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New Releases

Adrian Orange and Her Band
Interdependance Dance
PS, US The debut release on K RECORDS from ADRIAN ORANGE AND HER BAND, these are three songs about balance, interconnectedness, determinism, love, and family/community, unity. For dancing. Adrian was born and raised in Portland, Oregon where she still lives. Full length album available through K in Autumn.
Krecords-112
45
$3.75

Anal Cunt
Defenders of the Hate
PS, US Boston grind/hardcore legends return! Originally released as a 7'', this 2007 re-mastered version incl. 10 BONUS TRACKS from other out of print vinyl only releases.
MenacetoSobriety-017
CD
$12.00

Avarus
Rasvaaja
PS, US Brand new Avarus! LP only, all exclusive tracks, limited to 300 copies world-wide, DMM to 160 gram vinyl. Amazingly psychedelic sleeves designed by Bema Bergman & hand-screened in 7 colors by Mike Taylor.
SecretEye-035
LP
$20.00

Barbez
Mexico City Impressions b/w Somebody Get Rid Of The King
PS, US This 7" is limited to 400 copies and was designed, signed and numbered by Barbez's Dan Kaufman. 100 are on red vinyl and 100 are on white vinyl. These two intense numbers were inspired by both a pleasant trip through a small historic neighborhood in Mexico city and the detestable Iraq war. Cover art was inspired by the abuse of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. Look for the next Barbez record sometime soon on Tzadik. These two songs were recorded and mixed by the great Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, John Zorn, Swans) at B.C. studios near the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, NY in 2006. They were mastered by Fred Kevorkian (White Stripes) at Avatar Studios. The first song, Mexico City Impressions, was conceived on a trip to Mexico City while strolling through a lovely neighborhood called Coyoacan where Frieda Kahlo, Leon Trotsky and Diego Rivera once lived some 60 years ago. There's a kind of Parisian feeling to the neighborhood and to a little park there with a carousel and people selling little bags of Mexican sweets. It's an extremely vibrant place, full of Meso-American sounds and colors floating about. This short pulsating song is my impression of that vibrancy, color and heartbeat of Mexico City, and an homage to the enchanting sound of the marimbas you hear everywhere in that city. The second song, Somebody Get Rid of the King, is an angry lament that comes out of a great fury at the Iraq War and especially at the cruelty of the United States towards the detainees it holds in Guantanamo and in the tortures it perpetrated at the Abu Ghraib prison. The subject was close to my heart as I spent several years working as a researcher with famed journalist Seymour Hersh on his book, Chain of Command, which detailed these outrageous war crimes. The song begins in a slow and mournful vein only to transform into a punk-rock blowout full of rage.
Important-153
45
$6.75

Bat for Lashes
Fur and Gold
PS, US Hailing from the UK, this Brighton based band consistis of conceptual
visual artist & multi-instrumentalist NATASHA KHAN. This is a special limited edition of her debut LP on blue wax, the sleeve is hand numbered & also contains a poster by Khan. The band has signed new deals in the UK w/ EMI & a US deal w/ Astralwerks. Catch them on a full US tour this summer '07 & at the Glastonbury Festival!
ManimalVinylRecords-002
LP
$19.00

Belaire
Exploding/Impacting
PS, US Synth-prog-pop band from Austin is an undescribable creative assemblage that has been serendipitously patched together from members of ARKAY FOZLUR, FLASHLIGHT FICTION, VOXTROT, & FANCY FEAST. Together, the band mixes genres at will floating from Brazil funk to Italian movie scores to Carnival music to New Wave to Italo Disco & back again to form a cohesive & incredibly addictive sound all their own. Belaire is poised for imminent cult status & looking to expand their loyal following while having the most fun out of any band out there!
IndierectRecords-006
CD
$12.00

Bexar Bexar
Tropism
PS, US "Many of the songs have this feeling that's hard to describe but so satisfying to hear: like a sadness that's been buried and you're soldiering quietly on, and not making a show of it. The spare, lovely melodies swell and recede, all with perfect precision and tremendous understated feeling. How this music can be so emotional without ever getting sentimental or corny is completely beyond me" - IRA GLASS, "This American Life"
WesternVinyl/Own Records-02
CD
$11.50

Bird, Andrew
My Name is a Blackbird
PS, US Music from & inspired by a dance piece by Molly Shanahan. Track 1,2, 3 & 10 written, performed & produced by Andrew Bird. Tracks 4 & 5 by Mark Booth using various objects including a latte foamer, Kitchen Aid Classic mixer bowl, ebow & rice paper. Tracks 6, 7, 8 & 9 by David Pavkovic using an IBM T42 laptop. All tracks are instrumental w/ the exception of track 10.
MadShak-001
CD
$12.00

Bishop Allen
The Broken String
PS, US 2006 was a big year for BISHOP ALLEN - The band recorded and self-released an EP every month of the year. Fifty-eight songs later, they completed one of the most ambitious recording projects in recent memory. Their 2003 debut, "Charm School," was a hooky indie-pop gem, but Bishop Allen's EP material proves far more sophisticated and addictive. With the EPs, Bishop Allen's pop smarts sound timeless, escaping the indie-pop idiom and revealing a language informed by the Kinks, Dylan, and the Zombies. While it was in motion, the EP-a-month project was the toast of the blogosphere, but it wasn't just an online phenomenon; it garnered the band attention everywhere from the Wall Street Journal to NPR's Song of the Day. This adulation all happened without the benefit of a record label or publicist. Bishop Allen was truly DIY, recording and releasing their own records and booking their own tours. In early 2007, the band struck a partnership with DEAD OCEANS and the first fruit of this relationship is Bishop Allen's sophomore album, "The Broken String." If Bishop Allen made a huge musical jump from the 2003 debut to the 2006 EPs, the band made a quantum leap on "The Broken String." If Ed Sullivan were alive today, Bishop Allen's story-songs would be ripe for prime time. "The Broken String" is not just a great record by Bishop Allen standards. It is poised to be the pop soundtrack to the summer of 2007.
DeadOceans-003
CD
$11.50

Blumm, F.S.
Meets Luca Fadda
PS, GERMANY For this record FS Blumm has written some of his most light-hearted tunes, accompanied by NY trumpeter Luca Fadda. Wonderful guitar and double bass lines are accompanied with processed toy instruments and found objects. The new dimension of this album is the collaboration with Luca Fadda who places digitally processed trumpets on top of Blumm's material. These improvised elements add a new live feeling to F.S. Blumm's music and creates a less melancholic mood than previous records released on labels like Morr, Staubgold and Plop. There are two 15 minute pieces on this album: one is `Ricke and Dina`, the other is `Giorgi and Lucy´. `Giorgi and Lucy´ was inspired by the last piece of a live set at the `epistrophy´ in New York on December 1st 2006 where Luca Fadda and F.S.Blumm met on stage. ‚Ricke and Dina' is based on a performance done in front of a childrens-audience during the presentation of a Peruvian fair trade collection of children`s wear at the belleville-store in Berlin on the afternoon of Oct. 1st 2005. This 3 hour live set has been carefully recorded by Lupo.
Ahornfelder-011
CD
$16.25

Bust
#46
PS, US Fashion & Music Issue: ROSARIO DAWSON on cover, plus features on Bjork, Amy Winehouse's makeup secrets, Hip Hop's founding mothers & more.
ZINE
$4.75

Castanets
Cathedral
PS, US NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL! "Cathedral," the first nationally released album by San Diego's CASTANETS, introduced a unique voice of avant-country. From somber love ballads to haunted tales of frustrated redemption, "Cathedral" illuminates architecture where faith and doubt clash in an often ambiguous search for the divine.
AsthmaticKitty-011
LP
$10.25

Chapin Sisters/Winter Flowers
Split
PS, US Limited edition picture disc LP! The Chapin Sisters have been playing & singing together since childhood & are the spawn of singer Tom Chapin (brother of Harry "Cats In The Cradle" Chapin). They scored an indie radio hit w/ a cover of the Britney Spears hit "Toxic" in 2005 & countless number of live performances. Winter Flowers are a west coast based progressive folk-rock outfit that has been performing since 2001. They have been compared to everything from The Fairport Convention to Pentangle & Fleetwood Mac to The Incredible String Band.
ManimalVinylRecords-003
LP
$15.50

Circus Devils
Sgt. Disco
PS, US BOB POLLARD & the Tobias brothers formed Circus Devils, incorporating a musical alchemy of hard rock & soft rock, ugliness & beauty & ambience, eerie moods, stories, humor &rock opera theatrics, resulting in a strangely coherent cinematic music experience, likened to an indie rock version of Fantomas.
Ipecac-090
CD
$16.25

Coach Fingers
No Flies On Frank
PS, US NOW ON LIMITED DMM 180 GRAM VINYL! COACH FINGERS is serious about having fun and with the debut long player "No Flies on Frank," no one is spared from the plentiful good vibes Frank has to offer. Packed with more hooks than a ship crowded with one armed pirates, "No Flies on Frank" is a meaty affair of giddy but bearded late 60s / early 70s outlaw boogie rock & roll prominently featuring three members of the new york free noise whatsit collective THE NO NECK BLUES BAND - Coach JASON MEAGHER, DAVE NUSS & DAVE SHUFORD - along with Meagher's brother Sean on Keys and - future guitar god worshippers take note - the Coach's secret weapon, master shredder GEORGE DEVOE. So come on, friends, it's time to join the Fingers friends & family in the Beaujolais Revolution; take a sip from a glass full of RONNIE LANE'S boozy rock, the charming laissez-faire balladry of KEVIN AYERS (circa "Joy of a Toy" & "Whatevershebringswesing") & a whole lot of crazy fun.
LocustMusic-083
LP
$16.25

Crow, Rob
I Hate You, Rob Crow
PS, US Following the success of his recently released solo alum - and his first-ever US solo tour - PINBACK frontman ROB CROW keeps the ride moving with the first single from "Living Well", affectionately titled "I Hate You, Rob Crow." In addition to the album cut, the disc also includes two non-album tracks - the moody synth-driven instrumental "Sea Sawn," and the Heavy Vegetable-esque "Slick" - as well as the now-infamous video for "I Hate You, Rob Crow," featuring, among other highlights, Crow singing through a mic attached to a man's intestines.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-115
CD5
$3.50

Crow, Rob
Living Well
PS, US NOW AVAILABLE IN LIMITED EDITION VINYL FORMAT WITH FIVE NON-ALBUM BONUS TRACKS!!! Somewhere between the breakneck touring to support PINBACK'S breakthrough TOUCH AND GO debut, "Summer in Abaddon", and the release of THE LADIES' debut album (his collaboration with ZACH HILL of HELLA/TEAM SLEEP), the impossibly prolific Rob Crow had an epiphany: SLOW DOWN. Not coincidentally, this revelation occurred shortly after the birth of his first child (named Robertdale Crow III, of course). Crow's time at home was suddenly more important than ever. His family is all over "Living Well", his third solo album: in the album title, the artwork (layered with dozens of family photos), and the intensely personal lyrics which document Crow's courtship with his wife, their marriage, and the subsequent birth of their first child. Not only is "Living Well" Crow's finest solo album by a country mile, it also transcends many of Pinback's most canonic moments. It has the hooks and heart that he is famous for, with a refined focus not seen in Crow's other projects.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-114
LP
$9.00

Deadly Snakes
I Can't Sleep At Night + 3 (Double 7-inch)
PS, US This beautiful double-gatefold 7-inch release serves as a reminder that the DEADLY SNAKES' Ode To Joy was one of the best rock'n'roll releases of 2003. This single features "I Can't Sleep At Night" from Ode To Joy (a favorite on Little Steven's Underground Garage radio show) as well as three previously unreleased tracks-"Nasty Boots" (a very Rolling-Stones-inspired original), "Big Bird" (originally done by Eddie Floyd), and "Shot Down" (an early Neil Diamond track).
InTheRed-111
45
$8.00

Death from Above 1979
Heads Up
PS, US THIS IS THEIR 1st EP. 1 bassist & 1 drummer not unlike power trios like Lightning Bolt or even the White Stripes! 6 songs that will pummel you w/a rock'n'roll intensity while making you lick the dance floor at a Stooges show.
Universal
CD
$10.00

Debris
Static Disposal
PS, US CD reissue of the only album from this legendary group who came outta Chickasha, Oklahoma in the mid 70's. Namechecked iny NURSE WITH WOUND's infamous list of influential albums included w/ their 1st album! A dada punk psych masterpiece from 1975 inspired by the likes of Captain Beefheart, The Stooges, Roxy Music etc. these guys closest contemporaries were Hearthan era Pere Ubu, Indiana era MX-80 & Canadian sonic miscreants Simply Saucer. This CD features the 11 original album tracks PLUS 10 previously unreleased & raw rehearsal recordings that consist of 2 originals, 5 alternates to album tracks & 3 covers.. The Stooges's "Real Time", John Cale's "Gun" & a song originally recorded by Debris's precursor group, Victoria Vein & The Thunderpunks. Comes w/ 28 page booklet
Anopheles-004
CD
$14.00

Delay, Vladislav
Multila
PS, US This brought together his vinyl releases for Berlin's Chain Reaction label, focusing on the dense, murky gritswirls & ghost voice traces that underlie this subtle artist's other works. The original album was mastered by Moritz von Oswald/Basic Channel & the same exact audio is kept for the re-release.
Huume-009
CD
$16.25

Dilettantes, The
101 Tambourines
PS, US Vinyl limited to 500. Features Joel Gion from Brian Jonestown Massacre and the movie Dig!. Perfect for the arrival of the anniversary of the Summer of Love, The Dilettantes play it straight up; no-frills, song after song like the psychedelic garage rock animals they are. HappyParts recordings will be providing full court indie press, radio and retail support. The record is loaded with retail in-store play action. All straight, no cut. This record is a true long player. Dig in. Band will be completing a west coast tour in September. They tour Europe in January. Japan and Australia in March.
StrangerTouch-272
LP
$12.25

Drift, The
(rmxs)
PS, US Following the 2005 release of their debut album, "Noumena," THE DRIFT set out to tour relentlessly in support of the album. Two years later, the band is still on tour, and to keep up we're rolling out a limited edition 12" compiling two side-long remixes from FOUR TET and SYBARITE. Side A is a nine-minute jazz exploration, launching The Drift's spacious, atmospheric compositions into deserted, zero-gravity territory. Four Tet's remix is a stone cold classic, rich in the virtues of patience and the payoff. Side B, conversely, is a dense, rhythmic reworking of "Noumena's" most immediately accessible track, "Invisible Cities." Sybarite gets to the point quick, and fleshes out the deliriously funky details over the course of its emphatic 11-minute runtime. This 12" is strictly limited to 1,000 copies. Each copy is housed in a beautiful full-color chipboard jacket, and has been individually assembled by the tireless hands of the TEMPORARY RESIDENCE staff.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-094
12
$9.00

Eastern Conference
Champions-Ameritown
PS, US Eastern Conference Champions follow their debut EP on Retone with a debut album recorded with Brit-pop superproducer Owen Morris (VERVE, OASIS). Snagged Urb's "Next 100" in March & Spin's "Band of the Day." They are touring machines.
Suretone
CD
$9.25

Eat
It's Not The Eat, It's The Humidity
PS, US Another live one from the swirling depths of the most obscure, desirable, & just plain deranged. Sound is top-floor melodic punk 'n' roll, sort of a up Real Kids w/ rock-bottom Angry Samoans-style lyrics. Disc 1's a whopping 30+ studio tracks, many never before released. But That's not all folks. CD version comes with a BONUS LIVE DISC w/ 2 dozen songs & many a crude rude remark from band to audience.
Alternative-377
DCD
$16.00

Eat
It's Not The Eat, It's The Humidity
PS. US DOUBLE VINYL VERSION!!!
Alternative-377
DLP
$16.00

Eleh
Floating Frequencies/Intuitive Synthesis Volume 2
PS, US Eleh's Floating Frequencies/Intuitive Synthesis Volume 2 requires dedicated and careful listening. High volume and/or headphone use is highly recommended for maximum experience - especially on the B-side, which is focused on ultra low end bass pulses being slowly modulated by bass frequencies well below the level of human hearing. Side A is a detailed account of the emerging frequencies resulting from the carefully crafted meeting of 7 sine waves. It is also highly recommended that stereo listeners be seated at least 7 feet away from their speakers, centered, with ears at speaker height. 500 made. 200-gram vinyl. Deluxe letter pressed jackets. Dedicated to Charlemagne Palestine. Eleh was formed to specifically to pay tribute to early experimental minimalist pioneers especially La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Eliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros and Charlemagne Palestine. This record is pressed in a deluxe edition of 500 on audiophile quality 200-gram vinyl.
Important-158
LP
$13.50

Excepter
Streams 01
PS, US Double CD retrospective of the first 4 years of their live experience, selected, sequenced & edited by band acolyte Robert Girardin from the first 36 issues of the STREAMS mp3 series released free on the Internet & illustrated w/ photos taken from the same.
Fusetron-046
DCD
$13.25

Felten, Mike
Landfill
PS, US RECENT REISSUE. Mike played in Chicago rock bands through the late 1960s & in the early 1970s he was a singer-songwriter who shared stages w/ guys like Prine & Steve Goodman. He gravitated to the country end of the spectrum in the late 70s & in the 1990s he returned to playing w/ rock & blues bands. These songs span 3 decades, '1966 Summer School Blues is the oldest of the collection, from a time when your '2 inches of hair" could get you kicked out of school. 'Save Her Old Man is a Woody Guthrie type anthem of being downsized in the 1980s rust belt. "Margie Got A Boyfriend is a 50s style unrequited love rock ballad & it is juxtaposed against 'Life Goes To Hell about not falling in love for the last time. Each song is a story that needs to be told.
Landfill-2302
CD
$13.50

Garland, David
Noise in You
PS, US "Noise In You" is an album of gorgeous music about noisy emotions: our desires and distractions, anxieties and passions, love and loss, and the living hum of our bodies. It is DAVID GARLAND'S 8th album since entering New York City's downtown scene in the 1980s, and it's the first to receive the wide distribution and attention his music deserves. Garland is a multi-instrumentalist currently exploring the sumptuous jangle of a 12-string guitar; he sings with a voice that's deep, honest, and intimate. "Noise In You" is unclassifiable: pop music that's both experimental and accessible, and is rich with intricate layered harmonies and startling colors and textures. It features the beautiful, sometimes mystical voices of a younger generation of musicians -- SUFJAN STEVENS, MIRA ROMANTSCHUK (of MI AND L'AU), DIANE CLUCK, VIKING MOSES, and DAVID DEPORIS -- together with guitars, flute, piano, clarinet, sarode, oboe, and more. Noise In You unfolds into a wondrous, subtly interconnected song cycle that sweeps you up in its imaginativeness, drama, and sensual pleasure.
FamilyVineyard-49
CD
$11.50

Glorior Belli
Manifesting the Raging Beast
PS, US
SouthernLord
CD
$14.00

Great Invisibles
You Left Me Haunted (CD/DVD)
PS, US A mix of Jack Rose-style fingerpicked guitar layered with found sounds & children's toy orchestrations. Influenced by the Surrealism movement, yet isn't bogged down by complete process-music abstraction or overly reserved academic stuffiness, it works at both a casual & Dada-esque level. Limited to 300 handmade unique artwork packages
BrokenSparrow-4050
CD/DVD
$12.50

