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Sorry folks, the soundstagedirect.com  contest is over. Thanks to all you emailed and congrats to the winners, Lawrence, Bret and Dennis!

Special thanks to Seth over at soundstagedirect.com  for helping us all experience music as it was meant to be - via the vinyl record. Stop by the site for a gander, they have what you are looking for or can most likely find it!

I hope to have something else to run very soon, so stayed with CVR Blog for all your vinyl record information!

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thrill jockey sent this to me, I'd thought I'd pass it along:

Thrill Jockey Limited Vinyl Releases For Record Store Day

Glenn Jones Split LP with The Black Twig Pickers & Charlie Parr - Even to Win Is to Fail b/w EastMont Syrup - thrilljockey.com/catalog

Glenn Jones is known to many as a 30+ year devotee of the so-called "American Primitive" school of acoustic steel string guitar playing. Jones started playing guitar at the age of 14 and formed the Boston psych rock band, Cul de Sac, in 1989. Twenty years and nine albums in its wake, including collaborations with guitarist John Fahey and Can's Damo Suzuki, Jones finds himself now fully immersed in the guitar playing traditions laid out by Fahey and Robbie Basho.

Even to Win Is to Fail, the Glenn Jones side of this split 12", is his Thrill Jockey debut recorded specifically for this release. Jones released This Is The Wind That Blows It Out, his first album of acoustic six and twelve-string guitar instrumentals in 2004, and followed it with Against Which The Sea Continually Beats (2007) and Barbecue Bob In Fishtown (2009). A forthcoming Thrill Jockey full-length is slated for an August release.

Charlie Parr, country bluesman, songwriter and reso guitar and banjo king of the Upper Midwest, and the Black Twig Pickers, scrappy stringband of the Virginia/West Virginia state line, are long time friends who met at a house party many years ago. EastMont Syrup, is part reunion, part hoot, part lament for times and pals gone by, and part sampler for what's to come in the future. This release includes an insert with notes, lyrics, and manifold stew cooking recipes courtesy of Charlie Parr!

Mitchell And Manley - Norcal Values LP thrilljockey.com/catalog

Norcal Values is a sonic collaboration between Phil Manley (Trans Am, The Fucking Champs, Jonas Reinhardt) and Isaiah Mitchell (Earthless). Comprised almost exclusively of a single continuous guitar solo, the recording was made live with no overdubs, and was completely improvised. Manley recently ventured out into the world of kosmiche kraut with his solo debut Life Coach while Mitchell's Earthless recently finished up their debut tour of Australia.

Oval / Liturgy split LP thrilljockey.com/catalog

This split release features two of Thrill Jockey's musical extremities, recent signing Liturgy, and electronic pioneer Oval. Not a random pairing, but in fact born out of each band's mutual appreciation of the other, this split will feature one new track from Liturgy and four new ones from Oval. The Liturgy track also marks the first time that the band has explored writing music together. Composition duties are shared, details are not overthought, and improvisation is employed. Liturgy's new album Aesthethica comes out on May 10th, while Oval's groundbreaking releases O and Oh were met with critical acclaim throughout the greater part of 2010.

thrilljockey.com
fina-music.com

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Treetop Flyers Announce 10" Vinyl Release

Treetop Flyers have announced details of a brand new 4-track 10" single, which will be released via Communion Records on the 23rd May 2011, and a full UK tour to support the release.

Released on 10" vinyl, the Communion single features Things Will Change - "a love song, about wanting things to change for the better"; Long Cold Winter, a reflection of the typical seasonal British malaise backed with two acoustic recordings Rose Is In The Yard and Disappearing Kind lamenting the passing of "good people and places."

For more read ilikemusic.com

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great review, worth a look

REVIEW: New Pearl Jam reissues are for fans

By Adam Richter

Even in 1994, at the height of Pearl Jam’s popularity, singer Eddie Vedder must have known some listeners would never be swayed by the band’s music.

“Taste, you’ve got taste,” he told the audience at a Boston show. “Wouldn’t have known that from meeting you at a Pearl Jam show.”

The Seattle band rode the same wave of grunge popularity as groups like Nirvana, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains but always had its detractors. Not that it worried Pearl Jam. They responded to their overwhelming early success by attempting to eschew the trappings of fame and celebrity, instead catering to the fans they already had.

Read more of the review at lehighvalleylive.com

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a great insight to an underappreciated singer/songwriter....

Music: For 'late bloomer' Sexsmith, music is still all about the LP

By JONATHAN TAKIFF Philadelphia Daily News

THAT RON SEXSMITH is one sly sort - and better for it.

Time and again on his new (11th) "Long Player Late Bloomer" album, this seasoned but chronically underappreciated songcrafter will lure you in, get you humming along with his sunny-sounding, hook-happy tunes, this time polished to a bright sheen by noted producer Bob Rock.

Read more at philly.com

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wow, 50 years, look forward to giving it a listen!

The Zombies Celebrate 50th Anniversary With New Album, U.K. Tour

Rod Argent, Colin Blunstone, Tom Toomey, Steve Rodford and Jim Rodford, collectively known as The Zombies, are celebrating their 50th anniversary as a group with a new album and a U.K. tour.

The album, Breathe Out, Breathe In, is scheduled for release in the U.K. on May 9 via Red House Records (Amazon shows it will be available as an import in the U.S. on May 17).

Read more: vintagevinylnews.com



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love this regular feature at blogs.riverfronttimes.com, well worth checking out:

Last Collector Standing: Christopher Eilers on Living Behind Vintage Vinyl, Recording with His Band, Vanilla Beans, and Why Wham! Vinyl is Awesome

By Jon Scorfina

Christopher Eilers is the guitarist in local indie rockers the Vanilla Beans. He is also a relatively new vinyl collector. Not having the common characteristic that most collectors share of a vinyl influence in his formative years of discovering music, Eilers' bedroom décor is only his metal rack of vinyl albums and his assorted musical instruments. Coincidentally, he currently lives in an apartment directly behind Vintage Vinyl, which is almost certainly feeding his collecting habit. We met there to discuss living behind a record store and why he has the album cover for Sebastian's Ross Ross Ross EP as a tattoo.

Read the rest of this interesting article at blogs.riverfronttimes.com

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Restorations release new album

Restorations have released their new self-titled album digitally through Itunes and bandcamp.

The album will be receiving a vinyl release on April 19 through Tiny Engines Records. The band recorded the record with Algernon Cadwallader‘s Joe Reinhart (My Heart To Joy, Monument, Snowing) and was mixed by Jonathan Low (Dr. Dog, Danielson, mewithoutYou), the LP will be limited to a pressing of 500 and feature gatefold jackets with art and design by Bruno Guerreiro.

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Symphony X Reveals New Album, "Iconoclast" Artwork And Tracklisting

American progressive metal outfit Symphony X has revealed the front cover artwork for their forthcoming new studio album, "Iconoclast." You can check it out below. The album will be released through Nuclear Blast Records on June 17th in Europe and June 21st in North America and will be the band's ninth studio album.

Illustrator and film concept artist Warren Flanagan (Watchmen, The Incredible Hulk, 2012) is the talent behind the album artwork. Here, he shares his creative process on the new album’s artwork:

Read more at metalunderground.com









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like their music and i like their style, give them a try!

Hawthorne Heights frontman yearns for return of vinyl records

By Dan Kane CantonRep.com staff writer

The music of the Hawthorne Heights has been categorized as hard rock, indie rock, emo, screamo, alternative, pop-punk and post-hardcore.

When I asked the band’s frontman, J.T. Woodruff, about this in a phone interview Monday, I could almost feel him rolling his eyes.

“It has loud guitars and loud drums. It’s rock ’n’ roll. Can everybody just call it that?” he said, with amused exasperation. “Let’s spend more time listening to the music instead of categorizing it.”

Read more at cantonrep.com

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ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd Announce Rebels & Bandoleros Tour

Russell Hall

ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd are teaming up for a tour this spring. Dubbed the Rebels & Bandoleros Tour, the trek kicks off on May 12 in Wichita, Kansas, and wraps up three weeks later in Orange Beach, Alabama.

The two bands last mounted a combined tour 11 years ago, when they hit the road together for nearly a year.

Read more and get the tour dates at Gibson.com

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U2, Metallica Record Label Kills the Single

Michael Leonard

Mercury Records, the U.K. label home to U2, The Killers, Metallica, Arcade Fire and many more, is to halt the regular production of physical singles with immediate effect. Whether on CD or (recently popular) retro-vinyl, none of its bands’ singles will be planned for physical release.

The label admits it “lost money” on singles released in 2010. It will now only create physical singles when, according according to a Mercury spokeswoman, “it is guaranteed to make a profit. With physical formats now accounting for just over one percent of the overall singles market we are being more cautious.”

Read more at Gibson.com

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Heavy Metal Film Festival to Host KISS, AC/DC Flicks

Bryan Wawzenek

The Heavy Metal Film Fest – the first event devoted strictly to metal movies – has announced its schedule, which will include movies about KISS, AC/DC, Meshuggah, Anvil and G.G. Allin, among many others. The festival is taking place March 31 through April 3 at the Downtown Independent Cinema in Los Angeles.

On the short films lineup, Faces of Budokan deals with KISS’ three-night stand at Tokyo’s legendary Budokan venue in 2003.

Read more at Gibson.com












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if you are in the area, the new orleans record raid sounds like a good place to be!

