Rolling Reissues 2025

Here we go again...

As some know and most surely don't, I've been working to get the catalog of legendary UK avant-garde label Leo Records up on Bandcamp, and Bandcamp Daily just published a really nice piece about the label, including quotes from me and founder Leo Feigin, and capsule reviews of several of the amazing records Leo's put out over the decades.

3lps on 2cds by The Blues Magoos by BGO.
Psychedelic Lollipop, Electric Comic Book and Basic.
Should be a good set.
If it ever appears. Should have been out in November. Amazon keep pushing expected release date back, which is the main place I've looked for date. Don't think anybody has had a physical copy yet.
It does appear prominently in a BGO full page ad in Record Collector this month which hopefully does mean something.
But if it is actually going to appear it should be good.

Have hoped for something like this, was surprised it hadn't already existed

Julee Cruise: FALL_FLOAT_LOVE (Works 1989-1993), 2CD Gatefold Digisleeve
JULEE CRUISE
Cherry Red
CAT No
QCD2BRED921
18th April 2025

• 2CD SET COMPILING THE FIRST PHASE OF THE UNIQUE AND ENIGMATIC CHANTEUSE’s RECORDING CAREER.

• FEATURING SONGS BY DAVID LYNCH AND ANGELO BADALAMENTI.

• INCLUDES ‘FALLING’ (AS FEATURED ON TWIN PEAKS) ALONGSIDE SINGLES, REMIXES AND JULEE’S TWO ALBUMS, RELEASED IN 1989 AND 1993.

• COMPLETE WITH SLEEVENOTE ESSAY BY FRANK DESERTO.

DISC ONE

Floating Into The Night +

1 Floating

2 Falling

3 I Remember

4 Rockin' Back Inside My Heart

5 Mysteries Of Love

6 Into The Night

7 I Float Alone

8 The Nightingale

9 The Swan

10 The World Spins

Bonus Tracks

11 Falling (Demo)

12 Rockin' Back Inside My Heart (A Cappella)

13 Rockin' Back Inside My Heart (Tibetan 12" Mix)

14 Rockin' Back Inside My Heart (Tibetan Dub)

15 Rockin' Back Inside My Heart (Bonus Beats)

16 Rockin' Back Inside My Heart (Tibetan Single Mix)

DISC TWO

The Voice Of Love +

1 This Is Our Night

2 The Space For Love

3 Movin' In On You

4 Friends For Life

5 Up In Flames

6 Kool Kat Walk

7 Until The End Of The World

8 She Would Die For Love

9 In My Other World

10 Questions In A World Of Blue

11 The Voice Of Love

Bonus Tracks

12 Summer Kisses, Winter Tears

13 Falling (Edit)

14 Rockin' Back Inside My Heart (Edit)

Lunchbox announces reissue of its 'lost album' from 2002, Evolver - out April 18 on Slumberland

FFO: Elephant 6 (specifically Olivia Tremor Control, Beulah, The Minders)

STREAM: "Evolver" -
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From Real Gone Music:

When Grammy-winning artist Petula Clark met poet-songwriter-singer Rod McKuen in France during the 1960s, they became fast friends. Petula, of course, was one of the biggest music stars in the world and in the midst of a long string of hits in both English and French. For his part, McKuen was a huge fan of Petula, naming her his favorite female vocalist. Inspired by Petula’s recorded versions of his dramatic environmental anthem "The Wind of Change" and the tender ballad "I Think of You," McKuen resolved to put together an entire album of his compositions for Petula just like he had done with Frank Sinatra on The Chairman’s 1969 release A Man Alone. The project was announced, but it took a few decades to come to fruition; finally, Petula and Rod were able to synchronize their schedules in 2005. Multiple sessions at Hollywood's Private Island Trax studio and an overdub session in Geneva would yield 20 favorites from the McKuen songbook, passionately and poignantly sung by England's most successful female singer of the 20th century. A limited-edition, 14-track CD available from Rod's website and Petula's fan club quickly sold out, and now Solitude & Sunshine - The Songs of Rod McKuen is coming to retail for the first time in a newly expanded edition including 6 bonus tracks, 5 unreleased! The CD includes extensive liner notes written by both Rod and Petula along with rare photos. A special treat for fans of either artist!

Jesse Ed Davis CD Packshot

We at Real Gone Music have something in common with some of the most famous artists in rock and roll: Jesse Ed Davis is one of our favorite sidemen. Indeed, the Native American guitarist was the “go-to” guy for a remarkable group of musicians including Conway Twitty, Taj Mahal, Leon Russell, and, perhaps most famously, George Harrison during the Concert for Bangla Desh. All this activity caught the eye of ATCO Records, who released his debut LP Jesse Davis in 1971 featuring Leon Russell, Eric Clapton, Gram Parsons, Merry Clayton, Ben Sidran, John Simon (producer of The Band), Alan White (of Yes), and many others including Delaney Bramlett behind the mixing desk. A year later, Atco released Ululu containing some of the same all-stars, plus Duck Dunn, Jim Keltner, and Dr. John – and a version of George Harrison’s “Sue Me, Sue You Blues” before even George recorded it. Of late, there’s been something of a Jesse Ed Davis revival; he was a major figure in the documentary Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World, and 2024 saw the release of a full-fledged biography, Washita Love Child: The Life and Times of Jesse Ed Davis, by Dr. Douglas Miller. Now, we at Real Gone Music are thrilled to announce the release of Tomorrow May Not Be Your Day: The Unissued Atco Recordings 1970-1971, a CD consisting of, as the title says, recordings taken from Jesse’s sessions for his two Atco solo records that were unreleased until this collection. Along the way you’ll find completely unreleased songs (“Slinky Jam”), unexpected covers of “Ain’t No Beatle,” “Kansas City,” and “Tracks of My Tears,” unissued instrumentals (including a version of Dylan’s “Love Minus Zero/No Limit”), and no less than four alternate versions of Jesse’s masterpiece, “Washita Love Child.” Remastered from the original multitracks by Mike Milchner at Sonic Vision, and featuring notes by Dr. Miller festooned by photos contributed by Jesse’s son William “Billy” Noriega, Tomorrow May Not Be Your Day: The Unissued Atco Recordings 1970-1971 represents a major, major archival find from one of rock’s most intriguing characters.

