Vinyl Record News & Music Notes

fark.com has a rundown on the silliest and most inane album cover art, i think we have seen them all before, but's it's always good for a quick laugh! and, i actually saw a few that i have never seen before, what a cool thread!

None of these album covers should have ever seen the light of day

See more of the silly album cover art at www.fark.com








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Permanent Records and the new vinyl store

By David Wicik

Talking to the duo who've set down roots in a hostile music sales world.

Making a brick and mortar record store work in a time of virtually unfettered digital file-sharing and generally declining revenues in the music industry takes a special kind of brilliance. It’s been five years since giants Coconuts and Tower Records shuttered their doors. One imagines that even Nick Hornby’s fictional Championship Vinyl would be facing deep profit gashes in this market.

Co-owners of Chicago vinyl hotspot and indie label Permanent Records Lance Barresi and Liz Tooley could probably teach a course in the current landscape of music commerce. Their own physical store opened in 2006 in Chicago’s Ukrainian Village neighborhood, and instead of eking out a narrow margin, it has actually managed to flourish. So much so, in fact, that Permanent will be opening a new store this summer in Los Angeles.

Read the rest of the article at imposemagazine.com

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DESTRUCTOR's 'Forever In Leather' Album Reissued On Vinyl

Auburn Records and Germany's High Roller Records have collaborated on a license deal to reissue DESTRUCTOR's "Forever In Leather" album on vinyl. The effort was originally released on CD in 2007 by Auburn Records.

The High Roller Records vinyl reissue is limited to 666 copies — 316 black vinyl, 250 clear/black splatter vinyl and 100 ultra-clear vinyl — and includes a four-page lyric insert.

Read the rest at Blabbermouth.com

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Neil Young Takes Artist of the Year at Canada's Junos

The final eight awards were given out on Sunday night for this years Juno Awards, the Canadian equivalent to the Grammys. Thirty-two other awards were given during a Saturday night gala.

The big winner on the night was Arcade Fire. They had already won Alternative Album for The Suburbs and, on Sunday night, added Album of the Year, Group and Songwriter awards. Justin Bieber took two with Pop Album and the Juno Fan Choice Award.

Read more: vintagevinylnews.com





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GRIMEY'S BEST SELLERS 3/14 - 3/20, 2011

Top 25 Vinyl Records:

1. Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears - Scandalous
2. The Civil Wars - Barton Hollow
3. Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
4. D. Watusi - Summer Nights 7"
5. Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo
6. Adele - 21
7. J Mascis - Several Shades Of Why
8. The Strokes - Under Cover Of Darkness 7"
9. The Black Keys - Brothers
10. Dodos - No Color
11. Brave Irene - Brave Irene
12. Afghan Whigs - Gentlemen
13. The National - High Violet
14. PUJOL - Bonedaddy 7"
15. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Belong 7"
16. Mike Watt - Hyphenated Man
17. Steve Martin & Steep Canyon Rangers - Rare Bird Alert
18. The Low Anthem - Smart Flesh
19. Mogwai - Hardcore Will Never Die But You Will
20. Davila 666 - Tan Bajo
21. The Clash - Give 'Em Enough Rope
22. Those Darlins - Be Your Bro 7"
23. The White Stripes - White Blood Cells
24. Radiohead - OK Computer
25. U2 - Joshua Tree

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this from our friend in vinyl Virgil over at www.vinylcollective.com  

Here are the Top 10 Records For the Week of March 21 to March 28, 2011:

1.) Portugal The Man – Waiter: You Vultures! LP
2.) OFF – Compared to What / Rotten Apple 7″
3.) The Menzingers – Chamberlain Waits LP
4.) Yellowcard – When You’re Through Thinking, Say Yes LP (Exclusive)
5.) Portugal The Man – Church Mouth LP
6.) Glassjaw – Worship And Tribute LP
7.) Silverstein – Rescue LP (Exclusive)
8.) Frank Turner – Rock & Roll EP 10″
9.) Green Day – Awesome As F**k 2XLP
10.) Fake Problems – Songs For Teenagers 7″

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USA
Albums:
1.Adele : 21
2.Marsha Ambrosius : Late Nights & Early Mornings
3.Mumford and Sons : Sigh No More
4.Justin Bieber : Never Say Never The Remixes EP
5.Various : Now 37
6.Dropkick Murphys : Going Out In Style
7.Aaron Lewis : Twon Line (EP)
8.Justin Bieber : My World 2.0
9.Bruno Mars : Doo-Wops & Holligans
10.Pink : Greatest Hits ... So Far

Singles:
1.Lady Gaga : Born This Way
2.Cee Lo Green : Fuck You
3.Rihanna : S&M
4.Pink : Fucking Perfect
5.Jennifer Lopez : On The Floor
6.Bruno Mars : Grenade
7.Ke$ha : Blow
8.Katy Perry feat. Kanye West : E.T.
9.Enrique Eglesias : Tonight (I've Lovin' You)
10.Katy Perry : Firework

UK
Albums:
1.Adele : 21
2.Jessie J. : Who You Are
3.Beady Eye : Different Gear, Still Speeding
4.Adele : 19
5.Rihanna : Loud
6.Bruno Mars : Doo Wops & Hooligans
7.Clare Maguire : Light After Dark
8.Mumford and Sons : Sigh No More
9.Alexis Jordan : Alexis Jordan
10.Cee Lo Green : The Lady Killer

Singles:
1.Adele : Someone Like You
2.Jessie J feat. B.o.B. : Price Tag
3.Rihanna : S&M
4.Lady Gaga : Born This Way
5.Adele : Rolling In the Deep
6.Chipmunk feat. Chris Brown : Champion
7.Alexis Jordan : Good Girl
8.Chris Brown : Yeah 3X
9.Bruno Mars : Grenade
10.Jessie J : Do It Like A Dude

Europe
Albums:
1.Take That : Progress
2.Rihanna : Loud
3.Bruce Springsteen : The Promise
4.Shakira : Sale El Sol
5.Pink : Greatest Hits ... So Far
6.Bon Jovi : Greatest Hits
7.James Blunt : Some Kind Of Trouble
8.Susan Boyle : The Gift
9.Kings Of Leon : Come Around Sundown
10.JLS : Outta This World

Singles:
1.Bruno Mars : Grenade
2.Adele : Rolling In the Deep
3.Rihanna : What's My Name
4.Katy Perry : Firework
5.Martin Solveig : Hello
6.Black Eyed Peas : The Time
7.David Guetta feat. Rihanna : Who's That Chick
8.Taio Cruz : Higher
9.Bruno Mars : Just The Way You Are
10.Duck Sauce : Barbra Streisand

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and in music history for the day:

In 1958, Buddy Holly kicked off the first night of a 43-date tour at the Brooklyn Paramount Theatre, New York. Alan Freed’s Big Beat Show also featured Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, Frankie Lymon, The Diamonds, Billy Ford, Danny & The Juniors, The Chantels, Larry Williams, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, The Pastels, Jo-Ann Campbell and Ed Townsend. On most days, the acts played two shows.

In 1964, Jan and Dean's double sided hit, "Dead Man's Curve" / "New Girl in School" enters the US chart where it will rise to #8.

In 1967, Van Morrison recorded "Brown Eyed Girl", which will enter the Billboard chart next August and rise to #10. The song was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2007.



Also in 1967, the Beatles worked on the Sgt. Pepper track, “Good Morning, Good Morning,” at EMI Studios, London. John Lennon, who was inspired to write the song from a Kellogg’s Cornflake TV commercial, decided he wanted to end the song with animal sound effects.

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's "Woodstock" was released in 1970.

In 1974, Delta blues singer and guitarist Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup, who wrote “That’s All Right, Mama” (covered by Elvis Presley) and “My Baby Left Me,” died of a stroke at the age of 68.

In 1982, David Crosby of the Byrds and CSNY is arrested in San Diego for possession of drugs and a gun. When asked why he carried the gun, his reply was two words: "John Lennon."

In 1985, 6000 radio stations in the US and Canada simultaneously played "We Are the World", the fundraising song for African famine relief recorded by 45 superstar performers. Sales of the single, album, video and related merchandise initially raised more than $38 million US.

In 1998, Kiss played the first of five sold-out nights on their ‘Alive II’ World Tour at the Tokyo Budokan, Japan.

In 2001, the artist formerly known as both Puffy and Puff Daddy said in an MTV interview that he now wanted to be known as “P. Diddy.” In August 2005, he changed his stage name again to simply “Diddy.” and in the same year, i changed my name to an indescribable symbol, then to bobbo, but now, just call me bob.....

birthdays today include Lady Gaga (Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta)(1986) and Reba McEntire (1955) among others.

Robbie Robertson Launches His Latest Album, How To Become Clairvoyant, With Performances on "Late Show with David Letterman" and "The View"

How To Become Clairvoyant Is Out April 5th

NPR Music's "First Listen" Begins Today; Robertson Guests On "Rockline" April 6th

SANTA MONICA, Calif., March 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Robbie Robertson will perform his Top 10 single "He Don't Live Here No More" on "Late Show with David Letterman" on April 5th, coinciding with the release of his new album, How To Become Clairvoyant (Macro-Biotic Records/429 Records). He'll also appear on "The View" on April 6th. The shows will mark the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer's first television appearances in more than 10 years.