Ring the Alarm: Spring Record Raid at Tulane Saturday

by Ben Berman

With the addition of the Euclid Records store in the Bywater this past fall, the vinyl record market in New Orleans is at its strongest post-K, with other stores Louisiana Music Factory, Domino Sound Record Shack, Skully’z, Jim Russell Records, the Mushroom, and Peaches still going strong, and artists from Galactic and Preservation Hall to Sun Hotel and Maddie Ruthless releasing their latest recordings on vinyl.

The New Orleans Record Raid, now in its fourth incarnation, has added greatly to this dusty landscape, with sellers both from the stores above as well as private collectors and dealers coming together to peddle their wares under a single roof or tree. Saturday, March 26, the WTUL-sponsored Record Raid returns to Tulane University’s Zimple Quad—the site of its first appearance—at the corner of Broadway and Zimple Street.

More than 20 vendors will be on hand at the fair, including representatives from Euclid Records, Skully’z and Domino Sound, and well-known local dealers Mr. Tyrone, DJ Brice Nice, and WWOZ show host Jivin’ Gene. A special appearance is being made by the Iron Rail Book Collective, forced just after Mardi Gras to shut down the storefront where they had sold punk and experimental LPs and 45s.

The fair is free to attend, but individual record prices will range from $1 to more than your monthly rent. Almost all genres will be represented across the various sellers’ tables, from soul to indie rock to hip-hop to reggae to jazz to punk to indie-Christian-jazz-funk-rap and anything and everything in between. LPs, 45s, 10″s, 78s, cassettes, and even CDs will all be available.

The boxes and crates open at 11 a.m. and close at 5 p.m

SOURCE: www.offbeat.com

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and in music history for today:

Roy Orbison recorded "Only the Lonely" in 1960.

In 1965, Jeff Beck joined the Yardbirds and would later help record the hits, "Heart Full of Soul" and "Shapes of Things" before leaving in the fall of 1966. Jimmy Page had also joined the band, but the Yardbirds would split up in 1968. Page then re-shaped the group to form the New Yardbirds, later renaming them Led Zeppelin.

In 1966, at a photo session in Bob Whitaker’s studio in London, The Beatles posed in white coats using sides of meat with mutilated and butchered dolls for a publicity photo that is used by Capitol in America for the cover of the Beatles’ next American album, Yesterday And Today. After a public outcry, the LP was pulled from stores and re-issued with a new cover, making the original an instant collector’s item.

In 1967, the Who and Cream made their U.S. concert debuts at the RKO 58th Street Theatre, New York City as part of a multi-artist extravaganza promoted by DJ Murray the K.

Also in 1967, the Doors debut album, featuring "Light My Fire", enters the Billboard Hot 200 chart. The LP had been released during the first week of January and would end up leading Billboard for three weeks and Cashbox for a week.

The 58th and final episode of The Monkees TV series was broadcast on NBC in 1968.

In 1969, John and Yoko invited the world’s press into their hotel suite at the start of a week long “Bed-In” at the Amsterdam Hilton.

In 1971, New York radio station WNBC banned the song "One Toke Over the Line" by Brewer and Shipley because of its alleged drug references. Other stations around the country follow suit, but the record still makes it to Billboard's #10.

In 1972, The trio of Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell and Dan Peek, collectively known as America, reached the top spot on The Hot 100 and The Cashbox Best Sellers chart with "A Horse With No Name". The tune, which reached #3 in the UK, was originally titled "Desert Song".



Van Halen released the album 'Van Halen II' in 1979.

In 1983, Motown Records celebrated its 25 anniversary with a concert in Pasadena, featuring The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Martha Reeves, Jr. Walker, The Commodores, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson and The Jackson 5.

In 2005, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne were forced to flee their Buckinghamshire mansion after a blaze broke out while they were sleeping. The couple were roused by a fire alarm and ran to safety in the garden, rescuing their pets as they escaped.

In 2009, Dan Seals, of the 1970s duo England Dan And John Ford Coley, died of cancer at the age of 61. After scoring several Billboard Pop chart hits, including "I'd Really Love To See You Tonight", "Nights are Forever" and "Love Is The Answer", Seals went on to have a solid career in Country music during the 1980s and early '90s.

birthday wishes to Aretha Franklin (1942) and Elton John (1947) among others.

Vinyl Record News & Music Notes

A Couple Of Blog Notes

I ran a contest and only have one winner so far, so if you are interested, just email me!

the first two who email me at rbenson30@wi.rr.com  will get a $10 Gift certificates at SoundStageDirect! Just add 'Radiohead' to the subject line!

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well. murphy's law got me again. after spending hours yesterday compiling a list of the record store day releases for 2011, the folks at record store day have posted the list today, it is in PDF format, and you can find it here RecordStore Day Releases

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i have just updated the 'upcoming record collectors shows' on the left margin, look and see if there is one by you!

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Concerts on Both Coasts to Celebrate the 75th Birthday of Wavy Gravy

Wavy Gravy (real name Hugh Romney) will forever be one of the most remembered faces from the Woodstock Festival and has gone on to be a major peace activist along with a benefactor to the blind with the Seva Foundation and the clown prince of his Camp Winnarainbow.

On May 15, Wavy will turn 75 and, to celebrate, a bunch of friends and admirers are getting together for two concerts in his honor.

Read more: vintagevinylnews.com













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bloomberg.com has a great story, who doesn't love deep purple?

Russian President Tells Deep Purple of His Years as Rock DJ

President Dmitry Medvedev, an avid fan of Deep Purple, met the U.K. hard-rock group for tea at his residence outside Moscow yesterday on the eve of their concert in the Russian capital, Russian news wires said.

Read the rest at bloomberg.com


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Metallica to Unveil New Metallica.com Site on March 28th

On March 28th, Metallica are completely overhauling and relaunching their online presence, Metallica.com. The new version of the website will encompass other Metallica web properties like the fanclub-driven MetClub.com and MetOnTour.com, which will be combined into one big site to ensure easy access to all things Metallica.

The new site will also include fun facts and details about every album, video, song, tour date, band member, and event in Metallica's history. cool.....

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Jethro Tull to Perform 'Aqualung' Album in Its Entirety on Summer Tour

Amy Sciarretto

In the eyes of metal fans, Jethro Tull may never live down beating Metallica's '...And Justice For All' for the Best Metal/Hard Rock Performance Grammy in 1989 with 'Crest of a Knave.' Twenty-one-year-old Grammy drama aside, the Tull will celebrate the 40th anniversary of their essential 'Aqualung' album by performing it in its entirety on their upcoming summer tour. The band will also play other classics from its 30-album catalog to round out each night's set.

The touring line-up features longtime members Ian Anderson (flute, vocals, acoustic guitar) and Martin Barre (guitars), Doane Perry (drums), as well as David Goodier (bass) and pianist John O'Hara. Goodier and O'Hara joined in 2006 after working with Anderson on some of his solo projects.

Read more and get the tour dates at noisecreep.com


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so these are they guys who write those ad jingles! interesting story, read on...

Folk veterans to play Good Folk

By MIKE HORYCZUN

You can call David Buskin and Robin Batteau media-friendly types -- both old media and new. Early in their careers they signed with major record companies that released their music on vinyl albums. You remember those, the 33-rpm type that warped easily and required turntables and needles. And they're responsible for writing Clio Award-winning jingles like Batteau's "Heartbeat of America" for Chevrolet and Buskin's "We're NBC, Just Watch Us Now" in the '80s.

These days, Buskin & Batteau, as they're known in contemporary folk circles, stream some of their performances live on the internet. They also host a radio show on WPKN that's streamed on the Web.

Read the rest of this fascinating story at wiltonvillager.com


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more info on an earlier post,

Leslieville resident spins Toronto Downtown Record Show this weekend

"Some people said mp3s would cause the end of records, but they didn't." - Aaron Keele After 25 years in the record business, Leslieville resident Aaron Keele knows his way around vinyl.

Growing up in the hip-hop era with a father who ran the venerable record shop Don's Discs, he fell in love with the musical medium and has parlayed that passion into a career.

Keele and longtime friend Akim Boldireff are known as the Record Guys (www.therecordguys.com) and have carved out a niche as two of the country's leading experts on vinyl records and music ephemera.

Read more at insidetoronto.com


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and in music history for today:

In 1945, Billboard Magazine published their first album chart with Nat King Cole's "A Collection of Favorites" named as #1.

In 1958, Elvis Presley reported to the Memphis draft board. From there he and 12 other recruits were taken by bus to Kennedy Veterans Memorial Hospital where the singer was assigned army serial number 53310761.

In 1963, the Beatles were the opening act for American Pop stars Chris Montez and Tommy Roe in the quartet's hometown of Liverpool, England.

Bill Wyman was knocked unconscious by an electrical shock from a microphone stand in 1965. It was the first date of the Rolling Stones anniversary tour.

In 1966, the New York State Assembly passed a bill making it a misdemeanor to sell unauthorized copies of records or tapes, commonly known as bootlegs.

Iron Maiden released the album 'The Number of the Beast' in 1980

In 1991, the Black Crowes were dropped as the opening act on ZZ Top's tour for repeatedly criticizing Miller Beer. Miller Beer was sponsoring the tour.