Many more great new releases to come this month…watch your inbox!

Real Gone Gordon and Gabby

More my kinda from Real Gone (this is Black Vinyl Variant, gen. available and maybe cheaper than ltd.eds.)

07/11/2025 STREET DATE.

ou’ve heard Bernard “Pretty” Purdie drum on more albums than you can count. Besides releasing some 30 albums as a bandleader, and acting as Aretha Franklin’s musical director, Purdie played on records by Miles Davis, Herbie Mann, King Curtis, Tom Rush, Albert Ayler, James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Roberta Flack, Cat Stevens, Todd Rundgren, Steely Dan, Al Green…and that’s just scratching the surface! He also invented “The Purdie Shuffle,” tapping triplets against a half-time backbeat, among other rhythmic innovations. This rare record from 1972 is only the third he recorded as a leader, and, no surprise, he is surrounded by a stellar cast of musicians including guitarist Cornell Dupree, bassist Chuck Rainey, keyboardist Harold Wheeler, trumpeter Snooky Young, and reedman Seldon Powell. Needless to say, it’s a funky, eclectic affair, with plenty of great breakbeats, highlighted by the proto-rap tune “Artificialness” featuring Gil Scott-Heron! Comes in the original gatefold jacket art, too. Crate diggers gonna dig this one!

Side One
1. Stand by Me
2. Modern Jive
3. Spanish Harlem
4. Artificialness

5. Never Can Say Goodbye

Side Two
1. Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get

2. It’s Too Late
3. Funky Mozart
4. You’ve Got a Friend

oops,sorry!

Pretty Purdie and The Playboys Stand by Me (Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get) Vinyl
$ 23.99
Color
Black

Yet more from Real Gone:

Jackie DeShannon Love Forever--Demo Recordings 1966-1968 CD
$ 14.99

**Autographs ARE SOLD OUT**

Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Jackie DeShannon got her start singing gospel at home and in church as a child in her native Kentucky, and then singing country songs in her teens on her own weekly radio show, followed by rockabilly in the late 1950s. But her career really started in full swing after she moved to Los Angeles in the early 1960s and signed to Liberty Records and its song publishing arm, Metric Music, where she would write on her own as well as in collaboration with Sharon Sheely, Randy Newman, Jack Nitzsche, and Jimmy Page. Her recordings during this time initially emphasized rhythm-and-blues material and then embraced the folk era blending with west coast country rock and the Southern California sound.

As a staff member of Metric Music, Jackie created a countless number of demo recordings. Although some of these have appeared on unofficial/bootleg CDs over the years and a few were sprinkled in her with her Liberty/Imperial releases, there has never been a complete authorized commercial issue of DeShannon demos until now.

Covering the years 1966-68, LOVE FOREVER offers over 16 demo selections by Jackie which reflect the decade's shift to a more introspective songwriting approach. Although Jackie enjoyed major hit singles such as "What the World Needs Now Is Love" and her evergreen anthem "Put a Little Love in Your Heart," her craftsmanship as a tunesmith took a more personal tack here. And with recollections by Lady Love herself incorporated into Richie Unterberger’s liner notes as well as photographs from her private collection, LOVE FOREVER paints a picture of a timeless artist evolving with the times, on her way to new creative territory in the 1970s with career crowning compositions and recordings at Capitol, Atlantic, Columbia, and Amherst Records. And best of all, 10 of the 16 tracks have never appeared ANYWHERE previous to the release of this collection, so most of the tunes and tracks on LOVE FOREVER will be new even to DeShannon devotees!

Track Listing
1. Where the Roses Go
2. Nicole
3. Children & Flowers
4. Only You Can Free My Mind
5. The Greener Side
6. More Than I Am
7. Effervescent Blue
8. Love Forever Stay
9. A Lot of Lovin’
10. Rose Colored Glasses
11. Girl in Love
12. Distraction
13. More Time in the Day

14. No, My Love
15. There Comes a Time

16. It Shines on You Too

Much more from xpost Purdy as leader, also co-leader---had no idear
wiki:

Soul Drums (Columbia, 1967)
Purdie Good! (Prestige, 1971) [note: reissued as Legends of Acid Jazz: Bernard Purdie in 1996]
Stand by Me (Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get) (Mega Records [in the 'Flying Dutchman Series'], 1972) with the Playboys
Soul Is... Pretty Purdie (Flying Dutchman, 1972; reissued on BGP/Ace in 2014)
Shaft (Prestige, 1973) recorded 1971 [note: reissued as Legends of Acid Jazz: Bernard Purdie in 1996]
Lialeh (Original Movie Soundtrack) (Bryan, 1974)
Delights of the Garden (Celluloid, 1975) with the Last Poets
Purdie as a Picture (Kilmarnock, 1993) with Galt MacDermot's New Pulse Jazz Band
Bernard Purdie's Jazz Groove Sessions in Tokyo (Lexington/West 47th, 1993)
Coolin' 'N Groovin' (A Night At 'On-Air') (Lexington/West 47th, 1993)
After Hours with the 3B's (3B's Music, 1993)
Soothin' 'N Groovin' With the 3B's (3B's Music, 1994) with Houston Person
The Hudson River Rats (3B's Music, 1995)
Fatback! The Jazz Funk Masters Featuring Bernard Purdie (Seven Seas, 1995)
Kick 'N Jazz (Drum Beat Blocks, 1996)
Soul to Jazz I (Act, 1996) with the WDR Big Band
Soul to Jazz II (Act, 1997) with the WDR Big Band
In the Pocket (P-Vine, 1997)
Get It While You Can (3B's Music, 1999) with the Hudson River Rats
The Masters of Groove Meet Dr. No (Jazzateria, 2001) with Reuben Wilson, Grant Green Jr., Tarus Mateen
King of the Beat (3B's Music, 2001)
Purdie Good Cookin' (3B's Music, 2003) with Purdie's Powerhouse
The Godfathers of Groove (18th & Vine, 2007) with Reuben Wilson, Grant Green Jr., Jerry Jemmott [note: originally released as The Masters of Groove]
The Godfathers of Groove 3 (18th & Vine, 2009) with Reuben Wilson, Grant Green Jr., Bill Easley
Jersey Blue (Running Rogue, 2009) with Gene McCormick, Jack Hoban
Selling It Like It Is (Cadence Jazz, 2009 [rel. 2013]) with David Haney
Cool Down (Sugar Road, 2018)

