Rolling Reissues 2012

Massive Zappa reissue campaign starting in next few days.
Blurb I read mentioned remastering but not exactly what. So, since this is coming from the Zappa estate is it going to be the Zappa tampered ones?

Just found out that the Zappa Threesome box sets have rising prices online. Still need the 2 early 70s Bitchesbrew influenced sets.

Zappa estate has already reissued some unfuckedwith stuff (Greasy Love Songs was all the original recordings remastered, instead of the bastardized Rueben tracks from the 80s) so hopefully that continues.

Edsel are supposed to be reissuing the 1st 5 Steve Miller band lps at the end of August. Heard they have linernotes based on interviews by Joel Selvin.
I think its about time since the last cds I'm aware of for Sailor at least date back to '90. Would love a decent sounding copy of that

The Dicks reissues are out now on Alternative Tentacles and they sound pretty good to me (lack of master tapes for 'Kill from the Heart' notwithstanding).

Oh fuck yeah, finally. Although I notice they haven't included the Live At Raul's Club LP - which is odd cos didn't T&G reissue the Big Boys side of that on the Skinny Elvis CD? I have the 2x7" sort of reissue of that but it's missing a lot of tracks (it has 3 songs each from the LP plus 1 unreleased track from each band).

From RockBeat Records, via Conqueroo. Always meant to check the Moving Sidewalks:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 31, 2012
See note beneath contact information.

FOUR-DISC SURF ERA NUGGETS BOX
ON ROCKBEAT RECORDS
COLLECTS HITS AND OBSCURITIES
OF THE SURF MUSIC ERA

RockBeat also readying Moving Sidewalks, Dickie Goodman
and music from the hit TV series Dallas, all for September 25 release

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Surf Age Nuggets, a four-disc box set chronicling the history of surf music, will headline an ambitious quartet of reissues coming on September 25, 2012 on RockBeat Records, a unit of S’more Entertainment. Other reissues arriving on that date include an self-titled two-CD set by Texas garage band the Moving Sidewalks on CD and vinyl LP, Dickie Goodman’s Long Live the King, and Dallas: The Music Story.

Surf Age Nuggets traces the ethos and attitude of surf music from 1959 through its demise in 1966. From long boards and short hair to short boards and long hair, the collection celebrates the lesser-known purveyors of the sound. Included in Surf Era Nuggets are such bands as Dick Dale & the Del-Tones, Bobby Fuller, the Velvetones, the Shan-Tones, the Valiants, the Ramrods, the Surf Teens, the Royal Coachmen and dozens of others.

All 100 tracks are instrumentals and many are indeed obscure. There were a number of indie labels willing to cash in on the surfing movement and there was no shortage of bands ready to take the money and play. This compilation accurately reflects the first time that music, sport and teenage lifestyle came together and confirms the attitude that surfing has always been a “rebel sport.”

Surf music was perfect for everyone with its twangy mixture of basic, pure-yet-raw ’50s rock & roll, minus the teen-idol baggage. Suddenly, surfing and surf music were front and center, featured in comic books, advertising, movies and television series such as Batman, Mr. Ed and The Flintstones. The sound became pervasive and songs like Link Wray’s “Jack the Ripper” and “Rumble” perfectly capture the essence of surf music. To this day, his music is the centerpiece for television (“The Sopranos”) and films such as Pulp Fiction, Independence Day and Desperado.

RockBeat A&R VP James Austin compiled and annotated Surf Age Nuggets. The set contains four discs and a large book in a hard-bound box.

The Moving Sidewalks: The Moving Sidewalks

Texas has been a flashpoint for some of America’s most exciting artists for well over a century. During the 1960s, Houston, Texas was on fire. Dubbed Space City, as the United States government built the huge NASA space center just outside the city limits, Houston had an electric vibrancy no other metropolis in America could match. With bands like the Sir Douglas Quintet (formed by hipsters Doug Sahm and Augie Meyers), the Outcasts, the Sparkles, Zachary Thax, Mouse & the Traps and of course the 13th Floor Elevators, Houston also became a hotbed of great rock.

Billy Gibbons, known for four decades as the thundering guitarist and frontman in ZZ Top, had been influenced by the blues at a very young age, and acquired an affinity for those primal sounds from all that swirled around him in Houston. By junior high, Gibbons had a working combo called the Coachmen and was performing all over the city. As he became more experienced, he started experimenting with his sound. In time, personnel shifted and the band was re-named the Moving Sidewalks.

RockBeat’s two-CD/two-LP release The Moving Sidewalks contains the psychedelic blues-rock band’s original album Flash in its entirety plus a second album featuring alternate tracks and previously unreleased songs. The group’s music stands up to this day, and in many ways sounds as new now as when it was recorded. And while moving sidewalks may not have been the wave of the future, the Moving Sidewalks surely were.

The Moving Sidewalks release features a deluxe 56-page book. The two discs are packaged in mini LP sleeves within the box.

Dickie Goodman: Long Live the King

Dickie Goodman is the Grammy-winning King of Novelty, noted by Billboard and Guinness World Records for recording the most charted novelty/comedy hits (17) of all time. He has even more listed under various pseudonyms such as John & Ernest and Spencer & Spencer.

Some of Goodman’s most famous records are “The Flying Saucer (Part 1)” (#3 on Billboard), “Mr. Jaws” (#4 on Billboard), “The Flying Saucer” (#3 on Billboard and Grammy winner), “Mr. President,” “Batman & His Grandmother” and “Hey ET.” These songs appear among 27 included in RockBeat Records’ compilation Long Live the King.

Goodman’s records have been called many things: parody, satire, samples, cut-ins or mash-ups. He took bits and pieces of popular songs and used the tiny sound bites to fill in as answers to questions he posed in his records. But what kind of questions did he ask? That depended upon what the most popular current event of the day was and also who the most notable public figures were at the time. He might pretend to be a news reporter conducting an interview of a presidential candidate or the star of a current hit movie.

Goodman’s records were always timely when first released, and their universal appeal has turned them into audio time capsules, summarizing the most talked about events, and music, of an era. Also included on this collection is a new Dickie & Jon Goodman track, the timely “Election 2012.”

Dallas: The Music Story

Dallas: The Music Story is a collection of songs based and inspired by the characters, relationships and events from the original Lorimar television series.

Originally released in 1985 on vinyl, this re-mastered CD contains the eponymous opening and closing theme and features three of the actors from the show: Steve Kanaly (Ray Krebbs), veteran musical star Howard Keel (Clayton Farlow) and Jenilee Harrison (Jenna Ewing), displaying their varying degrees of vocal prowess. The rest of the CD features performances by such notable country artists such as Crystal Gale, Karen Brooks and Johnny Lee, who was immortalized in the legendary Waltons song “My Husband Beats Me.”

The LP has been unavailable for more than a decade and will be available for the first time on CD.

Cerebrum's Eagle Death is out today on Shadoks (forcedexposure should have it). Uncut version of the single edit is bold and sad, as befits its title, and kind of a scrambling boogie, complicated but def groove appeal--so prog boogie, could imagine this long-gone Spanish combo opening for the original line-up of Traffic, and Amboy Dukes too, winning over impatient foggy audiences. As w Traffic, vocalist can be a bit mystically tedious, but unlike Traffic, he's not the first among equals, to put it politely (or contending to be re, Winwood and Mason)--more about the overall effect, esp w vividly recorded drums and bass (some of this sounds lifted directly from vinyl, but only adds to crispness, fuzz, and bits sliding into and out of degrees of stereo and maybe mono dimensions too--analog *times* digital, hell yeah). Aside from the 1970 singles, five tracks are live 1969 demos, from the Studio of Spanish National Radio. Covers are deft: "One Kind Favor", "Amphetamine Annie", "Murder In My Heart For The Judge" (Moby Grape as an inspiration for early live Los Lobos?), "You Don't Love Me." So good to hear familiar stuff stretched and snapped into customized shape, with the original virtues re-vitalized, that's what I love about international rock, funk etc from 60s-70s especially. Mind you, I'm not an expert in any of it, but disappointed often enough to notice differences in quality.
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Damn, thought that statement including the Moving Sidewalks set was talking about a release fir The Conqueroo. Do wish somebody would collect whatever there is around of their surviving material and compile it. Been missing my From The Vulcan Gas Co set since i lost the vinyl.
Might have thought the reissuing of 13th Floor Elevators material a couple of years back might trigger some interest in getting their work back out.

bold and sad, as befits its title Eagle Death!

what the heck

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also on CD

So looking forward to that Cerebrum album (gonna have to be on CD because Shadoks vinyl pricing is bullshit). Been listening to those first four tracks for years now, it'll be nice to actually OWN it.

Oh hey guys SYPH's fourth album is being reissued on vinyl by Made In Germany, I think it was recorded around the same time as "On The Way to the Peak of Normal" and it's got a very weird, mysterious CAN vibe.

They're also doing Agitation Free's "Malesch" on LP.

