New Music Releases ~ July 14

A.A. Bondy- American Hearts (vinyl reissue)

A-Ha - Foot of the Mountain

Air Supply - Free Love

Alexander Turnquist- As the Twilight Crane Dreams in Color

Ani DiFranco- Red Letter Year (remastered vinyl)

Baby Teeth:-Hustle Beach

Beastie Boys- Ill Communication (remastered with bonus disc) (vinyl)

Black Meteoric Star- Dreamcatcher/Dawn (vinyl)

Blues Control - Local Flavor

Bob Marley - Legacy (3-CD)

Brilliant Colors - 12″

Care Bears on Fire-Get Over It

Cheap Trick-Every Trick In The Book (dvd)

Clutch- Strange Cousins from the West

Cunninlynguists- Strange Journey, Vol. 1

Dandy Warhols- The Dandy Warhols Are Sound

David Bowie- VH1 Storytellers (CD & DVD)

Debbie Harry - Koo Koo / Def Dumb & Blonde

Discovery-LP

Duane Eddy - Guitar Man (Remastered & Two Extra Tracks)

Ducktails/Julian Lynch - split 7″

Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros- Up from Below

Emitt Rhodes - The Emitt Rhodes Recordings 1969-1973

Eskimo Joe-Inshalla

Family - BBC Radio, Volume 3: 1970

Fink- Sort of Revolution (vinyl)

Florence & the Machine:- Lungs

Frank Sinatra - Collection

Freda Payne - Band of Gold/Contact/Best Of/Reaching Out (2-CD)

Gary War - Horribles Parade

Green Day- 21 Guns

Greg Brown- Dream City - Essential Recordings Vol 2, 1997-2006

Hercules and Love Affair - Sidetracked

Jack Rose and the Black Twigs- Jack Rose and the Black Twigs

James Blackshaw- The Glass Bead Game (vinyl)

Joseph Arthur:-Temporary People (vinyl)

Judas Priest - A Touch Of Evil - Live

Kenny Rogers - Daytime Friends/Love or Something Like It

Kenny Rogers - Gambler/Kenny

Kenny Rogers - Love Lifted Me/Kenny Rogers

Lisa Lisa - Life N Love

Little Richard - Lucille

Maxïmo Park- Questing Not Coasting

Mew- No More Stories EP

Miles Davis- Walkin' (vinyl reissue)

Nadja & Black Boned Angel-Nadja & Black Boned Angel

Neil Young - After the Gold Rush (Remastered)

Neil Young - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (Remastered)

Neil Young - Harvest (Remastered)

Neil Young - Neil Young (Remastered)

New Roman Times: On The Sleeve

Nicholas Hooper- Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince

Nina Simone- Live at Berkeley/Gifted & Black (reissue)

Olivia Broadfield- Eyes Wide Open

Patrick Watson- Wooden Arms (vinyl)

Pearl Jam- The Lowdown

Peter Broderick:-Music for Falling from Trees

Raiders - Indian Reservation/Collage

Robin Trower - What Lies Beneath

Rolling Stones - A Bigger Bang (Remastered)

Rolling Stones - Bridges to Babylon (Remastered)

Rolling Stones - Dirty Work (Remastered)

Rolling Stones - Steel Wheels (Remastered)

Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge (Remastered)

Sad Cafe - Facades/Sad Cafe

Santana - Supernatural (Legacy Edition)

Serengeti & Polyphonic- Terradactyl (vinyl)

Sha Na Na - 40th Anniversary Collection

Sick Puppies- Tri-Polar

Son Volt-American Central Dust (vinyl)

Summer Cats - Songs for Tuesdays

The Builders and the Butchers- Salvation Is a Deep Dark Well (vinyl)

The Dead Weather- Horehound (vinyl)

The Fall- This Nation's Saving Grace (vinyl)

The Mayfair Set - Young One

The Most Serene Republic-Expanding Universe (vinyl)

The Octopus Project - Golden Beds EP

The Polyamourous Affair- Bolshevik Disco

The Rolling Stones- A Bigger Bang (remastered)

The Rolling Stones- Bridges to Babylon (remastered)

The Rolling Stones-Dirty Work (remastered)

The Rolling Stones-Steel Wheels (remastered)

The Rolling Stones- Voodoo Lounge (remastered)

