Music News & Notes

Crystal Bowersox Album Tracklist and CoverArt

American Idol sweetheart Crystal Bowersox has recently released the tracklist and updated cover for her upcoming album, 'Farmer's Daughter,' which is scheduled to released on Dec. 14. The album has eight songs written solely by Crystal, two co-writes, a Buffalo Springfield cover, a Chad Kroeger/Kara DioGuardi masterpiece, and a song written by Crystal and her husband.

The track list:

1. Ridin With The Radio
2. For What It’s Worth
3. Farmer’s Daughter
4. Holy Toledo
5. Lonely
6. Hold On
7. On The Run
8. Kiss Ya
9. Speak Now
10. Mine All Mine
11. Mason
12. Arlene

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The Decemberists release 'The King Is Dead' in January

The Decemberists are releasing 'The King Is Dead' January 18 on Capitol Records. The album's "10 concise, country-based songs" is an intentional shift toward "simplicity," according to the press release, and sees the band working not only with producer Tucker Martine, but also with Gillian Welch and R.E.M.'s Peter Buck. According to Colin Meloy:

"It’s a real challenge to make simple music, and lot of times we had to deliberately hold off and keep more space. This record is an exercise in restraint. [...] Over the last eleven years or so, since I moved to Portland, I feel like I've been mining mostly English traditions for influence. I guess I've kind of come back to a lot of the more American music that got me going in the first place — R.E.M. and Camper Van Beethoven and all these bands that borrowed from more American traditions like Neil Young and the Byrds. Sometimes I kind of miss the epic-ness of the other albums, but it’s nice to get all of the information across in three minutes. It’s like going from reading a novel to reading a bunch of short stories."

The Decemberists will appear on Conan November 18 to perform "Down by the Water," the lead single off the album.

Tracklisting:

01. Don't Carry It All
02. Calamity Song
03. Rise to Me
04. Rox in the Box
05. January Hymn
06. Down by the Water
07. All Arise!
08. June Hymn
09. This is Why We Fight
10. Dear Avery

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Boxer Rebellion Announce Details Of New Album 'The Cold Still'

Boxer Rebellion have just announced details of their new studio album 'The Cold Still', which is scheduled for release on February 7. The follow up to 2009's 'Union' was recorded with legendary producer Ethan Johns, who previously worked with Kings of Leon, Ryan Adams and Ray LaMontagne. The band recently finished their European tour which included a date a London's Energy Sessions Festival'. 'Step Out of the Car' will be the band's first single.

The tracklisting for 'The Cold Still' is:

'No Harm'
'Step Out Of The Car'
'Locked In The Basement'
'Cause For Alarm'
'Caught By The Light'
'Organ Song'
'Memo'
'Both Sides Are Even'
'The Runner'
'Doubt'

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Joey Belladonna to Record With Anthrax for the First Time in Twenty Years

Joey Belladonna is returning to heavy-metal veterans Anthrax. He returned to tour with them over the summer and now will record with the group for the first time in twenty years. Following their thrash revival shows with Slayer and Megadeth, the rockers have been working on their first studio album since 2003’s 'We’ve Come For You All.'

And the next album, which is scheduled for release next year and is tentatively titled 'Worship Music,' will be the first one featuring classic-era singer Joey Belladonna since 1990’s 'Persistence Of Time.'

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Duran Duran Announce Mark Ronson-Produced Album 'All You Need Is Now'

Duran Duran have recently revealed details of their new album, which has been produced by Mark Ronson. The nine-track album, 'All You Need Is Now,' will be released exclusively via the iTunes music store on December 21. An expanded 12-track physical album will be released in February 2011, the group said in a statement.

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Jack White Reveals Plans For White Stripes Reunion

Could this be true? White Stripes frontman Jack White has recently hinted that the band could be on the verge of getting back together. The duo have been on hiatus since 2007 when Meg White suffered anxiety issues during their tour for last album 'Icky Thump.' However, in an interview with Vanity Fair, White suggested that plans were in place for The White Stripes to return.

"We thought we'd do a lot of things that we'd never done: a full tour of Canada, a documentary, coffee-table book, live album, a boxed set," he said.

White was speaking of the release of the band's new 333-piece limited-edition White Stripes Merchandise Collection.

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Them Crooked Vultures Confirm Second Album Plans

Them Crooked Vultures' bassists John Paul Jones said that a second album is in the works. The band, who have just completed a massive tour, will re-group with Foo Fighter's Dave Grohl and Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme in the near future. Jones told the BBC 6 Music:

''Some stuff we've worked on, but we're gonna write pretty quickly and just put it down... we may be a year or so. 'It will mainly be excess material from the first album, material we started and never finished because we had to go and play the stuff we already recorded!''

Poobah Supports Let Me In Re-Issue By Pounding the Pavement

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Jim Gustafson will be leading Poobah down the rock n’ roll highway in support of the re-issue of Let Me In (Ripple Music) throughout the rest of 2010 and well into 2011. With the first pressing of the album almost sold out, Gustafson is doing what all musicians should be doing to generate greater support for the record by working the only way that he knows how . . . playing the stuff live!

“It is deep in my blood to keep doing what I love, and after decades of playing in bands, it still excites me to perform,” explains Gustafson when asked what keeps him going after all this time, “I have a passionate love for playing guitar, singing, and writing songs. That’s what has driven me on. I am still inspired to be the best I can be.”

It’s remarkable that in an industry notorious for chewing up and spitting out the weak that this musician, without the commercial success of his peers, is still going after forty years. With ten albums, thousands of live performances, and countless boxes of unreleased material under his belt, Jim Gustafson is celebrating a life-long career with Poobah by bringing the party to as many who’ll take the time to listen. Over the course of four decades, Poobah has shared stages and hobnobbed with the likes of The Who, Canned Heat, Judas Priest, and ZZ Top to name but a few, and Gustafson has the unlikely distinction of performing at the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame more than any other artist.

11/13/2010 Wilbert’s – Cleveland, OH w/ Euporia
11/20/2010 YSU U-PIE – Youngstown, OH w/ special guests
11/26/2010 Greenville Moose – Greenville, PA
12/11/2010 Nicolozakes Café – Fairpoint, OH
12/17/2010 Eagle’s Nest – St. Marys, WV
01/14/2011 Grandview Tavern – New Matamoras, OH
01/21/2011 Wrangler Tavern – Whipple, OH
01/29/2011 Marrieta Brewing Co. – Marietta, OH

More dates to be added soon!
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For further information or promos for Poobah, please contact:

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Ripple Music
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This Date In Music History - November 11

Birthdays:

Roger Lavern - Tornadoes (1938)

Jessie Colin Young - Youngbloods (1944)

Vince Martell - Vanilla Fudge (1945)

Chip Hawkins - Tremeloes (1946)

Chris Dreja - Yardbirds (1946) Jimmy Page asks Dreja to join Led Zeppelin but he declines preferring a career as a photographer. His claim to fame is the back cover photo on “Led Zeppelin.”

Pat Daugherty - Black Oak Arkansas (1947)

Jim Peterik - Ides Of March, Survivor (1950)



Paul Cowsill - Cowsills (1952)

Andy Partridge - XTC (1953)

Marshall Crenshaw (1953)

Ian Craig Marsh - Heaven 17, Human League (1956)

Mike Mesaros - Smithereens (1957)

Mic Michaeli - Europe (1962)

Scott Mercado - Candlebox (1964)

Ronnie Devoe - New Edition, Bell Biv Devoe (1968)

Gary Powell - Libertines (1969)


They Are Missed:

In 1972, just a little over a year after The Allman Brothers Band lost Duane Allman in a motorcycle accident, their bassist, 24 year-old Berry Oakley, was killed when his motorcycle hit a bus, just three blocks away from the site that claimed Allman. At first, Oakley seemed all right, but he died twenty minutes after being brought to the hospital.

Born on this day in 1929, Lavern Baker, R&B singer. Died March 10, 1997.



