Vinyl Record News & Music Notes

ZZ TOP: THE COMPLETE STUDIO ALBUMS (1970-1990)

Warner Bros. Records Salutes The Texas Trio’s Musical Legacy With Boxed Set Featuring Original Mixes Of The Band’s First 10 Albums

The 10-Disc Collection Arrives June 11th

Back in 1969, Billy F Gibbons, Frank Beard and Dusty Hill joined together in Houston as ZZ TOP. The band that would unassumingly go on to be known as That Little Ol’ Band From Texas soon made rock history with a string of hugely successful record releases and tour dates. Over the next 20 years, the trio went on to critical and commercial acclaim, selling millions of albums and concert tickets around the world, while earning induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame and status as one of the only bands to have been awarded an RIAA Diamond (domestic sales of 10 million or more) album.

Warner Bros. Records explores the impressive scope of ZZ TOP’s musical legacy with a boxed set that includes the original mixes for the band’s first 10 albums. ZZ TOP: THE COMPLETE STUDIO
ALBUMS (1970-1990) will be available on June 11.

The set, including the albums initially released on the London label as well as the string of Warner Bros. Hits that followed, includes ZZ Tops’ First Album (1971), Rio Grande Mud (1972), Tres Hombres (1973), Fandango! (1975)*, Tejas (1976), Degüello (1979), El Loco (1981), Eliminator (1983), Afterburner (1985) and Recycler (1990). Each album is presented in a wallet sleeve that faithfully reproduces the original artwork, including the gatefold designs used for Tres Hombres and Tejas. The set presents, for the first time on CD, the original mixes for ZZ Tops’ First Album, Rio Grande Mud and Tejas that have long been on the wish lists of the band’s most fervent fans.

Today, Gibbons, Hill and Beard remain together performing and recording as, they often say, “the same three guys playing the same three chords.” The trio offered a statement regarding the forthcoming release of ZZ TOP: THE COMPLETE STUDIO ALBUMS (1970-1990): “We're gratified that the albums from the first 20 years of the band are going to be made available in this set. We're especially delighted to note the restoration of ZZ Top's First Album, Rio Grande Mud and Tejas has been incorporated; it's good to have been made whole again on a certain level.”

The collection spans 100 tracks that follow the band’s journey from the honky tonks of Texas to the stages of the world, starting with the earthy blues and electrifying boogie that defined their ’70s sound — “Just Got Paid,” “La Grange,” “Tush” and “Cheap Sunglasses.” THE COMPLETE STUDIO ALBUMS closes with the familiar synthesizers featured on the group’s biggest singles from the ’80s — “Legs” and “Sharp Dressed Man” from the Diamond-certified Eliminator, and the #1 hits “Sleeping Bag” and “Stages” from its multi-platinum follow-up Afterburner.

ZZ TOP will hit the road next month for concert dates in the U.S. and Europe, starting in Newkirk, Oklahoma and ending in Linz, Austria.

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from our friends at Ripple-Music.com

TRUCKER DIABLO's Songs of Iron Out Now on Ripple Music

 

Last week, their single "Drive" beat out the likes of ALICE IN CHAINS, VOLBEAT and QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE in Classic Rock Magazine's online Track of the Week poll. This week, they take over the rest of the world. 

Northern Ireland melodic rockers TRUCKER DIABLO have released their sophomore effort,Songs of Iron, today via Ripple Music. A strong contender for Album of the Year, Songs of Ironis available on digital, vinyl and CD formats at the Ripple Music Webstore

Heavy melodies firmly planted on a foundation of steamroller rock n' roll aggression is the fuel behind the latest offering from Northern Ireland export, TRUCKER DIABLO. Songs of Ironpicks up where the breakthrough hit album, The Devil Rhythm left off, blasting listeners with the sonic fury of modern heavy rock mixed with a road worn southern swagger. After releasing two viral videos ("Drink Beer, Destroy," and "Voodoo") taking the stage at Hard Rock Hell, Download, and opening for The Foo Fighters amongst others, TRUCKER DIABLO surged to new heights of popularity in 2012. Now 2013 finds the band upon their international acclaim by cranking out another set of pile-driving melodic rockers. Songs of Iron, ups the ante on heaviness, crunching guitars and sing-along chorus, and is sure to please TRUCKER fans the world over, new and old.

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album cover art of the day, part 2:


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another great vinyl sale from our friends at TheOmegaOrder.com

 

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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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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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