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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Exclusive Company in Wisconsin sweet Display


(CLICK ON THE PICTURE TO SEE FULL-SIZE) On the right, you have the 5th Anniversary Poster for Record Store Day.  On the left, you have what Exclusive Company employee Ethan created for their Record Store Day celebration using *real* records.  Very nice job!!
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Tuesday, April 3, 2012

My UK RSD WISHLIST

Ok, if anyone from the UK/EU can help me acquire any of these items, please let me know ASAP.  I'd like to try to work out a trade for US RSD items, or cash, for COST (I refuse to pay Ebay prices, so if you plan to rip me off, don't even bother responding).

Tier 1 (MUST HAVE ITEMS):
  • Kinks LP set (Arthur, Face to Face and Something Else)
  • Cure LP set (Sixteen Seconds, Faith, The Top, Pornography, Three Imaginary Boys)
  • Refused LP set (Rather Be Dead, Songs to Fan the Flames, New Noise Theology and Shape of Punk to Come)
  • Gorillaz Do Ya Thing 10"
  • Sigur Ros Ekla Mukk 10"
  • Soulsavers Longest Day 7" (not on UK list, but supposed to be out on RSD)

Tier 2 (WANTED ITEMS):
  • Danny Brown XXX (delayed in US)
  • Andrew Bird 10"
  • Bob Marley 3LP
  • Edwyn Collins Tape Box 7" set
  • Frank Turner 7"
  • Guided by Voices 7"
  • Morrissey 10" Picture Disc
  • Pains at Being Pure at Heart Remix 12"
  • Ramones 7"
  • Sex Pistols 7"
  • Sugar 7"
  • T. Rex Telegram Sam 7"
  • Velvet Underground Loaded LP
  • Velvet Underground Sweet Jane 7"
If you can help me out, please e-mail me at:  shawncturner @ gmail dot com with the following:

a) Your US want list (please prioritize it, so I know which items are your must have items, versus items that you wouldn't mind having, but are indifferent about.
b) If you use Paypal (Yes/No)
c) Ability to obtain multiple items and which items you think you can get extras of (e.g. "I can get 3 copies of the Sigur Ros 10").  This would be to trade for other items I am looking for and/or missed out on.

I ship fast (Priority Mail with tracking number) overseas and pack items well in secure cardboard mailers surrounded by cardboard/bubble wrap to ensure no damage.  I have a 100% positive feedback on Ebay as well, when I do sell extra items from my collection.

Thanks!
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Saturday, March 31, 2012

The #RSD12 Record Store Day 2012 "Missing" Items list

So I've been meaning to write this for a week now, but work and exhaustion have held it up, so I apologize.   But for those of you in the UK/Europe, you have an *awesome* list of items heading your way that many in North America would love to have.  Speaking of, if anyone in the UK would WANT TO TRADE for any items, please let me know.  I will pretty much have my pick of every US release available, so I can nearly guarantee any item you want. 

So with that said, let's look at the items that did *not* make the Record Store Day "official" list.  Remember, to be considered an official RSD release, you basically have to have the sticker/logo on the item and it has to meet their approval.  Know that there are some *great* items coming out on Record Store Day, that your store may get (if you want it, be sure and ask if they ordered it!) that still should be recognized.  If you know of an item that I missed, please LET ME KNOW by leaving a comment and I'll be sure and get it added!!

COMPACT DISCS:
  • Alice Donut Freaks in Love 2CD/1DVD set. 
  • Willie Nelson Just Breathe CD Single. 
    • Label:  Sony/Legacy Music
    • Description:  Single includes 3 brand new recordings with Lukas Nelson.  Featuring Willie's rendition of Pearl Jam's 'Just Breathe' and new song 'Come on Back Jesus, from Willie's upcoming album "Hereos" available May 15th.  Also includes the previously unreleased track 'Can I Sleep In Your Arms'.  Single comes with a $2 off coupon for new album and is suppsoed to be given to select RSD stores for FREE to give away on Record Store Day.
    • Link:  N/A from the Sony Music Solicitation to music stores
  • Tedeshi Trucks Band LIVE 4 Song EP
    • Label:  Sony Masterworks
    • Description:  Features 4 live tracks, all previously unreleased:  'Don't Let Me Slide', 'Midnight in Harlem', 'Rollin and Tumblin' and 'Bound for Glory'.  Single comes with a $2 off coupon for new live album due June 2nd and is suppsoed to be given to select RSD stores for FREE to give away on Record Store Day.
    • Link:  N/A from the Sony Music Solicitation to music stores 
  • Gruntruck 3 Song EP
  • WTNG 89.9FM Solid Bronze CD
    • Label:  Numero Group
    • Description:  WTNG 89.9FM: Solid Bronze is an ode to radio station compilation albums of yore, back in the days of when FM jocks stoked the flames of stage acts in their broadcast area with hyped-up talent shows, invaluable airplay, and homegrown LPs stacked with the best efforts of bands not more than a few counties away.  Limited to 1000 copies on CD.
    • Link:  http://numerogroup.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/wtng-89-9fm-solid-bronze-revealed-8/


7" Singles:


  •  Poison Idea Pick Your King EP
  • Kid Liberty Give Up.  Give In. 7"
  • Memphis May Fire  Between the Lies 7"
  • My Brightest Diamond 7"
  • Various Artists:  From the Vaults of Ric and Ron Records Rare and Unreleased 1958-1962 10x7" Box Set
  • Doomriders / Sweet Cobra Split 7"
  • Pelican / Playing Enemy Split 7"
  • James Yancey & Jay Dee/ J Dilla and Common  Think Twice b/w E=MC2 7"
    • Label:  BBE
    • Description: Jay Dee’s “Welcome to Detroit” was the album that kicked off BBE’s Beat Generation series. This seminal album (it even has its own Wikipedia entry) cemented Dilla’s reputation as a virtuoso beat maker with a remarkable range of talents. For the first time, (from that album) “Think Twice” appears on a very limited 7” single.
    • Link:  http://www.bbemusic.com/data.pl?release=BBE208SLP
  • Testors Together/Time is Mine 7"
    • Label:  Windian Records
    • Description:  This classic slab was recorded in 1979 and released in 1980 on the Drive-In label. The Testors soon broke up after this releases, leaving this record in the vast hole of NYC punk lore. The single was the bands first and only, and extremely hard to find. This reissue includes 'Together' and 'Time Is Mine', and a never released studio recording '[This] Time Is Mine' which was an early version of 'Time Is Mine', although very different. Packaged exactly how it was 30 years ago using hi res scans of the orignal. Limited to 1000 copies. Includes MP3 card.
    • Link:  http://www.windianrecords.com/store.html
  • Monster Truck / DZ Deathrays Split 7"

 10" Singles: 

 12" Singles:

 LP/EP Albums:
  • Isis The Red Sea EP (w/bonus demos)
    • Label: Second Nature
    • Description:  Comes complete with the 1999 RED SEA ep tracks on side one and 4 tracks from a 1998 demo as the B-side. LIMITED Record Store Day REPRESS ON translucent RED or White/Black VINYL
    • Link:  http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=451583
  • The Cure Entreat Plus 2LP
    • Label:  Warner/Elektra
    • Description: Originally released as a promo disc in 1990, the eight-track Entreat - recorded at London's Wembley Arena in July 1989 -was later released commercially in Europe. The expanded edition included with this year's reissue fleshes out the album to replicate a full live performance of 1989's epic Disintegration, with tracks remixed by Robert Smith - a sonic makeover that some fans have complained dampens Boris Williams' drumming.  Limited pressing of 5000 copies for RSD.
    • Link: https://docs.google.com/file/d/1M47MJy4FU1REpu59O0kmeNwcBxHZdVuwqxK_geflE_Xr2lMrmWhi8UgC_cUC/edit?pli=1
  • Death from Above 1979 "You're A Woman, I'm a Machine" LP
  • Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Howl 2LP
  • Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Howl Sessions LP
    • Label:  Cobraside
    • Description:  The collection of B-sides from the Howl period, originally released in a limited run in 2006 as an "add-on" to Howl, and then later released on iTunes. With double sided insert.
    • Link:  http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=774815
  • WTNG 89.9FM Solid Bronze LP
    • Label: Numero Group
    • Description: WTNG 89.9FM: Solid Bronze is an ode to radio station compilation albums of yore, back in the days of when FM jocks stoked the flames of stage acts in their broadcast area with hyped-up talent shows, invaluable airplay, and homegrown LPs stacked with the best efforts of bands not more than a few counties away. Limited to 1000 copies on LP (500 on pink, 500 on black).
    • Link: http://numerogroup.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/wtng-89-9fm-solid-bronze-revealed-8/
  • Attack in Black Marriage LP + 10"
  • Moneen The Red Tree 2LP + 7"
  • Wool  Lunar Momento:  Lost Rancho Session 1
    • Label:  Dine Alone Records
    • Description:  Recently discovered recording sessions from the band Wool at the legendary Rancho De La Luna Studios featuring Pete Stahl (Scream, Goatsnake, earthlings?), Franz Stahl (Scream, Foo Fighters, DYS), Al Bloch (Concrete Blonde, My Favorite Martian), Chris Bratton (Chain of Strength, Inside Out, Drive Like Jehu). Includes 180g Black Vinyl, Bonus 7" Featuring 2 Extra tracks, Extensive liner notes and coupon for high quality digital download. Limited to 500.  Should be in some US Stores (I'd ask first) and will also be available online at Dine Alone's website on RSD.
    • Link:  http://www.dinealonerecords.com/2011/index.php/releases/view/149