Real Gone's always been good on Dusty:

In the early 1970s, Dusty Springfield relocated from her native England to Los Angeles in an effort to pursue new opportunities in her career and signed with ABC/Dunhill Records. After her 1973 album Cameo flopped commercially, Dusty travelled to New York to team with producer Brooks Arthur, renowned for his work with Phil Spector's 1960s coterie of girl singers. For Longing, Arthur chose to frame Dusty in the 1970s singer-songwriter milieu, interpreting work by Janis Ian, Chi Coltrane, Colin Blunstone, Melissa Manchester, Carole Bayer Sager, and others. But as the sessions wound down in the summer of 1974, Dusty found herself suffering from emotional exhaustion and professional uncertainty. She subsequently chose to put the album on the shelf and part ways with the label. Heard today, some 51 years later, these tracks are simply a revelation, displaying Dusty Springfield at the peak of her professional powers while suffering from personal insecurities,giving these recordings a unique power and poignancy.

In 2001, under the supervision of producer Arthur, nine of the ten tracks he recorded with Dusty were released on CD as part of a collection of her ABC/Dunhill period. A tenth track ("Corner of the Sky" from the Broadway musical Pippin) was reworked as a duet with Petula Clark and included on a pair of her anthologies. Now, all ten tracks on Longing make their vinyl debut, including the first-ever solo release of "Corner of the Sky" along with new mixes for eight of the other selections for this dual CD & LP release. Includes vintage album artwork and other rare images along with track-by-track annotations by noted Dusty expert and author Paul Howes. Pressed on eco-friendly PET black plastic for its LP debut…or, for our customers only, a pink and white marble vinyl edition limited to 100 copies (and we have a couple of test pressing bundles left). And dedicated Dusty devotees can pick up the Wax Mage edition limited to just 25 copies!

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Jackie Mittoo’s ‘Reggae Magic’ is a new collection from the great Jackie Mittoo. The album features a mixture of classic tunes and rarities from the period 1967-74, when Mittoo was at the height of his musical powers.

Mittoo’s solo career began after the end of The Skatalites in 1965. He began pushing new musical boundaries, creating a uniquely identifiable organ-led funky reggae sound that owed as much to Booker T and The MGs, Jimmy Smith, Stax and Motown as to the post-ska and emergent rocksteady island rhythms of Kingston, Jamaica.

His solo work at the legendary Studio One spanned seven albums and hundreds of singles. Aside from producer and founder Clement ‘Sir Coxsone’ Dodd, it’s hard to think of anyone more central to the sound and success of Studio One than Mittoo; keyboard player extraordinaire, songwriter, arranger, musician, truly the Keyboard King at Studio One.

Jackie Mittoo had been the youngest founding member of The Skatalites (at age 16), probably the most important group in Jamaican music. After they split, he became leader of the three pivotal groups at Studio One - The Soul Brothers, The Soul Vendors and Sound Dimension. He also became musical director for Studio One helping create countless hits for singers Ken Boothe, Bob Andy, The Wailers, John Holt, Delroy Wilson and more – unforgettable tunes like Alton Ellis’ ‘I’m Still in Love with You,’ Marcia Griffiths’ ‘Feel Like Jumping’, The Heptones’ ‘Baby Why’ and others.

Between 1965 and 1968, many of the tunes created at Studio One can be attributed to Mittoo. Timeless instrumental tracks, recorded either under his own name or those of The Soul Brothers, Soul Vendors and Sound Dimension, that have become the basis for literally 1000s and 1000s of Jamaican songs over many decades, giving the music an unsurpassed longevity.

The endurance of his music was as a direct result of significant developments in Jamaican music in the 1970s, namely the creation of three important new styles; Dub, Deejay and Dancehall. In the early 1970s Mittoo’s instrumental tracks were used as the musical source for a series of classic Studio One dub albums. At the same time Deejays at Studio One including Dillinger, Prince Jazzbo and Dennis Alcapone began toasting over these same popular rhythms to create their own new songs.

In the mid-70s, a new generation of Studio One singers and deejays including Sugar Minott, Freddie McGregor, Johnny Osbourne, Michigan & Smiley and others began once again creating new melodies over these original instrumentals, signalling the birth of a new Jamaican style that became known as ‘dancehall’. As dancehall swept across the island, rival producers copied these now classic rhythms.

These original Jackie Mittoo-driven tunes spread like a virus throughout Jamaican music; be they the instrumental cuts to tunes such as Alton Ellis’ ‘Mad Mad’ , ‘I’m Just A Guy’, Larry Marshall’s ‘Mean Girl’, Slim Smith’s ‘Rougher Yet’, and instrumentals such as Mittoo’s classic ‘Hot Milk’ or ‘One Step Beyond’, The Sound Dimension’s ‘Real Rock’, ‘Heavy Rock’, ‘Full Up’, ‘Drum Song’, ‘Rockfort Rock’ … and the list goes on. These tracks became a constant soundtrack to the island, emitting from the ever-present sound of speaker boxes strung up around dancehalls.

This recycling travelled even farther afield; The Sound Dimension’s instrumental ‘Real Rock’, updated by Willie Williams on his classic ‘Armageddon Time’ was in turn covered by The Clash. Lily Allen sampled Mittoo’s debut solo single ‘Free Soul’ for number one hit ‘Smile’; Dawn Penn’s ‘You Don’t Love Me’ (No, No, No), accompanied by The Soul Vendors was revived by Penn and producers Steely & Cleevie in 1994, since covered by Rihanna, Ghostface Killah, Stephen Marley, Damian Marley and Beyonce.

And so it goes; an endless time-leaping, continent-hopping diasporic musical map of the world with all roads essentially leading back to one man – Jackie Mittoo.

Tracks on this album include ‘Melody Maker’, ‘Full Range’, ‘Ghetto Organ’ (rare instrumental of No, No, No), ‘Toronto Express’, ‘Black Out’, The Soul Vendors’ ‘Tropic Island’, ‘Sure Soul’ (instrumental cut to Horace Andy’s classic ‘Got to be Sure’) plus rarities like The Sound Dimension’s ‘Soul Stew’, The Soul Vendors’ ‘West of the Sun’, The Sound Dimension’s ‘Walk Don’t Run’ and more.

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Recorded at Dreamland Studios (a literal converted church) in 2017, this long-out-of-print record is now back in print on both vinyl and, for the first time, CD formats. The Bobby Lees’ “Beauty Pageant” overflows with the kind of raw punk energy you can only bottle once—when you’re young enough to play every chord like it might be your last.

CHECK THE ALBUM HERE

Mosaic is putting out The Complete Pharoah Sanders Theresa Recordings, a 7CD set, in July. It includes the albums Journey To The One, Rejoice, Live, Heart Is A Melody, Shukuru, A Prayer Before Dawn, Ed Kelly & Friend (a collaborative album with pianist Kelly), and the Idris Muhammad album Kabsha. There's some really good stuff here, but there's also a version of "The Greatest Love Of All" (on A Prayer Before Dawn) that'll make you want to saw your own ears off. I'm definitely going to be writing about this set.

digging the salem 66 reissues that just came out, very solid 80s boston band featured on the classic 80s jangle comp sturm and thrum. riyl/precursor to scrawl and slant 6.

From Numero:

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.

From the landlocked tropical savanna of Upper Volta, an ever-evolving cast of musicians brought the world’s rhythms to the streets of their native Bobo-Dioulasso. Combining Congolese rhumba, American R&B, French yé-yé, Cuban son, and regional Senufo and Mandingo traditions, Orchestre Volta Jazz was at the epicenter of the West African musical explosion of the ’60s and ’70s. Air Volta compiles nine original songs originally issued on the Disques France-Afrique and Sonafric labels, a peerless primer of a group that turned the brutality of colonialism into something beautiful and enduring.

“Boisterous and simmering in equal measure.”—Pitchfork

“Infectious and filled with joy.”—The New Yorker

Out Today:
Super Djata Band - Authentique Vol. 2 Feu Vert 81-92
Malian guitar sorcery of the highest order. You shall not pass. 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. For their 1981 album, the Bamako-based orchestra discovers the wah-wah pedal, delivering six mind-ravishing guitar workouts for the for the proletariat.

That Antena one is really nice.

Numero:

Out Today: The Lijadu Sisters - Danger LP, CD and Deluxe Version with Bonus 7"
“Danger” (1976) was the Lijadu Sisters’ radical first international release, featuring the politically charged anthem “Cashing In”, its powerful opening track Danger with “funk in abundance”, and the hit Life’s Gone Down Low, which later on was sampled by Nas.

With lyrics mostly in English, it drew on Afrobeat, reggae and soul and was the beginning of a fruitful relationship with producer and multi-instrumentalist Biddy Wright. Wright played most of the instruments assisted by traditional drummers and percussionists. He was adept at accentuating the uniquely beautiful vocal harmonies that were the sisters’ trademark. The way they glide around the melodies in unison is a thing of beauty and Wright’s languid and uncluttered production afford them plenty of room to take flight.
Since its original release, it has been hailed as one of the best Nigerian albums of its time, and cited as an influence for many younger artists. The six-song LP is a low-slung affair, awash in dreamy psychedelic guitar, crisp hi-hat shuffles, and telepathic harmony vocals from twins Taiwo and Kehinde. This 2025 remaster is housed in a deluxe tip-on jacket and includes lyrics in both Yorurban and English. Danger, danger, danger please come on back...

Available now on Vinyl, CD and Streaming.

From Real Gone:

You’ve heard his lyrics on classic albums like Dennis Wilson’s Pacific Ocean Blue and the Beach Boys’ Friends. His 1969 collaboration with Brian Wilson A World of Peace Must Come, gained almost legendary status as one of pop’s most storied lost albums before being resurrected to great acclaim by Light in the Attic Records in 2008. Now, you are cordially invited to take a trip into the mind of poet and songwriter Stephen J. Kalinich as he proclaims I Love My Life. You’ll see why heavy-hitters like Brian Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Paul McCartney, Steve Cropper, PF Sloan, and Diana Ross all have worked with him. Produced by Willie Aron & Milo Binder with Kalinich - featuring vocal and instrumental contributions by Randell Kirsch (Beach Boys, Jan & Dean), Rob Bonfiglio (Wilson Phillips), and others. Recorded at Pasadena’s The Pie Studios and engineered by Jeff Peters, who has worked with the Beach Boys collectively and individually for forty years. Out on CD from our friends at Heyday Again Records!

Here's his album produced by Brian, at home (in the sandbox, hopefully):

https://lightintheattic.net/products/a-world-of-peace-must-come

Next three are Numero:

Hüsker Dü Lost Grail Tapes
For those that didn't see on IG this week, Yes - the rumors are true. On January 30, 1985, Hüsker Dü recorded a peak high performance to 24 track tape at Minneapolis’s First Avenue club in front of their hometown massive. This performance was supposed to come out as a live album later that year, but the band’s rapid upward trajectory caused priorities to shift. The tapes were shelved – thought to be possibly lost in the same 2011 house fire that consumed a precious portion of the Hüsker Dü archive. Nearly 40 years later, these tapes have been rescued from the abyss, and we’ve tasked the team at Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio on the transferring and Beau Sorensen at Tiny Telephone for the mixdowns.
We have dropped the first batch for your listening pleasure* alongside a limited '85 era tour shirt available this week only. We have a bunch of boxes of ephemera, photos, and tapes to go through so sit tight; we’re in the midst of a miracle year.

