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Lots of great music releases this week, (CVR Blogpicks in brown)!
3Ds - Hellzapoppin (reissue) (vinyl)
65Daysofstatic - We Were Exploding Anyway
A.A. Bondy - Believers (vinyl)
A Classic Education - Call It Blazing
AGF - Beatnadel
A Loss For Words - No Sanctuary
Above Ground - Gone Aiwa (vinyl)
Active Child - You Are All I See
Aiden - Some Kind Of Hate Alice Cooper - Brutal Planet (vinyl)
Alvarius B. - Blood Operatives of The Barium Sunset
Andrew Liles - Flesh Creeping Gonzoid & Other Imaginary Creatures Vol. 1-6 (6-CD box set)
Ane Brun - Changing of the Seasons
Arthur Russell - 24 ->24 Music (box set)
Ashtar Command - American Sunshine
Astral - Forever After
Bevis Frond - The Leaving of London
Big Deal - Big Deal (EP)
Bill Wyman - Collectors Edition Bjork - Biophilia (vinyl)
Björk & Dirty Projectors - Mount Wittenburg Orca
Black Tusk - Set The Dial
Blues Project - Projections
Bob Schneider - Live At The Paramount Theatre (2-CDs and DVD)
Botch - We Are The Romans (vinyl)
Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble - Mr. Machine
Brian Wilson - In The Key Of Disney
Buck Owens & Susan Raye - Merry Christmas From Buck & Susan Cameras - In Your Room
Camille - Illo Veyou
Carnifex - Until I Feel Nothing Chickenfoot - Chickenfoot III (vinyl)
Chris de Burgh - Footsteps 2
Christina Vantzou - No. 1
Class Actress - Rapprocher
Close Your Eyes - Empty Hands and Heavy Hearts
Colleen Green - Cujo (vinyl)
Comet Gain - Howl of the Lonely Crowd
Connie Smith - Hurtin's All Over: RCA Country Hits 1964 - 1972
Corridor - Real Late
Counterparts - The Current Will Carry Us
Cradle Of Filth - Evermore Darkly
Current Swell - Long Time Ago
DJ Cam - Seven
Dan Deacon - Spiderman of the Rings (reissue) (vinyl) Danzig - Essential Danzig
Dark Captain - Dead Legs & Alibis Deer Tick - Divine Providence (vinyl)
Deftones - The Vinyl Collection 1995-2011 (box set)
Del McCoury - Old Memories: The Songs of Bill Monroe (vinyl)
Diana Ross & the Supremes - 50th Anniversary: Singles Collection 1961-1969 (3 CDs)
Dntel - Life is Full of Possibilities (remastered with bonus tracks)
Dottie West - Country Sunshine: RCA Hit Singles 1963 - 1974
Druids of Stonehenge - Creation
Dub Trio - Dub Trio IV (vinyl)
Dubmatix - Clash Of The Titans: The System Shakedown Remixes (vinyl)
El Rego - El Rego
Elder - Dead Roots Stirring
Electric 6 - Heartbeats & Brainwaves Electric Light Orchestra - The Essential Electric Light Orchestra
Elitist - Earth
Fever Tree - Fever Tree
Gary Moore - Close As You Get (vinyl)
Gary Moore - Old New Ballads Blues (vinyl)
Gary Numan - Dead Son Rising
Gospel Music - How To Get To Heaven From Jacksonville, FL (vinyl)
Gringo Star - Count Yer Lucky Stars
Group Inerane - Guitars from Agadez Vol.3 - Music of Niger
Haken - Visions
Hammers of Misfortune - 17th Street
Happy Jawbone Family Man - Ok Midnight, You Win
High Wolf - Atlas Nation (vinyl)
honeyhoney - Billy Jack Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightning: Complete Chess Masters (4 CDs)
Human Switchboard - Who's Landing in My Hangar: Anthology 1977 - 1984
Humcrush & Sidsel Endresen - Ha
Hurricane Bells - Tides and Tales
I Fight Dragons - KABOOM!
Jedi Mind Tricks - Violence Begs Violence
Joan as Police Woman: To Survive (reissue)
Joe Jonas - Fastlife John Prine - The Singing Mailman Delivers
Junius - Reports from the Threshold of Death
Justice - Audio, Video, Disco (vinyl)
Kathryn Calder - Bright and Vivid
Kelly Clarkson - Stronger
Kid Savant - Drop it On the Stereo (EP)
Kimya Dawson - Thunder Thighs
King Crimson - Discipline (2 CDs)
King Crimson - Starless & Bible Black (2 CDs)
King Krule (formerly Zoo Kid) (EP)
Kiran Ahluwalia - Aam Zameen : Common Ground
Kitty, Daisy & Lewis - Smoking In Heaven
Koss/Henriksson/Mullaert - The Möllan Sessions
Lana Del Ray - Video Games (vinyl)
Laura Marling - A Creature I Don't Know (deluxe edition) (CD/DVD/LP)
Lee Greenwood - Icon
Leonard Cohen - The Complete Studio Albums Collection (11-CD box set)
Leslie West - Unusual Suspects (vinyl)
Little Red - Midnight Remember
MF Doom - Operation Doomsday (expanded edition)
Mamas & the Papas - If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears
Mando Diao - Give Me Fire
Mark Sultan - Whatever I Want
Marlena Shaw - From the Depths of My Soul
Michael Buble - Christmas
Mighty Fine - Get Up To Get Down
Molotov Solution - Insurrection
Monkees - Head (reissue) (vinyl)
Mr. Gnome - Madness In Miniature
Mustard Pimp - No Title Of Purpose
Nash - The Death of Reason
Natalie Cole - Thankful
Nettle - El Resplandor: The Shining in Dubai
Noctem - Oblivion
Nordic Nomadic - Worldwide Skyline
Of Montreal - Cassette Box Set (10-cassette box set with mp3s)
Ozric Tentacles - Paper Monkeys
P-Funk All Stars - Urban Dance Floor Guerillas
Patty Loveless - Icon
Paul Simon - Graceland (expanded)
Paul Simon - Hearts & Bones
Paul Simon - Rhythm of the Saints (expanded)
Paul Simon - Songwriter (2 CDs)
Peggy Sue - Acrobats
Phantogram - Nightlife (EP)
Piney Gir - Geronimo
Planetary Assault Systems - The Messenger
Prurient - Time's Arrow
Raleigh Moncrief - Watered Lawn
Ray Charles - Complete Early Recordings 1949-1952 (2 CDs)
Rebolledo - Super Vato (vinyl)
Roberto Cacciapaglia - the Ann Steel Album
Rodney Crowell - Let the Picture Paint Itself / Jewel of the South
Ronan Parke - Ronan Parke
Russian Circles - Empros (vinyl)
Scars On 45 - Hearts On Fire (EP)
Scott Weiland - The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
She & Him - A Very She & Him Christmas
Skinny Puppy - handOver
Sonny James - Come On In: Columbia & Monument Country 1972-1979
Spectrals - Bad Penny (vinyl)
Statik Selektah - Population Control
Stevie Jackson - (I Can’t Get No) Stevie Jackson
Strawberry Alarm Clock -Incense and Peppermints (vinyl)
Structures - Divided By
Surfer Blood - Tarot Classics (vinyl)
