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Reckless Records 4/19/11 New Releases

We’re still recovering from a very successful and fun Record Store Day. We want to thank everybody for coming out and supporting our stores and thanks to the bands that played. We’re still shocked at how smoothly everything went. Chicago is possibly the best music town in the U.S. and you helped prove it! There’s still a few Record Store Day releases hanging around so if you’re looking for anything, be sure to check the website. We also want to mention that we SOLD OUT of the RAW NERVE LP which is totally bonkers.

Black Angels – Another Nice Pair (LP Record Store Day release)
Earth – Angels of Darkness Demons of Light (Record Store Day version)
Gorillaz – Fall (CD will be in early Tuesday)
Grouper – A l A Alien Observer (LP)
Grouper – A l A Dream Loss (LP)
High Llamas – Talahomi Way (CD/LP)
Iggy & the Stooges – Raw Power Live (LP)
Implodes – Black Earth (CD/LP with free 4 color CMYK print by Mat Daly while supplies last!!)
Les Rallizes Denudes – Great White Wonder (5LP boxset)
Off – Compared to What (7″ on Southern Lord)
Off – Live at Generation Records (Record Store Day 7″)
Superchunk – Here’s Where the Strings Come In (CD/LP reissue)
Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Must Be Blind 10″
Tune Yards – Who Kill (CD/LP)
VA – Local Customs: Pressed at Bodie (LP, TAPE Record Store Day release still in stock)
Vee Dee – Miss Lucy/ Stone Zoo Wanderer (7″, limited red vinyl)
Weedeater – Jason the Dragon (LP)
White Mystery – Blood and Venom (CD/LP)
Winter – Into Darkness (CD/LP)
Thom Yorke/Four Tet/ Burial – Ego/Mirror 12″ (we only got a few back in, act fast!)

Plus a whole lot more RSD stragglers!

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Reckless Records 4/12/2011 New Releases

The in-store set times for RECORD STORE DAY have been posted on our website & our Facebook page. Please check it out. We’ll have more updates about more exciting RECORD STORE DAY related stuff throughout the week.

We got a very limited quantity of the Thom Yorke/Burial/Four Tet 12″ but they sold IMMEDIATELY. We’re hoping to get more
copies this week so if you want one, please place a special order ASAP.

Atmosphere – The Family Sign (CD)
Autechre – EPs 1991-2002 (5xCD)
Bell X1 – Bloodless Coup (CD)
Between the Buried & Me – Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues (CD)
Jeff Buckley – Grace (LP)
Crystal Stilts – In Love with Oblivion (CD)
Bob Dylan – In Concert: Brandeis University 1963 (CD)
Elbow – Build a Rocket Boys! (CD)
Feelies – Here Before (CD/LP)
Foo Fighters – Wasting Light (CD/LP)
Frustrators – Griller (CD – featuring Mike Dirnt from Green Day)
Giant Sand – The Love Songs (CD)
Giant Sand – Swerve (CD)
Giant Sand – Long Stem Rant (CD)
Gypsyblood – Cold in the Guestway (CD/LP)
Xander Harris – Urban Gothic (LP)
Hauschka – Salon Des Amateurs (CD)
Head & the Heart – S/T (CD/LP)
Jimi Hendrix – South Saturn Delta (CD)
Jimi Hendrix – Band of Gypsys: Live at the Fillmore (DVD)
Iceage – New Brigade (LP)
Indian – Guiltless (CD/LP)
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit – Here We Rest (CD/LP)
Lake – Giving & Receiving (CD)
James Leg – Solitary Pleasure (CD/LP)
Jeremy J – Dream Diary (LP)
Jessie J – Who You Are (CD)
Joan As Policewoman – Deep Field (CD)
Kamikaze Eyes – Two Summers Ago (7″)
Femi Kuti – Africa For Africa (CD/LP)
Letlive – Fake History (CD)
Low – C’mon (CD/LP w/ bonus CD ep of 5 acoustic tracks from the album while supplies last!!)
Nick Lowe – Labour of Lust (LP reissue)
Mazes – A Thousand Heys (CD/LP)
Mater Suspiria Vision – Crack Witch (LP)
Meat Puppets – Lollipop (CD/LP)
Willie Nelson & Ray Price – Run That By Me One More Time (LP)
Martin Newell – Songs for…A Fallow Land (LP reissue)
Noisear – Subvert the Dominant Paradigm (CD/LP)
Old Calf – Borrow a Horse (CD/LP)
Panda Bear – Tomboy (CD/LP – regular version, NOT the Record Store Day version)
Pentagram – Last Rites (CD)
Ponytail – Do Whatever You Want All the Time (CD/LP)
Quintron – Sucre Du Savage (CD/LP)
Red Fang – Murder the Mountains (CD – vinyl forthcoming)
Paul Simon – So Beautiful or So What? (regular & deluxe CD)
Sonny & the Sunsets – Hit After Hit (CD/LP)
Sounds – Something to Die For (CD/LP)
Thursday – No Devolucion (CD/LP)
TV Ghost – Mass Dream (CD)
TV On the Radio – Nine Types of Light (regular CD, deluxe CD & LP)
Umberto – Freeze (7″)
Various Artists – Princess Nicotine: Folk & Pop Music of Myanmar Vol. 1
Vivian Girls – Share the Joy (CD/LP)
Whiskeytown – Pneumonia (LP)
Young Widows – In and Out of Youth and Lightness (CD/LP)
V/A – Power of Soul: A Tribute to Jimi Hendrix (w/ Cee-Lo, Prince, Bootsy & more)

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Reckless Records 4/5/2011 New Releases

We had an amazing last week at Reckless. It started with a line a few blocks long for the “Universal Sigh” Radiohead newspaper on Tuesday morning which certainly helped us sell a TON of copies of the CD/LP. Also we had an incredible weekend of in-stores starting with Kurt Vile playing solo to a packed store on Friday night. On Saturday, Moon Duo totally blew us away. Thanks to everybody that stopped in the store!!

Annihilation Time – Annihilation Time II (LP & 7″)
Black Market Baby – Potential Suicide (7″ – regular version, NOT the Record Store Day version)
Burial – Street Halo (12″)
Chalk Circle – Reflection (LP)
Cold Cave – Cherish the Light Years (CD/LP)
Alela Diane – Wild Divine (CD/LP)
Hive Destruction – Secretvm/Veritas (CD)
Fire & Ice – Collections (CD/LP)
Frustrators, the – Griller (7″ – regular version, NOT the Record Store Day version)
Ha Ha Tonka – Death of a Decade (CD/LP)
Xander Harris – Urban Gothic (LP)
Harald Grosskopf – Synthesist (LP, restock!)
Michael Hurely – Have Moicy! (LP reissue on Light in the Attic)
J. Rocc – Some Cold Rock Stuf (2xCD)
KEN Mode – Venerable (LP)
Kicking Spit – Psychrockbullshit (CD)
Kills – Blood Pressures (CD, LPs should be here soon, hopefully Tuesday)
Maritime – Human Hearts (CD)
Menzingers, the – Chamberlain Waits (LP – regular version, NOT the Record Store Day version)
Angel Olsen – Strange Cacti (LP, first album from this local chanteuse!)
Queers, the – A Day Late & A Dollar Short (LP)
Ramming Speed/ANS – Split (LP)
Raveonettes – Raven in the Grave (CD/LP)
Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx – I’ll Take Care of U (12″)
Smoking Popes – This Is Only a Test (LP)
Umberto – Freeze (7″ on Not Not Fun)
Victims – A Dissident (LP)