New Turntable :-)

Let me introduce you to my new Sony PSLX300USB turntable I got from Richer Sounds today. I've been looking around for a new turntable for a while now and finally stumbled across this one last week, which fits into my price range and had great reviews everywhere I looked. My old Aiwa turntable has lasted me for years and years, but it needed to be replaced.

So far I've played 'Heartbreaker' by Ryan Adams and 'Our Shadows Will Remain' by Joseph Arthur on the new turntable and both sound lovely, warm and rich. Just like records should. I'm extremely pleased with the purchase and look forward to trying the USB feature out at some point in the future on some of my rarer LPs.

Now what should I spin next. . .

Dead Man's Bones

The self titled debut record from Dead Man's Bones will be released on Anti on October 6th in the US. The track listing for the album has recently been confirmed as:

01 Intro
02 Dead Hearts
03 In the Room Where You Sleep
04 Buried in Water
05 My Body's a Zombie for You
06 Pa Pa Power
07 Young & Tragic
08 Paper Ships
09 Lose Your Soul
10 Werewolf Heart
11 Dead Man's Bones
12 Flowers Grow Out of My Grave

But where's 'Name In Stone'? The awesome song that I blogged about when I first heard of the band back in April. So far the band have only released two live cuts, one for 'In The Room Where You Sleep' and the other for 'Name In Stone', both of which were accompanied by pretty awesome videos. Here's the one for 'Name In Stone':

I really hope that the studio cut for 'Name In Stone' surfaces at some point as that song is so hauntingly beautiful.

Transitions

"There's a million chances and every single one of them is called hope."

I wish I could create something this real and beautiful. So many truths, told with such grace and humour, with imagery to stir the soul. Ryan Adams at his most poignant.

Over It

This song makes me happy:

Great White Monkey TV

Ginger (of the Wildhearts) and Laika Dog (featuring Tony of Terrorvision) are currently touring the UK. I'd love to go and see these two awesome bands playing on the same bill, but I'll be in Vassilikos when the tour rolls around my way. Oh, it's a hard life ;-)

Thankfully, to make me feel better, Ginger has started the GWMTV channel on You Tube, documenting the tour each step of the way. You can watch the first installment below and be sure to subscribe to the channel for more shenanigans.

Ginger was in Denmark, recording the new Wildhearts album, 'Chutzpah'. The band blogged about the recording of the album that should hit stores in August daily, in a very entertaining and enlightening way.

He certainly seems to like the internet at the moment as he's also a guest blogger over at the Classic Rock website, where he writes about some of his favorite overlooked bands. It's great to be seeing more of an online presence from him as his Ask Ginger and Ginger Says sections of the Wildhearts website were great back in the day.

I Dumped My Mind

Scary Mansion are set to release their sophomore album later this year. No details on the album yet, but a couple of tracks have crept onto the internet.

The first is 'I Dumped My Mind', a kind of semi-official release, seeing as it's featured on the Scary Mansion You Tube page:

The second is a demo/alternate version of the song 'No Law'. The video is directed by Andrew Hoepfner of Creaky Boards, who says that the album version will be more punky in feel:

I was completely addicted to the debut album by Scary Mansion and am very much looking forward to the new tunage heading our way.

Let The Dominoes Fall

Summer officially starts on June 2nd, with the release of 'Let The Dominoes Fall', the seventh studio album from Rancid.

They are a band that I've pretty much always associated with lazy, hot summer days and I'm pretty sure this album will be part of the soundtrack to my summer.

In the lead up to the album, you can view Webisodes here on the making of the album. They will be posted Monday through Thursday, until the release of the record. The first few are just a brief history of the band, the rest should be very tasty indeed.

Use the widget thingie below to listen to and download a free copy of 'Last One To Die', the first single from the new album. . .