New Music Releases - February 18, 2014

Adrenaline Mob - Men Of Honor
Agiel - Dark Pantheons
Allman Brothers Band - Boston Common 8/17/71
Allman Brothers Band - Play All Night: Live at the Beacon Theater 1992
Angel Olsen - Burn Your Fire for No Witness (vinyl)
Anne Guthrie - Codiaeum Variegatum (vinyl)
Artificial Brain - Labyrinth Constellation
Ashley Riley - All The Pretty Things
Ass To Mouth - Degenerate
Audopilots - Phoebastia Nigripes (vinyl)
AV - Mort a Vegas (12")
AV - Venus Bar (12")
Bayside - CULT
Bear Hands - Distraction
Beat Happening - Black Candy (vinyl)
Benighted - Carnivore Sublime
Benmont Tench - You Should Be So Lucky
Billy Joel - Original Album Classics
Birds of Delay - A Living Room At The Bottom Of A Lake (vinyl)
Blue Jean Committee | The Fingerlings - Massachusetts Afternoon / Embrace Me (7")
Bob Dylan - Original Album Classics
Bodyfarm - The Coming Scourge
Bonobo - One Off's, Remixes and B Sides (vinyl)
Bootstraps - Bootstraps
BossaCucaNova - Our Kind of Bossa
Candice Glover - Music Speaks
Cath and Phil Tyler - Dumb Supper (vinyl)
Cheap Trick - Original Album Classics
Chevelle - Take Out The Gunman
Chord - Gmaj7 (vinyl)
Cities Aviv - Come to Life (vinyl)
Com Truise - Wave 1 (12")
Comeback Kid - Should Know Better
Cripple Bastards - Nero In Metastasi
Cynic - Kindly Bent to Free Us
Damu the Fudgemunk - Spur Momento Trailer (tape)
Dan Zimmerman - Dreams of Earth
Dawn Landes - Bluebird (vinyl)
Death - North Street (7")
Deathday - No Future (12")
Demoraliser - A Living Nightmare
Diggs Duke - Offering For Anxious (vinyl)
Dizz1 - Everyday Grind EP (12")
Down Among the Dead Men - Down Among the Dead Men
Dyscarnate - And So It Came To Pass
Dyscarnate - Enduring The Massacre
Empty Flowers - The Air You Found
Evan Only - No Matter What (vinyl)
Fake Figures - They Must Be Destroyed
Flotsam and Jetsam - No Place For Disgrace ?- 2014
Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay (vinyl)
Gangstarr - Step In the Arena (2xLP)
Garland Jeffreys - True Confessions: the Epic Sessions
Glenn Branca - Lesson No. 1 (2x12")
Guided by Voices - Motivational Jumpsuit (vinyl)
Hallock Hill - The Union/A Hem of Evening (2xLP+Book)
Hands - The Soul Is Quick (vinyl)
I Killed The Prom Queen - Beloved
Immortal Technique - Revolutionary Vol. 2 (2xLP)
Issues - Issues
Jimbo Mathus and the Tri-State Coalition - Dark Night of the Soul (vinyl)
Junius - Days of the Fallen Sun (vinyl)
KaitO - Less Time Until the End (vinyl)
Kansas - Kansas (reissue) (vinyl)
Kenny Chesney - Original Album Classics
Kevin Seconds - Off Stockton (vinyl)
Krill - Steve Hears Pile in Malden and Bursts Into Tears
Lady Gaga - Art Pop (2xLP)
Lake Street Dive - Bad Self Portraits
Lionize - Jetpack Soundtrack
Lost in the Trees - Past Life (vinyl)
Mas Ysa - Worth EP (vinyl)
Mastodon - Call of the Mastodon (vinyl)
Monolith | Voyager - Split (vinyl)
More Than A Thousand - Vol. 5 Lost At Home
Mr. Oizo - WC Oizo BO (2xLP+7")
New Bums - Voices In A Rented Room
NO - El Prado
O'Jays - Original Album Classics
Otis Redding - Early Sounds (1960-1962) (10")
Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides - Poisson (PRE-ORDER) (vinyl)
Patrick Watson - Just Another Ordinary Day
Perry Como - Best Of The War Years
Pete Rock and CL Smooth - All Souled Out (deluxe edition)
Phantogram - Voices (vinyl)
Planningtorock - All Love's Legal (vinyl)
Police Des Moeurs - Police Des Mouers (vinyl)
Puscifer - What Is…(vinyl)
Pye Corner Audio - Black Mill Tapes Volumes 1-4 (3xCD)
Pyramid Vritra - Indra (vinyl)
Ralph Stanley & Ralph Stanley II - Side By Side
Rick Springfield - Original Album Classics
Roc Marciano - Marci Beaucoup (2xLP)
Sabina - Toujours (vinyl)
Sahg - Delusions of Grandeur
Sam Smith - Nirvana (EP)
Santana - Welcome (vinyl)
Sarke - Aruagint
set and setting - Equanimity (vinyl)
Shocking Pinks - Guilt Mirrors
Sixth June - Pleasure (12")
Skindred - Kill The Power
Slothrust - Of Course You Do (vinyl)
Slough Feg - Digital Resistance
Solids - Blame Conclusion (vinyl)
Soreption - Engineering The Void
Spiritual Front - Open Wounds (vinyl)
St. Paul and The Broken Bones - Half The City (vinyl)
Stefan Jaworzyn - Drained of Connotation (vinyl)
STL - At Disconnected Moments (2xLP)
Strip Steve - Crowd Control (12")
Suicide Silence - Ending Is The Beginning: The Mitch Lucker Memorial Show
Sun Araw - Belomancie (2xLP)
Sun Club - Dad Claps at the Mom Prom
Suzanne Vega - Tales from the Realm of the Queen of Pentacles
Talib Kweli - Gravitas (2xLP)
Teddy Pendergrass - Original Album Classics
The Caribbean - Moon Sickness
The Feeling - Boy Cried Wolf
The Go Find - Brand New Love (vinyl)
The Grouch & Eligh - The Tortoise and The Crow (3xCD)
The Hotelier - Home, Like No Place Is There
The Jezabels - The Brink (vinyl)
Tiga Vs Audion - Lets Go Dance (Adam Beyer Remix) (12")
Tiger & Woods - Tool Kit For Winter Fitness EP (2x10")
Tommy Castro and the Painkillers - The Devil You Know (vinyl)
Vales - Wilt & Rise
Various Artists - Electro Shock 2 (2xCD)
Various Artists - Star Twerk
Verbal Kent - Sound of the Weapon
VTGNIKE - Dubna (vinyl)
We Are the in Crowd - Weird Kids
William Basinski - A Red Score in Tile
William Basinski - Variations: A Movement In Chrome Primitive
William Fitzsimmons - Lions (vinyl)
You Blew It! - Keep Doing What You're Doing (vinyl)

