"I wanted to make a futuristic pop record, to reach out to the kids of the future. It is what I imagine their more highly-evolved pop might sound like: shiny soul music with robots and humans singing together. We are sending a pop music message... read more »

Drink Up Buttercup may hail from Philadelphia but the geography of their debut album Born & Thrown On A Hook is less easily located on a physical map. It's an occasionally surreal mythology filled with tales of hopelessly flawed characters,... read more »

Unexpected and utterly sublime, El Turista's sultry song cycle shuffle seamlessly in tandem with Getz/Gilberto and Paul Simon's Graceland, albums as boldly surprising in their eras as El Turista is in this one. The record... read more »

Street Date: 2/9/2010 Somewhere in Time is the next installment in the legend of Reckless Kelly. The last, the inimitable Bulletproof, careened into the Billboard 200 and on up to the top 25 on the Billboard Top Country... read more »

Live! Beg, Borrow & Steal showcases the PLIMSOULS at the height of their power, tearing the roof off and on the verge of starting a riot on the old Sunset Strip. Recorded on a multi-track at the Whisky A Go Go on October 31, 1981, this... read more »

The Yep Roc webshop announces Bob Mould's new CD, recorded live at last year's All Tomorrows Parties festival. Live at ATP 2008 is an exclusive limited release of 1600 copies world wide. The setlist spanned 30+ years of... read more »

"For 1983 I wanted to see what happened if I stopped playing gigs, making records, or having any attempt at a career whatsoever. Whatever music I made was purely for myself, without trying to speak the language of the day. The result was I... read more »

To celebrate the release of the I Often Dream of Trains in New York DVD/CD, the Yep Roc Webshop is excited to announce the release of a limited-edition 500-count pressing of a deluxe version of the DVD/CD set. The collector's edition... read more »

Grant-Lee's first solo album, Ladies' Love Oracle was recorded in just three days. Here, Phillips takes the warmth and broadness of his work with band Grant Lee Buffalo and internalizes it, producing a raw, yet focused acoustic work.... read more »

The studio was state-of-the-art...for 1957. Surgical masks were as common as sunglasses. Earthquakes shook the streets. This was Mexico City, 2009, the city that was the muse for Chuck Prophet's new album ¡Let Freedom Ring! Needing a... read more »

With golden voice and silver-dipped pen Grant-Lee Phillips presents another milestone in a career brimming with the like. Little Moon, his first album since 2007's "Strangelet", is track after track of well-anchored classic... read more »

UK ska pop band Madness first made noise in England as part of the burgeoning 2 Tone/Second Wave ska scene of the late 1970s along with contemporaries The Specials. Most known in the U.S. for their still ubiquitous hit single "Our House," Madness... read more »

The biggest chops. The most tour dates. The most kick-ass live show. The greatest rock-country-punkabilly performer of his generation. The Reverend Horton Heat is back after a lengthy recording hiatus with Laughin' and Cryin' with the... read more »

Gordon Gano, co-founder of and songwriter for alt-rock monoliths The Violent Femmes returns to the scene he helped spawn with Under the Sun. Film-scoring brothers and Bogmen members Brendan and Billy Ryan join Gano for Gordon... read more »

The follow up to last year's critically lauded I'll Be Lightning, Liam Finn's new EP Champagne in Seashells might have a tongue-twisting title but the songs that comprise it are some of the best of Liam's meteoric career. Since the... read more »

The shiny pop centerpiece of the famed Elephant 6 collective, The Apples in stereo was born of Robert Schneider's infatuation with recording and his near-pathological compulsion to write the perfect pop song. Citing Pet Sounds-era Beach... read more »

The biggest chops. The most tour dates. The most kick-ass live show. The greatest rock-country-punkabilly performer of his generation, the Reverend Horton Heat is back after a lengthy recording hiatus with Laughin' and Cryin' with the Reverend... read more »

Could We Get Any Closer? is Jim Lauderdale's long awaited follow-up to his Grammy award winning album Bluegrass Diaries. Featuring a new song written with Robert Hunter and collaborations with Shawn Camp, Candace Randolph and Odie... read more »

This is another Minus 5 album. Now the eighth LP from the loose creative collective/serious drinking association helmed by wayfarer and musical enabler Scott McCaughey. This one is called Killingsworth. A recording worthy of the... read more »

O.G. Seattle rockers and the reverends of the irreverent the Young Fresh Fellows are back with I Think This Is, their first full album since 2001, and 25 years since the release of their ground-breaking first LP, Fabulous Sounds of the... read more »

Street corner prophet and good time buddy, Todd Snider, has been championing the overlooked and underappreciated for over fifteen years. This year he's back with The Excitement Plan, an album the combines social commentary, gypsy... read more »

A founding member of the Hacienda Brothers and a renowned west coast country-soul singer/songwriter, Chris Gaffney moved people as much with his smile as with his trademark croon. Gaffney passed away in 2008 after a courageous battle with liver... read more »

Grammy winner, Dave Alvin, has been roaming the highways of American music for over a quarter century. During those decades he's busted speakers with roots rock kick-starters, The Blasters, as well as mined the depths of country, folk and blues... read more »

It's a bird, it's a plane, no, it's the mystical masked avengers Los Straitjackets! The Los Straitjackets latest album 'The Further Adventures of Los Straitjackets' continues their conquest as the champion luchadores of instrumental rock. With the... read more »

In true honky tonk style Country Club is the bastard child of a drunken promise. A post show hang-out between X and the Knitters' John Doe and The Sadies produced the idea to join forces to make an album of country songs. Timeless sounds... read more »

Quiet Please... is the definitive career spinning best of from the British pop genius that makes all other collections obsolete. The 49-track compendium documents the development of one of popular musics greatest song crafters, from his pub... read more »

After critical raves, three national tours and multiple late-night TV bookings surrounding their breakout album Flock, Irish band Bell X1 is back with the ambitious and cutting Blue Lights on the Runway. Their second album on Yep Roc... read more »

Swedish power pop-psychedelicists The Soundtrack of Our Lives return in force with the Communion, a double album opus containing 24 tracks dedicated to the moods of each hour of the day and night. On Communion, their first album in... read more »

