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Welcome Back students!

If you're new to Bozeman and have not visited Cactus Records yet, be sure to stop down and say “Hi” - we've got everything you need to decorate your dorms from poster to tapestries. Not to mention records, incense, toys, gifts and so much more.

If you're a returning student, be sure to grab one of those new freshmen and gently lead them on down to Cactus.  You're the elder statesmen now. It's your job to show the newbies where the good stuff is.

We'll be waiting for you.

In this issue...

* Cactus News

* Tickets

* RockNews

* ThisWeek in Rock and Roll History

* Employee Picks

* Best Sellers

* NewReleases

* Cactus Juke Box

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CACTUS NEWS

--This week’s shows, new tickets, Cactus information, and more...in Cactus News

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TICKETS

--For a complete listing of tickets on sale at Cactus Records...check out our Ticket Listing.

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ROCK NEWS

-- All the news that's  rock and roll in--  "Rock News"

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THIS WEEK IN ROCK HISTORY

-- The state of rock in years gone by in "This Week in Rock History”

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EMPLOYEE PICKS

Music recommendations from your local rock-&roll professionals---> here!

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CACTUS TOP SELLERS

1. Old Crow Medicine Show - Carry Me Back
2. Jack White - Blunderbuss
3. Fiona Apple - Idler Wheel is Wiser...
4. Little Feat - Rooster Rag
5. Grace Potter & the Nocturnals - Lion, The Beast, and the Beat
6. Flaming Lips - Flaming Lip & Heady Fwends
7. Alabama Shakes - Boys & Girls
8. Brandi Carlile - Bear Creek
9. Kills - No Wow
10. Willie Nelson – Heroes

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Artists with NEW RELEASES for February

AVAILABLE AT CACTUS RECORDS

Check out New Releases Now for samples of this week's new releases: A Tragedy in Progress, Amy Cook, Art Pepper, Betty Buckley, Caroline Herring, Dan Deacon,  Destroyer 666, the Dunwells, Easy Star All-Stars, the Flatlanders, Ian Gillian, Jay Jesse Johnson, Katatonia, Kohnsu, the Last Vegas, Luciana Souza, Madchild, Maia Sharp, Minus the Bear, Mothlite, the Orb featuring Lee “Scratch” Perry, Passenger, Queen, Rick Holmstrom, Saga, Scum of the Earth, Stratovarius, World Fire Brigade.

Check out a list of new releases at Cactus --> Here

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This Week In Rock History

THIS WEEK IN ROCK HISTORY

1959—Borrowing $800 from friends and family a 29-year-old Barry Gordy opens his first record company, Tamla Records. The following year Gordy would change the name of the studio to reflect it's home base of Detroit, the Motor City, rechristening it Motown.

1961—Motown signs The Primettes to a recording contract and gets them to agree to change their name. After debating a series of possible new names, the band finally settles on The Supremes.

1966—In an effort to avoid confusion with The Monkees' Davy Jones, singer David Jones decides to change his name. He renames himself after the "big American bear killin' knife" the Bowie knife, changing his name to David Bowie.

1967—The Rolling Stones agree to appear on the Ed Sullivan Show changing the words of the song "Let's Spend The Night Together" to "Let's Spend Some Time Together"

1968—The Supremes appear on the NBC television series Tarzan playing a group of singing nuns.

1970—Diana Ross appears for the last time with The Supremes at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas. The Supremes would go on to have seven more top forty hits with Ross' replacement Jean Terrell.

1979—The Young Men's Christian Association file a lawsuit against The Village People over their hit song "Y.M.C.A." The suit would later be dropped.

1982—Harry Casey (KC of KC and The Sunshine Band) is partially paralyzed in a car accident in Hialeah, Florida. His full physical recovery would take years.

New Releases

May 1st

George Harrison, Lee Hazlewood, Norah Jones, Pat Boone, Pennywise, Rufus Wainwright, Santigold, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Wild Hunt, more.

