Music News & Notes

Led Zeppelin son Jason Bonham releases debut album with Black Country Communion

As the 30th anniversary of his father's death approaches, drummer Jason Bonham is going back to his roots.  On Monday, Jason - the son of Led Zeppelin legend John 'Bonzo' Bonham, who died on September 25, 1980 - will release the debut album by his new band Black Country Communion.

The supergroup includes ace blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa and is named after the Midlands area from where Jason and the group's bassist Glenn Hughes originate.

"I'm celebrating my 10th year clean and sober," admits Jason, 44. "For many years I was emulating the wrong John - Bonzo the party guy."

It follows on from Zeppelin's stalled comeback at the memorable 2007 Ahmet Ertegun tribute gig in London. Perhaps the new show is one way of filling a void.

"Much as I wanted it to carry on - and I did - that gig was a chapter where I could close the book on the past," Jason says. "I wanted reassurance from the band that I could do it, because my dad wasn't there to tell me."

Black Country Communion is out on Monday.

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DARK MOOR: New Album Cover Artwork And Track Listing Revealed

Madrid, Spain-based power metallers DARK MOOR have set "Ancestral Romance" as the title of their eighth album, which is due to be released in November.The follow-up to 2009's "Autumnal" was recorded at New Sin Studios in Italy with producer Luigi Stefanini and features cover artwork (see below) by artist Samuel Araya (CRADLE OF FILTH, ELVENKING).

"Ancestral Romance" track listing:

01. Gadir
02. Love From The Stone
03. Alaric De Marnac
04. Mio Cid
05. Just Rock
06. Tilt At Windmills
07. Canción Del Pirata
08. Ritual Fire Dance
09. Ah! Wretched Me
10. A Music In My Soul

The new album features a special guest appearance by soprano singer Berenice Musa.

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ALLEN / LANDE: 'The Showdown' Release Date, Artwork Revealed

Jorn Lande (MASTERPLAN, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN) and Russell Allen (SYMPHONY X) are set to release the third ALLEN / LANDE collaborative album on November 5 via Frontiers Records.  Entitled "The Showdown", the CD was mixed by Achim Köhler (PRIMAL FEAR, SINNER, SILENT FORCE) and once again features material written by Swedish guitar sensation Magnus Karlsson (PRIMAL FEAR, STARBREAKER, LAST TRIBE).

According to a press release, "The Showdown" "shows again that the musical direction will be epic, grandiose and very melodic hard-rocking music. The cover art was designed specifically for the project once again by the amazing Rodney Matthews."

Cool cover art!




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BLACK SABBATH: More Remastered Deluxe Expanded-Edition Reissues Detailed

Universal Music has scheduled a November 1st U.K. release date for the deluxe-edition reissues of the BLACK SABBATH albums "Seventh Star", "The Eternal Idol", "Live At Last" and "Past Lives".

After the departure of BLACK SABBATH's third vocalist Ian Gillan following the "Born Again" album (released in 1983) the band effectively split up and the remaining members embarked upon their own solo ventures. However, pressure from record companies and management would dictate the name BLACK SABBATH should forge-ahead and even though guitarist Tony Iommi would by now be the sole remaining original member, his unmistakable musicality and signature guitar sound would prove more than sufficient to keep the heart of BLACK SABBATH alive and beating deep into the 1980s and beyond.

"Seventh Star" (originally released in 1986) saw Iommi recruiting the skills of Dave "The Beast" Spitz and drummer Eric Singer (later of KISS) and for the first time the position of a keyboardist became a visible credit and long-serving back-room operator Geoff Nicholls was finally brought to the foreground as an official member. However, it would be the position of lead vocalist that would have the greatest impact upon the new SABBATH sound and the appointment of ex-TRAPEZE and DEEP PURPLE bassist/vocalist Glenn Hughes set interest and expectations high. "Seventh Star" would be somewhat of a departure from what was expected from the BLACK SABBATH name, and the songs on "Seventh Star" are more blues inclined and in the case of the single release, "No Stranger To Love", an altogether more AOR- and radio-friendly breeze is adopted.

This remastered deluxe expanded edition of the album adds the U.S. remix of the "No Stranger To Love" single and also for the very first time on CD, a live performance from London's Hammersmith Odeon in June '86 which features then-unknown American singer Ray Gillen who was brought-in to complete the tour following the departure of Glenn Hughes due to illness.

"The Eternal Idol" (BLACK SABBATH's thirteenth studio album released in 1987) was an altogether harder-sounding record and brought back an "edge" that had been missing from "Seventh Star". Although the album was originally recorded with unknown American singer Ray Gillen, by the time it came to the album release Tony Martin had joined the band and subsequently replaced all the vocal work for the final album.

"The Eternal Idol" remastered deluxe expanded edition adds two single B-sides from "The Shining" — "Black Moon" and "Some Kind Of Woman" — while the second disc brings to CD for the very first time the complete album session originally recorded by the late Ray Gillen.

"Seventh Star" remastered deluxe expanded edition:

Disc One (Original Album):

01. In For The Kill
02. No Stranger To Love
03. Turn To Stone
04. Sphinx (The Guardian)
05. Seventh Star
06. Danger Zone
07. Heart Like A Wheel
08. Angry Heart
09. In Memory...

Bonus Tracks:

10. No Stranger To Love (single remix)

Disc Two (Live At Hammersmith Odeon, London, England - June 2, 1986):

01. Mob Rules
02. Danger Zone
03. War Pigs
04. Seventh Star
05. Die Young
06. Black Sabbath
07. N.I.B.
08. Neon Knights
09. Paranoid
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THE BURNING: Second Studio Webisode Released

Hard-hitting Danish four-piece THE BURNING is set to release their new album, "Hail The Horde", in Europe on October 25 via Massacre Records. The cover art was created by Brent Elliot White, who has previously worked with MEGADETH, DEATH ANGEL and WHITECHAPEL.

"Hail The Horde" was produced by Jacob Bredahl (HATESPHERE, PURIFIED IN BLOOD), while the drum recordings and mastering were handled by Tue Madsen (SUICIDE SILENCE, HEAVEN SHALL BURN, SICK OF IT ALL). The album features guest vocals by Scott and Bjørn Jensen (DAWN OF DEMISE) and Søren "Nico" Adamsen (ARTILLERY).

"Hail The Horde" track listing:

01. Godless
02. Bait The Hook
03. Flames Be Your FriendNihilist Life
04. Nihilist Life
05. Swing The Pendulum
06. Wolf Moon (feat. Søren "Nico" Adamsen)
07. Hail The Horde (feat. Scott and Bjørn Jensen)
08. Inverted Cross Syndrome
09. Metamorphosis
10. Baptized In Bong Water
11. Turn Or Burn
12. Disownment


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Miles Davis' 'Bitches Brew' Turns 40 and Gets the Box Set Treatment

by Tad Hendrickson

I've gone on record more than once saying I lean more toward John Coltrane than Miles Davis. Yet such is the magnitude of Davis' legacy that it is impossible for either jazz fan or jazz critic to avoid spending considerable time listening to the trumpeter. No jazz musician I can think of was recorded more often. No leader I can think of had more of his sidemen go on to become stars in their own right. No jazz artist moved the music forward so many times, either dictating a change in music and/or simply being present as magic happened among his many talented sidemen. This was the case with the landmark 'Kind of Blue' in 1959. This was the case for 'Bitches Brew' in 1970.

Such is the stature of 'Bitches Brew' that it is generally regarded as Davis' top-selling album, moving a half million units (mostly into college dorms and suburban bedrooms), making the album his most successful crossover effort. It's hard to believe that, considering it's a 94-minute double album with only one track under 10 minutes; but it nonetheless is a perfect mix of jazz musicianship and rock dynamics.

Ostensibly, this album was Davis' reaction to the youth culture and music of the times, particularly the music of Sly and the Family Stone and Jimi Hendrix, but 'BB' is a whole lot more unwieldy than most popular '60s rock, including Hendrix.

Read the rest here: http://www.spinner.com/2010/09/16/bitches-brew-miles-davis/

Einsturzende Neubauten 30th Anniversary Album Out 11/9

30th ANNIVERSARY

STRATEGIES AGAINST ARCHITECTURE IV

ALBUM RELEASE – NOVEMBER 9th 2010

ANNIVERSARY TOUR – US DATES IN DECEMBER

Einstürzende Neubauten – Blixa Bargeld, N.U. Unruh, Alexander Hacke, Rudolf Moser and Jochen Arbeit – celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the band with the release of Strategies Against Architecture IV and US tour dates in December. The compilation album will be released digitally on November 9, 2010 with a two disc physical release set for December 7, 2010.

Strategies Against Architecture IV is the fourth album in the archival compilation series by Neubauten and collates the band’s output from 2002-2010, a period which saw Einstürzende Neubauten release Perpetuum Mobile (Mute), embark on the “Musterhaus” series (finalised in 2007), the release of Grundstück (CD & DVD, 2005), Palast der Republik (DVD, 2006), Alles wieder offen (2007) and their most recent release The Jewels (2008). During this time, the band began their groundbreaking series of ‘Supporter Albums’. For these releases, the band, via http://www.neubauten.org/ , engaged fans in a subscription model that entirely financed several releases and gave the ‘Supporters’ unprecedented exclusive access to the recording process.

Strategies Against Architecture IV is a double disc release including material from the band’s deeply symbolic appearance at Berlin’s Palast der Republik - the former seat of power of the German Democratic Republik, featuring The Social Choir of 100 supporter voices; live recordings such as YouMe & MeYou (from Vienna); Bertolt Brecht Und Der Weltempfänger (featuring “a roll of gaffer tape descending a staircase”) as well as material from the “Musterhaus” series (a collection of very limited edition experimental albums that were available exclusively via the band’s website).

Einstürzende Neubauten’s 30th anniversary will be celebrated with a tour through Europe and the US. Two shows will be performed in each, select city at different venues that are significant to the band. A concert will be played the first night with the second night billed as ‘An Evening With Einstürzende Neubauten’. For this show, the band will present the audience with a mixed program of films, solo shows, guests and friends including a shorter concert performance of material that has rarely or never been played live.

30th ANNIVERSARY TOUR DATES:

12/01/10 – Los Angeles, CA – The Music Box

12/02/10 ­– Los Angeles, CA – The Echoplex

12/03/10 – San Francisco, CA – The Filmore

12/04/10 – San Francisco, CA – Slim’s

12/08/10 – Chicago, IL – Vic Theatre

12/09/10 – Chicago, IL – Metro

12/11/10 – Toronto, ON – Phoenix Concert Theatre

12/12/10 – Toronto, ON – Lee’s Palace

12/14/10 – New York, NY – Webster Hall

12/15/10 – New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom

http://www.neubauten.org/  | http://www.mute.com/  

YAZ - RECONNECTED LIVE

YAZ

RECONNECTED LIVE

OUT SEPTEMBER 28 2010

iTUNES EXCLUSIVE FEATURING “GET SET”

RECONNECTED LIVE TRACKLISTING:

CD 1

Nobody's Diary

Bad Connection

Mr. Blue

Good Times

Tuesday

Ode To Boy

Goodbye '70s

Too Pieces

In My Room

Anyone

Walk Away From Love

CD 2

State Farm

Sweet Thing

Winter Kills

Midnight

Unmarked

Bring Your Love Down (Didn't I)

Don't Go

Only You

Situation

“Gaga and [Katy] Perry could still learn a thing or two from the extraordinary Alison Moyet

and her co-conspirator Vince Clarke, of Yaz” – The Bay Area Reporter

"I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator, and are throwing your

computer out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record."

