New Record Pressing — Colemine Records is excited to put out their first 45 with The Charities, a sweet-soul band out of sunny California. The group’s sound is a melting pot of cultures, exhibiting a mix of soul, r&b, rock, and funk.
The A-side of this 45, ‘Fatal Attraction,’ explores just that. In some relationships, the very qualities that draw you in can also lead to your destruction. She’s captivating—beautiful, intelligent, and charming—but beneath the surface, she’s narcissistic and self-centered, with no regard for the pain she causes. When you’re lost in the intensity of love, it’s easy to overlook these darker traits. But when the time comes for her to move on, she’ll strike without hesitation, delivering a blow that cuts deep. Her words, sharp as a knife, tear through your heart with cold precision. As you bleed out, she offers nothing but a final, indifferent goodbye….
“It’s Not Our Time,” on the B, tells the story of two lovers who find themselves at a crossroads, torn apart by the struggles they face in this chapter of their lives. Perhaps in the future, they’ll rekindle their love and spark a new flame—one that burns even brighter then before. It’s a bittersweet goodbye, with the belief that the distance and time apart will only strengthen their bond when the moment is right.
The tracks are produced by Anthony Masino and were recorded at Penrose Recordings in Riverside, CA.
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New record pressing – Charles Joseph Smith: Collected Works and War of the Martian Ghosts
Collected Works and War of the Martian Ghosts is the definitive recorded collection of living Chicago DIY legend, Dr. Charles Joseph Smith. Born on Chicago’s southside in 1970, Smith is a lifelong resident of the Beverly neighborhood who went on to earn 3 degrees in piano (Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctorate) and perform as a concert pianist in 5 countries (USA, Italy, Germany, France and Hungary). The album also marks the first archival release from Chicago’s Sooper Records.
All of the music here is being made widely available for the first time. This 90-minute collection is compiled from 30 years of Charles’ self-released original music spanning concert piano, electroacoustic experimentation, electronic beats, free improvisation, and two instrumental sketches of his evolving sci-fi opera, War of the Martian Ghosts (a 2023 electronic realization, and a 2018 piano realization). This double Vinyl / Triple CD Collector’s Edition comes with an extensive Insert Booklet containing 9000 words including poetry, interviews, quotes, 30 archival photographs, and extensive liner notes on the life and work of Charles Joseph Smith written by Sooper co-founder Glenn Curran (edited by Sadie Dupuis). This is a piece of Chicago music history.
Dr. Charles Joseph Smith’s remarkable story begins with a mute child’s gift for music, and the purposeful way he nurtured this talent to become both life practice and raison d’être. Charles recounts this artistic journey in his autobiography, The 88 Keys that Opened Doors, a self-published book that chronicles a life in which music was (and still is) the primary key to overcoming immense challenges posed by Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
His career as a musician starts in the church, reaches into the international concert piano circuit, and eventually settles to bear strange fruit in Chicago’s experimental underground. Along the way, Charles Joseph Smith’s compositional voice absorbed and metabolized popular music spanning pop to jazz, the gospel of the church, the canon of the classical conservatory, modern dance scores, and the rule-shattering experimentalism of his city’s DIY subculture, where he has been a mainstay for over 30 years. Since the mid-1990s, Charles has been performing, dancing, and selling his self-published musical and written works in person, often at the local shows he frequents. He is known around Chicago as a living symbol of the power of music, and of the beloved spirit of community at the heart of DIY. This is the definitive collection of his original recordings—though it would be impossible to ever encompass the galaxies of music, poetry, and prose penned by the prolific Dr. Charles Joseph Smith.
New record pressing – Jalen Ngonda – All About Me b/w Dub 7inch 45 single.
Soul singer supreme, Jalen Ngonda and producer/veteran keyboardist, Victor Axelrod join forces to deliver the collaboration we all needed–the impossibly soulful, reggae banger “All About Me”. Having worked together on the sessions for Come Around and Love Me, Axelrod recalls being inspired by the similarities between Jalen’s voice and a young Bitty Mcclean. He had the beds to a track already recorded, but needed the right singer. With Jalen on board, the two wrote the lyrics and recorded the vocals in one night. Written from the perspective of an arrogant lover, the track’s party-forward swing and stellar vocal performance make for a pop-forward gem poised to be massive on both the soul and reggae scenes.