The Silent Years- Let Go

Ty Segall - Lemons

Vanilla Fudge - Live 2004

Various Artists- 500 Days of Summer (soundtrack)

Various Artists:-Alfa Matrix Re:Covered - A Tribute to Depeche Mode

Various Artists- Virginia Rocks! The History of Rockabilly in the Commonwealth (remastered)

Various Artists- Wicked Garden: A Millennium Tribute To Stone Temple Pilots

Zola Jesus - The Spoils

Music News & Notes

Album art for CAPTAIN CLEGG AND THE NIGHT CREATURES

Rob Zombie checked in on MySpace this morning with the final cover art for ROB ZOMBIE PRESENTS: CAPTAIN CLEGG AND THE NIGHT CREATURES (Music from HALLOWEEN II). As you may recall, the Capt. (played by Jesse Dayton) has become a regular fixture here at Fango, recently reporting on his video shoot and providing his own installment of FANGORIA MUSICK's LISTS OF DOOM series.

The cover art by David Hartman can be viewed below and you can get your copy of the album on the same day that HALLOWEEN II arrives in theatres - August 28th.



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New Modest Mouse Single Due Next Week

Modest Mouse is going in with this singles series thing. In the past few months, the band has cranked out two 7" slabs: "Satellite Skin" and "Autumn Beds". Next Tuesday, July 21, they'll return with another one.

The "Perpetual Motion Machine" b/w "History Sticks to Your Feet" single will be on red vinyl, with an embossed sleeve. And it's limited to 4000 copies, so act fast.

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Basement Jaxx

Their new album "Scars" features guest appearances by Yoko Ono, Santigold and rap crew Yo Majesty is due out in October, according to a Billboard report. Here's the cover, I like it already.....



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Night Horse Announce Dates In Support Of 7" Single Series

Night Horse have announced a string of tour dates in support of the release of three split seven inch singles being released this summer. The band has also been confirmed for the main stage at The Sunset Junction Festival in Los Angeles on August 23rd. Night Horse is also premeiring their brand new single "Choose Your Side."

Night Horse / Dirty Sweet split 7" (released July 7th)

•Side A: Night Horse - Good Bye Gone (available for download at Brooklyn Vegan)
•Side B: Dirty Sweet - Marionette
Night Horse / High Saints Split 7" (release date August 4th)

•Side A: Night Horse - Choose Your Side
•Side B: The High Saints - Black Days
Night Horse / Sea Of Air Split 7" (release date September 15th)

•Side A: Night Horse - Come Down Halo
•Side B: Sea Of Air - Holy Roller

Vinyl Record Video

Interesting thoughts about vinyl although I disagree that it's only the younger audience buying vinyl....

The Beatles ~ Box Of Vision

Here's an interesting and resourceful way to organize yoru Beatles CD collection. What I like is that they 'blow up' the artwork and lets fans that are stuck with the small CD covers for artwork, get a taste of what the album cover art was supposed be like. Here are the specifics form the site:

Built to store THE BEATLES newly REMASTERED CD's and their DIGIPAK BOXES

THE BEATLES Box Of Vision is a unique new product. The elegant linen-covered box, with silver embossed BEATLES logos, and 'faux' BEATLES LP spines, contains three never before available books:

1) An LP sized book containing all of THE BEATLES UK and US album artwork, collected together for the very first time.

2) The brand new Catalography guide to THE BEATLES catalog of albums.

3) The patented BoxOfVision storage book for organizing and displaying your collection of BEATLES CDs -- including the digipak boxes for the upcoming Remastered CD's. CD's and digipaks not included -- insert your own collection, originals and/or remasters).




They are also hawking a new book on Beatles album cover art, I'd love one!

For the first time ever -- all of THE BEATLES LP artwork in a single hard cover coffee table book.

•Close to 200 pages of newly restored, pristine LP art prints.

•Front covers, back covers and gatefold artwork for all of the original UK studio albums, from PLEASE PLEASE ME to LET IT BE. All of the unique US studio albums from MEET THE BEATLES to HEY JUDE.

•The complete LP size booklets from Magical Mystery Tour, as well as the rarely seen LP size booklets from LET IT BE... NAKED, and LOVE.

•And some additional surprises.

