May 16, 2013
posted by: mark.
NEW RELEASES: From now back to mid-April
Vampire Weekend ("Modern Vampires of the City" cd/lp)
Flaming Lips ("The Terror" cd/lp)
Phoenix (""Bankrupt!" cd/deluxe cd/lp)
Steve Martin & Edie Brickell ("Love Has Come For You" cd/lp)
Steve Earle & the Dukes (& Duchesses) ("The Low Highway" cd/deluxe cd+dvd/lp)
JJ Grey & Mofro ("This River" cd/lp) Mikal Cronin ("MCII" cd/lp) She & Him ("Volume 3" cd/lp) Deerhunter ("Monomania" cd/lp) Savages ("Silence Yourself" cd/lp) Iron and Wine ("Ghost on Ghost" cd/lp) Yeah Yeah Yeahs ("Mosquito" cd/deluxe cd/lp) Small Black ("Limits of Desire" cd/lp) Akron/Family ("Sub Verses" cd/lp) Wild Nothing ("Empty Estate ep" cd/12") Thee Oh Sees ("Floating Coffin" cd) The Shouting Matches (featuring Justin Vernon! "Grownass Man" cd/lp) Shinyribs ("Gulf Coast Museum" cd) Angel Olsen ("Half Way Home" now on cd) Patty Griffin ("American Kid" cd/deluxe cd+dvd) Ceramic Dog (Marc Ribot! "Your Turn" cd/lp) Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats ("Mind Control" cd) Swamp Dogg ("Gag a Maggot" cd) Jaga Jazzist ("Live with Britten Sinfonia" cd) Sam Amidon ("Bright Sunny South" cd) Four Tet ("Rounds" 10th anniversary 2xcd set) Deep Purple ("Now What" cd) Natalie Maines ("Mother" cd) Black Lillies ("Runaway Freeway Blues" cd) Bibio ("Silver Wilkinson" cd) The Velvet Underground ("Live at the End of Cole Ave - the Second Night" cd/lp) Futurebirds ("Baba Yaga" cd/lp) Fitz and the Tantrums ("More than Just a Dream" cd/lp) !!! ("Thriller" cd/lp) The Civil Wars & T Bone Burnett ("A Place at the Table" cd/lp) Charlie Parr ("Barnswallow" cd) Mark Kozelek & Jimmy Lavalle ("Perils from the Sea" cd) Guided by Voices ("English Little League" cd) Junip ("s/t" cd) Snoop Lion ("Reincarnated" cd) Ghostface Killah & Adrian Younge ("Twelve Reasons to Die" cd/deluxe 2xcd/LP or instrumentals LP) Dead Confederate ("In the Marrow" cd/lp) Umberto ("Night has a Thousand Screams" cd) Tav Falco + Panther Burns ("Lore & Testament Vol. II" cd) Melvins ("Everybody Loves Sausages" cd) Dust ("Hard Attack/Dust" cd) Face to Face ("Three Chords and a Half Truth" cd/lp) Born Ruffians ("Birthmarks" cd) "Way to Blue: The Songs of Nick Drake" (tribute cd) Willie Nelson and Family ("Let's Face the Music and Dance" cd/lp) Aidan Baker ("Already Drowning" cd) Zomes ("Time Was" cd/lp) Meat Puppets ("Rat Farm" cd/lp) "London is the Place for Me" (complete series available in three 2xcd sets/separate lp volumes) Major Lazer ("Free the Universe" cd/lp) John Brown's Body ("Kings and Queens" cd) Doyle Lawson & Quciksilver ("Roads Well Traveled" cd) The Thermals ("Desperate Ground" cd/lp) Barn Owl ("V" cd/lp) David Grubbs ("The Plain Where the Palace Stood" cd/lp) "The Music Is You: A Tribute to John Denver" (cd) Slava ("Raw Solutions" cd/lp) The Appleseed Cast ("Illumination Ritual" cd/lp) Kreayshawn ("Somethin 'Bout Kreay" cd) Frank Turner ("Tape Deck Heart" cd/deluxe cd/lp) "God Didn't Choose Sides: Civil War True Stories about Real People" (cd) The Greyboy Allstars ("Inland Emperor" cd) Will.i.am ("#Willpower" cd) Rob Zombie ("Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor" cd) Shuggie Otis ("Inspiration Information + Wings of Love" cd) "Son of Rogues Gallery" ( cd….PIRATES!!!) Toxic Holocaust ("From the Ashes of Nuclear Destruction" cd) Xiu Xiu + Eugene S. Robinson ("Sal Mineo" cd) Deadmau5 ("At Play in the U.S.A. Vol. 1" cd) Iggy and the Stooges ("Ready to Die" cd/lp) Haino/O'Rourke/Ambarchi ("Now While it's Still Warm Let Us Pour in All the Mystery" cd) Coma ("In Technicolor" cd/lp) "Imaginational Anthem Vol. 6" (origins of American primitive guitar cd, + LP still here from Record Store Day!) Charlie Poole with the Highlanders ("The Complete Paramount & Brunswick Recordings, 1929" cd) Hanni el Khatib ("Head in the Dirt" cd) The Heliocentrics ("13 Degrees of Reality" cd/lp) No Joy ("Wait to Pleasure" cd) Mogwai ("Ten Rapid" cd) The Giddens Sisters ("I know I've Been Changed" cd) Brown Bird ("Fits of Reason" cd) Arborea ("Fortress of the Sun" cd) Cayucas ("Bigfoot" cd/lp) Coliseum ("Sister Faith" cd/lp) Wolf People ("Fain" cd/lp) The Haxan Cloak ("Excavation" cd/lp) Colin Stetson ("New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light" cd/lp) Ian McCulloch ("Holy Ghosts" cd) Neon Neon ("Praxis Makes Perfect" cd/lp) Zs ("Grain" cd ep) Rainbow Arabia ("F.M. Sushi" cd) "Overdose of the Holy Ghost" (sound of gospel through the disco and boogie eras cd) Orchestra Super Mazembe ("Mazembe @ 45RPM Vol. 1" cd) "Ethnic Minority Music of Southern China" (new Sublime Frequencies cd) Spunk ("Das Wohltemperierte Spunk" 6xcd box) The Third Power ("S/T" cd) Cults Percussion Ensemble ("S/T" cd) "The Conet Project" (recordings of shortwave numbers stations 5xcd set) "Festival au Desert 2012" (live from Timbuktu cd) A. K. Klosowski / Pyrolator ("Home-Taping is Killing Music" cd/lp) "Japrock Sampler Volumes 1-5" (5xcd box) Ozric Tentacles ("Introducing" cd) Talib Kweli ("Prisoner of Conscious" cd/lp) Co La ("Moody Coup" cd/lp) Pan American ("Cloud Room, Glass Room" cd/lp) Sole ("No Wising Up No Settling Down" cd) Pistol Annies ("Annie Up" cd) Sodom ("Epitome of Torture" cd) Still Corners ("Strange Pleasures" cd/lp) Wolf Eyes ("No Answer: Lower Floors" cd) REM ("Green" cd/lp…25th anniversary) Gotye ("Like Drawing Blood" cd/lp) Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood ("Black Pudding" cd/lp) Slightly Stoopid & Friends ("Live at Roberto's Tri Studios" cd) Orchestre Poly-Tythmo De Cotonou ("The Skeletal Essences of Afro Funk 1969-1980" cd) Micah Blue Smaldone ("The Ring of the Rise" cd) Peals ("Walking Field" cd) Tea Leaf Green ("In the Wake" cd) The Handsome Family ("Wilderness" cd/lp) "Kenya Special" (selected East African recordings from the 1970s & '80s cd/3xLP+7" set) Glenn Jones ("My Garden State" cd) Kings of Leon ("The Collection Box" 5xcd+dvd box) Jenny Hval ("Innocence is Kinky" cd/lp) Hedvig Mollestad Trio ("All Of Them Witches" cd) Ravi Shankar ("The Living Room sessions Part 2" cd) The Cleaners from Venus ("Volume Two" 4xcd set) William Basinski ("Nocturnes" cd) Pharmakon ("Abandon" cd/lp) Dungeonesse ("S/T" cd/lp) ADULT. ("The Way Things Fall" cd/lp) Pure X ("Crawling Up the Stairs" cd/lp) Var ("No One Dances Quite Like My Brothers" cd/lp) Eluvium ("Nightmare Ending" cd) Saltland ("I Thought It Was Us but It Was All of Us" cd/lp) VINYL ONLY: 
Grateful Dead ("Dick's Picks Vol. 4" LP box)
The Microphones ("Song Islands (Singles & Rarities 1998-2002)" LP reissue) James Blake ("Overgrown" LP) Little Wings ("Last" LP/cassette) The Avett Brothers ("I and Love and You" LP back in print) The Knife ("Shaking the Habitual" lp…now in stock!!!!) Hum ("You'd Prefer an Astronaut" LP reissue) Venom ("Black Metal" LP) Burzum ("Aske" LP) J Dilla ("Rebirth of Detroit: Instrumentals" LP) Mayhem ("Deathcrush" LP) Slayer ("Show No Mercy", "Hell Awaits" & "Live Undead" picture disc LPs) Kings of Leon ("Youth & Young Manhood", "Aha Shake Heartbreak", "Because of the Times" & "Rarely" LP) Cannibal Corpse ("The Bleeding" picture disc LP) Rilo Kiley ("Rkives" lp) Songs:Ohia ("Hecla & Griper" LP reissue) Tenacious D ("S/T" LP) Bardo Pond ("Ticket Crystals" LP reissue) Punch Brothers ("Ahoy!" 10") The Marquis de Tren and Bonny Billy ("Get on Jolly" & "Solemns" 12" EPs) A Hawk and a Hacksaw ("You Have Already Gone to the Other World" LP) Mike Patton ("The Place Beyond the Pines Original Score" LP) Miles Davis ("Live at the Plugged Nickel, December 22, 1965 Part One" LP) Aaron Dilloway ("Corpse on Horseback" LP) Charley Patton ("Volume 2" LP) The Mississippi Sheiks ("Volume 2" LP) "Freedom Jazz France" (spiritual jazz LP) Andrew Hill ("Black Fire" LP) Sam Rivers ("Fuchsia Swing Song" LP) Inspection 22 ("Passin' Time" LP) Ashrae Fax ("Static Crash" LP) Russian Tsarlag/Secret Boyfriend ("split" LP) Profligate ("Come Follow Me" LP) Meager Sunlight/Skeleton Warrior ("Seasons of Nudity" LP) "Acid: Mysterons Invade the Jackin' Zone" (LP…chicago acid & experimental house 1986-93) June of 44 ("Four Great Points" lp) Oneohtrix Point Never ("Betrayed in the Octagon", "Russian Mind", "Zones Without People", "The Fall into Time", "Drawn and Quartered" LPs) Tav Falco & Panther Burns ("Sugar Ditch Revisited" LP) Sean Smith ("Eternal" LP) Loren Connors ("The Departing of a Dream" LP) Disclosure ("The Singles" 12" EP) Mohammad ("Som Sakrifis" LP) Daniel Menche ("Marriage of Metals" LP) Richard Dawson ("The Magic Bridge" LP) Vatican Shadow ("It Stands to Conceal" LP) Alan Licht ("Four Years Older" LP) Violetshaped ("S/T" LP) "Harafin So" (Bollywood inspired film music from Hausa Nigeria LP) Madvillain ("Madvillainy Instrumentals" LP) Peter Grudzien ("The Unicorn/Garden of Love" LP) Daphne Oram ("Oramics" 4xLP set) Cosmonauts ("If You Wanna Die then I Wanna Die" LP) Wold ("Freermasonry" LP) Sun Ra ("The Antique Blacks" LP) Bee Mask ("When We Were Eating Unripe Pears" LP) Demdike Stare ("Testpressing #002" LP) Gravetemple ("Ambient/Ruin" LP) Motion Sickness of Time Travel ("The Perennials" LP) Dump ("I Can Hear Music" LP) Svarte Greiner ("Black Tie" LP) Sean McCann ("Prelusion" LP) Pete Swanson ("Punk Authority" 12" EP) Steve Lacy & Joe McPhee ("The Rest" LP) ADR ("Chunky Monkey" LP) Krallice ("S/T" LP) Physics ("Spectramorphic Iridescence" LP) Strike Anywhere ("In Defiance of Empty Times" lp) Stellar Om Source ("Elite Excel" 12") also:
Little Wings ("Black Grass" & "Made it Rain" cassettes) Harmony Korine ("A Crackup at the Race Riots" book) Snoop Lion ("Reincarnated" dvd) Terminator 2 ("AlbumTitle" cassette) Sean Smith ("Eternal" cassette) Expo 70 ("Where Does Your Mind Go?" cassette) "Mukunguni" (new recordings from Coast Province, Kenya 10") Slightly Stoopid & Friends ("Live at Roberto's" dvd) 7"s from...Snoop Lion, the White Stripes, Steve Earle, Shovels & Rope, Ty Segall, Man…Or Astro Man?, + more
April 14, 2013 posted by: Mark.
