Apr 4, 2017
CLAW MACHINE WIZARD + MORE GREAT ALIVE RELEASES
Big thanks to all of you for making our new LEFT LANE CRUISER record a huge success, it's flying off the shelves! Get the HAND MIXED STARBURST VINYL before it sells out, dont come crying to me if you miss out! We have a bundle with the LP, the digipack CD with a bonus track, and a poster.
And if you like LEFT LANE CRUISER, we got some other bands you are sure to love. Click on the pretty pink box to see some of the other phenomenal ALIVE bands, and go to the ALIVE site for samples, reviews, and the latest news.
MORE ON ALIVE
BUFFALO KILLERS- Let It Ride (produced by DAN of the BLACK KEYS ) - Label:ALIVE Sounds like the bastard sons of the James Gang and the Black Crowes. But like bothbands, the Buffalo Killers come by their sound naturally. It's organic, dripping with down home funk. - Real Detroit CD $5 SKU:8264
PAINKILLERS ( Left Lane Cruiser and James Leg of the Black Diamond Heavies !) - Digipack CD -Label:ALIVE Punk blues duo LEFT LANE CRUISER have teamed up in Detroit with JAMES LE (BLACK DIAMOND HEAVIES keyboardist and howler) for an album of incendiary cover tunes (Junior Kimbrough, Bob Seger, Hound Dog Taylor, Taj Mahal, John Lee Hooker, and more!).They are joined by Jim Diamond on bass, with 66 year old bluesman Harmonica Shah on harp,and the result is just what the doctor ordered, a hard-rocking gritty album to beat the blues! CD $10 SKU:14227
ALIVE AT THE DEEP BLUES FESTIVAL - BBQ SAUCE RED VINYL LTD. to 400 copies W Radio Moscow, Left Lane Cruiser , John the Conqueror and more. Label:ALIVE Color vinyl is exclusive to Bomp w/ download card (30 minutes of additional music) Alive At The Deep Blues Fest recaptures the loose and -spontaneous feel of live albums produced in the Golden Age of rock’n’roll.The album was recorded live this summer at the Deep Blues Festival during three glorious (sold-out) days of great music, Southern-style BBQ and camaraderie between musicians, fans and friends alike, far from the corporate sterility of many larger modern music fests. Chris Johnson’s festival successfully revived the communal spirit of late ‘60s and early ‘70s music gatherings, evoking the vibe of a large summer picnic with family, friends, good food and great music. COMP LP $16 SKU:14690
ALIVE RECORDS 20th ANNIVERSARY SAMPLER - Rock and Roll is a Beautiful Thing-- DOUBLE GATEFOLD LP LTD ED CLEAR VINYL T - Label:ALIVE NEWLY RECORDED TRACKS BY LEFT LANE CRUISER, RADIO MOSCOW, JAMES LEG AND MORE! COMP LP $18 SKU:16623
WHERE IS PARKER GRIGGS 180 gram Exclusive material by Radio Moscow, Buffalo Killers, and Black Diamond Heavies. - Label:ALIVE EXCLUSIVE MATERIAL by HACIENDA, RADIO MOSCOW, BUFFALO KILLERS, BLACK DIAMOND HEAVIES and more. This compilation showcases the many facets of our imprint. From garage rock, psych, punk, deep blues and Texas garage-soul, Where Is Parker Griggs? is a cool overview of some of the new blood currently pumping through Alive. This album also features an early preview from our latest signing, the rootsy psyouthern soul of Birmingham, AL rock quartet LEE BAINS III & The GLORY FIRES, whose full-length debut lands April 2012. COMP LP $15 SKU:13668
BLACK DIAMOND HEAVIES - EVery Damn Time - Pink LTD ED of 200 mailorder exclusive - Label:ALIVE Color Vinyl. A unique punk-ass blues duo from Tennessee, a soulful rock'n'roll outfit born in the junkyards of the South. Some of the roughest soul/blues punk I've ever heard." – Lowcut LP $15 SKU:14328
BLACK DIAMOND HEAVIES - - Alive As F*ck CHERRY RED - Label:ALIVE Ltd ed of 200 on CHERRY RED vinyl with sticker LP $16 SKU:14768
BONNEVILLES- Arrow Pierce My Heart - STARBURST SPLATTER VINYL PLUS POSTER AND LP Label:ALIVE LIMITED EDITION OF 200 . The Bonnevilles are a Garage Punk Blues duo straight out of Northern Ireland. With two studio albums already under their belt the band has become one of Europe's top alternative blues acts, sharing the stage with bands such as Left Lane Cruiser, James Leg, Johnny Walker and Guadalupe Plata, and appearing at both The Deep Blues Fest in Clarkesdale Mississippi, and its counterpart in Germany.
