Bad Brains - Black Dots180 Gram Vinyl. Black Dots contains the first full length session of Bad Brains in a studio. It was recorded at Inner Ear Studios in 1979, which at the time was in Don Zientara's basement. The tapes sat in Arlington, VA for 17 years, until they were mixed and released in 1996 by Caroline Records. It's an outstanding document of the band at the start of their career, sounding fierce, loud and at their best.

I found I could tell a different story about myself and my own time: a poetic diary of modern transience and transcendence

The first recording to be released from Ty’s just-completed Harmonizer Studios

Led by Mark Stewart

Her reign as the Queen of Soul will play out across 20 highlight tracks which span her entire career and features alternate versions of classic hits

All the guys in the band have known hard times – two winters were spent living on potatoes

Opening track “damn”

It’s A Mystery began life as a song by the late 70s experimental synthesiser group Blood Donor with guest vocals by Toyah Willcox

The Three Day Week proper lasted from New Year’s Day to 7 March 1974

the trio embarked on Atlas Vending with the goal to make a more patient and honest record—something that invited repeated listens rather than a few exhilarating bludgeonings

immaculately self-possessed‰Û_ Time to set her loose on the world

It is clearly one of the best tracks of the whole album

Mostly recorded and produced in his bedroom at home in London and named after a fragment of verse from the poem 'Monument' by Rick Holland