Numero cont.:

REPRESS ALERT:
Super Static Fever - Silent Dynamic Torture
Huge IYKYK album back in print for the first time in a long time and the 2nd time I get to mention Steve Albini this week. Formed in 1993 in the go-nowhere exurb of San Jose, California, Super Static Fever played only a handful of gigs in their brief two year existence, pleasuring spectators with a wah-wah wall of Marshall-stacked distortion. Their sound was a mix of Melvins-esque sludge, Swervedriver’s melodic crunch, and latter-day Black Flag’s penchant for volume, as heard from the stock stereo of a hot-boxed 1985 Ford Econoline.

Unfinished tapes from two ear-bleeding sessions are all that survived the ensuing 25 years since their indifferent break-up, mixed by the exacting Steve Albini as the band’s one condition for reissue. The package reeks of the ’90s computer-crippled D.I.Y. aesthetic, with VHS blur and opaque white screened on chipboard. A record that just barely does, and probably should not, exist.

Pre-Order:
Karate: If You Can Hold Your Breath 5xLP
Karate’s first five years, boxed in classic Numero fashion and annotated by frontman Geoff Farina. Collaging DC post-hardcore, De Stijl, and Django Reinhardt, this five LP set includes their self-titled debut, In Place of Real Insight, The Bed Is In The Ocean, period 7”s, and previously unissued 1993 demo. 41 late millennium accounts of 2AM bike rides, punk house floors, skinny dipping, regrettable tattoos, and Interstate 95 commuting, all remastered from the original tapes and housed in sturdy tip-on sleeves for the discerning Karate enthusiast. Don’t drown.
Pre-order: Release date is September 12th - Orders will begin shipping in mid August!

Drag City:

OUT NOW: RAFAEL TORAL CD REISSUES

A new set of CD masters for Rafael Toral's seminal, first releases Sound Mind Sound Body (1994) and Wave Field (1995) are available now. The 2025 CD master of Sound Mind Sound Body recalls “Loopability II” from the ‘94 AnAnAnA master, omits “Textura e Linhas Curvas,” and adds yet another brand new version of “AER 7 E” in place of the 2018 version.

The sounds of Wave Field and Sound Mind Sound Body sit perfectly among the forward-reaching music of today — as it continues to evolve in our ears, moving ever towards the next conception of listening space...they sound remarkably prescient and perfectly timeless – fresher today than when they were first released, as to be expected with a fresh new mastering job! Get your copies today!

Rafael Toral 2025 Performances

Aug. 2 - Lisbon, Portugal @ Jazz em Agosto*

*performing Spectral Evolution

Oct. 11 - Venice, Italy @ La Biennale di Venezia

Kill Rock Stars just put this up:

Brooklyn's Habibi brought an explosive and celebratory fun to their self-titled 2014 debut. That brief collection was overflowing with bubblegum melodies, upbeat pop, and the kind of giddy excitement that bands only revel in during their earliest stages. Six years later, sophomore album Anywhere But Here retains some of that excitement, but sees the band expanding into moodier expression, more complex songwriting, and an expanded instrumentation that includes occasional Middle Eastern touches. This kind of progression was hinted at on the band's 2018 EP Cardamom Garden, which saw them incorporating Persian hand percussion and lyrics sung in Farsi into shadowy rock tunes. Anywhere But Here splits its track list between higher-energy power pop songs like the attitude-heavy "Misunderstood" and more simmering, downtempo slow burns like "Flowers." On the moodier songs, spindly surf-rock guitar leads blur into reverb-coated vocal harmonies. The relaxed pace and sun-dazed atmosphere of "Angel Eyes" sounds like the Allah-Las at their most subdued, but before long, Habibi calls on the jittery fire of their earliest material for the dancey garage pop of "Bad News." Both Habibi's pop-friendly and atmospheric sides grow on Anywhere But Here, with more direct hooks on songs like "Hate Everyone But You" and a daring willingness to explore outside of their known parameters on

A CERTAIN RATIO have announced details of the latest release in their reissue campaign, Live in America, 10-tracks that capture the exuberance of their 1985 tour of America. It will be out on vinyl, CD and digitally on August 8, 2025 via Mute.

Originally available as a self-released cassette the band sold on tour the following year, the album compiles performances from ACR’s summer 1985 tour of North America with then (and current!) labelmates New Order when both artists were on Factory Records.

Listen to the band perform one of their most loved and best-known singles, “Shack Up” HERE.

The line-up documented on the album consists of Andrew Connell - Keyboards, Donald Johnson – Drums and Vocals, Jez Kerr - Bass and Vocals, Martin Moscrop - Guitar and Trumpet and Anthony Quigley - Sax. That same line up went on to release Force the following year, shortly before Connell left to concentrate on Swing Out Sister.

The band’s sheer joy in their performance is evidenced across the release, charting what sounded like an intense tour across North America only a few years into their career. They explain: “The tour was fun and we were very well looked after by New Order and especially Rob Gretton, New Order’s manager. Rob always made sure that we were well fed and watered and would fulfill any request we had. Sometimes the promoters wouldn’t want us to eat in the same swanky restaurants as New Order due to costs and because we were the ‘warm up’ act. When this happened Rob would just tell them that he would pay for ACR. He watched our performances every night and gave us his opinion on how he thought it went. He was one of our biggest fans and we miss him dearly.”

Live in America was recorded at: Felt Forum, NYC; Opera House, Boston; Agora Theatre, Akron; Bismarck Theater, Chicago and Warner Theatre, Washington DC.

Track listing:
1. Sounds Like Something Dirty
2. The Fox
3. Shack Up
4. Life’s a Scream
5. Wild Party
6. Flight
7. And Then Again
8. Touch
9. Knife Slits Water
10. Si Firmir O Grido
For all press inquiries, please contact:

Sally Hedberg: sally at mute.com

Numero:

Tirez Tirez - Story of the Year
Tirez Tirez was a KCMO born, NYC bred new wave/art rock outfit who scored their first gig as the opening act for Talking Heads. Their sophomore 1983 LP Story Of The Year drifts away from the angular art punk soundscapes of their early releases and towards a lusher, more realized vision.

Stream

Yall heard about the Bowie box, right? Looking good:

David Bowie’s final artistic years of 2002 through 2016 are lovingly chronicled in a new box set, I Can’t Give Everything Away. The collection is set for release on September 12th, and pre-orders are ongoing.

I Can’t Give Everything Away will be available as a 13-CD, 18-piece vinyl and standard digital download/streaming box set.

I was hoping for something unreleased from the BlackStar sessions but I'm looking forward to diving into it all again.

When not gazing out windows into the stormy Manhattan skyline, Margo Guryan spent her thirties banging out earworms for the likes of Bobbie Gentry, Jackie DeShannon, Claudine Longet, Carmen McCrae, and Julie London at CBS’s April Blackwood Music. Guryan’s timeless musings on love, Sundays, earthquakes, crying, and boys named Timothy have soundtracked countless films and viral videos—enduring masterpieces from the before times. 28 of her ’60s and ’70s songwriting demos are collected on this 25th anniversary double album edition. Get under Margo’s umbrella.
Track List

1. What Can I Give You
2. Something's Wrong With The Morning
3. I Love
4. Sunday Morning
5. Can You Tell
6. Think Of Rain7. Sun
8. Most Of My Life
9. The 8:17 Northbound Success Merry-Go-Round
10. Love Songs
11. Thoughts
12. I Don't Intend To Spend Christmas Without You
13. Come To Me Slowly
14. Timothy Gone
15. It's Alright Now
16. Values
17. I Think A Lot About You
18. The Hum
19. Please Believe Me
20. Yes I Am
21. I'd Like To See The Bad Guys Win
22. California Shake23. Shine
24. Hold Me Dancin'
25. Good-bye, July
26. Why Do I Cry
27. Under My Umbrella
28. I Ought To Stay Away From You

In the wake of the Louisville-via-Chicago late-millennium, post-rock explosion, Mercury Program arrived at an amorphous "scene" in transition, vibraphone in hand. From The Vapors of Gasoline—their 2000 album for Tiger Style—was hardly a sophomore slump, it's ten cerebral and dissonant jams coyly answering the never-asked query: What if new age and post-hardcore bought a house in the suburbs? This 25th anniversary remaster reveals the genius of an overlooked triumph in startlingly vibrant detail, providing atmospheric color for erstwhile reptile and periodic table fans alike.

At least some of these are on his Bandcamp; I haven't checked all the links on there.

Ships on or before: 10/31/25
Joyful Noise Recordings Announces Daniel Johnston In the 20th Century Cassette Box Set, out October 31st, 2025
Remastered by long-time friend and collaborator Kramer (Shimmy-Disc Records), the box set rounds up 16 early Daniel Johnston cassettes for the very first time.
...The set is housed in a hand-crafted wooden case, screen-printed with Daniel’s artwork, hand-numbered in a limited edition of 999. It also includes a booklet with liner notes by Marc Masters and an exclusive mystery toy from the New York based art toy gallery Clutter in conjunction with Lunch Lady Studios.
Cassettes:

Songs of Pain

Don't Be Scared

The What of Whom

More Songs of Pain

Lost Recordings I

Lost Recordings II

Yip Jump Music

Hi, How Are You

Retired Boxer

Respect

Continued Story

Merry Christmas

1990

Live at SXSW
Artistic Vice

Frankenstein Love

Exclusive Daniel Johnston Mystery Toy

Hand numbered out of 999

Housed in hand-crafted wooden box with custom screen-printed lid & sides

Booklet with liner notes by Marc Masters

California you're slippin':

Joyce Street
Tied Down

$13.50
Regular price
$27.00
A ’70s homemaker stuck between the studio and getting dinner on the table, Joyce Street eked out an arresting countrypolitan discography in the margins of an otherwise traditional American life. With lyrics drawn from the pages of her diary, Street’s stirring Mississippi warble led her into the fly-by-night world of custom studios, cutting tracks for upstart country concerns like Reena, Sonobeat, Revelation, and Arc. Channeling the honky tonk angel energy of Bobbie Gentry, Lorretta Lynn, and Jeannie C. Riley, Tied Down compiles a decade’s worth of melodies disguised as lottery tickets.

Track List

Joyce Street Life Ain't Worth Livin' (If I Can't Have You)
Joyce Street That Man Of Mine
Joyce Street Woman Do Something Nice
Joyce Street Mississippi Moonshine
Joyce Street Don't Make Me Cry
Joyce Street Tied Down
Joyce Street Music Soft and the Lights Down Low
Joyce Street California You're Slippin'
Joyce Street The Good Book Says It's Wrong
Joyce Street Back Streets Of Your City
Joyce Street Love In My Heart
Joyce Street When You Belong To Me
Joyce Street California You're Slippin' (Demo)
Joyce Street Lost Highway

this looks interesting. It's a golden age for Sun City Girls fans with all of these recent reissues

https://www.superiorviaduct.com/collections/paris-1942/products/paris-1942-vinyl-bundle

...legendary Japanese punk-pop trio Shonen Knife are hitting U.S. stages starting next week for their first North American tour since 2019. The “Everyone Happy” U.S. Tour kicks off September 20th and runs through late October, with stops in NYC, LA, Seattle, and plenty in between - all fueled by Momokawa Sake.

Here’s the catch: along with the tour, they’re rolling out two very collectible releases - but you’ll only be able to snag them at the merch table until the tour ends:

Our Best Place (2025 Edition) — an expanded vinyl version of their acclaimed 2023 album, featuring four new tracks and embroidered artwork that screams “collector’s item.” (The official online release won’t happen until after the tour wraps.)
Minna Tanoshiku (1982) — the long-lost debut cassette that basically launched their career, reissued for the first time ever after 40+ years. Only 70 copies of the original existed, so this is a serious punk-rock time capsule.
Between the exclusive merch and the return of their famously joyful live show (Nirvana, Sonic Youth, and Redd Kross were early fans for a reason), this tour is shaping up to be a full-circle celebration of Shonen Knife’s four-decade legacy - and their ongoing ability to deliver ridiculously fun, hooky punk-pop.

Our Best Place (2025 Edition) press release: https://mailchi.mp/reybee/shonen-knife-our-best-place-2025?e=1ed1d93d86 (also video link in there, and more info about cassette)

Tour dates:
Sep 20 - Buffalo, NY @ Music is Art Festival
Sep 21 - Boston. MA @ Sonia
Sep 23 - Hamden, CT @ Space Ballroom
Sep 24 - NYC @ Littlefield
Sep 26 - Baltimore, MD @ Ottobar
Sep 27 - Sellersville, PA @ Sellersville Theater
Sep 28 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Preserving Underground
Sep 30 - Columbus, OH @ Rumba Cafe
Oct 02 - Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop
Oct 03 - Ann Arbor, MI @ The Blind Pig
Oct 04 - Grand Rapids, MI @ Pyramid Scheme
Oct 05 - Indianapolis, IN @ Hi-Fi
Oct 07 - Kansas City, MO @ The Record Bar
Oct 09 - Denver, CO @ HQ
Oct 10 - Colorado Springs, CO @ Black Sheep
Oct 11 - Santa Fe, NM @ Meow Wolf
Oct 13 - Phoenix, AZ @ Rebel
Oct 14 - San Diego, CA @ Casbah
Oct 16 - Los Angeles, CA @ Roxy Theatre
Oct 17 - Fresno, CA @ Fulton 55
Oct 18 - San Jose, CA @ The Ritz
Oct 19 - San Francisco, CA @ Bottom of the Hill
Oct 21 - Novato, CA @ Hopmonk
Oct 22 - Sacramento, CA @ Harlow's
Oct 24 - Portland, OR @ Star Theater
Oct 25 - Seattle, WA @ Tractor Tavern
Oct 26 - Tacoma, WA @ Spanish Ballroom
If you have any questions, contact heather at reybee.com.

Sundazed boxes up 10 Psych albums from the Mainstream label: https://sundazed.com/v-a-journey-to-the-center-of-the-mind-a-mainstream-records-60s-psych-adventure-10-cd-boxed-set-w-book.aspx

From Mainstream Records' Psychedelic Era!

Mainstream Records - 10 Compact Disc Boxed Set
including a 48 Page Booklet!

“The young, good acid rock musicians are really playing a form of jazz when they solo today. They are constantly searching for new techniques and sources of inspiration.” — Bob Shad, 1971 Billboard interview

How did a Greatest Generation jazzbo who made his name by working with Art Blakey, Sarah Vaughan, and Dinah Washington come to shepherd the psychedelic likes of The Tangerine Zoo and The Superfine Dandelion?

As Mainstream Records’ founder, producer, and top dog, Bob Shad was mostly a man of jazz and R&B. But in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, he was also a cheerleader for the psychedelic rock revolution.

Shad continued releasing jazz records alongside the rockers, and for better or worse, he would hold his young psychedelic soldiers to the same standard as jazzers when it came to recording. Most of The label’s subsequent rock releases after the Amboy Duke's '68 release of Journey to the Center of the Mind would be exponentially more successful artistically than they were commercially, but that didn’t slow Shad’s pace.

Even if they didn’t set the charts aflame, a number of Mainstream rock acts that slid beneath the sales radar still earned some high-profile reviews in publications like Billboard and Cash Box, as well as radio play on some key stations around the country. They just weren’t able to ratchet the momentum up to the breaking point like Big Brother or The Amboy Dukes. But when you add it all up, the label’s batting average with rock was actually pretty good. Between 1967 and 1971, Mainstream released albums by about 25 rock artists, and two of those bands gained national renown. Most major labels would consider two hits out of 25 to be a success.

Shad's passion translated into a legacy loaded with treasures of all kinds. The Mainstream story has been celebrated with compilations of cuts from the jazz, funk, rock, and soul sides of the label. But this collection is the most immersive journey into Mainstream’s psychedelic years that’s ever been offered. In the words of The Amboy Dukes, “Come along if you care / Come along if you dare.”

TRACK LIST:

1. The Amboy Dukes - self titled (stereo)

Baby Please Don’t Go • I Feel Free • Young Love • Psalms of Aftermath • Colors • Let’s Go Get Stoned • Down on Philips Escalator • The Lovely Lady • Night Time • It’s Not True • Gimme Love

2. Tangerine Zoo - self titled (mono)

Gloria • Trip To The Zoo • Please Don’t Set Me Free • Nature’s Children • The Flight • Mommy and Daddy • Symphonic Psyche • Crystalescent Heaven • One More Heartache

3. Jelly Bean Bandits - self titled (stereo)

Country Woman • Generation • Poor Precious Dreams • Another August Revisited • Going Nowhere • Happiness Girl • Goodtime Feeling • September Rain • Neon River • Plastic Soldiers • Say Mann •Tapestries

4. The Superfine Dandelion - self titled (stereo)

People In The Street • Crazy Town • My Place • Day And Night • Shameful Lady • Janie’s Tomb • It's Raining • Don't Try To Call Me • The Other Sidewalk • What's The Hurry

5. The Amboy Dukes - Journey to the Center of The Mind (stereo)

Mississippi Murderer • Surrender To Your Kings • Flight Of The Byrd • Scottish Tea • Dr. Slingshot • Journey To The Center Of The Mind • Ivory Castles • Why Is A Carrot More Orange Than An Orange • Missionary Mary • Death Is Life • Saint Philips Friend • I’ll Prove I’m Right • Conclusion

6. The Tiffany Lamp - self titled (stereo)

An Older Man • Sam • Jaguar City Blues • Very Grand Love • Softly To Me • No Reality • One Good Question • A Quiet Revolution • Not Worth The Pain

7. Ellie Pop - self titled (stereo)

Seven North Frederick • Winner Loser • Can't Be Love • Remembering (Sunnybrook) • Seems I've Changed • Caught In The Rain • Oh! My Friend • Some Time Ago • No Thanks Mr. Mann • Watcha Gonna Do

8. December's Children - self titled (stereo)

Trilogy (I 2:30 Casino, II In Between A Dream, III Lady of the Garden) • Sweet Talkin’ Woman • Jane’s Song (The Slow One) • Hide The Water • Afternoon • Slow It Down • Too Early To Be Late • Last Monday Night • Back Road Rider • Livin’ (Way Too Fast)

9. The Orient Express - self titled (stereo)

Fruit Of The Desert • Dance For Me • Layla • Birds Of India • Train To Bombay • Caravan Of Silk • Azaar • For A Moment • Impulse (42 Drums) • A Little Star • Cobra Fever

10. Nucleus - self titled (stereo)

Jenny Wake Up • All About Me and The Spidery Bass • Judgement Day • Lost and Found • Share Your Colour • Communication

Big Beat did a 2-disc set around 10 or so years ago split between this stuff and bands that only managed a few singles for Mainstream. It was pretty hit & miss to these ears.

The liner notes should be a gas tho--Mainstream was a really interesting label and their attempts to break into the Rock marketplace are fascinating business stories.

The Miles Davis box set The Complete Live At The Plugged Nickel 1965 is being reissued in January 2026, on 8 CDs or 10 LPs. It's been out of print in physical form forever and now has slightly altered (and IMO uglier) cover art, new sleeves for the individual discs (used to be jewel cases) and new liner notes. You can pre-order it here.

I still have my old copy from 1995 or whenever so won't be buying this, but it really is a tremendous box.

Yes incredible music, I got lost for days in it

Prince's Around The World In A Day is getting a deluxe reissue on November 21. Here's the track listing for the 2CD version:

Disc 1: Around The World In A Day (2025 Remaster)
1. Around the World in a Day
2. Paisley Park
3. Condition of the Heart
4. Raspberry Beret
5. Tamborine
6. America
7. Pop Life
8. The Ladder
9. Temptation
Bonus Track
10. America (12" Version)

Disc 2: B-Sides & Bonus Tracks (2025 Remaster)
1. Raspberry Beret (New Mix) (a.k.a. Extended Remix)
2. She's Always in My Hair (7" Version)
3. She's Always In My Hair (New Mix)
4. Paisley Park (Remix)
5. Pop Life (Fresh Dance Mix)
6. Pop Life (Extended Version)
7. Hello (7" Version)
8. Hello (Fresh Dance Mix)
9. Girl (7" Version)
10. Girl (12" Version)
11. 4 The Tears in Your Eyes (We Are The World Album Version)
12. 4 The Tears in Your Eyes (The Hits/The B-Sides Version)

No 21-minute 12-inch version of "America," no credibility

It’s the bonus track on Disc 1.

There’s also a five 7” box set coming out for Record Store Day Black Friday with reproductions of the four singles from Around the World… and a new one for the two versions of the track from the We Are The World album.

https://recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/19248

Really blows that my era of sporadic employment coincided with the release of all the big Prince reissues. They’re all so amazing and many of them are already OOP

GIVE ME PARADE BOX OR GTFO

this really beautiful and intense Italian free jazz record was reissued back in June via Black Sweat:

G. Liguori & G. Stocchi & D. Stratos
La Cantata Rossa Per Tall El Zaatar

This album is both a musical and political document that tells the story of one of the most brutal massacres that took place in 1976 in a Palestinian refugee camp during the Lebanese Civil War. Pianist Gaetano Liguori, along with Giulio Stocchi and Demetrio Stratos (the legendary singer of the band Area), composed this album, a gut-wrenching blend of free jazz, poetry, and Mediterranean music. The first edition was released in 1978 and, after almost 50 years, unfortunately, nothing seems to have changed. If we call ourselves human, we cannot help but grieve for the suffering of the Palestinian people. This is the third edition of the album, and as with the previous releases, all proceeds will go to charity. This time, we have chosen to donate the funds to UNRWA. Co-released with Legno Dischi.

https://www.blacksweatrecords.com/prodotto/g-liguori-g-stocchi-d-stratos-la-cantata-rossa-per-tall-el-zaatar/

Gregory Corso, Nov. 7 on Shimmy Disc"

Originally released on CD in 2002, DIE ON ME is now available for the first time ever on vinyl. Newly remastered and edited by Kramer, the collection spans archival recordings from 1959 and culminates in Corso’s final sessions, recorded by the late Hal Willner between January 7–10, 2001— just days before Corso’s death.

DIE ON ME TRACK LISTING:

Side A
1. For Homer (recorded January 5, 2001)
2. Ode to Coit Tower (recorded February 7, 1959)
3. Inner Outer Rhyme (recorded January 5, 2001)
4. Ode to The West Wind (recorded June 13, 1975)
5. A Bed’s Lament (recorded January 5, 2001)
6. Hair (recorded January 29, 1959) w/ Studs Terkel, Allen Ginsberg & Peter Orlovsky
7. Mythology (recorded January 5, 2001) w/ Marianne Faithfull

Side B
1. Bomb (recorded February 7, 1959)
2. The Truth (recorded September 13, 1994) w/ Allen Ginsberg
3. Don’t Shoot the Warthog (recorded January 6, 2001)
4. Prophecy (recorded January 7, 2001)
5. No Arrangement Was Made (recorded January 5, 2001) reading by Marianne Faithfull
6. As Rome Burned (recorded January 6, 2001) w/ Marianne Faithfull
7. Last Night I Drove a Car (recorded January 6, 2001)
8. Getting To The Poem (recorded January 6, 2001) reading by Marianne Faithfull

ARTIST BIO:

Gregory Corso was both the youngest and one of the most prominent members of the Beat generation, alongside notable figures like Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Born in 1930 in Greenwich VIllage, Corso survived a traumatic childhood which included orphanages, foster homes, reform school, prison, and mental hospital experiences...

Peacefrog is reissuing Moodymann’s Black Mahogani on vinyl with a pretty obi.

Relapse is reissuing the (mostly) complete catalog of 1980s Japanese hardcore punk band Lip Cream. This includes the albums Kill Ugly Pop, Sin, Close To The Edge, 9 Shocks Terror, Big Foot Cassette, Thrash Til Death (a compilation of their various compilation tracks), and a couple of loose singles.