Maintaining unbelievable momentum in 2022 on a stratospheric superstar ascent, the multiplatinum hip-hop phenomenon Yung Gravy releases his third studio album Marvelous. It features the RIAA gold-certified single "Betty (Get Money)," which is a reimagined version of Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up." For this album, Gravy wrote and recorded on the road and in L.A. Working with usual suspects PopNick and Dwilly, he emphasized the incorporation of live instrumentation into the production.

Prince�s first compilation ever, The Hits 1 was released as a stand-alone album and as part of a three-CD set, The Hits/The B-Sides on September 10, 1993. Back on vinyl on 2 black vinyl LPs for the first time in decades, The Hits 1 contains 16 of Prince�s best-known singles released between 1978 and 1993 including �When Doves Cry,� �1999,� �Diamonds And Pearls,� and �Let�s Go Crazy,� along with two then-previously unreleased tracks: �Pink Cashmere� and Prince�s own rendition of �Nothing Compares 2 U,� which he had originally written for his prot�g� act The Family and had recently become a global hit as performed by Sinead O�Connor.

Palomino is the highly anticipated new album from First Aid Kit, the critically acclaimed Swedish folk duo consisting of singer-songwriters, and sisters Johanna and Klara Soderberg. The first track from the album, �Angel,� was released prior to the album being announced. The announcement of Palomino and the album�s street date, also included news of the new single, �Out Of My Head.�

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Drummer, composer, and producer Tom Skinner who is the drummer for The Smile and Sons of Kemet releases his new album, Voices of Bishara, on November 4, 2022, via Brownswood / International Anthem / Nonesuch. The first recording under Skinner�s own name is a reference to an album he listened to repeatedly during the COVID-19 lockdown: cellist Abdul Wadud�s 1978 solo album By Myself, which was privately pressed on Wadud�s label, Bishara. The common Arabic name has the intention or meaning of �good news� or �the bringer of good news.�� Voices of Bishara began life when Tom Skinner asked some musician friends to join him for a Played Twice session at London�s Brilliant Corners. These regular sessions had a simple format: play a classic album in full through the venue�s audiophile system and then have a live ensemble improvise a response. The night in question focused on drummer Tony Williams� 1964 Blue Note album, Life Time, and the music conjured that night inspired Skinner to write an album�s worth of new music.� Skinner recorded an album of that music with a cellist, bass, and two saxophonists subsequently putting it aside, occasionally bringing it out for some attention in between his many other creative projects. Gradually, the record began to take shape as he embraced the studio recordings and accentuated their idiosyncrasies.

Apollo�s long-awaited debut album IVORY brings him to another level in his career. Crossing genre lines as well as language barriers, the full-length showcases even greater musical diversity from the already boundless creator. Despite being at this pivotal moment in his career, Omar feels like he's just getting started. The artist who once called himself �just a kid from Indiana� is breaking new ground, abandoning all comfort zones, and never looking back.

Morbikon is the creative effort of Phil "Landphil" Hall exploring the dark corners of extreme music. Guided by the second wave of Black Metal and Melodic Death Metal scenes of 1990s Scandinavia he crafted the band's sound. He then recruited his Municipal Waste bandmate, Dave Witte to handle the drums and reached out all the way to Finland for vocalist Matthias "Vieth" Lillm�ns of Finntroll. The studio efforts result in a euphony of blackened and evil extreme metal.

SMITHEREENS� already one of the most anticipated new albums of the year � is the follow-up toJoji�s 2020 sophomore albumNectarand features the worldwide hit single�Glimpse of Us,�which has gone Gold since its release in June 2022.

