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Paramore are back with their first new music since 2017. The beloved Nashville-based trio of Zac Farro, Hayley Williams& Taylor Yorkhave returned from their hiatus -and the global pandemic -with �This Is Why�, one of the best songs of their already impressive repertoire. In what�s widely recognized as one of the most exciting musical returns of the year, the band have also announced the release of their long awaited sixth studio album, This is Why, for February 10th 2023. Recorded in Los Angeles, California with long-time collaborator Carlos de la Garza, the album features 10 new Paramore songs with cover art shot by Zachary Gray.

Entering back into a world -and cultural landscape -very different from the one they last participated in, Paramore have returned with a song about exactly that. �This Is Why� is a deliciously infectious Paramore ear-worm for the post-truth world. Of the song, Williams says, �This Is Why was the very last song we wrote for the album. To be honest, I was so tired of writing lyrics but Taylor convinced Zac and I both that we should work on this last idea. What came out of it was the title track for the whole album. It summarizes the plethora of ridiculous emotions, the rollercoaster of being alive in 2022, having survived even just the last 3 or 4 years. You�d think after a global pandemic of fucking biblical proportions and the impending doom of a dying planet, that humans would have found it deep within themselves to be kinder or more empathetic or something.�

When Paramore revealed they were recording together in January 2022 the response from music fans around the world was immediate and celebratory. In the time since the Grammy-winning, RIAA-certified multi-Platinum band released their last album, After Laughter-and Hayley Williams unveiled two lauded solo albums -Paramore have become more popular than ever.� Over the last few years Paramore�s influence and popularity has snowballed, as the age of streaming organically propelled them into a position as one of the world�s biggest, most culturally compelling rock bands. For the band, who formed as teenagers in Tennessee, their 20 year trajectory has seen them grow from youthful outsiders to bone-fide pop culture icons, permeating the musical landscape by inspiring a new generation of musical talent.

Andy Shauf�s songs unfold like short fiction: they�re densely layered with colorful characters and a rich emotional depth. On his new studio album Norm, Andy Shauf�s songwriting veers decidedly more oblique, hinting at sinister happenings and dark motivations. The result: an intoxicating collection of mellifluous melodies and beguiling lyrics. Levitating, synth-laden atmospherics drive Shauf�s storytelling on �Norm,� mixed by Neal Pogue (Tyler, the Creator).

In 2016, The Party catapulted Andy Shauf to indie notoriety, followed by 2020�s The Neon Skyline which landed Andy Shauf performances on Jimmy Kimmel Live! and CBS This Morning: Saturday, a Polaris Prize nomination, and mentions on several best-of lists � among them, a track on Barack Obama�s playlist and praise from Pitch- fork, The Atlantic, Esquire, Stereogum, and more.

We want to write a big album�something suited for radio, but our songs don�t follow conventional pop structures. Instead of choruses with universal themes, I write with a specificity that is new to me, narrowing in on the smallest details of our lives. The more we try to broaden our scope, the more we turn inward.

To keep ourselves from falling into old habits, we use instruments and gear that are new to us. We work alone and Patrick engineers. The sounds he creates are as foundational as any part he writes. We resist the urge to over edit or do too many takes. Unlike previous albums which have been more wall of sound, we make a point not to overpower my voice with a dense mix.

We name the album Pollen. It is about small things with big consequences: a particle, a moment, a choice. It is me in a fragile state; sometimes inhabited freely, sometimes reacted against. It is striving to remain in a moment without slipping into dread. It is about the way I can be undone by a very small thing."

The Rolling Stones celebrated their golden anniversary in 2012 and 2013 by embarking on the 50 & Counting Tour, a 30-show itinerary for North America and Europe. On December 15, 2012, the band took the stage at Newark, New Jersey�s Prudential Center for the final of 4 shows in the New York area. Featuring guest spots from The Black Keys, Gary Clark Jr., Lady Gaga, John Mayer, Bruce Springsteen, and Mick Taylor, the concert proved to be one of the most memorable shows in the band�s history.

The Melbourne-based five-piece CIVIC return with their visceral new sophomore album �Taken By Force� - aptly described by the band as �1984 meets Endless Summer.� CIVIC have reimagined the reckless intensity of�proto-punk for an era of endless uncertainty and have become one of the most exhilarating bands to emerge from the Melbourne-scene in recent years. 'Taken By Force' was produced by Radio Birdman frontman Rob Younger and mixed/mastered by Mike Young (Eddy Current, Total Control).

