The Acid Archives: 2nd Edition Book (Lysergia)

The Acid Archives will delight any lover of rare and great underground music from the 1960s-1970s. All the elements that made the first edition such a hit are here. The A-Z section has been expanded with 90 new pages, detailing many hundreds of previously-unknown LPs. Just as exciting is a brand-new section of special features, where leading experts present the best and rarest albums within exotica, lounge, '70s funk & soul, Southern rock, new age, custom labels and tax scam records. Fully re-designed and now printed entirely in color. The 400 pages in the second edition (100 pages more than the old version) are loaded with color images of obscure and trippy album sleeves, posters and band photos.

Ryan Bingham & the Dead Horses - Junky Star (Lost Highway)

Bingham recently won the Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Original Song for 'The Weary Kind (Theme From Crazy Heart)', which he co-wrote with multi-Grammy Award-winning producer T-Bone Burnett. The collaboration between Bingham and Burnett developed into a solid artistic relationship during the Crazy Heart recordings, and as a result, Burnett signed on to produce Junky Star. Burnett created a recording environment that perfectly complimented the themes and textures of Bingham's reflective songwriting and gravelly voice.

Carl Broemel - All Birds Say (ATO)

Perhaps you knew him way back when, the days of Old Pike or Planet Earth, or maybe you know him as a guitar slinger for My Morning Jacket. Deft in its presentation, the songs on the album unfold in a dream-like stream of consciousness with lush and elegant arrangements. The album's brilliance is displayed in Broemel's effortless delivery. It's the perfect amalgamation of lazy sophistication...whimsical poise and grace. The instrumentation serves as the ideal complement to the Broemel's well crafted set of modern-folk standards; complete with pedal steel, dobro, strings, autoharp, clarinet, bassoon, vibraphone, and a baritone sax, among others. Think Ron Sexsmith, Neko Case, Neal Casal, Andrew Bird, Mose Allison, and early Boz Scaggs singing an orchestrated chorus of breezy ballads and waltzes.

Intelligence - Males (In the Red)

The 6th full-length from Seattle's The Intelligence. This time, main-brain Lars Finberg ditched his usual method of recording all the instruments himself and had his current touring band play on it--Susannah Welbourne, Beren Ekine Huett (Eat Skull) and Chris Woodhouse (Mayyors, FM Knives, Karate Party), who also served as the record's producer. The results are as powerful as a punch in the face by Mike Tyson but with the velvet touch of a dandy fop. Marrying buzzsaw punk, DIY Post-Punk, ramshackle Garage, and Pop hooks aplenty, Males is The Intelligence's finest statement to date.

Jenny & Johnny - I'm Having Fun Now (WB)

Jenny Lewis and Johnathan Rice have been collaborating on and off for years, each contributing to the other's solo records and live shows, but with this record they had a different intention: using their two voices in close harmony and playing practically every instrument themselves. The result is an eleven song thirty-five minute blast of whip-smart rock and roll. This is not a Rilo Kiley record, a Jenny Lewis record, or a Johnathan Rice record. This is Jenny And Johnny.

Quest for Fire - Lights from Paradise (Tee Pee)

Quest For Fire are Canada's most beloved psych rockers. Fusing hard space rock with the plodding primitive thud of fuzzed out garage, QFF set out with pure undeniable power to create their own contemporary take on classic rock and psychedelia. "Lights From Paradise" is a beautiful mash of colorful, dreamy hard rock, Spacemen 3 drone and heavy psychedelic swirl. Quest For Fire includes Chad Ross and Andrew Moszynski formerly of Toronto garage rock greats "The Deadly Snakes" and Mike Max of defunct Hamilton bashers "Cursed".

Philip Selway - Familial (Nonesuch)

A collection of sublimely fragile, haunting, and heartfelt songs that will surprise many, and not only because drummers traditionally don't do this kind of thing. 'Familial' is so persuasively good, it sounds like Selway has always been a singer-songwriter. The morning Phil talks about his record for the very first time, he still has to leave for a rehearsal down the road by an acclaimed Oxford-based band, named Radiohead, for whom Selway has drummed immaculately and imaginatively for the last 20 years. And with the admission, 'It's a cardinal sin for drummers to come in to rehearsals with the comment 'I've got this song'!' He knows the time has come for his songs, put on ice when drumming took over in his late teens, to emerge into the light.

Sahara Smith - Myth of the Heart (Traffic)

"Sahara is the best new artist I've heard in years." - T-Bone Burnett. Located 28 miles southwest of Austin, Wimberley, TX, boasts natural springs and gravesites of early pioneers. It's also been the hometown to Sahara Smith a stunning, young singer-songwriter who started performing at age 12, and first garnered national attention at age 15 when she placed second in a contest for young songwriters on A Prairie Home Companion. The album, helmed by T-Bone, features many of Burnett's first-call session players, including drummer Jay Bellerose, guitarist Marc Ribot, and bassist Dennis Crouch.

