Sales Rank:267 List Price: $12.98 Lowest New Price: $7.50 Lowest Used Price: $6.25 Artist(s):
Lenka
Tracks:
The Show
Bring Me Down
Skipalong
Don't Let Me Fall
Anything I'm Not
Knock Knock
Dangerous And Sweet
Trouble Is A Friend
Live Like You're Dying
Like A Song
We Will Not Grow Old
In Sydney, Australia, Lenka was a teen actress who trained with Cate Blanchett, thereafter landing leading roles on stage, television and indie films. A self-described 'punk-ass art school student' and vocalist/keyboardist for acclaimed indie Electronic/ambient outfit Decoder Ring. She has flung herself into two new worlds simultaneously: she's moved to California and become a solo artist. Whether channelling our long-repressed terrors ('Trouble') or long-lost innocence ('We Will Not Grow Old'), her music evokes primal emotions, unblemished by pretense or cynicism and unashamed of cracking a smile occasionally. Lenka's fresh sensibility extends to every element of her music, as the whimsical, paper art, stoimated videos she creates.'It's a mood-enhancer,' she says of her record, 'I don't like it when people are depressed. I want to cheer them up.'
Sales Rank:286 List Price: $18.98 Lowest New Price: $7.77 Lowest Used Price: $2.95 Artist(s):
Enya
Tracks:
Orinoco Flow
Caribbean Blue
Book of Days
Anywhere Is
Only If...
The Celts
China Roses
Shepherd Moons
Ebudae
Storms in Africa
Watermark
Paint the Sky with Stars
Marble Halls - Enya, Traditional
On My Way Home
The Memory of Trees
Boadicea
New Age diva Enya first became widely known when her 1988 album Watermark sold 4 million copies and launched the single "Orinoco Flow." Her follow-up, Shepherd Moons, was even more successful, selling over 10 million copies despite its slightly lower grade of ethereal enchantment. In 1997 she released Paint the Sky with Stars, an assortment of her best work from these two early albums plus gems from 1995's The Memory of Trees and the soundtrack to the BBC series The Celts. The most melodic and atmospheric examples of Enya's lovely Celtic-flavored songwriting shine on this disc. Those unfamiliar with the former Clannad member will find charm in such sweet lullabies as "Marble Halls" and "China Roses" while delighting in the more energetic "Book of Days," "Storms in Africa," and "Caribbean Blue." Overall, an outstanding collection from an artist who gives New Age a good name. --Karen Karleski
Sales Rank:566 List Price: $14.98 Lowest New Price: $7.99 Lowest Used Price: $7.60 Artist(s):
Death Cab for Cutie
Tracks:
The New Year
Lightness
Title And Registration
Expo '86
The Sound Of Settling
Tiny Vessels
Transatlanticism
Passenger Seat
Death Of An Interior Decorator
We Looked Like Giants
A Lack Of Color
With songs equal to those on We Have the Facts and a lush, brilliant production that continues what The Photo Album started, Transatlanticism is easily Death Cab's best record to date. Much attention has duly been focused on doe-eyed singer/lyricist Ben Gibbard, co-star of the Postal Service phenomenon, and Ben's voice is as strange, beautiful, and as strong as ever on these songs, which deal with the difficulties of long-distance relationships. But guitarist/producer Chris Walla once again proves himself to be the band's secret weapon, layering subtle sonic touches throughout Transatlanticism, which is most definitely a "headphone record." This Seattle quartet is one of the only bands to really have picked up the intelligent, emotionally resonant, and guitar-driven indie-pop torch that Built to Spill briefly lit in the mid-1990s (before themselves heading off to the stoner-rock territory). DCFC themselves seem poised to finally break out to a wider audience, and they truly deserve it with this disc. --Mike McGonigal
Sales Rank:448 List Price: $10.98 Lowest New Price: $7.24 Lowest Used Price: $5.89 Artist(s):
Tracks:
Bamboo Banga
Bird Flu
Boyz
Jimmy
Hussel
Mango Pickle Down River
20 Dollar
World Town
The Turn
XR2
Paper Planes
Come Around
THIS CD FEATURES A FREE RINGTONE AND MOBILE PHONE WALLPAPER (see insert for details)
M.I.A. is hailed as one of the most freshly creative artists to hit the scene, paving the way for fierce and adventurous females to break the mold. With KALA, she pulls even more globe-trekking, and genre bending into her musical mix.
Recorded in India, Trinidad, Australia, London, New York and Baltimore, M.I.A. has crafted an international sound that is as excitingly undefineable as it is infectious.
