Your Guide to Record Store Day in Tampa Bay (April 18th)

By Carrie Waite

What are you doing on Saturday? This Saturday, April 18th? It’s Record Store Day!  If you’re not completely covered in mud, rocking out to Turbonegro at Coachella this weekend head to your favorite and/or one of the few remaining independent records stores in the Tampa Bay area. Or head to them all. Just go. You don’t want to miss some of these super exclusive nerd-core items that will surely be going for WAY too much on eBay next week.  

    

Where to go (my favorites anyway):      

Vinyl Fever
Record Store Day Deal = Live performances by Curtis Ross and New Roman Times and FREE BEER!!
4110 Henderson Blvd
Tampa, FL 33629
(813) 289-8399
http://www.vinylfevertampa.com/

Daddy Kool 
Record Store Day Deal = 10% OFF All Regular Priced Items & 20% OFF All Used Items, live performances by Tampa Bay Dream Team, Infinite Skillz, and Twisted, cupcakes and refreshments! CUPCAKES!
538 Central Ave
Saint Petersburg, FL 33701
(727) 821-6250
http://www.daddykool.com/
http://www.myspace.com/daddykoolrecords
They seem to have forgotten to list their address or phone number on their main website…way to help us find you Daddy Kool..so visit their MySpace for the most current info.

Sound Exchange‎ (Pinellas Park)
Record Store Day Deal = A plethora of the exclusive items listed below and the most colorful clientele you’ve EVER seen in ANY record store. Not kidding.
7688 49th St
Pinellas Park, FL 33781
(727) 545-0042
http://soundexchangetampabay.com/pinellas.htm

Sound Exchange (Brandon)
732 W Lumsden Rd
Brandon, FL 33511
(813) 651-9316
http://soundexchangetampabay.com/brandon.htm

Sound Exchange (Tampa)
14246 N Nebraska Ave
Tampa, FL 33613
(813) 978-9316
http://soundexchangetampabay.com/tampa.htm

       

What you might find (the entire list straight from the RSD Website, to make that blood pump a little faster):

