New Releases
65 Days of Static
Destruction of Small Ideas
PS, US The british quartet plays instrumental
music that starts very melodic & beautiful & builds to loud
epic climaxes. They've been called an aphex twin meets mogwai sort
of
thing.
Monotreme-028
CD
$12.50
A&E
Oi!
PS, US Artists formerly known as AE. Pleasant ballads drift into daringly
arranged pop songs. A meld of traditional Japanese singing, deft jazz
guitar , gameboy chirping, junkshop keyboards & punk drums. Four
of the tracks are electric interpretations of Japanese folk songs
from the late 19th & early 20th centuries.
Sonig-060
CD
$15.00
Aa
gAame
PS, US They've been honing their unique, intensely stylized brand
of DIY maximalism in the lofts, clubs & parking lots of NYC since
'02. Like an ADD-afflicted Boredoms or Aphex Twin re-imagined as a
high school marching band, their polyrythmic sound synthesized elements
of hardcore, ambient, pop, crunk, noise, dance, psych & dance
filtered through their distinct, largely self-taught aesthetic.
GiganticMusic-017
CD
$14.50
Alchemist
Rapper's Best Friend
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Decon-048
DLP
$16.75
Alchemist
Rapper's Best Friend
PS, US One of the most celebrated producers in hip-hop today, he's
been making hot beats for nearly 15 yrs. This is an instrumental CD
comprising 14 finely chiselled jams, which feat. a combination of
previously unreleased beats & recent studio work that he did for
Mobb Deep, Jadakiss, Tony Yayo, Dilated Peoples & more!
Decon-048
CD
$15.75
Alex Delivery
Star Destroyer
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Jagjaguwar-099
LP
$9.50
Alex Delivery
Star Destroyer
PS, US ALEX DELIVERY have gleefully exposed their myriad gifts and
influences with their debut full-length "Star Destroyer,"
almost two years in the making. On it the New York-based quintet have
demonstrated their penchant for the electro-organic, seamlessly blending
the sharp and gentle, like a chain-gang draped in organza. You can
hear the chattering of insects resonating from the inside of a kettle
drum, and you can imagine this colossal robo-beast wobbling and waltzing
down an abandoned carnival boardwalk. Sylphs soar across strings,
occasionally descending to enjoy some wiggle-worthy poly-rhythms.
These and many more colorful characters have climbed aboard the "Star
Destroyer."
JagJagWar-099
CD
$11.00
Alta May
Take What You've Found Here
PS, US Their 3rd full length. Current Press Corps members & ex
Fluid member. Special guest from Mudhoney & Void.
Flotation-012
CD
$10.00
Amandine
Solace in Sore Hands
PS, US The sophmore album from Malmo, Sweden's Amandine is 11 tracks
of plaintive, bittersweet songs that merge a newly extensive sonic
palette w/ their poignant lyrical content. Though still centered around
a melancholy Americana/roots axis, their songs have broadened in both
scope & depth in addition to easy references like Rex & Songs:Ohia/Jason
Molina. IMPOSE MAGAZINE: "A beautiful downer of an album."
FatCat-050
CD
$13.25
Antiguo Automata Mexicano
Kraut Slut
PS, MEXICO Angel Sánchez Borges, the man behind AAM (Antiguo
Automata Mexicano) takes techno to the next level with his second
album and first release with Static Discos. Previously AAM released
the infamous Microhate album on Germany's Background label. Inspired
by German kraut and space rock, minimal techno and screwed up digital
antics, AAM's Kraut Slut is the stuff of wicked dance dreams. Angel
Sánchez Borges also records as Seekers Who Are Lovers on the
Soundsister label. In a recent interview on URB Magazine, Borges says
his secret to the AAM sound is his love for "My Bloody Valentine,
a gentle way of dealing with strange layers of sounds. I want people
to dance to these noisy grooves". Pitchformedia recently described
his music in "the glitch/dub/minimal techno vein, with carefully
constructed rips and blips stretched across a wide, white sonic canvas".
StaticDiscos-019
CD
$12.25
Architecture in Helsinki
We Died, They Remixed
PS, US US version is a limited edition tour-only, digipak CD that
didn't leave the plant in time for their tour. Lucky us and you!
Features EXCLUSIVE remixes of every track from "In Case We Die"
from DAT POLITICS, HOT CHIP, ISAN, QUA,, MOUNTAINS IN THE SKY, JEREMY
DOWER, MOCKY, NEW BUFFALO, SAFETY SCISSORS, and many more.
Bar/None-183
CD
$15.00
Arctic Monkeys
Favourite Worst Nightmare
PS, US New full-length.
Domino
CD
$14.50
Arctic Monkeys
Brianstorm
PS, US This pre-album single serves to prepare you for the coming
onslaught that is the rocking brilliance of their new release, "Favourite
Worst Nightmare". Like some cruel bait-and-switch, this record
opens with a lovely string quartet before a rude intrusion of frantic
drums and squealing guitars send them packing (apparently inspired
by The Jesus Lizard no less). The second track, "Brianstorm"
barrels out of the gate with an itchy energy. "Temptation Greets
You Like Your Naughty Friend" is a taut, suspenseful track featuring
a guest verse from Dizzee Rascal.
DominoRecordingCo.
CD5
$4.75
Asa Irons & Swaan Miller
S/T
PS, US This record is forever. After listending to it you'll realise
that it doesn't matter that Asa Irons plays in Witch with J Mascis
as well as the acclaimed folk outfit Feathers. This record needs no
associations and it's songs are so timeless that they feel as if they've
been passed around for generations and hardly need any recording medium
at all. This is the first release from Asa Irons and Swann Miller
but it sounds like they've lived within each others voices for a million
years. Asa's deep-breath-voice lays down a mossy hill for Swann's
beautiful voice to tread upon. His guitar work is simply intricate
and his fingerpicking perfectly suits the way their voices combine
to become one. This record always has been and always will be. This
record is forever. "After spending years in New Hampshire and
often Nova Scotia, I began writing songs about my Northeastern window
through which I view the world. Most of the pieces represent strong
fundamentals in my life such as living without comfort resources like
electricity and running water, the building trends of carpentry and
masonry with which I make my living, and the slow paced rural life
in which I grew up. The land of Northeastern North America is very
important to me and compelled me to describe it in the form of music.
Many people in my life were musicians - my father, cousins, friends
- so I had plenty of good examples to pull from and think about. My
style of song writing, I believe, comes from the influence of these
loved ones combined with certain deep-rooted melodies or images from
books that have stuck with me. (Such as sound tracks of old cinema
and authors like Tolstoy and Carolyn Chute.) My older sister's art
work has also had a tremendous effect on the way I see the world.
Many of her primary subjects revolve around various representations
of our own home place and the people who inhabited this and the other
woods houses in which we grew up. One of the people connected to me
through music and lifestyle is Swann Miller. She is the daughter of
a man who was a good friend of my father's. Through the '70's our
fathers built houses together around N.H. and also played a lot of
music. So, I have known Swann my whole life and perhaps it was inevitable
that we made music together. When I reached her house in the winter
of 2003, I had just had my notebook of songs stolen along with other
things. I decided to try to catalogue all I could remember by practicing
them. Swann practiced with me. On a whim, her boyfriend - who works
as a sound engineer - recorded the two of us singing in an abandoned
yellow women's bathroom in the basement of the building where they
lived. It all took about an hour and a half including set up of mics,
recording, and breaking down. I borrowed a twenty year old Guild guitar
from a friend of a friend which was very similar to my father's guitar
that I grew up with. I am so happy to have had the opportunity to
help capture Swann's beautiful voice and continue the music of our
families. The album is a quick glimpse of a world view from Southern
New Hampshire through the voices of two old friends whose fathers
were friends before them." Asa Irons
Important-143
CD
$12.25
Badgerlore
We Are All Hopeful Farmers, We Are All Scared Rabbits
PS, US BADGERLORE is the great tribal council of the so-called "Freak
Folk" movement. The supergroup features Rob Fisk (DEERHOOF, 7-YEAR
RABBIT CYCLE) and Ben Chasny (SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE, COMETS ON
FIRE), with Tom Carter (CHARALAMBIDES), Pete Swanson (YELLOW SWANS),
Glen Donaldson (BLITHE SONS, JEWELED ANTLER) and Liz Harris (GROUPER).
Together they proceed with masterful nuance and inexorable tension;
"We Are All Hopeful Farmers, We Are All Scared Rabbits"
is the sound of effigy mounds slowly rousing from prehistoric slumber.
TableoftheElements-114
CD
$12.25
Bates, Martyn
Imagination Feels Like Poison
PS, US 1st U.S. issue of a full length solo lp by the stunniing vocalist
& founding member of EYELESS IN GAZA. Originally released in 1997,
it is primarily a collection of songs that are brightly bittersweet,
conjuring up ghostly & vivid invocations of folk/psych. Voice,
and suprisingly, banjo are the principal instruments that carry the
music, fleshed out by the inventive use of Autoharp, percussion, whistles
& pump organ.
Hand/Eye-018
CD
$11.75
Black Tie Revue
Code Fun
PS, US Their hooky keyboard driven power-pop has been drawing ravenous
fans everywhere they play. Often compared to power pop bands likeThe
Only Ones, The Wildhearts & The Records, the band is everything
great about being young, geeky & American: adictively hooky, powerful,
flagrantly irresponsible three-chord pop songs, loud guitars &
new-wave keyboards, & a whole lot of jumping around.
