Month: December 2018

• Bas – Milky Way
• Mariah Carey – Caution (150gram with Gatefold)
• CHVRCHES – Hansa Session (Limited Pressing 10″)
• Gang Of Youths – MTV Unplugged (Live in Melbourne) (2 Lp on ‘Sea Glass’ Colored Vinyl with DVD Insert, Limited to 1000)
• Juliana Hatfield – Only Everything (1995) (2 Lp Reissue on 180gram Orange/Blue Vinyl)
• K-Rino – Gettin’ My Weight Up / S.P.C. (7″ Single on Red Vinyl, Limited to 100)
• Lil Keke, The Suffers – Southside 2K Live (7″ on Transparent Gold Vinyl, Limited to 300)
• Lil Keke, The Suffers – Southside 2K Live (7″ on Transparent Blue Vinyl, Limited to 300)
• mewithoutyou – [Untitled] (Limited Pressing on Blue Vinyl with Lyric Booklet)
• mewithoutyou – [Untitled] Ep (Limited Pressing on Purple Vinyl)
• Queen – The Game (180gram Half-Speed Reissue with Silver Foil Cover
• Siouxsie And The Banshees – Peepshow (1988) (180gram Half-Speed Reissue)

• 6lack – East Atlanta Love Letter
• Andrew Bird – Bloodless / Capitol Crimes (7″ Indie Exclusive)
• Atmosphere – When Life Gives You Lemons You Paint That Shit Gold (10 Year Anniversary Standard Edition on Double Gold Colored Vinyl with Lemon Scented Labels, Two Bonus Songs, 20-Page Lyric Booklet, and Download)
• Atmosphere – When Life Gives You Lemons You Paint That Shit Gold (10 Year Anniversary Deluxe Edition with Gold Vinyl, 36-Page Book, Hardback Packaging, and Download, Hand Numbered to 3000)
• Blink-182 – Greatest Hits (Limited Edition Colored Audiophile Vinyl with Gatefold)
• The Decemberists – Traveling On EP (10″ EP with Downloas)
• Doomtree – False Hopes (10th Anniversary Reissue)
• Doomtree – Doomtree (10th Anniversary Limited Edition Reissue)
• Ella Mai – Ella Mai
• Fall Out Boy – Save Rock And Roll / PAX-AM Days EP (2 Lp with Gatefold)
• Karen O & Dangermouse – Lux Prima (Limited Edition 12″ Single with Etched B-Side)
• Primus – Animals Should Not Try To Act Like People (180gram)
• Primus – Rhinoplasty (1998) (2 Lp 180gram Reissue)
• Primus – Antipop (1999) (2 Lp 180gram Reissue)
• Robyn – Honey
• The Rolling Stones – Voodoo Lounge Uncut (3 Lp Limited Edition Remaster on 180gram Red Vinyl with 10 Unreleased Performances)
• Various – Crazy Rich Asians (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Limited Pressing on Gold Vinyl)
• Various – Orange Country (The Soundtrack) (1st Pressing on Orange Vinyl with Gatefold, Limited to 750)
• Various – Vanilla Sky (Original Motion Picture) (Reissue on ‘Blue Cloud’ Colored Vinyl, Limited to 1000)
• Neil Young – Songs For Judy

• 50 Cent – Get Rick Or Die Tryin’ (Deluxe Collector’s Edition on Translucent Red Vinyl with Marvel Cover and 3D Lenticular ‘Iron Man’ Print)
• 50 Cent – Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ (Reissue on Translucent Red Vinyl with Marvel ‘Iron Man’ Cover)
• Anal Trump – The First 100 Songs (Screen Printed ‘Drain The Swamp Green’ Colored Vinyl)
• Angels & Airwaves – We Don’t Need To Whisper (2 Lp Limited Edition on Red/Pink Haze Vinyl with Gatefold and Etched D-Side, Limited to 1000)
• Angels & Airwaves – I-Empire (Limited Edition on Orange Haze Vinyl with Gatefold Jacket, Limited to 1000)
• Coldplay – The Butterfly Package (Live in Buenos Aires/Live in Sao Paulo/Head Full Of Dreams) (3 Lp 180gram Gold Vinyl with Concert DVD and Documentary DVD)
• Genius/GZA – Liquid Swords (2 Lp Reissue on Translucent Seaglass Colored Vinyl with Marvel Variant Cover)
• Delvon Lamar Organ Trio – Live At KEXP
• LCD Soundsystem – oh baby (Lovefingers Remixes) (12″ Single)
• LCD Soundsystem – I Used To (Dixon Rework b/w Pulse v.1) (12″ Single)
• John Legend – A Legendary Christmas
• LL Cool J – Mama Said Knock You Out (Reissue on Red Vinyl with Marvel ‘Punisher’ Lenticular Cover and Comic Book)
• LL Cool J – Mama Said Knock You Out (Reissue on Red Vinyl with Marvel ‘Punisher’ Cover)
• Los Sospechos – Postales (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
• Van Morrison – The Prophet Speaks (EU Pressing with Gatefold)
• Lido Pimienta – La Papessa (Pale Yellow Vinyl with Gatefold)
• The Posies – Frosting On The Beater (1993) (2 Lp Reissue Remastered from Original Tapes)
• The Salsoul Orchestra – Christmas Jollies (Reissue on Red Vinyl)
• Shame – Songs Of Praise (One-Time Pressing Limited Edition Picture Disc)
• Sufjan Stevens – Lonely Man Of Winter (7″ Limited Edition on Green Translucent Vinyl)
• Richard Swift – The Hex
• Richard Swift – The Novelist / Walking Without Effort
• Masakatsu Takagi – Marginalla
• Tallawit Timbouctou – Oylwane (Reissue, Limited to 500)

As 2018 comes to a close, we’ve put together a short little “Best Of” list, despite the fact that we’ve still got another 30 days left of the year. Whether you’re looking for recommendations, holiday gifts or just wanna lurk our activities, we gotchu!

