Record Store Day 2014

Camera Obscura @ Summerstage 2013 (more by P Squared) Camera Obscura took time off after last year's tour with She & Him as bandmembers Tracyanne Campbell and Gavin Dunbar both became new parents...

Owing a whole lot to late '80s EBM, New Beat and industrial while sounding very much in the now, Liars' new album, Mess, is their most immediate and danceable in ages...

Record Store Day 2014 is about a month away (April 19) and one of this year's exclusive releases is a four-LP set of R.E.M.'s two sessions:The "Unplugged" performances are sonic snapshots that capture the legendary Athens, Georgia band at important points on its journey from alternative-music progenitors to international stars that have sold more than 85 million albums...

One of last year's coolest reissues was Who Is William Onyeabor? which collected many of the cult Nigerian funk singer and synthesizer pioneer William Onyeabor's best tracks...

As you may know, UK band Fear of Men's debut album, Loom, will be out April 22 via Kanine Records. (Preorder yours.) The record will be preceded by a limited edition "Luna" flexi/zine on April 7 with a non-LP cut on the flexi's flip...

LCD's final show, MSG 4/2/2011 (more by Dominick Mastrangelo) LCD Soundsystem's three-and-a-half-hour final show which happened at MSG back in 2011 is coming out as a five-LP box set for Record Store Day 2014...

J. Spaceman / Kid Millions at LPR in September (more by Greg Cristman) One of this year's more interesting-sounding Record Store Day exclusives is a compilation titled Space Project that features songs incorporating sounds recorded in space by the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 space probes...

In addition to the Fear of Men special edition LP, Kanine Records announced their other Record Store Day 2014 releases today as well. One of them is a compilation called Non Violent Femmes, which culls tracks from some of today's more promising female-fronted bands from around the globe (well, America, UK, and NZ): Speedy Ortiz, Eternal Summers, Bleeding Rainbow, Beach Day, Tashaki Miyaki, Is/Is, Beverly, TEEN (who just played Baby's All Right), Joanna Gruesome, Flowers, and Beaches...