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Click Here To Go Back FACTORY VINTAGE RECOMMENDED LISTENS... Each month, we try to recommend 4 artists and their albums to you, our music-loving listener. These will be chosen based upon on our personal strict criteria. First and foremost, they are albums by artists that we feel comfortable advising you to spend your hard-earned money on. That doesn't mean that there are one or two good songs on them, but that these albums have desirable beats from beginning to end. We have also selected these albums NOT because of a record company's agenda, but because we feel these are very good and will stand the test of time. And most importantly, we feel these should be heard not only at our shop but on your own radio. Below you will find information about the artist, album reviews from some major music publications, as well as links to bios, multimedia and pictures, if available. Enjoy these albums and please let us know what you think.
REVIEWS Allmusic DOT Music Billboard WALLPAPERS 1 2 3 4 DOWNLOAD Mammas Room myspace.com/thegiants		UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF GIANTS - Under the Influence of Giants What do a wizard, a tumble weed and a pair of floaties have in common? Nothing. The genesis of UTIOG was created with three young ex calibers: Aaron Dick Bruno, Jamin John Wilcox and Drew (middle name confidential) Stewart. Like the name implies, Under the Influence of Giants has sought the sonic counsel of artists its admired throughout members' southern California upbringing. Everyone from Sly and the Family Stone to Earth, Wind and Fire to Talking Heads to Madonna has rubbed off on the foursome, leading to a bizarre but joyously diverse melting pot of funk, dance, rhythmic pop and blue eyed soul. It's an ambitious journey that's finally come to fruition following some of the guys' time in Home Town Hero and Audiovent. But unlike those short lived blips on the rock n' roll radar, UTIOG is poised for permanency. The reasons unfold from the lead cut "Ah Ha," which adapts a 70s funk feel over African tribal beats a la David Byrne and company. It's follow-up "Got Nothing" is just as impulsive, exploding with a brass section and jazzy flourishes before unveiling husky harmonies during each chorus. The lead single "Mama's Room" continues to cloud any classification mechanism, dipped in Prince oriented falsettos with a white washed groove. That dance floor packing ability further drips into the electronically centered "In the Clouds," which could've quite possibly been found on Madonna's latest album, but without the glossy coat of sugar. It also bears resemblance to the group's recent tour mates Mute Math, offering a no holds barred approach at keyboard driven experimentation and coming across abundant hooks in the process. Yet the guys pull another unpredictable punch with the acoustically centered "Lay Me Down," its most stripped back exposition showcasing singer Aaron Bruno's sensitive side. As a result, UTIOG is likely to find a cross section of fans who appreciate boundary breakers and are coming to despise the mechanical means of the mainstream.

REVIEWS BBC London Contact Music Space Lab Pitchfork AZ Lyrics DOWNLOAD Six Minutes myspace.com/boykillboy		BOY KILL BOY - Civilian BOY KILL BOY Call Boy Kill Boy's debut album Civilian anything you like--epic, ravenous, doomy, electrified, billowing, bilious, brilliant--what leaps out is just how brazenly alive it is. Listen: how "Ballad Of Ivy Parker" stands triumphantly on its monitor and thumps its chest. How "Back Again" races Hell's highways on Beelzebub's own flaming Harley. How "Suzie" and "On And On" karate-punch pop music's still-beating heart out of its chest and devour it, cackling. For all its grandiosity, this kind of defiance, confidence, preen, and pomp doesn't come from a pampered middle class semi-mansion background in Buckinghamshire. Those sorts of kids make music like Athlete and Keane. No, this sort of thunderous self-belief, like the best art throughout history, is spawned from the deepest desperation. The best music, it's said, is made by those who've seen the worst of life.

REVIEWS Entertainment Weekly Stylus All Music Pitchfork PHOTOS 1 2 3 MULTIMEDIA Watch Rick Ruben's comments on American V: Hundred Highways Six Minutes myspace.com/johnnycash		CASH - American V: A Hundred Highways If you do not already know who Johnny Cash is then I recomend that you crawl back under the rock you came from. With the Cash movie "Walk the Line" released in 2006, and all the hype that still circles the man, there is no doubt that he will go down as a legend. In the months leading up to his passing on September 12, 2003, JOHNNY CASH had been recording new material with producer Rick Rubin. On July 4, 2006, American V: A Hundred Highways, the all-new Johnny Cash album taken from those sessions, was released on the American Recordings label through Lost Highway. It will include the last song Cash ever wrote, "Like the 309".

REVIEWS Pop Matters PHOTOS 1 2 3 4 myspace.com/thefutureheads		THE FUTUREHEADS - New and Tributes "So here it is, the second album from The Futureheads. 6 years since forming, 12 record releases, 5 UK tours, 4 US tours, 3 top 20 singles and 250,000 debut albums sold worldwide, where did it all begin? After meeting at the Sunderland City Detatched Youth Project, a lottery funded music scheme for getting kids off the street, Barry, Ross, Jaff and Pete (the then drummer) played their first gig at Ashbrooke Cricket Club in 2000. The departure of Pete (Brewis, now a member of Field Music) led to the conscription of Barry's younger brother Dave. He boldly tried his hand at drumming and now, 6 years on, can cite Dave Grohl as one of his admirers. It doesn't get much better than that. Initially signed to indie label Fantastic Plastic, The Futureheads were quickly picked up by 679 Recordings in 2003. They put out a download only version of A to B' in the autumn of that year as anticipation for their debut album grew. Co-produced by The Gang Of Four's Andy Gill and the then new boy on the scene, Paul Epworth, The Futureheads' was finally released in July 2004. The next 12 months proved all-important in the lives of The Futuremen, they began receiving the attention they had worked hard for and unequivocally deserved. Their appeal grew both is the UK and the US, after supporting Franz Ferdinand in the States (Sept 04) they went on to tour America twice in early 05 before playing the main stage at last years Coachella festival. The support was kicking off back home too; they were booked to play the NME Awards Tour 2004, along with Bloc Party, The Kaiser Chiefs and The Killers -- which proved to be a huge success. They released Hounds Of Love' in February that year which resulted in their first top 10 hit (and went on to be named NME's Track of the Year 2005'). The re-release of their LP turned The Futureheads' into a Gold selling debut. It entered the UK album chart at number 11. TV, radio and press support mounted up putting this young Sunderland four piece at the pinnacle of the UK music scene. Not somewhere that they'd necessarily ever wanted to be but they enjoyed it all the same... The News is -- all of these songs. The Tributes are -- to people, places, events and memories. "Every song anyone writes is a tribute to someone or something" explains Barry, "and all of these songs are being heard for the first time so are news". The band released a brand new EP, Area' in November 2005 but decided not to include it on this album, as they wanted the whole thing to be fresh and exciting for the listener. Area' was extremely well received and considered as a move forward for The Futureheads but having been playing the song live for much of 2005, the band saw Area' as a link to their past, News And Tributes' is their future. You will not be disappointed with what you find on News And Tributes'. It's the album you might have expected The Futureheads to of taken another year to produce. Instead they enlisted the renowned production skills of Ben Hillier (Depeche Mode, The Doves, Blur etc) and locked themselves away in a remote farm style studio in Scarborough at the end of last year. The decision to do so proved fruitful as they offloaded all the new songs they'd been carrying around with them in their heads for the last year of touring, resulting in News And Tributes' being laid down in only 6 weeks. It's a bold step forward in the lives of The Futuremen. They're eager, willing and ready to take on 2006. Dismiss them at your peril.