NPR Music is giving fans an exclusive "First Listen" to How To Become Clairvoyant, streaming the album in its entirety for a week, beginning today. This Saturday, April 2nd, Robertson will be inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame (CSHF). In June, Canada Post will issue a stamp with Robertson's likeness as part of its Canadian Recording Artists stamp series. He will guest on the nationally syndicated radio show "Rockline" on April 6th and tape "World Cafe with David Dye" in May while at WXPN's Non-COMMvention.

How To Become Clairvoyant features Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Trent Reznor, Tom Morello and Robert Randolph along with vocalists Angela McCluskey, Rocco Deluca, Dana Glover and Taylor Goldsmith (Dawes). The collection was co-produced by Robertson and long-time collaborator Marius de Vries (Massive Attack, Bjork, Rufus Wainwright).

"This soulful record is Robertson's best yet," observed Goldmine. "For all of the now-legendary songs that Robertson penned, he tended to shy away from writing about himself, which makes the revealing nature of his first album in more than ten years such a wonderful surprise," said Relix. "How To Become Clairvoyant finds Robertson tackling personal topics such as his breakup with The Band ('This Is Where I Get Off'), the guitarists who inspired his innovative sound ('Axman') and his early days backing Ronnie Hawkins ('When the Night Was Young')."

In addition to the CD, three special editions of How To Become Clairvoyant will be available. The deluxe edition, available exclusively at Best Buy for a month beginning April 5th, will include a second CD with demos of five of the album's tracks – "The Right Mistake," "He Don't Live Here No More," "Fear of Falling," "This Is Where I Get Off" and "Madame X" – and an outtake of "Houdini," a song that does not appear on the album. Starting April 5th, fans can pre-order a two-disc, gatefold edition of How To Become Clairvoyant on 180-gram vinyl and a limited edition collector's set at http://www.robbie-robertson.com/ . The collector's set includes the vinyl and CD editions of the album plus 10 bonus tracks, provided in both CD and vinyl formats, a DVD with three multi-track mixes, a 70-page, full-color book with album artwork, lithographs and additional art, and other cool extras such as a set of tarot cards designed especially for the collection.

For more information on ROBBIE ROBERTSON, please visit:

http://www.robbie-robertson.com/
http://www.429records.com/

SOURCE 429 Records

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under the heading 'i did not know that,' one of my favorite sites (and one i have often referred my visitors to ) www.vintagevinylnews.com  just celebrated their 5th anniversary, well, i'll let them tell you! My sincere wishes to continued success and i hope that there are many, many more!

We're Five Years (and Two Days) Old

Tonight, I looked at the calendar and realized that Friday had been the fifth anniversary of VVN Music. My wife replied "you forgot your anniversary...just like a typical husband."

Read more: vintagevinylnews.com 

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found this at noisecreep.com, irony overload!

Napster Founder In Talks to Purchase Metallica's Record Label

by Amy Sciarretto

Now that's what we call irony. Crawdaddy has reported a rumor that Napster founder Sean Parker, played by Justin Timberlake in 'The Social Network' movie, is engaging in discussions with investors to purchase Warner Music Group, the parent company of Metallica's record label.

Read more at noisecreep.com

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another cooper story, but i like what he is saying, check it out at noisecreep.com

Alice Cooper Talks 'Welcome 2 My Nightmare' Album and Lady Gaga

by Nicole Pajer

When the original Alice Cooper Group dismantled in 1974, Alice Cooper stepped out as a solo artist to shock the world with his debut, 'Welcome To My Nightmare.' The album has gone on to become one of the biggest sellers in his catalog. Naturally, doing a sequel is something that has been in the back of Cooper's mind for quite some time.

After much anticipation, 'Welcome 2 My Nightmare,' the follow up to Cooper's first solo masterpiece, has been completed. "[It's] done, and I am so proud of this album," Cooper recently told Noisecreep.

Read the rest at noisecreep.com and what cooper thought of 'the egg'

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this is one cover that should win some sort of album cover art award, I love it!

AUTOPSY: 'Macabre Eternal' Cover Artwork Unveiled

"Macabre Eternal", the first full-length album from the legendary San Francisco Bay Area gore grind act AUTOPSY since 1995's "Shitfun", will be released on May 31 via Peaceville Records. A special vinyl edition of the effort will precede the digital versions exclusively through the Peaceville web store on May 16.

"Macabre Eternal" was recorded at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California and includes AUTOPSY's first 10-plus minute song "Sadistic Gratification". "It's 11 minutes and 33 seconds of pure fucking sickness," guitarist Eric Cutler told Invisible Oranges

Read more at Blabbermouth











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i found this quite engaging, wonder if i should try some of the old lps and see (oops, hear) the difference:

Vinyl Cave: Mono vs. stereo with Butterfield Blues Band, The Beatles, The Tokens, The Blues Project

Bob Koch

Stereophonic LPs started to become generally available in 1958, and it took about a decade after that for most record labels to stop producing both stereo and monophonic versions of their new releases. During that time, the availability of both formats created many, often inadvertent variations in the musical content on the vinyl, due to anything from the specific requirements of the format to simply careless mixing of one version or the other.

This was particularly the case in the early days of stereo.....

Read more at thedailypage.com




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great story about a small vinyl record store in northern wisconsin!

Nostalgia lives in Vinyl Cave

The Vinyl Cave sells memories — music from the past, wrapped in vinyl, waiting to be discovered.

By: Maria Lockwood, Superior Telegram

The Vinyl Cave sells memories — music from the past, wrapped in vinyl, waiting to be discovered.

The store opened two and a half years ago in Superior, offering a huge collection of LPs and 45s. Co-owners Tom Unterberger and Tom Johnson have an inventory of 400,000 discs. Many can be purchased for $1. For the music enthusiasts, the shop is an opportunity to share their passion.

Read more at superiortelegram.com

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and in music history for the day:

In 1952, Sun Records of Memphis, Tennessee began releasing records. The label would later become the home of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and many others.

In 1958, CBS Laboratories announced the invention of stereophonic records. Although the new format would be playable on ordinary phonographs, when used on the proper equipment, a new rich and fuller sound would be heard. cool!

In 1960, two anti-payola bills are introduced in US Congress by Representative Emanuel Celler of New York. He blames payola for "the cacophonous music called Rock and Roll" and says that Rock and Roll would never have gained popularity, "especially among teenagers," if not for the result of payola.

The very first record ever released by Del Shannon, "Runaway" entered the Billboard chart in 1961 on its way to becoming a million selling, number one hit. In 2004, Rolling Stone rated the song as #466 on their 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

The Who released their first US chart entry, "I Can't Explain" in 1965. Although the song could only climb as high as #93 on the Billboard Hot 100, the band still gained a large following thanks to their exciting live performances.



The Young Rascals recorded "Groovin'" in 1967.

In 1971, Three Dog Night's version of Hoyt Axton's "Joy To The World" enters the Billboard Hot 100 on its way to becoming the biggest selling single of the year.

Elvis Presley recorded "Burning Love" in 1972. It would turn out to be his last major hit.

Bruce Springsteen's first video, "Rosalita," premiered on BBC-TV in 1979.

In 1981, AC/DC released "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" in the U.S. It had been released in Australia in 1976.

Cyndi Lauper released "Time After Time" in 1984.

U2 filmed their video "Where the Streets Have No Name" on a rooftop in L.A in 1987.

In 1997, Ian Dury, the English rocker who initially rose to fame during the late 1970s as founder and lead singer of the British band, Ian Dury and the Blockheads, died of colorectal cancer a few weeks short of his 58th birthday.

celebrating birthdays today include Mariah Carey (1970), Fergie from Black Eyed Peas & Tony Banks of Genesis (1950)

Michael Fremer Album Review

Small Change
(reissue)

Tom Waits

Asylum/ Rhino 7E-1078 180g LP

Produced by: Bones Howe
Engineered by: Bones Howe
Mixed by: Bones Howe
Mastered by: Gavin Lurssen
Lacquer Cut by: Ron McMaster at Capitol Mastering

MUSIC

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"Cut From the Analog Master Tapes"? Not Exactly

by Michael Fremer
February 01, 2011

Reissuing the Tom Waits Asylum catalog on vinyl was a good idea.

I've got most of the originals but since Rhino's current management can't even be bothered to send me email publicity blurbs, never mind promo copies to review, I choose to spend most of my money on new releases and my time reviewing records I buy and that some labels are kind enough to send me—and that doesn't guaranty a good review as I'm sure you know.

So I didn't order any of these reissues, but judging by Rhino's past track record, particularly when Warner Brothers vinyl maven Tom "Grover" Biery was involved, the results were uniformly excellent. But no good deed goes unpunished, and Mr. Biery involuntarily parted ways with Warner Brothers.

When the emails began to arrive complaining about these Tom Waits reissues, I had to hear what was going on.

"Sounds like wet socks," one reader wrote. "What's going on with the Tom Waits reissues, they sound dull and dead," wrote another.

I got emails from around the world complaining about this series.

Another reader was so upset he contacted Rhino to ask what could possibly have gone wrong.

What he found out was pretty shocking considering that the sticker on the plastic sealer read "Cut from the original analog tapes."