Television Personalities - Painted World (reissue)
Temptations - 50th Anniversary: Singles Collection 1961-1971 (3 CDs)
The Barreracudas - Nocturnal Missions
The Bats - Daddys Highway (vinyl) (reissue)
The Beets - Let The Poison Out
The Blue Angel Lounge - The Blue Angel Lounge
The Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble - Mr. Machine
The Darcys - The Darcys
The Dead Milkmen - The King In Yellow
The Devil Makes Three - Stomp and Smash
The Field - Looping State of Mind (vinyl)
The Gang Violets - Black Clouds b/w A Touch From the Wild Child
The Irrepressibles - Mirror Mirror
The Migrant - Amerika
The Soldiers - Message To You
The Spits - The Spits (5th Album)
The Strange Boys - Live Music (vinyl)
The Through & Through Gospel Review - The Through & Through Gospel Review
The Toxic Avenger - Angst
Thomas Comerford - Archive + Spiral
Thomas Dolby - A Map Of The Floating City
Tom Waits - Bad As Me (vinyl)
Traffic - Heaven Is in Your Mind
Two Gallants: Two Gallants (reissue) (vinyl)
Two Gallants - What the Toll Tells (reissue) (vinyl)
USF - The Spay
Various Artists - Bambara Mystic Soul: The Raw Sound of Burkina Faso 1974 - 1979
Various Artists - Come As You Are: A 20th Anniversary Tribute to Nirvana’s Nevermind
Various Artists - London American Story 1957 (2 CDs)
Various Artists - The Bridge School Concerts 25th Anniversary Edition (2 CDs)
Various Artists - Lost Highway 10th Anniversary (vinyl)
Various Artists - Lullaby Renditions of the Police
Various Artists - Opika Pende: Africa at 78 RPM
Various Artists - Phil Spector Presents The Philles Album Collection (7-CD box set)
Vince Gill - Guitar Slinger: Deluxe Edition
Visions Of Atlantis - Maria Magdalena
We The Gathered - Believer
Wet Illustrated - 1x1x1
Wild Child - Pillow Talk
Willie Nile - The Innocent Ones
Wolves in the Throneroom - Celestial Lineage (vinyl)
Wolvhammer - The Obsidian Plains
Woodsman - Mystic Places (EP)
Wye Oak: The Knot (reissue) (vinyl)
Yes - 9012 Live - The Solos (remastered with bonus tracks)
Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile - The Goat Rodeo Sessions
Zenith Myth - Zenith Myth
Top 5 eBay Vinyl Record ~ Sales Week Ending 10/22/2011
A "Please Please Me" getting the top spot has become about as common as VP Joe Biden saying something that would have had your mother call out to you to run and get your grandfather's medication. The real story this week is that for the first time since the last time someone dropped $25k on a diamond braclet infused Ice Cream Sundae at Serendipity 3, a prevously unknown Soul 45 topped $5k on an audio clip alone - no holy grail status, no spot in Keb Darge's playlist - just the clip in the eBay ad. The Emeralds 45 is a Chicago uptempo dancer that got bidders as excited as they can get. By comparison, the De-Lite's acetate, a known entity with holy grail status (don't know if it's on Keb Darge's playlist but many DJs spin it) gets the #5 spot.
1. LP - The Beatles "Please Please Me" Parlophone UK STEREO black & gold label matrix 1R/1G Dick James credits - $12,932.23
2. 45 - The Emeralds "Catch Me I'm Falling" / "Beware" Vick 302 - $7,199.00
More on this week's top 5 on Vinyl Record Talk, Tuesday 8:00PM Eastern / 5:00PM Pacific on Radio Dentata.
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Ultimate Hits: Rock And Roll Never Forgets Bob Seger Collection Coming In November
Capitol/EMI has scheduled a November 21st release date for a new double disc/career-spanning 2CD set Bob Seger collection called 'Ultimate Hits: Rock And Roll Never Forgets.' The 26-track collection includes "Night Moves," "Turn The Page," "Hollywood Nights," "Mainstreet," "Old Time Rock And Roll," "Like A Rock," "Her Strut," "We've Got Tonight," "Against The Wind," "Still The Same," and many other Seger classics, as well as the Detroit rocker's two #1 radio singles from this year, "Downtown Train" and his current #1 Classic Rock hit, "Hey Hey Hey Hey (Going Back To Birmingham)."
The collection also includes Seger's rendition of the Holiday classic "Little Drummer Boy," its first appearance on a Bob Seger album, as well as the original mono version of Seger's first hit "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man." All songs on the album have been meticulously remastered from the original master tapes.
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band return to the road throughout November and December for the second leg of their hugely successful 2011 North American Tour. The tour's upcoming stops include New York City's Madison Square Garden, Philadelphia's Wells Fargo Center, Los Angeles' Staples Center, Orlando Calling Festival (Seger's first festival performance since 1980), Baltimore's 1st Mariner Arena, Ottawa's Scotiabank Place, Dallas' American Airlines Center, Phoenix's US Airways Center, Oakland's Oracle Arena, and more. Seger will top off 2011 with his 50th concert of the year, a special New Year's show at Las Vegas' Mandalay Bay Events Center. Seger originally conceived his 2011 Tour as a short spring run of 18-20 dates. Due to the overwhelming response from fans, Seger nearly tripled the number of shows.
On September 13, Seger offered fans a Free 6-Track Bonus EP on iTunes to celebrate the release of the digitally remastered multi-platinum Nine Tonight and Live Bullet concert albums. During the one week promotion, Seger gave his fans 1,698,000 free downloaded tracks. Seger & his Silver Bullet Band's live performances have led to record sales in excess of 51 million including 11 platinum and seven multi-platinum RIAA-certified album awards. Seger holds the distinction in 2010 for the #1 Catalog Album of the Decade for his Greatest Hits, which has sold over nine million copies (U.S.A.) to date, posting an unbroken 17-year streak on Billboard's Top 200 Albums and Catalog Albums charts.