Saturday, April 20, 2013 @ Harvest Records More details coming soon! March 10, 2013 posted by: chelsea COMING SOON!  THAO & THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN + special guest Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside Tuesday, March 19th,2013 @ The Grey Eagle $12 advance/$15 day-of Tickets available now @ Harvest, Orbit DVD, Grey Eagle & online HERE. On February 5, Ribbon Music is set to release We the Common, the third full-length album from critically acclaimed artist Thao & the Get Down Stay Down. The album cut "Holy Roller" is streaming now at www.thaoandthegetdownstaydown.com. Frontwoman Thao Nguyen notes that the track "was the first song I wrote for this new record...it marked a shift in how I operate. I was steadily, in an overdue way, becoming grateful for everything and everyone I had. I tried to capture a sense of revival and a determination to be better." Recorded at San Francisco's Tiny Telephone Studios and Dallas' Elmwood Studio, We the Common was produced by John Congleton (St. Vincent, Bill Callahan, the Walkmen, Explosions in the Sky) and features a duet with Joanna Newsom on the track "Kindness Be Conceived." Thao observes, "We the Common is an album about wanting to be a human who tries and is grateful for the opportunity. It is about wanting to be better and closer to people. I have had over a year respite from touring and recording-in this year I started really trying to be a part of the community I live in and the family I was born into." The album is the follow-up to Thao's 2009 release Know Better Learn Faster, which Pitchfork praised for its "warm exuberance that keeps the music spry" while SPIN noted that Thao's "lazily smoky voice has its bitterly harsh moments, but her coolly analytical self-awareness stings the most." Based in San Francisco after growing up in Falls Church, VA, Thao Nguyen first picked up a guitar at age 12. She has worked with a long list of acclaimed artists including Andrew Bird, Mirah, Laura Veirs and producer Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens) and has recorded a pair of critically acclaimed records for Kill Rock Stars, 2008's We Brave Bee Stings and All and the aforementioned 2009 release Know Better Learn Faster with her backing band the Get Down Stay Down. Since her last album Thao has worked with the artist advocacy non-profit Air Traffic Control (http://atctower.net/) and has volunteered extensively with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners. This year, in addition to recording her forthcoming album, Thao has toured the US with the nationally syndicated NPR program "Radiolab." "Ms. Nguyen's voice, wobbly and rich, is engaging, and her gently confessional lyrics...are equally beguiling."-The New York Times January 18, 2013 posted by: chelsea SOME EXCITING SHOWS WE RECENTLY ANNOUNCED!  JEFF MANGUM + special guests Tall Firs Saturday, February 2nd,2013 @ The Grey Eagle EARLY SHOW: 6pm (doors at 5pm) $29 (with $1 per ticket to benefit Children of the Blue Sky) Tickets available now @ Harvest, Orbit DVD, Grey Eagle & online HERE. LATE SHOW: 9:30pm (doors at 9pm) THIS SHOW IS SOLD OUT. The Grey Eagle and Harvest Records are happy to announce that we’ve added a SECOND Jeff Mangum (early) show on SAT February 2 at 6pm. Doors to the show will open at 5pm. ATTENTION TICKET HOLDERS TO EITHER/BOTH SHOWS: If you purchased tickets on 11/15/12, the 9pm show is getting pushed to 9:30pm with doors opening at 9pm. If you purchased tickets for the 9:30pm show already (formerly the 9pm show), please don’t plan to arrive much earlier than 9pm when doors open. Parking will be tricky as the early show is clearing out and folks are arriving for the late show. ************************************************************************************** THAO & THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN + special guests Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside Tuesday, March 19th,2013 @ The Grey Eagle $12 advance/$15 day-of Tickets available now @ Harvest, Orbit DVD, Grey Eagle & online HERE. On February 5, Ribbon Music is set to release We the Common, the third full-length album from critically acclaimed artist Thao & the Get Down Stay Down. The album cut "Holy Roller" is streaming now at www.thaoandthegetdownstaydown.com. Frontwoman Thao Nguyen notes that the track "was the first song I wrote for this new record...it marked a shift in how I operate. I was steadily, in an overdue way, becoming grateful for everything and everyone I had. I tried to capture a sense of revival and a determination to be better." Recorded at San Francisco's Tiny Telephone Studios and Dallas' Elmwood Studio, We the Common was produced by John Congleton (St. Vincent, Bill Callahan, the Walkmen, Explosions in the Sky) and features a duet with Joanna Newsom on the track "Kindness Be Conceived." Thao observes, "We the Common is an album about wanting to be a human who tries and is grateful for the opportunity. It is about wanting to be better and closer to people. I have had over a year respite from touring and recording-in this year I started really trying to be a part of the community I live in and the family I was born into." The album is the follow-up to Thao's 2009 release Know Better Learn Faster, which Pitchfork praised for its "warm exuberance that keeps the music spry" while SPIN noted that Thao's "lazily smoky voice has its bitterly harsh moments, but her coolly analytical self-awareness stings the most." Based in San Francisco after growing up in Falls Church, VA, Thao Nguyen first picked up a guitar at age 12. She has worked with a long list of acclaimed artists including Andrew Bird, Mirah, Laura Veirs and producer Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens) and has recorded a pair of critically acclaimed records for Kill Rock Stars, 2008's We Brave Bee Stings and All and the aforementioned 2009 release Know Better Learn Faster with her backing band the Get Down Stay Down. Since her last album Thao has worked with the artist advocacy non-profit Air Traffic Control (http://atctower.net/) and has volunteered extensively with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners. This year, in addition to recording her forthcoming album, Thao has toured the US with the nationally syndicated NPR program "Radiolab." "Ms. Nguyen's voice, wobbly and rich, is engaging, and her gently confessional lyrics...are equally beguiling."-The New York Times **************************************************************************************  (photo by Carlos van Hijfte) CHELSEA LIGHT MOVING + special guests Talk Normal Tuesday, March 5th, 2013 @ The Grey Eagle $12 advance/$15 day-of Tickets available now @ Harvest, Orbit DVD, Grey Eagle & online HERE. CHELSEA LIGHT MOVING is the current group led by Sonic Youth founder Thurston Moore. He is the songwriter and plays over-amped hyper electric guitar and sings with raw-glam-destructo vocals. The band is a four piece featuring Samara Lubelski, who has played violin with TM on his last two solo LPs (Demolished Thoughts and Trees Outside The Academy) and with CHELSEA LIGHT MOVING plays deep psyche pop metal bass guitar. Keith Wood, who records under the aegis Hush Arbors, plays electric guitar with a pick forged from angel wing and John Moloney, aka “Pegasus”, approaches the drums like an asteroid hurtling toward Earth. The first CD self-titled was recorded in two spurious sessions with engineer Justin Pizzoferrato in Sone Lab, a killer studio in Easthampton MASSACHUSETTS. The band is ready to detonate any birthday party, wedding or hullaboo in any country, planet or stratosphere that doesn’t support right wing extremist NRA sucking bozo-ology. December 8, 2012 posted by: mark. HAVEN'T BEEN BY IN A WHILE? LET DONNIE GIVE YOU A TOUR November 28, 2012 posted by: mark. TWO BIG SHOWS THIS WEEKEND! ************************************************************************************** 
MOUNTAIN GOATS + special guest Matthew E. White Friday, November 30th @ The Grey Eagle $18 advance/$20 day-of Tickets available NOW @ Harvest, Orbit DVD, Grey Eagle & online HERE. ************************************************************************************** 
JAPANDROIDS + special guest Swearin' Sunday, December 2nd @ The Grey Eagle $13 advance/$15 day-of Tickets available NOW @ Harvest, Orbit DVD, Grey Eagle & online HERE. November 27, 2012 posted by: mark. NEW RELEASES: from mid-November back to late October, 2012  Neil Young & Crazy Horse ("Psychedelic Pill" 2xCD or 3xLP beast!)  Led Zeppelin ("Celebration Day" live reunion in like a million different versions…  Jason Isbell ("Live from Alabama" cd/lp)  Guided by Voices ("The Bears For Lunch" cd/lp) The Velvet Underground ("Velvet Underground & Nico 45th Anniversary" cd/deluxe 2xcd/super deluxe 6xcd) Brian Eno ("Lux" cd) Sufjan Stevens ("Silver & Gold" 5xcd HOLIDAY BOX SET) "Delta Swamp Rock Volume 2" (more sounds from the south 1968-75 cd/lp) Cody ChesnuTT ("Landing On A Hundred" cd) Sonic Youth ("Smart Bar Chicago 1985" cd/lp) Porcupine Tree ("Octane Twisted" cd) Avett Brothers ("Carolina Jubilee" cd reissue) The Weeknd ("Trilogy" 3xcd) Menahan Street Band ("The Crossing" cd) Lana Del Rey ("Paradise" cd/lp) The Faint ("Danse Macabre" cd…deluxe edition 2xcd/lp/dvd) Pokey Lafarge ("Live in Holland" cd) Tim Hecker/Daniel Lopatin ("Instrumental Tourist" cd) Rihanna ("Unapologetic" cd/deluxe cd/dvd) Kylesa ("From the Vaults vol. 1" cd/lp) Bad Brains ("Into The Future" cd/lp) Fela Kuti ("Complete Works of Fela Anikulapo Kuti" BOX set, 26 cds containing 46 albums!!!!) Oneohtrix Point Never ("Rifts" 3xcd) Tyvek ("On Triple Beams" cd) Los Lobos ("Wolf Tracks: The Best of" cd) The Babies ("Our House On The Hill" cd ) The Soft Moon ("Zeros" cd/lp) Mark Kozelek ("On Tour: A Documentary, The Soundtrack" 2xcd) Lee Perry And The Sufferers' ("The Sound Doctor: Black Ark Singles and Dub Plates 1972-1978" cd/lp) Nite Jewel ("Good Evening" cd/lp) Sharon Van Etten ("Tramp" cd…deluxe 2xcd version) Crystal Castles ("III" cd) Clinic ("Free Reign" cd/lp) The Rolling Stones ("Grrr!" 2xcd/deluxe 3xcd, super deluxe 3xcd) 2 Chainz ("Based on a T.R.U. Story" cd) Why? ("Mumps, etc.." cd) Natural Snow Buildings ("Night Coercion into the Company of Witches" cd) The Amazing ("Gentle Stream" cd/lp) Neurosis ("Honor Found in Decay" cd) Greg Brown ("Hymns to What is Left" cd) Emeralds ("Just To Feel Anything" cd/lp) Isis ("Temporal" cd/lp) The Infamous Stringdusters ("Silver Sky" deluxe 2xcd) Omar Rodriguez Lopez ("Octopus Kool Aid" cd) CeeLo ("CeeLo's Magic Moment" cd) RNDM ("Acts" cd… features Joseph Arthur + Jeff Ament from Pearl Jam) Andrew Bird ("Hands of Glory" cd) The Coup ("Sorry to Bother You" cd/lp) Black Country Communion ("Afterglow" reg cd/deluxe cd/lp) Andy Stott ("Luxury Problems" cd/lp) The Pyramids ("Otherworldy" cd/lp) Tunji Oyelana ("A Nigerian Restrospective: 1966-1979" cd/lp) Johnny Clarke ("Dread A Dub" cd/lp) Demdike Stare ("Tryptych" cd) Seirom ("1973" cd) 21st Century Sound Movement ("s/t" cd) Tenhornedbeast ("My Horns Are A Flame To Draw Down The Truth" cd) our.love.will.destroy.the.world ("Thousands Raised To The Sixth" cd) Pandit Pran Nath ("Midnight" cd) Deepchord ("Sommer" format) Terrance Dixon ("From The Far Future Pt. 2" cd) V/A ("Le Nil" cd box) Tracey Thorn ("Tinsel and Lights" cd/lp) Tim Maia ("World Psychedelic Classics 4" cd) Bardo Pond ("Yntra" cd) Cradle of Filth ("The Manticore and Other Horrors" cd/deluxe cd) Ca$his ("The Art of Dying" cd) Danny Stefanik ("Confidence" cd) Cusses ("S/T" cd/lp) "The Man with the Iron Fists" (original motion picture soundtrack cd) "Loving on the Flipside" (sweet funk and beat-heavy ballads 1969-1977 cd+book) Ekkehard Ehlers ("Adikia" cd) Warhorse ("Red Sea" cd) Warhorse ("S/T" cd) Hundred Waters ("S/T" cd/lp) V/A ("Work Hard, Play Hard, Pray Hard" cd…hardtime, good time & end time music 1923-1936) First Aid Kit ("The Lion's Roar" deluxe cd) Casket Girls ("Sleepwalking" cd) Horseback/Locrian ("New Dominions" cd) NON ("Back To Mono" cd/lp) The Who ("Live At Hull 1970" cd deluxe) Kylie Minogue ("Abbey Road Sessions" cd) Junior Kimbrough ("First Recordings" cd) Graveyard ("Lights Out" cd/deluxe cd) Prince Rama ("Top 10 Hits of the End of the World" cd) Bert Jansch ("Heartbreak" cd/lp) The Casket Lottery ("Real Fear" cd) Cut Hands ("Black Mamba" cd) AFX ("Analogue Bubblebath 4" cd) Soundtrack ("Cloud Atlas" cd) Jethro Tull ("Thick As A Brick" cd/dvd…deluxe edition) VA ("Twin Cities Funk and Soul" cd) Macklemore & Ryan Lewis ("The Heist" cd) "Idol Tryouts" (Ghostly International comp. cd) Eternal Tapestry ("A World Out of Time" cd/lp) Hercules and Love Affair ("DJ-Kicks" cd/lp) Jack Kerouac ("Poetry for the Beat Generation" & "Blues and Haikus" cd) Green Day ("Dos" cd) "El Topo" (original motion picture score cd/lp) Boogie Down Productions ("Criminal Minded" 24 karat gold cd) Deftones ("Koi No Yokan" cd) Soundgarden ("King Animal" cd/deluxe cd/lp) Oren Ambarchi & Robin Fox ("Connected" cd) Murs and 9th Wonder ("The Final Adventure" cd/lp) Pop Levi ("Medicine" cd) Jozef Van Wissem & Jim Jarmusch ("The Mystery of Heaven" cd/lp) Lust For Youth ("Growing Seeds" cd/lp) The Hermit Kings ("The Ghost of Galapagos" cd) Antique Firearms ("Vicious Behavior" cd) Peter Broderick ("These Walls of Mine" cd) Elbow ("Dead In the Boot" cd) V/A ("Imaginational Anthem vol 5" cd) Poison The Well ("Opposite of December/Tear From the Red" cd/lp) Elvis Costello ("In Motion Pictures" cd) Keyshia Cole ("Woman To Woman" cd) Punch Brothers ("Ahoy!" cdep) VINYL ONLY: A REMINDER THAT WE HAVE TWO BRAND NEW RECORDS AVAILABLE FROM OUR LABEL!  AHLEUCHATISTAS ("Heads Full of Poison" 2xLP, limited to 500! ORDER IT HERE!) and…  A BURNING BUS ("Anti-" 7", a real ripper from Don Howland & co… ORDER IT HERE!) The Beatles ("Abbey Road", "Beatles", "Beatles For Sale", "Hard Day's Night", "Help", "Let It Be", "Magical Mystery Tour", "Past Masters", "Please Please Me", "Revolver", "Rubber Soul", "Sgt Peppers", "With The Beatles", "Yellow Submarine" lp….WOW) The Beatles ("Stereo Vinyl Box" 14xLP MONSTER BOX SET) Avett Brothers ("4 Thieves Gone" lp…expanded 3xlp on vinyl for the first time!) Pedro the Lion (5x different LP reissues! "Achilles Heel", "Control", "Winners Never Quit", "It's Hard to Find a Friend" & "The Only Reason I Feel Secure"…) Of Montreal ("Daughter of Cloud" LP) Red Hot Chili Peppers ("Californication" LP) Black Moth Super Rainbow ("Cobra Juicy" lp) Moving Sidewalks ("The Complete Collection" LP) Kaki King ("Glow" LP) LA Vampires with Maria Minerva ("The Integration" LP) The Barbaras ("2006-2008" LP) Spacin' ("Deep Thuds" LP) Screeching Weasel ("Anthem for a New Tomorrow" LP) Dark Dark Dark ("Who Needs Who" LP) Peter Buck ("S/T" LP) The Men ("Immaculada" LP) Spider John Koerner ("March 1963" LP) The Original Harmony Ridge Creek Dippers ("S/T" LP) "Hasabe" (new Mississippi/Change comp. drawing from the Ethiopiques series on LP) Mahmoud Ahmed ("S/T" LP) Tortoise ("TNT" LP) Grouper ("Cover the Windows and the Walls" LP) Hasil Adkins ("Evening Shadow Road" LP) "The Master" (soundtrack on LP, music by Jonny Greenwood) V/A ("Bollywood Steel Guitar" lp) V/A ("Loving On The Flip Side: Sweet Funk and Beat-Heavy Ballads 1969-1977" lp) Bee Mask ("Vaporware/Scanops" lp) Pazy & The Black Hippies ("Wa Ho Ha" lp) "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" (soundtrack on LP… featuring the Smiths, New Order, XTC, etc…) V/A ("Indonesia Pop Nostalgia" lp) Ben Frost ("Steel Wound" lp) Elbee Bad ("The True Story of House Music" lp) V/A ("Listen Up! Dub Classics" lp) Roots Radics ("At Channel One" lp) Prince Jazzbo ("Ital Corner" lp) Linval Thompson ("Linvall" lp) Jessica Bailiff ("At the Down-Turned Jagged Rim of the Sky" lp) Tonto's Expanding Head Band ("Zero Time" lp) Steve Bug ("Noir" lp) Ryan Power ("S/T" lp) Eli Keszler/Keith Fullerton Whitman ("S/T" lp) The Black Seeds ("S/T" lp) Co La ("S/T" lp) Agitation Free ("Malesch" lp) Amon Duul ("Live in 1969" lp) Stefan Goldmann ("17:50" lp) Altar Eagle ("Nightrunners" lp) Musi O Tunya ("Wings of Africa" lp) Burning Spear ("Travelling" lp) V/A ("Surinam!: boogie & disco funk from the surinamese dance floors 76'-83'" lp) Michael Mayer ("Mantasy" lp) Jackie Mittoo ("Show Case Vol 3" lp) Holograms ("S/T" lp) Bob Marley ("Remixed/Remastered" lp) Sam Bros. 5 ("S/T" lp) John Avery ("Jessica In the Room of LIghts" lp) Gary Wilson ("Lisa Wants to Talk to You" lp) Lorenzo Senni ("Quantum Jelly" lp) Daphni ("Jiaolong" lp) Plow United ("Narcolepsy" & "Sleepwalk: A Retrospective" LPs) Django Django ("S/T" lp) Kendrick Lamar ("Good Kid, M.A.A.D City" lp) How To Destroy Angels ("An Omen" lp…ep) Tift Merritt ("Traveling Alone" lp) Dethklok ("Dethalbum III" lp) Soundtrack ("Searching For Sugarman" lp) Pig Destroyer ("Book Burner" lp) Joe Strummer ("Rock Art and the X-Ray Style" lp) Scientist ("Introducing Scientist" lp) Scientist ("In the Kingdom of Dub" lp) Velvet Underground ("The Verve/MGM Albums" lp box set) Drive By Truckers ("Live at Third Man Records" lp) Weezer ("Blue Album" lp…Original Master Recording) Weezer ("The Lion and the Witch" lp…Original Master Recording) Black Lips ("Live at Third Man Records" lp) Woo ("It's Cosy Inside" lp) The Cairo Gang ("The Corner Man" lp) Mad Music ("S/T" lp) Lightning Bolt ("Oblivion Hunter" format) Holly Golightly And The Brokeoffs ("Sunday Run Me Over" lp) Shintaro Sakamoto ("How To Live With A Phantom" lp) William Basinski ("Disintegration Loops" 9xLP, 5xCD, DVD, Book BOX SET Onedia ("A List of the Burning Mountains" lp) Holy Other ("Held" lp) V/A ("Music from The Comedy" lp) Majeure ("Solar Maximum" lp) Wovenhand ("The Laughing Stalk" lp) Neu! ("'75" & "'86" LP reissues) Harmonia & Eno '76 ("Tracks and Traces" LP reissue) Fanga/Maalem Abdallah Guinea ("Fangnawa Experience" LP) "Only 4U: The Sound of Cajmere & Cajual Records 1992-2012" (20 years of Chicago classics LP) Tonetta ("777" lp) King Dude ("Burning Daylight" lp) Tyvek ("On Triple Beams" lp) UV Race ("Racism" lp) Dinosaur Jr ("Chocomel Daze" lp) Wye Oak ("My Neighbor/My Creator" lp) Darkthrone ("Total Death" lp) Main Attrakionz ("Bossalinis & Fooliyones" lp) Enslaved ("RIITIIR" lp) The Alchemist ("Russian Roulette" lp) Sleep ("Dopesmoker" lp…reissue, finally!) George Jones ("United Artists Rarities" 10") Wanda Jackson ("Capital Rarities" 10") Forgetters ("S/T" lp) Steve Hauschildt ("Sequitur" lp) The Obsessed ("Live Music Hall Koln December 29th 1992" lp) Lindstrom ("Smalhans" lp) Chris Brokaw ("Gambler's Ecstasy" lp) Boomgates ("Double Natural" lp) The Wanderer ("Whoa Complains" lp) UV Race/Eddy Current Suppression Ring ("Live at Missing Link" lp) Mike Coykendall ("Chasing Away The Dots" lp) Girl Talk ("Secret Diary" lp) Philip Glass ("Remixes" lp…Beck, Amon Tobin, Tyondai Braxton, and more) Califone ("Sometimes Good Weather Follows Bad People" lp) The Invisible ("Genrational" 12") Liars ("Brats" 12") Watain ("Rabid Death's Curse" lp) also: Kishi Bashi ("Room for Dream" 10") Jonsi ("Go Quiet" DVD) Rolling Stones ("Charlie is my Darling" DVD…Ireland 1965) V/A ("From Blacksheep Boys To Bill Collectors" book/10" featuring new songs from Jason Molina) Jimbo Mathus ("Blue Light" 10") Mudhoney ("Live: Berlin 1988" DVD) Cure For Pain ("The Mark Sandman Story" DVD) Harmonic 313 ("Lion" 10") Coldplay ("Live 2012" cd/dvd) + 7"s from...Future Islands, Hospitality, Adele, Guided by Voices, Two Gallants, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, The Walkmen, Matt Sweeney/Bonnie Prince Billy, Sic Alps, Scout Niblett, Jack White, Xiu Xiu, Cheap Time, Elvira/Black Belles, + more November 5, 2012 posted by: matt  EARTH + special guests Daughn Gibson & Stebmo Thursday, November 8th,2012 @ The Grey Eagle $10 Tickets available now @ Harvest, Orbit DVD, Grey Eagle & online HERE. Earth is an American musical group based in Seattle, Washington, formed in 1990 and led by guitarist Dylan Carlson. Earth's music is mostly instrumental, and can be divided into two distinct stages. Their early work grew out of the Seattle-area grunge scene and is recognized as pioneering the genre of drone doom — an experimental offshoot of doom metal, characterized by droning, minimalist, lengthy, and repetitive structures. Earth's early albums were usually recorded as a duo (Carlson and a bass guitarist), and could be seen as a variation of the experimental doom-influenced metal of The Melvins. Earth currently features a markedly different sound, slow-paced and lengthy, but now with a drummer and featuring strong elements of country music and jazz. Dylan Carlson founded the band in 1990 along with Slim Moon and Greg Babior. Carlson has remained the core of the band's line-up throughout its changes. Current players have included: Adrienne Davies on drums, Lori Goldston on Cello, Karl Blau on bass, Steve Moore on keys and Don McGreevey on bass. October 25, 2012 posted by: mark. Harvest is once again super excited to be involved with MOOGFEST 2012! It's surely going to be a stellar weekend of epic, bizarre, mind-bending sonic adventures.