For more information, stop by the site:

http://store.boxofvision.com/

http://store.boxofvision.com/images/sites/45/tour//

Vinyl Collective News

This from Virgil over at www.vinylcollective.com:

Got a few pre-orders to share with you. For Starters, we have a new album by Jay Reatard. Last year, his singles collection pretty much pissed off the vinyl collecting world. The records were under-produced in an effort to draw up some hype and in that regard, it seemed to work. Jay writes dirty/garagey rock anthems and it is nice to see an artist like that get some attention. He has a new album coming up and it is sure to promise more rock, more fun.

Discovery is the recording project of Rostam Batmanglij (Vampire Weekend) and Wes Miles (Ra Ra Riot). Guest vocals from Ezra Koening (Vampire Weekend) and Angel Deradoorian (Dirty Projectors). Elements of European electronic dance music skittering in double time over steady R&B.

ANIMAL COLLECTIVE “Summertime Clothes” LP follows in the wake of their most critically acclaimed and commercially successful album to date, “Merriweather Post Pavilion”. It highlights the warm weather standout jam “Summertime Clothes”, and is accompanied by remixes from Dam-Funk (Stones Throw), Zomby (Hyperdub), and L.D. (Hyperdub).

Restocks:

THRIFT STORE COWBOYS/ONE WOLF “Nothing/Everything’s On Fire” split 7?
GRINDERMAN ìS/Tî LP
TOM WAITS “Mule Variations” LP
BAD RELIGION “How Could HellÖ” LP

New to Vinyl Collective:

THE DINGEES “The Crucial Conspiracy” LP transparent red vinyl
THE DINGEES “The Crucial Conspiracy” LP black vinyl
FLORIDA=DEATH “Depression Era Music” LP black vinyl
IPSISSIMUS “The Three Secrets of Fatima” LP black vinyl

Michael Jackson Fans Hold Tribute At London's O2 Arena

The gloved-one's fans have held a tribute at the O2 Arena, on the day the star was due to make his comeback at the London venue. Hundreds of fans made the journey to the east of the city after the unofficial event was advertised on social networking websites. Word is, MJ will not be there....

Many chose to add messages to the venue’s tribute wall, while other shared their Jackson memories with each other. Some fans who have tickets to the now canceled shows still made the journey to the UK to remember the star.

Jackson was scheduled to play 50 shows at the O2 Arena, starting tonight (July 13) and running into March 2010.

Get a life people......

Vinyl Record Architect

I made a new contact today, a new vinyl record blog and Paul has some very interesting features and posts. Here's one from a recent trip to Holland, I have not seen this cover before, I though I'd share his post:


Nederbeat - for collectors only: Modern Records 110 891 L


I've already written about how much I like collections - especially when they're as good as 'for collectors only...' Released in 1967, this Modern Records compendium of Dutch garage, proto-punk, and early psychedelia includes the music of several classic Dutch bands such as De Maskers and Golden Earring - like you haven't heard them before. The song titles are covers and originals including one Dylan cover ('Masters of War' by De Maskers) and Gene Vincent's 'Baby Blue.'

I found this on the floor of a little record store in Leiden, Holland. The records on the floor - and there were thousands - were Two Euros each. So, I got this little treasure for less than four bucks! Not in the best shape, granted, but eminently playable. The front cover has but a single small tear, the back inscribed by a former owner with the word 'Blues' in large red ballpoint - ironic or accidental? - and in smaller blue ballpoint letters 'Revolutie.' Helpfully, this same former owner has labeled the photos so I know which band is which. Making the record less valuable to a serious collector perhaps, but full of charm for me!

One of my favorite cuts is the second one on the second side, 'That's Your Problem,' by the Outsiders. Unlike some of their contemporaries like Tee Set - also on this record - and Shocking Blue, The Outsiders never hit it even somewhat big in the States and their music is known best by garage band and 'Nederbeat' fans. Nederbeat, Holland's uniquely raw and direct British Invasion-inspired interpretation of Rock 'n' Roll, is definately worth a listen. The Outsiders are known to be one of the best Nederbeat bands and Kurt Cobainis said to have been a fan who unsuccessfully tried to meet Wally Tax, the Outsiders' lead singer.