DISC ONE: 1. Old Time Rock And Roll 2. Hollywood Nights 3. Night Moves 4. Mainstreet 5. Roll Me Away 6. Turn The Page 7. Her Strut 8. Still The Same 9. You'll Accomp'ny Me 10. We've Got Tonight 11. Like A Rock 12. Fire Lake 13. Tryin' To Live My Life Without You
DISC TWO: 1. Rock And Roll Never Forgets 2. Against The Wind 3. Ramblin' Gamblin' Man 4. The Fire Down Below 5. Travelin' Man (Live) 6. Beautiful Loser (Live) 7. Shakedown 8. Shame On The Moon 9. Katmandu 10. Little Drummer Boy 11. Wait For Me 12. Hey Hey Hey Hey (Going Back To Birmingham) 13. Downtown Train
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Rolling Stones’ Some Girls Reissue Includes Newly Discovered Track
The upcoming re-issue of the Rolling Stones’ epic 1978 album, 'Some Girls,' will include a recently unearthed unreleased track that will also be issued as a single.
According to Reuters, producer Don Was discovered the recording, which was made by the Stones while they were working on 'Some Girls' in Paris. The song, “No Spare Parts,” features Mick Jagger on electric piano, Keith Richards on acoustic piano, Ron Wood on pedal steel guitar, Charlie Watts on drums and Bill Wyman on bass, according to Universal Republic Records. The label went on to say the recording was produced by engineer Chris Kimsey in early 1978, and that it features a “country guitar twang, subtle groove and soulful storytelling.”
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BEAT SWAP MEET
Returns December 11th in Downtown Los Angeles 12pm - 6pm on Dec 11, 2011. The event is being held at the Grandstar Jazz Club, 943 N. Broadway Los Angeles, CA 90012. Entrance is Free w/ Canned Good, a billion dollars w/out.
FOR THE TRUE RECORD NERDS:
Vendors arrive as early as 9am for setup, we have Breakfast available & Coffee too, courtesy of Corazon de Jah, and local Chinatown cafe's. Spend your Sunday afternoon under the California Sun..
Resident DJ's, share rare selections from their record collections,
ABEL - AC THE PD - ANALOG - CHARLIE ROCK - CHIKARAMANGA - CLENZ ROC - CURSE DANNY HOLLOWAY - DWENZ - EARLY WORM - GABE REAL - JAWA - JIM - KIDRAGON -KIWAMU OMAE - LISTEN RECOVERY CREW - LU-MAN - RAICHOUS - 671 (and special guests)
Here are the Top 10 Records sold at Shop Radio Cast for the week of October 18 – October 24, 2011:
1. Brand New – Your Favorite Weapon LP 2. Blink 182 – Neighborhoods LP 3. Trampled By Turtles / Motion City Soundtrack – Wait So Long/Disappear 7″ 4. Between The Buried And Me – The Silent Circus 2XLP 5. City and Colour – Sometimes 2XLP 6. Jon Snodgrass – 5 State Record LP 7. City And Colour – Little Hell 2XLP 8. Lizzie Huffman – Pretty Old Soul 10″ (w/ free Coozie, Automatic Download) 9. Mock Orange – Nines & Sixes LP 10. Angels and Airwaves – Love: Part One & Two 2xCD / DVD (Deluxe)
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and in music history for today:
Big Bopper (born Jiles “J.P.” Richardson, Jr.) was born in 1930 (died in 1959).
In 1960, Neil Sedaka recorded "Calendar Girl", which will reach #4 in the US early the following year.
In 1960, Brenda Lee reached the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for the second time with "I Want To Be Wanted". It was her fourth US Top Ten hit of the year, but only reached #31 in the UK.
In 1960, Frank Sinatra had the #1 LP in the US with "Nice 'n' Easy", which will spend nine weeks at the top of the Billboard stereo album
In 1962 James Brown's appearance at the Apollo Theatre in New York was recorded for a live album called 'Live At the Apollo.' The LP would go on to sell over a million copies and earn a reputation for being one of the finest concert albums ever made and was listed at #24 in Rolling Stone Magazine's 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
In 1970, Santana scored their first US #1 album with 'Abraxas.'
In 1970, President Richard Nixon appealed to radio broadcasters to screen songs with lyrics that urge drug use.
In 1970, Pink Floyd were at the top of the UK album chart with 'Atom Heart Mother,' the group's first #1 LP. In the US it peaked at #55 and went Gold in March 1994.
In 1973, John Lennon launched another round of litigation against the US government, claiming that his phone has been tapped and that he is under constant surveillance.
In 1977, filming began on The Buddy Holly Story starring Gary Busey.
In 1978, Keith Richards was convicted in a Canadian court on a drug charge and received a one year suspended sentence, as well an order to play a benefit concert. The Rolling Stones fulfilled that obligation by performing at a charity concert for the blind in Oshawa, Ontario early the next year.
In 1980, the Guinness Book of World Records gave Paul McCartney a rhodium-plated disc for being history's all-time best-selling songwriter and recording artist. Since 1962, McCartney wrote or co-wrote 43 million-selling songs and sold over 100 million records.
In 1987, Michael Jackson held the top spot on the Billboard singles chart with "Bad". It was a #3 hit in the UK and reached the Top Ten in ten other countries.
In 1988, the John Fogerty vs. Fantasy Records case began. Fantasy claimed that Fogerty had plagiarized his own song "Run Through The Jungle" when he wrote "The Old Man Down The Road."
In 1989, Hank Ballard, Holland-Dozier-Holland, Bobby Darin, the Four Tops, the Four Seasons, Holland-Dozier-Holland, the Kinks, Carole King and Gerry Goffin, the Platters, the Who, Simon & Garfunkel were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Madonna's album "Erotica" was released in 1992.
In 1995, 'It's A Mystery' was released by Bob Segar & the Silver Bullet Band. It was their first studio release in four years.
In 2002, record producer Tom Dowd died of emphysema. He recorded albums by many artists including: Eric Clapton, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Derek and the Dominos, Rod Stewart, Aretha Franklin, Cream, Lulu, Chicago, The Allman Brothers Band, The J. Geils Band, Meat Loaf, Sonny & Cher, The Rascals, Willie Nelson, Diana Ross, Kenny Loggins, Dusty Springfield, The Drifters and Otis Redding.
In 2005, guitarist Eric Clapton, bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker opened a sold-out, three-night stand at New York's Madison Square Garden.
In 2006, Forbes.com revealed that Kurt Cobain had overtaken Elvis Presley as the highest-earning dead celebrity. Cobain’s work earned $50 million in the 12 months before October 2006, compared with Presley’s $42 million. Former Beatle John Lennon earned $35 million.
birthdays today (among many others) include: Debbie Googe (My Bloody Valentine) (49), Ben Gilles (Silverchair) (32), Bill Wyman (Rolling Stones) (75) and Dale Griffin (Mott the Hoople) (63)
TYPE O NEGATIVE 'Black Friday' Deluxe Vinyl Box Released
Roadrunner Records will release a special TYPE O NEGATIVE vinyl box set exclusively via independent retailers on Black Friday, which lands on November 25th this year.
