New Music & Vinyl Record Releases - March 8th, 2011

Highly anticipated albums from Avril Lavigne, with 'Goodbye Lullaby,' R.E.M.'s 'Collapse Into Now,' Carol Bui's 'Red Ship,' Wye Oak's 'Civilianand' and Wires Under Tension with 'Light Science,' are just a few of the choices this week.

Vinyl releases for the week include Beady Eye with 'Different Gear Still Speeding,' Billy Joel's 'Live at Shea Stadium,' the Young Widows with 'Future Heart,' to name a few.

Reissues this week include Little Feat 's 'Waiting for Columbus,' Traffic's 'John Barleycorn Must Die' (remastered with bonus disc), Asia with 'Spirit of the Night: Live (2 CDs) and Sonic Youth's 'Bull in the Heather.'

Also available is the 40th anniversary edition of Simon & Garfunkel's 'Bridge Over Troubled Water,' which also includes a DVD of their 1969 television special as well as a documentary about making the album and new interviews.

A Hawk and a Hacksaw - CERVANTINE
Aaron Gillespie - Anthem Song
Agnostic Front - That's Life 7"
Alex Winston - Sister Wife
Alexi Murdoch - Toward The Sun
Ancient Astronauts - Into Bass and Time
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - House Arrest
Asia - Spirit of the Night: Live (2 CDs)
Augury - Concealed
Avril Lavigne - Goodbye Lullaby
B Lan 3 - Library Catalog Music Series: Music for Hunting and Mapping
Beach Fossils - What A Pleasure (EP)
Beady Eye - Different Gear Still Speeding (vinyl)
Billy Joel - Live at Shea Stadium (2-CDs & DVD)(vinyl)
Bing Crosby - Join Bing & Sing Along
Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley's Beach Party
Bobby V - Fly on the Wall
Brooklyn Rundfunk Orkestrata - The Hills Are Alive
Brothers Johnson - Winners
Bruce Cockburn - Small Source of Comfort
Buffalo Tom - Skins
Carol Bui - Red Ship
Charlie Pride - Choices
Charlie Rich - It Ain't Gonna Be That Way - The Complete Smash Sessions
Children of Bodom - Relentless Reckless Forever
Christopher Cross - Doctor Faith
Clare Maguire - Light After Dark
Condemned? - Condemned 2
Crass - Penis Envy (remastered with bonus tracks)
Cut Copy - Zonoscope (vinyl)
Dam Mantle - First Wave
Dance Gavin Dance - Downtown Battle Mountain Pt. II
Defeater - Empty Days & Sleepless Nights
Dignan Porch - Deluded
Dinosaur Bones - My Divider
Doug McLeod - Brand New Eyes
Dr. John - Night Rider
Dr. John - Zu Zu Soiree (2 CDs)
EMA - The Grey Ship
Early Winters - Early Winters (EP)
Ellie Goulding - Lights
Elvis Presley - Elvis is Back!: Legacy Edition
Etta James - Who's Blue? Rare Chess Recordings of the 60s & 70s
Evelyn "Champagne" King - I'm in Love
Exene Cervenka - Excitement of Maybe
Frank Sinatra - All Alone
Frank Sinatra - Francis A & Edward K
Frank Sinatra - Man & His Music
Frank Sinatra - Moonlight Sinatra
Frank Sinatra - My Kind of Broadway
Frank Sinatra - Softly As I Leave You
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Liverpool (remastered with bonus tracks)
Geoff Berner - Victory Party
Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx - We're New Here (vinyl)
Glen Galaxy - Thankyou
Grails - Deep Politics
Hollies - Bus Stop! / Stop! Stop! Stop!
Jag Panzer - The Scourge Of The Light
Jib Kidder - Library Catalog Music Series: Music for Hypnotized
Jim Norton - Despicable
Jonny Greenwood - Norwegian Wood (soundtrack)
KMFDM - Krank (Single)
Keren Ann - 101
Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring for My Halo
Los Dug Dug's - Dug Dug's (vinyl)
Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus (vinyl)
Luke Rathborne - Dog Years EP
Lullwater - Silhouette
Lupe Fiasco - Lasers
Mae - (e)vening
Maruta - Forward Into Regression
Memphis - Here Comes a City
Mighty Clouds of Joy - 50 Year Celebration
Miles Davis - Unissued Japanese Concerts
Morning Teleportation - Expanding Anyway
Neil Diamond - The Bang Years
Nektar - Journey to the Center of the Eye / Boston Tapes (2 CDs)
Nektar - Tab in the Ocean / Sunday: A Night at the London Roundhouse (2 CDs)
New Numbers - Vacationland
OMD - History of Modern (Part 1)
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - History of Modern (Part I)(single)
Parts & Labor - Constant Future
Phil Manzanera - Diamond Head
Primal Scream - Screamadelica Collector's Edition
Quiet Sun - Mainstream
R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now
REKS - R.E.K.S (Rhythmatic Eternal King Supreme)
Raekwon - Shaolin Vs Wu-Tang
Raiders - Country Wine Plus
Rainbow - Down to Earth (2 CDs)
Ray Charles - The Soul Explosion 1954 - 1960
Richard Ashcroft [of The Verve] - The United Nations Of Sound
Riley Etheridge, Jr. - Powder Keg
Ringo Deathstarr - Colour Trip
Rival Schools - Pedals
Sad Cafe - Live
Sara Evans - Stronger
Shotgun Jimmie - Transistor Sister
Sierra Hull - Daybreak
Signal - Glassworks - Signal Live at Le Poisson Rouge
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Waters: 40th Anniversary Edition (CD/DVD)
Sonic Youth - Bull in the Heather (reissue)
Starf*cker - Reptilians
Steve Morse - Southern Steel
Swamp Thing - self-titled 7"
The Blue Van - Love Shot
The Color Morale - My Devil In Your Eyes
The Curious Mystery - We Creeling
The High Kings - Memory Lane
The Human Abstract - Digital Veil
The Megaphonic Thrift - Decay Decoy
The Pauses - A Cautionary Tale
The Sound Of Growing Up - Drifting
Ventures - Hawaii Five-O (reissue)
Tito Puente - Vaya Puente (reissue) (vinyl)
Tommy Bolin - Teaser Deluxe (2 CDs)
Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die (remastered with bonus disc)
Trust Company - Dreaming in Black & White
Typhoon - New Kind of House
UFO - All the Hits & More
Various Artists - Before the Fall - 24 Original Songs As Covered By The Fall
Various Artists - Glee: The Music, Volume 5
Various Artists - Piano Tribute to Mumford & Sons
Various Artists - That'll Flat Git It, Vol. 27 From the Vault of Sage and Sand Records
We Creeling - The Curious Mystery
Wendy & Lisa - Fruit at the Bottom
Western Hymn - Out of the Way EP (vinyl)
Wires Under Tension - Light Science
Wolf People - Silbury Sands/Dry (vinyl)
Wye Oak - Civilian
Young Widows - Future Heart (vinyl)