Carrie’s Wish List = 

ARTIST	TITLE/FORMAT	NOTES/OTHER STUFF TO KNOW
Akron/Family	“Everyone is Guilty” 7″	first single from new album; unreleased b-side
Allá	Digs (EP)	special RSD Release
Arthur Russell	“Love Is Taking Me” 2LP	2LP (RSD exclusive)
Bad Religion	Original EP 7″ reissue	colored vinyl; 6 tracks from 1981
Ben Harper	10″ “Shimmer and Shine”/”Spanish Red Wine”	B-side, “Spanish Red Wine” is unreleased
Black Kids	Wizard of Ahhhs 10″	first time on physical format
Black Moth Super Rainbow	Born on a Day 7″	Two tracks from the forthcoming studio recorded album, Eating Us
Blitzen Trapper	“War is Placebo/Booksmart”	7″ – two exclusive tracks w/die cut sleeve
Bob Dylan	7″–”Dreaming of You”/”Down Along the Cove”	tracks recorded live at Bonnaroo; packaged in clear sleeve with 3×5 photo
Booker T	“Warped Sister/Reunion Time” 7″	7″
Brandi Carlile	7″ single “Downpour”/”A Promise To Keep”	“Downpour” is the live track recorded in Boston
Bruce Springsteen	7″ “What Love Can Do”/”A Night With The Jersey Devil”	packaged in clear sleeve with 3×5 photo
Camera Obscura	“French Navy” 7″	7″ (RSD exclusive)
Chicha Libre & Dengue Fever	Primavera En La Selva / Genjer Genjer (Split 7″ Single)	exclusive RSD Release
Cold War Kids	Live at Fingerprints	Live at Fingerprints 5 song EP
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	Deja Vu Live 2LP	Companion vinyl to the DVD
Cursive/Ladyfinger	Split 10″ picture disc	four songs, two unreleased and two new
Dandy Warhols	Remix CD #2
Death Cab For Cutie	T-Shirt	exclusive design for Record Store Day
Dead Weather	Hang You From the Heavens 7″	Jack White’s new band! The debut release from both the Dead Weather and Third Man Records
Def Jam 25: Volume 1 and 2	4 LP gatefold history of Def Jam, only physical version of this piece is for indies	4 LP gatefold history of Def Jam, only physical version of this piece is for indies
Depeche Mode	7″ “Wrong”/”Oh Well”	7″
Derek Trucks	Already Live EP	five previously unreleased live tracks from the 2008 tour
Dr. Dog/Floating Action	Split 7″	7″ – exclusive
El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez	“Cryptomnesia”	Limited Edition Vinyl for RSD (3,000 pieces)
Elvis Costello*	“Complicated Shadows”/”Dirty Rotten Shame” picture disc	“Dirty Rotten Shame” is exclusive track–previously unreleased
Elvis Perkins	“Lorraine Lookout” 7″	two tracks, one unreleased
Flaming Lips/Black Keys	split 7″ “Borderline”/”Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles”	7″ Borderline/Her Eyes Are A Blue Million Miles
Flight of the Conchords	“Pencils In The Wind”/”Albi The”	7″ – two exclusive tracks w/die cut sleeve
Gaslight Anthem	Live from Park Ave 10″	Live from Park Ave 10″ – 6 tracks
Grateful Dead	T-Shirt	exclusive design for Record Store Day
Grizzly Bear	Live on KCRW 7″	two tracks, “While You Wait For The Others”/”He Hit Me”
Gomez	Airstream Driver 7″	non-album b side
Guided By Voices	Hold On Hope LP	Three bonus tracks
Heaven & Hell	7″ “Bible Black” / Neon Knights (Live)	Created exclusively for Record Store Day
Iron and Wine	Norfolk 6-20-05	Live 18 track CD recorded on the Woman King tour
Jane’s Addiction	7″ “Mountain Song” / “Standing in the Shower…Thinking”	7″ Mtn. Song/Standing In The Shower- Packaged in original replica picture sleeve
Jason Mraz	T-Shirt	exclusive design for Record Store Day
Jenny Lewis/ElvisCostello	7″ –”Carpet Baggers”/”Go Away”	Never before available in the US
Jesus Lizard	9 x 7″ pack	A pack of nine 7″s
King Crimson	40th Anniversary Tour Box	exclusive for Record Store Day
Leonard Cohen	7″ “The Future/”Suzanne”	tracks recorded live in London, packaged in clear sleeve with 3×5 photo
Loney Dear/Andrew Bird 7″	split 7″	7″ – hand-silk screened covers; tour & mail order item
Lykke Li/El Perro Del Mar	7″ “After Laughter (Comes Tears)” / “At Your Best (You are Love)”	Made exclusively for Record Store Day featuring two unreleased cover songs.
Magnolia Electric Co,	“It’s Made Me Cry” 7″	Jason Molina’s first 7″ in years
Mastodon	T-Shirt	exclusive design for Record Store Day
MC 5	7″ “Kick Out The Jams”/”Motor City Is Burning”	Packaged in the original rare picture sleeve, first time available since 1969
Metric	“Help I’m Alive” 7″ Picture disc	“Help I’m Alive”/”Help I’m A B-Side”
Misfits	Walk Among Us LP	Pressed on 140 gram vinyl
Modest Mouse*	7″ –”Satelite Skin”/”Guilty Cocker Spaniels”	both tracks are brand new