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New record pressing — Tomeka Reid – Dance! Skip! Hop!
Tomeka Reid – cello Jason Roebke – bass, cassette Mary Halvorson – guitar Tomas Fujiwara – drums
All compositions by Tomeka Reid, Peoples Child Music, ASCAP, 2025.
Recorded by Curtis Fye at the Brink in Richmond, VA. Mixed and mastered by Nick Lloyd at Firehouse 12, New Haven, CT. Produced by Tomeka Reid. Album art + design by TJ Huff (huffart.com).
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Aaron Warren and Bjorn Copeland have been playing music together since 1999: nine years as Flaccid Mojo and twenty-six years as Black Dice. This partnership has been a ramble, a supply run through the wasted landscape of contemporary music. Stacking up the dumb, the muffled, and the used-up, the pair consistently create unbalanced, breathtaking mutant constructions. The latest example is Loose Jacks, Flaccid Mojo’s second full-length. Made from free phone apps, fractured youtube videos, and cracked-screen electronics—the scorched and crumpled sediment of the streaming-industrial complex—Loose Jacks is the wide, hysterical grin of finding treasure in the end days.
Flaccid Mojo’s songs are built for live performance, with a modular arsenal of rhythms, stabs, and payoffs all at the ready. It’s their way of centering the physical; of ensuring the bodily dictates of each song’s composition reassert these commands on everyone in the audience. The satisfaction of a loop that runs until it’s in your blood, the bassline sculpted into a shove, the snare hit as sharp as a stranger’s elbow. You can feel like a ghost passing through some other band’s record, but Loose Jacks is all brick wall, weighted blanket, strong hands launching you atop a pile of bodies. It’s a liberatory, unspiritual experience. A carnal one.
As with their debut LP, Flaccid Mojo (released 2022 by Castle Face), Loose Jacks was recorded by Chris Coady, whose been at Black Dice shows since the nineties. It’s good to work with people who get it, who aren’t going to argue about key or “the grid. ” Similarly, Loose Jacks was mastered by Sarah Register, whose band Talk Normal shared a wall with the Black Dice practice space.
For fans of Chrome, Men’s Recovery Project, and the Chemical Brothers.
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New record pressing – Jupe Jupe – King Of Sorrows:
Releases February 27, 2026
Engineered by Evan Foster at No-Count Studios, Seattle, WA Mixed by Matt Bayles at Red Room, Seattle, WA Mastered by Ed Brooks at Resonant Mastering, Seattle, WA
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New record pressing – Johnny Cash: Johnny Cash With His Hot and Blue Guitar
Intervention Records will continue its Sun Records Hi-Fi Series—featuring classic titles from the Memphis label, mastered to vinyl from original master tapes in the Sun vaults—with a brilliant new pressing of Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar!, the first long-playing record from one of country music’s most enduring icons. The album, featuring “I Walk The Line,” “Cry, Cry, Cry,” and “Folsom Prison Blues,” has been given the ultimate treatment for this 180-gram, 45 RPM mono release, featuring audio from original master tapes mastered to vinyl in an all-analog process, plus restored artwork featuring new liner notes.
“I never imagined that I’d hear the iconic voice of Johnny Cash on Intervention Records!” said Shane Buettner, Intervention Records’ founder. “And I don’t think music fans around the world have ever heard Johnny’s voice, or Sam Phillips’ famous Sun Studio sound, as clearly and definitively as they will on this new 45 RPM mono cut. This is as close you can get to a time machine back to Memphis in the 1950s!”
Originally issued in the fall of 1957—the first long-player for Sam Phillips’ Sun Records—Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar! showcases the stripped-down sound that would make the future Man in Black one of the most enduring and respected musicians of the 20th century. Backed only by his “Tennessee Two” (Luther Perkins on lead guitar and Marshall Grant on upright bass) and augmented by Phillips’ signature studio slapback that gave Cash’s “boom-chicka-boom” sound its kick, Hot and Blue Guitar! is the album that introduced many to Cash’s sonorous baritone.
