Where do you go to search for new music? Who or what has been a new find you’d like to rave about?
Most of the artists I work with are playing in one of the music scenes or communities we work with. I’ve always approached running the label much more like a documentarian rather than a curator so it’s always been less about my personal taste as much as it is about what’s going on.
Is there a genre that you would consider to be the label’s “signature style,” or is it a mix?
I’ve always been much more interested as a listener and a label owner in what is being expressed rather than how it is being expressed.
We know you can’t choose, but what’s been your favorite label release, and why?
I don’t have any tattoos but I imagine this would be like asking someone to pick their favorite.
What is your stance on color vinyl?
How did you personally get started in the music industry?
I’m still trying to figure out if I’m actually in the music industry or not, but about five or six years after the label began I started to have a goal of getting our releases distributed and known nationally.
When and where did the label begin?
New Brunswick, NJ even though I was living in Boston at the time, in 2003 or 2004 depending on how accurate you want to be.
What is the meaning behind the name for the label?
It comes from the movie Dirty Work but doesn’t really have any meaning behind it other than liking the way it sounded. If I knew I would still be doing the label all these years later I probably would have tried to think of something even dumber.
How has the label changed since it started?
The goals of providing a viable alternative to a corporately controlled music industry that can level the playing field and allow artists to be relevant nationally on their own terms, and putting artists and art first really hasn’t changed much since starting the label.
Describe the general makeup of your team at the label. I’m still handling almost everything myself the same way I did when I started but I’ve been really fortunate to be able to pay friends to help with things from time to time. Right now Mike Campbell handles press for us, and Jon Herroon fulfills our mail-order, he also runs his own label called Fire Hazard Records which I encourage you to check out.
What has been the biggest challenge for you and the label during the Pandemic?
All of it.
Is the label tied to a specific geographical area? How is this reflected in your releases?
I’ve always been very community focused and so when the label started for our first ten years or so we only worked with bands in New Brunswick, NJ and the surrounding area. The internet and especially web 2.0 forced me to re-think what the community we were serving was a bit and so now it’s a little less region focused and the label has grown to serve a couple of different communities.
I abhor it and think it’s for children. Small children. I get that grown ups are into it but grown ups will also buy legos and go to disneyland without children.
Forget about the vinyl boom - how are you and your label responding to the ever-increasing popularity of cassette tapes? CDs??
I’ve never really understood the cassette thing but CDs are the main format I listen to so we’ve always tried to make them for the same reason we made vinyl when no one understood why.
How would you describe the average fan of the label? I wouldn’t
In your opinion, how important is it to be environmentally sustainable within the music industry these days?
It is so important it should be mandated and regulated and it’s depressing that it’s not, at least within the independent community. What in your opinion has been the biggest change in the music industry from when you first started compared to now?
When I started Major Labels would illegally collude with Best Buy and WalMart to drive independent labels and local retail out of business. Today, large tech companies collude with each other and Major Labels to drive independent labels and local retail out of business.
Want to shout out a personal favorite record store or retail establishment? Now’s your chance:
Princeton Record Exchange (Princeton, NJ), Angry Mom Records (Ithaca, NY), Record Lounge (Lansing, MI), and Double Decker (Allentown, PA) are some of my personal favorites.
They say our sun will explode in about 5 billion years or so- how would you like the label to be remembered?
Never been super concerned about that kind of thing and more concerned with relevance while the label is active so I appreciate you giving me the chance to talk about it!
Emperor Of New Orleans CD-SBR-7026 (2 CDS)
Love Letters: Allen Toussaint Sessions
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CD-SBR-7983 (2 CDS)
ARTHUR “BIG BOY” CRUDUP
That’s All Right (Mama)
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THE
If I Didn’t Care: An Anthology
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Toronto Rock ’N’ Roll Revival 1 969 CD-SBR-7995
You
LIGHTNIN’ HOPKINS Mojo Hand: The Complete Fire Sessions
CD-SBR-7028
SAM & DAVE Soul Classics CD-SBR-7014 (2 CDS)
JOE SIMON Nine Pound Steel CD-SBR-7015LE (2 CDS)
IKE & TINA TURNER
The Bolic Sound Session
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JAMES BROWN Super Bad Live! CD-SBR-7030
GLADYS KNIGHT & THE PIPS Essential 1961-1965
INK SPOTS
JOHNNY ADAMS Only Want To Be With
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CHUCK BERRY
ERNIE K-DOE
AARON NEVILLE
VARIOUS ARTISTS
Doing It In Lagos: Boogie, Pop & Disco In 1980s Nigeria
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CAT. # CD-SNDW-087
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CD UPC: 5056032306615
VARIOUS ARTISTS Ritmo Fantasía: Balearic Spanish Synth-Pop, Boogie & House (1982-1992)
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Kenya Special: Selected East African Recordings from the 1970s & 80s
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LP UPC: 5060091552845
VARIOUS ARTISTS
Síntesis Moderna: An Alternative Vision Of Argentinean Music (1980-1990)
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LP UPC: 5060571361776
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COLLEEN GRANT / SANDRA HAMILTON Latin Parang / Parang Jam 12”
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LP UPC: 5060571360939
CHARLES AMOAH Sweet VibrationFounded in 2002, Soundway Records is an independent record label which has released many critically acclaimed compilation albums and sought-after re-issues of African, Caribbean, Latin and Asian music from the 1950s onwards.
Alongside these, over the last 10 years the label has also been developing a series of original contemporary releases.These include artists such as Ondatropica, Meridian Brothers, Bomba Estereo, Dexter Story, The Heliocentrics, The Mauskovic Dance Band and Lord Echo.
IDLES released ‘CRAWLER’ on November 12, 2021. It’s an album of reflection and healing amid a worldwide pandemic that stretched the planet’s collective mental and physical health to the breaking point.
Frontman JOE TALBOT says, “We want people who’ve gone through trauma, heartbreak, and loss to feel like they’re not alone, and also how it is possible to reclaim joy from those experiences.” IDLES albums have always been anchored by these overarching themes, but the ability of the band to juxtapose beauty and rage with humor and drama has never felt more satisfying than on ‘CRAWLER’.
TITLE: Crawler
- CD and Standard black vinyl LP are on 5% discount from 12/30/22 - 2/3/23
- ‘CRAWLER’ has been nominated for Best Rock Album and Crawl! has been nominated for Best Rock Performance
- $10k digital ad spend behind CRAWLER running Dec 14 through end of January
- Released “Making of Crawler” video on YouTube in December
- Crawl! commercial alternative radio campaign running November 2022 - February 2023
- Performed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on January 4
- Following Grammy nominations, confirmed features in Variety, SPIN, Pollstar, and Consequence
- Print ads ran in the Grammy voter issues of Billboard & HITS Magazine
- Previous albums ‘Brutalism’ (2017), ‘Joy As An Act of Resistance’ (2018), and ‘Ultra Mono’ (2020) have sold over 210k copies, including 100M+ streams
- NPR Tiny Desk performance has 7 million views
- 1M monthly listeners on Spotify
- Prioritizing short-form video content featuring ‘CRAWLER’ on TikTok (81K followers, 1M likes) and Reels
- 231K Instagram followers, 182K Facebook followers, 162K YT subscribers, 91K Twitter followers and 65K subscribers to their mailing list.
- The band are also Ivor Novello winners and previously nominated for the BRIT Awards and Mercury Prize
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CAT# — CD-PTKF-3014
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Standard black LP — Single jacket, black vinyl, printed inner sleeve, sticker over the shrinkwrap with barcode + album details
UPC — 720841301417
CAT# — LP-PTKF-3014
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Deluxe double LP — Double LP, mastered at half speed and cut at 45RPM, in a gatefold jacket with printed inner sleeves, sticker over the shrinkwrap with barcode + album details
UPC — 720841301486
CAT# — LP-PTKF-3014X
IDLES ‘CRAWLER’ HAS JUST BEEN NOMINATED FOR TWO GRAMMYS: ‘BEST ROCK ALBUM’ & ‘BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE’!
21 Jan: Seattle, WA / Neptune Theatre
22 Jan: Portland, OR / Star Theatre
24 Jan: San Francisco, CA / The Fillmore
26 Jan: Los Angeles, CA / Fonda Theatre
27 Jan: San Diego, CA / Casbah
15 Feb: Rock Island, IL / Rozz-Tox
16 Feb: Chicago, IL / Co-Prosperity Sphere
17 Feb: Pittsburgh, PA / Andy Warhol Museum
18 Feb: Montreal, QC / Société des arts technologiques
5 April: Philadelphia, PA / Solar Myth
6 April: Brooklyn, NY / National Sawdust
Eli Winter
January 22: Chicago, IL / Empty Bottle duo with David Grubbs
January 26: Brooklyn, NY / Shift duo with David Grubbs
February 21: Chicago, IL / Frequency Festival
March 2: Rock Island, IL / Rozz-Tox
March 4-5: Columbia, MO / True/False Festival
March 22: Gainesville, FL / Baby J
March 23: Jacksonville, FL / The Walrus
March 24: Durham, NC / Duke Coffeehouse
March 26: Asheville, NC / Static Age Records
April 16: Glenview, IL / Glenview Public Library
May 4: Iowa City, IA / Trumpet Blossom Cafe
plans to tour US summer 2023
plans to tour Europe fall 2023
Lia Kohl
February 16: Chicago, IL / Co-Prosperity Sphere
February 18: Chicago, IL / Constellation duo with Macie Stewart
March 2-5: Columbia, MO / True/False Film Festival
March 10: Chicago, IL / TBA album release show
3/16: Los Angeles, CA / TBA
3/17: Los Angeles, CA / Zebulon
3/18: Oakland, CA / Bandcamp HQ
3/20: Portland, OR / Mississippi Studios
3/21: Seattle, WA / Sunset Tavern
3/24: Boise, ID / Treefort Festival
4/1: Milwaukee, WI / Woodland Pattern plans to tour East Coast late spring 2023 plans to tour Europe fall 2023
Lucy Liyou
9 April: Den Haag, NL / Rewire
11 April: London, UK / Cafe OTO plans to tour Europe April 2023
Patrick Shiroishi
March 10: New York, NY / Roulette
March 24: Vancouver, BC / St. James Hall
March 25: Seattle, WA / Neumos
March 26: Portland, OR / Revolution Hall
March 28-29: SF, CA / Great American Music Hall
March 31-April 1: LA, CA / Masonic Lodge
April 4: Chicago, IL / Thalia Hall
April 6: Toronto, ON / Axis Club Theatre
April 8: Somerville, MA / Crystal Ballroom
April 9: New York, NY / Le Poisson Rouge
Mute Duo
January 28: Chicago, IL / Constellation
April 13: Chicago, IL / Empty Bottle plans to tour Midwest summer 2023
American Dreams Records is a transcontinental experimental label dedicated to showcasing art inspired by patience, intention, perseverance, hope, and leaving the world a little more beautiful than we found it. Our ethos is rooted in storytelling, inclusivity, community, and cohabitation with the natural world.
Label Contact: Eli Winter, label manager
eli@american-dreams.zone
LP UPC: 749846914415
Packaging: Vinyl LP with DL code. New pressing on watery blue vinyl due December 2022.
Label: Slumberland Records
Catalog Number: SLR 144
Street Date: June 10, 2022
1. Fine Day For Sailing
2. I’m Still Crying
3. I Just Do
4. Bigger Than An Ocean
5. Long Distance
6. Windy
7. Blue Sky
8. Don't Go
9. Ray Of Sunshine
10. Together Forever In Love
11. Every Day
12. Silly
13. Last Year
14. The Boy Who Sailed Around The World
TL; DR: Long-awaited vinyl reissue of the complete catalog from this super-influential US indie band.
RIYL: Tiger Trap, Heavenly, Cub, Lois
Go Sailor were a great, short-lived band from the mid-90s who represent a key link in the US indie music chain. Featuring Rose Melberg (Tiger Trap, The Softies, Gaze, Brave Irene, Knife Pleats), Linton (Henry’s Dress, The Aislers Set) and Paul Curran (Take A Day fanzine, Crimpshrine, Monsula), they released three great singles and a few compilation tracks, and then went their separate ways. But what records they are! Basic and lovely in their song-writing, they’re perfect snapshots of where indie-pop was during that last burst of pre-internet indie activity. Touching on time-honored themes of friendship and love (lost and found), they resonate with honesty and purity of intention. The trio reunited in the early 2010s to play to enraptured crowds at the NYC and Athens Popfests, and their appearance at the Slumberland 20th Anniversary show was the stuff of legend. This album compiles all three of their 7” singles (for Slumberland, Yoyo and Lookout!) and compilation tracks, and was first released on vinyl in 2011. Due to pressing plant issues it quickly went out of print, so we are very happy to bring you this new edition, back on vinyl where it belongs with a new insert featuring liner notes and lots of cool band pictures and ephemera.
Contact: Stephen Svacina
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12”EP
Street Date: Feb. 24, 2023
It seems awhile ago, but it wasn’t –not in days and months...whatever time is. But in terms of phases –- we’ve been in and out of all kinds of bags since last summer, right? There’s the us before we heard the rest that 2022 had to offer, and then there’s us today. And coming on seven months later, fresh as it still is, “Hello, Hi” is disappearing in the rearview, like everything else that’s going down the road.
But July 2022, it was in the headlights, dead ahead. We weren’t there yet, we couldn’t know what it would mean, but we were excited to find out. And in L.A., with the release show at Teragram coming up, Ty and the Freedom Band were working and playing to get it together. There’d be a little acoustic set to open things up, which was something different, so a last minute show was drummed up, for Ty and Emmett to work it out in front of some people. And that kind of became the REAL record release show.
