Wazoo Recs + Ann Arbor Film Festival!!

Ann Arbor Film Festival and Wazoo Records have joined up to offer discounted tickets on two music-related programs happening this week. RiP: A Remix Manifesto (V.2 -- the post-SXSW remix version) features a whole bunch of GIRL TALK and Mark Hosler of the infamous NEGATIVLAND is joining in for a discussion on illiegal art. Don't sleep on these events!!

RiP: A Remix Manifesto (be sure to watch the trailer)
http://www.tinyurl.com/ripgirltalk

Adventures in Illegal Art: Mark Hosler of Negativland
http://www.tinyurl.com/negativ

To get discounted tickets, buy online and enter 2009WAZOO

( NEWS ) R.I.P. RON ASHETON

Stooges' guitarist Ron Asheton found dead in his Ann Arbor home
by Art Aisner | The Ann Arbor News

Famed rock-and-roll guitarist and longtime Ann Arbor resident Ronald "Ron" Asheton was found dead in his home on the city's west side this morning, police said.

Asheton, 60, was an original member of The Stooges, a garage-rock band headlined by Iggy Pop and formed in Ann Arbor in 1967.

Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton was found dead early today in his Ann Arbor home. His personal assistant contacted police late Monday night after being unable to reach Asheton for days, Detective Bill Stanford said.

Officers went to the home on Highlake Avenue at around midnight and discovered Asheton's body on a living-room couch. He appeared to have been dead for at least several days, Stanford said.

Detective Sgt. Jim Stephenson said the cause of death is undetermined but investigators do not suspect foul play. Autopsy and toxicology results are pending.

Asheton was born in Washington, D.C. His brother, Scott, who lives in Florida, is the band's drummer.

In 2007, The Stooges reunited and released "The Weirdness," their first album in three decades.

Asked how it felt to be back with The Stooges, Asheton told The News in an interview that year that it was "great to be back on the road."

• Stooges' guitarist Ron Asheton found dead in his Ann Arbor home
  

( NEWS ) WAZOO STAFF TOP TENS OF 2008!

( FOREST )
01. MI AMI African Rhythms
02. v/a 1970s Algerian Proto-Rai Underground
03. GANG GANG DANCE Saint Dymphna
04. GROWING All The Way
05. EMERALDS Solar Bridge
06. EARTH The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull
07. MENAHAN STREET BAND Make The Road By Walking
08. JOHN BAKER The John Baker Tapes Vol. 1
09. BOREDOMS Super Roots 9
10. NO AGE Nouns


(( JOHN ))
01. FLEET FOXES Fleet Foxes
02. RODRIGUEZ Cold Fact
03. ATLAS SOUND Let The Blind Lead Those That Can See But Cannot Feel
04. SON, AMBULANCE Somebody Else's Deja Vu
05. SIGUR ROS Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalust
06. INARA GEORGE & VAN DYKE PARKS An Invitation
07. GANG GANG DANCE Saint Dymphna
08. EVANGELICALS The Evening Descends
09. v/a MILES FROM INDIA
10. GRAILS Doomsdayer's Holiday


((( WILL )))
New:
TV ON THE RADIO Dear Science
SAM PHILLIPS Don’t Do Anything
FLEET FOXES Fleet Foxes
OASIS Dig Out Your Soul
SHELBY LYNNE Just A Little Lovin’
CUT/COPY In Ghost Colours
LINDSAY BUCKINGHAM Gift Of Screws
VAMPIRE WEEKEND Vampire Weekend
DUFFY Rockferry
SPARKS Exotic Creatures Of The Deep
WINDY WEBER I Hate People
GOLDFRAPP Seventh Tree
RA RA RIOT The Rhumb Line
SANTOGOLD Santogold
DAVID BYRNE & BRIAN ENO Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
TEDDY THOMPSON A Piece Of What You Need
JENNY LEWIS Acid Tongue

Reissues:
NICK LOWE Jesus Of Cool
MY BLOODY VALENTINE Loveless
FRIPP & ENO No Pussyfooting
FRIPP & ENO Evening Star
ROBYN HITCHCOCK Luminous Groove
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Bayou Country
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Green River
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL Willy And The Poor Boys Revival
THE MOVE Looking On
MISSION OF BURMA Signals, Calls, & Marches
THE MOVE Anthology 1966-1972
NEIL YOUNG Sugar Mountain
ELTON JOHN Tumbleweed Connection
WARREN ZEVON Warren Zevon
ROBERT WYATT Rock Bottom
THE SMITHS The Sound Of The Smiths


(((( SCOTT ))))
01. NEON NEON Stainless Style
02. TV ON THE RADIO Dear Science
03. ESTELLE Shine
04. NEIL HALSTEAD Oh! Mighty Engine
05. CUT/COPY In Ghost Colours
06. SHE & HIM Volume One
07. FLYING LOTUS Los Angeles
08. SPIRITUALIZED Songs in A & E
09. THE KNUX Remind Me in 3 Days...
10. VAMPIRE WEEKEND Vampire Weekend

( NEWS ) Preorder PAVEMENT 'Bright The Corners' deluxxxe & get a bonus LP!

