New Music Releases - October 26, 2010

As always, CVR Blog picks are in RED:

39 Stripes - Beyond Broken
A Classic Education - Hey There Stranger
Aaron Neville - I Know I've Been Changed
Alan Moore - Unearthing (3-CD, 3-LP box set)
Ali Campbell - Great British Songs
Amy Grant - Discover (EP)
Andrew Bird - Useless Creatures
Angelo Spencer et l'Orchidee d'Hawai "L'Argent" 7''
Anne Sofie Von Otter and Brad Mehldau - Love Songs
Apparat - DJ-Kicks
Aretha Franklin - Essential (2 CDs)
Asia - Spirit of the Night: Live in Cambridge 2009 (2 CDs/1 DVD)
Atlantic and Pacific - Meet Your New Love
Avey Tare - Down There
B.B. King - B.B. Boogie
Badfinger - Ass
Badfinger - Magic Christian Music
Badfinger - No Dice
Badfinger - Straight Up
Barbara Morgenstern - Fan No. 2
Barbra Streisand - Ultimate Collection
Bill Bruford and Tony Levin - Bruford Levin Upper Extremities (2 CDs)
Billie Holiday - Essential (2 CDs)
Billy Preston - Encouraging Words
Billy Preston - That's the Way God Planned It
Black Sabbath - Eternal Idol: Deluxe Edition
Black Sabbath - Seventh Star: Deluxe Edition
Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys - King of Western Swing
Brad Paisley - Hits Alive
Breathe Owl Breathe - Magic Central
Brian McBride - The Effective Disconnect
Bryan Ferry - Olympia (Vinyl)
Buddy Guy - Living Proof
Buddy Miles - Booger Bear
Calle 13 - Entren Los Que Quieran
Carl Wilson - Youngblood (remastered with a bonus track)
Charlie Daniels Band - Essential (2 CDs)
Ciara - Basic Instinct
Clinic - Bubblegum (vinyl)
Cloud Nothings - "Leave You Forever" 7''
Coliseum - Goddamage (remastered) (vinyl)
Comic Wow - Music for Mysteries of Mind Space and Time
Conducting From The Grave - Revenants
Cough - Ritual Abuse
Crocodiles - Sleep Forever (vinyl)
Crowded House - The Very Very Best Of Crowded House
Crystal Stilts - Shake the Shackles (vinyl)
Daniel G. Harmann & the Trouble Starts - Risk
Darryl Jenifer - In Search of Black Judas
Deez Nuts - This One's For You
Deluka - You Are the Night
Denice Williams - When Love Comes Calling
Diamond Rings - Special Affections
Dixie Chicks - The Essential Dixie Chicks
Doris Troy - Doris Troy
Duane Eddy - Movin N Groovin
Dâm-Funk - Adolescent Funk
Electric Light Orchestra - Original Album Classics (5 CDs)
Elizabeth & the Catapult - Other Side of Zero
Energy - Walk Into The Fire EP
Excepter - Late (vinyl)
Falco - Falco 3 25th Anniversary Edition
Fergus and Geronimo - Never Satisfied b/w Turning Blue (vinyl)
Forbidden - Omega Wave
Fourplay - Let's Touch the Sky
Frank Sinatra - Essential (2 CDs)
Frank Sinatra - Frank Sinatra: Concert Collection (DVD set)
Gary Wilson - Electric Endicott
Ghostland Observatory - Codename: Rondo
Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger - Acoustic Sessions
Giant Sand - Valley of Rain (reissue)
Gil Scott-Heron - It's Your World (reissue)
Gil Scott-Heron - Real Eyes (reissue)(Vinyl)
Gold Panda - Lucky Shiner
Gospel Claws - C-L-A-W-S
Grouper - Hold/Sick (vinyl)
Guess Who - Artificial Paradise
Guess Who - Essential (2 CDs)
Hans Zimmer - Inception (Music From The Motion Picture) [vinyl]
Heart - Live on Air
Highwaymen - The Essential Highwaymen
Holy Grail - Crisis In Utopia
Howard Fishman - The World Will Be Different
Ill Nino - Dead New World
Jackie Lomax - Is That What You Want?
James Taylor - James Taylor
Jason D. Williams - Killer Instincts
Jay Boy Adams - Fork in the Road
Jay Boy Adams - Jay Boy Adams
Jeff Beck - Live And Exclusive From The Grammy Museum (Amazon Exclusive)
Jefferson Airplane - Live at The Fillmore Auditorium 10/15/66: Late Show: Signe's Farewell
Jefferson Airplane - Live at The Fillmore Auditorium 10/16/66: Early & Late Shows: Grace's Debut
Jefferson Airplane - Live at The Fillmore Auditorium 11/25/66 & 11/27/66: We Have Ignition 11/27/66: We Have Ignition (2 CDs)
Jefferson Airplane - Return to The Matrix 2/1/68 (2 CDs)
Jermaine Stewart - Frantic Romantic
Jethro Tull - Stand Up: Deluxe (3 CDs)
Jim Bryson & the Weakerthans - Falcon Lake Incident

Jimi Hendrix - BBC Sessions

Jimi Hendrix - "West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology" - This four-CD/one-DVD deluxe set arrives just in time for our holiday shopping and offers a treasure trove of new Hendrix material, featuring 45 previously unreleased live cuts, demos and studio alternates from the guitar legend.









Jimmie Rodgers - Train Whistle Blues
Joan of Arc - Meaningful Work (vinyl)
Joe Satriani - Essential (2 CDs)
John Cale - Live at Rockpalast (2 CDs) (Vinyl)
John Tavener - The Whale / Celtic Requiem
John Zacherle - Monster Mash / Scary Tales
John Zorn - What Thou Wilt
Johnny Clegg - Human
Josephine Foster & The Victor Herrero Band - Anda Jaleo
Juice Newton - Duets: Friends and Memories
Juliette Commagere - Procession
Julio Iglesias - Essential (2 CDs)
K.C. Accidental - Captured Anthems for an Empty Bathtub & Anthems for the Could've Bin Pills (reissue)
Kansas - Essential (2 CDs)
Keller Williams - Kids
Kill The Client - Set For Extinction
Kisses - Heart of the Nightlife
Kort (Kurt Wagner and Cortney Tidwell) - Invariable Heartache
Krieg - The Isolationist
Kylesa - Spiral Shadow
Lauren Pritchard - Wasted in Jackson
Legendary Pink Dots - French Collection
Lesbian - Stratospheria Cubensis
Lobo - All Time Greatest Performances
Loudness - Loudest (2 CDs)
Low - Christmas (reissue) (vinyl)
Lyrics Born - As U Were
Madlib - Medicine Show No. 10 - Black Soul
Make Do And Mend - End Measured Mile

Mamas and the Papas - If You Can Believe Your Eyes & Ears (Vinyl)

Marc Bolan and T-Rex - Slider (Vinyl)
Marc Bolan and T. Rex - Unchained: Unreleased Recordings 1972-77 (8-CD box set)