The first single from KALA, "Boyz" was just listed at #1 Rolling Stone's Hot List, and #1 song of the Month in Blender magazine!
Sales Rank:415 List Price: $18.98 Lowest New Price: $9.99 Lowest Used Price: $8.58 Artist(s):
Buckcherry
Tracks:
Rescue Me
Tired of You
Too Drunk...
Dreams
Talk to Me
A Child Called "It"
Don't Go Away
Fallout
Rose
All of Me
Imminent Bail Out
Cream
Buckcherry is back with a purpose, unleashing their newest effort, Black Butterfly. Following the platinum success of 15, these LA rockers haven't lost any of their edge.
Sales Rank:183 List Price: $13.98 Lowest New Price: $7.65 Lowest Used Price: $6.77 Artist(s):
Paramore
Tracks:
For a Pessimist I'm Pretty Optimistic
Thats What You Get
Hallelujah
Misery Business
When It Rains
Let the Flames Begin
Miracle
Crushcrushcrush
We Are Broken
Fences
Born for This
After gaining hordes of enthusiastic fans worldwide with their debut All We Know Is Falling, Paramore is poised to breakthrough to new heights with their newest offering Riot! Their sophomore record, produced by David Bendeth (Hawthorne Heights, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus) is due in stores everywhere June 12th. Lead single Misery Business, in addition to other album tracks, deals with issues of shame and self-discovery as lead-singer Hayley Williams discusses. I've been ashamed, she says. I've felt hate, jealously, lust, fear, pride, self-consciousness... You hear a lot of this on the record. I feel like I need to talk about it. It is not uncommon for Paramore to expose their emotions and allow fans to have such an intimate look into their lives. While recording the track Born For This, the band invited a handful of fans into the studio to sing back-up vocals on the song. Fans have responded by voting Paramore as the #1 Best New Band in Kerrang! magazine, beating out Panic! at the Disco among others, and Alternative Press magazine has named Riot! as one of their most anticipated releases of 2007. Brothers Josh and Zac Farro (on guitar and drums respectively), as well as Jeremy Davis (on bass), round out the enthusiastic Franklin, TN based quartet. This year finds the band bringing their energetic live show to fans in cities worldwide. This spring the band will embark on a 20+ date sold-out headlining club tour, including the now-legendary Bamboozle festival. Following a stint on the European club circuit, the band will return to the States this summer with a coveted main stage slot on the Vans Warped Tour.
Sales Rank:339 List Price: $18.98 Lowest New Price: $11.74 Lowest Used Price: $8.38 Artist(s):
Shinedown
Tracks:
Devour
Sound of Madness
Second Chance
Cry for Help
The Crow & The Butterfly
If You Only Knew
Sin With a Grin
What a Shame
Cyanide Sweet Tooth
Breaking Inside
Call Me
Shinedown’s highly anticipated third album, The Sound Of Madness, is due out on Atlantic Records on June 24, 2008. The record opens with lead single "Devour." Its heavy onslaught of ripping guitars and relentless drums would not sound out of place on a Guitar Hero soundtrack. Of the album, frontman Brent Smith says "In the seven years of this thing called Shinedown, I’ve seen a lot of different things - what we’ve all gone through on the road, things in our personal lives or witnessed firsthand through the fans that we’ve made and the relationships we’ve built with our audience. I think the biggest thing was I didn’t want to sugarcoat the way life can be sometimes." Their face-melting rock comes as no surprise, considering that the band hails from sultry Jacksonville, Florida. Their 2003 debut album, Leave A Whisper, and sophomore follow-up, Us And Them, have been RIAA-certified platinum and gold respectively and they have had songs featured on the WWE, ESPN and in various video games. Shinedown will be out on the road this spring and summer, playing a handful of radio shows and outdoor festivals including Rock On The Range before setting out on their own headlining tour.
Sales Rank:567 List Price: $24.98 Lowest New Price: $18.75 Lowest Used Price: $11.92 Artist(s):
Flaming Lips
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Christmas On Mars is a fantastical and disturbing film freakout. You expected something less from The Flaming Lips? Seven years in the making, Christmas On Mars was directed and written by The Flaming Lips visionary frontman Wayne Coyne and features the band members and many of their associates as actors in a story set during the colonization of Mars. The 86-minute film and its original score are presented in a stand-alone DVD, and as a CD+DVD package which includes an audio CD of the score. With Christmas On Mars, psychedelia finally has its epic film.