 

Rock History

1958--Johnny Cash performs before a captive audience at San Quentin Prison in California.

Among the inmates that day was 21-year-old Merle Haggard who was serving two years for a burglary conviction.

1962--The Beatles audition for Decca Records, recording 15 tracks for executives who decided to pass in favor of signing Brian Poole & the Tremeloes. An executive tells Beatles manager Brian Epstein that "These boys won't make it. Guitar groups are out. Go back to Liverpool, Mr. Epstein." Decca would later regret their decision, despite the fact that The Tremeloes are still together and playing. The Beatles, on the other hand, are not.

1969--An entire shipment, 30,000 copies, of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's experimental album Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins is seized by New Jersey authorities who deem the cover, which features a picture of Lennon and Ono standing nude against a white background, to be pornographic. From this point on, the album can only be sold in a plain brown wrapper with a cut-out showing the artists faces.

1970--The Who's drummer Keith Moon is involved in an accident when his limo is swarmed by anxious fans. Moon's driver, Neil Boland, gets out of the car to try and protect it from damage, however he fails to put the car into park. When the car begins to roll, Moon, who doesn't have driver's license, jumps into the front seat in an attempt to stop the car. However, instead of hitting the breaks Moon hit the gas pedal, running over and killing Boland. An inquest resolves that Moon is not to blame for the accident, however Moon himself is unable to forgive himself, and lives with guilt for the rest of his short life.

1979--Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious stands his trial for the murder of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. The trial would never be finished, Vicious would die of a heroin overdose less than a month later; on her deathbed Vicious' mother is claimed to have admitted to giving her son the fatal dose, fearing that he would not be able to handle being in prison.

1996--OJ Simpson calls an LA radio station to request a dedication of "One Sweet Day" from Boyz II Men and Mariah Carey to his murdered wife Nicole Brown Simpson.

Rock News

--R&B singer Cee Lo Green has sparked outrage among John Lennon fans after changing the lyrics to Lennon's 1971 hit Imagine during a live television performance. Green, who was performing as part of the NBC's New Year's Eve countdown, changed the line "Nothing to kill or die for/and no religion too" to "Nothing to kill or die for/and all religion's true." Lennon fans responded almost immediately, bombarding Green's Twitter page with accusations that "[Cee Lo] sang "Imagine" in a fur coat & expensive jewelry and changed lyric to be pro-religion." and "[he]changed the entire message of the song." Green responded to the controversy by Tweeting "Yo I meant no disrespect by changing the lyric guys ... I was trying to say a world where u could believe what u wanted, that's all." However only minutes later Green deleted the Tweet, as well as all others relating to the performance, and replaced them with simply "Happy New Year Everyone!"

--Legendary soul singer Aretha Franklin has announced her engagement to long time William "Willie" Wilkerson on Monday in a statement. The 69 year-old singer, who has been married twice previously, joked in her press released that "No, I'm not pregnant." Franklin said she and Wilkerson were planning on a spring wedding.

--Indy folk band Bon Iver will be appearing in a fitness DVD to be released in 2012. The band's frontman, Justin Vernon met personal trainer Jeff Rogers while playing a game of basketball at Wisconsin YMCA. Rogers noticed that Vernon was having problems with his back, and offered to help. The whole band eventually began to train with Rogers, and took his workouts with them on the road; now the band will appear as part of Rogers' workout DVD "On The Road," which will also feature at least one of the band's songs. Vernon is featured on Rogers' website saying Rogers helped him "understand his body"

--A former worker for an unnamed London hotel has claimed that pop star Lady Gaga recently left behind a "bathtub full of blood" that she believes the singer used for "bathing in blood as part of a Satanic ritual." The worker claims to have found "large amounts of blood in the suite during a stay this summer," also stating "The incident was reported to the concierge, who told [her] to put it out of her mind." No one from Lady Gaga's camp have responded to the claims.

