Vinyl Record News & Music Notes

nice to see our beloved vinyl doing well in other parts of the world!

Real Groovy back to basics on its 30th birthday

By Dan Satherley

Kiwi music journo and Wildside Records founder Murray Cammick says it's great that Real Groovy Records has survived to see its 30th birthday this weekend.

Founded in 1981, Real Groovy was initially on Mt Eden Rd, and moved to its current location on Queen St in 1991. This weekend it celebrates 30 years in business with live performances from a range of local bands.

Real Groovy over the years has branched out into CDs, clothing, books and concert promotion, bringing artists like Townes van Sandt, Lucinda Williams and Screaming Jay Hawkins to our shores.

Read the rest of the article at 3news.co.nz

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another great story about vinyl, again from nz

A revolution in vinyl . . .

BRIAN Wafer is no stranger to Gisborne and most of his visits have been music-related — one of the most memorable being when he brought San Francisco punks All You Can Eat for a 1990s gig at the long-lost River Bar.

But this time he will be bringing more luggage than he ever has before and it will be stupefyingly heavy.

The Taranaki-based music entrepreneur has long been known for his retro sensibilities . . . bands he released on his record label, Ima Hitt, generally leaning towards the classic punk genre.

Now he has taken that a step further by organising a nationwide series of Record Fairs, where he gets like-minded people together to buy, sell and exchange vinyl albums.

Wafer this week brings his travelling record show to Gisborne and says he hopes local collectors will get in on the goodness.

Read the rest at gisborneherald.co.nz

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our friends at blogs.riverfronttimes.com have another great installment of Last Collector Standing

Last Collector Standing

Griffin Kay on Novelty Records and the Pay-What-You Want Model

By Jon Scorfina

Often times the biggest music collectors are musicians themselves. This is certainly true for So Many Dynamos guitarist and long-time record collector Griffin Kay. We recently met with Kay outside his Soulard apartment as he was carrying a new record player upstairs. His fiancé Nicki's cat had used their previous turntable as a cozy, rotating bed, leaving its turn-belt inoperable. After setting up the new record player and listening to side A of Jets To Brazil's Four Cornered Night, we discussed So Many Dynamos history of releasing vinyl and a rare record sold in a specialized pizza box.

Read the rest at blogs.riverfronttimes.com

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our friends at gigwise.com are at it again with another album covers list, this time their take on the sexiest album covers of all time. the usual suspects are on the list, along with some I haven't seen before. enjoy..... although I don't find their number one pick very sexy at all...

Limp Bizkit, Katy Perry: The Sexiest Album Covers Ever

Inspired by 'Gold Cobra'...


Limp Bizkit have unveiled the artwork for their new album 'Gold Cobra' – and it's certainly eye-catching.

Featuring three semi-naked women sitting under the overhanging shadow of a cobra snake, it got Gigwise thinking about some of the sexiest album covers of all time.

In our list below, you'll find artwork from the likes of The Rolling Stones, Madonna, Katy Perry and Red Hot Chili Peppers - it seems no artist is averse to posing provocatively, or at least putting some more of sexuality into their album covers.

Read the rest at gigwise.com








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Neil Young to release lost live album

Neil Young will scheduled to release 'A Treasure,' June 14, on Reprise Records. The new album will be available in stores on CD and Blu-ray and on iTunes.

The album will also be available in a limited-edition four-disc 180-gram vinyl edition, which will only be available exclusively through the official NeilYoung.com store and participating Record Store Day independent music retailers. . (The fourth side of the vinyl edition, which will be available Tuesday June 7, will feature special artwork etched into the disc.)

The 12-track live album includes songs recorded during Young’s 1984 and 1985 US tours.

Track list:

1. Amber Jean
2. Are You Ready For The Country
3. It Might Have Been
4. Bound For Glory
5 .Let Your Fingers Do The Walking
6. Flying On The Ground Is Wrong
7. Motor City
8. Soul Of A Woman
9. Get Back To The Country
10. Southern Pacific
11 .Nothing Is Perfect
12. Grey Rider

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GRIMEY'S BEST SELLERS 5/23 - 5/29, 2011

Top 25 Vinyl:

1. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
2. Iron & Wine / The Low Anthem - Daytrotter Sessions
3. Battles - Ice Cream 12"
4. Thurston Moore - Demolished Thoughts
5. David Bazan - Strange Negotiations
6. Jacuzzi Boys - Island Avenue 7"
7. Foster The People - Torches
8. Paul Simon - So Beautiful Or So What
9. Jacuzzi Boys - No Seasons
10. LCD Soundsystem - London Sessions
11. Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
12. Adele - 21
13. The Black Keys - Brothers
14. Syl Johnson - Mythological 45s box set
15. Weekend - End Times 7"
16. KORT - Invariable Heartache
17. Explosions In The Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care
18. Okkervil River - I Am Very Far
19. Heavy Cream - Danny
20. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
21. Various - Cult Cargo: Salsa Boricua De Chicago
22. Amon Tobin - Isam
23. Eric Clapton - Unplugged
24. Natural Child - 1971
25. Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

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from my vinyl friend over at vinylrecordarchitect.com

Organizing Your Record Collection

The other day, our good friends Nick and Jennifer were visiting. As often happens when they stop over, I put a record on and we talked, over and/or about the music we were listening to. Or about something else...

On this occasion, however, something funny happened. Instead of just pulling a record off the shelf, I happened to refer to the printed list of records I have put together, a multipage print-out of the spreadsheet I started years ago for my collection, clipped together in a plastic report sleeve to protect it. From what I am not sure...anyway.

"What's that?" Jennifer inquired, smiling broadly, "Is that a list of your records?"

"Yes," I squeaked. "I have a spreadsheet that has all of my albums on it," I continued bashfully.

Jennifer laughed. "No way, dude,!" I smiled, not knowing what to say. She continued, "Paul, you should write about how you keep track of your records on your blog."

Please read the rest of this informative post at blog.vinylrecordarchitect.com

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this from jack white and thirdmanrecords.com

Seasick Steve releases out now

Seasick Steve, our favorite 3 string playin waffle eatin’ bad ass supreme (though he calls himself simply a “song and dance man”), released his first single with us on Tuesday May 24th. Jack White produced and contributes drum skillz to Steve’s renditions of two Mississippi Fred McDowell classics, Write Me A Few Lines and Levee Camp Blues. The male/female vox on “Lines” captivate over a Zep-worthy rhythm section while the slow-burn slide of “Levee” is deep, down and dirgey like the best of Delta blues.

On June 7th we’ll be releasing Steve’s latest full length on LP and CD here in the States called You Can’t Teach An Old Dog New Tricks. The twelve-track album, recorded through the fall of 2010, was produced by The Dog hisself (Seasick Steve) and Henry James Wold and mixed by Vance Powell at Air Studios Studios in London.

The LP and 7” is available now on our website as a bundle package for just $20, and will be available digitally on May 31st

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fantasic interview, great reading!

Interview with Tom Linton from Jimmy Eat World: Re-Invented

by Alicia Fiorletta

Since the release of the 2001 album Bleed American, Jimmy Eat World has solidified as one of the most influential acts within the alternative rock and pop-punk scenes. Their number-one, feel-good smash “The Middle” was a staple in countless teen comedies as the band began to rise to mainstream stardom. A decade later vocalist/guitarist Jim Adkins, bassist Rick Burch, guitarist Tom Linton and percussionist Zach Lind haven’t shown any signs of slowing down. With seven albums under their belt, the Mesa, Arizona, troupe is trekking the globe in support of their newest album, Invented, which was released this past September.