– “Losing My Edge,” LCD Soundsystem

September 15, 2010 – New York, NY – YAZ release RECONNECTED LIVE on September 28th 2010 on double CD, limited edition hardback with a 32-page booklet and download.

The iTunes release features an exclusive track, the previously unreleased and much sought after “Get Set”, which was originally recorded in 1983 and used as the theme to the BBC Children's TV show 'Get Set For Summer'.

RECONNECTED LIVE documents one of pop’s most anticipated tours: in the summer of 2008 Vince Clarke & Alison Moyet reunited for the first time in over 25 years. The Times raved: “Clarke has unobtrusively retooled the band’s music for the digital age, making their vintage 1980s synthesizer ditties sound crisp, fluid and timeless” while The Guardian noted, “Yazoo’s first tour in 26 years finds the chemistry behind their smash hits unchanged.”

RECONNECTED LIVE, produced by Yaz, recorded by Martin Hildred and mixed by Vince Clarke features classic tracks from Yaz’s albums ‘Upstairs At Eric’s’ and ‘You And Me Both’; including Only You, Don’t Go and Situation plus tracks performed live for the first time ever, such as Nobody’s Diary.

The joyous, unlikely coming together of Vince Clarke, who had just left Depeche Mode, and Alison Moyet lasted for only 2 albums, performing just 24 concerts worldwide, but left an unforgettable mark on pop. Yaz released ‘Upstairs At Erics’ in July 1982, parting ways 12 months later upon release of their second album ‘You And Me Both’, which reached Number 1 in the UK.

Speaking prior to the Reconnected tour, Vince Clarke said: "It's been really good going back to these songs after such a long while. Many of them have never been played live. I'm looking forward to performing them with Alison for all the fans who've enjoyed our music through the years but never had a chance to see Yazoo in concert"

Alison Moyet explained: "Playing this material live is not about revision for me, it is about finishing something we started – writing, recording, performing. Three parts of a whole. A salmon cycle. It’s like going home.”

Watch Vince Clarke & Alison Moyet’s pre-show ritual before they played NYC. Here

Listen to a sampler of Reconnected Live here:

http://soundcloud.com/muterecords/sets/yazoo-reconnected-live-sampler  

For further information and to set up an interview with Alison or Vince

please contact Sheryl Witlen at Mute | sheryl@mute.com

iTunes | Yazoo | Vince Clarke | Alison Moyet

www.mute.com 

Music News & Notes

Deluxe Reissue of Paul McCartney & Wings’ ‘Band on the Run’ Out in November

On November 2nd, Concord Music will re-release Band on the Run, Paul McCartney & Wings’ multi-platinum album from 1973. The Grammy-winning record has been remastered at Abbey Road using the same team who recently remastered The Beatles reissues. Sir Paul himself has overseen every aspect of the album’s re-release. The release is the first in Concord’s recently announced campaign to reissue the entirety of McCartney’s post-Beatles records.

The Band on the Run reissue will be available in four formats: standard, special, deluxe and vinyl. The standard edition will be simply the original album remastered. The special edition also includes a second CD of bonus tracks (mostly taken from the band’s 1974 “One Hand Clapping” television special) and a DVD with footage of the McCartneys in Lagos, original Band on the Run promotional videos, and the “One Hand Clapping” television special (highlighted by studio performances filmed at Abbey Road). For the deluxe edition, a third CD of the audio documentary originally produced for the 25th anniversary edition of Band on the Run in 1999 and now remastered is included, as well as a 120-page hardcover book containing unseen and unpublished photos by Linda McCartney and Clive Arrowsmith, album and single artwork, a full history of the album with a new interview with Paul, and expanded track-by-track information for all four discs. The vinyl edition contains the original album and bonus material on two 180-gram records and mp3 downloads for all the tracks. The standard and deluxe versions will also be available digitally.

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WITHERED Unveil Cover Art and Track Listing

Blackened doom Georgians, WITHERED have unveiled the cover art and track listing for their upcoming album, “Dualitas,” due October 26th. The CD and vinyl versions of the record will have different covers, both of which were created by Paul Romano (Mastodon, Trivium, The Acacia Strain), who also did the cover for its critically acclaimed predecessor, “Folie Circulaire.” A brand new song will launch next week. “Dualitas,” is their third album, (second for Prosthetic Records) and was recorded by KYLESA‘s Phillip Cope at the Jam Room in Columbia, SC.

Dualitas Tracklisting:
1. Extinguished With The Weary
2. Residue In The Void
3. Seek the Shrouded
4. Interlude
5. From Shadows
6. The Progenitor’s Grasp
7. Aethereal Breath
8. Outro

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Good Charlotte Cover Art for Cardiology

Good Charlotte recently unveiled the cover art for their highly anticipated album, Cardiology. The fifth studio album from the Maryland crew will be released on November 2 via Capitol Records. The album cover art for Cardiology shows a heart that symbolizes the theme of the album, which Good Charlotte frontman Benji Madden recently explained as songs that are “all connected to the heart.”

The first Good Charlotte single off of Cardiology, “Like It’s Her Birthday," is now available on iTunes.









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After The Fall Get Ready To Release "Eradication"

"Eradication," the latest full-length from Albany, NY punk trio After The Fall is now available for pre-order from Mightier Than Sword Records. Slated for an official October 12th street date, the Brooklyn label will release the album on CD, digital and vinyl formats, with 500 of the latter being pressed on three limited edition colorways.










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Shayne Ward reveals new album cover

Shayne Ward is finally ready to release his third album next November, and he has unveiled the cover art and title for the world to see. "Obsession" is the name of his new musical effort, after having much success with previous hits such as "No Promises" or "Breathless". According to his twitter account, Shayne's first single from his upcoming new studio album will be released on November 28th,

Bob Dylan Book Contest Over

Thanks to all (it was quite a response!) who emailed me, I have the five winners and you can expect to hear from me very soon!

This Date In Music History - September 16

Birthdays:

B.B.King (1925)



Bernie Calvert - The Hollies (1942)

Betty Kelly - Martha And The Vandellas (1944)

Kenny Jones - Small Faces & The Who (after Keith Moon) (1948)

David Bellamy - Bellamy Brothers (1950)

Ron Blair - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (1952)

Colin Newman - Wire (1954)

Peter Zaremba - Fleshtones (1956)

Bilinda Butcher - My Bloody Valentine (1961)

Stephen Jones - Babybird (1962)

Richard Marx (1963)

Justine Frischmann - Elastica, Suede (1969)

Musiq Soulchild (Talib Johnson) (1977)

Nick Jonas - Jonas Brothers (1992)


They Are Missed:

In 1977, 29-year-old former T Rex singer Marc Bolan was killed instantly when the car driven by his girlfriend, Gloria Jones, left the road and hit a tree in Barnes, London. Miss Jones broke her jaw in the accident. The couple were on the way to Bolan's home in Richmond after a night out at a Mayfair restaurant. A local man who witnessed the crash said, 'When I arrived a girl was lying on the bonnet and a man with long dark curly hair was stretched out in the road - there was a hell of a mess.'



21 year-old Ricardo Lopez was found dead in his Hollywood apartment in 1996 after committing suicide. Before his death Ricardo had mailed an acid bomb to Icelandic singer Bjork's London management.

Charlie Lee Byrd (September 16, 1925 – December 02, 1999)

Sheb Wooley ("Purple People Eater") died of leukemia in 2003.

Weather Girls singer Izora Armstead died in 2004 (age 62) of heart failure at a hospital in San Leandro, East San Francisco.

In 2008, Norman Whitfield died in Los Angeles, California from diabetes and other illnesses. The Motown songwriter and producer collaborated with Barrett Strong on such hits as "I Heard It through the Grapevine," "Ain't Too Proud to Beg," "(I Know) I'm Losing You," "Cloud Nine," "War," "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" and "Car Wash."

Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary died of leukemia in 2009.


History:

Enrico Caruso recorded his last work for Victor Records in 1920.

Johnny Burnette recorded "You're Sixteen" in 1960.

"She Loves You" by The Beatles was released by Swan Records in the US in 1963. Although the song was currently number one in the UK, "She Loves You" was ignored in the US until 1964 when it would reach the top of the US Pop chart.

'Shindig' premiered on ABC-TV in 1964 with Sam Cooke, the Everly Brothers, the Righteous Brothers and Bobby Sherman (it ran for two seaons).

The Dean Martin Show made its debut in 1965 on NBC-TV (it lasted ten years).

In 1965, the second season of "Shindig!" was opened with the Rolling Stones performing "Satisfaction." The Kinks, Byrds and Everly Brothers also appeared on the season opener.

The Metropolitan Opera opened its new opera house at New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in 1966.

Also in 1966, member of Parliament Tom Drilberg asked Britain's House of Commons to officially "deplore" the action of a magistrate who'd earlier called the Rolling Stones "complete morons...who wear filthy clothes."

Working at Abbey Road studios in London in 1967, the Beatles recorded 11 takes of "Your Mother Should Know," giving the song a stronger beat, but this version of the song was discarded in favor of the original recording.

The classic “Are You Experienced?” from the Jimi Hendrix Experience entered the LP charts in 1967.

Led Zeppelin won 'best group' in the Melody Maker readers Poll in 1970. This was the first time in eight years that The Beatles hadn't won 'best group.'

In 1970, Jimi Hendrix joined Eric Burdon on stage at Ronnie Scotts in London for what would become the guitarist's last ever public appearance.

Three Dog Night scored their third US #1 single in 1972 with "Black and White."



Peter Frampton (formerly of Humble Pie) made his solo debut in New York, opening for the J. Geils Band in 1972.

Wishbone Ash, Family, Steppenwolf, John Kay Band, Slade, Uriah Heep, Roy Wood and Wizzard, Wild Angels, Glencoe and Sunshine, Cold Comfort Farm all appeared at this years Buxton Festival in Derbyshire, England. in 1972. Quite a bill indeed!

Boston went to #1 on the US album chart in 1978 with 'Don't Look Back.'

The first rap single was released in 1979, The Sugarhill Gang's "Rapper's Delight."  Sadly, music hasn't been the same since.....

KISS released the album 'Asylum in 1985.

Gloria Estefan went to #1 on the US singles chart in 1989 with "Don't Wanna Lose You."

In 1989, U2 jammed with B.B. King on a boat rented for the blues legends 64th birthday in Sydney Harbour, Sydney, Australia.

In 1992 - Barbara Streisand made her first live appearance in six years at a fundraiser for the U.S. Democratic party.

Grace Slick's home was destroyed by fire in 1993.