--Sinead O'Connor has called off her divorce from her husband of three weeks Barry Herridge. Last week O'Connor announced that she was ending her marriage of 18 days due to conflicts with her new husband's family, however the couple have had a change of heart, deciding to seek marriage counseling instead. “We [have] decided to be boyfriend and girlfriend again and stay married, but we did rush [into marriage]." O'Connor also said she and Herridge hope to move in together “in like a year, like regular people.”

The Four Elements of Hip Hop Showcase

Jan. 15th at The Emerson Cultural Center 6pm-9 pm

Graffiti -- 6:30-7pm

We will not be able to do a live painting, unless the weather allows us to put something together outside of Emerson Cultural Center.  We will plan on local artist John Warren, Brian Koenig, Gabriel Schiers, and Nekst to display some of their graffiti pieces. The Pieces will be floating around the Emerson Ballroom. Artist will also have the option to give a brief speech about their influences.

DJ -- 7-7:30pm

We will present 2 to 3 Local DJ's to perform a display of the different forms of Deejaying. This DJ portion will provide a great show of old school Mixing, Scratching.  To show the current and future trends of Hip Hop we will step into the New School with Beat Making Deejay's and HD Projector Video Deejaying.

B -Boy (Break Dancing) --7:30-8:00pm

This Element will be represented by local Bozeman dance crews “Montana Freestylers" and the “Hip Hop Disciples” who will team up to do an old school competition set versus the “Soled Out Crew” out of Missoula, MT. “Montana Freestylers” is led by Debbie Vetter features  exchange and  local students. “Hip Hop Disciples” is headed by Bozeman native Tuzco and consists of local High School and Junior High School students. “Soled Out Crew” Is led by University of Montana students Zach Ford, Will Bradley, Trevor Pressler, and Satoshi Kubo.  All of the dance crews will collaborate on a choreographed B-Boy battle dance showcase.  The showcase will be judged by Abstract Rude winning Crew will be presented with a Trophy.

MC -- 8:00-9:00pm

We will have a 16 Bars Rap Off. 16 Bars is a basic verse in a Rap song. We will invite 4 local M.C.'s to write an original verse/16 Bars. The MC's will get three different topics to write three verses about. We will also have a Wild Card Battle at Cactus Records for non-invited M.C.'s that feel they have what it takes to be in the 16 Bars Rap Off. (The Wildcard event will be on Jan. 13th). The 16 Bar Rap off will be Judged by Ryhmesayer's Artist /Producer “Abstract Rude” and “Shames Worthy” and Cactus Records Owner Mike “Bueno” Good.  After the battle we will have “Shames Worthy” perform a 20-30 min Hip Hop Set.

Also as part of the 16 Bar Rap off we will have a beat contest for local producers.  Winning Beats will be paired up with the Three Topics for MC's to use. Producers will be able to turn in beats by emailing Soundcloud Links or they can drop off hard copies to Cactus Records/Nightlife. For more details about beat contest check out www.bozemanskissfm.com

Abstract Rude- As a product of the legendary Good life open mic sessions, Abstract Rude splashed onto the scene in 1994 as part of the famed Project Blowed crew that included LA's Freestyle Fellowship and Aceyalone. As one half of the A-Team (with Aceyalone), one third of Haiku D'Etat (with Aceyalone & Myka 9) and frontman of his group Abstract Tribe Unique (ATU), Ab Rude has endeared himself to fans worldwide through consistent touring and genre defining albums.  Once signed to the Beastie Boys Grand Royal imprint, Ab has readied himself to re-emerge with Rhymesayers Entertainment and his most consistent and focused work to date, Rejuvenation. Produced entirely by Seattle super producer Vitamin D (G-Unit, Redman, Young Buck, Gift of Gab, Choklate, Shames Worthy- He's been referred to as “the emcee's emcee”. He's a founding member of the Tunnel Rats crew as well as the group Footsoldiers. Raphi, who now goes by Shames Worthy, paid his dues at such legendary spots as The Good Life, Project Blowed, Elements, Unity, and The Breaks & Foundation during “the wonder years” of L.A. Hip-Hop. He's been all across the country as well as the UK, Australia & Israel