Reinvention reigns supreme in the elastic world of Robyn Hitchcock. His latest incarnation with the Venus 3 (Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey & Bill Rieflin) spawned the critically acclaimed Ole Tarantula in 2006. Three years later this... read more »

Grammy winners and 10-time nominees BeauSoleil continue their scion-like march through the panorama of American music with Alligator Purse. Over the past 30-plus years, BeauSoleil has been the very heartbeat of Cajun music and culture,... read more »

This reissue of self-titled breakout debut from Raleigh, NC's Chatham County Line marks the formation of one of acoustic music's strongest torch bearers. Chatham County Line is a document of the band in its original line-up and in the first... read more »

"Gourds Music" has its next chapter. Unclassifiable Austin sons The Gourds are back with Haymaker!, The crooked cousin to their critically acclaimed last album, Noble Creatures. On Haymaker! the band circles back, digs beneath... read more »

In 1976, the Nerves inflicted white-knuckle two-minute Beatles blasts on New York punks, then split. One Way Ticket is the first official release for these lost classics, and supplements the Nerves’ slender but essential legacy with woolly live... read more »

The Golden State EP features five versions of John Doe's "The Golden State," including a live version and a cover recorded by Eddie Vedder and Sleater-Kinney's Corin Tucker. Packaging: mini-jacket.

This collection of live tracks spans Ollabelle's two studio albums and contains previously unrecorded songs including a cover of the Grateful Dead's "Brokedown Palace." Features guest appearances from Levon Helm (drums) and Larry Campbell... read more »

From the garage rock gods who brought the world "Super Rock," Stocking Stuffer is the Christmas album for music fans who hate run-of-the mill Christmas music. The Fleshtones just want to rock and they're not about to let peace on earth or... read more »

Swirling atmospherics and mantra-like lyrics abound on Mercury Rev's newest work Snowflake Midnight. Recorded almost exclusively in the band's Catskills, N.Y. laboratory, Snowflake Midnight sees MR continue experiments with laser... read more »

New Orleans' eclectic sons the Iguanas are back with their post-Katrina ode to love, loss and the city they call home. Derailed by a hurricane and scattered to the four winds, The Iguanas fought through hell and high water (literally) to complete... read more »

Praised equally by surf god Dick Dale and Ministry's Al Jourgensen, Laika & the Cosmonauts are some of modern music's most vibrant explorers. Their first release in four years, Cosmopolis is a surf, rock and jazz fueled trip through the... read more »

"Giant Sand is a mood," says Howe Gelb. The creative force behind the extended family that has comprised Giant Sand over the years speaks of happy accidents and musical auras that arise to inspire the soundscape that is Giant Sand. The musical... read more »

Americana literati Rodney Crowell continues down the path blazed by his previous three records with Sex & Gasoline. Crowell bounded onto the music landscape in 1988 with the Top 40 crossover album Diamonds and Dirt, which... read more »

On Element of Light, The Egyptians glide between regal pop and driving psychedelia, resulting in of the most deliberate and nuanced college rock records of the decade. EOL and other Egyptians' records from this period are widely... read more »

Gotta Let This Hen Out! captures a blazing live set by the Egyptians from London's Marquee club in early 1985. The band blasts through new and old Hitchcock classics, effortlessly blending the show into what amounts to a live best-of... read more »

For nearly forty years Loudon Wainwright III has been one of America's most cherished music icons. His legendary wit and satirical genius have expanded his cultural reach from troubadour to silver screen regular. With his new album... read more »

The second in a series of Robyn Hitchcock retrospective box sets from Yep Roc, the five-disc Luminous Groove box set shines a light on Robyn's rock & roll renaissance with the Egyptians. In 1985 Robyn's newest group, with ex-Soft Boys... read more »

Fegmania! is a return to band format, showcasing new band The Egyptians through thick sonic tapestries wrapped around Hitchcock's signature skittered melodies and private lyrics. The first album by The Egyptians, the album is a departure... read more »

"After As Is Now I thought the time was right to make the sort of record I wanted to make," says Paul Weller of the creative process which led to his striking ninth solo album 22 Dreams. "Instead of worrying about anyone else, I... read more »

A true artist's artist, Ron Sexsmith has been writing and performing his earnest, soulful songs for nearly thirty years now, engendering praise from a litany of artists too influential and many to name. On his latest album Exit Strategy of the... read more »

Rock n' roll vets Scott McCaughey (The Minus 5, R.E.M., Young Fresh Fellows) and Steve Wynn (The Dream Syndicate, Gutterball, Danny & Dusty, Miracle 3) have an unhealthy love for music undermined only by an even more unhealthy love of baseball.... read more »

Reckless Kelly is back on the rock n' roll stage with Bulletproof, their most ambitious and venomous album to date. Rollicking guitars and a relentlessly aggressive rhythm section pound out political statements alongside epic road anthems... read more »

The boiled down brother to their 30 song magnum opus Never Hear the End of It, Parallel Play is the latest from power pop royalty Sloan. Less a conscious answer to NHTEOI's unabridged creative approach, Parallel... read more »

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). Produced with and engineered by Andrew... read more »

Robert Forster's first album in 11 years, The Evangelist finds the Go-Betweens co-founder as winsome and haunting as ever. Nearly two years after the death of Grant McLennan, his fellow Go-Between and writing partner of 30 years, Forster... read more »

American Princes, the Little Rock, Ark. outfit that turned heads with the Pixiefied power-pop album Less and Less has just completed follow-up Other People. The group, now a five piece with the addition of keyboardist/guitarist... read more »

Fresh off the release of the critically acclaimed New Magnetic Wonder and one of the most productive years of their career (including recording a remix for Yoko Ono and tours of Europe and Taiwan), The Apples in stereo are releasing the... read more »

New traditionalists Chatham County Line are back with their most ambitious album to date. The North Carolina quartet's fourth album IV, is a boozy blend of Americana and loose acoustic rockers that exhibits the band's ever-evolving style.... read more »

As part of country music royalty (the daughter of June Carter Cash and Carl Smith and step daughter to Johnny Cash) Carlene Carter has seen both the ups and downs of the music business and life. She's lived as the daughter of a legend and had her... read more »