Haines, Emily & The Soft Skeleton
What Is Free to a Good Home
PS, US New 6-song mini-album from Metric frontwoman, a companion piece to 'Knives Don't Have Your Back', influenced and dedicated to her late renaissance-man father and Robert Wyatt. Five previously-unreleased songs from the same sessions and a remix of "Mostly Waving".
Last Gang
CD
$11.00

Joy Division
Martin Hannett's Personal Mixes
PS, US Martin Hannett's selection of rare alternate mixes of several songs, including studio banter. All NEW takes, never before available. These recordings give a rare insight into his production ideas for Joy Division & his relationship w/ the band - the strange things/sound effects they recorded in the studio together, etc
Interstate
CD
$13.50

Jupiter Apple
Uma Tarde Na Fruteira
PS, SPAIN The musical origins of this Brazilian filmmaker, multi-instrumentalist and composer take us back to the first half of the 90's, when he spawned a brief incursion in Dylan-esque territory under the moniker Woody Apple. He soon came back as Júpiter Maçã, his current name, with which he develops his personal version of a 60's inspired psychedelic sound in cult albums that don't cross the Brazilian borders, but do find an echo among an elite who whisper his name in each other's ears: among his following we find Tom Zé, Caetano Veloso, Arnaldo Baptista, Rita Lee, Sean Lennon, Tim
Gane, Sean O'Hagan or Dean Wareham.
Elefant-1121
CD
$14.00

M.I.A.
Boyz
PS, US Includes Album Version, Instrumental, Acappella.
Interscope
12
$5.00

Mark, Carolyn
Nothing Is Free
PS, US A woodsy & introspective album. The recording brings an immediacy to the music that conjures up a Sunday evening spent playing instruments & singing songs on the back porch of the cabin. Her introspection finds many things, not the least of which is a (sometimes dark) sense of humour & a willingness to throw caution under the truck, have all the fun humanly possible.
Mint-107
CD
$15.00

Marmoset
Florist Fired
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Secretly Canadian/JoyfulNoise-090
LP
$12.25

Marmoset
Florist Fired
PS, US Five years is a long time. Five years is an excruciatingly long time for a band like MARMOSET. Somehow this band has managed to bottle into one album all of the idiosyncrasies and pathos that have made them the critically-acclaimed band we all love. Merging the Swell Maps-inspired tumultuous clamor of their debut EP "Hiddenforbidden", the addictive two-minute anthems on "Today It's You", and the epic joyful dirges from "Record in Red", "Florist Fired" has it all. Although principal songwriter JORMA WHITTAKER possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of Beatles-esque melodies, "Florist Fired" leaves listeners with the unmistakable feeling that Marmoset owes much more to a Richards-led Stones swagger- without the budget or access to premium pharmaceuticals. In contrast to the seemingly lecherous, self-loathing Whittaker gems, guitarist DAVE JABLONSKI offers up detached ethereal odes like a man with his head truly in the clouds. The idea of being a traditional, functioning band has never quite caught on with Marmoset. Their live shows and behind-the-scenes breakdowns are spiritually aligned with the likes of BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE; but unlike BJM, the music you hear from Marmoset is pure sound vérité. No need for a ballyhoo project like "Dig!"- although the tales Marmoset could tell would certainly make for riveting viewing. Until the public is ready for such a trip into the madness, tension and ecstasy that is Marmoset, "Florist Fired" will serve quite nicely as their chariot on the road towards canonization.
SecretlyCanadian-090
CD
$11.50

Messages
Destination/Glades
PS, US It captures a moment and represents a place of sorts. If you walk down Canal Street on any given night, odds are you will hear the sound of MESSAGES coming from a fifth floor walkup. If you stopped, you would hear it go on for hours and it would be the sound of TRES WARREN (of PSYCHIC ILLS) and TAKETO SHIMADA mashing sine waves, bass loops, guitars, samplers and turntables into a storm in between bouts of playing techno and psychedelic improv records.
TheSocialRegistry-048
45
$5.50

Mika Miko
666
PS, US Another installment of post teen angst from LA's own fury girls. Six songs recorded on 6/06/06 that sound darker, radder, more crashy & trashy then their debut "CYSLABF". CD version includes MIKA MIKO's first 7"and three bonus tracks from the vaults of the energetic & fun brain of the Miko's.
PostPresentMedium-011
CD
$10.00

Mr. Blotto
Cabbages & Kings
PS, US BACK IN STOCK! Mr. Blotto is a jam band band from Chicago. They blend southern rock, folk, blues & country. They take the Jam band asthetic into areas unfamiliar to the standard Jam Scene. A well produced, well mixed, well executed kind of Americana that actually owes far less to the Grateful Dead than one would expect. The band sounds completely natural in their studio environs, having nailed the elusive blend of acoustic & electric instrumentation that most bands struggle w/when they try to set their work to tape. It is thick, but not overbearing. Bits of imagery turn up through the disc - Harleys, bunks, movie stars, & literary references - that inform the album w/a cohesive intelligence. For fans of GOV'T MULE, ALLMAN BROS, WARREN HAYNES.
MrBlotto
CD
$10.00

Orange Goblin
Healing Through Fire
PS, US
Sanctuary
CD
$16.75

Out With A Bang
Few Beers Left But Out Of Drugs
PS, US This record is soooo great. Alessandro (Anus), vocalist of the Grabbies moved his stank ass back to bumfuck Italy & has emerged w/ a band that completely blows away the Grabbies, who in the past pretty much blew away every other band out there in the free world. Fast, pissed off, drug addled, alcohol abusing, foul-mouthed, numbskull punk rock smut from a guy who's probably better off dead. Is this jerk the new GG Allin? Who knows and who cares, this record kills it! LIMITED
CriminalIQ
45
$4.75

Pitre, Duane/Pilotram Ensemble
Organized Pitches Occurring in Time
PS, US Two 25 minute pieces of music,both spawned from the same conceptual composition/score by Duane Pitre, titled Ensemble Drones. With their form reminiscent of works by La Monte Young's Theater of Eternal Music & their tonality touching on the floating works of Terry Riley, The Ensemble Chord in Eb with a Minor 7th & a Pump Organ Base &The Ensemble Chord in C with a Major 7th & a Guitar Base are aural tapestries based on a minimal tonal palette with their instrumentation consisting of guitars, alto saxophones, bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello, tone generator & pump organ.
Important-154
CD
$12.25

Primary 5
Go!
PS, US Ex-SOUP DRAGONS & TEENAGE FANCLUB drummer Paul Quinn & collaborator/guitarist Ryan Currie. 2004 saw the completion of their debut album "North Pole."Collecting numerous accolades along the way in both the UK & US press, this resulted in the band supporting rock legends Arthur Lee & Love on their last ever UK tour. Includes contributions from Teenage Fanclub members Norman Blake (vox/guitars) & Raymond McGinley (guitars).
RA-010
CD
$13.50

Sebadoh
Freed Man (ON SALE)
PS, US 52 tracks from the bubbling birth of the Doh. Pitchfork quizzes Eric Gaffney, who says: ""The reissue contains songs and versions (one each, not multiple) from the orignal cassette release... from the LP version [i.e. the Homestead version], a few of my songs, re-recorded, off The Freed Weed CD, and unreleased tracks, along with the 2nd and 3rd 'singles' and part of the first split." Pitchfork goes on: "Whatever the math, the extras and different mixes/takes shift something once familiar into a gargantuan 79-minute lo-fi opera... This Freed Man is overstuffed and weird, studded with some duds, and entirely fitting. Part of the joy of early Sebadoh-- this collection through Bubble and Scrape, aka the Gaffney years-- is the clash of egos and brilliant songwriters. It's totally evident on this new version: 25 songs by Lou, 25 by Eric, and two covers, including a garage-punk take on the Beatles "Yellow Submarine". Pretty telling, right? To take it even further, the cassette was re-mastered at Abbey Road Studios."
Domino
CD
$14.00

Sorry Dogs
Rejection Years
PS, US Long time So. Cal. punk revival outfit made up of ex-members of BATTALION OF SAINTS & SKID MARKS create high energy punk by SNFU & Circle Jerks. Pressed on limited edition gold/black marble vinyl. "Ten songs here recorded over a period of 4 years showing these guys are really patient or broke or both, & there isn't a weak track on this album."-TONY CEDENA of the ADOLESCENTS.
UtU-001
LP
$10.00

Starless & Bible Black
S/T
PS, US NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL! STARLESS & BIBLE BLACK make beautiful spirited & catchy songs in the grand tradition of classic British folk rockers PENTANGLE and JOHN & BEVERLY MARTYN straight on up through the halcyon days of early 4AD records. On their debut self titled outing, the diverse Manchester 3 piece brings to bear much of the lively attitude, passion and rain, rain, rain of the old textile city they've all come to call home for the last several years. The result is a great collection of 11 songs-at once earthen and elevated - that are given added mood & flavor by the charcoal vocals of French chanteuse HÉLÈNE GAUTIER. The other contributing members are the main rhythm men in the Manchester music scene - PAUL BLAKESLEY on bass and BRIAN EDWARDS on drums - they have perfected their craft playing with the likes of local heroes such as AIDAN SMITH, JOHN STAMMERS and JANE WEAVER.
LocustMusic-085
LP
$16.25

Stevens, Tom
Home
PS, US He has has recorded over a dozen albums, both solo & w/ The Long Ryders, Danny & Dusty, Chris Cacavas & Junk Yard Love, Magi, & Jack Waterson. His blistering guitar playing & depth of songwriting speak volumes, both on stage & in the studio. This is an assured & mature collection of performances of fine songs. It retains freshness over many hearings combining the thrill of recognition w/ a hardly-diminishing sense of surprise & wonder. Tom has allowed himself free rein, but seemingly as a consequence of his own enthusiasm & excitement about the music hes making. And the result is a real pleasure.
Avebury
CD
$11.00

Stratton, Will
What the Night Said
PS, US Gentle but intense. Will has the uncanny ability to compose intricate songs that speak to the listener in such an effortless & beautiful way that he makes songwriting seem easy. The tone of the album reflects the contradictions of peace & uneasiness during the dark hours. Features SUFJAN STEVENS on 2 tracks.
StunningModels-002
CD
$13.50

Sunn 0)))
Oracle
PS, US Two brand new exclusive tracks available officially on vinyl only! "Orakulum" was originally composed for a live performance collaboration w/ the New York sculptor Banks Violette at the Maureen Paley Gallery in London, June of 06. The result of this performance & collaboration, which was conducted in a sealed gallery space, was intended to generate a feeling of absence, loss & a phantom of what once was.
SouthernLord
LP
$16.75

Susanka, Bert
Onward Christian Slater
PS, US Bert Susanka, founder of The Ziggens, has always wanted to put out a solo record-an album on which he could express himself freely, without songwriting restrictions & deadlines. This is clearly Susanka's most personal album to date,with songs of triumph, heartbreak & all emotions in between. Reference points from the Dead Milkmen & Beach Boys lead to tender introspective ballads & self-deprecating takes on suburban survival, alling add up to what will certainly be a widely talked-about album.
Cornerstone-056
CD
$14.25

Tape Op
#60
PS, US New issue of the #1 recording magazine! Features on Joe Boyd (Nick Drake, Fairport Convention, REM), Bob Power (NYC hip-hop engineer), Sonicraft, Jace Lasek/Dave Smith, Mike Castoro, gear reviews , CD reviews and more.
ZINE
$4.00

Tegan & Sara
The Con
PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Produced by Death Cab for Cutie's Chris Walla, the album is full of quirky, Aqueduct-like keyboards, punchy bass from Weezer's Matt Sharp and AFI's Hunter Burgan, and even some guitar help from Kaki King that stretch and shove their way into the spaces between Tegan and Sara's hook-driven melodies and clean harmonies, more complex than anything they've done before... An impressive step forward in their already commendable discography."
Sire/Rhino
CD
$14.25

Tegan & Sara
The Con [CD+DVD special edition]
PS, US New album + DVD.
Sire/Rhino
CD/DVD
$23.00

The The
Soul Mining [reissue, remaster]
PS, US Recent reissue of The The's 1983 debut album. Not so surprising that Matt Johnson's most popular album was also his most accessible and least experimental, though at the time I'm not sure there were any other records that sounded like Soul Mining! The The's three other albums, Infected (1986), Mind Bomb (1989), and Dusk (1993) have all been newly re-issued in 2007.
Sony
CD
$12.25

Tiny Vipers
Hands Across the World
PS, US Twenty something years of studying sometimes surprising causes & effects is what led Jesy Fortino to become Tiny Vipers. Her songs are stories about choices. She likes to believe that things can be plotted. She likes to believe in planning & in decision making, but she also reveres the unknown, the unknowable.
Subpop
CD
$13.50

U.N.K.L.E.
War Stories
PS, US Guest vocalists incl. Josh Homme (QOTSA), Ian Astbury (The CULT), 3D (MASSIVE ATTACK),The Duke Spirit, Autolux & Gavin Clark (Clay Hill). The packaging feat.paintings specially commissioned by Massive Attack's 3D.Comes with a 32-pg booklet.
SurrenderAll-005
CD
$14.50

Vanderslice, John
Emerald City
PS, US John Vanderslice recorded his new album in the midst of anguishing legal limbo after a visa application for his girlfriend, a French national he met in Paris, was rejected by US Immigration during what appears to be an era of deep insecurity & paranoia; these issues (cultural & personal) sadly remain unresolved. The album is the first JV work recorded w/a solid band lineup; it was tracked quickly, mostly live, w/ David Broecker (bass, vocals, keyboards), Dave Douglas (drums, keyboard), & Ian Bjornstad (wurlitzer, moog source). As w/JV's last few albums, the band worked w/ producer Scott Solter
Barsuk-066
CD
$11.75

Various
Visit To the Spaceship Factory: 20 Gems From The Early Years Of Prog
PS, US Wander the dimly lit corners of the Spaceship Factory, an establishment designed to produce vehicles that could take you from the geometric wallpaper of your room to the far side of your electric dreams. Hear the brash rock of TREETOPS, the polished guitar wizardry of Israeli progsters JERICHO, the fuzzed-up dirt of Jesse Hector's proto-punk outfit HELTER SKELTER. Other artists include: Mousetrap, Deadwood, Fuzzyduck, Incredible Hog, Mouse, Beggars Opera,Kingdom Come, Little Bighorn, Strange Fox, Onyx, Spontaneous Combustion, UFO, Sheephouse, Pussy, Axe, Sunchariot & Kansashook.
PsychicCircle-7007
CD
$15.00

Various
Who Needs Tomorrow? American 60s Garage Bands
PS, US There has to come a time when every half-decent slice of '60s garage band music has been compiled somewhere. From the Stones-ish Kansas garage-sters The Moanin' Glories to the New York pop trio, The Will-O-Bees to the West Coast sitar-fuzz of Merrell Fankhauser & HMS Bounty, this comp aims to reach those parts of the garage that other compilations of its kind just don't. Other artists incl. Randy Johnson, The Love Society, Simon T. Stokes, Kinetic Energy, The Liberty Bells, Peck's Bad Boys, The Silver Byke, The Great Train Robbery, & many others.
PsychicCircle-7008
CD
$15.00

Various
Sitar Beat Vol. 2
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
GuerrillaReissues-002
DLP
$14.75

Various
Sitar Beat Vol. 2
PS, US Vol. 2 they go straight to heart of India w/ some of the rarest & best tracks recorded between the years of 1970-84. 16 tracks of rare & funky Indian flavor, blending heavy beats w/ the sounds of the sitar & the inimitable vocal sounds of beloved Indian singers such as the ubiquitous Asha Bhosle & producers/songwriters like Kalyanji Ananji & R. D. Burman. This is soul from the Sub-continent at it's best!
GuerrillaReissues-002
CD
$13.25

Various
1981 Year in Seven Inches
PS, US Now back in print on vinyl! Comps 7 inchers from TEEN IDLES, STATE OF ALERT, GOV. ISSUE & YOUTH BRIGADE. Pressed on clear vinyl w/ updated artwork.
Dischord-014
LP
$10.50

Vietnam
EP #2
PS, US THE SOCIAL REGISTRY are pleased to present the second of three limited edition 12" EPs from VIETNAM. Each of the three features a track from the band's recently released self-titled full-length (out on KEMADO), along with tracks recorded at the band's Freedom School Compound, a store-front apartment/studio that the band shares with producer MATT BOYTON in Brooklyn, NY. These recordings capture the band cutting loose, writing and recording at their will, and form a perfect counterpoint to their professionally recorded full-length.
TheSocialRegistry-035
12
$10.25

Weedeater
God Luck and Good Speed
PS, US
SouthernLord
CD
$14.00

Willis, Nicole
Keep Reachin' Up
PS, US "The sound of this group reminds me of dancing to the new James Brown 7" in the record shops on Clarkson venue with my sister when we were 6 & 8 years old" -Nicole Willis.Willis started out in London in the mid-80's where she teamed up with members of The Brand New Heavies.Later, having returned to NYC, she was part of the earliest line-up of Deee-lite.Here Nicole joins up with well known Finish funksters Soul Investigators, to carve out an album
of classic brilliance. A 70s-styled set that would easily stand alongside the best from King, Brunswick, or Curtom from years back.
LightInTheAttic-028
CD
$12.50

Windy & Carl
Akimatsuri (ON SALE)
PS, US Specially recorded & released for the Brainwaves festival, the new disc is a celebration of the autumn season. Akimatsuri is a 33 minute long journey in 5 parts, each named for the mood they convey. Limited to 500 hand numbered copies, and comes in a specially designed & made sleeve. Michael Babcock of Interrobang Press made the card sleeves & each one features a beautiful photo by Christy Romanick.
BlueFlea-013
CD
$15.00

Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Is Is
PS, US Brand new studio recordings represent the heart of the band on five lean & urgent tracks that best capture the energy of their live show. Will be promoted online by 5 live videos shot for all the songs that were live staples only until now.
Interscope
CD5
$6.25

Forthcoming Releases

+/-
Self-Titled Debut CD + DVD (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 28TH)
PS, US Debut DVD from +/- (Plus/Minus) features 14 professionally produced videos compiled by Chris Deaner (+/- & KELLY CLARKSON drummer & video director). Incl. vids from an animated short to a horror film to live performance. Incl. videos by Chris Deaner, Patryk Rebisz, Rik Cordero, Doug Spice, Orrin Anderson, Paul Kloss, Myactivedriveway. NTSC Region=0.
TeenBeat-403
CD/DVD
$16.25

1900s, The
Cold & Kind (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 10TH)
PS, US New album of sultry psych-pop from Chicago seven-member sensations The 1900s. Recorded mostly live to tape, the record captures the energy of the band's remarkable live show while also benefiting from the addition of large string and horn sections. While clocking in at exactly 40:00 minutes (in honor of finishing the album on the 40th anniversary of Sgt. Peppers), Cold & Kind keeps one foot in the past, one in the future and another foot in your heart. If you dig: Tommy James, Fleetwood Mac, Velvet Underground, Cat Power, Supremes, Roy Harper, Arcade Fire, Dr. Dog, Midlake, Leon Redbone, Bill Clinton on sax or Russell Crowe's band...
Parasol-CD-106
CD
$9.00