In 1996, Pearl Jam played the first night on their ‘No Code’ tour at the Key Arena in Seattle, Washington. Because of the band's refusal to play in Ticketmaster's venue areas, they were forced to use alternate ticketing companies for the shows which fans complained were to be out-of-the-way and hard to get to.

1998, At a Sotheby's auction a notebook belonging to former Beatles roadie Mal Evans containing the lyrics to "Hey Jude" sold for just under $173,000, a two-tone denim jacket belonging to John Lennon went for a shade over $14,000 and the Union Jack dress worn by Spice Girl Ginger Spice sold for $64,000.

The members of Mott The Hoople played together for the first time in 24 years at the Virgin Megastore on London's Oxford Street in 1998.

Bob Dylan was at #1 on the US album chart in 2006 with ‘Modern Times.’ Entering the U.S. charts at #1, making it Dylan's first album to reach that position since 1976's 'Desire,' 30 years prior. At 65, Dylan became the oldest living musician to top the Billboard albums chart. The record also reached number one in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Ireland, New Zealand, Norway and Switzerland. Not bad for an old timer!

Bob Dylan headlines the third and final day of the Austin City Limits Music Festival in 2007.

Fleetwood Mac singer-guitarist Lindsey Buckingham released his fifth solo album, "Gift Of Screws" in 2008 "As an artist I'm still, for better or worse, clinging to my idealism and to my sense that there is still much to be said," says Buckingham. "This album is a culmination of that." Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood and bassist John McVie contributed to several tracks.

The Beatles remastered catalog is a hit in 2009. Nielsen SoundScan numbers show The Beatles sold a combined 626,000 units in the U.S. during the catalog’s first week out. "Abbey Road" is the biggest seller. That takes The Beatles to 1.2 million album sales for the year.

Ask Mr. Music by Jerry Osborne

FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

DEAR JERRY: I know about the week (April 4, 1964) when the Beatles had the entire Top 5 hits, but what I have never found is the when they had their highest total number of songs on the Top 100, and their titles.

Seems like it could well have been that same week.
—Michelle Warner, Bridgeport, Conn.

MICHELLE (My Belle): Very good guess, as the Beatles claimed a total of 12 chart spots that first week of April 1964.

As amazing as it is for the boys to own 12% of the Top 100, they surpassed that by adding two more hits the following week, bringing their total to 14 and making April 11-17, 1964 the answer to your question.

Here are those 14 tunes, which, rather than the Top 100, were all in the Top 81:

1. “Can't Buy Me Love”
2. “Twist and Shout”
4. “She Loves You”
7. “I Want to Hold Your Hand”
9. “Please Please Me”
14. “Do You Want to Know a Secret?”
38. “I Saw Her Standing There”
48. “You Can't Do That”
50. “All My Loving”
52. “From Me to You”
61. “Thank You Girl”
74. “There's a Place”
78. “Roll Over Beethoven”
81. “Love Me Do”

Mind boggling as that is, remember too that 12 of those 14 songs were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney - “Twist and Shout” (Bert Russell & Phil Medley) and “Roll Over Beethoven” (Chuck Berry) being the exceptions.

There are even two hits from that same time, not by the Beatles but about them: “We Love You Beatles” (Carefrees) and “A Letter to the Beatles” (Four Preps).

Here is an interesting chart stat, one likely in print for the first time: Over their 43-year Billboard chart history (1963-1996), the Beatles, with 75 hit singles, spent a total of 639 weeks, or nearly 12.3 years, on the surveys.

While very impressive, that total is well below Elvis Presley's. The all-time champ's 48-year total (1955-2003) is 1,826 weeks, or over 35.13 years on the chart. This comprises 191 separate hit singles.

As is often the case, Joel Whitburn's Record Research publications are essential when compiling Billboard chart data: (recordresearch.com).

DEAR JERRY: I have a copy of Ricky Nelson's first Imperial album (“Ricky”), which is of course in monaural.

Might this be the last No. 1 LP originally issued in mono only? I can't think of another.
—Ernie Camfield, Nevada City, Calif.


DEAR ERNIE: “Ricky,” issued in December 1957, is one of the last mono-only albums to top the charts, but several others of its kind reached No. 1 after “Ricky.”

Among them are Frank Sinatra's “Come Fly with Me” (1958) and “Only the Lonely” (1958); Johnny Mathis' “Johnny's Greatest Hits” (1958); Van Cliburn's “Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1” (1958); and “The Kingston Trio” (1958).

Stereo versions, be they real or fake, of these came out in the years following the mono originals. Each label had its own name for faux stereo, with “reprocessed stereo”; “electronic stereo”; “rechanneled stereo”; “simulated stereo”; and “Duophonic” among the more common terms.

As for the most recent mono-only No. 1 album (from the mono-stereo age), I nominate “Stevie Wonder - The 12 Year Old Genius,” a summer 1963 release.


IZ ZAT SO? Though not a chart-topper, the Beach Boys' “Wild Honey” did spend about four months on the charts in early 1968, climbing as high as No. 24 - and, surprisingly, this album came out only in monaural. Very unusual for '68, but could it happen in 2010?

Yes! All the tunes on “No Better Than This (Thirteen New Songs),” a new collection from John Mellencamp, were recorded live in monaural. Among the sites chosen to record these songs is the legendary Sun Studio, in Memphis.

Mellencamp used just one microphone and captured the music on a 1955, single-track, vacuum tube-powered, Ampex 601 reel-to-reel recorder.

There are no studio gimmicks (i.e., overdubbing, editing, etc.) here. John and the band all play together live, exactly as would have been the case in '55.

As of this writing, “No Better Than This (Thirteen New Songs)” is No. 1 on the Cashbox Americana LP charts, and No. 10 on Billboard's Hot 200 LPs.

Fittingly, a vinyl edition (Rounder Records) of “No Better Than This (Thirteen New Songs)” is available for about $25.

Jerry Osborne answers as many questions as possible through this column.  Write Jerry at: Box 255, Port Townsend, WA 98368 E-mail: jpo@olympus.net  Visit his Web site: http://www.jerryosborne.com  

All values quoted in this column are for near-mint condition.

Copyright 2010 Osborne Enterprises- Reprinted By Permission

Music News & Notes

Sticks and Stones to release original six song demo on vinyl

Chunksaah Records will be releasing the original six song demo from New Jersey-based Sticks and Stones. Due out October 12, 2010, the release will be a one-sided 12" EP backed with an engraving of the New Jersey Hardcore band's logo. The demo was recorded at Trax East Studios, and gained the band a contract to 7Seconds' Positive Force.

1.Contempt
2.Still
3.Thanks for the Cash
4.Society's Pressure
5.Common Cause
6.Along the Way



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Smoking Popes detail "Get Fired" reissue

On October 12, 2010, the Smoking Popes will be reissuing their album 'Get Fired' on Asian Man Records. The album was originally released in 1993 on Johann's Face Records and the new edition will be full remastered, and pressed on CD and vinyl. The vinyl is being pressed on clear green and clear hold in very limited numbers before a run of black vinyl. The new pressing will include the original nine song album and new artwork as well.

The Popes released a new album this year, 'It's Been a Long Day.'

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QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE REISSUE TRACK LISTING AND COVER ART

The track listing for Queens of the Stone Age, a reissue of Queens of the Stone Age’s critically-lauded 1998 self-titled debut, reflects the band’s original vision for the album with three tracks that were initially cut from the record reinstated. The sought after and long out of print album arrives in-stores on Black Friday (Nov. 26) via Joshua Homme’s own Rekords Rekords as a special bundled package featuring the album both as a 180 gram double-gatefold, double LP and a digital download card (a straight CD release will follow on Dec. 7).

The three additional songs are “The Bronze,” “These Aren’t The Droids You’re Looking For,” and “Spiders and Vinegaroons.”

Queens of the Stone Age track listing:

1. Regular John
2. Avon
3. If Only
4. Walkin’ On The Sidewalks
5. You Would Know
6. The Bronze
7. How to Handle A Rope (A Lesson In The Lariat)
8. Mexicola
9. Hispanic Impressions
10. You Can’t Quit Me Baby
11. These Aren’t The Droids You’re Looking For
12. Give The Mule What He Wants
13. Spiders and Vinegaroons
14. I Was A Teenage Hand Model

Additional 2010 releases from Rekords Rekords include Alain Johannes’ Spark on Oct. 5 and Mini Mansions’ self-titled debut on Nov. 2.

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Jack White invents the Triple Decker Record to release new Dead Weather single

Jack White has announced that The Dead Weather's new single, 'Blue Blood Blues' will be issued as a Triple Decker Record. The 12-inch version of 'Blue Blood Blues' will contain a 7-inch record embedded inside the vinyl Designed and trademarked by White, the Triple Decker Record sees the 12-inch version of the single embedded with a previously unreleased 7-inch vinyl, which can only be listened to once removed from inside the 12-inch record.

"It's one of the many mind games we like to play with you here at Third Man Records," White says in a video about the release, which can be seen below.

Also issued as a 7-inch single with a double cover and on a tri-colour vinyl, the limited edition Triple Decker Record is limited to 300 copies.

Available on Friday (September 17), 100 copies will be sold directly in the Third Man Records store in Nashville, with the other 200 being distributed through selected record shops and randomly via mail order.

For more information, visit ThirdManRecords.com.


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Bob Dylan Book Contest

BOB DYLAN IN AMERICA

By Sean Wilentz

Advance Praise for Bob Dylan in America

“Unlike so many Dylan-writer-wannabes and phony ‘encyclopedia’ compilers, Sean Wilentz makes me feel he was in the room when he chronicles events that I participated in. Finally a breath of fresh words founded in hardcore, intelligent research.” —Al Kooper

“A panoramic vision of Bob Dylan, his music, his shifting place in American culture, from multiple angles. In fact, reading Sean Wilentz’s Bob Dylan in America is as thrilling and surprising as listening to a great Dylan song.” - Martin Scorsese

“All the American connections that Wilentz draws to explain the appearance of Dylan’s music are fascinating, particularly at the outset, the connection to Aaron Copland. The writing is strong, the thinking is strong—the book is dense and strong everywhere you look.” —Philip Roth

“Sean Wilentz is one of the few great American historians. His political and social histories of American democracy are masterful and magisterial. In this work, he turns his attention to the artistic genius of  Bob Dylan – and the result is a masterpiece of cultural history that tells us much about who we have been and who we are.”
—Cornel West, Class of 1943 University Professor in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University

“Sean Wilentz’s beautiful book sets a new standard for the cultural history of popular music in America. He loves the music and he loves America, but his loves do not blind him, they open his eyes. In Wilentz’s erudite and lively account, Dylan’s music, and folk music, and rock music, are all indelibly woven into the whole story of an entire country. This book is chocked with new contexts for old pleasures. There are surprises and illuminations on almost every page. A great historian has written a history of the culture that formed him. Like Dylan, Wilentz is a deep and probing American voice. Bob Dylan’s America is Bob Dylan’s good luck, and ours. It is an extraordinary affirmation of singing and strumming and feeling and learning and believing.”
—Leon Wieseltier

“This should have been impossible. Writing about Bob Dylan's music, and fitting it into the great crazy quilt of American culture, Sean Wilentz sews a whole new critical fabric, part history, part close analysis, and all heart. What he writes, as well as anyone ever has, helps us enlarge Dylan's music by reckoning its roots, its influences, its allusive spiritual contours. This isn't Cliff Notes or footnotes or any kind of academic exercise. It's not a critic chinning on the high bar. It's one artist meeting another, kick starting a dazzling conversation.”
—Jay Cocks, screenwriter for THE AGE OF INNOCENCE and THE GANGS OF NEW YORK

“Sean Wilentz makes us think about Bob Dylan’s half-century of work in new ways. Combining a scholar’s depth with a sense of mischief appropriate to the subject, Wilentz hears new associations in famous songs and sends us back to listen to Dylan’s less familiar music with fresh insights. By focusing on the parts of Dylan’s canon that most move him, Wilentz gets straight to the heart of the matter. If you thought there was nothing new to say about Bob Dylan’s impact on America, this book will make you think twice.”
—Bill Flanagan, author of A&R and EVENING’S EMPIRE and Editorial Director, MTV Networks.