My Morning Jacket – Celebración De La Ciudad Natal	Celebracion De La Ciudad Natal	CD & 2 x 10″ Vinyl – 4-14 Street, Vinyl one time shot. Recorded LIVE in LOUISVILLE (at Ear X-tacy, and Waterfront Park), includes classic tracks and selections from the band’s most recent GRAMMY nominated album EVIL URGES. PLEASE NOTE: double 10 inch will be a limited edition, ONE TIME pressing – We shall manufacture only what is ordered. Once it’s gone, it’s gone folks.
New Order	7″ (live)	“Temptation” / “Hurt” – as and A&B side.
Neil Young	Sugar Mountain Live at Canterbury House 1968 2LP	The special vinyl package
Nickel Eye	Dying Star b/w Brandy Of The Damned (Featuring Wale) – Mark Ronson Remix	exclusive for Record Store Day
Oasis	Falling Down Remix LP	Falling Down Remix LP
Obits	“I Can’t Lose/Military Madness” 7″	7″ – two exclusive tracks w/die cut sleeve
Paramore	T-Shirt	exclusive design for Record Store Day
Pavement	“Live in Germany 1988″ LP	unreleased show from 1988
Poison The Well	Six track CD	6 track CD, taken from 2 7″ singles that the band sells on the road, and an upcoming 7″ single that will be out later this spring
Pretenders	“Break Up The Pavement”/Love’s…” 7″	7″ – one unrelased track, and track from new album on red vinyl
Queen EP	Queen’s First EP	Limited Edition, Numbered CD for the first time in the US
Radiohead	10″ vinyl series (see list of titles in NOTES)	THESE ARE BEING RELEASED EARLY FOR RSD: Drill, Creep, My Iron Lung, High & Dry, Fake Plastic Trees, Just, Street Spirit, Paranoid Android, Karma Police, No Surprises, Pyramid Song, 2+2=5
Regina Spektor	Begin to Hope LP	with two tracks never before available on CD or vinyl
Rivers Cuomo	Live @ Fingerprints CD and CD/DVD Combo	Live @ Fingerprints CD and CD/DVD Combo
Russian Circles/These Arms Are Snakes	Split !2	Previously Unreleased songs on Clear Vinyl (1,000 pieces)
Silversun Pickups	Pikul 12″	exclusive release ahead of their new album
Slayer	7″ single “Psychopathy Red”	packaged in special X-Files-style, “confidential” packaging
Sonic Youth/Beck	split 7″	split 7″ (RSD exclusive)
Sonic Youth/Jay Reatard	split 7″	split 7″ (RSD exclusive)
Sublime	“Superstar Punani”/April 29, 1992″ 7″	7″ single with 2 live tracks, first time on vinyl
Taking Back Sunday	7″ “Carpathia/Catholic” (live)	7″ Carpathia/Catholic (live)
Talking Heads	77 LP [reissue]	Pressed on 180 gram vinyl
The Color Fred	The Intervention CD EP	six acoustic tracks–four new
The Decemberists	7″ “The Rake’s Song”/”East India Lanes”	B-side, “East India Lanes” is unreleased
The Smiths	7″ “The Headmaster Ritual” /”Oscillate Widly”	Never before available in the US as a 7″ single.
The Stooges	7″ “1969″/”Real Cool Time”	Packaged in the original rare picture sleeve
Thermals/Thao	Get Down Stay Down split 7″	split 7″ Get Down Stay Down (4 tracks unreleased)
Tift Merritt	Buckingham Solo CD	recorded live at a church; Tift solo with piano and guitar
Tom Waits	“Live from the Glitterdome” 7″	7″ – live tracks from Atlanta & Edinburgh
Underoath	T-Shirt	exclusive design for Record Store Day
Various Artists–THIS LP CRASHES HARD DRIVES	Super deluxe gatefold LP (Limited to only 1,500 copies) with exclusive tracks from 10 of the finest crate digging labels out there! Includes a mix of sampler cd’s, zines, catalogs, stickers, and posters, from all of these fine labels.	1) Los Destellos – “Guajira Sicodelica” (Vampi Soul)  2) P.E. Hewitt Jazz Ensemble – “Bada Que Bash” (Now Again) 3) Group Doueh – “Waya Waya” (Sublime Frequencies) 4) Noor Jehan – “I Am Very Sorry” (Finders Keepers) 5) Hypnotic Brass Ensemble – “Marcus Garvey” (Honest Jon’s) 6) Pisces feat. Linda Bruner – “Sam” (Numero Group) 7) The Monks – “Pretty Suzanne” (Light In The Attic) Myron & E with The Soul Investigators – “Cold Game” (Timmion)  9) John Heartsman & Circles – “Talking About My Baby” (Jazzman) 10) Naomi Shelton & The Gospel Queens – “What Is This” (Daptone)
Various artists	Records Toreism LP	tracks from Mountain Tortoise, Trans Am, White Hills, Double Dagger
Various artists	So Indie It Hurts: ROIR Rocks! Vol. One	exclusive RSD Release
Vetiver	“Wishing Well”/”Pay No Mind” 7″	7″ – two semi-exclusive non-album tracks w/diecut sleeve
Whiskeytown	7″ single – San Atone b/w Great Divide (unreleased tracks)	7″ single – San Atone b/w Great Divide (unreleased tracks)
Wilco	Ashes of American Flags DVD	DVD is released with an exclusive window of two weeks for indie stores and mail order
Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs	It’s Blitz LP	vinyl version of forthcoming Yeah Yeah Yeahs CD
* will not be released in time for Record Store Day    *not all items are available at all stores. Duh

