"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 »

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 »

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 »

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."

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 »

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 »

In early 2009, like thousands of artists, 3-time Grammy nominee Peter Case found himself ill and without insurance. Following sudden open-heart surgery, Case walked out of the hospital with two things: a renewed vigor for life and music, and a... 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 »

"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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

"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 »

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 »

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 »

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 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 »

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 »

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 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 »

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 »

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 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 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 »