National Record Store Day

another lovely record store day special

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dj food vs amorphous androgynous

17 minute version of an album track that does all the usual aa excess.

This has a link to tracks from these LPs:
RECORD STORE DAY EXCLUSIVE
March 13, 2012 – Vanguard Records is proud to announce the reissue of five classic recordings available exclusively on Record Store Day – April 21, 2012.

Back in June of 2011 Vanguard and Record Store Day asked fans to vote on www.recordstoreday.com for the five Vanguard titles to be reissued on Record Store Day 2012. Fans voted, and below are the five titles selected. These 12” vinyl LPs – newly re-mastered from the original tapes - will be limited in quantity and available EXCLUSIVELY at participating independently owned record stores on April 21, 2012. And if the past two years are any indication, these LPs will be gone in hours, if not minutes! So mark your calendars – April 21, 2012 – Record Store Day!

Larry Coryell – Spaces - This iconic jazz-fusion album features Coryell alongside John McLaughlin, Billy Cobham, Miroslav Vitous, and Chick Corea.

Buddy Guy – This is Buddy Guy - This classic live blues album features Guy at the height of his powers, tearing through a blistering and virtuosic set.

Joan Baez – Farewell Angelina – This 1965 album features Bob Dylan tunes as well as songs by Donovan and Woody Guthrie.

Mississippi John Hurt – Last Sessions – Recorded just months before Hurt’s death, this album captures the blues icon in fine, inspiring form.

Skip James – Devil Got My Woman – This 1968 release holds a dozen semi-autobiographical or entirely personalized traditional songs that attest to James’ almost unparalleled artistry.

To hear tracks from these recordings, visit www.vanguardrecords.com/recordstoreday

i love vanguard for continuing to reissue records you can still find for a few bucks almost anywhere in the country. i mean, spaces and their continuing joan baez campaign.

lol so true. you just *never* see any copies of 'Spaces' around...

skip james and john hurt always welcome, but, yeah...

what store would buy that joan baez for their store? maybe in woodstock...

every once in a while i would receive new promo vanguard releases in the mail and i liked some of them a LOT. one of them even made my pazz & jop top ten a couple years ago. nobody on earth hears them. nobody. possibly some local npr-type radio play and that's about it. which is too bad, because they really have put out decent folk-ish stuff over the last 5 or 6 years.

The store I work at (up until next Monday) is a contender for ordering the boring Baez reissues. I think we even still have the Hammond ones from last year. I loved the Hurt and Fahey ones from last year though, and am very excited about the Skip James and the new Hurt reissues, definitely.

old blues is always a winner. from a sales point of view. but if you were gonna make a list of stuff that is hard to sell in a used record store...joan would be on it.

i got a reissue of the yellow princess by john fahey at record store day a couple years ago, it's nice

The current full official list of UK Record Store Day 2012 releases is now available: http://www.recordstoreday.co.uk/exclusive-product.asp

doesnt work

http://www.recordstoreday.co.uk/exclusive-product.aspx

Sorry, bad copy & paste on my part - thanks anagram!

anyone know what this is?

Bob Dylan
Can You Please Crawl Out Of Your Window
Special RSD 4x 7" boxset release, numbered copies, including a sticker
QTY: 1000
Label: Music On Vinyl

It is all about one Finnish item for me this year...

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The Heads Peel Sessions lp looks good. Botch lp too and the Tangerine Dream 7"

anyone know that DEVO 81 live show? good?

They had a good a live album out in the early 80s, didn't they? 60s Baez LPs aren't nec so easy to find beyond a few folkie strongholds, the good ones anyway (like what was it, Joan Baez 5, with everything from "Stewball" to Villa Lobos to "The Death of Queen Jane"), before the vibrato took over. That one from a few years ago, Day After Tomorrow, I think, was really good, w song selection and vocal excess reined in by producer Steve Earle, not the first artist you'd think of re vocal reliability.
Sub Pop Makes Record Store Day 2012 Worth Living with Releases from Beach House, Blitzen Trapper, and Shabazz Palaces

Terminal Sales Vol. 5: Mixed Nuts, Sub Pop’s Free 16-Track 2012 Label Sampler Will Also Be Available On Record Store Day
We here at Sub Pop Records love few things more than Record Store Day. We’ll be demonstrating and celebrating this love on April 21, 2012 with array of exclusive and limited-edition releases featuring new, rare and unreleased tracks from Beach House, Blitzen Trapper, and Shabazz Palaces. On this same day, we will also release our FREE 2012 label sampler, Terminal Sales Vol. 5: Mixed Nuts, a 16-track collection of new, rare and, in some cases, previously released tracks from Beachwood Sparks, Jaill, Shearwater, THEESatisfaction, Spoek Mathambo, Debo Band, King Tuff, and 9 more. All Sub Pop Record Store releases come with exclusive and ridiculously handsome artwork. Full track lists and release details are below.