Irish singer Paddy Clancy of the Clancy Brothers died in 1998 (age 76). He wrote the classic Irish songs "Wild Mountain Thyme" and "Carrickfergus."

Bobby Sheen, the male vocalist of Bob B. Soxx And The Blue Jeans on their 1963, #8 hit "Zip-A-Dee Doo-Dah," died of pneumonia at the in 2000 (age 58).

Grammy-nominated R&B star Gerald Levert died of a heart attack in 2006 (age 40). The singer who was the son of O'Jays vocalist Eddie Levert.

Born on this day in 1974, Stephen Garrett (Static Major), R&B singer, rapper, songwriter and record producer. Also a member of the R&B trio Playa. Static Major gained posthumous fame for appearing in Lil Wayne's 2008 #1 hit "Lollipop." Garrett died on Feb 25, 2008 at his home in Louisville, Kentucky.


History:

Kate Smith first sang Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" on network radio in 1938.

Bill Haley scored his first US Top ten single in 1954 with "Shake Rattle And Roll." He had dropped his cowboy image about a year and a half earlier, while renaming The Saddlemen to Bill Haley and His Comets. "Shake, Rattle and Roll" was originally made popular by Big Joe Turner.

In 1955, Billboard Magazine published the results of its annual disc jockey poll. The most played R&B single was Johnny Ace's "Pledging My Love," the most promising artist was Chuck Berry, the favorite R&B artist was Fats Domino and Elvis Presley was voted the most promising Country And Western artist. The Four Aces "Love Is A Many Splendored Thing" had the distinction of being the first number one record using the new calculation method.

Elvis Presley appeared at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii in 1957. This was Presley’s last concert of the 50’s.

Buddy Holly's "Peggy Sue" was released in the US in 1957, where it would rise to #3 and stayed on the chart for sixteen weeks. It was also a big hit in the UK, reaching #6.



Also in 1957, Dance Teacher magazine denounced England's Princess Margaret for endorsing rock 'n' roll, and in doing so, hastening the demise of Ballroom dancing. The article went on to say that "rock 'n' roll should be discouraged."

Hank Ballard and the Midnighters recorded the original version of "The Twist" in 1958. It was issued as the B side of the Gospel style ballad "Teardrops On Your Letter" and although it reached #16 on the R&B chart, Ballard's version of "The Twist" wouldn't appear on the Billboard Pop chart until just after Chubby Checker's version took off two years later.

Twenty-four year-old Tom Jones recorded "It's Not Unusual" for Britain's Decca Records in 1964. The song, originally offered to, but turned down by Sandie Shaw, would become Jones' breakthrough hit, reaching #1 in the UK and #10 in the US.

The final recording session for the Beatles 'Rubber Soul' album took place, at Abbey Road, London in 1965. They needed three new songs to finish the album so an old song "Wait" was pulled off the shelf and the group recorded two new songs from start to finish. Paul's "You Won't See Me" and John's "Girl," the basic tracks for both songs being completed in two takes. Rubber Soul was completed, and finished copies of the album were in the shops by December 3 in the UK and December 6 in the US.

Velvet Underground made its performance debut at a high school dance in Summit, NJ in 1965.

Van Morrison performed his current US #10 hit, "Brown Eyed Girl" on Dick Clark's American Bandstand in 1967. Although the song had become a staple on US Oldies radio, it was not a hit in the UK.

John Lennon and Yoko Ono released the controversial (the album cover anyway) "Two Virgins" album in 1968. The recording consists largely of tape loops, playing while Lennon tries out different instruments (piano, organ, drums) and sound effects (including reverb, delay and distortion), changes tapes and plays other recordings, and converses with Ono, who vocalises ad-lib in response to the sounds.

In 1969, the FBI in Phoenix, Arizona arrested Jim Morrison for drunk and disorderly conduct aboard a plane. The Doors singer, who was on his way to a Rolling Stones concert with actor Tom Baker, had been drinking and annoying the stewardesses. The pair spent the night in jail and were released on $2,500 bail. The charges were eventually dropped.

'Plastic Ono Band' was released by John Lennon in 1970. The same title was used for the album released by Yoko One on the same day.

BBC TV's Top Of The Pops celebrated its 400th show in 1971. The UK chart show was presented by Tony Blackburn with guests; Tom Jones, Dana, John Kongos, Cher, Slade, Cilla Black, The Piglets, Clodagh Rodgers and The Newbeats.

In 1973, thirty US radio stations broadcasted a 'live' Mott The Hoople concert. In reality it was the band recorded in the studio with the applause dubbed in. What a crock!

KISS released the album "Rock and Roll Over" in 1976.

Donna Summer's disco version of "MacArthur Park" rose to the top of the Billboard chart in 1978, besting Richard Harris' 1968 rendition by one spot. It would be the first of four number one singles for the 'disco queen.' Songwriter Jimmy Webb would later explain that the mysterious lyrics about the cake melting in the rain is simply a metaphor for a love affair ending.

In 1978, the Cars released the first picture-disc single commercially available, "My Best Friend's Girl."



David Bowie played the first night of his 8-date 'Low / Heroes Tour' of Australia and New Zealand at the Oval in Adelaide in 1978. This was Bowies first ever show in Australia.

In 1982, Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing" became his 13th and final #1 on the Billboard R&B chart. The song will reach #3 on the Pop chart.

In 1986, Pink Floyd issued a press statement stating that they intended to continue using the name without Roger Waters and were recording their next album.

Bad English started a two week run at #1 on the US singles chart in 1989 with "When I See You Smile."

A 21 year-old AC/DC fan died in 1990 after being attacked outside the Brendan Byrne Arena in New Jersey where the band were playing a gig that night.

The Smashing Pumpkins double album 'Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness' went to #1 on the US chart in 1995.

Metallica played a free concert in Philadelphia, PA in 1997.

Green Day’s in-store appearance at a New York Tower Records in 1997 turned into a riot. First, Billie Joe Armstrong paints “Nimrod” (their album’s title) on the walls, incites the crowd to cut loose, body surfs the audience and moons people on the street. For some reason, Tower cancels the group’s planned post concert appearance. Ya think?

In 1999, Britney Spears won four MTV Awards; Best Female Singer, Best Pop Act, Best Song, "...Baby One More Time," Best Breakthrough Artist. Best Rock Act went to The Offspring, Best Male Act, Will Smith and Bono won the Free Your Mind award.

Creed’s "With Arms Wide Open" topped the Billboard Hot 100 in 2000. The song is from the group’s second album, 'Human Clay.'

Michael Jackson went to #1 on the US album in 2001 chart with 'Invincible.'

In 2002, British Phonographic industry data showed that sales of singles were at their lowest level for 25 years, making up for less than 10% of all music sold in the UK.

In 2004, Liza Minnelli's former bodyguard accused the singer of forcing him to have sex with her in order to keep his job, court documents revealed. M'hammed Soumayah was suing Minnelli for $100m damages, saying she made "many repeated attempts" to compel him into sex and he "eventually succumbed." Ewwwww.

The soundtrack album ‘Hannah Montana’ started a two-week run at #1 on the US album chart in 2006.

In 2006, Axl Rose performed Paul McCartney's "Live and Let Die" at the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research dinner in New York. The Guns N' Roses frontman was backed by Beatles tribute act the Fab Faux. Fox, who has Parkinson's disease, had recently been embroiled in a stem-cell research controversy launched by a right-wing radio yahoo. The research can help Parkinson's victims. "I'm for stem-cell research, so I just thought it would be wrong not for me to come when I was asked," says Rose.

Got $100? If the answer is 'yes', there’s "Genesis 1970-1975" was released in 2008. The box set has five Genesis albums from the Peter Gabriel era ("Trespass," "Nursery Cryme," "Foxtrot," "Selling England By the Pound," and the double album "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway." Produced by founding members Tony Banks and Mike Rutherford along with Phil Collins, there are expanded DVD/CD editions in 5.1 Surround Sound, rare and previously unissued audio/video and interviews.

