Spacelab9 Walking Dead Soundtrack Vinyl Contest

Our friends at SPACELAB9.COM have given me a copy of the Walking Dead "Black Smoke" Soundtrack to give away to a lucky blog reader.  The contest is simple and will work as many of the CVR contests have.  Just email me at rbenson30@wi.rr.com with the words "Spacelab9 Walking Dead Soundtrack Vinyl Contest" in the subject line and you are automatically entered.  Limit one email entry per person. Entries limited to the USA residents only.  Contest ends on May 23, 2014.  The winner will be chosen at random among the qualifying email entries at noon on May 23, 2014.  Good luck, this is an awesome collectible!

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 gatefold 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

Side A:
 1. Jamie N. Commons – Lead Me Home (1:57)
 2. Bear McCreary – Main Title Theme Song (UNKLE Remix) (5:17)
 3. Voxhaul Broadcast – You Are the Wilderness (4:57)
 4. Baby Bee – Love Bug (2:56)

Side B:
 5. Fink – Warm Shadow (Dactyl Remix) (5:32)
 6. Of MOnsters and Men – Sinking Man (2:56)
 7. Beth & Maggie Greene – The Parting Glass (2:57)
 8. Delta Spirit – Running (3:13)

The Walking Dead is an American television drama series developed by Frank Darabont and is based on the comic book series of the same name. The series stars Andrew Lincoln as sheriff’s deputy Rick Grimes who awakens from a coma to fi nd the world dominated by flesh-eating “walkers” resembling the zombies of George A. Romero’s horror movies. The story unfolds as he sets out to find his family and encounters many other survivors along the way.

The Walking Dead premiered in October of 2010 in the United States and based on the immediate strong response from viewers, AMC quickly renewed the series for a second season of 13 episodes. Two episodes into the second season, AMC announced that the show would return for a third and fourth season.

The series has been very well received by both fans and critics, having been nominated for countless awards including a Writers Guild of America Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series Drama. The series has also attained strong Nielsen ratings, beating various records for a cable series, including receiving 10.9 million viewers for it’s season three premiere to become the most watched basic cable telecast in history.

Special thanks to SPACELAB9.COM for providing the CVR blog with this super vinyl collectible!!

