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New Arrivals:

Sabrina Carpenter – Short n’ Sweet

Short n’ Sweet showcases the scintillating spirit of Sabrina Carpenter, the pocket-sized popstar with a larger than life artistic presence. One gold album & multiple platinum singles later, it’s no wonder that “Espresso,” the debut single from the forthcoming album, has it all: lyrics that make you giggle and blush and songwriting that makes you wish you’d thought of it first.

Built to Spill – There’s Nothing Wrong With Love – Jade Blue (Blue Colored Vinyl, Limited Edition, Anniversary Edition)

Sub Pop and Built to Spill celebrate the 30th anniversary of the band’s landmark 1994 album, There’s Nothing Wrong With Love, with a new, limited-edition repress on jade blue vinyl!
There’s Nothing Wrong with Love is the second full-length album released by legendary indie rock band Built to Spill. It was originally released September 13, 1994 on the Up Records label. The line-up for the album was Doug Martsch, bassist Brett Nelson, and drummer Andy Capps, with Phil Ek producing. The album features the enduring singles “Car” and “Distopian Dream Girl. ” Pitchfork. Com ranked There’s Nothing Wrong with Love at #24 on it’s “Top 100 Albums of the 90s” list, and the album has sold over 139, 000 copies.

Fontaines D.C. – Romance (Indie Exclusive, Pink Colored Vinyl)

Irish indie rock sensation Fontaines D.C. return with new album ROMANCE, their debut on XL Recordings, out on August 23rd. Recorded shortly after their tour supporting Arctic Monkeys, it seizes on the momentum of 2022’s Skinty Fia, which firmly established them as one of today’s most exciting rock bands. ROMANCE represents a bold sonic and stylistic evolution for the band and lead single “Starburster” shows the band at their most electrifying to date, as Chatten’s swaggering stream of consciousness collides with explosive production.

Illuminati Hotties – Power (Clear Vinyl)

Tenderpunk pioneer – Illuminati Hotties is the musical project founded by producer/writer, Sarah Tudzin. The new self produced album Power with co-production by John Congleton (St. Vincent, Death Cab For Cutie) features the Hotties trademark wit, vibrancy, and is undeniably fun. Tuzdin says about lead single Let Me In, “I find that something I have in common with most people that I talk to lately is the immense fear of and inability to be alone with ourselves. Constant motion, avoidance, restlessness – anything to keep myself from stagnating have always been my coping mechanisms when my inner monologue starts to get loud.” Power features Cavetown on single Didn’t. To support the album, the band is confirmed for a NPR Tiny Desk performance and kicks off their US/Canada headlining tour on September 25 running through November. Tuzdin contributed a song for Star Wars spinoff show “Ashoka”, collabed with Duck’s LTD, and produced music for Pom Pom Squad, Speed Ortiz, and Boygenius. Her work with Boygenius was nominated for 3 Grammy awards and won Best Alternative Music album.

Mark Lanegan – Bubblegum XX (Indie Exclusive, Red Colored Vinyl)

When Mark Lanegan departed this world in 2022, he left behind a stunning and wildly eclectic body of work that includes two memoirs, and a musical output of seven albums with the Screaming Trees, 13 solo albums, and collaborative albums and singles with folks including Queens of the Stone Age, Soulsavers, Gutter Twins & Isobel Campbell and many others. Beggars Arkive are thankful for what they have been left with and honored to celebrate this beautiful album. Bubblegum XX features features members of Queens of the Stone Age, PJ Harvey, Greg Dulli, Izzy and Duff from Guns N’ Roses/Velvet Revolver, among other assorted rock luminaries.

Prodigy – Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned

After years out of print, The Prodigy have re-pressed their third album in time for it’s 20th anniversary.. There’s an inspired list of guest stars on this album including Princess Superstar, Kool Keith, Liam Gallagher, Twista & Juliette Lewis. The album features the hit singles ‘Girls’, ‘Hotride’ & Spitfire’.

Spectral Wound – Songs Of Blood & Mire

Spectral Wound play black metal. Furious and visceral, untrammeled by esoteric posture or grasping idealism. It is music for the poisoned, the futile, the debauched and profane. The blooming of a flower of corruption, torn by cold winds. Following the raw early offering of Terra Nullius (Arcane Angels / Out of Season 2015), Spectral Wound continued their path of creeping, opulent decay and searing melody, weaving strands of Métal noir Québécois with the weft of the Scandinavian canon. Refining it’s sound over Infernal Decadence (Vendetta, 2018) and the towering, exultant melancholy of A Diabolic Thirst (Profound Lore, 2021), with Songs Of Blood And Mire (Profound Lore 2024) the band delivers an elegy of the void, seething with the venom and clamour of an ever-emptying world.

