Rolling Reissues 2015

I just saw that they reissued Electricity by Peter Jefferies.

yeah, and they were involved with a US tour for him...until the dept of homeland security got involved.

Penetration and The Ruts each have 4cd "Virgin Years" box sets coming out on 10/9.

I'm having a hard time believing that Penetration has that much good material, but my ears will be open. I do like "Don't Dictate," especially the version from Race Against Time.

I also mentioned this on the jazz thread; coming November 6, John Coltrane, A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters. A 3CD set; here's the track listing:

Disc 1
1. The Original Stereo Album, Impulse! AS-77 Part I Acknowledgement
2. The Original Stereo Album, Impulse! AS-77 Part II Resolution
3. The Original Stereo Album, Impulse! AS-77 Part III Pursuance
4. The Original Stereo Album, Impulse! AS-77 Part IV Psalm
5. Trane's Original Mono Reference Masters Part I Acknowledgement
6. Trane's Original Mono Reference Masters Part II Resolution
7. Trane's Original Mono Reference Masters Part III Pursuance
8. Trane's Original Mono Reference Masters Part IV Psalm

Disc 2
1. Day 1: December 9, 1964 Part I Acknowledgement undubbed version
2. Day 1: December 9, 1964 Part I Acknowledgement vocal overdub 2
3. Day 1: December 9, 1964 Part I Acknowledgement vocal overdub 3
4. Day 1: December 9, 1964 Part II Resolution take 1 / breakdown
5. Day 1: December 9, 1964 Part II Resolution take 2 / breakdown
6. Day 1: December 9, 1964 Part II Resolution take 3 / breakdown
7. Day 1: December 9, 1964 Part II Resolution take 4 / alternate
8. Day 1: December 9, 1964 Part II Resolution take 5 / breakdown
9. Day 1: December 9, 1964 Part II Resolution take 6 / breakdown
10. Day 1: December 9, 1964 Part IV Psalm undubbed version
11. Day 2: December 10, 1964 Part I - Acknowledgement take 1 / alternate
12. Day 2: December 10, 1964 Part I - Acknowledgement take 2 / alternate
13. Day 2: December 10, 1964 Part I - Acknowledgement take 3 / breakdown with studio dialogue
14. Day 2: December 10, 1964 Part I - Acknowledgement take 4 / alternate
15. Day 2: December 10, 1964 Part I - Acknowledgement take 5 / false start
16. Day 2: December 10, 1964 Part I - Acknowledgement take 6 / alternate

Disc 3
1. Live At Festival Mondial du Jazz Antibes, July 26, 1965 Introduction by M.C. Andre Francis
2. Live At Festival Mondial du Jazz Antibes, July 26, 1965 Part I - Acknowledgement (Live)
3. Live At Festival Mondial du Jazz Antibes, July 26, 1965 Part II - Resolution (Live)
4. Live At Festival Mondial du Jazz Antibes, July 26, 1965 Part III - Pursuance (Live)
5. Live At Festival Mondial du Jazz Antibes, July 26, 1965 Part IV - Psalm (Live)

Some of those alternate studio takes are performed by a six-piece band that includes Archie Shepp on second sax and Art Davis on second bass. This'll be my third copy of that live performance (Coltrane only performed ALS live the one time, but it was broadcast on radio), but I'm buying this thing anyway.

NEW YORK, NY, September 22, 2015- A Tribe Called Quest and Sony Legacy have announced a special 25th anniversary edition collection of the group's classic debut album Peoples' Instinctive Travels And The Paths of Rhythm will be released on November 13th. In celebration of the 25th anniversary, the album will be remastered from the original tapes by Grammy-Award winning engineer Bob Power, and re-released with exclusive new remixes by a few of today's biggest hip-hop artists who have credited A Tribe Called Quest as a major creative influence. Remixes will be announced in the coming weeks.This album will mark the debut release in a series of re-releases by A Tribe Called Quest over the course of the next few years.

#ATCQ25 teaser video and news story: http://pitchfork.com/news/61302-a-tribe-called-quest-announce-peoples-instinctive-travels-and-the-paths-of-rhythm-reissue/

"I had this album in my head for years before I did it. Looking at it overall, to see the thoughts of a 16 year old gain any kind of acknowledgement makes me feel like I have arrived... But to see it in this incarnation ... I'm humbled" - Q-Tip

"This album means a lot. It was the beginning of our careers; the beginning of our imprint; the beginning of seeing life the way we saw it, and being able to put it down in words and music." - Ali Shaheed Muhammad

People's Instinctive Travels And The Paths Of Rhythm made its debut in 1990 and came at a crucial time for hip-hop. The Queens-raised childhood friends-- Q-Tip, Phife Dawg, Ali Shaheed Muhammad and Jarobi White-took the traditional hip-hop formula and threw it out the window. Like their contemporaries in De La Soul and the Jungle Brothers, all of whom would become known as the Native Tongues collective, their lyrical and musical influences were unlike any hip-hop group on the scene. While many built breaks around vintage soul and funk samples, ATCQ utilized samples of jazz and '70s rock. Their verses were conversational instead of confrontational, addressing socially conscious topics with laid-back candor and slightly off-kilter humor.

Critics and hip-hop audiences understood the sea of change ATCQ represented. The Source gave the album a perfect score of five mics (a first for the publication), while The Village Voice praised it as "upliftingly dope."

A TRIBE CALLED QUEST
Queens, New York natives Q-Tip , Phife Dawg , and Ali Shaheed Muhammad of Brooklyn, formed A Tribe Called Quest in 1985. The group is one of hip-hop's most legendary, beloved and revered groups of all time. Easily recognized for their unique approach to rap music by employing jazz infused soundscapes to Afro centric rhymes, ATCQ was largely responsible for the popularity of a new genre that dominated the East Coast sound of the early 1990s. Sonically, ATCQ was a decisive and welcomed tangent of jazz, bass-heavy rhythmic vibes and eclectic sampling when compared to the mundane recycling of soul loops, breaks and vocals of their contemporaries. Lyrically, emcees Q-Tip and Phife Dawg addressed social issues relevant to young blacks such as use of the n word and its relevance, date rape and other interpersonal relationships, industry politics and consumerism with infectious energy and fun and having a good time while still promoting positivity. ATCQ composed a number of successful singles and albums with their creative approach to rap music. In 1990, the group released Peoples Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm. Their sophomore effort, The Low End Theory, considered one of the greatest albums in hip-hop history that would solidify them as legends. In recent years, the anticipation for another ATCQ album has been building. The Abstract Poetic, Five Foot Assasin, and Mr. Muhammad have yet to grace the studio for another record, but have hit the road again. Today, the power of their music is still evident in their dynamic stage shows and in the reception of their adoring fans.