"Budokan! 30th Anniversary Edition," a four-disc package celebrating Cheap Trick's classic ‘78 live album, "At Budokan," was unleashed in 2008. There’s a previously unreleased DVD with footage from the '78 Budokan shows and an expanded, 19-song CD version of the original album.

Music News & Notes

San Carlos fire causes $1.1 million in damage to warehouse rented by rocker Neil Young


A San Carlos warehouse filled with rock legend Neil Young's music equipment, vintage cars and other memorabilia burned in a three-alarm blaze early Tuesday, causing an estimated $1.1 million in damage.

Workers and friends of the longtime Peninsula resident spent the day moving guitars, canisters of film, framed photos and other items that had been in the warehouse at 593 Quarry Road. Young, who lives in a home near La Honda, arrived at the site late in the day and surveyed the destruction.

Investigators have ruled out arson but didn't say Tuesday what caused the fire.

The roughly 10,000-square-foot building sustained $300,000 in damage, and Young's possessions that burned were worth about $800,000, said

View larger map Belmont-San Carlos Fire Marshal Jim Palisi. No one was injured in the fire.

"A lot of it is musical instruments and electronic equipment," he said. "It's very

Read the rest of the story here: www.mercurynews.com

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Bruce Springsteen: In 'Darkness' reissue, the CD that might have been

In between the game-changing albums “Born to Run” and “Darkness on the Edge of Town,” Bruce Springsteen’s career was derailed by legal turmoil and artistic indecisiveness.

The struggle is documented on a six-disc box set, “The Promise: The Darkness on the Edge of Town Story” (Columbia), which presents the original 1978 album in remastered form and supplements it with dozens of outtakes and three DVDs containing live performances and a documentary.

“Darkness” was not Springsteen’s most popular album, yielding only one minor top-40 hit (it was far outsold by Springsteen’s 1984 blockbuster “Born in the U.S.A.” and the 1975 “Born to Run”). But “Darkness” stands as his leanest, hardest-hitting album with the E Street Band, and – at least for this listener -- his best. The tour that followed, as captured on a DVD of a typically galvanizing Houston concert, was even better. Springsteen’s ascent to stadium-rock icon hit over-drive.

What’s less appreciated about the era chronicled on “Promise” is the large volume of exceptional music that didn’t make the final cut, left to languish unheard except for a few live performances and covers by other artists -- until now. The box set’s most crucial addition to the Springsteen canon is the album that might have been (available separately as a two-CD set, “The Promise”); one completely different in tone and intent than “Darkness” but well worth hearing.

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STRATOVARIUS To Release New Full-Length This January

Finnish melodic metal troupe STRATOVARIUS are readying to unleash their thirteenth studio album, Elysium, this winter. Recorded at 5-By-5 studios in Pitäjänmäki, Helsinki, Finland, the nine-track full-length will be released in the US and Canada January 18, 2011 through Armoury Records and features cover art by Gyula Havancsák.

Elysium will mark the debut of newest addition: 27-year-old Finnish guitarist Matias Kupiainen. Said drummer Jörg Michael of the band's newest recruit: "In Matias we found a new character who fits perfectly with his way of melodic guitar shredding. He is a killer player, a 'wunderkind' from Finland!"

Polaris, STRATOVARIUS' 2009 "come back" offering and first since the departure or guitarist/main composer Timo Tolkki, was reissued as a two-CD digipak earlier this year via Armoury Records. In addition to the original album, the package includes a bonus disc containing 75 minutes of live material recorded during the Polaris tour spanning the band's entire history.

Awesome album cover art!





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Nashville Musician Re-Uses Vinyl Records as Roof Shingles

People find interesting ways to recycle and use old, unplayable vinyl for a variety of things (clocks, purses, art), but this takes the cake:

According to Jazz.com, Nashville-based musician Matt Glassmeyer has fashioned a roof for his porch using 350 damaged records. In lieu of traditional shingles, this newly fashioned roof features a set of records aligned in a uniform, overlapping pattern. Matt’s design is a great homegrown project that gives dumpster-destined materials a second life while touching on the rich musical culture of Nashville.

What happens when the area gets a 'record' heat wave?







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Drive-By Truckers Announce New Album

Southern rock institution Drive-By Truckers released their last album, The Big To-Do, earlier this year, and they've already got another one all loaded up and ready to go. ATO will release the new one, Go-Go Boots, on February 15. The band once again worked with longtime producer David Barbe, and in a press release, frontman Patterson Hood "semi-jokingly" calls the LP "our country, soul, and murder ballad album."








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Thom Yorke-Featuring 'Two Minutes Silence' Storms UK Singles Chart

A two minute song which actually features nothing but silence is on course to debut inside the top-20 on the UK singles chart this weekend. The track has released by the British Legion's Poppy Appeal.  It includes a video that features Radiohead's Thom Yorke, Plan B, The Saturdays and prime minister David Cameron.

All proceeds from the sales of 'Two Minute Silence' will go towards helping members of the armed forces and their families.

What a concept...only in the UK....

Ask Mr. Music by Jerry Osborne

FOR THE WEEK OF NOVEMBER 8, 2010

DEAR JERRY: In your recent coverage of the tamouré you mentioned how the record company (Philips) had a dance contest, with the winners getting a free trip to Tahiti.

That reminded me of another record company contest, one described on an insert coupon that I found many years ago in a stack of old 78s. The headline reads: “Paramount Masked Marvel Contest Entry Blank.”

Unfortunately, this little entry form was loose, but some text offers a clue as to which record it came with:

“I have listened to one of your Paramount records, No. 12805 by the Masked Marvel, and am herewith listing what I think is his correct name. It is understood that if I have given the correct name you will send me free one Paramount record, and my choice in case I win is: No. (Paramount number goes here).

“This blank to be mailed on or before Oct. 15, 1929 to: The New York Recording Laboratories, Port Washington, Wisconsin.”

Also shown is a drawing of a man, who looks like Fred Astaire, dressed semi-formal but wearing a Lone Ranger mask. Is Astaire the Masked Marvel? Do I win a free record?
—Hannah Franklin, Beloit, Wisc.

DEAR HANNAH: It isn't every day I hear from someone whose name is a palindrome (still waiting for mail from Anna and Ogopogo).

Sorry, no free record.

Despite the familiar warning from Jim Croce, when we pull the mask off the ol' Masked Marvel we reveal … Charley (a.k.a. Charlie) Patton.

Even without the mask, it is unlikely anyone would get a clue from a drawing that looks more like generic clip-art than either Fred Astaire or Charley Patton.

The need to hear the Masked Marvel in order to identify him, coupled with a very assertive advertising campaign, brought customers into record stores in droves. There they could listen to the mystery record, grab some entry forms, and see a list of other Paramount releases from which winners could take their pick.

Concurrently, Paramount ran display ads in the print media, primarily the Chicago Defender (motto: “The World's Greatest Weekly - The Mouthpiece of 14 Million [black] People”).

Unlike the over-the-counter blank forms, newspaper ads included both song titles: “Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues,” and “Mississippi Boweavil Blues.” The B-side is the genesis of all boll weevil tunes, the best-known being “The Boll Weevil Song” by Brook Benton.

In music, whether 1929 or 1961, cotton farmers still conversed with malicious anthonomus grandis out “looking for a home.”

Print ads even provided this “helpful hint,” one about as helpful as saying the singer is a male: “The Masked Marvel is an exclusive Paramount artist.” Did anyone really think otherwise?

The ads also offered the Masked Marvel record with an entry form, mailed C.O.D., which accounted for most of the sales.

“Send no money! Pay the postman 75-cents for each record ordered, plus a small C.O.D. fee when he delivers the records,” reads the mail-order coupon. Back then, all postmen (mailmen; salesmen; milkmen; breadmen; icemen; servicemen; etc., etc.) were men — woMEN being the exception.

It sure worked. Paramount's first pressing of 10,000 copies soon sold out, a huge success for unknown songs by an unidentified singer. It was all about the contest, and the chance to win a free 75-cent record.

