Eyrie (2019) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Pixies – Beneath the Eyrie (2019) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res]
[Official Digital Release]
Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz | CD-Quality / FLAC Tracks / 16bit / 44.1kHz
Total Size: 262 MB (CD-Quality) + 825 MB (Hi-Res) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Infectious Music | Genre: Alternative Rock

Beneath the Eyrie is the seventh album from American alternative rock band Pixies, released on September 13, 2019 by BMG/Infectious. Produced by Tom Dalgety, and preceded by the singles, “On Graveyard Hill” and “Catfish Kate”, the album was recorded in a remote, converted church in upstate New York. The band were influenced by their Gothic surroundings during the writing and recording process, with vocalist and guitarist Black Francis stating: “I wanted to intermingle with the spirit world, with life and death and with the mystical and a more surreal landscape.” Continue reading “Pixies – Beneath the Eyrie (2019) [CD-Quality + Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]”

Various Artists – The Best…Anthems…Ever! (1997)

Various Artists - The Best...Anthems...Ever! (1997)

The Wallflowers – The Wallflowers (1992)

The Wallflowers - The Wallflowers (1992)

The Wallflowers is The Wallflowers’ self-titled debut album, released on August 24, 1992 on Virgin Records. The song “Ashes to Ashes” was released as a single from the album a week before the album’s release.
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The Wallflowers – Bringing Down The Horse (1996)

The Wallflowers - Bringing Down The Horse (1996)

No sophomore jinx here. Of course, there are only two Wallflowers left from their first release, so this could be called a whole new band. No matter, because the music here is assured and contemporary with just enough of the past showing through to catch one’s eye. Jakob Dylan has been polishing his compositional chops and it really shows on such cuts as “Invisible City,” the hit “6th Avenue Heartache” and especially “One Headlight.” A fine effort indeed. Continue reading “The Wallflowers – Bringing Down The Horse (1996)”

Morrissey – California Son (2019) [Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Morrissey - California Son (2019) [Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Morrissey – California Son (2019) [Hi-Res]
[Official Digital Release]
Hi-Res / FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 96kHz
Total Size: 877 MB
Label: BMG Rights Management | Genre: Alternative Rock & Indie

Ever since the Smiths cut Twinkle’s 1965 obscurity “Golden Lights” in 1986, Morrissey has exhibited a knack for curious covers. Usually, he saved other people’s songs for the stage, sometimes sneaking a tune onto a B-side, but he never dedicated himself to covering his favorite tunes until 2019’s California Son. Continue reading “Morrissey – California Son (2019) [Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]”

Papa Roach – F.E.A.R. (2015) [Japanese SHM-CD Edition]

Papa Roach - F.E.A.R. (2015) [Japanese SHM-CD Edition]

The ninth studio album from California’s Papa Roach, 2015’s F.E.A.R. finds the journeyman hard rock outfit delivering more of its bombastic, high-energy sound. F.E.A.R. was produced by Kevin Churko (Ozzy Osbourne, Five Finger Death Punch) with assistance from his son Kane Churko, and the album’s title is an acronym that stands for “Face Everything And Rise.” The dark, aggressive irony behind this sentiment remains Continue reading “Papa Roach – F.E.A.R. (2015) [Japanese SHM-CD Edition]”

Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool (2016) [Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Radiohead - A Moon Shaped Pool (2016) [Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool (2016) [Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]
Hi-Res | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 48kHz
Total Size: 611 MB
Label: XL Recordings | Genre: Alternative Rock, Indie

A cursory glance at A Moon Shaped Pool may suggest a certain measure of indifference on the part of Radiohead. Its 11 songs are sequenced in alphabetical order—a stunt befitting a Pixies concert or perhaps a Frank Black box set, not a proper album—and many of these tunes are of an older vintage: the group began work on the opener “Burn The Witch” at the turn of the century, while the closing “True Love Waits” first appeared in concerts way back in 1995. Continue reading “Radiohead – A Moon Shaped Pool (2016) [Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]”

The Cranberries – In The End (2019) [Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

The Cranberries - In The End (2019) [Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]

The Cranberries – In The End (2019) [Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]
Hi-Res | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 44.1kHz
Total Size: 512 MB | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: BMG | Genre: Alternative Rock

In the End is the eighth and final studio album by the Irish alternative rock band The Cranberries, released on 26 April 2019 from BMG. It is the band’s first release since the death of singer Dolores O’Riordan, who died of drowning due to alcohol intoxication on 15 January 2018, though her vocals are featured posthumously. The surviving instrumentalists pieced together her demos with in-studio recordings over the course of the subsequent year and worked with long-time producer Stephen Street to finalize the album. Critical reception has been positive. Continue reading “The Cranberries – In The End (2019) [Hi-Res] [Official Digital Release]”

Beck – Discography (1993 – 2014)

Beck - Discography (1993 - 2014)

Initially pegged as the voice of a generation when “Loser” turned into a smash crossover success, Beck wound up crystallizing much of the postmodern ruckus inherent in the ’90s alternative explosion, but in unexpected ways. Based in the underground anti-folk and noise-rock worlds, Beck encompassed all manner of modern music, drawing in hip-hop, blues, trash rock, pop, soul, lounge music — pretty much any found sound or vinyl dug up from a dusty crate — blurring boundaries and encapsulating how ’90s hipsters looked toward the future by foraging through the past. Continue reading “Beck – Discography (1993 – 2014)”

Suede – The Albums Collection (2014) [8CD Box Set]

Suede - The Albums Collection (2014) [8CD Box Set]

A box containing the core Suede albums replicated in cardboard sleeves, the 2014 set contains the following records: Suede, Dog Man Star, Coming Up, Head Music, A New Morning, the 2013 reunion Bloodsports, and the B-sides collection Sci-Fi Lullabies. Continue reading “Suede – The Albums Collection (2014) [8CD Box Set]”

Matthew Sweet – 100% Fun (1995) {2018, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Matthew Sweet - 100% Fun (1995) {2018, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip}

Matthew Sweet – 100% Fun (1995) {2018, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip}
SACD Rip | ISO / DSD / 1bit / 2.8224MHz | FLAC Tracks / 24bit / 88.2kHz
Hybrid SACD | Full Scans Included
Total Size: 2.58 GB (ISO) + 1.24 GB (FLAC) | 3% RAR Recovery
Label: Intervention Records | USA | Cat#: 19075841342 | Genre: Alternative Rock

Clocking in at 45 minutes, Matthew Sweet’s third record of guitar-dominated, hook-laden power pop runs through its 12 songs at a classic speed, piling up songs that lovingly conform to the three-minute pop tradition. Richard Lloyd’s gnarled guitars save Sweet’s melodies and harmonies from being saccharine or sappy. Continue reading “Matthew Sweet – 100% Fun (1995) {2018, Reissue, Hi-Res SACD Rip}”