Sunday, June 27, 2010



The Verlaines
"Death and the Maiden"
Death and the Maiden 7"
1983 Flying Nun Records

First and most popular single by New Zealand indie pop greats.

Saturday, June 26, 2010

RARE + CMRTYZ


Black Gold Records is proud to sponsor Psychedelic Summer, an exhibition presented by Seattle-based Art Collective CMRTYZ . The opening will include work by John Malta, C.M. Ruiz, Cassie Ramone, and Matthew Volz, and feature limited edition vinyl provided by Bachelor, Captured Tracks, CMRTYZ, Family Time, Floridas Dying, Goner, HoZac, Psychic Lunch, Vice, and others. The show began June 24th and will continue until July 24th. Visit RARE GALLERY for more info.

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Still Crazy After All These Years



Carp

s/t

1970 Epic Records


Folky blues rock group featuring mad man Gary Busey in his early days.




The First Edition

s/t

1967 Reprise Records


Rockin' popular psychedelic rock featuring a young yet already bearded and wasted Kenny Rogers.





The Hassles

Hour of the Wolf

1969 United Artists


The second album by a group who introduced the world to keyboardist Billy Joel. The Hassles music help explain what was really churning in Mr. Allentown's head while later faking songs like "Uptown Girl".





The Amboy Dukes

Journey To The Center of The Mind

1968 Mainstream Records


Long before Ted "The Nuge" Nugent traded drugs and alcohol for quads and venison, he was a part of this amazing group whose albums' subjects raise questions on the activities of the members involved.