First up, we’ve got a list of some of our best sellers from this last lap around the sun. Following that, some of our employees put together lists of their favorite new releases / reissues / whatever.

We’d like to close out 2018 by thanking YOU for your support! We’ve got some of the best customers in the entire world and we wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for you. Cheers to another great year!

Shuga’s Best Sellers of 2018

• Khruangbin – Con Todo El Mundo
• Billie Eilish – Party Favor / Hot Line Bling 7″
• Denzel Curry – TA1300
• Mitski – Be The Cowboy
• Death Grips – Year of the Snitch
• Twin Peaks – Sweet ’17 Singles
• Unknown Mortal Orchestra – Sex & Food
• Deeper – Deeper
• Post Animal – When I Think Of You in a Castle
• Ty Segall – Freedom’s Goblin
• Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
• Panda Bear – A Day With The Homies EP
• Gorillaz – The Now Now
• Father John Misty – God’s Favorite Customer
• Leon Bridges – Good Thing
• Parquet Courts – Wide Awake
• Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats – Wasteland
• Sleep – Leagues Beneath
• King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – Gumboot Soup
• MGMT – Little Dark Age
• The Voidz – Virtue
• Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour
• Enuff Z’nuff – Diamond Boy
• EDEN – Vertigo
• Andrew WK – You’re Not Alone
• AJR – The Click

 

STAFF PICKS

KEVIN ALLEN

• JPEGMAFIA – Veteran
• Deeper – Deeper
• Klaus Johann Grobe – Du Bist So Symmetrisch
• Part Time – Spell No. 6
• Jerry Paper – Like A Baby
• IDLES – Joy as an Act of Resistance
• John Maus – Addendum
• REZN – Calm Black Water
• Bongripper – Terminal
• Kikagaku Moyo – Masana Temples
• Palm – Rock Island
• Broncho – Bad Behavior
• Triathalon – Online
• Joey Purp – Quarterthing
• Princess Nokia – A Girl Cried Red
• Lala Lala – The Lamb
• Molly Burch – First Flower
• MGMT – LDA
• ORB – The Space Between
• Preoccupations – New Material
• Post Animal – When I think of You In A Castle
• Paul Cherry – Flavour

Best Reissues

• Wire – 154
• The Beatles – White Album box set  (Specifically the white album demos)
• The Scientists – Weird Love
• Haruomi Hosono – Omni Sight Seeing
• Haruomi Hosono – Hosono House

Best Live Shows

• John Maus – Lincoln Hall 2/18
• Deeper – Empty Bottle 5/18
• IDLES – Lincoln Hall 9/14
• Joey Purp – Thalia Hall 9/23
• Toro Y Moi – Thalia Hall 11/6
• My Bloody Valentine – Riviera Theater 7/28
• Wand – The Hideout 6/18
• Post Animal – Lincoln Hall 4/27

 

Akeem Asani

*In Alphabetical order*

• Amnesia Scanner – Another Life
• Marie Davidson – Working Class Woman
• DJ JM – Costra Nostra EP
• Fire-Toolz – Skinless X-1
• Tim Hecker – Konoyo
• Kate NV – для FOR
• Kero Kero Bonito – Time n’ Place
• Μ-ziq –  Challenge Me Foolish
• Machine Girl – The Ugly Art
• Mr Twin Sister – Salt
• Objekt – Cocoon Crush
• Oneohtrix Point Never – Age Of
• Rezzett – Rezzett
• Happy Rhodes – Ecotrophia
• Skee Mask – Compro
• SOPHIE – OIL OF EVERY PEARL’s UN-INSIDES
• Vessel – Queen of Golden Dogs
• Toxe – Blinks
• Yves Tumor – Safe in the Hands of Love
• W00DY – Relentless Kickdrum

 

David Green

New Releases

 

Rachel Flynn

• Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, & Lucy Dacus – boygenius
• Lucy Dacus – Historian
• Mitski – Be The Cowboy
• Kacey Musgraves – Golden Hour
• Princess Nokia – A Girl Cried Red
• Rico Nasty – Nasty
• Sasami – Not The Time/Callous
• Snail Mail – Lush
• Soccer Mommy – Clean
• Soccer Mommy – Henry/I’m On Fire
• Kali Uchis – Isolation

• Cardi B – Invasion Of Privacy
• Frankie Cosmos – Vessel
• Drinks – Hippo Light
• Ruins – 2

Reissues

• Bikini Kill – Singles
• Saâda Bonaire – Saâda Bonaire
• The Breeders – Safari
• Jeremy Enigk ‎– Return Of The Frog King
  
• Hatsumo Hosono – Philharmony
• Ben Kweller – Sha Sha
• Wire – Pink Flag / Chairs Missing / 154