ECHO and The BUNNYMEN – ” Live In Liverpool ” Record Store Day 2021

Posted: May 30, 2021 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant shaped Echo & the Bunnymen’s dreamy post-punk into something timeless. Their 1997 reincarnation sparked new life for the band, and McCulloch and Sergeant have maintained their strong appeal of passionate rock & roll. On a live setting, they’re charming and their first proper live album, “Live in Liverpool”, proves that. The duo have a weird musical madness together, and they’re comfortable with it. The two night stint captured August 2001 at Paul McCartney’s Liverpool of Performing Arts, McCulloch’s romantic brood and Sergeant’s riveting guitar work are at its best. It’s a merry collection of cult classics (“Seven Seas,” “The Killing Moon,” “Never Stop”) and new material (“SuperMellow Man,” “Eternity Turns”), but a homage to the band itself. The psychedelic bombast of “All That Jazz” is slick and savvy. Songs from the “Crocodiles” album take on that tone, but with a signature lust and a sneaky intensity. “Over the Wall” brings that side of the band to the forefront.

In a live setting, it’s eerie and alluring. “Rescue” and “The Cutter” soar with lush guitar riffs and McCulloch’s warm vocals illustrate something primitive. “Nothing Lasts Forever,” from 1997’s Evergreen, is a sweet sign of age, but it’s also graceful. McCulloch and Sergeant are fond of what Echo & the Bunnymen have become. Two nights churning out fan favourites and band mainstays in their hometown makes it much sweeter.

Recorded in 2001 at Paul McCartney Institute of Performing Arts, “Live In Liverpool” features electrifying performances of classics including “The Killing Moon”, “Lips Like Sugar” and “The Cutter.” Pressed on double 180g clear vinyl for RSD Drops to mark its first release on vinyl. 

Tracklisting:

1. Rescue 2. Lips Like Sugar 3. King Of Kings 4. Never Stop 5. Seven Seas 6. Buried Alive 7. SuperMellow Man 8. My Kingdom 9. All My Colours (Zimbo) 10. All That Jazz 11. An Eternity Turns 12. The Back Of Love 13. The Killing Moon 14. The Cutter 15. Over The Wall 16. Nothing Lasts Forever 17. Ocean Rain

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L7 – ” Beauty Process ” Triple Platinum Record Store Day 2021

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Perhaps because bassist Jennifer Finch left the band during the recording sessions, 1996’s The Beauty Process – Triple Platinum has never quite gotten its due. But Donita Sparks counts it as her favourite L7 album; it’s simultaneously the heaviest record they ever released, and the most varied, with delicate songs like Me, Myself, and I and Moonshine contrasting with the metal-verging-on-industrial mayhem of “Drama.” 25 years further on is a long time to wait for an L7 album to come out on vinyl…for its overdue debut, Real Gone Music is pressing up 3000 copies in (what else?) platinum vinyl and putting ’em inside a jacket with printed inner sleeve.

released For Record Store Day 2021 through Real Gone Music

The POLICE – ” Live In Boston 1979-Atlanta 1983 ” Record Store Day 2021

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Live Vol.1 and Live Vol 2. This special vinyl remaster of the band’s posthumous 1995 live offering – originally offering both shows in the same package on CD – is a chance to hear The Police at two arguable artistic/career peaks. Whether you like the tight trio that shot out tuneful rockers at Boston’s Orpheum Theatre (that version of “Can’t Stand Losing You” is a favorite) or love the world-conquering ambience of their stadium gig on the Synchronicity tour (complete with even bigger chart hits like “Every Breath You Take” and “De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da”), it’s hard to lose with one of the best rock bands of their generation.

Vol 1 on blue coloured vinyl and  Live Vol.2 on red coloured vinyl

First time on vinyl for the first official live album collection, originally released on a 2CD set in 1995, from The Police.

Two separate double LPs showcase the band in two stages:

Volume 1

Recorded in 1979 – shows a trio on the rise performing at its rawest, propelled by bassist and lead singer Sting, followed by drummer extraordinaire Stewart Copeland and guitarist Andy Summers, whose guitar textures are present throughout the show.

The live gig took place at the Orpheum in Boston during the tour for their second album, “Reggatta de Blanc“, and was broadcast on local radio station WBCN at the time. It captures The Police at their most frantic and energetic.

Highlights include early hits and classics such as “Next to You”, “So Lonely”, “Bring on the Night, “The Bed’s Too Big Without You”, “Roxanne”, “Walking on the Moon” and “Can’t Stand Losing You“.

Volume 2

Recorded on the American leg of their “Synchronicity” tour in 1983 during a stop in Georgia, at a show at The Omni in Atlanta.

The show highlights a band at its peak, their already sophisticated sound being complemented by three background vocalists – Dollette Mc Donald, Tessa Niles and Michelle Cobb.

Highlights include “Tea in the Sahara”, “Every Breath You Take”, “Synchronicity I” and “Synchronicity II” as well as huge hits – “De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da” and “Don’t Stand So Close To Me“.

Remastered in 2020 at Abbey Road exclusively for this release

Pressed on heavyweight coloured vinyl

Released for Record Store Day 2021 released through UMC Records

The LATHUMS – ” Live at Blackpool Tower ” Record Store Day 2021

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The Lathums – ‘Live at Blackpool Tower’ white vinyl LP. The audio for this release has been taken from The Lathums’ one off livestreamed gig at Blackpool Tower’s Circus Room, which amassed 4,000 unique viewers back in October 2020. With the UK lockdown hitting right at the start of the band’s rise last year, for many this exclusive Record Store Day release will be the first glimpse of their electric live performance. Filmed in the Tower’s ornate Circus Room under Covid-Safe conditions,

The Lathums took the rare opportunity to let loose and get loud.  The Lathums returned to live performance for the first time since their sold-out February tour to play the historic Blackpool Tower, with the show streaming in free HD audio and video on Wed 28th October at 8pm.

The four-piece’s life-affirming, beg-for-a-ticket pre-Covid live shows recruited a fervent and growing, all-ages, UK-wide fanbase, supporters who helped the band swerve the wreckage of 2020 to stay firmly on the rise. The special, one-off show by the sea goes out as a ‘thank you’ from The Lathums to those stood by their side. Glancing back over a year that saw the band use time locked out of live venues to lock-in to intense writing and recording sessions, Live From Blackpool Tower, will see the band freed to play longstanding favourites alongside recent releases, including punchy single, “I See Your Ghost“, and other tracks from the forthcoming Ghosts EP.

Filmed in the Tower’s ornate Circus Room under Covid-Safe conditions prior to Lancashire’s Tier 3 status being confirmed, The Lathums took the rare opportunity to let loose and get loud.

Released For Record Store Day 2021 through Island Records.

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FONTAINES D.C. – ” Live at Kilmainham Gaol ” Record Store Day 2021

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This live set was recorded in the summer of 2020 in Dublin’s historic Kilmainham Gaol. It is a ten song document of some of their best work to date put down on 180g vinyl in a gatefold jacket with an essay by author and historian Donal Fallon.

On 14th July 2020, Fontaines D.C. played a selection of songs from their Dogrel and A Hero’s Death albums live at Kilmainham Jail as part of the Other Voices Courage Series. It is an old cliche for historians to ask ‘if these walls could speak, what would they tell us?’ Fortunately, the walls of Kilmainham Gaol tell us exactly how they feel. Faded with time, but still stubbornly there, are the messages of Ireland’s revolutionary generations. Over one door are the quoted words of Patrick H. Pearse, poet and leader of the Easter Rising, thundering ‘Beware of the Risen People.’ Perhaps the most evocative piece of graffiti in the prison reads simply ‘A Few Men Faithful and a Deathless Dream.’

Tuesday 14th of July, Dublin’s revered five-piece Fontaines DC played a blistering set live from ​Kilmainham Gaol​. Kilmainham Gaol is one of the largest unoccupied gaols in Europe. It opened in 1796 as the new county gaol for Dublin and finally shut its doors as such in 1924. During that period it witnessed some of the most heroic and tragic events in Ireland’s emergence as a modern nation.

The album arrives on 180g heavyweight black LP in a gatefold jacket. Dublin historian Donal Fallon has written an essay on Kilmainham Gaol which is featured on the back cover. Includes an exclusive poster.

A1) Hero’s Death A2) Sha Sha Sha A3) Chequeless Reckless A4) Televised Mind A5) Too Real
B1) I Don’t Belong B2) Liberty Belle B3) Big B4) Dublin City Sky B5) Boys in the Better Land

Released for Record Store Day 2021 by Partisan Records.

WARREN ZEVON – ” Preludes ” Record Store Day 2021

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Warren Zevon – ‘Preludes’ double sky blue coloured vinyl LP with 20 page book packaged in hardbound slipcase.

Following Warren Zevon’s death in 2003, his son, Jordan Zevon, discovered 126 unreleased outtakes and demos in a piano-sized touring case. Reissued on vinyl for the first time.

This discovery would be distilled down to the best of these recordings and eventually released as a 2CD set titled, Preludes. Preludes was originally released on CD on May 1st, 2007. When the album was released it featured 16 unreleased recordings from Zevon’s personal archives. It also included 6 never before released songs. The release also included a 5-part interview with KGSR’s Jody Denberg from the year 2000.

Now, for the first time ever these recordings will be reissued on vinyl.

Released through New West Records for Record Store Day 2021

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STILLWATER – ” Stillwater Demo’s ” ( Nancy Wilson and Peter Frampton) Record Store Day 2021

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A collection of the 6 demos recorded by Nancy Wilson and Peter Frampton for the songs they wrote for the fictional band in the iconic rock film “Almost Famous”. RSD will be the exclusive vinyl edition, the tracks will appear on a future project but available only on CD and Digital.

In the movie “Almost Famous” (2000), the band Stillwater was supposedly an amalgamation of Poco, The Eagles, Led Zeppelin and a few other bands that Cameron Crowe had actually written articles about early in his career with Rolling Stone.

One of them leapt off a hotel balcony into a swimming pool. Another almost missed a ride on the tour bus after making a detour to an after-show bash. They met groupies and partook in their share of on-the-road partying, and a newspaper headline declared that the band “runs deep.

If you think that sounds like Stillwater, the fictional band from Almost Famous, you’d be correct. But those tales also apply to a real-life group of the same name that existed during the same period,

The 1973 moustached collective featured in writer/ director Cameron Crowe’s ”Almost Famous” has a legitimate rock pedigree. Pearl Jam’s Mike McCready is the real talent behind Russell Hammond, the band’s charismatic lead guitarist (played by Billy Crudup), while ex Heart guitarist Nancy Wilson (Crowe’s wife) plays rhythm guitar for the group. What’s more, ’70s vet Peter Frampton penned several of the Stillwater tunes heard in the movie, and Wilson and Crowe cowrote the band’s bass driven anthem ”Feverdog,” which made the film’s soundtrack.

Wilson, who also scored the film, says she recruited talent with classic rock roots (Frampton) and contemporary know-how (McCready), because she knew she wouldn’t create a believable sound otherwise. The goal was to make a band ”that’s really good, but not all the way formed yet,” she tells EW.com. ”An ‘opening for Black Sabbath’ kind of sound.” And she also wanted to complement the movie’s satirical if loving take on rock & roll Über egos. ”We had to walk the line between parody and something that sounds legit,” says Wilson. 

Record Store Day 2021 release from UMC

WIRE – ” PF456 ” Deluxe Box Set Record Store Day 2021

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Post-rock legends Wire have announced new release details for “PF456 DELUXE” which will be released on Record Store Day on  June 12th, through their Pink Flag label. 
 
PF456 REDUX was originally released in 2002, comprised of tracks from the two “Read & Burn” EPs, plus the album “Send”, all of which were edited in length to accommodate the vinyl format. This new Deluxe edition for Record Store Day 2021 sees the tracks released at their full length, most of which for the first time on vinyl plus the “12 Times You” 7” vinyl thrown in for good measure. “PF456 REDUX” will also be re-released on CD.
 
PF456 DELUXE comprises 2×10” singles + 1×7” single housed in a hardback book designed by Jon Wozencroft, including a 6000 word essay from writer Graham Duff, with new interviews with Wire’s Bruce Gilbert, Colin Newman, Robert Grey and Graham Lewis, as well as complete lyrics and recording details, plus many previously unpublished photographs.

Following their 1990’s hiatus Wire reformed in 1999 and after setting up their own pinkflag imprint, between 2001–2003 released five distinct Wire items: Twelve Times You (7” vinyl). Read & Burn 01 (CD EP) / Read & Burn 02 (CD EP) / Send (CD album) / Redux (vinyl album).

Following the 2 “Read & Burn” CD Eps Wire released the full length album “Send“, combining some tracks from both Read & Burn EPs and four unreleased pieces. Since none of the tracks had previously been issued on vinyl, a creative solution was sought to include all of the tracks from Send and the two Read & Burn EPs. However, none of the tracks on pf4, pf5 and pf6 were ever put out on vinyl at full length – hence “PF456 Deluxe”

ALL THEM WITCHES – ” Live On The Internet ” Record Store Day 2022

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All Them Witches are known for their loud and lengthy live shows. 2020 found the band releasing their critically acclaimed album, “Nothing As The Ideal”. An album release from this band would traditionally be followed by a lengthy 18-month tour across the globe. Due to an international pandemic, the band’s touring plans were brought to a halt. This did not stop All Them Witches from assembling in a studio to broadcast a live set for their fans. The set was roundly received as an amazing performance and fans immediately inquired as to whether or not this show would be available on vinyl. New West Records is proud to present All Them Witches – “Live on the Internet.”

New West Records is proud to present All Them Witches – “Live on the Internet”. This 16-song set will be pressed on 5 variations of colour vinyl and packaged in a widespine jacket. Each package will be foil stamped and numbered. This pressing is limited to 6,000 copies worldwide.

Tracklisting:

Blood and sand / milk and
Endless waters
Dirt preachers
Saturnine & iron jaw
41
When god comes back
Alabaster
Diamond
1×1
3-5-7
The marriage of coyote
Woman
Charles william
Rats in ruin
Open passageways
Enemy of my enemy
Everest
Bulls

Released through New West Records . AVAILABLE IN-STORE 03/04/2022

VARIOUS ARTISTS – ” May The Circle Remain Unbroken: A Tribute To Roky Erickson ” Record Store Day 2021

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Texan Roky Erickson was one of the true mind-blowing pioneers of psychedelic music. As the original leader of the Austin-based 13th Floor Elevators formed in 1965, Erickson and his band invented a brand new style or rock & roll, one that was slightly unhinged while it explored the consciousness-expanding influence of LSD on music. After three years, the group imploded with mental issues and legal challenges, ending with Erickson being incarcerated for several years in the hospital for the criminally insane in Rusk, Texas. When he was released in the early ’70s the musician continued on his own trail, recording songs that had come to him in his far-flung cerebral wanderings.

Roky Erickson, who passed away May 31st, 2019, is now celebrated on this 12-track tribute to one of the most original rockers ever. The participants range the whole world of modern music, and each chose one of Erickson’s originals to stamp their own imprint on. they include Billy Gibbons, Lucinda Williams, Mosshart Sexton (a/k/a Alison Mosshart & Charlie Sexton), Neko Case, Mark Lanegan & Lynn Castle, Jeff Tweedy, Margo Price, Gary Clark jr & Eve Monsees, Ty Segal, Chelsea Wolfe, The Black Angels and Brogan Bentley. the album is co-produced for release by Bill Bentley, executive producer of the 1990 roky erickson tribute album where the pyramid meets the eye on Sire Records, and Matt Sullivan, co-founder/owner of Light in the Attic Records.

The songs range from Erickson’s debut iconic original, “You’re Gonna Miss Me,” recorded when he was a member first in the Spades and then the 13th Floor Elevators during the early ’60s in Austin, to some of Erickson’s later songs, like “if you have ghosts,” which heard him exploring some of the outer limits of the human psyche. each new recording is a stunning modern take on the sound that Roky Erickson gave the world over a half-century of writing, recording and touring. no one has ever equalled those explorations. this truly is the music of the spheres, as Erickson once sang about his sound, as seen through the eyes and ears of those who are united in their love and respect for a person who dedicated his life to rock & roll. Roky Erickson, through the trials and tribulations of a man both imbued with greatness and haunted by darkness, never quit in his quest to share with others what he heard and saw. as he sang on the 13th Floor Elevators last recording, “May the Circle Remain Unbroken.”

Tracklisting:

  1. billy f gibbons — (i’ve got) levitation
  2. mosshart sexton — starry eyes
  3. jeff tweedy — for you (i’d do anything)
  4. lynn castle & mark lanegan — clear night for love
  5. the black angels — don’t fall down
  6. neko case — be and bring me home
  7. margo price — red temple prayer (two-headed dog)
  8. gary clark, jr. & eve monsees — roller coaster
  9. ty segall — night of the vampire
  10. lucinda williams — you’re gonna miss me
  11. chelsea wolfe — if you have ghosts
  12. brogan bentley — may the circle remain unbroken
  13. a surprise archival rarity performed by roky erickson (bonus rsd flexi)

This deluxe RSD LP edition is pressed on special colour wax (clear with purple hi-melt) and includes a limited-edition flexi disc featuring an unreleased track, titled Love Hieroglyphics, performed by Roky circa the early ’70s. The release also includes a 16-page booklet with rare photos and new liner notes by Bill Bentley.

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