Deacon Blue, Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes, Jeffrey Lewis, Tumblack, Japanese Breakfast & More + Kings & Bears to play live on RSD25 and Morning Star Music Club from Paris live in Louth Good Friday

A taster of what's new in store this week...

Deacon Blue release a brand new studio album. 2025 marks 40 years since Ricky Ross met Dougie Vipond and they started to form Deacon Blue. The Great Western Road  is "just the next part of the adventure and it’s as exciting now as it was back in 1988”.

Vinyl and CD are versions available

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70s disco funk/trad Guadeloupian band Tumblack's self titled album gets a reissue - 'A massive speaker-smashing reissue, decades overdue. It's been bootlegged - shamefully so, many times over the years - but finally Be With present the first ever officially licensed reissue of this truly special Afro-disco-not-disco LP from 1979.'

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of one of rock music’s most legendary live collaborations, newly announced Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees The Black Crowes and global rock icon Jimmy Page announce the re-release of their iconic live album, Jimmy Page and The Black Crowes: Live at the Greek. Recorded during unforgettable nights of rock and roll in October 1999 at Los Angeles’ Greek Theatre and Jones Beach in August 1999, this album features powerful renditions of Led Zeppelin classics and The Black Crowes’ staple blues-rock jams.

The 36-track anniversary album on vinyl in stock

'The Even More Freewheelin’ Jeffrey Lewis was recorded in just four days in Nashville, by Roger Moutenot (long-time producer of Yo La Tengo, and the previous Jeffrey Lewis album Bad Wiring), and features the Jeffrey Lewis and The Voltage touring band of Brent Cole on drums, Mem Pahl on bass and Mallory Feuer on violin and keyboard. Jeffrey’s style of “anti-singing” continues to reach for the humanity behind the artifice, mirroring the nudity of the album cover. Speaking of which:

One snowy February day in 1963, Bob Dylan and Suze Rotolo were photographed in New York City for the cover of The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan LP, around the corner from Dylan’s 4th Street apartment. 60 years later, lifelong 4th St resident Jeffrey Lewis had the idea to try to take the same chilly photo but with no pants on, to prove himself “even more” freewheelin’ than Bob!'

Philiadelphia indie pop band Japanese Breakfast release For Melancholy Brunettes (and Sad Women) 

'Produced by Grammy Award winner Blake Mills, the record sees front-woman and songwriter Michelle Zauner pull back from the bright extroversion that defined its predecessor Jubilee to examine the darker waves that roil within, the moody, fecund field of melancholy, long held to be the psychic state of poets on the verge of inspiration. The result is an artistic statement of purpose: a mature, intricate, contemplative work that conjures the romantic thrill of a gothic novel.'

...and lots more!

BROWSE THESE NEW RELEASES HERE

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Look out for us in a special feature all about Record Store Day around the county in this month's edition of Lincolnshire Life magazine!

https://www.lincolnshirelife.co.uk/heritage/vinyl-revolution/

We're counting down to Record Store Day 2025 on Saturday 12th April.

We are very excited to confirm that fantastic Lincoln funk rock trio Kings & Bears will be playing an acoustic set live for us in the afternoon.

The band are releasing their debut EP on 5th April with a special performance at The Komodo in Lincoln where they will be joined by another of our favs Dave Simpson's Red Giant 

You can find more info about RSD at Off The Beaten Tracks here..

https://offthebeatentracks.co.uk/pages/record-store-day

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And on Good Friday Sat 18th April the live music continues with a very special gig at The Mayfair Family Club in Louth.  Jesse D Vernon (of This Is The Kit, Moonflowers, Liftmen, The Fantasy Orchestra) will be travelling from Paris with his band Morning Star Music Club to promote the release of their new album Liminal Zone 

Support will be from Louth shoegaze band Corasandel (Chris Dodsworth, Esme Dodsworth, Holly Hall, Jimmy Osborne and Mark Merrifield) and duo Pete Conner & Caroline Cakebread

You can get tickets in advance for £10 from the shop now. £12 on the door. 

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Experience the masterpieces of Hans Zimmer on the big screen at Playhouse Cinema Louth

https://louth.parkwaycinemas.co.uk/hans-zimmer-friends-diamond-in-the-desert?fbclid=IwY2xjawJI4jRleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHe8-Xb5LbtZZ5EJkRRy0rWA3G46RWa_eJvCQDifVgpCp5bwszEl8fg-XYQ_aem_q6SkJ0pxjvjQ33igh6ek2Q

Tickets for Cleethorpes one day music event Docksfest are now available here:

https://docksfest.com/

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Great to see a whole host of live music events happening at Lincoln Castle this summer... James, Texas, Rag'n'Bone Man, Sugababes, UB40, Stranglers

https://www.lincolncastle.com/events