Matador strikes again! The Buy Early Get Now program has earned a fair share of cheers and jeers but they pulled a real nice one for the deluxxxe Pavement 2xCD reissue of Brighten The Corners. Here's the scoop straight from the mouth of the talking horse:

Pre-order PAVEMENT - Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Edition dbl CD and you will become part of Matador's Buy Early Get Now 6th Pre-Order Promotion so you will receive:

• Instant stream of album - starting October 10th
• Bonus track #1 - available October 15th
• Bonus track #2 - available November 4th
• Street date - November 18th - pick up the album at your store PLUS a vinyl LP containing an unreleased live show AND a free poster.

The bonus live LP was recorded during the first Brighten tour and scheduled for release as OLE-324 in July 1998, but was then shelved... until now.

It's very easy: just pre-order the dbl CD deluxe edition of Pavement - Brighten The Corners and within a day you will be e-mailed a confirmation and directions to get all of the goods. That's it.

So, hit us up at wazoorecords@hotmail.com if you want to be part of the happening!

( NEWS ) Free swag!!!

1.) Purchase the new album by THE BREEDERS and receive a free poster!
2.) Purchase the new album by TAPES 'N' TAPES and get a free poster, sticker, and 7" (note: 7" stock is severely limited!).
3.) Purchase the new live album by DECEMBERIST frontman COLIN MELOY and get a really swank poster.

( NEWS ) preorder Stephen Malkmus & Jicks 'Real Emotional Trash'

For those who don't know, Matador Records has been running a promotion service with their indie retail accounts, Wazoo Records being one of them. Called Buy Early Get Now, customers are entitled to listen to the entire album for free as well as download b-sides, live shows, and more.

For the release of Stephen Malkmus' fourth album, Matador whipped this up:

* Stream of the entire album from the BuyEarlyGetNow site NOW
* "Walk Into The Mirror" b-side exclusive to BEGN customers NOW
* Second b-side to be posted soon
* Full live show recorded on December 21, 2007 in Portland (to be posted on Friday, February 15)
* All other b-sides and/or exclusive tracks related to this record (to be posted on BEGN site 90 days after street date)
* Poster for Real Emotional Trash to be picked up on street date -- Tuesday, March 4 -- with purchase of the album

• Preorder by e-mailing wazoorecords@hotmail.com, or
• Preorder by calling us at 734.761.8686

( NEWS ) WAZOO STAFF TOP TENS OF 2007!

( LLOYD )
01. JUSTICE Cross
02. BLACK DICE Load Blown
03. PANDA BEAR Person Pitch
04. WHITE WILLIAMS Smoke
05. VAMPIRE WEEKEND Blue CDR
06. ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Strawberry Jam
07. RADIOHEAD In Rainbows
08. CASS MCCOMBS Dropping the Writ
09. MADLIB Beat Konducta in India
10. AARON DILLOWAY Infinite Lucifer

(( FOREST ))
01. GAVIN BRYARS The Sinking Of The Titanic (1969-)
02. GROWING Vision Swim
03. DEMON'S CLAWS Satan's Little Pet Pig
04. JENNIFER GENTLE The Midnight Room
05. PISSED JEANS Hope For Men
06. STARS OF THE LID And Their Refinement Of The Decline
07. BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW Dandelion Gum
08. BATTLES Mirrored
09. ANDREW PEKLER Cue
10. FUCKED UP Year Of The Pig

(((JOHN)))
01. STARS OF THE LID And Their Refinement Of The Decline
02. CASS MCCOMBS Dropping the Writ
03. BLACK MOTH SUPER RAINBOW Dandelion Gum
04. THE BUDOS BAND The Budos Band II
05. YESTERDAYS NEW QUINTET Yesterdays Universe
06. FEU THERESE Ca Va Cogner
07. PEDRO You, Me & Everyone
08. YEASAYER All Hour Cymbals
09. PETER, BJORN, & JOHN Writer's Block
10. v/a Ethnic Minority Music Of Northeast Cambodia