Making things a bit of a challenge is that Charley was still unknown to most folks. Before the Masked Marvel release, he made only two records.

The first is properly credited to Charley Patton, “Pony Blues” (Paramount 12792), but for “Prayer of Death, Parts 1 & 2” (Paramount 12799) he uses the pseudonym Elder J.J. Hadley.

Then again, the Masked Marvel's distinctively unintelligible, yet passionate, vocal style may have been the clincher for some, even with “Pony Blues” as the only basis for comparison. For the record, they also accepted J.J. Hadley as a correct answer.

Fact is, no one sounded like Charley Patton. Not then, not ever.

Second and subsequent pressings of No. 12805, with no mention of the Masked Marvel or the contest, all credit Charley Patton.


IZ ZAT SO? First issues (Masked Marvel) of Paramount 12805 have recently sold in the $6,000 to $7,500 range.

The other 25 Charley Patton 78s, be they Paramount (20) or Vocalion (5), are a bit of a bargain — only $3,000 to $4,000.

With a retail price of 75-cents in 1929 (about $9.30 in today's money), how many Charley Patton 78s do you wish you or your parents would have bought and kept?

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

Hi-Speed Soul to reissue landmark 1990s album Gentlemen on vinyl

The Afghan Whigs’ landmark album 'Gentlemen' will be reissued on 180 gram vinyl by San Diego’s Hi-Speed Soul Records on January 25, 2011. The release will feature the complete studio album as well as a full color lyric sheet.

'Gentlemen' has been considered by music critics and Afghan Whigs’ fans the world over as the band’s masterpiece featuring quintessential songs like “Debonair,” “Gentlemen” and “What Jail Is Like.” As The Afghan Whigs’ major label debut (originally released by Elektra Records) 'Gentlemen' was cinematic in its scope and more ambitious than anything The Afghan Whigs had released to date. Almost the antithesis to the 90s Grunge movement, 'Gentlemen' retained The Afghan Whigs’ trademark R&B and soul influences. Despite receiving support from MTV and modern rock radio, the band remained largely a cult favorite. 'Gentlemen' appeared on numerous “best of” lists for 1993 as well the 1990s as a whole.

Hi-Speed Soul’s vinyl-only reissue of Gentlemen can be pre-ordered now on the Hi-Speed Soul website. The physical release date of the album is set for January 25, 2011.

. Click here to pre-order Gentlemen from Hi-Speed Soul

For further information regarding this album or any of Hi-Speed Soul’s other releases, please contact Owen Salerno at 619-322-5441 or owen@hispeedsoul.com.

About Hi-Speed Soul:

Hi-Speed Soul Records (San Diego, CA) was founded in 2007 by Eric Howarth, former owner of the esteemed M-Theory Music record store. Since then, the independent label has proudly released albums by Nada Surf, Swervedriver (UK), Film School, Lady Dottie and the Diamonds, The Nervous Wreckords (Louis XIV/Cornershop), Adam Franklin of Swervedriver, and Jim Noir (UK). Besides a focus on collector worthy reissues and new releases by emerging bands, Hi-Speed Soul also manages The Black Heart Procession and Pall Jenkins of Three Mile Pilot/Myth. Most recently Eric brought on Owen Salerno, former promotions director at FM 94/9 (KBZT San Diego), and has created a division to focus on TV/Film/Gaming Licensing for both bands on the record label and an extended roster of quality artists.

This Date In Music History - November 9

Birthdays:

Lee Graziano - American Breed (1943)

Phil May - Pretty Things (1944)

Alan Gratzer - REO Speedwagon (1948)

Joe Bouchard - Blue Oyster Cult (1948)

Dennis Stratton - Iron Maiden (1954)

Demetra Plakas - L7 (1960)

Sandra Denton (Pepa) - Salt-n-Pepa (1969)

Scarface (Brad Terrance Jordan) - Geto Boys (1969)

Sisqo (a.k.a. Mark Andrews) (1977)

Nick Lachey - 98 Degrees (1973)

Sisqo - Dru Hill (1978)

Australian singer Delta Goodrem (1984)


They Are Missed:

Born on this day in 1941, Tom Fogerty, guitarist, Creedence Clearwater Revival. Fogerty died on September 6, 1990.

Producer, songwriter and co-founder of Atlantic records Herb Abramson died in 1999. Wrote and produced Tommy Tucker's 1964 hit "High Heeled Sneakers."

Davey Goldsworthy, singer and guitarist with UK band The Chesterfields, died in 2003 after being involved in a hit-a-run accident in Oxford.

In 2008, Miriam Makeba, the South African singer who reached #12 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1967 with "Pata Pata" suffered a fatal heart attack at the age of 76. Among her many notable achievements was becoming the first African woman to win a Grammy, for Best Folk Recording in 1966 with Harry Belafonte for "An Evening With Belafonte / Makeba."


History:

In 1955, the Everly Brothers made their first studio recordings, cutting four tracks in 22 minutes at Nashville's Old Tulane Hotel studios.

Buddy Holly began his first tour in 1956, opening for George Jones and Hank Locklin.

In 1957, "Jailhouse Rock" and "Wake Up Little Susie" were the #1 and #2 songs On Billboard's Pop, Country and R&B charts simultaneously.

In 1958, Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog," exceeded three million copies sold in the USA, becoming only the third single to do so. Bing Crosby's "White Christmas" & "Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer" by Gene Autry being the other two.

Johnny Mathis started a five-week run at #1 on the US album chart in 1959 with 'Heavenly.'

In 1959, Billboard Magazine stated that this was "one of the most frantic weeks in the history of the music business," as the government probe into disc jockey payola steps up.

Also in 1959, RCA executives offered a guarantee of $100,000 to Sam Cooke in an effort to lure him to their label when his Keen Records contract expires.

Brian Epstein saw The Beatles playing live for the first time during a lunchtime session at The Cavern Liverpool in 1961. He had been getting requests at his NEMS music store for a record called "My Bonnie." After several more visits, Epstein would offer to manage the group, which he did until his death in 1967.

Elvis Presley had his 9th UK #1 with single in 1961 with "His Latest Flame / Little Sister."

Motown Records released "You've Really Got a Hold on Me," by the Miracles in 1962.

The Kingsmen's classic, "Louie, Louie" was released in the US in 1963. It will enter the Hot 100 near the end of November and peak at #2 in early January.



If all the "Paul is dead" theories were correct, then today, in 1966, would have been the day he died.

John Lennon met Yoko Ono for the first time in 1966 when he visited her art exhibition 'Unfinished Paintings and Objects' at the Indica Gallery in London. She supposedly didn't know who Lennon was. The two wouldn't get together until 1968.

In a move which is later described by both sides as being conflicting egos, Roger McGuinn expels David Crosby from the Byrds in 1967. Crosby was replaced by Gene Clark, an original member of the group returning after two years away. The next year Crosby, Stills, and Nash was formed.

Infuriated by an unfavorable review of The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” Jann Werner decides to write his own review and publish it. In the process he creates Rolling Stone magazine. 1967. The first issue of Rolling Stone Magazine was published in San Francisco in 1967. It featured a photo of John Lennon on the cover, dressed in army fatigues while acting in his recent film, 'How I Won the War' and the first issue had a free roach clip to hold a marijuana joint. The name of the magazine was compiled from three significant sources: the Muddy Waters song, the first rock ’n’ roll record by Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones.

In 1968, Led Zeppelin played their first ever London show when they appeared at The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm. On the same bill as John Lee Hooker, Deviants, John James and Tyres. Zeppelin singer Robert Plant married his girlfriend Maureen in London on this day and held the reception at the gig.

Also in 1968, a US Army captain was quoted in Rolling Stone Magazine as saying "Rock and Roll music contributes to both the usage of drugs and the high VD rate among enlisted men in the army today."

In 1969 Simon and Garfunkel record what would become their signature tune, "Bridge Over Troubled Water," with future member of Bread, Larry Knechtel on piano. Art wanted Paul to sing the song, but Paul insisted that Art's voice was better suited for it. It was a decision that Paul would later say he regretted.

