New Vinyl Releases November 2020

November 6th, 2020

November 20, 2020

Battles – Juice B Mixed
Mary J. Blige – My Life
Peter Broderick – Blackberry
Charles Brown – Cool Christmas Blues
Brandi Carlile – Firewatcher’s Daughter (White Vinyl)
Nick Cave – Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace
Coldplay – Parachutes
Dirty Knobs – Wreckless Abandon
Dirty Projectors – 5EPS
Drive-By TruckersA Blessing & A Curse
Drive-By TruckersBrighter Than Creation’s Dark
Drive-By TruckersThe Dirty South
Drive-By TruckersThe Fine Print
Sylvan Esso – With
Gwar – Scumdogs of the Universe
Jimi Hendrix – Live At Maui
John Hiatt – Beneath This Gruff Exterior
John Hiatt – Crossing Muddy Waters
John Hiatt – Master of Disaster
John Hiatt – The Tiki Bar Is Open
Bobby Hutcherson – Oblique (Blue Note Tone Poet Series)
King Hannah – Tell Me Your Mind & I’ll Tell Yyou Mine
Leo Kottke & Mike Gordon – Noon
kd lang – Watershed
Annie Lennox – Christmas Cornucopia: 10th Anniversary Edition
Marley, Bob & the Wailers – Half- Speed Masters Babylon By Bus
Marley, Bob & the Wailers – Half- Speed Masters Burnin’
Marley, Bob & the Wailers – Half- Speed Masters Catch a Fire
Marley, Bob & the Wailers – Half- Speed Masters Confrontation
Marley, Bob & the Wailers – Half- Speed Master Exodus
Marley, Bob & the Wailers – Half- Speed Masters Kaya
Marley, Bob & the Wailers – Half- Speed Masters Legend
Marley, Bob & the Wailers – Half- Speed Masters Live
Marley, Bob & the Wailers – Half- Speed Masters Natty Dread
Marley, Bob & the Wailers – Half- Speed Masters Rastaman Vibrations
Marley, Bob & the Wailers – Half- Speed Masters Survival
Marley, Bob & the Wailers – Half- Speed Masters Uprising
Pink Floyd – Delicate Sound of Thunder
Rilo Kiley – Rilo Kiley
Oumou Sangare – Acoustic
They Might Be Giants – Flood
UFO – Strangers In The Night (Indie Exclusive Clear Vinyl)
War On Drugs – Live Drugs (Transparent Purple Vinyl)
BJ Ward – Vocal Ease
Kamaal Williams – Wu Hen
Dwight Yoakam – Dwight’s Used Records
Dwight Yoakam – Population: Me
Various Artists – Verve Wishes You a Swinging Christmas

November 13, 2020

AC/DC – PWR / UP
Alice In Chains – Facelift
Bibio – Ambivalence Avenue
Bibio – Hand Cranked
Bonobo & Totally Enormous Extinct DinosaursHeartbreak
Randall Bramblett – Pine Needle Fire
Johnny Cash & The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra – The Music of Johnny Cash
The Nels Cline Singers – Share The Wealth
Elvis Costello – Hey Clockface (Indie retail translucent red vinyl)
Cranberries – No Need To Argue (Deluxe edition)
Fontaines D.C. – A Hero’s Death 7″
Grateful Dead – American Beauty (50th Annivesary Edition)
Elton John – Jewel Box, And This Is Me…
Low Cut Connie – Private Lives
Lucky Losers – Godless Land
Dan Penn – Living On Mercy
Plain White T’s – All That We Needed
Keith Richards & The X-Pensive Winos – Live at the Hollywood Palladium, December 15, 1988 (Regular and deluxe editions)
Nina Simone – Pastel Blues (Acoustic Sounds Series)
Slowey & The Boats – Merry Christmas From Slowey & The Boats
Chris Stapleton – Starting Over
NickWaterhouse – Live At Pappy & Harriet’s, In Person From The High Desert, Volumes 1 & 2
SoundtrackBillie, The Original Soundtrack, music by Billie Holiday
Soundtrack – The SocialNetwork, music by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross


November 6, 2020

David Bowie – Metrobolist (aka The Man Who Sold The World)
British Sea Power – From Sea To The Land Beyond
Mariah Carey – Daydream
Mariah Carey – MTV Unplugged
Mariah Carey – Music Box
Mariah Carey – Rainbow
Coven – Witchcraft
Fall – Imperial Wax Solvent
Felt – Felt 4U
Peter Gabriel – Live In 1987
Aquiles Navarro & Tcheser HolmesHeritage of the Invisble II
Psychedelic Furs – Made of Rain
Public Enemy What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down?
Pylon – Chomp
Pylon – Gyrate
Pylon – Pylon Box New West Records is proud to present Pylon Box — A comprehensive look at the band that features their studio LPs Gyrate and Chomp, both of which have been remastered from their original tapes, the 11-song collection Extra which includes rarities and 5 previously unreleased studio & live recordings, as well as Razz Tape, Pylon’s first-ever recording: a 13-song unreleased session that pre-dates the band’s seminal “Cool” b/w “Dub” debut. Pylon Box also Includes a hardbound, 200 page full color book featuring pieces written by the members of R.E.M., Gang of Four, Steve Albini, Corin Tucker & Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney, Sonic Youth, Interpol, B-52’s, Bradford Cox of Deerhunter, Mission of Burma, Calvin Johnson of Beat Happening & K Records, Anthony DeCurtis, Chris Stamey of the dB’s, Steve Wynn of the Dream Syndicate and many more.
Sun Ra – A Fireside Chat With Lucifer
Tony Joe White – Bad Mouthin’
Wilco – Summerteeth
Neil Young – Return To Greendale
Soundtrack – Party Girls, music by the Whit Boyd Combo
Various Artists – Strum & Thrum, American Jangle Pop 1983 – 1997
Various Artists – TruThoughts Covers 3

New Vinyl Releases October 2020

October 2nd, 2020

NEW RELEASE VINYL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30

Cherry Pickles – The Juice That’s Worth The Squeeze
City Girls – City On Lock
Devo – Duty Now For The Future
Devo – Q: Are We Not Men?
Drive-By Truckers – Live From Austin,TX
Flaming Lips – Transmissions From The Satellite Heart
Mort Garson – Didn’t You Hear?
Mort Garson – Music From Patch Cord Productions
Emmylou Harris – Wrecking Ball
Heshoo Beshoo Group – Armitage Road
Kraftwerk – Autobahn
Kraftwerk – Computer World
Kraftwerk – Man-Machine
Kraftwerk – Mix
Kraftwerk – Radioactivity
Kraftwerk – Technopop
Kraftwerk – Trans-European Express
Kraftwerk – Tour De France
Lunchbox – After School Special
Joni Mitchell – Early Joni
Bob Mould – Distortions
Nothing – The Great Dismal
Okkervil River – Dream In
Sam Smith – Love Goes
U2 – All That You Can’t Leave Behind (220th Anniversary)
Vicious Visions – Retrodisrespect 1980-83
Widespread Panic – Live From Austin, TX
Various Artists – Kaeidoscope, New Spirits Known & Unknown
Soundtrack – The Crow


NEW RELEASE VINYL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23

Actress – Karma & Desire
Allman Betts Band – Bless Your Heart
Arab Strap – Turning of Our Bones 7″
Beastie Boys – Music
Joe Bonamassa – Royal Tea
Bouncing Souls – Volume 2
Merry Clayton – Gimme Shelter
Damzig – Danzig Sings Elvis
Drive-By Truckers – Live From Austin, TX
The Electronic System – Vol. II
The Fall – The Frenz Experiment
John Fruciante – Maya
Diamanda Galas – Litanies of Satan
The Gorillaz – Song Machine, Season One
INXS – Kick (Green Vinyl)
Wanda Jackson – I Remember Elvis
Avi Kaplan – Lean On Me
Adrianne Lenker – Songs & Instrumentals
The Mountain Goats – Getting Into Knives
J.S. Ondara – Folk N’ Roll: Tales of Isolation
Razzmatazz – I Don’t Know How But They Found Me
Graham Reynolds – The Lodger
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band – Letter To You
This Is The Kit – Off Off On
Soundtrack – Rocky Horror Picture Show 45th Anniversary Pic Disc


NEW RELEASE VINYL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16

Autechre – Sign
Beabadoobee – Fake It Flowers
Matt Berninger – Serpentine Prison
Chick Corea – Chick Corea Plays
Napoleon Demps – Norma Jean 7″

