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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Mr. Music ~ Jerry Osborne
I am continuing our new feature: Ask "Mr. Music." Now in its 23rd year of syndication (1986-2008), Jerry Osborne's weekly Q&A feature will be a regular post every Wednesday from now on. Be sure to stop by Jerry's site (www.jerryosborne.com) for more Mr. Music archives, record price guides, anything Elvis, buy & sell collectibles, record appraisals and much more. I thank Jerry for allowing the reprints.
FOR THE WEEK OF JULY 20, 2009
DEAR JERRY: Over the years I have seen you cure some challenging cases of earworms. Does the medical profession have a name for that area of specialization?
Tricky and creative wording has always appealed to me, and two examples lodged in my brain require your expertise.
One, by a male singer, has a string of rhyming words that all end in “zing.” I recall two of them to be “analyzing” and “criticizing.”
What is this title and the sequence of the “zing” words?
The other is by a woman who uses this same line twice in a row, yet each with somewhat different meaning: “I have to accept the fact that I have to accept the fact that,” etc.
Hurry, before these worms begin to multiply.
—Sandy Frye, York, Pa.
DEAR SANDY: The wormy examples threatening to fry the Frye brain (since you like wacky wording) are written and recorded by two geniuses of the music industry: Ray Stevens and Donna Fargo.
In his 1970 hit, “Have a Little Talk with Myself” (Monument 1171), Stevens lists some steps for self-improvement.
Here are the zingers in the order cited: analyzing; recognizing; itemizing; criticizing; realizing; organizing; summarizing; and ostracizing.
Your second melodious invertebrate is Donna Fargo's “It Do Feel Good” (ABC 17541). Released in 1975, this tune became her biggest hit of that year.
In it she muses: “I've got to accept the fact that I have to accept the fact that, love goes through changes just like we do.”
Two other instances of amusing wording just came to me, so let me share them:
In “Rio Bravo,” Dean Martin sings “By the river Rio Bravo, I walk all alone, and I wonder as I wander.”
Then there is Loretta Lynn, whose autobiographical “Coal Miner's Daughter” includes “I remember well, the well where I drew water.”
Remember, you read this here first: one who specializes in the treatment and eradication of troublesome earworms is an otologi-helminthologist.
Now I have to order new business cards.
DEAR JERRY: On Burt Bacharach's first chart hit, “Saturday Sunshine” (1963), the only artist credited on the record is “Burt Bacharach.”
Yet the lead vocal is by a young boy, accompanied by female backup singers.
I have never seen anything that identifies the boy, and later issues of the song are either instrumentals or have Burt Bacharach singing the song.
Can it be no one knows this kid?
—George Stoken, Moline, Ill.
DEAR GEORGE: In this age of information, you wouldn't think so. Yet …
Knowing there is not much about Burt that isn't covered online, I jumped on bacharachonline.com, a discussion forum that is all Burt all the time.
Turns out there are dozens of Bachoholics wondering the same thing.
Here is an excerpt from a post from steveo_1965:
“This is a piece of trivia that has been bugging me for years. The only way we will ever know is if someone, such as that particular person, or one the other singers reads this and comes forward to enlighten us.”
Okay, so far no one seems to know the “Saturday Sunshine” singer, but that was before we took the case.
Some may recall a few years ago when we unearthed Mike Redway, the uncredited singer of “Casino Royale” (film version) — coincidentally another Bacharach composition.
We have received unsolicited comments and helpful details from countless recording artists and others in the industry. It would not be a surprise to find the mystery singer's name in my inbox one day soon.
IZ ZAT SO? From 1952 through 1990, Burt Bacharach either wrote or co-wrote 101 Top 100 hit songs.
Two-thirds of those (66) made their way into the top 40, and 28 reached the Top 10.
And these six went all the way to No. 1: “This Guy's in Love with You” (Herb Alpert, 1968); “Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head” (B.J. Thomas, 1969); “(They Long to Be) Close to You” (Carpenters, 1970); “Arthur's Theme (The Best That You Can Do)” (Christopher Cross, 1981); “That's What Friends Are For” (Dionne Warwick and Friends: Elton John, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder, 1985); “On My Own” (Patti Labelle and Michael McDonald, 1986).
With a resume like this we'd better add Burt to today's list of anointed geniuses.
Copyright 2009 Osbourne Enterprises- Reprinted By Permission
FOR THE WEEK OF JULY 20, 2009
DEAR JERRY: Over the years I have seen you cure some challenging cases of earworms. Does the medical profession have a name for that area of specialization?
Tricky and creative wording has always appealed to me, and two examples lodged in my brain require your expertise.
One, by a male singer, has a string of rhyming words that all end in “zing.” I recall two of them to be “analyzing” and “criticizing.”
What is this title and the sequence of the “zing” words?
The other is by a woman who uses this same line twice in a row, yet each with somewhat different meaning: “I have to accept the fact that I have to accept the fact that,” etc.
Hurry, before these worms begin to multiply.
—Sandy Frye, York, Pa.
DEAR SANDY: The wormy examples threatening to fry the Frye brain (since you like wacky wording) are written and recorded by two geniuses of the music industry: Ray Stevens and Donna Fargo.
In his 1970 hit, “Have a Little Talk with Myself” (Monument 1171), Stevens lists some steps for self-improvement.
Here are the zingers in the order cited: analyzing; recognizing; itemizing; criticizing; realizing; organizing; summarizing; and ostracizing.
Your second melodious invertebrate is Donna Fargo's “It Do Feel Good” (ABC 17541). Released in 1975, this tune became her biggest hit of that year.
In it she muses: “I've got to accept the fact that I have to accept the fact that, love goes through changes just like we do.”
Two other instances of amusing wording just came to me, so let me share them:
In “Rio Bravo,” Dean Martin sings “By the river Rio Bravo, I walk all alone, and I wonder as I wander.”
Then there is Loretta Lynn, whose autobiographical “Coal Miner's Daughter” includes “I remember well, the well where I drew water.”
Remember, you read this here first: one who specializes in the treatment and eradication of troublesome earworms is an otologi-helminthologist.
Now I have to order new business cards.
DEAR JERRY: On Burt Bacharach's first chart hit, “Saturday Sunshine” (1963), the only artist credited on the record is “Burt Bacharach.”
Yet the lead vocal is by a young boy, accompanied by female backup singers.
I have never seen anything that identifies the boy, and later issues of the song are either instrumentals or have Burt Bacharach singing the song.
Can it be no one knows this kid?
—George Stoken, Moline, Ill.
DEAR GEORGE: In this age of information, you wouldn't think so. Yet …
Knowing there is not much about Burt that isn't covered online, I jumped on bacharachonline.com, a discussion forum that is all Burt all the time.
Turns out there are dozens of Bachoholics wondering the same thing.
Here is an excerpt from a post from steveo_1965:
“This is a piece of trivia that has been bugging me for years. The only way we will ever know is if someone, such as that particular person, or one the other singers reads this and comes forward to enlighten us.”
Okay, so far no one seems to know the “Saturday Sunshine” singer, but that was before we took the case.
Some may recall a few years ago when we unearthed Mike Redway, the uncredited singer of “Casino Royale” (film version) — coincidentally another Bacharach composition.
We have received unsolicited comments and helpful details from countless recording artists and others in the industry. It would not be a surprise to find the mystery singer's name in my inbox one day soon.
IZ ZAT SO? From 1952 through 1990, Burt Bacharach either wrote or co-wrote 101 Top 100 hit songs.
Two-thirds of those (66) made their way into the top 40, and 28 reached the Top 10.
And these six went all the way to No. 1: “This Guy's in Love with You” (Herb Alpert, 1968); “Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head” (B.J. Thomas, 1969); “(They Long to Be) Close to You” (Carpenters, 1970); “Arthur's Theme (The Best That You Can Do)” (Christopher Cross, 1981); “That's What Friends Are For” (Dionne Warwick and Friends: Elton John, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder, 1985); “On My Own” (Patti Labelle and Michael McDonald, 1986).
With a resume like this we'd better add Burt to today's list of anointed geniuses.
Copyright 2009 Osbourne Enterprises- Reprinted By Permission
Music News & Notes, New Album Cover Art
Echoes of Eternity Reveals New Album, "As Shadows Burn," Details
Guitarist/songwriter Brandon S. Patton checks in from Los Angeles about ECHOES OF ETERNITY’s sophomore album:
"Working with Logan Mader on As Shadows Burn was amazing. We had a lot of respect for him from the start, given his experience as a professional guitarist with Machine Head in the ‘90s and the great work he's done as a mixer and producer in recent years, the most recent Gojira album being a prime example."
"The difference between our debut album and this second album is night and day! On the first album, the mix was really uneven and the vocals had WAY too much effects on them. On As Shadows Burn, we captured a much more natural feel as a band. It doesn't sound so fucking processed and stiff. The guitars and drumming are way more aggressive and the band is smokin', with the whole album being slam-packed with killer riffs. The production and mix is a million times better. And Francine [Boucher] delivers an AMAZING vocal performance that is going to make people wake the fuck up. Even if you've made up your mind that you hate female-fronted metal, you are probably going to dig this record because first and foremost, its a KILLER metal record."
"The title of the album actually came from a line in the chorus of the song 'Veiled Horizon.' It was short and evoked strong imagery in our mind. We thought that title would lead to a really cool album cover if we worked with the right artist. And it did. [Brazilian artist] Gustavo Sazes (Old Man’s Child, Firewind, God Forbid) really nailed it!"
"We would love to take this bad boy on the road in 2010. It would be a damned shame if we didn't because we designed this record to fucking kick ass live! We missed a great chance to do a tour at the beginning of next year, so we are hanging tight for the right tour offer so we can get out on the road."
