Indie Exclusive

Meliora (Latin for better) is the highly anticipated third full-length offering from enigmatic Swedish occult heavy metal rockers Ghost B.C. following the well received Opus Eponymous (2010) and Infestissumam (2013). Produced by Klas Åhlund (Teddybears) and mixed by Andy Wallace (Slayer, Nirvana, Guns N' Roses), the album features ten new tracks including lead single "Cirice" and marks the addition of new vocalist Papa Emeritus III (Papa Emeritus II's younger brother) while the identity-less Nameless Ghouls round out the line-up with new masks. 

Papercuts is the first singles collection from innovative musical force Linkin Park. The career-spanning 20-track album compiles 18 essential anthems, plus the never-before-released track “Friendly Fire” recorded during the 2017 sessions for their seventh album One More Light and fan-favorite rarity “QWERTY”.

Linkin Park were inspired to thoughtfully curate Papercuts by their fans’ passionate reception of the 20th Anniversary Editions of Hybrid Theory in 2020 and Meteora last year. That enthusiasm led to this comprehensive retrospective of the band’s journey so far in the span of one album.

Pierce The Veil debuted atop Billboard’s Top Rock Albums, Alternative Albums, and Hard Rock Albums charts twice – first with Collide with the Sky (2012) and its follow-up, Misadventures (2016). A decade after its release, the already platinum “King for a Day” shot to No. 1 on Billboard’s Hard Rock Streaming chart, driven by the viral #KingForADay hashtag on TikTok. Even with two gold singles; a gold album; 2022 could be their biggest year. Because this is the year of The Jaws of Life. Indie Exclusive Dreamsicle LP. Limited Edition.

Sometimes, Forever – the immersive and compulsively replayable new Soccer Mommy full-length – cements Sophie Allison's status as one of the most gifted songwriters making rock music right now. The album finds Sophie broadening the borders of her aesthetic without abandoning the unsparing lyricism and addictive melodies that made earlier songs so easy to obsess over. To support her vision, Sophie enlisted producer Daniel Lopatin, whose recent credits include the Uncut Gems movie score and The Weeknd's Dawn FM.

1. Bones
2. With U
3. Unholy Affliction
4. Shotgun
5. newdemo
6. Darkness Forever
7. Don't Ask Me
8. Fire In The Driveway
9. Following Eyes
10. Feel It All The Time
11. Still

(Indie Exclusive) CHRIS STAPLETON / HIGHER Current ACM Entertainer of the Year, Chris Stapleton is set to release his 5th Studio Album- Higher on November 10th on 2LP/180 Gram Vinyl. This Indie Store Exclusive version will be Opaque BONE Vinyl. The album will include 14 songs including the first single "White Horse". Chris has won numerous awards including eight Grammy Awards, 10 Academy of Country Music (ACM) Awards including current Entertainer Of The Year, and 14 Country Music Association (CMA) Awards. He was named the ACM's Artist-Songwriter of the Decade. In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Stapleton at number 170 on it's list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time. Indie Exclusive 2 LP.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 What Am I Gonna Do
• 2 South Dakota
• 3 Trust
• 4 It Takes a Woman
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 The Fire
• 2 Think I'm in Love with You
• 3 Loving You on My Mind
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 White Horse
• 2 Higher
• 3 The Bottom
• 4 The Day I Die
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 Crosswind
• 2 Weight of Your World
• 3 Mountains of My Mind

Meet The Moonlight, Jack Johnson's eighth studio album and first full-length release in five years, was produced by Blake Mills (Alabama Shakes, Perfume Genius, Jim James) and recorded in Los Angeles and Hawaii. The creation process marks a major artistic milestone from past work, taking shape from a one-on-one collaboration with Mills, and unveiling an intimate and highly experimental process that involved embedding Johnson's elegantly stripped-back arrangements with enchanting sonic details.

1. Open Mind
2. 3AM Radio
3. Calm Down
4. One Step Ahead
5. Meet The Moonlight
6. Don't Look Now
7. Costume Party
8. I Tend To Digress
9. Windblown Eyes
10. Any Wonder

Over 25 years ago, nine guys from Des Moines, Iowa, shattered the scope of what was possible in metal. Slipknot's music put blastbeats, massive breakdowns and brutal riffs alongside breakbeats and turntablism; punctuated hooky melodies with extreme vocals and percussive rap verses. On stage, bodies clad in numbered jumpsuits and horror film masks crashed into each other, eliciting mania from hungry crowds and drawing blood and breaking bones in the process. Everything Slipknot did was maximalist and monstrous, completely unhinged and meticulously thought out.

The metal juggernaut follows-up 2019's We Are No Your Kind (third consecutive Billboard 200 No. 1) with their Joe Barresi co-produced seventh album The End, So Far which will be their last with Roadrunner and comes introduced by lead tracks "The Chapeltown Rag" and "The Dying Song (Time to Sing)."

