The fourth album from the celebrated “little orchestra” features an array of fabulous guests including Mexican ranchera singer Chavela Vargas, Emilio Delgado a.k.a. “Luis” from Sesame Street, NPR justice correspondent Ari Shapiro, and Courtney Taylor-Taylor of the Dandy Warhols!

Pink Martini is the brainchild of classically trained pianist Thomas M. Lauderdale and vocalist China Forbes. Fusing a vast array of influences spanning Cuban jazz to music hall and film scores, the group honed an exotic sound that led to their classic debut Sympathique.

Pink Martini's much-anticipated second album features a collection of original songs written by the band and its extended family, as well as a few undiscovered gems reinterpreted in high style. From an advertisement for Hunt's Ketchup in a 1964 issue of Life magazine to a dance sequence in the 1950 Italian film Anna, Hang On Little Tomato includes songs in French, Italian, Japanese, Croatian, Spanish and English.

Combining their interests in various musical and artistic styles, The Birthday Massacre creates a captivating hybrid of ’80s electronica and aggressive guitars, curiously fused with cinematically dark melodic progressions. The interplay of driving guitar and rhythm sections, the captivating vocals, and atmospheric keyboards envelop the listener. With Pins and Needles, The Birthday Massacre once again leads us down the rabbit hole and invites us to explore the magical wonderland it has created.

A 12-track sonic journey anchored by deft songwriting and a no-holds-barred dose of cabaret showmanship. With Hey Eugene! Pink Martini returned with an exhilarating album full of uncompromising musicianship, hope, beauty, and joy!

This music was recorded in the 1960s and early ’70s, soon after Cambodia became an independent nation. It was a period of rapid modernization that not only influenced music, but also architecture, sculpture, painting, dance and cinema. For many, it was Cambodia’s own artistic renaissance, a time pointing to a hopeful future. Features artists such as Dara Chom Chan, Pan Ron, Ros Sereysothea, & Sinn Sisamoun!

Original covers of Graham Nash from some of today’s finest indie songwriters and musicians. Special packaging includes a book featuring an interview between music writer Sylvie Symmons and longtime CSNY photographer Joel Bernstein.

For 2010, the classic Front Line Assembly has returned with the brand new album Improvised. Electronic. Device. These new songs demonstrate that FLA has not lost its edge over the past two and a half decades—and as if Front Line Assembly’s legacy and namesake alone weren’t enough, Al Jourgensen from Ministry contributes vocals to “Stupidity.”

Born out of the massive electro/punk cult group Mindless Self Indulgence, singer and guitarist Jimmy Urine and Steve Righ release their second album in a decade under the name The Left Rights. Since they were never known as artists that would resort to maturity, these two again are once again able to shed the confines of MSI’s sound to experiment with different styles on Bad Choices Made Easy. The result is an incredibly brilliant collection of wildly entertaining childish ID gotten loose.

The first attempt to gather the US history of African-American & Jewish relations into a selective pop musical guide features well-known artists singing rarely heard songs—Billie Holiday, Eartha Kitt, Cannonball Adderley, Lena Horne, Nina Simone, The Temptations, and more!

Silent Movies is mostly filled with Marc Ribot’s gorgeously contemplative compositions performed solo, with minimal overdubs. The album reflects Ribot’s fascination with movies and contains pieces intended to function as music for films: some adaptations of music he has written for film, some for movies that he scored that were never released, some for classic silent films that he scored for his own amusement, and some for films of his own imagination.

Apex is a blazing all-star collaboration between alto saxophonists Rudresh Mahanthappa and Bunky Green, along with Jason Moran on piano and the great Jack DeJohnette on drums. The New York Times describes this album as “Rarefied and full of gusto, a kind of high-modernist onslaught.”

By bridging the gap between hard rock and punk, the Wipers managed to create a surprisingly influential style of post-punk. Led by guitarist Greg Sage, the band melded furious rage and an independent punk ethic with a fondness for loud, long guitar workouts. This 3 disc set contains the Wipers first three classic albums: Is This Real?, Youth Of America and Over The Edge.