"As Shadows Burn" will be released in North America on September 22, 2009.
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SCAR SYMMETRY: New Album Title, Artwork Revealed
Swedish melodic progressive death metallers SCAR SYMMETRY have set "Dark Matter Dimensions" as the title of their new album, due in October via Nuclear Blast Records.
Check out the cover artwork below.
SCAR SYMMETRY parted ways with singer Christian Älvestam last year due to "business and creative differences and lack of interpersonal chemistry." The band explained at the time, "We came to a point where the band's existence was in jeopardy because of these differences, and the only way for us to continue with an inspired state of mind was to go through with this change in the lineup."
Christian has since been replaced by Roberth Karlsson (lead growl vocals and backing clean vocals) and Lars Palmqvist (lead clean vocals and backing growl vocals).
SCAR SYMMETRY's latest album, "Holographic Universe", registered the following first-week chart positions in Europe:
Finland: #37
UK: #39 (Indie chart)
Austria: #65
Germany: #68
In the U.S., the CD debuted at No. 33 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.
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SIX FEET UNDER Recording New 'Graveyard Classics' Album
Florida-based death metallers SIX FEET UNDER have entered the studio to begin recording "Graveyard Classics 3". According to the band, "We are about 60% finished with tracking. Everything is going great and we are having a lot of fun laying these new songs down."
SIX FEET UNDER covered AC/DC's entire "Back In Black" album for "Graveyard Classics 2", which came out in October 2004.
The original "Graveyard Classics" LP, was released in October 2000. It included cover versions of BLACK SABBATH's "Sweet Leaf", DEEP PURPLE's "Smoke on the Water" and JIMI HENDRIX's "Purple Haze".
"Death Rituals" (2008), the latest album from SIX FEET UNDER, entered the German Media Control chart at position No. 64. The CD sold around 2,300 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The LP debuted at No. 14 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.
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Horse The Band Reveals New Album
Vagrant Records announces an October 6, 2009 release date for "Desperate Living," the fourth full-length from Southern California's Horse The Band. The twelve-track set was recorded at White Buffalo Studios in Los Angeles with producer Noah Shain and includes several special guests.
"Noah really cared about helping us get exactly the sound and feel we wanted on the record," said keyboardist Erik Engstrom. "We also have incredible guests on the record like classical pianist Valentina Lisitsa. She plays a Prokofiev piece (composed 100 years ago after his best friend shot himself in the face with a pistol) at the end of 'Rape Escape' which is possibly the most powerful song we've ever written. I'm a huge fan of hers and this is the first recording of her playing this piece of music –it's absolutely devastating."
Other guests include Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu in a noise and sound design production role and contributing vocals on the track "Shapeshift," which was recently released on limited edition 7" vinyl. K-SLAX, the mysterious underground rap sensation, guests on "Horse the song," and Ed Edge, whom fans know as the band's occasional triangle player, appears on "Big Business." The title track features The Number Twelve Looks Like You drummer, Jon Karel.
Horse The Band will be on the Never Say Die! Club Tour 2009 this fall and will be announcing their plans for a US tour soon. The band's 2008 Earth Tour was self-booked, self-financed, and covered 4 continents and 45 countries in just 3 months.
Horse The Band's current lineup is Nathan Winneke (vocals), David Isen (guitar), Erik Engstrom (keys), and Daniel Pouliot (drums)
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Marionette Reveals New Album
Sweden's Marionette has announced that their new album will be called "Enemies." "Enemies" will be released in October in Europe via Listenable Records. "Enemies" was recorded with a team of up-and-coming as well as established names in Swedish music including Pontus Hjelm (DEAD BY APRIL) and two-time Swedish Grammis award winning producer and songwriter Åke Parmerud. The album was mixed and mastered by Fredrik Nordström (IN FLAMES, AT THE GATES, BRING ME THE HORIZON) at Studio Fredman and Peter In De Betu (DIMMU BORGIR, ZONARIA) at Tailor Maid respectively in May 2009.
Aron discusses "Enemies:" “Unlike the recording process of Spite we recorded Enemies over a period of months, and we have had plenty of time to try new things in the studio to make the album absolutely insane. Every element that you heard on Spite has been taken to the extreme. At the same time, there is a clear evolution from Spite to Enemies. All of the live experience we have had while touring has made us more skillful as individual musicians and tighter as a band. All this will reflect itself on Enemies when it is in your hands this fall!”
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Beastie Boys Release Very Limited Vinyl Version Of Nas Collabo
Although their impending tour a new album are on hold due to an unfortunate health issue from group member MCA, the Beastie Boys plan to release a very limited 12" to indie record stores.
The limited record is of a live recording of their performance at this year's Bonnaroo Festival, when Nas joined the the trio on stage to perform a new track titled "Too Many Rappers" from the forthcoming album Hot Sauce Committee, due later this fall.
The 12" is limited to 5,000 copies, a move the Beasties did to return old school values, releasing music in a vinyl format before it goes out on a CD and digitally.
It is available now in stores.
For more information, visit RecordStoreDay.com
Adam "MC" Yauch of the Beastie Boys has been diagnosed with cancer of the salivary gland and must under go immediate surgery and a course of radiation.
Yauch made the announcement via video today, stating that his vocal chords are not affected and he is expected to make a full recovery. "I'm actually going to have to have surgery probably next week, coming up, and then after that have to have some radiation done, but the good news is that they did scans of my whole body and it's only localized in this one area, and it's not in a place that affects my voice."
Bacause of Yauch's illness, the group has decided to delay the release of their upcoming album, Hot Sauce Committee, Part 1 and cancel all immediate appearances, including those at festivals such as Lollapalooza, All Points West and Austin City Limits.
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Teenage Bottlerocket detail new album
Teenage Bottlerocket have revealed the title, track listing and cover art for their upcoming full-length and debut for Fat Wreck Chords. The record is titled They Came From The Shadows and is due out September 15, 2009. The band's previous full-length, Warning Device, was released in 2008, while a live album entitled Live in ’06 dropped earlier this year.
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Chuck Ragan announces limited picture disc
Chuck Ragan has announced plans to release a new limited edition picture disc. The bonus 7-inch includes a track from the new album, "Rotterdam", as well as an unreleased cover of "Coal Tattoo" from the Daytrotter Sessions.
The record will be sent out to people who pre-order Chuck's forthcoming album, Gold Country which is due out September 1, 2009.
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Sum 41 back in the studio
Sum 41 have posted another update. The band has wrapped up their tour with The Offspring and are now back in the studio to finish their album:
Now we're going to knuckle down and finish this album!! Deryck and I will probably start rehearsing once a week pretty soon and Cone will come down every month and we can battle about kick patterns, bass parts and guitar riffs. Hell, we'll even bring Brown Tom so he can add a new dynamic to the creative experience - strolling around in his tighty orangies.
The band released Underclass Hero in 2007.
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Drag The River to record new album this fall
In a recent interview with AltOhio, Jon Snodgrass mentioned that he and bandmate Chad Price will be recording a new Drag the River album in November and that at least some of it will be recorded in Austin, TX:
"I’ve been talking to Price, from Drag the River, and we’re talking about what to do next November in Austin. I’m thinking about going down a few days early, and just figuring out a little my part in what we’ll end up doing. So, we’re going to do another Drag the River record. I’ve got some songs written that definitely have to be for Drag the River, if I put them on a record of mine, people will just say that they sound like they should be on a Drag the River record. We’ve worked on a couple of ideas together already, which we’ve done in the past for sure; we definitely come in with almost complete songs and then try to help each other out. This time I think we might write more together. Don’t know though."
Drag The River's last proper full-length was 2008's You Can’t Live This Way, while a rarities collection entitled Bad at Breaking Up was released earlier this year. Snodgrass has kept busy in the meantime, releasing his first solo record Visitor’s Band earlier this year, and a split LP with Cory Branan via Suburban Home Records.
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Our Lady Peace New Album
Canadian alternative rock band, Our Lady Peace, return with their first album in four years. Burn Burn is the band's shortest album to date at 10 tracks. Their previous album, Healthy in Paranoid Times, was released in August 2005.
Our Lady Peace recently played at Ulrich City Centre in Lockport as part of the Molson Canal Concert Series.
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Set Your Goals Release
San Francisco pop punk band, Set Your Goals, release their second full-length album. This will Be the Death of Us is the band's debut on Epitaph Records. It is reported their manager paid $150,000 to their previous label, Eulogy Recordings, to buy out their contract.
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Rock & Roll 25th Acts Confirmed
It's being reported in Rolling Stone Magazine that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, U2, Paul Simon, Metallica, Eric Clapton, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Friends and Simon and Garfunkel are among the legendary artists confirmed for a landmark two-night concert event celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Sprawling across October 29th and 30th at New York’s Madison Square Garden, the shows will feature Hall of Fame acts sharing the stage with guests and collaborators, honoring their influences and essentially retracing the
history of rock in the process. For example, Crosby, Stills and Nash will share the stage with California-based artists while Metallica will lead a hard rock portion of the concerts. Stevie Wonder and Aretha Franklin will also each front a soul revue with Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra.
“These once-in-a-lifetime concerts are designed to celebrate the artists and their music,” said Jann S. Wenner, founder and editor of Rolling Stone and the event’s executive producer.
The Rock Hall is also planning a book and deluxe DVD set to mark its 25th anniversary. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: The First 25 Years will be published by Collins Design in September, and in August, Time Life will issue a nine-disc box set of highlights of the past induction ceremonies including never-before-seen footage.
