ROCKET DISTRIBUTION OFFICIAL RECORD STORE DAY 2018 RELEASES Artist Title Label Info Format Mark Perry has remained the sole surviving original member and driving force. Alternative TV have been responsible for around fifteen albums since their formation, with the last one, Opposing Forces, from 2015 on Public Domain Records, proving to be their strongest thus far with its mar-rying of igneous ALTERNATIVE FOURTH rock, idiosyncratic touches, barbed commentary and occasionally seething DARK PLACES 12" TV DIMENSION undercurrents of dark psychedelic noise. ‘Dark Places’ expands the mantle set by Opposing Forces, introducing four songs cascading between full-on rock to a kind of abstract minimalist electronics approach perfectly in keeping with Alternative TV’s occasional traverses to the furthest reaches. Vic Godard’s guests on guitar on ‘Like a Tomb’. BALDRY, LONG Following Cyril Davies’s death in January 1964, Long John Baldry took over the JOHN & All Stars and renamed them the Hoochie Coochie Men. The re-cordings FILTHY MCNASTY EP 1960'S RECORDS 7" HOOCHIE featured here come from a March 1965 broadcast and are played by the sixth COOCHIE MEN and final incarnation of the group without Rod Stewart on vocals. BASS Double LP (heavyweight 180 gram vinyl) in gatefold sleeve. Re-mastered and COMMUNION BASS COMMUNION HIDDEN ART exclusive liner notes by Steven Wilson. Includes bonus track not on CD version 2LP (STEVEN and brand new artwork. WILSON) The Beach Boys played a show in Paris on December 15, 1967 that was broadcast to raise money for UNICEF. Brian Wilson stayed home to work on IN PARIS WITH ANDY BEACH BOYS 1960'S RECORDS songs for the Friends album but Ed Carter played bass and Bruce Johnson sang 7" WILLIAMS EP vocals. And if anyone ever wondered how the Beach Boys might sound with Andy Williams on backing vocals, Little Cycle is the living proof. Blabbermouth are the brainchild of Lu Edmonds - (Pil, Mekons, The Damned) BLABBERMOU DIRTER & Mark Roberts (The Godfathers, Massive Attack etc) and a host of others in a DEEP STATE 7" TH PROMOTIONS star-studded line up. The record is limited to just 500 copies, with a full length release on Dirter to follow later in 2018. Part of the first wave of mid-70s UK punk explosion The Boys formed in CALL OF THE London in 1975 . They released their acclaimed self-titled debut in 1977 which BOYS THE BOYS LP VOID featured ‘I Don’t Care’ and ‘First Time’. Limited edition vomit splatter vinyl. 1000 copies. June ’67 and the Byrds and Buffalo Springfield were both in disarray. Neil Young walked out of the Springfield just before they were due to perform at BUFFALO LIVE AT MONTEREY 1967 Monterey and David Crosby was asked to fill in for him. This didn’t please the 1960'S RECORDS 7" SPRINGFIELD EP Byrds and he left the group shortly after. Here is your chance to hear the four- guitar Buffalo Springfield line-up of Steve Stills, Richie Furay, Doug Hastings and David Crosby. The whole of side one is an uninterrupted symphony of R&B. Just listen to the two versions of the absurdly great “C. C. Rid-er”. On the other hand side two is most of their psychedelic material. Compared to the previous Animals albums, BURDON, ERIC this just seems to pack a little more punch than any of the others with the & THE NIGHTS IN SAN FRANCISCO RHYTHM & BLUES possible exception of Animal Tracks. Jenkins’s drumming really makes a LP ANIMALS difference in the overall sound. The group seems freer now, especially on the uptempo material (check “Shake, Rattle And Roll”). And Burdon’s vocals seem to be con-stantly improving, which is a crucial point. In any event, the fact is that this album rocks. And when the Animals rock, no one can touch them. Side One contains broadcast recordings taken from TV and radio between December 1965 and March 1967. But it is Side Two that is of great historical signficance for Byrdmaniacs. The Winterland show from December 1967 offers a glimpse of the Byrds as a three-piece band. David Crosby and Michael Clarke BYRDS THE BYRDS 1960'S RECORDS had left in the summer, but Clarke returned for this concert. The recording LP quality is not great but the sound is unlike any other Byrds recording, with McGuinn’s 6-string Gretsch powering the group along on hard rock versions of their hits and others such as Miles Davis’s Milestones and Jimmy Reed’s Baby, What You Want Me To Do. 3 minutes of perfect pop gushing rock’n’roll wonderment. Coach Hop is the new outfit from natty frontman Charlie Honderick. Previously to be found in the cockpit with festival-slayers-in-waiting ‘Hamptons’, Charlie is the possessor of a rich, at times