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from our friends at SlyVinyl

God Is An Astronaut – Origins // Limited to 500 Red Vinyl LP

Temples – Sun Structures // Limited to 400 on coloured double vinyl with Bonus CD









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Cancer Research Benefit Set From Fadeaway Records

After a 10+ year hiatus, Fadeaway Records returns with “Friends.” A compilation of new & old unreleased songs mastered specifically for vinyl. Fadeaway is partnering with Enjoy The Ride Records to release this 3xLP which will include over 35 songs.

LP1 & LP2 will be made up of previously unreleased material that was donated by our friends and LP3 will be made up of The best of Michael Dubin's home recordings.. These are tracks that were recorded for his old radio show over the years.

The record will ship in February 2014 and the preorder will begin Monday December 30th at 12 noon eastern on fadeawayrecords.com. The First pressing will be 400 copies for release to the public and 100 additional copies which will be considered the "Friends Press". These additional 100 copies in the friends press are primarily for the artist's and people who helped work on the release. A handful of the friends press variant will end up randomly inserted into orders...

Each record will be pressed on 140 gram heavy splatter vinyl and comes housed in a double gatefold Jacket. All records will be hand numbered and come with a digital download code for all tracks included on the comp.

Last but not least the artwork is still not finalized but I can tell you that it will be made up of illustrations by Travis Millard & Myles Karr and photos by Michael Dubin.

Finally it is our pleasure to announce that all of the proceeds from this compilation will go directly to cancer research charities.

Your FRIENDS at Fadeaway Records 
Michael Dubin & Neil Rubenstein

Pressing Info:

1st Press - 500 Records Total 
General Release - 400 - Red & White A/B Swirl with Black Splatter
Friends & Family Variant - 100 - Clear with Red, White & Black Splatter

2nd Press - 600 Records Total 
General Release - 500 - Milky Clear with Red, Blue & Yellow Splatter
Extra Special Variant - 100 - Black, Blue & White A/B with Heavy Splatter*

*Half of the extra special variant will be randomly inserted into orders and half will be available to be preordered in person only at Friends Benefit shows taking place between now and the release of the compilation

Side A 
Motion City Soundtrack - “Left and Leaving” (Weakerthans) 
Kevin Devine - "Kings Crossing" (Elliott Smith) 
Andy Hull - "Back of Your Old Church” 
Gobotron - "Walk Like a Dog" 
Jaymay - "You Are The Only One I Love" (Piano Demo) 
Alaska - "Teacher in the Sun”

Side B 
Brian Bonz & The Dot Hongs - "Super Connected" (Broken Social Scene) 
The Narrative - "Hallelujah" 
Twin Forks - "Good Things" (Rival Schools) 
Matt Pryor - “Girl Why’d You Run Away” (Reggie and the Full Effect) 
Walter Schreifels - "The Storm" (Judge) 
Far - “Nestle” (Acoustic)

Side C 
James Dean Wells - “Love in The Time of Cholera” 
Judy Chong - “Putting the Dog to Sleep” (The Antlers) 
Hot Rod Circuit - “Betty Ford” (2003 Unreleased Acoustic Demo) 
Ian Love - “Into My Arms” (Nick Cave) 
Reggie and the Full Effect - “Oh Fudge”

Side D 
Frank Iero - “2.5mg Just Aint Enough For Me” 
Nightmare of You - “I’m So Fucking Mad” 
Saves The Day - “Web in Front” (Archers of Loaf) 
Anthony Raneri - “I’ll Follow You Into The Dark” (Death Cab for Cutie) 
Vinnie Caruana - “Question” (Old 97’s) 
Ours - “Kill The Band”

Side E (Recorded at Dubin’s House) 
Pablo - “Wall Street” 
The Honorary Title - “Everything I Once Had” 
Kevin Devine - “Good Man” (Brand New) 
Ian Love - “Sky to Fall” 
The New Amsterdams - “The Death of Us” 
Straylight Run (Ft Jeff Derosa) - “Dignity & Money” 
Ben Lee - “Get Gotten”

Side F (Recorded at Dubin’s House) 
Brand New - “Moshi Moshi” 
The Gay Blades - “N.H.D.N” 
Nightmare of You - “Up the Junction” (Squeeze) 
Head Automatica - “Jackie Wilson Said” (Van Morrison) 
Fred Mascherino - “Lullaby” (Breaking Pangaea) 
Inside - “Stumbled on a Penny” 
Walter Schreifels - “Fazer” (Quicksand)


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from our friends at VinylCollective

Kiss Psycho Circus Vinyl Reissue Mid April

Kiss’s “Psycho Circus” will see a vinyl reissue for a mid April release date. Pre order information and full details can be found here:

Kiss – Psycho Circus LP

In addition you can pre order the following Kiss titles for a March 18th release date:

Kiss – Alive! 2XLP
Kiss – Animalize LP
Kiss – Destroyer LP
Kiss – Dynasty LP
Kiss – Hotter Than Hell LP
Kiss – KISS LP
Kiss – Lick It Up LP
Kiss – Revenge LP
Kiss – Unmasked LP


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Perfect Pussy releasing most metal record ever: Meredith Graves' blood mixed with vinyl












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Beast Within Announces "Adversity/Servitude" Vinyl Release











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this is just odd, has a couple of videos as well:

See a turntable sculpture that plays vinyl records underwater





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from the great state of indiana:

Vinyl records get groove back with music biz and young fans

Vinyl Record News & Music Notes

A hearty welcome to a new advertiser on the CVR blog, Joe' sAlbums

They have a retail location and thousands of titles and artists from 1950 through today's new releases both online and at the shop.

Joe's Albums

• Located at 1124 Pleasant St.Worcester, Massachusetts
• Physical Storefront Opened August 24, 2012
• Approximately 12,000 Records Sold From Online Store
• Founded in April 2010

Thanks so much for your ad and support!

Stop by the site and take a look around Joe'sAlbums

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from EnjoyTheRideRecords

They've Shot Flanigan - The Outlaw 

Limited to 500 total copies, "The Outlaw" is a co-release with Collective Confusion Records and Enjoy The Ride Records. 

The ETR Variant is "California Gold and Texas Oil" variant (black center surrounded by translucent gold) Limited to 125 total copies

Since 2002, Indianapolis-based THEY’VE SHOT FLANIGAN have been tirelessly writing, recording and touring, establishing themselves as a strong and consistent presence in the Midwestern rock and roll scene. With a sound that is deeply rooted in classic rock and heavily influenced by contemporary independent and progressive artists, the band makes music that is simultaneously dark and catchy, heavy and melodic, intense and contemplative. “They are adept songwriters,” writes Louise Sinclair of Girl At The Show, “with the kind of mature, put-together sound you’d expect from a major artist.”

THEY’VE SHOT FLANIGAN have released two EPs and two full-length albums, the most recent a 10-song concept album about the life and death of a gunslinger, recorded with engineer Seth Henderson of Always Be Genius studios. The album was released on December 10, 2011.

Order at EnjoyTheRideRecords

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available now from our friends at MusicRecordShop

The Clash - 5 Studio Album - Vinyl Record Box Set 

All Five of the bands seminal studio albums, remastered in their original formats collected together in a luxury box set designed by the band. Albums contained - "The Clash" "Give'Em Enough Rope" "London Calling" "Sandinista!" and  "Combat Rock"

• 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl
• Flight Case Styled Box With Lift-Off Top
• D.I.Y. Stencil

Buy at MusicRecordShop

MUMFORD AND SONS - BABEL

When Mumford & Sons entered the studio to commence work on their second album, Babel, in August of 2011, they never envisioned it would be to follow-up a debut record that had connected with so many music lovers from all different corners of the globe, and all the roads in-between. Their success is even something the four members struggle to trace. "It sort of just happened," Marcus Mumford has often mused to journalists. The earliest memories of the band performing together are within the close confines of a rehearsal room in Putney, and of last minute street-side jamming sessions on the pavement outside Bosun's Locker (a now defunct basement venue on Kings Road in London) ahead of a show. It was a scene already common to the band as musicians falling in and out of bands of each and every genre. Ben Lovett and Marcus were already working on songs together from their school days, but those songs didn't realise their full potential until Winston Marshall (armed with a banjo and dobro), and Ted Dwane (double bass, but with a penchant for being a multi-instrumental marvel) had learned and lived those songs, given them new arrangements, and injected them with a real 'band' dynamic.

• LABEL GLASSNOTE RECORDS
• VINYL RECORD - LP - SEALED

TRACK LISTING
1. Babel
2. Whispers In The Dark
3. I Will Wait
4. Holland Road
5. Ghosts That We Knew
6. Lover Of The Light
7. Lovers' Eyes
8. Reminder
9. Hopeless Wanderer
10. Broken Crown
11. Below My Feet
12. Not With Haste 

Buy at MusicRecordShop


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The Owls New Album “Two” 

Pre Order Now On 180 Gram Blue Vinyl

It didn't come fast and it didn't come easy. It's been overtwo decades since Tim Kinsella, Mike Kinsella, Victor Villarreal, and Sam Zurick formed Cap'n Jazz as teenagers, and 13 years since they followed up that band with their debut self-titled album under the name owls. In the time that has passed since then, the members have kept active with a string of other endeavors (including owen, Joan of Arc, Make Believe, and ghosts and Vodka) that have never failed to showcase their vast, diverse, and ever-evolving musical aptitudes.

Track Listing: 
Four Works Of Art...
I'm Surprised...
The Lion...
Why Oh Why...
This Must Be How...
Ancient Stars Seed...
It Collects Itself...
I'll Never Be...
Oh No, Don't...
A Drop Of Blood...

Get a copy at ShopRadioCast

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new releases from our friends at MusicOnVinyl

DREAM THEATER - SCORE: 20TH ANNIVERSARY WORLD TOUR

Dream Theater is an experience you should undergo when the band plays their compositions live on stage. Especially when there is an entire orchestra behind them. Such a performance is recorded on this 4LP set, as part of the band's 20th Anniversary Tour.

Released in 2006, their live performance of Dream Theater classics is no less than thrilling; the first two LP's contain the band's exquisite renditions of classics like "The Root Of All Evil" or "Another Won". The second half of this 4LP serving consists of the band's performance with The Octavarium Orchestra. The classic "Six Degrees Of Innocence" is spread out over two sides and album closer "Metropolis" finishes the Dream Theater experience in due style.