Marshall Chapman - Big Lonesome
Mary Hopkin - Earth Song, Ocean Song
Mary Hopkin - Postcard
Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell (Vinyl)
Michael Schenker - Rockpalast: Hard Rock Legends Vol. 2
Mike Farris - The Night The Cumberland Came Alive EP
Modern Jazz Quartet - Under the Jasmine Tree / Space
Monkees - Head: Deluxe Edition (Rhino Handmade Exclusive)
Monster Magnet - Mastermind
Mtume - Kiss This World Goodbye / In Search of the Rainbow (2 CDs)
Mtume - Theater of the Mind
Muddy Waters - Hard Again (reissue) (vinyl)
Mulatu Astatke - Timeless
Neil Diamond - Dreams
Nick Cave - Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus (reissue)
Nick Heyward - From Monday to Sunday
Nick Heyward - North of a Miracle
Octopus Project - Hexadecagon
Ooooo - Ooooo (vinyl)
PT Walkley - Nice Guy Johnny (soundtrack)
Paleo - A View of the Sky
Panico - Kick
Paper Aeroplanes - The Day We Ran Into the Sea
Paul Simon - Essential (2 CDs)
Pepper Rabbit - Beauregard
Perry Como - Essential (2 CDs)
Phil Wilson - I Own It (vinyl)
Pissed Jeans - Sam Kinison Woman b/w The L Word (vinyl)
Pomegranates - One of Us
Pop. 1280 - The Grid EP 12''
Prefab Sprout - Let's Change The World with Music
Pretty Things - Parachute: 40th Annivesary Edition
Quinn Marston - Can You Hear Me See Me Now?
R.E.M. - Live From Austin, TX [dvd]
Rachel's - Music for Egon Schiele (reissue) (vinyl)
Rachel's - The Sea and the Bells (reissue) (vinyl)
Ray Charles - Rare Genius: The Undiscovered Masters
Ray Charles - Way I Feel
Robyn Hitchcock - Moss Elixir / Mossy Liquor (2 CDs)
Rose Royce - Golden Touch
Rose Royce - Jump Street
Rose Royce - Rainbow Connection IV
Rose Royce - Strikes Again
Roy Clark - Last Word in Jesus Is Us
Sarah Kirkland Snider - Penelope
Scissor Sisters - Invisible Light
Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl - Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger: Acoustic Sessions
Seeland - How to Live
Slough Feg - Animal Spirits
Small Black - New Chain
Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle (CD/DVD)
Steve Vai - Essential (2 CDs)
Strawbs - Strawbs 40th Anniversary Celebration Vol. 1 (2 CDs)
Strawbs - Strawbs 40th Anniversary Celebration Vol. 2 (2 CDs)
Stryper - The Covering
Sun Airway - Nocturne of Exploded Crystal Chandelier
Sun City Girls - Funeral Mariachi
Swedish House Mafia - Until One
Systems Officer - Underslept (reissue) (vinyl)
Tangerine Dream - Chandra: Phantom Ferry 1
Tangerine Dream - Cyberjam Collection
Tangerine Dream - Tangines Scales
Taylor Swift - Speak Now
Ted Nugent - Essential (2 CDs)
Telekinesis - Parallel Seismic Conspiracies
The Fall - Unutterable (remastered with bonus disc)
The Octopus Project - Hexadecagon
The Orb Featuring David Gilmour - Metallic Spheres (2 LPs) (Vinyl)
The Phantom Band - The Wants
The Red Shore - The Avarice Of Man
The Superions - Destination: Christmas
Timmy's Organism - Rise of the Green Gorilla
Triptykon - Shatter
UFO - Rockpalast: Hardrock Legends 1
Unruly Child - Worlds Collide
Uriah Heep - Live on Air

Various Artists - Apple Records Box Set (17-CD box set)

The Limited Edition Apple Records Box Set (17 Discs) includes 14 individual artist albums with bonus tracks, the new Best of Apple Records "Come And Get It" collection, a 2CD collection of 37 un-released tracks from Badfinger, Billy Preston, Jacki Lomax and Mary Hopkins and a 16 page booklet. All housed in a cardboard box that artistically replicates the original Apple Records crate.


Various Artists - Country Strong: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Various Artists - Doughboys Playboys & Cowboys: The Golden Years of Western Swing (4 CDs)
Various Artists - Listen to the Banned
Various Artists - Lullaby Renditions of Pearl Jam
Various Artists - Lullaby Versions of Songs Recorded by Michael Jackson
Various Artists - Smooth Jazz Tribute to Bryan Ferry
Various Artists - The Imus Ranch Record II
Various Artists - The Sound of Music - 45th Anniversary Edition
Various Artists - Treme: Music From the HBO Original Series, Season 1
Various Artists - Wah Do Dem OST
Various Artists - We Were So Turned on: Tribute to David Bowie (vinyl)
Various Artists - Winter's Bone: Songs from the Motion Picture
Viktor Sjoberg - Breakfast in America
War on Drugs - Future Weather
Warpaint - The Fool
Wildildlife - Give In To Live
William Ryan Fritch - Library Catalog Music Series - Music for Honey & Bile (vinyl)
Withered - Dualitas
Wolf and Cub - Science & Sorcery
Wooden Wand - Death Seat
Your Demise - The Kids We Used To Be...