New Music Releases - May 2014

May 6

Albino Rhino - Albino Rhino
Amarante - Cavalo
Andrew Hewitt - The Double OST
Andrew Jackson Jihad - Christmas Island (vinyl)
Andy Sadoway - Str8 Sh00ter EP (tape)
Antwon - Heavy Hearted in Doldrums
Anushka - Distorted Air EP (12")
Arkona - Yav
Atmosphere - Southsiders (vinyl)
Aurvandil - Thrones
BadBadNotGood - III (vinyl)
Battleroar - Blood of Legends
Being As An Ocean - How We Both Wondrously Perish
Bell Biv Devoe - Poison
Ben Harper and Ellen Harper - Childhood Home (vinyl)
Billy Childish - Archive From 1959 (3xLP)
Black Stone Cherry - Magic Mountain
Blood Red Shoes - Blood Red Shoes (vinyl)
Brian Eno and Charles Hyde - Someday World
Careful - The World Doesn't End
Cloud Control - Dream Cave (vinyl)
Cobalt - War Metal (reissue)
Connie Francis - Complete U.S. & U.K. Singles
Cradle of Filth - Total F–king Darkness (reissue)
Crash - Hardly Criminal (vinyl)
Current Swell - Ulysses (vinyl)
Curtis Harding - Soul Power
Cymbals - Sideways, Sometimes (vinyl)
Dat Oven - Icy Lake (12")
Dave Harrington - Before This There Was One Heart But a Thousand Thoughts (EP)
Dionne Warwick - Feels So Good
Direct Hit! - Brainless God (vinyl)
Dwellers - Pagan Fruit (vinyl)
E-Musikgruppe Lux Ohr - Spiralo
Electrocution - Metaphysincarnation
Elephant - Sky Swimming (vinyl)
Eno and Hyde - Someday World (2xLP)
Fatima Al Qadiri - Asiatisch (vinyl)
Fujiya and Miyagi - Artificial Sweeteners
Hamilton Leithauser - Black Hours
Happy Diving - Happy Diving (tape)
Howlin Rain - Live Rain (2xLP)
Ifing - Against the Weald
Infecting The Swarm - Patheogenesis
J Dilla - Give Them What They Want (12")
Jacques Greene - Phantom Vibrate EP (12")
Jamie xx - Girl/Sleep Sound (12")
Jeffertitti's Nile - The Electric Hour (vinyl)
Jellyfish - Bellybutton
Jellyfish - Spilt Milk
Jenny Scheinman - The Littlest Prisoner
Joanne Wilson - Got to Have You (12")
Joe Mansfield - Drumulator (7")
Karl Hector and The Malcouns - Coomasi (12")
Kina Grannis - Elements (vinyl)
Kirsty MacColl - All I Ever Wanted - The Anthology
Kiss - Asylum (reissue) (vinyl)
Kiss - Creatures of the Night (reissue) (vinyl)
Kiss - Love Gun (reissue) (vinyl)
Kiss - MTV Unplugged (reissue) (2xLP)
Kiss - Psycho Circus (reissue) (vinyl)
LAFAWNDAH - LAFAWNDAH EP
Le1f - Hey EP (12")
Leisure Cruise - Leisure Cruise
Liam Finn - The Nihilist
Lily Allen - Sheezus
Limb - Limb (vinyl)
Luka Bloom - Head & Heart
Lykke Li - I Never Learn (vinyl)
Madam Robot and the Lust Brigade - Gardens (vinyl)
Madlib and Freddie Gibbs - Pinata (tape)
Makthaverskan - II (vinyl)
Marc Maron - Thinky Pain (vinyl)
Matrimony - Montibello Memories
Maximo Park - Too Much Information (vinyl)
Michael Stanley - The Job
Michael Sweet - I’m Not Your Suicide
Mick Harvey - Intoxicated Man / Pink Elephants (remastered) (2xLP+CD)
Monster Rally - Coral (vinyl)
Moodie Black - Nausea
Morning Parade - Pure Altered Joy
Mr. Little Jeans - Pocketknife (vinyl)
Muddy Waters - Complete Aristocrat & Chess Singles A's & B's 1947
Music Band - Can I Live (tape)
Natalie Merchant - Natalie Merchant
Never Young - Master Copy (tape)
Nikki Lane - All Of Nothin' (vinyl)
Nine Black Alps - Candy for the Clowns (vinyl)
Nirvana - In Utero 2013 (reissue) (vinyl)
Noneuclid - Metatheosis
Nothington - Lost Along the Way (vinyl)
Ornette Coleman - This Is Our Music (vinyl)
Papercuts - Life Among the Savages (vinyl)
Paws - Youth Culture Forever
People Under the Stairs - 12 Step Program (2xLP)
Pet The Preacher - The Cave & the Sunlight
Ray and Remora - 1994
Ray LaMontagne - Supernova (vinyl)
Richter | Deridder | Konzerthaus Kammerorchesterberlin - Recomposed by Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons
Robin Trower - For Earth Below (vinyl)
Rodrigo Amarante - Cavalo (vinyl)
Rolling Stones - 12 x 5 (reissue) (vinyl)
Rolling Stones - Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out (reissue) (vinyl)
Rolling Stones - Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2)(vinyl)
Sade - Stronger Than Pride (vinyl)
Santana - Amigos (vinyl)
Santata - Corazon
Sarah McLachlan - Shine On
Savages - Fuckers (12")
SBTRKT - Transitions (12")
Seahawks - Paradise Freaks (vinyl)
Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
Skinner - Sleepwalkers
Sleepyhead - Wild Sometimes (vinyl)
Small Wonder - Wendy (tape)
Tech N9ne Collabos - Strangeulation (2xLP)
Thad Cockrell - To Be Loved (vinyl)
The Horrors - Luminous (deluxe edition) (2xLP)
The Icypoles - My World Was Made For You (vinyl)
The Lowest Pair - 36 (vinyl)
The Residents - Residue of The Residents (2xLP)
The Residents - Santa Dog (2x7")
The White Buffalo - Hogtied Revisited
Thee Headcoatees - Ballad of the Insolent Pup (reissue) (vinyl)
Thee Headcoatees - Bozstik Haze (reissue) (vinyl)
Thee Headcoatees - Here Comes Cessation (reissue) (vinyl)
Thee Headcoatees - How Love Will Travel (vinyl)
Thin Lizzy - Chinatown (reissue) (vinyl)
Thomas Dybdahl - What's Left Is Forever
Toddla T Sound - On Acid EP
Tune-Yards - Nikki-Nack (colored vinyl)
Tyler Bates - The Sacrament OST
Vanderslice - Everything's Awesome
Various Artists - All My Friends: Celebrating The Songs & Voice Of Gregg Allman (2CD+1DVD)
Various Artists - Here Lies Love: Original Cast Recording
Various Artists - 69 Annee Melodique (vinyl)
Various Artists - Bleep: 10 (vinyl)
Various Artists - Divergent OST (vinyl)
Various Artists - DJ Andy Smith's Jam Up Twist U.S.A.
Various Artists - Pitch Perfect OST (vinyl)
Velnias - Sovereign Nocturnal
Vestal Claret - The Cult of Vestal Claret
Vinnie Paz - Season of the Assassin (2xLP)
Voice Of Ruin - Morning Wood
Wildchild - T.G.I.F.
Woman Is the Earth - This Place That Contains My Spirit
Wooden Wand - Farmer's Corner (vinyl)
Xandria - Sacrificum
Yalls - United (vinyl)
Young Magic - Breathing Statues (colored vinyl)

