In association with Sneak Attack Media (http://www.sneakattackmedia.com/ ), I am very excited to announce a contest, where the winner will receive a vinyl copy of Twin Tiger's debut LP Gray Waves!
The contest is easy, just email me a list your five favorite bands from Athens, Georgia. The winner will be chosen via a random drawing of the entries received - it's that simple! Email your list to fonzie1957@charter.net with the words Twin Tigers in the subject line and you are entered into the drawing! Contest closes March 19th (noon next Friday), so get your entries in soon!
In the meantime, please check out their single "Passive Idol" here and their new video for "Red Fox Run"
“Passive Idol”:
www.daffodilpublicity.com/albums/TwinTigers.GreyWaves.PassiveIdol.mp3.zip
"Red Fox Run" Video:
Friday, March 12, 2010
Michael Fremer Album Review
Thanks to Michael over at http://www.musicangle.com for the exclusive rights to reprint this material.
Nirvana (reissue)
In Utero
DGC/ORG 180g LP (black or colored vinyl)
Produced by: Steve Albini
Engineered by: Steve Albini
Mixed by: Steve Albini (Scott Litt on "Heart Shaped Box" and "All Apologies"
Mastered by: Bernie Grundman at Bernie Grundman Mastering
Technician: Bob Weston
Review by: Michael Fremer
2010-03-01
Version #1:
When this Steve Albini recorded grunge classic was first submitted to DGC for release back in 1993 label execs where appalled by what they heard. The recording had an odd quality called dynamic range that they found disturbing.
Will the kids understand? Will it scare them? Is that why it disturbed them? Or was it that the shit they had for stereo gear in their offices simply couldn’t handle the dynamic swings.
You can’t believe the level of crap on which these so-called music loving record company executives monitored their recordings. I know. I visited many of them and was appalled by what I found.
“Steven Spielberg doesn’t screen his movies on a fucking bed sheet” I would holler in a vain attempt to get them to buy even a modestly performing music system but it was hopeless. Their excuse was that they wanted to hear it the way “the people” listened.
“Well then have a boombox too,” I yelled, “but listen to it the way it sounded in the recording studio!” (this was back in the days when there actually were recording studios).
In any case, version #1 has DGC, feeling the album was not commercially viable, forcing compression upon some tunes, disgusting both Albini and the band.
Version #2:
Having hired Steve Albini to produce a raw, less finely finished album than its predecessor, Nevermind, Nirvana left the Minnesota Pachyderm Studio with a raw product but one that didn’t fully satisfy them. The group felt the final product missed to some degree what they were aiming for and what they felt they’d laid down to tape.
Albini was happy though and he refused to further involve himself in the project. Version two has the band not DGC hiring engineer Scott Litt to make some minor changes, said to be compression, and to re-mix “Heart Shaped Box,” and “All Apologies.”
We’d want the truth to be closer to version #1 with the execs at Geffen appalled by what they heard because they wanted a commercial-sounding record like Nevermind and Cobain never wanting to go fishing for money in a swimming pool ever again, insisting instead upon an artistic statement and a record he’d want to go out and buy if he hadn’t made it himself.
But apparently Cobain’s original positive reaction to the unmastered tapes began to sour. He felt the bass was not sufficiently audible and the lyrics indecipherable. Bob Ludwig mastered the results at his Gateway Mastering facility in Portland, Maine but Cobain remain unconvinced.
Eventually the band chose to sweeten (if that word can apply to a Nirvana track!) and remix “Heart Shaped Box” and “All Apologies” and the album was supposedly mastered yet again, augmenting the bass and some speculate upping the vocals a few dB but how that can be done in the mastering process without a remix is unclear. Whatever happened, apparently Steve Albini wasn’t happy with the results. Search this website for an interview with Mr. Albini conducted a long time ago.
In Utero was issued in America on September 14th 1993 first on cassette and vinyl only (limited to 25,000 copies) and on CD a week later. Though it debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts neither K-Mart nor Wal-Mart would carry the album because of the cover art and the song title “Rape Me.” A revised version with different artwork and “Waif Me” instead of “Rape Me” was released in March of 1994 with the approval of the band.
Doug Sax cut the original vinyl release on his main lathe. The inner groove area shows the TML-M stamp. By that time Bob Ludwid had probably retired his lathe (bet he regrets doing so now!). Sax followed suit but as we reported in the news section, Sax has re-commissioned two lathes and is back cutting lacquers with AAA preview head capabilities.
As far as black versus colored vinyl, remember that PVC is clear. Carbon black or black dye is added to make records black. Yellow dye makes PVC yellow, blue makes it blue etc.
For some reason, it seems that whatever makes records black also holds a magnetic charge that can be neutralized with a special demagnetizer that clearly makes records sound quieter, deeper, richer and less edgy. Demagnetizing colored vinyl doesn’t seem to have any effect.
So assuming the vinyl formulation is the same except for the coloring agent (and that is an assumption), in fact, the colored vinyl should sound better until you demagnetize the black vinyl at which time they should sound identical and that’s exactly what I found.
As for the music, if you aren’t a fan, you’re not dropping $25 or $30 on something you don’t love. Are you? The album is hard pounding and thick, disturbing, unhappy, dark and spits in your face from the get go as Cobain sings “Teenage Angst has served me well, Now I’m bored and old.” It gets less cheerful from there, but always gripping and worthwhile.
Self-loathing has never been so entertaining or enduring. Get your best sounding dose here. And yes, even when it comes to this dark, messy stuff, sound matters!
Incredibly, tapes of the original version of the album made their way to Universal’s Hannover, Germany facilities and the German vinyl release contains the Albini mixes of “Heart Shaped Box” and “All Apologies” and the tunes in general sound less compressed and more like what one expects from Steve Albini than any of the subsequent American releases.
The copy I bought a few years ago (Geffen 424 536 -1) contains what sound like those original mixes of “Heart Shaped Box” and “All Apologies.” There are some substantial differences, most noticeable in a lingering, undulating feedback guitar line in “Heart Shaped Box’s break.
I can’t be sure if the German vinyl that’s currently available continues to be sourced from that original mixes but I am sure that these new ORG 180g releases on colored and black vinyl are the best sounding vinyl issues of the final mixes of In Utero and by a wide margin. Even the Mobile Fidelity gold CD sounds like a pale imitation. The dynamics are unrestrained (or as unrestrained as a mildly compressed mix can sound) and the inner detail resolution is stunning. The acoustic around Curt Cobain’s voice resolves to a degree not before heard.
Look, it’s grunge but the feedback drenched guitar lines should still sparkle and squeal and the drums should really pound with elasticity while the cymbals should shimmer with a crystalline clarity and stand out in the mix. Everything about this recording sounds better on these 180 gram reissues.
Copyright © 2008 MusicAngle.com & Michael Fremer - All rights reserved Reprinted by permission
Nirvana (reissue)
In Utero
DGC/ORG 180g LP (black or colored vinyl)
Produced by: Steve Albini
Engineered by: Steve Albini
Mixed by: Steve Albini (Scott Litt on "Heart Shaped Box" and "All Apologies"
Mastered by: Bernie Grundman at Bernie Grundman Mastering
Technician: Bob Weston
Review by: Michael Fremer
2010-03-01
Version #1:
When this Steve Albini recorded grunge classic was first submitted to DGC for release back in 1993 label execs where appalled by what they heard. The recording had an odd quality called dynamic range that they found disturbing.
Will the kids understand? Will it scare them? Is that why it disturbed them? Or was it that the shit they had for stereo gear in their offices simply couldn’t handle the dynamic swings.
You can’t believe the level of crap on which these so-called music loving record company executives monitored their recordings. I know. I visited many of them and was appalled by what I found.
“Steven Spielberg doesn’t screen his movies on a fucking bed sheet” I would holler in a vain attempt to get them to buy even a modestly performing music system but it was hopeless. Their excuse was that they wanted to hear it the way “the people” listened.
“Well then have a boombox too,” I yelled, “but listen to it the way it sounded in the recording studio!” (this was back in the days when there actually were recording studios).
In any case, version #1 has DGC, feeling the album was not commercially viable, forcing compression upon some tunes, disgusting both Albini and the band.
Version #2:
Having hired Steve Albini to produce a raw, less finely finished album than its predecessor, Nevermind, Nirvana left the Minnesota Pachyderm Studio with a raw product but one that didn’t fully satisfy them. The group felt the final product missed to some degree what they were aiming for and what they felt they’d laid down to tape.
Albini was happy though and he refused to further involve himself in the project. Version two has the band not DGC hiring engineer Scott Litt to make some minor changes, said to be compression, and to re-mix “Heart Shaped Box,” and “All Apologies.”
We’d want the truth to be closer to version #1 with the execs at Geffen appalled by what they heard because they wanted a commercial-sounding record like Nevermind and Cobain never wanting to go fishing for money in a swimming pool ever again, insisting instead upon an artistic statement and a record he’d want to go out and buy if he hadn’t made it himself.
But apparently Cobain’s original positive reaction to the unmastered tapes began to sour. He felt the bass was not sufficiently audible and the lyrics indecipherable. Bob Ludwig mastered the results at his Gateway Mastering facility in Portland, Maine but Cobain remain unconvinced.
Eventually the band chose to sweeten (if that word can apply to a Nirvana track!) and remix “Heart Shaped Box” and “All Apologies” and the album was supposedly mastered yet again, augmenting the bass and some speculate upping the vocals a few dB but how that can be done in the mastering process without a remix is unclear. Whatever happened, apparently Steve Albini wasn’t happy with the results. Search this website for an interview with Mr. Albini conducted a long time ago.
In Utero was issued in America on September 14th 1993 first on cassette and vinyl only (limited to 25,000 copies) and on CD a week later. Though it debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts neither K-Mart nor Wal-Mart would carry the album because of the cover art and the song title “Rape Me.” A revised version with different artwork and “Waif Me” instead of “Rape Me” was released in March of 1994 with the approval of the band.
Doug Sax cut the original vinyl release on his main lathe. The inner groove area shows the TML-M stamp. By that time Bob Ludwid had probably retired his lathe (bet he regrets doing so now!). Sax followed suit but as we reported in the news section, Sax has re-commissioned two lathes and is back cutting lacquers with AAA preview head capabilities.
As far as black versus colored vinyl, remember that PVC is clear. Carbon black or black dye is added to make records black. Yellow dye makes PVC yellow, blue makes it blue etc.
For some reason, it seems that whatever makes records black also holds a magnetic charge that can be neutralized with a special demagnetizer that clearly makes records sound quieter, deeper, richer and less edgy. Demagnetizing colored vinyl doesn’t seem to have any effect.
So assuming the vinyl formulation is the same except for the coloring agent (and that is an assumption), in fact, the colored vinyl should sound better until you demagnetize the black vinyl at which time they should sound identical and that’s exactly what I found.
As for the music, if you aren’t a fan, you’re not dropping $25 or $30 on something you don’t love. Are you? The album is hard pounding and thick, disturbing, unhappy, dark and spits in your face from the get go as Cobain sings “Teenage Angst has served me well, Now I’m bored and old.” It gets less cheerful from there, but always gripping and worthwhile.
Self-loathing has never been so entertaining or enduring. Get your best sounding dose here. And yes, even when it comes to this dark, messy stuff, sound matters!
Incredibly, tapes of the original version of the album made their way to Universal’s Hannover, Germany facilities and the German vinyl release contains the Albini mixes of “Heart Shaped Box” and “All Apologies” and the tunes in general sound less compressed and more like what one expects from Steve Albini than any of the subsequent American releases.
The copy I bought a few years ago (Geffen 424 536 -1) contains what sound like those original mixes of “Heart Shaped Box” and “All Apologies.” There are some substantial differences, most noticeable in a lingering, undulating feedback guitar line in “Heart Shaped Box’s break.
I can’t be sure if the German vinyl that’s currently available continues to be sourced from that original mixes but I am sure that these new ORG 180g releases on colored and black vinyl are the best sounding vinyl issues of the final mixes of In Utero and by a wide margin. Even the Mobile Fidelity gold CD sounds like a pale imitation. The dynamics are unrestrained (or as unrestrained as a mildly compressed mix can sound) and the inner detail resolution is stunning. The acoustic around Curt Cobain’s voice resolves to a degree not before heard.
Look, it’s grunge but the feedback drenched guitar lines should still sparkle and squeal and the drums should really pound with elasticity while the cymbals should shimmer with a crystalline clarity and stand out in the mix. Everything about this recording sounds better on these 180 gram reissues.
Copyright © 2008 MusicAngle.com & Michael Fremer - All rights reserved Reprinted by permission
Music News & Notes
RECORD STORE DAY '10: EMI to release JOHN LENNON, SEX PISTOLS Vinyl
We all know that RECORD STORE DAY (where "independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the art of music") takes place on April 17th this year, and the announcements of special releases has begun. EMI has revealed plans to issue limited-edition Vinyl releases for both JOHN LENNON and SEX PISTOLS.
John Lennon Singles Bag (limited edition), (Capitol/EMI); Individually numbered Kraftpak envelope with button & string closure; custom plastic adaptor hub. 24” x 36” poster + three postcards and three 45 RPM vinyl singles with replicated original artwork. Includes such tracks as “Mother,” “Imagine,” and “Watching the Wheels.”
Sex Pistols: The Great Rock ‘N’ Roll Swindle (limited edition),(Virgin/EMI); 180g double LP, gatefold. Among the 24 tracks are “God Save the Queen (Symphony),” ”Anarchy in the UK,” “(I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone,” “L’Anarchi Pour Le UK” and “The Great Rock ‘N’ Roll Swindle.”
Visit http://www.recordstoreday.com/ to learn more about this great event.
========================================
Dave And Tim Get A Vinyl Release
Dave Matthews And Tim Reynolds are contributing a release to Record Store Day. The release will feature "Squirm" and "Lying In The Hands Of God," according to Radio Active Records, and will be a 7" Vinyl. That's a little record for those not in the know. Both songs were recorded live from the 2009 Dave and Tim Las Vegas shows. The vinyl goes on sale at specific locations (see below) April 17 and should be priced around $3.49 (or so).
========================================
Pearl Jam & Band Of Horses To Tour
It's been announced that Band of Horses will open a bunch of dates for the grunge megastars in May. The Pearl Jam tour will start a couple of weeks before Infinite Arms, the third Band of Horses album, drops via Brown Records/Fat Possum/Columbia. Before they jump on the Pearl Jam tour, BoH will play a bunch of shows on both sides of the Atlantic, including SXSW dates and shows with Widespread Panic, She & Him, and Snow Patrol. We've got their dates below.
Band of Horses:
03-15 Boulder, CO - Fox Theater
03-16 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre
03-18 Austin, TX - Stubbs BBQ
03-19 Austin, TX - Central Presbyterian Church
04-08 Paris, France - La Fleche D'or
04-09 Brussels, Belgium - Orangerie
04-10 Rotterdam, Netherlands - Motel Mozaique
04-12 London, England - Koko
04-14 Cologne, Germany - Kulturkirche
04-16 Oslo, Norway - Rockefeller
04-17 Gothenburg, Sweden - Tradgarn
04-18 Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega
04-23 Raleigh, NC - Walnut Creek Amphitheater *
04-24 Raleigh, NC - Walnut Creek Amphitheater *
04-27 Gainesville, FL - University of Florida's Rion Ballroom
04-28 Miami, FL - The Fillmore
04-29 Orlando, FL - House of Blues
05-01 New Orleans, LA - Jazzfest
05-02 Memphis, TN - Beale Street Music Festival
05-03 Kansas City, MO - Sprint Center ^
05-04 St. Louis, MO - Scottrade Center ^
05-06 Columbus, OH - Nationwide Arena ^
05-07 Noblesville, IN - Verizon Wireless Music Center ^
05-09 Cleveland, OH - Quicken Loans Arena ^
05-10 Buffalo, NY - HSBC Arena ^
05-13 Bristow, VA - Jiffy Lube Live ^
05-15 Hartford, CT - XL Center ^
05-17 Boston, MA - TD Garden ^
05-21 New York, NY - Madison Square Garden ^
05-30 Bend, OR - Les Schwab Amphitheater %
05-31 George, WA - Sasquatch
06-05 Bangor, Ireland - Ward Park &
06-09 London, England - Roundhouse
06-12 Glasgow, Scotland - Bellahouston Park &
06-19 Toronto, Ontario - Olympic Island
09-25 Los Angeles, CA - Greek Theatre
* with Widespread Panic
^ with Pearl Jam
% with She & Him
& with Snow Patrol
========================================
BRIAN MAY, STEVE VAI To Guest On New MEAT LOAF Album
Roadrunner Records/Loud & Proud Records has recently announced the signing of rock and roll veteran MEAT LOAF. His new album, "Hang Cool Teddy Bear", whose title was taken from a line in "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls," is 13 tracks of classic Meat Loaf, primed and ready for the 21st century. More than four decades into his career, the man and his voice are as big, bold and relevant as ever. Meat Loaf has been a towering monument on the musical landscape for the past 35 years and his new deal with Roadrunner/Loud & Proud will allow him to retain his post as the pre-eminent voice in rock music and beyond.
