Grammy nominees, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, have returned with Throw It to the Universe, the band's 6th, and final, full-length album. Throw It to the Universe contains all of the elements that TSOOL is known for -- psychedelic... read more »

On a recent summer evening in downtown Raleigh, NC, Chatham County Line set up shop at a stately theater filled with hundreds of their most devoted fans and captured for the ages what they do best: gathering around a single microphone to play and... read more »

"Jukebox the Ghost play rambunctious pop music with the compact melodicism of the Beatles, the ambitious prog sprawl of Yes, and the persistent dance motion of New Order." -- The Washington Post Jukebox the Ghost's album Safe... read more »

Yep Roc Records is happy to announce the vinyl release of the much praised Minus 5 self-titled album (a.k.a. "The Gun Album"). The physical piece includes a vinyl 12" of the entire album and an additional 7" featuring two additional tracks. But... read more »

Canada's finest live band, The Sadies, have reunited with explicit soul singer/cult legend Andre Williams for Night and Day on Yep Roc records. Night and Day is the result of sessions that began in 2008 at Key Club Studio in... read more »

Enjoying a constant critical high and a never ending creative peak, Paul Weller continues to push the boundaries with Sonik Kicks. The album is the follow up to the Mercury Prize Award nominated Wake Up The Nation and is Paul's... read more »

After an unparalleled career, characterized by constant musical experimentation, we should be used to Paul Weller's relentless desire to chop and change his sound. But after the triumphant, Brit Award-bagging success of 22 Dreams (his third... read more »

"Titles never come easy to me, but this one did. Long before I recorded a single note I knew what I'd call it. That name, it was just in the air. Midway through it my wife left me. Just walked out the door...into the arms of younger man. We have... read more »

Chuck Prophet returns with his third Yep Roc release - Temple Beautiful - a nuanced, insightful, passionate ode to San Francisco: his adopted hometown; his muse; his drug of choice... "San Francisco. It's a great place to come and... read more »

Upon its original release in the Spring of 1995, All Music Guide called The Apples in stereo's debut full length "one of those records that marks a sea change in musical attitudes." Fun Trick Noisemaker facilitated such a shift by moving... read more »

We Don't Need is the Yep Roc debut from Louisville KY's enchanting chanteuse, Cheyenne Marie Mize. Whimsical, haunting, dreamlike music that eschews the traditional formulae, Cheyenne Marie Mize presents a rainbow of juxtapositions. R&B... read more »

New album. New sound. On Acrobats London's Peggy Sue has put down the acoustic guitars, this time opting instead for buzzing guitars and crackling amps. Recorded with producer of the moment John Parish --known for his extensive work with... read more »

Now 19 albums and three novels into one of the arts' most compelling careers, John Wesley Harding bring us The Sound of His Own Voice. Recorded at the Type Foundry in Portland, Oregon, the album was produced by Harding and Scott McCaughey (The... read more »

Josh Rouse's new album, his ninth overall, is the self titled debut of his new trio, Josh Rouse and the Long Vacations. For this first excursion since the release of his previous album, El Turista, (which saw him indulging his interests in... read more »

Of Nick Lowe, NPR once observed, "Few musicians get better with age, Nick Lowe is an exception." While it's undeniable that his last album garnered Lowe the best reviews -- dubbed "utterly fantastic," by The Village Voice -- of his career... read more »

Good Luck & True Love is an album that encompasses the last 15 years of Reckless Kelly. Ten new songs that capture the essence of a road worn and battle scarred band of brothers that aren't afraid to take risk and tell it like it is.... 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 »

John Doe is one of modern music's most authentic & enduring songwriters. A keystone of the legendary LA punk rock band X, the Chicago Tribune called him, "punk rock's golden throat." While touring with X over the last 30 years, Doe also cultivated... read more »

Unlike the iconic Ft. Wayne NJ garden store that inspired its name, Fountains of Wayne are still very much open for business. In fact, their new album Sky Full of Holes sounds like a whole new beginning for the band and its powerhouse... read more »

Dave Alvin turns it up. The intensity, the focus, the volume. On Alvin's new album Eleven Eleven, the man who many credit with pioneering what has come to be known as 'roots rock,' revisits the burning, guitar-centered blues rock that... read more »

Some may say three years is a long time to take between debut and sophomore albums. But when Rolling Stone says your first album is a "gorgeous folk rock solo album," and when the LA Times says that you never "veer too far from a killer... read more »

Following their most critically-acclaimed albums to date, -- SPIN called Never Hear the End of It, "the best British Invasion best-of you've never heard," and Pitchfork called Parallel Play "almost flawless" -- Canadian pop... read more »

Greg Brown, accomplished songwriter, co-founder of the influential indie roots label Red House and former musical director for Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion radio program, is a prolific songwriter...and it's a good thing. As... read more »