(((( WILL ))))
New:
THE FRATELLIS Costello Music
NICK LOWE At My Age
PANDA BEAR Person Pitch
LIAM FINN I'll Be Lightning
ANY TROUBLE Life In Reverse
NEW PORNOGRAPHERS Challengers
M.I.A. Kala
PAUL McCARTNEY Memory Almost Full
PINK MARTINI Hey Eugene
FEIST The Reminder
FOUNTAINS OF WAYNE Traffic and Weather
WHITE WILLIAMS Smoke
RILO KILEY Under The Black Light
MIKA Life In Cartoon Motion
MENOMENA Friend Or Foe
LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III Strange Weirdos
LOS STRAIGHTJACKETS Rock En Español

Reissues:
THE MOVE Shazam
v/a GREASY TRUCKERS PARTY
PYLON Gyrate
ROY WOOD Boulders
THE BONGOS Drums Along The Hudson
SCARS Author Author
YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS Colossal Youth
MAGAZINE Real Life
MAGAZINE Secondhand Daylight
MAGAZINE The Correct Use Of Soap
COMSAT ANGELS In Before
PINK FLOYD Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
BONZO DOG DOO DAH BAND Gorilla
BONZO DOG DOO DAH BAND The Doughnut In Granny's Greenhouse
ARETHA FRANKLIN Oh Me Oh My: Aretha Live In Philly, 1972
NILS LOFGREN Nils Lofgren


(((( SCOTT )))))
01. THE MACCABEES Colour It In
02. M.I.A. Kala
03. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM Sound of Silver
04. BAND OF HORSES Cease to Begin
05. THE NATIONAL The Boxer
06. BAND OF BEES Octopus
07. WHITE STRIPES Icky Thump
08. BLOC PARTY A Weekend In the City
09. THE TWILIGHT SAD Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
10. EL P I'll Sleep When You're Dead

( NEWS ) RECAP: TOP TENS OF 2006

That's right -- these are our top tens of last year. 2007 to come!

( LLOYD )
01. J DILLA Donuts
02. EXTRA GOLDEN Ok-Oyot System
03. COMETS ON FIRE Avatar
04. GRIZZLY BEAR Yellow House
05. ORNETTE COLEMAN Sound Grammar
06. CORNELIUS Sensuous
07. CAT POWER The Greatest
08. GNARLS BARKLEY St. Elsewhere
09. BOB DYLAN Modern Times
10. NOMO New Tones


(( FOREST ))
01. J DILLA Donuts
02. JEAN-CLAUDE VANNIER L'Enfant Assassin Des Mouches
03. SCOTT WALKER Scott 4
04. ARIEL PINK House Arrest
05. TOM WAITS Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards
06. SOM IMAGINARIO Som Imaginario
07. MADLIB Movie Scenes Vol. 1&2
08. TUSSLE Telescope Mind
09. SUNN0))) & BORIS Altar
10. SCOTT WALKER The Drift


((( JOHN )))
01. BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY The Letting Go
02. CHICO BUARQUE Carioca
03. MOSQUITOS III
04. SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE The Sun Awakens
05. CSS Cancei De Ser Sexy
06. YO LA TENGO I Am Not Afraid Of You And I WIll Beat Your Ass
07. KIMYA DAWSON Remember That I Love You
08. TOM WAITS Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards
09. STARLING ELECTRIC Clouded Staircase
10. ARIEL PINK House Arrest


(((( WILL ))))
ROBYN HITCHCOCK & THE VENUS 3 Ole! Tarantula
CAMERA OBSCURA Let's Get Out of This Country
GNARLS BARKLEY St. Elsewhere
MATTHEW SWEET & SUSANNA HOFFS Under the Covers, Volume 1
BELLE & SEBASTIAN The Life Pursuit
NEKO CASE Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
RAY DAVIES Other People's Lives
JENNY LEWIS & THE WATSON TWINS Rabbit Fur Coat
LLOYD COLE Antidepressant
DEF LEPPARD Yeah
SPARKS Hello Young Lovers
LINDSAY BUCKINGHAM Under The Skin
TOM WAITS Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards

REISSUES:
THE BEE GEES The Studio Albums 1967-1968
COMSAT ANGELS Waiting for a Miracle
COMSAT ANGELS Sleep No More
COMSAT ANGELS Fiction
PRETENDERS Pretenders
MATTHEW SWEET Girlfriend (Legacy Edition)
THIS HEAT This Heat
JUDEE SILL Abracadabra: The Asylum Years
JONA LEWIE On The Other Hand...There’s A Fist
ORANGE JUICE The Glasgow School
MOTT THE HOOPLE Mott
BETTYE LAVETTE Child of the Seventies
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART Ice Cream for Crow
BRIAN ENO / DAVID BYRNE My Life in the Bush of Ghosts


