4AD to reissue The Birthday Party's Junkyard - 07.24.2012


On Aug. 27, 4AD will reissue The Birthday Party's demented post-punk classic Junkyard on vinyl and CD. The vinyl will come with a bonus 7-inch of "Release the Bats" b/w "Blast Off," which will also be on the CD as bonus tracks.

Tracklist:

1 She's Hit
2 Dead Joe
3 The Dim Locator
4 Hamlet (Pow, Pow, Pow)
5 Several Sins
6 Big-Jesus-Trash-Can
7 Kiss Me Black
8 6" Gold Blade
9 Kewpie Doll
10 JunkYard
11 Release the Bats [bonus]
12 Blast Off [bonus]

Video: Andrew Bird - "Give It Away" - 07.24.2012
A strange birthday party is the subject of Andrew Bird's new video from Break It Yourself, in which a sort of creepy pinata man entertains children. It grows oddly touching at the end though. Watch and you'll see what we mean.

The Velvet Underground & Nico to be reissued as six-disc box set - 07.24.2012


The Velvet Underground's legendary debut album, The Velvet Underground & Nico, will receive a huge, expansive reissue in honor of its 45th anniversary. On Oct. 1, Universal will release the album as a six-disc box set, including mono and stereo versions of the album, a live show from Columbus, Ohio, and Nico's 1967 album Chelsea Girl. There will also be a rare studio session from 1966, and 1966 rehearsal at Andy Warhol's Factory.

Tracklist:

Disc One:
The Velvet Underground & Nico [Stereo Version]

1 Sunday Morning
2 I'm Waiting for the Man
3 Femme Fatale
4 Venus in Furs
5 Run Run Run
6 All Tomorrow's Parties
7 Heroin
8 There She Goes Again
9 I'll Be Your Mirror
10 The Black Angel's Death Song
11 European Son
Alternate Versions:
12 All Tomorrow's Parties [Alternate Single Voice Version]
13 European Son [Alternate Version]
14 Heroin [Alternate Version]
15 All Tomorrow's Parties [Alternate Instrumental Mix]
16 I'll Be Your Mirror [Alternate Mix]

Disc Two:
The Velvet Underground & Nico [Mono Version]

1 Sunday Morning
2 I'm Waiting for the Man
3 Femme Fatale
4 Venus in Furs
5 Run Run Run
6 All Tomorrow's Parties
7 Heroin
8 There She Goes Again
9 I'll Be Your Mirror
10 The Black Angel's Death Song
11 European Son
The Singles [Mono]:
12 All Tomorrow's Parties [July 1966]
13 I'll Be Your Mirror [Alternate Ending, July 1966]
14 Sunday Morning [Alternate Mix, December 1966]
15 Femme Fatale [December 1966]

Disc Three:
Nico's Chelsea Girl

1 The Fairest of the Seasons
2 These Days
3 Little Sister
4 Winter Song
5 It Was a Pleasure Then
6 Chelsea Girls
7 I'll Keep It With Mine
8 Somewhere There's a Feather
9 Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams
10 Eulogy to Lenny Bruce

Disc Four:
Scepter Studios Sessions

1 European Son [Alternate Version]
2 The Black Angel's Death Song [Alternate Mix]
3 All Tomorrow's Parties [Alternate Version]
4 I'll Be Your Mirror [Alternate Version]
5 Heroin [Alternate Version]
6 Femme Fatale [Alternate mix]
7 Venus in Furs [Alternate Version]
8 Waiting for the Man [Alternate Version]
9 Run Run Run [Alternate Mix]

The Factory Rehearsals [January 1966]

10 Walk Alone
11 Cracking Up / Venus in Furs
12 Miss Joanie Lee
13 Heroin
14 There She Goes Again [with Nico]
15 There She Goes Again

Disc Five:
Live at Valleydale Ballroom, Columbus, Ohio

1 Melody Laughter
2 Femme Fatale
3 Venus in Furs
4 The Black Angel's Death Song
5 All Tomorrow's Parties [Lou Reed]

Disc Six:
Live at Valleydale Ballroom, Columbus, Ohio

1 Waiting for the Man
2 Heroin
3 Run Run Run
4 The Nothing Song

Video: Torche - "Kicking" - 07.24.2012
Torche goes pretty literal with the title "Kicking" in their latest video from Harmonicraft. The Andrew James Cox-directed clip is a hilarious, epic kickball game with hijinks galore. Watch it below, courtesy of Stereogum.

Torche - "Kicking" (Stereogum Premiere) from stereogum on Vimeo.

New releases: 7/24 - 07.24.2012


Lots of great new music is out today, including the gorgeously packaged new album by Purity Ring, Shrines. Here's a list of albums out today in your local record shop, and at Insound.

The Antlers - Undersea
Eternal Summers - Correct Behavior
Family Band - Grace and Lies
Fang Island - Major
The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten
Guardian Alien - See the World Given to a One Love Entity
Icky Blossoms - Icky Blossoms
Laetitia Sadier - Silencio
Micachu and the Shapes - Never
Om - Advaitic Songs
Passion Pit - Gossamer
Purity Ring - Shrines
Sugar - Copper Blue/Beaster, File Under: Easy Listening (reissues)

Video: Baroness - "Take My Bones Away" - 07.24.2012
Baroness have just debuted the video for "Take My Bones Away," the first single from their incredible new double-album, Yellow & Green. The clip, directed by Jimmy Hubbard, is a black-and-white performance video showing the band doing what they do best: rocking out. Watch it below, courtesy of Rolling Stone.

Caribou announces Daphni album - 07.24.2012


Caribou's Dan Snaith has announced he will be releasing a new album as Daphni, his name for his more dance-oriented electronic musical productions. The album is titled JIAOLONG, is out Oct. 16 via Merge, and will not be a proper follow-up to 2010's Swim, but rather a wholly new and unrelated project.

A press release states that Snaith built a modular synth that plays a prominent role on the album, and Snaith also added the following to describe his inspiration: "I'd fallen back in love with moments in small, dark clubs when a DJ puts on a piece of music that not only can you not identify but that until you heard it, you could not have conceived of it existing. In contrast to live concerts where bands predictably string together the songs from their most recent album, DJs have the potential to blindside you, be genuinely surprising. As a music producer, the parameters of dance music seem wider. The rhythmic underpinnings are liberating rather than constraining, allowing the rest of the elements to coalesce from a broad palette."

Check out the tracklist and video for new song "Ye Ye" below.

Tracklist:

1 Yes, I Know
2 Cos-Ber-Zam - Ne Noya (Daphni Mix)
3 Ye Ye
4 Light
5 Pairs
6 Ahora
7 Jiao
8 Springs
9 Long