As a producer, she has overseen seminal albums by Bikini Kill and the Germs’ LA punk masterpiece ‘GI.’ Jett and co-founder Kenny Laguna (her longtime producer and music partner) founded Blackheart from the trunk of Kenny’s Cadillac after countless rejections from no less than 23 labels.Ĥ0 years later, Blackheart is a thriving entertainment company producing music, film, and television, and continues to champion emerging bands. After forming her band the Blackhearts in 1979, with whom Jett has become a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, she has had eight platinum and gold albums and nine Top 40 singles, including the classics “Bad Reputation,” “I Love Rock’ N’ Roll,” “I Hate Myself For Loving You,” and “Crimson and Clover.” With a career that has spanned music, film, television, Broadway, and humanitarianism, Joan Jett remains a potent force and inspiration to generations of fans worldwide. Captured in radiant stereo at the renowned VARA Studio 2 in Hilversum, the Netherlands, these quartet sets find Baker on the cusp of 50, playing in top form during a moment of calm amidst a ravaging drug addiction.Joan Jett grew up during a time when rock ‘n’ roll was off-limits to girls and women, but as a teenager, she promptly blew the door to the boys’ club right off its hinges. The cream of this crop is Blue Room: The 1979 VARA Studio Sessions in Holland, a pair of gorgeous, high-fidelity radio appearances from trumpet icon Chet Baker. This RSD, renowned jazz archivist Zev Feldman and his Jazz Detective imprint brings listeners a groundswell of new titles. There will be 15,500 copies of Give Way available on Record Store Day.īonus Honorable Mention: Chet Baker, Blue Room: The 1979 VARA Studio Sessions in Holland (Jazz Detective/Elemental Music) Officially repressed on black vinyl and CD (its originally intended format), Give Way (the Aussie term for “yield”) contains fantastic live versions of such Yield classics as “Given To Fly” and “Do The Evolution” along eternal hits (“Alive,” “Evenflow”) and deeper fan faves (“I Got Id” and “State of Love and Trust”). It was originally intended to be released as a giveaway with the purchase of the Single Video Theory VHS tape at Best Buy, but the promotion was inexplicably shelved with only a scant number of copies making it out in the wild. One of the true holy grails for Pearl Jam collectors, this special live album was recorded on March 5, 1998, during the band’s show at the Melbourne Park stop on the Australian leg of the Yield tour. Here are 10 amazing titles for Record Store Day 2023 - releases worth queueing up for on Saturday, April 22 at a record store near you. Yet that’s exactly what makes Record Store Day so much fun for the vinyl junkie: even if you don’t score a title on your priority list, there are so many worthwhile alternatives to help soothe the loss of your white whale on wax. One label alone, Rhino Records, has no less than 24 distinct offerings for this year’s big day, including exclusive wax from such stalwart acts as Madonna, Yes, Stevie Nicks, Talking Heads, The Grateful Dead, Tori Amos and more. Perusing through this year’s list of exclusives, it was no easy task to narrow down over 400 titles down to 10 choices. Since then, labels have been working overtime to secure exclusive titles from every genre to ensure your place in that line on Saturday. In 2008, they began an annual April holiday that allows serious collectors to binge like it’s a vinyl-centered version of St. Plus, it’s a telling referendum on the staying power of physical media in a world where streaming remains king.Ĭredit this wax resurgence to the founders of Record Store Day. While some of us still hold silverback compact discs close to our hearts, it has been nothing short of remarkable to see vinyl rise from its decades-long decline to become the top format in America for the first time since the late ‘80s. Since 2021, vinyl LPs have outsold CDs in the U.S., according to Luminate.
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