The Grateful Dead played the first of three nights at the Winterland Arena, San Francisco, California in 1973.

Cat Stevens made his national TV debut on ABC's "In Concert."

After years of struggling as a member of two New York area bands, The Hassels and Attila, and as a bar room piano player, Billy Joel released what will ultimately be his breakthrough album, "Piano Man" in 1973. The title song will be released as a single and become a Top Twenty-five hit early next year.

In 1974, Randy Bachman, the former lead guitarist for The Guess Who, enjoyed a number one song with his new band, Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Randy stuttered through the lyrics of "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" on a demo recording as a private joke about his brother Gary, who had a speech impediment. The record company liked that take better than the non-stuttering version and released it. The song not only gave the band their third US top thirty hit and a #2 in the UK, Gary Bachman stopped stammering.



David Bowie appeared on Cher's CBS TV show in 1975.

Carole King scored her third US #1 album in 1974 with 'Wrap Around Joy.'

In the wake of the reformed Fleetwood Mac's success with their latest, self-titled album, one of the band's earlier LPs, 'Mystery to Me' goes Gold in 1976.

Jan Hammer went to #1 on the US singles chart in 1985 with the "Miami Vice Theme."

In 1990, the internal revenue seized all of US country singers Willie Nelson's bank accounts and real estate holdings in connection with a $16million tax debt.

Prince and the New Power Generation started a two week run at #1 on the US singles chart in 1991 with "Cream."

In 1991, Richard Marx played in five cities in 1 day during a 'Rush-n Rush Out, Street Tour.' Marx appeared in Baltimore, New York City, Cleveland, Chicago and Burbank Airport.

In1993, the Dave Matthews Band released their first album, ‘Remember Two Things’ on the Bama Rags label.

Blackstreet featuring Dr Dre started a four week run at #1 on the US singles chart in 1996 with "No Diggity."

Van Halen went to No.1 on the US album chart in 1996 with 'Best Of Vol 1.'

The Firm were at #1 on the US album chart in 1997 with ‘The Album’ (featuring Nas, Foxy Brown, Az and Nature).

In 1998, singer Billy Preston, his manager Merle Otis Greene and Greene's wife Sandra were indicted on 22 charges of fraud in collecting $1 million in insurance claims.

Also in 1998 - Michael Jackson settled a lawsuit over stories and pictures in the London Daily Mirror that said his face had been disfigured by cosmetic surgery. A lawyer for the publisher said, "The photographs were taken honestly and were not tampered with, but the Mirror has since met with the plaintiff in person and acknowledges that the photographs do not accurately represent the plaintiff's true appearance."

In 1999, the Recording Industry Association of America announces their Artists Of The Century. The Beatles top the list for US sales of over 106 million albums. Garth Brooks was named most successful male artist (89 million albums sold) and Barbra Streisand the most successful female artist. (62 million albums sold). Elvis Presley had the most Gold and Platinum singles with 77, to go along with his 80 Gold and Platinum albums. Elton John's "Candle In The Wind" (Princess Diana version) is the best selling single of all time and the Eagles "Greatest Hits 1971 - 1975" is the record holder for best selling album.

Gary Glitter appeared at Bristol Crown Court, England in 1999, charged with seducing and sexually humiliating a 14 year-old girl. The charges related back to 1980. Pig....

The Beatles launched their official internet web site, www.thebeatles.com in 2000.

In 2002, viewers of the UK music channel VH1 voted "I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston as the number 1 most romantic song ever. In second place Elvis Presley, "You Were Always On My Mind" and third place went to "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion.

In 2004, a Dutch man was jailed for nine months for harassing former Spice Girl Melanie Chisholm. The unnamed 39-year-old sent the singer parcels, letters and tapes during 2001. Dutch police searched the man's home after he tried to hand-deliver a parcel to Ms Chisholm's London home.

"Queen On Fire: Live At The Bowl," was released in 2004. The show documents Queen`s 1982 concert at London`s Milton Keynes Bowl and was originally broadcast on British Television and MTV. The concert includes "We Will Rock You," "Fat Bottomed Girls," "Another One Bites The Dust" and "We Are The Champions."

The Rolling Stones accepted two trophies at the third annual Billboard Touring Awards in New York in 2006. They nailed the Top Tour category and Top Draw award. Their A Bigger Bang jaunt drew 2 million fans and earned nearly $230 million between 12/01/05 and 9/29/06.

Queens Of The Stone Age were kicked out of a Los Angeles rehab clinic in 2007 after staff objected to their lyrics. QOTSA played an intimate set for patients but the sound is cut part way through their opening number, "Feel Good Hit Of The Summer," which features a chorus of "Nicotine, Valium, Vicodin, marijuana, ecstasy and alcohol, c-c-c-c-c-cocaine." The group was physically ejected from the facility. Ummm, great song choice fellas.....

Kid Rock wins the World's Best Pop Male Artist and World's Best Pop/Rock Male Artist prizes at the World Music Awards in Monaco in 2008. He also performed at the event. In addition, The Beatles received a Diamond Award for selling more the 100 million albums worldwide. Ringo Starr was on hand to accept the trophy on behalf of the group.

Kozmic Blues: The Life and Music of Janis Joplin, a weeklong presentation of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum's 2009 American Music Masters series, begins in Cleveland. There are Joplin tribute performances and interviews with people who knew and/or worked with the singer. "I am touched, as is the rest of the family, that Janis' musical and social power continue to inspire and remain important in the lives of so many," says Joplin's sister, Laura.

New Music Releases - November 9, 2010

As always, CVR picks are in RED


30 Seconds to Mars - This Is War [Vinyl]
Aaron Neville - I Know I've Been Changed
Alabama - Super Hits / Super Hits 2
Alexisonfire - Dog's Blood
Alter Bridge - AB III
Amazing Blondel - England / Blondel
Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe - Evening of Yes Music Plus (2 CDs)
Animal Prufrock - Congratulations: Thank You + I'm Sorry
Anita Baker - 21st Century Love
Asia - Spirit of the Night-Live in Cambridge 2009 (2 CDs/1 DVD)
Bad Books - Bad Books
Big Pink - Tapes
Billy Joel - Very Best of
Bing Crosby & David Bowie - Little Drummer Boy / Peace On Earth / White Christmas Featuring Ella Fitzgerald (Red Vinyl 7" Single)
Bing Crosby - Bing Sings The Great American Song Book
Bing Crosby - Christmas Sessions
Black Crowes - Amorica [Vinyl] (reissue)
Bob Seger - Ultimate Greatest Hits
Bon Jovi - Bon Jovi Greatest Hits - The Ultimate Collection
Botany - Feeling Today EP
British Lions - Live At The Waldorf San Francisco 1978
Cee Lo Green - Lady Killer
Charlie Louvin - The Battle Rages On
Conjure One - Exilarch
Cradle of Filth - Darkly Darkly Venus Aversa
Dave Allen - Color Blind
Dave Matthews Band - Live In New York City (2 CD)
David Banner/9th Wonder - Death of a Pop Star
Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance - Special Collection Box Set (Vinyl)
Depeche Mode - Tour Of The Universe Barcelona 20/21:11:09 (2 CDs/1 DVD)
Diesto - High As The Sun
Dio - Dio at Donington UK: Live 1983 & 1987
Dolly Parton - Super Hits / Heartbreaker
Einstürzende Neubauten - Strategies Against Architecture IV
Electric Wizard - Black Masses
Eleven Tigers - Clouds Are Mountains
Elvis Presley - Double Play
Elvis Presley - Viva ELVIS- The Album
Eric Clapton - Eric Clapton - Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010
Fenn O'Berg - Live in Japan Part One + Live in Japan Part Two
Fern Knight - Castings
Former Ghosts - New Love
Frances England - Mind Of My Own
Freezepop - Imaginary Friends
Gary War - Police Water EP
Gary Wilson - Electric Endicott
George Jones & Tammy Wynette - It Sure Was Good / Together Again
Giant Sand -  Blurry Blue Mountain (vinyl)
Giant Sand - Storm (reissue) (vinyl)
Grateful Dead - Live on Air
Greenhornes - ****
Gregory and the Hawk - Leche
Hellogoodbye - Would It Kill You?
Helloween - 7 Sinners
Jam - Sound Effects: Deluxe Edition (2 CDs)
Janis Ian, Between the Lines - Vinyl LP
Jay Boy Adams - Fork in the Road
Jefferson Airplane - Live at The Fillmore Auditorium 10/15/66: Late Show: Signe's Farewell
Jefferson Airplane - Live at The Fillmore Auditorium 10/16/66: Early & Late Shows: Grace's Debut
Jefferson Airplane - Live at The Fillmore Auditorium 11/25/66 & 11/27/66: We Have Ignition 11/27/66: We Have Ignition (2 CDs)
Jefferson Airplane -Return to The Matrix 2/1/68 (2 CDs)
John Cale - John Cale: Live at Rockpalast (vinyl)
Jonathan Richman - O Moon, Queen of Night on Earth
Justine & The Victorian Punks - Beautiful Dreamer / Still You (vinyl)
Kid Cudi - Man on the Moon 2: The Legend of Mr. Rager

