Rolling Reissues 2013

Yeah, they're starting to show up.

The Howling Hex- The Best of the Howling Hex out 2/19/2013 on Drag City

The Howling Hex are back in town - you can feel them in the air, man! The Best of The Howling Hex is a new album of new music by a new incarnation of The Howling Hex, now broadcasting as a band from the big town of Denver, Colorado. After years staked out in the border country of southern New Mexico, guitarist and leader Neil Hagerty is back in the phonebook, giving the Hex an urban soapbox on which to stand for the first time in their ten years of re-re-revisionist history.
Mile high style seems to be a good match for the mercurial back-road attire of The Howling Hex. For this new album, the wide-opens spaces and New Border rhythms of recent albums have been telescoped and accelerated into a high-stepping, uptempo night on the tiles. Kicking the beat with New Border funk is a rhythm section complete with drummer, last heard on a Howling Hex record back in 2007. Also redux is the functionality of the "ditty" - most recently experienced on Earth Junk. The Best of The Howling Hex includes seven shortish songs that weave the wild spirits and far-flung textures of Wilson Semiconductors into tightly compressed sing-songs, before turning the jam out to bring the levee home. Hagerty's guitar tone is an alien wonder, and the careening beat of the band unleashes him to fill solo spots with fervor.

After five years of wandering through the arid brush-country of Earth Junk and Wilson Semiconductors (as well as the sidetrack soundtrack adventure that was Victory Chimp, a Book), the days of the covered wagon seem to be behind The Howling Hex for the time being. However, the depth of the earth and the true direction of the wind are lessons learned from their years out there - they can't be unlearned. The Best of The Howling Hex is still square state rock with sharp corners; southern lights refocused on a more northern steppe, yet still awash in the vibration of the west, red as the rocks that the Indians danced upon not so very long ago. Their rhythm echoes in the Hex mix.

And so, The Howling Hex roll on, leaving the shell of their former creature to dry in the sun as ever before. Meanwhile, the border stretches on and on, an epic expanditure of time and energy. With so many incarnations of the band left to fossilize in the high desert, the dry washes and the broken country, the designation 'best' means, not even 'latest' but merely "this one." So here you go - the latest installation of primo New Border Sound, The Best of the Howling Hex.

Track listing: Built a Friend - Primetime Clown - Highlights - Electric Northern - Street Craps - The General Prologue - Green Limousine - Trashcan Bahamas

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Yeah,I think I read that he wasn't too crazy about some of the added orkystrayshuns:
NEVER-BEFORE-HEARD MUSIC BY
TEXAS MUSICAL LEGEND TOWNES VAN ZANDT
TO BE ISSUED ON 2-CD SET BY OMNIVORE RECORDINGS

Sunshine Boy: The Unheard Studio Sessions & Demos 1971-1972
is a 28-track set featuring versions of notable songs from the artist’s most prolific period, 1971-72. Liner notes by Colin Escott.

AUSTIN, Texas — As musicologist Colin Escott writes in his liner notes for the upcoming Omnivore Recordings release of the late Townes Van Zandt’s Sunshine Boy: The Unheard Studio Sessions and Demos 1971-1972, “The art of Townes Van Zandt reveals a little at a time. Every hearing brings forth something you can’t believe you missed all the other times, or something that rings even truer today than way back when.”

Omnivore will give listeners more to discover in Townes Van Zandt when the 28-song, two-CD set is released on February 5, 2013. The recordings that comprise the set have been hidden away in the vault since their initial recording and are now presented with the cooperation of the estate. Due to acquisitions by various labels of the initial Poppy Records recordings, these session recordings have sat on the shelf with no one knowing quite where to find them — until now.

Following ten studio albums, several singles and several live albums, the troubled life of the influential singer-songwriter, performer and poet came to a close on New Years Day 1997.

Omnivore is pleased to finally be able to present, after many years in the works, a two-CD set of previously unavailable music from the Texas singer-songwriter’s classic albums High, Low & In Between and The Late Great Townes Van Zandt. One disc features outtakes and alternate takes/mixes of tracks from the sessions for those LPs; the other highlights solo demos. The set offers a window into the work that went into those two brilliant recordings, from a time when Van Zandt was at the height of his songwriting powers.

With alternate takes and mixes of songs like “To Live Is To Fly” (presented in both alternate take and demo form) and the classic "Pancho & Lefty" (a mix made alongside the known version, but without the strings and horns of the commercial version), Sunshine Boy is an essential release for all true Townes Van Zandt fans. The quiet and largely solo demo disc provides an intimate portrait of Van Zandt demo-ing songs, some of which would become his best-known compositions.

As Escott explains, “alternate versions add an entirely new dimension, like seeing someone you thought you knew so well in a new light. The new songs are simply good to have when it seemed the barrel was empty. And so here are more than two hours of Townes Van Zandt — music unheard since the engineer peeled off a little splicing tape to seal the box 40 years ago.”

Escott’s comprehensive liner notes, unseen photographs from the era and some entirely unheard songs, make this collection a must-have for fans of one of the best songwriters of his time.

About Omnivore Recordings:
Founded in 2010 by longtime, highly respected industry veterans Cheryl Pawelski, Greg Allen, Dutch Cramblitt, and Brad Rosenberger, Omnivore Recordings preserves the legacies and music created by historical, heritage, and catalog artists while also releasing previously unissued, newly found “lost” recordings and making them available for music-loving audiences to discover. Omnivore Recordings is distributed by EMI.

Track listing:

Disc One: Studio Sessions
1. T for Texas
2. Who Do you Love
3. Sunshine Boy
4. Where I Lead Me
5. Blue Ridge Mountains
6. No Deal
7. Pancho & Lefty (Alternate 1972 mix without strings and horns)
8. To Live is to Fly
9. You Are Not Needed Now
10. Don’t Take it Too Bad
11. Sad Cinderella
12. Mr. Mudd & Mr. Gold
13. White Freight Liner Blues
14. Two Hands
15. Lungs
16. Dead Flowers

Disc Two: Demos
1. Heavenly Houseboat Blues
2, Diamond Heel Blues
3 To Live is to Fly
4. Tower Song
5. You Are Not Needed Now
6. Mr. Mudd & Mr. Gold
7. Highway Kind
8. Greensboro Woman
9. When He Offers His Hand
10. Dead Flowers
11. Old Paint
12. Standin’

ha, confusingly, that howling hex album is not in fact a "best of" but a brand new album.

omnivore also has these, they are doing some good stuff:
Buck Owens – Honky Tonk Man & Don Rich – Sings George Jones (Omnivore) – The San Joaquin Valley city with a population of just over 300,000 served as the Western counterpart to Nashville from the ’50s on through the ’70s, producing such stars as Buck Owens & The Buckaroos, Merle Haggard, and the Maddox Brothers & Rose. Owens and Haggard topped the country charts for decades while retaining their Central California roots. But it wasn’t until 2012 that Omnivore Recordings, digging a little deeper, found two albums worth of never-before-released music from the Buckaroos camp: Buck Owens’ Honky Tonk Man and Don Rich Sings George Jones. Both CDs are set for release January 23, 2013. The 18 tracks on Buck Owens’ Honky Tonk Man were culled from the vast trove of material he recorded at his Bakersfield studio for the rural hit comedy TV series Hee Haw in the early ’70s. Until his tragic death in 1974, guitarist, fiddler and vocalist Don Rich appeared on nearly all Buck Owens’ hit records, beginning in the late ’50s. Don Rich Sings George Jones is one of the most exciting country music discoveries in decades — the only solo album ever recorded by the legendary lead guitarist and harmony vocalist for Buck Owens & the Buckaroos. Even more amazing is the fact that this album sat in Owens’ tape vault — unreleased and long forgotten — until now.

damn, sorry bout the Hex. This is right:
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Hence the following news from Janet Beveridge Bean--anyway, good excuse for a tour:

This is my first attempt at reaching out to press and radio since, I don't know, maybe the late 1980s? I believe Bettina, our label dominatrix, at Thrill Jockey Records has too much on her plate for our little tour, so in the spirit of Marx I'm going all "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" and just getting it done!. So forgive my lack of correct approach. My crazy neighbor, Sally Timms, from the Mekons, said "Janet, you can do this." And if you've ever been lucky enough to meet Sally you know that when she says march you march. Bloodshot records then pitched in an gave me their list of worthy contacts to which you are one.

Here's the story:

This tour came about out of the blue really. We shouldn't be touring since we don't have a new record out, but people kept asking us to play and we seem to have a perverse desire to head north in the winter; often it's the bitter climes of Germany it seems. This time we opted for stateside. Really we are touring on the re-release of Feels Like the Third Time. It's the 20th anniversary of its release, a crazy notion, that I still find hard to fathom. We will be playing it in its entirety along with other favorites. We have found a lot of our fans were having babies round the time the record came out and those babies were forced to listen to Freakwater more than any baby should. It turns out those babies, now the record buying public, have some sort of DNA thing going where they gotta hear the Freakwater. So really we're doing this for the kids.

I don't think we have played a proper tour in about 4 years, but we always stay busy. During our 4 year down time I released albums with my other bands eleventh dream day and The Horse's Ha; Catherine released an excellent solo record just this September; ( I think she may do a couple tunes from it at the show) Dave tours and records with the Reigning Sound and Morgan Geers' Drunken Prayer; and Jim Elkington, who will be joining us on this tour, is currently touring with Kelly Hogan and is then off to South America for a few shows with Stereolab's Laetitia Sadler. The rest of the time he plays with Doug McComb's non-Tortoise band, Brokeback, and then with me in the Horse's Ha. We are immensely looking forward to getting out there and playing Freakwater tunes and getting into trouble.
Here are our dates
:FREAKWATER TOUR DATES 2013
FEELS LIKE THE THIRD TIME 20th ANNIVERSARY TOUR!!!!
January 10 The Ark, Ann Arbor MI
January 11 The Ninth Ward, Buffalo NY
January 12 The Haunt, Ithaca NY
January 13 Johnny D's, Somerville MA
January 14 Narrows Center for the Arts, Falls River MA
January 15 The Bell House, Brooklyn NY
January 16 DC9 Washington DC
January 17 Club Cafe, Pittsburgh PA
January 18 Beachland Tavern, Cleveland OH
January 19 Stuart's Opera House, Nelsonville OH
January 21 The Hideout, Chicago Il
January 23 Private House Party
January 24 Headliners, Louisville KY

We are more than happy to do interviews and also feel free to contact the label with any questions or photo requests.

OMINVORE RECORDINGS CHRONICLES
THE CLASSIC YEARS OF
COUNTRY MUSIC PIONEERS WITH COLLECTIONS BY
WANDA JACKSON, GEORGE JONES AND MERLE HAGGARD

Ten-inch vinyl EPs made available on Black Friday provided a sneak preview of Merle Haggard’s The Complete ’60s Capitol Singles,
George Jones’ The Complete United Artists Solo Singles,
and Wanda Jackson’s The Best of the Classic Capitol Singles.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Omnivore Recordings will release definitive compilations by three giants of country and rockabilly music — Wanda Jackson, Merle Haggard and George Jones — on February 12, 2013. Having released musical appetizers in the form of ten-inch vinyl EPs on Record Store Day’s Back to Black Friday, Omnivore will serve the main course on compact disc in the form of Merle Haggard’s The Complete ’60s Capitol Singles, George Jones’ The Complete United Artists Solo Singles, and Wanda Jackson’s The Best of the Classic Capitol Singles. All three compilations feature A & B sides from the artists’ most influential years. The vinyl EPs were companion pieces, containing rarities not found on the CDs.

Wanda Jackson’s The Best of the Classic Capitol Singles contains 29 songs from her Capitol stint, which began in 1956. Each was taken from the original analog mono 45-rpm masters. Idolized by three generations of rockers, the Queen of Rockabilly made musical side-trips into country and gospel. For every A-side rave-up like “Mean Mean Man” or “Fujiyama Mama,” she offers B sides of equal intrigue: a weeper like “(Every Time They Play) Our Song” or the hillbilly tragedy of “No Wedding Bells for Joe.” She tore through songs that Elvis sang, and also drew from the jazz greats, R&B legends, doo-woppers and the Nashville hit machine. And she made each song her own.

In the ’50s, Capitol Records ad men scratched their heads, looking for a way to position Wanda Jackson’s sound, gamely settling on “jumping rock ’n’ waltz novelty.” Today, as she plays before indie-rock-aged crowds, supporting recent albums produced by Jack White and Justin Townes Earle, we know she’s no novelty. The Best of the Classic Capitol Singles, with extensive liner notes by Daniel Cooper, is her most definitive career retrospective to date.

Jackson’s Capitol label-mate Merle Haggard became one of country music’s greatest stars while recording his Bakersfield-honed songs at the tower at Hollywood & Vine from 1965 until 1976. The Omnivore compilation The Complete ’60s Capitol Singles features 28 A & B sides taken from the original analog mono 45-rpm masters. Neo-rockabilly artist and part-time journalist Deke Dickerson, a longtime Haggard fan, wrote the liner notes.

From “Swinging Doors” in 1965 until the end of the decade, Haggard had an impressive string of hits. “The Fugitive” (b/w “Someone Told My Story”), his first #1 single, was a composition by the esteemed songwriter Liz Anderson (Lynn Anderson’s mother). “I Threw Away the Rose” b/w “Loneliness Is Eating Me Alive” went to #2 on the charts in 1966. Other chart-toppers on this volume include “You Don’t Have Very Far To Go” b/w “Good Times” and “The Legend of Bonnie & Clyde” b/w “I Started Loving You Again.” “Working Man Blues,” written when Haggard “needed (his) own ‘Folsom Prison Blues,’” became a blue-collar anthem and shot to #1. The collection closes with “Okie From Muskogee,” the unlikely political pop crossover that sent mixed signals to younger listeners. Most have since delved deeper into Haggard’s five decades of music and consider him a hero. He continues to record today.

United Artists Records was eventually married to Capitol when it, along with parent label Liberty, was acquired by EMI in 1978. But when country star George Jones recorded for the label (following stints at Starday and Mercury) from 1962 til 1966, United Artists and Capitol were Hollywood crosstown rivals. It was at UA that Jones mastered all the flavors of country: lovelorn ballads, inspirational gospel, uptempo honky tonk, humorous novelty numbers, old-timey murder ballads — even holiday and Western songs. Most of his UA work was done in Nashville featuring the city’s A team: guitarist Grady Martin, pianist Hargus “Pig” Robbins, bassist Bob Moore, drummer Buddy Harman and Hal Rugg on pedal steel. The Jordanaires provided background vocals.

Omnivore’s 32-song George Jones compilation, The Complete United Artist Solo Singles, leads off with chart toppers “She Thinks I Still Care” b/w “Sometimes You Just Can’t Win,” produced by the legendary Cowboy Jack Clement. Both sides of the single pointed the way to the sound that would mark his signature style in decades to follow. The collection also includes Jones’ 1965 smash “The Race Is On.”

“Country music is like a religion to me,” he told Holly George-Warren, author of this compilation’s liner notes. Jones’ early ’60s work for United Artists will make a believer out of you.

About Omnivore Recordings:
Founded in 2010 by longtime, highly respected industry veterans Cheryl Pawelski, Greg Allen, Dutch Cramblitt, and Brad Rosenberger, Omnivore Recordings preserves the legacies and music created by historical, heritage, and catalog artists while also releasing previously unissued, newly found “lost” recordings and making them available for music-loving audiences to discover. Omnivore Recordings is distributed by EMI.

Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin -Reverse Shark Attack
Street Date, January 22nd, 2013, In The Red
Originally released in 2009 as a vinyl-only title on the Kill Shaman label, Reverse Shark Attack is a collaboration by two long time chums who grew up together in Laguna Beach. Both turned out to be hyper prolific singer/song-writer/musicians who recorded as solo artists as well as performing in bands such as the Sic Alps, Moonhearts, Epsilons and Okie Dokie.The result of this collaboration is an incredible shambolic 10-track delight of psychedelic garage jams that is sure to please the most scrutinizing rocker. Equal parts danceable garage rock and effects-ridden psychedelia,Reverse Shark Attack is a mind-blowing explosion of loud guitars, pounding rhythms and signature vocal harmonies. Ty Segall and Mikal Cronin balance perfectly between soprano and baritone vocals, making for outstanding results. The centerpiece of the album is the title track, a side-long epic that goes from Beatles-esque melody to psych/ folk weirdness then explodes into a Ventures-induced headache of smashed drums and wildly vibrant surf guitars. This is a must-have release for fans of these two artists, and nothing like either of their projects have done before.
Track List:
1. I Wear Black
2. Drop Dead Baby
3. High School
4. Ramona
5. Doctor Doctor
6. Bikini Babes
7. Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk
8. Reverse Shark Attack

Also!
The Traditional Fools - s/t
Street Date, January 22nd, 2013, In The Red

In The Red is proud to announce the re-release of the self-titled album by Ty Segall’s Traditional Fools. The Traditional Fools were a garage-punk-thrash-surf trio consisting of Ty, Andrew Luttrell and David Fox. They recorded and released their lone album back in 2008 - it sold out quickly and has never been re-pressed until now. Recorded live in the studio, Traditional Fools is low on fidelity and high in energy. The band’s sound is a perfect combination of 60s garage, vintage surf reverb and early LA punk performed with trashy reckless abandon. Covers by Redd Kross and Thee Headcoats give you an idea where these guys were coming from and songs about bikini babes and shredsticks tell you where these guys were at. Grab a bike, a tank top, sunglasses and every beer you can find and enjoy surf-punk done right.

Track List:

1. Davey Crockett
2. Snot Rag
3. T.L. Defender
4. Please
5. Layback!!!
6. Get Off My Back
7. Shredstick
8. Kill Someone You Hate
9. Valley (Of The Jams)
10. Party At My House
11. Milkman
12. All-Right

KILLING JOKE To Release The Singles Collection 1979-2012 This Spring Via Spinefarm/Universal

The Singles Tour Announced

KILLING JOKE will celebrate their 35th anniversary in style next year with the release of The Singles Collection 1979-2012 and a world tour set to commence in Europe this coming March. 2013 will also see the band release a new studio album!

With a fierce intelligence combined with a thirst for esoteric knowledge that matches a sound that is visceral and almost spiritual in its primal spirit, KILLING JOKE are like no other. This is a group spawned from punk rock that set out on one of the most remarkable and idiosyncratic journeys ever. Their influence has been enormous, with an unlikely roll-call of musicians taking their cues from the KJ catalog, from Nirvana to most modern American metal to many DJs and dance music mavericks. Few, however have come close to matching the band’s innate power.

The Singles Collection 1979-2012, set for release via Spinefarm/Universal on April 16, 2013, captures their ever-evolving story with a series of dark, apocalyptic songs that have successfully combined disco, funk and shamanic wisdom with the dark side of the punk fall-out. The Singles Collection 1979-2012 will be released in three formats: as a digital download, a limited edition 3-CD set and a super deluxe edition. View The Singles Collection 1979-2012 cover art at THIS LOCATION.

Formats:

3-CD Version includes:

- 33 career-spanning singles over 2 CDs + a third disc of rarities, including previously unreleased studio tracks. This 3-CD version will be limited in number, reverting to 2 CDs containing the singles tracks. To preorder, go HERE.

Super Deluxe Version includes:

- Hand-numbered hinged-lid “cigar box” made from 1500mcn black-lined rigid board finished with matt print retrospective artwork.

- 33 career-spanning CD singles plus selected B-Sides in full-color card wallets featuring original artwork.

- Rarities disc, including previously unreleased studio tracks.

- 32-page perfect-bound book including rare photos, archive notes, band commentary.

- Poster designed and personally signed by long-time KILLING JOKE artist/champion, Mike Coles, printed on 250gsm silk art.

- Aluminum screw-top branded cigar tube containing original wrappers of cigars smoked by Jaz Coleman and Paul Raven during the recording of the Hosannas From The Basements Of Hell album. To preorder this version, go HERE.

KILLING JOKE, with their original line-up of Jaz Coleman, Geordie, Youth and Big Paul continuing to hold firm, have signed a brand new deal with Spinefarm and will soon set about recording a third studio album for the label. The release date of this new studio album is likely to be late 2013.

KILLING JOKE The Singles Tour 2013:

(Additional dates TBA)

3/15/2013 Hammerfest – Wales, UK

3/16/2013 Forum – London, UK

3/18/2013 Trix – Antwerp, BE

3/20/2013 Bataclan – Paris, FR

4/19/2013 Irving Plaza - New York, NY

4/23/2013 Cafe Campus – Montreal, QC

4/24/2013 Lee’s Palace – Toronto, ON

4/26/2013 Empty Bottle – Chicago, IL

4/27/2013 Empty Bottle – Chicago, IL

4/30/2013 Neumos – Seattle, WA

5/01/2013 Rickshaw Theatre – Vancouver, BC

5/03/2013 Fillmore - San Francisco, CA

5/04/2013 Brick By Brick - San Diego, CA

5/05/2013 Henry Fonda - Los Angeles, CA

http://www.killingjoke.com
http://spinefarmrecords.com/usa

Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin -Reverse Shark Attack
Street Date, January 22nd, 2013, In The Red

why is this being reissued?

Ask In The Red

FLYING NUN TO PARTNER WITH CAPTURED TRACKS ON REISSUE PROGRAM
TOY LOVE TO KICK OFF REISSUE SERIES ON 2/19
Captured Tracks and Flying Nun have partnered up to manufacture and distribute the prestigious New Zealand label's back-catalog. Flying Nun began in 1981 in Christchurch, NZ and quickly established a roster of artists and DiY ethic that would go on to influence indie rock musicians and labels to the present day. Featuring such vanguard artists as The Chills, The Clean, Tall Dwarfs, The Verlaines, The Bats and countless others, the label made a huge impression on US and European underground music despite its geographically isolated locale. Original founder Roger Shepherd bought back the rights to the label from WB in late 2009 which has ultimately led to Brooklyn label Captured Tracks involvement.

The partnership plans on releasing a large quantity of currently out of print titles from the labels most prominent and most obscure releases, from their earliest releases through the catalog. Starting with the 2xLP Toy Love (pre-Tall Dwarfs/Bats) compilation that was recently issued in NZ, future projects include boxed sets, expanded reissues of 12" EP's, 7"s, LP's on all formats as well as posters, shirts and various other items from Flying Nun's deep archives.

ABOUT TOY LOVE

The 28-track compilation collects all the A & B sides of the three Toy Love singles, plus the best demos from 1979, a live track and even a radio jingle. All mastered for vinyl, straight from the original analogue tapes, no nasty CDs nor digital sources were used at all.

Housed in a gatefold jacket, a 24 page booklet accompanies the release with photos, ephemera and commentary from Toy Love. While, the back cover features a sketched cartoon of an early Toy Love flyer drawn by Chris Knox.

Evolving from Dunedin band, The Enemy, Toy Love had a brief but bright existence between January 1979 and September 1980. Invoking the ghost of punk and the melody and creativity of 60-70s pop, they were peerless at a time when New Zealand music was still struggling to imprint itself on the national consciousness. They became a model for local musicians around the country and inspired the birth of Flying Nun Records – a label which many from the band went on to work with, including Chris Knox and Alec Bathgate with the Tall Dwarfs and Paul Kean with The Bats. Then, in 2005 Flying Nun released Cuts, a double CD anthology of Toy Love material.

Electrifying and unmissable, Toy Love made an impact on all who saw then, and continue to do so around the world today.

They also linked some vids--here's The Clean's "Tallyho" (1981)
http://www.youtube.com/embed/dm3UGftvCRo

The Chills' "Pink Frost"
]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjW3MT8D9RY

Verlaines' "Death and the Maiden" (watch out for the bunny)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P96cFKd4irY

and of course The Tall Dwarves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWXT29tLRHQ

Also "Swimming Pool" and other Toy Love on Soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/search?q=Toy%20Love

Jacket of the xpost Toy Love anthology

https://www.flyingnun.co.nz/photos/6h/v0/pikv50.jpg

Oh yeah, and re what I posted about Bikini Kill on Rolling Reissues 2012, here they are on NPR today--good quotes x sounds:
http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=168696666&m=168699744

I wonder if the Van Zandt reissue contains any of the Jack Clement productions? Speaking of Omni, I've been listening to the two reissues they did of the Stonemans' stuff done for MGM and RCA in the late '60s and into 1970, produced by Clement. Omni's notes say the songs contain elements of "sunshine pop" which I don't hear so much; but they are very interesting and sometimes berserk bluegrass-inflected pop-folk tunes with lotsa crazed instrumental breaks, and lots of Clement tunes, including his "The Five Little Johnson Girls," which mentions space travel, and "West Canterbury Subdivision Blues," which is kind of a pop-folk-country "Pleasant Valley Sunday." I wonder if the George Jones thing doesn't just replicate tracks you can get elsewhere?

Morello has reissued 4 George Jones albums from the '70s. I included their The Grand Tour and Alone Again from 2012 in my Scene country ballot, because Alone Again[ is one of the half-dozen best Jones LPs (along with If My Heart Had Windows on Musicor and I Am What I Am and The Battle, the latter on Epic). They should have reissued I Wanta Sing but haven't yet, for whatever reason, but that's another really good one, includes "Old King Kong." Didn't see any listings for 2013 yet.

Who's That Man – A Tribute To Conny Plank
To be released in February on Grönland Records, great first paragraph on his artist page on their website:

It is the mid-1980s and a British colleague introduces a German producer to a band from Dublin, Ireland. The Brit is convinced the German is the right man to produce the band’s next album. However, after a brief meeting with the band, the German comes to a completely different conclusion. “I cannot work with that singer,” he says, turning the job down. “That singer” was Bono Vox, the band U2, the album The Joshua Tree, the British producer Brian Eno and the German producer Conny Plank. This story is typical of Conny Plank. His contemporaries describe him as an extremely amiable producer, yet he could quickly forget all graciousness when it came to issues like work ethic and the ignorance of the media and the music industry.

More on the compilation:

In February 2013 Grönland Records will be releasing a 4 disc CD Box called 'who's that man' as a tribute to legendary German producer Conny Plank.

CD1 & CD2 – a compilation of 21 tracks all produced by Conny Plank, including luminaries of the 70s and 80s Krautrock scene such as Arno Steffen, Möbius, Rödelius, Michael Rother, La Düsseldorf, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft (D.A.F), NEU!

CD3 – is a remix album. Tracks by Cluster & Brian Eno, Eurythmics, NEU! receive remix treatments by current artists such as Walls, Kreidler and Can collaborator Jens-Uwe Beyer (aka Popnoname)

CD4 – is a live album taken from a live performance given in Mexico in 1986 by Conny Plank / Dieter Möbius / Arno Steffen. The three formed as ‘Trioformation’ and performed a south American our sponsored by the Goethe Institute. The show was the last taped performance of Conny before his death in ‘87.

NUMERO TO ISSUE LIVE CODEINE LP FOR RECORD STORE DAY 2013

Following in the snow tracks of When I See The Sun, Numero Group's massive, near-complete Codeine overview, comes What About The Lonely, an eight song LP recorded at the group's live zenith. Captured direct from the mixing board at a stop on Codeine's November 1993 swing through the Midwest opening for Mazzy Star, the album finds the trio of Stephen Immerwahr, John Engle, and Doug Scharin running through their hits at Chicago's notorious Lounge Ax for a crowd of chatty 120 Minutes fans. Gastr Del Sol's David Grubbs joins for two songs on guitar, slinking on and off the two foot stage with little fanfare, but leaving an indelible mark on the performance.
Constructed for Record Store Day 2013, What About The Lonely will be issued as a one-time pressing of 2000 150 gram LPs. There will be no CD or digital component.

WHAT ABOUT THE LONELY TRACKLISTING

1. Cave-In

2. Loss Leader

3. Jr

4. Pickup Song

5. Ides

6. Tom

7. Wird

8. Smoking Room

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lol codeine opening for mazzy star, must've been a rockin' night.
that conny plank box looks neato!

Mazzy Star always sounded like they were on codeine. Yeah, the Plank might shiver some timbers; I'll go a-roving for the promo. Digging the Wanda Jackson Capitol singles.

Excited to know the tracklist for the first 2 discs of the Plank comp.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
LENA HUGHES 'Queen of the Flat-Top Guitar' out Jan 29, 2013
Reissue of Impossibly Rare early 60's LP. New notes by JOHN RENBOURN
CD/LP/DL out January 29, 2013 on Tompkins Square

A musical "amateur" that best exemplified true artistry, Lena Hughes was born in Grape Grove Township, Missouri, in 1904. Though she never recorded any 78s and only one LP, Hughes was most influential through her steady performances at various fiddler conventions and folk festivals throughout the Ozarks. She was an excellent fiddler, banjoist and guitar picker who retained the largely extinct repertoire of parlor pieces and the variety of specialized tunings that were necessary to play them. She lived most of her life in Ludlow, Missouri and passed away in 1998.

Lena Hughes' repertoire can be divided roughly in half: finger-picked numbers adapted from fiddle tunes and recast parlor guitar pieces gleaned from popular sentimental songs, hymns, and 19th century airs. As a faithful attendee at folk festivals, Hughes was accompanied by her guitar-playing husband, Jake. Her most mesmerizing performances, such as Pearly Dew, Spanish Fandango, and Kentucky Moon Waltz, depend heavily upon the resonance of the open chord as it relates to the picking of the melodic line, primarily on one string. This tonal reliance is most similar to the "celestial octave" that Washington Phillips employs, with similar effect, on his Train Your Child. This ethereal harmonic technique, which seems so natural in Hughes' playing, is the holy grail for most finger-picking guitarists. Her lack of pretense and her mastery of this repertoire is what defines her legendary status.

These recordings were made in the early 60's in Arkansas and released in very limited fashion as a private press LP. Remastered by Chris King. Designed by Susan Archie. New liner notes by JOHN RENBOURN.
CD : TSQ 2813 / LP : TSQ 2820

Distributed by INgrooves/ Fontana US, Cargo UK for Europe, FUSE Australia

Also Available : Obscure Giants of Acoustic Guitar Trading Cards (Lena's in there)

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yeahhh that looks good. have these been mentioned?

MARTIN REV – S/T
• First time vinyl reissue of Suicide instrumentalist’s debut solo
album
from 1980
• Originally released on preeminent No Wave label Infidelity
(Lust/Unlust)
• Insert includes new Rev interview by musician/critic Alan Licht
• For fans of Suicide, Kraftwerk, Aphex Twin, Air

Released shortly after Suicide’s second full-length, Martin Rev was freed
to explore his most experimental and pop leanings with dirty synths, dark
melodies and dreamlike textures, and produced a masterpiece of modern
alienation that captures a uniquely New York landscape. Rev's debut echoes
other electronic forerunners such as Silver Apples and Kraftwerk, and
foreshadows the work of Aphex Twin and Air.

Preview here: https://soundcloud.com/superiorviaduct/sets/martinrev

100 FLOWERS – S/T
• First time reissue of underground Los Angeles classic from 1983
• For fans of The Urinals, The Minutemen, Sonic Youth, Desperate
Bicycles
• “Cool musicality with critical intelligence. And they thrash on a
high
level.” —Thurston Moore

100 Flowers (previously known as The Urinals) were a power trio whose sole
1983 album is an enduring document of the Southern California underground.
100 Flowers crafted a sound that rests between the inspired bursts of The
Minutemen, pastoral jangle of the Dream Syndicate and oblique approach of
Monitor and The Gun Club. The trio wielded a gripping visual aesthetic and
hyper-literate lyrical content that reflected their art-school
backgrounds, while a ferocity borne out of their bleak urban environment
permeates their songs.

Preview here: https://soundcloud.com/superiorviaduct/sets/100flowers

I was emailing w/ Superior Viaduct a year or two ago and suggested they do 100 Flowers and Monitor! Whether I had any influence or not, pretty excited. Big big fan.

ha, i got the press release and wondered why acute wasn't doing the 100 Flowers thing!

I was interested at some point but it was listed as coming out on a label called Warning Label or something for years, but I don't think it ever happened, but that's why I didn't pursue it at a time when I may have had the energy and means.

Speaking of Monitor, did anyone ever reissue their s/t on CD?

I mentioned it because it's also planned by Superior Viaduct I believe.

this lena hughes record is pretty awesome.

COME ON... A LITTLE CLOSER... YES! SQUIRREL BAIT!
Louisville's been a pipe-line of pure hot bed (hot bed of pure pipe-line?) for Drag City singers and songs and sounds for dang near decades now, some of which we've even resurrected from a time prior to our own birth (These two hands... our clay children!)! One such band bore the likes of long time DC artist-in-residence David Grubbs, as well as the the Palace-collabing and Slint foundling bros, Brian McMahon and Britt Walford (along with the man called M, "Papa" David Pajo) - yes, that's right, the seminal punk outfit, Squirrel Bait. Squirrel Bait may've been rocking out before you were born (circa '85-'87, in case you were wondering what years existed before you were born), but (visually) excitingly, they were barely outta diapers themselves when they made these tunes, from "Hammering So Hard" and "Sun God" to "Black Light Poster Child and "Too Close To the Fire."
What were they gonna do? It was the mid 80s, they were young teens in Louisville, punk rock was less than ten years old and hard rock wasn't much older and was as much fun to play as the punk shit! Nothing else to do but write some songs in the negative, expressing themselves through a refusal of rules perceived in the songs they loved and hated! What else, bookish pre-internet teenagers from the past? How about shying away from angst and transparent confession lyrically, and instead portraying hard-edged, decadent youth scenes in fictive brush-strokes, without glorifying or even explaining what they're about? Yes, and yes! Then they drowned the songs and lyrics and meanings in a cacaphony of thunderous drums, strangely indistinct guitars, and insistent power changes and choruses. Check, and mate! There's nothing to do but flip the record and drop the needle again. And now, there's no asking why - because both the self-titled EP and full-length LP, Skag Heaven, are back in print on the vinyl format for the first time in an internet generation (approximately 5 years)! Available for you, for now, as long as they're available - so get 'em from us here, now or go out and grab 'em at your local brick and mortar, horder!

Squirrel Bait
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THE NUMERO GROUP BEGINS SAN ANTONIO EXCAVATION

TWO RELEASES PLANNED TO LAUNCH SERIES, INCLUDING REISSUE OF DJ SHADOW-SANCTIONED FUNK GROUP MICKY & THE SOUL GENERATION

Eccentric Soul: The Dynamic Label - March 19, 2013

Iron Leg: The Complete Mickey & the Soul Generation - May 2, 2013

Born out of the largesse created from Rene & Rene's Hot 100 Tejano tornado "Angelito," Dynamic Records was but one of half a dozen labels run by San Antonio music and real estate mogul Abe Epstein. His flag ship group, The Commands, took their AFB circuit-honed chops up to the middle of the charts in 1966 with "No Time For You," paving the way for 20 other soulful singles over Dynamic's impressive two and a half year run. Epstein's open door policy led to a diverse cross section of the population converging inside his studio on General McMullan Drive, as whites, blacks, and Latinos were swapped in and out of groups as needed. That melting pot mentality is well represented by The Tonettes, Little Jr. Jesse & the Tear Drops, Don & the Doves, Willie Cooper & the Webs, Bobby Blackmon & his Soul Express, and Doc & Sal.

Erupting at the same time, but at a different studio, was the mixed instrumental combo Mickey & the Soul Generation. Best known for their 1969 paper hit "Iron Leg," the group came to semi-national attention following Nipsey Russell's performance of the Iron Leg dance on Johnny Carson. Though they shared a label with Ben E. King, they lacked access to the same promotion and marketing resources. A tour with Sam & Dave and opening slots for James Brown, Kool & the Gang, and The Supremes found them performing for thousands nightly, but still sleeping on floors. By the mid-'70s the group had fractured, with members joining the army, bottling Coke, and starting families. Their run would end in 1977 with two members turning in a passing Average White Band impression called "Southern Fired Funk" before their handful of 45s fell completely out of vogue and made their journey to thrift shops and cut-out distributors.

At the dawn of the century, Josh Davis (AKA DJ Shadow) tracked Mickey and his Soul Generation down for the purpose of reissuing their recordings on his upstart Cali-Tex label. "Mickey and the Soul Generation are my favorite funk band," Davis wrote in 2002. "They were strong contenders for the title from my very first listen back in '92. 'Iron Leg' being the standout track on an otherwise flaccid jazz-funk compilation of the day. Already a favorite rare-groove selection in the ever-accepting UK club scene, I too found myself buoying my bedroom DJ sets with snatches of the irresistible Soul Generation Sound. It became an instant priority of mine to locate an original." That 2003 reissue was met with critical praise, and ultimately turned a new generation of music lovers onto rare funk and soul. Numero has gone back to the scene of the crime and re-canvased for new leads, helping Davis expand on his original work, with updated liner notes, tons of newly discovered photos, and a previously unreleased track.

These two albums represent Numero's first forays into a seemingly bottomless well of San Antonio soul, R&B, funk, Latin, and garage. This scorched earth campaign will continue into 2014.

NUMERO TO REISSUE HÜSKER DÜ EARLY RECORDINGS FOR RECORD STORE DAY

DOUBLE 7" COMPILES EARLY FOUR SONG SESSION FROM 1980 INCLUDING PREVIOUSLY UNAVAILABLE SONG "WRITER'S CRAMP"

LISTEN TO THE LONG LOST ORIGINAL STUDIO MIX OF "STATUES" HERE:

http://soundcloud.com/biz-3-publicity/h-sker-d-statues
In August of 1980, Grant Hart, Bob Mould, and Greg Norton booked time at Minneapolis' Blackberry Way Studio to record what would become their debut 7". A deal with Twin/Tone was thought to be in the bag but was derailed by the fall 1980 signing of the Replacements - Hüsker Dü's then-chief rival. With a Twin/Tone rejection letter in their pocket, a scathing version of "Amusement" was thrashed out live at Duffy's, and plans were made for a self-released four song 10", with Blackberry Way cuts "Statues," "Writer's Cramp," and "Let's Go Die" making up the balance. The enormous start up cost for a debut release forced a format change, and in January of 1981 Reflex Records #A, "Amusement" b/w "Statues," found its way to market. The single would find two pressings over the next few years, but fall out of print as the band's style changed from Metal Box-esque post-punk to Los Angeles-inspired hardcore.

Hüsker Dü would, of course, build from this auspicious DIY effort to record classic albums for SST and Warner Brothers throughout the 1980s, before imploding prior to the decade's close. These early moments of brilliant naiveté have remained unknown to the band's ever-expanding fan base, primarily discovered on out of reach walls at used record stores the world over. Until now.

For Record Store Day 2013, Numero will issue "Amusement" b/w "Statues" and the studio alternates "Writer's Cramp" and "Let's Go Die" as a 2x7". The Blackberry Way cuts have been remastered from a first generation sub-master (the originals have long been lost), while "Amusement" was cut from the original live board tape. The original artwork has been polished and beefed up with a 28pt board gatefold jacket. Pressed in an edition of 4000, this deluxe reissue should satiate a new generation of Hüsker lovers. For at least another 33 years, anyhow.

GENE CLARK’S HERE TONIGHT: THE WHITE LIGHT DEMOS
COMING FROM OMNIVORE RECORDINGS ON MARCH 26

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — By 1970, weary and wary of the fame game in Los Angeles with the trappings of “the star-maker machinery” surrounding him at every turn, ex-Byrds songwriter and singer Gene Clark was looking for a refuge. On March 26, 2013, Omnivore Recordings will release Clark’s Here Tonight: The White Light Demos, a glimpse into the songwriting craft of Clark at the inception of the compositions that would become his first ’70s solo album, White Light, for A&M Records, released in August of 1971.

Of the tracks on this 12-song album, six (“White Light,” “For a Spanish Guitar,” “Where My Love Lies Asleep,” “The Virgin” “Because of You” and “With Tomorrow”) appeared in final form onWhite Light. Two (“Opening Day” and “Winter”) appeared in final form as bonus tracks on the 2002 A&M/Universal reissue of the album. One track (”Here Tonight”) is an alternate version of a song that appeared on the Flying Burrito Brothers compilation Honky Tonk Heroes. And three songs (“For No One,” “Please Mr. Freud” and “Jimmy Christ”) have never been issued previously in any form. Liner notes are by John Einarson, author of Mr. Tambourine Man: The Life and Legacy of Gene Clark (Backbeat Books, 2005). The collection is being reissued with the full cooperation of the estate of Gene Clark.

Precipitating Clark’s move to a secluded life in Northern California, events of the prior four years had elevated the reclusive Kansas-raised boy to the top of the rock ’n’ roll pantheon. The Byrds had topped the charts with their 1965 debut single, “Mr. Tambourine Man” and followed it with a string of folk- and country-influenced songs, many of them from Clark’s own pen. With a little help from Bob Dylan, the Byrds gave rock a literary sensibility. In his own songwriting, Clark had come to embrace the Dylan style of oblique lyric poetry and accrued considerable attention for his songs, to the chagrin of his band mates. Fissures in the band hierarchy ensued.

With his sudden departure from the Byrds in 1966, Clark withdrew from the public eye. His attempt at a solo career later that year was hampered by a reluctance to tour or fly (earning him the title of “the Byrd who wouldn’t fly”). Teaming up with banjo demon Doug Dillard in 1968, the Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark recorded two trail-blazing country-rock bluegrass band around Gene’s well-crafted songs. By early 1970, he left the band, left L.A. for the open spaces of Little River, Calif., near Mendocino, accompanied by his girlfriend Carlie McCummings. The two were equally captivated by the tiny seaside community and were married in June of that year.

Away from the pressure of the music business and inspired by the pastoral beauty of the area, Clark began to write songs that took on a reflective, introspective direction. His songs became more folky and stripped down as Clark swore he’d never again play electric guitar.

“There was no deadline,” says McCumming. “He wasn’t under any pressure. And as a result, the songs just flowed out of him. The lyrics were so pure. They don’t come out of any manufactured experience.” Clark also began exploring the nature of spirituality and the human condition in his lyrics, inspired by friend Philip O’Leno. At the end of the Dillard & Clark partnership, Gene owed A&M Records two additional albums. Company co-founder Jerry Moss himself paid Gene a visit in Little River and managed to entice him and Carlie back to L.A. to record. Jesse Ed Davis, with whom Gene had struck up a friendship during the Dillard & Clark sessions, was enlisted to produce.

Clark first recorded the songs meant for the White Light album in demo form on acoustic guitar. It’s these demos, lost for decades and recently discovered, that comprise Here Tonight: The White Light Demos with the songs presented as Clark had originally conceived them in his Mendocino Coast cabin. “His voice was absolutely perfect at that point,” notes Carlie. Included are songs that would later appear on the A&M debut, as well as several that failed to make the cut. Jesse Ed Davis maintained much of the simplicity and honesty of the demos in producing the finished album.Rolling Stone drew comparisons to Clark’s mentor Bob Dylan. It was voted “album of the year” in the Netherlands, whereupon Clark boarded a rare airplane to tour internationally.

Sadly sales were slim. Clark returned to Northern California to write the next album at his own pace. Eventually he returned to L.A. to sustain his career. The rigors of the road eventually tore his marriage apart, leading to a tailspin of alcohol, drugs and death in 1991. He was 46.

As biographer and reissue annotator John Einarson writes, “In the intervening decades, the songs Gene Clark wrote and demoed for White Light, offered here, stand as a deeply personal statement to an enduring talent at peace with himself, his surroundings and his life choices.”
About Omnivore Recordings:
Founded in 2010 by longtime, highly respected industry veterans Cheryl Pawelski, Greg Allen, Dutch Cramblitt, and Brad Rosenberger, Omnivore Recordings preserves the legacies and music created by historical, heritage, and catalog artists while also releasing previously unissued, newly found “lost” recordings and making them available for music-loving audiences to discover. Omnivore Recordings is distributed by EMI.

ALIVE NATURALSOUND RECORDS TO REISSUE SOUL LEGEND SWAMP DOGG'S NEWLY REMASTERED FIRST TWO SEMINAL ALBUMS FROM THE EARLY '70S: TOTAL DESTRUCTION TO YOUR MIND & RAT ON! ON MARCH 5TH!

Maverick soul artist Swamp Dogg (aka Jerry Williams) has been described as the “soul genius that time forgot," and “a strange combination of Sly Stone’s progressive funk with Frank Zappa’s lyrical absurdism." In the '70s he even made the famed Nixon’s Enemies List.

Alive Naturalsound Records is proud to bring you Swamp Dogg’s first two albums, newly remastered and re-released for the very first time on vinyl since their original release in the early '70s. Total Destruction To Your Mind (1970), has been called “one of the most gloriously gonzo soul recordings of all time," while Rat On! (1971) was ranked as having one of the top ten worst album covers of all time, an achievement that Swamp Dogg is rightfully proud of to this day.

The two remastered reissues of Swamp Dogg's early '70s albums Total Destruction To Your Mind and Rat On! will be available on Black Vinyl and CD on March 5th. In addition, there will also be a very limited pressing of Colored Vinyl for both albums exclusive to mailorders through Bomp!

"He sings like some unfrozen Atlantic soul man of the sixties - his voice clarion pure, his phrasing a model of smoldering restraint." - ROLLING STONE

"He's made some of the maddest, funny, baddest, odd, angry, funkiest soul records." - MOJO

"Vocally, Swamp Dogg sounds like a cross between General Johnson (of Chairmen of the Board) and Van Morrison; as a songwriter, he’s his own man. With the exception of Sly Stone, no other soul men of the period were investigating controversial topics with such infectious musicality and good humor." – AMG

FOR MORE INFO ON SWAMP DOGG:
http://www.swampdogg.net

FOR MORE INFO ON ALIVE RECORDS:
http://www.alive-totalenergy.com

Also, Swamp Dogg shares links for tracks from both albums:
https://soundcloud.com/alivenaturalsound/swamp-dogg-if-i-die-tomorrow
https://soundcloud.com/alivenaturalsound/swamp-dogg-creeping-away

Sub Pop to release The Thermals vinyl reissues on March 5:

More Parts Per Million, Fuckin' A, and The Body, The Blood, The Machine

Available on limited edition, colored vinyl;

10th anniversary of ‘More Parts Per Million’

Plus - March tour dates announced, includes SXSW

On March 5th, Sub Pop Records will reissue the entirety of The Thermals classic label discography - More Parts Per Million, Fuckin' A, and The Body, The Blood, The Machine - on vinyl. All three releases will be available on limited edition, colored vinyl and are available for preorder now at Sub Pop.com (see Pitchfork news story Jan. 24)

The Thermals have issued a statement on behalf of the reissues, as well as upcoming tour plans, and unusual sleeping arrangements:

“Don't call it a comeback! They've been here for years. But in this (hopefully) foul year of our Lord, 2013, The Thermals are indeed returning. With a vengeance. They will soon release their 6th LP, and again set about touring the world with an endless supply of wit and energy. But first, Sub Pop Records (who discovered and "broke" The Thermals way back in 2003) proudly announces the reissuing of The Thermals' first three classic LP's - More Parts Per Million, Fuckin' A, and The Body, The Blood, The Machine (as well as the rare "No Culture Icons" 7".) These records have been unavailable on vinyl for some time, and are now back in limited color editions!

