The Rabbit Hole USA

Here are just a few of the awesome new disks that have arrived at The Rabbit Hole this week. Generation X featuring Billy Idol were on the vanguard of UK punk rock with their first LP in 1978, and we’ve got the two follow-up albums, as well.

One of Boston’s most important local exports in the late 80s were the Blake Babies, featuring Juliana Hatfield, who, in 1992, went solo and became an alternative-music priestess almost overnight after appearing in an episode of the popular TV series My So-Called Life starring a young Claire Danes. The first and best three Blake Babies disks are on our shelves, including period newspaper and zine articles and even a few actual set-lists from the band’s shows! See a live video of a 2001 reunion.

Walter Wanderley was huge in his native Brazil and eventually cracked America in the mid 60s doing his bossa nova organ thing like no other, including one LP with Astrud Gilberto. Remember Summer Samba from 1966, which hit the US Top 20? We have three of his solo disks (two CDs and Cheganca on vinyl). This consummate musician is now legendary.

Another top local band who went on to national fame are They Might Be Giants. The duo from Lincoln, MA relocated to NYC to make it big, beginning with their first two LPs on the independent label Bar/None — the second of which is titled after their home town. Here at RH we’ve got them both, first editions, in pristine condition.

We have a rare find indeed with a perfect copy the Bats’ first US vinyl release, 1986′s Daddy’s Highway. These New Zealand indie pop legends are still going strong with all the original members.

Pristine copies of early albums by yet more local heroes, Dinosaur Jr. from Amherst, who took the grunge-rock style national a good two years before Nirvana, are on the shelves. We also have new arrivals from Frente, Moonpools & Caterpillars, Liliput, Same, and more. Come in and sample them on our new LP/CD listening station in the record department.

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