Record Store Day Arrivals #5

My Morning Jacket Evil Urges picture LP

My Morning Jacket  Z picture LP

Paul Simon  So Beautiful or So What LP

Robbie Roberts How to Become Clairvoyant LP

Dengue Fever  Cannibal Courtship LP

Duff McKagen  Loaded LP

Matt Costa  Songs we Sing LP

Fistful of Mercy 7″

Freelance Whales/Foals split 7″

A Day to Remember 7″

Red Fang (colored LP)

The Kills 10″

Rhymesayers label comp picture LP

Deerhoof Friend Opportunity  Dlx LP

Ubiquity 12″ #1

Ubiquity 12″ #3

Rancid  Let the Dominoes Fall Dlx LP Box

Tribute to Guided by Voices CD

Crowded House Live CD & LP

Lindstrom Remix/Bear in Heaven 12″

Akron/Family 2LP

Syd Barrett Introduction LP

Off! 7″

Vanguard Lost Psychedelic LP

Beth Ditto LP

Beach Boys mono EP

Adele 10″

Bruce Springsteen 10″

Decemberists Live CD

Jimi Hendrix Fire 7″

Parlophone 7′ Box Set

AC/DC 7″

Ozzy Osbourne 7″

Jimi Hendrix tribute cd single

Peter Tosh (7’Jamaican colors)

In this Moment cd single

Michael Jackson 7″

Raphael Saadiq 7″

Roy Orbison 7″

Cults 7″

Manchester Orchestra 7″

All right.  I think that is it.  Small forest of cardboard in our back room.

Twilight Sad Demos Cassette

Wavves /Trash Talk split 7″

Superchunk/Coliseum split 7′

Skysaw 7″

Ryan Adams double 7″

Civil Wars  Dance Me 7″

Pinback 7″

Tres Mts LP

 

Record Store Day Arrivals #4

Ate some food.  Ready to go thru boxes.

Matt & Kim 7″

Deerhunter 7″

New Pornographers 7″

David’s Town (various) Lp

Esben & the Witch -Ep

Arthur Russell World of Echo (Lp reissue)

Anberlin-Cities Lp

Kode 9 & Scapeape 12″

Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Oz (Lp reissue)

Ozzy Osbourne Diary of a Madman (Lp reissue)

John Hammond So Many Roads (Lp reissue)

Nickel Creek  This Side Lp

Dom 10″

Nickel Creek self titled Lp

Nickel Creek  Why Should the Fire Die Lp

Bob Dylan Live Brandeis Lp

Pearl Jam  Vs Lp reissue

Pearl Jam Vitalogy Lp reissue

Foo Fighters  Medium Rare Lp

Sonic Youth Whores Moaning Lp

Rolling Stones -Brown Sugar 7″

Queen -Keep Yourself Alive 7″

New York Dolls 7″

Toadies 7″

Duran Duran 7″

Nathaniel Rateliff 7″

Derek & The Dominos 7″

Tron/Daft Punk Picture 10″

New York Dolls – Dancing backward in high heels Lp

Lady Gaga Picture 12”

Hollywood Undead Picture Lp

Nirvana Hormoaning Lp

James Blake S/T Lp

Peter,Bjorn & John 7″

Steve Earle 7″

Flogging Molly 7″

Fela Kuti 7″

Dennis Coffey 7″

Rise Against 7″

Laura Marling Dharohar Project & Mumford & Sons 10″

My Morning Jacket -It Still Moves Picture Lp

Dio – Killing the Dragon Picture Lp

Ray Lamontagne – Live Ep

Between the Buried and Me Lp

Kill Rockstars Live 1991 Comp. Lp

 

 

Record Store day Raffle Details!

Record Store Day is upon us – we’ve been getting emails galore from all of you asking if we’ll have copies the many various RSD exclusives. The long short of it is yes, we’ll probably have what you’re looking for, but we’ll probably only have a few copies and they’ll go fast. In order to give everyone a fair shot, we’re going to institute a raffle for those who get here when we open at 10AM.

If you are here at 10AM, when we open our doors tomorrow, you’ll draw a number out of a hat, and in that order have a go at 1 copy of 2 different record store day titles. So sayeth the record store owner, and so be-ith, it. See you all at 10AM!

Record Store Day Arrivals #2

Opened some more boxes.