Use your noggin this weekend. If you HAVE to have the Slayer 7″, do not go to Sound Exchange in Pinellas Park, metal head heaven, they’ll likely sell out. But if it’s the new Wilco DVD, Ashes of American Flags, you seek, unless I beat you to it (see previous blog post), Sound Exchange will likely have plenty.  It may very well be a vain attempt by the music industry to court the collector again, but anything that aims at keeping these indie stores around is a good thing in my book. Support Local. Support Indie. Keep our dollars in our community!   

 

 

 

 

Wilco, Wilco and “Burn to Shine”

By Carrie Waite

I like to think I’m a pretty connected person. What with MySpace (is anyone on there any more?), Facebook, RSS feeds, the “blogosphere”, Twitter and even good old fashioned email, one would assume that one would have heard about ones favorite band, Wilco, having announced news of an upcoming record, before today. One would be wrong. Somehow the news, that Wilco has nearly completed their next as yet to be named album, slipped through the matrix on it’s way to me. Until now. It’s expected to be available round June. Just in time for my birthday. Thanks, Jeff!

This new record is stated to feature a guest appearance by Feist on at least one track, titled “You and I”, which makes me hope for more of the loveliness that kept my ears glued to their last record, Sky Blue Sky.

Rumored tracks, in no particular order and subject to change:

Deeper Down

Conscript (aka I’ll Fight)

One Wing

Solitaire

Wilco (the song)

Country Disappeared

Everlasting

Bull Black Nova

Sonny Feeling

You and I

 

Wilco performed their title song back in October on The Colbert Report, (Check it out here).

And if you’re not sick of Wilco yet, my pal Tracy and I are also heading down to the Sarasota Film Festival to pal around with Steve Buscemi (not really, but they say he’s going to be attending) and catch a screening of the upcoming Wilco documentary, Ashes of American Flags: Wilco Live  directed by Brendan Canty (Fugazi) and Christoph Green. Canty and Green are the creative force behind the gorgeus Burn to Shine DVD series. 

Here’s my wishlist, just in case they decide to make a Burn to Shine here in Tampa Bay and need suggestions (in no particular order):

Dumbwaiters

Pink Lincolns

Ronny Elliott

Will Quinlan and the Diviners

Rebekah Pulley 

Blast and the Detergents

Mosley

Have Gun Will Travel

The Weapons of Ass Destruction

Giddy-Up, Helicopter!

Magadog

Car Bomb Driver

 

Who else should be on the list?

Freud never mentioned Beard Envy: Why are all my favorite bands so hairy?

By Carrie Waite

Growing up as a little one in the 1970s, my father ALWAYS had a beard. Always, in some form, in some various stage of growth, he was hairy and scary. I had this photograph of him that I was slightly obsessed with because you could actually see his bare face in it. It was either a mugshot or one of those photo booth pics. Let’s go with mugshot.  And I really hated his beard. Every time he’d pick me up for one of those “Dad Weekends”, he would insist on kissing my delicate little face and it felt like sandpaper ripping my skin off. But now, I seem to surround myself with the very thing that frightened me as a little girl. Hairy scary men.

