Rolling Reissues 2014

From Drag City weekly newsletter:

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HOMETOWN HEROES
Around the biz, it's well known that most celebrities have quirky little fetishes: Kristen Stewart and her armpit licking, Richard Gere and his gerbils, Heather Mills and her stump. Then there's Fred Armisen, who gets his kicks with ear play - by listening to obscure records, of course! Fred's got an immaculately curated collection of them, one we felt should naturally be shared with others. So with great pleasure, we introduce a new 7" single series dedicated to regional music stars of decades past, artists who share the common experience of hitting the big time, at a purely local level: Hometown Heroes.
The first in this series is a split featuring two distinctly different artists. The Blue Jean Committee were the proud products of the late 70's Northampton, Massachusetts music scene. Comprised of some of the most sought after local session musicians, the group was most defined by Richie Cornish's busy talk-singing lyrical style. The gently soulful "Massachusetts Afternoon" celebrates the time in ones life when independence, friendships, and the autumn sunset seem to go on forever.
On the flip, from Bath, England, come The Fingerlings, a prolific synth/post-disco band who released twelve EPs between 1981 and 1983. Typically, a group such as this would have been formed at an art college, and The Fingerlings were no different. Their aesthetically meticulous nature earned them a reputation for creating some of the most elaborate and expensive 12" EP covers ever to be produced in the UK. "Embrace Me" is the jam, a huge local hit, its lyrics evoking imagery of neon framed cities like Paris and Berlin.
This exclusive listening experience, a tiny glimpse into the sounds that help define the lifestyle of one of America's most prolific and experienced satirists and avid music fans, is coming your way February 18th!
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Bob Dylan - The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration - Deluxe Edition will be released for the first time on DVD and Blu-ray on Tuesday, March 4, 2014, struck from a new High Definition video master with remastered audio, and also will be released as a two-CD audio set.

The 2-DVD and Blu-ray versions of The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration - Deluxe Edition include 40 minutes of previously unreleased material including behind-the-scenes rehearsal footage, interviews and more.

The four hour show, brought together an unprecedented roster of artists and icons including Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash, Lou Reed, The Clancy Brothers, Richie Havens, Johnny Winter, Roger McGuinn, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Stevie Wonder, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Ron Wood, Chrissie Hynde, The O'Jays, Eddie Vedder, Sinead O'Connor, Tracy Chapman, George Harrison and more.

Also available is the 2-CD audio edition which premieres two previously unreleased recordings from the concert's sound check: Sinéad O'Connor singing "I Believe In You" and Eric Clapton's interpretation of "Don't Think Twice, It's Alright."

Mike Bloomfield box out Feb. 4

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trailer for it, created by director of Bloomfield doc, which is incl in box
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuEacyBE29E

According to Rolling Stone, it starts with his early '64 audition for John Hammond Sr., incl. outtake of "Tombstone Blues", and I think some live w Dylan, "East-West", "Texas" from his album w Electric Flag, a disc of Super Session tracks, and contemperaneous live, and much more.

Beatles US albums reissued, as a box and sep; each has all tracks in mono, and in stereo. Gotta get my old ('77-'79)party-blasting fave rave, Beatles XI, also prob Yesterday and Today, Second Album...here's a li'l trailer for 'em: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7GqSElYZgk

Numerophiles-

Just a quick one to get your blood boiling in the midst of winter. We just launched two website-only records that we know you're going to want in on. Both are limited, and both will send your mother screaming from your bedroom covering her ears. Let's get to it.

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In the brave tradition of George and Charles Parker, Milton Bradley, and Gary Gygax comes Cities of Darkscorch—the Numero Group's embattled first attempt at board game creation. Cities is the playable companion to Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles, our 48th mainline release and a harrowing dive into the Stygian caverns of the American hard rock underground. A dice-rolling, card-driven, heavy rock band van ride through a fantasy landscape, Cities of Darkscorch could not begin to exist without Robert Soden, who, in 1975, set about creating a tapestry of maps, floorplans, and dungeon schema—the D&D-based lands of Eldara. Expanding upon Soden’s meticulous vision, Cities of Darkscorch required newly commissioned card art and band logos to summon up a gravely themed mythical land of desolate outposts, warring bands, and the familiar ills that befall them.

Roleplaying as any of Darkscorch Canticles’ sixteen determined bands, one to six players traverse the broken roads of Darkscorch—battling such forbidding quartets as Grimsword, Narcissus, Ass-Centaur and 97 more—to collect city banners from such pits of hard rock competition as Afterdath, Wizard’s Wellspring, and Throk,. Along the way, players may augment their bands through the use of fate cards with new artwork from the demented minds of John McGavock McConnell and Eliza Childress. The ultimate goal is Numenor, victory, and a record contract penned in brimstone, VD, and pot smoke.

Packaged in a custom game box with new artwork by Robert Soden, in a limited edition of 1500, Cities of Darkscorch includes the following elements:

• 25x25 full color Cities of Darkscorch Gameboard
• 16 Wooden Player Tokens/45 Adapters
• 6 Banner Boards
• 100 Fate Cards
• 100 Foe Cards
• 1 20-Sided Combat Die
• 1 6-Sided Movement Die
• 1 4-Sided Performer Die
• Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles 2LP and CD with alternate cover art by Robert Soden.

What's a Darkscorch Canticle anyways?

With Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles, the impacts of Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath on US shores and heartlands is revealed as a bludgeoning previously undescribed. In this collection, medieval Bonham thunk and febrile Iommi guitar leads crowd out the bluesy Americana that foregrounded those bands, replacing hippie pastoralism with mythology, armored conflict, sorcery, and doom. From legions of occult-obsessive 1970s bonehead teens, we summoned a horde of 16 bands, cloaked in eons of tortured obscurity, whose sole release amounts to a blistering chapter ripped free of rock’s lumbering mythos.

This music hails from an occluded realm, somewhere just beyond the dope-addled minds of its creators. Lyrically, the Darkscorch Canticles trifle with themes most grave: crippling fear, pagan hostility, paranoia, power addiction—even necromancy. Satan’s name is openly invoked, alongside Sauron’s. These worried, warlike Canticles occupy a miniscule niche in the American underground of self-released rock, but their appeal is more broad today than in any previous era.

But wait, there's more! The limited to 500 "Supa" edition includes all of the elements of Cities of Darkscorch game, plus a bonus 7” featuring “Animal Woman” b/w “Red Brained Woman” by LA heavy rock honchos Supa Chief. Also included is a custom-printed guitar pick, which serves double duty as an additional Cities of Darkscorch Player Token. Full color pic sleeve features a game board map extension, complete with its own exclusive Darkscorch city.

If you like hard rock, guitar solos, Magic the Gathering, Munchkin, Tolkien, and hanging out in the basement until 3am, we've got you covered.

Thee other website-only:

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Rat Conspiracy, its name a one-time working title for Unwound’s 1993 debut—the earliest Kill Rock Stars LP—brings the roiling, watershed Fake Train into natural integration with its sibling record, 1994’s New Plastic Ideas, on which the band “branch[ed] out into propulsive odd meters...and traumatic contrasts between loud and soft, pulling the arty riffage into much tighter focus.” [Trouser Press]. Both get exacting remasters and replica sleeve treatment, while the set’s third LP tracks Unwound’s restless work toward synthesis with the "Mkultra" and "Negated" 7” material, previously unissued radio sessions, indie comp rarities, and the spidery Minutemen cover “Plight.”

This chapter intros the Olympia, Washington, noise-punk trio anew, kicking off with hi-hat thwaks on “Dragnalus” from drummer Sara Lund, whose lockstep partnership with Justin Trosper and Vern Rumsey marked the forging of a 1990s indie-rock legend. The band’s advancing threat is captured in 32 tracks, a trove of house-show b&w period photographs, and a vivid 10,000-word narrative by latter-day Unwound diarist David Wilcox.

Faked Train is a limited-to-1000 website-only bonus LP that contains a demo version of Fake Train recorded by Nation of Ulysses’ Tim Green. You can only get the limited LP when you pre-order from Numero.

Pro-tip: Sign up for a Numero Gold subscription and you'll get 15% off both of these and never miss another release. Free downloads of all your purchases as well. Just sayin'.

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From Strut:

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Haiti Direct, Compiled By Hugo Mendez of Sofrito. Limited 180g vinyl exclusive to Strut store
"If this music doesn't get your feet tapping, pulse racing and put a smile on your face, see a doctor." —The Independent
"Arguably the first in-depth tropical dig for Haiti's rare, classic & obscure popular music… Fantastic stuff." —MOJO
Haiti Direct
Buy Haiti Direct on CD, Vinyl or MP3

Compared to reggae and calypso, the music of Haiti remains relatively obscure outside of the Caribbean. And that's a real shame, especially given the delightful and innovative sounds showcased on our Haiti Direct collection. Stemming from traditional merengue and compas styles, and incorporating a cornucopia of influences, from African and Latin rhythms to American soul and psychedelic rock, there is quite a lot for adventurous ears to discover.

Compiled by Hugo Mendez of Sofrito, Haiti Direct is out this week on double CD, double vinyl (with CD version included), and digital download. Vinyl orders via the Strut store will receive exclusive limited edition 180 gram vinyl, until we run out!

STRUT ON THE WEB (with some Haiti Direct tracks) https://soundcloud.com/strut

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Tony Conrad in the 1960s. Photo: Frederick Eberstadt

on issues(incl reluctant), reissues, YouTube etc

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Haiti Direct comp is really really good.

