Wednesday, December 4, 2013

SpaceLab9 Breaking Bad Picture Disc Contest


SpaceLab9 Breaking Bad Picture Disc Contest

The wonderful folks at www.spacelab9.com have given me a copy of the Breaking Bad picture disc set to be given away to a lucky CVR blog reader.

The contest is simple, you can enter by emailing me at rbenson30@wi.rr.com with the words "SpaceLab9 Breaking Bad Picture Disc Contest" in the subject line. Limit one email entry per person. Entries limited to the USA residents only.  Contest ends on December 31, 2013.  Winner will be chosen at random among the qualifying email entries at noon on December 31, 2013.   Good luck, this is an awesome set for your collection!



more info about www.spacelab9.com

SPACELAB9 DEBUTS WITH LIMITED EDITION VINYL RELEASES FOR BREAKING BAD AND THE WALKING DEAD

Coming to planet earth during November 2013, record label imprint Spacelab9 makes its debut with vinyl releases for the official score to AMC and Sony Pictures Entertainment’s hit series and Emmy® winning drama BREAKING BAD followed by the official soundtrack to multi-award winning fan-favorite drama series THE WALKING DEAD. A limited picture disc LP edition for each will be available exclusively from lifestyle retail giant HOT TOPIC, hitting store shelves on November 26th and December 3rd respectively, available while supplies last.

This marks the first time that “BREAKING BAD (Original Score From The Television Series)” will be offered on vinyl format. The 2-disc set features nearly one hour of original music composed by Dave Porter, including the now-iconic “Breaking Bad Main Title Theme.” “AMC’s THE WALKING DEAD (official soundtrack Vol.1)” also makes its vinyl debut, featuring tracks from composer Bear McCreary and artists Jamie N. Commons, Voxhaul Broadcast, Baby Bee, Fink, Lauren Cohan (Maggie Greene) & Emily Kinney (Beth Greene) as well as multiplatinum Icelandic artists Of Monsters and Men.

Conceived of by music industry veteran Dave Amcher and staffed by fellow record collectors, film buffs and all-around fanboy fanatics, SPACELAB9 takes a 360 view of music and pop culture fandom with a wide variety of merchandise in the works. Amcher speaks enthusiastically about the prospects for the new imprint.

“Most of us involved with SL9 have worked together running traditional record labels since the mid-1990s. Many a Monday morning has been spent taking turns showing off the spoils from the previous weekend’s plundering of record shows, comic-cons, horror conventions, indie-movie screenings and game pre-sales followed by the inevitable discussion about how we would love to spend more time creating cool merchandise outside of the boundaries of the traditional music industry, given the opportunity. The recent sale of one of our popular label imprints presented just such an opportunity so that’s exactly what we intend to do. Records, art prints, t-shirts and apparel, even action figures and model kits. If it’s fun and it’s something that we would love to own as fans, we’ll consider it. We’re leaving no possibilities off the table.”

Look for more news about upcoming releases and pop culture merchandise from www.spacelab9.com

Vinyl Record News & Music Notes


from our friends at musicrecordshop

Jimi Hendrix - Fire/Foxey Lady - Vinyl 7" 

Black Friday 2013 7" release. Previously unavailable live performances of the upcoming '68 Miami Pop Festival album.
  • Label Music On Vinyl
  • Vinyl Record - 7" - new
  • Limited Edition
  • Numbered
Side A
1. FIRE

Side B
1. FOXEY LADY 

Order at MusicRecordShop


Top Selling Vinyl Records At MusicRecordShop
     
1. THE BEATLES - ONE (VINYL 2-LP)
2. Muddy Waters & The Rolling Stones - Live at the Checkerboard Lounge Chicago 1981 (2-LP + DVD)
3. Electric Light Orchestra - OUT OF THE BLUE (2-LP) IMPORT 2012 (BLUE VINYL)
4. Bruce Springsteen - Live At The Main Point 1975 4-LP Import 2012 (Clear Vinyl)
5. Grateful Dead - Wake of the Flood
6. Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same - Vinyl 4-LP Box Set
7. Cream - Live At The Royal Albert Hall 2005 Vinyl 3-LP
8. BILLY JOEL - PIANO MAN (VINYL)
9. Jimi Hendrix - Live At Woodstock - Vinyl 3-LP
10. Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork

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how do you organize your record collection? kate emailed me with her wooden dividers, which look professionally made and would certainly add class to any record collection:

Horizontal A-Z Record Divider Set 

Organize your music collection and find your favorite music quickly and easily with alphabetical record dividers. These sleek laser cut wood panels with engraved A-Z alphabet will keep your audiophile house in order.