With BOB DYLAN IN AMERICA (Doubleday; ISBN 978-0-385-52988-4; On-sale: September 7, 2010) Sean Wilentz, one of America’s finest historians, shows us how Bob Dylan, one of America’s greatest and most enduring artists, still surprises and moves us after all these years.

Sean Wilentz is the ‘historian-in-residence’ for Bob Dylan’s official website (www.bobdylan.com). In addition, Wilentz is a Pulitzer-prize finalist, a Bancroft Prize winner, a Grammy award nominated liner-notes writer, and a noted historian and professor at Princeton University.

With unprecedented access to Dylan’s working tapes, recording notes, rare photographs and other key materials, Wilentz has written a comprehensive account of Dylan’s life and music and its influence on American culture.

Beginning with his explosion onto the scene in 1961, BOB DYLAN IN AMERICA follows Dylan as he continues to develop a body of musical and literary work unique in our cultural history. Wilentz’s approach places Dylan’s music in the context of its time, including the early influences of Popular Front ideology and Beat aesthetics, and offers a larger critical appreciation of Dylan as both a song writer and performer. Wilentz tells Dylan’s story and that of such masterpieces as Blonde on Blonde with an unprecedented authenticity and richness.

BOB DYLAN IN AMERICA also chronicles Wilentz’s strange, interrupted, and lucky connection to Dylan and his work. Sean Wilentz’s family owned the 8th Street Bookshop in Greenwich Village, which served as a cultural staple during the heyday of the beat writers and Dylan’s hip folk club scene. In fact, Bob Dylan met Allen Ginsberg in Sean’s uncle’s apartment above the shop. Thus, Wilentz and Dylan’s paths crossed early on and led to Sean’s lifelong interest and fascination with Dylan’s work. With BOB DYLAN IN AMERICA, Wilentz charts Dylan’s life and music from those early days in Greenwich Village up until the present.

Wilentz’s essays offer a broad appreciation of Dylan’s art and performances in the key periods of his career. BOB DYLAN IN AMERICA—groundbreaking, thorough, totally absorbing—is the result of an author and a subject brilliantly met.


Bob Dylan in America and author Sean Wilentz:

· This is the furthest thing from a pop biography; and it is also the furthest thing from the obsessive “Dylanology,” deadly academic dissections, or mannered rock criticism that makes up the rest of the small library on Dylan. It is a lucid but imaginative, thorough, and bold reassessment of Dylan’s work by an established major figure on the American literary and intellectual scene. Nothing quite like this has been written about a modern musical figure.

· Sean Wilentz is the historian-in-residence for Bob Dylan’s official website – www.bobdylan.com

· Sean Wilentz’s family owned the 8th St Bookshop in Greenwich Village which the beat writers and Bob Dylan frequented.

· Wilentz has unprecedented access to working tapes, recording notes, rare photographs and other key scholarly materials in order to write this book. His reconstruction of the complicated creation of Blonde on Blonde is a masterpiece of historical investigation.

· Sean Wilentz was awarded the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his book The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln and was nominated for a Grammy for his liner notes to Bootleg series, Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964 – Concert a Philharmonic Hall.

· Over 100 photos, many rare and several previously unpublished, all serve to deepen and enrich the experience of reading this unique examination of a great American artist.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sean Wilentz is Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the American Revolutionary Era at Princeton University. His previous books include The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln, which was awarded the Bancroft Prize and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In addition to his writing as historian-in-residence at www.bobdylan.com, Wilentz received a Deems Taylor Award for musical commentary and was nominated for a Grammy for his liner notes to ‘Bootleg Series, Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964—Concert at Philharmonic Hall.



BOB DYLAN IN AMERICA
By Sean Wilentz
Doubleday
ISBN 978-0-385-52988-4
$28.95
On-sale: September 7, 2010

Working with Mark Lennon of the Entertainment Marketing Group, they have graciously sent me five copies to give away.  The first five people who email me at rbenson30@wi.rr.com (with the words Bob Dylan in the subject line) will get a free copy of this great insight into an American legend!

John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Elvis Presley and The Rolling Stones top the charts for collectible vinyl

This from http://www.paulfrasercollectibles.com/:

As this week in 1966 The Beatles "Revolver" hit the #1 spot, we pick out our top 10 vinyl investments

It was this week, in September 1966, that The Beatles landed at number one in America with their classic vinyl LP "Revolver." The album remains one of the most critically acclaimed in history, with Rolling Stone magazine ranking it as the third best of all time.

Since then, The Beatles have of course disbanded and much of music has changed forever. However, for many collectors the classic sounds of vinyl continue to provide an investment that is both good on the ears and the wallet.

In fact, collectible vinyl records are positively booming in today's market. In 2009, sales of vinyl rose by more than 5% whilst CD sales endured a 20% decrease.

Elsewhere, in the US sales of vinyl have reached over three million units a year. Online retailers are also starting to get involved, with shopping giants Amazon now offering over 250,000 vinyl albums to customers, in an effort to cater to this growing demand.

Furthermore, with the market figures positively booming, the number of rare collectible vinyl records bought and sold through private shops and dealers could make the real market value almost double the current estimates.

One online source recently reported that since Michael Jackson's death in 2009, second hand copies of "Thriller" on vinyl had sold for more than 200% of their listed price, whilst even rarer Jackson vinyl has skyrocketed in value.

With these figures in mind, here is the definitive top ten collectible vinyl investments:

10. Sex Pistols - "God Save the Queen" 7"

Released in May 1977, this vinyl caused an immediate media storm due to its controversial cover design, which featured a defaced picture of Queen Elizabeth II.

According to English law, this was illegal under the offence of Contempt of Sovereign.

It didn't prevent the design being named the #1 all time greatest cover by Q Magazine in 2001.

Today, rare vinyl copies of this piece are available for a sold entry level investment price of £7,000 ($11,500)

9. Elvis Presley - "Special Christmas Programming" LP

Rare Presley vinyl recordings have become highly collectible over the last few years.

However, it's this single-sided 12" promotional album made for only a handful of American radio stations which is most sought after by collectors.

On the current market, only three known copies are thought to exist, with the original plan being that on December 3, 1967 the recording would be played as part of a one of event. Based on recent sales, this nearly unique vinyl is worth at least £10,000 ($15,000) and definitely worth investing in.

8. The Rolling Stones - "Street Fighting Man" (US Edition) 7"

Arguably one of the most controversial Stones singles to ever come out in the US, this 7" vinyl had originally been released as the lead single from "Beggars Banquet" in August 1968.

However, the song was heavily criticised for its subversive lyrics and timing of release which was within weeks of the 1968 riots at the Democratic National Convention.

Therefore the single received little or no airplay and reached only number 48 in the charts. To add further fuel to the fire, the cover featured an infamous photograph from an American riot. Versions of the single featuring this picture are the highly sought after.

Aside from the socio-political issues surround the single, this vinyl is also highly valued by collectors due to the use of mono recording alongside choruses that feature vocal overdubbing, a feature not found in the album's stereo version. An investment in this single vinyl will set you back around £10,400 $16,000.


7. Robert Johnson's "Love in Vain Blues" LP

Dubbed "the most important blues singer that ever lived" by Eric Clapton, Robert Johnson is recognised as one of the biggest blues icons of the first half 20th century and died at the age of just 27.

In only a single year of recording from 1936 t o 1937 he set the template for singing, song writing and guitar technique in the blues genre.

The vinyl "Love in Vain Blues" was his last recording before his death. Today, there are less than 10 copies of this collectible record in known existence. It is currently valued at £13,000 ($20,000).

6. Velvet Underground & Nico - "Eponymous" LP

Ignored by the general public upon its release in 1966, the value of this piece of music memorabilia has grown ever since.

In 2006, it was deemed culturally significant enough to be added to the National Recording Registry at the United States Library of Congress.

Today, the US edition Acetate edition of the album is highly sought after by collectors.

The piece comes in a plain sleeve and features alternate recordings of the tracks, carries an estimated value of £16,300 ($25,200)


5. The Jimi Hendrix Experience - "Axis: Bold as Love" LP

First released in the December 1967 this classic slice of psychedelic rock captured Hendrix at the peak of his powers. Featuring both "Little Wing" and "Bold as Love" rare editions of this vinyl remain highly sought after by fans.

One collector paid £20,000 ($30,000) for a signed copy of the disc at auction in New York in 2007.

4. Bob Dylan - "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" LP

Currently listed top of Goldmine Album Guide's list of the "100 Most Valuable U.S Albums," this rare vinyl was recorded back in 1963.

However, the first batch of the album was scrapped following a reshuffle of the track listings which was attributed to Dylan's "artistic reasons."

Whatever, the cause, somehow, some vinyl with the original track order found their way onto the market. Though rare, this version of "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" is actually available in two slightly different formats.

The mono edition is currently valued at £13,600 ($21,000). Yet it is the stereo version which is most valuable, with only a handful thought to be in existence.

This edition is currently valued at £23,000 ($35,000).

3. The Beatles - "Yesterday and Today" LP

Back in 1966, The Beatles caused quite a stir with the release of their vinyl LP "Yesterday and Today."

Produced for US and Canadian audiences only, it was the LPs infamous "Butcher Cover" which caused the most controversy. The image featured the Fab Four in white coats alongside decapitated baby dolls and slabs of meat.

Besides the imagery used, vinyl collectors have also valued the album highly because of the use of duophonic stereo sound on classic tracks like "I'm only sleeping" which helped to create a unique Beatles recording.

Today, an investment in this rare Beatles LP could cost as much as £26,000 ($40,000).

2. The Quarrymen - "That'll be the Day"/ "In Spite of All the Danger" LP

Before John, Paul and George formed The Beatles, they were part of a group known as "The Quarrymen."

And so it was that in 1958, the group gathered at Phillip's Sound Recording Services in Kensington, Liverpool to record their one and only record. And we mean one and only.

The two song vinyl featuring a cover of "That'll be the Day" alongside the original McCartney song "In Spite of All the Danger."

