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Purchase includes CD booklet autographed by Dicky Barrett. “This is the best of what we do best,” vows THE MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES vocalist Dicky Barrett of their upbeat and optimistic new album While We’re At It, which is due out on June 15th via their very own Big Rig Records. “It’s us firing on all of our cylinders. This is where we’re at in our lives with no regrets.” The album was produced and mixed by Grammy Award winning producer Ted Hutt (Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys, Lucero, The Bouncing Souls, The Gaslight Anthem) and mastered by Grammy Award-nominated Greg Calbi (David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan) at Sterling Sound. This collection of timeless soon-to-be ska classics brings to light current events and showcases the band’s signature ska-core sound. It’s a very intellectual approach that paints a lyrical picture with upbeat and optimistic brush strokes. “I read While We’re At It lyrics as a timely and thoughtful dispatch for citizens of an increasingly complicated world,” describes bassist Joe Gittleman. “Some of the commentary and meaning is clear or sort of worn on the album’s sleeve.” From celebrating our significance (“Wonderful Day For The Race”) to the desecration, destruction, and demolition of a historic Boston neighborhood (“The West End”) to loss (“In Honor Of”) to the classic American working-class story of the under-appreciated laborer being chewed up, passed over, mistreated, ignored, and finally spit out by the heartless corporation (“The Co

Autographed edition. Author: Jake Paul.

Autographed edition. Author: Dana Perino.

Tomorrow's Daughter is a 12-song LP culled from the recording sessions of 2017's Tomorrow Forever; longtime fans will draw parallels between this limited-edition satellite record, as he describes it, and the previous companion pieces Goodfriend and Son of Altered Beast.

Autographed edition. Author: Sans Auteur.

Autographed edition. Author: Sans Auteur.

Autographed edition. Author: Félix-Sébastien Feuillet de Conches.

Autographed edition. Author: François-Joseph Grille.

Autographed edition. Author: François-Joseph Grille.

Autographed edition. Author: Adolphe De Bouclon.

Autographed edition. Author: Henri Albert.

Autographed edition. Author: Sans Auteur.

Autographed edition. Author: Le Sénécal.

Autographed edition. Author: René Toustain de Billy.

Autographed edition. Author: Charles Asselineau.

Autographed edition. Author: Sans Auteur.

Autographed edition. Author: Frantz Eyquem.

Autographed edition. Author: Impr de Paul Nouel.

Autographed edition. Author: Collectif.

Autographed edition. Author: Nicolas Joly.

Autographed edition. Author: Paul de Lourdoueix.

Autographed edition. Author: Firmin Roz.

Autographed edition. Author: Alexandre De Lassalle.

Autographed edition. Author: Casella-G.

Autographed edition. Author: Bazalgette-L.

Autographed edition. Author: Henry Monnier.

Autographed edition. Author: Léon Séché.

Autographed edition. Author: Christoph Willibald Von Gluck.

Since emerging in 2013 with the glistening brightness of their breakthrough single, “Recover,” CHVRCHES (Lauren Mayberry, Iain Cook, and Martin Doherty) have always projected an insularity, a subtle but unmistakable wariness about leaning into their obvious Hit-Song-of-the-Summer-writing potential. At their core, CHVRCHES are true blue Glaswegian punks. They’ve wanted to protect themselves, and protect that undercurrent of melancholy that gives depth to their sunniness. To this end, the band members have always kept their creative process close and tight. They’ve been diligent to the max about managing the way their band is portrayed. And, of course, they have historically produced every piece of music themselves, including their 2013 debut, The Bones of What You Believe, and 2015 follow-up, Every Open Eye. “Certainly not,” was their go-to response, Martin recalls laughing, when asked to consider collaboration. “We knew that if you get led down the wrong path it can completely derail your career.” But if there’s a theme in CHVRCHES’ world as they prepare to release their third record, Love Is Dead, it’s willful, determined openness, both ideologically – more on that in a minute – and in terms of actual creative process. This time around, instead of Lauren disappearing for days at a time, the trio stayed in the same room even while Lauren was writing lyrics. As a result, the album “feels a lot more coherent,” she says. Lauren also consciously pulled from a different psychic we

Gravity is BFMV’s first album under the Search and Destroy/ Spinefarm Records banner, and aptly sees the band rewriting their own future — finding new ways to invent heavy noise and remaining unshackled by the legacy that comes with being masters of their trade. The four musicians have stretched their creative wings like never before, delicately balancing film-score electronica and icy synths in their trademark hellfire of hard rock. With drummer Jason Bowld joining founding members, singer/guitarist Matt Tuck and fellow axeman Michael “Padge” Paget, plus bassist Jamie Mathias, who has been a part of the Bullet story since 2015, this is a band reborn.