Revelation Records Releases:

Coachella Releases
DELAYED/POSTPONED RELEASES:

From the Record Store Day Facebook page:

Manufacturing issues have taken another bite out of our Record Store Day list. Releases from these folks will not be ready for April 21, but we'll keep you posted when these are released later:
GOGOL BORDELLO 12", DANNY BROWN XXX LP, SONNYMOON 7", QUANTIC & ALICE RUSSELL WITH THE COMBO BARBARO 7"
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Saturday, March 24, 2012

Music Blogs Believe Everything WB PR says and doesn't FACT CHECK!, A commentary

For those that know me, I live on the East Coast.  I just spent the past 3 days out in California.  So maybe it is the time difference, maybe it is the jet lag, but do the "journalists" that write for music blogs have any credibility any more?  Because I am going to call a lot of them to the carpet.  Which is sad, because these are a lot of blogs that I like to read, so this disappoints me.  And all it would have taken would have been a quick phone call/e-mail to get an answer.
What I am talking about is the Flaming Lips Heady Fwends 2LP release for Record Store Day.  On March 20th, Warner Brothers issued the following press release (bold text highlighted for a reason):

March 20, 2012 - (Burbank, CA) -- In between one-off shows scattered around the world in the past several months THE FLAMING LIPS have still found time to record a series of unique and experimental sessions for an album featuring a diverse cross-section of heavy friends from every corner of the musical cosmos. THE FLAMING LIPS AND HEADY
FWENDS includes vocal and musical assistance from such disparate playmates as Yoko Ono, Nick Cave, Chris Martin of Coldplay, Bon Iver, Ke$ha and many more.

Some of these tracks have already appeared on previously released, extremely limited edition color vinyl 12" EPs released in past months, which sold out as soon as they became available. Most of the tracks on the album are being released here for the first time and will surprise even the most ardent LIPS fans.

THE FLAMING LIPS AND HEADY FWENDS will be pressed on two high-quality, multi-color vinyl discs housed in separate custom art jackets and poly bagged together. No two discs will look exactly alike. This double album will be very limited and released exclusively for RECORD STORE DAY. Once it's gone, it will not be repressed again making THE FLAMING LIPS AND HEADY FWENDS the most anticipated RSD release this year.





The rest of the press release discussed the tracklisting.  Now what is FUNNY, is that this release is the LARGEST RSD RELEASE IN 2012.  Meaning, that there will be more copies of this available than ANY OTHER RSD ITEM released.   With over 300 items being released on April 21st, that is IMPORTANT.   10,000 copies of this will be made and what is the number 2 release?  The Bruce Springsteen 7", with 8,000 copies.  Yet you didn't see Columbia make a press release about how limited that 7" was, did you??

So let's look at how the blogs handled this press release and what insightful commentary they either cut and pasted from the release, or added themselves.  BECAUSE IT IS VERY OBVIOUS THAT NOT *ONE* "JOURNALIST" EVER ASKED ANYBODY AT WB PR WHAT THE PRESSING AMOUNT WAS!

No big deal, you may think.  But it creates a false sense of rarity and exclusivity, by copying and pasting that (not to mention, it is just flat out MISINFORMATION).  Plus, if they had done their homework, they would have found out that the set WAS GOING TO BE RELEASED ON Compact Disc (CD) LATER THIS YEAR (without the Chris Martin track!).

Let's see what TOM at STEREOGUM had to say:

"For a while, we’ve been hearing bits and pieces about a forthcoming album of collaborations that the Flaming Lips plan to release on Record Store Day, April 21. Well, they actually did it, cobbling together two LPs’ worth of big-name collabs in time for the big day. The album is an extremely limited Record Store Day exclusive which apparently won’t be repressed, and it’s being pressed on high-quality, multi-color discs, with no two looking exactly alike, so show up really, really early if you want this thing."

LINK:  http://stereogum.com/980452/the-flaming-lips-and-heady-fwends-details/news/

COMMENT:  Gee Tom, I guess I'll run right over, since I need to get to the store *really, really early*. 

Let's see what Rolling Stone wrote, since apparently their entire "staff" contributed to this:

"The set, which will only be issued as a double multi-colored vinyl set, includes previously released tracks that have appeared on the band's recent EPs. The band claims there will only be one pressing of the set, so hardcore Lips fans ought to get to their local shop early unless they're ready to spend big bucks landing a copy on eBay."

LINK: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/flaming-lips-collaborate-with-famous-fwends-on-record-store-day-exclusive-20120320#ixzz1q69CgXWY

COMMENT:  Really?  I'm going to have to resort to Ebay for an item whose suggested retail price is nearly $40 and 10K copies are available?  Amazing.

Let's see what Jenn Pelly at Pitchfork said: 

"The recordings document "a series of unique and experimental sessions," according to a press release, and will be released in a very limited edition and never pressed again. The album comes as a 2xLP on multicolored vinyl, each disc with a unique design."

LINK:  http://pitchfork.com/news/45850-flaming-lips-detail-record-store-day-release-with-bon-iver-nick-cave-keha-erykah-badu-more/

COMMENT:  Nice job doing the old cut and paste.  I guess at least you didn't over dramatize the release, but does your wrist hurt from hitting the right click button? 

How about Hilary Saunders over at PASTE MAGAZINE:

"Though some tracks have already appeared on other limited releases, most of the music on The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends is being pressed for the first time on extremely limited hand-thrown colored vinyl."

LINK:  http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2012/03/the-flaming-lips-ready-exclusive-record-store-day.html

COMMENT:  Awesome, so vinyl is now being put together like a Domino's Pizza.  Good to know.  It's obvious that you'll be on Dateline NBC in no time, on "How to Catch a Fact".  Again, extremely limited....uh-oh.

But my favorite article, was the one by Maggie Pannacione from ARTISTDIRECT, who turned the limited nature of the release into a whole other animal:

Title of article:  "The Flaming Lips Announce Uber Exclusive Record Store Day Release"

Body: "This double album will be very limited and released exclusively for Record Store Day. Once it's gone, it will not be repressed again making this one of the most anticipated RSD release this year."
LINK:  http://www.artistdirect.com/entertainment-news/article/the-flaming-lips-announce-uber-exclusive-record-store-day-release/9967309

COMMENT:  So now the release has gone from very limited to UBER LIMITED based on a press release from a LABEL. 

Other blogs that also failed in this include Exclaim, JamBase, Fuse and many others.  Basically you bought into the PR Hype and hyperbole and floated marketing speil as FACT.  Not one person reached out to any contact at WB PR (the contact info is at the bottom of the press release) to ask how limited it was or even if the item would ever see a release on CD (yes, towards the end of the year, without the Chris Martin track).  I am not a journalist, I am passionate music fan and I just scooped all of you on information that would have taken you less than 5 minutes to obtain.  But instead, I guess this counts as journalism these days.