In 1997, 57 year old Harold Melvin, leader of the Philadelphia Soul group Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, died of heart related problems. The group is remembered for their 1972, US #3 hit, "If You Don't Know Me By Now".

In 2005, Rod Price, a founding member of Foghat, died after falling down a stairway at his home. The 57 year old guitarist was with the band for three Platinum and eight Gold records, including their highest charting US single "Slow Ride" in 1976.

and in 2010, Johnny Maestro, the lead singer for The Crests on their seven US Top 40 records, including the 1959, #2 hit "Sixteen Candles" as well as The Brooklyn Bridge on "The Worst That Could Happen" in 1969, died of cancer at the age of 70.

birthdays today include Shannon Corr (1970) and Nick Lowe (1949), among others.

Record Store Day Releases 2011

After much research and digging, I have come with with a pretty good list of the specials for Record Store Day 2011. Please, if you know of any I missed (and I am sure I missed a few), please email me and I can update the list (rbenson30@wi.rr.com)


  Drumroll please!!

13TH Floor Elevators - Wait For My Love (7")
86 ~ Telesterion
AC/DC ~ Shoot To Thrill/War Machine (7")
A Day To Remember ~ "All I Want" as a 7” single with bonus acoustic version and B-Side etching for the day. The limited edition colored 7” will be released in the US as a clear purple pressing (limited 2,000) and internationally throughout Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, and Australia as a mint green pressing (limited 1,000).
ARP ~ Pastoral Synphony
A Rekords Rekords Record ~ 10" picture disc compilation, featuring tracks by Queens Of The Stone Age. Alain Johannes, Mini Mansions and Desert Sessions.
Adele ~ Rolling In The Deep (10")
Anberlin ~ Cities (2 LPs) (limited to 1,000)
Antony & The Johnsons ~ Swanlights EP (900 copies)
Architecture In Helsinki ~ Places Like This
Art Hospital ~ Art Hospital (7")
Bad Brains ~ God Of Love
Bad Brains ~ Pay To Cum (7")
Beach Boys ~ Good Vibrations/Heroes And Villains (10"single/double 78 rpm)
Beach Fossils ~ Wake-approved cover (limited to 1,000)
Beady Eye ~ Beady Eye (Box Set)
Belle Brigade ~ Belle Brigade
Beth Ditto - "tbc" CD
Between The Buried And Me ~ Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogs LP (limited to 1,000)
Bibio/Clark ~ Willenhall/Baskerville Grinch (Split 12")
Big Audio Dynamite - Limited numbered (7")
Black Angels ~ Another Nice Pair (LP) (red vinyl, limited to 2,000 and 100 random inserts will be signed by the band)
Black Angels ~ Phosgene Nightmare
Black Market Baby ~ Potential Suicide (7")(limited 200 on gold vinyl)
Black Twig Pickers & Glenn Jones ~ Split
Blitzen Trapper ~ Maybe Baby (7")
Bob Dylan ~ Bob Dylan In Concert: Brandeis University 1963
Boris ~ Attention Please LP (gatefold w/ poster, limited to 3,500)
Bouncing Souls ~ Live At Generation Records (limited 1,500 and wont be pressed again)
Brett Dennen ~ B Side To The D Side (7")
British Sea Power ~ 2 (7")
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band ~ "Gotta Get That Feeling" / "Racing In The S" (10")
Built To Spill ~ Ripple (picture disc 7" limited to 3,000)
Burn ~ Burn (7") (yellow vinyl limited to 500)
Busdriver ~ ATM (7")
CSC Funk Band ~ Troll's Soiree (7")
Caribou ~ Swim Remixes
Cars ~ Sad Songs (7")
Children Of Bodom/Killing Joke ~ "Northpole Throwdown" / "Fresh Fever From The Skies"
Circa Survive ~ Appendage (oxblood colored vinyl, limited to 300)
City and Colour ~ Sometimes (2LPs) (silk screen covers, limited to 500, hand numbered & bonus track)
Civil Wars ~ Dance Me To The End Of Love (7")
Clash ~ "The Magnificent Seven" (7") (heavyweight red vinyl & 4 trk CD)
Clinic ~ "Ladies Night" (limited 10" single)
Clouds ~ B Chuggas May be Logging
Coffee, Dennis ~ Uniquitous (7")
Country Joe & The Fish ~ Electric Music For The Mind & Body
Crime In Stereo ~ Love (7") (with arigato cover limited to 100)
Cults ~ "Abducted" / "Go Outside" (remix) (7")
Cults ~ 7" (etched vinyl)
DB’S ~ Picture Sleeve (7")
DOM ~ Things Change/Jesus (10")
Daedelus ~ Tailor Made
Damien Jurado ~ Live at Landlocked (12") (900 Copies)
Dan Sartain ~ "Fuck" (7")
Death Cab For Cutie ~ Home is a Fire" / "You are a Tourist" (limited to 4,200 copies)
Decemberists ~ Live At Bull Moose
Deep Purple ~ 7" single "Hush" "Speed King"
Deerhoof/Xiu Xiu ~ split 7" colored vinyl (limited to 2,000)
Deerhoof ~ Friend Opportuntiy (180 gram, clear green limited to 1,000)
Deftones ~ Covers vinyl (LP)
Dengue Fever ~Cannibal Courtship
Derek & The Dominos ~ (7") single
Dio ~ Killing The Dragon (LP)(limited to 1,000)
Discordance Axis ~ Inalienable Dreamless
Dodos ~ All Night (7")
Doors ~ Riders On The Storm (7")
Doriella Du Fontaine (Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Miles And Lightnin' Rod) ~ (7")
Douglas Charles ~ The Lives of Charles Douglas (limited vinyl)
Duff McKagan Loaded ~ Taking
Duran Duran ~ Girl Panic! (7")
Elliott ~ US Songs (LP) (gray vinyl limited to 330)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer ~ tbc quadruple vinyl release
Eric Clapton ~ Unplugged (180 gram)
Fela Kuti & Africa '70 ~ Monday Morning In Lagos PT. 1 & 2 (7")
Fistful Of Mercy ~ Fistful Of Mercy
Five Finger Death Punch ~ "Falling In Hate" / "Far From Home"
Flaming Lips ~ Heady Nuggs: The First 5 Warner Bros. Records 1992 (numbered and limited to 6,500)
Fleet Foxes ~Helplessness Blues (limited to 3,000)
Fleetwood Mac ~ Rumours (180 gram)
Flogging Molly~ Don't Shut 'Em Down (7")
Flying Lotus ~ Cosmogramma Alt Takes
Foo Fighters ~ Medium Rare (LP) (12 cover songs)
Foster The People ~ "Pumped Up Kicks" (10" vinyl)
Franz Ferdinand Tribute ~ Franz Ferdinand Tribute
Freddy King ~ "Wash Out" / "Butterscotch (7")
Frustrators ~ Griller (7") (limited 200, red vinyl)
Gaggle ~ "The Brilliant and the Dark" (limited to 300-copies 12")
Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger ~ La Carotte Bleue
Glass Jaw ~ Worship & Tribute (limited to 1,000)
Gorillaz ~ Fall
Grateful Dead ~ Grateful Dead (Mono) (180 gram)
Green Day/Husker Du - "Don't Know If You Are Lonely" split 7" (orange vinyl limited to 6,500)
Grinderman ~ Evil
Grinderman ~ Palaces of Montezuma
Growlers ~ Gay Thoughts (7")
Guided By Voices Tribute ~ Sing For Your Meat
Hank Williams III ~ Damn Right Rebl Proud
Hank Williams III ~ Lovesick Broke & Driftin'
Hank Williams III ~ Rebel Within
Hank Williams III ~ Risin' Outlaw
Hank Williams III ~ Straight To Hell
Head And The Heart ~ Head And The Heart
Helloween / Apocalyptica ~ "The Sage, The Fool, The Sinner" / "Bring Them To Light"
Hellyeah/JettBlack ~ "Pole Rider" / "When It Comes To Lovin'"
Hollywood Undead ~ American Tragedy (picture disc)
Howe Gelb ~ "Sno Angel" / "Melted Wires" (7")
In This Momnet ~ Promise
International Submarine Band ~ Safe At Home (mono)
Jack's Mannequin ~ (7") (TBD - should feature fan submitted artwork)
James Blake ~ James Blake
James Yorkston ~ EP
Javelin ~ "Coleridge" / "Colleagues (7")
Javelin ~ Canyon Candy (10" single, hand printed)
Jenny & Johnny/ Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris - "Love Hurts" split 7" (light blue vinyl)
Jimi Hendrix - "Fire" 7" (red vinyl & limited 3 track CD)
Jimi Hendrix Tribute ~ "Foxey Lady" / "Spanish Castle Magic" / "Purple Haze" / "Santana" / "Randolph"
Jimi Hendrix ~ "Fire" / "Touch You" / "Cat Talking To Me"
Jimmy Eat World ~ Bleed American (3LP) (numbered and limited to 3,000)
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts ~ I Love Rock & Roll (180 gram clear vinyl - limited edition)
