The closing of the Fillmore West (actually, the Carousel Ballroom) put a big dent in the 'City By the Bay'. This performance was taken from the closing concerts for the venue. The list of bands that Bill Graham didn't want was also big,...and the Flamin' Groovies were on it, for years. Our first manager was Bill's right hand man and when he quit working for Bill to manage the Flamin' Groovies this this did not sit well with Bill, so the Groovies went up and down in Bill's eyes. So it came as a big surprise when we discovered he wanted us for this big and important event, to participate in a series of shows leading up to the closing of this legendary venue. I remember the show well. The difference in playing this gig as opposed to the Whisky-A-Go-Go in L.A. was like night and day. At the Whisky, we were the house band (two summers in a row); att the Fillmore, we were up for grabs. Oh yeah, this was our last show with my good buddy, Roy Loney." - Cyril Jordan (Flamin' Groovies) WA-32123494|Mondo is proud to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Castlevania franchise with the premiere vinyl release of the original soundtrack to the 1987 Famicom / Nintendo Entertainment System sequel: Simon's Quest. Featuring both the NES and FAMICOM versions of all 9 BMG tracks from the game. Musically, Simon's Quest is the origin of one of the most popular of Castlevania BMG, "Bloody Tears." A staple of the sonic landscape for the series, here it is as the soundtrack to your daylight encounters across the dangerous Transylvanian landscape. It is one of the catchiest 8-Bit tunes to ever come out of this era of Konami games and an example of the best of what Video Game Music has to offer. WA-32116243|Only playable on dedicated SACD players. Includes 16 tracks. Sony. 2017. WA-32116250|Only playable on dedicated SACD players. Includes 14 tracks. Sony. 2017. WA-32101454|The crazy guys from ILLDISPOSED are back with a new great album which is released on heavy 180g vinyl, A2 poster, lyrics insert, heavy cover, handnumbered - 100 splatter, 200 clear, 200 black. WA-32110371|Seven inch vinyl pressing. The second release from Will Sessions' newly launched record label Sessions Sounds. This is the first collaboration between Will Sessions and Elzhi since the critically acclaimed mixtape, Elmatic. The a-side features an explosive extended verse from Elzhi, on top of an anthemic beat performed and produced by Will Sessions. The b-side is an instrumental edit that takes you deeper into the production of Will Sessions. WA-32050356|Vinyl LP pressing. Drugs And Animals is a tall refreshing Long Island Ice Tea in a craft cocktail world. It's trashy, it will get you fucked up, and you'll probably wake up in a strange place needing a double dose of antibiotics. To quote producer/engineer Andy Nelson during the recording sessions, "This album is dense." Since their 2013 debut LP Vessel, countless group texts have helped Cokegoat achieve growing friendships, razor sharp focus, mental stability, financial instability and a more advanced writing process. In other words, they are beyond stoked to get this record to your earholes. WA-32123470|AMC's hit series 'Halt And Catch Fire' captures the rise of the PC-era during the early 80s and the technology revolution. Nominated by Vox as the best show in 2016, it's "a potent look back at the earliest days of the internet that also glimpsed, through some hazy curtain, the world we live in right now." Acclaimed for it's exceptional soundtrack by former Tangerine Dream musician and award winning composer, Paul Haslinger has created a period-appropriate synth score that admirably sets the mood and tone of the bygone era. Revisiting his time in the pioneering electronic band during the mid-80s, the Austrian composer writes with a uniquely knowledgeable yet less overtly nostalgic ear that keeps the show's current audience in mind. Acknowledging the time in which the series itself has been created alongside when the show is set, Haslinger's bold and innovative scores have seen his Hollywood career escalate over the last two decades. The man behind the music for Blow, Resident Evil and Death Race has become one of the industry's most sought after composers. WA-32050219|Vinyl LP pressing. Over its 35-year career, Anthrax has been a pioneering band with its unique style, sound and heavy brand of thrash metal, and, as Metallica's Kirk Hammett put it, "one can hear their influence on any number of up and coming bands." The band has sold in excess of 10-million records, received multiple Gold and Platinum certifications, six Grammy nominations and a host of other accolades from the media, industry and fans. For All Kings is the band's first studio album in over three years following their 2011 Grammy-nominated effort Worship Music. The talents of Jay Ruston, who first worked with the band on the final stages of Worship