2008 marks the 30th anniversary of Nick Lowe's seminal 1978 album Jesus of Cool. The album, released in the U.S. as Pure Pop for Now People, marks the beginning of one of the most storied and influential solo careers in pop music... read more »

The second in a string of rapid-fire releases from Nashville songwriting guru Jim Lauderdale, Jim Lauderdale and the Dream Players' Honey Songs is a gathering of mythical music proportions. For Honey Songs, Lauderdale pulled... read more »

In Ireland, a country churning out hit makers like so much Guinness, Bell X1 are at the forefront of the frenzy. Called “The best band in Irelandâ€� by Vanity Fair magazine, the quintet of rockers has seen four songs simultaneously chart in the... read more »

The 1993 release of Wild Wood single handedly changed Weller's persona. No longer was he only "Paul Weller of The Jam/Style Council," now he was the larger than life "Modfather," the patriarch of Britpop and all things hip. Led by a... read more »

Since his emergence in Nashville in 1981 with the Scorchers, Jason Ringenberg has blazed a trail through country music with punk attitude and the heart of a dusty road poet. With The Scorchers, Ringenberg set the high water mark for country rock... read more »

The Fleshtones are back with Take a Good Look, a romping revival of happy-go-lucky mayhem. CBGB heyday stalwarts The Fleshtones are the originators of the garage revival still raging in the 21st century. With Take a Good Look,... read more »

Indie wunderkind Liam Finn has burst onto the musical landscape with the force and presence of an artist twice his age. The 23-year-old New Zealander plays nearly every instrument on his first solo release I'll Be Lightning, a... read more »

Marah's sixth album, Angels of Destruction!, finds the kids from Philly in a brave new world: new sobriety, new members and of course, new songs. Culled from a Niagara-like output of songs over the past year, Angels of... read more »

In an attempt to bone up his already miraculous guitar chops, The Reverend Horton Heat, aka Jim Heath, got together with Texas friends and musicians Tim Alexander and Todd Soesbe to form Reverend Organdrum. The idea for the project came to life... read more »

Hitchcock's first solo release, Black Snake Diamond Role was recorded during the final days of his influential post-punk combo the Soft Boys. Players included all three Soft Boys Kimberly Rew, Matthew Seligman and Morris Windsor as well... read more »

Robyn Hitchcock's 1984 album I Often Dream of Trains expands upon the introspective leanings of 1981's Black Snake Diamond Role while further developing his signature lyrical imagery and spare, ominous melodies on this mostly... read more »

A sort of sequel to I Often Dream of Trains, 1990's Eye is another stark, solo work that served as a creative shelter for Hitchcock at this time in his career. During this period he was recording a major-label rock album quite... read more »

Robyn Hitchcock has finally begun the daunting task of compiling his groundbreaking post-Soft Boys solo catalog with the I Wanna Go Backwards box set. The first of two upcoming collections, I Wanna Go Backwards includes three of... read more »

The Cake Sale was devised by Brian Crosby of Irish indie-rockers Bell X1 as a collective and concept album benefiting the Oxfam organization's Make Trade Fair campaign and their other poverty relief projects. With a roll call that... read more »

The Sadies return with their fifth studio album, New Seasons. Featuring the brotherly harmonies and dazzling guitar interplay of Dallas and Travis Good, New Seasons is the band's most confident studio album to date. The Sadies'... read more »

Every family has one, that Grinch who hates Christmas music, the humbugger that snarls at the mere mention of Rudolph or silent nights. During the holidays we here at Yep Roc have more than a few of these curmudgeons roaming the halls, so we... read more »

Much like his work with seminal L.A. band Green on Red, Chuck Prophet's first new album in three years, Soap and Water, defies categorization. Soap and Water moves deftly from Americana and rock to R&B, molding styles at will. A... read more »

The Bluegrass Diaries is the 2008 Grammy Award winner for Best Bluegrass Album. Lauderale's second Grammy win is proof positive that he is one of country music's most prolific songwriters and performers, with his work resulting in a... read more »

Texas music has never had a better friend than Doyle Bramhall. From his early days in Dallas bands to writing classics like "Wall of Denial" and "House Is Rockin'" with Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bramhall's legendary vocals and songs expand the reach of... read more »

Th' Legendary Shack*Shakers southern gothic epic has its latest chapter. With Swampblood the Colonel JD Wilkes takes the muddled influence of his new home in western Kentucky, pours it through the funnel of eerie south Louisiana bayou... read more »

The bastard cousin to Spencer's genre-demolishing Blues Explosion, Heavy Trash features Speedball Baby's guitar brawler and producer extraordinaire Matt Verta-Ray in a project that drinks down the best of roots, R&B and rock-a-billy. Going Way... read more »

Skirting the line between ready-for-TV pop addictiveness and grimy knife's-edge guitar bombast, Canada's The Golden Dogs seamlessly blend hooks and crunch into a bright, art-conscious swirl as catchy as it is cool. The Dogs are led by songwriter... read more »

Peter Case is back with Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John, his most raw, direct work in nearly a decade. This album of politically-fueled and personally-visionary songs about now finds America's golden troubadour in his finest form, laying... read more »

While it still retains many of the memorable features that jolted critics and fans on his first outing, 2 moves Simple Kid's sound in a more earthy direction, with linear sonance and focused production: less laptop, more guitar, harmonica... read more »

Kaleidoscopic country-rockers The Gourds continue defining their own unique musical genre with Noble Creatures. "Gourds music" is by now a generally accepted term that fans and critics alike are forced to use when attempting to describe... read more »

Blue eyed soul? You don't even know the definition until you've heard the sweet smoke of Nick Lowe's trademark croon. Now, later in life, Lowe's rootsy, grown-up soul has risen to the surface of what was a cracked and stripped down artistic... read more »

John Doe is back again. As a founding member of punk monoliths X, he seized his rightful place as one of the most influential musicians in American alternative music in the 1980's, clearing a path for the revolution in that genre that would take... read more »

As the leader of seminal seventies band Mott the Hoople, Ian Hunter ripped straight through the hypocrisy and broken ideals of the hippie generation, cutting a jagged swath through popular music and paving the way for the punk rock revolution.... read more »

