Rolling Reissues 2024

The endless churn of cultural excavation, recycling and mulching continues...

isn't it great?

From Metal Injection:

After two years of waiting, we actually have a (sort of) release date for the Tony Martin-era Black Sabbath box set! According to Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi in his New Year's greeting video, the box will see the light of day sometime this May. No word on if this also includes all the albums being available on streaming services, but here's hoping it does.

Martin sang for Black Sabbath between 1987 and 1991, and then again between 1993 and 1997. Martin's discography with the band includes The Eternal Idol, Headless Cross, Tyr, Cross Purposes, and Forbidden, all of which are largely unavailable on any format.

Are they good? I've never heard Sabs w/o Ozzy.

I'm not a fan but they have their defenders (except for Forbidden, which nobody likes).

You've never heard the Dio albums, Heaven and Hell and Mob Rules and then Dehumanizer and The Devil You Know (released as Heaven & Hell)? Dude, you're missing out. They're all really good and The Devil You Know is great; genuinely scary doom.

Your enjoyment of Tony Martin-era Sabbath, much as with Ian Gillian-era Sabbath, will depend greatly upon how much you are willing to listen to those albums as if they were made by any other band than Black Sabbath. Strictly as hard rock or metal records, most of them are at least pretty good. I definitely rep for Headless Cross and TYR. Just go into them as if you are hearing some lost late 80s metal band you've never heard before and forget the legacy of Sabbath and its impossibly high standards. Tough to imagine someone who loves metal not being at least somewhat moved by the title track of Headless Cross, to cite one example.

unperson otm about Dio era, though. Entirely different ball of wax there.

this was mentioned on the post fahey thread, very interesting compilation
https://n-t-s.bandcamp.com/album/european-primitive-guitar-1974-1987

NEW LIVE ALBUM FROM FRANK ZAPPA AND THE MOTHERS

On July 23, 1968, Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention took over the Whisky a Go Go for an all-night affair. Although bits and pieces were released by Zappa over the years, a full live album never happened, and the tapes sat in the vault for 56 years. Now all three sets by The Mothers are being released as Whisky a Go Go 1968, featuring brand new 2023 mixes on 3CD, 5LP and a 2LP highlights edition with liner notes by Joe Travers, Pamela Des Barres (The GTO’s), and an interview between Alice Cooper and Ahmet Zappa. The album be available digitally and on 3CD June 21st with the 5LP and 2LP edition coming July 12th!

This release compiles everything The Mothers of Invention played in their designated sets, complete and newly re-mixed from high-resolution digital transfers of the original master tapes. Yet another historic moment in time from the vault and a reminder of how special the original Mothers of Invention were.

Ahead of June 21st, the previously unreleased first single off the album "The Duke – Take 2 (Live at Whisky a Go Go, 1968)” is streaming now on all platforms!

Phil Mogg Shines His Misty Green and Blue Light on the Newly Expanded 180g 3LP Deluxe Edition of UFO’s 1977 Hard Rock Classic, Lights Out

https://www.analogplanet.com/content/phil-mogg-shines-his-misty-green-and-blue-light-newly-expanded-180g-3lp-deluxe-edition-ufo%E2%80%99s

CHILD BITE Releases Limited Ten-Year Anniversary Edition Of Strange Waste EP On Vinyl Via Housecore Records
Strange Waste fuses all walks of extreme from metal, noise, and hardcore without falling squarely into any of one those genres. A wholly bastardized hybrid of the Melvins, Dead Kennedys, Big Black, and System Of A Down, CHILD BITE's self-proclaimed “music for losers” is ugly, anxious, and dangerously habit-forming. Originally issue by Housecore Records as a double 7” in 2014, Strange Waste was captured at Russian Recording in Indianapolis, Indiana and produced by CHILD BITE. The 2024 edition features new cover art: an original painting commissioned by Brad Moore (Tomb Mold, Gatecreeper).

Comments vocalist Shawn Knight, "It's been a decade since this bad boy came out, and I think it's safe to say we're even more fucked up now after all of these years. Lots of good memories from around this time, like our first tours with King Parrot and Acid Witch. The music video with King Buzzo... I still don’t know how we pulled that one off. I managed to put my ego in check just long enough to hire surrealist Brad Moore to paint the new cover and I couldn't be happier with what he did for us. And it's our first time pressing a record with Waxwork; both vinyl variants they came up with are amazing.
trange Waste is limited to 300 copies (100 x Splatter vinyl, 200 x Butterfly vinyl). Order yours today at the Housecore Records webshop or Bandcamp.

Strange Waste EP Track Listing:

1. Still Fucked Up After All These Years

2. Garbage Odyssey

3. Sinking In Your Skin

4. Ancestral Ooze

5. Molestation of the Arts

6. Foreign Tissue Purge

7. Mongoloid Obsession

8. Obey The Wraith

9. In A Cloud Of Blood

10. Bog Infinity

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Paul McCartney and Wings’ One Hand Clapping, one of the most bootlegged live albums in musical history, is available for pre-order and releasing digitally on June 14th!

In August 1974, Paul McCartney and Wings headed to Abbey Road Studios for the filming of a video documentary and possible live studio album now known as One Hand Clapping. Despite overwhelming demand for newly recorded material from the biggest band in the world at that time, it was never officially released.

Filmed and recorded over four days and directed by David Litchfield, the release of One Hand Clapping is a historic moment for McCartney fans. Over the years, various parts of the album have been bootlegged with varying degrees of success. Some of the material has also appeared on official McCartney releases. However, June 14th will be the first time the audio for the film - plus 12 additional songs - have been officially issued. The release will feature the original artwork designed for the project and a TV sales brochure for the unreleased film at the time.

One Hand Clapping will be available in multiple formats, including an online exclusive 2LP + 7” package featuring an exclusive vinyl single of previously unreleased solo performances recorded on the final day of the sessions in the backyard of Abbey Road studios. These include the unreleased track “Blackpool,” The Beatles’ iconic “Blackbird,” Wings B-side “Country Dreamer,” and cover versions of Eddie Cochran’s “Twenty Flight Rock” (the first song Paul played to John Lennon when they met in 1957) and Buddy Holly’s “Peggy Sue” and “I’m Gonna Love You Too.”

The first single off the album, “Junior’s Farm,” is available now for streaming on your platform of choice. Originally released as a non-album single in 1974, this blazing version was recorded as part of the One Hand Clapping sessions BEFORE the single version was recorded!

Paul McCartney & Wings Official Music Videos

Check out all the Wings music videos in one place. Remastered in HD - up to 4K. Streaming now on YouTube!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_bl1BP6bvU

Pentagram has signed to Heavy Psych Sounds Records for their first album since Curious Volume in 2015. Pentagram will also reissue their long outta print 1999 album Review Your Choices and 2001 follow-up Sub-Basement alongside the record, making the next year or so pretty Pentagram-heavy.

https://metalinjection.net/upcoming-releases/pentagram-signs-to-heavy-psych-sounds-for-first-record-in-nine-years-reissues#:~:text=Pentagram%20has%20signed%20to%20Heavy,or%20so%20pretty%20Pentagram%2Dheavy.

i've been waiting decades for this one. CHBB, at last!

https://chbb.bandcamp.com/album/chbb

CHBB was a project by Beate Bartel and Chris Haas that developed from their collaboration in 1981,
while working on the self-titled album 'Liaisons Dangereuses‘. They released their music only on four limited cassettes.

This compilation presents the complete works of CHBB, including all recordings from their original cassettes alongside previously
unreleased tracks produced by both artists.

Omnivore Memorial Day Sale--today and Saturday, that's it. All of the stuff I knew they had, that I got from them---Chilton, Big Star, Richman, Modern Lovers, NRBQ, Lone Justice---and a lot more:
https://omnivorerecordings.com/memorialday/

xp Thanks for the CHBB reissue news/link, stir!
(On an EBM-adjacent note, enjoyed your appearance on the latest Belgian New Beat ep of Electronic Beats TV on YT)

Coming up from Omnivore:

Young Fresh Fellows
The Fabulous Sounds Of The Pacific Northwest [40th Anniversary Edition]
Release date: June 28, 2024

Description
40th anniversary reissue of their classic debut, remixed from original 8-track tapes by Scott McCaughey.

Formed (conceptually) by Scott McCaughey and Chuck Carroll in Seattle in 1981, The Young Fresh Fellows, with the addition of Chuck’s mad-drumming cousin Tad Hutchison, began work on their debut effort in 1983. Friend Conrad Uno volunteered to produce and record the trio in his basement/garage Egg Studios (no money exchanged hands), and Uno’s fledgling label PopLlama Products insisted on pushing the record out into the world, beyond a small circle of friends. Starting with the magical success of this album, PopLlama would become a fixture in the still-floundering Seattle music scene and the home of bands including Fastbacks, The Posies, Dharma Bums, and The President Of The United States Of America (whose Uno-produced debut would go on to be certified Triple Platinum by the RIAA.)

Inspired by a 1960s single from Pacific Northwest Bell to promote tourism, the cover plays homage to that release, with sound bites as “narrator” from that original record (and now, either thankfully or regretfully, omitted from this cut-to-the-rock ’n’ roll-chase remix). The Fellows suddenly found themselves darlings of college radio, with an enthusiastic following, and admired by their peers. A bouncy, punky, jangly, and weirdly self-referential collection of songs, The Fabulous Sounds Of The Pacific Northwest became a favorite of anyone who came upon it, including early proponents like Paul Westerberg, Ira Robbins, NRBQ, Rolling Stone, and Peter Buck.

Now, for its 40th Anniversary, YFF co-founder and songwriter/vocalist Scott McCaughey (R.E.M., The Minus 5, The Baseball Project) has remixed the album to (re)introduce it to the world. The idea was to put 40 years of music-making experience into the mix (push up the bass fader), without losing the naiveté and wonder that fueled its initial reception. The original album’s 15 tracks will be pressed on limited-edition, opaque Turquoise vinyl. The (now) double-CD and Digital programs include a bonus disc—Merry Croutons Mr. Gulp Gulp—an ultra-rare party-in-the-studio 1984 cassette release of about 200 copies.

Back on the road in 2024, The Young Fresh Fellows, with longtime line-up of Scott, Jim Sangster, Kurt Bloch, and newcomer John Perrin of NRBQ, will be crossing the country—from their hometown of Seattle through to Wilco’s Solid Sound festival in Massachusetts. The Fabulous Sounds Of The Pacific Northwest will be ringing out on the stages and turntables of America!

2-CD / DIGITAL TRACK LIST:
DISC 1:
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL PEST CONTROL
ALL MESSED UP
THINK BETTER OF ME
EMPTY SET TAKES A VACATION
TEENAGE DOGS IN TROUBLE
YOU CALL THAT LONELY?
VIEW FROM ABOVE
BIG HOUSE
POWER MOWERS THEME
GUS THEME
THIS LITTLE MYSTERY
A HUMBLE GUY
DOWN BY THE PHARMACY
THAT LETTER
YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS THEME
DISC 2:
DOWN BY THE PHARMACY (Xmas Version)
I’M NOT TRYING TO HURT YOU
FILET OF SOUL
SOMEONE I CARE ABOUT
THIS LITTLE MYSTERY
THE SHARING PATROL
IF I HAD A HAMMER
TOPSY TURVY THEME
I WISH I WAS YOUR MOTHER
SOMETIMES GOOD GUYS DON’T WEAR WHITE
YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS THEME
YOU CALL THAT LONELY?
TEENAGE DOGS IN TROUBLE
MERRY CROUTONS MR. GULP-GULP

LP TRACK LIST:
SIDE 1:
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL PEST CONTROL
ALL MESSED UP
THINK BETTER OF ME
EMPTY SET TAKES A VACATION
TEENAGE DOGS IN TROUBLE
YOU CALL THAT LONELY?
VIEW FROM ABOVE
SIDE 2:
BIG HOUSE
POWER MOWERS THEME
GUS THEME
THIS LITTLE MYSTERY
A HUMBLE GUY
DOWN BY THE PHARMACY
THAT LETTER
YOUNG FRESH FELLOWS THEME
Cat: OV-549

:-) it was a lot of fun!

