New Alternative / Indie CDs

VOWS, the debut album from Kimbra, has already been certified GOLD in New Zealand and PLATINUM in Australia and now the 22-year-old girl from Hamilton is set to release VOWS in the United States on May 22. To celebrate the success of our biggest Kiwi export, a deluxe edition of VOWS will be avail...

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...

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.

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.

The highly anticipated follow-up to 2010′s gorgeous Teen Dream and the Dream Pop duo’s forth album is called Bloom. 10 new songs of lo-fi airy synths, Alex Scally's swoony electric guitar and the alluring romantic yet dark reverb soaked vocals of Victoria Legrand. Available on both CD and LP.

The Temper Trap are super excited to announce the details of their second album, ‘The Temper Trap’. The new album was recorded at the famed Sound Factory in Los Angeles, with producer Tony Hoffer, who’s worked with the likes of Beck, M83 & Phoenix. It’s their first album as a five-piece, after they ...

Kaiser Chiefs see in 2012 with the news of two brand new songs, and "SOUVENIR" - a career spanning collection overseeing their singles from 2004 - 2012. The sixteen track "SOUVENIR" collates the band’s extensive and successful singles career to date. The album includes no less than six Top Ten hi...

Silversun Pickups return with their third album, the follow-up to 2009′s 'Swoon'. Entitled 'Neck of the Woods', the album was produced by Jacknife Lee (U2, R.E.M.) at his home studio in Topanga Canyon, California.

This Machine is the eighth studio album by American alternative rock band The Dandy Warhols. The band shifted to a more rock- and experimental-orientated album than their previous three albums. Allmusic describes the genre of the album as "alternative, pop/rock, alternative/indie rock", giving th...

Mystery Jets are an English four-piece indie band, formerly based on Eel Pie Island in Twickenham, London RADLANDS is their 4th album, The album was recorded in Austin, Texas and Streatham, London and was co-produced by Mystery Jets and Dan Carey (Hot Chip, Franz Ferdinand, Emiliana Torrini). ...

Sweden's newest dynamic duo, We Are Serenades releases their debut album, Criminal Heaven. We Are Serenades are the musical pairing of Adam Olenius (Shout Out Louds) and Markus Krunegard (Laakso) two of Sweden's most highly-regarded songwriters. Singing together at all times to create a seaml...

Tellin' Stories is the sixth album by Manchester’s The Charlatans, released 1997. It includes the final contributions of founder-member and keyboard player Rob Collins who died in a car accident midway through recording. The album featured the groups three top ten singles, which remain their career'...

17 years after their last album, Mad Scene (Hamish Kilgour (The Clean), Lisa Siegel (Vegetarian), Steve Thornton (Go-To Guy), Georgia Hubley (Yo La Tengo), Gary Olsen (Straight Shooter), Josh Feldman (Professional Athlete), Cassie Tunick, Danny Tunick (Same Last Names!) and Brian Turner (WFMU Music ...

Prolific songwriter Ty Segall and Californian rock/art collective White Fence release the 30minute collaborative LP. Boasting gloriously fat drums, snaky guitars, beach-party basslines, sock-hop keyboards, and lots of carefree muckingaround. It is loose, jammy, sloppy, possibly intoxicated and...

Colourbox emerged from the diverse mix of musical cultures that formed the post-punk era, inevitably incorporating synthpop, indie, reggae, dub, soul and funk. They were dance pioneers in the pre-sampling era, and from 1982 to 1986 they created an eclectic body of work incorporating their influences...

“I want babies created to our new album'”- Bethany Cosentino Three years ago, Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast was just a 23-year-old California girl with a cat named Snacks and a record collection full of teenage kicks. In 2010 the L.A. duo - consisting of Bethany and multi-instrumentalist Bob...

Paul McLaney has been releasing quality music, solo, or with others, for over 10 years. In that time he’s collaborated with the likes of Concord Dawn, Anika Moa, Module, Rhian Sheehan and Fly My Pretties. New project, Nameless Sons has been in the pipeline for some time, thankfully, the official ...

Here We Go Magic is an American indie rock band based in Brooklyn, New York. Formerly the moniker of folk singer Luke Temple. Temple signed to Western Vinyl in 2008, followed in 2009 by the five-piece group's signing to Secretly Canadian. Here We Go Magic's sophomore album, Pigeons, had only been...

The rock band Obits is from Brooklyn, NY, release a new single on Sub Pop. On this 7” Obits have provided us with daring new interpretations of well-loved near-standards by Mink DeVille and The Kids. Includes mp3 download code.

