New Releases — May 21, 2013

Posted on May 21, 2013 by admin

Airbourne – Black Dog Barking CD (Roadrunner)
There’s something about the kind of potent rock & roll fury that Airbourne cranks out, all cylinders firing, that makes you want to chug a beer straight down your throat and punch the air as though it’d touched your wife inappropriately.

Alpine – A Is For Alpine CD (TNO/Turnout)
“The angular meets the angelic with Alpine, a Melbourne-based band of art-pop Aussies who have delivered one of the most original and eclectic albums of the year. A Is For Alpine melds the dual-harmonized, pixie-ish vocals of frontwomen and longtime friends Lou James and Phoebe Baker with brisk, scattered beats and some ridiculously inventive guitar play” – Direct Current Music

Baptist Generals – Jackleg Devotional To The Heart CD/LP+MP3 (Sub Pop)
The Denton, TX band, known for its haunting, claustrophobic take on drunken folk, needed ten full years to bare its hearts for this sophomore LP. The band’s vibraphones, guitarrons and ambient feedback combine like a mess of ventricles, aortas and veins.

The Beach Boys – Live: The 50th Anniversary Tour 2xCD (Capitol)
Double-disc, 41-track live collection culled from the 50th anniversary reunion tour of The Beach Boys (Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Bruce Johnston and David Marks).

JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound – Howl CD/LP (Bloodshot)
New release from Chicago’s modern soul band. Throughout Howl, the dark side of love and longing is explored by frontman JC Brooks’ starkly personal lyrics and the Uptown Sound’s willingness to bare all their influences and let the grooves fall where they may. A collective evolution has been made where influence meets experience, and this organic progression results in 11 songs that are more open than ever both in message and vibe. Continue reading →

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Top Selling Music, Week of May 13-19, 2013

Posted on May 20, 2013 by admin

1. Vampire Weekend – Modern Vampires of the City
2. Pistol Annies – Annie Up
3. Patty Griffin – American Kid
4. Local Natives – Hummingbird
5. Features – Features
6. She & Him – Volume 3
7. Flaming Lips – Terror
8. Steve Martin + Edie Brickell – Love has Come For You
9. Rilo Kiley – Rkives
10. Deerhunter – Monomania
11. Dillinger Escape Plan – One of Us is the Killer
12. Wonder Years – Greatest Generation
13. Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats – Mind Control
14. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Mosquito
15. REM – Green (reissue)
16. Iron & Wine – Ghost on Ghost
17. Daughter – If You Leave
18. Iggy & the Stooges – Ready to Die
19. Steve Earle – Low Highway
20. Sundy Best – Door Without a Screen

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Win Tickets to the Wailers at Lyric Theater

Posted on May 16, 2013 by admin

We’re giving away a pair of tickets to see The Wailers on May 21 at the Lyric Theater in Lexington!
Together with Bob Marley, the Wailers have sold in excess of 250 million albums worldwide. Outside of their groundbreaking work with Marley, the Wailers have also played or performed with international acts like Sting, the Fugees, Stevie Wonder, Carlos Santana, and Alpha Blondy, as well as reggae legends such as Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, and Burning Spear. As the greatest living exponents of Jamaica’s reggae tradition, the Wailers have completed innumerable other tours, playing to an estimated 24 million people across the globe. The anchor of the band is Aston “Family Man” Barrett, who in addition to being Marley’s most trusted lieutenant, played on countless other classic reggae hits throughout the seventies.
To enter the ticket drawing, go to the CD Central Facebook page and “like” and “share” the contest post.  We’ll draw a winner’s name on Monday, May 20.

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New Releases — May 14, 2013

Posted on May 14, 2013 by admin

Trace Adkins – Love Will CD (Show Dog)
This collection of sexy grooves, heart-wrenching ballads and up-tempo anthems about the world’s greatest emotion are worthy additions to Adkins long list of career hits.

Adult. – The Way Things Fall CD (Ghostly International)
The Way Things Fall, the band’s first full length since 2007′s Why Bother?, is a record that sounds both focused and coherent, flowing with a conceptual ease. Vinyl version due May 21.

