Pitchfork Really Likes Atlas Sound, Fuck Buttons and Russian Circles

Fuck Buttons "Tarot Spot" received a 9.0 rating, Atlas Sound "Logos" received a 8.2 rating and Russian Circles "Geneva" received a 7.8 rating. All albums are available at your local record store now.

Them Crooked Vultures Announce Release Date

Debut album will be released on Nov. 17.

Under the Radar: Fanfarlo

New album "Reservoir" out now on Atlantic Records.

Produced by Peter Katis (The National, Interpol), Resevoir employs an array of instruments to create each lushly arranged track, including saws, clarinets, cellos, mandolins, ukuleles and melocias. First track "I'm a Pilot" looks ot Howard Hughes' slow demise as inspirations. Whether its its the choice of isolation we purposefully devise or the inevitable end to it all, as in the track "The Walls Are Coming Down," Fanfarlo give us no choice but to succumb to the ebbs and flows, reflections and letting go that are conveyed in each metaphor that make this album so instrumentally and intellectually rich. Though a sense of melancholy permeates Resevoire, Simon's heartfelt voice and each band member's uncompromised musicianship invites us to soar above it all and simply let go.

Spin named them one of their "25 Must-Hear Artists from the CMJ Festival". Check out their song ""Harold T. Wilkins, Or How To Wait For A Very Long Time" here:

http://www.spin.com/gallery/25-must-hear-artists-cmj-festival?page=10#main

Flaming Lips - Embryonic 9.0

Pitchfork gives the new album a 9.0 "Best New Music" rating.

Pitchfork Likes Girls, Times New Viking and Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

Girls "Album" 9.1 rating. Times New Viking "Born Again Revisited" 8.1 rating. Nick Cave and Warren Ellis "White Lunar" 7.6 rating.

Under the Radar: Girls - Album

Girls’ debut album, Album, was just released last week, but the buzz over the group has been building for some time. It’s easy to hear why: The 44-minute Album is a marvelous mixture of sunny pop and catchy hooks, blended with occasionally heartbreaking (but always heartfelt) lyrics; it seems to demand that you roll the windows down while turning the volume up.

Founded by Christopher Owens and Chet “JR” White in San Francisco, the group has crafted 12 tracks that nod to their home state, with surfy melodies and harmonies; Owens’ emotive, often plaintive voice might bring to mind a young Elvis Costello. Most of the songs are about—surprise!—girls, and clearly, Owens was grappling with a bad breakup, as evidenced on melancholy songs like “Lauren Marie” and “Laura.” But we’re partial to the infectious single “Lust for Life,” which wishes for simple things like a suntan and “a pizza with a bottle of wine,” and points to a hopeful attempt in starting afresh: “Maybe if I really tried with all my heart/ Then I could make a brand new start in love with you.” (courtesy of veryshortlist.com)

Paul McCartney Live CD/DVD Set Due Out Nov. 17th

What, you thought the Beatles onslaught would end after September 9? Not even close.

In August 1965, the Beatles played a massive concert at New York's Shea Stadium that marked one of the defining moments of their career. Well, Shea Stadium doesn't exist anymore. But in its place, we've got the brand new Citi Field. This past July, Paul McCartney, the Cute Beatle, played three shows at the Mets' new home. Soon, McCartney will release a box set live album/DVD of recordings of those shows.

Good Evening New York City is due November 17 in the U.S. from Hear Music/Concord Music Group. (In the UK, it'll be out November 23 on Mercury.) It's McCartney's second release on Hear Music, Starbucks' record label, following 2007's Memory Almost Full.

You'll be able to buy the album three ways: as a double-CD/DVD package, a deluxe two-CD/two-DVD package, or on vinyl. The bonus DVD in that deluxe package will include video of McCartney's July 15 performance at another Beatles landmark: on top of the marquee at the Ed Sullivan Theater in midtown Manhattan, including songs that didn't air when "Late Night With David Letterman" broadcast the performance.

The album includes McCartney's versions of a whole mess of classic Beatles songs, including "I'm Down", a revival from that 1965 Shea Stadium show. Other Beatles songs on the tracklist include "Drive My Car", "Got to Get You Into My Life", "The Long and Winding Road", "Blackbird", "Eleanor Rigby", "Back in the USSR", "Paperback Writer", "Let It Be", "Helter Skelter", and the obvious stadium singalong jam "Hey Jude". There will also be tributes to fallen Beatles George Harrison (a ukulele-driven version of "Something") and John Lennon (a medley of "A Day in the Life" and "Give Peace a Chance"), as well as songs from Wings ("Band on the Run", "My Love", "Let Me Roll It") and solo McCartney ("Live and Let Die", "Here Today", recent joints "Flaming Pie" and "Dance Tonight"), and a couple of tracks from the album McCartney released as the Fireman last year. All told, the package will include 33 songs and last nearly three hours. (courtesy of Pitchfork.com)

Blakroc Album Out Nov. 27th!

Blakroc is a collaboration between The Black Keys and a host of MCs like Mos Def, Raekwon, RZA, Jim Jones, Pharoae Monch, etc.

More details: www.blakroc.com

Rolling Stones "Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out: 40th Anniversary" Details

There will be two deluxe editions released on Nov. 3rd. The first, the deluxe edition, is pictured below and includes 3 CDs, 1 DVD and a Collectors Book ($59.98 list):



The GET YER YA-YA'S OUT: THE ROLLING STONES IN CONCERT 40TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE BOX SET contains 3 CDs, 1 DVD, a 56-page Collectors Book and a postcard replica of the original Rolling Stones 1969 tour poster by David Byrd. The first CD is a remastered version of the original Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out release. The second CD contains 5 unreleased tracks by The Rolling Stones from the original Madison Square Garden concert. The third CD contains 12 never before released tracks by opening acts B.B. King and Ike & Tina Turner. The DVD features performances by The Rolling Stones from the 2 night concert at Madison Square Garden, backstage footage, scenes of Keith Richards in the studio and footage of the Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out album cover shoot, all shot by Albert and David Maysles. The 56-page Collectors Book includes photos and an essay by the acclaimed photographer Ethan Russell, an original article by Lester Bangs from Rolling Stone magazine and remembrances from concert-goers. Each box will also have an insert with a code to download "I'm Free (Live)" for Guitar Hero.

The second, the super deluxe edition, is pictured below and includes everything previously mentioned along with 3 LPs ($99.98 list):



GET YER YA-YA'S OUT! THE ROLLING STONES IN CONCERT 40TH ANNIVERSARY SUPER DELUXE BOX SET features three 180 gram audiophile quality vinyl LPs (one side of which features an etched replica of the album's key art, with signatures from Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor), 3 CDs that mirror the exact content on the LPs, 1 DVD, a 12 X 12/56-page Collector's Book and a 12 X 12 replica of the original 1969 tour book and poster by Grammy Award© winning artist David Byrd, whose works include the commemorative poster from the original Woodstock Festival and the historic Fillmore East posters from 1968 to 1971.

The first LP is a newly remastered version of the original GET YER YA-YA'S OUT! release. The second LP features 5 unreleased tracks by The Rolling Stones culled from the November 27 & 28, 1969 Madison Square Garden concert master tapes. The third LP features 12 never before released tracks by opening acts B.B. King and Ike & Tina Turner. The DVD features performances by the Rolling Stones from their 2 night concert at Madison Square Garden, backstage footage, scenes of Keith Richards in the studio and footage of the GET YER YA-YA'S OUT! album cover shoot, all shot by Albert and David Maysles. The 56-page Collector's Book includes photos and an essay by acclaimed photographer Ethan Russell, an original article by Lester Bangs from Rolling Stone magazine and remembrances from concert-goers. A limited number of the Super Deluxe Box Sets will also contain an insert with a code to download "I'm Free (Live)" for Guitar Hero 5.

Slayer "World Painted Blood" Album details.

From Slayer.net:

World Painted Blood will initially ship with four special collector's edition CD covers. Each of the four covers will display one-fourth of a continental map illustrated with human skulls and bones; when placed together, the four images form a complete and grisly map of the world.

All four of the initial CD packages will include a special blood-red, see-through top panel with the map displayed beneath it.

The World Painted Blood Deluxe Edition will have its own special layout of the map cover art and will be in a double-digipak housed in a blood-red, see-through plastic sleeve. The Deluxe Edition will include the World Painted Blood CD, the "Playing With Dolls" DVD, a 20-minute animated graphic novel featuring music from the album (including part of a new non-album song), and an expanded booklet.

LP version will also be available. All formats are due out Nov. 3rd.

Cool New Box Set! "Where The Action Is! Los Angeles Nuggets 1965-1968"

WHERE THE ACTION IS! 4 CD Box in super cool coffee table book packaging compiles 101 tracks that mix many of the city's brightest stars like The Byrds, Love, The Doors, The Beach Boys, Buffalo Springfield, Captain Beefheart, The Mamas & The Papas, Lowell George, Iron Butterfly, with talented artists whose stellar songcraft sadly flew under the radar The Seeds, The Electric Prunes, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Everpresent Fullness, The Bobby Fuller Four.

Under the Radar: Choir of Young Believers

New album, "This is For the White in Your Eyes" out now.

New Volcano Choir & Twilight Sad Albums Out Now!

Both albums out now on CD & LP. Pitchfork gave the Volcano Choir an 8.3 "Best New Music" rating and Twilight Sad a solid 7.3 rating.

"Yo Gabba Gabba!" Compilation Due Out October 20th Features The Shins, Biz Markie, The Rootes, etc.

Courtesy of Pitchfork:

The kids' music landscape is pretty bleak for the most part, filled with obnoxiously cute dinky folk music and tinkly Casio lullabies and the Wiggles. So the folks behind the Nickelodeon show "Yo Gabba Gabba!" are doing god's work when they bring deliriously technicolor art-school fantasias like this and this into our living rooms.

As a bonus, the show regularly features appearances from musicians who generally don't have anything to do with the whole rugrat circuit, including the Shins, of Montreal, the Roots, Chromeo, Mark Kozelek, Biz Markie, and I'm From Barcelona. All those folks will soon turn up on the compilation Yo Gabba Gabba! Music Is Awesome!, due October 20 from Filter. Check below for that tracklist. There will also be an iTunes deluxe edition with bonus songs.

This fall, "Yo Gabba Gabba!" will go on tour, staging some sort of show in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago. Hopefully someone will make a video like this out of it in 20 years or so.

Yo Gabba Gabba! Music Is Awesome!:

01 Yo Gabba Gabba! Theme
02 Party in My Tummy
03 The Shins: "It's Okay, Try Again"
04 I Like to Dance
05 Money Mark: "Robo Dancing"
06 Get the Sillies Out
07 Biz Markie: "Biz's Beat of the Day #1"
08 Chromeo: "Nice 'N' Clean"
09 Try It, You'll Like It
10 The Roots: "Lovely, Love My Family"
11 Don't Be Afraid
12 I'm From Barcelona: "Just Because It's Different Doesn't Mean Scary"
13 Bubbles
14 Of Montreal: "Brush Brush Brush"
15 Nice & Easy
16 The Little Ones: "Hey, Won't Somebody Come and Play"
17 Weird Science: "Go Crazy Remix"
18 Yo Dazzlers: "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
19 Mark Kozelek: "Bedtime Lullaby"
20 Goodbye Song
21 Yo Gabba Gabba! Closing Theme

Pitchfork Reviews Stereo Box / In Mono Box

Stereo Box / In Mono

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"Where The Wild Things Are" Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: Original Songs By Karen O And The Kids

Due out Sept. 29th through Interscope on CD & LP.

Inside Karen O is a Wild Thing - as singer for the Grammy-nominated Yeah Yeah Yeahs, her wild thing is in your face, vulnerable, obnoxious, tender, exciting... a self-proclaimed "spazoid." To Oscar-nominated Where the Wild Things Are director Spike Jonze, however, Karen O and her music possess something of a child-like innocence, a guileless charm that put her exactly on the right emotional wavelength to sonically capture the film, be it a tender moment or a wild rumpus.

To compose the music, O enlisted friends and fellow musicians she believed had a musical intuition that would bolster her intent to marry sound to vision. Dubbed Karen O and the Kids, these include Tristan Bechet (Services), Tom Biller (co-producer with Karen O and member of Afternoons), Bradford Cox (Deerhunter), Brian Chase (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Dean Fertita (Queens of the Stone Age, The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs), Aaron Hemphill (Liars), Greg Kurstin (The Bird and the Bee), Jack Lawrence (The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs, The Greenhornes), Oscar Michel (Gris Gris), Imaad Wasif (New Folk Implosion, Alaska), Nick Zinner, (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and an untrained children's choir.

NY Times Review of Beatles Remasters

Arts / Music
Long and Winding Road, Newly Repaved
By ALLAN KOZINN
Published: September 6, 2009
For those of us for whom the music is paramount — the newly remastered CDs of the Beatles’ original albums and singles, not the Rock Band video game, are really the main event.

Full article here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/arts/music/06alla.html

Thom Yorke New 12 Inch Single Due Out Sept. 21st.

Thom Yorke formally announced his upcoming “Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses”/”The Hollow Earth” 12′’ single today on Radiohead’s Dead Air Space Website. As Rolling Stone previously reported, rumors of the single first emerged when the Canadian record plant in charge of its printing leaked word of its existence. The two songs “are loosely under the Thom Yorke name this time, although these days it’s all getting kind of blurry,” Yorke writes. The 12′’ will be released September 21st.

As Rolling Stone previous wrote and Yorke confirmed today, “Feeling Pulled Apart by Horses” is an older Radiohead track — circa 2001, Yorke writes — that was originally the parenthetical title for “Reckoner,” a song that eventually emerged in a much different form as the centerpiece of In Rainbows. This “Apart By Horses” is a “radical rework” of that original track, Yorke writes, and will also feature Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood. As for the b-side, “‘The Hollow Earth’ is a bass menace that was born out of The Eraser period but needed a little more time,” Yorke says. Both tracks were produced by Radiohead’s unofficial sixth member, Nigel Godrich.

Noticeably absent from Yorke’s blurb on Dead Air Space is any mention of whether the song is his contribution to the upcoming soundtrack for the Twilight sequel New Moon, but given the timing of the release — the song will be available on conventional digital music services on October 6th, two weeks before New Moon’s release — “Apart By Horses” still seems to be the frontrunner in terms of Yorke’s contribution. The 12′’ single, which will come with a free download of the tracks, is available now as a pre-order at Radiohead’s w.a.s.t.e. store. Otherwise, Yorke writes you can pick up a copy of the vinyl at your local record store, “if you are lucky enough to have one near you.”

This is Mr. Yorke's statement about the release:

Dear Sir or Madam

This is to inform you of the release of two more bits of work shortly.
They are loosely under the Thom Yorke name this time, although these days its all getting kind of blurry.
FeelingPulledApartbyHorses is written & played by Jonny and I and is a radical rework of an old tune thats been kicking around without a home since 2001? i think.
The Hollow Earth is a bass menace that was born out of the Eraser period but needed a little more time.
Both were produced by Nigel Godrich as ever. And mastered by Bob Ludwig.
They are being put out on 12” with sliced sleeve by Stanley and Tchock.
My sources tell me this will be available from the 21st of September if you’re interested.. On sale in the w.a.s.t.e part of our website (with a gratis download.)
Or you can go buy it in a good record shop if you are lucky enough to have one near you.
Then later on there will be like a normal download thing i think around the 6th of Oct through the usual channels.

And so it goes. all the best
Thom

Beatles Box Sets in HIGH Demand but LOW Availability.

Looks like even the Beatles official store is having trouble filling orders on both the Stereo and Mono versions of the box sets. Courtesy of beatlesnews.com:

Next Wednesday, 09/09/09, is Beatles Day, as The Beatles: Rock Band and the Beatles Remastered CDs are released all over the world. However, it seems many Beatles fans who were looking forward to hearing those Beatles remasters will be disappointed on Beatles Day.

We can now report that as of last night, the official US Beatles store at beatles.com now shows, next to its listings for the box sets, that pre-ordered box sets will be shipped late, not on the originally promised date of 09/09/09.

The site now says that pre-orders for the Beatles Stereo Box set will ship at "the end of September," and the listing for the Beatles Mono Box even later, listed as shipping the "first week of October."


A Beatles News reader tells us that they checked the status of their order on the beatles.com store for the Mono Box last night, and the site shows no info on the order, and further, he says that his bank account, which had been previously charged for the order, now shows the charge for the order, $315 with shipping, as being credited back to his account. He is now concerned that the status of his order has changed, but can't get any further info about it from the site.

Our Beatles News tipster also reports that he was told by a local record store owner in the Dallas, Texas area, that their allotment of stereo box sets has been reduced to just 3 copies by EMI. He says the store owner was told by the label that there may indeed be a shortage of Stereo Box sets on 09/09/09, and that many major retailers will have neither the Stereo or the Mono Box sets in their stores on Beatles Day.

It is not known whether this later shipping date being stated on the beatles.com US store site applies to all pre-orders made from the site, or only those pre-orders made after the stated date change. We are trying to follow up with the company that runs the store on beatles.com, but we haven't gotten any feedback on this from them yet.

Stay tuned to Beatles News for updates on the status of this fast-changing situation.

Vinyl Saturday Sept. 5th Product Details

(Courtesty of recordstoreday.com) Every once in a while, we like to have a little mini-party on a Saturday, and enjoy some lovely vinyl as party favors. Coming up on Saturday, September 5, we’ve got what feels like lovely little haul of loot. Look and see, but first check out the DISCLAIMER where we are very clear to remind you that ALL the stores on this site are independent, and bring in what they want to bring in, so you should always check with a store near you FIRST to see what they have chosen to stock (or whisper suggestions in their ears).

AVETT BROS. we’ve got an indie-only 7” of a track from the upcoming Rick Rubin-produced album I AND LOVE AND YOU (look for that on 9/29; with vinyl even earlier: 9/15!!). The A-side of this Vinyl Saturday 7” is “Slight Figure of Speech” which is on the album, but the B-side, “More of You” is NOT, and is available on this cool 7”

BIG STAR a special 7” just for indie record stores. Why is this so special? Well…
"Feel" (alternate mix) is a selection from the forthcoming Keep An Eye On The Sky box set (coming 9/15). Best known as the opening track of Big Star's #1 Record, this previously unissued early mix of the song has additional guitar and some different lyrics not heard in the final mix you've known for all these years. It also lacks the brass overdubs and some other production touches, but is a far more rough and ready presentation of this Chris Bell classic.

After the release of Big Star's Radio City album in 1974, a well known British producer (who shall remain nameless) from the 1960's approached Ardent about remixing "Mod Lang" for single release. The original tapes were flown to New York City's famed Record Plant and augmented with piano and additional percussion (did I hear you say "more cowbell"?). Although the band passed on the results, we thought you might like to hear this "B Side" rarity which has been sitting in the can since 1974! This track is exclusive to this vinyl release.

MARS VOLTA Octahedron That’s right, the full length vinyl version of the new record, with pretty bells-and-whistles packaging designed by the band. In indie stores September 5 for VINYL SATURDAY

RX BANDITS Mandala This band LOVES indie stores just as much as you do. That’s why, short of getting it off an actual band member, you’ll only be able to get the full length vinyl version of their new record at an indie record store. Starting on VINYL SATURDAY, September 5

L.A. Times Reviews Beatles Remasters

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2009/08/remastered-beatles-cds-a-sneak-preview.html#more

Would you like a CD with that? Bookstore-record store convergence

L.A. Times blog about the convergence of music with books in some retail stores:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/08/would-you-like-a-cd-with-that-bookstorerecord-store-convergence.html

Pitchfork on ABC: The Antlers 'Hospice' Recomended

'Hospice' Recomended

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Even More Beatles News....

All the details you could ever want to know about the Beatles re-issues.

http://www.beatlesnews.com/news/the-beatles/200908151922/exciting-new-details-of-beatles-remasters-announced-in-chicago.html

Nirvana "Bleach" Deluxe Re-issue Due Out Nov. 3rd

Bleach turns 20 this year (feel old yet?), and Sub Pop is planning a deluxe reissue on CD and 180 gram white vinyl. (The first run of Bleach was also on white vinyl, appropriately enough.) The 20th anniversary edition is due November 3. Jack Endino, the album's original producer, oversaw the remastering, which was done from the original tapes.

This edition will also include a complete recording of a never-before-released 1990 live show at Portland's Pine Street Theatre, remixed by Endino from original tapes. And there's a booklet: 48 pages on CD and 16 on LP, featuring previously unseen photos. (courtesy of Pitchfork)

Wilco "Summerteeth" out on LP on Aug. 25th!

Double LP set, 180 gram with a bonus CD of the album included. Title not listed in the EDGE 8/25 Streetwise.

Flaming Lips "Embryonic" out Oct. 13th

New Jay Reatard Gets a 7.9 Pitchfork Rating

LP out now, CD out 8/18 on Matador.

Them Crooked Vultures Show Details

Them Crooked Vultures is Josh Homme, Dave Grohl and John Paul Jones. This is going to be ridiculous. Here is a review of their debut show this past weekend in Chicago:

http://blogs.suntimes.com/derogatis/2009/08/them_crooked_vultures_at_metro.html

Vinyl Saturday Sept. 5th Product List

1. Mars Volta "Octahedron" double vinyl $24.98 list

2. RX Bandits "Mandala" double vinyl $23.98 list

3. Fever Ray "Triangle Walks" 12" single

4. Peter Holsapple / Chris Stamey "My Friend the Sun" 7" $4.98 list

5. Big Star "Feel/Mod Lang" 7"

6. Avett Brothers "Slight Figure of Speech" 7" $4.98 list

Pissed Jeans "King of Jeans" Gets an 8.3 Rating on Pitchfork

Album out 8/18 on CD and LP through Sub Pop.

Under the Radar: Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

Album "Up From Below" out now on CD through Vagrant. Named by Rolling Stone as an "Artist to Watch".

Pearl Jam "Fixer" 7 Inch out Aug. 25

Gatefold double pocket packaging, white 7" vinyl with glow in the dark ink on label! Features two songs from the upcoming album: A) "The Fixer" & B)"Supersonic"

Under the Radar: The Low Anthem

CD & LP "Oh My God Charlie Darwin" out now on Nonesuch.

Julian Plenti - Julian Plenti is Skyscraper OUT NOW on CD & LP!

New solo project from Paul Banks of Interpol. Check out the video for "Games For Days":

Beatles Catalog Re-issue Information

Beatles Reissue Everything

Just when Beatles fans thought they had everything they could possibly own by the band, along comes EMI and Apple Corps with yet another reason to repurchase the Fab Four’s spectacular music catalog, including not one, but two box sets.

This time the carrot dangling in front of fans is the phrase “digitally remastered,” as in the first time the original Beatles catalog has been digitally remastered.

September 9 is the release date, which coincidentally is the same day “The Beatles: Rock Band” video game will be released.

Aside from remastering the catalog, EMI and Apple Corps are including several value-added features to sweeten the pot for fans wondering if they need more versions of the songs they’ve already been listening to over the years.

For starters, each of the CDs is packaged with replicated original United Kingdom cover art. Included are expanded booklets containing original and new liner notes and rare photos. Furthermore, for a limited time only, each CD will include a short documentary about the album.

All 12 Beatles albums are in the digitally remastered collection, including track listings and artwork as originally released in the U.K. The set also includes Magical Mystery Tour, which was originally released in the U.K. as the soundtrack to the TV film of the same name, and wasn’t fleshed out to album size until it was released in the States. Plus, the group’s Past Masters Vol. I and II are being combined into one title, resulting in 14 titles in all – the original 12 albums, Magical Mystery Tour and Past Masters. The collecton will also be available as a box set.

EMI and Apple Corps have been working on the project for the past four years, utilizing state-of-the-art technology along with old recording equipment from the ‘60s. The claim is that the digitally remastered albums represent the highest fidelity any Beatles songs have enjoyed since the original releases.

Each CD booklet contains historical and recording notes. With the exception of the Past Masters release, the CDs will also contain mini-documentaries on the making of each album and will include archival footage, rare photos and never-before-heard studio chat.

The second box set – The Beatles In Mono – pretty much functions as the name implies and contains all of the Beatles recordings that were mixed for mono release, resulting in mono versions of 10 albums. Included are two additional mono master discs containing material similar to the stereo tracks on Past Masters.

But if that’s not enough to grab your attention (and your wallet), the mono versions of Help and Rubber Soul also include the original 1965 stereo mixes never released before on CD, and will be packaged in min-vinyl CD replicas, including original inserts and label designs.

Although the reissues are all about the music, Apple Corps and EMI have done an excellent job providing additional, value-added content. One of the often-expressed criticisms of online music is that, other than legal threats, the labels have failed to give music fans reasons to legitimately purchase music that they can already get for free.

By beefing up the reissues with plenty of photos, films and artwork, both companies have given fans that already have the songs reasons to purchase the newly remastered CDs. That’s something the rest of the recording industry should consider when trying to convince consumers it’s better to buy than to steal. (courtesy of pollstar.com)

Beatles Mono and Stereo Box Set Info. Sept. 9 Release

Contact your sales rep. to pre-order!


Stereo Box Info:
Hard black glossy lift top with magnet clasp
CD's packaged in three panel digi-pak with digital mini documentaries
Remastered by Guy Massey, Steve Rooke, Sam Okell with Paul Hicks and Sean Magee

Contains:

All 13 Studio remasters plus Past Masters (digi packaging with digital mini documentaries). DVD of all 13 mini-documentaries (Running time: 40 minutes)

Please Please Me
With The Beatles
A Hard Day's Night
Beatles For Sale
Help!
Rubber Soul
Revolver
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Magical Mystery Tour
The Beatles (White Album)
Yellow Submarine
Abbey Road
Let It Be
Past Masters


Mono Box Info:
Hard white glossy slip box
Limited edition (10,000 in the U.S. market)
CDs packaged as mini LP replicas (replica artwork, sleeves and gatefolds)
Remastered by Paul Hicks, Sean Magee with Guy Massey and Steve Rooke

Contains:

Original Mono version - 11 albums (12 discs)

Please Please Me
With The Beatles
A Hard Day's Night
Beatles For Sale
Help! (CD also includes original 1965 stereo mix)+
Rubber Soul (CD also include original 1965 stereo mix)+
Revolver +
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band +
Magical Mystery Tour +
The Beatles (White Album) +
Mono Masters (features all of the mono tracks that appeared on singles, EPs. or that never made it onto the 13 albums)

+ denotes mono mix CD debut

(Yellow Submarine, Abbey Road and Let It Be are not included, as they were originally recorded in stereo)

Under the Radar: The Duke & The King 8/4 Release

New album, "Nothing Gold Can Stay" out now! Here is a review of the album from the L.A. Times:

This new indie-roots duo takes its name from "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," its album title from a Robert Frost poem, and its sound from early-'70s folkies such as Cat Stevens and Neil Young. As you might expect, there isn't much about "Nothing Gold Can Stay," the Duke & the King's debut, that suggests it was made during this century.

The Duke is Simone Felice, who until recently played drums in the Felice Brothers, a rollicking family band from upstate New York that released a terrific record earlier this year called "Yonder Is the Clock." The King is Robert "Chicken" Burke, an old multi-instrumentalist pal of Felice's who has worked with George Clinton and Sweet Honey in the Rock.

The pair recorded the 10 songs here in a cabin-turned-studio near Woodstock, and if their stay there involved lots of quiet evenings spent sipping stiff Irish coffees, then "Nothing Gold Can Stay" reflects it beautifully: This is hushed, deliberately paced acoustic music perfect for sitting around a fireplace pondering the coming thaw. "All our days are just so many waves in the wind," Felice observes in "If You Ever Get Famous," a supremely lovely line that hints at his other life as a novelist.

Pitchfork Gives New Antlers Album 8.5 Best New Music Rating

Album "Hospice" out on Aug. 18th through French Kiss/RED

NPR's List of Best Songs and Albums of 2009 (so far)

The Best Songs of 2009 (so far)
1. “My Girls” Animal Collective
2. “Two Weeks” Grizzly Bear
3. “Blood Bank” Bon Iver
4. “The Rake’s Song” The Decemberists
5. “Lisztomania” Phoenix
6. “Zero” Yeah Yeah Yeahs
7. “This Tornado Loves You” Neko Case
8. “Sleepyhead” Passion Pit
9. “Laughing With” Regina Spektor
10. “The Wanting Comes In Waves/Repaid” The Decemberists
11. “Train Song” Feist and Ben Gibbard
12. “Knotty Pine” David Byrne & Dirty Projectors
13. “Daniel” Bat For Lashes
14. “Summertime Clothes” Animal Collective
15. “One Wing” Wilco
16. “The Fear” Lily Allen
17. “Heads Will Roll” Yeah Yeah Yeahs
18. “Wilco (The Song)” Wilco
19. “Stillness Is The Move” Dirty Projectors
20. “Help, I’m Alive” Metric
21. “Anonanimal” Andrew Bird
22. “On No” Andrew Bird
23. “No You Girls” Franz Ferdinand
24. “I And Love And You” The Avett Brothers
25. “French Navy” Camera Obscura
26. “Magpie To The Morning” Neko Case
27. “Woods” Bon Iver
28. “Black Hearted Love” PJ Harvey and John Parish
29. “While You Wait For The Others” Grizzly Bear
30. “Panic Switch” Silversun Pickups

Best Albums of 2009 (so far)
bq.. 1. Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective
2. The Hazards of Love by The Decemberists
3. Veckatimest by Grizzly Bear
4. Middle Cyclone by Neko Case
5. Wilco (The Album) by Wilco
6. Noble Beast by Andrew Bird
7. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix by Phoenix
8. It’s Blitz! by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
9. Dark Was The Night by Various Artists
10. Bitte Orca by Dirty Projectors
11. Far by Regina Spektor
12. Actor by St. Vincent
13. Manners by Passion Pit
14. Hold Time by M. Ward
15. Reservoir by Fanfarlo
16. Fever Ray by Fever Ray
17. Fantasies by Metric
18. Two Suns by Bat for Lashes
19. My Maudlin Career by Camera Obscura
20. Dark Night of the Soul by Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse
21. The Crying Light by Antony & The Johnsons
22. The Eternal by Sonic Youth
23. The Ecstatic by Mos Def
24. Outer South by Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band
25. Swoon by Silversun Pickups
26. Together Through Life by Bob Dylan
27. No Line on the Horizon by U2
28. March of the Zapotec by Beirut
29. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart by The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
30. The Mountain by Heartless Bastards

Carrie Brownstein (of Sleater Kinney) Loves Lightning Dust

From her NPR Blog "Monitor Mix":

"Just in case you were wondering, there is music that I'm really in love with right now. But there's only one record that I listen to every single day, and that's Lightning Dust's upcoming Infinite Light.

The first song, "Antonia Jane," gives me chills each time I hear it. I think it's the line, "I declare a war on you." But mostly, it's the overall interplay of the band's guitar, piano and vocals; together, they create a musical conversation that vacillates between melancholy and joy, grime and glimmer. And the drums sound like far-off foot soldiers, coming up close and then receding into the background. Lightning Dust makes really electrifying music -- not shocking or bombastic, but in a way that puts the listener near the power source, close enough to feel the buzz, tingle and vibration that accompany beauty."

Infinite Light is out August 4th.

NPR's Discoveries From The Pitchfork Music Festival

Full story here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106940994

Flight of the Conchords - New Album out Oct. 20th

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - New EP out Sept. 22nd

Blue Roses - 7.8 Pitchfork Rating

"a dizzyingly beautiful set of delicate folk songs." NME.
"A haunting record, full of unexpected instrumental textures that course beneath Groves'extraordinary voice and eerie, elusive lyrics" - Sunday Times Culture.

Album out now on XL Recordings.

Spin's 20 Best Albums of 2009...So Far

Ida Maria - Fortress Round My Heart
Peter Bjorn And John - Living Thing
Blk Jks - Mystery
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Mastodon - Crack The Skye
Amadou & Mariam - Welcome To Mali
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz!
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
Regina Spektor - Far
Mos Def - The Ecstatic
Glasvegas - Glasvegas
Jarvis Cocker - Further Complications
Bat For Lashes - Two Sun
Mavado - Mr. Brooks... A Better Tomorrow
Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Sa-Ra Creative Partners - The Age Of Love
Antony And The Johnsons - The Crying Light

Full article here:

http://www.spin.com/gallery/20-best-albums-2009-so-far

Megafaun - Gather, Form & Fly 8.1 Rating From Pitchfork

Their highly anticipated second album. All the hints they've given us - from songs Stereogum described as "mournful, slow-blooming banjo-and-white-noise-laced epics" to tours with The Rosebuds, Arnold Dreyblatt, and Akron Family - have culminated in a record that's an ode to death, love, musical history, community, tradition, and experimentation. In all, it's an ode to the listener. Double LP also available. July 21st release from Hometapes.

Entertainment Weekly Gives New Portugal The Man Album an A- Rating

Portugal. The Man's fourth album, The Satanic Satanist, is 
 perfect for summer: appealingly warm, even as they mine thematic turf in their hometown of Wasilla, Alaska. 
Combining Motown falsettos and the best of late-'60s groove rock with spacey loops and hipster-art-collective 
sing-alongs, they deliver a sound that's friendly and familiar without being derivative; it's a sort of retrofitted make-out van on a club crawl. And in John Baldwin Gourley, they've got a vocalist whose sweet, fully committed tenor instantly makes you believe in his songs of northern disillusionment. Palin who? A– (courtesy of Whitney Pastorek at Entertainment Weekly)

Beastie Boys - Too Many Rappers (feat. Nas) 12 Inch Single IN STOCK NOW!

A solid, timelessly funky group rap single from the Beastie Boys -- with special guest Nas -- the first taste we got of the Beastie Boys '09 Hot Sauce Committee LP! To put it succinctly, this single pretty much turned out exactly as good we'd hoped it would be. Nas comes out first, and trades mic time with the Beasties over a heavy, live sounding funky beat and bass. Nothing fancy, just straight up, solid hip hop from veterans -- the genre blending, unstoppable Beastie Boys and Nas, one of the best NYC MCs to ever pic up a mic! Limited edition 180 gram vinyl -- from the Beastie Boys Hot Sauce Committee LP coming this fall. (Review courtesy of Dusty Grove)