YEAH YEAH YEAHS ANNOUNCE THE REISSUE OF THE SEMINAL BREAKTHROUGH ALBUM FEVER TO TELL

YEAH YEAH YEAHS ANNOUNCE THE REISSUE OF THE SEMINAL BREAKTHROUGH ALBUM FEVER TO TELL

AVAILABLE IN DELUXE AND STANDARD LP & DIGITALPRE-ORDER FROM SEPTEMBER 26th, RELEASE OCTOBER 20th HEADLINE SHOWS IN LOS ANGELES & BROOKLYN ON SALE SEPTEMBER 29th

 YEAH YEAH YEAHS have announced details of a vinyl reissue of their seminal, ground-breaking debut, Fever To Tell, on October 20th through Interscope Records / UMe. The album will be available as a Limited Edition Deluxe Box, Standard LP, and Digital deluxe and standard re-mastered editions. Pre-Order for all editions from Sept 26th, with release on October 20th. “Shake It”, a previously unreleased track from the Fever To Tell era, is available as an instant grat now via all digital formats.

Speaking about the release, the New York trio said, “A friend of a friend kept asking if we were ever gonna put Fever To Tell out on vinyl as it hasn’t been on vinyl in 10 years. That’s not right. So here it is on vinyl for the first time in 10 years plus a time capsule of photos, demos (1st ever recorded,) a mini film documenting our near downfall and other fun memorabilia, from the turn of the century NYC, made with love + the usual blood, sweat + tears of Yeah Yeah Yeahs.”

One of the finest debut albums of recent times, Fever To Tell was released in 2003 and was influential in shaping the sound of the early aughts and beyond. Prior to its release, Karen O, Nick Zinner and Brian Chase had already established themselves as a ferocious live force; Fever To Tell introduced a band who could play thrilling and frenetic rock’n’roll one minute and captivating, hushed ballads the next. Its meld of scuzzy riffs, angular grooves and hypnotic hooks set a template that was often imitated over the next decade but the album’s rare chemistry isn’t easily replicated. It’s a snapshot of an era that sounds just as mesmerizing as it enters its 15th anniversary in 2018.

In celebration of and in addition to the reissue, the band has announced shows in Los Angeles (The Fonda Theatre, October 25) and Brooklyn (Kings Theatre, November 7).  These two exclusive underplays join the two previously announced 2017 festival appearances, full list of dates below.  Tickets for Los Angeles and Brooklyn dates go on pre-sale with the vinyl pre order September 26th, and general on-sale September 29th.   More info and ticket links at yeahyeahyeahs.com

Oct 25             Los Angeles, CA         The Fonda Theatre
Oct 28             Long Beach, CA         Growlers 6 Festival
Nov 7              Brooklyn, NY               Kings Theatre
Nov 10            Austin, TX                   Sound on Sound Festival

Fever To Tell will be released on two physical formats:

DELUXE BOX – the Deluxe Box will be signed and numbered and limited to 2,000 copies worldwide. It contains the original album newly remastered on 2LPs, with nine unreleased demos, eight B-sides and rarities, and five newspaper lyric posters. It also comes with a 164-page hardbound photo book of Nick Zinner’s personal photos and includes pages from Karen O’s personal notebox, an embroidered iron-on patch, sticker, one photo card from Nick Zinner’s personal collection that all three members will sign and a custom champagne cork 8GB USB stick that includes over ninety minutes of video content as well as the twenty-nine audio tracks on the vinyl. To top it all off, all boxes will be wrapped in red fishnet stockings. The first 500 Deluxe Box buyers will receive a bonus cassette with 4 additional exclusive, unreleased demo bonus tracks with handwritten labels by the band.

LP + NEWSPRINT – this version contains the original album newly remastered by Stephen Marcussen on black 180g audiophile vinyl for the first time ever and five newspaper lyric posters with exclusive photos by Nick Zinner, Spike Jonze, Lance Bangs, Julian Gross, Patrick Daughters and Cintamani Calise.


DELUXE BOX
·   Limited Edition, Signed & Numbered / 2,000 Worldwide
·  2LPs – 180g audiophile black vinyl for the first time ever
·  Original album newly remastered by Stephen Marcussen
·  29 Audio Tracks
·  9 unreleased four-track recorded demos
·  8 B-sides/Rarities – 2 previously unreleased “Shake It” and “Boogers”
·  5 newspaper lyric posters with exclusive photos by Nick Zinner, Spike Jonze, Lance Bangs, Julian Gross, Patrick Daughters and Cintamani Calise
·  Deluxe Box Exclusives:
o 164-page hardbound photo book of Nick Zinner’s personal photos plus 16 pages from Karen O’s personal notebook
o  Embroidered Iron-on Patch
o Collectable Sticker
o Champagne Cork 8GB USB Stick includes:
§ 29 Audio Tracks
§ 90+ minutes of video content including 26 mins of unreleased, unseen behind-the-scenes footage from 2003 UK tour, live performances, 2 fan films and 4 music videos
o Photo Card – each box will feature 1 of 10 various photos hand selected by Nick Zinner from his personal photos that will be signed by all 3 members of the band
o Fishnet stockings will wrap the outside of the box
·  First 500 Deluxe Box buyers will receive a bonus cassette with 4 additional exclusive, unreleased demo

