New Vinyl Record and Music Releases - June 5, 2012

A Silent Film - Sand & Snow
Adaliah - Broken Families
Alan Jackson - Thirty Miles West
Alejandro Escovedo - Big Station
Alexandra Burke - Heartbreak On Hold
Altars - Conclusions
Amanda Mair - Amanda Mair
Architects - Daybreaker
Art vs. Science - Art vs. Science 
At The Drive-In - Vaya (vinyl)
BT - Laptop Symphony
Beach Boys - That's Why God Made the Radio
Beatles - Yellow Submarine (reissue) 
Bela Fleck - Across the Imaginary Divide
Belleruche - Rollerchain
Big K.R.I.T. - Live From The Underground
Black Sheep Wall - No Matter Where It Ends 
Bobby Brown - The Masterpiece
Brandi Carlile - Bear Creek
Bright Light Bright Light - Make Me Believe In Hope
Call Me No One - Last Parade
Candlemass - Psalms For The Dead
Chicane - Thousand Mile Stare
Chris Robinson Brotherhood - Big Moon Ritual (vinyl)
Circus Maximus - Nine
Clutch - Pigtown Blues 
CocoRosie - We Are On Fire/Tearz For Animals (7") 
Crocodiles - Endless Flowers
Curren$y - The Stoned Immaculate
Cypress Hill and Rusko - Cypress Hill x Rusko
David Bowie - Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust (remastered) (vinyl)
Dawes - North Hills
Delain - We Are The Others
Destroyer - Destroyer’s Rubies (vinyl reissue)  
Dexys - One Day I'm Going To Soar
Dio - Master Of The Moon (vinyl) 
Dntel - Aimlessness
Doldrums - Egypt (EP) 
Dying Fetus - Reign Supreme
Emeli Sande - Our Version Of Events
Eric Benet - The One
Eric Copeland - Limbo
Everything But the Girl - Baby the Stars Shine Bright (reissue)
Everything But the Girl - Idlewild (reissue)
Everything But the Girl - Love Not Money (reissue)
Everything But the Girl – Eden (reissue)
Fantastic Mr. Fox - San’en (EP)
Fear Factory - Industrialist
Felix Martin - Live in Boston
Friends - Manifest!
Grand Magus - The Hunt
Heart - Strange Euphoria (5-disc box set)
Hives - Lex Hives
Hortlax Cobra - Night Shift 
Ian McGlynn - Now We’re Golden
Jana Kramer - Jana Kramer
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Japandroids - Celebration Rock (vinyl)
Jettblack - Raining Rock
Jherek Bischoff - Composed
Joe Walsh - Analog Man
Julian Plenti - Julian Plenti Lives… (EP) 
Justin Vivian Bond - Silver Wells
Kaiser Chiefs - Souvenir
Kelli Scarr - Dangling Teeth 
Kelly Hogan - I Like To Keep Myself In Pain
Kid Gorgeous - Blue Romance
Kindness - World, You Need a Change of Mind (vinyl)
Kool Keith - Love And Danger
Kreator - Phantom Antichrist
Kylie Minogue - The Best Of Kylie Minogue
L.A. Guns - Hollywood Forever
Ladyhawke - Anxiety
Langhorne Slim & The Law - The Way We Move
Laurel Halo - Quarantine
Lenny Kravitz - Mama Said (reissue) 
Lettuce - Fly
Liars - WIXIW
Man Without Country - Foe
Marduk - Serpent Sermon
Melvins - Freak Puke
Michael The Blind - Are’s & Els
Momus - Bibliotek
Mykul Lee - Fortress
Mynabirds - Generals
Mystery Jets - Radlands
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Americana (vinyl)
New Bruises - Chock Full of Misery
O'Children - APNEA
Oberhofer - Time Capsules II (vinyl)
Oh No - Ohnomite
Patti Smith - BANGA
Paul Simon - Graceland (25th Anniversary Edition CD) (with bonus tracks)
Phobia - Remnants of Filth
Pomegranates - Heaven
Propaganda - Wishful Thinking
Pujol - United States of Being
Rhett Miller - The Dreamer
Rise To Remain - City of Vultures
River City Extension - Don’t Let the Sun Go Down on Your Anger 
Rodney Crowell - Kin: Songs by Mary Karr and Rodney Crowell
Scott Lucas and the Married Men - Blood Half Men
Shawn Colvin - All Fall Down
Sheer Agony - Sheer Agony (7") 
Shmu (of Zorch) - Discipline/Communication
Shonen Knife - Pop Tune
Skyline Pigeons - House of Mysteries
Soulsavers - The Light the Dead See (vinyl)
Souvenirs - Tired of Defending You
Spectrum Road - Spectrum Road
Squackett - A Life Within A Day
Stereo Total - Cactus Versus Brezel (vinyl)
Teen Daze - All Of Us, Together
Temper Trap - The Temper Trap
The Agonist - Prisoners
The Cory Smoot Experiment - When Worlds Collide
The Rocket Summer: Life Will Write the Words
The Walkmen - Heavy (vinyl)
Throw The Fight - What Doesn't Kill Me
Various Artists - Foggy Mountain Special: A Bluegrass Tribute to Earl Scruggs
Various Artists - Make It Your Sound, Make It Your Scene: Vanguard Records & The 1960s Musical Revolution (4-CD box set)
Various Artists - No More Tears: A Millennium Tribute To Ozzy Osbourne
Watain - Opus Diaboli
Xavier Rudd - Spirit Bird
Zaz - Zaz