Pale Blue Eyes� debut album Souvenirs was recorded in the band�s Devonshire home studio in the summer of 2021. Following a string of digital singles, plus tours with Sea Power and The Besnard Lakes, the trio is set to release the album in September 2022 via Full Time Hobby. For fans of Primal Scream, New Order, Stereolab, and Ride. Limited Edition Indie Exclusive pressed on a random mix of recycled color vinyl.

Marrying psychedelic pop with folk and a touch of country, 'Earthling On The Road To Self Love' is the sublime debut album by Brisbane, Australia-based artist Baby Cool � the latest side project by Nice Biscuit co-front woman Grace Cuell. Cuell says of the record, which follows her debut single 'Magic' and tours with Babe Rainbow and The Lazy Eyes: �The songs on this album are deeply sentimental. I have a lot I need to sing about to help me make sense of this earthly pod I have been gifted. If in singing these words out loud, I can help others find solace in knowing that we�re all out here flailing about in the cosmos, then it feels good to me.�

Recorded with Sam Joseph (Family Jordan), the songs on 'Earthling' were brought to life with the help of Jess Ferronato (Nice Biscuit), Nick Cavendish (Nice Biscuit) and Drew Heyden (The Flamingo Jones): "I had such a beautiful community of friends that helped bring this whole thing to life. There was magic and love in every part of the process of creating this album.�

This land runs through Katherine Paul�s blood. And it called to her. In dreams she saw the river,� her ancestors, and her home. When the land calls, you listen. And KP found herself far from her ancestral lands during a time of collective trauma, when the world was wounded and in need of healing. In 2020 she made the journey from Portland back to the Skagit River, back to the cedar trees that stand tall and shrouded in fog, back to the tide flats and the mountains, back to Swinomish.

It is a powerful thing to return to our ancestral lands and often times the journey is not easy. Like the salmon through the currents, like the tide as it crawls to shore this is a story of return. It is the call and response. It is the outstretched arms of the people who came before, welcoming her home. The Land, The Water, The Sky is a celebration of lineage and strength. Even in its deepest moments of loneliness and grief, of frustration over a world wrought with colonial violence and pain, the songs remind us that if we slow down, if we listen to the waves and the wind through the trees, we will remember to breathe.

There is a throughline of story in every song, a remembrance of knowledge and teachings, a gratitude of wisdom passed down and carried. There is a reimagining of Sedna who was offered to the sea, and a beautiful rumination on sacrifice and humanity, and what it means to hold the stories that work to teach us something.

Chord progressions born out of moments of sadness and solitude transform into the islands that sit blue along the horizon. The Salish Sea curves along her homelands, and when the singer is close to this water she is reminded of her grandmother, how she looked out at these same islands, and she�s held by spirit and memory.

The Land, The Water, The Sky rises and falls, in darkness and in light, but even in its most melancholy moments it is never despairing. That is the beauty of returning home. When you stand on ancestral lands it is impossible to be alone. You feel the arms and hands that hold you up, unwilling to let you fall into sorrow or abandonment. In her songs Katherine Paul has channeled that feeling of being held. In every note she has written a love letter to indigenous strength and healing.

There is a joy present here, a fierce blissfulness that comes with walking the trails along the river, feeling the sand and the stones beneath her feet. It is the pride and the certainty that comes with knowing her ancestors walked along the same land, dipped their hands into the water, and ran their fingertips along the same bark of cedar trees.

This is a story of hope, as it details the joy of returning. Katherine Paul�s journey home wasn�t made alone, and the songs are crowded with loved ones and relatives, like a really good party. And as the songs walk us through the land it is important we hover over the images and the beauty, the moments that mark this album as site specific. The power of this land is woven throughout, telling the story of narrow waterways, brush strokes, salmon stinta, and above all healing.

Let it take you. Move through the story and see the land through her eyes, because it is a gift, a welcomed sʔabadəb.*

*The word �gift� in Lushootseed, the language of the Coast Salish people�

Comprised of an amalgam of abrasive influence that spans�Swans-y dirge and�purge,�Whitehouse�s clenched-jaw noise, middle-period Ministry�s penchant for�metallic post-industrial everything,�New Order�s nose for melodic emotionality,�and�Juicy J-inspired beats,�Uniform & The Body�s approach delves deeper down�the rabbit hole than before, igniting a sonic world of terror and bliss poised to�grip the throats of fans yet again.