Read the rest of the interview at theaquarian.com

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ROGER GLOVER To Release 'If Life Was Easy' In July; Artwork Unveiled 

DEEP PURPLE bassist Roger Glover's new solo album. "If Life Was Easy", is scheduled for release in Europe on July 11 via earMUSIC/Edel. The follow-up to 2002's "Snapshot" was reportedly recorded in 2007 but is only now surfacing. It features Roger's daughter Gillian Glover, with lead vocals by Ronnie Bramblett.


Read more at Blabbermouth








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great story about vinyl in florida, i love it, what a collection of historic music!

Going 'bananas' over records: MyFoxTAMPABAY.com

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and if you up north of the border, check this out

Get your fill of vinyl at Record Fair

For the first time since 2004, the Halifax Record Fair is back and Saturday’s event is expected to welcome hundreds of vinyl enthusiasts and collectors from across the Maritimes.

The fair will see over 50,000 records on sale — as well as unique pieces of music and memorabilia.

Organizers are also expecting people of all ages, from vinyl lovers to a new generation of fans.

The fair runs Saturday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Halifax’s Forum Maritime Hall. Tickets are $5 before 10 a.m. and $2 after 10 a.m.

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and in our northwest,

Make your way to the Elks Lodge Saturday, June 4, for the third occasional Olympia Record Show

The Olympia Record show will feature live music by DJ Wildman James and Selector Edmund, a full bar for those of drinking age and-of course-tons of everybody's favorite round, vinyl, soul pleasers: records! For $2 admission, this event excites dealers, collectors and dabblers alike.

Vinyl records have long been coveted for their superior sound quality, artistic covers and collectability. Many people believe vinyl holds precedence over other musical formats.

Olympia Record Show
Saturday, June 4, 5-9 p.m., $2
Olympia Elks Lodge, 1818 Fourth Ave. E., Olympia,
www.olympiarecordshow.com

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and in music history for today:

In 1896, Guglielmo Marconi was granted a patent for his electro-magnetic wave communication system, later to be called radio.

In 1958, Alan Freed kicks off his new Rock 'n' Roll radio show on WABC in New York, which will run from 7:15 PM to 11:00 PM, Monday through Friday.

In 1962, Ray Charles' "I Can't Stop Loving You" sat on top of the Billboard Pop chart, making believers out those who told him he would lose his fan base if he recorded Country and Western songs. The album it came from sold over a million copies, becoming the first Gold record for ABC-Paramount.

In 1964, the Rolling Stones make their American television debut on WABC's The Les Crane Show.

In 1967, in the U.S., "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" was released by the Beatles.

In 1973, Paul McCartney, backed by his new group Wings, was back on top of the Billboard Hot 100 with a song he wrote for his wife Linda, "My Love". a song that was way overplayed at the time

Bruce Springsteen's album, "Darkness On The Edge of Town" was released in 1978.

In 1979, Donna Summer attains the sixth of her thirteen US Top Ten hits and the second of her four Billboard Pop chart number one singles with "Hot Stuff". The song was a #11 hit in the UK.

In 2000, the RIAA certified Garth Brooks' "Double Live" at the 13 million level. This matched the highest-certified live album record held by Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band's "Live 1975-1985."

In 2006, Vince Welnick, keyboard player for The Tubes and later The Grateful Dead, committed suicide. The 55-year-old musician stood on a hillside behind his Forestville home and drew a knife across his throat in front of his wife.

In 2008, rock legend and pioneer Bo Diddley died of heart failure at the age of 79. He had suffered a stroke last Spring and had a heart attack last August, from which he never fully recovered.




birthdays today include: Michael Steel from the Bangles(1959), composer Marvin Hamlisch (1944) and the never aging Charlie Watts from the Rolling Stones (1941)

Ask Mr. Music by Jerry Osborne

FOR THE WEEK OF MAY 30, 2011

DEAR JERRY: I am curious about an obscure reworking of Bobby Vinton's “Roses Are Red My Love.” This version is by the You Know Who Group.

I always liked their recording, but after nearly 50 years I still don't know who the members are of the You Know Who Group. They sound British, but are they? Do they have any other recordings? Who wrote “Roses Are Red My Love?” Is it available on CD?

I am enclosing a December 5, 1964 WOKY (92 in Milwaukee) Lucky Number Survey, and No. 28 that week is the You Know Who Group's “Roses Are Red My Love.”
—Stephen K. Hauser, Elm Grove, Wisc.

DEAR STEPHEN: The You Know Who Group paradox is that when their record was played on the radio, dee jays kept reminding us that we knew who. And though we didn't know who, even they didn't know who. Neither did anyone else!

Now, 46 years later, we still don't know who comprised this mysterious quartet.

But there are a few things we do know:

“Roses Are Red My Love” is just the first of three variations of the same five-word title. Within a couple of weeks of its release, the same record could be found labeled “(Roses Are Red) My Love” and “My Love (Roses Are Red).”

All of which brought about a highly unusual occurrence for the trade publications.

For the first week of January 1965, No. 46 on Cash Box is “Roses Are Red (My Love),” yet No. 43 on Billboard that week is “My Love (Roses Are Red).” About four weeks earlier, Billboard gave the title as “Roses Are Red My Love.”

Regardless of which title is on the A-side, the B-side, “Playboy,” remains constant (4 Corners of the World FC-4-113). Both sides were written by R. Esposito, whose connection to the group, other than songwriter, is not yet known.

Those rankings represent peak positions on both charts, though “Roses” rose to greater heights in numerous North American markets, including the Top 30 in Milwaukee.

Possibly due to some objection from the owners of the 1962 Bobby Vinton hit, “Roses Are Red (My Love)” — a completely different song having next to nothing in common with the You Know Who Group's tune — they were motivated to vary the wording of their title.

We know the You Know Who Group recorded a dozen tracks at Talent Masters Studios in Manhattan, all produced by T.M's esteemed chief engineer, Bob Gallo.

In early 1965, those 12 takes made up the group's first and only album, “The 'You Know Who' Group (The Boys with That Great New English Sound).” Though the subtitle does not imply this bunch is from England, they would not have objected to teenage record buyers inferring it to mean this band just arrived from the UK. Even the record label name, International Allied (IA-420), evokes a trans-Atlantic connotation.

Interestingly, “Roses Are Red My Love” (using that title) eventually got picked up for British release in 1965 (London HLR-9947). On that label it states “Recorded by 4 Corners, New York.” But the You Know Who Group did not make the NME Top 30.

Whether or not Gallo, also an accomplished guitarist, plays on these cuts is unknown, but we know Bob assembled a group of New York-area studio talent, with singers who convincingly feigned English accents and fit right in with numerous other British Invasion acts.

If those individual studio musicians were in fact well-known, that could explain an in-house, “you know who we are but we're not saying” gimmick.

Among those 12 songs are their two follow-up singles, “This Day Love” and “Reelin' and Rockin'” — the latter being a great version of the Chuck Berry classic. Still, neither of those charted.

Of course the LP includes “Roses Are Red My Love” and “Playboy.”

As for the four young men, wearing masks and capes, pictured on the album cover, I'd say there is almost no chance they have anything to do with the music contained therein.

A few compilation CDs with “Roses Are Red My Love” are available online, as is the original 1965 LP ($50 to $100).

The least expensive option is “Hard to Find 45s on CD, Volume 10: 1960-1965” (Eric CD 11528). Here you get 24 golden goodies for $15, about half of which are on CD for the first time.


IZ ZAT SO? R&B fans may know of Talent Masters Studios, and Bob Gallo, especially in connection with “I Wanna Be (Your Everything)”; “Searchin' for My Baby”; “Follow Your Heart”; and other mid-'60s Carnival releases by the Manhattans.

Carnival co-founder, Joe Evans, could have recorded this Jersey City group closer to home, but his high regard for Gallo's studio skills is what brought the Manhattans to Manhattan.

They recorded their first eight Carnival singles, all Top 40 hits, with Bob Gallo at Talent Masters.

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: www.jerryosborne.com

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

 

Copyright 2011 Osborne Enterprises- Reprinted By Exclusive Permission

Vinyl Record News & Music Notes

great to see more of Roger Dean's incredible art work!!

YES: 'Fly From Here' Album Details Revealed

The most influential and ground-breaking progressive rock 'n' roll band in history, legendary rockers and Grammy Award winners YES, will release their first studio album in a decade, "Fly From Here", on July 1 in Europe and July 12 in North America through Frontiers Records. The group's long-awaited 20th studio LP is the follow up to 2001's "Magnification" and marks the band's reunion with producer Trevor Horn, who helmed YES' chart-topping 1983 album "90125" and also sang for YES on the "Drama" LP in 1980.

"Fly From Here" will be released in four different configurations: CD, CD plus a bonus DVD including a documentary "Making of the Album" in digipak edition, a gatefold vinyl and a special box set limited edition including the CD, DVD, vinyl, t-shirt, poster, sticker and a lithograph of the cover art.

Read the rest of the story and get the tracklist at Blabbermouth



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Green Day Says 'We have a ton of new songs'

Billie Joe Armstrong tweeted that the band are very hard at work on new material

Green Day have "a ton of new songs" written for their next album, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has recently revealed.

The band had previously not revealed any details of when they would be recording the follow-up to their 2009 eighth studio album '21st Century Breakdown', but Armstrong has now said they are hard at work on new material.

According to Armstrong: "OK. Here's the scoop. Green Day has been jamming new songs everyday. There's a tonne of new songs. The direction is fresh and high energy. Feels great."

"I don't want to give away too much, but just know that Me, Mike Dirnt – [bassist], Tre [Cool - [drummer] and Jason White – [touring guitarist] are collaborating and having the best time playing music."

Cool, can't wait, they are reaching legendary status in my music world!

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Ozzy Osbourne to be given Kerrang! rock legend award

Ozzy Osbourne will be honoured as a legend at this year's Kerrang! rock awards.

The 62-year-old will be given the prize at a ceremony in London on 9 June.

The singer is also playing a show in the capital in the same month to mark the rock magazine's 30th anniversary.

He said: "It's an incredible honour to be the second recipient of Kerrang's legend award. I'm looking forward to you going crazy at the 30th Anniversary on 21 June in Hammersmith."

Read more at bbc.co.uk

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stunning cover art!

Opeth Reveal Colorful Cover Art For Heritage

by Chris Harris

Called Heritage, Opeth’s tenth album drops September 20 through Roadrunner Records.

The CD was produced by Opeth frontman Mikael Åkerfeldt and was recorded earlier this year at Atlantis studios in Stockholm. Mixing duties were handled by Steven Wilson and Åkerfeldt. Longtime collaborator Travis Smith also worked with Åkerfeldt to create, design and execute the album’s artwork.

Heritage will be released in a number of configurations: a standard version; a special edition loaded with extras; a box set exclusive to the Roadrunner and the band’s own official Omerch webstore; and a double LP

Read more at gunshyassassin.com











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fantastic look at one of the most cherished musical works of the 60's, well worth the read!

‘It’s Certainly a Thrill’ – The Story Of The Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’

By Live4ever

It’s hard to imagine a world without ‘Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band‘. The physicist C.P. Snow once said if Einstein hadn’t locked himself away, indulged in a spot of chin-stroking and eventually conceived the General Theory of Relativity, which revolutionised the way we think about science, we’d still be waiting for that idea to occur to someone else now. In the same vein, you have to wonder that if The Beatles hadn’t locked themselves away in Abbey Road during those few fruitful months over 40 years ago, following their self-imposed exile from live duties in 1966, whether we might equally still be waiting for a band to revolutionise the face of popular music today.

It may be a stretch to say Sgt. Pepper’s invented the modern idea of an ‘album’.

Read more at live4ever.uk.com





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Coldplay Releases Cover Art, Lyrics To New Single ‘Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall’

By Sierra Marquina

Check out your first look at Coldplay‘s single art for their upcoming track “Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall” above!

The band released the official cover art and lyrics for the soon-to-be-hit via their website and Twitter, leaving us fans in much anticipation for our hearts to “start beating to [our] favorite song” Friday, June 3rd, when the track is released digitally.

The band will also be streaming the track on their official website Friday, as well as debuting the song live when they perform at Rock im Park in Germany this weekend.

Read more and get the lyrics at ryanseacrest.com












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It wasn't a rip off; it was a love in

An inflammatory article in The New York Times provoked the following letter from John Lennon in 1971, defensively penned on a couple of sheets of in-flight stationery as the Beatle crossed the Atlantic. Journalist Craig McGregor's piece, entitled 'The Beatles Betrayal,' was clear in its accusation: that a number of white bands — The Beatles in particular — were "ripping off" black music without so much as a nod to the original artists, many of whom were struggling to make ends meet whilst the Fab Four accumulated a fortune off the back of their efforts.

Clearly the charge stung.

The vendor of this lot wrote the article in The New York Times, entitled 'The Beatles Betrayal'. In it, he accused the Beatles, and other white artistes, of imitating and exploiting black music. John was stung into sending this response and it is clear that he was a little upset at the charges levelled against him and his fellow musicians. It is a concise summation of how much the Beatles and their contemporaries admired American black music and the debt they owed to it. John's comment about the Beatles' own early writing skills is particularly interesting as, in less than a decade after John and Paul had first met in 1957, they were ranked amongst the 20th century's greatest popular music composers.

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Alice Cooper Forced to Call Off Show Due to Food Poisoning; First Show Cancellation in 30 Years

Alice Cooper is one of the hardest working men in rock, as is shown by his over thirty years of touring without cancelling a date. Unfortunately, that amazing run has come to an end.

Cooper was scheduled to appear in Santiago, Chile when he suffered from food poisoning. Alice was on his way from Mexico City to Santiago and had Chilean Sea Bass on the plane.

Read more at our friends at vintagevinylnews.com

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Ringo Starr press conference and performance to be broadcast live

Ringo Starr press conference and special performance to be broadcast live on www.muzu.tv/ringostarr

On June 1st 2011 at 15:00 BST Ringo Starr and His All Starr Band will be inviting fans around the world to join them online for a live press conference and special performance.

Following a short musical performance, Ringo Starr will introduce the members of his All Starr Band as they prepare to embark on their 2011 European tour.

Read the rest at music-news.com

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Metallica voted the best rock group of the last 30 years

The 'All Nightmare Long' group topped the poll compiled by British magazine Kerrang! of the most influential groups of the last 30 years, beating My Chemical Romance, Slipknot, Green Day and Foo Fighters.

Drummer Lars Ulrich said: "it gives me a very warm and fuzzy feeling that Kerrang! Magazine have voted Metallica as the band that most changed their lives. I remember the first issue of the magazine in 1981. I had made a pilgrimage to England because I was obsessed with the New Wave of British Heavy Metal. I travelled all over the country and that first issue accompanied me everywhere."

Read the rest and see the top ten at music-news.com





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and in music history for today:

The peerless Patsy Cline had her first recording session at Coral Records in 1955.

The Everly Brothers debuted on the Grand Ole Opry in 1957.

Also in 1957, Sam Cooke recorded the immortal "You Send Me" at Radio Recorders Studio in Los Angeles. The song will rise to the top of the US chart next December and become the first of Cook's 29 Billboard Top 40 hits.

In 1959, "The Battle Of New Orleans" by Johnny Horton hits the top of both the Country and Pop charts in the US, where it will stay for an amazing two months straight. The song was originally a poem written by high school teacher James Morriss in 1936, which he put to the music of an old fiddle tune known as "The Eighth Of January". Horton's version would become one of the largest selling records of the year and later won a Grammy Award.



In 1961, FM stereo was heard for the first time by listeners in Schenectady, New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. The FCC would adopt the standard a year later.

In 1963, Lesley Gore started a two week run at #1 on the U.S. singles chart with the Quincy Jones (then a staff producer for Mercury Records) produced “It's My Party.”

The Rolling Stones arrived in New York to begin their first tour in the US in 1964.

In 1966, during a 12 hour session at Abbey Road studios, The Beatles added overdubs on “Yellow Submarine,”with John Lennon blowing bubbles in a bucket of water and shouting "Full speed ahead Mister Captain!" Roadie Mal Evans played on a bass drum strapped to his chest, marching around the studio with The Beatles following behind (conga-line style) singing "We all live in a yellow submarine."

In 1967, in Britain, "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" was released by the Beatles. It was released June 2 in the U.S.

In 1968, Simon and Garfunkel reached the top of the US charts with "Mrs. Robinson", which was featured in the soundtrack of the film The Graduate, starring Dustin Hoffman and Ann Bancroft. The song went on to win a Grammy Award for the Best Contemporary Pop Performance by a Vocal Duo or Group.

Also in 1968, 24-year-old Merrilee Rush enters the Billboard Top 40 for the first and only time with "Angel Of The Morning", which will reach #7. Juice Newton would take the same song to #4 in 1981. "Angel of the Morning" was written by Chip Taylor (James Wesley Voight), the younger brother of the actor Jon Voight and the uncle of actress Angelina Jolie.

In 1971, Gladys Knight is the last musical guest to appear on the Ed Sullivan Show, which was canceled the next day after 23 years on the air. It was TV's longest running variety show and was a springboard for nearly every major music act in the 60's. Sullivan was so angry about the cancellation that he refused to do a final show, although he would return for several TV specials and a 25th-anniversary show in 1973. Ed Sullivan died of esophageal cancer at age 73 on October 13th, 1974.

In 1984, Nate Nelson, lead singer of the doo-wop group the Flamingos, died at the age of 52. He was with the group when they recorded their biggest hit, "I Only Have Eyes For You" in 1959 and joined the Platters three years later.

The #1 album in 1991 was 'Out of Time' by R.E.M.

In 1991, David Ruffin (Temptation) died in Philadelphia of a cocaine overdose. Ruffin sang lead vocal on some of the Temps biggest hits, "My Girl" and "Ain't Too Proud Too Beg". As a solo artist, he had hits with "My Whole World Ended The Moment You Left Me" and "Walk Away From Love", as well as "The Way You Do the Things You Do / My Girl medley" with Hall and Oates.

In 1996, Alan Blakely, rhythm guitar player for The Tremeloes, who scored a pair of 1967 hits in North America, "Here Comes My Baby" and "Silence Is Golden", died of cancer at the age of 54.

In 2003, Staind were at #1 on the U.S. album chart with 14 Shades Of Gray, the bands second U.S. #1.

birthday wishes to (among others), Pat Boone (77), Ronnie Wood (Faces, Jeff Beck Group, Rolling Stones) (64), Alan Wilder (Depeche Mode) (52), Simon Gallup (Cure) (51), Michael Joyce (Smiths) (48) and Alanis Morissette, who was born in 1974 (you do the math!)

Top 5 eBay Vinyl Record Sales - Week Ending 05/29/2011

Two Beatle acetates with Perry Cox authentication make the list this week, along with two 45's, a funk / deep soul record and an Eddie Cochran picture sleeve. The "Hello Goodbye" acetate has the working version of the song, "Hello Hello". #1 this week goes to a rare classical French LP of Bach Violin Sonatas.




1. LP - Michelle Auclair "Bach Violin Sonatas" Discophiles 209/210 French Pressing - $6,100.00

2. 45 - Rickey Andrews "Chances Are Your Dance Is Mine" / "You Are What My Heart Needs" Mars La Tour - $3,207.39

3. 10" - The Beatles "Hello Goodybye" EMI Acetate w/ Perry Cox Authentication - $2,772.22

4. 10" - The Beatles "I'll Follow The Sun" EMI Acetate w/ Perry Cox Authentication - $2,772.22

5. 45 - Eddie Cochran "Mean When I'm Mad" / "One Kiss" Liberty F-55070 - $2,282.00


More on this week's top 5 on Vinyl Record Talk, Tuesday 8:00PM Eastern / 5:00PM Pacific on Radio Dentata.

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Earth Crisis Reveal Cover Art For "Neutralize The Threat"

Earth Crisis have scheduled their hardest hitting piece of work in recent memory, 'Neutralize the Threat' for a July 12th release date. The most controversial band in hardcore also teamed with artist Ryan Clark to create the artwork surrounding the latest album culminating in the cover.

Read more and get the tracklist at pluginmusic.com









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Art Pop Legends The Feelies Reform, Release New Record, Announce Shows

The Feelies are celebrating the release of "Here Before," their first album of all new original material in 19 years with select East Coast dates. The new album touches on different styles from the Feelies' long history while adding new grooves and musical ideas to the mix. Electric and acoustic guitars melt together in archetypal Feelies fashion on songs like "Nobody Knows" and "Should be Gone. " Elsewhere there are slabs of driving garage rock like "When You Know" and "Time Is Right" and the down-tempo "Bluer Skies," and harmonically rich "Later On." The new album is being released on Bar/None Records.

Get all the details at pluginmusic.com

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Consfearacy Posts Self-Titled Album's Cover Artwork

Consfearacy recently inked a deal with Massacre Records for the release of the band's self-titled album, which is due out on July 1st, 2011. The cover artwork was handled by graphic designer Dennis Sibeijn.

Read more at metalunderground.com










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what a wonderful story, remembering the iconic group and their fans

The Rolling Stones 'live' in Middlesbrough, 1963

By Paul Delplanque

Love them or loath them, The Rolling Stones are still rolling and even now attract huge audiences around the world. Next to The Beatles they are without doubt the greatest band to come out of the 1960s, selling millions of records world-wide. Back in 1963 the new band had been going for about a year and were about to embark on their first tour of the United Kingdom. The place they chose to kick-off that tour was none other than Middlesbrough, it was the very first time the band had played outside the London area.

Read the rest at rememberwhen.gazettelive.co.uk

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this from our vinyl friends at vinylcollective.com

Here are the Top 10 Albums sold at Shop Radio Cast for the week of May 23, 2011 – May 30, 2011:

1.) The Menzingers – A Lesson In The Abuse Of Information Technology LP
2.) Living With Lions – Holy Shit
3.) Fireworks – Gospel
4.) Dance Gavin Dance – People We Knew 7″
5.) Into It. Over It. / Koji Split LP
6.) The Creepshow – Run For Your Life LP (EXCLUSIVE Purple)
7.) Balance and Composure – Separation
8.) The Menzingers – Chamberlain Waits LP
9.) Against Me – Russian Spies 7″
10.) The Creepshow – They All Fall Down (Picture Disc)

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USA


Albums:
1. Adele :21
2. Seether :Holding Onto Strings
3. Various :Now 38
4. Jason Aldean :My Kinda Party
5. Mumford and Sons :Sigh No More
6. Beastie Boys :Hot Sauce Committee Part Two
7. The Lonely Island :Turtleneck and Chain
8. Justin Bieber :Never Say Never The Remixes EP
9. Fleet Foxes :Helplessness Blues
10. Il Volo :Il Volo

Singles:
1.Adele :Rolling In The Deep
2.Katy Perry feat. Kanye West :E.T.
3.Pitbull feat. Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer :Give Me Everything
4.Black Eyed Peas :Just Can't Get Enough
5.Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull :On The Floor
6.Bruno Mars :The Lazy Song
7.Britney Spears :Till The World Ends
8.LMFAO :Party Rock Anthem
9.Lupe Fiasco :The Show Goes On
10.Chris Brown feat. Lil Wayne and Busta Rhymes :Look At Me Now


UK

Albums:
1. Adele :21
2. Kate Bush :Director's Cut
3. Adele :19
4. Hugh Laurie :Let Them Talk
5. Bruno Mars :Doo-Wops & Holligans
6. Friendly Fires :Pala
7. Chase & Status :No More Idols
8. Jessie J. :Who You Are
9. Foo Fighters :Wasting Light
10. Caro Emerald :Deleted Scenes From The Cutting Room Floor

Singles:
1. Pitbull feat. Ne-Yo, Afrojack & Nayer :Give Me Everything
2. Bruno Mars :The Lazy Song
3. Aloe Blacc :I Need A Dollar
4. LMFAO :Party Rock Anthem
5. Alexandra Stan :Mr Saxobeat
6. Chris Brown feat. Benny Benassi :Beautiful People
7. Snoop Dogg Vs. David Guetta :Sweat
8. The Saturdays :Notorious
9. Lady Gaga :Judas
10. Swedish House Mafia :Save The World


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


Singles:
1. Jennifer Lopez feat. Pitbull :On The Floor
2. Rihanna :S&M
3. Adele :Rolling In the Deep
4. Lady Gaga :Born This Way
5. Black Eyed Peas :Just Can't Get Enough
6. Jessie J. feat. B.o.B. :Price Tag
7. Katy Perry :E.T.
8. Snoop Dogg Vs. David Guetta :Sweat
9. LMFAO :Party Rock Anthem
10. Bruno Mars :Grenade

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Put Your Records on Your Wall with the Vertical Vinyl Record Player

they (ionaudio) claim it saves 'space', however, how much room does a turntable take up? they also say: A fun, new way to experience your records, VERTICAL VINYL will also impress your friends and guests by defying gravity when playing records sideways!

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and in music history for today:

In 1956, Buddy Holly sees the John Wayne movie The Searchers and gains some song writing inspiration when Wayne utters the line "that'll be the day."

Dick Dale performed Let's Go Trippin' for the first time in 1958, possibly signaling the start of surf music.

In 1964, The Dave Clark Five appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first of 11 appearances.

The Monkees began filming their TV series in 1966.

In 1968, working on what will become 'The White' album. The Beatles added overdubs of bass and vocals on “Revolution.” After numerous overdubs have been added, the final six minutes of the song evolved into chaotic, jamming, with Lennon repeatedly shouting "alright” and Yoko Ono speaking random phrases. The jam becomes the basis for “Revolution 9,” and this session was the first that Yoko attends.

In 1975, 17 weeks after entering the Billboard Pop chart, Freddy Fender's "Before the Next Teardrop Falls" made it all the way to number one. The song was written in the late 1960s and had already been recorded more than two dozen times. Fender would later recall "The recording only took a few minutes. I was glad to get it over with and I thought that would be the last of it."

Also in 1975, the Rolling Stones kicked off a New York City press conference on their next tour by playing on the streets in the back of a flatbed truck.

In 1976, the Who appear at the Charlton Athletic Grounds in England and put their name into the Guinness Book of World Records as the loudest rock band ever when their set measures at 120 decibels. That record has since been surpassed.

In 1977, Britain's BBC announced a ban on the Sex Pistols' anti-royalist song "God Save The Queen", saying it is 'in gross bad taste'. The cover of the single showed a picture of The Queen with a safety pin through her lip. Shops and pressing plant workers refused to handle the record, but it still managed to reach #2 on the UK chart.

In 1980, although the Disco craze was running out of steam, a group from Minneapolis, Minnesota called Lipps, Inc., that featured Cynthia Johnson on vocals, reached the top of the US charts with a tune called "Funkytown". It was a UK #2 hit. The record would be certified Platinum, but the group's only other Hot 100 entry would stall at number 64.

In 1999, Phil Kramer, who took Lee Dorman's place when Iron Butterfly re-formed in 1975, was found in a canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains, over four years after he called a police to say he was going to commit suicide. At the time of his death, he was 42.

In 2000, Johnnie Taylor, best remembered for 1968's "Who's Making Love" and 1976's "Disco Lady", died following a heart attack in a Texas hospital. He was 62 years old.

In 2010, Ali-Ollie Woodson, who led The Temptations in the 1980s and '90s and helped restore them to their hit-making glory with songs including "Treat Her Like A Lady", "Sail Away" and "Lady Soul", died of cancer at the age of 58.

celebrating birthdays today (among many others) are Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) (73) and Augie Meyers (Sir Douglas Quintet, Texas Tornadoes (71)

Columbia/Legacy Recordings Launches Paul Simon Catalog Project With Four Classic Titles From the 1970s

 

Definitive Editions of Paul Simon, There Goes Rhymin' Simon, Paul Simon In Concert: Live Rhymin', and Still Crazy After All These Years, Available Everywhere Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Columbia/Legacy Recordings announces the first round of releases in the Paul Simon catalog project with definitive editions of four of the artist's essential solo albums -- Paul Simon, There Goes Rhymin' Simon, Paul Simon In Concert: Live Rhymin' and Still Crazy After All These Years -- available everywhere Tuesday, June 7.

News of the Paul Simon catalog releases arrives as Simon, the quintessential American singer-songwriter-performer, tours the United States in May and Europe this summer with an eight-piece band in support of his recently-released critically-acclaimed new album, So Beautiful Or So What on Hear Music.

The new Columbia/Legacy editions of four classic Paul Simon catalog titles marks the first set of releases since last year's historic licensing agreement between the artist and Sony Music Entertainment brought Simon's entire catalog of recordings together under the one roof for the first time since the 1970s.

Paul Simon, There Goes Rhymin' Simon, Paul Simon In Concert: Live Rhymin' and Still Crazy After All These Years have returned to the Columbia imprint for the first time since their original vinyl releases.

While all the titles feature the remastered sound, bonus tracks and expanded packaging from their first CD incarnations, Paul Simon In Concert: Live Rhymin', a Columbia Records release in 1974, has been newly remastered for this Columbia/Legacy edition. Recorded during Simon's groundbreaking tours with Urubamba and the Jessy Dixon Singers in 1973-74, Live Rhymin' includes two previously unavailable live tracks -- "Kodachrome" and "Something So Right" -- which have never appeared on the vinyl or CD editions of the album.

Originally released on Columbia Records in 1972, Paul Simon, the artist's first solo studio album without Art Garfunkel, peaked at #4 on the Billboard 200 while generating the signature hits "Mother and Child Reunion" (#4 Hot 100) and "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard" (#22) and other classic tracks. CD bonus cuts include demos of "Duncan" and "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard" and an unreleased "Paranoia Blues."

There Goes Rhymin' Simon, a 1973 Columbia Records release, showcased a pair of timeless summer car radio anthems -- "Kodachrome" and "Loves Me Like a Rock" -- and peaked at #2 on the Billboard 200. The CD features non-album bonus tracks including work-in-progress "Let Me Live in Your City," acoustic demos of "Take Me to the Mardi Gras" and "Loves Me Like a Rock," topped off by an unfinished demo of "American Tune."

1975's Grammy-winning Album of the Year, Still Crazy After All These Years rocketed to #1 with a hit-packed tracklist that included "My Little Town" (a one-track "reunion" with Art Garfunkel) and the #1 smash "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover." Bonus cuts on the CD include demos of "Slip Slidin' Away" and "Gone At Last" (with The Jessy Dixon Singers).

