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Christmas Memories - Remixed and Remastered

Don McLean
Format: Audio CD

EDITORIAL REVIEWS Holiday release from the veteran singer/songwriter.
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i/o

Peter Gabriel
Format: Audio CD

EDITORIAL REVIEWS More than 20 years in the making, this December finally sees the release of i/o, Peter Gabriel's first album of new material since 2002's Up. During 2023, Peter has been releasing a new song from the album on the occasion of every full moon. Being revealed roughly...
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Rockstar

Dolly Parton
Format: Audio CD

EDITORIAL REVIEWS Global icon and recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, Dolly Parton, has joined forces with some of rock music's most legendary artists along with today's biggest stars for her first-ever rock album, Rockstar. The ever-evolving Parton teamed up with an all-star...
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Mixing Up The Medicine

Bob Dylan
Format: Audio CD

EDITORIAL REVIEWS Mixing Up The Medicine is a new career-spanning compilation containing 12 of Bob Dylan's greatest songs, including "Knocking On Heaven's Door", "Like A Rolling Stone" and "Hurricane". It serves as the companion piece to the Mixing...
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Plein D'Amour

The Guess Who
Format: Audio CD

EDITORIAL REVIEWS The Guess Who is a legendary Canadian band who enjoyed chart topping hits in the late 60s and early 70s with an impressive catalogue of songs including "American Woman," "These Eyes," and "No Time." During the course of its career, the band...
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Juliana Hatfield Sings Elo

Juliana Hatfield
Format: Audio CD

EDITORIAL REVIEWS ELO songs were always coming on the radio when I was growing up. They were a reliable source of pleasure and fascination (except for "Fire On High" which scared the heck out of me) . With this album of covers I wanted to get my hands deep into some of the massive...
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Edge of Forever

Jessi Colter
Format: Audio CD

EDITORIAL REVIEWS THE Queen of Outlaw Country has returned to her 1970's crossover sound of country, rock, soul, and gospel, with 'Edge of Forever'- collaborating with one of today's most outspoken independent country artists, Margo Price. Price produced the album with...
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Chronicles of a Diamond

Black Pumas
Format: Audio CD

EDITORIAL REVIEWS CD Packaging: Softpak CD. As they set to work on their highly awaited sophomore album, Black Pumas broadened their palette to include a dazzling expanse of musical forms: heavenly hybrids of soul and symphonic pop, mind-bending excursions into jazz-funk and psychedelia,...
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In Flight

Barenaked Ladies
Format: Audio CD

EDITORIAL REVIEWS 2023 release. In Flight, BNL's eighteenth studio album, retains the dry wit and keen observation we expect from vocalist/guitarist Ed Robertson, bassist Jim Creeggan, keyboardist/guitarist Kevin Hearn and drummer Tyler Stewart, but adds a strong sense of maturing...
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Outside Problems

Andrew Bird
Format: Audio CD

EDITORIAL REVIEWS Andrew Bird on Outside Problems: I wanted to record Inside Problems outside, but this plan fell apart when it became clear that some dude with a wood chipper could really ruin our day. I did so much casual recording during the pandemic, in my backyard or in Ojai, that...
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Continuance

Joey Alexander
Format: Audio CD

EDITORIAL REVIEWS Pianist/composer Joey Alexander's seventh album, Continuance, is the story of a critically acclaimed artist at the peak of his creativity, not only as a bandleader but as a celebrated composer. At 20 years old, Alexander has gathered his touring band, consisting...
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Formentera II

Metric
Format: Audio CD

EDITORIAL REVIEWS Metric's relentless pursuit of timeless songwriting and fiercely independent ethos have cemented their place as one of the most essential and ahead-of-the-curve bands of the last two decades. By constantly upping themselves across nine unpredictable and adventurous...
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Laugh Track

The National
Format: Audio CD

EDITORIAL REVIEWS The surprise companion to The National's April release First Two Pages of Frankenstein, Laugh Track is the band's most freewheeling, all-hands-on-deck album in years. If Frankenstein represented a rebuilding of trust between group members after 20 years together,...
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Who Can See Forever Original Soundtrack

Iron & Wine
Format: Audio CD

EDITORIAL REVIEWS Iron & Wine's Who Can See Forever is an accompanying live record to the film of the same name. Captured at Haw River Ballroom in Saxapahaw, North Carolina, the soundtrack features nineteen songs from the twenty plus year career of singer-songwriter Sam Beam. Having...
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People Just Wanna Have Fun

Kool & The Gang
Format: Audio CD


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One Man Band

Miles Kane
Format: Audio CD

EDITORIAL REVIEWS Miles Kane is an English musician best known as a solo artist, the co-frontman of the Last Shadow Puppets (with Alex Turner of Arctic Monkeys) and former frontman of the Rascals. Signed to Modern Sky UK, he is currently pursuing his solo career with the upcoming album,...
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Lifesongs: A Celebration of the First 20 Years

Casting Crowns
Format: Audio CD

EDITORIAL REVIEWS Lifesongs: A Celebration of the First 20 Years features Collaborations with Amy Grant, Phil Wickham, Katy Nichole, Zach Williams, MercyMe, and more. The music consists of 21 reimagined versions of the biggest songs of Casting Crowns' career featuring some of the biggest...
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The Loveliest Time

Carly Rae Jepsen
Format: Audio CD

EDITORIAL REVIEWS Carly Rae Jepsen - "The Loveliest Time" - The Loveliest Time is the follow-up to 2022's The Loneliest Time, which continues in Jepsen's tradition of coupled releases - but this time they're not so much B-sides as they are a second chapter. While...
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