Here's a list of reasons to stop by Harvest during the weekend...
#1: FESTIVAL GOERS GET A DISCOUNT
Show that you're attending Moogfest and get 10% OFF your entire purchase!
#2: MAGNETIC FIELDS AUTOGRAPH SIGNING
Be here at 1pm on Saturday to meet Magnetic Fields. A dream come true! Bring some of your own personal collection to get signed, OR you KNOW we'll have plenty of M.F. product already in stock for you to purchase -- including some very rare white vinyl copies of their most recent record "Love at the Bottom of the Sea", courtesy of our buddies at Merge Records!
#3: HERBERT DEUTSCH.
While Bob Moog is regarded the inventor of the Moog synthesizer, musician and composer Herb Deutsch was an invaluable partner in developing the instrument for musical use. Composing the first piece of music for the original synthesizer, suggesting the keyboard interface, and relaying to Moog the potential benefits and improvements for musicians and composers, Deutsch established himself as a solid collaborator and a pioneer in his own right.
JOIN MR. DEUTSCH AT HARVEST ON FRIDAY AT 4pm! He will be performing on the Minimoog, playing some cuts off his new collection "From Moog to Mac", and giving a brief talk about his experiences with Bob Moog and beyond.
And finally, MAKE SURE TO FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK HERE AND FOLLOW OUR TWITTER ACCOUNT HERE throughout the weekend for updates, and beyond, forever, until the world ends in December!
(more Moogfest info below... don't forget the JUSTICE kickoff show is Thursday!...)
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MOUNT EERIE + special guest Meghanz Thursday, September 20th @ The Grey Eagle $10 Tickets available NOW @ Harvest, Orbit DVD, Grey Eagle & online HERE. I am Phil Elverum. Here is my brief autobiography for journalists and fact seekers: I am 33 years old. I am from the town of Anacortes, Washington. Since 1997 my primary life’s work has been making studio-based music, first under the name “the Microphones” (1997 – 2002) and then “Mount Eerie” (2003 – present). In addition to this I have played in other bands (D+, Old Time Relijun), produced other peoples’ recordings and dabbled in painting, writing, and photography. Aside from 5 years in Olympia, Wash. and a long winter in northern Norway (2002/2003), I have lived most of my life in Anacortes and much of the content of my music and other art is tied to the place. My music project Mount Eerie is named after the actual mountain, Mt. Erie, that lies just south of town. I try to make music that feels associated with this particular place in some way, whether it’s literally described in words or just an ambiguous feeling. The “Microphones era” in Olympia (1997-2002) was very prolific, with 5 major albums (and many smaller things) being released by the K label. The most critically acclaimed was “the Glow pt. 2” (2001). Following that was an album called “Mount Eerie” by the Microphones. I did not feel totally satisfied artistically with my exploration of the “Mount Eerie” idea on the album of that name so in 2003 I changed the name of my whole project to Mount Eerie. I did this partly to explore the idea more deeply and partly because the name had become more relevant to my songs than “the Microphones”, not to mention the appeal of being conceptually rooted to an actual place. In 2004 I started releasing my own projects via the “P.W. Elverum & Sun, ltd.” company in an attempt to become even more self-sufficient and also to be able to explore unusual packaging ideas. The first major release was “No Flashlight” by Mount Eerie (2005) which came wrapped in a gargantuan poster. Since then I have released many fancy LPs and an extravagant art book of photography. I continue to explore new ideas for mass producing art and music in a homemade style. P.W. Elverum & Sun remains primarily a vehicle for my own projects only, not a real record label. Deeper simple self-sufficiency seems to be a good way to weather the tumultuous times we live in. Here’s what the journalist Brandon Stosuy said to describe what my stuff is actually about (in the Believer): “Regardless of the moniker, the various collections include interlocking themes, references to earlier works, and are marked by Elverum’s distinctive naturalist self-recorded lo-fi analog sound that mixes a whispered, gentle voice, which can also yell and bellow, with various strains of sound: His work can be delicately spare or booming and ambitiously layered and noisy, often in the same song. Lyrically, he focuses on memory, first-person storytelling, myth, naturalism, the everyday as sacred, and a sense of place (in and out of Washington State), among other related things.” WATCH A COOL NEW MOUNT EERIE VID HERE! August 25, 2012 posted by: mark. CHECK THESE UPCOMING SHOWS IN SEPTEMBER !! **************************************************************************************
MOUNT EERIE Thursday, September 20th @ The Grey Eagle $10 Tickets available NOW @ Harvest, Orbit DVD, Grey Eagle & online HERE. WATCH A COOL LIVE MOUNT EERIE VID HERE! ************************************************************************************** 
WILD NOTHING + special guest DIIV Thursday, September 27th @ The Grey Eagle $10 advance/$12 day-of Tickets available now @ Harvest, Orbit DVD, Grey Eagle & online HERE. August 9, 2012 posted by: mark. SATURDAY! **************************************************************************************  HARVEST 8-YEAR ANNIVERSARY SALE! Saturday, August 11th 2012 @ Harvest FREE TO EVERYONE. Here we are again. How does this keep happening? We're older, yes, but wiser and prettier, we think. Which translates into the anticipation for our best-EVER sale! EVERYTHING in the store marked down... + THE BASEMENT SALE! (thousands and thousands of CDs & LPs all for a $1 each!!!) + FREE POSTERS, RAFFLE PRIZES, FOOD TRUCKS, & The first 20 customers will win a FREE BRAND NEW HARVEST SLIPMAT + COMPLIMENTARY TALLEST MAN ON EARTH 7"! FOOD TRUCKS WILL INCLUDE: EATBOX FOOD TRUCK, THE LOW DOWN FOOD TRUCK & THE HOP ICE CREAM! Be here. 10am-8pm. July 31, 2012 posted by: mark. NEW RELEASES: Weeks of July 31st, 24th & 17th...  Old Crow Medicine Show ("Carry Me Back" cd/lp)  Passion Pit ("Gossamer" cd/lp)  Frank Ocean ("Channel Orange" cd)  Gaslight Anthem ("Handwritten" cd/deluxe cd/lp) Sugar ("File Under Easy Listening & Copper Blue" deluxe cd/lp reissues) Jeff the Brotherhood ("Hypnotic Nights" cd/lp) Blur ("Parklife, S/T, Modern Life is Rubbish, Leisure, 13" deluxe cd/LP reissues!… 2 others are available as well….) The Smashing Pumpkins ("Pisces Iscariot" cd/deluxe 2xcd+dvd/lp reissues) Frank Zappa ("Weasels Ripped My Flesh, Chunga's Revenge, Fillmore East-June 1971, Just Another Band From LA, Burnt Weeny Sandwich, Hot Rats, Uncle Meat, Cruising With Reuben & The Jets, We're Only in it for the Money, Lumpy Gravy, Absolutely Free, Freak Out!" cds all reissued! More Zappa reissues all year, will be SIXTY in total by the end of 2012) The Very Best ("MTMTMK" cd/lp) Purity Ring ("Shrines" cd/lp) Bonnie 'Prince' Billy ("Now Here's My Plan" cd ep/12" ep) Shovels And Rope ("O' Be Joyful" cd) La Coka Nostra ("Masters of the Dark Arts" cd) GZA ("Liquid Swords" deluxe 2xcd with miniature chess set, seriously) Michael Kiwanuka ("Home Again" cd) Fang Island ("Major" cd) V/A ("Country Funk: 1969-1975" cd) Soundtrack ("Searching for Sugar Man" cd) Jimmy Cliff ("Rebirth" cd/lp) Todd Barry ("Super Crazy" cd) Lost Sounds ("The Lost Lost: demos, sounds…99-04" cd) Nas ("Life is Good" cd/deluxe cd) Citizen Cope ("One Lovely Day" cd) Baroness ("Yellow & Green" cd/deluxe cd/lp) Soul Asylum ("Delayed Reaction" cd) Alberta Cross ("Songs of Patience" cd/lp) The Velvet Underground ("Squeeze" cd reissued) The Be Good Tanyas ("A Collection (2000-2012)" cd) Matisyahu ("Spark Seeker" cd/lp) John Maus ("A Collection of Rarities and Previously Unreleased Material" cd/lp) Afro Latin Vintage Orchestra ("Last Odyssey" cd) Eleni Mandell ("I Can See the Future" cd) Pat Metheny ("Unity Band" cd) Youssou N'Dour (Music from the Motion Picture "I Bring What I Love" cd) Delta Rae ("Carry the Fire" cd) Tanya Morgan ("You and What Army" cd) Kluster ("Zwei Osterei" cd) Hank Williams Jr. ("Old School New Rules" cd) Danny Brown ("XXX" cd/lp) Husky ("Forever So" cd/lp) Deep Time ("S/T" cd/lp) Debo Band ("S/T" cd/lp) Laetitia Sadler ("Silencio" cd/lp) Om ("Advaitic Songs" cd/lp) Micachu and the Shapes ("Never" cd/lp) Three Mile Pilot ("Maps" cd/lp) Slug Guts ("Playin' in Time With the Deadbeat" cd/lp) Eternal Summers ("Correct Behavior" cd/lp) Family Band ("Grace & Lies" cd) Slipknot ("Antennas to Hell: best of" cd) Kluster ("Klopfzeichen" format) Timmy's Organism ("Raw Sewage Roq" cd) Lettuce ("Fly" cd) Gary War ("Jared's Lot" cd) Golden Retriever ("Occupied With the Unspoken" cd) Nachtmystium ("Silencing Machine" cd/lp) High On Fire ("The Art of Self Defense" cd…remastered, bonus tracks) Ponderosa ("Pool Party" cd) Keller Williams With The Traveling McCourys ("Pick" cd) Phish ("Chicago '94" 6xcd set) V/A ("The Bristol Sessions: 1927/1928" cd box) The Locust ("Molecular Genetics from the Gold Standard Labs" cd) Rick Ross ("God Forgives, I Don't" cd…standard and deluxe) Artist ("AlbumTitle" format) Old 97's ("Drag it Up" /cdlp) Neneh Cherry & the Thing ("The Cherry Thing" cd) Dr. No ("Kali Tornado Funk" cd) VINYL ONLY:  The Books ("2002-2012" 7 LP box set w/ DVD, USB drive and book, limited to 1000 copies) Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band ("One of My Kind" LP…includes DVD and CD) Patti Smith ("Banga" LP…finally!) Marilyn Manson ("Born Villain" LP) Firehose ("Flyin' the Flannel" LP) Wet Hair ("Spill Into Atmosphere" LP) David Kilgour ("Here Come the Cars" LP) DIIV ("Oshin" LP) Rush ("Clockwork Angels" lp) Mac Demarco ("Rock and Roll Night Club" lp) Foxygen ("Take the Kids Off Broadway" lp) Balmorhea ("Rivers Arms" lp) Aesop Rock ("Skelethon" lp…finally in!) The Antlers ("Undersea" lp) Pantera ("The Great Southern Trendkill" LP) Glacial ("On Jones Beach" lp…Lee Ranaldo/David Watson/Tony Buck!) Old 97's ("Mimeograph" 10") Gentleman ("Diversity" lp) Beach Boys ("That's Why God Made the Radio" lp) Major Lazer ("Get Free" 12") Eric Copeland ("Limbo" lp) Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. ("Son of a Bitches Brew" LP) Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti ("Baby" 12" EP) Blood Diamonds ("Phone Sex" 12" EP) also: King Crimson ("Live in Argentina 1994" 2xDVD) Fela Kuti ("Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense/Berliner Jazztage 1978" DVD (documentary and concert film)) Captain Beefheart ("The Lost Broadcasts" DVD) Fishbone ("Everyday Sunshine" DVD) + 7"s from...Artist, Future Islands/Ed Schrader's Music Beat, Divine Fits, Double Negative Hits, Matthew E. White, Anasazi, Six Organs of Admittance + more July 28, 2012 posted by: mark.  CHECK THESE SHOWS/EVENTS OMG OMG OMG OMG! July 26, 2012 posted by: mark. So................... there's this............. ************************************************************************************** HARVEST 8-YEAR ANNIVERSARY SALE! Saturday, August 11th 2012 @ Harvest FREE TO EVERYONE. Here we are again. How does this keep happening? We're older, yes, but wiser and prettier, we think. Which translates into the anticipation for our best-EVER sale! EVERYTHING in the store marked down... + THE BASEMENT SALE! (thousands and thousands of CDs & LPs all for a $1 each!!!) + FREE POSTERS, RAFFLE PRIZES, FOOD TRUCKS, YES! Be here. 10am-8pm. July 10, 2012 posted by: mark. NEW SHOWS! **************************************************************************************  
STEVE GUNN & WILLIAM TYLER Wednesday, September 5th 2012 @ Harvest $5 at the door Nowadays, there are so many great solo guitar players mining a vein started by John Fahey and extended by everyone from Loren Connors to Jim O’Rourke. There are so many, in fact, that standing out is almost impossible. Yet Steve Gunn has somehow managed that trick. That’s not strictly due to his ability as a player—though he is eminently skilled—but more to his knack for discovering varied styles and settings in which to couch that string-stretching talent. His 2009 solo masterpiece, Boerum Palace, saw him exploring slow ballads, simply-strummed ditties, lengthy raga/ psych hybrids, twangy country meditations and sprightly bluegrass-inflected jaunts. Gunn’s deft diversity continues on Sand City, his 2010 duo record with drummer John Trucsinski. Over the course of four tracks, the pair revels in jams that all have a searching, mountain-climbing quality. It’s as if when each track starts, they have a summit in their sights and the knowledge that all it takes to get there is the right chords and rhythms. Gunn hits the target every time, from his winding, snake-charming acoustic plucks that weave around Truscinki’s beat on “Takism II” to the cascading electric circles he runs during the dizzying “Wythe Raag.” This means it’s anyone’s guess what he’ll play when he performs, but you can bet it will still sound like Steve Gunn. - Marc Masters William Tyler is a native of Nashville, Tennessee, a town where guitarists are as common as television sets or pigeons. At an early age, he began playing and recording with artists that resided at the fringes of the country and folk vernacular, such as the Silver Jews, Lambchop, and Cortney Tidwell. He also found himself doing session work with artists as diverse as country legend Charlie Louvin and soul singer Candi Staton. All the while, Tyler was at home working on fragmentary guitar pieces and tape collages under the moniker the Paper Hats, calling on the spirit of Sandy Bull and the early Siltbreeze catalog. In 2008, his longtime friend and sometime collaborator Volker Zander released a Paper Hats lp “Deseret Canyon” on his Apparent Extent imprint, and the two toured in Europe. Now Tyler has released his first album under his own name, “Behold the Spirit” (Tompkins Square), a collection of acoustic and electric guitar works intertwined with open form audio landscapes and delicately arranged instrumentation. Equal parts Appalachian drone and ambient noise, “Behold the Spirit” is a series of homages to ancient melodies, dead languages, and ghosts. Live, Tyler has collaborated or shared bills with Eric Carbonara, David Daniell, Wooden Wand, Paul Metzger, Datashock, Mountains, and Steve Gunn, among others. WATCH STEVE JAM HERE AND WILLY T HERE! ************************************************************************************** 