Gearhead-074
CD
$11.50
Bloomfield, Mike
Junko Partner
PS, US Undoubtedly one of the greatest musicians of his era. A maestro
of guitar, & an excellent composer & interpreter, he introduced
young & old alike to a world of pure & authentic blues. This
excellent album was released just after his death.
Akarma-376
CD
$15.75
Blow, The
Poor Aim: Love Songs (reissue)
PS, US "Poor Aim: Love Songs" is resilient electro-pop music
that can be lovingly devoured by people of all ages and coolness factors.
Already, the songs have fallen into a beloved repeat-play position
in many a heart (and cell phone, as ring tones!). In their experiment,
the two challenged each other with stringent requirements: JONA insisted
that the rhythms couldn't be redundant; KHAELA guaranteed that the
lyrics held sentences worth repeating. They succeeded. The songs are
catchy as hell, and rise to meet all of the duo's snobby music standards.
With sing-along-when-you-think-you're-alone types of refrains, it's
as if the oldies station on the car stereo is playing at the same
time as the urban party music station, with the occasional interfering
sonic sway of an eighties keyboard refrain. That mash of sounds would
come closest to describing "Poor Aim's" productional pitch,
the sound of feeling fun and desperate and bravely romantically unsuccessful
all at once; easy listening for difficult feelings.
KLP167
CD
$11.00
Booji Boy High
Doubleshaw
PS, US A new project from the musical tag team duo, Georgios Panayiotou
& Mother Markzbow of HOT CHIP. Side A "Doubleshaw" is
an anthem of love & disbelief for dear friend of theirs, a party
animal of great intelligence & wit. It JUMPS! Side B "Twist
Myself" again is about legal highs & super hero hulk out
lows. Both sides are pop masterpieces!
DFA
45
$6.00
Book of Knots
S-T
PS, US New York based quartet of Matthias Bossi, Joel Hamilton, Carla
Kihlstedt, & Tony Maimone. Feat. CARLA BOZULICH, MEGAN REILLY,
JON LANGFORD, WATT, TOM WAITS & DAVID THOMAS with no end to the
scraping & swirling guitars, soaring string arrangements, rupturing
bass, & plate-shattering drums. Sure to be one of the most ear-opening
releases of 2007
Anti
CD
$16.00
Book Of Knots, The
S-T
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "The Book Of Knots' self-titled metal
opus is a concept album about the sea. But don't expect any prog rock
opera cheese. Book of Knots is a noisy, bludgeoning rock record, full
of feedback, improvisation and bitter currents -- like Mike Watt's
Contemplating the Engine Room played by Queens of the Stone Age. The
tumultuous record ranges from the oddly Björk-ish "Tugboat"
to the psych, hesher rock of "Crumble" and Jon Langford's
downright catchy piece of slithering melancholia "Back on Dry
Land"." It's a demented and expansive narrative that takes
at least multiple listens to make sense of, but the cinematic scope
is apparent from the beginning. While Book of Knots is a bit too difficult
for everyone, those who enjoy digging deeper into the layers of an
epic rock album will be more than satisfied." (Charles Spano)
Arclight
CD
$14.00
Boonaraaas!!!
5 Steps Ahead
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
SoundsOfSubterrania-083
LP
$16.50
Boonaraaas!!!
5 Steps Ahead
PS, US While most musical groups are taking two steps back, their
thrust is most definitely forward. They bash out their heart &
soulpoppin' sonic nuggets using vintage equipment but the noise they
make is very much NOW! A treat for the ears & the eyes, no matter
what your persuasion. Trich's sassy singing & bass attitude along
w/ Christina's command of the big beat provides a rockin' solid foundation.
Laura's Danelectro action blends w/ Tine's rhythm licks to create
a fuzz-infused wall of sound that is so direct that you'll wonder
what the heck just hit you.
SoundsOfSubterrania-083
CD
$17.00
Butler, Brandon
Lucky Thumbs
PS, US The name Brandon Butler may not be familiar, but any fan of
indie-rock and emo is probably aware of Butler's previous projects,
Boys Life and Farewell Bend. Butler then emerged with his project
Canyon, where his unique vocal styles took a more country and folk-based
rock sound. Now Butler has released his 2nd solo effort, and Lucky
Thumbs shows a mature, strong songwriter with an extremely unique
voice.
GypsyEyesRecords
CD
$14.50
Callahan, Bill
Woke on a Whaleheart
PS, US New solo album from Smog mastermind Bill Callahan. PREFIX MAG:
"Like Howe Gelb's 'Sno Angel Like You from last year, Whaleheart
uses the conventions of traditional American genres to disguise slightly
skewed songwriting. Strangely, the incorporation of these motifs doesn't
render his work any more conventional. Instead, it's as if Callahan
wandered into the wrong studio but taught the players his songs anyway.
That sense of uneasy displacement, though, is exactly what makes Woke
on a Whaleheart a fitting addition to Callahan's body of work."
DragCity
CD
$13.00
Callahan, Bill
Woke on a Whaleheart
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DragCity
LP
$12.50
Camera Obscura
Tears For Affairs
PS, SPAIN "VINYL VERSION!!!
Elefant-253
45
$6.50
Camera Obscura
Tears For Affairs
PS, SPAIN "Tears for affairs" is the fourth song taken as
a single from the highly praised third album by CAMERA OBSCURA. Along
with the title track, the CD-single format includes one new, previously
unreleased track: "The last song", as well as a brand new
video of "Lloyd, I´m ready to be heartbroken", directed
by Victoria Bergsman (THE CONCRETES, TAKEN BY TREES) and filmed by
Blair Young, the man behind most of the band's videos; the clip features
artwork by François Marry, French designer and musician living
in England.
Elefant-368
CD5
$6.75
Casados
T-Shirt Dark Slate-Grey (Sunny Sun Design) (L)
PS, US Dark Slate-Grey T-shirt / Fruit Of The Loom / 100% Cotton.
Size: Large.
TS
$12.00
Casados
T-Shirt Dark Slate-Grey (Sunny Sun Design) (M)
PS, US Dark Slate-Grey T-shirt / Fruit Of The Loom / 100% Cotton.
Size: Medium.
TS
$12.00
Casados
T-Shirt Dark Slate-Grey (Sunny Sun Design) (14/16)
PS, US Dark Slate-Grey T-shirt / Fruit Of The Loom / 100% Cotton.
Size: 14/16.
TS
$12.00
Celestial
Dream On
PS, US You may have heard some of these songs on Music is My Girlfriend
or Lost Music eps - these are completely new recordings and sound
amazing. Andreas Hagman returned to his native Örebro, Sweden
in 2000, where he began recording dreamy pop, jangly guitar and vocals
that reflect a tender, soul-baring honesty.
"Precious songs, in the Sarah Records
vein, between a super romantic dreampop and a dreamy and tender melodies
jangle pop" - Mira El Péndulo
"stay true to their roots and produce
a completely wonderful indie, drenched in effects... nostalgia knows
no limits." - 4 Lighthouses
"wanders from shoegaze via Field Mice
to JAMC in five songs" - Groove
SkippingStones-009
CD
$9.50
Chris & Mollie
Palm Tree
PS, US They met in Santa Cruz, CA while attending UCSC & bonded
over a love
of the Blue Album, lo-fi pop, & the mutual desire to form a band.
"Color me as confused as anyone that some unknown, twee-leaning
folk duo just made one of the most interesting records of the year,
a tornado of sadness & hope." -Cokemachineglow.com
Chris&Mollie-001
CD
$10.00
Clorox Girls
J'aime Les Filles
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
BYO-113
LP
$13.75
Clorox Girls
J'aime Les Filles
PS, US Third LP from Portland, OR popsters channels the 70's style
LA punk attitude of brevity, urgency & punchy pop hooks. Produced
by Pat Meares (EXPLODING HEARTS).
BYO-113
CD
$13.75
Cloud Cult
The Meaning of 8 (Digipack Packaging)
PS, US
RebelGroup
CD
$13.00
Cluster
II [re-issue] (ON SALE)
PS, US Krautrock klassic re-issued. This early 70s release from German
electronic pioneers Cluster (Dieter Moebius, Hans-Joachim Roedelius,
and Conrad Schnitzler) prefigures modern ambient music.
Lilith
CD
$18.00
Cold Bleak Heat
Simitu
PS, US "Simitu" is the second album from COLD BLEAK HEAT,
the dream-team, east-coast avant jazz line-up of alto/tenor saxophonist
PAUL FLAHERTY (DREAM/AKTION UNIT), drummer CHRIS CORSANO (VAMPIRE
BELT, SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE), trumpeter GREG KELLEY (NMPERIGN,
HEATHEN SHAME), and acoustic bassist MATT HEYNER (NO NECK BLUES BAND,
TEST). While explosive as their 2005 debut, "Simitu" brings
a melancholic, even sensitive feel to these improvisations. Yet, no
need to worry about these four wipin' tears on their sleeves. CBH
wages between the melodic centers/ghostly solos of Flaherty/Kelley
and loose, downhill, free blow outs you'd expect, all while mainting
the grand swell of a hardcore jazz symphony. Even as complex and multi-paced
beats sink into bowed-drones and vocal hollers, focused lyricism remains
the returning leader. Features liner notes and drawings by Christina
Carter (CHARALAMBIDES).
FamilyVineyard-041
CD
$11.00
Collins Beat, Paul
Flying High
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
GetHip-1138
LP
$12.50
Collins Beat, Paul
Flying High
PS, US 1st album in 10 years by the NERVES & the BEAT'S founder!
Great power pop that picks up where his 1979 genre masterpiece left
off, only this time, a bit more paced & reflective. Still catchy,
still great melodies, still a classic.