The vinyl box includes all Roadrunner released TYPE O NEGATIVE material. Each album will be issued on double green vinyl, with the album art recreated, including the controversial, rarely seen original cover of "The Origin Of The Feces".
* Slow, Deep and Hard * The Origin of the Feces * Bloody Kisses * October Rust * World Coming Down * Life Is Killing Me
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Major Retailers Stock Up On Vinyl Records And Turntables
Press Release
In a landscape of digital music and listening devices small enough to fit in your pocket, it might be surprising to hear that vinyl records and turntables are making a massive comeback.
In a landscape of digital music and listening devices small enough to fit in your pocket, it might be surprising to hear that vinyl records and turntables are making a massive comeback. Vinyl is more than just a passing trend for the young and hip crowd, and music aficionados and professionals everywhere are praising its return. Its sound quality alone trumps the digital revolution, making it a must have for working music professionals. According to industry reports, music sales saw a major drop in numbers in 2010, while vinyl record sales continued to increase. So far this year, the industry has seen a 37 percent increase in vinyl record sales alone.
Major retailers play a big part in this upward trend of vinyl sales. Best Buy has recently added a large stock of turntables to their inventory. While many of the products are clearly manufactured for professional use, there are now a number of record players in stock designed to look like vintage turntables. Urban Outfitters, an extremely popular chain store with a young demographic, continues to add classic and new artist vinyl records to their music stock. This has helped younger generations gain an interest in vinyl albums. Online stores are popping up everywhere with independent sellers, buyers, and traders, and it is now a profitable big business.
More and more new artists are releasing albums on vinyl. These anticipated new releases are promoted aggressively by music labels, helping both the artist and retailers. All of this is creating a huge market for online record sellers and collectors. Collecting vintage vinyl records alone has become big business, and while the digital revolution will no doubt continue to advance, the resurgence in vinyl record and turntable sales shows no signs of slowing down.
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NYC proto punk legend Adny Shernoff re-emerges
Seminal NYC proto-punk Andy Shernoff is releasing a new 7? vinyl single ?Are You Ready To Rapture? c/w ?Make Me Tremble? (the latter co-written with Andy?s dear friend, the late Joey Ramone). ?Are You Ready To Rapture? will be accompanied by an animated video created by world famous cartoonist Brian Musikoff which you can view here: youtube.com
Shernoff's also undertaking a regular Wednesday night residency at Manhattan?s Lakeside Lounge that started Wednesday October 5 and continues weekly through the end of November. I'm hoping you'd be interested in interviewing Andy. There?s been some early coverage already:
NYC punk lifer Andy Shernoff, a member of the sublimely obnoxious Dictators, settles into an East Village rock & roll haven to air his sardonic originals, including new single "Are You Ready to Rapture? Hank Schteamer/Time Out 10/7
Andy Shernoff, founder and songwriter of NYC punk/hard rock legends The Dictators, is currently in residency at Lakeside Lounge in NYC...The Dictators are responsible for 1975's proto-punk clasic Go Girl Crazy!, which included the punk-infused cover of "California Sun," two years before the Ramones recorded their version. Andy is about to release a 7" single with the tracks "Are You Ready To Rapture?" (video below) and "Tremble," which features the late Joey Ramone... David Levine/BrooklynVegan.com 10/3
Shernoff grew up in New York City, in the Queens neighborhood of Jackson Heights. He attended elementary school with Johnny Thunders and Flushing High School with the Fleshtones. After high school, he attended the SUNY New Paltz Music Department. There he started the music magazine The Teenage Wasteland Gazette, known for its sarcastic, wise-guy attitude. The publication's contributors included famed rock critic Lester Bangs, who invited Andy to write for Creem magazine. Shernoff's early profession of choice was rock journalist.
Shernoff went on to become a musician, songwriter, record producer and oenophile. He is a founding member of The Dictators, one of the seminal New York proto-punk bands, for which he composed the lion?s share of the material, played bass guitar, keyboards, sang back-up and occasional lead vocals. He has been involved with a variety of other musical projects over the years, most notably the heavily Dictators-populated Manitoba's Wild Kingdom and Joey Ramone's sole solo studio album, Don't Worry About Me.
In the fall of 2009, he embarked upon a series of solo shows playing songs he wrote or co-wrote and telling the stories behind them. In the spring of 2010, those shows would become "When Giants Walked the Earth - A Musical Memoir by Adny Shernoff," with several tour dates scheduled in the Eastern U.S. and Canada. Shernoff sang "California Sun" in the official Major League Baseball promotional video for the 2010 All-Star Game. Other projects include garage-rock band The Masterplan, featuring members of The Fleshtones and the Waxing Poetics.
His songs have been recorded by The Ramones, Mary Weiss (of the Shangri-Las), Dion DiMucci, Carolyne Mas, Turbonegro, The Hellacopters, Drivin 'N' Cryin, The Del-Lords, Toilet Böys, Young Fresh Fellows, The A-Bones, The Nomads, The Untamed Youth, The Fastbacks, The Vikings, The Streetwalkin Cheetahs, Texas Terri, Tom Clark, The Screaming Tribesman, The Meatmen, Electric Frankenstein, The Prissteens, The Alter Boys, Metal Mike Saunders (Angry Samoans), Furious George, Corpus Christi, Jeff Dahl to name but a few.
As producer he has worked with The Dictators, The Master Plan, Manitoba's Wild Kingdom, The Barracudas, The Untamed Youth, D Generation, Adrenalin OD, The Smithereens, Prisonshake, Guided by Voices, Sibling Rivalry with Joey Ramone & Mickey Leigh, The Zantees with Billy Miller and Miriam Linna, Sic F*cks with Tish and Snooky, The Kowalskis, The Figgs, and The Golden Horde, among others.
As both a journalist and a musician, Andy Shernoff is often credited as "Adny Shernoff," a deliberate typo transposing the second and third letters of his name. Shernoff has never explained the reasoning behind this stylistic quirk.
DREAM THEATER's 'Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory' To Be Released On Vinyl For First Time
Enjoy The Ride Records, in association with WEA and Brookvale Records, is scheduled to re-release DREAM THEATER's fifth album, 'Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes From A Memory' (1999), on 180-gram vinyl for the first time. The record will be made available as a double-LP set, will come in a beautiful gatefold sleeve and is due to be released on November 25,
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this is why we love records!
