New Music Releases – February 4, 2014

+/- (Plus/Minus) - Jumping the Tracks
2 Pistols - Comin Back Hard
AAN - Amor Ad Nauseum
Abuela - True Colors (7")
Afterhours - Lowlife (vinyl)
Alden Penner - EXEGESIS
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies (reissue)
Alpha Steppa | Joe Ariwa | Lee "Scratch" Perry - Open Door (12")
Amy Black, This Is Home
Andreas Dorau - Aus der Bibliotheque (vinyl)
Andreas Dorau - Hauptsache Ich!: Retrospektive 1981-2014 (2xCD)
Aretha Franklin - The Queen Of Soul (4xCD)
Ásgeir - In The Silence (vinyl)
Augustines - Augustines (vinyl)
Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain (reissue) (vinyl)
Be Forest - Earthbeat
Beck - Morning Phase
Behemoth - The Satanist (2xLP)
Big Head Todd & the Monsters - Black Beehive
Black Dirt Oak - Wawayanda Patent (vinyl)
Blessure Grave - The Flashing (vinyl)
Blondfire - Young Heart (vinyl)
Bloodlet - Embrace (7")
Bombay Bicycle Club - See You Tomorrow
Boys Noize - Out of the Black The Remixes
Broken Bells - After the Disco (vinyl)
Brotherhood - The Complete Recordings (2-CD Set)
Caliban - Ghost Empire
Camper Van Beethoven - Key Lime Pie (reissue) (2xLP)
Camper Van Beethoven - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart (reissue) (vinyl)
Candice Glover - Music Speaks
Cassorla - Amigos EP
ceo - WONDERLAND
Cibo Matto - Hotel Valentine (vinyl)
Cymbals - The Age of Fracture (vinyl)
Dag Savage - E&J (2xLP)
Danilo Pérez, Panama 500 (Mack Avenue)
Death of Lovers - Buried Under a World of Roses (vinyl)
Denmark Vessey and Scud One - Cult Class (vinyl)
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration (reissue) (vinyl)
Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses (reissue) (vinyl)
Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward (reissue) (vinyl)
Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion (reissue) (vinyl)
Diamond Youth - Shake (7")
Dizzee Rascal/ Wen - Strings Hoe (Wen Refix)/Signal (12")
DJ Dister - Roll Wit Dis (2xLP)
DOA - Bloodied But Unbowed: The Damage to Date 1978-83
Dr. Hook - Icon
Duo de Twang - Four Foot Shack
Eric Dolphy - At the Five Spot Vol. 1 (vinyl)
Eric Paslay - Eric Paslay
Exmortus - Slave To the Sword
Family Fodder - Monkey Banana Kitchen (vinyl)
Family Fodder - Schizophrenia Party (vinyl)
Flight Facilities - Stand Still (feat. Micky Green) (12")
Floor - Floor (reissue) (vinyl)
For Today - Fight The Silence
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Piñata
Gardens and Villa - Dunes (vinyl)
Grand Magus - Triumph And Power
Grateful Dead - Dick's Picks Vol. 20 Capital Centre, Landover, MD 9/25/76
Have a Nice Life - The Unnatural World (vinyl)
Hawkwind - Spacehawks
Hidden In Plain View - Life In Dreaming (vinyl)
Ike Yard - Remix EP 3 (12")
J. Geils Band - Icon
Jamestown Revival - Utah (vinyl)
JBLA - Belleville EP (12")
Jel and Joasihno - Lay Down/Hypnotize Us (7")
Jeremy Messersmith - Heart Murmurs (vinyl)
Jerome LOL - Deleted/Fool EP
Jets - Midas Touch (12")
John Butler Trio - Flesh & Blood
Johnny Cash - American II: Unchained (vinyl)
Johnny Cash - American III: Solitary Man (vinyl)
Johnny Cash - American IV: The Man Comes Around (vinyl)
Johnny Cash - American Recordings (vinyl)
Johnny Cash - American V: A Hundred Highways (vinyl)
Johnny Cash - American VI: Ain't No Grave (vinyl)
Johnny Noise - The Day Is Coming (vinyl)
Juan Wauters - N.A.P. North American Poetry (vinyl)
Kate McGarry - Genevieve and Ferdinand
Katharsis - Suspension of Belief (vinyl)
Kim Carnes - Barking At Airplanes
Kim Carnes - Lighthouse
Lacrosse - Are You Thinking of Me Every Minute of Every Day (vinyl)
Les Claypool's Duo De Twang - Four Foot Shack (2xLP)