Word went out afternoon of the 21st
–- free show tonight in Highland Park –- YEAH! A crowd showed up that evening and crammed in among the vintage clothes to hear some music and share some times. And most of us missed it! But nobody missed it quite like your present scribe did –- I went down, stopped in, said hi –- my lady-friend bought a hat –- and then we split, regretfully, a previous engagement to attend.
What suckers we were! This show clearly ruled, just hearing the five songs included here. With the incredible feelings of the crowd and the spontaneous play in the songs we now know from the album almost miraculously captured to tape (by the capturer himself, Mike Kreibel) at FULL WARMTH, none of us can say we missed it at all anymore –- drop the needle and you’re there, at the launching of sounds that added to the evolution of the world we’ve been living in ever since!
So that’s the story -- “Hello, Hi”, goodbye
NO EXPORT TO UK & EUROPE, JAPAN, AUSTRALIA & NZ – ALL OTHER TERRITORIES ARE PRIMED FOR WORSHIP!
1. Old Ties and Companions
2. Settled Down
3. Little Worlds
4. Rounder
5. From Now On
6. Jump Mountain Blues
7. That Wrecking Ball
8. Blue Ruin
9. Daylight
10. Of Which There Is No Like
CD
ITEM NUMBER: CD-YEP-3045
UPC: 634457096011
GENRE: Folk/Americana
PACKAGING: Gatefold CD jacket
BOXLOT: 40
WORLDWIDE RELEASE DATE: MARCH 3, 2023
After the breakout critical success of Watchhouse’s Yep Roc debut,This Side of Jordan, in 2013, you’d expect the relentless onslaught of touring that accompanied it to seep into the writing of the North Carolina duo’s follow-up. You’d expect the sound to reflect long days on the road, long nights onstage, unfamiliar cities, countless miles. You’d expect the classic “road record.” But you’d be wrong. “All of these songs are definitely a product of being on the road,” says multi-instrumentalist/singer Emily Frantz about the band’s 2015 record - Such Jubilee - “but they’re not about the road.” “They’re about home,” explains songwriter/multi-instrumentalist/singer Andrew Marlin. “Not because we were missing it, but because when you’re gone so much, you start realizing what you have and what’s waiting for you. You realize there’s this place to come back to at the end of the journey, and that’s where a lot of these songs come from.”
“Full of graceful ease that subtly pulls you in” - NPR Music
“Over a rich bed of banjo and violin, Andrew Marlin and Emily Frantz harmonize [about] finding one’s place and taking comfort in the discovery” - Wall Street Journal
HIGHLIGHTS:
☛ LP features Purple Vinyl
☛ Album artwork features new band name
☛ Originally released: May 5, 2015
☛ Over 90 million streams across album tracks to date
☛ Over 115,000 US scans to date (includes TEA and SEA)
EXPORT: Worldwide LP
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ITEM NUMBER: LP-YEP-3045C
UPC: 634457099456
GENRE: Folk/Americana
PACKAGING: LP Opaque Deep Purple Vinyl, Single LP jacket, 4-panel folded insert
BOXLOT: 30
EXPORT: Worldwide
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WORLDWIDE RELEASE DATE: MARCH 3, 2023
Lean into Watchhouse’s Blindfaller and it’s bound to happen. You’ll suddenly pick up on the power and devastation lurking in its quietude, the doom hiding beneath its unvarnished beauty. You’ll hear the way it magnifies the intimacy at the heart of the North Carolina duo’s music, as if they created their own musical language as they recorded it. “We talked about the feel of each song and pointed out loosely who was going to be taking solos,but it was mostly a lot of fresh takes, a lot of eye contact, and a lot of nods and weird winks,”says Andrew Marlin, who anchors the band with fellow multi-instrumentalist and singer Emily Frantz.
Originally released September 30, 2016 on Yep Roc Records, Blindfaller builds on the acclaim of Watchhouse’s breakthrough debut on the label, 2013’s This Side of Jordan, and its follow-up, 2015’s Such Jubilee.
“The musical tapestry of ‘Blindfaller’ is delicately woven with lush threads of acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin, violin and pedal steel...However, it’s the vocal interplay of Frantz and Marlin that is the band’s most distinctive calling card.” - Rolling Stone Country
“Because their harmonies have such a sweet, angelic quality, you almost miss out on the righteous warning.” - NPR Music
HIGHLIGHTS:
☛ LP features Clear Orange Vinyl
☛ Album artwork features new band name
☛ Originally released: September 30, 2016
☛ Over 130 million streams across album tracks to date
☛ Over 128,000 US scans to date (includes TEA and SEA)
1. Tracklisting
2. Hey Stranger
3. Wildfire
4. Picking Up Pieces
5. Lonesome Whistle
6. Echo
7. Cold Lover’s Waltz
8. My Blinded Heart
9. Hard Travelin’
10. Gospel Shoes
11. Take This Heart of Gold
CD
ITEM NUMBER: CD-YEP-3046 UPC: 634457095991
GENRE: Folk/Americana
PACKAGING: 4-panel digipack with poster insert
BOXLOT: 40 EXPORT: Worldwide LP
ITEM NUMBER: LP-YEP-3046C UPC: 634457099463
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GENRE: Folk/Americana
PACKAGING: LP Clear Orange Vinyl, Single LP jacket, 2-panel insert
BOXLOT: 30 EXPORT: Worldwide
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THIS SIDE OF JORDAN
ITEM NUMBER: CD-YEP-2338 UPC: 634457233829
GENRE: Alternative Singer Songwriter PACKAGING: Digipak
BOXLOT: 30 EXPORT: Worldwide
ITEM NUMBER: LP-YEP-2338 UPC: 634457233812
GENRE: Alternative, Singer Songwriter
PACKAGING: Standard Jacket
BOXLOT: 50 EXPORT: Worldwide
ITEM NUMBER: CD-YEP-2638 UPC: 634457263864
GENRE: Folk/Americana
PACKAGING: 6 panel Digipak2 clear trays - 8pg booklet - 1 CD
BOXLOT: 40 EXPORT: Worldwide
ITEM NUMBER: LP-YEP-2638 UPC: 634457263888
GENRE: Folk/Americana
PACKAGING: LP in gatefold jacket - black vinyl - insert
BOXLOT: 30 EXPORT: Worldwide 6 34457 26386 4
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SIDE A
1. ENTITLED MAN
2. FOREGROUND MUSIC
3. AT LEAST I'M DANCING
4. VANITY MARCH
5. YUCCA VALLEY MARSHALLS
SIDE B
6. SAN BENEDETTO
7. CAN MY FLOWERS EVEN GROW HERE?
8. BIG TRUCK ENERGY
9. LIFE IS A PRIVILEGE? (INTERLUDE)
10. ANYTHING BUT THIS
11. I LOVE SOMEONE BURIED DEEP INSIDE OF YOU
• SONIC CALLBACK TO HIS BREAKTHROUGH ALBUM
“HEAVY META”
• PRINTED INNER SLEEVE WITH PHOTOS AND CREDITS
• LIMITED EDITION ORANGE VINYL PRESSING
“FOREGROUND MUSIC”, the title of Ron Gallo’s 4th LP, and debut for Kill Rock Stars might also be a suitable name for his own genre. In simplest terms it’s the opposite of background music - unavoidable, urgent, in your face - Gallo’s consistent theme is to confront, disrupt and sometimes even confuse people into a sense of awareness. The intention to steer away from apathy and self-empower by focusing on what we can control and make light of in a world designed to take it away. The guitar is less an instrument and more of a primal noise machine. This record is a challenge to everything and everyone, including his own self, who is holding back the progress of humanity (especially in America) into a more open, empathetic and collective unit - the words delivered with a punkish tenacity and lining even the heaviest topics with an ever-present sense of humor. It covers the full spectrum of emotion. This music feels like life feels right now. In his eyes, how could it not?
Clad in caution tape and construction orange color scheme, much like his surrounding neighborhood in Philadelphia where it was written and recorded. Gallo doesn’t see now (or ever) as the time to sit back and chill - this is going to be what we make it.
Over the course of the record traversing between sounds akin to an exploding NYC subway station, oddball dance-punk, noise pop, even the more grave moments would sit well in whatever a modern version of CBGB’s 1975 would be - in 11 songs Gallo shares detailed anecdotes and takes on male entitlement, the age of anxiety, apathy vs. action, gentrification, narcissism, retail therapy, xenophobia, the dread of future generations, right wing extremists in giant pickup trucks, capitalism, climate change and the experience of having a loved-one who is an addict.
If an existential crisis could somehow be fun - it’s this record.
LP-KRS-744LE CD-KRS-744• Latter-Day Hip Hop Artists Have Seized Upon a Handful of Obscure ‘70s Soul-Funk Albums for Repeated Inspiration
• The South Side Movement’s 1973 Self-Titled Debut Is One of the Most Prominent of the Bunch
• The Group Got Its Start Backing the Sam and Dave-Style Duo Simtec & Wylie
• Chicago Label Owner and Producer James Vanleer Wrote Much of The South Side Movement
• In True, Obscure One Hit Wonder Fashion, the Album Scored a Minor Hit with “I’ Been Watchin’ You”
• But the Album’s Reputation Only Grew Over the Decades
• “I’ Been Watchin’ You” Has Been Sampled by The Beastie Boys, Beck, Erykah Badu, Jadakiss, and many more
• The Rest of the Album Is Very Tasty Windy City SoulFunk, Highlighted by a Great Cover of Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition”
• First-Ever LP Reissue
• Clearwater Blue Vinyl Pressing
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FORMAT: Regular Weight Clearwater Blue Vinyl PACKAGING: Album Jacket BOX LOT: 60
• Trumpeter Don Cherry Burst on the Jazz Scene with Ornette Coleman
• Cherry Went On to Make Some of the Most Interesting Albums in ‘70s Jazz Featuring a Unique Brand of Fusion Incorporating World Music Motifs
• 1977’s Hear & Now Is the Sole Solo Album Cherry Recorded for Atlantic
• Features a Crack Band of Michael Brecker, Collin Walcott, Marcus Miller, Tony Williams, Steve Jordan, and Guitarist Stan Samole, who Particularly Shines
• Probably the Most “Rock” of Cherry’s Albums
• But the Indian drones on “Mahakali” and African Drums on the Dazzling, Album-Ending Suite “Journey of Milarepa/Shanti/The Ending Movement - Liberation (from Welkin of Infinity)” Display His Trademark Eclecticism
• First-Ever American LP Reissue
• Black Vinyl Pressing
This 1973 gem is another one of those obscure ‘70s soul-funk albums released on a small independent label that has gone on to become a cratedigging favorite and a huge inspiration to modern-day hip hop artists and beyond. Chicago-based The South Side Movement began as the backing band for the Sam & Dave-inspired soul duo Simtec & Wylie; their self-titled debut on the Scepter imprint Wand—much of it written by Chicago label owner and producer James Vanleer—scored a top 20 R&B hit with “I’ Been Watchin’ You,” and they went on to make a couple of other records before disbanding in the mid-‘70s. So, your basic one-hit wonder, right? Well, not exactly…while The South Side Movement never reached the same level of commercial success, that one hit has been sampled by—are you ready for this?—The Beastie Boys, Beck, Erykah Badu, Jadakiss, and many more. The rest of the album is very tasty Windy City soul-funk, with an unexpectedly great cover of Stevie Wonder’s “Superstition” a highlight. First-ever LP reissue, pressed in clearwater blue vinyl!
STREET DATE: MARCH 3, 2023
UPC: 848064015062
FORMAT: Regular Weight Black Vinyl
PACKAGING: Album Jacket
BOX LOT: 60
After bursting on the scene with Ornette Coleman, trumpeter Don Cherry went on to make some of the most interesting and collectible albums in modern jazz, particularly during the ‘70s, when he incorporated world music motifs into a singular style of jazz fusion. Produced by Narada Michael Walden, 1977’s Hear & Now was the only solo album Cherry recorded for Atlantic, and while it’s probably the most rock-heavy of any of the albums in his catalog, it still displays his signature eclecticism, incorporating Indian drones on “Mahakali” and African drums on the dazzling, album-ending suite “Journey of Milarepa/Shanti/The Ending Movement - Liberation (from Welkin of Infinity).” It also boasts a fantastic supporting cast with Michael Brecker, Collin Walcott, Marcus Miller, Tony Williams, Steve Jordan, and guitarist Stan Samole, who particularly shines. Firstever American LP reissue!
SONGS
Side One
1. Mahakali
2. Universal Mother
3. Karmapa Chenno
Side Two
1. California
2. Buddha’s Blues
3. Eagle Eye
4. Surrender Rose
5. Journey of Milarepa/Shanti/ The Ending Movement –Liberation (From Welkin of Infinity)
• L.A.-Based Unruly Child Was Led by Vocalist Marcie (formerly Mark) Free, Who First Gained Fame Singing in King Kobra with Carmine Appice
• Their 1992 Self-Titled Debut Was Something of a Melodic Metal Masterpiece
• However, It Was Released on Vinyl Only in Europe as a 54-Minute Record Jammed On to a Single LP
• Now, Real Gone Music Is Bringing Up Unruly Child Right
• Double-LP Release
• Mastered for Vinyl by Eliot Kissileff
• Gatefold Jacket
• Red Vinyl Pressing
• Limited to 1500 Copies
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Not only did the 1992 debut from L.A. band Unruly Child never come out on vinyl here in the U.S., but when it was originally issued on LP in Europe, the powers-that-were decided to stuff this approximately 54-minute record on to a single platter…not a superior listening experience to say the least! So, when we decided to put this out, we elected to release it as a double record AND have it remastered for vinyl by Eliot Kissileff. Guess you could say Unruly Child is all grown up now…all the better to hear this band’s unique brand of melodic metal spearheaded by vocalist Marcie (formerly Mark) Free, who first gained fame singing with Carmine Appice in King Kobra. Red vinyl pressing housed inside a gatefold jacket, limited to 1500 copies!