TRACKLISTING:
LP 1 / Side A
Original Album Newly Remastered
1.   Rich
2.  Date With The Night
3.  Man
4.  Tick
5.  Black Tongue
6.  Pin
7.  Cold Light

LP 1 / Side B
1.   No No No
2.  Maps
3.  Y Control
4.  Modern Romance

LP 2 / Side A
Previously Unreleased
1.   Date With The Night (Four Track Demo)
2.  Black Tongue (Four Track Demo)
3.  Pin (Four Track Demo)
4.  Maps (Early Four Track Demo)
5.  Poor Song (Four Track Demo)
6.  Tick (Four Track Demo)
7.  Shot Down (Four Track Demo)
8.  Ooh Ooh Ooh (Four Track Demo)
9.  Maps (Four Track Demo)

LP 2 / Side B
B-sides & Rarities
1.   Shake It – Previously Unreleased
2.  Machine
3.  Modern Things
4.  Graveyard
5.  Shot Down
6.  Yeah! New York
7.  Boogers – Previously Unreleased
8.  Countdown

VIDEO
1.   There Is No Modern Romance (Tour Documentary by Patrick Daughters & Stephen Berger)
26 mins of unreleased, unseen behind-the-scenes video of the band on their 2003 UK tour
2.  Fukuoka Nagoya Osaka Tokyo (Japan Tour Behind The Scenes)
3.  They Don’t Love Like I Love You (Interviews by Lance Bangs & Spike Jonze)
4.  Maps (Official Video)
5.  Date With The Night (Official Video)
6.  Y Control (Official Video)
7.  Pin (Official Video)
8.  Y-Control (Live at Fillmore San Francisco)
9.  Black Tongue (Live at Fillmore San Francisco)
10. Maps (Live at Fillmore San Francisco)
11. Rich (Live at Fillmore San Francisco)
12. Miles Away (Live at Fillmore San Francisco)
13. Poor Song (Live at Fillmore San Francisco)

CASSETTE (Limited to first 500 Deluxe Box Customers)
1.   Phone Jam
2.  Art Star (Four Track Demo)
3.  Bang (Four Track Demo)
4.  Our Time (Four Track Demo)

...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead's "Source Tags & Codes" Expanded 15th Anniversary Vinyl Reissue Out On August 11

… AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD’S MODERN CLASSIC, SOURCE TAGS & CODES,RECEIVING EXPANDED 15TH ANNIVERARY VINYL REISSUE ON AUGUST 11

ALBUM TO BE RELEASED AS DOUBLE LP WITH GATEFOLD JACKET, 3 RARE TRACKS, ALTERNATE LP ART AND UNIQUE ETCHING

… And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead’s landmark album, Source Tags & Codes, will be released as an expanded vinyl edition on August 11 via Interscope/UMe to commemorate its 15th anniversary. Housed in a gatefold sleeve, the album, which will also be available digitally, will be pressed on black vinyl as a double LP for the first time ever and include three tracks previously only available on various rare and international releases (“Invocation,” “Life Is Elsewhere,” and “Blood Rites”). The back cover will be a replica of the Japanese version which features a drawing of a teenage boy while the iconic image of a cackling Henry Miller from the compact disc and North American back cover will be represented with a unique etching on Side D of the second LP. A very limited amount of 500 copies will be available on midnight navy vinyl exclusively via The Sound of Vinyl. The album is available for pre-order here: https://UMe.lnk.to/TODsource

 

Few albums in 2002 were as highly anticipated as Trail of Dead’s major label debut, Source Tags & Codes, which saw the band making the leap from venerable indie Merge Records to Interscope. Having already amassed a rabid fanbase off the strength of two acclaimed albums and their legendary, nihilistic live shows, the Austin, Texas-based band – fronted by dual vocal powerhouses and multi-instrumentalists Conrad Keely and Jason Reece and rounded out with Neil Busch and Kevin Allen – had many waiting with baited breath to see what their move to the majors would produce. Armed with the biggest recording budget of their career, the band teamed back up with producer Mike McCarthy who helmed their sophomore album, Madonna, and secluded themselves at Prairie Sun Recording Studio, in Cotati, Calif., a sleepy town located north of San Francisco in Sonoma County wine country. Free from financial and time constraints and the distractions of home they were able to focus, experiment and fully realize their distinctive sound.

 

“Source Tags & Codes was our moment to take a stab at creating a timeless album,” says founding member Reece. “We had the chance to have that freedom to experiment with new sonic possibilities while messing with the major label paradigm. It was truly a chaotic, strange and beautiful time in our young lives.”

 

Upon release on February 26, 2002, Source Tags & Codes thrust the band into the mainstream spotlight as it was met with glowing reviews from critics and fans alike who hailed the album as a masterpiece, lauding the band’s uncanny ability to create something at once beautiful and brutal, raw and refined. Pitchfork awarded the album a perfect 10 rating, putting it the rarefied company of such classic records as Radiohead’s OK Computer and Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Writer Matt LeMay proclaimed: “Dense, beautiful, intricate, haunting, explosive, and dangerous, this is everything rock music aspires to be: intense, incredible songs arranged perfectly and performed with skill and passion. Source Tags & Codes will take you in, rip you to shreds, piece you together, lick your wounds clean, and send you back into the world with a concurrent sense of loss and hope. And you will never, ever be the same.” Entertainment Weekly declared, “Hardcore punk outbursts alternate with art-rock feedback flights and dreamy bits of melody that somehow fuse into a coherent, often spectacular album,” while NME remarked, “Accordingly, Source Tags & Codes comes with an albatross-like weight of expectation round its skinny neck – yet happily, it’s supported by a band who have grown to match it,” adding, “their smash-and-grab dynamic manages the neat trick of sounding simultaneously untutored and highly focused, following new twisted threads out from the early-90s underground labyrinth.” In its “A” review, The Onion’s AV Club wrote, “When …And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead wraps the project with the clanging title track, with its images of ‘the ruined landscapes that I once called home,’ it’s concluded more than just a collection of songs. It’s provided an experience.”

 

The 15th anniversary vinyl edition provides fans an opportunity to hear the album with the addition of 3 tracks previously not included on the US release. The plaintive piano piece “Invocation” gently begins the LP before shifting into the driving “It Was There That I Saw You,” providing a unique alternate beginning. The sparse instrumental “Life Is Elsewhere” serves as an intermission to the first act and evokes feudal Japan with its sound effects and Japanese dialog. The pummeling “Blood Rites” follows the title track and closes things out with orchestral strings that give way to a piercing guitar, Keely’s blood curdling scream and the band’s controlled sonic chaos. 

 

A decade and a half later Source Tags & Codes has stood the test of time and sounds as urgent, challenging, enthralling and explosive as Trail Of Dead’s influential opus did when first released. In recent years, retrospective reviews have continued to heap on the praise with Pitchfork including it in their “Top 200 Albums Of The 2000s,” the BBC calling it “one of the finest rock albums of recent history,” and XPN hailing it as “an unparalleled masterpiece of its time, an unbloated orchestral record during a time when punk bands weren’t supposed to be so worldly or indulgent.”

 

TRACKLISTING

 

LP1

[A]

1. Invocation

2. It Was There That I Saw You

3. Another Morning Stoner

4. Baudelaire

5. Homage

 

[B]

1. How Near, How Far

2. Life Is Elsewhere

3. Heart In The Hand Of The Matter

4. Monsoon

5. Days Of Being Wild

 

LP2

[C]

1. Relative Ways

2. After The Laughter

3. Source Tags & Codes

4. Blood Rites

 

[D]

Etching

RECORD STORE CRAWL" ANNOUNCES SECOND ANNUAL SERIES OF DATES ACROSS U.S.

"RECORD STORE CRAWL" ANNNOUNCES SECOND ANNUAL SERIES OF DATES ACROSS U.S.

Artists from Warner Bros. Records, Warner Music Nashville, Third Man Records, The End Records, Nettwerk Records and More to Perform

Participants to be Escorted by Bus to Top Record Stores in NYC, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Chicago, Rochester, Seattle, Los Angeles, Birmingham, Washington DC, Austin, Portland and Nashville

Tickets on Sale NOW!

Audiophiles, record enthusiasts, and music lovers are invited to join the second annual series of official Record Store Crawls, taking place in various U.S. cities throughout the next few months. The first of this year’s Record Store Crawls takes place in New York City on Record Store Day, April 22nd, while the remainder of the cities’ Crawls will take place from June through August.

Participants will be escorted by bus to some of each city’s best record stores, with performances from various artists along the way. Tickets range from $34.95 to $59.95, and can be purchased at www.recordstorecrawl.com.

Record Store Crawl participants will enjoy:
•  A seat on the Record Store Crawl bus;
•  A one-of-a-kind performance;
•  Food and drinks;
•  A gift bag including a mystery vinyl LP and other limited edition gifts;
•  Discounts at participating records stores; and
•  Various other giveaways.

Bands confirmed to perform at select Record Store Crawl dates include: Savoire Adore (Nettwerk Records); Craig Brown Band (Third Man Records); Four By Fate (The End Records); The Sweeplings (Nettwerk Records), Angelica Garcia (Warner Bros. Records), Ryan Kinder (Warner Music Nashville), Steff and the Articles (independent), and more to be announced. Record Store Crawl is proudly presented in partnership with Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Record Store Crawl Schedule:
4/22 – New York, NY
6/10 – Minneapolis, MN
6/17 – Phoenix, AZ
6/24 – Chicago, IL
6/24 – Rochester, NY
7/8 – Seattle, WA
7/22 – Los Angeles, CA
7/29 – Birmingham, AL
7/29 – Washington, DC
8/6 – Austin, TX
8/12 – Portland, OR
8/26 – Nashville, TN

The full Record Store Crawl itinerary will be revealed the week of each crawl.