You can find them on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIVAFcVpnf8

Another highlight is Golden Earring's 'Daddy buy me a girl.' The video - Golden Earring's first - features the band playing the song while riding elephants - there is even a go-go girl on elephant, the English dancer, Felicity. Really, what's not to like! You can find them on YouTube, too:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ThommyCortina.

See members.ziggo.nl/casper.roos/story60.html for the whole story.

The song was also included in Nuggets II. Reviewer George Starostin gave the song an A+ and called it 'pop perfection.' He continued:

'These Dutch lads (later simply 'Golden Earring') werechart darlings in Europe for quite a long time, and if this song is a goodindication, they're well worth investigating. The liner notes justly indicatethe non-trivial lyrical subject (rich boy suffers because all the girlsonly love him for his dough), but as good as the lyrics are, it's the melodythat deserves the most accolades - a terrific exercise in Brit-pop, drivenby the obligatory harpsichord, of course, but with chord changes and vocalmodulation all its own, and an insanely catchy verse melody as wellas middle-eight. Plus, Krassenburg's lead vocals just ring withclassic Sixties' "radio freshness", and at the same time conveyjust the right tinge of sadness and moodiness. I can't help but admireevery second of this thing.'

Well, finally, there is the matter of the album cover. Hard to overlook. At one time, depicting body-painted female nudes on record albums seemed to have been the rage. Now, it just seems more than vaguely wrong. But this was released in another era and free love and nudity were part of the revolution, political and sexual.

And, after all, it was 'for collectors only...'


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The Cars - Moving In Stereo (Live In Houston 1984)

Most Valuable Records

The following list is an attempt to list some of the most valuable recordings. Data is sourced from Record Collector magazine, eBay, Popsike, Good Rockin' Tonight and other sources.

1. John Lennon & Yoko Ono – Double Fantasy (Geffen US Album, 1980) Autographed by Lennon five hours before Mark David Chapman murdered him. $525,000 asking price, unsold.

2. The Quarrymen – "That'll Be the Day"/"In Spite Of All The Danger" (UK 78 RPM, Acetate in plain sleeve, 1958) Only one copy made. Copy always owned by Paul McCartney and never offered for sale. Record Collector magazine lists guide price at $180,000.

3. The Beatles – Yesterday and Today (Capitol, US Album in ‘butcher’ sleeve, 1966) $40,000 for mint "first state" stereo copies. [2] Other pressings/states are also available, in both mono and stereo with prices ranging from $150–$10,000

4. Bob Dylan – The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (CBS, US album, stereo 1963 featuring 4 tracks deleted from subsequent releases) $35,000

5. Long Cleve Reed & Little Harvey Hull – "Original Stack O’Lee Blues" (Black Patti, US 78 RPM in plain sleeve, 1927) $30,000 offered to Joe Bussard.

6. Frank Wilson – "Do I Love You?" (SOUL#35019, US 7” 45 RPM in plain sleeve, 1966) $30,000

7. Velvet Underground & Nico – The Velvet Underground & Nico (US Album Acetate, in plain sleeve, 1966 with alternate versions of tracks from official release) Estimate $40,000+ Sold on eBay, December 9, 2006 for $155,401. However bids were fake and record was relisted. Final selling price was $25,200.

8. Elvis Presley - "Stay Away, Joe" (US, RCA Victor UNRM-9408, 1967) Single- sided promotional album of which only one well-publicized copy is known to exist, and it came directly from Presley's personal collection.

9. The Five Sharps - "Stormy Weather" (US, Jubilee 5104, 78 RPM, 1953) $25,000 offered to David Hall of Good Rockin' Tonight

10. The Hornets - "I Can't Believe" (US, States 127, 78 RPM, 1953) $25,000

11. Sex Pistols – "God Save the Queen" (UK A&M 7” 45 RPM with mailer, 1977) $22,000

12. Bach, Cello Suites, Andre Levy, French Lumen 3.447-449, signed by Levy on all three records, $20,000.

13. Blind Joe Reynolds – "99 Blues" (Paramount, 78 RPM 192?) $20,000

14. The Quarrymen – "That’ll Be The Day"/"In Spite Of All The Danger" (UK 10” 78 RPM and 7” 45 RPM, in reproduction Parlophone sleeve, 1981 reissue, 25 copies of each) $18,000

15. The Beatles – The Beatles (Parlophone UK album, 1968, numbered below 000010, black inner with poster and four colour prints) $18,000 [2] A copy numberd 000005 sold on e-bay for 19,200 British pounds sterling (over US$27,000.