The record was truly unique in that, it was the only one ever made.

Having been passed around the group for a few weeks, the vinyl was thought lost, until another founding member discovered the disc and sold it to McCartney for an undisclosed amount in 1981. Today this unique memorabilia piece is valued at £116,700 ($180,000).


1. John Lennon & Yoko Ono - "Double Fantasy" LP

Whilst it may seem surprising to find Lennon's last album here, it is in fact a unique autographed edition of the vinyl album which currently holds the world record price.

At around 5.50pm on December 8, 1980, a fan approached Lennon with a copy of the album in New York. Lennon happily signed the LP, handed back the vinyl recording and carried on down the street.

Five hours later, he would be gunned down by Mark Chapman. With this signed vinyl representing one of the last pieces of memorabilia to come from the music icon, it is little surprise to find the unique piece valued at £340,300 ($525,000).

SOURCE: www.paulfrasercollectibles.com  Stop by the site for more vinyl record news!

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Buffalo Springfield to Reform at Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit; Full Lineup Revealed

The lineup for Neil Young's annual Bridge School Benefit concert, which takes place on October 23-24 in Mountain View, California, has been revealed. The biggest news is that Buffalo Springfield will reunite for their first show in 42 years, according to Rolling Stone. Original members Young, Stephen Stills and Richie Furay will all perform. Original bassist Bruce Palmer died back in 2004 and their first drummer, Dewey Martin, died last year. Buffalo Springfield's official last show took place in 1968, but they performed privately in 1986 at Stills' home. They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame back in 1997 but Young didn't attend the ceremony, so no reunion performance there.

Pearl Jam will also headline both days of the Bridge School Benefit, while Elvis Costello, Billy Idol and Jackson Browne with David Lindley will perform on Friday, October 23rd. Saturday, October 24th will have performances from Elton John, Elvis Costello and Neko Case. Modest Mouse and Grizzly Bear will open both dates.

The Bridge School Benefit concerts have been happening since 1986, when Young's wife, Pegi, founded the school. Proceeds go to the school, which helps kids with severe speech impediments and physical impairments.

Fen To Take Trails Out of Gloom Live

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


Fen To Take The Massively Successful Trails Out of Gloom To Venues Across the Vancouver Area

The dark and brooding sights and sounds of Fen will be on full display this Autumn throughout the greater Vancouver area. An announcement came down from the Fen higher up's this week with a list of live dates that the band will be performing in October in conjunction with the release of their critically-acclaimed album Trails Out of Gloom. "These dates allow us to fine tune our live performance and make Fen that much better prepared for any future live opportunities that may arise," stated front-man Doug Harrison. In addition to the live shows, Fen's debut single, "Find That One," has generated strong interest from the listeners of the Aural Tentacles Show hosted by DJ Pierre on CITR 101.9 MHZ, as well as WVBR 93.5 (NY), WKGB 92.5 (NY), WEOS 89.7 (NY), WKZQ 96.1 (SC), WCHZ 95 Rock (GA), WRN (NE), CILU 102.7 FM (ON), SRN Media Works (ON), MetalNetRadio.com, KHTR 104.3 (WA), KFEB 107.5 (MO), WJZJ 105.5 (MI), WPNH 100.1 (NH), KLHI 92.5 (HI), KOTO 105.5 (CO), WRN Network, WRIR (VA).

In final Fen news, the band put together a promotional video for the track "Queen of the Mountain." The video was compiled of modified still shots taken by local adventurer Chris Dewreede while hiking in the mountains outside of Vancouver. The result is a haunting visual to accompany the equally haunting epic sounds of the song, and it can be viewed here: http://www.fenqotm.com/

Sat Oct 2 @ Second Story, 432 Richards Street
Sat Oct 9 @ Anza Club, 3 West 8th Avenue - $8 in advance, $10 at the door
Thurs Oct 14 @ Princeton Pub, 1901 Powell Street
Fri Oct 29 @ Pat's Pub, 403 East Hastings Street

*** All information is subject to change, so please contact the venue for more details ***
"This is surely the Progressive Rock/Metal album of the year! The band has managed to craft 9 Progressive Rock/Metal anthems unlike many bands are able to do these days." -- Infernal Masquerade Webzine

"Fen delivers a different type of "heavy" with Trails Out of Gloom, one that is dank and opaque, with plenty of texture and substance that requires complete digestion for your optimum pleasure." -- Sea of Tranquility

http://www.fenmusic.ca/
http://www.ripple-music.com/

For further information or promos for Fen or Ripple Music, please contact:

John Rancik
Ripple Music
ripplemusic9@aol.com

This Date In Music History - September 14

Birthdays:

Jon "Bowzer" Bauman - Sha Na Na turns 63.

Pete Agnew - Nazareth (1946)

Steve Berlin - Los Lobos (1955)

Morten Harket - A-Ha (1959)

John Power - The La's

Graig Montoya - Everclear

Mark Webber - Pulp (1970)

Nas (1972)

Ashley Roberts - The Pussycat Dolls (1981)

Amy Winehouse (1983)


They Are Missed:

Born on this day in 1950, Paul Kossoff, guitar, Free. Formed Back Street Crawler. Kossoff died of a heart attack on 19th March 1976 during a flight from Los Angeles to New York.

Born today in 1949, Steve Gaines, guitar, Lynyrd Skynyrd. Killed in a plane crash on October 20, 1977.

Born on this day in 1914, songwriter Mae Boren Axton, known as the 'Queen Mother of Nashville' she wrote over 200 songs including a co-writing credit on the Elvis Presley hit "Heartbreak Hotel." Died on April 9, 1997 (age 82) after drowning in her bath at her home in Hendersonville, Tennessee after an apparent heart attack.

Cuban bandleader and composer Perez Prado died of a stroke in Mexico City in 1989. Had the US & UK 1955 #1 single "Cherry Pink & Apple Blossom White."

Born today in 1954, Barry Cowsill, The Cowsills. TV's Partridge Family was based on The Cowsills. Died in September 2005 when Hurricane Katrina hit the city of New Orleans.

Drummer Bobby Graham who played on The Kinks hit "You Really Got Me" died in 2009 at the age of 69 after a battle with stomach cancer. Graham was also heard on The Animals' "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place."


History:

In 1814, Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics to the "Star-Spangled Banner." The song became the official U.S. national anthem on March 3, 1931.

In 1955, Little Richard entered a New Orleans recording studio to begin two days of recording. Things were not going well and during a break, Richard and his producer; Bumps Blackwell went to the Dew Drop Inn for lunch. Richard started playing the piano in the bar like crazy, singing a loud and lewd version of ‘Tutti Frutti.’ With only fifteen minutes left in the session, Richard recorded the song and coined the phrase, “a-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-lop-bam-boom.”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience appeared on UK music show Top Of The Pops in 1967.

Also in 1967, filming continued for The Beatles ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ in South West England. The Beatles searched for a quiet, secluded field in which they could conduct filming but once they'd disembarked from the bus and set up for shooting, scores of onlookers began to crowd around, causing a traffic jam that required the police to step in.

Roy Orbison's house in Nashville burnt down in 1968, his two eldest sons both died in the blaze. Orbison was on tour in the UK at the time of the accident.

In 1968, the first episode of the comic strip 'The Archies' was aired on US TV. The recording group had contributions from Ron Dante, Andy Kim, Jeff Barry and others. Rock mogul, Don Kirshner (who also brought us The Monkees), was put in charge of the studio group.



Genesis plays their first gig in Surrey, England in 1969.

During a US tour in 1971, Led Zeppelin appeared at Berkley Community Theatre, Berkley, California. The set list included: Immigrant Song, Heartbreaker, Since I've Been Loving You, Black Dog, Dazed and Confused, Stairway to Heaven, That's the Way, Going to California, What Is and What Should Never Be and Whole Lotta Love.

Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Joni Mitchell, The Band, Jesse Colin Young and Joe Walsh all appeared at Wembley Stadium, London, England in 1974.

Eric Clapton scored a US #1 in 1974 with his version of the Bob Marley song "I Shot The Sheriff."

Stevie Wonder started a two-week run at #1 on the US album chart in 1974 with 'Fulfillingness First Finale' his second US #1.

In 1978, the Grateful Dead play the first of three shows in the shadow of the Great Pyramid in Giza. Proceeds go to the Egyptian Department of Antiquities and the Faith & Hope Society for the Handicapped.

The film Quadrophenia was released in 1979. Based on The Who’s 1973 rock opera the film featured Phil Daniels, Toyah Willcox, Ray Winstone, Michael Elphick and Sting.

The Rolling Stones “Tattoo You” featuring the inescapable “Start Me Up” enters the album charts in 1980. It goes to #1.



The first MTV Music Awards were held in New York in 1984. Michael Jackson’s "Thriller" is the big winner (deservedly so) but the Cars, Police, Van Halen and ZZ Top also take home some hardware.

John Mellencamp’s haunting “Scarecrow” made the album chart in 1985. Featuring “Small Town” and “R.O.C.K. In The USA,” the album goes multi-platinum.

Paula Abdul scored her sixth US #1 single in 1991 with "The Promise Of A New Day."

Singer Steve Earle was sentenced to 1 year in jail in 1994 after being found guilty of possession of crack cocaine.

The lyrics to the Beatles song "Getting Better’ hand-written by Paul McCartney sold for $249,200 at a Sotheby's auction in London in 1995.

The first Ozzfest (named after Ozzy Osbourne) began at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, MD in 1996. The annual trek becomes one of Metal’s most successful tour packages.

In 1997, over 2000 fans watched Pete Townshend unveil a English Heritage Blue Plaque at 23 Brook Street, Mayfair London, to mark where Jimi Hendrix had lived in 1968-69. Hendrix was the first pop star to be awarded with the plaque.

It was reported in 1999 that George Michael was being sued for $10m by the policeman who arrested the singer in a public lavatory. Marcelo Rodriguez claimed he was mocked in the video 'Outside' leaving him in physical distress.

The Strokes made their live debut at The Spiral in New York in 1999.

No Doubt singer Gwen Stefani married Gavin Rossdale of Bush in St. Paul's church London in 2002.

Mary J. Blige was at #1 on the US album chart in 2003 with ‘Love & Life’ the singers second US #1.

In 2005, HMV stores in Canada removed Bob Dylan CDs from their shelves in protest at the singer's deal to only sell his new album in Starbucks after he signed an exclusive contract with the coffee giant. The chain has previously boycotted CDs by Alanis Morissette and The Rolling Stones to complain at exclusive deals.

Whitney Houston filed for divorce from singer Bobby Brown in 2006, after 14 years of marriage.

The Beatles-themed movie musical, Across The Universe, began a limited theatrical release in 2007. If you like Beatles songs showing up here, there and anywhere in a movie go watch Yellow Submarine again. Besides, Yellow Submarine has a more believable plot. The soundtrack (also out) consists of Beatles covers, including performances by Joe Cocker (who had success singing Beatles songs early in his career) and Bono. The U2 frontman’s take on "I Am The Walrus" is in the film, while his rendition of "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" is heard during the end credits.