The Older I Get, the Funnier I Was, which follows Thomas' brilliant 2020 HBO special The Golden One and his Can't Believe You're Happy Here EP released earlier this year, surveys a range of emotion and offers a broad sonic palette, moving between pop punk, electro, and the obvious influence of the singer-songwriters he grew up listening to in early childhood. It conjures the ennui of Bright Eyes alongside the barefaced storytelling of John Prine, the overstuffed lists of Fred Thomas with the lackadaisical humor of Colleen Green, among many others.Thomas attributes the dexterity of the record to Duterte, who recorded and engineered most of it in addition to serving up plenty of encouragement when Thomas got down on the process. "As a comic, I used to test out new songs during sets to see if the funny bits were hitting, but since I wrote this in isolation I ended up writing lyrics and worrying less about making jokes," Thomas says. That said, the album's plenty funny. Stand-out and lead single "Rigamarole" opens with a Thomas-voiced infomercial that recalls his oft-cited lookalike Jim Carrey as the Grinch, before launching into a buoyant pop song about being depressed.Whitmer Thomas will admit that when he traveled home to small town Gulf Shores, Alabama to record his HBO stand-up special, The Golden One, he expected to be greeted as a returning hero, a conquering king, or at minimum, a guy with a moderately successful career as an entertainer in Los Angeles. "I expected a big welcome home, open arms, but when I went back I realized: nobody fucking knows me. Nobody remembers me," Thomas says. "In the years I'd been performing that show, I'd been romanticizing my childhood in this mythologized place, but the visit made me see that I'm not really from there anymore."The sense of alienation compounded when Thomas recognized how few people in town remembered his mom, to whom The Golden One is dedicated and largely about. Thomas grew up watching her perform with her twin sister at the legendary Flora-Bama Lounge, where he set the special, and still counts her as one of his musical influences. His new album, The Older I Get, the Funnier I Was, isn't overtly about his mom, her presence is deeply felt throughout. While in Gulf Shores, Thomas discovered dozens of her old recordings, all of which had been wrecked by Katrina, but upon returning to LA, Thomas paid "a fancy place in Hollywood" to fix the tapes and hired Melina Duterte (Jay Som, Bachelor, Routine) to mix them. The two struck up a collaborative friendship, and Thomas had the sound of his mom's voice back. "I was listening to songs she recorded when she was about my age, just these heartfelt, sweet Americana songs," he says. "I decided then that I wanted to lose the Ian Curtis voice I always sing with; I wanted to do what came naturally, because my mom always sounded like herself, even when she was singing some cheesy reggae song about, like, Jamaica."Thus he went into The Older I Get, the Funnier I Was knowing it was time to retire his darkwave persona, and leaning into his natural, chirpier voice, which he says sounds "like a 12-year-old's." It makes sense: much of the album chronicles what Thomas calls "being a kid and feeling like you have no control and overcompensating by being annoying." "So much of the album is about witnessing drug and alcohol addiction as a kid and seeing what it does to people, but also realizing that there's nothing you can do about it," Thomas says. It's familiar territory (see: "Partied to Death") but the methodology is different this time around; true to it's title, The Older I Get, the Funnier I Was isn't always looking for laughs.Thomas might've left his hometown behind, but his kid self is still tagging along, a Peter Pan shadow he can't untether himself from. The first line he sings on The Older I Get, the Funnier I Was is: "There should be a room at every party where you can just sit and watch a movie." Find a 12-year-old who wouldn't say the same.

Finland's ANTIPOPE return with their highly anticipated Genre-Melding 6th Album of Melodic & Progressive Heavy Metal! A conceptual, progressive melodic Heavy Metal masterpiece based on the 1200's Cathar Crusades! The ever transforming but always recognizable, progressive, melodic Metal artisans Antipope are a staple in today's modern hard music scene. Since their founding in 2004 they have released 5 full length albums, "Desert" (2010), "House of Harlot" (2011), "3 Eyes of Time" (2013), "Denial / Survival" (2017), culminating with 2020's break-through release "Apostle of Infinite Joy" on Fertile Crescent / Moribund Records. Finland's icons of melodic and progressive Metal return with their highly anticipated 6th album "Rex Mundi". An incredible concept album set in the 1200's based on the Albigensian Crusade / Cathar Wars, delivering 11 bold tracks of progressive, melodic and deeply conceptual Metal unrestricted by the confines of any singular genre. Predominantly melodic singing is punctuated with harsh extreme Metal vocal and clean vocal passages, backed by melodic yet heavy guitar rhythms which breathe with acoustic segments, all interspersed amongst monster Metal riffs. "Rex Mundi" showcases a depth and range of sound and variation rarely achieved in Metal!

2022 solo album from Jerry Only of the Legendary Misfits! CD in Deluxe Gatefold packaging with Glow-in-the-Dark ink and spot UV finish. Includes lyric sheet and free poster!

Debut album of ripping Canadian Power Thrash Metal! Canadian ripping Power Thrash newcomers Triskelyon deliver the stainless steel goods with their debut album "Downfall"! Founded in 2021 by guitarist Geoff Waye, best known from the True Metal band Category VI, Triskelyon released one self-titled EP and were promptly signed to Moribund Records. Utilizing a myriad of both male and female guest vocalist from Oberon, Hyperia, Catagory VI and Incidium, "Downfall" has a range and depth of sound unique in today's modern Thrash Metal scene, setting the band ahead and apart from the hordes of young new thrash acts. Triskelyon also features guest bass appearances from members of Afterforever and Catagory VI, making Triskelyon a veritable Super Group of the Canadian Metal Scene! Depicting a nature taking over post-apocalyptic view on our ever screwed up world, Triskelyon keep with 80's Thrash tradition employing world-ending yet self-empowering socially conscious lyrical themes. From straight-up 80's thrashers like "Odessey (Blessed by Steel)", to the Power Metal laced "Find A Way", and more anthemic Thrash tracks such as "Hunger" and "Willful Ignorance", "Downfall" is sure to satiate even the most discriminating old-school and modern Thrash Metal fan alike! The album even features a unique and thrashing rendition of the Billy Idol song "Nobody's Business"! With "Downfall" Triskelyon deliver an amazing Thrash album that harkens back to the old-school days of such luminaries as Forbidden, Agent Steel, Sentinel Beast, D�tente, Overkill & Testament!Prepare yourself for the global "Downfall"!