For "Hang Cool Teddy Bear", the singer enlisted elite musicians, including THE DARKNESS frontman Justin Hawkins, who co-wrote two songs for the album, guitarists Tim Pierce, Paul Crook and Randy Flowers, legendary bass players Chris Chaney and Kasim Sulton, genius keyboardist Jamie Mulhoberac and one of the world's greatest rock drummers, John Micelli.
"Hang Cool Teddy Bear" is due out May 11 in the U.S.
========================================
As I Lay Dying - The Powerless Rise
Christian metallers As I Lay Dying will release their fifth full-length album THE POWERLESS RISE May 11 via Metal Blade Records. AS I LAY DYING is currently putting the finishing touches on THE POWERLESS RISE in San Diego with producer Adam Dutkiewicz of Killswitch Engage and they have also unveiled the cover art for their new album. THE POWERLESS RISE marks the follow up to their critically acclaimed fourth album An Ocean Between Us (Metal Blade) which debuted at #8 on the Billboard Top 200--the highest debut on the rock chart that week--and earned the group a Grammy® nomination for “Best Metal Performance” alongside metal heavyweights Slayer and King Diamond.
We all know that RECORD STORE DAY (where "independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the art of music") takes place on April 17th this year, and the announcements of special releases has begun. EMI has revealed plans to issue limited-edition Vinyl releases for both JOHN LENNON and SEX PISTOLS.
John Lennon Singles Bag (limited edition), (Capitol/EMI); Individually numbered Kraftpak envelope with button & string closure; custom plastic adaptor hub. 24” x 36” poster + three postcards and three 45 RPM vinyl singles with replicated original artwork. Includes such tracks as “Mother,” “Imagine,” and “Watching the Wheels.”
Visit http://www.recordstoreday.com/ to learn more about this great event.
========================================
Dave And Tim Get A Vinyl Release
Dave Matthews And Tim Reynolds are contributing a release to Record Store Day. The release will feature "Squirm" and "Lying In The Hands Of God," according to Radio Active Records, and will be a 7" Vinyl. That's a little record for those not in the know. Both songs were recorded live from the 2009 Dave and Tim Las Vegas shows. The vinyl goes on sale at specific locations (see below) April 17 and should be priced around $3.49 (or so).
========================================
Pearl Jam & Band Of Horses To Tour
It's been announced that Band of Horses will open a bunch of dates for the grunge megastars in May. The Pearl Jam tour will start a couple of weeks before Infinite Arms, the third Band of Horses album, drops via Brown Records/Fat Possum/Columbia. Before they jump on the Pearl Jam tour, BoH will play a bunch of shows on both sides of the Atlantic, including SXSW dates and shows with Widespread Panic, She & Him, and Snow Patrol. We've got their dates below.
Band of Horses:
03-15 Boulder, CO - Fox Theater
03-16 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre
03-18 Austin, TX - Stubbs BBQ
03-19 Austin, TX - Central Presbyterian Church
04-08 Paris, France - La Fleche D'or
04-09 Brussels, Belgium - Orangerie
04-10 Rotterdam, Netherlands - Motel Mozaique
04-12 London, England - Koko
04-14 Cologne, Germany - Kulturkirche
04-16 Oslo, Norway - Rockefeller
04-17 Gothenburg, Sweden - Tradgarn
04-18 Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega
04-23 Raleigh, NC - Walnut Creek Amphitheater *
04-24 Raleigh, NC - Walnut Creek Amphitheater *
04-27 Gainesville, FL - University of Florida's Rion Ballroom
04-28 Miami, FL - The Fillmore
04-29 Orlando, FL - House of Blues
05-01 New Orleans, LA - Jazzfest
05-02 Memphis, TN - Beale Street Music Festival
05-03 Kansas City, MO - Sprint Center ^
05-04 St. Louis, MO - Scottrade Center ^
05-06 Columbus, OH - Nationwide Arena ^
05-07 Noblesville, IN - Verizon Wireless Music Center ^
05-09 Cleveland, OH - Quicken Loans Arena ^
05-10 Buffalo, NY - HSBC Arena ^
05-13 Bristow, VA - Jiffy Lube Live ^
05-15 Hartford, CT - XL Center ^
05-17 Boston, MA - TD Garden ^
05-21 New York, NY - Madison Square Garden ^
05-30 Bend, OR - Les Schwab Amphitheater %
05-31 George, WA - Sasquatch
06-05 Bangor, Ireland - Ward Park &
06-09 London, England - Roundhouse
06-12 Glasgow, Scotland - Bellahouston Park &
06-19 Toronto, Ontario - Olympic Island
09-25 Los Angeles, CA - Greek Theatre
* with Widespread Panic
^ with Pearl Jam
% with She & Him
& with Snow Patrol
========================================
BRIAN MAY, STEVE VAI To Guest On New MEAT LOAF Album
For "Hang Cool Teddy Bear", the singer enlisted elite musicians, including THE DARKNESS frontman Justin Hawkins, who co-wrote two songs for the album, guitarists Tim Pierce, Paul Crook and Randy Flowers, legendary bass players Chris Chaney and Kasim Sulton, genius keyboardist Jamie Mulhoberac and one of the world's greatest rock drummers, John Micelli.
"Hang Cool Teddy Bear" is due out May 11 in the U.S.
========================================
As I Lay Dying - The Powerless Rise
This Date In Music History-March 12
Birthdays:
Paul Kantner - Jefferson Airplane (1942)
Liza Minnelli (1946)
James Taylor (1948)
Les Holroyd - Barclay James Harvest (1948)
Bill Payne - Little Feat (1949)
Jack Green - Pretty Things (1951)
Steve Harris - Iron Maiden (1956)
Marlon Jackson - Jackson Five (1957)
Graham Coxon - Blur (1969)
Ben Kenny - Incubus (1977)
Pete Doherty - Libertines/Babyshambles (1979)
They Are Missed:
Born on this day in 1917, Leonard Chess, the founder of the Chess record label, home to John Lee Hooker, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and Jimmy Reed. Chess died of a heart attack on October 16, 1969 (age 52).
In 1955, jazz saxophonist and composer Charlie Parker died of a heart attack in New York City while watching Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra on television. He was 34. The coroner who performed his autopsy mistakenly estimated Parker's 34-year-old body to be between 50 and 60 years of age. (After years of drug and alcohol abuse).
Born on this day in 1949, Mike Gibbins of Badfinger (died on Oct 4, 2005).
History:
The Dave Brubeck Quartet appeared for the first time at Carnegie Hall in New York City in 1955.
Buddy Holly & the Crickets recorded "Maybe Baby" in 1957.
Elvis-clone, Fabian, performed his hit "Turn Me Loose" on American Bandstand in 1959.
The Beatles played at the Granada Cinema in Bedford in 1963. Also on the bill, Chris Montez and Tommy Roe. John Lennon, suffering from a heavy cold, was unable to perform, so The Beatles set was rearranged so that George and Paul could sing the parts that John usually sang.
Sgt. Barry Sadler started a five-week run at #1 on the US album chart in 1966 with 'Ballads Of The Green Berets.'
In 1968, the Rolling Stones started recording their next single "Jumpin’ Jack Flash" with new producer Jimmy Miller at Olympic studios in London.
Paul McCartney married Linda Eastman at Marylebone Register Office in 1969. They then held a reception lunch at The Ritz Hotel, Paul then went to Abbey Road studios in the evening to work. George Harrison and his wife Patti were arrested on the same day and charged with possession of 120 joints of marijuana.
John Lennon made the headlines in 1974 after an incident at the Troubadour Club, LA. Out on a drinking binge with Harry Nilsson, Lennon hurled insults at the performing Smothers Brothers and punched their manager before being forcibly removed.
In 1977, the Sex Pistols were involved in a fight at London's Speakeasy Club with Bob Harris, presenter of BBC 2's The Old Grey Whistle Test resulting in one of the show's engineers needing 14 stitches in his head. Two days later Harris's solicitors contact Derek Green at A&M the bands record label. Harris's management also managed Peter Frampton, one of the label's top acts at A&M. Green discussed the matter with the company's two founders, Jerry Moss and Herb Alpert and the decision is made to cancel the Pistols contract and halt production of the bands first single, 'God Save The Queen'.
In 1983, Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler had her only UK No.1 single with a song written by Meatloaf's producer, Jim Steinman, 'Total Eclipse Of The Heart," which was also #1 in the US, (the only Welsh artist to score a US #1), Canada and Australia, the single sold over 5 million copies.
Rick Astley started a two week run at #1 on the US singles chart in 1988 with "Never Gonna Give You Up."
Nirvana and Tad appeared at the Town Pump in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1990.
Swedish group Ace Of Base started a six week run at #1 on the US singles chart in 1994 with "The Sign."
Boyz II Men were at #1 on the US album chart in 1995 with 'II.'
The album "Unplugged" was released by KISS in 1996.
In 1998, Korn served a cease-and-desist demand to a Michigan assistant principal, the high school and the school district who suspended a student for wearing a T-shirt that had the band's name on it.
In 2001, Judy Garland's "Over The Rainbow" was voted the Song Of The Century in a poll published in America. Musicians, critics and fans compiled the list by the RIAA.
In 2003, the Chinese government ordered the Rolling Stones to eliminate four songs from their upcoming performances in Shanghai and Beijing. The banned songs were "Brown Sugar," "Honky Tonk Women," "Beast of Burden," and "Let's Spend the Night Together."
In 2009, hundreds of fans queued at the O2 arena in London as Michael Jackson tickets went on sale to the public. The 50-year-old pop veteran had confirmed he would be playing a 50-date residency at the venue, beginning on 8 July 2009. Some 360,000 pre-sale tickets had already sold. Organisers said the This Is It tour had become the fastest-selling in history, with 33 seats sold each minute. Prices ranged from £170 to £10,000, but tickets bought directly from the singer's website cost up to £75. Jackson had said this would be the last time he would perform in the UK.
Paul Kantner - Jefferson Airplane (1942)
Liza Minnelli (1946)
James Taylor (1948)
Les Holroyd - Barclay James Harvest (1948)
Bill Payne - Little Feat (1949)
Jack Green - Pretty Things (1951)
Steve Harris - Iron Maiden (1956)
Marlon Jackson - Jackson Five (1957)
Graham Coxon - Blur (1969)
Ben Kenny - Incubus (1977)
Pete Doherty - Libertines/Babyshambles (1979)
They Are Missed:
Born on this day in 1917, Leonard Chess, the founder of the Chess record label, home to John Lee Hooker, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley and Jimmy Reed. Chess died of a heart attack on October 16, 1969 (age 52).
In 1955, jazz saxophonist and composer Charlie Parker died of a heart attack in New York City while watching Tommy Dorsey's Orchestra on television. He was 34. The coroner who performed his autopsy mistakenly estimated Parker's 34-year-old body to be between 50 and 60 years of age. (After years of drug and alcohol abuse).
Born on this day in 1949, Mike Gibbins of Badfinger (died on Oct 4, 2005).
History:
The Dave Brubeck Quartet appeared for the first time at Carnegie Hall in New York City in 1955.
Buddy Holly & the Crickets recorded "Maybe Baby" in 1957.
Elvis-clone, Fabian, performed his hit "Turn Me Loose" on American Bandstand in 1959.
The Beatles played at the Granada Cinema in Bedford in 1963. Also on the bill, Chris Montez and Tommy Roe. John Lennon, suffering from a heavy cold, was unable to perform, so The Beatles set was rearranged so that George and Paul could sing the parts that John usually sang.
Sgt. Barry Sadler started a five-week run at #1 on the US album chart in 1966 with 'Ballads Of The Green Berets.'
In 1968, the Rolling Stones started recording their next single "Jumpin’ Jack Flash" with new producer Jimmy Miller at Olympic studios in London.
Paul McCartney married Linda Eastman at Marylebone Register Office in 1969. They then held a reception lunch at The Ritz Hotel, Paul then went to Abbey Road studios in the evening to work. George Harrison and his wife Patti were arrested on the same day and charged with possession of 120 joints of marijuana.
John Lennon made the headlines in 1974 after an incident at the Troubadour Club, LA. Out on a drinking binge with Harry Nilsson, Lennon hurled insults at the performing Smothers Brothers and punched their manager before being forcibly removed.
In 1977, the Sex Pistols were involved in a fight at London's Speakeasy Club with Bob Harris, presenter of BBC 2's The Old Grey Whistle Test resulting in one of the show's engineers needing 14 stitches in his head. Two days later Harris's solicitors contact Derek Green at A&M the bands record label. Harris's management also managed Peter Frampton, one of the label's top acts at A&M. Green discussed the matter with the company's two founders, Jerry Moss and Herb Alpert and the decision is made to cancel the Pistols contract and halt production of the bands first single, 'God Save The Queen'.
In 1983, Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler had her only UK No.1 single with a song written by Meatloaf's producer, Jim Steinman, 'Total Eclipse Of The Heart," which was also #1 in the US, (the only Welsh artist to score a US #1), Canada and Australia, the single sold over 5 million copies.
Rick Astley started a two week run at #1 on the US singles chart in 1988 with "Never Gonna Give You Up."
Nirvana and Tad appeared at the Town Pump in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1990.
Swedish group Ace Of Base started a six week run at #1 on the US singles chart in 1994 with "The Sign."
Boyz II Men were at #1 on the US album chart in 1995 with 'II.'
The album "Unplugged" was released by KISS in 1996.
In 1998, Korn served a cease-and-desist demand to a Michigan assistant principal, the high school and the school district who suspended a student for wearing a T-shirt that had the band's name on it.
In 2001, Judy Garland's "Over The Rainbow" was voted the Song Of The Century in a poll published in America. Musicians, critics and fans compiled the list by the RIAA.
In 2003, the Chinese government ordered the Rolling Stones to eliminate four songs from their upcoming performances in Shanghai and Beijing. The banned songs were "Brown Sugar," "Honky Tonk Women," "Beast of Burden," and "Let's Spend the Night Together."
In 2009, hundreds of fans queued at the O2 arena in London as Michael Jackson tickets went on sale to the public. The 50-year-old pop veteran had confirmed he would be playing a 50-date residency at the venue, beginning on 8 July 2009. Some 360,000 pre-sale tickets had already sold. Organisers said the This Is It tour had become the fastest-selling in history, with 33 seats sold each minute. Prices ranged from £170 to £10,000, but tickets bought directly from the singer's website cost up to £75. Jackson had said this would be the last time he would perform in the UK.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Music News & Notes
4AD and Sub Pop Announce Record Store Day Releases Featuring Blonde Redhead, Gang Gang Dance, Dum Dum Girls and Soundgarden
Each year since 2008, music retailers have celebrated Record Store Day with special in-store performances and limited-edition releases from some of music's biggest names. This year, Record Store Day will fall on April 17, and it's shaping up to be a good one: we've already heard about Beach House's Zebra EP and Deerhoof's vinyl reissues.
Now, influential British label 4AD has jumped on board the Record Store Day bandwagon, announcing a new twelve-inch EP that compiles unheard songs from five artists on its roster. Entitled Fragments from a "Work in Progress, "it showcases unheard demos and teaser tracks from upcoming 4AD releases. This included new 4AD signings Ariel Pink and Gang Gang Dance, as well as Tune-Yards and the Big Pink.
Perhaps the most intriguing track on the EP is the Blonde Redhead demo "Not Getting There," which is the first recording the eclectic outfit ever made.
This compilation is only one of many releases the Seattle-based label is preparing for Record Store Day. Sub Pop will also be issuing:
* CocoRosie's "Lemonade" seven-inch, featuring a song from their upcoming album plus a cover of the Beach Boys' 1963 classic "Surfer Girl."
* The Album Leaf's There Is a Wind twelve-inch, brining together two new songs with two alternate takes of songs from this year's A Chorus of Storytellers.
* A split seven-inch with one song apiece from Dum Dum Girls and Male Bonding (both of whom will be playing at L.A.'s Origami Records).
* A seven-inch with two unreleased tracks by garage pop newcomers Happy Birthday.
* A reissue of Soundgarden's 1987 debut single "Hunted Down"/"Nothing to Say" on translucent orange vinyl.
Additionally, two vinyl 7" singles from the Peter Gabriel Scratch My Back project will be made available at retailers for Record Store Day on April 17. The first has Gabriel singing the Magnetic Field's Book of Love backed with Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Field's cover of Peter's Not One of Us. The second will have Peter's version of Bon Iver's Flume while Iver covers Gabriel's Come Talk to Me.
Perhaps the most intriguing of Sub Pop's Record Store Day releases is the live compilation Casual Nostalgia Fest. In 2008, the label celebrated its 20th anniversary with SP20, a festival in Seattle featuring performances from Sub Pop bands past and present. Casual Nostalgia Fest collects 19 songs taped live at the festival, including joints from Iron & Wine, Green River, Low, Flight of the Conchords, the Vaselines, Wolf Parade, and Blitzen Trapper. Proceeds from the CD go to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund. Check the tracklist below.