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MJ Trading Cards
The Upper Deck Trading Card company is randomly inserting four different Jackson Icon cards in their upcoming UDx Baseball release, scheduled for August 4. The cards are in honor of his 1993 appearance at the Super Bowl. Two of the cards are shown below.
Guitarist/songwriter Brandon S. Patton checks in from Los Angeles about ECHOES OF ETERNITY’s sophomore album:"Working with Logan Mader on As Shadows Burn was amazing. We had a lot of respect for him from the start, given his experience as a professional guitarist with Machine Head in the ‘90s and the great work he's done as a mixer and producer in recent years, the most recent Gojira album being a prime example."
"The difference between our debut album and this second album is night and day! On the first album, the mix was really uneven and the vocals had WAY too much effects on them. On As Shadows Burn, we captured a much more natural feel as a band. It doesn't sound so fucking processed and stiff. The guitars and drumming are way more aggressive and the band is smokin', with the whole album being slam-packed with killer riffs. The production and mix is a million times better. And Francine [Boucher] delivers an AMAZING vocal performance that is going to make people wake the fuck up. Even if you've made up your mind that you hate female-fronted metal, you are probably going to dig this record because first and foremost, its a KILLER metal record."
"The title of the album actually came from a line in the chorus of the song 'Veiled Horizon.' It was short and evoked strong imagery in our mind. We thought that title would lead to a really cool album cover if we worked with the right artist. And it did. [Brazilian artist] Gustavo Sazes (Old Man’s Child, Firewind, God Forbid) really nailed it!"
"We would love to take this bad boy on the road in 2010. It would be a damned shame if we didn't because we designed this record to fucking kick ass live! We missed a great chance to do a tour at the beginning of next year, so we are hanging tight for the right tour offer so we can get out on the road."
"As Shadows Burn" will be released in North America on September 22, 2009.
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SCAR SYMMETRY: New Album Title, Artwork Revealed
Swedish melodic progressive death metallers SCAR SYMMETRY have set "Dark Matter Dimensions" as the title of their new album, due in October via Nuclear Blast Records.
Check out the cover artwork below.
SCAR SYMMETRY parted ways with singer Christian Älvestam last year due to "business and creative differences and lack of interpersonal chemistry." The band explained at the time, "We came to a point where the band's existence was in jeopardy because of these differences, and the only way for us to continue with an inspired state of mind was to go through with this change in the lineup."
Christian has since been replaced by Roberth Karlsson (lead growl vocals and backing clean vocals) and Lars Palmqvist (lead clean vocals and backing growl vocals).
SCAR SYMMETRY's latest album, "Holographic Universe", registered the following first-week chart positions in Europe:
Finland: #37
UK: #39 (Indie chart)
Austria: #65
Germany: #68
In the U.S., the CD debuted at No. 33 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.
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SIX FEET UNDER Recording New 'Graveyard Classics' Album
Florida-based death metallers SIX FEET UNDER have entered the studio to begin recording "Graveyard Classics 3". According to the band, "We are about 60% finished with tracking. Everything is going great and we are having a lot of fun laying these new songs down."
SIX FEET UNDER covered AC/DC's entire "Back In Black" album for "Graveyard Classics 2", which came out in October 2004.
The original "Graveyard Classics" LP, was released in October 2000. It included cover versions of BLACK SABBATH's "Sweet Leaf", DEEP PURPLE's "Smoke on the Water" and JIMI HENDRIX's "Purple Haze".
"Death Rituals" (2008), the latest album from SIX FEET UNDER, entered the German Media Control chart at position No. 64. The CD sold around 2,300 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The LP debuted at No. 14 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.
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Horse The Band Reveals New Album
Vagrant Records announces an October 6, 2009 release date for "Desperate Living," the fourth full-length from Southern California's Horse The Band. The twelve-track set was recorded at White Buffalo Studios in Los Angeles with producer Noah Shain and includes several special guests.
"Noah really cared about helping us get exactly the sound and feel we wanted on the record," said keyboardist Erik Engstrom. "We also have incredible guests on the record like classical pianist Valentina Lisitsa. She plays a Prokofiev piece (composed 100 years ago after his best friend shot himself in the face with a pistol) at the end of 'Rape Escape' which is possibly the most powerful song we've ever written. I'm a huge fan of hers and this is the first recording of her playing this piece of music –it's absolutely devastating."
Other guests include Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu in a noise and sound design production role and contributing vocals on the track "Shapeshift," which was recently released on limited edition 7" vinyl. K-SLAX, the mysterious underground rap sensation, guests on "Horse the song," and Ed Edge, whom fans know as the band's occasional triangle player, appears on "Big Business." The title track features The Number Twelve Looks Like You drummer, Jon Karel.
Horse The Band will be on the Never Say Die! Club Tour 2009 this fall and will be announcing their plans for a US tour soon. The band's 2008 Earth Tour was self-booked, self-financed, and covered 4 continents and 45 countries in just 3 months.
Horse The Band's current lineup is Nathan Winneke (vocals), David Isen (guitar), Erik Engstrom (keys), and Daniel Pouliot (drums)
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Marionette Reveals New Album
Sweden's Marionette has announced that their new album will be called "Enemies." "Enemies" will be released in October in Europe via Listenable Records. "Enemies" was recorded with a team of up-and-coming as well as established names in Swedish music including Pontus Hjelm (DEAD BY APRIL) and two-time Swedish Grammis award winning producer and songwriter Åke Parmerud. The album was mixed and mastered by Fredrik Nordström (IN FLAMES, AT THE GATES, BRING ME THE HORIZON) at Studio Fredman and Peter In De Betu (DIMMU BORGIR, ZONARIA) at Tailor Maid respectively in May 2009.Aron discusses "Enemies:" “Unlike the recording process of Spite we recorded Enemies over a period of months, and we have had plenty of time to try new things in the studio to make the album absolutely insane. Every element that you heard on Spite has been taken to the extreme. At the same time, there is a clear evolution from Spite to Enemies. All of the live experience we have had while touring has made us more skillful as individual musicians and tighter as a band. All this will reflect itself on Enemies when it is in your hands this fall!”
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Beastie Boys Release Very Limited Vinyl Version Of Nas Collabo
Although their impending tour a new album are on hold due to an unfortunate health issue from group member MCA, the Beastie Boys plan to release a very limited 12" to indie record stores.
The limited record is of a live recording of their performance at this year's Bonnaroo Festival, when Nas joined the the trio on stage to perform a new track titled "Too Many Rappers" from the forthcoming album Hot Sauce Committee, due later this fall.
The 12" is limited to 5,000 copies, a move the Beasties did to return old school values, releasing music in a vinyl format before it goes out on a CD and digitally.
It is available now in stores.
For more information, visit RecordStoreDay.com
Adam "MC" Yauch of the Beastie Boys has been diagnosed with cancer of the salivary gland and must under go immediate surgery and a course of radiation.
Yauch made the announcement via video today, stating that his vocal chords are not affected and he is expected to make a full recovery. "I'm actually going to have to have surgery probably next week, coming up, and then after that have to have some radiation done, but the good news is that they did scans of my whole body and it's only localized in this one area, and it's not in a place that affects my voice."
Bacause of Yauch's illness, the group has decided to delay the release of their upcoming album, Hot Sauce Committee, Part 1 and cancel all immediate appearances, including those at festivals such as Lollapalooza, All Points West and Austin City Limits.
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Teenage Bottlerocket detail new album
Teenage Bottlerocket have revealed the title, track listing and cover art for their upcoming full-length and debut for Fat Wreck Chords. The record is titled They Came From The Shadows and is due out September 15, 2009. The band's previous full-length, Warning Device, was released in 2008, while a live album entitled Live in ’06 dropped earlier this year.========================
Chuck Ragan announces limited picture disc
Chuck Ragan has announced plans to release a new limited edition picture disc. The bonus 7-inch includes a track from the new album, "Rotterdam", as well as an unreleased cover of "Coal Tattoo" from the Daytrotter Sessions.
The record will be sent out to people who pre-order Chuck's forthcoming album, Gold Country which is due out September 1, 2009.
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Sum 41 back in the studio
Sum 41 have posted another update. The band has wrapped up their tour with The Offspring and are now back in the studio to finish their album:
Now we're going to knuckle down and finish this album!! Deryck and I will probably start rehearsing once a week pretty soon and Cone will come down every month and we can battle about kick patterns, bass parts and guitar riffs. Hell, we'll even bring Brown Tom so he can add a new dynamic to the creative experience - strolling around in his tighty orangies.
The band released Underclass Hero in 2007.
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Drag The River to record new album this fall
In a recent interview with AltOhio, Jon Snodgrass mentioned that he and bandmate Chad Price will be recording a new Drag the River album in November and that at least some of it will be recorded in Austin, TX:
"I’ve been talking to Price, from Drag the River, and we’re talking about what to do next November in Austin. I’m thinking about going down a few days early, and just figuring out a little my part in what we’ll end up doing. So, we’re going to do another Drag the River record. I’ve got some songs written that definitely have to be for Drag the River, if I put them on a record of mine, people will just say that they sound like they should be on a Drag the River record. We’ve worked on a couple of ideas together already, which we’ve done in the past for sure; we definitely come in with almost complete songs and then try to help each other out. This time I think we might write more together. Don’t know though."
Drag The River's last proper full-length was 2008's You Can’t Live This Way, while a rarities collection entitled Bad at Breaking Up was released earlier this year. Snodgrass has kept busy in the meantime, releasing his first solo record Visitor’s Band earlier this year, and a split LP with Cory Branan via Suburban Home Records.
