Yes, it's April 20th.  4/20: The day all marijuana connoisseurs and casual appreciators light up as a community and celebrate their common love of altered reality.  Normally, I'd be combing through my music library trying to locate the perfect songs for the occasion and throwing together a nice little online compilation for everyone's enjoyment.  Instead, I'm going to take the opportunity to spotlight a series of stoner rock compilations from RidingEasy Records , Brown Acid , which, as of today, will see the release of its fourth installment.  Beginning with its first volume in 2015, Brown Acid is comprised of obscure stoner rock and proto-metal singles from the 60s and 70s, located and curated by Permanent Records ' Lance Barresi .  Collaborating with RidingEasy's Daniel Hill , Barresi's passion for digging up these largely forgotten tracks has offered new life to this music via this expanding collection.  So, since Brown Acid: The Fourth Trip is...

Pentagram reissues.  Not much to say about this except, "Just take my money, Relapse Records." Check out the remastered "Forever My Queen" below.  Info and links come courtesy of Relapse Records.  PENTAGRAM: Relapse Announces Deluxe Reissues of First Daze Here And First Daze Here Too  Hear The Remastered Version of "Forever My Queen" now at YouTube   You can't talk about heavy metal without talking about PENTAGRAM. The legendary D.C. band has been committed to the dark arts for going on half a decade, and has only recently seen the kind of recognition its legacy deserves. Though the band has released nine influential full-lengths over the course of its career, PENTAGRAM's most popular and influential material since its Relapse resurrection fifteen years ago can be found in First Daze Here , a collection of the band's earliest works that has been out-of-print for years and will now finally see a new reissue via Relapse this coming J...

Good afternoon readers, It's possible that this news has already coursed through the navigable and applicable avenues of the world wide web and that my efforts are largely redundant at this point. However, as I'm one to promote the ever more cynical motivation behind Record Store Day and those lovely little exclusives that eBay will subsist upon from late April till Christmastime, I'm going to waste your time and mention this shit anyway. If you choose to read, hope this is helpful. This first round of release info was provided by Sub Pop: Sub Pop Makes Record Store Day 2014 Worth Living Mudhoney On Top: KEXP Presents Mudhoney Live on Top of the Space Needle LP Pissed Jeans: The Very Best of Sub Pop 2009-2013: Live at the BBC 12” EP Chad VanGaalen “I Want You Back” 7” Single The Notwist “Run Run Run” 12” Single Herewith, details on Sub Pop’s elaborate and ingenious plans for Record Store Day 2014: a quartet of limited-edition releases comprised of two single...

I'm still waiting on the big list of Record Store Day exclusives, which is supposed to be releases sometime today.  In the meantime, Sub Pop has divulged some RSD-related info and posted a trailer for the new Sub Pop 1000 compilation.  I guess it goes without saying that all info comes courtesy of Sub Pop.   Sub Pop Saddles Record Store Day 2013 with a Trinity of Musical Things: Shearwater & Sharon Van Etten’s “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” b/w “A Wake for the Minotaur” Limited-Edition 7” Single The Limited-Edition Sub Pop 1000 Compilation LP Terminal Sales Vol. 6: The Silver Ticket , Sub Pop’s Free 19-Track 2013 Label Sampler CD   Watch Sub Pop 1000 Trailer here .   Watch Shearwater & Sharon Van Etten ’s “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” AV Club “Undercover” here . We at Sub Pop will celebrate the hallowed musical holiday known as Record Store Day with a trinity of releases, available on April 20th. Leading the pack is the almigh...

I received a couple more Record Store Day-related press releases from Jagjaguwar and Sub Pop. Read below. Via Jagjaguwar: Black Mountain Unveil Record Store Day Single, Headline Roadburn Festival Afterburner. Jagjaguwar are proud to announce that Black Mountain will celebrate Record Store Day on Saturday April 16 by unleashing the third single from their third LP Wilderness Heart on seven inch vinyl. "Rollercoaster" showcases the band's trademark psych-metal sound, with the interchanging vocals of Stephen McBean and Amber Webber in full force. The song was recorded at Sunset Sound in Hollywood with D. Sardy . The B-side to this single is entitled "In The Drones" and is previously unreleased. It features Webber's haunting vocals at the forefront, accompanied by reverb-drenched picking and shadowy synth stylings underneath. The song was recorded in Seattle at London Bridge Studio with Randall Dunn . Vancouver's finest will mark this speci...

Dan Goldin of Exploding In Sound continues to write, review and promote relevant music that few people talk about. Goldin’s latest labor of love, Sonic Waves , is his seventh free compilation and available for download. Give it a listen and offer Mr. Goldin some support; after all, he is sifting through a lot of radio-friendly dead weight to bring these albums to the masses and asking for nothing in return. Or, at the very least, he’s asking for your attention. The never ending search for great music has become a little bit easier, thanks to SONIC WAVES , the brand new digital compilation from tastemakers ExplodingInSound.com .  Download it for FREE [link below] today and come discover your next favorite band. The line-up is a dream come true for the folks at EIS, with songs from Karnivool, Oceansize, Alberta Cross, Dead Confederate, This Town Needs Guns, Native, Retribution Gospel Choir, Tera Melos, Sebastien Grainger, Shoes And Socks Off, Medications, Night Horse, Royal Ban...

Just when I thought the well runneth dry... The 1962-1966 ( Red ) and 1967-1970 ( Blue ) compilations were the first real Beatles ' greatest hits collection to emerge after the band broke-up in 1970. Both two record sets, the albums were originally issued in 1973 and have undergone the same painstaking remastering process as the Beatles' catalogue in '09. These arrived at my home yesterday and, to me, the compilations are more of a novelty item, something worthy of ownership under the following conditions: 1). You love the "now and then" photography on the front cover of each compilation. 2). Expanded liner notes and photographs. 3). Non-album singles are included if you don't own the Past Masters volumes. 4). The band's evolution is covered within four CDs. 5). You'd rather own the hits. 6). Also, there's free album cover posters and t-shirts if you pre-order through Beatles.com . Red and Blue remasters will be released October 18th. Click ...