UPC: 848064014805
FORMAT: 2-LP Regular Weight Red Vinyl
PACKAGING: Gatefold Album Jacket
LIMITED EDITION: 1500 Copies
BOX LOT: 15
• Led by Guitarist-Vocalist Jason Bieler, MiamiBased Hard Rock Band Saigon Kick Gained a Devout Following That Persists to This Day
• Real Gone Music Has Already Reissued Their First Two Atlantic-Label Albums, Saigon Kick and The Lizard, for the First Time on Vinyl in the U.S.
• Now, Real Gone Is Releasing Their Third and Last Album for Atlantic, 1993’s Water
• First Vinyl Release Anywhere in the World
• Features a Fantastic Cover of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity”
• Plus Alternative Rock Faves Like “I Love You” and “One Step Closer”
• Marks the Debut of Jason Bieler as Lead Singer and Bassist Chris McLernon
• Includes Printed Inner Sleeve with Lyrics
• Black Vinyl Release
Vinyl Edition)
STREET DATE: MARCH 3, 2023
We’ve offered U.S. vinyl premieres on the rest of this Miami-based hard rock band’s Atlantic label catalog, so we sure as heck ain’t gonna stop now! Especially when, one, this 1993 album has never been out on vinyl anywhere in the world, and, two, it features their fantastic cover of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” along with highlights like “I Love You” and “One Step Closer.” This record also marks the debuts of guitarist Jason Bieler as lead vocalist and bassist Chris McLernon if you’re keeping score. Inner sleeve with lyrics included. Another one of those ‘90s albums that should have been on vinyl a long time ago!
UPC: 848064013525
FORMAT: Regular Weight Black Vinyl
PACKAGING: Album Jacket with Printed Inner Sleeve
BOX LOT: 30
Side A
1. On the Rise
2. Take Me Down Nasty
3. Who
• 2006’s The Devil Wears Prada Is One of the Smartest and Funniest Films of This Millennium
• The Film Studio 20th Century Fox Knew It Had a Winner When They Acquired the Rights to Lauren Weisberger’s Novel Before It Was Even Published
• And They Threw the Same Kind of Money into the Film’s Soundtrack
• Some of the Biggest Stars on the Planet Appear Here, Including Madonna (“Vogue”), U2 (“City of Blinding Lights”), and Alanis Morissette (“Crazy”)
• Plus Alternative Rock Stalwarts Moby and Ray LaMontagne, Funk/Acid Jazz/ Rave Legends Jamiroquai, and More Dance Pop of the Sort You Might Hear While Watching Models Slink Down the Runway
• VINYL DEBUT
• Printed Inner Sleeve Along with the Iconic Stiletto Heel Album Jacket
• Black and White Marble Vinyl
STREET DATE: March 3, 2023
2006’s The Devil Wears Prada remains one of the funniest and smartest comedies of this millennium. And the studio that made it, 20th Century Fox, knew it all along—they actually bought the film rights to Lauren Weisberger’s novel before it was even published! And they took the same, spare-no-expense approach to the soundtrack…what do you suppose they shelled out for the rights to Madonna’s “Vogue,” U2’s “City of Blinding Lights,” and Alanis Morisette’s “Crazy?” The rest of the soundtrack is top shelf, or should we say haute couture, too, featuring indie-rock stalwarts Moby and Ray LaMontagne, funk/ acid jazz legends Jamiroquai, and more dance-pop of the sort you’d be likely to hear while watching beautiful people slink down a catwalk. Our first-ever LP release of this comes all dressed up with a blood-red stiletto heel cover and a full-color inner sleeve. Black and white marble vinyl!
1. Vogue—Madonna
2. Bittersweet Faith— Bitter:Sweet
3. City of Blinding Lights—U2
4. Seven Days in Sunny June— Jamiroquai
5. Crazy—Alanis Morissette
6. Beautiful—Moby
1. How Come—Ray LaMontagne
2. Sleep—Azure Ray
3. Feelin’ Hypnotized (Black Liquid Remix)— DJ Colette
4. Tres Tres Chic— Mocean Worker
5. Here I Am (Kaskade Radio Edit)—David Morales with Tamra Keenan
6. Suite from The Devil Wears Prada—Theodore Shapiro
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UPC: 848064014942
FORMAT: Regular Weight Black and White Marble Vinyl
PACKAGING: Album Jacket with Printed Inner Sleeve
BOX LOT: 60
• The Bottle Rockets Have Been One of the Greatest Alt-Country Bands Around for Close to Two Decades
• Led by Brian Henneman, Who Got His Start as a Guitar Tech for Fellow Alt-Country Stalwarts Uncle Tupelo
• Released on Atlantic in 1997, 24 Hours a Day Is the Band’s Sole Major Label Release
• Produced by Former Del Lord Eric “Roscoe” Ambel
• Features a Version of “Indianapolis,” the Song That Landed Henneman a Record Deal in the Early ‘90s
• Also Features “Perfect Far Away” and “When I Was Dumb” Among Other Hard-Driving, Tuneful Highlights
• First-Ever Vinyl Release
• Includes a Printed Inner Sleeve
• Coke Bottle Clear Pressing
• Limited to 1000 Copies
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UPC: 848064015024
FORMAT: Regular Weight Coke Bottle Clear Vinyl
PACKAGING: Album Jacket with Printed Inner Sleeve
LIMITED EDITION: 1000 Copies
BOX LOT: 30
• After Penning “Gentle on My Mind” for Glen Campbell and Becoming a Fixture on TV Shows like The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Multi-Instrumentalist John Hartford Could Have Taken the Easy Route to Comfortable Stardom
• Instead, He Moved Back to Nashville from Los Angeles and Made One of the Most Radical Albums in American Music
• 1971’s Aereo-Plain Shattered Every Bluegrass and Country Convention on Its Way to Inventing “Newgrass”
• Featured an Incredible Band Consisting of Hartford, Fiddler Vassar Clements, Dobroist Tut Taylor, Guitarist Norman Blake and Bassist Randy Scruggs
• The Songs on Aereo-Plain Were Fresh, Irreverent, Funny, and Unlike Anything the Staid Bluegrass Community Had Heard Before
• Features the Hilarious Dr. Demento Favorite “Boogie”
• Also the Haunting, Beautiful “First Girl I Loved”
• First LP Pressing in 50 Years
• Includes Inner Sleeve with Lyrics and Liner Notes by Hartford Expert Skip Heller
• Bone Vinyl Pressing
• Limited to 1000 Copies
24 houRs A DAy
(LIMITED COKE BOTTLE CLEAR VINYL EDITION)
Bottle Rockets leader Brian Henneman worked as Uncle Tupelo’s guitar tech for a couple of years before forming an alt-country band that rivalled his former bosses. Released in Atlantic in 1997, 24 Hours a Day represented The Bottle Rockets’ chance at the big time; it’s their sole major label release, and they pulled out all the stops for this one, hiring former Del Lord Eric “Roscoe” Ambel to produce and revisiting “Indianapolis,” the song that got Henneman a record deal back in the early ‘90s. Alas, the record failed to break through commercially; but there will always be a place in our hearts for this kind of hard-driving, honest, tuneful rock and roll, best exemplified by “Perfect Far Away” and “When I Was Dumb.” For its LP debut, we’re pressing this underappreciated classic in coke bottle (natch) clear vinyl housed inside an album jacket with inner sleeve…limited to 1000 copies!
(Limited Bone Vinyl Edition)
STREET DATE: MARCH 3, 2023
UPC: 848064015017
FORMAT: Regular Weight Bone Vinyl
PACKAGING: Album Jacket with Printed Inner Sleeve
LIMITED EDITION: 1000 Copies
BOX LOT: 30
Side One
1. Kit Kat Clock
2. When I Was Dumb
3. 24 Hours a Day
4. Smokin’ 100’s Alone
5. Slo Toms
6. Indianapolis Side Two
1. Things You Didn’t Know
2. One of You
3. Perfect Far Away
4. Waitin’ on a Train
5. Dohack Joe
6. Rich Man
7. Turn for the Worse
After penning the Glen Campbell megahit “Gentle on My Mind” and appearing repeatedly both on Glen’s weekly variety show and on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, John Hartford could have taken the show biz glide path to financial security and ease. Instead, the singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist (and steamboat enthusiast) moved back to Nashville from L.A., signed a contract with Warner Bros., and proceeded to create one of the most influential and groundbreaking albums not just in bluegrass but in modern country music as a whole. 1971’s Aereo-Plain assembled a veritable supergroup consisting of fiddler Vassar Clements, dobroist Tut Taylor, guitarist Norman Blake and bassist Randy Scruggs to play a set of mostly original tunes that were unlike anything the staid bluegrass community had ever heard before. Fresh, irreverent, funny and always—except for the hilarious Dr. Demento favorite Boogie—tuneful, and played by an absolutely scintillating band, the songs on Aereo-Plain pointed to a new stylistic direction for bluegrass, one quickly coined “newgrass;” as Sam Bush of the New Grass Revival says, “Without Aereo-Plain, there would be no ‘newgrass’ music.”
We’re reissuing this essential album on LP for the first time in 50 years; it includes lyrics and liner notes by John Hartford expert Skip Heller. Bone vinyl pressing limited to 1000 copies!
Side One
Side Two
1. Turn Your Radio On 2. Steamboat Whistle Blues 3. Back in the Goodle Days 4. Up on the Hill Where They Do the Boogie 5. Boogie 6. First Girl I Loved 7. Presbyterian Guitar 1. With a Vamp in the Middle 2. Symphony Hall Rag 3. Because of You 4. Steam Powered Aereo Plane 5. Holding 6. Tear Down the Grand Ole Opry 7. Leather Britches 8. Station Break 9. Turn Your Radio On
When the pandemic hit, Hannah van Loon adopted a dog named Gizmo, who became a much-needed companion while the Bay Area musician wrote her second album as Tanukichan. Aptly named after her new four-legged friend, GIZMO is an exercise in release, whether from situational hindrances — a forced lockdown, for one — or from self-imposed hedonistic coping mechanisms. “A theme I always had floating around was escape,” van Loon explains of her follow-up to 2018’s Sundays. “Escaping from myself, my problems, sadness and cycles.”
To channel the more uplifting spirit she wanted for GIZMO, van Loon turned to the radio pop-rock of her childhood: “I was struck by the in-your-face positivity of the lyrics,” she adds, referencing artists like 311, The Cranberries, and Tom Petty. “I wanted to bring that positivity while writing about the sad and helpless emotions I’d been grappling with.” But GIZMO’s lightheartedness doesn’t make it shallow: “I think that I could let it go, as beautiful as snow,” she murmurs on “Don’t Give Up,” a nu metal-meets-Cocteau Twins groove about the sudden awareness that all the relationships you depend on could vanish instantaneously. Van Loon’s main collaborator on GIZMO was Toro y Moi’s Chaz Bear, and the jangly pop earworm “Take Care” showcases the heavily distorted, in-your-face guitarwork reminiscent of Bear’s own psych joints What For? and Mahal. On the hypnotic, wall-of-sound-rocker “Thin Air” featuring Enumclaw, van Loon channels the triumphant grit of The Smashing Pumpkins as she ponders the impermanence of even the most impactful relationships: “I’ll always have the memories/Of how you used to make me see/Until they fell in the ocean/They’re not swimming/They’re not floating.”
Existentialism aside, GIZMO also sees van Loon break out of her sonic comfort zone. “One of the main changes of how I’m approaching music now is that I want to have more fun in the process,” she says, and she walks the line between melodrama and whimsy gracefully: “I can learn something because I’ve been here before,” she sings on the soaring, bittersweet “Been Here Before.” Deftones-inspired thrash drums and screeching electric guitars are gracefully contrasted with van Loon’s hypnotic, almost deadpan vocal style and a crystal clear acoustic guitar she describes as “cute.” Gizmo the dog suddenly passed away right as van Loon finished the album, but he’s immortalized with his photo on the cover — a fitting emblem of this new era of Tanukichan.
• North American publicity by Hive Mind
• College/Non-Commercial and Commercial Specialty radio by Terrorbird
• Sync licensing by Terrorbird
• Follow-up to 2018’s breakthrough album Sundays, both produced by Toro y Moi
• Music videos for “Don’t Give Up, “Take Care,” and “Like You” in the works
• Vinyl includes digital download card
• Spring 2023 touring
TANUKICHAN
GIZMO
CHI18
Street Date: March 3, 2023
File Under: Indie/Alternative
LP UPC = 677517301816
CD UPC = 677517301823
box lot = 25
DISTRIBUTION CONTACT
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1. Escape
2. Don’t Give Up
3. A Bad Dream
4. Been Here Before
5. Make Believe
6. Like You
7. Thin Air (feat. Enumclaw)
8. Nothing to Lose
9. Take Care
10. Mr. Rain
My Bloody Valentine Slowdive Spirit of the Beehive Sasami
ALSO AVAILABLE
Sundays LP - 677517301113
Sundays CD - 677517301120
ARTIST: Fazerdaze
TITLE: Break!
STREET DATE: March 3rd, 2023
Fazerdaze, aka Auckland-based singer/producer/multiinstrumentalist Amelia Murray, is back with new music after a very intentional 5 year pause.
And now Fazerdaze returns with ‘Break!’ – an air-punch purge in musical form, marking an important reintroduction to an essential artist of our times.
In a society where being strong and resilient is often held up like a badge of honor, it’s much, much harder to acknowledge when enough is enough - to accept when it’s time to let go. It’s a truth that Murray has spent years wrangling with, but one whose story thankfully comes with an empowering punchline of personal reclamation.
Rewind back half a decade and, objectively, things for Fazerdaze were hitting their stride. Then residing in Auckland, an early determination to graft hard and “put herself in the right places” had led to working for and then signing with legendary New Zealand label Flying Nun. A debut LP - 2017’s ‘Morningside’ - followed, full of gauzy melodies and influenced by Frankie Cosmos, Japanese Breakfast, and the dream-pop landscape of the time.
Finishing up touring for the record at the end of 2018, Amelia speaks of a deep sense of burn out and, more than that, of feeling the “wheels starting to come off” in her general life. “No longer being stoic and strong was the best thing I ever did for myself. Giving up on the people and things that weren’t working in my life was this big release where I could finally put down this weight that I was carrying, and ever since then everything has been better in my life overall,” she continues, with an audible sense of relief. “I can hear my intuition and write songs and be creative; I signed a record deal, I moved into my own place. It’s like the floodgates opened for good stuff coming into my life.”
- Her first new music in 5 years
- Incredible early press support for Break! from Brooklyn Vegan, Complex, Consequence, DIY, Narc Magazine, Pigeons and Planes, The FADER, and The Guardian
- Immense playlisting support from Spotify and Apple
- She’s had tons of social support from both fans and fellow musicians, including posts shouting out Break! from King Krule and Lorde
- She is Spotify’s EQUAL Ambassador for AU/NZ
- 274K monthly listeners on Spotify (up 33% in the last 6 months)
- 66K YouTube subscribers
- 63K Instagram followers
- 34K Facebook followers
-Tell Heaven follows the re-release of their critically acclaimed full-length album from 1975, When Do We Get Paid.
-Hailed as “powerful” and “Gospel Trailblazers” by The Guardian
-Pop Matters in America gave it 9/10, while British music magazine Uncut gave it an 8/10, calling it “music you that deserves your attention.”
-The three original members of the Staples Jr. Singers are still the core of the band.
Track listing:
A1 When Do We Get Paid (in Full)
B1 Somebody Save Me
B2 I’m Looking for a Man
B3 Tell Heaven
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“DANCING-IN-THEAISLES JUBILATION.” –MOJO
“POWERFUL”
–The Guardian
“ITS RAW STOICISM IS STARTLING… AND THE PERFORMANCES ARE SPINE-TINGLING” –Record Colllector
Release date: MARCH 3, 2023
Label: LUAKA BOP
Format: EP
Catalog number: LP-LBOP-5050
EP: 680899505017
“FULL OF FEELING”
–The Times
“A KEY PIECE OF GOSPEL HISTORY”
–The Vinyl Factory 9/10
“FRAGILE BEAUTY”
–PopMatters
-They’re going on four generations now — and play with their children and grandchildren.
-Making a rare appearance, they’re slated to play select shows in Europe in 2023.
-Their show will likely be one of the most emotional performances you will see all year.
Down across the railroad tracks, on a narrow road called Church Street in West Point, Mississippi, there’s a windowless brick building that’s been converted into a house of worship called The Message Center. One chilly January morning, the original members of a little-known gospel group from Aberdeen, Mississippi, called the Staples Jr. Singers gathered there to play some of their early songs for the first time in nearly 50 years.
"A UNIQUE ECLECTIC SOUND"
–Aquarium Drunkard
"EVERY NOTE IS PERFECTLY PLACED, AND THE RECORD IS AS RAW AS THE EMOTIONS THAT WENT INTO IT.”
–Bandcamp
Many of these songs, which they wrote when they were just teenagers, first appeared on their only full-length release in 1975, When Do We Get P"aid (Luaka Bop, 2022), but none have been revisited—until now.
Release Date: March 3rd, 2023
Weval unveils their forthcoming LP Remember on Ninja Tune’s Technicolour. Weval (Harm Coolen and Merijn Scholte Albers) are an Amsterdam-based duo who have established a solid reputation across the globe for crafting highly textured and sophisticated electronic music. Pitchfork were quick to praise the talent of the duo, highlighting that the “fully-formed nature of their songwriting, sublime pacing and monolithically tasteful atmosphere is remarkable” in their 8.0 review for Weval’s self-titled debut album in 2016.
Since they first released their “Half Age” EP in 2014 on Michael Mayer’s legendary Cologne-based Kompakt label, Weval have strived to test and improve their songwriting abilities by incorporating their own vocals and live instrumentation into their recordings, adding an extra dimension to their already impressive sound and in 2019 they released their second album The Weight to critical acclaim. Remember is their third album, and will be released on Ninja Tune imprint Technicolour.
Previous press coverage for the duo has been impressive, including Pitchfork - Album Review (8.0), Billboard, Resident Advisor, Mixmag (print), Vice, Clash, SPIN, Brooklyn Vegan, Crack Magazine, Dummy and more. Previous US radio support from KEXP, KCRW, SiriusXMU, Beats in Space, KXSF, WNMC, and more.
Weval have had stellar host of remixes on their work by the likes of Michael Mayer, Red Axes, Kasper Bjørke and have remixed Local Natives, Luwten, and The Acid
Weval have produced a soundtrack for Schweppes commercial starring Penelope Cruz, and have had tracks featured in TV shows Good Girls, Industry, & the HBO hit drama I May Destroy You by Michaela Coel
CAT NO: TCLR041
UPC: 5054429152678
Box Lot: 15
￫ 2LP 140g black vinyl
￫ Gatefold sleeve w/ matte varnish finish
￫ Artwork & Creative
Direction by Leif Podhajsky.
￫ Includes download code
CAT NO: TCLRCD041
UPC: 5054429152661
Box Lot: 35
￫ CD in printed gatefold wallet with a matte varnish finish.
SIDE A
1. Remember
2. Everything Went Well
SIDE B
1. Losing Days
2. Where It All Leads
3. Don’t Lose Time
SIDE C
1. Never Stay For Love
2. Day After Day
3. Changed For The Better
SIDE D
1. I Saw You
2. Is That How You Feel It
3. Forever
Genre: Electronic
Key Markets: Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Denver
Recommended if you like… Howling, Max Cooper, Modeselektor, Apparat, David August, John Talabot, Dark Sky
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TRACKLISTING
1. Mars Man
2. I'm On My Way
3. No More 4. All Over Again
5. The People Say 6. Let It Go
7. Pieces Of Me
8. Travelling Hard
9. Brixton Fish Fry
10. Upon My Soul
11. Brothers & Sisters
CATALOG NUMBER: DS145
In the wake of his fourth album, About The Light (2019), Steve Mason, one of British music’s true 21st Century renegades, with a back catalogue that has taken in electro, dub, indie rock, electronica, hip hop, folk and everything in-between, felt creatively bereft. Allied to this was the weight of adult responsibility that was starting to bear down heavily on him. In the space of a year he’d got married, had a child and bought a house. The spectre of making a safe, radio-friendly record – a sensation he felt he had already encroached upon with About The Light – didn’t sit easily.
So in order to become an artist again, the erstwhile Beta Band frontman knew he had to demolish what he had become. Or was in danger of becoming. He had to become a child again. Which, funnily enough, was what being in The Beta Band – that wondrously electrifying, infuriatingly magical Anglo-Scottish four-piece – resembled.
The finished result is arguably the most open, honest and vibrant record of Mason’s career. Like many of his previous records it marries the personal and the political but does so in an emotive and uplifting manner. Written against a backdrop of fear and uncertainty, and at a time when those in charge lurched from one disaster to the next mismanagement with increasing regularity, Brothers & Sisters is in fact an incredibly joyous, even spiritual, listen.
Brothers & Sisters is a record about bringing people together through art, music and culture. A lofty aim, no doubt, but one that Mason has achieved – through a lot of perspiration and a little demolition – on the best album of his 25-year career in sonic wanderlust.
• Selling point 1
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• All LP formats come with a download card. Standard LP is a double vinyl pressing. Indie Retail Exclusive 2xLP (ltd) is a gold vinyl pressing.
RELEASE DATE: March 3, 2023
FILE UNDER: Alternative “M”
CD Boxlot: 30 UPC: 887832014524
2xLP w/ DOWNLOAD
Boxlot: 20 UPC: 887832014517
Vinyl is non-returnable
2xLP (ltd) w/ DOWNLOAD (Indie Retail Exclusive)
Boxlot: 20 UPC: 887832014531
Vinyl is non-returnable
DOUBLE SIX RECORDS
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718.797.4229 / dominorecordco.com
Contact: Cyrus Lubin cyrus@dominorecordco.com
REDEYE
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Contact: Jill Wheeler jillw@redeyeworldwide.com
March 03, 2023
"Straight out of The Dead Boys / Stooges school of intense, f**k-it-all, snarl and self-destruct. Recommended."
Often cited as a major influence on the key bands of the grunge era (N N i r v a n a , M e l v i n s , M u d h o n e y etc.) T a l e s O f T e r r o r 's one & only LP is an overlooked classic of 80s NorCal punk rock.
Available for the first time on CD, K u r t C o b a i n ' s 32nd-favourite-album-of-alltime is chaotic and charismatic in equal parts; the band's story is tinged with tragedy, but the music they played was life-affirming. Wild, heads down proto thrash metal meets punk excess; think early Guns n’ Roses meets Iggy at the bar from a band whose trajectory was cut short after the death of guitarist Lyon Wong in 1986.
A super rare release, unavailable for over 30 years; remastered and ready to be cranked up to full volume.
CD – VOID009CD – 809236190925
Title:
“Here Goes Nothing” is the debut album from garage rockers Nix & the Nothings. A homage to garage rock from the 60s and beyond - filled with fuzz, emotions & attitude. They deliver doomy lyrics set to wild sounds reminiscent of a Back From the Grave compilation, but with a bigger production value to infect the masses. 10 tracks of raw & haunting garage rock on acid, ended softly with tales of a broken heart.
For fans of: Thee Oh Sees, Dead Moon, The Mystery Lights, King Khan, Black Lips, Dead Ghosts, The Gruesomes, The Cynics, Jay Reatard
For fans of Thee Oh Sees, Dead Moon, The Mystery Lights, Romskip and garage rock
Debut album from these alternative rockers from Bergen, Norway.
Limited edition LP on white vinyl (250x)
Band website: https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=nix%20%26%20the%20nothings
Label website: www.apollonrecords.no
Listening link: https://promo.theorchard.com/rJWq3cQqkQbiD0BVbXEE?skin=light For interviews / info / press contact: robin@karismarecords.no
Title: Northern Gothic
Label: APOLLON RECORDS PROG
Genre: Folk/Prog/Acoustic
OVERVIEW:
Wudewuse is the project of SBM, also known as Spacewülff of Spectral Haze and Skrubben (The Wolf) from Tusmørke. A life in service of music has conjured forth a style we call «gothic forest folk». It is the sound of intricate guitarpicking, set to a mythical lyrical universe.
This particular incarnation of Wudewuse consists of five prominent musicians from various metal, pop and prog-groups.
«This album was written over a period of three years while I was living in the forest and worked at a graveyard. Early in this period i went through a cosmic psychosis, following a death trip I had had on various substances. That certainly made it’s mark on the songs. At the graveyard I listened to a lot of classical and «gothic» music, as well as metal and progrock which has always been dear to my heart. John Renbourn and Bert Jansch have inspired everything I’ve ever done with Wudewuse and this is no less the case with this album. The result is gothic forest folk - Northern Gothic. I have the honor of being joined by a handful skilled musicians who set their particular sound to the tracks. Dauinghorn from Jordsjø/Elds Mark/Tusmørke, Daniel Bakken from Superlynx/Magenta, Ole Rokseth from Hymn/Sâver/Gundelach and Hlewagastir from Wobbler/Tusmørke.»
Limited edt 300 copies LP
For fans of Bert Jansch, Jordsjø, Tusmørke, Wobbler and more
Listening link:
. https://promo.theorchard.com/GhlnnG4zLZFGzdO93PS7?skin=light
Dark Essence Records / Karisma Records
Nygårdsgaten 2
5015 Bergen
Norway
www.karismarecords.no www.darkessencerecords.no post@karismarecords.no
Band: CARAVELA ESCARLATE
Title: ”III”
Label: Karisma Records
Catalogue No: CD-KAR-249 / LP-KAR-249
Barcode: 7090008312499 / 7090008312772
Format: CD / LP
Tracklist:
01. Bússola do Tempo
02. Castelos do Céu
03. Sonhos Medievais
04. Mandala
05. Cruz da Ordem
06. Ciclos
07. Filtro dos Sonhos
Formed in Rio de Janeiro in 2011, Caravela Escarlate is a trio heavily inspired by both English and Italian ‘70s Prog Rock, but they draw on traditional and popular Brazilian music, which gives them a special, and quite unique, sound.
Caravela Escarlate's third album is a new journey into vintage progressive rock pathways. "III" evokes historical issues in different contexts - Roman Empire, Medieval Times, PreColumbian Civilizations, and Age of Discovery. The cover artwork is a painting of the British artist J.M.W.Turner portraying the eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed Pompeii in AD 79.
In musical terms, Jove David Paiva, Elcio Cáfaro, and Ronaldo Rodrigues provide a deep exploration of organs and synthesizers over a solid basis of drums and bass like the glorious prog-rock trios from the 1970s. Seven tracks (two instrumentals) bring the unique approach of Caravela Escarlate that mixes universal influences and a Brazilian accent in prog rock.