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NUM060 Ork Records: New York, New York 2CD+Book/4LP+Book

In August of 1975, the world's first punk record label was born. Ork Records: New York, New York is a tale of Terry Ork, a film-obsessed fugitive of Warhol's Factory set. Ork's impresario ear would pull damaged, literate new rock music from the pregnant Bowery grime of CBGB, resulting in debut 45s by Television and Richard Hell, as well as landmark recordings by the Feelies and Lester Bangs. It's a tale of Charles Ball, who'd steer Ork Records through solo exploits by Big Star's Alex Chilton and the dBs' Chris Stamey. And it's a tale told across 2 CD or 4 LPs s in scorching sides by Richard Lloyd, Marbles, Prix, Mick Farren, Cheetah Chrome, the Idols, the Erasers, the Revelons, Student Teachers, and more. Our deluxe 190-page hardback book features evocative, unseen imagery, a portal opened by on-the-scene photojournalists as crucial to documenting punk's conception in the squalid Lower East Side as the walls of CBGB itself. Ork Records: New York, New York is a v isionary glimpse of punk and new wave as invented, nurtured, feted, and forgotten by the street-level artisans who attended the genres' arrival.

Mail order junkies, we made something special just for you: A bonus 45 features two previously unreleased tracks by the Feelies! "The Boy With The Perpetual Nervousness" is an unreleased studio cut from 1978, while the flip is a cover of the Bacharach and David classic "My Little Red Book," recorded live at CBGB December 14, 1976.

Did you buy the 45 version? Guess what? This version includes 12 tracks not found in our limited Record Store Day box.

Buy Ork record right now and have it well before the release date. (Doesn't give date, other than "Orktober.")
Watch before you buy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=422IF2TL9Yc

More from Numero:

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NUM061 Edge of Daybreak: Eyes of Love CD/LP

Incarcerated funk has no right to feel this free. Musical convicts and actual convicts from across the Commonwealth, The Edge Of Daybreak's membership wrote and recorded Eyes Of Love while serving out sentences of six to sixty years. Set to tape inside Powhatan Correctional Center on the outskirts of Richmond, Virginia, these intimate 1979 sessions unlock the prison gates and peer into a collective consciousness concocted by a core of four confined artists. Assembled from distant love ballads and fanciful odes to freedom, Eyes Of Love is a prison letter composed by committee, recorded hastily, and circulated regionally amongst adventurous clientele willing to take a chance on these felonious talents.

ES-050 Otis Brown & the Delights "Southside Chicago"

An anthemic call to arms for all denizens of the second city residing south of the Loop, Otis Brown & the Delights' "Southside Chicago" swung and missed in the summer of '66. Forty years later, Sitting In The Park, Bob Abrahamian's crucial Chicago Soul program, would adopt this mid-tempo slice of crossover northern soul as its theme music. The flip, "I've Got Another," is a perfect night ender, the time to pull your lover close and dance until the lights come up. Many years in the making, this limited replica 45 is a tribute to both Numero's hometown and the late Bob Abrahamian.

ES-051 Mind & Matter "I'm Under Your Spell" 45

In March of 1977, Minneapolis nonet Mind & Matter booked time at Creation Audio on Old Shakopee Road in suburban Bloomington to record "I'm Under Your Spell" and "Sunshine Lady." Written by a teenaged Jimmy "Jam" Harris, these danceable numbers document the prolific songwriter taking baby steps as a budding super producer. Limited repress comes housed in a custom Numero sleeve.

finally we have (the beginning of the) Coil reissues, along with tons of bonus tracks, demos, comp tracks, etc. added on:

http://www.forcedexposure.com/Labels/THRESHOLD.ARCHIVES.UK.html

Opeth's Damnation and Deliverance are being reissued as a four-disc set (each album is remixed and remastered and you get a CD and 5.1 audio DVD version of each, in a little hardback book with new liner notes and archival photos). I've sampled a track from each album, and the difference is amazing. The drums on Deliverance (the loud one) are bigger; the guitars are clearer; Mikael's vocals are more forceful; everything has its own space in the mix. Damnation (the quiet one) sounds even more proggy and '70s than before (no surprise, since that one was remixed by Steven Wilson). When I first heard that these albums were going to be paired and sold this way, I thought it was a pure cash grab. Now that I've heard the results...well, it looks like they're gonna get my money again.

Always wondered about this---anybody heard it? I remember liking some of Writer and some other late 60s/ maybe early 70s, def pre-Tapestry stuff.

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http://www.americansongwriter.com/2015/10/the-city-now-that-everythings-been-said-reissue/

not amazing but interesting to hear the songwriter's own take on songs I love like snow queen, wasn't born to follow

xpost Ork box in NYTimes: backstory, new interviews, even some description of music, if not nearly enough, and the author's passing mention of Bangs' music as "boozy lounge" is brainstem dim. Good pix & ace quotes, anyway:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/arts/music/terry-orks-punk-rock-time-capsule-celebrates-a-nihilistic-niche.html?&moduleDetail=section-news-2&action=click&contentCollection=Music®ion=Footer&module=MoreInSection&version=WhatsNext&contentID=WhatsNext&pgtype=article

Smog Veil sale update:

HERE WE GO:

The sale continues until NOVEMBER 9, 2015 on our new series of archival and newly recorded material to be released individually and as bundled specials, called Platters du Cuyahoga, Series 1. The series will highlight and celebrate Cleveland's long running and rich history of challenging, culturally significant, and often bombastic music.

Plus, we are pleased to announce that if you pre-order the series or the X___X release, we will be sending you an extra special super secret bonus. Here's the deal: you have to pre-order by the end of the day on November 9. Anyone who has pre-ordered up until now will receive the bonus as will anyone who pre-orders by the deadline. The super secret extra special bonus will ship with the Mr. Stress Blues Band release. The bonus will never be for sale on the Smog Veil site or in stores. The only way to get it is to pre-order!

The initial three releases are: (1) X__X: Albert Ayler's Ghosts Live at the Yellow Ghetto (November 20, 2015 release date); (2) Robert Bensick Band: French Pictures In London (1975); (3) Mr. Stress Blues Band: Live At the Brick Cottage 1972 - 1973. All the releases will be formatted on vinyl as well as CD and download/streaming. A hallmark of the series will be that each release contains extensive liner notes, all carefully researched. Byron Coley (Forced Exposure, NY Rocker, Boston Rock, Spin, Arthur magazine column with Thurston Moore) penned the liner notes for X__X, and Nick Blakey (The Boston Phoenix, EQ, Chunklet, Your Flesh) wrote the liners for the Robert Bensick and Mr. Stress releases.

The X___X LP is on blue vinyl and contains lock grooves on both sides of the record. The Robert Bensick Band LP will also be pressed on colored vinyl. The Mr. Stress Blues Band LP contains a free download with extra tracks. X___X will ship to you on or before November 20, 2015. Mr. Stress Blues Band test pressings have been approved and art design is in the final stages. The Robert Bensick Band masters are done, art is nearly done, and will ship to you this winter.

