New Vinyl Record and Music Releases - June 21, 2011

Bon Iver's self-titled sophomore album tops a list of CVR Blog picks as well as Jill Scott's The Light Of The Sun, These Hearts with Forever Ended Yesterday, I Set My Friends On Fire with Astral Rejection and OK Go's 180/365.

Vinyl reissues include of Sugar's Copper Blue, The Tallest Man on Earth EP, two from Yes (Close to the Edge and Fragile), Radio Dept's Lesser Matters and My Morning Jacket's Celebracion De La Ciudad Natal.

Other vinyl releases this week include Beastie Boys with Hot Sauce Committee Part 2, Depeche Mode's Remixes 2: 81-11 (6 LPs), Sarah Jarosz with Follow Me Dow, Barn Owl's Shadowland, Levon Helm's double LP Ramble At The Ryman, Matt Bauer's The Jessamine County Book Of The Living and Pontiak's Comecrudos.

Plenty of hardcore metal this week including releases by Ed Gein with Bad Luck, August Burns Red's Leveler, Vanna with And They Came Baring Bones and Wolverine's Communication Lost; to name a few


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1,2,3 - New Heaven
Ace - Five A Side (2 CDs)
Anamanaguchi & Starscream - “My Skateboard Will Go On”/”Shred the Gnar (Into the Stars)” (7")
Ancestors - Invisible White
Atari Teenage Riot - Is This Hyperreal?
Attack! Attack! - The Latest Fashion
August Burns Red - Leveler
Bad Company - Straight Shooter (Gold CD)
Barn Owl - Shadowland (vinyl)
Beastie Boys - Hot Sauce Committee Part 2 (vinyl)
Bill Cosby - Icon
Billie Holiday - Icon
Bing Crosby - Icon
Blanck Mass - Blanck Mass
Blaq Poet - Blaq Poet Society
Bobby - Bobby
Bodies of Water - Twist Again
Bon Iver - Bon IVer
Buddy Guy - Icon
Carly Simon - No Secrets (Gold CD)
Cassettes Won’t Listen - EVINSPACEY
Centro-matic - Candidate Waltz
Cindy Bradley - Unscripted
Cliffie Swan - Memories Come True
Converge / Dropdead - split 7"
Cream - Icon
Dave Alvin - Eleven Eleven
Death - Human (remastered with bonus tracks)
Depeche Mode - Remixes 2: 81-11 6 LPs (vinyl)
Devin Townsend Project - Deconstruction
Devin Townsend Project - Ghost
Diamond Rings - Special Affections (reissue)
Digitalism - I Love You, Dude
Dinosaur Jr. - Bug (reissue)
Diva - Glitter End
Dr. Michael White - Adventures in New Orleans Jazz, Part 1
Dream Machine - Dream Machine
Ed Gein - Bad Luck
Elitist - Fear in a Handful of Dust
Elvis Presley - Real (3 CDs)
FM Belfast - Don’t Want To Sleep
Father's Children - Who's Gonna Save The World
Fit For An Autopsy - The Process Of Human Extermination
Follow That Bird - “Wooden Bones” (7")
Gary Nicholson - Texas Songbook
George "Harmonica" Smith - Teardrops Are Falling - Live In 1983
Giant Sand - Black Out: 25th Anniversary Edition (reissue)
Giant Sand - Glum: 25th Anniversary Edition (reissue)
Giant Sand - Goods & Services: 25th Anniversary Edition (reissue)
Girlyman - Everything's Easy (reissue)
Grieves - Together/Apart
Guano Apes - Bel Air
Head Cat - Walk the Walk…Talk the Talk
Helms Alee - Weatherhead
Holcombe Waller - Into the Dark Unknown (reissue)
INXS - Full Moon Dirty Hearts (remastered)
INXS - Swing (remastered)
I Set My Friends On Fire - Astral Rejection
Iceage - New Brigade
In Flames - Sounds Of A Playground Fading
Ingram Hill - Blue Room Afternoon
JEFF the Brotherhood - We Are the Champions
Jackmaster - Fabriclive 57
Jill Scott - The Light Of The Sun
Jim Lauderdale - Reason & Rhyme
Jim O'Rourke - Old News #5 (vinyl)
Jim O’Rourke & Oren Ambarchi - Indeed
John Paul Keith - The Man That Time Forgot
Jungle Rot - Kill On Command
Justin Moore - Outlaws Like Me
KXP - KXP (vinyl)
LMFAO - Sorry For Party Rocking
Larry Jon Wilson - New Beginnings / Let Me Sing My Song To You
Laura Cantrell - Kitty Wells Dresses: Songs of the Queen of Country Music
Laurel Halo - Hour Logic EP (vinyl)
Levon Helm - Ramble At The Ryman 2 LPs (vinyl)
Liam Finn - FOMO
MF Doom - Operation Doomsday (remastered 4-LP box set)(vinyl)
Madeline - Black Velvet
Making Friendz - Social Life