Vinyl record sales are the rise - fans can tell you why
By CANDACE HAMMOND
A quarter-century ago, it seemed shiny, digitally recorded CDs would be the end of vinyl records.
We'd seen the demise of the eight-track tape, and with cassettes on their way out as well, CDs seemed to be the heir apparent. Then MP3 players came along, and with them a whole new way to listen to music. It appeared records were destined to become just a distant, dusty memory.
But then something happened: People started to get interested in vinyl again. Partly fueled by nostalgic baby boomers looking to re-experience their youth, and a younger generation that perhaps discovered records scouring their parents' vintage collections, there was a renewed interest in buying records.
True audiophiles will tell you the sound quality of vinyl versus CDs and MP3 players is obvious. They love the sound of the needle hitting the record, the slightly scratchy timbre and the pureness of it. They say they get something deeper than they do from listening to their iPods with ear buds.
iPod turns 10: Has convenience and portability made music more disposable?
Greg Kot Music critic
A cultural shift that eventually became a landslide began 10 years ago this month, though almost no one noticed at the time. Apple Inc. rolled out a portable MP3 player it dubbed the iPod, and after a promising opening quarter in 2002, sales dropped more than 50 percent.
The next year, Apple opened the iTunes digital music store; even though it held only 200,000 songs, a natural synergy was created with the iPod. Sales of the portable player quadrupled in 2004 to more than 4 million units. The pocket-sized player with the white ear buds was endorsed in iconic television commercials by bands and artists such as U2, Gorillaz, Feist, Daft Punk, Black Eyed Peas and Coldplay
Electronic/downbeat pop duo Keep Shelly in Athens have recently announced the release date for their upcoming 12” vinyl EP, Our Own Dream, from Forest Family Records. The EP is due to hit stores in a very limited release on November 8.
The vinyl record release will see very limited pressings: only 500 copies will be available, 250 on silver vinyl, and 250 on white.
Side A: 1. Lazy Noon 2. Our Own Dream 3. ABADABAD (Keep Shelly in Athens remix)
Side B: 1. DIY 2. Fairytale 3. a) The Rouge Superhero b) Ready To Pay The Price
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fantastic article!
Dropping the needle on record collecting
By Emily Burnham
In the 1990s, when it was assumed that the CD would quickly kill both vinyl and cassette tape as the preferred method of transmission for recorded music, Troy Bennett was still collecting records.
“I remember when I was younger, I inherited a ton of records. That was my intro to vinyl. I definitely was drawn to it very early on,” said Bennett. “Something grabbed me about that sound. It’s got that warmth that nothing else can really replace.”
Pre-Order Rainer Maria Rainer Maria LP+Instant MP3
First time on vinyl for 12 Rainer Maria songs.
LP collects three of the band's classic EPs: Rainer Maria, Atlantic, and Ears Ring.
INSTANT MP3 download at checkout.
Limited edition of 300 on 180-gram yellow vinyl in hand silk-screened jacket.
Rainer Maria is comprised of the 12 songs spanning the band's three classic EPs -- Rainer Maria, Atlantic, and Ears Ring -- and marks the first time these songs have appeared on vinyl!
The mailorder exclusive 180-gram yellow vinyl is limited to 300 copies and comes packaged in a hand silk-screened jacket featuring new artwork curated by the band.
Pre-orders ship December 2.
All pre-orders receive an INSTANT full-album MP3 download at checkout.
We are now offering three different package deals featuring the limited edition Rainer Maria yellow vinyl, new t-shirt design, and Caithlin De Marrais's Red Coats CD.
Bundles include:
Rainer Maria yellow vinyl + Red Coats CD
Rainer Maria yellow vinyl + Flower T-Shirt
Rainer Maria yellow vinyl + Red Coats CD + Flower T-Shirt
For her gorgeous second album, Red Coats, Caithlin De Marrais (Rainer Maria) spent more than a year recording demos in her basement before entering the studio with The Poison Tree's Steve Salett and Rocketship Park frontman Josh Kaufman.
Although Caithlin wrote many of the songs for Red Coats on piano, listeners will find all manner of electric and analog keyboards on the record.
These analog fuzz-scapes carry the listener over playfully idiosyncratic drum loops, while the softly sung vocals that beckon you into the record later turn into the primal belts Caithlin was known for in Rainer Maria.
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin Tape Club In Stores Now
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin's new album Tape Club hit stores Tuesday.
The maroon vinyl pictured above is exclusive to our mailorder is limited to 500, but less than 60 still remain. Make sure to get one before they're gone!
All orders receive a FREE button and sticker along with an instant full-album MP3 download at checkout.
The record has been getting rave reviews from all over the blogosphere, with Music OMH calling Tape Club "...a treasure trove in which longtime fans will find plenty to fawn over... [and] a more than fitting introduction to the band for newcomers."
In 1961, Chubby Checker appeared on the "Ed Sullivan Show" and performed "The Twist."
In 1964, The Who, then known as the High Numbers, auditioned for EMI Records, who turned them down.
"Get Off My Cloud" was released in the U.K. by the Rolling Stones in 1965.
In 1966, the Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations" made its debut on the US singles chart. It was a song that Brian Wilson and Mike Love wrote and Brian spent six months working on. The tracks were recorded in seventeen different sessions in four Los Angeles studios, at a cost of over sixteen thousand dollars. The recording engineer would later say that the last take sounded exactly like the first, six months earlier. The record would reach number one on December 10th 1966 and be nominated for Song Of The Year at The Grammy Awards, but lost to "Winchester Cathedral" by The New Vaudeville Band.
In 1966, according to Cashbox Magazine, ? And The Mysterians had the best selling tune in America with "96 Tears". The song has since been ranked #210 on the Rolling Stone list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
Also in 1966, the Supremes became the first female group to have a number one album on the US chart when the LP "Supremes A-Go-Go" reached the top. It knocked The Beatles' "Revolver" from the head of the list.
In 1969, Paul McCartney publicly denies rumors that he is dead. The most recent of many "clues" of this Death Hoax was the fact that he was the only barefoot Beatle on the newly released "Abby Road" LP cover. The story was actually started as a prank by Fred La Bour, a sports and arts writer for the student paper, The Michigan Daily at the University of Michigan.
In 1969, American singer Tommy Edwards died after suffering a brain aneurysm in Henrico County, Virginia, at the age of 47. Had the 1958 U.S. & U.K. #1 single 'It's All In The Game'.
"Hotter Than Hell was released by KISS in 1974. It was the second album to be released by the band.
In 1976, Keith Moon performed for the last time with The Who.
In 1979, the Pretenders started a run of four consecutive Monday nights at the Marquee Club in London.
In 1988, Elton John sold out Madison Square Garden for a record 26th time.
