Portugal the Man - Chris Black Changed My Life - VINYL LP

Clear black and gold splatter vinyl LP pressing. A stellar compilation of rare demos and live recordings from power metal heroes House of Lords. With former members of Quiet Riot, Giuffria & Alice Cooper, HOL do power metal right - just check out InchDangerous Woman,Inch InchChains Of LoveInch plus their incredible cover of Blind Faith's InchCan't Find My Way Home!Inch

There is a very particular charm about klezmer music that cannot be found in other styles of music. It's a kind of melancholic exuberance; at once happy and sad, klezmer sounds simultaneously like laughing and weeping. Klezmer is a musical genre in a constant state of evolution. Perhaps it's history lends itself to this- the original klezmorim were itinerant musicians who would travel around the shtetls of Eastern Europe performing at weddings and other occasions, until displacement of the Jewish population in the late 19th and early 20th centuries saw klezmer make it's way to America where it met with jazz and other western music. These qualities make it difficult to pinpoint exactly what klezmer is today. To quote Gustavo Bulgach, whose band Klezmer Juice is featured on this collection, Inchklezmer is like a soapy pig. Everybody's trying to catch it, but every time someone gets ahold of it, it slips away from them.Inch

Vinyl LP pressing. Church Mouth is the second full-length album from experimental rock band Portugal. The Man. It was released in July, 2007. While the album maintained it's artistic mix of aurora borealis-avant-indie pop and post-punk, Church Mouth paved a new musical path for the band. A departure from 2006's drum-machine and sequencer-heavy Waiter You Vultures!, Church Mouth leans on Led Zeppelin, The White Stripes, and Santana for inspiration. Front man John Gourley was also listening to a lot of Blind Willie Johnson, Muddy Waters, and Robert Johnson when he wrote the record. While most of us who grew up in the continental US were raised on Saturday morning cartoons and sugary cereal, Gourley's Alaskan upbringing was unorthodox; his youth spent exploring nature in one of the few virtually untouched territories left in the world. As a result, his striking enigmatic vision makes it's mark on the band's packaging, merch design, videos, photos, posters, and the music.