The Gap Band
The Gap Band / The Gap Band II / The Gap Band III [ BGO Records / 2 CD - released 7/Mar/2014 ] The R&B funk band's first three albums for Mercury Records, dating from 1979 and 1980. All three made the US Top 100 Albums chart with hit singles 'Burn Rubber On Me', 'Oops Up Side Your Head' (originally called 'I Don't Believe You Want To Get Up... |
Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band
Hand Clappin' Foot Stompin' Funky-Butt… Live! / Shake A Tail Feather / Hipsters, Flipsters, Finger-Poppin' Daddies! / Running Wild plus A & B sides an [ BGO Records / 3 CD - released 7/Mar/2014 ] The US soul man's four albums for Pye/ Piccadilly Records, dating from 1966, 1967 and 1968, plus A and B sides, E.P. tracks and Geno's solo singles Like Jimmy James & The Vagabonds, Geno Washington & The Ram Jam Band were an extremely popular... |
Gilla Band
Eight Fivers (7") [ Rough Trade / 7in - released 5/Aug/2022 ] "Eight Fivers" announces itself in that typical Gilla Band way where the lyrics often feel abstracted from the music. Dara's voice is two opposing forces at once: it's the melodic cry yearning and dancing over the driving beat. In some ways it's the... |
Gilla Band
Most Normal [ Rough Trade / CD - released 7/Oct/2022 ] For their first album as Gilla Band, (formerly Girl Band) the foursome has redrawn their own paradigm. Most Normal is like little you've heard before, a kaleidoscopic spectrum of noise put in service of broken pop songs, FX-strafed Avant-punk... |
Gilla Band
Most Normal (Limited LP) [ Rough Trade / LP - released 4/Nov/2022 ] Blue vinyl. For their first album as Gilla Band, (formerly Girl Band) the foursome has redrawn their own paradigm. Most Normal is like little you've heard before, a kaleidoscopic spectrum of noise put in service of broken pop songs, FX-strafed... |
Gilla Band
Most Normal (LP) [ Rough Trade / LP - released 4/Nov/2022 ] For their first album as Gilla Band, (formerly Girl Band) the foursome has redrawn their own paradigm. Most Normal is like little you've heard before, a kaleidoscopic spectrum of noise put in service of broken pop songs, FX-strafed Avant-punk... |
Girl Band
Holding Hands With Jamie [ Rough Trade / CD - released 25/Sep/2015 ] 'Holding Hands with Jamie,' Girl Band's debut album, comes a few years into their tenure; a few years after their first tour; nine days crammed into a Fiat Panda; a few years of stamping 7" sleeves to sell at merch tables and mail-order; a few years... |
Girl Band
Holding Hands With Jamie (LP) [ Rough Trade / LP - released 25/Sep/2015 ] 'Holding Hands with Jamie,' Girl Band's debut album, comes a few years into their tenure; a few years after their first tour; nine days crammed into a Fiat Panda; a few years of stamping 7" sleeves to sell at merch tables and mail-order; a few years... |
Girl Band
The Talkies [ Rough Trade / CD - released 27/Sep/2019 ] The Talkies is the follow up to the Dublin band's critically acclaimed 'Holding Hands with Jamie'. The album was recorded in November 2018 at Ballintubbert House, a stately home on the outskirts of Dublin. The alien construction of Ballintubbert... |
Hailu Mergia & The Walias Band
Tezeta [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / CD - released 4/Jun/2021 ] From their genesis as members of the Venus club in-house band in the early 70s, The Walias were at the forefront of the musical revolution during an era where modern instruments and foreign styles superseded the traditional fare to become the staple... |
Hailu Mergia & The Walias Band
Tezeta (LP) [ Awesome Tapes From Africa / LP - released 4/Jun/2021 ] From their genesis as members of the Venus club in-house band in the early 70s, The Walias were at the forefront of the musical revolution during an era where modern instruments and foreign styles superseded the traditional fare to become the staple... |
Holiwater Band
Maya [ Dubmission / CD - released 14/Feb/2014 ] The Holiwater Band are pleased to announce the worldwide release of their new album "MAYA" to coincide with their appearance at the Splore festival in Februay 2014. Having met in 2001 during the filming of a documentary which focused attention on... |
Ian Hunter & The Rant Band
When I'm President [ Proper / CD - released 12/Oct/2012 ] |
Incredible String Band
U [ BGO Records / CD - released 7/Mar/2014 ] Originally a double album released by Elektra Records in 1970. Recorded in a hectic 48 hours by long-time producer Joe Boyd, 'U' is an eclectic mix of musical styles as featured in the band's stage show of the same name. The show had not been a... |
Jim White vs Packway Handle Band
Take it Like a Man [ Yep Rock Records / CD - released 23/Jan/2015 ] Jim White's not your average singer/songwriter. His hallucinatory blend of country, folk and rock puts his music in its own category of cool. Drawing from years of itinerant rambling, working odd jobs ranging from New York Cab driver to Milan fashion... |
John Hiatt with The Jerry Douglas Band
Leftover Feelings (Blue Marble Vinyl - Indie Exclusive) [ New West Records / LP - released 21/May/2021 ] Blue vinyl. In the midst of a global pandemic, John Hiatt walked into Historic RCA Studio B and opened up a lifetime full of leftover feelings. A half-century ago, Hiatt lived in a ratty, $15-a-week room on Nashville's 16th Avenue, less than a mile... |
Kondi Band
Salone [ Strut CD / CD - released 23/Jun/2017 ] Debut album from Kondi Band, the inspired Afro-electronic collaboration between Sierra Leonean kondi (thumb piano) player Sorie Kondi and US producer / DJ Chief Boima, who himself has Sierra Leonean roots. Salone follows the release of 2016's... |
Lightman Jarvis Ecstatic Band
Banned (LP) [ Anti- / LP - released 2/Jul/2021 ] In the past decade, Jarvis's ever-expanding swatch of releases on ANTI- Records and Flemish Eye have earned international acclaim, while Lightman's twin-sister-led band Tasseomancy has transfixed listeners since the late 2000s. The debut album from... |
Mark Lanegan Band
Somebody's Knocking [ Heavenly Recordings / CD - released 18/Oct/2019 ] From the opening bars of Disbelief Suspension onwards, it's clear that Somebody's Knocking is an album made by someone deeply obsessed with how music - with all its primal, spiritual healing power - truly penetrates the soul. As a result, there's joy... |
The Mauskovic Dance Band
The Mauskovic Dance Band (LP) [ Soundway Records / LP - released 24/May/2019 ] Soundway Records presents the eponymous debut LP from in-demand Amsterdam five piece The Mauskovic Dance Band - fusing no-wave dance punk, Afro-Caribbean rhythms and space disco in a "controlled explosion" (The Quietus). Entirely self-produced,... |