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R. Kelly's 'Trapped in the Closet' Will Return on IFC

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 03/21/2012 - 11:10
R Kelly will debut a new set of installments of his "hip-hopera" Trapped in the Closet on IFC later this year The previous 22 videos in the series – in which the R&B star narrates an increasingly complex soap opera as actors depict the action on screen – were a...

'Portlandia' Renewed for Third Season

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 03/21/2012 - 08:45
Portlandia the sketch comedy show starring Wild Flag's Carrie Brownstein and Saturday Night Live's Fred Armisen has been renewed for a third season Deadline Hollywood reports IFC announced the renewal yesterday at their first-ever upfront presentation in New York in which they unveiled a slate of programming that also includes a...

'Hunger Games' Sells More Advance Tickets Than Any Non-Sequel

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 03/21/2012 - 08:40
The Hunger Games has sold more advance tickets than any other non-sequel movie Entertainment Weekly reports According to data from Fandango the film adaptation of the hit novel has sold out over 2000 showtimes in advance of its premiere on Friday and tickets for the movie currently account for 92...

Earl Sweatshirt Makes Live Debut in NYC

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 03/21/2012 - 08:35
Rapper Earl Sweatshirt made his live debut with his Odd Future cohorts at Wednesday night's sold out Hammerstein Ballroom concert in New York confirming rumors that had been circulating in the days before The concert marked his first public appearance since returning from a reform boarding school in Samoa where...

Camp Bisco Taps Skrillex, Bassnectar to Headline 2012 Festival

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 03/21/2012 - 08:05
The Disco Biscuits Skrillex and Bassnectar will headline the 11th annual Camp Bisco festival taking place on July 12th through 14th at the Indian Lookout Country Club in Mariaville New York As always the event will be hosted and anchored by the Disco Biscuits who will headline each night of...

Exclusive Stream: Joe Walsh's 'Analog Man'

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 03/21/2012 - 08:00
Click to listen to Joe Walsh's 'Analog Man' Joe Walsh's first solo album in two decades finds the former James Gang member and longtime Eagle contemplating life in the digital age Analog Man is co-produced by the guitarist and Jeff Lynne and features Walsh's brother-in-law – Ringo Starr – on drums...

KISS and Motley Crue Announce 'The Tour'

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Wed, 03/21/2012 - 07:25
KISS and Mötley Crüe gathered today at LA's Roosevelt Hotel to announce "The Tour" a joint summer package that kicks off July 20th in Bristow Virginia and runs through September 23rd in Hartford Connecticut Each band will play about 90 minutes and KISS will close every night Calling...

Doomtree Build Collective Hip-Hop Force

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Tue, 03/20/2012 - 18:15
Doomtree MC Mike Mictlan stood on a beaten wooden stage at Austin’s Beauty Bar on Sunday the club’s closing night; he delivered the impassioned lines of "Team The Best Team" while the other four mic wielders in the group formed a semi-circle behind him stomping out the song’s deliberate beat...

Tour Alert: Jack White Extends His Solo Dates

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Tue, 03/20/2012 - 16:20
Jack WhiteIn anticipation of his first solo album Blunderbuss – out April 24th – former White Stripes frontman Jack White has announced a handful of American headlining dates for the month of May These shows come as an addition to his list of appearances at several major festivals including the...

Winter Music Conference: 10 Acts to Watch

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Tue, 03/20/2012 - 14:30
The elite of electronic dance music have been congregating at the Winter Music Conference in Miami for the past 26 years but this year's festival promises to be the biggest one yet thanks to the genre's rise in mainstream popularity The event's climax is the massive three-day Ultra Music Festival...

City of Strays: Detroit's Epidemic of 50,000 Abandoned Dogs

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Tue, 03/20/2012 - 14:15
Not long after moving back to Detroit I stumbled across my first stray dog This one was dead – a female pit bull white curled on its back I'd been taking a walk in a depopulated industrial zone The pit didn't appear to have been torn up in a dogfight...

Machine Gun Kelly Tempers His Rage on 'Half Naked' EP

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Tue, 03/20/2012 - 12:45
Machine Gun Kelly is more vulnerable than his "wild boy" persona lets on The Cleveland Ohio rapper whose clamorous live sets and fanbase of "ragers" have branded him a contender for hip-hop's resident rocker reveals a softer side on his Half Naked & Almost Famous EP his first...

Sub Pop Makes Record Store Day 2012 Worth Living with Releases from Beach House, Blitzen Trapper, and Shabazz Palaces

Sub Pop Blog - Tue, 03/20/2012 - 12:39

Pre-orders for the new Beach House Album Bloom start today, March 20th!

Terminal Sales Vol. 5: Mixed Nuts, Sub Pop’s FREE 16-track 2012 label sampler will also be available on Record Store Day.

We love few things more than Record Store Day. We’ll be demonstrating and celebrating this love on April 21, 2012 with an array of exclusive and limited-edition releases featuring new, rare and unreleased tracks from Beach House, Blitzen Trapper, and Shabazz Palaces. On this same day, we will also release our FREE 2012 label sampler, Terminal Sales Vol. 5: Mixed Nuts, a 16-track collection of new, rare, and, in some cases, previously released tracks from Beachwood Sparks, Jaill, Shearwater, THEESatisfaction, Spoek Mathambo, Debo Band, King Tuff, and 9 more. All Sub Pop Record Store Day releases come with exclusive and ridiculously handsome artwork. Full track lists and release details are below.

