New Releases

Spring is finally coming around and there are some great new releases out this week to help you ring it in with some great music! Below is a look at what is out this week:

•American Authors – Oh What A Life CD (Island)
•Ava Luna – Electric Balloon CD/LP (Western Vinyl)
•Axxa/Abraxas – Axxa/Abraxas CD/LP (Captured Tracks)
•Bear’s Den – Without/Within CD/LP (Communion)
•Carla Bozulich – Boy CD/LP+MP3 (Constellation)
•Comeback Kid – Die Knowing CD (Victory)
•Drive-By Truckers – English Oceans CD/LP (ATO)
•Bob Dylan – 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration 2xCD (Sony Legacy)
•Each Other – Being Elastic CD/LP (Fat Possum)
•Eagulls – Eagulls CD/LP (Partisan)
•Eternal Summers – The Drop Beneath CD/LP (Kanine)
•Fuel – Puppet Strings CD (Megaforce)
•Holly Golightly And The Brokeoffs – All Her Fault CD/LP (Transdreamer)
•Stone Jack Jones – Ancestor CD/LP (Western Vinyl)
•Lo-Fang – Blue Film CD/LP (4AD)
•Lushes – What Am I Doing CD/LP (Felte)
•Steve Martin Featuring Steep Canyon Rangers With Edie Brickell – Live CD/CD+DVD (Rounder)
•The Men – Tomorrow’s Hits CD/LP (Sacred Bones)
•Merchandise – Begging For Your Life/In The City Of Light 12” (4AD)
•Nothing – Guilty Of Everything CD/LP (Relapse)
•Linda Perhacs – The Soul Of All Natural Things CD/LP (Asthmatic Kitty)
•PINS – Girls Like Us CD/LP (Bella Union)
•Real Estate – Atlas CD/LP (Domino)
•The Revivalists – City Of Sound CD (Wind-Up)
•Rick Ross – Mastermind CD/CD+DVD (Def-Jam)
•Sally Seltmann – Hey Daydreamer CD/LP (Arts & Crafts)
•Silver Snakes – Year Of The Snake CD/LP (Bridge Nine)
•These New Puritans – Field Of Reeds CD/2xLP (Infectious Music)
•Trust – Joyland CD/2xLP (Arts & Crafts)
•Ume – Monuments CD/LP (Dangerbird)
•The Unsemble – The Unsemble CD/LP (Ipecac)
•Various Artists – Suicide Squeeze Presents: Forever Singles LP (Suicide Squeeze)
•Various Artists – Warfaring Strangers: Darkscorch Canticles CD/LP (Numero)
•Wake Owl – Private World Of Paradise CD/LP (Vagrant)
•Nick Waterhouse – Holly CD/LP (Innovative Leisure)
•We Are Scientists – TV en Francais CD/LP (Dine Alone)

Giveaways

We have a great giveaway this week that was 44 years in the making! To celebrate Linda Perhacs’ long overdue second album, The Soul of All Natural Things, we are giving away a SIGNED, WHITE VINYL copy. All you have to do is head over to our Facebook or Instagram page to enter!

This one, we aren’t parting with quite yet, but we will be soon! Tycho & Ghostly International were nice enough to send us a signed test pressing of the new Tycho album “Awake” two weeks early! We’ll be spinning this in the store until release on March 18th when we’ll give it away! Come in and listen! And if it isn’t on the turntable, tell us to put it on!

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There are a lot of prizes and awards being handed out these days, but Record Store Day thought there was room for one more, especially when the folks deciding who got the glory definitely knew their stuff. That's why they created the ADAPTER PRIZE, decided on by people who shop and work in real music stores. That means YOU. Together, Culture Clash fans and staff will nominate one recording or artist in each category. Record Store Day will announce the winners in mid-September.

Just drop the suggestions on our Facebook page and we'll do the rest!! https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151617604668220&set=a.10150458008743220.373855.54119363219&type=1&theater

Queens Of The Stone Age make their eagerly awaited return with ‘…Like Clockwork’. Collaborating with stars such as Sir Elton John, Trent Reznor, Alex Turner, Jake Shears and honorary Queen Dave Grohl QOTSA emerge with not only their best work to date, but one of the most ambitious, fully realized classic rock albums in recent memory.

The Ben Folds Five reunion is still going strong and following a huge world tour they release their first live album ‘Ben Folds Five Live’ which captures the band in top form across four continents through 2012 and 2013.

Portugal. The Man enlisted the talents of Dangermouse for their latest album Evil Friends and the result is an undaunted re-awakening for the band. Each track is as different from the next as the previous records were from each other, which is to say a piece of a growing mindscape, and wholly a part of the group’s tumbling fever dream.

Plus there are great, new releases from Camera Obscura, We Are The City and City And Colour plus Barenaked Ladies, Rogue Wave, Buika, Megadeth, Matthew Morrison, Future Bible Heroes, Eleanor Friedberger, Ghost Brothers Of Darkland County [Soundtrack], Killing Joke, Filter, Grmln, and David Ford all release albums this week.

Culture Clash is coming out of it’s in-store performance holiday hibernation with our first in-store of the new year! The Dumb Easies will be here, playing the shop at 3:30 this upcoming Saturday! There are also some fantastic new releases this week, such as…

Ducktails – Flower Lane (Domino)

New album from the increasingly less solo endeavor of Matt Mondanile (guitarist from Real Estate). The Flower Lane was recorded and mixed over the summer of 2012 with Al Carlson (Peaking Lights, Oneohtrix Point Never) and includes contributions from members of Big Troubles, Oneohtrix Point Never, Ford + Lopatin, Real Estate and Cults.

Local Natives – Hummingbird (French Kiss)

Available in Regular and Deluxe editions. Deluxe comes with bonus tracks, printed inner sleeves and two fold-out posters in a die-cut slipcase. Shining opener “You & I” is the album’s calling card, bathing synthetic drums in warm organs and surfy guitars, and the band’s signature sky-high harmonies.

Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite – Get Up! (Stax)

Ben Harper has teamed with renowned harmonica master Charlie Musselwhite to create a piercing song-cycle of struggle and heart.

Other Releases for January 29th:

•Amor De Dias – The House At Sea CD/LP+MP3 (Merge)
•Bleeding Rainbow – Yeah Right CD/LP (Kanine)
•Buke & Gase – General Dome CD/LP (Brassland)
•Eric Burdon – ‘Til Your River Runs Dry CD/LP (ABKCO)
•Cult Of Luna – Vertikal CD (Density/Workhorse)
•Ducktails – The Flower Lane CD/LP (Domino)
•Fiction Family – Fiction Family Reunion CD (Rock Ridge)
•Fleetwood Mac – Rumors [Expanded Edition] 3xCD/4xCD+DVD+LP (WB)
•Adam Green/Binki Shapiro – Adam Green/Binki Shapiro CD (Rounder)
•Ben Harper With Charlie Musselwhite – Get Up! CD/CD+DVD/LP (Stax)
•Hey Ocean! – Is CD (Nettwerk)
•Indians – Somewhere Else CD/LP (4AD)
•Local Natives – Hummingbird CD/LP (Frenchkiss)
•Lost Animal – Lost Tropical CD/LP (Hardly Art)
•Mice Parade – Candela CD/LP (Fat Cat)
•Ruby Suns – Christopher CD/LP+MP3 (Sub Pop)
•Sweet Apple – Wish You Could Stay A Little Longer b/w Traffic 7” (Outer Battery)
•Tall Firs – Out Of It And Into It CD/LP+MP3 (Frenchkiss)
•Tegan & Sarah – Heartthrob CD/LP+CD (WB)
•Tomahawk – Oddfellows CD/LP (Ipecac)

Not many shows again this week but here are two that you’ll want to check out!

•Dumb Easies @ Culture Clash Records, Saturday, February 2nd
•Jack & the Bear @ Ottawa Tavern, Saturday, February 2nd

GO BACK TO BLACK FRIDAY HERE

Ah, Black Friday. Even if you’re averse to the crowds and the crazy, there is a great place to go shopping on that day after Thanksgiving, and it’s your friendly neighborhood store. We think that there are terrific things, treasures even, at record stores every day and we’re just upping the ante a little bit on Black Friday with some limited edition vinyl, CDs, DVDs, box sets, and this year even a box of trading cards. Things you can ONLY get at a record store, and some things you can get FIRST at a record store. Things that are perfect to give/get this holiday season, EVEN if you’re doing that shopping for yourself.


Click here to find the list of special releases you can find at record stores on Black Friday, in a handy PDF Wishlist Form (feel free to print out and give to everyone who might be buying things for you), and a page with artwork and more detail on each piece. And make your plans now to spend some quality time with us this holiday season. 


downloadable pdf | view list on RSD website

Win an autographed test pressing of the new Dinosaur Jr record, “I Bet The Sky” !!!!  Just comment on the contest post at our Facebook Page. 

Better yet, stop in to our Dinosaur Jr listening party Monday Sept 17 at 6:00 and get 10 extra entries. A  autographed test press of Dinosaur Jr? Come on, this is some manna from rock heaven.

It can be yours and it’s almost too easy. Just leave a comment on this post and you’re entered (one comment per person). We’re also giving you a chance for extra credit! You can enter at the Dinosaur Jr listening party, Sept 17, @ 6:00 for an additional 10 chances. If you share the post you’ll get a 5 extra entries. Good luck friends!

Win a test pressing of YEASAYER “FRAGRANT WORLD” !!

Wow, we’re got another great one. Yeasayer’s new LP, Fragrant World, is out, Aug 21, and we have you covered in a big way. The CD & limited edition blue vinyl is in stock along with a free glow in the dark 7″ single with purchase (while supplies last) and Tuesday, Aug 21, @ 6:00 we’re giving you a chance to preview it at our Yeasayer listening party. Get it cheaper than cheap this Tuesday from 6 – 7:00 !

It doesn’t stop there! You can win a super rare test press copy!!

It can be yours and it’s almost too easy. Just leave a comment on this post and you’re entered (one comment per person). We’re also giving you a chance for extra credit! You can enter at the listening party Aug 21 @ 6:00 for an additional 10 chances. You can buy the LP or CD for an additional 15 chances and / or share this post for an additional 5 entries (“like” us first). Deadline is August 28 @ 5:00.Winner picked through random.org. Good luck friends!