Alternative / Indie CDs

Tunng are an experimental folk band from the United Kingdom. The band is often associated with the Folktronica genre due to the electronic influences evident in some of their work. Melodies from the English folk tradition meld with anthemic moments and communal sing-alongs. For Fans Of: British S...

Tunng are an experimental folk band from the United Kingdom. The band is often associated with the Folktronica genre due to the electronic influences evident in some of their work. Melodies from the English folk tradition meld with anthemic moments and communal sing-alongs. For Fans Of: British S...

'Grey-Eyed Girls' is the 2009 release from San Francisco's Fresh & Only's; a band led by Tim Cohen and Shayde Sartin. Their music is a combination of jangly garage-pop and psych-rock swagger. 

The Leisure Society is a band formed by Nick Hemming, formerly of early 1990s indie band She Talks To Angels. In 2006 Hemming moved to London to work with multi-instrumentalist and producer Christian Hardy; the pair have subsequently built a live band drawn from members of Brighton's Willkommen C...

The Sub Pop Records label celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2008 with, among other things, a 2-day music festival July 12th and 13th at Marymoor Park,  called SP20.  This is a collection of the performances from the SP20 festival.

Delorentos come storming out of the traps with a new album, You Can Make Sound, released on their own DeloRecords label through ADA Global on 9 October 2009. The band has announced a national tour of Ireland to coincide with the release. Having already given fans of the band an early taster of the a...

Fang Island is an American indie rock band formed in Providence, Rhode Island, and based in the Brooklyn section of New York City. The group consists of guitarists Jason Bartell, Chris Georges and Nicholas Andrew Sadler, bassist Michael Jacober, and drummer Marc St. Sauveur. Their self-titled debut ...

“Anglo-psychedelic master”-- The Independent / Over the past three decades, UK singer / songwriter / guitarist / painter / actor Robyn Hitchcock has amassed an extensive and distinguished body of work that has established him as one of rock music’s most respected and beloved iconoc...

Debut full-length from buzzy Florida band praised by NY Times 'Velvet Underground and punk riffs, reverberating textures, African-style guitar filigrees, grunge crescendos, power-pop choruses headed for anthems and, yes, some surfrock twang', SPIN 'you ll be hearing more from this band for sure', ...

  After the critical success of their debut album "Tijuana Sessions, Vol. 1" Tijuana's Electronica leaders Nortec Collective are back with their much-anticipated follow up album, "Tijuana Sessions Vol. 3". The Nortec Collective is compromised of a group of five musicial...

Heartland exists. The 3rd Final Fantasy full-length and the first for Domino, it is the product of nine months work in four countries. Heartland is a fully orchestral record, designed to exist simultaneously as an album, a 45-minute piece of orchestral music and a set of songs for looped violin a...

With golden voice and silver-dipped pen Grant-Lee Phillips presents another milestone in a career brimming with the like. 'Little Moon', his first album since 2007's 'Strangelet', is track after track of well-anchored classic American music -- rock and folk swirl under clouds of cinematic strings fo...

Broadcast and The Focus Group Present their first collaborative release “Broadcast And The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age” Broadcast is made up of Trish Keenan and James Cargill. Originally from Birmingham. Their aesthetic has remained a combination of their love...

Personnel: Tom Waits (vocals, guitar, piano); Roland Bautista (guitar); Plas Johnson (tenor & baritone saxophones); Michael Lang (piano); Ronnie Barron (organ); Larry Taylor, Greg Cohen (bass); "Big John" Thomassie (drums); Victor Feldman (percussion). Recorded at Filmways/Heider St...

Personnel: Tom Waits (vocals, guitar, piano); Roland Bautista, Ray Crawford, "Shine" Robinson (guitar); Frank Vicari, Herbert Hardesty (tenor saxophone); Da Wille Gonga, Harold Battiste (piano); Charles Kynard (organ); Byron Miller, Jim Hughart, Scott Edwards (bass); Rick Lawson, Chip White, Earl Pa...

"The essential document of New Zealand punk rock", 'AK79' was voted No. 10 'Best New Zealand Album' by Ripitup magazine. Originally released by Ripper Records in 1980, 'AK79' was an album that documented Auckland's punk and postpunk music scene of the late '70s. Over the ensuing year...

This is the first studio album in three years for Nick and The Bad Seeds - they have created 12 new songs of beauty and harsh reality. Yet, in typical fashion, they have made 'No More Shall We Part' both uplifting and melancholy. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds deliver once again, and that's GOOD NEW...

This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.The Strokes: Julian Casablancas (vocals); Nick Valensi, Albert Hammond Jr. (guitar); Nikolai Fraiture (bass instrument); Fab Moretti (drums).With 2006's FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF EARTH, the Strokes have not onl...

Personnel: Tom Waits (vocals, guitar, banjo, piano, Farfisa organ, pump organ, harmonium); Keith Richards (vocals, guitar); Chris Spedding, Robert Quine, G.E. Smith, Marc Ribot (guitar); Robert Musso (banjo); Ross Levinson (violins); William Shimmel (accordion); Ralph Carney (clarinet, bass saxophon...