ZAMMUTO (Nick from The Books!) Saturday, September 8th @ The Grey Eagle $10 Tickets available now @ Harvest, Orbit DVD, Grey Eagle & online HERE. Sprouting from the same mind that created the Books - one of the most acclaimed and innovative groups of the past decade - Zammuto marks a deep reinvention of the highly detailed, genre-defying spirit that made seminal albums such as The Lemon of Pink and The Way Out possible. Given the Books' success as an experimental collage-pop project, founder and namesake Nick Zammuto could have comfortably extended that thread. Instead he has given us a record that is progressive and forward-looking, intense and driven, with hugely varied rhythms and melodies. The whispered, folksy vocals that became a trademark of the Books are for the most part shed in favor of an uncharacteristically confident, soaring delivery, often fueled by a wide array of vocal effects. The result is a man-machine sensitivity that ultimately enhances the songs' emotional intensity. With dense and beautiful string arrangements by Gene Back (the Books) and brain-warping drum performances by Sean Dixon, the radical and varied sound of Zammuto leaps out of speakers with a searing directness. Making music that sounds and feels like no one else is nothing new for Zammuto, but making music that doesn't even sound like his own past is a whole other impressive feat in itself. ALSO: NEW RELEASES: Weeks of July 10th, July 3rd & June 26th...  Dirty Projectors ("Swing Lo Magellan" cd/lp)  Twin Shadow ("Confess" cd/lp)  Beachwood Sparks ("Tarnished Gold" cd/lp) Ty Segall Band ("Slaughterhouse" cd/2x10") Flaming Lips ("Heady Fwends" cd…this record store day release is now out of CD) Neil Young ("First 4 Remastered Releases" 4xcd box) Woody Guthrie ("At 100" book+3cd set) Aesop Rock ("Skelethon" cd) Cinematic Orchestra ("In Motion #1" cd) Mark Fosson ("Digging in the Dust" cd/lp) Kawabata Makoto & A Qui Avec Gabriel ("Golden Tree" cd) Old Man Gloom ("No" cd/lp) Jerry Douglas ("Traveler" cd) Chain & The Gang ("In Cool Blood" cd/lp) Paul Banks ("Julian Plenti Lives…" cd/10"...dude from Interpol) A Place To Bury Strangers ("Worship" cd/lp) Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. ("Son of a Bitches Brew" & "The Ripper at the Heavens Gates of Dark" cds) DIIV ("Oshin" cd) Kath Bloom ("Here I Am" cd) Dent May ("Do Things" cd/lp) Sonny and the Sunsets ("Longtime Companions" cd/lp) Spectrum Road ("s/t" cd/lp) The Mountain Goats ("The Hound Chronicles" cd, early stuff reissued) Mindy Smith ("s/t" cd) Soulsavers ("The Light, the Dead Sea" cd) Donnie & Joe Emerson ("Dreamin' Wild" cd/lp reissue on Light in the Attic) Big K.R.I.T. ("Live from the Underground" cd) "Kin: Songs by Mary Karr & Rodney Crowell" (feat. Norah Jones, Lucinda Williams, Vince Gill, etc...) Annette Peacock ("I'm the One" cd/lp) mum ("Early Birds" now on cd) Keller Williams with the Travelin' McCourys ("Pick" cd) Stevie Jackson (From Belle & Sebastian! "(I Can't Get No)" cd/lp) Motion Sickness of Time Travel ("s/t" now on cd) Moritz Von Oswald Trio ("Fetch" cd/lp) Konkoma ("s/t" cd/lp... brand new Ghanaian Afro Funk!) James Luther Dickinson and North Mississippi Allstars ("I'm Just Dead I'm Not Gone" cd) Diplo ("Express Yourself" cd) Rascal Flatts ("Changed" cd) Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart ("Dedication" cd) Gram Parsons ("Th Early Years Box Set" 2 cd, dvd, lp box set) Delicate Steve ("Positive Force" cd/lp) Elizabeth Mitchell ("Little Seed" cd) Maya Jane Coles ("DJ-Kicks" cd) Ryat ("Totem" cd) Chatham County Line ("Sight & Sound" cd+dvd/lp+dvd) "Ramp 50" (featuring music from Zomby, Jamie xx, Dro Carey, SBTRKT & more) Lorn ("Ask the Dust" cd/lp) Zac Brown Band ("Uncaged" cd) Chris Forsyth ("Kenzo Deluxe" cd/lp) Beak ("II" cd/lp) "Aun -- the beginning and the end of all things" (a soundtrack CD by Christian Fennesz) Arnaldo Antunes, Edgard Scandurra & Toumani Diabate ("A Curva Da Cintura" cd) Burial Hex ("Book of Delusions" cd) Wicked Lady ("Psychotic Overkill" cd/lp & "The Axeman Cometh" cd) Mission of Burma ("Unsound" cd) "To Rome with Love" (original soundtrack cd) "This Ain't Chicago" (underground sound of UK house & acid 1987-1991 cd/lp) Jurgen Miller ("Science of the Sea" cd) Thomas Koner ("Novaya Zemlya" cd) Irmin Schmidt ("Kamasutra" cd) Serj Tankian ("Harakiri" cd) VINYL ONLY:  "Long Live Boogaloo" (22 rare Latin boogaloos circa 1963-1972 LP) Codeine ("Frigid Stars LP", "Barely Real" & "The White Birch" LPs available individually or in a box-set) Stereolab ("Mars Audiac Quintet & Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements" lps) Kylesa ("Time Will Fuse its Worth & To Walk a Middle Course" lps) Elvis Presley ("From Elvis in Memphis" LP) Xavier Rudd ("Spirit Bird" LP) Lettuce ("Fly" lp) Killer Mike ("R.A.P. Music" lp…finally on wax!) Bassnectar ("Vava Voom" 12" single) Steep Canyon Rangers ("Nobody Knows You" lp) Alejandro Escovedo ("Big Station" lp) Counting Crows ("August and Everything After: Live at Town Hall" lp) Dump ("NYC Tonight" 12") The DB's ("Falling Off the Sky" lp) Paul and LInda McCartney ("Ram" MONO lp) R.L. Crutchfield's Dark Day ("Exterminating Angel" LP) Benny Soebardja ("Gimme a Piece of Gut Rock" & "Night Train" LPs) Phil Cohran and the Artistic Heritage Ensemble ("The Spanish Suite" LP) Jim Ford ("Harlan County" LP) "Eccentric Soul: A RGB Production" (LP) Northern Haze ("Sinnaktuq" LP) Burzum ("Umskiptar" now on LP) Kreator ("Phantom Antichrist" LP) Plant And See ("S/T" LP) Guns n' Roses ("Use Your Illusion I & II" LP reissues) The Clean ("Odditties" 2xlp) Baroness ("First/Second" lp…now together!) Michael Chapman ("Plaindealer" lp) Daughn Gibson ("All Hell" lp) Jai Paul ("Jasmine" 12") Tanlines ("Mixed Emotions" lp) Avengers ("s/t" lp) Yoko Ono/Thurston Moore/Kim Gordon ("Early in the Morning" 10"…limited, single sided) Com Truise ("Cyanide Sisters" 12") Touch People ("Everyone is not Alive" lp) Lee Fields ("My World" LP) Giant Sand ("Tucson" now on LP) The Sea and Cake ("The Fawn" LP) Variety Lights ("Central Flow" LP) Mike Scheidt ("Stay Awake" LP) Sidi Toure & Friends ("Sahel Folk" now on LP) Domingo Cura ("Tiempo de Percusion: An Anthology 1971-77" LP) Decimus ("#11" LP) "Fire Star: Synth-Pop & Electro-Funk from Tamil Films 1985-89" (LP) James Blackshaw ("Holly EP" vinyl) Outer Space ("Akashic Record" LP) Gary War ("Jared's Lot" LP) Gay Cat Park ("Synthetic Woman" LP) Freddie Gibbs & Madlib ("Shame" LP) Orcas (s/t LP finally in!) Modeselektor ("proudly presents Modeselektion Vol. 02" LP) Zelienople ("The World is a House on Fire" LP) The Cinematic Orchestra ("In Motion #1" LP) mewithoutYou ("Ten Stories" LP) Pulse Emitter/Date Palms/Expo 70/Faceplant ("Split" LP) Brast Burn ("Debon" LP) Ichiyanagi, Ranta & Kosugi ("Improvisation, Sept. 1975" LP) Conrad Schnitzler ("Blue" & "Red" LPs) Kluster ("Zwei Osterei" LP) Elm ("Nemcatacoa" LP) John Roberts ("Glass Eights" LP) Moonrises ("s/t" LP) "The Acid Dreams Testament" ("...75 Minutes of Psychotic Terror" LP) "Belgian Wave & Pop Songs from the 80s" (LP) "Number 8 Wire" (": 16 Trippy New Zealand Nuggets 1967-69" LP) Actress ("R.I.P." LP) Chubby Checker ("Chequered!" LP) Road ("s/t" LP) Onno ("Whatever Makes You Happy" 12") Digitalism ("DJ-Kicks" LP) also: Antena ("Camino del Sol" cassette) Jimi Hendrix ("Plays Berkeley" dvd) Artist ("AlbumTitle" format) Folk Implosion ("Dare to be Surprised" cassette) 7"s from...Animal Collective, Porcelain Raft, Tex Soul, Double Negative, Bobb and the Kidds, Ape School, Iron & Wine, + more June 20, 2012 posted by: mark. NEW RELEASES: Weeks of June 19th & June 12th...  Tallest Man on Earth ("There's No Leaving Now" cd/lp... still have some bonus 7"s and posters for y'all that are interested)  Hot Chip ("In Our Heads" cd/lp)  Grace Potter & the Nocturnals ("The Lion The Beast The Beat" cd/deluxe cd/lp)  Fiona Apple ("The Idler Wheel..." cd/deluxe cd+dvd/lp) Glen Hansard (of The Frames/the movie "Once"... "Rhythm and Repose" cd/lp) Peaking Lights ("Lucifer" cd/lp) Guided By Voices ("Class Clown Spots A UFO" cd/lp) Metric ("Synthetica" cd/lp) Smashing Pumpkins ("Oceania" cd/lp) Azealia Banks ("1991" cd) Peter Tosh ("1978-1987" 6xcd set) David Bowie ("The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" 40th anniversary edition cd or LP) Rush ("Clockwork Angels" cd) Chris Smither ("Hundred Dollar Valentine" cd) Can ("The Lost Tapes" 3xcd box) Silver Jews ("Early Times" cd/lp/tape) Dope Body ("Natural History" cd/lp) Blues Control ("Valley Tangents" cd/lp/tape) The Young ("Dub Egg" cd/lp) Bobby Womack ("The Bravest Man in the Universe" cd/lp) The dB's ("Falling Off the Sky" cd) Gary Clark Jr. ("The Bright Lights ep" cd) Jukebox the Ghost ("Safe Travels" cd) King Tuff ("S/T" cd) Broken Water ("Tempest" cd/lp) Jaill ("Traps" cd/lp) Magic Trick ("Ruler of the Night" cd/lp.. .members of Fresh & Onlys...) Tia Blake ("Folksongs & Ballads" cd) Bill Evans ("Live at Art D'Lugoff's Top of the Gate" 2xcd) Bela Fleck & the Marcus Roberts Trio ("Across the Imaginary Divide" cd) Swans ("We Rose from Your Bed with the Sun in Your Head" 2xcd) Usher ("Looking 4 Myself" cd/deluxe cd) Parson Sound ("S/T" cd) "Harmony, Melody & Style" (lovers rock in the UK 1975-1992 cd/two separate lp volumes) Baris Manco ("Dunden Bugune" cd) Impala Syndrome ("S/T" cd) The Hundred in the Hands ("Red Night" cd/lp) Jimmy Fallon ("Blow Your Pants Off" cd) Waka Flocka Flame ("Triple F Life" cd) Giant Sand ("Tucson" cd) Kelly Hogan ("I Like to Keep Myself in Pain" cd) Watain ("Opus Diaboli" cd+dvd) Laurel Halo ("Quarantine" cd/lp) Shawn Colvin ("All Fall Down" cd) Doseone ("G is for Deep" cd) Josephine Foster & the Victor Herrero Band ("S/T" cd) Burial Hex ("Book of Delusions" cd) Wymond Miles ("Under the Pale Moon" cd/lp) Marissa Nadler ("The Sister" cd) "Oh Michael, Look What You've Done: Friends Play Michael Chapman" (Tribute featuring Meg Baird, Thurston Moore, Lucinda Williams and more cd) Kreator ("Phantom Antichrist" cd) Spaceghostpurrp ("Mysterious Phonk: The Chronicles of Spaceghostpurrp" cd/lp) POP ETC ("S/T" cd/lp) Benny Soebardja ("The Lizard Years" cd) "Maximum Sitar" (18 sitar classics from psychedelia's golden age cd) Michael Mayer ("Immer 2" cd) "P&P Hits Hits Hits" (185 songs, over 18.5 hours of music 15xcd box) Justin Bieber ("Believe" cd) Anthony B ("Freedom Fighter" cd) Quicksilver Messenger Service ("S/T" cd) Imelda May ("Mayhem" cd) JD McPherson ("Signs & Signifiers" cd) Hacienda ("Shakedown" cd) VINYL ONLY:  Aphex Twin ("Selected Ambient Works Vol. II" LP reissue!!) Destroyer ("Destroyer's Rubies" LP back in print! yay!) Calexico ("98-99 Road Map" LP) Richard & Linda Thompson ("I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight" LP reissue) Squarepusher ("Ufabulum" LP) Richard Thompson ("Live from Austin TX" LP) Gossip ("A Joyful Noise" now on LP) Nicki Minaj ("Pink Friday" & "Roman Reloaded" now on LP) Dana Buoy ("Summer Bodies" LP) Kathleen Edwards ("Voyageur" LP) Brandi Carlile ("Bear Creek" LP) Small Faces ("Ogden's Nut Gone Flake" LP) Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars ("Radio Salone" LP) EL-P ("Cancer 4 Cure" finally in on LP) 2:54 ("s/t" LP) Ben Harper ("Pleasure and Pain" LP -- super early Harper…) Robbie Basho ("The Seal of the Blue Lotus" LP) Grass Widow ("Internal Logic" LP) The Intelligence ("Everybody's Got it Easy But Me" LP) Paul Simon ("Graceland" LP reissue) MV & EE ("Space Homestead" LP) Shop Assistants ("s/t" LP reissue) Dreamend ("And the Tears Washed Me…" LP) Plvs Vltra ("Parthenon" LP) Eric Lanham ("The Sincere Interruption" LP) mum ("Early Birds" LP) Rockin' Horse ("Yes It Is" LP) Talk Talk ("Laughing Stock" LP reissue) "Michigan Meltdown" ("…Post-Garage Pandemonium and Pre-Punk Fuzz Freaks from the MItten State's Miliken Era" !!!! what a title… LP) Last Step ("Sleep" LP) Head Over Heels ("S/T" LP) Amadou & Mariam ("Folila" now on LP) Evil Moisture ("Goo" LP) Frustration ("Relax" LP) "Wizzz! Volume 1" (French psychedelic 1966-1969 LP) Thee Headcoats ("The Kids are All Square-This is Hip!" LP) Keith Fullerton Whitman ("Occlusions" LP) Jean Piche ("Heliograms" LP) Sun Dial ("S/T" LP) Flick Wilson ("School Days" LP) "Spiritual Jazz Volume II" (European jazz compilation now on LP) Raajmahal ("S/T" LP) "Sitar Beat Vol. II" (Indian style heavy funk LP) "Eat the Dream: Gnawa Music from Essaouira" (new Sublime Frequencies on LP) Japandroids ("Celebration Rock" now on LP) The Mynabirds ("Generals" LP) Isis ("The Red Sea" LP) Ulaan Markhor ("S/T" LP) M. Ward ("Duet for Guitars #2" LP super limited repress) Mind Spiders ("s/t" LP) Anika ("S/T" LP) "Electric Psychedelic Sitar Headswirlers Vol 1. (now on LP) Drainolith ("Fighting" LP) Susanna ("Wild Dog" now on LP) Sir Richard Bishop ("Intermezzo" LP) "Dabke: Sounds of the Syrian Houran (LP) Russian Tsarlag ("Midnight at Mary's House" LP) Alex Niggemann ("Paranoid Funk" LP) Crystal Syphon ("Family Evil" LP) Fire! with Oren Ambarchi ("In the Mouth-a Hand" LP) Lee Perry & the Upsetters ("Return of Django" LP) Jukebox the Ghost ("Safe Travels" LP) Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland ("Black is Beautiful" LP) Tortiose ("Millions Now Living Will Never Die" LP reissue) Eternal Tapestry ("Dawn in 2 Dimensions" LP) Gravenhurst ("The Ghost in Daylight" LP) Evan Caminiti ("Night Dust" LP) Soulive and Karl Denson ("Spark!" 12" EP) Airbird ("Trust" 12" EP... brother Joel!) Club ("Scars/Hellion" 12" EP) LA Vampires by Octa Octa ("Freedom 2k" 12" EP) Com Truise ("Fairlight" 12" EP) Matthew Dear ("Her Fantasy" 12" EP) Walls ("Coracle Remix" 12" EP) LA Vampires by Octa Octa ("Freedom 2k" 12" EP) In Aeternam Vale ("Dust Under Brightness/Highway Dark Veins" 12" EP) SBTRKT ("Hold On" 12" EP) Azealia Banks ("1991" 12" EP) J Dilla ("Dillatroit" 10" featuring Danny Brown & others) also: Cleaners from Venus ("Midnight Cleaners", "Under Wartime Conditions", "Living with Victoria Grey" cassettes) Ty Segall & White Fence ("Hair" now on cassette) Breakaways ("Walking Out On Love" cassette) White Fence & Family ("Perfume Vols. 1 & 2" cassette) 7"s from...Jack White, Beck, MF Doom, Koudede, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, D.O.A. feat. Jello Biafra, Superchunk, Tonetta, the Apostles, the Onion Dolls, Cops, Pelican/Playing Enemy, Davilla 666, J Dilla, Clutch + more June 6, 2012 posted by: mark. NEW RELEASES: Weeks of June 5th, May 29th & May 22nd... Neil Young & Crazy Horse ("Americana" cd... no word on vinyl yet...)  Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros ("Here" cd/lp)  Sigur Ros ("Valtari" cd/lp)  The Walkmen ("Heaven" cd/lp... playing the Orange Peel in September, we've got tickets!) Paul and Linda McCartney ("Ram" cd/deluxe 2xcd/lp) Regina Spektor ("What we Saw from the Cheap Seats" cd) Beach Boys ("That's Why God Made the Radio" cd… with Brian!!!) El-P ("Cancer for Cure" cd) Liars ("WIXIW" cd/lp) Sun Kil Moon ("Among The Leaves" cd) Paul Simon ("Graceland" 25th Anniversary reissue -- reg cd or deluxe cd/dvd) Chris Robinson Brotherhood ("Big Moon Ritual" cd/lp) Alejandro Escovedo ("Big Station" cd) Tedeschi Trucks Band ("Everybody's Talking" cd/lp) Langhorne Slim & the Law ("The Way We Move" cd/lp) Patti Smith ("Banga" cd or deluxe cd/bonus track/nice booklet/packaging!) Crocodiles ("Endless Flowers" cd/lp) Watain ("Opus Diaboli" cd/dvd/book/LP box!) Oh No ("Ohnomite" cd/lp) Rhett Miller ("The Dreamer" cd/lp) Burzum ("Umskiptar" cd) Gossip ("A Joyful Noise" cd) Kimbra ("Vows" cd) Garbage ("Not Your Kind of People" cd) Sonny Landreth ("Elemental Journey" cd) Hives ("Lex Hives" cd/lp) Secret Agent 23 Skidoo ("Make Believers" cd) Saint Vitus ("Lillie: F-65" cd/cd+dvd) Japandroids ("Celebration Rock" cd) Brandi Carlile ("Bear Creek" cd) Bigg Jus ("Machines That Make Civilization Fun" cd) Willie Nelson ("Heroes" cd) Exitmusic ("Passage" cd/lp) Joe Bonamassa ("Driving Towards the Daylight" cd) Sarazino ("Everyday Salama" cd) Xavier Rudd ("Spirit Bird" cd) Delta Moon ("Black Cat Oil" cd) Cheap Time ("Wallpaper Music" cd/lp) "Eccentric Soul: A Red, Black & Green Production" (The ultimate fantasy low-rider soul collection on cd) Joey Ramone ("…Ya Know?" cd/lp) Witch ("We Intend to Cause Havoc" 4xcd/6xlp box) Mutilation Rites ("Empyrean" format) The Melvins ("Freak Puke" cd) Curren$y ("presents: The Stoned Immaculate" cd) Cory Branan ("Mutt" cd/lp) Yacht ("I Believe in You…" cd/lp) Dntel ("Aimlessness" cd) The Mynabirds ("Generals" cd) The Bats ("Daddy's Highway" cd) Kool Keith ("Love and Danger" cd) Lemonade ("Diver" cd/lp) Lungfish ("A.C.R.1999" cd/lp) Melody Gardot ("The Absence" cd) MV & EE ("Space Homestead" cd) Little Wings ("Black Grass" cd/lp… not sure how long it's been since we had this, but we've got it again!) Simian Mobile Disco ("Unpatterns" cd/lp) Leftover Salmon ("Aquatic Hitchhiker" cd) Scissor Sisters ("Magic Hour" cd) Last Step ("Sleep" cd) Cadence Weapon ("Hope in Dirt City" cd) T. Rex ("Electric Warrior" 40th anniversary deluxe 2xCD) Colourbox ("S/T" 4xCD Box) Preteen Zenith ("Rubble Guts and BB Eye" cd) Arturo Sandoval ("Dear Diz (Every Day I Think Of You" cd) V/A ("Spiritual Jazz: Volume 2" cd…esoteric, modal and deep european jazz 1960-1978) Public Image Ltd ("This is Pil" cd) John Mayer ("Born and Raised" cd) Burial ("Street Halo/Kindred" cd…japanese import) /Diamond Rugs ("s/t" cd/lp) Squarepusher ("Ufabulum" cd) Lee Bains III & The Glory Fire ("There is a Bomb in Gilead" cd) DJ Nu-Mark ("Feel the Way About It" 10") Apache Dropout ("s/t" cdep) VINYL ONLY:  Mount Eerie ("Clear Moon" LP) Spiritualized ("Sweet Heart, Sweet Light" LP) The Wake ("Here Comes Everybody + Singles 1983-1987" LP) OFF! ("S/T" LP) Heavy Blanket (s/t LP in now… J Mascis and some stoner buddies!) Lou Reed ("Transformer" & "Rock n Roll Animal" LP reissues) MF Doom ("Operation Doomsday" LP) Iggy and the Stooges ("Raw Power" LP reissue) Damon Albarn (of Blur, Gorillaz, etc… "Dr Dee" LP) Hate Forest ("Battlefields" & "The Most Ancient Ones" LPs!) Lula e Lailson ("Satwa" LP) Lula Cortes ("Rosa de Sangue" LP) Oberhofer ("Time Capsules II" now on LP) Death Grips ("The Money Store" now on LP) Uncle Tupelo ("No Depression", "Still Feel Gone" & "March 16-20, 1992" LP reissues) Amateur Love ("It's All Aquatic" LP… pre-Megafaun band… put out on Justin Vernon's new label!) Patti Smith ("Horses" LP reissue) Thanksgiving ("The 'In the World'" LP) Ponytail ("Kamehameha" LP) Total Control ("Henge Beat" LP) Woods/Amps for Christ ("Split" LP) The Residents ("Third Reich 'n Roll" LP) Lightnin' Hopkins ("Lightnin' Sam Hopkins" LP reissue) Orlando Julius ("Disco Hi-Life" LP) Bobby Womack ("The Bravest Man in the Universe" 12") Purity Ring ("Belispeak" 12") Mars Volta ("Noctourniquet" lp) Marissa Nadler ("The Sister" lp) Violens ("True" lp) Electric Wizard ("Witchcult Today" now on VINYL!) The Residents ("Fingerprince" lp) The Cranberries ("Roses" finally on wax!) Spectrum ("Soul Kiss (Glide Divine)" lp) Pelican ("Ataraxia/Taraxis" EP now on vinyl) also: CASSETTES V/A ("late 40s/early 50s commercial American Indian recordings" tape..Canary Cassette Series vol. 4) Pandit Yeshwantrai Purohit ("Recordings made from All India Radio performances ca. 1960" tape… Canary Cassette Series vol. 2) Stanky & His Pennsylvania Coal Miners ("S/T" tape… Canary Cassette Series vol. 1) Youssef Azar Elias, Pece Anasovskoga, Seamus McNeill ("various recordings" tape…Canary Cassette Series vol. 3) also: "This World is Unreal Like a Snake in a Rope" DVD (new Sublime Frequencies/Robert Millis dealio) The Beatles ("Yellow Submarine" DVD) + 7"s from...Black Tambourine, Gaslight Anthem, CocoRosie, Samiam, Real Estate, Veronica Falls, Here We Go Magic, Sissy Spacek, Tara Jane O'Neil + more May 3, 2012 posted by: matt  BOMBINO Thursday, May 3rd @ The Grey Eagle $12 advance, $15 day-of Tickets available NOW @ Harvest, Orbit DVD, Static Age, Grey Eagle & online HERE. April 26, 2012 posted by: swimp. NEW RELEASES: Weeks of April 24th, 17th & 10th... Jack White ("Blunderbuss" cd/lp... also a new 7" and hopefully a new 12" real soon!)  Alabama Shakes ("Boys & Girls" cd/lp)  Spiritualized ("Sweet Heart, Sweet Light" cd... no LP 'til June...) M. Ward ("A Wasteland Companion" cd/lp) Bonnie Raitt ("Slipstream" cd/lp) Horse Feathers ("Cynic's New Year" cd) Hank Williams III ("Long Gone Daddy" cd/lp) Amadou & Mariam ("Folila" cd) Warren Haynes Band ("Live at the Moody Theater" 2xcd+dvd) Tramples By Turtles ("Stars and Satellites" cd/lp) Hope For Agoldensummer ("Life Inside the Body" cd) Loudon Wainwright III ("Older Than My Old Man Now" cd) Scuba ("Personality" cd) The Lumineers ("S/T" cd) Nanci Griffith ("Intersection" cd) Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives ("Nashville, Volume 1: Tear the Woodpile Down" cd) Peter Gabriel ("Live Blood" cd) The Dandy Warhols ("This Machine" cd/lp) Toro Y Moi ("June 2009" cd) Groundation ("Building An Ark" cd) Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars ("Radio Salone" cd) Jamiroquai ("Rock Dust Light Star" cd) Torche ("Harmonicraft" cd) The Raveonettes ("Into the Night" cd) Brendan Benson ("What Kind of World" cd/lp) Ty Segall & White Fence ("Hair" cd/lp) Black Dice ("Mr. Impossible" cd) Bassnectar ("Vava Voom" cd) Municipal Waste ("The Fatal Feast: Waste in Space" cd/lp) Trembling Bells featuring Bonnie 'Prince' Billy ("The Marble Downs" cd) Florence + the Machine ("MTV Unplugged" cd) Donald Glover ("Weirdo" cd) Ash Ra Tempel ("S/T" cd) V/A ("Saigon Rock & Soul: Vietnamese Classic Tracks 1968-1974" now on cd) Counting Crows ("Underwater Sunshine" cd) Emptyset ("Medium" cd) Blaze Foley ("BFI Volume #3" cd) Screaming Females ("Ugly" cd) The Toure-Raichel Collective ("The Tel Aviv Session" cd) Humble Pie ("s/t" cd) V/A ("Nobody Wins: Stax Southern Soul 1968-1975" cd) Janis Joplin ("The Pearl Sessions" 2xcd) Jack Johnson & Friends ("Best of Kokua Festival" cd) Ebo Taylor ("Appia Kwa Bridge" cd) Bob Marley & the Wailers ("Marley: The Original Soundtrack" 2xcd/3xlp) Hiss Golden Messenger ("Poor Moon" now on cd) King Crimson ("In the Court of the Crimson King" 2xcd reissue) Battles ("Dross Glop" cd of remixes) Mariee Sioux ("Gift for the End" cd/lp) Maps & Atlases ("Beware and Be Grateful" cd) Carole King ("The Legendary Demos" cd) John Jacob Niles ("The Boone-Tolliver Recordings" cd/lp) Doug Paisley ("Golden Embers" cd/10" ep) Moonface ("Heartbreaking Bravery" cd/lp) Mickey Hart Band ("Mysterium Tremendum" cd) Lou Ragland ("I Travel Alone" 3xcd/4xlp) V/A ("Personal Space: Electronic Soul 1974-1984" cd/lp) V/A ("Tally Ho!: Flying Nun's Greatest Bits" cd…featuring the clean, the bats, chris knox, dead c, tall dwarfs and more!) Negative Approach ("Nothing Will Stand In Our Way" cd) Radio Moscow ("3 + 3 Quarters" cd) Rasputina ("How We Quit the Forest" cd/lp) Ike Turner ("Session Man Extraordinaire: Selected Singles 1951-1959" cd/lp) Anoushka Shankar ("Traveller" cd) Astra ("The Black Chord" cd) James Blackshaw ("Love is the Plan. The Plan is Death" cd) Grinderman 2 ("Rmx" cd) Quakers ("s/t" cd) Swans ("The Burning World" cd…reissue) Ash Ra Tempel ("S/T" cd…remastered by Manuel Gottsching) Pelican ("Ataraxia/Taraxis" cdep) VINYL ONLY:  Hot Snakes ("Automatic Midnight" & "Suicide Invoice" LPs reissued!!!) Gentleman Jesse ("Leaving Atlanta" LP) "Flying Nun Records: Time to Go -- the Southern Psychedelic Movement, 1981-86" (comp 2xLP feat. The Clean, Tall Dwarfs, The Chills, many others!) Robert Pollard ("Mouseman Cloud" LP) Clark ("Iradelphic" LP) Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band ("Merseytrout" 2xLP… Live in Liverpool 1980) Unsane ("Wreck" LP) White Fence & Family ("Perfume: Vol. 1" LP) Black to Comm ("Music for the Film Earth" LP) Tonetta 777 ("Vol. III" LP) Earthless ("Sonic Prayer Jam" LP) Eternal Summers ("The Dawn of Eternal Summers" LP) Kevin Ayers ("Joy of a Toy" LP) Iron Maiden ("En Vivo!" LP) Great Lake Swimmers ("New Wild Everywhere" now on LP) Bright Eyes ("Every Day and Every Night" EP & "Letting Off the Happiness" LP reissues) High On Fire ("De Vermis Mysteriis" lp) Allen Toussaint ("Life, Love and Faith" & "Southern Nights" LP reissues) Body Music ("Afro Funk" LP) "The Cool-Aid Benefit Album" (LP) Cannibal Corpse ("Torture" picture disc LP) Grateful Dead ("The Very Best Of…" LP) Operation Ivy ("Energy" lp) Love Apple ("S/'T" 12") Shirley Ann Lee ("Songs of Light" lp) Choir Of Young Believers ("Rhine Gold"lp) Sidi Toure ("Koima" lp) Trans Am ("S/T" lp…reissued!) Jon Porras ("Black Mesa" lp…dude from Barn Owl) Brian Jonestown Massacre ("Their Satanic Majesties' Second Request" lp) Mad Scene ("Blip" lp) Blasted Canyons ("S/T" lp) Ty Segall ("s/t" lp) Grave Babies ("Gothdammit" lp) Palace Music ("Lost Blues and Other Songs" back in print on LP!) Smog ("Forgotten Foundation" back in print on LP) Villagers ("Becoming A Jackal" LP) Ike Turner ("Down and Out" lp…1951-1959 recordings) Black Milk & Danny Brown ("Black and Brown" lp) Madvillain ("Madvillainy Remixes" lp) Magic Milk ("Mellows" 12" EP) Daniel Rossen ("Silent Hour/Golden Mile" 12" EP) Stephen R. Smith ("Floor of the Sky" one-sided 12") Martyn ("Hello Darkness" 12") Lower Dens ("Brains" limited 10") also: Opeth ("Lamentations: Live at Shepherd's Bush Empire 2003" dvd) Bonnie "Prince" Billy & Ashley Macomber ("Afternoon" -- huge beautiful book of art w/ a 10" of BPB songs! Lmtd to 1000) "Gems (Interview Zine) "Flor de Muertos" (dvd documentary/concert film featuring Calexico) 7"s from...Jack White, Davilla, 666, Grass Widow, Guided by Voices, Veronica Falls, Violens, Menahan Street Band, Lower Dens, Coathangers/Davilla 666, King Tuff, Eric Copeland, Sic Alps, Jennifer Herrema/Kurt Vile/Wino artist + more April 17, 2012 posted by: mark. **************************************************************************************  RECORD STORE DAY 2012 Saturday, April 21st @ Harvest Records THE BEAST IS BACK featuring a FREE in-store performance at 3pm from HISS GOLDEN MESSENGER!! We will be opening at 10am for Record Store Day. We can not accept preorders for any RSD items, sorry! All items are first-come, first-served. If there are particular items you are obsessing over getting, we recommend getting in line relatively early, certainly before doors open at 10am. HOWEVER -- R.S.D. is not only for those obsessed with securing certain records! It's for everyone! There will be plenty of insanely amazing releases to comb thru all day and all night, of course. In addition to the Record Store Day-specific releases, we will have a super-freshly-stocked store from top to bottom. Tons of killer used stuff, new stuff, new reissues, Bonnie Billy condoms... you know. The whole shebang. AND ON TOP OF THAT: The EATBOX food truck will be here!! OMG AND ON TOP OF THAT: we will be giving away free stuff, and raffle prizes, and maybe we'll have snacks or something. It'll be awesome. COME SEE US!!! FOR THE FULL OFFICIAL RSD RELEASE LIST, CLICK HERE! April 9, 2012 posted by: matt April 5, 2012 posted by: mark. **************************************************************************************  SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS + Exitmusic Friday, April 6th @ The Grey Eagle $10 advance, $12 day-of Tickets available NOW @ Harvest, Orbit DVD, Static Age, Grey Eagle & online HERE. School Of Seven Bells are back with their third release, Ghostory, out February 28 on Vagrant Records/Ghostly Inernational. The highly-anticipated album finds the band’s lineup has evolved along with the music; formerly a trio, the band is now a duo: guitarist/producer Benjamin Curtis and vocalist Alejandra Deheza. Recorded in-between tours, Ghostory exemplifies a fervent progression of SVIIB’s growth as artists, preserving the common themes found on their last two releases but exposing them in different fashions. The familiar ethereal and enigmatic tones are omnipresent, surrounded by layers of influences from ’80s pop, shoegaze and ambient electronic sounds. However, Ghostory comes with a story in mind; the tale of a young girl named Lafaye and the ghosts that surround her life. “Everyone has ghosts”, says Alejandra Deheza; “They’re every love you’ve ever had, every hurt, every betrayal, every heartbreak. They follow you, stay with you.” This detailed storytelling is evident from start to finish on the record, weaving a tale that moves between a fervent synthesized adventure and spacious lyrical euphoria. Tracks like “Love Play” and “Show Me Love” create a hauntingly indelible atmosphere that grab attention with the ambitious wordplay in the center of it all. Surrounding tracks like “Lafaye” and “Scavenger” entice the vibe of previous School of Seven Bells releases with their steadily dance-centric tempo and uplifting melodic progressions. Ghostory flows seamlessly and effortlessly, a result of the shared songwriting process. “Ghostory is our most collaborative music to date,” describes Benjamin Curtis, “Alley (Alejandra) and I have always written our music together, but always independently and on our own time. We knew we wanted to do something that was more sensual and spontaneous than anything we had ever done before, and that meant writing together in a room, coming up with ideas quickly and immediately reacting to what the other person was doing.” Within Ghostory, the story of both Lafaye’s and the band’s journey will be told. School Of Seven Bells formed in 2006 as a trio (including Claudia Deheza) and released their debut full-length, Alpinisms, on Ghostly International in 2008. The group’s appeal grew exponentially, with their signature sounds stemming from pieces of electronic subgenres and shoegaze bands before them. By 2010, the group released the critically acclaimed Disconnect From Desire on Ghostly International and Vagrant. Ghostory is truly their defining work, beautifully crafted and haunting, with the story of Lafaye permeating the psyche long after the music stops. April 4, 2012 posted by: harvey. NEW RELEASES: From now back to mid-March...  The Shins ("Port of Morrow" cd/lp... first album in 5 years!)  