Ladies and gentlemen, The Suburbs have re-entered the building

In a perfect example of how difficult it is to hear about everything you might be interested in, I give you High Fidelity Boys 1979, a Suburbs live CD that was released by the Garage D'or Recording Company back in 2006. Not only did I not hear a peep about this CD in the press, I never heard that the folks who ran a great record store in Minneapolis (the Garage D'or) had started up a record label after closing the store. And while they are releasing some new material, it is the releases from past great Minneapolis artists that had me drooling. Not only was there this release, which was a live show from Jay's Longhorn in 1979 when The Suburbs were more punk than new wave, but they have several other releases. Those include a few live records from the 70's outfit The Suicide Commandos (one from a radio show) and two great Reflex Records compilations that have been long out of print and contain a wealth of riches, including; The Replacements doing Motorhead's "Ace of Spades", Husker Du outtakes from the In a Freeland sessions, and tracks by an early Soul Asylum (when they called themselves Loud Fast Rules). And, if that wasn't enough to interest you, on the Garage D'or website they mention that this year will see a release of early Husker Du demos from 1979 called First Strike.