Monday, December 29, 2014

Vinyl Record News & Music Notes


from our friends at Spacelab9

AMC’s The Walking Dead: Original Soundtrack Vol.1 On Black Smoke Vinyl Available Via Spacelab9

Released on vinyl for the first time, SPACELAB9 is proud to present AMC’s THE WALKING DEAD: ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK VOL.1 LP. LP is packaged in a deluxe gate fold jacket with printed inner pocket sleeve featuring images from the hit TV show. First pressing also includes a full color 18” x 24″ poster.

Limited editions of both “Black Smoke” and “Blood Red” colored vinyl will be available in stores while supplies last. For die-hard fans, a limited run of only 200 “Zombie Flesh Green” vinyl copies will be available exclusively from SPACELAB9.COM

**LAST 40 COPIES – FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE**

Order at Spacelab9

=============

G STANDS FOR GO-BETWEENS - VOLUME ONE BOX SET

G Stands For Go-Betweens Volume One extensively documents the band’s origins in an ambitious box containing four vinyl albums, four compact discs and an extensive 112-page book, featuring a trove of archival photos and extensive historical liner notes from founding member Robert Forster, along with additional pieces from guest essayists, fans and contemporaries.The box set captures the band’s output from 1978 through 1984 and includes the first vinyl re-pressings of their first three studio albums in over thirty years (Send Me A Lullaby, Before Hollywood & Spring HillFair), all re-mastered from the original analog tapes. G Stands For Go-Betweens also brings together theirearly classic and collectible singles together on a fourth vinyl LP entitled The First Five Singles, featuring new artwork from its creators. Additionally, the set comes with four compact discs of rare, hard-to-find andunreleased demos, recordings, radio sessions and a complete live concert radio broadcast from 1982. If that’s not enough, the set comes with a silkscreen of their first promotional poster for their debut single, “Lee Remick”, as well as a reproduction of their very first press release from their own Able Label.

• (4) four vinyl LPs, including their first three studio albums and a compilation of their first five non-LP
 singles

 • (4) four compact discs of of rare, hard-to-find and unreleased demos, recordings, radio sessions and a
 complete live concert radio broadcast from 1982

 • (1) one 112-page book featuring a trove of archival photos and extensive historical liner notes from
 founding member Robert Forster, along with additional pieces from guest essayists, fans and contemporaries.

 • (1) one silkscreen reproduction of the promotional poster for their debut single, “Lee Remick”.

 • (1) one reproduction of the very first Go-Betweens press release from their own Able Label.

 • all encased in hard “clamshell” box with gold debossing.

 • box set comes with complimentary 24 bit WAV or 320 kbps downloads of the remastered LPs.

This is a deluxe limited package, we will only be pressing this very special collection once and the only way to guarantee your own copy is to order from Domino Mart

Pre-order item will be released on 01/20/15

Pre-Order at Domino

=============


Fat Possum Opens Its Own Vinyl Pressing Plant to Meet (Its Own) Demand







=============


10 Albums To Look For in 2015










=============


The Top 10 Reissues of 2014







=============


10 Best Music Videos of 2014






=============


The 101 Most Anticipated Albums Of 2015











=============

for shits and giggles:


There’s a McDonalds-themed Black Sabbath tribute group called Mac Sabbath







=============

album cover art of the day:


Mischief Brew release album artwork for “This Is Not For Children”