Storming The Base Contest

We want to welcome a new friend to the CVR blog StormingTheBase.com, which is world famous for their selection of industrial and gothic music on the net.

To kick off our freindship, we have a contest that features Haujobb's 2011 release 'New World March' on high-quality 2LP vinyl, which is limited to 250 copies worldwide. The double-vinyl includes two bonus tracks never before released on any Haujobb album (and previously digital only). 

Contestants can enter by sending an email to rbenson30@wi.rr.com with the words "Storming The Base Contest" in the subject line and then swing by and liking the StormingTheBase Facebook Page HERE

Open to residents of the US and Canada only.  Limit one email entry per person.   Winner will be chosen in a random drawing on June 20, 2013, so get your email entires in before then!  Good luck and thanks to Storming The Base for providing a kick ass prize!

Haujobb - New World March (2LP)

Label: Artoffact Records

There has never been a Haujobb album released on vinyl, at least until now.  Artoffact Records, under exclusive license from Basic Unit Productions presents Haujobb's successful 2011 release New World March on high-quality 2LP vinyl, limited to 250 copies worldwide. The double-vinyl includes two bonus tracks never before released on any Haujobb album (and previously digital only).

Includes two bonus tracks never before released on any Haujobb album (and previously digital only).

Side A
 1.Control 05:17
 2.Crossfire 03:54
 3.Let's Drop Bombs 04:51

Side B
 4.More Than Us 04:16
 5.Machine Drum 04:44
 6.Dead Market 03:57
 7.Lost 04:26

Side C
 8.Soul Reader 04:10
 9.Little World 04:35
 10.Membrane 04:13

Side D
11.New World March 05:15
12.Echo 03:45
13.Letting The Demons Sleep 04:44
14.Revolve 04:24 

Artoffact Records is a Canadian label based in Toronto that has released over 100 industrial, synthpop, rock, and metal albums since it was founded in 1999. We are also the in-house label of Storming the Base.


"The duo deliver a very complex and diverse set of songs, without copying themselves." - Bjorn Andersson, Black Vector

"A highlight of electronic music." - Sebastian Huhn, Reflections of Darkness

"This is indeed a splendid return for Haujobb." - Johan Carlsson, Release Magazine

"This is the Haujobb that I fell in love with more than a decade ago." - Neska Lapicki, Coma Online

We expect this item to be in stock on May 31, 2013

You can also pre-order the double vinyl set at StormingTheBase.com

 