These iconic, enduring collections of incredibly listenable songs will be re-released on March 5, 2013. The date is EXACTLY ten years since the release of More Parts Per Million, The Thermals' blistering no-fi debut. Whew, ten years? Do you feel old? The Thermals don't. But then again, they sleep in a "holy bed" brand hyper-baric/-bolic chamber. You know, like Jacko did.

Sub Pop and The Thermals hope vinyl enthusiasts everywhere enjoy these terrific records. Sit back, drop the needle, and let The Thermals take you back to a time of wonder and innocence, a time when indie rockers still shaved their faces, and you had to actually go into a store if you wanted to steal a record.”

Tour Dates
Mar. 01 - San Francisco, CA - Noise Pop (@ Rickshaw Stop)
Mar. 02 - Cupertino, CA - Homestead Lanes Bowling Alley
Mar. 07 - Brooklyn, NY - 285 Kent
Mar. 08 - Clinton, NY - Beinekie Events Barn @ Hamilton College
Mar. 09 - Hoboken, NJ - Maxwell’s
Mar. 13 - Austin, TX @ SXSW
Mar. 14 - Austin, TX @ SXSW
Mar. 15 - Austin, TX @ SXSW
Mar. 16 - Austin, TX @ SXSW
Mar. 18 - Los Angeles, CA @ Echoplex (Check Yo Ponytail)

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Appears to be a new Guerssen sublabel called Pharaway Sounds that's reissuing some Erkin Koray stuff - Arap Saçi (2LP of early psych-y stuff) and Elektronik Turkuler (awesome second LP). So that's cool. CDs too.

Great to know; Koray was supposed to make maybe his only visit to America sometime in 2012 or 2013; maybe promoting this?

Now dig it:
SKYDOG: THE DUANE ALLMAN RETROSPECTIVE
CHRONICLES GROUNDBREAKING GUITARIST’S CAREER,
FROM GARAGE BANDS AND R&B SESSION WORK
TO THE ALLMAN BROTHERS AND DEREK & THE DOMINOS

Seven CD set, due out March 5 on Rounder Records,
includes rare recordings by Allman’s early bands:
the Escorts, Allman Joys, the 31st of February, and the Bleus.
Extensive liner notes are accompanied by a tribute from Allman’s daughter.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Even if he’d never formed the Allman Brothers Band, Duane Allman would be a major figure in American popular music. Long before his name became known to mainstream audiences, he had already established his credentials as a once-in-a-lifetime guitar visionary, leaving his unmistakable stamp on a broad array of recordings. On March 5, 2013, Rounder Records, a division of Concord Music Group, will release the most ambitious retrospective of Allman’s short but influential career titled Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective.

The deluxe seven-disc collection, carrying a list price of $139.98, contains the guitarist’s best-known and most commercially successful recordings with the Allman Brothers Band and Derek & the Dominos, as well as session work with Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Boz Scaggs, Clarence Carter, King Curtis, Delaney & Bonnie & Friends, Ronnie Hawkins, Otis Rush, Laura Nyro, Lulu, the Sweet Inspirations, Laura Lee, Spencer Wiggins, Arthur Conley, Willie Walker, the Lovelles, the Soul Survivors, Johnny Jenkins, John Hammond, Doris Duke, Eric Quincy Tate, Herbie Mann and more.

The set was produced by Galadrielle Allman (Duane’s daughter) and two-time Grammy® winning producer Bill Levenson. Rounder Records’ Scott Billington served as executive producer. Scott Schinder contributed comprehensive historical liner notes, complemented by additional notes by Galadrielle Allman.

In her recollection of her father, who died when she was a young child, Galadrielle writes, “I am very lucky that my father is Duane Allman, an artist who left behind a wealth of incredible music . . . Working on this retrospective, I have gotten closer than I ever have been to understanding my father’s development as a musician and a man.”

Duane Allman, known to his bandmates as Skydog, was born in Nashville in 1946. With Gregg, his only sibling, Duane had his first moment of musical revelation upon witnessing a late ’50s R&B bill that featured B.B. King and Jackie Wilson. By 1960, both Duane and Gregg owned guitars and played in a series of neighborhood garage bands in Tennessee and Florida. Continuing their interest in blues and R&B in the shadow of blues radio station WLAC-AM’s continent-spanning signal, as well as absorbing the influence of the British Invasion, the brothers launched the Escorts in 1965 and the Allman Joys, who recorded a handful of sides in Bradley’s Barn in Nashville in 1966. By 1967, Duane and Gregg signed to Liberty as the Hour Glass and recorded two albums in Nashville and Los Angeles. When the band sought to defy the label and spread its musical wings, they were dropped. The brothers returned to Florida, hooked up with drummer Butch Trucks, and recorded two sides as the 31st of February, and later at Ardent Studio in Memphis as the Bleus.

By this time Duane had developed a reputation as a leading session guitarist. He was on Fame Studio’s A list, his guitar licks coloring hits by Wilson Pickett. Atlantic Records producer and executive Jerry Wexler took note and hired him to perform on Atlantic sessions by King Curtis, Otis Rush, Arthur Conley, the Soul Survivors and Sweet Inspirations. Wexler signed him to a solo Atlantic deal, resulting in a session that contained the raucous original “Happily Married Man” and more. The session, contained on the Skydog set, was abandoned mid-stream. But by then Capricorn Records’ Phil Walden had noticed the rumblings from Muscle Shoals. Duane gathered up brother Gregg, Dickey Betts, Berry Oakley, Butch Trucks, Jai Johanny Johanson and others and the Allman Brothers Band was born.

According to reissue annotator Schinder, “The [Allman Brothers Band’s] music was complex and adventurous, yet unfailingly accessible. The subtle and harmonic interplay between Duane and Dickey’s dual lead guitars was matched by the three-man rhythm section’s surging, swinging cross-rhythms, with Gregg’s massively expressive singing and organ playing keeping the music firmly grounded in human emotion.” The band’s profile grew with each release — the self-titled debut, Idlewild South and eventually the band’s breakthrough, At Fillmore East.

Testament to his energy and ambition, Duane still found time for side projects. When bandmates would hole up at home after tours, Duane joined fellow world-class guitarist Eric Clapton on Derek & the Dominos’ Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs. While not an official member, he quickly emerged as a major contributor to the classic album, his twin guitar interplay with Clapton shaping the hits “Layla” and “Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad.” He also worked with Delaney & Bonnie & Friends and Laura Nyro between Allman Brothers Band projects.

By then acknowledged as one of rock’s premier guitarists, Duane and the Allman Brothers Band began recording their follow-up to At Fillmore East — Eat a Peach. Tom Dowd, another legendary Atlantic house producer, oversaw sessions at Criteria Studios. Then on October 29, 1971, four days after Fillmore had been certified gold, Duane was riding his motorcycle and swerved to avoid hitting a truck. He crashed and died of internal injuries. He was 24 years old.
The band forged ahead as a quintet on Eat a Peach, which became one of their best selling albums. The Allman Brothers, led by Gregg Allman and Butch Trucks, continue to perform to this day.

Schinder notes, “More than four decades after his death, Duane Allman remains a towering figure whose stature has only increased in his absence. His influence lives on, not only in the multiple generations of guitarists who have been motivated by his input, but also in the legions of listeners who have continued to find inspiration in his vibrant vision of American music, which remains as fresh and truthful today as when it was created.”

“When a musician of my father’s caliber dies, every note he ever recorded becomes even more precious,” writes Galadrielle. “Each song is pressed into the service of telling his story. The longer Duane is gone, the clearer it becomes that there will never be another like him.”

Over seven discs, Skydog tells the Duane Allman story with rare and never-before-heard gems alongside smash hits.

“I hope the celebration of Duane’s life inspires you to live fearlessly and enjoy life,” Galadrielle concludes. “I know that would have made him proud.”

Disc One
1 THE ESCORTS Turn On Your Love Light 2:33
2 THE ESCORTS No Name Instrumental 3:13
3 THE ESCORTS What’d I Say 4:04
4 THE ALLMAN JOYS Spoonful 2:27
5 THE ALLMAN JOYS Gotta Get Away 2:38
6 THE ALLMAN JOYS Shapes Of Things 2:47
7 THE ALLMAN JOYS Crossroads 3:32
8 THE ALLMAN JOYS Mister, You’re A Better Man Than I 4:45
9 THE ALLMAN JOYS Lost Woman 5:23
10 HOUR GLASS Cast Off All My Fears 3:31
11 HOUR GLASS I’ve Been Trying 2:39
12 HOUR GLASS Nothing But Tears 2:29
13 HOUR GLASS Power Of Love 2:51
14 HOUR GLASS Down In Texas 3:08
15 HOUR GLASS Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) 3:01
16 HOUR GLASS B.B. King Medley 7:07
17 HOUR GLASS Been Gone Too Long 3:03
18 HOUR GLASS Ain’t No Good To Cry 3:08
19 31ST OF FEBRUARY Morning Dew 3:46
20 31ST OF FEBRUARY Melissa 3:12
21 THE BLEUS Milk And Honey 2:34
22 THE BLEUS Leavin’ Lisa 2:43
23 THE BLEUS Julianna’s Gone 2:59

Disc Two
1 CLARENCE CARTER The Road Of Love 2:54
2 CLARENCE CARTER Light My Fire 2:49
3 WILSON PICKETT Hey Jude 4:06
4 WILSON PICKETT Toe Hold 2:49
5 WILSON PICKETT My Own Style Of Loving 2:41
6 WILSON PICKETT Born to Be Wild 2:45
7 LAURA LEE It’s How You Make It Good 2:32
8 LAURA LEE It Ain’t What You Do (But How You Do It) 2:05
9 SPENCER WIGGINS I Never Loved A Woman (The Way I Love You) 3:01
10 ARTHUR CONLEY Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 3:00
11 ARTHUR CONLEY Stuff You Gotta Watch 2:15
12 ARTHUR CONLEY Speak Her Name 2:39
13 ARTHUR CONLEY That Can't Be My Baby 2:22
14 WILLIE WALKER A Lucky Loser 2:20
15 THE LOVELLES I'm Coming Today 2:59
16 THE LOVELLES Pretending Dear 2:38
17 ARETHA FRANKLIN The Weight 2:53
18 ARETHA FRANKLIN It Ain't Fair 3:22
19 SOUL SURVIVORS Darkness 2:56
20 SOUL SURVIVORS Tell Daddy 2:30
21 SOUL SURVIVORS Got Down On Saturday 3:10
22 KING CURTIS Hey Joe 2:56
23 KING CURTIS Foot Pattin' 4:49
24 KING CURTIS Games People Play 2:46
25 KING CURTIS The Weight 2:47
26 THE SWEET INSPIRATIONS Get A Little Order 2:06

Disc Three
1 THE BARRY GOLDBERG BLUES BAND Twice A Man 4:26
2 DUANE ALLMAN Goin' Down Slow 8:44
3 DUANE ALLMAN No Money Down 3:25
4 DUANE ALLMAN Happily Married Man 2:40
5 OTIS RUSH Me 2:55
6 OTIS RUSH Reap What You Sow 4:53
7 OTIS RUSH It Takes Time 3:25
8 THE DUCK & THE BEAR Going Up The Country 2:34
9 THE DUCK & THE BEAR Hand Jive 2:41
10 BOZ SCAGGS Finding Her 4:10
11 BOZ SCAGGS Look What I Got 4:13
12 BOZ SCAGGS Waiting For A Train 2:41
13 BOZ SCAGGS Loan Me A Dime 13:01
14 THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND Don't Want You No More 2:26
15 THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND It's Not My Cross To Bear 5:01
16 THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND Black Hearted Woman 5:07
17 THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND Trouble No More 3:45

Disc Four
1 THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND Every Hungry Woman 4:13
2 THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND Dreams 7:16
3 THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND Whipping Post 5:16
4 RONNIE HAWKINS One More Night 2:22
5 RONNIE HAWKINS Will The Circle Be Unbroken 2:50
6 RONNIE HAWKINS Matchbox 3:05
7 RONNIE HAWKINS Down In The Alley 5:08
8 RONNIE HAWKINS Who Do You Love 2:13
9 LULU Marley Purt Drive 3:21
10 LULU Dirty Old Man 2:20
11 LULU Mr. Bojangles 3:08
12 LULU Sweep Around Your Own Back Door 2:40
13 JOHNNY JENKINS I Walk On Gilded Splinters 5:16
14 JOHNNY JENKINS Rollin’ Stone 4:56
15 JOHNNY JENKINS Down Along The Cove 3:02
16 JOHNNY JENKINS Voodoo In You 4:50
17 JOHN HAMMOND Shake For Me 2:42
18 JOHN HAMMOND Cryin’ For My Baby 2:39
19 JOHN HAMMOND I’m Leavin’ You 3:20
20 JOHN HAMMOND You’ll Be Mine 2:42
21 DORIS DUKE Ghost Of Myself 3:06

Disc Five
1 ERIC QUINCY TATE Comin’ Down (demo version) 2:52
2 THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND Hoochie Coochie Man (live) 5:00
3 THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND Midnight Rider 2:58
4 THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND Dimples (live) 4:59
5 THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND I'm Gonna Move To The Outskirts Of Town (live) 9:21
6 DELANEY & BONNIE & FRIENDS Soul Shake 3:06
7 LAURA NYRO Beads Of Sweat 4:47
8 THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND Don’t Keep Me Wonderin’ 3:28
9 DELANEY & BONNIE & FRIENDS Living On The Open Road 3:03
10 ELLA BROWN A Woman Left Lonely 3:23
11 ELLA BROWN Touch Me 2:59
12 BOBBY LANCE More Than Enough Rain 5:51
13 DEREK & THE DOMINOS I Am Yours 3:34
14 DEREK & THE DOMINOS Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad? 4:41
15 DEREK & THE DOMINOS Have You Ever Loved A Woman 6:52
16 DEREK & THE DOMINOS Layla 7:03
17 ERIC CLAPTON & DUANE ALLMAN Mean Old World 3:48

Disc Six
1 SAM SAMUDIO Me And Bobby McGee 3:31
2 SAM SAMUDIO Relativity 3:14
3 SAM SAMUDIO Goin' Upstairs 5:06
4 RONNIE HAWKINS Don't Tell Me Your Troubles 2:13
5 RONNIE HAWKINS Sick And Tired 2:45
6 RONNIE HAWKINS Odessa 3:19
7 DELANEY & BONNIE & FRIENDS Gift Of Love 2:09
8 DELANEY & BONNIE & FRIENDS Sing My Way Home 4:02
9 THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND Statesboro Blues (live) 4:17
10 THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND In Memory Of Elizabeth Reed (live) 13:04
11 GRATEFUL DEAD Sugar Magnolia (live) 7:20
12 THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND One Way Out (live) 4:57
13 HERBIE MANN Push Push 10:03
14 HERBIE MANN Spirit In The Dark 7:59
15 HERBIE MANN What’d I Say 4:57

Disc Seven
1 DELANEY & BONNIE & FRIENDS Come On In My Kitchen (live) 3:42
2 DELANEY & BONNIE & FRIENDS Going Down The Road Feeling Bad (live) 4:03
3 DELANEY & BONNIE & FRIENDS Poor Elijah / Tribute To Johnson (Medley) (live) 4:54
4 THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND You Don't Love Me / Soul Serenade (live) 19:25
5 COWBOY Please Be With Me 3:41
6 THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND Stand Back 3:24
7 THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND Blue Sky 5:09
8 THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND Blue Sky (live) 11:24
9 THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND Dreams (live) 17:56
10 THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND Little Martha 2:07

that looks prettay prettay good

Yes indeed. Prob have to do these stream links sep:

Morr Music Reissues Legendary First Two Dump Albums

Solo Project From James McNew of Yo La Tengo Available for the First Time Ever On Vinyl

Stream 'Secret Blood' From Superpowerless To Be Released on March 19

Stream 'Slow Down' From I Can Hear Music Out April 16

Dump, the recording and performing alias of James McNew, is reissuing his long out-of-circulation LPs Superpowerless (1993) and I Can Hear Music (1994) on Morr Music. McNew has been the bassist from legendary lo-fi rockers Yo La Tengo since 1992. Remastered by Bob Weston (Shellac, Mission of Burma), the LPs are being released on vinyl for the first time ever. Superpowerless will be available as a CD, a double LP or digital download, and I Can Hear Music will be available as two CDs, a triple LP package or digitally. Both will be released with the original album artwork, bonus materials and detailed liner notes. Stream both tracks from the 7" split of 'Secret Blood'/'Slow Down' now, which was released January 24th on Morr Music.

Raised in Charlottesville, VA, McNew performed with Christmas from 1989 until they broke up two years later, at which point he joined Yo La Tengo. Yo La Tengo was known to have an extensive repertoire of covers-fittingly, McNew recorded an entire album of Prince covers as Dump. Tastefully chosen covers appear on much of his other recorded work.

The Dump moniker officially began in 1991, but he didn't have any releases after that name until Superpowerless came out two years later. McNew recorded most instruments-guitar, bass, drums, organ and vocals-by himself, except for the instances in which his Yo La Tengo bandmates joined him. McNew captured everything on a 4-track cassette recorder. "It made more sense to me if someone recorded a song in the moment by themselves, and got it to me as soon as possible," he said of the process. McNew much preferred the lo-fi aesthetic he gleaned from this process to the clean, polished sound obtained in a traditional studio setting. What's more, some of the instruments weren't instruments at all-Dump was known to have used "cardboard boxes as bass-drums" and to have prized "the victory of enthusiasm over perfection." He recorded I Can Hear Music in a living room, which is particularly apropos for the lo-fi style he aimed for.

Dump has been joined onstage by his wife, Amy, his bandmates from Yo La Tengo, comedian Todd Barry and many more, and you can expect to see plenty of McNew with Yo La Tengo on the heels of their new release, Fade.

Superpowerless

Superpowerless Tracklisting

01. Hands Of Fear
02. So Sedimentary
03. Secret Blood
04. Good Medicine
05. Formerly One-Eye
06. Dark Road
07. Just For You
08. Outer Spaceways, Inc
09. The Sea Wall
10. Broken Conscience
11. Throw Out The Lifeline
12. The Quality Of Hurt
13. 19 ½
14. Moon River
15. Superpowerless
16. Ode To Shaggs' Own Thing
17. Love Theme From "Providence"
18. Knox's Lament
19. How Many Bells?
20. Intro/ Nothing Left
21. Down To The Sea In Ships
22. Pennies From Heaven
23. Christmas Card
24. Snowman
25. Bunny Boy
26. Jaundice
27. Bus-Kicker's Theme

I Can Hear Music

I Can Hear Music Tracklisting
CD1

01. Slow Down

02. Jury Duty

03. Hope, Joe

04. Into Fall

05. Flap My Arms

06. The Letter

07. Relocation Program

08. Ceilings

09. Invisible

10. Morning Morning

11. Remembering

12. Don't Let On

13. Wanted Man

14. Curl

15. Zusaan Says

16. Liberty Spikes

17. Burning

18. It's Not All Right

19. Beyond The Door

20. Never Comes

21. Vienna

22. Over

CD 2

01. I Can Hear Music

02. I Want To Be With You

03. Class Of...

04. No One, Never

05. Dear Betty

06. Acupuncture

07. 8 Km High

08. Bill Withers

09. Slow Down

10. Swimming Pool (Live)

"Secret Blood"
https://soundcloud.com/morrmusic/dump-secret-blood/s-GkyxJ

"Slow Down"
https://soundcloud.com/morrmusic/dump-slow-down/s-lQa75

(out March 5)
People, Hell & Angels is a new album of twelve never before released Jimi Hendrix studio recordings. This special album showcases the legendary guitarist working outside of the original Jimi Hendrix Experience trio. Beginning in 1968, Jimi Hendrix grew restless, eager to develop new material with old friends and new ensembles. Outside the view of a massive audience that had established the Experience as rock’s largest grossing concert act and simultaneously placed two of his albums together in the US Top 10 sales chart, Jimi was busy working behind the scenes to craft his next musical statement.

Earth Blues: Totally unlike the version first issued as part of Rainbow Bridge in 1971, this December 19, 1969 master take features just Hendrix, Cox and Miles—stripped down funk at its very origin.

Somewhere:This newly discovered gem was recorded in March 1968 and features Buddy Miles on drums and Stephen Stills on bass. Entirely different from any previous version fans have heard.

Hear My Train A Comin’: This superb recording was drawn from Jimi’s first ever recording session with Billy Cox & Buddy Miles—the rhythm section with whom he would later record the groundbreaking album Band Of Gypsys.

Bleeding Heart: This Elmore James masterwork had long been a favorite of Jimi’s. Recorded at the same May 1969 session as “Hear My Train A Coming,” Jimi had a firm understanding of the arrangement and tempo he desired. Before they began, Jimi instructed Cox and Miles that he wanted to establish a totally different beat than the standard arrangement. He then kicked off this amazing rendition unlike any other he had ever attempted.

Let Me Move You: In March 1969, Jimi reached back to another old friend, saxophonist Lonnie Youngblood. Before he was discovered by Chas Chandler in the summer of 1966, Jimi had contributed guitar for Youngblood and such infectious rhythm and blues styled singles such as “Soul Food”.

This March 1969 session features Hendrix and Youngblood trading licks on this never before heard, high velocity rock and soul classic.

Izabella: In the aftermath of the Woodstock festival, Jimi gathered his new ensemble, Gypsy Sun & Rainbows at the Hit Factory in August 1969 with engineer Eddie Kramer. “Izabella” had been one of the new songs the guitarist introduced at the Woodstock festival and Jimi was eager to perfect a studio version. This new version is markedly different from the Band Of Gypsys 45 rpm single master issued by Reprise Records in 1970 and features Larry Lee, Jimi’s old friend on rhythm guitar.

Easy Blues: An edited extract of this gorgeous, free flowing instrumental was briefly issued as part of the long out of print, 1981 album Nine To The Universe. Now nearly twice as long, fans can enjoy the dramatic interplay between Jimi, second guitarist Larry Lee, Billy Cox and drummer Mitch Mitchell.

Crash Landing: Perhaps known as the title song for the controversial 1975 album that featured Hendrix master recordings posthumously overdubbed by session musicians, this April 1969 original recording has never been heard before. Jimi is joined here by Billy Cox and drummer Rocky Isaac of the Cherry People to record this thinly veiled warning to his girlfriend Devon Wilson.

Inside Out: Jimi was fascinated by the rhythm pattern which would ultimately take form as “Ezy Ryder”. Joined here by Mitch Mitchell, Jimi recorded all of the bass and guitar parts for this fascinating song--including a dramatic lead guitar part amplified through a Leslie organ speaker.

Hey Gypsy Boy: The roots of Jimi’s majestic “Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)” trace themselves to this March 1969 recording. Unlike the posthumously overdubbed version briefly issued as part of Midnight Lightning in 1975, this is original recording that features Jimi joined by Buddy Miles.

Mojo Man: Jimi lends a hand to Albert & Arthur Allen, the vocalists known as the Ghetto Fighters, whom he had befriended in Harlem long before he achieved fame with the Experience. When the two recorded this inspired, previously unreleased master at the legendary Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama they took it back to Hendrix at Electric Lady Studios. Jimi knew just what to do to elevate the recording beyond contemporary R & B to the new hybrid of rock, rhythm and blues he was celebrated for.

Villanova Junction Blues: Long before his famous performance of this song at Woodstock, Jimi recorded this studio version with Billy Cox and Buddy Miles at the same May 1969 session which yielded “Hear My Train A Comin’” and “Bleeding Heart” also featured on this album. Never fully finished, the song stands as an example of the fertile ideas he hoped to harness.

Just pre-ordered the Cannibal Corpse box Dead Human Collection: 25 Years of Death Metal. All 12 of their studio albums and a new live album (on CD and picture disc vinyl), plus 12"x12" prints of the covers and a calendar.

haa, hearing those Dump songs makes me feel 16 again. in a good/bad way.

Tompkins Square Reissues Rare Lone Solo Guitar LP 'Celestial Explosion' by Don Bikoff on CD/LP/DL February 26th, 2013

Don Bikoff released one lone, rare solo album, 'Celestial Explosion', on Keyboard Records in 1968, now reissued on LP/CD/DL by Tompkins Square. Watch the YouTube video of Bikoff playing on the Ted Mack Amateur Hour, taped May 12, 1968. You'll see the sheepish, long-haired, mustachioed musician spinning gold in a style (still?) so foreign to the mainstream listener. The befuddled host concludes after Don's performance, "That's unusual to say the least." A kid from Oyster Bay, LI, Bikoff got his start in Greenwich Village, annoying Dave Van Ronk and playing the folk/blues circuit where he met Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee, Jesse Fuller and Mississippi John Hurt. The comparisons to John Fahey's and Robbie Basho's work stated in the LP liner notes touched a nerve with Fahey himself at the time. Today, those comparisons are still inevitable, however they are for lazy ears. Bikoff has his own approach. Don is only 65 years old, and he's still playing strong. Don will appear with labelmate Daniel Bachman at Union Pool, Brooklyn NY on April 30th.

Don Bikoff on TV!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvl38Ofebec

also an authorized stream

https://soundcloud.com/tompkinssquare/rindlers-metamorphosis-by-don

Stephen Stills: Carry On
Performances with Buffalo Springfield (hopefully a better mix of the first album tracks), CSN, solo, Manassas tracks; note jam w Hendrix. 25 prev. unreleased, out March 26

Disc: 1
1. Travelin Stephen Stills (previously unreleased)
2. High Flyin Bird The Au Go Go Singers
3. Sit Down I Think I Love You Buffalo Springfield
4. Go And Say Goodbye Buffalo Springfield
5. For What It s Worth Buffalo Springfield
6. Everydays Buffalo Springfield (previously unreleased)
7. Pretty Girl Why Buffalo Springfield
8. Bluebird Buffalo Springfield
9. Rock n Roll Woman Buffalo Springfield
10. Special Care Buffalo Springfield
11. Questions Buffalo Springfield
12. Uno Mundo Buffalo Springfield
13. Four Days Gone Buffalo Springfield
14. Who Ran Away? Stephen Stills (previously unreleased)
15. Forty-Nine Reasons Stephen Stills (previously unreleased)
16. Helplessly Hoping Crosby, Stills & Nash
17. You Don t Have To Cry Crosby, Stills & Nash
18. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes Crosby, Stills & Nash
19. 4+20 Stephen Stills*
20. So Begins The Task Stephen Stills (previously unreleased)
21. The Lee Shore Stephen Stills (previously unreleased)
22. Carry On/Questions Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
23. Woodstock Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Disc: 2
1. Love The One You re With Stephen Stills
2. Old Times Good Times Stephen Stills
3. Black Queen Stephen Stills
4. No-Name Jam Stephen Stills & Jimi Hendrix (previously unreleased)
5. Go Back Home Stephen Stills
6. Marianne Stephen Stills
7. My Love Is A Gentle Thing Stephen Stills
8. Fishes And Scorpions Stephen Stills
9. The Treasure Stephen Stills (previously unreleased)
10. To A Flame Stephen Stills (previously unreleased)
11. Cherokee Stephen Stills
12. Song Of Love Stephen Stills
13. Rock n Roll Crazies/Cuban Bluegrass Stephen Stills
14. Jet Set (Sigh) Stephen Stills
15. It Doesn t Matter Stephen Stills
16. Colorado Stephen Stills
17. Johnny s Garden Stephen Stills
18. Change Partners Stephen Stills (previously unreleased)
19. Do For Others Stephen Stills and Steve Fromholz (previously unreleased)
20. Find The Cost Of Freedom Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (previously unreleased)
21. Little Miss Bright Eyes Stephen Stills (previously unreleased)
22. Isn t It About Time Stephen Stills
Disc: 3
1. Turn Back The Pages Stephen Stills
2. First Things First Stephen Stills (previously unreleased)
3. My Angel Stephen Stills (previously unreleased)
4. Love Story Stephen Stills
5. As I Come Of Age Stephen Stills
6. Know You Got To Run Stephen Stills (previously unreleased)
7. Black Coral Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (previously unreleased)
8. I Give You Give Blind Crosby, Stills & Nash
9. Crossroads/You Can t Catch Me Stephen Stills (previously unreleased)
10. See The Changes Crosby, Stills & Nash (previously unreleased)
11. Thoroughfare Gap Stephen Stills
12. Lowdown Stephen Stills
13. Cuba Al Fin (edit) Stephen Stills
14. Dear Mr. Fantasy Stephen Stills & Graham Nash
15. Spanish Suite Stephen Stills
16. Feel Your Love Crosby, Stills & Nash
17. Raise A Voice Crosby, Stills & Nash
18. Daylight Again Crosby, Stills & Nash
Disc: 4
1. Southern Cross Crosby, Stills & Nash
2. Dark Star Crosby, Stills & Nash
3. Turn Your Back On Love Crosby, Stills & Nash
4. War Games Crosby, Stills & Nash
5. 50/50 Stephen Stills
6. Welfare Blues Stephen Stills (previously unreleased)
7. Church Stephen Stills (previously unreleased)
8. I Don t Get It Stephen Stills
9. Isn t It So Stephen Stills
10. Haven t We Lost Enough? Crosby, Stills & Nash
11. Ballad Of Hollis Brown Stephen Stills
12. Treetop Flyer Stephen Stills
13. Heart s Gate Stephen Stills
14. Girl From The North Country Crosby, Stills & Nash (previously unreleased)
15. Feed The People Stephen Stills
16. Panama Crosby, Stills & Nash
17. No Tears Left Crosby, Stills & Nash (previously unreleased)
18. Ole Man Trouble Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (previously unreleased)
19. Ain't It Always Stephen Stills

Marianne Faithfull - Broken English [2CD] (Island, 1979)
Julian Cope - Saint Julian [2CD] (Commercial Marketing, 1987)
Fine Young Cannibals [2CD] (Edsel, 1985) Feb 18
Killing Joke - The Singles Collection 1979-2012 [3CD] (Spinefarm) Apr 15
Scared To Get Happy: A Story Of Indie-Pop 1980-1989 [5CD] (Cherry Red) June

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Cherry Red Records today unveiled the massive, 127-song tracklist for its now 5-disc box called Scared To Get Happy: A Story of Indie-Pop 1980-1989, which the U.K. label has said is inspired by Lenny Kaye’s classic Nuggets garage-rock compilation and is “devoted to the 1980s indie guitar-pop revolution which swept across the British Isles.”

According to a post on the project’s Facebook page, the tracklist is finalized, but could still change (“still a few tracks we want”). It’s expected to come out some time in mid-June, likely to coincide with a concert planned for London on June 22 that will feature The Primitives, Mighty Mighty, Popguns and other acts included on the forthcoming box set.

The is expected to feature a 72-page booklet and retail for around £50, or about $80.

Check out the full tracklist below, which features contributions from The House of Love, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Prefab Sprout, Josef K, Pulp, Primal Scream, The Mighty Lemon Drops, The Stone Roses, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, Soup Dragons and many, many more.

Tracklist: Scared To Get Happy: A Story of Indie-Pop 1980-1989

CD 1
1. The Wild Swans, “Revolutionary Spirit”
2. Girls At Our Best, “Getting Nowhere Fast”
3. The Pale Fountains, “(There’s Always) Something On My Mind”
4. Josef K, “The Missionary”
5. The Monochrome Set, “Jet Set Junta”
6. The Blue Orchids, “Dumb Magician”
7. The Marine Girls, “Don’t Come Back”
8. The Fire Engines, “Candy Skin”
9. Dolly Mixture, “Everything And More”
10. Scars, “All About You”
11. The Nightingales, “Paraffin Brain”
12. Farmers Boys, “I Think I Need Help”
13. Jane, “It’s A Fine Day”
14. Prefab Sprout, “Lions In My Own Garden (Exit Someone)”
15. Weekend, “Summerdays”
16. The Lines, “Nerve Pylon”
17. Fantastic Something, “If She Doesn’t Smile It’ll Rain”
18. The Higsons, “The Lost And The Lonely”
19. Everything But The Girl, “Feeling Dizzy”
20. Black, “Human Features”
21. Strawberry Switchblade, “Trees And Flowers”
22. The Daintees, “Roll On Summertime”
23. Nick Nicely, “49 Cigars”
24. Trixie’s Big Red Motorbike, “Norman And Narcissus”
25. The Cherry Boys, “Kardomah Café”
26. Aztec Camera, “Oblivious”

CD 2
1. Hurrah, “The Sun Shines Here”
2. The Pastels, “I Wonder Why”
3. Pulp, “Everybody’s Problem”
4. Grab Grab The Haddock, “I’m Used Now”
5. Friends Again, “Honey At The Core” (Moonboot Version)
6. The Bluebells, “Callander Green”
7. Lloyd Cole & The Commotions, “Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken” (Indie Version)
8. In Embrace, “This Brilliant Evening”
9. Microdisney, “Dolly”
10. The Woodentops, “Plenty”
11. The Jazz Butcher, “Southern Mark Smith”
12. The Jasmine Minks, “Where The Traffic Goes”
13. The June Brides, “Every Conversation” (Single Version)
14. The Revolving Paint Dream, “In The Afternoon”
15. The Shop Assistants, “All Day Long”
16. Biff Bang Pow!, “The Chocolate Elephant Man”
17. James, “Hymn From A Village”
18. The Jesus and Mary Chain, “Just Like Honey” (Demo Oct ‘84)
19. The Loft, “Up The Hill And Down The Slope”
20. That Petrol Emotion, “Keen”
21. Yeah Yeah Noh, “Temple Of Convenience”
22. The Wedding Present, “Go Out And Get ‘Em Boy”
23. The Bodines, “God Bless”
24. We’ve Got A Fuzzbox And We’re Gonna Use It, “Xx Sex” (Demo)
25. Mccarthy, “Red Sleeping Beauty”
26. The Mighty Lemon Drops, “Something Happens”

CD 3
1. Primal Scream, “Velocity Girl”
2. The Primitives, “Thru The Flowers”
3. The BMX Bandits, “Sad”
4. Mighty Mighty, “Is There Anyone Out There?”
5. The Soup Dragons, “Fair’s Fair”
6. The Wolfhounds, “Cut The Cake”
7. The Chesterfields, “Completely And Utterly”
8. The Servants, “Transparent”
9. The Close Lobsters, “What Is There To Smile About” (Demo)
10. Pop Will Eat Itself, “Sick Little Girl”
11. The Razorcuts, “Big Pink Cake”
12. The Weather Prophets, “Almost Prayed”
13. Jamie Wednesday, “Vote For Love”
14. Talulah Gosh, “Beatnik Boy”
15. The Dentists, “She Dazzled Me With Basil”
16. The Railway Children, “A Gentle Sound”
17. The Groove Farm, “Baby Blue Marine”
18. Jesse Garon & The Desperadoes, “The Rain Fell Down”
19. Rosemary’s Children, “(Whatever Happened To) Alice?”
20. The Wonder Stuff, “A Wonderful Day”
21. This Poison!, “Engine Failure”
22. The Brilliant Corners, “Delilah Sands”
23. 14 Iced Bears, “Balloon Song”
24. The Heart Throbs “Toy”
25. The Rosehips, “Room In Your Heart”
26. King Of Luxembourg, “A Picture Of Dorian Gray”

CD 4
1. The House Of Love, “Shine On”
2. The Darling Buds, “Shame On You” (Native Single Version)
3. The Pooh Sticks, “Indiepop Ain’t Noise Pollution”
4. The Bachelor Pad, “The Albums Of Jack”
5. The Shamen, “Something About You”
6. Gol Gappas, “Albert Parker”
7. Hangman’s Beautiful Daughters, “Love Is Blue”
8. Whirl, “Heaven Forbid”
9. The Boy, “Hairdressers Tidalwave”
10. The Flatmates, “Shimmer”
11. Apple Boutique, “Love Resistance”
12. Laugh, “Take Your Time Yeah!”
13. Groovy Little Numbers, “You Make My Head Explode”
14. The Waltones, “She Looks Right Through Me”
15. Yeah Jazz, “Sharon”
16. The Clouds, “Tranquil”
17. The Raw Herbs, “She’s A Nurse But She’s Alright”
18. The Siddeleys, “My Favourite Wet Wednesday Afternoon”
19. Rodney Allen, “Circle Line”
20. The Corn Dollies, “Be Small Again”
21. The Hepburns, “The World Is”
22. Bubblegum Splash, “One Of Those Things”
23. The McTells, “Jesse Man Rae”
24. The Charlottes, “Are You Happy Now?”
25. Another Sunny Day, “I’m In Love With A Girl Who Doesn’t Know I Exist”
26. The La’s, “Son Of A Gun” (Demo)

CD 5
1. The Stone Roses, “The Hardest Thing In The World”
2. The Inspiral Carpets, “Keep The Circle Around”
3. The Sea Urchins, “Solace”
4. Cud, “Only (A Prawn In Whitby)”
5. The Popguns, “Landslide”
6. East Village, “Strawberry Window”
7. The Fanatics, “Suburban Love Songs”
8. The Milltown Brothers, “Roses”
9. The Orchids, “I’ve Got A Habit”
10. Bradford, “Skin Storm”
11. The Claim, “Picking Up The Bitter Little Pieces”
12. The Poppyheads, “Pictures You Weave”
13. The Sun And The Moon, “Adam’s Song (Pour Fenella)”
14. The Desert Wolves, “Speak To Me Rochelle”
15. The Golden Dawn, “My Secret World”
16. Blow Up, “Forever Holiday”
17. Korova Milk Bar, “Do It Again”
18. Avo-8, “Big Car”
19. The Rain, “Dry The Rain”
20. The Boo Radleys, “Catweazle”
21. The Seers, “Sun Is In The Sky”
22. The Telescopes, “Perfect Needle”
23. The Vaselines, “Jesus Don’t Want Me For A Sunbeam”

NUMERO FOLLOWS PROTO-SATANIST MEDUSA LP WITH THREE REPENTANT GOSPEL ALBUMS

May 2013, The Numero Group will add three unique titles to the gospel canon. The first is the third entry into the Good God! series, the second the fourth album in the Folkways-inspired Numerophon line, and the third a pixel for pixel replica of one of the most damaged, outsider gospel LPs ever recorded.

numero gospel

Good God! Apocryphal Hymns

The third installment in Numero's series of otherworldly gospel, robed funk, and spiritual soul, Apocryphal Hymns is a slim new gospel songbook, penned powerfully by the genre's lesser-known disciples. Here, heavenly harmonies, psychedelic guitars, damaged sacred steel, a bleeding french horn, off-kilter choirs, and consumer-side electronic percussion decorate the Word, with performance modes that stray far from the flock, but hew always to the message. In homage to the stock jacket record industry of the 1970s, select one of these four alternate covers: Woodland Twilight, Seashore Morning, Mountain Waterfall, and Sunbeam Canyon.

King Bullard Version: Songs of the BOS Label
On Cleveland's late 60s gospel scene, the BOS label was the refined, professional ying to Boddie's lo-fi yang, galloping to the fore bearing a torch for Curtis Mayfield's robe-wearing roots. Founded by gospel impresario James Bullard, BOS is the first chapter in story that includes stints producing major spiritual albums for the Birthright, Roadshow, and Word labels. BOS got its start inside Lester Johnson and Bill Branch's Way Out concern, running the devotional wing of Cleveland's largest black-owned record company, and picking up a ton of Way Out's soulful flavor in the process. Compiled here are BOS's less traditional moments-12 bridges between FM R&B and AM sermons from a time when those worlds were splitting apart.

Otis G. Johnson: Everything - God Is Love 78

For outsider gospel visionary and Detroit native Otis G. Johnson, the Holy Ghost was in the machine...in this case a rhythm-equipped Hammond organ. Everything - God Is Love 78, a singular 1978 mid-fi document, features android percussion against chords of Otis's own invention, possessed by minor tonality and frequent bum notes. Lifting it further are extemporaneous vocal homilies to the rapture, love, and everything, plus occasional "other" voicings that scratch at the periphery of the mix. Homespun gospel rarely entered this dirge-like, intuitive space, nor did it commonly achieve such a spectral and captivating hymn to its darkest conventions.
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this is some really cool nz stuff being reissued

http://o.scdn.co/300/a70062a83d5bbfcd89b73b111aa0dd97daa92acf

https://soundcloud.com/firerecords/the-garbage-the-flowers

^ beautiful song

oops er

http://www.firerecords.com/site/index.php?page=release&releaseid=00000000999

I had that song on an old Twisted Village compilation I think. Deep Funnels of Entry.

have you heard the album? i really like that vibe want to hear that 2xlp

No, curious and will check out.

Domino To Reissue Four Tet's Rounds With Bonus Disc

To coincide with its ten year anniversary, Domino is to reissue Four Tet's seminal album, 'Rounds', on May 14th, 2013. The reissue will feature the album as well as a live set from Copenhagen recorded near the time of the original release. Listen to album track "As Serious As Your Life," HERE.https://soundcloud.com/dominorecordco/four-tet-as-serious-as-your

'Rounds' will be available on 2 x CD (REWIGCD88), 2 x heavyweight LP plus the bonus disc on CD (REWIGLP88), and Digital bundle (REWIG88D). Pre-order it through Dom Mart HERE. The tracklisting is as follows:

ROUNDS CD1

1 – Hands

2 – She Moves She

3 – First Thing

4 – My Angel Rocks Back And Forth

5 – Spirit Fingers

6 – Unspoken

7 – Chia

8 – As Serious As Your Life

9 – And They All Looked Broken Hearted

10 – Slow Jam

FOUR TET – LIVE IN COPENHAGEN (ROUNDS BONUS DISC)

1 – She Moves She

2 – Everything Is Alright

3 – Spirit Fingers

4 – Glue Of The World

5 – My Angel Rocks Back And Forth

6 – As Serious As Your Life

7 – Hands, No More Mosquitos, Calamine, Tangle

That cherry red box looks awfully fun.

Oh man, so excited about Garbage and the Flowers reissue! I remember seeing their LP once - I think it was a lathe cut or just seriously limited? - and I didn't buy it, have regretted it ever since.

Ron Asheton Tribute Concert
with Iggy & the Stooges + Special Guests
Coming to DVD on April 9
Live concert tribute to brother Ron Asheton featuring
the Stooges, Henry Rollins and more!

Recorded live at the Michigan Theater, this heartfelt tribute/celebration of Stooge guitarist Ron Asheton's life and music featured Iggy and the Stooges, Henry Rollins, and guest guitarist Deniz Tek (Radio Birdman). Includes a string section on a few Stooges classics! All profits from the sale of the DVD go to the Ron Asheton Foundation which supports animal welfare and music.

Gary Graff of BILLBOARD writes:

"It was a typical night of Stooges-style brutality but in an even more passionate form, as the group and its guests took a wide swing through the repertoire, clearly moved by the sense of occasion and the cacophonous spirit of the 1,700 fans who snapped up tickets for the concert in less than an hour.

"Some of his (Asheton's) themes always reminded me a lot of...classical music in the 17th century," Pop told Billboard.com prior to the show -- emcee Henry Rollins fronted the band for "I Got a Right." Pop then came on to commence a full-on Stooges performance with co-founder and drummer Scott "Rock Action" Asheton, "Raw Power" guitarist James Williamson, longtime saxophonist Steve Mackay and Mike Watt, the group's bassist since 2003.

Shirtless and manic as always, even two days before his 64th birthday, it didn't take Pop long to turn the theater to bedlam. Following pulverizing renditions of "Raw Power," "Search and Destroy" and "Gimme Danger," Pop brought dozens of fans on stage for "Shake Appeal," clearly reveling in the ecstatic anarchy of the moment. The rest of the night maintained the energy through favorites such as "Beyond the Law," "1970" and "Fun House," the "ballad" "Open Up and Bleed" and a rendition of "I Wanna Be Your Dog" beefed up by an 11-piece orchestra.

The ensemble stayed on stage as Radio Birdman's Deniz Tek, a longtime Asheton friend, spelled Williamson for "T.V. Eye," "Loose," "Dirt" and "Real Good Time," while Williamson returned for a new acoustic composition called "Ron's Tune," in which Pop sang that "the music says you'll be my friend to the end" and "because you were my friend, I always think of you again." The night finished with everyone, including more audience members, onstage for "No Fun" -- whose title, of course, was the antithesis of the experience."

The complete story can be read HERE.http://www.billboard.com/articles/photos/live/471955/iggy-pop-and-the-stooges-rock-ron-asheton-tribute-concert?utm_source=Ron+Asheton+Tribute+Concert+with+Iggy+%26+the+Stooges+on+DVD+4%2F9&utm_campaign=Ron+Asheton&utm_medium=email

Cover Art: http://mvdb2b.com/i/300dpi/MVD5711D.jpg

Concert Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HoYsFD2wDw

Track Listing

I Got a Right
(with Henry Rollins)

Raw Power

Search and Destroy

Gimme Danger

Shake Appeal

1970

L.A. Blues

Night Theme

Beyond the Law

Fun House

Open Up And Bleed

Your Pretty Face Is Going To Hell

I Wanna Be Your Dog

TV Eye

Loose

Dirt

Real Cool Time

Iggy's Speech

Ron's Tune

No Fun

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ALBERT KING’S LATE ’60s BORN UNDER A BAD SIGN
ALBUM ON STAX RECORDS REISSUED APRIL 5
WITH PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED BONUS TRACKS*

Release teems with King’s best-known songs:
“Born Under a Bad Sign,” “Crosscut Saw,”
“Oh, Pretty Woman” and “Laundromat Blues.”
Steve Cropper, Booker T. & the MGs, the Memphis Horns
and Stax’s songwriters help make it an all-time blues classic.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Any list of seminal 1960s electric blues albums is incomplete without Albert King’s Born Under a Bad Sign positioned near the top. The Indianola, Mississippi-born “King of the Blues Guitar,” who cut his professional teeth as a resident of the St. Louis suburb of Lovejoy, Ill., cemented his legacy with his Stax Records debut album. While he’d recorded for labels like Vee-Jay, Parrot and Bobbin, it was his chemistry with the Stax team — label executives Al Bell, Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton, songwriters Booker T. Jones and William Bell, and backing from Booker T. & the MGs and the Memphis Horns — that put King on the blues map.