Justin Townes Earle ("Nothing's Gonna Change the Way You Feel About Me Now" cd/lp)  Bear in Heaven ("I Love You, It's Cool" cd/lp... coming to Grey Eagle April 28th!) Steep Canyon Rangers ("Nobody Knows You" cd) Lost in the Trees ("A Church That Fits Our Needs" cd/lp) The Mars Volta ("Noctourniquet" cd) Madonna ("MDNA" cd/deluxe 2xcd) High on Fire ("De Vermis Mysteriis" cd) Johnny Cash ("Bootleg Vol IV: The Soul of Truth" 2xcd) Tanlines ("Mixed Emotions" cd/lp) Lee Ranaldo (of Sonic Youth! "Between the Times and the Tides" cd/lp) Rocket Juice & The Moon ("S/T" cd/lp … damon albarn, tony allen & flea SUPERGROUP!) V/A ("Johnny Boy Would Love This… a Tribute to John Martyn" 2xcd) Iron Maiden ("En Vivo!" 2xcd or DVD) Great Lake Swimmers ("New Wild Everywhere" cd/2xcd deluxe) Zammuto ("S/T" cd/lp…new Books project featuring one of its members) Elvis Costello & the Imposters ("The Return of the Spectacular Spinning Songbook!!!" cd/cd+dvd) Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson ("TAAB2" cd/cd+dvd) Wes Montgomery ("Echoes of Indiana Avenue" cd…newly discovered studio/live recordings from 57-58) Frank Black ("Live at Melkweg" cd) Willis Earl Beal ("Acousmatic Sorcery" cd/lp) Odd Future ("The OF Tape Vol 2" cd) Esperanza Spalding ("Radio Music Society" cd…regular and deluxe editions) Miike Snow ("Happy to You" cd/lp) Meshuggah ("Koloss" cd) Zeus ("Busting Visions" cd/lp) Blaze Foley ("Blaze a Blaze" & "In Tribute and Loving Memory Volume 1" cds) Nina Simone ("At the Village Gate" cd) Soundtrack ("The Hunger Games" cd…regular and deluxe versions featuring arcade fire, decemberists, carolina chocolate drops, civil wars and more) Sizzla ("In Gambia" cd) The Smiths ("Hatful of Hollow", "The Queen is Dead", "The World Won't Listen", "Louder Than Bombs" & "Rank" cds newly remastered) Anti-Flag ("The General Strike" cd/lp) Taraf De Haidouks & Kocani Orkestar ("Band of Gypsies 2" cd) White Hills ("Frying on this Rock" cd) The Wedding Present ("Valentina" cd) Margot & the Nuclear So and So's ("Rot Gut, Domestic" cd) Ed Schrader's Music Beat ("Jazz Mind" cd/lp) Disappears ("Pre Language" cd) Unsane ("Wreck" cd) Gentleman Jesse ("Leaving Atlanta" cd) Brad Mehldau Trio ("Ode" cd) Lionel Richie ("Tuskegee" cd) Belle and Sebastian ("LateNightTales Volume 2" cd) Moe Tucker ("I Feel So Far Away" 2xcd anthology) Ministry ("Relapse" cd) Macy Gray ("Covered" cd) Tav Falco's Panther Burns ("Behind the Magnolia Curtain/Blow Your Top" 2xcd) DJ Premier-Bumpy Knuckles ("Kolexxxion" cd) Rusko ("Songs" cd) Oberhofer ("Time Capsules II" cd) Joan Osborne ("Bring It On Home" cd) Gift of Gab ("The Next Logical Progression" cd) Black Belles ("S/T" cd) Robert Pollard ("Mouseman Cloud" cd…his 1 millionth album) Ray Wylie Hubbard ("The Grifter's Hymnal" cd) Poor Moon ("Illusion" cd/lp) THEESatisfaction ("awE naturalE" cd/lp) V/A ("Tension: Spanish Experimental Underground 1980-1985" cd/lp) Mairi Morrison & Alasdair Roberts ("Urstan" cd/lp) La Sera ("Sees the Light" cd/lp) Anthony Pateras ("Errors of the Human Body" cd/lp) Saschienne ("Unknown" cd/lp…new project of Sascha Funke & Julienne Dessagne) Black To Comm ("Earth" cd) V/A ("Metal Dance: industrial, post punk, emb…classics & rarities 80-88" cd) Suzanne Ciani ("Lixiviation" cd) Dolphins Into The Future ("…On Sea-Faring Isolation" cd) Circle of Ouroborus ("Eleven Fingers" cd) Jozef Van Wissem and Jim Jarmusch ("Concerning the Entrance into Eternity " cd) Dylan Ettinger ("Lifetime of Romance" cd) Lotus Plaza ("Spooky Action at a Distance" cd/lp) Matsuo Ohno ("I Saw the Outer Limits" cd) Blood Of The Black Owl/At The Head Of The Woods ("S/T" cd) Sutekh Hexen ("Larvae" cd) Daphne Oram ("The Oram Tapes Volume One" cd) Caltrop ("Ten Million Years and Eight Minutes" cd) Of Monsters and Men ("My Head is An Animal" cd) First Aid Kit ("The Big Black & the Blue" cd/lp reissue) Trash Talk ("Eyes & Nines" cd) Young the Giant ("s/t" cd) fIREHOSE ("lowFLOWs: The Columbia Anthology ('91-'93)" 2xcd) Azusa Plane ("Where the Sand Turns to Gold" 2xcd+dvd) Dr. John ("Locked Down" cd) Paul Weller ("Sonik Kicks" cd) Clark ("Iradelphic" cd) Nicki Minaj ("Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded" cd) BOLA ("Volume 7" cd/lp) UV Pop ("No Songs Tomorrow" cd/lp) AU ("Both Lights" cd/lp) Earthless ("Sonic Prayer Jam" cd) Daniel Rossen ("Silent Hour/Golden Mile" cd ep) VINYL ONLY:  Windy And Carl ("We Will Always Be" lp) Sentridoh ("Weed Forestin" LP issue! early Lou Barlow home recordings) Screaming Females ("Ugly" LP) Julianna Barwick ("Sanguine" now on LP) Bright Eyes ("A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997" LP reissue) Margot & the Nuclear So and So's ("Rot Gut, Domestic" now on LP) Isis ("11.16.07" LP) Johnny Corndawg ("Down on the Bikini Line" LP) Black Mountain ("Year Zero Soundtrack" lp…featuring 5 new songs) Drudkh ("Eternal Turn of the Wheel" LP) "Time Will Make a Change" (new gospel comp on Mississippi) Dirty Ghosts ("Metal Moon" LP) Corrosion of Conformity ("s/t" LP) The Chrome Cranks ("Ain't No Lies in Blood" LP) Lee Fields ("Faithful Man" LP) Lucero ("Women & Work" LP) Bane ("Give Blood" LP) Venetian Snares ("Fool the Detector" 12") Carolina Chocolate Drops ("Leaving Eden" LP) Punch Brothers ("Who's Feeling Young Now?" LP) VCMG ("Ssss" now on LP) Band of Skulls ("Sweet Sour" LP) Sylvester Anfang II ("Untitled" LP) The Golden Boys ("Dirty Fingernails" lp) SBTRKT ("Wildfire" 12") Jon Spencer Blues Explosion ("Extra Width", "Orange", LP reissues) Whirr ("Pipe Dreams" lp) Thee Headcoats ("Knights of the Baskervilles" lp) Archie Shepp ("Four for Trane" lp) Marc DePulse ("Lessons in Dub" 12") Simon Garcia ("Cavern" 12" EP) Group Doueh ("Zayna Jumma" now on lp) Alkibar Gignor ("La Paix" lp… new Mississippi release) Ali Ag Amoumine ("Takamba" LP… new Mississippi release) Caethua ("The Summer is Over Before it's Begun" lp) Caethua/Shep & Me (split LP) Pedestrian Deposit ("Kithless" lp) Andy Stott ("Passed Me By" 2x12") Andy Stott ("We Stay Together" 2x12") Panabrite ("Soft Terminal" lp) Fenn O'berg ("In Hell" lp) Telefon Tel Aviv ("The Birds" 12") Pandit Pran Nath ("Morning & Evening Ragas" LP… on Mississippi) Bruce Haack ("the Electronic Record for Children" LP) Dock Boggs ("When My Worldly Trials Are Over" lp) Aaron DIlloway ("Modern Jester" lp) Pete Swanson ("Man With Potential" lp) Kamikaze Queens ("Automatic Life" lp) Karantamba ("Ndigal" lp) Human Teenager ("Animal Husbandry" lp) Head Boggle ("Headboggle" lp) The Sorry Entertainers ("Jeopardize" 12") Noh Mercy ("S/T" lp…san francisco femme punk duo from 1979) Biz Markie ("The Biz Never Sleeps" lp) Vatican Shadow ("Kneel Before Religious Icons" lp) Edu Lobo ("S/T" lp) Tamba Trio ("Avanco" lp) Rondenion ("S/T" 12") Trembling Bells/Bonnie Prince Billy ("The Duchess" 12" EP) Elephant Micah ("Louder Than You" lp) Sandy Bul & The Rhythm Acel ("Live 1976" lp) Doug Hammond ("Reflections in the Sea of Nurnen" lp) Axxess ("Novels for the Moons" lp) Dj Druzz vs. Omega Mus ("Apeman ep" 12") Loops Of Your Heart ("And Never Ending Nights" lp…frontman from The Field, solo project) Elias Hulk ("Unchained" lp) Fort Romeau ("Kingdoms" lp) Main Attrakionz ("808s & Dark Grapes 2" lp) Bessie Smith ("Them's Graveyard Words" lp) Marcia Bassett/Samara Lubelski ("Sunday Night-Sunday Afternoon" lp) Charles Manson ("Air" LP) Xela ("The Sublime" LP) Mirrorring ("Foreign Body" LP) The Golden Bears ("Write It Like You Find It" LP) The Happy Thoughts ("S/T" LP) Catholic Boys ("Psychic Voodoo Mind Control" LP) Andrew Cedermark ("Moon Deluxe" LP) V/A ("What Remains of Eden" new Mississippi LP) The Mono Men ("Skin & Tonic" lp) The Blood Brothers ("…Burn, Piano Island, Burn" & "Crimes" LPs reissued) Xiu Xiu ("Always" now on LP) Radar Eyes ("S/T" LP) Burial ("Kindred" 12") Tycho ("Dive" 12") also: Joe Bonamassa ("Beacon Theatre: Live from New York" dvd) KARP ("Kill All Redneck Pricks: A Documentary Film…" dvd) Elvis Costello & the Imposters ("The Revolver Tour" dvd) 7"s from...Cass Mccombs, The Shins, Bill Callahan/Mickey Newbury, Obnox, Mdou Moctar, Roommates, Mick Fazz + more TAPES from…Drcarlsonalbion (dylan carlson from EARTH) + more March 14, 2012 posted by: mark. NEW RELEASES: From now back to mid-February...  Carolina Chocolate Drops ("Leaving Eden" cd)  Bruce Springsteen ("Wrecking Ball" cd/deluxe cd/lp)  Andrew Bird ("Break It Yourself" cd/deluxe cd+dvd/lp)  Magnetic Fields ("Love at the Bottom of the Sea" cd/lp)  Jay Farrar, Yim Yames, Anders Parker & Will Johnson ("New Multitudes: lyrics by Woody Guthrie" cd/deluxe 2xcd/lp) Sleigh Bells ("Reign of Terror" cd/lp) School of Seven Bells ("Ghostory" cd/lp) Lambchop ("Mr. M" cd/lp) Archers of Loaf ("Vee Vee" 2xcd/lp reissue) Grimes ("Visions" cd/lp) Delta Spirit ("S/T" cd/lp) The Decemberists ("We All Raise Our Voices to the Air (Live Songs 04.11-08.11)" cd/lp) Lucero ("Women & Work" cd) Xiu Xiu ("Always" cd) Todd Snider ("Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables" cd/lp) Perfume Genius ("Put Your Back n 2 It" cd/lp) Dirty Three ("Toward the Low Sun" cd/lp) Cursive ("I Am Gemini" cd/lp) Julia Holter ("Ekstasis" cd/lp) The Men ("Open Your Heart" cd/lp) Bowerbirds ("The Clearing" cd/lp) Wendy Rene ("After Laughter Comes Tears: Complete Stax & Volt Singles + Rarities 1964-1965" cd/lp) Tennis ("Young & Old" cd/lp) The Chieftains ("Voice of Ages" cd… featuring a slew of modern artists like Bon Iver, Decemberists, Civil Wars, more!) Tindersticks ("The Something Rain" cd/lp) Damien Jurado ("Maraqopa" cd/lp) Earn ("A Following Shadow" cd) Frankie Rose ("Interstellar" cd/lp) Pink Floyd ("The Wall: 3xcd Experience Version") Lyle Lovett ("Release Me" cd/lp) Madlib ("Medicine Show No. 13: Black Tape" cd) Amy Ray ("Lung of Love" cd) Susan Tedeschi ("Live from Austin, TX" cd/lp) Otis Taylor ("Otis Taylor's Contraband" cd) Josh Ritter ("Bringing in the Darlings" cd ep) "Aimer et Perdre: To Love and to Lose… Songs, 1917-1934" cool-lookin' comp on Tompkins Square Lindstrom ("Six Cups of Rebel" cd) Plants and Animals ("The End of That" cd/lp) Field Music ("Plumb" cd/lp) Biz Markie ("The Biz Never Sleeps" reissue cd) Polica ("Give You the Ghost" cd/lp) Mouse on Mars ("Parastrophics" cd/lp) Bo Carter & the Mississippi Sheiks ("S/T" 4xcd box) Ulrich Schnauss & Mark Peters ("Underrated Silence" cd) John Coltrane ("Eight Classic Albums" -- on 4xcds -- for $13.99!) Shearwater ("Animal Joy" cd/lp) Masaki Batoh (of Ghost! "Brain Pulse Music" cd/lp) Sophia Knapp ("Into the Waves" cd/lp) "Minimal Wave Tapes: Vol. 2" cd/lp Bonobo ("Black Sands: Remixed" cd…w/ bonus 5" record in it!!!) Galactic ("Carnivale Electricos" cd/lp) Lee Perry and the Upsetters ("High Plains Drifter" cd/lp) Orange Goblin ("A Eulogy for the Damned" cd) Anais Mitchell ("Young Man in America" cd) Fun. ("Some Nights" cd) Peter Broderick ("heep://www.itstartshear.com" cd) Busdriver ("Beaus $ Eros" cd) The Cranberries ("Roses" cd) Ceremony ("Zoo" cd/lp) Angelique Kidjo ("Spirit Rising" cd) Dirty Ghosts ("Metal Moon" cd) Dead Fingers (s/t cd) Witch Mountain ("South of Salem" cd) Keiji Haino/Jim O'Rourke/Oren Ambarchi ("Imikuzushi" cd/lp) Windy and Carl ("We Will Always Be" cd) Black Country Communion ("Live Over Europe" 2xcd) The Explorers Club ("Grand Hotel" now on cd) Mercury Rev ("Hello Blackbird" cd) Buckethead ("Electric Sea" cd) Derdiyoklar Ikilisi ("Disko Folk" cd/lp) Hotel Armor ("Terranova" cd/lp) Takehisa Kosugi ("Catch-Wave" cd/lp) Die Doraus & Die Marinas ("Blumen und Narzissen" & "Geben Offenherzige Antworten Auf Brennende Fragen" reissues on cd/lp) V/A ("Voguing and the House Ballroom Scene of New York City 1976-96" new Soul Jazz compilation in 3xcd or two 2lp volumes) V/A ("Subway Salsa: The Montuno Records Story" 2xcd) Felix Kubin ("TXRF" cd) Suzanne Ciani ("Lixiviation" cd) K.S. Chithra ("S/T" cd) Cosmic Michael ("S/T-After A While" cd) Whomadewho ("Brighter" cd) Porter Ricks ("Biokinetics" cd) Loops of Your Heart ("And Never Ending Nights" cd) KWJAZ ("S/T" now on cd) Water Borders ("Harbored Mantras" cd/lp) John Talabot ("Fin" cd) Fluxion ("Traces" cd) Floratone ("II" cd) Brad Meldhau Trio ("The Art of the Trio: Recordings 1996-2001" 6xcd box) Good Old War ("Come Back As Rain" cd) Yellow Ostrich ("Strange Land" cd) White Rabbits ("Milk Famous" format) Pulp ("Freaks", "Separations" & "It" cd reissues) V/A ("Listen, Whitey! The Sounds of Black Power 1967-1974" cd/lp) Nite Jewel ("One Second of Love" cd/lp) Jennifer Castle ("Castlemusic" cd/lp) Sly & Robbie ("Backwood Dub" cd/lp) Fanfarlo ("Rooms Filled with Light" cd) Shooter Jennings ("Family Man" cd/lp) Drudkh ("Eternal Turn of the Wheel" cd) Holly Golightly Featuring the Brokeoffs ("Long Distance" cd/lp) Edzayawa ("Projection One" cd/lp) A Storm of Light ("As the Valley of Death Becomes Us Our Silver Memories Fade" cd) V/A ("Shangaan Shake" 2xcd) May Blitz ("May Blitz/The 2nd of May" cd) The Ting Tings ("Sounds from Nowheresville" cd) Laura Marling ("Alas I Cannot Win" cd/lp) Cannibal Corpse ("Torture" cd/lp) Leaf Hound ("Growers of Mushroom" cd) Bo Diddley ("Big Bad Bo" cd) Lee Fields & the Expressions ("Faithful Man" cd) Aziz Ansari ("Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening" cd) V/A ("This One's For Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark" 2xcd) Memoryhouse ("The Slideshow Effect" cd/lp) Spoek Mathambo ("Father Creeper" cd/lp) Hunx ("Hairdresser Blues" cd/lp) Feedtime ("The Aberrant Years" 4xcd/4xlp) VCMG ("SSSS" cd) Amos Lee ("As the Crow Flies" cd ep or 10") Martin Sexton ("Fall Like Rain" ep) VINYL ONLY:  Bombino ("Agadez" now on LP) Naked Gods ("No Jams" LP) Grateful Dead ("Live/Dead" LP reissue) Islands ("A Sleep & a Forgetting" LP) Die Antwoord ("Ten$ion" LP) The Hope Conspiracy ("Death Knows Your Name" LP) Lana Del Rey ("Born To Die" LP…now on wax!) Bonobo ("Black Sands: Remixed" 3xLP) Tortoise ("Standards" LP repress!) Trans Am ("The Surveillance" LP repress!) Wooden Shjips (remix LP) Busdriver ("Beaus $ Eros" LP) GG Allin and the Murder Junkies ("Terror in America: Live 1993" LP) Black Marble ("Weight Against The Door" lp) V/A ("The Best of Disco Demands: Complied by Al Kent" LP…a special collection of rare 1970s dance music) Chuck Prophet ("Temple Beautiful" now on LP) Pussy Galore ("Right Now!" LP) Plimsouls ("Beach Town Confidential" now on LP) Clutch ("Blast Tyrant" LP) V/A ("DRC Music" 2xLP Box Set) Heartless Bastards ("Arrow" now on lp) Papercuts ("Mockingbird" lp) The Black Belles ("S/T" lp) Tav Falco's Panther Burns ("Behind the Magnolia Curtain/Blow Your Top" LP) Le Mystere-Jazz de Tombouctou ("S/T" LP) Guelewar ("Touki Ba Banjul: Acid Trip from Banjul to Dakar" LP) Michael Chapman ("Rainmaker" LP) Mark Lanegan Band ("Bubblegum" LP reissue) Brain F≠ ("Sleep Rough" LP) Keith Fullerton Whitman ("Generators" LP) Lilacs & Champagne ("s/t" LP… members of Grails) Dustin Wong ("Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads" LP) Pyramids ("s/t" LP) Jim White ("Where it Hits You" LP) Pontiak ("Echo Ono" LP) Van der Graaf Generator ("The Least We Can Do is Wave to Each Other" & "H to He Who Am the Only One" LPs) Bill Callahan ("Rough Travel for a Rare Thing" LP back in print!) NNCK ("YTIU" LP) Neung Phak ("2" LP) Mark Houle ("Undercover" LP) Dan Melchior ("Excerpts (& Half-Speeds)" LP) Creation ("S/T" LP) Kool G. Rap & DJ Polo ("Live and Let Die" LP) Dinosaur L ("24->24 Music" LP) The Bobby Hamilton Quintet Unlimited ("Dream Queen" LP) Reverend Gary Davis ("New Blues and Gospel" LP) Ahmad Zahir ("Volume 2" LP) Pretty Lightning ("There Are Witches in the Woods" LP) Celer ("Evaporate and Wonder" LP) Robbie Basho ("Venus in Cancer" LP reissue) V/A ("Qat, Coffee & Qambus: Raw 45s from Yemen" LP) Prince Rama ("Utopia=No Person" LP) Nelson Gastaldi ("Symphony No. 3: Siddhartha Gautama o el Poder de la Nada" LP) Rodd Keith ("My Pipe Yellow Dream" LP) Atomic Forest ("Obession" now on LP) Robert Turman ("Flux" LP) Oliveray ("Wonders" LP) Flower Travellin' Band ("Make Up" LP) Archie Shepp ("The Magic of Ju-Ju" LP reissue) Dunes ("Noctiluca" LP) Pink Floyd ("The Wall" LP reissue) Earth ("Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II" now on LP) Jimmy Page ("Burn Up" LP) Laura Marling ("I Speak Because I Can" now on LP) Gotye ("Making Mirrors" now on LP) Howlin Rain ("The Russian Wilds" now on LP) Mind Spiders ("Melt Down" LP) Bon Iver ("Towers" 12") DVA ("Polyphonic Dreams" 12") Justice ("On'n'on/Canon" 12" EP) SFV Acid ("Juscid" 12" EP) Bobby Browser ("Smooth Cruise" 12" EP) Beat Pharmacy ("Inside Job" 12" EP) Strategy ("Boxy Music" 12") Slave ("Soft Control" 12") Carlos Giffoni ("Evidence" 12") PLUS We made our first-ever order direct from NORTON RECORDS, so we've upped the ante on a bunch of CDs, LPs & 45s! + Dinosaur Jr ("Bug Live at 9:30 Club: In the Hands of the Fans" dvd) + 7"s from...Maybelle, Jack White, Bonnie Prince Billy -- one solo + one w/ Mariee Sioux, Neil Hamburger, Alabama Shakes, Zola Jesus, Porcelain Raft, War, Sharon Van Etten, Swing Kids, Tom Jones, John & Tom + more March 2, 2012 posted by: mark. JUST ANNOUNCED! **************************************************************************************  WASHED OUT Friday, May 18th @ Asheville Music Hall SORRY, THIS SHOW IS 21+ $12 advance, $15 day-of Tickets available SOON @ Harvest & online HERE. Within and Without is the debut album by 28 year-old Atlanta-based songwriter and producer Ernest Greene, AKA Washed Out. Long adored and critically lauded in the blog world, Greene first came to prominence in the summer of 2009 after unassumingly posting a handful of bedroom-recorded tracks to his Myspace page from his family home in the seclusion of the tiny rural city of Perry, Georgia. “I’d been writing music on my own for three or four years previous to that,” Greene explains, “mostly as a way to experiment with songwriting processes. Those were just the first I ever shared.” Despite such modest intentions however, those first songs (many of which would appear on the acclaimed Life of Leisure EP of later that year) were about as complete an opening statement from an artist as imaginable. A heady, psychedelic concoction of what Pitchfork’s Mark Hogan termed “romantic nostalgia and homespun textures,” songs such as “Belong” and “Feel It All Around”—Greene’s biggest hit to date—artfully match the glossy melody of ’80s synth pop, the widescreen scope of early ’90s Balearic dance music and the slowed, heavy bounce of southern Hip Hop production to gorgeously wistful vocals with results as undeniably idiosyncratic and original as they are deeply accessible. February 23, 2012 posted by: mark. JUST ANNOUNCED! ************************************************************************************** BOMBINO Thursday, May 3rd @ The Grey Eagle $12 advance, $15 day-of Tickets available NOW @ Harvest, Orbit DVD, Static Age, Grey Eagle & online HERE. Omara "Bombino" Moctar, whose given name is Goumar Almoctar, was born on January 1st, 1980 in Tidene, Niger, an encampment of nomadic Tuaregs located about 80 kilometers to the northeast of Agadez. He is a member of the Ifoghas tribe, which belongs to the Kel Air Tuareg federation. His father is a car mechanic and his mother takes care of the home, as is the Tuareg tradition. Bombino was raised as a Muslim and taught to consider honor, dignity and generosity as principal tenets of life. Bombino spent his early childhood between the encampment and the town of Agadez, the largest city in northern Niger (population about 90,000) and long a key part of the ancient Sahara trade routes connecting North Africa and the Mediterranean with West Africa. One of seventeen brothers and sisters (including half brothers and half sisters from both his mother and father), Bombino was enrolled in school in Agadez, but he demonstrated his rebellious spirit early on and refused to go. Bombino's grandmother took him in to keep his father from forcing him to go to school, and, like most Tuareg children, he grew up living with his grandmother. In 2006, Bombino traveled to California with the band Tidawt for a tour organized by a non-profit organization. During the trip, he had the chance to record a desert blues version of the Rolling Stones classic "Hey Negrita" alongside Stones' members Keith Richards and Charlie Watts. The track appears on the 2008 album spearheaded by Rolling Stones saxophonist Tim Riese entitled Stone's World: The Rolling Stones Project Volume 2. Later that year, Bombino served as Angelina Jolie's guide to the Niger desert region during a weeklong visit. During their time together, he played her the music of the Tuareg and told her stories of nomadic life in the Sahara. In 2009, he met filmmaker Ron Wyman who had heard a cassette of Bombino's music while traveling near Agadez. Wyman was enchanted by Bombino's music and spent a year seeking him out, eventually tracking him down to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, where Bombino was living in exile. While there, Wyman decided to feature Bombino in a documentary he was filming about the Tuareg. Later that year, he brought Bombino to Cambridge, Massachusetts to begin recording the album Agadez in his home studio. Bombino's electrifying jams capture the spirit of resistance and rebellion while echoing with guitar riffs reminiscent of fellow Africans Tinariwen and Ali Farka Touré not to mention rock and blues icons such as Jimi Hendrix, John Lee Hooker and Jimmy Page. DO NOT MISS THIS SHOW!!!! February 3, 2012 posted by: mark. JUST ANNOUNCED! **************************************************************************************  KURT VILE and the VIOLATORS Sunday, March 25th @ The Grey Eagle $12/$15 Tickets available NOW @ Harvest, Orbit DVD, Static Age, Grey Eagle & online HERE. Kurt Vile has a way of tying time in knots. You can hear it on his new album Smoke Ring For My Halo from the get-go – the pinwheeling guitars and reaching atmospheres of ‘Baby’s Arms’ are as strange as they are familiar: a demonstration of how Kurt can put worn methods and sounds through himself and end up with something that isn’t emotionally or sonically obvious. Instead we’re left with a record that contains traces of the past but doesn’t waste precious time in the now being reverent. Once compared to Leonard Cohen, Tom Petty, Psychic TV, and Animal Collective in the same review (for 2009’s Childish Prodigy), Kurt can bring to mind anything from Suicide to Leo Kottke to My Bloody Valentine, Bob Seger, Nick Drake, and Eastern ragas. Still, he pieces together these disparate elements so seamlessly and unpretentiously that such reference points are rendered pointless by the singularity of his sound. Kurt Vile might belong to a long lineage of classic American songwriters, but he’s the only one who’s alive and in his prime today. This is the fourth time Kurt Vile has put an album’s worth of songs together and stuck a name on it, but in a sense Smoke Ring For My Halo is his first real album – every flinching guitar arpeggio and vocal wander was made to be here, made with this record in mind, to sit alongside another in situ and in sequence. It seems weird saying this given the amount of ground he’s covered already, but Smoke Ring For My Halo is the perfect way into the music Kurt Vile makes. It’s tender and evocative, elusive but companionable, tough in the gut and the arm but swollen in the chest and giddy in the head. It’s a record that is perfect for any given day during whatever season, to satisfy all moods in every possible scenario – be that first thing in the morning or last thing at night; today, tomorrow or five years from now. In short, it’s real. Kurt Vile isn’t just the loneliest of ten siblings born to parents on the outskirts of Philadelphia, the former forklift truck driver who makes rock band guitar songs in the solitude of his bedroom. Smoke Ring For My Halo brings all of that together, marrying the introspection of the nocturnal stoner with the exploration of a troubadour frontiersman to arrive at a record you know is so much more than the sum of his and its constituent parts because often he sounds like he doesn’t know how he got there himself. February 1, 2012 posted by: mark. THIS WEEK GANGSTERS! **************************************************************************************  THE MOUNTAIN GOATS + Nurses Thursday, February 2nd @ The Grey Eagle $16 advance, $18 day-of Tickets available NOW @ Harvest, Orbit DVD, Static Age, Grey Eagle & online HERE. One small word about these shows, from head Mountain Goat John Darnielle himself!....: For years bands have been pretty judicious about playing unreleased new material, because much of it becomes available online immediately, even when the new songs are still in fairly raw form. We, too, have gotten into the bad habit of holding new stuff back. We are done with that whole philosophy, though. I miss playing stuff that's unreleased & unrecorded, stuff that still stings fresh. So we got together and decided to tour the new songs before we even record them. I don't guess that we'll be touring all ten of the new songs I've written for the next album (eleven if you count one that's presently being herded back and forth between its cell & the chopping block), but be advised that if you're the sort of person who wants as many surprises as possible when you hear a new album, you should tread lightly around recordings of these shows, because we're not going to be holding the best ones back for the album release like people tend to do now. The Mountain Goats' new album is called 'All Eternals Deck,' and if you're reading this, that means you've got some sort of copy of it. "The songs cluster around themes of hidden things and the dread that hidden things inspire," says singer/songwriter John Darnielle, "but also the excitement, the attraction, the magnetic draw that scary unknown hidden things exert." The title refers to an apocryphal tarot deck, though Darnielle explains that the album's fascination with the occult originates in having run across the word “occult” in a textbook in his nursing-student days. "’Occult’ just means ‘hidden’ or ‘not immediately obvious’ in medical terminology. There was a nursing directive to be aware of ‘occult blood.’ I thought it was the greatest thing I’d ever heard," he says. Darnielle started recording songs while during his psych-nurse days in California. "I had been writing poetry pretty much all my life," he remembers. "At some point in Norwalk I bought a guitar from this really cool old music store in a strip mall, and I started teaching myself to play." Soon Darnielle was playing live, touring with bassist Rachel Ware and then with multi-instrumentalist Peter Hughes. In 2001 they became a full-time studio-and-road-show duo, releasing four albums together: 'Tallahassee,' 'We Shall All Be Healed,' 'The Sunset Tree,' and 'Get Lonely.' Superchunk drummer Jon Wurster joined in 2007, and the collaboration clicked perfectly. "Peter and I had played with other musicians," says Darnielle, "but with Wurster we were an honest-to-God trio. We played together with real glee." The band toured the U.S., England, Australia, and New Zealand extensively, recording a new studio album called 'The Life of the World to Come' in 2009 that prompted GQ to remark: “Darnielle’s not just one of the greatest songwriters working today--he’s probably one of the greatest working writers." The album earned a 'Best New Music' nod from Pitchfork, and prompted Stephen Colbert to invite the band to make its national television debut on The Colbert Report. In 2010, the band signed to Merge Records, headquartered within walking distance of Darnielle's Durham, NC home. The band approached recording sessions for 'All Eternals Deck' as commando raids on multiple studios with a several producers: four songs at North Carolina's Fidelitorium with John Congleton; one at Q Division in Boston with longtime soundman Brandon Eggleston; four at Brooklyn's Mission Sound with Scott Solter; and four at Mana Recording Studios in Florida, with Morbid Angel guitarist and Hate Eternal helmsman Erik Rutan. "We wanted to see how disparate seasons and moods and locations and producers would play out in the songs," explains Darnielle. The result? "If you've ever watched, say, a 70s occult-scare movie where one of the scenes involves a few people visiting a storefront fortune teller, getting their cards read, and then they're trying to feel super-hopeful about their predicted outcome when what they're visibly actually feeling is dread, then you have a pretty decent idea of what this album is all about." **************************************************************************************  NATHAN SALSBURG + Rayna Gellert Friday, February 3rd @ Harvest Records $5 at the door Nathan Salsburg was born in that Diamond City, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania—she of anthracite glimmer and Babe Ruth's 1926 long ball—and is a longtime resident of Louisville, Kentucky. He is a folklorist and a producer and presenter of traditional music for East Village Radio, the Drag City imprint Twos & Fews, and the Alan Lomax Archive, among other outlets. His first solo record is called Affirmed, and it's about race horses—Affirmed, Bold Ruler, and Eight Belles, specifically—and desire and reckonings of the spirit. It's an almost entirely instrumental affair, save his elegiac rendering of the traditional tune "The False True Love." While comparisons to John Fahey may be inevitable—and there are worse curses, to be sure—the similarity that Salsburg bears to that great master is mostly one of maverick aesthetic. For where Fahey spent his career a hungry ghost in some supernal Valley of Tears—in the process paving the way for a million joyless ragas by pickers that learned the wrong lesson—Salsburg's brambly rags and sundowner hymns incorporate an arch, bittersweet harmony that marks the best work of guitarists like Reverend Gary Davis, Ry Cooder, and Nic Jones. He plays like he knows that happiness is made of sad, and every tragedy is kind of funny, in its way. I hear it took