Casual Nostalgia Fest:
01 Green River: "Leech"
02 Wolf Parade: "Fine Young Cannibals"
03 The Vaselines: "Dying for It"
04 Obits: "Run"
05 Les Thugs: "Dirty White Race"
06 Eric's Trip: "Smother"
07 Beachwood Sparks: "You Take the Gold"
08 Blitzen Trapper: "Furr"
09 Flight of the Conchords: "Carol Brown"
10 Iron & Wine: "Woman King"
11 Constantines: "Why I Didn't Like August '93"
12 Seaweed "Baggage"
13 Grand Archives: "Dig That Crazy Grave"
14 Low: "Silver Rider"
15 The Helio Sequence: "Lately"
16 Kinski: "The Wives of Artie Shaw"
17 Pissed Jeans: "Caught Licking Leather"
18 Mudhoney: "The Open Mind"
19 Comets on Fire: "Dogwood Rust"
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Braid To Reissue First Two Albums On Vinyl
The emo godfathers in Braid are finally getting the reissue treatment they deserve. Polyvinyl Records has just announced the April 13 reissue of Braid's first two albums on vinyl. The reissue campaign comes in celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of the release of their 1995 debut, the 26 song Frankie Welfare Boy Age Five, whose song titles each start with a different letter of the alphabet. Braid's sophomore album, The Age of Octeen, as well as the posthumous two-volume odds-and-sods collection, Movie Music, will also be reissued. All of the releases will be available on black 180-gram vinyl as well as limited edition colored vinyl.
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Neu! Catalog Collected in Vinyl Box Set
Michael Rother and the late Klaus Dinger formed the Düsseldorf duo Neu! in 1971, after both musicians left Kraftwerk.
On May 10, Gronland will release a limited edition Neu! vinyl box set, offering a retrospective of the band's influential catalogue. The box includes all three of the duo's studio albums-- Neu!, Neu! 2, and Neu! '75-- as well as the previously unreleased LP Neu! '86, originally recorded in 1985 and 1986 and recently reworked by Rother, augmented by Rother and Dinger's most recent studio recordings. You'll also get Neu! '72, a previously unreleased 18-minute live maxi-single. There will also be a download code, so you'll get to listen to all this stuff on your morning commute.
A 36-page book includes Neu! photos from Anton Corbijn and Peter Lindbergh. And rounding out the package: A Neu! T-shirt and a stencil of the Neu! logo.
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Abcess LP and Cover Art
California's extreme death metal outfit, Abscess, have unleashed their latest spawn of punk infused metal, Dawn Of Inhumanity, in the US today, courtesy of Peaceville Records. Dawn Of Inhumanity is the band's sixth full-length studio album, since recording their first demos in 1994.
"Bursting through the boundaries of brutality, Abscess surpasses all previous efforts and presents a death metal masterpiece filled with insanity, violence, and mind blowing savagery," states Abscess drummer/vocalist, Chris Reifert.
Featuring former members of legendary bands Autopsy and Death, Abscess hail from Oakland California, joining together in 1994. They released their first studio album, Seminal Vampires And Maggot Men, in 1996.
Dawn Of Inhumanity was recorded at the famous Fantasy Studios, CA in October 2009, with experienced engineer Adam Munoz helping to produce this latest effort. The result is an unrivalled nightmare of raw experimental extremity. Including special guest vocal appearances by the Darkthrone duo, Nocturne Culto & Fenriz, this is twisted, dirty punk death without limits.
The cover art for Dawn Of Inhumanity was produced by top artist, Dennis Dread (Darkthrone, Autopsy), with booklet art courtesy of Abscess's own Chris Reifert (drums, vocals).
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Vintage vinyl sale to help library
The Friends of the Tippecanoe County Public Library will hold an LP record sale Saturday and Sunday at the downtown branch, 627 South St. More than 10,000 LPs, some dating to 1908, will be on sale. Many of the record albums come from the collection of the late Frank Arganbright, a former music columnist for the Journal & Courier.
The sale is the largest LP sale ever held at the library. There will be no advance sale.
Proceeds will go to the library.
THE HOURS
The LP sale will be held from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 1-6 p.m. Sunday.
SALE HIGHLIGHTS
LPs are sorted in three categories: Rock 'n' roll, classical and "everything else," including big bands, jazz, children's music, and country and western. Many albums have been cleaned and placed in protective sleeves.
About 3,000 of the vinyl records are in mint condition. There are more than 1,000 rock 'n' roll albums, including many from the '60s. More than 3,000 classical records will be on sale. There also are about 1,000 45 rpm records and about 1,000 78 rpm albums.
Prices start at 50 cents. Most items are priced at $2 or less.
On Sunday, all records will be half-price.
SILENT AUCTION
On Saturday, a progressive silent auction will be held on selected records.
Noteworthy albums include an autographed Dizzy Gillespie LP, the first U.S. and first Capitol albums from the Beatles, and two rare Glenn Miller big band sets.
There also are two 78 rpm records of famous Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley from the 1910s.
Featured will be a Carnegie Hall Library Classical Music collection, which includes 150 LPs.
Sounds like a great time, if you live in the area, make a point of stopping by!
Now, influential British label 4AD has jumped on board the Record Store Day bandwagon, announcing a new twelve-inch EP that compiles unheard songs from five artists on its roster. Entitled Fragments from a "Work in Progress, "it showcases unheard demos and teaser tracks from upcoming 4AD releases. This included new 4AD signings Ariel Pink and Gang Gang Dance, as well as Tune-Yards and the Big Pink.
Perhaps the most intriguing track on the EP is the Blonde Redhead demo "Not Getting There," which is the first recording the eclectic outfit ever made.
This compilation is only one of many releases the Seattle-based label is preparing for Record Store Day. Sub Pop will also be issuing:
* CocoRosie's "Lemonade" seven-inch, featuring a song from their upcoming album plus a cover of the Beach Boys' 1963 classic "Surfer Girl."
* The Album Leaf's There Is a Wind twelve-inch, brining together two new songs with two alternate takes of songs from this year's A Chorus of Storytellers.
* A split seven-inch with one song apiece from Dum Dum Girls and Male Bonding (both of whom will be playing at L.A.'s Origami Records).
* A seven-inch with two unreleased tracks by garage pop newcomers Happy Birthday.
* A reissue of Soundgarden's 1987 debut single "Hunted Down"/"Nothing to Say" on translucent orange vinyl.
Additionally, two vinyl 7" singles from the Peter Gabriel Scratch My Back project will be made available at retailers for Record Store Day on April 17. The first has Gabriel singing the Magnetic Field's Book of Love backed with Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Field's cover of Peter's Not One of Us. The second will have Peter's version of Bon Iver's Flume while Iver covers Gabriel's Come Talk to Me.
Perhaps the most intriguing of Sub Pop's Record Store Day releases is the live compilation Casual Nostalgia Fest. In 2008, the label celebrated its 20th anniversary with SP20, a festival in Seattle featuring performances from Sub Pop bands past and present. Casual Nostalgia Fest collects 19 songs taped live at the festival, including joints from Iron & Wine, Green River, Low, Flight of the Conchords, the Vaselines, Wolf Parade, and Blitzen Trapper. Proceeds from the CD go to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund. Check the tracklist below.
Casual Nostalgia Fest:
01 Green River: "Leech"
02 Wolf Parade: "Fine Young Cannibals"
03 The Vaselines: "Dying for It"
04 Obits: "Run"
05 Les Thugs: "Dirty White Race"
06 Eric's Trip: "Smother"
07 Beachwood Sparks: "You Take the Gold"
08 Blitzen Trapper: "Furr"
09 Flight of the Conchords: "Carol Brown"
10 Iron & Wine: "Woman King"
11 Constantines: "Why I Didn't Like August '93"
12 Seaweed "Baggage"
13 Grand Archives: "Dig That Crazy Grave"
14 Low: "Silver Rider"
15 The Helio Sequence: "Lately"
16 Kinski: "The Wives of Artie Shaw"
17 Pissed Jeans: "Caught Licking Leather"
18 Mudhoney: "The Open Mind"
19 Comets on Fire: "Dogwood Rust"
======================================
Braid To Reissue First Two Albums On Vinyl
The emo godfathers in Braid are finally getting the reissue treatment they deserve. Polyvinyl Records has just announced the April 13 reissue of Braid's first two albums on vinyl. The reissue campaign comes in celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of the release of their 1995 debut, the 26 song Frankie Welfare Boy Age Five, whose song titles each start with a different letter of the alphabet. Braid's sophomore album, The Age of Octeen, as well as the posthumous two-volume odds-and-sods collection, Movie Music, will also be reissued. All of the releases will be available on black 180-gram vinyl as well as limited edition colored vinyl.
======================================
Neu! Catalog Collected in Vinyl Box Set
Michael Rother and the late Klaus Dinger formed the Düsseldorf duo Neu! in 1971, after both musicians left Kraftwerk.
On May 10, Gronland will release a limited edition Neu! vinyl box set, offering a retrospective of the band's influential catalogue. The box includes all three of the duo's studio albums-- Neu!, Neu! 2, and Neu! '75-- as well as the previously unreleased LP Neu! '86, originally recorded in 1985 and 1986 and recently reworked by Rother, augmented by Rother and Dinger's most recent studio recordings. You'll also get Neu! '72, a previously unreleased 18-minute live maxi-single. There will also be a download code, so you'll get to listen to all this stuff on your morning commute.
A 36-page book includes Neu! photos from Anton Corbijn and Peter Lindbergh. And rounding out the package: A Neu! T-shirt and a stencil of the Neu! logo.
======================================
Abcess LP and Cover Art
"Bursting through the boundaries of brutality, Abscess surpasses all previous efforts and presents a death metal masterpiece filled with insanity, violence, and mind blowing savagery," states Abscess drummer/vocalist, Chris Reifert.
Featuring former members of legendary bands Autopsy and Death, Abscess hail from Oakland California, joining together in 1994. They released their first studio album, Seminal Vampires And Maggot Men, in 1996.
Dawn Of Inhumanity was recorded at the famous Fantasy Studios, CA in October 2009, with experienced engineer Adam Munoz helping to produce this latest effort. The result is an unrivalled nightmare of raw experimental extremity. Including special guest vocal appearances by the Darkthrone duo, Nocturne Culto & Fenriz, this is twisted, dirty punk death without limits.
The cover art for Dawn Of Inhumanity was produced by top artist, Dennis Dread (Darkthrone, Autopsy), with booklet art courtesy of Abscess's own Chris Reifert (drums, vocals).
======================================
Vintage vinyl sale to help library
The Friends of the Tippecanoe County Public Library will hold an LP record sale Saturday and Sunday at the downtown branch, 627 South St. More than 10,000 LPs, some dating to 1908, will be on sale. Many of the record albums come from the collection of the late Frank Arganbright, a former music columnist for the Journal & Courier.
The sale is the largest LP sale ever held at the library. There will be no advance sale.
Proceeds will go to the library.
THE HOURS
The LP sale will be held from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 1-6 p.m. Sunday.
SALE HIGHLIGHTS
LPs are sorted in three categories: Rock 'n' roll, classical and "everything else," including big bands, jazz, children's music, and country and western. Many albums have been cleaned and placed in protective sleeves.
About 3,000 of the vinyl records are in mint condition. There are more than 1,000 rock 'n' roll albums, including many from the '60s. More than 3,000 classical records will be on sale. There also are about 1,000 45 rpm records and about 1,000 78 rpm albums.
Prices start at 50 cents. Most items are priced at $2 or less.
On Sunday, all records will be half-price.
SILENT AUCTION
On Saturday, a progressive silent auction will be held on selected records.
Noteworthy albums include an autographed Dizzy Gillespie LP, the first U.S. and first Capitol albums from the Beatles, and two rare Glenn Miller big band sets.
There also are two 78 rpm records of famous Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley from the 1910s.
Featured will be a Carnegie Hall Library Classical Music collection, which includes 150 LPs.
Sounds like a great time, if you live in the area, make a point of stopping by!
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Articles of Interest
The Last Record Store
Valley-based Turn It Up! remains a successful outpost of old-school music-buying.
By Matthew Dube
He stole the entire Bob Dylan section.
The grizzled and affable gentleman—think Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart—in the oversized Celtics warm-up jacket was a fixture for several days in early 2001. He'd come into the Northampton Turn It Up! soon after I'd hung the Open sign and spend his mornings listening to music and chatting about everything from the weather to Kevin McHale to Fred Eaglesmith.
Then one day, as I was on the phone with another customer, he hurriedly disappeared up the stairs and onto the street. Instinctively I went and checked out the D section, as he'd previously been relaxing at one of the listening stations with a large pile of live Dylan CDs. Sure enough, it was empty. He'd ripped us off.
I sprinted out of the shop and found him—and the stack of Dylan—in the alleyway behind the store. Later I spoke with a policeman, recommended a few jazz CDs for someone's birthday, bought three boxes of dusty LPs, and helped an elderly man call a cab.
Just a typical day in the wacky life of a record store employee.......
Read the rest here: http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=11462
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A comprehensive report about record conventions and record collecting, certainly worth the time to read:
Preamble / By Way of Introduction
This paper represents a component of my research into vinyl record fairs and vinyl record collecting, work that has been ongoing for close to three years now. I was first drawn to record fairs as a burgeoning collector, but my research interest in records has grown beyond the phenomenological aspects of the consumption and collecting of musical recordings. Indeed, the question “Why do people collect records?” I find to be unsatisfying, if not because the answers are simple then because there are simply too many of them to be useful for a broader understanding of the forces at work.
Instead, I’m interested in what we can learn about music recordings as commodities in contemporary Western society through the study of record circulation; that is, the buying, selling, and collecting of records. What types of value and capital inform the exchange of musical recordings? To what degree are these processes of exchange dependent upon the subjective lived experiences, emotional lives, and individual interactions of and between individuals? And finally, in what ways can these subjectivities inform responsible research into musical cultures and communities?
This morning I will focus specifically on the experiences of record dealers—the collectors concerned with finding that mythical “compilation of every good song ever done by anybody” alluded to by the band LCD Soundsystem will have to wait patiently for the next conference—and my proposal, drawing from anthropologist Arjun Appadurai’s concept of commodity value, is that the exchange of records at record fairs is structured and disciplined by a broad confluence of mutable values, which differ from record to record and from dealer to dealer depending on their individual circumstances, their expectations of their customers, and their business philosophies. My findings are based on ethnographic research at Chicago-area record fairs conducted over the last three years, a number of interviews with record fair dealers and organizers, and a survey of 30 vendors at a record fair in April, 2009.
Read the rest here: http://atm4.net/?p=294
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Hot Wax – Vinyl Making a Comeback
By Bryan Reed
Perched behind his old Apple laptop and a glass counter filled with stickers and buttons emblazoned with the names of punk bands, Scott Wishart is an anomaly. Lunchbox Records, the Central Avenue storefront he owns, is one of an ever-slimming number of truly independent record stores. As the posters for local shows and indie-label releases plastered on the windows of the shop can attest, Lunchbox isn’t the place to go to pick up the latest T-Pain or Taylor Swift CDs. But that’s precisely what drives Wishart’s business.
As a specialty shop, Lunchbox has been largely unaffected by the record industry’s catastrophic fall from grace that began around the turn of the millennium when a kid named Shawn Fanning developed a little computer program he called Napster. Internet file-sharing boomed, then gave way to digital music sales through services such as iTunes. All the while, CD sales busted with little help from the antagonizing efforts of the Recording Industry Association of America. Big box stores like Best Buy and Wal-Mart continually downsize the floor space devoted to music. At large, the future of recorded music looks dismal.
But at Lunchbox, business is just fine, thanks in no small part to the store’s unique and eclectic offerings—and helped along by a surprising resurgence in the popularity of the most outmoded of recording formats, vinyl records. Wishart, who has been in the music retail business since 1997, says, “I’ve always bought records, but when I first started, records were on the way out. Labels, especially big ones, weren’t even releasing them and it kind of continued that way until a few years ago.”
Read the rest of this interesting article here: http://uptownclt.com/2010/03/hot-wax-vinyl-making-a-comeback/
Valley-based Turn It Up! remains a successful outpost of old-school music-buying.
By Matthew Dube
He stole the entire Bob Dylan section.
The grizzled and affable gentleman—think Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart—in the oversized Celtics warm-up jacket was a fixture for several days in early 2001. He'd come into the Northampton Turn It Up! soon after I'd hung the Open sign and spend his mornings listening to music and chatting about everything from the weather to Kevin McHale to Fred Eaglesmith.
Then one day, as I was on the phone with another customer, he hurriedly disappeared up the stairs and onto the street. Instinctively I went and checked out the D section, as he'd previously been relaxing at one of the listening stations with a large pile of live Dylan CDs. Sure enough, it was empty. He'd ripped us off.
