Transmission / 80's New Wave
Now in its 21st year, Transmission is a weekly dance night hosted by DJ Jake Rudh in Minneapolis, MN, bringing you the best in new wave, indie rock, Britpop, garage, mod, punk, post-punk, synth-pop and more. These are some of the bands/artists you'll see and hear on the Uptown VFW and First Avenue dance floors when Jake is spinning. You can also tune in to Transmission on the Radio every Thursday night at 10 pm (Central Time) on 89.3 The Current and catch Jake's Twitch shows on Wednesday and Saturday nights starting at 8 pm.
Released on 13 June, 1979, Candy-O is the Cars’ second album. The band recorded again with Queen producer Roy Thomas Baker (he also produced the Cars’ 1st album). It hit #3 on the U.S. Billboard album chart and the first single, “Let’s Go”, took the Cars into the top 15 on the Billboard hot 100 singles chart for the first time. Candy-O is an RIAA certified 4X platinum album in the U.S. alone. Our expanded edition includes a previously unreleased track, “They Won’t See You”.
Released 12 August, 1980, Panorama is the Cars’ third album. It hit #3 on the U.S. Billboard top 200 chart and the single “Touch and Go” reached #37 on the Billboard hot 100 chart. Panorama is a pure fan favorite.
Torn Down: Mixed Up Extras 2018 has been Half Speed Mastered by Robert Smith and Tim Young at Metropolis Studios, London and is pressed on 180-gram vinyl.
The Legendary Full Performance Released For The First Time Including Many Of Bowie's Greatest Hits And Never Before Seen Footage. This release documents Bowie's legendary Sunday night headline performance on June 25 at the most famous festival on earth.
Newly remastered version of David’s 15th studio album.
DAVID BOWIE: 4. LOVING THE ALIEN (1983-1988) is the fourth boxed set spanning his career from 1969 and the follow-up to the awarding winning and critically acclaimed DAVID BOWIE: 1.FIVE YEARS (1969 – 1973), DAVID BOWIE: 2. WHO CAN I BE NOW? (1974 – 1976) and DAVID BOWIE: 3. A NEW CAREER IN A NEW TOWN (1977 – 1982).
DAVID BOWIE: 4. LOVING THE ALIEN (1983-1988) features material officially released by David Bowie between 1983 and 1988 including newly remastered studio albums ‘Let’s Dance’ (remaster overseen by Nile Rodgers), ‘Tonight’ (remaster overseen by Hugh Padgham) and ‘Never Let Me Down’, the live albums ‘Serious Moonlight’ from 1983 (previously unreleased) and ‘Glass Spider’from 1987, and the exclusive new compilation ‘RE:CALL 4’ featuring single versions and edits, soundtrack music and non-album B-sides.
Also included exclusively is a brand 2018 version of the 1987 album ‘Never Let Me Down’ co-produced and mixed by Mario McNulty. David had already discussed this in 2008 with Mario McNulty so ‘Never Let Me Down (2018)’ is a much darker album with additional production by Mario and new live drums by Sterling Campbell, new guitars by Reeve Gabrels and David Torn plus a string quartet. The album will also feature new artwork with photography from the original session by Greg Gorman.
The album ‘Dance’ was scheduled for 1985 but was never released and never will be, however we have used the artwork for ‘Dance’ for this set for an album which contains 12 original extended remixes from across the three studio albums plus ‘Underground’.
Recorded in Helsinki, Paris & NY, Hey Clockface is the latest Elvis Costello & Sebastian Krys Production, following their collaboration on Elvis Costello and The Imposters GRAMMY-winning album Look Now. Hey Clockface also features contributions from Bill Frisell, Nels Cline and Steve Nieve. “I wanted the record to be vivid, whether the songs demanded playing that was loud and jagged or intimate and beautiful,” Costello said of the project’s emotional and dynamic range. Indie Transparent Red 2LP in gatefold jacket packaging.
Recorded in Hollywood, New York City and Vancouver, British Columbia, 'Look Now' is beautiful in its simplicity, reflective in its lyrical vision, surrounded by melodies and orchestrations that are nothing short of heavenly. It's the first album Costello has made with The Imposters since the 2008 release of 'Momofuku' and his first new album since the acclaimed 2013 Roots collaboration, 'Wise Up Ghost'.
'Look Now' is an outstanding 12-strong addition to his song catalogue. Most of the titles were written solely by Elvis Costello although, 'Don't Look Now' and 'Photographs Can Lie' were co-written with Burt Bacharach, who makes a guest appearance, leading The Imposters from the piano for those two ballads.
The album was co-produced by Elvis and Sebastian Krys - the Latin Grammy Producer of the Year for 2007 and 2015, whose love and understanding of music spans both hemispheres.
Black vinyl. 180g.
Fine Young Cannibals' ?rst, eponymous album, originally released in 1985, remastered for the very ?rst time with Roland Gift's involvement. Solid Red 140 G vinyl editon, gatefold, printed inner sleeve. The album remastered for the very first time , with Roland Gift's involvement. Includes download card, featuring the album + 29 rare/unreleased tracks (B Sides, live, remixes). "When Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger split from the rest of the English Beat to form General Public, Andy Cox and Dave Steele originally advertised on MTV for a new lead singer for the Beat. When that didn't pan out (although it did work for Wall of Voodoo), Cox and Steele hooked up with the unique and soulful singer Roland Gift and formed the Fine Young Cannibals. Though the trio ?rst hit the mass U.S. consciousness with 1989's electronic dance-pop The Raw and the Cooked, their 1985 debut was a soul-jazz pop charmer that's more low-key but every bit as entertaining. Along the lines of early Everything But the Girl (the two groups share a producer, Robin Millar) with a heavier Motown in?uence, the songs on Fine Young Cannibals are uniformly strong. The singles 'Johnny Come Home' (a plea to a runaway that sounds like the Beat's ska stripped down to its tense and obsessive essentials) and 'Blue' (one of the more oblique and successful antiMargaret Thatcher tracks of its era) are terri?c, but album tracks like the casually devastating 'Funny How Love Is' and the manic 'Like a Stranger' (which incongruously ends with a female chorus shrieking 'You've been too long in an institution!' repeatedly while Gift tries out his Otis Redding impression) are even better. The album's highlight, though, is a reworking of 'Suspicious Minds' (with scarifying backing vocals by Jimmy Somerville) that, while it doesn't replace Elvis' version, certainly takes the song into an interesting new direction. Although often overlooked, especially in the U.S., in the wake of their massively successful follow-up, Fine Young Cannibals is a powerful and satisfying debut."
FEATURES:
- Fine Young Cannibals' ?rst, eponymous album, originally released in 1985.
- Remastered for the very ?rst time with Roland Gift's involvement.
- Solid Red 140 GRAM vinyl editon, gatefold, printed inner sleeve.
- The album remastered for the very first time , with Roland Gift's involvement.
- Includes download card, featuring the album + 29 rare/unreleased tracks (B Sides, live, remixes)
The second album by the Fine Young Cannibals, The Raw and The Cooked, original released in 1989. Solid White 140 G Vinyl, gatefold, printed inner sleeve. Incudes download card featuring the album + 22 22 rare & unreleased bonus tracks (B Sides, remixes). Remastered for the very ?rst time with Roland Gift's involvement. Fine Young Cannibals had talent to burn -- guitarist Andy Cox and multi-instrumentalist David Steele were veterans of the English Beat, and front man Roland Gift was a vocalist as distinctive as Sam Cooke or Al Green -- and 1989's The Raw and The Cooked shows the UK trio going out in style. The second and ?nal FYC studio album neatly balances such retro-soul numbers as "Good Thing" and such Prince-in?uenced dance cuts as "She Drives Me Crazy." Both of those tracks became No.1 hits, and the remaining songs (all original except for a convincing cover of Buzzcocks' "Ever Fallen In Love") are also single-worthy. A double-Platinum smash, The Raw and The Cooked remains among the most listenable albums of the 1980s. Includes the hits "She Drives Me Crazy", "Good Thing", "I'm Not The Man I Used To Be". Features 22 bonus rare/ unreleased tracks -- B sides, and also remixes by David Z, Ploeg Club, Dimitri From Paris Seth Troxler, Prince Paul, Youth, and Arthur Baker.
FEATURES:
- The second album by the Fine Young Cannibals, The Raw and The Cooked, original released in 1989.
- Remastered for the very ?rst time with Roland Gift's involvement.
- Features 22 bonus rare/unreleased tracks.
- LP version comes on white vinyl; gatefold sleeve with printed inner sleeve; Includes download card which contains the 22 rare/unreleased tracks.
Beauty and the Beat is the debut album from California new wave band The Go-Go's. Released in 1981 on the I.R.S. Records label, the album was preceded by the single and signature song "We Got the Beat". It also includes the hit single "Our Lips Are Sealed". The LP sold in excess of 2 million copies and reached double platinum status, making it one of the most successful debut albums of all time. Critically acclaimed, it has been described as one of the "cornerstone albums of American new wave".