Revenge! is the new release from Robbie Fulks, a 2-disc, 23-track "live record" that invests that term with fresh thinking. One disc stars the songwriter's ferociously rocking four-man road band (and interpolates sound check and... read more »

On Are We Not Horses Toronto-based, seven piece indie-folk ensemble Rock Plaza Central uses traditional instrumentation to sketch visions of an apocalyptic future where angels battle humans and a race of robotic horses falls into... read more »

No habla Ingles? No problem! Los Straitjackets have teamed-up with Cesar Rosas of Los Lobos, rockabilly belter Big Sandy, and East L.A. legend Little Willie G. to deliver Rock En Espanol Vol. 1, an all Espanol album of vintage Rock n' Roll. Rock... read more »

During the fall of 2006 the North Carolina-based garage-blues duo The Moaners decided to revisit their Mississippi roots and travel by van and backcountry blacktop to Yalobusha County, Mississippi. The mission: to record their latest album,... read more »

Sex, Food, Death and Tarantulas is the new EP from Robyn Hitchcock and the Venus 3 (Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey & Bill Rieflin). The EP contains six previously-unreleased live tracks recorded during the 2006 Ole! Tarantula tour,... read more »

Since 1985, Southern Culture on the Skids have brought their chicken flingin' trashabilly antics to every nook and cranny of the US of A and beyond, playing classic originals like "Eight Piece Box" and "Camel Walk" while tearing up the stage,... read more »

After 2003's Not Exotic and 2005's Violence in the Snowy Fields, Dolorean became an underdog favorite with national critics, writers, and a loyal following of fans. Now, with You Can't Win, their third Yep Roc release,... read more »

The Apples in stereo mark their first release in five years, as well as their fifth official full length album, with New Magnetic Wonder. The first release on Yep Roc Records' joint venture with Elijah Wood's newly formed record label,... read more »

Paul Weller's Hit Parade (Yep Roc), his first ever career spanning box set, chronicles 30 years of milestone work from one of the world's best songwriters. Four disks long and including a 60 page booklet, Hit Parade is a... read more »

Paul Weller's Hit Parade (Yep Roc), his first ever career spanning collection, chronicles 30 years of milestone work from one of the world's best songwriters. In 23 tracks, Hit Parade is a comprehensive Weller anthology. Between... read more »

Kristin Hersh's prolific career spans twenty years, from founding pioneering post-punk art-rockers Throwing Muses (at age fourteen!)through more than ten Throwing Muses records, eight solo releases, and three releases with her harder-than-ever... read more »

You Am I are bonafide stars in their native Australia where, since 1992, the band has set a record for three consecutive straight-in-at-No. 1 albums, bagged seven ARIAS, picked up some heavyweight admirers/touring partners (Oasis, Soundgarden,... read more »

One of the most successful Canadian bands of the last fifteen years, Sloan has now finished its eighth studio album, Never Hear the End of It -- the first on new US label Yep Roc Records. Yet another Sloan serving of august and finely... read more »

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 live DVD/CD, Sooner or Later... read more »

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 rabble-rouser, Bragg revealed he was equally... read more »

Though still a caustic rabble-rouser, Bragg revealed on 1998's Workers Playtime he was equally adept at discussing the struggles of love as he was at discussing the struggles of the working class. As with Volume 1, each release... read more »

1991's Don't Try This at Home comes complete with Peter Buck, Johnny Marr, Michael Stipe, Kirsty MacColl, and perhaps most shockingly of all, drums! The album also introduced us to one of his best known songs, "Sexuality." As with... read more »

Bragg's talents at examining interpersonal relationships continued to mature on 1996's William Bloke, an album that, according to All Music Guide, "reminds listeners that the well-missed Bragg is super valuable, even when firing flowers... read more »

England, Half English was Bragg's 2002 solo follow-up to the Grammy-nominated Wilco-collaboration Mermaid Avenue. It shows his musical adventurism continuing to develop as he and his now-steady backing band The Blokes dabble in neo-ska,... read more »

At last, The Sadies have taken their psychedelic hot-rod-soundtrack stylings and created... a psychedelic soundtrack for a hot rod movie! "Tales of the Rat Fink" by Ron Mann, the award-winning director of Comic Book Confidential and Grass,... read more »

Robyn Hitchcock sought out some old friends to record his new album, Ole! Tarantula, and he found the Venus 3: Peter Buck, Scott McCaughey and Bill Rieflin. By enlisting "3/4s of the Minus 5 and half of R.E.M," Hitchcock has created what he... read more »

Take one part masked guitar mayhem, a trio of toe-tapping triplets from Trenton (well, just sisters, actually), and a hip-swiveling, bespectacled Scotsman and you have in your hands an instant party! While Los Straitjackets, The World Famous... read more »

CLICK HERE TO GET A "A THEME" RINGTONE The Yep Roc Records debut of North Carolina's Cities has just been reimagined by Ladytron, Daedelus, Fog, and Free the Robots. The... read more »

CLICK HERE TO GET A "HONKY TONK MOOD AGAIN" RINGTONE Country Super Hits, Vol. 1, one of two brand new albums that Jim Lauderdale will release simultaneously this... read more »

Bluegrass, one of two brand new albums that Jim Lauderdale will release simultaneously this year, features the solid pickin' and stark, honest songs that led to 2002's Grammy for Bluegrass Album of the Year for Lost in the Lonesome... read more »

Yep Roc Records has the distinct honor of releasing "Zeno Beach", the first album of all-new material from Australia's Radio Birdman since their breakup over 25 years ago. Radio Birdman's reputation as one of the pioneering bands in punk music... read more »

Includes 7 previously-unavailable tracks not on the original Japanese import! 19 tracks total! That's a lot of rock. Jon Spencer, heart-attack front man of the Blues Explosion and shudder-and-shake specialist of rockabilly... read more »

Ladies and gents, steel your beings for the twin guitar sensory assault of Canada's masters of all things rock, surf, country, psychedelic, and otherwise on their first ever live album -- two discs featuring over 40 tracks! Recorded by none other... read more »