Joan Of Arc ~ Presents: Don't Mind Control (limited to 500)
Job For A Cowboy ~ Ruination (10")
John Doe & Jill Sobule ~ Day At The Pass
John Fahey ~ Requia (other compositions for guitar solo)
John Hammond ~ So Many Roads
John Leguizamo's Freak ~ John Leguizamo's Freak
John Mayall & Eric Clapton ~ "Lonely Years" / "Bernard Jenkins (7")
Joy Formidible ~ "Whirring" / "CHWRLIO"
Justin Townes Earle ~ Move Over Momma (7")
Kate Bush ~ Hounds Of Love (10")(1000 copies, pink 120 gram vinyl)
Kill Rock Stars ~ Kill Rock Stars
Kills ~ Satellite (10")(limted to 500)
Kings Of Leon ~ Holy Roller Novocaine (10")(red vinyl)
Kode9 & The Spaceape ~ "Otherman" / "Love Is The Drug"
Lady Gaga ~ Born This Way
Lenka ~ Two
Lone Pigeon - 28 secret tracks (limited vinyl pressing)
Lower Dens ~ Deer Knives
Machine Head ~ Black Procession (10")
Manchester Orchestra ~ "Simple Math" / "The Plan" (7")
Manhattan Murder History ~ Manhattan Murder History
Mastadon/ZZ Top ~ "Just Got Paid" (split 7")
Mastadon ~ "Live at the Aragon" (LP)(180 gram)(limited to 3,000)
Mates Of State ~ Team Boo
Matt & Kim ~ Block After Block (7")
Matt Costa ~ Songs We Sing
Menzingers ~ Chamberlain Waits
Michael Jackson ~ "Hollywood Tonight" / "Behind The Mask (7") J
Midlake/Will Self - 12" single
Midlake ~ Am I Going Insane
Mighty Clouds ~ Mighty Clouds
Mike Gordon ~ Inside In (7")
Mississippi John Hurt ~ Immortal
Mitchell & Manley ~ Norcal Values
Mona ~ "Listen To Your Love" / "All This Time" (7")
Mumford & Sons ~ Dharohar project Laura Marling & Mumford & Sons (10") (3500 copies)
My Chemical Romance ~ Na Na Na
My Morning Jacket ~ Evil Urges
My Morning Jacket ~ It Still Moves
My Morning Jacket ~ Z
Nada Surf ~ Moon Is Calling (7")
Naked & Famous ~ "This Machine" / "No Light"
Nathaniel Rateliff ~ Shroud (7")
Neurosis ~ Sovereign
New York Dolls ~ Dancing Backward In High Heels
New York Dolls ~ Fool For You Baby (7")
Nick Cave ~ Where the Wild Roses Grow (features Kylie Minogue)
Nickel Creek ~ Nickel Creek
Nickel Creek ~ This Side
Nickel Creek ~ Why Should The Fire Die
Nirvana – Hormoaning (colored vinyl limited to 6,000)
No One Got Hurt ~ No One Got Hurt
Of Montreal ~ Past Is A Grotesque Animal (LP)(180 gram)(limited to 1,000)
Off! ~ Live At generation records (7")
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez ~ Telesterion
Opeth ~ Throat Of Winter (7")
Os Mutantes ~ Everything Is Possible: World Psychedelic Classic (180 gram)
Oval/Liturgy ~ split
Owen -~"O, Evelyn" (7")
Oxbow ~ King Of The Jews
Ozzy Osbourne ~ "Flying High Again" / "I Don't Know "(live)( 7")
Ozzy Osbourne ~ Blizzard Of Oz
Ozzy Osbourne ~Diary Of A Madman
Panda Bear ~ "Tomboy" exclusive clear vinyl with t-shirt
Parlophone ~ Parlophone (7" box set)
Paul Simon ~ So Beautiful Or So What
Pearl Jam ~ Immortality/Rearviewmirror (7")
Pearl Jam ~ VS.
Pearl Jam ~ Vitalogy
Peter Bjorn and John ~ Dig a Litter Deeper (7")
Peter Tosh ~ Legalize It (7") (colored vinyl)
Phish - "Two Soundchecks" (7" live)
Piebald ~ Vol I-III (triple gatefold) (different colors) (limited to 1,000)
Pinback ~ Information Received A (7") (limited to 1500 copies)
Pink Floyd ~ London 66/67
Polvo ~ Celebrate The New Dark Age
Portable Shrines Magical Sound Theatre ~ Vol 1. Portable Shrines Magical Sound Theatre
Primal Scream ~ Triple vinyl set
Prurient ~ Many Jewels Surround The Crown (7")
Queen ~ Keep Yourself Alive (7")
Quicksand ~ self titled (limited to 500) (blue vinyl)
R.E.M. ~ Three: First Three Singles From 'Collapse' (7")
Rammstein ~ "Waidmann's Heil" / "Liebe Ist Für Alle Da"
Rancid ~ Let The Dominoes Fall (collectors edition) (Incl. Regular CD, Acoustic CD, Regular 180 gram LP, Acoustic 180 gram LP, 72 page booklet, poster, four guitar pics & DVD)
Ray Lamontagne ~ Live Fall 2010
Red Crayola ~ "Hurricane Fighter Plane" / "Pink Stainle (7")
Red Hot Chili Peppers & The Ramones ~ Havana Affair (red vinyl) (limited to 6,500)
Regina Spektor - "Four From Far" (7")
Rekords Rekords ~ Rekords Rekords
Republic Tigers ~ Merrymake It With me (7")
Republic Tigers ~ No Man's Land (EP)
Rhymesayers ~ picture disc
Rise Against The Machine ~ Join The Ranks (7")(limited to 800)
Rival Schools ~ "Wring It Out" (7") (limited to 1,500)
Robbie Robertson ~ How To Be Clairvoyant
Rolling Stones ~ "Brown Sugar/Bitch" /" Let It Rock" (7")
Roy Orbison ~ "Only The Lonely" (mono) / "Oh, Pretty Woman (7")
Rush ~ "BU2B" (7")
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals ~ Class Mythology EP 2×7" (limited to 2,500 one orange-one yellow)
Sandy Denny ~ (7")) (with tracks voted on by Facebook fans, yet to be determined)
Sennen ~ Age Of Denial
Silverstein ~ Support Your Local record Store (7") (limited to 500) (includes one new track plus four covers from Kid Dynamite, American Nightmare and Propagandhi)
Skip James ~ Today!
Skysaw ~ "No One Can Tell" / "Serated" (7")
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - (broom colored vinyl) (limited to 500)
Sonic Youth ~ Whore's Moaning: Oz '93 tour edition
Sons & Daughters ~ "Listen To Crime" / "Just Relax" (7")
Spark ~ "Revolving" (7")
Steve Earle ~ I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive (7") (colored vinyl) (limited to 2000 copies)
Steve Gunn & Ilyas Ahmed ~ Slpit (7")
Submarines ~ "Love Notes" / "Letter Bombs
Superchunk ~ Here's Where The Strings Come In
Syd Barrett ~ Introduction to Syd Barrett (180gm)
Television ~ Live At The Old Waldorf (180 gram white vinyl)
The Answer ~ "Rock 'n' Roll Outlaw" / "Fooled Me"
The Entrance Band ~ (7" )(500 copies
The Go! Team ~ "Apollo Throwdown" / "Voice Yr Choice" (12" single)
The Kills ~ "Satellite" (special dub) (10")
The Wake ~ "On Our Honeymoon" / Crush the Flowers
The Wombats ~ "Anti D" (7")
The Wonder Years ~ The Upsides (LP) (gatefold, orange, limited to 500)
Therapies Son ~ Over The Sea (10")
Toadies ~ "No Deliverance" / "Someone Great (7")
Toddla T ~ "Cherry Picking" (12") (red vinyl)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - You're Gonna Get It (LP)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers ~ Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (white vinyl)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers ~ You're Gonna Get It (blue vinyl)
Toro Y Moi / Cloud Nothings - "I Will Talk To You" / "For No Reason" (7")
Touche Amore ~ To The Beat Of A Dead Horse (LP) (white vinyl, limited to 250)
Tracey Thorn ~ You are a Lover (10")
Transit ~ Promise Nothing (7") (limited to 1,000 copies with 300 on green/gray and 700 on blue/clear)
Tron Translucence EP ~ Soundtrack (10")
Urge Overkill ~ Effigy (7")
Vaccines - "Live From London" (CD)
Velvet Underground ~ "Foggy Notion" / "I Can't Stand It (7")
Villagers/Charlotte Gainsbourg ~ "Memoir" / "Set The Tigers Free" (7")
Villagers ~ Villagers live at the Workman's Club Dublin, 16th September 2010 (LP)
Vivian Girls - "I Heard You Say" (colored 7" single)
Vorwarts ~ Vorwarts
Wavves/Trash Talk ~ "Thorns" / "TV Luv Song" (7")
When I Was 12 - 7-inch (300 limited edition pieces of random color)
Wild Flag ~ Future Crimes (7")
Wild Nothing ~ Wake-approved cover (limited to 1,000)
William Elliott Whitmore & P.O.S. ~ split (7")
William Fitzsimmons ~ Gold In the Shadow
Wiz Khalifa ~ Rolling Papers
Yardbirds ~ "Goodnight Sweet Josephine" / "Think About It (7")
Yeasayer ~ End Blood (7") (featuring 2 unreleased tracks)
Young The Giant ~ Apartment (7")
Youth Of Today ~ self titled (7")(limited to 500)

Ask Mr. Music By Jerry Osborne

FOR THE WEEK OF MARCH 21, 2011


DEAR JERRY: If you can ease my brain pain, I will forever be grateful.