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Sorry to dump that post on top of yours, Craig D. Of course there was a warning, but I did it anyway.

Ha, no worries! Relating to Omnivore-reissued power-pop/power-punk, I listened to The Muffs' Happy Birthday To Me at work earlier today; RIP Kim Shattuck, what a great band.

Yeah, those Omnivore Muffs sets can be revelatory, with the prev unreleased *and* pre-fucked-with masters of previously released tracks (well tbf some of the latter may be post-fucked with, adjusted for modern ears, no longer by decree of suits or others trying to figure what kids of yesterday would go for).

Org Music reissues
Bad Brains’ legendary album
I Against I
on July 26, 2024
via LP, CD, Cassette

I Against I is the third studio album from Bad Brains, originally released in 1986 on SST Records, showcasing the band's unique fusion of punk rock, hardcore punk, reggae, and heavy metal influences.


The full-length remains influential to this day, inspiring countless bands with its innovative sound and uncompromising attitude.

This reissue marks the eighth release in the remaster campaign, re-launching the Bad Brains Records label imprint. It will be available in vinyl, CD, and digital formats.

A "Punk Note" edition of the vinyl will be available with alternate package artwork from designer John Yates (Stealworks), as a nod to Reid Miles and Francis Wolff, and their amazing work at the Blue Note label.

In coordination with the band, Org Music has overseen the restoration and remastering of the iconic Bad Brains’ recordings. The audio was mastered by Dave Gardner and pressed at Furnace Record Pressing.

Track List:

A1 Intro

A2 I Against I

A3 House of Suffering

A4 Re-Ignition

A5 Secret 77

B1 Let Me Help

B2 She’s Calling You

B3 Sacred Love

B4 Hired Gun

B5 Return to Heaven

Vinyl Variants:

Standard Black (available widely)

“Plutonium” Color (available widely)

“Punk Note” Edition on Black vinyl (available widely)

"Punk Note” Edition on Coke Bottle Clear (badbrainsrecords.com exclusive)
Exclusive vinyl variants are also available from Zia Records, Newbury Comics, Revolver, and Brooklyn Vegan.

Help us celebrate the return of this classic album, and please let us know what else you might need for coverage!

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Out Today:
Margo Guryan - Words and Music 3xLP
Witness to revolutions in jazz and pop, Margo Guryan earned her place in the songwriting pantheon and then some. That she was largely unknown for decades is not the stuff of crushed dreams, but a result of her own choices and priorities. From humble beginnings to the peaks of her 1968 baroque pop masterpiece Take a Picture and the collected Demos to the recent viral ubiquity of “Why Do I Cry”, Words and Music captures the entirety of Guryan’s career, featuring 16 previously unreleased recordings and a 32-page booklet telling the whole story.

The story of Margo Guryan is one of a woman who dug deep from an early age and was never afraid to change. With her keen feel for tone, phrasings, tension, presence, and lyrics that cut, her name today is synonymous with sophisticated songcraft and inimitable 1960s cool.Her ingenuity and technique set her in the tradition of chamber-pop icons like Brian Wilson and Burt Bacharach while the bittersweet candor in her depictions of womanhood suggest a middleground between Carole King's pop-factory and singer-songwriter eras. But the understated rigor of Margo's artistic voice is all her own.

(Also CD, digital, streaming options)

from Real Gone Music:

You probably remember the 1994 album Born to Quit from Smoking Popes…it’s the one with the hit song “Need You Around,” which was “around” pretty much everywhere back then, including in the movie Clueless (for that matter, “Lucky Day” from this album was in Tommy Boy, “Mrs. You & Me” was in Angus, and “Gotta Know Right Now” in Boys)... If you like power pop hooks with heart, look no further…our release comes in pink & white “sunburn” vinyl to honor the front cover photo (put a shirt on, man!) inside a gatefold jacket.

From indie pop to guitar genius we go with Television guitarist and solo artist Tom Verlaine. His self-taught, jazz-influenced style, largely devoid of effects, and vibrato tone (oh, that tone!) makes any Verlaine solo unmistakably a Verlaine solo. That he was quite an accomplished, idiosyncratic songwriter is just a bonus. Real Gone Music is very, very proud to announce that we have arranged with the Verlaine estate to release Tom’s last three solo albums on LP, starting with his 1992 instrumental masterpiece Warm and Cool, which has never been released on vinyl in the U.S. Swirling within this album’s 14 compositions are hints of rock, jazz, country, surf, and even a little bit of the guitar noir found on Angelo Badalamenti’s soundtracks for David Lynch, all given brilliant new life in a fresh mastering for vinyl by long-time Verlaine collaborator Patrick Derivaz, who also played bass on the album. Simultaneously avant-garde and familiar-sounding, Warm and Cool is as contemporary and forward-thinking as any music coming out today, but—as the new liner notes by Verlaine’s life partner Jutta Koether point out—the album fits into a larger modern art and philosophical context. Indeed, reading Koether’s poetic love letter to her dear departed and listening to this gorgeous, daring music makes for a profound experience we are eager to share. Pink vinyl pressing to go with the artful choice of type hue on the front cover!

Finally, Fanny! Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready to hear the best live band of the early ‘70s? We at Real Gone Music have been privileged and proud to release Fanny’s classic Reprise albums, each a tuneful testament as to why they were the first all-female band signed to a major label. But there has always been a piece missing from the Fanny fable; for while the band hooked up with big-time producers and engineers like Richard Perry, Todd Rundgren, and Geoff Emerick, their studio albums never really were able to capture the sheer excitement they could generate in concert. However, buried away in a vault thousands of miles away from their Los Angeles base there long lay a recording that could could provide the emphatic answer as to why these four ladies were the hottest ticket on the Sunset Strip during the early ‘70s. Now, over 50 years later, Live at Beat-Club ’71-’72 presents the two sets Fanny recorded for the German TV show, mastered by Mike Milchner of Sonic Vision from hi-res mono files taken from the original videotape. Aside from the incendiary and incredibly tight performances, what immediately becomes apparent is that all four of these women were powerhouses in her own right. June Millington’s stringbending Les Paul wizardry, her sister Jean’s driving, melodic bass lines and Janis Joplin-esque vocals, Nickey Barclay’s intricate yet somehow rocking keyboard work, and Alice de Buhr’s precise, piston-like drumming punctuated by ferocious fills—put together Fanny was an overwhelming display of talent, Yet somehow, as these shows reveal, live they were greater than the sum of their parts. That’s why getting these recordings released has long been a crusade for Alice, and why June tells the story in the accompanying liner notes (which feature contributions from June, Jean, and Alice) that the engineer who was assigned to do the transfers of all the Beat-Club material told her that their material was the best in the vault, better even than Hendrix. We are releasing this invaluable archival recording on juicy peach vinyl and on CD with a bonus track of the soundcheck to boot. Essential for a full understanding of ‘70s rock!

xp that's interesting to see, I had thought that Numero announced years ago that they were out of the CD game.

Most detailed description I've seen so far of new Ziggy Stardust box:
https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/music/2024/06/13/david-bowie-rock-n-roll-star-box-set/74065693007/

More from Numero:

Out Now:
Master Wilburn Burchette - Opens The Seven Gates Of Transcendental Consciousness 1xLP
California mail-order mystic Master Wilburn Burchette was first known from his ads, hidden in the back pages of Fate Magazine, Beyond Reality, and Gnostica News. On his 1972 sophomore album, Burchette channels dreamy early music, druid folk, electric fingerstyle, psychedelic balladry, and new age ontology to create a visionary guitar technique all his own. This faithful reproduction includes the original 12-page full color instruction book for the secret method of piercing the psychic heart.

Vinyl / Digital / Streaming

Out Now:
Leon Bridges / Pastor T.L. Barrett - Like A Ship 1x7"
The 6th 7" in our latest round of Numero Classics cover series. This one is a Split 45 straight from the Heavens above. Leon Bridges effortlessly transforms Pastor T.L. Barrett's iconic "Like A Ship," updating the gospel soul classic with a southern soul twist.

Vinyl / Digital / Streaming

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Scientists - You Get What You Deserve (LP)
Bad vibes, habits, and breath collide on this ten-song pile up on the freeway to nowhere. Melting neo-grunge, swamprock, and noise punk in a cauldron of drug-addled psychosis, 1985's You Get What You Deserve continues Australia's prison-as-country tradition of unhinged lunacy in the face of cultural isolation. Nuke nostalgia, femme fatale sharpshooters, demolition derbies, and a vacation at Hell Beach await.

Pre-order: Release date is August 16th - Order will begin shipping in July.

Vinyl

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Super Djata Band - Volume 2 (LP)
Connecting Wasulu hunter music, griot praises, Senufo pastoral dances, Fula and Mandingo repertoire alongside Western psychedelia, blues and afro-beat, Zani Diabaté’s Super Djata Band was among Mali’s top orchestras of the 1980s. On their 1982 album, Diabaté enshrines himself within the pantheon of mythical West African guitarists, hypnotically picking through eight vivid compositions on his path to godhead status.

Pre-order: Release date is August 9th - Order will begin shipping in July!

Vinyl / Digital / Streaming

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Sandy Harless - Songs (LP)
Arriving as the hippy movement was discovering its peaceful easy '70s feelings, Sandy Harless' Songs LP is Chillicothe, Ohio's lone contribution to the Cosmic American Music movement. Financed from a 27-aquarium fish breeding business, the album shows its Appalachian roots with a tight weave of mountain folk, rural rock, and pastoral country. Real people music.

Pre-order: Release date is August 9th - Orders will begin shipping in July.

Vinyl / Digital / Streaming

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Alfonso Lovo
LA GIGANTONA

The son of a prominent Nicaraguan politician, Alfonso Noel Lovo was an obvious target when Sandinista rebels hijacked a Managua-bound flight from Miami in December of 1971, ultimately putting several rounds through the talented musician’s torso and hand. After several years, and as many surgeries, he would break ground on this psychedelic pastiche of Latin jazz and pan-American funk, recorded in his nation’s capital in 1976. The binary stars of the sessions would be the agile Lovo and percussionist Jose “Chepito” Areas, whose timbale work can be heard on watershed records by Carlos Santana, including the Latin-rock milestone, “Oye Como Va.” Lovo’s unreleased masterpiece, combining the talents of Nicaragua’s most notorious players, recalls at once the spiritual funkiness of Herbie Hancock’s Mwandishi, the studio trickology of Lee “Scratch” Perry, and the dense propulsion of Billy Cobham’s Spectrum. Fusion begets confusion, as hand-plucked guitar melodies tumble into synthesizer meltdowns with wasted grace. More experimental than Jamaica’s heaviest dub plate, La Gigantona lays in a groove that is, at times, as deep in the pocket as it is in the clouds.
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Antena
CAMINO DEL SOL

1982, Brussels: The former au pair for Rick Wakeman of Yes and two of her teenage friends are at the doorstep of Les Disques Du Crepuscule, ready to cut an album with Gilles Martin. Living on busking wages and next door to Tuxedomoon, their work results in a contemporary bossanova record that would provide a missing link between Antonio Carlos Jobim and Kraftwerk. Camino Del Sol was issued and promptly forgotten, with Isabelle Antena moving toward jazz in Asia and the others returning to France. Twenty years later, it was findable only as a VG+ LP with a sticker price of $4.99. Intrigued by the striking cover’s sunlit patio furniture emptiness basking in the south of France, we scooped up Camino Del Sol and grouped the extant Antena recordings from that exceptional period by session. Our definitive 2LP reissue of the original five-song mini-LP adds the group’s first 12” (a cover of Jobim’s “Girl From Ipanema,” naturally), the Seaside Weekend 12”, compilation tracks, and two previously unissued cuts, recasting this short-lived combo’s forward-thinking milemarker as a modern-day masterstroke.
2xLP
$35.00

From Soul Jazz Records storefront, Sounds Of The Universe:

https://soundsoftheuniverse.com/img/b1QybmRaZkRsTVZkZEJkNytYOUdUUT09/a1952595584-65.jpg

Night Train: Transcontinental Landscapes 1968 – 2019 Various Artists

From Dusk, through to Dawn. A collection of tracks to accompany the change of the fields, the coastline, the colour of the sky outside your window as you take your journey. From the compiler of ‘Music for the Stars (Celestial Music 1960-1979)’ comes the next collection from Brighton label Two-Piers. Featuring artists such as J.J Cale, Chris & Cosey, The B-52s, The Asphodells, Bob Lind, Linda Perhacs and the Menahan Steet Band.