The legendary 'Modfather' Paul Weller will release his first-ever electric live solo album in the U.S. on July 25. "Catch-Flame!" features songs from every part of Weller's illustrious career including Jam classics ("A Town Called Malice", "That's... read more »

This is not John Doe's new album. Originally an EP called For the Rest of Us (1998, Kill Rock Stars), Yep Roc's new version is a full-length, now entitled For the Best of Us. The new, expanded version includes five previously... read more »

From the first thump of the bass, the songs on Turntable Matinee display why Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys are still the modern essence of classic rockabilly. The perfectly timeless country swing of Big Sandy's warm, seductive croon mixed with... read more »

Following 2005's Route 23, Chatham County Line's praises were sung both in the traditional bluegrass-loving pages and the websites of the young and hip. No Depression praises their ability to "appeal to those who aren't typical fans of... read more »

West of the West is Dave Alvin's tribute to the songs and songwriters of California. It's the fourth-generation Californian's latest excursion into the sounds and history of his home state, continuing the high standard he set with King of... read more »

Cities - four bright-eyed college kids, keen on creating a decidedly American brand of melancholic, but hooky, indie rock - have a bone to pick with those hipster highbrows focusing their attention across the pond. The band's self-titled Yep Roc... read more »

Less and Less, American Princes' sophomore release for Yep Roc Records, documents a marked period of artistic growth for a band still pushing the limits. While still high on earnest, full-tilt indie rock, producer Alan Weatherhead... read more »

CLICK HERE TO GET A "BANANA PUDDING" RINGTONE" Cancel your weekend plans -- Southern Culture on the Skids are bringing the world-famous, sexed-up, blistering,... read more »

CLICK HERE TO GET A "BANANA PUDDING" RINGTONE" Cancel your weekend plans -- Southern Culture on the Skids are bringing the world-famous, sexed-up, blistering,... read more »

"Trying to change the world by singing about it is a dirty business but someone has to do it." -- Billy Bragg, 1988 Billy Bragg, once-described as a "one-man Clash," has spent the last two decades writing and performing passionate, witty,... read more »

"When Caitlin Cary (ex-Whiskeytown), Tonya Lamm (ex-Hazeldine) and Lynn Blakey (Glory Fountain) bring their voices together, they convey sweet heartache and the world-weary acceptance that comes to insightful gals on the tall side of thirty,"... read more »

Billy Bragg, once-described as a "one-man Clash," has spent the last two decades writing and performing passionate, witty, socially conscious music. On September 6, Yep Roc Records will re-issue Life's a Riot With Spy Vs. Spy, 1983's... read more »

Billy Bragg, once-described as a "one-man Clash," has spent the last two decades writing and performing passionate, witty, socially conscious music. On September 6, Yep Roc Records will re-issue Brewing Up With Billy Bragg, Billy's 1984... read more »

Billy Bragg, once-described as a "one-man Clash," has spent the last two decades writing and performing passionate, witty, socially conscious music. On September 6, Yep Roc Records will re-issue Talking with the Taxman About Poetry,... read more »

Billy Bragg, once-described as a "one-man Clash," has spent the last two decades writing and performing passionate, witty, socially conscious music. On September 6, Yep Roc Records will re-issue Live and Dubious, Billy's first album... read more »

Ladies and Gentlemen, With Pandelirium, th' Legendary Shack*Shakers continue their relentless tough-love affair with America's musical demons...this time enlisting the services of the great Jello Biafra and the right Reverend Horton Heat.... read more »

This is the new Minus 5 album. Against all odds, it is perhaps the seventh full-lengther in a career marked primarily by catastrophe, shame and fisticuffs. (Leave triumphs to those that beseech them.) This record could not have happened without... read more »

Of the Go-Betweens, Entertainment Weekly says, "Twenty-seven years into their career, they remain one of rock's most pleasurable hand-me-down discoveries." Three studio albums into the second phase of their career, the Go-Betweens present a live... read more »

Over the past decade we wrote and recorded two records on broken gear, played hundreds of shows touring in a van, made another self-produced record, one big-name-producer record, and had so many rotating band members we get dizzy just thinking... read more »

Marah made a Christmas album for a number of reasons: (1) Because it is the most wonderful time of the year. Irving Berlin was a Siberian Jew and he wrote "White Christmas", arguably the best Yuletide ditty of them all. (2) To make a Yuletide... read more »

"As Is Now" finds Paul Weller plugging in and turning up the volume louder than he has in years. As the voice of punk legends The Jam, Weller influenced virtually every U.K. band that followed. The Jam's popularity is legendary; they once... read more »

The Deluxe Version contains the standard CD, a DVD of bonus materials and a 12 page booklet containing photographs. Box Set.

The Standard -- the band All Music Guide calls, "heartbreakingly gorgeous... startlingly unique" -- return with another album that demands the upper reaches of your stereo's register. On "Albatross", their fourth full-length (and second for Yep... read more »

Do you prefer your Christmas with "sawdust on the floor and blood in its mouth?" (New Music Express) If so, don't bother writing to Santa. Sure, he's a swell guy, but when it comes to "guitars so wild they must have been miked, mixed, and... read more »

The fourth full-length release from The Kingsbury Manx features 13 songs showcasing a different sonic side of their indie folk pop. The spare, acoustic arrangements and innocent, sing-along codas of The Fast Rise and Fall of the South ... read more »

Robert Skoro first found his way onto the scene as an essential component of Mason Jennings' band, but with the release of "That These Things Could Be Ours," the 24-year-old Minneapolis singer-songwriter's Yep Roc debut, Skoro steps out front with... read more »

Yep Roc Records is proud to introduce the next household name in indie rock: American Princes. "Little Spaces," their debut full-length delivers a bevy of terse, powerful, loud-as-hell rock n' roll straight from Arkansas to your soon-to-be-shaken... read more »

The total victory of music over your dull, listless lives is upon us thanks to the tireless efforts of the once and future kings of garage The Fleshtones and their patent-pending brand of high-energy Super Rock. Since nearly the dawn of time, The... read more »

Bob Mould returns to his signature guitar sound and songwriting style with "Body of Song," his first release on Yep Roc Records. Mould's sound inspired a generation of post-hardcore punk rockers who helped create and define the alternative rock... read more »

The Deluxe Version is a limited edition box set that includes "Body of Song" plus a 9 song bonus disc & special artwork & pictures. Box Set.