I sprinted out of the shop and found him—and the stack of Dylan—in the alleyway behind the store. Later I spoke with a policeman, recommended a few jazz CDs for someone's birthday, bought three boxes of dusty LPs, and helped an elderly man call a cab.
Just a typical day in the wacky life of a record store employee.......
Read the rest here: http://www.valleyadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=11462
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A comprehensive report about record conventions and record collecting, certainly worth the time to read:
Preamble / By Way of Introduction
This paper represents a component of my research into vinyl record fairs and vinyl record collecting, work that has been ongoing for close to three years now. I was first drawn to record fairs as a burgeoning collector, but my research interest in records has grown beyond the phenomenological aspects of the consumption and collecting of musical recordings. Indeed, the question “Why do people collect records?” I find to be unsatisfying, if not because the answers are simple then because there are simply too many of them to be useful for a broader understanding of the forces at work.
Instead, I’m interested in what we can learn about music recordings as commodities in contemporary Western society through the study of record circulation; that is, the buying, selling, and collecting of records. What types of value and capital inform the exchange of musical recordings? To what degree are these processes of exchange dependent upon the subjective lived experiences, emotional lives, and individual interactions of and between individuals? And finally, in what ways can these subjectivities inform responsible research into musical cultures and communities?
This morning I will focus specifically on the experiences of record dealers—the collectors concerned with finding that mythical “compilation of every good song ever done by anybody” alluded to by the band LCD Soundsystem will have to wait patiently for the next conference—and my proposal, drawing from anthropologist Arjun Appadurai’s concept of commodity value, is that the exchange of records at record fairs is structured and disciplined by a broad confluence of mutable values, which differ from record to record and from dealer to dealer depending on their individual circumstances, their expectations of their customers, and their business philosophies. My findings are based on ethnographic research at Chicago-area record fairs conducted over the last three years, a number of interviews with record fair dealers and organizers, and a survey of 30 vendors at a record fair in April, 2009.
Read the rest here: http://atm4.net/?p=294
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Hot Wax – Vinyl Making a Comeback
By Bryan Reed
Perched behind his old Apple laptop and a glass counter filled with stickers and buttons emblazoned with the names of punk bands, Scott Wishart is an anomaly. Lunchbox Records, the Central Avenue storefront he owns, is one of an ever-slimming number of truly independent record stores. As the posters for local shows and indie-label releases plastered on the windows of the shop can attest, Lunchbox isn’t the place to go to pick up the latest T-Pain or Taylor Swift CDs. But that’s precisely what drives Wishart’s business.
As a specialty shop, Lunchbox has been largely unaffected by the record industry’s catastrophic fall from grace that began around the turn of the millennium when a kid named Shawn Fanning developed a little computer program he called Napster. Internet file-sharing boomed, then gave way to digital music sales through services such as iTunes. All the while, CD sales busted with little help from the antagonizing efforts of the Recording Industry Association of America. Big box stores like Best Buy and Wal-Mart continually downsize the floor space devoted to music. At large, the future of recorded music looks dismal.
But at Lunchbox, business is just fine, thanks in no small part to the store’s unique and eclectic offerings—and helped along by a surprising resurgence in the popularity of the most outmoded of recording formats, vinyl records. Wishart, who has been in the music retail business since 1997, says, “I’ve always bought records, but when I first started, records were on the way out. Labels, especially big ones, weren’t even releasing them and it kind of continued that way until a few years ago.”
Read the rest of this interesting article here: http://uptownclt.com/2010/03/hot-wax-vinyl-making-a-comeback/
Ask Mr. Music by Jerry Osborne
FOR THE WEEK OF MARCH 8, 2010
DEAR JERRY: Has anyone ever told you they keep a scrapbook of your columns? Well I do, and it is several hundred pages.
In one written about 10 years ago, you say that Billboard began using their Star Performer symbol (a.k.a., “bullet”) in mid-August 1958.
I raise the question because a book I read about Phil Spector states the first record to ever get a bullet, for strong upward movement on the chart, is “Hey Baby,” by Bruce Channel.
Since this is a 1962 hit, one of these accounts must be wrong, unless they refer to another chart.
Did Cash Box, for example, not begin using bullets until 1962?
While on the subject, did Pete Wingfield's “Eighteen with a Bullet” make it to No. 18 with a bullet on Cash Box, as it did on Billboard?
Of course I'll add your responses to my scrapbook.
—Julie Kenyon, Vincennes, Ind.
DEAR JULIE: How could you not, especially with you as a guest star this week?
For the week ending November 22, 1975, Joel Whitburn's “Hot 100 Billboard Charts” has Pete Wingfield, after 14 weeks on the survey, moving up five spots, from No. 23 to No. 18.
That same week, Cash Box showed Wingfield as jumping from No. 22 to No. 18.
It is reasonable to suspect the record would end up at 18 with a bullet on everyone's chart, that is if it were anywhere close to that number.
Of course dee jays enjoyed their only opportunity ever to say something like: this week “Eighteen with a Bullet” is really 18 with a bullet.
The following week “Eighteen with a Bullet” became 15 with a bullet, but that would be its peak position. Six weeks later it fell off the charts.
Examining the January and February 1962 charts, I find nothing unusual, bulletwise or otherwise, about “Hey Baby,” so I have no idea as to the meaning of what you read.
By then, both Billboard (August 1958) and Cash Box (February 1959) had used the bullet concept for three or more years, though neither magazine's symbol actually resembled a bullet.
You say it's a book about Phil Spector, but they must not have asked him about any of this. Surely he would recall the three consecutive weeks in November 1958, when his first hit, “To Know Him Is to Love Him” (Teddy Bears), had bullets on its way to No. 1.
I don't recall anyone saying they keep a scrapbook, though I know many do clip and save columns of interest. Your lasting attentiveness to the feature is very much appreciated.
DEAR JERRY: Among the tens of thousands of 20th century recording artists, it seems that someone with the same family name as mine would have had a hit record.
Several famous performers with uncommon names — Garfunkel; Zacherle; Humperdinck; Zappa; Kostelanetz; etc. — come to mind, yet we can't find even one successful Browning.
Is there one out there that we have overlooked? My family's honor is at stake here.
—Albert Browning, Towson, Md.
DEAR ALBERT: Life can be cruel.
Hopefully this confirmation of your worst fears, likely a devastating blow to Brownings everywhere, will be offset by knowing you have stumbled onto a great bar bet.
Even senior level musicologists would be shocked to learn that in 100 years no one named Browning ever had a hit record — in any of the mainstream fields of music.
If it's any consolation, it is not for lack of effort.
Here are some of your namesake artists with non-charting records, and their time period: Betty (1964); Bill (1957-'60); Bill Zeke (1957-'61); Dot (1961); and Harry Robert (1980).
There is also a group known only as Browning (1970-;71), and another named the Browning Sisters (1950s).
There are even a few 21st century Brownings you might want to know about: Admiral (2009); Andy (2009); Angie (2007); Bruno (2010); John (2009); and Mark (2001).
IZ ZAT SO? Two hit records also come to mind today, neither by a Browning but both about one.
First is a parody of the Coasters' “Charlie Brown,” titled “Charlie Browning.”
By the Young Men, this is about Charles Browning, a real-life football star at the University of Washington. It went to No. 1 in Seattle in December 1963.
Then there is Porter Wagoner's “Carroll County Accident,” in which a fictitious Walter Browning is killed in an auto crash.
Issued in late 1968, this juicy tale with a twist reached No. 2 nationally (C&W).
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 2010 Osborne Enterprises- Reprinted By Permission
DEAR JERRY: Has anyone ever told you they keep a scrapbook of your columns? Well I do, and it is several hundred pages.
In one written about 10 years ago, you say that Billboard began using their Star Performer symbol (a.k.a., “bullet”) in mid-August 1958.
I raise the question because a book I read about Phil Spector states the first record to ever get a bullet, for strong upward movement on the chart, is “Hey Baby,” by Bruce Channel.
Since this is a 1962 hit, one of these accounts must be wrong, unless they refer to another chart.
Did Cash Box, for example, not begin using bullets until 1962?
While on the subject, did Pete Wingfield's “Eighteen with a Bullet” make it to No. 18 with a bullet on Cash Box, as it did on Billboard?
Of course I'll add your responses to my scrapbook.
—Julie Kenyon, Vincennes, Ind.
DEAR JULIE: How could you not, especially with you as a guest star this week?
For the week ending November 22, 1975, Joel Whitburn's “Hot 100 Billboard Charts” has Pete Wingfield, after 14 weeks on the survey, moving up five spots, from No. 23 to No. 18.
That same week, Cash Box showed Wingfield as jumping from No. 22 to No. 18.
It is reasonable to suspect the record would end up at 18 with a bullet on everyone's chart, that is if it were anywhere close to that number.
Of course dee jays enjoyed their only opportunity ever to say something like: this week “Eighteen with a Bullet” is really 18 with a bullet.
The following week “Eighteen with a Bullet” became 15 with a bullet, but that would be its peak position. Six weeks later it fell off the charts.
Examining the January and February 1962 charts, I find nothing unusual, bulletwise or otherwise, about “Hey Baby,” so I have no idea as to the meaning of what you read.
By then, both Billboard (August 1958) and Cash Box (February 1959) had used the bullet concept for three or more years, though neither magazine's symbol actually resembled a bullet.
You say it's a book about Phil Spector, but they must not have asked him about any of this. Surely he would recall the three consecutive weeks in November 1958, when his first hit, “To Know Him Is to Love Him” (Teddy Bears), had bullets on its way to No. 1.
I don't recall anyone saying they keep a scrapbook, though I know many do clip and save columns of interest. Your lasting attentiveness to the feature is very much appreciated.
DEAR JERRY: Among the tens of thousands of 20th century recording artists, it seems that someone with the same family name as mine would have had a hit record.
Several famous performers with uncommon names — Garfunkel; Zacherle; Humperdinck; Zappa; Kostelanetz; etc. — come to mind, yet we can't find even one successful Browning.
Is there one out there that we have overlooked? My family's honor is at stake here.
—Albert Browning, Towson, Md.
DEAR ALBERT: Life can be cruel.
Hopefully this confirmation of your worst fears, likely a devastating blow to Brownings everywhere, will be offset by knowing you have stumbled onto a great bar bet.
Even senior level musicologists would be shocked to learn that in 100 years no one named Browning ever had a hit record — in any of the mainstream fields of music.
If it's any consolation, it is not for lack of effort.
Here are some of your namesake artists with non-charting records, and their time period: Betty (1964); Bill (1957-'60); Bill Zeke (1957-'61); Dot (1961); and Harry Robert (1980).
There is also a group known only as Browning (1970-;71), and another named the Browning Sisters (1950s).
There are even a few 21st century Brownings you might want to know about: Admiral (2009); Andy (2009); Angie (2007); Bruno (2010); John (2009); and Mark (2001).
IZ ZAT SO? Two hit records also come to mind today, neither by a Browning but both about one.
First is a parody of the Coasters' “Charlie Brown,” titled “Charlie Browning.”
By the Young Men, this is about Charles Browning, a real-life football star at the University of Washington. It went to No. 1 in Seattle in December 1963.
Then there is Porter Wagoner's “Carroll County Accident,” in which a fictitious Walter Browning is killed in an auto crash.
Issued in late 1968, this juicy tale with a twist reached No. 2 nationally (C&W).
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 2010 Osborne Enterprises- Reprinted By Permission
Music News & Notes
The Pipettes confirm new single, tour
The Pipettes have confirmed the details of their comeback single and a spring UK tour. The girl-group will release 'Stop The Music' on CD, limited edition red vinyl and download on April 19 through Fortuna POP. In support of the release and forthcoming album Earth vs. Pipettes, the band will play a number of live dates in April and May. The current lineup of The Pipettes features Gwenno Saunders and her younger sister Ani.
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Dan Deacon to Release Remix EP
Last year, Dan Deacon released the heady album called Bromst, a stark departure from the day-glo raveups he'd made in the past. Next month, a new EP will include remixes of a few tracks from Bromst.
On April 19, the British label Amazing Sounds will release the extremely limited Woof Woof EP-- just 500 vinyl copies are being pressed up worldwide
The EP will also include remixes from Allez-Allez and Luke Abbot. That's the cover art up there, and you can see the tracklist below.
Woof Woof:
01 Woof Woof (Original Mix)
02 Woof Woof (Hudson Mohawke Remix)
03 Build Voice (Allez-Allez Remix)
04 Surprise Stefani (Luke Abbott Remix)
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The Grascals Set New Album Release
The Grascals, one of bluegrass music's most highly awarded and acclaimed bands, will release their brand new CD, The Famous Lefty Flynn's, on Rounder Records March 30, just a few days before the band hits the road as a part of Hank Williams Jr.'s Rowdy Friends Tour, an opportunity that will showcase bluegrass music to tens of thousands of music fans. As a guest on the CD, Williams also joins the band for a quintessential country/bluegrass version of "I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome," written by his dad, Hank Williams, and the Father of Bluegrass, Bill Monroe.
Known for their seamless harmonies, soaring trios and stellar instrumental talents, The Grascals rose to critical acclaim in 2005 when they won Emerging Artist of the Year at the International Bluegrass Music Association Awards. This was only the beginning as they catapulted to the top of their genre, being named 2006 and 2007 Entertainers of the Year the following two years. The Boston Globe said, "DJs rhapsodize about The Grascals as though they were the second coming of Bill Monroe. The hype machine is at full throttle, but the Grascals justify every scrap of it… astonishing instrumentalists."
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Acid Tiger (members of Converge, Thursday) detail debut LP
More details have been announced regarding the upcoming debut from Acid Tiger. The band, which features Ben Koller (Converge, United Nations) and Lukas Previn (Thursday, The A.K.A.s, United Nations), will release their eponymous debut on April 27, 2010 through Deathwish Inc.
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Band of Horses Album to be released on May 18th by Brown Records/Fat Possum Records/Columbia Records
PRNewswire/ -- Band of Horses, the Low Country's premier rock n' roll outfit, will release their third full length LP, entitled Infinite Arms, on May 18th through Brown Records/Fat Possum Records/Columbia Records.
The album package will feature the photography of the band's long time collaborator Christopher Wilson.
Produced by Band of Horses with additional production from Phil Ek, mixed by Dave Sardy, and recorded over a 16-month period, the songs on Infinite Arms project the essence of the different locales across America that became the setting for the recording and songwriting process behind the album. The rich musical heritage of Muscle Shoals, AL, the sublime beauty of Asheville's Blue Ridge Mountains, the glamorous Hollywood Hills and the vast Mojave desert all influenced the sounds on Infinite Arms and helped yield the group's most focused and dynamic recordings to date. The serene woods of Northern Minnesota and the band's native Carolinas inspired the songwriting, lending the compositions an air of comfort and familiarity.
Band of Horses are Ben Bridwell, Creighton Barrett, Ryan Monroe, Tyler Ramsey and Bill Reynolds. Long time touring members of the group, Infinite Arms marks the recording debut of Ramsey and Reynolds, while Barrett and Monroe graced the last album, Cease to Begin. Through touring together in support of Cease to Begin and during breaks in the Infinite Arms recording process, the band have become a cohesive force with all members making invaluable contributions to the unmistakable sound that founder Bridwell has crafted since the band's inception. As Bridwell himself concedes, "in many ways, this is the first Band of Horses record."
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Artwork For Special Edition Of 1349's DEMONIOR Revealed
Norwegian black metal act 1349 have unveiled the cover art for the North American and European special edition of their upcoming album, "DEMONIOR." The album will be released by Indie Recordings throughout Europe on April 26, and by Prosthetic Records in North America on April 27.
For the band's fifth full-length release, 1349 decided to suck out the fiercest and most potent energies from every single member and surroundings, channeling it into songs that are pulsating with uncanny atmospheres, rawness and nerve shattering intensity. The whole process of getting the material on record was like one long, exhausting black magic summoning that could not be allowed to go wrong.
"DEMONOIR" is without a shadow of a doubt 1349's darkest, most sinister and brutal work to date, and in this case it comes to mean that the band has gone from the utterly extreme to the genre-expanding and mindboggling. Black Metal cannot, and will never be the same.
"DEMONOIR" will be available in North America as a digipack CD and a limited edition 12" picture disc LP.
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An email to my inbox:
The greatest political songs of all time
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/cultural-capital/2010/03/greatest-political-songs
We'd love their opinions on what is worthy, or unworthy, of canonisation.
A top 20 will be chosen by PSA members and a judging panel later in the month.
To mark its sixtieth birthday, the Political Studies Association is compiling a list of the greatest ever political songs. As you can see below, their longlist is a varied beast, ranging from Verdi's opera Aida, to the righteous Afrobeat of Fela Kuti, to Woody Guthrie's folky "This Land is Your Land" -- the latter a favourite of US progressives in the 1950s and 1960s that had a brief resurgence in 2009 when it was performed (including the "communist" verses) at Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony.
Annie Lennox & Aretha Franklin - "Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves"
Anon. - "Bella Ciao"
Barry McGuire - "Eve of Destruction"
Billie Holiday - "Strange Fruit"
Billy Bragg - "Which Side Are You on?"