Rick Saunders on his Deep Blues blog describes them as "deep dark punk and stylish hard roots music with good pop-sense and without a whiff of retro poly stink”. LP $18 SKU:17393
HEATH GREEN AND THE MAKESHIFTERS-ST LTD ED STARBURST VINYL - FIRST 50 with autograph! Label:ALIVE ALIVE NATURALSOUND RECORDS are proud to announce the signing of HEATH GREEN & THE MAKESHIFTERS, a group of incredible deep-feel musicians hailing from Birmingham, Alabama.The band is fronted by Heath Green, a singer who bears the Eddie Hinton mantle as much as anyone living does. The Makeshifters’ heavy sound has been compared to Leon Russell and The Shelter People, Humble Pie, and Joe Cocker.
LP $18 SKU:18300
JAMES LEG- Below the Belt CLEAR VINYL ltd ed of 150-Label:ALIVE Some of the filthiest, most driving soul/jazz/blues-powered rock 'n' roll since T-Model Ford's debut. - NO DEPRESSIONLeg howls and growls, as he describes his vocal approach in the liner notes, through the hard luck “Nobody’s Fault” (“I blew all my dough / I ain’t got no place to go”), the haunted, smoky (ha) “Drowning in Fire” and the album’s emotional centerpiece, “Drinking Too Much”, which feels especially torn from Small Change‘s tales of booze, denial and regret: “Go on and pack your bags and leave / You tell me that I’m drinking too much. . . / Don’t you think that I know it myself?” With Leg’s desperate, sozzled delivery, the tune is truly heartbreaking. Long live rock and soul and pianos and devil horns. - POPMATTERS LP $16 SKU:16816
KING MUD- Victory Motel Sessions HOT PINK MARBLELabel:ALIVE KING MUD is VAN CAMPBELL from the BLACK DIAMOND HEAVIES , FREDDY J IV from LEFT LANE CRUISER and features guitarist PARKER GRIGGS of RADIO MOSCOW.They joined forces in Los Angeles for a marathon session that gave birth to an album of hard blues, blue eyed soul, heavy rock, and feedback! “Victory Motel Sessions”. LP $18 SKU:17198
NERVES - One Way Ticket - LTD ED of GRAY AND BLACK HAND MIXED STARBURST VINYL - Label:ALIVE Incredible STARBURST vinyl ltd to 100, you have to see this vinyl to believe it, it’s so great you’ll want one just to put on your wall. Even the images dont do it justice. You wont be disappointed! -
NOTE This collection, authorized for the first time ever by the three band members, features their 1976 EP (now regarded as a power pop classic), as well as demos and previously unreleased live recordings, REMASTERED and complete with notes and photos. LP $18 SKU:17632
PAINKILLERS -Featuring Left Lane Cruiser and James Leg of the Black Diamond Heavies !- Ltd Edition color vinyl LP - Label:ALIVE Punk blues duo LEFT LANE CRUISER have teamed up in Detroit with JAMES LEG
(BLACK DIAMOND HEAVIES keyboardist and howler) for an album of incendiary cover tunes (Junior Kimbrough, Bob Seger, Hound Dog Taylor, Taj Mahal, John Lee Hooker, and more!).They are joined by Jim Diamond on bass, with 66 year old bluesman Harmonica Shah on harp,and the result is just what the doctor ordered, a hard-rocking gritty album to beat the blues! LP $16 SKU:14228
RADIO MOSCW - ST FIRST 10 ORDERS AUTOGRAPHED! NEW STARBURST LP Label:ALIVE ONLY 10 AUTOGRAPHED COPIES! NEW starburst pressing. WE'LL TAKE THE OFFER OFF WHEN THEY ARE SOLD. A psychedelic blues rock trio from Iowa produced by Dan Auerbach of the Black Keys. "They ride a wave of wah wah guitar infused, dirty-ass psych-powered blues rock in which one can smell the aroma of Old Granddad's and non filtered cigarette smoke" – Modern Fix. "An astonishingly good debut." - Stonerock.com. "These 10 songs sound like panzers on a sonic blitzkrieg." - Blues Revue. " Fun and slutty and cool." - Pop Matters LP $18 SKU:18366