GetHip-1138
CD
$13.00
Comas, The
Spells
PS, US
Vagrant
CD
$12.25
Cornelius
Sensuous
PS, US With Sensuous, Cornelius further explores the dazzling atmospherics
he developed on Point. It's a disciplined sound that's also wildly
experimental, bursting with electronic pulsewaves, wood-grain acoustics,
minimalist interludes and raw guitar freakouts. Released as an enhanced
CD, it features a video for "Fit Song" and an interactive
widget of panoramic Tokyo. (Everloving Records will also release the
Sensuous DVD this fall with music videos for all 12 songs, plus more
special features.) Sure, you could dance to it, but you could also
throw on the headphones, sit back in your Eames chair and get whisked
away to Keigo's multidimensional planet of sound. PITCHFORK: "Sensous
represents yet another step forward for Oyamada's unique headphone
pop."
Everloving
CD
$15.00
Courrier, Kevin
Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica
PS, US <p>In the spring of 1969, the inauspicious release of
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band's Trout Mask Replica, a double-album
featuring 28 stream-of-consciousness songs filled with abstract rhythms
and guttural bellows, dramatically altered the pop landscape.
Yet even if the album did cast its radical vision over the future
of music, much of the record's artistic strength is actually drawn
from the past. This book examines how Beefheart's incomparable opus,
an album that divided (rather than) united a pop audience, is informed
by a variety of diverse sources. Trout Mask Replica is a hybrid of
poetic declarations inspired by both Walt Whitman and the beat poets,
the field hollers of the Delta Blues, the urban blues of Howlin' Wolf,
the gospel blues of Blind Willie Johnson, and the free jazz of Ornette
Coleman. This book illustrates how Trout Mask Replica was not so much
an arcane specimen of the avant-garde, but rather a defiantly original
declaration of the American imagination.
Continuum-044
BOOK
$10.95
Cowboy Junkies
At the End of Paths Take
PS, US New album.
Zoe
CD
$17.00
Cub
Betti-Cola
PS, US REMASTERED! This is the album that put Mint Records and Cub
on the map. Available again in this expanded and re-mastered format
which feat. classic artwork by Dan Decarlo of Archie Comics fame.
This compiles songs from early Cub 7""s as well as 15 songs
recorded for the album. An essential release, this topped the Canadian
college charts for 3 months
Mint-002
CD
$14.00
Cub
Come Out Come Out
PS, US REMASTERED! Featuring the songs "New York City" and
"Flaming Red
Bobsled". Itt presented the amazing growth of Cub as a band with
bassist Lisa Marr, guitarist Robynn Iwata & Lisa G on drums &
proved to the fantastic pop creation that made them a mainstay on
the independent music scene.
Mint-005
CD
$14.00
Dead Meadow
Howls from the Hills [re-issue]
PS, US Reissue album of their 2001 album, recorded in a barn in thw
wilds of rural Indiana. At this stage in their carreer their sound
ecompassed everything from ambient guitar drones to blues-folk ballads
to distorted space-rock, to southern slow boogie. Mesmerizingly authentic
70s psychedelic rock!
Xemu
CD
$15.00
Deerhunter
Flourescent Grey EP
PS, US Four new songs recorded while mixing Cryptograms. A snapshot
of what direction the band might explore next? Probably not. This
EP arrives on the heels of a well received sophomore LP, Cryptograms.
EP functions in many ways as an epilogue to both the LP and the accompanying
well-reported anxiety surrounding it's creation. The band now has
a clean slate to explore something entirely new in the future. Four
songs plus video for "Strange Lights". DOA: "The Flourescent
Grey EP basically picks up where the album left off, combining the
droning atmospherics of space-rockers like Loop and Spacemen 3 with
the kind of Martin Hannett style production and drumming of Unknown
Pleasures-era Joy Division."
Kranky
CD5
$7.00
Detroit Cobras
Tied and True
PS, US
BloodshotRecords
CD
$14.50
Dirty Found Magazine
#3
PS, US Like our last pervy offering, Dirty Found #3 brings you the
world's finest sort-of-porn. We don't have a name for what you'll
witness inside these pages, you're not gonna want to masturbate to
it, but you'll wanna wash your hands afterwards. A curious look at
other people's love lives. "Dirty FOUND is so beyond brilliant,
it boggles the mind. Like most totally brilliant things, it's completely
simple (& also not)."-JUGGS MAGAZINE.
ZINE
$8.50
Disrupt
The Rest
PS, US Boston's crust-harcore kings ground out ferocious music in
their short but furious existence, establishing a reputation as one
of the world's premier hardcore grind bands. This is the 1st official
collection of their splits, demos, vinyl-only EPs & previously
unreleased live recordings. 78 tracks clocking in at 2 hours.
Relapse-6756
CD
$13.00
Dntel
Dumb Luck
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Subpop
LP
$12.50
Dntel
Dumb Luck
PS, US An album five years in the making, and Jimmy Tamborello's first
for Sub Pop. Thick with his signature sampler finessing, warm electronic
washes, and genius beat placement, "Dumb Luck" is an album
lyrically as much about human distance as connection. Includes vocal
contributions from Jenny Lewis (Rilo Kiley), Edward Droste (Grizzly
Bear), Valerie Trebeljahr and Markus Acher (Lali Puna), Mia Doi Todd,
Grant Olsen and Sonya Westcott (Arthur & Yu), Andrew Broder (Fog),
Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes), and Christopher and Jennifer Gunst (Mystic
Chords Of Memory).
Subpop
CD
$12.50
Dolly Varden
Panic Bell (ON SALE)
PS, US Fans of George Harrison, The Volebeats, Fleetwood Mac, Joe
Henry, The Stones and The Shins will find safe harbor here... Chicago's
Dolly Varden marks their triumphant return with The Panic Bell. After
a three-year hiatus marked by solo records, art exhibits, and raising
babies, the record ushers in a new focus for the band. Fronted by
harmony-happy husband and wife duo Steve Dawson and Diane Christiansen,
the songs on The Panic Bell are filled with images of Dawson's struggle
to hold onto his band and his hope in a world numbed by the distortion
and violence of "shock and awe." The Panic Bell brings new
rawness and energy to Dolly Varden's sound, while still maintaining
their melodic strengths and top-notch songwriting. ALL MUSIC GUIDE:
"This band have been compared to artists like Lucinda Williams
and Marshall Crenshaw for their deliberate blend of pop and alt.country.
This is quite apparent on the mid-tempo, pretty and powerful opener
Complete Resistance. Resistance to this particular song would be futile,
as it instantly grows on the listener... It's rare that the words
and music come together so perfectly, but that is the case with much
of this record. Your Last Mistake is a come down that seems to cement
this album's high quality by an equally fine outfit." (Jason
MacNeil) /// HARP MAGAZINE: "The Panic Bell serves notice that
Dolly Varden continues to make pop music that is seductive, transcendent
and peerless."
Undertow
CD
$14.00
Draper, Linda
Keepsake
PS, US Linda Draper's much anticipated fifth studio long player, "Keepsake"
brings you along for 10 beautifully crafted songs - it continues where
her last LP, 2005's "One Two Three Four" (produced by Kramer)
left off. The album marks her first self-produced effort, along with
co-producer Major Matt Mason (Adam Green, Kimya Dawson, Jeffrey Lewis
etc.) and was recorded at Olive Juice Music Studios in New York City.
The CD presents Linda in an intimate setting accompanied throughout
by stand-up bass, piano, violin, cello, slide guitar, touches of percussion
and xylophone - the focus always being the pure beauty of Draper's
vocal performance. "A shining light of excellence...a delightful
voice that immediately enchants." (Tasty, UK)
PlantingSeeds-048
CD
$12.25
DT's
Filthy Habits
PS, US Brand new album from Bellingham, WA brightest, toughest &
finest rock n' roll combo! Feat. the Janis Joplinesque irresistable
sexy growl of Diana Young- Blanchard & the fabulous guitar licks
of ESTRUS headhoncho Dave Crider. Chuck full of killer originals!
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$13.00
DT's
Filthy Habits
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
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$12.50
Eames Era
Heroes & Sheroes
PS, US The bands sophomore record is so brazenly hooky, with songs
that are so totally fleshed out with memorable sing-a-longable instantly
familiar melodies, chugging guitars, ba-bas, harmonies & handclaps,
you could forgive it for what it lacks in innovation. In fact, Heroes
highlights are some of the best chick-pop, and wholeheartedly deserve
to sit amongst your Go-Gos greatest hits CD, Blondies Parallel Lines
& the last Mates of State record too. The first single, "When
You were a Millionaire", is currently featured as the theme song
on MTV's new show, "I'm from Rolling Stone". Also had a
song featured on Grey's Anatomy soundtrack.
MDF-429
CD
$10.00
Electric Soft Parade
No Need to be Down-Hearted
PS, US US debut for multi-instrumentalist brothers, who are also known
as The Brakes, and compared to everyone from The Band to Stereolab,
with a menagerie of lo-fi folk, thumping blues and free-form psych-rock,
whilst always retaining a pop shimmer. MOJO: "Full of regret,
hard-won wisdom and DIY pop artistry No Need To Be Downhearted transcends
bog-standard indie to build a world of sophisticated melody and ingenious
arrangements, encompassing Broadway gumption, Tahiti 80-style sunshine
pop, and exquisitely lachrymose minimalism. Mutes brass, Ben Folds
Joanna, ELO synth showers and Left Banke harmonies belie the record's
home-studio genesis, plonking E.S.P. in the van of a modest progressive
pop renaissance recently hinted at by Field Music and The Earlies."