Music, was enlisted as producer for the new album. "He's become an intregal part of our process, that's for sure," said Scott Ian. "It's cliche, but he really has become a sixth member." WA-32173574|LIVE BEAT TAPES - L.B.T (Live Beat Tapes) is a collective formed of hip hop producers, jazz musicians, rappers and singers. - We took the format of a mixtape into the creation process, initially looking at every episode as a whole, ultimately producing long flowing volumes of original tunes with seamless transitions. A new way of making and listening to music emerged. - A typical Live Beat Tapes session begins with the rhythm section - The drummer starts to improvise on few different tempos and grooves for around an hour until we hit the sweet spot. After that comes the mighty bass, starting the first sprouts of harmony and revealing the backbone for the episode. This creates a solid start for the rest of the musicians to jam on. Keys, guitars, percussions, samples, brass and words join in, each giving another layer. When it feels right we start to mix it. WA-32170504|Seven inch colored vinyl pressing. 2016 DMC online world champion DJ Brace, who also has a Juno (Canadian Grammy) for best instrumental album in his trophy case, presents his 2017 single æBeyondÆ, on colored vinyl 7". B-side treats include his critically acclaimed single, SMH (never before available on wax) and a skip proof scratch sentence! Featured artists include Lollybone (Milk and Bone), Kabanjak (Luvah/Switchstance) and DJ Vekked (6X World DJ Champion). WA-32171297|Desert Island-Worthy Paradise and Lunch Will Renew Your Faith in Music: Diverse 1974 Ry Cooder Effort Comes on Like a Secret History of Song, Features Exquisite Interplay. Mastered by Mobile Fidelity from the Original Master Tapes and Strictly Limited to 2000 Numbered Copies: Hybrid SACD of Paradise and Lunch Graced With Organic Sound and Stunning Colors. WA-32171327|Bob Dylan 'Bob Dylan' on Numbered Limited Edition Mono Hybrid SACD from Mobile Fidelity. Understated 1962 Debut Launched Immeasurably Influential Career: Inspired by Woody Guthrie and Blues Legends, Bob Dylan Is Clearest Connection to Singer's Purist Folk Roots. The Sound Dylan Always Wanted You to Hear: Strictly Limited to 3,000 Copies, Mobile Fidelity Mono SACD Delivers Dylan's Voice, Acoustic Guitar, and Harmonica With Unparalleled Directness. WA-32171365|Limited Mobile Fidelity SACD hybrid pressing. ItÆs the album the ignited sea changes in pop culture, music, songwriting, poetry, and the social consciousness. ItÆs the creation of a 22-year-old visionary still years away from casting a jaundiced eye to the media. ItÆs the sound of change, the feeling of ground shifting beneath oneÆs feet, and the entrance of an entirely new way of thinking. This is the very finest, most transparent digital stereo edition of The FreewheelinÆ Bob Dylan ever produced. Never before has the resonance of his nylon guitar strings, fingerpicked notes, shivering harmonica fills, or plainspoken timbre possessed such clarity, openness, body, or realism. Exponentially surpassing the potential he demonstrated on his debut, Dylan became a mirror of the concerns, issues, and feelings confronting the nation. Writing and singing with penetrating honesty, observational wit, moral conviction, and scathing emotion, he digs into the madness of war (ôMasters of War,ö ôA Hard RainÆs A-Gonna Fallö), hypocrisy of segregation (ôOxford Townö), urgency of civil rights and freedom (ôBlowinÆ in the Windö), and multiple angles of unrequited love (ôGirl From the North Country,ö ôDonÆt Think Twice ItÆs All Rightö) with a literate astuteness and depth that, nearly 50 years later, still leave audiences slack-jawed. Satire, absurdist humor, and traditional blues also pepper the album, which rests upon graceful melodies and sparse, poignant patterns. Viewed as protest songs, love songs, folk songs, or talking blues songs, the material on The FreewheelinÆ Bob Dylan remains amongst the most astonishing and imaginative ever committed to tape. It deservesùas much as you deserveùa fidelity that makes as closely intimate as possible the musicÆs connection with you. You deserve this edition. WA-32171372|Limited Mobile Fidelity SACD hybrid pressing. Immediately distinguished by the you're-either-with-us-or-against-us messages of the landmark title track, Bob Dylan's The Times They Are A-Changin' sounds an unmistakable clarion call on behalf of progress and its unstoppable advancement. One of the Bard's trademark songs, it remains a timeless anthem with a clear sense of common purpose, a musical line in the sand that helped unite various social movements and multiple generations. The reverential 1964 record feeds off the opening tune and its unmistakable sentiments, marching forward to confront racism, poverty, injustice, and upheaval in a stark, immediate manner unlike few albums