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Bids Soar for Rare Sex Pistols Record | Top Auction

WhatSellsBest.com is reporting bidding has passed $11,000 on day-three of a seven-day auction for a rare vintage Sex Pistols Record (vinyl). Apparently, the price could go considerably higher.

WEBWIRE – Sunday, June 03, 2012

Bids have passed $11,000 for a vintage Sex Pistols record (vinyl) on day-three of a seven-day online auction. According to James Massey, publisher of a website tracking sales of rare items online, the price could go considerably higher.

The record, listed online as a 35-year-old 7 inch promotional acetate featuring the controversial song "God Save the Queen" and "No Feelings" by the English punk rock band ’The Sex Pistols,’ has an L.T.S. record label that is apparently a substantial rarity. According to the sellers listing; "This is one of only two copies known to exist"

Get more of the story at webwire.com

To see the Sex Pistols Record auction visit; WhatSellsBest.com

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Now Available!   Sundazed May 2012 New Releases


Artist: Jimmy Bryant

Title: The Fastest Guitar in the Country -  180 Gram Vinyl!


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ELECTRIFYING ULTRA-RARE ALBUM BY ’60S FRETBOARD GENIUS!

Fretboard fanatics...fret no more! Here at last is the album that christened Jimmy Bryant with the distinct moniker of "Fastest Guitar in the Country.” After a run of success with steel guitarist Speedy West on Capitol Records, Jimmy Bryant signed a solo contract with Imperial Records in the mid ’60s. While Bryant’s recordings with West established him as a fretboard genius, it was the 1967 release of The Fastest Guitar in the Country that left the disc jockey world wondering if his lighting speed was legitimate. Naysayers were left in awe as they witnessed Bryant’s dizzying technique at a DJ convention in Nashville.

Bryant’s frenzied fretboard flair is in full effect on his rendition of the classic “Sugar Foot Rag” and “Little Rock Getaway” bearing evidence as to why this is one of the most electrifying instrumental recordings of all time. Never before reissued, this collection of jazz-fueled country pickin’ is the ultimate testament of Jimmy Bryant’s gift to the guitar world. Sourced from the original Imperial stereo masters, Sundazed is proud to release this ultra-rare album on 180 gram vinyl.

