Matador celebrates drinking age with 6 CD boxset
Matador Records is celebrating their 21st birthday with a new, decade-spanning box set. The limited-edition box contains five CDs documenting the history of the label with remastered songs released from 1989 through 2010, and one CD of unreleased live recordings from the Matador 10th Anniversary concerts in New York City in 1999. All proceeds from the set will go to benefit three charities chosen by the label owners, enumerated at the bottom of this post. The artists have agreed to donate their royalties as well in order to make this all possible.
Artists appearing in the set include: Arab Strap,
Belle & Sebastian,
Cat Power,
Dead Meadow,
Fucked Up,
Girls,
Guided By Voices,
Guitar Wolf,
Interpol,
Jay Reatard,
Mission Of Burma,
Mogwai,
Pavement,
Pretty Girls Make Graves,
Sonic Youth,
Spoon,
Stephen Malkmus,
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks,
Superchunk,
Ted Leo and The Pharmacists,
Teenage Fanclub,
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion,
The New Pornographers,
Times New Viking,
Unsane and
Yo La Tengo.
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DISC 1 - THE PRE-DAWN (1989-1992)
Teenage Fanclub - Everything Flows
H.P. Zinker - Dancing Days
Superchunk - Slack Motherfucker
Dustdevils - Throw the Bottle Full
Railroad Jerk - These Streets
Come - Fast Piss Blues
Bettie Serveert - Kid's Alright
Chain Gang - Cut Off The Drug Czar's Head
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - More Glee
Unsane - This Town
Circle X - Compression of the Species
Toiling Midgets - Mr. Foster's Shoes
Bailter Space - The Today Song
Pavement - Perfume-V
DISC TWO - THE YEARS OF MILK AND HONEY (1993-1995)
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Afro
Yo La Tengo - Big Day Coming
Railroad Jerk - The Ballad of Railroad Jerk
Helium - Superball
Pizzicato Five - Baby Love Child
Liz Phair - Mesmerizing
Pavement - Silence Kit
Guided By Voices - Game Of Pricks
18th Dye - Whole Wide World
Chavez - Peeled Out Too Late
Come - String
Moonshake - Secondhand Clothes
Guitar Wolf - Midnight Violence Rock'n Roll
San Francisco Seals - Back Again
Bardo Pond - Rumination
DISC 3: DAYS OF WHISKEY AND TEARS (1996-2001)
Boards Of Canada - Telephasic Workshop
Spoon - Waiting For The Kid To Come Out
Yo La Tengo - Autumn Sweater
Chavez - You Must Be Stopped
Silkworm - Tarnished Angel
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Flavor Part 1 (Beck)
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - Flavor Part 2 (Mike D)
Pole - Fliegen
Cat Power - American Flag
Belle & Sebastian - We Rule The School
Mogwai - Helps Both Ways
Arsonists - Backdraft
Large Professor - 'Bout That Time
Cornelius - Tone Twilight Zone
burger/ink - Flesh & Blood
Pavement - You Are A Light
Arab Strap - Blood
Matmos - L.A.S.I.K
DISC FOUR: DON'T CALL IT A COMEBACK (2002-2007)
Interpol - Hands Away
Cat Power - He War
Yo La Tengo - Today Is The Day
The New Pornographers - From Blown Speakers
Dizzee Rascal - Fix Up, Look Sharp
Dead Meadow - Good Moanin'
Mogwai - Kids Will Be Skeletons
Mission Of Burma - The Setup
Early Man - Death Is The Answer
Belle & Sebastian - Dress Up In You
Pretty Girls Make Graves - All Medicated Geniuses
Cat Power - Love & Communication
Shearwater - Johnny Viola
Brightblack Morning Light - Everybody Daylight
Lavender Diamond - You Broke My Heart
Jennifer O'Connor - Tonight We Ride
Earles & Jensen - Just Farr A Laugh: The Yogurt Machine
Stephen Malkmus - Discretion Grove
DISC FIVE: MATADOR TODAY (2008 - )
Fucked Up - Son The Father
Sonic Youth - Sacred Trickster
Kurt Vile - Amplifier
Yo La Tengo - Nothing to Hide
Jay Reatard - There Is No Sun
Times New Viking - Move To California
Harlem - Friendly Ghost
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Bottled In Cork
The New Pornographers - My Shepherd
Cold Cave - Youth and Lust
Interpol - Summer Well
Shearwater - Castaways
Esben and the Witch - Marching Song
Girls - Lust For Life
Magic Kids - Superball
Delorean - Stay Close
Cat Power - Metal Heart
Perfume Genius - Learning
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks - Real Emotional Trash
DISC SIX: UNRELEASED LIVE RECORDINGS FROM THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERTS, NEW YORK CITY, SEPTEMBER 1999
Pavement - Here (Live 1999)
Pavement - Trigger Cut (Live 1999)
Pavement - The Hexx (Live 1999)
Pavement - She Believes (Live 1999)
Pavement - Unfair (Live 1999)
Pavement - Zurich Is Stained (Live 1999)
Pavement - Debris Slide (Live 1999)
Pavement - Spit On A Stranger (Live 1999)
Come - New Coats (Live 1999)
Bardo Pond - Walking Stick Man (Live 1999)
Bardo Pond - Tommy Gun Angel (Live 1999)
Cat Power - Good Woman (Live 1999)
Cat Power - Naked, If I Want To (Live 1999)
Cat Power - You May Know Him / Sea Of Love (Live 1999)
Mogwai - Ex-Cowboy (Live 1999)