No matter how much Crystal Castles insist they're named after She-Ra's fortress and not the 1983 arcade favorite thanks to the Atari sound chips in their keyboards their music evokes vintage v...

Like their Elephant 6 labelmates and kindred spirits Olivia Tremor Control's Music From the Unrealized Film Script Dusk at Cubist Castle Neutral Milk Hotel's debut On Avery Island is an inscru...

Spacemen 3 - Sound of Confusion...

Drawing together some earlier material and a slew of new songs Spacemen 3 tied everything together on the brilliant Perfect Prescription the clear point of departure from tribute to psych inspirations...

Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms...

When Brand New released Deja Entendu in mid-2003 it caught a lot of their fans off guard. It found the band taking a stylistic leap forward from the clever (albeit cookie-cutter) pop-punk of their 200...

Sonny & Paul Gonsalves Stitt - Salt & Pepper...

After decades of influencing everyone from jazz musicians to hip-hop stars Pieces of a Man set a standard for vocal artistry and political awareness that few musicians will ever match. Scott-Heron'...

Dire Straits - Dire Straits...

Saint Vitus - Mournful Cries...

Even in the early part of the 21st century when everything from heavy metal dub to unlistenable lo-fi shoegazer mumblings gets rave reviews in the online press progressive rock still has a bad name. S...

Despite building a large fan base and enjoying chart success Massachusetts metallists Shadows Fall found themselves label-less prior to sessions began for their sixth studio album overall 2009's R...

In the heady days of the post-grunge mid-'90s it was hard to see who were real and who were pretenders -- and that didn't even take into account whose music would stand the test of time and wh...

Tempting as it may be Twang cannot be classified as a thematic counterpart to 2008's Troubadour an album that followed through on its rugged journeyman title. Once the opening title track twangs o...

Box Elders - Alice & Friends...

Sin salvation deliverance redemption the Holy Spirit divine intervention and prayer; it's all in a day's work for 16 Horsepower singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist David Eugene Edwards. On...

Naysayers listen up. Teignmouth England's Muse refuse to be the "next" Radiohead. Since forming in 1997 this alternative rock trio has continuously battled comparisons to the famed Oxfor...

If you're going to pillage someone else's ideas then go for broke. Because even if you find yourself crammed between the barriers of creative space utterly at a loss for ideas expression or th...

The musical touchstone for the British trio Muse is obviously Radiohead and that fact is crystal clear from the smoldering opening cut "Sunburn." Their John Leckie-produced debut Showbiz is ...

Leave it to Björk to make a concert release that can be treated as part of her regular body of work rather than a side note. While Björk fans have occasionally complained about the amount of...

After the high conceptualism that lorded over 2005's The Beekeeper and 2007's American Doll Posse singer and songwriter Tori Amos has decided to return to the relatively simple songs-as-songs ...

Not too many people outside of Canada and Scandinavia seemed to notice but Toronto-based trio Danko Jones were responsible for some of the most electrifying ass-kicking fearsomely focused hard rock of...

A year and a half after releasing the acclaimed Alopecia Why? returns with their fourth album Eskimo Snow. The two records are perfect foils: while last year’s release delivered intricate rhymes...

Michael Jackson - Thriller (25th Anniversary Picture Disc)...

Edward & The Magnetic Zeros Sharpe - Up from Below...

Unbeknownst to the public Freddie Mercury had been diagnosed with the AIDS virus in the late '80s. Although his health weakened by the '90s Mercury insisted that the band work on music until t...

In The Red is proud to announce the debut full-length album from Lafayette Indiana creepers TV Ghosta band who ushers in a vile and squalid new disposition to ugly art punk and carves out a black hole...

Black Angels - Passover...

Diana Krall - All for You...

Blink 182 - Buddha (Pic)...

Marking the 20th Anniversary of Nirvana's debut album Sub Pop will re-issue the Platinum Certified Bleach on November 3 2009. This expanded double-LP will include a never-before-released live perf...

Uncle Tupelo - Anodyne...

With Freedom of Choice Devo completed their transition into a full-fledged synth-pop group producing arguably their most musically cohesive effort in the process. Synthesizers are now fully integrated...

Volbeat - Rock the Rebel/Metal the Devil...

The title One Love is not only a complete turnaround from David Guetta's usual credo radio show moniker and mix album title F*** Me I'm Famous! it's also a misrepresentation if meant to in...

Entrance Band - Entrance Band...

Volbeat - Strength/The Sound/The Songs...

Trouble - Live in Los Angeles...

Roy Brown - Saturday Nite...

Jimmy Witherspoon - Hey Mr. Landlord...

Gerry Mulligan - In Sweden...

Eddie Boyd - Rattin' & Running Around...

Arthur Big Boy Crudup - Give Me a 32-20...

Arbee Stidham - My Heart Belongs to You...

Jimmy McCracklin - You Deceived Me...

Mercy Dee - G.I. Fever...

Lowell Fulson - Baby Won't You Jump with Me...

Andrew 'Smokey' Hogg - Too Late Old Man...

Stick McGhee - Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee...

Joe Liggins - Darktown Strutters Ball 1945-47...