Also in 1988, Phil Collins's cover version of "Groovy Kind Of Love" topped the Billboard singles chart. The song had also been a US number one hit for The Mindbenders in 1966.
In 1989, English folk singer, songwriter, poet, and record producer Ewan MacColl died aged 74. He wrote “Dirty Old Town” and “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” a #1 hit for Roberta Flack in 1972). Acts including Planxty, The Dubliners, Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash recorded his songs. He was the father of singer and songwriter Kirsty MacColl.
In 1990, Pearl Jam played their first ever concert when they appeared at the Off Ramp in Seattle.
In 1992, Members of Boyz II Men receive awards for having the longest running #1 song of the Rock era. "End Of the Road" broke Elvis' record of 11 weeks, previously held by "Don't Be Cruel / Hound Dog".
In 1996, sales figures were released that showed that the Beatles sold 6,000,000 albums from their back catalog and a combined total of 13,000,000 copies of "The Beatles Anthology 1" and "The Beatles Anthology 2". A poll revealed that 41% of sales were to teenagers who were not even born when The Beatles split up in 1970.
birthdays today (among others) include: Annette Funicello (69), Jon Foreman (Switchfoot) (35), Greg Hawkes (Cars) (59), Bobby Blotzer (Ratt) (53), Darryl Jenifer (Bad Brains) (51) & the iconic Leslie West (Mountain) (66)
On November 25th, Record Store Day is celebrating 'Black Friday" with an impressive list of new releases and reissues. Here is the complete list of exclusive releases:
Back-Wash Rhythm Band - The Golden Breed Soundtrack
DETAILS = Format: Vinyl Label: Sundazed
One of the rarest surf soundtrack albums of all time. Released in 1968, The Golden Breed was hailed as a magnificent, gorgeous film that captured surfing at the height of its longboard era. But it came out on the wave of shortboard competition and was quickly lost to history. The soundtrack is just as evocative and vivid as the aquatic footage and now, sourced from the original Capitol analog tapes, it sounds better than ever. Strictly limited, and will soon be catching a big wave outta here.
The latest Beastie Boys album in a deluxe edition, packaged with 60 page hardbound book (featuring photos from the FFYR--Revisited video shoot, "chalk full of more stars than a Judd Apatow film", with 5.1 version of album, videos and more on both DVD and Blu-ray
The Beastie Boys will also release a vinyl deluxe edition of their most recent LP Hot Sauce Committee Pt 2. The set, limited to 5,000 copies in the U.S., includes a 60 page hardbound book, a 5.1 version of the album, videos, and more.
Beatles - THE SINGLES
DETAILS = Format: 7" Vinyl Box Set Label: Apple
Box-set of four 7" picture sleeve singles in metal tin, includes RSD branded adapter and poster, all tracks are newly remastered and are appearing on vinyl for the first time. The set is limited to 10,000 copies in the U.S., and 5,700 copies international.
DETAILS = Format: 7" Vinyl Box Set Label: Columbia/Legacy
Box set of four 7" singles, limited, numbered, includes Dylan sticker. The set is limited to 5,000 copies in the U.S.
"Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window/Highway 61" "Positively 4th St."/"From A Buick Six" "Like a Rolling Stone/Gates of Eden" "Subterranean Homesick Blues"/"She Belongs To Me"
Brendan Benson - Upstairs at United, Vol 1
DETAILS = Format: Vinyl Label: 453 Music
Four cover songs recorded live on August 16th, 2011 direct to quarter inch tape upstairs in the historic United Record Pressing party room. All analog and cut at 45RPM for the ultimate listening experience. 12" vinyl EP with custom jacket, stickered and enclosed in polybag.
Side A 1. "Candidate (David Bowie) 2. Strangers (Kinks)
Side B: 1. Beyond Belief (Elvis Costello) 2. Love Story (Randy Newman)
Byrds - Eight Miles High
DETAILS = Format: 7" 45 Label: Sundazed
The versions of the classic Byrds tracks here were recorded at RCA Studios. The band's label, Columbia, wouldn't release them, so they were re-recorded at Columbia studios. These are the rare mono RCA Studios versions.
Byrds - The Times They Are A Changin
DETAILS = Format: 7" 45 Label: Sundazed
These Dylan covers were recorded to be released as singles, but never were. Forty years later, this release marks the first time they've ever appeared in their intended format.
Chris Cornell - Songbook
DETAILS = Format: Vinyl Label: Friday Music
Double 12” vinyl. Live acoustic solo performances from Cornell's songwriting history plus a few covers
"As Hope and Promise Fade" "Scar on the Sky" "Call Me A Dog" "Ground Zero" "Can't Change Me" "I Am The Highway" "Thank You" (Led Zeppelin) "Cleaning My Gun" "Wide Awake" "Fell On Black Days" "All Night Thing" "Doesn't Remind Me" "Like A Stone" "Black Hole Sun" "Imagine" (John Lennon) The Keeper"
Cory Chisel - Upstairs at United, Vol 2
DETAILS = Format: Vinyl Label: 453 Music
Three originals and two cover songs recorded live on August 17th, 2011 direct to quarter inch tape upstairs in the historic United Record Pressing party room. All analog and cut at 45RPM for the ultimate listening experience. 12" vinyl EP with custom jacket, stickered and enclosed in polybag.
"Old Love" "Never Meant to Love You "Rosie" (Tom Waits) "The Change Is Made" In The Deep End
Crowded House - Intriguer Live: Start To Finish
DETAILS = Format: CD Label: Kufala
Intriguer Live - Start To Finish follows Crowded House from their first performance of the Intriguer Tour in Auckland, NZ to their last show of the US Tour in Denver, CO. Gearing up for the release of their sixth album "Intriguer" Crowded House performed to a sold out crowd at the Town Hall in Auckland on April 8th, 2010. Neil Finn selected some of the stand out performances from that night and compiled into a 50 minute DVD. Also included in this package is a 2 CD set of the final show of the 2010 tour which took place in Denver Colorado on Sept 9th, 2010.
Doors - LA Woman singles box set
DETAILS = Format: 7" Vinyl Box Set Label: Rhino
Doors 7" box set includes "The Changling," "Riders on the Storm," "Love Her Madly" and fourth single of studio banter, artwork will include the original image of the naked woman nailed to the telephone pole
Dr. Dog - Dr. Dog
DETAILS = Format: 7" 45 Label: Anti-
New music from Dr. Dog, each single colored by the band
Dream Theater - Metropolis Pt 2: Scenes from a Memory
DETAILS = Format: Vinyl Label: Brookvale Records
Dream Theater's best album available on vinyl for the very first time! Two album set special gatefold sleeve. 180 gram. Limited Edition.