• 180 gram audiophile vinyl 
• Insert
• Gatefold sleeve
• Available on vinyl for the first time!

ILSE DELANGE - AFTER THE HURRICANE & MORE

Country-pop singer Ilse DeLange emerged as one of the most successful Dutch artists of her generation with her chart-topping 1998 debut, 'World Of Hurt.'

Recording several albums in the US (most notably Nashville) proved fruitful; both her debut as well as Clean Up (2003) and The Great Escape (2006) were highly successful in the Lowlands and beyond, earning her several awards and high album- and singles sales.

After The Hurricane & More is the definitive Ilse DeLange best of. A wonderful collection of tracks that present the best that Ilse has released in her impressive career.

• 180 gram audiophile vinyl 
• Insert 
• Gatefold sleeve

MIRIAM MAKEBA - PATA PATA

Miriam Makeba is internationally known for her 1967 hit "Pata Pata". She was the first artist from South Africa to become an international star, recording and touring with the likes of Paul Simon, her former husband Hugh Masekela and Harry Belafonte.  In 1966 she won a Grammy for her performances with the latter.

Makeba was nicknamed Mama Africa and was globally revered for her civil rights activism, fighting tirelessly against apartheid and an adversarial government as from the early stages of her career. Being exiled from her homeland ever since the early Sixties, she only returned in 1990, after the much-publicized liberation (and by request) of Nelson Mandela.

This essential 1967 Makeba record allowed her to conquer the world with her wonderful voice, containing her monster hit "Pata Pata", "Click Song" and more beautiful works.  On 180 gram audiophile vinyl !

JAN AKKERMAN - JAN AKKERMAN

Jan Akkerman's first solo album after his departure from Focus was self-titled for good reason – the musical compromises he apparently had to make in Focus are nonexistent here. This is Akkerman's soul laid bare; beautiful guitar arrangements and impressive soloing are met with an ace backing band, including the powerful Bruno Castelucci on drums (who's also appeared on several albums of German Jazz Funk hero Peter Herbolzheimer) and bassist Cees Van Der Laarse of Brainbox.

This is the first reissue of Jan Akkerman since its original release!  On 180 gram audiophile vinyl !


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from our friends at SlyVinyl

Heavy Blanket – Live at Tym Guitars // Limited to 200 Purple Vinyl LP

Barren Womb – The Sun’s Not Yellow, It’s Chicken // Limited to 100 “Frog’s Eye” Vinyl LP








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Death of Samantha To Release New LP

Underground-rock pioneers Death of Samantha will release their first new studio album in 24 years on March 3, 2014 via their revived St. Valentine Records label. 'If MemoryServes Us Well' is a18-song double-album of repertoire spanning their career  from their first 45RPM release onwards. The album was recorded live in the studio, the night before the reformed band played Beachland Ballroom in Cleveland, on December 23, 2011 with all the members of their original line-up on deck: Doug Gillard, guitar-vocals; David James, bass-vocals; John Petkovic, vocals-guitar-clarinet; Steve-o, drums.

Limited edition of 50 copies available now — 80 minutes on double-vinyl, comes with insert poster and liner notes by Mark Lanegan, Thurston Moore and Robert Pollard. Note: First 50 orders come with super-limited edition poster.

Order HERE

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Rare collection of Bob Dylan gospel covers set for vinyl reissue






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Bachman-Turner Overdrive to release 40th Anniversary Edition Vinyl of Not Fragile










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from the uk:

"Every Saturday should be Record Store Day!" The Twilight Sad look forward to this year's celebration of all things vinyl










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cool article about a local record store:

YP Spotlight: Matt Storms spins up culture at record shop

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out of the great state of california, "the kind of store you thought didn’t exist anymore.”


RETAIL: Groovers aims for record sales of vinyl






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found this interesting:

Why Julian Lennon Skipped the Beatles Anniversary Celebrations - ‘Give me the originals any day’






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Kiss slam the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame






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ASCAP Celebrates 100 Years With Their Top 100 Songs

Here's the Top 10

1. Happy Birthday to You - Written by Mildred J. Hill, Patty Smith Hill
2. My Girl - Written by Smokey Robinson, Ronald A. White
3. White Christmas - Written by Irving Berlin
4. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Written by Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin
5. Wind Beneath My Wings - Written by Jeff Silbar
6. Dancing in the Street - Written by Marvin Gaye, Ivy Jo Hunter
7. Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Written by Nickolas Ashford, Valerie Simpson
8. What's Love Got to Do With It - Written by Terence Ernest Britten
9. Can't Help Falling in Love - Written by Luigi Creatore, George David Weiss, Hugo Peretti
10. I Can See Clearly Now - Written by Johnny Nash

See the rest of the list at our friends at VintageVinylNews

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this is freaky:

Music Remains - A Recorded Music Rube Goldberg Machine

Ask Mr. Music by Jerry Osborne

FOR THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 10, 2014


DEAR JERRY: Since this month is the 50th Anniversary of the Beatles first U.S. hit record, their first American tour, and the beginning of the British Invasion, my question is a timely one.

Based on their overall singles success, how do you rank the British groups and duos that we first heard in 1964 or '65?
—Donna Mendes, Queens, N.Y.

DEAR DONNA: Knowing it has been 50 years since I was on the radio playing all of the hits by every one of these groups is a pleasantly strange realization. It was an experience I will treasure forever.

Now for my Top 15 mid-'60s Invaders:

1. Beatles
2. Rolling Stones
3. Dave Clark Five
4. Herman's Hermits
5. Who
6. Hollies
7. Kinks
8. Animals
9. Moody Blues
10. Peter & Gordon
11. Manfred Mann
12. Gerry and the Pacemakers
13. Freddie and the Dreamers
14. Chad & Jeremy
15. Bachelors


DEAR JERRY: In a column last year, you estimated that after the British Invasion, about 25% of America's Top 100 were by artists from overseas, most being from the UK.

