Various Artists – Covers of Covers (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:14:37 minutes | 832 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Pop Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © American Laundromat Records
Under the Radar is proud to announce Covers of Covers, which is the magazine’s first ever album. In honor of our 20th anniversary we approached some of our favorite musicians and asked them to cover any song by any artist who had been on the front or back cover of our print issue over the years. Covers of Covers is due out March 4, 2022 via American Laundromat, but today we are sharing two of its tracks: Grandaddy’s cover of Metric’s “Blindness” and EMA’s cover of Modest Mouse’s “Trailer Trash.” The album also features Cassandra Jenkins, Alex Lahey, Peter Bjorn and John, Hatchie, Nation of Language, Cults, Kevin Drew, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Sondre Lerche, Girl Ray, Piroshka, Strand of Oaks, Oceanator, C Duncan, NZCA LINES, Ora the Molecule, James Yorkston, and Water From Your Eyes. Check out the full tracklist below, as well as the Grandaddy and EMA tracks. Above is the cover art.
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Buckcherry – Warpaint (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 43:38 minutes | 580 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Red Music
Buckcherry make a return to the hard rock spotlight with their latest effort, Warpaint. Filled with a plethora of meaty headbangers and a few softer moments, the album attempts to take the band back to their mid-late 2000s glory days, for better and for worse. Produced by Mike Plotnikoff, you can definitely hear elements of their early sound coming into play. Big guitars and hard-hitting drums surround frontman Josh Todd’s raspy vocals on just about every track. However, you can hear new elements and influences peaking their way through as well. The three-song arc of “The Alarm,” “No Regrets” and “The Hunger” bring in a sort of country-tinged sound to the band’s bluesy hard rock.
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Big Star – Radio City (1974/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 36:12 minutes | 760 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Concord Music Group
Radio City is the 1974 follow up to Big Star’s debut, #1 Record. The critically acclaimed, Memphis-based band is often credited with creating the power pop sound, and has become a cult favorite over the years. Remastered from the analog stereo masters, this reissue will allow fans to appreciate Radio City as a standalone CD—this is the first time in many years that the CD version of the album will be sold independently of #1 Record. Packaging includes new liner notes penned by R.E.M.’s Mike Mills, who cites Big Star as one of his biggest influences.
One half of Big Star’s songwriting duo, Chris Bell, made the decision to leave the band following the 1972 release of #1 Record, which left Alex Chilton at the helm as primary songwriter on album number two. Chilton was able to use this opportunity to shine and prove himself to be an incredible songwriter on his own. Journalists noticed: bearing a tongue-in-cheek title, Radio City garnered rave reviews and produced several cult favorites, including “September Gurls,” which has been covered by everyone from The Bangles to Superdrag.
In his liner notes, Mike Mills writes, “On Radio City, Chilton confirms his place as one of the best songwriters in rock and roll. While ‘September Gurls’ may be the best-known song from this album, every other song here is one that I wish I’d written.”
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Big Star – #1 Record (1972/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:02 minutes | 807 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Stax Records
Originally released in 1972, #1 Record is the debut album from Big Star, a critically acclaimed, Memphis-based band which is often credited with creating the power pop sound. Remastered from the analog stereo masters, this reissue will allow fans to appreciate #1 Record as a standalone CD—this is the first time in many years that the CD version of the album will be sold independently of Big Star’s second album, Radio City. Packaging also includes liner notes penned by R.E.M.’s Mike Mills, who cites Big Star as one of his biggest influences, and calls the album “a record of rich sonic textures, of declaration and vulnerability.”
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Ultraísta – Sister (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 42:36 minutes | 524 MB | Genre: Alternative, Indie
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Partisan Records
Ultraísta release their first new album since 2012’s self-titled debut with the release of Sister. It’s a collection that defies easy categorization, and one that proves that Ultraísta – Grammy-winning producer / engineer / musician Nigel Godrich, best known for his two decades helming Radiohead’s groundbreaking studio output; celebrated drummer Joey Waronker, who’s toured and recorded with everyone from R.E.M. and Beck to Roger Waters and Elliott Smith; and singer Laura Bettinson, an acclaimed solo artist whose work combines synth-driven electropop and dreamy vocal looping — is far more than just the sum of its remarkable parts.