Bob Dylan - "The Times They Are a-Changin'"
Bob Marley - "Redemption Song"
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
Carl Bean - "I Was Born This Way"
Cecil A Spring-Rice - "I vow to thee my country"
Charles A Tindley - "We Shall Overcome"
Charly GarcÃa - "Nos siguen pegando abajo"
Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle - "Le Marseillaise"
Donovan - "Universal Soldier"
Edwin Starr - "War"
Elvis Costello - "Tramp the Dirt Down"
Enoch Sontonga - "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika"
Eugène Pottier - "The Internationale"
Fela Kuti - "Zombie"
Gil Scott Heron - "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"
Horst Wessel - "Die Fahne hoch"
Jim Connell - "The Red Flag"
John Lennon - "Imagine"
Joni Mitchell - "Big Yellow Taxi"
Leornard Cohen - "The Partisan"
Li Youyuan - "The East is Red (???)"
Marvin Gaye - "What's Going on?"
Midnight Oil - "Beds Are Burning"
Nena - "99 Luftballons"
Nina Simone - "Mississippi Goddam"
Pete Seeger - "Where have all the flowers gone?"
Peter Gabriel - "Biko"
Plastic Ono Band - "Give Peace a Chance"
Public Enemy - "Fight the Power"
Randy Newman - "Political Science"
Rage Against the Machine - "Killing in the Name"
Robert Wyatt - "Shipbuilding"
Rolling Stones - "Gimme Shelter"
Sex Pistols - "God Save the Queen"
The Beatles - "Revolution"
The Clash - "Know Your Rights"
The Cranberries - "Zombie"
The Jam - "Eton Rifles"
The Police - "Invisible Sun"
The Special AKA - "Free Nelson Mandela"
The Strawbs - "Part of the Union"
Tracy Chapman - "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution"
U2 - "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
UB40 - "1 in 10"
Verdi - "Chorus of Hebrew Slaves"
Victor Jara - "Te Recuerdo Amanda"
William Blake - "Jerusalem"
Woody Guthrie - "This Land Is Your Land"
Stop by the site and add your own two-cents worth, there are many songs that can and should be included.
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/cultural-capital/2010/03/greatest-political-songs
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Dan Deacon to Release Remix EP
On April 19, the British label Amazing Sounds will release the extremely limited Woof Woof EP-- just 500 vinyl copies are being pressed up worldwide
The EP will also include remixes from Allez-Allez and Luke Abbot. That's the cover art up there, and you can see the tracklist below.
Woof Woof:
01 Woof Woof (Original Mix)
02 Woof Woof (Hudson Mohawke Remix)
03 Build Voice (Allez-Allez Remix)
04 Surprise Stefani (Luke Abbott Remix)
==========================================
The Grascals Set New Album Release
The Grascals, one of bluegrass music's most highly awarded and acclaimed bands, will release their brand new CD, The Famous Lefty Flynn's, on Rounder Records March 30, just a few days before the band hits the road as a part of Hank Williams Jr.'s Rowdy Friends Tour, an opportunity that will showcase bluegrass music to tens of thousands of music fans. As a guest on the CD, Williams also joins the band for a quintessential country/bluegrass version of "I'm Blue, I'm Lonesome," written by his dad, Hank Williams, and the Father of Bluegrass, Bill Monroe.
Known for their seamless harmonies, soaring trios and stellar instrumental talents, The Grascals rose to critical acclaim in 2005 when they won Emerging Artist of the Year at the International Bluegrass Music Association Awards. This was only the beginning as they catapulted to the top of their genre, being named 2006 and 2007 Entertainers of the Year the following two years. The Boston Globe said, "DJs rhapsodize about The Grascals as though they were the second coming of Bill Monroe. The hype machine is at full throttle, but the Grascals justify every scrap of it… astonishing instrumentalists."
==========================================
Acid Tiger (members of Converge, Thursday) detail debut LP
More details have been announced regarding the upcoming debut from Acid Tiger. The band, which features Ben Koller (Converge, United Nations) and Lukas Previn (Thursday, The A.K.A.s, United Nations), will release their eponymous debut on April 27, 2010 through Deathwish Inc.
==========================================
Band of Horses Album to be released on May 18th by Brown Records/Fat Possum Records/Columbia Records
PRNewswire/ -- Band of Horses, the Low Country's premier rock n' roll outfit, will release their third full length LP, entitled Infinite Arms, on May 18th through Brown Records/Fat Possum Records/Columbia Records.
The album package will feature the photography of the band's long time collaborator Christopher Wilson.
Produced by Band of Horses with additional production from Phil Ek, mixed by Dave Sardy, and recorded over a 16-month period, the songs on Infinite Arms project the essence of the different locales across America that became the setting for the recording and songwriting process behind the album. The rich musical heritage of Muscle Shoals, AL, the sublime beauty of Asheville's Blue Ridge Mountains, the glamorous Hollywood Hills and the vast Mojave desert all influenced the sounds on Infinite Arms and helped yield the group's most focused and dynamic recordings to date. The serene woods of Northern Minnesota and the band's native Carolinas inspired the songwriting, lending the compositions an air of comfort and familiarity.
Band of Horses are Ben Bridwell, Creighton Barrett, Ryan Monroe, Tyler Ramsey and Bill Reynolds. Long time touring members of the group, Infinite Arms marks the recording debut of Ramsey and Reynolds, while Barrett and Monroe graced the last album, Cease to Begin. Through touring together in support of Cease to Begin and during breaks in the Infinite Arms recording process, the band have become a cohesive force with all members making invaluable contributions to the unmistakable sound that founder Bridwell has crafted since the band's inception. As Bridwell himself concedes, "in many ways, this is the first Band of Horses record."
==========================================
Artwork For Special Edition Of 1349's DEMONIOR Revealed
For the band's fifth full-length release, 1349 decided to suck out the fiercest and most potent energies from every single member and surroundings, channeling it into songs that are pulsating with uncanny atmospheres, rawness and nerve shattering intensity. The whole process of getting the material on record was like one long, exhausting black magic summoning that could not be allowed to go wrong.
"DEMONOIR" is without a shadow of a doubt 1349's darkest, most sinister and brutal work to date, and in this case it comes to mean that the band has gone from the utterly extreme to the genre-expanding and mindboggling. Black Metal cannot, and will never be the same.
"DEMONOIR" will be available in North America as a digipack CD and a limited edition 12" picture disc LP.
==========================================
An email to my inbox:
The greatest political songs of all time
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/cultural-capital/2010/03/greatest-political-songs
We'd love their opinions on what is worthy, or unworthy, of canonisation.
A top 20 will be chosen by PSA members and a judging panel later in the month.
To mark its sixtieth birthday, the Political Studies Association is compiling a list of the greatest ever political songs. As you can see below, their longlist is a varied beast, ranging from Verdi's opera Aida, to the righteous Afrobeat of Fela Kuti, to Woody Guthrie's folky "This Land is Your Land" -- the latter a favourite of US progressives in the 1950s and 1960s that had a brief resurgence in 2009 when it was performed (including the "communist" verses) at Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony.
Annie Lennox & Aretha Franklin - "Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves"
Anon. - "Bella Ciao"
Barry McGuire - "Eve of Destruction"
Billie Holiday - "Strange Fruit"
Billy Bragg - "Which Side Are You on?"
Bob Dylan - "The Times They Are a-Changin'"
Bob Marley - "Redemption Song"
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
Carl Bean - "I Was Born This Way"
Cecil A Spring-Rice - "I vow to thee my country"
Charles A Tindley - "We Shall Overcome"
Charly GarcÃa - "Nos siguen pegando abajo"
Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle - "Le Marseillaise"
Donovan - "Universal Soldier"
Edwin Starr - "War"
Elvis Costello - "Tramp the Dirt Down"
Enoch Sontonga - "Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika"
Eugène Pottier - "The Internationale"
Fela Kuti - "Zombie"
Gil Scott Heron - "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"
Horst Wessel - "Die Fahne hoch"
Jim Connell - "The Red Flag"
John Lennon - "Imagine"
Joni Mitchell - "Big Yellow Taxi"
Leornard Cohen - "The Partisan"
Li Youyuan - "The East is Red (???)"
Marvin Gaye - "What's Going on?"
Midnight Oil - "Beds Are Burning"
Nena - "99 Luftballons"
Nina Simone - "Mississippi Goddam"
Pete Seeger - "Where have all the flowers gone?"
Peter Gabriel - "Biko"
Plastic Ono Band - "Give Peace a Chance"
Public Enemy - "Fight the Power"
Randy Newman - "Political Science"
Rage Against the Machine - "Killing in the Name"
Robert Wyatt - "Shipbuilding"
Rolling Stones - "Gimme Shelter"
Sex Pistols - "God Save the Queen"
The Beatles - "Revolution"
The Clash - "Know Your Rights"
The Cranberries - "Zombie"
The Jam - "Eton Rifles"
The Police - "Invisible Sun"
The Special AKA - "Free Nelson Mandela"
The Strawbs - "Part of the Union"
Tracy Chapman - "Talkin' 'bout a Revolution"
U2 - "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
UB40 - "1 in 10"
Verdi - "Chorus of Hebrew Slaves"
Victor Jara - "Te Recuerdo Amanda"
William Blake - "Jerusalem"
Woody Guthrie - "This Land Is Your Land"
Stop by the site and add your own two-cents worth, there are many songs that can and should be included.
http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/cultural-capital/2010/03/greatest-political-songs
This Date In Music History-March 10
Birthdays:
Dean Torrence - Jan and Dean (1940)
Pete Nelson - Flowerpot Men (1945)
Tom Scholz - Boston (1947)
Ted McKenna - Sensational Alex Harvey Band (1950)
Bunny Debarge - Debarge (1955)
Gail Greenwood - Belly/L7 (1960)
Jeff Ament - Pearl Jam (1963)
Neneh Cherry (1964)
Edie Brickell (1965)
Dave Krusen - Pearl Jam (1966)
Dylan Keefe - Marcy Playground (1970)
Timothy Z. Mosley - Timbaland (1971)
John Charles LeCompt - Evanescence (1973)
Jackson Burnley - Breaking Benjamin’s (1978)
Carrie Underwood (1983)
They Are Missed:
Younger brother of The Bee Gees, Andy Gibb, died in 1988. His death from myocarditis (inflammation of the heart) followed a long battle with cocaine addiction, which had weakened his heart.
American rhythm and blues singer Lavern Baker died from coronary complications in 1997 (age 57).
Danny Joe Brown, lead singer of Molly Hatchet, died of complications from diabetes at his home in Davie, FL in 2005. The 53 year-old singer joined Molly Hatchet in ’75. Three years later the group’s self-titled album went platinum.
History:
In 1956, RCA Records placed a half page ad in Billboard Magazine claiming that Elvis Presley was 'the new singing rage.' They were right.
Bruce Channel started a three week run at #1 on the US singles chart in 1962 with "Hey! Baby."
The Monkees held the #1 position on the US album chart in 1967 with 'More Of The Monkees.'
Cream played San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom in 1968. During the show they uncorked Robert Johnson’s Blues classic “Crossroads.” This version lands on the group’s studio/live “Wheels Of Fire” album. With vocals (and guitar) by Eric Clapton it is one of his signature songs.
Grand Funk Railroad recorded "Closer To Home" in 1970.
The Pink Floyd album 'Dark Side Of The Moon' was released in America in 1973, where it spent over 740 weeks on the chart over a 14-year period.
Pink Floyd’s “Animals” goes platinum in 1977.
Gloria Gaynor started a three week run at #1 on the US singles chart in 1979 with "I Will Survive." The song was originally released as the B-side to a song first recorded by The Righteous Brothers called "Substitute."
At the invitation of country star Porter Wagoner, James Brown performed at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville in 1979, singing "Your Cheatin' Heart", "Tennessee Waltz" and "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag."
Van Halen held the #1 position on the US singles chart in 1984 with "Jump."
In 1996, Alanis Morissette won Best Album for 'Jagged Little Pill', Best Female singer, Best Rock Album, Best songwriter and best single at the 25th Juno Awards held in Hamilton, Canada.
In 2000, Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde was arrested for leading an animal rights protest against the clothing firm Gap, who were accused of using leather from cows slaughtered 'illegally and cruelly'. The protest took place in a store in Manhattan. Oh, have a hamburger and shut up!
Also in 2000, The Daily Mail published pictures of Paul McCartney dancing with a cowgirl on the bar of a New York club. McCartney sang along to "Whole Lotta Shakin" through a megaphone and mimicked a strip tease in front of 100 onlookers.
Alanis Morissette went to #1 on the US album chart in 2002 with 'Under Rug Swept.'
In 2005, a survey carried out by Music Choice concluded that "Angels" by Robbie Williams was the song Britons would most like played at their funeral. Frank Sinatra's "My Way" was second and Monty Python's "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" was voted into third place.
Also in 2005, Michael Jackson arrived in court an hour late dressed in his pyjamas after being treated for a back injury. Jackson was attending the Santa Moria court for his child abuse trial.
In 2006, U2 heads Rolling Stone's list of Rock's Top 30 Moneymakers after bringing in an estimated $154.2 million during '05. The Rolling Stones ($92.5 million), the Eagles ($63.2 million), Paul McCartney ($56 million), Elton John ($48.9 million) round out the Top 5. Earnings are tabulated from concerts, recording sales and other income sources.
Billy Joel inducted John Mellencamp into the Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame in New York in 2008. "I was fortunate enough to write a couple of songs that connected with people," says the heartland singer. "People thought the songs were about them, and I want to thank those people." The Ventures, Dave Clark Five and Madonna (?) are also inducted. Mellencamp joins Joan Jett, John Fogerty and Joel in a tribute to the DC5.
In 2009, Tickets for a one-off gig by Sir Paul McCartney in Las Vegas sold out seven seconds after going on sale. The former Beatle was booked to perform at the opening of the New Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino on 19 April 2009 in-front of 4,000 fans.
The Runaways, based on the ‘70s female Punk band, is in theaters in 2010. Directed by Floria Sigismondi, the film stars Twilight's Kristen Stewart as guitarist Joan Jett, and Dakota Fanning as frontwoman Cherie Currie.
Dean Torrence - Jan and Dean (1940)
Pete Nelson - Flowerpot Men (1945)
Tom Scholz - Boston (1947)
Ted McKenna - Sensational Alex Harvey Band (1950)
Bunny Debarge - Debarge (1955)
Gail Greenwood - Belly/L7 (1960)
Jeff Ament - Pearl Jam (1963)
Neneh Cherry (1964)
Edie Brickell (1965)
Dave Krusen - Pearl Jam (1966)
Dylan Keefe - Marcy Playground (1970)
Timothy Z. Mosley - Timbaland (1971)
John Charles LeCompt - Evanescence (1973)
Jackson Burnley - Breaking Benjamin’s (1978)
Carrie Underwood (1983)
They Are Missed:
Younger brother of The Bee Gees, Andy Gibb, died in 1988. His death from myocarditis (inflammation of the heart) followed a long battle with cocaine addiction, which had weakened his heart.
American rhythm and blues singer Lavern Baker died from coronary complications in 1997 (age 57).
Danny Joe Brown, lead singer of Molly Hatchet, died of complications from diabetes at his home in Davie, FL in 2005. The 53 year-old singer joined Molly Hatchet in ’75. Three years later the group’s self-titled album went platinum.
History:
In 1956, RCA Records placed a half page ad in Billboard Magazine claiming that Elvis Presley was 'the new singing rage.' They were right.
Bruce Channel started a three week run at #1 on the US singles chart in 1962 with "Hey! Baby."
The Monkees held the #1 position on the US album chart in 1967 with 'More Of The Monkees.'
Cream played San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom in 1968. During the show they uncorked Robert Johnson’s Blues classic “Crossroads.” This version lands on the group’s studio/live “Wheels Of Fire” album. With vocals (and guitar) by Eric Clapton it is one of his signature songs.
Grand Funk Railroad recorded "Closer To Home" in 1970.
The Pink Floyd album 'Dark Side Of The Moon' was released in America in 1973, where it spent over 740 weeks on the chart over a 14-year period.
Pink Floyd’s “Animals” goes platinum in 1977.
Gloria Gaynor started a three week run at #1 on the US singles chart in 1979 with "I Will Survive." The song was originally released as the B-side to a song first recorded by The Righteous Brothers called "Substitute."
At the invitation of country star Porter Wagoner, James Brown performed at the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville in 1979, singing "Your Cheatin' Heart", "Tennessee Waltz" and "Papa's Got A Brand New Bag."
Van Halen held the #1 position on the US singles chart in 1984 with "Jump."
In 1996, Alanis Morissette won Best Album for 'Jagged Little Pill', Best Female singer, Best Rock Album, Best songwriter and best single at the 25th Juno Awards held in Hamilton, Canada.
In 2000, Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde was arrested for leading an animal rights protest against the clothing firm Gap, who were accused of using leather from cows slaughtered 'illegally and cruelly'. The protest took place in a store in Manhattan. Oh, have a hamburger and shut up!