While I don't doubt it, I would like to see some specific artists and titles from the week right before "I Want to Hold Your Hand," the Beatles first U.S. hit, and then again for one year later.

That would be the kind of intel that I can really sink my teeth into.
—Norman Bristow, Springfield, Mo.


DEAR NORMAN: Prepare to sink to titanic depths.

"I Want to Hold Your Hand" debuted January 11, 1964 on Cash Box, at No. 80. Strangely, it not only was missing from Billboard's Hot 100 that week, but didn't even appear among their 26 Bubbling Under the Hot 100 Hits (i.e., the Top 126). One week later (January 18) "I Want to Hold Your Hand" debuted on Billboard at No. 45.

Because "I Want to Hold Your Hand" appeared first on Cash Box, we must use their charts to answer your question.

For January 4th, the week before the Beatles debuted nationally, there were only five acts from overseas on the chart, accounting for just 5% of the Top 100. With their rank and song that week, they are:

2. The Singing Nun ("Dominique") (solo female from Belgium)
8. Caravelles ("You Don't Have to Be a Baby to Cry") (female duo from the UK)
61. Los Indios Tabajaras ("Maria Elena") (male instrumental duo from Brazil)
68. Cliff Richard ("It's All in the Game") (solo male from the UK)
73. Frank Ifield ("Please") (solo male from the UK)

The foreigners then consisted of three solo artists and two duos, but not a single vocal group. That was about to change in a gargantuan way.

Also, any mention that week of a pending musical invasion from anywhere would have been downright laughable.

By jumping ahead 52 weeks (January 9, 1965), it's as though we have landed in another world; one where 27% of the Top 100 is by talent from beyond North American shores. All but two are UK artists:

1. Beatles ("I Feel Fine")
4. Searchers ("Love Potion Number Nine")
8. Beatles ("She's a Woman")
9. Julie Rogers ("The Wedding")
10. Dave Clark Five ("Any Way You Want It")
12. Petula Clark ("Downtown")
18. Manfred Mann ("Sha La La")
20. Zombies ("She's Not There")
23. Chad & Jeremy ("Willow Weep for Me")
24. Matt Monro ("Walk Away")
28. Gerry and the Pacemakers ("I'll Be There")
30. Marianne Faithful ("As Tears Go By")
35. Animals ("Boom Boom")
37. Gale Garnett ("Lovin' Place") (New Zealand)
39. Herman's Hermits ("I'm Into Something Good")
40. Waikikis ("Hawaii Tattoo") (Belgium)
46. Rolling Stones ("Time Is on My Side")
50. Hullaballoos ("I'm Gonna Love You Too")
55. Honeycombs ("I Can't Stop")
59. Kinks ("All Day and All of the Night")
61. Kinks ("You Really Got Me")
66. Sandie Shaw ("[Always] Something There to Remind Me")
69. Bachelors ("No Arms Can Ever Hold You")
78. Rolling Stones ("Heart of Stone")
81. Peter & Gordon ("I Go to Pieces")
97. Dusty Springfield ("Live It Up")
100. Dusty Springfield ("Guess Who")

Based on their sound and image, the You Know Who Group ("[Roses Are Red] My Love") and the Beau Brummels ("Laugh, Laugh") were, in 1964, thought by many to be British.

Turns out both were U.S. bands.

IZ ZAT SO? Not until "Meet the Beatles" topped the American LP charts (Feb. 1964) did a rock or R&B group have a No. 1 album

For 16 years, and the more than 100 long-playing albums that topped the charts, the only vocal groups were either folk singers (Kingston Trio and Peter, Paul and Mary) or orchestra and chorus groups (Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Mitch Miller and the Gang).

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

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

Copyright 2014 Osborne Enterprises - Reprinted By Exclusive Permission 

Vinyl Record News & Music Notes

new from the folks at RecordStoreDay

RECORD STORE DAY 2014 AMBASSADOR: CHUCK D

Since 2009 when Jesse “Boots Electric” Hughes of Eagles of Death Metal declared himself our ‘Ambassador’, Record Store Day has been honored every year to add another powerful name to our stable of Ambassadors. This year the man who carries the title and the megaphone to tell the world about the greatness of record stores is the one, the only: CHUCK D.

Read the rest at RecordStoreDay



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from our friends at TheOmegaOrder

DAVIDGE - Slo Light Bundle

Neil Davidge, aka Davidge, is a record producer, film and game score composer whose seminal work with Massive Attack helped birth some of the most arresting and innovative music in the electronic / orchestral genre of the Nineties and Noughties whilst also enjoying a parallel career composing for prestigious film, TV and games ventures. His long awaited debut solo album, Slo Light, featuring a host of eclectic guest vocalists will be released on February 25th 2014 and supported by a worldwide marketing and promotional push. An album deeply-schooled in Bristol, beats, electronica, soundtracks, orchestral music and more, ‘Slo Light’ creates a fantasy world in which tension, darkness and beauty find the perfect equilibrium. As with all Davidge work the album is sky-high on production values with an unparalleled clarity and sonic depth. Following years of industry respect and renown, Slo Light is primed to be the record that brings Davidge to the ears and minds of many discerning music lovers as a figure of talent and vision, who’ll appeal to fans of sound-exploring producer/artists like Brian Eno, Moby, William Orbit and Trent Reznor.