Salsburg a long time to make Affirmed, and it sounds it. Not because the picking is complicated, which it is—I suspect Nathan will eventually be recognized as among the foremost American acoustic guitarists, for anyone keeping that score—but because there is so much emotion here, so much full-grown, that it must have taken a life, at least. Affirmed is a personal record—for Salsburg, surely, but for me too. I'm getting older, and my relationship to music now develops vertically rather than horizontally. I need something that has some stake to it, because I'm trying to find the light myself. We used to play for silver; now we play for life. Like that. So I'll damn right sing you every note on Tom T.'s Old Five and Dimers Like Me; but if art's not open—and that's the word I use to describe Affirmed: open—then what good is it to your soul? I'm talking about grown-up things here, things that set the bitch of this whole journey in relief: Barry Hannah's Ray, or Sammi Smith's version of "Saunder's Ferry Lane," or Duke Ellington's "Blue Indigo." I count Affirmed among these. Put another way: It's easy to write a song in a minor key and play it sad, but so much harder—though truer to life, I reckon—to play blue in a major key. Nathan Salsburg does this with Affirmed. He does it so well. Hats off to him. —M.C. Taylor, Durham, NC, 21 Aug 2011. January 26, 2012 posted by: mark. NEW RELEASES: Weeks of January 24th, 17th & 10th  First Aid Kit ("The Lion's Roar" cd/lp)  Kathleen Edwards ("Voyager" cd/lp...partially collaborated with Justin Vernon of Bon Iver)  Craig Finn ("Clear Heart Full Eyes" cd/lp... lead dude from The Hold Steady) Snow Patrol ("Fallen Empires" cd/cd deluxe edition/lp) Guided by Voices ("Let's Go Eat the Factory" cd/lp) The Little Willies ("For the Good Times" cd/lp) Alex Chilton ("Free Again: The "1970" Sessions" cd/lp) The Big Pink ("Future This" cd/lp) Ani DiFranco ("Which Side Are You On?" cd) Rodrigo y Gabriela and C.U.B.A. ("Area 52" cd) Cloud Nothings ("Attack on Memory" cdlp) Bill Evans Trio ("Sunday at the Village Vanguard" cd) Bill Evans Trio ("Waltz for Debby" cd) Moe ("What Happened to the La Las" cd) The Cramps ("File Under Sacred Music" cd) Blind Boy Chocolate & the Milk Sheiks ("Asheville Infamous" cd!) Lamb of God ("Resolution" cd) Doors ("L.A. Woman" 40th Anniversary 2xcd) Gonjasufi ("Muzzle" cd/10") Justin Robinson and the Mary Annettes ("Bones for Tinder" cd) V/A ("The Original Sound of Cumbia: The History of Columbian Cumbia & Porro 1948-1979" cd and two different 3xlp volumes) Dakota Suite/Quentin Sirjacq ("The Side of Her Inexhaustible Heart" cd & 2xLP) Charlie Haden/Hank Jones ("Come Sunday" cd) V/A ("Under the Influence Volume one: rare soul & disco" cd) V/A ("Rangarang: Pre-Revolutionary Iranian Pop" 2xcd) Supersilent ("1-3" 3xcd (in for the first time) Vladislav Delay ("Vantaa" cd) GOLD ("S/T" …lost nugget of psychedelic soul on Jazzman Records...cd) Kali Bahlu ("Takes the Forest Children on a Journey of Cosmic Remembrance" cd) Machine Drum ("Want to 1 2?" cd) Akido ("S/T" cd) V/A ("Psychedelic States: New York in the 60s" cd) Caretaker ("Persistent Repetition of Phrases" cd….first time in) Caretaker ("An Empty Bliss Beyond This World" cd…first time in) Insingizi ("Ndebele Songs" cd) Jongmyo Jeryeak ("Ritual Music for the Royal Ancestors" cd) V/A ("Music from Walachia, Hornacko and Kopanice" cd) Los Nombres ("S/T" cd) Mark E ("Stonebreaker" cd/lp) Lydia Loveless ("Indestructible Machine" cd) Pyramids/Horseback ("A Throne Without a King" now on cd) Ingrid Michaelson ("Human Again" cd) Mighty Sparrow ("Sparrowmania!" cd/lp) Nada Surf ("The Stars are Indifferent to Astronomy" cd) Alice Coltrane ("Universal Consciousness/Lord of Lords" on one cd) Michael Chapman ("Rainmaker" Light in the Attic cd reissue) V/A ("Istanbul 70: Psych, Disco, Folk Classics" cd/lp) V/A ("Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan" tribute cd) Gotye ("Making Mirrors" cd) Buck Satan and the 666 Shooters ("Hell Paso" cd) Skrillex ("Bangarang" cd ep) VINYL ONLY:  Sunn o)) meets Nurse With Wound ("The Iron Soul of Nothing" LP) Lemonheads ("Hotel Sessions" LP) Pusha T ("Fear of God II" LP) Bob Dylan & The Band ("The Basement Tapes" 2xLP (180 gram reissue!) Aphex Twin ("Selected Ambient Works 85-92" 2xLP reissue!) Can ("Monster Movie", "Ege Bamyasi", "Tago Mago", "Soundtracks" LPs, back in stock!!!!) Fela Soul ("Fela Kuti Vs De La Soul" LP) Jackie Mittoo ("In London" LP) Thievery Corporation ("Culture of Fear" LP) Joy Division ("Peel Sessions" LP) Kraftwerk ("Computer World" LP) Slowdive ("Pygmalion" LP) Operation Ivy ("Unity: The Complete Collection" LP) Cut Hands ("Afro Noise I" Volumes 1 & 2 on LP) Screaming Females ("Baby Teeth" LP) The Cosmic Jokers ("S/T" LP) Soul Makossa ("The Mighty Tom Cats" LP) Sapphire Slows ("True Breath" LP) Blind Willie McTell ("1927-1935" & "Trying to Get Home" LPs) Taj Mahal Travellers ("Live at Moderna Museet in Stockholm, 1st & 9th July 1971" LP) Blind Lemon Jefferson ("How Long, How Long Lasting Loving" LP) Ben Sollee ("Learning to Bend" now on LP) The Apples in Stereo ("Fun Trick Noisemaker" LP reissue) Scrapper Blackwell ("The Virtuoso Guitar of Scrapper Blackwell" LP) The Hokum Boys ("You Can't Get Enough of That Stuff" LP) V/A ("Bear Traces: Nuggets from Bob's Barn" LP) Bloodloss ("Lost My Head for Drink" LP) V/A ("Welcome to the Beat Generation" LP) Los Nombres ("S/T" LP) Conforce ("Escapism" LP) Blouse ("S/T" LP) Daniel Menche ("Guts" format) Jakob Olausson ("Morning & Sunrise" LP) Joseph Spence ("Music of the Bahamas: Bahaman Folk Guitar" LP) V/A ("Life in the Future: Swedish Post-Punk & Synth Wave 79-87" LP) Blues Creation ("Demon & Eleven Children" LP) Le Super Djata Band du Mali ("En Super Forme" LP) Takeshi Terauchi ("Nippon Guitars" LP) Charlie Parr & The Black Twig Pickers ("Glory in the Meeting House" LP) Eddie Floyd ("Down to Earth" LP) Los Zantos vs. Los Strwck ("Mexican Fuzz Masters" LP) The Acid Test ("S/T" LP) Deerhoof ("Reveille" now on LP) Starf*cker ("Jupiter" LP) John Bender ("Plaster Falling" LP) John Bender ("Pop Surgery" LP) Doris Norton ("Nortoncomputerforpeace" LP) Doris Norton ("Personal Computer" LP) F*cked Up/Serena Maneesh ("split" LP) Zomes ("Improvisations" LP) Touch People ("Show Me Your Dimensions" 12") Von Haze ("S/T" 12" EP) White Car ("No Better" 12" EP) D'eon/Grimes ("Darkbloom" split 12" EP) Girls ("Lawrence" 12") Zomby ("Nothing" 12") Cheyenne Marie Mize ("We Don't Need" 10"ep) also: X ("Black Flag Live" dvd) 7"s from... David Bazan/Deerhoof, Laura Gibson,+ more January 10, 2012 posted by: mark. DON'T MISS THESE FINE FEBRUARY SHOWS!... ************************************************************************************** THE MOUNTAIN GOATS + Nurses Thursday, February 2nd @ The Grey Eagle $16 advance, $18 day-of Tickets available NOW @ Harvest, Orbit DVD, Static Age, Grey Eagle & online HERE. One small word about these shows, from head Mountain Goat John Darnielle himself!....: For years bands have been pretty judicious about playing unreleased new material, because much of it becomes available online immediately, even when the new songs are still in fairly raw form. We, too, have gotten into the bad habit of holding new stuff back. We are done with that whole philosophy, though. I miss playing stuff that's unreleased & unrecorded, stuff that still stings fresh. So we got together and decided to tour the new songs before we even record them. I don't guess that we'll be touring all ten of the new songs I've written for the next album (eleven if you count one that's presently being herded back and forth between its cell & the chopping block), but be advised that if you're the sort of person who wants as many surprises as possible when you hear a new album, you should tread lightly around recordings of these shows, because we're not going to be holding the best ones back for the album release like people tend to do now. **************************************************************************************  ZOLA JESUS + Talk Normal Tuesday, February 14th @ The Grey Eagle $10 advance, $12 day-of Tickets available NOW @ Harvest, Orbit DVD, Static Age, Grey Eagle & online HERE. In the last three years Nika Roza Danilova has gone from being an outsider experimental teenage noise-maker to a full fledged internationally celebrated electronic pop musician. It was a huge feat to accomplish, and despite her age (young), her geography (mid-western, desolate), her accelerated scholastic requirements (high school and college were completed in three years each) and her diminutive physical size (4”11, 90 lbs) she has triumphed. She has emerged as a figurehead—a self-produced, self-designed, self-taught independent woman. Zola Jesus is not a singer; she is a musician. Zola Jesus is not a band; it is a solo project. That is not to say the people who have helped her along the way were not deeply important. Her irreplaceable live band, who’s drummer Nick Johnson lends a hand on several tracks here, and her friend Brian Foote who co-produced this album in addition to the live string players (Sean McCann, Ryan York) who contribute here were all crucial in the process. Nika however, is a woman who can command a room, any room, without needing a band, a stage, or even a microphone. Her voice is unmistakable; it cuts right to the core. Conatus is a huge leap forward in production, instrumentation and song structure. It says it all in the definition of the title: the will to keep on, to move forward. From thumping ballads to electronic glitch, no sound goes unexplored on her new record. It is an icy exploration in refined chaos and controlled madness, an effort to break through capability and access a sonic world that crumbles as it shines. ALSO... NEW RELEASES: From now, back to Mid-December...  Andrew Bird ("Norman" original score… cd/lp) Howling Hex ("Wilson Semiconductors" cd/lp) Trent Reznor/Atticus Ross ("The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" cd) Charlotte Gainsbourg ("Stage Whisper" cd) Fennesz + Sakamoto ("Flumina" cd) Giles Peterson ("Havana Cultura: The Search Continues" cd) Etta James ("The Dreamer" cd) The Grascals ("Dance Til Your Stockings Are Hot and Ravelin'" cd) Spirit Free ("Plays Starship" cd) V/A ("I Have My Liberty: Gospel Sounds from Accra, Ghana" cd) Marketa Irglova ("Anar" cd) Peggy Sue ("Acrobats" cd) Randy Newman ("Live in London" cd/dvd) Christian Mcbride ("Conversations with Christian" cd) Plow United ("Sleepwalk: A Retrospective" cd! Brian McGee in the place to be) Burzum ("From the Depths of Darkness" cd) Magnolia Electric Co. (Warehouse find -- more copies of the "Sojourner" box set!) The Mind Expanders ("What's Happpening" cd) Trentemoller ("Reworked/Remixed" cd) Common ("The Dreamer/The Believer" cd) Ben Frost/Daniel Bjarnason ("Solaris" cd) Umberto ("Prophecy of the Black Widow" now on cd) Rangers ("Pan Am Stories" cd) City and Colour ("Little Hell" cd) Blues Control & Laraaji ("FRKWYS Vol 8" cd) International Harvester ("Sov Gott Rose-Marie" cd) Veronica Falls ("s/t" cd/lp) Miranda Lambert ("Four the Record" cd) Snoop Dogg & Wiz Khalifa ("Mac + Devin Go to Highschool" cd) VINYL ONLY:  Morphine ("Cure for Pain" LP reissue) Amy Winehouse ("Lioness" now on LP!) Fruit Bats ("Echolocation" LP reissue) V/A ("Don't Trust Your Neighbors: Early Albanian Traditional Songs & Improvisations, 1920s-1930s" LP) Mars ("Live at Artists Space" LP) 13th Floor Elevators ("Rockius of Levitatum" LP…15 live tracks from 66-67) Boris ("New Album" now on LP) Old Man Gloom ("Christmas Eve I & II + 6 + Live in NYC" LP) The Louvin Brothers ("Tragic Songs of Life" LP, "Satan is Real" LP, and "Handpicked Songs 1955-1962" LP!!) Jesu (vinyl repress of self-titled debut!) Kim Jung Mi ("Now" LP) Grupo 2000 ("El Destape" LP) Thai Funk ("Volume One and Volume 2" LP) Digitalism ("I Love You, Dude" LP) Miles Davis ("Birth of the Cool" LP) A Winged Victory for the Sullen (new LP on Kranky) Japanther ("Beets, Limes & Rice" LP) Lewlewal De Podor ("Yiilo Jaam" LP…mississippi records) Georgia Sea Island Singers ("Join The Band" LP…mississippi records) Eddie Lee jones and Family ("Yonder Go That Old Black Dog: blues, spirituals and folksongs" LP…mississippi records) V/A ("Last Time Around" LP…mississippi records) V/A ("Music From Saharan Cellphones" LP…mississippi records) Low ("I Could Live in Hope" LP reissue) Magnolia Electric Co. (Warehouse find -- "Trials and Errors" LP!) Ty Segall ("Singles 2007-2010" now on LP!) Eddy Current Suppression Ring ("So Many Things" LP) Mark Fell ("Periodic Orbits of a Dynamic System…." LP) Stereo Total ("A Pink Musical Underwater Love" LP) Hank 3 ("Attention Deficit Domination" …finally in on LP!!!) Hank 3/3 Bar Ranch ("Cattle Callin" …finally in on LP!!!) Deardarkhead ("Oceanside: 1991-1993" from the captured tracks shoegaze archives...LP) Should ("A Folding Sieve" from the captured tracks shoegaze archives... LP) Nick Nicely ("Elegant Daze: 1979-1986" LP) The Servants ("Youth Club Disco" LP) Magnetix ("Drogue Electrique" LP) Pyramids/Horseback ("A Throne Without A King" LP) Hildur Gudnadottir ("Without Sinking" LP) DMZ (s/t LP) Michael Yonkers w/ The Blind Shake ("Period" LP) Omar Souleyman ("Leh Jani" reissue of cassette album…2xLP) Black Humor ("Love God - Love One Another" LP) Maria Minerva ("Sacred & Profane Love" LP) Grandmaster Glash & The Furious Five ("The Message" LP) Sally Smmit and Her Musicians ("Hangahar" LP reissue) Pete Shelley ("Sky Yen" LP reissue) The American Revolution ("Buddha Electrostorm" LP) LFO ("Frenquencies" LP reissue) Indignant Senility ("Consecration of the Whipstain" LP) Matsuo Ohno ("I Saw The Outer Limits" reissue from 1978…LP) Robag Wruhme ("Donnerkuppel" 12") Steve Hauschildt ("Tragedy & Geometry" member of emeralds..2xLP) Sex Church ("Growing Over" LP) Subtle Turnhips ("Terd" LP) Strategy ("Super Awareness is Fruit" LP) Justice ("Audio Video Disco" LP) Mr Oizo ("Stade 2" LP) The Coasters ("One by One" LP) V/A ("Bambara Mystic Soul: The Raw Sound of Burkina Faso 1974-1979" 2xLP) Sins of Satan ("S/T" LP) William Fowler Collins ("The Resurrections Unseen" LP) V/A ("Rangarang: Pre-revolutionary Iranian Pop" format) Dave Pike ("The Doors of Perception" LP) Tyvek ("Finding Out About" LP) Dead Reptile Shrine ("The Sun of Circles and Wood" 2xLP) Harumi ("S/T" 2xLP) James Ferraro ("Farsidevirtual" LP) Pinch & Shackleton ("S/T" LP) Throbbing Gristle ("Heathen Earth" LP) Kaleidoscope ("Faintly Blowing" LP) Kaleidoscope ("Tangerine Dream" LP) Van Dyke Parks ("Arrangements Vol. 1" now on vinyl) Elf ("s/t" picture disc LP) Brand New ("Your Favorite Weapon" LP) + John Fahey ("1978 Live at Audimax Hamburg" dvd) + 7"s from...Woods, Jet Staxx, Dwarf, Pierced Arrows, Ural Thomas (x2), Mdou Moctar, Old Crow Medicine Show, My Morning Jacket, The Evens, J Mascis, The Sandwitches, Full Toilet, Mum, Tennis, Hard-Ons with Neil Hamburger, + more |
