For this week only, you can get some of the most beloved albums in the Yep Roc canon for just $10. And don't forget, Web Shop customers also receive free shipping on all domestic orders!
- Nick Lowe - Convincer
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"Old soul and country records hover like guardian angels over trim, unhurried tunes..." - Entertainment Weekly
"Nick Lowe has made the album of his career, a dozen stories of love and loss so beautifully simple that you'll never get to the bottom of them." - Mojo
"The Convincer gives Lowe yet another gold star with which to pad that resume." - Magnet
- Reverend Horton Heat - Revival
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"A major challenge for a high octane group like Reverend Horton Heat is effectively reproducing and conveying the energy of its live performance... on Revival Jim (Reverend Horton) Heath, Jimbo Wallace and Scott Churilla do just that." - Billboard
"Revival, an album full of energy, psychotic guitar breaks and humorous lyrics... takes off like a jolt of lightening through the sky... another fine example of why the man has lasted so long in this business." - Amplifier
- Minus 5 - Down With Wilco
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"With backup from Wilco, R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, and others, [Minus 5's] McCaughey indulges in this set of rueful ersatz bubblegum." - Entertainment Weekly
"The 13 songs on Down With Wilco are exactly what you'd expect from an indie-rock love fest between still-rising star Jeff Tweedy (Wilco) and elder statesman Scott McCaughey (The Minus 5, Young Fresh Fellows)." - Alternative Press
"It's a Saturday-night version of [Wilco's] Foxtrot: laid-back, poignant and comic." - Rolling Stone
- Paul Weller - Illumination
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"Illumination shimmers with diverse and sophisticated rewards." - USA Today
"This is a work of intuitively discordant beauty." - Billboard
"A rough and ready mix of pop tunes that prove His Royal Modness still matters 25 years into his career." - Amplifier
- Dave Alvin - Ashgrove
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"Few songwriters capture the way music can provide escape or solace to the lonely, the lost and the desperate as Alvin... If the rest of the everyday people loved and excelled at their job as thoroughly as Alvin does, there'd be a lot less need to play those blues." - Los Angeles Times
"The lean but potent blues undertow of "Ashgrove" and the smoky slow burn of "Black Sky" offer subtle but genuine muscle and punch, and the sinuous "Out of Control" and "Black Haired Girl" prove that Alvin's tougher side has not abandoned him. At the same time, Alvin hasn't abandoned the more contemplative side of his nature, either, and as a songwriter he's continued to mature." - All Music Guide
- John Doe - Forever Hasn’t Happened Yet
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"He gives the impression that making razor-sharp music keen with insight is oh-so-easy to do." - Wall Street Journal
"On his fifth solo album, John Doe proves again that this punk legend/journeyman actor can still make great music." - Rolling Stone
"A record that is gorgeously sweaty in its simplicity - even when it’s aiming at pure heartbreak." - Mojo
- Los Straitjackets - Velvet Touch
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"...an outstanding rock record, perfect for a dose of fun anytime." - Amazon
- Southern Culture on the Skids - Mojo Box
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"Mojo Box slathers us up with guitar riffs as lumpy as a camel, rough as a jackhammer or smooth and bright as Tennessee sippin’ whiskey, all slung loose and loud over salacious beats, and wrapped around songs that don’t require a graduate degree in literature: they’re entirely about cars and luuuvvv - the things that matter." - No Depression
"Thundering garage rock with a twist of the lip." - Stephen King, Entertainment Weekly
"The retro thing returned and may even be gone again by the time you read this, but SCOTS transcend trendiness with each note." - Alternative Press
"There are more hooks in this disc than in a Starbucks clerk’s eyebrow." - Harp
- Robyn Hitchcock - Spooked
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"Spooked is textbook Robyn Hitchcock: off the wall and very pretty" - Rolling Stone
"With the assistance of Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Hitchcock has made Spooked (an aptly-title record if there ever was one) one of the most breathtaking and strange records of his catalog." - Performing Songwriter
"Spooked's acoustic songs feel very organic and spontaneous but most importantly, they sounds like consistent Hitchcock fare, which is great news for the cult following." - Relix
- Bob Mould - Body of Song
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"Now comes the return of Bob rock, with Body of Song splitting the difference between Sugar's blast-furnace emo and Modulate's laptop pop." - Magnet
"Mould's tunes marinate in misery, regret, resentment and pining, not exactly bounce-back tonics. But his heavy doses of guitar-fueled power-pop - more of the meaty Husker Du sound than later electro-pop adventures - provide a fine catharsis." - USA Today
"Body of Song is not so much a return to Mould's roots as an amalgam of the various stages of his career: the hook-driven pop-rock of Sugar, the pristine melancholia of his solo debut Workbook, the buzzbomb rock of HD, and his experiments with trance." - Filter
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