new releases from our friends at Sundazed
Mike Condello did it all in four decades in the music business: serve as music director for two local Phoenix TV shows (Teen Beat and The Wallace & Ladmo Show), lead his own bands like Hub Cap and the Wheels, parody the Beatles with Commodore Condello’s Salt River Navy Band, and even play with luminaries like Keith Moon, the Tubes, and Jackson Browne. In 1968, he also led his own band — which released the psychedelic masterwork Phase 1 on Scepter Records. Featuring a young Bill Spooner (pre-Tubes) on guitar, the album flows and trickles through your mind with more saturation than Lucy and her diamonds in the sky — picking up a few nuggets, boulders, and pebbles in the emergent violet haze. The phases of this pricey rarity — mastered from the original analog reels and pressed on lush 180 gram vinyl by RTI — are guaranteed to put your mind into a psychedelized headswirl trip that you’ll want to take again and again
- RTI 180 gram audiophile pressing
- From the original master tapes
- Faithful reproduction of the original artwork
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Sgt. Pepper taught a lot of bands to play in 1967, including New York’s Paper Garden, whose absorption of the Fab Four’s Summer of Love statement came out on Musicor Records the following year. What Paper Garden can’t match in terms of the Beatles’ sophistication they make up for in ambition, as exhibited on the harpsichord-enhanced pop genius of “Lady’s Man,” orchestrated gems like “Way Up High,” the fuzz-pop-psych of “I Hide,” and Eastern grooves on “Man Do You” and “Raining.” With influences of the early Bee Gees and Brill Building pop also shading the proceedings, the album’s kaleidoscopic essence permeates every note — right down to the ultra-cool color-burst cover likely drawn under a pseudonym by Australian artist Martin Sharp of Disraeli Gears fame. That brilliant art can be viewed again in its full-size glory on this beautiful RTI 180 gram vinyl edition, mastered from the original Musicor reels by Bob Irwin.
- RTI 180 gram audiophile pressing
- From the original master tapes
- Faithful reproduction of the original gatefold LP jacket art
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Rooted in the steamy backroads of Texas and deep-fried at a Memphis recording studio, Joseph’s Stoned Age Man was served up like a sizzling hot rattlesnake appetizer slathered in fuzz-blooz grease in 1969. Legend has it that the titles of eight of the album’s nine songs came before they were written on the spot, which speaks volumes for the talents of Joseph (aka, Joseph Longeria) — who A&R man Steve Tyrell signed to Scepter Records after witnessing the Lone Star State bluesman gig with B.B. King and T-Bone Burnett. Brandishing his guitar like a Cro-Magnon’s club, Joseph mixes his fuzzy licks with meat-grinder vocals as he loudly ruminates of fattened snakes, fish heads, mountains, cavemen and gumbo in the maddest peyote hallucination Alley Oop never had. Long revered among collectors, this fine slab o’ rock gets its first-ever reissue from the original masters, pressed at RTI onto 180 grams of cold hard vinyl that’ll rip your turntable from its hinges.
- RTI 180 gram audiophile pressing
- From the original master tapes
- Faithful reproduction of the original artwork
Order at Sundazed
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from Suicide Squeeze Records
The third pressing of this LP is limited to 500 copies on translucent green vinyl and comes with a free download code. Each order comes with a Coathangers "Larceny & Old Lace" poster.
The Coathangers reckless energy from their half-serious roots is every bit as vibrant and rambunctious on their latest album, Larceny & Old Lace. But this time around we’re hearing a band that’s honed their trade and incorporated more stylistic variations. It’s also the band’s first experience in a proper studio; the album was recorded with Ed Rawls at The Living Room in Atlanta, Georgia. The result is a record that feels like The Coathangers we’ve always known and loved, but sounds like a band taking their trade more seriously. Where their past recordings were a mash-up of garage rock’s rough and loose instrumentation and no-wave’s abrasive tonalities, Larceny & Old Lace showcases a broader song-writing range. “Go Away” taps into a ‘60s girl-group sound. “Call to Nothing” employs the paint-peeling guitars, dance beats, and slightly ominous melodies of the early post-punk pioneers. “Well Alright” is reminiscent of Rolling Stones’ bawdy R&B strut. “Tabbacco Road” is perhaps the biggest leap for the band, completely eschewing their rabble-rousing strategy in favor of penning a pensive and somber ballad. With this broadened artistic horizon, refinement of technique, and Ed Rawls’ production allowing every instrument to shine without detracting from the band’s natural grit.
Order a copy at SuicideSqueezeRecords
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news from TouchandGoRecords
All 3,138 copies of the Slint Spiderland (remastered) Box Set were sold out long before the release date of April 15th, before receiving a perfect “10” on pitchfork.com, and before the 5-star review in the May issue of Mojo. Ever since early March, when we turned off the ability to pre-order the box set from our web site, the Touch and Go inbox has been overflowing with requests that we release a more modest version for those who missed out on, or could not afford, the limited edition box set.