In 2008, Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson was one of the pilots who flew specially chartered flights after 85,000 tourists were stranded in the US, the Caribbean, Africa and Europe after Britain's third-largest tour operator went into administration. The singer, who had worked for the airline Astraeus for nine years, took up flying during a low point in his solo career after he quit the band in 1993.

New Music Releases - September 14, 2010

Things are really picking up after the holiday, with lots of great classics to choose from as well as new music by established acts. Collecting Vinyl Records Blog Picks Are In Red.

Accept - Blood of the Nations
Acid Washed - Acid Washed
Addicted To Pain - Addicted to Pain
Aids Wolf - March To the Sea (Vinyl)
Air Supply - All Out of Love Live
Alex Chilton - Like Flies on Sherbert (reissue)
Altar Eagle - Mechanical Gardens (Vinyl)
Amelia Curran - Hunter, Hunter
Amusement Parks on Fire - Road Eyes
André Obin - Front Runner
Animals - Animalism (vinyl reissue)
Atrocity featuring Yasmin - After the Storm
Autopsy - The Tomb Within EP
Azure Ray - Drawing Down the Moon (Vinyl)
Bad Cop - Harvest the Beast
Bear in Heaven - Beast Rest Forth Mouth
Beneath the Massacre - Marée Noire EP
Betsy Franck & the BareKnuckle Band - Still Waiting
Bilal - Air Tight Revenge
Bill Hicks - The Essential Collection (2-CD & 2-DVD box set)
Bishop Morocco - Bishop Morocco
Black Angels - Phosphene Dream
Black Milk - Album of the Year

Black Mountain - Wilderness Heart (Vinyl)

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Wilderness Heart, the new album by Black Mountain, is packed with succinct rock songs that pulse and pound with startling precision: it pummels you and you ask for more. This is arguably the band's tightest, most concentrated venture, but there's still plenty of raw rock energy at work. "It's our most metal and most folk oriented record so far," McBean says. "I'm not gonna say it's our best record or the album that we always dreamt of making 'cause that's what everyone says. It's all about where we were at the time the machines were rolling. You can't control the electricity or how your limbs were moving that day. You have to erase the visions and just go along for the ride." A little over a year after releasing In the Future, their critically and commercially celebrated sophomore effort, Black Mountain started building Wilderness Heart on the west coast of America. With Randall Dunn at the helm (Sunn O))), Boris), London Bridge Studios in Seattle saw a portion of the construction with songs "Old Fangs," "Let Spirits Ride," and title track "Wilderness Heart" among others. The preponderance of recording was held with D. Sardy in Los Angeles at Sunset Sound, which has captured tracks from The Doors, Ringo Starr, the Rolling Stones, and more. L.A. - with its tacos and sunsets, starlets and hills and post-Deco kitsch - was a considerable inspiration. "Just being under the influence of one's surroundings, as we were while recording in L.A., had a tremendous impact on the process and the way we play. Consequently, the L.A. sessions have a free and summery vibe. The Seattle sessions, made in the grey, rainy environs that we're used to up there, have a chillier, more claustrophobic feeling," Wells explains. "It's a Black Mountain pop record, which is to say it's nothing like pop at all. This was the fastest record we've ever made. We're used to spending a lot of time deliberating over the songs and spacing out recording sessions over years. Start to finish, this album was made in four months, which is something like a miracle for us. We've never worked with producers before and that was a challenge; for us to let go and let two outsiders into the process, D. Sardy and Randall Dunn - it took some growing for us to be truly open, but this album is all the better for it." The band cites a slew of disparate influences: New Order, King Crimson, Studio 54, Alex Chilton, sunshine, Janis Joplin, Please Kill Me, Shirley Collins, Mickey Newbury, jalapeño salsa, Night of The Hunter, Cactus Taqueria, Funky 16Corners podcasts, Dennis Wilson, the house blowing up in the desert at the end of Zabriskie Point - but, as Schmidt points out, "Who knows how these things connect with the holistic mix of often dissonant forces that become Black Mountain?" Indeed: Listen and find out.

Black Pacific - The Black Pacific
Blackmore's Night - Autumn Sky (Import - Domestic Release Date Unknown)
Blonde Redhead - Penny Sparkle (vinyl)
Blood, Sweat & Tears - Mirror Image / New City
Blossom Toes - We Are Ever So Clean
Blue Cranes - Observatories
Boom Boom Satellites - Over and Over
Boz Scaggs - Boz Scaggs & Band: Deluxe Edition
Boz Scaggs - My Time: Deluxe Edition
Brandon Flowers - Flamingo (Vinyl)

Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record 10 inch Vinyl Box Set (Vinyl)

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At long last, it's here! Forgiveness Rock Record was co-produced by the band and Tortoise's John McEntire at Soma Studios in Chicago, with additional recording at Giant Studio and The Schvitz Studio in Toronto. 'Although we've gotten several solo albums and plenty of tours out of everyone's favorite multi-member indie collective, it was five years ago that Broken Social Scene last released a full-length album. Forgiveness Rock Record ends the wait. It features a leaner line-up than did Broken Social Scene, relying mostly on the contributions of only six members: singer/guitarist Kevin Drew, singer/guitarist Andrew Whiteman, guitarist Charles Spearin, guitarist Sam Goldberg, singer/bassist Brendan Canning, and drummer Justin Peroff. Of course, it wouldn't be a BSS affair without some superstar guests contributing their two cents; this go-round includes Feist, Metric's Emily Haines, and members of Stars, the Sea and Cake, and Tortoise, among others. First single "World Sick" delivers on the album's epic promise, hinting at more opulent, guitar-laden fun to come.' - Susannah Young / Prefixmag.com

Brutal Truth - Need to Control Re-Release
Buke & Gass - Riposte
Buke and Gass - Riposte
Can - Inner Space (Vinyl)
Can - Out of Reach (Vinyl)
Chapin Sisters - Two
Charlatans UK - Who We Touch
Chilly Gonzalez - Ivory Tower
Chocolate Genius Incorporated - Swansongs
Chris Sligh - The Anatomy of Broken
Christopher Cross - Dr. Faith
Chromeo - Business Casual (Vinyl)
Cloud Cult - Light Chasers
Conditions - Fluorescent Youth
Connie Francis - Sings Jewish Favorites/Sings Irish Favorites
Cristy Lane - Country Classics 2 & 3
Cristy Lane - How Great Thou Art
Crocodiles - Sleep Forever
DOOM - Expektoration
Das Racist - Sit Down, Man
Dawn of Ashes - Genocide Chapters
Death Angel - Relentless Retribution
Deftones - White Pony (Vinyl)

Dio - Holy Diver (Vinyl)

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Plastic Head Music USA presents the latest from its distributed label Vinyl Collector Series. Each title is manufactured on heavyweight, 180 gram vinyl for optimum sound quality. The titles are hand-selected representing the best of the respective artist or genre. Strictly controlled, these titles will quickly sell out so stock up now before they are gone!

On red vinyl! 'After playing a major role in five positively classic heavy metal albums of the late '70s and early '80s (three with Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow and two with Black Sabbath), it seemed that singer Ronnie James Dio could truly do no wrong. So it wasn't all that surprising - impressive, but not surprising - when he struck gold yet again when launching his solo vehicle, Dio, via 1983's terrific Holy Diver album. Much like those two, hallowed Sabbath LPs, Heaven and Hell and Mob Rules, Holy Diver opened at full metallic throttle with the frenetic "Stand Up and Shout," before settling into a dark, deliberate, and hypnotic groove for the timelessly epic title track - a worthy successor to glorious triumphs past like Rainbow's "Stargazer" and the Sabs' "Sign of the Southern Cross." But subsequent metal anthems like "Straight Through the Heart," "Invisible," and the lycanthrope lullaby "Shame on the Night" were no less inspired; and by injecting uncommonly catchy melodies into the heavy rock riffery still dominating more accessible numbers such as "Gypsy," "Caught in the Middle," and hit single "Rainbow in the Dark" (where the singer himself played rather spotty keyboards), Dio proved himself perfectly capable of competing with the increasingly commercial hard rock fashions soon to come. Although most fans would agree that Dio would arguably never again replicate the simply sublime symbiosis of beauty and brawn achieved by the all-time standout "Don't Talk to Strangers." And, to be fair, aside from Ronnie's unquestionably stellar songwriting, Holy Diver's stunning quality and consistency owed much to his carefully chosen bandmates, including powerhouse drummer (and fellow Sabbath survivor) Vinny Appice, veteran bassist Jimmy Bain, and a phenomenal find in young Irish guitarist Vivian Campbell, whose tastefully pyrotechnic leads helped make this the definitive Dio lineup. So, too, is Holy Diver still the undisputed highlight of Dio's career, and, indeed, one of the finest pure heavy metal albums of the 1980s.' - All Music Guide

Dominant Legs - Young at Love and Life (Vinyl)
Dragonforce - Twilight Dementia' (Live)
Drums - The Drums
Dungen - Skit I Allt (LP limited to 3,000 copies)
Dwight Twilly - Best of 1975-1984
El Guincho - Pop Negro
Electric Light Orchestra - Live London 1976
Electric Sunset - Electric Sunset (Vinyl)
Elf Power - Elf Power (Vinyl)
Eluvium - Leaves Eclipse the Light EP
Emmett And Mary - Emmett And Mary
Exodus - Another Lesson in Violence (Vinyl)

Exodus - Bonded By Blood (Vinyl)

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Plastic Head Music USA presents the latest from its distributed label Vinyl Collector Series. Each title is manufactured on heavyweight, 180 gram vinyl for optimum sound quality. The titles are hand-selected representing the best of the respective artist or genre. Strictly controlled, these titles will quickly sell out so stock up now before they are gone!  On blue vinyl! 'Had it been released immediately after it was recorded in 1984, Exodus' Bonded by Blood might be regarded today alongside Metallica's Kill 'em All as one of the landmark albums responsible for launching the thrash metal wave. But by the time it finally hit the streets more than a year later due to numerous record company-related difficulties, the genre the band helped spawn had evolved at an alarming rate (again, largely thanks to the unstoppable Metallica) and Exodus were left to wonder what kind of impact they may have had without these setbacks. Opening with the mind-blowing power of title track, the band immediately pummels through a number of astounding thrashers, including "And Then There Were None" and, perhaps their best well-known track, "A Lesson in Violence" - a veritable handbook for thrash etiquette. Though less enduring, "Metal Command" is one of the band's most fully realized compositions and leads the way into concert the fave "Piranha," which may sound a tad dated, or charmingly naïve depending on the listener. The same can be said for the remaining material, and while "No Love" could have done without its acoustic intro, the band closes strong with "Deliver Us to Evil" and the crushing intensity of "Strike of the Beast" . . . Put simply, Bonded by Blood is an album whose influence far exceeds its actual notoriety, and it remains a crucial piece of the thrash metal puzzle - essential.' - All Music Guide

F**ked Up - Year of the Ox (Vinyl)
Father Befouled - Morbid Destitution of Covenant
Fela Kuti - Opposite People & Sorrow Tears & Blood (reissue)
Fela Kuti - Shuffering & Shmiling & No Agreement (reissue)
Fela Kuti - Stalemate & Fear Not for Man (reissue)
Fela Kuti - Upside Down & Music of Many Colours (reissue)
Fela Kuti - VIP & Authority Stealing (reissue)
Fleetwood Mac - In London (Vinyl)
Fleshtomnes - Hexbreaker!/Speed Connection: Live in (reissue)
Flotsam and Jetsam - The Cold
Foreigner - Foreigner (Super CD/SACD)
Frazey Ford - Obadiah(Vinyl)
Free Energy/ Local Natives - split single (limited-edition 7-inch)
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach (Vinyl)
Gracious Few - The Gracious Few

Grinderman (Nick Cave) - Grinderman 2 (Vinyl)

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The DEXLUE EDITION LP version comes with a deluxe booklet and poster, and includes a CD of the album! The story of Grinderman begins within the working processes of another band: Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds. At the start of 2004, when Nick Cave took a small team of Bad Seeds members - violinist Warren Ellis, bassist Martyn Casey and drummer Jim Sclavunos - off to the tiny Misère studio in Paris for a songwriting session, they effectively established a new band. What followed was a revelation, an instinctual yawp that resurrected the demons of each musician's past: the trashcan proselytizing of Birthday Party-era Nick; Sclavunos' late 70s New York no-wave noise wisdom; Martyn Casey's ominous Triffids bass reverb; plus Ellis' avant-garde soundtrack work and his teenage love of Black Sabbath. A new generation fell in love with Grinderman, and of course, longtime Nick Cave fans came along willingly for the ride. Even Snoop Dogg namechecked Grinderman on Conan as one of his favorite new albums.