Also in 2000, The Daily Mail published pictures of Paul McCartney dancing with a cowgirl on the bar of a New York club. McCartney sang along to "Whole Lotta Shakin" through a megaphone and mimicked a strip tease in front of 100 onlookers.
Alanis Morissette went to #1 on the US album chart in 2002 with 'Under Rug Swept.'
In 2005, a survey carried out by Music Choice concluded that "Angels" by Robbie Williams was the song Britons would most like played at their funeral. Frank Sinatra's "My Way" was second and Monty Python's "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" was voted into third place.
Also in 2005, Michael Jackson arrived in court an hour late dressed in his pyjamas after being treated for a back injury. Jackson was attending the Santa Moria court for his child abuse trial.
In 2006, U2 heads Rolling Stone's list of Rock's Top 30 Moneymakers after bringing in an estimated $154.2 million during '05. The Rolling Stones ($92.5 million), the Eagles ($63.2 million), Paul McCartney ($56 million), Elton John ($48.9 million) round out the Top 5. Earnings are tabulated from concerts, recording sales and other income sources.
Billy Joel inducted John Mellencamp into the Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame in New York in 2008. "I was fortunate enough to write a couple of songs that connected with people," says the heartland singer. "People thought the songs were about them, and I want to thank those people." The Ventures, Dave Clark Five and Madonna (?) are also inducted. Mellencamp joins Joan Jett, John Fogerty and Joel in a tribute to the DC5.
In 2009, Tickets for a one-off gig by Sir Paul McCartney in Las Vegas sold out seven seconds after going on sale. The former Beatle was booked to perform at the opening of the New Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino on 19 April 2009 in-front of 4,000 fans.
The Runaways, based on the ‘70s female Punk band, is in theaters in 2010. Directed by Floria Sigismondi, the film stars Twilight's Kristen Stewart as guitarist Joan Jett, and Dakota Fanning as frontwoman Cherie Currie.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
New Music Releases - March 9, 2010
1986 - Everybody Is Whatever I Think They Are
Abscess – Dawn of Inhumanity
Acrassicauda – Only the Dead See the End of the War (EP)
Al Stewart - Uncorked: Al Stewart Live
Alan Charing – Stitch
Alberta Cross - Broken Side of Time (vinyl)
Aloha - Home Acres (2-LP vinyl)
Ambrosia - Biggest Part of Me: Greatest Hits Live
Anais Mitchell - Hadestown
Andrew Graham & Swarming Bunch – Andrew Graham’s Good Word (vinyl version, limited to 500 copies)
Andy Williams - Unchained Melody (2 CDs)
Ashton, Gardner & Dyke - The Best Of
Before Their Eyes - Untouchable
Ben Harper - Live From the Montreal International Jazz Festival (CD & DVD)
Besnard Lakes – The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Beat the Devil's Tattoo (vinyl)
Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love
Bobby Darin - Original Album Series (5 CDs)
Breathing Process – Odyssey: (Un)Dead
Brenda Lee - Sweet Nothins
Broken Bells - Broken Bells (2-CD box set) (vinyl)
Burning Star Core - Papercuts Theater (vinyl)
Chieftains - San Patricio (CD & DVD)
Chieftans Featuring Ry Cooder - San Patricio (CD/DVD)
Choir of Young Believers - Claustrophobia
Chuck Berry - You Can't Catch Me
Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem - Finnegan's Wake
Cliff Richard & the Shadows - Move It
Coconuts - Coconuts (vinyl)
Dark Tranquillity – We Are the Void
Daughters – Daughters
Demon Hunter - World Is a Thorn
Deru - Say Goodbye To Useless
Diamond Rings: Wait & See b/w On Fire
EELS - Line in the Dirt (vinyl)
Ella Fitzgerald - Ira & George Gershwin Song Book
Eluveitie - Everything Remains: As It Never Was
Emanuel and the Fear – Listen
Empires – Bang (EP)
Epstein y El Conjunto – When Man Gets Full He Falls Asleep
Finntroll – Nifelvind
Fleshtones - It's Super-Rock Time! The IRS Years, 1980-85
Four Year Strong - Enemy of the World
Fraction – Moon Blood (vinyl version, limited to 1,000 copies)
Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers - Why Do Fools Fall in Love
Frightened Rabbit - The Winter of Mixed Drinks (vinyl)
Gama Bomb - Tales From the Grave in Space (available as a vinyl limited to 1,000 copies or limited-edition CD with bonus Half Cut EP)
Gary Allan - Get Off on the Pain
Goldfrapp – “Rocket” (single)
Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer (vinyl)
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach (CD & DVD)
Gyptian - Hold On
Harry Chapin - Original Album Series (5 CDs)
Hawkwind - Minneapolis 1989 (2 CDs)
Hawkwind - Sonic Attack (2 CDs)
Hollies - Midas Touch: The Very Best Of
Iggy & the Stooges - Anthology Box: Stooges & Beyond (2 CDs)
JJ - No 3 (vinyl)
Jason & the Scorchers - Halcyon Times
Jason Collett - Rat A Tat Tat (vinyl)
Jatun - Blanket of Ash (vinyl)
Javelin - 2 (vinyl)
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced (remastered with bonus DVD) (vinyl)
Jimi Hendrix - Axis Bold As Love (remastered with bonus DVD) (vinyl)
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland (remastered with bonus DVD) (2-LP vinyl)
Jimi Hendrix - First Rays of the New Rising Sun (remastered with bonus DVD) (2-LP vinyl)
Jimi Hendrix - Live At Woodstock (DVD)
Jimi Hendrix - Smash Hits (remastered)
Jimi Hendrix - Valleys Of Neptune (2-LP vinyl)
Joan Jett & Blackhearts - Greatest Hits (remastered)
Johnny Cash - American VI: Ain't No Grave (Vinyl)
Josh Rouse - El Turista (vinyl)
Judson Claiborne - Time and Temperature
Kartick & Gotam – Business Class Refugees
Ken Hensley - Eager To Please
Kissaway Trail - Sleep Mountain
Koot Hoomi - Koot Hoomi Presents: The Dark Side of Hall and Oates - A Tribute
Kristin Hersh - Murder, Misery and Then Goodnight (reissue)
Kristin Hersh - Strange Angels (reissue)
Lawrence Arabia – Chant Darling
Lay Low – Farewell Good Night’s Sleep
Lemonade – Pure Moods (EP)
Liars - Sisterworld (CD & DVD)
Librarians – Present Passed (Postfact)
Linda Ronstadt - Simple Dreams (Mobile Fidelity)
Longital – Gloria
Ludacris - Battle of the Sexes
Marty Wilde - Bad Boy
Mary Onettes - Islands (vinyl)
Method Actors - This Is Still It
Miles Davis - Live in Berlin 1969 (remastered)
Miles Kurosky - The Desert of Shallow Effects
Mimicking Birds - Mimicking Birds
Mindbenders - Groovy Kind Of Love
Monica - Still Standing
Morning Benders - Big Echo (vinyl)
Nervous Curtains - Out of Sync With Time (vinyl)
New Young Pony Club - The Optimist (vinyl)
Numero Group - Good God! Born Again Funk
Ortolan - Time On a String
Os Mutantes - E Seus Cometas No Pais Do Baurets (vinyl)
Patti Dahlstrom - Emotion: the Music of
Patty Larkin - 25
Pavement - Brighten the Corners (vinyl reissue)
Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain (vinyl reissue)
Pavement - Quarantine the Past: The Best of Pavement (2-LP vinyl)
Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted (vinyl reissue)
Pavement - Terror Twilight (vinyl reissue)
Pavement - Watery Domestic (vinyl reissue)
Pavement - Wowee Zowee (vinyl reissue)
Pearly Gate Music – ?Big Escape (limited-edition 7-inch single)
Peter, Paul & Mary - With Symphony Orchestra: Prague
Pocket Featuring Danny Seim - Backwards From Ten
Pocket Featuring Mark Burgess - A Force Of Nature
Randal Bramblett - The Meantime
Redman - Reggie Noble 9 ½
Rotting Christ - Aealo
Sam Cooke - Night Beat (Vinyl)
Sectioned – Purulent Reality
Serge Gainsbourg - L'eau a La Bouche (reissue)
Serj Tankian - Elect the Dead Symphony (2-LP vinyl)
Shooter Jennings & Hierophan -: Black Ribbons
Standard Fare - The Novelle Beat
Stephen Stills & Manassas - Manassas (2 LPs) (Vinyl)
Tanlines – Settings (EP)
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The Brutalist Bricks (vinyl)
The Bundles - The Bundles (vinyl)
The Ex & Tom Cora - Scrabbling at the Lock (vinyl)
The Knife - Tomorrow, In A Year
The Pharmacy - Weekend
The Splinters – Kick
Throwing Muses - Red Heaven
Throwing Muses - The Real Ramona
Thrushes - Night Falls
Thunder Power – Hearts Intersect
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor (vinyl)
Various Artists - Buddha Lounge Renditions of Coldplay
Various Artists - Ceremony - A New Order Tribute
Various Artists - Ethiopiques
Various Artists - Putumayo Kids Presents: Jazz Playground
Via Audio - Animalore (vinyl)
Violent Soho - Violent Soho
White Hinterland - Kairos (vinyl)
Who - The Kids Are Alright (Blu-ray DVD)
Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings - Country Outlaws (Tin)
Woodpigeon – Die Stadt Muzikanten
Year Long Disaster – Black Magic: All Mysteries Revealed
Zola Jesus – Stridulum (EP)
Buy Vinyl Here: http://www.insound.com/index.php?from=5141
Abscess – Dawn of Inhumanity
Acrassicauda – Only the Dead See the End of the War (EP)
Al Stewart - Uncorked: Al Stewart Live
Alan Charing – Stitch
Alberta Cross - Broken Side of Time (vinyl)
Aloha - Home Acres (2-LP vinyl)
Ambrosia - Biggest Part of Me: Greatest Hits Live
Anais Mitchell - Hadestown
Andrew Graham & Swarming Bunch – Andrew Graham’s Good Word (vinyl version, limited to 500 copies)
Andy Williams - Unchained Melody (2 CDs)
Ashton, Gardner & Dyke - The Best Of
Before Their Eyes - Untouchable
Ben Harper - Live From the Montreal International Jazz Festival (CD & DVD)
Besnard Lakes – The Besnard Lakes Are the Roaring Night
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Beat the Devil's Tattoo (vinyl)
Bo Diddley - Who Do You Love
Bobby Darin - Original Album Series (5 CDs)
Breathing Process – Odyssey: (Un)Dead
Brenda Lee - Sweet Nothins
Broken Bells - Broken Bells (2-CD box set) (vinyl)
Burning Star Core - Papercuts Theater (vinyl)
Chieftains - San Patricio (CD & DVD)
Chieftans Featuring Ry Cooder - San Patricio (CD/DVD)
Choir of Young Believers - Claustrophobia
Chuck Berry - You Can't Catch Me
Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem - Finnegan's Wake
Cliff Richard & the Shadows - Move It
Coconuts - Coconuts (vinyl)
Dark Tranquillity – We Are the Void
Daughters – Daughters
Demon Hunter - World Is a Thorn
Deru - Say Goodbye To Useless
Diamond Rings: Wait & See b/w On Fire
EELS - Line in the Dirt (vinyl)
Ella Fitzgerald - Ira & George Gershwin Song Book
Eluveitie - Everything Remains: As It Never Was
Emanuel and the Fear – Listen
Empires – Bang (EP)
Epstein y El Conjunto – When Man Gets Full He Falls Asleep
Finntroll – Nifelvind
Fleshtones - It's Super-Rock Time! The IRS Years, 1980-85
Four Year Strong - Enemy of the World
Fraction – Moon Blood (vinyl version, limited to 1,000 copies)
Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers - Why Do Fools Fall in Love
Frightened Rabbit - The Winter of Mixed Drinks (vinyl)
Gama Bomb - Tales From the Grave in Space (available as a vinyl limited to 1,000 copies or limited-edition CD with bonus Half Cut EP)
Gary Allan - Get Off on the Pain
Goldfrapp – “Rocket” (single)
Gonjasufi - A Sufi and a Killer (vinyl)
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach (CD & DVD)
Gyptian - Hold On
Harry Chapin - Original Album Series (5 CDs)
Hawkwind - Minneapolis 1989 (2 CDs)
Hawkwind - Sonic Attack (2 CDs)
Hollies - Midas Touch: The Very Best Of
Iggy & the Stooges - Anthology Box: Stooges & Beyond (2 CDs)
JJ - No 3 (vinyl)
Jason & the Scorchers - Halcyon Times
Jason Collett - Rat A Tat Tat (vinyl)
Jatun - Blanket of Ash (vinyl)
Javelin - 2 (vinyl)
Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced (remastered with bonus DVD) (vinyl)
Jimi Hendrix - Axis Bold As Love (remastered with bonus DVD) (vinyl)
Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland (remastered with bonus DVD) (2-LP vinyl)
Jimi Hendrix - First Rays of the New Rising Sun (remastered with bonus DVD) (2-LP vinyl)
Jimi Hendrix - Live At Woodstock (DVD)
Jimi Hendrix - Smash Hits (remastered)
Jimi Hendrix - Valleys Of Neptune (2-LP vinyl)
Joan Jett & Blackhearts - Greatest Hits (remastered)
Johnny Cash - American VI: Ain't No Grave (Vinyl)
Josh Rouse - El Turista (vinyl)
Judson Claiborne - Time and Temperature
Kartick & Gotam – Business Class Refugees
Ken Hensley - Eager To Please
Kissaway Trail - Sleep Mountain
Koot Hoomi - Koot Hoomi Presents: The Dark Side of Hall and Oates - A Tribute
Kristin Hersh - Murder, Misery and Then Goodnight (reissue)
Kristin Hersh - Strange Angels (reissue)
Lawrence Arabia – Chant Darling
Lay Low – Farewell Good Night’s Sleep
Lemonade – Pure Moods (EP)
Liars - Sisterworld (CD & DVD)
Librarians – Present Passed (Postfact)
Linda Ronstadt - Simple Dreams (Mobile Fidelity)
Longital – Gloria
Ludacris - Battle of the Sexes
Marty Wilde - Bad Boy
Mary Onettes - Islands (vinyl)
Method Actors - This Is Still It
Miles Davis - Live in Berlin 1969 (remastered)
Miles Kurosky - The Desert of Shallow Effects
Mimicking Birds - Mimicking Birds
Mindbenders - Groovy Kind Of Love
Monica - Still Standing
Morning Benders - Big Echo (vinyl)
Nervous Curtains - Out of Sync With Time (vinyl)
New Young Pony Club - The Optimist (vinyl)
Numero Group - Good God! Born Again Funk
Ortolan - Time On a String
Os Mutantes - E Seus Cometas No Pais Do Baurets (vinyl)
Patti Dahlstrom - Emotion: the Music of
Patty Larkin - 25
Pavement - Crooked Rain Crooked Rain (vinyl reissue)
Pavement - Quarantine the Past: The Best of Pavement (2-LP vinyl)
Pavement - Slanted & Enchanted (vinyl reissue)
Pavement - Terror Twilight (vinyl reissue)
Pavement - Watery Domestic (vinyl reissue)
Pavement - Wowee Zowee (vinyl reissue)
Pearly Gate Music – ?Big Escape (limited-edition 7-inch single)
Peter, Paul & Mary - With Symphony Orchestra: Prague
Pocket Featuring Danny Seim - Backwards From Ten
Pocket Featuring Mark Burgess - A Force Of Nature
Randal Bramblett - The Meantime
Redman - Reggie Noble 9 ½
Rotting Christ - Aealo
Sam Cooke - Night Beat (Vinyl)
Sectioned – Purulent Reality
Serge Gainsbourg - L'eau a La Bouche (reissue)
Serj Tankian - Elect the Dead Symphony (2-LP vinyl)
Shooter Jennings & Hierophan -: Black Ribbons
Standard Fare - The Novelle Beat
Stephen Stills & Manassas - Manassas (2 LPs) (Vinyl)
Tanlines – Settings (EP)
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - The Brutalist Bricks (vinyl)
The Bundles - The Bundles (vinyl)
The Ex & Tom Cora - Scrabbling at the Lock (vinyl)
The Knife - Tomorrow, In A Year
The Pharmacy - Weekend
The Splinters – Kick
Throwing Muses - Red Heaven
Throwing Muses - The Real Ramona
Thrushes - Night Falls
Thunder Power – Hearts Intersect
Titus Andronicus - The Monitor (vinyl)
Various Artists - Buddha Lounge Renditions of Coldplay
Various Artists - Ceremony - A New Order Tribute
Various Artists - Ethiopiques
Various Artists - Putumayo Kids Presents: Jazz Playground
Via Audio - Animalore (vinyl)
Violent Soho - Violent Soho
White Hinterland - Kairos (vinyl)
Who - The Kids Are Alright (Blu-ray DVD)
Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings - Country Outlaws (Tin)
Woodpigeon – Die Stadt Muzikanten
Year Long Disaster – Black Magic: All Mysteries Revealed
Zola Jesus – Stridulum (EP)
Buy Vinyl Here: http://www.insound.com/index.php?from=5141
Music News & Notes
Bon Iver Covers Peter Gabriel for Record Store Day Single
Bon Iver is teaming up with Peter Gabriel to release a split 7" single on Record Store Day, which is happening April 17 this year. The single, which will only be available at independent record stores, will feature Gabriel's cover of Bon Iver's "Flume", a track that appeared on Gabriel's covers album Scratch My Back, on one side. On the other, Bon Iver will return the favor by covering "Come Talk to Me", a seven-minute song from Gabriel's 1992 Us album.
