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Big Star – #1 Record (Remastered) (1972/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 36:55 minutes | 1,42 GB | Genre: Power Pop, Pop Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Stax
Big Star, considered to be among the founders of power pop, has been cited as an influence by many of the major alternative bands of the ’80s and ’90s, and continues to be a powerful presence in today’s musical landscape. Artists such as R.E.M., Teenage Fanclub, The Replacements (who famously penned the song “Alex Chilton”) and Wilco all enthusiastically tout the artistic impact of the group. Mike Mills recalls Big Star as “a band who had gotten it right, who made records that sounded like rock and roll bands should sound. A band who wrote all the songs, from flat-out rockers to achingly beautiful ballads that were still somehow rock songs.”
The legacy of #1 Record has far exceeded the original commercial letdowns of both albums (Radio City and #1 Record), which are now considered to be milestones in the history of rock by critics and musicians alike. The LP made it onto Rolling Stone‘s 500 “Greatest Albums of All Time” lists, and numerous artists (Elliott Smith, Beck and Jeff Buckley to name a few) have recorded covers of the band’s songs.
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Various Artists – Live on Mountain Stage: Outlaws & Outliers (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:24:58 minutes | 989 MB | Genre: Country, Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Oh Boy Records
Mountain Stage is a two-hour, live music performance radio show staged with a theater audience, produced by West Virginia Public Broadcasting, and distributed by NPR.
Mountain Stage debuted in December 1983 at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston, West Virginia. Since then, we’ve produced well over 1,000 shows at our home and as far away as Glasgow, Scotland and Fairbanks, Alaska. The venues have ranged from The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. to a portable stage in the woods of Pocahontas County, WV.
We are a team sport. Many of the folks who work with us have done so for more than 30 years and most have been here at least 20. Like a family, we’ve seen births and deaths, marriages and divorces, triumphs and tragedies. Stagehands, merch sellers, engineers, band members and producers have all contributed to the growth and evolution of the
show as have audience members, listeners, donors, and underwriters.
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Rodney Crowell – The Chicago Sessions (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:13 minutes | 865 MB | Genre: Country Rock, Americana
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © New West Records, LLC
Take a look at the cover of Rodney Crowell’s brilliant new album, The Chicago Sessions, and you might recognize a familiar callback to the legendary songwriter’s 1978 debut. “In a lot of ways, this album feels like that very first record to me,” Crowell reflects. “When my daughter Chelsea suggested we lay the artwork out similarly, the connection made perfect sense. There’s something very simple, very innocent about it. It’s just me and the band in a room together, loose and live and having fun.”Produced by Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy, The Chicago Sessions is indeed a throwback to Crowell’s early days of making records, but it’s no nostalgia trip. The songs here are vital and timely, touching on everything from love and mortality to race and religion, and the performances are nothing short of intoxicating, fueled by raw guitars, honky-tonk piano, and tight, punchy drums. Tweedy wields a light touch as a producer, his influence subtle yet unmistakable, and engineer Tom Schick’s mixes are dynamic and alive, alternately lush and spacious in all the right places with a spotlight fixed firmly on Crowell’s warm, weathered vocals throughout. Put it all together and you’ve got a masterful, cross-generational collaboration that manages to feel both fresh and familiar all at once, an incisive, engaging collection that balances careful craftsmanship with joyful liberation at every turn.
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Pernice Brothers – Who Will You Believe (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 40:25 minutes | 511 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Americana
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © New West Records, LLC
Joe Pernice has been writing for a long time – most of his life, in fact – and has crafted a remarkable catalog that boldly reinterprets and recasts classic American pop. Who Will You Believe may be his most moving and nuanced album yet; it’s certainly his timeliest. “These songs were all written during the same time period,” he says, “and they all seemed to tap into a mood I was in at the time. I go through spells where I’m a certain way for three or four months. I might be more reticent than usual, or more outgoing. With all of my records—and especially with this one—the songs all feel like they belong together, probably because they all arrived during the same stretch of time.”