1990s, The
Cookies (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 31ST)
PS, US Much-hyped debut album from Scottish wunderkinds.
RoughTrade
CD
$14.00

Acid Mothers Temple
Stones, Women, Records (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 21ST)
PS, JAPAN Japan Import. Acid Mothers Temple SWR, the ultimate power trio of Yoshida Tatsuya from Ruins,& Tsuyama Atsushi & Kawabata Makoto from AMT, present their shocking 2nd album.
Magaibutsu-033
CD
$20.00

Altz
Max Motion (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 14TH)
PS, US Since 2000,after picking up & mastering the MPC2000, he has recorded on his own & composed & edited dance music in earnest. He has since become a highly respected recording artist, DJ, & remixer, making an international impact w/ in all genres of dance music from deep house to nu-disco.This new four-track 12'' incl. vocals from Yoshimi of The BOREDOMS & 2 separate remixes by The Idjut Boys.
DFA-112
12
$8.00

Anderson, Ryan
The Garden Path (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH)
PS, US Acoustic folk pop from a singer songwriter taking his songs to the people one living room at a time. Honest and pure.
HappyHappyBirthdayToMe-075
CD
$9.75

Anemones
Come Down Like A Cloud (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH)
PS, US Grounded and propelled by the boom and tick of a lazy yet indefatigable old-school drum machine, albeit augmented by occasional percussive crash, rattle and stick of a genuinely human kind, ANEMONES are all deep throb, jangled buzz, ambient drone, shiftless mumbling and, perhaps most importantly, rolling waves of reverberation so pronounced and significant as to be structurally necessary. Collected and combined, these elements make a warm, oceanic, somewhat totalizing music that operates inwardly, directed towards the uniquely fertile, semi-liquid quasi-agriculture of the mind. Activated this way, mind as such is here suspended, ala Descartes, as a kind epiphenomenal hazy feeling, a ghost between the ears. Both in and out of the body, this half-consciousness invokes a persistent, low-key dream-like psychedelic break in which the normal world itself becomes hypnotically elusive and mysterious, a pleasantly dislocating transformation enhanced by Anemones' minimalist, somewhat lock-groove languorousness and nonchalantly sardonic theatricality. But although often performatively 'druggy' in character, Anemones' music isn't therefore 'about drugs' in the sense of being 'about being made by means of drugs' or even 'about being made for or on behalf of drugs', as if simply copying such important stylistic and conceptual precursors as the Velvet Underground, Suicide, Spacemen 3 and the Jesus and Mary Chain. Rather, Anemones produce a kind of 'post drug' music, which here refers to a state of 'after-ness' and not prudish abstention or dumbbell reform. In fact this is a specific aesthetic strategy: after the drugs and drinks are long done and gone, sound itself remains the psychotropic trigger par excellence. Hence, altering perception, Anemones aim to turn listeners on ears first.
St.Ives-022
LP
$11.50

Angels Of Light
We Are Him (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 25TH)
PS, US
YoungGod-35
LP
$18.75

Animal Collective
Strawberry Jam (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US DOUBLE VINYL VERSION!!!
Domino
DLP
$17.50

Animal Collective
Strawberry Jam (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US "Strawberry Jam" feels like space dust and radar falling on the desert and making it bloom. It's the sound of a band spinning wildly and intoxicated, at the cusp of their powers, as thick and rich and sweet and colorful as it sounds.
Domino
CD
$14.00

Armour, Douglas
Prince of Wands/Away (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH)
PS, US Hailing from Los Angeles, California, DOUGLAS ARMOUR is our first proper signing to reside outside of New York City. He is a prolific songwriter and for this 7-inch Douglas provided us with two tracks, "Prince of Wands" and "Away." "Prince of Wands" first left an impression on us, and an indelible one at that, when associates of the label began DJing the track. It is a damn near perfect pop song that has had people jumping up to the dance floor upon first hearing.. Moving in a different direction with the kind of indie pop reverie that hasn't been heard for a long time.
TheSocialRegistry-042
45
$5.50

Art In Manila
Set The Woods On Fire (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH)
PS, US After Azure Ray disbanded, member Orenda Fink put her energies into a solo record in 2005, called "Invisible Ones". Upon touring in support of that album with various revolving band members, she chose the cream of the crop and formed a new group called Art Belle, then changed it to Art In Manila (a nod to radio host Art Bell's exodus to the Phillipines). On this release, the band flirts playfully with genre wanderlust without ever abandoning cohesion. Moody slow-burners follow four-to-the-floor rockers that butt up against serene ballads. A powerful debut.
SaddleCreek
CD
$12.25

At The Close Of Everyday
Leaves You Puzzled And The Original Pieces (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 31ST)
PS, JAPAN At The Close Of Every Day (ATCOED), existing of Minco Eggersman (Volkoren) and Axel Kabboord (This Beautiful Mess), the new album by our favorite Dutch folk boys. This time it's totally different. It's a remix album including many older songs like 'Zalig Zijn de Armen Van Geest', 'The Maria Tales' as well as later work like 'O Welk Een Vreugde' and 'Ik Weet'. These 15 songs in total haven been remixed and restructured. Seriously, almost everything has been cut to pieces and folded back into a new and beautiful masterpiece! From heavenly piano pieces by Sylvain Chauveau and ambient soundscapes by Donato Wharton to heavy beats by Solex and weird electronica by Hood, simply a must have for every ATCOED fan and electronic music fan. The remixes have been done by Hood, Styrofoam, Spinvis, Solex, Dialect, Diefenbach, Hillmadelow, Sylvain Chauveau, Stafraenn Hakon, Kettel, Donata Wharton and many others. This is a special Japanese double CD edition (including the original pieces).
ArtUnion-5516/5517
DCD
$17.75

Axe Riverboy
Tutu To Tango (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Tahiti 80's frontman and principle songwriter, Xavier Boyer, one of the most distinctive and loved voices in indie rock, further propels French rock on its upward spiral with this long awaited solo record, recorded under the name Axe Riverboy, (an anagram of Xavier's name). A blend of superb songwriting, sing-a-long choruses, ringing guitars, and compressed pianos. A warm rediscovery of rock and pop with folk overtones, brilliantly drawn from the sounds upon which early Tahiti 80 thrived.
MintyFresh
CD
$11.50

Black Lips
Good Bad Not Evil (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US This debut succinctly epitomizes all that's special about Atlanta's favorite flower punk sons: the uncontained energy, undeniable songcraft, and unrivaled showmanship are all on full display, as is a newfound sense of the world around them. Songs like "Katrina" and "Bad Kids" spare none of the Black Lips' trademark smirk and smear, but also demonstrate a purpose and perspective not always at the forefront of the band's music. "Good Bad Not Evil" traffics in the kind of ragged rock harmony missing
from record stores for so long.
Vice
CD
$12.50

Brunettes, The
Structure And Cosmetics (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH)
PS, US The Sub Pop debut by these New Zealand natives features breezy, effervescent, Shangri-Las-reminiscent pop. The backing band ranges from five to ten strong and incorporates the marimba, trumpet, alto and tenor sax, and more. "Structure & Cosmetics" retains the sweetly charming, sunbeam-drenched sound The Brunettes are known for, but adds a hint of darkness and drama in other tracks. They've played with the likes of The Shins, Rilo Kiley, The Postal Service, and Clap Your Hands Say
Yeah.
Subpop
CD
$12.50

C.C.C.C.
Early Works (4 x CD) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 21ST)
PS, US 4xCD box set. Box set from Japanese psychedelic noise legends C.C.C.C. collecting unreleased live material, including very early recordings from some of their first shows in 1990 and their 1992 us tour, along some long unavailable studio classics like the Phantasmagoria tape. Extensive liner notes by original member Fumio Kosakai (now in Incapacitants, and many others) about the band beginnings and his take on the C.C.C.C. vision. An essential document in the unique C.C.C.C. sound which Kosakai describes best as "psychedelic, cosmic and erotic". produced by C.C.C.C. founder Hiroshi Hasegawa. Extensive audio restoration and mastering by James Plotkin. Comes in delux slipcase box and digipack packaging.
NoFunProductions-020
4XCD
$39.25

Carta
The Glass Bottom Boat (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 21ST)
PS, UK The fruits of a lengthy process involving an ever-changing line-up featuring a revolving door of San Francisco musicians, this is the long-awaited debut from Carta, now with settled personnel surrounding core member Kyle Monday. Engineered by Beulah's Eli Crews and featuring Sacha Galvagna and Jared Matt Greenberg (Charles Atlas) and Alexander Kort (Subtle) amongst others, 'The Glass Bottom Boat' is a remarkably accomplished album, as one might expect considering the pedigree of those involved. Having found a home on eclectic UK label Resonant, Carta's audience should be broad and widespread, with their overall sound avoiding pigeonholes. The album is mostly instrumental, predominantly downtempo but with constant emphasis on melody. The title track features full vocals from Sarah Bell, and sounds like the best thing Espers have ever recorded. Packaged in lavish six-panel digipak. Early review from US site www.thesilentballet.com: 'It's rare that we see an album that is so grounded in reality, yet simultaneously this is immaculately breathtaking.'
Resonant-026
CD
$15.00

Case, Peter
Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 31ST)
PS, US After helping to define power pop with The Nerves and The Plimsouls, Peter Case has released several solo albums. Peter Case is back with Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John, his most raw, direct work in nearly a decade. This album of politically-fueled and personally-visionary songs about now finds America's golden troubadour in his finest form, laying down intricate and driving finger-style guitar with his uniquely delivered dusty road-poetry. Sleepy John is yet another volume in the career of one of the most storied singer/songwriters of his generation.
YepRoc
CD
$17.00

Christy & Emily
Gueen's Head (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH)
PS, US Take a crafty pop music guitarist who knows how to come up with hooks and have them team up with a trained avant-garde classical musician and you get the Velvet Underground. Move that same combo from the Lower East Side across the river to northwest Brooklyn and tack on 40 years and you get CHRISTY & EMILY. This duo present their version of this mixture of elements with their debut CD "Gueen's Head." An octet of pieces that explore modern classical techniques grafted with pop songs. This alchemy produces a string of highly catchy ascetic tunes combined with undercurrents of discordance and dissonance. Add to this lyrics that take from the history of pop and modernist mid-20th Century poetry.
TheSocialRegistry-045
CD
$11.50

Circle
Katapult (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Finland's Circle are one of the leading psych-rock bands playing today, releasing records and touring for over a decade now. Founding member Jussi Lehtisalo handles the majority of vocal duties with a gruff, low-end growl. The music is heavy and atmospheric with repetitive riffs and haunted keyboards which create a twisted, spooky mood. Influenced by equal parts 60s psychedelia and venom, "Katapult" is perhaps the most diverse, groundbreaking, dark, and primitive Circle album yet.
NoQuarter
CD
$14.00

Circle
Katapult (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
NoQuarter
LP
$11.50

Coalesce
There Is Nothing New Under The Sun (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH)
PS, US Features seven Led Zeppelin covers from Coalesce's 1999 EP, along with eight additional jams, including those from the band's split EP with Boy Sets Fire, a cover of Black Sabbath's "Supernaut", an Undertow cover, and a Get Up Kids cover. "A ferocious blend of brutal hardcore and vicious metal...incredibly infectious" - Metal-Observer.
com.
HydraHead
CD
$12.50

Connors, Loren
The Hymn of the North Star (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH)
PS, US Even before his 1978 debut guitarist LOREN CONNORS has been continually redefining the American blues and folk guitar. "The Hymn of the North Star," a 180 GRAM 500 EDITION LP, is the first full-length vinyl release solely under Connors' name since 1990. Though in the years since he has recorded over two dozen solo and collaborative albums with Jim O'Rourke, John Fahey, Alan Licht, Christina Carter, Jandek, Suzanne Langille, Thurston Moore, Keiji Haino, Darin Gray, and others. Connors creates a tapestry of transparent and haunting melodies that transform the Delta blues into a ghost-like apparition that never settles as it pours from the soul. These six pieces show Connors contemporary elegiac style at its peak of romantic minimalism. Self recorded in his Brooklyn apartment "The Hymn of the North Star" is saturated with subtle details and the barely there multi-tracks of guitar and bass floating in the background. Guitarist ALAN LICHT appears on one equally opaque piece recorded in Glasgow, Scotland.
FamilyVineyard-047
LP
$16.25

Cope, Julian
You Gotta Problem With Me (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 31ST)
PS, UK Julian Cope's new album YOU GOTTA PROBLEM WITH ME (no question mark) is another protest album in the tradition of his previous releases PEGGY SUICIDE, JEHOVAHKILL, AUTOGEDDON, CITIZEN CAIN'D and DARK ORGASM. Unlike most records by Cope's head-in-the-sand punk rock contemporaries (almost all of whom he believes to be shirking their primary rock'n'roll responsibility as cultural mouthpieces), YOU GOTTA PROBLEM WITH ME deals primarily with such currently controversial, nay taboo issues, as religion (our own and other peoples'), and the West's latest wave of xenophobia and self-doubts brought on by a combination of the war in Iraq, the so-called 9/11 bombings and the EEC's latest huge wave of migrants from former Communist countries. YOU GOTTA PROBLEM WITH ME also addresses all of Cope's other long-term gripes: corporate greed and the destruction of Mother Earth, misogyny and homophobia, and our apparent inability to address such essential matters due to cultural ignorance and the glaring faults in our education system. Yes, Lenny Bruce and Bill Hicks are dead, but Cope's still pissed off enough to fly the flag for all three! However, while the songs of YOU GOTTA PROBLEM WITH ME are even more lyrically hard-hitting than those on DARK ORGASM, musically this new record ploughs a far more traditional Copean furrow, returning the listener to insidiously melodic post-punk songs in the JEHOVAHKILL style, many sparsely orchestrated with Mellotron, wah-wah guitars, orchestral percussion and even lush harmonies. Released on double-CD and 12" vinyl gatefold sleeve LP, the 13 songs are split into two sections, and are accompanied by a 16-page booklet of insights, hard-hitting information, and a very epic poem: all designed to shake us from our post-everything stasis.
HeadHeritage-040
LP
$30.25

Creteens
4-Track Blues (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE TBA)
PS, US 4 song EP from some French kid(s?) making with the Memphis-sound garage-punk racket. The title cut and "Contaminated" are definitely 'Teenage Hate'-esque. B-Side has an Oblivians cover & a slower-style Fatals-ish long-titled bloozer. Recording is pretty rough. Scums stats: 600 copies on baby- blue swirled vinyl.
Contaminated-009
45
$6.00

Davis, Ben Forrest
Roughs (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 2007)
PS, US Re-release of 'Roughs' (on Velvet Crusher Ric Menck's Bird Song label) by former and founding member of the Los Angeles rock band Sugarcult. Here, Ben's doing his very own laid-back soft-rock thing, with a little dab of country & western, quite a departure from Sugarcult's highly-toughted tautness. Leaving behind a life of rock-n-roll excess, this enigmatic album qualifies as emancipation and exorcism, a collection of intimate, personal songs about love and self-destruction. Not so far afield from singer-songwriterly, orch-popping Parasol faves like Ken Stringfellow and his Posies, Kevin Tihista and his Red Terror, Jack Logan & Bob Kimbell, June & The Exit Wounds, and The Velvet Crush.
BirdSong-105
CD
$10.00

Deadly Syndrome, The
The Ortolan (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US There's a distinctive west coast signature in each of their glorious tunes, reminiscent of rock forefathers such as Neil Young, Lindsey Buckingham, Peter Frampton, The Doobie Brothers, Tim and Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith, Wilco, and The Eagles, to name a few. An upbeat pop-tinged album with larger than life percussion, jangling guitars, and heart wrenching vocals that still maintains the crucial darkness that so often taints the west coast folk and rock sound. Upbeat tales of longing, loving, suicide, and loss. "Unbridled euphoria" - LA Times.
DimMak
CD
$11.50

Donelly, Tanya/Luff
Heart Of Gold/Tell Me Why (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 31ST)
PS, US HEART OF GOLD is an exclusive 7" gold vinyl split featuring 2 advance tracks from the "Cinnamon Girl - Women Artists Cover Neil Young" benefit CD. Side A features the title track "Heart of Gold" as covered by the amazing TANYA DONELLY (Belly, Breeders, Throwing Muses). Side B features Brooklyn 's favorite daughters LUFF covering "Tell Me Why." 33-1/2 rpm, small hole, beautiful translucent gold vinyl, original sleeve art, and limited to only 500 hand-numbered copies worldwide. All proceeds from this record to charity.
AmericanLaundromat-0008
45
$6.25

Epic 45
May Your Heart Be The Map (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 14TH
PS, UK It comes as no surprise to find that Epic45 grew up - and still reside - in a small rural village in the heartland of the English Midlands. Based around the nucleus of 25 year old school friends Ben Holton and Rob Glover, Epic45 have had a varied and fluid line-up since their debut in 1999, releasing a series of highly acclaimed EPs and albums for labels such as Bearos, Awkward Silence and Where Are My Records. Inspired by their surroundings, blissful childhood summers and mysterious / inspiring walks the duo have been making music for more than a decade. Their latest album May Your Heart be the Map' sees Epic45 concentrating on a more bucolic sound, mixing cyclical acoustic guitars, chiming reverbs and field recordings. The album was originally inspired by 1970s British TV series 'Survivors', a fictional account of a plague that wipes out most of the worlds population. The idea of a near-deserted world in which people have to rebuild their lives amid the ruins of the previous civilization seemed strangely appealing. However, other themes crept in slowly, the 'empty world' began to represent our lives now and inevitably the duo started looking back to childhood and simpler, happier times. The title is simply a rallying call to like minded people, an expression of hope in an uncertain world. As with previous releases, May Your Heart Be The Map features a collaboration with Antony Harding of July Skies/Avrocar. This time, Harding contributes fragile vocals to the track 'We Left Our Homes For Winter'. Whilst very unique in style and approach, the music and ethos of this album may recall the youthfulness of Leeds band Hood, the experimentalism of that great lost pop band from the 1990's Disco Inferno, and is likely to delight fans of the experimental label Type and their artists Helios, Xela and Goldmund. But no doubt admirers of other classic British bands such as New Order, The Durutti Column, Felt and The House of Love will also find much to immerse themselves in and start working their way through Epic 45's enigmatic back catalogue.
MakeMineMusic-031
CD
$17.00

False (AKA Matthew Dear)
2007 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH)
PS, US Essentially a special one-off live set. He's concocted a work of such stunning intricacy,verve & substance that it will surely be amongst the favorites when this year's highlights are assessed. What is so memorable about this collection of tracks is the way it strikes the perfect balance between abstract experimentation & full-on techno nirvana w/ out ever breaking stride or losing focus.There's nothing brash or over-blown here,all the real action is nestled between the beats, enticing yet unreachable,while the grooves he concocts are all so earthy & raw that the kick drum functions as an alternative rather than a necessity.
Minus-055
CD
$16.25

