Record Store Day 2011 may have come and gone, but that’s no reason to avoid stepping into your local record shop for some regular Tuesday new release action! The post RSD load is a bit lighter then usual, but there are still some excellent titles hitting the street today! Also, Chicago’s record shops have some great in-stores lined up for this week, so keep reading to find out who’s playing where!
Our most anticipated release this week comes from Brooklyn’s Xray Eyeballs, releasing their debut full-length LP, Not Nothing, on Kanine Records. The easiest label to apply would be garage-pop, but that wouldn’t do the band justice. Take the fuzz and feedback of My Bloody Valentine, the goth underpinnings of The Cure, and mix in the sounds of the more bubblegummy Nuggets acts, and you start to get the idea. And you can dance to it.
Led by O.J. San Felipe of the (now defunct?) Golden Triangle, there have been a only few cassettes and and a phenomenal 7″ for Chicago’s own HoZac predating Not Nothing, which may prove to be the group’s finest release to date. Check out the (slightly NSFW) video for the lead single Crystal below!
Xray Eyeballs “Crystal” from Painless Surgery
Other notable releases this week:
White Mystery – Blood & Venom – The newest LP from Chicago’s favorite red-headed garage rock sensations!
Dengue Fever – Cannibal Courtship – The fourth album, and the first new LP in three years, from this Cambodian Rocks influenced group.
Blackfield – Welcome To My DNA – The newest from the collaboration of Porcupine Tree’s Steven Wilson and Israeli rocker Aviv Geffen.
Gorillaz – The Fall – The iPad recorded album sees its official widespread physical release today.
Graveyard – Hisingen Blues – Swedish 70s style hard rockers offer up 9 new tracks, their first album on the Nuclear Blast label.
This weeks in-stores:
Reckless Records – Wicker Park store – 1532 N. Milwaukee Ave
April 19th – 6pm – Uzi Rash
Permanent Records – 1914 W. Chicago Ave
April 21 – 5pm – Family Underground (from Denmark!)
April 22 – 5pm – Vivian Girls
April 23 – 5pm – The N.E.C.