Slo Light LP Bundle includes:
- Gatefold Green & Red colored LPs
- Exclusive Davidge Preorder slipmat
- Exclusive Black Light Poster
- Exclusive streetdate album download
- Digital Download card

Pre-Order at TheOmegaOrder

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THUMPERS - Galore

“Comprised of long time friends Marcus Pepperell (vocals, guitar, keys) and John Hamson Jr. (drums, vocals, bass), THUMPERS make colourful, exuberant alt-pop that celebrates their innate musical kinship and draws upon their shared childhood memories. The London-based band combine layered androgynous vocals with muscular drums, astral synths and shimmering guitars in a celebration of the breathless sensations of youth and coming of age.

Friends since the age of 11 and playing in bands together since their teens, the two reignited their musical bond again in early 2011. Initially exchanging ideas over long distance correspondence, they used breaks from travel and other projects for intensive, marathon recording sessions. Retreating to the familiar surroundings of their hometown, they worked intuitively and resourcefully in utilizing every means at their disposal (with siblings occasionally joining in on the recording process) with the sole objective of producing great recordings touched by a transcendental jubilance and vague air of the otherworldly.

Live, THUMPERS are augmented by an interchanging cast of friends and musicians in faithfully bringing their immersive dynamics and grand scale sonic vision to the stage.

THUMPERS will release Galore, their debut album, on February 11th in North America via Sub Pop. The record was produced by Pepperell and Hamson along with David Kosten (Bat for Lashes, Everything Everything).”

MP3 download included with all vinyl releases

Order at SubPop

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from Season-Of-Mist

Floor - Oblation Pre-Order

FLOOR are back! In the wake of their self-titled debut album ‘Floor’ (2002) and the three full-lengths they released as TORCHE between 2005 and 2012, Anthony Vialon (guitars, vocals), Steve Brooks (guitars, vocals) and Henry Wilson (drums) present ‘Oblation’. Adding a dose of doom and a dash of drone, this new opus perfectly encapsulates FLOOR’s trademark desert rock feeling of shimmering heat, the pound and stomp of heavy engines, and a burning taste of diesel in the air. CONVERGE guitarist Kurt Ballou mixed the album at GodCity Studios (TORCHE, KVELERTAK, HIGH ON FIRE) and the mastering was done by Alan Douches (BARONESS, BLACK TUSK, MOTÖRHEAD). Lean back, crank up and sacrifice to the gods of stoner rock with this mighty ‘Oblation.'

Transparent blue vinyl limited to 300 copies.

Pre-Order HERE

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Audacity - Butter Knife 

Audacity’s latest full-length Butter Knife is still, at its core, a garage rock record. Album opener “Couldn’t Hold A Candle” is a perfect introduction to Audacity’s battle plan—a balanced blend of pop sensibility and ribald power. “Hole In The Sky” showcases the band’s gift for the on-the-dime changes, sophisticated melodies, and clever instrumental interplay. “Red Wine” demonstrates a Robert Pollard-like knack for turning an unexpected chord combination into a remarkably punchy chorus. And album closer “Autumn” harkens back to the balladry of power pop kings Big Star. All of which is to say, Audacity are tighter and more clever than your average suburban band, and consequently they’re one of the strongest acts in the Southern Californian garage rock scene.

The second pressing of this LP is limited to 500 copies on coke bottle clear vinyl and comes with a free download code.

Available from SuicideSqueezeRecords

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Somos - Temple Of Plenty LP Pre-Order 

There's no denying the enormity of Somos' 2012 demo—a four-song introduction whose epitomizing moment occurs during the final thirty seconds of the first track when the instruments snuff themselves out and singer Michael Fiorentino's otherwise steely voice rises into a serious, startling roar. By the time the band rebuilds itself for a final chorus, Somos has already established itself as an explosive, fiery monster that leaves its listeners smoldering.

It is no surprise, then, that Somos' debut full-length, Temple of Plenty, is more enormous and more powerful than its predecessor, though they replace the scorching, sharp chords with a smoother, more expansive sound. The guitars on "Familiar Theme", for example, are clean, plucked in spinning patterns and strummed in vibrant, wavering chords—that is, until the chorus, when guitarists Phil Haggerty and Justin Hahn step on the distortion. Even then, their instruments are fully fleshed-out, enormous not because of their crunch but because of their breadth. "Dead Wrong" literally bounces, its elasticity derived from the drumming, which is deceptively complex and solid, but also the rhythm of Fiorentino's lyrics. Here, again, the weight of this third song comes not from overdrive or volume or some superficial production trick, but from its beat and dripping guitars, from Fiorentino's firm singing style—from the songwriting itself.

Maybe the epitomizing moment on Temple of Plenty occurs on "Strangest Example", a song that appears in a different form on the band's demo. It's easy to feel the full one-two punch of the kick drum and the cavernous crack of his snare; trace the guitar as it winds like a vine and flowers at the end of each phrase; and, when the song climbs into its chorus, immerse oneself in the expansive, overlapping layers of melody and momentum. This re-imagining of "Strangest Example"—and, admittedly, Temple of Plenty's entirety—possesses the same power expressed on the band's 2012 demo, but it's derived from depth and finesse and the sort of velvet execution that will make Somos' first full-length one of the most impressive debuts that's likely to be released this year.

Pressing Information

First Pressing: 
105 Yellow w/ Blue & Orange Starburst
130 Opaque Teal
150 Transparent Gold
215 Black

* 3/25 official release date 
* Album downloads will be sent out 1-2 weeks before the release date

Pre-Order at TinyEngines

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from the great state of nebraska:

Vinyl becomes newest music fad as listeners embrace sound quality, experience





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our friend in vinyl Mighty John Marshall has cool feature each day on his website, check it out!

