The Interrupters release limited edition Fight The Good Fight bundle including a clear vinyl pressing and FTGT tour t-shirt. This is the Interrupters third and most successful album to date. The single She’s Kerosene has been featured on YouTube’s Artist on the Rise. The song is also tracking …
Truth be told it’s a key ring. The Arctic Monkeys key ring is a novelty, a gaff, a frivolous accessory. It’s also perfect. The Arctic Monkeys latest creative leap is a sci-fi concept album about kicking back on an interstellar outpost in deep space. It’s …
The first thing that came to mind when I heard about The Rolling Stones Studio Album Vinyl Collection 1971-2016 was who would need this? At $450 US, this is for the serious fan.
Few bands, maybe none, can offer a box set so phat with material.
15 albums, it spans from the sublime Sticky Fingers to Blue and Lonesome. The limited edition set boast original packaging, very cool for Some Girls and Sticky. Less so for more recent pieces like Bigger Bag. It just wasn’t conceived in a time when album art mattered.
But wouldn’t the real fan already have Sticky Fingers. Hell you probably even went for the remastered commemorative edition that came out last week. Well 3 years ago-ish, but you follow. And if you’re a real fan, you did the same for the Some Girls re-issue. You’ve gone deep and picked up Goats Head Soup and It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll. On the right night, you’ll stick on Black and Blue commemorating Ron Wood’s first as an official Stone. And let’s face it, all of us who bought Dirty Work the first time have lived to regret it.
Yes this is a bespoke limited edition. And I promise I will never use the word bespoke on this site again. There is the original sleeve art and inserts. Do you remember before the distractions of Insta+Face+LikeMe when you’d sit absorbing the album’s sleeve lyrics as the vinyl spun? And I get why you’d like to smell that freshly unpacked Some Girls all over again.
But just the same, I need to ask you, what self-respecting Rolling Stone fan needs the latest box set?
After some thought, I’ve come up with a list of some possible candidates.
The Regretter
After years of ignoring your wife’s demands to get rid of your old vinyls that were collecting dust in the basement, you sold your original version of Tatoo You at a garage sale. A year later, vinyls resurgence caused you and a your wife to sleep in separate beds and you are getting your collection back.
The Vinyl Virgin
You never owned any vinyl and have always wondered what it would be like to fall asleep to the b-side of Steel Wheels. Only to be woken up by the needle knocking up against the label.
The Fanatic
You’ve bought everything they have ever put out and to stop now would kill you.
The audiophile
You’re a connoisseur who understands the significance of half-speed remastering and heavyweight 180-gram black vinyl of The Rolling Stones Studio Album Collection 1971-2016.
To be honest I know little to nothing about the formats, but here is a guy who does.
Fit the bill? You can find the collection here.
Turn it around: The Story of East Bay Punk gets a deluxe package release. One of the guidelines that Green Day set when entrusting a film about the roots of East Bay punk to first time director Corbett Redford was to not mystify nostalgia to …
One look at this image from Gaslight Anthem’s ‘59 Sound Sessions Photobook and you can smell the beer. Sweat in the air. Cramped dance floor. The low suspended ceiling adds to the romance. The thrill of seeing a band about to step up fuelled by …
The Joe Strummer Foundation has recently launched a new store to help raise money for its various causes. The JSF, ex-Strummervile, was created after the death of The Clash frontman in December 2002. Strummer, along with being one of the coolest punks to ever dawn a safety pin, was a huge proponent of live music to inspire young people. Today the JSF continues to fight for the importance of music and art in our lives with a focus on helping struggling musicians and young bands getting heard.
With the new Joe Strummer Foundation store, the organization has partnered with BSI MERCH. A good move with an added benefit for anyone living in the American colonies. The foundation’s old store only dealt in British pounds and if you ordered from outside of Europe you got hit with exchange rates and VATS. The extra fees put you in you in a Boston Tea Party frame of mind. Now while the JSF clearly has revolution in its DNA, they prefer you to focus your anger elsewhere. I suggest FM radio.
But now, with the new store, US/UK relations look bright again.
You can check out the new Joe Strummer Foundation shop and order your revolution here.
Springsteen on Broadway is both incredibly brilliant and incredibly overpriced. To see the Boss pour his heart and soul out in the intimate 975 seat Walter Kerr Theatre, it’ll cost you betweeen $850 to $75 a pop. Whenever there is a range like this the …
Keith only had this late 50s Gibson Flying V for a short time. The guitar was stolen soon after this 1969 Hyde Park performance and never made it onto a Stones recording. Keith must have loved the guitar at the time. Those of you who …
Pictured is Low Cut Connie’s Adam Weiner getting a leg up on Shondra. I was lucky enough to catch the man, the band and the piano at SXSW last March. A highlight was Weiner pulling out a fist full of chest hair to underline a point. Weiner’s piano is weathered and worn like the music played on her. It’s old school rock and roll produced with just the right amount of desperation. A great recipe. See Born to Run.
But that’s me. You can find their latest album Dirty Pictures (Part 2) here and decide for yourself. Shondra would appreciate it.
So when I came across this Low Cut Connie t-shirt, I couldn’t help but see it as an endorsement of the #metoo movement. A street smart woman, battered but not beaten. Ready to seize the moment of the current political climate and kick some ass. …
Perhaps the biggest disappointment about Sex Pistols 1977: The Bollocks Diaries is that it’ll go unread by the audience who could use it most. The fan already knows the story. The punk rock dad lived it (and more recently bought the designer t-shit). But it’s …
Before Ringo, before the fame, before Love Me Do and any talk about wanting to hold hands. Before they were fab, the Beatles were bad.
Leather clad, pompadoured, badASS.
This 1960 photo taken by Astrid Kirchherr, who subsequently fell in love and stole Stuart Sutcliffe from the band, is one of her most famous pics of the yet to be discovered band. Unsigned and Ringoless, this isn’t the band the world fell in love with. It is a band learning how to play, getting better every beer-soaked show bar they gigged in. At the time, Germany’s port city Hamburg was well-known for sex, drugs and crime. The perfect breeding ground for rock ‘n’ roll. Continue reading When the Beatles were bad
Ltd Edition American Standard Offset Telecaster This Telecaster is a six-string crossbred. Now before the purest in you demands a wall of sound be built to keep the half-breds out, know this. Some of rocks most famous instruments have been mutts. There’s Springsteen’s Telecaster/Esquire, Eddie …
God Save The Sex Pistols Deluxe Editions If Joe Corre happens to be on your x-mas shopping list, do not get him God Save The Sex Pistols. The book, packed with punk rock nostalgia celebrating the Pistols through poster art and photography, has received two …
The last time I saw his purple badass was on the Piano & A Microphone Tour. It was amazing. Prince interpreting classics and rarities with just a piano and no backing band. Sadly, it was made all the more special with his passing. But still, it did not match the times I saw him strap on an axe like his custom Prince Cloud. The man’s six-string voice was one of a kind.
Because Prince was so incredible at, well, you name it, his guitar playing didn’t get the attention it deserved. There were always so many other things to talk about. The posing nude on album covers, changing his name to a symbol, or sending out a formal request to others sitting in his row at the 1985 Grammys to not look at him. The list of eccentricities is longer than the sustain notes at the end of Purple Rain.
The album of the same name produced a high watermark of brilliance for the artist. It was also where we were introduced to the Cloud. The guitar was commissioned by Prince from a local Minneapolis luthier David Husain. Initially, only 4 of the rain makers were built.
The original Prince Clouds are all maple, body and neck, with Love Symbol fret markers. Continue reading Prince’s sunny six string