The Stax Remasters deluxe edition of Born Under a Bad Sign will be released by Stax Records, a unit of Concord Music Group, on April 2, 2013. Music historian Bill Dahl wrote the new set of liner notes.

King was influenced by pre-World War II bluesmen Lonnie Johnson and Blind Lemon Jefferson, and post-war artists T-Bone Walker and Howlin’ Wolf. He came to Stax by way of Al Bell, a Little Rock native who’d met King when he played shows in the area. King’s first Stax recording was “Laundromat Blues,” included on this album, backed by Booker T. Jones on piano; Duck Dunn, bass; and Al Jackson, Jr., drums; plus the Memphis Horns (Wayne Jackson and Andrew Love) and Raymond Hill (sax player on Jackie Brenston’s “Rocket 88”). The song had come by way of an unsolicited songwriting demo that Stax co-founder Estelle Axton correctly believed could be a hit for King.

“Crosscut Saw” is one of King’s best-known recordings as yet dated back to 1941 when Delta bluesman Tommy McClennan recorded it for Bluebird, and Willie Sanders & the Binghamton Boys cut it in ’63. A.C. “Moohah” Williams, a veteran DJ at Memphis R&B station WDIA-AM, brought it to King’s attention.

Booker T. Jones and Stax soul singer William Bell came up with the thundering bass riff that defined the title track “Born Under a Bad Sign.” The song notched #49 on the R&B chart in 1967, and was covered in short order by Cream on its 1968 Wheels of Fire album. Soon King himself was playing venues like the Fillmore Auditorium to young white rock audiences.

Another one of the signature tracks, “Oh, Pretty Woman,” written by WDIA DJ Williams, required the steady presence of Steve Cropper’s rhythm guitar to augment King’s lead licks. King received songwriting help from David Porter, on leave from his usual collaboration with Isaac Hayes, on “Personal Manager,” which was the B-side of the title track single.

Born Under a Bad Sign was also notable for its selection of covers. King gave the Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller R&B standard “Kansas City” an urban blues treatment. He’s right at home with Fenton Robinson’s “As the Years Go Passing By.” Ivory Joe Hunter’s “I Almost Lost My Mind” is a rare King ballad with countrypolitan overtones and jazz flute, an unlikely showcase for his rich baritone.

*For this special reissue Stax Records has reached into its vaults to provide previously unissued bonus tracks in the form of alternate takes of “Born Under a Bad Sign,” “Crosscut Saw,” “The Hunter,” “Personal Manager” and an untitled, never-before-released instrumental.

According to annotator Dahl, “Thanks to Born Under a Bad Sign, Albert King became a full-fledged blues luminary, masterfully bridging the gap between the Chitlin’ Circuit and the rock arena. He would make more great Stax albums, but he’d never top this one.”

Albert King will be posthumously inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame on April 18, 2013.

I see taht Sunbeam have a new version of Twink's Think Pink forthcoming on both vinyl and cd.
8 bonus tracks too. Saw it announced by the man himself on Facebook, no mention of it on the label site that I could see yet though.

I wonder how bonus those bonus tracks are. Twink's always got some crap laying around to slap on record, but it'd be cool if the Twink and the Fairies stuff was on a reissue.

Don't know yet. Only had a mini blurb on the Facebook announcement

" Delighted to announce that Sunbeam is releasing the definitive edition of Think Pink in March, on both CD and vinyl. Put together in close collaboration with the man himself, it includes detailed background notes, rare pictures and eight bonus tracks. "

Just found out that last month a reissue of The Show Must Go On by Sam Dees came out. It's the first time it's been available on CD. For anyone that doesn't know it, it's one of the best soul albums of the 70's.

Another great soul album coming out next month is the self titled Caston & Majors album. One of the most underated albums to come out on Motown in the 70's. Another one that's never been available on CD before.

I'm all for these lost soul albums getting proper releases. The Prophet of Soul by Larry Saunders next please.

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Skate Rock may have been one of the defining sounds of Southern California in the late ’80 / early ‘90s, but its origins were in another time and place. It began, in fact, in post-Outlaw Country 1970s Austin, Texas. That’s where singer Randy “Biscuit” Turner, guitarist Tim Kerr, bassist Chris Gates and drummer Greg Murray were mixing the prevailing trend of playing hard and fast with playing loose and funky.

The Big Boys came from the same scene that spawned Scratch Acid, The Dicks, and MDC, but stood out with music that ventured far beyond post-punk angularities and hardcore machismo. With features in the earliest issues of Thrasher Magazine and coveted spots on their influential Skate Rock tape comps, Big Boys were the first band to be labeled “skate rock.”

Originally released on David Bean’s (of the Judys) Wasted Talent label, their debut album Where’s My Towel / Industry Standard is a classic of American independent music. Lyrically inspired by the group’s growing dissatisfaction with the local hardcore scene and how the release of their Live at Raul’s split record with the Dicks was handled, musically the album showed a move from the prevailing sound of the time. In this, the album’s sound has roots in funk, rock and avant-garde noise guitar as much as punk.

Hand-numbered edition – limited to 3,000 copies world wide
180-gram wax with 4 color variations available
Includes reproductions of a rare Big Boys sticker (shown above), original inserts, plus a new insert with a note from Big Boys founding member Tim Kerr
Original album art expanded to a gatefold “tip-on” jacket with spot UV gloss
Interior gatefold jacket features an unpublished 1982 photo of the band by artist Bill Daniel
Includes download card for 320 Kbps MP3 of entire album
Cassette co-released with Burger Records and limited to 500 hand-numbered copies.

Hoping this precedes another round of reissued/prev.unreleased musics:

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POWER POP LEGENDS SHOES
BEGIN THEIR SERIES OF 2013 SHOWS WITH THEIR
SXSW DEBUT IN MARCH IN AUSTIN

In celebration of their first new album in 18 years,
the acclaimed Ignition, the boys from Zion fire up for Austin

ZION, Ill. — Following the August 2012 release of Ignition, their first new album in 18 years, Shoes will appear at the South by Southwest (SXSW) Music Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas in March, their first time at the event.

The legendary power pop band, originally from Zion, Ill., will bring their memorable melodies and do-it-yourself ethic for a series of performances and a discussion panel at one of the most prestigious music gatherings in the United States.

Showcases for Shoes include a Wednesday, March 13, 1:35 p.m. show at Molotov for the SXSW Guitartown/Conqueroo/M Music & Musicians/AllMusic Block Party Kickoff; a Friday, March 15, 4 p.m. performance at the Ginger Man Pub for the Dog Fish Head/Blurt Magazine SXSW Party; and an Official SXSW Showcase concert presented by CD Baby at 11 p.m. at Maggie Mae’s. More appearances are planned though not yet scheduled.

Shoes member Jeff Murphy also will be participating on a Friday, March 15th, 11 a.m. panel discussion in Room 11 AB of the Austin Convention Center.

“We’re really excited about having the opportunity to participate in SXSW,” says Shoes singer/bass player John Murphy. “It’s a great event with a lot of people who love music. We’re looking forward to being a part of it.”

Shoes’ 2012 release,Ignition, received glowing reviews from publications around the country and further added to the band’s legacy.

Ignition is Shoes’ 11th studio album and their fourth self-released album of all-new music since parting ways with Elektra Records, which released Present Tense (1979), Tongue Twister (1981), and Boomerang (1982).

The 1984 Shoes offering Silhouette brought the band back to the same self-released D.I.Y. process it had used for the 1977 groundbreaking Black Vinyl Shoes album. Shoes followed up in 1990 with the critically acclaimed Stolen Wishes, which received a four-star review in Rolling Stone Magazine; and the 1994 follow-up, Propeller.

The ensuing 18 years’ output has included a live CD, reissues, rarities compilations, and a two-CD set of early demos--2007’s limited-edition Double Exposureas well as film-soundtrack and tribute-album contributions.

Look for announcements of shows and festivals around the Midwest this summer.

New Major Lazer album is delayed, but three albums of stray/prev unreleased tracks coming out; this first is free, hopefully others too:

In the mean time, please download LAZER STRIKES BACK Vol. 1. here: http://t.opsp.in/s08cS We will be putting out 3 volumes of music on-line until album release.

LAZER STRIKES BACK Vol. 1
1. Major Lazer & Flux Pavilion - Jah No Partial (Jack Beats Remix)
2. Major Lazer - Get Free feat. Amber of Dirty Projectors (Yellow Claw Get Free Money Remix)
3. Major Lazer - Original Don feat. The Partysquad (DGRC Remix)
4. Hot Chip - Look At Where We Are (Major Lazer Extended Remix)

I said "albums"--well, this is an EP o course

don't know anything about this group but it sounds dope

http://www.realgonemusic.com/news/2012/12/3/borderline.html

This Nick Drake's mom thing is crazy and sounds amazing:

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http://mollydrake.bandcamp.com/album/molly-drake

Squirrel Thing Recordings, the label behind the mysterious lost recordings of Connie Converse, is proud to announce the release of Molly Drake—a self-titled collection of never-before-heard songs recorded in the 1950’s at the Drake family home, and lovingly restored by Nick Drake’s engineer John Wood. According to Joe Boyd, legendary producer of Five Leaves Left and Bryter Later, “this is the missing link in the Nick Drake story.”

Molly Drake is a comprehensive first look at a singular and sophisticated artist, whose influence on her son’s celebrated musical style is undeniable. The CD features a custom letterpressed jacket, family photos, and a biography by her daughter, Gabrielle Drake.

Much like her son, Molly Drake’s music is at once beautiful, charming, dark and pensive. The easy elegance of her lyrics belies their deeper themes of regret, memory, dread, and the sublime, crystallized as only a poet can. Her performances are intimately staged in the family sitting room, and perfectly complemented by her own piano accompaniment.
credits
releases 05 March 2013
All songs written and performed by Molly Drake
Recorded at home in Far Leys by Rodney Drake
Produced for Bryter Music by John Wood & Cally
Mastered by Simon Heyworth
All songs © 2012 and published by Bryter Music (Fintage House)

Produced and designed for Squirrel Thing Recordings by Dan Dzula & David Herman
Released under licence from Bryter Music
Jacket illustrations by Mike Schultz

TENDERNESS RECORDS IS RELEASING STRICTLY BALLROOM: THE COLLECTED RECORDINGS (1994-1999) ON TUESDAY, 3/19--FEATURES SIX UNRELEASED TRACKS, MEMBERS OF THE POSTAL SERVICE, DNTEL, BEACHWOOD SPARKS, MYSTIC CHORDS OF MEMORY, MORE

Chris Gunst (guitar/vocals) and Jimmy Tamborello (bass/vocals) were both KXLU DJs in college and started Strictly Ballroom in 1994 with Jimmy’s brother, Brian Tamborello on drums...many more folks were to join them along the way. Collected Recordings (1994-1999) pulls together the LP, 7 inches, comp songs and unreleased songs that the band had access to. It’s not an entirely complete collection (some songs were lost to the ages), but it's a fantastic document of a band whose innovative approach to skewed melodic hardcore permanently altered the musical landscape of its community.

Since the band's breakup in 1999, members have continued to make music together and with others.

Jimmy Tamborello - DNTEL , Figurine, The Postal Service. Also produced Beachwood Sparks’ Make the Cowboy Robots Cry EP
Chris Gunst- Beachwood Sparks, Mystic Chords of Memory, The Tyde. Performed on several DNTEL tracks.
Paul Larson- Athalia, The Minor Canon, The Georgia Sand. Has played live and recorded with DNTEL as well as contributing guitar to Beachwood Sparks’ Make the Cowboy Robots Cry EP.
Jimi Hey- has played with a whole host of bands including Beachwood Sparks, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, All Night Radio, Indian Jewelry, The Rapture, Devendra Banhart, and more. His latest project is called BI.
Koji Motonishi, Jose Salguero, Ian MacKinnon, Jimmy LaValle (of The Album Leaf/Tristeza) and Chris Hathwell (Festival of Dead Deer/Moving Units) also took part.

Track Listing:
1. A Picture - 4:46 (1996)
2. Crickets- 4:07 (1996)
3. Elevator Action-4:11 (1996)
4. Trains In The Distance At Night- 5:21 (1996)
5. Something That Just Is-3:18 (1996)
6. This Will Self-Destruct-5:12 (1996)
7. Knots On A Counting Rope-4:35 (1996)
8. A Sudden Interest In Nature-14:49 (1996)
9. Escape Plan#4 - 7:00 (1997)
10. Escape Plan #4 (other version)-2:45 (1997)
11. Fire- 4:08 (1997)
12. Fire Remix- 4:31 (1997)
13. Untitled 1 (live in Nashville)- 6:14 (1997)
14. Untitled 2- 10:02 (1998)
15. Strictly Electronic Sketch (by Jimmy)- 5:04 (1999)
16. Don't Go Home (performed as Arca) - 3:12 (2000)
17. Risk - 1:45 (1994)
18. Other stars --3:01 (1994)
19. Autobiography -- 2:16 (1994)
20. Tearjerker - 1:27 (1994)
21. Tearducts - 1:44 (1994)
22. Duct Tape -1 :18 (1994)
23. I Love...- 3:08 (1995)
24. New Angels -1:49 (1995)
25. Elevator Action -4:26 (1995)

Track History:
Tracks 1-8 are the Hide Here Forever LP
Tracks 9 is from the Zum #10 comp (1997)
Tracks 10 unreleased (1997)
Tracks 11-12 are from the Sub Pop Singles Club (recorded in 1997, released in 2001)
Track 13 is live and unreleased (1997)
Track 14 is unreleased (1998)
Track 15 is unreleased (1999)
Track 16 is (as Arca) was released on a 7 inch for DIW magazine in 2000
Tracks 17- 20 are from the 1st 7 inch (1994)
Tracks 21-22 are unreleased (1994)
Tracks 23-25 are from the second 7 inch (1995)

Wow! That's amazing - I've mentioned them a bunch on here; they were such a big deal around L.A. in the mid 90s. Credit to that press release for avoiding (and curses to me for dredging up) the term that haunted them all those years: "Eno-core"

Armoury Show's "Waiting For The Flood" plus singles is being reissued by Cherry Red next month.

The Three Johns have announced they've got their masters back from Abstract and will be reissuing their albums soon.

haha, about strictly ballroom, feel like they opened up every show i went to in LA for a couple years there. can't remember liking them all that much tbh. but maybe they'd be worth another try.

The Three Johns have announced they've got their masters back from Abstract and will be reissuing their albums soon.

!!!!!

oh yes .. this is one chunk of reissues i have been looking forward to ...

ha I just filled in the last gap in my Three Johns collection (the Some History EP), but good for them. I wonder if they got the rights to the CNT stuff as well?

The announcement isn't specific about what's getting reissued. Their discography on their website leaves off "The Death Of Everything", why I don't know.

Anyone know if there are any signs of a Sun City Girls Singles vol. 3? Frustrating that they stalled out right before getting to the ones everyone wants (Eye Mohini, Borungku Si Derita etc)

Yes it comes out in a few days:

http://www.suncitygirls.com/discography/Singles3.php

Sweeeeeeeeeettt!!! That instantly becomes the most recommendable in-print SCG CD then. (Assuming 330,003 and Torch are both still oop).

And 'Kickin' the Dragon' is on there as I had hoped!

john hyatt from the three johns doing an impersonation of sunn 0))) after some mushrooms in 2013 :

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cant wait for 'world by storm' on proper cd ..

Drag City. Anybody heard it?
WHAT WOULD IT BE LIKE TO BE RICH
April showers peel back the dirt from our greenish earth, often revealing previously hidden roots 'n' gems either lost for a time or in some cases never rightly appreciated in the first place. This April, that gem comes to from the mysterious urban graveland we call, Detroit and one of the minds drifting free there sometime in the indeterminate past. Back when the Motown scene was uprooting, and the city's Vietnam protesters were looting, a young Rich Ristagno went from jamming in the garage with his Midnight Riders band to serving time in the military during the conflict that propelled and repelled his generation. Upon his return in 1971, working a series of faceless jobs, Rich planned a career in music, starting with a single of original material, which he recorded and pressed with a Canadian vanity plant (insert your own joke there!), the majority of which were sent as promo to radio stations.

When the world failed to come knocking with a record deal, Rich found work at a steel plant, wherein plans for an album rooted themselves in his mind, and grew, and festered. Time passed, the kind of time we measure as years. One day, Rich finally pulled the trigger after seeing an ad in The Detroit News for a recording studio called Solar Sound, which had it's very own house band, Solar Flight - a group who proudly declared themselves "so high they could touch the sun." This was important, since Rich needed a band to make his album. This was 1981, and Solar Flight were wicked R 'n' B players whose disco tendencies paired uniquely with Ristagno's classic rock sensibility to deliver, unbeknownst to either of them, something quite like DNA or The Contortions - a darkly sharp record that might be considered essential to the downtown New York scene of the time, had it actually been a part of it. Or it might be considered akin to an early Ariel Pink production. Clearly, it was the wrong time, wrong place for Rich Ristagno. A hundred copies of the album, called What Would It Be Like To Be Rich, were pressed without a cover, remaining in his parents basement completely undisturbed (yet under-clothed, in only their dust jackets) ever since, being extracted only once in awhile, to float into the hands of some crusty waxidermist. And thence to us. But like we say, April's afoot and this generation's kids get the benefit of a fresh new pressing - this time with jacket! - of this rarest of pleasures. Rich Ristagno's What Would It Be Like To Be Rich must be gripped, and once in hand will produce repeated spins, as addictive as any brain candy your shug-addled brain can imagine. Find out What Would It Be Like To Be Rich, on April 16th!

Terrible writing, but it does make me consider asking for the promo, so mission accomplished.

it's a pretty cool, slightly disturbing record.

was just coming here to mention the SCG Singles Vol. 3, it looks great!

Volume 3 in the series of Sun City Girls singles, compilations, and rare tracks, consists of material recorded between the mid-1980s and early 1990s. Much of this collection reflects the Arabic guitar instrumental and acoustic pseudo-Asian vocal folk styles of the band from the period when they recorded relentlessly. The 14 cuts vary wildly in scope yet maintain a consistent listening experience throughout, bridging a wide gap between the band's second full-length LP Grotto of Miracles (Track 3 -- "Gum Arabic" -- being the only true outtake from that recording session) in 1986 and the 1993 launch of the group's Abduction label after the band relocated from Phoenix to Seattle. All four tracks from the Eye Mohini single as well as all six tracks from the Borungku Si Derita double single are included here, the latter featuring a vicious rehearsal version of Esoterica of Abyssynia with a rare captured occurrence of both Bishop brothers playing electric guitars. Th e remaining two tracks from Three Fake Female Orgasms double single not included on Volume 2 of this series are present with the extremely rare studio version of "Kickin' the Dragon" from a triple 7" box set released by an obscure Bay Area label in 1994. The disc is rounded out by a 10-minute live track from the Heinz Afterworld Lounge in Oakland from 1992 where SCG closed the show with a heavy and ecstatic version of "The Flower" from their Torch of the Mystics LP. As in the previous two volumes of this series, this CD is sequenced to play as a full album and is an excellent entry point for the non-initiated into a band that produced as diverse and intimidating a back catalog as any other entity in modern music.

Well I need that

The announcement isn't specific about what's getting reissued. Their discography on their website leaves off "The Death Of Everything", why I don't know.

following an informed nudge this has been added to the disco now !

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ENJOY THE EXPERIENCE: HOMEMADE RECORDS 1958-1992
Edited by Johan Kugelberg, Paul Major and Michael P. Daley

"The Greatest Coffee Table Book Ever Made"
-Larry Clark

"Best-ever gateway to the infinitely peculiar multiverse
of self-published phonograph records"
-William Gibson

AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW AT SINECURE BOOKS WEB STORE

Pre-orders ship late April; worldwide release date May 21st.

Only copies purchased directly from Sinecure Books will include a slipcase, a fold-out poster, and a facsimile clear vinyl 7" manual on "How To Make Your Own Record".
AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW AT SINECURE BOOKS WEB STORE

About the book:

Enjoy The Experience is both the first major work on American private press records and on track to be of the most notable illustrated books of 2013. Private press records - also called vanity pressings - are vinyl albums produced and paid for by the artist(s).

An endless stream of psych-rock hopefuls, Holiday Inn Elvises, pizza parlor organists, funk bands aspiring to become the JBs, high school bands performing all of Jesus Christ Superstar, cult leaders who never found the right cult, jazz bands inspired to forge a new stream all sincerely hoped to become stars, they committed themselves to record, and they left themselves vulnerable to an industry not understanding of nuance, not appreciative of character. This is not a gathering of kitsch and novelty, though: the records cataloged in Enjoy The Experience are funkier, more psychedelic, more idiosyncratic and more emotionally rewarding than the mainstream music product it aspired to be.
A free download card featuring dozens of the most amazing artists featured in the book is included. In addition, Sinecure and Now-Again Records are presenting a companion double LP and CD anthology released alongside the book.

Oh yeah, speaking of the book's musical companion:
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Selections from the Sinecure Books publication Enjoy The Experience: psych, funk, folk, jazz, lounge, boogie and straight-up-weirdness from American private press albums. Release date: May 21st.

Enjoy The Experience: Homemade Records 1958-1992 is the inaugural offering from Sinecure Books, the publishing company that Now-Again’s Egon co-founded with Johan Kugelberg. Packaged as a hardcover, and weighing in at 512 pages, it is the most comprehensive overview of the American “private press” movement from the latter half of the 20th Century that could possibly be assembled. We’re pleased to be distributing a 2CD/2LP anthology of psych, funk, folk, jazz, lounge, disco, boogie and just-plain-weirdness culled from the the book’s selections.

Take note: this is not a novelty freak show. Contained in this anthology are examples of some of the most highly regarded rock, soul, jazz, funk and singer/songwriter albums from the 60s through the early 80s. From the awkward-yet-talented to the genius-yet-bizarre, one thing unites all musicians presented here: they sincerely hoped to become stars, they committed themselves to record, and they left themselves vulnerable to an industry not understanding of nuance, not appreciative of character. While Enjoy The Experience the book details a forceful American cultural experience that stands in juxtaposition to the mainstream even as its creators attempted to infiltrate it, Enjoy The Experience the album shows the breadth of American creativity in a compelling, start-to-finish listen. Not all of it is easy to digest, but this music is essential to the 20th century American experience.

We will be updating this post with more information about the anthology, downloads and the book in coming weeks.

And here's an update:

Last month we announced the inaugural book that our sister company Sinecure Books is launching upon the world on May 21st and we told you all about the companion anthology 2CD/LP that we’re distributing here at Now-Again. Well, for those who think that May is a long way away, we have some good news: Enjoy The Experience will be available as an official Record Store Day release – and thus almost certainly available at your favorite local record store, worldwide – and a deluxe edition is available now as a pre-order at the Sinecure Books website.

book looks amazing

The cover of the book is almost the same as the above reoord cover, apparently--some of the promo art varies, but the tiny excerpts of the coffee table layout within look pretty enticing.

Lots of original vintage art, for sure.

Where these guys good?
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QUARTERSTICK/TOUCH AND GO ANNOUNCES RELEASE OF RODAN'S FIFTEEN QUIET YEARS 6/11/13

Fifteen Quiet Years is a celebratory document four years in the making; a repository for all the important Rodan recordings that fans of Rusty have long wished they could unearth. The collection includes the 1994 BBC Peel session, together with all of Rodan's long-out-of-print 7"s and compilation tracks. In 2009, Bob Weston, Jeff Mueller and Jason Noble lovingly re-mastered the tracks at Chicago Mastering Service. All formats of the album will include a digital download of 10 bonus live recordings selected by Jason Noble, Jeff Mueller, Tara Jane O'Neil and Kevin Coultas. The packaging for the vinyl album and CD was designed by Jason Noble and Jeff Mueller, and has been letterpress printed by Jeff Mueller at his own Dexterity Press studio.

Despite the brief time span of their existence (1992-1994), Rodan appeared on a surprising number of records. Aside from their classic (and only) full length album Rusty (1994 on Quarterstick Records), the band released the Aviary demo cassette, and the "How The Winter Was Passed" single. They also contributed tracks to the Compulsiv For Two, Inclined Plane, and Merry Christmas Is For Rockers compilations as well as released a song on the soundtrack to the film Half Cocked (in which they also acted), and recorded a brilliant session at the BBC studios in London for the John Peel show (unreleased until now).

Many artists make their mark in the world while writing and performing in their first or second band, and they never again reach or exceed the high water mark of their earliest artistic output. The members of Rodan are an unusual exception to this all-too-common artistic struggle. Jeff Mueller went on to play guitar and sing in the highly influential and well loved group June Of 44, and subsequently in the very heavy group The Shipping News. Jason Noble played bass in the modern classical, indie-phenomena outfit Rachel's, as well as in The Shipping News (with Jeff Mueller). Tara Jane O'Neil contributed her lovely voice and distinct guitar playing to the newly formed The Sonora Pine (together with Kevin Coultas), as well as the duo Retsin. Subsequent to the breakup of The Sonora Pine in 1998, Tara Jane began a solo career as TJO. Kevin Coultas continued to collaborate with Jason Noble (playing drums in Rachel's), and with Tara Jane O'Neil as the drummer for The Sonora Pine.

On August 4, 2012, Jason Noble lost a three year battle with cancer and passed away at the all-too-young age of 40. On February 9, 2013, Jon Cook also passed away. After 20+ years of continuous involvement in the Louisville music scene, both Jason and Jon will be greatly missed.

Jeff Mueller - Guitar, Vocals Jason Noble - Guitar, Vocals Tara Jane O'Neil - Bass, Guitar, Vocals Jon Cook / John Weiss / Kevin Coultas - Drums

I hadn't realized that Rodan is basically the cast in the movie "Half-Cocked"

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NUMERO REISSUING GROUNDBREAKING AMBIENT WORKS OF IASOS

HEAR ALBUM TRACK "RAINBOW CANYON" AT FADER:
http://www.thefader.com/2013/04/03/stream-iasos-rainbow-canyon/

In 1989, professor Joel D. Funk, at the psychology department of Plymouth State College in New Hampshire, found that the music of Iasos bears striking resemblance to that which people hear during near-death experiences-at the very precipice between life and death, the mundane and the infinite.

By the mid-1970s-prior to ambient's "musical furniture" and the coming age of New Age-Iasos had his hands on his first synthesizer and had made in-roads into both aborning genres. In dialogue with Vista, a benevolent music-maker from a distant dimension, Iasos conducted groundbreaking experimentation with tape reversal, feedback, and the electronic processing of acoustic instruments (phase-shifted flute, echoplex), working with some of the first commercially available synthesizers, and inventing innovative visual effects for his own mind-expansive live sets. In translating the tones of his galactic muse for the ears of Earth humans, Iasos helped midwife new genres into existence and utterly transform the compositional possibilities for every contemporary musician-all while living the life of a poor pirate eccentric in the Marin County dock system's only telephone-equipped houseboat.

Spotlighting selections from the first decade of Iasos' inter-dimensional output, The Numero Group's Celestial Soul Portraits 2LP/CD compilation (due June 18, 2013) features a bevy of never-before-seen photos, a 4,000-word history of Iasos, and an insight into the life and "crystal giggling energy" of Iasos, the other Greek god of '70s exploration into music's electronic stargate.

My PayPal balance hates this thread.

OK so this Bona Dish reissue on Captured Tracks...

What’s cooler than cool? Bona Dish. This vinyl release is way overdue. The songs are simple but at the same time complex. The two girls, two boy’s line-up added a tension that was both sexual and musically fragile. You felt it might all fall apart any second but it rarely did.

After their “cassette in a tube” ploy worked for John Peel play, the band released a cassette on InPhaze and disbanded not long after. Collected here is a rediscovered gem showcasing the zest and spontaneity that gripped the UK DiY scene of the time, standing up to their contemporaries like Television Personalities, The Homosexuals and Marine Girls.

“United by their love of the Velvets and the Supremes, the Hertfordshire four-piece got some radio attention from John Peel (they couldn’t have been more of a Peel band if they tried, and they probably did try), but they only released two cassettes in their short lifetime. Captured Tracks have compiled their entire recorded output on The Zaragoza Tapes.

Bona Dish’s avowedly DIY aesthetic was coupled with a genuine pop flair, and songs like ’8am’ stand comparison with the very best independent music of the era.” -Fact Magazine

Sounds pretty cool, a little like Animals & Men but then again not:

http://soundcloud.com/capturedtracks/sets/bona-dish-zaragoza-tapes-1981

New release, new Private Records sublabel /// André Szigethy, Viper Records 333.001

The official re-release of the most sought after and expansive German minimal synth, dark wave, electro album!
Originally released in Germany, 1983. More infos on Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/André-Szigethy-André-Szigethy/master/529954

Price: 17,99 € (+3,90 € shipping costs), paypal: i✧✧✧@priv✧✧✧.c✧✧ (I'll ship to your address stated at paypal)

For wholesale prices please ask. If you run a label yourself it is possible to trade this re-release against a re-release of yours.

A lot of people have already preordered the special package featuring the LP album repress + the original Geisterfahr'n 12" Maxi Single (http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?releas ... 9381&ev=rb) + signed by André original foldout insert or poster from 1983!!! I'm selling this stuff on commission for André Szigethy ;-)

The packages are available now! Price are 59,- €.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Private-Records/317619771628358

ANONYMOUS - "INSIDE THE SHADOW" LP/CD

NOW TAKING ORDERS / SHIPS APRIL 30

"Close to the perfect album; each element has been drawn from the best possible source, yet somehow Ron Matelic manages to fuse these massive building blocks into personal, deeply human music." - Patrick Lundborg, THE ACID ARCHIVES

Originally released in 1976 in an edition of 300 copies, the sole album by Indianapolis' ANONYMOUS stands today as a high-water mark in rock 'n' roll, combining the adventure of west coast ballroom groups, the 12-string majesty of Byrds, and breathtaking multi-part harmonies to forge something inimitable and one-of-a-kind, with powerful songs that pushed the limit and raised the bar at the same time. Long time top ten favorite with almost every head we know, a true classic recommended for everyone into amazing rock records of all varieties.

Restored to its original glory for the first time since its initial release, this is the definitive INSIDE THE SHADOW!

- First officially licensed reissue of this classic in almost twenty years; issued with the group's full cooperation and assistance

- Remastered and restored by Warren Defever for best-ever sound

- Sleeve notes from Aaron Milenski (co-author of the essential reference guide The Acid Archives), and recollections from Ron Matelic, Anonymous' visionary songwriter.

- LP is sleeved in a tip-on jacket, with a reproduction of the original lyric insert

- CD is sleeved in a digipak, with 8 page booklet with complete lyrics and notes

http://www.machupicchurecords.com/

DEVO - Hardcore Volume 1 & 2 Available May 14th

DEVO's Hardcore documents the group's beginning as pre-punk outcasts in the fertile Akron, Ohio underground rock scene. Spawned at the nearby college of Kent State, site of the infamous May 4 Massacre, DEVO formed as a conceptual art project armed with a radical philosophy of de-evolution. Brothers Mothersbaugh (Mark, Bob, and Jim) and Brothers Casale (Jerry and Bob) along with drummer Alan Myers soon whipped-up an otherworldly brand of "devolved blues" that could hold its own alongside the beatnik groove of 15-60-75 (aka The Numbers Band) or the primal rock poetry of the Bizarros.

Recorded on various 4-track machines and in tiny studios, basements, and garages between 1974-1977, Hardcore reveals their strikingly clear vision: rock n' roll stripped bare of its collective cool and jerked back into propaganda fit for post-modern man. It's no surprise that these transmissions would soon catch the eye and ear of Brian Eno who later produced their landmark 1978 debut album. Noisy synth, strangled guitar chops, and a primitive rhythmic thud power the early DEVO sound. Threaded beneath it all are lyrical themes of post-McCarthy paranoia, middle-class ephemera, and DEVO's long-running topic of choice: sex, or lack thereof.

Superior Viaduct and Booji Boy Records are proud to present DEVO's Hardcore to a new generation of spuds, lovingly packaged with Moshe Brakha's stunning cover photography. As David Bowie said in 1977, DEVO is indeed "the band of the future."

http://www.superiorviaduct.com/collections/devo

Watching my next three paychecks disappear with every post.

This is pretty great. A little MC5, a little Sonics Rendezvous Band, a little Sabbath...

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Here it is folks, the first ever Hozac Archival release, and man is it a whopper. The 40th anniversary first edition of two unissued 1972 cuts by New York proto punk group, FURY, fronted by a young Sonny Vincent, who would later etch out his stain on the wall of punk history in the Testors and an illustrious solo career. These two tracks were recorded and shopped around to record companies in the early 1970s, only to have their dreams quashed due to lack of interest (or having Suicide open up for them, which you can read more about later), and the band, subsequently disillusioned and restless, disbanded without any real document of it’s existence.

Sonny quickly started up another band upon FURY’s demise, Liquid Diamonds, in 1973, and never looked back (Liquid Diamonds debut 7″ coming soon on Hozac as well!), so it’s with such great excitement that we thrust forth this debut FURY single, an explosive fireball of rock’n roll mayhem aimed straight at your groin, the way it was intended, in the perfect, screaming 45 rpm format. Bonehead cruncher? Yer damn right, this criss-crossed between heavy-handed biker rock and thug pungk supreme, dripping with chain grease and burnt skin, a true ball-crushing, tit-ripping rock’n roll gem for the ages, sadly unreleased and completely unknown during it’s time. Sonny’s signature style is immediate, even at this early of an age, the seething vocals are incredible, sounding much like his better-known later Testors material, yet with such an over-the-top proto punk hammer damaged sound drilling away in the background, you’ll feel your life getting better with each consecutive spin.

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IN THE WAKE OF CRITICAL ACCLAIM
FOR TOWNES VAN ZANDT’S SUNSHINE BOY,
OMNIVORE RECORDINGS REISSUES TWO MORE FROM TOWNES:
HIGH, LOW AND IN BETWEEN
AND THE LATE, GREAT TOWNES VAN ZANDT

Early ’70s albums are re-mastered, available on CD
and 180-gram vinyl, with notes by Colin Escott

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Even though Townes Van Zandt may not be a household name, he is a legend to songwriters and the music fans who love them. As the recently issued Sunshine Boy: The Unheard Studio Sessions & Demos 1971-1972 proved — receiving five-star reviews from American Songwriter and Mojo, along with a ten-out-of-ten-star piece from Uncut — the world was ready to rediscover not only Van Zandt, but the studio albums those sessions came from.

Omnivore Recordings now offers reissues of Townes’ two seminal recordings: High, Low and In Between and The Late Great Townes Van Zandt, each available on CD and — for the first time in decades — on high-quality, 180-gram vinyl, with a release date of May 21, 2013.

High, Low and In Between, Townes Van Zandt’s fifth album, originally released by Poppy Records in the fall of 1971, was an album that saw Townes becoming the songwriter revered today. Full of original material, including “You Are Not Needed Now,” “Blue Ridge Mountains,” and “To Live Is To Fly,” it opened eyes and ears to his abilities. His backing band included folks like Larry Carlton, who would play on Joni Mitchell’s Court & Spark, who accompanied Steely Dan on The Royal Scam (playing that solo we all know and love on “Kid Charlemagne”), and who was a member of Jazz’s elite Crusaders. High, Low and In Between is, in the end, a classic Townes Van Zandt album. And one that should be re-examined.

The Late Great Townes Van Zandt, his sixth effort, hit the shelves in 1972. The album built on High, Low and In Between, adding texture in both song and production. It’s probably best known for “Pancho & Lefty” — the song Emmylou Harris covered for 1977’s Luxury Liner and which Willie Nelson & Waylon Jennings would take to the top of the charts in 1983. Full of originals, as well as covers like Hank Williams’ “Honky Tonkin’,” the release was Van Zandt’s perfect storm, with every element in place. The Late Great Townes Van Zandt might be his masterwork. This release should be in every collection of great American music.

The gloriously remastered editions of High, Low and In Between and The Late, Great Townes Van Zandt will be available on CD, in a digipak with liner notes from award-winning scribe Colin Escott, as well as on 180-gram vinyl, with the first 1000 pressed on orange and clear colored vinyl respectively. (Future pressings will be on standard weight, black vinyl.)

It’s not too late to know and love the Late Great Townes Van Zandt.

High, Low and In Between
1. Two Hands
2. You Are Not Needed Now
3. Greensboro Woman
4. Highway Kind
5. Standin’
6. No Deal
7. To Live Is To Fly
8. When He Offers His Hand
9. Mr. Mudd and Mr. Gold
10. Blue Ridge Mountains
11. High, Low and In Between

The Late Great Townes Van Zandt
1. No Lonesome Tune
2. Sad Cinderella
3. German Mustard (A Clapalong)
4. Don’t Let The Sunshine Fool You
5. Honky Tonkin’
6. Snow Don’t Fall
7. Fraulein
8. Pancho & Lefty
9. If I Needed You
10. Silver Ships of Andilar
11. Heavenly Houseboat Blues

About Omnivore Recordings:
Founded in 2010 by highly respected, longtime industry veterans Cheryl Pawelski, Greg Allen, Dutch Cramblitt, and Brad Rosenberger, Omnivore Recordings preserves the legacies and music created by historical, heritage, and catalog artists while also releasing previously unissued, newly found “lost” recordings and making them available for music-loving audiences to discover. Omnivore Recordings is distributed by EMI.

Just saw on Amazon Tabu are rereleasing a whole load of albums with extra tracks. These include out of print things like all the S.O.S Band, Cherrelle, Alexander O'Neal and Brainstorm albums. It's about time some of these were put out again, some of them were going for crazy money. I should know I sold most of these and bought them all on vinyl instead.

More about them here, http://theseconddisc.com/2013/03/27/strictly-tabu-edsel-readies-reissue-campaign-for-rb-label/

Have just seen that Rockadrome vintage have a forthcoming release of Icecross on cd and vinyl. But I can't find any release date details.
Got their great version of Sainte Anthony's Fyre a few days back and looking in the cd tray you can see the front cover of Icecross's lp. SO I went to order it and can't see anything about it's release date on any of the main shopping sites, and Rockadriome themselves just have it listed as forthcoming with no further release details. Think they pretty much duplicate what they say on different entries for bot h vinyl and cd though.

info about upcoming (in the fall, I think) Sly and the Family Stone box:

77 tracks on 4 CDs

18 previously unreleased tracks that will include mono single mixes, live recordings, studio demos, rare instrumentals, and more.

100 page book with extensive liner notes, track-by-track annotations, and a timeline of Sly's life and career.

Rare and unseen photos, posters, picture sleeves, single labels, ticket stubs, and other memorabilia.

Wow @ that Sly box. Meanwhile, more from S.Dogg, plus Dogg-produced Irma Thomas:

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SOUL LEGEND SWAMP DOGG TO RE-RELEASE NEWLY REMASTERED VERSIONS OF HIS 1973 GAG A MAGGOTT LP & IRMA THOMAS' SWAMP-PRODUCED SOUL CLASSIC IN BETWEEN TEARS ON MAY 14TH!

AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME ON VINYL SINCE THEIR ORIGINAL RELEASES IN 1973! (THROUGH ALIVE NATURALSOUND RECORDS)

CD & DIGITAL VERSIONS INCLUDE TWO BONUS TRACKS EACH!
Track from Irma's In Between Tears here: https://soundcloud.com/alivenaturalsound/irma-thomas-youre-the-dog-i

"A lost classic that captures deep soul at its most poignant and resonant, couching Thomas' deeply affecting vocals in earthy arrangements that emphasize the singer's gospel roots." - AMG

Produced by legendary soul singer / songwriter / producer Jerry Williams Jr., aka Swamp Dogg, and featuring Duane Allman on two songs, Irma Thomas' In Between Tears is finally back on vinyl with its original cover for the first time since 1973. The CD and digital versions include the Canyon single ("We Won’t Be In Your Way Anymore" / "I’ll Do It All Over You") as bonus tracks. The CD also includes newly penned liner notes by Swamp Dogg. In Between Tears will be available in all formats on May 14th. Color vinyl exclusive to Bomp-mailorder.

IN BETWEEN TEARS TRACK LISTING:
1. In Between Tears
2. She'll Never Be Your Wife
3. These Four Walls
4. Whats So Wrong With You Loving Me
5. You're The Dog (I Do The Barking Myself)
6. Medley: Coming From Behind (Monologue)
7. Wish Someone Would Care
8. Turn My World Around
9. We Won't Be In Your Way Anymore (CD & digital bonus track)
10. I'll Do It All Over You (CD & digital bonus track)

Track from Gag A Maggott here: https://soundcloud.com/alivenaturalsound/swamp-dogg-i-couldnt-pay-for
Re-released for the first time on vinyl since its original release in 1973!
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"Ivan Olander’s drums, Little Beaver’s guitar, even the horns of the Swamp Dogg Band maintain a fierce momentum that’s not conventional at all.” – Robert Christgau (Dean Of American Rock Critics)

Swamp Dogg's Gag A Maggot was recorded at TK in Miami with an all-star cast. The CD and digital versions feature two unreleased bonus tracks recorded live at KSAN radio in 1972 ("Mamas Baby, Daddy’s Maybe" and "Honky Tonk Woman"). The CD booklet also includes new liner notes and rare photos. The song "Choking To Death (From The Ties That Bind)" was recorded by Canned Heat in 1974. Gag A Maggott will be available in all formats on May 14th. Color vinyl exclusive to Bomp-mailorder.

GAG A MAGGOTT TRACK LISTING:
1. Wife Sitter
2. Choking To Death (From The Ties That Bind)
3. I Couldn't Pay For What I Got Last Night
4. Mighty Mighty Dollar Bill
5. Midnight Hour
6. Please Let Me Kiss You Goodbye
7. T T
8. Why Must We Fall (When We Fall In Love)
9. Plastered To The Wall (Higher Than The Ceiling)
10. Mama's Baby, Daddy's Maybe (Live) (CD & digital bonus track)
11. Honky Tonk Woman (Live) (CD & digital bonus track)

The REMASTERED versions of Swamp Dogg's Total Destruction To Your Mind & Rat On! are available digitally today

Box set (vinyl or CD) of the first five Scott Walker LPs released by Universal in June:

http://www.prescriptionmusicpruk.com/press-releases/2013/4/12/new-box-set-from-universal-scott-walker-the-collection-1967.html

That's a lot of Scott Walker.

damn, I JUST got the 4 men w/ beards vinyl repressings of 3 and 4 for my birthday.

I still don't have the remastered versions of the early Scotts and that shit is bedrock for me, so I'll probably bite on that. Sounds like no bonus tracks (aka no 'The Plague') though which is a damn shame.

I have a 1980s Charly pressing of "Inbetween Tears", meaning that whole "first vinyl pressing since 1973" is a porky pie, none of which stands in in the way of being an effing brilliant record. "Gag A Maggot" less so, although it has a couple of my favourite Dogg tracks, "Wife Sitter" in particular.

Oh, "with its original cover", sorry, missed that. Stand down.

And few bonus tracks on both. Got Irma and all three Doggs reissued so far; hope will be more.

*A* few, that is: meant as descriptive note, not complaint.

PETER JEFFERIES
The Last Great Challenge in a Dull World
IND 123 CD/LP/MP3
Release Date 4/6/2013

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http://destijlrecs.com/123.html

Peter Jefferies’s extraordinary debut solo album, The Last Great Challenge in a Dull World, first saw life as a cassette via the Xpressway label of Port Chalmers, New Zealand, in 1990. As a result of some international underground acclaim in fanzines and mailorder catalogs – for both the album and a striking 7-inch, “The Fate of the Human Carbine”, released around the same time – it soon appeared on LP and CD as well, through the Ajax label of Chicago. Within a handful of years it slipped out of print and out of sight. Roughly 20 years later that situation is being amended by De Stijl with a vinyl reissue that includes the songs from the attendant single and no amount of remastering whatsoever.

Though no one’s gotten around to writing a book on it yet, The Last Great Challenge in a Dull World nonetheless stands as one of the singular singer-songwriter albums of all time, existing on a sparsely populated plane with Pink Moon, I Often Dream of Trains, Blues Run the Game, Our Mother the Mountain and not many others. In a sandy voice that soothes and slashes, Jefferies offers a compassionate, piercingly lucid view of the endeavor of life, all our pain and small glories rendered in tones both harrowing and tender. On piano, drums and percussion, he pounds out melodies that roar, sweep and lilt, accompanied on many songs by the serrated guitars of a variety of players. Featuring a small team of South Island heavy-hitters – all three members of the Dead C as well as David Mitchell (3Ds), Alastair Galbraith, Kathy Bull (Look Blue Go Purple, Cyclops), Nigel Taylor and Robbie Muir (who’s cobilled on the single) – Last Great Challenge provides a pivot point in Jefferies’s formidable recording career, which included two bands he shared with his brother Graeme in the ’80s, Nocturnal Projections and This Kind of Punishment, and four further solo albums, as well as stints in bands here (Mecca Normal, Two Foot Flame) and there (Plagal Grind, Cyclops, and collaborations with Shayne Carter, Jono Lonie and Chris Smith).

This immediate and affecting album has been a comfort and a guide for me since it came out. Sit a spell and see if it doesn’t speak to you as well.

~ Mike Wolf, NYC, 2013

great CD, and great single. Fate of the Human Carbine/Catapult is the kind of things that the 7" vinyl record was invented for.

Yeah, one of my favorite albums ever, and that single is perfect.

can't stop listening to the Toy Love reissue and also can't understand how I basically always thought of them as a pre-Tall Dwarfs footnote until that Goner set last year

Hopefully Graeme's first solo record, This Kind of Punishment, and Nocturnal Projections will get a vinyl reissue too. I would love to get the Plagal Grind record as well.

Some of this was on here when first announced, but now with links to clips:

Greetings financially depleted Numerophiles-

We're barely 48 hours on the other side of Record Store Day and already we're back in your inbox with four must-have records. We held back one hundred of each RSD title for our pop up store and are pleased to be able to offer them to you—our loyal email subscriber—exclusively, for the next 24 hours. We've got limited quantities of these titles (some in the single digits). Don't think you can push this off until after lunch and we'll still have copies. Don't make us make you cry.

