Welcome to the TVD Record Store Club for the week ending 11/27/15.
The TVD Record Store Club is another free feature we’ve added to The TVD Record Store Locator App that recently relaunched refreshed and rebranded. The Club points to a record store agenda that we’re assembling for your weekend now that new release vinyl lands in stores on Fridays—AND for the early part of the week coming when those mom and pops could use the foot traffic.
Every Thursday we’ll be tipping you off right here at TVD—and within the app at the Club tab—to releases of merit newly on store shelves, along with in-store ticket giveaways you can win by simply waving the app, pricing incentives, contests, cool partner initiatives, and a host of surprises we’re looking forward to putting in your pocket on the regular.
Ostensibly, the TVD Record Store Club exists to light a fire under you each week and weekend to get out to your local mom and pop record shops, but with Record Store Day’s Black Friday event looming, it’s kinda been taken care of for us this week. Our picks from among the Black Friday releases come from The Arcs, The B-52’s, Buzzcocks, Gang of Four, Green Day, and The Jesus and Mary Chain.
In addition to the Record Store Day flood of product this weekend, Saturday brings you Small Business Saturday, which is at the crux of our daily agenda at TVD when you get right down to it. So, after your record rummage, why not “shop small” and spend some time in your local indie comic book retailers, your book stores, the little coffee spot, that donut shop, sandwich store, or small batch brewery. It’s habit forming.
The Arcs, The Arcs vs. The Inventors,
Vol. 1 | The Arcs are Dan Auerbach, Leon Michels, Richard Swift, Homer Steinweiss, and Nick Movshon. Also featured on the album are Kenny Vaughan and Mariachi Flor de Toloache.
“Yours, Dreamily, takes what Auerbach does at his best, in and out of the Keys—confessional, texturally enrichedblues propelled with garage-rock force—and adds a riveting jump in eccentricity.” —Rolling Stone
“Right from the drop, Yours, Dreamily, ignites like a cigarette flicked on a stream of gasoline.” —NPR
“An album that succeeds as an often freaky, sometimes tender, soulful experience.” —Associated Press
The B-52’s, Live! 8-24-1979 (Gold Colored Vinyl) | This is a previously unreleased live show, only available digitally before this release. Six weeks after the B-52s released their brilliant first album in the hot new wave summer of 1979, they found themselves on-stage in Boston opening for Talking Heads.
The performance includes songs from both the first album and Wild Planet, and features the B-52s ripping heartily through the songs like they were dedicated to giving the crowd the night of their lives. Decades later the effect is still the same. The surviving tape has been restored to near pristine quality.
Buzzcocks, Another Music In A Different Kitchen (180 Gram Transclucent Orange Vinyl) | This is the band’s debut studio album released on March 10, 1978. It includes the hit single “I Don’t Mind,” which reached number 55 in the United Kingdom singles chart in May 1978.
This was the third line-up of Buzzcocks, with guitarist Pete Shelley singing following the departure of original vocalist Howard Devoto and then the firing of bassist Garth Smith.
Gang Of Four, Songs Of The Free (180 Gram Blue/ Purple/ Yellow Splatter Vinyl) | Formed in 1977 by Leeds University students, Gang of Four produced some of the most exhilarating and lasting music of the early English post-punk era of 1978-1983. Fueled by the fury of punk rock and radical political theory, Gang of Four successfully welded the two in an inspired display of polemics and music that addressed the vagaries of life in the modern world (including love and romance) as matters of political inquiry.
What made Gang of Four’s polemical clang ‘n’ roll so compelling was that it worked as harsh, bracing, and ultimately liberating rock & roll. With Allen and Burnham combining as a formidable and frequently very funky rhythm section, Gill didn’t play guitar as much as emit thick wads of semi-tuneful distortion, while King “sang” in a dry, declamatory fashion similar to that of the Fall’s Mark E. Smith. They have always remained, to the ears of those opened wide by punk rock, an extremely important band.
Green Day, American Idiot (Explicit) (2LP Red, White, and Black Colored Vinyl) | This Black Friday Exclusive version of American Idiot includes red, white, and black colored vinyl (2-LP set).
The members of Green Day were kids from working-class backgrounds who came of age in the underground punk scene in Berkeley. The band formed in the late 1980s and consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist and backing vocalist Mike Dirnt, drummer Tré Cool, and guitarist and backing vocalist Jason White.
The Jesus and Mary Chain, Barbed Wire Kisses (2LP 180 Gram Blood Red Vinyl) | Barbed Wire Kisses is a compilation of singles, b-sides, and rare tracks. Throughout the 1980s the band was known for their prodigious output in these formats, often in limited editions which quickly went out of print.
This album collects many of those releases spanning the band’s career up to that point. The title comes from a line in the song “Cherry Came Too” from the Darklands album.
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