Richard Thompson - Dream Attic (Shout Factory)

Richard Thompson, one of the most distinguished guitarists and songwriters of our time, returns with Dream Attic, a collection of 13 brand-new songs recorded in front of a live audiences during a February 2010 West Coast tour. By recording Dream Attic on stage, Thompson was able to capture the interaction between himself and his band members, who between them add acoustic guitar, mandolin, violin, sax, bass and drums into the mix. Throughout, listeners are treated not only to phenomenal musicianship, but also a typically diverse and strong set of new songs.

VA - Field Recordings From Alan Lomax's Southern Journey 1959-1960 LPs (Mississippi)

"In 1959 & 1960, at the height of the Folk Revival, Alan Lomax undertook the first-ever stereo field recording trip through the American South to document its still thriving vernacular musical culture. He traveled through Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Georgia, and North Carolina, making over 70 hrs of recordings. To celebrate the Southern Journey's 50th anniversary, Mississippi Recs and the Alan Lomax Collection have collaborated on 5 commemorative LPs, spanning the breadth of Lomax's Southern recordings, drawing on new transfers of the original 1/4" tapes, and featuring a considerable amount of previously unreleased material. Each volume is being sold separately with its own distinctive packaging. All come with a 12-page booklet featuring many never before published photos.

VA - The History Of Indian Film Music 10CD BOX (Times Square)

The first ever authentic historic collection of Bollywood music tracing its history from its beginning in 1930 to the present. The 168 tracks feature leading vocalists including Lata Mangeshkar, Mohd. Rafi, Asha Bhosle, Kishore Kumar, Hemant Kumar, Geeta Dutt, Sonu Niigaam and many, many more. The development of Indian film music is traced from being overtly classical to being influenced by jazz and rock & roll in the 60s and new age sounds in the 1970s, thanks to the musical genius of RD Burman. Later, the 80s & 90s sections introduce other influences like disco and hip hop, culminating in the 2000 section where Sufi and folk begin to appear and melody once again makes a comeback. Accompanied by a hardbound book tracing the history of the music with rare pictures.

VA - Hookup Klub Round One (Hozac)

Yes, its finally here, all on one handly format for accessing the hottest cuts from the first Round of the HoZac singles club, along with two previously unreleased bonus tracks by Teepee and Idle Times. This compilation spans the first 10 elusive subscription-only 7" records released from 2009-2010, featuring rare tracks by Dum Dum Girls, Woven Bones, Box Elders, Flight, White Mystery, Teepee, Idle Times, Mother of Tears, Art Thieves, and Teeth (the elusive Blank Dogs / Spider side project), and is not to be missed.

The Vinyl Zone (get into the groove!)

Awesome Color - Massa Hypnos LP (Ecstatic Peace)
Banque Allemande - Eins, Zwei LP (SS)
Black Time - More Songs about Motorcycles and Death LP (Wrench)
Chinese Restaurants - Summer Romance 7" (SS) Coolies - Master LP (Chapter Music)
Ducktails - s/t LP [repress] (Not Not Fun)
Son House - Grinnin' in Your Face 7" (Slow to Speak)
Oneohtrix Point Never (w/ Antony / Fennesz) - Returnal 7" (Mego)
The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers LP [reissue] (Third Man)
Les Rallizes Denudes - LP reissues (Phoenix)
Speed, Glue & Shinki - s/t LP (Phoenix)

Also Released This Week

Bobby Bare Jr - A Storm, A Tree, My Mothers Head (Bloodshot)
James Blackshaw - All is Falling (Young God)
The Clientele - Minotaur EP (Merge)
Devil's Brigade - s/t (Hellcat)
Efterklang - [CD reissues] (Leaf)
Jarrod Gorbel - Devil's Made a New Friend (Burning House)
The Heads - Relaxing With... (Rooster)
Roy Jay - Fairfax Avenue (Rock Ridge)
Sammy Kershaw - Better Than I Used to Be (Big Hit)
Limes - Rhinestone River (Goner)
Lower Dens - Twin-Hand Movement (Gnomonsong)
Murderdolls - Women and Children Last (Roadrunner)
Sonny and the Sunsets - Tomorrow is Alright (Fat Possum)
Street Dogs - s/t (Hellcat)
Super Wild Horses - Fifteen (Hozac)
Tub Ring - Secret Handshakes (The End)
The Weepies - Be My Thrill (Nettwerk)
VA - Anatolia Rocks 2 (Worldwild)
VA - Kompakt Total 11 (Kompakt)