Not exactly.

The customer service person at Rhino told the reader that mastering engineer Gavin Lurssen had taken the 1/4" analog masters and using analog EQ, had equalized the tapes (essentially the same as mastering for all intents and purposes) and then created 96/24 bit files that were sent to Ron McMaster at Capitol where the lacquers were cut and then sent to RTI for plating and pressing.

No doubt the production was directed by someone at Rhino, not by Lurssen, who was doing his job as contracted by Rhino.

Something went terribly wrong somewhere in the chain because this Small Change does indeed sound thick, congealed, terribly rolled off and utterly airless. It's unfortunate that this review posts immediately following similar comments made about Mobile-Fidelity's equally dull and airless Dixie Chicken, but trust me: it's not my system. The original of Small Change sounds superb—and I used to play my copy often on the radio back in the '70s, so it's been played.

Yet despite its age and use it sounds bright, airy, open, three-dimensional and basically spectacular as one would expect from a Bones Howe production recorded live to two-track analog tape at Wally Heider's.

Yes, the trio of Shelly Manne, bassist Jim Hughart and saxophonist Lew Tabackin are playing live behind Waits and his piano as is the sumptuous sixteen piece string section. It's a spectacularly natural-sounding three dimensional recording of one of Waits' most colorful albums.

There's not a weak tune in the set and many classics like the greatest alcoholic in denial song "The Piano Has Been Drinking" and the Ron Popiel tribute "Step Right Up." Now "Step Right Up" is a simple quartet recording: the jazz trio and Waits. It should be spacious, open, three dimensional and just about every audio fan's idea of a sonic wet dream. At one point one of the players lets out a spontaneous yelp. It should knock you out of your seat. It's barely audible as are the finger snaps that should "pop" will realism.

What a shame.

What happened? First of all, why the hell wouldn't you just cut the fucking record from the master tape as long as you have it and you're in Hollywood—especially if you're advertising it as having been "cut from the original analog tapes?" Why digitize it? Why cut it at Capitol? Why Ron McMaster? He's known as a competent cutter in my opinion, but he's certainly not in the audiophile loop, nor am I sure Capitol's mastering room is up there with Kevin Gray's or Stan Ricker's, or Doug Sax's.

Who made such a choice? I can't imagine Gavin Lurssen equalized this record to have no top end. Something else must be going on here.

Who evaluated lacquer cuts before approving the project? I bet no one.

Who evaluated test pressings before approving the project? I bet no one.

And if it was someone, it was someone who doesn't know what he's doing.

This is a wonderful opportunity wasted.

Don't buy this and if you have bought it, you're entitled to your money back. You bought a record advertised as having been "cut from the analog master tape" and it wasn't.

Look, the Band on the Run reissue was cut from 96/24 bit files made from the master tapes and its arguably better than the U.S., British and German originals (review coming), so it's not the "digital" that ruined this. It's something else.

I'm trying to get answers.

Thanks to Michael over at www.musicangle.com  for the exclusive rights to reprint this material. Stop by MusicAngle.com for more reviews and features.

©2011 MusicAngle.com & Michael Fremer - - All rights reserved

Reprinted by Permission

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lots of great reading today, a new us stamp, some vinyl history, a q & a with the record guys, a vinyl record party from the folks at Penn State:

Local music store to promote vinyl culture with event

By Hannah Rishel Collegian Staff Writer

Fans of “High Fidelity” will have a chance to experience a similar atmosphere this weekend, sans John Cusack.

The Music Underground, 224 W. College Ave., will present a “Stax of Trax” record show from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday.

The event will feature hundreds of LPs, 45s and records from various genres. Josh Ferko, DJ “Tapes” and DJ Sassmouth will provide the soundtrack to the event

Music Underground owner Jesse Ruegg said the store has records for sale every day, but he wanted to do something as a specific event and make it fun.

Read the rest at www.collegian.psu.edu

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Legendary Jersey rockers The Feelies to release first new album in 20 years

By Jim Testa/For The Jersey Journal

“Is it too late to do it again?”

Those are the opening words of the first new Feelies recording to be heard in 20 years, from the track “Nobody Knows” that kicks off the legendary New Jersey group’s soon-to-be-released Here Before, its first album since 1991’s Time For A Witness.

Read the rest of this interesting article at nj.com

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U.S. Postal Service Is 'Stampin' at the Savoy

NEW ORLEANS, March 26, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- To celebrate America's musical gift to the world, the U.S. Postal Service today issued the Jazz Appreciation Forever Stamp.

Inspired by vintage jazz record-album covers, Pasadena, Calif., artist Paul Rogers captured the eclectic nature of jazz music and the spontaneity and improvisation of jazz artists in creating art for the Jazz Appreciation Forever Stamp.

"With this evocative Jazz stamp, we celebrate the music and the musicians who play it in studios, clubs and concert halls and on festival stages," said Thurgood Marshall Jr., vice chairman, Postal Service Board of Governors. "I can't think of a more perfect place to dedicate this new stamp than here in New Orleans, the birthplace of so many legendary jazz performers… and where jazz first flowered near the dawn of the 20th century.

"Jazz is a pastime that brings people together, regardless of race, ethnicity or background," said Marshall. "It's a lot like the Postal Service, which has been bringing people together for over 235 years, through the power of the mail."

Forever Stamps are always equal in value to the current First-Class Mail 1-ounce rate. The Jazz Appreciation stamps go on sale today nationwide at Post Offices and online at usps.com/shop.

Joining Marshall to dedicate the Jazz Appreciation Forever Stamp were Guy Cottrell, chief postal inspector; Nancy Marinovic, president, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation; Shamarr Allen, leader of the funk band Underdawgs; Jeffery Taylor, manager, Louisiana District, Postal Service; and Paul Rogers.

Get more information at prnewswire.com

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‘Jazz: The Smithsonian Anthology’ highlights genre’s history

One of the most unlikely hit records in history came out in 1973, when a critic and historian at the Smithsonian Institution named Martin Williams released an anthology called the Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz.
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It consisted of six vinyl LPs that explored and summarized the history of jazz and was later released on compact disc. It was the first comprehensive collection of its kind and immediately became part of the jazz curriculum at colleges throughout the country. Music lovers bought it to introduce others to jazz. Over time it sold so many copies that it went double platinum.

There's much more to the story, read on at washingtonpost.com

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Q&A

Akim Boldireff and Aaron Keele: The Record Guys

GUY DIXON

Aaron Keele and Akim Boldireff

Record dealers and organizers of 10th annual Toronto Downtown Record Show

Ages: 39 and 46, respectively

You know those super-knowledgeable guys behind the counter of the local indie record store, the kind that could have come straight out of the Nick Hornby novel High Fidelity? That’s Mr. Keele and Mr. Boldireff.

Mr. Keele grew up in his father’s Toronto record store, Don’s Discs, which specialized in 1940s and 1950s blues and doo-wop.

Read the rest at theglobeandmail.com

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Top Best Selling Vinyl Records at SoundStageDirect.com

1) Neil Young - Live At Massey Hall
2) Radiohead - King Of Limbs (pre-order)
3) Chicago - Chicago VI
4) Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
5) Eagles - Greatest Hits 1971-1975
6) Genesis - 1970-1975 Box Set
7) Chicago - Chicago Transit Authority
8) English Beat - Special Beat Service

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and in music history for today:

In 1957, Ricky Nelson recorded his first tunes for the Verve label, "A Teenager's Romance", which will climb to #2 on the

Billboard chart and "I'm Walkin'", which will reach #4. Over his fifteen year recording career, Rick will place 36 songs in the US Top 40.

In 1958, Eddie Cochran recorded his only US Top Ten hit, "Summertime Blues", which will rise to #8 in the US next Fall.

In 1968, blues artist Little Willie John died in prison under mysterious circumstances after being convicted of manslaughter two years earlier. He had fourteen hits on the US R&B charts and the same number on the Pop charts, including "Fever", "Sleep", and "Talk To Me, Talk To Me".

In 1977, Hall & Oates started a three-week run at #1 on the Billboard singles chart with “Rich Girl,” the duo’s first U.S. chart-topper.

In 1980, Jon Paulos, drummer for The Buckinghams on their string of 1967 hits, including "Kind Of A Drag" and "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy", died of a drug overdose. He was 32.

In 1985, radio stations in South Africa banned all of Stevie Wonder’s records after he dedicated the Academy Award he had won the night before to Nelson Mandela.

In 1988, Michael Jackson started a two-week run at #1 on the U.S. singles chart with “Man in the Mirror.”

In 2004, Jan Berry of Jan & Dean died at the age of 62 after being in poor health from injuries sustained in a 1966 car crash.  The duo’s biggest hit was the 1963 #1 single “Surf City” (#26 in the U.K.), which was co-written by Beach Boy Brian Wilson.



In 2005, Australian drummer Paul Hester, formerly of Split Enz, Crowded House and Largest Living Things, committed suicide by hanging himself in a park in Melbourne. He was 46. After leaving Crowded House in 1994, Hester appeared on many TV and radio shows in Australia.

In 2006, British readers of Total Guitar magazine voted Jimmy Page’s “Stairway to Heaven” solo the “greatest guitar solo of all time”. It edged out entries from Van Halen, Queen, Jimi Hendrix and The Eagles. certainly up for debate in my book....

