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27/06/2024

Happy birthday to Jeffrey Lee Pierce!

28/11/2023

ON MY KNEES & WISHING ~ Mother Juno from The Gun Club is being reissued on vinyl December 1st. Featuring and produced by of Cocteau Twins. Photo by

28/11/2023

ON MY KNEES & WISHING ~ Mother Juno from the Gun Club is being reissued on vinyl and arriving December 1st! Produced by Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins. Photo by

13/10/2023

I’D LIKE TO TAKE HER HOME, THAT’S UNDERSTOOD ~ Trans-X have just dropped their reworking of “Das Model” by Kraftwerk!

19/09/2023

PREACH THE BLUES NOW ~ The Gun Club, 1981. Photo by

07/09/2023

The fabulous Linda Clifford! Check out the funky gem “Hold Me Close,” penned by the legendary Curtis Mayfield via Blixa Sounds

14/08/2023

Post-punk icons Modern English recently graced the stage at KEXP Studios in Seattle, WA, this past June. The band played four new songs from their upcoming album, 1234, as well…

16/06/2023

WON’T YOU COME ON HOME TONIGHT? ~ 2023 remaster of Mother Juno by The Gun Club streaming everywhere! Produced by Robin Guthrie of Cocteau Twins, we have included demos and b-sides, with vinyl scheduled for later this year.

31/03/2023

IN THE PORT OF SOULS ~ Jeffrey Lee Pierce 6/27/1958 - 3/31/1996

27/02/2023

Traveling in a light beam, laser rays and purple skies ~ Trans-X Original 1983 Recordings now streaming on Blixa Sounds with remastered vinyl coming soon!

17/06/2022

Out now! Super deluxe edition of Las Vegas Story by The Gun Club. Available on 2CD/DVD and 2LP/DVD download, as well as streaming everywhere. Features bonus concert Live at Scorgie’s, 1984: Home Movies, liner notes by drummer Terry Graham and guitarist Kid Congo Powers, and rare photos, such as this one by . Snag your copy at the link in bio!

17/06/2022

Wonderful write-up about The Gun Club Las Vegas Story and interview with producer Jeff Eyrich over at Dangerous Minds. Super Deluxe reissue of Las Vegas Story is available everywhere now!

  Because I love all of their albums so very much, it’s difficult for me to say which is my favorite Gun Club album—it’s Mother Juno, but just by a hair—and much easier to pick out my favorite Gun Club song. That would be “Walking with the Beast” from The Las Vegas Story.  (“Lupita S...

16/06/2022

Out tomorrow, June 17, 2022 worldwide on Blixa Sounds - Deluxe Edition of Las Vegas Story by The Gun Club. Available as 2CD/DVD and 2LP/DVD download here or from a wide variety of retailers: cutt.ly/gclvscd The Gun Club Kid Congo Terry James Graham

11/04/2022

THE MASTER PLAN – pre-order now available for June 17 release of the super deluxe reissue of The Gun Club Las Vegas Story. Includes bonus disc of Live at Scorgie's 1984 and DVD of the home movie, Gun Club On The Road. Features notes from the band and rare photos. Available on CD/DVD and vinyl with download card for the home movie. Pre-Order here: cutt.ly/gclvscd

31/03/2022

JEFFREY LEE PIERCE 6/27/1958 - 3/31/1996 (photo by Ed Colver)

28/12/2021

Hey, look! The Beat Farmers made it to The New York Times end of the year list for best reissue, sandwiched between The Beach Boys and The Beatles. If you haven't already snagged your copy of Tales of the New West, this should be your reason to get on it!
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/28/arts/music/boxed-sets-reissues.html

17/11/2021

Blixa Sounds is proud to present The Gun Club Live At The Starwood 1981 as a limited vinyl release for RSD Black Friday on November 26, 2021! Record Store Day The Gun Club

31/08/2021

Happy birthday to Fire Of Love!