May 13

1982 - A/B (vinyl)
Abre Ojos - Gates
Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Astrorgasm from the Inner Space (2xLP)
Agalloch - The Serpent and the Sphere
Alvarius B. - What One Man Can Do with an Acoustic Guitar, Surely Another Can Do with His Hands Around the Neck of God (vinyl)
Amen Dunes - Love (vinyl)
Ana Tijoux - Vengo (vinyl)
Aoousch! - Ain't Got a Clue (7")
Avatar - Hail The Apocalypse
Bane - Don’t Wait Up
Biblical - Monsoon Season
Billions & Billions - Old Fashion Lefty (tape)
Blu & Nottz - Gods In The Spirit
Bly de Blyant - Hindsight Bias (vinyl)
Boris The Blade - The Human Hive
Boysetsfire | Funeral For A Friend - Split (7")
Broken Twin - May (vinyl)
C Joynes and the Restless Dead - 8 Selections and Premonitions from the Tower, Vol. V (7")
Cambodian Space Project - Whisky Cambodia
Camea - Neverwhere Remixes (12")
Candi Staton - Life Happens
Capital Cities - In a Tidal Wave of Mystery (deluxe edition)
Cheap Girls - Famous Graves (vinyl)
Cherry Ghost - Herd Runners (vinyl)
Chris Stroffolino - I'm Not Going Astray (7")
Chromeo - White Women (2xLP)
Clay Rendering - Waters Above the Firmament (12")
Cluster - Apropos Cluster (vinyl)
Coh - To Beat
Cokegoat - Vessel (vinyl)
Cold Cave - Full Cold Moon
Cousins - The Halls of Wickwire (vinyl)
Crobot - Crobot (vinyl)
Cursed Sails - Rotten Society
Dark Matter - Dark Matter (vinyl)
Dave Mason - Future's Past (vinyl)
Dave Van Ronk - Dave Van Ronk: Live in Monterey 1998
Dawn Golden - Still Life (vinyl)
Decembre Noir - A Discouraged Believer
Dio - Live In London Hammersmith Apollo 1993
DJ Tennis - Local (2x12")
Dolly Parton - Blue Smoke (Preview)
Donato Dozzy - Dimensions EP (12")
Dornenreich - Freiheit
Douglas Dare - Whelm (vinyl)
Douglas Greed - Driven (vinyl)
Down - Down IV – Part Two
Dylan Shearer - garagearray (vinyl)
Eastlink - Eastlink (vinyl)
EDH - Lava Club (vinyl)
Eggs, Eggs - Taste of Sundress (vinyl)
Ela Orleans/Skitter - De Flechettes (vinyl)
Epica - The Quantum Enigma
Explosions in the Sky and Steve Jablonsky - Lone Survivor OST
Fake the Facts - Soundtrack (vinyl)
Fis - Iterations (vinyl)
Flesh Wounds - Bitter Boy (7")
Frantix - My Dad’s a Fuckin’ Alcoholic (vinyl)
Freddie Hubbard - First Light (vinyl)
Furtherial - Destroying Atropolis
Glamour of the Kill - Savages
Graves at Sea | Sourvein - Split (vinyl)
Guided by Voices - Cool Planet (vinyl)
Gun Barrel - Damage Dancer
Hakon Stene - Lush Laments for Lazy Mammal
Hallelujah the Hills - Have You Ever Done Something Evil?
Harsh Toke - Light Up and Live (tape)
High Spirits - You Are Here
Hiss Tracts - Shortwave Nights (vinyl)
Holy Shire - Midgard
Hour of Penance - Regicide (vinyl)
Hunterchild - Hunterchild
Hydras Dream - The Little Match Girl
Ice Cube - Everythang's Corrupt
Infestus - The Reflecting Void
Jeff Burch - Jeff Burch
Jeremy Fisher - The Lemon Squeeze (vinyl)
John Mayall - A Special Life
Jonathan Richman - No Me Quejo de Mi Estrella (vinyl)
Joseph Arthur - Lou
Josh Groban - Awake (2xLP)
K. Leimer - A Period of Review (1975-1983) (vinyl)
Kadavar - Abra Kadavar
Ken Vandermark | Paal Nilssen-Love - Lightning Over Water (2xLP+7")
Kenny Rogers & the First Edition - First Edition
Killer Be Killed - Killer Be Killed
Kishi Bashi - Lighght (colored vinyl + 7")
Kreidler - ABC (vinyl)
La Sera - Hour of the Dawn (vinyl)
Lantlos - Melting Sun
Levi Weaver - Your Ghost Keeps Finding Me (vinyl)
Light Screamer - Gauss (vinyl)
Little Dragon - Nabuma Rubberband (vinyl)
Logos - Firesides and Guitars (vinyl)
Major Lazer - Apocalypse Soon (12")
Marc Ribot Trio - Live at the Village Vanguard (vinyl)
Maya Jane Coles - Fabric 75
Metal Inquisitor - Ultima Ratio Regis ’
Miasmal - Cursed Redeemer
Michael Jackson - XSCAPE
Midnight Faces - The Fire Is Gone
Mike Adams at His Honest Weight - Best of the Boiler Room Classics (vinyl)