New Jazz Releases - Tuesday, October 26, 2010 Here


The Bad Penny New Music Releases Schedule


1,2,3 – “Little Cure” single (Chess Club)
Active Child/ School of Seven Bells – split 7-inch (features each artist remixing a track by the other; limited edition; pre-orders come with downloads for both songs; Lefse)
Andrew Bird – Noble Beast (reissue; available as an LP and a CD; features Glenn Kotche and others; Fat Possum)
Angelo Spencer et les Haut Summits – “L’Argent” 7-inch (previously available digitally; K)
Anoraak – Wherever the Sun Sets (Naive)
Atlantic/Pacific (features Texas Is the Reason’s Garrett Klahn) – Meet Your New Love (features Rival Schools’ Ian Love; No Sleep)
Avey Tare (of Animal Collective) – Down There (Paw Tracks)
Bedouin Soundclash – Light the Horizon (digital version; available physically in early 2011; Pirates Blend/ Nat Geo)
Bing & Ruth – City Lake (Happy Talk)
Bob Wayne – Outlaw Carnie (Century Media)
Bot’Ox – Babylon by Car (I’m a Cliché)
Brian Bonz – The Triborough Odyssey (Triple Crown)
Bryan Ferry – Olympia (features Scissor Sisters, Groove Armada, members of Roxy Music, more; includes covers of songs by Tim Buckley and Traffic; co-produced by Bryan Ferry and Rhett Davies; Astralwerks)
Cashes Rivers – Cashes Rivers (Aqui Estamos)
Chico Mann – Analog Drift (Wax Poetics)
Comic Wow – Asthmatic Kitty Library Catalog Music: Music for Mysteries of Mind Space and Time (Asthmatic Kitty)
Control Denied – The Fragile Art of Existence (two-CD reissue; Relapse)
Cough – Ritual Abuse (Relapse)
Crowded House – The Very Very Best of Crowded House (CD has 19 songs; digital version has 32 songs; Capitol/EMI)
Crystal Stilts – “Shake the Shackles” single (Slumberland)
Dark Castle – Spirited Migration (vinyl version of 2009 album; At a Loss)
Darkthrone – Høstmørke (reissue with bonus disc of commentary by drummer/lyricist Fenriz; Peaceville) Panzerfaust (reissue; two-CD has commentary by Fenriz; vinyl version limited to 2,000 numbered copies; Peaceville)
Darryl Jenifer (Bad Brains bassist) – In Search of Black Judas (Roir)
Dead Snares (Remy Zero’s Jeffrey Cain) – Speak the Language (features Remy Zero’s Cedric LeMoyne, the late Gregory Slay, more; Popantipop)
Deluka – You Are the Night (physical version; previously available digitally; Vel)
Diamond Rings – Special Affections (Secret City)
Diego and the Dissidents – Contaminated Waters (Quite Scientific)
Diskreet – Engage the Mechanicality (Siege of Amida/ Candlelight)
Dolorean – Anticipation Blues EP (digital only; available with pre-orders of January 18 release The Unfazed; Partisan)
Down – Diary of a Mad Band (London concert from 2006; triple-LP/one-DVD edition; previously available as a two-CD/one-DVD set; Warner Bros.)
Dream Cop – Mango EP (vinyl only; Tough Love)
Dååth – Dååth (co-produced by guitarist Eyal Levi and Mark Lewis; Century Media)
El Boy Die – Black Hawk Ladies & Tambourins (Semprini)
El Sportivo & the Blooz – El Sportivo & the Blooz EP (only available as a limited-edition 12-inch; White Iris)
Elizabeth & the Catapult – The Other Side of Zero (Verve Forecast)
Every Time I Die – “Shit Happens: The Series?” DVD (includes an hour of unreleased bonus material, copy of recent album New Junk Aesthetic, more; Epitaph)
Firewind – Days of Defiance (pre-order bundles come with an instructional DVD, T-shirts, posters, more; Century Media)
Gary Wilson – Electric Endicott (digital version; available in other formats on November 9; Western Vinyl)
Ghostland Observatory – Codename: Rondo (Trashy Moped)
Gospel Claws – C-L-A-W-S (Common Wall/ Modern Art)
Growlers – Hot Tropics (LP version; comes with MP3; previously available on CD; Everloving)
Holy Grail – Crisis in Utopia (produced by Danny Lohner; Prosthetic)
Jefferson Airplane – Live at the Fillmore Auditorium 10/15/66 Late Show — Signe’s Farewell; Live at the Fillmore Auditorium 10/16/66 Early & Late Shows — Grace’s Debut; Live at the Fillmore Auditorium 11/25/66 & 11/27/66 — We Have Ignition; and Return to the Matrix 2/1/68 (previously unreleased live albums; Collectors’ Choice Music Live)
Jeremy Fisher – Flood (Aquarius/EMI)
John Cale & Band – Live (October 1984 performance; available as a double-CD, a double-DVD and an LP; MIG)
Johnny Clegg – Human (first album in 17 years; Appleseed)
Johnny Flynn – Been Listening (Transgressive/ Thirty Tigers)
Juliette Commagere (Hello Stranger frontwoman) – The Procession (Manimal)
K.C. Accidental (pre-Broken Social Scene project featuring Kevin Drew and Charles Spearin) – Anthems for the Could’ve Bin Pills and Captured Anthems for an Empty Bathtub (reissues; Arts & Crafts)
Kermit Ruffins (from HBO’s “Tremé”) – Happy Talk (Basin St.)
Kill the Client – Set for Extinction (Relapse)
Krieg – The Isolationist (Candlelight)
Kylesa – Spiral Shadow (Season of Mist)
Lesbian – Stratospheria Cubensis (only available on CD; Important)
Linda Perhacs – Parallelograms (LP reissue; Sundazed)
Lisa Miller – Within Myself (CD reissue; Sundazed)
Lykke Li – “Get Some” single (digital version available for free on LykkeLi.com beginning October 25; limited-edition 7-inch available in record stores; LL)
Lyrics Born – As U Were (features Francis and the Lights’ Francis Farewell Starlite; Decon)
Make Do and Mend – End Measured Mile (digital version; LP due later; Paper + Plastick/ Panic)
Martina Topley Bird – Some Place Simple (previously available overseas; Honest Jon’s/ Ipecac)
Melechesh – The Epigenesis (Nuclear Blast)
Michael Schenker Group – Hard Rock Legends Vol. 2 (January 1981 performance; available as a CD and a DVD; MIG)
Monster Magnet – Mastermind (Napalm)
Mugstar – Lime (only available on CD; Important)
My Dry Wet Mess – Irrational Alphabet (Magical Properties)
My Jerusalem (features members of Polyphonic Spree, ex-members of Cursive and Great Norther, more) – Gone for Good (00:02:59/Sony/RED)
My Other Friend – My Other Friend (wide release of previously available album; self-released)
Neaera – Forging the Eclipse (Metal Blade)
None More Black – Icons (Fat Wreck Chords)
Oh Land – Oh Land EP (Epic)
Old Man Markley – “For Better, For Worse” 7-inch (Fat Wreck Chords)
Panico – Kick (Chemikal Underground)
Parallels – Visionaries (deluxe edition; comes with a bonus CD featuring an unreleased song, a Ramones cover and four remixes; exclusive to the U.S.; Marigold)
Pepper Rabbit – Beauregard (Kanine)
Pomegranates – One of Us (Afternoon)
Prefab Sprout – Let’s Change the World With Music (Tompkins Square)
Pure Reason Revolution – Hammer and Anvil (limited-edition digipak comes with bonus DVD of live material from 2010; Superball)
Purling Hiss – Public Service Announcement (Woodsist)
Quinn Marston – Can You Hear Me See Me Now? (Ernest Jenning Record Co.)
R.E.M. – “Live From Austin, TX” DVD (remastered and remixed version of Austin City Limits performance; includes three songs that weren’t broadcast; New West)
Ray Charles – Focus of Rare Genius: The Undiscovered Masters (features unreleased and rare material, including a duet with Johnny Cash; Concord)
Roger McGuinn – “Thunderbyrd: West Coast Legends Vol. 4? DVD (live material from 1977; MIG)
Röyksopp – Senior (digital version; LP drops November 9; instrumental album; MB3)
Sarah Kirkland Snider – Penelope (features My Brightest Diamond’s Shara Worden; New Amsterdam)
Seeland – How to Live (Loaf)
Shadows Fall – “Madness in Manila” DVD/CD (Everblack Industries)
Small Black – New Chain (Jagjaguwar)
Societys Parasites – 1753 (Hellcat)
Star One – Victims of the Modern Age (CD and CD-with-T-shirt bundles available for pre-order; InsideOut)
Sun Airway – Nocturne of the Exploded Crystal Chandelier (Dead Oceans)
Syd Barrett – An Introduction to Syd Barrett (executive produced by David Gilmour; Capitol/EMI)
T. Rex – The Slider (remastered reissue; CD and digital versions; available on vinyl November 23; Fat Possum)
Tangents (features Unearth’s Derek Kerswill) – One Little Light Year (co-produced by Tangents and Benjamin Jon; Restricted Release/ Angle Side Side)
Tesseract – Concealing Fate EP (Century Media)
The Fall – The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall (Omnibus Edition) (four-CD reissue; Beggars Banquet)
The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger (features Sean Lennon) – Acoustic Sessions (Chimera)
The Mamas and the Papas – If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears (mono LP reissue; features uncensored cover; Sundazed)
The Octopus Project – Hexadecagon (Peek-a-Boo)
The Phantom Band – The Wants (digital release; Chemikal Underground)
The Radha Krishna Temple – The Radha Krishna Temple (reissue; produced by George Harrison; Apple/EMI)
The Sainte Catherines – Fire Works (features Lagwagon’s Joey Cape; Anchorless)
The Superions – Destination … Christmas! (Fanatic)
The Ventures – The Ventures’ Christmas Album (LP reissue; Sundazed)
The War on Drugs – Future Weather (Secretly Canadian)
Triptykon – Shatter: Eparistera Daimones Accompanied EP (includes two live songs, one featuring vocals by Darkthrone’s Nocturno Culto; Century Media)
UFO – Hard Rock Legends Vol. 1 (November 1980 performance; available as a CD and a DVD; MIG)
Vanity Theft – The Anatomy EP (Vigilante Music/ Adamant)
Various artists – Come and Get It: The Best of Apple Records (features archival songs by Billy Preston, Ronnie Spector, more; Apple/EMI)
Various artists – Fool’s Gold Vol 1 (features A-Trak, Kid Sister, more; available digitally and as a limited-edition CD only available at Opening Ceremony boutiques; Fool’s Gold)
Various artists – Swedish House Mafia – Until One (features reworked versions of songs by MGMT, Coldplay, more; Astralwerks)
Various artists – “Jackass 3D” soundtrack (previously available digitally; features Weezer, Yeah Yeah Yeah’s Karen O, more; Epitaph)Various artists – “Wah Do Dem” DVD (movie featuring Norah Jones, Sean Bones, more; Factory 25)
Viking Skull – Heavy Metal Thunder (remastered reissue that includes Born in Hell, the Chapter One EP, five bonus tracks and new artwork; Restricted)
Warpaint – The Fool (vinyl version has album-download coupon; pre-orders come with a poster; Rough Trade)
We Are Standard – The Golden League (remix album; available digitally and on CD; Mushroom Pillow)
William Ryan Fritch – Asthmatic Kitty Library Catalog Music: Music for Honey and Bile (Asthmatic Kitty)
Witchsorrow – Witchsorrow (Metal Blade)
Withered – Dualitas (Prosthetic)
Wolf & Cub – Science & Sorcery (Last Gang)
Young the Giant – Young the Giant (digital version; available physically in early 2011; Roadrunner)

Remember, if you are a record company and have new releases or know of any I missed (especially vinyl), please email me and I will add your music to the list.


New Music releases are put together from a variety of online sources by blog owner Robert Benson

 Have new music for the list? Email me at rbenson30@wi.rr.com

This Date In Music History - October 26

Birthdays:

Michael Piano - Sandpipers (1944)

Keith Hopwood - Herman's Hermits (1946)

Bootsy Collins - James Brown, Parliament, Funkadelic, Bootsy's Rubber Band (1951)

Maggie Roche - Roches (1951)

David Was - Was Not Was (1952)

Keith Strickland - B-52's (1953)

Natalie Merchant - 10,000 Maniacs (1963)


They Are Missed:

Mahalia Jackson (October 26, 1911– January 27, 1972) was an African-American gospel singer. With her powerful contralto voice, Mahalia Jackson became one of the most influential gospel singers in the world and is the first Queen of Gospel Music.



In 1966, English singer Alma Cogan died of stomach cancer (age 34). Scored the 1955 UK #1 single 'Dreamboat', plus 20 other UK Top 40 hits. In the 50’s Cogan was the most consistently successful female singer in the UK and the youngest female act to top the charts during the 50's.

Charles Daly Barnet (October 26, 1913 – September 4, 1991) was an American jazz saxophonist, composer, and bandleader. His major recordings were "Skyliner", "Cherokee", "The Wrong Idea", "Scotch and Soda", and "Southland Shuffle."

In 1991, legendary rock concert promoter Bill Graham was killed when the Bell 206B JetRanger III helicopter he was riding in struck the top of a Pacific Gas and Electric transmission tower near Sears Point, northwest of Vallejo and exploded. The fiery crash, which left the helicopter's wreckage dangling near the top of the towering structure, killed Graham (age 60), his girlfriend Melissa Gold (age 47) and pilot Steve Kahn. Graham had founded the Fillmore theaters in San Francisco and New York and had played key roles in supporting such bands as the Who, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Janis Joplin, The Band, Bob Dylan, The J. Geils Band, The Allman Brothers Band and The Rolling Stones.

In 1994, "Kansas City" singer Wilbert Harrison died of a stroke.

Singer Hoyt Axton died of a heart attack in 1999. He is most often remembered for writing Three Dog Night's "Joy To The World" and "Never Been To Spain" as well as Ringo Starr's "The No No Song" and The Kingston Trio's "Greenback Dollar." His mother, Mae Buran Axton, wrote Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel."

In 2004, Bill Read, the bass singer for The Diamonds passed away at the age of 68. After signing with Mercury Records in 1955, The Diamonds became the first Canadian group to make an impact on the US record charts, placing nine songs in the top twenty during the late 1950s. Their most memorable hits, "Little Darlin" and "The Stroll" reached the Top Ten.

Influential BBC DJ John Peel died in 2004 (age 65). His program, “The John Peel Sessions,” helped launch several bands.


History:

In 1935, Judy Garland, at the age of 12, sang on Wallace Berry's radio show on NBC.

Bill Haley and his Comets played the first rock 'n' roll concert in West Berlin, Germany in 1958. Over 7,000 rock 'n' roll fans turned the show into a riot, with 20 policemen injured, as teens from the East and West Berlin skirmished. Oh, that dern rock and roll!

Bob Dylan signed his first recording contract with Columbia Records in 1961.

In 1962, the Rolling Stones, (known as The Rollin' Stones), and consisting of Keith Richard, Mick Jagger, Brian Jones, pianist Ian Stewart and drummer Tony Chapman recorded their first demo tape at Curly Clayton Studios in Highbury, London. They recored three songs, Jimmy Reed's "Close Together," Bo Diddlley's "You Cant Judge A Book By The Cover" and Muddy Waters' "Soon Forgotten."

Also in 1962, Mary Wells headlined the first 'Motor Town Revue' (along with Martha & the Vandellas, the Marvelettes, the Contours, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder and more) which began a tour in Washington DC.

Bob Dylan played a sell out concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City in 1963.

“Dance, Dance, Dance” was released by the Beach Boys in 1964.



The Beatles were awarded the prestigious MBE (Members of the Most Honorable Order of the British Empire ) medal at Buckingham Palace in 1965. Many former recipients gave theirs back in protest, to which John Lennon responded "Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war, for killing people." He continued: "We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more." When asked how he enjoyed meeting Queen Elizabeth II, John said "She's much nicer than she is in the photos." According to an account by John Lennon, the group smoked marijuana in one of the palace bathrooms to calm their nerves. Cool....

The San Francisco International Pop Festival got underway in 1968. The weekend event features, Johnny Rivers, Eric Burdon & The Animals and the Iron Butterfly.

Al Green's "Tired of Being Alone," his first hit, went gold in 1971.

Barry White scored his only US #1 album in 1974 with 'Can't Get Enough.'

Dionne Warwick and the Spinners went to #1 on the US singles chart in 1974 with "Then Came You."

Elton John concluded his West of the Rockies US Tour at Dodger Stadium (L.A.) in 1975. He’s the first performer to play the venue since The Beatles in ’66. Fittingly, he does “I Saw her Standing There” and “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.”

The Police played their first U.S. show in Boston at the Rat Club in 1978.

Paul Kantner of Jefferson Starship suffered a brain hemorrhage during a recording session in 1980. After 15 days in the hospital he recovers fully. Whew....

Queen and David Bowie recorded their hit single "Under Pressure" in Montreaux, Switzerland in 1981.

In 1984, 19-year-old John D. McCollum killed himself with a .22 caliber handgun after spending the day listening to Ozzy Osbourne records. One year later, McCollum's parents took court action against Ozzy and CBS Records, alleging that the song "Suicide Solution" from the album Blizzard of Ozz contributed to their son's death. The case was eventually thrown out of court.



Also in 1984, during a seven date Australian tour, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble played the first of three nights at the Melbourne Concert Hall in Melbourne.

Whitney Houston went to #1 on the US singles chart in 1985 with "Saving All My Love For You," (also a #1 hit in the UK). The most overplayed song of the decade.....

In 1991, Ozzy Osbourne broke his foot after an accident on stage at a gig in Chicago, causing him to cancel the remaining dates of a US tour.

In 1992, Pearl Jam set a new record for first week sales when the LP 'Vs.' sold more than 950,000 copies.

Catholic churches in San Juan, Puerto Rico asked residents to tie black ribbons on trees in 1993 in protest against Madonna's first live appearance in the country. Yeah that'll help.....

In 1994, MTV broadcasted the Eagles reunion concert. Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh, Don Felder and Timothy B. Schmitt, played for an invited audience at Warner Burbank (CA) Studios the previous April.

In 1998, a US federal judge refused to issue an injunction against the sale of MP3. The device was used to play music downloaded from the Internet. The Recording Industry Association of America had brought the case to court. And music distribution has never been the same.

American Idol runner-up Clay Aiken was at #1 on the US album chart in 2003 with ‘Measure Of A Man.’ Really? A man?

In 2004, Elvis Presley came top of a list of the highest-earning dead celebrities. Forbes.com listed the Top 5 dead music earners; 1. Elvis Presley $40m 2. John Lennon $21m 3. George Harrison $7m 4. Bob Marley $7m 5. George and Ira Gershwin $6m.

Also in 2004, Apple launched the U2 Special Edition iPod as part of a partnership between Apple, U2 and Universal Music Group. The new U2 iPod held up to 5,000 songs and featured a red Click Wheel and custom engraving of U2 band member signatures. The iPod was being introduced as the band released their new album ‘How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb.’

In 2006, Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor quit the band during the US leg of their world tour. A statement on behalf of the group described the relationship with Andy Taylor as unworkable and one that could not be resolved.

Also in 2006, a private bidder shelled out $15 million for the rights to some of Jimi Hendrix's best-known songs. The auction is organized by the estate of late Hendrix manager Michael Jeffrey. The Hendrix family contests the validity of the auction. In a prepared statement they say, "The assertion that the catalog is the property of (Jeffery's estate) has never been upheld by any court," and adds that they will "vigorously protect its rights to (Hendrix's) catalog." Bear in mind that Hendrix died 35 years earlier so this legal scuffle is at least three decades old.

'The Times They Are A-Changin',' a Broadway musical based on Bob Dylan’s songs, opened in 2006. Prior to Broadway, the show ran for two months in San Diego.

AC/DC went to #1 on the UK album chart with ‘Black Ice’ the Australian bands fifteenth studio album which went on to become a #1 hit in 29 different countries and the second-best selling album of 2008.

In 2009, Wolfmother issued “Cosmic Egg,” the group’s second album but first with the revised line-up of Aidan Nemeth (guitar) Ian Peres (bass/keyboards) and Dave Atkis (drums) – in addition to frontman Andrew Stockdale.

'Life,' an autobiography by Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, is in bookstore now. "You can’t imagine that this book could be any better than it is," says Rolling Stone Managing Editor Will Dana. "Keith holds nothing back. It’s funny, gossipy, profane and moving and by the time you finish it you feel like you’re friends with Keith Richards."

Music News & Notes

AC/DC Get Trading Cards

With profits made from selling CD's down drastically, new revenue sources like T-shirts, totes, belts and shorts and other merchandise, it should shock no one that Aussie legends AC/DC will enter the trading card market. The 'High Voltage' card set is due out in November, and the 100-card base set covers everything from the band's humble beginning in 1973 all the way up through their current tour in support of the best-selling 'Black Ice' album.

The product features:

* 100-card base set (24 packs per box, 5 cards per pack) takes you on a journey from AC/DC's Austalian beginnings through the recent "Black Ice Tour."

* Subsets based on some of AC/DC's best-known songs, including "It's A Long Way To The Top", "Back In Black", "Thunderstruck" and "Rock 'N Roll Train".

* Foil inserts: "We Salute You" and "On The Highway to..."

* Autographed memorabilia
 
Didn't another band with lots of makeup do this is the 70's?

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Nine Inch Nails To Reissue 'Pretty Hate Machine'

Nine Inch Nails are scheduled to re-issue their debut album, 'Pretty Hate Machine' on November 22 (originally released in 1989). Frontman Trent Reznor said he had remastered the album's original mixes in order to off a “greatly improved sonic experience” for listeners.

He added: “It’s been an interesting trip watching the fate of this record float from one set of hands to another (a long and depressing story) but it’s finally wound up in friendly territory, allowing us to polish it up a bit and present it to you now.

Elvis Record Collection Up For Sale

Elvis Presley sale has music world all shook up

By Richard Smith

The biggest collection of Elvis records is expected to fetch a King-sized £250,000 close to $400,000 went it goes under the hammer this week.

Steve Lacey, 45, is selling 12,000 mint condition vinyl discs amassed from all around the world.

The pub landlord, from Chepstow, Monmouthshire, said: "It began when I was 11 and I heard he had died. I got a paper round and spent everything on the collection. I worked five nights a week in a chippie to buy more.

"Then I had to decide whether I wanted a mortgage or more Elvis records. I kept buying records."

He added: "I recently split up from my wife and I've also been in hospital lately. I'm selling them for my three children."

Alan Budd from auction house Bamfords in Derby said: "It's probably the best collection in the world because Steve has records from so many countries."

SOURCE:  http://www.mirror.co.uk/  

Top 5 eBay Vinyl Record Sales - Week Ending 10/23/2010

My favorite 45 makes the list this week; Mixed Feeling's "Sha La La" gets a little over $3k. This is the only stock copy to have ever made the Top 5 list, the others being white label promo's. Two classical box sets make the list, and a Beatles UK box set gets over $4k. A rare Psych LP on the Deram label rounds out this week's Top 5.


1. LP - Johanna Martzy "Bach: The unaccompanied Violin Sonatas" Columbia Box set UK - $5,756.90

2. LP - The Beatles "Let It Be" UK Box Set PXS 1 - $4,465.67

3. 45 - Mixed Feeling "Sha La La" / "Love Will Find A Way" United - $3,250.00

4. LP - Michele Auclair "JS Bach Sonates pour clavier et violon" Les Discophiles Francais - $3,150.00

5. LP - Room "Pre-Flight" Deram - $2,742.08


As always, a special thank you to Norm & Jane at Vinyl Record Talk for this great data.  Stop by and listen to Vinyl Record Talk anytime (they have past shows on file)!

More on this week's top 5 on Vinyl Record Talk, Tuesday 8:00PM Eastern / 5:00PM Pacific on Radio Dentata.  Vinyl Record Talk

This Date In Music History - October 24

Birthdays:

Bill Wyman - formally of the Rolling Stones (1936)

Santo Farina - Santo & Johnny - (1937)

Ted Templeman - Harper's Bizarre (1944)

Patti Labelle (1944)

Rob Van Leeuwen - Shocking Blue (1946)



Edgar Broughton - Edgar Broughton Band (1947)

Dale Griffin - Mott The Hoople (1948)

Debbie Googe - My Bloody Valentine (1962)

Ben Gillies - Silverchair (1979)

Monica (1980)


They Are Missed:

The late J. P. Richardson (AKA the Big Bopper) was born in 1930.

Born on this day in 1946, Jerry Edmonton, Steppenwolf. Killed in a car crash on November 28,1993.

Record producer Tom Dowd died of emphysema in 2002. 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.


History:

In 1956, Elvis received his first letter from the local draft board concerning his draft status.

Neil Sedaka recorded "Calendar Girl" in 1960.

Brenda Lee scored her second US #1 of the year in 1960 with "I Want To Be Wanted."

Frank Sinatra went to #1 on the US album chart in 1960 with 'Nice 'n' Easy.'

In 1962, soul legend James Brown recorded his legendary 'Live At The Apollo' album. The album was listed at #24 in Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.

On the first day of their first foreign tour in 1963, the Beatles spent the day in Stockholm, Sweden, recording a performance for a radio program "The Beatles popgrupp fran Liverpool pa besok i Stockholm", (The Beatles pop group from Liverpool visiting Stockholm). The Beatles, enthused by the chance to play before an audience that wasn't screaming, played seven songs, "I Saw Her Standing There," "From Me to You," "Money," "You Really Got a Hold On Me," "She Loves You," "Roll Over Beethoven" and "Twist and Shout."

In 1964, the TAMMI (TeenAge Music International) Show was filmed at the Santa Monica, California Civic Auditorium with Jan & Dean, the Rolling Stones, Lesley Gore, Chuck Berry, the Beach Boys and many others.

In 1969, Humble Pie appeared at the Empire, Sunderland, England supported by David Bowie.

Santana scored their first US #1 album in 1970 with 'Abraxas.'

In 1970, President Richard Nixon appealed to radio broadcasters to screen songs with lyrics that urge drug use. Yeah, that worked.....

John Lennon began litigation against the US government in 1973, accusing them of tapping his telephone.

In 1973, Rolling Stone Keith Richards was fined $350 after admitting having cannabis, Chinese heroin, mandrax tablets and a revolver at his Chelsea home.

In 1975, Barry Manilow's glasses were broken by the crowd as he rushed to his awaiting limo after a concert in Chicago. C'mon...Barry Manilow?

Rolling Stone Keith Richards pleaded guilty to possessing heroin to a court in Toronto in 1977. He was given a one year suspended sentence and ordered to perform a benefit concert for the blind.

KISS unfurled 'Alive II' (the follow-up to ‘75’s 'Alive!') in 1977. The double platinum album was originally distributed with KISS rub-off tattoos and an eight page booklet. And they carry on.....

The movie version of 'The Wiz' (with Diana Ross and Michael Jackson) premeirs in New York in 1978.



In 1979, Paul McCartney received a medallion cast in rhodium from the Guinness Book of World Records after being declared the most successful composer of all time. From 1962 to 1978, McCartney had written or co-written 43 songs that had sold over a million copies each.

In 1981, the Rolling Stones played the first of two nights at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando, Florida, supported by Van Halen.

Michael Jackson started a two week run at #1 on the US singles chart in 1987 with "Bad."

The John Fogerty vs. Fantasy Records case began in 1988. Fantasy claimed that Fogerty had plagiarized his own song "Run Through The Jungle" when he wrote "The Old Man Down The Road." Fogerty eventually wins his case.



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 in 1989.

The Smashing Pumpkins two CD set “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness” was released in 1995.

Linkin Park released their debut album 'Hybrid Theory' in 2000.

Selling over one-million copies in the first week of its release, Limp Bizkit’s 'Chocolate St*rfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water' was the #1 album in the US in 2000.

George Strait was at #1 on the US album chart in 2004 with ‘50 Years of Hits.’

In 2005, Madonna gave a surprise lecture at a New York university, discussing her career and new film after she arrived unannounced at City University's Hunter College as part of the MTV series 'Stand In.' Students expected a screening of her new documentary, 'I'm Going To Tell You a Secret,' but they were also given the chance to question the singer. Awesome....

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.

A deluxe-edition reissue of Def Leppard’s ‘87 "Hysteria" album was in stores in 2006. The two-CD package has a remastered version of the original album and four "Hysteria" era B-sides. The album has already sold over 12 million copies.

Also in 2006, Forbes.com revealed that Kurt Cobain had overtaken Elvis Presley as the highest earning dead celebrity. Cobain's work earned $50m in the 12 months to October 2006, compared with Presley's $42m. Former Beatle John Lennon earned $35m.

Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Jimi Hendrix's appearance at the Monterey International Pop Festival ex-Hendrix sidemen, bassist Billy Cox and drummer Mitch Mitchell, played a special tribute concert in London (oddly enough) in 2007. When the hour-long show was over, there's a screening of Jimi Hendrix Experience: Live at Monterey DVD.

Michael Bublé went to No.1 on the US album chart in 2009 with ‘Crazy Love,' the Canadian singers fourth studio album.

In 2009, the two surviving members of Sublime performed under that name at Cypress Hill's SmokeOut Festival in San Bernardino, CA, despite legal action from the family of the band's deceased founder, Bradley Nowell (who died from a drug overdose in ‘96 just as the band was achieving mainstream success). Bud Gaugh and Eric Wilson, both original members, are augmented by singer Rome Ramirez. It's just not the same without Nowell......

Michael Fremer Album Review

Essential Blue Note? Somewhere over the rainbow...

John Jenkins
(reissue)

John Jenkins
Blue Note/Music Matters 1573 2 180g 45rpm LPs
Produced by: Alfred Lion
Engineered by: Rudy Van Gelder
Mixed by: Rudy Van Gelder
Mastered by: Kevin Gray and Steve Hoffman at AcousTech Mastering

MUSIC

SOUND





Jenkins and Kenny Burrell Backed By Stellar Rhythm Section

by Michael Fremer
October 01, 2010

This 1957 set spotlights the obscure Chicago alto sax hard bop player John Jenkins who led but one Blue Note session and three altogether in his short recording career, which he ended in the early '60s.

But during that short burst he played with Mingus, Art Farmer and many other greats. He's backed here, (shadowed would be a better word for it) by guitarist Kenny Burrell and a stellar rhythm section of Sonny Clark, Paul Chambers and Mingus drummer Dannie Richmond.

Less bluesy and more high speed bop than Blue Notes to come, this six tune set ignites upon take off and doesn't come down for a moment. Even the ballad "Everything I Have is Your" has an electric elegance going for it, with Jenkins managing to cast long, pleasing lead lines, while following up with staccato stabs that give the piece lift.

Jenkins plays hard and fast with a wonderfully clear and bracing tone and the backing trio is on fire throughout the set of two standards ("From This Moment On," "Everything I Have is Yours") and four originals, three by Jenkins and one by Burrell, whose crisp, bracing tone is well captured by Van Gelder. In fact, everyone's well-recorded, even Clark on piano.

Jenkins' "Motif" is based on a straight ahead propulsive riff that everyone has fun swinging withThese guys sound as if they've been playing for years instead of in a pick-up session.

Perhaps because this was late in the day for bop, these youngsters are able to revel in the form and so produce great weight and elegance along with the swift movement that characterizes the genre.

Jenkins left the music scene a few years after this was recorded and later worked as a messenger and made jewelry in New York. He picked up the horn again in the 1980s and played street corners. In 1990 he played with the Clifford Jordan Big Band.

A live session recorded analog at Condon's by Pierre Sprey and released on his Mapleshade Records on CD (Mapleshade 03232 CD) is probably his final recorded session.

Jenkins died July, 12, 1993 but this gem lives on, beautifully packaged as usual by Music Matters. The inside photos by Francis Wolff show just how young they all were. Oh my.

Okay, it's not an essential Blue Note but it's a minor gem will worth owning.

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.

Copyright © 2008 MusicAngle.com & Michael Fremer - All rights reserved Reprinted by Permission

Bad Religion Box Set Announced

Bad Religion is set to release 15 Album Vinyl Box Set to celebrate 30 Years of Rock & Roll!

Southern California semianl punk-rockers Bad Religion is celebrating their monumental 30th anniversary by announcing the release of a limited edition 30 Years LP Box Set on November 9. The collection will be available exclusively at http://www.kingsroadmerch.com/  where fans are invited to pre-order the Box Set for the sale price of $199.99 until October 25 - the price will increase to $224.99 after that.

This must-have collection will include all fifteen of Bad Religion's studio albums, How Could Hell Be Any Worse?, Into The Unknown, Suffer, No Control, Against The Grain, Generator, Recipe For Hate, Stranger Than Fiction, The Gray Race, No Substance, New America, The Process Of Belief, The Empire Strikes First, New Maps Of Hell and their latest release The Dissent Of Man, on red vinyl and packaged in a beautiful black anniversary box.

The perfect holiday gift for vinyl fans, collectors and Bad Religion fanatics alike, 30 Years LP Box Set is a limited edition and will undoubtedly sell out fast. This also marks the first time Into the Unknown has been available on vinyl LP since 1983.

The 30 Years LP Box Set marks the end of the 30th anniversary celebration of one of punk rock's greatest bands.

New Album Cover Art

Kanye West Reveals New Album Cover

Earlier this week Kanye West generated a viral-buzz when he released the album cover art for his new album. The art featured a topless, armless phoenix straddling a demon meant to represent 'Ye,' and apparently he's got more cover art on the way.

On Thursday Amazon.com posted different art of My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and it's the same red border but this time with a painting of a ballerina holding a wine glass. The artist of both paintings is frequent Kanye collaborator George Condo, and Kanye revealed Tuesday that the two have more work in store for fans.

"Well, actually, it's five covers," he told MTV News. "And you get all five of them when you buy the album."

No word on what the other covers might look like....but enough already, pick a cover and go with it, quit milking it!

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METALLICA: 'Live At Grimey's' Cover Artwork Unveiled

Metallica is set to release a new live album 'Live At Grimey's' on November 26.  The music was recorded on June 12, 2008 at the tiny 150-capacity venue The Basement, located below the Grimey's New & Preloved Music record store in Nashville.

"Live At Grimey's" will be sold as a standard CD and as a limited edition two-disc vinyl set in a gatefold sleeve.  Additionally, the album will be sold only at the approximately 700 independent record stores that support the annual Record Store Day, which is held each year in April.

In announcing the album, Metallica had this to say on their web site:

 "We were honored to be part of the first-ever annual event celebrating independently owned records stores, a.k.a. Record Store Day, with an in-store at Rasputin Music in Mountain View, California on April 19, 2008 and we're very proud to be a part of another special event with our friends at independent retail."







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The Damned Things 'Ironiclast' Cover Artwork Unveiled

The Damned Things, a new band featuring members of Fall Out Boy (Joe Trohman, Andy Hurley), Anthrax (Scott Ian, Rob Caggiano) and Every Time I Die (Keith Buckley, Josh Newton), are set to release their debut album, 'Ironiclast,' on December 14th via Island/Def Jam.

Says Trohman about the artwork: "This art is meant to represent a example of an 'ironiclast.' The $1 bill is one of the most iconoclastic images we, as a band, could think of. Every time we kept musing on other widely recognized bits of imagery, we always came back to this bank note for some reason. It felt relevant, regardless of the meaning one decides to attach. It can that represent everything from the American dream and total independence, to capitalism and a loss in sight of what's really important in this world. It could be representative of not just the current American economy, but also of the world economy and its piss-poor state of being. This could also conjure up the old 'money-is-the-root-of-all-evil' adage. Maybe you just hate George Washington and you feel like this is really sticking it to him...FINALLY! Or maybe you love George Washington and have been dying to give him a cool makeover. This is all left up to you. Many meanings can be attached to this imagery. It's all in how you choose to interpret it."

The Damned Things made its live debut on June 1, 2010 at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn, New York.

This Date In Music History - October 22

Birthdays:

Annette Funicello (1942)

Leslie West - Mountain (1945)



Eddie Brigati - Young Rascals (1946)

Cris Kirkwood - Meat Puppets (1960)

John Wesley Harding (1965)

Shaggy (Orville Richard Burrell) (1968)

Shelby Lynne (1968)

Nick Oliveri - Queens Of The Stone Age (1971)

Zachary Walker Hanson - Hanson (1985)


They Are Missed:

Born on this day in 1942, Bobby Fuller, singer, The Bobby Fuller Four. (1966 US #9 single "I Fought The Law" written by Sonny Curtis of Buddy Holly's Crickets). Fuller died on July 18,1966 mysteriously from gasoline asphyxiation, while parked in a car outside his apartment.



Singer Tommy Edwards died in 1969 after suffering a brain aneurysm in Henrico County, Virginia (age 47). Had the 1958 US & UK #1 single "It's All In The Game."

In 1986, Jane Dornacker was killed in a helicopter crash during a live traffic report for WNBC radio in New York. Listeners heard the terrified voice of Dornacker screaming "Hit the water, hit the water” as the helicopter from which she and pilot Bill Pate were reporting, fell from the sky and crashed into the Hudson River. Dornacker had been a member of The Tubes and Leila And The Snakes.

English folk singer, songwriter, poet, and record producer Ewan MacColl died in 1989 (age 74). He wrote "Dirty Old Town" and "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," (became 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, songwriter Kirsty MacColl.

Born on this day in 1939, Ray Jones, bass, Billy J Kramer & the Dakotas. He died on January 20, 2000.

Elliot Smith, singer/songwriter, committed suicide in 2003 (age 34). One time member of Stranger Than Fiction, solo 1997 album 'Either/Or.'


History:

The Metropolitan Opera House held its grand opening in New York in 1883.

Dick Clark did a telephone interview with Ricky Nelson on American Bandstand in 1957.

In 1961, Chubby Checker appeared on the "Ed Sullivan Show" and performed "The Twist."

In 1964, the Who, then known as The High Numbers, received a letter from EMI Records, asking them for original material after their recent audition for the company.

"Get Off My Cloud" was released in the UK by the Rolling Stones in 1965.

The Supremes had their first US #1 album in 1966 with 'The Supremes a Go Go,' knocking The Beatles 'Revolver,' from the top of the charts.

In 1966, the Beach Boys "Good Vibrations" made its debut on the US singles chart. Written by Brian Wilson and Mike Love, the track was recorded over 6 weeks in four different Los Angeles studios, at a cost of over $16,000. 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 10,1966 and was nominated for Song Of The Year at The Grammy Awards, but lost to "Winchester Cathedral" by The New Vaudeville Band.



Also 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.

Paul McCartney officially denied that he was dead in 1969. 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. And, that was news back then!

Building on their debut earlier in the year, 'Led Zeppelin II' was released in 1969.

Joan Baez received a Gold record in 1971 for "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down." It turned out to be her biggest hit, peaking at #3 in the US and #6 in the UK.

'Hotter Than Hell' was released by KISS in 1974. It was the second album to be released by the band.

In 1976, drummer Keith Moon played his last North American show with The Who in Toronto

The Pretenders started a run of four consecutive Monday nights at the Marquee Club in London in 1979.

Van Halen played Worchester, MA in 1982 after 25,000 signed a petition asking the band to add their city to its tour schedule.

Phil Collins started a two week run at #1 on the US singles chart in 1988 with "Groovy Kind Of Love," his 6th US #1.

Also in 1988 - Elton John sold out Madison Square Garden for a record 26th time.

Pearl Jam played their first show in 1990. It’s at the Off-Ramp in Seattle.

In 1992, members of Boyz II Men received 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, it was announced that, "The Beatles were now bigger than The Beatles!" The statement was based on sales so far this year, having 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.' With the release of ‘The Beatles Anthology 3’ a week away, it was anticipated that total Beatles album sales for 1996 would exceed 20 million. A poll showed 41 percent of sales were to teenagers who were not born when The Beatles officially called it quits in 1970.

In 1998, Bob Dylan played in his hometown of Duluth, Minnesota for the first time since the '60s. The show sold out in just five hours.

MTV Italy launched its first domestically planned and produced Italian-language show, "Sonic" in 1997.

In 1999, it was reported that Sinead O'Connor was attempting to buy the church where she was ordained into the Catholic sisterhood. The church was on the market for over $100,000. Bald chicks church?

In 2000, George Michael paid over 2 million dollars for the Steinway piano on which John Lennon wrote "Imagine." George said, "I know that when my fingers touch the keys of that Steinway, I will feel truly blessed. And parting with my money has never been much of a problem, just ask my accountant." The singer outbid Robbie Williams and The Oasis brothers.

Ja Rule went to #1 on the US album chart in 2000 with 'Rule 3:36.'

In 2005, "Waterloo," by Abba was voted the best song in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest. Viewers in 31 countries across Europe voted during a special show in Copenhagen to celebrate the annual event's 50th birthday.

John Mellencamp played "Our Country" prior to game two of the World Series in Detroit in 2006. The song, from Mellencamp’s 'Freedom’s Road' CD, was also featured in ads for Chevrolet's 2007 Silverado pickup truck.

In 2008, a homeless man claimed a $3,000 reward by returning a waxwork head of ex-Beatle Sir Paul McCartney, which had been left on a train. Anthony Silva found the item in a bin at Reading station after auctioneer Joby Carter left it under a seat at Maidenhead station. The homeless man thought it was a Halloween mask and had been using it as a pillow before realising what it was. The wax model sold the following week for $8,675 at auction.

"Rock N Roll Train," the first single from AC/DC's album "Black Ice," was heard in an episode of the CBS show Criminal Minds in 2008.

A collection of photography titled Who Shot Rock And Roll? was in bookstores in 2009. The collection features snaps of The Beatles, Sonic Youth, Mick Jagger, Chuck Berry, Blondie, James Brown, Johnny Cash, U2, the Velvet Underground and Frank Zappa.

Music News & Notes

THE SMASHING PUMPKINS To Release 'Teargarden By Kaleidyscope Vol. II: The Solstice Bare'

THE SMASHING PUMPKINS are set to release "Teargarden By Kaleidyscope Vol. II: The Solstice Bare" on November 23 via Martha's Music/Rocket Science Ventures. This physical-only four-song EP is a limited-edition, beautifully packaged CD and deluxe 12-inch vinyl picture disc with the four songs — "The Fellowship", "Freak", "Tom Tom" and "Spangled" as well as an unreleased B-side track, "Cottonwood Symphony".










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KNUCKLEBONZ/ROCK ICONZ STATUES/Ronnie James Dio ROCK ICONZ STATUE

The officially licensed, Ronnie James Dio Rock Iconz limited edition statue by KnuckleBonz is now available for pre-order.  Limited quantities ship late 2010.

A portion of all proceeds from http://www.knucklebonz.com/  go to the "Stand Up and Shout" cancer fund in honor of Ronnie James Dio. The sculpture of Dio is displayed with his signature devil horns and iconic crouched stance. KnuckleBonz is honored to be creating a tribute piece of Ronnie James Dio, widely recognized as one of the most powerful singers in all of heavy metal.

All figures in the Rock Iconz® series are limited editions and the Ronnie James Dio statue is very exclusive with only 3000 pieces slated for production. This is an officially licensed product. A portion of all sales from http://www.knucklebonz.com/  will be donated to the "Stand Up and Shout" Cancer Fund created in honor of Ronnie James Dio.

For all DIO fans, we wanted to pass along information that donations to the Ronnie James Dio "Stand Up and Shout" Cancer Fund are now being accepted by going to http://www.ronniejamesdio.com/. Your generous donations will go to cancer research, screenings and various cancer programs.

The Dio statue by KnuckleBonz is created using a team of highly skilled artists to sculpt a remarkable likeness. The limited edition figure will be cast in a poly-resin and hand-paint in fine detail. Each sculpture in the Rock Iconz series is hand-numbered and displayed on an attractive wooden base.

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The Sword ""(The Night The Sky Cried) Tears of Fire 12" Hexagonal Picture Disc "

The Sword have proved themselves to be one of the most revered bands of the past ten years. Following up the release of their latest album, Warp Rider, the band have teamed up with Metal Club for the early release of a special 12″ hexagonal picture disc featuring the Warp Rider track “(The Night The Sky Cried) Tears of Fire” and a b-side of the Bron-y-maur stomp of “Farstar.” Only 3000 of these are being created by Kemado Records and you can get it at Metal Club stores starting on 10/26.



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Queens of the Stone Age "Queens of the Stone Age vinyl reissue"

The highly-sought after, out of print debut release from QOTSA has been recreated by Joshua Homme as it was initally envisioned, with the reinstatement of three tracks that were initially cut from the record. The 180 gram double vinyl gatefold package will be available exclusively at Metal Club stores on 11/26 (with a download card included). Track listing: “Regular John”, “Avon”, “If Only”, “Walkin’ on the Sidewalks”, “You Would Know”, “The Bronze”, “How To Handle A Rope (A Lesson in the Lariat)”, “Mexicola”, “Hispanic Impressions”, “You Can’t Quit Me Baby”, “These Aren’t The Droids You’re Looking For”, “Give The Mule What He Wants”, “Spiders and Vinegaroons”, “I Was A Teenage Hand Model” In Stores: 11/26/2010

Vinyl review : R.E.M. – Chronic Town

Artist – R.E.M.