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. ...

Ironically referred to by Timeout NY as “Thurston Moore & the E Street Band,” The Men have never been a band to play by categorical punk subgenre rules. Instead, over the last three years, this band has dabbled in everything from hardcore punk to psych to shoegaze to black metal; and they have done ...

Following his award-winning, hugely acclaimed 2009 album ‘Truelove's Gutter' and more recently recording with the Arctic Monkey's on their track ‘You And I', Richard Hawley will release his sixth studio album, ‘Standing At The Sky's Edge' ‘Standing At The Sky's Edge' marks a seismic shift in dire...

"In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull" is the 5th studio album by English trio, The Cribs (twin brothers Gary and Ryan and younger sibling Ross Jarman). Writing for this album began in November of 2010 when the band were on an unofficial break. Gary had set up a home studio in Portland and Ryan came out ...

The Temper Trap are super excited to announce the details of their second album, ‘The Temper Trap’. The new album was recorded at the famed Sound Factory in Los Angeles, with producer Tony Hoffer, who’s worked with the likes of Beck, M83 & Phoenix. It’s their first album as a five-piece, after they ...

Following years of tearing up shady house parties in Melbourne, the duo are expanding their horizons and stretching the globe. Their debut long player, entitled Bloodstreams, will be a 12 track attack on the senses.

Bahamas is the musical pseudonym of Toronto-based singer-songwriter-guitarist Afie Jurvanen, whose disarmingly forthright, captivatingly melodic songs have already earned him both a devoted fan base and a significant amount of critical acclaim on both sides of the border. On the second Bahamas al...

‘Diamond Mine’, the critically acclaimed debut collaborative album from King Creosote & Jon Hopkins, is getting the deluxe version treatment. The original, Mercury Music Prize-nominated album is augmented with extra material including all three tracks from the ‘Honest Words’ EP, B-side ‘Missionary’ ...

A blend of soul, gospel, rock, funk, disco, punk, passion and rebellion, Gossip is comprised of vocalist Beth Ditto, guitarist Nathan Howdeshell, and drummer Hannah Blilie. Originally formed in Olympia, Washington in 1999, Gossip first garnered attention in the UK with the release of their 2006 brea...

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...

As founding member of the ’80s LA punk group The Gun Club, Jeffrey Lee Pierce helped inspired the likes of Jack White, Henry Rollins, No Age, and countless others. In 1996, Pierce died from a brain hemorrhage at the age of 37, and has since been honored with an all-star covers compilation, entitled ...

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...

Marriages is a new band comprised of Red Sparowes members Emma Ruth Rundle (vocals, guitar), Greg Burns (bass, synthesizer) and David Clifford (drums). Their sound is a singularly sensual kind of heavy, dramatic rock, but perhaps the most stark contrast to their other band, Marriages employs vocals ...

Marriages is a new band comprised of Red Sparowes members Emma Ruth Rundle (vocals, guitar), Greg Burns (bass, synthesizer) and David Clifford (drums). Their sound is a singularly sensual kind of heavy, dramatic rock, but perhaps the most stark contrast to their other band, Marriages employs vocals ...

Originally released in 1986, The Big Heat is former Wall Of Voodoo leader Stan Ridgway's first solo album. Appropriately named after the 1953 film noir of the same name, The Big Heat is full of tragic, noir themed tales of love and death. Though heavily reliant on synths and drum machines, the album...

Vinyl reissue of the debut by this trio comprised of Gary Usher, Glen Campbell & Bruce Johston. A pop/ psych masterpiece with true California soundmelodies first released on Columbia in 1968.

Following the release of his UK quadruple platinum-selling album The Defamation of Strickland Banks, the Brit Award-winning artist Plan B (AKA Ben Drew) has announced details of his forthcoming album ill Manors, which is set for release through Atlantic Records on Friday 11th May 2012. Produced b...

Mystery Jets are an English four-piece indie band, formerly based on Eel Pie Island in Twickenham, London RADLANDS is their 4th album, The album was recorded in Austin, Texas and Streatham, London and was co-produced by Mystery Jets and Dan Carey (Hot Chip, Franz Ferdinand, Emiliana Torrini). ...

The highly anticipated follow-up to 2010′s gorgeous Teen Dream and the Dream Pop duo’s forth album is called Bloom. 10 new songs of lo-fi airy synths, Alex Scally's swoony electric guitar and the alluring romantic yet dark reverb soaked vocals of Victoria Legrand. Available on both CD and LP.