Film School
Hideout (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Their second full-length builds on the band's pretty, shoegazer pop and richly textured space rock soundscapes by emphasizing powerful rhythms and beautiful melodies that take the songwriting to a new level. "Hideout" is more like a sonic galaxy that engulfs you from all angles. You're enveloped by layers of reverb, loops, and the interplay of male/female voices. A driving, forceful rhythm section fuels a propulsive energy that gives an urgent quality to much of the album, whereas other tracks convey a wistful melancholy. It's this combination of ethereal atmosphere and strong rhythm that makes the album wholly compelling and promises a powerful live experience. "Wonderfully off-kilter pop songs" - NME.
Beggars
CD
$11.00

Film School
Hideout (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Beggars
LP
$13.25

Fine Arts Showcase, The
Sings Rough Bunnies (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 2007)
PS, SWEDEN Third album from Gustaf Kjellvander's Fine Arts Showcase, and the follow-up to his 110% brilliant. The short version: TFAS covers 11 song by Swedish cult-twee-punk-lofi duo The Rough Bunnies. Highly recommended. The long version: This is an album of many stories. Gustaf Kjellvander and his friends in The Fine Arts Showcase have made a covers album, entirely based on songs from the Swedish, rather unknown, jangly, lo-fi band Rough Bunnies. Why is that? Let's make Gustaf himself explain: "I was first introduced to Anna Vermina and her cousin Frida, the founding members of Rough Bunnies and Inside Riot, through mutual friends. Frida gave me a CD-R just days before they were about to move to Berlin. About six months later I was looking for someone to rent my spare room. I bumped into Frida by chance, who told me she had moved back from Berlin to Malmö and needed a place to stay - so she moved in. I was already smitten by Inside Riot at this time, and when Frida played me the songs they had recorded in Berlin, along with the Rough Bunnies record C-sides, it blew me away. I played it to everyone who came over to my house. They became an obsession that carries on to this day. I knew I wanted the Fine Arts Showcase to cover their songs. The problem was that with a catalogue of songs as amazing as theirs it was hard to pick just one, so I came up with the idea that we should do an entire record instead (in the Merle Haggard sings Jimmy Rodgers tradition). And here it is: a musical love letter to two of my favorite songwriters, a celebration of the pop geniuses of the Vermina family. Rough Bunnies (and their twin group Inside Riot) have inspired me more than any other band this side of the millennium and this record is my way of thanking them. Rough Bunnies Saved My Life" - Gustaf Kjellvander
Adrian-051
CD
$15.00

Firefox AK
Madame, Madame! (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Firefox AK is Andrea Kellerman, former singer for UK trip-hop collective Anamorphic. This debut features twelve tracks of melodic electronic pop that somehow both slam you hard and then softly and inexplicably catch you as you fall. A whole blend of divergent influences that'll leave you so gloriously lost you may choose not to come back. The best electro pop since Kraftwerk released "Man Machine".
MintyFresh
CD
$11.50

Flaming Lips
U.F.O's At The Zoo - The Legendary Concert In Oklahoma City [MVI album] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 21ST)
PS, US PITCHFORK: "The Flaming Lips' first live document features a gigantic UFO, an army of fans in alien and Santa costumes, streamers, strobes, smoke machines, balloons, and massive amounts of confetti-- and that's just the first song. Most bands build up to this sort of explosive spectacle, but for the Lips, it's a starting point. Their shows are as much about spectacle as they are about music, which explains the hybrid technology on UFOs at the Zoo: The Legendary Concert in Oklahoma City. This document, which is neither simply an album nor simply a concert film, is being issued as an MVI album, which means it plays on DVD players but not CD players, and contains bonus digital material." What Is MVI? With a higher storage capacity than a standard CD, the Music Video Interactive Disc (MVI) contains new interactive features including, superior sound quality, a wide range of video features, and interactive digital content. MVI discs play in all standard DVD players, computers, and game consoles with DVD drives but do not play in conventional CD players. Digital music files are compatible with all MP3 devices.
Warner/WEA
DVD-MVI
$27.50

Furman, Ezra & The Harpoons
Banging Down The Doors (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH)
PS, US This Chicago group wields their fractured-folk-meets-maniacal-rock to capture the grandeur, pain, and wildness of life in song. The results are by turns beautiful, funny, angry, and often poignant and inspirational. Produced by Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Iron & Wine).
MintyFresh
CD
$11.50

Fuxa
Commits Suicide (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 14TH)
PS, UK Fuxa returns with its second single to the upcoming album "Electric Sound of Summer." This EP features various versions of 2 Suicide covers "Girl" (recorded with SONIC BOOM of SPACEMEN 3) and "Cheree" (recorded with DEAN WAREHAM of GALAXIE 500/LUNA). EP also includes one original song titled "4th Abductions" recorded with Suicide's MARTIN REV. LIMITED to 1000!
MindExpansion-2013
CD5
$8.25

Gallon Drunk
Tonite... The Singles Bar [expanded] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH)
PS, US Expanded 18-track re-issue.
Satorial
CD
$16.25

Gallon Drunk
From the Heart of Town [expanded] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH)
PS, US Expanded 18-track re-issue.
Satorial
CD
$0.00

Gallon Drunk
Tonite... The Singles Bar [expanded] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH)
PS, US Expanded 16-track re-issue.
Satorial
CD
$16.25

Giantess
s/t (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 28TH)
PS, US Formerly known as Canada's "The Battles". Giantess is a blistering exercise in profundity, veering wildly from accelerated rave-ups to introspective ballads that tug at the heart (often with tongue planted firmly in cheek). Giantess delivers with the poetic grandeur of Bryan Ferry or Graeme Downs at their absolute peak, and with the muscle & pathos of The Soft Boys or Jesus of Cool-era Nick Lowe. Giantess is first & foremost a relationship record that relies on sentiments both ridiculously absurd & vastly astute. A British influence looms large in Stephen Wood's brilliant songwriting- comparisons to Ray Davies & John Lennon are commonplace -in much the same way those pillars informed Robert Pollard's forays into songs. Likewise, Giantess' erstwhile approach thrusts the genre forward with liberal swaths of heart, wit, warmth, melody & raw power.
SoftAbuse-23
CD
$12.25

Go! Team
Proof of Youth (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US England's Go! Team play a fast and furious mix of 60s girl groups, 70s car chase TV themes, 80s lady MCs, and 90s guitar squalor. Their 2005 debut, "Thunder, Lightning, Strike" was critically lauded for its cheerleader anthems, syrupy string samples, and mad-as-a-hatter horn arrangements. This release bombs melodies into the stone age with its needle-in-the-red anti-production approach. It lurches from bubblegum pop to white noise in a heartbeat. Contributors include Chuck D, the original Double Dutch Divas, Rapper's Delight Club, Marina from Bonde Do Role, Solex, and Washington, DC's Frederick Douglas All Star Cheer Team.
Subpop
CD
$14.00

Go! Team
Proof of Youth (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
Subpop
LP
$13.25

Gonzalez, Jose
In Our Nature (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 25TH)
PS, US New album! Artwork TBC. Jose Gonzalez has revealed the details of his forthcoming album. 'In Our Nature' -- the follow-up to his 2005 debut 'Veneer' -- is due out in the US on September 25 via Mute. "I like playing with symbolism," said the Swedish singer-songwriter of the new album. "On this album I've wanted to bring out the primitive aspects of human beings." Gonzalez is currently touring in South America and will be playing several festival dates this summer as well as touring the US this fall.
Mute
CD
$13.00

Good Life, The
Help Wanted Nights (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US VINYL VERSION!!!
SaddleCreek
LP
$13.25

Good Life, The
Help Wanted Nights (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US The songs on the band's fourth and finest LP were initially meant as the soundtrack to a screenplay that Tim Kasher (vocals, guitar, member of Cursive) started writing in 2006. These songs seemed to describe moments of raw emotion more than chronicle a linear tale, so the group kept them as close to their original incarnations as possible, recording them true to form. The results are more stripped down and threadbare than previous Good Life creations. Yet the songs are also quite expansive, digging into deep emotional territory through narrative and melody. Achingly beautiful and sharply astute, "Help Wanted Nights" details human nature in the most honest way possible - taking risks without regret.
SaddleCreek
CD
$11.50

Grayskul
Bloody Radio (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Born out of the Pacific Northwest's Oldominion hip-hop collective, Onry Ozzborn and JFK emerged as Reason and Fiddleback Recluse in 2004, forming the righteously eerie alliance known as Grayskul. Always reinventing themselves, the two return as Count Draven (Onry) and Count Magnus (JFK) to deliver this release; reverse brainwash music for today's hip-hop listeners, typically force-fed imaginary genres. Grayskul smashes these genres seamlessly into one while interweaving all with message, substance, concepts, wittiness, opinion, and most of all, honesty while still maintaining a sense of humor, imagination, and originality.
Rhymesayers
CD
$12.50

Gucci Soundsystem
Acarpenter (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 14TH)
PS, US Henry Riton & Ben Fat Trucker (nee Rymer) are 2 stalwarts of London's exploding electro-rock scene. Separately,they each have long histories releasing records & DJing all over the world. The re-released single now includes a stunning Joakim remix on the B-side.
DFA-113
12
$8.00

Hayman, Darren
Minehead EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 21ST)
PS, UK 500 only seven inch vinyl.
StaticCaravan-131-7
45
$8.00

Hayseed Dixie
Weapons of Grass Destruction (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 16TH)
PS, US Along with the Bad Livers,this is the world's foremost country band devoted to covering hard-rock songs in classic bluegrass style.This doesn't find these hard-rocking pickers &grinners any more sedate.Far from it.Instead the boys take on assorted classics by the Sex Pistols, the Beatles,Judas Priest, the Rolling Stones, &others, plucking up a serious,head-banging storm.It's a silly good time any way you slice it.
CookingVinyl-4888
CD
$15.25

Heaton, Angie & The Gentle Tamers
The Rumor Mill (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 10TH)
PS, US 'The Rumor Mill' is the new album by Illinois songstress and Parasol Retail Queen Angie Heaton, former member of The Tractor Kings, Corndolly and Liquorette. On this, Angie's 4th album, she's joined by a country band, The Gentle Tamers, including veteran Nashville session player, Bobby Watson, on guitar, banjo and pedal steel. This album take Angie's songs and sounds from the rock club to the barn dance, with her trademark vocal phrasing falling comfortably behind the beat like Willie Nelson, and a voice that brings to mind Neko Case, Lucinda Williams, and Kasey Chambers. In 'The Rumor Mill', Angie gives us 10 more songs about crushes, death, and being crushed to death; including a Tex-Mex-ed version of the Trembling Blue Stars' classic "Sometimes I Still Feel The Bruise".
Spur-CD-005
CD
$9.00

Henry, Joe
Civilians (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Since the release of 2003's acclaimed "Tiny Voices", singer/songwriter Henry has appeared mainly as a producer, working on career defining releases by Aimee Mann, Ani DiFranco, Elvis Costello, Solomon Burke, and most recently as producer and co-writer of "Strange Weirdos" (with Loudon Wainwright), the soundtrack to the film "Knocked Up". Working with this generation's finest songwriters inspired Joe to his strongest set of songs on "Civilians"; songs of a new warmth and directness and a bold sense of melody that rides atop the cutting edge arrangements he's become known for. Features legendary pianist/songwriter Van Dyke Parks (everyone from the Beach Boys to U2) and jazz guitar pioneer Bill Frisell (Elvis Costello, Norah Jones).
Anti
CD
$15.50

Japancakes
Giving Machines (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 2ND)
PS, US Darla is proud to offer the fifth new record from Japancakes - Athens, GA's incomparable instrumental Pop/Americana quintet. Giving Machines features eight new trademark blissed-out yet solid as ever compositions brought to life in Japancakes unique way with a signing pedal steel guitar, cello, keyboards, guitar, bass, and drums. There's even a cover of Cocteau Twins' "Heaven Or Las Vegas" with pedal steel taking the place of Liz Frazer's vocals. Japancakes do not record together like other bands. They do play together but when they record in the studio they do so one at a time. Each player writes their own part and adds it to the part(s) recorded previously by fellow band members. The result of this practice is that the personality of each individual player is often better captured. Each player's individual performance is strengthened by it. Japancakes is Eric Berg, rhythm guitar, Nick Belli, bass, Brant Rackey, drums, John Neff, pedal steel, Heather McIntosh, cello, Andy Barker, production. RIYL: Dreamy, lazy, stellar, Post Rock, Shoegaze, Electronica, Americana, Tortoise, Mogwai, Sigur Ros, Hammock, Santo & Johnny. Tracklisting: 1. Double Jointed, 2. Lalita, 3. Heaven Or Las Vegas, 4. Title, 5. The Enablers, 6. Recovering Australia, 7. Tracing Maps, 8. In Memory Of Honey. Total run time 42:45. "...a roots-inspired, beautifully crafted pop instrumental record that extracts feelings and emotions better than that of most "intimate" singer-songwriters." --IN MUSIC WE TRUST.
Darla-185
CD
$12.25

Japanther
Skuffed Up My Huffy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 28TH)
PS, US Five years, 1000 shows later, Japanther enters into legendary territory, naturally combining catchy hooks, heart pounding beats & frenetic energy with DIY aesthetics. Their 5th full length delivers the goods: from the opening notes of the first track you realize that Japanther have taken it now one step further & have delivered an album that combine their studio promise with their razor live shows.
MenloPark-7046
CD
$11.50

Jennifer Gentle
New Astronomy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH)
PS, ITALY This album is dedicated to Giovanni Paneroni, amateur astronomer and misunderstood genius (earth flat, sun small, etc). "A New ASstronomy" is probably the most eccentric and out-there JG release to date, the imaginary soundtrack for some of their most bizarre, vivid dreams - obviously interspersed by the occasional nightmare. It's made by grainy, hallucinated musical scores trying to depict the beautiful, the scary, the annoying and the simply absurd inhabiting dreams. It runs the gamut from ghostly ambient drones to brain-damaged acoustic sketches, covering everything in between - furious guitar freak-outs and a hommage to British 60's producer Joe Meek included. (Note: this is the official release of the ultra rare cd-r released by Sub Pop in 2005 in a 100 copies limited edition).
ASilentPlace
CD
$16.75

Jesu/Eluvium
Split (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH)
PS, US ***LIMITED***For the second installment in the collaborative series of split albums between TEMPORARY RESIDENCE LTD. and HYDRA HEAD RECORDS, we find a match made in heaven with the ethereal, grandiose dirge-pop of JESU splitting sides with stately, deserted majesty of ELUVIUM. Already fans of each other's music, the two artists sought to compliment each other and in the process stretched their individual sounds to their outermost limits. Jesu shoots for the moon with a trio of fuzzed-out tunes that owes more to first-wave British shoegaze groups like SWERVEDRIVER and RIDE than Broadrick's own roots in GODFLESH and NAPALM DEATH. It's a beautiful and brilliant evolution in Jesu's already accomplished career. Eluvium aims for the heart of the sun with his magnum opus, a three-part collaboration with JEREMY DEVINE that stretches Eluvium's contemplative drones to a staggering twenty-one minutes, in which time the song transforms from a lonely rattle to a seismic, swirling storm of sound that grinds the piece to haunting quiet.
TemporaryResidenceLtd.-126
LP
$10.25

Jimmy Eat World
Static Prevails [expanded] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 31ST)
PS, US Reissue of this Capitol title includes rare &unreleased bonus material hand picked by the band.
Capitol/EMI
CD
$18.75

Jimmy Eat World
Clarity [expanded] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 31ST)
PS, US Expanded reissue of this Capitol title includes rare &unreleased bonus material hand picked by the band.
Capitol/EMI
CD
$18.75

Ju Suk Reet Meate
Solo 78/79 aka Do Unseen Hands
Keep You Dumb? (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH)
PS, US Solo work by member of the noise collective Smegma. Recorded in '78/'79 and pressed in a miniscule quantity the next year, this record has been largely unavailable outside collector circles. Now it's available as a digipak CD with liner notes by Wolf Eyes' John Olson and contains a couple never before released tracks. A post-Zappa, stoned blues/concrete mélange of guitar, tapes, found sounds, and voice. As a member of what many have called the greatest band of our time, Ju Suk Reet Meate has had an immeasurable influence on the creators of underground culture the globe over, and this CD bears his heft.
DeStijl
CD
$13.25

Junior Senior
Hey Hey My My Yo Yo (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 31ST)
PS, US New album from delirious Danes.
Ryko
CD
$17.75

Kinski
Down Below It's Chaos (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 21ST)
PS, US New album. Down Below It's Chaos is Kinski's 3rd full-length for Sub Pop. With the notable inclusion of 3 songs with subdued yet urgent vocals courtesy of Chris Martin, the new record is a kaleidoscopic mix of Kinski's expansive, over-driven power and intricate beauty. With majestically fuzzed-out guitar tones, spare and pounding rhythms, and swirling sonic textures, Down Below It's Chaos sums up Kinski's past and propels them into the ozone. What's left of it, that is.
SubPop
CD
$12.50

Land Of A Thousand Rappers
VOL. 1: Fall of the Pillars (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH)
PS, US Three years in the making, LAND OF A THOUSAND RAPPERS: "Vol 1, The Fall of the Pillars," will land on August 7, 2007 via ASTHMATIC KITTY'S new imprint for conceptual and electronic projects, UNUSUAL ANIMALS. This complex and obsessively-detailed sci-fi epic utilizes the medium of recorded hip-hop as a fundamental construct, not just as a shtick connection to the fiction of science. The album's commitment to narrative detail is exhaustive, like a zealous Dungeon Master for suburbanites weaned on Choose Your Own Adventure books, Yo! MTV Raps and noise cassette culture.
AsthmaticKitty-403
CD
$11.50

Le Loup
The Throne Of The Third Heaven Of The Nations' Millennium General Assembly (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH)
PS, US Created during a time of personal crisis, "The Throne" is a cataclysm, an escape, and a journey. Inspired largely by Dante's "Inferno", the complex themes of this record are characterized by mounting tension and dramatic swells, coupled with an engaging emotional resonance that lifts just as much as it illuminates. A collection of rushing narratives that connect the individual struggle of each of us to the death of the universe in a manner that's both intimate and unshakably vital. "...Le Loup are going for the multi-layered collage of instrumentation sound and the end result is a surprisingly fun and danceable mix of music that can range from Arcade Fire to Death Cab For
Cutie to even a smattering of Denali" - Pastepunk.