BetterLooking
CD
$14.00
Elk City
New Believers
PS, US New album from former Hidden Agenda artists, now on Friendly
Fire. For 'New Beleivers' the band would recall the soul of Dusty
Springfield, the power of Patti Smith, the big sound of Phil Spector
and the warped-pop sensibilities of The Breeders on an album that
brought vocalist Renée LoBue to the forefront. his new Elk
City calls upon a wide palette of influences: 1960's psychedelic bands
such as Love, the girl group sounds of classic Motown, 1970's proto-punk
heroes John Cale and Television, and 1980's alternative rock such
as The Smiths and The Pixies. Features guest appearances by Brother
JT and former members of Luna.
FriendlyFire
CD
$15.00
Everybody Else
S-T
PS, US With help from producer Rick Parker (BRMC, Howl), this trio's
debut has captured the energy of their live shows with an album full
of engaging pop gems. Their unusual sound demonstrates a deep sense
of the history of pop music, but could not exist in any decade but
this one. "Everybody Else may not adorn themselves in black eyeliner
and liberty spikes, but that doesnt mean they cant kick your ass and
maybe even steal your girlfriend afterward."- AP
MilitiaGroup-055
CD
$12.50
Familjen
Det Snurrar I Min Skalle
PS, SWEDEN The music is joyus. Not to mention, deceptively simple.
Run a three-note arpeggio through a phaser and there's your refrain.
Naturally, there's a bit more to it than that, but the essence of
Familjen's pop/electronica sound is uncomplicated fun. Perhaps the
lyrics tell a completely different story, but hey - I don't speak
Swedish so I don't really care. Familjen makes warm electronica. Sounds
like the Hacienda in springtime, Mylo on downers, Rex the dogs soundsystem
and A guy called geralds dreams. It makes us all fuzzy and fightable
inside.
Hybris-047
CD
$13.50
Filip
Crane-Grief
PS, US Second full length from Sweden's eccentric pop poet. Simple
beautiful songs performed on guitar, piano, pump organ & auto
harp. For fans of Daniel Johnston, Will Oldham & Tom Waits.
Filipsongs-001
CD
$16.75
Fischoff, Dave
Crawl
PS, US Armed w/ a rather large arsenal of obscure samples culled from
his life as well as the entire Chicago Public Library sound collection,
he went to work. Alone in a near-downtown basement apartment (sometimes
in his bedroom closet), his mind took a very long trip, delving into
the under-explored territory where electronic music, hip hop, &
orchestral pop meet. Taking cues from The Beach Boys & Burt Bacharach
to The Postal Service & Public Enemy, he's conceived, collected,
cut & pasted, orchestrated & created a piece of work that
is large & complex yet utterly personal & easily accessible.
SecretlyCanadian-064
CD
$11.75
Flying Burrito Bros
Definitive Collection
PS, US Gram Parsons, Chris Hillman (BYRDS) & the FBBs made country
cool again when everybody else was into big rock sounds. They introduced
the fuzztoned pedal steel and psychedelic nudie suits to a culture
that was about as far from country cool as you could get. And God,
"Hot Burrito No. 1" is one of the best vocal takes ever
put to tape. 25 songs.
Hip-O
CD
$15.00
Fort Knox Five
Reminted
PS, US The 2nd CD release, featuring a selection of remixes, compiled
& mixed in their signature, party-rocking DJ style. SID BARCELONA,
JON HORVATH, ROB MYERS & STEVE RASKIN are the mastermind producers
behind it, who go beyond the average remix by incorporating their
own live instrumentation and highly sought-after production skills.
On this release, celebrated masters Tito Puente & Joe Bataan overlap
vibes w/ current dancefloor artists A. Skillz & Krafty Kuts, Skeewiff
& Ursula 1000, to name a few.
MonotremeRecords-010
CD
$12.50
Fournier, Michael
The Minutemen's Double Nickels On The Dime
PS, US <p>The story of the Minutemen has been told before (Our
Band Could Be Your Life, We Jam Econo), but this book focuses purely
on their music - the punk ethic and the remarkable, enduring songs
that comprise this, their greatest achievement. Including extensive
interviews with Mike Watt and many others close to and inspired by
the band, this is a great tribute to a classic piece of American underground
music.
Included are extensive interviews with Mike Watt, the band's bass
player, as well as interviews with several artists, musicians, studio
owners, and fanzine writers who have been devoted followers of the
band for years.
Continuum-045
BOOK
$10.95
Freelovebabies
Home Improvement for Condemned Buildings
PS, UK This is Will Carruthers' 2nd solo LP as the freelovebabies,
and while he's done much of the work, he is anything but alone. The
blood, sweat and tears of people he's held in high regard over the
years both personally and professionally fuel this record. It's no
secret where Will has come from and where he's been, his contribution
to a handful of influential Spacemen 3 records and the seminal debut
from Spiritualized, Laser Guided Melodies are all part of his personal
history. Eyes forward and the present very much at hand, this record
stands on it's own two feet and commands that you remember; the man
makes music every bit as much as the music makes the man. 'Sky Blue
Feeling' settles on high, with that signature bass
billowing down and crystalline guitar licks piercing through like
so many shafts of light. A whisper soft bit of drumming and otherworldliness
bring the opening track to a gentle close. 'On The Drip' is the most
nostalgic offering on the record and is the most obvious show of Willie's
proud musical past. Rooted in the earliest and most revered days of
Spiritualized, it is both a tribute and a show of how many aces he's
got up his sleeve. The vocals are raw and raucous, the bass climbs
high, spurred on by an unrelenting beat, as he begs 'Gimme something
fuckin' new." Fragile is the only way to describe 'Too Soon to
Say Goodbye' it stirs with a haunting intensity, lone piano melody,
and an achingly strung out vocal that bears a Lennon-esque quality
at his most shattered. Freelovebabies also features Mark Refoy of
Slipstream (ex Spiritualized), Jonny Mattock (ex Spacemen 3/Spiritualized
drummer), and Kevin Cowen (Spacemen 3/Darkside).
RucksackLoveshack-002
CD
$16.25
Freer
Secret Chorus
PS, US Debut from Detroit quartet is an outstanding batch of diverse
songs
built upon melody & depth, rivaling those of friends and musical
cohorts Office. "... this outfit has been tucked away in the
less- friendly confines of Detroit for more than a year, writing,
recording & performing music that stands alone amongst its contemporaries."-UR
Chicago
Jumberlack-002
CD
$10.00
Fucking Champs
VI
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DragCity
LP
$14.00
Fucking Champs
VI
PS, US
DragCity
CD
$11.00
Fun Years
Life Sized Psychoses
PS, US A duo of turntable & baritone guitar, The Fun Years have
disguised their instruments w/ atmospheric textures comprised of obscure
samples & blissful repetition. The result is a stream of audio
magma, filled w/ dreamy sound washes & subtle phrases that effortlessly
tumble over one another.
BargeRecordings-002
CD
$11.00
Fursaxa
Alone in the Dark Wood
PS, US Beautiful new release from Tara Burke (aka Fursaxa) feat. 12
tracks recorded in Philadelphia and Ulvila, Finland (recorded by Sami
Sanpakkila). Also has Tara's cover design & artwork in a nice
12x24 inch foldout insert. Edition of 950 copies.
Eclipse-056
LP
$15.00
Fursaxa
Alone in the Dark Wood
PS, US Recorded half in Pennsylvania, half in Finland, this evokes
pale moonlight & deep shadows, where tree limbs bend to form cathedral
arches over a procession of mystics. Disembodied female voices rise
like sacral fire-smoke amongst the strum of mandolin, balalaika, &
the piper's call of bells & flute- whistle. At some turns mournful
& stark, at others a celebratory invocation, it displays her alchemical
knack for turning folk into lo-fi, & then into sheer psych &
back again.
AllTomorrowsParties-026
CD
$15.50
Future Clouds And Radar
S-T
PS, US Heavily influenced by cameras, the asterisk, loss of any kind,
and Bill Monroe's falsetto, Future Clouds And Radar is the latest
creation of Robert Harrison, best known as the leader of Austin cult-reggae-heroes
Cotton Mather; hailed by NME as "the most exciting new guitar
pop band since Supergrass", handpicked by Oasis to join them
on tour, and most recently, featured on Little Steven Van Zandt's
"Coolest Songs In The World Vol. 1". PASTE MAGAZINE: "A
magnificent double-disc collection of Flaming Lips/13th Floor Elevators/ELO-inspired
psychedelic pop gems. Move over, Robert Pollard."
StarAppleKingdom
DCD
$15.25
Go Find, The
Stars On The Wall
PS, US An album full of pop music, rock music, dance music & songwriter
music. Nonchalant, eloquent and elegant, it is softer and somehow
more reduced than "Miami." This is a pop album that does
not need to fear comparison w/ anything. 70s, 80s, reminiscences out
of that great echo chamber named pop-music, but never sounding retro,
not even for a second.
MorrMusic-075
CD
$16.75
Go Find, The
Stars On The Wall
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
MorrMusic-075
LP
$15.75
Golden Bear
To The Farthest Star
PS, US Follow up to impressive debut pushes their sound to places
your ear couldn't have imagined existed. A truly intimate experience
for both the band & the listener, emphasizing Chris Gregory's
songwriting while taking a more collaborative approach than ever before.