Thanks for the heads up on the Haiti comp, dow. Great stuff.

You're welcome! More on Peter Walker's return (tour dates upthread)---from Howlin' Wuelf Media:

Recorded at Mercury Studios in NYC, "Has Anybody Seen Our Freedoms?", which was described by the "New York Times" as "...rough, passionate and often raga-like..." and "All Music Guide" raved that the record "...adds immeasurably to his musical and cultural legacy, and is a must for any fan of American guitar music", and was included on their list of "Favorite Folk Albums of 2013", is Walker's manifesto. It could have been Peter's classic third album had it been released at the time (Peter had been storing the reels in a converted bread truck for decades). While his previous two records are incredible collaborative efforts - the playing of Bruce Langhorne, Jeremy Steig, and John Blair as important to the final product as Peter's - this album solely Walker. A requiem to the 1960s, chronicling lovers on the run, anti-war movement adventures, and living off the grid in Mexico, California, Detroit, and NYC.

The record begins gently, with love and war songs, (and a version of the traditional "Pretty Bird," that is unlike any other), before going on the rough and urgent ride of "Fifty Miles," (on two flat tires, a story detailed in the liner notes), and culminating with "Wonder," a song where Peter summons all the elements into one long journey, bringing us back down at the end as if we were at one of Timothy Leary's "celebrations." Peter's wondrous guitar playing and intimate, otherworldly vocals create the effect of a record encoded with some deeper wisdom being channeled directly to your ears.

You can stream the track "Early In The Morning" from "Has Anybody Seen Our Freedoms?" here:

http://delmorerecordings.bandcamp.com/track/early-in-the-morning

At the time of the session, Peter was living in the infamous Garwood Mansion near Detroit, working as incumbent opening act for their weekly, all night concerts / parties (as he had been at the Café Au Go Go throughout the '60s, and the Joyous Lake in the 70s). William Kunstler stopped by to speak about the John Sinclair trial, and the two had an immediate rapport. Kunstler was a major influence on Peter's anti-war movement involvement and leadership, and on his later decision to get a para-legal degree and represent immigrant taxi drivers in NYC in the 1970s. The two of them are pictured together on the album cover.

The beautifully crafted packaging for the CD and the limited edition vinyl version of "Has Anybody Seen Our Freedoms?" features a twenty-page booklet with exclusive images as well as a 4300 word essay by Peter, which was condensed from forty pages he sent to Delmore founder, and Executive Producer of the record, Mark Linn. While it's not exactly clear how every wild adventure discussed in the essay relates to each song on the record, knowing that these adventures occurred helps us imagine their evolution. The notes reveal a man of mystery. A man who rubbed elbows with Karen Dalton, Sandy Bull, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and John Barrymore. A man who possesses endless energy, drive and passion for the instrument he holds and the fearlessness to explore and reach for new sounds with a childlike curiosity.

The previously mentioned limited edition vinyl version also includes a full album DL code, plus bonus track, tip-on jacket, and an exclusive 8 1/2" x 11" Matrix handbill reproduction. The CD / DL bonus track is Peter doing his best Lord Buckley, from the same studio session.
Walker's colorful past reveals a man equally at home in legal discourse with Kuntsler, as he is sitting at the feet of Ravi Shankar, soaking up the Sitar. He disappears for months to Peru and comes back sunbathed and dappled by the waves, his head full of new sounds and ideas. He makes regular pilgrimages to the caves of Grenada and Spain, the only gringo allowed into the dangerous and exciting world of the gypsy masters of Spanish guitar, where he is now considered a peer.

As previously mentioned, Peter was reinstated to public consciousness with the critically-acclaimed 2006 tribute album, "A Raga For Peter Walker". The ensuing years have included two beautiful new albums of mostly Spanish guitar music, and a previously unissued collaboration with Maruga Booker, Badal Roy, and Perry Robinson, which was recorded at Levon Helm's barn in 1970.

An artist in the truest sense of the word, Walker uses the world as his canvas, distilling his experiences into the neck and body of his guitar, where they are transformed into a cacophony of sounds...dark, brooding, complex, atypical in rhythm and form, an experimental expression captivating the listener's ear, piece after piece.

From Drag City, out 02/18---a final scrape? I'll check it out at some point.

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"North St." 3:44/"We're Gonna Make It" 4:03 7" single $6.00

Death comes a-knockin' again! Two later phases set the stage for a third rip through the archives: 1980's "North St." finds the band still uncoiling dense knots of rage. 1992's "We're Gonna Make It" was a final reunion of the brothers and a sweet release of any bitterness, affirming hope for their afterlife.

Oh wait: "set the stage for a third rip"---so maybe this Death scrape is not the end.

A documentary about the Akron punk saga; see link below to watch it (55 minutes).

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Western Reserve PBS documentary tells the story of "the Akron Sound” of the 1970s

In the early 1970s, rubber was still king in Akron, Ohio. But just a few short years later, Akron’s most important product was, ever so briefly, music. In the mid-1970s, a group of local bands took over an old rubber workers’ hang-out in downtown Akron called The Crypt and created a mix of punk and art rock that came to be known as “the Akron Sound.” And for a while, it was almost “the next big thing.” Almost.

It’s Everything, and Then It’s Gone, a Western Reserve PBS production written and directed by Phil Hoffman., takes viewers back to a time when the music really did mean everything. And for the men and women in these local bands, it was a way out of the factory.

“This is the story of those people, many of them children of rubber workers, who rode to the crest of the new wave and what happened to them after the attention turned away from Akron and away from them,” explains Hoffman in the opening of the documentary. Over the course of the hour-long program, Hoffman tells the story of bands like Devo, The Numbers Band, The Bizarros, The Rubber City Rebels, Tin Huey and The Waitresses and their flirtation with rock stardom.

The story of “the Akron Sound” and It’s Everything, and Then It’s Gone really begins in the college bars along Kent’s Water Street in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The rise of Kent-based Joe Walsh to national rock'n'roll fame created the feeling that local bands could “make it big” and inspired a movement of original music in groups like The Numbers Band, Devo, Tin Huey and others.

Many of these bands shifted to the Akron scene when The Rubber City Rebels acquired a bar called The Crypt from its previous owner in the midst of a rubber workers’ strike.

“Out of the misery of one of the longest rubber workers’ strikes in the city’s history, an unexpected gift would lead to the development of ‘the Akron Sound,’” says Hoffman.

The Crypt became a haven for the original music of bands such as Devo, Tin Huey, The Bizarros, The Rubber City Rebels and others, explains David Giffels, Beacon Journal columnist and co-author of Are We Not Men?, based on the Akron music movement. The Crypt was modeled after the New York nightclub CBGB’s, home to the then-new sound of bands such as Talking Heads, Television and The Ramones.

Buzz about Akron’s music scene began to grow. The local music movement came to the attention of a British music journalist; soon, the spotlight zoomed in on Akron and record label scouts descended on the city. “None of [the band members] could guess ... that an off-hand comment about Akron by one of their friends would set off a record industry feeding frenzy that would sweep them all up into the world of rock stardom,” says Hoffman. For a short time, it looked like “the Akron Sound” was going to be “the next big thing.” Between 1978 and 1980 nearly every one of the Akron bands would record and release their first major label record, including Devo, The Rubber City Rebels, Tin Huey and The Bizarros.

With the exception of Devo, success was short-lived. While some band members muse that a lack of record label support and promotion might have hindered their success, Meredith Rutledge of Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame speculates otherwise. “You can promote and publicize and tour a band ragged and if people aren't going to buy it, they're not going to buy it,” she explains. “The bands that didn’t sell well just didn’t fit into the taste of the record-buying public at that time.”

“Every one of these bands got plucked from Akron with great aspirations and almost every one of them tanked, except Devo” says Giffels. Devo, instead, became a national phenomenon with hits like “Whip It” and “Jocko Homo.”

The band members today, many of whom still live in northeast Ohio, have bittersweet memories of their flirtation with success. “Failure doesn't happen overnight," said Buzz Clic of The Rubber City Rebels. “I didn't realize we weren't going to sell records ... nobody heard of us ... It’s pretty disappointing to watch your whole band fall apart right in front of you. It’s everything, and then it’s gone.”

But the recollections aren’t all bad. “It was the most interesting time of my life,” Clic reflects later. “It gave me a lot of great memories and a lot of great stories to tell.” That story is told in It's Everything, and Then It's Gone.

It's Everything, and Then It's Gone is a Western Reserve PBS production. Executive Producer: Don Freeman. Writer/Director: Phil Hoffman.

A Western Reserve PBS production, 2003.

[watch online]http://westernreservepublicmedia.org/vodshows/everythv.htm

And don't forget about that big-ass Waitresses comp, from Rolling Reissues 2013

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Oh yeah, I found the doc link here, which is chock full of info goodness (although some of the links may not work anymore; wtfu w All Music/rovi?)
http://www.tinhuey.com/links.htm

not at all complete fyi (xp)

Come again?

missing at least three or four tracks, I went into detail on the Waitresses thread

Yeah, just like The Bizarros' "Complete Collection"

What's wrong with Ohio?

Guess that's what they meant by "Four Dead In O-Hi-O."

