Last week, there seemed to be a definitive slowdown in the number of albums and reissues that came out on vinyl. Thankfully, that’s not the case this week. There are enough new projects that were released on vinyl yesterday that crate diggers would have to take a out a loan to buy it all. Not only did groups like Junior Boys and Against Me drop new albums in LP format, but there are some stellar reissues from a lot of groups that you’ll probably love. After the jump, vinyl columnist Jason Ferguson gives you the scoop on some new, and old gems, that are in record stores as of this week. Amazon.com has an exclusive lockdown on a vinyl/CD package of Maxwell’s new album, BLACKSummers’night, although import 2LP versions may be popping up in local record shops. Also on the limited tip is the new EP from St. Louis’ Radical Sons; their Throwing Knives set is limited to just 300 copies, with each of the covers designed and hand-screened by the group. Reissue-wise, this week is something of a bonanza, with legendary dreampop trio Galaxie 500 finding their entire Rough Trade catalog getting repressed on vinyl, while Matador continues on their rewaxing campaign, with catalog discs from Yo La Tengo, Cat Power and the New Pornographers. Mopesters rejoice (as much as possible): the Smiths’ catalog is again available on vinyl, although these 180g remastered repressings are import-only. New Releases Against Me: The Original Cowboy
Billy Boy on Poison: Drama Junkie Queen
Black Keys: The Big Come Up
Bowerbirds: Upper Air
Broken Records: Until the Earth Begins to Part
Billy Childish: Archive from 1959 (3LP) Discovery: LP
Donnas: Donnas Greatest Hits Vol 16
Jackie-O Motherfucker: Ballads of the RevolutionJunior Boys: Begone Dull Care
King Midas Sound: Dub Heavy: Hearts and Ghost
Mannequin Men: Lose Your Illusion, Too
Maxwell: BLACKsummers’ night
Cass McCombs: Catacombs Meanderthals: Desire Lines Murder By Guitar: MBG
Nebula: Heavy Psych
Oneida: Rated O (3LP) Pine Hill Haints: To Win Or Lose
Radical Sons: Throwing Knives EP (limited to 300 copies, all covers handmade) Sleep Whale: Little Brite
Sleepy Sun: EmbraceSon Volt: American Central Dust
Soulive: Uphere
We Were Promised Jetpacks: These Four Walls
Zs: Music of the Modern White
Various Artists: The Sound of WonderReissues: Cat Power: The Covers Record (Matador 180g) Cluster: Grosses Wasser
Corrosion of Conformity: Animosity
Galaxie 500: Today, On Fire, This Is Our Music Guru Guru: Kaenguru, Guru Guru (180g LP) Johann Johannson: Englaborn
Bob Marley: Catch A Fire, Exodus, Legend (Polygram [UK] 180g) The New Pornographers: Electric Version (Matador 180g) Quicksilver Messenger Service: Happy Trails (Pure Pleasure 180g) Scorpions: Lonesome Crow
The Smiths: Meat Is Murder, The Queen Is Dead, The Smiths, Strangeways Here We Come (Rhino [UK] 180g)Yo La Tengo: I Can Hear the Heart Beating As One, Electro-O-Pura, And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out (Matador 180g)–Jason Ferguson