The Case Files collects demos, out-takes, a live shot & other rarities from the 1985-2010 span of Peter Case's solo career. Compiled by Peter himself, this collection combines rockin' full band electric tracks with a selection of dynamic... 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 the bassist and primary songwriter for Brinsley Schwarz, Nick Lowe was one of the catalysts of the pub rock phenomenon in the early 1970s. As the co-founder and house producer at Stiff Records, he would help create the blueprint for the modern... read more »

"Pardon us for living, but the graveyard is full." Or so goes the title of a new documentary film telling the tale of The Fleshtones. While that sentiment is a bit tongue-in-cheek, it's also true. The Fleshtones have been grinding out garage rock... read more »

Following the success of the outfit's first album Vol. 1: Frozen Ropes & Dying Quails -- the band performed on The Late Show with David Letterman, was featured in the official World Series Program and Sports Illustrated among others --... read more »

After two years experimenting in the shadows, cutting edge minimalist-funk heroes Fujiya & Miyagi are back with their darkest and most propulsive set yet. The band's fourth full-lengther, Ventriloquizzing has a dark heart, via its throbbing... read more »

This is C O N T E N T, the new album from Gang of Four. The album features 11 new songs written by Andy Gill & Jon King. "What we strive for in all of our songs is to interpret the world in a way you haven't seen nor thought of before,"... read more »

Swarming hymns of 2nd generation psychedelic pop mastery, The Soft Boys' two most influential and groundbreaking albums are finally back in print via Yep Roc Records. Main man Robyn Hitchcock, along with demon guitarist Kimberley Rew, bassist... read more »

Swarming hymns of 2nd generation psychedelic pop mastery, The Soft Boys' two most influential and groundbreaking albums are finally back in print via Yep Roc Records. Main man Robyn Hitchcock, along with demon guitarist Kimberley Rew, bassist... read more »

By day, John Stirratt and Pat Sansone are members of rock standard-bearers Wilco, but for over a decade the pair have fronted passion project The Autumn Defense. Once Around is the group's fourth full length album and finds the band's... read more »

Jukebox the Ghost have passionate fans. Fans who've gone so far as to tattoo the band's name on their body or drive for days to see their shows, or post lovesick monologues dedicated to their glory on YouTube. Through a dogged work ethic and... read more »

Three of songwriting icon Nick Lowe's finest albums, now for the first time on vinyl... Nick Lowe's triumphant return to the indie world back in 1994 was marked by the release of the critically-acclaimed The Impossible Bird. With the... read more »

Three of songwriting icon Nick Lowe's finest albums, now for the first time on vinyl... Nick Lowe's triumphant return to the indie world back in 1994 was marked by the release of the critically-acclaimed The Impossible Bird. With the... read more »

Three of songwriting icon Nick Lowe's finest albums, now for the first time on vinyl... Nick Lowe's triumphant return to the indie world back in 1994 was marked by the release of the critically-acclaimed The Impossible Bird. With the... read more »

"Don't mistake me for a Wildwood / A place to run and hide," go the first lines of Chatham County Line's new album Wildwood. In the life of the North Carolina acoustic band, these words ring especially true. Running and hiding are the last... read more »

Darker Circles is the follow-up to The Sadies' acclaimed last album New Seasons and sees guitarist brothers Dallas and Travis Good, drummer Mike Belitsky and bassist Sean Dean again pair with legendary Jayhawk and sought-after... read more »

"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 »

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 »

Yuletide Beat is the long awaited follow up to Los Straitjackets' popular Christmas album 'Tis The Season for Los Straitjackets. The band has created 10 all new rock & roll arrangements of traditional Holiday carols that'll have you... read more »

"Even Think" is the first single on Yep Roc from Drink Up Buttercup. Known for their trashcan-pummeling live shows, the Philly quartet combines psyche pop prowess and classic 60s sensibilities with DIY punk grit, disarming audiences into... 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

The Sad Hasselhoff 12" vinyl EP features six news songs foreshadowing The Minus 5's forthcoming 2009 album.

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 »

The Los Straitjackets have made a career out of being one of the most dynamic and skillful instrumental bands on the planet. Their renowned live show is filled with mind-bending guitar theatrics, group choreography and fuzzed-out experiments in... 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 »

Rock out with this super retro 7" single, featuring "Energy," the hit song from their 2007 release, New Magnetic Wonder, and the bonus track "Mirror."

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 »

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 Counting the Days EP continues the band's tradition of holiday obsession by offering up yuletide fan favorites like "New York Is a Christmas Kind of Town" and the polka of "Counting the Days." The rock n' roll kitsch continues... 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 »

Ever the prolific songwriters, Marah's Dave and Serge Bielanko are offering up this EP containing unreleased new and vintage material, as well as songs from Marah's new full-length Angels of Destruction!. The EP is book-ended by the... 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »