New Music Releases - September 24, 2013

 


10 Ft. Ganja Plant - Skycatcher
A Skylit Drive - Rise
Aesop Rock - Bazooka Tooth (reissue) (3xLP)
Aesop Rock - Labor Days (reissue) (2xLP)
Allen Toussaint - Songbook
Andrew St James - Doldrums
Au Revoir Simone - Move In Spectrums
Big Sean - Hall of Fame (2xLP)
Black Label Society - Unblackened (DVD/CD)
Bleach Blonde - Starving Artist
Blind Blake - Rough Guide to Blind Blake (vinyl)
Buried Beds - In Spirit
Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band - Safe as Milk (reissue) (vinyl)
Cerebral Ballzy - City's Girl (7")
Cher - Closer To The Truth
Chris Thile - Bach: Sonata No. 1 in G minor / Partita No. 1 in B minor (vinyl)
Chvrches - The Bones of What You Believe (vinyl)
Crystal Antlers - Rattlesnake (7")
Crystal Shipsss - Dirty Dancer (vinyl)
Dave Foley - Relatively Well
Deer Tick - Negativity (vinyl)
Drake - Nothing Was the Same
Dream Theater - Dream Theater (2xLP)
Ed Askew - For the World (vinyl)
Elliott Murphy - Lost Generation & Night Nights: The RCA Years
Elton John - The Diving Board (2xLP)
Frankie Rose - Herein Wild (vinyl)
Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay (vinyl)
Gang Colours - Invisible In Your City (vinyl)
Garland Jeffreys - Truth Serum (vinyl)
Ghostpoet - Some Say I So I Say Ligh
Girls Against Boys - Ghost List (12")
Glamour Of The Kill - Savages
Gogol Bordello - Pura Vida Conspiracy (vinyl)
Golden Animals - Hear Eye Go (vinyl)
Gov't Mule - Shout! (2xLP)
Gregory Porter - Liquid Spirit (2xLP)
Ha Ha Tonka - Lessons (2xLP)
Hirax - Immortal Legacy
Huerco S. - Colonial Patterns (2xLP)
Hunters - Hunters 
Icona Pop - This is…Icona Pop
Il Saint M - A Pig's Orphan Remix (12")
Into It. Over It. - Intersections (vinyl)
INVSN - INVSN (vinyl)
Jacco Gardner - End of August / Notus (7")
Jason Derulo - Tattoos
JD Wilkes and the Dirt Daubers - Wild Moon (vinyl)
Jesu - Everyday I Get Closer to the Light From Which I Came (vinyl)
Jim Ruiz Set - Mount Curve Avenue (vinyl)
John Lee Hooker - Don't Turn Me From Your Door (reissue) (vinyl)
John Zorn and Thurston Moore - @
Kelley Stoltz - Double Exposure (vinyl)
Kings of Leon - Mechanical Bull
Kirin J Callinan - Embracism (vinyl)
Kneebody - The Line
Krewella - Get Wet
Kyson - The Water's Way (12")
Lenny Kravitz - Are You Gonna Go My Way (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)
Love - Best of Love (vinyl)
Love & Death - Between Here & Lost (reissue)
Lovers - A Friend In the World (vinyl)
Low Cut Connie - Call Me Sylvia (vinyl)
Madlib and Freddie Gibbs - Deeper (12")
Matthew Good - Arrows of Desire
Matthew Shipp - Piano Sutras
Mazzy Star - Seasons Of Your Day
Metallica - Metallica Through The Never (2-CD)
Morgan Delt - Barbarian Kings / Black Tuna Gang (7")
Nervous - Nervous
Nik Turner - Space Gypsy (vinyl)
Nirvana - In Utero (20th Anniversary)
Noah and the Whale - Heart of Nowhere
Noam Pikelny - Noam Pikelny Plays Kenny Baker Plays Bill Monroe
Oh Land - Wish Bone
Oh Land - Renaissance Girls (12")
People's Temple - Brand New Thing / Twice Burned (7")
Pink Martini - Get Happy
Promised Land Sound - Promised Land Sound (vinyl)
Robert Coyne - The Obscure Department (vinyl)
Rokia Traore - Beautiful Africa
Roosevelt Sykes - Original Honeydripper
Sam Amidon - Bright Sunny South (vinyl)
Sammy Hagar - Sammy Hagar & Friends
Sarah Jarosz - Build Me Up from Bones
Sirah - C.U.L.T - Too Young To Die
Sleepmakeswaves - ...and so we destroyed everything
Sons of the Sea (Brandon Boyd of Incubus) - Sons of the Sea
Steel Cranes - Ouroboros
Stewart Eastham - The Man I Once Was
Sting - The Last Ship
Sub Focus - Torus
Tanya Morgan - Rubber Souls (vinyl)
Testament - First Strike Still Deadly (vinyl) (reissue)
Testament - Live At Eindhoven '87 (vinyl) (reissue)
The 1975 - The 1975 (2xLP)
The Band - The Last Waltz (4xCD)
The Foreign Exchange - Love in Flying Colors
The Fresh & Onlys - Soothsayer (EP)
The Goldberg Sisters - Stranger's Morning
The Horrible Crowes - Live At the Troubadour (vinyl)
The Internet - Feel Good
The Knife - Deep Cuts (reissue) (2xLP)
The Knife - The Knife (reissue) (2xLP)
The Litter - Distortions (reissue) (vinyl)
The Mamas and the Papas - Deliver (reissue) (vinyl)
The Mamas and the Papas - The Mamas and the Papas (reissue) (vinyl)
The Night Beats - Sonic Bloom  (vinyl)
The Pack A.D. - Some Sssongs
The Proctors - Everlasting Light (vinyl)
The Smashing Pumpkins - Oceania: Live in NYC (2xCD+DVD)
The Soft - Uncanny Valley EP (12")
The Waitresses - Just Desserts: The Complete Waitresses (2xCD)
The Watson Twins - Pioneer Lane
The Weeknd - Kiss Land (vinyl)
The White Buffalo - Shadows, Greys and Evil Ways (vinyl)
Tim Kasher - Truly Freaking Out (7")
Toots and The Maytals - Funky Kingston  (vinyl)
Touche Amore - Is Survived By (vinyl)
TRAAMS - Grin (vinyl)
TRC - Nation
Trentemøller - Lost
Troumaca - The Grace (vinyl)
TV on the Radio - Mercy b/w Million Miles (12")
Various Artists - Brownswood Bubblers Ten
Various Artists - Inside Llewyn Davis (soundtrack) (vinyl)
Various Artists - Live at Caffe Lena: Music from America's Legendary Coffeehouse...
Various Artists - Star Trek into Darkness (Michael Giacchino) (vinyl)
Various Artists - We Are What We Are (soundtrack)
Various Artists - Woodstock: 40 Years On (6xCD)
Veara - Growing Up Is Killing Me
White Poppy - White Poppy
Willie Nelson - To All the Girls..(2xLP)
Wipers - Power In One (reissue) (vinyl)
Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band - Take Me to the Land of Hell
Young Galaxy - Ultramarine (deluxe edition) (2xCD)
Zachary Cale – Blue Rider (vinyl) 

Vinyl Record News & Music Notes

BRYAN FERRY - DON'T STOP THE DANCE - PSYCHEMAGICK / GREG WILSON / SPACE COAST REMIXES (SUPER DELUXE LIMITED EDITION)

 

FROM THE VINYL FACTORY

 

Availability: Available to pre-order

Following Todd Terje's incredible 2012 remix of Roxy Music's 'Love Is  The Drug', Bryan Ferry has recruited some of the best producers in the  world to remix his 1985 hit ‘Don’t Stop The Dance’.
 

Now released  by The Vinyl Factory as a series of three super-deluxe limited   editions of only 1000 copies each - with bespoke screen printed thick  card sleeves housing 180-gram records mastered for vinyl by Noel  Summerville at 3345 Mastering and  crafted on the EMI 1400 in Hayes,  Middlesex.
 

The track was originally the third single from the  number one album Boys & Girls, and featured long-serving guest  musicians Nile Rodgers, Marcus Miller, Omar Hakim, Andy Newmark and  David Sanborn.

"The recording was done in various studios in  London, New York and Nassau, and the whole process took about two  years," recalls Bryan Ferry. "I  wrote 'Don't Stop The Dance' together  with my co-producer and engineer  Rhett Davies, and I remember the track  originating in some sessions we  did at my home studio in England. We  finally mixed the record with Bob  Clearmountain at The Power Station  studios in New York."

Isaac Ferry hand-picked the producers to Re/Make - Re/Model 'Don't Stop The Dance' in various guises, re-enlisting previous collaborators Todd Terje, Eric Duncan and Greg Wilson, alongside Idjut Boys, Sleazy Mcqueen, Space Coast, Punks Jump Up, and two versions from both Psychemagick and Grasshopper aka in-house keyboard programmer Liam Duggan.

"After  the successful release of 'Olympia Remixes', we decided that my song  'Don't Stop The Dance' should really be revisited by a new generation of  DJs," says Bryan Ferry.

"Since my first solo album in 1973 I've  always tried to reinterpret other people's songs in my own way. So it  has been good to hear 'Don't Stop Dance' in so many different  incarnations. It's fascinating to see how some of the remixes focus on  certain aspects of the song, and some on another...they all take the  track to a variety of interesting places."

Product Details:
* Bespoke screen printed thick card outer sleeve
* Bespoke inner sleeve
* 180-gram heavyweight vinyl
* Mastered for vinyl on EMI 1400
* Limited to 1000 copies worldwide

This limited edition is available for pre-order now; release date October 14, 2013

Pre-Order at TheVinylFactory

3D and the art of Massive Attack

Limited Edition Vinyl Box Set - The Vinyl Factory

"When I was about ten years old, a kid called 3D was painting the streets hard. 3D quit painting and formed the band Massive Attack, which may have been a good thing for him but was a big loss for the city." Banksy (Swindle magazine, 2008)

The Vinyl Factory presents 3D and the art of Massive Attack by Robert del Naja aka 3D - the first book on the visual history of a band who have sold over 11 milliion records worldwide, compiled and designed by 3D using images from a personal archive and original artifacts scanned by the artist for the record.

Robert’s artwork has come to define the iconic style of his band and the book explores their visual history, presenting both familiar and previously unseen work, from his influential graffiti and stencil art in the Wild Bunch-era of the ‘80s to Massive Attack cover designs and paste-ups and paintings. Also included is work made in collaboration with Nick Knight, Tom Hingston, Judy Blame and Michael Nash Associates, as well as unseen photographs documenting Del Naja’s ongoing collaboration with United Visual Artists. And his recent work with filmmaker Adam Curtis.

The 400-page book also features an in-depth interview with the artist, where he describes the development of the band’s artwork and record sleeve designs, as well as offering insight into his processes, and inspirations.

Del Naja’s background as a graffiti artist has shaped his evolving aesthetic, as well as a strong ethos of ‘do it yourself’ creativity. His instincts as an artist were forged in an atmosphere of spontaneity and innovation - from making flyers to throwing warehouse parties - and this way of working informed the first record sleeves he created as 3D.

Inspired by magazine culture and comics, 3D drew on wide-ranging influences, from New York’s hip-hop scene and Japanese graphics, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s cultural juxtapositions to Warhol’s pop imagery, politics and punk.

“I was always told that any artist that wanted to be taken seriously should never paint record sleeves” Robert del Naja

The Vinyl Factory will publish 3D and the art of Massive Attack on 28 October 2013; the hardback book will be priced at £50.

The limited edition will be for sale exclusively from The Vinyl Factory online web shop

Product Details:
* 400-page 12" x 12" hardback book with black glitter and pink screen printed cover artwork unique to this edition
* Exclusive art print, signed by 3D, screen printed by Lazarides
* 12-inch vinyl featuring previously unreleased track on A-side, with an etching on side B
* Housed in a bespoke heavyweight cardboard box with cover artwork by 3D
* Limited to 350 copies worldwide, each individually hand-signed and numbered

Order today from TheVinylFactory

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****FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE****

MONDO ANNOUNCES “TIMECRIMES” ON LIMITED EDITION VINYL

Soundtrack will be made available for the first time anywhere at a special Fantastic Fest Screening Mondo is excited to announce the limited edition vinyl release of the Timescrimes Original Motion Picture Soundtrace at a special Fantastic Fest screening on Thursday, September 26 at the Alamo Drafthouse Lakeline. Director Nacho Vigalondo’s sci-fi thriller became a sensation following its world premiere at Fantastic Fest in 2007, where it was championed for its bold and innovative take on the time travel genre. Filmmaker Eugenio Mira composed the soundtrack, which has never been released previously, and We Buy Your Kids did the gorgeous artwork for the limited edition vinyl.

Composer and writer Brian Satterwhite collaborated with Mondo on the project, "Timecrimes has been hailed by critics and audiences alike as one of the best time-travel films of our time. Much of the film's success relies heavily upon Eugenio Mira's masterful score. His minimalistic approach maximizes the subtle tones and nuances of the narrative with surgical precision while adding a highly refined layer of polish to this high-concept science-fiction thriller.” 

The soundtrack will be made available on black 180 gram vinyl, and randomly inserted milky yellow/clear vinyl. It will be available for purchase at the Fantastic Fest screening of Timecrimes on September 26, and will be for sale online a future date. Follow @MondoNews for updtes.

Track list:
1) Binoculars
2) Scissors
3) Contact
4) Getting It
5) Bandaged
6) Unpleasant Suspicion
7) Backfire
8) Castrated Prescience
9) Three Hectors
10) No Time For Remorse
11) The Counterfeit
12) End Credits

About Mondo
Mondo is an art gallery and online store devoted to a passionate love of film, art and music.  The company has received global recognition for bringing art back to movie poster design and has emerged as one of the leading curators of classic and contemporary film soundtracks on vinyl.  Utilizing the talents of world class artists and designers, Mondo produces limited edition, screen printed posters based on film, television and comic properties, working with companies like DC Comic, HBO, Marvel, Paramount Pictures, Universal Studios and Walk Disney Studios as well as filmmakers including Paul Thomas Anderson, Guillermo Del Toro, Zack Snyder, Quentin Tarantino and Edgar Wright.  Based in Austin, TX, Mondo operates out of a permanent gallery space that hosts regular exhibitions featuring a blend of breathtaking original artwork and limited edition screen prints.  Mondo is also recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences with a full archive of film posters as part of their research library.  The parent company of Mondo is Alamo Drafthouse. 

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a follow up to a story a few weeks ago about a gent who couldn't give his classical records away

The Diary: Vinyl countdown has happy ending






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and from the land down under, vinyl surging on!

Surge in sales music to the ears of vinyl lovers






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very interesting comments and observations, well worth reading!

The truth about selling vinyl; independents react to Amazon’s 745% rise in record sales





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a great read, love the images created by the author:

Featured Column: Record Store Stories- Bill’s Records in Dallas







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from our friends at BrutalPandaRecords

Atlanta, GA’s bastards of noise rock, Whores, have revealed the album details behind their highly anticipated sophomore release entitled 'Clean.' Recorded with Ryan Boesch (Melvins, Helmet, Tomahawk, Fu Manchu) at Parhelion Recording Studios, Clean will see an October 29th release on 12" vinyl / digital formats via Brutal Panda Records.

 Pressing Info:
- 100 Gray Marble
- 200 Purple
- 500 Black

Pre-order includes immediate download of 1 track in your choice of high-quality MP3, FLAC, or other formats. A link to the complete album will be emailed to you the moment it’s released.

Additionally, Whores' debut Ruiner has been repressed on vinyl and is available HERE

Pre-order at 'Clean' at BrutalPanda

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from our friends at vinylcollective

Top 10 Albums – September 23, 2013

Here are the Top 10 Albums sold at Shop Radio Cast for the week of September 17-23, 2013:

1. Brand New – The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me 2XLP
2. Brand New – Your Favorite Weapon LP
3. Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory LP
4. Rilo Kiley – More Adventurous LP
5. Various Artists – Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) LP
6. HUM – You’d Prefer An Astronaut LP
7. Far – Water & Solutions LP
8. Silverchair – Frogstomp 2XLP
9. Rilo Kiley – Take Offs and Landings 2XLP
10. Justin Timberlake – 20/20 Experience: The Complete Experience 4XLP


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Bruce Springsteen, age 64, played till 3AM at Rock in Rio

 

 

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 Building which houses The Beatles old haunt The Cavern Club to be auctioned







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Ray Charles Honored with Official Stamp










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album cover art of the day:

Betoken Reveals "Beyond Redemption" Artwork















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album cover art of the day, part two:

DEICIDE: 'In The Minds Of Evil Cover Artwork Unveiled

 

Vinyl Record News & Music Notes

 

our friends at MusicRecordShop and a local radio station in st. louis (KDHX) are having a cool vinyl contest, head on over and get your entry in!

 

For The Record: A Giant Vinyl Giveaway Contest

Music Record Shop  in Kirkwood enjoyed our 2013 Mid-Year lists so much, they decided to donate the Top 10 national releases to KDHX from their giant collection. And we thought that was pretty cool, and that it would make a pretty awesome prize for you vinyl enthusisasts out there. And, hey, most of these include a digital download card as well, for the needle-impaired. They include:

1. Son Volt - Honky Tonk
2. Veronica Falls - Waiting for Something to Happen
3. Richard Thompson - Electric
4. Villagers - Awayland
5. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Specter At the Feast
6. Mount Moriah - Miracle Temple
7. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
8. The Black Angels - Indigo Meadow
9. !!! - Thriller
10. Big Boi - Vicious Lies & Dangerous Rumors

So, how do you win all 10 of these records? In the comments section, we're looking for the best story about the first album you ever owned -- be it record, cassette, CD or even (gasp) digital album purchase.

THE SIMPLE RULES

1. One entry per person, please.
2. This contest runs from Wednesday, September 18 to Monday, September 23 at 3 p.m. CST

Visit KDHX for all the details!

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what's hot on vinyl at amazon?

Amazon's Top 10 Best Selling Vinyl Records

1. Death Grips - No Love Deep Web
2. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
3. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
4. Artic Monkeys - AM
5. Daft PunkRandom Access Memories
6. MGMT - MGMT
7. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
8. Nirvana - In Utero
9. Paul McCartney - New
10. Adele - 21

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from our friends at Sundazed

A Vault of Vintage Psychedelia

The Strawberry Alarm Clock’s unique sound—full of beautiful, day-glo pop surrounding jagged, fuzzy guitars and organs, among other garage-rock influences—is explored through a number of dreamlike gems contained in these three volumes, all presented as originally issued! Their smash “Incense and Peppermints,” which reached #1 in late 1967 and remained in the Billboard pop chart for 16 weeks, is included on The Best of Strawberry Alarm Clock, and Wake Up...It’s Tomorrow and The World In A Sea Shell contain fan favorites (and ’60s psych gold) like “Love Me Again,” “Sea Shell,” “Barefoot in Baltimore,” “Sit With the Guru,” and many more—all mastered from the stereo UNI reels in definitive 180 gram editions!

Wake Up... It's Tomorrow

Wake Up...It’s Tomorrow, The Strawberry Alarm Clock’s second album, is what many fans consider the most ambitious musical statement of the band’s career. Includes “Tomorrow,” “Sit with the Guru,” and the haunting “Pretty Song from Psych-Out,” theme of the cult-classic film of the same name, on 180 gram vinyl.

The World In A Seashell

More gentle grooves and soaring voices! An adventurous mixture of psychedelia and lush pop, The World In A Sea Shell includes “Love Me Again,” a nod to their earlier, harder sound, plus “Sea Shell,” “Barefoot in Baltimore” and other day-glo psych masterpieces on 180 gram vinyl.

The Best of The Strawberry Alarm Clock

The Best of Strawberry Alarm Clock is a vintage collection from 1970 that includes key tracks from all four of the band’s albums—“Incense and Peppermints” among them—plus the rarely heard non-LP singles “Desiree” and “Starting Out the Day,” now on 180 gram vinyl.


Order your choice or all three at Sundazed!





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new releases from our friends at MusicOnVinyl

Clannad - Nadur

Clannad's brand new album Nádúr is the first release of new material since their 1998's Grammy winning Landmarks. At last, the five original members are back together for the first time since 1989's Past Present.

Celebrating a forty year recording career and over 15 million album sales, Nádúr finds Clannad back in their signature Irish mystical Folk sound. With a world tour planned in support of album, Clannad is back on the scene and have Nádúr as their weapon of choice when conquering the hearts of millions of new fans, while retaining the love of their loyal fan base. 180 gram audiophile vinyl and Insert

Alan Parsons Project - I Robot (Legacy) 

The art of the concept album, as developed and refined by the Alan Parsons Project over the course of their 10 albums released between 1976 and 1987, is celebrated with a Deluxe Edition release of I Robot (Legacy Edition). The first record of this commemorative package will comprise of a newly remastered version of the original album, which has generated multi-platinum worldwide sales and included the U.S. Top 40 single, "I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You." The second record features 14 bonus tracks from the Sony Music archives, nine of which are previously unreleased.

The production of I Robot (Legacy Edition) has been personally overseen by Alan Parsons and Sally Woolfson, the daughter of APP songwriter, manager, lead singer and musician, the late Eric Woolfson (1945-2009). The accompanying 8-page booklet includes a new liner notes essay by Alan Parsons, plus the lyrics as published in the original LP, rare archival photography, and other memorabilia. 180 gram audiophile vinyl / 8 page booklet / Gatefold sleeve



Roger Mcguinn - Roger Mcguinn 

After leaving The Byrds, front man Roger McGuinn released a self-titled solo album to great critical acclaim in 1973. Going back to basics, McGuinn does what he does best: his unique recipe of energetic Folk Rock combined with his strong voice delivers a compelling album. His newfound artistic freedom didn't stop him from inviting friends like Bob Dylan on "I'm So Restless", frequent Dylan collaborator Jacques Levy as co-songwriter and his old The Byrds band mates on "My New Woman" to appear on his album. Even Bruce Johnston of The Beach Boys joins in on "Draggin'" and David Crosby can also be heard on this album. Roger McGuinn hasn't been available on vinyl for over 25 years! 180 gram audiophile vinyl and Insert



Charles Mingus - Changes Two

It's been almost 40 years since Charles Mingus' Changes Two was released yet the album is still widely regarded as a timeless classic. Recorded in 1974 at Atlantic Recording Studios in New York between Christmas and New Year's Eve, the follow-up to Changes One contains definitive versions of the Mingus classic "Orange Was The Colour Of Her Dress, Then Slik Blue", trumpetist Jack Walrath's "Black Bats and Poles," and Sy Johnson's "For Harry Carney."

Finally available on newly glistening black 180 gram audiophile vinyl gold, this is the first vinyl re-issue since its original 1975 release!



Donovan - Barabajagal

British Folk singer Donovan found his creative peak on Barabajagal (1969), allowing him to open up the American Pop market to his unique brand of music. The album contains standout tracks like "Atlantis", "Superlungs My Supergirl" and the title track, the latter two being performed with The Jeff Beck Group as backing band. Furthermore, Donovan collaborated with Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones and guitarist Big Jim Sullivan on several songs.   180 gram audiophile vinyl




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from ThrillJockey.com

Wooden Shjips - Back to Land

Wooden Shjips’ rise to prominence from the psychedelic underground to the rock and roll overground has been a steady sojourn. With each consecutive release, the band has found new ways of transforming heady psychedelic rock into minimalist masterpieces, bridging the gap between the woozy freeness of Les Rallizes Denudes and Crazy Horse and the tightly wound simplicity of Suicide and the Velvet Underground. Back To Land, the quartet’s follow-up to West, is the first Wooden Shjips record to be conceived outside of San Francisco. Ripley Johnson and Omar Ahsanuddin moved to Oregon, where the lush climates became a major influence on the songwriting. The band’s scope expanded to include more earthy, grounded tones, such as the acoustic guitar, without abandoning their modernist psych core.

There is an increased brightness to many of the songs on Back To Land, an easiness with which the band has flirted with in the past but never fully realized until now. The nervy urgency of West has evolved into an assured confidence, from the alliterative, interlocking guitar and organ groove of “Ruins” to the languidly compelling guitar solos of “Servants.” The addition of the acoustic guitar to the band’s textural palate is coupled here with some of the most melodically direct songs the band has written.

Still, there are still plenty of signature Shjips songs, with distorted riffs, modal keys, and a steady, crisp drum sound unfolding intensely while the elongated melodic guitar lines drift in and out of the foreground. On Back to Land this energy is captured in clear detail, designed as an immersive experience rather than a passive blasting. Back To Land was laid to tape at Jackpot Recording Studios in Portland by Kendra Lynn and mixed by Larry Crane. It was recorded over an 11-day session, resulting in some of the most detailed and spacious recordings of their career.

Back To Land is a breakthrough record for the Wooden Shjips: nuanced, varied and utterly addictive. The band will be touring extensively in the US and Europe November through February.

This is a pre-order for November 12th street date.  All orders containing Back To Land will ship close to the November 12th street date.

CD version is packaged in a 4 panel mini-LP style gatefold package with high gloss UV printing that is then inserted into a custom die-cut O-Card slipcase.

LP version is pressed on opaque pink vinyl and packaged in a heavy duty old-style tip-on gatefold jacket with an artworked flood on the pocket (ala Neil Young "On the Beach").  The jacket also features high gloss UV printing and is housed in a deluxe die cut slipcase. A free download coupon is included. For a limited time all mailorder customers ordering the vinyl LP edition will receive a bonus 7" featuring two non-album tracks : "Colours" and "These Shadows (Acoustic Version)". The pink vinyl edition is ONLY available through Thrill Jockey mailorder and the band's merch table.

In addition to these deluxe packages ALL mailorder customers who pre-order the CD or LP edition will also receive a free download of the non-album 7" track in advance.  "These Shadows (Acoustic Version)" will be released on ITunes on Sept 16th.  At that time all pre-order customers will begin receiving a complimentary download of the track.

Pre-Order at ThrillJockey

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from north of our border, a new record store is branching out!

Press Release:

KOPS RECORDS COMMITS TO FUTURE OF VINYL WITH 2ND LOCATION

At a time when the music industry struggles to monetize music and record stores are either closing or focusing on DVD's and memorabilia, Kops Records is expanding. Toronto's oldest independent record store in business since 1976 on Queen West is opening a second location in the Annex on September 28, 2013.

What sets Kops Records apart from most other record stores is the commitment to the history of recorded music. Time spent in the store most often results in discovering new (or old) music or learning about obsolete recording formats such as Edison wax cylinders from the late 1800's.
Nick and Martin Koppel run the family owned business and its their passion for music of all genres that keep them looking to the future. "Although there have been much anticipated albums re-issued, there are many more that haven't been," says Nick. "The history of recorded music is primarily on vinyl and Kops Records prides itself with presenting and preserving the history of music."

Kops is a leading source of deep roots-based music across all genres with sections dedicated to rock, jazz, hip hop, blues, country, soul, comedy, soundtracks and more including an extensive Canadian collection representing a century of recorded music. In addition to the beloved LPs, the store also stocks 78s and the largest collection of 45s in Canada.

With the new location, Kops will continue their tradition of hosting live performances with a jam space in the basement and a performance space in the garage at the back of the store. Many activities are planned for opening day with performances to be announced soon.

KOPS RECORDS OPENING DAY: Saturday, September 28, 2013 at 592 Bloor West.

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more vinyl news from the great state of illinois!

Record store grand reopening in Bloomington






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food and vinyl - why not?

From This Week’s Billboard: Why Target, Whole Foods Are Making a Play For Vinyl






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wonderful perspective from a man who is busy loving his vinyl!

The Indoorsman: Veni, vidi, vinyl: Life’s soundtrack, one disc at a time

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from the land down under, more vinyl love

Boronia shop could be one of Melbourne's oldest surviving mainstream music stores

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from the uk, a new record store!

New independent record shop opening in Birmingham this weekend

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Universal Music Re-Releasing Vinyl Versions Of Classic Albums From 50 Cent, Eminem, Lil Wayne, Slick Rick & More

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Watch a mini-documentary about seminal Chicago house label Sunset Records

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Jimi Hendrix planned two-band future in last interview

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The Art Of Metal Book Set To Be Released On October 15

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Where to start with Thelonious Monk






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GRIMEY'S BEST SELLERS 9/09 - 9/15, 2013

Vinyl Top 25:
1. Arcade Fire - Reflektor 12"
2. Arctic Monkeys - AM
3. Moon Taxi - Mountains Beaches Cities
4. Neko Case - The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight...
5. Drive-By Truckers - Alabama Ass Whuppin'
6. Man Man - On Oni Pond
7. Diarrhea Planet - I'm Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams
8. Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires Of The City
9. The Avett Brothers - I and Love and You
10. Bob Dylan - Another Self Portrait
11. Kurt Vile - Wakin On A Pretty Daze
12. Goldfrapp - Tales Of Us
13. Body/Head - Coming Apart
14. Jacuzzi Boys - Jacuzzi Boys
15. Belle & Sebastian - Third Eye Centre
16. Okkervil River - The Silver Gymnasium
17. Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
18. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
19. Jason Isbell - Southeastern
20. Birthday Party - Live 81-82
21. Rayland Baxter - Feathers & Fishhooks
22. Old Crow Medicine Show - Carry Me Back
23. Rodriguez - Cold Fact
24. Ben Folds Five - Live
25. Father John Misty - Fear Fun

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and if you near nyc, check the record fair out!

 

New Music Releases - October 2013

 

October 1

7 Seconds - My Aim Is You (7″)
Agnes Obel - Aventine (vinyl)
Alexander Ebert - All Is Lost (soundtrack) 
Alpaca - Demimonde (vinyl)
Alpay - Yekte (vinyl)
Andrew Liles - Ninki Nanka, Yumboes and Monsters
Arve Henriksen - Places of Worship (vinyl)
Atlantean Kodex - The White Goddess
Austin Lucas - Stay Reckless (vinyl)
Basia Bulat - Tall Tall Shadow
Benoit & Sergio - Adjustments (EP) 
Bill Orcutt - A History of Every One (vinyl)
Black Books - Black Books
Black Moth - The Killing Jar
Black Sites - Prototype (EP) (12")
Blind Boys of Alabama - I’ll Find a Way 
Blitzen Trapper - VII
Boogarins - As Plantas Que Curam
Brendan Canning - You Gots 2 Chill
Broken Hope - Omen Of Disease 
Butthole Surfers - Hairway to Steven (reissue) (vinyl)
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician (reissue) (vinyl)
Butthole Surfers - Psychic... Powerless... Another Man’s Sac (reissue) (vinyl)
Butthole Surfers - Rembrandt Pussyhorse (reissue) (vinyl)
Cannibal Corpse - Kill (Picture Disc) 
Carter Tutti - Coolicon (10")
Cathedral - The Last Spire (blue vinyl) 
Charlie Jones - Love Form (vinyl)
Conducting From The Grave - Conducting From The Grave
Cosmic Psychos - Cosmic Psychos (vinyl)
Cosmic Psychos - Down on the Farm (12")
Cosmic Psychos - Go the Hack (vinyl)
Daniel Bjarnason - Over Light Earth (vinyl)
Danny Brown - Old
Dead Meadow - Dead Meadow (reissue) (vinyl)
Deeds Of Flesh - Gradually Melted 
Deep Dark Woods - Jubilee
Deltron 3030 - Event 2
Deprecated - Deriding His Creation 
Devin Townsend - The Retinal Circus (CD/DVD)
DJ Sprinkles - Queerifications & Ruins (12")
Dr. Dog - B-Room
Eduard Artemyev - Solaris OST (vinyl)
Elf Power - Sunlight On The Moon
Fates Warning - Darkness in a Different Light
Fire! - Without Noticing (vinyl)
FUZZ - FUZZ (vinyl)
Gambles - Trust
Grails - Black Tar Prophecies Vol. 4, 5 & 6
Happa - Two and Two Make Five (12")"
Hearts & Hands - My Own Machine 
hed)p.e. - The Best Of (hed)p.e.
Holy Models - Swimming (12")
Horisont - Time Warriors )
Hula - Murmur (vinyl)
In Solitude - Sister 
Industrial Park - Cold White (vinyl)
Iron Man - South Of The Earth
Islander - Pains
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - Unvarnished (vinyl)
Jucifer - There Is No Land Beyond the Volga (2xLP)
Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience 2 of 2
Keluar - Ennoea (vinyl)
Land Of Kush - The Big Mango
Larry Gus - Years Not Living (vinyl)
Les Level - House of Need (12")
Lorde - Pure Heroine
Machinedrum - Vapor City (vinyl)
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - The Heist (2xLP)
Maja Ratkje - Voice (vinyl)
Matt & Kim - Lightning Remixes (PRE-ORDER vinyl)
Melt-Banana - Fetch (vinyl)
Moby - Innocents
Moderat - Bad Kingdom (10")
Moin - Murphy (12")
Natural Snow Buildings - Daughter of Darkness (6xCD)
Nick Hexum (of 311) - My Shadow Pages 
O13 - Time Wave Zero (vinyl)
Oceano - Incisions
Oddisee - The Beauty in All (vinyl)
Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven (2xLP) 
Panico - Resonancia (vinyl)
Paradise 100 - The Loin King (12")
Phèdre - Golden Age
Pharaohs - Manhunter (12)"
Phedre - Golden Age
Policy - Postscript (vinyl)
Polvo - Siberia
Primitive Calculators - Primitive Calculators (vinyl)
Quasi - Mole City (2xLP) 
Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Water Rose Above the Head (12")
Ricardo Tobar - Garden (10")
Ricardo Tobar - If I Love You (12")
Ricardo Villalobos - Turbo Semantic (12")
Rudimentary Peni - Archaic (reissue) (vinyl)
Rush - The Studio Albums 1989-2007 (box set)
Rush - Vapor Trails: Remixed
Sabaton - Swedish Empire Live (DVD/CD)   
Saint Rich - Beyond the Drone 
Sam Shalabi - The Big Mango 
Scar The Martyr - Scar The Martyr
Seconds - My Aim Is You (7")
Sensations Fix - Fragments of Light (vinyl)
Skullflower | Mastery - Skullflower | Mastery (vinyl)
Smile Empty Soul - Chemicals
SOKO - I Thought I Was An Alien (vinyl)
Sons of the Morning - Speak Soon Volume One
Soulfly - Savages
Tancred - Tancred 
Tee Vee Pop - The Only Years (vinyl)
Teen Daze - Glacier
The Blow - The Blow (vinyl)
The Browning - Hypernova
The Field - Cupid's Head (2xLP)
The Fleshtones - For a Smile (7")
The Haxan Cloak - The Haxan Cloak (2xLP)
The Illumination - Departures
The Knife - Deep Cuts (reissue) (2xLP)
The Lucid Dream - Songs of Lies and Deceit
The Meets - It Happens Outside (vinyl)
The Melismatics - Rising Tide
The More I See - The Disappearing Humans
The Parson Red Heads - Orb Weaver
The Sadies - Internal Sounds (vinyl)
Thought Chamber - Psykerion
Tindersticks - Les Salauds (vinyl)
Tonia Reeh - Fight of the Stupid (vinyl)
TV Ghost - Disconnect (vinyl)
Twilight Of The Gods - Fire On The Mountain
Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Mind Control (red vinyl) 
Unicorn Hard-On - Weird Universe (vinyl)
Untold - Targa/Glare (12")
Various Artists - XXX: Three Decades Of Roadrunner Records (4-CD) 
Various Artists - Air Texture Volume III (2xCD)
Various Artists - Beatles Reimagined 
Various Artists - Classroom Projects (vinyl)
Various Artists - Goush Bedey (2xLP)
Various Artists - Hassaniya Music from the Western Sahara and Mauritania (vinyl)
Various Artists - Mondo Zombie Boogaloo
Various Artists - The Ecstasy of Gold: 25 Killer Bullets from the Spaghetti West Vol. 3 (2xLP)
Various Artists - The Ecstasy of Gold: 25 Killer Bullets from the Spaghetti West Vol. 4 (2xLP)
Various Artists - Young Turks 2013 (12")
Vulture Industries - The Tower 
Water World - Dead (7")
White Manna - Dune Worship
Wicked King Wicker - Evolving
William Winant - Five American Percussion Pieces
Within Temptation - Paradise (EP)
Wolves At The Gate - Back To School
Yuck - Glow & Behold


October 8

A Day to Remember - Common Courtesy
A Loss For Words - Before It Caves
Alabama - The Classic Christmas Album
Albert Hammond, Jr. - AHJ (EP)
Alex Chilton - Electricity By Candlelight/NYC 2/13/97 (vinyl)
Alter Bridge - Fortress
Amos Lee - Mountains of Sorrow, Rivers of Song (vinyl)
Andrew Gold - Andrew Gold / What's Wrong With This Picture
Andy Williams - The Classic Christmas Album
Anna Calvi - One Breath (vinyl)
Bad Things - Bad Things 
Barbra Streisand - The lassic Christmas Album
Big Ups - Eighteen Hours of Static
Bob Dylan - Freewheelin' Outtakes: The Columbia Sessions, NYC, 1962 (vinyl)
Born Gold - I Am An Exit
Cage the Elephant - Melophobia
Chase and Status - Brand New Machine 
Clara May - American Desi
Commodores - Icon
Crystal Gayle - Icon
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. - The Speed of Things
Daniel Avery - Drone Logic
Daniel Bachman - Jesus I'm a Sinner (vinyl)
Darkside - Psychic (vinyl)
Dave Hause - Devour (vinyl)
Dean Martin - Icon
Deap Vally - Sistrionix (vinyl)
Deep Purple - Complete Album 1970-1976
Diplo - Revolution (EP) 
Earthless - From the Ages
Ezra Furman - Day of the Dog (vinyl)
Fast Romantics - Afterlife Blues
Flagship - Flagship (vinyl)
Four Fists - MMMMMHMMMMM (7")
Frank Sinatra - Icon
George Jones & Tammy Wynette - The Classic Christmas Album
Gladys Knight & the Pips - The Classic Christmas Album
Glasser - Interiors (vinyl)
His Clancyness - Vicious (vinyl)
Holy Ghost! - Dynamics
Huey Lewis and the News - Icon
Jason Derulo - Tattoos
John Coltrane - Ole Coltrane (2xLP)
John Harrison - Day of the Dead (2xLP) (soundtrack)
Johnny Cash - The Classic Christmas Album
Jonny Kaplan & The Lazy Stars - Sparkle And Shine
Kenny Rogers - Icon
Kenny Rogers - You Can't Make Old Friends
Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies: Deluxe Edition
Kodaline - In A Perfect World
Korn - The Paradigm Shift
Lanterns on the Lake - Until The Colours Run
Lee Ranaldo and the Dust - Last Night On Earth (vinyl)
Martina McBride - The Classic Christmas Album
Miley Cyrus - Bangerz
Neil Diamond - The Classic Christmas Album
New Found Glory - Kill It Live
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - Icon
Of Montreal - Lousy with Sylvianbriar (vinyl)
Olivia Newton-John - Icon
Panic at the Disco - Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die!
Papa - Tender Madness (vinyl)
Parquet Courts - Light Up Gold + Tally All The Things That You Broke (2xCD)
Patty Griffin - Silver Bell (2xLP)
Paula Abdul - Icon
Pusha T - My Name Is My Name
Randy Travis - Original Album Series
Red Hot + Fela - Red Hot + Fela (vinyl)
Richie Ramone - Entitled
Ricky Nelson - Icon
Rjd2 - More Is Than Isn't
Robin Trower - State to State: Live Across America 1974-1980
Save Your Breath - There Used to Be a Place for Us (vinyl)
Seasick Steve - Hubcap Music (vinyl)
Selecter - Indie Singles Collection 1991-96
Sleigh Bells - Bitter Rivals (vinyl)
Soulfly - Savages
SpiralArms - Freedom 
Spires - Candy Flip (7")
St. Lucia - When the Night
Steve Nieve - ToGetHer
Stone Temple Pilots With Chester Bennington - High Rise 
Strange Talk - Cast Away (vinyl)
Summer Camp - Summer Camp
SWF - Let It Be Told 
Ten Years After - Recorded Live
Tessela - Nancy’s Pantry (EP)
The Band - The Last Waltz (reissue) (3xLP)
The Beta Band - The Regal Years (1997-2004) 
The Fratellis - We Need Medicine
The Get Up Kids - Eudora (2xLP)
The KickDrums - Thinking Out Loud 
The Stranglers - Skip Deep: The Collection
The Toxic Avenger - Romance & Cigarettes
Tim Kasher - Adult Film (vinyl)
Timmy Thomas - Why Can't We Live Together
Tom Jones - Icon
Tony Dekker - Prayer of the Woods
UFO - Hot ‘N’ Live: The Chrysalis Live Anthology 1974-1983
Ulver - Messe
Various Artists - Icon: The Rat Pack
Various Artists - XXX: Three Decades of Roadrunner Records
Various Artists - CBGB: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (2xLP) 
Waxwing - For Madmen Only (reissue) (vinyl)
Waxwing - Nobody Can Take What Everybody Owns (reissue) (vinyl)
Waxwing - One for the Ride (reissue) (vinyl)
Whitesnake - Icon
Wild Child - The Runaround (vinyl)
William Shatner - Ponder The Mystery
Wilson Phillips - Icon


October 15

A$AP Mob - Title TBA
Alpaca - Demimonde
Alvarius B. - Fuck You and the Horse You Rode In On (vinyl)
American Sharks - American Sharks (vinyl)
Amy Grant - 3CD Christmas Gift Pack
Anacondas - Sub Contra Blues
Basia - Playlist: The Very Best of Basia
Beats Antique - A Thousand Faces – Act 1  
Black Milk - No Poison No Paradise (vinyl)
Black Oak Arkansas - Back Thar N Over Yonder
Boardwalk - Boardwalk
Boomtown Rats - Back to Boomtown: Classic Rats Hits
Cabaret Voltaire - Archive #828285 Live (3xCD)
Campfire Ok - When You Have Arrived (vinyl)
Carlton Melton - Always Even (vinyl)
Cass McCombs - Big Wheel and Others (vinyl)
CAVE - Threace
Cosmin TRG - New Structures for Loving (12")
Courtesy Drop - Songs To Drive To; Cry, And Make Love To
Courtney Barnett - The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas
Cross Record - Be Good (vinyl)
Crystal Antlers - Nothing Is Real (vinyl)
Cults - Static
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra - Studio Ghibli Kokyo Kyokushu (vinyl)
Dayshell - Dayshell
Death Angel - The Dream Calls for Blood
DOA - War on 45 (vinyl)
Doomriders - Grand Blood
Easy Kabaka Brown - Opotopo (vinyl)
Elizabeth Mitchell - The Sounding Joy: Christmas Songs In and Out Of The Ruth Crawford Seeger Songbook
Ereb Altor - Fire Meets Ice 
Eric Clapton - Unplugged: Expanded and Remastered
Exhumer - Degraded by Sepsis
Expose - Playlist: The Very Best of Expose
Eye Candy - A Tell All 
Field Study - Feverland
Forgotten Birds - Sahara (vinyl)
Four Tet - Beautiful Rewind (vinyl)
Frank Turner - The Second Three Years/Take To The Road (CD+DVD)
Gary Numan - Splinter
Gigan - Multi-Dimensional Fractal Sorcery And Super-Science
Gnaw - Horrible Chamber 
Group Rhoda - 12th House (vinyl)
Halestorm - ReAniMate 2.0: The CoVeRs eP 
Harold Budd - Perhaps
Heartsounds - Internal Eyes
Heavenly Beat - Prominence (vinyl)
Heldon - Interface (vinyl)
I Am King - Onehundred
I Am King - Fallen
James Booker - James Booker: Classified Remixed & Expanded
James Ferraro - NYC, HELL 3:00 AM
Jeff Healey - Playlist: The Very Best of Jeff Healey
Jimi Hendrix Experience - Playlist: The Very Best of Jimi Hendrix Experience
John Davis - Ask the Dust (vinyl)
Kassin - Sonhando Devagar (vinyl)
Kevin Devine - Bubblegum (vinyl)
Kevin Devine - Bulldozer (vinyl)
Kill Division - Destructive Force 
kwes. - ilp. (vinyl)
La Luz - It's Alive (vinyl)
Leisure Connection - Jungle Dancing/Wave Riding (12")
Linda Thompson - Won't Be Long Now
Lizzo - Lizzobangers
Lucius - Wildewoman
Lucrecia Dalt - Syzygy (vinyl)
Luke Temple  Good Mood Fool 
Meshuggah - Catch Thirtythree (limited edition) 
Meshuggah - Chaosphere (limited edition) 
Meshuggah - Contradictions Collapse (limited edition) 
Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve (limited edition)
Meshuggah - Nothing (limited edition)
Meshuggah - obZen (limited edition) 
Mike Donovan - WOT 
Mirror Travel - Mexico
Molly Drake - Molly Drake (vinyl)
Monster Magnet - Last Patrol 
Morcheeba - Head Up High 
My Cat Is An Alien - The Ocean Above Your Heads (vinyl)
Neo Boys - Sooner or Later (vinyl)
Nobunny - Secret Songs: Reflections from the Ear Mirror (vinyl)
Oblivion - Called To Rise
Partridge Family - Playlist: The Very Best of the Partridge Family
Paul McCartney - New (vinyl)
Paul Simon - Over the Bridge of Time: A Paul Simon Retrospective
Pearl Jam - Lightning Bolt
Pelican - Forever Becoming
Polica - Shulamith (vinyl)
Red City Radio - Titles
Red Fang - Whales and Leeches
Ricardo Villalobos - Dependent and Happy 4 (12")
Rivers of Nihil - The Conscious Seed of Light
Saintseneca - Uppercutter (7")
SAP Mob - TBA
Sarah Jarosz - Build Me Up from Bones (vinyl)
SCNTST - Percee Scan (12")
Scotty McCreery - See You Tonight
Secret Pyramid - Movements of Night (vinyl)
Shad - Flying Colours
Silence The Messenger - Achilles
Sky Larkin - Motto (vinyl)
Snuff Crew - Work It Out (12")
Summer Camp - Summer Camp 
Survival Knife - Divine Mob (7")
Tancred - Tancred (vinyl)
Taylor Dayne - Playlist: The Very Best of Taylor Dayne
Testament - Dark Roots Of Thrash (CD/DVD)
The Avett Brothers - Magpie and the Dandelion
The Beets - Play Silver Nickels and Golden Dimes (7")
The Clash - Combat Rock (reissue) (vinyl)
The Clash - Give 'Em Enough Rope (reissue) (vinyl)
The Clash - London Calling (reissue) (2xLP)
The Clash - Sandinista! (reissue) (vinyl)
The Clash - The Clash (reissue) (vinyl)
The Dismemberment Plan - Uncanney Valley (vinyl)
The Head and the Heart - Let's Be Still (vinyl)
The Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies (reissue)
Tim Hecker - Virgins (2xLP)
TLC - TBA 
Tristen - CAVES 
Trivium - Vengeance Falls
Ultra Bidé - DNA vs DNA-c (vinyl)
We Are Scientists - Business Casual (EP)
Willie Nelson - To All the Girls..
World Collapse - Into The Night
Wymond Miles - Cut Yourself Free
Zebra Hunt – Only Way Out (7")


October 22

ABBA  - Ring Ring
Active Child - Rapor (EP)
AFI - Burials
Best Coast - Fade Away
Boards of Canada - Campfire Headphase (reissue) (2xLP)
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi (reissue) (3xLP)
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children (reissue) (2xLP)
Brett Dennen - Smoke and Mirrors
CFCF - Outside
Crow - Best of Crow
Dead Gaze - Brain Holiday (vinyl)
Dean Martin - Greatest Hits
Dean Martin - Icon 2: The Essential Dean Martin
Def Leppard - Viva! Hysteria
DJ Rashad - Double Cup
Ducktails - Wish Hotel (EP)
Gringo Star - Floating Out To See
Honeyblood -  Bud (7")
Ihsahn - Das Seelenbrechen
James Griffin - Just Like Yesterday: The Solo Anthology 1974-77
Katy Perry - Prism
King Crimson - Road to Red (24-CDs)
KMFDM - Opium (reissue) 
KMFDM - WWIII (reissue) 
Lita Ford - The Bitch Is Back...Live
Mac Davis - Hard to Be Humble: The Best of Mac Davis
Matthew E. White - Big Inner: Outer Face Edition
Meek Is Murder - Everything Is Awesome Nothing Matters
Modern Kin - Modern Kin
Motorhead - Aftershock
Omar Souleyman - Wenu Wenu
Pearl Jam - The Essential
Pestilence - Obsideo
Randy Travis - Original Album Series
Ray Price - Welcome to My World: The Love Songs of Ray Price
Reflections - Exi(s)t
Royal Bangs - Brass (vinyl)
Ryan Hemsworth - Guilt Trips 
Sepultura - The Mediator Between Head And Hands Must Be The Heart
Strawberry Alarm Clock - Incense & Peppermints / Wake Up It's Tomorrow
Tears for Fears - Hurting
Ted Nugent - Ultralive
The Kickdrums - Thinking Out Loud (vinyl)
The Last Ten Seconds Of Life - INVIVO
The Strumbellas - We Still Move On Dance Floors
The Weeknd - Kiss Land (vinyl)
Van Morrison - Moondance (double and five-disc expanded editions)
Various Artists - Love to Love You Donna
Vatican Shadow - Remember Your Black Day
Woody Guthrie - Woody Guthrie: American Radical Patriot


October 29

65daysofstatic - Wild Light
A Lot Like Birds - No Place
ÆGES/Dust Moth - Bad Blood (7") 
Anamanaguchi - Endless Fantasy  (vinyl)
Andy Williams - Complete Christmas Recordings
Arcade Fire - Reflektor
Audacity - Butter Knife
Bad Religion - Christmas Songs
Belfegore - Belfegore
Billy Bragg - Life’s a Riot with Spy Vs Spy (reissue) 
Bobby Darin - 25th Day of December With Bobby Darin
Body Parts - Fire Dream
Botany - Lava Diviner
Bottomless Pit - Shade Perennial
Clara Hill - Walk the Distance (vinyl)
Close Your Eyes - Line In The Sand 
Correction House - Last City Zero
Daniel Avery - Drone Logic (2xLP) 
Dave Van Ronk - Down on Washington Square: The Smithsonian Folkways Collection
Dead Letter Circus - The Catalyst Fire
Death Cab for Cutie - Transatlanticism (10th Anniversary Edition)(2xLP)
Deserters - Try To Feel
Devin Townsend - Retinal Circus (DVD/CD)
Diane Coffee - My Friend Fish
DOA - Welcome to Chinatown: DOA Live (2xLP)
Dot Wiggin Band - Ready! Get! Go! (vinyl)
Eagles - The Studio Albums 1972-1979 (vinyl)
Ed Kowalczyk - The Flood And The Mercy
Entombed - Back To The Front
ERRA - Augment
Far-out Fangtooth - Borrowed Time (vinyl)
Glaxo Babies - Put Me on the Guest List
Humble Pie - Performance: Rockin' the Fillmore: Complete Recordings
Inquisition - Obscure Verses for the Multiverse
Jake Bellows - New Ocean (vinyl)
Janelle Monae - The Electric Lady (2xLP)
Jethro Tull - Benefit (2xCD+DVD)
John Davis - Spare Parts (2xLP)
John Talabot - DJ Kicks
John Tilbury and Oren Ambarchi - The Just Reproach (vinyl)
Jonwayne - Rap Album One
Juana Molina - Wed 21
Julie Roberts - Good Wine And Bad Decisions
KaitO - Until the End of Time (2xLP)
Kataklysm - Waiting For The End To Come
Kelly Clarkson - Wrapped In Red
Kid606 - Happiness (2xLP)
Kill Devil Hill - Revolution Rise
Laurel Halo - Chance Of Rain
Leslie West - Still Climbing
Letha Rodman-Melchior - Handbook for Mortals (vinyl)
Lily and Madeleine - Lily and Madeleine (vinyl)
Linkin Park - Recharged
Lords of the New Church - Is Nothing Sacred?
Lords of the New Church - The Lords of the New Church
Lords of the New Church - The Methods to Our Madness
Los Campesinos! - No Blues
Los Lobos - Disconnected In New York City (Amazon Exclusive 2CDs + DVD)
Loves It - All We Are
Mick Hucknall - American Soul
Minor Alps (Juliana Hatfield and Matthew Caws) - Get There
Moonface - Julia With Blue Jeans On
Mutation - Error 500
Necrowretch - Bestial Rites 2009-2012
Neurotic November - Anunnaki 
New Christy Minstrels - Merry Christmas! the Complete Columbia Christmas Recordings
Nick Lowe - Quality Street: A Seasonal Selection for All the Family
Noctum - Final Sacrifice
Noctum - Temple Of The Living Dead
Pampers – Pampers (vinyl)
Paradise Lost - Tragic Illusion 25 
Patti Page - Christmas With Patti Page
Protest The Hero - Volition
Purling Hiss - Paisley Montage (vinyl)
Robert Glasper Experiment - Black Radio 2
Russian Circles - Memorial
Schneider TM - Guitar Sounds (vinyl)
Sepultura - The Mediator Between Head And Hands Must Be The Heart 
Sirens & Sailors - Skeletons
Skeletonwitch - Serpents Unleashed
Sky Ferreira - Night Time, My Time
Son Volt - Lanterns (vinyl)
Stereolab - Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night (2xLP)
Stereolab - Sound-Dust (2xLP)
Stranger - Watching Dead Empires in Decay
Survive This! - The Life That You’ve Chosen
The Doomsayer - Fire.Everywhere.
The Grand Opening - Don't Look Back Into the Darkness (vinyl)
The Swellers - The Light Under Closed Doors
Toby Keith - Drinks After Work
Tompall & the Glaser Brothers - Lovin' Her Was Easier / After All These Years
Toxic Holocaust - Chemistry Of Consciousness
Ulrich Schnauss and Mark Peters - Tomorrow Is Another Day (vinyl)
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Blue Record (vinyl)
Various Artists - SMM: Opiate (vinyl)
Vaura - Missing
Warbringer - IV: Empires Collapse
White Denim - Corsicana Lemonade (vinyl)
Widowspeak - The Swamp (EP)
Winds of Plague - Resistance
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - UZU
Yuna - Nocturnal
Zodiac - A Hiding Place