But wait!!  There is more!!!  Fool me once, shame on me; Fool me twice, shame on you.  Let's flash back to the Warner Brothers original Record Store Day press release this year, from MARCH 5th.  On that release, it mentions the following two items:

"Eric Clapton: Blues (Deluxe Vinyl Album Box Set) Released to critical acclaim leading up to RSD's Back To Black Friday 2011, this limited edition box set is close to selling out. The set includes all three of Eric Clapton's seminal blues albums, From The Cradle, Riding With The King (with B.B. King) and Me And Mr. Johnson, remastered from original source material for vinyl. First time vinyl versions of these albums afford the listener an absolutely stellar new audio experience. With little more than 1,000 box sets left it's time to get your hands on this audiophile treasure. "

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Stadium Arcadium (Deluxe 180 Gram vinyl Box Set) On April 14, 2012, the Red Hot Chili Peppers will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and to commemorate this historic event, this classic Deluxe box set of the band's first number one album will be specially priced for Record Store Day. The Deluxe package was mastered for vinyl by Steve Hoffman and includes two 16-page booklets -- "Jupiter" and "Mars." The Red Hot Chili Peppers won four Grammy(R) Awards for Stadium Arcadium including: Best Rock Album, Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package in addition to Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group for their chart-topping, record-breaking single "Dani California."

Link:  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/warner-bros-records-and-affiliated-labels-announce-exclusive-releases-for-record-store-day-on-april-21st-2012-03-05

COMMENT:  Not ONE blog, did any fact checking or research about these 2 items.  These 2 items are NOT on the official RSD release list and for good reason.

1) The Eric Clapton Blues boxset is still available on his website here: http://www.ericclapton.com/product/blues-box-set-5lp-180-gram-vinylwlitho

It has been available there for several months.  But as the Press Release says, only 1000 copies or so remain, so stores better order them fast!

2) The Red Hot Chili Peppers Box Set is the SAME EXACT BOX THAT WAS RELEASED IN 2007.  That is 5 YEARS AGO.  This is INVENTORY DUMPING.  Why?  Warner made 2 versions of this box.  A standard and deluxe one.  The standard one was $40 and the deluxe was $100.  Now, since the deluxe has been sitting in a warehouse for a few years, collecting dust, they have generously lowered the price to $40 (which is good), but duped fans into thinking that something "new" was being released.  This set is not remastered, nor is it a "re-release".  It has the exact same UPC code that it had in 2007. 

So ask yourself this MUSIC BLOGS---

a) Does Warner Bros. advertise a lot on my website?
b) Do I get a lot of promo/free adverstising from Warner?

If the answer is NO, then why are you continously buying their BULLSHIT PR?  If the answer is YES, then ask yourself if you have any journalistic ethics/integrity.

Because I'd love to see someone hack into the WB PR e-mail account, send out a Press Release saying "Tom Petty prepares to release a Shit Sandwhich on vinyl" and see how many of you would just blindly follow along.  Get some balls, do some FACT CHECKING, and do you JOB!  Otherwise, go write obituaries for the local paper and get someone who is PASSIONATE about music to write about this stuff
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Friday, March 16, 2012

What will be the Rarest/Most Sought After RSD 2012 items??

With over 300 items coming out this April for Record Store Day, which items will be the most sought after?  Which items will be most difficult to find?  This is my opinion at which items will be fetching top dollar on Ebay soon.  Let's look:

a) Gorillaz Do Ya Thing 10".  Limited to just 500 copies, this 10" features the unreleased 13 minute full version of the track that also features Andre 3000 and LCD Soundsystem.  Fans of Blur, Outkast, Gorillaz and LCD Soundsystem should want to add this to their collection.  Plus, with Universal buying Capital/EMI, and the confusion of distribution and you get an item that will be a nightmare to find, but will be highly collectible.

b) The Pearl Jam side project set of releases.  Pearl Jam is already a highly collectible band.  This year for Record Store Day, sees 4 separate releases each more limited than the next.  Getting a complete set will take effort and luck.  These items are:
  • Eddie Vedder Love Boat Captian (LIVE) b/w Wishlist (LIVE) 7" (1500 copies only)
  • Brad  Waters Deep b/w Pressure is On (2 new tracks on transparent 7"--1000 copies only)
  • Po & The 4 Fathers Kingdom Come (vocals by Eddie Vedder) b/w Do Da (guitar by Stone Gossard) (600 copies only)
  • Mike McCready & Star Anna Keep On b/w Call Your Girlfriend (300 copies only!)
c) Horrible Crowes I Witnessed a Crime b/w Blood Loss 7"  RED VINYL (300 copies only, exclusively sold only at Fingerprints Record Store in California).  Thank you Side One Dummy, if you want to make it up to me, please send me one of these!!  Otherwise, chance are slim and none that you'll be able to get this.  Horrible Crowes features Brian Fallon from The Gaslight Anthem and they released one of the better albums last year in Elise.

d)  Sigur Ros Hvarf/Heim (150g colored vinyl, 1200 copies only).  First time on vinyl for this release from this highly collectible band.  Not being released overseas means a majority of their fans will have to resort to Ebay to add this to their collection.

e) Death Cab for Cutie Codes and Keyes Remix LP (400 copies only, each numbered).  For fans who liked either the new album or the remixed album.  Regardless, this will move up to become one of the rarest Death Cab items released in their discography.


f) Wilco The Whole Love Deluxe Box (300 copies only).  Originally available through Wilco's website, this deluxe version includes the Whole Love LP, the Speak Into the Rose 10", the 7" (blue or clear vinyl--random) and a slipmat housed in a nice, slide-out box.  Wilco fans are crazy and those that missed out on this online, now have another chance to grab it, provided your store is lucky enough to get it.

g) Coldplay  Up With the Birds b/w UFO 7" (1000 copies only)  See the Gorillaz example above.  A lot of stores will have problems getting this.  Plus, this is the first participation in Record Store Day for a band with a worldwide following (think how crazy U2's Live release was for Black Friday 2010 and you can get an idea).

Other items that I think will also be in demand:
  • Phish Junta (Pollack Edition)
  • Electronic Anthology Project featuring J Masic on PURPLE VINYL (500 copies)
  • Hey Mercedes EP
  • Minus the Bear 7"
  • Anything by Revelation or Victory Records
  • Misfits Walk Among Us LP on Clear Vinyl (500 copies)
  • Social Distortion Hard Times & Nursery Rhymes LP w/autographed poster (750 copies)
Anything I miss?  Do you think something else will be very rare?  What are you hoping your store gets for Record Store Day?  Let me know!!
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Record Store Day 2012/Record Store Day #5--April 21, 2012 #rsd12 Release List

Hello again friends!!

Time again to compile the list of releases for Record Store Day in April. Most of the releases are in their final production stages and have to get to the vinyl pressing plants by mid-February in order to make the April date. So we should start getting a steady stream of information about upcoming releases.

ANY LABELS/ARTISTS/PR/MARKETING/ETC THAT WOULD LIKE TO SHARE INFORMATION, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!!

*****Hey, if you want to steal this list for your website/blog/magazine/facebook, at least have the common courtesy to link back here and give credit!!*****



Here is the list as of Friday, March 16th at 3:35pm EST with 299 ITEMS AND COUNTING (WILL WE HIT 300?????)!!

****EXCLUSIVE UPDATE ON ITEMS BY THE CULT, TAKING BACK SUNDAY, 311, BRENDAN BENSON, BRAD, NEON INDIAN, JOEY RAMONE, TORTOISE, VICTORY RECORDS and more!!****
***NEW UPDATE: MARCH 1st GIVES US EXCLUSIVE INFORMATION ON RYAN ADAMS, CIVIL WARS, GOGOL BORDELLO, CROSSES, AND MORE!!***
***SATURDAY UPDATE WITH DEVO, DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND MORE!***
***Monday/Early Tuesday AM Update with WARNER BROTHERS and MERGE releases as well as news of EXCLUSIVE releases by---Justin Townes Earle, The Fall, Go Kart Mozart, Tangerine Dream (LP) and Jacuzzi Boys/King Khan split 7" !***
***Tuesday update with Foster the People, Uncle Tupelo, Paul Simon, Lou Reed, MILES DAVIS, LEONARD COHEN, Ozzy Osbourne and all of the POLYVINYL Releases (Deerhoof, Of Montreal, Matt Pond PA, Dirty Beaches, Mates of State, etc.***
***TUESDAY NIGHT EXCLUSIVE MEGA UPDATE with Animal Collective, Wilco, FUN, GRATEFUL DEAD, Refused, Firehose, Cursive, Burno Mars, MISFITS, Nightwish, Sub Pop, Saddle Creek Records, and MORE!!***
***SUNDAY 3/11 UPDATE--COLDPLAY, GORILLAZ, MAE, ANBERLIN, JOAN BAEZ, REVELATION releases and MORE!
***MONDAY 3/12 UPDATE--Minus the Bear, Florence & The Machine, Paul McCartney, Garbage, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Jay Farrar/Jim James/etc., and MORE!

