Alternative / Indie CDs

Hey, ho, let’s go. Rhino celebrates the Ramones’ indelible musical legacy with reissues of the pioneering group’s first four albums on 180-gram vinyl. Ramones, Leave Home, Rocket To Russia and Road To Ruin look amazing and come in accurate reproductions of the original packaging. More importantly, t...

Hey, ho, let’s go. Rhino celebrates the Ramones’ indelible musical legacy with reissues of the pioneering group’s first four albums on 180-gram vinyl. Ramones, Leave Home, Rocket To Russia and Road To Ruin look amazing and come in accurate reproductions of the original packaging. More importantly, t...

Hey, ho, let’s go. Rhino celebrates the Ramones’ indelible musical legacy with reissues of the pioneering group’s first four albums on 180-gram vinyl. Ramones, Leave Home, Rocket To Russia and Road To Ruin look amazing and come in accurate reproductions of the original packaging. More importantly, t...

After two hugely acclaimed albums - Arular in 2005 & Kala in 2007 - the global success of Paper Planes, Oscar & Grammy nominations & the birth of her first child, M.I.A. is set to release her new album, /\/\ /\ Y /\, which sees her as incendiary & forward thinking as ever. Recorde...

After two hugely acclaimed albums - Arular in 2005 & Kala in 2007 - the global success of Paper Planes, Oscar & Grammy nominations & the birth of her first child, M.I.A. is set to release her new album, /\/\ /\ Y /\, which sees her as incendiary & forward thinking as ever. Recorde...

Warner Music New Zealand are thrilled to announce the arrival of The Earlybirds via a distribution deal with the bands' Little Arrows label. This deal will see the release of The Earlybirds debut L.P 'FAVOURITE FEARS' this August 2010. Great friends since high school, the young and fearless ...

Ever since going solo in the early 1990s, Paul Weller has pulled consistently further away from his mod-rock origins toward an organic singer/songwriter sound, and 22 DREAMS finds him bringing that process as close to perfection as one could reasonably expect. Sure, the soul influences that have alw...

The great English singer-songwriter Billy Bragg releases a further four of his most acclaimed albums - dating from 1988 to 2002 - on second box set ‘Billy Bragg Volume 2’. The box set features eight CDs and one DVD with a wealth of rare and previously unreleased tracks. The bonus DVD &l...

The Clean includes: David Kilgour, Hamish Kilgour, Robert Scott, Peter Gutteridge. What the critics say... Spin (3/03, p.120) - 8 out of 10 - "...New Zealand's the Clean played surf rock like it was a winter sport, expanding jangle pop into boundless exotica..." Entertainment Weekly...

The Strokes: Julian Casablancas (vocals); Nick Valensi, Albert Hammond, Jr. (guitar); Nikolai Fraiture (bass); Fab Moretti (drums).Recorded at TMF Studios, New York, New York.After the hype--and subsequent backlash--over the Strokes' debut album, IS THIS IT, many fans and skeptics alike came to real...

Strangeland is the upcoming fourth studio album by English alternative rock band Keane. It will be released from 4 May 2012 through Island Records. It is their first full length album since Perfect Symmetry (2008), as well as the first to feature bassist Jesse Quin as a permanent official member.

"Born to Die" is the second single by American singer Lana Del Rey, to be released on late January / early February , 2012. Wherever it is you fall on the LDR internet-sympathy spectrum — be it “with great cosmetic enhancement comes great responsibility,” or Chris Crocker-styled LEAVE LANA ALONE,...

2011 debut album from the Indie rockers. Produced by Paul Epworth (Adele/Florence and the Machine), Rich Costey (Muse/Interpol), and Greg Kurstin (Beck/Red Hot Chili Peppers), Torches delivers on both the promise of their breakthrough chart-topping single 'Pumped Up Kicks' and the promise of this yo...

Since 2004, Alesana have earned a reputation for their energetic and memorable live shows, and the raw, honest intensity of their albums. In 2005, Alesana was the first band to join Tragic Hero Records and soon released their breakthrough album On Frail Wings of Vanity and Wax. With a musical s...

DVD details tbc... Sinners Never Sleep is an upcoming 3rd full length record from English alternative rock band You Me At Six. The album is currently set to be released October 3, 2011 through Virgin in the UK, Australia and New Zealand regions. The first single to be released from the album is "...

“A Fistful of Doo-Riffs” is the next instalment from Auckland's favourite intergalactic surf punk hillbillies, The Drab Doo-Riffs. This limited edition, special CD digipak release led by charismatic frontman Karl Steven (ex - Supergroove) is the band's third release after their first two, hugely ...

Zach Condon's music often parallels the exotic mysteries of world travel. Since Beirut's last album, 2007's The Flying Club Cup, sang a love-letter to France (with a 2009 stop-off in Mexico for the March of the Zapotec EP), many asked where his songs would voyage next, but few predicted the inward j...

Zach Condon's music often parallels the exotic mysteries of world travel. Since Beirut's last album, 2007's The Flying Club Cup, sang a love-letter to France (with a 2009 stop-off in Mexico for the March of the Zapotec EP), many asked where his songs would voyage next, but few predicted the inward j...

Following on from the ARIA award-winning album 'Cruel Guards' comes the brilliant new album from The Panics 'Rain On The Humming Wire'. At once their most dynamic and electric album, it's also their most tender and poetic. Recorded in upstate New York at the acclaimed Dreamland Studios located just ...