16. Bob Dylan – The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan (As #4 but mono version) $16,500

17. Billy Ward & His Dominoes (Federal, 295-94, US 10” album, 1954) $12,000

18. Charlie Patton – "Screamin’ and Hollerin’" (US 78 RPM) $11,550

19. Judy Garland - Two unreleased acetates from March 1935, $22,500 bid for the pair, failed to meet reserve.

20. Elvis Presley - "That's All Right" (Sun#209 Records, US 7", 45 RPM, 1954)

21. Mozart á Paris (Conducted Fernand Oudabrous) – (Pathe France, 7 Album box set, 1956) $11,300 (eBay, April 3, 2007)

22. John’s Children – "Midsummer Night Scene" (Track, UK 7” 45RPM, 1967) $11,000

23. Willie Brown - "Future Blues" (US, 78 RPM, 1930) $10,200

24. The Beatles - The Beatles (Decca, 1968 Contract export pressing) $9,800

25. Basco Vs The Electroliners – ""The Beat Is Over" (Sm:)e US 10” red vinyl 45RPM, 1996) $9,400

Music News & Notes

Nas preps 10th solo album

Nas is clearly not looking to take a break anytime soon. The Queensbridge rapper who is currently readying the release of his collaborative album with reggae artist/producer Damian "Jr Gong" Marley has given hint to releasing a 10th solo album following the release of Distant Relatives.

Distant Relatives is due for release in August of this year and Nas is already prepared to hit the studio booth to record new tracks for a solo project before Distant Relatives is even released.

Nas' 10th album will be a follow up to his 2008 controversial release Untitled.

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Michael Jackson #1 in UK Since Death

Michael Jackson is number one in the UK album chart for the third week in a row.

The late star's greatest hits album 'The Essential' has been at the top spot for two weeks, while previously 'Number Ones' topped the chart for a week.

The King of Pop has now sold an impressive 1.5 million albums and singles in Britain since his death on June 25.

African music is making another comeback in the U.S. and Europe

By CARY DARLING / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News

Every decade or so, it happens. African music, usually exiled by the pop mainstream into the land of world-music exotica, threatens to make a broader incursion into American consciousness.

The '60s: South Africans Hugh Masekela and Miriam Makeba scored breakthroughs while the New York group the Tokens went to No. 1 with "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," their take on a Zulu song written in 1939.

The '70s: Cameroon's Manu Dibango comes up with a global hit in 1972, the sweaty, sax-drenched instrumental "Soul Makossa," considered by some to be the first disco track.

The '80s: Explicitly African influences could be found on albums by Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel and the Talking Heads. "Afro-beat" became music-industry shorthand for a variety of acts. They ranged from the fiery soul-jazz-funk of Fela Kuti and the breezy, lyrical melodicism of King Sunny Adé, both from Nigeria, to the Afro-folk rock of Juluka and hushed harmonies of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, both South African.

The '90s: A wave of musicians, from Senegal (Baaba Maal, Youssou N'Dour), Mali (Salif Keita, Ali Farka Touré) and Cape Verde (Césaria Évora), became regular visitors to the U.S. and Europe.

But it's at the tail end of the current decade that a new, more blues- and rock-oriented African sound is arousing American interest. Mali's Festival in the Desert, a gathering of often nomadic, guitar-toting musicians, has attracted such high-profile visitors as Robert Plant and Jimmy Buffett.

Read the rest here:
http://www.dallasnews.com

This Date In Music History-July 13

Birthdays:

Roger McGuinn – Byrds (1942)

Stephen Jo Bladd - J Geils Band (1942)

R&B vocalist Gerald Levert (1966)

Cheech Marin of Cheech & Chong turns 63.


They Are Missed:

In 2004, New York Doll`s bassist Arthur Kane passed away after checking himself in to a Los Angeles emergency room, complaining of fatigue. He was quickly diagnosed with leukemia, and died within two hours. He was 55. The influential American band formed in 1972 and made just two albums, the 1973 “New York Dolls” and 1974 “Too Much Too Soon.” "Kane`s bass playing and presence were the heart and soul of the New York Dolls and the secret ingredient of our sound,” said Dolls frontman David Johansen.

