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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / No Fun/Plurex 1978 singles collection LP

« on: June 09, 2016, 08:40:44 AM »

Anyone stocking this in the USofA?

http://plurex.nl/shop/

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Music Shit / Re: Danzig and Only do the unexpected...

« on: May 12, 2016, 08:59:06 AM »

Live super close to the Denver site, can't wait to sneak into this and get nugged. Or stay home and eat pizza and get nugged.

$1 says the Doritos/Legal Pot tent at the Denver fest attracts more people than when the band is on stage...

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Music Shit / Re: RSD 2016

« on: April 17, 2016, 07:01:54 AM »

The only thing I really want are the Green River demos lp.

I'm into it. Maybe snag one post-.

Can we just put RSD and SXSW on a garbage barge and float it out into the Atlantic?

A manmade island of douche- and carpet-baggery.

Yes and thank you.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: 3 Smog Veil releases: X_X, Robert Bensick Band '75, Mr. Stress Blues Band '72-73

« on: April 06, 2016, 11:28:17 AM »

The 3rd release in the first series of Platters du Cuyahoga is now available for presale. Shipping by June 24. LP and CD are done, just awaiting our inventory....buy it now or pay full price later.

Robert Bensick Band "French Pictures In London" studio LP from 1975, never before released.  With Robert Bensick (Berlin West, Zara, Munx), Scott Krauss and Tom Herman (Pere Ubu) and many others.  Brick red vinyl, extensive liners and photos and a free download.

Ships to you by June 24.  CD and LP are done, just awaiting our inventory.

Details and song streams here:

http://www.smogveil.com/collections/frontpage/products/robert-bensick-band-french-pictures-in-london-lp

Sale continues on the Mr Stress Blues Band LP, shipping by May 13, details and streams:

http://www.smogveil.com/collections/frontpage/products/mr-stress-blues-band-live-at-the-brick-cottage-1972-1973-lp

Work has begun on Platters du Cuyahoga series 2.  Details later this summer...

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Malcolm McLaren's Son Is Going To Burn His ?5 Million Punk Collection

« on: March 16, 2016, 11:27:28 AM »

The real story is that he thinks it is worth $5M....

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Music Shit / Re: Songs with explosions

« on: March 14, 2016, 04:54:16 AM »

Amboy Dukes "Journey To The Center Of The Mind"

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: Lloyd Ryan 'Prelude...' LP on The Label Records

« on: March 07, 2016, 09:00:52 AM »

http://mrkrum.blogspot.com/2008/07/give-drummer-some.html?m=1

Thanks!!  Now looking for the 'The Pulse Of Time - Rock Drumming'-anyone holding?

OK--totally weird--the PVK issue of the first LP appears to be a reissue maybe?  Totally different catalog number, while the blog entry clearly lists a Label Records catalog number.  Now I won't sleep for a few nights trying to figure this out...Popsike shows sales for the PVK version, but nothing for The Label Records version...

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: Lloyd Ryan 'Prelude...' LP on The Label Records

« on: March 07, 2016, 08:54:51 AM »

http://mrkrum.blogspot.com/2008/07/give-drummer-some.html?m=1

Thanks!!  Now looking for the 'The Pulse Of Time - Rock Drumming'-anyone holding?

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Lloyd Ryan 'Prelude...' LP on The Label Records

« on: March 07, 2016, 08:22:49 AM »

I've been trying for years to amass a complete Label Records discography, including cover and label variations...I thought I was done, and then this appears: Lloyd Ryan 'Prelude To The Pulse Of Time' LP.