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Our Lady Peace New Album
Canadian alternative rock band, Our Lady Peace, return with their first album in four years. Burn Burn is the band's shortest album to date at 10 tracks. Their previous album, Healthy in Paranoid Times, was released in August 2005.
Our Lady Peace recently played at Ulrich City Centre in Lockport as part of the Molson Canal Concert Series.
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Set Your Goals Release
San Francisco pop punk band, Set Your Goals, release their second full-length album. This will Be the Death of Us is the band's debut on Epitaph Records. It is reported their manager paid $150,000 to their previous label, Eulogy Recordings, to buy out their contract.
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Rock & Roll 25th Acts Confirmed
It's being reported in Rolling Stone Magazine that Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, U2, Paul Simon, Metallica, Eric Clapton, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Friends and Simon and Garfunkel are among the legendary artists confirmed for a landmark two-night concert event celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Sprawling across October 29th and 30th at New York’s Madison Square Garden, the shows will feature Hall of Fame acts sharing the stage with guests and collaborators, honoring their influences and essentially retracing the
history of rock in the process. For example, Crosby, Stills and Nash will share the stage with California-based artists while Metallica will lead a hard rock portion of the concerts. Stevie Wonder and Aretha Franklin will also each front a soul revue with Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra.
“These once-in-a-lifetime concerts are designed to celebrate the artists and their music,” said Jann S. Wenner, founder and editor of Rolling Stone and the event’s executive producer.
The Rock Hall is also planning a book and deluxe DVD set to mark its 25th anniversary. The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: The First 25 Years will be published by Collins Design in September, and in August, Time Life will issue a nine-disc box set of highlights of the past induction ceremonies including never-before-seen footage.
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MJ Trading Cards
The Upper Deck Trading Card company is randomly inserting four different Jackson Icon cards in their upcoming UDx Baseball release, scheduled for August 4. The cards are in honor of his 1993 appearance at the Super Bowl. Two of the cards are shown below.
Vinyl records firm presses on
Louis Aguilar / The Detroit News
Detroit -- If ever a National Register of Historic, Cool, Hard-core, 20th-Century Machinery is created, Archer Record Pressing would be a landmark.
Archer is one of the last companies in the world still making vinyl records -- a technology the corporate music industry decided to banish four decades ago.
This third-generation family business doesn't fear the death of vinyl: There's always a subculture of musicians that want their work on albums. Archer fears its massive record machines will die. And the machines constantly break down.
"We rely on the best of 1970s technology," said Joe Archer, whose father Norm, started the business in 1965.
The company has no choice. The last record-making machine is believed to have been made in 1986, according to various Web sites dedicated to vinyl records.
The five presses at Archer were bought from the other record press companies that went under decades ago.
A sole company in North America sells the specialized parts for the machines. At its core, a record-making machine is a hydraulic press with a closing force of 100 tons. It has steam pipes, tubes, buttons, motors, molds and mechanical doo-dads specific to mass-producing vinyl.
In operation, the machines produce a kind of score of heavy industry sounds. The boom of the press can be heard a half-block away. There's a rhythm of hissing steam, a hydraulic whoosh, a high-pitched metallic slice, the low rumble of a generator.
Few know how to fix the record machines. One is Mike Archer, 43, who learned by growing up watching Joe, his father, fix them.
"It's a daily battle," Mike Archer said. "They're finicky machines. If your scrap rate starts going up, you start looking at the press and say, 'All right, what are you doing to me today?'" Scrap rate refers to the number of defective records.
"You try to isolate what's happening and narrow it down, narrow it down. Is it pneumatic? Electrical? Steam? Most times, it's an issue that takes two or three minutes to deal with. Sometimes, you can scratch your head for two or three hours. Once every couple months, you can feel like the sky is falling."
It is unclear how many record-making companies still exist. Web sites count between eight and 10 worldwide, and three to five in the United States.
Mike Archer knows of two that went under during the past year because their aging owners could not find anyone who wanted to take them over.
Archer has two full-time employees, including 25-year veteran Ken Moravcik. But only Mike and Joe know how to fix the machines.
"It would be a steep learning curve, but you could do it," Mike Archer said. "It's too bad we can't get some apprenticeship program going."
Archer Record Pressing is a landmark to some, including employee Andy Garcia, 33, a devotee of Detroit techno music.
"It's almost holy to me," he said.
Archer Records has survived thanks in no small part to the many Detroit techno artists who rely on vinyl to spin during their performances. Virtually every major Detroit techno artist, who often has their own record label, relies on Archer.
"Every album I ever (bought) had Archer Record on it," said Garcia, who grew up in Anderson, Ind. "When I moved to Detroit, I begged for a job here. I remember when I first came, I thought the place would be a little more spectacular.
"Detroit's like that: It's spectacular where it counts."
Another fan is longtime client Theo Parrish, an international techno artist whose label Sound Signature has had more than 30 albums made at Archer.
"Some of the most amazing dance records that have come out in the last 10 years have come out of this place," Parrish said.
He often stops by Archer when his albums are being pressed. "My thoughts are being translated into the physical universe right there. It's beautiful to see."
Parrish has been so moved by the sounds of the machines that he's producing a song based on them.
"That's one of the hearts of industrial Detroit to me," he said.
Archer has enjoyed a recent bounce in sales, although the owners decline to reveal specific figures.
"The iPod and file-sharing have actually been good to us. Some artists, especially independent rock bands, always want to ensure that enough people are actually buying their product," instead of downloading it for free, Mike Archer said.
"Vinyl will always be around. Whether there will be someone who has the will to mass-produce them? It can be done.
"But if someone will do it? That's a good question."
SOURCE: www.detnews.com
Detroit -- If ever a National Register of Historic, Cool, Hard-core, 20th-Century Machinery is created, Archer Record Pressing would be a landmark.
Archer is one of the last companies in the world still making vinyl records -- a technology the corporate music industry decided to banish four decades ago.
This third-generation family business doesn't fear the death of vinyl: There's always a subculture of musicians that want their work on albums. Archer fears its massive record machines will die. And the machines constantly break down.
"We rely on the best of 1970s technology," said Joe Archer, whose father Norm, started the business in 1965.
The company has no choice. The last record-making machine is believed to have been made in 1986, according to various Web sites dedicated to vinyl records.
The five presses at Archer were bought from the other record press companies that went under decades ago.
A sole company in North America sells the specialized parts for the machines. At its core, a record-making machine is a hydraulic press with a closing force of 100 tons. It has steam pipes, tubes, buttons, motors, molds and mechanical doo-dads specific to mass-producing vinyl.
In operation, the machines produce a kind of score of heavy industry sounds. The boom of the press can be heard a half-block away. There's a rhythm of hissing steam, a hydraulic whoosh, a high-pitched metallic slice, the low rumble of a generator.
Few know how to fix the record machines. One is Mike Archer, 43, who learned by growing up watching Joe, his father, fix them.
"It's a daily battle," Mike Archer said. "They're finicky machines. If your scrap rate starts going up, you start looking at the press and say, 'All right, what are you doing to me today?'" Scrap rate refers to the number of defective records.
"You try to isolate what's happening and narrow it down, narrow it down. Is it pneumatic? Electrical? Steam? Most times, it's an issue that takes two or three minutes to deal with. Sometimes, you can scratch your head for two or three hours. Once every couple months, you can feel like the sky is falling."
It is unclear how many record-making companies still exist. Web sites count between eight and 10 worldwide, and three to five in the United States.
Mike Archer knows of two that went under during the past year because their aging owners could not find anyone who wanted to take them over.
Archer has two full-time employees, including 25-year veteran Ken Moravcik. But only Mike and Joe know how to fix the machines.
"It would be a steep learning curve, but you could do it," Mike Archer said. "It's too bad we can't get some apprenticeship program going."
Archer Record Pressing is a landmark to some, including employee Andy Garcia, 33, a devotee of Detroit techno music.
"It's almost holy to me," he said.
Archer Records has survived thanks in no small part to the many Detroit techno artists who rely on vinyl to spin during their performances. Virtually every major Detroit techno artist, who often has their own record label, relies on Archer.
"Every album I ever (bought) had Archer Record on it," said Garcia, who grew up in Anderson, Ind. "When I moved to Detroit, I begged for a job here. I remember when I first came, I thought the place would be a little more spectacular.
"Detroit's like that: It's spectacular where it counts."
Another fan is longtime client Theo Parrish, an international techno artist whose label Sound Signature has had more than 30 albums made at Archer.
"Some of the most amazing dance records that have come out in the last 10 years have come out of this place," Parrish said.
He often stops by Archer when his albums are being pressed. "My thoughts are being translated into the physical universe right there. It's beautiful to see."
Parrish has been so moved by the sounds of the machines that he's producing a song based on them.
"That's one of the hearts of industrial Detroit to me," he said.
Archer has enjoyed a recent bounce in sales, although the owners decline to reveal specific figures.
"The iPod and file-sharing have actually been good to us. Some artists, especially independent rock bands, always want to ensure that enough people are actually buying their product," instead of downloading it for free, Mike Archer said.
"Vinyl will always be around. Whether there will be someone who has the will to mass-produce them? It can be done.
"But if someone will do it? That's a good question."
SOURCE: www.detnews.com
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Pink Floyd & The Moon
Yesterday marked the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11’s landing on the moon.
Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour watched the lunar landing on July 20th, but recently wrote in The Guardian that he and his bandmates were live-soundtracking the event for the BBC. The resulting jam was called “Moonhead,” a song that has frequently popped up on Floyd bootlegs throughout the years but never officially released.