Beach House
“Lazuli” b/w “Equal Mind” 7” single
(Limited-edition of 2,400 copies on blue vinyl)
1.Lazuli
2. Equal Mind

Beach House
Bloom Album Artwork
Pre-order: iTunes/ Amazon /Insound / Sub Pop.com

Blitzen Trapper
“Hey Joe” b/w “Skirts on Fire” 7” single
(Limited-edition of 1800 on yellow vinyl)
1. Hey Joe
2. Skirts on Fire

Shabazz Palaces
Live at KEXP12” EP
(From the band’s spectacular 2011 live session on KEXP, one of the station’s most popular live sessions, limited-edition of 2,000 copies on purple vinyl)
1. bop hard
2. An echo from the hosts that profess infinitum
3. a mess, the booth that soaks in palacian musk
4. free press and curl


Various Artists
Terminal Sales Vol. 5: Mixed Nuts
1. Shearwater – “You as You Were” (demo version)
2. Memoryhouse – “Walk With Me”
3. feedtime – “rock n roll”
4. Spoek Mathambo – “Kites”
5. THEESatisfaction – “QueenS”
6. Poor Moon – “People in Her Mind”
7. Retribution Gospel Choir – “The Stone (Revolution!)”
8. Shabazz Palaces – “bop hard” (From the Live at KEXP 12” EP)
9. Father John Misty – “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings”
10. Beach House – “Myth”
11. King Tuff – “Bad Thing”
12. Jaill – “Waste a Lot of Things”
13. Beachwood Sparks – “Forget the Song”
14. Debo Band – "Asha Gedawo"
15. Husky – “History’s Door”
16. Niki & The Dove – “DJ, Ease My Mind”

Tompkins Square Rolls Out Line of 78 RPM Discs
Record Store Day Exclusives from Ralph Stanley, Luther Dickinson

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San Francisco-based record label Tompkins Square announces the first in a series of releases in the 78 rpm 10" vinyl format.

The first two will feature previously unreleased recordings from Luther Dickinson (North Mississippi Allstars), and Ralph Stanley. Both 78's will be released as a limited edition of 500 copies on Record Store Day, April 21, 2012.

Luther Dickinson plays medleys of Southern melodies on his 78, including "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah/Beautiful Dreamer" on the A side and "Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen/Peace in the Valley" on the B side. Ralph Stanley's 78 features "Single Girl", with "Little Birdie" on the B side.

Tompkins Square owner Josh Rosenthal comments, "A lot of new turntables play 78's, and many 78 collectors listen to their records on modern equipment. Tom Waits, Elvis Costello and Nick Lowe have all recently released 78's. So I thought it would be fun to start a line of them."

The label will also release a white label 45 of Hiss Golden Messenger's "Jesus Shot Me in The Head" from the forthcoming album 'Poor Moon', b/w the unreleased "Jesus Dub," on Record Store Day.

Hiss Golden Messenger's album "Poor Moon" is set for release April 17th.

Hear Hiss Golden Messenger's album Poor Moon

Dunno what's happening with their links, but you can chack Luther's 78 here, and scroll down the right rail to the view all link for Hiss Golden Messenger's album and one by Ardoin and McGee http://soundcloud.com/tompkinssquare/nobody-knows-the-trouble-ive

The Cure for UK Record Store Day (April 21st, 2012):

Friday I'm In Love (Secret 7" single Qty: 100)
Three Imaginary Boys (Numbered 2,500 coloured vinyl LP 180g)
Seventeen Seconds (Numbered 2,500 coloured vinyl LP 180g)
Faith (Numbered 2,500 coloured vinyl LP 180g)
Pornography (Numbered 2,500 coloured vinyl LP 180g)
The Top (Numbered 2,500 coloured vinyl LP 180g)

I don't think I'd heard about the 7'', will have to investigate... thanks!

Anyone in NYC certain whether they'll be getting the Freakwater reissue?

Freakwater reissue??

PS There's also a Catherine Irwin / Wooden Wand split 7" for RSD on the People In A Position To Know label. Hazel Dickens covers!

Yeah! Freakwater's first album:

http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/5203

I very much would like it! Thinking it may be a harder one to find in that I'm sure who will end up ordering it for their store.

I'm not sure*

Awesome! But pretty sure that's the second or possibly even third album. (s/t and Dancing Underwater were first, I think?)

I'm not even doing the actual ordering for our store but am trying to keep on top of it all as my boss does so, as there is just the two of us, and it is totally madness-inducing! SOOOO much stuff spread across so many distributors and emails and phone calls and customer requests and order forms and and and and....

Awesome! But pretty sure that's the second or possibly even third album. (s/t and Dancing Underwater were first, I think?)

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Oops, good call. Love that band, am always kicking myself for not picking up one of their albums that came into the store I used to work at awhile ago. My own fault!

Yeah the list this year is nuts, I wonder if it'll keep expanding every year much like our universe.

Here is the list for Germany (and maybe also the rest of mainland Europe?) - seems rather different from the UK list linked to above:

http://www.recordstoredaygermany.de/?page_id=12

mmmmmmmmmmm ABBA
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What's the deal with this Let Them Eat Vinyl label? They have three RSD releases - Cohen, Springsteen and Beefheart, all obviously bootlegs:

http://www.letthemeatvinyl.com

Kind of surprised RSD is sanctioning boots.

Just got this press release

For National Record Store Day---The Electronic Anthology Project of Dinosaur Jr.

Two years ago, Built To Spill bassist and solo artist Brett Nelson decided to put his considerable musical talents up to a bit of a challenge:

"I truly love bands like Talk Talk, Men Without Hats, and Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, but I also love bands like Dinosaur Jr., The Replacements, and The Pixies. So what if I merged my two loves together?"

The answer to that question, initially, was the first release by The Electronic Anthology Project, an EP that took seven songs from the Built To Spill catalog and reimagined them as '80s synth pop classics. Utilizing a variety of vintage 80’s synthesizers and drum machines, the project shimmered with an authentic sheen. And rather than rely on the cut-and-paste ease of modern recording software, he records all the melody lines into his computer using as many takes as needed to get it right. "If I can't play it straight all the way through without screwing up," he says, "then it's not used." And the whole experiment was delightfully topped off with newly recorded vocal tracks from BTS front man, Doug Martsch.

Although dismissed by some reviewers as a "goof," Nelson took to the task with great sincerity and the resulting songs bridged the two seemingly separate worlds with bubbly charm and grin-inducing levity.

At the time of the first EAP release, Nelson promised that he would be back with more. And true to his word comes the latest installment in this project: The Electronic Anthology Project of Dinosaur Jr.

To be released on Record Store Day (April 21st, 2012) in a limited edition of 500 purple vinyl copies (with digital, cd and standard vinyl to follow), the new edition of The Electronic Anthology Project takes nine songs from Dinosaur Jr. and brings out the new wave influences that were always hiding among the acid-dripping guitar solos and fervent rhythms.

The blast of "Little Fury Things" (from Dinosaur Jr.'s breakthrough 1987 LP You're Living All Over Me) is given a new life thanks to a throbbing Devo-like pulse. One of the band's most underrated songs from their Sire years, "Feel The Pain," sounds even more wistful when lost in the swell of glistening synth melodies and a knotty bed of programmed beats that would make The Human League proud.

True to form, Nelson called on Dinosaur Jr. leader J. Mascis to record all new vocal tracks for each song here. Wrenched free from the volume and intensity of his band, the heartfelt side of Mascis's lyrics and sober delivery are given the spotlight's full glare and, as a result, shine even brighter.

Lest you think even after two volumes of the Electronic Anthology Project that Nelson is done, he has a long wish list of bands he'd love to make future EAP projects with, including the likes of The Pixies and Sebadoh.

BATTLES
DROSS GLOP 4 12” (OUT APRIL 21/RECORD STORE DAY)
FINAL 12” OF SERIES RELEASED FOR
RECORD STORE DAY, APRIL 21 2012

a1 ICE CREAM (BDG #GANG GANG DANCE REMIX)
a2 ROLLS BAYCE (HUDSON MOHAWKE REMIX)
b1 MY MACHINES (PATRICK MAHONEY & DENNIS MCNANY REMIX)
12"s OFF THE PRESS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKVO378-w4E

DROSS GLOP ALBUM

RELEASED ON CD & DOWNLOAD APRIL 17

WITH REMIXES BY:
HUDSON MOHAWKE, SHABAZZ PALACES, GANG GANG DANCE, GUI BORATTO, THE FIELD, QLUSTER, KODE9, PATRICK MAHONEY (OF LCD SOUNDSYSTEM) & DENNIS McNANY, KANGDING RAY, THE ALCHEMIST, SILENT SERVANT & EYE (OF BOREDOMS)

THE GLOSS DROP / DROSS GLOP SERIES

Tinariwen will be contributing to the cause with the vinyl debut of their Grammy winning album Tassili in a special Record Store Day edition which includes four remixes, available for the first time anywhere.

Tassili Remixes include:

1) Tenere Taqhim Tossam - Four Tet Remix
2) Imidiwan Ma Tenam - Portugal. The Man Remix
3) Imidiwan Ma Tenam - Galactic
4) Tameyawt - Deakin of Animal Collective Remix

"I was excited to have a chance to work on a Tinariwen song because while their instrumentation is not all that different their rhythms and their melodies are entirely different from what I am used to, remixing "Imidiwan Ma Tenam" allowed me to think a differently and, frankly, it was just good fun.” - John Gourley, Portugal. The Man

On their latest album Tassili the band return to the essence of their hypnotic desert blues sound. Recorded in the South-Eastern Algerian desert, the band is joined by Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone of TV On The Radio. Later on, virtuoso guitarist Nels Cline (Wilco) and the horns of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band contributed. The result is a simultaneously exotic and accessible sound.

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2-LP editions, that is:
Three vinyl reissues - ‘Arthur’, ‘Face To Face’ and ‘Something Else’ – released April 21st on Universal
The Kinks jump on board for Record Store Day 2012 with three vinyl reissues; classic albums ‘Arthur’ (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire)’, ‘Face To Face’ and ‘Something Else’, released April 21st on Universal.

Based around fictional character Arthur Morgan – a carpet-layer inspired by Ray Davies' brother-in-law Arthur Anning – ‘Arthur’ is a canonical Kinks concept album from 1969. This 2-LP edition reissue comes on white coloured vinyl.

‘Face To Face’ was released in 1966 and represents the first full flowering of Ray Davies’ songwriting; narrative-rich, with wry social commentary. Consisting entirely of his compositions, it heralded the band’s move away from the hard-driving rock and roll style of 1964-65. This 2-LP edition reissue comes on blue coloured vinyl.

‘Something Else’ was the fifth studio album by The Kinks, released in 1967 and features three songs composed by Dave Davies, including the hit single ‘Death of a Clown’. This 2-LP edition reissue comes on red coloured vinyl.

All 2-LP editions, these three vinyl reissues come with deluxe packaging – with Mono and Stereo mixes – and booklets designed by award winning art director Phil Smee, packed with rare and unreleased images from the era.

Each reissue was re-mastered from original tapes by Kinks archivist Andrew Sandoval and is limited to 500 copies in the UK, all of which are individually numbered.

Record Store Day 2012 takes place Saturday April 21st, for more information go to: Record Store Day - Home

instead of getting me all excited, all of these announcements are just making me realize that this whole day is now just pretty much catered to those people who are only going to shop this day and this day only out of the year. i'll just continue to support my local the other 364 days.

damn, seems like the longer RSD goes on and the bigger the crowds get, the smaller the print runs on mainstream scumbait stuff get. not enough of a kinks fan to care, but i bet there are at least 5,000 people in the world who are.

yeah, that seems crazy low. this is why i'm not a fan of this forced exclusivity, its only going to result in bigger crowds full of more disappointed people, which doesn't sound fun to me at all.

mmm, but to the extent of buying these albums agayuhn?

man i'd be all over those kinks jawns

maybe not in one day, but over a couple years time, sure. shit like that just seems made to go for crazy dollars on e-bay, enrichment of the cockroaches, offers very little to actual fans.

xp

yeah i mean that was biggest gripe from other RSD days is that i was surrounded in line by dudes whose sole intent was to grab ebay fodder. like i went in with a list of 5 records i wanted by bands i loved and was only able to come home with 1.

my strategy has been to show up at my favorite record store because it's not one of the biggest in minneapolis and i have a decent shot at getting some of the big stuff -- like last year i got the television old waldorf thing and the big star thing

then i just go to some other stores after it cool downs and if you have no real agenda and don't want some of the hyped stuff you can pick up great gems like i got the arthur russell thing really late in the day....

Which Arthur Russell?