((((( SCOTT )))))
01. PETER, BJORN, & JOHN Writer's Block
02. CAMERA OBSCURA Let's Get Out of This Country
03. FOURTET Remixes
04. GNARLS BARKLEY St. Elsewhere
05. BAND OF HORSES Everything All the Time
06. LOVE IS ALL Nine Times the Same Song
07. LADY SOVEREIGN Public Warning
08. LUPE FIASCO Food & Liquor
09. BELLE & SEBASTIAN The Life Pursuit
10. TAPES 'N' TAPES The Loon

( NEWS ) The New Pornographers - Challengers Preorder

We haven't figured out the drum roll sound effects (sorry), and presenting the upcoming 4th album from the New Pornographers, 'Challengers' surely requires special effects that would make Michael Bay dizzy. So if you wanna hear a strong candidate for 2007's Album Of The Year more than 2 months before street date, here's your big chance:

TWO VERSIONS TO CHOOSE FROM: "EXECUTIVE EDITION" AND "STANDARD EDITION". As usual, this Buy Early, Get Now preorder is available from a select group of physical and online retailers, listed here Or, you can order direct from Matador.

When you preorder the album with one of them, not only do you reserve a copy of "Challengers," for release date, there's mo' mo' mo'.

Challengers: Executive Edition (list price $19.99)
* You Get It All + an exclusive, limited edition, CD/CD-R Box Set.
*Full Album Stream (available within days of your purchase)
*The Challengers Box-Set A very limited edition Treasury of New Pornography available only to Executive members. Includes three bonus CD-Rs, designed in a deluxe box set package bonus discs.Disc One: B-Sides, Demos and Alternate MixesDisc Two: The New Pornographers "Live From The Future"
Disc Three: Videos, photos and artwork(note: you will download all of this material digitally as part of Buy Early Get Now, so some-assembly is required as some of these recordings haven't even happened yet.)
*Advance notice and exclusive ticket buying links for upcoming New Pornographers dates
*Anything extra that we can scheme up between now and the end of the world.

Challengers: The Standard (Cheapskate) Edition (list price 14.99)
Everything except the box set, the live disc, videos, photos and artwork.
*Full Album Stream Listen to all of Challengers more than 2 months ahead of release
*3 previously unreleased B-Sides
*Advance notice and exclusive ticket buy links for upcoming New Pornographers dates speaking of which, there's a bunch of New Pornographers shows that are 4-real-confirmed. And if you'd like a crack at purchasing tickets a week before the general public, your participation in the 'Challengers' portion of Buy Early, Get Now will allow you to do so starting tomorrow.

• Preorder by e-mailing wazoorecords@hotmail.com
• The Scoop From Matador

( NEWS ) Wazoo on Amazon!

Dear readers,

it wasn't long ago that Wazoo opened an Amazon storefront to reach new customers with strange and collectible music. We've linked the virtual storefront below. If interested, take a look and let us know if there's something from over 300 listings that you might be interested in. If you'd like to purchase something, don't hesitate to call us or stop by. We'll remove the item from our listing and sell it to you at to additional cost.

• Wazoo on Amazon
  

( NEWS ) WAZOO IS A "FAVORITE SHOP" OF STYLUS MAGAZINE

Andrew Gaerig of Stylus Magazine cited Wazoo Records as one his favorite Midwest record shops in online magazine, Stylus. Read his article below and check the link at the bottom for the rest of the Midwest! Thanks, Andrew.


Wazoo Records 336 1/2 State St Ann Arbor, MI 48104

About: Located above a head shop in the middle of the University of Michigan campus, Wazoo makes the most of its pencil-thin space, using old wooden crates to house a surprisingly large slice of indie rock's catalog.

Specialty: Volumes and volumes of rock's back catalog, Wazoo makes hay off the classics other shops miss: The Pogues' If I Should Fall from Grace with God , Syd Barrett's Barrett, as well as stocking British imports before virtually everyone else: The Go! Team and Bloc Party come to mind.

What They're Missing: Vinyl selection could be stronger; they seem to be about two weeks behind on important electronic releases.

Why We Love It : The best moment every semester: strolling out of the Science Auditorium after your last final, walking across the street into Wazoo, and blowing a week or two's worth of wages in celebration. Freshman year I strolled in, picked up Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and Califone's Sometimes Bad Weather Follows Good People and carried that last-day-of-school feeling throughout the summer.

• Our Favorite Shop - Article - Stylus Magazine