Bobby Charles self titled is finally being reissued on LITA!!!
Bobby Charles pioneered the musical genre known as ‘swamp rock’ – he wrote the early rock n roll classic “See You Later, Alligator” (best known via the version by Bill Haley & the Comets). Another early gem penned by Bobby Charles was “Walking to New Orleans” as recorded by Fats Domino. He also appeared at the legendary “Last Waltz” concert in 1976 – in which he performed “Down South in New Orleans” accompanied by The Band and Dr. John.

But the main reason that musicians like Andy Cabic of Vetiver sing his praises (and cover his songs) is for Bobby’s 1972 self-titled album released on Bearsville. Despite numerous CD reissues through the years, this is the first time in decades that the seminal album has appeared in its original vinyl LP format.

A virtual who’s who of classic ‘roots’ rock – the album features 10 Bobby Charles classics supported by the likes of Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, and Richard Manuel of The Band, long time Neil Young sidekick Ben Keith, Bob Dylan’s former running mate Bob Neuwirth, session maverick Amos Garrett, the esteemed Dr. John, Geoff Muldaur and several others.

But this is far from an all-star jam session – this is an ensemble record in the truest sense of the word – with each musician simply supporting the Louisiana vibe that flows thru the 10 song collection of country, blues, R&B, and folk that all have that distinctive Bobby Charles signature sound. Album also includes the slow burner “Street People” as featured on Country Funk 1969-1975, Volume 1.

Perhaps Dr. John said it best “I think all of Bobby’s songs have something to offer at all times, for all people.”

Light In The Attic now offers Bobby Charles re-mastered from the original tapes, packaged in a beautiful gatefold sleeve and waiting for heads to turn on and tune in ‘round the globe.

http://lightintheattic.net/releases/1009-bobby-charles

But this is far from an all-star jam session – this is an ensemble record in the truest sense of the word – with each musician simply supporting the Louisiana vibe that flows thru the 10 song collection of country, blues, R&B, and folk that all have that distinctive Bobby Charles signature sound. Very true, and crucial. The other guys are really listening to Charles. He got to perform at The Last Waltz extravaganza? Is he on the expanded edition of the soundtrack and/or movie??

He was on the original album! He did "Down South In New Orleans" which one of exclusives to that set.

Wow, good to know, thanks. From Drag City News, as I xp suspected, re that single:

DEATH COMES IN THREES

The rumors of our Death are greatly un-exagerrated! With all the portent of a polite throat-clearing, NPR on Monday premiered one freshly disenterred vintage Death jam, "North St." - but this is just the jagged tip of the iceberg that will be fully cutting into the hull of your life-ship this Spring! Yes, a whole LP of previously unheard recordings spanning the early and late lives of Death is set for release in April: Death III! Word! Death III is the spiritual end of the triangular Death portrait, bookended by the dreamlike rock visions of David Hackney that created and propelled the band called Death.

Five years after Death was resurrected with the release of their revelatory 1976 album, For the Whole World to See, Death III slams the door on the vault with a powerful set of songs that bring equal amounts of rock and ethereal soul-searching - in high-fidelity, rich bottomed, studio-grade sound. Alongside songs from 1975, 1976 and 1980, Death III contains two songs from 1992, as the Hackney brothers reconvened nearly a decade after they'd stopped playing together. Death III serves as a companion piece of sorts to the A Band Called Death documentary, tracking the band's movement from spiritual young rockers to older and wiser, bruised-but-unbowed brothers, in pure musical terms.

The 7" single for "North St." b/w "We're Gonna Make It" hits streets of every direction next Tuesday, February 18th! But we get it - no one wants to wait that long for Death! So dig this, you can trip on some digital Death right now, as "North St." is available for purchase from both iTunes and Amazon! For those who like their Death to come naturally, (as well as spirtually, mentally and most of all, physically), get your 7" next Tuesday and make plans for Death III, coming April 22nd.

While you're at it, catch some live Death:

Sat 3/8/14 Monterrey, Mexico @ NRMALfestival

Fri 3/21/14Toronto @ Phoenix Concert Theatre

Sat 3/22/14 Fullerton, CA @ Burgerama III

Sun 3/23/14 San Francisco, CA @ The Chapel

Fri 7/4/14 George, WA @ Sasquatch!

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From Strut Store News:

Essential Chicago House and Ghetto anthems from Dance Mania. Hardcore Traxx out this week.
"The first-ever compilation to honor Chicago house music's coarse, brilliant, and suddenly trendy prodigal son."
—Pitchfork (8.5 / Best New Reissue)
"Absolutely essential stuff here from one of my favorite house labels of all time"
—Motor City Drum Ensemble
"This is a rare treat that many DJs have been waiting for for years - wall-to-wall Dance Mania classics in a digital format, and what a selection it is. There are some totally essential tracks in here!"
—Bok Bok (Night Slugs)

Buy Hardcore Traxx on 2xCD, 2xLP (w. CD insert), or MP3

Founded in Chicago in the early '80s, Dance Mania Records had been inactive for close to a decade when proprietor Ray Barney and producer Parris Mitchell began to notice tracks from his catalog popping up in edgy DJ sets and original 12"s changing hands for serious sums online. That was enough to indicate the time had come to bring the Dance Mania label back, though to fans of raw house and driving ghetto tracks, the influence of the legendary label had never left in the first place.

Hardcore Traxx collects essential and rare music from one of the most beloved Chicago house labels of all. Evergreen dancefloor anthems from artists like DJ Funk, DJ Deeon, Wax Master and more are collected along with overlooked and rare slices of four on the floor funk on the double CD / double vinyl set. As always, LP copies from the Strut Store will be shipped on limit 180 gram vinyl while supplies last.
Watch our Dance Mania mini-documentary featuring Ray Barney, Parris Mitchell, Duane Buford & Wax Master, below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjdAF_4OWUs&feature=youtu.be

Oh yeah, here's an earlier promo thingie, with more backstory and track listings:

Coming 2014, we have a very special release on the way for lovers of quality original Chicago house music as we team up with the legendary Dance Mania Records for their first ever full label compilation, dropping on January 27th, 2014(now February 18th, apparently). Dance Mania has wielded its influence heavily across dance music since its first breakthrough club smash in ’86, Duane & Co’s ‘J.B. Traxx’, offering a raw, DJ-led alternative to the Chicago powerhouses of Trax and DJ International. Founder Ray Barney astutely released classic after classic during the early years – ’7 Ways’ by Hercules (Marshall Jefferson), ‘House Nation’ by Housemaster Boyz (Farley Jackmaster Funk) and Li’l Louis’ debut recordings all helping to cement Dance Mania’s credentials.
Throughout its long history, the label never pandered to commercial pressures and the lure of the “hit”, focusing purely on the dance floor and the DJ. As styles changed and Chicago clubs like The Factory held sway during the ’90s, Dance Mania became a key player, unleashing uncompromising anthems like Robert Armani’s ‘Ambulance’ and ushering in ghetto house with Traxmen and Eric Martin’s ‘Hit It From The Back,’ as BPMs became faster and lyrics became ever more X-rated. A new wave of producers including DJ Deeon, DJ Funk, Slugo and Paul Johnson all appeared on Dance Mania, recording prolifically and honing the new ghetto style, stripped back and raw.
The label’s influence continues today. Daft Punk famously name-check a series of Dance Mania producers on their ‘Teachers’ track, featured on the albumHomework and you can hear the label’s DNA through contemporary sounds as varied as Diplo, L.I.E.S., Brazil’s baile funk movement and Chicago’s modern day footwork producers like Nate and Rashad.
Tracklisting
CD Double Album (STRUT114CD)

Hercules - 7 Ways (Vocal)
Victor Romeo presents Leetrece Brown - Love Will Find a Way (Club)
The House Master Boyz and The Rude Boy of House - House Nation
Duane & Co - J.B. Traxx
Vincent Floyd - I Dream You
Da Posse feat. Martell - Searchin' Hard (Mike Dunn's AC mix)
Club Style - Crazy Wild
Strong Souls - Twinkles
3 2 6 - Falling (Armando's House mix)
Victor Romeo feat. Cool Dave-O - Ride On the Ride Rhythm (Track Edits)
Da Posse feat. Martell - Don't Try to Fight It
Rhythm II Rhythm - A Touch of Jazz (Lifestyles of the Rich mix)
DJ Funk - House the Groove
Paul Johnson - Feel My M.F. Bass
DJ Funk - The Original Video Clash: Video Clash II (Street Mix)
Parris Mitchell Project feat. Wax Master - Ghetto Shout Out!!
DJ Deeon - Da Bomb
Jammin' the House Gerald - Black Women (Club)
Vincent Floyd - I'm so Deep
Tim Harper - Toxic Waste (Club Mix)
Robert Armani - Ambulance
DJ Deeon - Hypnosis
Traxmen & Eric Martin - Hit It from the Back
Top Cat - Work Out

12" Vinyl Album (STRUT114LP)

Hercules - 7 Ways (Vocal)
Victor Romeo Presents Leetrece Brown - Love Will Find a Way (Club)
Club Style - Crazy Wild
Tim Harper - Toxic Waste (Club Mix)
Vincent Floyd - I'm so Deep
3 2 6 - Falling (Armando's House mix)
DJ Deeon - Da Bomb
Parris Mitchell Project feat. Wax Master - Ghetto Shout Out!!
Traxmen & Eric Martin - Hit It from the Back
DJ Funk - The Original Video Clash: Video Clash II (Street Mix)
Paul Johnson - Feel My M.F. Bass
Top Cat - Work Out

Download Double Album (STRUT114D)

