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Starflyer 59`s Silver and Gold albums reissued on June 28th
anyone into MBV and the JAMC should dig these records 
Stooges-Fun House reissue Aug16th:
http://www.rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=73175″>http://www.rhino.com/store/ProductDetai … mber=73175
Sounds pleasing, although think I have all the extras of Funhouse as I picked up Rhinos boxed set of Funhouse couple years back, for a couple hundred bucks…seems like this might be a better price
They’re also reissuing the first Stooges…
Each expanded version will feature the original album, plus a bonus disc of demos and rarities. The bonus CD of the self-titled debut has 10 previously unreleased cuts, such as producer John Cale’s original mixes of "No Fun", "Little Doll", "I Wanna Be Your Dog", "1969", a full version of "No Fun", and three alternate vocal takes.
Sounds VERY pleasing…
Richard Hell is reissusing/remastered versions of some pretty pleasing songs…Richard Hell to Release Career Retrospective
James Gregory reports:
Grab a jar of Bedhead and spike up that mohawk indie rock girls, because one of punk’s most ragged founding fathers, Richard Hell, is prepping his first career-spanning highlights package set for release next month. Trickling into stores on August 2, Spurts: The Richard Hell Story draws from the length of Hell’s recorded career both as a solo artist and with such seminal groups as Television, the Neon Boys, The Heartbreakers (of the Johnny Thunders persuasion, kids– no "Free Fallin’" here), and short-lived 90s super-ish group Dim Stars– which he helmed alongside Thurston Moore.The 21 selections have all been remastered (and in some cases remixed) by Hell, who according to CMJ considers the package thusly: "My best album, definitely my favorite," and notes that he’s "been wanting to compile it for a long time." The collection is being distributed by Sire/Rhino, and the trackist looks like this:
01 Love Comes in Spurts" (Preliminary Version) – The Neon Boys
02 That’s All I Know (Right Now) – The Neon Boys
03 Chinese Rocks – The Heartbreakers
04 Blank Generation – Richard Hell and The Voidoids
05 Liars Beware – Richard Hell and The Voidoids
06 Walking On The Water – Richard Hell and The Voidoids
07 Love Comes In Spurts – Richard Hell and The Voidoids
08 The Kid With The Replaceable Head – Richard Hell and The Voidoids
09 Crack Of Dawn – Richard Hell and The Voidoids
10 Time – Richard Hell and The Voidoids
11 Ignore That Door – Richard Hell and The Voidoids
12 Lowest Common Dominator – Richard Hell and The Voidoids
13 Downtown At Dawn – Richard Hell and The Voidoids
14 Dim Star Theme – Dim Stars
15 Baby Huey (Do You Wanna to Dance) – Dim Stars
16 Monkey – Dim Stars
17 The Night Is Coming On – Dim Stars
18 Oh – Richard Hell and The Voidoids
19 She’ll Be Coming (For Dennis Cooper) – Richard Hell
20 Rip Off – Dim Stars
21 Blank Generation (Live) – TelevisionIn other news, Hell will also be embarking on a brief book tour late this summer in support of his new novel, Godlike, which sees release on July 15. The New York street scribe, who virtually traded in his guitar collection for a typewriter in the mid-90’s, has a number of published works under his belt– including poetry and nonfiction– and has often been hailed by critics for his vivid junkie culture imagery. Hell currently has seven dates lined up in five major markets, and fans can check out our very own punk Renaissance man at the following readings:
09-08 New York, NY – McNally Robinson
09-21 Seattle, WA – Hugo House
09-23 Portland, OR – Powell’s Bookstore
09-27 San Francisco, CA – Make-Out Room
09-29 San Francisco, CA – City Lights
10-01 Venice, CA – Beyond Baroque
10-26 New York, NY – St. Mark’s Poetry Project* Richard Hell: http://www.richardhell.com/”>http://www.richardhell.com/
…Cat Power is in the studio, i think somewhere in Tennessee, probably a country feel to this album; also she is doing a track i think on the opcoming Flaming Lips album to be released someday maybe…oh her album comes out early 2006, but who’s counting?