The long awaited follow-up to 2007's Grammy-nominated gold-certified Wincing The Night Away, Port Of Morrow will be released March 19 via James Mercer’s own Aural Apothecary label and Columbia Records. Port of Morrow was recorded in Los Angeles and Portland over the course of 2011 with James Merc...

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D is the forth proper White Denim album in a confusing discography, which has encompassed different releases for the US and UK and a download only album from last year. Following on from these well-written garage rock albums, White Denim re-envisioned their sound, the psych-rock outfit entered th...

Six Organs of Admittance is the music of one man - San Francisco freak rock pioneer guitarist Ben Chasny (also of Comets on Fire) - along with whomever he ropes in for recording sessions and shows. This one-man band started in 1998 and has put out records consistently since, most notably on Holy ...

Baby Dee is a 57-year-old transgendered redhead from Ohio who plays harp and accordion and has collaborated with Marc Almond, Antony Hegarty and Will Oldham. The New York torch singer experienced something of a sleeper hit with her 2008 album Safe Inside The Day. A Book Of Songs For Anne Marie...

Psychedelic San Francisco garage-rockers Sic Alps follow up their 2008 full-length U.S. EZ with their forth full-length Napa Asylum. With 22 songs stretched over 45 minutes, is probably the best Sic Alps full-length so far. Building on their punk and garage rock core two-chord ditties bump up aga...

Chopped & Screwed is the live collaboration between London based musician Mica Levi aka Micachu and the London Sinfonietta Orchestra. The concert took place at King’s Place on May 10, 2010 a recently built and specially designed venue, treated to showcase the best in classical and acoustic...

Let England Shake was recorded in a 19th Century church in Dorset, on a cliff-top overlooking the sea. It was created with a cast of musicians including such long-standing allies as Flood, John Parish, and Mick Harvey. What is remarkable about Let England Shake is bound up with its music, its abidin...

Let England Shake was recorded in a 19th Century church in Dorset, on a cliff-top overlooking the sea. It was created with a cast of musicians including such long-standing allies as Flood, John Parish, and Mick Harvey. What is remarkable about Let England Shake is bound up with its music, its abidin...

NZ’s sweetheart indie-pop sirens Katie Scott & the Miss T’s fuse Joni Mitchell and Lily Allen on their charming debut album That’s the Game. The EP was produced by Goldenhorse’s Ben King in York Street Studios. The group features Katie Scott on vocals and guitar, Kayla Turei on vocals and bass...

Sigur Rós are proud to invite their fans to participate in Valtari Hour – a rolling, New Year’s Eve-style listening event celebrating the band’s new album, Valtari, which will happen worldwide on 17th May, 2012 at 7pm in every time zone around the globe. Valtari Hour is the special time when you ca...

In 1983 with a bunch of session musicians, Lydon and Atkins embarked on a worldwide tour which led them from Tokyo to Germany and most places in between. Along the way they played a legendary set at the Rockpalast in 1983. This performance contains not only the highlights of previous albums, like...

While the five members of My Best Fiend live in Brooklyn, the music they create resides somewhere else entirely: in a spacious, dreamlike world all its own, both unsettling and uplifting at the same time. On their Warp Records debut, In Ghostlike Fading, their songs feel like reveries, mixing gor...

A cracking debut from a rightly rising British band with real crossover appeal. A band with genuine crossover appeal in an age where the internet has blurred the lines between genres like never before, Leamington Spa outfit Sharks embrace their love of classic punk rock and indie music in equal m...

After two years training an immigrant's hungry, hustling eyes on Auckland, Anthonie Tonnon has written an album of distinctly modern characters and confessions. Building on 2010’s critically praised Fragile Thing, Tonnon returned to Dunedin to record with Tex Houston, bringing along Auckland Fina...

Hailing from sunny San Diego, Secrets has already made an impact as one of the most promising up and coming acts in the scene. Armed with irresistibly catchy choruses, soaring vocals, and mercilessly dynamic breakdowns, its no wonder the post-hardcore five-piece has seen such success since joining ...

The gothic dream pop collective This Mortal Coil was one of the most representative bands on the 4AD label, not least because they were run by 4AD president and co-founder Ivo Watts-Russell. Their material epitomized the haunting, ethereal sound that came to be associated with the label. This 4 C...

The Years EP by the Canadian dream pop duo was originally released early 2010 to a fair amount of acclaim as a digital-only, self-released item, but Sub Pop, who snapped up this new band, decided to re-release it in advance of Memoryhouse’s first full-fledged full-length due sometime next year. ...

The Years EP by the Canadian dream pop duo was originally released early 2010 to a fair amount of acclaim as a digital-only, self-released item, but Sub Pop, who snapped up this new band, decided to re-release it in advance of Memoryhouse’s first full-fledged full-length due sometime next year. ...

This 12” features the second single from Bon Iver Bon Iver on the A side and non album track ‘Come Talk To Me’ a Peter Gabriel cover that was recorded for Gabriel’s Scratch My Back covers album on the B side. Includes digital download.

Following on from her multi-award winning, critically acclaimed, self-titled debut, Ladyhawke presents her second album, 'Anxiety'. The new album was recorded in New Zealand and France earlier in 2012 by producer and long-time collaborator Pascal Gabriel and features ten new songs, including firs...