Leyla McCalla - Vari-Colored Songs: A Tribute to Langston Hughes
Little Mix - Salute
Little River Band - Icon
Live Skull - Cloud One (vinyl)
Lolawolf - Lolawolf (EP)
Madlib / Freddie Gibbs - Piñata
Mamas and the Papas - A Gathering of Flowers, The Anthology of the Mamas and the Papas
Marissa Nadler - July (vinyl)
Mark McGuire - Along the Way (vinyl)
Mary Lambert - Welcome to the Age of My Body
Mas Ysa - Worth (EP)
Maximo Park - Too Much Information
Megedeth - Icon
MF Doom - Special Herbs Vol. 3 and 4 (2xLP+7")
Mike Bloomfield - From His Head to His Heart to His Hands (3 CD)
Moonrise Nation - Moonrise Nation (EP)
Musi-O-Tunya - Give Love to the Children
Nicole Atkins - Slow Phaser (vinyl)
Nine Inch Nails - Recoiled (vinyl)
Nirvana - In Utero (45 RPM 20th Anniversary Edition) (2xLP)
Optimo - Dark Was the Night Sampler (12")
Orange Juice - Rip It Up (reissue) (vinyl)
Orange Juice - Texas Forever (reissue) (vinyl)
Orange Juice - The Orange Juice (reissue) (vinyl)
Orange Juice - You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever (reissue) (vinyl)
Otis Redding - The King Of Soul (4xCD)
Parker Millsap - Parker Millsap (vinyl)
Pat Metheny Unity Group - Kin
Patti LaBelle - Icon
Paul Rodgers - The Royal Sessions
Peace Creep - Peace Creep (12")
Peter Ulrich - The Painted Caravan
Pro Life - Overheated (7")
Prostitute Disfigurment - From Crotch To Crown
Public Enemy - Icon
Puce Moment - Puce Moment (2xLP)
Quicksilver Messenger Service - Fillmore Auditorium - November 5, 1996 (vinyl)
Richard Johnston - Foot Hill Stomp (vinyl)
Roxy Swain - Restless Hearts
Rudy Royston - 303
Sam Shalabi - Music for Arabs
Sampha - Too Much / Happens (7")
Scott H. Biram - Nothin' But Blood (vinyl)
Secret Colours - Positive Distraction Part I
Selda - Selda (vinyl)
Selda - Vurulduk Ey Halkim Unutma Bizi (vinyl)
Shin To Shin - Shin To Shin
Shoes This High - Straight to Hell (vinyl)
Shrapnel - The Virus Conspires
Smith - A Group Called Smith / Minus-Plus
Snowbird - Moon (2xLP)
Snowmine - Dialects
Sonny Rollins - Plus Four (vinyl)
Steve Miller Band - Live at the Carousel Ballroom
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
Sunn O))) and Ulver - Terrestrials
Sunroof! - Rock Power (vinyl)
Tanya Tucker - Icon
Temples - Sun Structures (vinyl)
The Bixby Knolls - The Bixby Knolls (vinyl)
The Caribbean - Moon Sickness
The Chain Gang Of 1974 - Daydream Forever
The Crash Years - Cope
The Districts - The Districts (vinyl)
The Dream Syndicate - The Day Before Wine and Roses
The Field - Cupid's Head Remixe I (12")
The Haden Triplets - The Haden Triplets
The Tower of Light - The Tower of Light (vinyl)
The Traps - Boom Pow Awesome Wow (vinyl)
Tim Larson - Vargar
Toby Keith - Icon
Todd Terje - It's the Arps EP (repress) (12")
Toni Braxton and Babyface - Love Marriage & Divorce
Trees - Sickness In
Troyka - Troyka
Truckfighters - Universe
Various Artists - 50 Weapons RMX 01-09 (2xLP)
Various Artists - From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert For Sandy Hook
Various Artists - Let No One Judge You: Early Recordings from Iran, 1906-1933 (4xLP)
Various Artists - Mandala Vol. 1, Polysonic Flows
Various Artists - Pop Ambient 2014 (vinyl)
Various Artists - Sweetheart 2014
Various Artists - The 78 Project: Volume 1 (vinyl)
Various Artists - This is the Town: A Tribute to Nilsson (volume 1) (vinyl)
Various Artists - Together Original Soundtrack Recording
Water Liars - Water Liars (vinyl)
Whiskey Myers - Early Morning Shakes
Wild Moccasins - 88 92 (vinyl)
Within Temptation - Hydra
Woodsman - Woodsman (vinyl)
Xiu Xiu - Angel Guts: Red Classroom (vinyl)
XO - Heart (vinyl)
Yautja - Songs of Descent
Young Fathers - Dead
Zex Model - Mind Slaughter (vinyl)

