Machine Gun Etiquette was the album that brought the Damned into the charts and opened up their music to millions more than hard core punk fans. Ironically the massive hit from the album was "Smash...

Yep Roc is proud to release "Illumination", the sixth solo album from Paul Weller and his first U.S. studio effort since 1997's "Heavy Soul". As the young voice of punk legends The Jam, Paul Weller...

Starlight Mints are a group of beautiful pop mutants: five singular musical minds whose love for archetypal pop music and AM radio has provided, over the course of three previous acclaimed albums, a...

DVD+CD Double Digipak Marah's undeniable and legendary live show, often cited by critics as the best now available for human consumption, has finally been captured on both film and tape with their...

Lawrence Arabia , the savant-like songwriting alter ego of New Zealander James Milne, is a former member of The Brunettes, The Ruby Suns and one time touring member of Okkervil River. Chant Darling ,...

New York's electro-rock outfit Heloise & The Savior Faire will release their new album Trash, Rats and Microphones via Simian Records (Elijah Wood's new label and joint-venture with Yep Roc Records)....

Intricate melody. Searing emotion. Intense reflection. Unbridled joy. It's instrumental music, but it's so much more. Hailing from the southeastern corridor of these United States, the Foxhole sextet...

Where once he made a Clash-like racket with just his voice and an electric guitar, this second stage of his career finds him adding to his band and expanding his lyrical reach. Though still a caustic...

Love Crimes, originally released in 1980, was produced by Jack 'Aerosmith' Douglas in New York, at the famed Record Plant Studios. It was an album that achieved Platinum status in Canada, making...

Featuring an excellent rhythm section in The Level Devils, this is actually the first Seasick Steve album which went to sell over 50,000 copies in the UK alone. The album was recorded in Steve's own...

The Singing Loins began having a laugh 20 years ago with two utterly live, mono, vinyl only LP releases on Billy Childish's gorgeously Luddite record label, Hangman. Ever enduring outsiders, it's...

In celebration of this iconoclastic master of song, politics, satire and human relations, Luaka Bop is releasing a vinyl-only box set, Studies of Tom Ze: Explaining Things So I Can Confuse You which...

With drums that call to mind Bonham (if he had preferred meth to booze) playing sides of beef and bass tones that alternate between motorcycle rumble and insectoid modulation and filtering, Skull...

Swervewas originally released in 1990 and is the sixth reissue from Fire Records. Featuring a variety of guest performers throughout, including Green on Red's Chris Cacavas, Juliana Hatfield, Steve...

As a founding member of both The New York Dolls and The Heartbreakers as well as a highly respected solo performer, Johnny Thunders was a hugely influential figure in the development of punk in the...

Chemistry is the foundation behind every great duo. Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra, Pink and Brown, Ferrante and Teicher, Romulus and Remus, Quasi, Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin? These duos are...