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Music News & Notes

BethFarrell — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:11:37 +0000

Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog 4AD and Sub Pop Announce Record Store Day Releases Featuring Blonde Redhead, Gang Gang Dance, Dum Dum Girls and Soundgarden Each year since 2008, music retailers have celebrated Record Store Day with special in-store performances and limited-edition releases from some of music’s biggest names. This year, Record Store Day will [...]

Articles of Interest

BethFarrell — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:09:41 +0000

Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog The Last Record Store Valley-based Turn It Up! remains a successful outpost of old-school music-buying. By Matthew Dube He stole the entire Bob Dylan section. The grizzled and affable gentleman—think Jeff Bridges in Crazy Heart—in the oversized Celtics warm-up jacket was a fixture for several days in early 2001. He’d come into the [...]

Ask Mr. Music by Jerry Osborne

BethFarrell — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:08:45 +0000

Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog FOR THE WEEK OF MARCH 8, 2010 DEAR JERRY: Has anyone ever told you they keep a scrapbook of your columns? Well I do, and it is several hundred pages. In one written about 10 years ago, you say that Billboard began using their Star Performer symbol (a.k.a., “bullet”) in mid-August 1958. I [...]

Music News & Notes

BethFarrell — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:07:29 +0000

Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog The Pipettes confirm new single, tour The Pipettes have confirmed the details of their comeback single and a spring UK tour. The girl-group will release ‘Stop The Music’ on CD, limited edition red vinyl and download on April 19 through Fortuna POP. In support of the release and forthcoming album Earth [...]

This Date In Music History-March 10

BethFarrell — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:05:56 +0000

Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog Birthdays: Dean Torrence - Jan and Dean (1940) Pete Nelson - Flowerpot Men (1945) Tom Scholz - Boston (1947) Ted McKenna - Sensational Alex Harvey Band (1950) Bunny Debarge - Debarge (1955) Gail Greenwood - Belly/L7 (1960) Jeff Ament - Pearl Jam (1963) Neneh Cherry (1964) Edie Brickell (1965) Dave Krusen - Pearl Jam (1966) Dylan Keefe - Marcy Playground (1970) Timothy [...]

New Music Releases - March 9, 2010

Dennis — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:25:08 +0000

Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog 1986 - Everybody Is Whatever I Think They Are Abscess – Dawn of Inhumanity Acrassicauda – Only the Dead See the End of the War (EP) Al Stewart - Uncorked: Al Stewart Live Alan Charing – Stitch Alberta Cross - Broken Side of Time (vinyl) Aloha - Home Acres (2-LP vinyl) Ambrosia - Biggest Part of Me: [...]

Music News & Notes

Dennis — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:24:15 +0000

Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog Bon Iver Covers Peter Gabriel for Record Store Day Single Bon Iver is teaming up with Peter Gabriel to release a split 7″ single on Record Store Day, which is happening April 17 this year. The single, which will only be available at independent record stores, will feature Gabriel’s cover of [...]

Top 5 eBay Vinyl Record Sales

Dennis — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:20:11 +0000

Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog Week Ending 03/06/2010 1. 78 - Ed Bell “Frisco Whistle” / “Mean Conductor Blues” Paramount - $3,938.88 2. LP - The Beatles “Mono Collection” Box Set - $3,500.00 3. 45 - David Bowie “Rock N’ Roll With Me” / “Panic In Detroit” Canadian Pressing - $3,050.00 4. LP - Hank Mobley self titled Blue [...]

Music News & Notes

Dennis — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:52:25 +0000

Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog STRYPER Begins Recording Covers Album Christian hard rockers STRYPER entered the studio on March 6 to begin recording an album of covers songs, set to be released later in the year. The CD will include STRYPER’s renditions of the following classics: * JUDAS PRIEST - “Breaking The Law” * IRON MAIDEN - “The [...]

This Date In Music History-March 8

Dennis — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:49:03 +0000

Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog Birthdays: Ralph Ellis - Swinging Blue Jeans (1942) Andrew Semple - Fortunes(1943) Keef Hartley - Keef Hartley Band (1944) Michael Dolenz - Monkees (1945) Carole Bayer Sager - singer/songwriter. Wrote “Groovy Kind Of Love,” hit for The Mindbenders (1946) Randy Meisner - Poco / Eagles (1946) Mike Allsup - Three Dog Night (1947) “Little” Peggy March (1948) Dave Lambert [...]

Collecting Enid Blyton

Dennis — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:28:06 +0000

Submitted by Bookride Blog Current Selling Prices £3 to £3000+ Enid Blyton is still one of the most read children’s authors. And that’s official. Although her heyday was fifty or more years ago, children are still lapping up her books, despite the efforts of the PC apparatchiks, including the BBC, who apparently blackballed her ( ‘ fourth-rate, [...]

This Date In Music History-March 4

Dennis — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:49:52 +0000

Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog Birthdays: Paul Mauriat (1968 #1 single chart “Love Is Blue”) (1925) Eric Allandale - Foundations (1936) Bobby Womack (1944) Chris Squire - Yes (1948) Emilio Estefan - Miami Sound Machine (1950) Chris Rea (1951) Jason Newsted - Metallica (1963) Richard March - Pop Will Eat Itself (1965) Patrick Hannan - Sundays (1966) Evan Dando - Lemonheads (1967) Feargal Lawlor - Cranberries [...]

Music News & Notes

Dennis — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:48:56 +0000

Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog Paramore Limited Edition Vinyl Paramore has announced that they’ll be releasing a limited edition vinyl record package including an LP version of Brand New Eyes and a 7″ single of “Brick By Boring Brick.” The LP, pressed on jet black slabs of wax, is limited to 5,000 copies for the entire globe! [...]

Indiana Jones 5 News

Dennis — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:29:36 +0000

Submitted by All Movie Replicas Blog Harrison Ford may be back, whip in tow, as Indiana Jones. The actor told the BBC that he, Spielberg and Lucas have come with the bones of an idea for the fifth instalment in the Indy franchise. He said: “Steven and George and I are sort of agreed on a germ [...]

Ask Mr. Music by Jerry Osborne

Dennis — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:08:02 +0000

Submitted by Collecting Vinyl Records Blog FOR THE WEEK OF MARCH 1, 2010 DEAR JERRY: I was knocked out by the high values, and endless nuances affecting those prices, for the “Introducing the Beatles” album covered in your recent column. I would very much like to have similar details and values for first state issues of “The Beatles [...]