Artist: Head East
Album: Flat As A Pancake
From: Vintage Vinyl
Year: 1975
Label: A&M Records
What it sounds like: People from Southern Illinois trying to play southern rock—like Lynyrd Skynyrd meets AC/DC. The kind of thing that’s been reincarnated by the likes of the Drive-By Truckers and Blitzen Trapper.
In 2008, independent rock returned to the underground, where it belongs. Given the grand catastrophe that is today's record industry, most major-label executives don't have the time or energy to convince music fans they might like something a little out of the ordinary. They're too busy recycling variations on what were once sure things while desperately searching for career exit strategies that don't involve tall buildings, open windows and running leaps. As a result, fringier artists have
Every Monday, A to Z publishes the best-selling releases from area independent record stores from the preceding week. (Vintage Vinyl will be added once it arrives!) An asterisk after an album name indicates that the act is coming to town. And so without further ado:
Euclid Records
1. Bottle Rockets: Lean Forward*
2. Arctic Monkeys: Humbug
3. Modest Mouse - No One's First, And You're Next
4. Matthew Sweet/Susanna Hoffs - Under The Covers Vol.2
5. Son Volt: American Central Dust*
6. Mew: No More
Every Monday, A to Z publishes the best-selling releases from area independent record stores from the preceding week. (Vintage Vinyl will return next week -- they had catastrophic email problems last week.) An asterisk after an album name indicates that the act is coming to town. And so without further ado:
Apop Records
Vivian Girls: Everything Goes Wrong
Faust: So Far
Tortoise: Beacons of Ancestorship*
Faust:C'est Com...Com...Complique
Six Organs of Admittance: Luminous Night
Nightmares: s
Who says the record store is dead? Not us here in St. Louis, where both Vintage Vinyl and Euclid Records sold a lot of tunes. Below, please find the top selling albums from both stores, including a separate top vinyl list from VV. Enjoy!
Vintage Vinyl: Top CDs
1. Murphy Lee - You See Me
2. Brand New - Daisy
3. Maxwell - Blacksummer's Night
4. Jay-Z - Blueprint 3
5. Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
6. Oliver Sain - St. Louis Breakdown
7. Michael Jackson - Thriller
8. Boys Like Girls -