In 2009, a jumpsuit that Elvis Presley wore at a concert at New York's Madison Square Garden sold at an auction for $212,588.

birthday wishes to Diana Ross (1944) and Steven Tyler from Aerosmith (1948), among others.

SoundStageDirect.com Contest Finished

Sorry folks, the soundstagedirect.com  contest is over. Thanks to all you emailed and congrats to the winners, Lawrence, Bret and Dennis!

Special thanks to Seth over at soundstagedirect.com  for helping us all experience music as it was meant to be - via the vinyl record. Stop by the site for a gander, they have what you are looking for or can most likely find it!

I hope to have something else to run very soon, so stayed with CVR Blog for all your vinyl record information!

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still need one more winner get a $10 Gift certificates at SoundStageDirect! Just email me (rbenson30@wi.rr.com) and add 'Radiohead' to the subject line!

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thrill jockey sent this to me, I'd thought I'd pass it along:

Thrill Jockey Limited Vinyl Releases For Record Store Day

Glenn Jones Split LP with The Black Twig Pickers & Charlie Parr - Even to Win Is to Fail b/w EastMont Syrup - thrilljockey.com/catalog

Glenn Jones is known to many as a 30+ year devotee of the so-called "American Primitive" school of acoustic steel string guitar playing. Jones started playing guitar at the age of 14 and formed the Boston psych rock band, Cul de Sac, in 1989. Twenty years and nine albums in its wake, including collaborations with guitarist John Fahey and Can's Damo Suzuki, Jones finds himself now fully immersed in the guitar playing traditions laid out by Fahey and Robbie Basho.

Even to Win Is to Fail, the Glenn Jones side of this split 12", is his Thrill Jockey debut recorded specifically for this release. Jones released This Is The Wind That Blows It Out, his first album of acoustic six and twelve-string guitar instrumentals in 2004, and followed it with Against Which The Sea Continually Beats (2007) and Barbecue Bob In Fishtown (2009). A forthcoming Thrill Jockey full-length is slated for an August release.

Charlie Parr, country bluesman, songwriter and reso guitar and banjo king of the Upper Midwest, and the Black Twig Pickers, scrappy stringband of the Virginia/West Virginia state line, are long time friends who met at a house party many years ago. EastMont Syrup, is part reunion, part hoot, part lament for times and pals gone by, and part sampler for what's to come in the future. This release includes an insert with notes, lyrics, and manifold stew cooking recipes courtesy of Charlie Parr!

Mitchell And Manley - Norcal Values LP thrilljockey.com/catalog

Norcal Values is a sonic collaboration between Phil Manley (Trans Am, The Fucking Champs, Jonas Reinhardt) and Isaiah Mitchell (Earthless). Comprised almost exclusively of a single continuous guitar solo, the recording was made live with no overdubs, and was completely improvised. Manley recently ventured out into the world of kosmiche kraut with his solo debut Life Coach while Mitchell's Earthless recently finished up their debut tour of Australia.

Oval / Liturgy split LP thrilljockey.com/catalog

This split release features two of Thrill Jockey's musical extremities, recent signing Liturgy, and electronic pioneer Oval. Not a random pairing, but in fact born out of each band's mutual appreciation of the other, this split will feature one new track from Liturgy and four new ones from Oval. The Liturgy track also marks the first time that the band has explored writing music together. Composition duties are shared, details are not overthought, and improvisation is employed. Liturgy's new album Aesthethica comes out on May 10th, while Oval's groundbreaking releases O and Oh were met with critical acclaim throughout the greater part of 2010.

thrilljockey.com
fina-music.com

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Treetop Flyers Announce 10" Vinyl Release

Treetop Flyers have announced details of a brand new 4-track 10" single, which will be released via Communion Records on the 23rd May 2011, and a full UK tour to support the release.

Released on 10" vinyl, the Communion single features Things Will Change - "a love song, about wanting things to change for the better"; Long Cold Winter, a reflection of the typical seasonal British malaise backed with two acoustic recordings Rose Is In The Yard and Disappearing Kind lamenting the passing of "good people and places."

For more read ilikemusic.com

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great review, worth a look

REVIEW: New Pearl Jam reissues are for fans

By Adam Richter

Even in 1994, at the height of Pearl Jam’s popularity, singer Eddie Vedder must have known some listeners would never be swayed by the band’s music.

“Taste, you’ve got taste,” he told the audience at a Boston show. “Wouldn’t have known that from meeting you at a Pearl Jam show.”

The Seattle band rode the same wave of grunge popularity as groups like Nirvana, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains but always had its detractors. Not that it worried Pearl Jam. They responded to their overwhelming early success by attempting to eschew the trappings of fame and celebrity, instead catering to the fans they already had.

Read more of the review at lehighvalleylive.com

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a great insight to an underappreciated singer/songwriter....

Music: For 'late bloomer' Sexsmith, music is still all about the LP

By JONATHAN TAKIFF Philadelphia Daily News

THAT RON SEXSMITH is one sly sort - and better for it.

Time and again on his new (11th) "Long Player Late Bloomer" album, this seasoned but chronically underappreciated songcrafter will lure you in, get you humming along with his sunny-sounding, hook-happy tunes, this time polished to a bright sheen by noted producer Bob Rock.

Read more at philly.com

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wow, 50 years, look forward to giving it a listen!

The Zombies Celebrate 50th Anniversary With New Album, U.K. Tour

Rod Argent, Colin Blunstone, Tom Toomey, Steve Rodford and Jim Rodford, collectively known as The Zombies, are celebrating their 50th anniversary as a group with a new album and a U.K. tour.

The album, Breathe Out, Breathe In, is scheduled for release in the U.K. on May 9 via Red House Records (Amazon shows it will be available as an import in the U.S. on May 17).

Read more: vintagevinylnews.com



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love this regular feature at blogs.riverfronttimes.com, well worth checking out:

Last Collector Standing: Christopher Eilers on Living Behind Vintage Vinyl, Recording with His Band, Vanilla Beans, and Why Wham! Vinyl is Awesome

By Jon Scorfina

Christopher Eilers is the guitarist in local indie rockers the Vanilla Beans. He is also a relatively new vinyl collector. Not having the common characteristic that most collectors share of a vinyl influence in his formative years of discovering music, Eilers' bedroom décor is only his metal rack of vinyl albums and his assorted musical instruments. Coincidentally, he currently lives in an apartment directly behind Vintage Vinyl, which is almost certainly feeding his collecting habit. We met there to discuss living behind a record store and why he has the album cover for Sebastian's Ross Ross Ross EP as a tattoo.

Read the rest of this interesting article at blogs.riverfronttimes.com

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Restorations release new album

Restorations have released their new self-titled album digitally through Itunes and bandcamp.

The album will be receiving a vinyl release on April 19 through Tiny Engines Records. The band recorded the record with Algernon Cadwallader‘s Joe Reinhart (My Heart To Joy, Monument, Snowing) and was mixed by Jonathan Low (Dr. Dog, Danielson, mewithoutYou), the LP will be limited to a pressing of 500 and feature gatefold jackets with art and design by Bruno Guerreiro.

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Symphony X Reveals New Album, "Iconoclast" Artwork And Tracklisting

American progressive metal outfit Symphony X has revealed the front cover artwork for their forthcoming new studio album, "Iconoclast." You can check it out below. The album will be released through Nuclear Blast Records on June 17th in Europe and June 21st in North America and will be the band's ninth studio album.

Illustrator and film concept artist Warren Flanagan (Watchmen, The Incredible Hulk, 2012) is the talent behind the album artwork. Here, he shares his creative process on the new album’s artwork:

Read more at metalunderground.com









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like their music and i like their style, give them a try!

Hawthorne Heights frontman yearns for return of vinyl records

By Dan Kane CantonRep.com staff writer

The music of the Hawthorne Heights has been categorized as hard rock, indie rock, emo, screamo, alternative, pop-punk and post-hardcore.

When I asked the band’s frontman, J.T. Woodruff, about this in a phone interview Monday, I could almost feel him rolling his eyes.

“It has loud guitars and loud drums. It’s rock ’n’ roll. Can everybody just call it that?” he said, with amused exasperation. “Let’s spend more time listening to the music instead of categorizing it.”

Read more at cantonrep.com

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ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd Announce Rebels & Bandoleros Tour

Russell Hall

ZZ Top and Lynyrd Skynyrd are teaming up for a tour this spring. Dubbed the Rebels & Bandoleros Tour, the trek kicks off on May 12 in Wichita, Kansas, and wraps up three weeks later in Orange Beach, Alabama.

The two bands last mounted a combined tour 11 years ago, when they hit the road together for nearly a year.

Read more and get the tour dates at Gibson.com

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U2, Metallica Record Label Kills the Single

Michael Leonard

Mercury Records, the U.K. label home to U2, The Killers, Metallica, Arcade Fire and many more, is to halt the regular production of physical singles with immediate effect. Whether on CD or (recently popular) retro-vinyl, none of its bands’ singles will be planned for physical release.

The label admits it “lost money” on singles released in 2010. It will now only create physical singles when, according according to a Mercury spokeswoman, “it is guaranteed to make a profit. With physical formats now accounting for just over one percent of the overall singles market we are being more cautious.”