Employee Picks (Best of 2011)

Best of 2011

According to the
Cactus Records Staff

Bueno:

1. The Kills "Blood Pressure"

2. The Beastie Boys “Hot Sauce Committee Part 2”

3. Dessa “Castor the Twin”

4. Sims “Bad Time Zoo”
5. Tom Waits “Bad As Me”

6. The Black Keys “El Camino”

7. Nick Lowe “Old Magic”

8. Foster the People “Torches”

9. Danger Mouse & Danielle Loupi “Rome” 

10. Imelda May “Love Tattoo”

Honorable Mentions:
Hanni El Khatib “Will the Guns Come Out”
Wild Flag “Wild Flag”

Ryan:

1. Gillian Welch "Harrow & the Harvest"
2. Decemberists "King Is Dead"
3. Donnie Evil "Holiday That!"
4. Primus "Green Naugahyde"
5. "Weird Al" Yankovic "Alpocalypse"
6. Black Keys "El Camino"
7. Fountains of Wayne "Sky Full of Holes"
8. They Might Be Giants "Join Us"
9. Tom Waits "Bad As Me"

10.Various "The Green Album: Muppets Tribute Album"

Chelsea:

1. Chris Thile and Michael Daves  "Sleep With One Eye Open"
2. Gillian Welch "The Harrow and the Harvest"
3. Ma, Meyer, Thile, and Duncan "The Goat Rodeo Sessions"
4. The Kills "Blood Pressures"
5. The Decemberists "The King is Dead"
6. Primus "Green Naugahyde"
7. Steve Earle "I'll Never Get out of This World Alive"
8. Sarah Jarosz "Follow Me Down"
9. Abigail Washburn "City of Refuge"
10. Dj Numark "Take Me With You"

Doc: 

1. Adele "21"

2. Betty White & the Roots "Betty Wright: The Movie"

3. Chris Thile and Michael Daves  "Sleep With One Eye Open"

4. Gillian Welch  "The Harrow and the Harvest"

5. Imelda May "Mayhem"

6. My Brightest Diamond "All Things Will Unwind"

7. North Mississippi Allstars "Keys to The Kingdom"

8. Tom Waits "Bad As Me"

9. Ma, Meyer, Thile, and Duncan "The Goat Rodeo Sessions"

10. Various  "Treme: Original Television Soundtrack"

R.E.D.

1. Tom Waits "Bad As Me"
2. Scott H Biram "Bad Ingredients"
3. Black Joe Lewis "Scandalous"
4. Wanda Jackson "Party Ain't Over"
5. Hanni El Khatib "Will The Guns Come Out"
6. Kills "Blood Pressure"
7. Donnie Evil "Holiday That!"
8. Primus "Green Naugahyde"
9. PJ Harvey "Let England Shake"
10. Gillian Welch "The Harrow & the Harvest"  

Klaralyn:

1. Danger Mouse & Danielle Luppi "Rome"
2. The Beastie Boys “Hot Sauce Committee Part 2”
3. Tom Waits "Bad As Me"
4. Foo Fighters "Wasting Light"
5. Black Joe Lewis "Scandalous"
6. Chemical Brothers "Hanna Soundtrack"
7. Aloe Blacc "Good Things"
8. Primus "Green Naugahyde"
9. Foster The People "Torches"    

10. OK Go "180/365" 

Tol:

1. Cedric Kewlow "Sol"
2. Kimya Dawson Thunder Thighs"
3. Donnie Evil "Holiday That!"
4. Primus "Green Naugahyde"
5. Tom Waits "Bad As Me"
6. They Might Be Giants "Join Us"
7. Dead Milkmen King in Yellow"
8. Various "The Green Album: Muppets Tribute Album"
9. B.U.T. "Assorted B.U.T.  Demos"
10. B.U.T. "I Love B.U.T."