The first thing that hits you about Grinderman 2 is that you've never heard anything like it. The debut album did its job. It defined the band. It marked a clear contrast with Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds. Nick, Warren, Martyn and Jim forged a distinctly different way of working together. They cast off musical baggage, shrugged off accepted wisdom, and tested pre-conceptions about who they were as musicians. In the process, they took to the Bad Seeds hallowed legacy with a baseball bat. Their new album, Grinderman 2, combines the structured invention of their live performance and the unrestrained free-for-all of their studio improvisation. But these guys also know something about the art of writing songs. Grinderman 2 bears the hallmark of its rapturously received predecessor, yet is more open-ended in its structure, more far reaching in its scope, and gloriously lost in its own transports of noise and rhythm. Grinderman is no hobby, no dalliance, and clearly no one-off: it is a crucible, an experimental workshop, a disciplined orgy of ideas and action. Grinderman is the one-of a-kind band Nick, Warren, Martyn and Jim have waited all their life to be.

Herra Terra - Quiet Geist
Hollies - Hear! Here! and Here I Go Again (mono vinyl reissues)
Hooters - 5x5 (Single)
Hot Chip - Remix EP (Vinyl)
Ike & Tina Turner - Come Together / Workin' Together
Immortal - The Seventh Date of Blashyrkh DVD/CD
Infantree - Would Work (Vinyl)
Ingrid Michaelson - “Parachute” single (
Islaja - Keraaminen Paa (Vinyl)
J. Tillman - Singing Ax (only available on vinyl)
Jack Bruce - Things to Do Live in Denver
James - The Morning After the Night Before
James Otto - Shake What God Gave You
James - The Morning After The Night Before
Jamey Johnson - The Guitar Song
Jason Simon (Dead Meadow frontman) - Jason Simon
Jefferson Airplane - Jefferson Airplane Live Pack (4 CDs)
Jen Wood - Finds You in Love
Jimmy Edgar - XXX
Jimmy Webb - Ten Easy Pieces Plus Four
Joan of Arc - Cassette Box Set
Joey + Rory - Album #2
Junip (features José González) - Rope & Summit EP
Junip - Fields (Vinyl)
Justin Townes Earle - Harlem River Blues (Vinyl)
Kamelot - Poetry for the Poisoned
Kate Bush - Sensual World (reissue) (Vinyl)
Kenny Neal - Hooked on Your Love
Kim Richey - Wreck Your Wheels
King Crimson - The Collectable King Crimson Vol 5: Live In Japan 1995 - The Official Edition (2 CDs)
La Dispute + Touche Amore - “Searching for a Pulse/ The Worth of the World” 7-inch
Led to Sea (Mirah and Laura Viers touring musician Alex Guy) - Into The Darkening Sky
Leonard Cohen - Songs From the Road (2 LPs) (Vinyl)
Les Savy Fav - Root for Ruin (Vinyl)
Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns
Little Beirut - Fear Of Heaven
Little Fish - Baffled and Beat
Liv Kristine - Skintight
Lizz Wright - Fellowship
Lobisomem - Onze Pedras
Lonely Drifter Karen - Fall of Spring

Lordi - Babez for Breakfast

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Louis Armstrong - Playlist: The Very Best of
Lungfish - Pass and Stow (reissue; Dischord)
MF Doom - Expektoration Feat. Big Benn Klingon
Madness - On Board the Nutty Express: Live at the Astoria
Madness - One Step Beyond
Majeure - Timespan (reissue) (Vinyl)
Major Organ & The Adding Machine - Major Organ & The Adding Machine
Matthew Dear - Little People
Mavis Staples - You Are Not Alone (2 LPs) (Vinyl)
Max Richter - Infra (Vinyl)
Megafaun - Hertofore (Vinyl)
Mice Parade - What It Means to Be Left-Handed (Vinyl)
Michael Giacchino - Lost: The Final Season (soundtrack)
Michael McDonald - No Lookin' Back
Michelle Branch - Everything Comes And Goes [EP]
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew: 40th Anniversary Collector's Edition (3 CDs/1 DVD/2 LPs)
Murdocks - The Distortionist
Nat King Cole - Forgotten 1949 Carnegie Hall Concert
Nellie McKay - Home Sweet Mobile Home
New Czars - Doomsday Revolution
New York Dolls - Live at Radio Luxembourg Paris 1973 (Vinyl)
Nirvana - Insesticide (reissue) (Vinyl)
O'Jays - Christmas With
Oceansize - Self Preserved While the Bodies Float Up
Of Montreal - False Priest (Vinyl)
Olivia Newton-John - Grace And Gratitude Renewed
Olof Arnalds - Crazy Car
Olof Arnalds - Innundir Skinni
Ozark Mt. Daredevils - Don't Look Down
Ozark Mt. Daredevils - It'll Shine When It Shines
Ozark Mt. Daredevils - It's Alive
Ozark Mt. Daredevils - The Car Over The Lake Album
Pantera - Cowboys From Hell 3-Disc Deluxe Edition/2-Disc Expanded Edition
Peter Himmelman - Mystery & The Hum
Porcupine Tree - Recordings (reissue)
Prince Rama - Shadow Temple (Vinyl)
Queensryche - Empire: 20th Anniversary Edition (2 CDs)
Randy Houser - They Call Me Caddillac
Randy Houser - They Call Me Cadillac
Ravi Shankar - Very Best of
Replacements - Don't Tell A Soul (Vinyl) (reissue)
Rick Nelson - The Last Time Around: 1970-1982
Robert Plant - Band Of Joy
Rodriguez - Cold Fact (reissue) (Vinyl)
Rory Gallagher - The Beat Club Sessions
Sara Radle - Four
Sarah Jaffe - Suburban Nature (Vinyl)
School of Seven Bells - Heart Is Strange EP
Screaming Females - Castle Talk (Vinyl)
Selene Vigil-Wilk (of 7 Year Bitch) - That Was Then
Sodom - Better Off Dead

Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising (reissue) (Vinyl)

Sonic Youth - Sister (reissue) (Vinyl)

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On 180 gram vinyl! 'EVOL was a major leap forward for Sonic Youth, but Sister is a masterpiece, demonstrating the group's rapidly evolving musicality. More than ever before, Sonic Youth's songs sound like actual songs, and their collages of noise, distortion, and alternate tunings are now used to provide texture and depth to the music, which is original, complex, and rewarding. Not only is there the full-throttle roar of "Tuff Gnarl," but there are shimmering layers of ambient harmonics and dissonance that are as haunting and challenging as any of their barrages of feedback. Furthermore, Sister has a warm sound, which lures the listeners into music that's defiantly arty but never indulgent. It's one of the singular art rock records of the '80s.' - All Music Guide

Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes - Pills & Ammo
Starfucker - “Julius” single (digital version; 7-inch available October 12)
Steve Reich - Double Sextet/2x5
Stooges - Fun House (remastered) (Vinyl)

Stooges - The Stooges (remastered) (Vinyl)

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'The Stooges' first album was produced by a classically trained composer; their second was supervised by the former keyboard player with the Kingsmen, and if that didn't make all the difference, it at least indicates why Fun House was a step in the right direction. Producer Don Gallucci took the approach that the Stooges were a powerhouse live band, and their best bet was to recreate the band's live set with as little fuss as possible. As a result, the production on Fun House bears some resemblance to the Kingsmen's version of "Louie Louie" - the sound is smeary and bleeds all over the place, but it packs the low-tech wallop of a concert pumped through a big PA, bursting with energy and immediacy. The Stooges were also a much stronger band this time out; Ron Asheton's blazing minimalist guitar gained little in the way of technique since The Stooges, but his confidence had grown by a quantum leap as he summoned forth the sounds that would make him the hero of proto-punk guitarists everywhere, and the brutal pound of drummer Scott Asheton and bassist Dave Alexander had grown to heavyweight champion status. And Fun House is where Iggy Pop's mad genius first reached its full flower; what was a sneer on the band's debut had grown into the roar of a caged animal desperate for release, and his rants were far more passionate and compelling than what he had served up before. The Stooges may have had more "hits," but Fun House has stronger songs, including the garage raver to end all garage ravers in "Loose," the primal scream of "1970," and the apocalyptic anarchy of "L.A. Blues." Fun House is the ideal document of the Stooges at their raw, sweaty, howling peak.' - All Music Guide

Sully Erna - Avalon
Superchunk - Majesty Shredding (Vinyl)
Superpitcher - Kilimanjaro (Vinyl)
System Divide - The Conscious Sedation
T. Rex - Bang a Gong (Get It on) (Vinyl)
Tamaryn - The Waves (LP limited to 3,000 copies)
Tarja Turunen - What Lies Beneath
Teenage Fanclub - Bandwagonesque (reissue) (Vinyl)
Teengirl Fantasy - 7AM
Terror - Keepers of the Faith
The 88 - The 88
The Absence - Enemy Unbound
The Bad Plus - Never Stop (Vinyl)
The Black Angels - Phosphene Dream (Vinyl)

The Drums - The Drums (Vinyl)

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Following a massive wave of critical acclaim, New York City's own The Drums . . . release their self-titled debut album on Downtown Records. The US version of the [album] will contain bonus tracks not found on the UK release. The Drums' spellbinding sound takes inspiration from elements of some of the greatest bands in history from The Smiths to the The Shangri-las and fuses them with the band's own raw energy and excitement. "Let's Go Surfing" sounds like a day at Coney Island with The Cure on the boombox. The melancholy sound of "Book of Stories" is offset with an understated sweetness and innocence in the lyrics and vocal. The rhythm and reverb will force you to dance and the melodies will stay with you on first listen . . . Their live show has been called "explosive" and Jonny Pierce "one of the most magnetic frontmen in years." The list of supporters is endless but nothing is more convincing than this stellar collection of songs. The last track on the album is entitled "The Future." Fitting, since it will be full of sounds from The Drums.