King Crimson - In The Court of The Crimson King (5CD+1DVD)







Kinks - Live in London 1973 & 1977
Kris Delmhorst - Five Stories
Last Year's Men - Sunny Down Snuff
Les Sins (Toro Y Moi) - "Lina" 12''
Lesbian - Stratospheria Cubensis
Loretta Lynn & Friends - Coal Miner's Daughter: A Tribute To Loretta Lynn
Loudness - Loudest (2 CDs)
Maserati - Pyramid of the Sun
Mecca Normal - Malachi (vinyl)
Memphis May Fire - Between the Lies
Nightlands - Forget the Mantra
Nitzer Ebb - Industrial Complex
Orange Juice - Coals to Newcastle (6-CD & DVD box set)
Parting Gifts - Strychnine Dandelions
Pearls Before Swine - One Nation Underground [Vinyl]
Persuasions - Knockin on Bob's Door
Pet Shop Boys - Ultimate (CD/DVD)
Phil Wilson - God Bless Jim Kennedy
Place of Skulls - As a Dog Returns
Poison - Nothing But a Good Time Box
Queensryche - Empire (20th Anniversary Edition) (remastered with bonus CD)
Radio Dept. - Never Follow Suit EP
Ray Davies - See My Friends
Reba McEntire - All the Women I Am: Deluxe Edition (CD/DVD)
Robyn Hitchcock - Moss Elixir / Mossy Liquor (2 CDs)
Ronnie Spector - Best Christmas Ever (EP)
Rose Royce - Golden Touch
Rose Royce - Jump Street
Rose Royce - Strikes Again
Rumblers - It's A Gas!
Sandy Denny - Deluxe Box Set (19 CDs)
Sarah Jarosz - My Muse (vinyl)
Saroos - See Me Not
Shigeto - Full Circle
Shipping News - One Less Heartless To Fear
Shonen Knife - Free Time (English Version)
Soft Circle - Shore Obsessed
Sons of the Pioneers - Cigareet
Stench - In Putrescence
Sufjan Stevens - Age of Adz (2xLP)
Supersilent - Supersilent 10
Supersilent - Supersilent 11 (Vinyl)
Susan Boyle - The Gift
Suzanne Langille & Neel Murgai - Wild & Foolish Heart

Syd Barrett - An Introduction To Syd Barrett
(which includes both Barret's solo work and his Pink Floyd songs- feature five remastered tracks)





Taj Mahal - & the Hula Blues
Taj Mahal - An Evening of Acoustic Music
Taj Mahal - Hanapepe Dream
Taj Mahal - Music Keeps Me Together/Satisfied N Tickled Too
Tallest Man on Earth - Sometimes the Blues Is Just a Passing Bird
Tallest Man on Earth - The Wild Hunt EP
Tangerine Dream - Epsilon Journey: Live in Eindhoven 2008
The Big Pink - Tapes
The Concretes - WYWH
The Orb and Youth - Impossible Oddities (3-CD box set)
Tobacco - LA UTI EP
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Damn The Torpedoes (Deluxe Edition)(180 Gram 2LP)
Tyvek - Nothing Fits
Underoath - Disambiguation
Various Artists - Coal Miner's Daughter: A Tribute To Loretta Lynn
Various Artists - Golden Age of American Rock 'n' Roll, Volume 12
Various Artists - It's Beginning To Sound A Lot Like Christmas
Various Artists - NOW 36
Various Artists - Piano Tribute to Kings of Leon
Various Artists - Theme Time Radio Hour: Season 3 with your Host Bob Dylan (2 CDs)
Various Artists - Tradi-Mods Vs. Rockers: Alternative Takes on Congotronics
Various Artists - Worth the Weight - Bristol Dubstep Classics
Vince Gill - Vintage Gill / All American Country
Violens - Amoral
Voivoid - Negatron / Phovos (reissue)(vinyl)
Waylon Jennings - Brown Eyed Handsome Man / All American Country
Weekend - Sports
White Mountains - Wilderness
Willie Nelson - Live on Air
Woody Guthrie - Bob Dylan's Woody Guthrie Selection (2 CDs)
Woolfy - The Looking Glass (vinyl)
Wyatt/Atzmon/Stephen - For the Ghosts Within
ZZ Top - Deguello (Vinyl)

ZZ Top - Rio Grande Mud [Vinyl]









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The Bad Penny Blog Releases For more information on the Bad Penny releases, please visit their site

Årabrot – Revenge (Fysisk Format)
Bad Books (features Manchester Orchestra’s Kevin Devine) – Bad Books
Bad Religion – 30 Years LP Box Set (features all 15 of band’s studio albums; limited number available; available exclusively at KingsRoadMerch.com)
Behemoth – “Evangelia Heretika” DVD (three-DVD-plus-CD set featuring full concerts from Paris in 2008 and Warsaw in 2009)
The Big Pink – Tapes (previously available overseas; !K7)
Botany (Spencer Stephenson; formerly Abacus) – Feeling Today EP
Cassorla – Stay Stay Go
Julie Christmas (of Made to Babies, Battle of Mice) – The Bad Wife
City Center – “Zen Kids” 7-inch
Eric Clapton – “Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010″ DVD (four-hour double-disc set; features B.B. King, Bill Murray, more; also includes cover of Jimi Hendrix’s “Voodoo Chile” with Steve Winwood)
Cradle of Filth – Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa (limited-edition “fans’ ” version is an LP-size, 64-page hardcover book that also includes extra CD of bonus tracks, DVD with a documentary and promo video, a short story written by Dani Filth, an exclusive T-shirt, 3-D imagery, more)
Creation’s End – A New Beginning
Deer Tick and Jonny Corndawg – split 7-inch (Deer Tick song is a cover of ZZ Top’s “Cheap Sunglasses”)
Depeche Mode – “Tour of the Universe – Live in Barcelona” DVD (features November 21-22 2009 performances in Barcelona; deluxe edition comes with two CDs; super-deluxe edition comes with two CDs and an extra DVD; deluxe editions available exclusively at Amazon)
Digitalism – Blitz EP
Dio – Dio at Donington UK: Live 1983 & 1987
Einstürzende Neubauten – Strategies Against Architecture IV (digital version; two-CD set due December 7; compiles archival material from 2002-’10; includes rare cuts)
El Ten Eleven – It’s Still Like a Secret
Electric Owls – Cullowhee Songs EP (available digitally and on vinyl)
Evocation – Apocalyptic
Facebreaker – Infected
Fern Knight – Castings
Former Ghosts – New Love
The Good Ones – Kigali Y Izahabu
The Greenhornes – ★★★★ (vinyl is limited; features liner note by Jim Jarmusch)
Gregory and the Hawk – Leche
Head Like a Kite – Dreams Suspend Night (reissue; includes bonus track featuring Smoosh)
Hellogoodbye – Would It Kill You?
Helloween – 7 Sinners
Invisible Hand – Invisible Hand
Koji – Some Small Way
Maserati – Pyramid of the Sun (features Zombi’s Steve Moore; available on CD and vinyl)
Masonic – Live Like a Millionaire (self-released)
Mecca Normal – “Malachi” 7-inch
Modest Mouse – The Fruit That Ate Itself EP and Sad Sappy Sucker (available on CD and vinyl)
Motorifik (features Working for a Nuclear Free City’s Phil Kay) – Secret Things
Netherfriends – Barry and Sherry (vinyl release)
Nightlands – Forget the Mantra
Nitzer Ebb – Industrial Complex (first album in 15 years)
The Notekillers – We’re Here to Help
The Ocean – Anthropocentric
Oceano – Contagion
The Parting Gifts (the Reigning Sound’s Greg Cartwright and the Ettes’ Coco Hames) – Strychnine Dandelion (features members of the Black Keys, the Raconteurs, more)
Jesse Payne – Nesting
Place of Skulls – As a Dog Returns
Animal Prufrock (of Bitch and Animal) – congratulations; thank you + I’m sorry
Röyksopp – Senior (physical version; previously available digitally; instrumental album)
Shigeto – Full Circle
Smoke or Fire – The Speakeasy (first album with Darkest Hour’s Ryan Parrish on drums)
Social Distortion – “Machine Gun Blues” single (available only on iTunes)
Ronnie Spector – Ronnie Spector’s Best Christmas Ever EP
Sub Swara – Triggers (features Dead Prez, Lyrics Born, more)
The Tallest Man on Earth – Sometimes the Blues Is Just a Passing Bird EP (previously available on iTunes only)
Thunderball – 12 Mile High
Tyvek – Nothing Fits
Underoath – Ø (Disambiguation) (pre-orders come with bonus material)
Valleys – Stoner EP
Virgin Steele – The Black Light Bacchanalia (available digitally, and as a standard CD and limited-edition digipak with a bonus CD; limited-edition LP box set due November 23)
War From a Harlots Mouth – MMX (special digital edition comes with two bonus tracks)
We Are Trees – Boyfriend EP (physical version; previously available digitally)
Weekend – Sports
Cassandra Wilson – Silver Pony
Gary Wilson – Electric Endicott (previously available digitally)
Wyatt, Atzmon, Stephen – For the Ghosts Within
Various artists – Tradi-Mods vs. Rockers: Alternative Takes on Congotronics (features cover songs by Deerhoof, Andrew Bird, Animal Collective, more; CD version has two discs)

Remember, if you are a record company and have new releases or know of any I missed (especially vinyl), please email me and I will add your music to the list.  I also do reviews of new vinyl, email me for more information.

New Music releases are put together from a variety of online sources by blog owner Robert Benson

Have new music for the list? Email me at rbenson30@wi.rr.com  

Music News & Notes

Cooking Vinyl Records has announced the signing of MARILYN MANSON.

Having already sold over 50 million records worldwide, Cooking Vinyl overcame fierce competition from several labels in the U.S. and U.K., both major and independent, to release what will be MARILYN MANSON's eighth studio album.

The global deal will see the album issued via MARILYN MANSON's own label — Hell, etc. — in a joint venture between Cooking Vinyl, with the album slated for release in 2011.

After parting ways with Interscope Records, the new partnership with Cooking Vinyl gives MARILYN MANSON an unprecedented degree of creative control. The new setup will see the artist take charge of delivering the completed, mastered album and Cooking Vinyl handling worldwide distribution, marketing and promotion.

Famed for his originality and style, not only in the studio and on stage but also in his elaborate video and thought-provoking filmmaking, the latest studio instalment will again pair up Manson and Twiggy Ramirez.

Manson had this to say: "We will always be our worst audience, until we stop being an audience and start being an artist. Any art is flesh and blood, no matter how you perform, decorate or display it. But we all want the passionate horror of that blood. And blood is what I am here to bring."

The deal is a landmark signing for Cooking Vinyl, and follows the company's huge commercial success with THE PRODIGY, whose "Invaders Must Die" was the best-selling independent release in Europe in 2009.

Cooking Vinyl founder Martin Goldschmidt added: "We're delighted to welcome MARILYN MANSON to Cooking Vinyl. Often our 'relaxed' approach to A&R brings out killer performances and albums from artists. I can't wait to hear what Manson comes up with. This is a landmark signing for us. We shook up folk music in the late 80's/90's with MICHELLE SHOCKED, COWBOY JUNKIES and BILLY BRAGG, we have shaken up dance in the last couple of years with THE PRODIGY, GROOVE ARMADA and UNDERWORLD, and we are ready for a new adventure with Mr. Manson."

In an October 29 interview with "The Blairing Out With Eric Blair Show", MARILYN MANSON bassist Twiggy Ramirez (real name: Jeordie White) stated about the band's forthcoming CD, "It's almost done. It'll probably be out next year. It's fantastic. It's our best record yet, I think. I mean, everyone always says that, but I think this is our best work so far. . . It's kind of like a little more of a punk rock 'Mechanical Animals' [MARILYN MANSON's third album, which came out in 1998] without sounding too pretentious."

MARILYN MANSON last year parted ways with longtime record label Interscope following the disappointing sales performance of the shock-rocker's latest album, entitled "The High End Of Low".

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Iron & Wine to Release Kiss Each Other Clean January 25th, 2011
Track Listing and New Tour Dates Announced

BURBANK, CA--(Marketwire - November 8, 2010) - Iron & Wine will release Kiss Each Other Clean on January 25th, 2011. The first new music in more than three years from the band led by Sam Beam will be made available through Warner Bros. Records in North America and 4AD in Europe, Japan, and Australia.

Kiss Each Other Clean's opening track, "Walking Far From Home," will be released on 12" vinyl and as a CD single that is sold exclusively through independent retailers in conjunction with "Back to Black Friday" on November 26th, in which independent record stores will be the only source for several exclusive new releases across the country.

Two new show dates have been added to the Iron & Wine tour, including Radio City Music Hall in New York on January 29th and the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles on January 25th -- the date the album is released. Tickets for both shows go on sale Friday, November 12th. The band also recently announced a select nine-date tour, which begins November 13th in St. Louis. Please see below for all upcoming tour dates along with the full track listing to Kiss Each Other Clean.

The South Carolina-born, Texas-based Beam announced himself as a classic American tunesmith with a precocious musical signature on Iron & Wine's epically sparse debut album in 2002, The Creek Drank the Cradle. Followed by 2003's The Sea & The Rhythm EP, 2004 brought both the full-length Our Endless Numbered Days, along with Beam's gentle rendering of The Postal Service's "Such Great Heights," featured on the Garden State soundtrack. In the Reins -- a collaborative album with Calexico, along with Woman King EP was released in 2005, while the lyrically evocative, casually atmospheric The Shepherd's Dog came out in 2007, debuting at No. 24 on Billboard's Top 200 Album chart and earning praise from the critics. Iron & Wine's song "Flightless Bird, American Mouth" was featured on 2008's best-selling soundtrack to the movie Twilight.

For more about Iron & Wine, please visit www.ironandwine.com.