Circa-1961, the Top 40 stations in this area played a song that is probably titled “Ronnie,” or some slight variation, such as “Oh Ronnie,” or “Ronnie Came Back,” etc.

Every 1960s music expert I've asked immediately says it's “Ronnie,” by Marcy Joe, which was in fact a big hit at approximately the same time.

So I'll save you the trouble by saying that “Ronnie” is a different song altogether.

Either my mystery song is by Connie Stevens, or someone who sounds exactly like she did around that time.
—Raymond Lincoln, Harrisburg, Pa.


DEAR RAYMOND: The pain in your brain is about to wane.

Like the others, my first thought was Marcy Joe's “Ronnie,” especially since she repeatedly pleads “Ronnie, come back.” Having found a new girlfriend, he, like Charlie on the M.T.A., never returns.

However, you say this Ronnie came back. This, combined with the other clues, points directly to “The Ballad of Ronnie,” by Alicia Adams. In her ballad, Ronnie leaves Alicia for a hitch in the military, but eventually does come back to her.

On the reverse is “Kissin' On,” a strangely-titled up-tempo side. This too got some air play and might be another track you will remember.

Released in October 1960, Alicia's debut single (Capitol 4444) earned four-star reviews from the trade magazines. Even so, it did not chart nationally.

Thinking the singer of this teener tune to be Connie Stevens is very understandable. Other than Connie and Alicia, most anyone could make that same mistake.


DEAR JERRY: Having now watched the first episode of the fifth season of Army Wives, it brings to mind a question about the name of one of the regular characters, Emmaline Holden, daughter of Michael and Claudia Joy Holden.

Though I never heard this name before Army Wives, I was flabbergasted to find nearly 4,000 Emmalines on Facebook. This includes women of all ages.

My grandmother mentioned a song titled “Emmaline” was popular during the big band years, and it may have inspired some parents to name their girls Emmaline.

Do you know the song she describes?
—Nancy Gallagher,

DEAR NANCY: Yes, even though there are slight title variations and other considerations.

Emmalin (no 'e') Holden, played in Army Wives Season One (2007) by Caroline Pires, and thereafter by Katelyn Pippy, is not nearly as common a name as Emmaline.

As you now know, Facebook hosts thousands of Emmalines, yet they do not list even one Emmalin.

Next we have “Emaline,” almost certain to be the big band tune granny recalls.

Recorded in 1937 by Mildred Bailey, the preeminent female singer of the swing era, her “Emaline” is the man she hopes to marry. This would likely lessen the number of swing era parents naming girls Emaline.

Accompanying Bailey on the “Emaline” session is Benny Goodman's Orchestra, and some stellar sax work from Coleman Hawkins.

Using Facebook again as our sampler of society, they do have one Emaline, and wouldn't you know she is a she.

Seemingly against the odds, 10 years after “Emaline,” Mildred recorded a completely different song titled “Evaline,” with only one different letter.

As with Emalin, this Evaline is another potential mate of the male variety.

Facebook has two Evalines, both of whom are females. Why am I not surprised?


IZ ZAT SO? In 1925, while performing in Los Angeles, Mildred (neé: Rinker) Bailey was asked by her brother, Al Rinker, if she could help he and his crooning partner break into show business.

Mildred obliged and landed a job for Al and his pal, Harry Crosby, a gifted 22-year-old singer who preferred to be called “Bing.”

Throughout his remarkable career, Bing Crosby often credited Mildred Bailey for helping him secure his first important job in the entertainment business.

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

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

Copyright 2010 Osborne Enterprises - Reprinted By Permission

 

Vinyl Record News & Music Notes

Where Are They Now? 9 Famous Album Cover Babies

Let's be honest, all the best albums have babies on them. But what happens to those babies when they grow up?

Dave Stopera

1. Ready To Die - The Notorious B.I.G.

Keithroy Yearwood was just recently discovered to the be 'Ready To Die' baby. He was paid $150 dollars to be on the cover which he guesses he was able to do because of his “giant afro.” Yearwood currently lives in the Bronx and is a senior in high school.



2. A Boy Named Goo - Goo Goo Dolls

See the rest of the top ten at buzzfeed.com

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DEF LEPPARD Singer's DOWN 'N' OUTZ Planning To Release Album Of Original Material

This summer, DEF LEPPARD will release a new album and tour with HEART but before then, singer Joe Elliott will be touring the U.K. with his other group, DOWN 'N' OUTZ, a project also featuring members of THE QUIREBOYS. Last July, the guys released their debut album, "My ReGeneration", featuring covers of songs by MOTT THE HOOPLE, Ian Hunter and BRITISH LIONS, the music DOWN N' OUTZ performed as the support act for MOTT THE HOOPLE at one of the legendary band's 2009 reunion shows. Fans who bought the disc might have noticed that this CD is marked "Volume 1." That implies there is more to come and Joe told VH1 Radio Networks' Dave Basner what to expect from the band in the future.

Read more at Blabbermouth.com

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MACHINE HEAD Drummer Talks About 'Record Store Day'



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Autopsy To Release Vinyl Edition Of New Album "Macabre Eternal"

San Francisco Bay Area death metal act Autopsy has completed recording its long-awaited fifth studio album, "Macabre Eternal," which is due out May 31st on Peaceville Records. The band has announced that it will release a special vinyl edition of the forthcoming musical massacre before the CD and digital versions hit stores, available exclusively through the Peaceville web-store on May 16th.

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The Face of Metal: Album Cover Artists

While Metallica may have had the skull-obsessed art of Pushead, Megadeth had the thrash metal mastermind Ed Repka. Ed has been a stalwart of the scene since it's inception and despite the years of intricate and colourful masterworks behind him he is still going strong. His pieces regularly focus on a leering character in the foreground and espouse themes of nuclear horrors, skeletal figures and oppressive political and business power. Out of all the metal artists he is possibly the most prolific, especially in the thrash metal arena; From Hirax to Nuclear Assault, Possessed to Toxik, and plenty of recent bands such Hexen and Austrian Death Machine - all draw the common thread of Ed Repka’s comical madness. Here are some well loved examples:

Read much more and see some awesome album cover art at metalunderground.com

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and in music history for the day:

In 1955, Elvis Presley auditioned for TV's Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, where he plays "Good Rockin' Tonight". His performance was weak and the show's producers turned him down.

In 1959, The Skyliners, a five member group from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, entered the Billboard Pop chart for the first time with the now classic doo-wop hit, "Since I Don't Have You". The song will be their biggest success, reaching #12. Joe Rock would later say that he was upset about a girl who had just left him and wrote most of the lyrics while sitting in his car between stoplights.

Elvis Presley recorded the immortal cut "Can't Help Falling in Love" in 1961.

The film of The Concert for Bangladesh featuring George Harrison, Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton premiered in New York in 1972.

In 1973, John Lennon was ordered to leave the U.S. within 60 days by immigration authorities. Lennon appealed and after a long fight to obtain his Green Card, the ex-Beatle was given permanent resident status on July 27, 1976.

In 1977, Elvis Presley appeared at the Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona – the first show of a 49-date U.S. tour lasting over three months and Presley’s last-ever tour.

The Police signed with A&M Records in 1978.

In 1985, John Lennon's son Julian gave his first concert in San Antonio, Texas. Over the next two years he would place four songs on the Hot 100, including "Valotte" (#9) and "Too Late For Goodbyes" (#5).

In 1999 - In Gibraltar, a set of postage stamps was released commemorating what would have been the 30th wedding anniversary of Yoko Ono and John Lennon.

In 2008, Neil Aspinall, who oversaw The Beatles’ Apple Corps business empire from 1968-2007, died from lung cancer at age 66 at a hospital in New York. A Liverpool school friend of Paul McCartney and George Harrison, he was regarded by many as “the fifth Beatle,” becoming the group’s road manager in 1961 before becoming their personal assistant. In the ’80s Aspinall became the head of The Beatles’ Apple company. Aspinall had also played background instruments on certain Beatles tracks, including “Magical Mystery Tour,” “Within You, Without You” and “Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite.”



Birthday wishes to Chaka Khan (1953), 1949, Ric Ocasek of The Cars (1949) and Damon Albarn of Blur (1968)

Joe Bonamassa's New Solo Album Dust Bowl Out Today!

Single "Dust Bowl" Available For Free Download

LOS ANGELES, March 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Dust Bowl (J&R Adventures), the new album from multi-talented blues-rock guitar hero, singer-songwriter and Billboard's #1 Blues Artist Joe Bonamassa comes out today, Mar. 22. In honor of the release, fans can get a free download of the first single "Dust Bowl" at www.jbonamassa.com .

Bonamassa's twelfth full-length solo album, produced by Kevin "Caveman" Shirley, has quickly received an abundance of glowing critical acclaim. Premier Guitar called it "A blues-rock achievement... his best record to date," and gave it 4.5 out of 5 stars. The Dallas Morning News described it as "thematic and expansive... a blues-rocking tour-de-force from an artist who knows no other way of making music." And The Orange County Register said Joe is "unquestionably among our greatest living guitarists, destined to be counted among the greatest of all-time."

Dust Bowl was recorded in sessions at Black Rock Studios in Santorini, Greece; Ben's Studio in Nashville, TN; The Cave in Malibu, CA and The Village in Los Angeles, CA.

