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STREET DATES 7.8.14 AND 7.22.14

Includes bonus CD with remixes from Charles Hayward (This Heat), Jerry Busher (Fugazi), James Plotkin (Khanate), KK Null (Zeni Geva), and many more

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Blind Thorns

PG 11

“Knotty, instrumental rock that blends punk, prog, jazz, non-Western music, and improv into something exhilarating and even awe-inspiring.”

– THE WIRE

also inside Gulp (feat. Super Furry Animals’ Guto Pryce), Peelander-Z, Hard Riot, John Lemke

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Doug Benson

Gateway Doug 2: Forced Fun Selling Points • • • •

Doug’s seventh album in as many years.

Recorded live in Portland, OR on April 20, 2014.

Host of the smash “Doug Loves Movies” podcast.

Has appeared on “Comedy Central Presents,” VHI’s “Best Week Ever,” and “Last Comic Standing.”

• RIYL: Brian Posehn, Patton Oswalt.

The hardest-working stoner in show business returns with his seventh live comedy album in as many years. You know him as the creator of the smash hit podcast “Doug Loves Movies,” weekly talk show “Getting Doug With High,” and the cult favorite documentary Super High Me. Doug tours with his standup non-stop, and presents an annual slice of it here for your listening pleasure.

UPCOMING DATES

May 23 Seattle, WA – The Neptune Theater May 30 Providence, RI – Fete Ballroom May 31 Boston, MA – Brighton Music Hall June 2 New York, NY – Irving Plaza June 7 Bloomington, IN – The Comedy Attic June 15 Kansas City, MO – The Improv

“The Comedy King of the Stoners.”

“Doug Benson might be the world’s most productive stoner.”

Genre: Comedy Label: aspecialthing records CD: ATG 49 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Number of Discs: 1 Eco Wallet, Box Lot 75 Street Date: 7/8/14 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

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Doug Benson: vocals “Quick-witted … an entertaining show.”

“Arguably one of the most successful standup comics today.”

Key Markets: Hometown: San Diego. Also: Portland, Los Angeles

Previously AVAILABLE Doug Benson Professional Humoredian

Doug Benson Gateway Doug

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Track Listing: Tweetlandia • Watch This Not That 2 • Taken Yet Again • Voices in My Mouth • Go Ahead and Pass Me By, Parade • Dreams Do Come True • 2 High 2 Hypnotize • Stan Lee to the Rescue • Math Problems • Grape Expectations • Sex Poll Continued • A Sincere Moment

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Gulp

Season Sun Selling Points

• Debut full-length on white vinyl.

• Includes digital download card.

• Guto Pryce is the bassist for UK alt superstars Super Furry Animals.

• Have played Green Man Festival UK and SXSW. • Early accolades include Brooklyn Vegan and SPIN. • RIYL: Super Furry Animals, Camera Obscura.

MEDIA & MARKETING

• Radio campaign by Dave Sanford at Distiller Media.

• Press campaign by Nathan Walker at Riot Act Media.

Optimism can be a hard quality to come by, especially in a world that seems to pride itself on cynicism and negativity. But that’s exactly why we need a band like Gulp in our lives! This lush Welsh pop group is happy to consider itself an antidote to the creeping pessimism of modern life.

And the couple has plenty to be enthused about: Guto Pryce has a musical legacy to be proud of, having spent the past 20 years as bassist and vocalist for UK pop superstars Super Furry Animals. And he and vocalist Lindsey Leven are still glowing from their marriage late last year.

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Everloving Records VINYL: ELR 43 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 7/8/14 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Lindsey Leven: vocals Guto Pryce: bass Gid Goundrey: guitar Gwion Llewelyn: drums, vocals Dafydd Ieuan: drums Gareth Bonello: acoustic guitar, cello Jonny Gumbo: percussion Kris Jenkins: percussion

COVER STICKER: Includes Digital Download Card

Track Listing: Game Love • Let’s Grow • Clean and Serene • Vast Space • Grey Area • Seasoned Sun • Play • Hot Water • Everything • I Want To Dance

Season Sun is a fuzzy, buzzy, upbeat ode to the changing seasons. There’s some connection to be found between these sounds and what Pryce accomplished as a member of the Furries; the two projects share a love of warm vintage synth sounds and a burnished brand of psychedelia. But Gulp expresses itself with almost throwback sentiments.

Apart from a few moments, Season Sun could easily be mistaken for a lost gem of the late ’60s unearthed by a studious crate digger.

Gulp’s humble beam of multicolored musical light has already made its way through the band’s native UK thanks to well-loved lead single “Game Love” and a tour supporting Django Django.

“An amalgam of 21st-century electronic squiggles and vintage airy psych-folk, as contemporary as video games and as old as the hills.”

Key Markets: Los Angeles, Austin, Chicago, New York, Washington DC, Seattle, Portland “Less off-kilter than some of Super Furry Animals’ work, the new song is driving, moody, and a little psychedelic with Lindsey’s cool, hushed vocals casually taking the lead.

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Eleven original tracks from one Las Vegas’ most celebrated bands.

Extensive US tour planned for July 2014.

Limited edition royal blue vinyl; only 500 copies pressed.

Includes digital download card with a bonus track not on the LP. Promoted by SquidHat Records as part of their national print, radio, and social media campaigns.

• Submission to over 8,000 radio and print media outlets.

• Print advertising in New York Waste, Substream, and Vegas Seven.

• RIYL: Bad Religion, The Refused, Gallows, Snapcase, Converge.

Originally a Vegas power trio of punks consisting of Marq Roqsberg on bass and lead vocals, Tommy AK on guitar and backing vocals, and Miqah Mayhem on drums and backing vocals, The Quitters recruited their bro Dizzle to strap on a guitar and scream his lungs out in December 2011. Since then, they have opened for bands like Death

By Stereo, Guttermouth, and The Heroine. In August 2011, the band received the award for Best Punk Band in Las Vegas at the Vegas Rocks! Magazine Awards.

Track Listing: SIDE A: Defibrillator • Pentazoid • Taught to Hate • Sons of Siuslaw • Contributing to Erosion • SIDE B: Dragonslayer • Born Again Athiest • Giant Steps • Hipster • ISWID • Ex Ordo Misdiosis Key Markets: Hometown: Las Vegas. Also: Los Angeles, San Diego, Denver, Inland Empire, Long Beach, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Austin, Dallas

The Quitters Contributing To Erosion

Genre: Rock Label: SquidHat Records VINYL: SQD 3733 Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket, Box Lot 12 Street Date: 7/8/14 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

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Follow-up to U.S. debut Redhills, from Irish folk stars I Draw Slow.

Voted #1 in FolkAlley’s “Best of 2012.”

Music video features actor Aiden Gillen from “Game of Thrones.”

Video content will be promoted by Hip Video Promo.

Publicist Erin Scholze at Dreamspider Publicity has worked with major players in the Americana world such as Donna the Buffalo and Leftover Salmon.

• Already receiving great press from major Irish and British news outlets.

• Ads with No Depression, American Songwriter, and Facebook.

• RIYL: Mumford & Sons, