LANEWAY FESTIVAL 2012

St Jerome's Laneway Festival returns to Perth in 2012.

Active Child - Anna Calvi - Austra - Bullion - Chairlift - Cults - The Drums - DZ Deathrays - Ema - Feist - Geoffrey O'Connor - Girls - Glasser - The Horrors - John Talabot - Jonti - Laura Marling - M83 - Oneman - The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Pajama Club - The Panics - Sbtrkt - Toto Y Moi - Total Control - Twin Shadow - Washed Out - Wu Lyf - Yuck

Tickets now on sale in store only

SMILE HIGH CLUB

The long awaited release of the Brian Wilson and Beach Boys masterpiece, Smile Sessions. With the full participation of original Beach Boys Al Jardine, Mike Love, and Brian Wilson, Capitol/EMI has, for the first time, collected and compiled the band's legendary 1966-'67 sessions for the never-completed SMiLE album. Rolling Stone magazine recently called SMiLE "the most famous unfinished album in rock & roll history."

In several sessions between the summer of 1966 and early 1967, The Beach Boys recorded a bounty of songs and drafts for an album, SMiLE, that was intended to follow the band's 1966 album, Pet Sounds. The master tapes were ultimately shelved, and The Beach Boys' SMiLE has never been released. Drawn from the original masters, SMiLE Sessions presents an in-depth overview of The Beach Boys' recording sessions for the enigmatic album, which has achieved legendary, mythical status for music fans around the world.

SMiLE Sessions' physical and digital configurations include an assembled collection of core session tracks, while the box set delves much deeper into the sessions, adding early song drafts, alternate takes, instrumental and vocals-only mixes, and studio chatter and the albums creation.

Standard CD edition, 2CD Deluxe edition, 2LP Deluxe Edition and 5CD, 2LP, 2 7" Box Set with all the extras.

THE ALBUM WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR

ALBUM OF THE YEAR

When Tom Waits was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame earlier this year, Elton John hailed him as “the Jackson Pollock of song”. A fitting description for the grizzled old hipster who took an early talent for conventional, sentimental piano-bar melody and poetry, threw it onto a cold, hard, industrial floor and began spattering it with exhilaratingly strange sounds and imagery.

For his first studio album in seven years, he has raided the junkyard for scraps of blues, soul, vaudeville, saloon balladry and early rock n roll and cranked them up into an unstoppable demolition derby of songs stripped to their essential parts.
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The wild, rattling bawlers are each distinctively turbocharged with reckless and richly textured energy, while the ballads run poignantly on their rims, leaking emotion. Waits’ shot gearbox of a voice lurches into a surprisingly fresh falsetto on the soul-shuffle Everybody’s Talking, where he sings topically of war and economics.

On the off-kilter hip-swiveller Satisfied, he snarls: “Mr Jagger, Mr Richards, I will scratch where I’ve been itching,” before resurrecting that most corroded of vintage wrecks — Mr Richards himself — for a mournful duet about ageing, Autumn Leaves. Let’s hope that Waits still has plenty of miles left on his cracked and crooked clock.

RECORD PLAYERS

NEXT SHIPMENT DUE EARLY FEBRUARY 2012 - MAKE SURE YOU RESERVE ONE

This professional stereo turntable features a high-torque direct-drive motor for quick start-ups and a USB output that connects directly to your computer. Other features include: forward and reverse play capability; cast aluminum platter with slip mat and a start/stop button; three speeds 33/45/78; selectable high-accuracy quartz-controlled pitch lock and pitch change slider control with +/-10% or +/-20% adjustment ranges; and removable hinged dust cover. A selectable internal stereo phono pre-amplifier allows the turntable to plug directly to components with no dedicated turntable input. A USB cable and adapter cables are included along with Mac- and PC-compatible Audacity software to digitize your LPs.

AT-LP120-USB Direct-Drive Professional Turntable
- USB output—connects directly to your computer for plug & play use
- Mac and PC compatible Audacity software digitizes your LPs
- Direct drive high-torque motor
- Selectable 33/45/78 RPM speeds
- Professional cast aluminum platter with slip mat
- ½-inch mount universal headshell with Dual Magnet phono cartridge
- Balanced tone arm with soft damping control
- Switchable built-in pre-amplifier with line-level RCA output cables
- Included cables connect to your stereo or powered speakers
- Stroboscopic platter speed indicator
- Forward and reverse play


Includes
- Direct Drive Professional Stereo USB turntable
- Mac and PC compatible Audacity software
- USB cable
- Adapter cables

THEY'RE BACK MANN

Icky Mettle, the debut album from seminal Chapel Hill indie-rockers Archers of Loaf has been re-released by Merge Records. Eric Bachmann and band recently reformed after calling it quits over a decade ago, thus sparking the exciting news of the re-release.

Icky Mettle remains an undeniably essential album, a pure, unadorned chronicle of honest emotion and expression. It's an album completely devoid of pretension, concern with genre tags, or fear of personal overshare. It captures so effectively a sense of twenty-something angst and confusion, that swerves from extremes of tenderness and surprising amounts of pop sensibility to sheer power and aggression in head-spinningly short amounts of time.

I don't need to say any more about this album other than that it is still as relevent and impressive as it was back when it was first released.. back whenever the 90s were.

IMMERSE YOURSELF

Originally released in 1973, Dark Side of The Moon became Pink Floyd's first number 1 album in the US, remaining on the chart for 741 weeks between 1973 and 1988. One of the best-selling and most critically acclaimed albums of all time, The Immersion version features the classic Studio album digitally remastered and presented as a limited edition high quality boxset featuring 6 discs of rare and unreleased audio and video material, plus a new 40 page bound booklet, a book of original photographs edited by Jill Furmanovsky, exclusive merchandise and facsimile collectables.
The Immersion Edition presents the complete artistic experience. Lavishly packaged in a sturdy 29cm square box, the set contain remastered, previously unreleased and audio-visual material, plus much additional content - reproduced memorabilia, brand new graphics, art prints, collectors' items, lavish booklets and more.

Includes:
40 page 27cm x 27cm booklet designed by Storm Thorgerson.
Exclusive photo book edited by Jill Furmanovsky.
BLU-RAY Disc chock a block full of
27cm x 27cm Exclusive Storm Thorgerson Art Print.
5 x Collectors' Cards featuring art and comments by Storm Thorgerson.
Replica of The Dark Side Of The Moon Tour Ticket.
Replica of The Dark Side Of The Moon Backstage Pass.
Scarf.
3 x Black marbles.
9 x Coasters (unique to this box) featuring early Storm Thorgerson design sketches.
12 page credits booklet.

And to boot, this amazing collectors box set will only set you back $150!
Thats even cheaper than from a certain yellow and black competitor...
Get yours today!

GIRLS AGAINST BOYS

Girls' second LP one of the best sounding rock records in years is an album rich with feeling and alive with color and personality. Most of that is up to Chris Owens, the singer and songwriter, who has a preternatural gift for turning clichés into into deeply affecting songs. The arrangements throughout have whirring organ, guitar fills, solos, flutes, and backing vocals borrowed from classic rock and placed exactly where you would expect them to be. The first listen brings with it an almost eerie sense of familiarity, like these are songs you've been hearing your whole life even when you can't place them, all the while managing to sound like no one else (besides a few Beatlesque moments).

Pitchfork gave this album 9.3/10 - Not bad.

OPENING DAWES

Easily the next big thing in folk-rock!
Nothing Is Wrong sees the band not only avoiding the often-discussed sophomore slump, and rising to the challenge and delivering a far more accomplished record than their still very tasty debut. The band has come so far yet they're just getting started, this album should make the band into one of the biggest and most respected in the current americana/folk rock community.


check out the albums second track "If I Wanted Someone"

MOTHER'S BEST

At the peak of his career in 1951 Hank Williams recorded 143 songs for the Mother's Best Flour Company radio shows. He sang with his regular studio band and recorded his hits as well as songs he never recorded commercially anywhere else.
From this amazing legacy comes the release of the deluxe box set of THE COMPLETE MOTHER'S BEST RECORDINGS...PLUS!, a historic 15 CD/1 DVD collection drawn from the Mother's Best recordings.

It's a rare, informal glimpse into the heart and soul of country music's greatest star who passed away on New Year's Day 1953, at age 29.
These days, we count ourselves lucky if we find an alternate take or two by any late giant of American music. To find hours upon hours of music and talk is truly without precedent. Set the time machine for 1951!

Record Revirginizer

Record Revirginizer, the record restoring solution is here! Now in store and exclusive to us only is the all new Australian innovation that will allow you to listen to you LP’s, 7”s and anything in-between’s, without the pops, crackles and background noises.

Cary Stoddard the man behind Record Revirginizer has long been involved in the audio industry and in recent years has been looking into alternative ways of thoroughly cleaning vinyl records.
Whilst studying law at JCU in North Queensland, Stoddard developed Record Revirginizer and with awards and an appearance on ABC’s the New Inventors the product is now on shelves and ready to restore.

According to Stoddard, particles of mould, dust, oil, skin and smoke rest on the surface of your vinyl and when played, heat from stylus friction causes the particles to become sticky and are eventually deposited deep within the record grooves causing the disturbances.

The unique formula of Record Revirginizer is designed to combat this by firstly being poured onto the record and then massaged into its surface. Once the liquid has been left to set, the film can be easily peeled off, pulling out and removing all of the impurities, without leaving any residue behind.

For $50.00 you can clean and restore up to 16 double-sided LP’s and for evidence of its brilliance visit recordrevirginizer.com for more information on how it works, including audio samples and pictures.

ONLINE NEWSLETTER

So it's no secret that here at 78s we love music, and we love to talk about music, alot. But it might surprise you to know that we kinda like to write about it too! This comes in quite handy when we compile and send out our monthly on-line newsletter.
Thank you to those who've already signed up, and for those of you who haven't yet, but are interested in indulging our musical ramblings simply click HERE and fill in your details. Happy reading!

$10 CDs - We're Seriously Serious

Here at 78s we love a good bargain, and we're sure you do too! Right now we have an incredible range of $10 CDs and the list just keeps on growing!

Just to mention a few, we have the Beach Boys, Big Star, Blink 182, David Bowie, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Chemical Brothers, Cream, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Crowded House, The Cure, Daft Punk, Deep Purple, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Florence and the Machine, Green Day, Grinderman, Iron Maiden, Jethro Tull, Kings Of Leon, Diana Krall, Massive Attack, John Mayall, Joni Mitchell, Moody Blues, Oasis, O Brother, Where Art Thou (soundtrack), Phoenix, Placebo, Portishead, Public Enemy, Queen, Radiohead, Sigur Ros, Elliot Smith, Steely Dan, Rod Stewart, Stone Roses, Velvet Underground, Tom Waits, The Who, Neil Young and hundreds upon hundreds more, all priced at $10 (while stock lasts).

Click here to begin your search. YAY!

78'S INSTORE PICTURE GALLERY

Whether it's an international, Australian or local artist, 78 Records always loves a good instore. We've recently had performances from Birds of Tokyo, Behind Crimson Eyes, Little Birdy, Okkervil River, Eskimo Joe, Bob Evans, The Sleepy Jackson and Snowman.

Click on Gallery to check out our photos from all of the above shows plus many, many other past live performances.

FRIENDS FOREVER

That's right kids, 78 Records are also futuristic-techno-wizards, so join us in the new friend finding program, the internet

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THE BLUES SECTION FROM HEAVEN

78 Records has always been associated with good blues music. One of the reasons we opened was so that we could import rare blues albums for personal use.

We still carry a huge range of blues music. From the primitive sounds of the 20's, the country blues of the 30's, the early electric sounds of the 40's, the awesome Chess recordings of the 50's through to the twin revivals of country blues and white blues of the 60's. From there the music seemed to go down a myriad of paths, some merging with other musics, all adding to the varied and healthy blues scene we have today.

The pictured CD contains what is arguably the first electric blues release recorded as a complete album, in September 1965. (What were you doing then?) Prior to this, blues albums were simply collections of singles and their B-sides.

This album features Buddy Guy and Junior Wells at their blues peak with incredibly moving playing. A very influential album, it showcases the sparks that fly when Buddy Guy and Junior Wells got together to play their own brand of tight, tough soulful blues music.

To put it simply, "it's a killer".

Remember, if it's blues you want, 78's is where to get it!

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