Edward Hollcraft – South Bound Amtrak 716
2. J.J. Cale – Cherry
3. Bonnie Dobson – Milk & Honey
4. H.P. Lovecraft – Spin Spin Spin
5. The Rationals – Glowin’
6. Linda Perhacs – Hey, Who Really Cares
7. B-52’s – Deep Sleep
8. Nine Circles – Twinkling Stars
9. The Asphodells – Another Lonely City
10. Tangerine Dream – Love on A Real Train
11. Chris & Cosey – Dancing Ghosts
12. Johnny Harris – Fragments of Fear
13. Bill Frisell – 1968
14. Bob Lind – City Scenes
15. Tony Joe White – Rainy Night in Georgia
6. Menahan Street Band – There’s A New Day Coming
17. The Byrds – Goin’ Back
18. Earth, Wind & Fire – Drum Song
19. Leon Russell – Out in the Woods

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Elvin Jones & Richard Davis
Heavy Sounds
DECCA / VERVE
Recorded for Impulse in 1967, a session originally intended to be a trio date morphed into an 11 ½-minute duet on “Summertime” between drummer Jones and bassist Davis when the guitarist did not appear. The following day, saxophonist Frank Foster and pianist Billy Greene joined in to round out the rest of the cuts including “Elvin’s Guitar Blues,” which features Jones’ only recorded guitar performance.

This Verve By Request title is pressed on 180-gram vinyl at Third Man in Detroit. Expected Aug 08.

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Arthur Baker presents
Breaker's Revenge
Original B-Boy and B-Girl Breakdance Classics
SOUL JAZZ RECORDS
1. Dennis Coffey and The Detroit Guitar Band – Scorpio
2. The Jimmy Castor Bunch – It's Just Begun
3. B.T. Express – Energy Level
4. James Brown – Get On The Good Foot
5. Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force – Planet Rock
6. Manu Dibango – Soul Makossa
7. Esther Williams – Last Night Changed It All
8. The Mohawks – The Champ
9. Herman Kelly & Life – Dance To The Drummer’s Beat
10. Spanky Wilson – Sunshine of Your Love
11. James Brown – Give it Up Or Turnit A Loose
12. Candido – Soulwanco
13. Arthur Baker – Breaker's Revenge
14. Manu Dibango – The Panther
15. Abaco Dream – Life and Death in G & A
16. The Jackson 5 – Dancing Machine
17. Mongo Santamaria – Cloud Nine
18. Edwin Starr – I Just Wanna Do My Thing
19. Badder Than Evil – Hot Wheels
20. Johnny Bristol – Lusty Lady
Compiled by legendary producer Arthur Baker, ‘Breakers Revenge’ is a near-definitive collection of original Funk, Soul, Latin, Disco and Electro classic tracks from 1970-1984.

These tracks, a combination of classics and obscurities, have all since become legendary to Breakdancers everywhere. First played at South Bronx block parties, community halls and park jams in the 1970s and 80s, spun endlessly by the first three major hip-hop DJs - Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa – and found in the record crates of any DJ of note ever since.

Seminal funk and soul tracks such as Dennis Coffey’s ‘Scorpio’, The Jimmy Castor Bunch’s ‘It’s Just Begun’, James Brown’s ‘Get on the Good Foot’, The Mohawks’ ‘Champ’ sit side-by-side here with the ground-breaking classic electro of Afrika Bambaataa’s ‘Planet Rock, and Arthur Baker’s own definitive ‘Breakers Revenge.’

Breakdancing has come a long way from its New York roots to its respected position as an art form today where, for the first time ever, it is to be featured in the Olympics held in Paris this August 2024.

The ‘breakbeat’ remains at the very heart of hip-hop, the mercurial funk, soul and disco tracks, always 100% guaranteed to get B-Boys, B-Girls and Breakdancers moving at any block party, with the percussive breakdown of each track the pinnacle soundtrack to any dance/battle between Breakdancers of any note.

Similarly these tracks have been sampled many 1000s of times over by every hip-hop artist and producer of note. KRS-ONE, Marley Marl, Kanye West, Jay-Z, Public Enemy, Eric B, The Fugees, Outkast, Mos Def, Main Source, Jungle Brothers, LL Cool J, De La Soul and, well, everyone!

Compiler Arthur Baker played a pivotal role in hip-hop history when in 1982 he produced Afrika Bambaataa’s seminal ‘Planet Rock’ (as featured here), introducing electronic instruments into hip-hop for the first time ever and in the process created electro. After ‘Planet Rock’, Arthur Baker went on to remix or produce every major artist of note – from New Order to the Rolling Stones, Al Green to the Pet Shop Boys.

This Soul Jazz Records vinyl release is presented as a deluxe gatefold double vinyl, with two bespoke inner sleeves and download code, the double CD comes in digi-case includes full notes and booklet. Both formats come complete with introduction by Arthur Baker, extensive sleevenotes, including track-by-track breakdown. by hip-hop historian JayQuan, and striking images from photographer Sophie Bramly.

“What I truly loved about early Hip-Hop was that the music thrown down by ‘Bam, Grandmaster Flash, Jazzy Jay and Kool DJ Herc was genre-less, multi-cultural, music from all ends of the world. This is the definitive collection, including all the classics (other than a couple that alas we couldn’t get the rights too), and some real hard to find obscurities.” Arthur Baker

REVIEWS:

Mojo Magazine - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Famed electro producer selects the breakdance tracks that matter before its Olympic debut in Paris.
Marries essential well-knowns with critical obscurities.

Record Collector Magazine: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
These are the breaks.
18 key tracks spun at the earliest parties by Kook Herc, Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa … early building blocks for KRS One, Public Enemy, De La soul etc.
Beautiful.

The Wire Magazine: an undeniably handsome package… simply gems that deserve a fresh airing.

************SPECIAL EVENT************

SORRY< THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT >

To launch the album there is a very special event with Arthur Baker in conversation with Stuart Baker (founder of Soul Jazz Records) on Thu 27 Sep at 6.30pm at Sounds of the Universe.

You can buy tickets for this event NOW.

You can buy a ticket+ signed album (LP or CD) bundle or a ticket on its own. The album bundle guarantees you a special copy of the album signed by Arthur Baker which you can up at the event.

Space is limited and this event will sell out.

EVENT INFORMATION:

An Intimate Evening With Arthur Baker

Arthur Baker in conversation with Stuart Baker (Soul Jazz Records founder)

6.30pm Thurs 27 June at

Sounds of the Universe

7 Broadwick Street

Soho, London W1F 0DA

Before they achieved stardom the world over with “It’s Raining Men,” Weather Girls Martha Wash and Izora Rhodes Armstead made waves in the thriving San Francisco music scene as Two Tons o’ Fun (and, later, The Two Tons). The powerhouse duo began working with gender- and genre-defying artist Sylvester at Fantasy Records, singing background and lead vocals on many of his most memorable recordings. In 1980, they struck out on their own and teamed with legendary Motown veteran Harvey Fuqua (who had also helmed Sylvester’s beloved albums) for two remarkable LPs on his Honey Records imprint. Fusing disco, dance, soul, funk, and R&B with roof-raising, gospel-tinged vocals, both Two Tons o’ Fun and Backatcha put the extraordinary voices of “Queen of Clubland” Wash and Armstead out front. Now, Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records are proud to celebrate the Two Tons with a complete 2-CD anthology that serves as a companion to last year’s acclaimed Sylvester release, Disco Heat: The Fantasy Years 1977-1981. Two Tons o’ Fun’s Get the Feeling: The Complete Fantasy/Honey Recordings brings together, on 2 CDs, both of the Two Tons’ albums – the first of which features Sylvester himself in the band – plus a host of rare single versions, remixes, and extended versions. Among the highlights are the top five Dance smashes “Earth Can Be Just Like Heaven” and “I Got the Feeling” as well as such R&B and Dance hits as “I Depend on You” and “Never Like This.” Both albums have long been overlooked; their last CD reissue was more than thirty years ago in the U.K.; this collection marks both albums’ U.S. CD debut, while most of the bonus tracks are also new to worldwide CD. For the occasion, all audio has been newly remastered by Mike Milchner, and we are remastering the two albums straight from the original tapes, so this collection will offer a big sonic upgrade. The collection also contains a deluxe booklet featuring liner notes by The Second Disc’s Joe Marchese and unseen photos. With the return of Two Tons o’ Fun, only one exclamation is appropriate: Hallelujah!

Boy, do we have a lot of good stuff coming the next few weeks! Get the feeling!

Real Gone Gordon and Gabby

Numero:

Blondie: Against All Odds (Super Deluxe Edition)
This one deserved a dedicated email. As you've already seen, we have an insane release schedule ahead of us this summer and that doesn't even include 3 more boxset announces coming this fall. I have less than 100 copies of the Super Deluxe version of the Grammy-Nominated Blondie: Against All Odds 1974-1982 boxset and I'm trying to move them ASAP to your house and out of my warehouse. This is THE version to own and a MUST to complete your Numero collection. It'll take you months to get through all this I'm not even joking. It probably weighs almost 20 pounds.

50% off until July 1.

Blondie: Against All Odds (Super Deluxe Edition)
The set includes:
- 124 tracks / 36 previously unissued
- Two volumes of liner notes, track by track commentary, illustrated discography, and dozens of previously unpublished photos
- Remastered from the original analog tapes, vinyl cut at Abbey Road Studios
- Super Deluxe Collectors’ Edition (10xLP, 1x7”, 1x10” on heavy weight black vinyl, 2 hard cover books)

It was eight years ago that we assigned the catalog number 070 to the band Blondie. One of my bosses, Ken Shipley, had just returned from Chris Stein’s Woodstock estate where the band’s historic recording archive sat under a blanket of barn dust for decades. Over the ensuing years, the project has taken many shapes, growing from a humble set of four LPs to the massive Super Deluxe Edition 10xLP+10”+45+2 books boxset.

Blondie: Against The Odds 1974-1982 gathers the original line-up’s six albums, including Blondie, Plastic Letters, Parallel Lines, Eat To The Beat, Autoamerican, and The Hunter, four additional LPs of session outtakes, B-sides, and demos, a 10” with the 1975 Alan Betrock demo and a previously unissued 1974 rehearsal tape, and a 45 rpm single featuring their rumored-to-exist cover of the Doors’ “Moonlight Drive” and the at-home sketch of “Mr. Sightseer”—a whopping 124 studio tracks.

Erin Osmon’s liner notes tell the group’s story in exacting detail, with session commentary from Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, Clem Burke, Jimmy Destri, Frank Infante, Nigel Harrison, and Gary Valentine, and essays from producers Richard Gottehrer and Mike Chapman all housed in a glorious foil-wrapped, 144-page, hard cover book.

A second 120-page volume gives a discographical overview of the period via hundreds of pic sleeves, 45 labels, international sleeve variants, flexis, cassettes, and even 8-tracks. This behemoth of a box set weighs 17 pounds and is hands down the most in depth physical release we’ve manifested in our 21 year history.

50% Off Until July 1

The Dusty Springfield x Jeff Barry tracks on Real Gone's The Complete Atlantic Singles are intriguing---looking fwd to this!

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In 1971, Atlantic Records released a pair of Dusty Springfield singles produced by the legendary songwriter/producer Jeff Barry (one-time songwriting and romantic partner of Ellie Greenwich, and author of too many hits to name): "Haunted"/"Nothing Is Forever" and "I Believe In You"/"Someone Who Cares." A restless Dusty, freshly relocating to America from her native England, then departed the label and left an additional 9 songs recorded with Barry in the can, where they stayed until Rhino issued one track, "Faithful" (in mono), as a bonus track on the 1990s CD release of Dusty's 1970 Atlantic album A Brand New Me. The other tracks didn’t surface until a subsequent deluxe reissue of Dusty’s landmark 1969 album Dusty in Memphis included them as bonus cuts.

Then, reissue producer Jim Pierson—who tracked down the missing masters after being lost for over two decades —assembled Dusty’s Barry-produced masters and put them together in a single package for the first time to create the third Dusty Springfield Atlantic Records album as planned in 1971. Real Gone Music’s release of Faithful on LP presents these historic Barry-Springfield collaborations exactly as they were originally intended to be heard, with the 12 tracks meant for the album release out on vinyl over 50 years later. All tracks are in stereo, while the liner notes on the new gatefold spread, penned by The Second Disc's Joe Marchese, feature a number of rarely-seen photos of the legendary singer. These stunning pop, soul and gospel flavored selections showcase the iconic singer at the height of her vocal magic. A missing/jumbled part of Dusty’s august recorded legacy, finally set right and available in its intended format. Out on metallic gold and purple “royalty” vinyl as befitting The Queen of Blue-Eyed Soul…limited to 1500 copies!

I'll Be Faithful
Live Here With You
Haunted
Someone Who Cares
Make It With You
Love Shine Down
I Believe In You
Have A Good Life Baby
Natchez Trace
All The King's Horses
You've Got A Friend
I Found My Way Through The Darkness

From Forcefield PR:

Birdie’s debut album, 1999’s Some Dusty, is the culmination of a series of fortuitous events, set in motion in 1992 when members Debsey Wykes (Dolly Mixture) and Paul Kelly (East Village) were both members of Saint Etienne's live band. Wykes and Kelly became fast friends and then a couple, bonding over their shared love for sunshine pop and soft rock of the 60s and 70s. They soon began spending hours together strategizing a new band, eventually forming Birdie in 1994, and releasing their "Spiral Staircase" 7" single in 1997 on legendary indie label, Summershine.

Some Dusty was recorded during the summer of 1998 with the estimable Brian O’Shaughnessy (Denim, Moose, The Clientele). Deep and beautiful, its melodic, understated yet sophisticated arrangements provide an ideal setting for Debsey’s sweet and soulful soft-pop vocals. There’s a quest for the perfect pop moment here, something Birdie realise effortlessly on each of the ten songs of Some Dusty. Often this perfection is etched into the song’s details, from the gleaming chimes of “Port Sunlight," to the way the acoustic guitar, trumpet and keyboards thread together on “Let Her Go," to the gentle wah guitar that underpins “One Two Five." Add in gorgeous string arrangements from The High Llamas' Sean O'Hagan and you have all the makings of a pop classic.

Birdie followed Some Dusty with a run of essential singles -- "Let Her Go," "Such A Sound," and "Sidewalk" -- culminating in the release of their second album, Triple Echo, in 2001. Family life and other artistic pursuits called, and Birdie has only been sporadically active since, gigging occasionally and releasing a few terrific singles and compilation tracks. Their small but perfectly formed discography has become the stuff of legend, charming savvy pop fans around the world with its timeless songcraft and flawless production. Summer 2024 will see the long overdue vinyl reissue of Some Dusty on US indie label Slumberland Records, making this classic available again, now in deluxe remastered form.
1. Birdie - Laugh

2. Birdie - Dusty Morning

3. Birdie - Let Her Go

4. Birdie - Port Sunlight Focus track

5. Birdie - Lazy Day

6. Birdie - Folk Singer

7. Birdie - One Two Five

8. Birdie - Blue Dress

9. Birdie - Linus

10. Birdie - I Can't Let Go

TOUR DATES

July 24 - London, UK @ The Lexington

FOR FANS OF:
Dolly Mixture, East Village, Belle and Sebastian, Saint Etienne

press contact dgill at forcefieldpr.com

Numero:

V/A - Eccentric Soul: Minibus 2xLP

A double album boil down of Numero's 2012 45 x 45RPM art object Eccentric Soul: Omnibus. Gathering 25 loose remnants from across the American soul diaspora, Minibus connects the dots between group harmony, funk, disco, and modern soul, 1966-1980. Housed in a deluxe gatefold, tip-on jacket and illustrated with copious notes and photographs, the first ever LP pressing fills in a crucial hole on your Numero shelf.

Vinyl / Digital / Streaming

Pre-Order:
Modesto Duran - Fabulous Rhythms of Modesto (1xLP)

A disciple of mambo innovator Perez Prado, the Cuban-born Modesto Duran was a pivotal figure in Latin dance music’s transitionary mid-century period. His gentle slaps can be heard across dozens of 1950s mega-sellers, from Esquivel to Belafonte, Eartha Kitt to Lena Horne. On his 1960 solo debut, Duran gathers a who’s who of conga-men, including Mongo Santamaría, Willie Bobo, and Juan Cheda, delivering a cinematic and percussive melange of afro-cuban, cha cha, and exotic jazz styles for the discerning listener.

Vinyl / Digital / Streaming

Barbara Stant - My Mind Holds On To Yesterday
Eventually crowned Queen of the Norfolk Sound, Barbara Stant was just a teenager when she auditioned for Shiptown impresario Noah Biggs in 1970. A dozen sides were tracked throughout the decade, producing a body of work that stretched from deep soul to northern soul to sister funk. By 1978 disco was in overdrive, Noah Biggs was in the ground, and Stant’s career on hold. My Mind Holds Onto Yesterday is what remains.

Vinyl / Digital / Streaming

humbnail - Lesson In Mind Control
As the Chicago scene evolved with them, these newfound aesthetics and translations of heaviness are immediately apparent with the opening track, “Lesson in Mind Control,” which lurches and howls with noise stacked on thunderous rhythms, and with complex experimentations teetering on traditional song structures.

Digital / Streaming

Recent Drops on NEWmero:

This should do it:
https://numerogroup.com/collections/newmero

From The Line Of Best Fit, written by Tyler Damara Kelly:

Almost forty years after its release, The Moon and the Melodies by Cocteau Twins and Harold Budd is being reissued on vinyl for the first time – remastered, from the original tapes, by Robin Guthrie himself.
o coincide with the announcement of the repress, Cocteau Twins have also shared, for the first time, a full HD library of their music videos, upgraded using original masters found in both 4AD and Universal Music’s vaults. From 1984’s "Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops" to 1996’s "Tishbite," these new uploads span the history of the band and bring a clarity that’s far closer to their original productions than anything that was previously available.

With the arrival of these videos, the band have also launched a new YouTube channel that brings them all together in one place, with over half of them having never been officially uploaded before.

Said videos:

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

Phew, that was weird. C/P here:

www.youtube.com/@cocteautwinsofficial/videos

“ remastered, from the original tapes, by Robin Guthrie himself.”

noooooooooooo!!!

Why no?

There's been a fair amount of grief given to his various remasterings of the catalog over time.

His remastering job on Lullabies to Violaine was pretty bad, I just wish actual mastering engineers did this stuff. Maybe it’s like Jimmy page and someone else is ghost mastering.

I don't think a mastering engineer would ever say this in print for good reason, but I've heard some claim that one problem with remastering back catalog items under the supervision of a now-much-older artist is that their hearing is shot. In other words, they're mastering for ears that have been severely damaged from years of touring. One common result is that they'll often want a boost in the top end or upper midrange because that's the frequency range that's pretty much decimated for them.

i just read a huey lewis interview where he says his bandmates tell him the recent dolby mix of fore is great, but he can't say for himself because of how bad his hearing loss is now

Real Gone:

Even though it came out on a major label, this record sells for hundreds of dollars if you can find it at all (we know…we paid for a copy), and it’s no wonder…it’s the perfect blend of raw R&B passion and smooth, sophisticated soul production. First, the passion part…Willie Tee was a New Orleans pianist and singer best known for recording a series of burnin’ 45s (some cut for Harold Battiste’s short-lived AFO label) during the ‘60s. I’m Only a Man was Willie’s album debut, cut for Capitol in 1970, and he brought the same deep-seated intensity to the record that he did his singles. The difference was, for I’m Only a Man, Willie’s warm, raspy voice was lovingly bathed in spectacular arrangements by H. B. Barnum and produced by the great David Axelrod. Strings, brass, xylophone, bluesy guitar licks, and a funky rhythm section are all percolating inside this record’s grooves, with a daring choice of material that ranges from Cannonball Adderley’s “Walk Tall” to the Bacharach-David nugget “Reach Out for Me” to the self-penned highlights “Mirror” and “Bring On the Heartaches” to the album closer “People” from Funny Girl. Capitol wasn’t known for breaking soul acts at the time, which may explain why this record remains a cult classic; we’re happy to give it the exposure it deserves, with a purple vinyl pressing limited to 1000 copies. First-ever LP reissue!

SIDE ONE

1. Bring On the Heartaches

2. I’m Only a Man

3. Loneliness

4. Reach Out for Me

5. No Answer Came

6. Walk Tall (Baby, That’s What I Need)

SIDE TWO

1. Mirror

2. By the Time I Get to Phoenix

3. Take Your Time

4. I’m Related to You

5. People

As the man who basically brought the conga into the modern age with his innovative multi-percussion set-ups and tunable congas, and as a former member of Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Kenton’s bands, Cándido Camero Guerra a.k.a. Candido already had a long and storied career when he cut Dancin’ and Prancin’ for the Salsoul label in 1979 at the age of 58. So, you might have been excused at the time for assuming this was just another case of an old-timer trying to cash in on the disco craze, right? But you would have been very, very wrong…the record was pure brilliance, as the infusion of Candido’s Latin conga beats into the disco-fied 4 x 4 syncopated rhythm proved irresistible, revolutionizing the sound of underground disco while pointing the way to the house music to come. Indeed, both “Jingo” (an unstoppable version of the Olatunji classic) and “Thousand Finger Man” are still DJ favorites. Speaking of DJs, we’re putting this one out on black vinyl, perfect for queueing up and spinning. for A must for any dance music library!

SIDE ONE

Dancin’ and Prancin’
Jingo

SIDE TWO

Thousand Finger Man
Rock & Shuffle (Ah-Ha)

The last of their Tom Verlaine reissues:

...You probably have your own list, but to us, standing toe-to-toe (or pick-to-pick) with those legends is Television guitarist and solo artist Tom Verlaine. His self-taught, jazz-influenced style, largely devoid of effects, and vibrato tone (oh, that tone!) makes any Verlaine solo unmistakably a Verlaine solo. That he was quite an accomplished, idiosyncratic songwriter is just a bonus. Real Gone Music is very, very proud to announce that we have arranged with the Verlaine estate to release Tom’s last three solo albums on LP; Songs and Other Things was the last record he released, in the same year as the all-instrumental Around. As the title indicates, this was indeed a return to lyrics and vocals, the first record with “songs” since 1990’s The Wonder (although the first song, “A Parade in Littleton”—one of the “Other Things”—is a low-key, funky instrumental that would have been home on a late Talking Heads album). The time off clearly allowed Verlaine to build up a strong cache of compositions, with “Nice Actress” and “The Earth Is in the Sky” among the highlights. The record also marks a welcome return of Verlaine’s enigmatic lyrics, which as always prompt head scratching while somehow making intuitive sense. But in the end, it’s the amazing guitar work—ably supported by Fred Smith of Television fame and Jay Dee Daugherty of The Patti Smith Group among others—that elevates Songs and Other Things to essential status, worthy of its exalted position as the final release of Tom Verlaine’s career. Bassist and original engineer Patrick Derivaz has mastered the album for its vinyl debut; Verlaine’s long-time partner Jutta Koether contributes notes. Teal vinyl pressing!