" avoids the power pop trap, moving through forests of fuzz w/
wild often makeshift instrumentation...Bear w/ this record & the
fruit shall appear."-Magnet
C-Side-005
CD
$11.00
Golden Smog
Blood on the Slacks
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
LostHighway
LP
$10.75
Golden Smog
Blood on the Slacks
PS, US GS delivers the follow up to their critically acclaimed LP
"Another Fine Day," an 8 song mini-album incl. 6 new original
songs plus covers of David Bowie's "Starman" & Dinosaur,
Jr.
LostHighway
CD
$10.75
Grails
Burning Off Impurities
PS, US Following soon after the critically praised "Black Tar
Prophecies" collection on IMPORTANT RECORDS, Portland, Oregon's
GRAILS return with their first proper studio album since 2004 release
of Redlight. "Burning Off Impurities" - their debut for
TEMPORARY RESIDENCE LTD. - makes good on the promise of those past
releases in delivering an album that not only thrusts the group to
new heights, but also pushes the instrumental rock genre forward for
the first time in nearly a decade. An increased interest in psychedelic,
ambient and world musics is most likely to blame for Grails' exploration
of the lesser-traveled paths of modern music. Influenced in equal
parts by ASH RA TEMPEL, ERKIN KORAY, POPOL VUH, BLACK SABBATH, LED
ZEPPELIN, and dozens others, this is very likely the closest Grails
will ever get to making a classic rock record; the kind of sprawling
masterpiece that you savor for years before passing it on to your
younger brother so he can repeat the process.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-118
CD
$11.00
Grails
Burning Off Impurities
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-118
DLP
$13.75
Growing
Live
PS, US
Conspiriacyrecords
DLP
$29.25
Gus Gus
Forever (Deluxe Edition, Digipack Packaging)
PS, US
GrooveAttack
DCD
$16.50
Heyman, Richard X.
Actual Sighs
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Any Average Joe rock dude could reissue
an out-of-print EP they recorded in 1986, and the same sort of guy
could easily add a few bonus tracks to boost the value of the package.
Richard X. Heyman, however, is no Average Joe -- he's perhaps America's
greatest unsung hero of power pop, a songwriter of uncommon talent
and intelligence, and a one-man rock band without peer. So when Heyman
decided to resurrect his long-gone Actual Size EP twenty years after
it first hit the racks, he went for the grand gesture -- Actual Sighs
features the six tunes from that aged 12" in their original sequence,
preceded by fourteen (yes, fourteen) previously unavailable songs,
turning a fleshed-out single into an epic..." (Mark Deming)
TurnUp
CD
$13.50
Hot Machines
2: Microphone b/w Can't Feel
PS, US While not really an active band, the Hot Machines certainly
are a force to be reckoned with. Featuring Jered from the Ponys, Miss
Alex White and Matt from the Baseball Furies this "side project"
or whatever delivers material that equals (and sometimes betters)
the material from these folks "real" bands. And, if you
know how much I love the Ponys and Miss Alex White that is saying
a lot. Jered sings one song and Miss Alex White sings the other. One
of the best 7" singles in ages, basically the definition of what
makes a great 7". Mandatory!
DustyMedical
45
$4.75
Icicles
Arrivals & Departures
PS, US "The combination of Gretchen DeVault's sweet-and-sour
lyrics and Joleen Rumsey's refreshingly non-flashy organ playing might
have something to do with why the Icicles might be onto a magic formula."
- PopMatters. "If you can imagine the sweetest sound you've ever
heard, spread thickly across your favorite bread, then you don't even
get close to The Icicles' majesty." -Tasty. "The Icicles
do not strictly follow their influences though, adding to what they
have learned from them to shape a distinct sound of their own - the
sweet chorus of "Sunday Song" could definitely be put next
to any radio hit..." -All Music Guide.
Microindie-
CD
$10.00
iLiKETRAiNS
Progress Reform
PS, US
BBQ-253
CD5
$4.75
Johnson, Calvin And The Sons of The Soil
S/T
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Krecords-180
LP
$9.50
Johnson, Calvin And The Sons of The Soil
S/T
PS, US In 2003, K recording artists KHAELA MARICICH (THE BLOW) AND
JASON ANDERSON had a vision. "What if Calvin Johnson played all
his best songs from over the years, with a band of real music-making
people?" This was their vision, and they decided to make it happen.
Jason formed a band of other K music stalwarts that included KYLE
FIELD (LITTLE WINGS) on bass with ADAM FORKNER (YUME BITSU, VERSION)
and Jason sharing the guitar and drum playing duties. Dubbed by Jason
the SONS OF THE SOIL, they set out to modernize the primitive. Khaela
designed a graphic image that perfectly captured the Sons of the Soil's
transcendental vibe. A tour was arranged that crossed paths with other
fine Olympia types, including REBECCA PEARCY and MIRAH. Songs were
chosen that spanned the years and various combos, including songs
originally recorded by HALO BENDERS ("Love Travels Faster"),
DUB NARCOTIC SOUND SYSTEM ("Booty Run") and the GO TEAM
("Sand"). Rehearsals commenced, and then it was off across
the Western United States for a rollicking, rockin' good time.
Krecords-180
CD
$11.00
Lipstick
S-T
PS, US Pure Bubble-gum punk n roll for all you fanatics of the genre,
these gals (& one dude) really bring the stuff on this 8 track
power-pop attack! For fans of Nicki & the Corvettes, early Donnas,
Pristeens, Blondie.
Radiobeat-006
CD
$8.50
Love of Diagrams
Mosaic (Digipack Packaging)
PS, US Australia's Love of Diagrams debut album for Matador perfectly
captures the urgency of their stripped-down guitar-bass-drums racket
and call-and-response vocals. Think PiL meets early B-52s meets The
Jesus and Mary Chain.
Matador
CD
$13.75
Lovedrug
Everything Starts Where It Ends
PS, US Defining their own unique space between indie pillars (Modest
Mouse, Sunny Day Real Estate) & super-size rock (Smashing Pumpkins,
Nirvana), chief protagonist Michael Shepards otherworldly vocals set
intriguing tales against a massive sonic backdrop. "Somewhere
between 70s-style guitar-rock grandeur & pre-weird Radiohead lives
this inebriated, quasi-hallucinatory tale."-EW
MilitiaGroup-050
CD
$12.50
Magazine
Real Life [expanded re-issue]
PS, US Re-issue of the band's original 1978 debut album with 4 bonus
tracks. Magazine was an acclaimed late-70s/early-80s post-punk act
featuring Howard Devoto of The Buzzcocks. Remastered. ALL MUSIC GUIDE:
"Magazine's Real Life is post-punk ground zero."
Caroline
CD
$15.25
Magazine
Magic, Murder and the Weather [expanded re-issue]
PS, US Re-issue of the band's final 1981 studio album with 2 bonus
tracks. Magazine was an acclaimed late-70s/early-80s post-punk act
featuring Howard Devoto of The Buzzcocks. Remastered.
Caroline
CD
$15.25
Magazine
Correct Use of Soap [expanded re-issue]
PS, US Re-issue of the original 1980 album, produced by Martin Hannet
(Joy Division) with 5 bonus tracks. Magazine was an acclaimed late-70s/early-80s
post-punk act featuring Howard Devoto of The Buzzcocks. Remastered.
Caroline
CD
$15.25
Mando Daio
Ode to Ochrasy [Enhanced]
PS, US New album from ballsy Swedish rockers.
Mute
CD
$15.00
Mando Diao
Ode to Ochrasy (Enhanced)
PS, US
Mute
CD
$14.50
Mardie, Montt
Clocks / Pretender (ON SALE)
PS, SWEDEN Montt Mardie has went from bedroom pop dreamer to being
at the forefront of the burgeoning Swedish pop movement. His new record,
the 2 cd set Clocks/Pretender (Hybris) is one of the most eagerly
anticipated releases of the year. Clocks one contains 10 songs recorded
with a string quartet and big band backing up Montt mardié
in full crooner/motown style while disc two is full of duets with
the likes of Hello Saferide, Jens Lekman, Andreas Mattsson and many
more. Montt mardié brand of music wears it influences on the
sleeves but never fails to be unique. Boombastic, danceable and always,
always with the biggest heart. Montt mardié is one of the finest
pop jewels ever found in Sweden.
Hybris-049
DCD
$14.00
Markel, Graig
Via Novella
PS, US Graig layers acoustic & electric guitars, strings, pianos
& organs along shimmering vocal melodies w/help from Modest Mouse
drummer Jeremiah Green, vocalist Jen Wood (POSTAL SERVICE, RACHELS),
& members of TAGGING SATELLITES to create captivating, autobiographical
short stores inside lush, haunting indie rock soundscapes. Produced
by Aaron Prellwitz (SUN KIL MOON).
SonicBoom-024
CD
$12.25
Mary Onettes, The
S/T
PS, SWEDEN Long awaited debut album from Sweden's best new band. These
ten songs sound somewhat like a modern version of A-ha dressed in
black mixed with early The Jesus and Mary Chain on an arena. We love
every little second of it. It took them two years and three labels
to get here, but if that's what they needed in order to produce what
must be one of the finest Swedish debut album ever, it was worth all
the wait. Everything about this album is just perfect. From the confident
and obvious choice of simple calling it The Mary Onettes to the epic
artwork. The classic ten songs format where each song has it's obvious
place on the album. First-rate songs all the way dressed in production
perfectly balancing between futuristic and timeless. Biography Although
development are crucial for a band one thing have remained the same,
the songs. The band revolves around Philip Ekströms song writing
and although some songs have been stripped down, rebuilt or even thrown
away they have kept coming. Things started happen for The Mary Onettes
in spring 2004, signing with a brand new label the future couldn't
look brighter. Six months later the band lost the deal without being
given the chance to release anything. Eight months of despair followed
until Sony/BMG decided to sign up the band up for an EP. The debut
was released may 2005 and didn't make big fuzz to the main crowd,
although it got great reviews. A couple of months later the band found
themselves without a recording contract once again. Instead of splitting
up or getting depressed they started building a music studio and plans
took form to start an own label and release everything themselves.