Act I/LP 1 1. "Scene One: Regression" 2:06 2. "Scene Two: I. Overture 1928" 3:37 3. "Scene Two: II. Strange Déjà Vu" 5:12 4. "Scene Three: I. Through My Words" 1:02 5. "Scene Three: II. Fatal Tragedy" 6:49 6. "Scene Four: Beyond This Life" 11:22 7. "Scene Five: Through Her Eyes" 5:29
Act II/LP 2 8. "Scene Six: Home" 12:53 9. "Scene Seven: I. The Dance of Eternity" 6:13 10. "Scene Seven: II. One Last Time" 3:46 11. "Scene Eight: The Spirit Carries On" 6:38 12. "Scene Nine: Finally Free" 11:59
Elf - Elf
DETAILS = 12” Picture Disc. "Elf" original album on picture disc, limited, numbered, features Metal Club hologram
Fear - Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
DETAILS = Format: 7" 45
Grateful Dead - Live Europe ‘72 Vol. 2
DETAILS = Format: Vinyl Label: Rhino
The vinyl release of the CD, with one additional track (4 LP set)
Iron and Wine - Morning Becomes Eclectic
DETAILS = Format: Vinyl Label: Warner Bros.
An LP and bonus CD of tracks recorded at KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic show
Jamey Jasta/All That Remains split - Some of the People, All of the Time/Mourn the Allusion
DETAILS = Format: 7" 45 Label: Razor & Tie
7 Inch Split Single
Janis Joplin - Move Over!
DETAILS = Format: 7" Vinyl Box Set Label: Legacy
One box that collects four previously unreleased picture sleeve singles, including six never-before-released tracks and two rarities; the box includes photo print of Janis and a temporary tattoo replica of her tattoo.
Big Brother and the Holding Company: "Magic of Love/Call On Me"
Janis Joplin and the Kozmic Blues Band: "Piece Of My Heart/Summertime"
Janis Joplin and the Kozmic Blues Band: "Raise Your Hand/Bo Diddley"
Janis Joplin and the Full Tilt Boogie Band "Move Over/My Baby"
Jimmy Cliff - Sacred Fire EP
DETAILS = Format: Vinyl Label: Collective
12” EP of tracks Jimmy did with Tim Armstrong. Dead wax of the EP contains info on how fans can win limited edition Jimmy Cliff t-shirts.
"Guns of Brixton" "World Upside Down" "Ruby Soho" "Ship Is Sailing" " A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall" "Guns Of Brixton (version)"
John Cale - EP: Extra Playful
DETAILS = Format: CD Label: Domino/Double 6
This is the first American release of the bonus tracks that were originally only on the European version.
John Lennon - Imagine 40th Anniversary Box Set
DETAILS = Format: Vinyl Label: Apple
2010 Remastered LP. Includes 6 track White vinyl 12" and a poster. The set is limited to 5,000 copies in the U.S., and 1,700 copies international.
Justin Townes Earle - Slippin’ and Slidin
DETAILS = Format: 7" 45 Label: Bloodshot
"Slippin' and Slidin"'/"Louisiana 1927" The A-side is from the album Harlem River Blues, the B-side is a Randy Newman song Earle has been performing live for quite a while
Kings of Leon - The Early Vinyl
DETAILS = Format: 4 LP Vinyl box set Label: Legacy
A box set bringing together the band’s early albums Youth & Young Manhood, Aha Shake Heartbreak, Because of The Times, and a 4th LP made up of unreleased studio and live tracks picked by the band themselves. Also includes a 20 page booklet and a collectible poster. The set is limited to 3,250 copies in the U.S., and 1,200 international.
Lovin Spoonful - Alley Oop
DETAILS = Format: 7" 45 Label: Sundazed
This 'single that never was' brings together two tracks that came out of the petri dish that was The Albert Hotel in Greenwich Village, where The Lovin' Spoonful and The Paul Butterfield Blues Band traded licks, influences and ideas. "Night Owl Blues" contains the original extra 1:38 of harmonica honking madness.
Matisyahu - Miracle
DETAILS = Format: 7" 45 Label: Thirty Tigers
A new holiday song and its rock remix from Matisyahu
Miles Davis - Miles Davis Quartet
DETAILS = Format: 10" LP Label: Prestige
Reissue of the original 10” on blue vinyl
Mr Gasser and the Weirdos - Surfink!
DETAILS = Format: CD Label: Sundazed
The third of three releases built around the characters of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth (who took the nom du disc "Mr Gasser" and was the creator of Rat Fink and other special monsters and hot rods). The Weirdos are a group of stellar studio musicians and the records are every bit the sonic equal of their peers in 1963. This and the other releases fell out of print after the crest of the hot rod craze, but they're back in a limited run on vinyl and compact disc, with retina-searing reproductions of Roth's original jackets
Mr Gasser and the Weirdos - Hot Rod Hootenanny
DETAILS = Format: Vinyl Label: Sundazed
Nirvana - Nevermind -The Singles
DETAILS = Format: 10" Vinyl Box Set Label: UMe
All the 10" official singles from Nevermind collected together for the first time, housed in an individually numbered slipcase. The set is limited to 5,000 copies in the U.S.
SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT single: "Smells Like Teen Spirit"/"Drain You"/"Even in His Youth"/"Aneurysm" COME AS YOU ARE SINGLE: "Come As You Are"/"Endless, Nameless"/"School (live)"/"Drain You (live)" LITHIUM SINGLE: "Lithium"/"Been A Son (live)"/"Curmudgeon"/"D-7" (taken from a John Peel Session) IN BLOOM SINGLE: "In Bloom"/"Silver (live)"/"Polly (live)"
Pete Townsend - The Quadrophenia Demos, Vol. 1
DETAILS = Format: 10" LP Label: UMe
The first of two 10" Eps featuring six demos from the Director's Cut re-release of Quadrophenia, produced, authorized and overseen by Pete Townshend. This individually numbered 10" EP and the one scheduled for Record Store Day 2012 provide a unique insight into the creation of this landmark album.
"The Real Me (demo)" "Cut My Hair (demo)" "Punk (demo)" "Dirty Jobs (demo)" "Is In In My Head? (demo)" "Anymore (demo)"
Phish - Party Time
DETAILS = Format: Vinyl Label: Jemp
Party Time was originally released as part of the deluxe version of the band's most recent studio album, and the band wanted this disc of outtakes and previously released material to come out as its own disc.
DOUBLE LP Set "Party Time" "Alaska" "Windy City" "In A Misty Glade" "Gone" "Only A Dream" "The Birdwatcher" "Let Me Lie" "If I Told You" "Splinters of Hail" "Can't Come Back" "Shrine" "Liquid Time"
Phish - The White Tape
DETAILS = Format: CD Label: Jemp
Created from four-track recordings which the band mixed, dubbed and circulated as demos. Trey has said The White Tape exemplifies, perhaps more than any other studio effort, the band's unbridled creative freedom of the day.