New Music Releases - May 14, 2013

ADULT. - The Way Things Fall
Agnetha Faltskog - A
Altars - Something More
Amy Grant - How Mercy Looks From Here
Anamanaguchi - Endless Fantasy
Andy Cato - Time & Places
Angel Olsen - Half Way Home
Anne Murray - Icon
Arckanum - Fenriz Kindir
Beaches - She Beats
Beams - Just Rivers
Ben Lee - Welcome to the Work
Beyond Creation - The Aura (reissue)
Bibio - Silver Wilkinson
Big Eyes - Almost Famous
Billy Squier - Icon
Blank Realm - Go Easy
Blank Tapes - Vacation
Bobby McFerrin - Spirityouall
Boredoms - Chocolate Synthesizer (vinyl) (reissue)
Boredoms - Pop Tatari (vinyl) (reissue)
Boxer Rebellion - Promises
Bring Me The Horizon - Sempiternal (vinyl)
Brother JT - The Svelteness of Boogietude
Candace Bellamy - In My Lane
Cannibal Corpse - Vile (25th Anniversary) (picture disc)
Captain, We're Sinking - The Future Is Cancelled
Cheap Trick - The Complete Epic Albums Collection (14-CD box set)
Chris LeDoux - Icon
Classixx - Hanging Gardens
Colleen - The Weighing of the Heart
Culture Club - Icon
DEVO - Live 1981: Seattle
Del Lords - Elvis Club
Demi Lovato - Demi
Depeche Mode - Soothe My Soul
Destroy This Place - Destroy This Place
Dillinger Escape Plan - One of Us Is The Killer
Dirty Beaches - Drifters/Love Is The Devil (2 LPs)
Dungeonesse - Dungeonesse
Dustin Wong and Takako Minekawa - Tropical Circle
Echo Bloom - Blue
Eluvium - Nightmare Ending
Entrails - Raging Death
Escape the Fate - Ungrateful
Eve - Lip Lock
Flower Orgy - Our Song (7")
Four Tet - Rounds (reissue)
Fucking Invincible - Downtown Is Dead
George Strait - Love Is Everything
George Thorogood & the Destroyers - Icon
Ghost Box Orchestra - Vanished
Glenn Jones - My Garden State
Gold & Youth - Beyond Wilderness
Gotye - Like Drawing Blood (reissue)
Grand Funk Railroad - Icon
Heart - Icon
Heart In Hand - Almost There
Highness - Hold
Hollagramz - Hollagramz
Huey Lewis & the News - Sports (30th anniversary edition)
Immolation - Kingdom of Conspiracy
Immortal - Pure Holocaust (reissue)
Jimmy Cliff - Icon
John Grant - Pale Green Ghosts
Jont - Hello Halifax
Kadavar - Abra Kadavar
Kazyak - See the Forest, See the Trees
Killing Joke - Singles Collection 1979-2012
Kings of Leon - The Collection Box (5-CD and 1-DVD box set)
Kisses - Kids in L.A.
Lifeforms - Multidimensional
MS MR - Secondhand Rapture
Mark Kozelek and Jimmy LaValle - Perils From the Sea
Mark Lanegan and Duke Garwood - Black Pudding
Marques Toliver - Land of CanAan
Merle Haggard - Icon
Mindless Self Indulgence - How I Learned To Stop Giving A Shit And Love Mindless Self Indulgence
Move Forward - Nothing's Left to Save Us
Mr Ms - Second Hand Rapture
Negator - Gates to the Pantheon
Nick Drake - Bryter Layter (reissue) (vinyl)
Orange Peels - Sun Moon
Orchid - The Mouth Of Madness
PacificUV - After the Dream You Are Awake
Peals - Walking Field
Pharmakon - Abadon
Phoenix Foundation - Fandango
Polkadot Cadaver - Last Call In Jonestown
Powerkompany - I Am More Than This
Primal Scream - More Light
Pure X - Crawling Up the StairsThis Is Spinal Tap to be reissued with an all black cover, of course
Queensryche - Icon
R.E.M. - Green: (25th anniversary deluxe edition)
Randall Bramblett - Bright Spots
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Icon
Roomrunner - Ideal Cities
Saltland - I Thought It Was Us but It Was All of Us
Sam Amidon - Bright Sunny South
Simple Minds - Icon
Small Black - Limits of Desire
Smith Westerns - Varsity (7")
Snowden - No One In Control
Spin Doctors - If The River Was Whiskey
Standish/Carlyon - Deleted Scenes
Steve Von Till - As The Crow Flies (reissue)
Steve Winwood - Icon
Stranglers - Old Testament: Ua Studio Recordings 1977 - 1982
Survival - Tragedy of the Mind
Tea Leaf Green - In the Wake
The Abramson Singers - Late Riser
The Blank Tapes - Vacation
The Boxer Rebellion - Promises
The Breeders - Last Splash (3-CD box set) (reissued with bonus tracks)
The Cleaners From Venus/Martin Newell - The Cleaners From Venus Vol. 2 (reissue)
The Fall - Re-Mit
The Features - The Features
The Handsome Family - Wilderness
The Monolith Deathcult - Tetragrammaton
The Phoenix Foundation - Fandango
The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation
This Century - Biography Of Heartbreak
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Mind Control
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City
Various Artists - Everybody Has a Story
Vår - No One Dances Quite Like My Brothers
Wampire - Curiosity
Wild Nothing - Empty Estate

Vinyl Record News & Music Notes

we have a winner in the Music Record Shop Weekly (CONTEST!!)

Congrats to Gavin W. from north of the border for his entry and we hope he enjoys the Mad Season LP!!

Thanks to MusicRecordShop for the prize!








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from our friends at www.burningshed.com

Small Faces - Ogden's Nut Gone Flake (vinyl picture disc preorder)

Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake, recorded in late 1967 and early 1968 and released in the summer of '68, is the Small Faces' best-known and most successful album.

Alongside tracks such as 'Lazy Sunday', 'Afterglow' and 'Rollin' Over', it contained a conceptual twist with the addition of the eccentric story of 'Happiness Stan', narrated by Stanley Unwin.

This re-mastered 180 gm heavyweight picture disc vinyl edition of the 1968 Small Faces Psychedelic classic features the newly re-mastered mono mix of the original album.

Preorder now for 10th June release date.

Anathema - Untouchable (double vinyl preorder)

In May 2012 Anathema released Weather Systems, the most successful album of the band's two decade plus career.

Scoring high in end of year polls around the world, the album cemented Anathema's reputation as one of the most interesting bands of recent times.

Following the release of the album, the band embarked on a lengthy world tour. The European part of the tour opened with a special one-off gig at the ancient Roman theatre of Philippopolis where the band were joined by the Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra.

Untouchable captures the magic of this unique evening.

Available on double heavyweight vinyl packaged in a gatefold sleeve with printed inner sleeves.

Please note, an audio visual cd/dvd version of the concert will be available in August, 2013.

Pre-order now for 24th June release date.

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Rob Zombie’s Musical Past Mined for ‘Classic Albums Collection’






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This Is Spinal Tap to be reissued with an all black cover, of course



 

Music Record Shop Weekly

Welcome to the weekly feature (look for it every Friday) called MusicRecordShop Weekly.   Here we take a look at new releases and some hard to find vinyl that will easily satisfy even the most serious record collectors.  Mark has put together a neat package of vinyl deals that will get any record collectors attention. 

Iron Maiden - Maiden England Vinyl 2-LP (Picture Disc) Import 2013

MAIDEN ENGLAND '88. Now available for the very first time on double LP, this live show was filmed across two sold-out nights at Birmingham N.E.C Arena, UK in November 1988 during the band's "Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son World Tour."

Orig.  $47.99 ----------------- >>>>>>>>>  Sale  $39.99
  



DAFT PUNK - HOMEWORK (2-LP) 2012

 

Daft Punk's full-length debut is a funk-house hailstorm, giving real form to a style of straight-ahead dance music not attempted since the early fusion days of on-the-one funk and dance-party disco. Thick, rumbling bass, vocoders, choppy breaks and beats, and a certain brash naiveté permeate the record from start to finish, giving it the edge of an almost certain classic. While a few fall flat, the best tracks make this one essential.

 

Orig.  $39.99  ----------------->>>>>>>> Sale  $29.99    

AEROSMITH - MUSIC FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION! (VINYL 2-LP + CD) 2012 (RED VINYL)

 

First Album of All-New Material in 11 Years! Steven Tyler (vocals), Joe Perry (guitar), Brad Whitford (guitar), Tom Hamilton (bass) and Joey Kramer (drums) are back with the new Columbia Records album Music From Another Dimension. It marks Aerosmith's 15th studio album and their first studio album of all-new material in 11 years. The album was recorded in Los Angeles and at the band's studio in Massachusetts; it was produced by Jack Douglas, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, with the exception of three tracks produced by Tyler and Marti Frederiksen. Music From Another Dimension presents Aerosmith in ferociously fine form and at the peak of their powers. They're the only band of their stature with all-original members and who are playing better than ever have before. In addition to the album's first two singles "What Could Have Been Love" and "Lover A Lot," Music From Another Dimension abounds with one highlight after another, including "Out Go The Lights," "Oh Yeah," "Luv XXX," "We All Fall Down," "Street Jesus" and "Can't Stop Loving You," on which Tyler duets with Carrie Underwood. The album also includes "Freedom Fighter" which features Johnny Depp on

 

Orig.  $36.99 ----------------- >>>>>>>>  Sale  $23.99    



NEIL YOUNG - PSYCHEDELIC PILL (VINYL 3-LP) 2012

"Neil Young And Crazy Horse have revealed that their second album of this year, 'Psychedelic Pill', will be released on October 29. The legendary rockers have also unveiled the tracklisting for the album, which follows the covers LP 'Americana', which came out in June. The album opens with a song called 'Driftin' Back', which almost 28 minutes long. 'Psychedelic Pill' is Young's first album of all new material with Crazy Horse since 2003 and will feature the full Crazy Horse line-up of Billy Talbot, Ralph Molina and Frank Sampedro. The Neil Young Times states that the album was recorded straight after the band finished their 'Americana' sessions at the Audio Casa Blanca studios. After playing a number of Stateside shows last month, Neil Young and Crazy Horse will head off on a full tour in the US and Canada in October and November, including an appearance at the Austin City Limits festival. As of yet, no plans for a UK or European tour have been announced." -NME.com

Orig.  $79.99  ----------------- >>>>>>>>  Sale  $58.99

Volbeat - Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies Vinyl 3-LP&CD Boxset Import 2013

In the two-and-half years since Volbeat's wildly successful Beyond Hell/Above Heaven, they've traveled some miles, both literally and figuratively. They toured not only Europe but the U.S. and Canada in support for nearly a year, and parted ways with lead guitarist Thomas Bredahl. A permanent replacement was found in Robert Caggiano, formerly of Anthrax, who was enlisted to produce Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies and play on select tracks. His addition has proved integral to the band's ever evolving sound. While the meld of various kinds of heavy metal, country, and rockabilly is still present here -- it is now undoubtedly the sound of Volbeat itself -- the lines between those styles are less pronounced. The sometimes jarring shift from rockabilly to thrash, from death metal to the Johnny Cash-country on previous albums, still happens, but here these sounds often coexist within the same song.

Orig.  $42.99  ----------------- >>>>>>>>  Sale  $34.99



Cream - Live At The Royal Albert Hall 2005 Vinyl 3-LP Import 2013

Cream reunited in the spring of 2005, setting aside nearly 40 years of acrimony for a series of gigs at the Royal Albert Hall in May, which was later followed by a few shows at Madison Square Garden about a month after souvenirs of the London shows.

Orig.  $129.99  -----------------  >>>>>>>> Sale  $109.99


To take advantage of the slashed prices for this week, visit MusicRecordShopSalesPage


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Music Record Shop Weekly Contest is still open to entries, so take a minute, you could win!

The CVR blog has a copy of Mad Season's 'Above' to give away to a lucky blog reader. The 33rd emailer with the words "Music Record Shop Mad Season Contest" in the subject line to this email address rbenson30@wi.rr.com wins! Limit one entry per person please!

Mad Season - Above

This expanded double 12" vinyl edition includes the original album in its entirety as well as three songs from the band's unfinished second album with newly recorded vocals by Mark Lanegan, a previously unreleased instrumental, "Interlude," and a remixed version of Mad Season's cover of John Lennon 's "I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier."

Above is the only studio album by the American rock band Mad Season, released on March 14, 1995 through Columbia Records. The album has been certified gold by the RIAA in the United States. The album's gloomy, black and white cover art was illustrated by Staley. The drawing was based upon a photograph of Staley and his then-girlfriend, Demri Lara Parrott.



Musicology 101

Let's have a little fun, so here are some rock and roll nuggets so you can win at music trivia games and become a top musicologist!

The album simply titled 'The Beatles,' which most fans call the 'White Album,' was originally slated to be named 'A Doll's House.'  That title was scrapped after the British progressive band Family released an album earlier in 1968, bearing a similar title.

Steely Dan founders Donald Fagen and Walter Becker first got together in a band known as The Bad Rock Group and later as The Leather Canary. Future comedy star Chevy Chase was their drummer.

Producer Phil Spector played guitar on the Rolling Stones' "Play With Fire."

When the TV show Cops went on the air in 1989, they used the now familiar "Bad Boys" by the Jamaican reggae group Inner Circle as the theme song. The Big Beat label didn't issue the song as a single until 1993, but when they did, it sold over seven million copies and rose to #8 on the Billboard chart.

The epitaph on Sonny Bono's headstone reads: "And The Beat Goes On."

Although singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson placed eight songs on Billboard's Top 40 chart, including the Grammy Award winning, million seller "Everybody's Talkin,'" he disliked performing in public so much that he seldom appeared in concert and rarely made televised appearances.

The original version of "Louie Louie" by The Kingsmen cost just $36 to record, but sold over 12 million copies.

Although he sang the lead vocal for "Sugar Sugar", a song that sold over 13 million copies and was named Billboard magazine's Record of The Year, Ron Dante did not earn any royalties for the hit. Just happy to be recording at all in 1969, he did the session for the musicians' union scale wage.

Artie Kornfeld, one of the main concert promoters of the 1969 Woodstock Festival, co-wrote Jan And Dean's "Dead Man's Curve" and The Cowsills' "The Rain, The Park And Other Thing."  At age 21, he became the youngest vice-president at Capitol Records and as a writer, producer, manager and promoter, he earned over 100 Gold and Platinum discs while writing over 75 Billboard charted songs.

Louden Wainwright III, who reached #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 with "Dead Skunk In The Middle Of The Road" in 1973, was also an actor who appeared in three different episodes of M*A*S*H.



 

Vinyl Record News & Music Notes

Music Record Shop Weekly (Contest)  is still open to entries, so take a minute, you could win!

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from our friends at www.StormingTheBase.com (look for more from them next week!)

Four Tet. Rounds (Re-issue).

To coincide with its ten year anniversary, Domino is to reissue Four Tet’s seminal album, Rounds, on 13th May 2013. The reissue will feature the album as well as a live set from Copenhagen recorded near the time of the original release. Rounds will be available on 2 x CD (REWIGCD88), 2 x heavyweight LP featuring download codes plus the bonus disc on CD

Order at StormingTheBase



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from our friends at Relapse.com

UNKIND: Reveal New Album Details

Pelon Juuret coming July 9th via Relapse Records

Finnish hardcore heroes UNKIND have revealed the album details for their upcoming sixth full-length entitled Pelon Juuret (Translation:  Roots of Fear). The album was recorded with producer Kari Nieminen at Noisecamp studios in Turku, Finland at the end of 2012.  Pelon Juuret continues in the direction of the group’s previous work, offering up a furious fusion of d-beat hardcore crossed with a highly creative touch of atmospherics —as if Mogwai made a record of Tragedy covers or From Ashes Rise were influenced by Explosions In The Sky. 

The album will be released on CD/LP/Digital via Relapse Records on July 9th in North America, July 8th in the UK / World, and July 5th in Germany, Benelux and Finland.  Pre-order packages are available via Relapse here.




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By October 1969, things were radically different for The Monkees. Their NBC show had left prime time, Peter Tork had left the group, and Top 40 hits were no longer a sure thing. It was in this atmosphere that Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones and Michael Nesmith exerted more creative control to record THE MONKEES PRESENT . The resulting album is one of the group's most varied, from the iconic single, "Listen To The Band," to Micky's anti-war anthem, "Mommy And Daddy," Davy's lush "French Song," and Michael's Nashville-tinged barn-burner, "Good Clean Fun."

Strictly limited to 5,000 individually numbered boxes, the newly re-mastered and expanded THE MONKEES PRESENT is the latest release in Rhino Handmade's lavish Monkees boxed sets. Packed with a whopping 85 tracks (60 previously unreleased!) over 3 CD's, Monkees historian and reissue producer Andrew Sandoval has raided the vault, pulling previously unheard songs, alternate versions and backing tracks from the original master tapes. THE MONKEES PRESENT also includes an exclusive bonus 7" vinyl single for "Good Clean Fun (Alternate Mix)" b/w "Mommy and Daddy (Mono Mix)" in a picture sleeve.

THE MONKEES PRESENT ships in late July, but is available now for pre-order exclusively at Monkees.com. This box is not available from any store or other online retailer and is sure to sell out, so reserve your copy now HERE.

Please note: The release date 7/30/13 is not yet finalized and subject to change. You will be notified if there is a delay in the arrival date for your product. Cover art is not final and may change.

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Jack White's Third Man Records to Release Gatsby Soundtrack on Gold and Platinum Discs





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Popular Rolling Stones Bootleg Getting Box Set Release





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U.K. College Offering Two-Year Course In Heavy Metal








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from Grimeys.com

GRIMEY'S BEST SELLERS 4/29 - 5/05, 2013

 Vinyl Top 25:

1. The Replacements - Songs For Slim
2. The Weeks - Dear Bo Jackson
3. Phoenix - Bankrupt!
4. Goat - World Music
5. James Wallace & The Naked Light - More Strange News From Another Star
6. Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun
7. Kurt Vile - Wakin On A Pretty Daze
8. Phosphorescent - Muchacho
9. Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago
10. Songs: Ohia - Hecla & Griper
11. Mumford & Sons - Babel
12. Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls
13. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
14. The Black Keys - The Big Come Up
15. !!! - Thr!!!er
16. Caitlin Rose - The Stand-In
17. Guided By Voices - English Little League
18. Akron/Family - Sub Verses
19. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Push The Sky Away
20. White Fence - Cyclops Reap
21. D Watusi - Dark Party
22. Charles Bradley - Victim Of Love
23. James Blake - Overgrown
24. Steve Martin & Edie Brickell - Love Has Come For You
25. The Black Keys - Rubber Factory

Vinyl Record News & Music Notes

Music Record Shop Weekly Contest is still open to entries, so take a minute, you could win!

The CVR blog has a copy of Mad Season's 'Above' to give away to a lucky blog reader. The 33rd emailer with the words "Music Record Shop Mad Season Contest" in the subject line to this email address rbenson30@wi.rr.com wins! Limit one entry per person please!

Mad Season - Above

This expanded double 12" vinyl edition includes the original album in its entirety as well as three songs from the band's unfinished second album with newly recorded vocals by Mark Lanegan, a previously unreleased instrumental, "Interlude," and a remixed version of Mad Season's cover of John Lennon 's "I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier."

Above is the only studio album by the American rock band Mad Season, released on March 14, 1995 through Columbia Records. The album has been certified gold by the RIAA in the United States. The album's gloomy, black and white cover art was illustrated by Staley. The drawing was based upon a photograph of Staley and his then-girlfriend, Demri Lara Parrott.



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R.E.M. 25th Green Anniversary

When R.E.M. went to Memphis, Tennessee's famed Ardent Studios in 1988 to record their major label debut for Warner Bros Records, singer Michael Stipe, legend has it, tasked his band mates, Bill Berry, Peter Buck, and Mike Mills, with a singular mission: to "not write any more R.E.M.-type songs." Emboldened by this charge, the band ventured into the previously unexplored realm of bubblegum pop ("Pop Song '89," "Stand"), freely swapped instruments amongst themselves, and even went so far as to introduce the mandolin into their repertoire for the first time ("Hairshirt"). Bolstered by Stipe's increasingly politically-conscious and socially-conscientious lyrics, Green emerged as the band's most fully-realized record to date--a bold claim given the trajectory of their IRS years' recordings (Murmur, Reckoning, Fables of the Reconstruction, Lifes Rich Pageant, and Document) but accurate nonetheless.

To celebrate the landmark album's 25-year anniversary, Rhino is releasing a two-disc deluxe edition that features the remastered original album accompanied by a disc of live performances taken from the penultimate show of R.E.M.'s 130-date Green World Tour. All twenty-one songs were recorded in Greensboro, North Carolina, on November 10, 1989, just miles from where Berry, Buck, Mills and Stipe had their very first recording session at Mitch Easter's Drive-In Studio in Winston-Salem. The set captures the confident spirit of Green ("Get Up," "World Leader Pretend," and "You Are The Everything") as well as the timelessness of early favorites like "Fall On Me," "Finest Worksong," and "The One I Love," and hints at the future with early versions of tracks that would ultimately appear on Out Of Time.

GREEN: 25TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION will be available on May 14th, but you can pre-order it now at Amazon

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Avenged Sevenfold Limited Edition Vinyl

For Record Store Day 2013, on the 5 year anniversary of Avenged Sevenfold's "Live in the LBC" performance, we have produced a limited record/DVD configuration, pressed on vinyl for the first time in a deluxe gatefold jacket and mastered by Bernie Grundman. This release contains both the first live concert film from Avenged Sevenfold "Live in the LBC" filmed on April 10, 2008 as well as "Diamonds in the Rough," an offering of previously unreleased b-sides and more. The CD/DVD configuration was released September 16, 2008 and has since been certified Platinum.

Get it at BecauseSoundMatters




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for those who have cells (i don't and i don't want one!)

Doors' App Available

Now available on the App Store, THE DOORS official App brings The Doors' story to life with a rich, immersive experience that delves deeply into every aspect of The Doors' incandescent career. Of all the California bands, The Doors music still burns with an intensity that clearly identifies their distinctive approach to poetic lyrics, bold instrumentation and song.

THE DOORS official app features:
Essays: Insider stories behind each Doors album, the "Miami Incident," and more, enriched with videos, audio, photos and rarely seen memorabilia
Timeline: The Doors' history, controllable from the radio of Jim's Shelby GT 500 Mustang
Cast of Characters: Meet key people in the Doors' universe
The Doors Map of LA: Focusing on prime locations in the band's history, with photos and stories
Gallery: All of the app's images, artwork, tape boxes, memorabilia, press releases, Doors posters
Music Room: Flip through the classic Doors' LPs, hear song samples, or scan and match from your own library
Tech Nuggets: Descriptions and photos of all equipment used in the recording of each studio album
Song Lyrics: Complete lyrics to all Doors' songs
Social Integration: In-app links to Social Media and the iTunes store
Favorites: A personal portfolio of treasures, selected by you

Additional Features:
Materials from The Doors archive and dozens of other sources
Hundreds of unseen photos, posters, artifacts and artwork
44 short form videos plus all six full-length Doors music videos
Short "takes" from Patti Smith, Hunter S. Thompson, Greil Marcus, Francis Cord Coppola and The Doors
Graphic novel of the infamous Miami Incident by Dean Haspiel & Adam Holzman, including actual FBI files and related documents

For more onfo head HERE

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Grateful Dead compile Magical, Mythical Tour recordings in new 14-disc box set









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actually saw the band in the mid 80's warmed up for kiss

KING KOBRA To Release 'II' Album In July










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cool write up. well worth the read:

Mind Melt: A Chat With Graphic Artist Leif Podhajsky






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Unexpected Cover Songs: 20 Unique Renditions Of Famous Tunes



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album cover art of the day:


Inherit The Stars Reveals New Album "We Were Made To Walk The Skies" Artwork















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album cover art of the day, part 2:

Powerwolf - Reveal New Album Artwork

German power metal band Powerwolf have revealed the album cover art for their new opus 'Preachers Of The Night,' which was created by Matthew Greywolf. The album is expected to be released this year through Napalm Records, but the official date has not been announced.













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very controversial Bowie video making the rounds on the net (banned at YouTube)

Watch David Bowie's Bloody, Religious "The Next Day" Video, Starring Gary Oldman and Marion Cotillard

 

Ask Mr. Music by Jerry Osborne

FOR THE WEEK OF MAY 6, 2013

DEAR JERRY: Last year about this time, you mentioned that Adele topped both of Billboard's most prestigious year-end polls: Pop Song of the Year ("Rolling in the Deep") and Pop Album of the Year ("21").

You didn't say how uncommon this is, so please tell us how many have accomplished this feat?
—Arnold Morrison, Minneapolis

 

DEAR ARNOLD: The quick reply is seven (each below with an asterisk), but let's answer your question in greater detail, in anticipation of others you will surely inspire.

With only seven decades to consider, we can review all who won in two or more of the six possible categories:

Song of the Year and Album of the Year, both for Pop, R&B, and Country.

In Pop, 1956 was the first year to honor both songs and albums. Country followed suit in 1965, and R&B in '66.

