In an effort to keep up with those hip, vinyl-loving kids today, gigantic entertainment retailer Best Buy has announced plans to start carrying vinyl records amongst their stacks of seven-dollar romantic comedies, 20th Century Masters Millennium Collection CDs and electronics. To test out the product, they will be releasing vinyl copies of new albums at various undisclosed locations.
"We've got an executive here who's basically responding to his own children and is sponsoring a test to see if there's a market," Best Buy CEO Brad told the Star Tribune. "As an old vinyl collector, this is close to my heart."
I like to see 'big box' retailer giving vinyl a spin, but hopefully it will not be at the expense of the independent music retailer. So, support them both and we can keep the vinyl record sales shooting skyward!
Here are some new releases:
More Indie Releases (available from Virgil @ www.vinylcollective.com)
ARCADE FIRE ìNEON BIBLE 2xLP
BAND OF HORSES “Everything All The Time” LP
BAND OF HORSES “No One’s Gonna Love You” UK single 7?
BIKINI KILL “Reject All-American” LP
BOYS NIGHT OUT “Broken Bones” LP grey vinyl
THE CIRCLE JERKS “Wonderful” LP
ELLIOTT SMITH “S/T” LP
IRON AND WINE “The shepherd’s dog” LP
IRON AND WINE "THE SEA & THE RHYTHM" LP
MAGNETIC FIELDS “Charm Of The Highway Strip” LP
MURDER CITY DEVILS “RIP Live” LP
NEUTRAL MILK HOTEL “IN THE AEROPLANE” LP
Pedro The Lion Winners Never Quit LP
Pinback- Summer In Abaddon LP
POLVO “Exploded Drawing” dbl LP
Sleater Kinney Dig Me Out LP
SLEATER KINNEY the hot rock LP
SLEATER-KINNEY “Jumpers” 7? green vinhyl
SPOON - GA GA GA GA GA (180 GR) LP
TED LEO & THE PHARMACISTS ìLiving With The Livingî 2XLP
Tenderloin/ Supersuckers Split 7?
THE HELIO SEQUENCE “Keep Your Eyes Ahead ” LP
The Shins "Wincing The Night Away" LP
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Capitol Records will rerelease eight classic titles, all of which were previously out of print on vinyl — and six of which will be newly remastered on limited-edition 180 gram LPs — on August 19. The albums include Coldplay’s Parachutes and A Rush of Blood to the Head; A Perfect Circle’s Mer de Noms; Radiohead’s OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac and Hail to the Thief; and the Steve Miller Band’s Greatest Hits.
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Revelation Records will be reissuing Rage Against the Machine's "People of the Sun" ten-inch vinyl EP on August 19.
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More Indie Releases:
BUFFALO KILLERS/BUFFALO KILLERS@180GM VINYL/YELLOW VINYL@LMTD ED.
CENTRO-MATIC/SOUTH SAN GABRIEL/DUAL HAWKS@2 LP SET
CIRCLE JERKS/GROUP SEX@COLORED VINYL
FANATIX/THIS THING OF OURS@3 LP SET
KEEP OF KALESSIN/ARMADA@LMTD ED.@2 LP SET
KILLING JOKE/DEMOCRACY@2 LP SET
KILLING JOKE/PANDEMONIUM@2 LP SET
KON & AMIR/VOL. 2-OFF TRACK: QUEENS@3 LP SET
LIMBONIC ART/LEGACY OF EVIL@LMTD ED.@2 LP SET
SAXON/SAXON@LMTD ED.@PICTURE LP
SAXON/STRONG ARM OF THE LAW@LMTD ED.@PICTURE LP
SAXON/WHEELS OF STEEL@LMTD ED.@PICTURE LP
STRANGLERS/RAVEN@LMTD ED.@PICTURE LP
ARCHITECTURE IN HELSINKI/LIKE IT OR NOT EP
CHROMEO/FANCY FOOTWORK@DELUXE ED.@2 LP SET
NELSON/MARSALIS/TWO MEN WITH THE BLUES@2 LP SET
WHITECHAPEL/THIS IS EXILE@PICTURE DISC LP
FIERY FURNACES/EP
HAMMOND,ALBERT JR./COMO TE LLAMA?@2 LP SET
WILLIAMS,SAUL/INEVITABLE RISE & LIBERATION O@2 LP SET
Support Independent Music Stores!
Saturday, July 12, 2008
This Date In Music History- July 12
Birthdays:
Christine McVie (born Christine Anne Perfect) was born in 1943.
John Wetton, bassist for Uriah Heep and Asia, was born in 1949.
Bill Cosby ("Little Ole Man") is 71.
Walter Egan ("Magnet & Steel") turns 60.
Barbara (Mama) Cowsill of the Cowsills ("Hair") was born in 1928.
Bassist Phil Kramer of Iron Butterfly ("In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida") was born in Youngstown, Ohio in 1952.
History:
In 1954, Scotty Moore became Elvis Presley's first manager with the signing of a contract (Sun Records) that also bore the signatures of Elvis's parents. Elvis quit his job as a truck driver.
In 2004, nearly four decades after their major hit "I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night," two former members of the Electric Prunes, vocalist James Lowe and bassist Mark Tulin, filed separate suites against their record label and music publisher claiming $1 million in owed royalties.
In 1965, the Velvet Underground recorded a demo tape at viola player John Cale's Manhattan apartment. It represents their first recordings and was later released, in 1995 as Disc 1 of their self-titled five-CD box set.