Vinyl Record News & Music Notes

still taking entries until the end of the week for the SoundStageDirect Led Zeppelin Vinyl Contest

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from our friends at MusicOnVinyl

Depeche Mode Catalog Reissued On Vinyl

'Enjoy the silence!' Yes, that's right, throughout this winter and spring BMG, in partnership with Music On Vinyl, will reissue the back catalog of Depeche Mode on vinyl.

Started back in 1980, Depeche Mode quickly made a name for themselves in the world of Pop, Rock, New Wave and Electronic music. Still selling out arenas all over the world, Dave Gahan, Martin Gore and Andrew Fletcher are responsible for one of the most unique catalogues in popular music.

From their debut album Speak & Spell through last year's Delta Machine, the band never plays by the book and always stays true to themselves. This has resulted in major hit singles like "Just Can't Get Enough", "People Are People", "Master And Servant", and "Walking In My Shoes", and culminated in the album Violator that produced massive worldwide hits like "Enjoy The Silence" and "Personal Jesus".

Starting on February 3rd with the albums Some Great Reward, Music For The Masses, Songs Of Faith And Devotion and Black Celebration, the trail of releases continues on March 24 with A Broken Frame, Ultra, Construction Time Again and Violator and ends on May 28 with Speak And Spell, Exciter, Playing The Angel and Sounds Of The Universe.

The albums will come in glossy gatefold sleeves with thick slabs of 180 gram black audiophile vinyl, all containing inserts and liner notes.

GRAND FUNK RAILROAD - LIVE -THE 1971 TOUR

In 1971, Grand Funk Railroad were the pinnacle of American Rock 'n Roll, selling out arenas of ecstatic fans all over the United States. This no-nonsense band from Michigan defined the sound of early working class Hard Rock groups with their over-the-top sound, Mark Farner's heavy riffing, hard-hitting bass lines of Mel Schacher and intricate funky drums of Don Brewer.

The Live: The '71 Tour recordings were made during ecstatic performances in Chicago, Detroit and New York's Shea Stadium. Highlights include the 15-minute Animals cover "Inside Looking Out", taking up the whole C-side, a blistering cover of The Stones' "Gimme Shelter" and the Grand Funk classic "Footstompin' Music".

What's more; this release has never been issued on vinyl before!

• 180 gram audiophile vinyl 
• Insert
• Available on vinyl for the first time!

VIOLENT FEMMES - 3

These Milwaukee rockers were the sound of troubled adolescent America in the '80s, releasing great albums filled with teenage angst en rebellious behaviour. After a three year period of absence, the group resurfaced in 1989 with 3, their fourth album.

Reconnecting with their original fanbase but expanding on their sound at the same time, 3 was the result of a band that was growing in their ambition and artistry. Gordon Gano, Brian Ritchie and Victor DeLorenzo called in the help of Peter Balestrieri on baritone sax and Sigmund Snopek II on keys. We've included a lyric sheet for good measure.

• 180 gram audiophile vinyl 
• Insert

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from our friends at PolyVinylRecords

Pre-Order Pillar Point Pillar Point CD/LP/Tape

On Pillar Point's self-titled debut album, the moody, melancholy electronica is the work of Throw Me the Statue founder Scott Reitherman.

Far more intimate than anything he's done previously, Reitherman's personal struggles add lyrical depth to dance floor-ready beats and textures that "...[splice] M83 and Washed Out with glorious results" (The Line of Best Fit).

You'll certainly agree with this description after checking out a few tracks, including "Eyeballs," "Cherry," and "Diamond Mine," via  Soundcloud.