During his distinguished career Paul Simon has been the recipient of many honors and awards A recipient of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, Simon has won 12 Grammys including three Albums of the Year: "Bridge Over Troubled Water" (1970), "Still Crazy After All These Years" (1976) and "Graceland" (1986). 2011 marks the 40th anniversary of "Bridge Over Troubled Water," a 1998 Grammy Hall of Fame inductee. Simon has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame both as a member of Simon & Garfunkel and as a solo artist.

About Legacy Recordings

The multiple Grammy-winning Legacy Recordings, Sony Music Entertainment's catalog division, produces and maintains the world's foremost catalog of historic reissues, an unparalleled compendium of thousands of digitally re-mastered archival titles representing virtually every musical genre including popular, rock, jazz, blues, R&B, folk, country, gospel, Broadway musicals, movie soundtracks, ethnic, world music, classical, comedy, and more.


SOURCE Columbia/Legacy Recordings

New Vinyl Record and Music Releases - May 31, 2011

The week's vinyl reissue include two LPs from Ozzy Osbourne, Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman, the B-52's with Wild Planet, UFO with three stellar LPs from the past with Lights Out, No Heavy Petting and Obsession (all imports) and Elvis Costello's Get Happy, to name a few.

Other CVR Blog picks include Flogging Molly's Speed Of Darkness, Death Cab for Cutie with Codes and Keys, Kate Bush's Director's Cut, My Morning Jacket with Circuital and Fleetwood Mac with Black Magic: Best of the Early Years.


Alex Turner - Submarine
Alina Simone - Make Your Own Danger
Autopsy - Macabre Eternal
B-52's - Wild Planet (reissue)(vinyl)
Billy Vera - Billy Vera Story
Black Stone Cherry - Between the Devil & The Deep Blue Sea
Blasters - Live 1986
Blouse - Shadow
Cheer-Accident - No Ifs Ands Or Dogs
Cliff Richard - Anthology (3 CDs)
Cola Freaks - Cola Freaks
Curren$y - This Ain't No Mixtape (reissue)
Dave Brubeck - Dave Digs Disney: Legacy Edition (2 CDs)
Dave Edmunds - Rockpile
Dave Matthews Band - Live at Wrigley Field
David Sylvian - Died in the Wool
Death Cab for Cutie - Codes and Keys
Eddie Vedder - Ukulele Songs
Egypt Central - White Rabbit
Elvis Costello - Get Happy (reissue) (vinyl)
Farewell Continental - Hey Hey Pioneers
Fleetwood Mac - Black Magic: Best of the Early Years
Flogging Molly - Speed Of Darkness
Frank Sinatra - Concert Sinatra (vinyl)
Gene Watson - Memories to Burn / Starting New Memories
Ginger Baker - Live in Milan 1981 (2 CDs)
Guess Who - Flavours
ISIS - ISIS Live I 9.23.03
J.D. Souther - Natural History
Jakszyk, Fripp & Collins - Scarcity of Miracles: A King Crimson Projekct
Jello Biafra & The Guantanamo School of Medicine - Enhanced Methods of Questioning
Jordan Knight - Unfinished
Kate Bush - Director's Cut (2 LPs)(vinyl)
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Kids on a Crime Spree - We Love You So Bad
Klaus Schulze - La Vie Electronique Vol. 9
Mando Diao - Give Me Fire
Marduk - Iron Dawn
Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On (box set)
Matthew Good - Lights of Endangered Species
Melvins - Sugar Daddy Live
Miles Davis - Tutu (remastered with bonus live CD)
Miwa Gemini - Fantastic Lies of Grizzly Rose
My Morning Jacket - Circuital
O'Jays - Back Stabbers
Ocote Soul Sounds: Taurus
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Oz: Expanded Edition
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Oz (vinyl)
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary Of A Madman: Legacy Edition (2 CDs)
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman (vinyl)
Pagan's Mind - Heavenly Ecstacy
Panther Style - Emergencia!
Papa John Creach - Long Branch Park 1983 (2 CDs)
Patrick Wolf - Lupercalia
Peter Hook & the Light - Unknown Pleasures: Live in Oz (vinyl)
Playing for Change - PFC 2: Songs Around The World
Processory - Change Is Gradual
Reatards - Teenage Hate/F**k Elvis Heres the Reatards (reissue)
Richard Pinhas & Merzbow - Rhizome
Rick Danko, Richard Manuel & Paul Butterfield - Live at the Lone Star 1984
Rick Danko - Tin Angel (2 CDs)
Robert Pollard - Lord of the Birdcage (vinyl)
Seapony - Go With Me
Seasick Steve - You Can’t Teach An Old Dog New Tricks
SebastiAn - Total
Sennen - Age of Denial
Shabazz Palaces - Black Up
Soema Montenegro - Passionaria
Son Lux - We Are Rising
Suede - Sueded (reissue)
The Black Swans - Don’t Blame The Stars
The Melvins - Sugar Daddy Live
The Vaccines - What Did You Expect From The Vaccines?
Twisted Sister - Under the Blade (2 CDs)
U.S. Christmas - Valley Path
UFO - Lights Out (vinyl)(import)
UFO - No Heavy Petting (vinyl)(import)
UFO - Obsession (vinyl)(import)
USX - The Valley Path
Various Artists - All Blues'd Up: Songs of Eric Clapton
Various Artists - Ministry of Sound: Anthems Indie
Various Artists - PFC 2: Songs Around The World
Vast Aire - Ox 2010: A Street Odyssey
Vatsum - Carnal Law
Warren Haynes - Man in Motion (2 LPs)(vinyl)
Wharf Rats - 7"


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.

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

Vinyl Record News & Music Notes

in new zealeand, news about vinyl is fantastic!

He's a fan for fair play, for the record

Merania Karauria

Dave Record was aptly renamed by a friend when he was 18 because of the thousands of vinyl records he owned.

Mr Record, from New Plymouth, was one of the traders in Wanganui yesterday at a record fair in the Rock'n' Roll Clubrooms.

He described the event as a fair for like-minded souls who did not attend church.

Mr Record said that, as a young person, he did not know what he wanted to be when he grew up.

He had started out as a punk rocker, his next phase was the Nik Kershaw new romantic, then Duran Duran, but that did not do it for him.

Next there was Twisted Sister, and then his epiphany - the Sex Pistols.

Vinyl had taken over and it was time to look for a career, so Mr Record did his apprenticeship as a carpenter.

But when you have 10,000 LPs and 10,000 45s, you use your skills to build record shelves - big steel frames to accommodate the collection that is carefully catalogued in alphabetical order in various genres.

Read the rest at wanganuichronicle.co.nz

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a wonderfully crafted article from the san diego union-tribune, well worth the read:

A librarian's many, many records

Brian Schottlaender's life of a million cuts

By Peter Rowe

Brian Schottlaender’s Lonely Arts Club Band: Six Tracks on A Fading Theme

1. Yesterday

At 58, Brian Schottlaender is the very model of a modern major league librarian. He has an impressive title, “Audrey Geisel University Librarian,” and a massive task, overseeing all libraries on the UCSD campus. Last year, he won the American Library Association’s most prestigious prize, the Melvil Dewey Medal.

But he suffers from an incurable fever, one that compels him to chase albums by obscure industrial rock bands like Current 93 (“Christ and the Pale Queens Mighty in Sorrow”). This is an illness, one that may have begun with his childhood exposure to one of the most popular groups in history.

“My mother is British,” he explained, “so the Beatles were a big deal in our family.”

Read the rest at signonsandiego.com




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in music history for the day:

In 1956, Time Magazine prints an article entitled Teener's Hero, which tries to explain Elvis Presley's mystique. After a drawn-out description of his singing style, the writer says of Presley's appeal: "his movements suggest, in a word, sex."

In 1962, Benny Goodman (on his birthday, no less!) led the first American jazz band to play in the Soviet Union.