The first Rollin' Stones concert (they would later add the g) was held at the Marquee Club in London in 1962. Their line-up consisted of lead vocalist Mick Jagger, guitarists Keith Richards and Brian Jones, Dick Taylor on bass, pianist Ian Stewart and Mick Avory, later of the Kinks, on drums. Avory and Taylor were later replaced by Tony Chapman on drums and Bill Wyman on bass. Chapman didn't work out and drummer Charlie Watts completed the Stones' line-up in January 1963.
What hard work does for a band: In 2007, the Rolling Stones were paid $5.5 million (or $67,500 per minute) to perform a 14 song set at a private Deutsche Bank party for top-level employees held at the National Art Museum of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain.
DJ Steve Dahl tries to kill off disco with a Disco Demolition Night at Chicago's Comiskey Park in 1979. A bonfire was started into which disco records were pitched, while the crowd chanted "Disco sucks." The ensuing riot causes the White Sox to forfeit a baseball game when the field becomes unplayable.
Today in 1969, the song "In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)" by Zager & Evans topped the charts and stayed there for 6 weeks. After getting a lot of requests to sing the song that they included in their live act, Denny Zager and Rick Evans had invested just $500 to press 1000 copies of the tune. After a Texas radio station added it their play list, RCA signed the duo, but the record would prove to be their only US chart entry.
Blind Faith began their one and only tour with a sold-out show at New York's Madison Square Garden in 1969.
The Monroe Brothers make their first recordings for the Bluebird label, an RCA subsidiary in 1936.
In 1970, Janis Joplin debuted with her new group, the Full Tilt Boogie Band, before 4,000 people in Louisville, Kentucky. Less than three months later, she would be dead from a heroin overdose.
K.C. & the Sunshine Band make their US Pop chart debut in 1975 with "Get Down Tonight". It's the first of four singles by the band to make it to Billboard's number one spot.
The Beach Boys recorded "Sloop John B" in 1965, a 1927 Folk song that featured Al Jardine on lead vocal. The record would climb to number three in May, 1966.
The O'Jays ("Love Train," "Back Stabbers") formed in Canton, Ohio in 1958. They were originally known as the Triumphs.
Minnie Riperton ("Lovin' You"), certainly a unique voice in pop music, died of breast cancer in 1979.
Christine McVie (born Christine Anne Perfect) was born in 1943.
John Wetton, bassist for Uriah Heep and Asia, was born in 1949.
Bill Cosby ("Little Ole Man") is 71.
Walter Egan ("Magnet & Steel") turns 60.
Barbara (Mama) Cowsill of the Cowsills ("Hair") was born in 1928.
Bassist Phil Kramer of Iron Butterfly ("In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida") was born in Youngstown, Ohio in 1952.
History:
In 1954, Scotty Moore became Elvis Presley's first manager with the signing of a contract (Sun Records) that also bore the signatures of Elvis's parents. Elvis quit his job as a truck driver.
In 2004, nearly four decades after their major hit "I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night," two former members of the Electric Prunes, vocalist James Lowe and bassist Mark Tulin, filed separate suites against their record label and music publisher claiming $1 million in owed royalties.
In 1965, the Velvet Underground recorded a demo tape at viola player John Cale's Manhattan apartment. It represents their first recordings and was later released, in 1995 as Disc 1 of their self-titled five-CD box set.
The first Rollin' Stones concert (they would later add the g) was held at the Marquee Club in London in 1962. Their line-up consisted of lead vocalist Mick Jagger, guitarists Keith Richards and Brian Jones, Dick Taylor on bass, pianist Ian Stewart and Mick Avory, later of the Kinks, on drums. Avory and Taylor were later replaced by Tony Chapman on drums and Bill Wyman on bass. Chapman didn't work out and drummer Charlie Watts completed the Stones' line-up in January 1963.
What hard work does for a band: In 2007, the Rolling Stones were paid $5.5 million (or $67,500 per minute) to perform a 14 song set at a private Deutsche Bank party for top-level employees held at the National Art Museum of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain.
DJ Steve Dahl tries to kill off disco with a Disco Demolition Night at Chicago's Comiskey Park in 1979. A bonfire was started into which disco records were pitched, while the crowd chanted "Disco sucks." The ensuing riot causes the White Sox to forfeit a baseball game when the field becomes unplayable.
Today in 1969, the song "In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)" by Zager & Evans topped the charts and stayed there for 6 weeks. After getting a lot of requests to sing the song that they included in their live act, Denny Zager and Rick Evans had invested just $500 to press 1000 copies of the tune. After a Texas radio station added it their play list, RCA signed the duo, but the record would prove to be their only US chart entry.
Blind Faith began their one and only tour with a sold-out show at New York's Madison Square Garden in 1969.
The Monroe Brothers make their first recordings for the Bluebird label, an RCA subsidiary in 1936.
In 1970, Janis Joplin debuted with her new group, the Full Tilt Boogie Band, before 4,000 people in Louisville, Kentucky. Less than three months later, she would be dead from a heroin overdose.
K.C. & the Sunshine Band make their US Pop chart debut in 1975 with "Get Down Tonight". It's the first of four singles by the band to make it to Billboard's number one spot.
The Beach Boys recorded "Sloop John B" in 1965, a 1927 Folk song that featured Al Jardine on lead vocal. The record would climb to number three in May, 1966.
The O'Jays ("Love Train," "Back Stabbers") formed in Canton, Ohio in 1958. They were originally known as the Triumphs.
Minnie Riperton ("Lovin' You"), certainly a unique voice in pop music, died of breast cancer in 1979.
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