NUM025.5 24-Carat Black: Acetate picture disc 10″

This “acetate” features four songs from our 24-Carat Black tape archive that were scorched beyond use on 2009′s Gone: The Promises of Yesterday LP/CD. But given the quality of the songs, we’ve always felt that the material should be available for the sake of posterity alone. Now, in an edition of 550 copies, you too can experience the sorrow we felt as the source tape disintegrated in front of our eyes.

This isn't a record, it's a work of art.http://www.numerogroup.com/catalog_detail.php?uid=01505

NUM704 Husker Du: Amusement 2x7"

In August of 1980, Grant Hart, Bob Mould, and Greg Norton booked time at Minneapolis’s Blackberry Way Studio to record what would become their debut 7″. A deal with Twin/Tone, thought to be in the bag, was derailed by the fall 1980 signing of the Replacements—Hüsker Dü’s then-chief rival. With a Twin/Tone rejection letter in its pocket, Hüsker Dü thrashed out a scathing version of “Amusement” live at Duffy’s, and plans were made for a self-released four song 10″, with Blackberry Way cuts “Statues,” “Writer’s Cramp,” and “Let’s Go Die” making up the balance. The enormous start-up cost for a debut release forced a format change, and in January 1981, Reflex Records #A, “Amusement” b/w “Statues,” found its way to market. The single would find two pressings over the next few years, but fall out of print as the band’s style changed from Metal Box-esque post-punk to Los Angeles-inspired hardcore.

“Amusement” b/w “Statues” and the studio alternates “Writer’s Cramp” and “Let’s Go Die” appear here as a 2×7″. The Blackberry Way cuts have been remastered from a first generation sub-master (the originals have long been lost), while “Amusement” was cut from the original live board tape. The original artwork has been polished and beefed up with a 28pt-board gatefold jacket. Pressed in an edition of 4000 (1000 on white vinyl, 3000 on black), this deluxe reissue should satiate a new generation of Hüsker lovers…for at least another 33 years, anyhow.

Seriously, we have single digits on this. DO NOT SLEEP. [No flash player--yet?]

NUM202.1 Giant Henry: Big Baby LP

The first volley in our massive Unwound reissue campaign lands as Big Baby, a previously unreleased album's worth of material that the band cut in 1990 while still students at Tumwater High, operating as a trio under the Giant Henry moniker. “Tumwater High has always been known as a ‘redneck’ school,” guitarist/vocalist Justin Trosper reflects in the album’s liner notes. “People took football and AC/DC equally seriously. The smoking area was rich in facial hair. We were into punk rock, but we weren’t really ‘punk.’ We thought punk was funny. After all, this was the late-’80s. Post-punk was a memory, and everything was totally damaged and weird. We were kind of more with the times than the catalog-punks with mohawks and bondage pants.”

Recorded in original Unwound drummer Brandt Sandeno’s parents’ basement over a weekend in the winter of 1991, the 12-track, vinyl-only Big Baby captures Vern Rumsey and Justin Trosper in their Metal Circus and Bleach-influenced halcyon days. In true DIY spirit, we've hand-screened the entire pressing of 1050 LPs, with three cover variants featuring Justin, Vern, and Brandt looking too young even for Tumwater High.

What happened to Henry?http://www.numerogroup.com/catalog_detail.php?uid=01503

NUM201.5 Codeine: What About The Lonely? CD/LP

Following in the snow tracks of When I See The Sun, our massive, near-complete Codeine overview, comes What About The Lonely?, an eight-track LP recorded at the group’s live zenith. Captured direct from the mixing board at a stop on Codeine’s November 1993 swing through the Midwest, opening for Mazzy Star, this document finds Stephen Immerwahr, John Engle, and Doug Scharin running through their hits at Chicago’s notorious Lounge Ax for a crowd of chatty 120 Minutes fans. Gastr Del Sol’s David Grubbs adds his guitar to two songs, slinking on and off the 24-inch stage with little fanfare, but leaving his signature indelibly on the performance. We have copies on CD and red vinyl left.

Some are young and some are old.http://www.numerogroup.com/catalog_detail.php?uid=01502

Next time we'll tell you about things you can buy any day of the year.

Yours,
The Numero Group

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DRAG CITY TO RELEASE ANDY KAUFMAN COMEDY RECORD, ANDY AND HIS GRANDMOTHER, OUT JULY 16TH!

Andy Kaufman changed the worlds of comedy and performance in the 1970s, showing fans and friends alike a determination to follow put-ons into territory no one had ever even considered "comic" before. His fervor was so intense that when he passed away suddenly in 1984, it seemed as if the ultimate disappearing act had been staged; one that some people believe is still ongoing, with the reveal soon to come.

Among the many things that Andy achieved in his lifetime (and in the years following), a phonograph album release, the staple of stand-up comedians in his time, never happened - until now. Andy and His Grandmother is material never heard before, a skimming from 82 hours of micro-cassette tapes that Andy recorded during 1977-79. Andy regarded the micro-tape recorder as a fantastic new way of capturing his hoaxing, and carried it with him everywhere, for use at any given moment. Real life was the ultimate frontier for him, and these tapes demonstrate the heart of Andy's comedy. With gusto, he involves those closest to him, as well as total strangers, in put-ons, falsehoods and other provocations, pushing the limit on logic and emotional investment in everyday situations from the trivial to the deeply personal until any suspension of disbelief is out of the question for all involved, and everyone becomes fully immersed in whatever scenario Andy is suggesting as the new reality.

With so much material on hand, Drag City turned to a writer, producer and comedian whose resume indicated to us that he was a true child of Kaufman's twisted talent. Since the late 90s, Vernon Chatman's work has been experienced by television viewers and aficionados of South Park, Wonder Showzen, Xavier: Renegade Angel, The Heart She Holler, and Doggie Fizzle Televizzle, as well as fans of the Drag City DVD release Final Flesh. Vernon dug deeply into the tapes, working with editor Rodney Ascher (director of the notorious, controversial, and even acclaimed Room 237 documentary) to come up with a concept for a single LP that would include several dozen excerpts. Along the way, Vernon produced several tracks, adding effects to pieces that were clearly unfinished (in particular, "Sleep Comedy") and drafting SNL's Bill Hader to provide narration for the journey. The finished album, with liner notes from Vernon and Kaufman cohort Bob Zmuda is a work of comedy for our times - one that was performed over thirty years ago. Andy And His Grandmother is out July 16th on Drag City.

Wow. Very, very cool.

just got this bizarro (but pretty entertaining) reish in the mail
http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/PoB-07-Chance-cover-web.jpg
... a fierce, inimitable, and mythmaking countrydelic masterpiece of insular inspiration and absolutely singular vision and scope. Despite its intensely personal origins, long gestation, substantial financial costs, and deadly serious deliberation, the album betrays very little in the way of outside influences or traceable authorship. Commanding, aggressive, and unabashedly masculine, it literally sounds like nothing else we’ve ever heard—this is as close as we’ve gotten to unique music (if there is such a thing), the real deal, an obsessive, private-press triumph of the imagination. The closest analog we can (tentatively) venture is some unholy pot likker of Waylon Jennings, Funkadelic, the Fields of Nephilim, and the Bob Seger System: a strange Southern Gothic, alternately frightening and funky, and utterly transfixing. One can only wonder as to which interstellar channels Chance is tuned, but whatever he’s hearing is not the same transmission that the rest of us hear. And God bless him for it.
http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/pob-07

Looks promising. And here's a Monkees box from Rhino Handmade:

The MONKEES Present Micky, David, Michael
By October 1969, things were radically different for The Monkees. Their NBC show had left prime time, Peter Tork had left the group, and Top 40 hits were no longer a sure thing. It was in this atmosphere that Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones and Michael Nesmith exerted more creative control to record THE MONKEES PRESENT . The resulting album is one of the group's most varied, from the iconic single, "Listen To The Band," to Micky's anti-war anthem, "Mommy And Daddy," Davy's lush "French Song," and Michael's Nashville-tinged barn-burner, "Good Clean Fun."

Strictly limited to 5,000 individually numbered boxes, the newly re-mastered and expanded THE MONKEES PRESENT is the latest release in Rhino Handmade's lavish Monkees boxed sets. Packed with a whopping 85 tracks (60 previously unreleased!) over 3 CD's, Monkees historian and reissue producer Andrew Sandoval has raided the vault, pulling previously unheard songs, alternate versions and backing tracks from the original master tapes. THE MONKEES PRESENT also includes an exclusive bonus 7" vinyl single for "Good Clean Fun (Alternate Mix)" b/w "Mommy and Daddy (Mono Mix)" in a picture sleeve.

THE MONKEES PRESENT ships in late July, but is available now for pre-order exclusively at Monkees.com. This box is not available from any store or other online retailer and is sure to sell out, so reserve your copy now.

New York, NY (May 14, 2013)—On June 18, Eagle Rock Entertainment will release The Beach Boys: Good Vibrations Tour on DVD and Digital Video

Filmed in 1976 at Anaheim Stadium for American television, Good Vibrations follows the release of their 15 Big Ones album. Combining full live performances with interviews and several whimsical vignettes, Good Vibrations is 50 minutes of Beach Boys faire at its finest. This DVD features all the original band members (Brian, Carl, and Dennis Wilson, Mike Love, and Al Jardine) performing their timeless classic hits: “Good Vibrations,” “God Only Knows,” “I Get Around,” “Fun, Fun, Fun,” “Sloop John B,” “California Girls,” “Help Me Rhonda,” “Surfin’ USA,” and many more. From the three Wilson brothers performing a song about their father to the full band harmonizing with a gospel choir, this DVD is packed with incredible moments.

The Beach Boys were the most successful American pop group of the sixties. Their legendary vocal harmonies, renowned anthems, and classic albums earned an induction into the Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall Of Fame, and to this day, this music inspires fans, musicians, and songwriters of all generations.

Above all, Good Vibrations is a perfect snapsnot of why The Beach Boys are one of the most endearing and beloved music acts of all time.

Eagle Rock Entertainment is the largest producer and distributor of music programming for DVD, Blu-Ray, TV, Audio and Digital Media in the world. Eagle works directly alongside talent to produce top quality, High Definition and 3D programs, both concerts and documentaries, including The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, The Who, Queen, The Doors, Jeff Beck, U2, Peter Gabriel, Paul McCartney and Ozzy Osbourne. Eagle is a Grammy Award winning company and has received over 30 multi-platinum, over 50 platinum and over 90 gold discs, worldwide. Eagle Rock Entertainment has offices in London, New York, Toronto, Paris and Hamburg.

the three Wilson brothers performing a song about their father
the legendary outtake "Fuck That Guy (He Was A Jerk)"?!

I've always wanted to hear The Many Moods of Murray Wilson

I have a copy. It's pretty boring.

from May 1977, the Barton Hall show and four others, on 14 CDs. Some tracks and video comments streaming here, with description and complete setlists:http://www.dead.net/may1977?eml=rn/051413/

unholy pot likker of Waylon Jennings, Funkadelic, the Fields of Nephilim, and the Bob Seger System:

this sounds amazing and tailor-made for yr truly - how far off the mark is this estimation?

The Beach Boys: Good Vibrations Tour on DVD ...Filmed in 1976 at Anaheim Stadium for American television[

I think this has shown up on VH1 more than once, if so it's pretty entertaining. extras sound great, that gospel clip referenced is def something else

from May 1977, the Barton Hall show and four others

The set is 5/11, 5/12, 5/13, 5/15, 5/17 - Barton is 5/8 and also it's not in the Dead vault for them to issue unfortunately

Sorry! Several posts of ir on archive.org though, like this un w download options (incl lossless zip)
http://archive.org/details/gd1977-05-08.ecm33p.moore.berger.miller.117026.flac16

no worries, when the box was initially announced everybody assumed 5/8 would be in there and the box would be 5/8 thru 5/13

The 5/17 show is pretty incredible, i want this thing bad

http://s3.amazonaws.com/light_in_the_attic/artist_press_images/1588/HoneyLtdThumb.jpg

Honey Ltd.
The Complete LHI Years, July 23rd
(CD, LP, Digital)

Lee Hazlewood’s LHI label only put out interesting albums. Yet despite the psychedelic cowboy’s success with Nancy Sinatra and more, being on Lee Hazlewood Industries was no fast-track to success. Gorgeous and talented Detroit, Michigan girl group Honey Ltd had all the makings of a hit band, yet they disappeared after releasing just one album in 1968, a vinyl rarity that now regularly fetches upwards of $2,000.

Light In The Attic Records is now looking to set the record straight. Having previously explored both the back catalog of Lee Hazlewood and his LHI label via the You Turned My Head Around 45s Box Set, Honey Ltd’s The Complete LHI Recordings presents everything the group ever recorded. Fans of The Ronettes, The Shangri-Las and Pentangle are in for a treat – Honey Ltd’s music blended social commentary with harmony-drenched, psych-soul pop. Even opening track, ‘Warrior’, describes the mood of the times, as America sunk into the Vietnam war: “We must kill more people; strong men are what we need!"

Laura Polkinghome, Marsha Jo Temmer and sisters Joan and Alexandra Sliwin are the girls with the angelic voices. Hailing from Detroit, the four members of Honey Ltd grew up in a culture of soul music and dance shows, yet forming a band was never part of the plan. It simply happened after they sung together in a Wayne State University cafeteria and found they’d silenced the room. By 1967 they had formed a group known as the Mama Cats and were playing shows with local singer Bob Seger. By 1968, against a backdrop of rioting in Detroit, they’d hauled over to Los Angeles to give music a go, and it’s there that they hitch-hiked to an audition with Lee Hazlewood on Sunset Boulevard. At the time, Lee Hazlewood Industries was in its prime: the money flowed and the roster swelled. “I think Lee just sat there for a while and listened, looking at us,” Temmer recalls. “He said, ‘Yeah, I think we can do something.’ You know – immediately!” Before long, LHI had the band in the studio with crack session music unit The Wrecking Crew.

These were not enlightened times for girl groups. The group were re-named Honey Ltd by Hazlewood, and were put to work on an album without even realizing it. The band were under the impression they were simply recording singles. As a result, the band were unphased by Honey Ltd’s commercial failure.

The parent label, however, did notice the album’s failure but the girls continued on. By the end of 1968, the band joined Bob Hope on the USO tour and headed to Thailand to perform for soldiers. In 1969, Alex married and quit the band, their tenure on LHI was effectively terminated and the remaining members regrouped as country-rock group Eve. But like their music, the girls’ outlook remained resolutely sunny.

“Its all a karmic equation, isn’t it?" Temmer recalled. “So many things to experience and learn and humbly let go of in this journey. Our friendship is based on love – we love each other… always have… always will.”

"regrouped as country-rock group Eve" faintly rings a bell--anybody heard 'em?

Honey Ltd. The Complete LHI Years, July 23rd

YESSSSSS YES YES YES YES YES YES YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

Yeah, I've heard Eve - not nearly as delightful as Honey Ltd. to my ears.

http://www.mergerecords.com/blog/2013/05/the-mountain-goats-prep-all-hail-west-texas-reissue-for-july-release/

I'm particularly excited about the 7 bonus tracks for this one.

DARK - "DARK ROUND THE EDGES" LP/CD

One of THEE greatest guitar-heavy psych records in the world, “Dark Round the Edges”was originally issued in an edition of around 50 copies, mostly for friends, family, and the odd record company. Its reputation has since blossomed into something resembling a redwood, or perhaps an original Van Gogh. This album is the holy grail for lovers of fuzz-driven hard rock, and has been the most sought-after privately pressed LP on the planet.

We’ve spared no expense to bring you the deluxe reissue of this classic, an album be- loved by heads & cosmic couriers around the world for its great songwriting, terrific instrumental workouts, and mysterious vibe. ZERO TIME IS NOW.

•Officially licensed by Dark, who will receive royalties from sales of this album

•Remastered and restored by Warren Defever for maximum brilliance

•Sleeve notes by the group’s songwriter and guitarist Steve Giles, including a complete group history

•Sleeved in a tip-on gatefold jacket & obi, with an expanded version of the original booklet - 20 pages of lyrics and never before seen photos & session notes from the group’s personal archives

http://www.machupicchurecords.com/

both of these reissues mentioned sound brilliant ..

unholy pot likker of Waylon Jennings, Funkadelic, the Fields of Nephilim, and the Bob Seger System:

this sounds amazing and tailor-made for yr truly - how far off the mark is this estimation?

wouldn't say it's as amazing as that descrip makes it sound, but it is a very entertaining record -- worth checking out for sure.

Aforementioned Source Family doc soundtrack turns out to be 14 tracks in 38 minutes and change, half or 'em excerpts, but brilliantly chosen. A standard of thoughtful, passionate versatility and precision that might well have earned daily bread in the L.A. music biz, brought on home to Father Yod--although his own voice is phonogenic enough to get work in Babylon, if he wanted it. Streaming 'til the CD release on May 21, I think--but worth checking later, if you don't have time before that--here's a more direct link
https://soundcloud.com/drag-city/sets/the-source-family-soundtrack

http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001h_yvoje1DNM5Pg421LA_7Bo2vY-CaIdmJK-Li2QQKKOhwoibShEcD36NvCcnO-W0P4tbq-nWYpqR12x75Qi5oTc-tKc6NTYP_KDAdzJZTqqUXwX0FloC8O_T9lwP78eHXev8EIPlI6OBpUTEABtX8HRpcza4NxG-GpzmwxlszJs=

Although the poster's tag line seems misleading, so far: at least on the soundtrack, he tells the audience at Beverly Hills High (May, 1974), "I ain't Jesus or nothin'--that's you!", before kicking out the jams.

When is the Jefferies reissue on De Stijl scheduled to ship? Opinion online varies from three weeks ago to never.

it's listed in today's New Releases list from Forced Exposure, but still listed as Pre-order at Midheaven.

Exit Stencil Recordings is honored to be re-releasing the long out of print, and woefully underrated, 1975 debut album by 15 -60-75 (The Numbers Band) entitled Jimmy Bell's Still in Town. For those familiar with the band and record---tracking down an original can easily cost you triple digits!

Hailing from Kent, Ohio, 15 -60-75 (The Numbers Band) is considered one of the forefathers of the Akron / Cleveland music scene of the 1970s and their musical pedigree is pretty impressive---including members who would later go to found Devo and siblings of the legendary Chrissie Hynde. Long-standing Ohio folklore has it that the band actually served as an influence for The Blues Brothers!

Check out the track "Animal Speaks:" http://exitstencil.us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f0fc2eb3e7ca33657e94bf5fa&id=3e45a15051&e=373acc99c4

We are pressing 500 deluxe, 2 x LP Gatefold copies of the album---complete with liner notes from David Fricke (Rolling Stone) and David Giffels (co-author of Are We Not Men?). The record will include 3 previously unreleased bonus tracks. Release is set for late summer.

When is the Jefferies reissue on De Stijl scheduled to ship? Opinion online varies from three weeks ago to never.

― MV, Saturday, May 18, 2013 5:13 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's listed in today's New Releases list from Forced Exposure, but still listed as Pre-order at Midheaven.

― nerve_pylon, Saturday, May 18, 2013 5:40 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Arrived today. Good stuff indeed.

NUMERO GROUP ANNOUNCE FIRST BOX SET OF COMPREHENSIVE UNWOUND REISSUE CAMPAIGN

'KID IS GONE' COLLECTS SEMINAL PACIFIC NORTHWEST POST-PUNK TRIO'S RECORDED OUTPUT FROM 1991-1992

VIEW THE ALBUM TRAILER HERE:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlUkxqBwXqg

This Fall the Numero Group embarks on a lengthy and comprehensive campaign to reissue the complete works of seminal Olympia, Washington, post-punk trio Unwound. Their seven albums - Fake Train, New Plastic Ideas, S/T, The Future Of What, Repetition, Challenge For Civilized Society, and Leaves Turn Inside You - will be expanded, remastered, and annotated in typical Numero fashion. The revered archival label has announced the first proper entry in the series, set for a 9/6/13 release, is a 3xLP comprising all of Unwound's recorded output from 1991 and 1992, prior to their debut LP.

Kid Is Gone is the unquiet portrait of primal Unwound. Before 1993's Fake Train ripped through, they'd been Giant Henry, Supertanker, and Cygnus X-1, short-lived black holes gathering dark material into something built to explode. From Justin Trosper, Vern Rumsey, and Brandt Sandeno's first restive years, "Crab Nebula" might've best prepared the indie-sphere for what Unwound became, had Sandeno's split not stalled their planned debut. Part 1 in Numero's 4-part reissue project, Kid Is Gone documents signal chaos in Olympia's fertile scene before Unwound's turbulent noise hit stride, in unrevealed period photos, 34 tracks, and three LPs-cassette-only demos, early 7"s, a KAOS radio broadcast, material tracked live in a local basement, and all of what became 1994's Unwound, on which the band's prehistory plays out in a feral maelstrom of screaming, distortion, feedback, and abrasive promise.

wow i hope someday numero does this kind of thing for a band i really like! [not that i'm anti Unwound per se, just that I'm not the targeted audience here]

Sly box details:

Higher!, A 4CD Box Featuring The Best Of Sly And The Family Stone

Epic Records and Legacy Recordings will join together to compile a collection of tracks from Sly and The Family Stone. The collection will be housed in a Boxed set, with 77 tracks burned within 4CDs. Of the 77 songs, 17 of the tracks are previously unreleased goodies. The Box will be issued with a 104-page book that will mark every facet of Sly and The Family Stone over their long and fruitful career with photos, liner notes, a timeline, a serious credits listing, tons of memorabilia, and much more.
The Box set is called Higher! and will be as complete a set as can be as revealed by the incredible track-listing provided by the label. Higher! is on the calendar for August 27.

Higher! Track Listing:
Disc One (1964-1967):
“I Just Learned How To Swim by Sly Stewart (Autumn Records single, 1964)
“Scat Swim by Sly Stewart (Autumn single, 1964)
“Buttermilk (Part 1) by Sly (Autumn single, 1965)
“Dance All Night by Sly and Freddie (1965, originally unissued)
“Temptation Walk by Sly (Autumn single, 1965)
“I Ain’t Got Nobody (For Real) (Loadstone single, 1967)
“I Can’t Turn You Loose (Loadstone single, 1967)
“Higher (mono Epic single master, promo only, 1967)
“Underdog (mono Epic single master, 1967)
“Bad Risk (mono Epic single master, 1967)
“Let Me Hear It From You (mono Epic single master, 1967)
“Advice (A)
“If This Room Could Talk (A)
“I Cannot Make It (A)
“Trip To Your Heart (A)
“I Hate To Love Her (A)
“Silent Communications (1967, previously unissued)
“I Get High On You (version one, 1967, previously unissued)
“I Remember (1967, previously unissued)
“My Woman’s Head (instrumental demo, 1967, previously unissued)

Disc Two (1967-1968):
“What’s That Got To Do With Me” (1967, previously unissued)
“Fortune And Fame” (1967, previously unissued)
“What Would I Do” (1967, originally unissued, B)
“Only One Way Out Of This Mess” (1967, originally unissued, B)
“I Know What You Came To Say” (1967, previously unissued)
“Dance To The Music” (mono Epic single master, 1967)
“Ride The Rhythm” (C)
“Color Me True” (C)
“Are You Ready” (C)
“Don’t Burn Baby” (C)
“We Love All” (D)
“Danse A La Musique” by The French Fries (mono Epic single, 1968)
“Small Fries” by The French Fries (mono Epic single, 1968)
“Chicken” (mono Epic single master, 1968)
“Into My Own Thing” (E)
“Life” (mono Epic single master, 1968)
“Love City” (1968, previously unissued mono mix)
“M’Lady” (mono Epic single master, 1968)
“Dynamite!” featuring Johnny Robinson on vocals (1968, previously unissued)
“Undercat” (instrumental, 1967, previously unissued)

Disc Three (1968-1970):
“Everyday People” (mono Epic single master, 1968)
“Sing A Simple Song” (mono Epic single master, 1968)
“I Get High On You” (version two, 1968, previously unissued)
“Wonderful World Of Color” (instrumental, 1968, previously unissued)
“Pressure” (originally unissued, F)
“I Want To Take You Higher” (mono Epic single master, 1969)
“Seven More Days” (originally unissued, F)
“Feathers” (instrumental, 1968, previously unissued)
“Somebody’s Watching You” (G)
“Sex Machine” (G)
“Hot Fun In The Summertime” (mono Epic single master, 1969)
“Everybody Is A Star” (mono Epic single master, 1969)
“Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)” (mono Epic single master, 1969)
“Stand!” (LIVE at the Isle of Wight Festival, August 30, 1970, H)
“You Can Make It If You Try” (LIVE, same as track 14, H)
“Dance To The Music” (LIVE, same as track 14, previously unissued)
“Medley: Music Lover” / “I Want To Take You Higher” / “Music Lover” (LIVE, same as track 14, previously unissued)

Disc Four (1971-1977):
“Luv N’ Haight” (Epic single master, 1971)
“Family Affair” (I)
“Brave & Strong” (Epic single master, 1971)
“Runnin’ Away” (Epic single master, 1971)
“(You Caught Me) Smilin’” (Epic single master, 1971)
“Spaced Cowboy” (I)
“You’re The One” featuring Little Sister (LIVE on “Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert,” September 1973, previously unissued)
“In Time” (J)
“If You Want Me To Stay” (Epic single master, 1973)
“Frisky” (Epic single master, 1973)
“Skin I’m In” (J)
“If It Were Left Up To Me” (Epic single master, 1973)
“Time For Livin’” (Epic single master, 1974)
“Can’t Strain My Brain” (Epic single master, 1974)
“Loose Booty” (K)
“Le Lo Li” (Epic single master, 1975)
“Crossword Puzzle” (Epic single master, 1975)
“Family Again” (Epic single, 1976)
“Hoboken” by Sly Stone (originally unissued, 1975-1977)
“High” by Sly Stone (1975, previously unissued)

Epic Records album index:
A – from “A Whole New Thing” (originally released November 1967, as Epic LN 24324, mono)
B – from “A Whole New Thing” (Expanded Edition) (originally released April 2007, as Epic/ Legacy 82796 90277 2)
C – from “Dance To The Music” (originally released April 1968, as Epic BN 26371)
D – from “Dance To The Music” (Expanded Edition) (originally released April 2007, as Epic/Legacy 82796 90274 2)
E – from “Life” (originally released November 1968, as Epic BN 26397)
F – from “Life” (Expanded Edition) (originally rel. April 2007, as Epic/Legacy 82876 83945 2)
G – from “Stand!” (originally released April 1969, as Epic BN 26456)
H – from “The First Great Rock Festivals Of The Seventies” (originally released August 1971, as Columbia C 30807)
I – from “There’s A Riot Goin’ On” (originally released October 1971, as Epic KE 30986)
J – from “Fresh” (originally released June 1973, as Epic KE 32134)
K – from “Small Talk” (originally released July 1974, as Epic PE 32930)

damn, sort of wish i didn't want that but i do, i do!

All the mono single mixes have me intrigued.

Me too. The stereo mixes are hella wide. Always wanted to hear a mono "You Can Make It If You Try."

REALLY interested to hear the Isle of Wight stuff. Had no idea they even played that festival (they're not in the film or on the soundtrack).

Rumor has it that a live 1968 show was supposed to be in the box, but will now be a standalone release (not sure if this is the same one that almost came out about 10 years ago).

afaik sly refused to be filmed at the isle of wight ... there's some audio out there tho:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_Xvrysy4qI

Cool, thanks!

sez wikipedia,

Sly & the Family Stone: The showstoppers of Woodstock performed to a tired audience on the early morning of Sunday. However, the audience woke up for spirited renditions of "I Want to Take You Higher", "Dance to the Music" and "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)", which featured Sly on guitar. Prior to their encore, another political militant decided it was time to make a speech, and the booing audience started to throw beer cans onto the stage. Freddie Stone was hit by a flying can and an angry Sly decided to skip the encore. He did promise a second appearance, but this never occurred.

The Clash are getting one of those Complete Works* boxes from Sony. Initial Details here

*Although once again Cut The Crap doesn't make the cut.

Fortunately it includes such classics as "dog tags," "oversized novelty cigarette" and "stickers":
http://www.spin.com/sites/all/files/styles/style620_413/public/130521-clash-sound-system.jpg

(man, I thought they'd never release "oversized novelty cigarette." The bootlegs don't do it justice)

Oh wow, Sandinista! on three discs and London Calling on two. But what version of the debut? And is Cut the Crap hidden, Neil Young Archives-style, inside that novelty cigarette?

Also, here's to them doing a Stevie Ray Vaughan set w/full-size replicas of his hat and poncho!

The debut Clash CD is the UK one, but all the tracks that made it to the US one are on the box somewhere, Unfortunately, they left out a ton of already-released stuff studio and tons of studio stuff from the vault.

I was wondering about that; what's still in the vault? My understanding is that most of Rat Patrol at Fort Bragg is now accounted for (give or take a track or two), but I didn't know there was a lot of other stuff gathering dust.

Vinyl from Light In The Attic
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Digable Planets
Blowout Comb
May 28th (Original Release Date: October 18, 1994)
(Vinyl only)
Modern Classics/Light In The Attic

We are finally set to reissue Blowout Comb, the 1994 second album by cult, Brooklyn-based hip hop trio Digable Planets.

The album is named for the combs used to maintain an Afro hairstyle, and that’s significant. The group’s Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler (currently of Shabazz Palaces) said it summed up what they wanted to do with it: "It means the utilization of the natural, a natural style,” he has said.

Like with 1993’s debut Reachin’ (A New Refutation of Time and Space), ‘utilizing the natural’ meant creating hip hop that blended jazz with the formidable rap skills of the aforementioned Butterfly, Craig ‘Doodlebug’ Irving and Mary Ann ‘Ladybug Mecca’ Vieira. Unlike that debut, it meant broadening to include guests such as Gang Starr’s Guru, Jeru the Damaja, and Jazzy Joyce.

Following the gold-selling commercial success of their debut, they here set out to prove their artistic prowess. This is intelligent, alternative hip hop that sounded like party music. Its lyrics are dense with wit, social commentary and politics – and its original inner sleeve was modeled on the newspaper of the Black Panther movement.

Its instrumentation includes sax, vibraphone and flute. Its samples – gathered from global cratedigging trips while touring the first album around the world – included Grant Green, Eddie Harris, Shuggie Otis and jazz-funk pioneer Roy Ayers (whose “We Live in Brooklyn, Baby” became “Borough Check” here). And yet at the same time its beats are infectious and its spirit undeniable.

This is an album firmly rooted in Brooklyn. “Growing up hearing and cherishing this album, it created a textured soundscape of a mythical world of rhymes, jazz, breakbeats, culture, art and urban ambiance,” says DJ and fan Mick Boogie in the liner notes. “When I moved to Brooklyn years later, I found that the world I imagined while listening to this classic LP actually really existed…”

Though Digable Planets have reunited on occasion since – and though their influence endures in every top-shelf rap act with a jazzy sensibility – the trio parted ways after Blowout Comb, citing that old favorite "creative differences”. Sometimes, the most volatile combinations create the best art.

- Limited edition first pressing with embossed cover and 18″×24″ fold-out poster
- Liner notes by Larry Mizell Jr.
- Subscribers receive lavender-colored wax
- ON-LINE ONLY: White wax edition available to the first 150 pre-orders – DON’T SLEEP!(oops white's sold out)

I was wondering about that; what's still in the vault? My understanding is that most of Rat Patrol at Fort Bragg is now accounted for (give or take a track or two), but I didn't know there was a lot of other stuff gathering dust.

The vast majority of Mick Jones' mixes for "Rat Patrol" are missing. These are often very different. (In fact, I don't know of any of his mixes have been officially released.) The "Give 'Em Enough Rope" demos are unreleased, as our several way-superior mixes. Several "Sandinista!" outtakes or demo-y things are unreleased. To name but a few things.

Thanks, I didn't really know what they had stashed away. I remember reading a few years ago that Combat Rock was under consideration for deluxe treatment with the Rat Patrol mixes/running order, but they decided against it thinking it'd be disrespectful to Strummer's memory (him not being around to approve/disapprove).

Here's Light In The Attic's money shot of the xpost Blowout Comb vinly package. I like the format of notes and sleeves, not that big on the cover. The poster I prev posted is incl.:
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I hate that I want that Sly box so bad. I've already bought most of his albums a couple times over at least. colour me sucker.

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A SUPER DELUXE BOXED SET OF THE LONG AWAITED OFFICIAL & EXPANDED REMASTERED EDITION OF HAWKWIND’S CLASSIC 1975 ALBUM

A STRICTLY LIMITED COLLECTORS EDITION

FEATURING THE FIRST EVER REMASTERED VERSION MADE FROM THE ORIGINAL ANALOGUE MASTER TAPES ON CD ONE PLUS 8 BONUS TRACKS, FIVE PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

CD TWO FEATURES A NEW STEREO MIX BY STEVEN WILSON MADE FROM THE MULTI-TRACK MASTER TAPES PLUS 5 BONUS TRACKS, TWO PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED

DISC THREE – NTSC REGION FREE DVD FEATURING NEW 5.1 SURROUND & STEREO MIXES OF "WARRIOR ON THE EDGE OF TIME” BY STEVEN WILSON & A 96 kHz 24-BIT FLAT TRANSFER OF THE ORIGINAL 1975 STEREO MASTER TAPES

DISC FOUR - 180g VINYL LP FACSIMILE EDITION WITH "SHIELD” GATEFOLD SLEEVE & INNER BAG (cut from the original analogue cutting master tapes)

ALSO INCLUDES: § DELUXE 48 PAGE BOOK WITH PHOTOS, MEMORABILIA & ESSAY § A REPRODUCTION OF THE AMERICAN IN-STORE PROMOTIONAL POSTER § A REPLICA CONCERT TICKET FROM DETROIT IN 1975 § THREE PROMOTIONAL POSTCARDS

ATOMHENGE, the home of HAWKWIND’s catalogue from 1975 – 1997, are pleased to announce the long awaited release of a definitive edition of the classic 1975 album "WARRIOR ON THE EDGE OF TIME”. Recorded in 1975, the album is a ground-breaking classic of Hawkwind’s career. Featuring a line-up of DAVE BROCK, NIK TURNER, LEMMY, SIMON HOUSE, SIMON KING & ALAN POWELL, the album is arguably one of the finest rock albums of the mid-1970s. This Atomhenge edition marks the first time that the original analogue stereo master tapes have been used for a remastered edition. This set also features a wonderful 5.1 Surround Sound remix from the original 16-track master tapes by Steven Wilson, who has also undertaken a splendid new stereo remix. The set also features a total of thirteen bonus tracks drawn from out-takes of the recording sessions and the 1975 Watchfield Festival, seven of which are previously unreleased. This Super Deluxe limited boxed set edition of "WARRIOR ON THE EDGE OF TIME” is the definitive and ultimate release of this classic album.

Released Date: 27/05/2013

Also available in 3CD and standard editions for a fraction of the $$

And more psych-prog space rock, the entire Nektar catalog is being reissued by Purple Pyramid/Cleopatra.

Journey To The Centre Of The Eye [2CD] 71
A Tab In The Ocean 72 (Jul 16)
Remember The Future [2CD] 73
Down To Earth 74 (Jun 4)
Recycled 76

I assume ...Sounds Like 73 and Nektar 76 will come out too.

But that's always been the Blowout Comb cover? (x-post)

I really hope they do Warrior on the Edge of Time on vinyl. Just by itself, no gimmicks.

as far as I know Cleopatra isn't doing official releases on Hawkwind's behalf and the band won't see a penny from this. would like to hear it but I can't support that

I thought Atomhenge was through Cherry Red and 'Warrior...' was being released with the approval of the band?

Just ordered the Van Halen Complete Albums 1978-1984 and ZZ Top Complete Albums 1970-1990 from Amazon - pre-order price for the ZZ Top box (10 CDs) is only $40.

ok, i saw that cleopatra has domestic(US) distribution for Warrior. so pay a few bucks more to get the Atomhenge version and all is well, imo.

xpost

I figured Cleopatra had licensed them from Atomhenge. Is this some Nik Turner thing where he "sold" them the rights?

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Let Me Play This For You: Rare Cajun Recordings - Babineaux & Guidry, Angelas Le Jeune, & Blind Uncle Gaspard, 1929-1930
Available everywhere June 25th, 2013 on Tompkins Square

This latest installment in the Long Gone Sound series features some of the rarest, most compelling tunes and heart-breaking songs from South-West Louisiana. Most of the performances on this collection have not been heard since they were originally recorded on 78 rpm disc and yet they serve as a discrete Rosetta Stone for the traditional Cajun and Creole repertoire that exists today. Not to be understated, this collection features some of the most vexingly rare & valuable Cajun 78s ever recorded. Cajun discs such as those found in this release are valued not only for their magnificent artistry but also because of their desperate scarcity.

In the isolated back-water bayous & prairies of South-West Louisiana a profoundly unique and powerful form of indigenous music developed among the French speaking white Cajuns and black Creoles. Drawing from a rich range of cultural sounds, this music was first recorded in the 1920s & 1930s and featured such luminaries as Amede Ardoin, Dennis McGee and Joe & Cleoma Falcon. This special collection includes all of Percy Babineaux & Bixy Guidry's 1929 recordings and most of Angelas Le Jeune's 1929-1930 recordings with Denus McGee & Ernest Fruge. Found within is also the newly "discovered" 78 of Blind Uncle Gaspard & Delma Lachney. Respectfully crafted by Christopher King, Susan Archie & Ron Brown for Tompkins Square.

Tompkins Square distributed in North America by INgrooves/Fontana, Cargo UK for Europe, FUSE for Australia. Media queries : info at tompkins square dot com

!!! @ Honey reissue somehow I missed that upthread

amazed there are still unreleased Sly tracks in the vault. Had no idea "I Get High On You" was such an old track!

Kinks Muswell Hillbillies coming out in July as a deluxe 2CD dealie:

Disc: 1
1. Twentieth Century Man
2. Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues
3. Holiday
4. Skin And Bone
5. Alcohol
6. Complicated Life
7. Here Come The People In Grey
8. Have A Cuppa Tea
9. Holloway Jail
10. Oklahoma USA
11. Uncle Son
12. Muswell Hillbilly

Disc: 2
1. Lavender Lane
2. Mountain Woman
3. Have A Cuppa Tea
4. Muswell Hillbilly
5. Uncle Son
6. Kentucky Moon
7. Nobody's Fool
8. 20th Century Man
9. 20th Century Man
10. Queenie
11. Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues
12. Holiday
13. Skin And Bone

(I assume some of the duplicates on disc 2 are remixes; I've heard three distinct mixes of "20th Century Man")

For Christ's sake have a cuppa tea.

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FORTY CLASSIC SIDES FROM SOUTHERN SOUL LABEL
MINARET RECORDS
REISSUED ON OMNIVORE RECORDS AUGUST 13

The South Side of Soul Street: The Minaret Soul Singles 1967-1976 features
Willie Cobbs, Big John Hamilton, Leroy Lloyd & the Dukes, Doris Allen
and other under-the-radar soul greats.

VALPARAISO, Fla. — For decades, Memphis and Muscle Shoals have been praised as the premier Southern soul recording capitals, and rightly so. But any comprehensive list of important R&B studio destinations should also include Valparaiso, located on Florida’s Panhandle, not far from the Alabama state line. That’s where Finley Duncan established the Playground Recording Studio in 1969, producing a series of stunning singles for his Minaret Records label (distributed by Shelby Singleton’s SSS International Records) that inexplicably avoided the charts but stand tall with legions of R&B aficionados.

Having explored the California East Bay’s vibrant soul/funk scene with its three-volume Music City Sessions, and solo outings by Darondo (Listen to My Song: The Music City Sessions) and The Two Things in One (Together Forever: The Music City Sessions), Omnivore Recordings now celebrates Southern R&B with The South Side of Soul Street: The Minaret Soul Singles 1967-1976. Street date is August 13, 2013.

This two-CD, 40-track collection gathers all of the A’s and B’s of Minaret’s soulful sides for the very first time. Many of these tracks have been out of print for decades, commanding top dollar on the collector’s market. While the music is enticing enough, the package features a full-color booklet with extensive liner notes by music historian Bill Dahl detailing the history of the label and studio, as well as the stories of the artists whose work is showcased on these 20 singles.

Minaret boasted a stable of soul and blues artists who were rich in talent, even if not in hits. Big John Hamilton was one of Minaret’s anchoring artists, represented here with 18 tracks (including four duets with Doris Allen). Among his backing musicians were Muscle Shoals stalwart Spooner Oldham and the Memphis Horns. Hamilton was managed by fellow Minaret artist and guitarist Leroy Lloyd, whose instrumental “Sewanee Strut” is featured here. No Minaret artist boasted the track record of harpist Willie Cobbs, best known for the widely covered blues classic “You Don’t Love Me.” His 1968 session (“I’ll Love Only You” “Don’t Worry About Me”) is included in this collection.

Featuring photographs and commentary from Playground staff past and present, The South Side of Soul Street: The Minaret Soul Singles 1967-1976 adds to Omnivore’s reputation as “the Smithsonian of record labels, finding, preserving and championing some of the greatest (and most endangered) music of the past 50 years,” according to Popshifter’s Cait Brennan.

If you’re wondering which side of the street has the best music, it’s South Side of Soul Street: The Minaret Soul Singles 1967-1976.

DISC ONE
Big John Hamilton: “The Train,” “Big Bad John,” “I Have No One,” “I Just Want To Thank You” (1967)
Genie Brooks: “Fine Time,” “Juanita” (1967)
The Double Soul: “Blue Diamonds,” “I Can’t Use You” (1968)
Big John Hamilton: “Big Fanny,” “How Much Can a Man Take” (1969)
Big John Hamilton: “Pretty Girls,” “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” (1969)
Johnny Dynamite: “The Night the Angels Cried,” “Everybody’s Clown” (1969)
Genie Brooks: “Helping Hand,” “South Side of Soul Street” (1969)
Big John Hamilton: “Breaking Up is Hard to Do,” “Love Comes and It Goes.” (1969)
Leroy Lloyd and The Dukes: “Sewanee Strut,” “A Taste of the Blues (1969)

DISC TWO
Willie Cobbs: “I’ll Love Only You,” “Don’t Worry About Me” (1969)
Big John Hamilton: “If You’re Looking for a Fool,” “Take This Hurt Off Me Fool” (1969)
Doris Allen: “A Shell of a Woman,” “Kiss Yourself for Me” (1969)
Gable Reed: “I’m Your Man,” “Who’s Been Warming My Oven” (1969)
Big John Hamilton & Doris Allen: “A Place in My Heart,” “Let a Little Love In” (1969)
Willie Gable: “Row Row Row,” “Eternally” (1969)
John Hamilton & Doris Allen: “Them Changes,” “Bright Star” (1970)
Big John Hamilton: “Lift Me Up,” “Just Seeing You Again” (1970)
Count Willie with LRL and The Dukes: “I’ve Got To Tell You” (1975)
LRL and The Dukes: “Double Funk” (1975)
Big John Hamilton: “I Got To Get Myself Somebody,” “Free Me” (1976)


Hear a preview of Omnivore Recordings' The South Side of Soul Street: The Minaret Soul Singles 1967-1976 here:
http://youtu.be/ikD-SgMYTvU

About Omnivore Recordings:
Founded in 2010 by highly respected, longtime industry veterans Cheryl Pawelski, Greg Allen, Dutch Cramblitt, and Brad Rosenberger, Omnivore Recordings preserves the legacies and music created by historical, heritage, and catalog artists while also releasing previously unissued, newly found “lost” recordings and making them available for music-loving audiences to discover. Omnivore Recordings is distributed by Caroline.

Ooh nice - "A Shell of A Woman" has been a big favourite of mine since Charly reissued it in a couple of formats in the '80s.

"Big Fanny" is presumably the same spoof of "Big John" as shows up on occasional SSS C&W comps? Not something I'm going to google from work.

has this been mentioned yet? i think it's a straight reish, no unreleased stuff...killer all around though.
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DEVO - Hardcore

DEVO's Hardcore documents the group's beginning as pre-punk outcasts in the fertile Akron, Ohio underground rock scene. Spawned at the nearby college of Kent State, site of the infamous May 4 Massacre, DEVO formed as a conceptual art project armed with a radical philosophy of de-evolution. Brothers Mothersbaugh (Mark, Bob, and Jim) and Brothers Casale (Jerry and Bob) along with drummer Alan Myers soon whipped-up an otherworldly brand of "devolved blues" that could hold its own alongside the beatnik groove of 15-60-75 (aka The Numbers Band) or the primal rock poetry of the Bizarros.

Recorded on various 4-track machines and in tiny studios, basements, and garages between 1974-1977, Hardcore reveals their strikingly clear vision: rock n' roll stripped bare of its collective cool and jerked back into propaganda fit for post-modern man. It's no surprise that these transmissions would soon catch the eye and ear of Brian Eno who later produced their landmark 1978 debut album. Noisy synth, strangled guitar chops, and a primitive rhythmic thud power the early DEVO sound. Threaded beneath it all are lyrical themes of post-McCarthy paranoia, middle-class ephemera, and DEVO's long-running topic of choice: sex, or lack thereof.

Few moments in pop music history can match the grinding, pent-up energy of "Mongoloid" and the spastic bounce and sputter of "Jocko Homo" (two anthems presented in their earlier and superior versions here). Cult favorites like "Mechanical Man" and "Auto-Modown" make Volume 1 essential listening.

Volume 2 digs further into the band's cranial bunker with the caveman hit "Be Stiff," the space age surf-blues of "Clockout" and even a demented take on bubblegum pop, "Goo Goo Itch." This 2xLP set includes four previously unreleased tracks: "Man From The Past," "Doghouse Doghouse," "Hubert House," and "Shimmy Shake."

From Henry Rollins' liner notes to the CD version: "Hardcore is not some barrel bottom scrape in a desperate attempt to pilfer your billfold! This is pure DEVO – the sweetest crude, straight from the source!"

Superior Viaduct and Booji Boy Records are proud to present DEVO's Hardcore to a new generation of spuds, lovingly packaged with Moshe Brakha's stunning cover photography. As David Bowie said in 1977, DEVO is indeed "the band of the future."

Oh yeah, and tourmate Neil savors some vintage booj in Waging Heavy Peace!

that cajun comp looks great.
all the stuff chris king has worked on is lovely. i just got the LP version of his "Five Days Married And Other Laments" which collects records recorded in Athens made mostly in the twenties and thirties with a few later issues... really gorgeous and mindblowing stuff. Highly recommended. Also his set "Amer et Perdre" is lovely -- has some cajun material on it alongside country and some eastern european fiddle records as well.

So stoked for those Devo discs. The OOP Ryko CDs go for like £50 each!

The Hardcore discs (and the Rhino thing) are some of the best Devo. Had no idea they were worth so much, maybe I should sell. . .

Pre-Dirty Three from Drag City:

The Venom P. Stinger retrospective is on! One of the roughest groups of the 80s is back in print on vinyl and the first time ever on CD, and still nice and hard and rough and wild on either format. File under: punk rock/noise rock/free-of-constraints rock. If you think of Venom P. Stinger simply as the proving ground for 2/3rds of the Dirty Three first, then you're seriously missing the point. Drag City is releasing all four vinyl releases (two LPs, a 7", and a 12"), as well as a 2xCD collection called 1986-1991, which compiles all those releases onto some very compact discs, all hitting the streets on August 20th, 2013.

Venom P. Stinger - Meet My Friend Venom LP

Venom P. Stinger - What's Yours Is Mine LP

Venom P. Stinger - "Walking About" b/w "26 Milligrams" 7"

Venom P. Stinger - Waiting Room 12"

To commemorate this momentous occasion, Mick Turner has dug deep into the archives to literally salvage a glorious, circa mid-80s cover of the Rick James classic, "Superfreak." The tape disintegrated as it was being played, but not before the track was transferred. It features Mick on keys and Paula Henderson on sax. It was premiered on SPIN earlier today.

LISTEN TO "SUPERFREAK" (RICK JAMES COVER) http://snd.sc/190qzbK"> http://snd.sc/190qzbK

THE LEGEND OF VENOM P. STINGER

It was the mid-80s and everything was going fine. Nobody down below had any great plans, they were just playing in bands. Melbourne had launched the career of the legendary Birthday Party, but that lot was long gone and there were loads of other interesting and great things going on. Like Sick Things for instance. Dugald McKenzie and Mick Turner were part of that extremely raw and intense band, whose "Committed to Suicide" had changed so many lives (for the better!). Mick had played as well in The Moodists and was in Fungus Brains and some others. Also on the scene was Jim White, who was playing in several bands, including People With Chairs Up Their Noses and the Feral Dinosaurs. It was a small group of people playing in bands like these back in mid-80s Melbourne and probably only a matter of time before they played in the same band together. And so, they did.

Venom P. Stinger attacked in a modified, somewhat streamlined hardcore punk style, with Mick's burnt-and-twisted guitar tone setting them apart. Also unique was Jim White's drumming, which appeared to be born of a drum roll that grows and grows until it has eclipsed the entire kit, played with casual aplomb while never sparing the rod to any aimed-for surface. Meanwhile, bassist Alan Secher-Jensen nailed these loosely divergent styles together with nice heavy root notes. Instead of the violent pile-up that occurred in every Sick Things recording, there was instead something more organized, though coming from unique and indeed, singular corners of approach: post-hardcore with a very individual style. Unchanged from Sick Things days, however, was frontman Dugald McKenzie, whose vocalizing was a ferocious, largely apolitical transference of personal experience, all about conveying the awful qualities of life with throaty sensuousness and dirty glee. This was an unfiltered view of his day-to-day, which involved partying with drink and drugs and other low types drinking and doing drugs and not having responsibility for anything, other than getting more drink and drugs. A band with this kind of errant power fronted by a reprobate like Dugald, it made for madly entertaining shows! And records, as well...

So Dugald lived as rough as he sang, which was fine, everyone wanted to have fun, and when he stopped showing up to rehearsals and gigs, the rest of the band continued on with Nick Palmer on the mic. He was good, but Venom P. Stinger wasn't the same; something deeply psychotic was missing. For Mick and Jim, the next step was a band that didn't rehearse at all. And a new chap named Warren Ellis had just hit town...

Those Devo reissues include four previously unreleased tracks: ”Man from the Past,” “Doghouse Doghouse,” “Hubert House” and “Shimmy Shake.”

oh ha, yes, i should learn to read.

NUMERO'S TIN ANNIVERSARY

Greetings Numerophiles-

In a few days, The Numero Group will turn 10. There will be no party and no concert, no cakes or speeches. Turning 10 in regular life guarantees no pageantry, nor does 20 (though 21 does get grandly celebrated). Given our current pace, we might turn 30 before breaking out any streamers. When last we wrote, Numero was on track to issue 50 unique records in 2013. This burnout pace is likely to continue through our Bar Mitzvah year and our Sweet Sixteen, resulting in a premature rehab stint at the front end of our third decade. With that in mind, Numero's second 10 years is shaping up to be a period of intense discovery. We'll continue to mine the '80s and '90s via our 200 line—and you can go ahead and expect more garage, hard rock, metal, and punk in the 700 series. JR continues to expand, reissuing obscure LPs in no-frills packaging at a price us pre-teens can all afford. Eccentric Soul, the middle-aged father of Numero lines, should turn 50 sometime next year as we delve deeper into the world of unreleased R&B singles recorded last century. And, sure, our cousins at Cali-Tex and Numerophon might actually issue more than one album a year.

And as for our spinally numbered and colored mainline? We'll crack 050 (and 050.5) this fall with a spine of purple and gold, emphasis on the “purple.” A board game is in development at the 048 position, sequels to Capsoul and Kid Soul peek over the horizon, and new additions to Cult Cargo and Local Customs rent space on our whiteboard. Ten years ago, a couple unemployed jerks got together in a fourth-floor walk-up and said, "Let's start a record label." As the decade elapsed, we concerned ourselves with one thing, and one thing only: The making of great records. Why stop now?

001. Ya Allah!
002. Jukebox Futures
003. One LP subscription to rule them all
004. Coming Attractions

001. New songbooks for your budding enthusiasm in Christ

After straying from the flock for the last year, we return triumphantly to the pulpit with not one, not two, not three, but four (!) new chapters in our hymn book. Lazy religious metaphors aside, this 2013 class of gospel music is a heady mix, with pages ripped from outsider sects, free-form Baptists, and an accidentally psychedelic priest.

Good God! Apocryphal Hymns 2LP/CD/Digital

The third installment in our series of otherworldly gospel, robed funk, and spiritual soul, Apocryphal Hymns is a slim new gospel songbook, penned powerfully by the genre’s lesser-known disciples. Here, heavenly harmonies, psychedelic guitars, damaged sacred steel, a bleeding french horn, off-kilter choirs, and consumer-side electronic percussion decorate the Word, with performance modes that stray far from the flock, but hew always to the message. In homage to the the stock jacket record industry of the 1970s, select one of these four alternate covers: Woodland Twilight, Seashore Morning, Mountain Waterfall, and Sunbeam Canyon.

We even made a late-night informercial. Watch and learn.... On second thought, don't worry about learning.

Otis G. Johnson: 'Everything—God Is Love '78 LP

For outsider gospel visionary and Detroit native Otis G. Johnson, the Holy Ghost was in the machine…in this case a rhythm-equipped Hammond organ. Everything–God Is Love 78, a singular 1978 mid-fi document, features android percussion against chords of Otis’s own invention, possessed by minor tonality and frequent bum notes. Lifting it further are extemporaneous vocal homilies to the rapture, love, and everything, plus occasional “other” voicings that scratch at the periphery of the mix. Homespun gospel rarely entered this dirge-like, intuitive space, nor did it commonly achieve such a spectral and captivating hymn to its darkest conventions.

King Bullard Version: Songs of the BOS Label LP/Digital

On Cleveland’s late ‘60s gospel scene, the BOS label was the refined, professional ying to Boddie’s lo-fi yang, galloping to the fore bearing a torch for Curtis Mayfield’s robe-wearing roots. Founded by gospel impresario James Bullard, BOS is the first chapter in story that includes stints producing major spiritual albums for the Birthright, Roadshow, and Word labels. BOS got its start inside Lester Johnson and Bill Branch’s Way Out concern, running the devotional wing of Cleveland’s largest black-owned record company, and picking up a ton of Way Out’s soulful flavor in the process. Compiled here are BOS’s less traditional moments—12 bridges between FM R&B and AM sermons from a time when those worlds were splitting apart.

The Sixth Station: Deep Night LP/Digital

A raw cry from the dark night of one man’s soul. Cloistered away from the popular culture of 1982, rural Illinois priest Tony Trosley painted a pastoral refraction of early 1970s Laurel Canyon watercolors with this stand-alone set of songs. Openhearted and naively psychedelic, Deep Night was recorded during a single pre-dawn marathon, and mixed live to tape in an isolated chapel. Cobbled together out of local players to help fill out this ethereal soundscape, Trosley’s band brought an earnest but bluntly unsophisticated backdrop to his phaser-drenched 12-string guitar. The Sixth Station—named for a grim New Testament tableau in which Veronica washes the tortured face of Jesus—managed to avoid overtly Christian themes in favor of a mystical Humanism that resonates timelessly, and to any sort of listener. This Deep Night is as profound and eerie as the images conjured by its title.

002. Our cup of 45s runneth over

Three new additions to our ongoing Eccentric Soul 45 series have emerged:

James Dockery "My Faith In You Is All Gone" b/w "Giving You The Love You Need"

A few years before Maurice White and Earth, Wind & Fire established their Los Angeles outpost, James Dockery made that same Chicago-to-LA trek alone and deeply embedded himself in the soul music culture of the Left Coast. Alert soul aficionados will note the name Art Monday IV, better known as Arthur Monday for his “What Goes Around Comes Around” 45 on Stage Music. Monday brought that record’s same buoyant production to Dockery’s solo turn on “My Faith In You Is All Gone,” penned by one-time Syl Johnson— and future Al Green—songwriter Earl Randle. Sporting Soul Craft’s unadorned red label, “My Faith” is not only gold in the North of England, but a contagious soul eccentricity with appeal for ears in every cardinal direction.

Get the faith.

Brown Bombers & Soul Partners "Wait For Me" b/w "Just Fun"

Though boxing titan Joe Louis was throwing his last professional punches before they were born, teen group the Brown Bombers befit the Detroit ring legend’s ballistic nickname. Standouts among pubescent groups of their era, the Bombers naturally got lost in the fog of Motown’s Jackson Family explosion. While their unflappable energy is a prime mover on the a-side, the real treat here is elegant work from backing band the Soul Partners. Bearing the Amazing banner, this disc marked the first recorded appearance of the teenaged band that evolved into Al Hudson’s Soul Partners (“Spread Love”) and eventually One Way. The flip hands the band its chance to shine with “Just Fun,” a simple—and essential—reprise of “Wait For Me” as an instrumental.

Don't wait.

The Young Souls "Quit Waiting For Tomorrow" b/w "Puppet On A String"

The nothing that is known about the Young Souls corresponds perfectly to the band’s brief existence, during which it never even eked out a single release. Their bid to leave a recorded legacy was left to producer/manager Earl Wiley, who commissioned a demo session to capture several of his own compositions. Stripped down to their bare bones, the teenaged Young Souls burn brilliant over minimal arrangements. “Quit Waiting For Tomorrow To Come” is a midtempo stepper guaranteed to instantly earn its spot in discerning deejay play boxes, while “Puppet On A String” fulfills the tasteful group harmony ballad prerequisite.

Tomorrow is here.

The 2013 Numero Long Playing Record Subscription, Part 2

Part one wraps in a few weeks with Mickey & the Soul Generation (King Bullard Version and Iasos have shipped), but we've already laid out the back half of the year and found a price we think you can live with. Here goes nothing (and, by nothing, we mean $120):

NUM047 Eccentric Soul: The Forte Label 2LP

In 1969, after three years as Soul Sister #1 to James Brown’s touring entourage, Marva Whitney came home to Kansas City, putting Ellis Taylor’s Forte label back at full fighting strength. She’d calmed aching crowds the day after MLK’s death, and she’d lived the life, despite its rigors—to pour out her pain and exuberance on Forte sides including “I’ve Lived The Life” and “Daddy Don’t Know About Sugar Bear,” which made national rounds in 1972. By then, Forte had already done more than deliver Marvelous Marva to market. Taylor worked overtime at KPRS to bring the world The Rayons, who’d stroll their girl group harmonies past Chicago’s RCA studios on “Baby Be Good.” In ’68, The Four Darlings sauntered in with smoky-voiced soul operatics on the demanding “Give Me Love.” Progressing in the middle ’70s, Everyday People got “Super Black” on Forte’s pine-green label. Still powering forward some 13 years on, Forte redawned with the 1980s, essaying disco funk with Sharon Revoal’s “Reaching for Our Star.”

Numero 047 Eccentric Soul: The Forte Label charts Kansas City yeoman’s work, the Carpets and the Derbys, dapper clothiers mysteriously murdered, and marriages made and broken. In 28 tracks, plus a trove of promo headshots and every-hued label scans detailing all iterations of Forte’s logo in print, this 16th Eccentric Soul sojourn hands over vivid floor shakers and lost dance craze records alike—though what moves “The Hen” required remains anyone’s guess.

NUM050 Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound 4LP+BOOK

Bubbling up from the snow-blanketed land of 10,000 lakes, the Minneapolis Sound defied expectations, emerging late in the ‘70s as a slick, black, and technologically advanced fusion of funk and rock. Purple Snow, the Numero Group’s ambitious 50th mainline release, chronicles false starts and strident early steps toward the Minneapolis Sound, on 4 LPs (or 2CDs) and 31 rare and unreleased recordings from the years just prior to, and just after, one gifted Nelson was crowned Prince. At some 30,000 words, our 120-page hardbound book meticulously directs the listener through two hours of music, a decade dotted by adept producers, combos, and characters whose less celebrated groundwork put Minneapolis’ purple launchpad on the map. From Jimmy Jam’s extroverted Mind & Matter collective to Andre Cymone’s polish-free bedroom demos, Purple Snow gathers as the sprawling, nonfiction prequel to Purple Rain’s cultural takeover. In image-rich splendor, funk-informed hordes of unsung Twin Cities talent bask for a spotlit moment, out of that persistent violet shadow, to shine.

NUM050.5 Mind & Matter LP

In the process of working on Purple Snow we encountered more than our fair share of unreleased master tapes. The stray quarter inch reels from Flyte Tyme, Herman Jones, Aura, Prophets of Peace, and Sue Ann Carwell are dwarfed by the volume we received from Mind & Matter—perhaps best remembered as Jimmy Jam's pre-Time gig. Tracked in a basement in late '76, just a few months before their lone 45 "I'm Under Your Spell" b/w "Sunshine Lady," this seven song suite finds the nine piece show band forging organic disco instrumentation with four-part harmonies.

We’ve got one more secret LP that we’re not prepared to announce, but if you’re a fan of unreleased stage band LPs, we’ve got you covered.

Your cost? Just $110 for eight (8) LPs and a book. Plus a 15% discount. Plus freight if you live outside the US (Non-US customers, please note that to keep shipping costs low, all four items will ship together in late October).

The rent can wait.

004. Our own version of the Keebler elves are hard at work making these:

NUM049 Iasos: Celestial Soul Portrait CD/2LP (Late June)
CT-102 Iron Leg: The Complete Mickey & the Soul Generation 3LP (July)
NUM003 Eccentric Soul: The Bandit Label 3LP (July, pre-order now)
ER-3014 Express Rising: II LP/CD(July)
JR.010 Rokk: I Want To Live High LP (August)
JR.011 Centaura: Lawdy, Lawdy, Lawd LP (August)
NUM047 Eccentric Soul: The Forte Label 2LP/CD (September)
ES-036 Flyte Tyme "It's The Things That You Do" b/w "I've Got You On My Mind" 45 (September)
ES-037 94 East "If You See Me" b/w "Games" 45 (September)
ES-038 Herman Jones "I Love you" b/w "I'm Broke" 45 (September)
NUM202.2 Unwound: Kid Is Gone 3LP+Download (September)
005. Bonus Track

If you'’ve yet to dedicate an entire shelf to your Numero collection, just stop reading and go reorganize. However, if you’ve already got appropriate shelf space dedicated to our growing library, may we interest you in this handsome Numero section divider? We only made a few hundred and are primarily giving them to our friends at brick and mortar record stores, but we saved a few for you mail order freaks. Don’t delay.

Next time you hear from us we'll be even older. Cowboys to girls, et al.

Yours faithfully,
The Numero Group

Ah damn! Here's some of that again, hopefully incl. prev. missed links:

After straying from the flock for the last year, we return triumphantly to the pulpit with not one, not two, not three, but four (!) new chapters in our hymn book. Lazy religious metaphors aside, this 2013 class of gospel music is a heady mix, with pages ripped from outsider sects, free-form Baptists, and an accidentally psychedelic priest.

Good God! Apocryphal Hymns 2LP/CD/Digital

The third installment in our series of otherworldly gospel, robed funk, and spiritual soul, Apocryphal Hymns is a slim new gospel songbook, penned powerfully by the genre’s lesser-known disciples. Here, heavenly harmonies, psychedelic guitars, damaged sacred steel, a bleeding french horn, off-kilter choirs, and consumer-side electronic percussion decorate the Word, with performance modes that stray far from the flock, but hew always to the message. In homage to the the stock jacket record industry of the 1970s, select one of these four alternate covers: Woodland Twilight, Seashore Morning, Mountain Waterfall, and Sunbeam Canyon.

We even made a late-night informercial.Watch and learn....On second thought, don't worry about learning.

Otis G. Johnson: 'Everything—God Is Love '78 LP

For outsider gospel visionary and Detroit native Otis G. Johnson, the Holy Ghost was in the machine…in this case a rhythm-equipped Hammond organ. Everything–God Is Love 78, a singular 1978 mid-fi document, features android percussion against chords of Otis’s own invention, possessed by minor tonality and frequent bum notes. Lifting it further are extemporaneous vocal homilies to the rapture, love, and everything, plus occasional “other” voicings that scratch at the periphery of the mix. Homespun gospel rarely entered this dirge-like, intuitive space, nor did it commonly achieve such a spectral and captivating hymn to its darkest conventions.

King Bullard Version: Songs of the BOS Label LP/Digital

On Cleveland’s late ‘60s gospel scene, the BOS label was the refined, professional ying to Boddie’s lo-fi yang, galloping to the fore bearing a torch for Curtis Mayfield’s robe-wearing roots. Founded by gospel impresario James Bullard, BOS is the first chapter in story that includes stints producing major spiritual albums for the Birthright, Roadshow, and Word labels. BOS got its start inside Lester Johnson and Bill Branch’s Way Out concern, running the devotional wing of Cleveland’s largest black-owned record company, and picking up a ton of Way Out’s soulful flavor in the process. Compiled here are BOS’s less traditional moments—12 bridges between FM R&B and AM sermons from a time when those worlds were splitting apart.

The Sixth Station: Deep Night LP/Digital

A raw cry from the dark night of one man’s soul. Cloistered away from the popular culture of 1982, rural Illinois priest Tony Trosley painted a pastoral refraction of early 1970s Laurel Canyon watercolors with this stand-alone set of songs. Openhearted and naively psychedelic, Deep Night was recorded during a single pre-dawn marathon, and mixed live to tape in an isolated chapel. Cobbled together out of local players to help fill out this ethereal soundscape, Trosley’s band brought an earnest but bluntly unsophisticated backdrop to his phaser-drenched 12-string guitar. The Sixth Station—named for a grim New Testament tableau in which Veronica washes the tortured face of Jesus—managed to avoid overtly Christian themes in favor of a mystical Humanism that resonates timelessly, and to any sort of listener. This Deep Night is as profound and eerie as the images conjured by its title.

I give up (check their site o course)

foretaste of the xp Andy Kaufman divine, incl non-album bits:
https://soundcloud.com/drag-city/andy-kaufman-mastered-teaser

Got my ZZ Top box in today's mail; unreasonably excited to finally have the original mixes of ZZ Top's First Album, Rio Grande Mud and Tejas on CD.

The albums ZZ Top's First Album, Rio Grande Mud, Tres Hombres, Fandango and Tejas were remixed with the result that the sound of the material from the first five albums was changed to sound like they had been recorded in the 1980s, with echo and drum machines, and very unlike their original album sound.

Wow, I had no idea this had been done. Incredibly lame. And another reason to pick up that box.

Yeah, here's the 80s/Six Pack "La Grange": http://youtu.be/K3RLIU7T39I

$40 for 10 albums, not bad. I thought I'd finally get a decent master of not only the early albums, but also Deguello and El Loco. Bt then I saw this comment on Amazon:

Unfortunately, Deguello, El Loco, Afterburner and Recycler have not been remastered and appear to be the original CD masters. My guess is that Warners remastered the first five albums to restore the original mixes and used the Eliminator remaster from the 2008 deluxe edition and called it a day. It seems like if they were going to the effort to put out this collection they could have gone ahead and remastered the remaining four records to offer the best possible sound.

Argh, FFS.

Speaking of remasters, I was reminded in another thread that Trout Mask Replica was redone. From Barfko-Swill:

Note: We here at UMRK determined that the TMR Master was damaged somewhere in the years of it's return orbit. The Vaultmeister created almost in its entirety a new Master from our own Vault safety copies. And as if that wasn't enough chocolate for your Sunday sundae, we had Bob Ludwig remaster the Work for you. What you now have available to you is the definitive TROUT MASK REPLICA. Be the judge. Be the jury. Be the bongo. Be the fury!!! (ZPCD165)

Anyone heard it? Is there much difference? The Ludwig remaster of the original Bat Chain Puller (1976) sessions sounds great.

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CONCORD MUSIC GROUP RELEASES FIVE NEW TITLES
IN ORIGINAL JAZZ CLASSICS REMASTERS SERIES, FEATURING
THELONIUS MONK & GERRY MULLIGAN, THE BILL EVANS TRIO,
WES MONTGOMERY, CANNONBALL ADDERLEY & MILT JACKSON,
AND CHET BAKER

Remastered recordings, set for release on July 23, 2013,
commemorate the 60th anniversary of Riverside label

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Concord Music Group will release five new titles in its Original Jazz Classics Remasters series on July 23, 2013. Enhanced by 24-bit remastering by Joe Tarantino, several bonus tracks on nearly each disc (some previously unreleased) and new liner notes providing historical context to the original material, the series celebrates the 60th anniversary of Riverside Records, the prolific New York-based label that showcased some of the most influential jazz artists and recordings of the 1950s and ’60s.

The five titles are:

Thelonious Monk & Gerry Mulligan: Mulligan Meets Monk
Bill Evans Trio: How My Heart Sings!
Wes Montgomery: So Much Guitar!
Cannonball Adderley & Milt Jackson: Things Are Getting Better
Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe

Riverside was launched in 1953 in New York on a shoestring budget by traditional-jazz enthusiasts Bill Grauer and Orrin Keepnews as a platform to reissue jazz and blues recordings from the 1920s by King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Ma Rainey, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and others. Over the next decade, the label evolved into one of the premier purveyors of modern jazz. With Keepnews producing the sessions (and often writing the liner notes), Riverside brought jazz giants like Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderley, and Wes Montgomery to the forefront of American music. Despite successes with these and other jazz and blues artists — including Sonny Rollins, Abbey Lincoln, Art Blakey, Mongo Santamaria, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Heath, Charlie Byrd, and the Staple Singers — Riverside folded in 1964, a year after Grauer’s death. The catalog was acquired by Fantasy in 1972, and Fantasy was in turn acquired by Concord Music Group in late 2004.

All five Riverside titles in the current round of reissues were originally produced by Keepnews and include his original liner notes. All reflect the ambitious depth and scope of influential jazz captured in the Riverside catalog over the relatively short span of 11 years.


Thelonious Monk & Gerry Mulligan: Mulligan Meets Monk
Recorded in mid August 1957, Mulligan Meets Monk is a summit of two artists from two very different and distinct worlds — Monk representing what was then known as East Coast jazz, and Mulligan deeply rooted in a West Coast sound. Rounding out the quartet are bassist Wilbur Ware and drummer Shadow Wilson. Even with the two frontmen’s disparate styles, the unlikely pairing resulted in an engaging and enduring recording, according to Neil Tesser’s new liner notes.

“Despite their radically different personalities, and their almost antipodal approach to improvising, Monk and Mulligan found common ground in composition,” says Tesser. “Not in the songs themselves — no one would ever mistake one of Monk’s for one of Mulligan’s — but in their devotion to the craft, and their admiration for the balanced, well-turned tune. That devotion manifested itself quite differently in their individual musics, but it provided the foundation for their unimagined friendship . . . and allowed them to join in this unexpectedly successful venture.”

Bonus tracks on the Mulligan Meets Monk reissue are alternate takes of the Mulligan composition “Decidedly” and Monk’s “Straight, No Chaser,” along with two alternate takes of the Monk/Coleman Hawkins piece “I Mean You.”


Bill Evans Trio: How My Heart Sings!
Recorded in New York on three separate days in May and June 1962, How My Heart Sings! features Bill Evans accompanied by bassist Chuck Israels (replacing Scott Lofaro, who had died in an automobile accident less than a year earlier) and drummer Paul Motian. The album is actually the second of two to emerge from the 1962 sessions; the first was Moonbeams, a collection of ballads. How My Heart Sings! is, by design, a bit more lively and energetic.

“The selections represented here are primarily of a more ‘moving’ kind,” says Doug Ramsey in his new liner notes to the reissue, “though there is in the trio’s approach to all material a desire to present a singing sound. Hence, the title of the album, despite its intended program of faster swinging vehicles.”

How My Heart Sings! includes three bonus tracks: an alternate take of “In Your Own Sweet Way,” and previously unreleased renditions of “34 Skidoo” and “Ev’rything I Love.”


Wes Montgomery: So Much Guitar!
So Much Guitar! was recorded in August 1961, with Wes Montgomery fronting a stellar lineup that includes Hank Jones on piano, Ron Carter on bass, Lex Humphries on drums and Ray Baretto on congas. The album was a turning point, not only for Wes but for bassist Ron Carter as well, says Marc Myers, author of the reissue’s new liner notes.

“While Montgomery’s previous release on Riverside in 1960, The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery, put the guitarist in play with critics, So Much Guitar! caught the ear of poll-voting jazz fans and established him as a soulful force,” says Myers. “The album also marked Carter’s first opportunity to show his stuff on the fly — transforming the formally trained 24-year-old into a first-call session player. Today he is one of the most prolific recording artists in jazz history.”

The bonus tracks here essentially make up an entire second album, capturing eight songs recorded earlier in 1961 at the Cellar, a club in Vancouver, British Columbia. This Canadian set — originally issued on Fantasy as The Montgomery Brothers in Canada, includes Buddy Montgomery on vibes, Monk Montgomery on bass, and Paul Humphrey on drums


Cannonball Adderley & Milt Jackson:Things Are Getting Better
Recorded in a single day in October 1958, Things Are Getting Better showcases the brilliant impromptu interplay of Cannonball Adderley and Milt Jackson, with assistance from Wynton Kelly on piano, Percy Heath on bass, and Art Blakey on drums.

While Keepnews’s original liner notes referred to the recording as “fundamentally a blowing date in the best sense of that much abused term,” the set is clearly much more than that, according to Willard Jenkins’s new notes. “The album’s groove stems primarily from the successful partnership formed by the blues firm of Adderley and Jackson,” says Jenkins, “each of whom were hall of fame representatives of the essence of the groove factor during their time as the respective histories of each have borne out.”

The reissue of Things Are Getting Better includes two bonus tracks not found on the original LP: alternate takes of Buddy Johnson’s “Serves Me Right” and Lawlor and Blake’s “Sidewalks of New York” (the latter arranged by Adderley).


Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe
Chet Baker Plays the Best of Lerner and Loewe is exactly what the title suggests — a set of eight innovative renditions of compositions by one of the most prolific and recognizable theatrical teams of the mid-20th century. Baker’s supporting cast on this July 1959 date includes Herbie Mann on flute, piccolo, alto flute, and tenor sax; Zoot Sims on alto and tenor saxophones; Pepper Adams on bari sax; Bill Evans and Bob Corwin trading off piano duties on various tracks; Earl May on bass; and Clifford Jarvis on drums.

The album “is easily heard as a sequel to the popular Chet (also on Riverside) album of standards released earlier that same great-jazz year of 1959,” says James Rozzi in his liner notes to the reissue. “The mix of personnel throughout the set provides the recording “with a similar timbre while adding uptempo fare to the previously released, slow and relaxed ballad set of Chet.”
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Definitely looking forward to the Montgomery and Adderley albums. I've never been a big Bill Evans fan.

Not complaining; will probably buy the Monk/Mulligan, maybe Adderley/Jackson and Montgomery, but there have been many iterations of these albums on CD. How come Concord, in the years it had the post-1960 Ray Charles catalog, never got around to releasing a hard copy of True to Life --which has never, ever been released on CD?

$40 for 10 albums, not bad. I thought I'd finally get a decent master of not only the early albums, but also Deguello and El Loco. Bt then I saw this comment on Amazon:

Unfortunately, Deguello, El Loco, Afterburner and Recycler have not been remastered and appear to be the original CD masters. My guess is that Warners remastered the first five albums to restore the original mixes and used the Eliminator remaster from the 2008 deluxe edition and called it a day. It seems like if they were going to the effort to put out this collection they could have gone ahead and remastered the remaining four records to offer the best possible sound.
Argh, FFS.

I'm not entirely sure about this. Mine came today and I'm listening to Deguello now. I can't A/B with my old disc, but this one has more presence and gloss in the sound than I remember on the old one, which was fairly muddy, like listening through audio fog (see also: the og Tusk disc issued by Warner 'round the same time).

The weird thing is that while we have the original mixes of the first two and Tejas, they're mastered at the same level as this supposedly 20+year-old mastering of Deguello.

I just did a quick A/B on El Loco (I picked up the old cd for $5 at Wal Mart just before the box announcement), and I can see where that Amazon reviewer is coming from. The box version is slightly boosted/louder, barely noticeable on headphones and probably not at all on speakers.

Afterburner is probably the old disc. The thing I'm noticing now--even with the three returning mixes--is that they don't have the same oomph of the masters used on the Rancho Texicano comp from the mid-2000s. It's real obvious with the Afterburner stuff, which on that hits set has a big, thick in your face sound not found here.

I've just done an A/B on Tres Hombres w/the 2006 edition, which as it happens is a bit louder than the one in the new box. So at the very least you can say they didn't brickwall these new ones.

Yeah, they definitely aren't brickwalled - the mix on Tejas in particular is great (that's probably their most sonically subtle album, anyway - lots of cool country-rock touches).

25 Year Old Interviews With Members of MC5 and Stooges

Finally See Light Of Day in

BLOWING FUSES LEFT & RIGHT
ON DVD and Deluxe DVD July 2

Check out an exclusive clip at Rolling Stone http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/ron-asheton-recalls-stooges-first-show-in-blowing-fuses-left-right-20130621?utm_source=Blowing+Fuses+Left+%26+Right%3A+MC5%2C+Stooges+%2B+more+on+July+2&utm_campaign=Blowing+Fuses&utm_medium=emailand trailer below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqExvMxjPxs
O-Rama LLC and MVD are proud to release Blowing Fuses Left And Right: The Legendary

Detroit Rock Interviews digitally and on DVD on July 9.

The thought-to-be-destroyed original tapes from 1988 were recently re-discovered in an attic in NJ -

the five hours worth of footage include interviews with Ron Asheton (the Stooges), Dennis Morgan (the MC5) and Rob Tyner (also from the MC5 in, apparently, his final interview).

A deluxe DVD will also be released that includes additional interviews with Scott Morgan (The Rationals), Russ Gibb (owner of Detroit's Grande Ballroom) and John Sinclair (manager of the MC5 and former head of the White Panther Party).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqExvMxjPxs

In the spirit of this thread, and in 2006, Patti Smith toasts the August sun and moon, during a week's worth of deathdays and birthdays:
http://legends.typepad.com/living_with_legends_the_h/2006/08/email_from_patt.html

I've had trouble with links on ILX lately; just go to the label site to listen:

TOMPKINS SQUARE SUMMER SALE
You need something besides Daft Punk's 'Get Lucky' to play at your BBQ or at the beach. So we're running a summer sale today thru July 5th. Buy any four items from our catalog, and we'll paypal you back $10 ! Explore the catalog at tompkinssquare dot com

COMING SOON !
August 13th - DINO VALENTE (First-ever LP reissue of his lone 1968 solo album on Epic)
September 24 - LIVE AT CAFFE LENA : MUSIC FROM AMERICA'S LEGENDARY COFFEEHOUSE, 1967-2013 (3CD box set, all tracks previously unreleased)

NEW RELEASES !

'Frank Fairfield's Pawn Records Presents . . . Turn Me Loose : Outsiders of Old Time Music'
This collection focuses on seldom-acknowledged varieties of Anglo-American vernacular music. Compiled by Frank Fairfield, mastered by Mike Kieffer (Origin Jazz Library).
BUY LP/CD
LISTEN

Let Me Play This For You : Rare Cajun Recordings (Babineaux & Guidry, Angelas Le Jeune & Blind Uncle Gaspard, 1929-1930)
Produced by 7-time Grammy nominee Chris King, most of the performances on this collection have not been heard since they were originally recorded on 78rpm disc and yet they serve as a discrete Rosetta Stone for the traditional Cajun and Creole repertoire that exists today.
BUY CD
LISTEN

Imaginational Anthem v 6 : Origins of American Primitive Guitar
If American Primitive Guitar begins with John Fahey and the Takoma School, then the actual origins of this sound are found within this collection of 14 classic solo guitar performances. Recorded between 1923 and 1930.
BUY LP/CD
LISTEN

RECENT RELEASES :
Charlie Poole with the Highlanders : The Complete Paramount & Brunswick Recordings, 1929
Lena Hughes : Queen of the Flat Top Guitar (Notes by John Renbourn) NPR FEATURE
Don Bikoff : Celestial Explosion (CD/LP Reissue of lone, RARE 1968 LP) WNYC FEATURE
All available on LP/CD/DL.

never heard the dino valente record -- good? Caffe Lena box set is bound to have some awesome stuff on it.

Got sick of nasal Dino and his tiresome hippie lyrics when he was with Quicksilver, but he wrote some okay tunes for them. Maybe more on the solo album, but one of Unterberger's books about lost etc indicated Dino could be quite the tempermental/erratic artiste. Saw a documentary about Caffe Lena (with Arlo looking almost young again, as he recalled poised female folkies gracing the place). Think it was, hopefully still is in Saratoga Springs? Somewhere in New York, anyway.

yeah, it's in downtown saratoga -- still open, I believe, though it may not attract quite the high caliber of acts as it did back in the day.

Got sick of nasal Dino and his tiresome hippie lyrics

amen

Light in the Attic is reissuing three 80s Roky Erickson albums - The Evil One, Don't Slander Me, and Gremlins Have Pictures. Bonus tracks in all cases, 2LP or CD, lavish booklets, etc. I'm pretty excited about the first two - the Evil One reissue has all the tracks from both the US and UK versions, and Don't Slander Me just fucking rules.

Oh cool! The Sympathy For The Record Industry edition of Evil One is long oop and expensive. Also, Roky himself might actually see money from these editions.

Oh yeah, and here's their edition of The Evil One (all 15 tracks). Can read all about it, listen to clips, watch a vid:http://lightintheattic.net/releases/889-the-evil-one

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Both Sides Now:

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That second one will be The Evil One's cover.

Cherry Red/Mojo has The Evil One out now in a 12 track edition, while the SFTRI was a 2-disc set (all 15 studio tracks + a disc of radio performances & radio airshots).

I have the SFTRI 15 tracker as (paid for) MP3s. Have never owned Gremlins or Slander in any form...!

I had a cutout CD of Slander in the early '90s. Killer album. Had this compilation back then, too, which was also pretty great.

Great lps all 3. Liked that impromptu cover of Heroin they did live that Roky just announced to the band in the dressing room they were going to be doing.
These sound like must haves. Love the Evil One especially in the b&w horror sleeve. Not sure if it sounded different from the UK release which had the 5 symbols sleeve or if it was just me being about 12 years older when I got it than when I had the UK version. Just got into it a lot more.

That xp compilation is indeed an excellent place to start. Here's reissues from "NYC Industrial legends" Missing Foundation--think they were known more for their pre-Guiliani rabblerousing (and/or upside down cocktail glass graffiti logo) than actual music, but can hear excerpts and read press release: http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=a088e1e7fb68010cf6ad8ff4a&id=ebec284fbb&e=32e64a6326

Oh yeah, and look for Roky on Austin City Limits (might be on the ACL site; they have a lot of on and off and on again posts). A couple-three years back, and he's suavely fronting "two bands put together plus Billy Gibbons", as he points out.

Followup on xp Enjoy The Experience, album and book:

ENJOY THE EXPERIENCE
Homemade Records 1958-1992

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Milk Gallery

450 W 15th ST.
NEW YORK, NY 10011

JULY 9 - JULY 23, 2013

OPENING PARTY
JULY 9, 2013
with live performances by

Endless Boogie
(new LP 'Long Island')

Bud Benderbe
number one entertainer

(new LP 'The Velvet Underground & Nico & Bud Benderbe")

To attend, RSVP mandatory:
milktheexperience at milkstudios.com


"Massive, obsessive, ecstatic" - Rolling Stone

"A jaw-dropping look at the All Time Hit Parade of Rejection" - John Waters

"Best-ever gateway to the infinitely peculiar multiverse of self-published phonograph records" - William Gibson

Milk Gallery, Boo-Hooray Gallery and Sinecure Books present an exhibit of vinyl drawn from Enjoy The Experience, the book that Larry Clark calls "The Greatest Coffee Table Book Ever Made."

The Milk Gallery exhibition will feature live performances and DJ sets during its duration. A special needle-drop listening station will allow the visitor to select and hear records from the book.

From the 1950s through the arrival of the CD in the early 1990s, small record pressing plants across the US helped thousands of musicians capture on vinyl the sounds they heard in their heads.

Often the only audience for their records proved to be friends and family; sometimes they never made it out of unopened boxes in the artist's garage. This never discouraged all these pizza parlor organists, funk bands aspiring to become the JBs, high school bands performing all of Jesus Christ Superstar, cult leaders who never found the right cult, jazz bands inspired to forge a new stream, these artists committed themselves to vinyl, even though they were rejected by an industry not understanding of the weird and splendidly bizarre. The records showcased in the
Enjoy The Experience book and exhibit are funkier, more psychedelic, more idiosyncratic and more emotionally rewarding than the mainstream music products of the same era.

The graphics are often insanely amazing: confusing, crazy, howlingly funny but always providing a true sense of the human hand present. They've got that homemade vibe that we constantly crave in these screen-saturated days.

Enjoy The Experience is a snapshot of America in the second half of the 20th century, telling the stories of brave souls who took the plunge and committed their musical vision to wax.

A free download card featuring amazing artists from Enjoy The Experience is included with the book. In addition, Sinecure and Now-Again Records are presenting a companion double LP and CD anthology released alongside the book. Copies of the book will be on sale at the exhibit as well as the double LP and CD sets.

Exhibition:
JULY 9 - JULY 23, 2013

OPENING PARTY
JULY 9, 2013

To attend opening, RSVP mandatory:
milktheexperience at milkstudios.com

I just had Amazon telling me that Fleetwood Mac's Then Play on is getting a Deluxe edition in early August. Just remember somebody somewhere recently complaining taht it had'nt been around in decent current version. & also had recently read it was a great lp & probably pretty essential.

Never did get into it (got it when it first came out). Might've been the wrong stereo settings/drugs though.

Kiln House was the earliest I liked, though still haven't heard the really early stuff.

Then Play On is kind of awesome, actually. You know when the straight up UK blues guys started getting shaggier and druggier? It fits in with that stuff.

Also I like Dino's solo album. It's not perfect but it's fun enough. "My and My Uncle" is my favorite.

The Dino Valente album is great. Don't know his QMS work but wasn't his involvement with them limited due to jail time for pot? "Something New" from that record is really something special. Bummed to hear it sampled by Lilacs & Champagne.

Tom Robinson is getting a nifty anthology of his early years: http://tomrobinson.com/trb/news.htm

Not only is Then Play On getting a stand-alone reissue, but the band's first four albums are getting the boxed set treatment (vinyl only).

Actually, that's not right - it's their four 1969-72 albums (Then Play On, Kiln House, Future Games and Bare Trees) that are getting boxed.

From Drag City, duh:

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our years since the release of ...For The Whole World To See, and everyone continues to talk about Death! Be it TV's morning news or the raggedy ol' USA Today, when it comes to Death, the nation is obsessed. And why wouldn't they be? An essential part of living is experiencing Death! Drag City first teamed with Death in 2009 to properly release ...For The Whole World To See for the first time since it was made back in the mid-seventies, it's total realization of what would be come punk clearly essential to anyone's collection. Ever since, having finally heard the recorded sounds of Death, the world has never been the same! Soon we released a follow up of unarchived material, Spiritual, Mental, Physical, the band brought Death to club stages around the globe, and t-shirts were printed and worn, all in the name of Death! Lately, peeps be buzzin' about the documentary, A Band Called Death, which opens in major towns across the USA this very evening, June 28th. What's more, the members of Death will make personal appearances in select cities over the weekend: tonight and tomorrow in Los Angeles, at Cinefamily, Death will perform, live! Then on Sunday, June 30th, the band appear at Cinema Village in New York for a Q&A following the screening of A Band Called Death. So perk up, America! Death is all around you, everywhere you look - catch your Death head on, and don't forget where you can best support Death - right here in the reapin' robe folds of Drag City's official online store.

http://www.spin.com/articles/best-reissues-2013-second-quarter/

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NUMERO ANNOUNCES ECCENTRIC SOUL: THE FORTE LABEL

LATEST VOLUME IN THE COVETED ARCHIVAL SERIES TO ARRIVE AUGUST 28th

In 1969, after three years as Soul Sister #1 to James Brown's touring entourage, Marva Whitney came home to Kansas City, putting Ellis Taylor's Forte label back at full fighting strength. She'd calmed aching crowds the day after MLK's death, and she'd lived the life- despite its rigors- to pour out her pain and exuberance on Forte sides including "I've Lived The Life" and "Daddy Don't Know About Sugar Bear," which made national rounds in 1972. By then, Forte had already done more than deliver Marvelous Marva to market. Taylor worked overtime at KPRS to bring the world The Rayons, who'd stroll their girl group harmonies past Chicago's RCA studios on "Baby Be Good." In '68, The Four Darlings sauntered in with smoky-voiced soul operatics on the demanding "Give Me Love."
Progressing in the middle '70s, Everyday People got "Super Black" on Forte's pine-green label. Still powering forward some 13 years on, Forte redawned with the 1980s, essaying disco funk with Sharon Revoal's "Reaching for Our Star." Numero 047 Eccentric Soul: The Forte Label charts Kansas City yeoman's work, the Carpets and the Derbys, dapper clothiers mysteriously murdered, and marriages made and broken. In 28 tracks, plus a trove of promo headshots and every-hued label scans detailing all iterations of Forte's logo in print, this 16th Eccentric Soul sojourn hands over vivid floor shakers and lost dance craze records alike-though what moves "The Hen" required remains anyone's guess.

from worldisc.net:

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REAL WORLD GOLD: Classic Catalog Re-issues Continue
Enhanced With Bonus Content
Four releases set for July 30

Peter Gabriel’s acclaimed Real World Records continues its “Real World Gold” series of enhanced classic catalogue re-issues on July 30, when the label will release four titles in both physical digipak and digital formats:

STAR RISE - Long out-of-print and unavailable, this dazzling collection of remixes of the late, great Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan assembled some of the finest rising stars of London's 1990s Asian Underground, including Talvin Singh, Nitin Sawhney, Asian Dub Foundation, Joi, State of Bengal, and The Dhol Foundation, to name just a few.

Word of the great singer's death reached Real World Studios in England's west country just as work on the album was being completed, and Nitin Sawhney's remix had yet to be recorded; that final track was delivered after Nusrat's passing, and the album was released later that year, in 1997. This re-issue additionally features an outstanding new and previously unreleased remix by popular American DJ Fabian Alsultany, co-founder of New York City's ethno-tribal Globesonic dance gatherings and Los Angeles' Tadasana Festival.

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UNTOLD THINGS by Jocelyn Pook – This strikingly evocative album by the English composer and viola player – noted for her work with Peter Gabriel, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, Morrissey, and Massive Attack -- was originally released in 2001, and combines classicism and innovation in a mysterious and beautiful soundscape.

With guests including Natacha Atlas, cellist Caroline Lavelle, Persian singer Parvin Cox and Syrian qanun virtuoso Abdullah Chhadeh, this extraordinary music is a purely sculpted creative vision, melding obscure medieval instruments with strings, talking drums, found sound, and stunning voices that range from sepulchral to plainsong. The new release includes the stunning lead track “Dionysus” (which appeared in Gangs of New York) as well as two bonus tracks.

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POD by Afro Celt Sound System - This new version of the 2004 double-CD features a cracking set of remixes of the pioneering world fusion band’s work, with contributions by such notable remixers as Masters At Work, Rae and Christian, Bipolar, and Rollo and Sister Bliss – as well as by the Afro Celts themselves. Simon Emmerson, James McNally and Martin Russell produced and compiled the collection and contributed several remixes as well.

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LOVE & DEVOTION by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan & Party – This double-CD re-issue couples two Nusrat albums – LOVE SONGS and DEVOTIONAL SONGS -- both of which Nusrat released after his historic 1985 performances at Peter Gabriel’s WOMAD festival. He decided to record his favorite songs with the new arrangements he’d made especially for WOMAD, and recorded six tracks each for these two albums.

CD1, LOVE SONGS, focuses upon the ghazal, a song form that originated in present-day Iran, the home of the Persian language Urdu, in which is it usually sung. The ghazal calls for acute interpretation and sensitivity from a performer, and its nuances are perfectly expressed by the ecstatic voice of the great qawwali singer.

CD2, DEVOTIONAL SONGS, concentrates mainly on traditional religious songs of Sufi Islam, the mystical branch of Islam which advocates the use of many paths to enlightenment, a “stateless state.” Qawwali literally means “utterance” and is considered a mouthpiece of Divine Power: “We do not sing – we are made to sing.”

Latest Dave's Picks, w)music & pitch links: http://view.em-dead.net/?j=febf127774650c74&m=fe93127176650d7b77&ls=fe3015737d670478701674&l=ff041572716004&s=fe6117737061007d771c&jb=ffcf14&ju=fe8e1070736c017c7c&r=0

Might be worth a rental:

New York, NY (July 22, 2013)— Eagle Rock Entertainment is proud to announce the release on August 20, 2013 of Invitation To Illumination – Live At Montreux 2011 on DVD, Blu-ray and digital formats [Pre-book Order Date August 2, MSRP $19.98 Blu-ray, $14.98 DVD]. This unique concert, featuring the guitar talents of Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin, includes most of the tracks from their classic 1973 album Love Devotion Surrender. Invitation To Illumination – Live At Montreux 2011 also features the late Claude Nobs, founder of the Montreux Jazz Festival, playing harmonica on the final track.

On July 1st, 2011 Montreux hosted the reunion of two master-guitarists Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin-with their Invitation To Illumination concert. Both musicians have been regulars at Montreux across the years, but this was the first time they headlined their own concert together. The show features compelling performances of the beloved tracks from 1973’s Love Devotion Surrender, as well as inspired songs that have influenced Carlos & John’s incredible careers, including songs by Led Zeppelin, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bob Dylan & John Lee Hooker. This show is an incredible display of guitar virtuoso by two of the most prolific guitarists to ever grace the world stage, The line-up for this performance featured Carlos Santana (Lead Guitar & Vocals); John McLaughlin (Lead Guitar & Vocals); Cindy Blackman Santana (Drums); Dennis Chambers (Drums); David K. Mathews (Keyboards); Tommy Anthony (Guitar & Vocals); Raul Rekow (Conga & Percussion); Etienne M'Bappé (Bass); Benny Rietveld (Bass); Tony Lindsay (Vocals); Andy Vargas (Vocals).

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guess this is on the way -- i assume it'll include the bonus stuff from the two disc expanded version + the rehearsals that have been bootlegged over the years. i really like rock of ages, but don't think i desperately need this.

I never got the expanded edition, nor have I heard the boots, and it's my favorite Band record after Big Pink, so I desperately need this.

Also, fun fact (which I think I posted on another Band thread, but anyway): "the best hornmen in New York" J.D. Parran, Earl McIntyre, Howard Johnson, and Joe Farrell all at one time or another played with Bill Dixon and Cecil Taylor.

Update on xpost Caffe Lena box, with track list at end:

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San Francisco's Tompkins Square Label Releases 'Live At Caffè Lena: Music From America's Legendary Coffeehouse, 1967-2013'

3-CD Box Set Available Worldwide September 24, 2013

Unreleased performances by Dave Van Ronk, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Kate McGarrigle, Rick Danko, Anais Mitchell, Sleepy John Estes, Arlo Guthrie, Sarah Lee Guthrie, and more.

Nestled in the quaint upstate town of Saratoga Springs, New York is Caffè Lena, the oldest continuously operating folk music coffeehouse in the US. Opened by Lena Spencer in 1960, this tiny room has played host to influential artists across diverse genres of music; traditional folk, blues, singer-songwriters, jazz and bluegrass. Luckily, many performances were caught on tape through the years, offering the listener a thrilling seat inside this hallowed venue. 'Live At Caffè Lena', a 3-CD box set, the result of years of investigative research, contains 47 tracks, all released for the very first time, alongside previously unpublished photographs. Images include selections from the archive of esteemed photographer Joe Alper, who captured many iconic, intimate portraits from the folk era of the 1960s.

'Live At Caffè Lena' documents an important folk universe that was and is still happening in upstate New York, a story heretofore largely untold. The release of this collection comes at an auspicious time in light of renewed interest in the New York folk scene of the 60s as depicted in the forthcoming Coen Brothers film, 'Inside Llewyn Davis.' The film is loosely based on Dave Van Ronk's 2005 memoir 'The Mayor of Macdougal Street.' Van Ronk, a Caffè Lena regular, served as a mentor to many artists, some who would go on to eclipse his fame. His 1974 recording of "Gaslight Rag"featured on the box set references the Gaslight Café, a famed Greenwich Village venue that along with Caffè Lena was a catalyst for the folk music revival.

Caffè Lena embodied the spirit of the folk boom, the era and its artistry, building a reputation as a hotbed of creativity and connection. It was also a safe haven and nurturing space for artists, its atmosphere cultivated personally by Lena Spencer herself. She would graciously house wayward artists, sometimes for months at a time. But she was not merely a host. She championed artists, from Bob Dylan as early as 1961 all the way through the 80s until her passing. Her passion for identifying and promoting talent is evident throughout this 3-CD set. That Caffè Lena is still open for business tonight is a testament to her legacy.

'Live At Caffè Lena' is an important visual and audio document - 40+ years of our collective music history unearthed from dozens of "lost" tapes - night after night, show after show, through the decades - captured on tape in a tiny room in Saratoga Springs, New York.

'Live At Caffè Lena: Music From America's Legendary Coffeehouse, 1967-2013'

Available Worldwide on Tompkins Square, September 24, 2013

TSQ 2967 Distributed by INgrooves/Fontana in North America, Cargo UK for Europe, FUSE for Australia

Producers: Steve Rosenthal (Three-time GRAMMY Award-winner, owner of The Magic Shop and The Living Room Music Club in NYC), Jocelyn Arem (Director of the Caffè Lena History Project)

Liner notes: Holly George-Warren & Robert Burke Warren, Scott Goldman, Michael Eck

Stream/ post three songs from the box set
https://soundcloud.com/tompkinssquare/sets/3-songs-from-live-attaken

Also Coming in October 2013:

Caffè Lena: Inside America's Legendary Folk Music Coffeehouse (powerHouse Books) brings more than 200 never before seen, evocative images and stories to the public. Early 1960s photographs of Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger and modern-day images of Rufus Wainwright and Patty Larkin blend with rare memorabilia and an oral history derived from more than 100 original interviews of artists who have graced Caffè Lena's stage over the decades, including Ani DiFranco, Utah Phillips, Dave Van Ronk, Spalding Gray, and other luminaries of the folk, blues, jazz, and theater worlds.

Track list for 'Live At Caffè Lena: Music From America's Legendary Coffeehouse, 1967-2013'

DISC ONE

01 Intro by Lena Spencer / Guy Carawan Cripple Creek 1970

02 Hedy West Shady Grove 1968

03 Intro by Lena Spencer / Sleepy John Estes Holy Spirit 1974

04 Frank Wakefield and Friends Will The Circle Be Unbroken 1971

05 Jean Ritchie West Virginia Mine Disaster 1969

06 Billy Faier Hunt The Wren 1967

07 Greenbriar Boys Hit Parade of Love 1968

08 Mike Seeger O Death 1971

09 Jacqui and Bridie Hello Friend 1974

10 Tom Paxton Morning Again 1968

11 David Amram Little Mama 1974

12 Patrick Sky Reality Is Bad Enough 1971

13 Rosalie Sorrels Travelin' Lady 1974

14 Smoke Dawson Devil's Dream 1968

15 Utah Phillips The Green Rolling Hills of West Virginia 1974

16 Michael Cooney Thyme It Is A Precious Thing 1974

17 Kate McGarrigle and Roma Baran Caffè Lena 1972

DISC TWO

01 Intro by Lena Spencer / Dave Van Ronk Gaslight Rag 1974

02 Jerry Jeff Walker Mr. Bojangles 1968

03 Barbara Dane Mama Yancey's Advice / Love With a Feeling 1968

04 Roy Book Binder Ain't Nobody Home But Me 1974

05 Intro by Lena Spencer / David Bromberg The Holdup 1972

06 Ramblin' Jack Elliott Pretty Boy Floyd 1992

07 Arlo Guthrie City of New Orleans 2010

08 Aztec Two Step The Persecution and Restoration of Dean Moriarty 1989

09 Happy And Artie Traum Trials Of Jonathan 1974

10 Rick Danko It Makes No Difference 1988

11 Paul Geremia Something's Gotta Be Arranged 1989

12 Robin and Linda Williams S-A-V-E-D 1987

13 John Herald Ramblin' Jack Elliott 1991

14 Pete Seeger Somos El Barco (We Are the Boat) 1985

DISC THREE

01 Sarah Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion Folksong 2013

02 Anais Mitchell Wedding Song 2013

03 Bill Morrissey The Last Day Of The Furlough 1990

04 Patty Larkin Island Of Time 1992

05 Greg Brown Flat Stuff 1989

06 Mary Gauthier I Drink 2013

07 Sean Rowe Old Black Dodge 2013

08 Tom Chapin Cats In The Cradle 1987

09 Intro by Lena Spencer / Christine Lavin It's A Good Thing He Can't Read My Mind 1987

10 Bill Staines Sweet Wyoming Home 1990

11 Bucky and John Pizzarelli I Like Jersey Best 1989

12 Rory Block That's No Way To Get Along 1989

13 Chris Smither Killing The Blues 1989

14 Tift Merritt Traveling Alone 2013

15 John Gorka Down In The Milltown 1990

16 Lena Spencer Dear Little Cafe 1972

looks fun -- i just walked past caffe lena last week.

Is it still open, I hope?

yes it is!

Awesome! Shoulda checked for http://www.caffelena.org This happened a week before Cap'n D. last played Sarasota (at a festival, I think)
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The site links to a Caffe Lena history project, with a pic of him 'n' Suze Rotolo and Lena chilling, though the estate of the photographer incl. a warning about private property (the other side of the sign didn't say nothin', but still)

yeah bob played the saratoga performing arts center last weekend. i was looking at the calendar and on july 23 it said - "Closed - Dylan is playing SPAC. Why compete?"

[the caffe lena calendar, i should say]

Smart folk. (Thought you were located in Colorado, though?)

(or was Colorado just a sidetrip, mentioned on yr blog)

colorado is correct. my wife's family is from out there (we actually got married a couple blocks from caffe lena).

Wow, Saratoga's only about 30 miles north of me...had no idea about Caffe Lena!

guess this is on the way -- i assume it'll include the bonus stuff from the two disc expanded version + the rehearsals that have been bootlegged over the years. i really like rock of ages, but don't think i desperately need this.

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Supposedly, it includes everything from the 2001 release (but reordered/remixed), the complete New Year's Eve show, and a 5.1 mix. However, in the process, no fewer than eleven songs are repeated within the set. Think I'll pass.

UNTOLD THINGS by Jocelyn Pook – This strikingly evocative album by the English composer and viola player – noted for her work with Peter Gabriel, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, Morrissey, and Massive Attack -- was originally released in 2001, and combines classicism and innovation in a mysterious and beautiful soundscape.

i picked up a skinny promo of this back when it was released. listened to it a few times. fell under its spell.
then, promptly forgot all about.

due to this post, i have now dug it out of the archive, and i'm experiencing it all over again.

beautiful music.

the opening track is truly spellbinding.

http://www.superiorviaduct.com/collections/featured/products/craig-leon-nommos

Craig Leon - Nommos

Hadn't even heard of this until a month ago, then a few weeks later I see it was about to be released by the excellent Superior Viaduct. Just got it in the mail today.

Oh, cool. I like that record a lot, from what I recall from some mp3s downloaded eons ago.

I just found out that the first Fabulous Thunderbirds album came out on Takoma, too.

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CONCORD MUSIC GROUP REISSUES REMASTERED AND EXPANDED EDITION OF JOHN COLTRANE’S
AFRO BLUE IMPRESSIONS

Two-CD set commemorates both the 40th anniversary of Pablo Records and the 50th anniversary of the recordings

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Concord Music Group will reissue a remastered and expanded edition of John Coltrane’s Afro Blue Impressions album on August 20, 2013 (international release dates vary). Enhanced by 24-bit remastering by Joe Tarantino, three bonus tracks, and new liner notes, the new reissue celebrates the 40th anniversary of Pablo Records, the jazz label founded by Norman Granz in 1973.

The story of Pablo Records is a story of one veteran producer’s return to the music he loved best. Norman Granz, founder of Jazz at the Philharmonic, so missed the recording aspect of the music business — which he’d abandoned in 1962 when he sold his Clef, Norgran, and Verve labels to MGM — that a little more than a decade later he decided to take the plunge and start up yet another label. Based in Beverly Hills, California, at the time, Granz secured a distribution deal and launched Pablo Records in 1973, quickly building a world-class catalog of albums by legendary artists Ella Fitzgerald, Joe Pass, and Oscar Peterson — all of whom Granz managed — as well as Count Basie, John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Tatum, Sarah Vaughan, and many others. After releasing more than 350 albums in a span of less than 15 years, Granz sold Pablo to Fantasy in 1987, which in turn merged with Concord Records in 2004 to form Concord Music Group.

Afro Blue Impressions represents an anniversary within an anniversary. By the time Granz launched Pablo in 1973, he’d already stockpiled several years worth of previously-recorded tour performances in his vaults, including these sets from Stockholm and Berlin in late 1963 (October and November, respectively). This new two-disc reissue of the classic Coltrane Pablo album — originally released as a double LP in 1977 — arrives just a few weeks ahead of the 50th anniversary of the original concerts.

Coltrane fronts a stellar quartet on both European dates that includes McCoy Tyner on piano, Jimmy Garrison on bass, and Elvin Jones on drums. In addition to the nine tracks that appeared in the original Afro Blue Impressions double album, the reissue also includes three bonus tracks from the Stockholm date: “Naima,” “I Want To Talk About You,” and “My Favorite Things.”

“When you compare and contrast the performance of a composition that was released on the original album to a different performance of the same composition from among the bonus tracks,” says Afro Blue Impressions reissue producer Nick Phillips, “it perfectly illustrates just how restlessly creative Coltrane and his band were. Each song was a springboard for unpredictable improvisation and boundless creativity.”

“These tracks brim with the wonder and the power of discovery,” says Neil Tesser, author of the new liner notes accompanying the reissue. “At this juncture, the Coltrane Quartet existed in a state analogous to quantum mechanics . . . Each new performance yielded new insights. As the musicians gathered this data and sifted through it, they would arrive at the polished theories underlying the eventual masterworks to come, such as the album Crescent and the monumental suite A Love Supreme — achievements that would then launch a new age of chaotic discovery, on such albums as Om, Sun Ship, and Meditations. How much those recordings will resonate on their 50th anniversaries will likely engender some controversy; Coltrane didn’t live long enough to complete the journey that began with them, and the jury remains out, even decades later, regarding the impact of that work. But history long ago weighed the import of his work in 1963, when his music stretched and struggled its way toward becoming Coltrane’s iconic stylistic statement.”

Track Listing:
Disc One
1. Lonnie’s Lament 10:07
2. Naima 7:58
3. Chasin’ the Trane 5:45
4. My Favorite Things 21:02
5. Afro Blue 7:34
6. Cousin Mary 9:53

Disc Two
1. I Want To Talk About You 8:15
2. Spiritual 12:15
3. Impressions 11:30

BONUS TRACKS (Not on original album)
4. Naima (Stockholm) 6:49
5. I Want To Talk About You (Stockholm) 9:53
6. My Favorite Things (Stockholm) 13:56

I'm totally picking that up.

i don't even think i've heard the original of that one... looks great.
this caffe lena collection is sounding amazing on first listen.

This was already released on Pablo's Live Trane box in 2001. Pretty pricey new, but can usually be found used for not too much.

I missed the box so this works for me.

Late w/this, but Ace has redone Electric Music for the Mind and Body by Country Joe & The Fish in a 2 disc mono/stereo set, with BOTH mixes making their cd debut. 36 page booklet, Alec Palao notes and track-by-track annotations & full lyrics. Nice package all around.

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Key point in the pitch: "Creative scenesters put their own spin on the disco sound, mashing together the rhythmic pulse of funk, soul and Latin with African grooves; soukous, Afrobeat, township jive and more." Yes! There are a few let-downs, like the very first track, I think, but mostly amazing. Some of my faves are ones I wouldn't have thought to tag as disco, but no prob. Can sample all tracks here
http://www.worldmusic.net/store/item/RGNET1296/

It's also available as a double-CD set and mp3s.

From Light In The Attic:

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AVAILABLE: OCTOBER 8, 2013

The South Africa of the late 1970s was neither the right place nor time to launch a mixed-race punk band. Yet, following the student-inspired Soweto Uprising of 1976, it was also exactly the right conditions to foster a band like National Wake, one formed in an underground commune, and one whose very name exists in protest at the divisive, racist apartheid regime. Never before collected together, Light In The Attic is set to release National Wake’s full body of work as Walk In Africa 1979-81.

Featured heavily in the recent documentary Punk In Africa , National Wake played punk, reggae and tropical funk, equally at home in the city’s rock underground and the township nightclub circuit. Ivan Kadey started the band with two brothers, Gary and Punka Khoza. The three were from different worlds – while Ivan was an outsider, a Jewish orphan born in the traditional Johannesburg immigrant neighborhood, Gary, Punka and their family were forcibly moved to the troubled township of Soweto under the apartheid regime. Later joined by guitarist Steve Moni, the whole band grew up against a backdrop of township unrest, social upheaval and suburban tedium that characterized apartheid-era South Africa.

National Wake released just one album, in 1981. It sold approximately 700 copies before being withdrawn under government pressure. The band subsequently disintegrated, but their influence could be traced in the racially mixed post-punk underground centered around Rockey Street in Johannesburg throughout the 1980s, their legacy transmitted through fanzines and underground cassette trading.

Sadly, Gary and Punka Khoza both passed away in their 40s. Kadey now works as an architect in Los Angeles, but his attention eventually turned back to the band as their legacy grew in the digital era, with the emergence of specialized music websites and Punk In Africa leading to their rediscovery. Czech State Radio memorably described the band as “perhaps the most dissident music scene of the 20th century: a multi-racial punk band in a fascist police state.”

In 2011, Kadey re-released the band’s self-titled album on CD in South Africa, but spoke about having more than 20 tracks that had never seen the light of day – until now. “All of these recordings put together they speak of the whole evolution of the band,” he has said. “From a sort of naive, almost belief that we could miraculously change everything to realizing what a struggle it was, and what the country was going through and what it would go through.”

http://lightintheattic.net/releases/923-walk-in-africa-1979-81

Trying their YouTube trailer again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFXVt95_o-Y

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SOUNDTRACK TO FORTHCOMING MOVIE CBGB OUT ON OMNIVORE RECORDINGS OCTOBER 8
Features 20 songs by CBGB pioneers Talking Heads, Television, Dead Boys, Joey Ramone, Richard Hell & the Voidoids, Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers, Wayne County & the Electric Chairs, The Dictators, The Velvet Underground, The Stooges, MC5, The Police and more, plus a new version of “Sunday Girl” by Blondie. Movie opens nationwide in October.
NEW YORK, N.Y. — By the end of 1973, New York City was bankrupt, Watergate had compromised the credibility of the U.S. government, and the Carpenters were the best-selling young recording act in America. Rock ’n’ roll was dead! The story of Hilly Kristal and his legendary club that put the punk back in rock will come to movie theaters this October when CBGB hits the big screen. Omnivore Recordings will release CBGB: Original Motion Soundtrack on October 8 with deluxe digital version coming the same day from Rhino.
The film features an all-star ensemble cast headed by Alan Rickman (the Harry Potter series, Die Hard), who plays Kristal. Co-starring with Rickman are Malin Akerman (The Proposal, Suburgatory), Ryan Hurst (Sons of Anarchy), Ashley Greene (The Twilight series), Johnny Galecki (The Big Bang Theory), Stana Katic (Castle), Freddy Rodriguez (Planet Terror, Six Feet Under), Rupert Grint (the Harry Potter series), Mickey Sumner (Francis Ha), Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters), Donal Logue (Grounded For Life), Richard DeKlerk (Repeaters), Bradley Whitford (West Wing) and Joel David Moore (Avatar). CBGB is written and produced by Jody Savin and Randall Miller and directed by Miller (Bottle Shock). The movie, distributed by XLrator media, opens in theaters in New York and Los Angeles and other select cities on October 11.
Omnivore Recordings is proud to present CBGB: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack on CD and, naturally, double-LP (with first pressing on translucent pink vinyl). An essential collection of songs that made the punk movement, CBGB presents 20 classics of original American punk and new wave, many rarely compiled or unavailable for years. A deluxe digital exclusive version featuring an expanded track list will be available from Rhino.
The soundtrack contains music from influential artists who informed the scene
(The Velvet Underground, The Stooges and MC5) as well as acts who broke through to huge commercial acclaim (Talking Heads, Blondie and The Police). And there’s even music from bands whose legendary status will forever be linked to the club that gave them a voice (Dead Boys, Television, Wayne County, The Dictators and more).
Hilly Kristal dreamed of running a country and blues bar in the Bowery. Instead, the club he opened, CBGB (Country, Bluegrass, Blues) became the birthplace of punk and underground music. CBGB was the modern-day salon for the disenfranchised youth of New York City and Kristal offered these young local bands a stage.
The album contains a performance by Kristal (“Birds and the Bees”) and a new version of “Sunday Girl” by Blondie.
The soundtrack CD and LP will be in stores in time for the CBGB Music Festival October 9–13, in New York: http://www.cbgb.com/films.php
Track Listing:
1. Life During Wartime – Talking Heads
2. Kick Out the Jams (Uncensored Version) – MC5
3. Chatterbox – New York Dolls
4. Careful – Television
5. Blank Generation – Richard Hell & The Voidoids
6. Slow Death – Flamin’ Groovies
7. I Can’t Stand It – The Velvet Underground
8. Out of Control – Wayne County & The Electric Chairs
9. Psychotic Reaction – The Count Five
10. All For the Love of Rock ’n’ Roll (Live) – Tuff Darts
11. All By Myself – Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers
12. California Sun (Original Demo) – The Dictators
13. Caught With the Meat in Your Mouth – Dead Boys
14. I Got Knocked Down (But I’ll Get Up) – Joey Ramone
15. Get Outta My Way – The Laughing Dogs
16. Sunday Girl (2013 Version) – Blondie
17. I Wanna Be Your Dog – The Stooges
18. Sonic Reducer – Dead Boys
19. Roxanne – The Police
20. Birds and the Bees – Hilly Kristal

This was already released on Pablo's Live Trane box in 2001.

Good to know; I had that box and still have the MP3s, so I guess I'll pass on this one. Thanks!

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Castle-Face Records is proud to announce the release of Hands On The Controls, on vinyl for the very first time, by the late, great sweat-n-fun factory Coachwhips. If you're unfamiliar, pull up a chair - helmed by John Dwyer (currently of Thee Oh Sees) from 2001-2005, they were fast, nasty, unintelligible, brutally and primally basic. A telephone through a guitar amp, half a drum kit, a shitty Casio organ, and primal speed-trash riffs never sounded so good. Hands On The Controls was their first studio album and criminally never came out on vinyl - we're here to remedy that. Dwyer has kindly opened the crypt and added 6 never-before released tracks to sweeten the deal, we've remastered the tracks for maximum bludgeon, cleaned up the artwork and even added some period photos from his own personal collection. Early ditties like "That Bitch Is Gonna End Up Dead", "N.Y.C. L.O.V.E." and my girlfriend's personal favorite, "Look Into My Eyes When I Come" will leap off of your turntable, do all of your drugs, and will almost certainly get you in trouble. It's out on Castle-Face September 3rd.

Ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille:

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Dow Jones & the Industrials...allegedly:

Dow Jones and the Industrials were a punk/new wave band from West Lafayette, Indiana from the late 1970s until around 1981. During this time, they released a split LP with Gizmos, Hoosier Hysteria, and a self-titled 7" EP known for its "Can't Stand the Midwest" anthem. The song "Ladies With Appliances" was also featured on the famed Red Snerts compilation of Indiana bands. Originally, the band consisted of Greg Horn (guitar, vocals), Chris Clark (bass, vocals), drummer Tim North, and Brad Garton (otherwise known as "Mr. Science") on keyboards...
Now we are culling together the recorded history for a series of reissues on the Family Vineyard label. The 1981 7" EP was released in March 2011. It will be followed by a 2xLP / CD of the complete recordings in 2013.

I should be more enthused about this than I am, but Family Vineyard first announced the complete recordings back in 2010, for release in 2011. But the 2013 date is a recent addition as far as I can tell, so maybe it's finally happening.

On August 27, 1972, fresh off their now-legendary European tour, the Grateful Dead traveled to Veneta, OR and reunited with the Merry Pranksters for a common cause – to throw a benefit concert for the Kesey family’s Springfield Creamery. A stage was erected under the hot Oregon sun at the Olde Renaissance Fairgrounds, tickets were printed on the fronts of the Creamery’s yogurt labels, and the rest is history…

AUGUST 1, 2012 - SEE YOU AT SUNSHINE DAYDREAM!

Sunshine Daydream Blu-Ray Sunshine Daydream DVD

Previously unreleased Sunshine Daydream concert film featuring gloriously remastered picture and all new stereo and 5.1 audio mixes done by Jeffrey Norman at TRI Studios
Blu-ray Mastered by Grammy® winning engineer David Glasser at Air Show Mastering
The complete 8/27/72 concert CD mixed and mastered to HDCD from the original 16 track tapes by Jeffrey Norman
Audio tapes transferred and restored by Plangent Processes
Bonus documentary “Grateful Days” featuring brand new interviews with Mountain Girl, Sam Cutler, Wavy Gravy, Ken Babbs, and more
Dead.net exclusive: 40-page book featuring original essays by Nicholas G. Meriwether, Ken Babbs, Sam Field, Johnny Dwork, and David Lemieux
Dead.net exclusive: Original tie-dye slipcase by Courtenay Pollock
Illustrations by Steve Vance
Individually Numbered, Limited Editions of 12,500

Learn more about the most requested live show in Grateful Dead history.
http://www.dead.net/sunshine-daydream?eml=dead/080113/ssd

Sunshine Daydream 4-LP Set on 180-Gram Vinyl

Mixed by Jeffrey Norman at TRI Studios
Mastered by Jeffrey Norman at Mockingbird Mastering
Audio tapes transferred and restored by Plangent Processes
Lacquers cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering
Four 180-gram LPs housed in a lavish 4-panel “M-pack” jacket featuring original artwork by Steve Vance and tie-dye by Courtenay Pollock

Limited Edition of 5,000

Learn more about the most requested live show in Grateful Dead history.

ROLLINGSTONE.COM VIDEO EXCLUSIVE

Head on over to Rollingstone.com for a sneak peek of "Jack Straw" from Sunshine Daydream.
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/grateful-dead-play-jack-straw-in-veneta-oregon-in-1972-20130802

pretty darn good audio video in that clip; a lil' taste of the time machine

yeah, the music sounded great when i saw it last week. weirdly, i was sitting directly behind Grammy® winning engineer David Glasser at Air Show Mastering.

did anyone mention the reissue of the Sleeper's album Painless Nights on Superior Viaduct?

http://www.superiorviaduct.com/products/the-sleepers-painless-nights-lp

I love this album and the reissue is splendid. Sleepers are well-slept-on; more intricate and involving than Flipper, to me; Ricky went on to front Toiling Midgets before Mark Eitzel and Tim Mooney joined.

I love Toiling Midgets so I'll definitely check it out.

And hey, on that same heroic label:

http://www.superiorviaduct.com/collections/mx-80-sound/products/mx-80-sound-hard-attack-2cd

yeah they are doing a bunch of cool things, and the vinyl pressings are beautifully done. really nice line of reissues. Owner Steve is running Stranded Records in Oakland as well, nice shop, if overpriced

001. Minnesota meteorology, plus an upstart noise out of Olympia

Minneapolis and Tumwater take opposing sides of the 46 parallel’s rope across America, but on Numero’s map they’re the palindromic 050 and the two’s-wild of 202.2...and both come at you, pre-order extras lofted high:

Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound

On 4 LPs or 2 CDs, Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound—the Numero Group’s breathlessly anticipated 50th mainline release—chronicles the scene’s first steps, false starts, and follow-throughs, sourcing the life’s work of known quantities and shadowy figures alike. In the beginning, there was Purple Haze, whose billing as Haze on two obscure albums left the color purple to their city’s incipient sound. Pepé Willie’s 94 East project gave local prodigy Prince Rogers Nelson an early chance to row along with the crew. From there, the story courses past Jimmy Jam Harris’ extroverted Philly throwback Mind & Matter collective, to Terry Lewis and Flyte Tyme, flamboyant precursor to Morris Day’s The Time. Unearthing basement demos by Prince’s childhood sidekick/departed bassist André Cymone, plus deep cuts from legend-about-town Alexander O’Neal, Numero 050 gathers relentlessly as the sprawling, nonfiction prequel to Purple Rain’s cultural takeover.

Surpassing 30,000 words, our hardbound, full-color book companion to Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound is a gorgeous, exhaustively detailed, and insight-rich guided tour across two hours of music and a decade of North Star history. Inside, dozens of supporting characters and combos seed clouds for the meteoric rise of a genre formerly known mostly as Prince’s—not to mention unheard product from his top collaborators and fiercest competitors. In game-changing sound and image-rich splendor, Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound clears a crowded stage, ushering in unsung Twin Cities future-funk talent, to bask for a spotlit moment, out of that persistent violet shadow, and to shine.

Purple Snow’s pre-order is a doozy:

Back in 1985, with the Minneapolis Sound at the leading edge of its music culture takeover, David “T.C.” Ellis—an aspiring St. Paul rapper—dedicated his own rhyming-couplet document to the genre’s founding city. Constructed upon a sturdy drum machine and vocoder bedrock, “Twin Cities Rapp” contextualized and outright flattered the movement’s marquee contenders, threading together Prince, André Cymone, the Time and Morris Day, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Sheila E, and sundry other Purple Snow honorees. Originally released as a 12” single by Twin Town Records, Ellis’s electro-rap narrative gets into the grooves of a Numero replica 7”—complete with Minnesota silhouette pic sleeve—to be included with the first 500 pre-orders on Numero 050, Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound, as well as with 2013 LP and CD subscriptions. For all the many strengths of the compendious Purple Snowbook, its words almost never rhyme. We’ve left that level of artistry to Minneapolis, to Ellis, and to good old 1985.

The 32-song, four album, 108-page hardbound book, and “Twin Cities Rapp 45″ will run you $85.

The 32-song, two disc, 144-page hardbound book, and ”Twin Cities Rapp 45″ will run you $35.
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Unwound: Kid Is Gone Kid Is Gone is the unquiet portrait of primal Unwound. Before 1993’s Fake Train ripped through, they’d been Giant Henry, Supertanker, and Cygnus X-1, short-lived black holes gathering dark material into something built to explode. From Justin Trosper, Vern Rumsey, and Brandt Sandeno’s first restive years, “Crab Nebula” might’ve best prepared the indie-sphere for what Unwound became, had Sandeno’s split not stalled their planned debut. Part 1 in Numero’s 4-part reissue project, Kid Is Gone documents signal chaos in Olympia’s fertile scene before Unwound’s turbulent noise hit stride, in unrevealed period photos, 34 tracks, and three LPs—cassette-only demos, early 7”s, a KAOS radio broadcast, material tracked live in a local basement, and all of what became 1994’s Unwound, on which the band’s prehistory plays out in a feral maelstrom of screaming, distortion, feedback, and abrasive promise.

Kandy Korn pre-order:

Oh, you didn’t know that Unwound reunited in July of 2001 with their original drummer Brandt Sandeno for a quick run through their old songs at Olympia’s Phoenix Street House? Neither did we. A decade removed from their post-hardcore roots, with heaps of technical proficiency to go around, the trio blazed through their debut album and a few Giant Henry cuts for a select number of Olympians just prior to the release of their final album, Leaves Turn Inside You.

We’re only pressing 1000 of these LPs, and they are only available when you buy Kid Is Gone from our site. We’ll be shipping the box and bonus around 9/15, which means you’ll get KIG a full two weeks prior to the release date and be the envy of your apartment complex.

002. Don’t Cheat Yourself

As the MLB drops mega-charges on A. Rod and looks to eradicate the PED scourge, might we suggest, to get your blood boiling the right way, LA rockers, one spiffed-up criminal element, a hot iron leg from our Cali-Tex brethren, and the dappled cave-in-shadow of Express Rising?

Rokk: I Want to Live High

A debut album that never was, Rokk’s I Want To Live High is that rare misshapen pearl clenched tightly between the shells of a music industry shucked long ago. Too soulful for its disco-era release date, the sextet’s 1976 Tollie issued 45 “Patience” (as featured in Eccentric Soul: Omnibus) tracked well in Rokk’s hometown of Los Angeles, but was withdrawn before patience ran out with the spring rains of 1977. Tracked simultaneously was this entire shelved album full of Rokk’s mid-tempo grooves, flute-lead funk, sultry female backing vocals, slap bass, chorus-drenched guitars, and lyrics about getting baked and eating baked apple pie. Jazzy, with plentiful slices of Broadway, Innervisions, and Rokk’s own stoned brand of horn-rock, had I Want To Live High ever gotten so high as actual record store shelves circa late 1977, it would’ve surely sobered up to the commercial onslaught of Saturday night disco juggernauts and the pummeling forces of earth, wind, and fire.

Roll with Rokk

Eccentric Soul: The Bandit Label

The Bandit Records legend could almost be fiction. The house passing as a home, the harem passing as a family, the rising star brutally murdered in his prime, the dream, the con: The end. Arrow Brown inhabited the same south-side Chicago landscape as Afro-Noir author Iceberg Slim’s ghetto characters, taking inspiration from the same sources that shaded Airtight Willie, White Folks, and Blue Howard. Drawn to the underground and fancying himself a rogue entrepreneur, Brown and his Bandit label operated somewhere in the space between money laundering outfit and sex cult. Brown poured proceeds from straight jobs held by his many “daughters” into sumptuously rendered, forward-looking soul records by the egotistically named Arrows and the Majestic Arrows, as well his seven-year-old son Altyrone Deno Brown, whose father hoped to push to Jackson-style child-fame heights. Putting beauty and genius in front of commercial viability, Arrow laid down lush, sweeping strings to lure the listener into a hipster fantasy world, sharply incongruent with the sometimes-criminal reality of the city that dreamt it. Our triple-LP unabridged edition brings 40 tracks to the CD’s 20, and the 14,000-word accompanying book, crackling with odd and dazzling imagery, makes our original notes read like a Babysitter’s Club entry. In 2005, novelist and essayist Jonathan Lethem called the entirety of the Bandit Records tale “Haunting… haunted… Like a little novel.” In its darker corners,003 Eccentric Soul: The Bandit Label may more closely resemble true crime.

Express Rising
A decade ago, Dante Carfagna issued a somewhat anonymous LP under the Express Rising heading. That self-titled affair went in and out of print before 2003’s summer gave way to fall, thanks in part to its release by the frustratingly obscure Memphix label, but thanks more to how it broke new ground for the instrumental rap generation’s interest in the sub-sub-basement of record mining. The album’s blurry boreal cover captured Carfagna’s mysterious persona. Though he’s been attached to such seminal compilations as Chains and Black Exhaust, a grip of Eccentric Soul titles, and the recent electronic soul collection Personal Space-—and though his signature “Records I barely like but maybe you will” approach to writing helped build the Wax Poetics brand--Dante remains a tough man to pin down. He doesn’t even have a working doorbell.

Which may be a good thing, as he recorded his second album in the middle room of his third floor walk-up in Chicago’s Dog Patch neighborhood. A notorious homebody, Carfagna cut much of this second self titled LP after a long nights of Camel filters and bottled New Glarus—while watching his neighbors departure for morning straight-world commutes. Reaching back to 2008 and an Akai four track, these 11 songs break from the foraging tradition employed by Dante’s debut, swapping out breakbeats and samples for guitar, Wurlitzer, banjo, steel guitar, synthesizer, and an arcane drum machine.

Reached for comment, Carfagna had this to say about himself and about Express Rising: “My last record came out ten years ago. Much has changed and much has not.”

Rise.

Mickey & The Soul Generation

Best known for their 1969 paper hit “Iron Leg,” the mixed instrumental combo Mickey & the Soul Generation came to semi-national attention following Nipsey Russell’s performance of the Iron Leg dance on Johnny Carson. Though they shared a label with Ben E. King, they lacked access to the same promotion and marketing resources. A tour with Sam & Dave and opening slots for James Brown, Kool & the Gang, and The Supremes found them performing for thousands nightly, but still sleeping on floors. By the mid-’70s the group had fractured, with members joining the army, bottling Coke, and starting families. Their run would end in 1977 with two members turning in a passing Average White Band impression called “Southern Fired Funk” before their handful of 45s fell completely out of vogue and made their journey to thrift shops and cut-out distributors.

At the dawn of this century, Josh Davis (AKA DJ Shadow) tracked Mickey and his Soul Generation down for the purpose of reissuing their recordings on his upstart Cali-Tex label. “Mickey and the Soul Generation are my favorite funk band,” Davis wrote in 2002. “They were strong contenders for the title from my very first listen back in ’92. ‘Iron Leg’ being the standout track on an otherwise flaccid jazz-funk compilation of the day. Already a favorite rare-groove selection in the ever-accepting UK club scene, I too found myself buoying my bedroom DJ sets with snatches of the irresistible Soul Generation Sound. It became an instant priority of mine to locate an original.” That 2003 reissue was met with critical praise, and ultimately turned a new generation of music lovers onto rare funk and soul. Numero has gone back to the scene of the crime and re-canvased for new leads, helping Davis expand on his original work, with updated liner notes, tons of newly discovered photos, and a previously unreleased track.

Do the Iron Leg at home.

last part--can't get their links right at the moment, but all of the following is on their site
003. Crystal giggling energies, raw cries out of deep nights, godly Numerophon, and yet more still...

NUM049 Iasos: Celestial Soul Portrait CD/2LP
JR.012 The Sixth Station: Deep Night LP
44004 King Bullard Version: Songs of the BOS Label LP
ES-032 James Dockery "My Faith In You Is All Gone 45
ES-033 Brown Bombers & Soul Partners Wait For Me" 45
ES-035 Young Souls "Quit Waiting For Tomorrow" 45

Blink a few times, rub them eyes, adjust to the darkness... You’ve been reading a long while. Get some rest and make plans to cook for long hours something composed mostly of protein. We’ll be over here, making records for the record books.

And we mean it now,
The Numero Group

Heard about this from 誤訳侮辱 on fb...fuck yeah...
Humble Pie's 'Rockin' The Fillmore' Gets Boxed.

Just pre-ordered my copy.

Well that's 3 items there I can vouch for being pretty great
Afro blue Impressions has some fantastic stuff on it.
The new version of El;ectric Music For teh MInd and Body is really something, I'm looking forward to Feel Like I'm Fixing To die. I'm assuming that is coming before long?

& finally an official release for Sunshine daydream. That has a deserved reputation as one of the band's best gigs and certainly one of the best films of them live. Been wondering if taht would see the light of day in an official capacity for years. have a pretty nicely remastered version of it asa boot but will presumably be done even better as an official product.

Does anybody have any inside information on the Cabaret Voltaire reissue campaign? Is there any likelihood of the early pre-83 material being included in the upcoming/current campaign?
Have been hoping for remasters on the 1st couple of lps for years and would be nice to also have 2x45 and 3 Mantras too.
Not sure what else there is from then, the Living Legends compi is great and could possibly do with a further upgrade too. Plus not sure when the early pre-Mute stuff was last upgraded.

Good to hear that there's a cd with Red Mecca wonder if other lps will do the same thing? Is that something Albini started or was anybody doing that before him? Lp with free cd version with it, as opposed to doing a cd release.

pre-must stuff was on that 3-CD Methodology set last.

And hey, on that same heroic label:

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― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, August 6, 2013 2:33 PM (2 days ago)

NICE!

Looks like Methodology may be oop itself. has rising prices on Amazon anyway.

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THE WAITRESSES’ JUST DESSERTS: THE COMPLETE WAITRESSES COMBINES BAND’S ENTIRE OUTPUT FOR THE FIRST TIME ON CD IN THE U.S.
Sept. 24 release on Omnivore Recordings includes non-LP bonus tracks from Akron band.
AKRON, Ohio — Although they made their mark on popular culture with the MTV favorites “I Know What Boys Like” and “Christmas Wrapping,” The Waitresses were no new-wave flash in the pan.
While nearly every 1980s collection features a song from The Waitresses, their recorded tenure has been incomplete in the digital realm for decades. In fact, none of the band’s original releases has been released in full on CD domestically. Omnivore Recordings is righting that wrong with Just Desserts: The Complete Waitresses. Co-produced by Grammy® winner Bill Levenson and the group’s Chris Butler, this is the first collection of the band’s Polydor Records output, a 2-CD set filled with delicious offerings.
Cleveland and Akron were home to many emerging bands in the late ’70s, among them DEVO, Pere Ubu, the Dead Boys, the Rubber City Rebels, Rachel Sweet, and Dadaist band Tin Huey, launched by guitarist/songwriter Butler. The Waitresses emerged during Tin Huey’s ascent, and eventually became his focus. Butler relocated to New York to bring his music to the attention of A&R reps with the demo of “I know What Boys Like.”
When he ended up making a deal with Island/PolyGram-affiliated Ze Records for a band that didn’t yet exist as such, Butler went about recruiting band members. The focal point of the group was singer Patty Donahue, an Ohio friend who’d sung on Butler’s demo of “I Know What Boys Like.” The song reached #62 on Billboard’s Hot 100. Sadly, Donahue died in 1996, but not before a trio of acclaimed releases with the band.
Just Desserts: The Complete Waitresses contains those recordings beginning with their 1982 debut, Wasn’t Tomorrow Wonderful?, which featured “I Know What Boys Like” plus the follow-up “No Guilt.” Next was I Could Rule the World If I Could Only Get the Parts, which contains the theme to TV’s Square Pegs (starring a young Sarah Jessica Parker), as well as the holiday staple “Christmas Wrapping.” As a bonus “gift,” that single’s long out-of-print B-side, “Hangover 1/1/83,” also makes its CD debut.
Disc Two delivers 1983’s Bruiseology, co-produced by Butler and Hugh Padgham (Genesis, Human League, XTC). “Make the Weather” was the single, and no collection is complete without that album’s closer — “They’re All Out of Liquor, Let’s Find Another Party.” Also included: a previously unissued version of the title cut and two remixes of Disc One’s “Bread & Butter.”
It’s a full-course meal of The Waitresses. No reservations are required and there is no dress code. Feel free to wear your parachute pants, or come as you are for Just Desserts: The Complete Waitresses.
Check please!
Disc One:
Wasn’t Tomorrow Wonderful?
1. No Guilt
2. Wise Up
3. Quit
4. It’s My Car
5. Wasn’t Tomorrow Wonderful?
6. I Know What Boys Like
7. Heat Night
8. Redland
9. Pussy Strut
10. Go On
11. Jimmy Tomorrow

I Could Rule the World If I Could Only Get the Parts
12. Christmas Wrapping
13. Bread and Butter
14. Square Pegs (Theme Song From the Embassy Television Series Square Pegs)
15. The Smartest Person I Know
16. I Could Rule the World If I Could Only Get the Parts
17. Hangover 1/1/83*

Disc Two:
Bruiseology
1. A Girl’s Gotta Do
2. Make the Weather
3. Everything’s Wrong If My Hair Is Wrong
4. Luxury
5. Open City
6. Thinking About Sex Again
7. Bruiseology
8. Pleasure
9. Spin
10. They’re All Out of Liquor, Let’ s Find Another Party
11. Bruiseology (Alternate Version)*

Bread and Butter
12. Bread and Butter (Remix)*
13. Bread and Butter (Dub Mix)*
* NON-ALBUM BONUS TRACKS

ABOUT GODDAMN TIME!!!!!!

Oh, sweet! Pumped for this one.

Bread and Butter Remix has been a serious fave 12" of mine since I found it a few years ago. Super slept on post-punk funk disco.

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Got this last week, it's fantastic.

Willem, I'm really curious about that one, tell us more!

I only know A.T.R.O.X. from the old Flexi-pop virtual comps and Gaznevada because their italo-disco hit is a top five song of mine and I bought their other records and was surprised they started as a more experimental new wave band.

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I recall this as a tad uneven, but mostly tight as a hot tin roof, and always pungent:
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS REISSUE ALABAMA ASS WHUPPIN’ ON SEPTEMBER 10TH

“They’re Athens, GA, by way of Muscle Shoals guys, children of Skynyrd and Suicidal Tendencies’ “Institutionalized,” with sharp brains buried deep in the caterwaul.”
Spin 8 out of 10

“Alabama Ass-Whuppin’ is like a good truck-stop breakfast – it sticks with you a while.” Billboard, Dec. 2000
Athens, GA – ATO Records will reissue the Drive-By Truckers’ Alabama Ass Whuppin’ on September 10, 2013. Alabama Ass Whuppin’ is the band’s third album. Originally released in 2000, the record has been out of print for years. The album has been re-mastered and includes updated artwork by Wes Freed. This will also be the first time the album has been available on vinyl.

Alabama Ass Whuppin’ documents a specific time for the band. Recorded from March 1999 through August of 2000 in clubs across the southeast including Tasty Word, The High Hat, The Star Bar, The Caledonia Lounge and the 40 Watt.

“This was our third album and the connecting thread between our earlier work and the band that we went on to become later. It’s a documentation of a period in time that I wouldn’t go back to for all the money in the world, but I’m proud of the shows that we played and the songs that we wrote, “ says Patterson Hood.

The band is currently in the studio in Athens, GA recording their 12th record. ATO Records will release the record early 2014.


1. Why Henry Drinks
2. Lookout Mountain
3. The Living Bubba
4. Too Much Sex (Too Little Jesus)
5. Don't Be in Love Without Me
6. 18 Wheels of Love
7. The Avon Lady
8. Margo and Harold
9. (Alabama Ass Whuppin’) Banter
10. Buttholeville
11. People Who Died
12. Love Like This

4AD is having a sale (check beggars dot com) on the Breeders vinyl box:
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Oops, should've put this description in too:
The 'LSXX' Boxset has been well worth the wait. Three LPs (original album Last Splash, live album The Stockholm Syndrome and an LP of rarities and demos) and four 10" EPs (Safari, Cannonball, Divine Hammer and Head to Toe), all housed in a beautiful box with the artwork having been reimagined by the original sleeve's designer, Vaughan Oliver. It also comes with an extensive booklet, charting the recording of the album and its legacy twenty years on.
(Also a sale on The National's vinyl box.)

Correction: The National on sale isn't a box, but a double-LP, with art extras:
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The National's triumphant Trouble Will Find Me album was released back in May and we're delighted to say that the deluxe edition is now in stock and looks stunning. The album is spread across two discs, both clear vinyl, comes with 15 large art cards, stored in a die cut box. A must for any National fan and / or 4AD collector.
This item is ONLY available from the US store.