Title – Chronic Town


Format – Vinyl EP


Label – IRS


Year – 1982


Short record, short review. This five song EP was R.E.M.’s first major release after their 1981 single “Radio Free Europe” (and that single sounds a hell of a lot different than the album version they put out a few years later).

I picked this up for $12.50 at Joe’s Record Paradise  in Silver Spring, MD, a shop I used to visit at their old Rockville location before I left for college. The record is in good shape with quiet grooves, although i’m pissed at myself for damaging the sleeve when peeling off the pricetag. With the needle down, the guitars ring and chime appropriately and Stipe’s mumbling follows suit. Bill Berry’s drumming on the first few tracks, especially on “Carnival of Sorts (Box Cars)” are really muted and indistinct; the cymbals mush together and sound like those maracas you made out of an oatmeal box filled with rice back in 2nd grade art class. Side B’s percussion has much better definition and push, but the cymbals are still kinda dialed down. I guess we can’t really expect world-class sonics from a debut EP.

Acoustic flaws aside, this is an excellent first record that nicely lays out the style they pursue on their next two LPs. Some smug British dude  wrote that R.E.M.’s stuff from the first half of the eighties was just Stipe “…mumbling gibberish into his fringe over tinny old Byrds riffs”, but I think that their work from that period was some of their best. Everything after Monster is entirely forgettable. Speaking of irrelevant musicians, Stipe should team up with Moby and do a tour of bald vegan white dudes with serious opinions about things.

Music – B+

Sound – B

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Fen Crash Chart Party and Play Puppet Master For "Miracle" Video

Vancouver, British Columbia’s progressive alt-metallers Fen has been seeing their first single from Trails Out of Gloom, “Find That One,” getting a remarkable amount of radio airplay, namely on WPMD (Los Angeles, CA), WVBR 93.5 (NY), WKGB 92.5 (NY), WEOS 89.7 (NY), and MetalNetRadio.com. The week of October 11th, 2010 showed an even greater growth of support from the music listening community as “Find That One” was seen resting at #19, snuggly between the likes of Bad Religion, Jimmy Eat World, and Arcade Fire on Immensely Modern Alternative Internet Radio’s Top 20 chart.

"It's a first for us to be charting among bands whose names we've heard of,” said guitarist/vocalist Doug Harrison, “For us it's good, no argument there. But the other bands are probably wondering who the hell we think we are, trying to nuzzle with them in the top 20. Sorry, Known Bands, you're just too cuddly to resist."

Meanwhile, Fen has been enthusiastically putting the final touches on their first official video for the follow up single, “Miracle.” Currently, with all of the video footage shot and the puppet “actors” taking five, the band and production team of Mind of a Snail Co (http://www.mindofasnail.org/) are feverishly editing the images and preparing to have the video available for viewing in November. While we await the final product, here are some still shots of the “actors” at work:

More information from Fen will be coming along soon, so stay tuned!

"Consistently enchanting from start to finish, Trails Out of Gloom is one of the more rapturous releases you're likely to encounter in quite some time. It is fantastic in every way. Highest possible rating, 16/16." -- Progressions Magazine

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Ask Mr. Music By Jerry Osborne

FOR THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 18, 2010


DEAR JERRY: Your recent column about Hawaiian music gives me hope you can provide some information about a record that must have been from the Islands.

In mid-1963, amidst all the dance, surf, and hot rod hits, was a Hawaiian vocal by a female group. It may be titled “Dance of Love,” or at least they use that line.

I know where I was — taking summer classes at Northwestern — and I know this was a big hit in Chicago. It was played as often as other songs, but, unlike “Surfin' U.S.A.” and “It's My Party”, this infectious tune has, to my knowledge, never been played again anywhere. When I ask for help identifying it, no one even knows what I'm talking about.

Do you?
—Sandi Mason, Kenosha, Wisc.


DEAR SANDI: I do, but only because of the Chicago connection. There are, as you're about to learn, many possibilities.

Your mystery song is “Tamouré” (tam-or-RAY) one of those countless 1963 dance numbers. But, unlike the bird and bossa nova, the Tahitian-born tamouré never caught on in America — neither the record nor the dance.

The “Tamouré” in the WLS Top 10 in Chicago is by Bill Justis (Smash 1812), and it peaked at No. 7 in late May and early June.

Bill Justis is the famous sax player whose “Raunchy” (1957), is a R&R classic, yet neither he nor his sax is heard on “Tamouré.” He is the arranger and conductor, but the un-credited vocals are by the Stephen Scott Singers.

Despite many Polynesian cultural connections between Tahiti and our 50th state, there is nothing Hawaiian about “Tamouré.”

The real tamouré, a dance with extreme booty-shaking maneuvers, can be done to many different recordings, most of which are a variation of “Vini Vini.”

The earliest U.S. release of “Vini Vini” is on the 1958 LP by Terorotua and His Tahitians, titled “Lure of Tahiti” (ABC-Paramount 271). It is sung in their native language.

For about four years, the tamouré remained relatively unknown beyond French Polynesia.

Then in 1962, in France itself, a tamouré craze struck, fueled by recordings such as “Dansez le Tamouré (Elle Est Partie le Tamoure) [“It is the Tamouré Party] “Special Danse” featuring “Tamouré Vini Vini” (Vogue EPL 8-049).

This is why the picture sleeve for the Bill Justis “Tamouré” single reads: “The French Dance Rage Comes to America.”

Well, it definitely came to Chicagoland, as reported in the June 1, 1963 Billboard:

“CHICAGO - Bill Justice's [sic] “Tamouré” on Smash was the hottest of the new sides here last week.”

Far beyond Chi-town and France, a tamouré tune could be heard on nearly every continent in mid-'63.

From that same magazine comes this rave from George Hilder in Sydney, where “Tamouré” is No. 1 in Australia:

“The current sensation in the local industry has been the phenomenal success of “Tamouré” by Bill Justis [Philips BF-26]. It jumped from No. 89 to No. 1 on the Top 100. Philips started to publicize the disk with a double-page spread in a Sunday newspaper five weeks ago, which aroused immediate interest. Paul Turner of Philips organized a national tie-up with the Fred Astaire studio and a dance competition with the winning couple receiving a flight to Tahiti, plus $100 expense money” (before you laugh, that is approximately $1,000 in today's money).

The Australian picture sleeve shows the title as “Tamouré (The Dance of Love),” the sub-title being the line in the song that stuck in your memory.

That sleeve also promotes the Philips dance contest with a “Win a Wonderful Flight on TEAL to Fabulous Tahiti” banner.

Elsewhere, local recordings topped their respective charts. Especially noteworthy are “Wini-Wini” by Die Tahiti-Tamourés (Polydor 24-991), in Germany, and “Wini-Wini” by the Waikiki Tamoure (Triola TA-5), in Scandinavia. In Japan, rather than a version by one of their own, Philips repackaged the Bill Justis “Tamouré” (Philips M1055).

Inexplicably, this American (Nashville) recording by an American artist was enormous overseas and never even made the Top 100 in America, though that didn't keep numerous others in the States from trying to claim a piece of the tamouré mania so successful elsewhere.

Among those efforts are: “Tamouré” by Don Costa (Columbia 42785) (1963); “The Tamouré Shake” by Lester Lanin and His Orchestra (Epic 5-9624) (1963); “Tamouré, Tamouré, Amoure” by Joye Bell (Glass Piano 201) (1964); “Tamouré” by Carlos Rubio (Fontana 67515) (1964); “Vini Vini (Tamouré)” by Manuia & Maeva (Almo ) (1965); and “Vini Vini (Tamouré)” by Dick & Dee Dee (Warner Bros. 5652) (1965).

I'm told the Dick& Dee Dee tune was a minor hit in Hawaii.


IZ ZAT SO? Two tamouré records actually did make the U.S. Top 40, but only because each is merely the flip side of a hit:

“Orange Tamouré” is the B-side of “Charade,” from the 1963 film of the same name, by Henry Mancini & His Orchestra (RCA Victor 47-8256), and on the reverse of “Hawaii Tattoo,” by the Waikikis, is “Tahiti Tamouré” (Kapp 30) (1964)

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