Dead Weather listening party Tues, 07/14!!

Dead Weather are set to release their full length debut on Tuesday, July 14th and we’re havin’ a listening party to celebrate.  There will be free food, beverages and give-aways – so come down and join us!  More details are soon to follow, so be sure to check back…

WILCO (The Album) LISTENING PARTY JUNE 30th! FREE BEER AND PIZZA!

We’ve got a listening party for the new Wilco record coming up on June 30th. There will be free pizza, beer (if age, of course), and giveaways. Come out and check out the lovely new record by Jeff Tweedy and Co. with us!

NEW RELEASES IN-STOCK 6/16

VINYL RELEASES:
Black Eyed Peas – The E.N.D.
Green Day – Nimrod
The Litter – Action Woman – 60s garage nuggets
Megadeth – So Far, So Goo, So What
Patterson Hood – Murdering Oscar (+CD)
Plastic Ono Band – Live Peace in Toronto (Re-issue)
Red Hot Chili Peppers – LP Reissues (Freaky Styley, Mothers Milk, Uplift Mofo Party Plan)
Roxy Music – LP Reissues (Country Life, Stranded)
The Specials – Self-titled (Reissue)
Those Darlins – Those Darlins (+CD)

CD RELEASES:
Among the Oak and Ash – Self-titled
Big Star – #1 Record/Radio City (re-issue)
Miss Kittin and the Hacker – First album (reissue)
Moka Only – Carrots and Eggs
Lee Scratch Perry and Ari Up – Return from Planet Dub (2xcd)
Sleep – Holy Mountain (reissue)
Rhonda Vincent – Destination Life
Sara Wasserman – Solid Ground
Holly Williams – Here With Me
Amanda Palmer – Collection of Videos (DVD)

We here at The Groove are thrilled to have the photos of Theresa Kereakes currently hanging on our walls.  We recently had an wonderful opening for her exhibit, entitled “Locals and Legends”, and we are equally as pleased to here that she is going to have two of her works up for grabs in the upcoming Christie’s Pop Culture Auction – which will take place on June 23rd. Both pieces are estimated to bring in at least $1000 each, making them a steal at what they are going for in our store (they start at just $10…)

Click on the links below to check ‘em out for yourself:

Lot 49/Sale 2179: The Germs

Lot 50/Sale 2179: Belinda Carlisle

outtake from The Germs “Forming” picture sleeve photo session is part of the Christie’s Pop Culture auction on June 23

Taken from Theresa’s blog, Punk Turns 30:

“Thirty years after the first sloppy power chord broke through the disco doldrums, punk rock has reached a respectable status as a musical genre and epochal movement – a generation’s benchmark that sees its lasting contribution to pop culture on a daily basis. And speaking of Pop Culture…. the experts at Christie’s Auction House have identified the phenomenon as collectible. Spurred by the critical and probably material success of its November 2008 Punk Rock auction, (which was covered HERE), Christie’s is doing it again!

On June 23, Christie’s will conduct its Pop Culture auction and some images from the Punk Turns 30 archive are included!

That’s right! Lots #49 and #50 in Christie’s Pop Culture auction are sets of photos by yours truly — Belinda Carlisle and The Germs.

I think its a wonderful combination — considering that Belinda Carlisle and the Go Gos may be the biggest success out of LA’s homegrown punk rock bands, and the Germs LA’s most notorious… with Belinda being an original member of the Germs… those curators in Pop Culture certainly know their punk rock family tree and how to connect dots in a most sophisticated way.

Several of the images that are in the Christie’s auction have not been published, exhibited or seen before! A few of the Germs images and a couple of the Belinda Carlisle images were included in the last stop on my Unguarded Moments tour at Metropolis in Lancaster, PA.

At this very moment, there are some photos of a young, pre-Go Gos Belinda Carlisle hanging up at The Groove record shop in Nashville, TN. The photos were installed to celebrate Record Store Day and will be hanging up for a little while longer as I introduce the next traveling exhibit I’ll be doing: Locals & Legends.

Tell your rich, collector friends to check out Christie’s!”

New Releases In-stock on 5/26

Vinyl:
Art Brut – Art Brut vs. Satan
Bardo Pond – Peri (180gram + CD)
Sir Richard Bishop – Freak of Araby
Blackout Beach – Skin of Evil
Carolina Chocolate Drops – Dona Got a Ramblin’ Mind
Karen Dalton – It’s So Hard to Tell Who’s Going To Love You The Best
DJ Vadim – U Can’t Lurn Imaginashun
Doom – Born Like This
Steve Earle – Townes
Feist – Let it Die (re-issue)
Feist – Open Season (re-issue)
Flower/Corsano Duo – Fours Aims 2xLP
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest (2xLP + Booklet)
Heartless Bastards – Mountain (180gram + 7inch + Download)
Method Man and Redman – Blackout 2 (2xLP)
Monks – Black Monk Time (2xLP)
Monks – Early Years 1964-1965 (2xLP)
Mt. Eerie – Live in Copenhagen (2xLP)
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (w/Download)
Naomi Shelton and The Gospel Queens – What Have You Done, My Brother?
Clem Snide – Hungry Bird

CD:
King Sunny Ade – Seven Degrees North
Bike For Three – More Heart Than Brains
Sir Richard Bishop – Freaks of Araby
Black Moth Super Rainbow – Eating Us
Brian Jonestown Massacre – Smoking Acid EP
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
Khanate – Clean Hands Go Foul
Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Sarah Siskind – Say it Louder
Sunn O))) – Monoliths and Dimensions
Vieux Farka Toure – Fondo
Various Artists – Luaka Bop:Twenty First Century, Twenty First Year
Viva Voce – Rose City
Wand – Hard Knox

Mayer Hawthorne – “Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out”

We here at the Groove have always been Stones Throw fanatics, and one of their latest signings, Mayer Hawthorne, is an absolute testament to that statement. For a 29-Year-Old white guy from Michigan, the man gets funky and soulful as can be. Legend was he sent the demo to Peanut Butter Wolf and PB didn’t believe it was him at first. Listen and you’ll understand why. This video just dropped a few weeks ago:

New Releases for 5/19

We are going to start doing comprehensive lists of what we get in the weekend before, so you can know what to come pick up that tuesday! Here are the 3/19 listings:

Vinyl Releases:
Booker T – Potato Hole
Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career
Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications
Clues – Clues
Leonard Cohen Re-issues (New Songs, New Skin for the Old Ceremony, Songs of Leonard Cohen, Songs from a Room,  Songs of Love & Hate)
Crystal Method – Divided By Night
Curious Mystery – Rotting Slowly
Cursive – Mama I’m Swollen
EAR PWR – Super Animal Brothers III
Felice Brothers – Yonder is the Clock 2xLp
Flipper – Sex Bomb Baby
Ben Harper and Relentless 7 – White Lies for Dark Time
Harvey Milk – Life: Best Game in Town 2xLP 180Gram (this packaging is wonderful)
Headless Heroes – Silence of Love
Hopewell – Good Good Desperation
Iron and Wine – Around the Well 3xLP
Jokers Daugher – Last Laugh
Jonathan Kane – Jet Ear Party 2xLP
Jeffrey Lewis and the Junkyard – ‘Em Are I
Jason Lytle – Yours Truly the Commuter (+ Download)
Mates of State – All Day EP 180 Gram
Nino Moschella – Boom Shadow
Passion Pit – Manners
Pulp – This Is Hardcore 2xLP 180Gram Re-issue
Red Fang – Red Fang
Super Furry Animals – Dark Days/Light Years 2xLP
John Vanderslice – Romanian Names
Warlocks – Mirror Explodes
White Rabbits – It’s Frightening
Young Widows/Melt-Banana Split 7″

CD Releases:
Apostle of Hustle – Eats Darkness
Harlan T Bobo – I’m Your Man
Busta Rhymes – Back on your B S
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Re-issues (First Born is Dead, From Her to Eternity, Your Funeral My Trial) – all come with DVD
Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications
The Curious Mystery – Rotting Slowly
EAR PWR – Super Animal Brothers III
Eminem – Relapse
Georgia Anne Muldrow – Ms. One
Jonathan Kane – Jet Ear Party
Kronos Quartet – Floodplain
Jeffrey Lewis and the Junkyard – ‘Em Are I
Jason Lytle – Yours Truly the Commuter
Method Man/Redman – Blackout 2
Nino Moschella – Boom Shadow
Jim O Rourke – Im Happy and Singing
Passion Pit – Manners
Roni Size – New Forms 2
John Vanderslice – Romanian Names
Kate Voegele – A Fine Mess
Scott Walker: 30th Century Man Soundtrack
Warlocks – Mirror Explodes
White Rabbits – Its Frightening
John Zorn – Alhambra Love Songs

Save Paste Magazine

Hey folks. We’re all in hard times, its evident. Especially in the world of Print journalism (especially independent), we are seeing these magazines drop like flies. Well, Paste Magazine has been at the forefront of the indie music and culture world over the past several years — and it needs your help to stay alive. Think of it like NPR – you donate to listen to quality reporting. Paste doesn’t care about trends, they care about quality – what any real journalistic venture should. So do them a favor, donate the money you were going to spend on that one last beer tonight, and just go home instead. plus, you get 70+ free tracks (with a couple really great exclusives – worth 5 bucks or so right?)

Save Paste Magazine!

Photo Exhibit at The Groove, Saturday May 16th

Record Store Day Pix

We’d like to thank everyone who came out and helped us make this year’s Record Store Day celebration a success…  It was a great day, filled with great music and great people… Who could ask for more?  We’ve put up some pix to recap the day — you can view them here…