Parasol New Arrivals • July 24, 2007
Howdy folks, As of right now, the very first Chicago record is playing and has blurred my senses and uplifted my mood beyond belief! This could possibly be the best summertime record that slipped under your/our radar. You could easily find this LP resting quietly between Nazareth and Three Dog Night in that dusty cardboard box you flip through on your Saturday morning garage sale excursions. OK friends, enough with the oldies but goodies and on to the new blood. Tiny Vipers, Primary Five, Excepter, Death from Above 1979 have all released stellar new records worthy of your headspace. Look out below! We hope to be your life preserver in the sea of sound. Believe, Royal & Paul
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	Ben Forrest Davis "Roughs" CD (ON SALE) $10.00 (Bird Song Recordings) Re-release of 'Roughs' (on Velvet Crush/Matthew Sweet drummer and rock music author Ric Menck's Bird Song label) by former and founding member of the Los Angeles rock band Sugarcult. Here, Ben's doing his very own laid-back soft-rock thing, with a little dab of country & western, quite a departure from Sugarcult's highly-touted tautness. Leaving behind a life of rock-n-roll excess, this enigmatic album qualifies as emancipation and exorcism, a collection of intimate, personal songs about love and self-destruction. Not so far afield from singer-songwriterly, orch-popping Parasol faves like Ken Stringfellow and his Posies, Kevin Tihista and his Red Terror, Jack Logan & Bob Kimbell, June & The Exit Wounds, and The Velvet Crush. Check out the Bird Song label page for discography, sound samples, etc.
New Releases Adrian Orange and Her Band Interdependance Dance PS, US The debut release on K RECORDS from ADRIAN ORANGE AND HER BAND, these are three songs about balance, interconnectedness, determinism, love, and family/community, unity. For dancing. Adrian was born and raised in Portland, Oregon where she still lives. Full length album available through K in Autumn. Krecords-112 45 $3.75 Anal Cunt Defenders of the Hate PS, US Boston grind/hardcore legends return! Originally released as a 7'', this 2007 re-mastered version incl. 10 BONUS TRACKS from other out of print vinyl only releases. MenacetoSobriety-017 CD $12.00 Avarus Rasvaaja PS, US Brand new Avarus! LP only, all exclusive tracks, limited to 300 copies world-wide, DMM to 160 gram vinyl. Amazingly psychedelic sleeves designed by Bema Bergman & hand-screened in 7 colors by Mike Taylor. SecretEye-035 LP $20.00 Barbez Mexico City Impressions b/w Somebody Get Rid Of The King PS, US This 7" is limited to 400 copies and was designed, signed and numbered by Barbez's Dan Kaufman. 100 are on red vinyl and 100 are on white vinyl. These two intense numbers were inspired by both a pleasant trip through a small historic neighborhood in Mexico city and the detestable Iraq war. Cover art was inspired by the abuse of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. Look for the next Barbez record sometime soon on Tzadik. These two songs were recorded and mixed by the great Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, John Zorn, Swans) at B.C. studios near the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, NY in 2006. They were mastered by Fred Kevorkian (White Stripes) at Avatar Studios. The first song, Mexico City Impressions, was conceived on a trip to Mexico City while strolling through a lovely neighborhood called Coyoacan where Frieda Kahlo, Leon Trotsky and Diego Rivera once lived some 60 years ago. There's a kind of Parisian feeling to the neighborhood and to a little park there with a carousel and people selling little bags of Mexican sweets. It's an extremely vibrant place, full of Meso-American sounds and colors floating about. This short pulsating song is my impression of that vibrancy, color and heartbeat of Mexico City, and an homage to the enchanting sound of the marimbas you hear everywhere in that city. The second song, Somebody Get Rid of the King, is an angry lament that comes out of a great fury at the Iraq War and especially at the cruelty of the United States towards the detainees it holds in Guantanamo and in the tortures it perpetrated at the Abu Ghraib prison. The subject was close to my heart as I spent several years working as a researcher with famed journalist Seymour Hersh on his book, Chain of Command, which detailed these outrageous war crimes. The song begins in a slow and mournful vein only to transform into a punk-rock blowout full of rage. Important-153 45 $6.75 Bat for Lashes Fur and Gold PS, US Hailing from the UK, this Brighton based band consistis of conceptual visual artist & multi-instrumentalist NATASHA KHAN. This is a special limited edition of her debut LP on blue wax, the sleeve is hand numbered & also contains a poster by Khan. The band has signed new deals in the UK w/ EMI & a US deal w/ Astralwerks. Catch them on a full US tour this summer '07 & at the Glastonbury Festival! ManimalVinylRecords-002 LP $19.00 Belaire Exploding/Impacting PS, US Synth-prog-pop band from Austin is an undescribable creative assemblage that has been serendipitously patched together from members of ARKAY FOZLUR, FLASHLIGHT FICTION, VOXTROT, & FANCY FEAST. Together, the band mixes genres at will floating from Brazil funk to Italian movie scores to Carnival music to New Wave to Italo Disco & back again to form a cohesive & incredibly addictive sound all their own. Belaire is poised for imminent cult status & looking to expand their loyal following while having the most fun out of any band out there! IndierectRecords-006 CD $12.00 Bexar Bexar Tropism PS, US "Many of the songs have this feeling that's hard to describe but so satisfying to hear: like a sadness that's been buried and you're soldiering quietly on, and not making a show of it. The spare, lovely melodies swell and recede, all with perfect precision and tremendous understated feeling. How this music can be so emotional without ever getting sentimental or corny is completely beyond me" - IRA GLASS, "This American Life" WesternVinyl/Own Records-02 CD $11.50 Bird, Andrew My Name is a Blackbird PS, US Music from & inspired by a dance piece by Molly Shanahan. Track 1,2, 3 & 10 written, performed & produced by Andrew Bird. Tracks 4 & 5 by Mark Booth using various objects including a latte foamer, Kitchen Aid Classic mixer bowl, ebow & rice paper. Tracks 6, 7, 8 & 9 by David Pavkovic using an IBM T42 laptop. All tracks are instrumental w/ the exception of track 10. MadShak-001 CD $12.00 Bishop Allen The Broken String PS, US 2006 was a big year for BISHOP ALLEN - The band recorded and self-released an EP every month of the year. Fifty-eight songs later, they completed one of the most ambitious recording projects in recent memory. Their 2003 debut, "Charm School," was a hooky indie-pop gem, but Bishop Allen's EP material proves far more sophisticated and addictive. With the EPs, Bishop Allen's pop smarts sound timeless, escaping the indie-pop idiom and revealing a language informed by the Kinks, Dylan, and the Zombies. While it was in motion, the EP-a-month project was the toast of the blogosphere, but it wasn't just an online phenomenon; it garnered the band attention everywhere from the Wall Street Journal to NPR's Song of the Day. This adulation all happened without the benefit of a record label or publicist. Bishop Allen was truly DIY, recording and releasing their own records and booking their own tours. In early 2007, the band struck a partnership with DEAD OCEANS and the first fruit of this relationship is Bishop Allen's sophomore album, "The Broken String." If Bishop Allen made a huge musical jump from the 2003 debut to the 2006 EPs, the band made a quantum leap on "The Broken String." If Ed Sullivan were alive today, Bishop Allen's story-songs would be ripe for prime time. "The Broken String" is not just a great record by Bishop Allen standards. It is poised to be the pop soundtrack to the summer of 2007. DeadOceans-003 CD $11.50 Bishop Allen The Broken String PS, US 2006 was a big year for BISHOP ALLEN - The band recorded and self-released an EP every month of the year. Fifty-eight songs later, they completed one of the most ambitious recording projects in recent memory. Their 2003 debut, "Charm School," was a hooky indie-pop gem, but Bishop Allen's EP material proves far more sophisticated and addictive. With the EPs, Bishop Allen's pop smarts sound timeless, escaping the indie-pop idiom and revealing a language informed by the Kinks, Dylan, and the Zombies. While it was in motion, the EP-a-month project was the toast of the blogosphere, but it wasn't just an online phenomenon; it garnered the band attention everywhere from the Wall Street Journal to NPR's Song of the Day. This adulation all happened without the benefit of a record label or publicist. Bishop Allen was truly DIY, recording and releasing their own records and booking their own tours. In early 2007, the band struck a partnership with DEAD OCEANS and the first fruit of this relationship is Bishop Allen's sophomore album, "The Broken String." If Bishop Allen made a huge musical jump from the 2003 debut to the 2006 EPs, the band made a quantum leap on "The Broken String." If Ed Sullivan were alive today, Bishop Allen's story-songs would be ripe for prime time. "The Broken String" is not just a great record by Bishop Allen standards. It is poised to be the pop soundtrack to the summer of 2007. DeadOceans-003 LP $10.25 Blumm, F.S. Meets Luca Fadda PS, GERMANY For this record FS Blumm has written some of his most light-hearted tunes, accompanied by NY trumpeter Luca Fadda. Wonderful guitar and double bass lines are accompanied with processed toy instruments and found objects. The new dimension of this album is the collaboration with Luca Fadda who places digitally processed trumpets on top of Blumm's material. These improvised elements add a new live feeling to F.S. Blumm's music and creates a less melancholic mood than previous records released on labels like Morr, Staubgold and Plop. There are two 15 minute pieces on this album: one is `Ricke and Dina`, the other is `Giorgi and Lucy´. `Giorgi and Lucy´ was inspired by the last piece of a live set at the `epistrophy´ in New York on December 1st 2006 where Luca Fadda and F.S.Blumm met on stage. ‚Ricke and Dina' is based on a performance done in front of a childrens-audience during the presentation of a Peruvian fair trade collection of children`s wear at the belleville-store in Berlin on the afternoon of Oct. 1st 2005. This 3 hour live set has been carefully recorded by Lupo. Ahornfelder-011 CD $16.25 Bust #46 PS, US Fashion & Music Issue: ROSARIO DAWSON on cover, plus features on Bjork, Amy Winehouse's makeup secrets, Hip Hop's founding mothers & more. ZINE $4.75 Castanets Cathedral PS, US NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL! "Cathedral," the first nationally released album by San Diego's CASTANETS, introduced a unique voice of avant-country. From somber love ballads to haunted tales of frustrated redemption, "Cathedral" illuminates architecture where faith and doubt clash in an often ambiguous search for the divine. AsthmaticKitty-011 LP $10.25 Chapin Sisters/Winter Flowers Split PS, US Limited edition picture disc LP! The Chapin Sisters have been playing & singing together since childhood & are the spawn of singer Tom Chapin (brother of Harry "Cats In The Cradle" Chapin). They scored an indie radio hit w/ a cover of the Britney Spears hit "Toxic" in 2005 & countless number of live performances. Winter Flowers are a west coast based progressive folk-rock outfit that has been performing since 2001. They have been compared to everything from The Fairport Convention to Pentangle & Fleetwood Mac to The Incredible String Band. ManimalVinylRecords-003 LP $15.50 Circus Devils Sgt. Disco PS, US BOB POLLARD & the Tobias brothers formed Circus Devils, incorporating a musical alchemy of hard rock & soft rock, ugliness & beauty & ambience, eerie moods, stories, humor &rock opera theatrics, resulting in a strangely coherent cinematic music experience, likened to an indie rock version of Fantomas. Ipecac-090 CD $16.25 Coach Fingers No Flies On Frank PS, US NOW ON LIMITED DMM 180 GRAM VINYL! COACH FINGERS is serious about having fun and with the debut long player "No Flies on Frank," no one is spared from the plentiful good vibes Frank has to offer. Packed with more hooks than a ship crowded with one armed pirates, "No Flies on Frank" is a meaty affair of giddy but bearded late 60s / early 70s outlaw boogie rock & roll prominently featuring three members of the new york free noise whatsit collective THE NO NECK BLUES BAND - Coach JASON MEAGHER, DAVE NUSS & DAVE SHUFORD - along with Meagher's brother Sean on Keys and - future guitar god worshippers take note - the Coach's secret weapon, master shredder GEORGE DEVOE. So come on, friends, it's time to join the Fingers friends & family in the Beaujolais Revolution; take a sip from a glass full of RONNIE LANE'S boozy rock, the charming laissez-faire balladry of KEVIN AYERS (circa "Joy of a Toy" & "Whatevershebringswesing") & a whole lot of crazy fun. LocustMusic-083 LP $16.25 Crow, Rob I Hate You, Rob Crow PS, US Following the success of his recently released solo alum - and his first-ever US solo tour - PINBACK frontman ROB CROW keeps the ride moving with the first single from "Living Well", affectionately titled "I Hate You, Rob Crow." In addition to the album cut, the disc also includes two non-album tracks - the moody synth-driven instrumental "Sea Sawn," and the Heavy Vegetable-esque "Slick" - as well as the now-infamous video for "I Hate You, Rob Crow," featuring, among other highlights, Crow singing through a mic attached to a man's intestines. TemporaryResidenceLtd.-115 CD5 $3.50 Crow, Rob Living Well PS, US NOW AVAILABLE IN LIMITED EDITION VINYL FORMAT WITH FIVE NON-ALBUM BONUS TRACKS!!! Somewhere between the breakneck touring to support PINBACK'S breakthrough TOUCH AND GO debut, "Summer in Abaddon", and the release of THE LADIES' debut album (his collaboration with ZACH HILL of HELLA/TEAM SLEEP), the impossibly prolific Rob Crow had an epiphany: SLOW DOWN. Not coincidentally, this revelation occurred shortly after the birth of his first child (named Robertdale Crow III, of course). Crow's time at home was suddenly more important than ever. His family is all over "Living Well", his third solo album: in the album title, the artwork (layered with dozens of family photos), and the intensely personal lyrics which document Crow's courtship with his wife, their marriage, and the subsequent birth of their first child. Not only is "Living Well" Crow's finest solo album by a country mile, it also transcends many of Pinback's most canonic moments. It has the hooks and heart that he is famous for, with a refined focus not seen in Crow's other projects. TemporaryResidenceLtd.-114 LP $9.00 Deadly Snakes I Can't Sleep At Night + 3 (Double 7-inch) PS, US This beautiful double-gatefold 7-inch release serves as a reminder that the DEADLY SNAKES' Ode To Joy was one of the best rock'n'roll releases of 2003. This single features "I Can't Sleep At Night" from Ode To Joy (a favorite on Little Steven's Underground Garage radio show) as well as three previously unreleased tracks-"Nasty Boots" (a very Rolling-Stones-inspired original), "Big Bird" (originally done by Eddie Floyd), and "Shot Down" (an early Neil Diamond track). InTheRed-111 45 $8.00 Death from Above 1979 Heads Up PS, US THIS IS THEIR 1st EP. 1 bassist & 1 drummer not unlike power trios like Lightning Bolt or even the White Stripes! 6 songs that will pummel you w/a rock'n'roll intensity while making you lick the dance floor at a Stooges show. Universal CD $10.00 Debris Static Disposal PS, US CD reissue of the only album from this legendary group who came outta Chickasha, Oklahoma in the mid 70's. Namechecked iny NURSE WITH WOUND's infamous list of influential albums included w/ their 1st album! A dada punk psych masterpiece from 1975 inspired by the likes of Captain Beefheart, The Stooges, Roxy Music etc. these guys closest contemporaries were Hearthan era Pere Ubu, Indiana era MX-80 & Canadian sonic miscreants Simply Saucer. This CD features the 11 original album tracks PLUS 10 previously unreleased & raw rehearsal recordings that consist of 2 originals, 5 alternates to album tracks & 3 covers.. The Stooges's "Real Time", John Cale's "Gun" & a song originally recorded by Debris's precursor group, Victoria Vein & The Thunderpunks. Comes w/ 28 page booklet Anopheles-004 CD $14.00 Delay, Vladislav Multila PS, US This brought together his vinyl releases for Berlin's Chain Reaction label, focusing on the dense, murky gritswirls & ghost voice traces that underlie this subtle artist's other works. The original album was mastered by Moritz von Oswald/Basic Channel & the same exact audio is kept for the re-release. Huume-009 CD $16.25 Dilettantes, The 101 Tambourines PS, US Vinyl limited to 500. Features Joel Gion from Brian Jonestown Massacre and the movie Dig!. Perfect for the arrival of the anniversary of the Summer of Love, The Dilettantes play it straight up; no-frills, song after song like the psychedelic garage rock animals they are. HappyParts recordings will be providing full court indie press, radio and retail support. The record is loaded with retail in-store play action. All straight, no cut. This record is a true long player. Dig in. Band will be completing a west coast tour in September. They tour Europe in January. Japan and Australia in March. StrangerTouch-272 LP $12.25 Drift, The (rmxs) PS, US Following the 2005 release of their debut album, "Noumena," THE DRIFT set out to tour relentlessly in support of the album. Two years later, the band is still on tour, and to keep up we're rolling out a limited edition 12" compiling two side-long remixes from FOUR TET and SYBARITE. Side A is a nine-minute jazz exploration, launching The Drift's spacious, atmospheric compositions into deserted, zero-gravity territory. Four Tet's remix is a stone cold classic, rich in the virtues of patience and the payoff. Side B, conversely, is a dense, rhythmic reworking of "Noumena's" most immediately accessible track, "Invisible Cities." Sybarite gets to the point quick, and fleshes out the deliriously funky details over the course of its emphatic 11-minute runtime. This 12" is strictly limited to 1,000 copies. Each copy is housed in a beautiful full-color chipboard jacket, and has been individually assembled by the tireless hands of the TEMPORARY RESIDENCE staff. TemporaryResidenceLtd.-094 12 $9.00 Eastern Conference Champions-Ameritown PS, US Eastern Conference Champions follow their debut EP on Retone with a debut album recorded with Brit-pop superproducer Owen Morris (VERVE, OASIS). Snagged Urb's "Next 100" in March & Spin's "Band of the Day." They are touring machines. Suretone CD $9.25 Eat It's Not The Eat, It's The Humidity PS, US Another live one from the swirling depths of the most obscure, desirable, & just plain deranged. Sound is top-floor melodic punk 'n' roll, sort of a up Real Kids w/ rock-bottom Angry Samoans-style lyrics. Disc 1's a whopping 30+ studio tracks, many never before released. But That's not all folks. CD version comes with a BONUS LIVE DISC w/ 2 dozen songs & many a crude rude remark from band to audience. Alternative-377 DCD $16.00 Eat It's Not The Eat, It's The Humidity PS. US DOUBLE VINYL VERSION!!! Alternative-377 DLP $16.00 Eleh Floating Frequencies/Intuitive Synthesis Volume 2 PS, US Eleh's Floating Frequencies/Intuitive Synthesis Volume 2 requires dedicated and careful listening. High volume and/or headphone use is highly recommended for maximum experience - especially on the B-side, which is focused on ultra low end bass pulses being slowly modulated by bass frequencies well below the level of human hearing. Side A is a detailed account of the emerging frequencies resulting from the carefully crafted meeting of 7 sine waves. It is also highly recommended that stereo listeners be seated at least 7 feet away from their speakers, centered, with ears at speaker height. 500 made. 200-gram vinyl. Deluxe letter pressed jackets. Dedicated to Charlemagne Palestine. Eleh was formed to specifically to pay tribute to early experimental minimalist pioneers especially La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Eliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros and Charlemagne Palestine. This record is pressed in a deluxe edition of 500 on audiophile quality 200-gram vinyl. Important-158 LP $13.50 Excepter Streams 01 PS, US Double CD retrospective of the first 4 years of their live experience, selected, sequenced & edited by band acolyte Robert Girardin from the first 36 issues of the STREAMS mp3 series released free on the Internet & illustrated w/ photos taken from the same. Fusetron-046 DCD $13.25 Felten, Mike Landfill PS, US RECENT REISSUE. Mike played in Chicago rock bands through the late 1960s & in the early 1970s he was a singer-songwriter who shared stages w/ guys like Prine & Steve Goodman. He gravitated to the country end of the spectrum in the late 70s & in the 1990s he returned to playing w/ rock & blues bands. These songs span 3 decades, '1966 Summer School Blues is the oldest of the collection, from a time when your '2 inches of hair" could get you kicked out of school. 