Track Listing:
1. Twelfth Street Rag
2. Little Rock Getaway
3. Caravan
4. Down Yonder
5. Georgia Boogie
6. Orange Blossom Special
7. Tico-Tico
8. Indiana (Back Home Again In Indiana)
9. Ten Wheels
10. Stumbling
11. Voxwagon
12. Sugarfoot Rag

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Artist: The Soft Machine

Title: The Soft Machine - Compact Disc


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UNPRECEDENTED U.K. PSYCHEDELIC-PROGRESSIVE-JAZZ-ROCK!

The first two albums by England's legendary Soft Machine, originally released in 1968 and 1969, remain among the most innovative and influential releases of that musically fertile era. These seminal LPs offered a visionary psychedelic-progressive-jazz-rock mix that helped to make the Soft Machine one of Britain's first significant underground bands, as well as a key force in the birth of both progressive rock and jazz-rock.

A product of the same fabled Canterbury scene that spawned such beloved cult acts as Caravan and Hatfield and the North, the Soft Machine was the rare art-rock combo whose members possessed the instrumental skills to execute their ambitious musical ideas, as well as a playful sense of humor that balanced the band's complex compositions and adventurous improvisations. By the time they began making albums, the Soft Machine was already a sensation in the budding U.K. rock underground, thanks to their now-legendary performances at such fabled London clubs as the UFO, the Speakeasy and Middle Earth, where they shared stages with the likes of Pink Floyd and Tomorrow.

The Soft Machine, co-produced by Chas Chandler and Tom Wilson, announced the band's arrival on the international scene in fine style. With an unusual three-man lineup comprised of Kevin Ayers on bass and vocals, Robert Wyatt on drums and vocals, and Mike Ratledge on keyboards, the album was recorded in New York, while the band was touring North America with the Jimi Hendrix Experience. In contrast to the extended pieces that would later dominate the Soft Machine's repertoire, the album focuses on shorter, more concise songs that nonetheless provide plenty of room for the musicians to demonstrate their varied abilities.

This landmark gem has been out of print for decades, but now it is back in a meticulously packaged Sundazed compact disc edition. Mastered from the original analog tapes, this lovingly restored album sounds as powerful and imaginative as ever.

TRACK LIST:
1. Hope for Happiness
2. Joy of a Toy
3. Hope for Happiness (reprise)
4. Why Am I So Short?
5. So Boot If At All
6. A Certain Kind
7. Save Yourself
8. Priscilla
9. Lullabye Letter
10. We Did It Again
11. Plus Belle qu'une Poubelle
12. Why Are We Sleeping?
13. Box 25/4 Lid

ALSO AVAILABLE ON VINYL - LP 5341

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Artist: The Soft Machine

Title: Soft Machine Volume Two -  Compact Disc


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UNPRECEDENTED U.K. PSYCHEDELIC-PROGRESSIVE-JAZZ-ROCK!

The aptly titled Volume Two introduced a retooled Soft Machine lineup, with Wyatt and Ratledge joined by bassist Hugh Hopper, an old Canterbury friend who had guested on the first album. The sophomore disc finds the threesome moving towards a more explicitly jazz-influenced sound, with an increased emphasis on instrumental material. The album is bookended by a pair of extended compositions, "Rivmic Melodies" and "Esther's Nose Job," which are broken up into shorter individual tracks bearing whimsically arbitrary titles. That approach was suggested to the band by Frank Zappa, whose Mothers of Invention album Absolutely Free was reportedly an influence on Volume Two.

The first two albums by England's legendary Soft Machine, originally released in 1968 and 1969, remain among the most innovative and influential releases of that musically fertile era. These seminal LPs offered a visionary psychedelic-progressive-jazz-rock mix that helped to make the Soft Machine one of Britain's first significant underground bands, as well as a key force in the birth of both progressive rock and jazz-rock.

This landmark gem has been out of print for decades, but now it is back in a meticulously packaged Sundazed compact disc edition. Mastered from the original analog tapes, this lovingly restored album sounds as powerful and imaginative as ever.