February 12, 2014 Record of the Day







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Jimi Hendrix To Reissue Purple Haze Single February 18











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'Twin Peaks' Soundtracks Set for Vinyl Reissues via Death Waltz











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The Beatles' Help! jackets expected to fetch $115k at auction - Iconic memorabilia going under the hammer










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for shits and giggles:


The 25 Most Outrageous Hip Hop Album Covers















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from Grimey's New + Preloved Music Nashville, TN

GRIMEY'S BEST SELLERS 2/03 - 2/09, 2014

Vinyl Top 25:
1. Broken Bells - After The Disco
2. Phantogram - Fall In Love 7"
3. Lambchop - Nixon
4. Hard Working Americans - Hard Working Americans
5. Warpaint - Warpaint
6. Tame Impala - Lonerism
7. Autumn Defense - Fifth
8. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over Sea
9. Neil Young - Live At The Cellar Door
10. Lord Huron - Lonesome Dreams
11. Modest Mouse - Good News For People Who Love Band News
12. Bon Iver - Bon Iver
13. Dum Dum Girls - Too True
14. Les Claypool's Duo De Twang - Four Foot Shack
15. Gaslight Anthem - B-Sides
16. Arcade Fire - Reflektor
17. Young The Giant - Mind Over Matter
18. Jack Name - Light Show
19. Kings Of Leon - Mechanical Bull
20. The National - Trouble Will Find Me
21. Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
22. The Lumineers - The Lumineers
23. Bon Iver - For Emma Forever Ago
24. Quilt - Held In Splendor
25. The Beatles - The Beatles (white album)

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album cover art of the day:

Thee Oh Sees Announce New 'Drop' LP





















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album cover art of the day, part two:

Third Full Length Album "Nightmare" To Be Released By Satanika

Vinyl Record News & Music Notes

from our friends at SoundStageDirect

The Times They Are A-Changin' by Bob Dylan

Immediately distinguished by the you're-either-with-us-or-against-us messages of the landmark title track, Bob Dylan's The Times They Are A Changin' sounds an unmistakable clarion call on behalf of progress and its unstoppable advancement. One of the Bard's trademark songs, it remains a timeless anthem with a clear sense of common purpose, a musical line in the sand that helped unite various social movements and multiple generations. The reverential 1964 record feeds off the opening tune and its unmistakable sentiments, marching forward to confront racism, poverty, injustice, and upheaval in a stark, immediate manner unlike few albums before or since.

Mastered on Mobile Fidelity’s world-renowned mastering system and pressed on 180 gram LP at RTI, this restored 45RPM analog version delivers the landscape-shifting music in reference-quality sound that practically transports you to Columbia’s Studio A. Reflecting the austerity of the topics and Dylan’s mood, the sonics are direct and unadorned—each word hitting with weight, each phrase lingering until it pulls you under, each storyline echoing as fact. The hollow body of Dylan’s guitar, internal mechanisms of his harmonica, and graininess of his throat come across in full-on detail. Wider grooves mean more information reaches your ears.

Marking a shift from the looseness and comedy that pepper the preceding The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin’ skirts any attempt at humor, sarcasm, or goofiness in favor of utmost seriousness and severity. Seemingly anticipating the dark events surrounding President Kennedy’s assassination and the turmoil that followed, Dylan eliminates with conjecture and disguise. Akin to dispatches from the typewriter of literary icons John Steinbeck and William Faulkner, his songs give voices to the voiceless, challenge cultural precepts, upend traditional beliefs with rapier wit and truths, and underline tragedies swept under the rug.

In doing so, Dylan creates stinging protest music that rallies against unchecked authority, discrimination, brutality, and division. A testament to the power of great art, The Times They Are A Changin' is a righteous assault on ignorance and agent for sweeping action, a necessary impetus for transformation and enlightenment. Via bold originals such as the nonfiction “The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll,” assertive “Restless Farewell,” and semi-autobiographical “North Country Blues,” Dylan casts hardships, greed, and victimization in such relatable terms it’s impossible to turn away and ignore their implications.

As correctly relayed by Dylan expert and cultural critic Greil Marcus, “[The record] forever fixed Bob Dylan in the popular imagination: the protest singer, the young man ‘able to see through metal’ (again, from Chronicles), to see through the lie and find the truth, then to hammer the truth into words and send them out with a voice that would never break.”

• The Times They Are A-Changin' on Numbered Limited Edition 180 Gram 45RPM 2LP from Mobile Fidelity
• Stark, Austere, Acoustic Record Dylan's First With All-Original Material
• Title Track, "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll," "With God on Our Side" Establish Dylan as Voice of Social Consciousness
• The Bard Addresses Issues Such as Equality, Racism, and Poverty and Helps Ignite 1960s Political Movements
• Faithful to the Source: Information-Rich 45RPM Pressing Brings the Simple Sounds of Dylan’s Voice, Acoustic Guitar, and Harmonica into Lifelike Perspective

Tracklist
1. The Times They Are A-Changin'
2. Ballad of Hollis Brown
3. With God on Our Side
4. One Too Many Mornings
5. North Country Blues
6. Only a Pawn in Their Game
7. Boots of Spanish Leather
8. When the Ship Comes In
9. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
10. Restless Farewell

Buy at SoundStageDirect

Santana III by Santana

The final Santana album recorded with the leader’s famed Woodstock lineup, one of the most capable and explosive bands ever assembled, Santana III (commonly referred to as The Third Album) is a beacon of Latin-tinged rock, melodic creativity, and cohesive interplay. The record also marks the debut of young guitar virtuoso Neal Schon, who functions as the ideal foil to Santana, whose playing on this 1971 set rivals that of the finest in his career. If not for arriving after the monumental Abraxas, it is likely Santana III would be mentioned in the same breath as groundbreaking psychedelic classics such as Bitches Brew. It’s that good.

Embracing the concept that all of the members should share their musical ideas, Santana added two crucial components to his band: Schon, discovered at the age of 15 playing in a Palo Alto club, and Thomas “Coke” Escovedo, who during the sessions temporarily replaced ill percussionist Chepito Areas, and whose percussive assistance helped define the album’s feel. With Schon in the fold, Santana strives for the unknown, and yet, manages to stave off the numbing excesses that define much of the period’s output.