The Lonely Forest - The Lonely Forest E.P.
These Are They - Disposing of Betrayers
Those Darlins & Funstix - Night Jogger B/W Funstix Party (Vinyl)
Three - Dark Days Coming (reissue; available digitally and as a 12-inch; Dischord)
Tim Kasher - Cold Love (Vinyl)
Tina Turner, Dechen Shak Dagsay & Rugula Curti - Beyond
Tracy Ullman - Move Over Darling: the Complete Stiff Recordings
Trey Anastasio - Tab at the Tab
Trey Songz - Passion, Pain And Pleasure
Trooper - Flying Colors
Trooper - Thick as Thieves
Trooper - Two for the Show
UFO - Live on Air
UFO - Strangers in the Night (Vinyl)
Underworld - Barking (Vinyl)
Valient Thorr - Stranger (Vinyl)
Vanisher - The History Of Saints
Various Artists - 35!!! Years - Bear Family Records (3-CD box set)
Various Artists - Black Sabbath: Secret Musical History of Black Jewish Relations
Various Artists - NOW Country 3
Various Artists - Putumayo Presents: Yoga
Various Artists - Seussical the Musical
Various Artists - String Tribute to Iron Maiden [mp3]
Various Artists - The Scottsboro Boys (soundtrack)
Various Artists - Wish I'd Kept A Scrapbook: A Tribute to Tullycraft
Various artists - We Were So Turned On
Various artists - Young & Research (features Dream Cop, more; available exclusively on Bandcamp; Tough Love)
Vaselines - Sex With an X (Vinyl)
Wagner Logic - The Wagner Logic
Walkmen - Lisbon (Vinyl)
Walter Horton - Blues Harmonica Giant (3 CDs)
Weather Report - Playlist: The Very Best of
Weezer - Hurley (Vinyl)
Weird Weeds - Help Me Name Melody (Vinyl)
White Sea - “Heart Is Strange” single
Wishbone Ash - Live on Air
Your Youth - Aloha

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New Jazz Releases - Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Alex Riel - In Our Own Sweet Way

Art Blakey - Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk

Art Tatum - Ben Webster & Art Tatum Quartet

Barron / Carter / Cobham - Art Of Three, The

Beachclub Vroeger 2010 - Beachclub Vroeger 2010

Beegie Adair - My Piano Journy

Beirach / Liebman / Mcnee / Richie - Quest For Freedom

Benny Goodman - Yale University Archives V5

Benny Goodman - Happy Session

Benny Goodman - Yale University Archives, Vol. 5: NBC Broadcast Recordings 1936-1943

Bill Evans - Live In Koblenz 1979

Bill O'Connell - Rhapsody In Blue

Billy Cobham - Art Of Three

Bixler / O'Farrill - Auction Project, The

Blue Cranes - Observatories

Bob Brookmeyer / Gerry Mulligan - Rare & Unissued 1955-56 Broadcasts

Bob Lark - Cathy's Song

Bob Lark / McNeely / Reid / Woods - Cathy's Song

Bobby Mitchell / Toppers - Rack Em Back

Brandi Disterheft - Second Side

Caheles Lloyd - Mirror

Cannonball Adderley - Complete Live In San Francisco

Cannonball Adderley - Sophisticated Swing

Carol Jarvis - Smile

Cecil Taylor - Love For Sale

Cedar Walton - Animation/Soundscapes

Charles Lloyd - Mirror

Charles Mingus - Playlist: The Very Best Of Charles Mingus

Charlie Byrd - Byrd In The Wind/Blues For Night People

Chris Donnelly - Solo

Chuck Willis - Rockin With The Sheik Of The Blues

Claude Williamson - Blues In Front

Clifford Brown / Max Roach - Clifford Brown & Max Roach

Coleman Hawkins - Bean Bags

Colosseum - Live05

Couturier / Laizeau / Mechali - Musica Callada

Cyrus Chestnut - Journeys

Dado Moroni - Shapes

Dahl / Riel / Vinding - In Our Own Sweet Way

Dan Andersen - The Spark

Dave Brubeck - Live In Portland 1959

Dave Brubeck - Dave Digs Disney/Southern Scene/In Europe

Dave Frank - Portrait Of New York

Dave Liebman - Quest For Freedom

David Bixler - Auction Project

David S. Ware - Onecept

Denise Donatelli - When Lights Are Low

Dick Sudhalter - Legacy 1967-2001

Dizzy Gillespie - Greatest Trumpet Of Them All

Django Reinhardt - Quintessential

Don Friedman - Composer, The

Don Friedman - Composer: Live At Jazz Baltica Salzau

Donald Byrd - Byrd In Hand/Davis Cup

Duke Ellington - Festival Session

Duke Ellington - Playlist: The Very Best Of Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington - From His Treasure Chest 1965-1972

Earl Hines - Swingin Down

Eddie Gomez - Forever

Ehud Asherie - Welcome To New York

Ella Fitzgerald - Geatest Hits

Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

Enrico Pieranunzi - Latin Jazz Quintet Live At Birdland

Eric Dolphy - Complete Last Recordings In Hilversum & Paris 1964

Evan Christopher - Django A La Creole

Fay Claassen - Sing!

Fere's Hot Strings - Swing-World-Blues

Francois Couturier - Musica Callada

Freddy Cole - Cole Nobody Knows

Gerry Mulligan - Gerry Mulligan Meets Johnny Hodges

Gerry Mulligan - Rare & Unissued 1955-56 Broadcasts

Harry Allen - When Larry Met Harry

Helen Sung - Going Express

Herb Ellis - Nothing But The Blues

Holcomb / Horvitz / Talking Pict - Point Of It All, The

Hot Strings - Swing-World-Blues

Humphrey Lyttelton - Four Classic Albums Plus (Jazz Concert/Jazz Sess

Humphrey Lyttelton - Jazz Concert/Jazz Session/In Perspective/Here's Humphrey

Jamie Oehlers & Paul Grabowsky - On A Clear Day

Jazz Baltica Ensemble - One For Three: The Jones Suite

Jazz Orchestra of the Concertge - Blues For The Date

Jermaine Landsberger - Hammond Eggs

Jessica Williams - Next Step

Jim Walker - Pied Piper

Jimmy Giuffre - Jimmy Giuffre Clarinet

Joey Defrancesco - Never Can Say Goodbye: The Music Of Michael Jackson

John Coltrane & Red Garland Trio - Traneing In

Johnny Hodges / Gerry Mulligan - Gerry Mulligan Meets Johnny Hodges

Junko Onishi - Baroque

Kahiba - Global Dialects

Kenny With The John Dankworth Orchestra Wheeler - Windmaill Tilter The Story Of Don Quixote

Klaus Gesing - Stories Yet To Tell )

Lark / McNeely / Reid / Woods - Cathy's Song

Lee Konitz - Lee Konitz With Warne Marsh

Lee Konitz / Warne Marsh - Lee Konitz With Warne Marsh

Lester Young - 100 Years: Forever Young

Louis Armstrong - Playlist: The Very Best Of Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong / Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong

Louise Rogers - Black Coffee

Lygia Campos - Meu Nome E Brasil

Mario Abney - Spiritual Perception

Marty Paich - Broadway Bit

Matthias Lupri - After Hours: Moonlamps & Other Ballads

Michael Tracy Quartet - Wingspan

Michel Legrand - Le Grand Jazz

Mike Garson / Jim Walker - Pied Piper

Miles Davis / Michel Legrand - Le Grand Jazz

Milt Jackson & Coleman Hawkins - Bean Bags

Mose Allison - Back Country Suite

Nat "King" Cole - Love Is The Thing

Nat "King" Cole - Very Thought Of You

Nat "King" Cole - Forgotten 1949 Carnegie Hall Concert

Nikolai Kapustin - Twenty Four Preludes In Jazz Style

Nikolai Kapustin - 24 Preludes In Jazz Style

Nina Simone - Nina Simone At Town Hall

Norma Winstone - Stories Yet To Tell

Oregon - In Stride

Ornette Coleman - Reunion 1990

Oscar Peterson - Jazz Portrait Of Frank Sinatra

Oster / Welker Jazz Alliance - Detour Ahead

Oster-Welker Jazz Alliance the - Detour Ahead

Percy Mayfield - Nightless Lover

Pink Turtle - Back Again

Pizzarelli Boys - Desert Island Dreamers

Quartet / Tracy, Michael - Wingspan

Quest - Searching For The New Sound Of Be-Bop

Raphael Wressnig - Party Factor

Robin Holcomb - Point Of It All

Ronnie Laws - Friends And Strangers

Ronnie Lynn Patterson - Music

Roy Eldridge / Art Tatum - Art Tatum & Roy Eldridge Quartet

Ruby Braff - Hi-Fi Salute To Bunny / Easy Now / You're Getting

Rufus Reid - Out Front

Ryan Cohan - Another Look

Sidney Bechet / Buck Clayton - In Concert At The Brussels Fair 1958

Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus

Sonny Rollins - Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2

Stan Getz - At The Shrine

Stan Getz - West Coast Jazz

Sun Ra - Box Set: Heliocentric Worlds

Sun Ra - Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra

Ted Curson - Round Midnight

Terry Oldfield - Spirit Of The World

Terry Oldfield - Spirit Of Africa

Thelonious Monk - Playlist: The Very Best Of Thelonious Monk

Theo Bleckmann - I Dwell In Possibility

Thurston Harris - Little Bitty Pretty One

Tom Grant - Delicioso

Tommy Dorsey - At The Fat Man's 1946-1948

Toots Thielemans - Live Takes Vol. 1

Topology + Misinterprotato - Healthy

Truth & Soul - Fallin' Off The Reel, Vol. 2

Warne Marsh - How High How Deep

Weather Report - Playlist: The Very Best Of Weather Report

Will Downing - Lust, Love & Lies

William Parker - I Plan To Stay A Believer: The Inside Songs Of Curtis Mayfield

Younger Than Springtime - Younger Than Springtime

Zoot Sims - Live At Half Note

Reissues

Anita O'Day - Sings For Oscar

Bill Evans - Portrait In Jazz

Cannonball Adderley - In San Francisco

Charles MIngus - East Coasting

Donald Byrd - Byrd In Hand

Duke Jordan - Flight To Jordan

Grant Green - Grantstand

Jimmy Smith - Midnight Special

John Coltrane - Traneing In

Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue

Miles Davis - Seven Steps to Heaven

Miles Davis - Someday My Prince Will Come

Nina Simone - Very Best Of Nina Simone

Ornette Coleman - Shape of Jazz to Come

Paul Chambers - Whims Of Chambers

Sonny Stitt - Sits In With The Oscar Peterson Trio

Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners

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The information is updated biweekly by John Kelman