Philippe Wynne, a former lead singer of the Spinners, died of a heart attack in 1984 while on stage in Oakland, CA.


History:

In 1959, "I've Only Got Eyes for You," the Flamingos' biggest hit (#3 R&B, #11 pop), entered the charts. It is among the most sublime performances of the doo-wop era.

Today in 1959, the song "Lonely Boy" by Paul Anka topped the charts and stayed there for 4 weeks.

The Shirelles' "Dedicated To The One I Love" was released in 1959.

The Animals went to #1 on the UK singles chart in 1964 with “The House Of The Rising Sun.” Recorded in one take, this was the first UK #1 to have a playing time of more than four minutes.

Steppenwolf released the epic cut “Born To Be Wild” in 1968.



In 1969, over 100 US radio stations banned the Beatles new single “The Balled Of John and Yoko” due to the line ‘Christ, you know it ain't easy,’ calling it offensive.

In 1968, Black Sabbath played their first gig at a small backstreet Blues club in Birmingham, England.

Queen released their self-titled debut album in 1973.

George McCrae started a two week run at #1 on the US singles chart in 1974 with “Rock Your Baby,” his only US #1 (also #1 in the UK). Regarded by some as the first Disco #1.

Eric Clapton released his hit version of "I Shot the Sheriff" in 1974.

In 1978, the BBC announced a ban on The Sex Pistols' latest single “No One Is Innocent,” which featured vocals by Ronnie Biggs, the British criminal notorious for his part in the Great Train Robbery of 1963. At the time of the recording, Biggs was living in Brazil, and was still wanted by the British authorities, but immune from extradition.

In 1985, the Live-Aid concerts took place in Philadelphia, PA, and London, England.

Duran Duran’s “View To A Kill,” from the James Bond movie of the same name, began a two-week stay at #1 on the U.S. singles chart in 1985.

Tears For Fears went to #1 on the US album chart in 1985 with “Songs From The Big Chair.”

In 1987, representatives of fifty of America's largest record retailers were guests at Michael Jackson's home in Encino, California to preview his new album, “Bad.” The LP would go on to sell over 30 million copies worldwide.

In 1994, Elton John and Billy Joel teamed up for a joint tour for the first time. The union of two piano-playing rock and roll superstars virtually guarantees sellouts.

In 1996, over 2,000 guitar players, including Chet Atkins and Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, set a new world record for the largest jam session ever when they played “Heartbreak Hotel” for 75 minutes at Nashville's Riverfront Park. The previous record was set in Vancouver, Canada on May 7th, 1994, when Randy Bachman led 1,322 amateur guitarists in a performance that lasted 68 minutes.

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The Cars - Dangerous Type

Cuff The Duke

Every now and then I find a band from Canada (they have musicians there too!) that I enjoy, thought I'd share this one....Cuff The Duke

BIOGRAPHY
Having spent several years carving their teeth on the road with the likes of The Sadies, Sloan, Hayden, The Weakerthans, Calexico and Nick Cave, Toronto's Cuff the Duke are poised to make the jump from indie-scene-darlings to bona-fide Canadian music icons. Their new album, Way Down Here was co-produced by Blue Rodeo’s Greg Keelor at his beautiful barn studio in rural Ontario and features the band's most mature, captivating and impressive collection of songs to date.

Cuff the Duke started out in Oshawa before making the move to Toronto in 2002. Their debut album, Life Stories for Minimum Wage was released on Three Gut Records, at the time one of the most exciting indie-labels in Canada. Their second and third albums, Cuff the Duke and Sidelines and the City respectively, were both released on Hardwood Records alongside label mates Basia Bulat and Hayden.

Last year the band won accolades backing Hayden on his Canadian and North American tours.

Having played in venues ranging from Canada’s small clubs to many of the country's largest arenas and concert auditoriums, Cuff the Duke have earned their road stripes -- and now with the release of Way Down Here, they are sure to earn a place in the hearts of music lovers everywhere. Watch for it in stores and online in Canada in September, and in the USA in January via The Ernest Jenning Record Co.