Read more at Gibson.com

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Heavy Metal Film Festival to Host KISS, AC/DC Flicks

Bryan Wawzenek

The Heavy Metal Film Fest – the first event devoted strictly to metal movies – has announced its schedule, which will include movies about KISS, AC/DC, Meshuggah, Anvil and G.G. Allin, among many others. The festival is taking place March 31 through April 3 at the Downtown Independent Cinema in Los Angeles.

On the short films lineup, Faces of Budokan deals with KISS’ three-night stand at Tokyo’s legendary Budokan venue in 2003.

Read more at Gibson.com












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if you are in the area, the new orleans record raid sounds like a good place to be!

Ring the Alarm: Spring Record Raid at Tulane Saturday

by Ben Berman

With the addition of the Euclid Records store in the Bywater this past fall, the vinyl record market in New Orleans is at its strongest post-K, with other stores Louisiana Music Factory, Domino Sound Record Shack, Skully’z, Jim Russell Records, the Mushroom, and Peaches still going strong, and artists from Galactic and Preservation Hall to Sun Hotel and Maddie Ruthless releasing their latest recordings on vinyl.

The New Orleans Record Raid, now in its fourth incarnation, has added greatly to this dusty landscape, with sellers both from the stores above as well as private collectors and dealers coming together to peddle their wares under a single roof or tree. Saturday, March 26, the WTUL-sponsored Record Raid returns to Tulane University’s Zimple Quad—the site of its first appearance—at the corner of Broadway and Zimple Street.

More than 20 vendors will be on hand at the fair, including representatives from Euclid Records, Skully’z and Domino Sound, and well-known local dealers Mr. Tyrone, DJ Brice Nice, and WWOZ show host Jivin’ Gene. A special appearance is being made by the Iron Rail Book Collective, forced just after Mardi Gras to shut down the storefront where they had sold punk and experimental LPs and 45s.

The fair is free to attend, but individual record prices will range from $1 to more than your monthly rent. Almost all genres will be represented across the various sellers’ tables, from soul to indie rock to hip-hop to reggae to jazz to punk to indie-Christian-jazz-funk-rap and anything and everything in between. LPs, 45s, 10″s, 78s, cassettes, and even CDs will all be available.

The boxes and crates open at 11 a.m. and close at 5 p.m

SOURCE: www.offbeat.com

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and in music history for today:

Roy Orbison recorded "Only the Lonely" in 1960.

In 1965, Jeff Beck joined the Yardbirds and would later help record the hits, "Heart Full of Soul" and "Shapes of Things" before leaving in the fall of 1966. Jimmy Page had also joined the band, but the Yardbirds would split up in 1968. Page then re-shaped the group to form the New Yardbirds, later renaming them Led Zeppelin.

In 1966, at a photo session in Bob Whitaker’s studio in London, The Beatles posed in white coats using sides of meat with mutilated and butchered dolls for a publicity photo that is used by Capitol in America for the cover of the Beatles’ next American album, Yesterday And Today. After a public outcry, the LP was pulled from stores and re-issued with a new cover, making the original an instant collector’s item.

In 1967, the Who and Cream made their U.S. concert debuts at the RKO 58th Street Theatre, New York City as part of a multi-artist extravaganza promoted by DJ Murray the K.

Also in 1967, the Doors debut album, featuring "Light My Fire", enters the Billboard Hot 200 chart. The LP had been released during the first week of January and would end up leading Billboard for three weeks and Cashbox for a week.

The 58th and final episode of The Monkees TV series was broadcast on NBC in 1968.

In 1969, John and Yoko invited the world’s press into their hotel suite at the start of a week long “Bed-In” at the Amsterdam Hilton.

In 1971, New York radio station WNBC banned the song "One Toke Over the Line" by Brewer and Shipley because of its alleged drug references. Other stations around the country follow suit, but the record still makes it to Billboard's #10.

In 1972, The trio of Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell and Dan Peek, collectively known as America, reached the top spot on The Hot 100 and The Cashbox Best Sellers chart with "A Horse With No Name". The tune, which reached #3 in the UK, was originally titled "Desert Song".



Van Halen released the album 'Van Halen II' in 1979.

In 1983, Motown Records celebrated its 25 anniversary with a concert in Pasadena, featuring The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Martha Reeves, Jr. Walker, The Commodores, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson and The Jackson 5.

In 2005, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne were forced to flee their Buckinghamshire mansion after a blaze broke out while they were sleeping. The couple were roused by a fire alarm and ran to safety in the garden, rescuing their pets as they escaped.

In 2009, Dan Seals, of the 1970s duo England Dan And John Ford Coley, died of cancer at the age of 61. After scoring several Billboard Pop chart hits, including "I'd Really Love To See You Tonight", "Nights are Forever" and "Love Is The Answer", Seals went on to have a solid career in Country music during the 1980s and early '90s.

birthday wishes to Aretha Franklin (1942) and Elton John (1947) among others.

Vinyl Record News & Music Notes

A Couple Of Blog Notes

I ran a contest and only have one winner so far, so if you are interested, just email me!

the first two who email me at rbenson30@wi.rr.com  will get a $10 Gift certificates at SoundStageDirect! Just add 'Radiohead' to the subject line!

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well. murphy's law got me again. after spending hours yesterday compiling a list of the record store day releases for 2011, the folks at record store day have posted the list today, it is in PDF format, and you can find it here RecordStore Day Releases

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i have just updated the 'upcoming record collectors shows' on the left margin, look and see if there is one by you!

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Concerts on Both Coasts to Celebrate the 75th Birthday of Wavy Gravy

Wavy Gravy (real name Hugh Romney) will forever be one of the most remembered faces from the Woodstock Festival and has gone on to be a major peace activist along with a benefactor to the blind with the Seva Foundation and the clown prince of his Camp Winnarainbow.

On May 15, Wavy will turn 75 and, to celebrate, a bunch of friends and admirers are getting together for two concerts in his honor.

Read more: vintagevinylnews.com













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bloomberg.com has a great story, who doesn't love deep purple?

Russian President Tells Deep Purple of His Years as Rock DJ

President Dmitry Medvedev, an avid fan of Deep Purple, met the U.K. hard-rock group for tea at his residence outside Moscow yesterday on the eve of their concert in the Russian capital, Russian news wires said.

Read the rest at bloomberg.com


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Metallica to Unveil New Metallica.com Site on March 28th

On March 28th, Metallica are completely overhauling and relaunching their online presence, Metallica.com. The new version of the website will encompass other Metallica web properties like the fanclub-driven MetClub.com and MetOnTour.com, which will be combined into one big site to ensure easy access to all things Metallica.

The new site will also include fun facts and details about every album, video, song, tour date, band member, and event in Metallica's history. cool.....

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Jethro Tull to Perform 'Aqualung' Album in Its Entirety on Summer Tour

Amy Sciarretto

In the eyes of metal fans, Jethro Tull may never live down beating Metallica's '...And Justice For All' for the Best Metal/Hard Rock Performance Grammy in 1989 with 'Crest of a Knave.' Twenty-one-year-old Grammy drama aside, the Tull will celebrate the 40th anniversary of their essential 'Aqualung' album by performing it in its entirety on their upcoming summer tour. The band will also play other classics from its 30-album catalog to round out each night's set.

The touring line-up features longtime members Ian Anderson (flute, vocals, acoustic guitar) and Martin Barre (guitars), Doane Perry (drums), as well as David Goodier (bass) and pianist John O'Hara. Goodier and O'Hara joined in 2006 after working with Anderson on some of his solo projects.

Read more and get the tour dates at noisecreep.com


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so these are they guys who write those ad jingles! interesting story, read on...

Folk veterans to play Good Folk

By MIKE HORYCZUN

You can call David Buskin and Robin Batteau media-friendly types -- both old media and new. Early in their careers they signed with major record companies that released their music on vinyl albums. You remember those, the 33-rpm type that warped easily and required turntables and needles. And they're responsible for writing Clio Award-winning jingles like Batteau's "Heartbeat of America" for Chevrolet and Buskin's "We're NBC, Just Watch Us Now" in the '80s.

These days, Buskin & Batteau, as they're known in contemporary folk circles, stream some of their performances live on the internet. They also host a radio show on WPKN that's streamed on the Web.

Read the rest of this fascinating story at wiltonvillager.com


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more info on an earlier post,

Leslieville resident spins Toronto Downtown Record Show this weekend

"Some people said mp3s would cause the end of records, but they didn't." - Aaron Keele After 25 years in the record business, Leslieville resident Aaron Keele knows his way around vinyl.

Growing up in the hip-hop era with a father who ran the venerable record shop Don's Discs, he fell in love with the musical medium and has parlayed that passion into a career.

Keele and longtime friend Akim Boldireff are known as the Record Guys (www.therecordguys.com) and have carved out a niche as two of the country's leading experts on vinyl records and music ephemera.

Read more at insidetoronto.com


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and in music history for today:

In 1945, Billboard Magazine published their first album chart with Nat King Cole's "A Collection of Favorites" named as #1.

In 1958, Elvis Presley reported to the Memphis draft board. From there he and 12 other recruits were taken by bus to Kennedy Veterans Memorial Hospital where the singer was assigned army serial number 53310761.