****TUESDAY EXCLUSIVE UPDATE WITH EDDIE VEDDER 7" SINGLE AND 2 OTHER PEARL JAM RELATED SINGLES!!!****
 

Compact Discs:

• Switchfoot Vice Re-Verses Remix EP
• WTNG 89.9FM Solid Bronze (Numero Group, 1000 copies)
• Wilco/Billy Bragg Mermaid Avenue the Complete Sessions (3CD/DVD...can already be pre-ordered on Nonesuch website)
• CIVIL WARS LIVE AT AMOEBA 8 song EP
• Electronic Anthology Project of Dinosaur Jr.  (1000 copies)
• Kimbra Settle Down (CD EP)
• Willie Nelson Just Breathe (Pearl Jam cover), Come On Back Jesus, Can I Sleep in Your Arms 3 track CD-EP that also features Lukas Nelson.
• Tedeschi Trucks Band Live EP (4 live tracks, all previously unreleased)
• Grace Potter & The Nocturnals  Live from Sun Studio CD
• Grunttruck 3 Song EP (500 copies only)
• Alice Donut Freaks in Love (2CD + DVD)


7” RECORDS

Warner Bros Side by Side 2012 Series:

1) The Flaming Lips/Mastodon: "A Spoonful Weighs A Ton" (7" baby pink vinyl single)The mighty Mastodon faithfully covers the Lips classic "Spoonful Weighs a Ton," from The Soft Bulletin album. Ferociously beautiful!
2) Sara Watkins(Featuring Fiona Apple) / The Everly Brothers:  "You're The One I Love" (7" olive green with blue/black splatter vinyl single) Sara Watkins covers The Everly Brothers classic "You're The One I Love" and features co-vocals from a very special guest, Fiona Apple. From Sara's new full-length album, Sun Midnight Sun, available later this spring.
3) Michael Bublé/Ray Charles: Georgia On My Mind (7" Georgia Peach vinyl single) Michael Bublé's first ever 7" vinyl release featuring a cover of Ray Charles' classic "Georgia On My Mind" on "Georgia Peach" colored vinyl.
4) Carolina Chocolate Drops/Run-DMC: "You Be Illin'(7" Coke-bottle green vinyl single) The Run-DMC classic rendered in an entirely new way by old-time string band the Carolina Chocolate Drops. The Drops' version was recorded at the same sessions as their February 2012 release Leaving Eden, which was produced by Nashville legend Buddy Miller.
5) MC5/Afrika Bambaataa: "Kick Out the Jams"(7" White with red splatter vinyl single) The incendiary original coupled with a cover version from the pioneer of The Electro Funk Sound.
6) Otis Redding/Aretha Franklin: "Respect (7" gold vinyl single)


