As a cornerstone act in the framework of the Paisley Underground, The Dream Syndicate stand as one of the highpoints of 1980s rock. New record Ultraviolet Battle Hymns and True Confessions is the band’s fourth since recommencing activities in 2012, and their eighth studio LP overall. Due to a blaringly evident disinclination to merely rehash […]
Wakefield, UK | ‘Music mecca’ for vinyl collectors relocates in Wakefield city centre: Wakefield’s record shop has moved into its new premises this week, with hopes the place will become a music mecca for vinyl hunters across the country. Wah Wah Records has spent more than eight years on Brook Street, but owner Alan Nutton […]
Hong Kong, CN | Bad Times Disco will give a vinyl record for supporting Asian migrant workers in Hong Kong: Donors have the option to support Asian Migrants’ Coordinating Body (AMCB) or Bethune House. “The world can be a better place, one record at a time” reads the byline of Mixmag Asia’s interview with Hong […]
Indie music retailers report 23% growth across all formats (including CDs): A survey of Coalition of Independent Music stores across the US show end of years sales up an average of 23% across all physical formats. Vinyl sales grew an average 60% and CD sales were up 16%. Several sales categories were particular bright spots […]
Before it was so rudely interrupted, Bob Dylan’s annual touring regimen took on a recurring pattern, playing the same towns the same times of the year. His last time in Washington, DC was the first week of December 2019. The final show in that leg of the campaign that he never called the Never Ending […]
Born in Ottawa, Myriam Gendron moved around a lot in her youth (Gatineau in Quebec, Washington, DC, Paris), but at 16 years of age dropped anchor in Montreal, where she still lives, having recently completed her second album there. Available on CD and cassette October 1 through Feeding Tube, with 2LP vinyl expected late in […]
Billie Eilish And Charlie Parker Headline Slate Of Record Store Day Releases: Record Store Day’s 2021 Black Friday event takes place on November 26. Record Store Day has announced the official lineup of 150 exclusive titles set to be released on November 26 for Black Friday. The roster of mostly vinyl releases includes limited-edition albums, […]
Part one of the TVD Record Store Club’s look at the new and reissued releases presently in stores for September 2021. NEW RELEASE PICKS: Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra, Tinctures In Times (Community Music, Vol. 1) (The Royal Potato Family) This is the first of four albums, all issued on vinyl, that will complete trumpeter-composer-arranger […]
After reports that her death was imminent in 2015 after she had an aneurysm, Joni Mitchell has risen, phoenix-like, to resume a somewhat normal life and even make public appearances, although she has difficulties walking. Through Rhino Records, Mitchell has now embarked on the most ambitious and thus far fruitful archival reissue series of her […]
Some of you may be aware that we had a very short-lived heatwave here in the UK recently… dare I say it was too hot? Said every Brit ever. Regardless, we’re back to our normal rainy reality here in old GB and Australian artist Nick Kingswell’s latest release feels perfectly fitting for these dark, cozy […]
Based in Hoboken, NJ by way of Midland, MI, and with time spent in Chicago, New Orleans, and Albuquerque along the way, Tim Foljahn has amassed considerable credits as a guitarist, including Cat Power, Thurston Moore, and Half Japanese. But he’s also a singer-songwriter, with his skills in this regard fortifying the discography of the […]
The Plastic Ono Band album, released in 1970 by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, is a monumental album in the annals of rock history. It was the fourth album John and Yoko released, but it is often credited as Lennon’s solo debut. There were so many facets to what made the album so iconic right […]
Many ears were hipped to Indigenous folksinger, poet, filmmaker and activist Willie Dunn by the 3LP/2CD set Native North America (Vol. 1): Aboriginal Folk, Rock, and Country 1966-1985. Issued by Light in the Attic in 2014, that one’s received a recent repress, and in even better news, the next volume in the series is Creation […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | “I pity the country, I pity the state, and the mind of a man who thrives on hate…” —Willie Dunn ​Celebrated archival label Light In The Attic Records is humbled to announce the next chapter in their ongoing Native North America series, Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn […]
Thanksgiving is a little different this year, there’s no denying it. However, even though these are complicated times, it doesn’t mean there aren’t a lot of things to still be very grateful and thankful for. That’s what we celebrate on this week’s episode of Radar and we do it with some help from some of […]
