CDs:

Acid Mothers Temple & Melting Paraiso UFO – Iao Chant From Melting Paraiso Underground Freak Out CD/LP (Riot Season)

New album from Japanese cosmic heavies featuring an expanded Melting Paraiso U.F.O. line-up (now including the guitar skills of Japan underground legend and new full-time member Tabata Mitsuru (Boredoms). Also available on color vinyl.

Blood Of Heroes – Waking Nightmare CD/LP (Ohm Resistance)

Powered by a very out of the box Justin K. Broadrick (Jesu) performance, the powerful beat and bass of Submerged, vocal modulations of Dr. Israel and glass shard electronics of Enduser, Waking Nightmare delivers a powerful meditation on loss and redemption during the end days of human civilization.

Blur – Parklive 2xCD/DVD (Virgin)

Blur performed the entire Parklife album live at Hyde Park, which marked the close of the London 2012 Summer Olympics. Also available on stand-alone DVD.

Johnny Cash – The Complete Columbia Album Collection 63xCD (Sony/Legacy)

59 albums plus two new compilations: The Singles; and a double-CD, 55-song collection of single sides that did not originally appear on albums.

Michael Chapman – Pachyderm CD/LP (Blast First Petite)

The second in series of more improvised musical releases is a minimalist masterpiece — a single chord ambient work quite unlike anything Chapman has done before.

Alice Cooper – Old School 4xCD (UMe)

Career-spanning set features four discs loaded with demos, pre-production and rehearsal recordings of classic Alice Cooper tracks, radio spots, interview anecdotes, plus a full live show captured on the 1971 Killer tour, Live In St Louis, along with a 60-page yearbook charting the incredible rise of Alice Cooper complete with many rare photos.

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CDs:

Amenra – Mass V CD (Neurot)

Mixes surreal melodies and warped subtleties with churning rhythms, pummeling riffs and crushing dynamics. Their postmodern vision of music, consisting of droning, repetitive chords alternated by gut-wrenching howls, make experienced listeners renounce their definitions of music, perhaps even their whole belief systems. Guest vocals from Scott Kelly (Neurosis).

Asia – Resonance 2xCD+DVD (Frontiers)

Resonance was recorded in Basel, Switzerland during the reunited band’s 2010 tour for their album Omega.

Breathless – Green To Blue CD (Shellshock)

The godfathers of space rock melancholia return with eleven bittersweet songs of love and loss, including three songs mixed by Kramer, best known for his work with The Butthole Surfers, Galaxie 500 and Low. Vinyl version due December 4.

Peter Brotzmann/Chicago Tentet – Walk Love Sleep 2xCD (Smalltown Superjazz)

A virtuosic field day for free-jazz admirers, Brotzmann’s latest includes Ken Vandermark, Mats Gustafsson, Joe McPhee, Jeb Bishop, Per Ake Holmlander, Fred Lonberg Holm, Kent Kessler, Michael Zerrang, Paal Nilssen-Love, Johannes Bauer and Jeb Bishop. Recorded at Cafe Ada in Wuppertal, Germany in April 2011.

Harold Budd – Bandits Of Stature CD/LP (Darla)

14 compact Budd composed string quartets played by the Formalist Quartet. Elegantly simple, avant-garde string quartets, each with his own unique, subtle tension and pastoral abstraction.

Don Caballero – Gang Banged With A Headache And Live CD/LP (Joyful Noise)

First live album, the recently surfaced authorized bootleg. Includes a decade of quintessential music spanning 1993-2006.

Miguel Campbell – Back In Flight School CD/2xLP (Hot Creations)

Explores where the highs of electronic dance meets the depths of soulful funk and disco nostalgia.

Jerry Cole And His Spacemen – Surf Age [Reissue/1964] CD (Sundazed)

An endlessly inventive amalgam of surf and ‘60s pop.

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CDs:

AC/DC – Live At River Plate 2xCD/3xLP (Columbia)

Recorded in Buenos Aires in December 2009 when nearly 200,000 fans (over three sold-out nights) thunderously welcomed AC/DC back after a 13-year absence from Argentina.

Bad Brains – Into The Future CD/LP (Megaforce)

“The DC hardcore legends return with their hybrid brand of punk and reggae fusion – a staple in the punk pioneers’ genetic makeup since the get-go of their colorful career. Despite numerous line-up changes throughout the years, the band have never strayed far from their youthful integrity and Rastafarian principles, all accompanied by London-born frontman H.R’s distinctive vocal drawl throughout.” – List.co.uk

Nathan Bowles – Bottle A Buckeye CD/LP (Soft Abuse)

Bowles’ recent focus on the five-string open-back banjo’s possibilities is on full display here: bowed and drummed textures, clawhammer boogie, and banjo solid sidewinding are all explored.

Brad – Welcome To Discovery Park [Reissue/2002] CD/LP (Razor & Tie)

Brad further demonstrate a propensity for musical comfort food, ’70s rock style, on their warm-sounding, soul-infused third album which was originally released ten years ago.

Peter Broderick – These Walls Of Mine CD/LP (Erased Tapes)

An exploration from gospel and soul to spoken word, beatboxing, and rap — this is Peter at his most natural. Best viewed as a collection of lyrical and vocal experiments.

Bvdub – All Is Forgiven CD (n5MD)

Features Brock Van Wey’s signature gauzy layers of enveloping sound and ever ghostly yet soulful vocals where songs are a journey, sometimes via a rewarding path less explored. This time out he’s added some nicely executed experimental beat-work to propel his ever-blurring emotive ambience forward.

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