OK, this deepens the mystery though as the release number for this is TLED2, meaning there must be a TLED1...anyone know what that is?

https://www.discogs.com/Lloyd-Ryan-Prelude-To-The-Pulse-Of-Time/release/7918983

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Music Shit / Re: My Top Ten Cleveland Punk Bands

« on: February 16, 2016, 12:49:05 PM »

i'd of snuck in Lucky Pierre somewhere past 7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G607poBAWkU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrgR-IWoUDw

Band is incredible. Actually did a little write up on them last year http://rustbelthammer.com/2015/09/09/lucky-pierre-may-have-one-of-the-most-underrated-cleveland-punk-singles/

While the thread has turned to power pop, don't forget Wild Giraffes.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: 3 Smog Veil releases: X_X, Robert Bensick Band '75, Mr. Stress Blues Band '72-73

« on: February 12, 2016, 09:36:32 AM »

Thanks everyone for attending an X___X gig wherever you may live. Post tour sale until March 5...buy the X_X LP or CD with a $5 discount by entering this code at checkout:

toursale

http://www.smogveil.com/collections/frontpage/products/copy-of-x___x-albert-aylers-ghosts-live-at-the-yellow-ghetto-lp

Mr Stress LPs ship on or before May 13. 

We'll be announcing the Robert Bensick Band release date in a couple weeks.  Test pressings have been approved and all art parts are at the pressing plant.  Standing in line with everyone else...here's another track from the record:

https://soundcloud.com/franklisa/830-pm-victoria-haze

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Music Shit / Re: Fanzines

« on: February 05, 2016, 07:43:34 AM »

Cool article by Sam LeFebvre about the current state of print zines:
http://www.fvckthemedia.com/issue54/inimitable-noise

Any article that quotes Ron House is worth reading...

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Music Shit / Re: Reissuing old releases - how to find out who has the right to what...

« on: January 27, 2016, 08:19:34 PM »

4.) Expect members peripheral to the the recording session -- like the guy who played the tambourine -- to come out of the woodwork asking for money.

5.) Avoid using any photos of the band without consulting the photographer if he/she is known (especially if they're still working). The may be willing to let you use their work for next to nothing/free. Some don't care and shoot for the moon.

2 real good points there.  That guy who plays one little lead on 1 song--get him to sign off for sure.  It might cost you $50 or less, but you'll make a friend who might have a whole closet full of masters that'll keep you busy for awhile.  Note that if someone tells you someone provided a performance as a 'work for hire'--be very careful about that.  Such an arrangement always always has a written agreement at the basis of it and that written agreement has to be very specific about the arrangement.

Photographers are sorta the same way.  No one shoots just 1 photo--they have a whole roll or more.  Make a friend and you'll get access to never before published stuff.  Can't find the photographer?  Be sure to check Getty Images.

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Music Shit / Re: Reissuing old releases - how to find out who has the right to what...

« on: January 27, 2016, 04:58:24 PM »

1. use every resource you can think of to find people: Google searches, Facebook searches;

wow, that truly is some next-level sleuthing

And you start where--paging through old white pages?

Here's an example.  We've been searching for the last couple months for a composer who has one and one only Discogs and IMDB entry.  We started by canvassing a number of people who we believed were his contemporaries and got nowhere, except for 1 person who provided 1 single guitar lead on 1 song on an unreleased studio LP recorded in 1975 that we have out later this year.  2 months of searching, and that's all we got.  The potential source tells us, oh yeah, he's on Facebook, and whaddya know, there's the guy hiding in plain sight.

So, yeah, any place that contains personal information for 700 million people (well, Facebook says that have 1.55 billion users, but I'll assume half are fake), is a good place to start.

And, yes, we check old white pages as well.  That's how we first figured out that Laughner, Harvey Pekar, and Tim Wright were neighbors for a short time.  But there's a cost in doing that.  And, when you're just starting a label, free searches in a giant database seem like a reasonably good way to get your feet wet.

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Music Shit / Re: Reissuing old releases - how to find out who has the right to what...

« on: January 27, 2016, 09:50:54 AM »

Welcome to my world, first step, become a detective...

1. use every resource you can think of to find people: Google searches, Facebook searches;

2. keep an accurate record of everyone you talk to--you never know where an important clue may turn up;

3. search as well using common misspellings;

4. my experience: phone contacts are much more valuable so get ready to burn up your monthly cell talk minutes;

5. dead people leave relatives--these may be the rightsholders;

6. it's not uncommon that rights fall into black holes, in which case, good luck if you take the risk of a release (we don't);

7. check the usual sources on publishing as this may lead to a rights holder.