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A selection of the "highlights" from the 1997 Box Set of the album, the 60th Anniversary celebrating " The Pet Sounds Sessions Highlights" features alternate tracks, a capella takes and tracking sessions, plus a good remaster and cool images of the band at the time with liner notes in the accompanying booklet. Vaunted as bassist/singer/band leader and main songwriter Brian Wilson's "mature" record, this 2CD release is a musical time capsule of the exciting ... read more

One of the cult classics in Rock's wild and wacky history; who would have thought the U.S. army rocked in 1966? 5 American G.I.'s stationed in West Germany form a band out of boredom and come up with one of the most awesome and innovative crackers in Pop. Touring throughout Europe in their brief career garbed in monk clothing with matching bald at the center-top haircuts and releasing one seminal album to mixed audience reactions and commercial indifference, the band split up but ... read more

An archival release of producer Steve Albini's original mixes of Slint's sole EP, "Untitled (Albini Rough Mixes) " is history and revelation. The recording that convinced Touch and Go head honcho Corey Rusk to release the band's masterpiece "Spiderland", and it's not hard to see why. An equally chill and blistering duo of instrumental tracks that spotlight the seminal band's somewhat off-kilter instrumental workouts, these pretty impressive jams are ... read more

Somewhat of a bolt out of the blue, this recent archival release from one of Britpop's luminaries and pioneers is quite a treat. Culled from live performances when the band was a five piece during their commercial and arguably artistic peak, "Coming Up at the BBC" finds Suede performing tracks from their third album "Coming Up" in radio sessions and music festivals from those heady 1996-1997 years (with one from the less heady 1999), Britpop's halcyon age and ... read more