It combines the gritty, blues-based tones of Bonamassa's first albums with the fluid, genre-defying sounds he's mastered in the years since and adds a dash of country from Joe's collaborations with the best of Nashville including legends Vince Gill and John Hiatt. Premier Guitar's Oscar Jordan describes the album as a "widescreen John Ford-style panorama" with "ominous cinematic imagery of trains, cotton fields, heartache, alienation, evil women, and death."

The album opener "Slow Train" "explodes into a fusion of gritty blues and hard rock; Joe's blistering guitar and falsetto create both a haunting and electrifying start to an exquisite album," says American Blues Scene. Other tunes such as "No Love On The Street," "Prisoner," and "The Meaning of the Blues" "play like epics," says The Dallas Morning News.

Standout originals include the "stomping blues" tune "Black Lung Heartache," the "moving" "The Last Matador of Bayonne," and "The Whale That Swallowed Jonah."

Bonamassa duets with Hiatt and trades licks with Gill on the John Hiatt/John Porter-penned "Tennessee Plates" which The Sun calls a "country romp." Other album collaborators include Bonamassa's Black Country Communion bandmate Glenn Hughes (Deep Purple) who lends his legendary voice to the Paul Rodgers song "Heartbreaker." Beth Hart and Blondie Chaplin can be heard on Michael Kamen/Tim Curry's desperate blues track "No Love On The Street."

Last month Bonamassa kicked off the first leg of his North American tour. He heads next to Europe, Asia and Australia, makes a quick stop back in the U.S. for a summer tour with his hard-rock band Black Country Communion, and then heads back out for more dates in Europe. Fall European, U.K. and U.S. tour dates will be announced soon.

Classic Rock Magazine recently hailed Bonamassa as the "Savior of the Blues" and Guitar World named him "The New Blues Titan."

Come see what everyone is talking about.

www.jbonamassa.com

Dust Bowl Tracklisting:

1. Slow Train
2. Dust Bowl
3. Tennessee Plates (feat. John Hiatt)
4. The Meaning Of The Blues
5. Black Lung Heartache
6. You Better Watch Yourself
7. The Last Matador Of Bayonne
8. Heartbreaker (feat. Glenn Hughes)
9. No Love On The Street (feat. Beth Hart)
10. The Whale That Swallowed Jonah
11. Sweet Rowena (feat. Vince Gill)
12. Prisoner

SOURCE J&R Adventures

Vinyl Record News & Music Notes

David Crosby and Graham Nash Launch New Label Blue Castle Records

With First-Ever Digital and Vinyl Releases of Their Renowned 1971 Live Set 'Another Stoney Evening' on March 22

DUO KICK OFF COAST-TO-COAST CROSBY/NASH TOUR ON MARCH 25

Singer-songwriters David Crosby and Graham Nash have been harmonizing ever since Crosby, Stills & Nash formed in 1968. In addition to making music with CSN and CSN&Y, an ongoing element of their collaboration is recording and performing as a duo. That two-man configuration is celebrated this spring with both a nationwide tour kicking off March 25, and the launch of Crosby and Nash's new independent label - Blue Castle Records, distributed by ADA and ADA Global - with digital and vinyl versions of Another Stoney Evening as inaugural releases on March 22.

Another Stoney Evening was recorded on October 10, 1971 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles during one of Crosby and Nash's first in-concert performances as "two together." Previously released only on CD (in 1998), Another Stoney Evening captures an intimate performance spotlighting the duo's stellar harmonies, acoustic guitar and piano accompaniment, and between-song banter. Song highlights include "Deja Vu," "Wooden Ships," "Southbound Train," "Immigration Man," "Guinevere," and "Teach Your Children." Distribution for Blue Castle is through Alternative Distribution Alliance (ADA) in the U.S. and Canada, and Alternative Distribution Alliance Global worldwide.

"This album represents the very beginning of our musical relationship as a duo," says Nash. "Whatever David and I do well together, it's wonderful that we're still doing it well. For the upcoming tour, with a rock 'n roll band, we've gotten fantastic advance response. It's exciting to be bringing this great new show to people."

Read more about the tour and tour dates at crosbynash.com

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nice to read about the people behind the scenes, must be a lot of work, yet very fullfilling

Monster Music's Galen Hudson embraces vinyl slabs

Hudson and other enthusiasts wax on

by Jared Booth

Monster Music proprietor Galen Hudson remembers his first experience with vinyl. "Steve Miller's Fly Like an Eagle came out when I was nine years old," he says. "I had my mom buy me the record, and there were a lot of other good songs on it, and after that I would just go to the record store and learn.

"And soon I became really into Traffic and Steve Winwood and I was hooked," he says, looking up at an image of Winwood, hanging on the wall of his poster-plastered office.

Ever since those experiences, Hudson has been a self-proclaimed record nerd. Now he has organized the local vinyl jamboree of the year, this Saturday's Charleston Record Expo, which will bring together collectors, sellers, and buyers to meet, browse, and share the vinyl experience.

Charleston Record Expo
Sat. March 26
10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Free
Monster Music & Movies
http://www.monstermusicsc.com/

Read more at charlestoncitypaper.com

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not sure if i have covered these already, but it appears that there will be more to follow!

Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Rolling Stones Announce Record Store Day Releases

– Nirvana – Hormoaning EP: Only available during the bands 1992 Australian tour, the EP features two originals (“Aneurysm” and “Even In His Youth”) plus covers recorded during a 1990 BBC Peel Session. The covers include Devo’s “Turnaround,” The Wipers’ “D-7,” and The Vaselines’ “Son of A Gun” and “Molly’s Lips.” This rare six-track collection is limited to 6,000 copies.

– Sonic Youth – Whores Moaning EP: Yes, it’s a play on the title of the Nirvana EP. Yes, it was released during Sonic Youth’s own Australian tour in 1993. Yes, the cover artwork is a photocopy of Kurt Cobain’s doll and the back artwork is a Cobain original drawing. Yes, the tracks include a radio edit of “Sugar Kane,” instrumentals of tracks “The End of The End of The Ugly” and “Tamra,” and covers of the New York Dolls’ “Personality Crisis” and Alice Cooper’s “Is It My Body.” Yes, it’s pretty sweet.

– The Rolling Stones – “Brown Sugar”/“Bitch”/“Let It Rock”: To celebrate the release of their The Complete Singles (1971-2006) box-set three days after RSD, the Stones will release 5,000, individually numbered U.S. copies this 7” vinyl which replicates the original single. The first two tracks hail from Sticky Fingers, while “Let It Rock” is an ultra-rare cover of the great Chuck Berry.

– Derek and The Dominos – “Got To Get Better In A Little While”/“Layla”: Eric Clapton only got one record out with Derek and The Dominos: 1970’s Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, but it’s mark on music is ever evident. “Layla” comes from that classic record, while “Got To Get Better In A Little While” comes from a newly discovered recording session for a never-materialized followup album. The vocals were recently finished by Derek and The Dominos member Bobby Whitlock, and this 7” vinyl is limited to 2,500 in the U.S.

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spin magazine has this great info for us

Death Cab for Cutie Unveil Tour Dates

By William Goodman

Seattle indie vets Death Cab for Cutie are dropping their seventh studio album, Codes and Keys, on May 31, so fans will have tons of opportunities to catch 'em live, right? Wrong. And that's what makes their limited 13-date tour, unveiled exclusively on SPIN.com, that much more special.

"I would love to find myself making a record a year from now rather than moving into our seventh straight month of touring," explains singer-guitarist Ben Gibbard. "I'd like to capitalize on feeling inspired to write rather than hobbling up onstage and jumping around for two hours..."

The short outing, dubbed the Underplay Tour, kicks off May 18 in Toronto and hits Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia, and Los Angeles before closing in San Francisco on June 9.

Read the rest and check out the tour dates at spin.com

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and in music history for the day:

In 1955, 23 year-old Johnny Cash lays down his first tracks at Sam Phillips' Memphis Recording Studio. With Luther Perkins on bass and Marshall Grant on guitar, Johnny sang five Country / Gospel numbers, of which "Mr. Porter" was the only useable cut. Phillips tells Johnny to come back when he's written a hit.

In 1963, "Our Day Will Come" by Ruby and The Romantics topped the Billboard Hot 100. On the day the song was recorded, it was the first time Ruby had ever been in a recording studio.

The Beatles' first album, "Please Please Me," was released in the U.K in 1963.

Bob Dylan's first electric album "Bring it All Back Home" was released in 1965.

In 1969, entertainers Jackie Gleason, Kate Smith, The Lettermen and Anita Bryant appear in Miami, Florida at what is billed as the Rally for Decency. Posters for the event warn that "longhairs and weird dressers" won't be allowed inside. Four days later, President Richard Nixon sends a letter of appreciation to the organizers of the rally.

In 1971, police arrested all the members of The Allman Brothers Band for heroin and marijuana possession.

In 1980, Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)’ started a four-week run at #1 on the U.S. singles chart.

In 1986, Mark Dinning, who scored a US number one hit in 1960 with "Teen Angel", died following a heart attack at the age of 52. The song had been written by his sister, Jeannie. Although he never had another hit, Mark continued performing throughout the 1960s, but felt his lack of success was because, "groups were in and singles were out", once the British Invasion started. He died just after returning home from a club appearance in Jefferson City, Missouri.



In 1991, Dave Guard, a founding member of The Kingston Trio, died of cancer at the age of 56. The group had 17 chart singles and nine Gold albums between 1958 and 1963. Guard left the group in 1961 to form the Whiskey Hill Singers.