Hercules - 7 Ways (Vocal)
Victor Romeo Presents Leetrece Brown - Love Will Find a Way (Club)
The House Master Boyz and The Rude Boy of House - House Nation
Duane & Co - J.B. Traxx
Vincent Floyd - I Dream You
Da Posse feat. Martell - Searchin' Hard (Mike Dunn's AC mix)
Club Style - Crazy Wild
Strong Souls - Twinkles
3 2 6 - Falling (Armando's House mix)
Victor Romeo feat. Cool Dave-O - Ride On the Ride Rhythm (Track Edits)
Da Posse feat. Martell - Don't Try to Fight It
Rhythm II Rhythm - A Touch of Jazz (Lifestyles of the Rich mix)
DJ Funk - House the Groove
Paul Johnson - Feel My M.F. Bass
DJ Funk - The Original Video Clash: Video Clash II (Street Mix)
Parris Mitchell Project feat. Wax Master - Ghetto Shout Out!!
DJ Deeon - Da Bomb
Jammin' the House Gerald - Black Women (Club)
Vincent Floyd - I'm so Deep
Tim Harper - Toxic Waste (Club Mix)
Robert Armani - Ambulance
DJ Deeon - Hypnosis
Traxmen & Eric Martin - Hit It from the Back
Top Cat - Work Out

Superior Viaduct continuing to kill it in the 2014:

http://www.superiorviaduct.com/collections/upcoming

Residents, Alice Coltrane, daaamn

Don't sleep on the Leslie Winer. They call it proto-trip hop but don't let that scare you. Partially produced by ex-Renegade Soundwave member (and Holger Hiller partner) Karl Bonnie, it's seriously amazing.

thank you Dan, I had no idea what to make of that one but the Lifetones comparison was intriguing

I see that. There's certainly a thread of UK take on dub in both, which of course fed into trip-hop. I don't know what else to compare it to. Annette Peacock, Anne Clark? I don't know how much Karl Bonnie contributed, but there's a quality to the sound, even on the stuff that doesn't sound as slavishly "dub" that just sounds minimal and futuristic and stripped down. Really great.

I don't see any mention of this on the Omnivore site, but...

http://www.superdeluxeedition.com/news/jellyfish-bellybutton-and-spilt-milk-deluxe-editions-on-the-way/

Omnivore Recordings in the US are preparing deluxe editions of the two Jellyfish albums for release in May.

Contrary to the information in the early Amazon pre-order listings, Bellybutton (1990) and Spilt Milk (1993) will both be two-CD sets and will offer an abundance of bonus material, largely made up of demos and live tracks. Expect around 80-90 minutes of extra audio for each reissue.

Omnivore will release these in North America and Canada, while Universal will issue the same sets in UK and Europe. These are slated for 6 May but this is likely to be approximate at this stage.

Deep Purple's Made in Japan is being blown out to a 4CD/1DVD box that will include their complete sets from three 1972 shows, as follows:

Disc 1: Osaka 15th August 1972
Highway Star
Smoke on The Water
Child In Time
The Mule (Drum Solo)
Strange Kind Of Woman
Lazy
Space Truckin’

Disc 2: Osaka 16th August 1972
Highway Star
Smoke on The Water
Child In Time
The Mule (Drum Solo)
Strange Kind Of Woman
Lazy
Space Truckin’

Disc 3: Tokyo 17th August 1972
Highway Star
Smoke on The Water
Child In Time
The Mule (Drum Solo)
Strange Kind Of Woman
Lazy
Space Truckin’

Disc 4: Encores from all three nights
Black Night — Osaka, August 15
Speed King — Osaka, August 15
Black Night — Osaka, August 16
Lucille — Osaka, August 16
Black Night — Tokyo, August 17
Speed King — Tokyo, August 17

Disc 5: DVD
Made in Japan – The Rise of Deep Purple MK II documentary
Smoke On the Water (Official clip)
The Revolution Germany 1972 (Small documentary piece from Boblingen Sporthalle Stuttgart 10th February 1972)
Smoke On the Water (Live clip from Hoftsra University 29th May 1973)

There's a 9 LP version of the Deep Purple box, too.

Re that Jan. 30 post linking David Grubbs' Collateral Damage article (in The Wire) on underground 60s, here's an excerpt of his new book, describing Henry Flynt's very belatedly released I Don't Wanna, from 1966, rec to fans of Holy Modal Rounders and VU (Reed gave him advice on learning or anyway playing electric guitar) This also has a link to Grubbs' earlier piece
http://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/book-extracts/read_extract-from-david-grubbs_records-ruin-the-landscape
And his label lets us hear some mp3s:
http://www.boweavilrecordings.com/weavil_02.html

The label link has mp3s from I Don't Wanna and an earlier Flynt album, Back Porch Hillbilly Blues (his porch has a ton of echo, apparently)

http://d31hzlhk6di2h5.cloudfront.net/20140305/c1/da/0e/50/74959d8b193e23d0761b154c_280x280.jpg


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 6, 2014
JACO PASTORIUS’
MODERN AMERICAN MUSIC … PERIOD! THE CRITERIA SESSIONS
CONTAINS 11 TRACKS FROM INFLUENTIAL BASS PLAYER’S
1974 DEMO SESSIONS
Making their debut on Record Store Day (April 19),
CD and LP feature liner notes from
set co-producer Robert Trujillo (Metallica)
and Jaco biographer Bill Milkowski
Release coincides with the upcoming documentary, Jaco,
the official Record Store Day film for 2014
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — When Jaco Pastorius’ solo debut appeared in 1976, a new standard in both jazz and the electric bass guitar was born. Many of the tracks on that eponymous album had their genesis two years earlier when a 22-year-old Pastorius and friends used after-hours time at Criteria Studios to work out songs and jam. Eventually, six of those session tracks were pulled to an acetate. Many of the songs would later find their way onto Jaco’s self-titled debut, but some remained unreleased until now. All tracks appear here in their full, unedited form for the first time.
Omnivore Recordings will release Modern American Music . . . Period! The Criteria Sessions on April 19, 2014 — Record Store Day. Produced in conjunction with the Pastorius estate and Metallica’s Robert Trujillo, this release contains 11 revolutionary tracks from one of the world’s greatest musicians. The CD and LP feature 11 tracks from the Criteria sessions, essays from Trujillo and Pastorius biographer Bill Milkowski (writer for DownBeat and Jazziz), and unseen photos from the family’s archives.
According to Milkowski, from his notes, “Raw and uninhibited, these Criteria demo sessions showcase a working band reveling in the energy that they brought to the bandstand on any given night in 1974 while revealing a young, fully-formed Jaco Pastorius standing on the verge of taking over the world.”
The original six-song acetate is being reproduced for Record Store Day in a special multi-colored vinyl version that will include a sought-after bonus track, "Havona/Continuum." The special Record Store Day LP will also contain a download card for the entire CD program (being released the same day), as well as an insert with both essays and rare photos.
This material was unearthed and restored in conjunction with the upcoming documentary, Jaco, the official Record Store Day film for 2014. Director was Stephen Kijack; producers, Rob Trujillo and John Battsek.
While these tracks, recorded at the beginning of Pastorius’ incredible career, may be from the past, they, like all of Jaco’s music, transcend time and space.
According to Metallica’s Trujillo: “Omnivore’s release of Jaco Pastorius’ ‘Criteria Sessions’ is a raw unique statement — a statement that lets you know you are experiencing a powerful historical musical moment. Jaco’s sound, and facility alone, take you on a trip that is totally new and fresh! This is punk at its best, and the attitude and edge is pure.”

Record Store Day director Michael Kurtz said: “I fell in love with Jaco Pastorius in 1976 when I heard Weather Report’s Black Market being played in my local record store. In 1977 I caught the band on its Heavy Weather tour and heard Jaco perform live. It was like I had been exposed to a force bigger than life. Performing on the Fender bass he’d personally stripped of frets, Jaco propelled the band with ferocity and finesse. He was shirtless, with an axe bold as love. Thirty-seven years later it is a dream come true to be a part of helping Omnivore unearth and release the recording of a very young Jaco performing with his own band in Miami’s Criteria Studios.”

Mary Pastorius, Jaco’s daughter, added: “Once I allowed the memories associated with records to come in, it was like opening the proverbial floodgates — especially so when I started looking through my own records, having a visceral sensory overload experience with every one. Them records is powerful stuff!”
CD TRACK LIST
1. Donna Lee 2:55
2. Balloon Song (12-Tone)* 8:07
3. Pans #1* 4:49
4. Havona/Continuum 10:22
5. Kuru* 5:39
6. Continuum* 4:03
7. Opus Pocus (Pans #2)* 6:09
8. Time Lapse* 4:13
9. Balloon Song (12-Tone) (Alternate) 12:52
10. Time Lapse (Alternate) 5:17
11. Forgotten Love 1:52
LP TRACK LIST
SIDE 1:
1. Balloon Song (12-Tone)* 8:07
2. Pans #1* 4:49
3. Havona/Continuum 10:22
SIDE 2:
1. Kuru* 5:39
2. Continuum* 4:03
3. Opus Pocus (Pans #2)* 6:09
4. Time Lapse* 4:13
* From original Criteria acetate.
LP includes download of entire CD program
# # #

No word yet re who else plays on these.

Jack Ruby Out

Jack Ruby: S/T
SAINT CECILIA KNOWS (UK) / CEC 002CD
release date: 4/29/2014

DESCRIPTION

The collected recordings of legendary lost 1970s New York City band, Jack Ruby. Seen and heard by just a precious few, Jack Ruby made only five studio recordings and played an equal number of gigs between 1973 and 1977. None of their music was ever released and, until now, they have existed solely as a word-of-mouth legend among peers. Yet their legacy and influence can clearly be heard in bands that followed in their wake like Sonic Youth and Teenage Jesus And The Jerks. They have been variously described as "The Velvet Underground in a car crash" and the "art-punk Steely Dan." Formed in 1973 by vocalist Robin Hall, guitarist Chris Gray, multi-instrumentalist Randy Cohen, classically-trained viola player Boris (also known as Boris Policeband), and later joined by bassist George Scott (James Chance And The Contortions/8-Eyed Spy/John Cale) and new vocalist Stephen Barth, the first incarnation of Jack Ruby demoed two tracks in a Times Square recording studio in 1974; their signature tune, the nihilistic proto-punk "Hit and Run" -- sounding like some unholy blend of Raw Power-era Stooges, Velvet Underground and J.G. Ballard's Crash -- and a bizarre number entitled "Mayonnaise," based around Boris' amplified viola and primitive electronic "beats" sequenced on Cohen's Serge synthesizer. These two cuts were used to hustle additional studio time from Epic Records through Sly Stone's A&R, Stephen Paley. Three more maniacal songs of arch art-punk with killer pop hooks -- "Bored Stiff," "Bad Teeth," and "Sleep Cure" -- were all recorded in one five to six hour session at Columbia Studios in May 1974. With Cohen patching musique concrète sounds through the Serge, set against Gray's banshee guitar-playing and Hall's snotty vocals, the Jack Ruby sound was formed. But a record deal evaded them. Cohen left and started a new career as a writer for Late Night With David Letterman and, later, as The Ethicist, a columnist for The New York Times solving readers' ethical problems. In 1976, Hall and Gray reactivated Jack Ruby as a live-performing unit with George Scott on bass. They played harder, faster and louder than any other band in New York at that time. Their rehearsals at Matrix studios, and dusk-to-dawn parties at the Bowery apartment behind CBGB's shared by Gray and Scott, became a cult draw for other NYC punk and no wave musicians. Hall quit the band unexpectedly in 1977, days before their first scheduled gig. Jack Ruby continued on as a power trio with Gray, by now the only original member, taking over vocal duties for a couple of shows alongside Teenage Jesus And The Jerks and the Fleshtones, before disbanding for good after one last riotous show with new vocalist Stephen Barth at Max's Kansas City, formerly stalking ground of the band's idols, The Velvet Underground. Hit and Run is a two-disc set of everything Jack Ruby recorded between 1973 and 1977 (across four incarnations of the band) that should see them acknowledged as one of the most radical and brilliantly original groups to emerge from the 1970s New York City music scene. Remastered from recently-discovered master tapes, the first disc collects all five of the band's studio recordings, which although 40 years-old still sound thrillingly urgent and modern, alongside a 1977 cassette of a band rehearsal, and a 2013 remix by producer Don Fleming. Disc two contains another side to Jack Ruby; a series of largely-electronic, avant-garde pieces from 1972 and 1974 -- nine short tracks that play like a library record, book-ended by two longer ones -- some of the earliest extant recordings made on a Serge synthesizer. What Jack Ruby left is a remarkable legacy of recorded music -- hidden for decades, now-revealed -- constituting a previously-unheard secret history of the New York City music scene of the early 1970s.

TRACKLISTING
CD1: HIT

01. Hit and Run 2:29
02. Mayonnaise 2:05
03. Bored Stiff 3:41
04. Bad Teeth 3:27
05. Sleep Cure 3:08
06. Beggars Parade 2:37
07. Neon Rimbaud 5:19
08. Out of Touch 3:11
09. Hit and Run 3:57
10. Bad Teeth (Don Fleming "Instant Mayhem" Mix) 3:40

CD2: RUN
01. Destroy/Lost 16:22
02. Beryllium Blues 1:29
03. Parietal Cha Cha 1:24
04. Lithium Serenade 1:16
05. Hydrogen Lullaby 0:42
06. Palaatine March 1:49
07. Sphenoid Waltz 0:42
08. Sodium Nocturne 1:54
09. Temporal Tango 1:08
10. Mandible Mambo 0:56
11. Ghost Note 16:51
HIGHLIGHTS

- Remastered from recently-discovered master tapes.
- Liner notes by Thurston Moore and Jon Savage, plus an extensive band history.
- Exclusive remix by producer Don Fleming (Sonic Youth/Hole/Dinosaur Jr.).
- Original cover art by Japanese artist Ken Hamaguchi.
- 2CD digipak fold-out package containing a 48-page booklet and fold-out poster

also, the US vinyl version of the above (This is content of the first CD. Vol. 2 of the vinyl edition coming soon):
JACK RUBY: Jack Ruby LP
FEEDING TUBE RECORDS (United States) / FTR 105LP
release date: 4/29/2014
DESCRIPTION
"Back when Thurston and I were working on our book about the New York No Wave scene, a key mystery we hoped to unravel was the one surrounding the band Jack Ruby. I knew George Scott had been in the band, along with Chris Gray, but we were never able to nail down any hard info. Lydia Lunch and Rudolph Grey both had blazing memories of their weirdness, originality and power, but no one could turn up anything solid. Time passed, the book came out and -- chuffed by the fact we'd name-checked the band in the book -- some of the participants began to emerge. Weasel Walter got his hands on a great tape of material which he released on CD (most of which is reprised here), and bits and pieces of the band's story continued to roll out. They'd actually formed in 1973 with Boris Policeband on electric viola and Randy Cohen on Serge synthesizer. The two pretty much constant members were guitarist Gray and singer Robin Hall. They'd done a demo for Epic. The original band never played live, etc., kind of crazy. Then a batch of old tapes was found in Pennsylvania. We sent them to Don Fleming who transferred and catalogued them for us, and we were totally blown away by what he was uncovering. 'Hit and Run' and 'Mayonnaise' are the original line-up recorded in a small Times Square Studio. Boris left after that and they recorded the Epic session as a trio. That's 'Bored Stiff,' 'Bad Teeth,' and 'Sleep Cure.' The other songs were recorded by the later, performing version of the band with Chris and George and another (all but anonymous) person or two. They played five live shows, featuring crawling dolls, buzzing dildos and the cracked Rocket From The Tombs sort of sound they'd evolved. The last one was in November '77 at Max's with Vivienne Dick's then-boyfriend, Stephen Barth on vocals. And the shit may be lo-fi at times, but it is genuinely fucked and a real pleasure to hear nonetheless." --Byron Coley; Edition of 600. Includes download code with purchase. Volume Two coming soon.

sweet, nice looking out there

That Dance Mania comp is missing 90% of the great DM release, kinda disappointing @ first listen at least

Not a release, although all of this stuff is around somewhere, but some fairly intriguing descriptions, once I got used to the writing (some painfully awkward stiffness at first; then he gets engrossed, as well he might)(old hat to truest Beach Boys under-the-crate-diggers, no doubt)
http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2014/03/busy-doin-somethin-uncovering-brian-wilsons-lost-b.html?utm_source=PMNL&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=140307

From Drag City News:

http://d31hzlhk6di2h5.cloudfront.net/20140307/29/0d/2b/40/d132af9cf6b7db0a5f446339_476x271.jpg

VINYLY, THE RED KRAYOLA SINGLES ON 2xLP! COCONUT HOTEL & HAZEL RETURN!

Three classics from the annals of The Red Krayola return to free-market shelves of the universe on LP for the first time in years! Coconut Hotel was recorded for International Artists to release back in 1967, following the international success of The Parable of Arable Land! Much too freaky-form for the IA folks at the time, it wasn't issued til 1995 by yours truly, featuring the original Red Crayola at the apex of their experimental bent.
A mere year later (but almost thirty from the original Krayola hayday), Hazel bloomed, featuring Mayo Thompson surrounded by a host of prime post-rocker poster-kids like David Grubbs, Jim O'Rourke and John McEntire, plus Tom Watson, Stephen Prina, and George Hurley, to name but a few more! The album showed The Red Krayola once again battling at full-force, entering their 3rd decade in full command of the furthest reaches of sonic expressive creativity.
Beyond the haze that followed, the Singles retrospective emerged in 2004, providing young, curious minds of all ages with the ability to see The Red Krayola in control of the short form single song. A compilation for the ages, in the pre-dawn of the vinyl resurgence, Singles was only ever physically represented on the CD format, wah. UNTIL NOW - yay! Oh, to be alive in this new power vinyl age - Singles will be presented to you as a gatefold, double LP, along with Coconut Hotel and Hazel, April 22nd!

Out today

http://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/jimi-hendrix-stamp1.jpg?w=814
credit: United States Postal Service

http://time.com/23463/jimi-hendrix-honored-on-u-s-postage-stamp/

http://www.thewire.co.uk/img/scale/920/616/2014/03/10/CollDam2.jpg

Intriguing---need to find Toop's original talk---Herrington's description and running with it gets some pushback in the comments section:

http://www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/essays/collateral-damage_tony-herrington-on-the-soul-of-electronic-dance-music-29686

This site dumpster dives into tons of ancient print re music (and maybe other things; I've only followed the music so far). Here we have the results of Jazz & Pop Magazine's 1967 writers poll; scroll down for jpegs of the lists and accompanying article. In the right rail you'll see links to other mags, rags etc.:http://www.afka.net/mags/Jazz_and_Pop.htm

Intriguing, uniquely terse note from Forced Exposure. What does this album sound like?
DESCRIPTION
Record Store Day 2014 release. New and unreleased versions of the legendary album On the Way to the Peak of Normal (1981) by Can member Holger Czukay, recorded with Conny Plank, Jaki Liebezeit and the German post-punk band S.Y.P.H. Pressed on pink vinyl including poster. RSD exclusive. Limited edition of 500 units worldwide.