Mimicking Birds - Eons (vinyl)
Mirah - Changing Light
Mushroomhead - The Righteous & The Butterfly
Nautic - Navy Blue (12")
Ned Doheny - Separate Oceans (vinyl)
Nightfell - The Living Ever Mourn
Nightsatan - Nightsatan and the Loops of Doom
Of Spire & Throne - Toll of the Wound EP
Omotai - Fresh Hell (vinyl)
Only Crime - Pursuance (vinyl)
Opeth - Morningrise (colored vinyl) (reissue)
Opeth - My Arms Your Hears (reissue) (2xLP)
Opeth - Orchid (reissue) (2xLP)
Origamibiro - Odham's Standard (vinyl)
Outer Space - Phantom Center (12")
Owen Pallett - In Conflict
Pharrell - G I R L (vinyl)
Pink Floyd - Delicate Sound of Thunder (1988 Master) (2xCD)
Pink Martini & The von Trapps - Dream a Little Dream (vinyl)
Planning For Burial - Desideratum (vinyl)
Pod Blotz - Glass Tears (vinyl)
Pours - Pours (vinyl)
Principles of Geometry - Meanstream (vinyl)
Principles of Geometry - Streamasters EP (12")
Prins Thomas - Prins Thomas 3 (2xLP+CD)
Process Pain - Outcast of Society
Prong - Ruining Lives
Prostitutes - Petit Cochon (vinyl)
Prurient - Cocaine Death (vinyl)
Redman - Whut? Thee Album (vinyl)
Restorations - LP2
Retribution - Corpus Antichristi Y3K
Royal Blood - Out of the Black EP (vinyl)
Sculpture - Membrane Pop (vinyl)
Sean Nicholas Savage - Bermuda Waterfall (vinyl)
Skeppet - Phase 3 (vinyl)
Slates - Taiga
Somnambulist Red - Birth Throes, Shadows and Serpentine Curves
Stelvio Cipriani - Anonimo Veneziano OST (vinyl)
Stephan Meidell - Cascades (vinyl)
Stian Westerhus & Pale Horses - Maelstrom (2xLP)
Strafk - Phaseshifting
Sturgill Simpson - Metamodern Sounds in Country Music (vinyl)
Swans - To Be Kind (3xLP)
Swedish House Mafia - Leave the World Behind (deluxe edition) (2xCD+DVD)
Sworn Enemy - Living On Borrowed Time
Sylar - To Whom It May Concern
Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso (vinyl)
Teitanbood - Death
The Alvaret Ensemble - Skeylja
The Ataris - End Is Forever (reissue) (vinyl)
The Black Heart Procession and Solbakken - In The Fishtank 11 (silver vinyl)
The Black Keys - Turn Blue (vinyl)
The Clientele - Suburban Light (reissue) (vinyl)
The Golden Grass - The Golden Grass
The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project - Axels and Sockets (2xLP)
The Metronomes - The Ballads of the Metronomes (2xLP+7")
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Days of Abandon (colored vinyl)
Thelonious Monk - Underground (reissue) (vinyl)
Thine - The Dead City Blueprint
Thollem+Chase - Dub Narcotic Session
Tiny Ruins - Brightly Painted One
Tobacco - Ultima II Massage (vinyl)
Tom the Lion - Sleep
Tomahawk - M.E.A.T. (7")
Torch Runner - Committed to the Ground
Tori Amos - Unrepentant Geraldines (deluxe edition)
Ubre Blanca - Polygon Mountain (12")
Unknown - I'm Gonna Destroy That Boy/Watch Out (7")
Vallenfyre - Splinters
Various Artists - Sumerian Ceremonials: Florence + The Sphinx
Various Artists - 1970s Algerian Folk and Pop (vinyl)
Various Artists - Chef OST
Various Artists - Coalmine Records Presents Unearthed
Various Artists - Dark Acid II (12")
Various Artists - Enjoy the Silence Vol. 3 (vinyl)
Various Artists - If This Is House I Want My Money Back 3 (12")
Various Artists - Orange Is the New Black (vinyl)
Various Artists - I Saved Latin! A Tribute to Wes Anderson
Vince Guaraldi Trio - Jazz Impressions of A Boy Named Charlie Brown (orange vinyl)
Walls | Oram - Sound Houses (vinyl)
Walter Martin - We're All Young Together (vinyl)
Walter Murphy Band - Fifth of Beethoven
WAMI - Kill the King
War - Evolutionary
Watery Love - Decorative Feeding (vinyl)
Weatherbox - Flies In All Directions (vinyl)
Wilko Johnson - Best of Wilko Johnson
Xibalba/Suburban Scum - Split
Yo La Tengo - Fakebook (vinyl)
Yob - The Great Cessation (2xLP)
Young Widows - Easy Pain (vinyl)
Yves/Son/Ace - Dead Life (vinyl)