All if this is around in one legit/boot form or another, but might be good to have it w possibly better sound, sequence etc
KEYSTONE COMPANIONS/
THE COMPLETE 1973 FANTASY RECORDINGS
SPOTLIGHTS THE LEGENDARY MERL SAUNDERS/JERRY GARCIA
COLLABORATION INCLUDING
SEVEN PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED TRACKS

Deluxe four-CD box set, due September 25th, contains vintage photos, extensive liner notes and memorabilia

Double vinyl LP reissue of the very first Saunders/Garcia album
Live at Keystone due to be released concurrently

BERKELEY, Calif. — Keystone Companions/The Complete 1973 Fantasy Recordings, recorded live on July 10 and 11, 1973 at the Keystone club in Berkeley, California, beautifully captures the magical musical friendship of keyboardist Merl Saunders and guitarist Jerry Garcia. The Fantasy Records lavish four-disc set, scheduled for September 25, 2012 release on the heels of the 70th anniversary of Garcia’s birth, includes seven previously unreleased tracks, a special booklet featuring vintage photos; liner notes by Grateful Dead expert David Gans; and a poster, coaster, button, and “scratchbook” (replicating the design of the original album’s promotional matchbooks).

The sterling band featured Saunders on keyboards; Garcia, guitar and vocals; John Kahn, bass; and Bill Vitt, drums. Virtuoso David Grisman added mandolin to Bob Dylan’s “Positively 4th Street.” The mix of songs ranged from Saunders originals to covers of songs by Jimmy Cliff, Junior Parker, Holland-Dozier-Holland, Rodgers & Hart, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Don Nix and Dan Penn and Dylan.

San Francisco-born keyboardist Merl Saunders had been writing and performing in New York before returning to the West Coast. Producer Nick Gravenites offered him studio work that included playing with guitarist Jerry Garcia, already at the helm of one of the world’s most popular rock bands, the Grateful Dead. “Garcia reminded me of [jazz guitarist] Eric Gale,” Saunders recollected, “Anything he played was very musical. He knew how to do a rhythm on any kind of tune — gospel, blues, jazz. I was amazed.”

Saunders also helped Garcia expand his harmonic knowledge and even showed him some Art Tatum runs. “He taught me music,” Garcia said of his friend.

By December 1970, a weekly jam session featuring Saunders, Garcia, Kahn, and Vitt had become a weekly gig at San Francisco’s Matrix. Of course Garcia was already a major figure in the musical counterculture as lead guitarist for the Dead, so he kept this new band low-key — so much that it never really had a name (although it was referred to as The Group at times.) As Garcia said, “I couldn’t take the pressure of being a double celebrity. It’s a drag just being it once.” (That didn’t stop the itinerant Garcia from having a third band as well, Old and In the Way, with David Grisman, Peter Rowan, and Vassar Clements.)

Live at Keystone, originally released as a double LP, was recorded by Grateful Dead associates Betty Cantor and Rex Jackson; all four artists are credited as producers. Additional material was released as Live at Keystone, Volumes 1 & 2 in 1988. Keystone Companions/The Complete 1973 Fantasy Recordings assembles the original recordings and presents them, remastered, in the order in which the songs were performed at those two shows. The repertoire spans blues, rockabilly, jazz, funk, Broadway, Motown, two Bob Dylan songs, and Jimmy Cliff’s immortal “The Harder They Come.” Some songs appear twice, providing the opportunity to hear how the band kept it loose and fresh.

As Gans notes, “This music is as exciting and satisfying 40 years later as it was on the day it was made.”

On the collection’s September 25 street date, Fantasy Records will also reissue, on multi-color double vinyl LP, the first Saunders/Garcia album Live at Keystone.

The first of five(!) Boris Midney reissue packages due from Harmless at end of August:
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dead.net's got a sampler stream, and a clip of Weir talking about this leg of the tour

And now for something a little different. This year's box set - Grateful Dead: Spring 1990 - offers six complete shows from the epic spring '90 tour, one concert from each city the band played, personally selected by Dead vaultmeister and archival release producer David Lemieux. The sizzling six are: 3/16/90 Capital Centre (Landover , MD), 3/19/90 Hartford Civic Center, 3/22/90 Copps Coliseum (Hamilton, Ontario), 3/26/90 Knickerbocker Arena (Albany, NY), 3/30/90 Nassau Coliseum (Uniondale, NY) and 4/2/90 The Omni (Atlanta, GA).

In his "Producer's Note" in the beautiful book that is part of the box, Lemieux, who attended the first 10 shows on the tour, states, "To my ears this was the last tour that was consistently great, where every show is excellent, not a dud in the bunch." And Grateful Dead historian Dennis McNally's comprehensive and informative insider's essay in the box is titled "The Last Great Dead Tour." These guys know what they're talking about!

Besides the discs themselves, Grateful Dead: Spring 1990 has much to offer, including: a gorgeous 60-page hardcover book containing copious color photos by Jim Anderson and Michael Laurentus, unique artwork by Brooklyn-based fine artist Wes Lang, fascinating business letters and communications related to the tour, a detailed historical essay by Dennis McNally, a Producer's Note by David Lemieux and individual show descriptions by Blair Jackson; a reproduction of the Dead's 1990 tour program (printed and sold later in '90, for the fall and Europe '90 tours); tickets and backstage passes of all six shows; a band publicity photo from 1990 by Ken Friedman; Dennis McNally's tour laminate; and reproductions of the colored 8x10 sheets GDTS sent out with hotel, food and other information for each city on the tour.

With recordings made by longtime Grateful Dead recordist and producer John Cutler, mastered by Jeffrey Norman in HDCD, you just know it's gonna sound great - and it does!

That's the straight-to-your-in-box skinny, you can get ALL the details of this Dead.net exclusive here.

This box is limited to just 9,000 numbered copies - please note, this is the only time these shows will ever be officially available on CD . There will not be an All Music Edition and single shows will not be available physically. Due to ship out August 31st, we anticipate that this extraordinary set will sell-out, so order your copy today!

(If you're looking for more of a bite-sized taste of '90, Spring 1990: So Glad You Made It, a 2-CD set featuring a handful of favorites, will be in stores on September 18th. You can also pre-order it here.)

TALKIN' ABOUT SPRING 1990

We welcome you to listen to a mighty fine selection from 3/16/90, Capital Center, Landover, MD here.

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE - WES LANG
Wes Lang
We've been enamored with fine artist Wes Lang's hand-drawn work ever since we came across his contemporary interpretations of the Dead's classic iconography and we hope you will be too.

Get to know Wes in an exclusive interview with Blair Jackson.

SHOP THE SPRING 1990 BOUTIQUE
In conjunction with our limited-edition Spring 1990 box, we proudly present the Grateful Dead X Wes Lang collection. In the official Spring 1990 boutique, you'll find limited-edition hoodies, t-shirts, stickers and more. These items are one-run only, so get them while you can! Explore the store here*.

Spring 1990
Take home this stellar Wes Lang Indian Skull 16x20 poster (only 500 made!) with your box and save $20. Learn more here.
*All Spring 1990 purchases will be processed through the Spring 1990 boutique at Dead.net/spring1990store. If you wish to purchase a non-Spring 1990 product, you may do so separately at Dead.net/store.

What's Inside

60 page Hardcover Smyth-Sewn book featuring essays by Dennis McNally, David Lemieux, and Blair Jackson and photos by Jim Anderson & Michael Laurentus
25th Anniversary Tour Program
Official Band Letters
6 Ticket Stubs
6 Cloth Sticker Backstage Passes
1 Tour Laminate
Official 1990 Band publicity shot
6 complete shows on 18 discs
3/16/90 Capital Center, Landover, MD
3/19/90 Civic Center, Hartford, CT
3/22/90 Copps Coliseum, Hamilton, ON, Canada
3/26/90 Knickerbocker Arena, Albany, NY
3/30/90 Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY
4/2/90 The Omni, Atlanta, GA

Recorded by long-time Grateful Dead audio engineer John Cutler
Mastered by Jeffrey Norman in HDCD
Original art by Wes Lang
Individually Numbered, Limited Edition of 9,000
Fun Facts
-80 unique songs are included the box

-50 songs were only played once during these six shows

-24 songs were only played twice during these six shows

-This box features the last live performances of "Death Don't Have No Mercy," "Built To Last," and "Believe It Or Not"