Vinyl LP pressing. Greatest is a 1990 compilation that represents the first best-of album by The Go-Go's. The 14-track LP includes many hits and stand-out tracks from the band's first three studio albums, 1981 Beauty and the Beat, 1982 Vacation, and 1984 Talk Show. Includes the hit singles 'Our Lips Are Sealed', 'We Got The Beat', 'Vacation', 'Head Over Heels', 'This Town', 'Cool Jerk' and more!
Following the 2015 release of the critically acclaimed Fast Forward , legendary songwriter Joe Jackson is releasing the 20th studio album of his career. 'Fool' is the fulfilment of a career-long dream: to finish a tour and head straight into the studio with the band firing on all cylinders. So, on July 29th, Joe wrapped up his 2018 summer tour at The Eqyptian Theater in Boise, Idaho and the following day set up shop at Tonic Room Studios in town. The album was co-produced by Jackson and producer Pat Dillett (David Byrne, Sufjan Stevens, Glen Hansard, etc.) The band in question was the same group that Jackson has played live with ever since the release of Fast Forward : Teddy Kumpel on guitar, Doug Yowell on drums, and long-time collaborator Graham Maby on bass (Maby was on that first recording session 40 years ago as well). The Fast Forward Tour took on a life of its own and enjoyed several encores over the last 3 years with the band ultimately playing 103 shows together during that time span.
Limited twelve inch glow in the dark vinyl pressing. Features the goth rock/post punk classic performed by the Manchester legends. Taken from sessions with producer Martin Hannett.
A gorgeous 12" Picture Disc Vinyl featuring recordings from the Martin Hannett tapes, newly remastered, plus a 12" bonus remix!
`Pandemonium' - originally released in 1984 and partially recorded inside the Great Pyramid of Giza, this is KJ's biggest-selling album to date. The Re-issued double LP version - featuring new cover artwork from designer Mike Coles - stays true to the original track-listing, with both of the celebrated Cybersank Re-mixes for `Pandemonium' & `Millennium' included. Blue/Ultraclear 2 LP.
Vinyl LP pressing. The Makarrata Project is a themed mini-album of collaborations with Indigenous artists. Midnight Oil will donate it's share of any proceeds it receives from this release to organizations which seek to elevate The Uluru Statement From The Heart in particular and Indigenous reconciliation more broadly. After centuries of struggle for recognition and justice, 2017's Uluru Statement called for the establishment of a 'First Nations Voice' enshrined in the Australian Constitution and the establishment of a 'Makarrata Commission' to supervise agreement-making and truth-telling between governments and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Clearly this mini-album has ended up being timely in ways nobody could have anticipated as the Black Lives Matter movement surges globally and renews local focus on Aboriginal deaths in custody. However, The Makarrata Project was actually recorded late last year after the band regrouped for a European tour. They entered the studio with about twenty songs of which seven revolved around themes of reconciliation so they decided to record that batch of material separately with a wide range of Indigenous collaborators (the rest of the new recordings are slated for a 2021 release).
Beggars Arkive is excited to announce vinyl reissues for all five Peter Murphy solo releases on Beggars Banquet, plus the release of a brand new rarities album titled The Last And Only Star. Each album is pressed on colored vinyl, and the pressings are limited. The albums will be released in a series of three beginning in April.
Beggars Arkive is excited to announce vinyl reissues for all five Peter Murphy solo releases on Beggars Banquet, plus the release of a brand new rarities album titled The Last And Only Star. Each album is pressed on colored vinyl, and the pressings are limited. The albums will be released in a series of three beginning in April.
The third Police album, from 1980, again reaching no. 1 UK album chart and featuring two classic hit singles the moving (and controversial) Don't Stand So Close to Me (about of an older teacher's relationship with one of his students) and De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da. Also features their second Grammy-winning instrumental Behind My Camel, and other fan favourites Shadows in the Rain, Canary in a Coalmine and Man in a Suitcase. Regarded as one of the finest rock albums of all time. Released on black heavyweight vinyl with original LP packaging.
Widely considered to be one of the best albums of the 90s, 1992's Automatic For the People followed R.E.M.'s breakthrough album, Out of Time, and did not disappoint. Beloved by critics, the band's eighth studio album topped charts worldwide, and was certified 4x platinum in the US. Features the iconic hit singles 'Nightswimming,' 'Man on the Moon' and 90s anthem, 'Everybody Hurts.'
Commemorating the album's 25th Anniversary, this 180 gram vinyl edition features the full original album, remastered from the original analog tapes. Includes digital download card.
Other 25th Anniversary formats available include a Deluxe Edition Boxset (3CD+Blu-ray) and a 2CD Edition.