The LP features Cash’s first three single A-sides for Sun, all self-penned: “Cry, Cry, Cry,” (a No. 14 country chart hit), “So Doggone Lonesome” (which peaked at No. 4 on the country charts) and Cash’s signature original “I Walk The Line.” The latter was a No. 1 country smash for six non-consecutive weeks in the summer of 1956 before crossing over into the Top 20 of Billboard’s pop charts. Additional standouts include Cash’s renditions of fare like “The Wreck Of The Old 97” and “Rock Island Line,” as well as a fourth original song, “Folsom Prison Blues”—which would top the country charts more than a decade later when Cash performed it as part of his landmark 1968 live album At Folsom Prison.
Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar! is the second title in Intervention’s Sun Records Hi-Fi Series, offering exquisite pressings of definitive country and rock material from the label’s storied discography. It follows the debut release in the series (and Sun’s second LP), Dance Album of Carl Perkins. The 1957 album served as a defining introduction to Perkins’ pioneering rockabilly songbook, including the standards “Blue Suede Shoes,” “Matchbox,” and “Honey Don’t.” (“Blue Suede Shoes,” later covered by Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran and countless others, celebrates the 70th anniversary of its release in 2026.)
Intervention has handled the audio presentation and packaging of these vital albums with great care and attention to detail. Johnny Cash with His Hot and Blue Guitar! was sourced from flat transfers of ¼” monaural master reels sourced from the Sun Records archive, which compiled the label’s original 7” single masters. This exhaustive research process resulted in the best-sounding tape version of each of the 12 songs on the original album, as well as the first vinyl edition of the album in decades to be sourced from these tapes.
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Chayla Hope and Other Animal announce their new collaborative single “Raspberry,” a bold, tactile pop release written together and produced by the Cleveland-based creative partners. Recorded live to tape, the song is warm, direct, and emotionally charged, pairing classic analog texture with a deeply felt pop sensibility that captures the chemistry at the center of the collaboration.
“Raspberry” was tracked at Peppermint Recording Studio in Youngstown, Ohio, one of the country’s oldest continuously operating analog studios. Engineered by Gary Rhamy with Anthony LaMarca (The War on Drugs) behind the board, the session brought together an all-star cast of Cleveland musicians, including Other Animal’s Jake Fader and Joe Tomino, bassist Joe Botta, background vocalists Wesley Bright and Christine Fader, baritone saxophonist David Kasper, keyboardist Marcelino “Mars” Quiroz, trombonist William Washington (Mourning [A] BLKstar), and trumpeter VanDarrel Woods. Mastered by Doug Krebs, known for shaping many of contemporary soul’s modern classics, the recording is steeped in a ’70s soul and pop tradition, brought to life through the immediacy of a live, in-room performance.
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New record pressing – Lucky Horse Red – Self-Titled. Available from Shuga Records.
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The success of Shaft and Superfly ignited an explosion of films, many produced by small independent studios and filmmakers, whose soundtracks continue to provide rich fodder for turntablists, crate diggers, and the like.
Solomon King was written, directed, and produced by Oakland, CA entrepreneur Sal Watts, who also starred in the movie. But it was no mere vanity project. Watts owned several record labels in Oakland and a string of urban fashion stores and acted as executive producer of a local soul music & dance TV program. So, he was able to draw on a wealth of local talent in making Solomon King – and nowhere did that talent show up more than on the soundtrack.
Southern soul stalwart and Ray Charles collaborator Jimmy Lewis arranged and conducted the score, while writers like Joyce Stiger, who penned Bobby Bland’s hit “Recess in Heaven,” contributed songs. The band was tight, too, composed of the cream of Oakland’s thriving soul-funk scene. Working with the indie film imprint Deaf Crocodile, who restored and reissued the film a few years back with the cooperation of Watts’ wife Belinda, Real Gone Music is releasing the soundtrack to Solomon King in expanded form featuring additional tracks drawn from rare 45s hailing from Watts’ Sal/Wa label. It’s a nonstop funk workout, issued on tiger swirl vinyl with three bonus cuts. Propulsive beats, silky strings, wah-wah guitar tickles…if you’re into that ‘70s soul sound, Solomon King is a revelation.
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