Much like the collective�s bombastic debut, the second album was built over a�series of collaborative sessions with�Seth Manchester at�Machines with�Magnets in Rhode Island, mixing industrial-influenced synths, squalls of harsh�noise, manipulated guitar, oodles of samples along with hard rock-inspired�riffs, saccharine pop, and the alternately antagonistic and harrowing vocals of�Michael Berdan and�Chip King. The result is nine tracks of ear-bleeding and�confrontational fury with defined moments of beauty that bring to mind equal�parts�No Trend,�Merzbow, and�Information Society while forging a path that�is distinctly their own.�

Sacred Bones is now repressing this second collaborative album on new colour�vinyl in celebration of the label�s15th year anniversary.

Truly great pop songs do not require a cheery outlook in order to�work, nor do they pander to expectations of syrupy sweet easy-listening. Rather, the best pop music is a matter of refinement and�pure intention, of dialing groove to melody so that the two might�puncture the malaise of everyday living in unison, revealing some�brief, sober truth about our shared human condition. On their�third LP, Moments of Clarity (Run for Cover), Narrow Head have�achieved precisely this feat. Traversing the depths of massive,�churning riffs, often distorted to the point of violence, bouncing, lock-grooved rhythms, and crystalline, gorgeously constructed hooks,�the Houston-based outfit puts on a masterclass in the art of writing�songs that match the pain, pleasure, and confusion of modern living.�Each track is sentimental without being precious, heavy without�unnecessary griminess, pop-forward without letting the listener off�the hook easy: these songs ask for some form of hurt or desire to be�paid back to them in return, some promise that the listener is putting�equal skin put into the game.

Moments of Clarity reflects this matured sense of purpose.�Longtime Narrow Head fans will undoubtedly still recognize the�band�s signature marriage of brutality and grace, and many of the�core themes of desolation, loss, and self-medication that the band�established on their prior records Satisfaction (2016, re-issued by�Run for Cover in 2021) and 12th House Rock (2020, Run for Cover)�continue to haunt the edges of Moments of Clarity. All the same,�Moment of Clarity rises above the darkness with a sense of elegant�repose, like a butterfly-winged figure-skater skimming the hardened�rim of a freezing black lake. While not exactly optimistic in outlook,�these songs simmer with a certain life affirming desire, a burning�passion to transcend pure cynicism and self-destruction, if only for�even a few seconds.

Post Malone�s 4th studio album, Twelve Carat Toothache, is his most intimate and personal opus to date. Throughout the 14 tracks, Post takes�us with him on his trials with fame, giving a glimpse into the irony of seemingly having it all, but feeling like nothing all at the same time. In an�interview with Billboard, Post explained he wants the new songs to �speak more to how I�m feeling at the moment: the ups and downs and the�disarray and the bipolar aspect of being an artist in the mainstream.� Indie Exclusive Lemon Yellow 2 LP.

Gen Z's self-proclaimed Baby G.O.A.T., Young Devyn is truly a student of many musical genres and her�dedication to her craft knows no bounds. As the Trinidadian proverb says, �Better belly buss than good food�waste." Only 17-years-old at the time, Young Devyn made history by becoming the youngest artist to�freestyle at the 2019 BET Hip Hop Awards Cypher.

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur is the highly anticipated animated series following 13-year-old super-genius Lunella Lafayette�(aka Moon Girl) and her 10-ton T-Rex, Devil Dinosaur, as they protect New York City's Lower East Side from danger.

BSS � the special sub-unit of SEVENTEEN � is officially releasing their first single album, SECOND WIND. BSS�stands for BooSeokSoon and is comprised of three SEVENTEEN members: SEUNGKWAN, DK and HOSHI. This�first release contains a CD, Outbox, Photo Book (88 pages), Lyric Book (8 pages), Photo Card (random 2 of 6),�Sticker, Habit Tracker Mini Card (random 1 of 3), BSS Mini Card (random 1 of 3) and Folded Poster. NA Retail�Exclusive: Postcard (random 1 of 3). Dimensions: 185 x 156 x 16 mm.

