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    Faith No More New 7" For Black Friday RSD, New Album in April 2015

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    Alt-metal band Faith No More has announced that after 18 years they will be recording a new album, their first since 1997′s Album of The Year. The new album will come out next April, so strap yourselves in for a bit of a wait.

     

    A limited edition (5000 copies) 7-inch single of the song “Motherfucker” will precede the April 2015 release, available via Record Store Day’s Black Friday event (Nov. 28). The single will be released digitally on Dec. 9.

     

    Bill Gould, talking with Rolling Stone We’ve always shared a chemistry between ourselves that’s unique to this band, but these past few years of touring together have made us aware that we not only play better as a unit, but we like the new stuff we’re coming up with. So we’ve decided: we’re going to get busy in 2015…make an album we’re proud of, kick things up a notch, get out there and perform it and maybe even dedicate a little more focus to our fans in the States this time.

     

    Here is the Motherfucker song recently performed live in London:

     

    What video games have you been playing?

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    Wtf didn't know the NHL demo was up!!! I know what I'm doing for 6 hours tonight.

    Also I changed my GT maybe a month or two ago. I had gotten a bunch of free $5 XBL gift cards from Gamestops summer treasure hunt so I figured why not

     

    NHL Demo is good.  You play in a Finals rematch of the Kings v Rangers and can alternate playing at home or away.  Like the new broadcast presentation.  Periods are only around 2 minutes each, but the game is fun.

    PO: Iron Maiden 1980's Era Represses

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    Cheaper at What Records, who are an independent. I think the box & 3 is £43.99 and the singles are £6.99 :)

     

    Not cheaper for those of us in the USA

     

    What Records Price  £44.99 + £16.00 shipping from the UK  = $101.15 USD

    Amazon Price (-VAT) £39.73 + £3.08 postage & packing from the UK = $70.99 USD

     

    What Records Does have a complete 19x7" bundle available here:  http://www.whatrecords.co.uk/items/62721.htm

     

    Price is £132.81 + £32.00 shipping from the UK which = $273.35 USD or $14.39 per 7"!!!

    Record Industry considering a worldwide release day starting Summer 2015 (Friday)

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    10 years late? Who cares for release days when you preorder everything anyway?

     

    I agree.  The only true benefit as the article points out is that most people get paid on Fridays and thus you can have additional traffic and revenue in local shops.  Plus, it may be easier to obtain Indie Store Exclusive pressings with everything on a Friday.  I know based on where I live, I have to drive nearly an hour to get to my store in the DC area and sometimes I am not motivated to make that 2+ hour trip on a Tuesday evening, knowing I have to work tomorrow.

    Record Industry considering a worldwide release day starting Summer 2015 (Friday)

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    http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/global/6214419/record-industry-considering-a-standard-global-album-release-day

     

    The music industry is on the verge of adopting a global street date that could see all countries issuing new releases on a Friday, probably beginning a year from now, in July 2015, according to industry sources.

    While some sources say its a done deal as far as the major labels and the IFPI and RIAA are concerned, other sources insist the issue has yet to be fully decided. The main reason why the industry is moving toward a global street date -- instead of letting each territory pick the day that they feel is best for their respective markets, which is the way it works now -- is to cut down on global piracy.

    With Australia now having a Friday street date, digital piracy begins almost immediately around the globe, as the new release is shared across the web before fans in the U.K. (which has a Monday street date) or the U.S. (which has a Tuesday street date) have a chance to purchase the music legally.

    With varying street dates in different markets, the labels are able move their artists around in order to take advantage of marketing opportunities that coincide with the changed street date. Now, labels can still do that on the week of release, but will have less opportunity to schedule a high-profile appearance on the release date itself.

    While sources say that digital music service providers like the Friday street date, not all physical merchants have given the change their blessing; some indie labels and indie merchants are opposed to having the global street date on Friday. They say they like the concept of having street dates early in the week because they feel it helps sell more CDs -- devout customers of an artist will come in on Tuesday while others will come in on payday, which is usually at the end of the week. Yet, in the end, brick-and-mortar stores and indie labels may not have much say in picking which day of the week functions as the global street date.

    "This global streetdate is necessary for the industry but unfortunately it will be awkward for the physical retailers to change their ways of doing business," says one label executive. "Now, they could have two-thirds of their sales in one day," which would impact retail operation.

    But Trans World Entertainment chairman and CEO Robert J. Higgins says he is all for moving the street date to Friday. In fact, he thinks all of the product lines he carries should move to Friday. "Its a smart move," he tells Billboard. "When we have a music or video title come out on a Friday, we have done better sales over the two week-period that we would do with a Tuesday street date."

    Meanwhile, preparing for a universal street date is not without issues for all parties, which is why there is so much lead time ahead of the contemplated shift.

    Among the issues that have to be addressed to accommodate the shift is that physical pipeline scheduling will have to be revamped, and discussions on whether and how to change the various music charts around the world. Beyond the music industry -- which created the notion of an industry streetdate for new releases and established Tuesday as that day in the U.S. -- other entertainment software industries have adopted Tuesday as well, first the home video industry and then the book industry. Now that the various entertainment companies have taught the U.S. consumer to go to stores on a Tuesday, will those other industries follow suit and change with the music industry?

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    Also this:  http://a2im.org/2014/08/15/new-friday-global-street-date-for-new-music-releases-starts-summer-2015/

    The IFPI has been doing a survey of music creators, including the Independent music label community trade groups, including A2IM’s board of directors, about creating a global release date for all music markets for new music each week. Currently the U.K. new release street date is Mondays, U.S. Tuesday, Japan Wednesday, much of continental Europe and Australia Friday, etc. The Billboard article on this outlines some of the debate on what date of the week should be designated but the bottom line is that a change to a global date will be good for both consumers and the music industry. Right now the IFPI favored date is Friday as it has more  physical store traffic, due to paydays, and busier traffic online . Given the increase in digital distribution percentages and the use of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social media platforms with international scope, promoting music as being available on a common worldwide release day can help focus all promotional activity and build awareness and anticipation around the release of new music globally. The IFPI issued a press release on the initiative and we commend the IFPI for initiating this global strategy discussion and we will keep you informed as the roll-out of a Global release date, starting in the summer of 2015, approaches.

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    Thoughts?

     

     

    Preorder: Guardians of the Galaxy - Soundtrack

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    As I had predicted, there was no feasible way for them to fit the entire Tyler Bates score on 2 sides of a LP based on how long it was (based on CD times).  So what is missing on the LP versus the CD?

     

    There were 29 tracks on the Tyler Bates' CD score and only 16 tracks for the vinyl version.  Missing are the following songs:

     

    Plasma Ball  1:18

    Quill's Big Retreat 1:38

    To The Stars 2:52

    Ronan's Theme 2:24

    Busted 1:34

    The Destroyer 1:27  

    Sanctuary 2:26          

    The Great Companion 0:51    

    The Road To Knowhere 0:37          

    The Collector 3:20          

    Ronan's Arrival 0:56        

    We All Got Dead People 1:46        

    Groot Cocoon 2:29  

    Citizens Unite 1:15 

     

    The vinyl however, does have an exclusive bonus track, not found on the CD with the track Losers.

     

    Either way, both are cool.  It would be nice if the 2LP came with a DL Card to get the remaining missing tracks, for those who only purchase the vinyl.

    PO: Songs: Ohia: Didn't It Rain 2LP (Deluxe Reissue) 11/11/14

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    19.99 + shipping here:

     

    http://www.scdistribution.com/release.html?catalog=SC299&class=title

     

    Didn't It Rain is Jason Molina's first perfect record. Recorded live in a single room, with no overdubs and musicians creating their parts on the fly, the overall approach to the recording was nothing new for Molina. But something in the air and execution of Didn't It Rain clearly sets it apart from his existing body of work. His albums had always been full of space, but never had Molina sculpted the space as masterfully as he does on Didn't It Rain. Perhaps it is that Molina entered the session with fully written songs that allowed this emboldened confidence in chance. The creaks and scraping of strings are all part of the Didn't It Rain choir. So when Molina hoots for another chorus during the album's eponymous opening gambit, it feels less an off-the-cuff call, and more an essential piece of the tone and structure. Midway through the same song, that which takes its name from a traditional piece popularized by Mahalia Jackson, we hear the long, low woosh of a passing bus. Distant traffic has forever been a trope of lo-fi, but here, it is a pristine woosh. The highest of fidelity and sure of purpose. The same can be said for Molina's always remarkable voice, here settling into a matured, assured, and subtly lowered tenor. It all adds up to something near in mood to Neil Young's song "On The Beach," and maybe even Boz Scagg's 1969 self-titled album laid to tape at the legendary Muscle Shoals studio.

     

    Didn't It Rain is an ode to the Midwest Rust Belt under which Molina was born and Molina's newfound Chicago home. When we move to a new place, we must truly confront all our own weaknesses and strengths, and Molina puts that all on the table with this one. The album's triple-threat center pieces come by way of "Ring The Bell," "Cross The Road, Molina," and "Blue Factory Flame." Strung together, they present clearly Molina's specific set of mythological symbols that had been forming on previous recordings. It is as heady a middle section as I can recall. But the journey across these three songs -- with their circling serpents, their neon-flame wreathed moons, their swinging blades, their debilitating emptiness -- also feels like a cleansing, a catharsis, a sort of primal therapy.

     

    While demo'd and recorded months before the events of 9/11, Didn't It Rain does seem to somehow consider the mood of the time. It's surely an album about setting roots, but it also offers a moment of solace in a time of overwhelming uncertainty. Here, Molina's now well-known battle with depression aligns with an entire nation's moment of depression. While even more cryptic and spartan, Didn't It Rain's imagery and themes can be poetically linked to another 2002 Chicago-rooted album that tapped into the post-9/11 psyche, Wilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot.

     

    This expanded reissue presents Molina's home demos of the record, eight previously unreleased tracks, complete with a distant playground full of children chiming in the background for a few songs. The glorious juxtaposition of Molina's songs' desolation and the blissful playing of children is about as haunting as it gets, friends.

     

    TRACKS
    1. Didn't It Rain
    2. Steve Albini's Blues
    3. Ring The Bell
    4. Cross The Road, Molina
    5. Blue Factory Flame
    6. Two Blue Lights
    7. Blue Chicago Moon

      Didn't It Rain
    8. Ring The Bell- Working Title: Depression No. 42
    9. Cross The Road, Molina- Working Title: Chicago City Moon
    10. Blue Factory Flame
    11. Two Blue Lights
    12. Blue Chicago Moon
    13. The Gray Tour- Working Title: Waiting It's Whole Life (Later Re-Recorded for The Gray Tower 7")
    14. Spectral Alphabet (Later Re-Recorded for Pyramid Electric Co.)

    PO Soon: Antemasque Self-Titled S/T (Mars Volta + Flea) October 2014

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    Update from Pitchfork...looks like the album drops in October:

     

    In early 2013, Cedric Bixler-Zavala announced that the Mars Volta were no more. This year, Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodríguez-López, also of At the Drive-In, have joined forces to start a new band called Antemasque. Their debut self-titled LP is out in October through theirNadie Sound label. It was recorded in March of 2014, and features the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Flea and Dave Elitch—both of whom played with the Mars Volta. 

    The album surfaced briefly earlier this year on Bandcamp, but was quickly taken down. They've also announced tour dates—find them below.

    Antemasque:

    01 4AM
    02 I Got No Remorse
    03 Ride Like The Devil’s Son
    04 In The Lurch
    05 50,000 Kilowatts
    06 Momento Mori
    07 Drown All Your Witches
    08 Providence
    09 People Forget
    10 Rome Armed To The Teeth

    Aphex Twin - SYRO (too soon?)

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    Those of you entering the ballot and concerned about how you are going to pay, why even enter?  If you have to sacrifice making a car payment or rent just to buy this, then you probably shouldn't buy this in the first place.  Granted, you get a week to come up with the cash to pay for it, but it will be $440 ($40 shipping was on the ballot page to the US) and that isn't just like a $30 LP.  I fear that a lot of people who entered the ballot won't pay in time and they'll go to that 2nd ballot (there is even a 3rd one) for all the unclaimed boxes that people won't be able to afford..

     

    This is a situation where I wish Bleep had gone the way of some of those charity auctions that require you to submit details to prove that you can honor your bid in advance, thus doing away with people that bid like $2000 for a Pearl Jam tour experience but can't come close to paying it.

     

    I guess people are hoping to get selected on the ballot and immediately just flip it on Ebay with the justification of "well if don't make my car payment this month, and sell it on Ebay, then I'll be able to make 2 or 3 car payments with the money I'll make!!"  That is not sound logic, but good luck!

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