Thursday, March 19, 2009

Music News & Notes

Red House Painters Reissue

After nearly 13 years, Red House Painters‘ classic album "Songs For a Blue Guitar" will finally be issued on double 180-gram vinyl on April 21st, 2009. If you’d like, Insound is now pre-selling this piece of magic that will arrive on your doorstep on or around its release date. Preorder here:

Red House Painters

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Gaslight Anthem Issuing Live Vinyl Release


It has been less than two years since New Jersey's The Gaslight Anthem began releasing discs.

In that short time, they've completed an EP and two full-lengths. The second of those albums, last year's The '59 Sound, has lifted the band's name from the lips of Jersey punk fans to the pages of international magazines, where critics frequently named The '59 Sound as one of the best albums of the year.

"I always had the idea that I would be in a band and I'd have job," muses guitarist Alex Rosamilia. "I'd take two weeks off a year and tour with that band. I never thought the band would become my job. It's absolutely unreal."

The '59 Sound took the band's songwriting to that fabled "next level." It also took them away from the realm of "punk," in its most rigid definition.

Many have likened the Anthem to Bruce Springsteen, due to Brian Fallon's voice, their similar vocal melodies and lyrical imagery and shared geography. The comparison is fair, but only if you imagine a more focused, less bombastic arrangement, like The Boss as backed by the Stiff Little Fingers, perhaps.

The band will play a sold-out show with Saint Alvia at Toronto's Opera House on March 20 on the heels of a European tour and a new video for the lead-off track, "Great Expectations."

They'll also release a limited edition 10-inch single for this year's Record Store Day on April 18. Live At Park Ave. will feature a recording of a performance at Park Avenue CDs in Orlando, Fla. during a tour with Rise Against, Alkaline Trio and Thrice. No other releases are planned at the moment — mostly because audiences around the world are still discovering The '59 Sound.

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Paper + Plastick announce details of new Foundation (Rob Huddleston) release "Chimborazo"

Paper + Plastick have announced details for Chimborazo, the upcoming release from Foundation, the solo project of Rob Huddleston (Ann Beretta, Inquisition). Chimborazo will be available only on vinyl and digital download formats. The label's website http://paperandplastick.com/ is currently offering a presale for the record , with three alternate colors of the vinyl. It will be available in Black, Blue, Green and Splatter vinyl, with a die cut cover and artwork by Richard "Horsebites" Minino. The webstore will offer two presale packages; the first includes a copy of the record with a commemorative Foundation T-shirt. The second includes the record, shirt, and a limited edition Foundation print that comes with a certificate of authenticity signed by both Rob Huddleston and Horsebites.

The release hits stores March 24th, and a record release show with support from Dave Hause (The Loved Ones) and Brett Adams (The Riot Before) is planned for Friday, March 27th at the Canal Club in Richmond, VA. . Foundation's last full-length was 2002's Foundation.

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Artists Wanted for Album Covers

(PR) Versailles Records has announced that it is seeking submissions from Stone Temple Pilots and Buckcherry fans for an original album cover design for the label's forthcoming summer releases, 'Wicked Garden: A Millennium Tribute to Stone Temple Pilots' and 'Lit Up: A Millennium Tribute to Buckcherry'.

Collectively, these tributes will feature current/former members of Black Sabbath, Racer X, Kiss, Europe, Megadeth, Badlands, Alice Cooper Band, Lizzy Borden, Fuel, Surgical Steel, Bonham, Mountain, Circle Jerks, Slash's Snakepit, Metal Church, Warrant, Dokken, Steelheart, Michael Shanker Group, L.A. Guns, White Lion, Machine Head, Ratt, WASP, Quiet Riot, and others.

Interested fans should email Versaillesrecords2006@yahoo.com with a brief synopsis of the cover concept they have in mind prior to submitting any art, and include some kind of myspace or related portfolio web link. A final decision will be made on the official album cover selections this April. -

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