The X__X release will feature new recordings from one of Cleveland's most notable late 1970s post punk outfits. The band plans live dates to coincide with this release, expect fireworks and power tools. The Robert Bensick Band album is an unreleased studio record recorded at Agency Recording Studio in 1975. Tapes were saved this year by Alan Howarth and Paul Hamann. The band and this release represent an important era of the downtown artist colony/apartment/hang out known as The Plaza and besides Robert Bensick features an all-star cast including Scott Krauss and Tom Herman (Pere Ubu), Albert Dennis, Michael Hronek, and Cynthia Black. Paul also engineered the Mr. Stress Blues Band never before released live set, culled from their rowdy sets at The Brick Cottage (aka, the Sick Brick).

Pre-sale is live for the 3 LPs and CDs that represent the first entry in the Platters du Cuyahoga series as well as the X___X LP and CD. The pre-sale ends on Monday, November 9, 2015.

THE PRE-SALE ENDS NOVEMBER 9, 2015! SONG SAMPLES AND ORDERING INFORMATION ARE HERE, FOR THE LP SERIES:

http://www.smogveil.com/collections/frontpage/products/platters-du-cuyahoga-series-1-lp-subscription

X___X has announced tour dates for this winter. Rocket From The Tombs has announced a series of live dates. Details below.

Also, hearpen.com has a new release. Here's what we know of it: this is Pere Ubu synthesizer Allen Ravenstine's first solo album, titled "the pharaoh's bee", recorded in 2015. He played the Moog Theremin and a Doepfer Dark Energy. William Blakeney helped produce and master the recordings. An extensive set of liner notes is included as a PDF file. Check it out here:http://hearpen.com/hr182.html

GIGS!

Be sure to get out and see a gig where you live.

X___X

Fri. Jan. 8- Louisville KY. - with Tropical Trash - Zanzabar 2100 S. Preston St. Louisville, KY 40217

Sat. Jan. 9-Knoxville TN. - Pilot Light 106 E Jackson Ave, Knoxville, TN 37915

Sun. Jan. 10-Winston Salem, NC - The Garage 110 W. 7th St. Winston-Salem, NC 27101

Mon. Jan. 11-Raleigh NC. - The Cave 452 W. Franklin Chapel Hill, NC 27516

Tues. Jan. 12-Athens GA. - Caledonia 256 W. Clayton St. Athens, GA 30601

Wed. Jan. 13- Atlanta GA. - The Earl 488 Flat Shoals Ave. SE Atlanta, GA 30316

Thur. Jan. 14 Jacksonville Fl. - Rain Dogs 1045 Park St. Jacksonville, FL 32204

Fri. Jan. 15- Orlando Fl. - Will's Pub 1042 N. Mills Ave. Orlando, FL 32803 -

Sat. Jan. 16-Tallahassee Fl - TBA

Sun. Jan. 17- NOLA - Siberia 2227 St. Claude Ave., NOLA 70117

Tues. Jan. 19-Houston TX with Snooty Garbagemen/Blaxxx - TBA

Wed. Jan. 20- Denton TX - Rubber Gloves 411 E Sycamore St, Denton, TX 76205

Thur. Jan. 21- Austin TX. - @Barracuda (Red7) 611 E. 7th St. Austin, TX 78701

Fri. Jan. 22- Memphis TN - Murphy's 1589 Madison Ave., Memphis, TN 38104

Sat. Jan. 23- Cincinnati, OH. - MOTR 1345 Main St. Cincinnati, OH 45202

Rocket From The Tombs
Tue, Dec 1

Chicago, The Empty Bottle

Wed, Dec 2

Pontiac MI, Crofoot Ballroom, Pike Room

Thu, Dec 3

Cleveland, Beachland Ballroom

Fri, Dec 4

Philadelphia, Johnny Brenda's

Sat, Dec 5

Jersey City NJ, Monty Hall

Sun, Dec 6

Brooklyn, Baby's All Right

Mon, Dec 7

Washington DC, Rock And Roll Hotel

Tue, Dec 8

Boston, Brighton Music Hall

Fri, Dec 11

Den Haag (NL), State-X New Forms Festival

Sat, Dec 12

London, The Brewhouse

Sun, Dec 13

Leeds, Brudenell Social Club

Tue, Dec 15

Wed, Dec 16

Diksmuide (B), 4AD

Paris, Festival Les Aventuriers

Updates for all the new stuff, reviews, mp3 samples and videos available daily at the Smog Veil Facebook fan page.

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Coxsone's Music is a stunning new 3-CD/two separate double LP (+ free download) collection featuring over two and half hours of early Jamaican proto-ska, rhythm and blues, jazz, rastafari and gospel music - charting the earliest recordings produced by Clement Dodd, in the years before he launched the mighty Studio One Records, brought together here for the first time ever.

Clement Dodd's Sir Coxsone The Downbeat Soundsystem ruled Kingston's dancehalls during this era and these recordings strongly reflect the influences of American rhythm and blues and jump jazz on Jamaican music fans. By the time the new record company formed in Brentford Road, Kingston in 1963, the young Clement 'Sir Coxsone' Dodd had already managed to release an incredible wealth of recordings by the talented musicians and artists on the island of Jamaica and this collection reflects just that:

Featuring Don Drummond, Roland Alphonso, Derrick Harriott, Owen Gray, Clancy Eccles, Count Ossie, Monty Alexander, The Blues Busters, Ernest Ranglin, Rico Rodriguez and many, many more all captured here in their formative early years.

Before Studio One, Clement Dodd released this music on a variety of his early record labels such as Worldisc, All Stars, Coxsone, D Darling (named after Coxsone's mother, who received a production credit on the label), Muzik City (named after Dodd's record store on East Queen's Street), Port O Jam, Supreme and Sensational. Sleevenotes to this collection are by Studio One authority Rob Chapman, author of the Never Grow Old and Downbeat Special books cataloguing the many recordings of the label.

(Vinyl Double Record A is tracks 1-24, Vinyl Double Record B is tracks 25-46)(also: 3-CD set, mp3s available)

complete track list, audio samples here: http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/releases/?id=45164

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won't let me paste, but it's a Bear Family 40th Anniversary box: 3 CDS and a DVD (also a book, 308 pages). Not a label sampler, but all bears, all the time. Lots of promising titles, esp. "Teddy Bear's Luau" and "The Unbearable Longness of Boring." Hmmm, Swamp Dogg x Canned Heat---full track list etc.:
https://www.bear-family.com/various-40-years-bear-family-records-3-cd-1-dvd.html

The 21st century is defined in part by an overwhelming panorama of choices. Especially in the world of recorded music, of which the near-complete history is available in two or three clicks. Want to hear Carly Rae Jepson’s Emotion? Or Ray Charles’ complete Atlantic recordings? You can, and you should. But the question remains—how will you find out about Jimmy Carter & the Dallas County Green’s undeniable 1977 private country-rock masterpiece? And how will you experience it with something resembling the sense of excitement that accompanied those seven Columbia House selections for a penny, the ones you actually wanted? Isn't the predictability of unlimited choice part of what's turning us all into such jaded monsters?
And that is why in January 2016, the Numero Group is launching its own seasonal music club featuring twelve exceedingly rare or entirely unreleased LPs. Four albums of Eccentric Soul, four albums from Wayfaring Strangers, and four plucked from our Private Mind Garden. These records won’t be available in stores and they won’t be repressed. We’re not issuing them on CD and the only way you can buy them is by joining the club. And that club? It's limited to just a thousand members. You read that correctly: In a world of unlimited access, we’re exercising some small degree of restraint. Like some poor kid stuck in 1991, we want you waiting by your mailbox. We want you to love every record so much that you keep the custom box it came in.
Here’s how it works:
You subscribe to one, two, or all three series. Every quarter a record from each series goes out. We'll let you know by email when your record is on its way, along with a tracking number and a download code in case you just can't wait. It’s that simple. Don’t like one of them? Whine on twitter, wait a few months, and flip it on Discogs. Exercise your rights as a consumer, we won't judge.