Here are the stars who ranked No. 1 at least twice in the same year:

1957 Elvis Presley: Pop Song ("All Shook Up") and R&B Song ("Jailhouse Rock")
1959 Johnny Horton: Pop and Country Song ("The Battle of New Orleans")
1961 Bobby Lewis: Pop and R&B Song ("Tossin' and Turnin'")
1967 Jack Greene: Country Song ("All the Time") and Album ("There Goes My Everything")
*1970 Simon & Garfunkel: Pop Song and Album ("Bridge Over Troubled Water")
1974 Charlie Rich: Country Song ("There Won't Be Anymore") and Album ("Behind Closed Doors")
1977 Waylon Jennings: Country Song ("Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love") and Album ("Ol' Waylon")
1978 Earth, Wind & Fire: R&B Song ("Serpentine Fire") and Album ("All 'N All")
1978 Willie Nelson: Country Song ("Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys") (duet with Waylon Jennings) and Album ("Stardust")
1979 Chic: R&B Song ("Good Times") and Album ("C'est Chic")
1982 Willie Nelson: Country Song and Album ("Always on My Mind")
1983 Michael Jackson: Pop and R&B Album ("Thriller")
1984 Prince: Pop and R&B Song ("When Doves Cry")
1986 Whitney Houston: Pop and R&B Album ("Whitney Houston")
*1988 George Michael: Pop Song and Album ("Faith")
1988 Keith Sweat: R&B Song ("I Want Her") and Album ("Make It Last Forever")
1990 Janet Jackson: Pop and R&B Album ("Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation")
1990 Clint Black: Country Song ("Nobody's Home") and Album ("Killin' Time")
*1993 Whitney Houston Pop and R&B Song ("I Will Always Love You") and Pop and R&B Album ("The Bodyguard" Soundtrack)
*1994 Ace of Base: Pop Song and Album ("The Sign")
1998 Next: Pop and R&B Song ("Too Close")
2001 R Kelly: R&B Song ("Fiesta") and Album (TP2.com")
2002 Eminem: Pop and R&B Album ("The Eminem Show")
*2003 50 Cent: Pop and R&B Song ("In da Club") and Pop and R&B Album ("Get Rich Or Die Tryin'")
*2004 Usher: Pop Song ("Yeah!") (with Lil Jon and Ludacris) and Pop and R&B Album ("Confessions")
2005 50 Cent: Pop and R&B Album ("The Massacre")
2006 Carrie Underwood: Pop and Country Album ("Some Hearts")
2006 Mary J. Blige: R&B Song ("Be Without You") and Album ("The Breakthrough")
2008 Alicia Keys: Pop and R&B Song ("As I Am") and R&B Album ("Like You'll Never See Me Again")
2009 Taylor Swift: Pop and Country Album ("Fearless")
*2011 Adele: Pop Song ("Rolling in the Deep") and Album ("21")

Notes and observations:

Elvis is the only artist with two Song of the Year winners in the same year (1957) that are two completely different singles. Neither he nor the Beatles had an Album of the Year in the 20th century, though the choices do not always reflect actual sales.

Not until 1967 did anything even resembling rock or teen-oriented music win Album of the Year, that being "More of the Monkees."

For nine consecutive years (1957 through 1965), the Album of the year was either of the original cast or soundtrack genre.



DEAR JERRY: Your column about songs banned by radio stations took me back to my childhood, in the early 1960s, and a comedy record my parents used to play when they thought I was sleeping.

Though somewhat off-color, it was not even close to being X-rated.

I especially remember it being recorded at a nearby bar, which provides a clue. We lived on Crenshaw near Artesia Blvd, in Torrance, Calif.

The only other clue is a parody of "Secret Love" the comedian sang, that has been in my memory for about 50 years.

His version began like this:

"Once I had a secret love
She wore a flimsy negligee
Last night we were on Channel 4
My secret love's no secret anymore"

One day I'd like to hear this obscure album again. Do you have any helpful details?
—Gilles Marchand, Rolling Hills, Calif.


DEAR GILLES: Obscure is right. This LP was originally only available at the club you vaguely recall, then named the Roaring '20s Lounge.

In Torrance at 166th and Crenshaw, less than a mile from Artesia Blvd., their primary entertainer was club owner Charles David Thomas, who performed as Bub Thomas.

His privately pressed album, recorded live in 1960 at the Roaring '20s, is "Smoker Stories" (BT 1000), and it should be available online for under $25.