 Lemonheads as well…
New Lemonheads Lineup Working on Album
Zach Vowell reports:
When the Great Alt-Rock Cash-In finally sputtered out, Atlantic Records dropped the Lemonheads. Years later Evan Dando re-emergesd with a solo album on Bar/None Records and a steady girlfriend. That was 2003. Then earlier this month, while not many people were busy calculating that it had been nine years since their last album, a Lemonheads lineup consisting of Dando and two members of the Descendents appeared unexpectedly in Spain at the Benicassim Festival to play a hit-laden, career-spanning set list. That could have been a fluke, but no! It appears that the 21st century will witness a Lemonheads LP after all.According to several sources, including the band’s manager, this new Descendent-heavy incarnation of the Lemonheads have been recording at Blasting Room Studios in Fort Collins, Colo. The new album, according to MTV.com, will be released some time next spring.
Conveniently enough, the Lemonheads will be setting out on a tour once they finish recording the new album. They have one appearance lined up already: October 2 at the Across the Narrows Festival in New York. Maybe we’ll even see a tour by the end of the year– it’s hard to tell. Evan Dando’s webhome is under construction and there’s no record label to contact. Perhaps he’s just out for a pack of smokes.
I just dled a Descendents disc last week…
Quote:Years later Evan Dando re-emergesd with a solo album on Bar/None Records and a steady girlfriend.something tells me evan dando doesnt have any problems in the girlfriend department…. he should have his own line of hair care products.. oooo that hair is so silky, like shawn white’s !!!
Mark Kozelek Records Modest Mouse Covers Album
Rob Kleckner reports:
Usually, if you’re going to do an album of covers, they’re going to be standards– Elvis, the Beatles, Sinatra, etc. Besides, it’s not too often that someone releases an album comprised entirely of songs written by another artist, let alone an artist that has been music for less time than you have. According to Billboard.com, Red House Painters/Sun Kil Moon frontman Mark Kozelek is preparing an album of Modest Mouse covers. Although Kozelek won’t be the first to cover Modest Mouse (Kidz Bop and Ben Lee beat you to it, Mark), he’ll certainly be the first to release a full disc of ’em.****EDITOR’S NOTE: A reader informed us of the existence of Picking on Modest Mouse, a bluegrass tribute album by the Alabama band Iron Horse. Pitchfork stands corrected… and in complete awe of these people.****
Kozelek seems to have a knack for fucking around with other people’s work. In 2001, he released What’s Next to the Moon, a collection of AC/DC covers. You’d think all this covering was a case of lazy songwriting, but Kozelek completely rearranges the songs, often leaving the lyrics as the only recognizable trace.
The Modest Mouse disc, titled Tiny Cities will be the first release on Kozelek’s own Caldo Verde label, and it will be attributed to Sun Kil Moon. The songs have been selected from all over the Modest Mouse catalogue, including 2004’s Good News For People Who Love Bad News.< Billboard says that the slowcore god “injects a sense of optimism into ‘Neverending Math Equation’ and strips the modern rock hit ‘Ocean Breathes Salty’ down to its inherent bittersweet reflections on past and present.â€?
The album is due November 1 in North America, and will be released internationally by Rough Trade. Also, Cameron Crowe’s Vinyl Films will handle– you guessed it!– the vinyl version, which will include an alternate version of "Exit Does Not Exist." You might wonder what the indie rocker and the Almost Famous writer/director have to do with each other. Well, Kozelek played the bassist in that movie’s fictional band, Stillwater, and several of his songs have appeared on Crowe soundtracks.