before or since. Marking a shift from the looseness and comedy that pepper the preceding The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin' skirts any attempt at humor, sarcasm, or goofiness in favor of utmost seriousness and severity. Seemingly anticipating the dark events surrounding President Kennedy's assassination and the turmoil that followed, Dylan eliminates with conjecture and disguise. Akin to dispatches from the typewriter of literary icons John Steinbeck and William Faulkner, his songs give voices to the voiceless, challenge cultural precepts, upend traditional beliefs with rapier wit and truths, and underline tragedies swept under the rug. As correctly relayed by Dylan expert and cultural critic Greil Marcus, "[The record] forever fixed Bob Dylan in the popular imagination: the protest singer, the young man æable to see through metal' (again, from Chronicles), to see through the lie and find the truth, then to hammer the truth into words and send them out with a voice that would never break." WA-32171310|Limited Mobile Fidelity SACD hybrid pressing. The ever-evasive Bob Dylan never explicitly stated exactly what represented the another side of himself referenced in the title to his second 1964 record. Yet the whimsical moods, hallucinogenic prose, humorous angles, transparent mistakes, and noncommittal themes give a pretty clear idea at what the Bard hinted as he emerged from being labeled as a reluctant generation spokesperson and folk savior after releasing two highly intellectual, socially pioneering sets replete with protest songs. Dylan needed to take a breath, step back from the drama, and reevaluate his surroundings. The uninhibited joie de vive is discernible in the rattling piano lines on æBlack Crow BluesÆ, seemingly subconscious ramble of the hysterical folk rhyming of æMotorpsycho NightmareÆ, bluesy dream sequencing throughoutÆ I Don't Believe YouÆ, and intentionally out-of-tune yodeling during æAll I Really Want to DoÆ. On a majority of the prized set, Dylan let's his guard down, but does so in clever manners that speak to his surrealist imagination and biting wit. He possesses the rare ability to make planned strategies appear spontaneous, to challenge audiences with stinting wordplay and minimalist melodies that provide a deceptive false security. WA-32171334|1965's Bringing It All Back Home Blows Up Boundaries, Styles, Practicalities: Bob Dylan Pairs With a Band on Side One, Goes It Alone on Astonishing "Thought Dream" Odysseys on Side Two. Superior Sonics, Original Mono Mix, Meticulously Mastered: Strictly Limited to 3,000 Copies, Mobile Fidelity's Transparent-Sounding Mono SACD the Last Word in Fidelity. WA-32171341|Limited Mobile Fidelity SACD hybrid pressing. Its title references the road that spans North Minnesota to the Mississippi Delta, and the formative blues, country, and roots sounds connected to its existence. The highway also lays claim to towering musical myths and deaths, many tied to the blues lexicon and narrative. All figure prominently on the revolutionary beacon that is Highway 61 Revisited, the 1965 set that overturned rules, upended preexisting limits, and utterly changed everything in its path. Ranked the fourth-greatest album ever made by Rolling Stone, its reach, power, and content boggle the mind nearly five decades after its release. Teeming with organic energy, palpable voltage, and countless textures, the disc faithfully recreates the dimensions, vibes, and events associated with the six days Dylan and Co. spent at Columbia's Studio A. Everything from the soundstages to dynamics, instrumental separation to balances, resonates with enormous might and insightful perspective. Recorded amidst a time of unfathomable turmoil and frustration that witnessed Dylan booed by fans, labeled a traitor, and call into question his work, Highway 61 Revisited roars and snarls, jabs and criticizes. Its bonfire of cynicism, fury, indignation, and absurdity forever transformed rock, what it could mean, and what it could do. Supported by a thundering, commanding band that included guitarist Mike Bloomfield and organist Al Kooper, Dylan hopscotches between tempos, moods, and melodies. The symmetry of the songs references a scattered hybrid of R&B, blues, folk, soul, gospel, vaudeville, and garage rock pieces that Dylan assembles in the shape of a brilliant, brain-teasing aural puzzle. At its core, Highway 61 Revisited is about experience, reality, and the cruelties and truths that lie outside soporific safety nets and bourgeois ideals. These reasons - and the bold musicianship, ace performances, inimitable sonics, and vast lyrical expanses - are why the album means as much today as it did in the mid-1960s. Akin to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Dark Side of the Moon, this is an album that everyone needs to own and hear in the best-possible fidelity. Don't