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I’m pretty sure you’ve seen the preview for the new movie ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ with Brad Pitt and Leonardo DiCaprio. Well the soundtrack will stick to the 60’s theme with artists Paul Revere & The Raiders, Deep Purple and others. The soundtrack will be available on CD, vinyl and digitally which will be available on July 26.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt and Al Pacino in Columbia Pictures “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”

Lil Nas X has been on top of the most streamed music recently until The Raconteurs put out their new LP titled ‘Help Us Stranger.’  So far, they have sold 25,000 LP’s, the most vinyl sales of the year.  Those sales were helped by bundling the LP with tickets to the band’s summer tour.  Nice!

Now available in Europe, and available in North America on August 23, ‘Live at Donington 1990’ is being released as a limited edition 3 LP vinyl edition. Here’s what you’ll get.

Lp1 : Side A: Slip Of The Tongue; Slide It In; Judgement Day – Side B: Slow An Easy; Kittens Got Claws

Lp2: Side A: Adagio For Strato; Flying Dutchman Boogie; Is This Love; Cheap An Nasty – Side B: Crying In The Rain (Featuring Tommy Aldridge Drum Solo); Fool For Your Loving

Lp3: Side A: For The Love Of God; The Audience Is Listening; Here I Go Again; Bad Boys – Side B: Aint No Love In The Heart Of The City; Still Of The Night

Only 3,000 numbered copies will be release of Black Sabbaths “Live At Hammersmith Odeon” which will come out as 3-LP 180 Gram Vinyl. It features Ronnie James Dio, Tommy lommi, Terry Butler and Vinny Appice live in January 1982 during “The Mob Rules” tour. You can visit MyMetalClub.com for more details.

Damn, the second ever White Stripes 7″ vinyl single “Lafayette Blues” sold in the U.K. for $18,000. It was one of 15 copies that Jack White hand painted back in 1998. Someone has too much money.

Last week Robert Plant put out his new solo album called ‘Band of Joy’ which came in at #5 on the US Billboard chart. On October 25th you will be able to get it on double vinyl in the US and Canada.

Porter House Prime Vinyl is releasing the great Circle Jerks “Wonderful” and X “Under the Big Black Sun” on 180 gram 12″ vinyl. On June 8th Circle Jerks “Wonderful” will come out with the original lyric sleeve and X “Under the Big Black Sun” will also come out with original inner lyric sheet.

D.R.I.’s 1987 album Crossover is due for a reissue on April 13th.  It will come out in digital, LP and CD formats and was remastered by Bill Metoyer who was the original engineer on the album in 1987.  There will also be 6 live tracks, 2 demos and 3 interviews.

Back in July of this year one of my favorite bands, Clutch, put out their great album ‘Strange Cousins from the West’.   Well on December 15th they will be putting out a special vinyl version of that album which will be a double LP with two extra tracks.  Plus the first 4,000 copies will have a coupon that will get you free downloads of the songs from their site at Pro-Rock.com