On the heels of stellar solo releases, Caitlin Cary and Thad Cockrell have hooked up to create an album of duets for Yep Roc Records called Begonias. Cary first cut her vocal-chops as the female foil to Ryan Adams in Whiskeytown and... read more »

When country music was first recorded, around the dawn of the previous century, it was rude, funny and soulful. It was political, too, but not in the chest-thumping, far-right, car-commercial-scoring style of the 2000s. Robbie Fulks' Georgia... read more »

The Go-Betweens are the quintessential cult band. Sired by the new wave explosion of the late '70s, The Go-Betweens have spent the last 25 years crafting the sort of lovely, eloquent music "Lou Reed could have written if he had fallen for Brian... read more »

Jon Spencer and Matt Verta-Ray are Heavy Trash. There is a secret place where even the best-intentioned rockabilly explorations are scarred by dirty guitars, bad dreams, and lust gone wrong...Where murder ballads rub up against filthy R&B and... read more »

Your lopsided heart emptied out on Hwy 99 as you drop down into the Central Valley of California. There is a pain, like shortness of breath or a catch in your throat. Flat land, rusty wire, dirt and dust blows in the open car window. You can smell... read more »

On Route 23, Chatham County Line once again pledge their allegiance to the country music renaissance. This is not the act of imitation; this is propagation. With the tools of their trade in hand, they travel down the same roads as Bill... read more »

Who in tarnation is making all that racket, peeling out of the driveway and disappearing into the night? Oh come on, folks, you know that voice cackling from behind the wheel - once you've heard the unmistakable Mississippi drawl of Melissa... read more »

Over the years Chris Stamey, founder of kudzu-pop originals the dBs, has honed his craft on stage and in the studio, working with everyone from Alex Chilton and the Golden Palominos to Bob Mould. Working as a producer with a new crop of bands such... read more »

The band that perpetually creates anachronistic music in a far, distant future returns to the present to revisit a past collaboration. Evil mastermind Scott McCaughey and his sonic frontiersmen are joined by the uber-handsome members of Wilco as... read more »

Th' Legendary Shackers' Believe is a triumph of Vaudevillian exuberance melding the rural, agri-dustrial rhythms of Appalachian hoedowns, the intensity of gutbucket blues, and even the madcap oompah of Polka.

Yep Roc Records is proud to release Spooked, a collaboration by English singer-songwriter/eccentric Robyn Hitchcock and acclaimed Americana duo Gillian Welch and David Rawlings. Over Hitchcock's long and varied career - from his punk-era... read more »

Make no mistake -- this is still the sound of your loved one's heart breaking. But this time around, Dolorean has packaged that sound within a more focused, more mature, and far more dynamic collection of songs. Alex James and company haven't... read more »

CC Adcock has packed a lot of playing and living into 31 short years, including a major label release that has since gone on to become a classic in the swamp-rock genre. His long awaited follow-up takes a leap forward, into a Lafayette where... read more »

This will be Boston-based Jake Brennan's first full-length release. Arriving on the Boston scene with a rock 'n' roll swagger and a barroom poet's heart, Brennan started out with the hardcore band, Cast Iron Hike (Victory Records), before turning... read more »

In every man's life, there comes a time when he has to speak his mind, and for folk-punk barnstormer Jason Ringenberg, that time is now. "Sometimes you just have to shout from the rooftops, or the barn loft," says Ringenberg of Empire Builders,... read more »

The Comas are back with Conductor, their second Yep Roc release. Finding himself at the end of a two-year relationship, Comas frontman Andy Herod found refuge in an empty beach house on the North Carolina coast during the winter of 2003.... read more »

Free from decades' worth of expectations, Ian Moore has become an artist unencumbered by other people's rules. He sticks to what has always kept him fresh and loved by his fans: his voice, his songs and his presence. With an album of material as... read more »

Music lovers worldwide may not know it, but they have enjoyed and delighted in keyboard player Geraint Watkins' R&B/jump style piano and Creole-flavored accordion for nearly 30 years. Watkins has toured and recorded with some of the legends of... read more »

Toronto's cosmic cowboys The Sadies are serving up another batch of genre-bending rock 'n' roll on "Favourite Colours", their second release on Yep Roc. Recorded at WaveLab in Tucson, The Woodshed in Toronto, and Greg Keelor's farm between the... read more »

"Soft Commands" is as much an album as it is a travelogue through time — specifically, the era when modern pop composition caught up with studio soundcraft. Posies co-founder, sideman to the stars and world citizen Ken Stringfellow is equally... read more »

"Marah will shortly release what would, in a world with ears, be one of 2004's most loved straight-ahead rock albums, 20,000 Streets Under The Sky." Nick Hornby, New York Times, May 21st 2004 The fourth album from Philadelphia's Marah and... read more »

"There's always been a stolen-moment quality to the Chicas, who have had to make time for this group within the demands of their other bands, including Whiskeytown, Glory Fountain and Hazeldine. But Caitlin, Lynn and Tonya keep coming back to each... read more »

Road dogs that've toured with everyone from the Mooney Suzuki and D4 to The Supersuckers, The Forty-Fives are serious contenders for best live band on the rock-'n'roll/garage scene. Between tours, the band went into Detroit's Ghetto Recorders... read more »

Yep Roc is proud to be releasing "Revival", a new studio album by the Reverend Horton Heat. Recorded at Last Beat Studio in the Deep Ellum area of Dallas just a block from where the trio played their first gig back in 1985, "Revival" is a return... read more »

Though he's well-known as a producer (Whiskeytown, Yo La Tengo, Le Tigre), journeyman musician (Golden Palominos, Alex Chilton, Matthew Sweet), and co-founder of kudzu-pop originals the dBs, "Travels in the South" is the first studio album in over... read more »

One of America's great songwriters returns with ten new original songs for his Yep Roc debut, Ashgrove. .Ashgrove continues in the folk/blues tradition of "Blackjack David" and "King of California", while incorporating the more... read more »

The sci-fi-addled spastic rhythms, creepy crooning and woodshed rockabilly of "Blues That Defy My Soul" couldn't have sprung from anyone else but Dexter Romweber. The former frontman of the legendary Flat-Duo Jets brings his peerless brand of... read more »

the Pistols' 3rd studio album matches up their trademark Bakersfield honky-tonk and tear-in-my-beer ballads with a distinctive pop sensibility and hooks to spare.

