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Cheat Codes is Danger Mouse’s first hip-hop album in seventeen years – since his 2005 DangerDOOM collaboration with the late, great MF DOOM – and Black Thought’s only full length collaboration beyond his pioneering music in The Roots. On “No Gold Teeth,” Danger Mouse’s soulful, freewheeling production serves as the perfect backdrop to Black Thought’s metronomic, pin-sharp and chorus-free lyrical deluge. The result is a dizzying, thrilling opening single from two of contemporary music’s most respected artists.  It’s an album untethered to any genre or era; uncategorizeable and timeless.

Specialty Clear w/ Blue Pink Splatter (IEX) LP. A product of generations of underground music in L.A. and beyond, The Linda Lindas’ debut, “Growing Up”, channels classic punk, post punk, power pop, new wave, and other surprises. Sisters Mila de la Garza (drummer, now 11) and Lucia de la Garza (guitar, 14), cousin Eloise Wong (bass, 13), and family friend Bela Salazar (guitar, 17) developed their chops as regulars at all-ages matinees in Chinatown, and were eventually featured in Amy Poehler’s movie Moxie. But they never expected or could have even dreamed that their performance of “Racist, Sexist Boy” for the Los Angeles Public Library in May 2021 would take them from punk shows to TV shows.

Heralded as the next big thing in post-punk, the London four-piece piqued press attention in late 2019 with their first gig as a newly solidified group, a raucous outing in the warehouse district of Hackney Wick.  The tension between existential fear born from the constant uncertainties of life, and an affirmative, cathartic urge to seize the moment, is central to My Other People, a record that heals by providing space for recognition, a ground zero in which you’re welcome to stay awhile but which ultimately only leads up and out. For TV Priest, it is a follow-up that feels truly, properly them; free of bravado, unnecessary bluster or any audience pressure to commit solely to their original sound.

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing in gatefold jacket. Includes poster and sticker. This is the sixth Arcade Fire studio album, and is made up of songs that speak to this moment with unique directness. Written, recorded, and released during a critical historical juncture, they are divided into two distinct sides, “I” and “WE.” If the “I” side of the record evokes and embodies our holed-up anxiety and lack of physical connection, the “WE” side captures the excitement of new possibilities and the elevating thrill of committing to one another socially and personally.

The long and winding road ended here.  The perfect ending to the perfect band…not to mention the perfect album cover.  A must own record.

Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing of 2017 remix of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Produced by Giles Martin, the album’s new stereo mix was sourced directly from the original four-track session tapes. The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’ Anniversary Edition is 2017’s most celebrated historical music release.  On every top ten list, everywhere, for the best albums in history.  Not bad Beatles, not bad….

Deluxe edition of their self-titled debut album via ATO Records. Features original album plus 11 bonus tracks, three new original songs and four cover tracks, plus unreleased live material. Double LP pressed on one gold vinyl and one red/black splattered vinyl. Packaging has new artwork, contains unpublished studio & live photographs. Includes a bonus 7″ Single LP.  So you know, a lot of cool shit.  BUT this record for me is one of those “made it through the pandemic” records, it just hits from start to finish.  Gonna be rocking this one in the bar a LOT now that we can.