Jeremy Warmsley and Elizabeth Sankey aka Summer Camp started making noise last year. The duo is partly funded by donations via pledgemusic.com. Their debut lp Welcome To Condale hits stores November 8th.

Summer Camp explains, “Welcome To Condale is our love letter to the days of being a teenager, when everything is so important, and you’re transformed irrevocably by a miserable relationship with a spotty youth called Darren who works at Pizza Hut. We believe that you never really escape that time, for better or for worse. It’s the things you fall in love with then that will stay with you forever. Well, except Darren. Hopefully.”

Warmsley released two solo records before hooking up with Sankley. Sankey is a well-respected journalist and writer, having worked with NME and Platform among others. If you like summery 80’s pop you’re going to love Welcome To Condale. Stream the record ahead of the release date here.

Rolling Stones release the remastered 1978 record Some Girls November 21st. It’s getting much the same treatment we saw with Exile On Main Street last year.

The Super Deluxe version will include a seven-inch single of Beast Of Burden featuring the original sleeve artwork. Both the deluxe and super deluxe packages include a previously unreleased track from the Some Girls sessions called No Spare Parts.

Check out No Spare Parts above. The song was recorded in Paris back in ‘78 and re-discovered by producer Don Was.

For the past 25 years, Neil Young has brought some of his best friends together for the Bridge School, a school in California for kids with severe developmental disabilities. The school, which Neil’s children attended, specializes in helping children who don’t use speech to communicate.

Now he’s releasing some of the best performances, on either a 2 CD or 3 DVD set. The Bridge School Concerts has a pretty incredible lineup, with performances from Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, the Dave Matthews Band, Jack Johnson, The Who, Elton John & Leon Russell, and more. Check out the movie trailer:

The most recent concert happened over the weekend, and it featured an amazing performance of the song “Helpless” by Neil and Arcade Fire.

More info about the concert, the school, and the new CD and DVD here.

Tom Petty will drop a live record November 25th in conjunction with Record Store Day’s Black Friday. The vinyl only release, Kiss My Amps Live, will be a limited-edition pressing of 5000 numbered albums available exclusively through independent retailers.

The record features 6 songs from Mojo recorded live during Petty’s 2010 North American tour, and Sweet William a b-side recorded in 2008.

Each copy purchased will include a unique code that will allow the buyer to also download the album in a hi-fi digital format for free.

Side One
1. ‘Takin’ My Time’ — July 22, 2010 — The Palace of Auburn Hills, Auburn Hills, Mich.
2. ‘I Should Have Known It’ — June 16, 2010 — Rexall Place, Edmonton, Canada
3. ‘Sweet William’ — June 14, 2008 — Comcast Center, Mansfield, Mass.
4. ‘Jefferson Jericho Blues’ — Aug 1, 2010 — Wachovia Arena, Philadelphia, Pa.

Side Two
1. ‘First Flash of Freedom’ — Aug 1, 2010 — Wachovia Arena, Philadelphia, Pa.
2. ‘Running Man’s Bible” — Sep 18, 2010 — Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion, Raleigh, N.C.
3. ‘Good Enough’ — July 31, 2010 — Wachovia Arena, Philadelphia, Pa.

T Bone Burnett Presents the Speaking Clock Revue is an album showcasing 11 performances from a benefit concert recorded last year at New York’s Beacon Theatre. Proceeds from the album and the live shows benefit Participant Media, an organization dedicated to supporting arts education.

The lineup includes Elton John, Elvis Costello, Leon Russell, John Mellencamp, Gregg Allman, Ralph Stanley, Jeff Bridges, Neko Case, Jim James, Punch Brothers, Karen Elson and The Secret Sisters. The Speaking Clock Revue features a house band put together by Burnett and led by music director and guitarist Marc Ribot.

“The privacy and the intimacy of the studio afford artists the freedom to create,” Burnett said, “but something thrilling happens in getting away from the machines and into the live communication of real-time storytelling in the larger community. The first tour I went on, my first job in show business, was on The Rolling Thunder Revue, and I’ve come back to that type of collaborative and extraordinarily rewarding experience from time to time.”

The record comes out tomorrow but you can listen to the full length here now.

The Black Keys teamed up with Funny Or Die to announce the release of their new record El Camino December 6th. They enlisted the help of comedian Bob Odenkirk from HBO’s Mr. Show and AMC’s Breaking Bad to shoot a parody video of a 70’s car salesman advertising a van for sale.

The band has even launched a website wannabuyavan in the viral marketing campaign. At the site you can call Pat and hear a recorded message describing the “van” and pre-order the new record.

Previously, The Black Keys have stated the new record is heavily influence by The Cramps and The Clash. El Camino is the follow up to 2010’s Brothers.

Album cover photo by John Urban

If Triple M’s favorite rock and roll farmer plays his new CD for the cows out in the barn in New Glarus, they’re chewin’ their cud a bit faster..and dancing in their stalls.