We’ll be revealing all twelve titles in the coming weeks. For now, here are the first three:
Eccentric Soul
Our flagship series broken into digestible single artist LPs for the discerning collector. Twelve years into effectively remapping the American soul diaspora, we’ve created an alternate universe of motley and mishandled Motown acolytes. We now press our magnifying glass further into the dust, freeing four microbes that could have, should have, never did, but now might.
 94 East: The Cookhouse 5

In 1975, Brooklyn transplant Pepe Willie booked time at Cookhouse Recording Studios in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to demo five original compositions. Without roots in the Twin Cities' insular scene, Willie had no fixed backing group to help realize the arrangements he and vocalists Marcy Ingvoldstad and Kristie Lazenberry had been rehearsing. Willie organized a young cast of backing musicians for the session, among them his wife's nephew: a 16-year-old guitar prodigy named Prince Rogers Nelson. Known colloquially as "The Cookhouse 5" these recordings showcase Prince's instantly recognizable guitar playing, seasoning to perfection 94 East's short-but-sweet songbook. A crucial document concerning the origins of the Minneapolis Sound, the B-side boasts instrumental versions of each infectious tune, providing an even greater vantage point from which to admire the Purple One's expressive playing style, already evident in his teenaged years.

Private Mind Garden
Each of us has our own Private Mind Garden. Some are fertile, some are well-tended, some are thorny and overgrown, and some are full of exotic delights not to be found anywhere else. Such is the case with our latest bit of branding, the expression's originator unknown, borne from online message boards, where it has generally tended to denote getting lost in one's own world. It can mean folly and delusion, but we at Numero would like to cultivate a different interpretation, to describe that place from which the most challenging, singular, and personal musical creations spring.
 Circuit Rider: Photograph Attached

Beneath the shroud of mystery surrounding the Circuit Rider LP is its mercurial, difficult, and wildly creative producer, Thorn Oehrig. After turning his penchant for biker lore into an acid-scorched eponymous LP, he continued recording with a motley cast of musicians and collaborators over the next few years, plotting a follow-up that was never quite completed. The original buzz remains across this unheard blast of angel dust. Dark hobo tales and rambling tunes, etched in alrnately noisy, shambolic, and transcendent performances, channeling an alternate reality where Tom Waits is a mass murderer.

Wayfaring Strangers
In a record landscape blurred by one next great but ultimately disappointing private SSW hope after another, we’ve done our best to boil down the finest examples of this world into a handful of themed compilations. Here we dust off some of the truly brilliant and fascinating discoveries made along the path, long-playing documents of talents far bigger than a single track would merit.
 Jimmy Carter & the Dallas County Green: Summer Brings The Sunshine

Don't let the postcard-generic cover art fool you, Summer Brings The Sunshine stands head and shoulders above nearly any major label country rock album crowding mid-'70s record bins. Next to the hundreds or even thousands of slick productions flowing out of Nashville and Los Angeles, Jimmy Carter scoured his rural Missouri surroundings for farmhands and semi-pros alike to lay down eight farm-isolated originals in 1977. Tasty female backing vocals, languid pedal steel, and feisty guitar licks abound on this exalted and near-peerless slice of Cosmic American Music (Gram Parsons' phrase for what others called "country rock," a phrase he detested like he loathed the Eagles--ed.)

There's a 3cd set called "Complete Them 1964-1967" coming out early December. Looking forward to that, it seems like Them's stuff has been terminally OOP for years now.

The 2CD The Story of Them featuring Van Morrison has been easy to find since its release (1997, iirc). The new comp is basically the same thing, but with an added disc of BBC recordings and a few other rarities.

I guess I could've gotten that from Amazon or something, but none of our distributors ever carried it so I assumed it was out of print!

Story of Them did go oop, just like the rest of the Polydor-licensed Van titles, and like many of those was fetching a pretty penny online.

Just received the Andrew Hill Soul Note recordings box set. Two discs in and really happy with it. Price was right, too: only $35 from Dusty Groove.

Fun fact: Strange Serenade came about because Hill had arrived in Italy without a band/rhythm section. He sat in with Bill Dixon's group one night, and Bill suggested he use Freddie Waits (who also played on Stevie Wonder's "Fingertips Pt. 2," among others) and Alan Silva from his band.

Over the years, Bill and Andrew had talked about making a duo record; sadly, it never happened.

Strange Serenade is awesome. I'm excited to get to Shades because the combo of Andrew and Cliff Jordan.

Don't think I ever linked info re Pere Ubu's Elitism For The People 1975-1978
http://www.ubuprojex.com/elitism.html

I have a cassette of the 94 East thing. It's OK, there would be zero interest in it if not for Prince

I thought the remasters I got a decade ago sound fine but shrug, at least Chasing Shadows is available now.

http://louderthanwar.com/comsat-angels-waiting-miracle-2cd-deluxe-edition-album-review/

So Numero is reissuing Jimmy Carter & the Dallas County Green? I respect the work those guy put into their releases, But… I'm probably the odd man out here, but sometimes I wish these reissue labels would let things be. I've been waiting to find a copy of that record for 8 years now and I've enjoyed waiting. I will find a copy one day. That's why record collecting is thrilling, waiting digging, and finally finding something you want. I don't want a reissue of anything really.

So don't buy one, bro.

I mean, I kinda get what you're saying - I feel like I'm destined to find a copy of Jim Ford's Harlan County someday.

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(namechecks Laughner etc. like mad, but no legends/stars on these particular tapes---lots of good taste in covers, though)
SMOG VEIL RECORDS ANNOUNCES
THE NEXT RELEASE IN THE PLATTERS DU CUYAHOGA SERIES
Mr. Stress Blues Band: Live At The Brick Cottage 1972 – 1973
Winter 2016 Release Date

November 24, 2015 (Cleveland, OH) – Smog Veil Records announces the next release in the Platters du Cuyahoga (PDC1) series: Mr. Stress Blues Band: Live At The Brick Cottage 1972 – 1973. "Bill "Mr. Stress" Miller [January 1, 1943 -- May 18, 2015] performed “thousands of gigs," the Cleveland Plain Dealer explains, "He played with Steppenwolf, the MC5, the James Gang. Jammed with 100-plus bandmates, including rock heroes such as Chrissie Hynde, Peter Laughner and Jimmy Fox." The record which features extensive liner notes will hit retail this winter, 2016 and will be available in digital format as well as CD and vinyl LP. Since this is an archival release there is no touring scheduled, although a record release event with surviving members may be announced.

The album is a collection of recordings taped live at the legendary Brick Cottage in Cleveland in 1972 and 1973. Peter Laughner, Cleveland proto-punk legend and brief member of the Mr. Stress Blues Band, initially got the band booked at the “Sick Brick.” The scene in and around the Brick was the stuff of legend replete with gun-toting regulars, junkies nodding out in front of the stage, and a feisty waitress named Monique that could and often did put certain customers in their place.

The band played regularly in Cleveland with numerous local performers and shared the stage with touring acts such as Otis Spann, Bonnie Raitt, James Montgomery, Rotary Connection, Joe Jackson, Little Steven, Steppenwolf, Nazz, and Three Dog Night and many others. Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders even namedropped Mr. Stress in the popular Pretenders' song "Precious."

"As a bandleader, Miller fronted his iconic Mr. Stress Blues Band through numerous permutations," music researcher Nick Blakey explains in the band's bio. Some of the best and brightest musicians in Cleveland who passed through the band included Chrissie Hynde (Pretenders), Peter Laughner (Pere Ubu/Rocket From The Tombs), Anton Fier (Golden Palominos/The Feelies/Swans), Vito San Filippo (Tower of Power/The O’Jays), James Emery (String Trio of New York/Anthony Braxton), Glenn Schwartz (Pacific Gas & Electric/All Saved Freak Band), Alan Greene (Breathless/The Innocent), Ken Klimak (Dr. John), Chuck Drazdik (It’s A Beautiful Day), Kenny Ruscitto (15-60-75), no less than six members of The James Gang, as well as noted international journalist and writer Eric Ehrmann."

The album features the band performing live takes on songs by Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Slim Harpo, Jimmy Reed, Albert King, and more. Musicians on the recording include: Bill “Mr. Stress” Miller on vocals and harmonica; Charlie “Pontiac Slim” Drazdik on guitar; Tom Rinda on bass; Mike “The Professor” Sands on electric piano; Dr. Pete Sinks on drums (1972 tracks); Kenny Ruscitto on drums (1973 tracks).

Track listing:

Side One: (24:50)
1. How Many More Years (Chester Burnett) (Brick Cottage 1973) (9:35)
2. Walkin’ Through The Park (McKinley Morganfield) (Brick Cottage 1972) (4:12)
3. Good Time Charlie (Malone-Scott-Caple) (Unknown Location 1972) (3:49)*
4. Scratch My Back (Slim Harpo) (Brick Cottage 1973) (5:12)
5. Chicken Shack (Break Song) (Milburn-Cullum. arr MSBB) (Brick Cottage 1973) (1:50)

Side Two: (24:46)
1. Get Out of My Life Woman (Allen Toussaint) (Brick Cottage 1973) (7:02)
2. Big Boss Man (Jimmy Reed) (Brick Cottage 1973) (3:16)
3. I Feel So Bad (Chuck Willis) (Brick Cottage 1972) (4:19)
4. Sweet Little Angel (King-Taub) (Brick Cottage 1972) (9:59)

CD and LP download Bonus Tracks: (25:49)
1. Rock Me Baby (King-Bihari) (Kenny’s Last Stand at The Brick Cottage 1973) (4:51)
2. Crosscut Saw (R.G. Ford) (Brick Cottage 1973) (5:03)
3. Help Me (Williamson-Dixon-Bass) (Brick Cottage 1972) (6:00)
4. Black Night (Jessie Mae Robinson) (Brick Cottage 1972) (8:28)
5. Chicken Shack (Break Song #2) (Milburn-Cullum. arr MSBB) (Brick Cottage 1973) (1:27)

ABOUT SMOG VEIL RECORDS
Smog Veil Records was founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1991 and focuses on underground, challenging and bombastic music. The label roster includes Rocket From The Tombs, Batusis (Cheetah Chrome and Sylvain Sylvain of New York Dolls), Peter Laughner, Pere Ubu, Complaints Choir, This Moment In Black History, OBNOX, The New Hope v/a compilation, Tin Huey, Easter Monkeys, Pistol Whip, Unknown Instructors (Mike Watt, George Hurley, Joe Baiza, Dan McGuire, Raymond Pettibon, David Thomas), Teacher’s Pet, Thor, Amps II Eleven, New Christs (featuring Rob Younger of Radio Birdman), Rubber City Rebels and others.

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MY MUSIC Presents
Close To You: Remembering The Carpenters

Remastered Documentary To Air On Public Television Nationwide on December 5th

People.com Premieres Unreleased Video Of The Duo's 1971 Hit "For All We Know"

Carpenters - The Complete Singles
Available Exclusively through Public TV Stations

On Saturday December 5th, the public television series MY MUSIC will present Close To You: Remembering The Carpenters, airing on Public Television stations nationwide. A look back at the lives and musical arc of the beloved brother-and-sister songwriting duo, the film stands as a testament to their enduring musical legacy. Featuring rare performances and extensive archival footage, this remastered documentary celebrates the timeless appeal of the Carpenters' unique sound, from Karen's warmly expressive voice to Richard's diverse talents as arranger, producer, pianist and composer. During their spectacular career, the duo was the recipient of three Grammy Awards, including Best New Artist of 1970, an American Music Award and over 20 gold records. Remembrances from friends and colleagues Herb Alpert, Burt Bacharach, Petula Clark and Paul Williams are also included.

Today People.com premieres a previously unreleased video of The Carpenter's smash hit "For All We Know." The song was a million-selling hit single for the duo in 1971, the same year they won their third Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Performance by A Duo Or Group. Reflecting on the song, Richard Carpenter observes, "'For All We Know' works beautifully for Karen's alto, our background harmonies and the fluid electric bass playing of Joe Osborn. The recording is as fresh to me in 2015 as it was in 1970." The video is currently streaming here:http://www.people.com/article/carpenters-for-all-we-know-performance-video"> http://www.people.com/article/carpenters-for-all-we-know-performance-video

TJL Productions' MY MUSIC series is proud to bring this program back to public television audiences. "Hearing Karen's intimate voice is like listening to our own inner voice, the music she and Richard made expresses every emotion we go through in this life," says Lubinsky, the series’ executive producer. "I felt that bringing the heartwarming story of the Carpenters to public television will help now for new generations to discover and us older fans to reflect on their extraordinary work.”

Made available as part of this television event, Carpenters – The Complete Singles is a new 3-CD box set that presents, for the first time in one collection, every A and B-side released in the United States on A&M Records between 1969 and 1989 in the form of their original single version. Included are timeless hits such as "Top of The World," "For All We Know," "Superstar" and "Close To You," as well as signature covers “Ticket to Ride” and “Please Mr. Postman.” With 66 tracks in total, the collection will be made exclusively available as a gift for viewers who make a pledge of support to their public television channel.