In 1963, the Beatles were the opening act for American Pop stars Chris Montez and Tommy Roe in the quartet's hometown of Liverpool, England.

Bill Wyman was knocked unconscious by an electrical shock from a microphone stand in 1965. It was the first date of the Rolling Stones anniversary tour.

In 1966, the New York State Assembly passed a bill making it a misdemeanor to sell unauthorized copies of records or tapes, commonly known as bootlegs.

Iron Maiden released the album 'The Number of the Beast' in 1980

In 1991, the Black Crowes were dropped as the opening act on ZZ Top's tour for repeatedly criticizing Miller Beer. Miller Beer was sponsoring the tour.

In 1997, 57 year old Harold Melvin, leader of the Philadelphia Soul group Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes, died of heart related problems. The group is remembered for their 1972, US #3 hit, "If You Don't Know Me By Now".

In 2005, Rod Price, a founding member of Foghat, died after falling down a stairway at his home. The 57 year old guitarist was with the band for three Platinum and eight Gold records, including their highest charting US single "Slow Ride" in 1976.

and in 2010, Johnny Maestro, the lead singer for The Crests on their seven US Top 40 records, including the 1959, #2 hit "Sixteen Candles" as well as The Brooklyn Bridge on "The Worst That Could Happen" in 1969, died of cancer at the age of 70.

birthdays today include Shannon Corr (1970) and Nick Lowe (1949), among others.

Record Store Day Releases 2011

After much research and digging, I have come with with a pretty good list of the specials for Record Store Day 2011. Please, if you know of any I missed (and I am sure I missed a few), please email me and I can update the list (rbenson30@wi.rr.com)


  Drumroll please!!