Ask Mr. Music by Jerry Osborne

FOR THE WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

DEAR JERRY: Thanks to the award-winning documentary "Searching for Sugar Man," I discovered Sixto Rodriguez, the Sugar Man many people were trying to find.

Rodriguez, a lifelong downtown Detroit resident, is an amazingly distinctive singer-songwriter who sold millions of albums overseas, yet, until the 2012 film, virtually no one in America ever heard of him.

Now I'm trying to obtain all of his recordings, and I need your help.

I have the soundtrack, with its 14 songs, but how many more are out there?

Unfortunately, in the film's March 6, 1998 Cape Town concert, immediately after "I Wonder," he sings something that is definitely not on the soundtrack. It's also not captioned on the screen, like many of the others. Can you identify it?

Besides that one, and those actually on the soundtrack, what are his other songs? And are they available?
—Luke Murphy, Stevens Point, Wis.

DEAR LUKE: First, the unidentified tune in the film that's not on the soundtrack is "Forget It." Ironically, it seems that's exactly what they did.

Completing your Rodriguez collection is easier than you might have thought, and you can do so without spending hundreds of dollars for his original Sussex LPs.

You'll need Light in the Attic's 2012 reissue of "Cold Fact" (LITA-036). That gives you these 12 tracks originally issued in 1971 on Sussex (SXBS-7000), that now sells in the $400 to $600 range:

"Crucify Your Mind"
"Forget It"
"Gommorah (A Nursery Rhyme)"
"Hate Street Dialogue"
"I Wonder"
"Inner City Blues"
"Jane S. Piddy"
"Like Janis"
"Only Good For Conversation"
"Rich Folks Hoax"
"Sugar Man"
"This Is Not A Song, It's an Outburst: Or, the Establishment Blues"

Also get Light in the Attic's 13-track repackage of "Coming from Reality" (LITA-038). With this 2009 edition you have the 10 songs issued in 1972 on the second, and less pricey ($150), Sussex LP (SXBS-7012), plus three bonus cuts:

"A Most Disgusting Song"
"Can't Get Away" (Bonus)
"Cause"
"Climb Up on My Music"
"Halfway Up the Stairs"
"Heikki's Suburbia Bus Tour"
"I Think of You"
"I'll Slip Away" (Bonus)
"It Started Out So Nice"
"Sandrevan Lullaby-Lifestyles"
"Silver Word"
"Street Boy" (Bonus)
"To Whom It May Concern"

You should be able to pick up the two Light in the Attic albums for $20 to $40 each, and both are audiophile 180-gram vinyl.

With those two, you'll have all 15 songs from the film, including "Forget It," along with eight others from the two Sussex collections.

The stray in the herd is "I'll Slip Away," the A-side of a 1967 single (Impact 1031) that is credited to Rod Riguez. The flip is "You'd Like to Admit It," a tune not yet found on any album.

Having the complete works of Rodriguez — just 26 songs, all written by him — is easily accomplished, and not too costly, at least for now. For this tally, more than one version of a song (e.g., studio/live) is still counted as just one.

As for collecting the body of his work, the soundtrack (Light in the Attic 289) is unnecessary. All of those tunes are also on the two LITA albums.

The movie that won the Oscar for Best Documentary (2012) in the U.S. was similarly honored with the comparable award in virtually every country where such a prize exists. It literally crushed the competition.

Referring to "Searching for Sugar Man" merely as an award-winning documentary is like calling the Grand Canyon a gully.



IZ ZAT SO? From 1967 through 1971, Sixto Rodriguez had only three singles and two LPs. Though he continued to write songs, and even record a few, as of now there are no new recordings available.

In 2008, Light in the Attic began repackaging his 1960s and '70s work in the U.S., while other labels licensed his material overseas, usually with much greater success. In some countries, the result has been gold and platinum record awards.

On those occasions when he traveled from Detroit to South Africa and Australia, he played venues with 5,000 to 20,000 seats, and each performance was completely sold-out.

The wild reaction he received from those frenzied crowds, even screaming and applauding while he just stood there waiting to sing, can only be likened to Elvis and the Beatles.

After such a tour, Rodriguez would return to his inner-city home half a world away where he could walk the streets and not be recognized. One would think "Searching for Sugar Man" would have changed that.

Oh yeah, he also gave his earnings from those tours to his family and friends.

　

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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Vinyl Record News & Music Notes

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Jethro TullBenefit - 2013 Stereo Edition (vinyl preorder)

UK running order version vinyl edition of Jethro Tull's magnificent Benefit, from 1970, featuring the 2013 Steven Wilson mix.

On 180g heavyweight vinyl, housed in a single sleeve with inner bag.

Pre-order for 28th October release

(one of my favorite albums growing up!)

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from the uk:

Why vinyl is Top of the Pops... thanks to Daft Punk, Bowie and Led Zeppelin - those funny round discs that went so out of fashion are a big hit again. So is it time to dig out that record player?










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these articles never get old!

Vinyl is back! Though it's never really been away

 

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Rough Trade expands to US, opening record store in NYC

 

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The Go-Go’s made history with Beauty And The Beat—and barely survived it






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Fleetwood Mac: 'Reuniting with Christine McVie will be amazing'

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VIDEO: Deep Purple preview Perfect Strangers Live DVD

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Led Zeppelin: Heart’s cover of Stairway To Heaven released on video











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this lp jacket was very risque in the 60's, click on the link to see katy perry's udated version:

Album That Launched Sexy Album Covers: Herb Albert's Whipped Cream and Other Delights