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Bird and the Bee cover Hall & Oates' 'Sara Smile'
When multi-instrumentalist and producer Greg Kurstin (he’s worked with everyone from Britney and Kylie to Lily Allen and Little Boots) and singer-songwriter Inara George, a.k.a. indie-pop duo The Bird and the Bee, take on a covers album, they aim high. Like, Hall & Oates high.
The third full-length from the duo will be the faux-loftily titled Interpreting the Masters, Vol. 1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall & John Oates, featuring their take on H&O classics like “Maneater,” “Rich Girl,” “Private Eyes” and the exclusive-to-EW ballad “Sarah Smile.” (March 23 release date)
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Broken Social Scene Reveal Forgiveness Rock Record Track List, Limited-Edition Album
Broken Social Scene obsessives: If you've ever wished one of the band's records would be released as several vinyl discs, today is your lucky day.
The Toronto musical collective's Forgiveness Rock Record will be available as a limited-edition, numbered box set containing seven 180-gram 10-inch vinyl records that will also come with a digital download of the record. Only 1,000 copies of the box set will be made, and it's going for $125.
Forgiveness Rock Record will also be available as a standard CD, vinyl and digital release for those of you who are less hardcore.
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The Melvins Return With "The Bride Screamed Murder" On June 1
The Melvins are set to release "The Bride Screamed Murder" on June 1 via Ipecac Recordings with a US tour launching the same day in San Diego and including a stop at the Bonnaroo Festival. "The Bride Screamed Murder" is the third release featuring Buzz Osborne, Dale Crover and Big Businesses' Coady Willis and Jared Warren. While the Melvins recently celebrated their twenty-fifth anniversary, the latest incarnation debuted with the highly-praised "(A) Senile Animal" (2006) and continued with "Nude With Boots" (2008).
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OVERMASTER's 'Madness Of War' Due In April
The debut CD from OVERMASTER, entitled "Madness of War", will be released on April 23 via Cruz Del Sur Music.
OVERMASTER features the wailing power of Gustavo "Gus" Gabarró (formerly of WHITE SKULL) on vocals, along with several other professional and skilled Italian musicians hailing from SKYLARK, HIGHLORD, EDGE OF FOREVER and other talented Italian acts.
"Madness of War" was recorded, mixed and mastered at Fear Studio during the crossover into 2010, with the usual high standard sound quality of Fear's previous productions.
For more information, visit www.myspace.com/overmasterband
Bon Iver is teaming up with Peter Gabriel to release a split 7" single on Record Store Day, which is happening April 17 this year. The single, which will only be available at independent record stores, will feature Gabriel's cover of Bon Iver's "Flume", a track that appeared on Gabriel's covers album Scratch My Back, on one side. On the other, Bon Iver will return the favor by covering "Come Talk to Me", a seven-minute song from Gabriel's 1992 Us album.
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Bird and the Bee cover Hall & Oates' 'Sara Smile'
When multi-instrumentalist and producer Greg Kurstin (he’s worked with everyone from Britney and Kylie to Lily Allen and Little Boots) and singer-songwriter Inara George, a.k.a. indie-pop duo The Bird and the Bee, take on a covers album, they aim high. Like, Hall & Oates high.
The third full-length from the duo will be the faux-loftily titled Interpreting the Masters, Vol. 1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall & John Oates, featuring their take on H&O classics like “Maneater,” “Rich Girl,” “Private Eyes” and the exclusive-to-EW ballad “Sarah Smile.” (March 23 release date)
================================================
Broken Social Scene Reveal Forgiveness Rock Record Track List, Limited-Edition Album
Broken Social Scene obsessives: If you've ever wished one of the band's records would be released as several vinyl discs, today is your lucky day.
The Toronto musical collective's Forgiveness Rock Record will be available as a limited-edition, numbered box set containing seven 180-gram 10-inch vinyl records that will also come with a digital download of the record. Only 1,000 copies of the box set will be made, and it's going for $125.
Forgiveness Rock Record will also be available as a standard CD, vinyl and digital release for those of you who are less hardcore.
================================================
The Melvins Return With "The Bride Screamed Murder" On June 1
The Melvins are set to release "The Bride Screamed Murder" on June 1 via Ipecac Recordings with a US tour launching the same day in San Diego and including a stop at the Bonnaroo Festival. "The Bride Screamed Murder" is the third release featuring Buzz Osborne, Dale Crover and Big Businesses' Coady Willis and Jared Warren. While the Melvins recently celebrated their twenty-fifth anniversary, the latest incarnation debuted with the highly-praised "(A) Senile Animal" (2006) and continued with "Nude With Boots" (2008).
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OVERMASTER's 'Madness Of War' Due In April
OVERMASTER features the wailing power of Gustavo "Gus" Gabarró (formerly of WHITE SKULL) on vocals, along with several other professional and skilled Italian musicians hailing from SKYLARK, HIGHLORD, EDGE OF FOREVER and other talented Italian acts.
"Madness of War" was recorded, mixed and mastered at Fear Studio during the crossover into 2010, with the usual high standard sound quality of Fear's previous productions.
For more information, visit www.myspace.com/overmasterband
Monday, March 8, 2010
Top 5 eBay Vinyl Record Sales
Week Ending 03/06/2010
1. 78 - Ed Bell "Frisco Whistle" / "Mean Conductor Blues" Paramount - $3,938.88
2. LP - The Beatles "Mono Collection" Box Set - $3,500.00
3. 45 - David Bowie "Rock N' Roll With Me" / "Panic In Detroit" Canadian Pressing - $3,050.00
4. LP - Hank Mobley self titled Blue Note 1568 - $2,999.99
5. 45 - David Bowie "Can't Help Thinking About Me" / "And I Say To Myself" UK Promo w/ Press Photo - $2,219.70
More on this week's top 5 on Vinyl Record Talk, Tuesday 7:00PM Eastern / 4:00PM Pacific on Radio Dentata. http://www.radiodentata.com
Tune in tommorrow - as I am a guest on Vinyl Record Talk !
1. 78 - Ed Bell "Frisco Whistle" / "Mean Conductor Blues" Paramount - $3,938.88
2. LP - The Beatles "Mono Collection" Box Set - $3,500.00
3. 45 - David Bowie "Rock N' Roll With Me" / "Panic In Detroit" Canadian Pressing - $3,050.00
4. LP - Hank Mobley self titled Blue Note 1568 - $2,999.99
5. 45 - David Bowie "Can't Help Thinking About Me" / "And I Say To Myself" UK Promo w/ Press Photo - $2,219.70
Tune in tommorrow - as I am a guest on Vinyl Record Talk !
Music News & Notes
STRYPER Begins Recording Covers Album
Christian hard rockers STRYPER entered the studio on March 6 to begin recording an album of covers songs, set to be released later in the year. The CD will include STRYPER's renditions of the following classics:
* JUDAS PRIEST - "Breaking The Law"
* IRON MAIDEN - "The Trooper"
* SCORPIONS - "Blackout"
* OZZY OSBOURNE - "Over The Mountain"
* SWEET - "Set Me Free"
* VAN HALEN - "On Fire"
* DEEP PURPLE - "Highway Star"
* BLACK SABBATH - "Heaven And Hell"
* UFO - "Lights Out"
* KANSAS - "Carry On Wayward Son"
STRYPER guitarist/vocalist Michael Sweet recently explained the band's decision to pay tribute to its influences on the new album:
"We grew up listening to many different styles of music and there is a list of bands that influenced us throughout our musical education. Bands like JUDAS PRIEST, IRON MAIDEN, SCORPIONS, VAN HALEN, UFO, DEEP PURPLE, LED ZEPPELIN, QUEEN, KANSAS and many others, helped to shape our sound and make us who we are today, musically speaking. '
Check out this fan-filmed video footage of STRYPER performing a cover version of the JUDAS PRIEST classic "Breaking The Law" on January 23, 2010 at Tivoli in Utrecht, The Netherlands can be viewed below.
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Sparklehorse’s Mark Linkous Takes Own Life
Prolific singer/songwriter Mark Linkous has committed suicide, according to his publicist. He was best known for his acclaimed work with the bandSparklehorse, who released four albums of imaginative ambient psych-folk. Linkous also produced Daniel Johnston’s 2003 album Fear Yourself and collaborated with Danger Mouse on Dark Night of the Soul. His exact age is unknown, but he was in his forties.
“It is with great sadness that we share the news that our dear friend and family member, Mark Linkous, took his own life today,” reads a statement from his family. “We are thankful for his time with us and will hold him forever in our hearts.
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Kinks Working On New Album
It's being reported that the Kinks are in the process of putting together a new album that will include some older, never released tracks along with the possibility of a few new ones.
Drummer Mick Avory told Spinner's UK site, "Things are always bubbling under or over with the Kinks -- I'm never quite sure if we're going to do them or not. We are certainly doing another album. We've got old tracks which need to be baked. You have to go through this process to transfer them to digital, it's a bit of a process and you only get one shot at it. We've certainly got eight tracks we could use there, so we're going to have to do some more to make the numbers up for an album."
Of course, the big problem in trying to get those new tracks recorded is the long running feud between brothers Ray and Dave Davies. "...in our case it's Ray and Dave that have got to work together, once they've slotted together, we can go ahead. All the while they are not wanting to do what the other wants to do, it goes nowhere."
The group's last original recordings were released on the revised 2-CD edition of To The Bone (1996) while their last performance together was in the same year.
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Neil Young's Trunk Show Coming to Select Theaters on March 19
Jonathan Deeme will be releasing the second installment of three Neil Young concert documentaries in eleven cities starting March 19, 2010 for a one-week run. Trunk Show was shot during two Pennsylvania shows during Young's 2007 Chrome Dreams II tour. Partway through the follow-up to the 2006 documentary Heart of Gold, Young launches into “No Hidden Path” and 20 blistering heart-drenching minutes later he ends. The new documentary mixes live and backstage footage and includes new music from the Chrome Dreams II album along with classics like "Cinnamon Girl" and "Cowgirls in the Sand."
Trunk Show is subtitled “scenes from a concert,” specifically from a pair of shows Young performed at the 1927-built Tower Theater in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, as part of his intimate Chrome Dreams II theater tour in 2007. Onstage, he performed a full acoustic set, followed by a full electric one with bandmates Ben Keith, Rick Rosas, Ralph Molina, Anthony “Sweetpea” Crawford and wife Pegi Young.
The following theaters will be showing the film beginning March 19:
•Kendall Square Cinema, Cambridge, MA
•Sunshine Cinema, New York, NY
•Ritz Five, Philadelphia, PA
•Music Box Theatre, Chicago, IL
•Lagoon Cinema, Minneapolis, MN
•Chez Artiste Theatre, Denver, CO
•Shattuck Cinemas, Berkeley, CA
•Lumiere Theatre, San Francisco, CA
•Embarcadero Center Cinema, San Francisco, CA
•Nuart Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
•Landmark's Varsity Theatre, Seattle, WA
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Bloc Party Star's Side Project Announce Debut Album
Pin Me Down, the side-project of Bloc Party guitarist Russell Lissack, have announced plans to release their debut album. The self-titled effort was recorded by Alex Elena and Daniel Lingren in London and New York throughout 2009. The group Pin Me Down, also features vocalist Milena Mepris, will release a new single 'Treasure Hunter' on limited edition 7” and digital download. Both the album and the single will be available from April 19.
Christian hard rockers STRYPER entered the studio on March 6 to begin recording an album of covers songs, set to be released later in the year. The CD will include STRYPER's renditions of the following classics:
* JUDAS PRIEST - "Breaking The Law"
* IRON MAIDEN - "The Trooper"
* SCORPIONS - "Blackout"
* OZZY OSBOURNE - "Over The Mountain"
* SWEET - "Set Me Free"
* VAN HALEN - "On Fire"
* DEEP PURPLE - "Highway Star"
* BLACK SABBATH - "Heaven And Hell"
* UFO - "Lights Out"
* KANSAS - "Carry On Wayward Son"
STRYPER guitarist/vocalist Michael Sweet recently explained the band's decision to pay tribute to its influences on the new album:
"We grew up listening to many different styles of music and there is a list of bands that influenced us throughout our musical education. Bands like JUDAS PRIEST, IRON MAIDEN, SCORPIONS, VAN HALEN, UFO, DEEP PURPLE, LED ZEPPELIN, QUEEN, KANSAS and many others, helped to shape our sound and make us who we are today, musically speaking. '
Check out this fan-filmed video footage of STRYPER performing a cover version of the JUDAS PRIEST classic "Breaking The Law" on January 23, 2010 at Tivoli in Utrecht, The Netherlands can be viewed below.
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Sparklehorse’s Mark Linkous Takes Own Life
Prolific singer/songwriter Mark Linkous has committed suicide, according to his publicist. He was best known for his acclaimed work with the bandSparklehorse, who released four albums of imaginative ambient psych-folk. Linkous also produced Daniel Johnston’s 2003 album Fear Yourself and collaborated with Danger Mouse on Dark Night of the Soul. His exact age is unknown, but he was in his forties.
“It is with great sadness that we share the news that our dear friend and family member, Mark Linkous, took his own life today,” reads a statement from his family. “We are thankful for his time with us and will hold him forever in our hearts.
===============================================
Kinks Working On New Album
It's being reported that the Kinks are in the process of putting together a new album that will include some older, never released tracks along with the possibility of a few new ones.
Drummer Mick Avory told Spinner's UK site, "Things are always bubbling under or over with the Kinks -- I'm never quite sure if we're going to do them or not. We are certainly doing another album. We've got old tracks which need to be baked. You have to go through this process to transfer them to digital, it's a bit of a process and you only get one shot at it. We've certainly got eight tracks we could use there, so we're going to have to do some more to make the numbers up for an album."
Of course, the big problem in trying to get those new tracks recorded is the long running feud between brothers Ray and Dave Davies. "...in our case it's Ray and Dave that have got to work together, once they've slotted together, we can go ahead. All the while they are not wanting to do what the other wants to do, it goes nowhere."
The group's last original recordings were released on the revised 2-CD edition of To The Bone (1996) while their last performance together was in the same year.
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Neil Young's Trunk Show Coming to Select Theaters on March 19
Trunk Show is subtitled “scenes from a concert,” specifically from a pair of shows Young performed at the 1927-built Tower Theater in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, as part of his intimate Chrome Dreams II theater tour in 2007. Onstage, he performed a full acoustic set, followed by a full electric one with bandmates Ben Keith, Rick Rosas, Ralph Molina, Anthony “Sweetpea” Crawford and wife Pegi Young.
The following theaters will be showing the film beginning March 19:
•Kendall Square Cinema, Cambridge, MA
•Sunshine Cinema, New York, NY
•Ritz Five, Philadelphia, PA
•Music Box Theatre, Chicago, IL
•Lagoon Cinema, Minneapolis, MN
•Chez Artiste Theatre, Denver, CO
•Shattuck Cinemas, Berkeley, CA
•Lumiere Theatre, San Francisco, CA
•Embarcadero Center Cinema, San Francisco, CA
•Nuart Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
•Landmark's Varsity Theatre, Seattle, WA
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Bloc Party Star's Side Project Announce Debut Album
Pin Me Down, the side-project of Bloc Party guitarist Russell Lissack, have announced plans to release their debut album. The self-titled effort was recorded by Alex Elena and Daniel Lingren in London and New York throughout 2009. The group Pin Me Down, also features vocalist Milena Mepris, will release a new single 'Treasure Hunter' on limited edition 7” and digital download. Both the album and the single will be available from April 19.
This Date In Music History-March 8
Birthdays:
Ralph Ellis - Swinging Blue Jeans (1942)
Andrew Semple - Fortunes(1943)
Keef Hartley - Keef Hartley Band (1944)
Michael Dolenz - Monkees (1945)
Carole Bayer Sager - singer/songwriter. Wrote "Groovy Kind Of Love," hit for The Mindbenders (1946)
Randy Meisner - Poco / Eagles (1946)
Mike Allsup - Three Dog Night (1947)
"Little" Peggy March (1948)
Dave Lambert - Strawbs (1949)
Clive Burr - Iron Maiden (1957)
Gary Numan - Tubeway Army (1958)
Jimmy Dormire - Confederate Railroad (1960)
Cheryl "Salt" James - Salt-N-Pepa (1964)
Peter Gill - Frankie Goes To Hollywood (1964)
Shawn Mullins (1968)
Gareth Coombes - Supergrass (1976)
Tom Chaplin - Keane (1979)
Andy Ross - OK Go (1979)
Bob Moffatt - The Moffatts (1984)
Clint Moffatt - The Moffatts (1984)
David Moffatt - The Moffatts (1984)
Eleanor Jackson - La Roux (1988)
They Are Missed:
Ron Mckernan, keyboard player with The Grateful Dead, died in 1973 (age 27) from liver failure brought on by alcohol poisoning.