A demo cd to Swedish indie label Labrador changed those plans. For
the first time the band felt that they had a label that understood
them and their music. Signing for a full length album in spring 2006
led to more frequent studio sessions and recording in their new built
studio in Gothenburg, Sweden. Humans don't believe in stagnation,
it's in our nature to develop, evolve and invent. The Mary Onettes
started out in 2000 and when looked at in retrospect, many things
have changed. Starting out as a passionate, yet naive rock band from
a small town and therefore a lot to prove, the band have managed to
stay together because of their love for music and each other. It takes
time for a band to develop a sound and to create that special bond
between members in a rock group. Six years on, that development is
still in progress.
Labrador-103
CD
$14.75
Melt Banana
Bambi's Dilemma
PS, US On their sixth full-length studio release they exercise a hitherto
undetected area of their musical musculature: the "rock"
region. The band refuses to accommodate any pigeonholing: "Maybe
it is rock, but maybe not. We just make whatever we want. We just
follow our own instincts!"
Azap-007
CD
$13.25
Melt Banana
Bambi's Dilemma
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Azap-007
LP
$10.50
Merzbow & Carlos Giffoni
Synth Destruction
PS, US Over 60 minutes of total analog destruction by noise king Merzbow
and Brooklyn noise boss Carlos Giffoni, This live collaboration was
recorded during Giffoni's Synth Destruction Japan Tour in September
of 2006. This is Sound Totalism and is as heavy as it comes: totally
brutal, totally ugly, totally beautiful, totally intense, totally
classic, totally analog, total synth and total destruction. Intense
artwork by Jenny Akita. Author, activist, painter and sound artist
Masami Akita had been at the foreground of experimental music for
over 25 years. Inspired by psychedelic rock, free jazz, early electronic
composition as well the physical arts, especialy Kurt Schwitters'
Merzbau, Masami Akita has created a musical language all his own.
Carlos Giffoni, despite his young age, has been an in-demand Brooklyn
collaborator for many years. He has worked with Jim O'Rourke, Thurston
Moore, Nels Cline, Chris Corsano, Fe-Mail and many others. In 2005
he releases his first solo record titled Welcome Home on Important
Records. This is Merzbow and Giffoni's first collaborative release.
Important-131
CD
$12.25
Mezzanine Owls
Slingshot Echoes
PS, US Reference Points: Arcade Fire, Doves, Silversun Pickups, Interpol,
Yo La Tengo, U2, Coldplay, JAMC. Selling Points: SXSW shows, full
radio promotion with AAM, multiple reviews in national print, free
downloads from spin.com. new media campaign with filter. Multiple
US tours. Overview: Spring of 2006 saw Mezzanine Owls travel from
Los Angeles to record with Andy LeMaster (Bright Eyes, Azure Ray,
R.E.M.) in Athens, GA. These sessions produced Slingshot Echoes, a
dreamy, noisy collection of songs featuring dense layers of guitars
and keyboards washing over driving beats. Reviews: "A haunting
Jesus and Mary Chain rattle filtered through an anthemic guitar line
as driven as something from another avian outfit, Doves..." -
Spin "this four piece builds luxuriant canopies of british heart
racers doves and elbow but bearing the intriguing twist of wounded
vocals landing somewhere between dean wareham and mercury rev."
- San Francisco Guardian "the Pixies re-imagined by Lush"
- bullz-eye "soaring pop melodies" - usounds "melodic,
memorable pop music that is, at times, slightly reminiscent of The
Tyde." (5/5) - babysue "Vocalist Jack Burnside recalls a
softer, less dramatic Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes... a quiet stunner
of a debut" - sound as language "These guys remind me a
bit of what Interpol would sound like if they weren't trying to be
Joy Division. It's a sort of shoegazey, downtempo'd post-punk"
- I guess I'm floating "Indie Jayhawks meets shoegazer Ride/Jesus
Mary Chain...your stereo will thank you." - The Tripwire"Also
spent a lot of time with: the driving, layered guitars of Mezzanine
Owls' "Slingshot Echoes..." - LA Times Best of 2006
Pehr-095
CD
$9.00
Midnight Movies
Lion the Girl
PS, US Midnight Movies first made waves in 2004 with their eponymous
debut, about which the LA Times called "undeniably cinematic".
After a line-up change and a new label, they return with this release.
The California landscape serves as a perfect backdrop for "Lion
The Girl". The hypnotic vocals of Gena Olivier cut a seductive
path through the layers of lovely psychedelic landscapes. The OC Weekly
appropriately crowned Olivier with having "all the beauty and
talent of a modern-day Grace Slick." Produced by Steve Fisk (Screaming
Trees, Nirvana, Pell Mell). /// AVERSION: "Midnight Movies refines
the spaced-out atmospheres of its self-titled debut (2004, Leftwing)
and makes room for hooks and harmonics we'd expect from a super-modern
guitar-pop band... Owing a little bit to The Jesus and Mary Chain
and the faintest debt to Lush, Midnight Movies finds a rich, dense
and compelling brand of twilight pop on Lion the Girl."
NewLine
CD
$14.00
Monotract
Trueno Oscuro
PS, US Guitar drums & electronics lock together into a frightening
miasma. They've recorded a record so unreal that it warps reality
unto itself. Songs exist as pure sine wave terror, like long taffy
pulled by tractors miles apart. Light bulbs explode, couch cushions
swell, & nipples get hard. This is the new method, with new tools.
Load-108
CD
$14.50
Monotract
Trueno Oscuro
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Load-108
LP
$14.50
Namelessnumberheadman
Wires Reply
PS, US The three members of NAMELESSNUMBERHEADMAN grew up together
in a small town in Oklahoma, but the three of them (Jason Lewis, Andrew
Sallee and Chuck Whittington) ultimately settled in Kansas City and
have been playing, writing and recording as NNHM for about six years.
Having released two prior full-length albums since July 2002 that
have been received well, but it's with this ST. IVES release that
they make their grand statement as artists. With "Wires Reply,"
they join the afternoon drive between your ears where Sparklehorse
covers Skylarking in its entirety, where Pinetop Seven and Tortoise
make 4-track tapes as teenagers, and The Notwist backs up Robert Pollard
in the beautiful headspace of blissful lo-fi stereo. Cohesive in sound
and vision, "Wires Reply" is a dream that doesn't jump around
and confuse you, but calms and guides you through a hazy panoramic
photograph. This is a balmy summer in Midwestern America. This is
the smell of the trees and the street at the end of the longest days.
This is a genuine, honest celebration but, all the same, it is fighting
the sinking feeling that there is no one left to believe anymore.
The guitars buzz. The drums crack. The mellotrons whir. The three
sing at the top of their lungs.
As with all St. Ives releases, "Wires
Reply" is a VINYL LIMITED EDITION RELEASE (to just 300 copies).
The artwork is lovingly hand-wrought by the band in a celebration
of folk art and the return to care in record making.
St.Ives-20
LP
$11.00
Newsom, Joanna & The Ys Street Band
EP (ON SALE)
PS, US All new arrangements & performances of 2 already-classic
Joanna songs & the debut of a brand-new song, its a solid short-play
record at least & another inspiring slice of Newsom at best. PITCHFORK
(Best New Music, 8.7 score): "You have to lower the stakes after
an album like Ys, because you can't raise them. Joanna Newsom's follow-up
is a lot less formally ambitious: A three-song quickie, with one new
song and two old ones, recorded live in the studio with four members
of her acoustic touring band. Of course, "less formally ambitious"
on Newsom's scale is off the charts on virtually anyone else's..."
DragCity-336
CD
$8.50
Newsom, Joanna & The Ys Street Band
EP
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
DragCity-336
12
$10.25
Noisettes
What's the Time Mr. Wolf
PS, US New album from London hipsters & one of Rolling Stone's
10 Bands to Watch. On tour supporting Bloc Party this spring. Yup.
Univeral
CD
$9.75
Ocean/Conifer
Split LP
PS, US This split 12" release is limited to 1000 copies and pressed
on rust and grey color vinyl. It is packaged in a screen printed mylar
jacket with a screen printed mylar insert and a screen printed paper
insert. Cover artwork is of a 19th century statue located at the center
of Portland Maine, the dramatic coastal home of both groups. This
is the sound of a musical brotherhood entirely unique to Ocean &
Conifer. Over the years Ocean and Conifer have shared vans, stages,
members, practice spaces, apartments, beers, a city and a kindred
musical spirit. In a lot of ways it's a shock that that split hasn't
happened already but perhaps it was so obvious that nobody noticed
that it needed to happen. Sometimes the truth is right beneath your
nose. With their original drummer back in the line-up, since Eric
Brackett left to focus his energy on Ocean, Conifer has re-enlisted
their original drummer Nate Nadeau. With Nate back in the group they're
heavier, tighter and more united than ever before. They've toured
and player with Mono, Black Dice, High On Fire, Asva, Mouth Of The
Architect and many more. Summer of 2006 saw them embark on an ambitious
26 city tour. Ocean's 20 minute epic was recorded in the same sessions
that birthed their next album, currently untitled, for Important.