If you’re a follower of local music, you’ve probably heard that Jimmy Voegeli brought in some heavy hitters to help out on “Gimme the Jimmys.” Yeah, he’s got Bun E. Carlos from Cheap Trick on one track, and Dan Baird of the Georgia Satellites playing the guitar solos on several songs, but while that looks great on press releases, the proof is in the listening.

So often a local band will sound great live, but when they try to make a record of original material it leaves you asking “Why did I buy this?”

Luckily, that’s not the case with Gimme the Jimmys. It starts off really strong with ” HaDaYa”..a great jumping boogie woogie number that you just want to turn up loud. And even though all the songs aren’t traditional blues..they all fit and have a great flow.  A couple of my favorites: “Hell or Heaven,” and “JiMo Boogie,” with the liner notes listing the musicians as Jimmy plus drummer Mauro Magellan, and a bottle of Jack. Gotta give credit where credit is due. I also can’t get enough of Dan Baird’s slide guitar on “She Don’t Love Me.”

Jimmy’s a great keyboard player, fine tuning his chops as a member of the Westside Andy Mel Ford Band over the years. But he’s not a show-off on this record..it’s got great guitar solos..and the horn section (The Amateur Horn All Stars) is fantastic.

If you missed their Madison CD release party at the Harmony Bar, you still have a few chances to see the Jimmys live this month and pick up a copy of the CD. They’ve also got upcoming gigs at the Club Tavern, Knuckledown Saloon and the Brink Lounge

You can check out the Jimmys schedule and sample and buy their CD here.

Reviewed by Kitty Dunn

Grammy-award winning musician Jason Mraz, film director Andy Morahan and photographer Don McCullin have teamed up to call on entrants from 16 countries, including the United States, to submit their idea of “the incredible”.

The competition is part of intel’s launch of the new N Series notebook. The contest is searching for the most amazing stories from around the world. You can submit your story in words, audio, video, or photos at the official website here.

There are several rounds with different prizes. Each country will have a winner, picked by a panel of judges, who will receive a new ASUS N Series laptop.

The grand prize winner will have their incredible story transformed into a short film guided by the three project creators and professional crew. He or she will then attend the screening of their film with Jason Mraz at the Sundance Film Festival in January.

Mraz’s new single The World As I See It serves as the theme to the In Search Of Incredible campaign.

Garbage has announced they will release their 5th record in the spring of 2012. According to the band, “We are making a record filled with the music we love to hear. The new songs have been inspired more by what we haven’t been hearing rather than by what we have.”

The band is currently putting the finishing touches on the new record. This will mark the first time they’ve recorded outside of Madison’s Smart Studios which closed it’s doors in 2010.

Garbage formed in Madison in 1995 releasing the debut that dominated radio in Australia, the UK, and here in the U.S. It’s been 7 years since we’ve heard anything new from the band.

Shirley Manson, Steve Marker, Duke Erikson and Butch Vig have been recording out in Los Angeles with engineer Billy Bush. The as-yet-untitled set will be mixed by Vig and Bush.

Today marks the 20th anniversary of Nevermind with Nirvana dropping a reissue of the record that changed the landscape of pop music in 1991. Initially, Nevermind got off to a slow start(just 45,000 copies in the whole of America).

Then Smells Like Teen Spirit took off bumping sales up to 300,000 copies a week and dethroning Michael Jackson from No.1 in the US. Geffen thought Come As You Are would be the only hope for a mainstream breakthrough.

Disc two of both the deluxe version and super deluxe version includes the demos the band recorded here in Madison. For the first time we hear demos of the record that pretty much buried the big hair metal bands of the 80’s. Polly is the only track on Nevermind that was actually recorded at Smart Studios.

The Smart Studio demos give us an inside look at the songs in their raw form before Butch Vig and Andy Wallace polished them up for the masses. The demos also yield a better understanding of why Kurt seemed so insecure at the time of the intial release. He had asked numerous insiders and friends back in 1991 if it sounded too much like Poison.

Of course we know Nevermind sounded nothing like Poison.

Novoselic has spent almost a year putting the reissue together. ‘The Boombox Rehearsals’, capture the first time songs like Smells Like Teen Spirit were played in the studio used as reference points for Cobain, Novoselic and drummer Dave Grohl. “They were in the bottom of a box,” Novoselic admits. “They almost got thrown out. I found them in the mid-’90s. They’re interesting, in the context of this release. I mean, it’s a cassette recording of a boom box. But when you’re looking at this record and the work that went into it, it adds up.”

While he often ponders writing a book to document his memories of Cobain, for now Novoselic is happy with the peek behind the curtains the Nevermind reissue offers.

“People tell me to this day ‘Nirvana and Nevermind changed my life or my attitudes on music’ and how it really spoke to them. I really appreciate that. For me personally I remember Kurt Cobain and I think ‘Hey dude, good on you’. It’s a good way to remember him and the vision he had.”