Additionally, a DVD of the Close To You special will be offered as a public television exclusive, with 60 minutes of extras including complete song performances from the duo, expanded from the documentary. Also included is "The Carpenters at The White House" featurette, shot when President Nixon was in office, other rare songs and footage and a stunning rendition of Karen and Richard performing "Ave Maria."

TJ Lubinsky is currently available to speak about the documentary and December 5th television broadcast event. Jim Pierson, an original producer of Close To You: Remembering The Carpenters, is also available.

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Joe Bussard Presents: The Year of Jubilo - 78 RPM Recordings of Songs from the Civil War
Street Date, October 16th, 2015, Dust-to-Digital

Legendary collector Joe Bussard is putting records out once again! After running the last 78rpm label in the US (RIP Fonotone Records 1956-1974), Joe had relegated his efforts to promoting old-time music by making cassette tapes for people hungry to hear his rare treasures and producing his radio show Country Classics for stations in Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia. But last year, Joe and his daughter Susannah Anderson had the idea to produce a compilation of Civil War tunes and they rang the office of Dust-to-Digital to gauge interest in producing such a compilation.

"Bussard's got shit that God don't have. It is one of the great glory holds, probably the finest in the world. He was canvassing earlier than most, and he's been at it longer, and he took everything: He recognized stuff that he really didn't even like at the time, but he recognized it as being good, and he kept it."
-- collector and musician Tom Hoskins, an authority on pre-World War II Delta blues, for the Washington City Paper
Description: CD in digipak with 36-page booklet. Includes introductory essay by Kevin Fontenot and liner notes by Tony Russell.

Tracklist
1. Ernest Stoneman – Pass Around the Bottle
2. Blue Ridge Mountain Singers – Lorena
3. Grant Brothers & Their Music – Johnson Boy
4. Red Mountain Trio – Dixie
5. Buell Kazee – The Faded Coat of Blue
6. G. B. Grayson & Henry Whitter – He Is Coming to Us Dead
7. Ernest Stoneman – Sweet Bunch of Violets
8. Ward & Winfield – In Those Cruel Slavery Days
9. Chubby Parker & His Little Old-Time Banjo – The Year of Jubilo
10. Da Costa Woltz’s Southern Broadcasters – John Brown’s Dream
11. Capt. M. J. Bonner (The Texas Fiddler) – Dusty Miller / Ma Ferguson
12. Cherry Lane Express – Rebels Hornpipe
13. Henry C. Gilliland and A. C. (Eck) Robertson – Turkey in the Straw
14. The Foreman Family – The Poor Old Slave
15. Asa Martin & James Roberts – Darling Nellie Gray
16. Henry C. Gilliland and A. C. (Eck) Robertson – Arkansaw Traveler
17. McGee Brothers & Todd – Old Master’s Runaway
18. Da Costa Woltz’s Southern Broadcasters – Richmond Cotillion
19. Fiddlin’ John Carson & His Virginia Reelers – Dixie Division

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Gong Radio Gnome Invisible trilogy plus asa box set on both vinyl and cd. Cd comes with a 4th cd with the debut 7" by the band on it.

JUsty had this pointed out to me though
http://planetgong.co.uk/news/current.shtml#statement

Ltd. ed. vinyl, never heard of the additional guitarist or female guest vocalist. "Walk With Me Sydney"!
http://www.discogs.com/Pink-Floyd-1965-Their-First-Recordings/release/7780256

It looks like a lot of the Sanctuary era Trojan sets are reappearing. Been seeing a lot of the Lee Perry ones locally.

Ltd. ed. vinyl, never heard of the additional guitarist or female guest vocalist. "Walk With Me Sydney"!

Rado "Bob" Klose was in Floyd in 1964-1965. These early sessions were his only recordings with the band, then he apparently left music until 2006, when he showed up on Gilmour's On an Island and a few Chico Hamilton records.

Juliette Gale was Rick Wright's first wife.

Thanks, my Floyd knowledge has many gaps. Meanwhile:

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Also, the accompanying compilation--- series links are messed up, but here are some individually (info and audio samples incl.):
The CLE set: http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/releases/?id=40922

Akron: http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/releases/?id=40918

Sick On You (Electric Eels, Crime, Cab Voltaire, further afield:
http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/releases/?id=36733

There Is No Such Thing As A Society (Johnny Moped, Disturbed, Television Personalities, Swell Maps etc)
http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/releases/?id=35137

Kill The Hippies! Kill Youself! America Destroys Its Young (Urinals, Theoretical Girls, Zeros, Flamin' Groovies (?), more from Cleveland, etc)
[url]http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/releases/?id=36733[url]

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After only 12 years in business, we’re finally, truly embracing the Christmas spirit (that is, exploiting a fundamentally spiritual holiday for material gain).

Despite our annual tradition of exploitation, wherein we spend 12 days peddling slightly-discounted stocking stuffers and various tree-obscuring box sets, we’ve never created an actual product to hoover up all those loose Christmasy dollars before. Perhaps our Scrooge McGrinch hearts are warming to the idea of all that holiday moolah, but here we are with our first seasonal product. Available for purchase only in the months of November and December, we’re bringing you the wonderful original single by Indiana girl-group The Shades.

Staying well within the seasonal spirit, we are also finally providing the lightly-satanic music of Medusa to the compact disc consumer, featuring three additional tracks and wrapped in the same velveteen ensconcement as the large-format edition. We've also released a repro of their original missives on 45 "Strangulation" b/w "Temptress". To celebrate the occasion, we've created a commemorative 3" embroidered patch featuring Medusa’s trademarked pentagram with claws of fire logo.

Keeping vaguely in theme with the holidays, we have the original motion picture soundtrack to Rick Alverson's new film Entertainment. The soundtrack, curated by the film's main character Gregg Turkington (aka Neil Hamburger), features co-star John C. Reilly turning in a truly bizarre rendition of Away In The Manger. It's sure to be one more thing for your family to argue about over the dinner table.

We'd be remiss not to mention our Numero Gift Cards and the newly launched subscription club, Project Twelve. Both make excellent holiday gifts for that discerning record collector in your life.

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The Shades

Santa Claus Is Coming To Town b/w Prancer's Got Some Red Spots

Girl group greatness for your holiday soiree! Figuring it would take a Christmas miracle to break them out of rural Indiana, the Shades––Cindi, Jannie, and Suzi––traveled to Chicago's RCA Studios in 1966 to cut the holiday perineal, "Santa Claus Is Coming To Town." Backed with the original "Prancer's Got Some Red Spots" and released on Indiana's tiny Fujimo label, the 2015 reissue comes housed in a festive pic sleeve featuring the teen trio at their most merry.

Add Some Holiday Cheer to Your Record Collection.

Medusa

Strangulation b/w Temptress

Prior to tracking First Step Beyond, Chicago proto-metal quintet Medusa headed three miles west to the Village of Oak Park and cut their debut 7” at Stephen Wilcox’s Pepperhead custom studio. The resulting versions of “Strangulation” and “Temptress” are a touch further unhinged than their sororal album twins, as phased-out scraps of psychedelia and bleeding solos maxed out Pepperhead’s 8-track rig. Pressed in a strictly limited quantity of 1000 copies. Also available with an extremely limited 3” Medusa patch that’ll add snake-haired credibility to even the crispest new denim jacket.

Get Tempted.
Medusa

First Step Beyond

You must physically hold this album, kneel at its altar; we will fail to describe it. Medusa’s First Step Beyond might have forever shifted the perception of Chicago rock history had it managed to make the leap from tape to its never-realized vinyl pressing. Instead, the conflagation of Sabbath, Hawkwind, and Amon Duul II remained petrified in the Corycian Caverns—otherwise known as the drummer’s basement. Self-produced on four track in 1975, this lone transmission from Medusa’s repertoire appeared on the extremely mysterious Pepperhead label, whose proprietor allegedly disappeared after a bad trip and was never been seen again. Forged in ceremonial mock-velvet, custom embossed in Gorgon-gold and blood-red, and art directed in accordance with the band’s elaborate original stage props and artwork, we have positioned this unreleased opus to finally reach its destination: the turntables of pot-smoking and leather-clad teenagers, young and old.

Embrace The Sorcerer's Magic.

Entertainment

Experience the soundtrack to Neil Hamburger's existential dread. Entertainment is the unnerving film account of a traveling comedian lost on the brink. A broken, aging comic tours the California desert, cast away in a sea of third-rate venues, novelty tourist attractions, and self-serving attempts to reach his estranged daughter. By day, he drags across the barren landscape, inadvertently alienating every acquaintance. At night, he seeks solace in the animation of his onstage persona. Fueled by the promise of a lucrative Hollywood engagement, he confronts a series of increasingly surreal and volatile encounters. This sonic companion to Entertainment comes straight from the record collection top-secret Neil Hamburger alter ego Gregg Turkington, an avid gatherer of privately pressed curios and the self-proclaimed #1 fan of Frank Sinatra Jr. Joining the Son of the Chairman of the Board on this limited edition LP is a cast of downtrodden personalities, including a emphatic ally Los Angeleno nun, a Italian-language folkie whose guitar laments the Vietnam war, and a Columbus, Ohio, civil rights activist and record man. Included are interstitial dialogue snippets, one of which lets co-star John C. Reilly supply a bizarre rendition of Away In The Manger.

Feel The Dread.

Project Twelve

Our seasonal music club featuring twelve exceedingly rare or entirely unreleased LPs. Four albums of Eccentric Soul, four albums from Wayfaring Strangers, and four plucked from our Private Mind Garden. These records won’t be available in stores and they won’t be repressed. We’re not issuing them on CD and the only way you can buy them is by joining the club. And that club? It's limited to just a thousand members.

Sign Up Now.

Numero Group Gift Proxy

If you wish to purchase a gift for the Numero Group collector/consumer/fan/friend/online stalker of your choice, but you'd prefer to avoid the risk of replicating an already acquired item number in our vast catalog, we offer the Numero Group Gift Proxy. Unlike your standard Gift Card or Gift Certificate, this is a physical item with mild to moderate functionality that will stand-in for what will become your recipient's actual gift, while not being entirely a piece of rubbish. The Numero Group Gift Proxy comes attached to a 7" single that could, if the recipient so desires, be filed with their other similar items in an already established collection. Whatever they do with it, they will love whatever gift they choose to redeem it for. (For a few bucks less you can do it all digitally.)

Go ahead, make their day.

Eccentric Snow: The Numero Guide to Holiday Funk.

Want us to do all the work for you? Just kick back in front of the ol' Yule Log, and click the link to fire up our holiday Spotify playlist: https://play.spotify.com/user/numerogroup/playlist/7aKmK6GwGsLFyFCmDNgTKW?play=true&utm_source=open.spotify.com&utm_medium=open

As always, any item purchased from our website gets an immediate digital download of the album. Orders ship within one to two business day and are packed with care by two qualified professionals. We apologize in advance for the US Postal Service’s inability to deliver an LP with out a crushed corner or a packing knife slash.

Acute licensed some stuff to those Punk 45 comps. Great series.

http://exclaim.ca/music/article/felt_gets_vinyl_reissue_campaign_through_captured_tracks

Glad to see these get reissued but i'm bummed I just dropped $$$ on the originals.

Your originals probably sound better and are still going to be worth more, if that makes you feel better.

Not music, but zany energy x blithe spirit

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SHOUT! FACTORY EXTENDS ERNIE KOVACS DISTRIBUTION DEAL THROUGH 2020

Library of Congress Acquisition of the Archive of Ernie Kovacs &
Edie Adams Estate Guarantees Preservation and Digitization of the Entire Archive from Television’s Original Genius & Muriel Cigar Girl

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LOS ANGELES, CA (THURSDAY DECEMBER 3, 2015) – Shout! Factory and Ediad Productions today announced an agreement extending the distribution of Ernie Kovacs visual archive that aired in the 1950s and early 1960s for five years through 2020. In addition to the continued sale of existing packages of television shows, a newly amassed physical set will be released to coincide with the Centennial of Kovacs’ birth on January 23, 2019. Entire episodes of previously unseen-since-broadcast shows from the Ernie Kovacs archive will be released digitally.

It was also announced today that the Library of Congress has acquired the entire physical archive of both Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams including Kinescopes, videotapes, 16MM, Super 8 home movies and other media that provide a unique window into both the professional and personal lives of these two iconic entertainers. The intellectual property however remains with Ediad Productions. The collection will complement the Library’s existing collections of iconic humorists, including Bob Hope, Groucho Marx, Jerry Lewis, Danny Kaye, Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Sid Caesar and Johnny Carson.

The Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams Collection will be available to researchers in the Library’s Motion Picture and Television Reading Room in Washington, D.C. Processing of the collection continues, but much of it is currently available to researchers.

“The immense popularity of our three Ernie Kovacs releases during the first five-year period of this partnership justified the extension of this agreement with Shout! Factory,” said Joshua Mills, President of Ediad Productions. “To that end, the Library of Congress acquisition of the Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams archive now guarantees the preservation and digitization of their work for future generations which was always Edie’s dream. As we push forward into the digital age, we will be introducing these shows to new audiences via streaming and mobile devices beginning shortly with Shout! Factory. ”

“We are delighted to continue being the home of the Ernie Kovacs Show, and we look forward to bringing more of his comic genius to fans of groundbreaking television,” said Jordan Fields, Vice President of Acquisitions at Shout! Factory.

The Library of Congress Collection highlights include:

• 2" videotape masters of all 8 of Kovacs' monthly specials for ABC (1961-62)
• 35mm kinescopes of 74 episodes of Kovacs' infamous morning show for NBC (1956)
• 2" videotape masters of 35 episodes of "Take a Good Look", Ernie's tongue-in-cheek panel quiz show
• Original 16mm elements of Kovacs' silent movie spoof “The Mysterious Knockwurst” made for his CBS morning show in 1953
• 2" videotape masters of all 21 episodes of "Here's Edie"
• Original 16mm kinescopes for "Ernie in Kovacsland" (1951)
• Test footage of matting effects for Ernie as "Superclod" et al
• Audio masters of (formerly) unreleased Percy Dovetonsils LP "Percy Dovetonsils…Thpeakth"

Ernie Kovacs, whose offbeat humor graced the airwaves for just a decade in the 1950s, and early 1960’s served healthy portions of the offbeat to his audiences, who had never seen anything quite like this cigar-wielding charmer. Wickedly funny but not offensive, Kovacs’ unique humor and flair for improvisation continues to attract audiences, influencing TV funnymen from Johnny Carson, Monty Python, Billy Crystal, Craig Ferguson, David Letterman, Pee Wee Herman and many Saturday Night Live cast members.

About Ediad Productions, Inc.
Formed by the late entertainer & Muriel Cigar girl Edie Adams and currently run by her son Joshua Mills, Ediad Productions is home to what is likely the largest independent archive of early American television in existence. With more than 150 half-hours of content from legendary comedian Ernie Kovacs as well as two seasons of Edie Adams’ prime time variety show from the mid-1960, Ediad Productions is a treasure trove of classic popular entertainment. Titles in the archive include, The Ernie Kovacs Show, Ernie in Kovacsland, Take A Good Look (clues), the Kovacs specials for ABC, The Edie Adams Show, Here’s Edie! and much more. Ediad Productions is based in Los Angeles, California.

About Shout! Factory
Shout! Factory, LLC is a diversified multi-platform media company devoted to producing, uncovering, preserving and revitalizing the very best of pop culture. Founders Richard Foos, Bob Emmer and Garson Foos have spent their entire careers sharing their music, television and film favorites with discerning consumers the world over. Shout! Factory’s entertainment offerings serve up feature films, classic and contemporary TV series, animation, live music and comedy specials. Shout’s audio division boasts GRAMMY®-nominated box sets, Broadway cast albums, new releases from storied artists, lovingly assembled album reissues and indispensable “best of” compilations. In addition, Shout! Factory maintains a vast digital distribution network which delivers video and audio content to all the leading digital service providers in North America. Shout! Factory also owns and operates Timeless Media Group, Biograph Records, Majordomo Records and Video Time Machine. These riches are the result of a creative acquisition mandate that has established the company as a hotbed of cultural preservation and commercial reinvention. Shout! Factory is based in Santa Monica, California. For more on Shout! Factory, visit shoutfactory.com.

About Library of Congress
The Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation is a state-of-the-art facility funded as a gift to the nation by the Packard Humanities Institute. The Packard Campus is the site where the nation’s library acquires, preserves and provides access to the world’s largest and most comprehensive collection of motion pictures, television programs, radio broadcasts and sound recordings (www.loc.gov/avconservation). The Packard Campus is home to more than 7 million collection items. It provides staff support for the Library of Congress National Film Preservation Board (www.loc.gov/film), the National Recording Preservation Board (www.loc.gov/rr/record/nrpb) and the national registries for film and recorded sound.

Founded in 1800, the Library of Congress is the nation’s first-established federal cultural institution. It seeks to spark imagination and creativity and to further human understanding and wisdom by providing access to knowledge through its magnificent collections, programs, publications and exhibitions. Many of the Library’s rich resources can be accessed through its website at loc.gov.


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#JanisJoplin Early And Rare is on Egg Raid, 4 Dec., and #SteeleyeSpan Catch Up 2CD is out via Park.
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#MaynardFerguson The Ballad Style Of/Alive And Well In London is on BGO, 4 Dec., Bobbie Gentry The Definitive Collection 2CD is on Humphead.
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#JohnnyThunders In Cold Blood LP is on Easy Action, 4 Dec., Ben Webster The Complete Recordings 1952-59/59-62 4CDs on Enlightenment Series.
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Scott Seward posted that maybe his earliest memory was of being scared by Maynard Ferguson, live. Another ilxor responded, pronouncing MF "the Yngwie Malmsteen of jazz," which sounds right.
Haven't heard of In Cold Blood, what's it like?

Not sure if it's common knowledge but Nuno Canavarro's Plux Quba is back:
http://www.dragcity.com/products/plux-quba

Wasn't there some controversy about the last reissue of that being edited or remixed or something? Hmm.

Negativland’s latest release celebrates legacy of Don Joyce with 34 years of group’s “Over The Edge” radio program for download.

Called a “Mount Rushmore for sound collagists,” by Dangerous Minds, over 3200 hours of Joyce-helmed episodes are available now.

Negativland’s newest release is 34 years in the making, over 3200 hours long, and no human may ever be able to listen to it all! It is of course the audio archive of the legendary culture jamming group’s weekly radio show “Over The Edge” (Seeland 031).

Negativland’s live mix radio show “Over The Edge” is the longest-running block of free-form audio collage in radio history. With Negativland’s Don Joyce at the helm, the weekly show was broadcast from KPFA-FM in Berkeley, California from 1981 to 2015. The news of Joyce’s passing on July 22, 2015 received nearly 130,000 views on Negativland’s Facebook page, and with his death being memorialized by mainstream publications such as Rolling Stone and Billboard, the band members felt it was only fitting for this important and substantial portion of the group’s work to be made available immediately.

Access the “Over The Edge” Radio Archive here
https://archive.org/details/ote&tab=about

“Over The Edge”’s weekly themed mixes are made live and spontaneously on the air from a variety of formats and equipment used to do live sound cut-ups and collage while mixing, including the frequent use of the now long-dead analog technology of radio broadcast cart machines. On each themed episode there is a plan and there is no plan. The mix consists of found sounds of many kinds, from many sources, put together as a continuous audio collage, along with live electronics, live sound processing, and recurring themes and characters. “Over The Edge” also often employs “Receptacle Programming,” where phone callers are punched into the mix with no warning.

The archive currently has 941 three-to-five-hour-long episodes of “Over The Edge,” over 3200 hours of the show, with some gaps in the archive to be filled over time (especially the early years). If you are that person who listens to every single show in the archive, no matter how many years it takes you, Negativland wants to know about it!

Though “Over The Edge” continues to exist and evolve, and is still broadcast each week on KPFA-FM, the “Over The Edge” Radio Archive consists of the episodes helmed by Don Joyce. It ends on the episode broadcast immediately after his passing, “There Is No Don.”

A more extensive background on Negativland, “Over The Edge,” and Don Joyce’s legacy, written at the time of his passing, can be found courtesy of SF Gate here. (it's by primeval ilxor Uncle Ned Raggett!)
http://blog.sfgate.com/loaded/2015/07/23/don-joyce-radio-maverick-and-member-of-negativland-dies-at-71/

An informative bio on Negativland’s past, present, and future, is at this link:
http://www.negativland.com/news/?page_id=250

Besides Negativland’s many studio recordings, a selection of “Over The Edge” shows have been edited into CD releases over the years, and can be found here. http://negativland.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=13&zenid=f95f3f3741fca6098cdd8f4874e221b7