When David suggested I do the liner notes for this box, my first reaction was of uncertainty. For me, as I would guess for all who traveled with the band, the '90s were not an entirely happy memory - first Brent, then Jerry's decline, and finally the tour from hell and what followed. Not so good. Then I listened to this box...and my jaw dropped. This is the Dead playing as well as they ever did, with energy, sophistication, and even joy. Whew!
Dennis McNally
The band stormed into the '90s like they were on a mission to prove that after 25 years together, they still had the fire burning in them, that they were "built to last." Night after night in the spring of '90 their high-energy assault left their sold-out crowds happy and exhausted-what a feeling!
- Dennis McNally
Working on these Spring 90s shows has been a complete pleasure..the band is playing great and John Cutler has captured it all, with powerful and revealing mixes.this is big stuff .
- Jeffrey Norman
In the glorious arc of the Dead's 30-year career, the Spring 1990 tour was one of the all-time highest peaks, fully equal to the golden ages of Fillmore '70 or Europe '72. All the pieces just came together - impassioned vocals, the Brent/Jerry mind-meld, the MIDI expansion of the band's sonic vocabulary, and a bunch of new tunes and choice revivals - with the X factor in full mind-bending effect. It was a great time to be a Deadhead.
- Steve Silberman
"Without hesitation, when anyone asks me are what the best tours in Grateful Dead history, I mention Spring '90 amongst Europe '72, Fall '73, and Spring '77. The music was consistently great every night of the tour, and the tour included some of the best shows in Grateful Dead history. A truly epic three week span in the Grateful Dead's career.
- David Lemieux

Paul Ngozi, The Ghetto QDK Media, via forcedexposure)7/31--from 1976, "zamrock," Zambian trad elements and language x heavy 70s rock. Kind of a proto-metal Marley fan? Well, title track incl observations of booze abuse in ghetto life's implosion, "Help Me" scared of a man at the door: "He looks like a hippie..He looks like a bushman..." Neighbors eventually to the rescue, and what they do to the stranger is left to the music's implications, but here's where the album's demo tendencies are a bit frustrating (no actual demos here, apparently). "Who Will Know" (when God comes) might be another suspect figure, judging by tension, good, Suicide: "No matter what your Mama does--thou shall not commit it!" Fuzz tones and thin though sometimes fluid picking coat and brush big bass, crisp minimal drums, riff cycles, not too familiar and good little tempo shifts on "Ulesi Tileke", my fave so far of the more Zambian tracks (still rocking). The top end gets a richer, fuller sound on "Can't You Hear Me"; "Jesus Christ" is the fastest and heaviest, could imagine early Sabs doing this. Rec also to fans of the James Gang and some of Wino's more recent, stripped down stuff. But they prob were better live, or could have been. I'd def start with xpost Cerebrum for a more fully realized album, actual demos and all.

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Press sheet advises "You will love this if you liked The Witch and Amanaz" Apparently Chrissy Zabby Tembo & Ngozi Family is "famous among collectors."

Ngozi's "Bamayo" on The Ghetto LP is worth the price of admission alone (and yes, I mean the nonsensical $35-40 that everyone's charging). The Chrissy Zebby Tembo LP is very fine; the Ngozi Family 45,000 Volts LP is even larger.

thanks, will check those out.

It's pretty sweet, worth $16. The Zebby Tembo and '45,000 Volts' definitely even better--worth the $25 you'll pay.

Oh, cool, thanks--they've done a reasonably priced cd. I was willing to pay for "Bamayo," but now I can point my friends at something sensible.

Aug. 3, 2012, SAN FRANCISCO - ISIS and Ipecac Recordings issue Temporal, a retrospective collection of unreleased rarities, remixes and videos, on Nov. 6.

Temporal spans the groundbreaking band's entire discography with inclusions from Mosquito Control to the band's final full-length album, Wavering Radiant. "It was fun and also very nostalgic collecting material for this release," commented Aaron Harris. "I hear our catalogue differently now that I'm not living with these songs day to day. This is a special collection of outtakes, demos, unreleased tracks and videos; some of which I think we even forgot about." More details including a complete track listing will be released soon.

Decibel Magazine profile one of ISIS' landmark albums, Oceanic, in the magazine's September issue (http://www.decibelmagazine.com/magazine/testament-095-september2012/). The 7-page interview with all five band members (Jeff Caxide, Mike Gallagher, Aaron Harris, Clifford Meyer and Aaron Turner) speaks to the "sea change" that Oceanic was for heavy music. Albert Mudrian, Editor-in-Chief for Decibel, explains: "ISIS may have left a massive void in heavy music's body when they sailed away for good a couple of years ago, but the ripples of Oceanic continue to cause waves a decade after its release."

Harris, Caxide and Meyer recently partnered with Chino Moreno (Deftones) to form Palms. The band's debut album will be out in early 2013 via Ipecac. Turner's Old Man Gloom released No in late June and he will be touring Japan this September with Mamiffer. Gallagher continues on with his solo project MGR as well as scoring films, most recently 22nd of May.
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The Pin Group

Yeah, I'll wait for a review of that Pin Group reissue. All they did was add live tracks to the previous release. They'd have to be killer for me to care.

another from Forced Exposure:

VA: Zendooni CD (PHS 001CD) : OUT 08/07/2012 Subtitled: Funk, Psychedelia and Pop from the Iranian Pre-Revolution Generation. Zendooni celebrates a time when pop artists in Iran ruled the country. During the '70s, before the Revolution, Occidental and Middle East mannerisms collided and the result was a new kind of Iranian pop which incorporated different genres and arrangements to its Persian roots. Touches of funk, jazz, Latin, bossa, progressive/psychedelic sounds and Morricone/Blaxploitation-styled soundtracks can be heard on this collection, culled from miraculously survived vinyl and cassettes. A surreal voyage back to the golden age of Persian pop. A vibrant time when female singers like Nooshafarin, Azita, Pouran and Ramesh appeared in colorful teen mags dressed in full hippie fashion. Pharaway Sounds is proud to present for the first time to Western ears amazing examples of Persian psych-prog like "Safar" by Hassan Shamaizadeh and "Vi Bafa" by Kambiz; Persian funk by Azita, Nooshafarin, Emad Raam, Pooneh; Bollywood-styled sounds by Ahmad Wali & Hangama and much more. Remastered sound with a color booklet and one bonus track. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ri9sIqGzA4M

ROYAL BAND DE THIES: Kadior Demb CD (TBCD 016CD) : OUT 09/11/2012
Teranga Beat proudly presents Royal Band De Thiès in their first-ever and entirely unreleased 1979 recording. Singers and composers James Gadiaga and Secka Will guide you through the sweet melodies, wicked rhythms and vocal traditions of Senegalese music, in a fabulous performance that combines mbalax with Afro-jazz. While many bands in the world claimed the title of "pacesetters," none can stand next to Royal Band De Thiès. The 9-member band with its dynamite percussion and horn sections will twist you like a tornado! Tracks like "Hommage à Mbaye Fall" will take you on a musical journey to the cultural crossroads of Senegal, West Africa's meeting point of European, Latin American and African musical traditions. This real-time, two-microphone recording gives the impression that the group is playing live in front of you, making it hard to believe it dates back 33 years ago. The liner notes of the CD booklet include more interesting details, outlining James' and Secka's musical careers along with the past and present of the band. http://www.terangabeat.com/index.php?/releases/royal-band-de-thies---kadior-demb/

Monster Numero 10th Anniversary Eccentric Soul Box:

Synopsis: 45 7" singles from the dustiest corners of the United States, replicated down to the tiniest detail. Housed in a custom Numero-patterned 45 box, replete with metal hardware and handle. Clothbound hardback book with a word count of almost 50,000, covering the bizarre histories of each group, the early history of Numero, plus an absurdly detailed series of indices.

Background: Back in early 2003, when Numero was still in an embryonic state, the labels' inaugural release was envisioned as a 10-disc, 20-artist pile of peculiar soul 45s, packaged in a cardboard clamshell mailer. It was cobbled together from what, at the time, seemed like a unique selection of singles: off-key vocalists and over-the-top guitar soloists, one-piece string sections and piecemeal brass lines, each of them ostensibly helmed by a savant mad-scientist producer working in jury-rigged, barely functional studio conditions. Its working title was Eccentric Soul.

The imagined box of ten 45s was scrapped, replaced by Eccentric Soul: The Capsoul Label, the project that became Numero 001. From the wreckage of the original set, Altyrone Deno Brown turned out to be a bedrock voice, a central story, and the cover image on 003, Eccentric Soul: The Bandit Label; the Dynamic Tints brightened one small corner of Twinight's Lunar Rotation; and Lady Margo's "This Is My Prayer" later found a home inside Pepper's Jukebox, the double LP that accompanied Michael Abramson's photography in 2009's Light: On The South Side hardcover book.

All 14 volumes of Eccentric Soul that pre-date this Omnibus sketch a given skein of connective tissue, but fully fleshed out here are the colorful strands linking any given record to untold others: untimely deaths, racial injustice, kid groups dimmed of charm by oncoming adulthood, military base installment, the bitter duty of Vietnam, the state of Alaska, tantalizing flirtations with fame. All of it is evidence that the darkened corners of the music business looked much the same in the pale light of Fresno, California, or Owensboro, Kentucky, or Benton Harbor, Michigan: record labels run by wannabe gangsters, managers with sticky fingers, radio promotion men funneling payola into disc jockey pet projects, marching bands turning into stage bands, youth centers turned into soul schools, and master tapes lost to fire, storm, and flood. Most of these 45s appear austere and simple at a glance, but every crude, hand-drawn logo, every missing or misspelled bit of crucial information, every malapropism-laden band name belies a deep well of unique history. PVC footholds in an uphill battle against badly stacked odds, these were records willed into existence through pure determination.

Omnibus Vol. 1 is an attempt at laying bare a tangled mess of loose ends that Numero (and cohorts) have been tripping over for years. Too disconnected and isolated from one another for expansion into full-length CD or LP projects, we've bound together 90 songs and 45 stories, cross-referencing each town and year of issue, and gathering it all into a compact and elegant monument to America's soul diaspora.

I don't even wanna know how much this'll cost.

They're also "releasing" a single from this each day for the next two weeks, dunno if this means you can actually buy them sep., but that's certainly what it should mean. As usual, will be clips etc on numerogroup.com Still got 45 subscription series etc:
Shoes LP reissues (and first issues)
After we got talking with Jeff Murphy from Shoes about including them on Buttons: From Champaign To Chicago, it occurred to us that we were standing on the precipice of a great catalog. The band has done a great job of keeping their albums in print on CD since the early 1990s, but their vinyl was woefully difficult to track down. One In Versailles and Black Vinyl Shoes had both been issued in editions of 500 a few years back, but at $50 a pop, only the cult was being serviced. In an attempt at reintroducing this great pop band to a whole new audience, we are thrilled to announce an LP reissue campaign that begins with Versailles and revisits Black Vinyl, but adds the never issued on wax Bazooka and an entire album of demos that would become their landmark LP Present Tense.

Each LP will of course be packaged to Numero’s highest standard, including reprints of the stickers, lyric sheets, and even iron-ons that accompanied the original issues. We’re working closely with the band to remaster the LPs from the original master tapes, a marked improvement over the DAT conversions that past reissues of their catalog have been subject to.

Shoes should be dropping in two pairs in November 2012. Try on a pair here.

The 700 Club

In September we'll be rolling out a line of 2x7" singles in the hard rock/garage/psych vein. Each will be packaged in a gorgeous tip-on gatefold sleeve, with our typical too-informative liner notes and photographs. The first 45 will be a replica of a previously issued single, while the second pocket will hold two unissued sides. The first three are:

701 Pretty: Mustache In Your Face+3

Twisted Kansas City garage psych produced by Michael Quint from the Electric Prunes and recorded in an actual cave.

702 Wicked Lester: You Are Doomed+3

Over the top Cleveland riff rockers with a serious Kiss fetish. Recorded by Thomas Boddie, who must've been scratching his head.

703 Cave Dwellers: Run Around+3

This 1965 Chicago Sun-Times quote says it all: “If a boy looking like that came calling on my daughter, I’d kick him out of the house.”

Circuit Rider

A few years ago, a mysterious LP appeared, only for sale from a limited number of retail outlets, most of the pressing being sold at the WFMU Record Fair in 2009. Some people recognized that it emanated from the Numero camp (even appearing on some lists as a Numero release), but no information was ever provided, and no official credit was ever taken. The LP, simply known as Circuit Rider, was living out its arcane origins. The sticker offered little, if any, info: “This is the ultimate burnout biker psych masterpiece. Finally repressed directly from tapes to flawlessly restore the cigarette burns, Harley fumes, and cocaine hangovers of the original ride, this is a 40 minute recipe for a complete mental breakdown. Included on the Acid Archives list of Top Ten LPs Most Likely To Be Owned By A Serial Killer, Circuit Rider is lost on the same journey as Kenneth Higney, Nicodemus & Matchez, YaHoWa, Boa, Heitkotter, Dave Lamb & Gye Whiz, Raven, Fraction, and The Doors’ LA Woman.”

We are pleased to be putting this replica LP back into print as the opening salvo in our mysterious "Jr." imprint. Available in our webstore now, or in finer record shops everywhere at the end of September.

NUM003 Eccentric Soul: The Bandit Label 3LP

Our post-nascent number two in the Eccentric Soul series, Bandit gets epic as we further dissect the improbable world of Chicago’s Arrow Brown and his near-cult of musicians, singers, pimps, questionable child stars and unverified child brides. Since its original issue nearly 8 years ago, we’ve unearthed more story, more photographs and yes, more music. An extra album's worth of music, in fact, accompanied by a 12″ by 12″ 52 page bound book containing a 20,000 word essay and dozens of unseen photographs and ephemera. A final, definitive edition of one of Chicago’s most eccentric soul producers. Available end of 2012.

NUM048.5 Medusa S/T LP

While it teetered from the cliff of Sabbath to the canyon of prog, Medusa’s self-titled debut LP never saw the inside of a record bin. Regulars on Chicago’s ’75 to ’78 rock club scene, this multi-gendered, semi-coven brought their dark vision on weeknights to dirt-bag pleasure palaces like Tuts and The Hanger. Housed in a black velour LP jacket with the truly amazing Medusa logo embossed in red and gold, Medusa finally gets a proper debut, bringing back acid-tinged, classic-rock riffs to Numero fans in search of blood. Available end of 2012.

And still to come… Eccentric Soul 45 subscription series, Lewis Connection LP, Eccentric Soul: The Cash Label, Good God! Title TBA, Eccentric Soul: The Dynamic Label, Ladies From The Canyon 2LP, Fern Jones 2LP, and something so massive that to tack it on here at the end of this message would be merciless. We've committed enough vengeance upon your wallet already today.

Love the Shoes but who the hell is paying $50 for Black Vinyl Shoes, the original vinyl is really not that rare. Nice to see the 1st 2 more readily available though.

speaking of the Shoes:

REAL GONE MUSIC’S EARLY FALL FEATURES
DION’S THE COMPLETE LAURIE SINGLES
AND ILLINOIS POWER-POPPERS SHOES’
DEFINITIVE COLLECTION

Meanwhile, David Cassidy romances, Zacherle scares,
and Dick picks yet more Grateful Dead rarities.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Real Gone Music’s early fall releases, due out October 2, 2012, are highlighted by Dion’s The Complete Laurie Singles, featuring the multi-decade superstar’s most famous and influential solo recordings (both A and B sides), and 35 Years: The Definitive Shoes Collection 1977-2012, a 21-song chronicle of both indie and major label recordings by Midwest power-pop legends Shoes.

If that weren’t enough, Real Gone Music also resurrects David Cassidy’s 1985 Romance album, and anticipates Halloween with a twofer (Monster Mash/Scary Tales) from the Cameo-Parkway catalog of the cool ghoul, John Zacherle. Finally, the Grateful Dead’s Dick’s Picks series continues with Dick’s Picks Vol. 27—Oakland Coliseum Arena, Oakland, CA 12/16/92, the only volume of the Dick’s Picks series to feature the final Dead line-up featuring Vince Welnick on keyboard.

Dion DiMucci’s original Laurie singles, the very tracks that established him as a superstar solo act during the ’60s, have never been collected in one place. Real Gone Music’s 36-track The Complete Laurie Singles collection features all the single sides, both A and B, that Dion recorded for Laurie in their original mono single mixes, including the early singles that sparked his solo success, the sides that Laurie released after Dion signed with Columbia in 1962 (Dion was the first rock ’n’ roll artist to sign with that hallowed label), and, finally, the radically different and progressive singles from his triumphant return to the Laurie label, beginning with “Abraham, Martin and John” in 1968. It would be hard to find the original mono single mixes of any of these songs except for the big hits, and some of these songs (e.g. the later singles and the B-sides) aren’t on CD at all. Remastered from the original tapes at Capitol Studios by Kevin Bartley with assistance from Andrew Sandoval, and featuring liner notes by compilation producer Ed Osborne that include vintage photos of Dion, shots of the original singles and exclusive quotes from Dion himself, this two-CD set is a must for any Dion fan or collector, and encapsulates the Laurie years of this legendary artist like no other release. Highlights include such chart-top hits as “The Wanderer,” “Little Diane,” “Love Came to Me,” “Sandy,” “Lonely Teenager,” “Lovers Who Wander” and of course “Abraham, Martin & John.” (Dion is still making credible music today as the solid new blues album titled Tank Full of Blues attests.)

Improbably hailing from the dry, church-dominated town of Zion, Ill. on the banks of Lake Michigan, Shoes were formed, like a lot of rock bands, by three kids who were just looking for something to do. The difference? Very few bands — none actually come to mind — write and perform perfectly crafted power pop songs for 35 years and counting. Indeed, Gary Klebe and brothers John and Jeff Murphy reign as deans of the entire power pop scene. And now, concurrent with the release of Ignition, their first new studio album in 18 years, and Boys Don’t Lie: A History of Shoes, a behind-the-scenes biography detailing their odyssey through the musical industry, Shoes and Real Gone Music have teamed to release the first-ever career-spanning retrospective of the band. 35 Years—The Definitive Shoes Collection includes 21 tracks chosen by Shoes from the eight studio albums that saw an official release, starting with the DIY masterpiece of 1977, Black Vinyl Shoes, through the three albums (Present Tense, Tongue Twister and Boomerang) released on Elektra, the three albums (Silhouette, Stolen Wishes and Propeller) the band self-released in the ’80s and ’90s, and culminating in a newly-released track, “Say It Like You Mean It,” from Ignition. Included are classic Shoe-tunes like “Tomorrow Night,” “Too Late,” “She Satisfies,” “In My Arms Again” and “Feel the Way That I Do.” The liner notes by Stephen "Spaz" Schnee feature fresh, exclusive interviews with the band and pictures from their private archives. Whether you’re a long-time fan or new to Shoes’ sublime power pop pleasures, 35 Years—the Definitive Shoes Collection 1977-2012 is essential.

Straight from the crypts, er, vaults of Cameo Parkway comes this fiendish find, a gruesome twosome of vintage albums, Monster Mash/Scary Tales, from the Cool Ghoul himself, the original TV horror host, Zacherle. The first of these albums hit #44 on the charts, as it boasts Zach’s Top Ten hit “Dinner With Drac” (plus, as one of four bonus tracks, its flipside, “Dinner with Drac Pt. 2”). His sleeve notes alone are worth the price of admission — and these albums come to you in original “moan-o.” None other than Zach acolyte (Zacholyte?) John Sebastian chips in with new notes, too. The albums are back in print in America following a long absence, just in time for Halloween.

The Romance album, David Cassidy’s first and only for Arista, was withheld from the American market upon its original release in 1985. Which, one suspects, may have sparked some second guessing in the label’s corporate suites after it scored a Top 10 hit in the U.K. with “The Last Kiss,” which featured George Michael on vocals. “She Knows All About Boys” was a European smash as well, while the album itself went to #20 on the British charts. Romance is also notable for being the only ’80s release from the former Partridge Family teen idol, and for the production and songwriting work of Alan Tarney (a-ha, Squeeze, Leo Sayer, Matthew Sweet). Nevertheless, this reissue marks the first time Romance has been released in any form in the U.S. Mike Ragogna’s liner notes place this long-lost recording in context of Cassidy’s one-of-a-kind career.

“Dick” was Dick Latvala, the official tape archivist for the Grateful Dead until 1999, whose inspiration and encyclopedic knowledge of the band’s vaults spawned the fabled Dick’s Picks series of live Dead concert recordings. The 36-volume Dick’s Picks follows the band on its long, strange trip through a multitude of eras, tours and venues, featuring handpicked shows that display the band at its visionary, improvisational height. Dick’s Picks Vol. 27—Oakland Coliseum Arena, Oakland, CA 12/16/92 is the only Dick’s Picks volume to feature the final Dead line-up, with Vince Welnick assuming all keyboard duties after the departure of Bruce Hornsby, and, fittingly enough, it provides quite the showcase for the ex-Tubes keyboardist’s vocal chops on the unexpected covers of the Who’s “Baba O’Riley” and the Beatles’ “Tomorrow Never Knows.” Those are two of the four bonus songs taken from the next night’s show at the same venue; the rest of this 3-CD set presents the complete 12/16/92 Oakland show, which offers among its treasures a rare (albeit abbreviated), ‘90s reading of “Dark Star,” a great, Pigpen-tribute rendition of “Good Lovin’,” Bob Weir’s reading of Willie Dixon’s “The Same Thing” and a marvelously exploratory “Playing in the Band/Drums/Space” segment. The set preserves one of the best ’90s Dead shows, presented in HDCD sound.

701 Pretty: Mustache In Your Face+3

Aaaagghhhh yessssssssssssssssssss.

These 2x7" things, do you have to subscribe or some bullshit? Text block hurting my head right now.

Circuit Rider is an awesome record fwiw, I have the 2009 reissue mentioned in that blurb

I think you can get at least some of those individually, check numerogroup.com. Seems like I would like Circuit Rider. Here's a couple things coming up from VP, had forgotten about the weird Manley-Marley-Seaga convergence, those were tense times, to say the least.

Barrington Levy 'Reggae Anthology: Sweet Reggae Music'
(17 North Parade, 2CD/DVD Anthology)
Barrington Levy has solidified himself as one of the most versatile and influential Jamaican reggae-dancehall vocalists of all time. The living legend has recorded a massive catalog of music in roots, lover's rock and dancehall styles over the past thirty years. This 2-CD / DVD anthology highlights his work between 1979 and 1984 including classics with producer Henry 'Junjo' Lawes and a variety of nuggets from the period. Drawing a broad spectrum of fans beyond traditional reggae enthusiasts, this truly distinctive artist tours non-stop and still rocks major festivals, clubs and dancehalls across the globe.

Marcia Griffiths 'Marcia & Friends' (2CD Best of Duet Set, VP)
In tribute to the first lady of reggae, Penthouse productions presents the double CD collection 'Marcia and Friends' with many of Griffiths' greatest duets. The best-of-collection features 38 combination tracks with some of reggae’s top artists. Over the years, Marcia Griffiths has had chart-topping hits in wide a range of styles (doo-wop covers, rock steady, roots reggae and 80s funk. As one of the I-Threes (Bob Marley’s iconic backing trio) to her work with legendary Studio One producer Coxonne Dodd and then to a major crossover hit, “Electric Boogie,” that continues to prompt the electric slide globally, no other female vocalist has a legacy quite like Marcia Griffiths.

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'Reggae Golden Jubilee: The Origins of Jamaican Music'
(VP, 4-disc box collection selected by Edward Seaga)
In November, VP will unleash 'Reggae Golden Jubilee: The Origins of Jamaican Music,' one of the genre’s most expansive 4-disc box sets to date. Former Jamaican Prime Minister, Edward Seaga, chose 100 of Jamaica's most significant hits over the last 50 years from legends including Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Jimmy Cliff, Toots and The Maytals, Sean Paul, Shaggy and many more. Music and politics have been intertwined in Jamaica throughout history. The indelible memory of Bob Marley joining the hands of political rivals Michael Manley of People’s National Party and Edward Seaga of Jamaican Labour Party amidst a political civil war at the 1978 One Love Peace Concert in Kingston, will forever be etched into the memories of Jamaicans. As a genuine fan and historian of Jamaican music, Edward Seaga tells his unique perspective and role in the industry in extensive liner notes of this special commemorative collection.The 64-page deluxe package, adorned with iconic photographs and imagery from Jamaica’s first fifty years, also includes a preface from VP Records' President Christopher Chin and foreword from radio personality Dermot Hussey and music historian and journalist John Masouri.

“In the course of development, Jamaican popular music demonstrated a triumph of creativity by borrowing nothing to build something.”
- Edward Seaga, Former Jamaica Prime Minister

“…my family and I have witnessed the evolution of Jamaican music and its impact around the world. This rich music is not only the foundation of my family’s business but on a personal level became the soundtrack of life memories.”
- Christopher Chin, VP Records CEO
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Never heard much of Strummer and the Mescaleros, how were they? Saw an unusually good doc on Strummer recently, by Julian Temple.

Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros Release Re-Issues and Rarities

Record Honors Legendary Singer’s 60th Anniversary

To celebrate the extraordinary life and career of musician Joe Strummer, Hellcat Records proudly announces the digital release of Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros, The Hellcat Years. The album comes out on August 21st, which would have been the iconic artist’s 60th birthday. In addition to the digital release, Rock Art and the X-Ray Style, Global A Go-Go and Streetcore, will be re-issued on September 25th.

Fans are invited to stream the rare and previously unheard live recording of "Johnny Appleseed" courtesy of Rolling Stone by going here: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/song-premiere-joe-strummer-the-mescaleros-johnny-appleseed-live-20120821

A comprehensive collection of recorded music, hard to find b-sides and never before heard impassioned live performances, the compilation highlights three superb albums; Rock Art and the X-Ray Style, Global A Go-Go and Streetcore, all recorded between 1999 and Strummer’s untimely death in 2002. It was during this period that Strummer wrote, recorded and toured with the band he dubbed “The Mescaleros.” These records capture the one time Clash front man amidst an undeniable creative resurgence. In a review of Streetcore, UK newspaper The Guardian called the record Strummer’s “best work since the Clash's London Calling.”

Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros, The Hellcat Years also features three rare live tracks documenting the celebratory 2002 reunion of Strummer and Clash band mate Mick Jones at a benefit concert for the Fire Brigades Union in London. Backed by an overjoyed Mescaleros, the two legends roar through exhilarating versions of Clash classics Bank Robber, White Riot and London’s Burning.

Track Listing
Tony Adams - 6:33
Sandpaper Blues - 4:27
X-ray Style - 4:34
Techno D-day - 4:08
The Road To Rock'n'roll - 3:59
Nitcomb - 4:31
Diggin' The New - 3:08
Forbidden City - 4:47
Yalla Yalla - 6:57
Willesden To Cricklewood - 6:46
Johnny Appleseed - 4:04
Cool 'N' Out - 4:22
Global A GO-GO - 5:55
Bhindi Bhagee - 5:47
Gamma Ray - 6:58
Mega Bottle Ride - 3:33
Shaktar Donetsk - 5:57
Mondo Bongo - 6:15
Bummed Out City - 5:33
At The Border, Guy - 7:09
Minstrel Boy - 17:49
Coma Girl - 3:50
Get Down Moses - 5:05
Long Shadow - 3:34
Arms Aloft - 3:47
Ramshackle Day Parade - 4:03
Redemption Song - 3:28
All In A Day - 4:56
Burnin' Streets - 4:32
Midnight Jam - 5:50
Silver And Gold - 2:39
Time and The Tide (B-side of Yalla Yalla) - 4:05
The X-Ray Style (live summer 99) (B-side to Yalla Yalla) - 4:32
Yalla Yalla (Norro’s King Dub) (7:01) (B-side to Yalla Yalla) - 7:00
The Harder They Come (live) (B-side to Coma Girl) - 3:26
Rudi, A Message To You (live) (B-side to Coma Girl) - 5:04
Blitzkreig Bop (live) (B-side of Coma Girl) - 3:25
Yalla Yalla (live) (B-side to Coma Girl) - 6:56
Armagideon Time (B-side to Redemption Song) - 4:30
Pressure Drop (B-side to Redemption Song) - 4:30
Junco Partner (from Hellcat Give Em The Boot IV compilation) - 4:19
Shaktar Donetsk (Acton Concert) - 5:43
Bhindee Bhagee (Acton Concert) - 6:12
Rudy Can’t Fail (Acton Concert) - 4:39
Tony Adams (Acton Concert) - 7:24
White Man In Hammersmith Palais (Acton Concert) - 5:18
Mega Bottle Ride (Acton Concert) - 3:47
Get Down Moses (Acton Concert) - 4:18
Police and Thieves (Acton Concert) - 6:02
Cool 'n' Out (Acton Concert) - 3:38
Police On My Back (Acton Concert) - 4:49
Johnny Appleseed (Acton Concert) - 4:37
Coma Girl (Acton Concert) - 4:27
I Fought The Law (Acton Concert) - 4:00
Bank Robber (encore w/ Mick Jones) (Acton Concert) - 9:08
White Riot (encore w/ Mick Jones) (Acton Concert) - 2:25
London’s Burning (encore w/ Mick Jones) (Acton Concert) - 2:33

For more information:
www.hellcat.com

i just got an email about this, never heard of it, but sounds intriguing

Tompkins Square Reissues Lost Americana Gem from 1973 on September 18th - Bill Wilson "Ever Changing Minstrel"
Produced by Bob Johnston (Dylan, Cohen, Cash) and released on Columbia Records in 1973. Features "Blonde on Blonde" session crew.

Indiana's Bill Wilson drove to Nashville and knocked on producer Bob Johnston's kitchen door in 1973. Bob let him in to play a few songs, liked it, and rounded up his crew that played on Dylan's "Blonde on Blonde". They recorded 'Ever Changing Minstrel' that night, and it was released on Columbia Records in 1973. The album is now reissued with rare photographs, notes by reissue producer and Tompkins Square label owner Josh Rosenthal, and remastered from the original tapes.

Fac. Dance 02 Due In September

STREAM: Thick Pigeon - "Babcock + Wilcox" -

http://www.spin.com/articles/coen-bros-meet-factory-records-hear-thick-pigeons-arty-1984-synth-popper-babcock-wilcox
Cover art for FAC. DANCE 02

On September 17th, Strut will release the second album in the FAC. DANCE series, bringing together sought after 12" versions and rarities from Manchester's revered Factory Records imprint. Featured on the compilation is a song by seminal post-punk band Thick Pigeon. Check out a rare cut from the group on Spin.com, or over at SoundCloud.

Despite a reputation for austere post-punk, Factory Record's first decade produced a slew of landmark dance records, primarily brought to the label by Rob Gretton, who valued tunes and beats over Situationist theory and laboratory experiments in popular art. Conversely, founder Tony Wilson disparaged pure dance music as lacking intellectual rigour. As a result, this second collection of early Factory dance sides occupies a compelling middle ground.

Revisiting the peerless studio work of Martin Hannett, Be Music (the collective pseudonym of New Order members Bernard Sumner, Stephen Morris and Peter Hook) and ACR drummer Donald Johnson, among others, FAC. DANCE 02 fleshes out Factory's varied early forays into dance territory, widening the spectrum yet further from Volume One. The early version of A Certain Ratio's angular funk classic "The Fox" from the band's debut album To Each... rubs shoulders with Cheba Fadela's Algerian rai blast, "N'Sel Fik"; Kalima's uplifting dancefloor jazz also features, along with a sprawling electro dub of 52nd Street's UK boogie classic "Can't Afford"; we spotlight Dutch electronic band Minny Pops with the motorik "Blue Roses" alongside the heavy dub and reggae stylings of The Wake, X-O-Dus and ACR alter ego Sir Horatio; the Manchester / New York axis is also revisited once again with two potent post-punk funk blasts from E.S.G., the first US band to appear on Factory.

FAC. DANCE 02 is released in conjunction with Factory Records Ltd. The CD and LP packages feature detailed track notes by Factory biographer James Nice, together with rare photos. The digital version of the album features five tracks not featured on the physical formats.

CD 1

1. A CERTAIN RATIO - THE FOX 3.47
2. ESG - MOODY 2.46
3. MINNY POPS - BLUE ROSES 2.33
4. THICK PIGEON - BABCOCK + WILCOX 3.44
5. BITING TONGUES - MEAT MASK SEPARATIST 4.57
6. SIR HORATIO - SOMMADUB 7.18
7. X-O-DUS - SOCIETY 4.20
8. THE DURUTTI COLUMN - SELF PORTRAIT 4.40
9. SECTION 25 - KNEW NOISE 4.43
10. SHARK VEGAS - YOU HURT ME 6.59
11. FADELA - N'SEL FIK 7.06
12. KALIMA - LAND OF DREAMS 6.47

CD 2

1. 52nd STREET - CAN'T AFFORD (Unorganised mix) 10.02
2. NYAM NYAM - FATE 8.06
3. A CERTAIN RATIO - LUCINDA 3.53
4. ESG - YOU'RE NO GOOD 3.09
5. SWAMP CHILDREN - SOFTLY SAYING GOODBYE 4.09
6. QUANDO QUANGO - GO EXCITING (12" mix) 5.57
7. SURPRIZE - IN MOVIMENTO 5.33
8. ANNA DOMINO - TAKE THAT 4.13
9. THE WAKE - HOST 7.57
10. ROYAL FAMILY AND THE POOR - VANEIGEM MIX 6.22
11. SECTION 25 - SAKURA 3.58
12. AD INFINITUM - TELSTAR 3.13

For More Information, Check Out:
http://www.strut-records.com

sounds cool!
listening to the bill wilson thing now. pretty cool, if not mindblowing. the kinda thing i assume jacob sanders and ian already know all about...

The Flatlanders Original Recordings

& DVD With New Interviews And Performances

Available August 28th, 2012 via New West Records

Exclusive Video Premiere Today At RollingStone.com

Album Stream & In Depth Interview With

The Band At KUT.ORG

Los Angeles, CA - August 22, 2012 - The Odessa Tapes, the first recordings from the legendary Flatlanders (comprised of the nucleus of Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock), is already receiving critical acclaim beginning with a four star review in Mojo Magazine. Thought lost for nearly four decades, The Odessa Tapes, available August 28th from New West Records, features pristine recordings that capture without any polish the special blend of country, folk, roots and cosmic energy The Flatlanders pioneered. A DVD featuring a candid new interview with The Flatlanders discussing the myths of the early days of their career and booklet with unreleased archival photos will round out this deluxe package. Limited edition 180-gram vinyl will also be available for the audio portion of the release. A clip of the DVD can be seen at RollingStone.com while the album is streaming at KUT.Org. An in depth interview with the band is also available to hear at KUT.org.
The Odessa Tapes features 14 songs, recorded on reel-to-reel tape, four of which were previously unreleased. The record is rounded out by original versions of the 10 songs that were eventually re-recorded for All American Music the subsequent album which was a limited release available only on 8-track in late 1972.
The Flatlanders, who are reintroducing these songs into their sets, will continue to tour throughout the fall in support of the release.

TRACK LIST:

1. I Know You

2. Number Sixteen +

3. Shadow Of The Moon +

4. Dallas

5. Down In My Hometown

6. Stars In My Life

7. I Think Too Much Of You +

8. Bhagavan Decreed

9. Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown

10. You've Never Seen Me Cry

11. One Road More

12. Story Of You +

13. Rose From The Mountain

14. The Heart You Left Behind

+ previously unreleased song
TOUR DATES:

Fri, Sept 28 Lubbock, TX Cactus Theater

Tues, Oct 9 Seattle, WA Benaroya Symphony Hall

Wed, Oct 10 Portland, OR Aladdin Theater

Sat, Jan 19 Austin, TX Paramount Theater

*additional dates to be added, visit www.theflatlanders.com

Good blog post by Sasha Frere-Jones on the Rodriquez phenomenon (for lack of a better word: saga rolling into a **thing** in time)
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/sashafrerejones/2012/08/searching-for-sugar-man-malik-bendjellou.html#entry-more

Holy crap, I just listened to both discs of xpost Fac.Dance 02 at a single sitting, and it was a sitting in office chair, not a dancing on the floor, not ideal considering how long some of these are and how detailed they all are. But they tranced me out/in and brought me back through the land of 1,000 associations, $20 Koss PortaPro headphones, and mp3s crammed about as full as possible with well-defined presence of bass, percussion, voices, guitars, stereo depth etc. 80s as hell, but not the monotonous blare I associate with radio-aimed sounds of that decade. There might be more for the club though, and still lote of catnip for current DJs, seems like. Accessible, fairly familiar elements taken in idiosyncratic directions, though not nearly so many New Order/Gang of Four/Adrian Sherwood-related sounds per se as I'd halfway expected. Helps to have ESG, Fadela, Biting Tongues' non-avant, non-wannabee brass workout, Kalima tapping the cosmic pop potential of, say, Linda Sharrock, Pharaoh Snanders and maybe early Earth Wind And Fire, Durruti Column like a deft edit of Can, Quando Quango in there with Poly Styrene and Rip Rig & Panic--but scary wake of Joy D., don't worry. Like The Wake's "Host", in which a piercing synthesized beauty is contained in pulsing shadows, natch, but begins to suggest a buzzsaw, without losing the purity of its pitch. The Royal Family and the Poor lecture about the freedom and fraternity consumption in a chamber of rending, reaming, haiirline guitar strings, an apocalyptic but (I don't think) fascist groove thing. The order of tracks in the promos is diff from list above, but seems almost perfect. Haven't heard the digital-only bonuses.

scary wake of Joy D. *too*, freedom and fraternity *of* consumption.

of Montreal - Daughter of Cloud
On Oct. 23rd, of Montreal will release their rarities collection, Daughter of Cloud, which compiles 17 of Montreal recordings ranging from the Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? era to the present. Ten of the album's songs are previously unreleased, while the other seven were originally issued on limited edition, rare or out-print CDs and 7"s.

It will be available on CD, 180 gram cyan colored 2xLP and digital formats. It will also be released as a limited edition of 200 hand numbered purple cassettes by Joyful Noise Recordings.

The band will also hit the road later this fall starting off with the Filter Culture Collide Festival in Los Angeles on October 6th and ending December 15th @ Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, NC.

One of of Montreal's Daughter of Cloud rarities, "Sails, Hermaphroditic":
http://soundcloud.com/polyvinyl-records/of-montreal-sails?utm_source=of+Montreal+Rarities+Album+|+Harouki+Zombi+7%22+Announcement&utm_campaign=of+Montreal+DOC&utm_medium=email

CORROSION OF CONFORMITY’s Eye For An Eye To Be Reissued November 6

Candlelight Records today confirms November 6 as the North American release date of CORROSION OF CONFORMITY’s Eye For An Eye. This special reissue has been remastered/packaged and includes the EP Six Songs With Mike Singing. Both titles have been out of print for years. It follows the successful release of the band’s self-titled album earlier this year. A deluxe digibook edition of the album, limited to 1000 for North America, will be available at limited retailers and via Candlelight’s official webstore. The digibook version includes extended liner notes and a rare pictorial gallery.
Twenty-six songs showcase the early sonic years of the North Carolina-based band. Far more punk than their later recordings, the album found an immediate fanbase. Amazon customers over the years have called the album an “undisputed classic,” while noting it is “for the true skaters of the mid-to-late-‘80s,” and “brings me back to a good time of hardcore/punk.” Guitarist Woody Weatherman comments, “We were just kids when we wrote and recorded these tunes.” Vocalist/bassist Mike Dean notes, “Making that album was our dream and we worked hard to make it happen because it was the vehicle to allow us to go out and play two hundred shows a year, like the bands we looked up to – Black Flag, Bad Brains, D.O.A.”
Originally released in 1984, Eye for An Eye featured the original lineup of Weatherman, Dean, drummer Reed Mullin, and vocalist Eric Eycke. Reissued to incorporate the 1989 EP by Mike Dean (who left the band between 1987-1992), Eye for An Eye is raw in sound but focused on message. The years that followed would see the band rise to worldwide popularity with breakthrough and Billboard-charting releases Blind and Deliverance.
Formed in Raleigh in 1982, CORROSION OF CONFORMITY quickly transformed heavy music. Politically charged and socially aware, the band has influenced countless others and today remains humble about their accomplishments. With over 1.1 million albums sold in the United States, the band continues to find new fans via nonstop touring.
“We had a lot of fun doing it and it’s great to have this album officially back out there again,” says Weatherman. “I had basically written this off as being our sloppy beginner's effort but listening to it now, I really hear a few songs that hold up well,” adds Dean.
Eye For An Eye Track Listing:
01. Tell Me

02. Minds Are Controlled

03. Indifferent

04. Broken Will

05. Rabid Dogs

06. L.S.

07. Rednekkk

08. Coexist

09. Excluded

10. Dark Thoughts

11. Poison Planet

12. What?

13. Negative Outlook

14. Positive Outlook

15. No Drunk

16. College Town

17. Not Safe

18. Eye For An Eye

19. Nothing’s Gonna Change

20. Green Manalishi

21. Eye For An Eye*

22. Center of the World*

23. Citizen*

24. Not For Me*

25. What ?*

26. Negative Outlook*

*Six Songs With Mike Singing

Typical, I finally found a copy of this on CD recently but it was quite expensive.

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REAL GONE MUSIC LATE OCTOBER, NOVEMBER RELEASES FEATURE EL TOPO SOUNDTRACK, BARBARA LEWIS, DAVID PEEL & THE LOWER EAST SIDE, SSGT. BARRY SADLER
AND JOHNNY MATHIS MERCURY ALBUMS

Also, Christmas stocking stuffers from Percy Faith, Doris Day
and a Perry Como collection produced by Richard Carpenter

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Real Gone Music is hitting the election season with a slate of releases designed to appeal to every party. The mind-bending soundtrack from the movie El Topo will return as a deluxe CD and 180-gram LP on October 30. Northern soul legend Barbara Lewis’ Atlantic years are collected on The Complete Atlantic Singles. Lower East Side habitué and John Lennon crony David Peel’s Have a Marijuana makes its U.S. CD album reissue debut. On the other end of town (and political spectrum), SSgt. Barry Sadler’s Ballads of the Green Berets album finds new life on compact disc, while Real Gone continues its acclaimed reissue of Johnny Mathis’ Mercury material with a pair of twofers coupling This Is Love and Olé and The Sweetheart Tree and The Shadow of Your Smile. And just in time for Christmas, Real Gone Music offers Percy Faith’s The Complete Music of Christmas, Doris Day’s The Complete Christmas Collection, and Perry Como’s Complete RCA Christmas Collection.

Championed by everybody from John Lennon to Peter Gabriel, though decried by critics, El Topo remains one of the controversial movies ever made. Director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s bizarre, blood-soaked blend of spaghetti Western, druggy surrealism, Christian allegory, Zen Buddhist themes and avant-garde sensibilities gave rise to the entire “Midnight Movie” counterculture phenomenon of the early ’70s and forever changed the way adventurous audiences viewed film. Or, for that matter, heard film, for no soundtrack, before or since, has embraced so many styles in its pursuit of spiritual and artistic goals. Atonal, Tibetan Buddhist thighbone trumpets clash with beautiful, even sentimental, chamber orchestra pieces alongside pan flute rhapsodies, brass bands and parlor jazz; that Jodorowsky himself composed the score is nearly as impressive an artistic achievement as the film itself. Real Gone Music, in partnership with ABKCO Music & Records, will issue this one-of-a-kind soundtrack album on LP and as a stand-alone CD for the first time since the original 1971 Apple Records release. All design elements of the original packaging — including a four-page booklet boasting some of the film’s hallucinogenic imagery — will be reproduced on the LP reissue and incorporated into the design of the CD booklet. Out October 30, 2012.

With her purring passionate voice and arrangements both spare and sumptuous, Barbara Lewis recorded some of the best soul-pop of the 1960s. Though best remembered for her hits “Hello Stranger” (which she wrote, along with a number of her early singles), “Baby I'm Yours” and “Make Me Your Baby,” she recorded a wealth of fine material for Atlantic Records throughout the 1960s that remains beloved among devotees of both the Beach Music and Northern Soul scenes, with such esteemed producers as Bert Berns, Arif Mardin and Artie Butler behind the board. The two-CD collection The Complete Atlantic Singles is the most comprehensive anthology of her Atlantic recordings ever assembled (and the only one available), featuring the A-sides and B-sides of all 17 singles she issued for the label, many of which have never appeared on CD. Richie Unterberger’s notes feature exclusive quotes from Barbara Lewis herself. A soul essential, available November 6.

Spawned by the same anarcho-street-folk-punk movement that gave rise to such colorful personalities as the Fugs and Holy Modal Rounders, David Peel has been singing songs and politically agitating on the streets of lower New York for more than 45 years (he recently was a fixture at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations). This album marked his debut; recorded with his band David Peel & the Lower East Side on the streets of New York for Elektra in 1968, it scraped the lower reaches of the charts in 1969 and brought Peel no small measure of notoriety, which culminated with his being signed to Apple Records and produced by John Lennon (the infamous The Pope Smokes Dope) in the early ’70s. Have a Marijuana took no prisoners then and doesn’t now; such songs as “Up Against the Wall,” “I Like Marijuana” and “Here Comes a Cop” may embody for some the worst excesses of the hippie movement while reminding others of the enduring struggle for social justice and personal freedom. Or they might just provoke a guffaw or two—or maybe a Yippie. Have a Marijuana makes its domestic stand-alone CD debut on October 30, with original album art and new liner notes featuring quotes from Peel himself.

Real Gone Music continues its reissue campaign featuring CD debuts of Johnny Mathis’ classic Mercury albums with a pair of single-CD twofers streeting November 6. 1964’s This Is Love was one of the last and greatest of the romantic ballad albums Johnny Mathis had been recording throughout his career to that point, with three tracks (“Poinciana,” “The Touch of Your Lips” and “The End of a Love Affair”) paying tribute to another all-time great romantic balladeer and early role model, Nat “King” Cole. 1965’s Olé, meanwhile, marked a daring artistic turn for the artist, as it presented Latin songs sung in their native languages of Spanish and Portuguese (including two from the film Black Orpheus) with authentic, stripped-down accompaniment. Mathis’ next two albums were among his most successful with Mercury: The Sweetheart Tree boasted the Academy Award-nominated title track penned by Mathis and Henry Mancini for the film The Great Race, and The Shadow of Your Smile was, with the exception of his Christmas record, the most popular of the albums Johnny recorded for Mercury, reaching #9 on the charts. Highlights include the singer’s first forays into Beatle-mania (“Michelle” and “Yesterday”) and three songs from the hit Broadway musical On a Clear Day You Can See Forever. Both albums hail from 1965.

You know a Christmas album is classic when it gets re-recorded in stereo five years after its initial release, when that re-recording hits the charts a full five years after its initial release, and when the record company goes to the trouble of giving a subsequent Christmas album the same name a full seven years after its initial release under a different title. There’s only one Christmas album (or one album, period) that fits all these criteria: Percy Faith’s 1954 masterpiece, The Music of Christmas. Majestic and sumptuous, this recording brought the arranging, orchestrating and conducting prowess of the young maestro to bear on some of the most beloved hymns and carols of all time. Yet the original mono recording of this holiday essential — and its iconic cover art — has never been issued on a legitimate CD until now. (The 1959 stereo re-recording, which charted in 1964, has never gone out of print). Disc Two presents the original stereo version of the 1958 release Hallelujah! together with its original cover art; a Christmas classic in its own right, it shows what holiday magic Percy Faith could wield in the stereophonic realm. That album was re-named The Music of Christmas Volume 2 in 1965; Real Gone Music offers both The Music of Christmas and Hallelujah! as The Complete Music of Christmas, a two-CD set featuring new remastering by Maria Triana that just leaps out of the stereo. Street date is November 13.

Given the international success of her 2011 album My Heart, ’tis the season to re-release Doris Day’s The Complete Christmas Collection, a 22-track collection containing Doris’ complete, holiday-themed recordings, plus some real rarities. The first 12 tracks hail from her beloved 1964 release The Doris Day Christmas Album — issued in its entirety here for the first time in the U.S. — followed by two hard-to-find tracks she recorded with Frank DeVol in 1959 and five non-LP Columbia singles. But the next two songs are even rarer — unreleased prior to this collection, in fact — “Silent Night” and “Christmas Greeting from Doris” hail from her early-’50s radio show and her late-’60s CBS-TV show, respectively. The set winds up with an emotionally charged reading of “Let No Walls Divide” taken from the all-star Christmas album We Wish You the Merriest that Columbia released in 1961 to promote stars like Johnny Cash, Aretha Franklin and Andre Previn as well as Doris. Release date is October 30.

A roaring fire, something warm to wear (probably a cardigan) and the crooning call of Perry Como — such has been the comforting recipe for countless Christmas celebrations across generations. And now here’s a collection to pass down through those generations: all of the holiday-themed recordings Perry made for RCA over 36 years taken from the original tapes, with notes by longtime admirer (and co-producer of this compilation) Richard Carpenter. The first eight tracks hail from the original 78-rpm album Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas (1946), followed by six non-album singles. Next up is the 1953 album Around the Christmas Tree, plus, as a bonus, two spoken-word radio introductions from Perry. That’s disc one; disc two leads off with three more singles, then the 1959 stereo album Season’s Greetings From Perry Como, which hit the Pop album charts for four straight years and the Christmas album charts for six more years after that! And disc three offers two single sides, then the chart-topping 1968 release The Perry Como Christmas Album, a rare album outtake (“Some Children See Him”) and another single before fittingly winding up with Perry’s final holiday recording from 1982, the appropriately-titled “I Wish It Could Be Christmas Forever.” Only 1,000 copies of this 53-track collection were made in 2010 before it went out of print, now fetching $400 online for a new copy (don’t worry, this Real Gone Music reissue sells for a lot less than that). The three-CD set Complete RCA Christmas Collection, slated for October 30 release, is destined to become an enduring Christmas classic.

Depending upon your age, political persuasion and/or aesthetic sensibility, the 1966 album SSgt. Barry Sadler’s Ballads of the Green Berets could be viewed as a courageous, patriotic rejoinder to the antiwar fervor then sweeping the nation, or as a jingoistic, war-mongering screed, or as an unintentionally hilarious camp classic. Through any filter, though, it’s a genuine ’60s artifact, proof positive that Richard Nixon’s “Silent Majority” really did exist back in the ’60s, as it sold two million copies in five weeks and the title track reached #1 and #2 in the pop and country charts, respectively. The Real Gone reissue, to be released October 30, includes the original artwork, new liner notes and a bonus track, SSgt. Sadler’s hit follow-up single, “The ‘A’-Team.”

Street date October 30, 2012:
El Topo Soundtrack (LP & CD)
David Peel & the Lower East Side: Have a Marijuana
Perry Como: Complete RCA Christmas Collection
Doris Day: The Complete Christmas Collection
SSgt. Barry Sadler: Ballads of the Green Berets

Street date November 6, 2012:
Barbara Lewis: The Complete Atlantic Singles
Johnny Mathis: This Is Love/Olé
Johnny Mathis: The Sweetheart Tree/The Shadow of Your Smile

Street date November 13, 2012:
Percy Faith: The Complete Music of Christmas
About Real Gone Music
Real Gone Music, formed and helmed by industry vets Gordon Anderson and Gabby Castellana, is an eclectic and prolific catalog and reissue label with distribution through Razor & Tie. Anderson and Castellana each started businesses in 1993 — Collectors’ Choice Music and Hep Cat Records & Distribution, respectively — that became two of the most important outlets for buyers and sellers of vintage music recordings. They joined forces in 2011 to launch Real Gone Music, which serves both the collector community and the casual music fan with a robust release schedule combining big-name artists with esoteric cult favorites. Real Gone Music is dedicated to combing the vaults for sounds that aren’t just gone — they’re REAL gone.
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Viva Tim Maia! Luaka Bop Throws Worldwide Party for Brazilian Superstar's 70th Birthday

Tim Maia
After a decade of legal wrangling, 'Nobody Can Live Forever: The Existential Soul of Tim Maia,' the latest installment in Luaka Bop's World Psychedelic Classics series, is out Oct 2, and the entire album is now streaming exclusively via Slate
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Had he not died of a heart attack onstage in 1998, Maia would turn 70 tomorrow, September 28. Luaka Bop is celebrating with a worldwide birthday celebration spanning four continents over 24 hours, featuring tribute shows, DJ sets and live performances, and more. Click the image at the right to zoom in on Tim's birthday party map and go here for more information on the events: http://www.facebook.com/TimMaiaOfficial/events

Rolling Stone recently called his music a "soul grenade." In an early review SPIN noted that Maia is sometimes called "the Brazilian Sly Stone" adding that "actually undersells his uniqueness."

Tim Maia on the Web:

http://www.timmaia.com

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