Born today in 1948, Mel Galley, guitar, Whitesnake. Died of cancer on July 1, 2008.
History:
In 1961, the Beatles played at the Cavern Club in Liverpool at lunchtime. That night they performed twice: at Aintree Institute, Aintree, Liverpool, and at Hambleton Hall, Huyton, Liverpool.
The Beatles make their British national radio debut in 1962, singing "Dream Baby", "Maybelline" and "Please Mr. Postman" on the BBC's "Teenagers' Turn" program.
In 1964, the Dave Clark Five make the first of 18 appearances on CBS-TV's "Ed Sullivan Show."
David Bowie made his TV debut in 1965 with The Manish Boys on a UK program called 'Gadzooks! It's All Happening' when they performed their current single 'I Pity The Fool.'
Bob Dylan recorded "Just Like A Woman" for his Blonde On Blonde album at Columbia Recording Studios in Nashville, Tennessee in 1966.
Albert King, Janis Joplin and Tim Buckley appeared at the opening of New York's Filmore East, New York in 1968.
“Proud Mary” was Creedence Clearwater Revival’s first million selling single (1969).
The Small Faces split up in 1969 after singer Steve Marriott announced he was leaving the band. Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan and Kenny Jones linked up with Ronnie Wood and Rod Stewart and formed The Faces.
Lulu became the first British female singer to appear behind the Iron curtain, when she toured Poland with The Hollies in 1966.
Diana Ross made her first performance as a solo act when she appeared in Framingham, Massachusetts in 1970.
In 1973, Paul McCartney was fined £100 ($170) for growing cannabis at his farm in Campbeltown, Scotland. McCartney claimed some fans gave the seeds to him and that he didn’t know what they would grow. Umm, OK Sir Paul....
Bad Company kicked off their first UK tour at Newcastle City Hall in 1974. The band was made up by ex members from Free, (Paul Rodgers & Simon Kirke), Mott The Hoople, (Mick Ralphs), and King Crimson, (Boz Burrell).
Olivia Newton-John went to #1 on the US singles chart in 1975 with "Have You Ever Been Mellow," the singers second US #1.
Whitney Houston went to #1 on the US album chart in 1986 with her self-titled album. It spent a total of 14 weeks at the #1 position.
In 1990, Cher won the worst dressed female, and worst video for 'If I Could Turn Back Time', in The Rolling Stone Magazine's awards, Donny Osmond won the most unwelcome comeback award.
"Beavis and Butthead" premiered on MTV as a series in 1993.
The Wallflowers’ dramatic “One Headlight” topped the Modern Rock chart in 1997.
In 2005, a 9-year-old boy wakes from a coma after hearing Green Day’s "American Idiot." Wales resident Corey George, a Green Day fan, was hit by a car and unconscious for two weeks when his parents played him the disc. "Within an hour he had opened his eyes," says Corey’s father.
Pearl Jam’s "World Wide Suicide," hits #3 on Billboard Radio Monitor's Modern Rock chart in 2006 becoming the group’s highest debut (to date) single. Nine Inch Nail’s "Every Day Is Exactly The Same" and Fall Out Boy’s "Dance, Dance" are #1 and 2 respectively. A week later, Pearl Jam tops the chart.
In 2008, China was set to impose stricter rules on foreign pop stars after Bjork caused controversy by shouting "Tibet, Tibet" at a Shanghai concert after a powerful performance of her song Declare Independence. Talk of Tibetan independence was considered taboo in China, which had ruled the territory since 1951. A spokesperson from the culture ministry said Bjork would be banned from performing in China if there was a repeat performance.
In 2009, late Who drummer Keith Moon was honored with a special plaque at the site of London's Marquee Club, where the group cut its teeth. Surviving Who members Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend attend the marker's unveiling, which is sponsored by the U.K.’s Heritage Foundation. "Keith Moon . . . deserves many plaques," Daltrey tells the crowd.
Ralph Ellis - Swinging Blue Jeans (1942)
Andrew Semple - Fortunes(1943)
Keef Hartley - Keef Hartley Band (1944)
Michael Dolenz - Monkees (1945)
Carole Bayer Sager - singer/songwriter. Wrote "Groovy Kind Of Love," hit for The Mindbenders (1946)
Randy Meisner - Poco / Eagles (1946)
Mike Allsup - Three Dog Night (1947)
"Little" Peggy March (1948)
Dave Lambert - Strawbs (1949)
Clive Burr - Iron Maiden (1957)
Gary Numan - Tubeway Army (1958)
Jimmy Dormire - Confederate Railroad (1960)
Cheryl "Salt" James - Salt-N-Pepa (1964)
Peter Gill - Frankie Goes To Hollywood (1964)
Shawn Mullins (1968)
Gareth Coombes - Supergrass (1976)
Tom Chaplin - Keane (1979)
Andy Ross - OK Go (1979)
Bob Moffatt - The Moffatts (1984)
Clint Moffatt - The Moffatts (1984)
David Moffatt - The Moffatts (1984)
Eleanor Jackson - La Roux (1988)
They Are Missed:
Ron Mckernan, keyboard player with The Grateful Dead, died in 1973 (age 27) from liver failure brought on by alcohol poisoning.
Born today in 1948, Mel Galley, guitar, Whitesnake. Died of cancer on July 1, 2008.
History:
In 1961, the Beatles played at the Cavern Club in Liverpool at lunchtime. That night they performed twice: at Aintree Institute, Aintree, Liverpool, and at Hambleton Hall, Huyton, Liverpool.
The Beatles make their British national radio debut in 1962, singing "Dream Baby", "Maybelline" and "Please Mr. Postman" on the BBC's "Teenagers' Turn" program.
In 1964, the Dave Clark Five make the first of 18 appearances on CBS-TV's "Ed Sullivan Show."
David Bowie made his TV debut in 1965 with The Manish Boys on a UK program called 'Gadzooks! It's All Happening' when they performed their current single 'I Pity The Fool.'
Bob Dylan recorded "Just Like A Woman" for his Blonde On Blonde album at Columbia Recording Studios in Nashville, Tennessee in 1966.
Albert King, Janis Joplin and Tim Buckley appeared at the opening of New York's Filmore East, New York in 1968.
“Proud Mary” was Creedence Clearwater Revival’s first million selling single (1969).
The Small Faces split up in 1969 after singer Steve Marriott announced he was leaving the band. Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan and Kenny Jones linked up with Ronnie Wood and Rod Stewart and formed The Faces.
Lulu became the first British female singer to appear behind the Iron curtain, when she toured Poland with The Hollies in 1966.
Diana Ross made her first performance as a solo act when she appeared in Framingham, Massachusetts in 1970.
In 1973, Paul McCartney was fined £100 ($170) for growing cannabis at his farm in Campbeltown, Scotland. McCartney claimed some fans gave the seeds to him and that he didn’t know what they would grow. Umm, OK Sir Paul....
Bad Company kicked off their first UK tour at Newcastle City Hall in 1974. The band was made up by ex members from Free, (Paul Rodgers & Simon Kirke), Mott The Hoople, (Mick Ralphs), and King Crimson, (Boz Burrell).
Olivia Newton-John went to #1 on the US singles chart in 1975 with "Have You Ever Been Mellow," the singers second US #1.
Whitney Houston went to #1 on the US album chart in 1986 with her self-titled album. It spent a total of 14 weeks at the #1 position.
In 1990, Cher won the worst dressed female, and worst video for 'If I Could Turn Back Time', in The Rolling Stone Magazine's awards, Donny Osmond won the most unwelcome comeback award.
"Beavis and Butthead" premiered on MTV as a series in 1993.
The Wallflowers’ dramatic “One Headlight” topped the Modern Rock chart in 1997.
In 2005, a 9-year-old boy wakes from a coma after hearing Green Day’s "American Idiot." Wales resident Corey George, a Green Day fan, was hit by a car and unconscious for two weeks when his parents played him the disc. "Within an hour he had opened his eyes," says Corey’s father.
Pearl Jam’s "World Wide Suicide," hits #3 on Billboard Radio Monitor's Modern Rock chart in 2006 becoming the group’s highest debut (to date) single. Nine Inch Nail’s "Every Day Is Exactly The Same" and Fall Out Boy’s "Dance, Dance" are #1 and 2 respectively. A week later, Pearl Jam tops the chart.
In 2008, China was set to impose stricter rules on foreign pop stars after Bjork caused controversy by shouting "Tibet, Tibet" at a Shanghai concert after a powerful performance of her song Declare Independence. Talk of Tibetan independence was considered taboo in China, which had ruled the territory since 1951. A spokesperson from the culture ministry said Bjork would be banned from performing in China if there was a repeat performance.
In 2009, late Who drummer Keith Moon was honored with a special plaque at the site of London's Marquee Club, where the group cut its teeth. Surviving Who members Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend attend the marker's unveiling, which is sponsored by the U.K.’s Heritage Foundation. "Keith Moon . . . deserves many plaques," Daltrey tells the crowd.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Top Selling Vinyl Records Sales at eBay - February 2010
Here is the month in review of the top selling ebay vinyl record sales, on a weekly basis, for February of 2010. First and foremost, a special thank you to Norm and Jane at http://ccdiscoveries/blogspot.com and Vinyl Record Talk for putting together this interesting data.
February's top seller is a rare UK Classical LP by Leonid Kogan ("Beethoven Violin Concerto" Columbia SAX 2386 UK Pressing), which came in at just over $6,300. An LP by John Heartsman And Circles ("Music Of My Heart" Private) and a 45 rpm single by the Magnetics ("Lady In Green" / "Heart You're Made Of Stone" Bonnie) both came in at $5,500.
Familiar entrant The Beatles ("Please Please Me" Parlophone UK Gold Black label 1st Stereo) sold for $5,475 and $3,900 respectively. A Pink Floyd LP ("Ummagumma" Japan Red Vinyl) sold for $4,200.00, followed by a 45 rpm single from The Beatles ("I Want To Hold Your Hand" / "I Saw Her Standing There" w/pic sleeve radio promo), which sold for a bit over $4,100. The Beatles also had two other entrants, "Let It Be" UK Box Set PXS 1, with one selling for around $3,200 and the other selling for $2,716.
Interesting entrants include a 45 rpm record from Soul Drifter ("Funky Brother pt 1" / "Funky Brother pt 2" Smoke), selling for $3,450.00, a 45 rpm single by George Lemons ("Fascinating Girl" / "Fascinating Girl" Gold Soul) selling for $3,388 and a rather new release with a Pearl Jam LP ("Backspacer" White Vinyl) which sold for $3,275.00.
Week Ending 02/06/2010
1. LP - The Beatles "Please Please Me" Parlophone UK Gold Black label 1st Stereo - $5,475.40
2. LP - The Beatles "Please Please Me" Parlophone UK Gold Black label 1st Mono - $3,911.00
3. 45 - Soul Drifter "Funky Brother pt 1" / "Funky Brother pt 2" Smoke - $3,450.00
4. LP - The Beatles "Let It Be" UK Box Set PXS 1 - $3,207.02
5. 12" - Led Zeppelin “Road Box” - $3,200.00
Week Ending 02/13/2010
1. 45 - The Beatles "I Want To Hold Your Hand" / "I Saw Her Standing There" w/pic sleeve radio promo - $4,109.99
2. 45 - Necros "Sex Drive" Touch and Go Original - $3,550.00
3. LP - Judge "Chung King Can Suck It Up" Revelation white vinyl - $3,383.33
4. LP - Damon "Song Of A Gypsy" Private Press - $3,218.00
5. 45 - Connor Cagle & The Bachelors Four "Always Let Your Good Side Show" / "Nobody Wants To See You When You're Down" Sunshine - $3,000.00
Week Ending 02/20/2010
1. LP - Leonid Kogan "Beethoven Violin Concerto" Columbia SAX 2386 UK Pressing - $6,320.97
2. LP - LP - John Heartsman And Circles "Music Of My Heart" Private - $5,500.00
3. 45 - George Lemons "Fascinating Girl" / "Fascinating Girl" Gold Soul - $3,388.00
4. LP - Pear Jam "Backspacer" White Vinyl - $3,275.00
5. 45 - Joy Division "Licht un Blindheit" A4 Gatefold Pak Signed - $3,000.00
Week Ending 02/27/2010
1. 45 - Magnetics "Lady In Green" / "Heart You're Made Of Stone" Bonnie - $5,500.00
2. LP - Pink Floyd "Ummagumma" Japan Red Vinyl - $4,200.00
3. 12" - Ryvon DJ "I'm gonna dance (take me tonight) - $3,551.00
4. LP - Andre Cluytens "Ravel The Complete Orchestral Works" Columbia SAX 2476-9 UK Pressing - $2,794.67
5. LP - The Beatles "Let It Be" UK Box Set PXS 1 - $2,716.00
More on this week's top 5 on Vinyl Record Talk, Tuesday 7:00PM Eastern / 4:00PM Pacific on Radio Dentata. http://www.radiodentata.com/
February's top seller is a rare UK Classical LP by Leonid Kogan ("Beethoven Violin Concerto" Columbia SAX 2386 UK Pressing), which came in at just over $6,300. An LP by John Heartsman And Circles ("Music Of My Heart" Private) and a 45 rpm single by the Magnetics ("Lady In Green" / "Heart You're Made Of Stone" Bonnie) both came in at $5,500.
Familiar entrant The Beatles ("Please Please Me" Parlophone UK Gold Black label 1st Stereo) sold for $5,475 and $3,900 respectively. A Pink Floyd LP ("Ummagumma" Japan Red Vinyl) sold for $4,200.00, followed by a 45 rpm single from The Beatles ("I Want To Hold Your Hand" / "I Saw Her Standing There" w/pic sleeve radio promo), which sold for a bit over $4,100. The Beatles also had two other entrants, "Let It Be" UK Box Set PXS 1, with one selling for around $3,200 and the other selling for $2,716.
Interesting entrants include a 45 rpm record from Soul Drifter ("Funky Brother pt 1" / "Funky Brother pt 2" Smoke), selling for $3,450.00, a 45 rpm single by George Lemons ("Fascinating Girl" / "Fascinating Girl" Gold Soul) selling for $3,388 and a rather new release with a Pearl Jam LP ("Backspacer" White Vinyl) which sold for $3,275.00.
Week Ending 02/06/2010
1. LP - The Beatles "Please Please Me" Parlophone UK Gold Black label 1st Stereo - $5,475.40
2. LP - The Beatles "Please Please Me" Parlophone UK Gold Black label 1st Mono - $3,911.00
3. 45 - Soul Drifter "Funky Brother pt 1" / "Funky Brother pt 2" Smoke - $3,450.00
4. LP - The Beatles "Let It Be" UK Box Set PXS 1 - $3,207.02
5. 12" - Led Zeppelin “Road Box” - $3,200.00
Week Ending 02/13/2010
1. 45 - The Beatles "I Want To Hold Your Hand" / "I Saw Her Standing There" w/pic sleeve radio promo - $4,109.99
2. 45 - Necros "Sex Drive" Touch and Go Original - $3,550.00
3. LP - Judge "Chung King Can Suck It Up" Revelation white vinyl - $3,383.33
4. LP - Damon "Song Of A Gypsy" Private Press - $3,218.00
5. 45 - Connor Cagle & The Bachelors Four "Always Let Your Good Side Show" / "Nobody Wants To See You When You're Down" Sunshine - $3,000.00
Week Ending 02/20/2010
1. LP - Leonid Kogan "Beethoven Violin Concerto" Columbia SAX 2386 UK Pressing - $6,320.97
2. LP - LP - John Heartsman And Circles "Music Of My Heart" Private - $5,500.00
3. 45 - George Lemons "Fascinating Girl" / "Fascinating Girl" Gold Soul - $3,388.00
4. LP - Pear Jam "Backspacer" White Vinyl - $3,275.00
5. 45 - Joy Division "Licht un Blindheit" A4 Gatefold Pak Signed - $3,000.00
Week Ending 02/27/2010
1. 45 - Magnetics "Lady In Green" / "Heart You're Made Of Stone" Bonnie - $5,500.00
2. LP - Pink Floyd "Ummagumma" Japan Red Vinyl - $4,200.00
3. 12" - Ryvon DJ "I'm gonna dance (take me tonight) - $3,551.00
4. LP - Andre Cluytens "Ravel The Complete Orchestral Works" Columbia SAX 2476-9 UK Pressing - $2,794.67
5. LP - The Beatles "Let It Be" UK Box Set PXS 1 - $2,716.00
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