Combichrist’s Andy LaPlegua returned to the studio with a fistful of inspiration and a whole lot of nothing to prove. With the new album, Making Monsters, LaPlegua emerges a more vital beast, stripped of all pretensions. The new album is raw, visceral, and seething with uncompromising urgency. In pushing forward, Combichrist’s playfully sinister facade is torn away. What is exposed underneath is an uncompromising expression of lust, anger, pain, and hate personified.

Metric has become a common household band name for music fans! Experience the album that launched them into fame. Already gold in Canada, this album features the singles “Combat Baby” and “Dead Disco,” the album was nominated for a Juno Award for Best Alternative Album.

Join Pink Martini in concert as they musically travel the globe, from the cafés of Paris to Carnaval in Brazil to the streets of Tokyo. Discover the internationally acclaimed ensemble that the New Yorker has described as “breathtaking” as they take you on a kaleidoscopic cultural journey blended with the grand romance of the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Blitz featured performances by KMFDM founder Sascha K. along with Lucia Cifarellia, Jules Hodgson, Andy Selway, and Steve White, plus the return of past members Tim Skold and Cheryl Wilson. With Krieg, the gang turned the knobs and faders of the mixing desk over to a diverse cast of characters including members of Nine Inch Nails, White Zombie, Danzig, Static-X, Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Prong, Combichrist, Apollo 440, tweaker, Icon Of Coil, Pop Will Eat Itself, and more, as well as present and ex-members of KMFDM itself!

Donnie Darko has become a cult classic since its theatrical release in 2001. The soundtrack’s opus is the now-famous cover of the Tears For Fears song “Mad World,” which earned the coveted UK X-mas #1 spot in 2003.

Is Saturn rising in your seventh house? “Clusterfuck” will smooth all those bad vibes out, brothers and sisters. Are you an Earth sign? “Jam It In The Hole” is exactly what you need to put your mind right. Too many planets fixed in your house? Take a listen to the E6 version of The Spinners’ classic “Rubberband Man” and put your worries aside.

Threadgill creates structures in his compositions that provide platforms for the musicians to interact in a way that is constantly challenging, and allows for personal exploration. Despite its intricacy, his music always maintains a grooving, funky vibe, one of the reasons why Threadgill has remained one of the most popular of the cutting-edge jazz musicians of the last 40 years.

Bassist/composer William Parker is among the most active and highly regarded musicians performing today.The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield is the first project in his 35-year career devoted to the music of another composer. Curtis Mayfield was a prophet, a preacher, a revolutionary, a humanist, and a griot—words that all apply to Parker himself. I Plan To Stay A Believer is the definitive document of this project, with fully exuberant performances of each piece drawn from concert recordings spanning the past decade. 

For this journey, Roach drew on his essential collection of beloved analog synthesizers including a classic 40-year-old Arp String Ensemble, a historic polyphonic synthesizer that swirls and rolls upon itself like the strong currents of a rushing mountain river. Sigh of Ages is the result of extended periods of solitude and personal reflection for the acclaimed composer. Sculpted and refined in his deft hands, the source material of life itself took on a voice that spoke from a deep emotional well of subtle contemplation.

In 1966 Bernard Stollman sent Sun Ra and his Arkestra, along with audio engineer David B. Jones, on a tour of five New York colleges. When they returned, just 39 minutes of music were chosen to be released as the original ESP album titled, Nothing Is... Forty-four years later, after extensive research, producer and Sun Ra archivist Michael D. Andersonhas pieced together the missing parts of the infamous New York College Tour.

Harvesting Semblances and Affinities heralds alto saxophonist/composer Steve Coleman’s return to recording. he release features his band Five Elements, many of whom have worked with Coleman for years, as well as the astonishing vocals of Jen Shyu. Completely defying the traditional role of jazz singing, Shyu’s voice is treated as another horn, getting right into the mix with incredible incisiveness and articulation.