So, tonight we started talking about how all the bands that are popping up in my iPod mix freaking have beards (maybe we’ll cover the ironic mustache trend in a future post, but don’t get me started on that right now). Half the magazine covers at Borders sport a beard (either a beard or Obama this week).

Death Cab For Cutie on The Big Takeover, Fleet Foxes on Under The Radar and even Zach Braff was all sorts of fuzzy on the cover of Geek Monthly. I heard your band must have at least one bearded member to get signed to Sup Pop nowadays and the New World Brewery is like a gang, no make that a secret club for boys with beards most nights. It makes me jealous that I can’t grow one.  

I admit it.  I think beards are pretty sexy, now. Even the scraggly, unkempt ones can have a certain Grizzly Adams charm to them. What is it about the beard? Is it simply a fashion accessory? A resurgent cultural phenomenon? Just plain laziness (this one gets my vote)? Damn manly though, if you ask me.  

Perhaps it’s a sign that my beloved indie-rock has become a “mature” genre. God forbid, are we getting old? Why do all my favorite men look homeless?

 

Carrie’s favorite hairy bands

The Dirtbombs

Lucero

Drag the River and Cory Branan

Band of Horses

TV On The Radio

Fleet Foxes

Turbonegro

Vincent Gallo (my favorite beard)

Me and Vince

Even Gina swooned (look she’s holding his hand)

Jeff Tweedy has had some adorable ones

and some really scary ones.

Most iconic beard goes to Lemmy

Sexiest beard has to be Dave Grohl’s

and the list goes on and on from there:

Iron and Wine

Will Quinlan

Bon Iver

Built to Spill

Flight of the Conchords

Some Blogs about beards:

http://www.beardrevue.com/

http://thegloriousbeard.blogspot.com/

http://www.thebeardcontest.com/index.php

John McNicholas even participated in a beard contest a few years back. He still has the stinkin’ thing. It’s adorable, John. 

http://www.whiskerino.org/

And I hear jojoba oil is great for when you’re finally ready to rid yourself of the hairy beast on your face and shave it off.

But don’t.

Best of 2008: Carrie Waite’s votes

By Carrie Waite

Best Albums:

Beck, Odelay (Re-issue w/ Bonus Disc)
The Black Keys, Attack & Release
Calexico, Carried To Dust
The Dirtbombs, We Have You Surrounded
Dr.Dog, Fate
Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes
Flight of the Concords, Flight of the Concords
Have Gun Will Travel, Casting Shadows Tall As Giants
The Magnetic Fields, Distortion
Rebekah Pulley, Back to Boogaloo
Will Quinlan & the Diviners, Navasota
Sun Kil Moon, April
Lucinda Williams, Little Honey
Wye Oak, If Children

Which of these things is not like the others? (Why did Christies host a punk rock auction?)

By Carrie Waite

   Monet (last sold for $80.4 million)

Stradivarius (last sold for $3.5 million)

Crusty Ass Sex Pistols T-Shirt (last sold for $375)

I’ve been obsessively mulling over the sales from the Punk/Rock Auction at Christies last Monday. Note that’s Punk/Rock, not Punk Rock. The majority of the auction was your typical Beatles/Elvis memorabilia. And does a violin signed by The Three Tenors classify as either Punk or Rock? Um, no.

The cultural implications of this type of auction didn’t really register when I first read about it last week in the New York Times.  Then the headline came across my RSS feed reader again today and I was curious just how much someone would pay for an original Clash Poster ($2,750 apparently).  I mean, Christies Auction House symbolizes the tippity top of the upper-echelon, right? Who else could afford to pay $13.5 million for a Basquiat that used to belong to the drummer from Metallica?

If the hippies became the yuppies, then what have the punks become? The puppies? Yeah, I know, that’s stupid.  I think we need a new term for the former anti-establishment. Any ideas?

