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9th Wonder & Buckshot - The Solution
50 Cent - Street King Immortal
AC/DC - AC/DC Live At River Plate
Aaron Lewis - The Road
Action Bronson and The Alchemist - Rare Chandeliers
Affiance - The Campaign
Altered Five - Gotta Earn It
Amy Winehouse - At the BBC
Animal Collective - Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished (2 LPs) (reissue)
Antidote - No Peace In Our Time
Babies - Our House on the Hill
Bambi Lee Savage - Darkness Overshadowed
Bear Colony - Soft Eyes
Beatle - A Hard Day's Night (remastered) (vinyl)
Beatles - Abbey Road (remastered) (vinyl)
Beatles - Beatles for Sale (remastered) (vinyl)
Beatles - Help! (remastered) (vinyl)
Beatles - Let It Be (remastered) (vinyl)
Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour (remastered) (vinyl)
Beatles - Past Masters (remastered) (vinyl)
Beatles - Please Please Me (remastered) (vinyl)
Beatles - Revolver (remastered) (vinyl)
Beatles - Rubber Soul (remastered) (vinyl)
Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (remastered) (vinyl)
Beatles - The White Album (remastered) (vinyl)
Beatles - With the Beatles (remastered) (vinyl)
Beatles - Yellow Submarine (remastered) (vinyl)
Beatles - The Beatles Stereo Vinyl Box Set (14-LP box set)
Big Boi - Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors
Black Forest Fire - Transit of Venus
Brian Eno - LUX
Bush Tetras - Happy
Celine Dion - Water And A Flame
Christina Aguilera - Lotus
Clinic - Free Reign
Crystal Castles - (III)
Darkstar - Timeaway (12")
DeVotchKa - DeVotchKa Live With the Colorado Symphony
Deftones - Koi No Yokan
Dinosaur Jr. - Chocomel Daze (Live 1987)
Django Django - Life's a Beach
Doors - Live at the Bowl '68 (vinyl)
El Perro del Mar - Pale Fire
Eternal Tapestry - World Out of Time
Fake Blood - Cells
Fanga & Maâlem Abdallah Guinéa - Fangnawa Experience
Forgetters - Forgetters
Freeway - Diamond in the Ruff
Genesis - 1976-1982 (5-LP box set) (reissue) (vinyl)
Gifts From Enola - A Healthy Fear
Golden Void - Golden Void
Green Day - ¡Dos!
Guided by Voices - The Bears for Lunch
Hercules and Love Affair - DJ-Kicks
Holly Herndon - Movement
How To Destroy Angels - An Omen (EP)
Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind Gatefold (picture disc)
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast Gatefold (picture disc)
Issues - Black Diamonds
Ital - Dream On
JAN - JAN
Jim Jarmusch and Jozef Van Wissem - The Mystery of Heaven
Kim Talon - Kim Talon
Lana Del Rey - Born To Die - Paradise Edition
Led Zeppelin - Celebration Day: Deluxe Edition (CD Digipak + Bonus Material) (2 CD + 2 DVD)
Lust For Youth - Growing Seeds
Machine Head - Machine Fucking Head Live
Major League - Hard Feelings
Midnight Magic - Walking The Midnight Streets
Missy Mazzoli - Song from the Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt
Mmoss - Only Children
Motionless In White - Infamous
Mudhoney - Live in Berlin, 1988 (DVD)
Murs & 9th Wonder - The Final Adventure
Neneh Cherry & the Thing - The Cherry Thing Remixes (EP)
Nite Jewel - Good Evening (reissue)
Oh No! Yoko - Sorrow (EP)
Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta - This Christmas
One Direction - Take Me Home
One Republic - Native
Oneida - A List of the Burning Mountains
Patsy Cline - On The Air: Her Best TV Performances
Patti Smith - Live at Montreux 2005 (DVD)
Paul McCartney - Live Kisses (DVD)
Placebo - B3 EP
Pop Levi - Medicine
Robbie Williams - Take the Crown
Roc Marciano - Reloaded
Rolling Stones - GRR!