Containing all of the epic minimalist intensity and robust
heaviness that has gained them international attention, The Undoing
is a whole new level.
Important-144
LP
$12.25
Old Soul, The
S/T
PS, US
FriendlyFire-007
CD
$12.50
Oliveros, Pauline
Accordion & Voice
PS, US Pauline Oliveros (b. 1930) is an accordionist and composer
who currently resides in Kingston, New York. Her instrument is tuned
in Just Intonation and she often includes it in her meditative improvisational
music. Her music is not meditative in the sense that it is intended
for listening to while meditating, rather each piece is a form of
meditation, such as her aptly titled Sonic Meditations. A central
figure in post-war electronic art music, Oliveros is one of the original
members of the San Francisco Tape Music Center (along with Morton
Subotnick, Ramon Sender, Terry Riley, and Anthony Martin), which was
the resource on the U.S. west coast for electronic music during the
1960s. The Center later moved to Mills College, where she was its
first director, and is now called the Center for Contemporary Music.
Oliveros often improvises with the Expanded Instrument System, an
electronic signal processing system she designed, in her performances
and recordings. "Accordion and Voice was the first of my recordings
as a soloist. I was living in an A-frame house in a meadow just below
Mount Tremper at Zen Mountain Center. I had a wonderful view of the
graceful saddle mountain top. When away on a performance trip I would
imagine the mountain as I played Rattlesnake Mountain. I followed
the feelings and sensations of my many experiences of the mountain
- the changing colors of the season, the breezes and winds blowing
through the grasses and trees. Horse Sings From Cloud taught me to
listen to the depth of a tone and to have patience. Rather than initiating
musical impulses of motion, melody and harmony I wanted to hear the
subtlety of a tone taking space and time to develop. The tones linger
and resonate in the body, mind, instrument and performance space.
My thanks to Important Music for bringing these pieces to be heard
again." - Pauline Oliveros 2007
Important-140
CD
$12.25
Oliveros, Pauline
The Wanderer
PS, US The Wanderer is based on a single modal scale (B C# D D# E
F# G#) and rhythmic modes based on a meter consisting of 3/4 and 3/8.
Part I, Song, is intended to explore the unique resonant qualities
of accordion reeds through long sounds. Subtle variations come about
from differences in tuning and air pressure. Part II, Dance, demonstrates
the sharp accenting power of the accordion bellows in a mixture of
cross rhythms characteristic of jigs, reels, batucadas, Bulgars, klezmer
forms, Cajun dances, and music of other diverse cultures. The Wanderer
was composed in November, 1982 especially for the Springfield Accordion
Orchestra, directed by Sam Falcetti. This recording documents The
Wanderer's world premiere, as it was performed 27 January, 1983 at
Marymount Manhattan Theatre. The orchestra consists of twenty accordions,
two bass accordions, and five percussion, with Pauline Oliveros as
soloist, Sam Falcetti conducting. Horse Sings From Cloud, written
in 1975, is one of Oliveros' best known works. Like most of her Sonic
Meditations, it can be performed vocally and/or instrumentally, solo
or in collaboration. A solo version of Horse Sings From Cloud has
been recorded on Accordion & Voice. An early version of the score
reads, "Sustain a tone or sound until any desire to change it
disappears. When there is no longer any desire to change the tone
or sound, then change it." This time, Horse Sings From Cloud
is performed in ensemble. Joining Pauline Oliveros on bandoneion are
Heloise Gold on Harmonium, Julia Haines on accordion, and Linda Montano
on concertina. This quartet version incorporates the microtonal differences
in tuning of the selected instruments, creating shimmering reed sounds
somewhat similar to the shimmering of a Balinese gamelan.
Important-141
CD
$12.25
OOIOO
Eye Remix
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
ThrillJockey-171
12
$5.75
OOIOO
Eye Remix
PS, US Hot on the heels of their latest record of hard-hitting polyrhythmic
skree, they've unleashed fellow sonic cohort EYE from BOREDOMS to
dismember & reassemble 2 of their songs. UMO & UMA get the
remix treatment here, resulting in 2 long tracks that reinvent Yoshimis
jetpropelled psychedelic pep rallies as bass-driven dancefloor slammers.
The CDEP comes in a full color digipak w/ deluxe spot-matte finishing
& obi strip. CD has 2 extra tracks!
ThrillJockey-171
CD5
$4.50
Original Silence
First Original Silence
PS, US A monster is born, a clash of the the titans! The new band
of THURSTON MOORE (SONIC YOUTH), TERRIE EX (THE EX), JIM O'ROURKE,
MATS GUSTAFSSON (THING), PALL NILSSEN-LOVE (THING), & MASSIMO
PUPILLO (ZU). Recorded live on the OS Italian tour, September 2005
in Teatro Arisoto, Reggio Emilia, Italy, to be more specific. This
is the first in a series of recordings from OS. Musically one can
hear the obvious influences from early Sonic Youth & The Ex mixed
with the Scandinavia free-jazz. But you can hear their many influences
from Black Flag, to drone rock, to Albert Ayler, to Boredoms, to noise,
punk, Dead C, Merzbow & 60s minimalism. This is 100% improvised
rock. A monumental, raw and harsh beautiful out- rock masterpiece.
Artwork by Kim Hiorthoy
SmalltownSuperjazz-124
CD
$14.50
Part Chimp
CUP
PS, US Less than a year ago, PART CHIMP toured the United States bearing
$99 guitars duct taped together, a ramshackle drumkit with pom poms,
and stacks of junkyard amps...not really your optimum selection of
rock gear. But, from the first click down on their octave pedals,
Part Chimp laid into one of the most devastatingly awesome tours on
which the MONITOR team has ever laid their eyes and ears. It was on
this tour that we became aware that Part Chimp were the most under
appreciated rock band active today. Who else plays this loud, with
this much fury!?!? Part Chimp continues their course with their new
Monitor release "CUP." A compilation only available in North
America, "CUP" contains the new single "New Cross",
rarities, alternative versions of past tracks, a previously unreleased
cover of the BEATLES' "Wild Honey Pie", and two music videos.
The album, just like the live show, is raw, raucous, and will just
as easily rip your head off if the volume is adjusted correctly.
Monitor-029
CD
$11.00
Pjusk
Sart
PS, US Sart is the debut full-length cd from Norwegian duo Jostein
Dahl Gjelsvik and Rune Sagevik, collectively known as Pjusk. First
heard on 12k's Blueprints (12k1039) compilation, Pjusk's sound can
be characterized as warm, dark, delicate, and wet. Sart builds a cavernous
scape that listens like a surreal storybook, utilizing a combination
of electronics, dub, rhythm, found sounds such as tape machine noise,
fans, and ski lifts as well as field recordings from around the world.
It is in their inspiration from very human events, such as private
conversations, empty rooms, or smells that gives Pjusk's music a strangely
familiar yet very disconnected and alien mood. They are very interested
in the presence or disappearance of man and mankind's impact on nature,
building on this dichotomy of tension as they create their work. Difficult
to immediately classify, Pjusk carry on the organic and tonal tradition
of 12k's recent output but twist it into darker and more narrative
territory. Sart is a beautifully produced debut that clearly carves
out the artists' own niche in electronic music. Pjusk is a duo from
the westcoast of Norway. Jostein Dahl Gjelsvik started doing electronic
music in the early nineties techno scene and layed live around the
country with the Neural Network band. A dozen releases have since
appeared both solo and in various bands. Most prominently the Circular
project which relased several acclaimed albums on the same label as
the Biosphere work of that era. Rune Andre Sagevik was an early party
promoter way out in the vividly beautiful countryside in the deep
fjords. He started doing electronic music a decade ago. The Pjusk
project began when Jostein many years later heard one of these tracks
on the radio. He liked it so much that he made contact with Rune and
a fruitful, productive collaboration started in 2005. In the two years
that have passed they have released work on compilations and their
debut cd Sart, on 12k in New York.
12K-1042
CD
$12.25
Pollard, Robert
Silverfish Trivia
PS, US New album from GBV/Budweiser guy. RETRO-LO-FI: "On first
glance, Bob's new EP Silverfish Trivia looks like it contains nearly
as many instrumentals as it does actual songs, but it plays through
like a singular twenty-minute piece. A highly abstract and slightly
more mellow piece to be sure, but it's a whole and needs to be treated
as such... Silverfish Trivia is a short wonder of a record."
PromIsComing
CD
$10.00
Porcupine Tree
Fear of a Blank Planet
PS, US
Atlantic/WEA
CD
$15.25
Proper Nouns, The
Birds & Butterflies
PS, US If you weren't paying attention (but we know you are) you'd
think that all of this new Columbus fare was all fuzzboxes and broken
guitars (not that there's anything wrong with that) but the Proper
Nouns are here with a really great indie-pop record (and maybe a fuzzbox
or two).
C.D.R.
CD
$9.50
Pterodactyl
S/T
PS, US The songs on this record range from incessant and infectious
("Polio") to sparse and spacious ("Three Succeed")
to epic and redemptive ("Esses"). Combining a noisy post-punk
palette with adventurous, arresting lead vocals and harmonies, PTERODACTYL'S
first full-length offers up a compellingly catchy, scratchy sound
that is not easily forgotten. In 2006 Village Voice music critic Robert
Christgau caught a performance of "Polio" at the tail end
of Pterodactyl's set and ranked it the best "tail end" in
a month of New York live shows, writing: "A 20-minute Dungen
song deserved its 10-minute flute solo. The unknown Pterodactyl repeated
the same climactic six-note riff for six minutes. This was so much
better than that flute solo."