Spirit of the Beehive – You’ll Have To Lose Something (Indie Exclusive, Red, White, Splatter Clear Vinyl)

For the past decade, Spirit of the Beehive have honed an aesthetic like no other. They’ve chopped up samples, chewed them up, spit them back out again, baby birded it. Across four albums and a smattering of EPs, Zack Schwartz, Corey Wichlin, and Rivka Ravede have fully solidified their stance as some of rock’s weirdest and best deconstructionists. Their last release, 2023’s i’m so lucky, explored the breakup between Schwartz and Ravede, setting the stage and emotional territory for the band’s fifth record, YOU’LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING. This latest offering is the most crystallized version of the band’s aesthetic, a continued meditation on the end of relationships and the unsteadiness that follows. It is a meticulous, beautiful, and quietly heartbreaking collection of songs. More often than not, it sounds like listening to a walkman from inside of a hurricane, like the YouTube videos you’d watch in bed for 18 hours straight after you break your wrist from a skateboarding accident. YOU’LL HAVE TO LOSE SOMETHING is a record of provocations. Despite being written all over the globe, with Ravede in Portugal and Schwartz and Wichlin back in Philadelphia, the trio arrived at the same themes: that of the brutality of coming to terms with reality, that of what it means to lie to protect yourself and your heart. Schwartz says he writes songs more or less in a stream of consciousness. The band listens to very little outside music when working. The result is a record that very much is it’s own world. Where chaos is carefully organized, where being able to ever actually chill out is totally illusory, a trick mirror.

311 – Grassroots (Brown & Clear Vinyl, Bonus Tracks, 140 Gram Vinyl)

311’s second studio album, Grassroots, celebrates it’s 30th Anniversary with an expanded 2-LP edition containing 5 bonus tracks on clear vinyl with brown swirls.

Various Artists – A Strange Tribute to Taylor Swift (Purple Vinyl)

A diverse collection of musical icons from across the genre spectrum completely revamp the songs of country/pop goddess, Taylor Swift!
Includes perforamnces by indie rockers The Courettes, Runaways legend Cherie Currie, platnium pop singers Tiffany and Samantha Cole, rockabilly queen Linda Gail Lewis, enigmatic Curved Air vocalist Sonja Kristina and lots more!

Weekly Restock:

2Pac - Me Against the World
Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Moanin'
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
Beatles - Rubber Soul
Beabadoobee - This Is How Tomorrow Moves (Red Colored Vinyl) 
Beths - Expert In A Dying Field (Silver Colored Vinyl) 
Cake - Comfort Eagle
Cake - Fashion Nugget
Cake - Prolonging the Magic
Childish Gambino - Because the Internet
Childish Gambino - Camp (Black, 180 Gram Vinyl)
Cranberries - Everybody Else Is Doing It So Why Can't We
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories (10th Anniversary Edition)
David Bowie - Heroes (2017 Remastered Version)
David Bowie - Low (Remastered, 180 Gram Vinyl)
Destroy Boys - Funeral Soundtrack #4 - (Transparent Red Colored Vinyl)
Donnas - Spend the Night
Duran Duran - Rio (2009 Remaster)
Eagles - Hotel California (180 Gram Vinyl)
Gorillaz - Now Now
INXS - Kick
Jack White - No Name (Indie Exclusive, Blue Colored Vinyl, Limited Edition)
Jeff Buckley - Grace
John Lee Hooker - Burning Hell (Bluesville Acoustic Sounds Series)
Kanye West - 808S & Heartbreak (Deluxe Edition, With CD, Collector's Edition)
Khruangbin - A la Sala
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana [Eco-Wax Edition LP]
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard - Flight B741 (180 Gram Vinyl, Recycled)
Lafayette Afro-Rock - Malik
Lafayette Afro-Rock - Soul Makossa
Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence
Lauryn Hill - Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Lee Morgan - Taru (Blue Note Tone Poet Series)
Mac DeMarco - 2: 10th Anniversary Edition
Mac Miller - GO:OD Am
Mary J. Blige - My Life
Modest Mouse - The Moon and Antarctica (10th Anniversary Edition, Download Insert)
Nine Inch Nails - Downward Spiral
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine (Reissue)
Orville Peck - Stampede
Orville Peck - Pony
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Oz
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Radiohead - Pablo Honey
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Californication
Rob Zombie - Hellbilly Deluxe
Sade - Diamond Life
Smashing Pumpkins - Rotten Apples: Greatest Hits
Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
Taylor Swift - Taylor Swift (Gatefold LP Jacket)
Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years
Various Artists - Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3: Awesome Mix 
Various Artists - Pulp Fiction (Music From the Motion Picture)
War - Greatest Hits
Ween - Chocolate and Cheese
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter Wu-Tang

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