School of Seven Bells - Put Your Sad Down (EP)
Serena Ryder - Harmony
Sharon Van Etten - Tramp (deluxe edition)
Slam Dunk - Welcome to Miami
Sleep Maps - Medals (EP)
So Cow and Squarehead - Out of Season
Social Studies - Developer
Sonic Youth - Smart Bar - Chicago 1985
Soundgarden - King Animal
Stephen Lynch - Lion
Steve Hauschildt - Sequitur
Stumbleine - Spiderwebbed
Sufjan Stevens - Silver & Gold: Songs for Christmas, Vols. 6-10
Susan Boyle - Standing Ovation: The Greatest Songs From The Stage
Tom Jones - Spirit in the Room
Trash Talk - 119
Travis Barker and Yelawolf - Psycho White (EP)
Triad God - NXB
Tyvek - On Triple Beams
Various Artists - The Comedy
Various Artists - The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2
Various Artists - Surf Age Nuggets (4-CD box set)
Various Artists - Call of Duty: Black Ops II
Vinyl Williams - Lemniscate
Weeknd - Trilogy
Whitney Houston - I Will Always Love You: The Best of Whitney Houston
Woollen Kits - Four Girls
Wu-Tang Clan and D-Block - Wu-Block
The Beatles' Original Studio Album Remasters Make Their Stereo Vinyl Debut Tomorrow
Each album will be available individually, and accompanied by a stunning, elegantly designed 252-page hardbound book in a lavish boxed limited edition.
For even more info head over the the Beatles' website HERE
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Legacy Recordings Announces Select Limited Edition Vinyl Exclusives For Record Store Day 2012's Back To Black Friday (Friday, November 23, 2012)
Legacy's RSD 2012 Black Friday Releases Include Highly Collectible Titles From Johnny Cash, Miles Davis, Big Brother & the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin, Judas Priest, Incubus, Jeff Buckley and Leonard Cohen and the Newly-Curated Death Might Be Your Santa Claus (a Deep Christmas Blues Collection from the 1920s-1950s)
NEW YORK, Nov. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, announces a special holiday line-up of 7" and 12" vinyl releases, some
created especially for Record Store Day 2012's Back To Black Friday, celebrated at the nation's independent record stores on Friday, November 23, 2012.
For Back To Black Friday 2012, Legacy is offering releases appealing to connoisseurs of classic sounds from Johnny Cash, Miles Davis, Big Brother & the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin, Judas Priest, Incubus, Jeff Buckley, Leonard Cohen and more.
Legacy Recordings Black Friday 2012 releases include:
Johnny Cash
The Fabulous Johnny Cash - originally released November 1958 - 12" 180-gram audiophile mono vinyl LP - Numbered Edition - Record Store Day Exclusive through December 31, 2012
An individually numbered reproduction of Johnny Cash's first Columbia Records album meticulously recreated from the original album art. The artist's first album after leaving Sun Records, The Fabulous Johnny Cash introduced such signature classics as "Don't Take Your Guns to Town," "Frankie's Man, Johnny," "Pickin' Time" and "The Troubador." Available first at independent record stores.
Miles Davis
Miles Ahead - originally released November 1957 - 12" 180-gram audiophile mono vinyl LP - Numbered Edition - Record Store Day Exclusive through December 31, 2012
Porgy & Bess - originally released 1958 - 12" 180-gram audiophile mono vinyl LP - Numbered Edition - Record Store Day Exclusive through December 31, 2012
Sketches of Spain - originally released July 1960 - 12" 180-gram audiophile vinyl LP - Numbered Edition - Record Store Day Exclusive through December 31, 2012
Each of these limited numbered edition LPs is presented in pristine mono, featuring the original album track-listings. The collective genius of trumpeter/composer/bandleader Miles Davis and
composer/arranger Gil Evans represented in an epic trilogy of musical masterpieces. Available first at independent record stores.
Big Brother & the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin
Cheap Thrills - originally released August 1968 - 12" 180-gram audiophile mono vinyl LP Number One for eight consecutive weeks in 1968, Cheap Thrills was Big Brother & the Holding Company's second album and the band's last to feature Janis Joplin. The record made Joplin a star and remains a central touchstone for 60's psychedelia and blues rock. This 180-gram audiophile reproduction of the original LP has been sourced from the original mono master and comes housed in a gatefold jacket meticulously recreated from the original album art. Available first at independent record stores.
Leonard Cohen/Jeff Buckley
Hallelujah - 7" vinyl single - Numbered Limited Edition Record Store Day Exclusive A limited numbered edition of a split 7" double-A side single of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah," originally recorded for 1984's Various Positions, coupled with Jeff Buckley's transcendent interpretation of the song, as originally recorded for Buckley's 1994 debut album, Grace. The release of the Hallelujah single coincides with the publication of the Alan Light book, "The Holy or the Broken (Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley & the Unlikely Ascent of 'Hallelujah')," on December 4. Available exclusively at independent record stores.