Read moreDrive-By Truckers – Welcome 2 Club XIII (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:42 minutes | 901 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © ATO RECORDS
On the title track to Welcome 2 Club XIII, Drive-By Truckers pay homage to the Muscle Shoals honky-tonk where founding members Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley got their start: a concrete-floored dive lit like a disco, with the nightly promise of penny beer and truly dubious cover bands. “There were no cool bars in town and Club XIII was the best we had—but it wasn’t all that good, and our band wasn’t particularly liked there,” says Hood, referring to the vocalist/guitarists’ former band Adam’s House Cat. “From time to time the owner would throw us a Wednesday night or let us open for a hair-metal band we were a terrible fit for, and everyone would hang out outside until we were done playing. It wasn’t very funny at the time, but it’s funny to us now.” The 14th studio album from Drive-By Truckers—whose lineup also includes keyboardist/guitarist Jay Gonzalez, bassist Matt Patton, and drummer Brad Morgan—Welcome 2 Club XIII looks back on their formative years with both deadpan pragmatism and profound tenderness, instilling each song with the kind of lived-in detail that invites bittersweet reminiscence of your own misspent youth.
Read moreAlejandro Escovedo – Burn Something Beautiful (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 48:27 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Rock, Country
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Fantasy Records
Produced by Peter Buck (R.E.M.) and Scott McCaughey (The Minus 5) Burn Something Beautiful is Alejandro’s 12th solo studio album and most definitive album to date. The album was written, arranged and performed as a true collaboration with Peter and Scott in Portland, OR. The band is rounded out with guitarist Kurt Bloch (Fastbacks), Decembertists’ drummer John Moen, Los Lobos’ saxophonist Steve Berlin and singers Corin Tucker (SleaterKinney) and Kelly Hogan (Neko Case).
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Title: Thank You, Friends Big Star’s Third Live And More 2016
Released: 2017
Genre: Rock
Released: Concord Records
Duration: 01:37:04+00:03:37
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC Video
Audio Codec: PCM, DTS-HD
Video: MPEG-4 AVC Video / 29914 kbps / 1080p / 23.976 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio # 1: English / LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 96 kHz / 4608 kbps / 24-bit
Audio # 2: English / DTS-HD Master Audio / 5.1 / 96 kHz / 6704 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Size: 30.79 GB
Thank You Friends: Big Star’s Third Live…and more celebrates the musical legacy of one of rock’s most influential bands – Big Star – and their legendary THIRD album. Experience this classic of late ’70s power pop through the prism of a collective of immensely talented fans, including members of Wilco, R.E.M., Yo La Tengo, and, of course, Big Star.
Following the untimely death of Alex Chilton two days ahead of Big Star’s SXSW performance in 2010, famous friends and fans came from far and wide to play the gig in his honor. Much of that spontaneous ensemble, along with other musical titans, assembled at Glendale, CA’s ALEX Theatre in April 2016 to record and film an epic performance.
While the band may not be Big Star per se, the fabled group’s sole surviving original member, Jody Stephens, heads an amazing cast, whose membership includes latter-day Big Star alumni Ken Stringfellow and Jon Auer of the Posies, R.E.M’s Mike Mills, Let’s Active’s Mitch Easter, Chris Stamey of the dB’s, and others.
Jeff Tweedy and Pat Sansone of Wilco, Ira Kaplan of Yo La Tengo, Robyn Hitchcock, Dan Wilson of Semisonic, Benmont Tench from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Jessica Pratt, Brett Harris, Django Haskins, and Skylar Gudasz are among the guests who were joined by a full chamber orchestra helmed by the Kronos Quartet, performing scores created directly from the original multi-track tapes from Ardent Studios for this event. Carl Marsh, who wrote the original orchestrations, conducted.
Read moreReference quality DTS demonstration Blu-ray disc. For testing and demonstrating your surround system.
Includes more than 2 hours of great sounding pop, rock, jazz & hard rock music
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Audio Codecs : DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 & 5.1 & DTS Surround 5.1
Video Codecs Full HD uncompressed h.264
except tracks 11 & 23 contains upscaled SD video
Contains following tracks :
Christopher Tin – Baba Yetu
Acroamatic – Almost Heaven 7.1
Lee Ritenour – Is It You
Chieli Minucci – Daybreak 7.1
Fitz And The Tantrums – MoneyGrabber 7.1
Pat Metheny – Overture
Blue Man Group – Up To The Roof
Steven Wilson – Postcard
Tarja Turunen – Until My last Breath
Heart – Stairway To Heaven
Leonard Cohen – In My Secret Life
Peter Gabriel – In Your Eyes
Andrea Bocelli – Your Love
OMD – Joan Of Arc (Maid Of Orleans)
Talking Heads – Psycho Killer
Dire Straits – Walk Of Life (audio only track)
Bryan Ferry – All Along The Watchtower
Led Zeppelin – Kashmir
Slash feat. Myles Kennedy – Paradise City
Pixies – Gigantic
Mumford & Sons – I Will Wait
Coldplay feat Rihanna – Princess Of China
R.E.M. – Losing My Religion
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