Product details: 

  • Set includes 26 dividers with tabs 
  • Laser cut and engraved maple 
  • Each wood divider has a 2 x 2 inch tab engraved with elegant serif typeface, Mrs Eaves
  • Each tab is engraved on the front and back

This set is designed for 12 inch vinyl records stored horizontally like books on a bookshelf.

Get more information HERE

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This gorgeous, 3-LP deluxe edition of the 2012 YokoKimThurston album offers a complete account of the historic collaboration, as recorded at Sear Sound in New York City on February 26, 2011.

The Deluxe Edition is limited to only 600 copies:
  •  Entire 96 minute recording session on three vinyl LPs
  •  Numbered and signed by Kim Gordon, Yoko Ono and Thurston Moore
  •  Includes download card for digital MP3s, a sticker & a poster
  •  Encased in a hand-painted box - Designed by Kim Gordon
 Note: Each box is a one of a kind hand-painted artwork and will contain unique imperfections and drips.

 *** 100 of the 600 boxes are printed with a special "double front" box design with painting on both
 the back and front. These special 100 will be shipped to the first 100 purchases!

Order HERE

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GRIMEY'S BEST SELLERS 11/25 - 12/01, 2013

Vinyl Top 25:
1. Dawes - Stripped Down At Grimey's
2. Grateful Dead - Family Dog At The Great Highway San Francisco 4/18/70
3. Band Of Horses - Acoustic At The Ryman 7"
4. The Flaming Lips - Peace Sword
5. The Flaming Lips - Stone Roses
6. The Flaming Lips / Tame Impala - Peace & Paranoia Tour split LP
7. The Civil Wars - Between The Bars
8. The Rolling Stones - Got Live If You Want It 7"
9. Moon Taxi - Cabaret
10. Jack Johnson - Live At Third Man
11. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Live From KCRW
12. Jason Isbell & John Paul White / Blind Boys of Alabama - Christmas In Dixie 7"
13. Various - Twistable Turnable Man: A Tribute To Shel Silverstein
14. Josh Tillman - History Of Caves OST
15. Various - Zabriskie Point OST
16. Hard Working Americans - Don't Wanna Hurt Nobody 7"
17. Harry Nilsson - A Selection Of Rarities From The RCA Albums Collection
18. Townes Van Zandt - Sunshine Boy: Unheard Studio Sessions & Demos
19. Red Hot Chili Peppers - I'm Beside You
20. U2 - Ordinary Love 10"
21. Bob Dylan - Side Tracks
22. Nirvana - In Utero (2013 Mix)
23. The Doors - Curated By Record Stores
24. The Replacements - All Shook Down
25. Soundtrack - How The Grinch Stole Christmas

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it's that time of year!

Paste - The 50 Best Albums of 2013










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Stereogum's 50 Best Albums Of 2013











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Rolling Stone's Top 50 LPs of 2013

 1. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
 2. Kanye West - Yeezus
 3. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
 4. Paul McCartney - New
 5. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
 6. Queens of the Stone Age - ...Like Clockwork
 7. Lorde - Pure Heroine
 8. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
 9. Arctic Monkeys - AM
 10. John Fogerty - Wrote a Song for Everyone
 11. Parquet Courts - Tally All the Things That You Broke
 12. Jake Bugg - S/T
 13. Disclosure - Settle
 14. Drake - Nothing Was The Same
 15. Atoms for Peace - AMOK
 16. David Bowie - The Next Day
 17. Danny Brown - Old
 18. Ashley Monroe - Like a Rose
 19. Nine Inch Nails - Hesitation Marks
 20. Laura Marling - Once I Was an Eagle
 21. Sky Ferreira - Night Time My Time
 22. Phoenix - Entertainment
 23. My Bloody Valentine - MBV
 24. Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 2
 25. Elton John - The Diving Board
 26. Chance the Rapper - Acid Rap
 27. Miley Cyrus - Bangerz
 28. Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park
 29. Bombino - Nomad
 30. Tegan & Sara - Heartthrob
 31. Haim - Days Are Gone
 32. CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe
 33. Pusha T - My Name is My Name
 34. Neko Case - The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You
 35. Best Coast - Fade Away EP
 36. Waxahatchee - Cerulean Salt
 37. The So-So Glos - Blowout
 38. Kurt Vile - Walkin on a Pretty Daze
 39. Keith Urban - Fuse
 40. Pearl Jam - Lightning Bolt
 41. J Cole - Born Sinner
 42. Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
 43. Savages - Silence Yourself
 44. Valerie June - Pushin' Against a Stone
 45. Avicii - True
 46. Franz Ferdinand - Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action
 47. MIA - Matangi
 48. Fuck Buttons - Slow Focus
 49. The Flaming Lips - The Terror
 50. Beck - Song Reader

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AC/DC Pinball machine released











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album cover art of the day:

ACHERON: 'Kult Des Hasses' Artwork, Track Listing Unveiled