The Fat Angel Sings

Though Record Store Day only recently discovered the loping funk and slow-oozing soul of the late Lowell George’s Little Feet, Rhino has been making up for lost time with several seasons of tack-sharp live albums that appear like old-fashioned bootlegs. This time, the Southern-fried Angeleno outfit are caught in sticky, slippery, syrupy mode in the UK with their classic lineup (anything where George is joined by Paul Barrere and Bill Payne is “classic”) running through “All That You Dream,” “Time Loves a Hero,” and a jaunty “Dixie Chicken.”

Originally released as a part of the “Waiting for Columbus” (Super Deluxe Edition), this is the first official vinyl release of this complete live show recorded at Manchester Free Trade Hall on July 29th, 1977. This 3LP set finds the band’s classic line-up of Lowell George (Guitar, Vocals), Paul Barrere (Guitar, Vocals), Kenny Gradney (Bass), Richie Hayward (Drums, Vocals) Sam Clayton (Percussion, Vocals), and Bill Payne (Keyboards) rolling right through the night in a state of bliss.

Featuring material from their classic run of 70’s albums, this live show is an essential addition to any Little Feat collection.

Limited Edition of 7,300 copies on 3-LP 180-gram Black vinyl

Rock and roll at its lustiest and most shambolic—that was Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood’s Faces with drummer Kenny Jones and the late-greats Ronnie Lane and Ian McLagan on bass and keyboards, respectively. Oddly enough, The Faces never made it into the RSD stakes, so this release is even more magical. The Replacements of their time sound as if they’re ducking for apples in a barrel of bourbon on ferocious rockers such as “Oh Lord, I’m Browned Off,” a raging “I Know I’m Losing You,” and the weird stumblebum takes of McCartney’s “Maybe I’m Amazed,” Robert Johnson’s “Love in Vain,” and Bobby Womack’s “It’s All Over Now.” Plus, the whole in-the-red mess is crammed onto one 140-gram Orange Crush vinyl LP.

A new double LP Faces title featuring a previously-unreleased performance from John Peel’s Sunday Concert. The show, recorded on May 13th, 1971 and broadcast May 23rd, featured the classic Faces line-up of Rod Stewart on vocals, Ron Wood on guitar/vocals, Ronnie Lane and bass/vocals, Ian McLagan on keyboards/ vocals and Kenney Jones on drums.

Tracks 1-4 from Sounds Of The Seventies, recorded April 20th, 1970, broadcast May 3rd, 1971
Exclusive stereo versions

Side 1
1. HAD ME A REAL GOOD TIME (BBC Stereo Session) [5:04]
(Steve Harley/Ronnie Lane/Ron Wood)
2. LOVE IN VAIN (BBC Stereo Session) [6:50]
(Robert Johnson)
3. OH LORD I’M BROWNED OFF (BBC Stereo Session) [4:32]
(Kenney Jones/Ronnie Lane/Ian McLagan/Ron Wood)
4. MAYBE I’M AMAZED (BBC Stereo Session) [5:13]
(Paul McCartney)
*Tracks 1-4 from Sounds Of The Seventies, recorded April 20, 1970, broadcast May 3, 1971
Exclusive stereo versions

Side 2
1. IT’S ALL OVER NOW (BBC Live Version) [5:32]
(Bobby Womack/Shirley Jean Womack)
From John Peel’s Sunday Concert, recorded May 13, 1971, broadcast May 23, 1971
2. TOO MUCH WOMAN (FOR A HENPECKED MAN)/STREET FIGHTING MAN (BBC Live Version) [6:41]
(Ike Turner)/(Mick Jagger/Keith Richards)
From Sounds For Saturday: The Music Of The Faces (BBC TV), recorded October 26, 1971, broadcast April 1, 1972
3. TWISTIN’ THE NIGHT AWAY (BBC Live Version) [4:58]
(Sam Cooke)
From In Concert, recorded March 29, 1973, broadcast April 21, 1973
4. (I KNOW) I’M LOSING YOU (BBC Live Version) [6:27]
(Norman Whitfield/Cornelius Grant/Eddie Holland)
From In Concert, recorded February 8, 1973, not originally broadcast”

Limited Edition of 8,000 copies on 1-LP 140-gram Orange Crush vinyl

45th anniversary deluxe edition of the classic 1978 album from Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band. This limited edition 2LP vinyl set features the original album, recut from the original master tapes at Bernie Grundman Mastering, plus an additional LP with twelve previously unreleased demos, rough mixes and alternate versions from the Shiny Beast-era . Featuring “Tropical Hot Dog Night”, “The Floppy Boot Stomp”, “Bat Chain Puller” and more.

In the early 1980s, the avatar of avant-garde blues, character actor–like vocalist Captain Beefheart, took advantage of the burgeoning post-punk school of art rock (Pere Ubu, Devo) and beat the young competition at their own game with the vividly angular and boldly brassy “Shiny Beast”—and on a major label yet. For its 40th anniversary, look to rare non-Bat instrumentals (“Suction Prints”) and happily gut-shot roughshod demos of “Tropical Hot Dog Night” and “Candle Mambo.” Not for the faint of heart.

Joni Mitchell – “Court and Spark Demos” Joni Mitchell’s most commercially successful album of her career. This LP features the never-before-heard demos from the iconic album, including “Help Me” and “Raised On Robbery.” Adding to the wealth of vault-pulling that Rhino has executed in Joni Mitchell’s name so far (and the archival label hasn’t even gotten to her most experimental works, such as “Hejira” and “Mingus”) is the never-before-heard demos from the album that broke her as a pop phenom. Not only does this mean raw sketches of hits such as “Help Me” and “Raised on Robbery,” but a naïve and elongated “Piano Suite” with versions of “Down to You” wrapped lovingly around “Court and Spark” and “Car on a Hill.”

BLACK FRIDAY 2023 Release Date: 11/24/2023 through Rhino Records

All tracks taken from Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975)

This year, Rhino’s RSD Black Friday is packed with sixteen exclusive albums from their diverse roster of artists. The limited-edition releases will feature selections from The Beat, The Doors, Grateful Dead, Joni Mitchell, Linkin Park, Little Feat, Sia, War, Willie Nelson, and many others. These will be available on November 24 at participating indie music retailers.

Side One:

1. PIANO SUITE: [12:32]

DOWN TO YOU

COURT AND SPARK

CAR ON A HILL

DOWN TO YOU

2. PEOPLE’S PARTIES [3:02]

Side Two:

1. HELP ME [3:31]

2. JUST LIKE THIS TRAIN [3:51]

3. RAISED ON ROBBERY [2:57]

4. TROUBLE CHILD [3:57]

This is the 30th anniversary reissue of Bikini Kill’s debut 12-inch EP. Originally released in the fall of 1992, Bikini Kill comprises four songs recorded by Ian MacKaye at Inner Ear Studios; one song from the band’s 1991 demo cassette, record by Pat Maley (Yo-Yo Studios); and one song recorded during

live performance on April 4th, 1992, at Washington, DC’s Sanctuary Theatre. The vinyl reissue includes a new fanzine in the form of a 34-inch by 21-inch poster featuring interviews with MacKaye and Molly Neuman (Bratmobile), liner notes by Layla Gibbon (Skinned Teen, MRR), excerpts from the band members’ zines (Bikini Kill #1 and #2, Jigsaw #4), and rare photos from the band members’ personal archives. Bikini Kill was a feminist punk band that was based in Olympia, WA, and Washington, DC, forming in 1990 and breaking up in 1997. Kathleen Hanna sang, Tobi Vail played drums, Billy Karren (a.k.a. Billy Boredom) played guitar and Kathi Wilcox played bass.

Bikini Kill is credited with instigating the Riot Grrrl movement in the early ’90s via their political lyrics, zines and confrontational live performances. The self-titled EP marks the beginning of a larger campaign to release the complete Bikini Kill catalogue, including previously unreleased material, on vinyl and CD.

There’s a time and a season for everything, they tell us – and now we find ourselves at the end of the “Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You” season. No, the new album won’t go away – and the Bonnie ‘Prince’ will continue to tour – but the cycle of release, the unboxing as it were, is drawing to a close. Fittingly, it goes out with a mighty soar: an epic reading of the title song to the album – a song, by-the-by that, for royal reasons, and no concern of ours, wasn’t included in the album. It isn’t still. It stands marvelously on its own. When heard in concert, it provokes questions like, where is that song and how can I have it? You don’t have to consult the almanac or pretend to understand time and seasons – mostly, you just have to live them.

The video, directed by Adam Laity, transports us to breathtaking and stunning natural landscapes, allowing us to experience the beauty of the world in a few short minutes. 

The “Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You” album was recorded hermetically, so to speak – in a Louisville house, with local musicians, as a necessity of what we hope will be a season that never returns. Here at other end of that tunnel, is “Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You” – a song that Bonny travelled to record, and made with a larger, non-local ensemble. Almost as if it was made in a different timeline and brought back here, to release us to future days. Songs have many lives, just like you and me too. “Keeping Secrets will Destroy You” was played by Bonny, Shahzad Ismaily, Emmett Kelly, Jim Keltner and Blake Mills, and features the singing of Lacey Guthrie, Katie Peabody and Heather Summers.

“Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You” is available for digital download and on all streaming services from Drag City on November 20th, 2023.

This is one of the rarest, most sought-after, and most expensive posters of the entire Bill Graham series. The central image of this poster is comprised of two photographs by Herb Greene—one of Jefferson Airplane, and the other of the Grateful Dead. James H. Gardner, the artist who created this poster, expertly crafted the Roller alphabet for the lettering. It is unknown exactly what happened to the posters for this show. One theory is that they were seized by Canadian Customs pursuant to a requirement that advertising material such as this had to be printed in Canada. A similar problem occurred when Russ Gibb tried to bring posters for a Toronto concert into Canada from Michigan. 

“Delaware” is the debut album by American band Drop Nineteens from Boston, which they released in 1992. The band consisted of Greg Ackell (vocals, guitar) and Chris Roof (drums), Paula Kelley (vocals, guitar), Motohiro Yasue (guitar) and Steve Zimmerman (bass).

The band was active for only five years and released a total of two albums and a couple EPs in total, before reuniting in 2023.

The album spawned two singles, “Winona” and “My Aquarium”, of which the first gained airplay on the MTV music channel. UK magazine NME branded the band in the growing shoegaze scene and the band played in London consistently, even opening for Radiohead and The Cranberries. 

“Delaware” is one of the classic shoegaze records. Formed in Boston in 1991, Drop Nineteens instantly attracted much attention from the UK media and record companies, eventually signing to Hut records. Their debut “Delaware” is a beautiful record, noisy and melodic in equal measures, a record that is full of youth and innocence. The mix of the predominately english shoegaze style with a more american style akin to the Pixies and Sonic Youth gave Drop Nineteens a distinctive sound.

The album has instant pop thrills rambling lsd influenced lo-fi epics such as ‘Kick the Tragedy’, indie pop gems such as ‘Your Aquarium’, with a cheeky and full blooded cover of madonna’s ‘Angel’ thrown in for good measure – yet it still hangs together as a coherent album.

As well as the represses of “Milk and Kisses” and “Four-Calendar Cafe” which in the USA we will release via through 4ad records there will in future be more pressings of titles that previously haven’t been available in a long while. News will be posted here as it happens. Simon Raymonde’s memoir will be out in the second half of next year too and I’ll be out and about talking about my time in the band,

This re-issue of the Cocteau Twins 1996 album faithfully replicates the original 1996 Fontana Records UK release and is pressed onto high quality 140g vinyl.

Cocteau Twins consisting of vocalist Elizabeth Fraser, guitarist Robin Guthrie, and bassist Simon Raymonde – formed in Grangemouth, Scotland in the late 70s. The brainchild of Guthrie and original bassist Will Heggie, by 1981 they had added Fraser and the following year signed to 4AD, one of the most illustrious of the indie labels. With Raymonde replacing Heggie in 1983, the trio went on to create some of the most unique and otherworldly music of the 80s, built around Guthrie’s chiming guitar and Fraser’s unmistakable soprano.

By the early 90s, the group had just released their most successful album, the commercial “Heaven Or Las Vegas”, after which they moved to Mercury imprint Fontana, joining the likes of The Fall and the House Of Love.

Although not intended so at the time, “Milk & Kisses” released in March 1996 – became the final album issued the group. The trio worked separately but effectively – Raymonde would work in the daytime, Guthrie at night, leaving Fraser to add her vocals.

Because of the aftershocks of her split with Guthrie, lyrics came easy to her. Led by the beautiful, hushed Top 30 single “Tishbite” and containing fan favourites “Violane” and “Eperdu”, Milk & Kisses has tended to be overlooked within the group’s canon, and therefore is ripe for investigation. Although work had begun on a follow up album to “Milk & Kisses”, the Cocteau Twins split up in 1997.

Singer/songwriter Katy Kirby introduced her warm, articulate vocals, perceptive lyrics, and playful adult-alternative style on her debut album as she toured tirelessly supporting bands like Waxahatchee, Andy Shauf, Julia Jacklin and Alex G. “Blue Raspberry” is Katy Kirby’s follow up to her renowned debut album “Cool Dry Place”, which came out in February 2021.

That record was a tried-and-true folk collection, perfectly displaying the chops of a young songwriter and emanating the warm feel of a band in a room; “Blue Raspberry”, made with the same band and producers (Logan Chung and Alberto Sewald), hits the gas and enters completely new territory as we see Katy truly step into her own as a songwriting force. She fearlessly leans far into baroque piano pop on tracks like ‘Redemption Arc’ and the title track ‘Blue Raspberry’, and lyrically she explores themes of loss and queer love. Very few are able to capture the same emotional, theatrical magic of artists like Fiona Apple, Tom Waits and Joanna Newsom but Katy pulls it off on this record; standout ‘Drop Dead’.

the upcoming album “Blue Raspberry”, out on January 26th, 2024