Release Date: 2008-10-31, Audio CD, Pike Records

Release Date: 2008-10-31, Audio CD, Pike Records

From the same team behind the highly collectable "Indie Top 20" compilation series comes a fresh set of 21st Century independent tracks. Tracks come the likes of Bloc Party, The Rakes, Babyshambles, Arcade Fire, The Delays, Dogs Die In Hot Cars, The Kills, The Motorettes and many more. It's a double disc, ready made collection with all the just right tracks.

Since first breaking into the mainstream in 2004 with their hit, "Float On", platinum-selling artist Modest Mouse has broken boundaries for indie music. Their impressive back catalog has become essential for hardcore fans to own, and they are often treated with b-sides and rare tracks from the band. No One's First and You're Next is a collection of newly recorded songs from the We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank and Good News for People Who Love Bad News sessions, as well as two rare b-sides. Three 7" limited edition, hand-numbered singles were released over the course of 3 months, all leading up to the release of this comprehensive collection of songs, including two additional tracks, King Rat and I've Got it All (Most). This is sure to be a must-have for their dedicated fanbase.

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Since first breaking into the mainstream in 2004 with their hit, "Float On", platinum-selling artist Modest Mouse has broken boundaries for indie music. Their impressive back catalog has become essential for hardcore fans to own, and they are often treated with b-sides and rare tracks from the band. No One's First and You're Next is a collection of newly recorded songs from the We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank and Good News for People Who Love Bad News sessions, as well as two rare b-sides. Three 7" limited edition, hand-numbered singles were released over the course of 3 months, all leading up to the release of this comprehensive collection of songs, including two additional tracks, King Rat and I've Got it All (Most). This is sure to be a must-have for their dedicated fanbase.

Stunning debut single from UK girl group who met on Popstars - The Rivals. Features three tracks, 'Download It' (Radio Edit), 'Mind Games', & 'Download It' (Sergio Mix). Includes four exclusive video still postcards. 1967 Ltd. 2003.

On vacation in Los Angeles, Walter, the world's biggest Muppet fan, his brother Gary (Jason Segel) and Gary's girldfriend Mary (Amy Adams) from Smalltown, USA, discover the nefarious plan of oilman Tex Richman (Chris Cooper) to raze the Muppet Theater and frill for the oil recently discovered beneath the Muppets' former stomping grounds. To stage The Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever and raise the 10 million dollars needed to save the theater, Walter, Mary and Gary help Kermit reunite the Muppets, who have all gone their separate ways: Fozzie now performs with a Reno casino tribute band called the Moopets, Miss Piggy is a plus-size fashion editor at Vogue Paris, Animal is in a Santa Barbara clinic for anger management, and Gonzo is a high-powered plumbing magnate. The Longest Blooper Reel Ever Made (In Muppet History - we think...), Soundtrack Download Card. Subtitles: English SDH (Subtitles for Deaf and Hearing Impaired), French, Spanish.

Personnel: James Hanna (vocals, acoustic guitar); Yuki Chikudate (vocals, piano, toy piano, glockenspiel, percussion).Audio Mixer: Billy Pavone.Recording information: Olympic Studios, London, England (12/02/2008).Photographer: Billy Pavone.Asobi Seksu's fourth album, Rewolf is another step away from the bright and bubbly dream/shoegaze pop they started off playing on their first two albums. Combining the feather-light vocals of Yuki Chikudate, the alternately shimmering and grinding guitars of James Hanna, and a fine ability to craft songs with both sonic and melodic hooks, the band seemed set to redefine both dream pop and shoegaze for a new generation of the genres' fans. Instead, Asobi Seksu reinvented themselves on Hush, stripping away most of the guitars and replacing them with icy synths and lush arrangements. The songs, too, were cold and restrained; most of the color the band had splashed on its songs was drained away and replaced with gloomy shades of gray. The reimagining of the Asobi Seksu sound wa

Doug is a plainspoken oracle of the highest water, an old-fashioned reporter of the heart; the truth that comes out of his mouth flows like the proverbial mountain creek but hits like the proverbial avalanche. And these are the sorts of proverbs you were forced to forget the moment you were born. You need reminding, we all do; every time you take a punch you need to be reminded of the sun and the moon, and the earth and the sea, and other transient states. Doug reminds us of what we're made to forget. He's been through the dark places, walking, riding, driving. It ain't always about the way out. More often it's just about the way on. He traces out those pathways with just the curl of his lip, and that bow-and-arrow picking, and words of elemental elegance. And a steady gaze - I haven't known Doug all that long but I don't recall ever seeing him look away from anything.

Doug is a plainspoken oracle of the highest water, an old-fashioned reporter of the heart; the truth that comes out of his mouth flows like the proverbial mountain creek but hits like the proverbial avalanche. And these are the sorts of proverbs you were forced to forget the moment you were born. You need reminding, we all do; every time you take a punch you need to be reminded of the sun and the moon, and the earth and the sea, and other transient states. Doug reminds us of what we're made to forget. He's been through the dark places, walking, riding, driving. It ain't always about the way out. More often it's just about the way on. He traces out those pathways with just the curl of his lip, and that bow-and-arrow picking, and words of elemental elegance. And a steady gaze - I haven't known Doug all that long but I don't recall ever seeing him look away from anything.