We wanted to reach Isaac Brock for comment, but we’re scared of him. Tracklist:
01 Exit Does Not Exist
02 Tiny Cities Made of Ashes
03 Neverending Math Equation
04 Space Travel Is Boring
05 Dramamine
06 Jesus Christ Was an Only Child
07 Four Fingered Fisherman
08 Grey Ice Water
09 Convenient Parking
10 Trucker’s Atlas
11 Ocean Breathes SaltyAs previously reported, Kozelek is currently on tour with Low frontman Alan Sparhawk under the name Retribution Gospel Choir. His website recently announced his intention to sell “a few favorite guitars� to benefit the victims of Hurricane Katrina, as soon as he returns. RGC dates:
09-07 Los Angeles, CA – Spaceland *
09-08 Costa Mesa, CA – Detroit *
09-09 Pioneertown, CA – Pappy and Harriet’s Pioneertown Palace (Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven Camp Out)$
09-10 Tucson, AZ – Plush *
09-12 Denton, TX – Hailey’s *
09-13 Austin, TX – Emo’s *
09-14 Houston, TX – Mary Jane’s Fat Cat *
09-17 New York, NY – Lit Lounge (Chairkickers’ CMJ showcase) *#* with No Wait Wait
$ with Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven, Monks of Doom, Johnny Hickman
# Retribution Gospel Choir minus Mark Kozelek, with Kid Dakota, The Keep Aways* Pitchfork Review: Sun Kil Moon: Ghosts of the Great Highway
* Pitchfork News: Alan Sparhawk, Mark Kozelek Are Retribution Gospel Choir
* Sun Kil Moon: http://www.sunkilmoon.com”>http://www.sunkilmoon.comKozelek is unpredictable so it`s no surprise.Next will probably be an all Slipknot covers album
He`s always been good at covers,he turned McCartney`s Silly Love Songs into a Neil Young-ish lament;it should be interesting what he`ll do with this.Cowboy Dan is`nt on it? 
from pitchforkmedia…
Decemberists, Thermals Cover Elliott Smith
Zach Vowell and Amy Phillips report:
October 21 will mark the two-year anniversary of Elliott Smith’s untimely demise. Has it really been that long? What the hell have I been doing? Elliott Smith has released an album, contributed to a soundtrack, and had a book written about him, and he’s been dead. Man, do I feel lame.But enough complaining… As previously reported, several of Elliott’s friends in his former home of Psortland, Oregon have been recording their own versions of Smith’s sad, beautiful compositions. On February 7, 2006, their hard work and loving dedication will pay off, when the Portland-based label Expunged Records will release the covers compilation To: Elliott From: Portland. Ten percent of the proceeds will go to the Elliott Smith Foundation’s charity, Free Arts for Abused Children.
From this stellar lineup, we can only hope that To: Elliott From: NYC and To: Elliott From: Los Angeles aren’t far behind. Highlights include the Decemberists’ take on "Clementine" (we’re assuming that’s not just the Decemberists song of the same name), the Helio Sequence’s "Satellite" and Lifesavas’ (yes, the rap group) "Happiness." The Thermals’ cover of "Ballad of Big Nothing" was recorded by Joanna Bolme, who is the bassist for Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, as well as Elliott’s ex-girlfriend and the mixing engineer on his posthumous album From a Basement on a Hill.
Chamber-popsmith Eric Matthews contributes a (surprise, surprise) dense, lush cover of "Needle in the Hay". In a preview of the tribute’s liner notes, Matthews recalls, "The original version of [‘Needle in the Hay’] was built up with drums, trumpets, a harmonica, and various percussion instruments. In the end Elliott decided to tear back down the arrangement and go for the more starkly acoustic version that we know today. In a tribute to the original version, I added new instrumental sections that produce a mournful and heavy quality that depicts the sad nature of what must have been Elliott’s life and inner mind. The music is pretty but underneath there is a grave solemnity. It is the best tribute to Elliott that I can pay."
Smith’s former Portland roommate (and former Crackerbash frontman) Sean Croghan, takes on a track not found in the troubled troubadour’s discography, "High Times". The song was mined from a batch of unreleased home recordings. Croghan writes in the liner notes of his intentions for the cover: "The song itself is a story, ultimately prophetic in regard to Elliott’s relationship with drugs, of some soul here in Portland (oh yes it reeks of this city) trying to cop for the first time. I wanted to try to create the tension I felt in the lyrics, the sense of a fate that is unavoidable and catastrophic."
