Alternative

Vehicle is the first full length album by The Clean coming nearly 8 years after formation and subsequent (first) break up. Also included in this two disc set is a bonus 12" EP "In-A-Live" recorded at Fullham Greyhound 13/7/88 during the bands UK/Europe reunion tour. Also included are extensive liner notes from the band as well as a full booklet of yers, news clipping and art from this period. Vehicle conªrmed that The Clean were not just a band worth reforming to play live but also, one still capable of writing quality jangle pop that was synonyms with both Flying Nun and The Clean. Record Label: Captured Tracks Style: Independent

From the First note of "Roam the Room", Youth's massive, towering rock songs bleed emotion through until the tape runs out on album closer "Drawn Out". Ohio natives CITIZEN have captured the ghost of BRAND NEW's "The Devil and God Are Raging Inside of Me" and reinvented brooding, chrosu-driven alternative rock for a new generation. Beautifully harmonized half-shouted vocals along with fuzzy, reverbed-out leads lend weight to the album's mood while also making it impossibly catchy. Following their recent stint as support on MAN OVERBOARD's tour, CITIZEN will play all of the 2013 Van's Warped Tour, poising them to become one of the biggest alternative bands on the road today. For fans of BRAND NEW, TITLE FIGHT, BALANCE & COMPOSURE. Record Label: Run For Cover Style: Alternative

BIRD NEST ROYS were a six piece guitar pop band formed in Auckland, New Zealand in the mid 1980's. Despite a large geographical -distance between their home suburb Grey Lynn and the depths of the south Dunedin, BIRD NEST ROYS were associated with the "Dunedin Sound" wave of bands that kick started Flying Nun Records. It is BIRD NEST ROYS knack for o-kilter Kiwi pop and quite literal layered guitars (out of the six person line up, four were holding guitars) that assured the band's popularity in New Zealand. In their short existence of four years, the band produced an EP, full length LP, and a single 7'', as well as the platform for members to later become pivotal members of THE 3D'S and SNAPPER. Re-issued for the first time is the band's entire previously released discography, as well as unreleased/unrecorded live material. Record Label: Captured Tracks Style: Independent

Compositore: Leo Delibes; Artist: Leo Delibes Label: Zyx - Classic (ZYX)

Artist: Gauntlet Hair Label: Dead Oceans

Artist: Houndstooth Label: No Quarter (Cargo Records)

Artist: Tim (Remixed By Anton Newcombe) Burgess Label: A Records (Cargo Records)

Artist: the Birthday Party Label: 4ad/Beggars Group (Indigo)

Twelve more expertly crafted wonky folk songs that have been trussed up in harp strings, super-charged with electronic pulses and spliced with a sampler. Truly they embrace all the good things on offer to open minded musicians, quasi-traditional songs laced with meditative accoustic lines and a pulsing mechanic undercurrent. Tunng deftly unite numerous eccentric elements without causing chaos, plodding melodically through a fairy lit magical underground. Cyan Blue Vinyl Edition Record Label: Full Time Hobby Style: Rock

LP includes a download code. "Daughn Gibson is quite unlike anyone you will ever have heard" - THE GUARDIAN For those new to DAUGHN GIBSON, the first name rhymes with the Vaughn's Robert and Stevie Ray. He was born in the village of Nazareth, Pennsylvania, (ironic given the title of his debut album "All Hell") and currently resides in the sleepy college town of Carlisle, Pennsylvania,, where he frequents local watering holes like The Cave and Alibis. He's 6'5", hovers at 200 pounds and has a head of jet black hair thicker than a porcupine. He played drums in PEARLS & BRASS for a number of years, touring the US to small but enthusiastic crowds. For some time in between, Daughn was a trucker, but he's also been packing boxes in an un-airconditioned warehouse, climbing up commercial broadcast towers with untested levels of radiation, working the register at an adult bookstore, doing sound at dive bars and collecting unemployment checks to earn a living. Daughn's been around. Daughn Gibson's second album "Me Moan" is his Sub Pop debut. The album kicks-off with the lead track "The Sound Of Law" and features highlights "Kissing On The Blacktop", "Mad Ocean", "You Don't Fade", and "The Pisgee Nest". "Me Moan" was produced by Daughn Gibson and Benjamin Balcom and recorded at MINBAL in Chicago and mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound. "Me Moan" follows 2012's breakthrough debut, "All Hell", released on Matthew K of PISSED JEANS' label White Denim. At once both foreign and familiar, Daughn's music is immediately striking, through the use of dusty thrift store records and baptized them as fierce, future Americana. His songs as frequently tender as they are prurient, as hopeful as they are brimming with despair. He treats the past with respectful reverence while still appreciating what is happening at the forefront of electronic production. The follow up and Sub Pop debut "Me Moan" has taken "All Hell"'s willful lead, grabbed the rule book, laughed in its face and driven it to the tip. The woozy baritone remains intact but what surrounds it is utterly unique. Like SCOTT WALKER's 1-4 sharing a drink with WAYLON JENNINGS, neon lit and glowing with the hazily blue-ish light of a computer screen. Daughn was also going through a big FLEETWOOD MAC phase during the album's gestation, endlessly submerged in "Mirage" and "Tango In The Night", resulting in a record that bubbles with melodic invention, taking in the classics and re-tooling them to create an entirely new musical landscape. He also has a penchant for the likes of DEMDIKE STARE and is smitten with all things hip hop. Daughn really likes to get around. While the roots of sample-based music remain, these songs and every piece of music on them is performed live, lushly detailed and richly orchestrated. While taking in everything from live drums, pedal steel and horns, to house strings, organs and even bagpipes, it never feels over stuffed, with every instrument or melody in its rightful place. Elsewhere, guitarists John Baizley (BARONESS) and Jim Elkington (BROKEBACK) provide stunning performances. "Me Moan" takes the listener on a journey as seen through Daughn's eyes, with stories and characters that are distinctively Noir-ish. Daughn is a uniquely American and modern artist who throw's his romantic soul into his work, free of compromise, possessed by a singular vision. Style: Singer/Songwriter

Artist: Paul Carrack Label: Music on Vinyl

Artist: Sleeping Bag Label: Joyful Noise

Artist: Ashley Erikson Label: K

Artist: Andrew Cedermark Label: Underwater People

Artist: Jacuzzi Boys Label: Hardly Art

Artist: Scott & Charlene's Wedding Label: Fire Records

Artist: Miss Lava Label: Small Stone Records

Artist: Bitchin Bajas Label: Drag City

Artist: Salvia Plath Label: Wierd World

Artist: Soft Metals Label: Captured Tracks