13TH Floor Elevators - Wait For My Love (7")
86 ~ Telesterion
AC/DC ~ Shoot To Thrill/War Machine (7")
A Day To Remember ~ "All I Want" as a 7” single with bonus acoustic version and B-Side etching for the day. The limited edition colored 7” will be released in the US as a clear purple pressing (limited 2,000) and internationally throughout Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, and Australia as a mint green pressing (limited 1,000).
ARP ~ Pastoral Synphony
A Rekords Rekords Record ~ 10" picture disc compilation, featuring tracks by Queens Of The Stone Age. Alain Johannes, Mini Mansions and Desert Sessions.
Adele ~ Rolling In The Deep (10")
Anberlin ~ Cities (2 LPs) (limited to 1,000)
Antony & The Johnsons ~ Swanlights EP (900 copies)
Architecture In Helsinki ~ Places Like This
Art Hospital ~ Art Hospital (7")
Bad Brains ~ God Of Love
Bad Brains ~ Pay To Cum (7")
Beach Boys ~ Good Vibrations/Heroes And Villains (10"single/double 78 rpm)
Beach Fossils ~ Wake-approved cover (limited to 1,000)
Beady Eye ~ Beady Eye (Box Set)
Belle Brigade ~ Belle Brigade
Beth Ditto - "tbc" CD
Between The Buried And Me ~ Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogs LP (limited to 1,000)
Bibio/Clark ~ Willenhall/Baskerville Grinch (Split 12")
Big Audio Dynamite - Limited numbered (7")
Black Angels ~ Another Nice Pair (LP) (red vinyl, limited to 2,000 and 100 random inserts will be signed by the band)
Black Angels ~ Phosgene Nightmare
Black Market Baby ~ Potential Suicide (7")(limited 200 on gold vinyl)
Black Twig Pickers & Glenn Jones ~ Split
Blitzen Trapper ~ Maybe Baby (7")
Bob Dylan ~ Bob Dylan In Concert: Brandeis University 1963
Boris ~ Attention Please LP (gatefold w/ poster, limited to 3,500)
Bouncing Souls ~ Live At Generation Records (limited 1,500 and wont be pressed again)
Brett Dennen ~ B Side To The D Side (7")
British Sea Power ~ 2 (7")
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band ~ "Gotta Get That Feeling" / "Racing In The S" (10")
Built To Spill ~ Ripple (picture disc 7" limited to 3,000)
Burn ~ Burn (7") (yellow vinyl limited to 500)
Busdriver ~ ATM (7")
CSC Funk Band ~ Troll's Soiree (7")
Caribou ~ Swim Remixes
Cars ~ Sad Songs (7")
Children Of Bodom/Killing Joke ~ "Northpole Throwdown" / "Fresh Fever From The Skies"
Circa Survive ~ Appendage (oxblood colored vinyl, limited to 300)
City and Colour ~ Sometimes (2LPs) (silk screen covers, limited to 500, hand numbered & bonus track)
Civil Wars ~ Dance Me To The End Of Love (7")
Clash ~ "The Magnificent Seven" (7") (heavyweight red vinyl & 4 trk CD)
Clinic ~ "Ladies Night" (limited 10" single)
Clouds ~ B Chuggas May be Logging
Coffee, Dennis ~ Uniquitous (7")
Country Joe & The Fish ~ Electric Music For The Mind & Body
Crime In Stereo ~ Love (7") (with arigato cover limited to 100)
Cults ~ "Abducted" / "Go Outside" (remix) (7")
Cults ~ 7" (etched vinyl)
DB’S ~ Picture Sleeve (7")
DOM ~ Things Change/Jesus (10")
Daedelus ~ Tailor Made
Damien Jurado ~ Live at Landlocked (12") (900 Copies)
Dan Sartain ~ "Fuck" (7")
Death Cab For Cutie ~ Home is a Fire" / "You are a Tourist" (limited to 4,200 copies)
Decemberists ~ Live At Bull Moose
Deep Purple ~ 7" single "Hush" "Speed King"
Deerhoof/Xiu Xiu ~ split 7" colored vinyl (limited to 2,000)
Deerhoof ~ Friend Opportuntiy (180 gram, clear green limited to 1,000)
Deftones ~ Covers vinyl (LP)
Dengue Fever ~Cannibal Courtship
Derek & The Dominos ~ (7") single
Dio ~ Killing The Dragon (LP)(limited to 1,000)
Discordance Axis ~ Inalienable Dreamless
Dodos ~ All Night (7")
Doors ~ Riders On The Storm (7")
Doriella Du Fontaine (Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Miles And Lightnin' Rod) ~ (7")
Douglas Charles ~ The Lives of Charles Douglas (limited vinyl)
Duff McKagan Loaded ~ Taking
Duran Duran ~ Girl Panic! (7")
Elliott ~ US Songs (LP) (gray vinyl limited to 330)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer ~ tbc quadruple vinyl release
Eric Clapton ~ Unplugged (180 gram)
Fela Kuti & Africa '70 ~ Monday Morning In Lagos PT. 1 & 2 (7")
Fistful Of Mercy ~ Fistful Of Mercy
Five Finger Death Punch ~ "Falling In Hate" / "Far From Home"
Flaming Lips ~ Heady Nuggs: The First 5 Warner Bros. Records 1992 (numbered and limited to 6,500)
Fleet Foxes ~Helplessness Blues (limited to 3,000)
Fleetwood Mac ~ Rumours (180 gram)
Flogging Molly~ Don't Shut 'Em Down (7")
Flying Lotus ~ Cosmogramma Alt Takes
Foo Fighters ~ Medium Rare (LP) (12 cover songs)
Foster The People ~ "Pumped Up Kicks" (10" vinyl)
Franz Ferdinand Tribute ~ Franz Ferdinand Tribute
Freddy King ~ "Wash Out" / "Butterscotch (7")
Frustrators ~ Griller (7") (limited 200, red vinyl)
Gaggle ~ "The Brilliant and the Dark" (limited to 300-copies 12")
Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger ~ La Carotte Bleue
Glass Jaw ~ Worship & Tribute (limited to 1,000)
Gorillaz ~ Fall
Grateful Dead ~ Grateful Dead (Mono) (180 gram)
Green Day/Husker Du - "Don't Know If You Are Lonely" split 7" (orange vinyl limited to 6,500)
Grinderman ~ Evil
Grinderman ~ Palaces of Montezuma
Growlers ~ Gay Thoughts (7")
Guided By Voices Tribute ~ Sing For Your Meat
Hank Williams III ~ Damn Right Rebl Proud
Hank Williams III ~ Lovesick Broke & Driftin'
Hank Williams III ~ Rebel Within
Hank Williams III ~ Risin' Outlaw
Hank Williams III ~ Straight To Hell
Head And The Heart ~ Head And The Heart
Helloween / Apocalyptica ~ "The Sage, The Fool, The Sinner" / "Bring Them To Light"
Hellyeah/JettBlack ~ "Pole Rider" / "When It Comes To Lovin'"
Hollywood Undead ~ American Tragedy (picture disc)
Howe Gelb ~ "Sno Angel" / "Melted Wires" (7")
In This Momnet ~ Promise
International Submarine Band ~ Safe At Home (mono)
Jack's Mannequin ~ (7") (TBD - should feature fan submitted artwork)
James Blake ~ James Blake
James Yorkston ~ EP
Javelin ~ "Coleridge" / "Colleagues (7")
Javelin ~ Canyon Candy (10" single, hand printed)
Jenny & Johnny/ Gram Parsons & Emmylou Harris - "Love Hurts" split 7" (light blue vinyl)
Jimi Hendrix - "Fire" 7" (red vinyl & limited 3 track CD)
Jimi Hendrix Tribute ~ "Foxey Lady" / "Spanish Castle Magic" / "Purple Haze" / "Santana" / "Randolph"
Jimi Hendrix ~ "Fire" / "Touch You" / "Cat Talking To Me"
Jimmy Eat World ~ Bleed American (3LP) (numbered and limited to 3,000)
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts ~ I Love Rock & Roll (180 gram clear vinyl - limited edition)
Joan Of Arc ~ Presents: Don't Mind Control (limited to 500)
Job For A Cowboy ~ Ruination (10")
John Doe & Jill Sobule ~ Day At The Pass
John Fahey ~ Requia (other compositions for guitar solo)
John Hammond ~ So Many Roads
John Leguizamo's Freak ~ John Leguizamo's Freak
John Mayall & Eric Clapton ~ "Lonely Years" / "Bernard Jenkins (7")
Joy Formidible ~ "Whirring" / "CHWRLIO"
Justin Townes Earle ~ Move Over Momma (7")
Kate Bush ~ Hounds Of Love (10")(1000 copies, pink 120 gram vinyl)
Kill Rock Stars ~ Kill Rock Stars
Kills ~ Satellite (10")(limted to 500)
Kings Of Leon ~ Holy Roller Novocaine (10")(red vinyl)
Kode9 & The Spaceape ~ "Otherman" / "Love Is The Drug"
Lady Gaga ~ Born This Way
Lenka ~ Two
Lone Pigeon - 28 secret tracks (limited vinyl pressing)
Lower Dens ~ Deer Knives
Machine Head ~ Black Procession (10")
Manchester Orchestra ~ "Simple Math" / "The Plan" (7")
Manhattan Murder History ~ Manhattan Murder History
Mastadon/ZZ Top ~ "Just Got Paid" (split 7")
Mastadon ~ "Live at the Aragon" (LP)(180 gram)(limited to 3,000)
Mates Of State ~ Team Boo
Matt & Kim ~ Block After Block (7")
Matt Costa ~ Songs We Sing
Menzingers ~ Chamberlain Waits
Michael Jackson ~ "Hollywood Tonight" / "Behind The Mask (7") J
Midlake/Will Self - 12" single
Midlake ~ Am I Going Insane
Mighty Clouds ~ Mighty Clouds
Mike Gordon ~ Inside In (7")
Mississippi John Hurt ~ Immortal
Mitchell & Manley ~ Norcal Values
Mona ~ "Listen To Your Love" / "All This Time" (7")
Mumford & Sons ~ Dharohar project Laura Marling & Mumford & Sons (10") (3500 copies)
My Chemical Romance ~ Na Na Na
My Morning Jacket ~ Evil Urges
My Morning Jacket ~ It Still Moves
My Morning Jacket ~ Z
Nada Surf ~ Moon Is Calling (7")
Naked & Famous ~ "This Machine" / "No Light"
Nathaniel Rateliff ~ Shroud (7")
Neurosis ~ Sovereign
New York Dolls ~ Dancing Backward In High Heels
New York Dolls ~ Fool For You Baby (7")
Nick Cave ~ Where the Wild Roses Grow (features Kylie Minogue)
Nickel Creek ~ Nickel Creek
Nickel Creek ~ This Side
Nickel Creek ~ Why Should The Fire Die
Nirvana – Hormoaning (colored vinyl limited to 6,000)
No One Got Hurt ~ No One Got Hurt
Of Montreal ~ Past Is A Grotesque Animal (LP)(180 gram)(limited to 1,000)
Off! ~ Live At generation records (7")
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez ~ Telesterion
Opeth ~ Throat Of Winter (7")
Os Mutantes ~ Everything Is Possible: World Psychedelic Classic (180 gram)
Oval/Liturgy ~ split
Owen -~"O, Evelyn" (7")
Oxbow ~ King Of The Jews
Ozzy Osbourne ~ "Flying High Again" / "I Don't Know "(live)( 7")
Ozzy Osbourne ~ Blizzard Of Oz
Ozzy Osbourne ~Diary Of A Madman
Panda Bear ~ "Tomboy" exclusive clear vinyl with t-shirt
Parlophone ~ Parlophone (7" box set)
Paul Simon ~ So Beautiful Or So What
Pearl Jam ~ Immortality/Rearviewmirror (7")
Pearl Jam ~ VS.
Pearl Jam ~ Vitalogy
Peter Bjorn and John ~ Dig a Litter Deeper (7")
Peter Tosh ~ Legalize It (7") (colored vinyl)
Phish - "Two Soundchecks" (7" live)
Piebald ~ Vol I-III (triple gatefold) (different colors) (limited to 1,000)
Pinback ~ Information Received A (7") (limited to 1500 copies)
Pink Floyd ~ London 66/67
Polvo ~ Celebrate The New Dark Age
Portable Shrines Magical Sound Theatre ~ Vol 1. Portable Shrines Magical Sound Theatre
Primal Scream ~ Triple vinyl set
Prurient ~ Many Jewels Surround The Crown (7")
Queen ~ Keep Yourself Alive (7")
Quicksand ~ self titled (limited to 500) (blue vinyl)
R.E.M. ~ Three: First Three Singles From 'Collapse' (7")
Rammstein ~ "Waidmann's Heil" / "Liebe Ist Für Alle Da"
Rancid ~ Let The Dominoes Fall (collectors edition) (Incl. Regular CD, Acoustic CD, Regular 180 gram LP, Acoustic 180 gram LP, 72 page booklet, poster, four guitar pics & DVD)
Ray Lamontagne ~ Live Fall 2010
Red Crayola ~ "Hurricane Fighter Plane" / "Pink Stainle (7")
Red Hot Chili Peppers & The Ramones ~ Havana Affair (red vinyl) (limited to 6,500)
Regina Spektor - "Four From Far" (7")
Rekords Rekords ~ Rekords Rekords
Republic Tigers ~ Merrymake It With me (7")
Republic Tigers ~ No Man's Land (EP)
Rhymesayers ~ picture disc
Rise Against The Machine ~ Join The Ranks (7")(limited to 800)
Rival Schools ~ "Wring It Out" (7") (limited to 1,500)
Robbie Robertson ~ How To Be Clairvoyant
Rolling Stones ~ "Brown Sugar/Bitch" /" Let It Rock" (7")
Roy Orbison ~ "Only The Lonely" (mono) / "Oh, Pretty Woman (7")
Rush ~ "BU2B" (7")
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals ~ Class Mythology EP 2×7" (limited to 2,500 one orange-one yellow)
Sandy Denny ~ (7")) (with tracks voted on by Facebook fans, yet to be determined)
Sennen ~ Age Of Denial
Silverstein ~ Support Your Local record Store (7") (limited to 500) (includes one new track plus four covers from Kid Dynamite, American Nightmare and Propagandhi)
Skip James ~ Today!
Skysaw ~ "No One Can Tell" / "Serated" (7")
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - (broom colored vinyl) (limited to 500)
Sonic Youth ~ Whore's Moaning: Oz '93 tour edition
Sons & Daughters ~ "Listen To Crime" / "Just Relax" (7")
Spark ~ "Revolving" (7")
Steve Earle ~ I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive (7") (colored vinyl) (limited to 2000 copies)
Steve Gunn & Ilyas Ahmed ~ Slpit (7")
Submarines ~ "Love Notes" / "Letter Bombs
Superchunk ~ Here's Where The Strings Come In
Syd Barrett ~ Introduction to Syd Barrett (180gm)
Television ~ Live At The Old Waldorf (180 gram white vinyl)
The Answer ~ "Rock 'n' Roll Outlaw" / "Fooled Me"
The Entrance Band ~ (7" )(500 copies
The Go! Team ~ "Apollo Throwdown" / "Voice Yr Choice" (12" single)
The Kills ~ "Satellite" (special dub) (10")
The Wake ~ "On Our Honeymoon" / Crush the Flowers
The Wombats ~ "Anti D" (7")
The Wonder Years ~ The Upsides (LP) (gatefold, orange, limited to 500)
Therapies Son ~ Over The Sea (10")
Toadies ~ "No Deliverance" / "Someone Great (7")
Toddla T ~ "Cherry Picking" (12") (red vinyl)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - You're Gonna Get It (LP)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers ~ Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (white vinyl)
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers ~ You're Gonna Get It (blue vinyl)
Toro Y Moi / Cloud Nothings - "I Will Talk To You" / "For No Reason" (7")
Touche Amore ~ To The Beat Of A Dead Horse (LP) (white vinyl, limited to 250)
Tracey Thorn ~ You are a Lover (10")
Transit ~ Promise Nothing (7") (limited to 1,000 copies with 300 on green/gray and 700 on blue/clear)
Tron Translucence EP ~ Soundtrack (10")
Urge Overkill ~ Effigy (7")
Vaccines - "Live From London" (CD)
Velvet Underground ~ "Foggy Notion" / "I Can't Stand It (7")
Villagers/Charlotte Gainsbourg ~ "Memoir" / "Set The Tigers Free" (7")
Villagers ~ Villagers live at the Workman's Club Dublin, 16th September 2010 (LP)
Vivian Girls - "I Heard You Say" (colored 7" single)
Vorwarts ~ Vorwarts
Wavves/Trash Talk ~ "Thorns" / "TV Luv Song" (7")
When I Was 12 - 7-inch (300 limited edition pieces of random color)
Wild Flag ~ Future Crimes (7")
Wild Nothing ~ Wake-approved cover (limited to 1,000)
William Elliott Whitmore & P.O.S. ~ split (7")
William Fitzsimmons ~ Gold In the Shadow
Wiz Khalifa ~ Rolling Papers
Yardbirds ~ "Goodnight Sweet Josephine" / "Think About It (7")
Yeasayer ~ End Blood (7") (featuring 2 unreleased tracks)
Young The Giant ~ Apartment (7")
Youth Of Today ~ self titled (7")(limited to 500)

Ask Mr. Music By Jerry Osborne

FOR THE WEEK OF MARCH 21, 2011


DEAR JERRY: If you can ease my brain pain, I will forever be grateful.