TRACKLISTING

A1. Peak on the Way to Normal (Remix) (14:44)
A2. Hiss'n Listen (Remix) (3:44)
B1. Ode to Perfume (Remix) (18:42)
B2. Fragrance (4:02)

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The week commencing 1st December, Pixies and 4AD will celebrate the 25th anniversary of Doolittle with the release of Pixies: Doolittle 25 - an expanded edition of the classic album that brings together all the album's B-sides, Peel Sessions and demos for the first time, with nearly half of the tracks having not been commercially released before.

The second studio album from Pixies - Black Francis, Joey Santiago, Kim Deal and David Lovering - Doolittle was to prove a pivotal moment for both band and the wider scene. Produced by Gil Norton and recorded between two studios (Downtown Recorders in Boston MA and Carriage House Studios in Stamford CT) in late-1988, it was an instant hit, containing some of the band’s most memorable singles (‘Monkey Gone To Heaven’, ‘Here Comes Your Man’, ‘Debaser’). Included among the many plaudits thrown Doolittle’s way was Pitchfork ranking it at Number 4 in their Best Albums of the 80s poll, while NME writers in 2004 named it their Second Best Album of All Time. The band toured Doolittle in 2009 to celebrate its 20th birthday and five years on, it’s now time to give it the deluxe release treatment it deserves.

The 3 CD Pixies: Doolittle 25 contains an impressive fifty tracks with the original album on disc one, two full Peel Sessions and six B-sides on disc two and the complete album in demo form plus seven bonus tracks on disc three. A gatefold double LP version is also being released, with two pieces of 180g black vinyl being pressed - the first containing six B-sides and two full Peel Sessions and the second being the album in complete demo form plus 3 bonus tracks. A download card is included, offering access to all LP tracks plus four more bonus tracks. The full tracklistings can be found below.

Like all other Pixies sleeves before it, Vaughan Oliver returns to oversee its design, reinterpreting his original artwork and Simon Larbalestier’s photographs to create a stunning design using metallic ink.

Pixies: Doolittle 25 is being released on 1st / 2nd December and is available to pre-order now direct from the band.
The band are offering an exclusive t-shirt bundle with both CD and LP pre-orders.
The album can also pre-ordered from the 4AD store, with the opportunity for one buyer to win a white label of the record.

Pixies: Doolittle 25
3CD Edition (CAD 3425CD)
Disc One - Doolittle 1. Debaser (2.52), 2. Tame (1.55), 3. Wave of Mutilation (2.04), 4. I Bleed (2.34), 5. Here Comes Your Man (3.21), 6. Dead (2.21), 7. Monkey Gone to Heaven (2.57), 8. Mr. Grieves (2.05), 9. Crackity Jones (1.24), 10. La La Love You (2.43), 11. No. 13 Baby (3.51), 12. There Goes My Gun (1.49), 13. Hey (3.31), 14. Silver (2.25), 15. Gouge Away (2.45)
Disc Two - Doolittle: Peel Sessions & B-Sides 1. Dead (Peel Session) (3.18), 2. Tame (Peel Session) (1.58)*, 3. There Goes My Gun (Peel Session) (2.18), 4. Manta Ray (Peel Session) (1.49), 5. Into The White (Peel Session) (4.11)*, 6. Wave of Mutilation (Peel Session) (2.31), 7. Down To The Well (Peel Session) (2.14), 8. Manta Ray (2.40), 9. Weird At My School (1.58), 10. Dancing The Manta Ray (2.14), 11. Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf) (3.02), 12. Into The White (4.43), 13. Bailey's Walk (2.24)
Disc Three - Doolittle: Demos 1. Debaser (3.00), 2. Tame (2.10)*, 3. Wave of Mutilation (First Demo) (2.04)*, 4. I Bleed (1.46)*, 5. Here Comes Your Man (1986 Demo) (3.07), 6. Dead (1.35)*, 7. Monkey Gone To Heaven (2.52)*, 8. Mr. Grieves (1.42)*, 9. Crackity Jones (1.21)*, 10. La La Love You (2.08)*, 11. No. 13 Baby - VIVA LA LOMA RICA (First Demo) (2.17)*, 12. There Goes My Gun (1.29)*, 13. Hey (First Demo) (3.22)*, 14. Silver (2.11)*, 15. Gouge Away (1.42)*, 16. My Manta Ray Is All Right (2.30)*, 17. Santo (2.17)*, 18. Weird At My School (First Demo) (1.53)*, 19. Wave Of Mutilation (1.30)*, 20. No. 13 Baby (3.07), 21. Debaser (First Demo) (3.37)*, 22. Gouge Away (First Demo) (2.08)*

Pixies: Doolittle 25
2LP Edition (CAD 3425)
Side One - Doolittle: B-Sides 1. Manta Ray (2.40), 2. Weird At My School (1.58), 3. Dancing The Manta Ray (2.14), 4. Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf) (3.02), 5. Into The White (4.43), 6. Bailey's Walk (2.24)
Side Two - Doolittle: Peel Sessions 1. Dead (Peel Session) (3.18), 2. Tame (Peel Session) (1.58)*, 3. There Goes My Gun (Peel Session) (2.18), 4. Manta Ray (Peel Session) (1.49), 5. Into The White (Peel Session) (4.11)*, 6. Wave of Mutilation (Peel Session) (2.31), 7. Down To The Well (Peel Session) (2.14)
Side Three - Doolittle: Demos 1. Debaser (3.00), 2. Tame (2.10)*, 3. Wave of Mutilation (First Demo) (2.04)*, 4. I Bleed (1.46)*, 5. Here Comes Your Man (1986 Demo) (3.07)*, 6. Dead (1.35)*, 7. Monkey Gone To Heaven (2.52)*, 8. Mr. Grieves (1.42)*, 9. Crackity Jones (1.21)*
Side Four - Doolittle: Demos 1. La La Love You (2.08)*, 2. No. 13 Baby - VIVA LA LOMA RICA (First Demo) (2.17)*, 3. There Goes My Gun (1.29)*, 4. Hey (First Demo) (3.22)*, 5. Silver (2.11)*, 6. Gouge Away (1.42)*, 7. My Manta Ray Is All Right (2.30)*, 8. Santo (2.17)*, 9. Weird At My School (First Demo) (1.53)*

* Denotes previously unreleased
The Peel Sessions were recorded on 18th October 1988 and 2nd May 1989 and originally broadcast on BBC Radio 1
Related Releases

LITA Black Friday Specials and 2014 Recap

(individual press releases for *most* of their 2014 reissues have already been posted here)
Record Store Day Black Friday 2014

Fall is finally upon us and the best part of the season is not gathering with family and friends for a seasonal feast, but rather the limited edition vinyl available on Black Friday, November 28th!

Lee Hazlewood
There's A Dream I've Been Saving (vinyl edition)
First up is the vinyl edition of There's A Dream I've Been Saving. Seven years in the making this is the ultimate artifact for Lee Hazlewood heads new and old. Now, for the first time, you can enjoy the entire experience on vinyl. This landmark box set contains an expansive LP-sized hard cover book detailing the label history of Lee Hazlewood Industries, accompanied by 8LPs + 4CDs and the never-before-released film Cowboy in Sweden.

Lizzy Mercier Descloux
Fire b/w Morning High, 7"
This year marks the ten-year anniversary of impassioned poet, painter, actor, and prolific, self-taught musician Lizzy Mercier Descloux’'s death. Instrumental in the late 70s New York underground, yet of Parisian origin, Mercier Descloux, with partner Michel Esteban, established the magazine Rock News and ran in the same circles as Patti Smith and Richard Hell. Lizzy became a genre defying artist and pioneer of worldbeat and avant garde rock, and supreme minimalist of the no wave genre in her own right. Next year, we will release a detailed series showcasing her work. A glimpse of what’s in store for this upcoming archival series, this 7" presents two key tracks from the Mercier Descloux catalog: the epitomic, 1979 disco-punk classic “Fire” backed with a rare session featuring Lizzy and “Godmother of Punk” Patti Smith reciting a bilingual version of Arthur Rimbaud’s poem, “Matinée d’ivresse/Morning High,” set to music by experimental contemporary Bill Laswell. Remastered from the original tapes, this 33 1/3 RPM 7” single comes pressed on “Fire” colored wax.

Wayne McGhie & The Sounds of Joy
S/T
Finally back in print and one of the pinnacle releases in our catalog, this 1970 masterpiece is the Holy Grail of Toronto Funk! The first true debut of Studio One veteran and Jackie Mittoo bandmate Wayne McGhie, this self-titled LP is a wicked mix of Caribbean Funk, Soul and reggae. For this special Black Friday edition we have expanded the album to a deluxe gatefold "tip-on" jacket with rare archival photos and extensive liner notes featuring interviews with McGhie, Alton Ellis, and Lloyd Delpratt.

LITA 2014 Reissues

Mark Lanegan- Has God Seen My Shadow? An Anthology 1989-2011
Bobby Charles- Bobby Charles
Bob Frank- Bob Frank
Peter Walker- "Second Poem To Karmela" Or Gypsies Are Important
Brothers & Sisters- Dylan's Gospel
Built to Spill- Ultimate Alternative Wavers
Michael Chapman- Playing Guitar The Easy Way
Stephen John Kalinich- A World Of Peace Must Come
Lewis- L'Amour
Big Boys- Lullabies Help The Brain Grow
Big Boys- No Matter How Long The Line At The Cafeteria, There's Always A Seat
V/A- Light In The Attic/Burger Cassette Series
V/A- Wheedle's Groove, Vol. II: Seattle Funk, Disco & Modern Soul 1972-1987
Donnie & Joe Emerson- Still Dreamin' Wild: The Lost Recordings 1979-1981
V/A- Country Funk Volume II 1967-74
Lewis Baloue- Romantic Times
Tinariwen- The Radio Tisdas Sessions
Tinariwen- Amassakoul
Sly Stone and Various Artists- I'm Just Like You: Sly's Stone Flower 1969-70
Barbara Lynn- Here Is Barbara Lynn
Sylvie Simmons- Sylvie
V/A- Native North America (Vol. 1): Aboriginal Folk, Rock, and Country 1966–1985
V/A- There's A Dream I've Been Saving: Lee Hazlewood Industries 1966-1971
Lizzy Mercier Descloux- Fire b/w Morning High
Wayne McGhie & The Sounds of Joy- S/T
Grateful Dead- Two From The Vault

GAME THEORY AND SNEAKERS
HEADLINE OMNIVORE’S VINYL OFFERINGS
FOR BLACK FRIDAY RECORD STORE DAY, NOVEMBER 28
Game Theory’s early EPs Distortion and
Pointed Accounts of People You Know reissued on 10" vinyl
Sneakers featured Chris Stamey and Will Rigby (later of the dB’s)
with Mitch Easter (Let’s Active) and Don Dixon.
Their 1976 EP, which gets expanded edition reissue,
was a prototype of American indie rock
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Omnivore Recordings’ contributions to Record Store Day Black Friday will feature coast-to-coast exemplars of smart pop: Davis, Calif.’s Game Theory, whose early EPs Distortion and Pointed Accounts of People You Know will be issued as 10" vinyl EPs (in clear and green vinyl, respectively) and Winston-Salem, N.C.’s Sneakers, whose influential self-titled 1976 7" EP will be issued as an expended-edition 10" clear vinyl EP with added tracks. Street date for both is Black Friday, November 28, 2014.
Game Theory followed up their debut album, Blaze of Glory (recently reissued by Omnivore Recordings as the beginning of their Game Theory catalog re-launch) with a pair of EPs — 1983’s Pointed Accounts of People You Know and the following year’s Distortion. Omnivore is pleased to present the next two pieces of the Game Theory puzzle with collectible, one-time only 10" pressings of these landmark releases (Distortion on green vinyl; Pointed Accounts … on clear vinyl).
Distortion contains five tracks, including Game Theory staples “Shark Pretty” and “Nine Lives to Rigel Five.” Lead guitar was provided by David Bowie’s then-axe man Earl Slick, credited for contractual reasons on the original release as Ernie Smith.
Produced by the Three O’Clock’s Michael Quercio, Distortion showed another musical growth, as Game Theory moved toward the sound they would refine on later releases like Real Nighttime and Lolita Nation (reissues of which are on the horizon for 2015). Distortion’s green vinyl 10" contains a download card for the entire program. http://d31hzlhk6di2h5.cloudfront.net/20141023/fc/b7/78/2c/404151c8228394862a2b26dc_280x218.jpg

Pointed Accounts of People You Know contains six tracks, including Game Theory classics “Metal and Glass Exact” and “Penny, Things Won’t.” Also featured is the original version of “Selfish Again,” recently covered by Eric Matthews (who also appears on Omnivore’s new retrospective from Ireland’s Pugwash, A Rose in a Garden of Weeds). The band’s Scott Miller produced Pointed Accounts of People You Know. The vinyl EP also contains a download card for the entire program.
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Both Distortion and Pointed Accounts of People You Know will see their full reissues in this one-time pressing of 1,500 units for Record Store Day Black Friday. They are destined to be highly sought-after pieces, and vital additions to any collection.
Selected tracks from both EPs also comprise the CD reissue of the French compilation Dead Center, available November 24th, and intended to remain part of the permanent Omnivore catalog.
Game Theory (Photo: Robert Toren)
Track Listing for Pointed Accounts of People You Know:
SIDE ONE
Penny, Things Won't
Metal and Glass Exact
Selfish Again
SIDE TWO
I Wanna Get Hit by a Car
Life in July

37th Day

Track Listing for Distortion:
SIDE ONE
Shark Pretty
Nine Lives to Rigel Five
The Red Baron 

SIDE TWO
Kid Convenience
Too Late for Tears

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Chris Stamey and Mitch Easter, icons of indie pop, first began to explore recording techniques in Winston-Salem, N.C., during their youth. In 1976, Chris and his band, Sneakers (including drummer Will Rigby, with appearances from Easter), released a EP on Stamey’s own Carnivorous Records (later to morph into Car Records and release Chris Bell’s “I Am the Cosmos”). The sessions were engineered by Don Dixon, who would eventually produce bands such as R.E.M. (with Easter) and the Smithereens. Stamey and Rigby would go on to form the dB’s, and Easter would reappear in Let’s Active. The Sneakers EP — one of just a handful of self-released records that created the template for the modern indie avalanche — remains vital in not only independent record history, but music in general.
Omnivore Recordings is proud to reissue this seminal 7" EP as an expanded 10", clear-vinyl EP for Record Store Day Black Friday. Sneakers’ original six tracks are joined by three more tracks, including a previously unissued cover of The Grass Roots’ “Let’s Live for Today.”
Housed in a sleeve that replicates the first issue, this pressing includes a download card for the entire program. Sneakers’ 1,500 units will give people the opportunity to experience the birth of the music they love. Whether to run to the record store or just to dance, everyone needs Sneakers.

Track listing for Sneakers

SIDE ONE
1. Ruby
2. Condition Red
3. Driving

4. Love’s Like a Cuban Crisis
5. On the Brink 

SIDE TWO 

1. Let’s Live for Today
2. Story of a Girl

3. Nonsequitur

4. S’il Vous Plaît

(Don't remember Game Theory very well, but got a really good Sneakers collection from several years back; think it's on the now-defunct Collector's Choice label)

Try that cover again

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From Kill Rock Stars weekly etc.:

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We are excited to announce that Bratmobile's debut Pottymouth is BACK ON VINYL for the first time in over 10 years on 11/18/2014.

Comprised of singer Allison Wolfe, guitarist Erin Smith, and drummer Molly Neuman, Bratmobile made their debut at 1991's International Pop Underground convention and quickly took the Riot Grrrl underground by storm. The band released their debut album Pottymouth in 1993 following a series of 7 inch singles on labels like Homestead, K, Four Letter Words, Simple Machines, and Twelve-Verse-Twelve. The band broke up in 1994, reunited in 1999, and released two more albums on Lookout! Records. They played their last show in 2003.

Pottymouth is one of the most beloved albums in the Kill Rock Stars back catalog and we couldn’t possibly be happier to have it back on vinyl where it belongs.
https://soundcloud.com/killrockstars/bratmobile-cool-schmool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxa0UsDRenU

Critical praise for Pottymouth:

"Has any band ever done unalloyed, sneering contempt quite as witheringly as Pottymouth-era Bratmobile? " - Stereogum

" Pottymouth is a definitive riot grrrl record and essential listening for fans of indie rock and punk." - James Elliott, Amoeba Records

"... Pottymouth was an album full of jittery agitations, quickly solidifying the group as one of the Pacific Northwest’s garage greats." - The AV Club

Pottymouth is also available on CD and good ol’ MP3 for those without turntables.

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This album here is an amazing collection of rare and independent tracks from Disco’s halcyon period – 1978 to 1982 – expertly compiled by Disco Patrick, who also compiled the new deluxe book. Blurring the musical lines between disco, modern soul and boogie this double album features many exclusive and hard to find records from the era.

Included here are in-demand classics such as The Fantastic Aleems featuring Leroy Burgess, John Gibbs and the US Steel Orchestra, rare Patrick Adams and Peter Brown productions, Jessie G, The Easton Assassin (a 12” given out free at boxing matches!) and much more!

The album comes as a double CD, two seperate volumes of heavyweight double-album vinyl (with free download codes) and worldwide digital release.

This album is released to coincide with the massive new 360-page deluxe hardback book Disco – An Encyclopedic Guide To The Cover Art of Disco featuring over 2,000 album cover designs as well as over 700 12” sleeves, including sections on roller disco, disco instruction albums and more. There are also interviews and introductions by Tom Moulton, Nicky Siano, Mel Cheren (West End Records), Ken Cayre (Salsoul), Marvin Schlachter (Prelude) and more. This book is compiled by Disco Patrick and Patrick Vogt, text by Claes Widlund.

Tracklisting:

CD 1/2xLP Vol.1

1. The Fantastic Aleems featuring Calebur - Hooked On Your Love

2. Superfunk - Superfunk

3. Jessie G - That's Hot

4. Jupiter Beyond - The River Drive

5. The Sunburst Band - The Easton Assassin

6. John Gibbs and The U.S. Steel Orchestra - Trinidad

7. Sparkle - Disco Madness

8. Chain Reaction - Sweet Lady (Dance With Me)

9. Wayne Ford - Dance To The Beat Freakout

CD 2/ 2xLP Vol.2

1. Sympho-State - You Know What I Like

2. The Fantastic Aleems - Movin' To The Beat

3. Something Extra - Sexy Lady

4. Stwange Poweple - Get Up (Let's Rock)

5. Chemistry - Skateboard

6. Cirt Gill and The Jam-A-Ditty Band - Turn This Disco Out

7. Sugar Bear Johnson - When Your Jones Come Down

8. Retta Young - My Man Is On His Way

9. The Imperials - Fast Freddie The Roller Disco King

10. Cordial - Wave

listen here: http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/releases/?id=39893

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Soul Jazz Records presents 100% Dynamite Xmas Party:

HURRY TO GET YOUR TICKET FOR THIS EVENT NOW - ALL PREVIOUS EVENTS HAVE SOLD OUT!

Sat 20 Dec 2014 Electrowerkz, Islington, London.

(check Soul Jazz site)

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SOUNDS OF THE UNIVERSE RECOMMENDS: Patrick Cowley & Jorge Socarras 'Catholic'
Available Today, November 20

Cowley is known as one of the pioneers of disco in the 1970s, particularly the hi-NRG strain. This material was written and recorded with vocalist (and frequent collaborator) Jorge Socarras in San Francisco between 1975 and 1977, before the latter went to London and Cowley started a gig playing synthesizers for Sylvester. The two artists reconvened in 1979 and re-recorded some of the material, eventually sending an album to Megatone Records who ultimately decided not to sign it.
2-LP, more info & audio here: http://www.soundsoftheuniverse.com/releases/?id=40441

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BAY AREA RETROGRADE--Various/Vols. 1&2
(Dark Entries)
Both volumes of Dark Entries’ compilation of underground music from San Francisco (and the greater Bay Area) made between 1978-1988 are available here! Collecting tracks from the Bay Area (at the time a hotbed for experimental and quirky new wave, post punk, and synthpop) that draw a comparison to New York’s No Wave scene and Berlin’s Neue Deutsche Welle.
CD, more info & audio here: http://www.soundsoftheuniverse.com/releases/?id=40439
Tracklisting
1. Nominal State — Middle Class
2. Batang Frisco — Power
3. Necropolis Of Love — Talk
4. Wasp Women — Kill Me
5. Distant Thunder — Tin Soldiers
6. Voice Farm — Voyeur
7. Danny Boy And The Serious Party Gods — Castro Boy
8. Quiet Room — Yangtzee River
9. Los Microwaves — Silent Screamers
10. Standard Of Living — N.F.A.
11. Units — Mission
12. Factrix — Night To Forget
13. Chrome — Meet You In The Subway
14. Red Asphalt — Red Asphalt
15. Tuxedomoon — Day To Day
16. Ki Di Me — Islamatic
17. Indoor Life — Gilmore Of The Fillmore
18. Baby Buddha — Little Things
19. Timmy Spence — Brand New Dance
20. Human Being Men — Human Dub
21. Wonders Of Science, The — Let’s Start A Rumor
22. Zru Vogue — Nakweda Dream

Dennis Brown---Deep Down
(Iroko)

Killer mid 70s roots album from Dennis Brown & Niney The Observer reissued with gatefold sleeve and great liner notes by David Katz. Recorded at Joe Gibbs Studio with The Soul Syndicate band and Niney at the helm. Check 'So Long Rastafari' 'Voice Of The Father' 'Tribulation' and many more.
LP, more info & audio: http://www.soundsoftheuniverse.com/releases/?id=40681

Jerry Harris---I'm For You
(Wackie's)

Very rare Wackie's deep roots album gets reissued by Deeper Knowledge people from New York. Originally released in 1982, this version has added dubs plus dropping a few weaker tracks from the original release with the added bonus of a unreleased track.
LP, more info & audio: http://www.soundsoftheuniverse.com/releases/?id=40638

Transllusion

The Opening Of The Cerebral Gate
(Tresor)

**VINYL NOW AVAILABLE**

Long-out-of-print groundbreaking C-L-A-S-S-I-C electro album - an essential lesser-konwn piece of Drexciyan history!

Produced by the late James Marcel Stinson and released in 2001 via Supremat, a short-lived sub label Tresor dedicated to a more abstract and experimental electro sound, “The Opening Of The Cerebral Gate” was conceived as the second part of the so-called Drexciyan Storms – a whopping stack of seven albums by the Detroit pair released under different monikers within a single year (the Tresor album “Harnessed The Storm” being the first). Informed by esoteric concepts, the music on this brilliant album is chock full of hypercharged arpeggios and driving pulse patterns. BRILLIANT.
2-LP, CD, more info & audio: http://www.soundsoftheuniverse.com/releases/?id=40180

From Smog Veil Newsletter---put this on 2015 by mistake

hearpen.com has a new release this month: a season-appropriate reissue of Monster Walks The Winter Lake by David Thomas and the Wooden Birds. Here's what we know of it: This is the 2014 David Thomas revision of the original 1986 two track digital recordings. Nearly six hours worth of tape were reviewed to come up with the definitive version.

This album was recorded live in the studio to two-track digital tape at Suma on November 18, 20 and 21, 1985. No overdubs or drop-ins. If something went wrong then we started again. Fostex X-15 and Tascam 144 multitrack cassette recordings were used as real time accompaniments for Coffee Train, My Town, Monster Magee and Monster Thinks About The Good Days.
more info & audio:http://hearpen.com/hr181.html

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Great album, one to play on special occasions. Hope he doesn't do anything too bloody-minded to it.

The Bangles: early 80s demos, live tracks, their first EP, all in new collection:

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WARDRUNA's mesmerizing debut full-length, Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga, finally gets the reissue treatment in North America via Indie Recordings. Originally released in 2009, Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga serves as the first release in the band's stunning Runaljod trilogy, a musical rendition of the twenty-four runes in what is often referred to as the "elder futhark." Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga incorporates some of the oldest of Nordic instruments such as primitive deer hide frame drums, kraviklyra, tagelharpe, mouth harp, goat horn and lur, poetic metres and lyrics written in Norwegian, Old Norse and Proto-Norse tongue. Some of the recordings are captured outdoors or under circumstances of significance to each rune while other sources of sound like trees, rocks, water and torches are used. All of these elements are carefully woven into a rich musical landscape and complemented with whispering voices, melodic song and mighty choirs. Although WARDRUNA's sound shares characteristics with music typically labeled as folk, world and/or ambient, none of these genres can accurately describe their unique style. It truly must be experienced. Music from Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga is featured in the soundtrack to both seasons of The History Channel's Vikings series.

Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga Track Listing:

1. Ar var alda

2. Hagal

3. Bjarkan

4. Løyndomsriss

5. Heimta Thurs

6. Thurs

7. Jara

8. Laukr

9. Kauna

10. Algir - Stien klarnar

11. Algir - Tognatale

12. Dagr

WARDRUNA:

Kvitrafn: vocals, all instruments (except fiddle), songwriting

Lindy Fay Hella: vocals

Gaahl: vocals

WARDRUNA was founded by Einar Kvitrafn Selvik and in 2009 and enchanted listeners with Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga. In the ensuing years the group has spent a great deal of time adapting their music to a live format and establishing a live band, resulting in a handful of very special concerts, perhaps most notably when they performed in front of the majestic 1100-year-old Gokstad ship at the Viking Ship Museum in Norway. The second album in the Runaljod trilogy, Yggdrasil, was released in 2013. Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Selvik, together with vocalists Kristian Espedal (aka Gaahl) and Lindy-Fay Hella, managed to create a strikingly beautiful and intense continuation of what was started with their first album, but without falling into the trap of merely repeating themselves. The band is currently working on Ragnarok, the final release of the series.

Runaljod - Gap Var Ginnunga is available on CD, black double vinyl gatefold and
digitally via Indie Recordings.

from Luaka Bop:
William O box
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William Onyeabor
CD/LP Box Set

William Onyeabor self-released 8 albums between 1978 and 1985 and then became a Born-Again Christian, refusing ever to speak about himself or his music again. Various biographies can be found online. Some say he studied cinematography in the Soviet Union and returned to Nigeria in the mid-70s to start his own film company, Wilfilms. Some say he was a lawyer with a degree from a university in Great Britain. Others portray him as a businessman who for years worked on government contracts in Enugu, Nigeria.
Now for the first time Luaka Bop will release ALL of Onyeabor's creative output, 9 albums in total. Available as 2 hand-numbered LP boxes or 1 CD box with 9 CDs. Get them while they last!

---also noteworthy

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Light In The Attic playlist starts w new track by amazing Sylvie Simmons, but think all the rest are from reissues, incl many if not all mentioned on this thread, like Native North America:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7zphev_6Wk&list=UUPFJl-I-PhIonNPBGUK0Aog

124 videos, it says here.

5-Disc Kinks box, releases & demos 1964-71 just out, http://www.amazon.com/Anthology-1964-1971-5CD-Box/dp/B00NJADEJ2/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1419558209&sr=1-1&keywords=the+kinks+anthology+1964-1971

Fresh Air interview w Ray Davies (orig Nov. 26), w backstory of several early tracks: http://www.npr.org/2014/12/25/372906846/naive-yet-revolutionary-ray-davies-on-50-years-of-the-kinks

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Damn, pretty good interview! And the songs are real short, so get to hear concentrated excerpts.