As it turns out, after looking through the lots, it’s obvious that the upper-crust isn’t ready for the filth and the fury. Most of the “Punk” items sold for far less than their estimated value, except for the photo of Debbie Harry which sold for more than 5x the estimate.

A few highlights:

The highest selling “Punk” item of the auction, an autographed photo of Debbie Harry , sold for $8750 (estimated value $1,000 – $1,500).

The first two issues of “Bomp“, sold for $63 (estimated value $500 – $700).

Limited edition signed photo of Lou Reed from the cover of Transformer by photographer Mick Rock, sold for $1875 (estimated value $2,000 – $3,000).

The lot I wish I’d been there to purchase, a pair of rare Patti Smith poetry books, sold for $125 (estimated value $300 – $500). 

Flaming Lips celebrate ‘Christmas on Mars’

By Carrie Waite

Every Thanksgiving, after we gorge ourselves silly on turkey (or Tofurkey) and pumpkin pie and make our way to the bottom of the mashed potato mountain, we sit around and watch Christmas movies. Usually it’s Ralphie.

Sometimes it’s Rudolph and Hermie. Once in a while we’ll go with a more adult themed flic like Badder Santa (only the unrated version will do).  

But this year, we now have the ultimate Christmas movie for music nerds. It’s finally here. That movie you’ve been waiting for just like you waited for Return of the Jedi  when you were a kid. The Flaming Lips have released Christmas on Mars. And it’s freaking awesome. What else can I say? There’s a living space station partially made out of Cool Whip containers, super aliens and babies incubating outside of their mother’s wombs. And speaking of mothers…there’s quite the symbolic display of female body parts in there too. 

It does get a little gross once in a while, but it is really quite amazing for being filmed in Wayne Coyne’s back yard. The soundtrack’ll give you the best addition to your holiday mix tape, since the children singing from A Charlie Brown Christmas.

Go play the game if you haven’t gotten your copy of the Mega Deluxe Edition yet.

(from the Christmas on Mars Message Board )

WTF?!?!?!?!
Nov 22, 2008 / Joel
“That is really, really aggitating that I might have to wait another 30 DAYS!!!!! Every day since it was suposed to have been shipped has been the longest day of my life. And knowing that I might not have it for another month is just the worst feeling ever……..”

Don’t end up like a Joel. Order yours now!

A little intro: photographer Carrie Waite

By Carrie Waite

Rock n’ roller. Music geek. Audio file. I’m not really any of these things.  And don’t you ever fucking call me a hipster.  Scenester is nearly as criminal a term.  I’m just looking for a little inspiration, ya know?  That’s all.  Just a little.  I get it from music.  From my friends.  It’s cliche to say but it is my church.  The music,  the spirit,  the communal feeling.  And it’s got to be live music.  It’s got to be organic.  I’m sorry but your sorry ass MP3s and IPODs just don’t cut it for me.  I want the real thing.  

These moments of inspiration come in such small doses and oh so infrequently, that I had to figure out a way to capture them, put them in my pocket and take them home with me.  How can I make these little morsels of actual living last long enough, so as to get me through the cold, lonely, day to day rat race?  I’ll take a picture of it.  Make it last longer. Har. Har. 

As my introductory blog, I’ll give you a little sampling from when I first began taking pictures.  This picture of one of my all time favorite rock/punk bands, Nutrajet, was my first ever published photograph. It was Feb or March of 2002 for Weekly Planet aka Creative Loafing. Nutrajet were drummer, Jeff Wood, on the left, and guitarist/singer, Greg Reinel, aka Stainboy, on the right.  Their shows were raucous and rebellious and never ever predictable.  Jeff passed away last year after an agonizing struggle with brain cancer.  He gave it all, every show.  We miss you, Jeff.  You were THE Jeff Wood.  The only one.  

These are Jeff’s hands after a Nutrajet show at the Copper Rocket in Orlando.

So happy to be a sweaty bitch,

Carrie