Matt Bauer - The Jessamine County Book Of The Living (vinyl)
Matt Nathanson - Modern Love
Matthew Shipp / Beans / William Parker / HPrizm - Knives From Heaven
Meekos & Me - Anxious Little Turtles
Megan Bonnell - Maps
Michael Bolton - Gems: The Duets Collection
Minerva Lions - Great Strides, Priestess & Queen (EP)
Miracle Parade - Hark!…And Other Lost Transmissions
Motorboater - Sport
My Morning Jacket - Celebracion De La Ciudad Natal (reissue) (vinyl)
Natalie Walker - Spark
New Years Day - The Mechanical Heart (EP)
Nickel Creek - Nickel Creek (remastered) (vinyl)
Nickel Creek - This Side (remastered) (vinyl)
Nickel Creek - Why Should the Fire Die (remastered) (vinyl)
Night Ranger - Somewhere in California
Nighty Nite - Dimples EP
OK Go - 180/365
Olivia Newton-John - Portraits: A Tribute to Great Women of Song
Pain - You Only Live Twice
Paleo - Fruit of the Spirit
Patsy Cline - Fingerprints (reissue)
Paul Hardcastle - Hardcastle VI
Peter, Paul & Mary - Weave Me the Sunshine (remastered)
Peter Furler - On Fire
Peter Tosh - Equal Rights: Legacy Edition (2 CDs)
Peter Tosh - Legalize It: Legacy Edition (2 CDs)
Phil Perry & Kevin Sanlin - For Those Who Love / We're The Winners
Pitbull - Planet Pit
Planks - The Darkest of Grays/Solicit to Fall
Pontiak - Comecrudos (vinyl)
Priory - Priory
Radio Dept .- Lesser Matters (reissue) (vinyl)
Righteous Brothers - Icon
Ron Banks - Truly Bad
Roxy Music - Manchester Manifesto (2 CDs)(reissue)
Rubblebucket - Omega La La
S.O.S. - I Owe You Nothing EP (Good Fight)
Sandy Denny - North Star Grassman & The Ravens (2 CDs)
Sarah Jarosz - Follow Me Down (vinyl)
Seun Kuti - From Africa With Fury: Rise
Seven Sisters Of Sleep - self/titled
Simple Plan - Get Your Heart On!
Sorry Bamba - Volume One 1970-1979
Sourvein - Black Fang
Spring Offensive - Pull Us Apart (reissue)
Steve Winwood - Icon
Stonewall Jackson - The Lonesome In Me
Stuvesant - Fret Sounds
Suede - A New Morning (reissue)
Suede - Coming Up (remastered with bonus CD & DVD)
Sugar - Copper Blue (reissue)(vinyl)
Symphony X - Iconoclast
Tally Hall - GOOD & EVIL
Teddybears - Devil’s Music
Telepathe - “Throw Away This”/”Destroyer” (7")
The Black Dahlia Murder - Ritual
The Black Rabbits - Hypno Switch
The Chain Gang of 1974 - Wayward Fire
The Crimson Armada - Conviction
The Get Up Kids - Simple Science (reissue)
The Grown Ups - Handholder
The Head - Hang On
The Hush Now - Constellations (reissue)
The Japanese Popstars - Allegiance
The Knux - Eraser
The Mast - Wild Poppies
The Nighty Nite - Dimples (EP)
The Parlotones - Live Design
The Tallest Man on Earth - The Tallest Man on Earth EP (reissue)(vinyl)
The View - Cutting Corners (EP)
These Hearts - Forever Ended Yesterday
These Trails - These Trails
Thin Lizzy - Icon
Through the Sparks - Almanac (MMX) Year of Beasts
Tim Easton & the Freelan Barons - Beat the Band
Turbid North - Orogeny (reissue)
Ty Segall - Goodbye Bread
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Unknown Mortal Orchestra
Vanessa Carlton - Rabbits On The Run
Vanna - And They Came Baring Bones
Various Artists - Chicago Blues: A Living History- The (R)Evolution Continues
Various Artists - Complete Pop Instrumental Hits Of The Sixties, Volume 1 - 1960 (3 CDs)
Various Artists - True Soul V.1: Deep Sounds From The Left Of Stax
Various Artists - Sympathy For Delicious
Viva Voce - The Future Will Destroy You
Waldo - Love Don't Grow On Trees
Weather Report - Live in Offenbach 1978 (2 CDs)
Weird Al Yankovic - Alpocalypse
When Saints Go Machines - Konkylie
White Hills - H-p1
Wild Moccasins - Skin Collision Past
Witches - Forever
Wolverine - Communication Lost
Wonderful - Wake Up to Dreamland
World’s End Girlfriend - Seven Idiots
Xibalba - Madre Mia Por Los Dias
YACHT - Shangri-La
Yes - Close to the Edge (reissue)
Yes - Fragile (reissue)
ZZ Top - Live In Germany 1980



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