Formed in 1998 from Portland, OR-based outfits like Pond and Sprinkler, the lads in Audio Learning Center are easily the square pegs of Vagrant Records. It's refreshing that they don't fit in with their emo-addled labelmates, as the Chris Brady-fronted trio blends elements of grunge stalwarts like Nirvana and Screaming Trees with 1980s college rock favorites like Big Dipper and Volcano Suns on Cope Park. Booze-doused road tales like "The Neverwills" seem to roar wi...   [ read more ]

CD $13.28

VINYL FORMAT. Preaching Revolution is a Julian Cope 7" EP containing four brand new songs as a companion to his new album, Black Sheep. Replete with sounds from Cope's familiar mellotron, massed acoustic guitars and orchestral percussion, the four songs deal with the current world problems of failing capitalism and cultural upheaval. The lead track, 'Mother, Where is My Father?' is a cover of protest singer David Peel's anti-Vietnam anthem, here rewritten from the point of view of a young man with close re...   [ read more ]

7" $7.99

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BLACK SHEEP is Julian Cope's new album for 2008CE, and is a musical exploration of what it is to be an outsider in modern Western Culture. Across 11 songs and one epic poem, Cope examines the idea of social outcasts and how they - through their sheer obstinacy and strength of personality - carve a path for themselves in the normal world, often changing societyis own concepts of normality in the process. On BLACK SHEEP, Cope attributes his personal descent into outsider-dom to his 9th birthday on which ...   [ read more ]

MP3 $10.49

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