In a single six-month stretch he was left reeling from the deaths of three close friends, including David Berman, poet and songwriter for Silver Jews and Purple Mountains, and Gary Stewart, the Rhino Records co-founder and tireless Pernice Brothers supporter since their first album in 1998. “That was such a bad patch when David and Gary both took their own lives. And my cousin Joe Harvard, who started Fort Apache Studios in Boston and was like a brother to me – he died, too. It was such a tough year. I was thinking about them a lot and watching how divided America had become. I was doing my best to try and take nothing for granted.”
Pernice has been releasing albums for over 25 years. And with age comes a greater patience and an immense appreciation for the act of creation. Who Will You Believe showcases a beautiful balance between such sadness and moments of solemnity with warm humor and camaraderie.
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Puss N Boots – Sister (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:18 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Alternative, Indie
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Blue Note Records
Puss N Boots-the charming trio featuring Norah Jones, Sasha Dobson, and Catherine Popper- release their second full-length album, Sister. Sister is a fetching collection of originals written by the band members collectively and individually, mixed with loving covers of songs by Tom Petty (“Angel Dream”), Dolly Parton (“The Grass Is Blue”), Paul Westerberg (“It’s a Wonderful Lie”), and Concrete Blonde (“Joey”).
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Faye Webster – Underdressed at the Symphony (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:49 minutes | 703 MB | Genre: Indie Folk, R&B, Soft Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Secretly Canadian
Faye Webster’s songs are direct lines to the human subconscious, and Underdressed at the Symphony documents what happens once you begin to build a new self from the ashes of your old routines. This rebirth isn’t flashy or definitive, but is instead a series of seemingly mundane moments that, scattered across weeks and months, sneak their way toward something like healing. Yes, there’s a breakup in play, but Webster is not documenting the heartbreak of a breakup so much as she’s navigating the contours of heartbreak itself. Recorded at Sonic Ranch Studios in Texas with her longtime band, Webster is accompanied on Underdressed at the Symphony by Matt Stoessel’s arcs of shimmering pedal steel, the plaintive, unhurried drums of Charles Garner, and, occasionally, additional guitarwork from Wilco’s Nels Cline. The title of the album refers to Webster’s post-breakup compulsion to visit the symphony on a whim, usually buying a ticket at the last possible second.
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James Mastro – Dawn of a New Error (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 39:50 minutes | 791 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © MPress Records
James Mastro has been a highly-regarded songwriter and guitarist since his teen years in CBGB stalwarts The Richard Lloyd Group. A member of The Bongos, a radio and MTV staple who released three lauded records via Gem and RCA including 2023’s re-release Numbers With Wing, Mastro later moved to center stage as frontman for Americana fave The Health & Happiness Show, releasing three critically acclaimed albums on Bar-None and Cropduster. Mastro has opened on tour for Wilco, Johnny Cash, Golden Smog, Barenaked Ladies, Beat Farmers, The Blasters, Kirsty MacColl, and collaborated with Texas troubadour Butch Hancock. In 2001 he joined ranks with Mott the Hoople‘s legendary singer Ian Hunter and has served as his left-hand man ever since, touring and playing on Hunter’s last six albums. Additionally, he’s toured as a guitarist with Patti Smith, John Cale, Alejandro Escovedo, Garland Jeffreys, The Jayhawks, and Southside Johnny.
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NNAMDÏ – Please Have A Seat (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 42:28 minutes | 470 MB | Genre: R&B, Alternative, Indie Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Secretly Canadian
NNAMDÏ has never been able to stay in one place. The Chicago multi-instrumentalist and songwriter set a blistering pace in 2020 with his critically acclaimed genre-fusing LP Brat, a punk EP Black Plight, and Krazy Karl, a full-length tribute to Looney Tunes composer Carl Stalling. Add in his role as co-owner of label Sooper Records, as well as recent tours with Wilco, Sleater-Kinney, and black midi, and it’s an overwhelming schedule. However, his latest album, Please Have A Seat, is the result of a much-needed pause.