When the world came to a halt, Jim Ward couldn�t stop moving. He�d just released a reunion album, Trust the River, as the frontman of Sparta when the pandemic hit, and as tour dates dried up, Ward returned to the studio. A year later, he debuted his raucous solo record Daggers and now he�s offering up yet another Sparta album to the world.�

The resulting collection of songs were entirely written on keys in what Ward considers an effort to stretch musical muscles he wouldn�t otherwise have had the expanse of time to indulge in. Boldly self-titled some 20-odd years into Sparta�s career, the album serves as a kind of reintroduction to the band, what Ward calls �a fresh slate.��

He recorded the song at Red Bull Studios in Santa Monica, where for the first time in his long career, Ward had a state of the art recording space to himself, and an engineer able to help him enact his vision. The rest of the album was self-produced at Ward�s El Paso studio, Crowded Heart.�

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2022 release, the fourth album from the Australian psychedelic rock band.

After "Quiet Places" (2020) Andreas Vollenweider has grouped his music on his new album according to atmosphere and character: "Slow Flow" is a collection of pieces with a relaxed, flowing feel, while "Dancer" is full of movement and rhythm.All 11 songs on "Slow Flow" and "Dancer" were created between 2010 and 2021 in collaboration with British producer Andy Wright (Eurythmics, Simply Red, Jeff Beck, Simple Minds, among many others). The two were supported in their creative process by Vollenweider's talented circle of friends, who laid the foundation for the songs: Walter Keiser (drums), Andi Pupato (percussion), Daniel Kueffer (bass clarinet), Oliver Keller (guitars) and the young Swiss rapper and beat boxer Steff La Cheffe, a.k.a. Stefanie Peter.The music of "Dancer" also reflects Vollenweider's connection with Africa. The South African vocal harmony band Africapella and singer Ayanda Nhlangothi embody this connection.The London Session Orchestra, consisting of musicians from the Royal Symphonic Orchestra under the direction of James McWilliam, filled out the sound. Renowned British producer and arranger Peter Vettese is responsible for most of the orchestration.The recordings took place at Andreas' Lakeside Studios in Switzerland, as well as at SABC Studios in Johannesburg, South Africa, and finally at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London. Andy Wright's long-time sound engineer Gavin Goldberg has set new sonic standards for Vollenweider's music with his work, and is able to delight even the most discerning audiophiles with a punchy yet transparent, dynamic soundscape.

Formed in the heart of London�s DIY punk scene, Big Joanie (featuring guitarist Stephanie Phillips, bassist Estella Adeyeri, and drummer Chardine Taylor-Stone) are a Black feminist punk band whose passionate live shows and moreish blend of nineties riot grrrl and synth-heavy post punk, have seen them steadily rise to become one of the most championed bands of the current era. Back Home is a dramatic leap forward for the band; the band build on their tightly knit, lo-fi punk formula to bring forth a collage of blazing guitars, down tempo dance punk, and melancholic strings that evoke the full depth of the band�s expansive art punk vision. The album�s strength lies in the band�s bold and varied new sound. Album opener �Cactus Tree� is an eerie, gothic folk tale that tells the story of a woman waiting for her lover while a wall of euphoric harmonies and screaming feedback roll in the background. Lead single �Happier Still� is a driving, Nirvana-influenced track that grapples with the idea of wanting to push through a depressive episode. Inspired equally by the melodic rock of H�sker D� and the mystical sensibilities of Stevie Nicks, closer �Sainted� brings the club-ready sentiment of the 2018 single �Fall Asleep� to its natural conclusion. Despite Big Joanie�s many accomplishments, there is so much more the band want to achieve and Back Home looks set to be the breeding ground for a new era of Big Joanie. With their boundary-breaking approach to punk, radical politics, and an appreciation for earworm melodies, Big Joanie are set to become important voices for a new generation of punks.

The highly anticipated Apple Original Film and new holiday epic from director Sean Anders, Spirited, premieres globally on Apple TV+ and hits theaters on November 18, 2022. The Spirited Original Motion Picture Soundtrack features new original music penned for the film by the Academy Award-winning duo of Benj Pasek and Justin Paul [La La Land & The Greatest Showman] and performed by stars Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds, Academy Award-winner Octavia Spencer, and more.