WAYNE PETTI
Electric and Acoustic Guitar, Organ, Piano and Lead Vocals

PAUL LOWMAN
Electric and Stand Up Bass, Piano, Organ and Vocals

DALE MURRAY
Electric, Acoustic and Baritone Guitar, Pedal Steel and Vocals

COREY WOOD
Drums, Percussion and Vocals


Life Stories for Minimum Wage
CD - 2002

Cuff the Duke
CD - 2005 - Hardwood

Sidelines In the City
CD/VINYL - 2007 - Hardwood


WAY DOWN HERE
CD/VINYL
CDN - Noble Recording Co./Universal (Sept. 8, 2009)
USA - Ernest Jenning Record Co. (January 2010)

Recorded in the middle of nowhere in the middle of the winter of 2009, Way Down Here was produced by Blue Rodeo's Greg Keelor and Cuff The Duke.
In stores and online Sept. 8th in Canada and January 2010 in the USA.




Cuff The Duke 'The Ballad of Poor John Henry'

Music News & Notes

SECRETS OF THE MOON: 'Privilegivm' Artwork Unveiled

German progressive black metallers SECRETS OF THE MOON will release their new album, "Privilegivm", on September 11 in Germany and September 14 in the rest of Europe via Prophecy Productions. According to the band. The CD's cover art was designed by "France's best media artist" Metastazis.

"Privilegivm" was was produced by Markus Stock and was mastered by Peter in De Betou at Stockholm, Sweden's Tailor Maid Production.

The group also recorded two more tracks, including the cover of a song from "a well-known band."

SECRETS OF THE MOON last year announced the addition of guitarist K.S.A. to the group's ranks. According to the band, "His skills and his exigent nature just feel right for the band and he already contributed some extremely good ideas to what will become the new album."

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Sonata Arctica Unveil Cover Art And Tracklisting For New Album


SONATA ARCTICA, hailing from Finland, have unveiled the new artwork, track listing as well as the album title of their forthcoming album.

“THE DAYS OF GRAYS” will see a worldwide release (excluding Asia) through Nuclear Blast Records on September 21st, 2009

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AWAKEN DEMONS Signs With TRUSTKILL RECORDS

Cesena, Italy's AWAKEN DEMONS has inked a deal with Trustkill Records. The band's new album, "The Mirror", will be released on CD and vinyl on August 25. According to a press release, the CD contains "10 songs of pure aggression" and includes guest appearances by Vincent Bennet (THE ACACIA STRAIN) and Karl Buechner (EARTH CRISIS). Both the European version of the CD and the vinyl release will feature exclusive and rare bonus tracks.

Look for the band to invade the U.S. in 2009 with a full tour kicking off in September as well as a full European tour in November and December.

AWAKEN DEMONS released its debut album, "From Heaven To Hell", in 2007 through Seventh Dagger and subsequently invaded the U.S. with their friends xAFBx and RHINOCEROS.

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Sir Paul- The Political Beatle?

So he says, 40 years later, hmmm. Sir Paul has said that it is he who turned the Beatles on to politics, introducing John, Paul and Ringo to the evils of the Vietnam war.

Whereas John Lennon was widely considered the "political one," penning songs like "Revolution" and "Give Peace a Chance" Sir McCartney is now presenting an alternative history. In a forthcoming interview with Prospect Magazine, Sir Paul claims to have been the catalyst for the group's anti-war position.

"Just when we were getting to be well known, someone said to me: 'Bertrand Russell is living not far from here in Chelsea, why don't you go and see him?'" McCartney said. Russell, then in his 90s, was a prominent philosopher and activist. "So I just took a taxi down there and knocked on the door."

"He was fabulous. He told me about the Vietnam war – most of us didn't know about it, it wasn't yet in the papers – and also that it was a very bad war. I remember going back to the studio either that evening or the next day and telling the guys, particularly John, about this meeting and saying what a bad war this was.

"I politicized the Beatles," McCartney insists.

And now he has passed the "megaphone" to a new generation of political artists, he said. People like Bono. Yeah, Ok Sir Paul, we believe you. Yeah, and I am the freaking walrus (how odd for the truth to come out now because John lennon IS the political Beatle- always was- always will be!)

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Should Be A Good Flick

The history of the electric guitar as seen from the point of view of three significant musicians: Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, U2's The Edge and the White Stripes' Jack White: