When Santana took the stage at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair on August 16th, 1969, the group was virtually unknown outside of the thriving Bay Area music scene. By the time they triumphantly closed their set, they were one of the festival’s biggest surprises. Santana delivered a career-making performance melding Latin rock and bruising blues that readied the world for the band’s platinum-selling debut album, released weeks later. Santana Live At The Woodstock Music & Art Fair, August 16, 1969 takes listeners back to that jaw-dropping show, pressed on vinyl for the first time.
Ben Folds & The West Australia Symphony Orchestra recorded over two nights in 2005. First time on LP Vinyl, includes x2 unreleased songs.
Recorded live over two nights in Australia in 2005, Live in Perth features Ben Folds in collaboration with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra for a lush symphonic take on favorites from his witty piano-pop discography–his first of many performances with orchestras all over the world. Previously only available on DVD, Live in Perth will be available as a 2LP set that features two previously unreleased recordings from the concerts.
First heard 25 years ago on the soundtrack to Cameron Crowe’s Singles, Pearl Jam’s ‘State of Love and Trust’ and ‘Breath’ are coupled on 45 RPM 7” vinyl for the first time! The double platinum soundtrack album exposed mainstream audiences to the burgeoning Seattle grunge scene, and helped establish bands like Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden and Mudhoney.
‘Singles: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – Deluxe Edition’ will also be released on CD and LP in May, featuring a bonus disc of rare and unreleased material from Chris Cornell, Paul Westerberg and others.
Saturday, April 22nd marks the tenth annual Record Store Day 2017. If you’ll be getting up early and hitting up your local record shop, keep your eyes peeled for Suuns‘ Hold/Still Remixes. Almost a year to the day from the release of the Montreal band’s third album, Hold/Still, the LPs of remixes twist and turn the original tracks into something else entirely. The source material lends itself perfectly to a remix project given its layers of experimental complexity, and the remixes on the forthcoming LP vary from dance floor fillers to ambient.
Suuns’s deliver an Record Store Day 2017 exclusive album of remixes of thier most-far reaching and creative record to date, features 9 tracks across 2LP’s and comes with an MP3 download card.
Hold/Still Remixes is a limited-edition pressing exclusively for Record Store Day 2017 and pressed on red vinyl.
“Piss Factory” is a proto punk song written by Patti Smith and band member Richard Sohl, and released as a B-side on Smith’s debut single “Hey Joe” in 1974. Tom Verlaine of Television contributes guitar playing on “HeyJoe”. It was included on the New Wave compilation album released on Vertigo Records in 1977, and the Just Say Yesterday Sire Records 1992 compilation album , and later reissued on the rarities compilation Land 1975-2002-2002). Recorded at the Electric Lady Studios in June 5th 1974.
In 1989, Rolling Stone writer and biographer Dave Marsh placed the song on the list of The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made.
The song originated as a poem written by Patti Smith about the time she spent working in a baby buggy factory, expressing her assurance that she would not let the experience kill her ambitions.
The Leicester band have been making all sorts of pronouncements of late, but for fans the wait is finally over.
New album ‘For Crying Out Loud’ will be released on April 28th, with Kasabian leading with a brand new single ‘You’re In Love With A Psycho’. is the first taste of the full-length follow-up to 2014’s 48:13 and heartily shakes off the experimental, electronic shades of that album to deliver some guitar-aided swagger.
In a post on Insta, guitarist Serge Pizzorno says ‘You’re In Love With A Psycho’ is “a weird anthem for everyone. You’ve either been in love with [a psycho] or you are one. It sort of celebrates that.”
He adds that it was one of the first tunes written for the new album – Kasabian’s sixth album in their 20-year career.
“It took about 15 minutes. It just flowed. I didn’t really think and all the lyrics came…”
Kasabian – You’re In Love With A Psycho (Lyric Video)
Taken from Kasabian’s new album ‘For Crying Out Loud’,
Peter Hook will release four new live albums this spring on CD, digital and vinyl, each capturing a performance of a different full album Joy Division’s “Unknown Pleasures” and “Closer”, and New Order’s “Movement” and “Power, Corruption & Lies” — recorded over the past few years.
The albums will first be released as limited-edition colored-vinyl pressings on Record Store Day 2017 on April 22nd. A worldwide CD and digital release will follow on May 5th.
Full tracklists have not yet been released, but each live album features a full performance of that partcular record by Peter Hook & The Light, plus additional era-appropriate tracks fleshing out the sets.
Record Store Day has unveiled a long list of releases making it to your independent stores around the world with some specials and exclusives only releases. They include a Smiths 7″ featuring two unreleased takes of old songs, a couple Prince singles, a first-time vinyl release for André 3000’s Beatles cover made for a Nike ad in 2010, and a bunch more. Animal Collective are also releasing a new live EP, the War On Drugs also announced that they’ll put out their first song since 2014’s Lost In The Dream via a 12″ on RSD, the Flaming Lips are putting out a new live album, and Against Me! has two new songs on a 7″.
Also on the plate here and internationally are crowd-pleasers including a panoply of Prince single re-releases (including Batdance, Partyman, Sign ‘O’ The Times and more), exclusive action from the late David Bowie, the 10th-anniversary re-release of Alexisonfire‘s seminal Crisis, The Cure‘s Greatest Hits and Acoustic Hits, Santana‘s Live At Woodstock, Coheed & Cambria‘s third album, the ostentatiously titled Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Volume I: From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble‘s Live At Carnegie Hall, a shaped picture disc of Toto‘s Africa and Rosanna, Ben Folds and the WA Symphony Orchestra‘s Live In Perth and even Johnny Cash‘s The Johnny Cash Children’s Album, among a pile of other appealing records.
Also pretty exciting is the news out of the UK that The The will be releasing their first single in 15 years with new cut You Can’t Stop What’s Comingcasually announced by long-time collaborator Johnny Marr on Twitter while, notably, American RSD stores will be stocking a vinyl pressing of the Space Jam soundtrack (OK fine, yes, and a bunch of other cool releases).
Both the UK and US have full lists of their releases available online (here and here, respectively), while Australia’s is a little less centralised but still easily searchable via the local Record Store Day website; we’ve done our best to compile the list as it stands at the time of writing.
In alphabetical order, you’ll be able to get your mitts on (probably among several other titles):
2016 Golden Era Cypher
A.B. Original — Reclaim Australia (Indigenous flag-coloured vinyl)
Alexisonfire — Crisis
Alice In Chains — Get Born Again/What The Hell Have I (double 7″ single)
Animal Collective — Meeting Of The Waters EP
Anna Calvi — Live At Meltdown
Anni-Frid Lyngstad — Frida
Auli’i Cravalho — How Far I’ll Go B/W You’re Welcome
Bastille — Comfort Of Strangers
Ben Folds & WASO — Live In Perth
Black Lips — Good Bad Not Evil, 200 Million Thousand, Arabia Mountain and Underneath The Rainbow
Blackstreet — No Diggity
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band — Hammersmith 1975
Catfish & The Bottlemen — The Balcony
Coheed & Cambria — Good Apollo, I’m Burning Star IV, Vol. I: From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness
Curtis Knight ft. Jimi Hendrix — Live At George’s Club 20
Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin — Hard Travelin’
David Bowie — Cracked Actor
Dennis Wilson — Bambu (The Caribou Sessions)
Dirty Three — UFKUKO
Dolly Parton — Puppy Love
Elton John — 17/11/1970
Field Music — Tones Of Town
Filthy Friends — Any Kind Of Crowd
Flat Duo Jets — Wild Wild Love
Follakzoid ft. J Spaceman — London Sessions LP
Gerard Way — Into The Cave We Wander (12″ picture disc)
Prince — Little Red Corvette (7″ picture disc), Sign ‘O’ The Times, Batdance, I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man, I Wish U Heaven, Partyman, Pop Life
Procol Harum — A Whiter Shade Of Pale (50th anniversary EP)
Ra Ra Riot — Ra Ra Riot EP
Robert Johnson — The Complete Recordings: The Centennial Collection
Santana — Live At The Woodstock Music & Art Fair, August 16, 1969
Sex Pistols — God Save Sex Pistols
Soul Assassins — Muggs Presents: The Soul Assassins Chapter 1
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble — Live At Carnegie Hall
Sublime — Badfish EP
T Rex — Electric Warrior (gold vinyl)
The Black Angels — Death Song
The Chemical Brothers — C-H-E-M-I-C-A-L
The Cure — Greatest Hits and Acoustic Hits
The Gun Club — Live At Manila Club, Florence, Italy, 26 November 1983
The Lumineers — Seeds 1: Angela & Long Way From Home
The Veldt — Symmetry B/W Slowdown
The Who — Quadrophenia (green vinyl)
Tom Iansek — Small Town Hero, Top Of The Tree
Totally Unicorn — Horse Hugger
Toto — Africa/Rosanna picture disc
Townes Van Zandt — Live At Austin City Limits
Trevor Jones — The Dark Crystal: The Original Soundtrack
Australian only releases with a special-edition releases including a new vinyl release of A.B. Original‘s AMP-winning Reclaim Australia, pressed into the colours of the Indigenous flag, Totally Unicorn‘s Horse Hugger, Tom Iansek‘s Oz-exclusive Small Town Hero, Top Of The Tree, Methyl Ethel‘s Architecture Lecture/Lagotto Romagnolo, Dirty Three‘s UFKUKO EP and more.
The Fat Angel Sings 