Ads in magazines such as Prog Magazine, Eclipsed Magazine, Norway Rock Magazine, Classic Rock, iO Pages, etc
For fans of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Wobbler, Camel, Van Der Graaf Generator, The Flower Kings, Big Big Train and many more
70s style progressive rock with a special Brazillian touch
Ads in all relevant press + digital marketing campaigns
Digital singles: Bússola do Tempo (24/11), Mandala (05/01)
Band website: www.facebook.com/caravelaescarlate
Label website: www.karismarecords.no
For interviews, info & promo material, contact Karisma Records: e-mail: post@karismarecords.no
STANDARD VINYL
CAT NO: ADD1-005LP
UPC: 5056340105191
CD CAT NO: ADD1-005CD
UPC: 5056340105177
STREET DATE: 24 February 2023
03 March 2023
David Brewis of the band Field Music releases his debut solo record The Soft Struggles on 24 February 2023.
After three albums as School of Language, David Brewis’s next contribution to the ever-expanding Field Music universe is this jazz-inflected acoustic record. It will also be the second album release on Field Music’s newly formed Daylight Saving Records label, intended as the home for the Brewis brothers’ extra-curricular projects.
The Soft Struggles veers away from Field Music’s eclectic palette and instead leans into the luminous spontaneity of Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks and the breathy, string-laden chamber pop of Colin Blunstone’s One Year. Several of the tracks were built around a single day of live recording at Field Music’s studio in Sunderland, with David’s brother Peter on drums, Sarah Hayes (Admiral Fallow, You Tell Me) on piano and flute and Faye MacCalman (Archipelago) on clarinet and saxophone.
“There’s something a bit magical about a bunch of musicians together in a room being thrown in at the deep end,” says David, “So many of my favourite records were made quickly by musicians sitting a few feet from each other, playing songs they’d never even heard before the session began. That’s what I tried to do with this album. A chord sheet, a set of lyrics, a brief chat about tempo and then, okay comrades, see you at the other side.”
The soft struggles of the songs themselves touch on weariness and loss, disappointments allayed or accepted, anxieties overcome or temporarily elbowed aside, sometimes grasping for romantic, or parental, wisdom, and when wisdom isn’t quite in reach, there are songs of consolation and wry hopefulness.
The album also features contributions from singer Eve Cole, trombones by David Smith and Craig Hissett, saxophones on The Last Day by Pete Fraser, and strings courtesy of regular Field Music collaborators Ed Cross, Jo Montgomery, Chrissie Slater and Ele Leckie.
Track listing:
1. D.O.D
2. The Grip
3. Above Board
4. 52a
5. Horizon (Extended Mix)
Limited edition Ulexite White Vinyl
CAT NO: PCR057T
UPC: 5056340105528
STREET DATE: 24 February 2023
Bristol-based DAMEFRISØR have announced their first extended play “Island of Light” via Permanent Creeps Records, due for release 24 February 2023 and follows previous singles “Do You Think I'm Special?” and the BBC 6 Music playlisted “2-HEH-V”.
First taster is the epic, widescreen “Horizon” which builds on the texturally rich soundscape the band have already laid. “Horizon” sees the band fuse club and dance influences with industrial and post-rock seen in their earlier work, as they venture on the next step of their musical evolution.
The new single has already become a main-stay in the band's captivating live set, one that has seen them support such names as; Squid, Katy J Pearson and Folly Group as well as opening Bristol's Dot to Dot Festival mainstage.
The Island of Light EP was recorded with Alex Greaves (Working Men's Club, BDRMM, Lice) at The Nave Studios, Leeds.
Behind the recording of the EP was the emphasis to expand upon the band's sound and Kazhi Jahfar states how their choice of producer was key in this.
“The EP really feels like a natural progression since the last two singles came out. We set out to write these songs with the intention of creating more space in our music, and to further explore the mix of natural and industrial sounds. Before getting to the studio to record, the songs were in a basic stage; the ideas were there but far from formed.”
The artwork for the EP used a process called cyanotype in which sunlight and iron salt solution is used to create works of varying and unique results something that is reflected in the band's music, as Kazhi notes “...this process resonated with us because we tend to use a lot of modular synth in our music writing, and we love how the randomised nature of the artwork relates to elements of the music on the EP.”
Russia’s Gnoomes fourth release on Rocket Recordings, Ax Ox. The band have a kaleidoscopic and questing vision shot through with potent melancholia and strident optimism. Here thec omponent parts that have always made up Gnoomes ’ fresh and wide -eyed aesthetic - dreampop radiance, bold electronic experimentation and the propulsive motorik drive which moves them onward - are rendered still more vivid and transcendent. Ax Ox runs through a gamut of vibrant emotion across its eleven tracks,from the elemental blast of kraut -pop that is‘The Neighbour’to the crystalline and techno-fied‘ Loops’, and across moments of jarring and skewed ambience such as ‘Mirror’ and ‘The Bridge’. Ax Ox ultimately reflects something of an odyssey for a complex and inhospitable modern era, and with this in mind perhaps its centrepiece is the uplifting kosmische travelogue ‘Eternal Trans Siberian ’“It’s a metaphor of what’s going on to our country ” reckons Sasha.“It feels like we’re traveling on a rusty and wrecked train through space and time.The epochs change, but the problems stay the same and we don ’t know how it’s possible, but the train is still moving
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Silver biplanes are Tim Vass (one half of razorcuts - the Creation-signed indiepop darlings) and Vanessa Vass (singer of Radcliffe jangle pop favourites the Melons). "A Moment In The Sun ” is the debut long player by silver biplanes, a melodic indie band based in Bedfordshire, England. The band features wife-and-husband team Vanessa Vass and Tim Vass alongside drummer Rob Scott and the album is the pinnacle of a musical career which has previously seen Vanessa and Tim release songs on no fewer than 30 different labels between them! The band are lifelong fans of the highways and bi-ways of music and the album draws upon a wide range of influences. It ’s a heady mix of choruses, hooks and catchy tunes in which you ’ll hear traces of psychedelia, postpunk, krautrock and more.
It’s hard to know exactly where to begin with a band like Fake Names...
I suppose you could start with vocalist Dennis Lyxzen, who’s previous outfits include The (International) Noise Conspiracy and Swedish hardcore punk legends, The Refused. Or how about their guitarists; Minor Threat/Bad Religion’s Brian Baker, and State of Alert and Faith’s Michael Hampton? Throw in a rhythm section that counts amongst its ranks, bassist Johnny Temple (Soulside, Girls Against Boys) and guest drummer Brendan Canty (Rites of Spring, Fugazi) and you must admit, Fake Names is everything you want and more from a hardcore/punk rock supergroup.
In truth, the best place to really begin is with their EP, Fake Names. Released digitally last year on Epitaph Records, this March it’ll receive a full-blown, limited-edition release on underground label Outer Battery Records, with four separate colors to choose from, each with an individually designed sleeve by Dischord designer, Jason Farrell.
Fake Names EP will be released on limited edition 7” vinyl on March 3rd, 2023
FAKE NAMES:
Dennis Lyxzen (Vocals) Brian Baker (Guitar) Michael Hampton (Guitar)
Johnny Temple (Bass) Brendan Canty (Drums)
Memorials of Distinction
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1000 black vinyl LPs. London-based ‘indie-supergroup’ SUEP announce their long-awaited debut mini-album Shop, a collection of 6 oddball, car-boot -sale pop songs with a sprinkling of theatrical storytelling. Led by Georgie Stott (of Porridge Radio, Garden Centre) and Josh Harvey, SUEP was born out of a near -decade of playing in sheds and barns with like minded personnel, holding a mutual love for Paul McCartney, Jona Lewie, the B -52s, Devo and other performative freaks enjoying themselves. A 1) Domesticated Dream 2) Friend of Mine 3) Onions. B 4) Misery 5) In Good Health 6) Just a Job
The 1st official release by cult. act Automatic Shoes. Album dedicated to Marc Bolan and the mad hatter • consists of solely Bolan covers in their unique ethereal interpretation • Reviews due in Record Collector, Shindig, Vive le Rock, RNR • A huge favourite amongst the Marc Bolan fan base.
01/ Pictures Of Purple People 02/ Hippy Gumbo 03/ Desdemona 04/ Stacey Grove 05/ The Pilgrim's Tale 06/ Diamond Meadows 07/ Children Of Rarn 08/ King Of The Mountain Cometh 09/ Monolith 10/ Telegram Sam 11/ Rabbit Fighter 12/ Children Of The Revolution 13/ All Alone 14/ Purple Prince Of Pleasure 15/ Pictures Of Purple People II 16/ A Kingly Thing 17/ Dawn Storm 18/ By The Light of A Magical Moon
SIDE A
1. Word Gets Around
2. Hard Times (All Around)
3. Midnight on Lafayette Park
SIDE B
1. Hey Monet
2. Polly Anne
3. Cherry Red Boots
4. Ride On
SIDE C
1. Tree of Love
2. Somebody Tryin’ to Hoodoo Me
3. Tell Em
SIDE D
1. Stately Prison Cell
2. Sold out of Love
3. Red Rocket Ride
Sel. #: NW5701 LP
CONFIG: 2xLP, Widespine Jacket, Insert, Marketing Sticker
UPC: 607396570119
Box Lot: 20 Count
Genre: Alternative, Indie Rock
For The Nude Party, nearly a decade has flown by in the blink of an eye. In that time, the New York-based band has released a pair of wellreceived albums, an EP and played numerous shows.
The band has historically worked with a producer to help them create a distinct sound in their records but with their latest effort, Rides On, the band decided to handle production duties by themselves. The hands-on approach allowed the band to have as much fun creating as they ever had at any other point in their career. They recorded over 20 songs, including some that dabbled in electro-pop and stripped-down country before settling on the final 14 songs containing the best elements of ‘70s-driven blues rock.
The relaxed vibe of the session also unleashed a diverse sonic texture compared to their previous releases. Sonically, the album is reminiscent of Sticky Fingers-era Stones, but the lyrics are mini-vignettes that embody the spirit of what The Nude Party are going for — and their growth as a band.
Rides On, the band confidently says, is their best record. It’s also the most homegrown and organic record The Nude Party has created to date.
Sel. #: NW5718
CONFIG: 2xLP, Yellow Vinyl, Widespine Jacket, Insert, Specific Marketing Sticker
UPC: 607396571819
Box Lot: 20 Count
Genre: Alternative, Indie Rock CD
Sel. #: NW6535
CONFIG: Digiwallet, Booklet, CD
UPC: 607396653522
Box Lot: 30 Count
Genre: Alternative, Indie Rock
“Music is soft power, it’s a form of diplomacy, it’s a way to unite.” For RarelyAlways a sense of purpose is rarely far from the surface. That’s been true in everything he’s done, as a musician across a huge range of scenes and sounds, as a writer, as an entrepreneur and youth worker – but now, with his debut solo album Work on the horizon, it’s really coming into focus. He may have “always been a shapeshifter” as he puts it, and Work be full of a dazzling array of sounds, but at the same time he has always retained a creative and ethical core to all he does. And as he steps up to take the microphone, on stage as much as in the studio, that is coming to the fore. With his already deep and broad musical and life experience, he’s in a unique position to offer something entirely new to UK music – and you’d better believe he has something to say.
From the youngest age, RarelyAlways knew that music had functions beyond just entertainment. London born to a West African family, he was raised by his single father who was a drummer, playing mainly gospel. As well as this showing him the ecstatic communal experience of hours-long services, he got to learn the power of playing for playing’s sake: his dad would regularly hire practice spaces for the pair of them to “beat the hell out of the drums” for an afternoon.
Musically he absorbed everything around him as a kid. Motown, reggae and Afrobeat from his family; Gorillaz, The Streets, Estelle and grime from his peers; and a personal fascination with the function of music in films that started young “and got me open minded, got me into orchestra stuff.” Though it was a different sort of film music that set him on the path he’s on now: the classic sounds in School of Rock. "Not going to lie, that film got me playing bass," he says, "and it set my tastes: I'm an old head." Led Zeppelin and Bob James led him into old funk like Brothers Johnson – and he gravitated to modern acts with that classic feel, notably Black Keys and Gnarls Barkley.
His talents took him to The Brit School, and thence to the South London gig circuit. He played trip hop and heavy rock, and found himself in the orbit of artists like King Krule, Henry Wu and the Tomorrow’s Warriors jazz collective. Very quickly he got a sense of interconnectivity and the opportunities that present when you’re open to other voices. “I learned there’s good people everywhere, not everyone of course but enough that you can find who’s worth listening to, who’s worth having as your running mate.”
But that constant openness to new ideas and new culture was always counterbalanced by a strong sense of self - shored up further by his work helping at-risk youth. “You've got to have that inner self that you can never let burn out. I think you've got to call to a place that is together and use that as an anchor. It's not possible to help other people become stronger or better if you're not trying to become stronger or better. They're going to believe you if you're authentic, so you've got to call from a place that's firm and upright and happy, it's the only way.”
With each successive RarelyAlways release that’s become more and more evident. A solo EP and one with Black Keys collaborator Hanni El Khatib, as well as collaborative tracks with the likes of Shabaka Hutchings, showed a fully developed rapping and singing voice. The tone was often dark, often mysterious, but crucially was able to roam freely outside the prescribed structures of hip hop, jazz or anything else, becoming conversational or abstract as the song’s message demanded it. And with the latest tracks, that personality
is being futther revealed: “It’s about taking off the armour. It's about not being scared to show my vulnerabilities. A lot of tracks are quite soft, quite innocent and really not what you might expect.”