SIDE ONE
1. A Parade in Littleton
2. Heavenly Charm
3. Orbit
4. Blue Light

5. From Her Finger
6. Nice Actress
7. A Stroll
8. The Earth Is the Sky

SIDE TWO
1. Lovebird Asylum Seeker
2. Documentary
3. Shingaling
4. All Weirded Out5. The Day on You
6. Peace Piece

Robin Guthrie should get in touch with whoever remastered the Dead Can Dance catalog and let them do the Cocteau Twins, those SACD remasters (including the normal CD versions) sound fucking fantastic

Suede / Dog Man Star 30th anniversary
3CD and 2LP vinyl

By Paul Sinclair

Suede’s second album Dog Man Star will be reissued for its 30 anniversary later this year.

The band’s 1994 long-player would be the last to feature guitarist and co-songwriter Bernard Butler and includes the singles ‘We Are The Pigs’, ‘The Wild Ones’ and ‘New Generation’.

Sadly, there’s no SDE blu-ray edition, which we did last year for the band’s debut, but there will be a brand-new half-speed master in 2LP gatefold packaging and a 3CD deluxe edition seven-inch packaging.

he 3CD set includes B-sides and the full-length version of the non-album single ‘Stay Together’ and other bonus tracks and rarities from the period.

The reissue features revised cover art, with design undertaken for Suede’s by official designer and photographer Paul Khera. There’s also new sleeve notes by Simon Price.

Dog Man Star will be reissued on 4 October 2024 via Demon Music. A seven-inch picture disc of ‘We Are The Pigs’ will also be issued on 13 September.

what the hell… is that not literally just this reissue spread out across 3 CDs and with no videos?

https://www.discogs.com/release/2945360-Suede-Dog-Man-Star

Major announcement from...me! Just sent this announcement out to DownBeat, The Wire, Pitchfork, Stereogum and some writers I know...

BURNING AMBULANCE MUSIC PARTNERS WITH LEO RECORDS FOR LANDMARK DIGITAL REISSUE PROGRAM
Legendary Avant-Garde Label’s Catalog Arrives On Bandcamp For The First Time

Independent label Burning Ambulance Music has partnered with legendary UK-based avant-garde jazz label Leo Records for a digital reissue program that will see the majority of the Leo catalog come to Bandcamp for the first time.

Leo Records, founded in 1979 by producer Leo Feigin, was launched with the Amina Claudine Myers album Song For Mother E, which came to CD for the first time in 2023. Over the 45 years since its founding, the label has released hundreds of titles by Anthony Braxton, Sun Ra, Cecil Taylor, Marilyn Crispell, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Ivo Perelman, Joëlle Léandre, Joe and Mat Maneri, and many others, including legends of avant-garde Russian jazz like the Ganelin Trio, Sainkho Namchylak, Simon Nabatov and Sergey Kuryohkin.

The first wave of digital reissues will focus on albums by well-known US jazz artists like Braxton, Crispell, Sun Ra, Taylor and others. The second wave will be devoted to the work of Brazilian saxophonist Perelman (amounting to more than 60 titles). The third wave will showcase Russian artists, and the fourth wave will draw from the rest of Leo’s vast output. Some titles will be available digitally for the first time, and there are tentative plans for archival releases of previously unavailable music as well.

“Leo Records releases have often been difficult to come by in the US, because of distribution issues and the challenges faced by record stores,” says Philip Freeman, Burning Ambulance Music co-founder and author of the new book In the Brewing Luminous: The Life & Music of Cecil Taylor. “These artists have made brilliant music for decades, and it deserves to be heard by as many people as possible. Bandcamp’s global reach makes that a reality.”

The first Leo Records releases will be available on Bandcamp in September 2024, including titles by Marilyn Crispell (who will be honored as an NEA Jazz Master in April 2025), Amina Claudine Myers (a 2024 NEA Jazz Master), Sun Ra, and Anthony Braxton. In subsequent months, more albums by Braxton and Ra will be added, along with titles by Cecil Taylor, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Evan Parker and others. Approximately 20 new titles will arrive at leorecords.bandcamp.com each month.

For more information, contact Philip Freeman at burningambula✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧.

AWWWWESUM! WHAT A COUP FOR YOU, UNPERSON, AND FOR JAZZHEADZ EVERYWHERE---I'm maintaining a Cadence Magazine mailorder section flashback while reading your announcement yet again.

Meanwhile
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Was supposed to incl. text:

Spirit | The 12" Singles, a collector's edition deluxe box set, contains seven 12" vinyl discs including custom replicas of the original three double 12" singles from Spirit (Depeche Mode's 14th studio album): “Where's the Revolution” (originally released 3 February 2017, in advance of the album), “Going Backwards” (released 23 June 2017), and “Cover Me” (released 6 October 2017). As a bonus for Depeche Mode fans, Spirit | The 12" Singles premieres a special seventh disc: the first-ever 12" vinyl pressing of the band's legendary Highline Sessions, recorded live in New York City on 3 August 2016.

Also available the numbered, limited edition, vinyl box set series.
Depeche Mode | The 12" Singles
Reproduced from the original artwork and master tapes. Each box set includes an exclusive poster and download codes. Out now.

The Faces
Complete BBC Concert & Session Recordings (1970-1973) (8CD + Blu-ray)

The Faces are set to make fans “Shake, Shudder, Shiver” with a comprehensive boxed set compiling all of the group’s BBC concerts and surviving studio sessions. This new collection – much of it previously unreleased – has been remastered with the full participation of band members Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, and Kenney Jones.

The Blu-ray includes newly restored footage of the Faces’ April 1972 appearance on Sounds for Saturday. The concert finds the “Borstal Boys” in peak form, radiating their swaggering, joyous spirit of rock ’n’ roll that continues to inspire generations.

The hardback set includes a 48-page booklet with new commentary from surviving band members and archival quotes from Ronnie Lane, Ian McLagan, and legendary BBC broadcaster John Peel. Lavishly illustrated with many previously unseen photos, the booklet details every Faces BBC session, concert, and broadcast. BBC broadcaster Gary Crowley wrote the detailed liner notes, which include a new interview with Jeff Griffin, who produced all of the Faces’ BBC concert appearances.

Once thought lost, many of the band’s BBC recordings were recovered from the Faces’ own archives and private collections. (Notably, only one BBC session of three songs remains missing.) Rarities include a stereo mix of the May 13, 1971, Paris Cinema concert, which was only broadcast in mono, and a February 1973 show that was never aired due to the BBC’s concerns over the band’s on-stage banter with the rowdy audience.

FACES AT THE BBC — COMPLETE BBC CONCERT & SESSION RECORDINGS 1970-1973 spans the band’s formation and meteoric rise. Exploring a period of intense creativity, which included four Faces studio albums (FIRST STEP, LONG PLAYER, A NOD IS AS GOOD AS A WINK...TO A BLIND HORSE..., and OOH LA LA) and several solo albums that Stewart recorded with most of the band (GASOLINE ALLEY, EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY, NEVER A DULL MOMENT, and SMILER). It includes live versions of fan favorites like “Bad ’n’ Ruin,” “Had Me A Real Good Time,” “Miss Judy’s Farm,” “Too Bad,” and “Stay With Me,” a gold-certified single in the U.S. and a Top 10 smash in the U.K. Several of Stewart’s solo songs were performed as well, including, “(I Know) I’m Losing You” and the U.S. and U.K. No. 1 hit, “Maggie May.”

John Peel’s Christmas Carol Concert rounds out the collection. Originally broadcast on Boxing Day 1970, this unique holiday performance features Stewart singing “Away In A Manger” and a Christmas carol medley sung by a choir that includes the Faces, their roadies, John Peel, Marc Bolan of T-Rex, and others.

Maybe not up to that level, but----Man Or Astroman? also have a BBC box coming:

...The fact that a decidedly obtuse and dorky band from Auburn, Alabama, would perform on Peel’s show more times than The Jesus Lizard, Fugazi, and Nirvana combined is proof positive that Astro-Man truly put in the work...especially on the British airwaves. What the BBC documented in its studios peppered across the country was a band that evolved in plain view from a spazzy surf band into a shit-hot post-punk powerhouse.

More than a decade ago, with my daughter, still in diapers, resting on my lap, I had a sit-down with Coco. He gave my outrageous idea of doing an extended Astro BBC retrospective a cautiously enthusiastic thumbs-up. Flash ahead to 2024: my daughter is now a teenager, and that preposterous idea is finally materialized. Thank the heavens. Thank the stars. The first (and hopefully not the last) Astro box set is now a full-blown reality. To see this completed is a thrill and a privilege, and a highlight of my charmed lifetime as a die-hard Astro fan. — Henry H. Owings (aka The Boo Yaa Boy)

Man or Astro-Man?
ROYGBIV (Recordings From The BBC)
Format: vinyl box set - 8 7" singles & bonus flexi
(Chunklet)
Street Date: Sept. 1, 2024

Track List:

1. Rocketship XL-3
2. Invasion of the Dragonmen
3. Nitrous Burnout
4. Transmissions From Venus
5. A Mouthful of Exhaust
6. Sadie Hawkins Atom Bomb
7. Theme from The Munsters
8. Gargantua's Last Stand
9. Name of Numbers
10. Special Agent Conrad Uno
11. Time Bomb
12. Put Your Finger In The Socket
13. __________ (Classified)
14. Sferic Waves
15. Inside the Head of Mr. John Peel
16. Inside The Atom
17. 24 Hours
18. Maximum Radiation Level
19. U-Uranus
20. Man Made of CO2
21. 9-Volt
22. Television Fission
23. Welcome to the Wicky Wacky World of John Peel (The Wayward Meteor)
24. Lo Batt
25. The Miracle of Genuine Pyrex
26. Jonathan Winters Frankenstein
27. With Automatic Shut Off
28. Rovers
29. Transmissions from Venus
30. Max Q view
31. Don't Think What Jack view
32. Birdstuff reading excerpts from “A Scanner Darkly” by Philip K. Dick
dgill at forcefieldpr dot com

stream: 1993 Peel Session
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me1HZ8I8rc0

The first 20 Leo Records titles are available for preorder at leorecords.bandcamp.com; they are:

Anthony Braxton, Quartet (London) 1985
Anthony Braxton, Quartet (Birmingham) 1985
Anthony Braxton, Quartet (Coventry) 1985
Anthony Braxton, Quintet (London) 2004
Anthony Braxton, Quartet (Moscow) 2008
Anthony Braxton/Evan Parker, Duo (London) 1993

Marilyn Crispell, Live in Zurich
Marilyn Crispell, Gaia
Marilyn Crispell, For Coltrane
Marilyn Crispell, Santuerio
Marilyn Crispell, Stellar Pulsations/Three Composers
Marilyn Crispell, Dream Libretto
Marilyn Crispell, Selected Works 1983-1986

Amina Claudine Myers, Song For Mother E
Amina Claudine Myers, Salutes Bessie Smith

Sun Ra, What Planet Is This?
Sun Ra, Live At Praxis '84
Sun Ra, Second Star To The Right (Salute To Walt Disney)
Sun Ra, Stardust From Tomorrow
Sun Ra, The Sun Ra Arkestra Meets Salah Ragab In Egypt

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Leaving music fans checking the bins since MTV’s 1984 spotlight on “Draggin’ The Bottom,” this double LP presents multi-media artist Julia Heyward’s debut release of T-Venus’ art rock forty years after the buzz started! All in a gatefold jacket featuring art and liner notes from Julia!

Julia Heyward's work centers around the orchestration of music, image, and language in the areas of multimedia performance, new media and visual art. Heyward has written, produced and performed three other large scale multimedia performances: Mood Music (premiered May 1988, The Kitchen, NY), Miracles in Reverse (premiered 1996, Potsdam, Germany), and 29 SpaceTime/The Gabriel Frequency (premiered 2017, Roulette, NY).

She’s directed numerous music videos by Talking Heads, LIVE, Dar Williams, The Fixx, Skid Row, Romeo Void, T-Venus, The dbs, The Red Rockers, The Boogie Boys, The Triplets, Rich Newton

In 1991, Heyward was signed as a recording artist to Columbia Records, but left the label because of 'artistic differences'. During that time she her video for “Draggin’ The Bottom” appeared on MTV leaving folks clamoring for the music. Those masters have remained in Julia’s private collection until now!

- The first ever album release from a multi-media artist who’s been featured in prestiges gallery exhibitions and worded with the likes of Talking Heads and Romeo Void.
- Cut by Kevin Grey and pressed at Citizen Vinyl in the US for optimal fidelity.
- Liner notes penned by Julia herself!
credits
releases October 4, 2024

https://sundazedmusic.bandcamp.com/album/duka-1

(I guess more appropriately archival rather than reissue)

The best Pig Destroyer album, Terrifyer, is getting a 2CD 20th anniversary reissue that includes the 35-minute track "Natasha" and a bunch of demos and rare tracks.

https://www.relapse.com/products/pig-destroyer-terrifyer-20th-anniversary-reissue-2xcd

Full track listing on Bandcamp:

https://pigdestroyer.bandcamp.com/album/terrifyer-20th-anniversary-reissue

Org Music RSD Black Friday Titles just announced: Erasmus Hall, Elephant 6 Recording Co., Charley Patton, David Grisman, Johnny Bragg, Cecil Taylor
pr contact:
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12:05 PM (7 hours ago)

to me

Org Music releases for Record Store Day Black Friday, coming Friday, November 29, 2024

Org Music has a smorgasbord of tremendous titles planned for the next Record Store Day Black Friday. To kick off this holiday season we have classic rare Westbound funk, a most anticipated soundtrack for the documentary on a legendary American indie label, a special collection from a blues pioneer, a country instrumental collection of gems to debut on vinyl for the first time, classic Nashville R&B issued for the first time, and two crucial live albums by a jazz demigod and another by an avant-garde bebop picador.

Find participating stores to celebrate RSD Black Friday 2024 and more information: www.recordstoreday.com

Please note: The audio and artwork are available under each title below! Note: There are NO PRE-ORDERS, but promos will be available for press/media! Please let us know how we can help you to cover this incredible bevy of original, deeply creative special-for-RSD titles.

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Eramus Hall, Lost and Found

(Transparent Smoke LP)

Eramus Hall was a soul/funk group from Detroit, whose debut “Your Love Is My Desire" became one of the most sought-after records of the modern soul era, coveted by DJs and record collectors alike. The group only recorded the one album for Westbound Records, home of funk heavyweights Funkadelic and Ohio Players, before moving to Capitol for their second and final album in 1984. After a definitive reissue of Eramus Hall's debut album, Org Music and Westbound Records have teamed up again to release a full LP worth of rare and previously unreleased tracks, including some of their earliest demos. Joel Martin, who produced the group’s output for Westbound, has overseen the mixing of the unearthed material, over four decades after he originally recorded them. The record will be pressed on color vinyl with a package that features never-before-seen photos and newly penned liner notes, exclusively for RSD Black Friday.

Artwork



Audio

Tracklist:

A1 Determination

A2 Dance To Our Music

A3 Life Has Meaning

A4 Nice Smooth Easy

B1 Do The Rock

B2 Who’s Makin Love

B3 Mr. Softy

B4 Better Days

Various Artists: The Elephant 6 Recording Co. - OST (LP)



The Elephant 6 Recording Co. is the official soundtrack for the acclaimed documentary of the same name. The film highlights the legacy of one of the most storied DIY scenes in all of indie rock, birthing such bands as Neutral Milk Hotel, The Olivia Tremor Control, and The Apples in Stereo. This soundtrack follows its 2023 wide release and contains music from the film, as well as a pair of brand new tracks from The Olivia Tremor Control’s forthcoming third and final record. The release is a carefully curated sampling of what has made this beautifully inscrutable scene so enduring and inspiring to musicians all over the world. The record comes housed in a custom die-cut gatefold jacket, and is available exclusively for RSD Black Friday.

Artwork

Audio

Tracklist:

A1 The Olivia Tremor Control – Garden of Light

A2 Neutral Milk Hotel – Gardenhead/Leave Me Alone

A3 Marbles – Telescope

A4 The Gerbils - Glue (Live)

A5 W. Cullen Hart – All Day Owl

A6 Elf Power - The Arrow Flies Close (Live)

B1 The Olivia Tremor Control - The Same Place

B2 Dixie Blood Moustache – Oh Hi

B3 The Always Red Society - Minute By Minute (Instrumental)

B4 The Wedding Band & Friends – The World is Waiting For the Sunrise

B5 The Apples in Stereo – Ruby (Live)

Charley Patton,

The Father of Delta Blues: Selections From Paramount Recordings

(Transparent Yellow LP)



Charley Patton is indisputably one of the most influential figures in the history of the blues, and among the most important American musicians of the 20th century. His recordings in the 1920s helped lay the foundation for the Delta blues style and continue to inspire musicians an entire century later. This compilation of recordings from the historic Paramount catalog showcases Patton's skills as a powerful and expressive vocalist, skilled guitarist, and dynamic performer. The collection, which has been remastered by Dave Gardner and pressed at Furnace Record Pressing, is exclusively available for RSD Black Friday 2024.

Artwork

Audio



Tracklist:

A1 Pony Blues

A2 Banty Rooster Blues

A3 Shake It & Break It

A4 I Shall Not Be Moved

A5 Down The Dirt Road Blues

A6 Jesus Is A Dying-Bed Maker

B1 Lord I'm Discouraged

B2 I'm Goin' Home

B3 Some Summer Day

B4 A Spoonful Blues

B5 Elder Green Blues (Take 2)

B6 Some These Days I'll Be Gone

David Grisman,

Dawg ‘90

(2LP)

Dawg ’90 is the debut release on David Grisman’s acclaimed Acoustic Disc label, originally released in 1990 on cassette and CD formats, and expanded with four additional tracks for a Deluxe Edition in 2013. The album is a collection of original tunes featuring the David Grisman Quintet and special guests Mark O'Connor and Matt Glaser on fiddle. It was nominated for a Grammy in the country instrumental category, Grisman's first-ever nomination for his own music. Thirty-four years later, the album is finally receiving its first-ever vinyl pressing with a deluxe 2LP release, exclusively for RSD Black Friday 2024.

Artwork

Audio

Tracklist:

A1 Pupville

A2 Chili Dawg

A3 Mad Max

A4 O'Banion's Wake

A5 Dawg Daze

B1 Lil' Samba

B2 Learned Pigs

B3 Gypsy Nights

B4 Hot Club Swing

C1 Sativa

C2 Telluride

C3 Blue Midnight

D1 Opus 38

D2 EMD

Johnny Bragg,

Let Me Dream On

(LP)

Revered singer Johnny Bragg wrote and recorded classic 1950s R&B hits, such as “Just Walkin’ in the Rain” (as lead vocalist of the Prisonaires) and “Rollin’ Stone” (fronting the Marigolds), while serving time at the Tennessee State Penitentiary. For years, the recordings collected here lay dormant and unheard in a garden shed in Nashville. Unearthed and assembled to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s acclaimed exhibit Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues, these cuts are a rich trove encompassing previously unreleased songwriting demos, band rehearsals, and live recordings that, fortunately, Bragg preserved on tape in the 1960s and 1970s. It’s a time capsule of classic Nashville R&B, now available for the first time in any format, exclusively for RSD Black Friday.

Artwork

Audio

Tracklist:

A1 Take Away the Heartache (Let Me Love Again)

A2 She’s Mine

A3 Is It True, Darlin’?

A4 I’ll Never Forget You

A5 I Saw It Coming

A6 If This Is a Dream (Let Me Dream On)

A7 It Isn’t Right

A8 Rock It, Shake It

B1 Hurt and Lonely

B2 I’ve Got to Stop Trying

B3 It’s Been a Beautiful World (Since I Found You)

B4 Let’s Rock, Let’s Roll

B5 If It’s Over

B6 You Know It Ain’t Right

B7 How Great Thou Art

Cecil Taylor,

Live at The Cafe Montmartre

(2LP)

Cecil Taylor Live At The Cafe Montmartre has been lauded by critics as a landmark performance, "among the greatest live recordings in jazz” (Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings). The recordings capture Taylor in peak form, supported by the great Sunny Murray on drums and Jimmy Lyons on alto sax, at the famed Cafe Montmartre in Copenhagen on November 23, 1962. The set is among very few recordings documenting Taylor’s playing between 1962 to 1966. The set has been remastered by Dave Gardner for a double LP pressing at Pallas Group in Germany on audiophile-grade vinyl, including updated package artwork, exclusively for RSD Black Friday 2024.

Artwork

Audio

Tracklist:

A1 Trance

A2 Call

A3 Lena

B1 D Trad, That's What

C1 What's New

C2 Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come

D1 Lena (Second Version)

D2 Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come (Second Version)

Sahib Shihab,

Sahib’s Jazz Party & After Hours

(2LP)

Sahib's Jazz Party is an album by saxophonist/flautist Sahib Shihab, recorded live at the Jazzhus Montmartre in Copenhagen, around the same time that he relocated there in 1963. Shihab is joined by flugelhornist Allan Botchinsky, guitarist Ole Molin, drummer Alex Riel, and 17-year-old bass prodigy Niels Henning Orsted Pederson. The recordings showcase Sahib’s diversity and dexterity as a player, including his openness to the avant-garde style, expanding on the bop era playing he is known for. The album is presented here in a gatefold jacket with a bonus LP, including three tracks not available on previous vinyl releases — what we’re referring to as the “After Hours”. The audio has been remastered by Dave Gardner and pressed on audiophile-grade vinyl at Pallas Group in Germany.

Artwork

Audio



Tracklist:

A1 4070 Blues

A2 Charade

B1 Conversations, Part I

B2 Conversations, Part II

B3 Conversations, Part III

C1 Billy Boy

D1 Not Yet

D2 Someday My Prince Will Come

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From Drag City News:

Aye, more music from Anthony Moore, dead ahead! Home of the Demo digs up ten unheard songs from the Slapp Happy founder's tuneage treasury, containing some seriously smart stuff he made between 1978–1984 that finally gets to breathe on this upcoming archival release. The second single "Me and Neil Diamond" is out now, sailing into the night with some circa-'84 vocals from Echo & the Bunnymen's Ian McCulloch.

Gauzy, aquatic, dusk-flavored keyboards set the scene for this truly off-the-wall song concept: a surreal, night sea-voyage(-of-the-soul), with the titular songwriting legend aboard as spirit companion. Subtle rhythm programming and layers of backing vocals by Anthony and Maz Palladino elevate the chorus of "Me and Neil Diamond" to adult contemporary ecstasy as the breathy sensuality of Ian McCulloch’s lead vocal cinches this demo’s far-fetched perfection. All are welcome aboard... just don't stop having a good time!

LISTEN TO "ME AND NEIL DIAMOND" HERE https://lnk.to/homeofthedemo

Home of the Demo is the third archival release from Anthony's trove of tapes, following the previously unreleased OUT (1976, officially issued 2020) and the new wave-adjacent Flying Doesn’t Help (1979, reissued 2022). Below the decks aboard this new collection: the immediately recognizable "Earthbound Misfit" (later rendered a hit by Pink Floyd as “Learning to Fly”), a rousing faux-live rendition of "Lucia Still Alive", a torn up version of "Judy, Judy" with the mysterious Page the Oracle obliterating an electric guitar... it's loaded! And, it's a lock on Home of the Demo, out October 25, 2024.

Strut Records 25th Anniversary events andflash sale:

This weekend we're celebrating 25 years of Strut records, culminating in our all-night celebration at London's The Jazz Cafe with Strut staples Mulatu Astatke & Flock, as well as a club night with New York legends Danny Krivit & Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy in collaboration with Carhartt WIP!

This Weekend Only--link to code and items for sale--- new 25th Anniversary Deluxe Ed. vinyl among classicks and ones I've never heard of:
https://strut-records.co.uk/?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Celebrate%2025%20Years%20of%20Strut%20Records%20with%20Our%20Anniversary%20Sale%21&utm_campaign=25%20Anniversary

Today ( still Oct. 24 in my neck of the woods) is the day that Omnivore's latest Muffs sale ends, so this is when they send me the memo---oh well, I already have all of that (frequently revelatory, extended etc., also their return and farewell, at least with Kim, in 2019)stuff, but if you don't, get it:
https://omnivorerecordings.com/muffssale/p/

and recent releases on the Big O. starting here:

(I've had another Continental Drifters collection for years, mainly exciting for tracks feat. Susan Cowsill and Vicki Petersen, but yeah got your Holsapple etc.)

Continental Drifters
White Noise & Lightning: The Best Of Continental Drifters
Release date: September 13, 2024

15-track CD/11-track LP collection of material spanning their career produced with full cooperation from the band.

“There have been plenty of unquestionably great bands throughout history, but a relatively small number of those bands have a real distinctiveness to their sound and makeup. Once you get to know the Continental Drifters, it becomes apparent that they possess that rare singularity.”
—Sean Kelly from his liner notes

Continental Drifters are a congregation of like-minded, creative musical souls, whose other bands just happened to include The Bangles, The Dream Syndicate, The dB’s, The Cowsills, and more. From their 1992 debut single “The Mississippi” through 1994’s eponymous debut, 1998’s Vermillion, 2001’s Better Day, and Nineteen Ninety-Three (recorded in 1992 but released a decade later), the Drifters’ lineup may have been fluid, but their sound has always been instantly identifiable, comforting, and fantastic.

White Noise & Lightning: The Best Of Continental Drifters paints the story of the band. The 11-track LP and 15-track CD (featuring a previously unissued scorching 12-minute live version of “Who We Are, Where We Live”) follows the journey across their entire career. It will be released in conjunction with the publication of Sean Kelly’s White Noise & Lightning: The Continental Drifters Story (coming September 27 from Cool Dog Sound) which chronicles the 10-year journey of the Continental Drifters and follows the band through years of cross-country moves, lineup changes, industry highs and lows, marriages, divorces, and dozens of classic songs.

Just as Kelly’s authorized biography of the band tells the story of a critically acclaimed, commercially overlooked band that became so much more, White Noise & Lightning is not only a great place to start for the uninitiated, but is the perfect soundtrack for this legendary proto-Americana band.

CD / DIGITAL TRACK LIST:
THE RAIN SONG
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS TRANSCONTINENTAL HIGHWAY
DALLAS
MEZZANINE
INVISIBLE BOYFRIEND
MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN
THE MISSISSIPPI
GET OVER IT
MIXED MESSAGES
DON’T DO WHAT I DID
TOMORROW’S GONNA BE
NA NA
PEACEFUL WAKING
DRIFTERS
WHO WE ARE, WHERE WE LIVE (Live at the Court Tavern)
Track 15 previously unissued

LP TRACK LIST:
SIDE 1:
THE RAIN SONG
MEZZANINE
DRIFTERS
THE MISSISSIPPI
PEACEFUL WAKING
SIDE 2:
GET OVER IT
MATCH MADE IN HEAVEN
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS TRANSCONTINENTAL HIGHWAY
DALLAS
DON’T DO WHAT I DID
WHO WE ARE, WHERE WE LIVE
Cat: OV-557

Tags: Continental Drifters, Peter Holsapple, The Bangles, The Cowsills, The dB's, The Dream Syndicate

Omnivore has a lot of Albums Of Related Interest.

Sorry, here's the right Muffs sale link:
https://omnivorerecordings.com/muffssale/

Dave Edmunds
Swan Songs: The Singles 1976-1981
Release date: September 27, 2024

29-track collection of every A- and B-side from Edmunds’ years on Swan Song Records on double-CD and double-LP.

Robert Plant and his Led Zeppelin cohorts—Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, and John Bonham—launched Swan Song Records in 1974. Rock ’n’ roll revivalist Edmunds wasn’t as unexpected a choice as some might have felt at the time; Plant was a big fan and would indulge his own love of vintage rock ’n’ roll and R&B with his 1980s band The Honeydrippers.
—excerpt from liner notes by Joe Marchese

After hitting the charts in 1968, Dave Edmunds began a spectacular career as a writer, performer, and producer. Signing with Swan Song Records, all of the pieces of the puzzle would fit into place. Beginning with “Here Comes The Weekend” (co-written with Nick Lowe), Dave began a stellar run on the charts, showcasing his propensity for, and ability to bring a “classic” sound back to the airwaves, and to remember where all of those sounds came from.

Swan Songs: The Singles 1976–1981 reveals the magic of the 7″ singe in a way that has yet to be explored. Containing 29 tracks, covering every A- and B-side from that period, guide the listener through that pivotal time when listeners heard what they liked and liked what they heard. Funny thing is, if you missed them the first time, you heard them later…

From covers of contemporaries Graham Parker, Elvis Costello, and beyond, these Swan Songs all meld into Chuck Berry, Rodgers & Hart, and more. They’re the songs you know and love, played with the passion of their roots. Huey Lewis & The News had a huge hit with “Bad Is Bad,” but Dave released it in 1979. Same with Hank DeVito’s “Queen Of Hearts,” with Juice Newton took onto the US airwaves years later. Bob Seger’s “Get Out Of Denver,” John Fogerty’s “Almost Saturday Night”—classics and stunning originals, this was the time where music ruled, and it is collected here on Swan Songs: The Singles 1976–1981.

With new mastering and restoration from multiple Grammy-winner Michael Graves, the packaging of this double-CD and double-LP features a look at picture sleeves that 7″ collectors cherish, as well as detailed liner notes from Joe Marchese (theseconddisc.com) which outline Edmunds’ roots and trajectory from performer and band leader, to super producer (including his work with Stray Cats, as featured on their version of “The Race Is On”).

Swan Songs: The Singles 1976–1981 is truly the definitive look at Dave Edmunds: the artist—whether with his incredible guitar tone, his signature production style, or his ability to make every song distinctive, and truly his own. Take the (swan) dive.

2-CD / 2-LP TRACK LIST:
DISC 1:
HERE COMES THE WEEKEND
AS LOVERS DO
WHERE OR WHEN
NEW YORK’S A LONELY TOWN*
JUJU MAN
WHAT DID I DO LAST NIGHT?
I KNEW THE BRIDE
BACK TO SCHOOLDAYS
LITTLE DARLIN’
GET OUT OF DENVER
WORN OUT SUITS, BRAND NEW POCKETS
DEBORAH
WHAT LOOKS BEST ON YOU
TELEVISION
NEVER BEEN IN LOVE
TROUBLE BOYS
DISC 2:
A.1. ON THE JUKEBOX
IT’S MY OWN BUSINESS
GIRLS TALK
BAD IS BAD
QUEEN OF HEARTS
THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON
CRAWLING FROM THE WRECKAGE
SINGING THE BLUES
BOYS TALK*
ALMOST SATURDAY NIGHT
YOU’LL NEVER GET ME UP (IN ONE OF THOSE)
THE RACE IN ON with the Stray Cats
(I’M GONNA START) LIVING AGAIN IF IT KILLS ME
* First time on CD

never heard her: is she good? Got the guests.

Sam Phillips
A Boot And A Shoe
Release date: September 20, 2024

20th Anniversary reissue, featuring “Reflecting Light” and “If I Could Write”—both featured on the fan- and streaming-favorite Gilmore Girls.
Since the late 1980s Sam Phillips has been a poetic voice in the alternative/pop realm. She recorded a series of acclaimed albums for Virgin Records, including the Grammy-nominated Martinis And Bikinis (expanded and reissued by Omnivore Recordings in 2012), all produced by T Bone Burnett.

At the turn of the century, Sam was invited by Amy Sherman-Palladino, who was a fan of Sam’s music, to score her new television series, Gilmore Girls, on a new network, The WB. Sam’s unconventional score featuring vocal and acoustic guitar was likened to an onscreen character itself and dubbed “the La La’s” by the growing legion of Gilmore Girls fans. Around that time Sam signed a new deal with Nonesuch Records and continued to build her stellar catalog.

In 2004, Phillips released A Boot And A Shoe, featuring guest artists including Burnett, Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello), Mike Elizondo (Fiona Apple, Eminem), legendary drummer Jim Keltner, and the Section Quartet. The album contained 13 tracks including “Reflecting Light” and “If I Could Write”—both featured prominently in the Gilmore Girls original series and, most memorably, the Netflix revival Gilmore Girls: A Year In The Life.

2024 marks the 20th anniversary of A Boot And A Shoe and to commemorate the anniversary, it is being issued for the very first time on vinyl, and reissued on CD, both with new liner notes by Sam. On the occasion of its 20th anniversary, now is the time to reintroduce this incredible record, and on the format fans of Sam and Gilmore Girls have been waiting for.

CD / LP TRACK LIST:
HOW TO QUIT
ALL NIGHT
I DREAMED I STOPPED DREAMING
OPEN THE WORLD
RED SILK FIVE
REFLECTING LIGHT
INFILTRATION
DRAW MAN
I WANTED TO BE ALONE
LOVE CHANGES EVERYTHING
IF I COULD WRITE
HOLE IN MY POCKET
ONE DAY LATE
Cat: OV-558

Tags: Sam Phillips, Van Dyke Parks

KRS, Oct. 25:

Bratmobile's sophomore release Ladies, Women and Girls and their 2002 album Girls Get Busy are officially out today on Kill Rock Stars! These two essential feminist punk albums, packed with catchy hooks and the defiant attitude the original riot grrrl gang is known for, have been remastered from the original analog tapes by Amy Dragon at Telegraph Mastering. Re-pressed for the first time since their initial release, they bring Allison Wolfe’s barbed-wire lyrics, Molly Neuman’s heart attack drumming, and Erin Smith’s shark-in-the-surf riffs to the masses and their turntables once again!

Ride away with the Bratmobile exclusive ringer T-shirt, CD bundle, and LP bundle in standard evergreen and rocket red! Other bundles have sold out so get yours today!

Ladies, Women and Girls

1. Eating Toothpaste
2. Gimme Brains
3. It's Common (But We Don't Talk About It)
4. Not in Dog Years
5. You're Fired
6. Cheap Trick Record
7. In Love with All My Lovers
8. 90's Nomad
9. Well You Wanna Know What?
10. Flavor of the Month Club
11. Affection Training
12. Do You Like Me Like That?
13. Come Hither
14. Girlfriends Don't Keep

Girls Get Busy
1. I'm in the Band
2. Shop for America
3. Shut Your Face
4. Don't Ask Don't Tell
5. That's Happening
6. Cryin' Tryin' Lyin'
7. What's Wrong With You?
8. Idiot Lover
9. Are You a Lady?
10. Pagan Baby
11. Chicken or the Egg
12. United We Don't
13. Take the Pain and Use It

"The 2000 reunion album makes a case for Bratmobile’s ability to transcend amateurishness without abandoning the unfettered emotional freedom that came with it."
- Trouserpress

"...the album retains the attitude and wit of the group's earlier work...bracing."
- Washington Post

"With their six strings and half-dozen drums, guitarist Erin Smith and drummer Molly Neuman sketch a 30-year tour through rock history in just over 30 minutes."
- Metro Times

"Bratmobile has never sounded more powerful."
- Washington Post

https://pocp.co/bratmobile?mc_cid=5d09980648&mc_eid=fd13844571

My Batmobile vinyl/shirt bundle just came in the post

A photo of the new super deluxe box set version of Queen's new album, which apparently sells for £170:

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Pretty sure this doesn't ("the late Dex Romweber"! RIP didn't know!)

Flat Duo Jets: White Trees [2024 Remaster]: Propeller Sound Recordings PSR-023

First time on vinyl

Digital
LP with full color inner sleeve + new extensive liner notes
CD: Eco-Wallet with full-color booklet
Physical review copies are available upon request

Hometown: Carrboro, NC

Mood: vintage, surf party, punkabilly

Song styles: Garage Rock, Rockabilly, surf rock, punk blues, and psychobilly

For Fans of: Jack White, The Black Keys, The White Stripes, The Dirtbombs, Dick Dale, The Detroit Cobras

Fronted by the late Dex Romweber. The duo’s fourth album was the first album of all original material. Produced by Caleb Southern, White Trees is a Jets’ masterpiece that proved that Romweber could diversify his band’s material without losing his recklessness and urgency.

“The fourth album by North Carolina’s Jets is a tarnished neo-rockabilly gem. Dexter Romweber’s battered honk is the perfect voice to wrap around these twisted tales about Charlie Dick (Patsy Cline’s hubby), UFOs, and dining with Van Gogh. It’s as if the ”Eraserhead” soundtrack were recorded at Sun Studios and sent to Weekly World News for editing.”- Entertainment Weekly

"Arguably the busy Duo’s most accomplished set, ‘93s handily diversified White Trees jumbled stylistically antiquated originals in a cohesively dignified manner." -Beermelodies

Timeline:

9/25/24: “Radioactive Man”- single

10/23/24: “Daughter of the Jungle”- single

11/22/24: “You Don’t Love Anymore” (focus track)/Album Release

Tracklisting:

Daughter Of The Jungle
Love Can't Be Right
Old Soul
You Don't Love Me Anymore
Husband Of A Country Singing Star
Where Are You Now
Michelle
How Long
Rabbit Foot Blues
Tura Satana
Radioactive Man
Interlude
Big John
Cool Boys
White Tree

Best, Melissa
info at propellersoundrecordings.com

A lotta complaints about the mixes on the Queen box. Supposedly auto tune was used to clean up the vocals?

Hoffman forums are most unhappy.

Brand new digital transfers from the original 1/4” tape mixes by Rob Schnapf & Joanna Bolme. Remastered by the official Elliott Smith archival team of Larry Crane (Jackpot! Studio/Tape Op) and Adam Gonsalves (Telegraph Mastering).

This reissue features a stunning deluxe mirror-board gatefold jacket and CD wallet.

From A Basement On The Hill, Elliott Smith’s final studio album, was originally released posthumously in 2004. His highest-charting release, From A Basement was met with widespread acclaim from fans and critics alike, noting the album’s expanded musical textures that nevertheless retained the welcoming and empathetic intimacy of Smith’s songwriting. Rich with swampy guitar lines and hazy vocals, From A Basement unifies the ’60s psychedelic sound often cited by Smith as a primary inspiration with his own signature stylings.

released November 1, 2024

should have checked this email sooner---Real Gone Music End of Year CD Sale ends Sunday----not as good a selection as it could have been, but this is def. my pick:
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Dusty Springfield: Come for a Dream--The U.K Sessions 1970-1971. CD
$ 11.19 $ 13.99
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During her 1968-1971 period with Atlantic Records in the United States, Dusty Springfield also continued to record material in England, where her Atlantic repertoire was released on Philips Records. In turn, Atlantic received rights to issue Dusty's British recordings from the era, but chose to focus entirely on her American sessions. In fact, it wasn't until the '90s that some of these masters (many of which originally came out on the Philips See All Her Faces album overseas) were available Stateside, but they were scattered across several compilations and were never comprehensively assembled. Now, with the release of Come For A Dream--The U.K. Sessions 1970-1971, allof Dusty's "orphaned" British recordings from her 1970-1971 Atlantic period have been gathered together for the first time. These 16 sides document what was intended to be a complete album plus some extra single sides and outtakes. Dusty was singing at her absolute best during this time, covering pop, rock and soul with equal power and sensitivity; thus, Come For A Dream represents a major addition and clarification to the legendary singer's discography. Notes by Joe Marchese shed further light on this tumultuous period in Dusty Springfield's career, with rare photos to boot. A perfect companion piece to Real Gone Music's recent Faithful release, which presented Dusty's missing third album for Atlantic from the same era in proper fashion for the first time. 1. A Song For You 2. Mixed Up Girl 3. Sweet Inspiration 4. Yesterday When I Was Young 5. Goodbye 6. Girls It Ain’t Easy 7. Crumbs Off The Table 8. Wasn’t Born To Follow 9. What Are You Doing The Rest Of Your Life? 10. O-o-h Child 11. Let Me Down Easy 12. Come For A Dream 13. Girls Can’t Do What The Guys Do 14. I Start Counting 15. How Can I Be Sure 16. Go My Love

Her Real Gone Complete Atlantic Singles is also ace, but sold out for the moment.
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The Raymond Scott Big Band Hemidemisemiquaver CD
$ 4.99 $ 14.99

aymond Scott is best known as the composer of famous tunes that pop up throughout Warner Bros cartoons. In the late 'Thirties, his celebrated Raymond Scott Quintette was a huge commercial success, a singular ensemble playing a unique and unmistakable style of jazz, full of whimsy and bravura. By the late 'Forties, he had become an electronic music pioneer, both as an instrument inventor and composer. His music is everywhere these days, not just cartoons. For example, Lizzo's recent hit 'Tempo' samples (sips from?) his 'Nescafe,' and he is heard in the recent Netflix hit show Hollywood. The lost chapter between the Quintette and his electronic music was every bit as compelling, starting with the first multiracial radio big band, the 'CBS Big Band''whose ranks included legends Ben Webster, Cozy Cole, and Charlie Shavers. Not only did this unit swing hard, they could also execute the intricate passages for which he was so famous. Hemidemisemiquaver: Buried Treasures of the Raymond Scott Big Band collects 26 exciting cuts, mostly unreleased radio broadcasts recorded by Scott himself and restored by Gavin Ross at Steady Studio in Burbank, CA. The package features photos from the Scott family archive and extensive liner notes penned by Scott scholar Skip Heller, who co-produced this volume with Scott's son, Stan Warnow. Indispensable for Raymond Scott fans or any big band fan for that matter!

1. Carrier Pigeon
2. Four Beat Shuffle
3. The Beard
4. Hemi Demi Semi
5. In A Magic Garden
6. Mr Basie Goes To Washington
7. LimeHouse Blues
8. Toonerville Trolley
9. Section A
10. Enchanted Forest
11. Eight Letters In My Mailbox
12. Cozy Cole Drum Solo
13. Roxy Special
14. Naked City
15. Peanut Vendor
16. Casbah Blues
17. Section C
18. Tijuana
19. 37th Secret
20. Jeep Jump
21. Get Happy
22. Break The
23. Carrier Pigeon (alt take)
24. Minuet In Jazz
25. Cozy Cole Drum Solo (alt take)
26. American In Russia

I've been putting the Leo Records catalog up on Bandcamp, and have just gotten to a pair of particularly important releases. Cecil Taylor's Live In Bologna and Live In Vienna were recorded in 1987 and released as limited edition double LPs containing roughly 90 minutes of music each in four side-long tracks. Obviously all that music wouldn't fit on CD, so they were edited down to 70 minutes later. I got hold of ultra-clean copies of the original vinyl and had Jonathan Horwich at International Phonograph in Chicago help me with the digitization, and now the music can be heard digitally in full for the first time. (I've included the "CD edits" as bonus tracks if you buy the albums.)

https://ceciltaylorleo.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-bologna

https://ceciltaylorleo.bandcamp.com/album/live-in-vienna

The Italian label Die Schachtel reissued composer Roland Kayn's mid 70s electronic masterpiece Simultan as a 3LP set a few years ago, and they've just released a 3CD version:

https://dieschachtelrecords.bandcamp.com/album/simultan

I tried to talk myself out of buying it, but failed. The pictures were too pretty.

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presale from Real Gone Music, street date Feb 7:

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Tank Girl Original Soundtrack Vinyl LP
$ 31.99

cast composed of some of the most colorful characters (Iggy Pop, Ann Magnuson) and character actors (Malcolm McDowell, Ice-T, and of course the almighty Lori Petty!) in show biz. And, its dystopic, resource-starved desert setting, intense action sequences, and lead female character mark it as a feminist (albeit funnier) precursor to Mad Max: Fury Road. But check out the soundtrack’s bona-fides: assembled by Courtney Love herself, it features a Who’s Who of ‘90s female rock including Hole, Björk, L7, Veruca Salt, and Belly among others. Plus, it even has tracks that were exclusive to its release, like a unique version of Devo’s “Girl U Want,” “Mockingbird Girl” by The Magnificent Bastards (a side project of the late Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots), and a duet of “Let’s Do It, Let’s Fall in Love” between Joan Jett and The Replacements’ Paul Westerberg. In short, if there ever was a score that needs to be on wax, this would be it. We’ve done it right, too, with a gatefold jacket featuring the trademark comic book art and stills from the film, and a neon coral vinyl pressing for its 30th anniversary!

A1. Ripper Sole—Stomp
A2. Army of Me—Björk
A3. Girl U Want—Devo
A4. Mockingbird Girl—The Magnificent Bastards
A5. Shove—L7
A6. Drown Soda—Hole
B1. Bomb—Bush
B2. Roads—Portishead
B3. Let’s Do It—Joan Jett & Paul Westerberg
B4. Thief—Belly
B5. Aurora—Veruca Salt
B6. Big Gun—Ice T

Also Feb 7
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The Donnas Gold Medal Vinyl LP
$ 29.99

Famously formed in 8th grade for a school talent show, The Donnas began as a self-styled co-ed answer to The Ramones, playing gleefully unapologetic, pop-punk paeans to adolescent alienation and hedonism from a decidedly female perspective. But by the time of 2004’s Gold Medal, their sixth album and second for the major label Atlantic, the group has clearly—dare we say it?--matured. With the notable exception of the single (and career highlight) “Fall Behind Me,” Gold Medal marks a move away from the Donnas’ harder/faster ethos towards a more polished (acoustic guitars…whaaat?) pop sound veering towards ‘70s psychedelia under the helm of Avril Lavigne producer Butch Walker. And you can tell it from the album’s graphics, which flash vintage, Peter Max-esque squiggles on the front cover and feature a faux black light poster inside (which we have reproduced for this reissue along with the original printed inner sleeve). The result was an album that lead vocalist Brett Anderson a.k.a Donna A. deems her favorite, and one that stands as probably the most underrated album in the band’s fabulous catalog (most of which we have recently released here at Real Gone Music). Our reissue comes in gold smoke vinyl…an overlooked early-oughties gem!
Side A

1. I Don’t Want to Know (If You Don’t Want Me)
2. Friends Like Mine
3. Don’t Break Me Down
4. Fall Behind Me
5. Is That All You’ve Got for Me

Side B

1. It’s So Hard
2. The Gold Medal
3. Out of My Hands
4. It Takes One to Know One
5. Revolver
6. Have You No Pride

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Over three years in the making, Needle Mythology Records is delighted to announce a super deluxe, expanded remastered reissue of The Lilac Time’s 1991 masterpiece, Astronauts. Released as a triple vinyl, triple CD or single vinyl, only 1000 copies of each format will be produced, there will be no further pressings. The 3LP edition will come with an extensive 11,000 word oral history of Astronauts and liner notes by Needle Mythology co-founder and longtime Stephen Duffy and Lilac Time authority/ aficionado, Pete Paphides.

All three albums including a 2024 remaster, a collection of field recordings and work tapes entitled ‘Softened By Rain The Making Of Astronauts’ and a live compilation ‘Any Road Up The Lilac Time Live 1990/91’ have been mastered for vinyl by Miles Showell at Abbey Road and will be housed in a triple gatefold sleeve with a colour inner sleeve and new artwork for each disc, which has been especially created by designer Mike Storey. The main sleeve for Astronauts itself will replicate the original artwork but with the four distinctive “blobs” rendered in a red “foil” texture. In addition to these three disc sets, 500 single vinyl remastered copies of Astronauts will also be made available, in a cherry red vinyl edition to match outer sleeve.

https://needlemythology.com/releases/the-lilac-time-spanastronauts-span/

Nice essay from Needle Mythology's Pete Paphides on the passion that drives a lavish reissue like this, almost certain to lose money:

https://medium.com/three-imaginary-girls/does-it-hurt-d41a829e612d?