Pitchfork

Portland record store and start-up label Jackpot Records will follow its 2006 vinyl reissue of Wipers' 1980 debut album Is This Real? by giving the same treatment to the second Wipers album, Youth of America.

Nirvana trivia buffs know Wipers as one of Kurt Cobain's favorite bands, and 1981's Youth of America saw guitarist/bandleader Greg Sage eschewing the debut's shorter songs for six long compositions. Since the album's release, its title track has received covers from both Mission of Burma and the Melvins.

For Jackpot's vinyl reissue of Youth of America on February 11, Greg Sage mastered the album from his original tapes; the release also restores the record's original artwork.

Wipers aren't the only band Jackpot will reissue this year. The label has plans for a vinyl reissue of Jandek's Ready for the House and a CD/LP release of New Dawn's complete recordings.

Youth of America:

01 Taking Too Long
02 Can This Be
03 Pushing the Extreme
04 When It's Over
05 No Fair
06 Youth of America