That emergence is built around increased confidence in standing centre stage. “I play every chance I get,” he says, “and in the studio, I’m always thinking of that too. The most important thing is I have to be able to project it on stage or I don't see the point.” But it’s also about confidence in his place within the wider network. As he says in Work’s title track “I’m directing this, new show, new cast.” There are some established names that show RarelyAlways as plugged into the endlessly fertile UK underground, but just as importantly he’s nurturing “new monsters” – young instrumental talent from jazz and beyond – making this album truly a communal creation. But make no mistake: it is also the arrival of a truly singular voice, one which is fast becoming an unmistakeable presence in UK music.
"This guy is FIRE" - GILLES PETERSON (BBC)
“A concise exhibition of his minimalist swagger" - FADER
"Jazz and grime collide here to offer us a thought-provoking narrative and electrically charged-tracks" - WONDERLAND
"It made my jaw hit the floor the first time I heard it. Reminds me of early Dizzee Rascal in terms of its intensity, but with a clear nod to what Moses Boyd, Kamasi Washington and others have been doing in jazz in recent years" - BILLBOARD
"London's Rarelyalways has always marched to the beat of his own drum... the rapper's disregard of convention – his splintered approach, taking the best of garage, grime, funk, trip-hop and making it his own – has made him one of the most enthralling voices in music today." - CLASH
"Though Rarelyalways comes out of the London jazz scene, his music has its own distinct flavor." - PITCHFORK
CD Box Lot: 30
Packaging: 4 Panel Digipack
LP Box Lot: 30
Packaging: Standard Jacket & Download Card
Vinyl is non-returnable
Catalog: IL2099
Release Date: March 10, 2023
Genre: Rap/Hip-Hop
For Fans Of: Dizzee Rascal, Shabazz Palaces, slowthai Roots Manuva, Giggs, Skepta, Stormzy, The Streets
“They’re angry, funny, they rage against hypocrisy – no one does it quite like them.” - Late Night with Seth Meyers
“the duo have slowly but surely etched their place in a long line of British acts who set off cultural mini-revolutions by both defining genres and refusing to be confined by them” - Paste
Williamson and Fearn unflinchingly show you life – particularly the shittier corners of it, while flashing a swift middle finger at those who create them. Here’s your prescribed dose of reality with an unmistakable and intoxicating Sleaford Mods flavour. – NME
“Cue up this acerbic romp through society’s ills the next time you feel a towering tidal wave of universal anger descending” - Rolling Stone
“...agit-pop for the COVID era.” - New Yorker
1 UK GRIM
2 Dlwhy
3 Force 10 From Navarone
4 Tilldipper
5 On The Ground
6 Right Wing Beast
7 Smash Each Other Up
8 Don
9 So Trendy
10 I Claudius
11 Pit 2 Pit
12 Apart From You
13 Tory Kong
14 Rhythms Of Class
Indie Silver LP: RT-0391-LPE
Sleaford Mods will return in 2023 with new album UK GRIM. Throughout their music the duo’s poetic protest and electronic resistance has seen them consistency chart and call out their times with an eloquence and attitude that has made them one of the most urgent and unique voices in modern music. Hailed by the likes of Liam Gallagher, Seth Myers, Iggy Pop, Amyl & The Sniffers and a legion of loyal fans whose devotion for the band would rival most sports supporters.
Continuing this sonic vocation on their new album, Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn’s creative evolution now finds them capturing the atmosphere of their era too. Though no strangers to the dancefloor, the minimal yet immersive beats and grooves of UK GRIM’s tracks – which include collaborations with Dry Cleaning’s Florence Shaw and Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell among them – add a new, physical dimension to Sleaford Mods’ sound that makes their words more vital than ever. Music for body AND mind.
• US headline tour in April 2023 including Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival (under embargo)
• New album UK GRIM includes features from Dry Cleaning’s Florence Shaw and Jane’s Addiction’s Perry Farrell.
• Two US late night TV performances on Late Night with Seth Meyers
• Cameo from vocalist & lyricist Jason Williamson in the most recent season of Netflix’ long-standing hit show Peaky Blinders
1. Sixteen Ways
2. Anything
3. Had It Wrong
4. Saltwater Girl
5. Feel Light
6. DOA
Label: Slumberland Records
Catalog Number: SLR 267
Street Date: March 10, 2023
7. Sleeping Night And Day
8. Molotov In Stereo
9. Come Back
10. Song For A Horse
TL; DR: Long a mainstay of NYC’s indie scene, Frankie is back with her first album in six years and it’s a masterpiece of lush new wave pop.
RIYL: The Cure, Human League, New Order, Wild Nothing, Kate Bush, Beach House, Tamaryn.
Territory: World ex. Europe
After spending nearly two decades establishing herself across New York and Los Angeles independent music circles, Frankie Rose returns with a fresh form, aesthetic, and purpose embodied in her new album Love As Projection. Celebrated by countless critical and cultural outlets over the years for her expansive approach to songwriting, lush atmospherics, and transcendent vocal melodies and harmonies, Love As Projection is a reintroduction of her established style through the new lens of contemporary electronic pop.
Painstakingly written, recorded, and engineered through some of the most tumultuous times in history, this new collection of songs harnesses the power and propulsion of Frankie's early DIY-centric punk days without losing sight of the immersive, dreamlike world-building she's been known for in recent years. Featuring beautiful, ethereal songs like lead-off single "Anything," "Sixteen Ways" and "Come Back," this album is more than a rebirth, a refinement, a resurgence – it's a culmination of influence, a newly-defined scope using the tools at her disposal, and the most personal and accessible collection of art-pop that Frankie has delivered yet.
Territory: World ex. Europe
• 1ST PRESSING CLEAR VINYL W/ PURPLE SMOKE
• 4TH STUDIO ALBUM, PRODUCED BY PETER BUCK, FEATURING NEW MEMEBER VICTOR KRUMMENACHER (CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN)
Eyelids’ new album, A Colossal Waste of Light, does an excellent job of framing the quintet as one of today’s most compelling purveyors of lopsided guitar pop workouts and earworm-laden vocal melodies. It also proves that great guitar pop can still evoke favorites from a glorious past - the penetrating moodiness of XTC’s Black Sea, or R.E.M.’s Fables of the Reconstruction, comes to mind - while refusing to waste time on idle nostalgia.
On their 4th full-length album (but 17th vinyl offering if you include previous 7”s and EPs) the Portland, OR band also rediscover the beauty of firsts. A Colossal Waste of Light marks the first time the band wrote songs remotely (“it ended up being fun & weird to send out a very simple version of a song and see who came back first with another part for it”, John Moen looks back), their first reunion at the Destination: Universe studio post-isolation, and their first batch of melodious new tunes since The Accidental Falls, the band’s 2020 project with poet, lyricist and Tim Buckley collaborator Larry Beckett (an extra-ordinary pairing that allowed Eyelids’ two frontmen/tunesmiths, Chris Slusarenko and John Moen, to find a new, multilayered appreciation for the art of songcraft).
Most importantly, A Colossal Waste of Light is the first Eyelids album to feature new bass player Victor Krummenacher (Camper Van Beethoven, Monks of Doom). Eyelids had shared bills with Krummenacher a few times before he moved to Portland, but once he arrived he quickly found himself in a new town where everything was suddenly locked down. Luckily enough, there were eventual get-togethers in Slusarenko’s backyard and, finally one day, a most coveted question: “do you want me to play bass for your band?”. The artistry he brings to A Colossal Waste of Light is seasoned and fresh in equal measure. Alongside Jonathan Drews’ expressive yet mysteriously ethereal guitar playing and Paulie Pulvirenti’s imaginative and powerful drumming, the finished LP is the perfect summation of Eyelids’ new and old ways of collaborating together.
As for the record’s title, Slusarenko notes that it conjures “the parallel lines of dearly holding onto some sort of version of hope, all the while knowing everything's going to shit.” With all the feel of a lost late 70s classic, A Colossal Waste Of Light sounds both majestic and playfully open to multifaceted meanings and moods. It’s haunted and vibrant all at once, while putting some kicks back towards melancholy. Every track feels like its own journey and having songs from two songwriters at the top of their game makes for a most dynamic, immersive narrative as their songs follow one another throughout. As a whole, it’s thrilling, moving, mercurial, absorbing, soothing, and unmistakably Eyelids.
LP-JBR-224LE CD-JBR-224 SIDE A 1. Crawling Off Your Pages 2. Swinging In The Circus 3. That's Not Real At All 4. Only So Much 5. They Said So 6. Runaway, Yeah SIDE B 7. Colossal Waste of Light 8. The Snowfire Band 9. Everything That I See You See Better (22) 10. Misuse 11. Pink Chair 12. Lyin' In Your TombTRACKLISTING
SIDE A go ahead science vs. romance wires and waves pictures of success
SIDE B
august bulletproof plane crash in c variations on a theme (science vs. romance) small figures in a vast expanse
SIDE C
don’t deconstruct always we’ll never sleep (god knows we’ll try) rest of my life variations on a theme (plane crash in c)
2xLP:
Having been recently reissued (and immediately sold-out) as a limited-edition 20th anniversary color variant, Rilo Kiley’s debut full-length double-LP Take Offs and Landings is back in print on standard-weight black vinyl.
At the beginning of the 2000’s, Rilo Kiley was a fiercely independent band, having released an EP under their own Rilo Records label. But, even with only very minimal touring outside of southern California, their brilliant live show and excellent songcraft started to attract a fair amount of national attention in publications like Harper's Bazaar and Rolling Stone, and even some airplay on MTV. The band initially self-released Take Offs and Landings before signing to Barsuk, who promptly reissued the album. Rilo Kiley quickly joined the ranks of labelmates Death Cab for Cutie and other acts such as Bright Eyes, The Shins, and The Decemberists as early ‘00s indie rock exploded into the mainstream.
While the band stopped releasing albums after 2007’s Under the Blacklight, their popularity has continued to grow in the subsequent years. In celebration of the 20th anniversary, Stereogum recently posted a lengthy feature on Take Offs and Landings’ influence over the current landscape of indie rock, quoting Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield and noting “The way millennials have reminisced about Rilo Kiley’s personal impact often mirrors the language Generation X has used to describe the riot grrrl movement only a decade before. If Kathleen Hanna’s goal was to tell women in her crowds that their anger was justified, [the band’s primary songwriter and singer Jenny] Lewis represented the opposing side of the same coin via Rilo Kiley: It’s OK to be unabashedly and emphatically sad.”
• The recent 20th anniversary 5,000 piece limited-edition 180-gram color variant sold out before street date
• Jenny Lewis will be a member of The Postal Service for the band’s sold-out nationwide co-headline arena tour with Death Cab for Cutie, celebrating the 20th anniversary of the two bands’ generation-defining albums Give Up and Transatlanticism
• Pressed on black standard-weight vinyl to keep the price low for you and your customers!
catalog #: LP-BARK-019E
upc: 655173991916
packaging: wide-spine jacket box lot: 40
Everything changed for The Beths when they released their debut album, Future Me Hates Me, in 2018. The indie rock band had long been nurtured within Auckland, New Zealand’s tight-knit music scene, working full-time during the day and playing music with friends after hours. Full of uptempo pop rock songs with bright, indelible hooks, the LP garnered them critical acclaim from outlets like Pitchfork and Rolling Stone, and they set out for their first string of shows overseas. They quit their jobs, said goodbye to their hometown, and devoted themselves entirely to performing across North America and Europe. They found themselves playing to crowds of devoted fans and opening for acts like Pixies and Death Cab for Cutie. Almost instantly, The Beths turned from a passion project into a full-time career in music.
Songwriter and lead vocalist Elizabeth Stokes worked on what would become The Beths’ second LP, Jump Rope Gazers, in between these intense periods of touring. Like the group’s earlier music, the album tackles themes of anxiety and self-doubt with effervescent power pop choruses and rousing backup vocals, zeroing in on the communality and catharsis that can come from sharing stressful situations with some of your best friends. Stokes’s writing on Jump Rope Gazers grapples with the uneasy proposition of leaving everything and everyone you know behind on another continent, chasing your dreams while struggling to stay close with loved ones back home.
“If you’re at a certain age, all your friends scatter to the four winds,” Stokes says. “We did the same thing. When you’re home, you miss everybody, and when you’re away, you miss everybody. We were just missing people all the time.”
With songs like the rambunctious “Dying To Believe” and the tender, shoegazey “Out of Sight,” The Beths reckon with the distance that life necessarily drives between people over time. People who love each other inevitably fail each other. “I’m sorry for the way that I can’t hold conversations/They’re such a fragile thing to try to support the weight of,” Stokes sings on “Dying to Believe.” The best way to repair that failure, in The Beths’ view, is with abundant and unconditional love, no matter how far it has to travel. On “Out of Sight,” she pledges devotion to a dearly missed friend: “If your world collapses/I’ll be down in the rubble/I’d build you another,” she sings.
“It was a rough year in general, and I found myself saying the words, ‘wish you were here, wish I was there,’ over and over again,” she says of the time period in which the album was written. Touring far from home, The Beths committed themselves to taking care of each other as they were trying at the same time to take care of friends living thousands of miles away. They encouraged each other to communicate whenever things got hard, and to pay forward acts of kindness whenever they could. That care and attention shines through on Jump Rope Gazers, where the quartet sounds more locked in than ever. Their most emotive and heartfelt work to date, Jump Rope Gazers stares down all the hard parts of living in communion with other people, even at a distance, while celebrating the ferocious joy that makes it all worth it — a sentiment we need now more than ever.