Here’s the tracklist in ABC order, since the final sequence hasn’t been finalized yet:
Amelia: "Between the Bars"
Sexton Blake: "Rose Parade"
Sean Croghan: "High Times"
Crosstide: "Angeles"
The Decemberists: "Clementine"
Dolorean: "The Biggest Lie"
The Helio Sequence: "Satellite"
Lifesavas: "Happiness"
Eric Matthews: "Needle in the Hay" Society of People of Ambience and Elegance: "Speed Trials" Swords: "I Didn’t Understand"
The Thermals: "Ballad of Big Nothing"
To Live and Die in L.A.: "King’s Crossing"
Jeff Trott: "Wouldn’t Mama Be Proud"
We Are Telephone: "Division Days"Elliott Smith covers seem to be all the rage these days. The man himself appears on the soundtrack to the new movie Thumbsucker warbling Big Star’s "Thirteen" and Cat Stevens’ "Trouble". Jimmy Eat World’s new EP, Stay on My Side Tonight, features a version of the old Heatmiser song "Not Half Right." And classical pianist Christopher O’Riley, famous for his takes on Radiohead songs, has recorded a collection of Smith covers entitled Home to Oblivion: An Elliott Smith Tribute by Christopher O’Riley, scheduled for a spring 2006 release on World Villiage / Harmonia Mundi. The "provisional" tracklist, according to O’Riley’s website:
01 Coast to Coast
02 Let’s Get Lost
03 I Didn’t Understand
04 Speed Trials
05 I Better Be Quiet Now
06 Roman Candle
07 Satellite
08 Independence Day
09 Cupid’s Trick
10 Oh Well, Okay
11 No Life
12 Between the Bars
13 Christian Brothers
14 Everything Means Nothing to Me
15 Waltz #1
16 Not Half Right
17 Stupidity Tries
18 ByeI just ordered this one from Rhino Records, looks (and hopefully sounds…) great…
[img]http://www.glitterhouse.de/img/covers/childrenofnuggetsgross.gif[/img]
(click on the pic for details & trackliisting)
Flaming Lips have finally finished filming their movie Christmas on Mars, hopefully it doesn’t take several more years to edit. Here’s the link to the pitchforkmedia story, they have some info on the upcoming album as well. fav line from Wayne Coyne…
Wayne Coyne told Billboard.com, "We transferred it all down to computer land within the last couple of days. Now I just have to remember what it is that we were trying to say [laughs]."
Slowdive reissues coming out soon, here’s the tracklistings…
is set for a November 14 release, with the other two following shortly. Until that hallowed date arrives, why not turn your gaze to these delectable tracklistings?:
Just For A Day:
Disc 1:
01 Spanish Air
02 Celia’s Dream
03 Catch the Breeze
04 Ballad of Sister Sue
05 Erik’s Song
06 Waves
07 Brighter
08 The Sadman
09 PrimalDisc 2:
01 Slowdive
02 Avalyn 1
03 Avalyn 2
04 Morningrise
05 She Calls
06 Losing Today
07 Golden Hair
08 Shine
09 Albatross
10 Catch the Breeze (Peel Session)
11 Song 1 (Peel Session)
12 Golden Hair (Peel Session)Souvlaki:
Disc 1:
01 Alison
02 Machine Gun
03 40 Days
04 Sing
05 Here She Comes
06 Souvlaki Space Station
07 When the Sun Hits
08 Altogether
09 Melon Yellow
10 DaggerDisc 2:
01 Some Velvet Morning
02 So Tired
03 Moussaka Chaos
04 In Mind
05 Good Day Sunshine
06 Missing You
07 Country Rain
08 In Mind (Bandulu Mix)
09 In Mind (Reload Mix)Pygmalion:
01 Rutti
02 Crazy gor You
03 Miranda
04 Trellisaze
05 Cello 07 Visions of La
08 Blue Skied An’ Clear
09 All of UsAccording to Sanctuary, the reissues were overseen by the members of Slowdive and will feature liner notes penned by Melody Maker and NME scribe Ian Watson. According to me, the reissues will also be fecking brilliant. Believe it.
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