Beaches – She Beats CD/LP (Chapter Music)
Second album from the sprawling Melbourne psych-rock five-piece.

Bibio – Silver Wilkinson CD/LP (Warp)
“Stephen Wilkinson seems to occupy his own universe. Using his home studio, the producer is able to craft warped, woozy nuggets of electronic pop music which seem to break rules you hadn’t even considered were capable of being broken.” – clashmusic.com

Jason Boland And The Stragglers – Dark & Dirty Mile CD (Proud Souls)
New album from the old school country purists, co-produced with Shooter Jennings. Continue reading →

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Top Selling Music, Week of May 6-12, 2013

Posted on May 13, 2013 by admin

1. She & Him – Volume 3
2. Sundy Best – Door Without a Screen
3. Talib Kweli – Prisoner of Consciousness
4. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Mosquito
5. Natalie Maines – Mother
6. Steve Earle – Low Highway
7. Grateful Dead – Rare Cuts & Odditites
8. Patty Griffin – American Kid
9. Knife – Shaking the Habitual
10. Steve Martin/Edie Brickell – Love Has Come For You
11. The Great Gatsby O.S.T
12. Joe Satriani – Unstoppable Momentum
13. Deerhunter – Monomania
14. Kurt Vile – Walkin on a Pretty Day
15. Bring Me the Horizon – Sempiternal
16. Biffy Clyro – Opposites
17. David Byrne & St Vincent – Love This Giant
18. Alabama Shakes – Boys & Girls
19. Black Keys – El Camino
20. Rilo Kiley – Rkives

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Mad Anthony In-Store Show on May 17

Posted on May 10, 2013 by admin


Cincinnati’s Mad Anthony will pay us a visit on Friday, May 17 at 7 pm. These guys are no strangers to Lexington (in fact they’re playing a show later that evening at the Green Lantern) but this is the first time we’ve been able to snag them for an in-store.
“Is there a better and more ferocious Rock band than Mad Anthony in Cincinnati right now? I don’t bloody think so… Mad Anthony proved once again that passion, unhinged energy and volume are the ingredients to the most powerful musical cocktail known to man.” — Brian Baker, MidPoint Music Festival Review.
Check out videos and more at http://www.madanthonyband.com/ and be sure to catch the free, all-ages show at CD Central!

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New Releases — May 7, 2013

Posted on May 7, 2013 by admin

AM & Shawn Lee – Numérique CD (Park The Van)
La Musique Numérique (French for “Digital Music”) is the second full-length record from Los Angeles/London electro soul, retro-futurists AM & Shawn Lee. LA Weekly, San Francisco Guardian, and the Seattle Weekly have lauded them as one of the “best live bands of the year.”

Aziz Ansari – Dangerously Delicious CD (Comedy Central)
On Dangerously Delicious, Aziz regales the audience with stories about his frustrations with women, the difference between a rock tour and a stand-up tour, helping his infamous Cousin Harris write a college essay, and discovering that rapper 50 Cent does NOT know what a grapefruit is.

Apparat – Kreig Und Frieden (Music For Theatre) CD/2xLP (Mute)
Krieg Und Frieden is an album of music based on Sebastian Hartmann’s German theatre production of Tolstoy’s War & Peace. Hartmann, considered one of the biggest innovators of contemporary German theatre, called upon Sascha Ring (aka Apparat) to contribute to this mammoth project.

The Bevis Frond – White Numbers 2xCD (Woronzow)
White Numbers follows in the style of 2011′s The Leaving Of London, with great songs played in a panoply of styles all fed through the Bevis Frond’s psychedelic mincer. We have heavy guitars, gentle acoustic balladry, punk, some great psych/pop, and even a smattering of prog organ, and if there was one complaint about the last record, it was that there were not enough of the Frond’s signature guitar wig-outs. Vinyl version due May 21.

James Cotton – Cotton Mouth Man CD (Alligator)
The world famous blues harp legend teams up with some high-profile guests, including Gregg Allman, Joe Bonamassa, Ruthie Foster, Warren Haynes, Delbert McClinton, and Keb Mo, on this joyous collection of raucous boogies, sunny country blues and brash Chicago shuffles. Continue reading →

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