The Ledge #674: New Releases Pt. 1

It may be our nation's birthday, but that's not stopping The Ledge from their usual routine of every first Friday of the month. Yes, once again we have a two part new release series, and this week's first episode is primarily "friends of the show". Artists that regularly send us tracks (Numb Surprise), along with labels that alway keep us in the loop (Big Stir Records), along with a ton of artists who so nicely provided us with singles or full-length releases.

But we also had to break our usual format with this news from the Numero Group - "The rumors are true. On January 30, 1985, Hüsker Dü recorded a peak high performance to 24 track tape at Minneapolis’s First Avenue club in front of their hometown massive. This performance was supposed to come out as a live album later that year, but the band’s rapid upward trajectory caused priorities to shift. The tapes were shelved – thought to be possibly lost in the same 2011 house fire that consumed a precious portion of the Hüsker Dü archive. Nearly 40 years later, these tapes have been rescued from the abyss, and we’ve tasked the team at Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio on the transferring and Beau Sorensen at Tiny Telephone for the mixdowns." 

Yes, all five of the preview tracks are included, as are a couple of highlights from the recent covers compilation from The Feelies.

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1. Numb Surprise - Somewhat Obscene

2. Hüsker Dü - Every Everything

3. Hüsker Dü - Makes No Sense At All

4. Hüsker Dü - Terms Of Psychic Warfare

5. Hüsker Dü - Powerline

6. Hüsker Dü - Books About UFOs

7. Dan Murphy & High On Stress - Tethered

8. Star Collector - Everything Must Go!

9. The Spongetones - Help Me Janie

10. Splitsville - A Glorious Lie

11. Jonathan Richman - But We May Try Weird Stuff

12. Jonathan Richman - That Older Girl

13. Smug Brothers - Prank Editions

14. Smug Brothers - Take It Out On Me

15. LITTLE ROGER - THE GIRL NEXT DOOR TO THE GIRL NEXT DOOR

16. Earth Quake - Fever Dream

17. Dez Dare - Talk, Clown

18. Satch Kerans Band - Helen of Troy

19. The Feelies - Dancing Barefoot

20. The Feelies - Paint It Black

21. The Well Wishers - Game of Pricks [Guided By Voices]

22. The Well Wishers - Flip Your Wig [Husker Du]

23. GINO and the GOONS - Dance of the Goons

24. DARK THOUGHTS - Bubble's Gonna Burst

25. GINO and the GOONS - Motorcycle Boots

26. DARK THOUGHTS - What's Your Game (RAMONES)

27. The Bats - Loline

28. The Blusterfields - Be Your Man

29. Hipbone Slim & The Kneejerks - Bird Doggin'

30. Skegss - State of Hawaii

31. Lifeguard - It Will Get Worse

32. Hotline TNT - The Scene

33. Small Yards - Realize

34. Paper Jam - Polka Dot Girl

35. Apollo 66 - Fly Trap

36. xray xeroxx - Bored and Loving It