Following the gold-selling commercial success of their debut album, Digable Planets set out to prove their artistic prowess with 1994’s Blowout Comb. An album as diverse and vibrant as their home bor…
Last year, the vinyl reissue of Mercury Rev’s cherished 1998 album, Deserter’s Songs, kicked off our new Modern Classics Recordings imprint. We couldn’t have found a more apt beginning – _Des…
Born in the creative cesspool of late 1970s Austin, Texas—the same scene that spawned Scratch Acid, The Dicks, and MDC—the Big Boys stood out with their mix of hardcore punk and funk that ventured fa…
Voodoo was like crack for purists—this was Real Music, serious as a heart attack, deeply reverent and worshipful of the past. D’Angelo once said about the content of Voodoo: “This album is a pe…
In the early 90’s, Morphine turned the power trio genre on its head. Armed with Mark Sandman’s baritone vocals, laconic two-string slide bass and Beat-fueled poetry, Dana Colley’s multi-tracked saxopho…
In 1998 Mercury Rev delivered the unexpected, a hit album. Deserter’s Songs, the fourth studio long player from the New York-based band not only delivered three UK Top 40 singles, but also stru…