With nods to classic Brill Building pop, Patsy Cline-era torch songs, western swing and Southern California cosmic country,Anyway presents a unique new voice with a profound sense of history. Produced by Dave Alvin (Dave also co-writes... read more »

The Butchies are three cool women from Durham, NC who make fine power pop. The trio nods to the old school punk rock of The Ramones, Blondie, Patti Smith, 999, etc...while still sounding very right here and now. Having already released three full... read more »

"This is not a thin record." So proclaims The Standard's Tim Putnam, when pressed to describe the Portland quintet's sound. The band's third album,"Wire Post To Wire" their first for Yep Roc Records, is a stunningly original musical statement that... read more »

This Affair Never Happened features everything you've come to expect from The Bigger Lovers and then some: soaring vocals overlaid with tight harmonies, explosive power chords and choruses that make you reach for the "repeat" button on your... read more »

If you've been following the career of Scott McCaughey, master musician, raconteur and leader of the musical collective/brain trust known as the Minus 5, you'll wonder what well of inspiration "McOi" has been taking slugs from. When he's not... read more »

North Carolina's Southern Culture On The Skids (SCOTS) are back with "Mojo Box", the band's first recording since 2000's "Liquored Up and Lacquered Down" and their first release for the NC-based Yep Roc Records. "Mojo Box" combines SCOTS trademark... read more »

Laika & The Cosmonauts are not only Finland's #1 Surf band, they are considered by many to be the greatest rock'n'roll band in all of Scandinavia. That said, describing the Cosmonauts as simply a "surf" band falls short of telling the whole story... read more »

Not Exotic is the debut album by Portland OR's Dolorean. Their goal was to capture the spirit, feel, and spontaneity that exists on albums that the band has loved over the years (think The Band's Music From The Big Pink, Neil Young's... read more »

Jason Darling is a singer-songwriter who has: worked in a century-old rope factory; worked as the janitor at Electric Lady Studios (he brought his guitar to work), where people from D'angelo to Dave Matthews would say "Man, that guy playing guitar... read more »

North Carolina singer-songwriter Thad Cockrell hails from the old school of country music, the days before Nashville went pop. "There's no 'alt' in my country," says Cockrell, who possesses a high-lonesome, wistful tenor voice. Although originally... read more »

For their seventh album, the mighty, masked Los Straitjackets holed up in a secret San Diego location with mad scientist of sound, producer Mark Neill to create the 13 terrifying tracks that make up Supersonic Guitars in 3-D. Rumors of... read more »

For Dandelion, her latest release on Yep Roc records, native Mississippian Claire Holley wanted to try something new. "I'd been admiring bands that could jam, where it more about the feel of the live performance. I wanted that kind of... read more »

After bursting on the southern California roots revival scene in the late '80s with their HighTone records debut, "Jumpin' From Six to Six,", Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys have left the rest of the rockabilly/Texas swing wannabes lying flat in... read more »

Caitlin Cary's second full-length, "I'm Staying Out", follows last year's acclaimed "While You Weren't Looking", called "the best recording yet to surface from the remnants of Whiskeytown" by No Depression magazine. In crafting the album, Cary... read more »

C'mon!...'cause on April 22, the Garagefathers themselves, The Fleshtones, deliver a new collection of pure rock and roll, and you're all invited to the party. With the current crop of young garage rockers such as the Hives name-checking The... read more »

New Orleans' own The Iguanas are back with the most mature and groovin' disc of their career, Plastic Silver 9-Volt Heart. Reunited with producer Justin Niebank (Allison Moorer, Delbert McClinton, George Jones, Albert Collins, etc), the... read more »

Doyle Bramhall's new CD, Fitchburg Street, is the Texas' singer/ songwriter/drummer's fond look back at the music that shaped him: soul, blues, and rock 'n' roll. Fitchburg Street is the follow-up to Doyle's debut CD, Bird Nest On... read more »

The first-ever LP release of the now-legendary rock summit between Scott McCaughey's astonishingly prolific Minus 5 collective and the members of experimental pop stalwarts Wilco. Combining the art of collaborative recording with the craft of... read more »

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 has influenced nearly every important UK band of... read more »

Canada's favorite whacked-out six-string mayhemists are back with a soundtrack for the space cowboy set. The Sadies made their fourth album and Yep Roc debut, "Stories Often Told", after spending the past year and a half criss-crossing North... read more »

Countdown Quartet are back on the scene with their third release overflowing with their unique stew of blues-inflected, horn-powered rock 'n roll, jazz, ska and classic R & B. The band continue to develop as players while keeping the music fun and... read more »

Trim the tree, stuff the stocking and kick your shoes off for some Christmas Rocking with the mighty Los Straitjackets! If you like your Egg Nog cut with a little Tequila, this is the record for you. America's instrumentalists make a joyful noise... read more »

Atlanta's Super Rock Kings, The Forty-Fives, are ready to bust out their monster sophomore release, Fight Dirty, upon an unsuspecting world. Equipped with a hardcore dedication to restoring the 'kickass' back into live rock 'n' roll, the... read more »

Hailing from Philadelphia, The Bigger Lover's debut, How I Learned to Stop Worrying (Black Dog) blew minds with its bombastic sonics, delicate sophistication and drop-dead gorgeous songs. UK mag Uncut gave it four stars and deemed it a... read more »

Since their formation in 1996, the Two Dollar Pistols, led by baritone singer John Howie, Jr., have gained the respect of country music fans worldwide through international touring and three critically acclaimed releases. With a soulful honky-tonk... read more »

For their third album, Walking In A Straight Line, Chapel Hill's The Mayflies USA turned to Kevin Cleversley (Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, Spiritualized) at Chicago's Playground Studios to capture the live sound of the band and the organic... read more »