“[Pink Floyd] were in a BBC TV studio jamming to the landing. It was a live broadcast, and there was a panel of scientists on one side of the studio, with us on the other. I was 23,” Gilmour writes in the Guardian. “The programming was a little looser in those days, and if a producer of a late-night programme felt like it, they would do something a bit off the wall. Funnily enough I’ve never really heard it since, but it is on YouTube.”
“It was fantastic to be thinking that we were in there making up a piece of music, while the astronauts were standing on the moon. It doesn’t seem conceivable that that would happen on the BBC nowadays,” Gilmour says in his Guardian piece. “We didn’t make any songs out of the jam session. We did, on occasions, do music live that would be a jam session of some sort… And I’ve heard documentaries where I recognize my music. It’s very odd to be watching a documentary and to hear something that you know is yourself, but you have no recognition of when you did it or how. I’ve never forgotten Moonhead, though. After all, it’s not hard to remember exactly where I was.”
Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour watched the lunar landing on July 20th, but recently wrote in The Guardian that he and his bandmates were live-soundtracking the event for the BBC. The resulting jam was called “Moonhead,” a song that has frequently popped up on Floyd bootlegs throughout the years but never officially released.
“[Pink Floyd] were in a BBC TV studio jamming to the landing. It was a live broadcast, and there was a panel of scientists on one side of the studio, with us on the other. I was 23,” Gilmour writes in the Guardian. “The programming was a little looser in those days, and if a producer of a late-night programme felt like it, they would do something a bit off the wall. Funnily enough I’ve never really heard it since, but it is on YouTube.”
“It was fantastic to be thinking that we were in there making up a piece of music, while the astronauts were standing on the moon. It doesn’t seem conceivable that that would happen on the BBC nowadays,” Gilmour says in his Guardian piece. “We didn’t make any songs out of the jam session. We did, on occasions, do music live that would be a jam session of some sort… And I’ve heard documentaries where I recognize my music. It’s very odd to be watching a documentary and to hear something that you know is yourself, but you have no recognition of when you did it or how. I’ve never forgotten Moonhead, though. After all, it’s not hard to remember exactly where I was.”
New Music Releases- July 21
13th Floor Elevators - Psychedelic Circus
Aspects of Physics: Marginalized Information Forms 3: Other [Imputor? Records]
Average White Band - Warmer Communications
Awol One & Factor: Owl Hours [Fake Four Inc.]
Bad Company - Bad Company
Bad Religion - Stranger Than Fiction Collectible red vinyl reissue
Bad Veins: Bad Veins [Dangerbird Records]
Ben E. King - Supernatural / Benny & Us
Benny Andersson Band - Story of a Heart
Bert Jansch - A Rare Conundrum
Betty LaVette - Change Is Gonna Come Sessions
Bikini Kill: "New Radio" [7"] [Kill Rock Stars][reissue]
Billy Childish - Archive From 1959: The Billy Childish Story 3xLP
Bird Names: Sings the Browns [Upset the Rhythm]
Birds of Avalon: Uncanny Valley [Volcom Entertainment]
Black Kids, "Partie Traumatic" (Red Ink)
Black Sabbath, "The Rules of Hell" (Rhino)
Bo Diddley - Ride On/The Chess Masters, Volume 3 2XCD
Bo Diddley - Ride On: The Chess Masters, Volume 3 - 1960-1961
Boy in Static: Candy Cigarette [Fake Four Inc.]
Bronze Nazareth: Bronzestrumentals Vol. 1 [Babygrande]
David Bowie, "Live in Santa Monica '72" (Virgin)
Candlebox, "Into the Sun" (Silent Majority)
Cheap Trick - The Latest
Clark: Totems Flare [Warp Records]
Cock Sparrer: Here We Stand [Pirates Press]
Dr. Dog, "Fate" (Park the Van)
Bob Dylan, "Best of Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour Vol. 2" (Video Music)
Noel Gourdin, "After My Time" (Epic)
Buddy Guy, "Skin Deep" (Zomba)
Janis Ian, "Best of Janis Ian--The Autobiography Collection" (Rude Girl)
Dave Seaman - This Is Audio Therapy, Volume Two
David Soul - Playing to an Audience of One
Deep Purple - In Rock (Audio Fidelity)
Delbert McClinton - Honky Tonkin' All Night
Discovery - LP LP+MP3
Eyedea & Abilities: By the Throat [Rhymesayers]
Factor: Chandelier [Fake Four Inc.]
Floating Action: Floating Action [Park the Van]
Generationals: Con Law [Park The Van]
Government Issue - Punk Remains The Same
Gordon Giltrap & Rick Wakeman - From Brush & Stone
Greg Davis: Mutually Arising [Kranky]
Helen Reddy - Rarities From the Capitol Vaults
High Places/Soft Circle: Split 12" [Post Present Medium]
I Roy - Original Deejay At King Tubby’s
Ian Hunter - Man Overboard
Incubus - Monuments And Melodies
Nick Lowe - Brentford Trilogy 3xCD
Jay & the Americans - Complete United Artist Singles
Jefferson Airplane - Thirty Seconds Over Winterland (with Bonus Tracks)
Jimi Hendrix - Live at Woodstock
Kenny Loggins - All Join In
Lights: Rites [Drag City]
Lorne Greene - The Man (Bonus Tracks)
Maher Shalal Hash Baz: C'est La Dernière Chanson [K Records]
Megafaun: Gather, Form And Fly [Hometapes]
Michael Jackson - The Collection (5 CDs)
Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs – Under the Covers: Vol. 2
Jordin Sparks – Battlefield
Our Lady Peace – Burn Burn
Riceboy Sleeps – S/T
The Fiery Furnaces – I’m Going Away
Sugar Ray – Music for Cougars
Brooke Hogan – The Redemption
Portugal. The Man – The Satanic Satanist
Magnolia Electric Co. – Josephine
Wheat – White Ink, Black Ink
Young Jeezy – Old School Chevys/Drop Top Porsches
The Working Title – Bone Island
Mighty Sam McClain - Betcha Didn't Know
Modest Mouse - Perpetual Motion Machine 7”
Motley Crue - Live: Entertainment or Death
Mott the Hoople - All the Young Dudes (Live)
Netherfriends: Calling You Out [Emergency Umbrella]
Nick Lowe: Brentford Trilogy [Yep Roc Records]
Patti Smith - Peace and Noise (Remastered)
Peter Broderick: Falling From Trees [Western Vinyl]
Peter Hammill - Thin Air
Portugal The Man - Satanic Satanist
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Live at the Carousel Ballroom 1968 (2 LPs)
Riceboy Sleeps: Riceboy Sleeps [XL Records]
Rick Danko & Richard Manuel - Live in Scranton 85
Ricky Skaggs - Don't Cheat in Our Hometown (CD/DVD)
Robert Wyatt - Radio Experiment Rome, February 1981
Rolling Stones - Box Set (Amazon Exclusive) (13 CDs)
Roy Orbison & Faron Young - Sing Elvis Presley & Others
Sean Bones: Rings [Frenchkiss]
Silk Flowers: Silk Flowers [Post Present Medium]
Sinkane: Sinkane [Emergency Umbrella]
Soft Machine - Volume 2 (Remastered & Expanded)
Spindrift: The Legend of God's Gun [Tee Pee Recordings]
Starlight Mints: Change Remains [Barsuk Records]
Steve Hillage Band - Live at the Gong Unconvention
Sugar Ray - Music For Cougars
Sun Ra - Live in Paris at The “Gibus”
Talbot Tagora: Lessons in the Woods or a City [Hardly Art]
The (Beat) Farmers – Fulmination
The Fiery Furnaces – The End Is Near (mp3) from the forthcoming I’m Going Away
The Fiery Furnaces: I'm Going Away [Thrill Jockey]
The Skygreen Leopards: Gorgeous Johnny [Jagjaguwar]
Tommy Cash - Rise & Shine / Six White Horses
Various Artists - Land of a Thousand Dances: All Twistin' Edition
Various Artists (5th Dimension, Mamas & Papas, Rascals, more) - Chartbusters USA: Sunshine Pop
Various Artists (Aretha Franklin, Dusty Springfield, Hollies, more) - Wild Thing: The Songs of Chip Taylor
Wheat – I Met a Girl (mp3) from Per Second, Per Second, Per Second…Every Second
Wheat: White Ink, Black Ink [The Rebel Group]
Willie Bobo - Hell of an Act to Follow/Bobo
Wye Oak: The Knot [Merge]
Young Widows / My Disco - Young Widows Split Series: Volume 4 7”
Zak Sally: "Why We Hide" 7" [Sub Pop Records]
Music News & Notes
Suagr Ray Release
Sugar Ray will release "Music for Cougars," its first new studio album in some six years. The album was recorded last year after producer and Pulse label head Josh Abraham suggested the band record a new album on a small budget with the goal of simply having some fun and seeing what happens (via Billboard). The result is a 12-track effort that reportedly hears the band returning to the "lazy grooves, easy beats, and catchy harmonies" that gave the California rockers quite a bit of success in the 1990s.
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Riceboy Sleeps Debut
Tuesday will also mark the debut release of Riceboy Sleeps, the side-project of Sigur Rós singer Jón Þór Birgisson and partner Alex Somers. Their self-titled effort is an instrumental affair, featuring 68 minutes and nine tracks of acoustically-driven material.
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BALTIMOORE Album Coming In October
Swedish hard rockers BALTIMOORE will release their twelfth LP on October 30. The album's ten tracks were written this past spring by vocalist Björn Lodin and guitarist Lars Åke Löwin.
The recording lineup for the new CD is as follows:
Björn Lodin - Vocals, Guitar, Bass
Örjan Fernkvist - Keyboards
Lars-Åke Löwin - Guitar
Robban Bäck - Drums
BALTIMOORE's eleventh album, "Quick Fix", was released on May 15, 2009 via BLP Music. Written, engineered and produced by Lodin at his home studio — "the only thinkable method" — the effort saw a re-acquaintance with Hammond organist Örjan Fernkvist whose vintage tones brought back a more melodic edge after the last three dual guitar releases. In addition, the CD featured a new rhythm section of bassist Björn Lundkvist and drummer Robban Bäck (both from BALLS — the short-lived 2008 band involving Lodin) knit closely with a talented newcomer on guitar in the guise of Emanuel Hedberg.
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New MUSE Album, and They'll Open for U2 !
The British trio Muse have announced they're done recording their fifth album, entitled The Resistance, (due for a September 15 release by Warner Bros. Records). Produced by Muse, the album was mixed by famed audio engineer Mark ‘Spike’ Stent, who is known for his work with U2, Depeche Mode, No Doubt, and Oasis, among many others. In perfect timing, Muse will perform at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards on September 13, and the band will open several U2 shows (a daunting task), including two shows at Giants Stadium in E Rutherford, NJ
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Capitol/EMI Releasing 2-CD Edition of Duran Duran's Rio & CD/DVD Hammersmith '82 Concert Set
Capitol/EMI have announced a September 22 release date for two new Duran Duran products.
First up is the 2-CD deluxe edition of their landmark album Rio. Included on the first disc is the original U.K. mix plus additional versions of tracks remixed for the U.S. release. The second disc is demos, B-sides, and other rarities. For those that purchase the album as a digital download, you will receive two additional rare tracks.
The second release is Live at Hammersmith '82, recorded and filmed at the height of the initial Duran Duran fever. The DVD version includes the concert plus original Rio videos and two performances from the U.K.'s Top of the Pops program. A digital concert album will also be sold without any associated video tracks.
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DETHKLOK: New Album Details Revealed
"The Dethalbum II", the new album by DETHKLOK, the animated metal band from Adult Swim's "Metalocalypse", will be released on September 8 via Williams Street Records. The effort features 12 full-length tracks detailing DETHKLOK's exploits in murder, mayhem and all things brutal. Written by series co-creator Brendon Small and recorded alongside legendary drummer Gene Hoglan, "Dethklok: The Dethalbum II" will be released as both a standard edition and a two-disc deluxe edition on CD and digital download beginning September 8. Additionally, a limited edition vinyl of the album will be released in to local record shops on September 29.
Sugar Ray will release "Music for Cougars," its first new studio album in some six years. The album was recorded last year after producer and Pulse label head Josh Abraham suggested the band record a new album on a small budget with the goal of simply having some fun and seeing what happens (via Billboard). The result is a 12-track effort that reportedly hears the band returning to the "lazy grooves, easy beats, and catchy harmonies" that gave the California rockers quite a bit of success in the 1990s.
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Riceboy Sleeps Debut
Tuesday will also mark the debut release of Riceboy Sleeps, the side-project of Sigur Rós singer Jón Þór Birgisson and partner Alex Somers. Their self-titled effort is an instrumental affair, featuring 68 minutes and nine tracks of acoustically-driven material.
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BALTIMOORE Album Coming In October
Swedish hard rockers BALTIMOORE will release their twelfth LP on October 30. The album's ten tracks were written this past spring by vocalist Björn Lodin and guitarist Lars Åke Löwin.
The recording lineup for the new CD is as follows:
Björn Lodin - Vocals, Guitar, Bass
Örjan Fernkvist - Keyboards
Lars-Åke Löwin - Guitar
Robban Bäck - Drums
BALTIMOORE's eleventh album, "Quick Fix", was released on May 15, 2009 via BLP Music. Written, engineered and produced by Lodin at his home studio — "the only thinkable method" — the effort saw a re-acquaintance with Hammond organist Örjan Fernkvist whose vintage tones brought back a more melodic edge after the last three dual guitar releases. In addition, the CD featured a new rhythm section of bassist Björn Lundkvist and drummer Robban Bäck (both from BALLS — the short-lived 2008 band involving Lodin) knit closely with a talented newcomer on guitar in the guise of Emanuel Hedberg.
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New MUSE Album, and They'll Open for U2 !
The British trio Muse have announced they're done recording their fifth album, entitled The Resistance, (due for a September 15 release by Warner Bros. Records). Produced by Muse, the album was mixed by famed audio engineer Mark ‘Spike’ Stent, who is known for his work with U2, Depeche Mode, No Doubt, and Oasis, among many others. In perfect timing, Muse will perform at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards on September 13, and the band will open several U2 shows (a daunting task), including two shows at Giants Stadium in E Rutherford, NJ
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Capitol/EMI Releasing 2-CD Edition of Duran Duran's Rio & CD/DVD Hammersmith '82 Concert Set
Capitol/EMI have announced a September 22 release date for two new Duran Duran products.
First up is the 2-CD deluxe edition of their landmark album Rio. Included on the first disc is the original U.K. mix plus additional versions of tracks remixed for the U.S. release. The second disc is demos, B-sides, and other rarities. For those that purchase the album as a digital download, you will receive two additional rare tracks.
The second release is Live at Hammersmith '82, recorded and filmed at the height of the initial Duran Duran fever. The DVD version includes the concert plus original Rio videos and two performances from the U.K.'s Top of the Pops program. A digital concert album will also be sold without any associated video tracks.
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DETHKLOK: New Album Details Revealed
"The Dethalbum II", the new album by DETHKLOK, the animated metal band from Adult Swim's "Metalocalypse", will be released on September 8 via Williams Street Records. The effort features 12 full-length tracks detailing DETHKLOK's exploits in murder, mayhem and all things brutal. Written by series co-creator Brendon Small and recorded alongside legendary drummer Gene Hoglan, "Dethklok: The Dethalbum II" will be released as both a standard edition and a two-disc deluxe edition on CD and digital download beginning September 8. Additionally, a limited edition vinyl of the album will be released in to local record shops on September 29.
Michael Jackson's Thriller Set To Become Top-Selling Album Of All Time
RIAA says Jackson classic is poised to surpass Eagles' greatest-hits collection in U.S. sales.
In the weeks since Michael Jackson's death, his posthumous sales have been breaking long standing sales records, regularly outperforming the top new releases on the Billboard albums chart. Jackson's "Number Ones" has faired the best, but demand for his classic "Thriller" isn't far behind. In fact, sales have been so robust that the Recording Industry Association of America is reporting that "Thriller" is about to surpass the Eagles' Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975) as the top-selling album of all time.
"Their Greatest Hits" was certified platinum for the 29th time back in 2006, meaning that sales of the compilation surpassed 29 million copies in the United States. Meanwhile, "Thriller" was last certified in March, when it passed 28 million. Demand for physical copies of Jackson albums (an estimated 82 percent of his sales have been actual CDs) have ramped up the number of copies of "Thriller" in circulation, and the RIAA believes that said demand has brought the number up to 29 million.
That does not necessarily mean that "Thriller" has sold 29 million copies, as the RIAA's certification process is based on the number of albums shipped to stores, not necessarily the number actually scanned and sold. But based on the rabid consumption of Jackson's music in the past few weeks and the hard numbers released weekly by SoundScan, it's doubtful that there is much distance between the number of CDs shipped and the number sold. If the pace continues, "Thriller" will become the first album to go triple diamond, meaning 30 million albums sold.
The RIAA's certifications are simply a formality, though, as Jackson's "Thriller" is already recognized as the top-selling album according to worldwide sales. Though numbers vary, it's reasonable to estimate that the album has moved 110 million copies worldwide since its 1982 release. As a comparison, the Eagles' "Their Greatest Hits" has moved an estimated 42 million — a formidable number for sure, but less than half of Jackson's total.
This Date In Music History-July 21
Birthdays:
Kay Starr ("Rock & Roll Waltz") turns 87.
Producer Kim Fowley ("Alley-Oop", "Nutrocker" and the Runaways) is 67.
Barry Whitham - Herman's Hermits (1946)
Cat Stevens (1947)
Howie Epstein - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (1955)
Guitarist Jim Martin - formerly of Faith No More (1961)
Emerson Hart – Tonic (1969)
Rosie Hamlin of Rosie & the Originals ("Angel Baby") is 62.
They Are Missed:
Producer Gus Dudgeon was killed in a car accident in 2002. Best known for his work with Elton John, also produced David Bowie, The Beach Boys, Zombies, Kiki Dee, Strawbs, XTC, Joan Armatrading.
Composer Jerry Goldsmith died in 2004 after a long battle with cancer (age 75). Created the music for scores of classic movies and television shows such as Star Trek, Planet of the Apes, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Dr. Kildare.
Influential British Blues musician Long John Baldry died in Vancouver, B.C. in 2005 (age 64). Baldry's long and storied career included 40 albums. He was also a mentor to Rod Stewart, Jimmy Page and Mick Jagger. Baldry's band, Bluesology, had a young pianist named Reginald Dwight, who went on to become Elton John.
In 2007, Sharon Osbourne's music mogul father Don Arden died in a Los Angeles nursing home at the age of 81. Dubbed the Al Capone of Pop for his uncompromising business practices, he steered The Small Faces, Black Sabbath and ELO to stardom.
History:
In 1956, Johnny Cash went to #1 on the country chart with "I Walk the Line."
In 1956, Billboard called Elvis Presley "the most controversial entertainer since Liberace." The article also noted that Ed Sullivan, who once said Presley would never appear on his show, just signed the singer for three appearances.
Today in 1958, the song "Yakety Yak" by the Coasters topped the charts and stayed there for a week.
In 1969, the Beatles started work on the John Lennon song “Come Together” at Abbey Road studios in London.
Rod Stewart released “Never a Dull Moment” in 1972. The album peaked at #2 and has two top 40 hits, "You Wear it Well" and a re-make of Jimi Hendrix's "Angel."
Jim Croce started a two week run at #1 on the US singles chart in 1973 with “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.” Croce was killed in a plane crash three months later.
Robert Palmer's "Bad Case Of Loving You" was released in 1979.
In 1980, Keith Godchaux (Grateful Dead) was injured in a car accident. He died two days later.
Guns 'n Roses released their debut album, “Appetite For Destruction” in 1987.
In 1990, Roger Waters performed The Wall at Potsdamer Platz, Germany — the site of the former Berlin Wall. Other artists making guest appearances include Cyndi Lauper, Joni Mitchell, Bryan Adams and Phil Collins. At the end of the concert, a mock wall made of plastic foam fell. Proceeds from ticket sales went to an international fund for disaster relief.
In 1995, a judge in Los Angeles threw out a lawsuit against Michael Jackson by five of his former security guards. The guards had claimed they were fired for knowing too much about night-time visits by young boys to Jackson's estate. The singer denied any improprieties.
In 2008, the Police played the first of two nights at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado during the final leg of their 152-date world Reunion tour. The tour became the third highest grossing tour of all time, with revenues reaching over $340 million.
Kay Starr ("Rock & Roll Waltz") turns 87.
Producer Kim Fowley ("Alley-Oop", "Nutrocker" and the Runaways) is 67.
Barry Whitham - Herman's Hermits (1946)
Cat Stevens (1947)
Howie Epstein - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (1955)
Guitarist Jim Martin - formerly of Faith No More (1961)
Emerson Hart – Tonic (1969)
Rosie Hamlin of Rosie & the Originals ("Angel Baby") is 62.
They Are Missed:
Producer Gus Dudgeon was killed in a car accident in 2002. Best known for his work with Elton John, also produced David Bowie, The Beach Boys, Zombies, Kiki Dee, Strawbs, XTC, Joan Armatrading.
Composer Jerry Goldsmith died in 2004 after a long battle with cancer (age 75). Created the music for scores of classic movies and television shows such as Star Trek, Planet of the Apes, The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Dr. Kildare.
Influential British Blues musician Long John Baldry died in Vancouver, B.C. in 2005 (age 64). Baldry's long and storied career included 40 albums. He was also a mentor to Rod Stewart, Jimmy Page and Mick Jagger. Baldry's band, Bluesology, had a young pianist named Reginald Dwight, who went on to become Elton John.
In 2007, Sharon Osbourne's music mogul father Don Arden died in a Los Angeles nursing home at the age of 81. Dubbed the Al Capone of Pop for his uncompromising business practices, he steered The Small Faces, Black Sabbath and ELO to stardom.
History:
In 1956, Johnny Cash went to #1 on the country chart with "I Walk the Line."
In 1956, Billboard called Elvis Presley "the most controversial entertainer since Liberace." The article also noted that Ed Sullivan, who once said Presley would never appear on his show, just signed the singer for three appearances.
Today in 1958, the song "Yakety Yak" by the Coasters topped the charts and stayed there for a week.
In 1969, the Beatles started work on the John Lennon song “Come Together” at Abbey Road studios in London.
Rod Stewart released “Never a Dull Moment” in 1972. The album peaked at #2 and has two top 40 hits, "You Wear it Well" and a re-make of Jimi Hendrix's "Angel."
Jim Croce started a two week run at #1 on the US singles chart in 1973 with “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.” Croce was killed in a plane crash three months later.
Robert Palmer's "Bad Case Of Loving You" was released in 1979.
In 1980, Keith Godchaux (Grateful Dead) was injured in a car accident. He died two days later.
Guns 'n Roses released their debut album, “Appetite For Destruction” in 1987.
In 1990, Roger Waters performed The Wall at Potsdamer Platz, Germany — the site of the former Berlin Wall. Other artists making guest appearances include Cyndi Lauper, Joni Mitchell, Bryan Adams and Phil Collins. At the end of the concert, a mock wall made of plastic foam fell. Proceeds from ticket sales went to an international fund for disaster relief.
In 1995, a judge in Los Angeles threw out a lawsuit against Michael Jackson by five of his former security guards. The guards had claimed they were fired for knowing too much about night-time visits by young boys to Jackson's estate. The singer denied any improprieties.
In 2008, the Police played the first of two nights at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, Colorado during the final leg of their 152-date world Reunion tour. The tour became the third highest grossing tour of all time, with revenues reaching over $340 million.
Top 5 eBay Vinyl Record Sales
Week Ending 07/04/2009
1. 45 - Iron Maiden "2 Minutes To Midnight" Japan promo - $3,600.00
2. EP - The Thought Criminals "Hilton Bomber" Doublethink - $3,350.00
3. LP - The Rolling Stones self titled Decca UK 1st Press alt mix - $3,278.51
4. LP - Gioconda De Vito "Bach Violin Concerto Mozart Violin Concert No.3" RCA UK - $2,413.00
5. 45 - The Sloths "Makin' Love" / "You Mean Everthing To Me" Impression - $2,258.45
Week Ending 07/11/2009
1. LP - The Beatles "Yesterday and Today" Butcher First State Mono Perry Cox COA - $5,500.00
2. LP - The Beatles "Please Please Me" Parlophone UK Gold and Black - $4,932.00
3. 45 - The Nu Rons "All My Life" b/w "I'm A Loner" Nu Ron - $3,550.00
4. 12" - Led Zeppelin "Road Box" - $3,300.00
5. 45 - The Fix "Vengence" / "In This Town" - $3,200.00
As always, a special thank you to Norm at http://ccdiscoveries.blogspot.com for this great data. Stop in and listen to their unique radio show Accidental Nostalgia with Norm & Jane On Radio Dentata Thursdays 4PM PDT/7PM EDT
1. 45 - Iron Maiden "2 Minutes To Midnight" Japan promo - $3,600.00
2. EP - The Thought Criminals "Hilton Bomber" Doublethink - $3,350.00
3. LP - The Rolling Stones self titled Decca UK 1st Press alt mix - $3,278.51
4. LP - Gioconda De Vito "Bach Violin Concerto Mozart Violin Concert No.3" RCA UK - $2,413.00
5. 45 - The Sloths "Makin' Love" / "You Mean Everthing To Me" Impression - $2,258.45
Week Ending 07/11/2009
1. LP - The Beatles "Yesterday and Today" Butcher First State Mono Perry Cox COA - $5,500.00
2. LP - The Beatles "Please Please Me" Parlophone UK Gold and Black - $4,932.00
3. 45 - The Nu Rons "All My Life" b/w "I'm A Loner" Nu Ron - $3,550.00
4. 12" - Led Zeppelin "Road Box" - $3,300.00
5. 45 - The Fix "Vengence" / "In This Town" - $3,200.00
As always, a special thank you to Norm at http://ccdiscoveries.blogspot.com for this great data. Stop in and listen to their unique radio show Accidental Nostalgia with Norm & Jane On Radio Dentata Thursdays 4PM PDT/7PM EDT
Monday, July 20, 2009
Music News & Notes
SLIPKNOT INTRODUCE THEIR 10TH ANNIVERSARY BOX SET
June 29th marked the ten year anniversary of the very first release from Slipknot. To commemorate this epic event, Roadrunner will be releaseing a special Slipknot 10th Anniversary box set.
Slipknot wants to introduce you to it...
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PEARL JAM: New Single Available For Streaming
"The Fixer", the first single from PEARL JAM's upcoming album, "Backspacer", is available for streaming at the link below. The group's ninth studio effort will be available in two formats through their official web site, as both a special fan club CD package and a 180-gram vinyl edition. The latter comes with a 24-page booklet featuring original art by cartoonist Tom Tomorrow. "Backspacer" will arrive on September 20, with its standard CD release being handled exclusively through Target.
A seven-inch, white vinyl version of "The Fixer" can also be ordered through the PEARL JAM web site.
Pearl Jam
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Rod Stewart Music Release
The Rod Stewart Sessions 1971-1998. The four-disc set contains 63 tracks from throughout Stewart's career including alternate versions and previously unheard songs. The album will be out on September 29.Here is what Warner Bros Says:
More than a third of THE ROD STEWART SESSIONS 1971-1998 chronicles the torrent of indelible recordings Stewart unleashed during the ’70s. Fittingly, the set opens with a decidedly rough take of Maggie May, the #1 hit from Stewart’s third solo album–Every Picture Tells A Story–that broke him as a solo artist in 1971. SESSIONS offers alternate versions of well-known hits from that era such as Sailing, Tonight’s The Night (Gonna Be Alright), You Wear It Well, and an acoustic version of You’re In My Heart (The Final Acclaim). Alongside those are rarities like the unfinished Think I’ll Pack My Bags (which later appeared on Ron Wood’s solo debut rewritten as Mystifies Me), an early version of So Tired that finds the band working out the arrangement in the studio, and an acoustic version of the B-side Rosie. Of special note is the rumored-to-exist but never heard—until now—sequel to The Killing of Georgie; Innocent (The Killing of Georgie Part III) completes the epic narrative begun on 1976's A Night On The Town album with a ferociously rocking performance taken from the sessions for the following year's Foot Loose & Fancy Free. Stewart ended the decade with a hits package that was to include his cover of British pub-rocker Frankie Miller’s When I’m Away From You that has remained unreleased until now.