• North American publicity by Pitch Perfect • College/Non-Comm/AAA/Commercial Specialty radio by Terrorbird
• Digital playlisting & positioning and sync licensing by Terrorbird
• Facebook boosted posts and targeted Instagram dark posts throughout campaign
• “Dying To Believe”, “Not Getting Excited”, “Out Of Sight” and “Jump Rope Gazers” music videos available
• Pressed on Marbled Red Apple Vinyl, includes free digital download
JUMP ROPE GAZERS
CAK143
Street Date: March 10, 2023
File Under: Alternative/ Indie Rock
LP (Marbled Red Apple vinyl)
Box lot: 25
UPC 677517114317
CD UPC 677517014327
CS UPC 677517114324
DISTRIBUTION CONTACT
jillw@redeyeworldwide.com
1. I’m Not Getting Excited
2. Dying to Believe
3. Jump Rope Gazers
4. Acrid
5. Do You Want Me Now
6. Out of Sight
7. Don’t Go Away
8. Mars, the God of War
9. You Are a Beam of Light
10. Just Shy of Sure
RIYL
Alvvays
Courtney Barnett
Lucy Dacus
Death Cab For Cutie
Phoebe Bridgers
ALSO AVAILABLE
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UPC 677517112825
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UPC 677517115703
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Blacklips Bar: Androgyns and Deviants — Industrial Romance for Bruised and Battered Angels, 1992–1995 is a compilation combining original recordings and select DJ tracks from the vaults of Blacklips Performance Cult, a collective of underground performers, artists and drag queens who took to NYC’s Pyramid Club stage every Monday night at 1 am to perform original plays.The broad spectrum of emotional expression, ferocity, humor and transgression evident in these collected recordings are a further indication of the group’s oeuvre.
In 1992, ANOHNI founded Blacklips Performance Cult with collaborators Johanna Constantine and Psychotic Eve. Originally intended as a cabaret and DJ night, the constellation of people drawn to Blacklips soon melded into a late night ensemble in which members took turns writing scripts that were then performed by the group. Blacklips continued a tradition of urban queer subcultural resistance embodied within the writings of Jean Genet, John Rechy, and the post-punk feminist Terence Sellers. Inspired by Lotte Lenya, Candy Darling, Greta Garbo and Sister Dimension, performers took the stage primarily to entertain and address each other, while entertaining late-night thrill seekers.The group staged spectacles that were alternately surreal, slapstick, emotional and absurd.This weekly laboratory also served as the first showcase for ANOHNI’s music.
Androgyns and Deviants places you squarely within the shiny black brick walls of the main dance floor at the Pyramid, bathed in shards of light from the disco ball, waiting for the show to begin amongst a gaggle of stragglers, queens, and voyeurs.A montage of sound bites, original recordings, and Blacklips DJ favorites emanate a sense of Blacklips bar’s joie de vivre. Remastered original recordings by ANOHNI, including an unreleased version of “Rapture,” as well as the never before released composition “The Yellowing Angel” suggest the feeling of suspension that would sometimes interrupt the hysteria.
Also included on the Androgyns and Deviants compilation are DJ tracks by artists including New York legend JoeyArias in his incarnation as BIllie Holiday, LA death rock founder Rozz WIlliams, avant-garde icon Diamanda Galás, UK punk pioneer Dave Vanian, underground actress Edith Massey, London surrealist Leigh Bowery and his band Minty, and the fictional characters Meng and Ecker, a pair of transsexual menaces who wrought nightmares across an anarchic landscape, the brainchild of Manchester publishing house, Savoy. Studio recordings by Blacklips stars add depth to the mix, including “Your Cigarette” by Blacklips duo coke, James F. Murphy’s hardcore camp bonanza “Satan’s ‘Lil’ Lamb”, Sissy Fitt’s “Sister Morphine” and EbonyJet’s soulful rendition of Lou Reed’s “Satellite of Love”. Dialogue, sound effects and ambient textures counter the raging gender panic of Princess Tinymeat’s “Angels in Pain” and Divine’s defiant Hi-NRG anthem “You Think You’re A Man”.
The work of Blacklips Performance Cult was unearthed for the first time at I3 Ways to Die, a recent exhibit at Participant Inc. in NYC, and in Blacklips Performance Cult: Her Life and Her Many Many Deaths, a hardcover edition book that is coinciding with this vinyl release. Blacklips Bar: Androgyns and Deviants — Industrial Romance for Bruised and Battered Angels, 1992–1995 will be released by Anthology Recordings on March 10, 2023 as a double album vinyl edition illustrated and designed by ANOHNI, and including previously unseen ephemera and extensive liner notes by the artist.
Past Press / Promo Highlights:
• The New Yorker - Goings On About Town - Art - “Blacklips Performance Cult: 13 Ways to Die”
• Red Bull Music Academy - Blacklips Performance Cult: The Gothic Drag Theater Troupe Where Anohni Got Her Start
• Instagram Post from Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos, The White Lotus; 235k followers) Ev
• Rare and unreleased music from ANOHNI (111k monthly Spotify listeners, 73k IG followers, 252k FB followers), alongside songs by cult favorites like Christian Death, Dave Vanian (The Damned), Divine, Diamanda Galás, Joey Arias, and more.
• Anthology Editions is releasing a companion hardcover art book, Blacklips Performance Cult: Her Life and Her Many Many Deaths, alongside this 2LP compilation. March 2023 New York Public Library event featuring Anohni and Marti Wilkerson in conversation with Laurie Anderson
RIYL: ANOHNI, Antony and the Johnsons, Lou Reed, Bjork, Fever Ray, Perfume Genius, Julee Cruise, CocoRosie, Bat For Lashes, Cat Power, Nick Cave, Christian Death, Divine, The Damned, Diamanda Galás, Psychic TV, Klaus Nomi, Throbbing Gristle
ARTIST: Various Artists
ALBUM: Blacklips Bar: Androgyns and Deviants
— Industrial Romance for Bruised and Battered
Angels, 1992–1995
STREET DATE: March 10, 2023
GENRE: Experimental / Alternative
SIDE A
Meng & Ecker - Shoot Yer Load
Joey Arias - Good Morning Heartache
Edith Massey - Punks, Get off the Grass
ANOHNI (as Precious Liar) - Ladies and Gentlemen
James F. Murphy - Satan’s Li’l Lamb
ANOHNI and Pearls - Janet Vampire
Christian Death - Stairs - Uncertain Journey
Vito Russo (with Gary Reynolds) - Disrupt Their Lives
ANOHNI (as Fiona Blue) - Rapture
SIDE B
Diamanda Galás - Double-Barrel Prayer
Sissy Fitt - Sister Morphine
Tammy Taste Test - Natasha
Divine - You Think You’re a Man
Marilyn and The Movie Stars - So Disgraceful
ARC114-1: Double LP
UPC: 184923611410
SPECS: Black vinyl double LP housed in a gatefold jacket jacket.
BOX LOT: 12
SIDE C
Ebony Jet - Satellite of Love
Dean and the Weenies - Fuck You
ANOHNI (as Justin Grey) - People are Small
Princess Tinymeat - Angels in Pain
coke - Your Cigarette
Dave Vanian - Tenterhook
Sissy Fitt as Carol TooGood - Suspecting Mrs. Shyster
ANOHNI and Johanna Constantine - The Yellowing Angel
SIDE D
Dr. Clark Render - 13 Ways To Die
Minty - Useless Man
Kabuki Starshine - My Final Moments
Meng & Ecker - Golden Showers
ANOHNI (as Fiona Blue) - Love Letters
ANOHNI (as Precious Liar) - Blacklips
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Multiple award winner Nick Schnebelen has a smokin’ new high-energy Rock ‘n’ Blues album, “What Key Is Trouble In?” Co-produced by Blues Music Award Winner Chris Hardwick, these thirteen all-original tracks find Nick playing, singing and writing at the top of his game. Nick is backed on the album by his veteran band Adam Hagerman (drums) and Cliff Moore (bass), with guests Red Young on keyboards (Eric Burdon, Marcia Ball, Janiva Magness), Buddy Leach on sax (George Thorogood), and Aaron Mayfield on organ.
3/10/23
Lately Nick and the band have been touring in Europe as the opening act for George Thorogood and the Destroyers, as they have since pre-pandemic days. They clearly have the pure blues power to fill that slot.
TRACKS:
1. Ten Years After, Fifty Years Later
2. What Key Is Trouble In?
3. Love In My Heart
4. Blues Nights
5. Hard Driving Woman
NICK SCHNEBELEN
Nick got his introduction to the worldwide Blues community in 2008, along with siblings Danielle and Kris, as a founding member of the Kansas City band Trampled Under Foot. They overwhelmed the competition to win that year’s International Blues Challenge, with Nick claiming the Albert King Award for “Best Guitarist”. The band later won the “Contemporary Blues Album” Blues Music Award. Nick left the band in 2014 and proceeded to release three original albums under his own name. “What Key Is Trouble In?” is the follow up to Nick’s critically acclaimed 2019 release, “Crazy All By Myself.”
What Key is Trouble In?
Label: VizzTone
Genre: Blues/Americana
Territory: Worldwide
Compact Disc - Eco Wallet
Cat. # VT-NSB04
Street Date: 3/10/23
UPC: 634457099715
6. Will I Stay
7. Pain Aside
8. Poor Side Of Town
9. Johnny Cheat
10. Big Mean Dog
11. Over The Cliff
12. Throw Poor Me Out
13. People Worry About Me
“This is how free rock & roll should sound.”
— ROLLING STONE
“In 2021, we started the Mdou Moctar mixtape series. These releases compiled field recordings, cell phone voice memos, interview clips, conversations captured in the tour van, and blown-out board recordings from shows all over the world. As a continuation of those mixtapes, we present the Niger EPs, which examine the roots of the Mdou Moctar band. Early Mdou recordings were contained on cassettes, though the humble tape was soon replaced by the quick and easy facility of cell phone technology.
Long bus rides are common in West Africa. On one of these rides, you might be seated next to a stranger and ask ‘what are you listening to?’, then a song exchange would begin over Bluetooth. This is a very real way artists found their music distributed far from home. In that vein, the Niger EP series features solely recordings taped in Mdou Moctar’s home country of Niger. Volume 1 begins the series with a mix of recordings from 20172020, documenting the band at weddings, picnics, rehearsals, and even impromptu house concerts. A must have for any Mdou Moctar fan!”
- Mdou Moctar bassist Mikey ColtunNON EXPORTABLE RELEASE DATE: MARCH 10, 2023
— PITCHFORK (Best New Music)
VOL. 1
1. IMOUHAR (DRUM MACHINE VERSION)
2. CHISMITEN (DRUM MACHINE VERSION)
3. SIBIDOUL (LIVE)
4. AFELAN (LIVE)
5. LAYLA (LIVE)
6. AFRIQUE VICTIME (LIVE)
VOL. 2
1. IBLIS AMGHAR
2. IBITILAN
3. NAKANEGH DICH
4. CHIMOUMOUNIM
5. ASDIKTE AKAL
6. AZAWAD
“AfriqueVictime is the fullest portrait of Moctar’s gifts that he has offered yet.”
MARCH 10TH, 2023
LP includes digital download
Shalom makes strikingly direct music with such emotional openness and clarity that each track on her debut album Sublimation, out March 10, feels like a quiet revelation. While the Brooklyn-based, South Africa-raised artist writes fearlessly personal songs about moments in her life combining the storytelling of Lucy Dacus with the urgency of Indigo De Souza, her honesty is so blunt it’s inviting. Her lyrics clear whatever tension there is to make room for catharsis. These 13 tracks are a re ection of the many sides of herself with stories of heartbreak, feeling like an outsider, self-medicating and partying, and ultimately choosing love over fear. While she paints the edges of indie rock, Shalom along with her collaborator Ryan Hemsworth (Quarter-Life Crisis) team up for challenging and vivid arrangements that are danceable, driving, and also delicate.
Though Shalom has only been writing her own songs since the summer of 2020, she’d played bass in a band in the New Brunswick DIY scene. Following the dissolution of her band, she went through a period of mourning and writer’s block. “It was some of the most painful, creative experiences I've ever had,” she says. She wrote “Concrete,” the rst song she ever wrote and produced herself, as a way to process the loss of that creative outlet. It’s a gorgeous track complete with yearning strings and Shalom singing, “We watched the future that we built just slip away / I still think of you almost every day / But there are good things in life no one can force you to take.” Even though it was her debut song, there’s depth and generosity tucked in each line.
As much as the album hones in on processing her trauma like on “Train Station,” which deals with a sudden breakup, and “Nowadays” which deals with profound grief, there’s a resiliency that stays constant throughout Sublimation. On the ebullient and funky “Did It To Myself,” she opens herself up. She sings, “what hurts can be amazing / and now I’m back on my own, oh” over bouncy synths and a sparkling arrangement.
Shalom explains, “Anytime you move forward, you have to remember the past: Most of my songs are about moving forward by dealing with a memory.” Few songwriters not only fail to match Shalom’s excavating introspection but also the grace with which she deals with these uncomfortable truths. Many of the songs on Sublimation came together almost instantly with Shalom sitting down with her bass and coming out with a fully-written song in a couple of hours. Standout “Lighter,” Shalom recalls, took 45 minutes. Arguably the poppiest song on the record with its breezy indie rock arrangement, she sings over shimmering guitars, “so done with being myself / I’d rather be anyone else / I’m tired of being a ghter.” Despite the un inching subject matter, Sublimation is not a di cult listen. “The record is an introduction to me as a songwriter,” she says. “I think it shows my versatility, but really, it’s me being really honest, earnest, and naked. You can see my bones on this record. I'm okay with it though, because I’ve got to get it out.”