Freddy King-Wash Out(7″ reissue)

Red Crayola-Hurricane Fighter Plane (sonic boom remix) 7″

13th Floor Elevators  -Wait for my Love (green 7″)

Yardbirds -Goodnight Sweet Jospephine (7″reissue)

Mayall/Clapton-Lonely Years(7″reissue)

Velvet Underground-Foggy Notion(7″reissue)

Bad Brains-Pay to Cum(7″reissue)

Pink Floyd-London 66/67 (LP)

Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger-La Carotte Bleue (LP)

Neko Case T-Shirts

Panda Bear-Tomboy (LP/T-shirt combo)

Mike Gordon -Moss Remixes

My Chemical Romance – Na Na Na (picture 7″)

Jenny & Johnny/Parsons&Harris -Love Hurts (blue 7″)

Green Day/Husker Du-Don’t Want to Know if You are Lonely (orange 7′)

R.E.M. triple 7″

Regina Spektor-Four From Far (light blue 7″)

Mastodon/ZZ Top-Just got Paid (yellow 7″)

Young the Giant 7″

The Republic Tigers 7″

Rival Schools 7″

Rush -Caravan 7″

Death Cab for Cutie 7″

Joy Formidable 7″

Doors -Riders on the Storm 7″ reissue

Busdriver 7″

Vivian Girls 7″

Villagers/Charlotte Gainsbourg 7″

Xiu Xiu/Deerhoof 7″

Justin Townes Earle 7″

Silverstein 7″

Built to Spill -Ripple ( picture 7″)

Phish-Two Soundchecks (7″)

Wild Flag 7″

Lower Dens 7″

Blitzen Trapper 7″

More to come, in a couple of hours.

 

New Releases


Foo Fighters – Wasting Light
In many ways, the album represents the band in a midlife crisis: the return of Pat Smear, the use of analog tape, and recording in a garage. It comes across as a general effort to get rid of the excesses of 2007′s Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace and 2005′s In Your Honor. So much of this story begins to sound a bit gimmicky: a return to the band’s roots in a DIY fashion with appearances from old friends, while quietly keeping the record label in the background. But really, it isn’t a gimmick at all. Foo Fighters are at the top of their game and got there in a no-bullshit way, so there wouldn’t be a point or need for that kind of facade. How do we know? Because even at the top, Dave Grohl really just wants to scream his balls off. Read the Full review on consequence of sound


TV on the Radio – Nine Types of Light
However, as Nine Types of Light suggests, perhaps they just needed to get out of Brooklyn. The new album marks two significant changes in TVOTR’s methodology: It was made in the wake of a one-year hiatus following six years of non-stop recording and touring; and it was recorded in Los Angeles, where Sitek has been steadily building his celebrity clientele list over the past few years. Both factors seem to have influenced the sound and feel of the album: Nine Types of Light is unquestionably TV on the Radio’s most patient, positive recording to date, taking its cues as much from Dear Science’s serene ballads (“Family Tree”, “Love Dog”) as its brassy workouts. Each of the band’s albums has opted for a tone-setting opening salvo, and mission statements don’t come more concise and clear-headed than Tunde Adebimpe’s ecstatic, falsettoed hook on Nine Types’ first song, “Second Song”: “Every lover on a mission/ Shift your known position/ Into the light.” Read the full review on Pitchfork


Bob Dylan Live at Brandeis 1963
It’s the music that matters most. Alongside “John Birch” is the even more powerful and equally scathing “Masters of War.” A still-shocking commentary on the arms race set to a traditional folk melody (originating in the English folk song “Nottamun Town”), “Masters” was so plain-spoken in its venom that anyone could understand it. Like four of the concert’s seven songs, it would appear on Dylan’s second LP, The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, released just a couple of weeks after the Brandeis concert. In that LP’s liner notes, Nat Hentoff recounted Dylan’s confession that “I don’t sing songs which hope people will die, but I couldn’t help it with this one.” “Masters” was Dylan at his most startling as he attacked proponents of the miltary/industrial complex. Even listening this many years later, it’s no surprise that the song attracted so much attention with plainly-intoned lines like “even Jesus would never forgive what you do.” “Masters” makes the bile of “Positively 4th Street” seem quaint by comparison: “I hope that you’ll die, and your death’ll come soon/I’ll follow your casket in the pale afternoon/And I’ll watch while you’re lowered/Down to your deathbed/And I’ll stand over your grave/Till I’m sure that you’re dead.” The Brandeis performance is expectedly hair-raising. Read the full review on The Second Disc

Record Store Day Arrivals #1

Here we go.

These are some of the items that have arrived at the store & will be available as soon as 10am Saturday.

 

Omar Rodriguez Lopez- Telesterion (CD & LP)

Jill Sobule & John Doe- A Day At The Pass (CD)

Javelin (7″)

Javelin- Canyon Candy (10″)

Flying Lotus- Cosmogramma Outtakes (LP)

Nada Surf- The Moon Is Calling (7″)

Discordance Axis- The Inalienable Dreamless (LP)

Bibio/Clark (Split 12″)

Neurosis- Sovereign (LP)

Urge Overkill (7″)

Liturgy/Oval (Split LP)

Os Mutantes- Best Of (LP Reissue)

Daedelus- Tailor-Made (12″)

Midlake-Am I Going Insane (12″)

Bad Brains- God Of Love (LP)

Mastadon- Live At The Aragon (LP)

Tom Petty- You’re Gonna Get It (LP Reissue, blue vinyl)

Tom Petty- Tom Petty (LP Reissue, white vinyl)

Fleetwood Mac- Rumors (LP Reissue)

Clapton Unplugged (LP Reissue)

Glassjaw- Worship And Tribute (Picture LP)

Machine Head- Black Procession (Live 10″)

Of Montreal- The Past Is A Grotesque Animal (12″)

Circa Survive- Apendage EP (LP and CD)

Hank III- Damn Right, Rebel Proud (Colored LP)

Hank III- Strait to Hell (Colored LP)

Hank III- Lovesick, Broke And Driftin’ (Colored LP)

Television- Live At The Waldorf ’78 (White LP)

Grateful Dead- Grateful Dead (Mono LP Reissue)

Transit- Promise Nothing (7″)

Franz Ferdinand- Covers EP (LP)

Mike Gordon- Inside In (LP Reissue)

Rough Guide- Desert Blues (LP)

Rough Guide- African Guitar Legends (LP)

William Fitzimmions- Golden Shadow (LP)

Rekords Rekords (10″)

Superchunk- Here’s Where The Strings Come In (LP and CD)

Mighty Clouds (LP)

Mates Of State- Team Boo (LP)

Broom- Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin (LP)

Architecture In Helsinki- Places Like This (LP Reissue, pink vinyl)

The Submarines- Lovenotes, Letterbombs (LP)

Jimmy Eat World- Bleed American (DLX 3 LPs)

Deftones- Covers (LP)

Flaming Lips (LP Boxset, 5 LPs)

Brett Dennen- b  side to the d side (7″)

Owen- O, Evelyn (7″)

Polvo- Celebrate The New Dark Age (Signed LP)

Grinderman- Evil (LP)

Grinderman- Palaces Of Montezuma (12″)

Fleet Foxes- Helplessness Blues (12″)

Caribou- Swims Remixes (LP)

Ubiquity 12″ #2 (LP)

Piebald (3 Vinyl Box Set)

Ubiquity Compilation (CD)

Bloodshot- 15th Anniversary Concert (CD)

The Republic Tigers- No Lands Man (CD)

 

Stay tuned, more to come!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New Releases


Radiohead – The King of Limbs
Radiohead’s eighth record, The King of Limbs, represents a marked attempt to create a considered and cohesive unit of music that nonetheless sits somewhere outside of the spectrum of their previous full-length discography. And that’s not to say that it doesn’t ripple with the dazzling sonics or scenery that have become the band’s stock in trade, but just that, unlike so many of their milestones, there’s no abiding sense of a band defying all expectations in order to establish new precedents.

Instead, we get eight songs that feel mostly like small but natural evolutions of previously explored directions. Opener “Bloom” announces Radiohead’s return with a scattershot sequence of chewed-up drum loops and peeling horns that dissolve into a rhythmic tangle. “Morning Mr. Magpie” re-casts an old live acoustic ballad in a more anxious light, its once-sunny disposition frozen into an icy glare. With its crumbling guitar shapes and clattering, fizzing percussion work, “Little By Little” sounds dilapidated and rundown. Meanwhile, “Feral” contorts Yorke’s voice into a reverb-infused, James Blake-like wriggle that pings around the stereo channel against a mulched up drum pattern that sounds sharper than glass. Read the full review on Pitchfork


Mountain Goats – All Eternals Deck
While The Mountain Goats’ last album took us through Bible verses, “All Eternals Deck” takes listeners on a loose mystic journey, John Darnielle boldly mixing his personal relationships up with the mystical beginning, middle and end of Man.

There’s the origins of humankind in “Sourdoire Valley Song”, the Fall from grace with the snakes and Cars guitars of “Birth of Serpents” and, in between, the fighting-off our impending doom. The straight-forward rock of “Beautiful Gas Mask” does the latter best, having us rise from our knees and assuring “someone’s coming to reward us, wait and see.” Read the Full review on HitFix


The Sounds – Something to Die For The new album, the band’s first release since signing with kitchen-sink-punk label SideOneDummy, is not a celebration of everything that made the band’s first two albums excellent (danceable rock, sprinkled with synth, but raw enough to keep you interested). Instead, Something to Die For is a simple, uncomplicated step in the right direction. It is more a perfection of the sound they tried for when they crossed on Rubicon, with a few surprises here and there for good measure. “Better Off Dead,” while hardly representative of the rest of the album, is the band’s most adventurous song in years. “Diana,” with some surprisingly pronounced guitar work, feels like the foot-tapper that “4 Songs & a Fight” should have been. “The No No Song,” “Dance With the Devil,” and the title track are equally as addicting. Read the the full review on Sputnik Music

New Releases


James Blake – James Blake
While the songs are the magnetic center here, Blake’s musicianship and sonics are equally striking. A “dubstep” producer with a gentle piano touch and an ear for granular synthesis so sharp it will make fleets of laptop toters envious, his toolkit is seamless. The two-part “Why Don’t You Call Me” / “I Mind”, for instance, opens with only voice and piano, played with the studied delicacy of a classical student. But Blake cuts it short 30 seconds in by splicing and resampling the piano line. He then bends his own voice and sings the lone verse twice, editing and re-shaping it into a new form that bears only the faintest resemblence to its opening source material. In the suite’s second half, the vocals become spinning smears that fall into the background. It’s the only time on the album where the drum clicks, static bursts, and piano splashes become the essential motion. It’s the type of track you might have heard on one of his recent EPs– the kind Blake purists lament this album’s supposed lack of. Read the full review on Pitchfork


The Strokes – Angles
Angles finds the band at times sounding very much like the Strokes of old, and other times, experimenting with its signature sound in familiar Strokes ways. For the former, look no further than “Under Cover Of Darkness,” a rollicking throwback to the leather-jacketed urban cool of Is This It by way of Steely Dan’s “Bodhisattva.” Or the snaky album opener “Machu Picchu,” where the intricately strummed riffs of guitarists Albert Hammond, Jr. and Nick Valensi interlock and explode over a faux-reggae shuffle with the precision of military movements. Then there’s “Games,” a synth-pop sparkler that initially sounds like an outtake from Julian Casablancas’ 2009 solo effort Phrazes For The Young. Read the full review on AVclub


Greenday – Awesome as Fuck
The album launches into the title track of Green Day’s last studio album and is a perfect start, with each note being hit with precision. The next two tracks are also off of “21st Century Breakdown”; “Know Your Enemy” and “East Jesus Nowhere”. Both tracks are pulled off well, Billie Joe knowing exactly how to rock an audience. Next up is “Holiday”, which was a pretty big hit a few years ago. Again, Green Day’s stunning live performance ensures that this is a great version of a modern punk classic. It mellows out a bit for “!Viva La Gloria!”, which is a beautiful track with an awesome piano introduction riff. Read the full review on Resonance UK

New Releases

Mastodon – Live at the Aragon
For fans of Mastodon this DVD will surely be a delight. Finally, a pro shot DVD of an entire concert is available, with full quality sound and editing. This is something fans have been eagerly awaiting for a long time now.

Mastodon’s Previous DVD The Workhorse Chronicles featured a wealth of live content from various periods in their career but none on the scale and of the quality available here, its great to see the band on a large stage absolutely in control, fully confident and completely delivering on every promise their music made from as far back as the Lifesblood EP, this DVD is a perfect culmination of the hard work and dedication documented on their previous DVD and shows a band deservedly fulfilling their potential. Read the full review on King Crimson Prog

J. Mascis – Several Shades of Why
A large part of J Mascis’s genius is how well he distills that dull, brutal anxiety. His songs are never about partying, getting laid or smashing the state. If they’re about anything discernable, they’re almost always about being lonely, ruminating, waiting, and not getting what you want or even really knowing what that is. This frustration is most pronounced in teenagers, but it’s hardly irrelevant for anyone. Without the chaos of punk or the theatrics of FM rock, it shines like the North Star in the Arizona sky. Read the full review on Dusted

Lykke Li – Wounded Rhymes
Wounded Rhymes is an album of stark, scintillating contrasts: between fantasy and reality, between the powerful and the vulnerable, between the brash and the quiet, between the rhythmic and the melodic. Audacious anthems jostle next to heartbreak ballads like “Unrequited Love”, with its simple guitar and shoo-wop backing vocals. Dense, busy numbers give way to emotionally and musically stripped tracks like “I Know Places”. “I’m your prostitute, you gon’ get some,” she sings on “Get Some”, a come-on so blunt that it’s become the talking point for this album. As a single, the song brazenly grabs your attention, but in the context of this album, alongside such forlorn songs, it becomes a desperate statement, disarmingly intimate in its role-playing implications but also uncomfortably eager to shed or adopt new identities to ensure a lover’s devotion. Read the full review on Pitchfork