Ester Drang – Goldenwest
Foxboro Hot Tubs – Stop Drop & Roll
Vince Guaraldi – A Charlie Brown Christmas (Limited edition with lenticular cover)
Tom Petty – Wildflowers (Three variants: 3 LP Set, 7 LP Set, 9 LP Set)
Pixies – Hear Me Out / Mambo Sun 12″
Sigur Ros – ()
Steep Canyon Rangers – Arm In Arm
Suede – Beautiful Ones, The Best of Suede 1992-2018
Robert Wyatt – His Greatest Misses
XTC – Nonsuch
Soundtrack – Back To The Future
Various Artists – Blue Note Reimagined

NEW RELEASE VINYL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9

The Bangles – Bangles Gold
John Coltrane – Ballads (Acoustic Sounds Series)
John Coltrane – A Love Supreme (Acoustic Sounds Series)
The Divine Comedy – Absent Friends
The Divine Comedy – Bang Goes The Knighthood
The Divine Comedy – Casanova
The Divine Comedy – Fin De Siecle
The Divine Comedy – Victory For The Comic Muse
Frankie & The Witch Fingers – Monsters Eating People Eating Monsters
Jeremy Ivey & The Extraterrestrials – Waiting Out The Storm
John Lennon – Gimme Some Truth (2 LP or 4 LP set)
John Prine – Prime Prine
Replacements – Pleased To Meet Me Box Set
Slade – Cum On Feel The Hitz
Talking Heads – Talking Heads:77
Talking Heads –
Fear Of Music
Talking Heads – More Songs About Buildings & Food
Tears For Fears – The Seeds of Love
Various Artists – Stone Free, A Tribute To Jimi Hendrix
Soundtrack – La Scoperta Dell ‘America,’ music my Ennio Morricone
Soundtrack – Outside Providence
Soundtrack – Star Trek, Piccard, music by Jeff Russo
Soundtrack – Viaggia Con Anita, music my Ennio Morricone

NEW RELEASE VINYL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2

Mariah Carey – Mariah Carey
Dawes – Good Luck With Whatever
Lana Del Rey – Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass
Green Day – Nimrod (Yellow vinyl, 2 LP set with Green Day logo etched on 4th side)
Groovie Goolies – Groovie Goolies
Ed Harcourt – Monochrome To Color
Jane’s Addiction – Ritual De Lo Habitual (30th anniversary edition)
Jerry Joseph – The Beautiful Madness
L&7- Hungry For Stink
Love – Forever Changes (Mono mix on 180 gram vinyl)
The Munsters – The Munsters
Nightmares on Wax – Smokers Delight: Sonic Buds
NRBQ – In Frequencies (A collection of rarities)
The Nude Party – Midnight Manor
Elvis Presley – The Classic Christmas Album
Rodrigo & Gabriella – Mettavolution Live
Roger Waters – Us + Them
Sumac – May You Be Held
Tricky – Fall To Pieces
Soundtrack – Cujo Music Composed and Conducted By Charles Bernstein
Soundtrack – Demon Night
Soundtrack – The Descendants – Music From The Motion Picture
Soundtrack – Return of the Living Dead
Various Artists – A Christmas Gift For You From Philles Records

New Release Vinyl September, 2020

September 4th, 2020

Friday, September 25

Mojo Burford – Workin’
Will Butler – Generations
Bill Callahan – Gold Record
Caribou – Never Come Back 12″ Floating Points Remix
Caribou – Never Come Back 12″ Fourtet Remix
Paul Collins/The Beat – Another World
Delta Spirit – What Is There
Dirty Projectors – Lamp Lit Prose
Idles – Ultra Mono 2 versiopns
Makaya McCraven – Universal Beings
Mirah – You Think It’s Like This But Really It’s Like This
Bob Mould – Blue Hearts
Sally Anne Morgan – Threads
Carlos Nino & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson
Kellee Patterson – Maiden Voyage
Prince – Sign O’ The Times
Rolling Stones – Steel Wheels Live Atlantic City, New Jersey
Danial Romano’s Outfit – How Ill Thy World Is Ordered
Various Artists – Soul Love Now: The Black Fire Records Story
Various Artists – The Soul of Black Peru
Various Artists – The Rough GuideTo Urban Mali