May 20

Afrojack - Forget the World
Aggravator - Populace
American Football - American Football (reissue) (2xLP)
aMute - Savage Bliss (vinyl)
Andrea Belfi | David Grubbs | Stefano Pilia - Onrushing Gold
Archie Bronson Outfit - Wild Crush (vinyl)
Billy Joel - A Matter Of Trust - The Bridge to Russia: The Music
Blood and Sun - White Storms Fall
Blu - Good to Be Home (2xCD)
Body/Head - The Show Is Over (7")
Brody Dalle - Diploid Love (2xLP)
Bry Webb - Free Will
Burzum - Draugen - Rarities (2xCD)
California Breed - California Breed (CD/DVD)
Castle - Under Siege (vinyl)
Chakachas - Jungle Fever
Coldplay - Ghost Stories (vinyl)
Comet Control - Comet Control (vinyl)
Conor Oberst - Upside Down Mountain (2xLP+CD)
Curtis Harding - Soul Power (vinyl)
Deep Purple - Made In Japan (2-CD)
Devo - Something Else For Everybody
Devonian Gardens - Solar Shifting
Dexter Gordon - Go (vinyl)
Duck Sauce - Quack
Ed Schrader's Music Beat - Party Jail
Elastica - Elastica (vinyl)
Electric Light Orchestra - Live (2xLP)
Fujiya and Miyagi - Artificial Sweeteners (vinyl)
Hades Archer / Slaughtbbath - Circus of Abominations/Antichristos Thanatos
Haley Bonar - Last War (vinyl)
Hank Williams - The Garden Spot Program, 1950 (vinyl)
Heliotropes - A Constant Sea (vinyl)
Hell - Trilogy
Helmet - Aftertaste (reissue) (vinyl)
Helmet - Strap It On (reissue) (vinyl)
Herzog - Boys (vinyl)
Infernal Curse - The End Upon Us
James Brown - Soul Syndrome (vinyl)
Jeff Grace - Cold In July OST
Jolie Holland - Wine Dark Sea (vinyl)
Jungle - Busy Earnin' (12")
Kikagaku Moyo - Forest of Lost Children (vinyl)
Landskap - I
Liam Finn - The Nihilist (vinyl)
Madness - One Step Beyond (reissue) (vinyl)
Malka Spilding - Gliding
Melaena Cadiz - Deep Below Heaven
Meliah Rage - Warrior
Michael Bradford - The Long Night
Moody Blues - In Search of the Lost Chord (reissue)
Mortalicum - Tears From the Grave
No Bails - Epyx Shredder
No Means No - Dance of the Headless Bourgeoisie (2xLP)
Oasis - Definitely Maybe (deluxe edition) (reissue) (3xCD)
Oasis - Definitely Maybe (reissue) (2xLP)
Oren Ambarchi | Stephen O'’Malley | Randall Dunn - Shade Themes From Kairos (2xLP)
Outrage - We The Dead
Plaid - Reachy Prints
Pujol - KLUDGE (vinyl)
Roots - And Then You Shoot Your Cousin (vinyl)
Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl Deluxe (CD/DVD)
Royal Trux - The Radio Video EP (12")
Rubicon Cross - Rubicon Cross
SBTRKT - Transitions II (12")
Smoke Fairies - Smoke Fairies (2xLP)
Split Single - Fragmented World (vinyl)
Syd Arthur - Sound Mirror (vinyl)
Tancred - Capes (vinyl)
The Apache Relay - Apache Relay (vinyl)
The Burning of Rome - Year of the Ox
The Everymen - Givin' Up On Free Jazz (vinyl)
The Flaming Lips - 7 Skies H3
The Flying Burrito Brothers - Devils In Disguise (vinyl)
The J.B.'s - Groove Machine (vinyl)
The Lemonheads - Rockin the Shell (reissue) (2xLP)
The Roots - And Then You Shoot Your Cousin (vinyl)
The Whigs - Modern Creation (vinyl)
Thrice - Beggars (vinyl)
Timo Tolkki’s Avalon - Angels Of The Apocalypse
Tina Brooks - True Blue (vinyl)
Toumani Diabate and Sidiki Diabate - Toumani & Sidiki (vinyl)
Trans Am - Volume X
Tusmorke - Riset Bak Speilet
Tweak Bird - Any Ol' Way
Various Artists - Dumb and Dumber OST (red/white vinyl) (2xLP)
Various Artists - Million Dollar Arm OST
Various Artists - Soul Jazz Records presents: Punk 45: Vol. 3 Proto-Punk 1970-77 (2xLP)
Various Artists - The Fault In Our Stars OST
Various Artists - Hyperdub 10.1
Verberis - Vastitas
Warren Zevon - Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School (reissue)
Wooden Wand - Farmer's Corner
Zero Boys - Monkey (clear vinyl)
Zombies - R.I.P.