"It's really killer, man. It's darker than 'We Are Not Your Kind', but there's a ton of melody," Corey Taylor told SiriusXM's Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk. "I've been telling everybody that it's like a heavier version of 'Vol. 3[: (The Subliminal Verses)]'. It's got so many textures and layers. The heavy stuff has attack but the melodic stuff you can just sink your teeth in; there's a lot of great melodies and hooks. I'm really, really excited for people to hear it."

1. Adderall
2. The Dying Song (Time To Sing)
3. The Chapeltown Rag
4. Yen
5. Hivenmind
6. Warranty
7. Medicine For The Dead
8. Acidic
9. Heirloom
10. H377
11. De Sade
12. Finale

On limited Translucent Purple Ripple vinyl. Here is Sweep It Into Space, the fifth new studio album cut by Dinosaur Jr.. during the 13th year of their rebirth. Originally scheduled for issue in mid 2020, this record's temporal trajectory was thwarted by the coming of the Plague. But it would take more than a mere Plague to tamp down the exquisite fury of this trio when they are fully dialed-in. And Sweep It Into Space is a masterpiece of zoned dialing. Recorded, as usual, at Amherst's Biquiteen, the sessions for Sweep It Into Space began in the late Autumn of 2019, following a West Coast/South East tour. The only extra musician used this time with Kurt Vile. Indeed, Sweep It Into Space is a very cool album. As is typical, Lou Barlow writes and sings two of the album's dozen tunes and Murph's pure-Flinstonian drumming drives the record like a go cart from Hell. Lou's songs here are as elegant as always. But there are very few moments where you wouldn't know you were hearing Dinosaur Jr. In blindfolded needle drop. They have a signature sound as sure as the Stooges or Sonic Youth or Discharge ever did. They continue to expand their personal universe with Sweep It Into Space, without ever losing their central core.

Tracks

• 1 I Ain't
• 2 I Met the Stones
• 3 To Be Waiting
• 4 I Ran Away
• 5 Garden
• 6 Hide Another Round
• 7 And Me
• 8 I Expect It Always
• 9 Take It Back
• 10 N Say
• 11 Walking to You
• 12 You Wonder

Produced by the band's own Claudio Sanchez and Zakk Cervini, Coheed and Cambria's ambitious new album, Vaxis II: A Window of the Waking Mind welcomes us back to "The Amory Wars" as the second installment of the five-part Vaxis arc about a couple on the run from tyrannical forces and their mysterious new addition. For the last 20 years, Coheed and Cambria have continuously broken the mold of what a rock band can be, forging their own path and building a universe around their music unlike any other. Whether it is in the way their genre-spanning approach to songwriting has allowed them to bridge worlds without being contained to one, or the multifaceted story arc of their albums and comic book series which mark the longest running concept story in music, Coheed and Cambria have consistently shaped new standards, never conformed.

LP1

1. The Embers of Fire
2. Beautiful Losers
3. Comatose
4. Shoulders
5. A Disappearing Act
6. Love Murder One
7. Blood
8. The Liars Club
9. Bad Man

LP2

1. Our Love
2. Ladders of Supremacy
3. Rise, Naianasha (Cut The Cord)
4. Window of the Waking Mind

Soccer Mommy -"color theory" For Sophie Allison (a.k.a. Soccer Mommy) 'color theory' is a distillation of hard-won catharsis. The album confronts the ongoing mental health and familial trials that have plagued the 22-year-old artist since pre-pubescence, presenting listeners with an uncompromisingly honest self-portrait and reminding us exactly why her critically acclaimed 2018 debut album, Clean, made her a hero to many. Indie Exclusive Highlighter Yellow LP. Limited Edition.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Bloodstream
• 2 Circle the Drain
• 3 Royal Screw Up
• 4 Night Swimming
• 5 Crawling in My Skin
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Yellow Is the Color of Her Eyes
• 2 Up the Walls
• 3 Lucy
• 4 Stain
• 5 Gray Light

This compilation from 2003 includes the band's biggest hits, including Vasoline, Plush, Interstate Love Song and Creep amongst many other classics. This will be released on vinyl for the first time in blue vinyl with an etching on side 4.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Vasoline
• 2 Down
• 3 Wicked Garden
• 4 Big Empty
• 5 Plush
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Big Bang Baby
• 2 Creep
• 3 Lady Picture Show
• 4 Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart
• 5 Interstate Love Song
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 All in the Suit That You Wear
• 2 Sex Type Thing
• 3 Days of the Week
• 4 Sour Girl
• 5 Plush (Acoustic)
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 Side B Etching

Ghost - If You Have Ghost

• Indie Exclusive
• Translucent Yellow Vinyl LP

Ghost released the If You Have Ghost EP in 2013. Produced by Dave Grohl, it features 4 cover tracks and a live version of “Secular Haze” recorded at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in New York City. Indie Exclusive Translucent Yellow vinyl. Limited Edition.