Artist: Shalom
Title: Sublimation
Catalog #: LBJ-352
Formats: CD / LP / Tape
Street Date: March 10th, 2023
Box Lot Quantity: 50 CD / 40 LP / 100 Tape
Genre: Alternative
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1. Waking Up
2. Big Horizon
3. Climb In The River
4. No Time To Lose
5. Look Whatcha Done
6. Old Soldier
7. As Much Love
8. What It Looks Like In Heaven
9. This Fire
10. Take Me With You When You Go
Sel. #: SB15 SD
UPC: 607396015016
Genre: Americana, Roots-Rock, Alt Country
When we take advantage of the moment, we live life to the fullest. Reverent of the past and excited for the future, Say ZuZu makes the most of the present in their music. The New Hampshire six-piece—Cliff Murphy, brothers Jon and James Nolan, Steve Ruhm, Tim Nylander, and Jon Pistey—artfully thread together a reflective patchwork of folk, rock, alternative, and country powered by lifelong friendships and a collective ambition to “carpe diem.” As such, they sound as alive as ever on their seventh full-length offering and first original LP in 21 years, the aptly titled No Time To Lose.
“After years apart, we really looked to squeeze as much enjoyment out of making music together again. War on Drugs, Dylan, Paul Simon, Kathleen Edwards and others played a big part in influencing this batch of songs.” - Say ZuZu
Sel. #: SB15 LP
CONFIG: Gatefold, sticker, 1x LP, Turquoise Swirl
UPC: 607396015139
Box Lot: 35 Count
Genre: Americana, Roots-Rock, Alt Country
Sel. #: SB15 CD
CONFIG: Digiwallet, Sticker
UPC: 607396015115
Box Lot: # 40 Count
Genre: Americana, Roots-Rock, Alt Country
STREET DATE: 10 March 2023
LABEL: Memphis Industries
Dutch Uncles, Manchester’s much-revered electro art rock quartet, return with their long-awaited sixth album, True Entertainment (released March 10, 2023 on Memphis Industries).
STANDARD BLACK VINYL
CAT NO: MI0753LP
UPC: 5056340104972
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CAT NO: MI0753LPX
UPC: 5056340104989
CD CAT NO: MI0753CD
UPC: 5056340104965
Taking inspiration from Yellow Magic Orchestra, Prince, Steely Dan, Ennio Morricone, The Blue Nile, Kate Bush and Roxy Music, "True Entertainment behaves like it knows it's been away for some time, and doesn’t apologise for that," jokes vocalist / lyricist Duncan Wallis. "Ultimately, it's written with the mindset that on our sixth album, we’re only in competition with ourselves when it comes to finding satisfaction in our craft."
True to this mantra, True Entertainment bears some of the most delightfully fun Dutch Uncles music to date; paired with some of their most existential and introspective lyrics. What is success? Am I enough? How can I better? (and can I afford to be better?)
The title was a DJ name bestowed upon Wallis by guitarist Peter Broadhead. Wallis, an in-demand DJ and compare in his native city, wrote the acid house and Sign O’ The Times-era Princeinfluenced title track when reflecting on the awkwardness he sometimes feels when he’s recognised as the singer in a band while working one of his many public-facing jobs.
While bassist Wallis and bassist Robin Richards remain Dutch Uncles’ principle composers, the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021 prompted other members to contribute musical ideas: the result being their most collaborative album to date. This is evidenced further by Henry Broadhead and Neil Wright (live synth player and live guitarist, respectively) stepping up to production duties alongside the band themselves. The album also sees contributions from Anna Prior of Metronomy and Jonathan Higgs of Everything Everything. Henry Broadhead mixed the album with drummer Andrew Proudfoot, and it was mastered by Matt Colton (Pet Shop Boys, Christine And The Queens et al).
True Entertainment is the long-awaited follow up to Big Balloon (2017), an album which spawned three playlisted singles on BBC Radio 6 Music and enjoyed widespread acclaim from the likes of Uncut ("a high flying triumph" 8/10), The Guardian ("its songs barge in with urgency" 4*), The Quietus, DIY, Exclaim!, Q, Under the Radar and many, many more.
Label website: www.curationrecords.com
Billy Tibbals
Onwards and Upwards/Lucy
Vinyl 7” 45rpm + Digital Single Catalog#: CURED027
UPC VINYL: 850014131692
UPC DIGITAL: 634457125650
Moving from London to Hollywood back in 2014, Billy Tibbals quickly found a love for the city and its esoteric, debauched history. Combining this with his childhood obsession with British rock and roll, surrealist literature, and musicals from the 1940’s, Billy’s music presents a unique and fantastical view of the world around us As a part of the exciting new wave of rock and roll music emerging from Los Angeles, Billy hopes to inspire the youth to get off their phones and come join in with the fun. It’s only just begun!
This rock’n’roll sensation has quickly emerged as one of the great young hopes of the alternative LA music scene growing around Permanent Record Records Roadhouse and the other cool joints where the city's kids find their kicks these days. Billy Tibbals soon caught the eyes and ears of Brent Rademaker’s Curation Records whom now will release Tibbals first single “Onwards and Upwards” and Black Crowes-legend Chris Robinson signed them for their upcoming debut album for his label Silver Arrows Records/Sony.
The debut 7 inch from Tibbals is produced by Reza Matin from power pop wizards the Uni Boys, Tibbals compadres on the USA youthful rock scene with Matin also doing double duty as the drummer of Billy Tibbals Band
Billy Tibbals Band will hit the road with Detroit rockers Mac Saturn (Silver Arrows Records) early 2023
Marketing & Selling Points
● Upcoming USA 10 week tour Jan-March 2023 w/ Mac Saturn
● Ltd to 1000 vinyl copies printed at Kindercore USA / Classic 70s style paper jackets
● Single produced by Reza Matin of the Uni Boys
LISTEN TO - Billy Tibbals “Onwards and Upwards/Lucy” https://on.soundcloud.com/8hc67
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BITHAMMER!
Title: Minimum Style, Maximum Effort
Label: That’s Entertainment/ APOLLON RECORDS
Genre: Alternative, Rock N Roll, Garage Rock
Cat No: Format: Barcode:
CD-APR-0031 CD 7090039725268
LP-APR-0031 LP 7090039725275
Throw together a washed out, but surprisingly fit garage rocker with too much time on his hands, a guitar, a smart phone, an old drum machine and fifty samples, and you’re as close as you can possibly get to minimum style done with maximum effort. And the latest effort from ex-Kwyet Kings and Lust-O-Rama (now DANG!!!) front man Arne Thelin in a decade and a half is in the shape of an album (LP/CD) on Apollon Records. Recorded the BITHAMMER! way, deep into the damp snake infested jungles of Surinam e and on pristine Caribbean is land beaches while sipping umbrella clad piña coladas, and stitched together with Yugoslavian precision in Podgorica, Montenegro. Minimum style and maximum effort indeed!
For fans of Rock N Roll and Grarage rock such as The Gun Club, Cynics and more
Remastered Re-release of this Garage Rock classic from Norway
This is the 2nd album released in the new co-operation between Arne Thelin’s That’s Entertainment label and Apollon Records
Listening link: https://promo.theorchard.com/nCATMsguMBoLDU6sUWt1?skin=light
Featuring bass baritone Nicholas Isherwood and the Asasello Quartet
Sharp created a libretto from letters and writings of Beethoven as well as taking elements from Die Größe Fuge as seed materials for extrapolation, randomization, and recombinance. Beethoven is presented as a disturbed and effecting figure, the tortured genius. The performers play Sharp’s score, both apocalyptic and ecstatic, with incredible intensity.
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Elliott Sharp composer, libretto, director
Performed by Nicholas Isherwood bass baritone
Asasello Quartet
Rostislav Kozhevnikov violin
Barbara Streil violin
Justyna Sliwa viola
Teemu Myöhänen violoncello
Janene Higgins sleeve artwork and design
CD1:
1 Die Größte FugeOverture
2 Dieser Ton
3 Ein unerhörter Traum
4 Brüllen und Sturm
5 Wunder
CD2:
1 Eine Rückgabe
2 Natur
3 Tod Erscheint
4 Die Sendung
5 Die Komedie ist Vorbei
After 1815, Beethoven was beset with problems: physical, emotional, financial. Retreating into “fugue” states, he has visions, celestial and horrific, not hallucinations but visitations from a parallel reality of marvelous inventions, gleaming ships in the air, unheard musics, carnage beyond belief. Emerging, he translates these scenes into a music that stretches the rules to the verge of destruction. The resultant work, Die Größe Fuge, is considered the first 20th century string quartet. Label
DANG!!!
Title: THE WILL OF GOD
Label: APOLLON RECORDS
Genre: Alternative, Rock N Roll, Punk, Hard Rock
Cat No: Format: Barcode:
CD-ARP-130 CD 7090039725862
LP-ARP-130 LP 7090039725879
LP-ARP-130LE LP 7090039725886
Renewed for a second season, Norwegian rockers DANG!!! is back with a short sharp shock of a follow up. The vinyl version will rotate at 45rpm giving this format a louder, richer noise. Taking up where Sociopathfinder left off, they continue to shape sound that serves to soundtrack these perilous times. It’s not pretty. Not ever. The mood is matter-of-factly ominous. The prospect of the apocalypse will do that to a combo but they’ve decided to go down blazing. The New Machine/Caliphate Hate/Go Away/Taste Of Cruel/Lost In Time/Perfection O f Means/Unlawful Interception. Those are your seven titles on The Will Of God. The cover depicts a mushroom cloud serving as a metaphor for the atomic nature of the contents and also a possible outcome of current world events. We’ll leave you to decipher the commentary. DANG!!! continue to make loud sounds that are created to strike a chord with the disenfranchised souls that are trapped in a world they never considered could be so stupid. These are brutal and uncompromising shards of rock ‘n roll as the art form is almost never served up anymore
For fans of Rock N Roll and Grarage rock such as Gluecifer, Lust-O-Rama, The Dogs, Cynics and more
Feat.members from Kvelertak, Mork and ex-members from Lust-O-Rama, Gluecifer, Motorpsycho and more....
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Limited Edition Coloured LP , 250 copies. (PLRC 024 Trans red 8287.)
The vinyl version will rotate at 45rpm giving this format a louder, richer noise
TRACKLIST
Label website: www.apollonrecords.no
Band website: https://www.facebook.com/dang.thatband
Link to album: https://promo.theorchard.com/eiMT0IRe4KEDG8q3zaWD?skin=light
RUNE WALLE & GUNN ALSTADHAUG
Title: BYRDIE’S DREAM
Label: APOLLON RECORDS
Genre: Folk/Rock/Pop
Cat No: Format: Barcode: CD-ARP-102 CD 7090039724728
LP-ARP-102 LP 7090039724735
Rune Walle & Gunn Alstadhaug happen to be a married couple, as well as the name of their band. Rune plays guitar, mandolin, banjo, harmonica, while also doing vocals together with Gunn.
This musical collaboration goes all the way back to the 90s, both as a duo and in various bands in the Bergen (Norway) area. Now, with the help of Stein Urheim, they’ve joined forces again to create their debut album “Byrdie’s Dream”.
While being inspired by Fairport Convention, The Byrds, Gram Parson and Emmylou Harris, the project also benefits from Rune Walle’s extensive musical background in Oriental Sunshine, Saft, Hole in the Wall, Flying Norwegians and Ozark Mountain Daredevils.
For fans of Flying Norwegians, Fairport Convention & The Byrds
Debut album from Rune Walle & Gunn Alstadhaug
Available on CD and limited edition LP (250 copies)
Produced by Stein Urheim
Tracklist:
Label website: www.apollonrecords.no
Band website:
Link to album: https://promo.theorchard.com/WYvh4IyYxvvVbWP9Rfzk?skin=light
For interviews / info / press contact: robin@karismarecords.no
1. Hey Byrdie 2. Lynx 3. Hold Your Horses 4. Away in the Wilderness 5. Darling 6. Signs Mock Me 7. Dead Dog 8. Fools Gold 9. Big Lonely
SELLING POINTS
• NORTH AMERICAN TOURING PLANNED THROUGHOUT 2023
• THE FOLLOW-UP TO 2022’S COMEBACK A BIT OF PREVIOUS, 2m STREAMS TO DATE (US ONLY)
• RECENT REVIEWS / FEATURES NPR, THE NEW YORKER, P4K, ROLLING STONE, SPIN, VULTURE, NYTIMES, RELIX, LSQ PODCAST.
09. DO YOU FOLLOW
10. WHEN THE CYNICS STARE BACK FROM THE WALL 11. LATE DEVELOPERS
JANUARY 13, 2023
Recorded in the same sessions as ABitof Previous, LateDevelopers doesn’t feel like a collection of lesser-than songs that weren’t good enough to go on the “real” record. Rather, it’s an embrace of the freedom that comes with a jumbo-sized canvas, skilled students left unsupervised to paint whatever picture they feel like.
While I shudder to do the thing in a bio where I try to describe music to you with words, Late Developers takes you on a journey as the band floats through genres with ease – from the frantic Billy Bragg-with-hella-flute-energy of the opening track, “Juliet Naked,” and what I think might be Stevie Jackson’s best song (“So in the Moment”), into a legit all-out radio-ready dance party in the third quarter of the record (“When You’re Not With Me,” “Do You Follow”) which includes a Belle & Sebastian first, a co-write with young pop composer Pete Ferguson (“I Don’t Know What You See in Me”). They then unearth a 1994-era pre-Belle and Sebastian tune, “When the Cynics Stare Back From the Wall” with the help of Camera Obscura’s Tracyanne Campbell right before they bring you home at the end with a true bop (“Late Developers”).
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