May 27

21 Octayne - Into the Open
7seconds - Leave A Light On
Alias - Pitch Black Prism (vinyl)
Alice Coltrane - A Monastic Trio (vinyl)
Among Gods - Monument
Annisokay - The Lucid Dream(er)
Arne Deforce & Mika Vainio - Hephaestus
Ásgeir - In The Silence (vinyl)
Ben Frost - A U R O R A (colored vinyl)
Ben Vida - Slipping Control (vinyl)
Black Anvil - Hail Death
Blood of Kings - Starvation
Blood Red Fog - On Death’s Wings
Buffalo Killers - Heavy Reverie (vinyl)
Building Instrument - Building Instrument (vinyl)
Bury Tomorrow - Runes
Celine Dion - Playlist: The Very Best of Celine Dion
Chris Schlarb - Making the Saint (vinyl)
Clint Mansell - Filth OST (vinyl)
Clouds - Tannhauser Acid Works II (12")
Cradle of Filth - Total Fucking Darkness
Crowbar - Symmetry In Black
DAMH - Black Night (12")
Depeche Mode - Exciter (vinyl)
Depeche Mode - Playing The Angel (2xLP)
Depeche Mode - Speak and Spell (vinyl)
Don Caballero - Five Crazy Pairs of Pants. Wear 'Em: Early Caballero (vinyl)
Donna Regina - Holding the Mirror for Sophia Loren (vinyl)
Edgar Winter - Playlist: The Very Best of Edgar Winter
Eleh - For Moussavi Atrium
Elvenking - The Pagan Manifesto
Elvis Presley - Playlist: The Very Best Of Elvis Movie Songs
Enabler - La Fin Absolue Du Monde
Expulsion - Certain Corpses Never Decay
Eyehategod - Eyehategod
Fifth Dimension - Playlist: The Very Best of The Fifth Dimension
Fire Retarded - Scroggz Manor (vinyl)
Foxing - The Albatross (vinyl)
Fucked Up - Glass Boys
Funereal Presence - The Archer Takes Aim
Future Death - Special Victim
Gluttony - Beyond the Veil of Flesh
Goodtime Boys – Rain (vinyl)
Grateful Dead | John Oswald - Grayfolded (3xLP)
H. Usui - Sings the Blues (vinyl)
Haunted Hearts - Initiation (vinyl)
Hellspirit - Dawn Under Curse
Hercules and Love Affair - The Feast of the Broken Heart
Hollie Cook - Twice
Ice Dragon - The Burl,the Earth,the Aether (reissue)
Ice Dragon - The Sorrowful Sun (reissue)
Ice Dragon - Tome of the Future Ancients (reissue)
Icon Of Evil - Syfilis Mentalis
Iggy Pop - Gimme Some Skin - The 7 Inch Collection Numbered only 1000 Made (vinyl)
Impaled Nazarene - Vigorous and Liberating Death
Insense - De:Evolution
Iron Butterfly - Live At The Galaxy 1967
J.C. Satan - Italian Summer/I Don't Feel Like Dancing (7")
Jack Ruby - Jack Ruby (vinyl)
Jar’d Loose - Turns 13
Joakim - Tropics Of Love
Joey Negro - Italo House Part One PRE-ODER (2xLP)
Judy Collins - Essential Judy Collins
KISS - Kiss 40
Kitten - Kitten
Knox - Thieving of Well (12")
Krakatau - Water Near a Bridge (mixed color vinyl)
LCC - D/evolution (vinyl)
Lee Bains III and the Glory Fires - Dereconstructed (vinyl)
Lee Hazlewood - Friday’s Child (reissue) (vinyl)
Lee Hazlewood - Love and Other Crimes (reissue) (vinyl)
Lee Hazlewood - The N.S.V.I.P.’s (Not So Very Important People) (reissue) (vinyl)
Leslie Winer - Witch (vinyl)
Lily Allen - Sheezus (vinyl)
Little Barrie - Shadow
Marty Friedman - Inferno
Mayhem - Esoteric Warfare
Metsatöll - Karjajuht
Misery Index - The Killing Gods
moe. - No Guts, No Glory (vinyl)
Moskus - Mestertyven (vinyl)
Napolian - Incursio (vinyl)
Nils Lofgren - Face the Music
Nurse with Wound and Graham Bowers - Parade (2xLP)
Obsequiae - Suspended in the Brume of Eos (vinyl)
Officer! - Ossification
Owen Pallett - In Conflict (vinyl)
Plaza Francia - A New Tango Song Book (2xLP)
Popstrangers - Fortuna (colored vinyl)
Powerman 5000 - Builders of the Future
Prins Thomas - 10 Years of Full Pupp (2004-2014) (2xCD)
Rick Derringer - Playlist: The Very Best of Rick Derringer
Robyn - Do It Again
Ron Morelli - Periscope Blues (vinyl)
Sabaton - Heroes (Nuclear Blast)
Sabbatory - Endless Asphyxiating Gloom
Sam Smith - Sam Smith
Serpentine Path - Emanations
Seun Anikulapo Kuti and Egypt 80 - A Long Way to the Beginning (vinyl)
Shakra - 33: The Best of’
Sharon Van Etten - Are We There (colored vinyl)
Some Ember - Some Ember (vinyl)
Son Lux - Alternate Worlds (12")
Sonny Vincent - Cyanide Consomme (vinyl)
Soulsavers - The Light the Dead See (deluxe) (CD+DVD)
Spacemonkey - The Karman Line
Spiders & Snakes - Year of the Snake
Tentacle - Ingot Eye
The Nest - Sayweenjoy (vinyl)
The NVs - Trust Fun Suicide EP (7")
The Quasi Dub Development - Little-Twister vs. Stiff-Neck (vinyl)
They Might Be Giants - Idlewild: A Compliation
Three Legged Race - Rope Commercial Vol. 1 (vinyl)
Tomas Barfod: Love Me
Tommy Bolin & Zephyr - Zephyr - Deluxe Edition Numbered
Triptykon - Melena Chasmata (vinyl)
Vainaja - Kadotetu
Valina - Container (vinyl)
Vanhelgd - Relics of Sulphur Salvation (vinyl)
Various Artists – Everything Is Shit: Punk in Brussels (vinyl)
Various Artists - Go Devil Go! Raw + Rare + Otherworldly African-American Gospel 1944-1976 (vinyl)
Various Artists - Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton (CD+Bluray)
Various Artists - Rough Guide to Psychedelic Cambodia
Various Artists - Too Slow to Disco (2xLP)
Various Artists - One and All, Together, for Home
Verma - Sunrunner (mixed color vinyl)
VHS Head - Persistence of Vision (2xLP)
Violation Wound - Violation Wound
Watter - This World (vinyl)
Waxen - Agios Holokauston
We Are The Damned - Doomvirate
Winter Drones - Heavy Eyes (vinyl)
YAITW - When Life Comes To Death
Zoldier Noiz - Regression Process 

Vinyl Record News & Music Notes

Record Store Day Recap

Record Store Day Retailers Report Big Spikes, Best-Ever Sales

Billboard talked to Record Store Day co-founder Michael Kurtz about exclusives showing up on Ebay even before the event took place. Kurtz explained: "Regarding the eBay stuff that was up last week: We checked and the vast majority [of sellers] were people who did not have the releases -- we know this because they had not arrived in the stores yet -- but were flippers who presented themselves as having them, with (presumably) the plan to go into the stores to get them and then flip them. This is a violation of eBay rules and we’ve reported them."

Billboard's best-selling vinyl LPs for the week ending April 20

1. Childish Gambino - Because the Internet
2. Afghan Whigs - Do to the Beast
3. Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death
4. Bruce Springsteen - American Beauty
5. Jimi Hendrix - Live at Monterey
6. The Grateful Dead - Live at Hampton Coliseum
7. Tame Impala - Live Versions
8. Joy Division - An Ideal For Living
9. Flaming Lips - 7 Skies H3
10. Ramones - Meltdown With the Ramones

Billboard's best-selling vinyl singles for the week ending April 20

1. Nirvana - Pennyroyal Tea
2. Flaming Lips & Devo - Gates of Steel
3. The Cure & Dinosaur Jr - Just Like Heaven
4. David Bowie - 1984
5. Love & Rush - 7 and 7 is
6. Frank Zappa - Don't Eat the Yellow Snow
7. Pantera & Poison Idea - The Badge
8. Paramore - Ain't It Fun
9. Fleetwood Mac - Dragonfly
10. Garbage - Girls Talk Shit

Read more about Record Store day 2014:

BuzzAngle Music reports Record Store Day results (Top 25 Albums sold on Record Store Day at independent record stores)