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

 

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

 

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New Music Releases - May 7, 2013

38 Special - Special Delivery (remastered vinyl)
98 Degrees - 2.0
AA Wallace - (disambiguation)
AM & Shawn Lee - La Musique Numerique
Alison Moyet - the minutes
Altars - Something More
Ann Pragg - Bitter Fruit
Atrocity - Okkult
Aziz Ansari - Dangerously Delicious
Banquets - Banquets
Bevis Frond - White Numbers
Beware of Darkness - Orthodox
Billy Paul - Lately
Blink-182 - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket (deluxe edition)
Bob Dylan - Greatest Hits Vol. II (reissue)
Bonnie Tyler - Rocks & Honey
Bracher Brown - Broken Glass And Railroad Tracks
Captain Beyond - Sufficiently Breathless (vinyl)
Citadel - Citadel (EP)
Co La - Moody Coup
Come - Eleven (reissue)
Courtney Jaye - Love And Forgiveness
Craig Campbell - Never Regret
D.O.T. - Diary
Dave Koz - Summer Horns
Deerhunter - Monomania
Delain - Interlude
Devour The Day - Time & Pressure
Earthling - Dark Path
Eksi Ekso - Archfiend
F.K.Ü. - 4: Rise Of The Mosh Mongers
Fall Out Boy - Save Rock and Roll
Fitz & the Tantrums - More Than Just A Dream
Francoise Hardy - Midnight Blues: Paris London 1968-72
Gambles - Far From Your Arms (EP)
Gap Band - Gap Band VII
George Clinton - Computer Games
Ghostpoet - Some Say I So I Say Light
Goo Goo Dolls - Magnetic
Grandchildren - Golden Child
Grime - Deteriorate
Hussy - Pagan Hiss
Isley Brothers - Winner Takes All
Jim Guthrie - Takes Time
Joe Satriani - Unstoppable Momentum
Joshua Radin - Wax Wings
Justice - Access All Arenas
LL Cool J - Authentic
Lady Antebellum - Golden
Little Boots - Nocturnes
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced ‘lĕh-’nérd ‘skin-’nérd (reissue)
Michael Feuerstack - Tambourine Death Bed
Michael Stanley - The Hang
Mikal Cronin - MCII
Mike Patton - The Place Beyond The Pines (vinyl)
Millie Jackson - An Imitation Of Love: Expanded Edition
Mother Falcon - You Knew
Mylets - Retcon
Natalie Maines - Mother
Noah and the Whale - Heart of Nowhere
Northcote - Northcote
Patty Griffin - American Kid
Pentimento - Pentimento
Phaseone - If I Tell You
Pistol Annies - Annie Up
Primal Scream - More Light
Retox - YPLL
Rod Stewart - Time
Rotting Out - The Wrong Way
Ruth Moody - These Wilder Things
Sadgiqacea - False Prism
Savages - Silence Yourself
Say Lou Lou - Julian (7")
Shalamar - Friends
Shannon Wright - In Film Sound
She & Him - Volume 3
Small Brown Bike - Recollected
Sodom - Epitome of Torture
Still Corners - Strange Pleasures
Straight No Chaser - Under the Influence
Sun Angle - Diamond Junk
Sweat Band - Sweat Band
Talib Kweli - Prisoner of Conscious
The Child of Lov - The Child of Lov
The Hussy - Pagan Hiss
The Uncluded - Hokey Fright
The Wonder Stuff - Oh No It's... The Wonder Stuff
To The Wind - Empty Eyes
Tom O'Dell - Long Way Down
Torches - If The People Stare (EP)
Uncluded - Hokey Fright
Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City
Van Dyke Parks - Songs Cycled
Various Artists - Remembering Little Walter
Various Artists - The Great Gatsby (soundtrack)
Various Artists - Way to Blue – The Songs of Nick Drake
Various Artists - The Music of Nashville, Season 1, Vol. 2 (soundtrack)
Vibrators - On The Guest List
Vicious Rumors - Electric Punishment
Vinyette - Every Little Mouse Run
Way Yes - Tog Pebbles
We Are Loud Whispers - Suchness
Yes - Magnification (vinyl)
Young Galaxy - Ultramarine

Vinyl Record News & Music Notes

  Music Record Shop Weekly Contest is still open to entries, so take a minute, you could win!

The CVR blog has a copy of Mad Season's 'Above' to give away to a lucky blog reader.  The 33rd emailer with the words "Music Record Shop Mad Season Contest" in the subject line to this email address rbenson30@wi.rr.com  wins!  Limit one entry per person please!

Mad Season - Above

This expanded double 12" vinyl edition includes the original album in its entirety as well as three songs from the band's unfinished second album with newly recorded vocals by Mark Lanegan, a previously unreleased instrumental, "Interlude," and a remixed version of Mad Season's cover of John Lennon 's "I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier."

Above is the only studio album by the American rock band Mad Season, released on March 14, 1995 through Columbia Records. The album has been certified gold by the RIAA in the United States.  The album's gloomy, black and white cover art was illustrated by Staley. The drawing was based upon a photograph of Staley and his then-girlfriend, Demri Lara Parrott.



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