In response, we are very excited to announce the June 24th release of Spiderland (remastered) as a single 180 gram vinyl LP + DVD (of the documentary “Breadcrumb Trail”), as a single CD + DVD, and as a digital album.
AND!!! For those who crave something just a bit more unique, are also be offering a Limited Edition GREEN & BLACK SWIRL 180 gram vinyl LP of Spiderland (remastered) + DVD, exclusively via pre-order here at the Touch and Go Records web store (while supplies last).
The vinyl + DVD version includes:
•Slint's 1991 album, Spiderland, remastered from the original analog master tapes by our friend Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service. This is the same version as was included in the Spiderland (remastered) Box Set.
•"Breadcrumb Trail”, the 90 minute DVD documentary about Slint before, during, and after the making of Spiderland, previously included in the Spiderland (remastered) Box Set, and directed by Lance Bangs.
•A download coupon for 14 bonus outtakes and demos personally selected by Slint and mastered by Bob Weston, as well as downloads of the entire Spiderland (remastered) album itself . These are digital files of the same versions of these songs as were included on vinyl & CD in the Spiderland (remastered) Box Set. The 14 bonus songs are not included on the vinyl album; they are included in this vinyl package as digital downloads only.
•Packaged in a heavy weight “tip-on” gatefold LP jacket with a large format, glued-in, 12 page book of photos including a foreword by Will Oldham and printed in the USA at Stoughton
•Packaging concept and design by Louisville native Jeremy deVine (of Temporary Residence fame)
•Spiderland (remastered) LP pressed on 180 gram black vinyl, or, limited edition 180 gram black & green swirl colored vinyl version available only via pre-order from this Touch and Go Records web store. Pressed in the USA at RTI
Place your order HERE
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Nearly two decades after its release, Seattle indie rock band Harvey Danger’s cherished debut full-length album, Where have all the merrymakers gone?, will be released on vinyl LP for the first time ever on July 29th via No Sleep Records.
The Vinyl packaging will feature new artwork, designed by band members Aaron Huffman, Evan Sult and Sean Nelson, that features the same house where the band lived together during their early years - as depicted in the original cover art - now updated to reflect the passage of time.
Originally released in 1997, the LP catapulted the young band to stardom with the massive radio and video success of their anthemic hit song “Flagpole Sitta.” The album has since sold over half a million copies with the single still receiving regular airplay on radio stations across the country.
For many critics, Harvey Danger’s history begins and ends with “Flagpole Sitta.” However, a revisitation of Where have all the merrymakers gone? reveals an album that transcends it’s most famous song with music that is smart, sardonic and dynamic and a band that was far more than simply a “one hit wonder.”
Harvey Danger emerged from the garages and basements of mid-'90s Seattle playing music that walked a line between indie-rock and pop-punk, with an uncommon emphasis on the clever, heartfelt lyrics. They never sought worldwide notoriety, but managed the best they could when it was thrust upon them. Simply put it was four kids, Aaron Huffman (bass), Jeff Lin (guitar), Evan Sult (drums) and Sean Nelson (vocals), who created a song and an album that made a mark on rock music and whose pleasures have only deepened with time.
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On June 10 Sonic Youth will reissue the original 2xLP and CD editions of Daydream Nation and the CD edition of Ciccone Youth’s The Whitey Album via the band’s own label distributed by Revolver/Midheaven.
Daydream Nation and The Whitey Album will be followed by LP and CD editions of Sonic Youth’s currently out-of-print pre-Geffen catalog including Bad Moon Rising, EVOL, Sister, Confusion is Sex and a DVD edition of Screaming Fields of Sonic Love w/ bonus material.
The last time Sonic Youth members appeared on stage together came in late 2013 when Thurston Moore performed with Lee Ranaldo at a London show.
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North America’s biggest vinyl manufacturer plans massive expansion
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from the great state of california:
Vinyl is still vital
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nice article from the great state of iowa:
Maximum Ames Records finds its groove with Iowa bandse
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vinyl record story from new zealand:
Alan Perrott: Just for the record
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from the land down under, a look at audio history:
Adelaide Remember When... we used to listen to music on vinyl!
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Soundtrack to David Lynch's 'Dune' Treated to Vinyl Reissue
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R.I.P. iPod: Sony unveils cassette tape that can hold 64,750,000 songs
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Vinyl Records Get Turned Into Scenes From “The Walking Dead”
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a comprehensive look at some of this year's record store day releases:
Exclusive Top 30 Vinyl Albums from Cake, Built to Spill, The Ramones, Tame Impala, Dinosaur Jr., Velvet Underground, Devo