TRACKLIST

1 If You Have Ghosts
2 I’m A Marionette
3 Crucified
4 Waiting For The Night
5 Secular Haze

Originally released in 1992, this EP features Skid Row's classic line-up covering "Psycho Therapy" (The Ramones), "C'Mon And Love Me" (KISS), "Delivering The Goods" (Judas Priest), "What You're Doing" (RUSH), & "Little Wing" (Jimi Hendrix).

Pressed on yellow/black marble 12” vinyl for RSD Black Friday.

Psycho Therapy, C'mon and Love Me, Delivering the Goods, What You're Doing, Little Wing

Voyager, the seventh LP from Current Joys, rattles with the live-wire feeling that's thrummed through all of Nick Rattigan's previous releases: quavering, scream-itself-hoarse vocals and self-interrogation via song. But here, that bristling, sentimental rock ‘n' roll cacophony is overlaid with a soundtrack orchestra guiding it along. It's an odyssey, a grand-sounding journey of self-discovery spread across sixteen tracks. Part ekphrasis, part personal, it's Rattigan learning new ways to understand his own feelings and identity while inspired by the highly-stylized, striking storytelling of filmmakers like Alfred Hitchcock, Lars Von Trier, Terrence Malick, Agnès Varda, and Andrei Tarkovsky. Voyager is unlike anything Current Joys has released before.

On his new LP, Rattigan eschews lo-fi home recordings for a full band and recording sessions at Stinson Beach Studios. As a vocalist/drummer in his other band Surf Curse, Rattigan had finally opened up to the possibility of working in a professional studio: "I'd just been very stubborn in wanting to do it all my own way, but I guess I've kind of opened up the creative process to more people at this point," Rattigan explains. " And I think it yields better results."

Frequently Rattigan uses film as a jumping off point for songwriting. "Big Star" was written on tour after watching Adventureland, hoping to capture that specific endless youth energy of the soundtrack's Replacements and Big Star songs. "Amateur" is piano-heavy, a slow-build of tension, flitting with prettiness, while the creeping "Rebecca," named after the Hitchcock film before Rattigan had actually seen it, radiates a haunted, sinister presence; "Naked" feels almost unhinged, while "American Honey" is a longing, mellowed lament. The title track, "Voyager pt. 2," holds a sparse, near-funereal starkness, as well as the album's thesis: I'm a voyager in my mind, before the Spielberg-esque strings swell.

1. Dancer in the Dark
2. American Honey
3. Naked
4. Altered States
5. Breaking the Waves
6. Big Star
7. Amateur
8. Rebecca
9. Shivers
10. Something Real
11. Money Making Machine
12. Voyager Pt 1
13. Calypso
14. The Spirit or the Curse
15. Vagabond
16. Voyager Pt 2

Compilation Limited Edition Reissue Gatefold 2xLP on Clear Vinyl.

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 We Care a Lot (Original Version)
• 2 Introduce Yourself
• 3 From Out of Nowhere
• 4 Epic
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Falling to Pieces
• 2 Midlife Crisis
• 3 A Small Victory
• 4 Easy
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Digging the Grave
• 2 The Gentle Art of Making Enemies
• 3 Evidence
• 4 I Started a Joke
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 Last Cup of Sorrow
• 2 Ashes to Ashes
• 3 Stripsearch

AJR -"The Maybe Man" Republic Records; Mercury Records/Republic; Alternative

• 1 Maybe Man
• 2 Touchy Feely Fool
• 3 Yes I'm a Mess
• 4 The Dumb Song
• 5 Inertia
• 6 Turning Out Pt. III
• 7 Hole in the Bottom of My Brain
• 8 The DJ Is Crying for Help
• 9 I Won't
• 10 Steve's Going to London
• 11 God Is Really Real
• 12 2085

Vampire Weekend - Only God Was Above Us / The album was "inspired and haunted by 20th Century New York City" and recorded in such far-flung locales as Tokyo, London, Los Angeles, and Manhattan. The album was co-produced by VW's Ezra Koenig and regular collaborator Ariel Rechtshaid, mixed by Dave Fridmann, and mastered by Emily Lazar. / The album title comes from the photo on the album cover by Steven Siegel, and other photos from his "Subway Dream" series documenting a Jersey City junkyard in the late-'80s. Only God Was Above Us (Independent Retail Exclusive Alternate Cover)

• - Disc 1 -
• 1 Ice Cream Piano
• 2 Classical
• 3 Capricorn
• - Disc 2 -
• 1 Connect
• 2 Prep-School Gangsters
• 3 The Surfer
• - Disc 3 -
• 1 Gen-X Cops
• 2 Mary Boone
• 3 Pravda
• - Disc 4 -
• 1 Hope