• Memphis May Fire  Between the Lies EP (features Action/Adventure, Be Careful What You Wish For and Dueces Las Cruces). 500 copies on RED vinyl.
• KID LIBERTY Give Up, Give In EP (features Give Me Alan or Give Me Death, Fuck You! (Cee Lo cover) and The Situation) 500 copies on YELLOW vinyl
• Jimmy Fallon Tebowie b/w Reading Rainbow
• My Brightest Diamond  I Have Never Loved Someone b/w Bird On a Wire (1000 copies, hand numbered)
• Pussy Galore Feel Good About Your Body EP (reissue 7" of first Jon Spencer release)
• Beach House Lazuli b/w Equal Mind 7" (Sub Pop)
• EDDIE VEDDER LOVE BOAT CAPTIAN b/w WISHLIST (RSD EXCLUSIVE 7"--1500 copies only!   Both tracks are LIVE from July 2, 2011 at the Orpheum Theater in Minneapolis)
• Mike McCready & Star Anna  Keep On b/w Call Your Girlfriend (RSD EXCLUSIVE--300 copies only!)
• Po & The 4 Fathers Kingdom Come (vocals by Eddie Vedder) b/w Do Da (guitar by Stone Gossard) (RSD Exclusive--600 copies)
• Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros  One Love to Another 7"
• School of Seven Bells Kiss Them for Me 7"
• Lana Del Ray  Born to Die (remix) b/w Blue Jeans (remix) 7"
• Paul McCartney Another Day b/w Oh Woman Oh Why 7"
• Florence and the Machine  Shake it Out 7" (b-side features remix)
• Garbage Blood for Poppies 7" (b-side features remix)
• Minus the Bear new 7" (1000 only)
• From the Vaults of Rick and Ron Records 58-62 (10x7" box, 1000 copies) NUMERO GROUP!
• Smoke Fairies  The Three of Us EP (2x7")
• COLDPLAY Up With The Birds b/w UFO (1000 copies only)
• Monster Truck/DZ Deathrays split 7"
• White Stripes Hand Springs b/w Red Death at 6:14 (Red/Black swirl colored 7")
• Karen Elson Milk and Honey b/w Winter's Going (Milk and Honey colored 7")
• Black Angels Watch Out Boy b/w I'd Rather be Lonely Orange colored 7" w/bonus download track.
• Grouplove Don't Fly To Close to the Sun b/w Tongue Tied (live) 7"
• Blitzen Trapper Hey Joe b/w Skirts on Fire 7" (1800 copies, yellow vinyl)
• Icky Blossoms Babes b/w Chicas  7" (1000 copies, colored vinyl)
• Pujol Reverse Vampire b/w Psychic Pain (Home Demo) (1000 copies, colored vinyl)
• The Mynabirds Generals b/w Fallen Doves 7" (1000 copies, each numbered)
• The Receiving End of Sirens  "Songs // 2003"  Bell, Book and Candle b/w The Race (2 unreleased songs from 2003) 7" 
• The Hives  Go Right Ahead b/w 1000 Answers 7"
• Laura Marling Flicker and Fail b/w To Be A Woman 7"
• Catlin Rose Piledriver Waltz b/w Love is a Laserquest (Arctic Monkeys covers)  7" (500 copies?)
• Deerhoof/Of Montreal Stygian x} Bisection split clear gold vinyl 7" (2000 copies)
• Uncle Tupelo The Seven Inch Singles (4x7" black vinyl numbered box set with new, unreleased 4th single and 14x7" poster)
    * I Got Drunk b/w Sin City
    * Gun b/w I Wanna Destroy You
    * Uncle Tupelo Sauget Wind b/w Looking For A Way Out (Acoustic), Take My Word
    * That Year b/w Pickle River
• Walk the Moon Anna Sun b/w Anyway I Can 7"
• Shuggie Otis Inspiration Information b/w Magic (numbered, colored vinyl 7")
• Ozzy Osbourne  Believer (LIVE) b/w Goodbye to Romance (Polka Dot colored 7")
• Foster the People Broken Jaw b/w Ruby 7"
• The Clash  London Calling 2012 (2012 mix b/w instrumental version--exclusive to RSD stores for only 4 weeks)
• Sara Bareilles  Stay b/w Beautiful Girl 7"
• Mike Watt + The Missingmen "Sweet Honey Pie" b/w Chuck Dukowski Sextet "My War" split 7" on ORG Music
• Justin Townes Earle Nothing's Gonna Change The Way You Feel About Me Now 7"
• The Fall  Night of the Humerons 7"
• Go Kart Mozart  New World in the Morning 7"
• Jacuzzi Boys/King Khan split 7"
• Ximena Sarinana "Maps" (a Yeah Yeah Yeah's cover) from Rolling Stone Live and "La Llorona" (a Latin American folk song) from KCRW's "Morning Becomes Eclectic
• Arctic Monkeys R U Mine 7"
• M. Ward  Primitive Girl b/w Roll Over Beethoven and The Twist 7" (2000 copies)
• Richard Buckner Willow b/w Lost (download includes bonus track of Cars Candy-O cover)
• Bruce Springsteen Rocky Ground b/w The Promise (Live at the Carousel, Asbury Park, NJ)
• Amanda Palmer Polly (Nirvana Cover) 7"
• ESG/Las Kellies Erase You 7"
• GG Allin & Antiseen  Violence Now b/w Cook on the Loose
• Ra Ra Riot and Delicate Steve Valerie b/w The Big Ship
• Now Now/The Lonely Forest    Shifting b/w Woe is Me split 7"
• Jukebox the Ghost I Love You Always Forever 7"
• Paul Weller That Dangerous Age 7"
• Black Prarier Singers--Volume 1:  Portland (Featuring James Mercer and Sallie Ford) 7"
• Sam Means Nona 7" (I will follow (that's all)) b/w Something In The Air -- download card features 2 extra tracks and each jacket is AUTOGRAPHED
• Dave House The River (Audra Mae cover) b/w Whistles the Wind (Flogging Molly cover)
• Horrible Crowes I Witnessed a Crime b/w Blood Loss 7" (recorded live at Fingerprints music--300 copies on Red Vinyl available only at Fingerprints and 1000 copies on black vinyl)
• RYAN ADAMS Heartbreak a Stranger b/w Black Sheets Of Rain (Both tracks recorded LIVE in November at Bob Mould tribute show).  2500 copies on COLORED vinyl.
• CIVIL WARS Billie Jean (LIVE) b/w Sour Times (Live) 7" (1000 copies only)
• RICHARD THOMPSON Haul Me Up (LIVE) b/w 1952 Vincent Black Lightening (LIVE) with 3rd bonus LIVE track as digital download!  (3000 copies only)
• SUFJAN STEVENS/Rosie Thomas Hit & Run Volume 1 split 7" (Where Were You b/w Here I Am)
• Bowerbirds In The Yard b/w Always an Ear to Bend (1000 copies)
• Priscilla Ahn John Denver The Music is You Series (features Take Me Home, Country Roads b/w Leaving On A Jet Plane) 7"  (1500 copies total)
• Slightly Stoopid/The Expendables  John Denver The Music is You Series (Features Leaving On A Jet Plane b/w Back Home Again) (1500 copies total)
• Hiss Golden Messenger  Jesus Shot Me in the Head b/w Dub Version of title track (500 copies)
• Sonnymoon Wild Rumpus b/w Wild Rumpus Remix (1000 copies)
• Winter Boys (Jesse Tabich of Other Lives and Tyson Meade of Chainsaw Kittens) Winter Boys Cutting a Rug b/w Daffodils (700 copies, screenprinted sleeve, each numbered)
• CROSSES Option b/w Telepathy 7" (1000 copies only)
• CSC Funk Band A Little Weight b/w A Little Planet (500 copies)
• The Right Now     He Used to Be b/w Good Man (400 copies)
• Black Twig Pickers Yellow Cat b/w You'll Never Miss Your Mama (800 copies only, from Thrill Jockey)
• Tortoise Lonesome Sound and Mosquito 2x7" remastered (Thrill Jockey)
• Juicehead/Osaka Popstar "Waiting Room" (Fugazi cover) 7" with etched b-side and sleeve design by Shepard Fairey
• Brendon Benson What Kind of World b/w Go Decco (unreleased b-side) 7"
• Blood for Blood Enemy 7" (900 copies total--600 on Grey, 300 on white) from Victory Records
• CAUSE FOR ALARM Red vinyl 7", 450 copies only from Victory Records
• BRAD WATERS DEEP b/w PRESSURE IS ON  (UNRELEASED b-sides from new album on Transparent 7" 1000 copies only)
• Patterson Hood (Drive By Truckers) & The Downtown 13  "After Its Gone" 7" features members from REM, Widespread Panic and more focusing on Athens, GA music.
• Oberhofer Away from U b/w Runaway (Kanye West cover)
• Dry the River New Ceremony b/w Deadheads
• The Cult For the Animals PICTURE DISC
• Buck Owens Coloring Book with flexi disc with 4 live tracks (flexi is either red, white or blue and book is limited to 2500 copies total)
• Regina Spektor “The Prayer Of François Villon” b/w “Old Jacket" colored vinyl 7"
• Xiu Xiu Always (Erasure cover) / Dirty Beaches "Tu Ne Dis Rein" (Francoise Hardy cover) split 7"
• M83 Mirror 7" (2000 copies)
• Chris Robinson Brotherhood  New Suede Shoes b/w Girl I Love you BLUE VINYL 7"
• Toro Y Moi June 2009 5x7" box set
• Pharcyde Bizarre Ride II:  The Singles Collection (7x7" colored vinyl box set, each 7" a different color, 2CD, poster and puzzle.  BOX PLAYES SNIPPET OF "OH SHIT" when opened!!)
• James Brown Live at the Apollo
• Doomriders/Sweet Cobra split 7" featuring Girl U Want b/w Gates of Steel (Devo covers)
• Pelican/Playing Enemy split 7"
• The Mynah Birds It's My Time b/w Go On and Cry
• St. Vincent Krokodil b/w Grot (RED colored vinyl--both tracks unreleased--2500 copies)
• Joey Ramone Rock N Roll is the Answer b/w There's Got to be more to Life
• Poison Idea Pick Your King EP (remastered tracks, clear vinyl, 1000 copies only...released by TKO records)
• Squackett (Chris Squire of Yes and Steve Hackett of Genesis)  Sea of Smiles (single edit) b/w Perfect Love Song 7" (Numbered, 2000 copies)
• Andrew Bird The Crown Salesman (Alpha Consumer cover) b/w So Much Wine (Handsome Family cover) 7”
• Mastodon/Feist Split  A Commotion b/w Black Tongue 7”
• Bonnie 'Prince' Billy 7"  Hummingbird (Leon Russell cover) b/w Tribulations (Estil Ball cover) and Becuase of Your Eyes (Exclusive solo version of this Merle Haggard song) 
• Tangerine Dream Ultima Thule 7” (1000 copies, each numbered)
• Flogging Molly Drunken Lullabies (new mix) b/w A Prayer for Me in Silence (Acoustic) RED VINYL 7" (2000 copies)
• David Bowie Starman Picture Disc 7” (featuring unreleased b-side with Top of Pops performance)
• J. Dilla featuring Common (E=MC2)
• Lydia Loveless Alison b/w Bad Way to Go
• Pinback Information Retrieved Part C. 7”
• Lemuria 2 track 7”
• Unrest Perfect Teeth 6x7” box set (Colored Vinyl w/24 page booklet)
• Gruesome Flowers 7" Part Two (Wake Covers)
• Craft Spells/Blouse split 7”
• Trouble in Mind 4 way split: TIM035: 2012 Record Store Day 4-way covers split 7-inch featuring: MIKAL CRONIN (I Enjoy Being A Boy ~ Banana Splits), APACHE DROPOUT (Cuddly Toy ~ Harry Nilsson), The PAPERHEAD (Stacey Grove ~ Tyrannosaurus Rex), & The LIMIÑANAS (Come Now ~ Troggs)
• Testors Together/Time is Mine
• Never To Be Forgotten – The Flipside Of Stax Records 1968-1974 (10 x 7" box w/100 page book, 4000 copies only, each individually numbered)

• T. Rex Electric Sevens 7” Box Set:
o RECORD STORE DAY 2012 EXCLUSIVE: ELECTRIC SEVENS 7” SINGLES BOX SET

VINYL SINGLE ONE: HOT LOVE
A1: Hot Love - Single Version
B1: Unnamed Instrumental aka “A Lot Of Rubbish” (O/T) *
B2: Hot Love - no strings version

VINYL SINGLE TWO: GET IT ON
A1: Get It On single version
B1: Raw Ramp – London demo version *
B2: Get It On - acoustic demo*

VINYL SINGLE THREE: JEEPSTER
A1: Jeepster – single version
B1: Life's A Gas - electric demo (2.22) *
B2: Jeepster - electric demo (2.15)

VINYL SINGLE FOUR: BBC EP
A1:Sailors of the Highway (2:46) BBC Radio 1 Club – 3rd August 1971
B1:Girl (2:13) BBC Radio 1 Club –3rd August 1971
B2:Electric Boogie (1:47) BBC Radio 1 Club – 20th July 1971
Previously Unreleased *

SUNDAZED 7"s
• Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band~ “Double Single”
Record One: Diddy Wah Diddy b/w Who Do You Think You’re Fooling?
Record Two: Moonchild b/w Frying Pan
(uses the brown A&M records labels)

• Gene Clark~She’s The Kind of Girl b/w One In A Million
(uses the brown A&M labels)

• Dillard & Clark~Lying Down The Middle b/w Why Not?
(uses brown A&M labels)

• Blues Magoos E.P.~So I’m Wrong And You Are Right b/w People Had No Faces & Wild About My Lovin’
(uses brown Verve/Forecast labels)

• The Byrds~I’ll Feel A Whole Lot Better b/w It’s No Use (alternate versions) on CLEAR BLUE VINYL
(uses a picture sleeve that mimics the “Mr. Tambourine Man” LP on White w/ Red Text “Columbia” Promo labels)

• Paul Revere & The Raiders~Ride Your Pony b/w (You’re A) Bad Girl on CLEAR RED VINYL
(uses White w/ Red Text ‘Columbia” Promo labels)

• The Blues Project~(Mose Allison’s) Parchman Farm b/w (Jimmy Reed’s) Bright Lights, Big City
(uses brown Verve/Forecast labels)

• The Chocolate Watch Band~Psychedelic Trip b/w In The Midnight Hour
(uses orange Tower Records labels)

10” RECORDS

• Gravenhurst The Prize 10" (200 copies only)
• GORILLAZ Do Ya Thing 10" (500 copies)
• Pete Townshend/Who Quadraphenia Demos Pt 2 Numbered 10” (follow-up to Black Friday 10”)• Morrisey Suedehead Picture Disc featuring Suedehead (Mael/Sparks Mix) b/w two previously unreleased BBC live tracks: 'We'll Let You Know' and 'Now My Heart Is Full', recorded at London's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in February 1995.
• Janis Joplin Highlights from the Pearl Sessions 2x10"
• Of Monsters and Men Into the Woods EP 10"
• Lee Scratch Perry Blackboard Jungle Dub 3x10" Box  (Red Vinyl, Yellow Vinyl and Green Vinyl--2000 copies worldwide)
• Peter Tosh Legalize It Echodelic Remixes (4 new remixes of this classic track on a 10" picture disc)
• Variety Lights (Mercury Rev's David Baker) Silent Too Long 10"
• The Knack Live in Los Angeles 1978 (1500 copies on red/yellow splatter vinyl)
• Neon Indian Hex Girlfriend Mixed "coke bottle green" and blue vinyl  (500 copies only!)
• Rhymesayers 10" Picture Disc (Atmosphere "Someday Soon" b/w The Uncluded (Aesop Rock and Kimya Dawson) "Bats")  (2000 copies, each numbered)
• FUN The Ghost That You Are To Me (features 3 acoustic tracks on shaped vinyl, limited to 2000 copies)
• Bruno Mars  The Grenade Sessions (4 different ver sions of Grenade, limited to 2500 copies)
• Alexisonfire Math Sheets Demo 10" (White vinyl, 1000 copies)
• Woody Guthrie Tribute featuring Jay Farrar, Will Johnson, Jim James and Anders Parker Let's Multiply (features 2 demos and 2 tracks unavailable anywhere else)
• Dave Brubeck Quartet Fantasy 3-3--Distinctive Rhythm Instrumentals


12” RECORDS


• KATY PERRY Part of Me (Thin White Duke Remix) Pink Vinyl 12" (3000 copies)
• Battles Gloss Drop Remix 12” Part 4 (750 copies only)
• Abba Voulez-Vous (Extended Dance Remix) b/w If It Wasn't For The Nights (Glittler Blue Vinyl 180g 12", limited to 4000 copies, each numbered)
• Public Image Ltd. (PIL) "One Drop" 4 track EP (1st new music in 20 years!!)
• Pains of Being Pure at Heart Acid Reflex EP 
• Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. We Almost Lost Detroit EP (Black vinyl, 2000 copies, features
• Moving Mountains Foreward EP (exclusive colored vinyl re-release)
• GENESIS Spot the Pigeon EP (dual speed (45/33) 12" on Blue Vinyl)
• Tallest Man on Earth King of Spain 12" (2000 copies, b-side features Paul Simon cover of Graceland)
• Childish Gambino Heartbeat Red Vinyl 12"
• The Bronx/Mariachi El Bronx LIVE splatter vinyl split 12"
• 311 REMIXES 12" (features 4 remixes from Universal Pulse)
• TAKING BACK SUNDAY LIVE (4 song 12" featuring 2 tracks from Fingerprints Record Store and 2 Tracks from Looney Tunes)  1400 copies only!
• Endpoint In a Time of Hate Remastered release on red vinyl with new silkscreened cover artwork.
• GOGOL BORDELLO Imigrinadiada Yellow vinyl 4 track 12", featuring 3 unreleased remixes (1000 copies only)
• Metallica Beyond Magnetic 4 Track EP (Silver/Metallic colored 12")
• Jonathan Wilson Pity Trials and Tomorrow's Child 12"
• Arcade Fire Suburbs Remixes 12" (Sprawl II b/w Ready to Start---3000 copies only)
• Gary Clark Jr. HWUL Cuts Volume One (2 Live tracks)
• Jeff The Brotherhood Upstairs at United Volume 3 12"
• Leonard Cohen LIVE IN FREDERICTON EP (5 live tracks from 2008, all previously commercially unavailable)
• Hey Mercedes   Hey Mercedes EP
• ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Transverse Temporal Gyrus 12" (features Part 1 and Part 2, limited to 5000 copies worldwide)
• Cursive Burst and Bloom EP (yellow, white and black marbled color vinyl--1500 copies)
• Shabazz Palaces Live at KEXP 12" (2000 copies on light purple vinyl)
• Nightwish  Trials of Imaginaerum 10" Picture Disc (features 4 demo tracks)
• LCD Soundsystem Losing My Edge 12" (reissue with picture sleeve)
• Botch An Anthology of Dead Ends (750 copies)

78 RPM Record Releases:

• Luther Dickinson  Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah and Beautiful Dreamer b/w Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen and Peace in the Valley (500 copies only)
• Ralph Stanley Single Girl b/w Little Birdie (500 copies only)


LP RECORDS:



• Flaming Lips Collaboration LP (Bon Iver, Ke$ha, Nick Cave, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Plastic Ono Band, Neon Indian, Erykah Badu, etc.)
• 311 Music 2LP Gatefold, numbered release (exclusive to RSD stores for 4 weeks only)
• Smashing Pumpkins Pisces Iscariot (THIS WILL NOW BE RELEASED AFTER RSD)
• Dio Picture Disc
• Rainbow Long Live Rock N Roll—Picture Disc
• Dinosaur Jr. Electronic Anthology Project (500 Copies—Purple Vinyl, 500 copies--Black Vinyl)
• Dr. John “Locked Down” LP featuring Dan Auerbach
• Iggy & The Stooges (Live @ All Tomorrow Parties Sept 2010) Picture Disc (1000 copies, each numbered)
• Widespread Panic LIVE WOOD 7 track ACOUSTIC LIVE 12" on 180g Vinyl (Each numbered)
• Lee Hazelwood--The LHI years--Singles, Nudes & Backsides 2LP (4000 copies)
• Phish Junta 3LP 180g Deluxe Set (5000 copies, each numbered---2500 copies come with hand carved, hand printed poster by Jim Pollack.....1st TIME ON VINYL!)
• SIGUR ROS Hvarf/Heim 2LP (150g colored vinyl--1200 copies only) 
• Luna Romantica (180g LP, 1000 copies only, 1st time on vinyl)
• Luna Rendezvous (180g LP, 1000 copies only, 1st time on vinyl)
• Mclusky Mclusky Do Dallas (White vinyl LP--1000 copies only)
• ISIS The Red Sea--REISSUE WITH 4 BONUS TRACKS FROM A 1998 DEMO ON THE B-SIDE (Red/Black colored vinyl)
• Social Distortion Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes (2LP/CD/POSTER):  This special Record Store Day vinyl edition of the best-selling Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes contains limited edition colored (opaque mint green) double vinyl, CD and full 18x24 movie poster. These limited edition movie posters were originally produced for the Los Angeles premiere of the full-length video of “Machine Gun Blues,” and have been in high demand since then. Half of these posters have been signed by the band, and signed copies will be indicated by a sticker on the outside of the package.
• Tinariwen Tassili (2LP w/CD and 4 bonus mixes not on original release by Animal Collective, Four Tet, Portugal the Man and Galatic)
• Death Grips The Money Store LP (excluisve to RSD stores for 4 weeks only)
• Circle Manner (Hydra Head release)
• Pulse Emitter / Date Palms / Expo 70 / Faceplant split 2xLP (1,000 copies only)
• Odd Future The Odd Future Tape Volume 2 (Features Tyler the Creator, Hodgy Beats, Frank Ocean, Leftbrain, Mike G, Domo Genesis and more!)
• Straylight Run S/T LP (1st time on vinyl!  900 copies total--600 yellow and 300 brown) from Victory Records
• Snapcase Progression Through Unlearning LP (900 copies total, all yellow vinyl) from Victory Records
• All Out War Assassins in the House of God (1st time on vinyl!  400 copies on pink vinyl) from Victory Records
• Ringworm The Venemous Grand Design (1st time on vinyl!! 400 copies on yellow) from Victory Records
• Ringworm Justice Replaced by Revenge (1st time on vinyl!! 400 copies on white) from Victory Records
• Sinead O'Connor How About I Be Me (And You be You) New LP
• The Green  Ways & Means Green Vinyl LP
• Freakwater Feels Like The Third Time (Remasterd LP from Thrill Jockey)
• Hush Arbors/Arbouretum Aureola LP (1000 copies only, from Thrill Jockey)
• Futurebirds Seney-Stovall (LIVE LP--hand numbered)
• Danny Brown XXX 2LP White Vinyl w/bonus 7" (1000 copies only)
• Preteen Zenith (new band from Tim DeLaughter of Tripping Daisy/Polyphonic Spree) LP with Handscreened covers, swirl colored 180g vinyl and CDR) (2000 copies only)
• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Howl Gatefold 2LP (reissue of 2005 Echo release, this time being released by Cobraside)
• Black Rebel Motorcycle Club The Howl Sessions LP (reissue of b-sides comp from 2006, from Cobraside)
• DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE CODES AND KEYS REMIX EP
• DEVO LIVE IN SEATTLE 1981 LP
• Branford Marsalis Quartet Four MF's Playin' Tunes (2LP)
• Ugly Custard S/T LP
• Horse Feathers Cynic's New Year LP
• Visioneers Hipology LP
• Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree, etc.) Catalogue/Preserve/Amass (Live tracks from European leg of tour) 2000 copies only
• Destroyer Destroyer's Rubies (Ruby Red LP w/Bonus Track--2000 copies)
• Black Keys El Camino DELUXE (LP w/bonus CD, poster and live 7")
• Common The Dreamer/The Believer (limited edition with new artwork)
• Fleetwood Mac  S/T release in standard (33rpm) and deluxe (45rpm) mastered versions (similar to last year's Rumors release)
• Tegan and Sara Get Along LIVE LP (White vinyl)
• Tangerine Dream Electronic Meditation LP
• MILES DAVIS Forever Miles (5 track LP with all unreleased material)
• Janis Joplin Pearl (Exclusive to RSD stores for 4 weeks only)
• Ozzy Osbourne Live 2LP set (Exclusive to RSD stores for 4 weeks only)
• Pistol Annies Hell on Heels 180g LP (Exclusive to RSD stores for 4 weeks only)
• Iggy Pop and the Stooges Raw Power (2LP, 120g vinyl) (Exclusive to RSD stores for 4 weeks only)
• Lou Reed  Rock & Roll Animal  LP (Exclusive to RSD stores for 4 weeks only)
• Lou Reed Transformer LP (Exclusive to RSD stores for 4 weeks only)
• Paul Simon Graceland 25th Anniversary LP (Exclusive to RSD stores for 4 weeks only)
• Patti Smith  Horses Lp (Exclusive to RSD stores for 4 weeks only)
• Uncle Tupelo No Depression (180g LP) (Exclusive to RSD stores for 4 weeks only)
• Uncle Tupelo Still Feel Gone (180g LP) (Exclusive to RSD stores for 4 weeks only)
• Uncle Tupelo March 16-20, 1992 (180g LP) (Exclusive to RSD stores for 4 weeks only)
• Starfucker STRFKR  Heaven's Youth (Reptilians Demos) 180g White Vinyl LP (1000 only)
• Saturday Looks Good to Me  All Your Summer Songs 180g White Vinyl LP (1000 only)
• Mates of State Crushes (The Covers Mixtape) 180g Clear Vinyl LP (1500 only)
• Matt Pond PA Several Arrows Later 180g LP (1000 copies)
• Matt Pond PA Measure 180g LP (1000 copies)(
• Rainer Maria  S/T  180g LP w/Screenprinted Jackets (300 copies only)
• REFUSED The Shape of Punk to Come DELUXE LP (Limited Edition Red Vinyl LP with CD, DVD and promo poster)
• FIREHOSE  Flyin the Fannel Remastered LP (2000 copies)
• GRATEFUL DEAD  Dark Star:  Europe '72 Olympia Theater, Paris, France 5/4/72 (features 40+ minute version of Dark Star never released on vinyl before) 3000 copies
• MISFITS Walk Among Us (30th Anniversary Colored Vinyl LP) (1250 copies on Red Vinyl, 1250 copies on blue vinyl, 500 copies on clear vinyl)
• The Cure Entreat Plus Deluxe LP (5000 copies only)
• Jerry Lee Lewis Live at Third Man Records 4-17-11  (official release of what was originally only available to the people who attended last years show on black and blue vinyl)
• Attack in Black Marriage DELUXE 180g LP (includes bonus 10", 500 copies only)
• Moneen The Red Tree DELUXE 180g Colored LP (includes bonus 7", 500 copies only)
• Wool  Lunar Momento--The Lost Rancho Session 1 180g LP (includes bonus 7", 500 only)
• ANBERLIN Blueprints for the Black Market (180g LP--1000 copies only)
• ANBERLIN Never Take Friendship Personal (180g LP--1000 copies only)
• JOAN BAEZ Farewell Angelina (Remastered LP, 1000 copies)
• Buddy Guy This is Buddy Guy (Remasterd LP, 1000 copies)
• Horse Feathers Cynic's New Year (180g LP, 400 copies)
• Mississippi John Hurt Last Sessions (Remastered LP, 1000 copies)
• Skip James Devil Got My Woman (Remastered LP, 1000 copies)
• MAE The Everglow (1000 copies)
• Pelician Australsia (2LP, 180g vinyl, 750 copies)
• Santigold  Master of My Make Believe (Gold Vinyl, 3000 copies)
• Townes Van Zandt At My Window (500 copies)
• Graffiti 6 Colours LP (1000 copies)
• Into Another S/T LP (reissue on GREEN VINYL--500 copies only)
• SENSE FIELDS KILLED FOR LESS (reissue LP on ORANGE vinyl--500 copies only)
• Farside Rigged (reissue LP on BROWN vinyl--500 copies only)
• Little Richard  Here's Little Richard (Red Vinyl LP)
• Grace Potter & The Nocturnals  Live from Sun Studio LP
• Matt Chamberlin/Company 23   Company 23 LP (1000 copies only)
• Jeremy Spencer Bend in the Road 2LP (1000 copies only)
 
BOX SETS:

• David Lynch Foundation—Download for Good 4LP Box Set (2500 worldwide)
• Cleaners From Venus/Martin Newell 4xLP box (500 only)
• Medicine (Band) 5xLP +cassette box. (500 Only)
• The Wake "Here Comes Everybody+'83-87 Singles/EP's" 2xLP box. (500 only)
• Amon Tobin 6x10”/7xCD/2xDVD deluxe box
• Tomahawk From Epoynmous to Anonymous 3LP Box (with room for 4th LP out later this year)
• Disturbed "The Collection" 6LP box with new artwork, pressed on 140g vinyl and 1st run is limited to 2500 copies.
• Eric Clapton Blues 3LP Boxset (already released, not sure why this is being tagged as a RSD release)
• Red Hot Chili Peppers Stadium Arcadium Deluxe 180g Box (Originally Released in 2007, it better have something new otherwise WB is DUMPING INVENTORY....LAME)
• Wilco The Whole Love Deluxe Vinyl Box (LP, 10", 7" and slipmat in custom box)

VARIOUS ARTISTS COMPLIATIONS:

• WTNG 89.9FM Solid Bronze (Numero Group, 1000 copies)
• Smugglers Way Magazine (features 5 flexi discs featuring Dirty Projectors, Real Estate, Villagers and more)
• Secret Handshakes V/A LP.  Features previously unreleased tracks by: Golden Sound Records Artists: Everyday/Everynight, The Caves, Millions Of Boys, The Empty Spaces, Fullbloods and Baby Teardrops and The Record Machine Artists: Soft Reeds, Max Justus, Spirit Is The Spirit, Ad Astra Arkestra, Akkiles and La Guerre.
• Original Soundtrack---Empire Records (2LP w/poster)
• Original Soundtrack--Pretty in Pink (w/poster)
• Original Soundtrack--Breakfast Club (w/poster)
• Eight Trails, One Path (This compilation presents a series of newly commissioned and previously unreleased tracks from some of the scene's essential and unique guitar voices: Alvarius B. (Alan Bishop of the Sun City Girls), Sir Richard Bishop, David Daniell (solo, San Agustin, Rhys Chatham ensembles), Danny Paul Grody (solo, Tarentel, The Drift), Steve Gunn (solo, Gunn-Truscinski Duo, GHQ), Lee Ranaldo (Sonic Youth), Six Organs of Admittance and William Tyler (solo, Lambchop, Silver Jews)---limited to just 1000 copies.
• Sacred Bones Presents:  Todo Muere Volume 2 (Features Crystal Stilts, Slug Guts, War, The Men, Amen Dunes, Psychic Ills and more)  (1500 copies total)


YET TO BE ANNOUNCED/SEARCHING FOR MORE INFO:
• Few last second items....
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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

MUSIC STORES CLOSING--The Epidemic has got to STOP, but it's up to *YOU*

In case you haven't been following any news articles lately, several key Independent Music Stores have announced that they will be forced to close.

This includes the following stores:

Slowtrain Records in Salt Lake City, Utah


Criminal Records in Atlanta, GA


Schoolkids Records in Athens, GA


Vinyl Fever in Tampa, FL.


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We are coming to a crossroads of where and how we buy music. We can succumb to an environment where we have to settle for stores like Best Buy or Target to be our store of choice, or look at an online only retailer like Amazon.com.

The problem with all of the above are the following:

* No support of local artists
* Few Best Buy and Targets carry vinyl, vinyl record players and even keep up with releases. Have you gone to a Target or Best Buy on a new release Tuesday and expected to find the item out for sale, only to have to ask one of the employees to go to the back and pull it out of a box so you can buy it?
* Loss of independent voice as upcoming artists or new artists will have more obstacles to be discovered.
* More often, you'll have to settle for the "special order" scenario, whereby there is no guarantee that you'll even get your item and if it will be packed correctly and not get damaged during shipment ( a major issue buying vinyl online through most retailers, especially if they use Media Mail)

The fact of the matter is, the big Music labels don't give a shit about you as a fan. They don't give a shit about the small, independent music stores (no matter what verbal diarrhea their PR speak would have you believe). Despite the fact that vinyl sales have already surpassed their record from last year, labels would rather cater to a Best Buy or Amazon, because of volume. That is fine. It is understandable in this economy. 10,000 Best Buy stores has more buying power than 2 local music stores.

People want to pick and choose music now. People want to have the stream of the album before it's released to check it out. People want to pay .99c or $1.29 on ITUNES for just 1 song. I get that.

But for those that still prefer ANALOG to DIGITAL. Those that love the smell of vinyl. The pictures included in a Gatefold LP. The etching that can be found on a Picture Disc. The variations of colored vinyl available. The "Triple Decker Record". What about them. They are growing. Some have never gone away, but most are from a new generation.

The sound of vinyl is better than digital. It has been proven. But this is not an audiophile debate. This is a plea to do what we can from all angles to save music stores, so we can stop seeing articles like this. How do we do this. We do it twofold:

YOU AS THE MUSIC BUYER:

* You have to make an effort to shop at these stores. Yes, your new Coldplay CD will be $12.99 versus $9.99, but that extra $3.00 is keeping that roof above the owner's head. Do you think that same $9.99 at Best Buy is keeping the lights on??
* Try and discover new music and support events like Record Store Day's Black Friday and Record Store Day in April
* Buy some used CDs/Vinyl. It is where the stores make their most profit. Most stores usually have a buy 4 for $20 deal. Buy CDs to make a mixtape for your significant other. Rebuild your collection from high school to burn onto your various tablets/cellphones/mp3 players.
* Have you always wanted to buy XXX on vinyl, but think you can only get it on Ebay? Check with your local store, maybe that can find it. A lot of stores have a network of owners they can check with to find releases. You want them to special order something coming out overseas (e.g. Pearl Jam 20 3LP soundtrack), then order it through them. Don't go to Amazon.com.
* If they sell t-shirts, posters, concert tickets, DVDs, Blu-Ray's, etc......find something to give to friends and family for XMAS. Buy giftcards.

You can impact these stores bottom lines and keep them in business. Some stores are already doing pre-orders for the Black Friday releases. Was your Dad a big Beatles fan? Surprise him this Xmas with the Beatles 7" boxset, featuring the remastered versions of songs from next year's Beatles re-issues. These versions have not been on vinyl before and would be a nice surprise versus something from Home Depot or a tacky tie for a suit.

But it isn't just the fans that have to do something. It is the labels too. They are just as complicit in forcing these stores to go out of business. These are the same stores 20 years ago that they loved. But now their love has shifted to whomever can make them the most $$$$.

YOU AS THE MUSIC LABEL:

* Stop doing 6 different versions of albums. No more Itunes version, Best Buy version, etc. If you are forced to do different versions, at least do a "INDIE STORE EXCLUSIVE" version, that these stores can sell, that will have ALTERNATE/EXCLUSIVE tracks that will drive customers to these stores.
* Create an alternate pricing model for Independent Retailers (3 stores or less). Doing things Nonesuch did with the Black Keys, who raised the wholesale price of Brothers after the band took off HAS GOT TO STOP. Doing things like Warner Bros. did twice after Record Store Day, swearing that the Fleetwood Mac Rumors 2LP 45rpm vinyl and Flaming Lips Dark Side of the Moon LP wouldn't be repressed and then LYING and FLOODING THE MARKET due to unexpected sales HAS GOT TO STOP.
* Stop with the Direct to Consumer (D2C) "DELUXE" version online and give it to Indie Stores for 3 months and *THEN* go online D2C.
* Create limited runs (1000 to 2000 tops) of vinyl releases on LIMITED COLORED VINYL for Indie Stores. This was done with Primus and Blink 182's most recent release, but should be done for *ALL* artists that are popular on vinyl. Having exclusive releases, in limited quantities, WILL SELL. Record Store Day has proven that for the *popular* artist who has a numbered/limited release. Notice for Black Friday how many items are limited and/or numbered.....this is a good thing.
* Create a position at each label called "Indie Store Liaison"....this person would be the interface between the label and its artists and the stores. This person would help coordinate in-store signings/performances; send stores promo copies/posters/1 sheets to use as contest giveaways or listening parties; ensure that stores received items they ordered and make INTERNATIONAL RELEASES available (e.g. Japan SHM-CD releases, Music On Vinyl in Sweden, Australia tour edition releases, etc.) at AFFORDABLE PRICES to offer alternate import versions of CDs/Vinyl not available in the US.

Finally, Indie Stores need to create a partnership with Apple and Amazon to have exclusive "download kiosks" in each store. These kiosks would allow anyone to plug in their tablet or phone into the kiosk and download tracks. The cost can be billed to a credit card already tied to their ITUNES or Amazon account, or they can insert cash and have access to the songs. For every song downloaded, the store gets a percentage/fee (similar to an ATM fee), to justify having the kiosk in the store.

Again, we as the consumer have got to help these stores out. Having a choice on where to buy records, is a necessary and valuable option. But we can't do it alone. We have to get support from the major labels to finally show they care. If they can start creating alternate options for these stores, it will be a win-win situation for everyone. We'll buy more of their music, versus just downloading 1 or 2 tracks and stores will generate more sales due to added traffic.

This is not perfect and I am sure several people have other ideas on how to make this better. But we just can't wait until we see a future where Best Buy or Amazon is the "vinyl store" of choice in the United States. We will all lose in that scenario.



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