Special pre-release offers

We have just launched a special pre-orders section on the website, featuring the best of the upcoming releases far into the future at special prices, so have a look and, if there’s anything you fancy, just click to reserve it. These prices are available only before release, so make sure you order your copy before…

New releases for 21 August 2015

Next week sees some long-awaited and some unexpected releases. Announced just ten days before release, Dr Dre’s new album, Compton, gets a physical CD rush release, with the vinyl to follow later. The Strypes release their second album, which is full of their rollicking version of rock’n’roll, The Fratellis weigh in with sharp, observant song-writing,…

New releases for 14 August 2015

We’ve got a fine selection of releases for you on 14 August. Lovers of a bit of heavy will be delighted with new releases from metallers Soulfly and Bullet For My Valentine. There’s some fine archive reggae/ska/rocksteady from both Keith Hudson and Lord Tanamo and The Skatalites, and the very latest in country from Canaan…

New releases for 7 August 2015

7 August is a great week for new releases, bringing you albums from Mick Jones, Georgia Barnes, Lindi Ortega, Night Beds and Mac DeMarco. We really like Ultimate Painting’s second album, Green Lanes, and The Phoenix Foundation’s sixth, Give Up Your Dreams, but release of the week is the Winchester troubador Frank Turner’s latest, Positive…

New releases for 31 July 2015

Whilst The Maccabees’ new album is mighty impressive, particularly on lovely limited edition dark blue vinyl, release of the week goes to Lianne La Havas with the extra funky Blood. Also sneaking out her latest, a genre-bending effort which even comes in a dub version, is Joss Stone. The first Placebo album gets a wildly…

New releases for 24 July 2015

Just the four new releases recommended for 24 July, as a number of releases have been pushed back a week. This week seems to be mainly re-releases, however some, like the two Northern Soul 7” box sets and Roger Waters’ classic Amused to Death, are worthy of attention. Release of the week goes to Daniel…

The Beggars Fair, 12 July

We had a fabulous afternoon at Hundred Records’ first Beggars Fair, with four very different performances. First up was ex-music journalist Martin James, now a professor of journalism, who read from his new book about Dave Grohl and also provided some frankly scary stories about Iggy Pop and Ice-T, among others. Tom Lowman then got…

New releases for 17 July 2015

Release of the week is Jason Isbell’s Something More Than Free, his follow-up to my favourite album of 2014, Southeastern. The week also brings a long overdue reissue of Michael Head’s The Magical World of The Strands, a stone classic, and new albums from The Chemical Brothers, Alan Jackson, Iron And Wine & Ben Bridwell,…

New releases for 10 July 2015

Two releases come out on 6 July with the rest arriving on Friday, which will be the day for all new releases from now on. The week brings new albums from Lucy Rose, Years & Years, Cradle Of Filth, Little Boots, Shelby Lynne and Owl City, plus a retrospective from Groove Armada. Release of the…

Simpson Cutting Kerr live in store, 26 June

Friday brought the latest in a line of fabulous live music in store, when the multi-award-winning trio Martin Simpson, Andy Cutting and Nancy Kerr took time out of their touring schedule to play at Hundred Records. These three acknowledged masters of their trade roared through six songs taken largely from their latest CD, Murmurs, to…