In The Name Of / Columbia Records announce the self-tilted, full-length debut from enigmatic, pop duo Cults. The album will be released June 10th (New Zealand) and includes some of the bands most coveted, first released tracks: “Go Outside,” “Most Wanted,” and “Oh My Go...

With the release of their second full-length As the Eternal Cowboy, AGAINST ME! had firmly established themselves as a genre defying success. The band was drawing praise from seemingly every corner of the industry and with mention of a third album in the works, fans, tastemakers, critics, and ju...

This very specially priced 5-CD set contains the albums 'A Slight Case of Overbombing', 'Some Girls Wander by Mistake', 'First and Last and Always', 'Floodland', and 'Vision Thing'. Check out the 2nd image for the track listings to all 5 albums.

Spunk Records is proud to present  “Some Were Meant For Sea”, the debut album from Tiny Ruins. Its songs, composed  & performed by  Hollie Fullbrook, follow a year spent collaborating & performing internationally in which the young artist’s  worldly voic...

 Relentless, Reckless Forever is the seventh album by Finnish melodic death metal band  Children of Bodom.    Recorded in Finland's Petrax Studios with famed rock producer Matt Hyde (Slayer, Monster  Magnet), Relentless Reckless Forever is the seventh studio album of Chi...

Debut solo album from Incubus Singer Brandon Boyd. Following their last studio album ‘Light Grenades’, Incubus members each took a brief period of time to explore their own interests. A prolific artist, Brandon began plucking away on an acoustic guitar and it organically evolved into ...

Strangeland is the upcoming fourth studio album by English alternative rock band Keane. It will be released from 4 May 2012 through Island Records. It is their first full length album since Perfect Symmetry (2008), as well as the first to feature bassist Jesse Quin as a permanent official member.

Roadkill Rising is a compilation box set release of Iggy Pop's music, released by Shout! Factory on May 17, 2011. The set contains a 4-CD set of newly remastered bootleg tracks from live Iggy Pop shows. Sequenced by decade, the set focuses on key songs by The Stooges and tracks culled from Pop&rsquo...

 The eagerly anticipated debut album from Megan Washington; I BELIEVE YOU, LIAR. The album was recorded in the back yard shed in the home of Megan's co-conspirator and collaborator, John Castle's parents in Melbourne over a period of months this year.  Inspired by childhood, mortality, ...

Kiss Each Other Clean is the fourth studio album by Iron & Wine, released January 25, 2011 via 4AD (worldwide) and Warner Bros. in the US. The song "Tree by the River" has also been released, for free download, on Iron & Wine's website. On January 5 Iron and Wine performed all ...

More than three decades after the release of its visionary debut, “Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo”, and a full 20 years since its last studio album, Devo is back with the aptly titled “SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY” DEVO is: GERALD CASALE - Bass Guitar, Bass Synthesizer, Voc...

Following on from the success of 'City' and 'The Wind Is Up', indie folk champions George and Queen release their third album 'Teenagers and Grownups'. With a stellar performance at BDO 2009 and a trail of Alt radio #1s since their last release, the husband and wife duo of Immi Patterson and Neil...

'Falcon' is the second album from Manchester based outfit The Courteeners. The album was produced by Ed Buller (Suede, Pulp) and mixed at the legendary Electric Lady Studios in New York by Michael Brauer, the album sees the four piece build upon their sound, creating a set of impressive soaring indi...

After some time apart seeing other people and places, Sweden's Shout Out Louds got back together for their third full-length album Work. The album was recorded in Seattle's Bear Creek Studio and is produced by Phil Ek (Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses, The Shins, Built To Spill, and Modest Mouse). Lea...

More than clever verses and catchy choruses, truly timeless albums offer listeners the keys to another world; they catapult you into another frame of mind and jostle your soul a little bit along the way. 'Broken Side of Time' by Alberta Cross' is one of those albums. A cathartic, kaleidoscope of ...

Lightspeed Champion, the incredible brain child of former Test Icicles guitarist Dev Hynes, has returned with his second album, Life is Sweet! Nice To Meet You. The follow-up to 2008's Falling Off the Lavender Bridge is an epic collection of twelve pop songs, two instrumental intermissions and one p...

James Mercer and Brian Burton a/k/a Danger Mouse have completed work on the first album by their new and ongoing band Broken Bells. The album features 10 melodically seductive and psychologically provocative songs co-written and performed by Mercer and Burton. Titles include &quo...

To close out an incredible 2009 for Animal Collective that saw the release of their most critically and commercially successful album, Merriweather Post Pavilion, comes the Fall Be Kind EP. The EP features 5 brand new studio tracks that are every bit as lush and beautiful as those found on Merriweat...

‘Mo Beauty’ is the debut solo release from celebrated singer / songwriter Alec Ounsworth, who has earned acclaim of late with his band Clap Your Hands, Say Yeah. Ounsworth has crafted a collection of songs that pick up where Clap Your Hands, Say Yeah left off. ‘Mo Beauty’ ...

Death Cab for Cutie has announce the release of their hugely anticipated new album - “CODES AND KEYS”   The album marks the first all-new DCFC release since 2009, which saw the release of the single, “Meet Me On The Equinox” (featured on THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON -...