New Music Releases ~ August 17, 2010

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Aerosmith - Live on Air
Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Vinyl)

Alice Cooper - A Fistful of Alice (2 LPs)(Vinyl)  Buy Alice Cooper Here

Alice Cooper is no stranger to the Friday Music label. As we continue to offer some of his greatest works through our extensive Alice Cooper 180 Gram Audiophile Series, we are so very proud now to announce his incredible concert recording A Fistful of Alice. This Capitol Records era album features all of his big hits including one of a kind workouts on "School's Out," "Eighteen," "Desperado," "Only Women Bleed," as well as later smashes like "Poison" and the rare studio track "Is Anyone Home?" Originally released as a CD and digital release only, we are doubly proud to be issuing this for the first time as a deluxe 2xLP Audiophile album! This limited edition album comes in a deluxe gatefold cover, which includes all of the original colorful graphics, plus the five star mastering from the original Guardian Records/Capitol Records tapes by Joe Reagoso (School's Out and Welcome to My Nightmare). Recorded at Sammy Hagar's Cabo Wabo Cantina in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, Alice Cooper brings out his superstar rockstar friends for this historic live recording - how about Slash, Rob Zombie and Sammy Hagar! This music is extensive non-stop smashes, the band is killer, and the hard rock excitement is second to none. Alice Cooper's classic A Fistful of Alice, now on audiophile vinyl, will be one of the most anticipated limited edition releases this year!

American Hi-Fi - Fight the Frequency
Andrea Bocelli – Carmen: Duets and Arias
Antagonist - World In Decline
Antibalas - Who Is This America? (reissue with bonus track)
Arab Strap - Philophobia (remastered with bonus CD)
Arab Strap - The Week Never Starts Around Here (remastered with bonus CD)
Aretha Franklin - Best of (DVD/Quadraphonic) (Rhino Handmade Exclusive)
BXI - Boris & Ian Astbury
Baby Eagle - Dog Weather
Ben E. King - Original Album Series (5 CDs)
Benjy Davis Project - The Angie House/More Than Local (reissue)
Blondie - At the BBC (2 CDs)
Blossom Toes - This Is the Magic Mixture
Blossom Toes - We Are Ever So Clean

Brian Wilson – Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin  Buy Brian Wilson Here

Brian Wilson has re-recorded and re-imagined twelve classic songs from the Gershwin Brothers and completed two new Wilson/Gershwin compositions. The Gershwin estate gave Wilson access to rare, unfinished pieces of music by George Gershwin, with which Brian crafted collaborative compositions unlike anything the world has heard. Wilson chose to record George and Ira Gershwin songs because he considers the late composers of classics like "Someone to Watch Over Me," "Rhapsody in Blue" and "Summertime" as a critical influence on him. "I've always loved George Gershwin. The earliest music I remember hearing is 'Rhapsody in Blue,'" says Wilson, referring to Gershwin's groundbreaking 1924 orchestral piece. "Along with Irving Berlin, Gershwin basically invented the popular song, but he did something more. He had a gift for melody that nobody has ever equaled, yet his music is timeless and always accessible. This is the most spiritual project I've ever worked on."




Camu Tao - King of Hearts
Charles Wright & the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - Original Album Series (5 CDs)
Chief - Modern Rituals (vinyl)
Chocolate Milk - We're All In This Together / Milky Way
Ciara - Basic Instinct
Conrad Herwig - The Latin Side of Herbie Hancock
Crocodiles - Sleep Forever
Darker My Love - Alive As You Are (vinyl)
David Bowie - David Bowie (2 CDs)
David Gray – Foundling
Dolly Parton - The Fairest Of Them All: My Favorite Songwriter, Porter Wagoner
Dollyrots - Little Messed Up
Duke Robillard - Passport to the Blues

Eels - Tomorrow Morning (vinyl)   Buy Eels Music Here

Ennio Morricone - Le Clan Des Siciliens (vinyl)
Esperanza Spalding - Chamber Music Society
Everly Brothers - Original Album Series (5 CDs)
Filter – The Trouble With Angels [Deluxe Edition]
Geographer – Animal Shapes EP
Germs - Media Blitz (reissue) (vinyl)
Hey Monday - Beneath It All
Human Beinz - Human Beinz in Japan
Human Expression - Love At Psychedelic Velocity
INXS - Platinum: Greatest Hits

Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier (2 LPs Picture Discs)(Vinyl)   Buy Iron Maiden Here

VINYL FORMAT. The vinyl format of The Final Frontier comes as a deluxe double picture disc!

Iron Maiden are true pioneers and one of the most influential bands of the heavy metal genre. Thirty years on from their eponymous debut album in April 1980, The Final Frontier is Maiden's fifteenth studio album, making a remarkable average of a new album every two years for thirty years. The band reunited with longtime Maiden producer Kevin "Caveman" Shirley in early 2010 at Compass Point Studios in Nassau to record the album, and then moved to L.A. to finish the recording and do the mixing. Compass Point Studio is very familiar to the band; it was where they recorded the Piece of Mind (1983), Powerslave (1984) and Somewhere in Time (1986) albums.







Jayhawks - Hollywood Town Hall (reissue) (vinyl)
Jayhawks - Tomorrow the Green Grass (reissue) [vinyl]
John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers - So Many Roads (4-CD box set)
John Mellencamp - No Better Than This
John Renbourne & Stefan Grossman - In Concert (2 CDs/1 DVD)
Jon Lindsay - Escape From Plaza-Midwood
Kem - Intimacy
Kemialliset Ystavat - Ullakkoalo (vinyl)
Kem – Intimacy [Deluxe Edition]
Kinks - Arthur (2 LPs)(Vinyl)
Knights Of The Abyss - The Culling of Wolves
Like Pioneers - Piecemeal
Lissie - Catching a Tiger
Live At Kexp Volume Six
Lloyd Miller & Heliocentrics - Lloyd Miller & Heliocentrics (vinyl)
Los Lobos - Tin Can Trust (vinyl)
Loudness - Original Album Series (5 CDs)
Lucero - Rebels Rogues & Sworn Brothers (vinyl)
Margie Joseph - Original Album Series (5 CDs)
Matthew Dear - Black City (vinyl)
Miles Away - Endless Roads
Miss May I - Monument
NOFX - The Longest EP (vinyl)
New Horizons - Something New / Gonna Have Big Fun
Nikki & Rich - Everything
Nils – What The Funk?
Nutz - Tightened Up: Live in Nothingam 1977
Offspring - Happy Hour
Orbs - Asleep Next to Science
Porter Wagoner - What Ain't To Be, Just Might Happen: Featuring The Rubber Room
Quiet Riot - QR III
Quiet Riot - Quiet Riot
REO Speedwagon - Not So Silent Night (3 Bonus Tracks)
Rae Spoon - Love Is a Hunter
Rascals - Original Album Series (5 CDs)
Ray LaMontagne - God Willin' & The Creek Don't Rise (vinyl)
Return To Earth - Automata
Rickie Lee Jones - Flying Cowboys (Audio Fidelity)
Sea of Bees - Songs For the Ravens (vinyl)
Shannon Whitworth - Water Bound
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Let It Sway
Soundtrack – Dexter: Season 4
Soundtrack – The Switch
Steeleye Span - Another Parcel of Steeleye Span (3 CDs)

Superchunk - No Pocky for Kitty (remastered) (vinyl)

Superchunk - On the Mouth (remastered)(vinyl)   Buy Superchunk Music Here
 

Tallest Trees - The Ostrich or the Lark
Tea Leaf Green - Looking West
The Burial - The Winepress
The Last Felony - Too Many Humans
Theodore Shapiro - Dinner for Schmucks (soundtrack)
Thomas Koner - Nnatatak, Teimo, Permafrost
Tim Reynolds – Limbic System
Toadies - Feeler
Tom Paxton - Original Album Series (5 CDs)
Tom Waits - Closing Time (reissue) (vinyl)
Tom Waits - Heart of Saturday Night (reissue) (vinyl)
Tom Waits - Nighthawks at the Diner (reissue) (vinyl)
Tom Waits - Small Change (reissue) (vinyl)]
Trace Adkins - Cowboy's Back in Town
Van Halen - Live on Air
Various Artists - Afro-Beat Airways
Various Artists - Bubbling Under 1: 32 Tracks That Bubbled Under The Billboard Charts 1961-1964
Various Artists - Dexter, Season 4: Music From The Showtime Original Series
Various Artists - Live At KEXP Volume Six
Various Artists - The Switch: Music From The Motion Picture
Various Artists - We Did It: Dora’s Greatest Hits
Walter Gibbons - Jungle Music
Wilson Pickett - Original Album Series
X - Under the Big Black Sun (remastered) (vinyl)
Zak Sally - Fear of Song (vinyl)

New Music releases are put together from a variety of online sources by Robert Benson - http://collectingvinylrecords.blogspot.com  

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New Jazz Releases - August 17, 2010

Aaron Lington / Paul Tynan - Bicoastal Collective 2 ( )
Amstad / Brennan / Doran / Heral - Triangulation-Whirligigs (Leo Records -- City Hall -- )
Anthony Braxton - 19 Standards (Quartet) 2003 (Leo Records -- City Hall -- )
Anthony Braxton - 19 Standards 2003 ( )
Antibalas - Who Is This America? (Rope-A-Dope -Red- )
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Kabalaba Live At Montreux (Aeco )
Bill Evans - You Must Believe In Spring (Wea Japan )
Brain Sound - An Attempt To Record Coincidence ( )
Brostrom Quartet & Hakan - Refraction (Art Of Life )
Bruce Williamson - Standard Transmission (Origin )
Bruno Amstad / John Wolf Brennan / Christy Doran - Triangulation: Whirligigs ( )
Casa Loma Orchestra / Glen Gray - Spotlight On Swing ( )
Catalyst - Catalyst Vol. 1-Complete Recordings (PORTER )
Catalyst - Catalyst Vol. 2-Complete Recordings (PORTER )
Catalyst - Complete Recordings 1 ( )
Catalyst - Complete Recordings 2 ( )
Charles Mingus - Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (Analogue Productions )
Charlie Ventura - Bop For The People (Sounds Of Yesteryear )
Chet Baker - Chet Baker & Crew (Jazz Track )
Chet Baker (Trumpet / Com / Vocals - Stan Meets Chet (Original Recordings Group )
Chie Imaizumi - Time Of New Beginnings (Capri )
Christy Doran - Triangulation:Whirligigs (Leo )
Cliff Jordan & John Gilmore - Blowing In From Chicago (Analogue Prod. )
Coleman Hawkins - Sonny Meets Hawk! (Pure Pleasure )
Colin Stranahan - Life Condition (Tapestry )
Colorado Saxophone Quartet / Pagan, Michael - Twelve Preludes & Fugues ( )
Conrad Herwig - Latin Side Of Herbie Hancock (Half Note )
Coppa Biagio Flight Band - Mingus Uni&Versus (Phantom )
David Sanborn - Original Album Series (Phantom )
Dehumanizers & Deep Throat - New World Oder (Pig )
Di Toro Michele - Puzzle (Phantom )
Duke Ellington - Duke Ellington And John Coltrane (Analogue Productions )
Eddie Sauter & The SWF Big Band - In Germany 1959 (Montpellier )
Enten Eller & Javier Girotto - Ecuba (Phantom )
Esperanza Spalding - Chamber Music Society (Telarc Distribution )
Fabio Zambelli Trio - Ele' (Phantom )
Faruq Z. Bey & Northwoods Improvisers - Emerging Field (Entropy Stereo Recordings )
Frank Gratkowsi - Deployment (Leo )
Frank Gratowski / Simon Nabatov - Schmickler: Deployment ( )
Gabor Szabo - In Budapest Live (1974) (Moiras )
Garcia / Marina / Negrini / Succi - Scoolptures-Materiale Umano (Leo Records -- City Hall -- )
George Duke - Original Album Series (Phantom )
Gerry Hemingway / Ivo Perelman - Apple In The Dark ( )
Gerry Mulligan - Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster (Original Recordings )
Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orchestra - Spotlight On Swing (Montpellier )
Gratkowski / Nabatov / Schmickler - Deployment (Leo Records -- City Hall -- )
Hadley Caliman & Pete Christlieb - Reunion (Origin )
Hadley Caliman / Pete Christlieb - Reunion ( )
Hakan Brostrom - Refraction (Art Of Life )
His Orchestra / Carl Kress / Jo Stafford - At The Supper Club ( )
Ivo Perelman & Brian Willson - Stream Of Life (Leo Records -- City Hall -- )
Ivo Perelman & Gerry Hemingway - Apple In The Dark (Leo Records -- City Hall -- )
Ivo Perelman / Brian Wilson - Stream Of Life ( )
James / Miller / Mitchell / Van Bergeyk - I Got Rhythm (Stephan Grossmans Guitar Works )
Jeff Richman - Like That (Nefer Music Records )
Jerry Gray & Ray Eberle Orchestra - Millermen (Montpellier )
Jimmy Dorsey & Patti Page - Let's Go To Town (Sounds Of Yesteryear )
Jimmy Dorsey / Patti Page - Let's Go To Town ( )
Jo Stafford - At The Supper Club (Sounds Of Yesteryear )
John Coltrane - My Favorite Things (Phantom )
John Coltrane - Slowtrane (Indie Europe/Zoom )
Kenny Werner - No Beginning No End (Half Note )
Kenny Werner - No Beginning, No End (Half Note )
Larry Swingtet Franco - Fahrenheit (Phantom )
Lull - Zipper (Leo )
Manins - Latitude (Phantom )
Mariano Di Nunzio Trio Barracina - Sonata A 3 + 2 (Phantom )
Matt Jorgensen - Tattooed By Passion: Music Inspired By The Paintin (Origin )
Matt Jorgensen - Tattooed By Passion: Music Inspired By Paintings ( )
Maurizio Petrelli & Big Band - Pugliamerica (Phantom )
Mccoy Tyner - Inception (Universal Japan/Zoom )
Mercury Falls - Quadrangle (Porto Franco )
Michael Pagan & Colorado Saxophone Quartet - Twelve Preludes & Fugues (Tapestry )
Miles Davis - Cookin' With The Miles Davis Quintet (Analogue Prod. )
Milo Fine - Concerning The Other Condition/Spontaneous Composition Generator (Nero's Neptune )
Milo Fine & Paul Metzger - Concerning The Other Condition / Spontaneous Composition Generator (180 Gram Vinyl Limited) (NERO'S NEPTUNE RECORDS )
Milo Fine & Paul Metzger - Concerning The Other Condition/Spontaneous Composi (Neros Neptune Records )
Milton Nascimento - Clube Da Esquina ( )
Modern Jazz Quartet - Jazzology (Indie Europe/Zoom )
Nat "King" Cole - Just One Of Those Things (Analogue Prod. )
Nat "King" Cole - St. Louis Blues (Analogue Prod. )
Nat "King" Cole - Where Did Everyone Go? (Analogue Prod. )
Nat "King" Cole - St Louis Blues ( )
Nat "King" Cole - Where Did Everyone Go ( )
Nils - What The Funk? (Baja )
Nils - What The Funk ( )
Northwoods Improvisers - Emerging Field (Entropy Stereo )
Paul Tynan & Aaron Lington - Tynan,Paul & Aaron Lington Vol. 2-Bicoastal Collective (OA2 )
Pearl Django - Systeme D (Modern Hot )
Philippe Garcia / Nicola Negrini / Achille Succi - Scoolptures: Materiale Umano ( )
Phronesis - Alive In London (Edition Records/City Hall )
Phronesis - Alive ( )
Piero Frassi Trio - Serenity (Phantom )
Polly Gibbons - Bang Bang (M&I )
Ray Anthony - Dream Dancing Christmas (Aero Space )
Ray Anthony & His Orchestra - TV Shows 1954 (Montpellier )
Ray Anthony / His Orchestra - 1954 TV Shows ( )
Ray Eberle / Jerry Gray - Miller Men ( )
Rebecca Kilgore - Sings Jermone Kern (Audiophile )
Renato Sellani - Chopin Piano Solo (Phantom )
Robert Byrd - Mountain Fiddler (County )
Roberto Marino - Trasparenze (Phantom )
Roland Kirk - Gifts & Messages (Candid )
Ronnie Scott - Ronnie Scott & His American Friends (Candid )
Sainkho Namchylak - Not Quite Songs (Leo )
Sainkho Namchylak & Nick Sudnick - Not Quite Songs (Leo Records -- City Hall -- )
Sainkho Namchylak / Nick Sudnick - Not Quite Songs ( )
Sara K. - Hell Or High Water (Stockfisch )
Som - Free Jazz And North Indian Fusion (Random Chance )
Spin Marvel - Spin Marvel 2: Reluctantly Politcised Me James ( )
Steve Kuhn - I Will Wait For You:Music Of Michel L (Venus Jap/Zoom )
Sun Ra - Live At The Horseshoe Tavern Toronto 1978 (Transparency )
Sun Ra - Live At The Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto 1978 (Transparency )
Superimpose - Talk Talk (Leo )
SWF Big Band / Eddie Sauter - In Germany 1959 ( )
Teresa Teng Forever - Teresa Teng Forever ( )
Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane - Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane (Analogue Prod. )
Tohpati Ethnomission - Save The Planet (Moonjune Records/City Hall )
Tom Rizzo - Imaginary Numbers (Origin )
Tubby Hayes - Inventivity (Candid )
Urs Leimgruber - Chicago Solo (Leo Records -- City Hall -- )
Wallis Bob & His Storyville Ja - Vintage Bob Wallis (Fellside/Lake R )
Wes Montgomery - Body & Soul (Candid )
Zu - Carboniferous (Trips Und Traume )

Reissues
Bill Evans - Moon Beams (Pid )
Bob Mintzer - Bop Boy (Explore Records)
Hank Mobley - Workout (Blue Note`)
Hank Mobley - Dippin' (Blue Note)
Hank Mobley - Dippin (EMI )
Hi-Lo's - Listen! (E!)
Horace Parlan - Movin' & Groovin' (Classic Records )
Horace Silver - Blowin' The Blues Away (Classic Records )
Jackie McLean - New Soil (Blue Note)
John Coltrane - Giant Steps ( )
Sonny Rollins - Tenor Madness (Fantasy)

New release information provided by www.allaboutjazz.com

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14th Avenue 'tycoon' launches a record label from a coffee shop

By Frances E. Dinger

Porchlight Coffee & Art owner Zack Bolotin is a busy man. Beginning this fall, the modest storefront on 14th Avenue will serve not only as a coffee shop, art gallery and new and used record store but will also be the home of Bolotin's own record label. His low ROI ambition was enough to have him named "Best Po' Man's Tycoon" by the Seattle Weekly.

"[I started the label] just because there are very few bands that I know and like who will actually sell a lot of records," said Bolotin.

Bolotin has been playing music since the age of 15 and is the front man for the band Like Claws. Despite having a background in music, Bolotin wants to stay out of the production of the records. He says he has faith in the bands to do their own producing.

The label will be vinyl only but digital download codes will be included with all of the records.

"I personally haven't bought a CD in forever," Bolotin said. "It's either digital or vinyl and it's the same with a lot of other people I talk to."

Porchlight isn't the only Hill coffee provider mixing itself into the record label biz. Last summer, Caffe Vita made a stir when it signed a unique deal with the Blue Scholars.

Bolotin says his label will be financed primarily through sales at the coffee shop which celebrated its one year anniversary in June.

Bolotin decided to go into the coffee and record business after graduating from Seattle Central Community College. The neighbor of recently closed Tiempo clock shop has seen more success than Bolotin expected. Though most of the coffee sales happen in the morning, he says the shop has been selling at least a few records a day when Bolotin originally expected to sell a few a week.

The first release, a vinyl printing of Seattle band Grand Hallaway's "Promenade," is scheduled for mid fall. Ideally, Bolotin would like to put out two to three records each year, more records than are released under Caffe Vita's label, but he doesn't foresee that happening for a little while and in store shows are still a rare occurrence. Bolotin hopes most of the record sales will happen online and at the bands' shows.

He is currently looking at some bands outside of Seattle for the next releases but, according to Bolotin, nothing is for sure yet.


SOURCE: http://capitolhillseattle.com/

Death of vinyl isn't final: Beloved record albums are coming around again

Michael Heaton, The Plain Dealer


Michael Pultz helps with record sales at Loop in Cleveland's Tremont neighborhood. The shop also sells coffee and art. Pultz has a collection of 10,000 vinyl records at home.

For people too young to remember vinyl records, they must look today like some kind of licorice Frisbees. How could the uninitiated ever appreciate the deep emotional ties and the nostalgic pull of the art on the 12-by-12-inch album cover, or the love that went into reading the liner notes? Listening to a vinyl record back in the day meant you were engaged in the act. You had to stay in the room to listen to it and then turn the record over after 30 minutes. That's how the album cover became your best friend. You memorized the lineup of the musicians. You read the lyrics to the songs. On some occasions, you got a giant complimentary poster that went up on the wall of your basement or in your bedroom or wherever your turntable and speakers were.

The record filled your room with sound. Deep, rich analog sound. There was a sense of reverence about the purchase, the playing and the storage of the albums. Your album collection was you. You were a rocker, a folkie or a poet all based on your record collection. It represented all that you were, the depth of your soul, your taste in art, your sense of humor.

If you wanted to measure the potential of someone becoming your friend or lover, looking at their album collection was key. If you liked the way someone looked on the outside, their record collection told you what they were like on the inside of their heart and their head.

No wonder vinyl records are making a comeback. According to the latest Soundscan statistics, LP sales in 2009 were 2,496,000, a 33 percent increase over 2008. People who really love music love vinyl.

Vince Sluzars is president of Gotta Groove Records on Superior Avenue in Cleveland. They pressed their first vinyl album last August. So they just turned 1 year old.

"Sales of vinyl albums have gone up every year since 2006," he says. "I think 2008 was up 130 percent over 2007. Last year was the highest vinyl sales since 1991, when they quit making vinyl. So it's clearly on the rise, and yet it will always remain a niche business. Since the iPod, kids are no longer buying CDs. So now there is a move back to the vinyl album, which is tangible and tactile and a more engaging experience.

"This year, we have made records for national acts like Dave Allen and the Guilty Women. We've done a Tom Waits reissue of 'The Early Years' and we're doing the new Hold Steady album. We've made records for bands in Canada, Australia and China. And we've done a record for at least 40 local bands. We do a lot of metal and punk music. I have to give them credit for keeping the vinyl thing alive. The fans are hardcore."

Terry Stewart is president of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum. He owns between 250,000 and half a million vinyl records.

"The first record I ever bought was 'Sugar Blues' by Clyde McCoy in 1948. Vinyl records are about the tactile nature of the art form. The touch. It's about the act of putting the needle on the record. The smell of the cardboard cover. My greatest find as a collector was at an estate sale in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. That's where I found a copy of the Johnny Burnett Trio. I listen to my records every day."

Several newer area stores are also getting into vinyl, like the Loop record-CD-coffee shop in Tremont. When it comes to vinyl, they sell new records by new bands or old records that have been newly reissued on vinyl.

"Ten years ago, iPods took off, and people pronounced that CDs would soon be dead," says Michael Pultz, who works in Loop's music department.

"That hasn't happened and won't for a while, I believe. I don't think there is a lot of difference in vinyl sound that is discernable to the human ear. Most new vinyl records now, as opposed to old records that are newly reissued on vinyl, include a free download so you can have it on your iPod as well. The college indie music crowd loves vinyl. Anybody who gets their music information from Pitchfork.com is likely to be a vinyl fan."

"There's a big-time resurgence in vinyl right now," says Peter Gulyas, owner of Blue Arrow record store on Waterloo Road in Cleveland's Collinwood neighborhood. "We specialize in vintage vinyl records. We've been open a year and half. We're paying the bills for right now. . . . What we're really selling is nostalgia. I'm always looking for old vinyl, I go to garage and estate sales. I have friends who are always on the lookout for me. Everyone loves the cover art. And so do I, as you can tell from the floor of the shop." The floor, alone worth a visit to Blue Arrow, is tiled completely in vintage LP covers.

"I think that most people listening to vinyl these days enjoy the warmth that they perceive to be missing from CDs, and the experience of listening to an album that you can actually hold in your hands," says Matt Wardlaw, director of operations for the Beachwood-based radio syndication company Envision Radio Networks (envisionradio.com).

"The vinyl experience keeps you engaged in listening to the actual music, because at least once every 25 to 30 minutes, you have to get up and flip the album over."

John Hannibal has an Internet radio station called Radio Hannibal. He, too, is a vinyl lover.


Peter Gulyas owns Blue Arrow on Waterloo Road in Cleveland. They specialize in vintage vinyl as opposed to new reissued records.


"There are two main reasons that I, like others, love vinyl," he says. "The first is the audio quality. Granted, a good stereo system is needed to appreciate it, but due to the analog nature of vinyl, the musical wave form is much smoother as opposed to the zeros and ones of digital. This translates to a better listening experience, more nuance . . . a richer sound. The other falls under the romanticism of vinyl. For oldsters like me, it harks back to a time when all we had was vinyl. For the youth, it's like the love of vintage cars. The ritual of cleaning the record, placing it on the turntable, setting the tone arm down, etc."

Charlotte Morgan, a former music critic for Scene magazine, is working on a book called "The Death of Vinyl Records."

"For my book, I selected a great group of subjects. They were mostly music critics and writers. I asked each person in the group if they noticed something in music had changed with the death of vinyl in the '80s," she says of her concept.

"They all agreed there was something magical about vinyl."

As the vinyl revival proves, they're not alone.


Thanks to www.cleveland.com for the reprint rights.

Pink Floyd Video Surfaces

This is the Hoping Foundation benefit performance from last month by Roger Waters and David Gilmour. The set included a cover of the Teddy Bears' To Know Him is To Love Him, Wish You Were Here, Comfortably Numb and Another Brick in the Wall.



Hoping Foundation benefit performance from Hoping Foundation on Vimeo.

This Date In Music History - August 17

Birthdays:

John Seiter - Spanky And Our Gang (1944)

Gary Talley - Box Tops (1947)

Sib Hashian - Boston (1949)

Kevin Rowland - Dexy's Midnight Runners (1953)

Grammy Award winning guitarist, Eric Johnson (1954)

Colin Moulding - XTC (1955)

Belinda Carlisle - Go-Go's and solo (1958) (I always loved this video):



Gilby Clarke - Guns N' Roses (1962)

Maria Mckee - Lone Justice, solo (1964)

Steve Gorman - Black Crowes (1965)

Jill Cunniff - Luscious Jackson (1966)

Donnie Wahlberg - New Kids On The Block (1969)

Kelvin Mercer - De La Soul (1969)

Mike Lewis - Lostprophets (1979)


They Are Missed:

The late Mark Dinning ("Teen Angel") was born in 1933.



In 1973, former Temptations singer Paul Williams was found dead in his car, after shooting himself. He owed $80,000 in taxes and his celebrity boutique business had failed.

Session drummer Gary Chester died of cancer in 1987. He had been a member of The Coasters and played on many major hits for other acts including: "Brown Eyed Girl," "Under The Boardwalk," "Walk On By," "It's My Party.'

Bass guitarist Bertrand Odom died of kidney failure in 2004. He had worked with James Brown.


History:

Elvis Presley released his first number 1 hit, "I Forgot to Remember to Forget / Mystery Train" in 1955. It hit the top of the country charts several months later and stayed there for 5 weeks.

In 1960, after going through several names (including their most recent - Silver Beetles), John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison, along with then-drummer Pete Best, settle on The Beatles. They begin their first Hamburg engagement at the Indra Club, Grosse Freiheit, Hamburg, West Germany, playing the first of 48 nights at the Club. The owner, Bruno Koschmider, asked The Beatles to "Mach Shau", or really put on a show, which led to the band screaming, shouting, and leaping about the stage and sometimes playing lying on the floor. John Lennon once appeared wearing only his underwear and on another occasion, wearing a toilet seat around his neck. The Beatles lodged in a single room behind the screen of a nearby movie house. It’s their first engagement outside England.

A riot broke out at a Gary "U.S." Bonds concert in Boston in 1962.

The Kinks "You Really Got Me" was released in 1964.



In 1964, Glasgow council in Scotland announced that all boys and men with Beatle styled haircuts would have to wear bathing caps after a committee was told that hair from ‘Beatle-cuts’ was clogging the pools filters.

The Byrds were forced to cancel a concert during their UK tour at The Guildhall, Portsmouth in 1965 when only 250 of the 4,000 tickets had been sold.

During a North American tour in 1965, the Beatles played two shows at Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Canada. The attendance for each show was 18,000.

The Hollies recorded "Stop, Stop, Stop" in 1966.

Gary Puckett & the Union Gap recorded "Woman Woman" in 1967.

The Hunter Davies’ biography of The Beatles was released in 1968. John Lennon later complained the book glosses over what the group was really like.

Deep Purple's "Hush" was released in 1968.

The Doors started a four-week run at #1 on the US album chart in 1968 with 'Waiting For The Sun.'

The Rascals (formally the Young Rascals), started a five week run at #1 on the US singles chart in 1968 with "People Got To Be Free." The group had thirteen US top 40 hits.



In 1969, the final day of the three day Woodstock festival took place at Max Yasgur's farm in Bethel, New York. Acts who appeared included Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Ten Years After, John Sebastian, Sha Na Na, Joe Cocker, Country Joe and the Fish, The Band, Ten Years After, Johnny Winter and Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Over 186,000 tickets had been sold but on the first day the flimsy fences and ticket barriers had come down. Organisers announced the concert would be a free event, prompting thousands more to head for the concert. There were two deaths - a teenager was killed by a tractor as he lay in his sleeping bag and another died from a drugs overdose.

In 1971, Allman Brothers Band guitarist, Duane Allman, played at the funeral of Soul legend, King Curtis, who was murdered in New York.

Gladys Knight appeared on ABC-TV's "Dating Game" in 1972.

Bad Company's "Can't Get Enough" was released in 1974.



Eric Clapton started a four-week run at #1 on the US album chart in 1974 with '461 Ocean Boulevard.'

UK group Paper Lace scored their only US #1 single in 1974 with "The Night Chicago Died," it made #3 in the UK.

In 1977, President Jimmy Carter eulogized Elvis Presley (who died the day before) saying he “permanently changed the face of American popular culture." Not surprisingly, Florists Transworld Delivery (FTD) reported that in one day the number of orders for flowers to be delivered to Graceland had surpassed the number for any other event in the company's history.

In 1979, the New York Post reported that Anita Pallenberg (the wife of Keith Richards) was linked to a witches coven in South Salem, New York where Richards owned a house. A policeman claimed he was attacked by a flock of black-hooded, caped people and a local youth claimed he had been invited by Pallenburg to take part in ‘pot smoking sex orgies’. Locals also claimed they found ‘ritualistic stakes’ and small animals that had been ‘sacrificed’ near the house. Cool....

John Phillips of the Mamas & the Papas was arrested as part of a drug ring in 1980.

Prince's song "Delirious" was released in 1983.

Motley Crue gave its performance debut at the Monsters of Rock festival at Castle Donington, England in 1984.

In 1986, Rick Allen (Def Leppard) played his first concert with his band since losing his left arm in a car accident.

42 people were beaten or stabbed at a Run D.M.C. concert in Long Beach, CA in 1986.

In 1991, Nirvana shot the video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit" at GMT Studios in Culver City, California, costing less than $50,000 to make, the shoot features real Nirvana fans as the audience.



In 1995, Depeche Mode singer Dave Gahan was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre after an apparent suicide attempt. Police had found him at his Los Angeles home with a two-inch laceration on his wrist.

Security guards carried Courtney Love offstagein 1995 after she began fighting with Hole fans because they weren't cheering loud enough during the last night of the Lollapalooza tour in Mountain View, CA. Cool again.....

Bone Thugs-N-Harmony started a three-week run at #1 on the US album chart in 1997.

In 1999, Led Zeppelin topped a chart of Britain's most bootlegged musicians, compiled by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), after identifying 384 bootleg titles featuring Led Zeppelin performances. The bootleg chart was complied from the BPI's archive of some 10,000 recordings seized over the past 25 years. The Beatles, came in second with 320 entries, other acts listed included The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan and Pink Floyd.

Nelly featuring Kelly Rowland held the #1 position on the US singles chart in 2002 with "Dilemma." The UK #1 album was 'By The Way' by The Red Hot Chili Peppers and the US #1 album was 'The Rising' by Bruce Springsteen.

Marilyn O'Grady, a Republican candidate for the New York Senate, launched a "Boycott the Boss" television commercial in 2004. Springsteen has been vocal about the ousting President Bush in the upcoming election. The conservative candidate says Springsteen "thinks making millions with a song-and-dance routine allows him to tell you how to vote. Here`s my vote - boycott the Boss. If you don`t buy his politics, don`t buy his music." Bitch.....

Hollywood Records released an updated version of Queen's "Greatest Hits" in 2004. This set features live recordings of "Under Pressure" and "Tie Your Mother Down," plus an unreleased version of "I'm in Love With My Car." The package also includes unreleased photos by Mick Rock. The original "Greatest Hits" came out in '81.

The ownership rights to Nine Inch Nails' 1991 debut album went on the block with other items in 2005 to payback a defaulted loan. TVT Records, who held the rights to "Pretty Hate Machine" took out a $32 million loan in 1999 using part of the label's catalog as collateral.

High School Musical 2 premiered on the US Disney Channel and Family Channel in 2007. Watched by a total of 17.2 million viewers in the United States, making it the highest rated basic cable broadcast in U.S. history.

In 2008, Jackson Browne was suing US Republican presidential candidate John McCain for using one of his songs without permission. Browne claimed the use of his song Running on Empty in an advert was an infringement of copyright and would lead people to conclude he endorses McCain. Browne was seeking more than $75,000 in damages.

Today, Iron Maiden unleashes “The Final Frontier,” the band's 15th studio album. It was cut at Compass Point Studios where Iron Maiden recorded “Piece Of Mind,” “Powerslave” and “Somewhere In Time.” "The studio had the same vibe and it was exactly as it had been in 1983,” says frontman Bruce Dickinson. “We felt very relaxed in such a familiar and well-trodden environment.”

John Mellencamp’s “No Better Than This” drops today as well. The "roots" album was recorded, with the help of T-Bone Burnett, at historic locations, including Sun Studios in Memphis.

Music News & Notes

Celtic Comedy Music Has a New Godfather, Marc Gunn Releases Kilted For Her Pleasure

Marc Gunn releases his latest CD, an all-out Celtic comedy music album for those who love to laugh by the undisputed "Godfather of Celtic Music Online"

New Orleans, LA (PRWEB) August 16, 2010 - "Do you like kilts and Celtic music?"

That's the question Celtic folk musician, Marc Gunn, asks with his latest CD, "Kilted For Her Pleasure". The album is all-out Celtic comedy music for those who love to laugh by the undisputed "Godfather of Celtic Music Online". Gunn has offered more Celtic MP3 downloads free and legally than any other Celtic musician online. His latest CD is a testament to his dedication to the fun Celtic music he loves.

The album features fifteen tracks of sing-alongable Celtic songs that range from the traditional to the twisted. Traditional pieces include the popular Clancy Brothers' song "Beer, Beer, Beer" and the less-known but sprightly bawdy, song "Maid Went to the Mill".

Some of the more fun songs are originals penned by Marc Gunn. "A Drop of Vulcan Blood" is a parody of an old Sea Shanty that is rewritten about Star Trek. "Monahan's Mudder's Milk" is a Celtic tribute to the Sci Fi Western TV show "Firefly" by Joss Whedon. At it's base, it's a Woody Guthrie-style worker's rights song about a man trying to escape the oppression of a dead-end job. Then there's the title track, "Kilted For Her Pleasure", which explains just why Gunn loves the kilt.

"I love wearing a kilt," says Gunn dressed in his newest olive green Utilikilt, "but it's so much more than the love of my Scottish heritage. It's a love of my whole Celtic culture... Not to mention the looks I get from the ladies."

However, it is the contemporary songs that shine the brightest on this album. Comedy songwriter Spaff co-wrote the song "St. Patrick Never Drank" and satirically announces that the good Saint never touched alcohol, despite the fact that St Patrick's Day is probably the most-drunken day of the year. However, the funniest song by far is Daniel Glasser's comedic lullaby called "Close Your Eyes". The reason? "Because the demons in your bed are gonna eat you up."

The album is an exciting breakthrough into an untapped market for Celtic comedy music. "Celts love to laugh as much as anyone," Gunn begins, "I just thought I'd give them something for our contemporary Celtic culture."

In the spirit of the indie musician, Gunn paid for the album entirely through fan sponsorships. Thirty-eight fans donated various amounts of money, from $40 to $500, to help pay for this album. That includes the Executive Producer, a collectible toy store owner credited as "Lord and Master Larry Owens of www.NRFBToyStore.com". In just two short months, the album was paid for in its entirety by Gunn's passionate fans.

Track listing:

1. Kilted For Her Pleasure
2. A Drop of Vulcan Blood
3. Maid Went to the Mill
4. Close Your Eyes
5. Beer, Beer, Beer
6. To the Begging He Will Go
7. The True History of No Pants Day
8. Jock Stuart, A Man Who Wears a Kilt Every Day
9. St. Patrick Never Drank
10. Call of the Bodice
11. The Mower
12. The Widow and the Devil
13. Kitty Cat
14. The Sailboat Armada
15. Monahan’s Mudder’s Milk

Marc Gunn is available for interviews at (512)470-4866.  MP3 downloads of album songs are also available for review. Find out more at http://www.marcgunn.com/.

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Lloyd Set to Release First Single, 'Lay It Down,' for Polow da Don's Zone 4 Label

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Aug. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- With cool crooner Lloyd newly signed to acclaimed songwriter/producer Polow da Don's Zone 4 joint venture with Interscope Records, the smooth singer's debut single for the label, "Lay It Down," will be released on Monday, August 16, 2010. The track, produced by Awesome Jones (aka Polow da Don), will lead the release of Lloyd's fourth album but first for Zone 4/Interscope, King Of Hearts, scheduled for early 2011.

"It feels good to start fresh with Polow and Interscope, making music is fun again. We took my sound to another level with "Lay It Down," commented Lloyd. Polow adds, "This is real music, real singing, classic."

Lloyd lays down the enticing "Lay It Down" after last year's collaboration with Lil Wayne, the track "BedRock" from Young Money, hit #2 Pop and #2 R&B/Hip-Hop. His most recent album, Lessons In Love, soared to #1 R&B and Top 10 Pop in 2008, as "Girls Around The World" featuring Lil Wayne scored a Top 15 R&B/Hip-Hop hit. Lloyd's second album, 2007's Street Love, debuted at #2 Pop and R&B, went gold, and spun off the #1 R&B/Hip-Hop and #10 Pop "You," again featuring Lil Wayne, as well as the #4 R&B/Hip-Hop and Top 20 Pop "Get It Shawty." New Orleans-born but now an Atlanta resident, Lloyd made his album debut in 2004 with Southside, whose title track duet with Ashanti charted Top 30 Pop and Top 20 R&B/Hip-Hop.


SOURCE Interscope Records

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THE JOHN LENNON Box Of Vision® Limited Edition Collection to Commemorate the 70th Anniversary of Lennon's Birth

Pre-Order Now Underway For Collection Due This Fall

Includes First LP Size Book Of Complete Album Artwork And Storage For The Entire John Lennon, and John Lennon and Yoko Ono, CD Catalog

LOS ANGELES, Aug.16 /PRNewswire/ -- In commemoration of the 70th anniversary of John Lennon's birth, THE JOHN LENNON Box Of Vision®, a limited edition individually numbered collection, is now available for pre-order at http://www.boxofvision.com/  for early October delivery, and will be available at retail this Fall through EMI Music Services. Officially licensed by Yoko Ono Lennon, the stunning new collection includes:

•A 166-page hard bound book containing all of John Lennon's, and John Lennon and Yoko Ono's, LP artwork, brilliantly restored in pristine new LP-size art prints. This is the first time that all of this album artwork has been collected together in a single LP sized book. This book includes front covers, back covers, gatefolds and inserts arranged to create the feeling of holding and enjoying the entire LP collection in your lap. It includes the complete artwork from WEDDING ALBUM, arranged for the first time in book form, to be viewed as an actual wedding album would; the complete calendar artwork for LIVE PEACE IN TORONTO 1969; and the complete artwork for all of John's, and John and Yoko's, officially released studio LPs, worldwide compilations and live albums originally issued in the LP format.

•The "Catalography," a brand new, full color discography of John's, and John and Yoko's, album catalog, with an exclusive essay and textual guide; newly restored reproductions of classic Lennon album advertisements; John's handwritten "sound" notes to DOUBLE FANTASY and MILK AND HONEY; and more.

•The patented BoxOfVision CD storage system, built to store all of John Lennon's official CD releases, it can hold up to 32 different CD albums, in an expandable and adaptable format to accommodate any fan's collection. (CDs not included).

•In addition, this limited edition collection includes two (2) art-adorned recordable DVDs, and two (2) different art-adorned recordable CDs, intended for fans to record and store audiovisual and audio content they choose. Boxofvision has received permission from Yoko Ono to create these unique recordable discs using classic John, and John and Yoko, art elements.

Ideal for fans, collectors and holiday gift giving, the limited edition set (less than 7500 numbered copies will be made available worldwide) is the perfect complement to Lennon's remastered albums and new collections to be released October 5 by EMI Music. Housed in a unique "artist's canvas" oversized Box (measuring over 15 inches by 13 inches, and 4 inches deep), the set is wrapped in a stunning, silver-inked portrait of John Lennon, with a precise reproduction of John's original line drawing "Baby Grand" on the back. The retail list price is $124.99.

The JOHN LENNON Box Of Vision was conceived by Jonathan Polk, of Boxofvision LLC. "To mark the 70th anniversary of John's birth, we have created something special that we believe his fans will treasure, and we hope they will pass on to their children as a way of helping to preserve the legacy of John's music and ideals for future generations," said Polk. The JOHN LENNON Box Of Vision is being released in conjunction with the John Lennon Time Capsule project, three time capsules which will be sealed on October 9, 2010 to be unsealed in a worldwide ceremony on October 9, 2040.

Boxofvision LLC creates and distributes elegant products for fans to store and display the bodies of work of great recording artists, like last year's collectible THE BEATLES Box Of Vision and the upcoming BOB DYLAN "Archive."

For a "video tour" and more information on The JOHN LENNON Box Of Vision visit:

www.BoxOfVision.com/johnlennon

For more information on the JOHN LENNON TIME CAPSULE Project, please visit

www.BoxOfVision.com/TimeCapsule

SOURCE Boxofvision LLC

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Ozzy Osbourne Might Try to Make Music Other Than Metal  

Say it ain't so! It's being reported that Ozzy Osbourne recently told the folks at VH1 that he would like to flex his creative pipes and perhaps record something that's not metal. While that may seem shocking, (he IS the 'prince of darkness') since his name is practically synonymous with heavy metal, it might do the former Black Sabbath frontman some good to try something new.

"Being Ozzy Osbourne is great, I mean it's been wonderful being the singer of Black Sabbath, having all those hits through Sabbath and then on my solo career is one thing," Osbourne admitted, "But then if I want to do anything branching away from the heavy stuff, people will go, 'Oh, he's sold out. Oh, he's not doing it. Oh, he's singing a love song. Oh, he's singing about the ...' or whatever."

Osbourne also said he'd like to form a fake band in order to be able to expand his creative horizons. He commented, "I would like to form a fictitious band just to make a different record but it's the time it would take. I mean, it takes me all my time just to do an Ozzy record. But I would dearly like to get a mini-supergroup together. Nothing like heavy rock, like a bluesy vibe."

A bluesy rendition of "Iron Man?" Go for it Mr. Oz ....

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Slayer To Release Vinyl Box Set

American thrash metalheads Slayer have recently announced that they will be releasing a box set this year called, "The Vinyl Conflict" which, as the name suggests, features vinyl copies of all of their releases through American Recordings.

Ten albums on 11 discs, The Vinyl Conflict will feature the band's entire Def/American Recordings catalogue: Reign In Blood (1986), South Of Heaven (1988), Seasons In The Abyss (1990), the double-record Live Decade Of Aggression (1991), Divine Intervention (1994), Undisputed Attitude (1998), God Hates Us All (2001), Christ Illusion (2006), and World Painted Blood (2009). The Vinyl Conflict will be released on October 12th, 2010.

"Most longtime Slayer fans may not have these records at this point," said American Recordings' Dino Paredes, "or their copies are completely beat-up, so to have the complete catalogue in this first-class presentation is terrific. For the newer fans, this is their opportunity to really get into this band the way that they could have if they were born 20 years earlier."

"Everything about 'The Vinyl Conflict' - the look of it, the feel of it - is very strong, very powerful, very Slayer," added Paredes, "from the music to the dripping, bloody pentagram on the front of the box. It's perfect."

Top 5 eBay Vinyl Record Sales ~ Week Ending 08/14/2010

Vinyl Record Talk - 78's at the top two spots, as the resurgence of the 78 continues. A Vogue picture disc makes the #1. Robert Johnson, a frequent visitor to the list recently, makes the number two spot. And someone out there has unleashed some Vertigo prog rarities. One makes the list for the second week. This from a band called Ben, so obscure that neither Jane or I know this record. As the saying goes, "no one knows every record."


1. 78 - Art Kassel "Queen For A Day" / "End Of A Perfect Day" Vogue Picture Disc - $4,207.28

2. 78 - Robert Johnson "Kind Hearted Woman Blues" / "Terraplane Blues" Vocalion 03416 - $3,428.92

3. LP - Aphrodite's Child "666" Vertigo UK 1st Pressing - $2,634.03

4. 12" - Ardonus "Got To Take A Chance" / "Just Be My Lady" Lyon - $2,550.00

5. LP - Ben "self titled" Vertigo UK 1st Pressing - $2,415.83

More on this week's top 5 on Vinyl Record Talk with Norm & Jane every Tuesday 8:00PM Eastern / 5:00PM Pacific on Radio Dentata.  Tune In!

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Music News & Notes

Elvis Costello Names New LP National Ransom, Unveils Album Cover

Legendary songwriter Elvis Costello has a new studio album on the way, which is due out on October 5, has been given the new, only slightly different title of National Ransom. ElvisCostello.info posted the album’s cover art. There’s no firm tracklist yet, but Costello has debuted a number of live songs in concert, which may appear on the LP (we can expect information about the tracklist and a single to be announced soon).

The record was recorded by folk super-producer T-Bone Burnett, who has worked with Costello on three previous albums, including 2009’s 'Secret, Profane & Sugarcane.' It was recorded in Nashville and features backing bands the Imposters and the Sugarcanes. It will be released via Starbucks’ Hear Music label.

In a recent interview with Herald Scotland, Costello said, “The ensemble ranges from two players to nine pieces and while some songs are very intimate and quiet, others are not.”









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Iggy Pop & James Williamson to release Kill City

Kill City is aurgueably Iggy Pop and James Williamson's severly overlooked, yet ultimately essential album that musically bridges the gap between The Stooges' volatile 1973 studio masterpiece 'Raw Power' and Iggy's first two magnificent solo efforts, 'The Idiot' and 'Lust for Life.' Originally recorded in 1975 and later released by Bomp! Records in '77, the sound quality of Kill City was compromised from the get-go, as it originally suffered from a bad pressing (on the infamous green vinyl), and over the years the quality of the record itself managed to get even worse. When the original distributor went out of business, the 2-track album production masters vanished and every subsequent pressing of the album - on record, cassette and CD - used a copy of that deficient green vinyl as its master.

The October release of this album also follows Iggy & The Stooges' current world tour (featuring the reunited James Williamson on guitar), where they've been performing material from Kill City live for the first time.

Kill City will be available on October 19th as a CD Digipak featuring the original 1977 artwork and a 24-page booklet with rare and unseen photos. The vinyl first-run is a limited edition of 1,000 on clear green vinyl (as an homage to the original 1977 pressing). There are no bonus tracks, but, with this newly restored version, people will be able to discover, or re-discover, a truly great album as it was intended to sound.

KILL CITY TRACKLISTING
1. Kill City
2. Sell Your Love
3. Beyond The Law
4. I Got Nothin'
5. Johanna
6. Night Theme
7. Night Theme (Reprise)
8. Consolation Prizes
9. No Sense Of Crime
10. Lucky Monkeys
11. Master Charge

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Optimo to re-release Chris Carter LP

JD Twitch's Optimo Music imprint is scheduled to release 'The Spaces Between,' an updated vinyl version of the 1980 release by Throbbing Gristle co-founder Chris Carter. Carter's debut work was recorded in London between 1974 and 1978 and released via Gristle's Industrial Records. Until now, none of the recordings on the album have ever been available on vinyl. The new version features only six of the original 15 songs, all of which have been re-mastered by Carter himself, plus a bonus track called "Climbing," which Twitch credits with being "one of the first ever recordings to use an 808 drum machine."

The Spaces Between marks a shift in direction for Optimo Music. Twitch launched the label in 2009, and to date has used it mostly as a platform for fledgling artists from Glasgow, such as Big Ned, Den Haan, Divorce and Older Love. The new LP will be Optimo Music's second full-length to date, and its first foray into reissues.

Tracklist
A1. Beat
A2. Outreach
A3. Clouds
A4. Electrodub
B1. Interloop
B2. Solidit
B3. Climbing

Optimo Music will release The Spaces Between in September 2010.

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Morrissey to release re-master of “Everyday Is Like Sunday”

On September 27 Morrissey will release a remastered version of his once UK top ten hit single “Everyday Is Like Sunday” from 1988. I t will be released alongside s special 20th anniversary edition of the singer’s compilation album 'Bona Drag.' The remastered version of “Everyday Is Like Sunday” will be released on CD, two 7" vinyl records and as a digital download. Those looking to purchase the single on vinyl need to pay attention as the first version contains the track “Trash,” recorded live at Irvine Meadows, California in 1991, while version 2 has a live take of the single recorded at The Hollywood Bowl from his performance in 2007.

As a CD, the single will feature an unreleased alternative version of “November Spawned a Monster” called “November The Second” as well as a live performance of the single itself from Top of the Pops the same year it was originally released

This Date In Music History - August 15

Birthdays:

Johnny Thunder ("Loop De Loop") is 69

Songwriter Jimmy Webb ("Up-Up And Away", "By The Time I Get To Phoenix", "MacArthur Park" and many, many more) turns 63

Pete York - Spencer Davis Group (1942)

Tommy Aldridge - Whitesnake (1950)

Matt Johnson - The The (1961)

Marshall Schofield - The Fall (1962)

Angela Rae - Wild Horses (1966)

MCA (Adam Yauch) - Beastie Boys (1967)

Mike Graham - Boyzone (1972)

Simon Dawbarn - 911 (1974)

Paul Robert Nester Thomson - Franz Ferdinand (1976)

David Welsh - The Fray (1984)

Joe Jonas - Jonas Brothers (1989)


They Are Missed:

Singer Thomas Wayne was killed in a car crash in 1971 (age 29). Had the 1959 #5 single "Tragedy."

Norman Petty (produced Buddy Holly, Buddy Knox and the Fireballs and recorded with his own trio) died of leukemia in 1984.

In 1992, Jamaican singer-song writer Jackie Edwards died. Edwards worked as a singer, songwriter for Island Records. He wrote both "Keep On Running" and "Somebody Help Me," that became #1 singles for The Spencer Davis Group, as well as releasing his own albums.

Born on this day in 1933, Bobby Helms, American country music singer best known for his 1957 hit, "Jingle Bell Rock." Died of emphysema at his home in Martinsville, Indiana on June 19, 1997). He was 63.

The late Jackie Brenston ("Rocket 88") was born in 1930.

The late Bill Pinkney of the original Drifters ("Honey Love") was born in 1925 (died July 4, 2007).

Bobby Byrd (August 15, 1934 – September 12, 2007) was an African American funk/soul/R&B/gospel musician, songwriter and record producer who played with James Brown and The Famous Flames. He was born in Toccoa, Georgia.

In 2008, US record producer Jerry Wexler, who influenced the careers of singers including Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles and Bob Dylan, died at his home in Sarasota, Florida (age 91). Wexler produced the Aretha Franklin hit "Respect," the Wilson Pickett song, "In the Midnight Hour" and helped Bob Dylan win his first Grammy award by producing the 1979 album, 'Slow Train Coming.' He also coined the term ‘rhythm and blues’ while writing for Billboard magazine in the late 1940s.


History:

"The Wizard of Oz" premiered in Hollywood, CA in 1939. Judy Garland became famous for the movie's song "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."



Elvis Presley started a five week run at #1 on the US singles chart in 1960 with "It's Now Or Never," (also #1 in the UK). The song which was based on the Italian song, "O Sole Mio," gave Presley his first post-army #1 hit.

At Liverpool’s Cavern Club in 1962, Pete Best played his last show with The Beatles. Of course, he's unaware he’s about to be dumped.

Crooner Dean Martin went to #1 on the US singles chart in 1964 with "Everybody Loves Somebody."

In 1965, the Beatles set a new world record for the largest attendance at a pop concert when they played in front of 55,600 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City. Sharing the bill with The Beatles; Brenda Holloway, The King Curtis Band, The Young Rascals and Sounds Incorporated. The Beatles were paid $160,000 for the show, the set list: ‘Twist and Shout’, ‘She's a Woman’, ‘I Feel Fine’, ‘Dizzy Miss Lizzie’, ‘Ticket to Ride’, ‘Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby’, ‘Can't Buy Me Love’, ‘Baby's In Black’, ‘Act Naturally’, ‘I Wanna Be Your Man’, ‘A Hard Day's Night’, ‘Help!’, and ‘I'm Down’. Two of the Rolling Stones were among the audience, Mick Jagger and Keith Richard and later that evening; Bob Dylan visited The Beatles at their hotel.

During a US tour in 1966, the Beatles appeared at the D.C. Stadium in Washington DC to over 32,000 fans. Tickets cost $3. Five members of the Ku Klux Klan, led by the Imperial Wizard of Maryland, picketed the concert.

Bobby Darin recorded his immortal cut "If I Were A Carpenter" in 1966.



During a North American tour in 1969, Led Zeppelin appeared at the Hemisfair Arena in San Antonio. Jethro Tull and Sweet Smoke were also on the bill. During the show Zeppelin received abuse from locals due to the length of their hair.

In 1969, the Woodstock Festival was held on Max Yasgur's 600 acre farm in Bethel outside New York. Attended by over 400,000 people, the free event featured, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Cocker, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Santana, The Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band, Canned Heat, Joan Baez, Santana, Melanie, Ten Years After, Sly and the Family Stone, Johnny Winter, Jefferson Airplane, Ravi Shanker, Country Joe and the Fish, Blood Sweat and Tears, Arlo Guthrie, and Joe Cocker. During the three days there were three deaths, two births and four miscarriages. Joni Mitchell was booked to appear but had to pull out due to being booked for a TV show, wrote the song "Woodstock."



The futuristic satire film 'Americathon' featuring Meat Loaf, premiered in Los Angeles in 1979. The soundtrack included songs by The Beach Boys, Nick Lowe and Elvis Costello.

George Harrison's autobiography, "I, Me, Mine" was originally published in 1980.

Diana Ross and Lionel Richie started a nine week run at #1 on the US singles chart in 1981 with "Endless Love." The song was the title from a film starring Brooke Shields.

In 1987, on the tenth anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley, thousands of people marched past his grave in Memphis, TN.

In 1991, Paul Simon played a free concert in New York's Central Park before an audience of three quarters of a million people.

Boyz II Men started a 13 week run at #1 on the US singles chart in 1992 with "End Of The Road," the group's first #1 single. Taken from the Eddie Murphy film 'Boomerang,' it broke the 36-year-old record held by Elvis for the longest run at #1 on the top of the charts.

In 1997, Tony Nicole Tony Records filed suit against Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of KISS for alleged intentional interference with KISS drummer Peter Criss' contract with the label. The suit maintained that Simmons and Stanley convinced Criss to break his contract with the label.

The Donnas signed with Lookout! Records in 1997.

In 2002, a memorial to John Lennon was unveiled in the remote Scottish village of Durness where Lennon had spent his holidays from age seven to fifteen. The lyrics from "In My Life" had been inscribed on three stones.



In 2005, United National Insurance Company sued Limp Bizkit to avoid paying court costs the group accrued defending itself from wrongful-death claims. A 16-year-old fan was crushed during the 2001 Big Day Out festival in Sydney, Australia. The case against the group was dismissed. The insurance company says it doesn't have to cover the band's legal fees because frontman Fred Durst had incited the crowd during the performance.

A deluxe version of Lou Reed's ‘76 album "Coney Island Baby" was issued in 2006 (celebrating the 30th anniversary of the disc's release). The package contained a number of rarities and never-before-released tracks, including rehearsal recordings featuring Reed's one-time Velvet Underground bandmate Doug Yule. On the other side of the artistic coin, there’s an expanded version of Grand Funk Railroad's "Greatest Hits" album containing previously unreleased material. A trio of concert performances, a vintage TV appearance and a ‘73 promotional film are on the DVD.

Deana Martin's album "Memories Are Made of This" was released in 2006. The album featured her versions of many of her father's hits and other hits by Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr..

Sixteen solo John Lennon albums were made available to download on iTunes for the first time in 2007. A deal was approved by the late Beatle's widow Yoko Ono following a lengthy legal battle between the band's label Apple Corps and Apple Inc, which owned Tunes.

In 2009, U2's first UK gig on their current tour broke the attendance record for a Wembley Stadium concert. Over 88,000 people attended the show.

Fabolous was at #1 on the US album chart in 2009 with ‘Loso's Way,' the rappers fifth studio album.

2009 - It’s the Bethel Woods Music Festival in Bethel, NY (makes sense). The event commemorates the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, which took place at the same site. Several musicians who performed at the ’69 festival return. The bill includes Jefferson Starship, Mountain, The Band's Levon Helm, Big Brother & The Holding Co., Country Joe McDonald, Canned Heat and Ten Years After. Mountain's Leslie West gets married onstage after the group's performance. "You can get married in Paris, but I think getting married onstage at Woodstock would be really special," says West prior to the ceremony.

Columbia Records Proud to Release the New Johnny Mathis Album

Columbia Records Proud to Release the New Johnny Mathis Album, Let It Be Me: Mathis In Nashville, Available Everywhere Tuesday, September 21

First "Country" Album From Legendary Pop Vocalist Features Guest Artists Lane Brody and Alison Krauss

NEW YORK, Aug. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Columbia Records proudly announces the release of Let It Be Me: Mathis In Nashville, the new pop country album from the legendary vocalist Johnny Mathis, available everywhere on Tuesday, September 21.

For his first full album inspired by the world of country music, Mathis, whose knowledge and love of music crosses all genres, handpicked the songs for Let It Be Me: Mathis In Nashville, songs that moved him personally and came alive under the Mathis touch.

Johnny and Fred Mollin, the album's producer, assembled a group of the finest musicians in Nashville (or anywhere in the world) to record an album intentionally free of modern studio tricks. With the superb recording engineer Khyle Lenning on board to capture the sessions, Johnny recorded these songs live in the studio over the course of a week. Johnny's approach is sympathetic to the original country arrangements, with each musician performing with an extraordinary sensitivity supporting some of the most intimate vocals Mathis has ever recorded.

Songs on Let It Be Me: Mathis In Nashville include "What A Wonderful World" (featuring Lane Brody), "Let It Be Me" (featuring Alison Krauss), "Make The World Go Away," "Crazy," "Southern Nights," "You Don't Know Me," "Lovin' Arms," "Shenandoah," "We Must Be Lovin' Right," "I Can't Stop Lovin' You," "Love Me Tender," "Please Help Me I'm Falling" and "What A Wonderful World (Christmas Version)" (featuring Lane Brody).

Signed to Columbia Records in the mid-1950's, Johnny Mathis is the longest-running artist on the label, with 17 million RIAA certified album and singles sales in the US alone. A sublime vocalist whose approach to pop music transcends passing fads and trends, Johnny Mathis has performed songs in an incredible variety of styles and categories -- from music composed for stage and film to golden era jazz standards, contemporary pop hits, and holiday music both sacred and secular -- assuring his reputation as one of the most enduring traditional pop vocalists in music history.

Perhaps best-known for his landmark singles (three of his recordings--"Chances Are," "It's Not For Me To Say," and "Misty"--have been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame) Mathis was one of the very first musical artists to embrace the album concept and record fully-realized thematically and sonically coherent collections of songs. His 1958 release, Johnny's Greatest Hits inaugurated the ongoing "greatest hits" anthology phenomenon becoming one of the most popular albums of all time after spending an unprecedented 490 continuous weeks (almost ten years) on the BILLBOARD Top Albums Chart. Johnny Mathis was given the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences in 2003.

Let It Be Me: Mathis In Nashville is the latest chapter in the unfolding musical saga of Johnny Mathis, where the world's voice of romance finds a home in Nashville.


SOURCE Columbia Records

Michael Fremer Album Review

Preservation (... to Benefit Preservation Hall & The Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program) (new release)
Various Artists
Preservation Hall 2 180g LPs+MP3 download
Produced by: Ben Jaffe
Engineered by: Earl Scioneaux III, others
Mixed by: Earl Scioneaux III, others
Mastered by: Bruce Barielle
Lacquers cut by: "WG" at Nashville Record Productions



Stars Line Up For Preservation Hall Benefit Album
by Michael Fremer
August 01, 2010

sound & music

Stars from across the musical universe donated their time and considerable talents to perform with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band on this thoroughly entertaining and superbly recorded double LP set celebrating the Hall’s 50th anniversary.

The stars range from veterans like Blind Boys of Alabama (“There is A Light”), Merle Haggard (“Basin Street Blues”), Dr. John (“Winin’ Boy”), Pete Seeger (“Blue Skies”), Richie Havens (“Trouble Mind”), Tom Waits (“Tootie Ma Was A Big Fine Thing”), Steve Earle (“T’aint Nobody’s Business”) and Del McCoury (“After You’ve Gone”) and youngsters Andrew Bird (“Shake It and Break It”), Paolo Nutini (“Between The Devil & The Deep Blue Sea”), Brandi Carlile (“Old Rugged Cross”) and Angélique Kidjo with Terence Blanchard (“La Vie En Rose”).

Others contribute as well. Louis Armstrong makes a “guest” appearance too, on Hoagy Carmichael’s “Rockin’ Chair” backed by the Preservation Hall Orchestra. When it comes on and you hear Louis “performing” in the same wonderful acoustic as the still living musicians, it gets kind of creepy! Armstrong’s voice was very well recorded so it must have been taken from a ‘50s or ‘60s production, but from precisely where and how it was stripped from the backing is not explained. I wish it had been.

That’s about the only criticism one could levy against this superbly entertaining and extremely well-recorded set (well, I do have one more: the setting is absolutely perfect for Ray Davies who has lived in New Orleans for some time, though I'm not sure he's living there now. Why no Ray track here?).

I can’t imagine this was recorded analog, though it sure sounds as if it was. And if it was done digitally, why can't all digital recordings sound this good? You can see an RCA 44 ribbon mike capturing Yim Yames’ singing into a megaphone on his rendition of “Louisiana Fairytale' (Yim Yams is Jim James lead singer of My Morning Jacket) so clearly the engineers had good gear to work with, and more importantly the right sonic values.

While the veterans are uniformly great, so are the youngsters, particularly Paolo Nutini’s performance of “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea” and Brandi Carlile’s “Old Rugged Cross.” Hell, there’s not a less than brilliant performance on this set (and let’s not leave out the talents of the Preservation Hall Band!) and when you combine that with a stellar, three dimensional, utterly natural, effects-free, timbrally perfect recording that will set your stereo free, I don’t see how you can miss here.

Even United delivered two perfectly pressed, quiet, 180g black biscuits. If you don’t enjoy every drop of this nineteen tune double LP package, you need your head examined.

Because the proceeds benefit Preservation Hall, I didn’t ask for and didn’t receive a promo copy. I bought mine and I’m glad I did both to support the Hall and because it’s a record I’ll be playing repeatedly. You will too if you take my word for it and pick up your own copy.

The set ends with Kidjo and Blanchard’s delightful rendition of “La Vie En Rose” that I promise you will have you heading for the aisles (okay, back to your turntable to lift up the arm), with a big smile on your face. Please read Roger Hahn’s two part article on the history of Preservation Hall and the music it’s dedicated to preserving elsewhere on this site.

Thanks to Michael over at http://www.musicangle.com/ for the exclusive rights to reprint this material.

Copyright © 2008 MusicAngle.com & Michael Fremer - All rights reserved Reprinted by Permission

This Date In Music History - August 13

Birthdays:

Dave "Baby" Cortez ("Happy Organ") turns 72

Cliff Fish - Paper Lace (1949)

Danny Bonaduce - Partridge Family (1959)

LeAnn Rimes (1982)


They Are Missed:

In 1971, saxophonist King Curtis Ousley was stabbed to death by a vagrant on the front steps of his New York home. Ousley had worked with John Lennon and also played on The Coasters "Yakety Yak."

In 1982, American soul singer Joe Tex died at his home in Navasota, Texas, following a heart attack, just five days after his 49th birthday. Had nine US Top 40 hits including the 1972 US #2 single "I Gotcha."

Francine Hurd Barker (Peaches of Peaches & Herb) died in 2005.

Don Ho was born today in 1930. He died on April 14, 2007.

Also born on this day, Dan Fogelberg, US singer and songwriter (1951). Worked with Joe Walsh, Jackson Browne, Randy Newman. Fogelberg died on Dec 16, 2007 at his home in Maine at the age of 56 of prostate cancer.

In 2009, guitarist and innovator, Les Paul, died of complications from pneumonia at age 94. His development of the electric guitar (the Gibson Les Paul is one of Rock’s most popular guitars) and multi-track recording techniques had a profound impact on Rock music. "Les Paul was a shining example of how full one's life can be," reads a statement from Velvet Revolver/ex-Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash, a Gibson Les Paul player. "He was so vibrant and full of positive energy." Henry Juszkiewicz, CEO of Gibson Guitars adds, “I think an appropriate title for Les would be ‘the father of modern guitar."




History:

Robert Johnson played a show at a roadhouse outside Greenwood, MS in 1938. It is speculated that Johnson was poisoned by the bar owner. Johnson died several days later.

Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton recorded the original "Hound Dog" in 1952.



Bobby Darin signed a six-picture deal with Paramount Studios in 1959 (worth $1 million).

Brenda Lee recorded "Sweet Nothin's" in 1959.

Drummer Pete Best auditions for The Beatles. He spends just over two years with the group before being replaced by Ringo Starr. 1960

In 1963, the Four Seasons sued Vee-Jay Records for non-payment of royalties.

The Supremes recorded "Baby Love" in 1964, their second US chart topper.

Jefferson Airplane made their live stage debut at San Francisco's Matrix Club in 1965.

The Beatles album "Help!" was released in the United States in 1965.

Also in 1965, the Beatles arrived at Kennedy International Airport for a tour of North America. The set list for the tour was "Twist and Shout," "She's a Woman," "I Feel Fine," "Dizzy Miss Lizzie," "Ticket to Ride," "Everybody's Trying to Be My Baby," "Can't Buy Me Love," "Baby's in Black," "Act Naturally," "A Hard Day's Night," "Help!" and "I'm Down" and "I Wanna Be Your Man." The tour was not a happy one for The Beatles, John Lennon took to screaming off-microphone obscenities at the audiences.

Lovin Spoonful started a three week run at #1 on the US singles chart in 1966 with "Summer In The City."



The Supremes' "You Can't Hurry Love" was released in 1966.

In 1967, the Daughters of the American Revolution refused to allow Joan Baez to perform at Constitution Hall in Washington, DC. because of her opposition to the Vietnam War.

Fleetwood Mac made their live debut when they appeared at the National Jazz and Blues Festival in Windsor in 1967. Also on the bill - Jeff Beck, Cream, Small Faces, The Move, The Pink Floyd, Donovan and Chicken Shack.

The Guess Who recorded "American Woman" in 1969.



John Lennon flew from Heathrow Airport to New York in 1971, he never set foot on British soil again.

In 1972, John Lennon and Stevie Wonder performed at New York's "One-To-One Concert" to aid the retarded.

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band played a five night stand at NY’s Bottom Line in 1975. The concerts generated a buzz around Springsteen in the days just before “Born To Run” was released.

The Clash played a private gig for the press at Chalk Farm rehearsal studios, London in 1976.

Bachman Turner Overdrive split up in 1977.

In 1980, four masked robbers broke in to Todd Rundgren's New York house and proceeded to steal Hi-Fi equipment and paintings after tying the musician up. It was reported that one of the intruders had been humming his hit "I Saw The Light."

In 1982, major American record companies including CBS Atlantic and Warner Brothers all made staff cut-backs as the industry plunged into 'the worst shape in its history'.

Curtis Mayfield was paralyzed from the neck down in an onstage accident in Brooklyn on August 13, 1990. The day Mayfield was doing something he’d done a thousand times, the soundcheck for an outdoor concert, onstage at Wingate Field, Flatbush, Brooklyn. But high winds toppled the stage lighting rig and Mayfield was underneath. He survived but paralyzed from the neck down, his spine crushed in three places.

Jane’s Addiction unveils their “Ritual De Lo Habitual” album in 1990.

Neil Diamond played the first of six sold-out nights at Madison Square Garden in New York in 1992. Diamond would bring in over $40 million from touring this year, the second highest in the music industry.

Members from Oasis and The Verve were arrested in 1994 after smashing up a hotel bar and breaking into a church to steal communion wine. Both bands had been appearing at Hulsfred Festival in Sweden. Communion wine???

Woodstock '94 was held in Saugerties, New York in 1994, attended by over 350,000 fans, the festival featured Green Day, Nine Inch Nails, Aerosmith and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Tickets cost $135.00.

The movie "Detroit Rock City" opened in 1999.

In 1999, Mick Jagger's marriage to model Jerry Hall was been declared null and void at the High Court in London. Neither Jagger nor Hall were present for the 30-minute hearing before Mr Justice Connell. After hearing evidence on behalf of Hall the judge ruled their "marriage" in Bali in 1990 was not valid either in Indonesia or under English law, and a decree of nullity was granted to Hall. The annulment avoided what had been expected to be a long and costly court battle, in which Ms Hall, 43, was reportedly seeking a £30m share of Jagger's wealth.

In 2002, Adam Ant pleaded guilty to threatening drinkers at The Prince Of Wales Pub in London in January of this year. The former 1980's pop star had returned to the bar with a starting pistol after being refused entry. He had also thrown a car alternator through the window of the pub. How bad can a man be who calls himself Adam Ant?

It's the first day of the Rock 'n Roll Fantasy Camp in New York in 2006. The “instructors” include George Thorogood, Yes vocalist Jon Anderson, E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg, ex-Grand Funk Railroad frontman Mark Farner and former Allman Brothers Band singer-guitarist Dickey Betts. The counselors are Bad Company drummer Simon Kirke, former Boston guitarist Barry Goudreau and ex-KISS axe-man Bruce Kulick. The five day camp costs a mere $8,499.

Bob Dylan launched his second summer tour of U.S. minor league baseball stadiums in 2006. Dylan takes his first swing in Comstock Park, MI. The tour supports Dylan's “Modern Times” album.

In 2007, Amy Winehouse pulled out of two Rolling Stones gigs in Hamburg Germany citing exhaustion, British group Starsailor replaced Winehouse for the shows.