'Save Her Old Man is a Woody Guthrie type anthem of being downsized in the 1980s rust belt. "Margie Got A Boyfriend is a 50s style unrequited love rock ballad & it is juxtaposed against 'Life Goes To Hell about not falling in love for the last time. Each song is a story that needs to be told. Landfill-2302 CD $13.50 Garland, David Noise in You PS, US "Noise In You" is an album of gorgeous music about noisy emotions: our desires and distractions, anxieties and passions, love and loss, and the living hum of our bodies. It is DAVID GARLAND'S 8th album since entering New York City's downtown scene in the 1980s, and it's the first to receive the wide distribution and attention his music deserves. Garland is a multi-instrumentalist currently exploring the sumptuous jangle of a 12-string guitar; he sings with a voice that's deep, honest, and intimate. "Noise In You" is unclassifiable: pop music that's both experimental and accessible, and is rich with intricate layered harmonies and startling colors and textures. It features the beautiful, sometimes mystical voices of a younger generation of musicians -- SUFJAN STEVENS, MIRA ROMANTSCHUK (of MI AND L'AU), DIANE CLUCK, VIKING MOSES, and DAVID DEPORIS -- together with guitars, flute, piano, clarinet, sarode, oboe, and more. Noise In You unfolds into a wondrous, subtly interconnected song cycle that sweeps you up in its imaginativeness, drama, and sensual pleasure. FamilyVineyard-49 CD $11.50 Glorior Belli Manifesting the Raging Beast PS, US SouthernLord CD $14.00 Great Invisibles You Left Me Haunted (CD/DVD) PS, US A mix of Jack Rose-style fingerpicked guitar layered with found sounds & children's toy orchestrations. Influenced by the Surrealism movement, yet isn't bogged down by complete process-music abstraction or overly reserved academic stuffiness, it works at both a casual & Dada-esque level. Limited to 300 handmade unique artwork packages BrokenSparrow-4050 CD/DVD $12.50 Haines, Emily & The Soft Skeleton What Is Free to a Good Home PS, US New 6-song mini-album from Metric frontwoman, a companion piece to 'Knives Don't Have Your Back', influenced and dedicated to her late renaissance-man father and Robert Wyatt. Five previously-unreleased songs from the same sessions and a remix of "Mostly Waving". Last Gang CD $11.00 Joy Division Martin Hannett's Personal Mixes PS, US Martin Hannett's selection of rare alternate mixes of several songs, including studio banter. All NEW takes, never before available. These recordings give a rare insight into his production ideas for Joy Division & his relationship w/ the band - the strange things/sound effects they recorded in the studio together, etc Interstate CD $13.50 Jupiter Apple Uma Tarde Na Fruteira PS, SPAIN The musical origins of this Brazilian filmmaker, multi-instrumentalist and composer take us back to the first half of the 90's, when he spawned a brief incursion in Dylan-esque territory under the moniker Woody Apple. He soon came back as Júpiter Maçã, his current name, with which he develops his personal version of a 60's inspired psychedelic sound in cult albums that don't cross the Brazilian borders, but do find an echo among an elite who whisper his name in each other's ears: among his following we find Tom Zé, Caetano Veloso, Arnaldo Baptista, Rita Lee, Sean Lennon, Tim Gane, Sean O'Hagan or Dean Wareham. Elefant-1121 CD $14.00 M.I.A. Boyz PS, US Includes Album Version, Instrumental, Acappella. Interscope 12 $5.00 Mark, Carolyn Nothing Is Free PS, US A woodsy & introspective album. The recording brings an immediacy to the music that conjures up a Sunday evening spent playing instruments & singing songs on the back porch of the cabin. Her introspection finds many things, not the least of which is a (sometimes dark) sense of humour & a willingness to throw caution under the truck, have all the fun humanly possible. Mint-107 CD $15.00 Marmoset Florist Fired PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Secretly Canadian/JoyfulNoise-090 LP $12.25 Marmoset Florist Fired PS, US Five years is a long time. Five years is an excruciatingly long time for a band like MARMOSET. Somehow this band has managed to bottle into one album all of the idiosyncrasies and pathos that have made them the critically-acclaimed band we all love. Merging the Swell Maps-inspired tumultuous clamor of their debut EP "Hiddenforbidden", the addictive two-minute anthems on "Today It's You", and the epic joyful dirges from "Record in Red", "Florist Fired" has it all. Although principal songwriter JORMA WHITTAKER possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of Beatles-esque melodies, "Florist Fired" leaves listeners with the unmistakable feeling that Marmoset owes much more to a Richards-led Stones swagger- without the budget or access to premium pharmaceuticals. In contrast to the seemingly lecherous, self-loathing Whittaker gems, guitarist DAVE JABLONSKI offers up detached ethereal odes like a man with his head truly in the clouds. The idea of being a traditional, functioning band has never quite caught on with Marmoset. Their live shows and behind-the-scenes breakdowns are spiritually aligned with the likes of BRIAN JONESTOWN MASSACRE; but unlike BJM, the music you hear from Marmoset is pure sound vérité. No need for a ballyhoo project like "Dig!"- although the tales Marmoset could tell would certainly make for riveting viewing. Until the public is ready for such a trip into the madness, tension and ecstasy that is Marmoset, "Florist Fired" will serve quite nicely as their chariot on the road towards canonization. SecretlyCanadian-090 CD $11.50 Messages Destination/Glades PS, US It captures a moment and represents a place of sorts. If you walk down Canal Street on any given night, odds are you will hear the sound of MESSAGES coming from a fifth floor walkup. If you stopped, you would hear it go on for hours and it would be the sound of TRES WARREN (of PSYCHIC ILLS) and TAKETO SHIMADA mashing sine waves, bass loops, guitars, samplers and turntables into a storm in between bouts of playing techno and psychedelic improv records. TheSocialRegistry-048 45 $5.50 Mika Miko 666 PS, US Another installment of post teen angst from LA's own fury girls. Six songs recorded on 6/06/06 that sound darker, radder, more crashy & trashy then their debut "CYSLABF". CD version includes MIKA MIKO's first 7"and three bonus tracks from the vaults of the energetic & fun brain of the Miko's. PostPresentMedium-011 CD $10.00 Mr. Blotto Cabbages & Kings PS, US BACK IN STOCK! Mr. Blotto is a jam band band from Chicago. They blend southern rock, folk, blues & country. They take the Jam band asthetic into areas unfamiliar to the standard Jam Scene. A well produced, well mixed, well executed kind of Americana that actually owes far less to the Grateful Dead than one would expect. The band sounds completely natural in their studio environs, having nailed the elusive blend of acoustic & electric instrumentation that most bands struggle w/when they try to set their work to tape. It is thick, but not overbearing. Bits of imagery turn up through the disc - Harleys, bunks, movie stars, & literary references - that inform the album w/a cohesive intelligence. For fans of GOV'T MULE, ALLMAN BROS, WARREN HAYNES. MrBlotto CD $10.00 Orange Goblin Healing Through Fire PS, US Sanctuary CD $16.75 Out With A Bang Few Beers Left But Out Of Drugs PS, US This record is soooo great. Alessandro (Anus), vocalist of the Grabbies moved his stank ass back to bumfuck Italy & has emerged w/ a band that completely blows away the Grabbies, who in the past pretty much blew away every other band out there in the free world. Fast, pissed off, drug addled, alcohol abusing, foul-mouthed, numbskull punk rock smut from a guy who's probably better off dead. Is this jerk the new GG Allin? Who knows and who cares, this record kills it! LIMITED CriminalIQ 45 $4.75 Pitre, Duane/Pilotram Ensemble Organized Pitches Occurring in Time PS, US Two 25 minute pieces of music,both spawned from the same conceptual composition/score by Duane Pitre, titled Ensemble Drones. With their form reminiscent of works by La Monte Young's Theater of Eternal Music & their tonality touching on the floating works of Terry Riley, The Ensemble Chord in Eb with a Minor 7th & a Pump Organ Base &The Ensemble Chord in C with a Major 7th & a Guitar Base are aural tapestries based on a minimal tonal palette with their instrumentation consisting of guitars, alto saxophones, bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello, tone generator & pump organ. Important-154 CD $12.25 Primary 5 Go! PS, US Ex-SOUP DRAGONS & TEENAGE FANCLUB drummer Paul Quinn & collaborator/guitarist Ryan Currie. 2004 saw the completion of their debut album "North Pole."Collecting numerous accolades along the way in both the UK & US press, this resulted in the band supporting rock legends Arthur Lee & Love on their last ever UK tour. Includes contributions from Teenage Fanclub members Norman Blake (vox/guitars) & Raymond McGinley (guitars). RA-010 CD $13.50 Sebadoh Freed Man (ON SALE) PS, US 52 tracks from the bubbling birth of the Doh. Pitchfork quizzes Eric Gaffney, who says: ""The reissue contains songs and versions (one each, not multiple) from the orignal cassette release... from the LP version [i.e. the Homestead version], a few of my songs, re-recorded, off The Freed Weed CD, and unreleased tracks, along with the 2nd and 3rd 'singles' and part of the first split." Pitchfork goes on: "Whatever the math, the extras and different mixes/takes shift something once familiar into a gargantuan 79-minute lo-fi opera... This Freed Man is overstuffed and weird, studded with some duds, and entirely fitting. Part of the joy of early Sebadoh-- this collection through Bubble and Scrape, aka the Gaffney years-- is the clash of egos and brilliant songwriters. It's totally evident on this new version: 25 songs by Lou, 25 by Eric, and two covers, including a garage-punk take on the Beatles "Yellow Submarine". Pretty telling, right? To take it even further, the cassette was re-mastered at Abbey Road Studios." Domino CD $14.00 Sorry Dogs Rejection Years PS, US Long time So. Cal. punk revival outfit made up of ex-members of BATTALION OF SAINTS & SKID MARKS create high energy punk by SNFU & Circle Jerks. Pressed on limited edition gold/black marble vinyl. "Ten songs here recorded over a period of 4 years showing these guys are really patient or broke or both, & there isn't a weak track on this album."-TONY CEDENA of the ADOLESCENTS. UtU-001 LP $10.00 Starless & Bible Black S/T PS, US NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL! STARLESS & BIBLE BLACK make beautiful spirited & catchy songs in the grand tradition of classic British folk rockers PENTANGLE and JOHN & BEVERLY MARTYN straight on up through the halcyon days of early 4AD records. On their debut self titled outing, the diverse Manchester 3 piece brings to bear much of the lively attitude, passion and rain, rain, rain of the old textile city they've all come to call home for the last several years. The result is a great collection of 11 songs-at once earthen and elevated - that are given added mood & flavor by the charcoal vocals of French chanteuse HÉLÈNE GAUTIER. The other contributing members are the main rhythm men in the Manchester music scene - PAUL BLAKESLEY on bass and BRIAN EDWARDS on drums - they have perfected their craft playing with the likes of local heroes such as AIDAN SMITH, JOHN STAMMERS and JANE WEAVER. LocustMusic-085 LP $16.25 Stevens, Tom Home PS, US He has has recorded over a dozen albums, both solo & w/ The Long Ryders, Danny & Dusty, Chris Cacavas & Junk Yard Love, Magi, & Jack Waterson. His blistering guitar playing & depth of songwriting speak volumes, both on stage & in the studio. This is an assured & mature collection of performances of fine songs. It retains freshness over many hearings combining the thrill of recognition w/ a hardly-diminishing sense of surprise & wonder. Tom has allowed himself free rein, but seemingly as a consequence of his own enthusiasm & excitement about the music hes making. And the result is a real pleasure. Avebury CD $11.00 Stratton, Will What the Night Said PS, US Gentle but intense. Will has the uncanny ability to compose intricate songs that speak to the listener in such an effortless & beautiful way that he makes songwriting seem easy. The tone of the album reflects the contradictions of peace & uneasiness during the dark hours. Features SUFJAN STEVENS on 2 tracks. StunningModels-002 CD $13.50 Sunn 0))) Oracle PS, US Two brand new exclusive tracks available officially on vinyl only! "Orakulum" was originally composed for a live performance collaboration w/ the New York sculptor Banks Violette at the Maureen Paley Gallery in London, June of 06. The result of this performance & collaboration, which was conducted in a sealed gallery space, was intended to generate a feeling of absence, loss & a phantom of what once was. SouthernLord LP $16.75 Susanka, Bert Onward Christian Slater PS, US Bert Susanka, founder of The Ziggens, has always wanted to put out a solo record-an album on which he could express himself freely, without songwriting restrictions & deadlines. This is clearly Susanka's most personal album to date,with songs of triumph, heartbreak & all emotions in between. Reference points from the Dead Milkmen & Beach Boys lead to tender introspective ballads & self-deprecating takes on suburban survival, alling add up to what will certainly be a widely talked-about album. Cornerstone-056 CD $14.25 Tape Op #60 PS, US New issue of the #1 recording magazine! Features on Joe Boyd (Nick Drake, Fairport Convention, REM), Bob Power (NYC hip-hop engineer), Sonicraft, Jace Lasek/Dave Smith, Mike Castoro, gear reviews , CD reviews and more. ZINE $4.00 Tegan & Sara The Con PS, US ALL MUSIC GUIDE: "Produced by Death Cab for Cutie's Chris Walla, the album is full of quirky, Aqueduct-like keyboards, punchy bass from Weezer's Matt Sharp and AFI's Hunter Burgan, and even some guitar help from Kaki King that stretch and shove their way into the spaces between Tegan and Sara's hook-driven melodies and clean harmonies, more complex than anything they've done before... An impressive step forward in their already commendable discography." Sire/Rhino CD $14.25 Tegan & Sara The Con [CD+DVD special edition] PS, US New album + DVD. Sire/Rhino CD/DVD $23.00 The The Soul Mining [reissue, remaster] PS, US Recent reissue of The The's 1983 debut album. Not so surprising that Matt Johnson's most popular album was also his most accessible and least experimental, though at the time I'm not sure there were any other records that sounded like Soul Mining! The The's three other albums, Infected (1986), Mind Bomb (1989), and Dusk (1993) have all been newly re-issued in 2007. Sony CD $12.25 Tiny Vipers Hands Across the World PS, US Twenty something years of studying sometimes surprising causes & effects is what led Jesy Fortino to become Tiny Vipers. Her songs are stories about choices. She likes to believe that things can be plotted. She likes to believe in planning & in decision making, but she also reveres the unknown, the unknowable. Subpop CD $13.50 U.N.K.L.E. War Stories PS, US Guest vocalists incl. Josh Homme (QOTSA), Ian Astbury (The CULT), 3D (MASSIVE ATTACK),The Duke Spirit, Autolux & Gavin Clark (Clay Hill). The packaging feat.paintings specially commissioned by Massive Attack's 3D.Comes with a 32-pg booklet. SurrenderAll-005 CD $14.50 Vanderslice, John Emerald City PS, US John Vanderslice recorded his new album in the midst of anguishing legal limbo after a visa application for his girlfriend, a French national he met in Paris, was rejected by US Immigration during what appears to be an era of deep insecurity & paranoia; these issues (cultural & personal) sadly remain unresolved. The album is the first JV work recorded w/a solid band lineup; it was tracked quickly, mostly live, w/ David Broecker (bass, vocals, keyboards), Dave Douglas (drums, keyboard), & Ian Bjornstad (wurlitzer, moog source). As w/JV's last few albums, the band worked w/ producer Scott Solter Barsuk-066 CD $11.75 Various Visit To the Spaceship Factory: 20 Gems From The Early Years Of Prog PS, US Wander the dimly lit corners of the Spaceship Factory, an establishment designed to produce vehicles that could take you from the geometric wallpaper of your room to the far side of your electric dreams. Hear the brash rock of TREETOPS, the polished guitar wizardry of Israeli progsters JERICHO, the fuzzed-up dirt of Jesse Hector's proto-punk outfit HELTER SKELTER. Other artists include: Mousetrap, Deadwood, Fuzzyduck, Incredible Hog, Mouse, Beggars Opera,Kingdom Come, Little Bighorn, Strange Fox, Onyx, Spontaneous Combustion, UFO, Sheephouse, Pussy, Axe, Sunchariot & Kansashook. PsychicCircle-7007 CD $15.00 Various Who Needs Tomorrow? American 60s Garage Bands PS, US There has to come a time when every half-decent slice of '60s garage band music has been compiled somewhere. From the Stones-ish Kansas garage-sters The Moanin' Glories to the New York pop trio, The Will-O-Bees to the West Coast sitar-fuzz of Merrell Fankhauser & HMS Bounty, this comp aims to reach those parts of the garage that other compilations of its kind just don't. Other artists incl. Randy Johnson, The Love Society, Simon T. Stokes, Kinetic Energy, The Liberty Bells, Peck's Bad Boys, The Silver Byke, The Great Train Robbery, & many others. PsychicCircle-7008 CD $15.00 Various Sitar Beat Vol. 2 PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! GuerrillaReissues-002 DLP $14.75 Various Sitar Beat Vol. 2 PS, US Vol. 2 they go straight to heart of India w/ some of the rarest & best tracks recorded between the years of 1970-84. 16 tracks of rare & funky Indian flavor, blending heavy beats w/ the sounds of the sitar & the inimitable vocal sounds of beloved Indian singers such as the ubiquitous Asha Bhosle & producers/songwriters like Kalyanji Ananji & R. D. Burman. This is soul from the Sub-continent at it's best! GuerrillaReissues-002 CD $13.25 Various 1981 Year in Seven Inches PS, US Now back in print on vinyl! Comps 7 inchers from TEEN IDLES, STATE OF ALERT, GOV. ISSUE & YOUTH BRIGADE. Pressed on clear vinyl w/ updated artwork. Dischord-014 LP $10.50 Vietnam EP #2 PS, US THE SOCIAL REGISTRY are pleased to present the second of three limited edition 12" EPs from VIETNAM. Each of the three features a track from the band's recently released self-titled full-length (out on KEMADO), along with tracks recorded at the band's Freedom School Compound, a store-front apartment/studio that the band shares with producer MATT BOYTON in Brooklyn, NY. These recordings capture the band cutting loose, writing and recording at their will, and form a perfect counterpoint to their professionally recorded full-length. TheSocialRegistry-035 12 $10.25 Weedeater God Luck and Good Speed PS, US SouthernLord CD $14.00 Willis, Nicole Keep Reachin' Up PS, US "The sound of this group reminds me of dancing to the new James Brown 7" in the record shops on Clarkson venue with my sister when we were 6 & 8 years old" -Nicole Willis.Willis started out in London in the mid-80's where she teamed up with members of The Brand New Heavies.Later, having returned to NYC, she was part of the earliest line-up of Deee-lite.Here Nicole joins up with well known Finish funksters Soul Investigators, to carve out an album of classic brilliance. A 70s-styled set that would easily stand alongside the best from King, Brunswick, or Curtom from years back. LightInTheAttic-028 CD $12.50 Windy & Carl Akimatsuri (ON SALE) PS, US Specially recorded & released for the Brainwaves festival, the new disc is a celebration of the autumn season. Akimatsuri is a 33 minute long journey in 5 parts, each named for the mood they convey. Limited to 500 hand numbered copies, and comes in a specially designed & made sleeve. Michael Babcock of Interrobang Press made the card sleeves & each one features a beautiful photo by Christy Romanick. BlueFlea-013 CD $15.00 Yeah Yeah Yeahs Is Is PS, US Brand new studio recordings represent the heart of the band on five lean & urgent tracks that best capture the energy of their live show. Will be promoted online by 5 live videos shot for all the songs that were live staples only until now. Interscope CD5 $6.25 Forthcoming Releases +/- Self-Titled Debut CD + DVD (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 28TH) PS, US Debut DVD from +/- (Plus/Minus) features 14 professionally produced videos compiled by Chris Deaner (+/- & KELLY CLARKSON drummer & video director). Incl. vids from an animated short to a horror film to live performance. Incl. videos by Chris Deaner, Patryk Rebisz, Rik Cordero, Doug Spice, Orrin Anderson, Paul Kloss, Myactivedriveway. NTSC Region=0. TeenBeat-403 CD/DVD $16.25 1900s, The Cold & Kind (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 10TH) PS, US New album of sultry psych-pop from Chicago seven-member sensations The 1900s. Recorded mostly live to tape, the record captures the energy of the band's remarkable live show while also benefiting