24 years after its initial release, Mogwai�s iconic second album �Come On Die Young� is to be reissued on coloured vinyl. Presented in a gatefold sleeve with original artwork, the white vinyl will come with a digital download code. Arriving in March 1999 with an album cover that referenced The Exorcist and a title scalped from a well-known Glasgow gang slogan, you�d have expected Mogwai�s �Come On Die Young� to be an apocalypse-harbouring, pre-millennial assault on the senses. Instead, we were treated to a darkly elegiac � surprisingly restrained � response to the aural fireworks of their �Young Team� debut from two years earlier.

Mogwai�s groundbreaking debut album �Young Team�, originally released in October 2007 is to be reissued in February 2023, remastered and refreshed on coloured vinyl, CD and digital. Housed in a gatefold sleeve with original artwork, the sky-blue vinyl will come with a digital download code. The original recording engineer for the album, Paul Savage, whose production credits include Franz Ferdinand and The Twilight Sad, has remastered the album for this special reissue. After a brace of critically acclaimed singles and a host of incendiary live shows, there was a palpable sense of anticipation over the release of Mogwai�s debut long player. Arriving 25 years ago, little has happened since to diminish its impact: stylistically at odds with what was rapidly becoming the fag-end of Britpop, �Young Team� was an obstreperous exercise in dynamics and fury � the unapologetically avant-garde nestled alongside tracks of poignant, delicate beauty.

Mercury-nominated artist Maps, aka James Chapman, presents his fifth studio album, Counter Melodies. Out February 10th on limited edition white vinyl and CD. The vinyl includes an A4 art print signed and individually numbered by Maps. Maps� music has always embraced melancholia, but with Counter Melodies Chapman was keen to produce something that was upbeat and uplifting, allowing him to journey far away from the dystopian news flow. The album is a new adventure through the familiar emotional terrain of the Maps sound, while also transporting you to more resolutely optimistic and hopeful places.

Following 5 BBC Folk Awards nominations and a designation by the Guardian as Folk Album of the Year in 2019, it is fair to say that Lisa O�Neill is one of the most evocative songwriters in contemporary Irish music today. Fresh off 2018�s collection Heard a Long Song Gone for the River Lea imprint, The Wren EP in 2019 and an adaptation of Bob Dylan�s ""All the Tired Horses"" for the final scene of epic TV drama Peaky Blinders, O'Neill now returns with her latest album, and first for the Rough Trade label, the beautiful, resonant All Of This Is Chance. A raconteur in the truest sense of the word, every story starts somewhere and O�Neill starts this extraordinary collection here on earth, on Irish soil, hands in the land. The album is full of both orchestral masterpieces like the ambitious and cinematic ""Old Note"", inspired by the great Monaghan writer Patrick Kavanagh's prescient meditation on The Great Hunger as well as stirring meditations on nature, birds, berries, bees, and blood that ring out over a clacking banjo, dusting and devastating all those in its wake. All Of This Is Chance takes Lisa�s inimitable voice to greater heights, or depths, depending on which way you look at it.

Matisyahu's third studio album featuring newly remastered audio and the single "One Day".�

Matisyahu's second studio album featuring newly remastered audio and the single "King Without A Crown".�

Jill Barber returns to her folk roots with her new album, "Homemaker", delivering ten quietly profound songs about the complexities of motherhood, marriage, and the struggle to feel at home in one�s own identity. Having spent the last 20 years playing nearly every folk and jazz festival in Canada and captivating audiences across the globe, touring Japan, Europe, Australia, Mexico, South America, the USA and the Middle East, It was over the past few years that Jill began to feel an increasing disparity between her public image and the reality of her domestic life as an exhausted wife and mother. Whereas her most recent albums have been bathed in lush string arrangements, "Homemaker" sees emotions laid bare, with a stripped-down production style reminiscent of her acclaimed debut Oh Heart and double Juno Award nominated follow-up For All Time. Written and recorded in her adopted hometown of Vancouver where she lives with her husband and two children, Homemaker is the first record that sees Jill in the role of a producer, co-producing with Erik Neilsen, and features some of Vancouver�s top session players. �"Homemaker" is an intentional push-back against the worn-out notion of what it means to be �just a homemaker�. It is a statement about the humility and strength that it takes to do the meaningful work of creating a home for others, while still holding space for your own dreams."