Willem, I'm really curious about that one, tell us more!

https://bleep.com/boards-of-canada-reissues

Music Has The Right To Children (WARPLP55R)
2 × LP Gatefold Vinyl – 140g pressing cut from original metalwork.
Includes Skam braille sticker and transparent blue Boards of Canada sticker.

Geogaddi (WARPLP101R)
3 × LP Gatefold Vinyl – 140g pressing recut by Noel Summerville from original DAT master. Includes etching on side F.
Includes sticker sheet with hexagon die cut stickers.

The Campfire Headphase (WARPLP123R)
2 × LP Gatefold Vinyl – 140g pressing cut from original metalwork.
Includes circular blue sticker.
Mini Album and EPs

Twoism (WARPLP70R)
1 × LP Black Vinyl – 140g, Pressed from original metalwork
Includes green and yellow tDR designed sticker.

In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country (WAP144R)
1 × LP Black Vinyl – 140g, Recut by Noel Summerville from original DAT master
Includes sticker postcard with die cut windows.

Trans Canada Highway (WAP200R)
1 × LP Black Vinyl – 140g, Pressed from original metalwork
Includes Trans Canada sticker.

like lost tapes of Emitt Rhodes hanging with Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young while Faust producer Uwe Nettlebeck makes a guest appearance in the control room.

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Hoipolloi? Sounds vaguely familiar---will have to see what the Web turns up. Another one I've barely heard of:

NUMERO ISSUING UNRELEASED JIMMY JAM RECORDINGS THIS OCTOBER

MIND & MATTER ALBUM TO ARRIVE IN ADVANCE OF COMPREHENSIVE MINNEAPOLIS SOUND COMPILATION

Jimmy Jam Harris was just 16 when he began writing and arranging for Minneapolis 11-piece Mind & Matter. Boasting a perfectly calibrated vocal quartet, an aggressive rhythm section, and stacks of Rhodes, Rolands, and Hammonds, the danceable act failed to win favor with frigid Midwest audiences. Tracked in 1977, this bundle of never-before-released basement demos throw Harris' beloved Philadelphia Sound into an unfinished root cellar, pelting it with Clavinet attacks, disco skats, and infectious hooks. Named for the street address of its underground uptown genesis, 1514 Oliver Avenue (Basement) presents James "Jimmy Jam" Harris' first foray into songcraft and an organic Minneapolis-vintage alternative to a late '70s Prince songbook gone increasingly synthetic.

The LP is set to drop October 29th, in advance of Numero's exhaustive compilation of the formative days of the scene, Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound.

Follow-up on xpost Monkees box, w link to dates for homestretch of current tour (would like to have caught the Nesmith & band shows from earlier this year)http://view.e.wbr.com/?j=fec113777765027a&m=fe9612717660077a74&ls=fe3b15717664047c761d72&l=feff1572716001&s=fe5f177377600c7f7c15&jb=ffcf14&ju=fe971078756c067d77&r=0"> http://view.e.wbr.com/?j=fec113777765027a&m=fe9612717660077a74&ls=fe3b15717664047c761d72&l=feff1572716001&s=fe5f177377600c7f7c15&jb=ffcf14&ju=fe971078756c067d77&r=0

Dunno why that link pasted in twice---the second link works.

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JAMES BOOKER’S CLASSIFIED: REMIXED AND EXPANDED PROVIDES DEFINITIVE GLIMPSE OF NEW ORLEANS PIANO LEGEND’S LATER CAREER
Package, available as CD and double-LP vinyl on Rounder Records on October 15, coincides with festival screenings of Lily Keber’s film Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker

NEW ORLEANS, La. — The Bayou Maharajah. The Piano Pope. The Ivory Emperor. The Bronze Liberace. Music Magnifico. Gonzo. The Piano Prince of New Orleans. James Booker coined more than a few extravagant nicknames for himself, and he lived up to every one of them.
James Carroll Booker III was also an unheralded genius of American music, a New Orleans pianist whose dizzying technique and mastery of the keyboard was matched only by his imagination and his soulfulness. His short and often flamboyant life was also marked by struggle and lost opportunity.
Classified, recorded in October, 1982, was one of only two studio albums released during his lifetime, and this remixed and expanded edition offers a poignant and often surprising look at his music, for if James Booker is often cited in the piano lineage that passes from Jelly Roll Morton to Professor Longhair to his own student, Harry Connick Jr., New Orleans tradition was only his jumping-off point.
On October 15, 2013, Rounder Records will release James Booker’s Classified: Remixed and Expanded. The expanded volume’s 22 tracks, which include nine never-before-released performances, range from the pure rhythm and blues of “All Around the World,” to the light classical “Madame X,” to his astonishing version of the jazz standard “Angel Eyes.” Among the unreleased songs is the slow blues instrumental, “I’m Not Sayin’,” and his syncopated reading of Nino Rota’s “Theme From the Godfather.” Whether playing solo or accompanied by saxophonist Alvin “Red” Tyler, bassist James Singleton and drummer Johnny Vidacovich, Booker ties together a giddy array of musical influences with virtuosity and an often quirky sense of humor. If New Orleans was the only place that could have produced such a talent and such a character as James Booker, the scope of his musical vision was boundless, and he stands alone in the New Orleans piano pantheon.
All Music Guide cites the original edition of Classified as arguably Booker’s best album (even if that mythical collection may still reside in the live recordings his passionate fans have traded over the years). Three decades later, with the new material and dramatically improved sonics, it stands as a lynchpin in his discography.
Included are new notes by co-producer Scott Billington and several new photographs. Classified will be released both on CD and as a limited edition double-LP vinyl set. Lily Keber’s film, Bayou Maharajah: The Tragic Genius of James Booker, has been playing to rave reviews, and that interest in James Booker is expanding beyond his devoted cult following.
According to Grammy Award-winning pianist George Winston, “James Booker and Professor Longhair and Dr. John are the three biggest influences and inspirations for the New Orleans piano renaissance that is happening more and more, and James’s music is even more influential now than when he was alive. He is my biggest overall piano influence and has been since I first heard his recordings in 1982. It’s so great to have everything here from his final studio sessions.”
Track Listing:

1. Classified
2. If You're Lonely
3. Warsaw Concerto* 2:47
4. Lawdy Miss Clawdy (solo piano alternate take)*
5. Medley: Tico Tico / Papa Was a Rascal / So Swell When You're Well*
6. All Around the World
7. Angel Eyes
8. Lonely Avenue*
9. Professor Longhair Medley: Tipitina / Bald Head
10. King of the Road
11. Theme from The Godfather*
12. Lawdy Miss Clawdy
13. I'm Not Sayin'*
14. Hound Dog
15. All These Things*
16. Yes Sir, That's My Baby*
17. Baby Face
18. If You're Lonely (solo piano alternate take)*
19. Madame X
20. One For the Highway
21. Three Keys
22. Amen
*previously unreleased
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From Light In The Attic:

I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age In America, 1950-1990
Light In The Attic
October 29th

Mellow out to Laraaji's "Unicorns In Paradise" HERE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwJtCY_R-5E&feature=youtu.be

Forget everything you know, or think you know, about new age, a genre that has become one of the defining musical-archaeological explorations of the past decade.

I Am The Center: Private Issue New Age In America, 1950-1990 is the first major anthology to survey the golden age of new age and reveal the unbelievable truth about the genre.

For new age, at its best, is a reverberation of psychedelic music, and great by any standard. This is analog, handmade music communicating soul and spirit, often done on limited means and without commercial potential, self-published and self-distributed. Before it became big business and devolved into the spaced out elevator music we know and loathe today, this was the real thing.

From mathematical musical algorithms to airport murder mysteries to Henry Mancini and Bugs Bunny, the connections to mainstream culture run in curious directions. (Did you know, for instance, that a track from the first modern private press new age album is featured on the Blade Runner soundtrack? It’s called “Pompeii, 76 A.D.”, and we’ve got it here.)

I Am The Center is a knowing, but never cynical overview that invites listeners at last to the mainspring of a misunderstood genre’s greatest lights. Many of the biggest names are present — Iasos, inter-dimentional channeler of “paradise music”; Laraaji, discovered by Brian Eno playing for spare change in Washington Square Park; and the recently famous JD Emmanuel, icon to a new generation of drone, ambient, noise musicians. Call it what you will — before it was anything else, it was new age.

Lovingly conceived and lavishly presented, I Am The Center features stunning paintings by the legendary visual artist Gilbert Williams, and liner notes by producer Douglas Mcgowan, who weaves the words and images of the wizards and sorceresses of new age into a prismatic portrait of music that can finally be recognized for what it is: great American folk art.

2xCD housed in deluxe tip-on gatefold jacket with 44-page book
3xLP housed in slip case w/ 3 tip-on jackets, download card and 20-page book
Both formats with notes by Douglas Mcgowan featuring interviews with artists and includes rare archive photos.
Artwork by Gilbert Williams and Janaia Donaldson.
2 unreleased tracks, 7 others previously only on cassette

Siltbreeze is on such a good NZ reissue run: Vacuum, Max Block. And I just saw a copy of the Scorched Earth Policy LP in a store. Shoes This High coming soon, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhlhrZODxhE

Whoa is the Shoes This High going to be a full LP?! That would be great.

And Scorched Earth Policy were amazing. Siltbreeze is also doing the Victor Dimisich Band, so those two + Max Block and you've got your pre-Terminals history right there.

There was a Victor Dimisich CD on Medication, and they also did a Scorched Earth Policy, but I'd think those are both hard to find. Supposedly full-length for the Shoes This High, but I'm not sure.

Is that Iowa city's scorched earth policy or a different one?

There were a few Scorched Earth Policys, but this one's New Zealand. Early 80s. As with many NZ bands, a tangle of connections to many other great bands.

August 15th, 2013

New York, NY

CABARET VOLTAIRE

6 CD / 4 VINYL / 2 DVD BOX SET

#8385 (COLLECTED WORKS 1983-1985)

November 5th, 2013

LISTEN TO TRACKS FROM THE BOX HERE
https://soundcloud.com/muterecords/sets/cabaret-voltaire-8385-sampler/s-AsUAK

Cabaret Voltaire continue a series of releases on Mute with #8385 (Collected Works 1984-1985), a six CD / four vinyl and two DVD box set, out on November 5th, 2013, listen to tracks from the sampler here.

#8385 (Collected Works 1983 - 1985) collates four of Cabaret Voltaire’s classic mid-period releases – remastered - on CD and vinyl - The Crackdown (1983, on the 30th anniversary of its release), Micro-Phonies (1984), Drinking Gasoline (1985) and The Covenant, The Sword and the Arm of the Lord (1985) alongside a CD of Cabaret Voltaire’s 12” tracks from the period and a CD of 12 unreleased tracks entitled Earthshaker.

DVD1, Cabaret Voltaire Live, collates two live shows, the Bedford Boys Club (18.08.84) and Hammersmith Palais (02.12.84) and DVD2 is the long awaited DVD release of Gasoline In Your Eye (1985), an experimental video showcase previously only available on VHS plus the four promotional videos from the time.

#8385 (Collected Works 1983 - 1985) also includes 40-page 12" booklet, notes about Earthshaker, an essay by Phil Barnes and new sleeve notes by Richard H. Kirk.

The box set follows a recent vinyl release for Red Mecca, remastered by Pole’s Stefan Betke, and available on vinyl for the first time in over 20 years. Described by The Wire as “a striking piece of work”. Red Mecca was awarded 8/10 by Uncut and Vinyl Package of the Month by MOJO.

In early 2014 #7885 (Electro Punk to Techno Pop 1978 - 1985) will compile for the first time, both periods of Cabaret Voltaire together on one release.

Cabaret Voltaire, alongside Human League, Throbbing Gristle, Fad Gadget and The Normal, were at the forefront of the UK Electronic Movement of the late '70s. Way ahead of their time, Cabaret Voltaire’s blend of dance music, techno, dub, house and experimental made them, without a doubt, one of the most influential acts of the last 35 years.

THE WAITRESSES’ JUST DESSERTS: THE COMPLETE WAITRESSES COMBINES BAND’S ENTIRE OUTPUT FOR THE FIRST TIME ON CD IN THE U.S.
Sept. 24 release on Omnivore Recordings includes non-LP bonus tracks from Akron band.

AARRGHHH but where's "The Comb" from the "Stiff Records Presents Akron" compilation?? I love that song! Or the tracks from the "Bowling Balls From Hell" comps? I know I'm always complaining about this sort of thing (see Bizarros, "Complete Collection") and yeah I should be happy that labels are still doing physical reissues; but goddammnit, *entire output* should mean just that!

A couple of those are pre-Patty Donahue songs, so I can kinda understand it, but there are definitely a few Patty tracks that should be on there instead of the "Bread and Butter" remixes.

..anyway, Drag City presents to you the Dugald McKenzie era of Venom P. Stinger, all on one 2xCD, entitled 1986-1991. All the guts and glory of the Venom P. approach; the martial-and-elsewhere drumming of (baby) Jim White, the larval soundscaping of (mini) Mick Turner, the savage bass scraping of Alan Secher-Jensen and most of all, the tortured-yet-stoic screamed prose of Dugald McKenzie, whose dark-eyed view of the world was the perfect foil for his bandmates post-punk rampage. This CD was made for old fans who've spent their lives pining for digital versions of the old Venom classics (and drinking too much). What, guys, haven't you ever heard of heroin? This music would sound great on heroin. However, if you've got enough for dope AND records, definitely go for the vinyl versions we made of Meet My Friend Venom, What's Yours Is Mine, "Walking About," and "Waiting Room." Decorated with Anna White's roughly-hewn floral still-lifes and including whatever inserts the lads originally demand go in, these records capture the amazingly open environment from which this music emerged, all of which reflects in the punch that it hits with to this very moment. Restored to the canon, one Venom P. Stinger!

I like some of his songs better than most of his vocals, but some of yall were more interested, so latest update

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SAN FRANCISCO'S TOMPKINS SQUARE LABEL PRESENTS THE FIRST-EVER VINYL REISSUE OF DINO VALENTE'S 1968 SELF-TITLED CLASSIC ON EPIC RECORDS
(release date Aug. 13, according to the site, but no date incl. in this press release)

"A public service to loners, stoners and dreamers everywhere." - James Toth (Wooden Wand)
"A masterpiece" - Matt Valentine (MV & EE)

Tompkins Square has released the first-ever vinyl reissue of Dino Valente's self-titled 1968 solo LP, originally produced under the supervision of Bob Johnston (Dylan, Cohen, Cash). The album is commercially available in glorious Mono for the first time ever. A few mono copies were pressed as promos for DJ's upon release. The album has been remastered from the original tapes by Grammy-winning engineer Warren Russell-Smith, and includes original liner notes by Ralph Gleason.

Dino Valente's best known tune 'Get Together', popularized by the Youngbloods, served as a counter-culture anthem for millions. He was also lead singer for seminal San Francisco psychedelic band Quicksilver Messenger Service. But it's his lone solo LP which has often been held in the same vaunted company as Skip Spence's 'Oar' as a lost, forgotten classic. The album continues to inspire new generations of artists, such as James Toth of Wooden Wand, who says, "This long overdue reissue is a public service to loners, stoners and dreamers everywhere. Buy two copies; you will wear the first one out." Matt Valentine of MV&EE also effuses, "It's a masterpiece . . . the songs, the vibe, the verb, the cojones. A stoned out killer - an LP that I continue to listen to regularly to this day. It was a huge influence on my first solo LP "space chanteys" and the production is awe-inspiring, in many ways ground zero for my spectrasound techniques."

Share/hear a song: https://soundcloud.com/tompkinssquare/something-new-by-dino-valente

update on xp Sunshine Daydream: 33 minutes of it streaming here, for ltd. tyme:
http://www.dead.net/sunshine-daydream?eml=dead/082713/ssdbanner#listeningparty

“TOMMY” BY THE WHO
SUPER DELUXE BOXSET and DELUXE EDITION
Remastered with 20 UNRELEASED DEMOS, A FULL UNRELEASED LIVE VERSION OF TOMMY and HI FIDELITY 5.1 MIX
Released November 11th 2013
August 28, 2013 – Tommy, The Who’s defining, breakthrough concept album – a full-blown rock opera about a deaf, dumb and blind boy that launched the band to international superstardom is to be released in Deluxe and Super Deluxe editions this Autumn.

Originally released in May 1969, The Who were at a career crossroads, known mainly as a singles band, but this project launched them as a serious ‘albums band’ and it has now sold over 20 million copies as well as regularly turning up in lists of the most influential albums of all time.

Coming after The Who Sell Out in 1967, it marked a complete change in style with Pete Townshend’s lengthy conceptual narrative bringing exciting new opportunities to rock music. Tommy was and remains to be an ambitious, complex and controversial work, which was initially banned by the BBC.

This new Deluxe and Super Deluxe version of the album comes with a wealth of previously unheard material in the form of 20 demos from Pete Townshend’s archive and also a full live performance of Tommy from 1969 taken from tapes that infamously Townshend asked the band’s sound engineer to burn!

18 of the previously unheard and thought to be long lost live tracks are taken from a live show at the Capital Theatre, Ottawa, Canada on October the 15th 1969. Three others, I’m Free, Tommy’s Holiday Camp and We’re Not Gonna Take It were lost due to tape reels being changed during the show so are taken from later shows of the same era.

As discussed at length in Pete Townshend’s autobiography the tapes were all supposed to be destroyed but were kept by long time Who sound man Bob Pridden despite Pete’s instructions.

The Super Deluxe box also features a 5.1 mix featuring the complete album remixed in surround sound on new Hi Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-ray format

As well as the music the limited edition Super Deluxe boxset comes with a hardback 80-page full-colour book featuring rare period photos, memorabilia, a 20,000-word essay by legendary Who aficionado Richard Barnes and a rare facsimile Tommy poster housed in a hard-back deluxe slip-case.

www.thewho.com

TRACKLISTING AND FURTHER INFORMATION

Super-Deluxe Edition (UPC 006025 37473960)

Disc 1 – The original album (2013 re-master)
Digitally re-mastered in HD

Disc 2 – The demos and out-takes
Features 20 previously unreleased tracks from Pete Townshend’s demo archive.

Disc 3 – The 5.1 album mix – Hi Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-ray
The complete album remixed in surround sound on new Hi Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-ray format

Disc 4 – The live ‘bootleg’ album
Features 21 previously-unreleased tracks from various live shows from 1969

Hardback 80-page full-colour book featuring rare period photos and memorabilia

20,000-word essay by legendary Who aficionado Richard Barnes

Rare facsimile Tommy poster

Limited edition, housed in a hard-back deluxe slip-case

King Crimson's Red is being blown up into a 24-disc box, The Road To Red.

I'm not typing out the contents, but it includes 16 live shows and multiple (to my eye, redundant) mixes of both Red and USA, the live album from the 1974 tour. There's also a lot of repetition of content between Discs 1-20 (the 16 live shows) and Discs 22-24 (a DVD and two Blu-Rays full of audio). Full details here.

lol jesus christ. i understand being obsessed with a band or an album, but uhhhh. (and i think Red is a fucking awesome album, too)

Fripp has really gone from THIS IS THE ALBUM to HERE THIS IS THE ALBUM BUT I MADE IT SOUND BETTER to HERE IT IS AGAIN BUT THIS IS THE BEST IT'LL EVER SOUND to HERE'S EVERYTHING IN MY CLOSET, PAY ME AND FUCK OFF.

Did the larks tongues one have that much live stuff with the muir lineup?

I think the Larks' Tongues box was only about 15 discs, so there were a few shows but not as many as this.

I'll take Fripp's closet-clearing over Townshend's "Here's a smattering of shit you've had on bootlegs for decades. And not even all of it. Just some of it. We might release more later, but when we do, it'll inexplicably be missing other shit."

This is the fourth CD reissue of Tommy, and the second "deluxe" edition. The previous one had scads of (nearly revelatory) full-band outtakes. This does not. "Fuck you, pay me."

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKlXADrOZaA

There's A Dream I've Been Saving: Lee Hazlewood Industries 1966-1971
Light In The Attic
November 26th, 2013

Well, looks like dreams do come true and here’s one we’ve been saving. After 7 intense years in the making, Light In The Attic are proud to announce by far our most expansive and lavishly packaged project to date: There’s A Dream I’ve Been Saving, commemorating the complete legacy of Lee Hazlewood Industries from 1966-1971. (see below for set contents)

For more than a year now, Light In The Attic has been reissuing the solo work of this true American moustachioed maverick. Beyond restored versions of Lee’s debut Trouble is a Lonesome Town and the soundtrack A House Safe for Tigers, the lid has also been lifted on the rich, little-explored archives of the label Lee Hazlewood Industries (LHI), when Hazlewood was svengali and super-producer to a stable full of brilliant artists.

This landmark box set is the ultimate artefact for Lee Hazlewood heads new and old, containing a beautifully packaged, expansive 172-page LP sized hardcover book. But every good book deserves a soundtrack and in this case it comes in the form of a four-CD anthology of the LHI label, along with the never-before-released 1970 film Cowboy In Sweden on DVD. The CDs feature Hazlewood songs familiar and less so; surprising covers, doleful duets and little heard LHI gold.

One of the most impressive aspects of the LHI box set is the gorgeous 12”x12” LP sized book (perfect for your record shelf), packed with rare beautiful pictures of Lee, his artists (and the occasional horse). The pages roll out the full story of the LHI label, including interviews with Lee and Suzi Jane Hokum, re-assessments of key Hazlewood albums, and artist profiles for the label’s roster, lovingly written by renowned L.A. music journalist/novelist Jessica Hundley. In the illuminating text, a picture of Hazlewood emerges – fiercely talented, brutally independent, a rare, ornery, ruthless and visionary man.

A Deluxe Edition of the box set contains all of the above housed in a cloth-bound clamshell box with reproductions of LHI-era artefacts including press photos and a reproduction plane ticket used by Hazlewood back in ‘70. But the true icing on the cake is three data discs which include just about every 45 single and every LP ever released on LHI -- in both WAV and MP3 formats. At around 17 albums and 72 singles (totalling 305 songs!), that’s a whole lot of Lee.

THE SET INCLUDES:

172 Page Hard Cover Book:

- LP-sized cloth bound book with gold foil stamp

- Over 150 rare & unseen photos + In depth essays

- LHI history, album breakdowns, 27 artist profiles, LHI timeline, and interviews with Lee & dozens of label alum.

Cowboy in Sweden The Film, on DVD (1970, 60 mIns):

- First time available. New digital transfer from the original 16mm master negative at the Swedish Broadcasting Co. Fully restored in HD with re-mastered sound. Region Free.

4 CDs (107 Tracks):

MetIculously Re-mastered. Analog transfers captured at 24-bit/96-kHz. 95% of transfers from original analog master tapes (remainder transferred from mint vinyl).

Discs 1 & 2: Everything Lee recorded for LHI, including every 45 single and album (Cowboy in Sweden, Forty, The Cowboy & The Lady, and Requiem For an Almost Lady), plus a handful of unreleased tracks.

Discs 3 & 4: Key tracks from the LHI stable of artists, including Suzi Jane Hokom, The Kitchen Cinq, Ann-Margret, Honey Ltd., The International Submarine Band, Arthur, The Aggregation, Sanford Clark, Lynn Castle, The Surprise Package, Virgil Warner, and Hamilton Streetcar, amongst many others.

- 14 unreleased tracks

From Lee’s Personal ‘Stache:

- Flexi disc featuring unheard Lee ‘studio chatter’ (“Play it like a cowboy song”)

- Reproduction of Lee’s original embossed LHI business card

- 5 random copies include a “Golden Ticket” for a free subscription to Light In The Attic’s Lee Hazlewood Archive Series

DELUXE EDITION EXTRAS:

(Note: Deluxe Edition includes everything above from Standard Edition plus the below extras)

3 DVDs (305 Tracks):

LHI catalog as both WAVs & MP3s (320 Kbps) covering 17 albums and 140 A&B sides. DVDs exclude The International Submarine Band.

Meticulously re-mastered

DISC 1: LHI catalog (MP3 w/ cover art)

DISC 2: LHI LPs (WAV w/ cover art)

DISC 3: LHI 45 Singles (WAV w/ label art)

Cloth Bound Clamshell Box:

Gold foil stamped and debossed silhouette of Lee

From The LHI Vault:

6 glossy LHI promo photos

1970 Hazlewood Airlines ticket

Only Available For Online Orders at www.LightInTheAttic.net....

Limited edition 45 single featuring two previously unreleased songs:

For A Day Like Today (take 4) - Suzi Jane Hokom

b/w

Sweet Ride (demo) - Lee Hazlewood

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Wow. I don't have that $180 handy, but that's pretty great lookin'

A ton of Atlantic jazz albums are being reissued on CD in Japan—I grabbed all eight Charles Lloyd albums from a co-worker's office today. According to discogs.com, most of them have never been on CD before.

Drag City reissue, Sept. 17

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Bio

The summer of '69, I headed to college to the University of California Santa Barbara seeking the longed-for land of blue skies, sunshine, bare feet and homework on the beach. I]d grown up in Seattle, pale of skin, with a closet full of raincoats and boots that never fit. Though I always loved music and played the oboe in the school orchestra, and the All City Band, I’d quit my piano lessons early on, when it came time to hale the scales of Czerny and leave Peer Gynt behind. Researching colleges was a given, my senior year, and I’d hoped for an Ivy League acceptance. Part of my research of schools included studies of the news. The truth is: I had very little real understanding of what was going on in politics and the outside world, especially that war in Vietnam. It was not something we discussed at home and I knew of no one who had joined the military. I did know that news at UCSB included pictures of oil seepage on the beach, but it was a far cry from the pictures of protesting students at Berkley. Those pictures frightened me. I wasn’t sure where I stood, or if I stood at all. The previous fall, I’d marched along downtown Seattle streets yelling chants to pass the school levy but I was nowhere near ready to step into decisions regarding war. Santa Barbara would be an escape into a peaceful enclave, disconnected from the responsibilities of adulthood, or so I thought.

Fortunately, on Thanksgiving of my freshman year, I met a man named Bobby Brown, who guided me through much of the confusion I would soon be confronted with that first year in Santa Barbara: protest marches down State Street, the burning of the bank, the shooting of a protester, the arrival of the National Guard, 6:30 curfews, tear gas in my courtyard, emergency classes on Cambodia, the smashing of the administration’s windows, and radical speakers like Jerry Rubin, Jane Fonda and Angela Davis at large outdoor, campus gatherings. It was a time of change for the nation, and...for me.

By the end of 1970, I’d dropped out of college, following the completion of my favorite class, Poetry and Song, instructed by poet Kenneth Rexroth. In that class, I would write my first two songs, on the guitar, and perform them, timidly, on a small indoor amphitheater, in front of Rexroth and about 50 students. Though I was one of the last to volunteer, every performance was well received that quarter, including mine. I loved the energy exchange being created, the dancing atmosphere and the new direction it seemed many of those around me were headed. I believed I no longer needed a college degree or a lot of money to be happy. I wore braids and flowers in my hair, and bright colored home-sewn mini-dresses, cut-off blue jeans, sun tops and well-worn flip-flops. Kinkos would soon open its first small store in Isla Vista, next to the falafel stand. The police quickly switched to riding bicycles on their local patrols, and the nearby weedy field was gradually transformed into a beautiful garden with a windmill and a small bridge, across a gently flowing stream of water. It would be a gathering spot for friends, and festivals filled with street musicians and jugglers. It was called Perfect Park to connect with Peoples Park in Berkley.

My life had taken that new direction. I was busy building home-made instruments, with Bobby Brown, for his soon to be "One Man Orchestra.’ Bobby would design and build the body of the instruments and I would wind the electric pick-ups for the drones or connect recycled computer relays to make pick-ups for the assorted guitar, sitar and dulcimer necks Bob made. We were helped by an eccentric genius of a man named Jon Lazell, who also built home-made instruments. At the time, Jon had an incredible set of home-made tunable drums, like giant congas, 24" in diameter. He was working on a long, 10-foot, multi-stringed drone made of heavy aluminum. His goal was to produce sounds so low they would be inaudible, but would make your hair stand on end. He lived in the hills of Montecito, in a geodesic dome he’d built himself from scrapped radio station antennas, fiberglass and odd-colored paint. It was a patchwork quilt of a home with a large star in the center of the dome left clear, so that you could look up to the heavens, listening to the sounds of Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water, and imagine yourself being transported into the outer reaches of the universe. Backyard discussions, led by Jon, were of the prophet Gurdjieff, whom I’d never heard of before. All the local hippies would gather there, the talks going on for hours, ending with the breaking of bread and home-made split pea soup for everyone.

Bob gave me my harp on my 21st birthday and the University’s instructor offered me free lessons, which I quickly turned down. I realized, soon enough, when I landed in Santa Barbara, that I knew nothing of improvisation and was stuck in my life-time mode of memorized passages. I decided I would teach myself, and I would only perform original songs, or not at all. And for the first six months, it was not at all. I was also teaching myself to be Bob’s "sound-man.’ He had over 50 instruments in his "One Man Orchestra,’ and I would be the juggler of those 50 lines into a 12-channel mixer. I would also be the tuner of his 300-plus strings and the repairer of broken lines and pick-ups. I grew to hate those hums that seemed so difficult to track down, especially right before the concert.

Bob’s act was filled with the unusual and the unheard of. He incorporated taped loops into his act (working like the Echo-Plex that was designed a few years later) and a home-made electronic synthesizer made by a friend (also prior to the manufacture of synthesizers). This small electronic box would soon grow to be the voice of "Axonda,’ used in his concept album, The Enlightening Beam of Axonda, released in 1974. His story reminded me of my love of Peer Gynt. His performances became "mind blowing’ experiments, with sounds and lights, instruments and voices, hands and feet going non-stop. Again, this was way beyond my prior concepts of reality. Bob’s "One Man Orchestra," which resembled a large-scale erector set covered with instruments, included a six-foot loosely-wound spring, draped from one supportive pipe to another. When he plucked it, it boomed like thunder. That thunder would soon become the introduction to his show, and with it, he drew his audience in and held them on the edge of their seats until the house lights came up at the end of his set. I learned a lot from Bob. He was a natural, gifted performer, with a six-octave voice I’d never imagined possible.

Six months after receiving my harp, a student, who’d heard from Bob that I played, asked if I might play just one song at a Somersault Summer Solstice festival to be held on the back lawns of the UCen the next day. I, of course, had not yet written one song on the harp, but Bob, seemed to think I could fake it, for just one song. After all, they were offering five dollars, and I should be able to improvise and just make a song up on the spot, with all the little riffs I’d been working on. Needless to say, I’d not yet mastered improvisation and knew I needed to return to that memorized mode I’d grown up with. The morning of that festival, I arose early and began to write my first song on the harp. I completed it by noon, ran my drills and by 1:00 p.m. played it on the UCen lawns. It was an instrumental I called "A Child’s Flower" in honor of the children somersaulting down the hill. To my surprise, the audience called for an encore. I told them I only had one song...and so, I repeated it...and my start as a street musician began.

I went on to write more and more songs, sending in my laboriously hand-written musical notations and words to the Copyright office along the way. I would play at small coffee houses here and there, and soon became a regular performer at the Southern Renaissance Faire in Agoura each spring and the Northern Renaissance Faire in Novato each fall. I moved to Laguna every summer to play at the Sawdust Festival. In between I’d play at Venice Beach, Westwood Village, the Affair in the Park in Beverly Hills, the Calabasas Pumpkin Festival, the Rose Bowl Swap Meet and the KPFK Christmas Faire in Santa Monica. It was a sort of gypsy lifestyle and Bob and I, unknowingly, joined that group of wandering musicians that toured the small-stage showcases, faires and street corners of Southern California, always hoping for a record deal along the way.

Though I never secured that record deal (until now that is: thank you Drag City) I did meet some amazing people: Roger Miller, who gave me recommendations to Columbia Records, Graham Nash, who gave me his card but I never had the nerve to call, Phil Spector, whose doctor arranged for an audition in Phil’s barb-wired mansion of a house in Hollywood, Irving Azoff, whose same doctor arranged for an audition in Irving’s office, which was also, by chance, the day the Eagles burst into that room, with the first copy of Hotel California...just before I began to play...and I was sent to the Record Plant to make a demo...and their album went on to be a multi-million dollar success. Then there was Alice Cooper, whom I didn’t recognize, sans make-up, in the "green room" of yet another mansion in Hollywood, where I played on the grounds for an American Cancer Society Benefit, and he would play the stage. And Groucho Marx, at yet another American Cancer Society Benefit, where I would again play on the grounds, this time on the closed avenue of Rodeo Drive, with a large stage constructed in the center of the street, for the later performances of Frank Sinatra and Liza Minnelli...whom I would also be introduced to, by that very same doctor that so loved my music and wanted to make me a star. And so it was...or seemed to be...that elusive stardust...so close, and yet, so far away.

While living in Laguna Beach, I made friends with a group of people communing in the Rainbow House, in the canyon. People with names like Luna, Star, Silver Bird, and Nebula lived there. They made and sold dreamy air-brushed t-shirts and feathered, beaded, silver jewelry. Bob and I performed at their summer-solstice backyard celebration one summer’s evening, which led to a friendship with a man named Toby Roberts. He was from Tennessee and I’d been told had once been the first manager of The Allman Brothers. At the time, he ran a company, in Malibu, called Toby Roberts Tours. He arranged the limos, the hotels, and the private jets for touring bands like the Moody Blues and Led Zeppelin.

That fall, I moved to Santa Monica. Toby called one night and asked if I’d like to go see George Harrison and Ravi Shankar at the Forum with him. The unexpected Mercedes limo that picked me up would include Gregg Allman seated inside. We drove into the Forum via a back entrance lined with screaming young women, who couldn’t wait to see whomever they could get a glimpse of, in the parade of entering star studded limos. Inside, Toby disappeared and I’d hang close with Gregg, as he’d stop to talk with people like Joni Mitchell, Billy Preston and Sly. Inside that cavernous forum, I felt much like those screaming young women outside. It was a whole new world for me and my head was definitely spinning. To my great disappointment, we left early, and went back to a house in Malibu, where Toby asked if I’d like to play my harp for Gregg. Before I knew it, I’d done just that and I left the next morning to join Gregg’s second solo tour across the United States. It would include awkward conversations with a young Cameron Crowe in the back of Gregg’s private plane. On stage, I played a short three song set alone, on what should have been an intermission. Gregg introduced me, after his first set, and I, with far more trepidation and much less intoxication, would brave the stage. Shows ranged from 2,000 to 11,000 people and included my home town of Seattle, where the local reviews read: "Ms. Kleyn’s voice immediately reminds one of Judy Collins, and combined with her skillful harp work, provided a professional sound not at all out of place with the rest of the show.’’ And I...breathed a big sigh of relief. By my last city, I received that unexpected, energetic call for an encore...it was the best way I could ever imagine ending that tour.

When the tour was over, for me, I returned to the much less opulent, unfinished garage I lived in, in Santa Monica, wondering what would come next. Bob had completed his Enlightening Beam of Axonda album, on his own Destiny Records label, at Clover Studios in Hollywood. This was done with the back-up of a wonderful man, studio owner, Chuck Plotkin. Chuck would go on, shortly thereafter, to produce exceptional albums for super stars like Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan.

After a few months, with no offers from Gregg’s label, Capricorn Records, coming my way, I decided that I, too, should put out my own album. I recorded it, as a demo, on a limited budget, with backing from my father, at a Seattle studio called Captain Audio’s Music Farm. I titled it Love Has Made Me Stronger, after a song I’d written for Bob, when we’d temporarily gone our separate ways. The spring of 1976, I sold it, with great reception, at the Renaissance Faire in Agoura, and a new path in my music began. I realized that I loved the spontaneity of the streets and faires, and the people that frequented them. Many would return to see me at the next faire, and I preferred those settings to the more formal stages that so unnerved me. Though I still hoped for a record deal, with a larger company, and would continue to find myself in unexpected situations, like my private performance at a house in Malibu for the likes of Led Zeppelin (sans Jimmy Page) (no tour followed...), there was a deep satisfaction that came with producing my own records and being in charge of my own destiny.

In 1980, I produced, with Bob, a second album, Takin’ the Time, which was just what I was doing then. This included a back-up band on one side and a recording of my very first song with lyrics, written on the harp, words co-written with Bob, called "Prayer." It was a song I sang on tour with Gregg, written about the Vietnam War, of all things. When I performed it, I sang in the back of the harp, producing an echoing, haunting effect, at the beginning and again at the end of the song. This singing in the back of the harp would become my trade mark, and "Prayer" would be the song people would come back to hear again and again. Unfortunately, it’s the last song on the album, and my allotted space available had run out. Foolishly, I cut the second verse. Someday, I hope to remedy that decision. The words were worth keeping.

In 1983, I produced my third album with a beautiful mermaid cover taken by Laguna photographer, Pat Dallas. Return of the Silkie would be a concept album, again relating back to my childhood fantasies of Peer Gynt and Peter and the Wolf, and it would grow to be my "pure and simple’ favorite. The inspiration for this album came from the big red barn in Laguna Canyon, where I volunteered and nursed the injured baby sea lions and elephant seals, found along Laguna’s shores, back to health, so they could once again return to their home at sea. I recorded their voices, and sang and played my harp for them, feeling not so unlike the pied piper of Hamlin. They were a joy and became a memory stored in this small package.

And now, years of experience and three beautiful children later, it seems the circle of my life has remained 'unbroken,' as Gregg would sing in his encore each night. May you enjoy the reissue of my first three albums, with Drag City, and with any luck, newer albums to come. And, if you should see me 'touring' on some unexpected street corner, be sure to stop and say hello, so I can tell you thank you, for a life very well spent.
—Carol Kleyn, May 2011
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9/28/13
Vashon, WA

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Speaking of Caffe Lena, as we sure were, they got some nice videos: McGarrigles, Steve Gillette & Cindy Mangsen, Jimmie Dale Gilmore Band, and several performers new to me. Check the YouTube pages for these to get more (link from the newsletter)http://www.caffelena.org/live-videos

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l-l: Bob, Suze, Lena
Credit: Joe Alper

Also speaking of Caffe Lena: three from the box (out 9/24):
Hedy West, Dave van Ronk, Tift Merrit
https://soundcloud.com/tompkinssquare/sets/3-songs-from-live-attaken

Just seen that Skullflower are having a lot of material reissued, didn't see this if it is already mentioned above. Just saw a lengthy description of the 4th disc on Aquarius's website. I have IIIrd Gatekeeper which follows the material in this box which is really good. Don't thin I've heard this earlier stuff but am assuming it is the same Centre of A Black Sun psychedelic guitar scorch.

Dirter News & Forthcoming
19.06.13 RELEASE NEWS

Shock/Dirter present:

SKULLFLOWER: Kino I - IV
DPROMSXSET1

Finally available, after almost two years of driving us to the brink of insanity… A massive four CD retrospective of Skullflower's early works from 1986 – 1990, featuring all the material previously released on Broken Flag, Shock, Majora and Forced Exposure, plus around two hours of previously unheard music – 14 tracks spread across the series. And this is not 'out-take' dross used to fill up CDs, this is essential early Skullflower providing further insight into their uniquely twisted musical world.

All material has been digitally mastered by Richard Whittaker at FX, and each CD comes in a deluxe gatefold card cover and inner sleeve with newly unearthed artwork by Matthew. Booklets feature extensive notes and previously unseen flyers, posters and photos.

Disc I – Birthdeath
Comprises the remastered first 12" EP, available in its entirety for the first time since 1987, plus six previously unreleased, unheard and undreamed of tracks. Revelatory.

Disc II – Form Destroyer
The remastered first album - the best it's ever sounded, two 'bonus' tracks from Shock's long out of print RUINS and two previously unheard pieces. A truly monstrous disc of heavy, fucked up music.

Disc III – Xaman
The most requested early Skullflower release, the original CD rendered unplayable by disc rot for 20 years and the subject of endless drivelsome internet speculation... Finally remastered, with new cover art from Matthew's archive.

Disc IV – Black Sun Rising
Rounds up the first three 7" releases on Shock, Majora and Forced Exposure, the bonus track from THE PORTABLE ALTAMONT, plus six previously unreleased tracks including three from the XAMAN sessions. A disc of Total Rock!

Exclusive to MAIL ORDER CUSTOMERS ONLY we are pleased to offer a set limited to 250 comprising all four CDs, a one-sided 12" of Skullflower's first ever concert plus a stamped and hand-numbered package of six reproduction (pretty much unseen by anyone) flyers and handbills, five designed by Matthew.
The concert on the 12" is the only one to feature the Bower/Dennison/Jaworzyn/Mundy line-up. Recorded on October 7th, 1987 in a 'bottom of the bill' support slot at the Bull & Gate, the 12" features Marilyn Burns, Slaves and Let it Ride (which later metamorphosed into Wave).

This previously uncirculated recording is sourced from SJ's cassette archive, and the record label features a detail from the MB-designed gig flyer. While the flyer has Skullflower playing as Total, the cassette is labelled 'Raiders', The Young Raiders being a 'questionable taste' band name kicked around as a 'tribute' to a particularly squalid Brixton gang. The 12" will not be repressed or made available in any other format and will not be available in shops.

These sets are limited to one per person.

Prices:

UK - £70 inc p+p/insurance
Europe - £75 inc p+p/insurance
Elsewhere - £80 inc p+p/insurance

All packages will require a signature on delivery.

Orders will be processed on a 'first come, first served' basis. We'll be sharing the mail out and processing as many as we can from Monday to Friday - but delays in posting may occur so please be patient.

The CDs will not be available elsewhere for some time, but a small number of individual copies are available from SJ (ste✧✧✧.✧@vir✧✧✧.n✧✧) should you not want the full package. (But don't bother him with stupid questions because he's a psycho.)

Order Skullflower - 'Kino I - IV' here

Anybody said anything about the live Skull reissue campaign through Desire a French record label. Each e.p, & lp remastered, expanded and liner-noted by Mark C and Tom Paine the band's twin guitarists.
The 1st s/t e.p & lp 'Bringing Home The Bait' are out already

hook-up came through Stuart from Ike Yard, who Desire had previously reissued. Stuart and Mark C have a band together now called o13.

Oh , hadn't heard that. Will look them up. any similarity to Live Skull soundwise?

I don't remember. I don't think so though.

Found a bandcamp page for them here
http://o13world.bandcamp.com/track/ocean

& a thing on Desire here but I didn't see mention of Tom Paine
http://desirerecords.bigcartel.com/product/tense-introducing-ep-dsr004cdr

No Tom Paine on o13. Alice Cohen played with them a little bit in the beginning though.

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Brand New album from The Beatles features 37 previously unreleased performances and 23 previously unreleased recordings of in-studio banter.

In 1994, The Beatles' Live at the BBC was released to worldwide acclaim - hitting number one in the U.K., number three in the U.S. and selling more than five million copies within six weeks. Now, a new companion to The Beatles' first BBC collection, On Air - Live at the BBC Volume 2, will be released Monday, November 11 in 2 CD and 180-gram vinyl packages with a 48-page booklet.
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Nirvana's In Utero 20th Anniversary multi-format reissue includes the remastered album and original B-sides to be reissued along with never-before-heard demos and the complete "Live And Loud" concert from December 13, 1993.

Dangerous Minds writes: "...the reissue also contains a new Albini remix of the entire album. While it may, upon a first casual listen, suffer from the kind of but-but-but-it's-different-than-what-I'm-UUUUSED-TOOOOO! bias that can afflict reinterpretations of classics, god damn if it ain't essential, a genuinely valuable new perspective."

"The new "All Apologies," just for one example, is ... STUNNING, especially in headphones. The overall feel of the song is wider and roomier, the trademark Nirvana quiet verse-loud chorus dynamics are more exaggerated (and more effective) than in the Litt remix, and its glorious cacophony-exhausting-itself ending just absolutely slays."

The In Utero 3CD+1DVD Super Deluxe Box Set features more than 70 remastered, remixed, rare and unreleased recordings, including B-sides, compilation tracks, never-before-heard demos and live material featuring the final touring lineup of Cobain, Novoselic, Grohl, and Pat Smear. It also includes a DVD of the complete "Live and Loud" show from Seattle's Pier 48 on December 13, 1993 plus never-before-released bonus material.
3LP Anniversary Edition
Features the original album remastered at Abbey Road Studios on 2LPs and for the first time available at high fidelity 45 RPM, plus a 33 1/3 RPM LP of all the remastered B-sides, never-before-heard mixes and bonus tracks from the original album release. All 3LPS are on 180 gram vinyl.
Nirvana In Utero - 3LP Anniversary Edition
$59.98
BUY NOW: Nirvana In Utero - 3LP Anniversary Edition

The Small Faces – Here Comes The Nice Immediate Years Box Set 1967 – 1969 due in December:

A fully-illustrated 72-page hardback book with a foreword by Pete Townshend
Definitive sleeve notes by Mojo’s Mark Paytrss
Over 50 previously unpublished photos, including sessions by Gered Mankowitz
An exclusive track-by-track guide from original studio logs and band diaries
A definitive lyric booklet with rare Small Faces memorabilia and photos
Three red, white and blue 7-inch singles, including ‘the rarest Small Faces single’
A replica Olympic studio acetate with unheard alternate take
Two posters for Tin Soldier and Newcastle City Hall Concert
Facsimile of rare ‘Ogdens’ press kit
Five collectors edition postcards
Two fine art prints
Newly-written contributions from Robert Plant, Paul Weller, David Bowie, Nick Mason and more
And finally…
…Kenney and Mac newly-signed certificates in all boxsets.

CD1 – Mono worldwide A and B sides plus Eps

01 Here Come The Nice.
02 Talk To You.
03 (Tell Me) Have You Ever Seen Me.
04 Something I Want To Tell You.
05 Get Yourself Together.
06 Become Like You.
07 Green Circles.
08 Eddie’s Dreaming.
09 Itchycoo Park.
10 I’m Only Dreaming.
11 Tin Soldier.
12 I Feel Much Better.
13 Lazy Sunday.
14 Rollin’ Over (Part Ii Of Happiness Stan).
15 Mad John.
16 The Journey.
17 The Universal.
18 Donkey Rides, A Penny A Glass.
19 Afterglow Of Your Love.
20 Wham Bam Thank You Mam.

CD2

01 Shades Of Green. (Instrumental Green Circles Take 4).
02 Green Circles [Take 1]
03 Green Circles [Take 1 - Alternate Mix 1]
04 Anything [Tin Soldier Tracking Session Takes 24 To 28 - Stereo]
05 Anything. [Tin Soldier Backing Track Take 29 - Stereo]
06 Show Me The Way. [Stripped Down Mix - Stereo]
07 Wit Art Yer. [I Cant Make It Tracking Session Highlights Takes 1 - 15]
08 Wit Art Yer. [Backing Track Take 16 - Stereo]
09 I Can’t Make It. [Alternate Mix - Stereo]
10 Doolally. [Things Are Going To Get Better Session Highlights Takes 1-12]
11 What’s It Called? [Call It Something Nice Vocal Overdub Session]
12 Call It Something Nice. [Take 9 - Stereo]
13 Wide Eyed Girl. [Take 2 - Stereo]
14 Wide Eyed Girl On The Wall. [Alternate Mix - Stereo]
15 Donkey Rides, A Penny A Glass. [Stripped Down Mix - Stereo]
16 Red Balloon With A Blue Surprise. [Take 5 - Stereo]
17 Red Balloon. [Alternate Mix - Stereo]
18 Saieide Mamoon. [Tracking Session Wham Bam Highlights Takes 1-5]

CD3

01 Wham Bam Thank You Mam. [Alternate Mix - Stereo]
02 I Can’t Make It. [Stripped Down Mix - Stereo]
03 This Feeling Of Spring. [Just Passing Take 1 ]
04 All Our Yesterdays. [Backing Track - Mono]
05 Talk To You. [Alternate Mix - Mono]
06 Mind The Doors Please. (Instrumental)
07 Things Are Going To Get Better. [Stripped Down Mix - Stereo]
08 Mad John. [Tracking Session - Stereo]
09 A Collibosher. [Take 4]
10 Lazy Sunday Afternoon. [Early Mix - Mono]
11 Jack. [Backing Track - Stereo] (Aka – War Of The Worlds)
12 Fred. [Backing Track - Stereo] (The Pigs Trotters)
13 Red Balloon. [Stripped Down Mix - Stereo]
14 Kolomodelomo. [Take 1 - Stereo] (Aka – Donkey Rides, A Penny A Glass)
15 Donkey Rides, A Penny A Glass. [Alternate Mix - Stereo]
16 Jenny’s Song. [Take 2 - Stereo] (The Autumn Stone)

CD4

01 Itchycoo Park. [Take 1 - Stereo Mix]
02 Here Come The Nice. [Take 1 - Stereo Mix]
03 I’m Only Dreaming. [Take 1 - Stereo Mix]
04 Don’t Burst My Bubble. [Mono Mix]
05 I Feel Much Better. [Stereo Mix]
06 Green Circles. [Take 1 - Italian Version - Mono]
07 Yesterday Today And Tomorrow. [Alternate Stereo Mix]
08 Piccanniny. [Alternate Stereo Mix]
09 Get Yourself Together. [Alternate Mix - Stereo]
10 Eddie’s Dreaming. [Take 2 - Alternate Mix - Stereo]
11 (Tell Me) Have You Ever Seen Me. [Take 2 - Alternate Mix - Stereo]
12 Up The Wooden Hills To Bedfordshire. [Alternate Us Mono Mix]
13 Afterglow Of Your Love. [Alternate Mono Single Version]
14 The Journey. [Gulliver's Travels Version - Mono]
15 (If You Think You’re) Groovy. ['The Lot' Version - Mono]
16 Me You And Us Too. [Mono]
17 The Universal. [Take 1 - Stereo Mix - Mono]

Live From Newcastle City Hall: [Stereo]
18 Rollin’ Over.
19 If I Were A Carpenter.
20 Every Little Bit Hurts.
21 All Or Nothing.
22 Tin Soldier.

Vinyl discs:

01 Here Come The Nice.
02 Talk To You.
03 Become Like You.
04 Get Yourself Together.

01 Itchycoo Park.
02 I’m Only Dreaming.
03 Green Circles.
04 Eddie’s Dreaming.

01 Mystery.
[One Sided Acetate - Alternate Version Of 'Something I Want To Tell You']

01 Album Sampler.
[One Sided Replica Immediate Promo Album Sampler]

Dangerous Minds writes: "...the reissue also contains a new Albini remix of the entire album. While it may, upon a first casual listen, suffer from the kind of but-but-but-it's-different-than-what-I'm-UUUUSED-TOOOOO! bias that can afflict reinterpretations of classics, god damn if it ain't essential, a genuinely valuable new perspective."

"The new "All Apologies," just for one example, is ... STUNNING, especially in headphones. The overall feel of the song is wider and roomier, the trademark Nirvana quiet verse-loud chorus dynamics are more exaggerated (and more effective) than in the Litt remix, and its glorious cacophony-exhausting-itself ending just absolutely slays."

http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/steve-albini-allays-fan-fears-over-nirvana-in-utero-remaster/

The Super Deluxe Edition and Deluxe Editions of In Utero contain a new 2013 mix of the album, created by primarily by Albini and Krist Novoselic, which the producer describes as “an effort to investigate all of the roads not taken”, adding, “this version of the record has performance differences from the original one. It’s an alternate perspective on it.”

whew, for a minute i was like, what is that sound?? how is that just a new mix???

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Rarely in the long history of British rock'n'roll has there been a story of such depth,magnitude and sheer turbulence as that of the Cockney Rejects.

There have been many "rockumentaries" over the years, but director Richard England looked between the lines and realised that there was something very different here - a story spanning over a hundred years, a story of the most impoverished place in Britain, it's people, culture and way of life that is now all but extinct, that in turn gave birth to one of the most ferocious rock'n'roll bands that ever lived.

From the heaving masses living around the largest docks in the world, to the bombs that flew through world war two, East End Babylon takes us on a journey through smoky boxing clubs, battles on the terraces and piss stained boozers as three dead end kids formed a band that would be the last word in rock'n'roll savagery.

Mistrusted and misunderstood by the rock elite and media, the Rejects were one of a kind - the first band to combine rock'n'roll and football, and imbued with a "take no shit" attitude, which has often been copied but never equaled.

Follow the band and its road crew of West Ham's infamous ICF hooligans as they take their furious brand of rock'n'roll on the road, resulting in running battles with Nazis, rival football firms, legendary Top of the Pops performances, culminating in the vicious "battle of Birmingham" which finished the band as a touring unit.

Witness the redemption as the Rejects, now a worldwide cult who's music has influenced some of the biggest bands on the planet, play to hundreds of thousands of people all over the globe, uniting kids from all backgrounds with their particular brand of rock and football.

Come and feel the mighty heart that beats to the sound of rivet hammers on a background of claret and blue.

This is East End Babylon.

http://www.eastendbabylon.co.uk
http://vimeo.com/42654401?utm_source=East+End+Babylon+-+The+Story+of+the+Cockney+Rejects+on+DVD+11%2F5&utm_campaign=East+End+Babylon&utm_medium=email

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DRAG CITY TO REISSUE CLASSIC ROYAL TRUX ALBUM, VETERANS OF DISORDER, OUT 11/17

Back in play just to celebrate 14 years, 2 months and 12 days since it's original release is Royal Trux's penultimate album, Veterans of Disorder.

Coming off the fan-favorite Accelerator LP, it was clearly time to build on expectations, right? Uh...listen, maybe this isn't the band for you. Neil and Jennifer were fans of rock n roll to the finish, sure - but in that, Royal Trux was a dyed-in-the-wool contrarian enterprise, rebels to the core, and everything they endeavored to was viewed from the several angles necessary to call a spade a dupe, etc. And so it was with counterintuitive rose-colored glasses strapped on tight to their work-goggles that Veterans of Disorder was conceived. Accelerator had deployed a unified production concept, with pleasingly mashed-together sonics in an coruscated, ultra-compressed mix. Fine. That was out; New ways of hearing would be necessary this time around. VOD's songs seldom sound as if they're coming from the same session as each other, and the distorto riff-rock that had caused so much intake of breath in '98 was abandoned for a generally cleaner, wider-ranging sound overall.

Which is not to say that Veterans of Disorder lacks a guitarish whip-crack and crunch. The lead-breakdown on "Lunch Money" is supreme, the rockers "Second Skin" and "Waterpark" are directed with assuredly acidic guitars, and the album concludes with seven minutes of deeply focused jamming, as Neil switches tones mid-solo, burning it DOWN several different ways before concluding with threnodial runs of pedal steel.

Even in the dark early days of the band, humor was an essential element to Truxian logic, and perhaps the most enduring qualities of Veterans (after the hard-hitting rock and the songs themselves) are the laughs. Opening with "Waterpark," Royal Trux non-ironically located themselves at play (and loving it) in a symbol of contemporary America's odious heartland. From a band who'd most recently dropped a misshapen and obscure "3 Song EP," this was comedy itself, but the music has the final word, as Jennifer's ode to a day in the sun is matched perfectly by Neil's light-yet-stinging power chords. The call-and-response vocals and percussion breakdowns of "¡Yo Se!" are somewhat pricelessly provocative, as is "Sickazz Dog"'s musique concrète/pop opera romp (in the process divining an entirely different result than the ur-industrial Twin Infinitives). But Jennifer's snake-riding delivery on "Coming Out Party" (including the knee-slappers, "it rhymes with bull-SHIT" and "come back, Dracula, come back!") vs. the serpentine instrumental arrangement is perhaps the album's most overt laff-riot.

Assembled at several studios (including their own home rig) in and around the woods of rural Virginia, Veterans of Disorder unites its divergent approaches under a glossy exterior. This was a band that had fought the major-label wars, and their product, as subversive as it was, was still aiming for the greatest possible impact - an ambition that had no deleterious impact on the music at hand. Instead, Royal Trux revealed themselves once again to be rock satirists supreme, with pure rock and roll that was intent on undermining itself and its audience from within. With less than a year left in their fifteen-year run, Royal Trux were flying at a speed that most bands dream of - and Veterans of Disorder is one of their (many) finest albums. It sees the light of day again on November 19th, 2013 via Drag City.

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NEWLY RE-RELEASED & REMASTERED VERSIONS OF WOLFMOON'S SELF-TITLED ALBUM & SANDRA PHILLIPS' "TOO MANY PEOPLE IN ONE BED" OUT TODAY AS PART OF ALIVE NATURALSOUND RECORDS' ONGOING
SWAMP DOGG SOUL & BLUES COLLECTION!

AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME ON VINYL SINCE THEIR ORIGINAL RELEASES IN THE EARLY 1970S!

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO WOLFMOON IN ITS ENTIRETY VIA THE BIG TAKEOVER
http://www.bigtakeover.com/news/exclusive-reissue-wolfmoon-by-wolfmoon

WOLFMOON - WOLFMOON
FIRST REISSUE EVER, ON ANY FORMAT of this sought after collectors’ album of Southern Soul and pop gospel. Wolfmoon, aka Little Tommy, hails from Richmond, VA and is without a doubt one of the most talented performers Swamp Dogg has worked with and produced. This terrific album includes great cover songs of “People Get Ready,” "If I Had A Hammer" and “Proud Mary,” along with originals penned by The Dogg. The album art is a beautiful psychedelic illustration reminiscent of the '70s. Ltd. ed. color vinyl with original gatefold jacket available from Bomp-mailorder.

"Wolfmoon … what can I say about Wolfmoon that hasn’t already been said about Idi Amin. He’s a treacherous, lying, two-faced song thief; with possible cannibal tendencies. With all that said, he was and still may be one of the greatest singers and entertainers that I’ve known in my career. On top of that, he was a drummer’s drummer. He was the best. That’s how I fell into his trap. This album is timelier today than it was in ‘69. Forget the taste I have in my mouth and listen to a bad motherfu**er sing some great Swamp Dogg songs." – Swamp Dogg

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CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO TOO MANY PEOPLE IN ONE BED IN ITS ENTIRETY
VIA POPMATTERS http://www.popmatters.com/post/sandra-phillips-too-many-people-in-one-bed-album-stream/

SANDRA PHILLIPS - TOO MANY PEOPLE IN ONE BED
Never officially released by Canyon (the label went belly-up just after shipping the first copies in 1970), this album was meant to be a follow-up to the Doris Duke hit record “I’m A Loser." Produced by Swamp Dogg in Macon, GA this is Deep Soul at its best. Sandra Phillips (a/k/a Sandra Reeves-Phillips) has become a star on Broadway, movies and TV, winning awards and appearing in movies such as “Round About Midnight” and “Lean On Me,” and on TV Shows such as “Law And Order.” Ltd. ed. color vinyl available exclusive from Bomp-mailorder.

"I signed Sandra Phillips to Wally Roker’s Canyon label and then took her to Macon, Georgia, where I had a magic lantern that produced a band consisting of Johnny Sandlin (drums), Robert Popwell (bass), Pete Carr (guitar), Paul Hornsby (organ & piano) and me, also on piano. My genie wouldn’t let me do wrong. I had a production deal with Wally for as many albums as I wanted to do, with complete autonomy. I’m damn sorry he went belly-up. The album that you are drooling over was never officially released. Canyon shipped it and then Canyon bought the farm. I gave Sandra an unconditional release and we have remained friends." – Swamp Dogg
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Just seen Cherry Red list for October with Teenage Jesus/Beirut Slump, Barefoot Jerry 2fer of 5th &6th lps (hope 1st 2 will reappear) & several others.

http://factorybenelux.com/the_return_of_the_durutti_column_fbn114.html

Factory Benelux fancy vinyl only reissue of the first Durutti Column album, with inset sandpaper panels and included 7".

Steppes set which is on the Cherry Red forthcoming list
http://www.cherryred.co.uk/shopexd.asp?id=4402

the rest of the list is here
http://www.cherryred.co.uk/shopnews.asp?newsid=473

Oh yeah the other possibly interesting thing than i've already mentioned is the Strawberry Alarm Clock
st 2lps as a 2fer.

as well as
Elmer Gantrys Velvet Opera "ST” CRSEG026

and
World Of Twist "Quality Street” 3RANGE16/LP

and possibly a few others.

Light In The Attic Road Trip 2013

3 weeks, 20 states, 80 record stores, 3,000-miles, countless characters.

We’re excited to announce our sixth annual road trip, the East Coast edition, which will be aired as 6 video episodes on Pitchfork TV starting October 11th, 2013.

view trailer HERE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RL2XJkWryc8

Sixty years ago, crafty salesmen hocked fresh pressed vinyl 45s from the trunks of their dinged Buicks, building hit records one hard-won sale at a time. Today, there is little left of the intensely personal and colorful record business of yesterday, however it still does indeed exist. Light In The Attic Records has spent the last decade building a catalog of new and rediscovered music, including artists like Rodriguez, Serge Gainsbourg, Karen Dalton, PiL, Lee Hazlewood, D’Angelo, Roky Erickson, and more. This October, they will hit the road for their annual pilgrimage: The Light In The Attic Road Trip. Embarking from the Northeastern U.S., the label will set out on a journey across America to sling records and meet the people, while each day documenting the trip live -- as it unfolds.

Hosted by Light In The Attic’s own Jon Treneff and Lydia Hyslop, the trip will cruise across the United States, hitting up record shops, along with contemporary and legendary artists (including Bradford Cox, Dennis Coffey, Father John Misty, members of Big Star, Animal Collective, Seefeel, labels (Stax, DFA, Third Man), and recording studios in such cities as Brooklyn, Detroit, Chicago, New York, Washington DC, Atlanta, Memphis, Nashville and Louisville.

Last year’s journey hit 58 record stores in just 12 days from Seattle to southern California and back. We are ready to slay it again.

Below are the tour dates so stop by your local record store and say hello.

Watch the video episodes on http://pitchfork.com/tv/ and follow our adventures by the minute on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and lightintheattic.net.

#litaroadtrip13

2013 TOUR DATES

NEW YORK CITY – OCT. 8
Other Music
Academy
In Living Stereo
Generation
Kim’s

BROOKLYN – OCT. 9
Norman’s
Earwax
Academy Annex
Record Grouch
Co-Op 87
Captured Tracks

BROOKLYN – OCT. 10
Heaven Street
Permanent
Human Head
Halcyon
Black Gold

BALTIMORE / WASHINGTON DC – OCT. 11
True Vine
Celebrated Summer
Sound Garden
Red Onion
Crooked Beat
Som
Joint Custody

RICHMOND / DURHAM – OCT. 12
Steady Sounds
Deep Groove
Bull City
Offbeat
All Day

GREENSBORO / CHARLOTTE / ASHEVILLE – OCT. 13
CFBG
Lunchbox
Harvest
Static Age
Voltage

GREENVILLE / DECATUR / ATLANTA – OCT. 14
Earshot
Horizon
Cabin Floor
Wuxtry
Criminal Records

MEMPHIS – OCT. 15
Goner
Shangri-La

NASHVILLE / LOUISVILLE – Oct. 17
The Groove
Fond Object
Ernest Tubb
Grimey’s
Underground Sounds

LOUISVILLE / BLOOMINGTON / INDIANAPOLIS – OCT. 18
Please & Thank You
Modern Cult
Guestroom
Landlocked
Luna

COLUMBUS / TOLEDO – OCT. 19
Lost Weekend
RPM
Spoonful
Used Kids
Ramalama
Culture Clash

DETROIT / ANN ARBOR – OCT. 20
Hello Records
UHF
Stormy
Encore
Underground Sounds

CHICAGO – OCT. 21 & 22
Dusty Groove
Jazz Record Mart
Dave’s
Bric a Brac
Permanent
Reckless
Logan Hardware
Kstarke
Cyklopx

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GUITARIST JOHN FAHEY’S SINGULAR MUSICAL VISION
CELEBRATED ON NEW CHRISTMAS COMPILATION
FROM FANTASY

Christmas Guitar Soli With John Fahey features 14 stunning selections
from four of the guitar master’s classic 1968-83 yuletide albums

LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Guitarist John Fahey’s concept of Christmas music was a little different from the norm.

The New Possibility: John Fahey’s Guitar Soli Christmas Album, the acoustic guitarist’s visionary 1968 set, was a scintillating collection of solo steel-string adaptations of beloved traditional Yuletide melodies (“Joy to the World,” “We Three Kings of Orient Are,” “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen”). It reportedly sold more than 100,000 copies on Fahey’s own Takoma label, tabbing it as his best-selling album, and inspired several more memorable holiday sets from the guitarist: Christmas With John Fahey Vol. II (1975, also on Takoma), Christmas Guitar Volume One (1982, on the Varrick label), and Popular Songs of Christmas & New Year’s, a duet collection with fellow guitarist Terry Robb (1983, on Varrick).

All four of those brilliant albums are generously represented on Fantasy’s newly compiled Christmas Guitar Soli With John Fahey, a 14-song compilation of highlights from Fahey’s Yuletide catalog. Scheduled for October 29 CD release, the collection provides a lovely soundtrack for the upcoming holiday season and boasts newly created cover art by Tom Weller, who designed the artwork for many of Fahey’s original Takoma albums, that’s done in the style of those classic sets. In addition, Fantasy will reissue The New Possibility: John Fahey’s Guitar Soli Christmas Album in its original vinyl LP form on November 5.

The new CD’s first five selections (the three mentioned above, plus “Auld Lang Syne” and a medley of “Hark, The Herald Angels Sing” and “O, Come All Ye Faithful”) hail from the classic ’68 set. “Oh Holy Night,” “Carol of the Bells” (a duet with guitarist Richard Ruskin), and a medley of “Oh, Tannenbaum,” “Angels We Have Heard on High,” and “Jingle Bells” are taken from his 1975 follow-up LP. Moving over to the Varrick imprint, Fahey recorded “The First Noel,” “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear,” and “Silent Night, Holy Night” for Christmas Guitar Volume One, while “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town,” “The Christmas Song,” and a medley of “Deck the Halls With Boughs of Holly” and “We Wish You a Merry Christmas” hail from the duet album with Robb. The compilation’s 14 selections summarize Fahey’s long-term commitment to finger-picking timeless Christmas melodies on his acoustic axe.

Born February 28, 1939 in Washington, D.C., Fahey was brought up from age six in suburban Takoma Park, Maryland (inspiring the name of his future label). Blending country, bluegrass, and blues into a groundbreaking guitar technique that also incorporated classical influences (a hybrid later termed American Primitivism), Fahey first recorded in 1958 and released his debut album (which introduced his alter ego of Blind Joe Death) the next year on his fledgling Takoma imprint. Only 100 copies were pressed initially. In 1963, Fahey and fellow record collector ED Denson tracked down pre-war blues legend Bukka White, recording him anew for Takoma and relaunching White’s career. Fahey released his own Takoma encore set, Death Chants Breakdowns and Military Waltzes, during this same period.

While not releasing all of his subsequent albums on Takoma, Fahey continued to record prolifically for the label that he founded into the early 1980s. He weathered a bout with ill health and lived in poverty for a time, but made a heartwarming comeback during the ‘90s. Fahey died February 22, 2001 following a coronary bypass operation.

The concept of playing holiday classics on acoustic steel-string guitar was unheard of until Fahey explored the tantalizing possibility. Christmas Guitar Soli With John Fahey collects the best of his Yuletide performances on one warmly inspiring collection.

(x-post from Revenant thread)

Paramount Records Wonder-Cabinet

THIRD MAN + REVENANT PARTNER TO RELEASE HISTORIC TWO-VOLUME WONDER-CABINET ‘THE RISE & FALL OF PARAMOUNT RECORDS 1917-1932’

How did a Wisconsin chair company, producing records on the cheap and run by men with little knowledge of their audience or the music business, build one of the greatest musical rosters ever assembled under one roof? The answer lies in ‘The Rise and Fall of Paramount Records 1917-1932,’ an epic, two-volume omnibus of art, words and music housed in a limited-edition, hand-sculpted cabinet-of-wonder, to be jointly released by Jack White’s Third Man Records and John Fahey’s Revenant Records.

‘Volume One,’ which covers the label’s improbable rise from 1917-1927, will be released exclusively through Third Man on October 29, and worldwide on November 19. The project is co-produced by leading Paramount authority Alex van der Tuuk, and ‘Volume 2’ will be released in November 2014.

Paramount Records was founded on a modest proposition: produce records as cheaply as possible, recording whatever talent was available. Over its lifetime, the label would become a “race records” powerhouse, its sound and fortunes directly linked to the Great Migration.

By the time Paramount ceased operations in 1932, it had compiled a dizzying array of performers still unrivaled to this day, spanning early jazz titans (Louis Armstrong, King Oliver, Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller), blues masters (Charley Patton, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Son House, Skip James), American divas (Ma Rainey, Alberta Hunter, Ethel Waters), gospel (Norfolk Jubilee Quartette), vaudeville (Papa Charlie Jackson), and the indefinable “other” (Geeshie Wiley, Elvie Thomas). Paramount would also directly influence the style of Robert Crumb and countless other 20th century artists and illustrators, through a series of hand-drawn ads promoting its releases in the pages of the Chicago Defender.

The ‘Rise and Fall’ wonder-cabinet gives equal status to page-turning narrative and new scholarship; original and newly created graphic art; industrial design; and compelling analog and digital music experiences. ‘Volume One’ contains the following:

* 800 newly-remastered digital tracks, representing 172 artists

* 200+ fully-restored original 1920s ads and images

* 6x 180g vinyl LPs pressed on burled chestnut colored vinyl w/ hand-engraved, blind-embossed gold-leaf labels, housed in a laser-etched white birch LP folio

* 250 page deluxe large-format clothbound hardcover art book

* 360 page encyclopedia-style softcover field guide containing artist portraits and full Paramount discography

* Handcrafted quarter-sawn oak cabinet with lush sage velvet upholstery and custom-forged metal hardware

* First-of-its-kind music and image player app, allowing user mgmt of all tracks and ads, housed on custom-designed USB drive

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MOLLY DRAKE ALBUM RELEASED ON LP DISTRIBUTED BY BA DA BING

NICK DRAKE’S MOTHER’S LOST RECORDINGS

OUT OCTOBER 15, 2013

Squirrel Thing Recordings created a limiting pressing of Molly Drake’s home recordings on CD in March 2013. Upon hearing a WNYC feature on the album, fellow Brooklynites Ba Da Bing Records reached out as fans to see if there were vinyl available. On October 15, the LP edition of these beautiful 60-year-old recordings will be released via a partnership between the two labels. The CD version, previously available only via mail order, will finally receive formal distribution.

Molly Drake’s music reaches an extraordinary level of delicate intimacy. With the help of her husband, Rodney, Molly utilized tape and direct-to-disk recorders in her Warwickshire, England home. Molly’s music was reserved for gatherings of her family and friends. Gabriel Drake, Molly’s daughter, remembers, “For Molly, music was a private joy, as was her poetry…She would sit for hours alone at the piano, working out words and music. It never occurred to her that her work could be of interest to a wider audience.” Despite penning several songs and poems, Molly’s music was never published during her lifetime.
The influence she had on her son, Nick, is apparent within moments; however, her work should not be overshadowed, as it is a powerful foreshadowing to his style of playing.

Molly died on June 4th 1993. She was buried in Tanworth-in-Arden, England, her ashes mingled with those of her husband and her son. On the gravestone are chiseled the words written by her son Nick: “And now we rise, and we are everywhere.”

Listen to Molly Drake: http://mollydrake.bandcamp.com/ (can also order it there)

"the missing link in the Nick Drake story – there, in the piano chords, are the roots of Nick's harmonies" – Joe Boyd; legendary producer of Five Leaves Left and Bryter Later

“remarkable for their blend of confidence, sadness and quiet intimacy.” – Robin Denselow; The Guardian

The Duane Allman Skydog set sold out its ltd. ed., but here's Rounder. See upthread for complete tracklist, see bottom of this for audio link:

ROUNDER FOLLOWS UP DUANE ALLMAN BOX WITH
SKYDOG: THE DUANE ALLMAN RETROSPECTIVE
ENCORE EDITION, OUT NOVEMBER 5

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Duane Allman’s acclaimed box set, Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective, was a critical and commercial success. Now, on November 5, 2013, Rounder Records will release an encore edition, with all the music and the original booklet in an elegant new presentation.

Duane Allman was one of the defining musicians of the rock era, rated second only to Jimi Hendrix in Rolling Stone's list of 100 greatest guitarists. A founding member, with his brother Gregg, of the Allman Brothers Band, Duane was also active as a session musician, and as a member of the all-star Derek & the Dominos.

Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective (released on March 19, 2013) received nothing but the highest praise from the press and music communities, which heralded the collection as a must-have for all rock music lovers. RollingStone.com raved, “Highly recommended, and hopefully to be on the receiving end of a few awards next time the Grammys roll around.” Uncut proclaimed, “To say the resulting seven-disc box set — with 129 tracks, 33 of them either previously unreleased or unissued on CD — has been worth the wait would be a gross understatement. Skydog is an addictive, endlessly captivating aural history of a towering figure in rock history, with each disc forming a distinct chapter in the sprawling narrative.”

The initial limited-edition run of 10,000 numbered copies completely sold out to loyal fans in a matter of weeks (the package included a gold velour-lined box that represented a guitar case, a replica of Duane’s guitar pick, a “Skydog” sticker, and vellum disc sleeves). Now, in response to overwhelming demand, the Duane Allman fan will have access to the most important ingredient of the collection — the full breadth and depth of his music and work, offered in a slimmed-down package at a lower price.

The seven-CD set, produced by Duane's daughter Galadrielle Allman and esteemed reissue producer Bill Levenson, ranges from his early recordings (with Gregg) in bands such as The Escorts, The Allman Joys, and Hour Glass; to his studio work with Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Boz Scaggs, Delaney & Bonnie, and many others; to a live jam session with the Grateful Dead. The set includes performances available only in this collection, many classic Allman Brothers songs, and a collector’s cache of rare singles. Also in the encore edition are the original 72-page book with essays by Scott Schinder and Galadrielle Allman, and many rare Duane Allman photographs.
here's the soundcloud: http://mediakits.concordmusicgroup.com/p/skydog/listen.html

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info and listening here: http://www.dead.net/store/1980s/daves-picks-volume-8-fox-theatre-atlanta-ga-113080?eml=dead/100713/dpbanner

Numerophiles-

How to keep it fresh in the ‘13? Combing through the 42 emails we’ve sent out over the last decade, it’s clear that we’ve tried a plethora of pithy openings, but we’re not breaking any new ground in your inbox. Like a marriage that has suffered one too many evenings at the Olive Garden, we need to spice things up. Which is why this will be the last overly wordy email you receive from your dear Coach Numero.

Next month we’re going to launch only the third iteration of the Numero website. We’ve been hacking away at it for close to two years, in the same way that we’ve worked on a massive box set. We want perfection, we’ll settle for peerless. In addition to a far superior cart, audio player, and drastically improved search functionality, we’ve overhauled the subscription service and will be rolling out FLAC options in the new year. A by-product of these changes is also a new email bot that will improve the frequency in which we disseminate information, but with a succinct precession. (For example: we’re already 193 words into what will be a lengthy tirade.)

So celebrate this last bout of long-windedness, reader. You’ll look back on these emails with the same nostalgia you had for your first AOL account, before the stunted days of texting and mind reading. You’ll think, “Christ, some loser spent five hours crafting that crap. It took me two minutes to skim and delete. I miss that jerk.”

001. Sixteen volumes of Eccentric Soul later…
002. Meet JR. No, not the burly dude who used to work here.
003. Kids are almost gone.
004. Hidden tracks

001. Marva-lous!

In 1969, after three years as Soul Sister #1 to James Brown’s touring entourage, Marva Whitney came home to Kansas City, putting Ellis Taylor’s Forte label back at full fighting strength. She’d calmed aching crowds the day after MLK’s death, and she’d lived the life, despite its rigors—to pour out her pain and exuberance on Forte sides including “I’ve Lived The Life” and “Daddy Don’t Know About Sugar Bear,” which made national rounds in 1972.

Numero 047 Eccentric Soul: The Forte Label charts Kansas City yeoman’s work, the Carpets and the Derbys, dapper clothiers mysteriously murdered, and marriages made and broken. In 28 LP tracks or 21 on CD, plus a trove of promo headshots and every-hued label scans detailing all iterations of Forte’s logo in print, this 16th Eccentric Soul sojourn hands over vivid floor shakers and lost dance craze records alike—though what moves “The Hen” required remains anyone’s guess.

Purchase the 21 song compact disc/download or 28 song double LP .

002. JR Robinson used to work here and scare the gang bangers off the stoop. We named a label after him for the hell of it.

Late last year we rolled out four albums by seminal Illinois power poppers Shoes on a label that had almost no branding. 20 albums later, only a velum obi strip ties this mysterious line together, with no discernable A&R vision beyond making great LPs available at an even greater price. All LPs are replicated down to the tiniest detail, are housed in 28-point board tip-on jackets, and pressed on heavy weight vinyl. We just issued four more:

The Four Mints: Gently Down Your Stream

Gently Down Your Stream marked a creative zenith within the Columbus, Ohio, soul scene at the juncture of the 1960s and ‘70s. The Four Mints were one of the most influential Franklin County group harmony outfits of their era and—with assistance from Columbus doyen and Capsoul purveyor Bill Moss—among the few to release a full length LP. The roster of backing musicians hired to provide aural landscaping reads like a Midwest supergroup, with surprising appearances from Indianapolis based vibraphonist Billy Wooten and drummer Bobby Allen of the Fabulous Originals from Dayton, Ohio. And though most of the material on 1973’s Gently had been previously released as 45s, the collection—five singles and one priceless track saved from the scrap heap—gives witness to a world-class vocal quartet at its professional and intuitive peak. Under the watchful eye of arranger and mega-talent Dean Francis, the Four Mints pour forth from your speakers soulful, faithful and clear, but perhaps more importantly, intrinsically homegrown and utterly honest.

Kathy Heideman: Move With Love

Lodged between a heartbreak and a smoke break, Kathy Heideman’s Move With Love wandered off I-5 somewhere just south of Hungry Valley State Vehicular Recreation Area and broke down. At its dusty roadside, cheap truck-stop java flows over plaintive coffeehouse tunes concerning “Bob” and “Need.” Her session hand’s lanky, echo-laden guitar might’ve twanged a bit strong for the typical sandal-shoed hitchhiker, who’d have fell harder for Dylanesque grandeur on “The Earth Won’t Hold Me.” More Bakersfield than Laurel Canyon, and set to walking in 1976 by the one-off Dia imprint in a plain-Jane, black-on-white sleeve, Heideman’s lone LP suffered the geographical misfortune of having ripened in the presilicon orchards of San Jose, California, far from more marketable realms—Emmylou’s backyard, say, or Joni Mitchell’s summery lawn. Heideman herself faded out thereafter, packing her shaken, singular voice into a rustic suitcase, moseying on, and leaping into the moving sun.

Centaura: Lawdy, Lawdy, Lawd

Warrior horse-woman of myth or chimerical beast of late 1970s funk? It is simply Centaura, available here for what amounts to the first time. For Atlanta hillbilly impresario Bob Riley, the “Spiral Series” of 12”s was part put-on, part hustle—but for Birmingham, Alabama’s Centaura, that spiral-in logo appeared as a long-shot leg up. Their record’s two-color, one-idea cover was mass-produced for Riley’s envisioned run of potential releases…though nothing but the enigmatic Centaura ever filled the jacket—and just barely. Recorded in 1978, Lawdy, Lawdy, Lawd is a long-playing Golden Fleece of funk, disco, boogie, and deep post-Muscle Shoals balladry that would’ve surely failed to exist without Riley’s extreme penny-pinching tactics in service of a failed marketing ploy so ludicrous, it kept the LP out of stores, relegated to extreme scarcity forever. On Side One, Jesse Daniel and Cedrich Rutledge trade energized beats and freaks, before the synth-washed slowdown of “One of a Kind.” Side Two features Riley’s two textbook funk cuts and album-ender “Just Don’t Love You”—a mysterious tack-on of the Carbon Copies’ Git Down Inc.-issued 45, plus a heaving “Distant Lover” that sexes Marvin Gaye’s original into softcore porn territory.

Rokk: I Want To Live High

A debut album that never was, Rokk’s I Want To Live High is that rare misshapen pearl clenched tightly between the shells of a music industry shucked long ago. Too soulful for its disco-era release date, the sextet’s 1976 Tollie issued 45 “Patience” (as featured in Eccentric Soul: Omnibus) tracked well in Rokk’s hometown of Los Angeles, but was withdrawn before patience ran out with the spring rains of 1977. Tracked simultaneously was this entire shelved album full of Rokk’s mid-tempo grooves, flute-lead funk, sultry female backing vocals, slap bass, chorus-drenched guitars, and lyrics about getting baked and eating baked apple pie. Jazzy, with plentiful slices of Broadway, Innervisions, and Rokk’s own stoned brand of horn-rock, had I Want To Live High ever gotten so high as actual record store shelves circa late 1977, it would’ve surely sobered up to the commercial onslaught of Saturday night disco juggernauts and the pummeling forces of earth, wind, and fire.

The complete JR discography:

JR.001 Shoes: One In Versailles
JR.002 Shoes: Bazooka
JR.003 Shoes: Black Vinyl Shoes
JR.004 Shoes: Pre-Tense: Demos 1978-1979
JR.005 Circuit Rider: S/T
JR.006 Lewis Connection: S/T
JR.007 Syl Johnson: Dresses Too Short
JR.008 Syl Johnson: Is It Because I’m Black
JR.009 Otis G. Johnson: God Is Love ‘Everything’ 78
JR.010 Rokk: I Want To Live High
JR.011 Centaura: Lawdy, Lawdy, Lawd
JR.012 The Sixth Station: Deep Night
JR.013 Four Mints: Gently Down Your Stream
JR.014 Kathy Heideman: Move With Love
JR.015 Family Circle: S/T
JR.016 Jocefus: Dead Man [Available 2014]
JR.017 Nikki Sudden: Waiting On Egypt [Available November 2014]
JR.018 Nikki Sudden: The Bible Belt [Available November 2014]
JR.019 Nikki Sudden & Dave Kusworth: Jacobites [Available November 2014]
JR.020 Jacobites: Robespierre's Velvet Basement [Available November 2014]

All LPs are $15 plus freight. It’s like we’re running a punk label over here.

003. Kid is Gone is here

Kid Is Gone is the unquiet portrait of primal Unwound. Before 1993’s Fake Trainripped through, they’d been Giant Henry, Supertanker, and Cygnus X-1, short-lived black holes gathering dark material into something built to explode. From Justin Trosper, Vern Rumsey, and Brandt Sandeno’s first restive years, “Crab Nebula” might’ve best prepared the indie-sphere for what Unwound became, had Sandeno’s split not stalled their planned debut. Part 1 in Numero’s 4-part reissue project, Kid Is Gone documents signal chaos in Olympia’s fertile scene before Unwound’s turbulent noise hit stride, in unrevealed period photos, 34 tracks, and three LPs—cassette-only demos, early 7”s, a KAOS radio broadcast, material tracked live in a local basement, and all of what became 1994’s Unwound, on which the band’s prehistory plays out in a feral maelstrom of screaming, distortion, feedback, and abrasive promise.

If you order from our website, and our shitty website alone, you can also pick up the 2001 live LP 7/26/2001, wherein Unwound’s original line up reunited to run through their ten year old repertoire with blazing precision. We only made 1000 of them, and they’re almost gone. (Insert kids almost being gone, selling out, or some other cleverly worded jargon here.)

Come up with something cute to say here that forces the reader to click the link and buy.

004. Last gasps and other delights

We made a bunch of other stuff in the summer that you may’ve missed:

NUM003 Eccentric Soul: The Bandit Label 3LP
CT-102 Iron Leg: The Complete Mickey & the Soul Generation 3LP
ER-3014 Express Rising LP

Next time you see us we’ll have a brand new sports car, comb over, and some kind of stiffening or thinning medication. These crows feet aren’t going anywhere, but damn if there isn’t a new Numero around the corner.

Signing off,
Coach Numero

That Four Mints album is a sweet trip, and o course Black Vinyl Shoes etc.

More Jewish-Latin/Latin-Jewish revelations from The Idelsohn Society! I've dug all I've heard. (Before that, Rudipherous turned me on to Larry Harlow, who probably wrote and recorded the first salsa opera; The Idelsohn's def got Harlow's number too.)

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THE IDELSOHN SOCIETY TO RELEASE
IT’S A SCREAM HOW LEVINE DOES THE RHUMBA:
THE LATIN-JEWISH MUSICAL STORY
1940s–1980s.
Two-disc set, due out November 26, chronicles the musical confluence between Latinos and Jews in the U.S.
Liner-note contributors include Los Lobos’
Steve Berlin and bandleader Arturo O’Farrill.
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — The sweaty mambo dance-floors of the legendary Palladium nightclub. The weekend Borscht Belt ballrooms of the Catskills hotels. The bar mitzvah bandstands of Brooklyn. The Fania All-Stars stages of the Cheetah and Yankee Stadium. The pianos of the Brill Building. The bullrings of Tijuana.
Welcome to one of the great unsung currents of American pop music: the forgotten musical mash-up of Latin and Jewish, bagels and bongos, Spanish and Yiddish, manteca and schmaltz, that’s been a bubbling undercurrent of American pop music since the early 1900s. It’s a story full of Jewish mambo dancers, Jewish salsa greats, beloved sidemen, and record label chiefs on the one hand, and Latino bandleaders, singers, composers, and entrepreneurs on the other.
The forthcoming two-CD set It’s a Scream How Levine Does the Rhumba: The Latin-Jewish Musical Story, 1940s-1980s, is the first of its kind to excavate and mine this cross-cultural tale. Featuring legendary names like Eddie Palmieri, Celia Cruz, Herb Alpert, Carole King, Tito Puente, and many more, it offers an in-depth historical examination of the relationships between Latinos and Jews in America through the sound of popular music.
The $17.99-list package will be released November 26, 2013 by the Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation, a critically acclaimed all-volunteer non-profit organization that explores Jewish-American history through recorded sound.
Songs on It’s a Scream How Levine Does the Rhumba: The Latin-Jewish Musical Story, 1940s-1980s feature both Jewish artists exploring Latin music styles and Latino artists engaging with Jewish themes, topics and audiences, and will follow the evolution of a musical relationship, from early 20th century novelty songs to 1970s and 1980s salsa classics.
The project will also include archival images and ephemera, online oral histories, as well as an extensive booklet of essays by Steve Berlin, saxophonist and producer for the legendary Chicano band Los Lobos, and acclaimed New York bandleader and Afro-Cuban jazz pianist Arturo O’Farrill, whose own origins mix Mexican, Cuban, African-American, Irish and Jewish.
The range of songs reveals a rarely documented musical genealogy of Jewish-Latino musical interchange in the U.S., one that moves from early Yiddish rhumba records by Irving Kaufman and the Barton Brothers up through the Catskills mambo experiments of top Latin bandleaders such as Machito and Tito Puente; “Hava Nagila” makeovers by legends like Celia Cruz and Damirón; the influential band innovations of Eddie Palmieri; and the 1970s salsa output of artists like Larry Harlow, who was dubbed by his Latino band-mates “El Judio Maravilloso.” The project will be accompanied by remixes from the Mexican Institute of Sound and others.
It’s a Scream How Levine Does the Rhumba: The Latin-Jewish Musical Story, 1940s-1980s follows the Idelsohn Society’s critically acclaimed compilation Black Sabbath, an anthology of African-American artists working with Jewish music and songs by Jewish songwriters. The Black-Jewish story has been well documented by scholars, historians and musicians alike while the Latino-Jewish story is less familiar.
The compilation’s title is taken from a 1953 single by Ruth Wallis, included in her three-disc Rhumba Party collection for Deluxe Records. And while ostensibly a novelty tune, the subject pointed to a more serious truth: the expansive musical genealogy of Jewish-Latino musical interchange in the U.S.
Los Lobos’ Berlin, in his foreword to the liner notes, cites Celia Cruz’s take on “Hava Nagila” — one of the collection’s 41 tracks. “I most certainly would have never dropped out of Hebrew School if the cantor was in any way anything like Celia.”
About the Idelsohn Society:
The Idelsohn Society for Musical Preservation is a critically acclaimed all-volunteer non-profit organization. We are a small but dedicated team from the music industry and academia who passionately believe Jewish history is best told by the music we have loved and lost. In order to incite a new conversation about the present, we must begin by listening anew to the past We’ve done this in a number of ways:
•Re-releasing lost classics and compilations like Mazel Tov, Mis Amigos, and carefully curated compilations like Black Sabbath: The Secret Musical History of Black-Jewish Relations and ’Twas the Night Before Hanukkah: The Musical Battle Between Christmas and the Festival of Lights, complete with deeply researched liner notes in a thoughtfully designed package.
•Filming the story of every musician we can find across the country to build a digitally based archive of the music and the artists who created it in order to preserve their legacy for future generations.
•Curating museum exhibits that showcase the stories behind the music, such as “Jews on Vinyl,” which is traveling the nation, and “Black Sabbath,” the longest-running display at the Contemporary Jewish Museum.
•Creating concert showcases like “Mazel Tov, Mis Amigos” at Yoshi’s and Lincoln Center and “Jews on Vinyl Revue” at the Skirball Cultural Center.
•Building interactive digital apps to complement the albums and allow a deeper dive into the music and stories.
•Bringing the world’s first-ever 1950s pop-up Jewish record store to San Francisco for a month, featuring exhibits, nightly musical performances, oral histories, and lectures. The Tikva Records store drew over 25,000 visitors.
All of this work is driven by the passion and energies of our volunteer supporters and donors across the country who share the belief that music creates conversations otherwise impossible in daily life. Our work has lifted the past into the present, from the pages of the New York Times to the NPR airwaves to the stage of Lincoln Center.
The Idelsohn Society was founded by Roger Bennett, Courtney Holt, David Katznelson and Josh Kun.
Disc 1
1. Irving Kaufman: Moe the Schmo Takes a Rhumba Lesson
2. The Barton Brothers: Arriba (Part 1)
3. Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra: Miami Beach Rhumba
4. Pupi Campo and His Orchestra: Joe and Paul
5. Al Gomez Orchestra: Sheyn Vi Di Levone
6. Ruth Wallis: It’s a Scream How Levine Does the Rhumba
7. Alfredito and His Orchestra: Mambo - For Dancers Only
8. The Crows with Melino and His Orchestra: Mambo Shevitz (Man, Oh Man)
9. Candido featuring Al Cohn: Cheek to Cheek
10. Slim Gaillard: Meshuganah Mambo
11. The Barry Sisters: Channah From Havana
12. Mickey Katz and His Orchestra: My Yiddishe Mambo
13. Abbe Lane with Tito Puente and His Orchestra: Pan, Amor Y Cha Cha Cha
14. Machito and His Afro-Cuban Orchestra: Mambo La Concord
15. Johnny Conquet, His Piano & Orchestra: Matzoh Ball Merengue
16. Tito Puente and His Orchestra: Grossinger’s Cha Cha Cha
17. The La Plata Sextette: Raleigh Riff
18. Don Tosti with Raul Diaz: Loco (ballad)
19. René Bloch: Mambo Chicano
20. Pérez Prado: The Twist of Hava Nageela
21. Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd: Desafinado
22. Little Eva: Uptown
Disc 2
1. Ray Barretto: Exodus
2. Eddie Palmieri y su Conjunto “La Perfecta”: El Molestoso
3. Mongo Santamaría: Watermelon Man
4. Eydie Gorme & The Trio Los Panchos: Sabor a Mi
5. Celia Cruz Con Orquesta: Hava Nageela
6. Joe Quijano:Sabbath Prayer (Plegaria)
7. The Alegre All-Stars: Tema Alegre
8. La Lupe: América
9. Mark Weinstein: Just Another Guajira
10. Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass: Belz Mein Shtetele Belz (My Home Town)
11. Harvey Averne: Cucaraca Macara
12. The Ghetto Brothers: Ghetto Brothers Power
13. Ron Eliran: Y Volveré
14. Damirón: Hava Nagila
15. Pete Yellin: Tojo
16. Willie Colón: Junio 73
17. Carole King: Corazón
18. Andy Harlow’s Latin Fever: Me Llevo a la Marina
19. Larry Harlow: Yo Soy Latino

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I put up a thread about the reissue of Jook's album above but it went down like a lead balloon. I love it. Fans of Slade, power pop and glam would dig this. It's got quite powerful and catchy Who thing going on too. The band were "skinhead-glam" out of the ashes of 60s garage band, John's Children.

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Jesus, fuckin' Deadheads. That new Dave's Picks is already sold out and it doesn't even come out until November 1!