In 2004, Ozzy Osbourne topped a Yahoo poll as the UK's favorite ambassador to welcome aliens to Earth. nice....

the late Keith Relf (Yardbirds) was born today in 1943. On May 14, 1976, Relf died from a freak accident, when he accidentally electrocuted himself in his basement while playing guitar.

and a happy birthday to John Otto of Limp Bizkit (1977)

New Vinyl Record and Music Releases - March 22, 2011

Acid House Kings - Music Sounds Better With You
Adam Lambert - Glam Nation Live
Adventure - Lesser Known
Agnostic Front - My Life My Way
Algodón Egipcio - La Lucha Constante
Aretha Franklin - Take a Look: Complete on Columbia (12 CDs)
Assasin - Breaking the Silence
Baby Dee - Regifted Light
Belong - Common Era
Bing Ji Ling - Shadow to Shine
Blodwyn Pig - Lost Broadcasts
Boat - Dress Like Your Idols
Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys - 1940-1947 Texas, Hollywood and Chicago (4 CDs)
Born Of Osiris - The Discovery
By A Thread - s/t
CKY - B-Sides & Rarities
Chicago - Chicago VI (vinyl)
Chris Brown - F.A.M.E.
Communipaw - Big Blue
Crosby & Nash - Another Stoney Evening (reissue) (vinyl)
Curtis Mayfield - Got to Find a Way
Dangerous Ponies - Dangerous Ponies
Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death (reissue) (vinyl)
Deep Dark Robot - 8 Songs About a Girl
Defeater - Empty Days & Sleepless Nights
Diplo - Riddimentary
Duran Duran - All You Need Is Now
Ed Askew - Imperfection (vinyl)
Edwyn Collins - Losing Sleep
Egyptrixx - Bible Eyes
Eldridge Rodriguez - You Are Released
Eliza Doolittle - Eliza Doolittle
Ellen Allien - Dust Remixes
Emmylou Harris - Live in Germany 2000
Eulogies - Tear the Fences Down
Fairport Convention Featuring Sandy Denny - Ebbets Field 1974
Gary Higgins - Dream a While Back
Gay Beast - To Smithereens
Gord Downie - The Grand Bounce
Green Day - Awesome As F**k (Live CD/DVD)
Gucci Mane - The Return Of Mr. Zone 6
Harvey Mandel - Best of Harvey Mandel
Howlin' Wolf - The Howlin Wolf Album (reissue)
James Blake - James Blake
Janis Ian - Between the Lines
Jascha Heifetz - Jascha Heifetz (104-disc box set)
Jennifer Hudson - I Remember Me
Joe Bonamassa - Dust Bowl
Josh Kelley - Georgia Clay
Ke$ha - I Am The Dance Commander + I Command You To Dance:The Remix Album
Keren Ann - 101
Kinks - Kinda Kinks (2 CDs)
Kinks - Kinks (2 CDs)
Kinks - Kinks Kontroversy (2 CDs)
Kirby Stone - Four Wow
Kirk Franklin - Hello Fear
Laura Jansen - Bells
Leverage Models - Interim Deliverable
Lonely Forest - Arrows
Maggie Bjorklund - Coming Home
Mike & Peggy Seeger - Fly Down Little Bird
Panic! At The Disco - Vices & Virtues
Parenthetical Girls - Privilege, Pt. III: Mend & Make Do
Peabo Bryson - Reaching for the Sky / Crosswinds (2 CDs)
Peace - My Face
Pet Shop Boys - The Most Incredible Thing: Original Score
Pharoahe Monch - W.A.R (We Are Renegades)
Pointer Sisters - Contact Import
Primal Scream - Screamadelica: 20th Anniversary Limited Collection (7-disc CD & vinyl box set)
Protest The Hero - Scurrilous
Queen - Day at the Races (3 CDs)
Queen - Deep Cuts 1973-1976
Queen - Night at the Opera (3 CDs)
Queen - Queen (3 CDs)
Queen - Queen II (3 CDs)
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack (3 CDs)
Rainbow - Down to Earth (remastered with bonus CD)
Rainbow Rising - Deluxe Edition (2 CDs)
Richard Ashcroft - United Nations of Sound
Rick Nelson - Rockin at the Universal
Ringo Deathstarr - Colour Trip (vinyl)
Robin Zander - Countryside Blvd.
Saliva - Under Your Skin
Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs - The MGM Singles
Seu Jorge - Carolina (reissue) (vinyl)
Sir Douglas Quintet - The Mono Singles '68-72
Sky Ferreira - As If!
Solomon Burke & De Dijk - Hold On Tight
Soundgarden - Live on I-5 (2 LPs) (vinyl)
Soundgarden - Telephantasm: A Retrospective (3 LPs) (vinyl)
TesseracT - One Century
The Books - Lost and Safe
The Haunted - Unseen
The Lonely Forest - Arrows
The Sandwitches - Mrs. Jones' Cookies
The Soundtrack of Our Lives - Golden Greats No. 1
The Strokes - Angles
The Sway Machinery -The House of Friendly Ghosts Vol. 1
The Unthanks - Last
The Vaccines - What Did You Expect From the Vaccines
The Wrong Words - The Wrong Words
Tommy Shaw - The Great Divide
Van Der Graff Generator - Grounding in Numbers Import
Various Artists - Essential Guide to Colombian Music
Various Artists - John Leguizamo: Ghetto Klown: Music From My Hood (soundtrack)
Various Artists - Piano Tribute to Queen
Various Artists - Sucker Punch (soundtrack)
Various Artists - Sufjan Stevens Seven Swans Tribute LP
Wadsworth Mansion - Sweet Mary
William Fitzsimmons - Gold in the Shadow
Yellowcard - When You're Through Thinking Say Yes


New Jazz Releases

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.

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King of Limbs by Radiohead to Be Released On Vinyl

Radiohead, formed in 1985, has seen worldwide success since their debut studio album, "Pablo Honey," released in 1993 and their single "Creep" exploded across the airwaves. In 2005, they were even ranked at number 73 on the list of "The Greatest Artists of All Time" in Rolling Stone Magazine.

The online release of "The King of Limbs" on February 19 was given four stars by Rolling Stone and an eight out of ten by Spin Magazine. SoundStage Direct will be selling the 12-inch vinyl album when it becomes available on March 28th, and is currently reserving pre-orders. The CD will also hit stores the same day.

Radiohead will also be releasing a "newspaper" edition on May 9th. This edition will include both the CDs and two clear 10" vinyl records in a purpose-built record sleeve. It will include large sheets of artwork, 625 tiny pieces of artwork, and a full-color piece of oxo-degradable plastic to hold it all together. The "newspaper" edition will also be released with a digital download of the album.

The new album, "The King of Limbs", is the first album since the band independently released "In Rainbows" in 2007. It was first released digitally and fans were able to set their own price for the download. When it was later released in physical form, it was praised by critics and topped the charts at Billboard and held a position there for 28 weeks.

The artwork on the album was designed by Stanley Donwood, and pays homage to Northern European fairy tales and their theme of symbiotic relationships with forests and woods. "It's very much about natural forms. I'd heard something about the northern European imagination, in the sense of all our fairy stories and mythical creatures, they all come from the woods," said Donwood. "Me and Thom (Yorke) were working on these ideas of strange, multi-limbed creatures that are neither malevolent or benevolent, they're simply there, part of the living spirit of the forest. That's come through into all of the work."

The name "The King of Limbs" is in reference to a 1,000 year-old oak tree in Wiltshire's Savernake Forest, three miles from Tottenham House where segments of 'In Rainbows" were recorded. Though the tree is not seen anywhere in regards to the album, it was an inspiration, and the phrase also appears in the 23rd chapter of the Qu'ran.

On February 18th, Radiohead released the track "Lotus Flower" and a music video for the song on their blog, and fans quickly began buzzing about the new eight track album. Los Angeles Times music blogger, Ann Powers said that it "can be heard from several different angles", and "Fans and critics have already been registering wildly divergent reactions: Some think it's one of the band's best efforts; others find it too low-key or similar to previous work; a few consider it awfully gloomy, and a few others wish it were less abstract." Nevertheless, Radiohead is a band that has always drawn in their fans and at SoundStage Direct, they expect no different.

About the Company:
SoundStage Direct, LLC is an online independent store based in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, with the largest selection of new releases and vinyl reissues online. We have vinyl LPs in every genre and in a variety of formats available ready to be shipped right to your doorstep. We also have some amazing closeout deals available at our LP outlet that are worth checking out!

Contact:
Seth Frank
SoundStage Direct, LLC
212 Decatur St Doylestown, PA 18901
1.877.WAX.TRAX (929.8729)
http://www.soundstagedirect.com/

As a special bonus, the first three who email me at rbenson30@wi.rr.com will get a $10 Gift certificates at SoundStageDirect!   Just add 'Radiohead' to the subject line and be one of the first three!!