New Jazz Releases

Remember, if you are a record company and have new releases or know of any I missed (especially vinyl), please email me and I will add your music to the list. I also do reviews of new vinyl, email me for more information.

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HAPPY FAT TUESDAY! - New Vinyl Record Talk Tuesday March 8th 8pm ET/ 5pm PT

It's Fat Tuesday and we start out with the Dixie Cups and Professor Longhair - then on to the poll! Inspired in part by Saturday nights CRAGG interview with Night Of The Living Dead's Bill Hinzman and Charlie Sheen's crash and burn decent into the world of internet webcast, we ask just what type of zombie would be Charlie Sheen?

We've got more southern R&B from Rufus Thomas and Esther Phillips, and Mardi Gras seems just the right time to bring back "The Pussycat Song".

In the news we use 21st century technology to evaluate the 45th anniversary of John Lennon's, "the Beatles are more popular than Jesus," comment. Plus the top 5 and why the hell hasn't anyone gotten their grubby hands on our Don Lee Wilson (The Ventures) find.

Listen to Vinyl Record Talk Today!

Vinyl Record News & Music Notes

Three New Hendrix Archive Releases Coming From Experience Hendrix & Legacy

Experience Hendrix LLC and Legacy Recordings have announced the third wave of releases in their Jimi Hendrix Catalog project. All will be available on April 12.

First up is a reissue of Power Of Soul: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix, a collection of sixteen performances covering artists both classic and modern. It is the first tribute album to be curated under Hendrix LLC and they assembled quite the roster from Santana, Eric Clapton and Sting to archive tracks from John Lee Hooker and Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble. The album was originally released on May 4, 2004.

Read more: vintagevinylnews.com

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popmatters.com has a wonderful review of some often overlooked music from one of the best:

In this new Between the Grooves series, George de Stefano digs beneath the nondescript cover of Howlin' Wolf's "Rocking Chair" album -- an urtext for many rock and R&B artists who have been inspired by it or covered its songs -- to examine some of the greatest blues ever recorded.

An acoustic guitar and a rocking chair, set against a green background. You could hardly ask for a more nondescript album cover. But that image has become iconic because of the extraordinary music inside the unremarkable packaging. In fact, the album has come to be known by its cover art. Chess Records titled the disk Howlin’ Wolf when the Chicago-based company released it in 1962. But everyone, or at least every serious blues aficionado, knows this collection of 12 tracks by Chester “Howlin’ Wolf” Burnett simply as “the rocking chair album” .

Read the rest of this story at popmatters.com



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Sparks The Rescue Unveil Cover Art

Fearless Records has released the cover art for 'Worst Thing I've Been Cursed With,' the second album from Sparks The Rescue. The new album is scheduled for release on May 10th.

"We are very excited to release our second full-length Worst Thing I've Been Cursed With," states singer Alex Roy. "We wrote this record over the course of the summer into fall in a cabin in Poland Springs, Maine. I feel this record shows how much we've grown as songwriters, musicians and friends. We set out to write a great rock album, and I think we did just that!"