Circa-1961, the Top 40 stations in this area played a song that is probably titled “Ronnie,” or some slight variation, such as “Oh Ronnie,” or “Ronnie Came Back,” etc.

Every 1960s music expert I've asked immediately says it's “Ronnie,” by Marcy Joe, which was in fact a big hit at approximately the same time.

So I'll save you the trouble by saying that “Ronnie” is a different song altogether.

Either my mystery song is by Connie Stevens, or someone who sounds exactly like she did around that time.
—Raymond Lincoln, Harrisburg, Pa.


DEAR RAYMOND: The pain in your brain is about to wane.

Like the others, my first thought was Marcy Joe's “Ronnie,” especially since she repeatedly pleads “Ronnie, come back.” Having found a new girlfriend, he, like Charlie on the M.T.A., never returns.

However, you say this Ronnie came back. This, combined with the other clues, points directly to “The Ballad of Ronnie,” by Alicia Adams. In her ballad, Ronnie leaves Alicia for a hitch in the military, but eventually does come back to her.

On the reverse is “Kissin' On,” a strangely-titled up-tempo side. This too got some air play and might be another track you will remember.

Released in October 1960, Alicia's debut single (Capitol 4444) earned four-star reviews from the trade magazines. Even so, it did not chart nationally.

Thinking the singer of this teener tune to be Connie Stevens is very understandable. Other than Connie and Alicia, most anyone could make that same mistake.


DEAR JERRY: Having now watched the first episode of the fifth season of Army Wives, it brings to mind a question about the name of one of the regular characters, Emmaline Holden, daughter of Michael and Claudia Joy Holden.

Though I never heard this name before Army Wives, I was flabbergasted to find nearly 4,000 Emmalines on Facebook. This includes women of all ages.

My grandmother mentioned a song titled “Emmaline” was popular during the big band years, and it may have inspired some parents to name their girls Emmaline.

Do you know the song she describes?
—Nancy Gallagher,

DEAR NANCY: Yes, even though there are slight title variations and other considerations.

Emmalin (no 'e') Holden, played in Army Wives Season One (2007) by Caroline Pires, and thereafter by Katelyn Pippy, is not nearly as common a name as Emmaline.

As you now know, Facebook hosts thousands of Emmalines, yet they do not list even one Emmalin.

Next we have “Emaline,” almost certain to be the big band tune granny recalls.

Recorded in 1937 by Mildred Bailey, the preeminent female singer of the swing era, her “Emaline” is the man she hopes to marry. This would likely lessen the number of swing era parents naming girls Emaline.

Accompanying Bailey on the “Emaline” session is Benny Goodman's Orchestra, and some stellar sax work from Coleman Hawkins.

Using Facebook again as our sampler of society, they do have one Emaline, and wouldn't you know she is a she.

Seemingly against the odds, 10 years after “Emaline,” Mildred recorded a completely different song titled “Evaline,” with only one different letter.

As with Emalin, this Evaline is another potential mate of the male variety.

Facebook has two Evalines, both of whom are females. Why am I not surprised?


IZ ZAT SO? In 1925, while performing in Los Angeles, Mildred (neé: Rinker) Bailey was asked by her brother, Al Rinker, if she could help he and his crooning partner break into show business.

Mildred obliged and landed a job for Al and his pal, Harry Crosby, a gifted 22-year-old singer who preferred to be called “Bing.”

Throughout his remarkable career, Bing Crosby often credited Mildred Bailey for helping him secure his first important job in the entertainment business.

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

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

Copyright 2010 Osborne Enterprises - Reprinted By Permission

 

Vinyl Record News & Music Notes

Where Are They Now? 9 Famous Album Cover Babies

Let's be honest, all the best albums have babies on them. But what happens to those babies when they grow up?

Dave Stopera

1. Ready To Die - The Notorious B.I.G.

Keithroy Yearwood was just recently discovered to the be 'Ready To Die' baby. He was paid $150 dollars to be on the cover which he guesses he was able to do because of his “giant afro.” Yearwood currently lives in the Bronx and is a senior in high school.



2. A Boy Named Goo - Goo Goo Dolls

See the rest of the top ten at buzzfeed.com

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DEF LEPPARD Singer's DOWN 'N' OUTZ Planning To Release Album Of Original Material

This summer, DEF LEPPARD will release a new album and tour with HEART but before then, singer Joe Elliott will be touring the U.K. with his other group, DOWN 'N' OUTZ, a project also featuring members of THE QUIREBOYS. Last July, the guys released their debut album, "My ReGeneration", featuring covers of songs by MOTT THE HOOPLE, Ian Hunter and BRITISH LIONS, the music DOWN N' OUTZ performed as the support act for MOTT THE HOOPLE at one of the legendary band's 2009 reunion shows. Fans who bought the disc might have noticed that this CD is marked "Volume 1." That implies there is more to come and Joe told VH1 Radio Networks' Dave Basner what to expect from the band in the future.

Read more at Blabbermouth.com

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MACHINE HEAD Drummer Talks About 'Record Store Day'



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Autopsy To Release Vinyl Edition Of New Album "Macabre Eternal"

San Francisco Bay Area death metal act Autopsy has completed recording its long-awaited fifth studio album, "Macabre Eternal," which is due out May 31st on Peaceville Records. The band has announced that it will release a special vinyl edition of the forthcoming musical massacre before the CD and digital versions hit stores, available exclusively through the Peaceville web-store on May 16th.

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The Face of Metal: Album Cover Artists

While Metallica may have had the skull-obsessed art of Pushead, Megadeth had the thrash metal mastermind Ed Repka. Ed has been a stalwart of the scene since it's inception and despite the years of intricate and colourful masterworks behind him he is still going strong. His pieces regularly focus on a leering character in the foreground and espouse themes of nuclear horrors, skeletal figures and oppressive political and business power. Out of all the metal artists he is possibly the most prolific, especially in the thrash metal arena; From Hirax to Nuclear Assault, Possessed to Toxik, and plenty of recent bands such Hexen and Austrian Death Machine - all draw the common thread of Ed Repka’s comical madness. Here are some well loved examples:

Read much more and see some awesome album cover art at metalunderground.com

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and in music history for the day:

In 1955, Elvis Presley auditioned for TV's Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, where he plays "Good Rockin' Tonight". His performance was weak and the show's producers turned him down.

In 1959, The Skyliners, a five member group from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, entered the Billboard Pop chart for the first time with the now classic doo-wop hit, "Since I Don't Have You". The song will be their biggest success, reaching #12. Joe Rock would later say that he was upset about a girl who had just left him and wrote most of the lyrics while sitting in his car between stoplights.

Elvis Presley recorded the immortal cut "Can't Help Falling in Love" in 1961.

The film of The Concert for Bangladesh featuring George Harrison, Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton premiered in New York in 1972.

In 1973, John Lennon was ordered to leave the U.S. within 60 days by immigration authorities. Lennon appealed and after a long fight to obtain his Green Card, the ex-Beatle was given permanent resident status on July 27, 1976.

In 1977, Elvis Presley appeared at the Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona – the first show of a 49-date U.S. tour lasting over three months and Presley’s last-ever tour.

The Police signed with A&M Records in 1978.

In 1985, John Lennon's son Julian gave his first concert in San Antonio, Texas. Over the next two years he would place four songs on the Hot 100, including "Valotte" (#9) and "Too Late For Goodbyes" (#5).

In 1999 - In Gibraltar, a set of postage stamps was released commemorating what would have been the 30th wedding anniversary of Yoko Ono and John Lennon.

In 2008, Neil Aspinall, who oversaw The Beatles’ Apple Corps business empire from 1968-2007, died from lung cancer at age 66 at a hospital in New York. A Liverpool school friend of Paul McCartney and George Harrison, he was regarded by many as “the fifth Beatle,” becoming the group’s road manager in 1961 before becoming their personal assistant. In the ’80s Aspinall became the head of The Beatles’ Apple company. Aspinall had also played background instruments on certain Beatles tracks, including “Magical Mystery Tour,” “Within You, Without You” and “Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite.”



Birthday wishes to Chaka Khan (1953), 1949, Ric Ocasek of The Cars (1949) and Damon Albarn of Blur (1968)