From the opening “Batuka,” peppered with Schon’s stirring guitar lines, to the sensitive “Everything Is Coming Our Way,” infused with a mesmerizing Hammond organ underpinning that supports Santana’s vocal pathos, the record teams with inventiveness. Involving albeit accessible concoctions of funk, jazz, rock, blues, and soul run throughout the set. Spanish-styled flavors infuse a majority of the material, ranging from the salsa piano on “Guarjira” to the distinctive “No One to Depend On,” a lively take on the cha-cha-cha.

A globe-spanning armada of percussive instruments—timbales, congas, drums, vibes, tambourines, and more—as well as the existence of a three-person percussion team that fits in harmoniously with Santana, Schon, and company makes Santana III a masterful accomplishment in musical chemistry and the exploration of true world craft.

The Silver Label LP of Santana III breathes with sumptuous warmth and you-are-there realism. The tension of Schon’s guitar lines, the album’s open sound, and extensive use of studio echoes (check the presence of the backward echo on “No One to Depend On”) fill the soundstage, replete with the kind of depth and dynamics one expects from a first-rate audiophile recording.

• Santana III on Numbered Limited Edition LP from Mobile Fidelity Silver Label
• Last Santana Album Recorded With Famed Woodstock Band
• With Guitar Virtuoso Neal Schon in Fold, Santana Makes Musical Magic That Truly Spans the Globe years Before “World Music” Became a Genre
• Mastered on Mobile Fidelity's World-Renowned Mastering System and Pressed at RTI: LP Breathes With Sumptuous Warmth

Tracklist
1. Batuka
2. No One to Depend On
3. Taboo
4. Toussaint L'Overture
5. Everybody's Everything
6. Guajira
7. Jungle Strut
8. Everything's Coming Our Way
9. Para los Rumberos

Buy at SoundStageDirect


This Week's Bestselling Vinyl Records at SoundStageDirect

1. Crosses - EP ++ (Pre-Order)
2. Crosses - EP +++ (Pre-Order)
3. Crosses - EP + (Pre-Order)
4. Rush - Spirit of the Airwaves (Grey Vinyl) (Pre-Order)
5. Santana - Santana III
6. Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin'
7. Miles Davis - Blue Train (Mono)
8. The Who - Who's Next (Colored Vinyl) (On Sale)
9. MFSL Original Master Record Sleeves (50)
10. Atmosphere - Seven's Travels (10 Year Anniversary Edition) (On Sale)

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from our friends at Sundazed

The Velvet Underground - Velvet Underground - 180 Gram LP

The original overview/collection from the legendary band. On Sundazed compact disc and 180gm vinyl, from the original masters. Originally released as part of MGM's "Golden Archive Series," this 1970 album (simply referred to as Velvet Underground) is a terrific sin-and-salvation selection from the first three VU albums – just the kind of thing to take along to a desert island or to the end of the world. It's essentially their earliest greatest hits collection, and the perfect encapsulation of their Verve/MGM run. Long prized by collectors, Sundazed presents it on compact disc and 180-gram vinyl from the original master tapes, with new liner notes by Rolling Stone's David Fricke. Track List: Candy Says Sunday Morning Femme Fatale White Light White Heat Jesus Heroin Beginning To See The Light I'm Set Free Here She Comes Now Afterhours

Buy at Sundazed


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Wax Poetic, the information spotlight for Record Store Day releases is at it again and rather than just copy the list, head over to the site and check out what is lined up so far for Record Store Day 2014!

Record Store Day 2014 Releases by Wax Poetic




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available now from OmnivoreRecordings

LONE JUSTICE - THIS IS LONE JUSTICE: THE VAUGHT TAPES

12 tracks of prime Lone Justice recorded in 1983, 9 previously unissued performances! LP’s first pressing on limited-edition translucent red vinyl and download card!

Order HERE

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Kelley Stoltz - Cross Your Mind / The Anarchist In Me

Kelley Stoltz returns with a 300 copies only 7" on Stroll On. The single is a follow up to last years album 'Double Exposure' which was released on Third Man Records. 'Cross Your Mind' is a real pop pounder that's driven by a fantastic bassline - it's part Postcard Records and part power pop. The flip 'Anarchist In Me' is a great late 70's style track that recalls Nick Lowe or Costello. Limited to just 300 copies with copies on black or clear vinyl.

Get it RoughTrade



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Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Plot Record Store Day 12-Inch and New EP







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great news from the state of texas:

Spin Connection brings vintage flair to Waco






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Amazon's Top Ten Best Selling Vinyl

1. Morning Phase ~ Beck
2. Acoustic at the Ryman ~ Band of Horses
3. After the Disco ~ Broken Bells
4. Pure Heroine ~ Lorde
5. +++ (Crosses) ~ Crosses
6. Violator ~ Depeche Mode
7. Music For The Masses ~ Depeche Mode
8. Love Death Immortality~ The Glitch Mob
9. Warpaint ~ Warpaint
10. Mind Over Matter ~ Young the Giant


Amazon's Top Ten Best Selling Music

1. Frozen ~ Demi Lovato
2. The Outsiders ~ Eric Church
3. Lent at Ephesus ~ Benedictines of Mary Queen of Apostles
4. Unorthodox Jukebox ~ Bruno Mars
5. 2014 GRAMMY Nominees ~ GRAMMY Nominees
6. Now 49: That's What I Call Music ~ Now Music
7. High Hopes ~ Bruce Springsteen
8. After the Disco ~ Broken Bells
9. Doo - Wops & Hooligans ~ Bruno Mars
10. Night Visions ~ Imagine Dragons

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The Resurgence of Vinyl

 

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Upper Darby record store owner keeps vinyl spinning, music playing