from the addition of large string and horn sections. While clocking in at exactly 40:00 minutes (in honor of finishing the album on the 40th anniversary of Sgt. Peppers), Cold & Kind keeps one foot in the past, one in the future and another foot in your heart. If you dig: Tommy James, Fleetwood Mac, Velvet Underground, Cat Power, Supremes, Roy Harper, Arcade Fire, Dr. Dog, Midlake, Leon Redbone, Bill Clinton on sax or Russell Crowe's band... Parasol-CD-106 CD $9.00 1990s, The Cookies (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 31ST) PS, US Much-hyped debut album from Scottish wunderkinds. RoughTrade CD $14.00 Acid Mothers Temple Stones, Women, Records (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 21ST) PS, JAPAN Japan Import. Acid Mothers Temple SWR, the ultimate power trio of Yoshida Tatsuya from Ruins,& Tsuyama Atsushi & Kawabata Makoto from AMT, present their shocking 2nd album. Magaibutsu-033 CD $20.00 Altz Max Motion (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 14TH) PS, US Since 2000,after picking up & mastering the MPC2000, he has recorded on his own & composed & edited dance music in earnest. He has since become a highly respected recording artist, DJ, & remixer, making an international impact w/ in all genres of dance music from deep house to nu-disco.This new four-track 12'' incl. vocals from Yoshimi of The BOREDOMS & 2 separate remixes by The Idjut Boys. DFA-112 12 $8.00 Anderson, Ryan The Garden Path (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH) PS, US Acoustic folk pop from a singer songwriter taking his songs to the people one living room at a time. Honest and pure. HappyHappyBirthdayToMe-075 CD $9.75 Anemones Come Down Like A Cloud (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH) PS, US Grounded and propelled by the boom and tick of a lazy yet indefatigable old-school drum machine, albeit augmented by occasional percussive crash, rattle and stick of a genuinely human kind, ANEMONES are all deep throb, jangled buzz, ambient drone, shiftless mumbling and, perhaps most importantly, rolling waves of reverberation so pronounced and significant as to be structurally necessary. Collected and combined, these elements make a warm, oceanic, somewhat totalizing music that operates inwardly, directed towards the uniquely fertile, semi-liquid quasi-agriculture of the mind. Activated this way, mind as such is here suspended, ala Descartes, as a kind epiphenomenal hazy feeling, a ghost between the ears. Both in and out of the body, this half-consciousness invokes a persistent, low-key dream-like psychedelic break in which the normal world itself becomes hypnotically elusive and mysterious, a pleasantly dislocating transformation enhanced by Anemones' minimalist, somewhat lock-groove languorousness and nonchalantly sardonic theatricality. But although often performatively 'druggy' in character, Anemones' music isn't therefore 'about drugs' in the sense of being 'about being made by means of drugs' or even 'about being made for or on behalf of drugs', as if simply copying such important stylistic and conceptual precursors as the Velvet Underground, Suicide, Spacemen 3 and the Jesus and Mary Chain. Rather, Anemones produce a kind of 'post drug' music, which here refers to a state of 'after-ness' and not prudish abstention or dumbbell reform. In fact this is a specific aesthetic strategy: after the drugs and drinks are long done and gone, sound itself remains the psychotropic trigger par excellence. Hence, altering perception, Anemones aim to turn listeners on ears first. St.Ives-022 LP $11.50 Angels Of Light We Are Him (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 25TH) PS, US YoungGod-35 LP $18.75 Animal Collective Strawberry Jam (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH) PS, US DOUBLE VINYL VERSION!!! Domino DLP $17.50 Animal Collective Strawberry Jam (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH) PS, US "Strawberry Jam" feels like space dust and radar falling on the desert and making it bloom. It's the sound of a band spinning wildly and intoxicated, at the cusp of their powers, as thick and rich and sweet and colorful as it sounds. Domino CD $14.00 Armour, Douglas Prince of Wands/Away (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH) PS, US Hailing from Los Angeles, California, DOUGLAS ARMOUR is our first proper signing to reside outside of New York City. He is a prolific songwriter and for this 7-inch Douglas provided us with two tracks, "Prince of Wands" and "Away." "Prince of Wands" first left an impression on us, and an indelible one at that, when associates of the label began DJing the track. It is a damn near perfect pop song that has had people jumping up to the dance floor upon first hearing.. Moving in a different direction with the kind of indie pop reverie that hasn't been heard for a long time. TheSocialRegistry-042 45 $5.50 Art In Manila Set The Woods On Fire (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH) PS, US After Azure Ray disbanded, member Orenda Fink put her energies into a solo record in 2005, called "Invisible Ones". Upon touring in support of that album with various revolving band members, she chose the cream of the crop and formed a new group called Art Belle, then changed it to Art In Manila (a nod to radio host Art Bell's exodus to the Phillipines). On this release, the band flirts playfully with genre wanderlust without ever abandoning cohesion. Moody slow-burners follow four-to-the-floor rockers that butt up against serene ballads. A powerful debut. SaddleCreek CD $12.25 At The Close Of Everyday Leaves You Puzzled And The Original Pieces (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 31ST) PS, JAPAN At The Close Of Every Day (ATCOED), existing of Minco Eggersman (Volkoren) and Axel Kabboord (This Beautiful Mess), the new album by our favorite Dutch folk boys. This time it's totally different. It's a remix album including many older songs like 'Zalig Zijn de Armen Van Geest', 'The Maria Tales' as well as later work like 'O Welk Een Vreugde' and 'Ik Weet'. These 15 songs in total haven been remixed and restructured. Seriously, almost everything has been cut to pieces and folded back into a new and beautiful masterpiece! From heavenly piano pieces by Sylvain Chauveau and ambient soundscapes by Donato Wharton to heavy beats by Solex and weird electronica by Hood, simply a must have for every ATCOED fan and electronic music fan. The remixes have been done by Hood, Styrofoam, Spinvis, Solex, Dialect, Diefenbach, Hillmadelow, Sylvain Chauveau, Stafraenn Hakon, Kettel, Donata Wharton and many others. This is a special Japanese double CD edition (including the original pieces). ArtUnion-5516/5517 DCD $17.75 Axe Riverboy Tutu To Tango (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH) PS, US Tahiti 80's frontman and principle songwriter, Xavier Boyer, one of the most distinctive and loved voices in indie rock, further propels French rock on its upward spiral with this long awaited solo record, recorded under the name Axe Riverboy, (an anagram of Xavier's name). A blend of superb songwriting, sing-a-long choruses, ringing guitars, and compressed pianos. A warm rediscovery of rock and pop with folk overtones, brilliantly drawn from the sounds upon which early Tahiti 80 thrived. MintyFresh CD $11.50 Black Lips Good Bad Not Evil (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH) PS, US This debut succinctly epitomizes all that's special about Atlanta's favorite flower punk sons: the uncontained energy, undeniable songcraft, and unrivaled showmanship are all on full display, as is a newfound sense of the world around them. Songs like "Katrina" and "Bad Kids" spare none of the Black Lips' trademark smirk and smear, but also demonstrate a purpose and perspective not always at the forefront of the band's music. "Good Bad Not Evil" traffics in the kind of ragged rock harmony missing from record stores for so long. Vice CD $12.50 Brunettes, The Structure And Cosmetics (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH) PS, US The Sub Pop debut by these New Zealand natives features breezy, effervescent, Shangri-Las-reminiscent pop. The backing band ranges from five to ten strong and incorporates the marimba, trumpet, alto and tenor sax, and more. "Structure & Cosmetics" retains the sweetly charming, sunbeam-drenched sound The Brunettes are known for, but adds a hint of darkness and drama in other tracks. They've played with the likes of The Shins, Rilo Kiley, The Postal Service, and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Subpop CD $12.50 C.C.C.C. Early Works (4 x CD) (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 21ST) PS, US 4xCD box set. Box set from Japanese psychedelic noise legends C.C.C.C. collecting unreleased live material, including very early recordings from some of their first shows in 1990 and their 1992 us tour, along some long unavailable studio classics like the Phantasmagoria tape. Extensive liner notes by original member Fumio Kosakai (now in Incapacitants, and many others) about the band beginnings and his take on the C.C.C.C. vision. An essential document in the unique C.C.C.C. sound which Kosakai describes best as "psychedelic, cosmic and erotic". produced by C.C.C.C. founder Hiroshi Hasegawa. Extensive audio restoration and mastering by James Plotkin. Comes in delux slipcase box and digipack packaging. NoFunProductions-020 4XCD $39.25 Carta The Glass Bottom Boat (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 21ST) PS, UK The fruits of a lengthy process involving an ever-changing line-up featuring a revolving door of San Francisco musicians, this is the long-awaited debut from Carta, now with settled personnel surrounding core member Kyle Monday. Engineered by Beulah's Eli Crews and featuring Sacha Galvagna and Jared Matt Greenberg (Charles Atlas) and Alexander Kort (Subtle) amongst others, 'The Glass Bottom Boat' is a remarkably accomplished album, as one might expect considering the pedigree of those involved. Having found a home on eclectic UK label Resonant, Carta's audience should be broad and widespread, with their overall sound avoiding pigeonholes. The album is mostly instrumental, predominantly downtempo but with constant emphasis on melody. The title track features full vocals from Sarah Bell, and sounds like the best thing Espers have ever recorded. Packaged in lavish six-panel digipak. Early review from US site www.thesilentballet.com: 'It's rare that we see an album that is so grounded in reality, yet simultaneously this is immaculately breathtaking.' Resonant-026 CD $15.00 Case, Peter Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 31ST) PS, US After helping to define power pop with The Nerves and The Plimsouls, Peter Case has released several solo albums. Peter Case is back with Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John, his most raw, direct work in nearly a decade. This album of politically-fueled and personally-visionary songs about now finds America's golden troubadour in his finest form, laying down intricate and driving finger-style guitar with his uniquely delivered dusty road-poetry. Sleepy John is yet another volume in the career of one of the most storied singer/songwriters of his generation. YepRoc CD $17.00 Christy & Emily Gueen's Head (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH) PS, US Take a crafty pop music guitarist who knows how to come up with hooks and have them team up with a trained avant-garde classical musician and you get the Velvet Underground. Move that same combo from the Lower East Side across the river to northwest Brooklyn and tack on 40 years and you get CHRISTY & EMILY. This duo present their version of this mixture of elements with their debut CD "Gueen's Head." An octet of pieces that explore modern classical techniques grafted with pop songs. This alchemy produces a string of highly catchy ascetic tunes combined with undercurrents of discordance and dissonance. Add to this lyrics that take from the history of pop and modernist mid-20th Century poetry. TheSocialRegistry-045 CD $11.50 Circle Katapult (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH) PS, US Finland's Circle are one of the leading psych-rock bands playing today, releasing records and touring for over a decade now. Founding member Jussi Lehtisalo handles the majority of vocal duties with a gruff, low-end growl. The music is heavy and atmospheric with repetitive riffs and haunted keyboards which create a twisted, spooky mood. Influenced by equal parts 60s psychedelia and venom, "Katapult" is perhaps the most diverse, groundbreaking, dark, and primitive Circle album yet. NoQuarter CD $14.00 Circle Katapult (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! NoQuarter LP $11.50 Coalesce There Is Nothing New Under The Sun (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH) PS, US Features seven Led Zeppelin covers from Coalesce's 1999 EP, along with eight additional jams, including those from the band's split EP with Boy Sets Fire, a cover of Black Sabbath's "Supernaut", an Undertow cover, and a Get Up Kids cover. "A ferocious blend of brutal hardcore and vicious metal...incredibly infectious" - Metal-Observer. com. HydraHead CD $12.50 Connors, Loren The Hymn of the North Star (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH) PS, US Even before his 1978 debut guitarist LOREN CONNORS has been continually redefining the American blues and folk guitar. "The Hymn of the North Star," a 180 GRAM 500 EDITION LP, is the first full-length vinyl release solely under Connors' name since 1990. Though in the years since he has recorded over two dozen solo and collaborative albums with Jim O'Rourke, John Fahey, Alan Licht, Christina Carter, Jandek, Suzanne Langille, Thurston Moore, Keiji Haino, Darin Gray, and others. Connors creates a tapestry of transparent and haunting melodies that transform the Delta blues into a ghost-like apparition that never settles as it pours from the soul. These six pieces show Connors contemporary elegiac style at its peak of romantic minimalism. Self recorded in his Brooklyn apartment "The Hymn of the North Star" is saturated with subtle details and the barely there multi-tracks of guitar and bass floating in the background. Guitarist ALAN LICHT appears on one equally opaque piece recorded in Glasgow, Scotland. FamilyVineyard-047 LP $16.25 Cope, Julian You Gotta Problem With Me (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 31ST) PS, UK Julian Cope's new album YOU GOTTA PROBLEM WITH ME (no question mark) is another protest album in the tradition of his previous releases PEGGY SUICIDE, JEHOVAHKILL, AUTOGEDDON, CITIZEN CAIN'D and DARK ORGASM. Unlike most records by Cope's head-in-the-sand punk rock contemporaries (almost all of whom he believes to be shirking their primary rock'n'roll responsibility as cultural mouthpieces), YOU GOTTA PROBLEM WITH ME deals primarily with such currently controversial, nay taboo issues, as religion (our own and other peoples'), and the West's latest wave of xenophobia and self-doubts brought on by a combination of the war in Iraq, the so-called 9/11 bombings and the EEC's latest huge wave of migrants from former Communist countries. YOU GOTTA PROBLEM WITH ME also addresses all of Cope's other long-term gripes: corporate greed and the destruction of Mother Earth, misogyny and homophobia, and our apparent inability to address such essential matters due to cultural ignorance and the glaring faults in our education system. Yes, Lenny Bruce and Bill Hicks are dead, but Cope's still pissed off enough to fly the flag for all three! However, while the songs of YOU GOTTA PROBLEM WITH ME are even more lyrically hard-hitting than those on DARK ORGASM, musically this new record ploughs a far more traditional Copean furrow, returning the listener to insidiously melodic post-punk songs in the JEHOVAHKILL style, many sparsely orchestrated with Mellotron, wah-wah guitars, orchestral percussion and even lush harmonies. Released on double-CD and 12" vinyl gatefold sleeve LP, the 13 songs are split into two sections, and are accompanied by a 16-page booklet of insights, hard-hitting information, and a very epic poem: all designed to shake us from our post-everything stasis. HeadHeritage-040 LP $30.25 Creteens 4-Track Blues (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE TBA) PS, US 4 song EP from some French kid(s?) making with the Memphis-sound garage-punk racket. The title cut and "Contaminated" are definitely 'Teenage Hate'-esque. B-Side has an Oblivians cover & a slower-style Fatals-ish long-titled bloozer. Recording is pretty rough. Scums stats: 600 copies on baby- blue swirled vinyl. Contaminated-009 45 $6.00 Davis, Ben Forrest Roughs (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 2007) PS, US Re-release of 'Roughs' (on Velvet Crusher Ric Menck's Bird Song label) by former and founding member of the Los Angeles rock band Sugarcult. Here, Ben's doing his very own laid-back soft-rock thing, with a little dab of country & western, quite a departure from Sugarcult's highly-toughted tautness. Leaving behind a life of rock-n-roll excess, this enigmatic album qualifies as emancipation and exorcism, a collection of intimate, personal songs about love and self-destruction. Not so far afield from singer-songwriterly, orch-popping Parasol faves like Ken Stringfellow and his Posies, Kevin Tihista and his Red Terror, Jack Logan & Bob Kimbell, June & The Exit Wounds, and The Velvet Crush. BirdSong-105 CD $10.00 Deadly Syndrome, The The Ortolan (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH) PS, US There's a distinctive west coast signature in each of their glorious tunes, reminiscent of rock forefathers such as Neil Young, Lindsey Buckingham, Peter Frampton, The Doobie Brothers, Tim and Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith, Wilco, and The Eagles, to name a few. An upbeat pop-tinged album with larger than life percussion, jangling guitars, and heart wrenching vocals that still maintains the crucial darkness that so often taints the west coast folk and rock sound. Upbeat tales of longing, loving, suicide, and loss. "Unbridled euphoria" - LA Times. DimMak CD $11.50 Donelly, Tanya/Luff Heart Of Gold/Tell Me Why (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 31ST) PS, US HEART OF GOLD is an exclusive 7" gold vinyl split featuring 2 advance tracks from the "Cinnamon Girl - Women Artists Cover Neil Young" benefit CD. Side A features the title track "Heart of Gold" as covered by the amazing TANYA DONELLY (Belly, Breeders, Throwing Muses). Side B features Brooklyn 's favorite daughters LUFF covering "Tell Me Why." 33-1/2 rpm, small hole, beautiful translucent gold vinyl, original sleeve art, and limited to only 500 hand-numbered copies worldwide. All proceeds from this record to charity. AmericanLaundromat-0008 45 $6.25 Epic 45 May Your Heart Be The Map (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 14TH PS, UK It comes as no surprise to find that Epic45 grew up - and still reside - in a small rural village in the heartland of the English Midlands. Based around the nucleus of 25 year old school friends Ben Holton and Rob Glover, Epic45 have had a varied and fluid line-up since their debut in 1999, releasing a series of highly acclaimed EPs and albums for labels such as Bearos, Awkward Silence and Where Are My Records. Inspired by their surroundings, blissful childhood summers and mysterious / inspiring walks the duo have been making music for more than a decade. Their latest album May Your Heart be the Map' sees Epic45 concentrating on a more bucolic sound, mixing cyclical acoustic guitars, chiming reverbs and field recordings. The album was originally inspired by 1970s British TV series 'Survivors', a fictional account of a plague that wipes out most of the worlds population. The idea of a near-deserted world in which people have to rebuild their lives amid the ruins of the previous civilization seemed strangely appealing. However, other themes crept in slowly, the 'empty world' began to represent our lives now and inevitably the duo started looking back to childhood and simpler, happier times. The title is simply a rallying call to like minded people, an expression of hope in an uncertain world. As with previous releases, May Your Heart Be The Map features a collaboration with Antony Harding of July Skies/Avrocar. This time, Harding contributes fragile vocals to the track 'We Left Our Homes For Winter'. Whilst very unique in style and approach, the music and ethos of this album may recall the youthfulness of Leeds band Hood, the experimentalism of that great lost pop band from the 1990's Disco Inferno, and is likely to delight fans of the experimental label Type and their artists Helios, Xela and Goldmund. But no doubt admirers of other classic British bands such as New Order, The Durutti Column, Felt and The House of Love will also find much to immerse themselves in and start working their way through Epic 45's enigmatic back catalogue. MakeMineMusic-031 CD $17.00 False (AKA Matthew Dear) 2007 (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH) PS, US Essentially a special one-off live set. He's concocted a work of such stunning