Release 40 long years ago on August 31st 1981 - the important debut album 'The Fire Of Love' by & blues pioneers, (& also a major influence & inspiration to Jack White & The White Stripes) ... LA's The Gun Club In memory of Jeffrey Lee Pierce †

25/08/2021

Recently, the Gun Club re-released their Fire of Love album via Blixa Sounds. To celebrate the re-release, a number of musicians threw a re-release party on August 18 at Zebulon Cafe in L.A. As part of the live show, the gun club's Terry Graham, Jesse Michaels (Operation Ivy, Common Rider, Classics....

18/08/2021

Tonight at Zebulon!

TONIGHT, 8/18! ❤️‍🔥
Fire Of Love Re-release party with Gün Club’s Terry Graham & more! ❤️‍🔥
Presented by Zebulon and Pretty But Wicked, this incredible evening will feature members of the Gun Club, Christian Death, the Hangmen, Alice Bag Band, Terminal A, Red Aunts, Exploding Flowers, Death Valley Girls, Future Sho###, Emily Rose & the Rounders and Egrets on Ergot.
Doors at 8
Tickets running extremely low 🚨

https://link.dice.fm/6zkF0WFmPib

15/08/2021

Sunday Review of Fire Of Love over at Pitchfork

Read Stuart Berman’s review of the album.

05/08/2021

The richest stream of American punk rock is actually Mexican-American punk rock. It can be traced directly back to two self-taught wunderkinds whose lives collided: Jeffrey Lee Pierce, a second-gen…

21/07/2021

Coming out this Friday July 23, 2021 - the deluxe reissue of The Gun Club's brilliant debut album Fire Of Love!

Both the double-CD and double-vinyl editions contain a digitally remastered version of the original 11-track album, produced by fellow L.A. scenesters Chris D. of The Flesh Eaters and The Plugz's Tito Larriva. The CD version will include 10 previously unreleased four-track demos and alternate versions, while the LP will include a download card for the digital version of the 10 bonus tracks

Order the CD here: https://bit.ly/fireoflove-cd Order the vinyl here: https://bit.ly/fireoflove

21/07/2021

HEY LA! Fire Of Love Re-Release Party coming to Zebulon August 18th

14/07/2021

Make sure to snag your copy of The Birth The Death The Ghost on Record Store Day this Saturday and the deluxe reissue of Fire Of Love on July 23!

28/06/2021

From Terry Graham: Blixasounds has put together a very nice triple gatefold for the Fire of Love re-release. A 14 page booklet is included with lots of pics, notes by me (“The Fire of Love for Blues”) and Chris D, Tito Larriva, Mike Mastrangelo. Late July.

27/06/2021

Happy terrestrial birthday to Jeffrey Lee Pierce, born on the 27th of June, 1958. His music, intellect, talent and deep soul continues to inspire so many of us to this day 🔥♥️🔥

21/06/2021

Coming for Record Store Day July 17, 2021 - The Beat Farmers long out of print Glad N Greasy!

After the release of the Beat Farmers’ successful 1985 debut album Tales Of The New West, the band did a tour of the UK and Europe and while there recorded a six song EP originally only released in the UK, and never on vinyl in the US. Glad ’N' Greasy features the original members of this alt-coun...

17/06/2021

Coming July 17, 2021 for Record Store Day - The Birth The Death The Ghost by The Gun Club! These performances were recorded with Kid Congo Powers in Los Angeles before the band made their debut album Fire Of Love.

07/06/2021

"Co-produced by Steve Berlin of Los Lobos, these original 12 tracks were the perfect calling card for the rowdy rumble of the original Farmers lineup of guitarists Jerry Raney and Buddy Blue, bassist Rollie Dexter and drummer-singer Country Dick Montana." Thank you SPIN!

In our latest edition of the Reissue Section, we take a look at reissued albums by the Who, CAN, Louis Armstrong, Richard Pryor, L7 and a lot