Pinback - True North
DETAILS = Format: 7" 45 Label: Secretly Canadian
Part 2 of a trilogy of RSD-branded, numbered, limited edition vinyl singles. Both songs are exclusive to this release. They will be packaged in the same style and format as TRR177
Pink Floyd - THE WALL
DETAILS = Format: 7" Vinyl Box Set Label: Capitol
Box set of three 7” singles, the first vinyl remasters from The Wall
1. "Another Brick in the Wall"/"One of My Turns" 2. "Comfortably Numb"/"Hey You" 3. "Run Like Hell"/"Don't Leave Me Now"
Rainbow - Long Live Rock N Roll
DETAILS = Format: Vinyl Label: Niji Entertainment
12” Picture Disc. Each deluxe picture disc will be house in a deluxe heavy poly bag sleeve with Metal Club Mktg Sitcker and special numbered hologram sticker in lower right corner. The set is limited to 5,170 copies in the U.S.
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Blood Sugar Sex Magik
DETAILS = Format: Vinyl Label: Warner Bros.
Red double vinyl reissue of one of the RHCP’s most loved albums.
Ryan Adams - Do I Wait/Darkness
DETAILS = Format: 7" 45 Label: Pax-Am
Two demo tracks that Ryan recorded at Electric Ladyland studios during his sessions for Ashes & Fire. The release is limited to 3,000 copies in the U.S
Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Soul Time!
DETAILS = Format: Vinyl Label: Daptone
The funkier side of SJDK. The undisputable reigning champions of soul give 12 blazing hot tracks-made famous in their infamous soul revue their long overdue album debut. Majority unreleased---several tracks from 45’s and from Daptone Gold.
Soundgarden - Live on I-5—Before the Doors Soundcheck EP
DETAILS = Format: 10" LP Label: UMe
10" Colored Vinyl
Rare soundcheck performances from Soundgarden's 1996 tour, available for the first time on numbered 10" colored vinyl. Includes a freaked out version of The Doors' "Waiting For The Sun" The set is limited to 4,000 copies in the US.
"No Attention" live in Oakland 12/5/1996 "Never The Machine Forever" live in Oakland 12/5/1996 "Waiting For The Sun" live in Oakland 12/5/1996 "Room A Thousand Years Wide" live in Vancouver 12/7/1996 "Somewhere" live in Sacramento 12/4/1996
Syd Barrett - Mick Rock: Syd Barrett - The Photographs of Mick Rock
DETAILS = Format: 7" 45 Label: Capitol
Featuring incredible, era defining images of Syd at his most enigmatic, taken by legendary photographer Mick Rock. The box also contains an exclusive 7” single ‘Octopus’ b/w ‘Golden Hair’ in a picture bag and on yellow heavyweight vinyl’.
The Civil Wars - Tracks in the Snow
DETAILS = Format: Vinyl Label: Sensibility Music
Two holiday tracks and two live tracks on 10” white vinyl
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Kiss My Amps Live
DETAILS = Format: Vinyl Label: Warner Bros.
Vinyl release of seven live tracks from the Mojo tour.
Various Artists - Wheedle’s Groove: Seattle’s Finest in Funk & Soul 1965-79
DETAILS = Format: 7" Vinyl Box Set Label: Light in the Attic
+ Only 2,000 hand-numbered copies worldwide
+ Ten 45rpm singles featuring original label art and housed in a gorgeous custom made magnetic flip-top box
+ 96 page book with new liner notes interviewing the musicians and key players, unseen photos, endless ephemera, replica Seattle SuperSonics trading card, countless photos, and loads of other archival gems
+ CD of “lost” Robbie Hill’s Family Affair session, circa 1975
+ Meticulously remastered
+ Free Download Card for all songs
In 2004, Light In The Attic and DJ Supreme La Rock compiled the first ever set of vintage Pacific Northwest soul, funk, and R&B, Wheedle’s Groove: Seattle’s Finest In Funk & Soul 1965-75 (LITA 009). Nearly a decade on, the Wheedle still grooves and with this we give you our most ambitious release to date.
Over three years in the making, Wheedle’s Groove: Seattle’s Finest In Funk & Soul 1965-79 is a lavishly packaged vinyl singles box set featuring ten impossibly rare 45s (some fetching thousands on the collector’s market) from Seattle’s vintage soul scene. Limited to only 2,000 hand-numbered copies worldwide, the ten 45 RPM set is housed in a gorgeous custom made magnetic flip-top box and features meticulously re-mastered audio and original label art. For those who must hear these vintage tunes and can’t relax with a tipple at the turntable, we’ve even included a free download card for all tracks.
But wait, our love for Seattle soul could not rest there… we’ve included a massive 7″×7″ glossy 96-page book with new liner notes by Jonathan Zwickel that features new interviews with the regional musicians and key players, along with never before seen photos—from smokey Seattle clubs to Patrinell Staten singing at Jimi Hendrix’s funeral. Plus, a treasure trove of local music ephemera, a replica Seattle SuperSonics trading card, and countless archival gems.
To round out this lavish set, we’ve also added a very special CD by Seattle soul titans Robbie Hill’s Family Affair: Gotta Get Back: The Unreleased L.A. Sessions, which though originally recordedin 1975, remained lost until the recent discovery of the original multi-track masters. The tapes were carefully mixed by renowned engineer and producer Steve Fisk. To say it’s a miracle that these tapes surfaced would be a massive understatement.
Warren Haynes - Rivers Gonna Rise
DETAILS = Format: 7" 45 Label: Concord
A live recording of tracks from a radio station concert.
"Rivers Gonna Rise"/"Everyday Will Be Like A Holiday"
Wilco - Speak Into the Rose
DETAILS = Format: 10" LP Label: dbPM Records
4 track 10" vinyl, with two previously unreleased tracks
"Art Of Almost (ALT Version)" "I Might (demo)" "Speak Into The Rose" "Message From Mid-Bar"
Yardbirds - Ten Little Indians
DETAILS = Format: 7" 45 Label: Sundazed
A 1967 US single that sank quickly, this re-issue, sourced from the original analog mono masters, showcases Jimmy Page's use of reverse echo on the A-side track, in an attempt to salvage an "extremely silly song", transforming it into a swelling, psychedelic melange.
Yardbirds - Ha Ha Said The Clown
DETAILS = Format: 7" 45 Label: Sundazed
A 1967 US single that was never released in the UK. The B-side marks Jimmy Page's first use of a bow on a recording.
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