Jagjaguwar/BrahRecords-011
LP
$9.50
Pterodactyl
S/T
PS, US The songs on this record range from incessant and infectious
("Polio") to sparse and spacious ("Three Succeed")
to epic and redemptive ("Esses"). Combining a noisy post-punk
palette with adventurous, arresting lead vocals and harmonies, PTERODACTYL'S
first full-length offers up a compellingly catchy, scratchy sound
that is not easily forgotten. In 2006 Village Voice music critic Robert
Christgau caught a performance of "Polio" at the tail end
of Pterodactyl's set and ranked it the best "tail end" in
a month of New York live shows, writing: "A 20-minute Dungen
song deserved its 10-minute flute solo. The unknown Pterodactyl repeated
the same climactic six-note riff for six minutes. This was so much
better than that flute solo."
Jagjaguwar/BrahRecords-011
CD
$11.00
Racingpaperplanes
Made of Broken Parts
PS, US The 3rd full-length release from Gothenburg Sweden outfit finds
the band exploring a decidedly Americana feel, more than on previous
efforts that merely flirted Alt-Country. Sweet melodies & dripping
pedal-steel guitar hover around front man Richard Wilson's strong
vocals and rhythm guitar.
Tract-054
CD
$10.00
Reininger, Blaine L.
Elektra / Radio Moscow
PS, UK 19 tracks. Blaine L. Reininger is one of the creative mainsprings
behind the cult avant-garde band Tuxedomoon. As a solo artist he has
produced some ten solo albums, including Broken Fingers (1982), Night
Air (1984), Live in Brussels (1986), Instrumentals (1989) and Night
Air #2 (2004). Elektra/Radio Moscow combines two haunting instrumental
soundtracks written and arranged by Blaine. Elektra was commissioned
for a version of the Sophocles play staged at the Athens Festival
in Summer 2006 by director Angela Brusko. Radio Moscow is the score
for the 1995 film of the same name by director Nicholas Triandafyllidis.
TUXEDOMOON formed in San Francisco in 1977 around the nucleus of Steven
Brown, Blaine Reininger and Peter Principle. Following releases on
the Residents' Ralph label, the band relocated to Europe in 1981.
Their dozen-odd albums include the classics Half Mute, Desire, Ghost
Sonata and Holy Wars. Their new album Bardo Hotel was released in
2006. Blaine L. Reininger was born in Colorado in 1953, and currently
divides his time between Italy and Greece.
LTM-2482
CD
$16.25
Rock Plaza Central
Are We Not Horses (Digipack Packaging)
PS, US On Are We Not Horses Toronto-based, seven piece indie-folk
ensemble Rock Plaza Central use traditional instrumentation to sketch
visions of an apocalyptic future where angels battle humans and a
race of robotic horses falls into existential crisis. Guitar, violin,
banjo, drums, bass and horns combine to bring to mind the psych-folk
of Neutral Milk Hotel as well as the casual country-soul of The Band.
YepRoc
CD
$13.75
Saturday Knights
S/T
PS, US LITA's new band sounds like a party where the Beach Boys, Geto
Boys, the Coasters & The Clash all seamlessly perform together.
"The Saturday Knights are a wicked mix of girl group harmonies,
classic rock heaviness & stone cold hustler humor. The songs 'bounce
like a giant booty' & 'rock like a hurricane'"-SF Weekly
LightintheAttic-024
CD5
$6.00
Scotland Yard Gospel Choir, The
In Hospital/Then and Not A Moment Before (Collector's edition - 250
only)
PS, US Collector's edition (250 only)
7" pink colored vinyl & digital download release. The Scotland
Yard Gospel Choir have been doing it themselves and doing it well
for a few self-released, well received singles and an album. They
back it up with an amazing live show, piling the stage with instruments
and guest musicians. This single is a collaboration between the band
and their friends here at Microindie, longtime fans and supporters
of the band. The folks at AMG list the Smiths, Billy Bragg, Belle
and Sebastian and Camera Obscura in the band bio. The SYGC single
is part of a back-to-basics approach by Microindie Records. Previous
to running Microindie, label owner Mike Babb released many records
on the 7" vinyl format which was a great pleasure. Due to decreasing
vinyl demand and increasing cd demand, the cd format became the first
option. With the increase in quantity and acceptability of digital
downloading, Mike has decided to de-emphasize the cd format and release
singles on the beloved 7" vinyl and digital download formats.
There will also be a limited number of specially designed promotional
discs produced for print and online reviewers
Microindie-7-3
45
$3.50
Seefeel
Quique (Redux Edition)
PS, US Double CD re-issue of this 1993 electro-ambient classic comprised
of Seefeel's debut full-length, 'Quique', newly remastered plus a
bonus disc with rare mixes and 6 unreleased tracks. Gorgeous packaging
with poster, liner notes by Seefeel mainman Mark Clifford, etc. Quique
is a real line-in-the-sand type record, very easy to divide things
into "Pre" and "Post". In those crazy, post Stereolab
high days of the early 90's this record hit hard and unlike anything
that anyone expected. It is safe to say that it would be very hard
to imagine labels like Morr Music or the general cross-polinization
of rock and electronic music that has happened over the last 10 years
or so with out this record.
TooPure
DCD
$12.75
Silver Daggers
New High & Ord
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Load
LP
$14.50
Silver Daggers
New High & Ord
PS, US They're a streamlined bullet to the brain from a unusually
shaped pistol. W/ a new creep vibe running through the deserted subway
tunnels of LA & emptying into ground zero center stages. They
generate new sparks & suck you, the listener, into the tiny foam
headphones. Indeed as a 6 piece band they operate as a single muscle.
Future sound just in time for a culture caught in caustic feedback
loops
Load
CD
$14.50
Skyscraper
#24
PS, US Features on NEUROSIS, THE WILLOWZ, GRAHAM COXON, TED LEO, EXPLOSIONS
IN THE SAKY, AN ALBATROSS, HOT CROSS, VIETNAM, JESU, BLACK LIPS, PANDA
BEAR, JOHN WIESE & many others. Plus the usual plethora of articles,
& reviews.
ZINE
$5.50
Smegma
33 1/3
PS, US 33 1/3 is Smegma's tribute to their 20th century avant-garde
and out-jazz influences. The title is one part reference to the happy
revival of passionate vinyl listening in the 21st century and one
part celebration of their long hard slog of 33 1/3 years of being
one of the most free thinking and original American underground groups.
Their focus, ideas and determination has brought them through more
than three decades and to this day they remain unparalleled, original
and highly influential. 33 1/3 is enhanced with live videos of Happy
Holidays live at End Times Festival (with Spencer Yeh and Twig Harper)
as well as Grubsteak live at the Three Million Tongues festival in
Chicago. Smegma. Seriously. They've been at it for so long now that
you can't really even say they sound like anyone else. You can only
say that others sound like them. They're all here on 33 1/3: Oblivia,
Ju Suk Reet Meate, Burned Mind, Conroy, Dr. Id. The core group drumming
up their influences and pulling off another burning album of magnificent
proportions. . While Smegma has never really fit in anywhere their
influence on the modern avant garde and improvised noise scene is
absolutely undeniable. However, it's essential to remember that Smegma
has never been noise for noise's sake. While they've had two feet
firmly planted in avant-garde & free jazz one must not forget
their rock roots as well. For this reason alone they're bound to not
fit in anywhere. Influences aside, not matter how much everyone else
sounds like Smegma, you can bet that Smegma is always going to sound
like nobody else. Nobody else channels so much energy, effort, influence
or sound into their work. They may just be the greatest American band.
Ever.
Important-145
CD
$12.25
Smegma
33 1/3
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Important-145
LP
$13.00
Smith, Patti
Twelve
PS, US New album features all covers, including versions of songs
by Nirvana, Hendrix, Tears For Fears, Neil Young, The Rolling Stones
and loads more... ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "If this is truly the covers
album Smith has always wanted to record, she's succeeded on a level
with the best of her studio recordings and a welcome addition to her
catalog. Each song has her imprint without sacrificing the intent
or spirit of the original. Full of slow burning passion and emotion,
Twelve is magnificent."
Sony
CD
$17.00
Smith, Sonny
Fruitvale
PS, US A loose concept record based on his neighborhood in Oakland.
In some songs you get imagery about the neighborhood & in others
a sense of the folk troubadour sound found throughout. There is a
kind of roughed up Paul Simon meets a woozy & now urban Townes
Van Zandt. Guests on the record include LEROY BACH (Wilco), DAVE HILLIARD
(David Byrne), MATHEW LUZ (Azita). He has upcoming tour dates w/ Neko
Case & David Dondero.
BelleSound-003
CD
$12.50
Snider, Todd
The Devil You Know
PS, US First DVD collection features tons of live footage, unreleased
videos and bonus live rehearsal footage plus the short film "Come
East to Nashville." The CD garnered year end Top 50s from Blender,
Rolling Stone & No Depression.
NewDoor
DVD
$15.50
Spiderwebs
Strands Formerly Braided
PS, US Feat. TOM CARTER, SANDY EWEN, MIKE TAMBURO, KEENAN LAWLER &MATTHEW
MCDOWELL
MusicFellowship-015
CD
$14.25
Stafraenn Hakon
Gummi
PS, UK Much-anticipated brand new full length from one of the leading
lights of Iceland's burgeoning alternative music scene, following
2004's "Ventill/Poki" and the accompanying debut UK tour.
Stafraenn Hakon is the pseudonym of Olafu
