This week sees Neil Young releasing his latest album with Crazy Horse, Americana.  Young is coming to Scotiabank Place with Crazy Horse on November 24th.  Their opening act will be Patti Smith, who also has a new album out today called Banga.  

     Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh returns with Analog Man, and ZZ Top release their 4-song EP Texicali, a little taste of what’s to come with the full length album they will be releasing later this year.  Yet another ZZ Top song is streaming online now, you can check out “Chartreuse” by clicking this link to the Rolling Stone website.

     Also of note is the film soundtrack for Rock of Ages, which features 80s rock standards performed by the cast of the movie – Tom Cruise, Julianne Hough, Mary J. Blige, Russell Brand, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Malin Ackerman and Diego Boneta.  The CD includes ‘Paradise City’, ‘Pour Some Sugar on Me’, ‘Every Rose Has It’s Thorn’, ‘Hit Me With Your Best Shot’, ‘Rock You Like A Hurricane’, and ‘Don’t Stop Believing’.

     The full rundown:

CD:

Neil Young & Crazy Horse – Americana
Joe Walsh – Analog Man
ZZ Top – Texicali
Rock of Ages Movie Soundtrack
Patti Smith – Banga
The Beach Boys – That’s Why God Made The Radio
The Beatles – Yellow Submarine Songtrack
Heart – Strange Euphoria (5-CD box set)
Paul Simon – Graceland (25th Anniversary Edition CD w/ bonus tracks)
Various Artists – Make It Your Sound, Make It Your Scene: Vanguard Records & The 1960s Musical Revolution
Various Artists – No More Tears: A Millenium Tribute to Ozzy Osbourne

Vinyl:

David Bowie – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust (remastered)

DVD:

Yellow Submarine

CD:

Van Morrison – Live on Air
Johnny Cash – Country Boy (reissue)
Johnny Cash – Get Rhythm (reissue)
Johnny Cash – Train of Love (reissue)
Nirvana – Kurt Cobain Collector’s Box (3-CD set)
Patti Smith – Live in Germany 1979
Waylon Jennings – Burning (reissue)
Willie Nelson – Broken Promises (reissue)
Willie Nelson – The Last Letter (reissue)

Vinyl:

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Bloodsugarsexmagik (reissue)

DVD:

Nirvana – Live at the Paramount (DVD and Blu-Ray)

CD:

Pink Floyd – The Discovery Studio Album Box Set (16 disc set)
Pink Floyd – Animals (remastered)
Pink Floyd – Atom Heart Mother (remastered)
Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon (remastered)
Pink Floyd – The Division Bell (remastered)
Pink Floyd – The Final Cut (remastered)
Pink Floyd – Meddle (remastered)
Pink Floyd – A Momentary Lapse of Reason (remastered)
Pink Floyd – More (remastered)
Pink Floyd – Obscured By Clouds (remastered)
Pink Floyd – The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (remastered)
Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets (remastered)
Pink Floyd – Ummagumma (remastered)
Pink Floyd – The Wall (remastered)
Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here (remastered)
Nirvana – Nevermind (remastered 2-CD set)
Nirvana – Nevermind (remastered 4-CD & DVD box set)
Chickenfoot (Sammy Hagar, Michael Anthony, Joe Satriani et al) – iii
Johnny Winter – Roots (blues classics)
Sting – 25 Years (3 CD & DVD box set)
Joe Bonamassa and Beth Hart – Don’t Explain
Anvil – Monument of Metal: The Very Best of Anvil

Vinyl:

Nirvana – Nevermind (4-vinyl LP box set reissue)
Bob Dylan – Oh Mercy (reissue)

DVD:

Nirvana – Live at the Paramount
Bruce Springsteen – DVD Collector’s Box
Iggy and the Stooges – Raw Power Live: In The Hands of the Fans

CD:

Red Hot Chili Peppers – I’m With You
Tom Morello and the Night Watchman – World Wide Rebel Songs
John Mayall – Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton (reissue)
John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers – Crusade (reissue)
John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers – A Hard Road (reissue)

Vinyl:

Billy Joel – 52nd Street (reissue)
Grateful Dead – Grateful Dead (reissue)
Grateful Dead – Workingman’s Dead (reissue)
Johnny Cash – The Fabulous Johnny Cash (reissue)

DVD:

Can’t You Hear The Wind Howl? The Life and Music of Robert Johnson -
    Robert Johnson Centennial Special Edition
Dave Grohl: The Man With The Midas Touch

CD:

John Mayall – Howlin’ At The Moon
Lou Reed – Walk on the Wild Side – Recorded Live! New York 1972
R.E.M. – The Lowdown
Rush – Moving Pictures (deluxe edition – CD & Blu-Ray)
Stevie Nicks – In Your Dreams
Various Artists – No Future: A Tribute to the Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Damned

DVD:

Bruce Springsteen – The Promise: The Making of Darkness On The Edge of Town

Blu-Ray:

Rush – Moving Pictures (deluxe edition – CD & Blu-Ray)

CD:

Various Artists – Boogie For Stu (tribute album to late Stones’ keyboard player Ian 
  Stewart – featuring the Rolling Stones)
Steve Miller – Let Your Hair Down
The Kinks – Kinda Kinks (remastered with bonus disc)
The Kinks – Kinks (remastered with bonus disc)
The Kinks – Kinks Kontroversy (remastered with bonus disc)

Vinyl:

Black Sabbath – Black Sabbath (reissue)
Black Sabbath – Paranoid (reissue)
Black Sabbath – Volume 4 (reissue)
Black Sabbath – We Sold Our Souls For Rock And Roll (reissue)

DVD:

Bob Dylan – The Neverending Narrative 1990-2006

     Tomorrow is Record Store Day around the world.  The day celebrates independant music stores (those stores not owned by corporations).  This is the fourth annual Record Store Day, celebrated the third Saturday every April.  A ton of collectors’ items and special one-day-only releases will be in stores tomorrow.

     Stores participating in Ottawa include CD Warehouse, Compact Music, End Hits, Legend Records, Vertigo Records and The Record Shaap.  For the full list of special releases available tomorrow (almost all on vinyl), click here.  Here are some highlights:

AC/DC – Shoot to Thrill B/W War Machine
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band – Gotta Get the Feeling B/W Racing In the Street
Derek & the Dominoes – Got To Get Better In A Little While & Layla (7″ vinyl)
Eric Clapton & John Mayall – Lonely Years
Grateful Dead – Grateful Dead (LP)
Jimi Hendrix – Fire B/W Touch You
Mastodon / ZZ Top – Just Got Paid
Nirvana – Hormoaning
Ozzy Osbourne – Flying High Again B/W I Don’t Know (Live)
Pink Floyd – London 66/67
Rush – Caravan / Bu2B
Steve Earle – I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive
The Doors – Riders On The Storm
The Rolling Stones – Brown Sugar
The Velvet Underground – Foggy Notion
The Yardbirds – Goodnight Sweet Josephine
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – You’re Going To Get It!

And…Record Store Day exclusive early releases:

Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan in Concert: Brandeis University 1963
Ozzy Osbourne – Blizzard of Oz
Ozzy Osbourne – Diary of a Madman
Robbie Robertson – How To Become Clairvoyant
Todd Rundgren – Todd Rundgren’s Johnson

CD:

Bob Dylan – In Concert: Brandeis University 1963
Jimi Hendrix – South Saturn Delta (reissue)

Vinyl:

Booker T. and the M.G.s – The Best of Booker T. and the M.G.s (reissue)
Fleetwood Mac – Rumours (reissue)
Journey – Infinity (reissue)

DVD:

Jimi Hendrix – Band of Gypsies: Live at the Fillmore East

CD:

Grateful Dead – Flashback With The Grateful Dead
INXS – Original Sin
Ray Davies – See My Friends
Robbie Robertson – How To Become Clairvoyant
Whitesnake – Forever More
Various Artists – A Piano Tribute to R.E.M.
Various Artsits – Songs For Japan

Vinyl:

Iggy and the Stooges – Raw Power Live: In The Hands Of The Fans