In further Beach House news: fans can now pre-order the band’s May 15, 2012 release Bloom from iTunes (Pre-order Bloom from iTunes and get a download of the song “Myth” instantly), Amazon, Insound, (Pre-order from Insound and get a free Beach House poster) and Sub Pop. Fans who pre-order the vinyl LP format of the new record directly from Sub Pop will receive the limited, white vinyl Loser Edition. All pre-orders (CD and LP) will receive a bonus poster. A new Bloom t-shirt design is also available for pre-order from subpop.com.

Beach House
“Lazuli” b/w “Equal Mind” 7" single
(Limited-edition of 2,400 copies on blue vinyl)
1. Lazuli
2. Equal Mind

Beach House
Bloom
Pre-order: iTunes / Amazon / Insound / Sub Pop

Blitzen Trapper
“Hey Joe” b/w “Skirts on Fire” 7" single
(Limited-edition of 1,800 on yellow vinyl)
1. Hey Joe
2. Skirts on Fire

Shabazz Palaces
Live at KEXP 12" EP
(From the band’s spectacular 2011 live session on KEXP, one of the station’s most popular live sessions, limited-edition of 2,000 copies on purple vinyl)
1. bop hard
2. An echo from the hosts that profess infinitum
3. a mess, the booth that soaks in palacian musk
4. free press and curl

Various Artists
Terminal Sales Vol. 5: Mixed Nuts
1. Shearwater “You as You Were” (demo version)
2. Memoryhouse “Walk With Me”
3. feedtime “rock n roll”
4. Spoek Mathambo “Kites”
5. THEESatisfaction “QueenS”
6. Poor Moon “People in Her Mind”
7. Retribution Gospel Choir “The Stone (Revolution!)”
8. Shabazz Palaces “bop hard”(From the Live at KEXP 12” EP)
9. Father John Misty “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings”
10. Beach House “Myth”
11. King Tuff “Bad Thing”
12. Jaill “Waste a Lot of Things”
13. Beachwood Sparks “Forget the Song”
14. Debo Band “Asha Gedawo”
15. Husky “History’s Door”
16. Niki & The Dove “DJ, Ease My Mind”

More About Record Store Day
This is the one day that all of the independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the art of music. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day and hundreds of artists in the United States and in various countries across the globe make special appearances and performances. Festivities include performances, cook-outs, body painting, meet and greets with artists, parades, djs spinning records and on and on. Metallica officially kicked off Record Store Day at Rasputin Music in San Francisco on April 19, 2008 and Record Store Day is now celebrated the third Saturday every April. In 2012, Record Store Day takes place April 21st.

Categories: Record Label News

Marilyn Manson, Johnny Depp to Cover Simon's 'You're So Vain'

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Tue, 03/20/2012 - 11:55
Marilyn Manson's upcoming Born Villain LP will feature a guest appearance by his friend Johnny Depp who collaborates with the macabre rocker on a cover of Carly Simon's "You're So Vain" The album due May 1st will be released on Manson's own Hell Etc label in conjunction with Cooking Vinyl/Downtown...

Exclusive Album Premiere: Zeus, 'Busting Visions'

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Tue, 03/20/2012 - 11:55
Click to listen to Zeus's album 'Busting Visions' Toronto's Zeus play a rootsy melodic brand of rock that earned the band consideration for Canada's Polaris Music Prize upon the release of their 2010 debut Say Us They've been issuing a steady stream of singles leading up to the release of their...

Flaming Lips Collaborate With Famous 'Fwends' on Record Store Day Exclusive

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Tue, 03/20/2012 - 10:40
The Flaming Lips have teamed up with a variety of artists including Ke$ha Bon Iver Yoko Ono My Morning Jacket Nick Cave Erykah Badu and Chris Martin of Coldplay for The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends a limited edition double album that will be released exclusively through retailers participating in...

'Smash' Recap: Working Out the Kinks

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Tue, 03/20/2012 - 10:02
Places everyone! Things are coming to a head on Smash as the investor workshop for Marilyn The Musical is here It’s time for lights camera action! After doing the nasty last week Julia and Michael are acting like a couple of teenagers who have a crush rather than two 40-somethings having...

Playlist: The Ting Tings' 'Sounds From Nowheresville' Inspirations

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Tue, 03/20/2012 - 10:00
The Ting Tings' second album "dips into ska Eighties electro and power ballads" Frontwoman Katie White offered up a playlist of songs that influenced her and bandmate Jules de Martino while they recorded the new set "Hey Ladies" Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique is the best album of the Beastie Boys for...

Exclusive Stream: The Mars Volta, 'Noctourniquet'

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Tue, 03/20/2012 - 10:00
Click to listen to The Mars Volta's album 'Noctourniquet' The Mars Volta are set to release their sixth studio album Noctourniquet the band's first since 2009 Bandmates Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez are about to embark on a busy year having announced a reunion of their previous band At the Drive-In...

'The Voice' Recap: One-Name Wonders

Rolling Stone: Rock n Roll blog - Tue, 03/20/2012 - 09:45
The big question after last week's episode was whether this show could possibly produce a stranger performance than the misguided torturous Nirvana cover that left all who heard it in dire need of a hug This week we already have the answer "Yes of course And furthermore duh!" Unsurprisingly the...

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