In 1964, "Love Me Do" became the Beatles fourth US number one hit. The version released in America is one that had Andy White playing drums while Ringo played the tambourine. The British single was a take on which Ringo played the drums.

In San Francisco, CA in 1966, Jefferson Airplane performed at a benefit for the Haight-Ashbury Legal Organization.

The Beatles began recording the "White Album" in 1968. The first track they lay down is "Revolution".

In 1972, John Ryanes of The Monotones passed away. The group had one big hit, "Book Of Love", which reached number 5 in the US in 1958.



Led Zeppelin began recording "In Through the Out Door" in 1978.

In 1980, Carl Radle, bass guitarist for Derek and The Dominos, died of kidney failure partially caused by his drug abuse in the seventies. After The Dominos split, he continued to work with other artists such as George Harrison, Joe Cocker and J.J. Cale. He was just 37 years old.

In 1990, Midnight Oil closed down 6th Avenue in New York City as they played a protest concert in front of Exxon's offices. The protest was in reaction to the Exxon Valdez disaster.

Neil Young had to cancel his European tour in 1997 because he had cut his finger while slicing a ham sandwich. oops....

In 1999, in New Jersey, Lenny Kravitz walked off stage after 40 minutes and collapsed from heat exhaustion. He had been performing in a fur coat. ummm, no need to comment....

Also in 1999, Tim McGraw made an unannounced appearance to open a concert for his wife, Faith Hill. awwww.....

In 2003, British record producer Mickie Most, who is credited with producing more number one hits world-wide than any other producer, died of a rare form of cancer. He was 64. During a long career he recorded with the Animals, Herman's Hermits, Donovan, Lulu, The Yardbirds, The Nashville Teens, Hot Chocolate, Kim Wilde and many others.

birthday wishes to Nicky "Topper" Headon of The Clash (1955), Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine (1964) and Patrick Dahlheimer from Live (1971), to name a few....

 

Slavaki presents his new limited vinyl on Elusive Records including a smashing remix of Yapacc!

Elusive Records is back with two slices of dubby electronic pleasure served by label’s head Slavaki, supported by deep atmospheric musical mindtrip on the flip side delivered by the master of funk and atmosphere himself, Mr. Yapacc.

PRLog (Press Release) – May 30, 2011 – With this record, we continue to bring joy to all of you, true lovers of subtle groove and electronic music with soul. First limited number of copies comes on beautifully designed clear marbled 12”.

Already enjoying great support from friends and well known artists around the world, such as Richie Hawtin, Luciano, Silicone Soul, Slam, Paco Osuna, Nooncat, Tom Dazing, Andrew Grant, Martin Eyerer, Randall Jones, Brothers' Vibe, Franco Bianco, Reynold, Alland Byallo and many others!

This record is simply set to become a timeless classic. From now on, you can finally get your copy at djshop.de, decks.de and all your favourite vinyl and digital stores!





Here more information:
LABEL: ELUSIVE RECORDS
ARTIST: SLAVAKI
REMIXER: YAPACC
TITLE: SKUNKIE’S BACK
FORMAT: VINYL & DIGITAL
CAT. NUMBER: ELSVREC010
RELEASE DATE VINYL: 27.05.11
RELEASE DATE DIGITAL: 20.06.11

VINYL TRACKLIST:
A1 – Slavaki – Skunkie’s Back (Original Mix) – 07:29
A2 – Slavaki – Release Yourself (Original -1369009163 Mix) – 07:33
B1 – Slavaki – Skunkie’s Back (Yapacc Remix) – 09:54

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Vinyl Record News & Music Notes

Seasick Steve readies new album on Third Man Records


By Chris Coplan

Prior to this year’s South by Southwest, most U.S. music fans were likely unfamiliar with the name Seasick Steve. But after an impressive parking lot performance, one which saw Jack White as an opener of all things, we’ve gotten ourselves more well-versed with the former hobo’s musical outings. Now, a few months after his grand debut with White, Seasick Steve (born Steve Wold) is preparing to release his latest full-length album, You Can’t Teach An Old Dog New Tricks, this June via White’s Third Man Records.

For those still unfamiliar with Seasick Steve, besides from being prone to nausea whilst on aquatic vessels, he’s a bluesman who plays a mean three-string guitar.

Read more and get the tracklist and 2011 Tour Dates at consequenceofsound.net








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i guess, in this age of the internet, someone, somewhere was bound to put this list togther. for shits and giggle, check it out at chartattack.com

20 Amazing Album Covers With Boobies On Them









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a rather lengthy and interesting post, worth the read, it is the age we live in.....

File Sharing and the Canadian Indie Musician

here's an excerpt:

Matyas says that CDs are dying fast, but “vinyls (sic) are definitely making a comeback.” Carroll says that certain dedicated fans buy vinyl records. He estimates that about 10 per cent of their overall sales are vinyl, and while that number is on a steady rise, it’s done almost nothing to combat the rapidly declining overall sales.

Read the whole article at thesheaf.com

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Concord Music Group Releases Six New Titles

Concord Music Group will release six new titles in the Original Jazz Classics Remasters series on June 14, 2011. Enhanced by 24-bit remastering by Joe Tarantino, generous helpings of bonus tracks (many of them previously unreleased), and new liner notes that provide historical and technical context, the series showcases some of the most pivotal recordings of the past several decades by artists whose influences on the jazz tradition is beyond measure.

The six new titles in the series are:

Chet Baker: In New York
Ornette Coleman: Something Else!!!
Thelonious Monk: Thelonious Alone in San Francisco
Cannonball Adderley with Bill Evans: Know What I Mean?
Bill Evans Trio: Explorations
Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass: Easy Living

"These six releases bring us to 20 titles altogether since the launch of the series in March 2010, " says Nick Phillips, Vice President of Catalog and Jazz A&R at Concord Music Group and producer of the series. "Each occupies an important place in any quality jazz collection."


Chet Baker: In New York

Recorded in September 1958 for Riverside, Chet Baker's In New York features saxophonist Johnny Griffin, pianist Al Haig, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Philly Joe Jones. In addition to the half-dozen tracks from the original album, the reissue includes a bonus seventh track — "Soft Winds, " a blues composition written by Benny Goodman and Fletcher Henderson.

The recording provides a glimpse of the trumpeter "coming off a run of popularity, critical praise, and commercial success the likes of which few musicians have known, " according to the new liner notes by Doug Ramsey. By the late '50s, Baker had won numerous awards throughout the decade for his instrumental work, and was even regarded as a romantic idol for his singing.

"Baker had been somewhat pigeonholed as a West Coast cool jazz artist, " says Phillips, "but this recording illustrates that he was right at home playing with New York musicians — who dealt with their own stereotype of being harder edged and more aggressive. On this recording, they all seem to meet effortlessly somewhere in the middle."

Of the ongoing tug-of-war between Baker's artistic successes and his personal battles with substance abuse, Ramsey adds: "It will be a long time before Chet's struggles with his demon are forgotten, but one day when the headlines have finally disappeared, the beauty of his music will still be shimmering in the air."


Ornette Coleman: Something Else!!!

Recorded at Contemporary's studios in Los Angeles in February and March 1958, Ornette Coleman's Something Else!!! features Don Cherry on pocket trumpet, Walter Norris on piano, Don Payne on bass, and Billy Higgins on drums. The first of two albums that Coleman recorded for Contemporary, Something Else!!! marks the saxophonist's debut as a leader. "He was a very influential but at times controversial artist, " says Phillips. "Right out of the gate he was doing something that was just so different from what people were used to hearing, " says Phillips. "Although structurally-speaking, the music in this recording is based on established song forms, you can hear very clearly that Coleman is starting to break free of the limitations of conventional harmony."

