Latest from The Black Keys and The Raconteurs PLUS Huge Restock List

Hey Backbeaters! It’s Friday and it’s a long weekend! You want need some new tunes and we’ve got you covered! The latest albums from The Raconteurs and The Black Keys have arrived. There’s also a big list of restocks and additions just past all the new release info. Dig in below and then head on down to the shop and browse our great selection of new and used vinyl.

On to the new releases!


The Raconteurs – Help Us Stranger

Help Us Stranger, which is the Grammy Award-winning rock band’s third studio LP and first new album in more than a decade. It sees the mighty combo reassembled, stronger and perhaps even more vital than ever before as they continue to push rock ‘n’ roll forward into its future, bonding prodigious riffs, blues power, sinewy psychedelia, Detroit funk, and Nashville soul via Benson and White’s uncompromising songcraft and the band’s steadfast musical muscle. With Help Us Stranger, The Raconteurs have returned right when they are needed most, unified and invigorated with boundless ambition, infinite energy and a collectivist spirit operating at the peak of its considerable powers, once again creating a sound and fury only possible when all four of its members come together. White and Benson wrote all the songs on Help Us Stranger except one cover, “Hey Gyp (Dig The Slowness),” which was written by Donovan. Recorded at Third Man Studio in Nashville, TN, the album was produced by The Raconteurs and engineered by Joshua V. Smith. Longtime friends and musical collaborators helped make Help Us Stranger, including keyboardist/multi-instrumentalist Dean Fertita (The Dead Weather, Queens of the Stone Age) and Lillie Mae Rische and her sister Scarlett Rische. The album was mixed by Vance Powell and The Raconteurs at Blackbird Studios in Nashville.

 


Black Keys – Let’s Rock

The Black Keys’ “Let’s Rock” is their ninth studio album. The long-awaited album, their first in five years, is a return to the straightforward rock of the singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach and drummer Patrick Carney’s early days as a band. Auerbach says, “When we’re together we are The Black Keys, that’s where that real magic is, and always has been since we were sixteen.” The Black Keys’ thirty-one city North American tour begins September 23. “Let’s Rock” was written, tracked live, and produced by Auerbach and Carney at Easy Eye Sound studio in Nashville and features backing vocals from Leisa Hans and Ashley Wilcoxson. “The record is like a homage to electric guitar,” says Carney. “We took a simple approach and trimmed all the fat like we used to.”

 


Restocks and Additions to our new vinyl selection here at Backbeat for this week.

ARTIST ALBUM
AC\DC Highway To Hell
Aerosmith Greatest Hits
Alexisonfire Watch Out!
Arrested Development 3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life Of…
Audioslave Audioslave
Beastie Boys Solid Gold Hits
Beatles Abbey Road
Beatles Rubber Soul
Black Keys Rubber Factory
Black Keys Thickfreakness
Black Mountain Destroyer
Blink-182 Enema Of The State
Boards Of Canada Geogaddi
Boards Of Canada Music Has the Right to Children
Bonamassa, Joe Different Shades of Blue
Bonamassa, Joe Sloe Gin
Bowie, David Diamond Dogs (45TH Anniversary Edition)
Bowie, David The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust
Bradley, Charles No Time for Dreaming
Bruno Mars Doo-Wops & Hooligans
Budos Band, The Burnt Offering
Budos Band, The V
Can Ege Bamyasi
Can Tago Mago
Ceschi Sad, Fat Luck
City And Colour Little Hell
Claypool Lennon Delirium South of Reality
Counting Crows August and Everything After
Crash Test Dummies God Shuffled His Feet
Daft Punk Random Access Memories
Daktaris, The Soul Explosion
Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism (10th Anniversary Edition)
Death Grips No Love Deep Web
Death Grips The Money Store
Death Grips Year Of The Snitch
Deftones Around The Fur
DeMarco, Mac Here Comes the Cowboy
Depeche Mode Music For The Masses
DJ Shadow Endtroducing
DJ Shadow The Private Press
Eagles Of Death Metal Boots Electric: Performing The Best Songs We Never Wrote
Earle, Steve And The Dukes GUY
Eilish, Billie When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
Fleetwood Mac Rumours
Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits
Florence & The Machine Lungs
Fu Manchu The Action Is Go
Gorillaz Demon Days
Green Day Insomniac
Greta Van Fleet Anthem of the Peaceful Army
Greta Van Fleet From the Fires
Hill, Lauryn The Miseducation
J Dilla Donuts
Jayda G Significant Changes
Jones, Durand & The Indication American Love Call
Jones, Sharon & The Dap-Kings 100 Days, 100 Nights
Joy Division Unknown Pleasures (40TH Anniversary Edition)
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory
Little Simz Grey Area
Madchild Dope Sick Vinyl
MadVillain MadVillainy
Massive Attack Mezzanine
Metallica And Justice For All
Metric Fantasies
Ministry Land Of Rape and Honey
Morcheeba Big Calm
Morrissey Vauxhall & I
Mumford & Sons Babel
Mumford & Sons Delta
Mumford & Sons Sigh No More
Muse Origin Of Symmetry
Nirvana Live at the Paramount
Oasis (What’s The Story) Morning Glory?
Pogues Rum, Sodomy And The Lash
Pup Morbid Stuff
Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet Dim The Lights, Chill The Ham
Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet Savvy Show Stoppers
Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet Sport Fishin
Sisters Of Mercy Floodland
Soundtrack Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2
Soundtrack Harry Potter And The Philosopher’s Stone
Soundtrack Nightmare Before Christmas
Soundtrack Pulp Fiction
Sugar Candy Mountain 666
Sugar Candy Mountain Do Right
Tame Impala Currents
Tame Impala Innerspeaker
Tame Impala Lonerism
Tribe Called Quest Midnight Marauders
Twenty One Pilots Trench
Various Artists Daptone Gold
Various Artists Daptone Gold Vol. II
Violent Femmes Violent Femmes
West, Kanye Ye
Winehouse, Amy Back To Black
Wintersleep In the Land Of
XXXTentacion ?

 

 

 

 

 

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