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1. Stone Temple Pilots - Purple (Pre-Order) 2. Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed 3. Mother Love Bone - Mother Love Bone (Black Vinyl) 4. Allman Brothers Band - Eat A Peach 5. MFSL Original Master Record Sleeves (50) 6. Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks 1964-1971 7. Mad Season - Above 8. Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet 9. Dream Theater - Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence 10. Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues
"Total Entropy", out on Nuun Records, brings together for the first time on an album envisioned by the artist. Includes previous unreleased or limited edition collaborations by the likes of Tim Burgess, Toog, Antipop, Brian Molko and many others. Poetically direct, vital and glowing, between dream and madness, Total Entropy evokes the artist's impossible love or interrupted boredom and thirst for life. Alternating orchestral ballads, blues-rock, new wave experimental and minimal techno, including guitars and layered sounds and the deep and intense voice of Asia, Total Entropy is difficult to categorize and reveals a talented charming perspective, between dark and light.
We expect this item to be in stock on July 23, 2013
Israel's leading counter-culture Rock musician Aviv Geffen returns with Blackfield IV, featuring Steven Wilson and other special collaborators.
The new album includes guest vocal performancess from Brett Anderson (Suede), Jonathan Donahue (Mercury Rev) and Vincent Cavanagh (Anathema).
Since Welcome To My DNA, Geffen's profile has continued to rise and Aviv has worked with legendary producers Tony Visconti and Trevor Horn, played live with U2 and Placebo, and been a judge on the Israeli TV show,The Voice.
Aviv contributed writing and vocals on Blackfield IV, while Steven Wilson - who also mixed the album - added guitar and vocal parts.
This vinyl edition is pressed on heavyweight (180g) vinyl and is packaged in a gatefold sleeve.
All copies ordered from the Kscope store contain code for the download digital version of the album.
This debut album of America (1972) is considered as a folk-pop classic filled with a great collection of memorable songs that proves their influence on acts as The Eagles and Dan Fogelberg. Using vocal harmonies on "Sandman" and "Children and an intricate interplay of acoustic guitars is for the period of time highly ambitious. The hits of this album are ofcourse the widely known "A Horse With No Name", "I Need You" and again "Sandman". But also the buoyantly charming "Three Roses", the yearningly lovely "Rainy Day" and the quietly ringing "Clarice" make this album as one of their best and recommendable for any kind of music fan. A classic to own and a stepping stone to into the world of folk-pop music.
180 gram audiophile vinyl
Tracklisting: Side 1 1. Riverside 2. Sandman 3. Three Roses 4. Children 5. A Horse With No Name 6. Here
Side 2 1. I Need You 2. Rainy Day 3. Never Found The Time 4. Clarice 5. Donkey Jaw 6. Pigeon Song
Tim Buckley - Starsailor
On his first albums Tim was a gentle, melodic folk rocker but during the making of these albums he evolved into a downright experimental singer/songwriter exploring jazz and avant-garde. The result? Starsailor!
The album is a culmination of his experiments and with former Mother of Invention Bunk Gardner on sax and alto flute the story is complete. Surrealistic lyrics, heavy chords and unexpected twists make Starsailor a brilliant album that admittedly, isn't for everybody, but endures as one of the most legendary albums ever made by a singer/songwriter.
180 gram audiophile vinyl
Tracklisting: Side 1 1. Come Here Woman 2. I Woke Up 3. Monterey 4. Moulin Rouge 5. Song To The Siren
Side 2 1. Jungle Fire 2. Starsailor 3. The Healing Festival 4. Down By The Borderline
DEAR JERRY:Greetings from the Chemical Capital of the World!
Unfortunately, even here there is no chemical solution for my music mystery, one involving Sam Cooke.
Around the time Elvis returned from Germany, one of our local dee jays mentioned that Elvis and Sam Cooke were the only artists with two songs in the WAMS Top 30.
Presley's two were "Stuck on You" and "Fame and Fortune," and I know one of Cooke's was "Teenage Sonata."
Nowhere can I find even a peep about the second Sam Cooke hit that week.
Every available source, online plus music books and album liner notes, say "Chain Gang" is the follow-up to "Teenage Sonata," but it came several months later and can't be the one.
What is this song that seems like it never was?
—Cleo Hoyle, Wilmington, Del.
DEAR CLEO: It is funny that you recall that quirky Top 30 tidbit about Wilmington's Authentic Music Survey (WAMS reverse acronym, or "backronym"), but not the Sam Cooke tunes that made it worth mentioning.
For the week of April 17, 1960, they rank "Teenage Sonata" at No. 13 and dropping, and "You Understand Me" at No. 30 and rising.
So the real follow-up to "Teenage Sonata" (RCA Victor 47-7701) was "You Understand Me" (RCA Victor 47-7730), and then came "Chain Gang" (RCA Victor 47-7783).
These three, plus "If You Were the Only Girl," the B-side of "Teenage Sonata," came out in 1961 on a Compact 33 Double EP (RCA Victor LPC-126), titled "Sam Cooke Sings."
Other than this EP and the original 45, "You Understand Me" seems to have fallen through the cracks. Inexplicably, this terrific tune is not on any of Sam Cooke's LPs.
Hear it here!
The astute observation you recall so accurately must have been made by one of these WAMS Fabulous Five: Willie Gaylord; Roger Holmes; Mel Bernam; Jack Barry; or Gene Miles.
For the record, both of the Elvis hits were back-to-back on one record (RCA Victor 47-7740), whereas the two Sam Cooke titles were on separate singles.
DEAR JERRY:An interesting blog called "Country's Top 10 Most Influential Artists" makes this statement about Lefty Frizzell: "At the height of his popularity he had four songs in the Top 10 simultaneously, a feat only matched by the Beatles a decade later."
Calling this "a feat only matched by the Beatles" implies no one else had four or more of the nation's Top 10 spots, regardless of time period or genre.
I'll bet there are a few earlier stars — Bing Crosby comes to mind — that equaled or even surpassed having 40% of the Top 10.
Can you provide some specifics to back me up?
—Marty Fuhrman, Halifax, Nova Scotia
DEAR MARTY: Limiting Mr. Frizzell's feat to just C&W history would have been best.
Had the blogger recruited either one of us to proofread, the Beatles would either be left out of the discussion, or accompanied by additional and essential details. As I now know, that means a few more hours of research.
Since most of William Orville "Lefty" Frizzell's bios make mention of his superb Top 10 achievement, but without providing titles and a date, let us begin there.
It was April 14, 1951 when "I Love You a Thousand Ways"; "Look What Thoughts Will Do"; "Shine, Shave, Shower (It's Saturday)"; and "I Want to Be with You Always" were all in the Country Top 10.
Now for some testimony on your behalf:
Not only did Bing Crosby have five of the Top 10 hits several times, there was one week in July 1944 when the only position in the top six he didn't claim was No. 3. Harry James managed to sneak in there.
Joining Bing in the Had Half of the Top 10 Club are the orchestras of Glenn Miller and Jimmy Dorsey, with both bands achieving it multiple times.
IZ ZAT SO? Besides being singers, what do these folks have in common: Andrews Sisters; Bing Crosby; Jimmy Dorsey; Trudy Erwin; Glen Gray; and the Mills Brothers?
Just happens they all recorded for Decca Records, far and away the most dominant label of the 1940s. Not RCA Victor. Not Columbia. Not Capitol.
Recordings by these stars are why, on more than one occasion in the mid-'40s, nine of the Top 10 hits were Decca singles.
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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In its first week on sale, Daft Punk's 'Random Access Memories' sold 19,000 vinyl LPs (which accounted for 15% of all vinyl albums sold last week 123,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan). This wasn't an inexpensive purchase for vinyl lovers, either. The double LP set is currently priced at $39.98 in Sony's My Play Direct Web store, and $35.53 at Amazon.com.
Behold the power of a new generation of vinyl lovers!
GRIMEY'S BEST SELLERS 5/27 - 6/02, 2013 Vinyl Top 25:
1. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
2. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
3. OST - Drive
4. Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls
5. Oblivians - Desperation
6. Coupler - Sunless
7. John Fogerty - Wrote A Song For Everyone
8. The Rolling Stones - Beggars Banquet
9. She & Him - Volume 3
10. Johnny Cash - I Walk The Line b/w Get Rhythm 7"
11. Alt-J - An Awesome Wave
12. Laura Marling - Once I Was An Eagle
13. The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
14. Kurt Vile - Wakin On A Pretty Daze
15. Shovels & Rope - O' Be Joyful
16. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
17. The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
18. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
19. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
20. Shovels & Rope - Johnny 99 7"
21. Vangelis - Blade Runner OST
22. Justin Townes Earle - Yuma 10"
23. Damien Jurado - Where Shall You Take Me
24. The Weeks - Dear Bo Jackson
25. Dawes - Stories Don't End
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In 2003, Polly Paulusma was happily putting the finishing touches to shed-recorded debut album ‘Scissors in my Pocket’ when Bjork’s label One Little Indian signed her up and catapulted her round the world for 6 years, supporting Bob Dylan, Jamie Cullum, Joseph Arthur, Coldplay and many others. Now she’s set up her own label Wild Sound and is releasing her third offering, ‘Leaves from the Family Tree.'
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"A landmark release …..one of their most satisfying albums in years.” Jethro Tull is one of the most successful bands of all time. In 2003, Ian Anderson and Jethro Tull made a visit to the Montreux Festival. The concert was a musical triumph combining semi-acoustic and full-on electric performances of some of their best known and loved recordings.The near-perfect set list has something for every kind of Tull fan for this live album shows Tull at all stages of their career, gentle melodic numbers, hard driving rock anthems and several tracks that mix these approaches along with a number of additional musical styles together. Noteworthy to the double-album package are Ian Anderson's witty and informative liner notes.
Mastered by Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray
SIDE ONE 1.Some Day The Sun Won't Shine For You 2.Life Is A Long Song 3.Bourée 4.With You There To Help Me 5.Pavane
SIDE TWO: 1.Hunting Girl 2.Fat Man 3.Living In The Past 4.Nothing Is Easy
SIDE THREE:
1.My God
2.Budapest
SIDE FOUR: 1.New Jig 2.Aqualung 3.Locomotive Breath
Waxwork Records has teamed up with composer Richard Band to release his score to the 1985 horror film, RE-ANIMATOR. We’re excited to release this great soundtrack from the fantastic H.P. Lovecraft tale of horror.
Re-Animator will be a limited release that guarantees buyers the LP on green 180 gram vinyl. There will be a limited number of variant glow-in-the-dark vinyl that will be randomly inserted. Re-Animator will go on sale May, 31st 2013.
The score was composed and conducted by Richard Band and performed by the Rome Philharmonic Orchestra. The soundtrack has been re-mastered specifically for vinyl, and the full LP package (front and back cover, record sleeve, and center A-side B-side labels) will feature artwork from Gary Pullin (Ghoulish Gary). You can also expect a massive poster of the cover art. Included in the package will be notes from the composer and director giving insight and information on the score and film. The record sleeve will include original photographs from the 1985 recording sessions in Rome, Italy. The score is a masterful work that fans of horror and sci-fi have acknowledged and loved for nearly three decades.
Black Sabbath to guest on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
Black Sabbath will be one of the guests featured on Monday, June 10th's episode of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. The appearance comes on the eve of the release of the band’s new album, “13,” which is due to hit the stores on June 11th.
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New Chelsea Grin Cover of The Korn Song “Right Now” Available Digitally With Pre-Orders
(New York, NY) –Chelsea Grin will be releasing My Damnation (Artery Recordings/Razor & Tie) on vinyl for the first time ever on August 6th. The limited color runs include clear w/violet splatter, orange/white/black mix, green, and a purple mix.
All pre-orders come will include a digital download of Chelsea Grin’s brand new cover of the Korn’s “Right Now." My Damnation was produced by Zeuss (The Acacia Strain, Hatebreed, The Red Chord).
Chelsea Grin is about to embark on a European Summer Tour starting on June 19th. Immediately following this tour Chelsea Grin will be back in the U.S. for The All Stars Tour kicking off on July 19th in Huntington, NY with Every Time I Die.
*This is a presale item set to ship appx 7/3013
*All 4 color variations of "My Damnation" on vinyl. Includes instant grat track of Chelsea Grin covering Korn's "Right Now"
The 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere (vinyl pre-order)
Easter Everywhere was the 13th Floor Elevators second album. Widely regarded as the band's peak, the album captures the band before the drug abuse, mental health problems and run-ins with the law that led to their premature demise.
Previously only available as part of the Music Of The Spheres box set, this is the first official mono vinyl reissue of Easter Everywhere since 1967.
"Their masterpiece. Easter Everywhere is an all-time higher key document. With a measured Erickson vocal and a blissful Sutherland solo, 'Slip Inside This House' is eight minutes of constant build: the guide for a new enlightenment. The rest isn't bad either..." - Mojo
The 13th Floor Elevators - Bull Of The Woods (vinyl pre-order)
This is the first release on vinyl for A Love That's Sound and it contains a recently discovered and never-heard before version of Some Day My Love, the song originally scheduled as the band's 6th single.
Previously only available as part of the Music Of The Spheres box set, Bull of The Woods is the first vinyl reissue from tape sources of the stereo edition for over three decades.
"The fearless trailblazers of Psychedelia and one of the most kick-ass rock bands ever... For two or so years they burned with a flame so fierce that 40 years on they still remain an inspiration." - Mojo
Soft Machine's second album was the last to prominently feature vocals - Robert Wyatt on particularly dazzling form - and the first to feature Hugh Hopper as a band member.
Volume Two is a wildly imaginative collection of off-kilter songs and proto-Jazz Rock instrumental strangeness that includes the two long suites Rivmic Melodies and Esther's Nose Job, and the timelessly beautiful Hugh Hopper piece, Dedicated To You But You Weren't Listening.
Sigur Rós will release their new album, Kveikur, on June 18th, 2013. Kveikur is the band’s first album to be released worldwide through XL Recordings. The record, self-produced by the three members of Sigur Rós: Jón Þór Birgisson, Georg Holm and Orri Páll Dýrason, sees the band shifting towards a more direct, aggressive sound. Playing to 125,000 people on their Spring 2013 North American tour, Canadian highlights included performances at Air Canada Centre (Toronto), Scotia Place (Ottawa), and Bell Centre (Montréal).
Jane’s Addiction has always thrown THE most provocative and extravagant parties in rock, mixing a fierce musicality and streetwise lyrics with a theatrical flair. 2011 and 2012 saw the band - who have always outrageously combined electricity, sex and danger - return to the stage in support of their acclaimed album The Great Escape Artist (Capitol Records). Filmed at New York City’s Terminal 5 on July 25, 2011 at a free show for the album’s launch, LIVE IN NYC encapsulates the true essence of Jane’s Addiction in concert, mixing music with performance art. With the band as the ringleaders, they take you, along with a diverse cast of vagabonds, through an extravagant world of flying burlesque dancers, trapeze artists and carnival sideshow antics, offering stunning visuals enhanced with a visual masterpiece of lasers, capturing the incredible mood of this spectacular night. Amidst it all, Jane’s Addiction, featuring frontman Perry Farrell, guitarist Dave Navarro, drummer Stephen Perkins and bassist Chris Chaney, gives astonishing performances of one classic after another including their 1988 Top 10 hit “Jane Says;” “Been Caught Stealing” and “Stop!,” both No. 1 singles on the Modern Rock Tracks chart; “Ain’t No Right,” “Three Days,” and “Just Because,” which went to No. 1 on the Modern Rock Tracks and No. 4 on Mainstream Rock chart. LIVE IN NYC also features the debut live performance of their latest single, “Irresistible Force (Met The Immovable Object),” from The Great Escape Artist. Bonus material on the Blu-ray & DVD include an interview with Perry Farrell and photo gallery.
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. Here are four vinyl deals that will get any record collectors attention.
Dream Theater - Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
(Vinyl 2-LP) (Import 2013)
The 6th studio album of Dream Theater is a concept album in its truest form. As the title implies, the albums contains six songs, each dealing with a facet of inner struggle. Themes like alcoholism, loss of faith and self isolation are dealt with in a true virtuoso manner. The second disc contains one 42-minute long song, divided over two sides, telling six stories about various mental illnesses like autism and schizophrenia. This album has never been issued on vinyl before - Music On Vinyl has the distinct honour to present this masterpiece on 180 gram audiophile vinyl!
Daft Punk - Random Access Memories (Vinyl 2-LP) (Import 2013)
Limited 180gm vinyl LP pressing includes download. 2013 album from the beloved Electronic French duo, their first proper studio album in eight years. In their 20-year history, Daft Punk have redefined Electronic music, pioneered the live dance concert experience and shaped Pop culture. Random Access Memories is Daft Punk's follow up to Human After All (2005). Random Access Memories is their most ambitious and epic release to date comprising 13 tracks and over 75 minutes long.
Black Sabbath - 13 Vinyl Record 2013 (PRE-ORDER 6-10)
The drum tracks on the album were laid down by RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE sticksman Brad Wilk following original drummer Bill Ward's decision to bow out of the reunion. Osbourne went on the BBC in England to discuss the band's new single, "God Is Dead?" and the inspiration behind the track. Ozzy explained, "I was in somebody's office and there was a magazine on a table and it just said, 'God Is Dead', and I suddenly thought about 9/11 and all these terrorist things and religion and how many people have died in the name of religion. When you think about the tragedy that's happened throughout time, it just came in my head. You'd think by now that their God would have stopped people dying in the name of, so I just starting thinking that people must be thinking, 'Where is God? God is dead' and it just hit me."
Limited edition box set of all albums to date on seven heavyweight vinyl double gatefold LPs plus a USB stick holding all 7 albums as high resolution WAV files.
LABEL UNIVERSAL JAPAN
VINYL RECORDS - 7 LP'S - SEALED
LIST OF LPS
1. Asleep In the Back - featuring the track 'Asleep In The Back' for the first time on vinyl
2. Cast of Thousands - currently out of press on vinyl, and first time it will be available as a double gatefold
3. Leaders of the Free World - currently out of press on vinyl, and first time it will be available as a double gatefold
4. The Seldom Seen Kid
5. Build A Rocket Boys!
6. Dead In The Boot
7. Live at Abbey Road - previously only available as a CD release and not available outside of this box set.
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!
While The Rascals' "People Got to Be Free" was perceived by some as being related to the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, it was actually recorded before the latter's death. The song was written partly as a reaction to an ugly encounter when the band was threatened by a group of rednecks after their tour vehicle broke down in Fort Pierce, Florida.
In 1964, The Beatles topped the Cashbox Magazine record chart for sixteen straight weeks with four different songs. From January 25th until May 16th the Fab Four lead the best sellers list with "I Want To Hold Your Hand" (8 weeks), "She Loves You" (2 weeks), "Twist And Shout" (1 week) and "Can't Buy Me Love" (5 weeks). Their streak was interrupted by Louie Armstrong's "Hello Dolly" for one week before "Love Me Do" put them back on top for another week.
In 1967, a song called "Yellow Balloon" by a group of studio musicians billed under the same name, reached #25 on the Billboard Hot 100. The problem was that there was no actual band that could go on tour in support of the single or to record an album. Producer Ken Handler of Canterbury Records enlisted the help of Don Grady, a former Mouseketeer and better known as Robbie Douglas of the TV series My Three Sons, who put a band together and recorded a self-titled LP that is now considered a cult classic.
According to Guinness World Records 2009, Led Zeppelin hold the record for the "Highest Demand for Tickets for One Music Concert" as 20 million on-line requests were made for their December 10th, 2007 reunion show at The O2 Arena in London.
When Elvis bought Graceland for he and his parents to live in, he said he wanted to create "the most beautiful bedroom in Memphis" for his mother. Gladys, however had other priorities. She wanted to add a chicken coop and a hog pen.
The hit version of Neil Diamond's "Cherry, Cherry" has no drum track because it was recorded as a demo and was never intended to be released as a single. In later sessions, drums and horns were included, but none of those tracks turned out as well as the demo.
When Rupert Holmes wrote "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)", he originally wrote it as "If you like Humphrey Bogart and getting caught in the rain", before coming up with the final lyrics. He would later admit that at the time, he had never tasted a Pina Colada.
America reached #8 in the US with "Ventura Highway" in 1973. Although no such highway exists, there is a Ventura County in California and Highway 101 runs through it.
Although a tombstone inscribed with the name "Eleanor Rigby" stands in the graveyard of St. Peter's Parish Church in Woolton, Liverpool, just yards away from where Paul McCartney met John Lennon in 1957, Paul said he came up with the name Eleanor from actress Eleanor Bron, who had starred with the Beatles in the film Help!. Rigby came from Rigby & Evens Ltd, Wine & Spirit Shippers, the name of a store in Bristol. In 1984, Paul was quoted as saying "I just liked the name. I was looking for a name that sounded natural. Eleanor Rigby sounded natural."
This debut album of America (1972) is considered as a folk-pop classic filled with a great collection of memorable songs that proves their influence on acts as The Eagles and Dan Fogelberg. Using vocal harmonies on "Sandman" and "Children and an intricate interplay of acoustic guitars is for the period of time highly ambitious. The hits of this album are ofcourse the widely known "A Horse With No Name", "I Need You" and again "Sandman". But also the buoyantly charming "Three Roses", the yearningly lovely "Rainy Day" and the quietly ringing "Clarice" make this album as one of their best and recommendable for any kind of music fan. A classic to own and a stepping stone to into the world of folk-pop music. 
