Curren$y, Power Trip, Sheila Chandra, Tom Grennan, My Morning Jacket, The Kills, Glastonbury

All the shop news this week...

Foo Fighters' latest album But Here We Are flew off the shelves when it was released a couple of weeks ago. 

The White vinyl version and CD are back in stock...

Another big seller is Miley Cyrus' Endless Summer Vacation - limited edition white vinyl available now

New Orleans rapper Curren$y releases The Drive In Theatre Part 2, 'the next installment in the cult fan favourite series. The 21 track album features appearances from Rob49, Fendi P, Dash, URA, Blü, I’sis, Premo Rice, and Jade Angelle, and sees production from Kino Beats, Trauma Tone, Harry Fraud, Cookin Soul, and more.'

'British singer-songwriter Tom Grennan releases his third studio album What Ifs and Maybes. The album comprises 15-track, produced by Andrew Wells, Jamie Scott, Jordan Riley, Lewis Thompson, LOSTBOY, The Six and Tom Grennan.'

Power Trip - Live In Seattle 05.28.2018 - Red/Black Splatter vinyl

'A razor sharp recording that effectively proves how lethal this band was in the flesh.  As the title states this album was recorded live in Seattle at Neumos 5/28/18. The set list is a brutal selection of cuts from the Nightmare Logic and Manifest Decimation albums and a deep cut / fan favourite: “Suffer No Fool".'

Two classic Pearl Jam restocks have landed in the shop this week...

Ten the debut studio album by Pearl Jam, 'originally released on August 27, 1991 through Epic Records. Pearl Jam's debut album, was released less than a month before Nirvana's Nevermind, and although it took longer to climb the pop charts it also hung around longer, eventually outselling its Seattle rival. Together, the two albums reinvigorated rock and roll, whose share of the pop marketplace had been slipping through the late 1980s.'

MTV Unplugged

'Three days after completing their first American tour, Pearl Jam headed to New York to strip back songs from debut album Ten, well on its way to becoming one of 1992’s top rock albums...relive all seven songs featured in the MTV Unplugged broadcast, including Jeremy, Even Flow, Alive, Black and State Of Love and Trust.'

My Morning Jacket - Circuital - New Deluxe 3LP - Orange, Pink or Blue vinyl (At Random)

'After a decade spent excelling in the kind of hazy melodies now offered by the likes of Fleet Foxes, Louisville's My Morning Jacket took a curious detour with 2008's funky, softly rocking Evil Urges. Their sixth album finds them back on track. Circuital combines their experience with a rediscovered youthful zest, a theme Jim James visits in the lyrics: "I am older day to day, going back to my childhood ways." Recorded in, of all places, a gym, the songs frame James's plaintive, widescreen wonderment in pedal steel guitars and transcendental echo. The Beach Boys-style Outta My System laments a misspent youth.'

A series of pioneering Asian singer Sheila Chandra's trilogy of albums have been reissued on vinyl.  'To hear Chandra's work is to realise that the voice is the purest expression of human emotion; the closest instrumental connection to our bodies'

Choose from her 1992 debut Weaving My Ancestors' Voices or The Zen Kiss, or ABoneCroneDrone.

An album that needs no introduction, The White Stripes' Elephant has had a 20th anniversary reissue on limited red/smoke coloured vinyl, how time flies!

It's also anniversary time for garage rock duo The Kills

The Kills' debut album Keep On Your Mean Side gets its 20th anniversary reissue on transparent red vinyl.

'The beats are sleazy and lo fi, the guitar bluesy and dirty and the vocals add a sexual chemistry. Take touches of the Velvet Underground, PJ Harvey and the Royal Trux and you are halfway there.'

Midnight Boom - 15th Anniversary, 'featuring beats and studio smarts from spank rock' producer Alex Epton aka Armani xxxchange, combined with Alison's confidently teasing vocals, created a truly forward thinking, fresh new sound for the band. Taking inspiration from 'Pizza Pizza Daddio', a sixties documentary about kids in inner-city schools in the USA, the Kills' Jamie Hince and Alison Mosshart started building rhythms influenced by the children's dark playground songs, on an old school hand-punched mpc-60 hip hop drum sequencer. The results are shown in some of the hypnotic original tracks on the album, like 'Cheap and Cheerful'.'

Transparent blue vinyl

'Arthur Russell's Picture of Bunny Rabbit features nine previously unreleased performances from this era compiled from completed masters culled from two unique test pressings, including one, dated 9/15/85 by Arthur, provided by his mother and sister.  A further four tracks were discovered in his tape archive. The track listing includes an exceptional and dramatic solo recording of “In The Light of a Miracle” and the enigmatic title instrumental “Picture of Bunny Rabbit”, written especially for a friends pet rabbit. The bulk of the material was recorded with engineer Eric Liljestrand at Battery Sound Studios, New York, which was located directly opposite the World Trade Center and at Arthur’s apartment studio in the East Village.'

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We're celebrating festival season, notably with Glastonbury which starts this week. If you aren't at Worthy Farm in person you can listen live on BBC6Music.

The shop window is too hot for vinyl at this time of year but we're displaying a painting that was gifted to the shop nearly 20 years ago by customer Alison McKenzie-Taylor which makes a great back drop.

See the line-up here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ec59hn/artists/by/a-z

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Louth's Music & Arts Festival Zero Degrees is in full swing now. Check out the full programme here: https://www.zerodegreeslouth.org.uk/

As part of Louth's Zero Degrees Festival Free Degrees takes place at The Kings Head Louth On Saturday 24th and 25th June for a weekend of awesome music including Pelican, The Manipulators, The Vaults and loads more. 

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Spectrum Arts Collective presents Intermission FREE ART SHOW + Free Family Workshop on Sat 24th June at Spout Yard from 10.30am

'New for Zero Degrees Festival 2023, this Arts Council funded project sees something quite different and unique for Louth! Spectrum Arts is a new team - Jayne Cooper (visual artist), Keith Angel (sound artist) and Lucy Lumb (creative producer) who have created a 3-D artwork installation with new visual and sound artworks by the artists, alongside creations made during school and public workshops in the lead up to the festival.'

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Coming Soon!

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On the The Sunday Underbelly radio show on LCR FM on Sunday June 25th from 4pm Katy B's guest is Lincoln based bookworm and occasional thespian with Amy Farrell and fundraising coordinator and chair for Lincoln RSPCA