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Lisa Bodnar and Whistlegrass – 40 Years in the Desert (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 53:21 minutes | 645 MB | Genre: Folk
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deko Entertainment
For fans of Wilco, War on Drugs and Tom Petty! The perfect storm of Lisa’s musical career came together in the late 1990s and early 2000s locally and in Philadelphia, where she was a featured artist on WXPN. Her debut, Maybe I Did, was released in 2003 to instant acclaim and even charted on college and Triple-A radio. In the mid-2000s, Lisa relocated to the New York area, where she recorded 2007’s glossier Come Hell or High Water. The sophomore set fared even better, garnering four Grammy nominations (Best New Artist; Best Pop Vocal Album; Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical; and Producer of the Year) and winning praise in the music and mainstream press. “Bodnar sings with an undefeated strength of spirit in a voice that soars with hope and passion,” writes Dave Howell of The Morning Call And now, after 12 years of steady gigging that’s included slots with Vapors of Morphine and other top acts, Lisa has reemerged with 40 Years in the Desert, a sparser, rawer affair than either of it’s predecessors. The album’s title was inspired by a transformative trip to Joshua Tree National Park in California, with stand out tracks “Feeding Time,” a haunting, mid-tempo burner, the twangy, country-pop ballad “Best That I Can”, and “I Love You Friend” an upbeat, mariachi-flavored gem that captures. Lisa is scheduled for a 60+ date tour starting in the fall and will stretch into 2023 covering all counties in her home state of Pennsylvania.
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Neil Young – Before and After (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 47:56 minutes | 851 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Reprise
On Before And After, Neil Young chooses favorites from his playbook like a trip into his music history and performs them mostly alone on a solo acoustic journey. Each of the songs blend into each other and morph with mesmerizing clarity into a continuous flow of music creating a 48-minute pure and intimate listening experience. The 13-track album spans Neil’s career, from his early Buffalo Springfield contribution, “Burned” (1966) to the recent “Don’t Forget Love”(2021) and includes the previously unreleased song “If You Got Love”.
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Trevor Horn – ECHOES – ANCIENT & MODERN (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 44:31 minutes | 1,52 GB | Genre: Pop, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
Superproducer Trevor Horn presents ‘Echoes – Ancient & Modern’, his Deutsche Grammophon debut album, featuring fresh orchestral takes on 11 iconic tracks. The booklet notes feature an interview in which Paul Morley talks to his long-time friend and collaborator about how he picked the right artists to help him transform familiar songs into something magical and new. Horn himself sings vocals on the Roxy Music classic ‘Avalon’, as well as producing Marc Almond, Tori Amos, Rick Astley, Andrea Corr, Steve Hogarth, Lady Blackbird, Jack Lukeman, Iggy Pop, Seal and Toyah Wilcox & Robert Fripp in tracks originally performed by Pat Benatar; The Cars; Depeche Mode; Frankie Goes to Hollywood; Billy Idol; Joe Jackson; Grace Jones; Kendrick Lamar; Nirvana and Yes.
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Choir of Merton College, Oxford – On Christmas Night: Carols from Merton (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:30 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Delphian Records
Benjamin Nicholas and his Choir of Merton College Oxford present a starlit celebration of Advent choral music and Christmas carols from composers old and new.
Favourites including Of the Father’s Heart Begotten and In the Bleak Midwinter sit excitingly alongside new commissions and contemporary composers including Kerensa Briggs, Roxanna Panufnik, and Bulgarian-British composer Dobrinka Tabakova.
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Title: Todd Rundgren’s Utopia – Live At The Chicago Theatre
Release Date: 2019
Genre: Progressive Rock
Production/Label: Cleopatra
Duration: 02:53:13
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: PCM,DTS
Video: MPEG-2 Video / 16496 kbps / 1080i / 29.970 fps
Audio: LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 1536 kbps / 16-bit
Audio 2: Dolby Digital Audio / 5.1 / 48 kHz / 448 kbps
Size: 21,59 GB
After a thirty-year-plus hiatus, Todd Rundgren’s Utopia graced the Chicago Theater stage, with the hopes of promising fans an extraordinary, other-worldly concert experience. The original 70’s-formed band established a stellar reputation for stretching the prog rock/pop envelope and infusing their mostly original material with verve and state-of-the-art technique. Rundgren has performed a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of the band Utopia. He is known for his sophisticated and often-unorthodox music, flamboyant stage outfits, and his later experiments with interactive entertainment. He also produced innovative music videos, pioneered forms of multimedia, and was an early adopter and promoter of various computer technologies.
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