delay. WA-32171358|Limited numbered hybrid SACD pressing on Mobile Fidelity. Leave it to Bob Dylan to follow three of the most pioneering electric-based albums in history by again deviating from the norm and straying from expectation. Hinting at a return to his folk roots and firmly pointing toward the field that became country rock, John Wesley Harding breathes with relief and freshness, the sound of an artist re-engaging with the past, forging a future, and stepping into new realms after recovering from an accident and unimaginable pressure. This restored SACD version presents the 1967 album with the finite details and impressionistic tones. Immediately notable for the slimmed-down instrumentation, brisk flow, and simple approach, the record continues to endure via a rustic, era-defying naturalism tied to the organic sounds and warm production swathing DylanÆs acoustic guitar, mellow voice, breezy harmonica, and minor accompaniments. Recorded around the same time as the sessions that yielded The Basement Tapes, John Wesley Harding came together after just three studio sessions and approximately 12 hours of time. While many specifics are shrouded in mystery, a majority of songs are tied to Biblical figures, ominous matters, and morality themes. Climbing to #2 on the Billboard charts and quickly tallying one million in sales, the pared-down work resonated with a public ensnared by its myriad charms. Then, of course, thereÆs the utter brilliance of every one of the songs here, each seemingly occupying a timeless space that suggests they couldÆve been made in 1967, 1937, or 2007. With ôAll Along the Watchtower,ö Dylan landed upon a tune that would soon become one of the most-covered and revered tracks in history. And yet it isnÆt even a standout on an album on which every note just belongs. WA-32171303|Limited numbered hybrid SACD from Mobile Fidelity mastered From the original master tapes. Most everyone knows The Knack's Get the Knack because of the ubiquitous smash "My Sharona," a contagious hit that still plays countless times every day on radio stations nationwide. But the appeal and significance of the Los Angeles quartet's 1979 debut extend far beyond the career-making single. Loaded with tight power pop, hummable hooks, blunt lyrics, and precision playing, the controversy-igniting Get the Knack resonates with an ageless freshness that's influenced everyone from Kurt Cobain to modern indie artists such as the Mountain Goats. Mobile Fidelity's 180gm LP of Get the Knack brings the record's urgent harmonies, keen melodies, bell-clear tones, and snapping percussion out of the shadows and into the limelight. Graced with large-scale frequency extension and ample separation, the Knack's feisty music now teems with added energy, body, and immediacy. Absent the dynamic compression that squelched previous reissues, this numbered limited-edition audiophile analog version blossoms with detail, openness, and brashness. A guilty pleasure to some and new-wave classic to many others, Get the Knack is so attitudinal it spawned one of the industry's most famous backlashes. WA-32175455|Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil, op. 37 - Glori" Dei Cantores releases All-Night Vigil, Op. 37 by Sergei Rachmaninoff, conducted by Peter Jermihov (internationally recognized specialist in Russian and Orthodox Liturgical music). Rachmaninoff s All Night Vigil is made up of texts taken from the Russian Orthodox All-night vigil ceremony. Critics praised the work as Rachmaninoff s finest achievement and the greatest musical achievement of the Russian Orthodox Church. It was also one of the composer s favorite compositions, and the fifth movement was sung at his funeral. Glori" Dei Cantores is joined by members of the St. Romanos Cappella, The Patriarch Tikhon Choir, and The Washington Master Chorale. Protodeacon under the First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Vadim Gan, sings the clergy exclamations as well as Dmitry Ivanchenko. Soloists, Dmitry Ivanchenko and Mariya Berezovska, from the National Opera of Ukraine in Kiev, join the choir of 77 singers for this landmark collaboration and recording. WA-32171709|Silvia is the name of a Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW "New German Wave") project created Tommi Stumpff and Silvia Nemanic. The pair met in Dⁿsseldorf in the late 1970s and started dating when Tommi was the singer of punk band Der KFC. Silvia was absolutely inexperienced in musical things, she said, "I've played the recorder." Tommi rented Klangwerkstatt studio for a few days in January 1982 to record his an album with his bandmate Ferdinand Mackenthun aka KΣpt'n Nuss of Der KFC, but finished earlier than expected. With one extra day that was already paid for, they quickly wrote some more songs and recorded them. All they needed was a singer, so they asked Silvia. Simply titled "Silvia