In the 21st century world of the Internet and digital downloads, the notion that recorded music can be an actual object as well as an auditory moment in time is rapidly becoming a quaint concept, and it changes to some extent the way recorded music travels through this world. These days, of course, it's stored on servers and portable handheld devices, gazillions of bytes of ones and zeros that are transferred mysteriously and sight unseen from one digital realm to another. But it wasn't always so. This wonderful, quirky, and fascinating anthology was compiled by Baltimore record shop owner Ian Nagoski from his personal collection of old 78s, brittle black discs made of ground stone, shellac and carbon that he found stacked and tucked away in countless thrift shops and attics. The 78s collected here were recorded all over the planet, from Bali to Scotland, and had somehow found their way into a stack of records in some dusty corner of a darkened attic, black mirrors, if you will, of their time in the world. Th

White Crosses' is as powerful and as bold a rock record as one can imagine. The band ­ roars like fighter jets screaming over a stadium on the anthemic title-track (with its shout along line about smashing the 4,000 crosses on a local church's lawn, ones that signify the number of babies aborted each day in the U.S.). Joining that is the escapist fury of 'Spanish Moss,' and the short stick of dynamite, 'Rapid Decompression.' New Wave eschewed some of the roughness of the band's earlier efforts, but 'White Crosses' goes even further in filling out the band's wallop. With its twinkling piano and a glorious whoa-oa chorus, 'Because Of The Shame' could be an outtake from Bruce Springsteen's classic 'Born To Run.' 'Ache With M' is a slow-jam that would make Paul Westerberg blush, while 'High Pressure Low' is Billy Idol meets fellow Gainesville, FL native Tom Petty. 'This is my Florida record,' says Gabel. 'I spent a lot of time writing this record while driving directionless on forgotten Florida state roads, highly caffeinated, with albums like [Petty's] 'Full Moon' Fever blasting on my stereo.

180 GRAM VINYL INCLUDES DIGITAL DOWNLOAD OF ENTIRE ALBUM (DIGITAL DOWNLOAD CARD INDLUDED; VALID UNTIL 3.15.2013) Doomsday scenarios are often predictive about an ending in life, revealing just what would occur if the world pushed itself to the brink of extinction. And the term "endgame" typically parallels such thinking, often evoking concepts of finality or termination. But for Rise Against, this particular endgame might just be their beginning. As the title of the band's sixth full-length studio album--and the moniker of the album's title track--Endgame is indicative of both a world that has run its course, and perhaps ushering in an entirely new start. "It's about a dangerous time in civilization, the end of life," says vocalist/guitarist Tim McIlrath. "What if the life that we're living right now is this unsustainable bubble that cannot go on and perhaps does not deserve to go on? What if the world we created is a place that is so unnatural and ugly that it is a world that needs to come to an end, so that we could have a world that is better for everybody? It sounds very utopian, but it's not about a perfect place, but maybe some of these things we're doing, they need to come to an end." McIlrath, bassist Joe Principe, drummer Brandon Barnes and guitarist Zach Blair have been making these striking personal and political statements, and providing prompts of great magnitude throughout their remarkable catalog by offering songs that aren't just merely sung, but very much thought about. And it's thought that has made Rise Against such an important band to its ever-expanding fanbase. For the Chicago-based punk group, the creation of dialogue and discourse with listeners has allowed for a response and career trajectory that's been overwhelmingly positive since the band's launch over a decade ago. Rise Against's previous effort, 2008's Appeal to Reason, further escalated the noteworthy attention already generated by prior successes, including The Sufferer and the Witness (2006) and Siren Song for the Counterculture (2004), which had provided such hits as "Swing Life Away," "Ready to Fall," "Prayer of the Refugee" and "Savior." And Endgame simply picks up on such highlights. Endgame was largely assembled in the latter half of 2010. The band opted to return to production veterans Bill Stevenson and Jason Livermore at The Blasting Room in Fort Collins, Colo., and mixed with Chris Lord-Alge, who also worked on Rise Against's previous two albums. The album's first single, "Help Is On The Way" was inspired by McIlrath's recent visit during a retreat in New Orleans. "It was a post-Katrina New Orleans, and I was down at the Gulf, going to the Lower Ninth Ward, seeing the damage and meeting people," he recalls. "It was so eye opening to see how important the city was and to realize that a city like this existed within American borders at all and to see how much it was hurting was something that was really emotional and dramatic." McIlrath notes that the song stems from a lot of that imagery that remains embedded in his thoughts. "I wanted to paint a picture of what happened down there and what is happening down there, and even though New Orleans is moving away from the spotlight a little bit, there's still a lot recovery that people don't see that takes place every day and it's still an important place in America and in the world. It's a place that should not be forgotten about. It's a hopeful title in a sense, but there are a couple different things, as in help is on the way but it never came. It still needs a lot more help, it still needs to happen." On Endgame, Rise Against also shifts the spotlight to homophobia via "Make it Stop," a topic McIlrath says really hasn't been addressed in the rock scene. The catalyst for the song occurred in September 2010, after a wave of gay teen suicides. According to McIlrath, the band received e-mails from gay fans who had contemplated suicide due to the harsh climates in which they live and the