News Machine, July 2017

The Residents' News Machine is an official news blog dedicated to the activities of The Residents, which has been active at the group's official website since January 13th 2017.
This page collects posts made to this blog in July 2017, as archived on archive.org.
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== Blog entries ==
=== Shirt Survey ===
Saturday, July 1 2017, 12:01pm
Moleshow, the avid Residents fan and admin of the fan forum, is running a survey about shirt designs. That info will eventually make it to Cryptic Corp and somebody behind a big desk in a corner office will crunch the numbers and possibly make a decision based on them. (Just kidding... some underpaid lackey will crunch the numbers and the big exec will take credit.)
Anyway, you can participate here: http://goo.gl/xrmsKP
=== New Book Showcases Art of Ralph Records ===
Friday, July 7 2017, 11:57am
A new book entitled Ralph Records Artworks 1972-2015 by Matteo Torcinovich has just been published. It's a collection of original, rare, and remarkable images drawn from record covers, fan catalogs, posters, and a wide variety of promotional material, with text in English and Italian. Here's a video of somebody flipping through it.
Publisher's website
Purchase from Forced Exposure
=== Title in Limbo Special Edition ===
Thursday, July 20 2017, 11:04am
Klanggalerie has announced a special two-disc edition of Title in Limbo. The first disc is the album we all know and love (or if we don't know it, we will once we hear it). The second disc is the original "4 Daze" recording, the best bits from the original jam sessions between The Residents and Renaldo & the Loaf in 1981. These constitute much of the source material for what would eventually become Title in Limbo (the aforementioned known and loved album).
Special edition announced, no release date set at this time: http://klanggalerie.com/gg200-2
If you just want the regular edition, that's already available: http://klanggalerie.com/gg200
=== In Between Dreams - Final European Tour Dates ===
Monday, July 24 2017, 1:10pm
While changes can occur, we're pretty certain this is the final schedule for the autumn tour.
* October 28, 2017 - Wytwórnia - Lodz, Poland
* November 02, 2017 - L'Aeronef - Lille, France
* November 03, 2017 - Centre Pompidou - Paris, France
* November 04, 2017 - La Sirene - La Rochelle, France
* November 06, 2017 - Mousonturm - Frankfurt, Germany
* November 07, 2017 - Muziekgebouw - Amsterdam, Netherlands
* November 08, 2017 - Het Depot - Leuven, Belgium
* November 09, 2017 - Le Tetris - Le havre, France
* November 11, 2017 - Bremen Teater - Copenhagen, Denmark
* November 12, 2017 - Rockefeller Music Hall - Oslo, Norway
* November 13, 2017 - Bølgen Storsalen - Larvik, Norway
* November 15, 2017 - Kampnagel - Hamburg, Germany
* November 16, 2017 - Columbia Theater - Berlin, Germany
* November 17, 2017 - franz.K - Reutlingen, Germany
* November 18, 2017 - Dampfcentrale - Bern, Switzerland
* November 20, 2017 - Dom Omladine Beograda - Belgrade, Serbia
* November 21, 2017 - Pogon Jednistvo - Zagreb, Croatia
* November 23, 2017 - LA BAM (Boîte à Musiques) - Metz, France
* November 24, 2017 - La Coopérative de Mai - Clermont-Ferrand, France
* November 25, 2017 - Les Abattoirs - Bourgoin Jallieu, France
* November 26, 2017 - Theater im Pfalzbau - Ludwigshafen, Germany
=== 80 Aching Orphans Set for October Release ===
Wednesday, July 26 2017, 1:50pm
80 Aching Orphans is a new, 4-CD, 80-track set spanning the first 45 years of The Residents. Included are singles, fan favorites, album highlights, live recordings, and material never before available on CD. Housed in a hardback book with exclusive artwork and track-by-track liner notes, and at a deliciously low price, this may prove to be the ultimate overview of the band's work (well, at least until the 66th anniversary set comes out in mid-2038). The Cherry Red link below has more information and a full track list.
Release date is set for Friday the 13th of October. Here are some places you can pre-order it now:
Cherry Red | MVD | Amazon
And were you hoping for unreleased material? Well this enticing sentence also popped up in the Cherry Red announcement: "The Residents will soon embark on the 'pREServed' archival album reissue series, including previously unheard material, b-sides, rare recordings and extensive sleevenotes." Keep your eyes on the lookout for more announcements concerning that series soon.
== See also ==
* News Machine
* Residents.com
* BOG
== External links and references ==
*The Residents' News Machine, archived July 15th 2017 by archive.org
*The Residents' News Machine, archived August 13th 2017 by archive.org
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