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ALKALINE TRIO Celebrate 15th Anniversary With New Album

In celebration of their 15th year as a band, high energy melodic cult rockers Alkaline Trio have announced they will enter the studio in late February to re-imagine and record a collection of songs from their celebrated catalog for a new album to be released this summer on Epitaph/Heart & Skull.

The threesome will be stripping down fan favorites from their coveted seven studio albums, which include Goddamnit, Maybe I'll Catch Fire, From Here to Infirmary, Good Mourning, Crimson, Agony & Irony and This Addiction, and re-recording the songs under new visions with the accompaniment of a variety of instruments at Hurley Studios in Costa Mesa, California. Additionally, the band will tantalize fans with new tracks as well, making this a must have for both old and new fans alike.

Known for well-crafted hook filled songwriting and poetic tongue-in-cheek lyrics, Alkaline Trio have amassed a diehard cult following around the globe in the last 15 years. Comprised of guitarist/vocalist Matt Skiba, bassist/vocalist Dan Andriano and drummer Derek Grant, the group has composed some of punk rock's most memorable songs with hits like "Nose Over Tail" from their 1998 debut Goddamnit, "Radio" from 2000's Maybe I'll Catch Fire, "Private Eye" from 2001's From here to Infirmary, "We've Had Enough" from 2003's Good Mourning, "Time to Waste" from 2005's Crimson, "Calling All Skeletons" from 2008's Agony & Irony and the title track from 2010's This Addiction among others. With so many classic tracks to choose from, anticipation for this release amongst the band's fans is sure to be huge!

Alkaline Trio will be hitting the road for a handful of dates this spring leading up to the release. Stay tuned for more information.

Alkaline Trio Tour Dates:

4/27 - West Chester, PA - The Note
4/28 - Providence, RI - Lupo's
4/29 - New Haven, CT - Toad's Place
4/30 - East Rutherford, NJ - Bamboozle
5/1 - Towson, MD - The Recher Theatre

For More Information:
http://www.alkalinetrio.com/
www.myspace.com/alkalinetrio
http://www.epitaph.com/

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Valencia releasing B-sides and Rarities 7-inch

Pop-punkers Valencia will release a 7″ entitled B-Sides and Rarities featuring two never-before-heard songs, “Adrenaline” and “Fight or Flight.” It will be limited to 500 copies, with 50 available March 16th from I Surrender Records. http://www.isurrenderrecords.com/ The remaining available on the band’s upcoming tour.

The band released their latest album “Dancing With A Ghost” last year.

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Arch Enemy Reveal New Album Cover Art

Swedish extreme metal powerhouse, Arch Enemy, has set a late spring/early summer release for its ninth studio album, entitled Khaos Legions, via Century Media. The band tapped artist Brent Elliott White (Megadeth, Death Angel) to design the cover art.











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Found this group Heart Attack Alley online (they are from New Zealand). Love the cut:



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SPOTLIGHT: Vinyl records still cool for some

By JOSH STOCKINGER - The (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald

WESTMONT, Ill. -- Not long after Hank Shurba went into business selling records in 1983, the Elmhurst man started to hear buzz of a new media form destined to change music forever.

They were called CDs.

"I opened up and that very first week I heard about them,'" Shurba, 66, recalls. "I thought, 'Oh, my God. What do I do now?'"

Read more: www.bnd.com

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and in music history today:

In 1962, the Beatles (with Pete Best on drums), appeared on television for the first time when they play Roy Orbison's "Dream Baby" on the BBC program Teenager's Turn. It was reportedly the first time they wore suits onstage.

The Dave Clark 5 made their first appearance on the "Ed Sullivan Show" in 1964.



In 1968, Albert King, Janis Joplin and Tim Buckley appear at the reopened Village Theater in New York, now known as the Fillmore East, promoted by Bill Graham.

In 1969, Small Faces split up after four years when singer Steve Marriott announces he is leaving the band. Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan and Kenny Jones eventually link up with Ron Wood and Rod Stewart to form The Faces.

Paul McCartney pled guilty to charges of growing marijuana outside of his Scottish countryside farm in 1973. He claimed that a fan had given him the seeds and that he did not know what they would grow. He was fined $240.

Also in 1973, Ron "Pigpen" McKernan of The Grateful Dead, died of a stomach hemorrhage and liver failure, brought on by alcohol poisoning. He was just 27 years old.

In 1974, Bad Company, made up of former members from Free (Paul Rodgers, Simon Kirke), Mott The Hoople (Mick Ralphs) and King Crimson (Boz Burrell), kicked off their first UK tour at Newcastle City Hall.

In 1976, former Spooky Tooth singer Gary Wright is awarded a Gold record for "Dream Weaver".

In 1993 - "Beavis and Butthead" premiered on MTV as a series.

Birthdays today include Clive Burr of Iron Maiden (1957),  Randy Meisner of The Eagles (1946) and
Micky Dolenz from The Monkees (1945)