intricacy,verve & substance that it will surely be amongst the favorites when this year's highlights are assessed. What is so memorable about this collection of tracks is the way it strikes the perfect balance between abstract experimentation & full-on techno nirvana w/ out ever breaking stride or losing focus.There's nothing brash or over-blown here,all the real action is nestled between the beats, enticing yet unreachable,while the grooves he concocts are all so earthy & raw that the kick drum functions as an alternative rather than a necessity. Minus-055 CD $16.25 Film School Hideout (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH) PS, US Their second full-length builds on the band's pretty, shoegazer pop and richly textured space rock soundscapes by emphasizing powerful rhythms and beautiful melodies that take the songwriting to a new level. "Hideout" is more like a sonic galaxy that engulfs you from all angles. You're enveloped by layers of reverb, loops, and the interplay of male/female voices. A driving, forceful rhythm section fuels a propulsive energy that gives an urgent quality to much of the album, whereas other tracks convey a wistful melancholy. It's this combination of ethereal atmosphere and strong rhythm that makes the album wholly compelling and promises a powerful live experience. "Wonderfully off-kilter pop songs" - NME. Beggars CD $11.00 Film School Hideout (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Beggars LP $13.25 Fine Arts Showcase, The Sings Rough Bunnies (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 2007) PS, SWEDEN Third album from Gustaf Kjellvander's Fine Arts Showcase, and the follow-up to his 110% brilliant. The short version: TFAS covers 11 song by Swedish cult-twee-punk-lofi duo The Rough Bunnies. Highly recommended. The long version: This is an album of many stories. Gustaf Kjellvander and his friends in The Fine Arts Showcase have made a covers album, entirely based on songs from the Swedish, rather unknown, jangly, lo-fi band Rough Bunnies. Why is that? Let's make Gustaf himself explain: "I was first introduced to Anna Vermina and her cousin Frida, the founding members of Rough Bunnies and Inside Riot, through mutual friends. Frida gave me a CD-R just days before they were about to move to Berlin. About six months later I was looking for someone to rent my spare room. I bumped into Frida by chance, who told me she had moved back from Berlin to Malmö and needed a place to stay - so she moved in. I was already smitten by Inside Riot at this time, and when Frida played me the songs they had recorded in Berlin, along with the Rough Bunnies record C-sides, it blew me away. I played it to everyone who came over to my house. They became an obsession that carries on to this day. I knew I wanted the Fine Arts Showcase to cover their songs. The problem was that with a catalogue of songs as amazing as theirs it was hard to pick just one, so I came up with the idea that we should do an entire record instead (in the Merle Haggard sings Jimmy Rodgers tradition). And here it is: a musical love letter to two of my favorite songwriters, a celebration of the pop geniuses of the Vermina family. Rough Bunnies (and their twin group Inside Riot) have inspired me more than any other band this side of the millennium and this record is my way of thanking them. Rough Bunnies Saved My Life" - Gustaf Kjellvander Adrian-051 CD $15.00 Firefox AK Madame, Madame! (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH) PS, US Firefox AK is Andrea Kellerman, former singer for UK trip-hop collective Anamorphic. This debut features twelve tracks of melodic electronic pop that somehow both slam you hard and then softly and inexplicably catch you as you fall. A whole blend of divergent influences that'll leave you so gloriously lost you may choose not to come back. The best electro pop since Kraftwerk released "Man Machine". MintyFresh CD $11.50 Flaming Lips U.F.O's At The Zoo - The Legendary Concert In Oklahoma City [MVI album] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 21ST) PS, US PITCHFORK: "The Flaming Lips' first live document features a gigantic UFO, an army of fans in alien and Santa costumes, streamers, strobes, smoke machines, balloons, and massive amounts of confetti-- and that's just the first song. Most bands build up to this sort of explosive spectacle, but for the Lips, it's a starting point. Their shows are as much about spectacle as they are about music, which explains the hybrid technology on UFOs at the Zoo: The Legendary Concert in Oklahoma City. This document, which is neither simply an album nor simply a concert film, is being issued as an MVI album, which means it plays on DVD players but not CD players, and contains bonus digital material." What Is MVI? With a higher storage capacity than a standard CD, the Music Video Interactive Disc (MVI) contains new interactive features including, superior sound quality, a wide range of video features, and interactive digital content. MVI discs play in all standard DVD players, computers, and game consoles with DVD drives but do not play in conventional CD players. Digital music files are compatible with all MP3 devices. Warner/WEA DVD-MVI $27.50 Furman, Ezra & The Harpoons Banging Down The Doors (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH) PS, US This Chicago group wields their fractured-folk-meets-maniacal-rock to capture the grandeur, pain, and wildness of life in song. The results are by turns beautiful, funny, angry, and often poignant and inspirational. Produced by Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Iron & Wine). MintyFresh CD $11.50 Fuxa Commits Suicide (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 14TH) PS, UK Fuxa returns with its second single to the upcoming album "Electric Sound of Summer." This EP features various versions of 2 Suicide covers "Girl" (recorded with SONIC BOOM of SPACEMEN 3) and "Cheree" (recorded with DEAN WAREHAM of GALAXIE 500/LUNA). EP also includes one original song titled "4th Abductions" recorded with Suicide's MARTIN REV. LIMITED to 1000! MindExpansion-2013 CD5 $8.25 Gallon Drunk Tonite... The Singles Bar [expanded] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH) PS, US Expanded 18-track re-issue. Satorial CD $16.25 Gallon Drunk From the Heart of Town [expanded] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH) PS, US Expanded 18-track re-issue. Satorial CD $0.00 Gallon Drunk Tonite... The Singles Bar [expanded] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH) PS, US Expanded 16-track re-issue. Satorial CD $16.25 Giantess s/t (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 28TH) PS, US Formerly known as Canada's "The Battles". Giantess is a blistering exercise in profundity, veering wildly from accelerated rave-ups to introspective ballads that tug at the heart (often with tongue planted firmly in cheek). Giantess delivers with the poetic grandeur of Bryan Ferry or Graeme Downs at their absolute peak, and with the muscle & pathos of The Soft Boys or Jesus of Cool-era Nick Lowe. Giantess is first & foremost a relationship record that relies on sentiments both ridiculously absurd & vastly astute. A British influence looms large in Stephen Wood's brilliant songwriting- comparisons to Ray Davies & John Lennon are commonplace -in much the same way those pillars informed Robert Pollard's forays into songs. Likewise, Giantess' erstwhile approach thrusts the genre forward with liberal swaths of heart, wit, warmth, melody & raw power. SoftAbuse-23 CD $12.25 Go! Team Proof of Youth (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH) PS, US England's Go! Team play a fast and furious mix of 60s girl groups, 70s car chase TV themes, 80s lady MCs, and 90s guitar squalor. Their 2005 debut, "Thunder, Lightning, Strike" was critically lauded for its cheerleader anthems, syrupy string samples, and mad-as-a-hatter horn arrangements. This release bombs melodies into the stone age with its needle-in-the-red anti-production approach. It lurches from bubblegum pop to white noise in a heartbeat. Contributors include Chuck D, the original Double Dutch Divas, Rapper's Delight Club, Marina from Bonde Do Role, Solex, and Washington, DC's Frederick Douglas All Star Cheer Team. Subpop CD $14.00 Go! Team Proof of Youth (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! Subpop LP $13.25 Gonzalez, Jose In Our Nature (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 25TH) PS, US New album! Artwork TBC. Jose Gonzalez has revealed the details of his forthcoming album. 'In Our Nature' -- the follow-up to his 2005 debut 'Veneer' -- is due out in the US on September 25 via Mute. "I like playing with symbolism," said the Swedish singer-songwriter of the new album. "On this album I've wanted to bring out the primitive aspects of human beings." Gonzalez is currently touring in South America and will be playing several festival dates this summer as well as touring the US this fall. Mute CD $13.00 Good Life, The Help Wanted Nights (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH) PS, US VINYL VERSION!!! SaddleCreek LP $13.25 Good Life, The Help Wanted Nights (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH) PS, US The songs on the band's fourth and finest LP were initially meant as the soundtrack to a screenplay that Tim Kasher (vocals, guitar, member of Cursive) started writing in 2006. These songs seemed to describe moments of raw emotion more than chronicle a linear tale, so the group kept them as close to their original incarnations as possible, recording them true to form. The results are more stripped down and threadbare than previous Good Life creations. Yet the songs are also quite expansive, digging into deep emotional territory through narrative and melody. Achingly beautiful and sharply astute, "Help Wanted Nights" details human nature in the most honest way possible - taking risks without regret. SaddleCreek CD $11.50 Grayskul Bloody Radio (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH) PS, US Born out of the Pacific Northwest's Oldominion hip-hop collective, Onry Ozzborn and JFK emerged as Reason and Fiddleback Recluse in 2004, forming the righteously eerie alliance known as Grayskul. Always reinventing themselves, the two return as Count Draven (Onry) and Count Magnus (JFK) to deliver this release; reverse brainwash music for today's hip-hop listeners, typically force-fed imaginary genres. Grayskul smashes these genres seamlessly into one while interweaving all with message, substance, concepts, wittiness, opinion, and most of all, honesty while still maintaining a sense of humor, imagination, and originality. Rhymesayers CD $12.50 Gucci Soundsystem Acarpenter (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 14TH) PS, US Henry Riton & Ben Fat Trucker (nee Rymer) are 2 stalwarts of London's exploding electro-rock scene. Separately,they each have long histories releasing records & DJing all over the world. The re-released single now includes a stunning Joakim remix on the B-side. DFA-113 12 $8.00 Hayman, Darren Minehead EP (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 21ST) PS, UK 500 only seven inch vinyl. StaticCaravan-131-7 45 $8.00 Hayseed Dixie Weapons of Grass Destruction (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JUNE 16TH) PS, US Along with the Bad Livers,this is the world's foremost country band devoted to covering hard-rock songs in classic bluegrass style.This doesn't find these hard-rocking pickers &grinners any more sedate.Far from it.Instead the boys take on assorted classics by the Sex Pistols, the Beatles,Judas Priest, the Rolling Stones, &others, plucking up a serious,head-banging storm.It's a silly good time any way you slice it. CookingVinyl-4888 CD $15.25 Heaton, Angie & The Gentle Tamers The Rumor Mill (ON SALE / PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 10TH) PS, US 'The Rumor Mill' is the new album by Illinois songstress and Parasol Retail Queen Angie Heaton, former member of The Tractor Kings, Corndolly and Liquorette. On this, Angie's 4th album, she's joined by a country band, The Gentle Tamers, including veteran Nashville session player, Bobby Watson, on guitar, banjo and pedal steel. This album take Angie's songs and sounds from the rock club to the barn dance, with her trademark vocal phrasing falling comfortably behind the beat like Willie Nelson, and a voice that brings to mind Neko Case, Lucinda Williams, and Kasey Chambers. In 'The Rumor Mill', Angie gives us 10 more songs about crushes, death, and being crushed to death; including a Tex-Mex-ed version of the Trembling Blue Stars' classic "Sometimes I Still Feel The Bruise". Spur-CD-005 CD $9.00 Henry, Joe Civilians (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH) PS, US Since the release of 2003's acclaimed "Tiny Voices", singer/songwriter Henry has appeared mainly as a producer, working on career defining releases by Aimee Mann, Ani DiFranco, Elvis Costello, Solomon Burke, and most recently as producer and co-writer of "Strange Weirdos" (with Loudon Wainwright), the soundtrack to the film "Knocked Up". Working with this generation's finest songwriters inspired Joe to his strongest set of songs on "Civilians"; songs of a new warmth and directness and a bold sense of melody that rides atop the cutting edge arrangements he's become known for. Features legendary pianist/songwriter Van Dyke Parks (everyone from the Beach Boys to U2) and jazz guitar pioneer Bill Frisell (Elvis Costello, Norah Jones). Anti CD $15.50 Japancakes Giving Machines (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE OCTOBER 2ND) PS, US Darla is proud to offer the fifth new record from Japancakes - Athens, GA's incomparable instrumental Pop/Americana quintet. Giving Machines features eight new trademark blissed-out yet solid as ever compositions brought to life in Japancakes unique way with a signing pedal steel guitar, cello, keyboards, guitar, bass, and drums. There's even a cover of Cocteau Twins' "Heaven Or Las Vegas" with pedal steel taking the place of Liz Frazer's vocals. Japancakes do not record together like other bands. They do play together but when they record in the studio they do so one at a time. Each player writes their own part and adds it to the part(s) recorded previously by fellow band members. The result of this practice is that the personality of each individual player is often better captured. Each player's individual performance is strengthened by it. Japancakes is Eric Berg, rhythm guitar, Nick Belli, bass, Brant Rackey, drums, John Neff, pedal steel, Heather McIntosh, cello, Andy Barker, production. RIYL: Dreamy, lazy, stellar, Post Rock, Shoegaze, Electronica, Americana, Tortoise, Mogwai, Sigur Ros, Hammock, Santo & Johnny. Tracklisting: 1. Double Jointed, 2. Lalita, 3. Heaven Or Las Vegas, 4. Title, 5. The Enablers, 6. Recovering Australia, 7. Tracing Maps, 8. In Memory Of Honey. Total run time 42:45. "...a roots-inspired, beautifully crafted pop instrumental record that extracts feelings and emotions better than that of most "intimate" singer-songwriters." --IN MUSIC WE TRUST. Darla-185 CD $12.25 Japanther Skuffed Up My Huffy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 28TH) PS, US Five years, 1000 shows later, Japanther enters into legendary territory, naturally combining catchy hooks, heart pounding beats & frenetic energy with DIY aesthetics. Their 5th full length delivers the goods: from the opening notes of the first track you realize that Japanther have taken it now one step further & have delivered an album that combine their studio promise with their razor live shows. MenloPark-7046 CD $11.50 Jennifer Gentle New Astronomy (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH) PS, ITALY This album is dedicated to Giovanni Paneroni, amateur astronomer and misunderstood genius (earth flat, sun small, etc). "A New ASstronomy" is probably the most eccentric and out-there JG release to date, the imaginary soundtrack for some of their most bizarre, vivid dreams - obviously interspersed by the occasional nightmare. It's made by grainy, hallucinated musical scores trying to depict the beautiful, the scary, the annoying and the simply absurd inhabiting dreams. It runs the gamut from ghostly ambient drones to brain-damaged acoustic sketches, covering everything in between - furious guitar freak-outs and a hommage to British 60's producer Joe Meek included. (Note: this is the official release of the ultra rare cd-r released by Sub Pop in 2005 in a 100 copies limited edition). ASilentPlace CD $16.75 Jesu/Eluvium Split (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH) PS, US *LIMITED*For the second installment in the collaborative series of split albums between TEMPORARY RESIDENCE LTD. and HYDRA HEAD RECORDS, we find a match made in heaven with the ethereal, grandiose dirge-pop of JESU splitting sides with stately, deserted majesty of ELUVIUM. Already fans of each other's music, the two artists sought to compliment each other and in the process stretched their individual sounds to their outermost limits. Jesu shoots for the moon with a trio of fuzzed-out tunes that owes more to first-wave British shoegaze groups like SWERVEDRIVER and RIDE than Broadrick's own roots in GODFLESH and NAPALM DEATH. It's a beautiful and brilliant evolution in Jesu's already accomplished career. Eluvium aims for the heart of the sun with his magnum opus, a three-part collaboration with JEREMY DEVINE that stretches Eluvium's contemplative drones to a staggering twenty-one minutes, in which time the song transforms from a lonely rattle to a seismic, swirling storm of sound that grinds the piece to haunting quiet. TemporaryResidenceLtd.-126 LP $10.25 Jimmy Eat World Static Prevails [expanded] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 31ST) PS, US Reissue of this Capitol title includes rare &unreleased bonus material hand picked by the band. Capitol/EMI CD $18.75 Jimmy Eat World Clarity [expanded] (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 31ST) PS, US Expanded reissue of this Capitol title includes rare &unreleased bonus material hand picked by the band. Capitol/EMI CD $18.75 Ju Suk Reet Meate Solo 78/79 aka Do Unseen Hands Keep You Dumb? (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH) PS, US Solo work by member of the noise collective Smegma. Recorded in '78/'79 and pressed in a miniscule quantity the next year, this record has been largely unavailable outside collector circles. Now it's available as a digipak CD with liner notes by Wolf Eyes' John Olson and contains a couple never before released tracks. A post-Zappa, stoned blues/concrete mélange of guitar, tapes, found sounds, and voice. As a member of what many have called the greatest band of our time, Ju Suk Reet Meate has had an immeasurable influence on the creators of underground culture the globe over, and this CD bears his heft. DeStijl CD $13.25 Junior Senior Hey Hey My My Yo Yo (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE JULY 31ST) PS, US New album from delirious Danes. Ryko CD $17.75 Kinski Down Below It's Chaos (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 21ST) PS, US New album. Down Below It's Chaos is Kinski's 3rd full-length for Sub Pop. With the notable inclusion of 3 songs with subdued yet urgent vocals courtesy of Chris Martin, the new record is a kaleidoscopic mix of Kinski's expansive, over-driven power and intricate beauty. With majestically fuzzed-out guitar tones, spare and pounding rhythms, and swirling sonic textures, Down Below It's Chaos sums up Kinski's past and propels them into the ozone. What's left of it, that is. SubPop CD $12.50 Land Of A Thousand Rappers VOL. 1: Fall of the Pillars (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE AUGUST 7TH) PS, US Three years in the making, LAND OF A THOUSAND RAPPERS: "Vol 1, The Fall of the Pillars," will land on August 7, 2007 via ASTHMATIC KITTY'S new imprint for conceptual and electronic projects, UNUSUAL ANIMALS. This complex and obsessively-detailed sci-fi epic utilizes the medium of recorded hip-hop as a fundamental construct, not just as a shtick connection to the fiction of science. The album's commitment to narrative detail is exhaustive, like a zealous Dungeon Master for suburbanites weaned on Choose Your Own Adventure books, Yo! MTV Raps and noise cassette culture. AsthmaticKitty-403 CD $11.50 Le Loup The Throne Of The Third Heaven Of The Nations' Millennium General Assembly (PRE-ORDER: SALEABLE SEPTEMBER 11TH) PS, US Created during a time of personal crisis, "The Throne" is a cataclysm, an escape, and a journey. Inspired largely by Dante's "Inferno", the complex themes of this record are characterized by mounting tension and dramatic swells, coupled with an engaging emotional resonance that lifts just as much as it illuminates. A collection of rushing narratives that connect the individual struggle of each of us to the death of the universe in a manner that's both intimate and unshakably vital. "...Le Loup are going for the multi-layered collage of instrumentation sound and the end result is a surprisingly fun and danceable mix of music that can range from Arcade Fire to Death Cab For Cutie to even a smattering of Denali" - Pastepunk.