Neil Tesser writes in his new liner notes that Coleman traced jazz back to its roots to rid the music of its increasingly elaborate harmonic structures and other constraints. "Without the limitations imposed by such harmonic patterns, his band would freely travel into, out of, and between musical keys, " says Tesser. "As Ornette said in the original notes, 'I think one day music will be a lot freer. The pattern for a tune, for instance, will be forgotten and the tune itself will be the pattern . . .' When he recorded Something Else!!! that day was still a little ways off. In these performances, you hear him in the last throes of unshackling the past."


Thelonious Monk: Thelonious Alone in San Francisco

Recorded on Riverside in October 1959, Thelonious Alone in San Francisco was a sequel of sorts to Thelonious Himself, recorded two years earlier. In addition to the album's 10 original tracks, the reissue includes an alternate take of "There's Danger in Your Eyes, Cherie."

"With Thelonious Alone in San Francisco, Monk proved that his earlier success as a solo artist was not a fluke, " says Tesser in his liner notes for the reissue. "And in rejecting all the 'rules' for playing without accompaniment — as he'd rejected so many rules before — Monk expanded the entire concept of the solo piano idiom. Without Monk's recordings as bedrock, it's hard to imagine similarly intimate (though otherwise quite different) solo albums that would eventually come from Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea or even McCoy Tyner."

For as unique as Monk's style was, "he stayed pretty consistently within that style throughout the remainder of his career, " says Phillips. "That's not to imply that there was any lack of creativity on his part. Within the unique style that he established, there was so much to explore and develop. But he still sounds unmistakably like Thelonious Monk, no matter what chapter of his career you listen to."


Cannonball Adderley with Bill Evans: Know What I Mean?

Know What I Mean? was recorded between January and March 1961, with bassist Percy Heath and drummer Connie Kay supporting the saxophonist and pianist. The reissue includes three bonus tracks that are alternate takes of "Who Cares?, " "Toy" (previously unreleased), and "Know What I Mean?".

"This album takes two artists who were part of the legendary, historic 1958 Miles Davis Sextet and pairs them together, " says Phillips. "The modal approach that Evans was pioneering in the context of that 1958 group reveals itself in some of the material that he and Cannonball are playing on this album."

Orrin Keepnews, who produced the original recording sessions, writes in his new liner notes for this OJC Remasters reissue, "One of the many advantages of working with a man like Julian Adderley was that he was totally stubborn about pursuing an idea he believed in. And, quite simply, he thoroughly believed in the validity of an album based on his moving very much in a Bill Evans–influenced direction."

In his liner notes to the original recording, Joe Goldberg observes that while not all of the selections are ballads, an "aura of relaxation" permeates the recording. "In this instance it can be recognized as simply a matter of four highly skilled artists away from their usual tasks and delighting in one another's musical company, " he says. "Nothing more really need be said about the results of their meeting than that the feeling of delight comes through."


Bill Evans Trio: Explorations

Recorded in New York in February 1961 for Riverside, Explorations was the last album this version of the Evans trio would make in a recording studio. Bassist Scott LaFaro and drummer Paul Motian also appear on Sunday at the Village Vanguard and Waltz for Debby — both live recordings, released later in 1961 — but LaFaro died in a car accident shortly after the live sessions. This reissue features four bonus tracks, including previously unreleased alternate takes of "How Deep Is the Ocean?" and "I Wish I Knew."

“Evans’ sound and approach was his own by ’61, ” says Ashley Kahn in his new liner notes. “His piano style had fully matured, as had the interplay of the trio . . . Upon entering Bell Sound’s studio on February 2, 1961, producer Orrin Keepnews immediately noted the three had ‘made giant strides towards the goal of becoming a three-voice unit rather than a piano player and his accompanists.’”

What’s more, the disparity of styles between the unreleased alternate takes and their counterparts that made the final cut on the original record “illustrates that jazz masters like these are real improvisers, ” says Phillips, “and no two takes are ever going to sound the same — because no two moments in jazz are ever the same.”


Ella Fitzgerald and Joe Pass: Easy Living

Recorded in Los Angeles in 1983 and 1986, Easy Living was one of a series of Ella Fitzgerald–Joe Pass collaborations on Pablo throughout the ’80s. In addition to the original album’s 15 tracks, the reissue also includes two previously unreleased bonus tracks — alternate takes of “Don’t Be that Way” and “Love for Sale.”

Easy Living and the other collaborations between these two veterans “worked on many levels, ” says Tad Hershorn in his liner notes for the reissue. “As her voice aged and deepened, Fitzgerald discovered partial remedies in her phrasing, choices of keys and the pleasing maturity that now enveloped her still youthful voice. Pass was the perfect foil to display her diminishing resources to their best and most emotive advantage. Ella was known to incessantly toy with songs in her restless artistic striving, so one can perceive the music she made with Pass as a direct extension of her creative method. The leanness of their music underscores that even this late in her career, Ella Fitzgerald retained her bonafides as a singer for whom words did matter: not every song was merely a vehicle for her to bat notes out of the park. The allure was in the quiet majestic intimacy that focused an audience’s attention on full absorption of the musings of joy, wistfulness, and melody.”

The level of confidence with which each of these two musicians performs on this recording is hard to miss. “The fact that Ella could walk into the studio with a bunch of lead sheets, ” says Phillips, “and they could do a little rehearsal on the spot, figure out the best key for her, and he could just play it in any key behind her — all of that takes some phenomenal musicianship . . . They have a very conversational, relaxed sensibility about them, and both musicians seem very much at ease performing together and recording together in the studio.”

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and in music history for the day:

In 1955, "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" was the most popular song in the United States. Billboard reported that if the sales of all versions of the song were all added up, including the original by Fess Parker, more than 18 million copies had been bought in six months.

In 1966, Percy Sledge hit the top of the US charts with "When A Man Loves A Woman", a song that he improvised with his band one night when he was upset over a failed romance. A more polished version of the song was released in early April and became Percy's only US Top Ten hit.

In 1966, Ike & Tina Turner released "River Deep, Mountain, High." The record will stay on the chart for just four weeks and stall at #88. Producer Phil Spector considered the song the high point of his production career and was so disappointed by its poor performance that he would go into seclusion for two years.

Also in 1966, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass went to #1 on the U.S. album chart with What Now My Love, setting a new American record with four albums in the U.S. Top 10. The other three were South of the Border, Going Places and Whipped Cream and Other Delights.

In 1976, the Allman Brothers Band temporarily disbanded after Greg Allman testified against Scooter Herring, his personal road manager, who was charged with drug trafficking. Herring was subsequently sentenced to 75 years in prison. An album of previously unreleased live material was issued later in the year under the title "Wipe the Windows, Check the Oil, Dollar Gas". In the two years that the band was apart, Gregg Allman married Cher, while Dickey Betts formed his Great Southern band.

The song "Barracuda" was released by Heart in 1977.



In 1983, actress and singer Irene Cara started a six-week run at #1 on the U.S. singles chart with “Flashdance... What a Feeling,” taken from the film Flashdance, and a #2 hit in the U.K.

Also in 1983, the four-day US Festival ’83 took place in California, featuring The Clash, U2, David Bowie, The Pretenders, Van Halen, Stray Cats, Men at Work, Judas Priest, Stevie Nicks, Willie Nelson, INXS, Joe Walsh, Motley Crue and Ozzy Osbourne. Over 750,000 fans attended the festival.

In 1995, 1995, Hootie and the Blowfish started a four-week run at #1 on the U.S. album charts with Cracked Rear View. The album went on to sell over 15 million copies.

birthday wishes to Gladys Knight (1944), Roland Gift of Fine Young Cannibals fame (1952) and the peerless, John Fogerty of CCR (and solo) (1945), just to name a few....