Track listing for Kiss Each Other Clean:
1. Walking Far From Home
2. Me And Lazarus
3. Tree By The River
4. Monkeys Uptown
5. Half Moon
6. Rabbit Will Run
7. Godless Brother In Love
8. Big Burned Hand
9. Glad Man Singing
10. Your Fake Name Is Good Enough For Me

Iron & Wine's upcoming tour dates are as follows:

11/13 St. Louis, MO The Pageant
11/14 Memphis, TN Minglewood Hall
11/15 Asheville, NC The Orange Peel
11/16 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse
11/17 Jacksonville, FL Florida Theatre
11/18 Miami Beach, FL Fillmore Miami Beach
11/19 Tallahassee, FL The Moon
11/20 New Orleans, LA House of Blues
11/21 Houston, TX Fitzgeralds

For more information please contact Warner Bros. Records Publicity:
Luke Burland
Luke.Burland@wbr.com
818 953-3764
Technorati: Iron & Wine

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Poison To Release New Collection

Poison’s biggest hits and classic concert performances have been gathered for a new 2CD boxed collection to be released November 9 by Capitol/EMI. "Nothin’ But A Good Time: The Poison Collection" features the band’s most popular hits, including "Every Rose Has Its Thorn," "Unskinny Bop," and "Something To Believe In," as well as the 1991 concert recordings of "I Want Action," "Your Mama Don’t Dance," "Nothin’ But A Good Time," and many more. The new collection also includes an exclusive, limited edition "Every Rose Has Its Thorn" bandanna and a full-color booklet with band photos.

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Belphegor Reveals New Album, "Blood Magick Necromance," Cover Artwork

Austrian death/black metallers BELPHEGOR have revealed the cover artwork for their upcoming album "Blood Magick Necromance." The album will be released on January 14th in Europe and February 8th in the US. It was designed by Austrian artist Joachim Luetke (DIMMU BORGIR, ARCH ENEMY etc).

What a pleasant sight!

This Date In Music History - November 7

Birthdays:

Mex-Tex rocker Johnny Rivers (1942)

Joni Mitchell (1943)

Kevin Scott MacDonald - Cutting Crew (1951)

Nick Gilder - Sweeney Todd, solo (1951)

Clint Mansell - Will Eat Itself (1963)

Liam O'Maonlai - Hothouse Flowers (1964)

Robin Finck - Nine Inch Nails and Guns N' Roses (1971)

Zach Myers - Shinedown (1983)


They Are Missed:

Soul singer Dee Clark was born today in 1938. Died December 7, 1990.

Carter Cornelius of Cornelius Borthers and Sister Rose ("Treat her Like A Lady") died of a heart attack in 1991.

Born today in 1922, trumpet czar Al Hirt. Died on the 27th of April 1999.

The late Mary Travers of Peter, Paul and Mary was born in 1937. In 2005, Travers was diagnosed with leukemia. Although a bone marrow transplant apparently slowed the progression of the disease, Travers died on September 16, 2009.




History:

Eddie Cochran made his UK chart debut in 1958 with "Summertime Blues." It reached #18 in the UK & #8 in the US.

The Beatles went to Ireland in 1963 to make their only two appearances ever in the country playing two shows at the Adelphi Cinema, Dublin. The group hooked up with screenwriter Alun Owen, who had been appointed to write the screenplay for The Beatles' first (as yet untitled) motion picture. Owen spent three days with The Beatles observing their hectic, lifestyle.

Reg Dwight (Elton John) and his song writing partner Bernie Taupin signed to DJM publishing in 1967, their signatures had to be witnessed by their parents because they were both under 21 years of age. Taupin answered an advertisement for a lyric writer placed in the New Musical Express, the pair have since collaborated on over 30 albums.

In 1967, the Beatles finished recording "Blue Jay Way," "Flying" and "Magical Mystery Tour." The Beatles have only six songs, not enough for an album, so it was decided to issue a double-EP. Capitol Records didn’t think the double-EP format would be acceptable for the US market, so they decide to put out an album instead. The six "Magical Mystery Tour" songs with five of the six songs from The Beatles' 1967 singles went on side two.

The Doors were banned from Phoenix in 1968 due to singer Jim Morrison’s behavior. He reportedly mooned the audience. Nice Jim......

The Rolling Stones kicked off their 6th North American tour at Fort Collins state University, Colorado in 1969. This is the tour that includes a stop at Altamont.  Also on the bill, Ike and Tina Turner, Chuck Berry and BB King.

Led Zeppelin released their third album in 1970, which features a distinctive pinwheel revolving cover. It entered the UK chart at #1 and spends a total of 40 weeks in the Top 75.

In 1970, MGM Records dropped 18 acts (including MOR performers the Cowsills, Connie Francis and Judy Garland’s back catalog) for allegedly promoting drug use. Eric Burdon, now fronting the successful War, freely admits drug use. He was not dropped because his group was still selling records, making a mockery of the whole exercise.

In 1974, Ted Nugent won a National Squirrel-shooting contest after picking off a squirrel at 150 yards. The heavy metal guitarist also shot dead 27 other mammals during the three day event. Get 'em Ted!

A new world record was set in 1975 for continuous guitar string plucking by Steve Anderson who played for 114 hours 17 minutes.

Elton John started a three week run at #1 on the US album chart in 1975 with 'Rock Of The Westies', the singers seventh US #1.

Hall and Oates started a two week run at #1 on the US singles chart in 1981 with "Private Eyes," the duo's third US #1 hit.

In 1986, Willie Nelson made a guest appearance the series "Miami Vice" as a corrupt policeman.

Bruce Springsteen went to #1 on the US album chart in 1987 with 'Tunnel Of Love.'

In 1987, Tiffany became the youngest act to score a US #1 since Michael Jackson ("Ben" in 1972) with "I Think we're Alone Now."

John Fogerty won his self-plagiarism court battle with Fantasy Records in 1988. The label claimed Fogerty copied his own song, "Run Through The Jungle" when he wrote "The Old Man Down The Road".

In 1991, Frank Zappa announced that he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Alice in Chains released "Alice in Chains" on CD and cassette in 1995. The album was only available in a vinyl edition until this release.

Nirvana”s 'Incesticide' a collection of early recordings, out-takes and BBC sessions earned a platinum record in 1995.

Black Sabbath’s 'Reunion album peaked at #11 on the US chart in 1998.

12 Guns N' Roses fans were arrested during a riot after a gig in Vancouver was cancelled in 2002. Promoters pulled the gig after Axl Rose's flight from Los Angeles was delayed.

In 2002, Whitney Houston's husband, Bobby Brown was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana, speeding, driving without a licence and having no proof of insurance after he was stopped by police in Atlanta City.

The Rolling Stones play Hong Kong for the first time in 2003.

Robert Plant headlined a tribute concert to Blues icon Leadbelly at the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame and Museum in Cleveland in 2004.

R. Kelly and Jay-Z went to #1 on the US album chart in 2004with 'Unfinished Business.'

Foo Fighters released an acoustic live album 'Skin And Bones' in 2006. The 15-track collection, recorded in L.A., features songs from the unplugged half of their "In Your Honor" double album, classic Foo songs and a version of the Dave Grohl sung Nirvana B-side "Marigold."

The Who's Roger Daltrey and Cream's Jack Bruce participate in the Rock N' Roll Fantasy Camp's 10th anniversary celebration in Las Vegas in 2007. At the end of the five-day camp participants and pros perform together at the Vegas House of Blues.

Limited distribution doesn't slow down the Eagles "Long Road Out Of Eden" in 2007. Selling over 700,000 copies in its first week of release, the album was #1 on the Billboard 200. The set was available exclusively at Wal-Mart and Sam's Club outlets, as well as the group's web site. Later, the Eagles perform "How Long" at the 41st annual Country Music Association Awards.  "From the early '70s, this group has defined Country Rock, and more than three decades later they are still creating music that resonates with our audience," says the CMA’s Tammy Genovese. It's the group's first-ever appearance at an awards show.



Bruce Springsteen appears at Stand Up For Heroes: A Benefit for the Bob Woodruff Family Fund in New York in 2007. As part of the event a Harley-Davidson motorcycle owned and signed by Springsteen is auctioned off for $85,000. Proceeds go toward assisting injured U.S. soldiers.

To celebrate 'Astral Weeks' 40th anniversary, Van Morrison performed his classic album in its entirety during a two-show engagement at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles in 2008. The singer was backed by the same ensemble of jazz musicians that played on the original ’68 recording.

In 2008, KISS bassist-singer Gene Simmons won $500,000 for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation during his appearance on FOX's 'Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?' That’s a record sum earned by a celebrity guest on the game show. Cool....