New Music Releases ~ November 2012

November 6

Aerosmith - Music From Another Dimension
All That Remains - A War You Cannot Win
Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas
Animal Collective - Spirit Theyre Gone, Spirit They’ve Vanished (reissue)
Beheaded - Never to Dawn
Blue Oyster Cult - The Columbia Album Collection
Calvin Love - New Radar
Candy Hearts - The Best Ways to Disappear
Corrosion Of Conformity - Eye For An Eye (reissue) 
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Ultimate CCR: Greatest Hits & All-Time Classics
Crystal Castiles - (III)
Cytotoxin - Radiophobia
DaVinci - The MOEna Lisa 
Decline of the I - Inhibition
Dethklok - Dethalbum III (vinyl)
Die Hard - Conjure The Legions
Dirty Projectors - About To Die (EP) 
Dragged Into Sunlight - WidowMaker
El Ten Eleven - Transitions 
Emeralds - Just to Feel Anything
Fear - The Fear Record
Forgotten Tomb - ...And Don't Deliver Us From Evil
General Surgery - Like An Ever Flying Limb
Graveyard - Lights Out
Hundred Waters - Hundred Waters
Hungarian Rhapsody - Queen Live in Budapest
Isis - Temporal (2-CD/1-DVD)
Iwrestledabearonce - A Beary Scary Movie (DVD)
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick 40th Anniversary Special Edition (2 LP)
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick 40th Anniversary Special Edition (CD/ DVD)
Kylie Minogue - The Abbey Road Sessions (limited edition casebound book)
Laibach - An Introduction To… Laibach / Reproduction Prohibited
Lindstrom - Smalhans
Major Lazer - Free The Universe
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction (20th Anniversary Edition) (reissue)  
Murray Perahia - Murray Perahia-the First 40 Years
NON - Back to Mono
Night Moves - Colored Emotions
Otep - Sounds Like Armageddon
Prince Rama - Top Ten Hits of the End of the World
Rage Nucleaire - Unrelenting Fucking Hatred
Rainbow - On Stage: Deluxe Edition
Red Hot Chili Peppers – TBA (7") 
Rolling Stones - Charlie Is My Darling (super deluxe DVD+Blu-ray)(2CDs)(1 LP book and poster)
Slingshot Dakota - Dark Hearts
Solange Knowles - Losing You/Sleep in the Park (12")
Soundgarden - King Animal (deluxe edition)
Streetlight Manifesto - The Hands That Thieve
Strife - Witness A Rebirth
Sylver Tongue - Something Big (EP)
Talib Kweli - Prisoner of Conscious
Teen Daze - The Inner Mansions
The Epilogues - Cinematics
The Fear - The Fear Record
The Saddest Landcape - Redefining Loneliness
The Seeking - Yours Forever
Tjutjuna - Desert Song
To The Wind - No More Than This
Underoath - Anthology 1999-2013
Various Artists - Punk Goes Pop, Vol. 5 
Various Artists - Reggae Golden Jubilee - Origins of Jamaican Music 
Various Artists - The Velvet Underground & Nico by Castle Face And Friends
Walkmen  - Dance With Your Partner/Vermeer (7")
War From A Harlots Mouth - Voyeur
While She Sleeps - This Is The Six 


November 13

9th Wonder & Buckshot - The Solution
50 Cent - Street King Immortal
Affiance - The Campaign
Bambi Lee Savage - Darkness Overshadowed
Beatles - Abbey Road (180 Gram) 
Beatles - Revolver (180 Gram) 
Beatles - Stereo Box Set (14 Albums, 16 LP 180 gram) 
Beatles - The Beatles (the White Album) (2 LP 180 Gram) 
Big Boi - Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors
Black Forest Fire - Transit of Venus
Brian Eno - LUX
Bush Tetras - Happy
Celine Dion - Water And A Flame
Christina Aguilera - Lotus
Clinic - Free Reign
Darkstar - Timeaway (12")
Deftones - Koi No Yokan
El Perro del Mar - Pale Fire
Forgetters - Forgetters
Gifts From Enola - A Healthy Fear
Green Day - ¡Dos!
Guided by Voices - The Bears for Lunch
Holly Herndon - Movement
How To Destroy Angels - An Omen EP
Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind Gatefold (picture disc) 
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast Gatefold (picture disc) 
Issues - Black Diamonds
Ital - Dream On 
JAN - JAN 
Jim Jarmusch and Jozef Van Wissem - The Mystery of Heaven
Kim Talon - Kim Talon
Lana Del Rey - Born To Die: The Paradise Edition
Led Zeppelin - Celebration Day: Deluxe Edition (CD Digipak + Bonus Material) (2 CD + 2 DVD)
Lust For Youth - Growing Seeds 
Machine Head - Machine Fucking Head Live
Major League - Hard Feelings
Midnight Magic - Walking The Midnight Streets
Motionless In White - Infamous
Mudhoney - Live in Berlin, 1988 (DVD)
Murs & 9th Wonder - The Final Adventure
Neneh Cherry & the Thing - The Cherry Thing Remixes (EP)
Nite Jewel - Good Evening (reissue) 
Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta - This Christmas
One Direction - Take Me Home
One Republic - Native
Oneida - A List of the Burning Mountains
Paul McCartney - Live Kisses (DVD)
Pop Levi - Medicine
Roc Marciano - Reloaded
Rolling Stones - GRR! 
Serena Ryder - Harmony
Slam Dunk - Welcome to Miami
Sleep Maps - Medals (EP)
So Cow and Squarehead - Out of Season 
Social Studies - Developer
Sonic Youth - Smart Bar - Chicago 1985
Soundgarden - King Animal
Steven Lynch - LION
Sufjan Stevens - Silver & Gold: Songs for Christmas, Vols. 6-10
The Babies - Our House on the Hill
Various Artists - The Comedy
Various Artists - The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 
Vinyl Williams - Lemniscate
Weeknd - Trilogy 
Wu-Tang Clan and D-Block - Wu-Block


November 20

AC/DC - Live at River Plate
Aeon - Aeons Black
Aluk Todolo - Descension 
Aspiga - Every Last Piece
Bad Brains - Into The Future
Bikini Kill - Bikini Kill (EP)
Brad - Welcome to Discovery Park (reissue)
Code Orange Kids - Love is Love // Return to Dust
Coldplay - Coldplay Live 2012 (DVD/CD)
Cryptopsy - The Best Of Us Bleed (2-CD) 
Dawn McCarthy and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy - (7")
Devolved - Reprisal
Devon Williams - Savor/Pendulum (7")
Dissipate - Tectonics
Flock of Dimes - Curtain/Apparition”(7")
Gamma Ray - Skeletons & Majesties Live
Ghostface Killah - Twelve Reasons To Die
Grand Supreme Blood Court - Bow Down Before The Blood Court
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights (10th anniversary reissue)
Jet Life - Jet World Order 
Kid Rock - Rebel Soul
Kylesa - From The Vaults, Vol. 1
Led Zeppelin - Celebration Day (CD/DVD/Blu-ray)
Like Moths To Flames - When We Don't Exist (deluxe edition) 
Linkin Park - Living Things (white vinyl)
Love & Death - Between Here And Lost
Massive Attack - Blue Lines (reissue) 
Mean Creek - Youth Companion
Mestis - Basal Ganglia
My Heart To Fear - Lost Between Brilliance And Insanity 
Neil Young - Psychedelic Pill (3 LPS)
Nico Muhly - Drones
Peter Buck - Peter Buck (vinyl)
Pitbull - Global Warming
Poison The Well - The Opposite Of December/Tear From The Red (deluxe edition)
Regents - Antietam After Party 
Replacements - Color Me Obsessed (DVD)
Rings of Saturn - Embryonic Anomaly
Sienna Skies - The Constant Climb
Slash - Made in Stoke 24/7/11 (vinyl)
The 1975 - Sex (EP)
The Devil - s/t
The Faint - Danse Macabre (reissue)
The Mynabirds - Body of Work (7")
The Pharmacy - Stoned & Alone 
The Twilight Sad - No One Can Ever Know - The Remixes
Tim Hecker and Daniel Lopatin - Instrumental Tourist
Trapt - Reborn 
Travis Barker & Yelawolf - Psycho White EP
Umberto - Night Has a Thousand Screams
Various Artists - Rhythms Del Mundo: Africa
Who - Studio Albums (vinyl)
Wild Yaks - Million Years 
Woe, Is Me - Genesi[s]
Wye Oak - My Neighbor / My Creator (12") (reissue)


November 23, 2012

Joey Ramone - …ya know? (deluxe edition)
Mogwai - A Wrenched Virile Lore (vinyl) 
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Psychedelic Pill (vinyl)
Primus - Jilly’s On Smack (10") 
Tomahawk - Stone Letter (7")


November 26, 2012

Hot Chip - In Our Heads (deluxe edition) 
Star Slinger - Ladies in the Back (EP)
The Child of Lov - Heal (7")
Throbbing Gristle - Desertshore / The Final Report 


November 27

Alicia Keys - Girl On Fire
Amenra - Mass V
Big Dipper - Big Dipper Crashes on the Platinum Planet
Frank Zappa - Yellow Shark
Fulfillingness - First Finale (vinyl)
Grateful Dead - Spring 1990-So Glad You Made It (vinyl)
I Am Abomination - Let The Future Tell The Truth
Ian MatthewsIf - You Saw Thro' My Eyes
Joan of Arc - Joan of Arc
Junkie XL - Synthesized
k-os - Black on Blonde
Mestis - Basal Ganglia
Rage Against the Machine - Rage Against the Machine
Tea Party - M83
Tea Party - Reformation Tour: Live in Australia (vinyl)
Therion - Les Fleurs Du Mal
Times New Viking - Over & Over (vinyl)


 

Vinyl Record News, Music Notes & Music History

We have a winner in the  MusicRecordShop.com Mumford and Sons Vinyl Contest

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Music History ~ October 20th

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House Of Hayduk Featuring Members Of Faith No More, This Heat To Release City Of Quartz LP

House of Hayduk is the brainchild of composer, producer and musician Mads Heldtberg. House Of Hayduk is set to release City Of Quartz, a limited LP on November 23 via Koolarrow. The 180 gram vinyl record is limited to 500 copies and is available for pre-order on the label's website. The basic idea of the album is rooted in the belief that there is a common musical thread shared by both musicians and music fans, that transcends genre, age and aesthetic.

Read more at PlugInMusic

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Season Of Mist To Issue Limited Watain LP Box Set

To celebrate the band that critics have called "the most important Black Metal act of the decade", Season of Mist is re-releasing Watain's complete full-length back catalog on vinyl in a strictly limited collector's box.

Read more HERE

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Topshelf Records To Issue Octave’s First LP Greener Pastures on Vinyl for First Time Ever

Topshelf Records will be releasing Octaves' first record Greener Pastures on vinyl for the first time in early 20213. Originally released by Hotfoot Records in 2010 via CD and digitally, the vinyl version will feature all-new artwork.

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Limited Edition, Red And Black Swirled Vinyl Available At Select Music Retail Outlets On November 6 From Rhino

To continue the year long celebration of the 20th Anniversary Edition of Pantera’s Vulgar Display of Power, Rhino has announced the first ever vinyl release of the band’s WALK EP. The six-track collection will be available on red and black swirled vinyl as a limited edition of 2,500 copies on November 6 for a suggested retail price of $16.98. The vinyl will be available exclusively at Hastings and FYE stores, as well as a few additional music retailers





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album cover art of the day:

Dehumanized Reveals Artwork For New Album "Controlled Elite"

Dehumanized has announced the new album "Controlled Elite" is due out through Comatose Music this coming November 27th, 2012.




















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ILLINOIS SPOTLIGHT: Vinyl rules at suburban Chicago record store

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interesting read from the other side of the world....

Lyttelton could be 'Seattle of the south'

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Ike & Tina Turner – Feel Good – United Artists /Pure Pleasure Records – vinyl

The Grammy-winning Ike & Tina Show in an audiophile reissue of one of their best recordings.

Ike & Tina Turner – Feel Good – United Artists (1972)/Pure Pleasure Records (2012) PPAN UAS5598 180-gram audiophile stereo vinyl, 30:16 ****1/2:


(Tina Turner – vocals; Ike Turner – band leader; featuring the Rhythm Kings and The Ikettes)

 The Ike & Tina Turner Revue (formerly The Kings Of Rhythm) became one of the most successful r & b acts in the sixties. The dynamics changed with the addition of Ann Bullock. Changing her name to Tina Turner, The Ike & Tina Turner Revue became a crossover act. They began to chart with hits like "A Fool In Love", "It’s Gonna Work Out Fine" and "I Idolize You". Then in 1966 "River Deep, Mountain High" (which surprisingly never garnered commercial success) introduced the band to a wider audience. But it was the frenetic live performances that created a sensation. More importantly, their covers of rock standards established a commercial viability, including opening for The Rolling Stones. Then in 1970, a mesmerizing version of "Proud Mary" earned a Grammy and made them stars. The Ike & Tina Turner Revue were together for a number of years. and what a live show they put on! Tina Turner (and this story is documented in many ways) later began a very successful solo career. Their influence on rock music was cemented with induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 1991.

Pure Pleasure Records has re-mastered the 1972 album Feel Good, and it is revelatory. Barely thirty minutes, the ten concisely arranged songs is a living testament to one of the greatest soul rocking ensembles to ever record. Side 1 opens with "Chopper" (one of nine original Tina Turner compositions), as a jerky, funky guitar line backs the nasty, sexually overt vocals of Ms. Turner. The musical vibe has evolved to a seventies urban sound. The arrangements are funk-driven, and the instrumentation fits the tunes. "Kay Got Laid (Joe Got Paid)" explores the gritty narrative aided by a thundering bass, electric guitar runs and the backup singing by The Ikettes. No one understands the translation of R & B to rock better than Ike Turner. With a front singer as powerful as Tina Turner, they just turn her loose on gospel-infused jams like "Feel Good". A barrelhouse piano adds to the momentum of non-stop hot licks.

Tina stretches her wings as a gritty songwriter on the soulful "I Like It" (with Memphis Stax-like horn flourishes and organ) and her homage to sixties dance music ("If You Can Hully Gully/I Can Hully Gully Too"). Regardless of the arrangements, she is capable of rocketing into overdrive at any time. Demonstrating a socio-political context, "Black Coffee" is a low-down, visceral indictment of the system. Exploring the narratives of fellow composers like Curtis Mayfield, Isaac Hayes and James Brown, Turner frames her independence as she states, …my skin is brown…my mind is black…". The group’s cover of The Beatles, "She Came In Through The Bathroom Window" picks up on the inherent rhythms, but pumps up the soul. When they revert to rock and soul ("You Better Think Of Something", "Bolic"), the results are more compelling.

Pure Pleasure has captured the vibrant raw energy of Ike & Tina Turner. The overall sound is edgy and has a live "feel". There is no attempt to smooth out Turner’s vocals. The dense, brawny mix fits the instrumentation. This is the kind of music that comes alive on vinyl!

TrackList:

Side 1: Chopper; Kay Got Laid (Joe Got Paid); Feel Good; I Like It; If You Can Hully Gully (I Can Hully Gully Too)

Side 2: Black Coffee; She Came In Through The Bathroom Window; If I Knew then (What I Know Now); You Better Think Of Something; Bolic

—Robbie Gerson

I want to thank John over at www.audaud.com  for the exclusive rights to reprint this great review!
 

AUDIOPHILE AUDITION focuses on recordings of interest to audiophiles and collectors, with an accent on surround sound for music, and on all hi-res disc formats. Over 100SACD, DVD Video/Audio and standard CD reviews are published during each month, and our archives go back to January 2001.

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Whitechapel - Whitechapel LP (Picture Disc)

Having spent several years lauded as one of the frontrunners in their genre, in 2012 Whitechapel stand as a defining force in contemporary heavy music. Building dramatically on the trademarked bludgeon of their first three releases, with Whitechapel the Tennessean sextet have inarguably delivered their most intense, dynamic, and downright hostile record to date.

Track Listing
Make It Bleed
Hate Creation
(Cult)uralist
I, Dementia
Section 8
Faces
Dead Silence
The Night Remains
Devoid
Possibilities Of and Impossible Existence

Order at ShopRadioCast

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Aerosmith have just premiered their video for "What Could Have Been Love," the new single from their forthcoming album, Music From Another Dimension!



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Green Day have released a video featuring the final part of their monstrous 40-song set at New York's Irving Plaza last month (September 17).

The footage kicks off with the track 'Burnout' from 1994's 'Dookie' and features other fan-favourites including 'Hitchin' a Ride', 'Letterbomb', 'She' and closer 'American Idiot'.



　

　

Ask Mr. Music by Jerry Osborne

FOR THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 12, 2012

DEAR JERRY: When Andy Williams died (Sept. 25), the obituaries mostly focused on his version of "Moon River."

My memories of Andy Williams begin years before "Moon River, " with "Butterfly," "Are You Sincere," "Lonely Street," and many others.

There were only two hit singles of "Moon River," by Jerry Butler and Henry Mancini, and it was not issued as a single by Andy until a couple of years later.

I know this because I bought mine circa-1964, backed with "Days of Wine and Roses," on Columbia's Hall of Fame label (13-33049). I first assumed this, like others in the Hall of Fame series, to be a reissue of earlier singles, but it was not.

Regardless, I was familiar with Andy's "Moon River," because he sang it at the Academy Awards show, and it is the title track of his "Moon River & Other Great Movie Themes" LP. In later became the theme of the Andy Williams TV Show.

Was this enough to connect him so greatly to a song that never was a hit for him?
—Mike Tiefenbacher, Menomonie, Wis.

DEAR MIKE: For most big-name recording artists with a signature song, it is one of their best-selling singles.

Some familiar examples are: Tony Bennett ("I Left My Heart in San Francisco"); Dean Martin ("Everybody Loves Somebody"); Judy Garland ("Over the Rainbow"); Bobby Darin ("Mack the Knife"); Loretta Lynn ("Coal Miner's Daughter"); Bob Hope ("Thanks for the Memory"); Barbra Streisand ("People"); Glenn Miller ("Moonlight Serenade"); and the Rolling Stones ("Satisfaction").

For "Moon River," to become Andy's signature song required some unpredictable events to fall into place, beginning before he even recorded it.

Henry Mancini (music) and Johnny Mercer (words) teamed to create "Moon River" in 1961 for the film, "Breakfast at Tiffany's."

In March, 1962, when the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced "Moon River" as a nominee in the Best Music, Original Song category, Andy Williams was picked to sing it live on the Academy Awards show.

The track used for the original single, by Henry Mancini, His Orchestra and Chorus, was handed over from Paramount Pictures to RCA in the fall of 1960. Nearly a year later (early Sept. 1961), their record came out (RCA Victor 47-7916).

Meanwhile, Chicago's Vee-Jay label quickly covered the tune with their top artist at the time, Jerry Butler, whose waxing (VJ-390) followed Mancini's by about three weeks.

For five months, Oct. 1961 through Feb. 1962, one or both of these two hit versions were on the charts. Both peaked at No. 11 on Billboard, but not at the same time.

Still, Andy Williams, with no established "Moon River" connection, sang it at the Awards show to a nationally televised (ABC-TV) audience, a performance that changed his life forever — especially since "Moon River" won, and Mancini and Mercer took home Oscars.

That same week, Columbia tied-in with an ad in the trades announcing Andy's next album, due out the last week of April. It reads:

Thanks Mr. Mancini! Thanks Mr. Mercer!
For your great song "Moon River"
Now hear it sung in "Award Winning" style by Andy Williams in his great new album "Moon River & Other Great Movie Themes"

Thanks to the Awards show, Columbia had pre-release sales in excess of 40,000 units.

Andy's first collection of motion picture music hit the charts May 12, remained there for over 14 years, and earned him the first of 17 Gold Records for album sales.

In Sept. 1962, NBC-TV added The Andy Williams Show to their prime-time schedule, and it ran until July 1971.

Though the nights and broadcast times changed, the show's theme did not. It was always "Moon River."

As for the Columbia's Hall of Fame single, it came out in either late 1963 or early '64.

Last summer, in what would be his last studio recording, Andy joined Deana Martin for a 2011 version of "White Christmas."

Deana was so pleased with their duet, she even titled the album "White Christmas," then issued it on vinyl (Big Fish 1007) as well as CD.



IZ ZAT SO? When Andy Williams, and four other stars, took the stage April 9, 1962, at the 34th annual Academy Awards presentation, it marked the first time the nominated songs were sung live. In years past, the tunes were lip-synched to recorded music tracks by the performers.

Sharing the spotlight on this momentous occasion were Ann-Margret ("Bachelor in Paradise"); Gene Pitney ("Town Without Pity"); Johnny Mathis ("Love Theme from El Cid"); and Gogi Grant ("Pocket Full of Miracles").

Had Henry Mancini not won for "Moon River," he had a backup nominee in "Bachelor in Paradise," co-written by he and Mack David.

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

 

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

 

Copyright 2012 Osborne Enterprises- Reprinted By Exclusive Permission

Vinyl Record News & Music Notes

MusicRecordShop.com Mumford and Sons Vinyl Contest  is now over, the winner will be announced shortly!   Thank you to all that entered!

for those who have missed my posts, well that's because I haven't made any.  These computers are wonderful tools, but  it's impossible to work when the computer freezes up.  That said, I am crossing my fingers that the problems have been resolved.   I put in a call to www.support.com and would highly recommend their services!

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KOWLOON WALLED CITY Announce New Album Details

San Francisco's KOWLOON WALLED CITY are set to release their much anticipated sophomore album, Container Ships, on December 4th via Brutal Panda Records. Their first record in three years was recorded at Sharkbite Studios in Oakland, CA, this past August with guitarist/vocalist Scott Evans handling the production duties. Led by poignant guitar melodies soaked in malaise and a powerful rhythm section, Container Ships flawlessly combines elements of sludge, post-rock and indie rock to create a truly unforgettable, heavy as an oil tanker, listening experience.

Leading up to the recording of the new album, the band kept busy by releasing splits with THOU, FIGHT AMP and LADDER DEVILS, culminating with a run of west coast shows supporting stoner metal legends SLEEP. KOWLOON WALLED CITY's catalog can be streamed for free via their official site, inthewalledcity.com. The album is limited to 500 copies and comes in a gatefold jacket featuring the stunning photography of Roy Zipstein. 10 super limited test press packages are available while supplies last. Vinyl pre-orders available HERE

1. The Pressure Keeps Me Alive
2. 50s Dad
3. Beef Cattle
4. Container Ships
5. Cornerstone
6. Wrong Side of History
7. You Don't Have Cancer

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GRIMEY'S BEST SELLERS 10/08 - 10/14, 2012

Vinyl Top 25:

1. Tame Impala - Lonerism
2. Wanda Jackson - Unfinished Business
3. Mumford & Sons - Babel
4. Ty Segall - Twins
5. King Tuff - Screaming Skull 7"
6. The Avett Brothers - The Carpenter
7. Weezer - Weezer (The Blue Album: Mo-Fi 1/2 speed master)
8. Grizzly Bear - Shields
9. Jamey Johnson - Living For A Song: Tribute To Hank Cochran
10. Ranch Ghost - Nahla 7"
11. Total Control - Scene From A Marriage 7"
12. Damien Rice - Live At Fingerprints
13. Coheed & Cambria - Afterman: Ascension
14. Father John Misty - Fear Fun
15. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
16. Chromatics - Kill For Love
17. Chromatics - Night Drive
18. Jeff Lynne - Long Wave
19. Old 97's - Too Far To Care
20. Patterson Hood - Heat Lightning Rumbles In The Distance
21. LCD Soundsystem - London Sessions
22. The Lumineers - The Lumineers
23. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
24. The Black Keys - Rubber Factory
25. The Sonics - Psycho 7"

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Nirvana, Velvet Underground, The Shins: More releases announced for ‘Black Friday’




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Stones Throw Records documentary launches Kickstarter











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Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto Artwork: Band Sells Paintings For Charity











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RUSH Guitarist: 'It's Nice To Be Nominated' For ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME Induction

RUSH is among 15 finalists for induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame's Class Of 2013. The Canadian rock trio has been eligible for the honor since 1999, 25 years after the release of the band's self-titled debut album.

Read at Blabbermouth






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Meet The Designer Who Created One Of The More Iconic Album Covers Of All-Time










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Binghamton Record Fair sees Record Sales







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The story of how two young men with a shared sense of humour and creative flair founded one of the most influential Australian record labels of all time.

RareCollections: Planet Records Are Out Of This World






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Fleetwood Mac are Ready to Tour











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A&R Records' Stan Getz on What Makes Vinyl Unique and Handling Hydraulic Leaks











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Metallica Guitarist: 'Deep Purple Definitely Belongs In The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame'










　
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Tangerine Dream cover The Beatles, David Bowie, Pink Floyd, and more on new album

New Vinyl Record and Music Releases - October 16, 2012

ÆGES - (7")
A Fine Frenzy - Pines
Anberlin - Vital
Autumn Owls - Between Buildings, Toward the Sea
Bassnectar - Freestyle (EP)
Bat For Lashes - The Haunted Man
Beaten By Them - Kinder Machines
Ben Gibbard - Former Lives
Ben Harper - By My Side
Benny Benassi - Perfect Storm
Blackbird Blackbird - Boracay Planet (EP)
Blueprint - Deleted Scenes
Bon Iver - Beth/Rest
Boston Spaceships - Greatest Hits of Boston Spaceships: Out Universe
Boys Noize - Out Of The Black
Brandy - Two Eleven
Buried In Verona - Notorious
Caspian - You Are The Conductor (vinyl)
Cayucas - Cayucos (7")
Chaos Chaos - S
Charlotte Church - One
Chelsea Wolfe - Unknown Rooms
Chickenfoot - Chickenfoot (reissue with live tracks)
Conor Maynard - Contrast
Culture Queer - Nightmare Band
Current Swell - Long Time Ago
DaVinci - The MOEna Lisa
Dam Mantle - Brothers Fowl
Dan Mangan - Radicals (7")
Daphni - JIAOLONG
David Bazan - Fewer Moving Parts (reissue) (vinyl)
Dethklok - Dethalbum III
Donald Fagen - Sunken Condos
Double Naught Spy Car - Western Violence
Dude Friel - Valedictorian/Exoskeleton (12")
Earlimart - System Preferences
Field Mouse - How Do You Know (7")
Gabriel Kahane - February House
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
Gov't Mule - The Georgia Bootleg Box (6-disc box set)
Holly Golightly - Sunday Run Me Over
How to Dress Well - Total Loss
Icona Pop - The Icona (EP)
Illdisposed - Sense The Darkness
In Fear and Faith - s/t
Io Echo - Io Echo (EP)
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden (vinyl)
Iron Maiden - Killers (vinyl)
Jake Bugg - Jake Bugg
Jamey Johnson - Living for a Song: Tribute to Hank Cochran
Jason Aldean - Night Train
Jason Lytle - Dept. of Disappearanc
Jessie Boykins III x Melo-x - Zulu Guru
K'Naan - Country, God or the Girl
Kem - What Christmas Means
Ken Stringfellow - Danzig in the Moonlight
King Dude - Burning Daylight
Leona Lewis - Glassheart
Mac DeMarco - 2
Mamiffer/Pyramids - Split
Martha Wainwright - Come Home to Mama
Matmos - The Ganzfeld EP
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction (20th Anniversary Edition)
Metz - Metz
Michael Zapruder - Pink Thunder
Mika - The Origin Of Love
Neon Trees - Picture Show (deluxe edition)
No Bragging Rights - Cycles
Peace - The World is Too Much with Us
Philistine - Therewolves!
Picture Book - Songs About Aimee
Pinback - Information Retrieved
Placebo - B3 (EP)
Police Teeth - Police Teeth
Rachel Semanni - Under Mountains
Rangda - Formerly Extinct
Rosie Flores - Working Girl's Guitar
Ryan Bingham - Tomorrowland
Santah - You're Still a Lover
Savoir Adore - Our Nature
Scotty McCreery - Christmas With Scotty McCreery
Smoke & Jackal - EP1
Steven Curtis Chapman - Joy
Susanne Sundfor - The Silicone Veil
TKTTSM - TKTTSM
Tamaryn - Tender New Signs
That's Outrageous! - Psycho
The Bloody Angle - The Bloody Angle
The HAARP Machine - Disclosure
The Infamous Stringdusters - Silver Sky
The Luyas - Animator
Tom Curren - Summerland Road (EP)
Tortoise - Beacons of Ancestorship (reissue) (vinyl)
Trey Anastasio - Traveler
Trust - TRST
Various Artists - A Very Special Christmas: Bringing Peace On Earth
Various Artists - More Lullaby Renditions of U2
Various Artists - Piano Tribute to KISS
Various Artists - Santa's Got Mojo - An Electro-Fi Christmas Blues Celebration, Vol. 2
Widespread Panic - Wood
Win Win - Double Vision
Yazuka - Beyul
Young Dreams - Fog of War

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album cover art of the day:

RAVEN LORD: Debut Album Artwork Unveiled; New Song Available For Streaming 

"Descent To The Underworld", the debut album from multinational metallers RAVEN LORD, will be released in December. The CD was mixed by acclaimed Swedish producer Fredrik Nordström (AT THE GATES, ARCH ENEMY, NIGHTRAGE, IN FLAMES, DREAM EVIL, OPETH) and was mastered by U.S. mastering engineer Maor Appelbaum (SEPULTURA, HALFORD, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN, ANGRA, DOKKEN). The cover artwork was created by Brazilian artist Caio Caldas of CadiesArt, who has previously worked with DORO, PAUL DI'ANNO, SEVEN KINGDOMS, DOMINANZ and VIOLET SUN, among others.

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Black Sabbath Working Hard In The Studio

Black Sabbath are back at work on the album they began last year.  Over the weekend, Sharon Osbourne appeared on Merrick & The Highway Patrol, a show on Australian rock station Triple M. When asked about the status of Sabbath, Sharon said the band was in the studio right now with producer Rick Rubin.  Ozzy Osbourne told NME.com the band had written about 15 songs, and added that "next year, 2013, is a good clue to what we're going to call the album." The current Black Sabbath line-up includes Ozzy Osbourne, Geezer Butler and Tony Iommi.

Cool!


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Concert Review: Austin City Limits Festival in Austin, TX (Day 2)

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from our friends at www.vinylcollective.com

Record Store Day List – 2012 Black Friday

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here is part two of a very indepth look at the vinyl distribution process, KUDOS!


POZ Perspective: Why Your Vinyl Is Not At Your Doorstep (Part II)





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Donald Fagen, ‘Sunken Condos’ – Album Review



 

Vinyl Record News & Music Notes

Official Press-Release:

Superdrag's 'Regretfully Yours' to Receive Vinyl Reissue

SideOneDummy Records just announced the vinyl re-issue of Superdrag’s 1996 debut 'Regretfully Yours' on December 11, 2012, marking the first time the album has been made available on vinyl. 

'Regretfully Yours,' included the hit single “Sucked Out”, which peaked at #17 on Billboard’s Modern Rock chart.  The larynx-shredding chorus (along with a Buzz Bin video) helped plant the band’s flag on a national level.  “Some of the dudes went and watched Iggy Pop play a secret show at Coney Island High that night,” recalls guitarist and vocalist John Davis, “but I stayed behind and coughed up blood until we got that vocal right.”

On the LP, Superdrag combine noisy guitar rock with power pop tunefulness, arriving at a place somewhere between Hüsker Dü  and Teenage Fanclub.  Although 'Regretfully Yours' never attained the sales figures of some of the band’s 90's peers, the album has long been lauded by critics and fans alike as a lost classic.  “The whole thing was done really quickly, especially by today’s standards,” Davis remembers.”The bulk of the album was made in 7 days.” The band played more than 250 shows in support of the record, touring alongside the likes of Nada Surf, Weezer and Green Day.

In 1996, Jon Wiederhorn of Entertainment Weekly and Rolling Stone wrote, “Regretfully Yours is an emotional excursion fueled with sugary vocals, dynamic arrangements, and psychedelic guitar flourishes. Refreshing and irresistible.”  16 years later, those words still ring true.

SideOneDummy Records is initially pressing 1,000 copies of Regretfully Yours. The LP will be pressed on 180-gram vinyl.  A pre-order of the LP is available from the SideOneDummy web store here.

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Death's Spiritual Healing Deluxe Reissue To See Release

The next chapter in Relapse's Death reissue campaign is the landmark, genre-defining album Spiritual Healing.  Originally released in 1990, Spiritual Healing marked a new turn in the Death discography, one which ushered in cleaner production, a new level of boundary pushing musicianship and songwriting skills that were previously unimaginable from a metal band.  Spiritual Healing sets the standard for riffs, insane time changes and of course mainman Chuck Schuldiner’s masterful guitar solos.  Now reissued as a double CD housed in super deluxe packaging featuring brand new liner notes from Death players James Murphy and Terry Butler, Chuck’s sister Beth Schuldiner and Volbeat frontman Michael Poulsen, Disc 1 features a completely new remaster of the original album and Disc 2 contains 16 previously unreleased rehearsal, outtakes and studio instrumentals.

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Voivod Releases "Mechanical Mind" Digital Single In North America, Announces US Appearance For November

Canadian progressive metal pioneers Voivod have released the first single from their upcoming 13th studio album, Target Earth (due out January 21st in Europe and January 22nd in North America).

"Mechanical Mind" is now available on all digital platforms. The "Mechanical Mind" 7" vinyl will be available exclusively at CM Distro soon (with the Voivod skull etching by the band's own drummer Away as the "b-side"). The 7" will be available in the following colors and quantities:  300 black, 100 red, and 100 blue.

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album cover art of the day:

Black Abyss Reveals New Album Details

Power metal outfit Black Abyss are set to release their new album 'Possessed' on November 2 through  Apostasy Records. The album was produced by Roger Grüninger at Studio 141 and refined by Achim Köhler.  The album cover art was done by Thomas Ewerhard.


















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album cover art of the day, part two:

Paradox Unveils New Album "Tales Of The Weird" Artwork

The new Paradox's new album 'Tales Of The Weird' is set to be released December 14th and was produced by Charly Steinhauer and mixed & mastered by V. Santura at Woodshed-Studio in Landshut, Germany.


















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album cover art of the day, part three (saved the best for last)


Bad Brains 'Into The Future' Cover Artwork Revealed

Iconic hardcore/punk band BAD BRAINS will release its new album, "Into The Future", on November 20 via Megaforce. The CD features the classic lineup of H.R. , Darryl Jenifer, Dr. Know and Earl Hudson.

American artist Shepard Fairey, a lifelong fan of BAD BRAINS, designed the cover artwork for "Into The Future".

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 Preview: Slowhand: 35th Anniversary Edition - Eric Clapton

Artist: Eric Clapton
Title: Slowhand: 35th Anniversary Edition
Release Date: December 4, 2012
Label: Polydor
Format(s): CD, 2 CDs, LP, 3 CD/1 Audio DVD/1 LP, DD

One of the highlights of Eric Clapton's career (among numerous highlights) is the 1977 album Slowhand. Polydor and UMe are saluting that album with the multi-format release Slowhand: 35th Anniversary Edition.

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i don't care what anyone says, this is freakin cool!

Apocalypticta Cover Black Sabbath In Support of Breast Cancer Research

Finnish cello rockers Apocalypticta support breast cancer research in their home country by getting behind the Pink Ribbon campaign.  The Cancer Society Of Finland's Pink Ribbon campaign is aimed at supporting Finnish breast cancer research, and its symbol is a pink silk ribbon — familiar to many as the international symbol of the fight against breast cancer.

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Alice Cooper Reveals ‘Old School’ Box Set Details












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 Sarah Brightman books trip to space, and she may perform











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Rihanna Announces 'Unapologetic' Album, Debuts Cover Art: Photo









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Record Store Goes Back To Black Friday

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Vinyl Records Doing Well In China - Vintage sounds

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How to take care of your vinyl records


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New Rolling Stones Cut Released 

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On October 11, 1971,  John Lennon's "Imagine" was released in the US, where it peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.  The song earned a Grammy Hall of Fame Award and an induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.  In 2005, Rolling Stone ranked it number 3 in their list of "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time." "Imagine" has been recorded by several notable artists, including Joan Baez, Blues Traveler, Chris Cornell, Madonna and Lady Gaga.

Lennon commented on the song's meaning:

"It is the concept of positive prayer ... If you can imagine a world at peace, with no denominations of religion—not without religion but without this my-God-is-bigger-than-your-God thing—then it can be true ... The World Church called me once and asked, "Can we use the lyrics to 'Imagine' and just change it to 'Imagine one religion'? That showed [me] they didn't understand it at all. It would defeat the whole purpose of the song, the whole idea."


 

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B.B. King, Aeromsith's Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, Elvis Costello and Others Nominees For 2013 Songwriters Hall of Fame

B.B. King,  Aeromsith's Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, Elvis Costello, Jimmy Buffett, Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart (ex-Eurythmics bandmates) and Ray Davies (Kinks) are among the nominees for the 2013 Songwriters Hall of Fame.

They are joined by a who's who of the music world, including Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham and Christine McVie,  Jeff Lynne (ELO), Steve Winwood, Bobby Womack and Foreigner's Lou Gramm and Mick Jones, who said in an interview that he's excited to be highlighted as a songwriter.

"It means a lot that those songs have been recognized, and maybe, hopefully a little part of history," Jones said of the band's hits, which include "I Want to Know What Love Is" and "Waiting for a Girl Like You."

Vince Gill and Rod Temperton, who wrote Michael Jackson's "Thriller," ''Rock With You" and "Off the Wall," are also nominated.   

Non-performing songwriters up for nomination include "Chain of Fools" songwriter Don Covay, country music songwriter Bobby Braddock and Holly Knight, who co-wrote Pat Benatar's "Love Is a Battlefield" and Tina Turner's "Better Be Good to Me." 

Linda Perry, the writer behind Christina Aguilera's "Beautiful," is nominated along with Bob McDill, Rick Nowels, Randy Goodrum, Tony Hatch and JD Souther. Writing duos Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter, and P.F. Sloan and Steve Barri are also nominated.

Voting ends December 17 and the gala takes place June 13 in New York City at the New York Marriott Marquis.

The Songwriters Hall of Fame, established in 1969, honors artists and writes whose work represents a wide spectrum of songs. In 2010, the Songwriters Hall of Fame moved into its first "physical" space within the Los Angeles Grammy Museum.

Ask Mr. Music by Jerry Osborne

FOR THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 8, 2012

DEAR JERRY: While flipping through some old Los Angeles Free Press newspapers, I found one from 1969 with an interesting full-page ad announcing the new Beatles LP, “Abbey Lane.”

That's right, “Abbey Lane.” Not “Abbey Road.”

This publication, dated Friday, Sept. 26, also proclaims “Now Available at All American Record Stores” and “Shipment Expected Friday.”

Did they mean Friday the 26th, or Friday Oct. 3rd? One seems too early, the other too late.

My online searching indicates “Abbey Road” came out September 26th in the UK, then in the U.S. on Tuesday, Oct. 1st.

What's the story on this puzzling ad and “Abbey Lane”?
—Larry Brewer, Milwaukee


DEAR LARRY: To be clear, that American Record Stores ad is solely for five stores in California (Pasadena; Gardena; Goleta; Tarzana; Costa Mesa) named American Records, rather than record stores across America.

Before release of the Beatles' “Abbey Road” album, many outside the UK knew neither Abbey Road, the Westminster thoroughfare, nor EMI's Abbey Road Studios, where this and countless other famous recordings were made.

American Record Store's likely unfamiliarity with Abbey Road — including an LP not yet in hand — plus the potential for mixing up two words commonly used to identify streets, accounts for their use of “Abbey Lane” in their ad.

Probably unrelated but worthy of mention is that in Leicester, about 100 miles NW of Abbey Road, one of the main streets is Abbey Lane.

It may be an even greater stretch, but I can't categorically dismiss the possibility that the company's copywriter had “Penny Lane” running through his or her mind when preparing the advert.

Since American Records could not expect their “Abbey Road” inventory six days before the U.S. release (Oct. 1), “Shipment Expected Friday” leads me to believe they would have them Oct. 3, two days after the official on-sale date.


DEAR JERRY: Every year around this time, when ol' man winter comes calling, a '60s song about a young couple on a snowy day, either waking or sleigh riding, keeps running through my mind. One line haunting me is “get on your overcoat with the big fur collar.” I have one of those.

I thought it was by the Beach Boys, but it's definitely not on their Christmas album.

Having not heard it since back then, I had given up hope of enjoying it again. Then I discovered your wonderful service.

Solve this 50-year-old mystery and I will buy it and think of you when it's played.
—Lisa Dryden, Hartford, Conn.

DEAR LISA: By not taking advantage of this wonderful service 25 years ago, you have doubled the term of torment.

But, better late than never I guess.

Sounding very similar to a Beach Boys effort, this infectious tune is “Winter Weather,” by Ronny and the Daytonas (RCA Victor 47-9022). This 45 is often found on eBay for under $10.

If a CD is your preference, look for “Beachland” (Surf 0648K9), a 32-track disc with all of Ronny and the Daytonas' 1964-1967 recordings.

“Winter Weather” came out in Nov. 1966, right when “Good Vibrations” held the nation's No. 2 spot, on the way to No. 1.

This chilly weather selection starts with “put on your old coat with the big fur collar,” and ends with sleigh bells jingling, reminiscent of how “Donde Esta Santa Claus” (Augie Rios) fades out. These clues definitely helped close the deal.

Asking how “Winter Weather” missed being a hit is appropriate, but it was not helped by RCA's blunder of making the flip, “Young,” the “Plug Side.” As such, neither side succeeded at the time, though “Winter Weather” is now on many radio year-end playlists.

I know it's one I can't do without, regardless of the climate.

Listen to it HERE  


IZ ZAT SO? Ronny and the Daytonas are best remembered for their car songs: such as “G.T.O.”; “Hot Rod City”; and “Bucket T,” but they also scored off the track with “California Bound,” “Sandy,” and “Diane, Diane.”

“Winter Weather,” like most of the group's music, was written by John “Bucky” Wilkin, and co-produced by Bucky and the late great Felton Jarvis.

Jarvis produced countless hit singles and albums, especially in the 1960s and '70s. A few of the names on his client list are: Elvis Presley (1966-'77); Willie Nelson; Fats Domino; Carl Perkins; Michael Nesmith; Charley Pride; John Hartford; Gladys Knight; and Skeeter Davis.

As a performer and writer, Bucky had it in his genes. His mother, country singer Marijohn Wilkin, also wrote or co-wrote many big hits for country as well as pop/rock stars. A few of those are: “One Day at a Time” (Marilyn Sellars and Christy Lane); “Cut Across Shorty” (Eddie Cochran and Rod Stewart); “Long Black Veil” (Lefty Frizzell); “I Just Don't Understand” (Ann-Margret and Beatles); “P.T. 109” (Jimmie Dean); “Waterloo” and “Mary Don't You Weep” (Stonewall Jackson); and “Weep No More My Baby” (Brenda Lee).

Bucky and Marijohn even teamed with Kris Kristofferson to write the poignant “Delta Day (No Time to Cry),” recorded by Merle Haggard, Iris DeMent, and others.

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

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

Copyright 2012 Osborne Enterprises- Reprinted By Exclusive Permission

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RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE TO RELEASE 20TH ANNIVERSARY BOX SET ON NOVEMBER 27

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE - XX 20th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE BOX SET CONTAINS NEVER BEFORE SEEN EARLY CONCERT FOOTAGE AND FULL 2010 FINSBURY PARK VICTORY CONCERT.

RATM MARKS THEIR 20TH ANNIVERSARY WITH RELEASE OF REMASTERED DEBUT ALBUM, ORIGINAL DEMOS AND TREASURY TROVE OF VIDEOS AND MUSIC.
 
Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release Rage Against the Machine - XX, commemorative 20th anniversary editions of the eponymous debut album by a great American rock band, on Tuesday, November 27, 2012.

Originally released in November 1992, Rage Against the Machine signaled the arrival of a revolutionary musical force, a band straddling the worlds of hip-hop and heavy metal with a scorching streetwise sound that rapped and rhymed hardcore across a musical backdrop as menacing and inspirational as graffiti. Rage Against the Machine entered the popular lexicon as more than just a revolutionary American rock band, the group's very name provided a rallying battle cry for the ongoing struggles for liberation--psychic and political--on planet earth.

Formed in 1991, Rage Against the Machine opened the gates of a new boundary-obliterating rock-rap musical alliance with the band's literate and politically-charged debut album. Driven by Tom Morello's unmistakeable guitar wallop and vocalist Zack de la Rocha's salient bulletins from the front, Rage Against the Machine became a critical and commercial success, selling millions of copies around the world while attaining legendary status among alt-rock fans. To this day the album, and the band, remain standard-bearers for uncompromising incendiary rock.

Newly remastered for this anniversary release, Rage Against the Machine - XX will be available as a CD in three configurations: 1) 20th Anniversary Edition Deluxe Box Set housing two CDs, two DVDs, one 12" 180gm vinyl LP, one 40 page booklet and two-sided poster; 2) 20th Anniversary Special Edition featuring two CDs and a bonus DVD featuring six tracks in an oversized softpack and 3) 20th Anniversary Edition single compact disc (with three bonus tracks). 12" 180gm vinyl editions--a picture disc and a facsimile reproduction--of the original LP, remastered (no bonus tracks) will also be available.

Compact Disc One of the newly remastered Rage Against the Machine - XX will include the original album, in its entirety, as well as three collectible b-sides from era.

Compact Disc Two presents the original Rage Against the Machine demo tape. Recorded in 1991 and sold for $5 at the merch table at early Rage shows, the tape achieved mythical word-of-mouth status amongst music fans while helping to seal the band's deal with Epic Records. The 20th anniversary releases of Rage Against the Machine - XX marks the first time the entire RATM demo tapes have seen a full official release.

DVD #1 included in the Deluxe Box Set features Rage Against the Machine's historic free concert in Finsbury Park on June 2010, performed as a thank-you to UK fans for making "Killing in the Name" the UK's Number One Single during Christmas week 2009. Also included is the band's groundbreaking music videos plus live concert performance clips.

DVD#2 takes you back to the release of Rage's debut album focusing on live performance from 1991-1994 which features the full set of RATM's first public performance as well as various live, rare clips.

Rage Against the Machine - XX will include new liner notes, penned especially for the band's 20th anniversary by longtime fan and hip-hop pioneer Chuck D.

A full tracklist can be found HERE

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T. Rex's 'The Slider' Anniversary Remaster

1972 was Marc Bolan's year ' and T.Rex 'The Slider,' the album that captures the 'First Man of Glam Rock' at his creative and commercial peak, has now been lovingly remastered for the first time by original producer Tony Visconti. This remastered version will be exclusively available in T.Rex ' The Slider 40th Anniversary Box Set scheduled for release by DMG's Edsel label on 26 November 2012.

Although Marc Bolan died in a tragic car accident in 1977, his influence is alive in the music of Suede, Oasis, Placebo and numerous left-field indie bands, in high profile commercials, and in cinema where his songs contributed enormously to the success of Billy Elliot. And as the first of the great ultra-glam pop icons, blending post-hippie exoticism with dashing Hollywood panache, Bolan's trailblazing and often outrageous style has left its mark on everyone from David Bowie to Lady Gaga.

Most extraordinary of all, as this new edition of The Slider so thrillingly reveals, Bolan's work sounds as vibrant now as it did when he was rewriting the pop rulebook during the early 1970s.

Now remastered for the first time by Tony Visconti, this classic album ' released in July 1972 on the back of three chart-topping T.Rex LPs ' provides a perfect snapshot of the era the press dubbed 'T. Rextasy' and is proof of Bolan's extraordinary and enduring appeal across the generations.

The Slider contained 2 UK Number 1 hit singles, Telegram Sam and Metal Guru - the latter famously regarded by Morrissey as 'pop perfection'. It was the first to bear the T. Rex Wax Co imprint, a seal of approval from EMI Records, who felt Bolan sufficiently important to warrant having his own record label. And it marked the climax of the most frenzied period of pop hysteria since Beatlemania a decade earlier, brilliantly captured in Born To Boogie, a documentary film based around T.Rex's groundbreaking concerts at the Empire Pool, Wembley in March 1972 and shot by Ringo Starr.

It was, screamed the headlines, 'The Day That Pop Came Back'. And The Slider, with its iconic cover photo of Marc Bolan in a Mad Hatter's hat, was confirmation of his extraordinary pop prowess.

T.Rex - The Slider captures Bolan at the peak of his writing ' from effortless 'Bolan Boogie' (Baby Strange, Baby Boomerang) to spellbinding melancholy (Ballrooms Of Mars, Mystic Lady), hard rocking 'Zep Rex' (Buick Mackane, Chariot Choogle) to pop poetry at its finest (Spaceball Ricochet, Rabbit Fighter).

Marc Bolan was a unique and extraordinary pop artist. The Slider, both intensely personal and hugely accessible, was and remains a unique and extraordinary album. This expansive, lovingly produced T.Rex ' The Slider 40th Anniversary Box Set, now tells the full story for the first time. As well as producer Visconti's remaster of the original 13-track album, there are B-sides and numerous outtakes, including a previously unreleased demo of the title track from Visconti's private collection.

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RANCID ESSENTIALS 7” Box Set

To commemorate 20 years since Rancid’s inception in 1992, this boxset contains 92 sides of music - 46 re-mastered 45rpm 7”s housed in this [leather] boxset. This truly is the essentials - fully documenting twenty years of Rancid in audiophile quality & top-of-line digs.

Boxsets come in three different versions:

• Red Vinyl (1000pcs)    • White Vinyl (Ltd. Ed. 500pcs)    • White Vinyl w/ Red Splatter (Ltd. Ed. 500pcs)

 RANCID ESSENTIALS
7” Boxset Includes:
• Self-Titled 7” EP (1992)
• Rancid (1993)
• Let’s Go (1994)
• …And Out Come The Wolves (1995)
• Life Won’t Wait (1998)
• Rancid (2000)
• Indestructible (2003)
• B Sides and C Sides (2007)
• Let The Dominoes Fall (2009)
• Let The Dominoes Fall (acoustic) (2009)

Order HERE

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album cover art of the day:

ENDEZZMA: Debut Album Details Revealed

Norwegian black metallers ENDEZZMA will release their full-length debut, "Erotik Nekrosis", on November 28 in Europe and February 5, 2013 in the U.S. via Agonia Records.


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album cover art of the day, part two:

DRAGGED INTO SUNLIGHT: New Album Artwork Unveiled 

The mesmerizing album artwork (see below) for "Widowmaker", the new album by U.K. extreme metal band DRAGGED INTO SUNLIGHT, was completed by Norwegian occult artist Sindre Foss, and its imagery creates the perfect foreshadowing of what you can expect to hear on their highly anticipated new release.

"Widowmaker", which is set for a November 6 release on CD and MP3 and a November 13 release on vinyl via Prosthetic Records, consists of three haunting tracks that combine into 40 minutes of pure aural debauchery.

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Preview: GRRR! - Rolling Stones

Artist: Rolling Stones
Title: GRRR!
Release Date: November 12, 2012 (Worldwide except U.S.), November 13, 2012 (U.S.)
Label: ABKCO
Format(s): See Below

The Rolling Stones will commemorate their 50th anniversary with the career spanning hits set GRRR!, due out on November 12.

Read the review at our friends at VintageVinylNews.com





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from our friends at vinylcollective.com

Top 10 Albums – October 8, 2012

Here are the Top 10 Albums sold at Shop Radio Cast for the week of October 2 – October 8, 2012:

1. Angels and Airwaves – Love Part I & II 4XLP
2. The Starting Line – The Early Years LP
3. Quicksand – Slip LP
4. Weezer – Weezer (The Blue Album) LP
5. Taking Back Sunday – Tell All Your Friends LP
6. Anberlin – Vital 2X10?
7. Motion City Soundtrack – Making Moves 7?
8. The Starting Line – Direction LP
9. Mumford and Sons – Babel LP
10. Coheed and Cambria – The Afterman: Ascension LP

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GRIMEY'S BEST SELLERS 10/01 - 10/07, 2012

Vinyl Top 25:

1. Mumford & Sons - Babel
2. The Avett Brothers - The Carpenter
3. Grimes - Visions
4. Flying Lotus - Until The Quiet Comes
5. David Byrne & St Vincent - Love This Giant
6. Grizzly Bear - Shields
7. The Mountain Goats - Transcendental Youth
8. The xx - Coexist
9. Dinosaur Jr - I Bet On Sky
10. Bob Dylan - Tempest
11. Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls
12. Natural Child - For The Love Of The Game
13. MUSE - The 2nd Law
14. Wanda Jackson - Wanda Jackson 7"
15. Coathangers / Heavy Cream - split 7"
16. Tim Maia - Nobody Lives Forever: World Psychedelic Classics 4
17. Luella & The Sun - Luella & The Sun 10"
18. Beth Orton - Sugaring Season
19. Rayland Baxter - Feathers & Fishhooks
20. Turbo Fruits - Harley Dollar Bill$ 7"
21. Jack White - Blunderbuss
22. JD McPherson - Signs & Signifiers
23. Skyblazer - Album
24. Radiohead - King Of Limbs
25. Majestico - Love Is God 7" 

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Jack White Reveals 'I'm Shakin' Video Plus Tour












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Rolling Stones Announce Release Date of New Single ‘Doom and Gloom’








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