Wax Poetic--Vinyl Fanatics Unite!

The Vinyl Bubble is Going to Burst---Why Universal (UMG), Warner (WMG) and other labels don't care.

2023-10-28T10:22:00.002-07:00

I've been collecting records since 1994 when I made my first order with Sub Pop records (you actually had to mail them a check and your list of items you wanted). So I've seen the growth of the vinyl resurgence first hand. The turning point when vinyl changed was May 18th, 2010. Yes, that is a Tuesday, because that's when all the new music used to come out. The release that Tuesday on vinyl was the Black Keys Brothers, coming off 2 hits singles "Howlin' for You" and "Tighten Up". The demand for this album at the time, blew away expectations. The initial shipment/allotment sold out instantly and if you strolled into your local music store to try and find a copy, you were beat. Warner Bros./Nonesuch had to put in a new order at the pressing plants and print up a whole new batch. At the time, due to the scarcity of pressing plants and the demand of vinyl, it took over 4 months to get stores restocked of this LP.

When it came back available to order the price shifted up pretty drastically. WMG/Nonesuch was selling the album wholesale for around $12-14 and when it was repressed, WMG/Nonesuch decided to capitalize on the demand and increase the price to around $20+ wholesale. While I don't fault WMG for passing on potential costs for "rushing" a pressing through a plant to get it to the market, what this did was create a standard whereby once people accepted that as the price point, WMG never went back and kept the prices higher.

Flash forward to today and now it is common place to see a new album consistently priced in the $40+ range, which is really unsustainable in this economy. Granted, the argument could be made that nobody is forcing anyone to buy these albums, but the labels don't see that by pricing albums that way it leaves less discretionary income for customers to buy other albums and explore new artists. You used to be able to go into a local record store and walk out with 5 albums of really good music for around $60. Now, you'd be hard pressed to walk out with 2 albums at that price.

In addition to these higher prices, the sheer volume of different colors/variants is just becoming obnoxious. Here are some of the major recent releases announced and the number of different versions available:

1) Black Pumas 16 different versions

2) Rolling Stones 40+ different versions

3) Green Day 17 versions

4) Alkaline Trio 7+ versions

Labels: Not every release needs a Wal-Mart, Target, Urban Outfitters, Best Buy, Amazon, Spotify and Hot Topic version.

I understand in this day of ADHD where everyone's trying to get attention for everything, music fans are an educated bunch. We are passionate. We follow the band on social media. We follow the band on forums/discord. If anything is announced, we'll know. You don't have to insult us or treat us like we are ignorant.

Labels---why would creating a one-off rare version be so bad? Whether you sell it D2C or only at indie record stores, do one special version and when that is gone, it is gone. That is it.

No more of the gimmicky marketing ploys where you make 10K copies of an album and only put up 5K to sell and then "sell out" and then magically "find" more copies to put up for sale at a later date.

Greed is going to catch up with these labels and pretty soon people will just say FUCK IT and go to Spotify or Apple Music or Tidal and all of the advancement and growth so many people put in to have vinyl grow for the past 10 years will see all their work go to waste.

What is going on with Variant releases? Another Editorial

2023-08-22T09:21:00.005-07:00

Hello Friends! It has been awhile. Nearly 8 years since I last updated this blog. I've decided to re-activate it. Because a lot of the same things I wrote about 8 years ago, still seem to be happening. I guess what is the old saying by Edmund Burke? Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

So this morning on August 22nd 2023 a pre-order was announced. I want to preface that I have nothing against this band. I don't know if they made this decision or if their label, ATO records did. Regardless this is absurd. Here is what I am talking about:

ARTIST: BLACK PUMAS

TITLE: CHRONICLES OF A DIAMOND

LABEL: ATO RECORDS (ATO0654LP)

VARIANT OPTIONS:

OFFICIAL STORE: Clear vinyl (unlimited) $26 (signed version /500 for $75)

Silver vinyl (4000 copies) $32 (signed version /500 for $75)

ATO STORE: Silver Vinyl (4000 copies) $40 signed version (100 copies..so was it out of the 500 from the official store or are there 600 total?).......vinyl prices same as official store ($26/$32)

Vinyl Me Please variant (750 copies) (available for 48 hours only) $40 non-member/$36 member

End of an Ear Records Texas Edition (unknown press) $26.99

Levitation variant (350 copies) $25.99

Rough Trade variant (1000 copies) $26.99

Target variant (unknown press) $25.99

Urban Outfitters variant (1000 copies) $29.98

Barnes & Noble variant (unknown press) $28.99

Indie Record Stores variant (unknown press) $26.99

Magnolia Record Store variant (unknown press) $30

*UPDATED* WalMart variant (unknown press) $29.97

*UPDATED AGAIN* Spotify variant (2000 copies) $28

So that is 13, yes THIRTEEN, variants for one record. In an economy that is struggling with inflation, etc.

So let's do some math here and see just how much this would set us back (no signed versions). I am going with a standard price of $5.00 for media mail shipping and averaging the sales tax to a uniform 10% to make it easy.

Official Store: $58 + $5 shipping + $5.80 tax = $68.80

VMP (non-member) $40 + $5 shipping + $4.00 tax = $49

End of an Ear: $26.99 + $5 shipping + $2.70 tax = $34.69

Levitation $25.99 + $5 shipping + $2.60 tax = $34.59

Rough Trade: $26.99 + $5 shipping + $2.70 tax = $34.69

Target: $25.99 + $5 shipping + $2.60 tax = $34.59

Urban Outfitters: $29.98 + $5 shipping + $3 tax = $37.98

Barnes & Noble: $28.99 + $5 shipping + $2.90 tax = $36.89

Indie Stores: $26.99 + $5 shipping + $2.70 tax = $34.69

Magnolia: $30 + $5 shipping + $3 tax = $38

Walmart: $29.97 + $5 shipping + $3 tax = $37.97

Spotify: $28 + $5 shipping + $2.80 tax = $35.80

Grand total to purchase all 12 variants with shipping & tax = $477.69

Yes nearly $500 to spend in 1 day to acquire all 13 variants. How many people budget $500 for their favorite artist to release their new LP? How many people have $500 laying around as discretionary income?

That is just a lot of money to ask for fans of a band to pay out for 1 release. I would hope labels can curtail this blantant need to spam the market with countless versions of a release. What happened to the good ol days when you'd have a black vinyl release and 1 color variant? Is that too old-fashioned now? Who is the label or artist trying to serve by releasing 13 variants? I just don't understand.

Thanks for stopping by!

Black Friday Record Store Day 2015 11/27/2015 BFRSD2015

2015-10-17T23:23:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone....posting this info for RSDfan who is still away...he wanted to get this info out. More updates tomorrow.

* Dave Matthews Band. Live Trax Volume 5 (180g 4LP box set on Pink Vinyl limited to 2000 copies. 8/23/95 Meadow Brook Music Festival in Rochester Hills, MI)
* Florence & The Machine. What kind of man/As Fast as I Could 12" EP
* Get Up Kids. Red Letter Day 10"
* Moving Mountains/ Prawn. Split 12" featuring new songs from each
* Pujol Kisses 12" EP. Limited to 750 copies with huge 25x25" poster.
* [NEW] Coheed And Cambria. Color Before The Sun Official Band Demos LP
* [NEW] Green Day American Idiot LP
* [NEW] Faith No More We Care A Lot

Support Your Local Record Store!!

Record Store Day 2015 aka #RSD2015 aka RSD #8 April 18, 2015 or 4/18/15

2015-01-22T22:36:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone.

It's January---it's still cold outside, we are working to accomplish our New Years' Resolutions, getting ready for the Super Bowl and so it is odd that we are talking about Record Store Day already.

But yet, we already have a pretty good list of info coming out. Remember, as always, you got it here first. Also, let me just take the time real quick to thank everyone who has come over here over the years. Thanks to all the small labels, independent record stores, Alternative Press (website was featured in their magazine) and visitors who have helped make this blog more successful than I ever imagined. All I ever wanted to do was compile in one handy place a list of the releases before the list came out, so I can track what was real and what wasn't.

As you may or may not know, originally I had the blessing from some of the folks behind Record Store Day. I even helped interview a few. But last April, something changed. I still really can't explain what, but the cooperation and camaraderie that I had died. The folks behind RSD made me public enemy #1--even threatening stores to not even *link* to my blog for fear of repercussions.

Nobody, should ever be afraid to speak their mind. Nobody should use fear as a tactic to stifle freedom of expression. So this list will likely piss some people off. And let me be clear, this is my last post. I am moving overseas and going to a place without internet/phone access. So I won't be able to continue to update this blog any more. So this is my Thank You. This is my going away present to those of you who visited and helped me along the way.

Keep shopping at Indie Record Stores throughout the year.

UPDATED: 1/22/15

OFFICIAL RECORD STORE DAY 2015 RELEASES (NOTE: THIS IS AN INCOMPLETE LIST--THERE WILL LIKELY BE MORE THAN 300 **MORE** ITEMS ADDED, SO RELAX--BUT EVERYTHING LISTED HERE IS AUTHENTIC AND WILL BE RELEASED--THERE IS NO SPECULATION OR RUMOR HERE, THESE ITEMS ARE BEING SOLICITED AT STORES RIGHT NOW)

7" SINGLES (taken from www.new-vinyl.blogspot.com):

[NEW] Adams, Ryan Come Pick Me Up (Alternate Take) b/w Rope Gets Tight (previously unreleased) SRP: $8.98
[NEW] Atreyu So Others May Live (1st new track in 6 years + bonus live track) SRP: $8.98
Beck, Jeff Hi Ho Silver Lining b/w Beck's Bolero (Red Vinyl 7", 1750 copies only) SRP: $9.98
Beck, Jeff Love Is Blue b/w I've Been Drinking (Blue Vinyl 7", 2000 copies only) SRP: $9.98
Beck, Jeff Tallyman b/w Rock My Plimsoul (Gold Vinyl 7", 1750 copies only) SRP: $9.98
[NEW] Black Dahlia Murder Covers 7" (3 song 7" featuring covers of songs by Left For Dead, Sedition, and Guyga)
Black Keys/Junior Kimbrough Meet Me In the City 7" (Features Black Keys cover on a-side and original track on b-side) Limited to 6000 copies. SRP: $7.98
[NEW] Braid Kids Get Grids (2 new unreleased tracks) SRP: $8.98
Fall Out Boy American Beauty/American Psycho (6x7" BOX SET) SRP: $45.98
[NEW] Interpol Everything is Wrong b/w What is What
Junior Brown Better Call Saul: Theme (7" Theme to the new Breaking Bad spinoff--limited to 1000 copies) SRP: $9.98
Kinks, The Kinksize Hits 7" EP (4 track EP celebrating the 50th anniversary of the band, this release is identical to the original) SRP: $12.98
Kinks, The Kinksize Session 7" EP (4 track EP Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the band, this release is identical to the original) SRP: $12.98
Kinks, The You Really Got Me (LIVE) b/w Milk Cow Blue (LIVE) (1st time released in the USA) SRP: $8.98
Lees of Memory (Superdrag members) Soft Places Within A Dream II 7" SRP: $9.98
Marvin Gaye How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) b/w Once Upon A Time (Featuring Mary Wells) 7" (released on Motown label, double A-sided 7") SRP: $12.98
Rev. Horton Heat It's a Rave-Up b/w Beer, Write This Song (Red Vinyl 7" limited to 1850 copies (with 150 randomly inserted on pink vinyl). SRP: $6.98
[NEW] Rise Against Eco-Terrorist In Me 7" SRP: $11.98
Seshen, The/Lost Midas SPLIT "Reworked" 7" (Clear splatter vinyl...features each artist remixing the other. Tracks are Unravel (remixed by Lost Midas) b/w Off the Course (remixed by Seshen). SRP: $8.98
STRFKR Astronaut/Little Lover (7" originally supposed to be out for Black Friday, pushed to RSD15--1000 copies) SRP: $7.98
Todd Snider Impending Doom (Stones Cover) b/w New Track (Title TBD). Limited to 1500 copies. SRP: $6.98
Twin Peaks RSD 7" (features 2 new unreleased tracks from this Chicago band) SRP: $5.98
Typhoon Prosthetic Love (Piano Version) 7" SRP: $7.98
Zappa, Frank 200 Motels 7" SRP: $9.98

10" SINGLES (taken from www.new-vinyl.blogspot.com):

Allman, Gregg RSD 10" Picture Disc (features 2 live tracks from Macon, GA and 2 tracks never before on vinyl--'Melissa' Gregg Allman w/Jackson Browne and 'Midnight Rider' Greeg Allman w/Zac Brown and Vince Gill) SRP $14.98
Animals--The Animals No. 2 10" 45RPM EP (1st time available in USA) SRP: $14.98
Blackberry Smoke--Wood Wire and Roses 10" EP (120g colored 10" featuring 4 acoustic versions of songs from their new album Holding All The Roses) SRP: $14.98
Charlie Feathers Self-Titled 10" (Features eight of his King singles from 1956 and 1957, now on one 10"--1500 copies) SRP: $15.98
Cold War Kids--Five Quick Cuts 10" (Features new instrumental song ("Portugese Bend") with unreleased bonus tracks--limited to 2000 copies) SRP: $12.98
Comeback Kid--Rain City Sessions 10" (Six Live Tracks from Comeback Kids plus a studio version of Nirvana's Territorial Pissings. Limited to 1850 copies on White Vinyl with 150 randomly inserted on Clear Red Vinyl) SRP: $14.98
Davis, Miles The Prestige 10" Collection Volume 2 (5x10" Box) SRP: $79.98
D Generation--Queens of A 10" (first new music in 15 years) SRP: $10.98
Dom Flemons What Got Over 10" (9 new tracks/alternate versions set to be a companion piece to Prospect Hill--1000 copies) $16.98
Justin Townes Earle--Live at Grimey's 10" EP (features 8 live tracks from Sept 2014 that covers both his recent releases) SRP: $18.98
Garbage RSD 10" (New 10" featuring 2 new tracks (one featuring a guest artist) on Orange Vinyl) SRP: $12.98
Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto--Getz/Gilberto '76 10" EP (140g Green Vinyl 10" sampler of forthcoming 2LP set) SRP: $18.98
Jesse Malin--Hardcore Feeling 10" (3 track 10" featuring 2 new tracks--Whitestone and Society Sally--limited to 500 copies) SRP: $10.98
Sinatra, Frank Songs for Young Lovers 10" Remastered EP (Features 8 tracks) SRP: $22.98
SOUNDTRACK---Fury (by Steven Price) 10" EP (packaged in a die-cut WWII V-Disc slipcase, features 9 tracks including 2 exclusive ones) SRP: $15.98
Tove Lo--Truth Serum 10" EP (Pink Vinyl, 6 tracks) SRP: $12.98
Young, Larry--In Paris: The O.R.T.F. Recordings 10" EP (140g vinyl featuring live and studio recordings from 1965 from the Office of Radio and Television in France. Never before released) SRP: $18.98

12" SINGLES (taken from www.new-vinyl.blogspot.com):

[NEW] 1975, The Facedown EP (Clear Vinyl 12", 1st Time on Vinyl) SRP: $13.98
[NEW] 1975, The IV EP (Clear Vinyl 12", 1st Time on Vinyl) SRP: $13.98
[NEW] 1975, The Music For Cars EP (Clear Vinyl 12", 1st Time on Vinyl) SRP: $13.98
[NEW] 1975, The Sex EP (Clear Vinyl 12", 1st Time on Vinyl) SRP: $13.98
Avcii--The Days/Nights Remix 12" EP (7 track remix EP) SRP: $22.98
Banks--The Remixes Part 2 (features unreleased remixes, limited to 2000) SRP $10.98
Barnett, Courtney---RSD 12" (Features John Cale cover and brand new track, limited to 2500 copies) SRP: $10.98
John Butler Trio--Ocean 12" (Instrumental hit b/w new instrumental song "Heading South") SRP: $15.98
Real Friends--More Acoustic Songs 12" Picture Disc EP (4 new acoustic tracks including a cover of a Starting Line song, 1500 copies) SRP: $17.98
Run the Jewels RSD 12" Picture Disc (4 track 12" including an unreleased version of Blockbuster Night Part II, 5000 copies) SRP: $14.98
Kenny Wayne Shepherd--A Little Something From the Road Volume 1 (LIVE EP) SRP: $10.98
St. Paul and the Broken Bones--Live from the Alabama Theater 12" (Alabama shaped vinyl 12" Picture Disc featuring live covers of Sly & The Family Stone and David Bowie--2000 copies) SRP: $11.98
Tears for Fears--Shout b/w Everybody Wants to Rule The World 180g 12" w/extended remixed versions SRP: $16.98
Temples--Mesmerise Live 12" EP (numbered Live 12" on colored vinyl, limited to 3000 copies, featuring 4 live songs) SRP: $13.98

LP RECORDS (taken from www.new-vinyl.blogspot.com):

At The Gates--Gardens of Grief (180g Colored Vinyl LP w/poster--1500 copies) SRP: $19.98
Atkins, Chet--My Brother Sings (180g R.T.I. pressing from the original masters of this cancelled 1958 LP--2000 copies) SRP: $24.98
Banks, Azealia--Broke With Expensive Taste (Deluxe Version) (debut album on vinyl for the first time with bonus tracks---will be either on colored vinyl or on a picture disc, to be determined) SRP: $22.98
Blitzen Trapper--Harvest (180g LP of the band's LIVE recording covering Neil Young's classic LP from Portland, Oregon). SRP: $18.98
Candlemass--Live (180g 2LP limited to 1000 copies---first time available in the USA of this 1990 release) SRP $29.98
Carcass--Choice Cuts 2LP (Red and Clear Splatter Vinyl--limited to 1500 copies) SRP $26.98
{NEW} Case, Neko Fox Confessor Brings the Flood (Limited Red Vinyl LP)
Clutch--From Beale Street to Oblivion (2LP on Purple Vinyl, limited to 1000 copies, on vinyl for the first time) SRP $28.98
Cotton, James--Cut You Loose! (Remastered 1968 LP) SRP: $18.98
Country Joe & The Fish---Together (Remastered LP from the original tapes, was originally released in 1967) SRP: $21.98
Dixie Cups, The---Chapel of Love LP (1st time on vinyl in over 40 years) SRP $19.98
Doc & Merle Watson--Ballads from Deep Gap LP (Remastered LP from the original tapes of this classic 1971 release) SRP: $18.98
Electric Wizard--Time To Die (Silver Vinyl LP) SRP: $25.98
[NEW] Empire of the Sun Walking on a Dream (Limited Reissue of Debut Album) SRP: $25.98
Everly Brothers, The---15 Everly Hits (Greatest Hits LP, 1st time available in nearly 50 years) SRP: $19.98
Curtis Fuller's Quintet Featuring Benny Golson--Blues-ette (re-release of this 1959 Jazz LP) SRP: $19.98
[NEW] Garcia, Jerry Garcia (Compliments) (Green Vinyl with embossed sleeve with each copy foil stamped numbered) SRP: $25.98
Gibbs, Joe---African Dub: Chapter 2 Picture Disc SRP: $34.98
Goldfrapp--Felt Mountain (Colored Vinyl LP, 1st time USA pressing) SRP: $23.98
Gov't Mule--Stoned Side of the Mule Volume 2 (Rolling Stones Covers, recorded live, follow-up from Black Friday Volume One Release---3500 copies) SRP $20.98
GWAR--America Must Be Destroyed (45RPM 2LP with pop-up album artwork--3000 copies) SRP: $33.98
Herman's Hermits---Blaze (180g LP--1st time on vinyl in 40+ years) SRP $18.98
Hold Steady, The---Boys and Girls in America (180g LP on either Purple or White (random)) SRP: $18.98
Hold Steady, The--Heaven is Whenever (180g Red LP---NOTE: This was also a RSD2010 release with a silkscreened cover, on clear vinyl and limited to 600 copies---are we really going to start reissuing RSD releases now???) SRP: $18.98
Islander--Violence & Destruction LP (White Vinyl LP w/100 copies on a random Teal--900 copies) SRP: $14.98
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts--Flashback (Rarities Collection) (2LP + CD on Blue 140g Vinyl. SRP: $29.98
Jungle Rot--Terror Regime LP (Blue Vinyl with 100 copies on Red Vinyl (Random)--900 copies) SRP: $14.98
Keen, Robert Earl--Gringo Honeymoon (1994 release on vinyl for the first time!) SRP: $18.98
Kid Cudi--Kid Cudi presents Satellite Fight: The Journey to the Mother Moon (First time on vinyl) SRP: $24.98
Lee, Alvin---Still on the Road to Freedom (LP with bonus tracks--750 copies) SRP: $19.98
[NEW] Manic Street Preachers The Holy Bible (20th Anniversary Edition) Picture Disc
Marley, Bob--Bob Marley Interviews: So Much Things to Say (1973 interview with Neville Willoughby) SRP: $21.98
Mavericks, The---Mono (early vinyl release of their new LP) SRP: $17.98
McCartney, Paul--The Family Way: Original Soundtrack Recording (1967 Soundtrack now available on vinyl for the first time in over 40 years) SRP: $19.98
Midlake--Live in Denton, TX (LP + DVD) SRP: $21.98
Montgomery, Wes--One Night In Indy (featuring the Eddie Higgins Trio) (180g LP featuring new tracks from forthcoming 2016 LP) SRP: $23.98
Musselwhite, Charlie--Stand Back! (remastered 1967 LP) SRP: $18.98
Parker, Charlie--The Charlie Parker Story LP SRP: $19.98
Parton, Dolly---The Grass is Blue (1999 LP on vinyl for the first time) SRP: $18.98
Path of Resistance--Who Dares Wins (White Vinyl with 100 on Green (random)--900 copies) SRP: $14.98
[NEW] Rick Ross The Maybach Edition (Compilation of all of the Maybach Music singles featuring Jay-Z, Kayne West, Lil Wayne, Erykah Badu, T.I., Jadakiss, T-Pain & Ne-Yo and more) SRP: $17.98
Social Distortion--Social Distortion (25th Anniversary Edition on Blue and White Split Color, limited to 1500 copies) SRP: $25.98
SOUNDTRACK--Orange is the New Black Original Television Soundtrack (on Orange & Black Vinyl, features the score from the first two seasons) SRP: $24.98
SOUNDTRACK--The Lego Movie Deluxe Soundtrack PICTURE DISC w/Poster (2000 copies) SRP: $31.98
SOUNDTRACK--AMC's The Walking Dead: Original Soundtrack Volume 2 PICTURE DISC (1800 copies) SRP: $21.98
SOUNDTRACK--I'm Here (A Soundtrack to the Short Film by Spike Jonze) PICTURE DISC LP (features Girls, Animal Collective, Of Montreal and more) SRP: $19.98
SOUNDTRACK--The Darjeeling Limited (180g Green Vinyl, first time on vinyl) SRP: $23.98
SOUNDTRACK--Whiplash: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack LP (Features new original Jazz tracks and classic ones from Stan Getz, Duke Ellington and more) SRP: $19.98
Thorogood, George---George Thorogood and the Delaware Destroyers LP (debut album with new mix with unreleased track) SRP: $17.98
Those Darlins/Diarrhea Planet--Live at Pickathon Split LP (both bands sets from the Pickathon festival in Happy Valley, OR) SRP: $16.98
Various Artists--Record Store Day Presents: Trojan Records Rude Boy Rumble LP SRP: $17.98
Various Artists--When I Reach That Heavenly Shore: Unearthly Black Gospel: 1926-1936 3LP SRP: $53.98
Venom--From the Very Depths (Brand new LP) SRP: $25.98
Warzone--Fight for Justice LP (Grey Vinyl with 100 Red Vinyl (random)--900 copies) SRP: $14.98
Wells, Junior--It's My Life Baby! (Remastered 1966 Blues LP) SRP: $18.98
Wood, Brenton--Oogum Boogum (White Vinyl LP) SRP: $17.98
Zombies, The---R.I.P. (The Lost Album) 1st time on vinyl as an official, non-bootleg release! SRP: $19.98

Are Hot Topic/Urban Outfitters/Newbury Comics and the multitude of variants causing manufacturing delays and hurting the industry? An Editorial

2015-01-11T09:38:00.000-08:00

Hi Friends.

So remember back in September of last year, when Urban Outfitters Chief Administrative Office, Calvin Hollinger told analysts that they were the world's number one vinyl seller?? Remember how the Internet lost their shit and basically said that this was the end of vinyl as we knew it??

Luckily, we knew that hyperbole was overstated and luckily, the kind folks at Billboard, actually detailed who sold the most vinyl. To recap it was:

Amazon: 12.3% market share

Urban Outfitters: 8.1% market share

Hastings: 2.8%

Hot Topic: 2.4%

TWE (owns F.Y.E. chain): 2.2%

Newbury Comics 1.5-2%

If you look at that list, if you follow any vinyl release over the past 2+ years, you'll notice that now most of the above stores have their own vinyl exclusives for releases. Some are new and some are reissues that can only best be described as a cash grab. The original definition for cash grab, was used for movies, when movie studios would make unnecessary and poorly written/acted/made sequels just to generate revenue.

Well the same thing is happening in the vinyl industry and NOBODY seems to care. Or maybe they just don't want to peel back the curtain and reveal the wizard.

Right after Christmas, it was announced that United Record Pressing, the largest plant in the USA, would not be accepting any new customers for the time being due to demand and the fact they are booked up. Now URP is adding capacity and a new pressing plant which will open later this year, but the fact of the matter is, this is troubling.

I know of one label, that tried to get a record made last year and had a contract with a release date and everything and the release ended up getting delayed because a major label came in and pushed it aside so something could be released for Record Store Day. Mind you, this label had already PAID for everything, and was promised these records so they could have a record release party, but nope. They were small potatoes. They weren't a "regular customer", so they get squeezed out. I guess that constitutes customer service nowadays, where whoever has the biggest wallet, gets to the front of the line.

This wouldn't be so bad, but as we all know, we keep seeing the number of releases for April's Record Store Day increase every year. The folks behind RSD swear that this year they won't have as many titles, but we'll see. How many "unofficial" releases will there be? Will they sacrifice the number of releases to increase the quantities so stores will have leftovers longer? We'll see.

But what the real travesty is, and what this article needs to point out is the following question---How many variants of a new release do we need?

If we are in a situation, where plants are at capacity, where "Record labels are waiting months for orders that used to get filled in weeks. That is because pressing machines spit out only around 125 records an hour. To boost production, record factories are running their machines so hard—sometimes around the clock—they have to shell out increasing sums for maintenance and repairs.

Large orders from superstars create bottlenecks, while music fans search the bins in vain for new releases by The War on Drugs, a Philadelphia indie group, or French electronic duo Daft Punk. More requests for novelty LPs—multi-colored, scented, glow-in-the-dark—gum things up further." Per this article HERE.....then why do we keep doing it?

You see constant stories about the fragile state of the pressing plants HERE and HERE, yet the labels keep catering to these multiple variants. Let's look at some examples.

Rise Against "The Black Market"

This LP came out in at least 5 different configurations in North America which included:

Standard Black
Green/Yellow Swirl (Hot Topic Exclusive--1500 copies)
Pink w/Black Swirl (Sunrise Records Canada Exclusive--300 copies)
Coke Bottle Clear w/Blue Split (Interpunk Exclusive--1000 copies)
Splatter Vinyl (Clear w/Red & Black) (Rise Against Webstore Exclusive)

The prices on these were as follows:

Standard Black: $17.29 (through DimpleRecords on Amazon)
Hot Topic Variant: $22.50
Sunrise Canada: $unknown
Interpunk: $19.25
Rise Against Webstore: $29.95

Tigers Jaw "Charmer"

This LP was limited to 10,000 total copies in the following configurations:

750 Maroon/White Starburst (Run For Cover Webstore Exclusive)
1050 Translucent Green (Hot Topic Variant)
1050 Cream w/Green Marble (Newbury Comics Exclusive)
1500 White w/Pink Starburst (Run for Cover Webstore Exclusive)
2650 Red/White Marble (Run for Cover Webstore Excluisve)
3000 Light Green/Dark Green Marble (Retail)

The prices on these were as follows:

750 Maroon/White: $14.00
1050 Hot Topic Variant: $20.50
1050 Newbury Variant: $19.99 (note: price is now $12.99, but when it originally went up for sale, $19.99 was the price)
1500 White w/Pink Starburst $14.00
2650 Red/White Marble $14.00
3000 Light Green/Dark Green Marble $13.39 (from Hastings through Amazon)

Spoon "They Want My Soul"

180g Blue Translucent (Spoon webstore exclusive)
180g Black (Standard Retail)
180g Clear (Urban Outfitters Exclusive)
180g White (Indie Record Store Exclusive/Spoon Webstore Exclusive)

The prices on these were as follows:

180g Blue $35.00
180g Black $16.58 via Classical Music Store on Amazon
180g Clear $22.98
180g White $19.97 (via Indie Record Stores) or $25.00 (price via Spoon Webstore. They have some now for $20, but have "damaged sleeves". But price when they first went up was $25).

So as you see, anytime you get a Urban Outfitters, Hot Topic or Newbury Comics involved, you can expect to pay more....after all 2 of those stores have to cover those expensive Mall leases!!

And sometimes, it's not even the color of the vinyl that is unique, but rather the color of the sleeve. Who can forget this release:

Queens of the Stone Age "Like Clockwork"

Regular Black Vinyl LP (Red Sleeve)
Deluxe Black Vinyl LP 180g LP (Red Sleeve)
150g Black Vinyl LP (Blue Sleeve)
180g Black Vinyl LP (Black Sleeve--RSD Release)

So basically the same LP, with no real bonus tracks or any other incentives, other than the color of the sleeves. Wow.

We also are getting to the point where things aren't even out of print, nor is there demand for a repress, yet things are getting repressed. In my opinion, the biggest violator of this is Newbury Comics. Most of their "Newbury Exclusives" is overpriced crap, that nobody was demanding be pressed. Yet each week, we see to get a new repress.

Did we really need the 15th Version of T.Rex's The Slider on a White w/Black Splatter color from Newbury?

Did we really need the 10th Version of Blink 182's Buddha on Blue Vinyl from Newbury?

Did we really need the 25th+ Version of Nirvana's Bleach from Newbury? Well I guess Sub Pop had to get some money to open that store in Seattle's airport. I'm sure Kurt's estate is realllllly hurting for cash right now.

Another example of the "we didn't ask for a repress or need one" was the Blink 182 Hot Topic Splatter series. Most people may or may not realize, that back in 2012/early 2013, Hot Topic released most of these in their stores already. Here is what they pressed for Blink 182 in 2012/early 2013:

Cheshire Cat on a Blue/Yellow split, limited to 400 copies (price $14.99) (note: there was a 2010 pressing of 2000 copies on Blue/Green/Yellow that was in stores for a lonnnnng time, hence why this pressing was so small).
Buddha on Red/Yellow LP, limited to 1000 copies (price $14.99)
Mark, Tom and Travis Show Pink/Purple LP, limited to 1000 copies (price $19.99)
Blink 182 self titled on a Marble Green/Pink LP, limited to 2000 copies (price $19.99)
Blink 182 Neighborhoods on a White/Black Marble, limited to 1000 copies (price $21.99)

Then the new 2014 Splatter Series Variants:

Cheshire Cat on a Clear Vinyl w/ Blue & Yellow Splatter, limited to 2700 copies (price $19.99)
Buddha on a Clear Vinyl w/Blue & Green Splatter, limited to 2000 copies (price $21.50)
Mark, Tom and Travis Show on a Clear Vinyl w/Pink/Blue/Green Splatter, limited to 2700 copies (price $24.99)
Self-Titled on a Clear Vinyl w/Pink & Green Splatter, limited to 2000 copies (price $24.99)
Neighborhoods on a Clear Vinyl w/Black & White Splatter, limited to 2700 copies (price $29.50)

If the above is not the definition of cash grab, then I don't know what else is. Every one who bought one of these (myself included) is a sucker. We fell for their ploy.

And this is the root of the problem. Hot Topic, Newbury Comics, Hastings, Urban Outfitters---they don't give a shit about the vinyl resurgence. They don't give a shit about vinyl collectors. What they care about are profits and answering to shareholders, plain and simple (except for Newbury, they're just jumping on the price gouging bandwagon).

If these stores cared so much about the vinyl collector and the "true fan", then you know what, you wouldn't be able to order multiple copies of these releases. It is hilarious to read a Newbury Exclusive that has a tag line "limit to 6 copies per customer". It is even more hilarious to see sellers like Lazylabradorrecords and Reggiomedia1 sell an average of 8-15 copies of every single Hot Topic release on Ebay. But you and I both know that these stores including Hastings and Urban Outfitters will never modifty their checkout process to not allow for multiple copies to be purchased. There was another Ebay seller who posted their Ikea Expedit that had literally 30 copies of some Hot Topic releases. That is the problem---these stores aren't catering to the fans or the collectors, but to the resellers.

That is the greatest injustice here, because these items keep selling out and demand goes crazy on the secondhand market, we are justifying the ridiculous pricing that these stores are shoving down our throats and it is starting to become the norm.

At the end of the day, demand for vinyl will be there. Someone will always want to own a record on vinyl, even if it is only 2% of the total market. But it is the constant need for labels to overpress un-needed color variants, repress unwanted records and raising prices that will being to price out the very demographic they are trying to target.

This is why pressing plants are at capacity non-stop--because we are trying to get too cute and too collectible, instead of just pressing one copy of a LP and let the music speak for itself.

So to conclude, if I had one request of a Label Owner, Band, or Store Owner, it would be this---

If you are going to repress or reissue a record, ask yourself the following questions?

How many versions of this release are there already?
What will make my release unique, to warrant purchase (besides color)?
How many copies will generate enough interest/demand?
When was the last time this was available on vinyl?
Can I find this for a reasonable price in local music stores/Amazon---or is my only resource Ebay/Discogs?
What is my motivation for releasing this? Is it financial or motivated by wanting the fans to hear the music?
Will this release be considered a cash grab by the fans?

I think if we can start asking these questions, getting the variant numbers down and pressing music for the RIGHT REASONS, then a lot of these articles about pressing issues and delays will start being a thing of the past.

This is also another great example of WHY YOU SHOULD SHOP AT YOUR LOCAL RECORD STORE. I know the folks behind RSD keep doing some cool things to get some of the variants exclusive to their stores. But you'll SAVE MONEY and help keep a store alive by doing this.

Thoughts? Comments? I welcome them.

Record Store Day Black Friday BFRSD November 28th, 2014 11/28/14

2014-10-31T09:11:00.000-07:00

We're back!! Labor Day has finished, which means that football season has started and Black Friday Record Store Day will be fast upon us. This year, we've already been given a few hints early of some of the releases. Here we'll compile all of them in a nice, easy to view format before the official list is released.

Hint 1) Faith No More will release a 7" for Motherfucker (limited to 5000 copies) for Black Friday RSD: Rolling Stone CORRECT

Hint 2) Eminem will release Shady XV 2LP for Black Friday RSD: Consequence of Sound WRONG!

Hint 3) Flake Music (James Mercer's pre-Shins band) will be re-released via Sub Pop: COS WRONG!! You can pre-order it now from Subpop.com, comes out 11/25.

Hint 4) Garth Brooks' new album should be out "around Black Friday" per this article: Rolling Stone WRONG

Hint 5) Nikki Minaj's new album, The Pink Print, might be out on Black Friday: Ace WRONG

Hint 6) Krum Bums will release Smoke, a 12" EP limited to just 500 copies: Dying Scene confirmed.

LATE RECORD STORE DAY BLACK FRIDAY ADDIITIONS (UPDATED 10/31/14):

Cash, Roseanne The Sunken Lands 7"
Jacksoul Greatest Hits 10" (Canada Exclusive)
Tears for Fears Songs from the Big Chair 2014 Mix (180g LP---might be exclusive to Canada only for BFRSD)
Zappa, Frank 200 Motels 7"

OFFICIAL RELEASES (CONFIRMED):

NEW ADDITIONS/UPDATES WILL ALWAYS BE BOLD

BOOK:

[EXCLUSIVE] Spot Sounds of Two Eyes Opening (Book + 7")

Legendary hardcore producer and engineer SPOT (Misfits, Black Flag, Hüsker Dü, Minutemen etc.) is a master photographer. Sinecure Books are bafflingly proud to be the first to introduce the world to SPOT’s photographic narrative. Edited by Johan Kugelberg and Ryan Richardson, "Sounds of Two Eyes Opening" is a narrative of Southern California chiaroscuro: all the shots of punkers and bands and clubs are dark swatches of blacks and grays with brief illuminations of white skin, bringing about a general claustrophobic cul-de-sac feeling. These images sit in contrast to the wide open event horizon of Spots’ beach photographs: beauty, youth and body worship, white teeth, big hair, the eternal triage of sun/sand/sea and the promise of the unbroken horizon. Spanning the late 1960s through the early 1980s, "Sounds of Two Eyes Opening" offers an amazing portrait of Southern California coastal life: surfing, bikinis, roller skating and skate boarding's fledgling days are set in contrast to iconic shots of all the core denizens of hardcore punk rock as it is being invented; candid shots of Black Flag, The Germs, Minutemen etc. abut everyday punkers, fans, cops, clubs and now shuttered rehearsal spaces. "Sounds of Two Eyes Opening" is presented as a hardbound, 272 page book, printed on matte art paper, with 4-color black-and-white printing, a lay flat binding, and comes with a silkscreened 7" vinyl record.

COMPACT DISCS:

Diplo F10rida 2CD
Leftover Salmon High Country

CASSETTES

[EXCLUSIVE] Christian Death Only Theater of Pain (leftovers from Burger/Frontier Records---on 4 different card sleeve colors--gold, parchment, silver, white. Originally in a pressing of 250, but only 30 of each color are being made available to retail stores for Black Friday)
[EXCLUSIVE] Various Artists--Awesome Mix Vol. 1 (Guardians of the Galaxy)

7" SINGLES

[EXCLUSIVE] Against Me! Daytrotter Sessions 7"
Beatles Long Tall Sally MONO 7"
[EXCLUSIVE] Boorer, Boz (Morrissey guitarist) Comic Book Nightmare (500 copies on colored vinyl)
[EXCLUSIVE] Davis, Miles Blue Xmas b/w Devil May Care
[EXCLUSIVE] Decemberists New Single (off forthcoming new album) w/exclusive b-side (track details forthcoming) Tracks are Make Your Better b/w Fits and Starts
Desclous, Lizzy Mercier Fire b/w a rare session featuring Lizzy & PATTI SMITH reciting a bilingual version of Arthur Rimbaud's poem Morning High, set to music by Bill Laswell. (Fire colored vinyl, each numbered and limited to 1000)
[EXCLUSIVE] Dentists Strawberries are Growing in My Garden (reissue of 1985 classic Spruck Records single) Blue vinyl w/ DL Card.
Doors, The Ghost Song b/w Drums (8000 copies)
Faith No More Motherfucker 7" (5000 copies)
[EXCLUSIVE] J. Mascis Fade Into You (Mazzy Star Cover) b/w Outside (4000 copies with download card)
[EXCLUSIVE] Jenny Lewis Pax-Am Sessions (Mint Colored Green vinyl)
[EXCLUSIVE] Joan Jett & the Blackhearts/Runaways Recorded and Booked. Book and 7" with live versions of Bad Reputation, You Don't Know What You've Got, TMI and Cherry Bomb.
Kweller, Ben It Ain't Christmas Yet b/w Here Comes Santa Claus
[EXCLUSIVE] Low Threat Profile Product #3 7"
[EXCLUSIVE] M.D.C. Multi Death Corporations 7" (Restored and remastered, limited to 2000 copies, with 1000 on GREEN and 1000 on GOLD)
[EXCLUSIVE] M.D.C. Millions of Dead Children (Chicken Squatch) (Restored and remastered, limited to 2000 copies with 1000 on CLEAR and 1000 on WHITE)
[EXCLUSIVE] Mother Love Bone Hold Your Head Up b/w Holy Roller 7" (unreleased tracks--studio version of Argent's song with Holy Roller being an unreleased version from the Apple Sessions. 7" will be NUMBERED)
Oberst, Conor Standing on the Outside Looking In b/w Sugar Street (2 unreleased tracks from the Upside Down Mountain recording session)
[EXCLUSIVE] Ra Ra Riot Two Hearts Beat as One (U2 cover) b/w Wilderness (demo version)
[EXCLUSIVE] Run D.M.C. Christmas in Hollis (7" with Picture Sleeve and playable postcard)
Smith, Bessie At The Christmas Ball (Red Vinyl 7"…features the tracks At the Christmas Ball b/w Jazzbo Brown From Memphis Town)
[EXCLUSIVE] SHEERAN, ED Thinking Out Loud b/w I'm a Mess (Live from Lightship95)
South Park James Cameron b/w My Bitch Ain't No Hobbit Picture Disc
[EXCLUSIVE] STRFKR Astronaut b/w Little Lover
[EXCLUSIVE] Umphrey's McGee Seven Inches (new unreleased tracks--October Rain b/w Room to Breathe)
Various Artists Frozen Holiday Picture Disc (2 track 7" Picture Disc from Walt Disney Records featuring the tracks Do You Wanna Build a Snowman b/w In Summer)
[EXCLUSIVE] Waylon Jennings Louisiana Man, Kentucky Woman (White Vinyl 7" featuring 3 previously unheard tracks)
[EXCLUSIVE] Wedding Present 2014 RSD Single (German Versions). Originally intended to be released in Germany with Rolling Stone Magazine, the songs were recorded in the same session as the most recent album and the band decided they needed a worldwide release.

10" SINGLES/EPs:

[EXCLUSIVE] Bon Jovi Live 2 (10" EP featuring 4 tracks live from New Jersey)
Bowie, David Sue (Or In A Season of Crime) b/w 'Tis A Pity She's A Whore (New 2014 songs from Nothing Has Changed collection)
[EXCLUSIVE] Dave Matthews Band Recently 2x10" 1st time on vinyl. EXCLUSIVE Tracklisting (PLEASE GIVE CREDIT):

Double 10" Vinyl
LP 1--Recently EP
Side A

Recently
Dancing Nancies
Warehouse

Side B

All Along the Watchtower
Halloween

LP2--Pumpkin Recently Promo
Side A

Recently (Radio Edit)
Ants Marching (Radio Edit)

Side B

Tripping Billies (Remember Two Thing Radio Edit)
The Song That Jane Likes (Radio Edit)

[EXCLUSIVE] Davis, Miles Engima 10" (From Blue Note, features 4 previously unreleased performances from the Blue Note Vault recorded 1952-1953)
[EXCLUSIVE] First Aid Kit America EP (Features the tracks America (Simon & Garfunkel Cover), Brother (Unreleased), My Sliver Lining (Stockholm Session), Stay Gold (Stockholm Session)
[EXCLUSIVE] Game Theory Distortion (Green Vinyl 10", reissue of band's 1984 EP)
[EXCLUSIVE] Game Theory Pointed Accounts of People You Know (Clear Vinyl 10", reissue of band's 1983 EP)
[EXCLUSIVE] Hozier In the Woods Somewhere
[EXCLUSIVE] Hynde, Chrisse Stockholm Live at the 229 Club, London England (White Vinyl 10")
[EXCLUSIVE] Judas Priest 5 Souls (Red Vinyl 10" featuring the bonus tracks from the Deluxe version of Redeemer of Souls, never before on vinyl. Tracks--Snakebite, Tears of Blood, Creatures, Bring It On, Never Forget)
[EXCLUSIVE] Outkast Player's Ball 10" (Green Vinyl...originally was supposed to be out on April's RSD and got pushed due to production issues)
[EXCLUSIVE] Peter Murphy (Bauhaus)--Mr. Moonlight Tour: 35 Years of Bauhuas (Clear Green Vinyl 10" recorded live at Henry Fonda Theater in Los Angeles featuring 5 songs from In The Flat Field)
[EXCLUSIVE] Ramone, Joey Christmas Spirit...In My House (RED VINYL 10", on vinyl for the first time)
[EXCLUSIVE] Sneakers Sneakers (10" Clear Vinyl with 3 bonus tracks. Reissue of 1976 EP)
[EXCLUSIVE] St. Vincent Pieta/Sparrow (2 new songs on a numbered, foil-embossed colored vinyl 10")
[EXCLUSIVE] Thunders, Johnny Real Time (Blue Vinyl EP w/poster. 1000 only)
[EXCLUSIVE] Wu-Tang Clan C.R.E.A.M. b/w Da Mystery of Chessboxin' (120g Die-Cut Picture Disc)

12" SINGLES/EPs

[EXCLUSIVE] Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force Planet Rock (GLOW IN THE DARK 12", limited to 1982 copies)
[EXCLUSIVE] Bleachers Strange Desire: The Demos (Pink Vinyl 12" featuring 6 demos from Strange Desires--Who I Want You to Love, Shadow, I Wanna Get Better, Like a River Runs, Reckless Love and Wild Heart)
[EXCLUSIVE] Chvrches Under the Tide EP (180g 4 track 12" including the song "Strong Hand" which hasn't been released physically in the US before).
[EXCLUSIVE] Dio, Ronnie James & Dio & Friends 12" Picture Disc (Side A features 3 songs from the Stand Up and Shout for Cancer LP---Neon Nights by Anthrax, Rainbow in the Dark by multiple artists and Straight Through The Heart by Halestorm. The B Side features Dio LIVE versions of those 3 tracks!)
[EXCLUSIVE] ECHOSMITH Cool Kids 12" Picture Disc
Krum Bums Smoke 12" EP
[EXCLUSIVE] Mastodon The Motherload 12" Picture Disc (features the b-side Halloween (Instrumental)
Metallica Lords of Summer 12" with etched M Logo on the b-side. 12" features extended studio session and a live version recorded in Rome, Italy.
[EXCLUSIVE] Mewithoutyou East Enders Wives (maxi-single featuring multiple versions of the track including a remix by Dusty Brown)
[EXCLUSIVE] New Order 1981-1982 EP (Clear Vinyl)
[EXCLUSIVE] Rammellzee vs. K-Rob Beat Bop (Reissue of this legendary rap 12" that featured artwork by Jean-Michael Basquiat, originally limited to only 500 and selling for over $1500….limited to 1983 copies on a black/white split colored vinyl)
Tenebrae/Panzerbastard split 12" "Sons of Belial" (Features members of Agnositc Front, Slapshot, The Unseen, Ramallah and Blood for Blood)
Wham! Last Christmas 12" (Red/Green split vinyl celebrating 30th Anniversary of release, with previously unreleased instrumental version)

LPs:

[EXCLUSIVE] Acacia Strain The Dead Walk (Pink Vinyl LP, 1000 copies)
Aaiyah Age Ain't Nothing But A Number (2LP, 180g White Vinyl)
Afghan Whigs Gentlemen at 21 Deluxe 3LP Edition
[EXCLUSIVE] Barry, Tim Lost and Rootless
[EXCLUSIVE] Chumped Teenage Retirement LP
[EXCLUSIVE] Continental Millionaires LP (sophomore release from Rick Barton's (Dropkick Murphy's) band)
[EXCLUSIVE] Davis, Miles More from the Fillmore LP
[EXCLUSIVE] Death Grips Government Plates (LP press of this digital only release, includes "exclusive mystery item")
[EXCLUSIVE] Diplo F10rida (3LP 180g with 10 page booklet and DL Card)
Disco Biscuits The Classical Set (180g 2LP w/DL Card and bonus track)
[EXCLUSIVE] Eddie & The Subtitles Fuck You Eddie! LP on Orange Vinyl
Eminem Shady XV 2LP
Fishbone Truth and Soul (1000 copies with 900 on RED Vinyl and 100 on GREEN (randomly inserted))
[EXCLUSIVE] Fitzgerald, Patrick Safety Pin Stuck in My Heart (2LP)
[EXCLUSIVE] Five Finger Death Punch Purgatory: Tales from the Pit (2LP Picture Disc, 1000 copies only)
[EXCLUSIVE] 5 Seconds of Summer S/T Picture Disc with Bonus Track!
[EXCLUSIVE] Flaming Lips Imagene Peise: Atlas Eets Christmas (Red Vinyl, former MP3 only 2011 holiday album with Yoko Ono and and others)
[EXCLUSIVE] Genesis From Genesis To Revelation LP (1500 copies, originally was going to be out for RSD in April, but had production issues and will now be out for BFRSD)
[EXCLUSIVE] Gov't Mule Stoned Side of the Mule Volume 1 (180g LP) (7 Rolling Stones Covers recorded live on Halloween 2009)
[EXCLUSIVE] Grateful Dead 11/18/1972 Hoffheinz Pavilion, Houston TX (180g Gatefold 2LP, never before on vinyl)
[EXCLUSIVE] Green Day Tune In, Tokyo (Live EP, previously only available on CD in Japan, recorded live from 2011. Blue Vinyl with download code)
[EXCLUSIVE] Hendrix, Jimi Hear My Music (2LP reissue of 2004 LP on Capital Records, 200g LP)
Holiday, Billie At Storyville (White Vinyl LP, each numbered, 3000 copies total)
[EXCLUSIVE] Hound Out of Time LP
[EXCLUSIVE] Husker Du Warehouse: Songs and Stories 2LP (Reissue of original LP with 1 LP on Neon Green and 1LP on Neon Yellow).
[EXCLUSIVE] Imagine Dragons Night Visions PICTURE DISC
[EXCLUSIVE] Iron Butterfly Heavy (180g MONO LP, previously unreleased on vinyl)
[EXCLUSIVE] J.B.'s The These are the J.B.'s (unreleased album from James Brown's band)
[EXCLUSIVE] Kinks, The Muswell Hillbillies 180g 2LP
[EXCLUSIVE] Korn Paradigm Shift (2LP Picure Disc Deluxe Edition with expanded artwork and bonus track)
[EXCLUSIVE] KORN Korn 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition (Black Vinyl with rare/random Coke Bottle Clear Vinyl variant. Limited to 1500 copies)
[EXCLUSIVE] Little Richard S/T (2nd LP on CREAM COLORED vinyl!!)
[EXCLUSIVE] Los Straitjackets Los Straitjackets play some of the great Instrumental Hits LP
[EXCLUSIVE] Lullaby Renditions of Jay-Z (Colored Vinyl w/Download Card)
[EXCLUSIVE] MacFarlane, Seth Holiday Swing (Green Vinyl)
McGhie, Wayne & The Sounds of Joy S/T (Originally released in 1970, now back in print. Caribbean funk, soul and reggae)
[EXCLUSIVE] M.D.C. Millions of Dead Cops Millennium Edition (features the original mix, restored and remastered. Limited to 1000 copies on GOLD vinyl.)
Orbison, Roy At the Rock House (3000 copies, each numbered on either White, Red or Silver vinyl (random))
[EXCLUSIVE] Penny Arkade Not the Freeze 180g LP
[EXCLUSIVE] Presley, Elvis Showroom Internationale (1st official release of this infamous bootleg from the Las Vegas Hilton, 180g LP)
[EXCLUSIVE] Ramones, Morrisey Curates the Ramones LP
[EXCLUSIVE] Satriani, Joe Self-Titled 180g LP
[EXCLUSIVE] Shannon, Del The Further Adventures of Charles Westover (remastered audio and restored artwork, first time on vinyl since 1968)
Soundtrack Looking for Johnny--The Legend of Johnny Thunders (New York Dolls) (RED Vinyl 2LP, each numbered out of 1500 copies)
[EXCLUSIVE] The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly Original Soundtrack by Ennio Morricone on Smokey Red Colored Vinyl
The Dead Milkmen Big Lizard in My Backyard (1000 copies with 900 on GREEN and 100 on YELLOW (randomly inserted))
[EXCLUSIVE] Soundtrack--Game of Thrones Season ONe (Deluxe 2LP set on Varese Sarabande)
[EXCLUSIVE] Soundtrack - Little Miss Sunshine (Sunburst Colored Vinyl, numbered edition out of 2000 copies, 1st time on vinyl)
[EXCLUSIVE] Soundtrack--American Hustle (1 Red/1 Blue 2LP 150g Vinyl featuring 6 BONUS TRACKS)
[EXCLUSIVE] Soundtrack--The Big Lebowski 180g WHITE VINYL LP
They Might Be Giants Flood (1500 copies with 1400 on GREEN and 100 on YELLOW (randomly inserted))
[EXCLUSIVE] Toxic Reasons Independence LP (1000 copies on RED vinyl)
[EXCLUSIVE] Various Artists--This Warm December--A Brushfire Holiday Vol. 1 (1st Time on Vinyl!! Features artists such as Jack Johnson, Mason Jennings, G. Love, Money Mark and more!)
[EXCLUSIVE] Various Artists Christmas Rap (yes, rap versions of your favorite Xmas tunes)
[EXCLUSIVE] Various Artists/Phil Spector A Christmas Gift For You (180g Red Vinyl LP)
[EXCLUSIVE] Velvet Underground LIVE MCMXCIII (4LP on Blue Vinyl, 1st time on vinyl, originally released on CD/Cassette back in 1993!! Wow!)

BOX SETS:

[EXCLUSIVE] Davis, Miles Prestige 10-Inch LP Collection, Volume 1 (5x10" Box with the original 10" cover artwork and liner notes. Comes with booklet featuring new notes by Ira Gitler)
[EXCLUSIVE] Fantomas Wunderkammer (Deluxe set containing all 4 of their studio albums on 5LPs, available for the 1st time in the USA with a bonus cassette of their original demo recording, housed in a full artwork "barn door" style box)
Hazlewood, Lee There's a Dream I've been Saving: Lee Hazlewood Industries 1966-1971 8LP/4CD/1 DVD/1 Book Colored Vinyl BOX. 1000 only. Details: 7 years in the making, this is the ultimate artifact for LEE HAZLEWOOD heads new & old. Now, for the 1st time, you can enjoy the entire experience on vinyl. This landmark box set contains an expansive LP-sized hard cover book detailing the label history of LHI, accompanied by 8LPs+4CDs & a DVD featuring the film Cowboy in Sweden

[EXCLUSIVE] Various Artists For the People Volume 1 (5x7" Box) (Deluxe cloth covered carrying case, featuring James Brown, Lyn Collins and more)
[EXCLUSIVE] Young, Neil Official Release Series Discs 5-8 180g 4LP Box. Originally supposed to be released in April, now finally coming out for Black Friday RSD in the USA! :)

REGIONAL RELEASES:

Andrew Jackson Jihad and ROAR split 7" (available at Revolver Records in Arizona only) SOURCE

UNOFFICIAL BLACK FRIDAY RELEASES (Releases being offered to stores but won't be on the "official list")

7" Singles:

[EXCLUSIVE] Avantis, The Gypsy Surfer b/w Wax 'Em Down (Ocean Blue Vinyl 7")
Black Dahlia Murder Grind Em All 7" colored vinyl with etched b-side.
[EXCLUSIVE] Lone Below, The When You Go 7" (features non album b-side)
[EXCLUSIVE] Mick Foley Crazy Christmas (Featuring Shooter Jennings) (White Vinyl 7" with the WWE wrestler narrating a holiday story)
[EXCLUSIVE] PRAWN Settled b/w Built For (limited 7" on White w/Blue Vinyl and DL Code)
[EXCLUSIVE] Primitive Man / Fister Split 7" (Primitive Man does 3 new tracks while Fister has 2 songs). Limited colored vinyl w/DL Code.
[EXCLUSIVE] R. A. (Rude Awakening) Dragging the Anchor (features 2 songs from their recent LP, plus a cover by Wrecking Crew) 500 copies on colored vinyl
[EXCLUSIVE] Walter Trout/John Mayall Willie b/w World Gone Crazy split 7" (1000 only)

10"s:

[EXCLUSIVE] Bingham, Ryan Bootleg No. 1 (unreleased songs, limited to 1000)
[EXCLUSIVE] Graveyard Hisingen Blues (5x10" w/poster, limited to 200 copies)
[EXCLUSIVE] Immortal All Shall Fall Black (4x10" with etching and poster, limited to 200 copies)

12"s:

[EXCLUSIVE] Chris Robinson Brotherhood Try Rock N Roll (12" with 4 bonus tracks)
[EXCLUSIVE] Wilson, Jonathan Slide By EP (cover songs 12")

LPs:

[EXCLUSIVE] Alvin Lee Still On the road to Freedom LP
[EXCLUSIVE] At the Gates Garden of Grief LP (180g Colored Vinyl with poster/photos)
[EXCLUSIVE] Candlemass Live (180g 2LP limited to 1000)
[EXCLUSIVE] 100 Demons In the Eyes of the Lord (Deluxe 2LP with remastered audio, demo/compilation bonus tracks, poster on colored vinyl w/DL Code)
[EXCLUSIVE] Ignite Our Darkest Days (1000 copies on either Yellow or Blue vinyl)
Shai Hulud A Profound Hatred of Man + Hearts Once Nourished WIth Hope and Compassion 2LP Gatefold on Grey Marble Vinyl (1000 Copies)
[EXCLUSIVE] Type O Negative Slow, Deep and Hard (2LP Green Colored Vinyl)
[EXCLUSIVE] UNBROKEN Life.Love.Regret. (180g Colored Vinyl, 1000 copies only)
[EXCLUSIVE] War of Ages Supreme Chaos (500 copies on colored vinyl)
[EXCLUSIVE] Winter, Johnny Step Back Picture Disc LP

BOX SETS:

[EXCLUSIVE] Cattle Decapitation Decade of Decapitation (5LP Colored Vinyl Box, limited to 250 copies)

Why Does Bull Moose get to break the RSD rules and nobody cares? A Commentary

2014-10-10T09:37:00.003-07:00

As I have stated before, I do not own a record store. While it is a dream of mine to one day have a store, some of the petty behind the scenes drama by the folks behind RSD has really soured my enthusiasm.

Anywhere you look, the date October 20th has been published as the official release date of the Black Friday Release List. (Even publicized in the recent Black Friday FAQ on RSD's website)

Stores have been told, very bluntly, to not talk about or discuss any of the releases until 10/20. In fact, here is what the folks behind RSD sent to EVERY STORE on 9/26/14 (emphasis below is theirs):

"Record Store Day will be releasing our official list of Black Friday releases the week of 10/20. Some artists will be talking about their individual titles earlier, some may be doing it now. If an artist chooses to publicly talk about a Black Friday release, fantastic, you are then free to do so. HOWEVER. Many artists want to work the announcement of their releases into their own calendars, and every year we have titles we can’t talk about publicly until the artist does. BUT titles usually have to be solicited early, and in fact some Black Friday titles have ALREADY been solicited. That’s fantastic too, but please PAY ATTENTION to your solicitations: IF A DISTRIBUTOR TELLS YOU NOT TO SPEAK ABOUT A TITLE, DON’T SPEAK ABOUT IT. Don’t tweet, post, pin, gram, email or poster about it. BE CAREFUL ABOUT WHICH OUTSIDE BLOGS YOU LINK TO. You can tell if a blog is listing titles that you have been asked not to talk about. If they are, don’t link to them."

I appreciate the fact, that they care about my little ol blog enough to tell stores to not link to it, as if Black Friday will be cancelled if they do.

Regardless, the groundwork has been laid, and the e-mails that have been sent by distributors have been following the same verbiage. Record Store Day has threatened repercussions for stores that allegedly violate this, including not getting any BFRSD products, getting banned from participating in future RSD events and even getting banned from a distributor/label. Pretty serious stuff.

So what have stores been doing? Adhering to the request and following the rules. Here are some examples:

No big deal right? Everyone appears to be on the same page. Everything is going smoothly.

One record store decided to post some stuff about releases with prices. The store, Angry Young & Poor posted about 15 Black Friday items with prices. No harm no foul (or so you'd think). A few of them had been publicly announced already. Yet the folks behind RSD forced them to remove all information until the official list comes out on 10/20.

So it was rather surprising and hypocritical that yesterday, what appears online but a master list of releases thus far showing up on Bull Moose's website, with a dedicated page with pictures and prices (I refuse to link to it out of principle).

If I owned a store, and had been following the rules, I'd be LIVID. If I were the folks that ran Angry Young & Poor and removed my information, only to see it be reposted days later, I'd be CONFUSED and PISSED OFF. If I sell online, I'd wonder why Bull Moose gets a 10 day head start over getting web traffic and interest on BF Releases that I can't even upload on my own website.

Here is why this just is wrong on so many levels:

Issue #1: Chris Brown is a nice guy. But he wears 2 hats. There is Chris Brown, the RSD co-founder and Chris Brown, the owner of Bull Moose. One has best interests for all stores and the other has best interest for ONLY his stores. By allowing this list to exist, it reeks of PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT and provides his store with an UNFAIR COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE. How can you tell other stores to not post anything or force them to remove items and then allow one store to get away with it??? How is that fair in ANY landscape. This would be akin to having Wal-Mart get a 10 day lead on their Black Friday ad and forcing Target and Best Buy to NOT discuss their BF deals.

Issue #2: There are many stores that sell online. Vintage Vinyl in NJ, Strictly Discs in WI, Amoeba, Reckless Records, Skip's in Oregon. By allowing this list online early, it is driving traffic to Bull Moose's website. So where are a lot of people going to stop first to potentially buy BFRSD items---Bull Moose's site, because not only can you go in and create a "wish list" now, you also have the prices. It is no secret, if you understand retail, that all pricing is not equal. Stores that are larger have a higher buying power over smaller stores. Also, in the vinyl industry, the prices are not the same if you are direct with a label versus having to go with a distributor. So by having a list of prices, you have the potential to piss off other stores customers. If I go to this website and see the price of the American Hustle soundtrack is listed at $37.97 and then go into my local store on Black Friday and see that it is priced at $42.99, how do you think I will feel? Will I feel excited to give the store an extra $5? Will I wonder that I should have just sat at home and tried to order this online? Will I feel ripped off and think my local store is trying to gouge me? Maybe, but if the cost to the store was different, they have to try and make a profit too. But since others stores can't post their information until 10/20, you get confusion in the market that think that Bull Moose's prices are the SUGGESTED RETAIL PRICE THAT ALL STORES WILL HAVE.

Issue #3:

The argument that the information that Bull Moose posted, stores are officially allowed to talk about. Really? Do other stores know this? Because as of yesterday, no stores had been sent any type of official correspondence saying here are the RSD titles you can discuss publicly with your customers. Why Bull Moose's website gets to be the unofficial RSD spokesperson is not fair. If there was parity, then this list should have been put DIRECTLY on the RSD website as a TEASER of what the list will have 10 days from now.

The folks behind RSD need to check their ego here. This is not the NSA. A vinyl release is not a National Security Threat. The obsessive lengths that they've gone to, to try and prevent leaks is pathetic and does nobody any good. We are in a society with a 24 hour news cycle and people want to know information early. It is no different than people who try to find out plot details or pictures of future summer movies, leaks of singles online, etc. People crave information and by trying to withhold it, will only continue to backfire.

There are over 800 stores in the USA participating in RSD and nobody, regardless of their affiliation, should be given an advantage.

If Bull Moose has any class or integrity, they would REMOVE their BFRSD information until 10/20, just like EVERY OTHER STORE has agreed to do!!!

Thanks for reading.

R.I.P. Record Store Day or can it be saved? A Commentary

2014-04-23T14:56:00.001-07:00

Let me preface this post by stating that I LOVE Record Stores. I WANT Record Stores to succeed. I LOVE the spirit that Record Store Day originally championed. I don't want Record Store Day to go away, but there are too many glaring issues that stores don't get to publicly mention and I've been asked to help be a voice for those that are afraid to speak up, for fear of retribution.

Ever since March 20th, when the official lists for Record Store Day have come out, you've seen some minor rumblings of a backlash towards Record Store Day. It has started to gain traction, received national attention and was very upsetting to those behind Record Store Day. But the problem is, if this stuff doesn't get discussed, how else can it get out? Not everything can or should be discussed behind closed doors--sometimes transparency is needed.

I made a post last year about some tweaks that were needed for Record Store Day here. Because in talking to as many stores as I do, I could see this coming. I was hoping that some of these issues would be fixed, but sadly we are now at the end of the road and two things are getting ready to happen:

a) Record Store Day is going to kill itself due to abundance of product

b) Record Store Day is going to be abandoned by the very stores/artists/labels it was setup to promote

So what are some of the fundamental problems going on in the industry that will help kill Record Store Day:

RSD DEATH NAIL #1) Too Much Product has multiple adverse effects

EFFECT #1: Stores can't keep up with the sheer number of releases (but are kind of forced to). There were over 600 releases listed on the UK list and nearly 500 releases on the US list (nearly 550 when you add the other items coming out in the U.S., not on the official list)

The common argument seen over and over by the RSD co-founders is that stores need to "be judicious when it comes to the [RSD] stock they order. We always tell stores, 'If you don't feel like your customers base is going to want this title, please don't bring it in" (quote here).

However, as several articles have pointed out this logic is flawed. There is so much media attention around Record Store Day now, that stores feel obligated to get as much inventory as possible, to not disappoint fans. As this article greatly pointed out: "...that's not much consolation for buyers unable to acquire what they want, especially if the event is the only chance to buy it on vinyl. "Some people just lose it," says Earwax's Roberti. And, on those occasions, the event designed to promote goodwill toward record stores results in customers being pissed off at them instead."

Not only do stores feel obligated to get as many of the releases in, the amount of capital required to order all of this stuff is paralyzing. Stores traditionally are forced to go upwards of $40,000 in debt, just to get RSD inventory. One store told me that their Warner RSD order alone was over $20,000 (they have a lot of expensive/big items such as the LCD Soundsystem Box, REM Unplugged Box, The Folk Box, Grateful Dead, Mastodon, Flaming Lips, etc.). Considering you have multiple labels and/or distributors sending you a spreadsheet and giving you a deadline oftentimes only mere days to order, it can be very stressful to record store owners.

Michael Bunnell, Owner of Record Exchange and the Executive Director of the Coalition of Music Stores sent the following to the CIMS group in February: ""First, let me repeat a sentiment I've said over and over: we all love Record Store Day. It has brought excitement back to music retail, reminded us all why we got into this business, and helped bring vinyl back from the brink to its current elevated position. I've seen this year's list and it's fantastic. All of this is nothing but good news, however, I have a recurring nightmare, that this will be the year we see the first record store go out of business because of the event. Despite the amazing success of the day, the reality is budgets are still strained for most stores and it takes an incredible amount of resources to support over 400 releases on one day. And because (I estimate) the sell-through on the day is around 70%-80%"

Record Store Day was created to help celebrate vinyl record stores, not try and bankrupt them. Yet the RSD folks don't seem to get it, as Carrie Colliton has already been allegedly telling stores that next year, there will be even more releases available in the United States. So this problem is not going to get better, it is going to get worse.

EFFECT #2: The diminishing returns of Record Store Day. All anyone from the RSD elite wants to tout and publicize is how great the business was for xxx store on Record Store Day. You will usually see some article pointed out in your local paper about how your local store had a banner day and did XX% more sales than last year. While that is great and we want to see that, at what cost do those record sales come with?

As the quote above pointed out, the sell-through on the day is around 70%, so what happens with that 30%? It just sits there and isn't sold and can't be returned for credit. Anymore, when you walk into a Record Store you will see what has become commonly known as the "Record Store Day graveyard". The section of the bin where you see a tab saying "Past RSD releases" or something similar. All stores seem to have one of these now and sadly they are filled with numerous releases dating back to 2010 (some even before) and include Black Friday releases too. This is a problem.

A quick perusal of Discogs.com finds the following details:

Rainbow Records in Delaware has 47 old RSD titles for sale
Sonic Boom Records in Seattle has 31 old RSD titles for sale
Vertigo Music in Grand Rapids, MI has 51 old RSD titles for sale
Luna Music in Indianapolis has 65 old RSD titles for sale
AKA Music in Philadelphia has 141 old RSD titles for sale
Grooves Records in Canada has 122 old RSD titles for sale
Darkside Records in Poughkeepsie, NY has 116 old RSD titles for sale

The lists go on and on and on. These stores are forced to play the RSD game, because they don't want to be left out and miss out on potential customers and revenue, but then are stuck with unsold product that they can't return for a credit to buy additional product for the remainder of the year. These items could be recycled and used to make new records, but instead are overproduced dust collectors adding to the inventory of a store. One store I spoke to said that around 4% of their inventory was previous RSD/Black Friday releases and this owner feared after this year's RSD, that number will only increase.

This day was originally created to celebrate Record Stores and it has done a great job to do that. But as so many stores have pointed out, what about the other 364 days of the year? What about during the slower summer months when traffic dies down because everyone is outside enjoying the weather? What about the people they *only* see on Record Store Day and then never see again.

Record Store Day has now popularized words and phrases like limited-edition, foil stamped, hand-numbered, colored vinyl, 180g audiophile vinyl, deluxe reissue, exclusive versions, exclusive demos, exclusive tracks, unreleased live recordings, unreleased xxxxx, RSD only, and more.

What this has done has turned the day into an investor sport, where everyone tries to line up early to buy as much as they can to either horde or sell on Ebay. People who have no business buying vinyl are lining up in front of Record Stores, bringing their spouses or kids (so they can get multiple copies) because it is a way to make a quick buck. It is no different than going to a pop-up shop, buying tickets to scalp, or going to Flatstock to buy concert posters you have no intention to frame.

Granted, this does not pertain to everyone and there are some great people who genuinely care about the artists and the releases for their collection, but so many people have turned this day into Flipper Store Day, that the original concept has lost some of its soul.

Too many releases are made in limited scarcity (only 1000 copies of an R.E.M. unplugged box set? Really? How many Live at the Olympia 4LP boxes and R.E.M Live 3LP box were produced?) This is a situation where an item is underproduced and many fans are going to be screwed.

On the other end of the spectrum you have an item like Bruce Springsteen's American Beauty which over 7500 copies will be produced. When you still have several stores still stocked with last years Rocky Ground 7". According to Discogs, stores that still have this in stock include:

Vacation Vinyl
Red Scroll Records
AKA Music
Looney Tunes
Origami Vinyl
Siren Records
Crooked Beat

I don't know what the right answer is for the magic pressing number to make both fans, stores and labels happy, but there needs to be a better dialogue with stores in advance. If you have 1200 stores in the US participating in Record Store Day, all you'd need to do is create a free survey on Surveymonkey.com and basically ask questions like this:

"We are looking at making a Bruce Springsteen release (possibly a 12") with some new, unreleased tracks.

Question 1: Will you stock this in your store (check only one)

Yes:
No:

Question 2: How many copies would you potentially need, based on prior sales of Bruce Springsteen releases on Record Store Day and/or Black Friday RSD?

1-5 copies
5-10 copies
10-15 copies
15-25 copies
more than 25 copies

Then using this data, they could get a pretty fair sample of how many stores would want to carry this release and how many copies would be potentially needed. That way, pressing numbers could be adjusted accordingly to either meet demand or not overproduce unwanted records.

EFFECT #3: The Sheer Number of items slows down vinyl manufacturing worldwide. On March 14th, UK Distributor Kudos Distribution expressed some frustration on the fact that the 20+ manufacturing jobs they had in production, had to be delayed, so the pressing plants could produce the product to get into stores for Record Store Day. See here

This affects them financially, as they can't get product into stores. Items that were pre-ordered get delayed and release dates have to be adjusted. But it isn't just a UK problem as Emma Garland wrote a great article about how several labels have been affected. Here is a great quote from the article from one label: "The negative is that when winter/spring comes around manufacturing times at pressing plants for labels like ours start to get significantly delayed as we get pushed to the back of queue behind represses of catalogue records. At the moment we can’t afford to pay for a record that wont be back from the plant for 10 weeks as we need to get selling that record as close to the point where we pay for it as possible. I would say that if the situation doesn’t change we would be likely to just avoid releasing any physical records around RSD in the future. Although that is easier said than done!” Read Here

That article is just great to see some of the pain. Are we going to not see any smaller, independent label releases between January-April, so plants can exclusively produce RSD product? I would hope not.

The other problem that doesn't get mentioned are the major releases that come out in February or March. Did you go to your local store and try to buy the recent Beck Morning Phase LP or new St. Vincent LP? Chances are, if you didn't get it the week it was out, then you were out of luck, as stores were forced to look at backordered status screens on Universal's order page for months. Stores have just recently started re-stocking the Beck and St. Vincent releases, but how many stores lost out on potential revenue, because customers came in and tried to get it and couldn't because pressing plants couldn't make additional inventory thanks to the backlog of RSD releases. This also provides another point of contention, which is the fact that labels continue to release music the Tuesday before and after RSD, further increasing the financial burden that they must endure to get product in stock.

Effect #4) The "Major Label Day" argument--How many releases are from Major Labels?

You've seen several people quote that Record Store Day should be renamed "Record Label Day". As Kudos pointed out: "However, Record Store Day now feels like it has been appropriated by major labels and larger indies to the extent that smaller labels who push vinyl sales for the other 364 days of the year are effectively penalized." So how accurate is this statement and belief? Let's look at the sheer number of releases and find out. The labels that I consider to be Major (after mergers, etc.) are WEA/ADA, Universal (UMD) and Sony. On the official list (v. 1.017 updated 4-15-14) there are 438 "official" releases. Out of those 439 you have:

WEA/ADA: 112 releases (or 26%)
UMD: 75 releases (or 17%)
Sony: 31 releases (or 7%)
COMBINED TOTAL: 218 or 50% of the entire list!

It is no wonder that labels like Kill Rock Stars, Merge, and Numero have started to lower their releases each year, if they can't provide a voice to their artists roster because it gets overshadowed by Major Label releases.

Record Store Day should be a day about discovering the next great band or up-and-coming artists that you should be made aware of. Instead, we get Aerosmith reissues that nobody was clamoring for, a Ghostbusters Glow-in-the-Dark 10" (where you can get all of the same songs on a promo 12" on Discogs for $1.99, a Jimi Hendrix Live at Monterey release that was out in 2007 on 180g vinyl (and can be bought on Discogs for $14.99) and is now being released on 200g vinyl? Really were people really asking for 20 extra grams of vinyl? Does the 180g version sound horrible and someone had a petition going to increase it to 200g? Nope. This release is the epitome of what is wrong with Record Store Day.

I have been a Record Store Day defender and apologist for far too long. But the numbers and facts don't lie. This is not benefitting anyone, but major labels.

RSD DEATH NAIL #2) RSD Prices have gone Mainstream and are getting out of hand

Effect #1: We are all suckers for marketing and are paying for it, in added costs

As Numero pointed out greatly in this article here: "The limited edition, once a reasonable countermeasure to over-serving demand, has become the groan-inducing lingua franca of the vinylsphere. Call it, in more pessimistic terms, the ‘manufactured rarity’. Alongside the vinyl medium’s desirability in terms of sound reproduction, the new vinyl market loads in a range of ostensible value additives: coloured vinyl, splatter vinyl, clear vinyl, picture discs, liquid-filled discs, unplayable speeds, unwieldy sizes, outlandish packaging... The art of packaging can be an impressive creative pursuit in able hands, but cliches are already rampant and whatever initial excitement limited runs might have generated has given way to rote adherence to convention. Such gimmickry has always existed, of course, though it has historically been deployed for supplemental releases aimed at superfans of a given artist or album. As the desire for physical media shrank rapidly, it became a matter of time before the casual vinyl buyer got mistaken for that same super fan." 

What Record Store Day has done, has created an environment of marketing speak, that has permeated itself throughout the vinyl landscape. As a result of manufactured demand of Record Store Day releases and masses gladly buying into the marketing spiel hook, line and sinker, prices have consistently gone up, most often times predicated or justified with some of these terms:

"Limited Edition"
"Deluxe Gatefold"
"Heavyweight Vinyl" OR "Audiophile Vinyl"
Pressed on XXXX Color Vinyl
Foil Stamped/Numbered/Hand-Numbered
One-time Pressing
Deluxe Edition
Remastered from Original Master Tapes
Pressed at RTI/Pallas

The list goes on and on. RSD 2014 SRP pricing that seems excessive include:

Blue Rodeo Diamond Mine $39.98
Childish Gambino Because the Internet $45.98
Mayer Hawthorne Jaded Incorporated 10" $39.98
Nirvana Pennyroyal Tea 7" $13.98

Let's look at some recent pre-order prices for some of the releases for 2014:

Soundgarden Superunknown 20th Anniversary 2LP $54.99 (Don't Buy it Here!)
My Chemical Romance May Death Never Stop You 2LP + DVD $46.99
Foster the People Supermodel 1LP $26.00
Nirvana Bleach (Newbury Comics Exclusive) $28.00 (Sold Out! when you can get a Black Vinyl edition for $13 on Amazon)
OST Frozen 3LP $74.98
OST Secret Life of Walter Mitty $59.99
OST Anchorman 2 $59.99
Mars Volta De-Loused in the Comatorium (ShopRadioCast exclusive) 2LP $40.99

The continued exploitation of vinyl collectors and fans is going to hurt stores more than ever and burn out those from wanting to continue to start building a vinyl collection, because it just won't make economical sense. I'm seeing more and more people just hold off on buying vinyl now, because they want to wait until it either goes on sale on popmarket.com or is discounted on Amazon.com. How is a market going to thrive if people would rather get items discounted/used/second-hand than brand-new?

Effect #2: RSD Suggested Retail Pricing is not one-size fits all

I appreciate that certain stores like Vintage Vinyl, Strictly Discs and Bull Moose like to post the prices of their releases. The advantage is that it can give people an idea of what they should expect to pay on Record Store Day. However, there is one major problem with that and actually hurts fans and Record Store Day.

Not all stores have direct relationships with labels. If you are a new store, your ability to get a very high credit line from one of the major labels and go direct with them is very slim. As a result, you will have to go with a major one-stop distributor like URP or AEC to supply you with RSD merchandise. What this means is that the same 7" that is at one store, could have a drastically different price at another. Let's look at the Bruce Springsteen American Beauty 12" with a $12.98 SRP as an example.

$7.30 direct from Sony
$8.99 from AEC
$9.19 from URP

The other thing to consider is shipping costs. Yes, stores have to pay shipping costs too and those are never factored into a SRP price point. And when you have a label that has 31 releases like Sony does and you order multiple copies of each release to get in stock for RSD, you can guess how much shipping costs can get and those do have to be factored into the price. It is not necessarily fair or realistic to expect stores to make around 18% (using the Sony direct price without shipping factored in) to cover costs and pay bills---especially if the store doesn't sell DVDs, Blu-Ray's, Video Games and has no other avenues to make up these margins. So if you see it at one store for $14.99 and another store for $17.99, don't flip out at the owner and make a scene…recognize that they probably had to pay more than most for it.

RSD DEATH NAIL #3) We need a VOICE for all stores + Allocations to stores need help

With nearly 1200 stores in the United States taking part in Record Store Day, how are the stores broken up?

You have the Department of Records Stores which has 51 stores in it (e.g. Bull Moose)

You have the Coalition of Independent Music Stores which has 37 stores in it (e.g. Waterloo)

You have the Association of Independent Music Stores which has 29 stores in it (e.g Grimey's)

That is a total of 117 stores. There is a good chance that with over 1200 stores in the US, that your store is not in one of those groups. So the question is, who provides a voice for them? How are they able to get together and share information and work with labels to promote releases, etc.? Why do we need 3 separate groups in the first place? Why not try to create one Universal group that could then have some major buying power and go up against the Urban Outfitters and Amazon's of the world?

Why not sent out surveys/questionnaires to all 1200 stores about Record Store Day releases, prices, return policy's, RSD first releases, etc. A sampling of a group is good, but not everyone is going to have multiple stores (e.g. Newbury Comics, Amoeba, Reckless) or even be located in a large metropolitan city. So trying to get a consensus with as many stores participating will give you better accuracy on how to proceed and create processes that everyone has a hand in.

The problem with having groups like AIMS or CIMS is the belief, whether it is misguided or not, that there is an air of favoritism for those stores. Those stores tend to get test presses to give away, concert tickets to give away, hold signings for artists when they are touring, get more promo/free giveaways for customers and more importantly--get more RSD inventory.

Now there are stores that would likely debate that fact. But I can't help but think that some really arbitrary and baseless assumption are being made regarding Allocations right now. Let's look at the Dave Matthew Box. There are 2000 copies. There should be NO REASON AT ALL that every store in the United States should at least get ONE COPY. Yet, I know of stores who have been emailed and told they aren't getting it at all? WTF? How is this possible? I don't care if the store has never bought Dave Matthews releases previously. That argument is bullshit when the folks behind Record Store Day shove a One Direction Picture Discs down our throats.

In several articles you've seen either Carrie or Michael Kurtz talk about the reason they did the One Direction release was to drive a younger demographic, that normally doesn't buy vinyl, into record stores. Great. No problem with that. But it is hypocritical to send me a few copies of the One Direction 7" release and NOT send me any of the Dave Matthews Band releases for the exact same reason. I doubt there are many stores who have actively been buying One Direction on vinyl and if a store doesn't even sell CDs and is exclusively a vinyl only shop (e.g. Dave's Records in Chicago) are you not going to send him any One Direction?

Dave Matthews started in Virginia. Every record store in the Mid-Atlantic/Southeast should have at least ONE COPY of Dave Matthews for sure, because the likelihood of DMB fans residing in these markets is basically 100%. Anything else is pathetic and a poor excuse. If you want to penalize a store, pick a state like Idaho where maybe someone could care less if they get the DMB release or not. Don't penalize stores in the markets he has his most rabid and original fan base. Yet this is actually HAPPENING.

This is the biggest issue and frustration for EVERY store I've talked to. If you go and ask ANY store owner what their biggest complaint is about Record Store Day--it is allocation. Because there is not any rhyme or reason. I have actually heard from stores that they've been told by labels that they didn't get items because:

They haven't ordered enough of this bands product to justify getting the special RSD release
They haven't spent enough money with our label to get XXX releases
Since your store likely has a direct account with Sub Pop, we think you are trying to double dip and get extra copies.

The Double Dip comment is hilarious. Yet you'd be surprised at how many stores are penalized because of this. As a store owner, don't you think it would be in your best interest to have a Plan B? As a store owner, don't you think you'd want to try and get the releases your customers have asked you to specifically order? So should you be penalized if you make an order direct with a label and then also with a one-stop (like AEC) to ensure that you get the products that your customers have requested? Not according to the people who run the labels/distributors.

Allocations are a joke and I'm going to be out of town attending RSD at one of these major CIMS/AIMS stores and will be able to compare it first hand to my local stores inventory and see just how much of a discrepancy there is. (Edit: I was at Grimey's in Nashville. I got their mid-morning/early afternoon and they had been open for nearly 3 hours by the time I made it inside. Since I wasn't there in the beginning it is hard to discern how many "rare" items they had that were limited (500 or less copies). But they did have an entire room setup just for the RSD releases and seemed to have received a copious amount).

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At the end of the day, we need to start establishing a dialogue. Store can't be held hostage and told to bite their tongue for fear of getting their Pledge status revoked or penalized with allocations. Until more stores speak out and try to fix some of these issues, then they will only continue to persist. I just hope that Michael Bunnell's prophecy doesn't come true and we end up losing stores because of Record Store Day and nobody wanting to speak up until it was too late.

EDIT: This post was originally written 2 weeks before Record Store Day. Since then, a store in Toronto has detailed why they didn't participate in Record Store Day (here) and more importantly, Spencer Hickman (responsible for bringing RSD to the UK) spoke out about changes needed for Record Store Day in this article Here. You've also had Paul Weller announce that he is no longer going to participate in Record Store Day too.

The quotes from Spencer Hickman are most damning. It is obvious that despite every store having record breaking days (thanks to the excess product), what will be the aftermath? Look at how many items are "leftovers" that stores are trying to sell online already. How many stores will have to send checks to a major label/distributor by the end of this week---just to get new product/releases?

It sounds like store owners despite all the high-fives and congratulatory hugs, recognize that Record Store Day can't continue in its current state. Hopefully what they decide to figure out before next April (and maybe even Black Friday, as its has continued to grow more each year too) will be a win-win for everyone. If not, remember this great picture:

Thoughts? Comments? Don't just post on Viva La Vinyl or another forum that there are "Some good points here and some bad ones too". Create a dialogue. Correct me with more accurate information. I don't own a Record Store. I don't own a label. What needs to be corrected about Record Store Day. The more discussion happens, the more awareness we can help drive. Leave a comment below, but be respectful.

Record Store Day 2014--How Accurate Were We + The Missing Items You Need To Know About

2014-03-23T07:54:00.000-07:00

Well the official list is out (Version 1.011 updated 3-20-14…note it can be updated and hopefully some of the things below will be added/corrected). If you've been following this blog, then you'll know that the release of the list was somewhat anti-climatic, as we scooped most of the key major releases before anyone else (and were then copied and linked by Modern Vinyl and Exclaim, and others). So how did we do this year, let's break out the list and go by the numbers.

Cassette Releases:

We listed 6 Cassette release, which were all accurate and will be coming out. What did we miss? 2 Cassette releases

* Skrillex Recess Cassette (was added to RSD just a few days before the official list came out)
* End of All Music Compilation (see details here-- http://www.thelocalvoice.net/oxford/?p=12467)

The End of All Music cassette is only sold at one music store and won't be available anywhere else, but I do like that the proceeds go to MusiCares. As a result, I don't think I should be penalized for that release, but I did miss the Skrillex, so I got 6 out of the 7 main Cassette releases or 86% (B+)

CD Releases:

We listed 9 CD releases, which all have been confirmed as coming out. I should get bonus points for pointing out that the CD release of the Flaming Lips was delayed. All are confirmed as coming out.

NOTE: The Cancerous Growth CD+DVD is coming out for RSD on Beer City and is limited to 2000 copies. You can see the proof here: http://www.beercity.com/images/pressRelease/BC_RSD_2014.pdf

The one I missed (even though I did get the vinyl correct) was the 4CD release of Jef Gilson Et Malagasy Box. So I got 9 out of 10 and even got one that the RSD folks missed on their official list (which hopefully they will update).

7" Releases:

We listed 131 "official" 7" releases and 10 "unofficial" releases. How did we do hear with so many releases? The official list had 124 7" singles. So what did I miss and what did they miss?

I got wrong the following:

* I listed the Camera Obscura 4AD Session as a 7" when it is actually a 12" (but the release was right)
* I got the Coldplay release right, I just assumed it was for the UK/EU, when in fact it was for the US
* There isn't going to be a Elvis Costello 7", so that was wrong
* I listed the Ronnie Lane release, but it is a UK/EU Exclusive and not coming to the US
* I listed the Neon Neon Years of Lead EP as a 7", when it is actually a 12" (but the release was right)
* I got the order of the split 7"s from Easy Sound wrong
* I also totally missed listing the following releases:

Public Service Broadcasting Elfstedentocht 7" (100 copies only available in US)
Quantic You Will Return
Sam Roberts Band We're All in This Together (although the RSD has it a 7" and it may be a 12")
Shocking Blue Sending a Postcard
Max Steiner King Kong 7"
Moses Sumney Scratch the Surface
Toxic Reason War Hero
Toxic Reason Ghost Town

I got correct the following:

* 111/124 of the "official" listed releases (90%)
* I also listed the following releases that were *not* listed on the official list:

Adicts, The Viva La Revolution Picture Disc 7" (300 copies, hand-numbered) http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=567779
Bleachers I Wanna Get Better (this is an indie store exclusive 7", limited to 1750 copies). The release date got pushed up to 4/15, but several stores (e.g. Strictly Discs) and even the RSD CANADA OFFICIAL LIST have as a RSD item and may sell it with the normal RSD stuff (so Fun fans, you can get this 7" with your demos 10")
Bruce, Jack Fields of Forever (confirmed: http://www.bullmoose.com/p/16264536/jack-bruce-fields-of-forever)
Dads Woman EP 7" (http://wearentdads.com/post/79213013640/ask-your-local-record-store-to-stock-the-woman) being distributed by REVELATION RECORDS and ironically enough, appears on the UK OFFICIAL RSD list.
Farside Keep My Soul Awake (Blue vinyl) being distributed by REVELATION RECORDS and ironically enough, appears on the UK OFFICIAL RSD list. http://www.revelationrecords.com/news/show/402
Bis/Ghosts of Dead Airplanes Split 7" (we have one Bis release on the official list, but this release was omitted). http://www.vvinyl.com/v/bis-ghosts-of-dead-airplanes-split-7/4876
Luke Haines Lou Reed b/w Jefferson Starship 7" http://www.bullmoose.com/p/16264601/luke-haines-lou-reed-jeff-starship-superhe
Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project Zonar Rose 7" (featuring Ty Segall, John Dwyer of the Oh Sees and Keith Morris and Steven McDonald of Off!) http://label.glitterhouse.com/upcoming.php?show=193 (also listed on UK OFFICIAL LIST)
Krieg Isolation/Transmission http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=919270
Inger Lorre Snowflake 7" http://www.bullmoose.com/p/16247160/inger-lorre-the-chiefs-of-infinity-snowflake-7
Integrity/Vegas split 7" (http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=919709)
Pete Molinari Look to the Wind (from MVD: http://mvdb2b.com/s/PeteMolinariLookToTheWindGirlCalledMine/CHERRY508)
Moons, The Heart and Soul http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=919705
Neon Trees Sleeping with a Friend 7" http://www.bullmoose.com/p/16264272/neon-trees-sleeping-with-a-friend-limited-edition-pressing-of-2-000-copies
Noisem / Occultist Split 7" (http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=919708)
Poison Idea Getting the Fear (TKO Records, distributed by COBRASIDE: http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=92261 and also on UK OFFICIAL LIST)
Prong Turnover 7" (distributed by COBRASIDE: http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=923371)
Puff Pieces 4 Songs 7"
Shattered Faith Modern Convenience on Hostage Records (http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=919712)
Sonic Rendezvous Band City Slang 7" http://www.bullmoose.com/p/16247166/sonics-rendezvous-band-city-slang-electrophonic-tonic-7
Up Front What Fire Does http://forums.livewire-records.com/v5/read.php?1,447216,447216
Wedding Dress Loom 7" (http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=923125)

10" Releases:

We listed 25 releases on 10" vinyl for Record Store Day. The official site has 23. After crunching the numbers, I got 21 of the 23 listed correctly (91%)

So what is missing/different:

* I got the Ramones release correct that it was coming out, but I had it listed as a 12" and it is actually a 10"
* The Adventure Club release is listed as a 12" on the official list, but that is incorrect, as it is a 10"
* The Veruca Salt is listed as a 7" on the official list, but that is incorrect, as it is a 10"
* The Dave and Phil Alvin 2x10" release is listed on the official list as a 2x12", but it is a 2x10" and needs to be updated.
* Rodion G. A. Delta Space Mission is listed as a 10" on the official list, but that is incorrect, as it is a LP.
* The Ghoul Hang Ten 10" is listed as a 12" on the official list and needs to be updated.

I missed the following 10" releases:

* Wes Montgomery & The Montgomery-Johnson Quintet Live at Turf Club

What did I list that was missing from the Official list?

* Camera Shy Jack-O-Latern 10" from Run for Cover Records: http://www.bullmoose.com/p/16246934/camera-shy-jack-o-lantern-record-store-day-exclusive
* Kitchens of Distinction Extravagance EP (distributed by MVD in the US: http://mvdb2b.com/s/3RANGE23)
* Set Your Goals Reset Demo 10th Anniversary Edition (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1059347473/calaveras-records
* Street Dogs/ Noi!se Split 10" (http://dyingscene.com/news/street-dogs-and-noise-announce-split-10-inch-for-record-store-day/)

12" RELEASES:

There are 49 12" releases listed on the official list. I got 48 correct, as I mislabeled the Ramones as a 12" when it was really a 10" release. So 98% accuracy on this list. In addition, here were the items that were listed that are *NOT* on the official list:

* John Lees' Barclay Ancient Harvest Ancient Waves EP (On the official UK list, but available in the US through MVD: http://mvdb2b.com/s/EANTEP2001)
* Blancmange Living On the Ceiling (on the UK official list, but available in the US through MVD: http://mvdb2b.com/s/12CHERRY509)
* Casket Lottery/Small Brown Bike Split 12" (http://www.vvinyl.com/v/the-casket-lottery-small-brown-bike-split-12/4701)
* DBA Dreaming of England (On the official UK list, but available in the US through MVD: http://mvdb2b.com/s/PLGS01)
* Inca Babies Scatter 12" EP (On the UK official list, but 100 copies will be available in the US through Redeye Distribution: http://www.redeyeusa.com/artist/15532/albums/LP-INC-50/)

LP RELEASES:

The official list has 205 LP releases. Out of those, I got 183 of those correct (89%). But it wasn't perfect, so here is what I missed and what the official list is missing:

Items I missed

* Cancerous Growth LP
* Foxx, John & The Maths Interplay/Shape of Things (had it listed as coming out for the US, but it is a UK/EU exclusive)
* Hillsong United White Album (Remix Project) LP
* Katatonia Kocytean LP
* Kramer, Wayne (MC5) Lexington
* NAWA Ancient Sufi Invocations and Forgotten Songs from Aleppo
* Nino Rota Amarcord Soundtrack
* Placebo 1973
* Placebo Ball of Eyes
* Placebo Placebo
* Raw Power Tired and Furious
* Screaming Trees Last Words (had it listed as coming out for US, but it is sadly a UK/EU exclusive)
* Scott-Heron, Gil Nothing New (either cancelled or delayed)
* Timbuktu, Imarhan Akai Waried LP
* Toxic Reason Live Berkley Square December 1981 LP
* Twenty One Pilots Vessel LP (Either delayed or cancelled)
* Various Artists: Pop Yeh Yeh - Psychedelic Rock from Singapore and Malaysia 1964-1970 Vol. 1
* Various Artists Dance Mania EP
* Various Artists Breaking Glass: Garage Rock from Toledo, Ohio (Culture Clash Record Store Release--500 copies)
* Various Artists Rough Guide to Psychedelic Bollywood
* Various Artists Rough Guide to Voodoo
* Various Artists Rough Guide to African Blues
* Various Artists Rough Guide to Latin Groove (Volume 1)
* Various Artists Rough Guide to Mali (2nd Edition)
* We Must Dismantle This Decathect LP
* Wrangler, L.A. Spark LP (had it listed as coming out for the US, but it is a UK/EU exclusive)

Missing on the Official List:

* Banks--The Remixes LP (http://www.vvinyl.com/v/banks-banks-the-remixes/4797)
* Battery Whatever It Takes LP (Revelation Records: http://www.revelationrecords.com/news/show/402)
* Beltones On Deaf Ears LP (http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=918110)
* Black Heart Procession / Solbakken In the Fishtank Volume 11 LP http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=917202
* Bloodlet Live at WFMU-FM (orange vinyl) http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=919711
* Bozzio Levin Stevens Black LIght Syndrome http://magnacartapress.blogspot.com/2014/02/bozzio-levin-stevens-black-light.html
* Brown, Danny Hot Soup LP + 7" (http://ughh.com/danny-brown-hot-soup/SCM101LP/)
* Clarence Carter: Slip Away: The Ultimate Clarence Carter 1966-1971 LP (http://www.dustygroove.com/item/692202)
* Culbertson, Brian Another Long Night Out LP (http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=920792)
* Curved Air Live Atmosphere LP + 7' (on UK official list, but available in the US through MVD: http://mvdb2b.com/s/PLG029)
* ESG Dance to the Beat of ESG (3LP) http://www.redeyeusa.com/artist/14384/albums/LP-FIR-156/
* Fairhornes Doki Doki Run http://www.redeyeusa.com/artist/15531/albums/LP-INV-108/
* The Fall 13 Killers LP (on UK List but also coming to US through MVD: http://www.vvinyl.com/v/the-fall-13-killers/4757)
* Hawklords: 25 Years EP (on UK list but coming to the US through MVD: http://mvdb2b.com/i/pdf/MVD_RSD2014.pdf)
* Inspiral Carpets Dung 4 + Cow EP (on UK list but coming to the US through MVD: http://mvdb2b.com/i/pdf/MVD_RSD2014.pdf)
* Katastrophy Wife: All Kneel (http://www.redeyeusa.com/artist/16783/albums/LP-DYI-001/)
* Kode9 & Spaceape Memories of the Future (http://www.bullmoose.com/p/16247158/kode-9-the-spaceape-memories-of-the-future)
* Lalo Schifrin Bullitt Original Soundtrack (200g LP) (http://www.dustygroove.com/item/696365)
* Lemonheads If Only You Were Dead http://www.redeyeusa.com/artist/11567/albums/LP-FIR-339/
* Mae Destination: Beautiful (http://spartanrecords.tumblr.com/post/79563735562/mae-destination-beautiful-record-store-day-pressing)
* Mitchell, Roscoe Conversations LP (200g) http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=920822
* Mor Paranoids Circular http://www.redeyeusa.com/artist/16786/albums/LP-WIA-03/
* One Man Army Dead End Stories LP (http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=915419)
* Ruts The Ruts: Highest Energy Ruts Live (http://www.redeyeusa.com/artist/16789/albums/LP-OZITD-8018/)
* Sensefield Building LP (Revelation Records: http://www.revelationrecords.com/news/show/402)
* Shooting Guns Brotherhood of the Ram LP (http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=915566)
* Sick of It All Based on a True Story (http://www.thinkfastrecords.com/news/388/sick-it-all-vinyl-represses-record-store-day/--on UK list, but coming to US too)
* Sick of It All Death to Tyrants (http://www.thinkfastrecords.com/news/388/sick-it-all-vinyl-represses-record-store-day/--on UK list, but coming to US too)
* Soundtrack--The Wizard of Oz (http://www.vvinyl.com/v/soundtrack-the-wizard-of-oz-original-motion-picture-soundtrack/4858)
* Spose Preposterously Dank LP (BullMoose exclusive release--http://www.bullmoose.com/p/16247077/spose-preposterously-dank-numbered-red-vinyl)
* Thunders, Johnny (NY Dolls) Last Show at Max's Kansas City LP (http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=922561)
* Tim Timebomb and Friends Mixtapes #1, #2, #3 3LP (http://www.piratespressrecords.com/)
* True Widow True Widow LP (Cream colored vinyl) http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=919706
* Tuxedomoon Pink Narcicus LP (http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=920823)
* Up Front Spirit LP http://forums.livewire-records.com/v5/read.php?1,447216,447216
* Van Pelt, The Imaginary Third (http://thevanpelt.com/#order)
* Van Vilet, Don Son of Dustsucker (The Roger Eagle Tapes (on UK list but also coming to US: http://www.redeyeusa.com/artist/16793/albums/LP-OZITD-8020/)
* Various Artists Oi! This is Streetpunk Volume 4 (http://www.piratespressrecords.com/)
* Various Artists New Heavy Sounds Volume 3 (on UK List but coming to US: http://www.redeyeusa.com/artist/758/albums/LP-NHS-013/)
* Various Artists In Utero, In Tribute, In Eternity (Nirvana tribute): https://www.roboticempire.com/nirvana-utero-tribute-album-launched-robotic-empires-100th-release-15th-anniversary-label/
* Wednesday 13 Dixie Dead LP (On UK list but coming to the US in limited amounts: http://www.redeyeusa.com/artist/16792/albums/LP-W-13009/)
* Wednesday 13 Calling all Corpses LP (On UK list, but coming to the US in limited amounts: http://www.redeyeusa.com/artist/16792/albums/LP-W-13007/)
* Wreckless Eric Le Beat Group Electrique (On UK list but coming to the US in limited amounts: http://www.redeyeusa.com/artist/16796/albums/LP-FIR-320/)
* Xiu Xiu There is No Right, There is No Wrong (The Best of Xiu Xiu) (On UK list but coming to the US in limited amounts) http://www.redeyeusa.com/artist/13200/albums/LP-BPT-1202/
* Yardbirds Sounds I Heard (LP + 7") (On UK list, but coming to the US in limited amounts: http://www.redeyeusa.com/artist/13508/albums/LP-EARS-067/)

Boxsets:

There were 17 box sets listed on our list. 1 was cancelled (Neil Young), 2 were listed but were UK/EU exclusives (Sex Pistols and T-Rex) and there was one missing. The rest were accurate. So 15/17 for the US (88%….though technically it should be perfect since the other 2 items are coming out…heh)

The item that I had on my list that is missing from the RSD official list was:

* Everly Brothers Cadence Years 7" Boxset. (note, this might be delayed to June, but for the moment it is being listed by several stores. http://www.vvinyl.com/v/the-everly-brothers-cadence-years/4808)

So all told, out of 435 total releases I correctly listed 392 or 90%. Lots of which broke here first. Thanks so much for all of you who come and visit and check this list out each RSD or Black Friday RSD. Again, I do this for free and because I love vinyl and record stores.

So if you want to help out some of the above artists---please share this list/post and give credit. Get your stores to get some of these items in stock!!

Here is a handy consolidated list of the missing items not on the official RSD list:

Compact Discs Missing (from new-vinyl.blogspot.com):

Cancerous Growth CD+DVD is coming out for RSD on Beer City and is limited to 2000 copies. You can see the proof here: http://www.beercity.com/images/pressRelease/BC_RSD_2014.pdf

7" releases missing (from new-vinyl.blogspot.com)

Adicts, The Viva La Revolution Picture Disc 7" (300 copies, hand-numbered) http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=567779
Bleachers I Wanna Get Better (this is an indie store exclusive 7", limited to 1750 copies). The release date got pushed up to 4/15, but several stores (e.g. Strictly Discs) and even the RSD CANADA OFFICIAL LIST have as a RSD item and may sell it with the normal RSD stuff (so Fun fans, you can get this 7" with your demos 10")
Bruce, Jack Fields of Forever (confirmed: http://www.bullmoose.com/p/16264536/jack-bruce-fields-of-forever)
Dads Woman EP 7" (http://wearentdads.com/post/79213013640/ask-your-local-record-store-to-stock-the-woman) being distributed by REVELATION RECORDS and ironically enough, appears on the UK OFFICIAL RSD list.
Farside Keep My Soul Awake (Blue vinyl) being distributed by REVELATION RECORDS and ironically enough, appears on the UK OFFICIAL RSD list. http://www.revelationrecords.com/news/show/402
Bis/Ghosts of Dead Airplanes Split 7" (we have one Bis release on the official list, but this release was omitted). http://www.vvinyl.com/v/bis-ghosts-of-dead-airplanes-split-7/4876
Luke Haines Lou Reed b/w Jefferson Starship 7" http://www.bullmoose.com/p/16264601/luke-haines-lou-reed-jeff-starship-superhe
Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project Zonar Rose 7" (featuring Ty Segall, John Dwyer of the Oh Sees and Keith Morris and Steven McDonald of Off!) http://label.glitterhouse.com/upcoming.php?show=193 (also listed on UK OFFICIAL LIST)
Krieg Isolation/Transmission http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=919270
Inger Lorre Snowflake 7" http://www.bullmoose.com/p/16247160/inger-lorre-the-chiefs-of-infinity-snowflake-7
Integrity/Vegas split 7" (http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=919709)
Pete Molinari Look to the Wind (from MVD: http://mvdb2b.com/s/PeteMolinariLookToTheWindGirlCalledMine/CHERRY508)
Moons, The Heart and Soul http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=919705
Neon Trees Sleeping with a Friend 7" http://www.bullmoose.com/p/16264272/neon-trees-sleeping-with-a-friend-limited-edition-pressing-of-2-000-copies
Noisem / Occultist Split 7" (http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=919708)
Poison Idea Getting the Fear (TKO Records, distributed by COBRASIDE: http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=92261 and also on UK OFFICIAL LIST)
Prong Turnover 7" (distributed by COBRASIDE: http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=923371)
Puff Pieces 4 Songs 7"
Shattered Faith Modern Convenience on Hostage Records (http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=919712)
Sonic Rendezvous Band City Slang 7" http://www.bullmoose.com/p/16247166/sonics-rendezvous-band-city-slang-electrophonic-tonic-7
Up Front What Fire Does http://forums.livewire-records.com/v5/read.php?1,447216,447216
Wedding Dress Loom 7" (http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=923125)

10" Releases Missing (from new-vinyl.blogspot.com)

Camera Shy Jack-O-Latern 10" from Run for Cover Records: http://www.bullmoose.com/p/16246934/camera-shy-jack-o-lantern-record-store-day-exclusive
Kitchens of Distinction Extravagance EP (distributed by MVD in the US: http://mvdb2b.com/s/3RANGE23)
Set Your Goals Reset Demo 10th Anniversary Edition (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1059347473/calaveras-records
Street Dogs/ Noi!se Split 10" (http://dyingscene.com/news/street-dogs-and-noise-announce-split-10-inch-for-record-store-day/)

12" Releases Missing (from new-vinyl.blogspot.com)

John Lees' Barclay Ancient Harvest Ancient Waves EP (On the official UK list, but available in the US through MVD: http://mvdb2b.com/s/EANTEP2001)
Blancmange Living On the Ceiling (on the UK official list, but available in the US through MVD: http://mvdb2b.com/s/12CHERRY509)
Casket Lottery/Small Brown Bike Split 12" (http://www.vvinyl.com/v/the-casket-lottery-small-brown-bike-split-12/4701)
DBA Dreaming of England (On the official UK list, but available in the US through MVD: http://mvdb2b.com/s/PLGS01)
Inca Babies Scatter 12" EP (On the UK official list, but 100 copies will be available in the US through Redeye Distribution: http://www.redeyeusa.com/artist/15532/albums/LP-INC-50/)

LP Releases Missing (from new-vinyl.blogspot.com)

Banks--The Remixes LP (http://www.vvinyl.com/v/banks-banks-the-remixes/4797)
Battery Whatever It Takes LP (Revelation Records: http://www.revelationrecords.com/news/show/402)
Beltones On Deaf Ears LP (http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=918110)
Black Heart Procession / Solbakken In the Fishtank Volume 11 LP http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=917202
Bloodlet Live at WFMU-FM (orange vinyl) http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=919711
Bozzio Levin Stevens Black LIght Syndrome http://magnacartapress.blogspot.com/2014/02/bozzio-levin-stevens-black-light.html
Brown, Danny Hot Soup LP + 7" (http://ughh.com/danny-brown-hot-soup/SCM101LP/)
Clarence Carter: Slip Away: The Ultimate Clarence Carter 1966-1971 LP (http://www.dustygroove.com/item/692202)
Culbertson, Brian Another Long Night Out LP (http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=920792)
Curved Air Live Atmosphere LP + 7' (on UK official list, but available in the US through MVD: http://mvdb2b.com/s/PLG029)
ESG Dance to the Beat of ESG (3LP) http://www.redeyeusa.com/artist/14384/albums/LP-FIR-156/
Fairhornes Doki Doki Run http://www.redeyeusa.com/artist/15531/albums/LP-INV-108/
The Fall 13 Killers LP (on UK List but also coming to US through MVD: http://www.vvinyl.com/v/the-fall-13-killers/4757)
Hawklords: 25 Years EP (on UK list but coming to the US through MVD: http://mvdb2b.com/i/pdf/MVD_RSD2014.pdf)
Inspiral Carpets Dung 4 + Cow EP (on UK list but coming to the US through MVD: http://mvdb2b.com/i/pdf/MVD_RSD2014.pdf)
Katastrophy Wife: All Kneel (http://www.redeyeusa.com/artist/16783/albums/LP-DYI-001/)
Kode9 & Spaceape Memories of the Future (http://www.bullmoose.com/p/16247158/kode-9-the-spaceape-memories-of-the-future)
Lalo Schifrin Bullitt Original Soundtrack (200g LP) (http://www.dustygroove.com/item/696365)
Lemonheads If Only You Were Dead http://www.redeyeusa.com/artist/11567/albums/LP-FIR-339/
Mae Destination: Beautiful (http://spartanrecords.tumblr.com/post/79563735562/mae-destination-beautiful-record-store-day-pressing)
Mitchell, Roscoe Conversations LP (200g) http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=920822
Mor Paranoids Circular http://www.redeyeusa.com/artist/16786/albums/LP-WIA-03/
One Man Army Dead End Stories LP (http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=915419)
Ruts The Ruts: Highest Energy Ruts Live (http://www.redeyeusa.com/artist/16789/albums/LP-OZITD-8018/)
Sensefield Building LP (Revelation Records: http://www.revelationrecords.com/news/show/402)
Shooting Guns Brotherhood of the Ram LP (http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=915566)
Sick of It All Based on a True Story (http://www.thinkfastrecords.com/news/388/sick-it-all-vinyl-represses-record-store-day/--on UK list, but coming to US too)
Sick of It All Death to Tyrants (http://www.thinkfastrecords.com/news/388/sick-it-all-vinyl-represses-record-store-day/--on UK list, but coming to US too)
Soundtrack--The Wizard of Oz (http://www.vvinyl.com/v/soundtrack-the-wizard-of-oz-original-motion-picture-soundtrack/4858)
Spose Preposterously Dank LP (BullMoose exclusive release--http://www.bullmoose.com/p/16247077/spose-preposterously-dank-numbered-red-vinyl)
Thunders, Johnny (NY Dolls) Last Show at Max's Kansas City LP (http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=922561)
Tim Timebomb and Friends Mixtapes #1, #2, #3 3LP (http://www.piratespressrecords.com/)
True Widow True Widow LP (Cream colored vinyl) http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=919706
Tuxedomoon Pink Narcicus LP (http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=920823)
Up Front Spirit LP http://forums.livewire-records.com/v5/read.php?1,447216,447216
Van Pelt, The Imaginary Third (http://thevanpelt.com/#order)
Van Vilet, Don Son of Dustsucker (The Roger Eagle Tapes (on UK list but also coming to US: http://www.redeyeusa.com/artist/16793/albums/LP-OZITD-8020/)
Various Artists Oi! This is Streetpunk Volume 4 (http://www.piratespressrecords.com/)
Various Artists New Heavy Sounds Volume 3 (on UK List but coming to US: http://www.redeyeusa.com/artist/758/albums/LP-NHS-013/)
Various Artists In Utero, In Tribute, In Eternity (Nirvana tribute): https://www.roboticempire.com/nirvana-utero-tribute-album-launched-robotic-empires-100th-release-15th-anniversary-label/
Wednesday 13 Dixie Dead LP (On UK list but coming to the US in limited amounts: http://www.redeyeusa.com/artist/16792/albums/LP-W-13009/)
Wednesday 13 Calling all Corpses LP (On UK list, but coming to the US in limited amounts: http://www.redeyeusa.com/artist/16792/albums/LP-W-13007/)
Wreckless Eric Le Beat Group Electrique (On UK list but coming to the US in limited amounts: http://www.redeyeusa.com/artist/16796/albums/LP-FIR-320/)
Xiu Xiu There is No Right, There is No Wrong (The Best of Xiu Xiu) (On UK list but coming to the US in limited amounts) http://www.redeyeusa.com/artist/13200/albums/LP-BPT-1202/
Yardbirds Sounds I Heard (LP + 7") (On UK list, but coming to the US in limited amounts: http://www.redeyeusa.com/artist/13508/albums/LP-EARS-067/)

Box Sets Missing:

Everly Brothers Cadence Years 7" Boxset. (note, this might be delayed to June, but for the moment it is being listed by several stores. http://www.vvinyl.com/v/the-everly-brothers-cadence-years/4808)

THE WORLDWIDE LIST OF RECORD STORE DAY 2014 RELEASES Record Store Day 2014/RSD #7 -- April 19. 2014 Master Release List #RSD14

2014-03-19T05:49:00.000-07:00

January 21st, 2014--Happy New Year friends! Once again, we are getting ready for another awesome set of releases for Record Store Day. This year, RSD falls on Easter weekend. So now you can get chocolate bunnies and records on the same weekend. Lots of early rumors of some really cool items forthcoming. So let's start with some of the OFFICIAL/CONFIRMED releases we know of so far:

Updated 1/23/2014 with the news of Jon Spencer, inspiral Carpets, MachineHead and more.

Updated 2/6/14 with the news of Crystal Antlers, Elastica, Bis, Ladytron, Black Angels, Vetiver, Howling Rain, Papercuts, Fucked Up, Byrds, Black Crowes, Alice Cooper, Jethro Tull, Alanis Morissette, Motorhead, Psychic TV, Rainbow, Bob Dylan and more.

Updated 2/15/14 with news of releases by DINOSAUR JR., Ghoul, Conor Oberst, Death Waltz Releases, Ex-Cults, Built to Spill, Clint Mansell, Waylon Jennings, Nirvana tribute on Robotic Empire, The Oh Sees, Numero Group releases and more.

Updated 2/21/14 with news of releases by: Sundazed artists, Thompkins Square, URP, Devo, Camera Obscura, Dads, Van Pelt, MAE and more.

Updated 2/21/14 pt. 2 with news of releases by MONDO, Yep Roc, Botch, Spaceman 3, Xiu Xiu, Pinback, Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Invada Records and more!

Updated 2/23/14 with EXCLUSIVE news of NIRVANA, Soundgarden, Deep Purple, Elbow, Sex Pistols, Roger Taylor (Queen), ABBA, Public Image Ltd, Marianne Faithfull, Sam Cooke and more!

Updated 2/23/14 with EXCLUSIVE news of releases by Green Day, Death Cab for Cutie, Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young, REM, Jay-Z/Linkin Park, Doors, Grateful Dead, Husker Du, Joy Division, Mastodon, Opeth, Bat for Lashes, Paramore and more!

Updated 2/24/14 with more releases

Updated 2/25/14 with even more releases

Updated 2/27/14 with releases by Sub Pop, Oasis, Prong, Flaming Lips, SPOON and more

Updated 2/28/14 with tons of new releases!!

Updated 3/3/14 with Foals, Flaming Lips, One Direction. Official T-Shirts, Circa Survive/Sunny Day Real Estate split and more!

Updated 3/3/14 again at 4:00pm EST with MAJOR updates from FUN, OFF!, OF MONTREAL, DEER TICK, DAVID BOWIE, CURE, DINOSUAR JR, SUN RECORDS, DJANGO DJANGO, XIU XIU, SATURDAY LOOKS GOOD TO ME, PUJOL, MEMPHIS MAY FIRE, CASKET LOTTERY, FRIGHTENED RABBIT, CROSSES, BLACK LIPS, DREAM THEATER, FOLK BOXSET, PANTERA, POGUES, and MORE!

Updated 3/4/14 at 6:30pm with MAJOR news and EXCLUSIVE releases you won't find anywhere else. We have EXCLUSIVE news of releases by 311, Aerosmith, Allman Brothers, Bleachers, Broken Bells, Cage the Elephant, Civil Wars, Dean Martin, Devo, Dolly Parton, Haim, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page AND Black Crowes, Kings of Leon, MGMT, MKTO, Neko Case, Outkast, Ray Parker Jr., Ronnie Spector and the ZTT 7" box set!!!!!!

Updated 3/5/14 with a few more items

Updated 3/6/14 with CONFIRMED releases by Black Milk, Cake, Dave Matthews Band, Frank Iero, David Lynch, Sam Means, Mark Mulcahy, Phosphorescent, Jill Sobule and more!

Updated 3/6/14 with a new breakout of the list. The list now breaks out the releases as follows:

* CONFIRMED/OFFICIAL US RELEASES

* CONFIRMED /OFFICIAL UK/EU RELEASES

* CONFIRMED UNOFFICIAL/UNSANCTIONED RELEASES

Updated 3/7/14 with Revelation Records confirmed releases.

Updated 3/8/14 with EXCLUSIVE NEWS of releases by Tame Impala, Katy Perry, Genesis, Public Enemy, Ozric Tentacles, Wizard of Oz Soundtrack, Zombies, Thievery Corporation, School of Seven Bells, Mazzy Star, Korn, Lydia Loveless, Jerry Garcia, Rick James, Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, Garbage, Sky Ferreira, Cut Copy, Eric Church, Nick Cave, Blitzen Trapper, Bastille, the Animals, Joan Baez, Banks and more!

Updated 3/10/14 with more releases by Childish Gambino, Chvrches, Neon Trees, Everly Brothers, The Fall, Blancmange, Kitchens of Distinction, Hawklords (Hawkwind off-shoot) and more!

Updated 3/15/14 with news of UK/EU releases by Outkast (10"), Elvis Presley, AC/DC, Def Jam, Charlotte Gainsburg, Metronomy, Ed Banger and more.

Updated 3/17/14 with news of UK/EU releases by Bob Dylan and Beach Boys
Updated 3/19/14 with a release by COLDPLAY

We are at **602** RELEASES AND COUNTING!!

NOTE: This blog compiles rumored or publicly announced release information from around the world, since Record Store Day is global to give you an idea of the releases that will be potentially be coming out for Record Store Day. I think we've been pretty damn close the last 3 years. This list also gives a voice to artists/labels that don't make the "official" list but are also being released on April 19th. Those artists and labels put in time and effort to have a release and they should be recognized and not ignored. This information is widely available all over the Internet, you just have to know where to look. The point is, this information belongs to EVERYONE. Nobody should be able to control or monopolize the dissemination of information, that is freely available by doing a Google search. So enjoy it, share it and thanks for stopping by! Long live vinyl.

The official list will be posted on Recordstoreday.com on March 20th.

CONFIRMED/OFFICIAL UNITED STATES MASTER LIST (THESE ARE ALL RELEASES THAT STORES HAVE BEEN SOLICITED ON OR BANDS/LABELS HAVE ANNOUNCED—THEY ARE NOT “RUMORED”)

CASSETTE RELEASES (Taken from new-vinyl.blogspot.com)

• Green Day Demolicious CS

• Heatmiser Dead Air (Burger Records) (500 copies)

• Heatmiser Cop and Speeder (Burger Records) (500 copies)

• Heatmiser Yellow No. 5 (Burger Records (500 copies)

• Mayfield, Jessica Lee Make My Head Sing (700 copies)

• Radkey 9 Lives at the 100 Club

COMPACT DISCS (Taken from www.new-vinyl.blogspot.com)

• Bugg, Jake Live @ Silver Platters, Seattle WA January 20, 2014 (4250 copies)

• Cancerous Growth Cancer Causing Agents: A Cancerous Growth Discography CD+DVD (2000 copies)

• Chapman, Michael - Playing the Guitar the Easy Way

• Dennon, Brett Live at Amoeba CD

• Flaming Lips Clear Skies H3 CD (DELAYED TO MAY 20^th NOW)

• Green Day Demolicious CD

• Pastorius, Jaco Modern American Music...Period! The Criteria Sessions CD

• South Side Story (Various Artists comp from Numero Group) 1000 copies

• Various Artists The Space Project

7" RECORDS (Taken from www.new-vinyl.blogspot.com)

• Ailacara 2374 No Mate b/w Para La Libertad 7" (400 copies)

• American Authors/The Mowgli's In a Big Country b/w You Make My Dream Come True 7"

• Autumn Defense/Josh Rouse Sentimental Lady b/w Trouble (2000 copies)

• Bayside Time has Come b/w Indiana 7" (450 copies)

• Beauregarde Testify (features Greg Sage from the Wipers on Guitar) 1000 copies

• Bell, Drake I Won't Stand in Your Way b/w Bitchcraft (500 copies)

• Betty Who--Heartbreak Dream b/w Somebody Loves You (Acoustic Version) 7" (White Vinyl, 700 copies)

• Black Lips Funny 7" (2000 copies)

• Bleachers (Jack Antoff of Fun) I Wanna Get Better 7" (B-side is a remix) (1700 copies)

• Blitzen Trapper Hold On b/w On A Dime Woman (500 copies)

• Bok Bok (featuring members of the Fall and Buzzcocks) Come Back to Me b/w Misfit 7"

• Bowie, David 1984 Picture Disc (b-side is 1984 live from the Dick Cavett Show) US/Canada Exclusive
• Bruce, Jack Fields of Forever b/w Drone (500 copies)

• Cage the Elephant Take it Or Leave It b/w Jesse James (1500 copies)

• Camera Obscura 4AD Session EP 7" (1500 copies)

• Camp Sophisto Songs in the Praise of the Revolution

• Carmen, Eric Brand New Year (Alternate Mix) b/w Starting Over (live from 1976) (2000 copies)

• Case, Neko, Jason Lytle and Friends Satellite of Love (and other selections from Mars soundtrack) 7" (also features Howe Gelb, Victoria Williams and John Covertino from Calexico) (Red vinyl, 1500 copies)

• Chiodos (Craig Owens/Thoms Erak from Fall of Troy) R2ME2 b/w Let Me Get You A Towel (Green Vinyl 7")

• Christian Death The Edward Colver Edition 7" photo book on white vinyl w/poster (2500 copies)

• Circa Survive "Bad Heart" b/w Sunny Day Real Estate "Lipton Witch" (2500 copies....2400 on burgundy and 100 on clear)

• Close Your Eyes Prepackaged Hope (900 copies on Red vinyl)

• Clutch/Lionize split 7"
· Coldplay Magic b/w Midnight 7"

• Costello, Elvis She Used to Love Me a Lot (remix) (Johnny Cash cover, features original Cash version on b-side) news from Pitchfork.com

• Cure/Dinosaur Jr. Just Like Heaven SIDE BY SIDE 7" (White Vinyl)

• Crystal Antlers We All Gotta Die b/w remix by The Scientist

• Dads Woman EP (1000 copies) (Band posted on the Instagram)

• Dawes/Conor Oberst split 7"

• De Lux LIfe in Time Gets Narrow b/w Marquee Moon

• Deerhoof and Marc Ribot Ceramic Dog split 7" (900 copies)

• Deer Tick Eel Bowel features 2 unreleased tracks-- Bus Stop b/w Denver (2000 copies)

• Die Kreuzen Cows and Beer (7", colored vinyl and remastered with new linear notes and photos, plus the original notes/photos)

• Django Django Porpoise Song (Monkees Cover...colored vinyl)

• Dodos & Magik Magik Orchetra Substance b/w The Ocean (Yellow vinyl 1000 copies)

• Dot Hacker Whatever You Want b/w Memory 7" (1000 copies)

• Eric B. & Rakim Paid in Full (Mini Madness: Coldcut Remix)

• Ex-Cult Ties You Up 7" (Goner Records)

• Farside Keep My Soul Awake (Blue Vinyl) 7" (Revelation Records)

• Flaming Lips Gates of Steel Side By Side (original by Devo) 7500 copies, silver vinyl

• Fleetwood Mac Dragonfly b/w The Purple Dancer Purple Vinyl 7"

• Gauthier, Mary and Sam Baker split 7"

• Ghosts of Dead Airplanes/Bis split Picture Disc (500 copies)
• Haines, Like Lou Reed b/w Jeff Starship Superhero

• Hawthorne, Mayer In a Phantom Mood b/w Shintaro Sakamoto "Wine Glass Woman" 7" (Note: Japanese version, for RSD Japan will feature a deluxe, four-folded jacket) (Posted by label website)

• Holter, Julia Don't Make Me Over b/w Hello Stranger 7"

• Iero, Frank For Jamia (Be My Baby) b/w Walk The Line (500 copies)

• Inglish, Chuck Easily (Mac Miller & AB-Soul) Green Vinyl (1200 copies)

• Inglish, Chuck Legs (Chromeo) Blue Vinyl (1200 copies)

• Inglish, Chuck Gametime (Action Bronson) Yellow Vinyl (1200 copies)

• Inglish, Chuck Glam (Chance the Rapper) Pink Vinyl (1200 copies)

• Insurgence DC True to Life b/w Man in Black (500 copies--350 on black vinyl and 150 on colored vinyl with an alternate cover)

• Jackson, Wanda Windy City Redux Funnel of Love b/w Shakin All Over (live from Chicago in 2011 on White vinyl)

• Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project Zonar Rose (featuring Keith Morris and Steven McDonald (of OFF!), Ty Segall and John Dwyer (Oh Sees) b/w Girl It's Me (666 copies) (posted by label)

• Jennings, Shooter and Hierophant The Magic b/w The Dare (clear vinyl)

• Jeremy, Ron Understanding and Appreciating Classical Music (gold vinyl)

• Julie Ruin, The (Ex-Bikini Kill) Brightside b/w In the Picture (2000 copies)

• Khruangbin A Calf Born in Winter White Vinyl 7"

• Kings of Leon Wait for Me b/w It Don't Matter (live) (3000 copies on Yellow/Gold vinyl)

• Kodaline Coming Up b/w All I Want (remix)

• Kuti, Fela Se E Tun De b/w Waka Waka (1000 copies)

• La Coka Nostra Mind Your Business 7" (500 copies)

• Lake Street Dive What I'm Doing Here b/w Wedding Band 7"

• LaMontagne, Ray Supernova b/w Pick Up a Gun (3000 copies)

• Lane, Ronnie and Slim Chance Anniversary b/w Ooh La La

• Langford, Jon and Skull Orchard Days and Nights b/w Here's What we Have 7"

• Langhorne Slim and the Law Animal b/w Space Girl

• Lanham, Roy The Spectacular Six-String of Roy Lanham 7" EP (Red Vinyl) Sundazed

• Last Internationale, The Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of indian Blood (Red Vinyl, 1500 copies)

• Leithauser, Hamilton (Walkmen) Alexandra b/w In the Shallows 7"

• Litter, The Action Woman b/w A Legal Matter (Blue Vinyl) Sundazed

• Lorre, Inger Snowflake

• Loveless, Lydia Mile High b/w Blind (Ke$ha cover) (1000 copies on colored vinyl)

• Lynn, Tayla with Loretta Lynn Honkey Tonk Girl b/w Coal Dust (acoustic) 1000 copies

• Mazzy Star I'm Less Here (2 new tracks on coke bottle clear vinyl) (3000 copies)

• Meadownoise Its's 4:00 7" w/CD (400 copies)

• Means, Sam Blue Jeans (featuring Anthony Green) b/w Found (500 copies)

• Middle Class Rut Factories b/w Indians 7" (500 copies)

• Milk N Cookies Not Enough Girls b/w Nots 7"

• MKTO Classic b/w God Only Knows (1500 copies)

• Mobius Strip Palabras Podridas (150 copies featuring Crooked Beat record store on the cover, with 4 unreleased tracks--Chemicals, Drone, Pertenezco and IG-88)
• Molinari, Pete Look To The Wind b/w Girl Called Mine

• Monch, Pharoahe Get Down 7"

• Murphy, Peter Hang Up (Dub Mix) b/w I'm On Your Side (Silver Vinyl)

• MYSTERY SIDE BY SIDE 7" (Hi-lighter Yellow & Orange Vinyl)

• Neon Neon Years of Lead EP (500 copies)
• Neon Trees Sleeping with a Friend b/w Sleeping with a friend (Instrumental) Pink Vinyl

• Nirvana Pennyroyal Tea 7" (reissue of famous withdrawn cd single, now on vinyl) (6000 copies)

• Oates, John Stone Cold Love b/w Close (Florescent Lemon-Lime colored vinyl)

• Oberst, Conor Hundreds of Ways b/w Fast Friends

• Of Montreal Jigsaw Puzzle b/w Triumph of Disintegration (PIP Version) 1500 copies on light green vinyl

• OFF! Learn to Obey 7" (5500 copies worldwide (2000 for US)...with artwork by Shepard Fairey)

• One Direction Midnight Memories 7" Picture Disc (features Rock Me (live) as b-side)

• Paisley, Doug Growing Souls b/w Lies Lead to Lies 7"

• Pantera / Poison Idea The Badge SIDE BY SIDE single (Purple/Bronze Colored Vinyl)

• Papercuts/the Donkey split 7" (Easy Sound Label)

• Parquet Courts Sunbathing Animal b/w Pilgrams to Nowhere 7" (1000 copies)

• Parton, Dolly Blue Smoke b/w Home (2 new tracks, blue vinyl, 3000 copies)

• Persson, Nina (Cardigans lead singer) Sometimes b/w This is Heavy Metal (demo) White Vinyl 7"
• Poison Idea Getting the Fear 7" (2000 copies on TKO records)

• Prong Turnover b/w Revenge Best Served Cold (Green/White marble, 3000 copies)

• Pujol Circles b/w A Demo for Egyptian Afterlife Lizard Green vinyl (1000 copies)

• Rodrigo Amarante/EDJ split 7"

• RPM Turntable Football 7" (game)

• Skylon Original Version b/w Acoustic Version 7"

• Snow, The 7" (Features Dustin Payseur of Beach Fossils, Jack Tatum of Wild Nothing and Andreas Lagerstrom of Holograms) Memory Loss b/w Joy of Life

• Sonic Rendezvous Band City Slang b/w Electrophoniic Tonic

• Sonics, The Bad Bettie b/w Mudhoney I Like It Small split 7" on green/black vinyl (1000 copies)

• Southern Culture On the Skids w/Fred Schnieder Party at My Trouse b/w Hey Mary (1000 copies)

• Spanish Gold Out on the Street 7"

• Specials, The Sock It Toe Em JB

• Spector, Ronnie & The E-Street Band Say Goodbye to Hollywood b/w Baby Please Don't Go (4000 copies)

• Spektor, Regina You've Got Time b/w Call Them Brothers (Featur. Only Son) 7" Orange vinyl, 3000 copies

• Standells, The Dirty Water b/w Twitchin' Clear Vinyl (Sundazed)

• Stanton, Harry Dean Partly Fiction---features Tennessee Whiskey b/w Cancion Mixteca (picture disc)

• Stranglers, The Peaches b/w Go Buddy Go 7"

• Sunrays, The Our Leader b/w Won't You Tell Me Clear Yellow Vinyl (Sundazed)

• Thievery Corporation Untitled 7" (2 unreleased tracks from Saudade Sessions) (2500 copies)

• Thing Boot EP

• Torres/Motel Beds (w/Kelley Deal of the Breeders) Split 7"
• Up Front What Fire Does 7" (Grey Color, 300 copies, each numbered)

• VanGaalen, Chad I Want Your Back 7" (2300 copies)

• Vetiver/Howling Rain split 7"

• Villagers Occupy Your Mind b/w Beatitudes 7"

• Watt, Mike and Il Sogno Del Marinaio Mud Puddle b/w We Come to Learn (Brown Vinyl--1200 copies)

• Waylon Jennings/Sanford Clark Zia Presents: Audio 7" (songs that were originally on Ramco Records in 1967)

• Weller, Paul A Brand New Toy 7 b/w Landslide (not the Fleedwood Mac cover, new song written by Weller)” (750 copies)

• White Denim A Place to Start (Jamie Lidell Remix) b/w A Place to Start (instrumental) (White vinyl 7")

• Wild Feathers Got it Wrong b/w Marie (2000 copies) si7"

• Williams, James & Carolyn Wonderland (featuring the Stooges and Mike Watt) Open Up and Bleed b/w Gimme Some Skin (Red Vinyl, 1000 copies)

• Wray, Link (Slinky b/w Rendezvous) (Sundazed)

• Zappa, Frank Don't Eat the Yellow Snow 7"

10" RECORDS (taken from www.new-vinyl.blogspot.com)
• Alvin, Dave and Phil Alvin: Songs from Common Ground 2x10" (2000 copies)

• Adventure Club Calling all Heroes (500 copies in the US blue vinyl 10" with 2 exclusive remixes)

• Animals The Animals EP (1800 copies)

• Bastille Of The Night EP 10" Picture Disc (2000 copies) (features 2 unreleased remixes by MNEK and Icarus of Of The Night and Oblivion (Live From Capital Studios)

• Black Angels Clear Lake Forest 10" (Clear vinyl--3500 copies)

• Bonobo Get Thy Bearing (Clear Vinyl 10")

• Camera Shy (Nick Bassett of Whirr) Jack-O-Lantern 10" colored vinyl

• Creedence Clearwater Revival The '69 Singles 10"

• Croll, Dan Hello My Baby (Gold 10") (1000 copies)

• Crosses EP 1 (Red/Pink Vinyl) 10" (1000 copies)

• Crosses EP 2 (Blue Vinyl) 10" (1000 copies)

• Crosses EP 3 (Yellow Vinyl) 10" (1000 copies)

• Cut Copy In These Arms of Love b/w Like Any Other Day 10" (2000 copies)

• Drive by Truckers Dragon Pants EP 10" (posted on their Facebook)

• FUN Point and Light 10" on Rainbow Splatter Vinyl featuring 5 demos from Aim & Ignite (At Least I'm Not as Sad (As I Used to Be), Light A Roman Candle With Me, I Wanna Be the One, Benson Hedges and The Gambler) (1500 copies)

• Garbage Girls Talk Shit 10" (features 2 new tracks) (4000 copies)

• Jaded Incorporated Jaded Incorporated 10" (Triangle shaped, glow in the dark..1000 copies)
• Kitchens of Distinction: Extravagance EP (transparent 10")

• Machine Head Killers & Kings (Demo) b/w Our Darkest Days (Ignite Cover)--4 different sleeve variants available (each limited to 1000 copies)

• Parker Jr. , Ray Ghostbusters Theme (Glow in the Dark 10" with original, instrumental, dance mix and dub versions) (2000 copies)

• Siriusmo & Anstam Jaja/Muckelfuck

• Soundgarden Superunknown--The Singles (5x10" set)

• Tears for Fears Ready, Boys "&" Girls? 10" (colored vinyl, 3000 copies features covers of songs by Arcade Fire, Animal Collective and Hot Chip)

• Veruca Salt 10" (original lineup with 2 new songs + Seether, 1000 copies)
• Walker, Butch End of the World (One More Time) b/w Battle vs. The War (3000 copies)

• Williams, Hank The Garden Spot Programs 1950 EP (Omnivore release)

12" SINGLES (taken from www.new-vinyl.blogspot.com)

• Ammons, Albert Boogie Woogie Stomp 12" (Blue Note)

• Atmosphere The Lake Nokomis Maxi Single Picture Disc 12" (5000 copies, each hand numbered)

• BadBadNotGood III 12"
• Barclay, John Lees' James Harvest: Ancient Waves EP (750 copies)

• Black Milk Glitches in the Break EP (1000 copies)
• Blancmange: Living On the Ceiling b/w Feel Me (Remixes) (500 copies)

• Bored Games Who Killed Colonel Mustard 12" (700 copies)

• Brian Jonestown Massacre/Magic Castles Split 12" (Grey Vinyl, 1500 copies, each numbered)

• Broken Bells Holding on for Life 12" (single + remixes, 4750 copies)

• Bugg, Jake Live @ Silver Platters, Seattle WA January 20, 2014 12"

• Casket Lottery/Small Brown Bike Split 12" (Colored Vinyl)
• Chvrches Recover EP 12" Bootleg Sleeve, hand numbered and stamped on orange vinyl (2500 copies)

• Creepoid Wet 12" EP (w/etched b-side) 500 copies

• Cults Upstairs at United Volume 10 EP (5000 copies)
• DBA Dreaming of England 12" Blue Vinyl EP

• Disclosure Apollo 12" (2500 copies)

• Dream Theater Illumination Theory 12" Picture Disc

• Falconberry, Dana Public Hi-Fi Sessions 2x12" (500 copies)

• Flaming Lips 7 Skies H3 12" (Clear Vinyl)

• Freaker, Darq E Ironside 12" (Yellow/Red Splatter)

• Frightened Rabbit Live from Criminal Records (12" at 45RPM featuring 4 tracks)

• Haim Forever 12" (features exclusive remix by Giorgio Moroder) (4000 copies)

• Inca Babies Scatter EP

• Inner Life /Salsoul Orchestra John Morales Presents M&M Mixes (clear vinyl, 300 copies)

• James, Rick You and I (M+M extended mix) b/w Fire and Desire (Live in Long Beach w/Teena Marie) 12" (2000 copies)

• Jon Spencer Blues Explosion She's On It / Jack the Ripper (Live mashup of Beastie Boys and Link Wray songs) with b-side Audio Vacation (unreleased)

• Joy Division An Ideal for Living 12" EP (140g Vinyl, audio sourced from +/- box. Limited edition)

• Lewis, Meade Lux Melancholy 12" (Blue Note)
• Liars Mess on a Mission (Clear vinyl 12" with yard inside, 1000 copies)

• Little Dragon Kapp Klapp 12"

• Lynch, David The Air is on Fire 12" (1750 copies)

• Mel Burning Stones 12"

• Notwist Run Run Run 12" (1900 copies)

• Oasis Supersonic 12" (3500 copies)

• Orwells The Righteous One 12"

• Osbourne, Johnny Give a Little Love (Red, Green or Gold vinyl) 12"

• Ozric Tentacles Sploosh 12" Single

• Paramore Ain't It Fun 12" B-Side features Dutch Uncles Remix and the vinyl is "broken shaped"

• Phosphorescent Song for Zulu 12"

• Pissed Jeans Live at the BBC-The Very Best of Sub Pop 2009-2013 (3000 copies)

• Pussy Galore Pussy Gold 5000 EP

• Ra, Sun Outer Spaceways Incorporated 12" White & Purple Vinyl (1500 copies)

• Ramones Meltdown with the Ramones EP (Navy Vinyl)

• Rush, Bobby Upstairs at United Volume 11 (EP) (5000 copies)

• Shampoo Boy Nebel/Nadel

• Sobule, Jill Dottie's Charm 12"

• Springsteen, Bruce American Beauty 12" EP (9000 copies)

• Tame Impala Live Versions 12" (8 tracks recorded in 2013 in Chicago. Live arrangements are intentionally different than studio versions and were picked by the band) (5000 copies) Features the tracks---Endors Toi, Why Won't You Make Up Your Mind?, Sestri Levante, Mind Mischief, Desire Be, Desire Go; Half Full Glass of Wine, Be Above It, Feels Like We Only Go Backwards and Apocalypse Dreams

• The The Giant 12" (2000 copies)

• Throwing Snow Mosaic VIPs

• Zedd Find You 12" (colored vinyl, "Turn up the night edition")

LP RECORDS (taken from www.new-vinyl.blogspot.com)

• 311 311 (2LP 180g, limited to 4000 copies)

• 311 Evolver (2LP 180g, limited to 3000 copies)

• A Minor Forest: Flemsih Altruism/Inindependence (4LP set) (300 copies)

• Aerosmith Draw the Line (180g LP, numbered to 3000)

• Aerosmith Night in the Ruts (180g LP, numbered to 3000)

• Aerosmith Rock in a A Hard Place (180g LP, numbered to 3000)

• Aerosmith Rocks LP (180g, numbered to 3000)
• Agitation Free Shibuya Nights LP (1000 copies, 200 only for US)

• Allman Brothers Selections from Play All Night: Live at the Beacon Theater 1992 (2LP, 4000 copies)

• Alvarius B / Sir Richard Bishop If You Don't Like It...Stop Split LP (200 copies)

• Anamanaguchi Scott Pilgram vs. The World (Videogame Soundtrack) (yellow vinyl)

• Andersen, Matt Weightless 2LP

• August Burns Red Thrill Seeker (1000 copies on either Green vinyl or Gold vinyl (packaged randomly)

• Autistic Behavior Shattered Castle LP (500 copies)

• Baez, Joan Blessed Are LP (Vanguard release, 1500 copies)

• Banks Banks--The Remixes LP (all previously not commercially released remixes) (500 copies)

• Bardo Pond Looking for Another Place (200 copies)

• Battery Whatever It Takes LP (Orange Vinyl) (Revelation Records)

• Between the Buried and Me Colors_Live (1400 copies on Red vinyl, first time on vinyl...live 2007 show from Nashville, TN)

• Bis Data Panik Etcetera 180g White Vinyl (300 copies)

• BLACK CROWES AND JIMMY PAGE Live a the Greek (3LP Red, Clear and Blue vinyl set, limited to 2000 copies)

• Black Prairie Fortune LP (1000 copies)

• Blue Rodeo Diamond Mine (2LP Green & Blue Colored vinyl)

• Botch Unifying Themes Redux LP (900 copies)

• Bozzio Levin Stevens Black Light Syndrome LP (1000 copies)

• Bradley, Charles I Hope You Find the Good Life Lp (1200 copies)

• Breadwinner Burner (1st time on vinyl)

• Brown, Hollis Get's Loaded (Velvet Underground Covers--500 copies on starburst vinyl)

• Buried Alive The Death of Your Perfect World (900 copies on Grey vinyl)

• Built to Spill Ultimate Alternative Wavers (4500 copies on Gold vinyl OR 500 copies on Green vinyl--Green Vinyl only available at music stores in the Pacific Northwest)

• Cardinal Cardinal (Yellow Vinyl LP + CD) (300 copies)

• Carter, Clarence Slip Away (The Ultimate Clarence Carter 1966-1971) 2LP

• Cash, Johnny With HIs Hot And Blue Guitar (Blue vinyl, numbered out of 3000 copies)

• Cave In Jupiter + Rarities LP (950 copies)

• Cave. Nick & Warren Ellis West of Memphis Soundtrack (White Vinyl LP)

• Centro-matic Redo the Stacks LP

• Chandler, Dillard The End of an Old Song (1000 copies) (Tompkins Square)

• Chapman, Michael Playing Guitar the Easy Way (Blue Vinyl)

• Chocolate Milk Action Speaks Louder than Words (1000 copies on Chocolate colored vinyl)

• Church, Eric The Outsiders LP w/bonus 7" + Poster

• Civil Wars, The Live at Eddie's Attic LP (4500 copies)

• College Northern Council (Clear Vinyl + 5 art prints) (300 copies only)

• Cooke, Sam Ain't That Good News (50th Anniversary LP)

• Cosmetics LP

• Courtyard Hounds Amelita (LP + bonus 7") (500 copies)
• Curved Air Live Atmosphere + 7" (Clear red Vinyl)

• Darcys, The Hymn for a Missing Girl LP
• Death Cab for Cutie LIVE 2LP

• Dessa The Twin Castor LP (White 180g LP, each numbered, 500 copies total)

• Devo Live at Max's Kansas City 11/15/77 (2000 copies)

• DEVO Butch Devo adn the Sundance Gig (Picture Disc) (LP+DVD)

• Doors, The Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine 2LP (Amber colored vinyl, each numbered)

• Dresden Dolls The Dresden Dolls 2LP (Red & Black Swirl Colored Vinyl)
• Dunedin Double Dunedin Double LP

• Earth Crisis Gomorraah's Season Ends (900 copies on Yellow vinyl)

• Elliott, Ramblin' Jack Jack Elliott LP (1500 copies)

• Emerald, Caro The Shock Miss Emerald Acoustic Sessions LP

• ESG: Dance to the Best of ESG (3LP) (200 copies)

• Everly Brothers Roots LP 180g

• Everly Brothers Songs Our Daddy Taught Us (1500 copies)

• Fairhorns Doki Doki Run (Color Vinyl LP + CD)
• Fall, The 13 Killers 2LP

• Fear of Men Loom Deluxe 2 toned color vinyl edition (500 copies)

• Fenech-Soler Fenech-Soler Remixed LP (500 copies)

• Ferreira, Sky Night Time, My Time Explicit Picture Disc LP (800 copies)

• Fidenco, Nico Emanuelle Perche' Violenza Alle Donne (Death Waltz) LP

• Field From Here We Go Sublime 180g 2LP + CD

• Fishbone LP (Remastered on Red Vinyl with bonus track from Say Anything soundtrack. 1000 copies only)

• Five Finger Death Punch Purgatory: Tales from the Pit 2LP Picture Disc (1000 copies)

• Foals Live at Royal Albert Hall LP (3000 copies)

• Foxx, John & The Maths Interplay/The Shape of Things 2LP
• Gambino, Childish Because the Internet 2LP w/72 page screenplay booklet

• Garcia, Jerry Garcia LP (White 180g vinyl, individually numbered out of 1500 copies...remastered audio from original reels)

• Genesis From Genesis to Reve LP (1500 copies)

• Glitch Mob, The Drink the Sea/We Can Make World Stop EP (2LP + 10" on 3 colored starburst vinyl) (1250 copies)

• Gojira The Way of All Flesh 350 copies on Blue/White split 2LP

• Grateful Dead Live at the Hampton Coliseum 2LP (2LP from Hampton, VA on 5/4/79, first ever release of this show on any format)

• Green Day Demolicious (2LP Red/Clear colored vinyl)

• Greenbaum, Norman Spirit in the Sky LP (1500 copies)

• Half Japanese Volume #1--1981-1987 (3LP) (500 copies)

• Hart, Grant (Husker Du) Every Everything and Some Something (LP + DVD)

• Hart, Oliver The Many Faces of Oliver Hart OR: How Eye One the Write Too Think (3LP Red Vinyl, 3000 copies)

• Hathaway, Donnie Live at the Bitter End 2LP (numbered, limited edition 180g)
• Hawklords: 25 Years EP (Grey Vinyl, 750 copies)

• Heavens to Betsy Calculated LP (1000 copies...contains exclusive bonus track never before released)

• Hendrix, Jimi Experience Live at Monterey (200g LP, 6000 copies----)

• Hess, David Last House on the Left Picture Disc (1500 copies, each hand-numbered)

• Husker Du Candy Apple Grey LP (Grey colored vinyl)

• Ice-T Greatest Hits LP

• Idle Race Birthday Party LP (Gold Colored Vinyl)
• Inspiral Carpets Dung 4 + The Cow EP

• JB's Food for Thought: Get On Down Edition (LP + 7")

• J. Spaceman/Kid Millions Live at Le Poisson Rouge LP+7" (3000 copies)

• Jacob Fried Jazz Odyssey Millions Live in Denver (7 track live LP)

• Jay-Z/Linkin Park Collision Course LP (blue vinyl)

• Jennings, Waylon and Shooter Jennings Fenixion (Industrial album from 1996 never released....White vinyl)

• Jett, Joan and the Blackhearts Glorious Results of a Misspent Youth (Pink Vinyl, numbered LP (4000 copies)

• Jones, Glenn Welcomed Wherever I Go (250 copies)

• Jones, Sharon & The Dap-Kings Dap-Dippin' (Remastered) (1200 copies on clear blue vinyl)

• July S/T (late 60's prog rock) (Splatter colored vinyl)

• Jungle Rot Kill on Command LP (900 copies on Red vinyl)

• Kalinich, Stephen John A World of Peace Must Come (Colored vinyl LP) (Light in the Attic release—1500 copies on Orange Vinyl, 500 on Blue Vinyl for California RSD stores and 100 on Green vinyl for Seattle RSD stores)

• Karma to Burn S/T 180g Black Vinyl 2LP

• Katastrophy Wife All Kneel LP (200 copies)

• Kaukonen, Jorma Quah (Yellow vinyl LP, numbered out of 2500 copies)

• Khlyst Chaos is my Name LP (375 copies)

• Kode9 and the Spaceape: Memories of the Future 2LP (300 copies)

• Korn The Paradigm Shift 2LP PIcture Disc (900 copies)

• Lemonheads: If Only You Were Dead (White Vinyl, from 2 1987 WERS radio sessions with 2 bonus tracks from Crawling from Within) (2LP) (250 copies)

• Life Without Buildings Any Other City (LP + 7")

• Lloyd, Charles LIve at Slug's in the Far East LP (1200 copies)

• Loud One, The Time to Skate LP (1000 copies)

• Man Man The Man in Turban with Blue Face (1500 copies)

• Mancini, Henry The Pink Panther (Muisc From the Film Score--50th Anniversary) (Pink Vinyl, 6000 copies)

• Mansell, Clint In the Wall (Death Waltz) LP

• Martin, Dean Dream With Dean: The Intimate Dean Martin LP (180g, limited to 2000 each numbered)

• Mastodon Live at Brixton 2LP + DVD (2000 copies)

• McCarty, Jim (Yardbirds) Frontman 2LP (180g Blue vinyl--numbered edition of 1000. First time on vinyl)

• Medicine Part Time Punks 2013 Live LP (Tri-Colored vinyl)

• Memphis May Fire The Hollow (1500 copies on colored vinyl)

• MGMT Congratulations 2LP 180g (numbered to 4000 copies)

• MGMT Oracular Spectacular LP 180g (numbered to 5000 copies)

• Mor Paranoids Circular

• Miller, Jenks / James Toth Roads to Ruin split LP (200 copies)

• Moles, The: Flashbacks and Dream Sequences--The Story of the Moles (2LP/2CD) (300 copies)

• Motorhead Aftershock Picture Disc (hand numbered)

• Mudhoney On Top: KEXP Presents Mudhoney Live on Top of the Space Needle (2700 copies)

• Mulcahy, Mark Fathering LP

• Newman, Randy Randy Newman (Mono) LP

• Notorious BIG--Live After Death 3LP (Clear Vinyl)

• 'O' Level Pseudo Punk Lp

• Of Montreal Satanic Panic in the Attic 10 year Anniversary Edition (180g 2LP...Disc 1 on Yellow, Disc 2 on Blue. Disc 2 features 7 additional tracks) 2000 copies

• Oh Sees, The Drop LP (MOVED TO APRIL 29TH)

• One Man Army Dead End Stories (Red Vinyl)

• Oneohtrix Point Never Commissions 1 (1000 copies)

• Onyeabor, William What? 2LP (1200 copies)

• Outkast Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik LP (numbered to 4000 copies)

• Opeth Watershed 2LP Green Marble Colored Vinyl

• Pagans What's This Shit? 1977/1979 LP

• Paranorman OST (Picture Disc) Mondo (500 copies only with 3 different Glow in the Dark variations....Red, Blue or Green)

• Parsons, Gram Alternate Takes from GP and Grievous Angel 2LP (2LP vinyl release of audio sourced from the 3rd CD from the "Complete Reprise Sessions" released in 2005)

• Pastorius, Jaco Modern American Music...Period! The Criteria Sessions LP

• Perry, Katy Prism 2LP Picture Disc (5000 copies)

• Pinback Pinback (1st Record) (2000 copies)

• Piovani, Nicola L Profumo Della Signora In Nero (Death Waltz) LP

• Pogues Live with Joe Strummer 2LP Red Vinyl (recorded in London in 1991 at the Forum)

• Pretty Lights The Hidden Shades LP (2750 copies)

• Public Enemy It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back 2LP (Explicit version)

• Red Temple Spirits Dancing to Restore An Eclipsed Moon 2LP (500 copies only)

• Red Temple Spirits If Tomorrow I Were Leaving for Lhasa, I Wouldn't Stay a Minute More LP (500 copies)

• Redding, Otis Pain in My Heart LP MONO

• Richey, Kim: Thorn in My Heart: The Work Tapes (LP housed in wooden box/jacket with a 24 page booklet. Limited to 250 copies)

• Rizzati, Walter 1990: Guerrieri Del Bronx aka The Bronx Warriors (Death Waltz) LP

• Robotnick, Alexander Vintage Robotnicks LP (Light in the Attic)

• Rodion G.A. Delta Space Mission LP (800 copies)

• Rockabye Baby--Lullaby Rendintions of David Bowie

• Roots Radics Scientist Meets Roots Radics Picture Disc LP
• Ruts The Highest Energy--Ruts LIVE

• Saturday Looks Good to Me Saturday Looks Good To Me (Blue Vinyl--500 copies...expanded 14 song edition)

• Saturday Looks Good to Me Love Will Find You (500 copies on Red Vinyl)

• Scharpling & Wurster "Rock, Rot and Rule" 1000 copies on Red Vinyl

• School of Seven Bells Put Your Sad Down LP (5 unreleased tracks, with all proceeds used to benefit the foundation of Ben Curtis, who died of T-Cell Lymphoma) (300 copies)

• Screaming Trees Last Words LP

• Scott-Heron, Gil Nothing New LP

• Semi Precious Weapons Aviation LP (1000 copies on 180g vinyl + CD)

• Sensfield Building LP (Red Vinyl) (Revelation Records)

• Slipknot Vol: 3 The Subliminal Verses (2LP Clear VInyl)

• Souleyman, Omar Jazeera Nights Folk & Pop Lp

• Soundtrack--Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (Invada Records) 2LP (300 copies)

• Soundtrack The Muppet Movie (2500 copies)

• Soundtrack The Wizard of Oz: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Yellow vinyl, 3500 copies)

• Spacemen 3 Translucent Flashbacks: the 12" singles (3x180g LP) (300 copies)

• Spoon Love Ways EP (10 tracks)

• Spose Preposterously Dank LP (red vinyl, numbered)

• Stace, Wesley Ovid In Exile (450 copies)

• Strife In this Defiance (800 copies on white, 100 copies on Neon Green

• Surfer Blood Pythons Demos ("punk edition" supposedly original ideal for LP rejected by Warner Bros.) 1000 copies

• Tucker, Alexander Alexander Tucker LP (100 copies)

• Townes, Steve Earle The Basics LP (Numbered out of 2000 copies)

• Teenage Filmstars There's A Cloud Over Liverpool LP

• Teeth of the Sea A Field In England: Re-imagined (Red vinyl LP)

• Thornton, Big Mama Sassy Mama LP

• Twenty One Pilots Vessel LP

• Type O Negative Slow, Deep and Hard 180g Black Vinyl 2LP

• UN, The UN OR U OUT LP
• Up Front Spirit LP (Red Vinyl, 700 copies)

• Van Vilet, Don Son of Dustsucker (The Roger Eagle tapes) (200 copies)

• Various Artists--Non Violent Femmes (LP Comp of Violent Femmes tracks sung by all female fronted bands)

• Various Artists If 2.0 (NINJA TUNE) (3LP, 800 copies)

• Various Artists Electroconvulsive Therapy Volume 2 LP

• Various Artists New Heavy Sounds Volume 3

• Various Artists Todo Muere Volume 4 LP

• Various Artists Faux Real (Compilation of bands covering songs made famous by fictional bands such as Eddie & the Cruisers, Josie & The Pussycats, etc.) (500 copies)

• Various Artists Live from High Fidelity: The Best of the Podcast Performances

• Various Artists Sun Records: Curated by Record Store Day Volume 1 (4000 copies...features Roy Orbison, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and more)

• Various Artists South Side Story NUMERO GROUP release (features 13 tracks from Chicago's South Side, some unreleased) (1000 copies)

• Various Artists The Space Project LP (also coming out as 7" box set.....see below)

• Various Artists In Utero, In Tribute, In Entirety (Nirvana tribute on Robotic Empire featuring Circa Survive, Thursday, Ceremony, These Arms are Snakes, Daughters, Whirr, Young Widows, Jay Reatard and more) LP

• Various Artists Misra Records 15 Years LP featuring Phosphorescent, Shearwater and more) (800 copies)

• Various Artists Newport Folk Fest 1963, The Evening Concert. Vanguard release featuring BOB DYLAN, Joan Baez, Mississippi John Hurt and more (1500 copies)

• Velvet Underground Loaded LP (Pink, White & Black Splatter vinyl)

• Vitamin String Quartet VSQ Performs Weezer's Pinkerton LP

• Watson, Doc Southbound LP

• Wednesday 13 Dixie Dead LP

• Wednesday 13 Calling all Corpses

• Whirlwind Heat Do Rabbits Wonder? LP (12 different colors available)

• Willis, Bob and the Texas Playboys Transcriptions LP (1500 copies)

• Winter, Johnny Live Bootleg Special Edition (180g White Vinyl)

• Wrangler L.A. Spark LP

• Wreckless Eric: Le Beat Group Electrique

• Xiu Xiu: There is No Right, There is No Right (Best of Xiu Xiu) 2LP + CD (100 copies)

• Xiu Xiu Unclouded Sky (Cloud Colored LP 1000 copies)

• Yardbirds Little Game LP (Splatter vinyl)

• Yardbirds Sounds I Heard (LP + 7") (200 copies)

• Young Jessie Don't Happen No More LP

• Zombies, I Love You LP (1500)

• Zombies Odessey & Oracle LP (2500)

• Zoumbas, Alexis A Lament for Epirus 1926-1928 LP

BOXSETS (Both 7" and LP) taken from www.new-vinyl.blogspot.com

• Bolan, Marc at the BBC Electric Sevens Part 2 (4x7" boxset) (now EU/UK Exclusive)

• CAKE VINYL BOXSET 8x12" colored vinyl boxset (900 copies)

• Dave Matthews Band Live Trax Volume 4 (4x12" colored vinyl, 2000 copies from 4/30/1996 in RIchmond, VA)

• Dinosaur Jr. Visitors (5x7" + book) from NUMERO GROUP! (1st 4 7" singles with the 5th 7" featuring Show Me The Way b/w Feel A Whole Lot Better (Byrds cover) + book of Maura Jasper unused artwork from the period of 85-90 (5000 copies)
• Everly Brothers Six Disc Limited Edition Box Set (all 6 LPs on 45RPM from Cadence Records)

• Gilson, Jef et Malagasy Gilson et Malagasy 5LP box

• LCD Soundsystem Long Goodbye Live at MSG (5LP box---3000 copies)

• Minus 5---Scott the Hoopie in the Dungeon of Horror, 5LP box (500 copies only---features Scott McCaughey, Peter Buck, Jeff Tweedy of Wilco and many other guests)

• Songs: Ohia Jouney On' 7" Boxset (1850 copies)

• VARIOUS ARTISTS Zang Tuum Tumb (ZTT): The Re-Organization of Pop (10x7" box featuring Art of Noise, 808 State, FGTH, etc. 3 of the 7"s were never released on vinyl previously. 1000 copies, each numbered)

• REM Unplugged (4LP Box) (features entire MTV unplugged sessions including material that didn't air on program)

• Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks (7x7" Boxset) (NOW EU/UK EXCLUSIVE)

• Various Artists DJ Andy Smith's Jam Up Twist USA (7x7" box)

• Various Artists Taang! Records: The first 10 singles (10x7" box w/CD)

• Various Artists The Folk Box 50th Anniversary (4LP w/bonus 7") (Features Woody Guthrie, Phil Ochs, Dillards, and more)

• Young, Neil Official Release Series Discs 5-8 (4LP 180g Box featuring Time Fades Away, On The Beach, Tonight's the Night and Zuma. 3500 copies) *UPDATE*--Delayed until later this year (Maybe Black Friday RSD)

• Various Artists The Space Project 7” Boxset

UK/EU CONFIRMED RELEASES (note, I don’t focus on EU/UK releases, so these are the ones I’ve come across or that have been announced).

Compact Discs

• Durutti Column Chronicle LX:XL (2CD box)

7” UK/EU RSD Singles:

· ABBA Waterloo 7"

· Albarn, Damon 7"

· Allen, Lily Wind Your Neck In

· Bat for Lashes Gardens Heart 7"

· Bowie, David Rock n Roll Suicide Picture Disc (UK/EU Exclusive)

· Chromeo Come Alive 7"

· Deep Purple Made in Japan (2x7"---Black Night (live in Osaka) b/w Woman from Tokyo)

· Dobson, Bonnie & Her Boys Come On Dancing/Dancing Version

· Eddy, Duane Moovin N' Groovin b/w Up & Down

· Eddy, Duane Rebel Rouser b/w Stalkin

· Elbow Charge 7"

· Faithfull, Marianne Sister Morphine b/w Something Better 7”
• Gainsbourg, Charlotte Hey Joe featuring Beck b/w Hey Joe (Sebastian remix) 7"

· Hard-Ons Girl in the Sweater (hand-numbered on colored vinyl)

· Hawley, Richard Going Down 7”

· Kilburn and the High Roads Rough Kids Purple vinyl 7”

· Minogue, Kylie Golden Boy 7"
· Presley, Elvis I Forgot to Remember to Forget (PUSHED TO BLACK FRIDAY 2014)

· Public Service Broadcasting Elfstedentocht Parts 1 & 2 7"

· Section 25 Reflection (Young Image) b/w Change 7" (may also come to U.S)

· Suede Let Go 7”

· Tenpole Tudor's Swords of a Thousand Men b/w Love and Food 7” Picture Disc

10” UK/EU RSD Releases:

· Memory Band, The Vs. Ghost Box Further Navigations EP (500 copies)

· OUTKAST Player's Ball 10" (Green Vinyl….features the tracks Player's Ball (Dirty), Player's Ball (Extended), Ain't No Thing and Crumblin' Erb)--PUSHED TO BLACK FRIDAY 2014

· Wedding Present EP 4 (Clear Vinyl)

12” UK/EU RSD Releases:
• THE 1975 LIVE FROM BRIXTON 12"

· Art of Noise--Live at the End of a Century Picture Disc (3 live tracks at Coachella in 1999)

· Helen Marnie (Ladytron lead singer) The Hunter Remixed 12" Clear Vinyl (500 copies only) (may also come to US)

· J's / Sandy Barber When Did You Stop b/w I Think I'll Do 12”
• Metronomy Love Letters 12" (features the original track, the exclusive Soulwax remix with an etched b-side)

· Public Image Ltd Death Disco/Warrior (US Dance Mix) 12"'
• Various Artists--Def Jam 2014

LP UK/EU RSD Releases (some of these may also be out in the US, and am awaiting confirmation):

• AC/DC Stiff Upper Lip 180g LP

•  AC/DC Ballbreaker 180g LP
•  Beach Boys Surfin' Safari (Blue Vinyl LP with bonus 7" featuring Surfin' b/w Luau)
•  Bob Dylan S/T (Red Vinyl LP with bonus 7" promo of Mixed Up Confusion)
•  Coheed and Cambria Good Apollo I'm Burning IV Volume 1 LP (PUSHED TO BLACK FRIDAY 2014)

• Darkness, The Permission to Land Picture Disc (1500 copies)

• Deep Purple: Shades of Purple LP

• Elastica s.tLP

• Everything But the Girl Eden (30^th Anniversary) (Clear Vinyl)

• Foxx, John Matematic 180g LP (White Vinyl)

• Inspiral Carpets Dung 4 LP (UK/EU RSD Exclusive)

• Soundtrack--Italian Job (Quincy Jones)

• T-Rex Tanx 180g LP (Red/Blue split vinyl)

• Taylor, Roger Fun on Earth 2LP (Picture Disc)

• Twilight Sad Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters (Deluxe Reissue LP with Demos and Rarities

UK/EU BOXSETS:

• Various Artists Ed Banger Classics (5x10") Box. Deluxe 5x10" box with 10 single tracks featuring artists like Breakbot, Uffie, Mr Oizo and more.

RSD UNOFFICIAL/UNSANCTIONED/PENDING CONFORMATION RELEASES (Releases that are official and coming out on 4/19, but some will not be given the “blessing” of the all-mighty Record Store Day elite and make it on their list, but stores can get them, so ASK THEM YOU WANT ANYTHING LISTED BELOW):

7” Singles:
· Adicts, The Viva La Revolution Picture Disc 7"

· Berry, Matt Music for Insomniacs Part IV (UK/EU Exclusive)

· Full of Hell/Psywarfare split 7" (1000 copies)

· Integrity/Vegas split 7" (1000 copies on red vinyl)

· Krieg Isolation/Transmission (orange vinyl, 500 copies)

· Moons, The Heart and Soul (Orange vinyl, 300 copies)

· Nasum Domedagen 7" EP (300 copies on Red Vinyl)

· Noisem/The Occultist (1000 copies on Red vinyl)
· Puff Pieces 4 Songs 7"

· Shattered Faith Modern Convenience 7" (555 copies)
· Wedding Dress Loom 7"

10” Releases:

· Ghoul Hang Ten 10”

· Set Your Goals Reset Demo 10th Anniversary Edition Coke Bottle Clear vinyl

12” Releases:

· Black Heart Processions/Solbakken In the Fishtank 11 (Silver Vinyl)

· Die Kreuzen Cows and Beer (12", colored vinyl, comes with comic book)

· Dillinger/Trinty/Wade/Campbell/Jr. Tamlin Five Man Army 12"

· Fang/Symbol Six 45RPM single sided split 12" (400 copies)

· Howlin' Brothers Sun Studio Sessions EP

· Isaacs, Gregory Mr. Know it All 12"

· Porcupine I See Sound EP (500 copies only)
• Street Dogs/Noi!se 10"/CDEP colored vinyl
· Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra 12"

LP Releases:

• Alanis Morissette Live at Montreux 2012 (140g 2LP) (Let Them Eat Vinyl UK Label)

• Alice Cooper Live at Montreux 2005 (140g 2LP White Vinyl) (Let Them Eat Vinyl UK Label)

• Bachman & Turner Live at Roseland Ballroom, NYC (140g 2LP) (Let Them Eat Vinyl UK Label)

• Bathory Blood Fire Death (Picture Disc)

• Bathory Hammerheart (Picture Disc)

• Bathory Bathory (Picture Disc)

• Bathory The Return of Darkness (Picture Disc)

• Bathory Under the Sign of Black (Picture Disc)

• Bathory Twilight of the Gods (Picture Disc)

• Beltones On Deaf Ears (2000 copies from TKO Records)

• Black Crowes Warpaint (140g White Vinyl 3LP on Rock Classics label)

• Bloodlet Live on WFMU (1000 copies on colored vinyl)

• Brown, Danny Hot Soup 2LP + 7"

• Byrds Straight for the Sun (140g White Vinyl 2LP)

• Corduroy London England Live

• Duff McKagan Sick (140g Purple 2LP)

• Emperor IX Equilibrium (140g Clear Vinyl 2LP)

• Fairport Convention From Cropredy to Protmeirion (140g 2LP)

• Fairport Convention Meet on the Ledge--Live at Broughton Castle

• Fairport Convention XXXV--The 35th Anniversary Album

• Forsyth, Chris & The Solar Motel Band Solar Live 11/15/13 LP

• Feuerstack, Michael & Associates Singer Songer (Clear Blue vinyl)

• Hawkwind Church of Hawkwind (180g Clear Vinyl 2LP)

• Jethro Tull Live in Switzerland 2003 (140g Clear Vinyl 3LP)

• Mae Destination: Beautiful (Blue/Gold Vinyl)

• Motorhead Motorhead (180g White Vinyl 2LP)

• Motorhead What's Words Worth (Live 1978) (180g Red vinyl)

• Psychic TV The Fabulous Feat Ov Flowering Light (140g 2LP Red Vinyl)

• Psychic TV Hacienda (140g Red Vinyl 2LP)

• Psychic TV Live at Thee Marquee (140g Red Vinyl 2LP)

• Rainbow Rockplast 195--Black Masquerade (140g Red Vinyl 3LP)

• Neil Young Cow Palace 1986 (3LP Red, White, Blue vinyl) Let Them Eat Vinyl release

• Ringo Deathstar Gods Dreams (yellow vinyl)
• Rot in Hell Ruined Empire LP (Grey/Black Vinyl, 400 copies)

• Shooting Guns Brotherhood of the Ram (500 only on colored vinyl)

• Sick of it All Death to Tyrants (Tri-color vinyl, 500 copies only)

• Sick of it All Based on a True Story (red/black/white striped vinyl--500 copies)

• Testament Live in London (180g Red Vinyl 2LP)
• Tim Timebomb and Friends--Mixtapes #1, 2 and 3 (3LP, gold vinyl)

• Suburban Mutilation The Opera Ain't Over Til the Fat Lady Sings (30th Anniversary Remastered version on Red Vinyl, 1000 copies only)

• True Widow True Widow 2LP (Cream Vinyl--340 copies only)

• Van Pelt Imaginary Third LP

• Various Artists Bob Dylan & The Band's Basement Tapes Influences (140g 2LP) (Let the Eat Vinyl Release)
• Various Artists Oi!: This is Streetpunk Volume 4 (Silver Vinyl)

Boxsets:

· Insomnium The Candlelight Years (180g 7LP box w/each LP on different colors)

RSD Official T-Shirts taken from www.new-vinyl.blogspot.com

1) Tegan and Sara "They Love They Say"

2) Eric Clapton "EC Red Square August 3, 2006"

3) Flaming Lips RSD T-Shirt (reissue of classic t-shrit)

4) My Chemical Romance RSD Coffin Rocker T-Shirt

5) The Wild Feathers RSD T-Shirt

6) Neil Young Time Fades Away RSD T-Shirt

7) Neil Young On the Beach RSD T-Shirt

8) Neil Young Tonight's the Night RSD T-Shirt

9) Neil Young Zuma RSD T-Shirt

10) Vinyl is Forever WB RSD T-Shirt

11) I Love Vinyl RSD T-Shirt

Record Store Day 2014 EXCLUSIVE SCOOP (UPDATED WITH NEWS)

2014-03-13T13:32:00.002-07:00

IT'S COMING:

Direct from Sony:

-The following titles will no longer be released for RSD 2014. They might come out at a later time, possibly Black Friday 2014.

Coheed and Cambria
Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV
Vinyl LP Record

List also included a Elvis Presley 7" and a Outkast 10" for Player's Ball

The Rarest/Most Sought After Black Friday 2013 Record Store Day RSD Items

2013-11-07T07:03:00.002-08:00

Hello everyone, once again, it is time to rank (in no particular order) the top 10 items that you'll see high demand for at your local Record store on Black Friday. If you want these items, I'd suggest not waiting to show up at the store at 5pm. Remember, that for Black Friday, stores can sell online and you'll see several stores put their leftovers online as early as Saturday. So if you miss out on one of these items, be sure and check some of the well known online sites (e.g. BullMoose, Reckless, Amoeba, Twist & Shout and more)

TOP 10 BLACK FRIDAY RELEASES

Elvis Costello & The Roots Wise Up Remix CD (2500 Copies)

A special remix CD curated by Questlove, featuring new tracks. Not on vinyl.

Dave Matthews Band Live Trax Volume 2

This time they were kind enough to make 950 copies, versus only 500. Remember that the regular black vinyl version will likely be sold online after the fact.

Dave Matthews Band Live Trax Volume 3

This time they were kind enough to make 950 copies, versus only 500. Remember that the regular black vinyl version will likely be sold online after the fact.

Bob Dylan Side Tracks 3LP set

From the forthcoming CD boxset, this rarities set will be a must have purchase for any Dylan fan.

Various Artists--Matador Records 2013

A low priced compilation (should be around $5.99) with new songs from QOTSA, Yo La Tengo, etc.? Yes please!

Replacements All Shook Down

Anytime you hear the words "1st time on vinyl", you should get excited. Fans have been waiting to spin this on their turntable for years and now they can.

Ladytron Gravity the Seducer--Remixed

Limited to only 500 copies, Ladytron still has a pretty solid following and this LP has some good remixes on it.

Widespread Panic - Poster Children Book

Yes, we have a book show up. This is the definitive book (300 pages) about the history of the band's posters

Fall Out Boy--Pax Am Days 2x7"

Ryan Adams + Fall Out Boy = magic. At least let's hope that is the case.

Grateful Dead: Family Dog at the Great Highway

Hard to believe that one of the most bootlegged and recorded bands in history has been able to unearth audio that has never been heard before. But here it is. This will be highly sought after, especially a couple of years from now.

Honorable Mention:

Stone Temple Pilots--Core

Even though Music On Vinyl recently did a Purple Vinyl reissue, this yellow colored version should be on your list.

Metallica--Through the Never 4LP

This version is the one exclusive to indie stores for Black Friday (4000 copies) and is pressed at 45RPM.

Shel Silverstein Tribute LP

1st time on viny and features some good bands

Zabriskie Point Soundtrack

Re-issue featuring new tracks from Pink Floyd and Jerry Garcia? Yes yes and more yes.

Record Store Day Black Friday 2013 or Back to Black Friday---November 29th, 2013 or 11/29/13 #BFRSD #RSD13 @RecordStoreDay

2013-10-29T09:51:00.000-07:00

Hello all,

Once again, it is time to start getting ready for Black Friday Record Store Day. This year will be even crazier, as we'll have 2 new video game consoles releases around that time as well (hello PS4 and XBox One). As for the releases, we should start hearing about some releases this week. So far, there have been a few announcements (ORG) and more to follow.

PLEASE CREDIT THIS SITE AND LINK BACK WHEN COPYING THIS LIST. THANKS! :)

UPDATED OCTOBER 29th WITH NEWS OF A U2 RELEASE-We are at 131 ITEMS and counting!:

NOTE: Each time this page is updated, the new release(s) will be highlighted in YELLOW

EXCLUSIVE--We were the first to break news on the Dawes, Cold War Kids, Chris Robinson Brotherhood, METALLICA, DAVE MATTHEWS BAND, ROLLING STONES, ELVIS COSTELLO/ROOTS, RHCP, SOCIAL DISTORTION, Stone Temple Pilots, Lana Del Ray, Atlas Genius, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, DOORS, GRATEFUL DEAD, and *MOST* of the releases announced on this list!

OTHER (new-vinyl.blogspot.com):

Joe Mansfield--Beat Box: A Drum Machine Obsession (Coffee Table 200 page book with bonus slipcase, cassette, 7" and download card)
Widespread Panic--Poster Children: Artwork of Widespread Panic (Hardcover 9x12" full color 300 page book featuring all posters in their 25 year history presented chronologically, including notes from the band and artists)

COMPACT DISCS (new-vinyl.blogspot.com):

BEEDEEGEE Sum/One CD (Brian DeGraw solo album of Gang Gang Dance) (2000 copies)
Clash Combat Rock Remastered (CD in Japanese style LP mini-sleeve)
Clash Give Em Enough Rope Remastered (CD in Japanese style LP mini-sleeve)
Clash London Calling 2CD Remastered (CD in Japanese style LP mini-sleeve)
Clash Sandinista! 3CD Remastered (CD in Japanese style LP mini-sleeve)
Clash The Clash Remastered (CD in Japanese style LP mini-sleeve)
Dawes Stripped Down at Grimeys (live CD recorded at Grimeys in March 2013. 1500 copies)
Elvis Costello and the Roots: Wise Up: Thought Remix CD EP (2500 copies)

Tracklisting:
1 CINCO minutos Con Vos - Karriem Riggins Remix Featuring Black Thought

2 SUGAR Will not Work -. Karriem Riggins Beat Interlude

3 Come The MEANTIMES -. Karriem Riggins Remix

4 The PUPPET Has Cut Its Strings -. Karriem Riggins Beat Interlude

5 TripWire - Menahan Street Band Rework

6 VICEROY'S Road -. Karriem Riggins Beat Interlude

7 Walk Us UPTOWN -. Antibalas Rework (Chico Mann Edit)

Flaming Lips Peace Sword EP (3000 copies)
Joseph Arthur Ballad of Boogie Christ Act 2 (12 track CD, limited to 3000 copies)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds--Live from KCRW (10 track live CD)
NONONO Pumpin Blood EP (3000 copies)
Various Artists Fragments of a Year (2CD set, 2500 copies featuring highlights of Jazz, Classical and World Music from the ECM label)

7" RECORDS (new-vinyl.blogspot.com):

Aztecs World of Woe b/w Why Can't You Tell (blue vinyl)
Bad Things Anybody 7" (3000 copies)
Band of Horses Acoustic at the Ryman 7" (1500 copies, features the tracks "No One's Gonna Love You" and "A Song For You")
Blind Boys of Alabama/Jason Isbell & John Paul White Christmas in Dixie b/w Old Flame (split 7" limited to 3000 copies from High Cotton tribute to Alabama)
Brandi Carlile/The Lone Below Live 7" (split 7" featuring 2 live tracks from each artist, 1000 copies)
Charles Bradley featuring The Budos Band/The Bullets split 7" Changes b/w Ain't It a Sin (2000 copies)
Fall Out Boy Pax Am Days (2x7"--3000 copies)
Fleshtones Available b/w Let's Live (1000 copies)
Full of Hell/Calm the Fire split 7" (blue vinyl...previously only available on tour in Europe, available in US for first time).
Hard Working Americans (new band featuring Dave Schools, Todd Snider, Neal Casal, Duane Trucks and Chad Staehly) Don't Wanna Hurt Nobody 7" (covers 7" featuring I Don't Have A Gun, Work For Peace and Right Side of Town. 2000 copies total).
Integrity Black Heksen Rise 7" (green vinyl, 500 copies. Originally only available in Europe, now released in the US with 2 bonus tracks and new artwork)
Jimi Hendrix Fire b/w Foxey Lady 7" (Live, numbered 7" featuring 2 songs recorded live in May 18, 1968 from the forthcoming Miami Pop Festival release)
Low/Shearwater split 7" (Features Low covering Rihanna's Stay (studio version) b/w Shearwater covering Frank Ocean's Novacane) (1200 copies only)
Persekutor--Power Frost 7" (Colored Vinyl, limited to 500 copies)
Rolling Stones Got Live If You Want It 7" (Live EP from 1965 reissued for the first time. Features the tracks--We Want the Stones, Everybody Needs Somebody to Love, Pain in My Heart, Route 66, I'm Moving On and I'm Alright) (4500 copies)
Skaters Deadbolt 7" (3000 copies)
Sly & The Family Stone Sexy Situation b/w Mother is a Hippy 7"
Standells Zebra In the Kitchen 7"
Andy Starr No Room for Your Kind (2x7")
Surfaris Wipe Out 7"
Tegan & Sara I Run Guilty b/w Guilty as Charged 7" (3000 copies)
Uncle Tupelo I Wanna Be Your Dog b/w Commotion
Van Dyke Parks Come to the Sunshine 7"
Vince Guaraldi Trio Linus & Lucy b/w Oh, Good Grief (Gold Vinyl, 45RPM, 3000 copies)

10" RECORDS (new-vinyl.blogspot.com):

Bellicose Minds The Buzz or Howl Sessions (copies on either black or clear vinyl)
Civil Wars Between The Bars EP (4 cover tracks recorded in studio--Sour Times by Portishead, Between the Bars by Elliot Smith, Billie Jean by Michael Jackson and Talking in Your Sleep by the Romantics). (4500 copies)
Devin Townsend Project Lucky Animals (Live 10" from forthcoming DVD, 1000 copies only)
Duran Duran No Ordinary 10" Live EP (5000 copies, each numbered on white vinyl)
Ernie Kovacs A Percy Doveetonsils Chrithmath (10" Picture Disc limited to 1000 copies with 5 previously unissued performances from the show)
Jackie Greene Small Tempest (1000 copies)
King Tubby Dub From the Roots (3x10" box on colored vinyl)
Michael Hurley One Little Drink/Black & Yellow Bee 10" (1250 copies)
ROBERT GLASPER EXPERIMENT Porter Chops Glasper (Red vinyl 10" featuring 2 exclusive Denuan Porter remixes, featuring Jill Scott, Laura Mvula and an exclusive cameo by Pharoahe Monch) (2000 copies)
Rush The Garden 10" Picture Disc (3000 copies)
Silversun Pickups Let It Decay b/w Working Title (10" Pic Disc with new tracks, 3000 copies)
Street Dogs Crooked Drunken Sons & Rustbelt Nation (square Picture Disc feature 6 tracks from both EPs)
Trigger Hippy Trigger Hippy (band by Black Crowes Drummer Steve Gorman) (1000 copies)
*New* U2 Ordinary Love b/w Breathe (song from upcoming Mandala film. 10000 copies worldwide, 6500 for North America)

12"/EP RECORDS (new-vinyl.blogspot.com):

Cold War Kids Tuxedo EP (12" EP featuring 6 tracks including covers of The Band and Antony & The Johnstons...1000 copies)
Dawes Stripped Down at Grimeys (live Orange Vinyl LP recorded at Grimeys in March 2013, 2000 copies)
Deftones Live Volume 2: Selections from Around the Fur POSTPONED :(
Flaming Lips Peace Sword EP (6 tracks--1 track from Ender's Game soundtrack and 5 more inspired by Movie/Books) (5000 copies)
FOALS CCTV Sessions limited 6 track 12" (2000 copies only)
Lady Gaga Applause Remixes EP (8 track Picture Disc featuring remixes by Purity Ring, Empire of the Sun, DJ White Shadow and more) (2000 copies)
Lynyrd Skynyrd & Blackberry Smoke LIVE (live 12" EP featuring 6 tracks)
Nas Half Time 12"
Sondre Lerche--Public Hi-Fi Sessions 01 (1000 copies, 180g 12" numbered silk screen sleeve)

LPs (new-vinyl.blogspot.com):

Atlas Genius So Electric: When It Was Now (The Remixes) LP (3000 copies)
BEEDEEGEE Sum/One LP (Brian DeGraw solo album of Gang Gang Dance) (500 copies)
Blood Ceremony The Eldritch Dark (new pressing for Black Friday on red vinyl--750 copies)
BOB DYLAN Side Tracks 3LP set (180g, each numbered and limited. From the forthcoming "Complete Album Collection 47 disc boxset). Tracklisting:

Disc 1
1. A1 Baby, I'm in the Mood for You
2. A2 Mixed - Up Confusion (Single Version)
3. A3 Tomorrow Is a Long Time
4. A4 Lay Down Your Weary Tune
5. A5 Percy's Song
6. B1 I'll Keep It with Mine
7. B2 Can You Please Crawl out Your Window? (Single Version)
8. B3 Positively 4th Street
9. B4 Jet Pilot
10. B5 I Wanna Be Your Lover
11. B6 I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met) (Live)

Disc 2
1. A1 Visions of Johanna (Live)
2. A2 Quinn the Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
3. A3 Watching the River Flow
4. A4 When I Paint My Masterpiece
5. A5 Down in the Flood (Live)
6. A6 I Shall Be Released
7. B1 You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
8. B2 George Jackson (Acoustic Version)
9. B3 Forever Young
10. B4 You're a Big Girl Now
11. B5 Up to Me

Disc 3
1. A1 Abandoned Love
2. A2 Isis (Live)
3. A3 Romance in Durango (Live)
4. A4 Caribbean Wind
5. B1 Heart of Mine (Live)
6. B2 Series of Dreams
7. B3 Dignity (Alternate Version)
8. B4 Things Have Changed

Brendon Benson You Were Right (180g LP w/exclusive poster...released 2 weeks early before CD/Digital for Black Friday. 500 copies only)
Carcass--Reek of Putrefaction LP (180g Puke Splattered Vinyl w/poster--1500 copies)
Chocolate Milk--Action Speaks Louder than Words (Chocolate Colored Vinyl, Remastered LP)
Church of Misery Thy Kingdom Scum (new pressing for Black Friday on gold vinyl--750 copies)
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. The Speed of Things LP (3000 copies)
DOORS Curated By Record Store Day (180g LP featuring the following tracks:

Break On Through (To the Other Side) MONO
Soul Kitchen (MONO)
Moonlight Drive (MONO)
When The Music's Over (MONO)
Love Street (LP Version)
Unknown Soldier (Live Hollywood Bowl 1968)
Roadhouse Blues (Live at Felt Forum, January 17, 1970--first show)
Five to One (live in Boston, 1970--2nd show)

Failure Magnified (1000 copies only on Black Vinyl)
GENE CLARK Here Tonight--The White Light Demos (Orange Vinyl LP featuring 3 previously unissued songs and demos from the 1970-1971 era) (2000 copies only)
Ghost Opus Eponymous (new pressing for Black Friday on 50/50 split colored White/Blue vinyl--1000 copies)
GRATEFUL DEAD Family Dog at the Great Highway, San Francisco 4/18/70 (180g 2LP--6300 copies)

2-LP set, 180 Gram Vinyl
Lacquers cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman
Never-before-heard complete 80 minute acoustic set
Includes sought-after GD songs (New Speedway Boogie, Friend Of The Devil, Cumberland Blues,) Covers (Mama Tried, Wake Up Little Susie, Me and My Uncle,) and Traditionals (Don't Ease Me In, Deep Elem Blues, I Know You Rider)
Last 6 tracks are Pigpen solo acoustic guitar and vocal
Tapes recently discovered by Mountain Girl in Jerry's personal collection
Incognito Grateful Dead show originally billed as Mickey Hart and His Heartbeats and Bobby Ace and His Cards from the Bottom of the Deck

Harry Nilsson Selections of Rarities from the RCA Albums Collection

Tracklisting: 1. Postcard
2. Miss Butter's Lament
3. Sister Marie
4. One
5. Leggenda
6. Rainmaker (alternate version)
7. Isolation
8. The Family
9. Marry Me A Little
10. Coconut (demo)
11. Wasting My Time (alternate mix)
12. A Tree Out In The Yard (Central Park)

JETHRO TULL Benefit (180g LP featuring the remastered tracks from the recent 2CD edition)
JOHN DENVER & THE MUPPETS A Christmas Together (Picture Disc LP featuring 3 bonus tracks not on the original 1979 release) (2000 copies)
Josh Tillman The History of Caves Soundtrack (Soundtrack to Emma Garr's short film by the Father John Misty frontman and former Fleet Foxes drummer) (2000 copies)
LADYTRON Gravity the Seducer Remixed (Blue colored LP, 500 copies only)
Lana Del Ray Born to Die Picture Disc LP (2500 copies)
Lee "Scratch" Perry & The Upsetters Super Ape: Deluxe Etched Edition (2LP with etched side 4 + poster)
Life of Agony River Runs Red 2LP (1500 copies on Red Vinyl @45RPM)
Lou Hickey True Love Ways LP (colored vinyl LP, hand numbered out of 500 copies)
METALLICA THROUGH THE NEVER 4LP SOUNDTRACK (pressed at 45RPM with alleged unique artwork, limited to 4000 copies)
METALLICA THROUGH THE NEVER 3LP SOUNDTRACK (pressed at 33RPM with on Black, Red & White colored vinyl, limited to 7500 copies)
Miles Davis Kind of Blue (MONO LP, numbered)
Miles Davis Miles & Monk at Newport (MONO LP, numbered)
Miles Davis Jazz Track (MONO LP, numbered)
Mutoid Man Helium Head (debut Green Vinyl LP featuring Converge's Ben Koller and Cave In's Stephen Brodsky...released on Magic Bullet Records--1000 copies)
Mystical Weapons Crotesque LP (Sean Lennon and Greg Saunier of Deerhoof band, 1500 copies)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds--Live from KCRW (10 track 2LP)
Nick Lowe Quality Street Picture Disc (1000 copies)
Nirvana In Utero 2013 Mix 2LP 180g 45RPM (alternate sleeve, 5000 copies)
Paul Simon Paul Simon
Paul Simon Still Crazy After All These Years
Paul Simon There Goes Rhymin' Simon
Puscifer *-Ball Bail Bonds--The Berger Barns Live in Phoenix (9 track LIVE LP from December 2009) (3500 Copies)
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE Like Clockwork (BLACK ON BLACK version) (180g 2LP with all black sleeve (to go along with the red cover and blue indie store cover--same tracklisting). (2400 copies total)
Red Hot Chili Peppers I'm Beside You (outtakes from I'm with you, previously released as 9 7" singles compiled on 2LP, each numbered) (5000 copies total)
Robbie Hill's Family Affair Gotta Get Back: The Unreleased LA Sessions (2000 copies)
Rockabye Baby--Lullaby Renditions of Pearl Jam (LP--2000 copies)
Rot in Hell/Psywarfare Split LP (Clear and White LP, 500 copies)
Schematic Color (N) Insides the Lines (new solo LP from Mae singer/songwriter Dave Elkins--Red and Yellow colored vinyl--500 copies)
SOCIAL DISTORTION Prison Bound 25th Anniversary LP (Concrete Colored Vinyl, 180g LP limited to 2000 copies with 300 random copies including a Mike Ness autographed art print!)
Stone Temple Pilots Core (Yellow vinyl, numbered reissue--3000 copies total)
Soundtrack--Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas (green vinyl--3000 copies)
SOUNDTRACK Zabriskie Point--2LP reissue of 1970 film featuring music from PINK FLOYD, GRATEFUL DEAD, Patti Page, Youngbloods, John Fahey and more. Features 4 songs by Jerry Garcia and Pink Floyd that were NOT on the original release. 4000 copies. Tracklisting:

Side A:

Heart Beat, Pig Meat (Pink Floyd)
Brother Mary (Kaleidoscope)
Dark Star (excerpt) (Grateful Dead)
Crumbling Land (Pink Floyd)
Sugar Babe (The Youngbloods)
Love Scene (Jerry Garcia)
I Wish I Was a Single Girl Again (Roscoe Holcomb)
Mickey's Tune (Kaleidoscope)
Dance of Death (John Fahey)
Come in Number 51, Your Time is Up (Pink Floyd

Side B:

Love Scene Improvisations--Version 1 (Jerry Garcia)
Love Scene Improvisations--Version 2 (Jerry Garcia)
Love Scene Improvisations--Version 3 (Jerry Garcia)
Love Scene Improvisations--Version 4 (Jerry Garcia)
Country Song (Pink Floyd)
Unknown Song (Pink Floyd)
Love Scene--Version 6 (Pink Floyd)
Love Scene--Version 4 (Pink Floyd)

Sun & Sail Club Mannequin LP (Kyuss/Fu Manchu side project)
Sunn O))) Black One LP (Reissue for Black Friday on new limited color and limited to 1000 copies)
The Replacements All Shook Down (1st time on vinyl in the US) (3000 copies only)
Trophy Scars Holy Vacants (new LP)
VARIOUS ARTISTS - Hot Wacks: Anti Vinyl Fall Compilation 2013 (2600 copies)

Neko Case--Night Still Comes
Lost In the Trees--Lady in White
Man Man--Head On (Demo Version)
Saintseneca - Uppercutter
Son Little - Cross My Heart (unreleased)
The Melodic - Ode to Victor Jara
Dr. Dog - Thinkin (unreleased)
Mavis Staples w/Jeff Tweedy Revolution (Beatles cover, unreleased)
Milk Carton Kids - Heaven
Broken Twin - Out of Air

VARIOUS ARTISTS - Matador Records 2013: It's Been a Pleasure Doing Business With You (compilation LP including unreleased tracks from Queens of the Stone Age, Yo La Tengo, Savages and more.) (2000 copies)

Majical Cloudz--Bugs Don't Buzz (album version)
Queens of the Stone Age--If I Had a Tail (ITunes Festival Version)
Savages-City's Full (KEXP Version)
Body/Head--Untitled (Album version)
Yo La Tengo Before We Run (KEXP Version)
Lee Ranaldo and the Dust - Lecce, Leaving (edit)
Kurt Vile - KV Crimes (Album Version)
Iceage - In Haze (Album Version)
Chelsea Light Moving - Heavenmetal

VARIOUS ARTISTS--I am the Resurrection Tribute to John Fahey (2LP, 45RPM on Tortoise Shell colored vinyl featuring M. Ward, Fruit Bats, Sufjan Stevens, Calexico, Devendra Banhart, Lee Ranaldo from Sonic Youth, Howe Gelb, Jason Lytle and more) (2000 copies)
VARIOUS ARTISTS--Musical Tribute to the Songs of Shel Siverstien (1st Time on Vinyl, White Vinyl 2LP at 45RPM features My Morning Jacket, Andrew Bird, Dr. Dog, Black Francis, Lucinda Williams, Sarah Jarosz and more) (1500 copies)
Vitamin String Quartet--Performs Radiohead's In Rainbows (1000 copies)
Wilco and Billy Bragg--The Mermaid Sessions Volume 1 Gatefold 2LP (3000 copies)
Wilco and Billy Bragg--The Mermaid Sessions Volume 2 (Gatefold 2LP, first time on vinyl) (3000 copies)
Wilco and Billy Bragg--The Mermaid Sessions Volume 3 (Gatefold 2LP, first time on vinyl) (3000 copies)
Xiu Xiu Nina (Limited Pre-Release LP on Grey & White vinyl with exclusive jackets)

BOXSETS (new-vinyl.blogspot.com):

CAKE 8LP BOXSET. (This box set include eight albums manufactured on 175g audiophile quality colored vinyl with meticulously replicated artwork for each title and remastered for optimum vinyl sound. Also includes previously unreleased live album recorded at Buck Owens Crystal Palace, October 12-13, 2005

1) Motorcade of Generosity, 2) Fashion Nugget, 3) Prolonging The Magic, 4) Comfort Eagle, 5) Pressure Chief, 6) B-sides & Rarities, 7) Showroom of Compassion, 8) Live From The Crystal Palace) (900 copies)
Cheap Trick Classic Albums 1977-1979 5LP 180g Boxset (features the albums Cheap Trick, In Color, Heaven Tonight, Live Budokan and Dream Police)
Chris Robinson Brotherhood Betty's Blends (4LP boxset recorded live in San Francisco in 2013. Also comes with 1 of 4 limited posters--2000 copies worldwide)
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND Live Trax Volume 2--9/12/04 Golden Gate Park, San Francisco (5LP 180g Boxset on RED Vinyl, each numbered. 950 copies)
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND Live Trax Volume 3--8/28/00 Meadows Music Theater in Hartford, CT (4LP 180g GREEN Vinyl, each numbered, 950 copies)
Roy Orbison Monument 4LP Boxset (features the albums Lonely and Blue, Crying, In Dreams and Oh! Pretty Woman)
TOWNES VAN ZANDT Sunshine Boy: The Unheard Studio Sessions & Demos 1971-1972 3LP BOX (Clear Vinyl, 2500 copies only, features 28 previously unissued tracks)
Truth & Soul Records--Soul Fire Boxset (8x7" boxset)
Various--10 Big Stiffs (10x7" boxset featuring 10 legendary Stiff Records singles)
X - The Masterpiece Collection 4LP box (re-release of out of print boxset)

Record Store Day 2013 Commentary--A few tweaks are needed.

2013-05-08T09:18:00.001-07:00

I am someone who is a big fan of Record Store Day (hence this blog) and I am also someone who is passionate about vinyl. I want stores to succeed and I also want people to be able to purchase the items that they go into stores to buy. With that being said, with the 6^th Record Store Day behind us, here are some things that I personally feel could make the day better. Feel free and comment/suggest other ideas of your own.

SUGGESTION #1 (Release Window Before/After RSD):

Labels need to curb releases the week before and after Record Store Day. This year, stores were not only obligated to spend copious amounts of money to buy Record Store Day product, but also the releases for the Monday (UK) or Tuesday (US/Canada) before and after Record Store Day.

Releases on 4/16/13 included acts such as Major Lazer, Iron & Wine, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Django Unchained Soundtrack, The Thermals, Flaming Lips, Steve Earle & The Dukes, Simple Minds, Punch Brothers, Paramore, Willie Nelson, Ghost B.C., and several more.

Releases on 4/23/13 included acts such as Bob Marley, Frank Turner, Junip, Phoenix, Rob Zombie, Smoke Fairies, Snoop Lion, and several more.

In addition, labels also need to try to avoid any online pre-orders of upcoming releases (May/June/July) around Record Store Day, as it could hinder your ability to get the most consumers, as a lot of people are forced to save money due to the obnoxious number of releases continuing to increase each year.

SUGGESTION #2 (Pressing Information is a Joke):

Honest and full transparency when it comes to pressing information. There have been far too many releases for Record Store Day with a pressing number posted in a press release, artist website, or recordstoreday.com that is just absurdly inaccurate. When a boxset is supposedly individually numbered to 1000 copies and you receive a box that is #1259, you lost credibility and have now created confusion for the consumer.

In addition, I am sick of the labels/distributors “magically finding” Record Store Day stock weeks after the fact. Several stores that I follow on Facebook, gloriously posted about how they were able to “find” additional stock of RSD items….most of which sold out at the store on Record Store Day. Why can the labels/distributors just not have their shit together and ensure everything is sent out (minus holding back maybe 10-25 copies for damage/lost packages) so consumers can actually buy the items when intended?

This would be akin to going to your local AMC Theater to watch Iron Man 3 and then when you get to the theater they tell you that “we didn’t get in the movie reel to show the movie, but we may be able to get it next week”. Well that’s great, but I am here NOW to watch the movie NOW, not next week. Same thing here. I am shopping at your store on Record Store Day NOW to buy the items NOW, not when some UPS box decides to shop up 2 weeks later with a 7” box set that you didn’t get in originally. That defeats the point and purpose of Record Store Day and it also shows that items are horded and not fully distributed fairly prior to Record Store Day. Because if they were, then these labels/distributors, sure as hell wouldn’t have as much stock to be shipped out to several stores ALL OVER THE US.

SUGGESTION #3 (Direct 2 Consumer—Let us Know):

Honest and full transparency when it comes to labels holding back stock to sell RSD items online. I have no problem with this tactic and in fact have taken part and saved a lot of money doing this. I would just like labels to pre-announce that they will be selling their RSD release sometime after Record Store Day. When I see Roadrunner records selling over 200 copies each of the Dio/Killswitch Engage and Deep Purple/Type O Negative singles on April 23^rd then I wonder if the pressing number posted is accurate and took into account that there were 200 less copies available on Record Store Day in stores, so they could be sold online.

Again, with over 400 releases, Record Store Day is turning into a clusterfuck. The ability to afford and find the items you want are getting more difficult. If I knew that Becausesoundmatters.com was going to have both Avenged Sevenfold RSD releases, or that KRS was going to put the Elliott Smith 7” online, then I can plan accordingly and not feel bummed out or stressed out by not finding it on Record Store Day, since I knew I had a 2^nd chance to find it. But by holding back and being secretive regarding these online Direct to Consumer strategies, it makes it appear that stock is being horded and the plan to sell these is very calculated and decided well in advance. Just keep us in the loop, would that be such a bad thing?

SUGGESTION #4 (Cash Grab/Price Point issues):

Record Store Day is becoming a cash grab. I have rarely had an issue with price points until Record Store Day 2013. One example that I will point out is the Coheed & Cambria Afterman Descension Demos LP. Now back on Black Friday (November 2012), we had a similar release by Coheed & Cambria. Limited to 1000 copies, the Afterman Ascension LP was pressed on clear vinyl. I paid $15.99 for that demo LP at my local record store. In April, just a mere 6 months after Black Friday, I paid $20.99 for the Afterman Descension clear vinyl LP, that was on clear vinyl and limited to 2500 copies. So 1500 more copies were pressed (aren’t we told that the more an item is produced, the cheaper per unit cost it is supposed to be?). Using the price sheet from Gotta Groove Records (140g colored vinyl), the price per LP would have been $2.41 whereas for Black Friday it would have been $2.80. So why the $3-5 increase (as other stores had the Coheed LP anywhere from $17.99-$20.99)

http://files.gottagrooverecords.com.s3.amazonaws.com/files/2013/05/GGR-PRICE-CARD-UPDATED-CURRENT.pdf

The price discrepancies between stores was dependent upon them being able to go direct with labels versus a distributor. Somehow, we have to get some sort of pricing structure setup for Record Store Day releases. So pretty much it doesn’t matter if you go to a store in California, Texas or New York, you are paying the same basic price. It is the same principle about seeing a CD at Amazon, Best Buy or Target…..if all 3 of those stores listed insane crazy price variants, then you’d start to wonder what was going on. Sadly, this is happening on Record Store Day and some stores are forced to buy from a distributor and some stores, just out of greed, try to milk and extra dollar or two, because they know that traffic/demand will be high and they can get away with it.

But if labels/distributors worked together to where everyone was profitable and could get product to stores at a capped/fixed price point, then everyone would benefit. How that would be accomplished is beyond me, but it is just frustrating to see you go into one store and buy a 7” single for Record Store Day for $7.99 and see the same single in another store blocks away for $10.99. People should not feel like they got ripped off on Record Store Day, that is not the point of the day, but some of these pricing methods leave a bad taste in your mouth and needs to be addressed.

SUGGESTION #5 (Major Labels taking over RSD/# of Releases too many):

Record Store Day is being homogenized by the major labels. Part of the idea of Record Store Day is to give the smaller, independent labels a chance to release items to create awareness for up and coming artists or the label itself. It is becoming increasingly more difficult for smaller labels to do this and participate, when major labels account for nearly 70% of the total RSD releases. Larger independent labels have also started to shrink their releases (e.g. Sub Pop, Merge) because the spirit of Record Store Day is starting to become too capitalistic. Part of the problem is the incessant need to keep increasing the number of releases each year. I still don’t understand how having over 300 releases hitting on a single day makes sense. Our economy is still struggling, people are sacrificing more and more to make ends meet, yet we are going to trumpet the fact that 400 items are being released on a given day? When people have to start cutting back on food/gas to afford buying items for Record Store Day (people have posted as much in forums), then we have a problem. If a label is just going to do a mirrored/windowed release and the only difference in the release is a gold foil stamp with a number on it, how about you just DON’T DO IT? Just release it when you planned to and not go for the RSD cash grab. You aren’t really providing any value add to the consumer, other than being able to buy it early. Who cares. That would have saved us at least 50 releases in April right there! But instead of just dumping release after release, re-issue after re-issue—how about taking the time to create a core batch of QUALITY releases (not saying there aren’t any quality releases, but if *all* of them were, then it’d make it more worthwhile). I am sure if you were to poll the average music fan for Record Store Day, they’d prefer around 125 quality, audiophile rare releases versus 400 releases that is a hodgepodge of quality and variety.

If we don’t do anything to curb the number of releases, then stores won’t be able to afford to participate in RSD. Stores can’t be expected to continuously go over $20K in debt every April, just for a historic sales day that may or may not even get them out of debt.

Again, I love Record Store Day. I love what is promotes. I love the stores that have benefitted from it. I love some of the releases I’ve been able to buy on Record Store Day. I just think that there are some tweaks that we could make that would benefit all parties involved and continue the tradition.

Record Store Day 2013 Interview with Billy Fields from Warner Music Group

2013-04-15T11:09:00.002-07:00

As you may recall, nearly 2 years ago, I was able to conduct an interview with Eric Levin, from Criminal Records and one of the co-founders of Record Store Day. As Record Store Day has kept growing and evolving, I wanted to get the perspective from one of the major labels about Record Store Day. What label to choose, other than the label that was there on the very first Record Store Day....Warner Bros. Records. I reached out to Billy Fields from Warner Music Group and asked him the following questions:

1) Please introduce yourself and explain what your role is with Record Store Day (RSD) at Warner:

Sure. I work for the domestic distribution arm of the Warner Music Group and handle sales to our account base for all WEA and ADA releases. I am the owner and responsible party at distribution to help in every way I can to strategize, plan, forecast, produce, sell, allocate and ship all RSD releases. That’s the short answer. (Edit: you can follow Billy on Twitter at @billysezvinyl)

2) How long have you been involved in that role and what RSD releases have you been personally responsible for curating/developing?

I've been in this role (in varying degrees) since May of 2008. Honestly, I can’t claim any complete responsibility for bringing any specific title to RSD. I work with many people at all our labels and act as a format expert and a trusted account advocate. It doesn't matter what we come up with if the artist isn't feeling our ideas. It’s the music makers that bring RSD to realization.

3) Explain how Warner starts the process to get an item selected to get approved? Do all of the subsidiary groups within Warner get together to discuss possibilities? Are the possibilities driven by the artist or does the label recommend items to artists or both?

We all have our favorite ideas scribbled down in notepads and we bring them out a few times a year to see if it’s time to release the package. We start with planning meetings with the sales and marketing teams at each label. We review release schedules and gather ideas to take back to artists and their teams. If an idea gets out of the first planning meeting it then needs to be vetted by key marketing folks and then the artist and their management team. We try to only present the best ideas to the artists. And many times the ideas are conceived and executed by the artist and we work to make their vision become reality. The Flaming Lips Heady Fwends from last year is a great example of an artist driven release that we helped bring to market. Frankly, the band did most of the heavy lifting and we got it to stores in the nick of time.

4) Have you been part of releases that have been discussed, but due to legal issues or other factors you've had to delay from previous years? Are there items that Warner wanted to have out April 20^th that we’ll potentially see on Black Friday in November?

Absolutely. Every year we end up moving releases from one RSD Event to the next, and for the reasons you note as well as others. Sometimes these just isn't enough time between the idea’s inception and the idea’s execution to make the date. However, there weren't any titles this year that are sliding to Black Friday, but it does happen.

5) Do you help coordinate releases in the UK/EU? How do music rights in other regions of the world add challenges to what you try to release in certain territories?

I don’t directly coordinate releases outside the U.S. but historically the bulk of releases originate from the U.S. companies. Territory rights don’t usually become a big problem unless a core artist has an entirely different company representing them outside the U.S. In those cases we turn to the artist and their management to push for a worldwide release as it’s in the best interest of the artist to have all territories on board. But does it add some obstacles, yes.

6) It appears that there is a fine line between a release being too limited or over produced for Record Store Day….how is the pressing quantity determined? What do you or Warner feel is a balanced pressing?

You couldn't be more correct on this one and it’s getting harder and harder to determine the “right” number. The sweet spot is still between 3,000 and 5,000 but that’s an incredibly wide margin when you’re trying to hit it just right. I think, at this point, anything less than 2.5K produced will cause excess grief as too many fans will come up empty-and the front line fan tends to blame the record store. At the same time, we don’t want limited edition exclusive releases that are produced in such a great number that no one feels they’re really limited. Truly, this is a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” proposition.

7) Warner was pretty much the only label that supported the 1^st Record Store Day with around 10 releases. This year, there are projected to have over 400 releases. What is your opinion regarding the sheer number of releases coming out each year?

Whether there are too many releases each year is for the stores to comment on. We work very hard to whittle down our offerings so we only come with the best releases each year. And for all our best efforts we've still occasionally come up short. The stores should continue to vote with their open to buy dollars because if they don’t buy, the labels won’t produce. When you put forth time, money and effort and an RSD title doesn't connect you learn very quickly to refine your plans and adjust your strategy.

8) Warner has grown as a label and we've had the recent Universal/EMI merger too. What is your opinion on consolidation in the market? Is it healthy for the vinyl industry? Will it allow stores to get competitive pricing? Do you feel it will be the “big” labels competing against the smaller labels like Sub Pop, Matador, Numero, Polyvinyl, Saddle Creek, Joyful Noise, etc.

I’m not able to comment on this one.

9) Several people have noticed the costs of LPs are rising. I can imagine that having an LP pressed at Pallas in Germany will obviously cost more than having it pressed in the US at United Record Pressing. But what goes into determining the actual cost of an LP?

Cost of production, royalties, distribution fee, label margin, retail margin. These are the major contributors to final SRP. Not every record should be produced to audiophile standards, and not every record should be pressed to satisfy punk rock kids watching their favorite band at a basement show. There are artistic concerns, sound quality concerns, market concerns and we do our best to keep them all balanced in such a way that we can be profitable.

10a) We've seen other labels in the past, once they realize demand for certain RSD pieces is extreme, they repress the item to meet demand, thus cheapening the original release. One of things l liked that WB did on Black Friday was the limited colored version of Blak and Blue by Gary Clark Jr. that was limited to 2000. Those that got it on Black Friday got the colored version. Those who missed out could still get the same LP, just not on colored vinyl.

10b) Are there plans to do more releases like that, to keep the original RSD release unique?

Yes. And I’m happy to hear that this was something the fans liked. We believe this constitutes a great way to spread the word on an artist and it makes collectors a bit crazy. We want to drive them crazy because we enjoy playing the game. If you’ll remember, we released a colored repress of The Misfits Walk Among Us last RSD and split the three colors so one was more rare than the others. And we’ve got a number of titles this RSD that are colored AND numbered. After those selections are sold out we’ll keep those core vinyl titles in print on basic black vinyl. First come, first served.

11) We've seen WB do a few comedy releases (Jimmy Fallon, George Lopez); do you feel that there are any genre’s that have been overlooked for Record Store Day?

I think Hip Hop and Rap have had a hard time of it to date. I've noticed that that’s changing for the better and I look forward to even more added to future RSD events. Peeping the list for RSD 2013 we've got Notorious B.I.G. Ready To Die and another distributor is releasing The Roots Things Fall Apart. Both vital records, and I’m excited to have them on vinyl.

12) What is your “dream release” that you would love to see make it out for Record Store Day in the future (or have you already achieved it)?

I’d like to see an audiophile re-issue of Buckingham Nicks, especially with the connection made by Dave Grohl’s new (and excellent) documentary, “Sound City.”

13) As a fan of vinyl, what RSD release from a competitor, did you really admire and wish you had released?

I loved the silk screened Hold Steady release from a couple of years ago. I loved the hand produced and extremely small run on that record. I've also really loved the recent Miles Davis in Mono releases from Legacy. I also think the double single packages from Sundazed are excellent and the work that Light In The Attic is doing it top notch. That Stax set and Wheedle’s Groove Box were phenomenal. Beyond the great releases that come out specifically for RSD there’s the wealth of everything else that you find in a record store. I make my rounds in NYC each RSD and invariably end up out in Greenpoint, Brooklyn at Permanent Records. I leave that shop every year with at least 3 records that I didn't know I needed when I went in the front door. Gotta love something beyond family and records are it for me. Love at first listen.

14) Finally, what is your personal opinion of Record Store Day. Are there any suggestions/recommendations that you’d like to see?

For those folks that are around me on a daily basis, this won’t be a new idea so maybe I can communicate it using a fresh angle. The genesis of Record Store Day was the belief that the music industry specifically, and the public in general, believed that record stores were going the way of the dinosaurs. All the news was crap and we were all becoming vast digital consumers. Record Store Day was the flag on the hill, the line in the sand. It was a beachhead. The stores decided not one step further. They pulled together and decided to tell a different story. And I love it for that. I think it’s a fantastic event and I can’t point to any other music retail initiative that is as dynamic, successful or exciting. I’d like to see RSD become a brand on par with any music brand. I’d like to see RSD sponsor shows, endorse artists, support art galleries, partner with other Independent businesses: book stores, coffee shops, food trucks, tattoo shops: you name it, they should continue to spread the “cool.”

OTHER GENERAL COMMENTS:

Up until this year we routinely released catalog re-issues on RSD that were not exclusive, limited or windowed. We wanted our titles to have the best shot at being discovered and RSD is the perfect vehicle for that. All these great stores throwing parties, with records situated right in the middle of the entire affair. Over the last two years RSD has been telling us that using this strategy has been problematic for the stores. Customers mistake our commercial releases as exclusives only to find out that they can purchase the titles after the event or at other non-RSD retailers. We listened, changed our release strategy and now you’ll only find the hard to find on RSD. My point is that we’re working with the stores and RSD to continue to make the event the best it can be. We want RSD (the day and the volunteer organization) to thrive, grow and innovate. The only way that can be achieved is if we listen to one another, adjust to each other and refine our strategies to best exemplify the heart and spirit that IS Record Store Day.

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Thanks to Billy Fields and Warner Bros. Records for allowing me to conduct this interview and publish it. If anyone has any follow-up questions, feel free and add them to the comments below and if there is enough demand, we'll do a Part 2.

Rarest and Most Sought After Record Store Day 2013 Items

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With over 400 items being released for Record Store Day, some items will be in more demand than others. Here is my opinion, based on distributors sending e-mails to Record Stores, number of people discussing releases and history; to determine which items will be more challenging to find, unless you are in line early at your local record store.

Here are the top 10 most rare/desired RSD items:

#10) The Orange Juice Reissues on Domino Records

If you missed out on the 2010 Box Set, Coals to Newcastle, then these LPs are finally being reissued separately from their original Polydor releases from the early 80's. Any Edwyn Collins fan should be aware of this Scottish Post-Punk band.. Record Store Day sees the release of the following LPs: You Can't Hide Your Love Forever, Rip It Up, Texas Fever and The Orange Juice. No more than 750 copies will be available of any LP.

#9) Kill Rock Stars Cassette Compilation Box. 400 copies.

What? A cassette release on Record Store Day? Yes, when it is the Kill Rock Stars label and is a 3 cassette history of their awesome Kill Rock Stars compilations from the 90's. And if you are a fan of a lot of the early "grunge" movement by artists such as Nirvana, Melvins, Unwound, Bikini Kill, Versus, Slant 6, God Head Silo, Smog, Boredoms and many more! This will be a nice collectors piece.

#8) New Found Glory---Mania 7 1000 copies.

So New Found Glory had a one-off RSD release doing all Ramones covers? Yes please! 7 tracks on colored vinyl.

#7) Frightened Rabbit Midnight Organ Fight/Quietly Now Special RSD Edition 500 copies.

Not only is this being re-released on 180g vinyl. Each LP comes with a special 12x12" art print. There are 4 different prints (each limited to 125 copies), making trying to acquire the complete set, rather impossible.

#6) Pornography 7 Minutes in Heaven. 1500 copies. Ryan Adams doing 7 punk songs? Sure, why not? His previous RSD 7" have each sold well and have been limited (Class Mythology 2x7" being the best).

#5) Portugal The Man Church Mouth 500 copies only. This LP is one of 3 releases exclusively available at the Coachella Zia Records pop-up store. Doubt this will last to weekend 2, so you better buy this quick. But this is the re-release of Portugal The Man's 2nd LP on Bone Colored Vinyl, each copy numbered.

# 4) Rocket From the Crypt Re-Issue LPs 500 copies each

Fans of RFTC were excited to see that both Group Sounds and Live from Camp X-Ray were being re-issued on 180g vinyl in Gatefold sleeves. Then they got depressed, when only 500 copies were going to be made available for Record Store Day.

#3) Astralwerks 20/20 Flexi Box. 1000 copies.

Surprising, this box is only available in the US. Thus making overseas fans jealous and putting this near the top of their wish lists. Let's just look at the tracklisting:

1: Future Sound of London – The Far Out Son Of Lung And The Ramblings Of A Madman (Original 12″ Version)

2: The Chemical Brothers – Block Rockin’ Beats

3: The Beta Band – Dry The Rain

4: Fatboy Slim – Praise You

5: Cassius – Cassius 1999

6: Doves – The Cedar Room [Promo-only version previously unreleased in the

US]*

7: Kings of Convenience – Winning A Battle, Losing The War (J-Walk Remix) [Previously unreleased in the US]*

8: Basement Jaxx – Where’s Your Head At

9: Royksopp – Poor Leno

10: Sia – Breathe Me (Four Tet Remix)

11: Hot Chip – My Shit’s On Fire Right Now [First ever commercial release]*

12: The Kooks – Put Your Back to My Face [Previously unreleased in the US]*

13: Empire Of The Sun – Walking On A Dream

14: David Guetta – Sexy Bitch (feat. Akon)

15: Air – Indian Summer [Previously unreleased in the US]*

16: Kraftwerk – Die Roboter [German language version of "The Robots."

Previously unreleased in the US]*

17: Eric Prydz – Allein

18: Swedish House Mafia – Don’t You Worry Child (feat. John Martin)

19: Diamond Rings – Put Me On (Diamond Dance) [Previously unreleased]

20: Gold Fields – Dark Again

#2) Paul Weller Sonic Kicks 7" Box 600 copies

Yep Roc Records has announced that the legendary Jam frontman will drop Sonik Kicks 7″ Singles Box Set, a limited edition wrap up featuring five singles on colored vinyl, plus two unreleased songs and an autographed Sonik Kicks poster.

#1) Dave Matthews Band Live Trax Volume 1 500 copies

Only Dave's 2nd RSD release, and this one is the first as the full DMB. In addition, it is the first time they've put the Live Trax on vinyl (colored on blue vinyl, no less). The demand for this will be huge and don't be surprised if they announce a black vinyl version for the Warehouse soon after RSD.

What do you think? Which items do you feel will be the rarest/most sought after?

The MISSING Record Store Day 2013 Items--Honor these artists/labels!

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So I've been meaning to write this for a week now, but work and exhaustion have held it up, so I apologize. But for those of you in the UK/Europe, you have an *awesome* list of items heading your way that many in North America would love to have. Speaking of, if anyone in the UK/EU would WANT TO TRADE for any items, please let me know. I will pretty much have my pick of every US release available (except for the Dave Matthews Box Set) , so I can nearly guarantee any item you want.

So with that said, let's look at the items that did *not* make the Record Store Day "official" list. Remember, to be considered an official RSD release, you basically have to have the sticker/logo on the item and it has to meet their approval. Know that there are some *great* items coming out on Record Store Day, that your store may get (if you want it, be sure and ask if they ordered it!) that still should be recognized. If you know of an item that I missed, please LET ME KNOW by leaving a comment and I'll be sure and get it added!!

COMPACT DISCS:

Scanner Terminal Earth

Label: Divebomb Records
Description: Terminal Earth has been out of print for nearly 20 years, and not surprisingly, fetching high dollar collector prices online. Divebomb Records’ Terminal Earth Record Store Day limited edition contains brand new mastering exclusive to this physical reissue as well as a new interview with band founder,Axel Julius. Forthe fans, by the fans.
Link: http://www.ildistro.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ILD_April_2013.pdf

Scanner Hypertrace

Label: Divebomb Records
Description: Despite the fact that it flew under the commercial radar, Hypertrace is still beloved by cult metal aficionados today and ripe to be discovered by legions of younger power metal fans curious of the movement’s origins. Divebomb Records’ Hypertrace Record Store Day limited-edition contains brand new mastering exclusive to this physical reissue as well as a new interview with band founder,Axel Julius. Forthe fans, by the fans.
Link: http://www.ildistro.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ILD_April_2013.pdf

White Mystery Telepathic

Label: White Mystery
Description: WHITE MYSTERY "Telepathic" is the band's third full-length album of 12 new red-hot-rock'n'roll songs recorded on tour in Oakland, California with Greg Ashley. Best record yet brought to you by Miss Alex White & Francis Scott Key White!
Link: http://whitemysteryband.storenvy.com/products/835029-cd-white-mystery-telepathic

7" VINYL SINGLES:

Boy Sets Fire Bled Dry

Label: Magic Bullet
Description: Two brand new tracks from Boy Sets Fire for RSD 2013! Very limited copies on clear and color vinyl, 1000 pressed
Link: http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=861011

Ides of Gemini Hexagram

Label: Magic Bullet
Description: Exclusive to Record Store Day, two brand new songs from Ides of Gemini, who have recently been praised on pitchfork and have opened for the likes of Neurosis, and a brand new tour in April 2013 with Ghost. The band features J. Bennett (guitarist, but also well-known as a journalist for Decibel Magazine and Terrorizer), Sera Timms (Bass and Vocals, Black Math Horseman, Black Mare), and Kelly Johnston-Gibson (Drums). Features MIKE GALLAGHER from ISIS guesting on Guitar! Limited to 450 copies on clear vinyl.
Link: http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=861010

ILSA/Seven Sisters of Sleep Split Single

Label: A389 Recordings
Description: Teaming up for this special Record Store Day Release, Socal's Seven Sisters of Sleep deliver a brutal cover of "Messiah" by the legendary HELLHAMMER while the flipside features Washington DC's Ilsa deliver a cover of Bolt Thrower's "The IVTH Crusade". all packaged in stellar artwork by Szymo Siech. Includes a full color 24x36 horror movie style poster of the artwork. 666 copies on blood red vinyl!
Link: http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=861025

Like Rats Like Rats 7"

Label: A389 Recordings
Description: Five tracks of raw primitive metallic hardcore heavily influenced by Hellhammer/Celtic Frost. Features members of Chicago's WEEKEND NACHOS. Special Record Store Day reissue of the bands ultra rare debut single released on Cosmic Debris Records in 2010. Color vinyl.
Link: http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=861022

Night Marchers / Mrs. Magician Split

Label: Swami Records
Description: On the Night Marchersʼ side is “La Gloria,” an ode to the glory days of Floridaʼs hand-rolled cigar industry. This song nearly made it on to the bandʼs sophomore album, Allez Allez, but at the last moment was deemed too special not to stand alone. Mrs Magician contributes a brand new tune with serious artistic weight. Pulling various family favors and achieving unbelievable results, the band coerced Neal Young to produce the track. Not only that, but Al Jarbine adds his background vocals and patented Stratocaster guitar licks to the song as well. The result is “Despicable Things,” another masterpiece in the canon of one of today's most proliﬁc bands.
Link: http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=871926

Posion Idea Filthkick EP

Label: TKO Records
Description: For Record Store Day 2013, TKO Records and Rev Distribution are rolling out another classic rarity from POISON IDEA. This year, we’re proud to offer a reissue of 1988’s Filthkick EP, featuringPOISON IDEA’s brutal set-opening “Hangover Heartattack.” This will be the first time this EP has been available in its original format since it was first released.
Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/487697941296413/
Link 2: http://www.bullmoose.com/p/14676810/poison-idea-filthkick-ep-rsd-2013-black-vinyl

Rifle Diet Abuse Begets Abuse

Label: Profane Existence
Description: This is RIFLE’S DIET’s second release and the fourth installment in the Profane Existence Limited Edition Singles Series of 2013. This is a short run pressing that is available on Bruise Violet, Golden Brew, Opaque Yellow and Blackened Black vinyl. As the title suggests supplies are limited-- once they are gone,they are gone
Link: http://www.ildistro.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ILD_April_2013.pdf

Ringworm 1991 Demos

Label: A389 Recordings
Description: Alongside INTEGRITY"S first releases, RINGWORM's 1991 Demo helped pave the way for metallic hardcore as we know it. This is the band's highly sought after 1991 demo cassette in it's original form, released on 7" for Record Store Day. 350 Color vinyl and 350 black vinyl.
Link: http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=861023

Slipknot S/T EP

Label: Revelation Records
Description: Not to be confused with the popular mainstream Nu Metal band SLIPKNOT from Des Moines, IA, this particular SLIPKNOT was from Revelation Records’ original home base in New Haven, CT. Originally released in 1989, you can hear an early Corrosion Of Conformity influence in this band’s only recorded output. Originally only pressed once, Revelation #13 is now available again on colored vinyl for Record Store Day 2013.
Link: http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=835736

Sophia Knapp/AOP Split 7"

Label: Electric Ragtime Records
Description: Brooklyn psych pop sonsgstress Sophia Knapp is joined by Stockholm duo AOP on "Times Square" – and Sophia returns the favor by joining AOP on "Sweet May".
Link: http://www.dustygroove.com/item.php?id=q96hv8j7nd
Link 2: http://www.bullmoose.com/p/14594674/knapp-sophia-times-square-sweet-may-7-lmtd-ed-feat-aop

Street Dogs Crooked Druken Sons

Label: Pirates Press
Description: Last November, during a brief homestretch in the middle of a whirlwind world tour, the band (with old friend Rick Barton, ex-DROPKICK MURPHYS) recorded these tracks themselves at Johnny Rioux’s compound in Texas. Originally they were going to be demos to work on for the new album... but they are too good for that, so here they are!
Link: http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=870785

Svarte Greiner / Lakes of Grass and Gold (Erik Enocksson) split 7"

Label: Immune Records
Description: Titled "Landscape of Open Eyes", finally coming out after 3-4 years since conception.
Link: http://www.miasmah.com/eks/
Link 2: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=445522812189426&set=a.445519705523070.1073741828.203865856355124&type=1

T.S.O.L. You Don't Have to Die

Label: TKO Records
Description: This Record Store Day 2013, TKO Records and Cobraside have unearthed a forgotten punk rock rarity for you! We are very proud to offer up a slice of classic LA punk circa 1980! Side A features a previously unreleased song from a 1980 demo recordings. Side B features two T.S.O.L. classic live the Cuckoo's Nest from the Summer of 1981! To complete this stellar one of a kind record, the cover features a previously unpublished photo of the band, taken by none other than GLEN E. FRIEDMAN. Limited to a one-time pressing of 1,000 copies!
Link: http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=862920

The Repos Rejoice in Ruin

Label: Organized Crime Records
Description: THE REPOS were birthed in 2003 in the bathroom of a halfway house in Calumet City, IL. Between group meetings, cig breaks and day trips to the Salvation Army handball courts Aaron, Craig, Joe and Adam got together to play ugly, vicious hardcore punk. They immediately gained a worthy reputation for their short, memorable shows and "fuck-all" disposition; playing shows that rarely topped 10 minutes, JERRY'S KIDS' cover included. In 2004 they dropped a split with fellow Chicago hardcores 14 OR FIGHT as well as their first full-length self-titled LP. 2006 brought their second full-length Heads And Hearts Explode and by 2008, with vocalist Aaron headed back to IDoC in Joliet for a botched check-forging scam, the band called it quits with a handful of shows and the release of the ultra-limited Ending On A Positive Note LP. In 2011 Joe, Aaron, Craig and Adam returned as THE ROPES. A glut of releases followed including a demo, a new 7", three different cassette-only releases and a 2012 Record Store Day pressing of their second demo. 2013 brings a couple more changes: Andy (Vile Gash) has stepped in on bass and thanks to some legal hassle about their name THE ROPES are THE REPOS again. This April, RSD will see the release of a new REPOS 7" on Chicago's Organized Crime Records.
Link: http://coretexrecords.com/ReposThe-rejoice-in-ruin-haunted-peace-RSD-SPECIAL
Link 2: http://www.bullmoose.com/p/14676811/repos-rejoice-in-ruin-haunted-peace-rsd-2013-400-copies-pressed

The Wedding Present Two Chansons

Label: This Will Be Our Summer
Description: THE WEDDING PRESENT take two songs from their recent album Valentina and perform them in French. Features the tracks “Metal Men” and “End Credits.” Comes in a 3-color silkscreen sleeve. Edition of 400 copies
Link: celebratedsummerecords.blogspot.com

10" Singles:

Ghoul Intermediate Level Hard-Core

Label: Clearview Records
Description: We are happy to announce that Ghoul is doing a super-limited Record Store Day release with the legendary Clearview Records! “Intermediate Level Hard-Core- A Clearview Records Music Primer Featuring Ghoul” will be released on 190 gram solid red 10 inch vinyl and features covers of songs by such luminaries as Fearless Iranians From Hell, Dayglo Abortions, N.O.T.A, Willful Neglect, and the classic “Americanized” by GWAR featuring GWAR‘s own intergalactic wasteoid Oderus Urungus on vocals! Look for it on Record Store Day at your favorite record store! Sorry, what was that? Of course record stores still exist, you dum dum! Ask your local record store to carry it and look for it on April 20th!
Link: http://www.creepsylvania.com/record-store-day/

Punch Brothers Ahoy EP

Label: Nonesuch
Description: Nonesuch Records released Punch Brothers' five-song EP Ahoy! digitally and on CD last November. Now on vinyl for the first time, the EP has been pressed on 10" vinyl for Record Store Day and includes songs by Josh Ritter ("Another New World"), Gillian Welch and David Rawlings ("Down Along the Dixie Line"), Punch Brothers ("Squirrel of Possibility"), and Mclusky ("Icarus Smicarus"), along with one traditional tune, arranged by Punch Brothers ("Moonshiner"). Originally recorded during the Nashville sessions for their critically acclaimed 2012 album Who's Feeling Young Now?, these tracks also were produced by Jacquire King (Kings of Leon, Tom Waits, Modest Mouse). The vinyl EP was cut by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Studios and pressed at Pallas MFG.
Link: http://www.nonesuch.com/journal/record-store-day-releases-come-from-the-black-keys-bombino-iron-and-wine-punch-brothers-2013-03-01
Note: This has been likely cancelled/delayed, but the lack of announcement from Nonesuch has been rather surprising.

12" Singles:

Across Tundras / Lark's Tongue Split 12"

Label: Cavity Records
Description: This split marks the coming together of two bands with different styles but similar influences, and will give the listener visions of Panoramic Country Crush, Cosmic Blues, Vintage Psychedelia, Terrestrial Drone, and Rural Heaviness. The finest dream is a siren song to suffer, illuminating the pathways where fear and bliss become one. What starts with pleasure endures in alarm, and only your eyes can look straight at the sun
Link: http://www.ildistro.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ILD_April_2013.pdf

Asphodells Remix 12" (Andrew Weatherall/Timothy Fairplay)

Label: Rotters Golf Club
Description: Features We Are the Axis (Daniel Avery Remix) b/w One Minute Silence (Wooden Shjips Remix).
Link: http://www.tumblr.com/reblog/46247885314/9S1AN2z9

Chica Libre Cuatro Tigres EP

Label: Barbes Records
Description: After getting its inspiration from exotic strains of cumbia from the nether hemisphere and writing an album’s worth of mostly original material (on last year’s’ Canibalismo) Chicha Libre turns its attention to some classic songs from the Anglophone world. The band applies its psychedelic chicha template to The Clash’s “Guns of Brixton,” Arthur Lee & Love’s “Alone Again Or,” The Simpsons’ theme song as well as a classic Chicha from Peruvian band Los Shapis.
Link: http://pressjunkiepr.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/cuatrocovers-prfinal-3-1-13.pdf

Thee Oh Sees Moon Sick EP

Label: Castle Face Records
Description: Culled from the same sessions as the Floating Cofﬁn LP and featuring guest spots from LARS FINBERG of THE INTELLIGENCE, K DYLAN EDRICH of THE MALLARD and KELLEY STOLTZ, as well as the full and ﬁnely honed weight of the touring band, Moon Sick is a similarly synth-drenched, psychotic-then-sweet companion piece to Floating Cofﬁn. As if that wasn't enough to pique your fancy, all proceeds from the ﬁrst pressing, available for Record Store Day, will go to beneﬁt Healthy San Francisco, a local non-proﬁt that helps San Franciscans afford health insurance that otherwise wouldn't be able to. So as you toke up to the melted swing of "Grown In A Graveyard," yelp along to "Sewer Fire," pogo in place to live staple "Humans Be Swayed" and ﬁnally and bend your sweet tooth on the harpsichorded ballad "Candy Clock," you're doing so for a good cause.
Link: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/thee-oh-sees-switch-up-on-new-darker-lp-20130321
Link 2: www.twistandshout.com/Category.cfm?CategoryID=325

Tunabunny Form a Line 12"

Label: HHBTM
Description: TUNABUNNY from Athens, Georgia take their most dance oriented track "Form A Line" from their recent and third album Genius Fatigue and give it the remix treatment and have a dream come true with having VANESSA HAY of the legendary post-punk band PYLON, one of Athens' most iconic voices doing her own version of the song with the band backing her. Edition of 200 copies
Link: https://www.facebook.com/HHBTM/posts/574508969234153

LP Records:

Arawak Accadde A LP

Label: Strut
Description: Strut go straight for a collectors favorite for Record Store Day 2013 with the first official reissue of Arawaks in-demand 'Accadde A...' (literally It Happened To...), originally released on the tiny Squirrel label in 1970. The album was put together by the late Luciano Simoncini, a prolific Southern Italian pianist and arranger responsible for a number of anonymously presented library music and film scores, and was the first of four long players under the Arawak name. Presented as a multi-cultural, utopian concept, each track theoretically visits a different country / city and the musical styles vary from funk grooves and loping beats to folkier guitar tracks. With its infectious beats and cinematic feel, the album has become a holy grail for breaks collectors. Madlib most famously borrowed album track 'Accadde A Bali' for Quasimotos 'Real Eyes' and sealed copies of the original pressing change hands for four figure sums. For Record Store Day 2013, Strut are reissuing the full album, mastered from the original reels for the first time since its original issue. Artwork comes fully restored from the original lithographs.
Link: www.deejay.de/m_Hip-Hop/details__119961
Note: This might have been delayed/postponed

Comeback Kid Turn it Around LP

Label: Facedown Records
Description: Fast and energetic hardcore fury that has taken the scene by storm! This band has quickly become a favorite in the hardcore scene and has toured heavily in support of this release. A must for fans of TERROR, BANE, CARRY ON and STRETCH ARM STRONG!
Blue Vinyl LP, limited to 600 copies
Link: http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=870783

Corn on Macabre Discographic Violence LP

Label: Magic Bullet Records
Description: Complete discography finally all on one vinyl record. Frenetic grinding violence from members of pg.99, Enemy soil, and Darkest Hour. Limited to 400 copies on different colors.
Link: http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=861012

Elliott Songs in a Transit World

Label: Simba
Description: ELLIOTT was a band from Lousiville, Kentucky, that released four albums and several 7”s in their eight-year existence. This LP is a collection of their debut 7”, In Transit, released in 1997 on Initial Records, along with their pair of 7”s recorded in between their first two albums (U.S. Songs and False Cathedrals). These two records, If They Do 7” (Initial Records) and Will You (Revelation Records) have long since been out of print. Rounding out this collection of eight songs are two instrumental tracks that were recorded during this period. One was previously on the CDEP version of the If They Do release while the other, “Orphalese”, has never been released on any format. 700 copies on clear vinyl.
Link: http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=869646

EmptyMansions Snakes/Vultures/Sulfate

Label: Riot House
Description: EMPTYMANSIONS‘ founder/primary songwriter, SAM FOGARINO (INTERPOL) wrote most of the songs for snakes while on tour promoting INTERPOL’s fourth and self-titled album, from mid 2009 to late 2011. It was after a show in Rome, Italy, that SAM and BRANDON forged a bond resulting in BRANDON taking on the role as producer and bassist for the future EMPTYMANSIONS debut record. Curtis was a part of INTERPOL’s live configuration, playing keyboards on the globe-spanning run. The eight songs that make up snakes/vultures/sulfate, EMPTYMANSIONS full-length debut, fell into the ‘familiar’ mode: guitar/bass/drums—unwittingly creating a true rock-sounding record. Employing the stylistically versatile DUANE DENISON (THE JESUS LIZARD, TOMAHAWK, TH’ LEGENDARY SHACK SHAKERS) whose unique approach to guitar playing defies comparison or labeling, only aids in taking the rock convention of EM a few degrees to the left. At the controls, Producer BRANDON CURTIS (SECRET MACHINES, COSMICIDE, INTERPOL) possesses the production sensibilities that serve as a balance—keeping the tracks inviting, but not without leaving a bit of challenge for the listener. Along with producing, recording, and mixing
Link: http://www.ildistro.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ILD_April_2013.pdf

Ghoul Maniaxe LP

Label: Tankcrimes
Description: Maniaxe is the second album by the infamous band of cannibalistic troglodytes known as GHOUL. It follows a loose story of their adventures in Creepsylvania, a country known for two things: unending poverty and relentless suffering. Other things that Creepsylvania is less known for, but which appear on Maniaxe, are: Spooky castles! Lumbering robots programmed to murder! A hunter on safari for the most dangerous prey of all: MAN! Careless flaunting of anti-skateboarding laws! Heavy metal riffs! Pounding drums! And that’s not all—now on LP format for the first time ever! Includes a 16-page comic book following the story plus limited colored vinyl and a download card. Live for Metal, Die for GHOUL!
Link: http://www.ildistro.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ILD_April_2013.pdf

Giant Henry (Pre-Unwound members in High School)

Label: Numero Group
Description: There are only 1050 of these, and they’re only available through record stores that buy directly from Numero on Record Store Day
Link: http://numerogroup.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/these-giant-henry-jackets-are-in-and-look-totally-ill/

Headless Dogs 1-5 LP

Label: Magic Bullet Records
Description: Awesome debut from members of The Holy Mountain and Combat Wounded Veteran. Artwork by Steak MTN. All songs exclusive to this RSD release, limited to 450 copies. Several random colors available.
Link: http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=862948

ILSA Maggots are Hungry (RSD edition)

Label: A389 recordings
Description: red vinyl remastered LP (250 copies only)
Link: http://www.a389records.com/site/new-preorders-and-news-coming-today/

ISAN Beautronics LP

Label: Morr Music
Description: Reissue of the first ISAN album (originally released on Tugboat/RTD in 1998) as a limited Record Store Day first time ever vinyl release! Including previously unreleased bonus tracks. Re-mastered and cut by Dubplates & Mastering.
Link: http://www.morrmusic.com/artist/ISAN/release/830

Integrity Systems Overload (ORR/A2 Mix)

Label: Organized Crime Records
Description: In 2012 current guitarist Rob Orr obtained the original reels for Systems Overload and thought it would be entertaining to try and recreate the original mix on one of the songs. He sent the track to original guitarist and engineer of Systems Overload, Aaron Melnick. After that they collaborated together and remixed the whole record to sound like the original version. Included are lost elements of songs as well as the original version of Unveiled Tomorrows. A completely new layout was created by vocalist Dwid Hellion as a huge 24” x 36” poster cover. Systems Overload (Orr/A2 mix) is now presented as an extremely limited edition of 350 copies for Record Store Day 2013.
Link: http://www.bullmoose.com/p/14676812/integrity-systems-overload-orr-a2-mix-rsd-2013-350-copies-pressed

Levy, Barrington REGGAE ANTHOLOGY: SWEET REGGAE MUSIC (1979-84) LP

Label: VP Records
Description: For the very first time on vinyl, 17 North Parade carefully selects 10 of Barrington's most sought after sound system favorites off his full length 40-track album Reggae Anthology: Sweet Reggae Music (1979-84), which was released digitally and on compact disc this past December. Filled with certified classics from beginning to end, this LP covers the early years of Barrington Levy's astonishing career in chronological order. This timeless musical selection gives an in-depth look of the living legend's journey throughout this crucial period when he was proclaimed the "undisputed lord of dancehall" and earned the Best Vocalist Award at the 1984 UK Reggae Awards.
Link: http://reggaemovement.com/Articles/New-Vinyl-RECORD-STORE-DAY-Releases--Clarks-Booty-Barrington-Levy-Anthology-Dub-Reissues-from-King-Tubby-Lee-Scratch-Perry-Winston-Edwards

Nerve Agents, The Days of the White Owl

Label: Revelation
Description: Days Of The White Owl is the first full-length from Bay Area hardcore punks THE NERVE AGENTS. Following their 1998 eponymous eight-song self-titled EP on Revelation Records, the band’s chemistry musically gelled as they added ex-FURY 66 guitarist Zac Hunter to their lineup by the time Days Of The White Owl was released in July of 2000. The album walks the line between hardcore inspirators such as YOUTH OF TODAY and CRO-MAGS to punk rock influences of TSOL and BLACK FLAG, only to be bookended by an eerie intro and outro of piano played and written by bass player Dante Sigona. Featuring backup vocals by Davey Havok of AFI, Days Of The White Owl contains the rage and fury of hardcore, the urgency of punk, and the unique character and substance that is only THE NERVE AGENTS.
Link: http://www.bullmoose.com/p/14676813/nerve-agents-days-of-the-white-owl-rsd-2013-700-pressed-on-white-vinyl

Replikas, The Biz Burada Yok Iken

Label: Dionysus Records
Description: The sixth album Biz Burada Yok İken consists of classic Turkish psychedelic and garage covers from the 1965-75 Anatolian Pop period. Biz Burada Yok İken was released on CD in Turkey in 2012. Dionysus Records’ vinyl issue of Biz Burada Yok İken marks REPLIKA’s first release in the United States.
Link: http://www.ildistro.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ILD_April_2013.pdf

Sense Field S/T LP

Label: Revelation
Description: Formed by members of REASON TO BELIEVE, SENSE FIELD pioneered the way for all emotional hardcore bands to follow. They toured with bands like JIMMY EAT WORLD, FAR, TEXAS IS THE REASON, DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL, and recently reunited as part of the Revelation Records 25th anniversary shows. This self-titled LP compiled the bands two original, self-released EPs along with two additional tracks the band recorded shortly thereafter into one neat little package.
Link: http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=206212

White Mystery Telepathic LP

Label: White Mystery
Description: WHITE MYSTERY "Telepathic" is the band's third full-length album of 12 new red-hot-rock'n'roll songs recorded on tour in Oakland, California with Greg Ashley. Best record yet brought to you by Miss Alex White & Francis Scott Key White!
Link: http://whitemysteryband.storenvy.com/products/1080078-wholesale-vinyl-white-mystery-telepathic

Coachella Releases (they are on the offiical list, but I want to make sure they don't get overlooked, since they'll be at the Zia Records pop-up store, are limited to only 500 copies each and will likely sell out fast):

Pusifier V is for Vagina http://recordstoreda...ialRelease/6081
Rodriguez Cold Fact http://recordstoreda...ialRelease/6160
Portugal the Man Church Mouth http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/6159

Regional Record Store Releases:

Criminal Records (Atlanta, GA) is releasing two live in-store recordings from Atlanta newcomers von Grey and Christ, Lord. The albums, released locally in limited quantities on vinyl, will also grant access to a special after-hours live performance from both bands on April 20th.

Atlanta band Mood Rings will also perform on the Criminal Records stage that day. Their 7" single on Mexican Summer will be available as an extremely limited, hand-silkscreened edition of 100 at all three participating RSD stores in the metro-Atlanta area: Decatur CD, Wax n Facts, and Criminal Records. Vintage Vinyl (St. Louis, MO) is releasing a limited, numbered edition blue vinyl and CD from blues legend Bobby Rush, a first of multi-label/multi-decade greatest hits collection, protecting (and paying) the reigning blues king of the South.

Shake It Records (Cincinnati, OH) is releasing The Greenhornes - Live at Shake It Records 2001, a limited to 500 LP from way before they were the Raconteurs and a CD EP by Wussy Duo, a slimmed-down Wussy line-up. For RSD, they have a 7-track release, limited to 500 in a hand-stamped, hand-numbered sleeve.

Other Record Store Giveaways

In addition to the label samplers and other giveaways provided by RSD to the officially participating stores, some stores are producing their own special souvenirs for their customers. Earshot (Winston Salem, NC) is producing its own CD sampler featuring 19 artists from North and South Carolina, including Band of Horses, while Radio-Active Records (Ft. Lauderdale, FL) is composing a day-of mix tape as the mood strikes them to give away to their customers. Two record stores in Indiana, Luna Music (Indianapolis) and Landlocked Music (Bloomington), have teamed up to mix-down a giveaway of unreleased music from local record label Joyful Noise containing rare and upcoming tracks from local and national acts.

Celebrate Record Store Day....it is only a few weeks away!!

Record Store Day 2013/RSD #6—April 20, 2013 #RSD13 Release List..~388 TITLES AND GROWING

2013-03-19T16:54:00.000-07:00

Hello Friends!!

Once again, it is time to compile the various releases coming out for Record Store Day 2013. This year, we’ve seen a lot of releases already pre-announced, as artists have been tweeting or posting images of what they are working on. Things that we know thus far about #RSD13:

Look for the official release list to be posted around March 21^st
Look for more CDs this year, than in previous years.
Look for more items than the record set last year, with more items being released worldwide. That however, will still mean that both the US and UK/EU will have exclusive items….so try and find a trading partner that lives overseas and coordinate which releases you want. That has worked out great for me the past 2 years!!
I’ll continue to keep this page updated and relevant…..Remember that not all releases that come out on Record Store Day are “approved” by the RSD folks, and will not show up on their list. That does not mean they are any less important, or that the label/artist should not be recognized for their release. I pointed out several “missing” items the last 2 years and will continue to do so.
Please note: If you wish to copy this for a forum/blog or reference this site in an article, please provide a LINK and give credit! This is time consuming work and it is nice when it is validated.

UPDATED: Tuesday, MARCH 19th at 7:30PM ET with more updates! We're at around 388 Releases and still going!!! WE BROKE THE NEWS ON THE DYLAN 7", Phish, Trey, Factory Records Sampler, Grateful Dead, Soundgarden, Jimmy Eat World, Ryan Adams, Dave Matthews band and many many more!--we have more surprises coming!

CASSETTE RELEASES (COPIED FROM http://new-vinyl.blogspot.com):

§ Kill Rock Stars The Compilations (limited 3 cassette box set) (400 copies)

TRACKLISTING (thank you Music Saves! Cleveland's best music store!)
Tape 1, Side a:
Girl Germs 1:45 Bratmobile
Loch Ness 2:17 Some Velvet Sidewalk
Don't Mix The Colors 1:48 Courtney Love
N.O.U. Cooking With Gas! 3:57 The Nation Of Ulysses
You Speak Jealously 3:14 Unwound
Narrow 3:09 Mecca Normal
Beeswax 2:47 Nirvana
My Red Self 3:48 Heavens To Betsy
Strong, Warm, And In Command 5:01 Steve Fisk

Tape 1, Side B:
Feels Blind 3:36 Bikini Kill
Reaper Song 1:41 Witchypoo
Ever Since My Accident 0:50 Melvins
Immediate Impound Zone 5:54 Infamous Menagerie
Make You Come 1:11 Kicking Giant
Everybody And Their Dog 1:32 Fitz of Depression
Red Dress 2:52 Jad Fair
8-Ball Deluxe 2:45 7 Year Bitch
I.O.U. 2:22 Kreviss
Don't Look At Me 3:29 Anonymous

Tape 2, Side A:
Supreme Nothing 2:17 Tiger Trap
Nutritious Treat 2:28 God Head Silo
Cheap Tragedies 2:56 Jack Acid
Speed Fortress 3:59 Tribe 8
Another Face 3:32 Versus
Nights X 9 1:38 Slant 6
Gauze 5:26 Karp
Camden Town Rain 3:20 Mary Lou Lord

Tape 2, Side B:
Come On 3:13 Calamity Jane
Hasbeen 2:23 Heroin
Hair 3:17 Adickdid
Sony Radio 2:49 Getaway Car
Only Straight Girls Wear Dresses 4:44 C-Wa
Whiteout 0:51 Bumblescrump
Mother's Little Helper 2:40 the cheesecakes
Bunnies 2:02 Pansy Division
Omnivore 1:19 Nikki McClure

Tape 3, Side a:
Horse Girl 0:51 Tourettes
M.P. Skulkers 2:53 Cupid Car Club
Megablot 4:01 Star Power
Pukulee & Rikulee 4:36 Boredoms
Puffin Stars 2:13 Helium w/The Bird Of Paradise
Stupid Crazy 2:35 The Spinanes
Seven 1:47 Team Dresch
We Are Not Your Entertainers 0:38 Mukilteo Fairies
Anatomically Correct 1:19 God Is My Co-Pilot
Rev 2:36 Severed Lethargy
Brixton 3:05 Rancid
Feed The Tree 1:54 Free Kitten

Tape 3, Side B:
Painfully Obvious 2:20 Universal Order Of Armageddon
Patty Coahuila 2:52 Teh Pee Chees
Roche Limit 4:00 Star Pimp
Don The Beachcomber 3:33 Pell Mell
Smog- 37 Pushups 2:18 Smog
Eskinaut 1:14 Star Sign Scorpio
North Pole 1:24 Hattifatteners
Pretty Polly 2:38 Grouse Mountain Skyride
Detox Killer (Erotic Thriller) 1:55 Fifth Column
Pusdog - Fleabag 4:32 Fleabag
I Wish I Was Him - Kathleen Hanna 2:59

§ MGMT Alien Days (limited cassette single with download card)
§ Various Artists Burger Mixtape Volume 1 (Burger Records compilation) (250 copies)

CD RELEASES (COPIED FROM http://new-vinyl.blogspot.com):

§ Ani DiFranco Buffalo 4/22/12 OFFICIAL BOOTLEG 2CD with 3 new tracks (3000 copies only)

§ Built to Spill LIVE CD

§ Codeine What About the Lonely CD (1000 copies only--CONFIRMED)

§ Gaslight Anthem Handwritten Deluxe CD/DVD combo--(DVD of live concert footage and a book of photos of the group and the Handwritten CD (800 copies)
§ Grateful Dead are Cuts & Oddities 1966
§ Half Japanese Half Gentlemen/Not Beasts 3xCD box with 32 page booklet and new tracks (2000 copies)
§ Imagine Dragons Live at Independent Records RSD CD (2000 copies)

§ King Crimson Going Schizoid with King Crimson Set (features CD, Graphic Novel, T-Shirt, sticker and poster)
§ Mumford & Sons Live at Bull Moose

§ R.E.M. Live in Greensboro CD (5 track EP, limited to 2500 copies)
§ Scanner Hypertrace (1000 copies only--remastered with bonus track)
§ Scanner Terminal Earth CD (1000 copies only---remastered with bonus track)
§ White Mystery Telepathic CD

7” RELEASES (COPIED FROM http://new-vinyl.blogspot.com):

§ Adrian Lloyd Lorna b/w Got a Little Woman Gold Vinyl (Sundazed)
§ Alfred Hitchcock Presents b/w The Munsters (TV Theme Songs Death Waltz 7"--might be UK only)
§ Atmosphere (as Demosexual) Demos (purple vinyl 7", hand-numbered out of 2000 copies)

§ Avett Brothers and Randy Travis Music from CMT Crossroads--February Seven (featuring Randy Travis) b/w Three Wooden Crosses (Featuring Avett Brothers)
§ Best Coast Fear of My Identity b/w Who Have I Become 7”

§ Biffy Clyro Black Chandelier (LIVE from Switzerland--1/19/13 b/w City of Dreadful Night 7" (2000 copies)
§ Billy Bragg No One Knows Anything Anymore b/w Song of the Iceburg 7"

§ Black Keys / Iggy & The Stooges No Fun Side by Side Split colored vinyl 7" (7500 copies)

§ Black Lips/Icky Blossoms split---Black Lips Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys (Willie Nelson/Waylon Jennings cover) b/w Icky Blossoms Arabian Knights (Siouxsie & The Banshees cover) 7"--1000 copies only

§ Blu Thelonius King 7"
§ Bob Dylan Wigwam b/w Thirsty Boots from the forthcoming Bootleg Series Volume 10, features the demo version of Wigwam and the unreleased track from the Self Portrait sessions)
§ Boy Sets Fire Bled Dry 7" (1000 copies only, clear/colored vinyl)
§ Brendon Benson Diamond b/w Good to Me (1997 Demo) 7"

§ Cake Sheep Go to Heaven (live) b/w Jesus Wrote A Blank Check (Live) 7" Colored Vinyl (2000 copies only)

§ Cheech & Chong Earache My Eye b/w Turn that Thing Down(limited Green vinyl 7”)
§ Chet Atkins Black Jack EP (Midnight, Boo Boo Stick Beat, Blackjack, Blue Moon of Kentucky) Red Vinyl (Sundazed)

§ Cooper I Wanna Love You b/w Baby I Love You

§ Dan Deacon Konono Ripoff No 1 individually numbered 7" (500 copies only)
§ David Bowie Drive-In Saturday b/w Drive-In Saturday (Russel Harty Plus Pop Version) Picture Disc 7" (3000 copies)
§ David Bowie The Stars Are Out Tonight b/w Where Are We Now? First vinyl single off new album on white vinyl!

§ Deep Purple/Type O Negative Highway Star Side By Side 7" on purple/clear vinyl.

§ Dio/Killswitch Engage Holy Diver Side by Side 7" on oxblood red vinyl.

§ Donny Hathaway Never My Love b/w Memories of My Love 2500 copies
§ Doors / X Soul Kitchen (Side by Side Release) Split milky clear colored 7"

§ Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors Live at Eddie's Attic 7"
§ Duran Duran Is There Something I Should Know? b/w Faith In this Colour Blue Vinyl 7" (UK only?? maybe)
§ Earth Crisis Firestorm 7" 900 copies on red vinyl

§ Eli Paperboy Reed WooHoo b/w Call Your Boyfriend 7" (3000 copies)

§ Elliot Smith Alternate Versions from Either/Or 7" (features 4 unreleased outtakes from the Either/Or sessions) (3500 copies)

§ Frank Turner Recovery b/w We Shall Not Overcome 7" (500 copies)
§ Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention I'm the Slime b/w Montana remastered from original analog source, Montana is a 2013 single edit with an additional 25 seconds of music) on Green Slime colored vinyl (3000 copies)

§ Free Energy Girls Want Rock b/w Wild Life 7"
§ FUR, FAWN, The Hounds Below and Lightning Love split single

§ Gil Scott Heron & Brian Jackson The Bottle b/w Your Daddy Loves You Green Vinyl 7"

§ Golden Void Rise To The Out of Reach b/w Smiling Raven 7" limited to 700 copies worldwide (500 for U.S.A.)
§ Husker Du 2x7" (featuring Amusement, Statues, Writer's Cramp and Let's Go Die (Blackberry Way Studio tracks) 4000 copies
§ Ides of Gemini Hexagram 7" (450 copies on clear vinyl)
§ Ilsa The IVth Crusade/Seven Sisters of Sleep Messiah split 7" (Limited to 666 copies on blood red vinyl with 24x36" "horror movie" style poster)

§ Iron & Wine Next to Paradise b/w Dirty Ocean 7" (3300 copies)
§ Jason Isbell Pancho & Lefty b/w Elizabeth Cook Tecumseh Valley split 7"

§ JD McPherson Fire Bug b/w A Gentle Awakening Red Vinyl 7" (1000 copies)

§ Jethro Tull Living in the Past EP (will be UK only)
§ Jimi Hendrix Hey Joe b/w Stone Free numbered 7" with mono mixes

§ JIMMY EAT WORLD Damage b/w Stop Whispering (Radiohead cover) 7" featuring new track off their forthcoming album (1500 copies in US, 300 overseas)
§ Josh Rouse Julie (Come Out of the Rain) 7” - First 7” of career; B-side is new unreleased song

§ Katatonia Buildings Limited Edition transparent colored 7"

§ Kate Nash Free My Pussy Heart Shaped Red Vinyl 7" (1000 copies)
§ Like Rats Like Rats 7" colored vinyl

§ Los Straitjackets and Freddy Cannon The Sox Are Rockin' b/w Red Sox Nation Limited 7"
§ Low & Dirty Three In the Fishtank Volume 7 Gold vinyl 7" limited to 500 copies
§ Luther How Can We Rest? b/w Astronomy in Color (Limited edition colored 7")

§ Mike Cooley To Pretty to Work 7"

§ Mike Watt & The Black Gang Rebel Girl b/w 30 Days in the Hole (2000 only)

§ Misfits/Lemonheads Skulls Side by Side 7" Picture Disc of various skulls.

§ Moby featuring Mark Lanegan The Lonely Night b/w Lonely Night (Photek Remix) 7" (500 copies)

§ MYSTERY SIDE BY SIDE RELEASE---7" SIDE BY SIDE sealed 7" with artists kept a mystery to be a surprise to the buyer/listener....7" is on Blue & Red splatter vinyl.
§ Neal Casal Mountains of the Moon b/w Grimes' Surf Story 7"

§ Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Animal X 7" Picture Disc

§ Non Phixion I shot Reagan b/w Refuse to Lose

§ O&S Flowers Turn to Fire colored vinyl 7"--1000 copies only

§ Old 97s & Waylon Jennings Iron Road 2x7" featuring unreleased tracks--Iron Road b/w The Other Shoe along with Visiting Hours (Old 97s 1996 demo) b/w Fireflies (Old 97's 1996 demo, take 2) (1000 copies)

§ Patty Griffin Ohio
§ Phoenix Bankrupt Grey vinyl 7" with patch

§ Pink Floyd See Emily Play (Pink VInyl) 7" (5000 copies)

§ Pornography 7 Minutes in Heaven 7" featuring RYAN ADAMS, LEAH HENNESSEY and JOHNNY T YERINGTON (1500 copies in US, 300 overseas)--Remember this pic of them in the studio?? (http://instagram.com/p/SPk-5DzhIl/)

§ Pretty & Nice Q _Q b/w On & On
§ Public Image Ltd Public Image b/w The Cowboy Song (4000 copies, each hand-numbered)

§ Pujol Deep Cuts colored vinyl 7"--1000 copies only

§ Richard Thompson Salford Sunday
§ Rifle Diet Abuse Begets Abuse b/w Inebriated 7" (Part 4 of the Profane Existence Single Series on limited colored vinyl (either black, bruise violet, golden brew or opaque yellow)

§ Ringo Starr Singles Box (3x7" lift-top lid box featuring Photograph b/w Down and Out; It Don't Come Easy b/w Early 1970; and (It's All Down To) Goodnight Vienna b/w Oo-wee and a poster & RSD 45 adapter) (5000 copies)
§ Ringworm 1991 Demos 7" (black vinyl and colored vinyl versions)
§ Roky Erickson Mine Mine Mind b/w Bloody Hammer (4000 copies, each hand-numbered on psychedelic swirl colored vinyl)

§ Rolling Stones 5x5 EP...reissue of the 1964 Decca release. (4500 copies)
§ Say Anything/Eisley Try To Remember, Forget (Acoustic) b/w Lost and Found (acoustic) 7" clear vinyl (CANCELLED--will now only be available on TOUR)
§ Sean Rowe To Leave Something Behind 7"
§ Section 25 My Outrage Limited 7" with exclusive b-side, 500 copies only (may be UK only...but did show up on one US distribution list I was sent)

§ Sharon Van Etten We are Fine 7"

§ Shearwater & Sharon Van Etten Stop Draggin My Heart Around b/w A Wake for the Minotaur 7" 3000 copies only

§ Silverstein/August Burns Red Four Minutes Being Cool7" (features Silverstein covering "Coming Clean" by the Get Up Kids and August Burns Red covering "You Vanda" by Saves the Day) (500 copies only)
§ Sir Douglas Quintent Interpreta En Espanol 2x7" (Sundazed)

§ Small Faces Green Circles 7" (Green vinyl 7" with Mono and Stereo versions of title track)
§ Small Faces Here Comes the Nice b/w Talk to You (7" reissue of 1967 debut US single)
§ Snapcase Steps 900 copies on white vinyl

§ Songs for Slim Volume 3--featuring the Minus 5 with Curtiss A performing "Rockin Here Tonight" and Tim O'Reagan & Jim Boquist performing "Cozy"
§ Sonny & The Sunsets Imagine (John Lennon cover) b/w Surfer Girl (Beach Boys cover)

§ Sophia Knapp Times Square b/w Sweet May 7"

§ SOUTH PARK San Diego b/w Gay Fish 7' picture disc featuring 2 songs from the TV show (2000 copies)
§ Star Trek b/w Lost in Space (TV Theme Songs Death Waltz 7"--might be UK only)

§ Surfer Blood Demon Dance b/w Slow Six Tri-colored vinyl release (5000 copies)
§ Superchunk Void b/w Faith Hand numbered 7", limited to 1000 copies

§ Svarte Greiner/Lakes of Grass and Gold Landscape of Open Eyes 7"
§ T.S.O.L. You Don't Have to Die (1980 Demo--Previously Unreleased) b/w Property is Theft and Dance With Me (both b-sides are Live tracks from the Cuckoo's Nest from 1981!) 7" 1000 copies only
§ Testament Animal Magnetism (Scorpions cover) b/w Powerslave (Iron Maiden cover) 7" 1000 copies only Picture Disc
§ The Atlas Moth Black Trees /Wolvhammer Burn split 7” (500 copies only, colored vinyl)

§ The Hold Steady The Bear and the Maiden Fair b/w Criminal Fingers 7" (1500 copies only (1000 for US))

§ The Lonely Island (featuring Adam Levine and Kendrick Lamar) YOLO b/w YOLO (Sam F Remix) Yellow vinyl 7" (3000 copies)
§ The Seeds Bad Part of Town & Wish Me Up b/w Love in a Summer Basket & Did He Die 2x7" (Sundazed)

§ The Shangri-Las EP features Remember (Walkin' in the Sand) and Out in the Streets b/w I Can Never Go Home Anymore and Past, Present and Future

§ The Strokes All The Time 7” (will be UK only)
§ The Trashmen Mean Woman Blues b/w Big Boss Man Gold Vinyl (Sundazed)

§ Thermals Desperate Ground Demos 7" EP 1000 copies only
§ Toadies Down by the Water (PJ Harvey cover featuring Sarah Jaffe) b/w Rattler's Revivial 7"

§ Touche Amore and Title Fight split 7" Crescent Shaped Depression b/w Faceghost 7" single (1000 copies)
§ Trey Anastasio Blue Ash & Other Suburbs 7" Picture Disc (features 3 unreleased tracks from the Traveler Sessions---tracklisting: Blue Ash & Other Suburbs and Gone b/w Tree and Can You See It?)

§ Trouble In Mind 4 Way Split featuring Jacco Gardner--(Always on My Mind: Billy Nicholls), The Resonars (It's Alright Ma, It's Only Witchcraft: Fairpoint Convention), MMOSS (Cathy's Clown: Everly Brothers) and Maston (I Go to Sleep: The Kinks)
§ Twilight Zone b/w Outer Limits (TV Theme Songs Death Waltz 7"--might be UK only)
§ Uncluded, The Delicate Cycle b/w Earthquake (Green vinyl 7", limited to 1000 hand-numbered copies)
§ Whirr Part Time Punks Sessions 500 copies only on "Black on Electric Blue" colored vinyl (originally released digitally to help fix the band's van, features 4 tracks: Blue, Flashback, Junebouvier and Twist)
§ Willie Nelson Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die 7" (features Snoop Dogg, Jamey Johnson and Kris Kristofferson) on numbered green vinyl.
§ ZZ Ward Grinnin' In Your Face b/w Everybody Wants to Be Famous 7"

§ *NEW* The Repos Rejoice in Ruin b/w Haunted Piece 7" (400 copies only)
§ *NEW* Street Dogs Crooked Drunken Sons b/w We Fall Apart and I Got Drunk (Uncle Tupelo cover) 7" (500 copies only on bone colored vinyl)
§ *NEW* Poison Idea Filthkick EP 7" (1000 copies worldwide--500 for U.S. on black vinyl)
§ *NEW* Slipknot S/T EP 7" (Band from New Haven, CT on Revelation Records, 1000 copies on Orange vinyl)
§ *NEW* Ty Segall Ty Rex 2 7" sequel featuring new T.Rex covers (1500 copies)
§ *NEW* The Wedding Present Two Chansons 7" featuring two songs from Valentina performed in French (400 copies only)
§ *NEW* Tommy Keene Back to Zero Now 7" (500 copies)
§ *NEW* Invisible Hands (Alan Bishop of Sun City Girls) Insect Dilemma b/w Disallowed 7"
§ *NEW* Night Marchers/Mrs. Magician split 7"

10” RELEASES (COPIED FROM http://new-vinyl.blogspot.com):

§ Alejandro Escovedo It's A Sin (Eddy Arnold Cover) b/wChris Scruggs Just A Little Lovin' (Will Go a Long Way) (Eddy Arnold Cover) 78RPM 10" (CANCELLED)

§ Bombino Azamane Tiliade/Si Chilan 10" single (3000 copies)

§ Dave Brubeck Trio Distinctive Rhythm Instrumentals Red Vinyl 10" (2000 copies)
§ Face to Face The Other Half 10" (500 copies only colored vinyl)

§ GARBAGE Because the Night (featuring Screaming Females) b/w Love Like Suicide and Automatic Systematic Habit Costa Cadeu Remix (5000 copies)

§ Ghoul Intermediate Level Hard-Core - A Clearview Records Music Primer Featuring Ghoul (Contains covers of GWAR, Dayglo Abortions, N.O.T.A., Willful Neglect, etc) Red Vinyl 10" on 190g vinyl

§ Herman Dune Monument Park EP 10" featuring title track with 4 exclusive unreleased tracks (500 copies only)

§ Joe Bussard Guitar Rag b/w Screwdriver Slide 78RPM 10"

§ Josephine Foster Little Life (1st time on vinyl, originally released as a CD-R in 2001, comes with CD inside) 500 copies

§ Justin Townes Earle Yuma 10" EP (debut EP, previously only available on CD, Opaque Gold vinyl--1000 copies only)

§ Lee Scratch Perry & The Upsetters Chapter 1 (3x10" on Red, Green and Gold colored vinyl)

§ Little John's Clark Booty 10" Picture Disc featuring Little John and Scorcher

§ Marshall Crenshaw Stranger and Stranger EP2 (1st was released on Black Friday 2012)
§ Mumford & Sons Live at Bull Moose
§ Placebo B3 EP 10" (5 track EP, previously only available digitally) (3000 copies)
§ Punch Brothers Ahoy EP (features tracks by Josh Ritter, Mclusky, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings and more)
§ Ra Ra Riot Binary Mind 10" (1000 copies only)
§ Rob Zombie Dead City Radio and the New Gods of Supertown b/w Teenage Nosferatu Pussy 10" 45RPM single (4000 copies)
§ Scientist Scientific Dub 3x10" box, limited to 2000 copies on Red, Green and Gold colored vinyl.
§ Sly & The Family Stone I Want to Take You Higher 10” (features EXCLUSIVE b-side that will NOT be available in the upcoming boxset, only on this 10")
§ Soundgarden King Animal Demos Pink Vinyl 10” (6 tracks) (2500 copies)
§ The Animals The Animals are Back 10" cut at 45RPM (2700 copies for US)
§ The Animals The Animals is Here 10" cut at 45RPM (2700 copies for US)
§ The Cal Tjader Trio s/t Orange Vinyl 10"

§ *NEW* OMD Night Cafe 10"

12” RELEASES (COPIED FROM http://new-vinyl.blogspot.com):

§ A Place to Bury Strangers Strange Moon EP 12" featuring covers of Portland's Dead Moon's songs

§ Austra + Gina X Mayan Drums 12" (500 copies only)

§ Avenged Sevenfold Carry On Call of Duty Picture Disc limited to 5000 copies
§ Bardo Pond Rise Above It All (features covers of Funkadelic's "Maggot Brain" and Pharoah Sanders "the Creator has a Master Plan") 500 copies

§ Beta Band Champion Versions 12" (UK RSD)
§ Beta Band The Patty Patty Sound 12" (UK RSD)
§ Beta Band Los Amigos Del Beta Bandados 12" (UK RSD)

§ Bon Jovi Live EP 12" 4 track Picture Disc single (2000 copies)

§ Brian Eno x Nicolas Jaar x Grizzly Bear 12" (features Nicolas Jaar remixing a track from Brian Eno and Grizzy Bear's latest albums) (4500 copies)

§ BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE Fist Full of Bees b/w Food for Clouds Colored vinyl 12", numbered out of 2000 copies with 2 HIDDEN TRACKS

§ Brendon Benson & Willy Mason Upstairs at United Volume 7 12”

§ Buffalo Killers Ohio Grass 6 song 12" on Herb Green vinyl with pot leaf sticker

§ Chica Libre Quatra Tigres EP 4 track 12" featuring the theme the band did for the Simpsons features a jacket designed by a famous South American artist.

§ Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. Patterns 12" limited to 3000 copies
§ El Michels Affair Enter the 37th Chamber 12" Picture Disc single

§ Fela & Africa 70 Sorrow, Tears & Blood (original extended version--previously unreleased) b/w Perambulator

§ Fitz & The Tantrums Out of My League 12"

§ G Love & Special Sauce Bloodshot & Blue Acoustic EP (produced by Jack Johnson) 1500 copies

§ Gary Clark Jr. Presents HWUL Raw Cuts Volume 2 colored vinyl 12” (1000 copies)
§ Giant Giant Sand Return to Tucson (revised versions of 2012's Tucson) 1000 copies, with 100 having a screenprinted sleeve
§ Goat Run to Your Mama Remixes Volume 2 12" (Blue Vinyl, limited to 2000 copies) (UK ONLY)
§ Grouplove/Frightened Rabbit/Manchester OrchestraMake It To Me (Grouplove & Manchester Orchestra) b/w Architect (Frightened Rabbit & Manchester Orchestra) limited 12" with TWO DIFFERENT COVERS

§ Joy Formidable A Minute's Silence b/w Badlands (Live from Sirius Radio)
§ Junior Boys Even Truer Remix EP (500 copies only)

§ Moon Duo Circles Remixes 12" single (1100 copies)

§ New Found Glory Mania (Ramones Covers) 12" EP 1000 copies only (FEATURES THE FOLLOWING TRACKS COPIED FROM new-vinyl.blogspot.com:
1) I Wanna Be Sedated
2) Rockaway Beach
3) Rock N Roll High School
4) Do You Remember Rock N Roll Radio?
5) Judy is a Punk
6) The KKK Took My Baby Away

§ Owen Seaside EP 700 copies on Blue vinyl
§ OWLSA Various Artists 12” (Skrillex, etc.) (Postponed?)
§ Paul McCartney & Wings Maybe I'm Amazed (live 12") (3500 copies)

§ Pulp After You 12” (4000 copies)

§ Pussy Galore Groovy Hate Fuck EP reissue of the 1986 2nd release by Pussy Galore.

§ R15 Yep Roc Heresy/They Call It Rock 12” and DVD - First 300 include screen printed cover; All hand-numbered; DVD documentary of Yep Roc 15 artist recording session; Digital download of two additional bonus remixes

§ Refused Everlasting EP (3000 copies with new artwork)

§ Rhye Open 12" (features previously unreleased live version of title track) (1500 copies)

§ Robyn Hitchcock There Goes the Ice 12”-- 8 songs from his popular Digital Phantom 45 series, previously only available online; 2 new unreleased songs
§ Smoke Fairies Upstairs At United Volume 6 (recorded at URP on 10/17/11).

§ Steven Wilson Luminol (Demo Version) b/w The Watchmaker (Demo Version) 12" featuring 2 unreleased demo tracks from the "Raven that Refused to Sing" sessions.

§ Tame Impala Tame Impala EP (5000 copies)

§ Tegan & Sara Closer Remixes 12” (5000 copies)

§ The Fauns Fragile b/w Sun is Cruising Remixes 12" (1000 copies only)

§ The XX Jamie XX Edits 12” (4000 copies)

§ Their/They're/There Debut EP (featuring Evan Weiss, Mike Kinsella and Matthew Frank) 1000 copies on clear seafoam colored vinyl

§ Three Hits Pressure Dome 12" Colored vinyl EP (features 3 previously unreleased tracks)

§ Thurston Moore and Loren Conners The Only Way to Go is Straight Through 12" (2000 copies)

§ Tift Merritt 12” - Acoustic version of title track from new album Traveling Alone, along with three unreleased songs; Handmade and numbered covers
§ Titus Andronicus Record Store Day EP 12” (3 song EP, featuring the album track "Still Life with Hot Deuce and Silver Platter" and features 2 unreleased tracks--"(I've Got a) Date Tonight" and "The Dog"...limited to 2500 copies)

§ Tour only split EP featuring Kadavar, Blckwvs, The Tidal Sleep and Messer on colored vinyl limited to only 300 copies (previously only available in Europe before shows or through This Charming Man's webstore afterwards, first time available in US)
§ Turning Shrines Face of Another 12' EP w/bonus 7" (600 copies only)
§ Walk the Moon Tightrope EP features 6 tracks including an acoustic version of Tightrope and a cover of the Talking Heads 'Burning Down the House'

§ *NEW* Thee Oh Sees Moon Sick 12" EP
§ *NEW* Mugstar Centralla 12" (2 track 12" on blue vinyl, limited to 300 copies)
§ *NEW* Tunabunny Form A Line 12" (limited to 200 copies)
§ *NEW* The Asphodells Remix 12" (limited to 1000 copies)

LP RELEASES (COPIED FROM http://new-vinyl.blogspot.com):

§ A. Vuolo / E. Grande Desert
§ Across Tundras / Lark's Tongue Split LP

§ Aerosmith Aerosmith 180g LP, individually numbered
§ Aerosmith Get Your Wings 180g LP, individually numbered
§ Aerosmith Toys in the Attic 180g LP, individually numbered
§ Akimbo Live to Crush (limited, hand-numbered LP)
§ All That Remains Fall of Ideals LP (1st time on vinyl)
§ Aloha Here Comes Everyone limited Green vinyl LP
§ Antonio Maiovvi Yellow--Music from the Short Film(Death Waltz LP on Yellow/Blood splatter vinyl)
§ Arawak Accad (de A

§ Art Blakey & the Jazz Messingers Munich '59 LP (unreleased concert, 1st time on vinyl)
§ At the Drive-In Relationship of Command (Limited Colored RSD version) (4000 copies)

§ Avenged Sevenfold Live in the LBC & Diamonds in the Rough (LP w/DVD--limited to 3500 copies)

§ Barrington Levy's Reggae Anthology: Sweet Reggae Music (1979-84) LP
§ Bayside Live at the Bayside Social Club 2LP reissue 900 copies on white vinyl (1st time on vinyl, also includes acoustic tracks recorded at Looney Tunes Record Store)

§ Ben Harper By My Side LP
§ Between the Buried and Me Anatomy Of 2LP 900 copies on orange vinyl (1st time on vinyl)

§ Big Star Nothing Can Hurt Me (Special Pressing 2LP)180g Gatefold featuring demos, outtakes and new mixes of tracks taken from the Nothing Can Hurt Me Documentary. (1000 copies only)

§ Black Swans Occasion for Song Deluxe Gatefold 2LP reissue limited to 500 copies

§ Blitzen Trapper Blitzen Trapper 180g LP with digital download and 5 unreleased tracks
§ Big Mamma Thornton Jail

§ Black Milk Synth or Soul LP

§ Blind Melon Blind Melon + Sippin Time Sessions EP 2LP (2000 copies only)

§ Botch American Nervoso Remastered LP with bonus tracks never before on vinyl (1500 copies)
§ Braid Frame and Canvas Limited, Numbered LP on colored vinyl with poster and download card.
§ Brother Ali Shadows on the Sun (Double picture disc LP, hand-numbered out of 2000 copies)
§ Buddy Guy Hold That Plane

§ Built to Spill LIVE 2LP w/CD (2500 copies)
§ Calexico Spirtoso (LP + CD, Live tracks, previously only available on tour on vinyl)

§ Captain Beefheart Frank Freeman's Dance Club180g Purple vinyl Gatefold LP

§ Casket Girls The Casket Girls (Beer & Mustard colored vinyl LP)

§ Cave In Until Your Heart Stops Remastered LP (750 copies)
§ Codeine 1993 Live LP—What About the Lonely 150g LP (2000 copies)

§ Coheed & Cambria The Afterman: Descension (Big Beige Demos) LP (2500 copies)
§ Corn on Macabre Discographic Violence LP (400 copies)

§ Country Joe & the Fish I Feel Like I"m Fixin to Die Remastered LP from the original tapes. (1500 copies)

§ Coupler Sunless LP

§ Cream Live at the Royal Albert Hall 3LP Deluxe Set on "Cream" colored vinyl

§ CSC Funk Band Funkincense LP

§ Cure Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me Individually Numbered, Red Vinyl LP

§ Cut Copy Bright Like Neon Love Gatefold LP w/3 art inserts (1st time on vinyl--4000 copies)

§ Cypress Hill Black Sunday 180g 2LP, individually numbered

§ Damon & Naomi The Wonderous World of Damon & Naomi (Bootleg Edition) LP
§ Daniel Johnston Fun (2000 copies only--originally supposed to be released for Black Friday RSD and cancelled, it will now officially come out!)

§ Davenport Cabinet Our Machine LP (solo project from Travis Stever of Coheed and Cambria) (500 copies only)

§ Deftones Live Volume 1--Selections from Adrenaline LP (tracks are Minus Blindfold and Teething b/w Nosebleed and Engine No.9 all live from Buffalo, NY on 10/13/96)

§ Destroyer This Night (Remastered LP, 1st time available in US, limited to 2000 copies)
§ Dio Magika Limited Picture Disc LP 500 copies only (features Japanese Bonus Track "Annica")

§ Double Dagger 333 LP + "If We Shoult Loud Enough DVD (1000 copies worldwide)
§ Durutti Column A Paean to Wilson 2LP Deluxe (may be UK/EU only)

§ Dust S/T and Hard Attack Remastered Gatefold 2LP, individually numbered (both albums are packaged together and will *NOT* be sold separately)

§ Empty Mansions (Interpol's Sam Fogarino's band) Snakes/Vultures/Sulfate (1st 500 LPs on Gold colored 160g vinyl)
§ Eric Church Caught in the Act: Live (RSD version with 4 extra tracks and bonus 7") (3000 copies)

§ Evian Christ Duga-3 LP
§ Flaming Lips Zaireeka 4LP (random colored vinyl--7500 copies)

§ Foals Holy Fire LP w/bonus 7" (5000 copies)

§ Frightened Rabbit Midnight Organ Fight (Special RSD edition reissue) LP

§ Genius/GZA Liquid Swords—the Chess Vinyl Edition (Contains the entire Liquid Swords album and complete instrumentals as well as a in-depth, full color linear notes with contributions from GZA himself and a full-sized chess set)
§ Ghoul Maniaxe (1st time on vinyl, this Colored LP features a 16 page comic book detailing the story of the album)
§ Giant Henry Big Baby (Pre-Unwound Members in High School) Limited Edition hand-screened LP with 3 different covers.

§ Glove Blue Sunshine Individually Numbered, Blue colored LP

§ Golden Gunn LP (Collaboration between Hiss Golden Messenger and Steve Gunn—140g LP with 900 copies only)
§ Grateful Dead Rare Cuts & Oddities 1966 180g 2LP, individually numbered.
§ Grey Area Fanbelt Algebra 900 copies on white vinyl
§ Grizzly Bear Horn of Plenty (vinyl reissue on Kanine Records)
§ Headless Dogs 1-5 (Various Colors, 450 copies only)
§ Ilsa The Maggots Are Hungry (remastered) LP (250 copies only)

§ ISAN Beautronics 2LP remastered (1st time on vinyl)

§ Jerry Goldsmith Poltergeist Original Soundtrack (Glow in the Dark vinyl--500 copies only)
§ Joan Jett & The Blackhearts s/t 180g LP with CD featuring live footage and bonus tracks, individually numbered

§ John Coltrane Newport 61 LP (Previously unreleased July 1st recording at the Newport Music Festival)

§ Junip S/T Colored vinyl RSD LP (500 copies)

§ King Tubby Meets the Upsetter at the Grass Roots of Dub (features Lee Scratch Perry) LP

§ Komeda The Genius Of 180g LP (1st time on vinyl)
§ Lamb of God New American Gospel (500 copies only)
§ Linkin Park Hybrid Theory Colored Vinyl LP with poster and bonus 10" of the "One Step Closer" single---3000 copies)

§ Liquid Tension Experiment 2 180g Colored Vinyl 2LP in Gatefold sleeve (1st time on vinyl)
§ LP Into the Wild--Live at EastWest Studios (2000 copies)
§ Mad Season Above Deluxe 2LP

§ Mamas & The Papas if You can Believe Your Eyes and Ears LP (UK RSD)
§ Marco Benevento Invisible Baby Blue vinyl LP (1st time on vinyl)
§ Mercury Rev Deserted Songs (White/Clear Colored LP featuring outtakes from the 1998 Deserter's Song sessions)

§ Miles Davis Milestones 180g Mono LP, individually numbered
§ Miles Davis 'Round about Midnight 180g Mono LP, individually numbered
§ Miles Davis Someday My Prince Will Come 180g Mono LP, individually numbered

§ Miles Davis The Kinda Blue Sessions '59 LP

§ Nick Drake Nick Drake Limited Edition gatefold heavyweight LP w/poster, remastered at Abbey Road. (4000 copies)

§ Now Now Neighbors (Deluxe) Mint Green Vinyl LP with bonus Remixes album included (500 copies)

§ Orange Juice Rip It Up LP
§ Orange Juice You Can't Hide Your Love Forever LP
§ Orange Texas Fever LP
§ Orange Juice Self-Titled LP
§ OST--The Girl From UNCLE (Music from the TV Series The Girl From UNCLE) Remastered LP.

§ Oval Systemisch Clear Vinyl 2LP (1500 copies worldwide)
§ Oval 94diskont Orange Vinyl 2LP (1500 copies worldwide)

§ Page McConnell (Phish Keyboardist) Unsung Cities and Movies Never Made (1000 copies, each numbered on 180g Red vinyl)

§ PHISH LAWN BOY (Individually numbered pressing, out of 7500 copies, with 2 180g LPs with an etched D side....includes download card)

§ Phosphorescent Aw Come Aw Wry LP reissue with tweaked cover and bonus download card that includes never before released live tracks
§ Porno for Pyros S/T 20th Anniversary 180g Tie-Dye Colored Vinyl (1000 copies)
§ Public Enemy Planet Earth-Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Greatest Rap Hits (Picture Disc LP)
§ Rainer Ptackek Barefoot Rock (with Das Combo) (Originally released only in Germany, now remastered with bonus tracks) 1000 copies
§ Replikas Biz Burada Yok Iken LP (1st time available in US)

§ Rockabye Baby songs of the White Stripes LP

§ Rocket From the Crypt Group Sounds 180g Gatefold LP (500 copies only)
§ Rocket From the Crypt Live from Camp X-Ray 180g Gatefold LP (500 copies only)

§ Samiam Clumsy Red Vinyl LP, each individually numbered (First time with US pressing..original was released in Germany) (1500 copies)

§ Shuggie Otis Introducing Shuggie Otis 180g LP, individually numbered

§ Sigur Ros Agaetis Byrjun (1000 copies only)
§ Small Faces There Are But Four Small Faces Remastered LP
§ Sonny & The Sunsets Tomorrow is Alright Colored Vinyl LP with new silk-screened cover.
§ Spacemen 3 Perfect Prescription 180g Baby Blue Vinyl LP (2000 copies)
§ Spacemen 3 Performance 180g Orange Vinyl LP (2000 copies)
§ Spacemen 3 Sound of Confusion 180g White Vinyl LP (2000 copies)
§ Stephen Malkmus & Friends Ege Bamyasi (Covering the classic CAN LP) Limited to 3500 copies, with Green vinyl in the US and Red Vinyl for the UK/EU.
§ Steve Moore Horror Business (Death Waltz LP on colored vinyl)

§ Straylight Run Prepare to be Wrong LP reissue 900 copies on red vinyl (1st time on vinyl)

§ Swedish House Mafia The Singles LP (500 copies)

§ Taj Mahal Hidden Treasures 180g 2LP, individually numbered
§ Taj Mahal Natch'l Blues 180g LP, individually numbered
§ The Band The Last Waltz 3LP 180g deluxe version with 12 page booklet, individually numbered.

§ The Notorious B.I.G. Ready to Die Individually Numbered LP on White Vinyl

§ The Prize Fighter Inferno Half Measures Glow in the Dark LP (solo project from Claudio Sanchez from Coheed and Cambria) (500 copies only)

§ The Roots Things Fall Apart 180g 2LP (features "Riot" cover and was the debut of Eve) (4000 copies)
§ Van Dyke Parks Song Cycle 180g Mono LP, individually numbered
§ Van Dyke Parks Super Chief (unreleased LP)§ Von Grey Live & Criminal Records LP
§ Wake A Light Far Out 500 copies only, New LP. (may be UK only...but did show up on one US distribution list I was sent)
§ White Mystery Telepathic Colored vinyl LP.

§ White Stripes Elephant re-issue on colored vinyl
§ Willie Nelson Crazy: The Demo Sessions (2000 copies)

§ Winston Edwards' Natty Locks Dub Reissue LP

§ Wire Change Becomes Us RSD 180g LP (1000 copies, each hand numbered)
§ Zombies Zombies LP

§ *NEW* Elliott Songs in a Transit World RSD LP (700 copies on clear vinyl)
§ *NEW* Integrity Systems Overload (Original Mix) LP (Black Vinyl, limited to 350 hand numbered copies)
§ *NEW* Comeback Kid Turn It Around LP (600 copies on blue vinyl)
§ *NEW* Sense Field S/T LP (700 copies on red vinyl)
§ *NEW* Nerve Agents Days of the White Owl LP (700 copies on white vinyl)
§   *NEW* Carlton Melton Europe Live 2012 2LP (500 copies on clear/splatter vinyl)
§   *NEW* Scientists S/T LP (Reissue of 1979 debut, 500 copies on pink vinyl)
§   *NEW* Bong Untitled 180g LP (300 copies on purple vinyl)
§   *NEW* Andrew Liles (Nurse With Wound/Current 93) Murgatroyd the Monster (A Northern Noir) 180g LP (300 copies on clear vinyl)
§   *NEW* Cuntz Aloha LP (200 copies only)
§   *NEW* Watchout! Flashbacker LP (200 copies only)

VARIOUS ARTIST RELEASES (COPIED FROM http://new-vinyl.blogspot.com):

§ ASTRALWERKS 20/20 (20th Anniversary 7x7" box set with 20 Colored Flexi discs featuring rare/unreleased tracks by FSOL, Beta Band, Fatboy Slim, Royksopp, Basement Jaxx, Doves, Cassius, David Guetta, Swedish House Mafia, Hot Chip, Kraftwerk, Air, Chemical Bros. and more!) (1000 Copies only)

§ Blues at Newport 1963
§ Newport Folk Festival 1965
§ ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK--DAZED AND CONFUSED (1st time on vinyl--features artists such as Black Sabbath, Kiss, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper, Foghat and more) LP is individually numbered on GREEN vinyl

§ Reason to Believe--The Songs of Tim Hardin (features Mark Lanegan, Smoke Fairies, Okkervill River, Magnetic North and more) 1000 copies

§ Sub Pop 1000 (V/A LP) 5000 copies
§ Various Artists Factory Records: Communications 1978-1992 (Limited Edition 10", limited to 3000 copies worldwide featuring She's Lost Control by Joy Division, 1963 (12" Remastered Version) by New Order, Otis by the Durutti Column and Loose Fit (12" version by Happy Mondays)
§ Various Artists No Alternative 180g 2LP, individually numbered (1st time on VINYL featuring tracks by Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Beastie Boys and more!!)
§ Various Artists Drive Original Soundtrack LP PICTURE DISC featuring new artwork by Tyler Stout (different than LP cover)
§ Windup Records 15th Anniversary 10" (Red vinyl 10" featuring acoustic/rare tracks from Seether, Creed, Finger Eleven, The Darkness, the VirginMarys and more)

BOX SET RELEASES (COPIED FROM http://new-vinyl.blogspot.com):
§ Between the Buried and Me Parallax I & II Colored vinyl box set (Blue/Pink/White Splatter vinyl) 1000 copies only

§ Cotillion Records (1968-1970) 10x7" BOX SET (limited to 2500 copies worldwide, box features artists such as The Dynamics, Otis Clay, Lou Johnson, Walter Jackson and more!)

§ DAVE MATTHEWS BAND LIVE TRAX VOLUME 1: 12/8/98 VINYL BOX SET 180g 4LP BLUE VINYL BOX SET LIMITED TO 500 COPIES ONLY!!!
§ Doctor Ross The Sensational Harmonica Boss (3 x 7" box set)
§ Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP) The First Five--Picture Disc Collection--The first 5 ELP albums, as Picture Discs, in a individually numbered box (1250 copies total)
§ Half Japanese Half Gentlemen / Not Beasts 4LP Box with 32 page booklet, fold out poster, download card and badge, featuring new exclusive tracks (1000 copies)

§ Jandeck Jandeck vinyl box set LP

§ NoBunny Love Visions 6x7" Box Set
§ Paul Weller Sonic Kicks 5x7” Box Set. Colored Vinyl Box with autographed poster features 2 unreleased tracks (600 copies)

The Best Vinyl LP Box Sets of 2012

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TOP 10 BOX SET RELEASES FOR 2012

Hello and Happy New Year! We survived the apocalypse and can still collect vinyl records!! After another great year of vinyl sales, we also saw some great box sets come out on vinyl. Here are my Top 10 releases from 2012:

10) Into It. Over It. 52 Weeks 4LP Box Set

Released on No Sleep Records, this was originally put out as a Double CD in 2009. But this project demanded a release on vinyl and it couldn’t have turned out better. If you didn’t know, Evan Weiss decided to write, record and release a new song every week back in 2007. By the end of the project, over 300,000 downloads allowed various people to be introduced to his style of music. This high quality release features 52 tracks spread out over 4LPs with a 52 page book that captures the journey Weiss took 4 years ago.

Pressing Info:

1000 total copies (500 180g Black, 300 White and 200 Clear Red)

Note: An additional 99 copies were made for their 2012 tour on Clear Vinyl and personalized to each person who purchased it.

I have the Clear and Red Versions.

9) Smashing Pumpkins Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness 4LP Deluxe Reissue.

For those who jumped on the Smashing Pumpkins bandwagon late and were never able to get one of the 3LP Numbered copies released in the UK on Hut Records (nor wish to pay $500 for it on Ebay), then this release is for you. Finally available in the US, this 4LP set comes on 180g vinyl, was remastered and housed in a 12x12 rigid slipcase with 2 books containing personal notes, new collage artwork, lyrics and more.

8) Codeine When I See The Sun 3LP Box Set

Chicago’s Numero Group is well known for their attention to detail and great packaging. So it was a surprise when this set was announced in 2012. As a fan of the band when they were on Sub Pop, I was excited to see this release happen and it didn’t disappoint. This set included new essays by Sub Pop’s Jonathan Poneman, Love Child’s Alan LIcht and the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne and Steven Drozd. The albums were each restored from their original masters and are accompanied by a plethora of singles, demos, live records and Peel Sessions. The Box was limited to 1000 copies and if you were one of the early pre-orders (first 500), you got a bonus 7” single in a “Sub Pop” style singles club sleeve and Numero also re-made the classic Sub Pop loser shirt as a Winner edition (100 only).

7) Elbow Definitive Collection 7LP Box Set

Apparently now sold out on both Universal UK’s site and Amazon’s UK site, this box set was limited to just 2000 copies. Each LP was placed on heavyweight vinyl and features the following:

Asleep In the Back - featuring the track 'Asleep In The Back' for the first time on vinyl
Cast of Thousands - currently out of press on vinyl, and first time it will be available as a double gatefold
Leaders of the Free World - currently out of press on vinyl, and first time it will be available as a double gatefold
The Seldom Seen Kid
Build A Rocket Boys!
Dead In The Boot
Live at Abbey Road - previously only available as a CD release and not available outside of this box set.
USB of all tracks in high resolution .Wav files (Note: USB stick is in its own gatefold sleeve and inside it states that this spot is reserved for the next Elbow album)

6) CAN The Lost Tapes 5LP Box Set

This limited Vinyl Box Set, includes 5 x 180g vinyl LP's, a 28 page 12" booklet and a 24" poster - includes 30 previously unreleased tracks. The Lost Tapes was curated by Irmin Schmidt and Daniel Miller, compiled by Irmin Schmidt and Jono Podmore, and edited by Jono Podmore. When the legendary Can studio in Weilerswist was sold to the German Rock N Pop Museum, they bought everything, including the army mattresses that covered the walls for sound protection, and relocated it to Gronau. Whilst dismantling the studio, master tapes were found and stored in the Spoon archive. With barely legible labelling, no one was sure what was on these until Irmin Schmidt and long time collaborator Jono Podmore started to go through over 30 hours of music. What they found was years of archived material, not outtakes, but rather tracks which had been shelved for a variety of reasons - soundtracks to films that were never released and tracks that didn't make it onto the final versions of albums due to space. Let’s hope 2013 sees the release of the rumored deluxe vinyl box of all of Can’s albums.

5) William Basinski’s The Disintegration Loops 9LP Box Set

I could go on and on how great this release is and how wonderful a job Temporary Residence did in producing it, but I’ll let their own words due the set justice:

For a collection of music built around the poignant inevitability of decay, there has been a great many hopeful and inspired words devoted to William Basinski's The Disintegration Loops: stunning, ethereal, majestic, transfixing, life-affirming... and for good reason. From its 20-year gestation period to its infamously fateful completion, The Disintegration Loops is one of the most powerful manifestations of the inevitable cycle of life ever committed to tape, even as it documents the inevitable decay of all that is committed to tape. The very passage of time is its most effective instrument. To mark the 10-year anniversary of its original release -- and its forthcoming induction into the 9/11 Memorial Museum this year -- Temporary Residence Ltd. is honored to collaborate with William Basinski in presenting The Disintegration Loops in a fashion truly befitting a library of music with such a lasting legacy. This massive limited-edition box set contains all four historic volumes, plus a pair of stunning live orchestral performances from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the 54th Venice Biennale, both previously unreleased. Remastered from the original recordings and pressed onto 100% virgin vinyl for the first and only time, this exquisite box set also includes all of the remastered recordings on 5 CDs, the extremely rare 63-minute The Disintegration Loops film on DVD, and a 144-page full-color coffee table book featuring rare photos taken during the making of The Disintegration Loops, and liner notes by Basinski, Antony, David Tibet of Current 93, Ronen Givony of the Wordless Music Series, and Michael Shulan, Creative Director of the National September 11 Memorial Museum.

The Disintegration Loops has never appeared on vinyl, and will never appear so again outside of this sincerely special, breathtakingly beautiful collection.

4) Various Artists—Music That Changes the World 4LP Box Set

Originally released on Record Store Day (in limited quantities due to production issues), this box got lost in the shuffle in my opinion, yet was one of the nicest sets released in 2012. This 4LP box set features 34 EXCLUSIVE tracks, most of which have never been released on vinyl until now. 2500 copies of this box were produced and it features a gorgeous 42 page color book with an introduction by David Lynch. The book is illustrated by Romio Shrestha and artist Davel Hamue. This Box features tracks from artists such as Peter Gabriel, Iggy Pop, Moby, Neon Trees, Maroon 5, Jakob Dylan, Donovan, Charlatans, Ben Folds, Dave Stewart, Amanda Palmer, Alanis Morissette, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Andy Summers and more.

Do yourself a favor and seek out this box set and add it to your collection. You’ll help the David Lynch foundation and get a great release at the same time!

3) Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross—The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Soundtrack 6LP Boxset

A truly stunning piece of art, since ice and winter were a major theme in the tone of the music, it became the inspiration for the look and feel of the box set.

An acrylic “ice” slipcase houses a book of six vinyl records, an exclusive fold-out poster by Neil Kellerhouse, and an 8gb USB razor blade pendant inspired by Lisbeth’s necklace in the film. The USB drive contains the album in high definition 96k FLAC. Each package is numbered in an edition of 3000, and each is personally signed by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross.

See some great pics here: http://www.topdesignmag.com/the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo-soundtrack-packaging/

2) Incubus HQ Live Box Set

Limited to just 1000 copies, this massive box set was a huge surprise with great design, a great price (based on what you get) and a must for any live music fan. This set included:

An autographed, 48 page coffee table photo book embedded with a unique piece of art from the actual canvases created by the band and fans at HQ Live.
(4) 180 Gram LP Vinyl Set, including live versions of the albums: Morning View, Make Yourself and If Not Now, When?. Vinyl set will also include The Best Of Nights 3-5.
DVD/Blu Ray (2) Disc Set with 5.1 Surround Sound featuring live performances from the HQ Live Sessions, interviews with the band & fans, Behind The Scenes footage, clips from the musicians clinics and much more.
(6) CD set of each night's performance
Commemorative collector's laminate

1) Ryan Adams Live After Deaf 15LP Box Set

When this box went on sale in June, there was a lot of mystery around it….how many copies were made? Where were the live shows from? Went it went on sale it crashed the website so badly that several fans were shutout and cursed the Ryan and PaxAm Records on Facebook, Twitter and Message Boards. Supposedly limited to around 300 copies, this mega box set contains 144 Live Tracks from Ryan’s European Tour from 2011. The bonus? The box contained a download card that gave you an additional 74 bonus tracks too!!

This will be one of the most highly collectible and sought after box sets in many years.

Honorable Mentions (In no particular order):

Rolling Stones GRRR 5LP Box Set
NOFX 126 Inches 7” Box Set
Thrice Anthology 4LP Box Set
Blur 21 13LP Box
Black Sabbath Vinyl Collection 1970-78 9LP Box
The Who—Studio Albums 14LP Box
Beatles Stereo 14LP Box Set

What Box Sets did you enjoy in 2012?

Also--be on the look out for my Record Store Day 2013 post soon. We've already had a few releases by Flaming Lips, Codeine, Mad Season and Best Coast announced.

RSD Black Friday 2012 or...Record Store Day (RSD) Presents Back To Black Friday 2012 or...#RSDBlackFriday or #RSDBF2012

2012-11-02T12:12:00.000-07:00

Ahh....here were are again. Another great time of year.....cooler temperatures, football on TV and Thanksgiving. Amid the chaos of Black Friday, the fine folks over at Record Store Day have again, for the 3rd year in a row, decided to release a few, select items that you can give yourself or friends/family for the Holidays. This year Black Friday is November 23rd, 2012. Here is an advance look at some of the items coming out:

UPDATE ON 10/16/2012 with 1st CANCELLED RELEASE--YOU HEARD IT HEAR FIRST!
UPDATE ON 10/17/12 with 2 more releases from A389 records (ILSA and NOTHING)!
UPDATE ON 11/1/12 with a couple of more releases (Beck and Gary Clark Jr.)

CANCELLED RELEASE:

Daniel Johnston FUN LP (2000 copies only) WILL NO LONGER BE RELEASED AT ALL.

CD Releases:

Joey Ramone Ya Know? DELUXE EDITION (This deluxe package includes the 15 song CD, a brand new DVD (Featuring never before seen footage of Joey and candid interviews with Joe Strummer, Elvis Costello and more, a brand new music video directed by Greg Jardin and a Short Film by Joey Ramone, edited by George Seminara), a "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want to Fight Tonight)" PLAYABLE 5" GREEN VINYL holiday ornament and a 24 page booklet with extensive photos. (500 copies only for Black Friday, additional copies will be released afterwards)
Bettye LaVette More Thankful, More Thoughtful EP (5 unreleased tracks including cover of Julie Miller's "Long Time")
*NEW* Jellyfish Stack-A-Tracks 2CD set (numbered and limited to 2500 copies)
*NEW* Imaginational Anthem 6CD box set of acoustic guitar players (see the press release here: http://www.imaginationalanthem.com/)

7" Releases:

Captian Beefheart & His Magic Band--Abba Zaba b/w Yellow Brick Road
Captian Beefheart & His Magic Band--Plastic Factory b/w Where There's a Woman
Captian Beefheart & His Magic Band--Upon the My-O-My b/w I Got Love on My Mind
Gene Clark--Echoes b/w I Found You
Link Wray--Big City After Dark / Hold It b/w Dance Party Pts. 1 & 2 (2x7")
*UPDATE* Tomahawk--"Stone Letter" b/w Etched b-side (2,500 copies)
White Stripes--Dead Leaves b/w Stop Breaking Down (RED VINYL)
White Stripes--Fell in Love With A Girl b/w I Just Don't Know What to Do (RED VINYL)
White Stripes--Hotel Yorba b/w Rated X (RED VINYL)
My Chemical Romance 2nd Single for the Conventional Weapons Box Set featuring Ambulance b/w Gun (Red 7" single)
Bert Jansch Blackwater Side b/w Heartbreak Hotel (1000 copies only)
*CONFIRMED* David Bowie Jean Genie Picture Disc (originally supposed to be out on 11/20 in the US, appears to have been moved to take advantage of Black Friday, since Starman came out for RSD in April)
Malhombre (Frederic Blasco) double A sided 7" featuring Musique Rock b/w Fini. 7" features duets with April March and Melissa Auf Der Mar with cover art & photography by Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Frederic is a touring member of Interpol and has also played with Wilco and Swervedriver
CeeLo Green/Donny Hathaway This Christmas (Side by Side 7" release on split red and green colored vinyl)
Toro y Moi So Many Details limited 7" (b-side features title track remix featuring Hodgy Beats)
Jeff the Brotherhood Dark Energy 7"
*NEW* Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros and Aaron Embry split 7" featuring Give Me A Sign b/w Moon of the Daylit Sky (limited to 1000 copies)
*NEW* The Rolling Stones Rolling Stones EP (EP from '64 re-released and limited to 5000 copies..features tracks Bye Bye Johnny, Money, You Better Move On and Poison Ivy (version 2))
*NEW* Frank Zappa Why Don'cha Do Me Right b/w Big Leg Emma (individually numbered and limited to 4000 copies)
*NEW* Bob Dylan Duquesne Whistle b/w Meet Me in the Morning (Blood in the Tracks unreleased version) (5000 copies only)
*NEW* Band of Horses Sonic Ranch Sessions (2000 copies only)
*NEW* Leonard Cohen/Jeff Buckley Hallelujah Split 7" with each singing the song (4000 copies, each numbered)
*NEW* Lee Hazelwood You Turned My Head (11x7" boxset, each numbered and limited to 3000 copies)
*NEW* The Shins No Way Down b/w Fall of '82. Both tracks produced by Richard Swift (aka Swift Sessions) and 7" is limited to 2500 copies
*NEW* Lucero 7" Live at Sun Studios (1500 copies)
*NEW* Ethan Johns Whip Poor Will (1000 copies)
*NEW* Boris / Asobi Seksu Split 7"

10" Releases:

My Morning Jacket w/Brittany Howard (Alabama Shakes) "It Makes No Difference" (LIVE Colored Vinyl 10").......Recorded live at the Newport Folk Festival on 7/28/12. B-side is "Grab A Body" (Previously Unreleased) and the download card includes a bonus live recording of "Honest Man". Limited to 2000 copies
Primus Eyes of the Squirrel BW/Jilly's On Smack (LIVE GREEN VINYL 10"). 2 tracks from the bands Denver show in the fall of 2011 on special Green vinyl which will be wrapped in a sleeve made from real green naugahyde. 750 copies ONLY!
Lumineers Winter EP (4 track 10" featuring all-new, unreleased tracks)
*NEW* Moonrise Kingdom (Original Score) Soundtrack (4000 copies)
*NEW* Mayer Hawthorne KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic! LIVE CLEAR VINYL 10" limited to 3000 copies. Features 6 tracks (Love in Motion, No Strings, and Dreaming b/w Shiny & News, I Wish it Would Rain and The Walk)
*NEW* The Gaslight Anthem Hold You Up RED VINYL 10" featuring 3 unreleased acoustic tracks limited to 3,000 copies. (Tracks--Hold You Up, Misery and Skinny Love)
*NEW* Beach Boys Gatefold 2x10" featuring That's Why God Made the Radio, Surfin and more.
*NEW* Lucinda Williams/Michael Chapman That Time of Night Split 10" of each artist performing title track limited to 1000 copies.
*NEW* Norah Jones Little Broken Hearts Remix EP (1500 copies)
*NEW* Buck Owens Sings the Eagles
*NEW* Wanda Jackson Capital Rarities
*NEW* Merle Haggard Capital Rarities
*NEW* George Jones United Artists Rarities
*NEW* Marshall Crenshaw I don't see you laughing now
*NEW* MAD SEASON River of Deceit b/w I Don't Know Anything (LIVE) Colored vinyl 10" (2000 copies)

78 RPM Releases

*NEW* Tyler Ramsey (Band of Horses) Raven Shadow b/w Black Pines

12" Releases

King Diamond No Presents for Christmas 12" Limited Picture Disc (B-side features "Charon")
Skrillex Bangarang EP (featuring guests such as Ellie Goulding and Ray Manzarek of the Doors) (180g Black Vinyl w/download card)
Skrillex More Monsters and Sprites EP (remixes by Kaskade and others) (180g Black Vinyl w/download card)
Skrillex Scary Monsters and Sprites EP (180g Black Vinyl w/download card that features 3 bonus tracks)
Dr. Dog Wild Race 5 track limited 12" with b-side etching
*NEW* M83 Reunion Remixes (limited to 2800 copies)
*NEW* John Mayer Complete 2012 Performance Collection 4 live acoustic tracks (2800 copies)
*NEW* Eric Burden & The Greenhornes 180g 4 track EP (2000 copies)
*NEW* Tenacious D "Simply Jazz" Features an 11 minute 43 second jazz song with download card giving you access to a video of them recording the song. Limited to 1000 copies
*NEW* NOTHING "Downward Years to Come"

LP Releases

Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale "Buddy & Jim" BOOTLEG VINYL EDITION (hand stamped and numbered out of 1000 copies, just like releases by The Stars, Alabama Shakes and Primus)
Volbeat "The Strength/Sound/The Songs" (Picture Disc LP, 1000 copies)
Volbeat "Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood" (Picture Disc LP, 1000 copies)
Volbeat "Rock The Rebel/Metal The Devil' (Picture Disc LP, 1000 copies)
Mayhem "De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas" (180g 2LP w/Poster, 750 copies)
Borknager "The Olden Domain" (180g LP w/ Poster, 750 copies)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse Psychodelic Pill (3LP)
Big Boys Wreck Collection (2LP on Green & Purple Swirled Vinyl)....Comprehensive, remastered collection of 34 tracks including original demos, outtakes and live tracks that span the band's entire career (79-84)
Grateful Dead Live at Winterland (5/30/1971) 2LP 180g Release limited to 7500 copies worldwide with linear notes by Blair Jackson
Love Forever Changes (180g LP w/bonus 7" featuring unreleased track "Alone Again Or") 1500 copies only
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros Live at Acton 2002 (16 track live LP with encore tracks featuring Mick Jones, each LP is hand numbered)
Daniel Johnston FUN (Remastered LP limited to just 2000 copies)
Mogwai A Wrenched Virile Lore (2LP colored remix album, limited to 2500 copies, featuring remixes by Soft Moon, Zombi, Xander Harris and more!)
*NEW* Coheed & Cambria The Afterman---Ascension (Big Beige Demos) 8 track Demo LP, 1000 copies only on CLEAR VINYL
*NEW* Nirvana Incesticide 25th Anniversary 180g 45RPM 2LP edition. Remastered 2LP by Bernie Grundman in deluxe gatefold sleeve. Ltd to 4000 individually numbered copies.
*NEW* Reservoir Dogs Soundtrack LP 20th Anniversary LP on Blonde, Blue, Brown, Orange, White or Pink colored vinyl (Randomly inserted)...Ltd to 4000 individually numbered copies.
*NEW* Velvet Underground & Nico Scepter Studios Acetate 180g LP. On vinyl for the 1st time, limited to 5000 individually numbered copies.
*NEW* Rage Against the Machine S/T Picture Disc LP
*NEW* Johnny Cash Fabulous Johnny Cash 180g MONO LP (3000 copies, each numbered)
*NEW* Miles Davis Miles Ahead 180g MONO LP (3000 copies, each numbered)
*NEW* Miles Davis Porgy & Bess 180g MONO LP (3000 copies, each numbered)
*NEW* Miles Davis Sketches of Spain 180g MONO LP (3000 copies, each numbered)
*NEW* Incubus Crow Left of Murder Numbered, Ltd Gatefold 180g LP 3000 copies only
*NEW* Incubus Light Grenades Numbered, Ltd Gatefold 180g LP 3000 copies only
*NEW* Incubus Morning View Numbered, Ltd Gatefold 180g LP 3000 copies only
*NEW* Incubus Make Yourself Numbered, Ltd Gatefold 180g LP 3000 copies only
*NEW* Incubus S.C.I.E.N.C.E. Numbered, Ltd Gatefold 180g LP 3000 copies only
*NEW* Joan Jett Bad Reputation Clear LP w/bonus CD 2500 copies only
*NEW* Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance Picture Disc (3000 copies only)
*NEW* Flaming Lips Rockabye Baby--12 track LP of Lullabys of Lips songs (1000 copies only)
*NEW* Big Brother and the Holding Company featuring Janis Joplin Cheap Thrills 180g MONO LP.
*NEW* Biz Markie Biz Never Sleeps Picture Disc LP
*NEW* Fat Boys Fat Boys Pizza Box Picture Disc LP
*NEW* Various Artists Death Might be Your Santa Claus (Blues focused holiday songs from the 20s to 50s)
*NEW* ILSA Intoxicantations Gatefold LP on colored vinyl
*NEW* Beck Sea Change MoFi PINK VINYL LP limited to 1000 copies only
*NEW* Gary Clark Jr. Blak and Blu 2LP set, with 1 black LP and 1 blue LP (this is the only way to get this on colored vinyl is through Black Friday apparently)

STAY TUNED FOR FURTHER UPDATES AND MORE EXCLUSIVE RELEASE NEWS!!

Why I love Record Store Day

2012-09-17T21:01:00.002-07:00

Don't forget....Back to Black Friday RSD is *still* happening this November. Look to see more info about releases starting to hit in October. Releases we know about include a Tomahawk 7" and a rumored Kiss 40+ 7" box set. I'd hate to see the price on that!! Hopefully we'll get some cool items as several bands have Fall/Winter releases.

Here was my past April RSD haul...how many items can you name and find? CLICK ON THE PICTURES TO SEE A LARGER SIZE

1) BOX SETS:

2) LP/12" BATCH #1:

3) LP/12" BATCH #2:

4) LP/12" BATCH #4:

5) LP/12" BATCH #5

6) LP/12" BATCH #6:

7) 10" Releases:

8) RSD 7" BATCH #1:

9) RSD 7" BATCH #2:

10) RSD 7"/CD BATCH:

Really enjoy having these items in my collection......sadly they are *not* for sale, so please don't ask. As always, if you need help locating items or getting items not available in your area, let me know and I will gladly help you out!!

LONG LIVE VINYL!!

My UK RSD WISHLIST

2012-04-03T07:43:00.000-07:00

Ok, if anyone from the UK/EU can help me acquire any of these items, please let me know ASAP. I'd like to try to work out a trade for US RSD items, or cash, for COST (I refuse to pay Ebay prices, so if you plan to rip me off, don't even bother responding).

Tier 1 (MUST HAVE ITEMS):

Kinks LP set (Arthur, Face to Face and Something Else)
Cure LP set (Sixteen Seconds, Faith, The Top, Pornography, Three Imaginary Boys)
Refused LP set (Rather Be Dead, Songs to Fan the Flames, New Noise Theology and Shape of Punk to Come)
Gorillaz Do Ya Thing 10"
Sigur Ros Ekla Mukk 10"
Soulsavers Longest Day 7" (not on UK list, but supposed to be out on RSD)

Tier 2 (WANTED ITEMS):

Danny Brown XXX (delayed in US)
Andrew Bird 10"
Bob Marley 3LP
Edwyn Collins Tape Box 7" set
Frank Turner 7"
Guided by Voices 7"
Morrissey 10" Picture Disc
Pains at Being Pure at Heart Remix 12"
Ramones 7"
Sex Pistols 7"
Sugar 7"
T. Rex Telegram Sam 7"
Velvet Underground Loaded LP
Velvet Underground Sweet Jane 7"

If you can help me out, please e-mail me at: shawncturner @ gmail dot com with the following:

a) Your US want list (please prioritize it, so I know which items are your must have items, versus items that you wouldn't mind having, but are indifferent about.
b) If you use Paypal (Yes/No)
c) Ability to obtain multiple items and which items you think you can get extras of (e.g. "I can get 3 copies of the Sigur Ros 10"). This would be to trade for other items I am looking for and/or missed out on.

I ship fast (Priority Mail with tracking number) overseas and pack items well in secure cardboard mailers surrounded by cardboard/bubble wrap to ensure no damage. I have a 100% positive feedback on Ebay as well, when I do sell extra items from my collection.

Thanks!

The #RSD12 Record Store Day 2012 "Missing" Items list

2012-03-31T19:23:00.000-07:00

So I've been meaning to write this for a week now, but work and exhaustion have held it up, so I apologize. But for those of you in the UK/Europe, you have an *awesome* list of items heading your way that many in North America would love to have. Speaking of, if anyone in the UK would WANT TO TRADE for any items, please let me know. I will pretty much have my pick of every US release available, so I can nearly guarantee any item you want.

So with that said, let's look at the items that did *not* make the Record Store Day "official" list. Remember, to be considered an official RSD release, you basically have to have the sticker/logo on the item and it has to meet their approval. Know that there are some *great* items coming out on Record Store Day, that your store may get (if you want it, be sure and ask if they ordered it!) that still should be recognized. If you know of an item that I missed, please LET ME KNOW by leaving a comment and I'll be sure and get it added!!

COMPACT DISCS:

Alice Donut Freaks in Love 2CD/1DVD set.

Label: Alternative Tentacle Records
Description: Limited to 500 copies, it's 25 of their best songs, remastered by the band, plus the excellent long-form documentary of this unique, legendary band, "Freaks In Love"- only available in your local record store on Record Store Day April 21, 2012
Link: http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=291963087537705&id=10370191153

Willie Nelson Just Breathe CD Single.

Label: Sony/Legacy Music
Description: Single includes 3 brand new recordings with Lukas Nelson. Featuring Willie's rendition of Pearl Jam's 'Just Breathe' and new song 'Come on Back Jesus, from Willie's upcoming album "Hereos" available May 15th. Also includes the previously unreleased track 'Can I Sleep In Your Arms'. Single comes with a $2 off coupon for new album and is suppsoed to be given to select RSD stores for FREE to give away on Record Store Day.
Link: N/A from the Sony Music Solicitation to music stores

Tedeshi Trucks Band LIVE 4 Song EP

Label: Sony Masterworks
Description: Features 4 live tracks, all previously unreleased: 'Don't Let Me Slide', 'Midnight in Harlem', 'Rollin and Tumblin' and 'Bound for Glory'. Single comes with a $2 off coupon for new live album due June 2nd and is suppsoed to be given to select RSD stores for FREE to give away on Record Store Day.
Link: N/A from the Sony Music Solicitation to music stores

Gruntruck 3 Song EP

Label: Betty
Description: Originally released in 1996, this out of print CD is being reissued for Record Store Day in a one time pressing of only 500 copies. Features the tracks Shot, Illusion and New God.
Link 1: www.strictlydiscs.com/page/about/us/intheknow?id=105
Link 2: www.twistandshout.com/Category.cfm?CategoryID=325

WTNG 89.9FM Solid Bronze CD

Label: Numero Group
Description: WTNG 89.9FM: Solid Bronze is an ode to radio station compilation albums of yore, back in the days of when FM jocks stoked the flames of stage acts in their broadcast area with hyped-up talent shows, invaluable airplay, and homegrown LPs stacked with the best efforts of bands not more than a few counties away. Limited to 1000 copies on CD.
Link: http://numerogroup.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/wtng-89-9fm-solid-bronze-revealed-8/

7" Singles:

Poison Idea Pick Your King EP

Label: TKO Records
Description: Re-release of classic 7" on clear vinyl, limited to 1000 copies.
Link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/TKO-Records/79676529537

Kid Liberty Give Up. Give In. 7"

Label: Bullet Tooth Records
Description: Yellow vinyl 7" limited to just 500 copies
Link: http://bullettoothhq.tumblr.com/post/19243255398/were-psyched-to-announce-limited-edition-vinyl

Memphis May Fire Between the Lies 7"

Label: Bullet Tooth Records
Description: Red vinyl 7" limited to just 500 copies.
Link: http://bullettoothhq.tumblr.com/post/19243255398/were-psyched-to-announce-limited-edition-vinyl

My Brightest Diamond 7"

Label: Nowhere Fast Records
Description: I have Never Loved Someone b/w Bird on a Wire (Leonard Cohen cover). 1000 hand-numbered copies.
Link: http://www.nowherefastrecords.com/slow04.php

Various Artists: From the Vaults of Ric and Ron Records Rare and Unreleased 1958-1962 10x7" Box Set

Label: Numero Group/Rounder Records?
Description: Between 1958 and 1962, Ric and Ron Records captured the sound of a unique period in New Orleans music, when the first era of classic R&B was waning, and before the sounds of funk and soul music became the city’s new signature. It was an exciting time, when talents such as Johnny Adams, Eddie Bo, Al Johnson, Irma Thomas and many others made their debuts on Ric and Ron singles. Here are ultra- rare recordings from the vaults, presented on ten 45 RPM records, with booklet and notes. Limited to 1000 copies.
LINK 1: http://www.strictlydiscs.com/page/about/us/intheknow?id=105
LINK 2: http://blog.horizonrecords.net/2012/02/06/record-store-day-is-saturday-april-21-2012-free-concerts-all-day-music-yard-sale-exclusive-releases-massive-store-wide-sale/

Doomriders / Sweet Cobra Split 7"

Label: Hawthorne Street Records
Description: Girl U Want b/w Gates of Steel. Devo Covers! Limited to 500 red vinyl, 500 gold vinyl and 500 black vinyl
Link: http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/i.php?id=813793

Pelican / Playing Enemy Split 7"

Label: Hawthorne Street Records
Description: Colored Vinyl reissue of out of print single. Comes on several different colors of vinyl.
Link: http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/i.php?id=440632

James Yancey & Jay Dee/ J Dilla and Common Think Twice b/w E=MC2 7"

Label: BBE
Description: Jay Dee’s “Welcome to Detroit” was the album that kicked off BBE’s Beat Generation series. This seminal album (it even has its own Wikipedia entry) cemented Dilla’s reputation as a virtuoso beat maker with a remarkable range of talents. For the first time, (from that album) “Think Twice” appears on a very limited 7” single.
Link: http://www.bbemusic.com/data.pl?release=BBE208SLP

Testors Together/Time is Mine 7"

Label: Windian Records
Description: This classic slab was recorded in 1979 and released in 1980 on the Drive-In label. The Testors soon broke up after this releases, leaving this record in the vast hole of NYC punk lore. The single was the bands first and only, and extremely hard to find. This reissue includes 'Together' and 'Time Is Mine', and a never released studio recording '[This] Time Is Mine' which was an early version of 'Time Is Mine', although very different. Packaged exactly how it was 30 years ago using hi res scans of the orignal. Limited to 1000 copies. Includes MP3 card.
Link: http://www.windianrecords.com/store.html

Monster Truck / DZ Deathrays Split 7"

Label: Dine Alone Records
Description: Runnin' b/w Two Lungs. Black vinyl 7" limited to just 300 copies. Will be available in Canadian Stores only. Will be available online on Record Store Day through the Dine Alone website.
Link: http://www.dinealonerecords.com/2011/index.php/releases/view/152

10" Singles:

Alexisonfire Math Sheets (Demo) 10"

Label: Dine Alone Records
Description: Will be available in Canadian Stores only. Will be available online on Record Store Day through the Dine Alone website. Limited to 1000 copies on white vinyl.
Link: http://www.dinealonerecords.com/2011/index.php/releases/view/164

12" Singles:

Endpoint In a Time of Hate

Label: Simba Records
Description: Reissue of classic 12" on red vinyl. Limited to 500 copies, each hand-numbered.
Link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Endpoint/290073594346028

LCD Soundsystem Losing My Edge 12"

Label: DFA
Description: The debut release from DFA founder and eclectic producer James Murphy, Losing My Edge is a wild blend of electro-disco madness that touches on Murphy’s roots in the punk and performance arenas. Back in print as a Record Store Day special, the 12-inch single is available for the first time ever in a picture sleeve.
Link 1: http://consequenceofsound.net/2012/03/lcd-soundsystem-reissuing-losing-my-edge-for-record-store-day/
Link 2: http://www.prefixmag.com/news/lcd-soundsystem-animal-collective-announce-record-/63074/

LP/EP Albums:

Isis The Red Sea EP (w/bonus demos)

Label: Second Nature
Description: Comes complete with the 1999 RED SEA ep tracks on side one and 4 tracks from a 1998 demo as the B-side. LIMITED Record Store Day REPRESS ON translucent RED or White/Black VINYL
Link: http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=451583

The Cure Entreat Plus 2LP

Label: Warner/Elektra
Description: Originally released as a promo disc in 1990, the eight-track Entreat - recorded at London's Wembley Arena in July 1989 -was later released commercially in Europe. The expanded edition included with this year's reissue fleshes out the album to replicate a full live performance of 1989's epic Disintegration, with tracks remixed by Robert Smith - a sonic makeover that some fans have complained dampens Boris Williams' drumming. Limited pressing of 5000 copies for RSD.
Link: https://docs.google.com/file/d/1M47MJy4FU1REpu59O0kmeNwcBxHZdVuwqxK_geflE_Xr2lMrmWhi8UgC_cUC/edit?pli=1

Death from Above 1979 "You're A Woman, I'm a Machine" LP

Label: Last Gang Records
Description: Reissue of classic LP on Pink Vinyl and limited to 1000 copies. Only available in Canada, but a few will be put online to purchase on Record Store Day.
Link: http://lastgangentertainment.com/blog/records/2012/death-from-above-1979-re-release-for-record-store-day/

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Howl 2LP

Label: Cobraside
Description: Vinyl reissue of their 2005 third album, originally released on Echo Records, cut as a double LP, embossed gatefold sleeve!
Link: http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=774811

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Howl Sessions LP

Label: Cobraside
Description: The collection of B-sides from the Howl period, originally released in a limited run in 2006 as an "add-on" to Howl, and then later released on iTunes. With double sided insert.
Link: http://www.cobraside.com/b2b/details.php?id=774815

WTNG 89.9FM Solid Bronze LP

Label: Numero Group
Description: WTNG 89.9FM: Solid Bronze is an ode to radio station compilation albums of yore, back in the days of when FM jocks stoked the flames of stage acts in their broadcast area with hyped-up talent shows, invaluable airplay, and homegrown LPs stacked with the best efforts of bands not more than a few counties away. Limited to 1000 copies on LP (500 on pink, 500 on black).
Link: http://numerogroup.wordpress.com/2012/02/28/wtng-89-9fm-solid-bronze-revealed-8/

Attack in Black Marriage LP + 10"

Label: Dine Alone Records
Description: Will be available in Canadian Stores only. Will be available online on Record Store Day through the Dine Alone website. Features bonus 10" with 5 extra songs. Limited to 500 copies on black vinyl.
Link: http://www.dinealonerecords.com/2011/index.php/releases/view/147

Moneen The Red Tree 2LP + 7"

Label: Dine Alone Records
Description: Will be available in Canadian Stores only. Will be available online on Record Store Day through the Dine Alone website. Limited to 500 copies on red & white colored vinyl.
Link: http://www.dinealonerecords.com/2011/index.php/releases/view/150

Wool Lunar Momento: Lost Rancho Session 1

Label: Dine Alone Records
Description: Recently discovered recording sessions from the band Wool at the legendary Rancho De La Luna Studios featuring Pete Stahl (Scream, Goatsnake, earthlings?), Franz Stahl (Scream, Foo Fighters, DYS), Al Bloch (Concrete Blonde, My Favorite Martian), Chris Bratton (Chain of Strength, Inside Out, Drive Like Jehu). Includes 180g Black Vinyl, Bonus 7" Featuring 2 Extra tracks, Extensive liner notes and coupon for high quality digital download. Limited to 500. Should be in some US Stores (I'd ask first) and will also be available online at Dine Alone's website on RSD.
Link: http://www.dinealonerecords.com/2011/index.php/releases/view/149

Revelation Records Releases:

Ignite Call on My Brothers LP

Label: Revelation Records
Description: The album, which was originally released on Conversion Records and later re-released as a remastered version via Revelation Records, will be pressed on purple vinyl limited to 500 copies and marks the first time the full length has been in print on vinyl since 1998.
Link: http://gluehc.com/revelation-recs-to-reissue-ignite-lp-for-record-store-day/

Into Another S/T LP

Label: Revelation Records
Description: Reissue of this LP on Green vinyl and limited to 500 copies.
Link: http://gluehc.com/endpoint-poison-idea-into-another-releases-for-rsd/

Sense Field Killed for Less LP

Label: Revelation Records
Description: Reissue of this LP on Orange vinyl and limited to 500 copies.
Link: http://gluehc.com/endpoint-poison-idea-into-another-releases-for-rsd/

Farside Rigged LP

Label: Revelation Records
Description: Reissue of this LP on Brown vinyl and limited to 500 copies.
Link: http://gluehc.com/endpoint-poison-idea-into-another-releases-for-rsd/

Coachella Releases

Ximena Sariana Maps/Llorona 7"

Label: Warner
Description: “Maps” is a Yeah Yeah Yeah’s cover from Rolling Stone Live and “La Llorona” is a Latin America folk song from KCRW’s “Morning Becomes Eclectic.” This special release is in celebration of her Coachella 2012 appearance and will be sold both weekends.
Link: http://www.ximenamusic.com/news/exclusive-record-store-day-7-v

At The Drive In Vaya 10"

Label: Fearless Records
Description: Reissue of this 10" on yellow vinyl and limited to 500 copies. Note that a new colored vinyl version will be available in stores on June 5th.
Link 1: http://www.coachella.com/festival-info/record-store-day
Link 2: http://www.ampmagazine.com/29922/fearless-records-announces-at-the-drive-in-exclusive-coachella-edition-vinyl/

DELAYED/POSTPONED RELEASES:

From the Record Store Day Facebook page:

Manufacturing issues have taken another bite out of our Record Store Day list. Releases from these folks will not be ready for April 21, but we'll keep you posted when these are released later:
GOGOL BORDELLO 12", DANNY BROWN XXX LP, SONNYMOON 7", QUANTIC & ALICE RUSSELL WITH THE COMBO BARBARO 7"

Music Blogs Believe Everything WB PR says and doesn't FACT CHECK!, A commentary

2012-03-24T21:44:00.006-07:00

For those that know me, I live on the East Coast. I just spent the past 3 days out in California. So maybe it is the time difference, maybe it is the jet lag, but do the "journalists" that write for music blogs have any credibility any more? Because I am going to call a lot of them to the carpet. Which is sad, because these are a lot of blogs that I like to read, so this disappoints me. And all it would have taken would have been a quick phone call/e-mail to get an answer.
What I am talking about is the Flaming Lips Heady Fwends 2LP release for Record Store Day. On March 20th, Warner Brothers issued the following press release (bold text highlighted for a reason):

March 20, 2012 - (Burbank, CA) -- In between one-off shows scattered around the world in the past several months THE FLAMING LIPS have still found time to record a series of unique and experimental sessions for an album featuring a diverse cross-section of heavy friends from every corner of the musical cosmos. THE FLAMING LIPS AND HEADY
FWENDS includes vocal and musical assistance from such disparate playmates as Yoko Ono, Nick Cave, Chris Martin of Coldplay, Bon Iver, Ke$ha and many more.

Some of these tracks have already appeared on previously released, extremely limited edition color vinyl 12" EPs released in past months, which sold out as soon as they became available. Most of the tracks on the album are being released here for the first time and will surprise even the most ardent LIPS fans.

THE FLAMING LIPS AND HEADY FWENDS will be pressed on two high-quality, multi-color vinyl discs housed in separate custom art jackets and poly bagged together. No two discs will look exactly alike. This double album will be very limited and released exclusively for RECORD STORE DAY. Once it's gone, it will not be repressed again making THE FLAMING LIPS AND HEADY FWENDS the most anticipated RSD release this year.

The rest of the press release discussed the tracklisting. Now what is FUNNY, is that this release is the LARGEST RSD RELEASE IN 2012. Meaning, that there will be more copies of this available than ANY OTHER RSD ITEM released. With over 300 items being released on April 21st, that is IMPORTANT. 10,000 copies of this will be made and what is the number 2 release? The Bruce Springsteen 7", with 8,000 copies. Yet you didn't see Columbia make a press release about how limited that 7" was, did you??

So let's look at how the blogs handled this press release and what insightful commentary they either cut and pasted from the release, or added themselves. BECAUSE IT IS VERY OBVIOUS THAT NOT *ONE* "JOURNALIST" EVER ASKED ANYBODY AT WB PR WHAT THE PRESSING AMOUNT WAS!

No big deal, you may think. But it creates a false sense of rarity and exclusivity, by copying and pasting that (not to mention, it is just flat out MISINFORMATION). Plus, if they had done their homework, they would have found out that the set WAS GOING TO BE RELEASED ON Compact Disc (CD) LATER THIS YEAR (without the Chris Martin track!).

Let's see what TOM at STEREOGUM had to say:

"For a while, we’ve been hearing bits and pieces about a forthcoming album of collaborations that the Flaming Lips plan to release on Record Store Day, April 21. Well, they actually did it, cobbling together two LPs’ worth of big-name collabs in time for the big day. The album is an extremely limited Record Store Day exclusive which apparently won’t be repressed, and it’s being pressed on high-quality, multi-color discs, with no two looking exactly alike, so show up really, really early if you want this thing."

LINK: http://stereogum.com/980452/the-flaming-lips-and-heady-fwends-details/news/

COMMENT: Gee Tom, I guess I'll run right over, since I need to get to the store *really, really early*.

Let's see what Rolling Stone wrote, since apparently their entire "staff" contributed to this:

"The set, which will only be issued as a double multi-colored vinyl set, includes previously released tracks that have appeared on the band's recent EPs. The band claims there will only be one pressing of the set, so hardcore Lips fans ought to get to their local shop early unless they're ready to spend big bucks landing a copy on eBay."

LINK: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/flaming-lips-collaborate-with-famous-fwends-on-record-store-day-exclusive-20120320#ixzz1q69CgXWY

COMMENT: Really? I'm going to have to resort to Ebay for an item whose suggested retail price is nearly $40 and 10K copies are available? Amazing.

Let's see what Jenn Pelly at Pitchfork said:

"The recordings document "a series of unique and experimental sessions," according to a press release, and will be released in a very limited edition and never pressed again. The album comes as a 2xLP on multicolored vinyl, each disc with a unique design."

LINK: http://pitchfork.com/news/45850-flaming-lips-detail-record-store-day-release-with-bon-iver-nick-cave-keha-erykah-badu-more/

COMMENT: Nice job doing the old cut and paste. I guess at least you didn't over dramatize the release, but does your wrist hurt from hitting the right click button?

How about Hilary Saunders over at PASTE MAGAZINE:

"Though some tracks have already appeared on other limited releases, most of the music on The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends is being pressed for the first time on extremely limited hand-thrown colored vinyl."

LINK: http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2012/03/the-flaming-lips-ready-exclusive-record-store-day.html

COMMENT: Awesome, so vinyl is now being put together like a Domino's Pizza. Good to know. It's obvious that you'll be on Dateline NBC in no time, on "How to Catch a Fact". Again, extremely limited....uh-oh.

But my favorite article, was the one by Maggie Pannacione from ARTISTDIRECT, who turned the limited nature of the release into a whole other animal:

Title of article: "The Flaming Lips Announce Uber Exclusive Record Store Day Release"

Body: "This double album will be very limited and released exclusively for Record Store Day. Once it's gone, it will not be repressed again making this one of the most anticipated RSD release this year."
LINK: http://www.artistdirect.com/entertainment-news/article/the-flaming-lips-announce-uber-exclusive-record-store-day-release/9967309

COMMENT: So now the release has gone from very limited to UBER LIMITED based on a press release from a LABEL.

Other blogs that also failed in this include Exclaim, JamBase, Fuse and many others. Basically you bought into the PR Hype and hyperbole and floated marketing speil as FACT. Not one person reached out to any contact at WB PR (the contact info is at the bottom of the press release) to ask how limited it was or even if the item would ever see a release on CD (yes, towards the end of the year, without the Chris Martin track). I am not a journalist, I am passionate music fan and I just scooped all of you on information that would have taken you less than 5 minutes to obtain. But instead, I guess this counts as journalism these days.

But wait!! There is more!!! Fool me once, shame on me; Fool me twice, shame on you. Let's flash back to the Warner Brothers original Record Store Day press release this year, from MARCH 5th. On that release, it mentions the following two items:

"Eric Clapton: Blues (Deluxe Vinyl Album Box Set) Released to critical acclaim leading up to RSD's Back To Black Friday 2011, this limited edition box set is close to selling out. The set includes all three of Eric Clapton's seminal blues albums, From The Cradle, Riding With The King (with B.B. King) and Me And Mr. Johnson, remastered from original source material for vinyl. First time vinyl versions of these albums afford the listener an absolutely stellar new audio experience. With little more than 1,000 box sets left it's time to get your hands on this audiophile treasure. "

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Stadium Arcadium (Deluxe 180 Gram vinyl Box Set) On April 14, 2012, the Red Hot Chili Peppers will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and to commemorate this historic event, this classic Deluxe box set of the band's first number one album will be specially priced for Record Store Day. The Deluxe package was mastered for vinyl by Steve Hoffman and includes two 16-page booklets -- "Jupiter" and "Mars." The Red Hot Chili Peppers won four Grammy(R) Awards for Stadium Arcadium including: Best Rock Album, Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package in addition to Best Rock Song and Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group for their chart-topping, record-breaking single "Dani California."

Link: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/warner-bros-records-and-affiliated-labels-announce-exclusive-releases-for-record-store-day-on-april-21st-2012-03-05

COMMENT: Not ONE blog, did any fact checking or research about these 2 items. These 2 items are NOT on the official RSD release list and for good reason.

1) The Eric Clapton Blues boxset is still available on his website here: http://www.ericclapton.com/product/blues-box-set-5lp-180-gram-vinylwlitho

It has been available there for several months. But as the Press Release says, only 1000 copies or so remain, so stores better order them fast!

2) The Red Hot Chili Peppers Box Set is the SAME EXACT BOX THAT WAS RELEASED IN 2007. That is 5 YEARS AGO. This is INVENTORY DUMPING. Why? Warner made 2 versions of this box. A standard and deluxe one. The standard one was $40 and the deluxe was $100. Now, since the deluxe has been sitting in a warehouse for a few years, collecting dust, they have generously lowered the price to $40 (which is good), but duped fans into thinking that something "new" was being released. This set is not remastered, nor is it a "re-release". It has the exact same UPC code that it had in 2007.

So ask yourself this MUSIC BLOGS---

a) Does Warner Bros. advertise a lot on my website?
b) Do I get a lot of promo/free adverstising from Warner?

If the answer is NO, then why are you continously buying their BULLSHIT PR? If the answer is YES, then ask yourself if you have any journalistic ethics/integrity.

Because I'd love to see someone hack into the WB PR e-mail account, send out a Press Release saying "Tom Petty prepares to release a Shit Sandwhich on vinyl" and see how many of you would just blindly follow along. Get some balls, do some FACT CHECKING, and do you JOB! Otherwise, go write obituaries for the local paper and get someone who is PASSIONATE about music to write about this stuff

What will be the Rarest/Most Sought After RSD 2012 items??

2012-03-16T17:37:00.000-07:00

With over 300 items coming out this April for Record Store Day, which items will be the most sought after? Which items will be most difficult to find? This is my opinion at which items will be fetching top dollar on Ebay soon. Let's look:

a) Gorillaz Do Ya Thing 10". Limited to just 500 copies, this 10" features the unreleased 13 minute full version of the track that also features Andre 3000 and LCD Soundsystem. Fans of Blur, Outkast, Gorillaz and LCD Soundsystem should want to add this to their collection. Plus, with Universal buying Capital/EMI, and the confusion of distribution and you get an item that will be a nightmare to find, but will be highly collectible.

b) The Pearl Jam side project set of releases. Pearl Jam is already a highly collectible band. This year for Record Store Day, sees 4 separate releases each more limited than the next. Getting a complete set will take effort and luck. These items are:

Eddie Vedder Love Boat Captian (LIVE) b/w Wishlist (LIVE) 7" (1500 copies only)
Brad Waters Deep b/w Pressure is On (2 new tracks on transparent 7"--1000 copies only)
Po & The 4 Fathers Kingdom Come (vocals by Eddie Vedder) b/w Do Da (guitar by Stone Gossard) (600 copies only)
Mike McCready & Star Anna Keep On b/w Call Your Girlfriend (300 copies only!)

c) Horrible Crowes I Witnessed a Crime b/w Blood Loss 7" RED VINYL (300 copies only, exclusively sold only at Fingerprints Record Store in California). Thank you Side One Dummy, if you want to make it up to me, please send me one of these!! Otherwise, chance are slim and none that you'll be able to get this. Horrible Crowes features Brian Fallon from The Gaslight Anthem and they released one of the better albums last year in Elise.

d) Sigur Ros Hvarf/Heim (150g colored vinyl, 1200 copies only). First time on vinyl for this release from this highly collectible band. Not being released overseas means a majority of their fans will have to resort to Ebay to add this to their collection.

e) Death Cab for Cutie Codes and Keyes Remix LP (400 copies only, each numbered). For fans who liked either the new album or the remixed album. Regardless, this will move up to become one of the rarest Death Cab items released in their discography.

f) Wilco The Whole Love Deluxe Box (300 copies only). Originally available through Wilco's website, this deluxe version includes the Whole Love LP, the Speak Into the Rose 10", the 7" (blue or clear vinyl--random) and a slipmat housed in a nice, slide-out box. Wilco fans are crazy and those that missed out on this online, now have another chance to grab it, provided your store is lucky enough to get it.

g) Coldplay Up With the Birds b/w UFO 7" (1000 copies only) See the Gorillaz example above. A lot of stores will have problems getting this. Plus, this is the first participation in Record Store Day for a band with a worldwide following (think how crazy U2's Live release was for Black Friday 2010 and you can get an idea).

Other items that I think will also be in demand:

Phish Junta (Pollack Edition)
Electronic Anthology Project featuring J Masic on PURPLE VINYL (500 copies)
Hey Mercedes EP
Minus the Bear 7"
Anything by Revelation or Victory Records
Misfits Walk Among Us LP on Clear Vinyl (500 copies)
Social Distortion Hard Times & Nursery Rhymes LP w/autographed poster (750 copies)

Anything I miss? Do you think something else will be very rare? What are you hoping your store gets for Record Store Day? Let me know!!