"All Over Creation" is the second solo set from Jason Ringenberg, the passionate frontman, vocalist and songwriter for the legendary Jason And The Scorchers. Unlike 2000's "Pocketful of Soul", which gave Jason fans a more down home and acoustic... read more »

Blessed with a high, clear tenor voice that recalls Gram Parsons or a "Harvest" era Neil Young and an elegant six-string style, native North Carolinian Johnny Irion's country rock sound on "Unity Lodge" is a welcomed addition to the American Roots... read more »

Caitlin Cary may be best known currently as Ryan Adams' partner in one of alternative country's finest bands, Whiskeytown, but with this full-length debut release, Cary steps out on her own with outstanding results. Along with producer Chris... read more »

Based in Nashville, TN, Jason & The Scorchers burst onto the scene in 1981 with an indie debut release that included their famed cover of Dylan's "Absolutely Sweet Marie." That recording got them a deal on EMI/Capitol, and later became a sizable... read more »

Following three albums of instrumental guitar insanity, along with one earth-shaking libe album, Los Straitjackets opted to invite friends and fans to join in and sing along. Based in Nashville, guests include Raul Malo (Mavericks), Big Sandy,... read more »

Nick Lowe's 11th disc, The Convincer, completes a triology begun in 1994 with The Impossible Bird. Co-produced by Neil Brockbank in London, Lowe blends elements of soul, country, r&b, blues and jazz. "Nick Lowe has made the album of his... read more »

2 Previous self-released discs established Holley as an up & coming songwriter and performer in the Southeast. Holley is based in Jackson, MS, and other Key Markets include Atlanta, Greenville SC, Memphis, Grand Rapids, Chicago, Greensboro/Triad... read more »

The Yep Roc debut of the Nashville based supergroup Swag is once again available. Swag is Ken Coomer (Wilco), Jerry Dale McFadden (Sixpence None the Richer), Robert Reynolds (The Mavericks), Doug Powell (Todd Rundgren/Not Lame Records), and... read more »

The #2 most asked question of Laika and The Cosmonauts (#1 is "Are you really from Finland?") is "when will you do a live record?" The fab four of instrumental music have finally done it, their very first live album. Since 1987, the Cosmonauts... read more »

For the past five years Los Straitjackets have been barnstorming the country, treating audiences to their unique brand of rock & roll showmanship. One night in the summer of 2000, the band played an engagement at the world famous Foothills... read more »

Greg Hawks has been playing in NC bands as guitarist/vocalist for years. With Fool's Paradise , Greg steps out on his own with this soulful, rootsy debut, backed-up by several noted local musicians including Dan Kurtz (Backsliders). Think... read more »

Chapel Hill, NC's Countdown Quartet return with their second release on Yep Roc. Party With! Is one righteous blast of brass & R&B, featuring Dave Wright (Squirrel Nut Zippers, Tonebenders), Steve Grothman (Tonebenders), Jimbo Mathus... read more »

Since the release of their Upstart albums, Instruments Of Terror (1994), The Amazing Colossal Band (1995) and Zero Gravity (1996), the evolution of instrumental sound of Laika & The Cosmonauts continues to move forward in new... read more »

The 2nd release by Chapel Hill, NC's The Comas takes the somnambulistic pop of 1999's Wave to Make Friends to new depths of exploration and expertise. Tuneful, soulful, and witty yet serenely naive, A Def Needle in Tomorrow... read more »

The Pity List is the much-anticipated, second full length release by Chapel Hill, NC's reigning pop music kings, The Mayflies USA. Produced by Chris Stamey and the band, this new recording features 16 powerful new songs, and additional... read more »

SPECIAL LIMITED PRESSING. Caitlin Cary has been a member of NC-based Whiskeytown since its founding in 1994. With Whiskeytown, Cary has sung and fiddled on three records (along with several EP's, singles, etc.) and has toured extensively in the US... read more »

Chapel Hill, NC's roots-rock combo Jennyanykind take the production reins once again for their 6th release, I Need You. A mix of quirky blues, light-hearted pop and Southern gothic psychedelia, I Need You expands upon the organic sound and... read more »

More Bad Habits marks Dawson's first studio album in a few years and his first ever in stereo. Recorded in Portland, ME, the album also represents Dawson's first studio recording in the US since the 1960's. Fans of Dawson's music and first-time... read more »

Since their formation in 1996, the Two Dollar Pistols, led by baritone singer John Howie, Jr., have gained the respect of country music fans worldwide through international touring and three critically acclaimed releases. With a soulful... read more »

This very special project is the collaborative efforts of head Pistol John Howie and Carbines lead singer, Tift Merritt. After doing a couple of tunes together harmonizing all the way through at a gig one night, one thing lead to another and these... read more »

You cannot deny the Power of the Mask. America's Instrumentalists will astound you with their long-awaited dynamo of an album.

Countdown's Comin'! Raleigh's rockin' Countdown Quartet kicks out an exciting, full-energy blast of R&B, 50's styled rock n roll, New Orleans' jazz with a whole lotta soul and deep grooves. Fronted by vocalist and trombonist, David Wright and... read more »

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The legendary 'Modfather' Paul Weller will release his first-ever electric live solo album in the U.S. on July 25. "Catch-Flame!" features songs from every part of Weller's illustrious career including Jam classics ("A Town Called Malice",... read more »

Robyn Hitchcock has taken time out from working with The Venus 3 (which features various members of REM) and John Paul Jones (who has been busy with his former band Led Zeppelin lately...) to compile an exclusive album, "Shadow Cat", for... read more »

Entitled Los Straitjackets Play Favorites, Los Straitjackets deliver an all-cover record featuring interpretations of songs by The Markets, Bobby Fuller Four, Henry Mancini, Frank Sinatra, Gene Pitney, Link Wray, Los Sinners, The Shadows,... read more »

This live album from Grammy Award winner Dave Alvin captures the trademark sound of one of America's best songwriters - and one of the country's best live bands. Recorded in early 2005 at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco and the... read more »

Loudon Wainwright III, together with producer Dick Connette, has created one of the most ambitious projects of his career with the 2 CD set High Wide & Handsome - a grand gathering of songs, both old and original, revisiting the... read more »