Pre-orders for Pillar Point will be shipping soon, so pick up a copy of the Early Bird Edition 180-Gram Yellow vinyl (limited to 300).

The album, which is also available on CD and black tape, hits stores February 25.

Pre-Order Pillar Point Pillar Point 180-Gram Yellow LP at PolyVinylRecords

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from our friends at SlyVinyl

Typhoon – Hunger & Thirst // Limited Edition Orange Vinyl LP

The Spires – Eternal Yeah // Limited to 150 Clear Vinyl LP






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excellent article, well worth the time to read - from our friends in canada:

The rise of vinyl and why records sound ‘warm’ - This year the major labels get back on board with analog technology in a big way





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Toronto record label makes old disco new again

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nice write up from the great state of kansas:

q&a | Sherman Breneman, owner of the Vinyl Market

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cool project:

BANDS TO MELT PLASTIC TOY GUITARS INTO VINYL RECORDS

Norwegian rock bands Bigbang, Raga Rockers, Skambankt, Rumble in Rhodos and Atlanter have all teamed up for a pretty unique project. The bands share the notion that there are too many plastic toy guitars around today, but not enough vinyl releases.

Under the moniker Guitars need Heroes, the bands and leading Scandinavian retailer of musical instruments and music equipment 4Sound offer music lovers to donate plastic toy guitars, like the ones supplied with Guitar Hero and Rock Band games, which in turn will be melted into new vinyl releases.

The aim of the project is to encourage aspiring guitarists to start out with real six strings rather than plastic buttons on a fake guitar. Plastic guitar donors are offered substantial discounts on real guitar purchases at the 4Sound stores. The project also includes a vinyl release with all participating bands.

These unique records, all of which will be pressed by Northern Record Pressing, will be limited to 1,000 numbered copies on one sided transparent gray vinyl with multi-coloured splatter from the crushed up plastic toy guitars. The vinyl also includes a booklet with complete lyrics and guitar chords for all the songs.

Tracklisting:

Raga Rockers – Desperado Bigbang – Magic Hour Skambankt – Voodoo Rumble in Rhodos – Eternal Seesaw (Live) Atlanter – Kaktos

Short promotional video: http://vimeo.com/79717319

Source: www.musicnorway.no 

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from our friends at www.musicrecordshop.com

Top 10 Heavy Metal Vinyl Records at MusicRecordShop

1. Temple Of The Dog - Temple Of The Dog (2-LP)
2. Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Blood Lust
3. LYNYRD SKYNYRD - LAST OF A DYIN' BREED
4. Saxon - Denim & Leather
5. Slayer - Reign In Blood
6. IRON MAIDEN - POWERSLAVE (PICTURE DISC)
7. IRON MAIDEN - LIVE AFTER DEATH (PICTURE DISC)
8. HELMET - BETTY
9. HORSE LATITUDES - AWAKENING (2-LP)
10. Sabaton - Carolus Rex (2-LP)

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from our friends at www.vinylcollective.com

Top 10 Albums – February 3, 2014

Here are the Top 10 Albums sold at ShopRadioCast for the week of January 28 – February 3, 2014:

New Releases / Pre Orders:

1. Kanye West – 808s & Heartbreak 2XLP + CD
2. My Chemical Romance – May Death Never Stop You 2XLP + DVD
3. Cold War Kids – Robbers & Cowards LP
4. Chuck Ragan – Till Midnight LP
5. Blink 182 – Take Off Your Pants and Jacket LP & 3×7″
6. The Juliana Theory – Love 2XLP
7.  Beth Orton – Central Reservation 2XLP
8. Coil / Nine Inch Nails – Recoiled LP
9. Chuck Ragan – Non Typical 7″
10. Various Artists – Mad Men: On The Rocks Soundtrack (Import) LP

Back Catalog:

1. Brand New – The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me 2XLP
2. The Bouncing Souls – How I Spent My Summer Vacation LP
3. Brand New – Your Favorite Weapon LP
4. Bad Religion – Against the Grain LP
5. Blink 182 – They Came To Conquer Uranus 7″
6. Saves The Day – Stay What You Are LP
7. Frank Turner – England Keep My Bones LP
8. The Wonder Years – Manton Street 7″
9. The Wonder Years – Suburbia I’ve Give You All And Now I’m Nothing LP
10. Rival Schools – Found LP

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