A product of the same fabled Canterbury scene that spawned such beloved cult acts as Caravan and Hatfield and the North, the Soft Machine was the rare art-rock combo whose members possessed the instrumental skills to execute their ambitious musical ideas, as well as a playful sense of humor that balanced the band's complex compositions and adventurous improvisations. By the time they began making albums, the Soft Machine was already a sensation in the budding U.K. rock underground, thanks to their now-legendary performances at such fabled London clubs as the UFO, the Speakeasy and Middle Earth, where they shared stages with the likes of Pink Floyd and Tomorrow.

TRACK LIST:
1. Pataphysical Introduction – Part I
2. A Concise British Alphabet – Part I
3. Hibou, Anemone and Bear
4. A Concise British Alphabet – Part II
5. Hulloder
6. Dada Was Here
7. Thank You Pierrot Lunaire
8. Have You Ever Bean Green?
9. Pataphysical Introduction – Part II
10. Out of Tunes
11. As Long as He Lies Perfectly Still
12. Dedicated to You But You Weren't Listening
13. Fire Engine Passing with Bells Clanging
14. Pig
15. Orange Skin Food
16. A Door Opens and Closes
17. 10.30 Returns to the Bedroom

ALSO AVAILABLE ON VINYL - LP 5342

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Artist: Traffic

Title: Heaven Is In Your Mind/Mr. Fantasy -  Mono Edition Compact Disc

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U.S. VERSION OF LEGENDARY ALBUM FROM STEVE WINWOOD AND COMPANY IN MONO!

Traffic was one of the most original and influential British groups of the 1960s, gathering a diverse set of individual talents in vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Steve Winwood, singer/guitarist Dave Mason, drummer Jim Capaldi and reeds player Chris Wood. The foursome’s expansive talents and formidable creative chemistry allowed the musicians to integrate an array of folk, jazz, pop and R&B elements, infusing their eclectic stylistic mix with a playfully psychedelic spirit that perfectly captured the experimental sensibility of the times.

Traffic’s historic 1967 debut LP (produced by noted studio vet Jimmy Miller) was released in the U.K. as Mr. Fantasy, but initially reached U.S. shores in altered form as Heaven Is in Your Mind/Mr. Fantasy. The American edition featured an altered track listing and new cover art with Winwood, Capaldi and Wood but not Mason, who had quit the band prior to the album’s release.

The U.S. LP added the British singles “Paper Sun,” “Hole in My Shoe” and “Smiling Phases” to the album’s running order, along with a short snippet of the U.K. single “Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush” as a recurring motif between tracks. The American edition also tacked on the short closing track “We’re a Fade, You Missed This,” which is actually the fadeout of an alternate version of “Paper Sun.” The American LP’s title was quickly amended to Mr. Fantasy, and it was under that name that most stateside fans came to know the album, with the original U.S. edition becoming something of a rarity.

In any form, and under any title, Heaven Is in Your Mind/Mr. Fantasy ranks as one of the most audacious and inventive rock albums of its time. Such catchy tunes as “Paper Sun,” “Hole in My Shoe” and “Heaven Is in Your Mind” combine stylistic adventurousness with effortless melodic appeal, while more introspective numbers like “Dear Mr. Fantasy” and “Coloured Rain” capture early stirrings of prog-rock and jazz-fusion.

Sundazed’s new compact disc edition of this seminal vintage disc features the album’s incredibly rare mono mix, which differs substantially from the album’s more familiar stereo mix.

TRACK LIST:
1. Paper Sun
2. Dealer
3. Coloured Rain
4. Hole in My Shoe
5. No Face, No Name and No Number
6. Heaven Is in Your Mind
7. House for Everyone
8. Berkshire Poppies
9. Giving to You
10. Smiling Phases
11. Dear Mr. Fantasy
12. We’re a Fade, You Missed This

ALSO AVAILABLE ON VINYL - LP 5316 Mono Edition

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Artist: The Martian Denny Orchestra

Title: En El Espacio -  Compact Disc

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As John Sebastian noted in the Lovin’ Spoonful’s “Nashville Cats,” there are “13 hundred and 52 guitar pickers in Nashville.” And it’s pretty much unanimous that nearly every one of ’em would love to be playing in the Martian Denny Orchestra, whose blend of surf, spy and space sounds is quickly becoming an underground sensation in Music City.