Vinyl Record News & Music Notes

from our friends at vinylcollective.com

Top 10 Records – March 21, 2011

 Here are the Top 10 Records For the Week of March 14 to March 21, 2011:

1.) The Menzingers – Chamberlain Waits LP
2.) Defeater – Empty Days & Sleepless Nights
3.) Glassjaw – Worship And Tribute LP
4.) Yellowcard – When You’re Through Thinking, Say Yes LP (Exclusive)
5.) OFF – Compared to What / Rotten Apple 7″
6.) Less Than Jake – TV EP 7″
7.) Silverstein – Rescue
8.) Moving Mountains – Waves
9.) Coheed and Cambria – The Second Stage Turbine Blade
10.) The Creepshow – They All Fall Down (Picture Disc)

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SPINEFARM RECORDS To Support 'Record Store Day' With 6 Limited-Edition 7" Singles

As regular manufacturers of vinyl, Spinefarm Records are delighted to be celebrating Record Store Day on April 16, 2011 with six seven-inch singles that feature tracks from some of the their key artists. All of the singles will be strictly limited to 300 copies and will come in a Spinefarm Records house bag specifically designed for the event.

Here is the full list of releases:

Single 1:

RAMMSTEIN - "Waidmann's Heil" / "Liebe Ist Für Alle Da". Both tracks are taken from the Berlin band's current "Liebe Ist Für Alle Da" album.

Single 2:

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH - "Falling In Hate" / "Far From Home". Both tracks are taken from the U.S. band's current "War Is The Answer" album, now approaching gold status at home.

Single 3:

CHILDREN OF BODOM / KILLING JOKE - "Northpole Throwdown" / "Fresh Fever From The Skies". The COB track is taken from the Finnish band's just-released "Relentless, Reckless Forever" album, while the KILLING JOKE track comes from their latest "Absolute Dissent" release.

Single 4:

HELLYEAH / JETTBLACK - "Pole Rider" / "When It Comes To Lovin'". The HELLYEAH track is taken from the U.S. crew's second "Stampede" album, while the JETTBLACK track is taken from the U.K. band's "Get Your Hands Dirty" debut album.

JETTBLACK will be taking time out from the recording of the follow-up to "Get Your Hands Dirty" to sign copies of the seven-inch single and play an acoustic set at The Rock Box in Camberley (Surrey, England) at 1 p.m. on April 16.

Single 5:

HELLOWEEN / APOCALYPTICA - "The Sage, The Fool, The Sinner" / "Bring Them To Light". The HELLOWEEN track is taken from their latest "7 Sinners" album, while the APOCALYPTICA track (featuring GOJIRA's Joe Duplantier on guest vocals) comes from their most recent "7th Symphony" release.

Single 6:

THE ANSWER - "Rock 'n' Roll Outlaw" / "Fooled Me" (demo). Both tracks are exclusive to this release. "Rock 'n' Roll Outlaw" is a cover of the ROSE TATTOO classic (1978), while "Fooled Me" is a demo recording of a track at one point in contention for the Irish band's third studio album, currently being mixed.

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Record Store Day Newswire: Limited Edition 7″ from the dB’s

The dB’s are releasing a limited edition 45rpm single of “Picture Sleeve” b/w “Write Back” on Record Store Day. The former is a co-written by Chris Stamey and Peter Holsapple, and the flip is Will Rigby’s first song with The dB’s. They’re from the forthcoming album—their first with the original four guys in thirty years.

The db’s will be performing on Record Store Day at Criminal Records in Atlanta, with Fan Modine.

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pitchfork.com has an indepth interview with all that is jack white, check it out, well worth reading!

Jack White Talks Third Man, White Stripes, More

Inside the Third Man Rolling Record Store, White chats about his label, music plans, collaborations with Jay-Z and Bob Dylan, and the breakup of the White Stripes

Like a new father showing off his newborn child, Jack White was all smiles as he lead me on a tour of the Third Man Rolling Record Store, his Third Man label's new vinyl-selling emporium on wheels. Making its public debut at SXSW, the Rolling Record Store was parked in a parking lot at the corner of 4th and Colorado in downtown Austin, with a line around the block to check it out.

Read more at pitchfork.com

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that's some cool cover art!

ARTIZAN: Debut Album Artwork Unveiled

U.S. melodic metal act ARTIZAN has set April 29 as the release date for its full-length debut, "Curse Of The Artizan", via the German label Pure Steel Records. The effort was recorded with legendary producer Jim Morris, who has previously worked with ICED EARTH, DEATH, CANNIBAL CORPSE and JAG PANZER, among many others.

Read more at Blabbermouth.com
















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cool concept

Vinyl fans listen to record in silence

by Staff Reporter, South Wales Echo

THE world’s oldest record shop teamed up with a local music lover to hold a special silent event yesterday.

Spillers Records and Steve Shepherd teamed up to hold the first Real Record event in the city centre.

The event invited vinyl fans to the O’Neills pub, on Trinity Street, to listen to Captain Beefheart’s 1970 album Lick My Decals Off, Baby! and Frank Zappa’s 1969 album Hot Rats.

Mobile phones were switched off and conversation not allowed during the music.

Read More walesonline.co.uk 

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a great read with some great insights from record lovers!

Young people with old souls prefer records to CDs

By LEANNE ITALIE - Associated Press

NEW YORK -- In most ways, Sarah McCarthy is your average high schooler. She has a job, college plans, but also a peculiar passion for a 16-year-old: She's a vinyl junkie.

That's right, analog. And none of that hipster new stuff or a USB-ready turntable from Urban Outfitters.

To this senior from Centreville, Md., there's nothing like the raw crackle, the depth of sound, her delicate hand on diamond-tipped stylus to spin from the dusty stash of records she found in the basement of her grandfather - yes, grandfather.

Read more: www.bnd.com

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Music Charts - March 21, 2008

USA

Albums:
1. Adele : 21
2. Marsha Ambrosius : Late Nights & Early Mornings
3. Mumford and Sons : Sigh No More
4. Justin Bieber : Never Say Never The Remixes EP
5. Various : Now 37
6. Dropkick Murphys : Going Out In Style
7. Aaron Lewis : Twon Line (EP)
8. Justin Bieber : My World 2.0
9. Bruno Mars : Doo-Wops & Holligans
10. Pink : Greatest Hits ... So Far


UK

Albums:
1. Adele : 21
2. Jessie J. : Who You Are
3. Beady Eye : Different Gear, Still Speeding
4. Adele : 19
5. Rihanna : Loud
6. Bruno Mars : Doo Wops & Hooligans
7. Clare Maguire : Light After Dark
8. Mumford and Sons : Sigh No More
9. Alexis Jordan : Alexis Jordan
10. Cee Lo Green : The Lady Killer


Europe

Albums:
1. Take That : Progress
2. Rihanna : Loud
3. Bruce Springsteen : The Promise
4. Shakira : Sale El Sol
5. Pink : Greatest Hits ... So Far
6. Bon Jovi : Greatest Hits
7. James Blunt : Some Kind Of Trouble
8. Susan Boyle : The Gift
9. Kings Of Leon : Come Around Sundown
10. JLS : Outta This World

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and in music history for today:

"God Bless America" was recorded by Kate Smith in 1939.

In 1952, the Cleveland Arena was the site of what will become recognized as the world's first major Rock 'n' Roll concert. With over 10,000 people inside and another 20,000 waiting outside, Alan Freed was set to broadcast the event 'live' over WJW radio. Paul Williams and His Hucklebuckers were playing their first song when city officials decided to shut the proceedings down, citing fire code violations. Doors and windows were smashed, a few fights broke out, but no one asked for their $1.75 admission back.

In 1964, the Beatles replaced one Billboard chart topper with another when "She Loves You" took over from "I Want To Hold Your Hand".

In 1973, the BBC banned all teenybopper acts from appearing in person on Top of the Pops after a riot following a David Cassidy performance.

In 1976, David Bowie, Iggy Pop and several others are arrested in New York and charged with possession of marijuana. there's a surprise....

In 1981, Although they had been making records for ten years, REO Speedwagon enjoyed their first taste of success when "Keep On Loving You" became the top tune in the US. The band would go on to place twelve more songs in the Top 40.

In 1984, Yoko Ono opens Strawberry Fields, an area in New York's Central Park dedicated to the memory of her late husband, John Lennon.

In 1987, 35 year-old Dean Martin Jr. of Dino, Desi and Billy, died when his F-4 Phantom fighter-jet crashed into California's San Bernardino Mountains during a snowstorm about 100 kilometers east of Los Angeles. Dino was serving in the Air National Guard at the time. He was married and divorced from ice skater Dorothy Hamill and actress Olivia Hussey.

Madonna's album "Like A Prayer" was released in 1989.

Leo Fender, the inventor of the Telecaster and Stratocaster guitars, died from Parkinson’s disease in 1991. He started mass producing solid body electric guitars in the late 1940s and when he sold his guitar company in 1965, sales were in excess of $40 million a year.

In 2002, John "Speedy" Keene, vocalist and drummer for Thunderclap Newman died at the age of 56. The band's biggest hit came in 1969 with "Something In The Air".



In 2006, three South African women won a six-year court battle giving them 25% of all past and future royalties from the song “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” composed in 1939 by their father, Solomon Linda. A cleaner at a Johannesburg record company when he wrote it, Linda received virtually nothing for his work and died in 1962 with just $25 in his bank account. It is estimated that the song, recorded by Pete Seeger, The Karl Denver Trio (as “Wimoweh”), The Kingston Trio, The Tokens and R.E.M., had earned $15 million from its use in Disney’s The Lion King alone.

Birthday wishes to Eddie Money (1949), Roger Hodgson of Supertramp (1950) Andrew Copeland of Sister Hazel (1968)