Judas Priest
Screaming for Vengeance - 30th Anniversary Edition Picture Disc - originally released July 1982 - 12" picture vinyl LP - Numbered Edition - Record Store Day Exclusive through December 31, 2012
The top-selling album in the Judas Priest canon, Screaming for Vengeance is often cited as one of the most profoundly influential albums in heavy metal history. This timeless metal manifesto includes "Electric Eye," "(Take These) Chains" and "You've Got Another Thing Comin'," the classic rock radio perennial still gathering airplay thirty years later. Available first at independent record stores.
Incubus
S.C.I.E.N.C.E. - originally released September 1997 - two 180-gram audiophile vinyl LPs (first time on vinyl) - Numbered Edition - Record Store Day Exclusive through December 31, 2012
Make Yourself - originally released October 1999 - two 180-gram audiophile vinyl LPs - Numbered Edition - Record Store Day Exclusive through December 31, 2012
Morning View - originally released October 2001 - two 180-gram audiophile vinyl LPs - Numbered Edition - Record Store Day Exclusive through December 31, 2012
A Crow Left of the Murder... - originally released February 2004 - two 180-gram audiophile vinyl LPs - Numbered Edition - Record Store Day Exclusive through December 31, 2012
Light Grenades - originally released November 2006 - two 180-gram audiophile vinyl LPs - Numbered Edition - Record Store Day Exclusive through December 31, 2012
Five classic titles from the core catalog of Incubus, the American rock band from Calabasas, California who fused funk, rap, metal, techno, jazz and hip-hop into an upbeat new music for the emerging 21st century. Available first at independent record stores.
Various Artists
Death Might Be Your Santa Claus - new release - on CD or 12" vinyl LP - Numbered Limited Edition - Record Store Day Exclusive
Newly created for Record Store Day's Black Friday 2012, Death Might Be Your Santa Claus brings together, for the first time, deep holiday blues tracks from the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s and 1950s. An
assortment of "sermons, music, blues, jazz, gospel and devotionals" from artists including Harmon Ray (Peetie Wheatstraw), Lil McIntock, Tampa Red and Sonny Boy Williamson 1, Bessie Smith, Bo Carter, Butterbeans and Susie, Lightnin' Hopkins, Kansas City Kitty, Casey Bill Weldon, and the Reverend J.M. Gates, Death Might Be Your Santa Claus is an essential addition to any blues or seasonal music collection.
The CD edition of Death Might Be Your Santa Claus includes two bonus tracks: "Santa" by Lightnin' Hopkins" and "Hell Will Be Your Santa Claus" by the Reverend J.M. Gates.
Both CD and vinyl editions of Death Might Be Your Santa Claus will be available exclusively at independent record stores.
Now in its fifth year, Record Store Day is an annual day-long celebration of record store culture taking place on the third Saturday in April. In January, RSD appointed Iggy Pop to the post of Record Store Day 2012 Ambassador.
SOURCE Legacy Recordings
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Paul Weller Releasing EP
Paul Weller is set to release a new EP in December which brings together a selection of bonus tracks and b-sides taken from various releases from 2012. The EP is led by the single "Dragonfly," which was culled from Weller’s 2012 UK number one album ‘Sonik Kicks.' The effort will be available digitally on December 17th and a vinyl release, limited to 3000 copies, has also been announced.
The EP’s artwork was designed by the legendary artist Sir Peter Blake.
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album cover art of the day:
TRAIL OF TEARS: New Album Title, Cover Artwork Unveiled
Norway's TRAIL OF TEARS has revealed the cover artwork of the band's seventh full-length album, "Oscillation", courtesy of Finnish artist Jan Yrlund.
Reactivated German metallers MAJESTY will release their comeback studio album, "Thunder Rider", on January 4 In Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and on January 25 in the rest of Europe via Austria's NoiseArt Records. In addition to a standard CD release, "Thunder Rider" will be made available as a special edition, including a bonus track and a DVD with the "Metal Union" documentary, along with a vinyl edition.
Neo-classical guitar virtuoso Yngwie Malmsteen has recently revealed the album cover art for his new effort called 'Spellbound.' Along with supreme guitar shredding, Malmsteen plays the other instruments on the new album. The worldwide release date of 'Spellbound' is slated for December 5th.
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metal music has the best cover art!
The Pandemonium Releasing EP
The Pandemonium will be releasing the 'Tyrannis' EP on November 19th, 2012. The effort was mixed and mastered by John Browne of Monuments and artworkis from Igor Omodei from Uneven Structure.
Dropkick Murphys Release Fan-Asissted Video For "Rose Tattoo"
"Rose Tattoo" is one of the songs off the band's forthcoming album, SIGNED and SEALED in BLOOD, to be released January 8th via Born and Bred Records. Presale for the album will begin on November
23rd.