Independent record stores boast massive 2000% vinyl sales jump on Record Store Day


cool write up from a mom about rsd:

Record Store Day dispatch: The kids are alright — with vinyl

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new releases from our friends at MusicOnVinyl

Beverley Martyn - The Phoenix and the Turtle

Beverley Martyn recorded her first single "Babe I'm Leaving You" in 1965, and was chosen to launch Deram Records one year later with the Randy Newman penned single "Happy New Year". She contributed to the Simon & Garfunkel album Bookends and appeared at the Monterey Pop Festival on 16 June 1967. In 1969 she met John Martyn, whom she later married, and as a duo they issued two albums, Stormbringer! and The Road To Ruin. At various times, Martyn has worked with Levon Helm, Jimmy Page, Richard Thompson, Davy Graham and Sandy Denny. In December 2013, Beverley appeared at the Royal Festival Hall as part of a celebration of Bert Jansch, alongside friends and contemporaries such as Donovan and Robert Plant.

April 2014 will see the release of her new album entitled The Phoenix And The Turtle. Described by Beverley as a very personal album, it features songs written throughout her entire career, from her very first song, "Sweet Joy", to the previously unrecorded Nick Drake & Beverley Martyn song "Reckless Jane". The Phoenix and the Turtle is Beverley's first album in fourteen years and features contributions from ex-Counting Crows bass player Matt Malley, and ex-Los Lobos drummer Victor Bisetti.

• 180 gram audiophile vinyl 
• Brand new album!

BOB DYLAN - TIME OUT OF MIND

This is the 30th Bob Dylan album, released in 1997. Time Out of Mind is hailed as one of Dylan's best albums, and it went on to win three Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year in 1998.

The album features a particularly atmospheric sound, the work of producer (and past Dylan collaborator) Daniel Lanois, whose innovative work with carefully placed microphones and strategic mixing. Sonically, the album is reminiscent of Oh Mercy, the last album Dylan recorded with producer Daniel Lanois, but Time Out of Mind has a grittier foundation - by and large, the songs are bitter and resigned, and Dylan gives them appropriately anguished performances.

Original vinyl copies of Time Out Of Mind were made in small numbers, making this official reissue a much needed one!

• 180 gram audiophile vinyl 
• Printed innersleeves

FILTER - SHORT BUS

Short Bus is the debut album from Filter. The alternative/industrial rock group was formed by orginal Nine Inch Nails touring guitarist Richard Patrick and guitarist/programmer Brian Liesegang.

The album was originally released in 1995 and includes the hit single "Hey Man Nice Shot". The track was heavily played by alternative radio and MTV in the States and soon reached gold status. "Hey Man Nice Shot" was also included on the soundtrack for the movie Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight in 1995 before Short Bus was released. In need of a live band to tour, Patrick and Liesegang recruited Geno Lenardo on guitar, Frank Cavanagh on bass, and Matt Walker on drums, who are also featured in the video for the album's second single, "Dose". In support of the Short Bus album, Filter toured with The Smashing Pumpkins in Europe.

• 180 gram audiophile vinyl 
• Includes insert with lyrics
• First pressing of 1000 numbered copies on solid green vinyl

Dave Mason - It's Like You Never Left

It's Like You Never Left is Dave Mason's fourth solo studio album and the follow up to the album Headkeeper (1972). David Mason first found fame with the rock band Traffic, after which he pursued a rather successful solo career. Mason has played and recorded with many of the era's most notable pop and rock musicians, including Jimi Hendrix, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Graham Nash and Steve Winwood.

It's Like You Never Left was originally released in 1973 peaking at #50 on the Billboard Pop Albums charts. On the album Graham Nash sang harmony vocals on "Baby, Please," "Every Woman," and a new version of "Head Keeper". Stevie Wonder plays harmonica on "The Lonely One" and George Harrison (under the pseudonym "Son of Harry"  for contractual reasons) contributed slide guitar to "If You've Got Love. The album is finally available again on 180 gram audiophile vinyl in a beautiful gatefold sleeve.

• 180 gram audiophile vinyl
• Gatefold sleeve

Ennio Morricone - Collected

Ennio Morricone composed and arranged scores for more than 500 film and television productions, making him one of the most influential and best-selling film composers since the late 1950s. He has sold well over 70 million records worldwide. His score for Sergio Leone's Once Upon A Time In The West is one of the top 5 best-selling original instrumental scores in the world today, with about 10 million copies sold.

Collected is a definitive journey through the vast work of Morricone, stopping by landmark spaghetti westerns like A Fistful Of Dollars, For A Few Dollars More, The Good The Bad & The Ugly, Once Upon A Time In America and most recently, Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained.

• 180 gram audiophile vinyl 
• Gatefold sleeve

ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK - DALLAS BUYERS CLUB

Dallas Buyers Club follows the Oscar winning performance by Matthew McConaughey portraying the '80s real life character Ron Woodroof, who's suddenly being diagnosed as H.I.V.-positive and given 30 days to live. Yet he will not, and does not, accept a death sentence. A crash course of research reveals a lack of approved treatments and medications in the U.S., so Ron crosses the border into Mexico. There, he learns about alternative treatments and begins smuggling them into the U.S.

An outsider to the gay community, Ron finds an unlikely ally in fellow AIDS patient and transsexual Rayon (another Oscar Winning performance by Jared Leto). They establish a "buyers club," where H.I.V.-positive people pay monthly dues for access to the newly acquired supplies. With a growing community of friends and clients, Ron fights for dignity, education, and acceptance. In the years following his diagnosis, the embattled Lone Star loner lives life to the fullest like never before.