Friday, September 18

The Avett Brothers – The Gleam III
The Black Crowes – Croweology
David Bowie – Young Americans 45th Anniversary Edition on Gold Vinyl
Charli XCX – How I’m Feeling Now
John Coltrane – Giant Steps Deluxe 60th Anniversary Edition
Demon Fuzz – Afreaka!
Willy DeVille – Live At Montreux
Willy DeVille – Live In The Lowlands
The Doors – 13
Eminem – Music To Be Murdered By
Fleetwood Mac – Then Play On
Astrud Gilberto – The Girl From Ipanema
Germs – Cat’s Clause
L7 – Smell The Magic
Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets – Live at The Roundhouse
Ennio Morricone – Themes: Lounge
Sam Prekop – Comma
John Prine – Common Sense
John Prine – Diamonds In The Rough
John Prine – John Prine
John Prine – Sweet Revenge
Rainbow – Live In Munich ’77
Otis Redding – The Best of Otis Redding
Run The Jewels – RTJ4
Small Faces – Small Faces
Richard & Linda Thompson – Hokey Pokey
Richard & Linda Thompson – I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight
Richard & Linda Thompson – Pour Down Like Silver
Ron Wood I’ve Got My Own Album To Do
Yusuf – Tea For The Tillerman
Various Artists – Bob Stanley Presents 76 In The Shade

Friday, September 11

Flaming Lips -American Head
Frankie & The Witch Finger – Heavy Roller
PJ Harvey – To Bring You My Love
PJ Harvey – To Bring You My Love (Demos)

Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart (Pic Disc Single)
Marilyn Manson – We Are Chaos
Nirvana – Bleach ( 2 editions of colored vinyl)
Stanley Turrentine – That’s Where It’s At
Suzanne Vega An Evening Of New York Songs & Stories
Soundtrack – Da 5 Bloods, music by Terrance Blanchard
Soundtrack – Da Corleone a Brooklyn , music by Franco Micalizzi




Friday, September 4

All Them Witches – Nothing As The Ideal
Ball – Like You Are, I Once Was, Like I Am, You Will Never Be (My favorite LP title of the week)
Belle & Sebastian – Push Barman To Open Old Wounds (Limited edition clear vinyl pressing. $$$)
Blonde Redhead – Memory of Certain Damaged Lemons (20th anniversary edition of 2000 on pink vinyl).
Bully – Sugaregg (Actually released last week, late arrival).
Collective Soul – Collective Soul (25th anniversary edition)
The Creation – How Does It Feel
The Creation – Power Surge
The Creation – Psychedelic Rose
The Creation – We Are Paintermen
Manfredo Fest – Brazilian Dorian Dream
Grateful Dead – Skeletons From the Closet, The Best of the Grateful Dead
Jack Johnson – Brushfire Fairytales (20th anniversary edition)
Jane’s Addiction – Ritual De Lo Habitual, Alive at 25, the 2016 Silver Spoon Anniversary Tour (Limited edition splatter vinyl)
Kilimanjaro Dark Jazz Ensemble – From The Stairwell
Cyndi Lauper – True Colors (Limited edition of 2500 copies on flaming vinyl)
Munson-Hicks – Party Supplies
The O’Jays – Philly Chartbusters, Best of the O’Jays
Grant-Lee Phillips – Lightning, Show ?Us Your Stuff
Psychedelic Furs – Made of Rain
Quantic – Apricot Morning
Rex Orange County – Boss, U Will Never B Free
Rolling Stones – Goats Head Soup (3 versions,
1– Vinyl LP pressing features the new stereo album mix, sourced from the original session tapes. $24.19
2. Double 180 gm vinyl LP pressing features the new stereo album mix, sourced from the original session tapes and 10 bonus tracks including three previously unreleased songs – ‘Scarlet’, ‘All The Rage’, and ‘Criss Cross’. $35.19
3. Deluxe four 180gm vinyl LP box set features the new stereo album mix plus rarities and alternative mixes including three previously unreleased tracks. Also included is The Brussels Affair, recorded live at the Forest National Arena in October 1973.
Throwing Muses – Sun Racket
Charles Tolliver – Connect
J. Roddy Walston & The Business – Essential Tremors
XTC – Oranges & Lemons
Yo La Tengo – Electr-O-Pura
Various Artists – Angel Headed Hipster – The Songs of Marc Bolan & T.Rex
Soundtrack – Earth Girls are Easy
Soundtrack – Heat

New Release Vinyl August 2020

August 6th, 2020

Friday, August 14,2020

All We Are – Providence
Bronson – Bronson
Butterfield Blues Band – Live at Woodstock
Creedence Clearwater Revival – Cosmo’s Factory
Tanya Donelly – Tonya Donelly & The Parkington Sisters

Kathleen Edwards – Total Freedom
Bill Frisell – Valentine
Jerry Garcia & John Kahn – Garcia Live Volume 14, January 27, 1986
Goldfrapp – Supernature
Bruce Hornsby – Non-Secure Connection Limited Edition, Autographed
Zara McFarlane – Songs of an Unknown Tongue
Jim O’Rourke – Shutting Down Here
Rumer – Nashville Tears – The Songs of Hugh Prestwood
Shirley Scott – One For Me
Britney Spears – Oops!…I Did It Again (picture disc)
Spoon – Girls Can Tell
Veruca Salt – IV
Whitney – Candid
Soundtrack – 1917, music by Thomas Newman


Friday, August 07,2020

Johnny Cash – At Folsom Prison
Johnny Cash – At San Quentin
Johnny Cash – Greatest Hits Vol. 1
Johnny Cash – Greatest Hits Vol. 2
Mary Chapin-Carpenter – The Dirt & The Stars
Collective Soul – Hints, Allegations & Things Left Unsaid
Fleetwood Mac – Before The Beginning Vol.2: Live & Demo Sessions 1970
Glass Animals – Dreamland
Grateful Dead – Aoxomoxoa
Ceelo Green – Ceelo Green is Thomas Calloway
Inventions – Continuous Portrait
Jenny O – New Truth
Laura Marling – Song For Our Daughter
Jason Molina – Eight Gates
Pixies – Bossanova Red Vinyl 30th Anniversary Edition
Brigid Mae Power – Head Above Water
The Sound – Propaganda
The Stooges – Live At Goose Lake August 8th, 1970
Muddy Waters – Live At Theatre 1839, San Francisco, 14 May 1977
Soundtrack – Cool World

New Release Vinyl June 2020 (abbreviated)

June 25th, 2020

Friday, June 26
Johnny Cash – Water From the Wells of Home
Eric Clapton & B.B. King – Riding With The King
Derek & The Dominoes – Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs
Peter Gabriel – Rated PG
The Goners – Good Morning

Haim – Women In Music Part III
Indigo Girls – Look Long
Khruangbin – Mordechai
Ray LaMontagne – Monovision
Miranda Lambert – Platinum
Mark Olson & Inguinn Ringvold – Magdalen Accepts The Invitation
Dolly Parton – Very Best of Dolly Parton
Post Malone – Hollywood’s Bleeding
Queen -Greatest Hits II (Clear Blue Vinyl)

Redd Kross – Red Cross EP
Reigning Sound – Home For Orphans
Remo Drive – Portrait of an Ugly Man
Rolling Stones –
A Bigger Bang
Rolling Stones – Black & Blue
Rolling Stones – Bridges To Babylon
Rolling Stones – Emotional Rescue
Rolling Stones – Exile On Main Street
Rolling Stones – It’s Only Rock & Roll
Rolling Stones – Living In A Ghost Town 10″
Rolling Stones – Some Girls
Rolling Stones – Steal Wheels
Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers
Rolling Stones – Tattoo You
Rolling Stones – Undercover of the Night
Rolling Stones – Voodoo Lounge
Turn Turn Turn – Can’t Go Back

New Release Vinyl, March 2020

March 6th, 2020


Friday March 13th

Natacha Atlas – Strange Days
Boomtown Rats – Citizens of Boomtown
Cocorosie – Put the Shine On
Darwin Deez – Darwin Deez
Deviants – Deviants
Sam Doores – Sam Doores
Laura Lee – Two sides of Laura Lee
Maria McKee – LaLita Nuova
Monophonics – It’s Only Us
Michael Nesmith – Cosmic Partners
Peter, Bjorn & John – Endless Dream
Porches – Ricky Music
Rookie – Rookie
Dave Simonett – Red Tail
Sir Douglas Quintet – Best of the Sir Douglas Quintet
C.M. Talkington – Not Exactly Nashville
Art Taylor – A.T.’s Delight
Tears For Fears – Songs From The Big Chair
Various Artists – Congo Revolution

Friday March 6th

2Pac – Me Against the World
African Head Charge – Churchical Chant of the Iyabinghi
African Head Charge – In Pursuit of Shashamane Land
African Head Charge – Songs of Praise
African Head Charge – Vision of Psychedelic Africa
Atmosphere – Whenever
Kenny Barron / Dave Holland Trio featuring Johnathan Blake – Without Deception
Body Count – Carnivore
Bonniwell Music Machine – Bonniwell Music Machine
Cornershop – England Is A Garden
Marshall Crenshaw – Miracle of Science
Everly Brothers – Everly Brothers
Everly Brothers – Singles
Everly Brothers – Songs Our Daddy taught Us
Noel Gallagher – Blue Moon Rising
James Hunter Six – Nick of Time
Jose James – No Beginning, No End
Little Beaver – Party Down
Living Colour – Vivid
Stephen J. Malkmus – Traditional Techniques
Mandy Moore – Silver Landings
My Dying Bride – Ghost
Phantogram – Ceremony
Radio Moscow – Brain Cycles
Reznor & Ross – Watchman 3
Caroline Rose – Superstar
Dusty Springfield – Dusty In Memphis
U.S. Girls – Heavy Light
The Who – The Kids Are Alright
The Who – Quadrophenia
Paul Zaza – Brain
VA – Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present The Tears of Technology
VA – Tuareg Music of the Southern Sahara

New Release Vinyl, February 2020

February 13th, 2020

Friday, February 21, 2020

10,000 Maniacs – Twice Told Tales
Chet Baker -Chet Sings
Broken Social Scene – Broken Social Scene
Close Lobsters – Post Neo Anti: Arte Povera In The Forest of Symbols
Robert Cray – That’s What I Heard
Alabaster DePlume – To Cy & Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1
The Donnas – Gold Medal
Grant Green – Nigeria
Peter Green – In The Skies
Grizzly Bear – Horn of Plenty
His Name Is Alive – Return To Never
Holy – Ryder
Juiceboxx – It’s Easy To Feel Like A Nobody
Charles Lloyd – 8 Kindred Spirits
The Mastersons – No Time For Love Songs
Hank Mobley – Poppin’
Shuggie Otis – In Session
Kassa Overall – I Think I’m Good
Charley Parker – The Savoy 10″ Collection
Charley Patton – The Rough Guide To Charley Patton
Real Estate – The Main Thing
Secret Sisters – Saturn Returns
Soccer Mommy – Color Theory
Swamp Dogg – Sorry You Couldn’t Make It
Horace Tapscott Quintet – The Giant Is Awakened
Stanley Turrentine – Comin’ Your Way
Tycho – Simulcast
Waco Brothers – Resist!
Wishbone Ash – Coat of Arms
Soundtrack – Twin Peaks, Music from the Limited Event Series
Various Artists – Cadence Revolution – Disque Debs International Vol.2
Various Artists – Rough Guide To The Roots of the Blues

Friday, February 21, 2020

Best Coast – Always Tomorrow
Tim Blake – Tim Blake’s Jerusalem
Greg Dulli – Random Desire
Fruit Bats – In Real Life
Grizzly Bear – Horn of Plenty
Sonny Landreth – Blacktop Run
John Moreland – High On Tulsa
Ozzy Osbourne – Ordinary Man
Bruce Springsteen – 18 Tracks
Bruce Springsteen – Devils & Dust
Bruce Springsteen – Live In Dublin
Bruce Springsteen – The Rising
Tabansi Studio Band – Wakar Alhazai Kano / Musen Sofoa
Thin Lizzy – Bad Reputation
Thin Lizzy – Fighting
Thin Lizzy – Jailbreak
Thin Lizzy – Johnny The Fox
Thin Lizzy – Nightlife
Waco Brothers – Resist
Hank Williams – Only Mother’s Best
Various Artists – The Many Faces of Depeche Mode

Friday, February 14

Atomic Energy Commission – Post Fax Nation
Beach Bunny – Honeymoon
Barbara Eden – Miss Barbara Eden
Eyelids – The Accidental Falls
Katie Gately – Loom Limited to 600 units pressed on transparent sun yellow vinyl
Grateful Dead – Dick’s Picks Volume 24, Cow Palace Daly City CA 3/23/74
David Gray – White Ladder (2020 Remaster)
Jane’s Addiction – Alive At Twenty-Five, Ritual De Lo Habitual
Le Butcherettes – Don’t Bleed
Tami Neilson – Chicka Boom!
Maceo Parker – It’s All About Love
Bobby Patterson – My Thing Is Your Thing, Jetstar Struts From Bobby Patterson
Sam Phillips – Fan Dance
Silhouettes – Shadow Shadow
Smoke Fairies – Darkness
T. Rex – Slider
T. Rex – Tanx
T. Rex – Zinc Alloy
Tame Impala – Slow Rush
Third Mind – Third Mind
Townes Van Zandt – Townes Van Zandt (50th Anniversary)
Wood Brothers – Kingdom In My Mind
Various Artists – Jamaica All Stars Vol. 1 & 2

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Friday, February 07

100 Proof Aged In Soul – Somebody’s Been Sleeping In My Bed

Alice Cooper – Last Temptation of Alice Cooper
Cry Babies – Cry Babies
De La Soul – Grind Date
Desmond Dekker- Rude Boy Ska

Eyedea – By The Throat
Bryan Ferry – Live At Royal Albert Hall 1974
Green Day, Father of All
Happy Mondays – Bummed
Happy Mondays – Pill & Thrills & Belly Aches
Happy Mondays – Squirrel & G-Man
Happy Mondays – …Yes Please
Holy Fuck – Deleter
Just Joans – The Private Memoirs & Confessions of the Just Joans
Daniel Johnston – Fun
Left Lane Cruiser – Claw Machine Wizard
Left Lane Cruiser – Rock Them Back To Hell
Maytals – From the Roots
Moebius-Plank-Neumeier
Idris Muhammad – Power Of Soul
Murs & The Grouch – Thees Handz

Muun Bato – Muun Bato
Nada Surf – Never Not Enough
Bobby Patterson – It’s Just A Matter of Time
Chris & Rich Robinson – Brothers of a Feather
Stone Temple Pilots – Perdida
Tony Williams – Foreign Intrigue
Soundtrack – End of the Game music by Ennio Morricone

Eric Donaldson – Eric Donaldson

January 15th, 2020

After kicking around the Jamaican recording studios for seven years, Donaldson enter his song, “Cherry Oh Baby,” into the Jamaican Festival Song competition and not only won it, but won the adoration of his homeland. “Cherry” was a huge hit and his years of laboring came to fruition and laid the bedrock for his career.

Donaldson’s self-titled record has been issued on vinyl for the first time since its original release in 1971 (2019 Radiation Roots RR00336). Recorded at Dynamic Studios under the guidance of Bunny Lee and Tommy Cowan, Donaldson lend his falsetto 10 tracks including the hit “Cherry Oh Baby” the second single, “Just Can’t Happen This Way,” a very soulful “Build My World,” and a reconstructed “The Lion Sleeps Tonight.”

Donaldson’s backing band included brothers Ian & Roger Lewis who would later be members of Inner Circle as well as Cat Coore & Ibo Cooper who would form Third World in 1973. They provide the link from the Rock Steady to Reggae, loping along at apace of a hot Jamaican afternoon.

Donaldson’s falsetto was unique among his contemporaries, like Bob Marley and Toots Hibbert. It’s similar to the contrast between The Stylistics’ Russell Thompkins, Jr and Teddy Pendergrass. It’s a different type of sweetness.

It’s not mentioned what the master source of the album is. It gets a little muddy at times but it’s not unbearable, I’m just being a little nitpicky.

Grade B+

New Release Vinyl January 2020

December 29th, 2019

FRIDAY, JANUARY  31th

Art Blakey – Buhaina’s Delight
Neneh Cherry – Raw Like Sushi
William Corgan – Cotillions
Drive-By Truckers – The Unraveling 2020 release.
Drive-By Truckers is kicking off the new election year with The Unraveling, their first new album in 3 1/2 years (the longest space between DBT albums ever). Those years were among the most tumultuous our country has ever seen and the duality between the generally positive state of affairs within the band and the turbulent world outside (or as Patterson Hood puts it: watching so many things we care about be decimated and destroyed) informed the writing of this album to the core.
Jefferson Airplane – Woodstock Sunday
Daniel Johnston – Chicago 2017
Polica – When We Stay Alive
St Vincent – Nina Kraviz Presents Mass Induction Rewired
Meghan Trainor – Treat Myself
Ben Watt – Storm Damage
Tony Williams – Foreign Intrigue
Charles Wright – Express Yourself
Various Artists – Rough Guide To Blues Divas
Various Artists – Rough Guide To The Roots of Country Music

FRIDAY, JANUARY  24th

Chris Bell – I Am The Cosmos
Big Star – #1 Record
Big Star – Radio City
Dashboard Confessional – Best of the Best Ones
Son Little – Aloha
Lord Invader – Calypso Travels
Lord Invader was one of the most iconic and well-regarded calypso musicians of the mid-20th century. Coming from humble beginnings in the musical hotbed of Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, Invader gained notoriety for his unique voice and lyrical prowess. Calypso Travels, his final album released just before his death, was produced in New York in 1960 by Folkways founder Moses Asch. The album showcases Lord Invader’s talent for biting lyrics that reference contemporary happenings, such as the rise of Fidel Castro, his experience at the 1956 World Fair in Belgium, the arrival of the Little Rock Nine in 1957 desegregating the public schools in the United States, and his touring experiences in Europe in the 1950s. An icon of Caribbean music, and one of the major forces exporting it to the world, Lord Invader epitomizes the spirit of calypso – boisterous, acerbic, and joyful. This reissue is part of Smithsonian Folkways Vinyl Reissue Series, bringing to light gems from the extensive collection and revisiting some of the most iconic and influential albums released by the label.
Van Morrison – His Band & Street Choir
Ramones – It’s Alive
Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bollocks
Supergrass – Strange Ones
Soundtrack – Twin Peaks, music by Angelo Badalamenti

FRIDAY, JANUARY  17th

Brother Ali – Secrets & Escapes
Devo – Freedom of Choice
Devo – New Traditionalists
Bill Fay – Countless Branches
Deluxe double vinyl LP pressing including bonus tracks. 2020 release. The great Bill Fay returns with the third album in the celebrated second phase of his recording career. “21 years ago, Colin Miles of See For Miles records dropped a pebble in a pond.” says Fay. It was Miles who, on a gut instinct, reissued Bill Fay’s albums for Deram – records made in 1970 and 1971 and deleted shortly afterwards – which Miles had always admired. Rave reviews and endorsements from the likes of Jim O’Rourke (Tortoise) and Jeff Tweedy (Wilco) led to a huge revival of interest in this vanished artist. Fay, now 76, was not actually a hermit but a quiet, private person who had withdrawn from a music world changed to the point where he felt no longer involved. But he had continued to make music almost every day in the intervening decades. “Colin said to me, ‘You wanna get out there, Bill’,” Fay says, chuckling at the memory. “I replied, ‘I’m a corner-of-the-room person, Colin’.”
Gladiators – Symbol of Reality
John Lee Hooker – Remastered From The Archives
Da Lench Mob – Guerillas In The Mist
MC5 – Kick Out The Jams
Stevie Nicks – Bella Donna
Poncho Sanchez – Trane’s Delight
Sonny Clark’s Memorial Quartet – Voodoo

Widespread Panic – Montreal ’97
Warren Zevon – Excitable Boy (Red Vinyl)

Warren Zevon – Stand In The Fire
Various Artists – Elsewhere Junior I, A Collection of Cosmic Children’s Songs

Elsewhere Junior I – A Collection of Cosmic Children’s Songs

 

FRIDAY, JANUARY 10th

Bad Company – Desolation Angels
Deep Purple – Last Concert In Japan

Deep Purple – Made In Europe
Deep Purple – Stormbringer
Marianne Faithfull – Come & Stay With Me, The UK 45s, 1964-1969
Mamadou Kelly – Bateaux
The Replacements – Don’t Tell A Soul
The Replacements – Pleased To Meet Me
Townes Van Zandt – Our Mother The Mountain, 50th Anniversary Edition

New Vinyl Releases, December 2019

December 5th, 2019

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6th

Art Alexis – Sun Songs
Joseph Arthur – Come Back

Jim Carroll Band – Catholic Boy
The Generationals – Actor-Caste
Gun Club – Moonlight Motel
Joe Henry – The Gospel According To Water
John Lee Hooker – If You Miss ‘Im, I Got ‘Im
Etta James – Queen of Soul
Miranda Lambert – Wildcard
Todd Rundgren – Something / Anything
XTC – English Settlement

The Who – Who
Soundtrack – Music from the movie Cool World

Soundtrack – Music from the movie Heat
Soundtrack – Until The End of the World