almost John Grant-esque baritone and a stage demeanour COACH HOP I LIKE TAYLOR SWIFT SCRATCHY 7" not unlike fellow American Dave Lee Roth. Now teaming up with producer Natt Webb, Charlie has found the perfect foil for his songwriting. This is celebratory music that cut loose from any sense of self consciousness several hundred feet ago and it’s highly likely you’ll want to climb on board with him. These four tracks are taken from a German TV show broadcast from Offenbach in February 1967. Three including the worldwide hit Friday On My EASYBEATS LOVIN’ MACHINE EP 1960'S RECORDS 7" Mind are self-composed Easybeats tracks and the fourth is a cover of River Deep Mountain High. Celebrating the band’s 40th anniversary with the reissue of the classic genre- ESG COME AWAY WITH ESG FIRE RECORDS busting debut album by the Bronx sisters ESG. Limited edition or-ange vinyl LP complete with new artwork. 1000 copies. This collection of R&B, pop and jazz finds Fame at the commercial peak of his FAME, RHYTHM AND BLUES AND career with a new single, ‘The Ballad Of Bonnie & Clyde’, heading towards 1960'S RECORDS LP GEORGIE JAZZ No.1 in the UK and Europe. As one critic put it at the end of ’67, ‘for my money he’s equally good at pop and jazz’ and we couldn’t agree more. ‘A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing’ (2006) was an unusual album, first because it does things with classical music that aren’t usually done. The songs Josephine Foster sings here are classical pieces, written (the texts are German poems) by some of the greatest German composers of the 19th century, Franz Schubert, Robert FOSTER, A WOLF IN SHEEPS FIRE RECORDS Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and Hugo Wolf. “Foster has found perhaps the LP JOSEPHINE CLOTHING most appropriate vehicle yet for her singular and affecting talents – 19th century German art-songs, wholly reconstructed here via Foster’s skeletal arrangements of voice and guitar” Pitchfork. Remastered and repackaged with new artwork. 1000 copies. Originally issued in 1991 this was the bands 3rd album and has been out of print for over 20 years. It features covers of some of the most influen-tial rare FUZZTONES BRAINDROPS EASY ACTION & psych tracks from the 60’s alongside self-penned tracks such as the live LP+7 favourites ‘Romilar D’ , ‘Rise’ and ‘Skeleton Farm’. Features 3 bonus tracks on the LP. Remastered on coloured vinyl with bonus 7” single. White vinyl. 1000 copies. Includes DL. 23 years into a career that includes releases under a host of nom de plumes, Howe Gelb returned to Giant Sand after a four-year hiatus for ‘proVISIONS’. The result was a slice of typically off- the-cuff beat-styled pontificating set to music that defied boundaries – there a GIANT SAND PROVISIONS FIRE AMERICA country-tinged ballad nestles next to a swing-styled croon, a rambunctious LP guitar holds court and intricate wordy couplets emote before echoey melancholy takes charge courtesy of a wailing steel guitar. Polly Harvey, Neko Case, M Ward and Isobell Campbell are part of the party, swaying breezily with Howe as old friends. 11-track collection of the first ever studio sessions by Girls Names, recorded in 2009 in Belfast. It compiles their debut EP originally released on Captured Tracks, the eight songs that originally featured on the long-out-of print You Should Know By Now mini-EP released on Tough Love, and a hereto- GIRLS NAMES PRIMITIVE DESIRE TOUGH LOVE LP unreleased bonus track. A document of the band's early years as a two-piece, fuelled by a distinct nervous energy and nascent dark edge that would manifest itself much more obviously on subsequent albums. Green vinyl with DL. 3000 worldwide. Colour vinyl - 'pool of blood' (blood red and clear, colour-in- colour vinyl). Double Date is an independent British horror film that was released to great applause in 2017. The film was written and starred Danny Morgan and was the debut movie directed by Benjamin Barfoot. Ben asked Goat to appear in the film in a club scene where he wanted to feature a band playing live. And when he and Danny were coming up with the idea for the GOAT DOUBLE DATE ROCKET movie they had Goat’s ‘World Music’ album on repeat and it was decided it 10" was bands infectious tribal grooves that he want-ed in the scene. During filming of Goat’s scene Ben and the band bonded and he invited Goat to score the whole film. The album contains all the original music Goat created to soundtrack the film plus the music they made for the trailer. Also contains a different version of Goat’s live anthem ‘Run To Your Mama’ that was especially created for the film.