The Man

The island nation of Iceland is known for many things—majestic landscapes, volcanic eruptions, distinctive seafood—but racial diversity is not one of them. So the little-known story of Hans Jonathan, a free black man who lived and raised a family in early nineteenth-century Iceland, is improbable and compelling, the stuff of novels.

Produced by five-time GRAMMY Award-winning producer Danger Mouse, "Evil Friends" is the undaunted reawakening for Portugal. The Man. The band constructed new songs melding together their ambitious visions. Each track on Evil Friends is as different from the next as Portugal. The Man’s previous records were from each other, which is to say a piece of growing mindscape, and wholly a part of the group’s tumbling fever dream.

12 CD box set collection featuring all of Allan Holdsworth's solo albums from 1982-2003. That title is no hyperbole-it was a proclamation that ran on the cover of Guitar Player Magazine in 2008, and is a feeling shared by fans and guitarists all around the world. Still, though, Holdsworth remains largely under-rated; many who admire his most famous work have overlooked dozens of fascinating finds to be made on his decades of recordings. This collection is a treasure trove of such discoveries, as it brings you all 11 of his albums as a solo artist, producer and group leader since 1980 plus the live-in-Tokyo album Then! And a 40-page booklet full of liner notes and archival photos. You also get previously unreleased bonus tracks, and all these albums have been newly remastered from the original tapes: I.O.U. (1982), Road Games (1983), Metal Fatigue (1985), Atavachron (1986), Sand (1987), Secrets (1989), Wardenclyffe Tower (1992), Hard Hat Area (1993), None Too Soon (1996), The Sixteen Men Of Tain (2000), Flat Tire (2001) and Then! (2003).

"Woodstock" is the eighth full-length album by Alaskan rock band Portugal. The Man. After having released "Evil Friends" in 2013, Portugal. The Man began work on a new project, under the working title "Gloomin + Doomin". This album was eventually shelved, partly due to a conversation between John Gourley and his father and the discovery of a lost ticket stub from the Woodstock festival. Work began on the "Woodstock" album shortly thereafter, involving new music as well as material from the "Gloomin + Doomin" era.