Guitarist Eddie Angel shakes up the world of indie-rock with Los Straitjackets and the Planet Rockers. Guitarist Bob Irwin, the man behind famed reissue label Sundazed Music, is the fretboard whiz of New York’s Pluto Walkers. Dave Roe played bass for Johnny Cash and works the same magic for John Mellencamp and many others. Jim Hoke plays steel guitar and woodwinds for NRBQ, Toby Keith and others. The rock-solid beat comes courtesy of the mighty Jimmy Lester, the original skinsman of Los Straitjackets and now with Webb Wilder’s honky tonk hellions.

“Where else can you hear such dead-on, reverential treatment of instro classics by Duane Eddy, the Ventures, the Rockin’ Rebels and Santo & Johnny?” asks Irwin. Five minutes with the Martian Denny Orchestra makes one thing perfectly clear: the band fires 40-footer after 40-footer and hits nothing but net—every time!

TRACK LIST:Out Of Limits
On The Move
It Was A Very Good Year
Beach Walkin'
Yep!
Sealed With A Kiss
Crossfire
Brawl
The Warmth of the Sun
The 2000 Pound Bee (part2)
Town Without Pity
Wild Weekend

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nme.com is reporting:

The Beatles named the UK's biggest selling singles act of all time

The Beatles have been named the biggest selling singles act in the UK, since charts began 60 years ago in 1952.


The Fab Four pushed Elvis Presley into second place and Cliff Richard into third, in a new list compiled by the Official Charts Company, which is being broadcast this afternoon (June 4) on BBC Radio 2.

The Top 60 biggest selling singles acts in UK are:

1. The Beatles
2. Elvis Presley
3. Cliff Richard
4. Madonna
5. Michael Jackson
6. Elton John
7. Queen
8. Abba
9. David Bowie
10. Rihanna

Get the rest of the story and see the rest of the list at nme.com

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Black Light Burns new album on Vinyl from Brookvale Records!

Brookvale Records is proud to announce that we will be releasing the new Black Light Burns record on vinyl. We are releasing the vinyl for the new album “The Moment You Realize You’re Going To Fall” with license through their record label and our friends at Rocket Science Records. The first 1000 copies of new record will be on white vinyl and will also included in the package a free download card so you have download a version of the album as well.  The record is amazing and their best effort to date.  The CD and LP will be released on August 14th. You can pre order the white vinyl below.

PRE ORDER NOW TO GET ONE OF THE FIRST 1000 COPIES!

Artist – Black Light Burns
Title – The Moment You Realize You’re Going To Fall
Release Date – August 14th 2012
White Vinyl & Free Download Card

You can order Here

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Early MORTIIS Albums To Receive Vinyl Release


Nearly 20 years after its original release, cult-legend Mortiis' 'Ånden som Gjorde Opprør' is getting a limited edition vinyl reissue this summer via Italian label Ordo MCM.

The reissue will be limited to 500 copies, with 250 available in standard black and 250 in special swirl-colored vinyl.

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Soul Sacrifice Reveals New Album Cover Artwork

Soul Sacrifice is set to release their new album 'Carpe Mortem' on June 29th via Massacre Records. The album was mixed and mastered by Dan Swanö at the Unisound Studios in Sweden.

Tracklist1. Requiem
2. Bullet Proof
3. Comatose
4. OLB
5. Keske
6. Fly Forever (Pentagram Cover)
7. Society for Killing
8. Torture My Soul
9. Carpe Mortem
10. Sarcastic Existence
11. Exile








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great write-up by Tris McCall/The Star-Ledger at nj.com

Paul Simon's 'Graceland' boxed set revisits controversial and brilliant album

Read the story at nj.com

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my search for album cover art knows few boundries, i do not know about the group, but i love the cover art!

Grendel album cover artwork 'Timewave Zero.'