SESSIONS touches on six albums Stewart released during the ’80s, including Foolish Behaviour (1980), which was originally intended to be a double album, but was eventually scaled back to a single disc. Along with an early version of the album track Oh God, I Wish I Was Home Tonight the collection also features four unreleased tracks presumably destined for the second disc Time Of My Life, TV Mama, Stupid, and Buddy Holly’s Maybe Baby. While the multitracks for Tonight I’m Yours (1981) have gone missing, the producers managed to recover an unreleased song called Thunderbird from the session’s only surviving mixdown tape. The collection closes out the decade with several tracks from Out Of Order (1988), including a tender reading of Forever Young that features Stewart accompanied only by a piano and the improvised in the studio and then abandoned I Go To Jail For You.
The final SESSIONS disc is dedicated to Stewart’s resurgence as an artistic and commercial force in the ’90s. It begins with six songs recorded in the summer of 1992 that were shelved in favor of Unplugged…And Seated, including a cover of Bob Dylan and The Band’s This Wheel’s On Fire, and an all-star remake of the 1969 Python Lee Jackson song (originally also sung by Rod) In A Broken Dream, which features Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour and Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones. Also included is Stewart’s cover of Bobby Womack’s Looking For A Love, which was surprisingly left off A Spanner In The Works (1995) and a version of Oasis’ Rockin’ Chair that he recorded for When We Were The New Boys (1998).
The full track list is after the cut.
•Maggie May (Early Version)
•Seems Like A Long Time (Alternate Version)
•Italian Girls (Early Version)
•You Wear It Well (Early Version)
•Lost Paraguayos (Alternate Version)
•I'd Rather Go Blind (Alternate Version)
•Angel (Alternate Version)
•Think I'll Pack My Bags (Early Version of Mystifies Me)
•Farewell (Early Version)
•Girl From The North Country (Alternate Version)
•(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Man (Alternate Version)
•So Tired (Early Version)
•This Old Heart Of Mine (Alternate Version)
•To Love Somebody (Early Take)
•Sailing (Alternate Version)
•Tonight's The Night (Gonna Be Alright) (Early Take)
•The First Cut Is The Deepest (Alternate Version)
•Rosie (Acoustic Version)
•Innocent (The Killing Of Georgie Part III)
•Hot Legs (Early Take)
•You're In My Heart (The Final Acclaim) (Acoustic Version)
•I Was Only Joking (Early Take)
•Scarred & Scared (Early Take)
•When I'm Away From You
•Oh God, I Wish I Was Home Tonight (Early Version)
•Time Of My Life
•TV Mama
•Maybe Baby
•Stupid
•Guess I'll Always Love You (Alternate Version)
•The Great Pretender (Acoustic Version)
•Thunderbird
•Dancing Alone (Alternate Version)
•I Wish You Would
•Sweet Surrender (Alternate Version)
•Show Me
•Ghetto Blaster (Early Version)
•Satisfied (Alternate Version)
•Hard Lesson To Learn (Alternate Version)
•Heaven
•In My Life (Piano Version)
•Love Is A Four Letter Word
•Forever Young (Piano Version)
•My Heart Can't Tell You No (Alternate Version)
•I Go To Jail For You
•A Good Lover Is Hard To Find
•Let The Day Begin (Alternate Version)
•The Groom's Still Waiting At The Altar (Alternate Version)
•Windy Town (Piano Version)
•In A Broken Dream (1992)
•This Wheel's On Fire
•I Wanna Stay Home
•I'm A King Bee
•Looking For A Love
•Kiss Her For Me
•The Long Journey Home
•Now That You're On Your Own
•Dylan's Day Off
•On And On
•Rockin' Chair
•Sugar Lips
•The Changingman
•May You Never
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Foreigner/Wal Mart Exclusive
Foreigner is taking a cue from Journey and releasing its own three-disc album exclusively through Wal-Mart.
Can't Slow Down, out September 29 via Rhino will contain a disc of 13 new songs produced by Marti Frederiksen and Mark Ronson, a disc of remixed classics from their catalog and a DVD of live performances.
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Guster Announces "Lost & Gone Forever Ten Year Anniversary Tour"
Boston-bred band Guster have just announced their nine-date headline tour, Lost & Gone Forever Ten Year Anniversary Tour, which will kick off October 28th in Charlotte, NC, and wrap on November 27th at the Beacon Theater in New York. This anniversary tour will be Guster's only headline dates of this year.
Ten years have passed since the band's critically acclaimed release of "Lost and Gone Forever" which in their words "helped us graduate from our van to a bus." These nine very special evenings with Guster will include two sets, one of which will be the album in its entirety and no opening act.
LOST & GONE FOREVER TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY TOUR:
•10/28 Charlotte, NC Neighborhood Theater
•10/29 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
•10/30 Washington, DC 9:30 Club
•10/31 Boston, MA Orpheum Theater
•11/04 Cincinnati, OH Madison Theatre
•11/05 Cleveland, OH House of Blues
•11/06 Rochester, NY Armory
•11/07 Burlington, VT Higher Ground
•11/27 New York, NY Beacon Theater
Meet Your Neighbors: Independent record seller a downtown fixture for two decades
Another great article about a local record shop, this one from Grand Junction, Colorado:
By Sharon Sullivan
Free Press Staff Writer
Triple Play Records is an anachronism.
Rock Cesario, owner of Triple Pay Records in downtown Grand Junction, opened the store in May 1988.
Sharon Sullivan I Free Press
With its tie-dyed clothing, incense, and collection of new and used vinyl records (as well as CDs), the independent music store is reminiscent of the 1970s when record stores were less glossy, and more earthy. It's not necessary to have grown up in that era, however, to appreciate Triple Play's vibe.
Owner Rock Cesario's clientele ranges from baby boomers and teenagers who come for the music and conversation, to kids passing time while their parents shop downtown.
Signed photographs of rock stars, a collage of the Beatles, and posters of the Grateful Dead, Fleetwood Mac, and scores of other bands plaster the brick walls of the shop at 530 W. Main St.
Colorful Frisbees decorate the wall behind the cash register. Cesario plays Frisbee golf and sells the discs at his store as well.
“My real first name is Rock,” Cesario said. “With a name like Rock, born in 1957 in the middle of the rock and roll revival...” — it's fitting music is his passion.
“We sell the kind of quality music that endures, that transcends time and genres,” Cesario said.
Cesario was born and raised in Grand Junction except for five years when Cesario's dad was transferred to Gypsum where he worked for the Rio Grande Railroad. The family moved back to Grand Junction in 1969.
“Music has been a hobby since I was 10 years old,” Cesario said.
Read the rest here: Triple Play
By Sharon Sullivan
Free Press Staff Writer
Triple Play Records is an anachronism.
Rock Cesario, owner of Triple Pay Records in downtown Grand Junction, opened the store in May 1988.
Sharon Sullivan I Free Press
With its tie-dyed clothing, incense, and collection of new and used vinyl records (as well as CDs), the independent music store is reminiscent of the 1970s when record stores were less glossy, and more earthy. It's not necessary to have grown up in that era, however, to appreciate Triple Play's vibe.
Owner Rock Cesario's clientele ranges from baby boomers and teenagers who come for the music and conversation, to kids passing time while their parents shop downtown.
Signed photographs of rock stars, a collage of the Beatles, and posters of the Grateful Dead, Fleetwood Mac, and scores of other bands plaster the brick walls of the shop at 530 W. Main St.
Colorful Frisbees decorate the wall behind the cash register. Cesario plays Frisbee golf and sells the discs at his store as well.
“My real first name is Rock,” Cesario said. “With a name like Rock, born in 1957 in the middle of the rock and roll revival...” — it's fitting music is his passion.
“We sell the kind of quality music that endures, that transcends time and genres,” Cesario said.
Cesario was born and raised in Grand Junction except for five years when Cesario's dad was transferred to Gypsum where he worked for the Rio Grande Railroad. The family moved back to Grand Junction in 1969.
“Music has been a hobby since I was 10 years old,” Cesario said.
Read the rest here: Triple Play
Father, son move record store to near Cultural District
Longtime readers of the blog know that I love stories about small record shops and I like to feature the write ups from the local newpapers, here's another great story out of Fort Worth:
BY JOHN-LAURENT TRONCHE
July 20, 2009
The image of a vinyl record spinning round and round, at 33 and one-third revolutions per minute, might seem antiquated to some, but to a father and son it’s a way of life.
Jerry Boyd and his son, Jenkins Boyd, recently moved their record shop from its Hurst location to a new location on Montgomery Street last month, not far from the Cultural District.
Doc’s Records and Vintage is their two and a half year old store that sells records, CDs, T-shirts, music memorabilia and a whole lot more. (The name Doc’s comes from the fact that father Jerry Boyd is a practicing Dentist.)
“Anybody who owns record stores owns them because they love records,” Jerry Boyd said. “Hopefully you can make some money, but we do it because we love records.”
Read the rest of the article here: www.fwbusinesspress.com
BY JOHN-LAURENT TRONCHE
July 20, 2009
The image of a vinyl record spinning round and round, at 33 and one-third revolutions per minute, might seem antiquated to some, but to a father and son it’s a way of life.
Jerry Boyd and his son, Jenkins Boyd, recently moved their record shop from its Hurst location to a new location on Montgomery Street last month, not far from the Cultural District.
Doc’s Records and Vintage is their two and a half year old store that sells records, CDs, T-shirts, music memorabilia and a whole lot more. (The name Doc’s comes from the fact that father Jerry Boyd is a practicing Dentist.)
“Anybody who owns record stores owns them because they love records,” Jerry Boyd said. “Hopefully you can make some money, but we do it because we love records.”
Read the rest of the article here: www.fwbusinesspress.com
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