The soundtrack to triple Academy Award winning feature film Dallas Buyers Club contains songs by Shuggie Otis, My Morning Jacket, T. Rex and actor/singer Jared Leto's Thirty Seconds To Mars. The first 1000 copies of this double LP are uniquely pressed on Gold and Blue vinyl (each record a different colour!).

• 180 gram audiophile vinyl 
• Gatefold sleeve
• Insert
• First pressing of 1000 numbered copies on gold & blue vinyl

THELONIOUS MONK - MONK'S DREAM

Monk's Dream is the first album jazz musician Thelonious Monk released on Columbia Records. It was recorded in 4 days in autumn 1962 and issued a year later. The Thelonious Monk Quartet consisted of Monk (piano), Charlie Rouse (tenor sax), John Ore (bass), and Frankie Dunlop (drums). Jazz scholars and enthusiasts alike also heralded this combo as the best Monk had been involved with for several years. Although he would perform and record supported by various other musicians, the tight dimensions that these four shared has rarely been equaled in any genre.

On tracks such as "Five Spot Blues" and "Bolivar Blues," Rouse and Dunlop demonstrate their uncanny abilities by squeezing in well-placed instrumental fills, while never getting hit by the unpredictable rhythmic frisbees being tossed about by Monk. Augmenting the six quartet recordings are two solo sides: "Just a Gigolo" and "Body and Soul." Most notable about Monk's solo work is how much he retained the same extreme level of intuition throughout the nearly two decades that separate these recordings from his initial renderings in the late '40s.  On 180 gram audiophile vinyl

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Neil Young A Letter Home Limited Edition Box Set 

Neil Young will release a CD, digital album and a Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set of his recent vinyl album A Letter Home, out on Reprise Records on May 27th.

Young describes the album as "an unheard collection of rediscovered songs from the past recorded on ancient electro-mechanical technology captures and unleashes the essence of something that could have been gone forever."

According to the record label:  “The album begins with Neil recording a spoken letter to his late mother, informing her of his personal and present state of affairs which sets the tone and atmosphere for the duration of the album. He does this once again at the beginning of Side 2 in a way which could explain why he’s selected these particular songs to record. In essence, this presentation is, as its title implies, A Letter Home from Neil. This is a deeply personal and expressive listening experience which is as real and raw emotionally as it is sonically and yet light of touch in its form and flow”.

LIMITED EDITION BOX SET INCLUDES:
• 1 STANDARD 12" LP 
• 1 “DIRECT FEED FROM THE BOOTH” AUDIOPHILE 12" LP 
• SEVEN 6" CLEAR VINYL DISCS 
• 1 STANDARD CD 
• 1 DVD 
• 1 32-PAGE, 12" X 12" BOOK
 • Download card to redeem the digital album of “DIRECT FEED FROM THE BOOTH” AUDIOPHILE version

Track list:
A Letter Home intro
Changes (Phil Ochs)
Girl from the North Country (Bob Dylan)
Needle of Death (Bert Jansch)
Early Morning Rain (Gordon Lightfoot)
Crazy (Willie Nelson)
Reason to Believe (Tim Hardin)
On the Road Again (Willie Nelson)
If You Could Read My Mind (Gordon Lightfoot)
Since I Met You Baby (Ivory Joe Hunter)
My Hometown (Bruce Springsteen)
I Wonder If I Care as Much (Don Everly)

If you have an extra $109.98 laying around, you can pre-order the set HERE

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from our friends at Relapse

We're excited to announce our Post-Record Store Day Vinyl Sale! Shop Relapse Mailorder this weekend and get 20% off all vinyl (excluding pre-orders). Just use discount code VINYL20. The sale begins  Friday April 24th at Noon and goes through midnight Sunday night.
















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from JoyfulNoiseRecordings

Half Japanese Releasing First LP in 13 years 

Limited edition Orange/Blue split color 7" Out Now!

We are extremely excited to announce that Joyful Noise has signed legendary punk band Half Japanese, who will be releasing their first album in 13 years this summer. If you are unfamiliar with this band, we will get you caught up: Half Japanese is one of the most influential bands of all time. Fronted by our "Artist in Residence" Jad Fair, Half Japanese spearheaded the DIY and Lo-Fi movements, influencing countless bands such as Sonic Youth, Neutral Milk Hotel, Daniel Johnston, and perhaps most notably, Kurt Cobain (who ranked Half Japanese amongst his top 50 favorites, had them open the "In Utero" tour, and was wearing their t-shirt when he died). Without exaggeration, Half Japanese is one of the most important bands in the history of music, and it's an absolute honor to release their first album in over a decade.

To give you a surprise sneak peek at the new album, we are releasing a limited edition 7" featuring two new songs: "Refreshing" and "Do It Now". These are alternate recordings of songs which will be included on the upcoming LP. Available immediately to whet your appetite.

Limited to just 500 hand-numbered copies on Orange / Blue split-color vinyl, this 7" ships immediately. We have less than 250 available, so don't wait!

Order a copy HERE

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Omnivore Spring Fling Sale!

We’re making room for lots of new stuff so we’re spring cleaning. Sale prices good only on purchases made between Monday, April 21 until Sunday, May 4.

Check it out HERE

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David Bowie Unveils "Diamond Dogs" Picture Disc











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Get Dead announce new 7-inch “Bygones,” reveal cover art & tracklisting











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if you like KISS and want to see one of the world's best picture disc collections, head HERE












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album cover art of the day:

GRAVE DIGGER: 'Return Of The Reaper' Track Listing Revealed























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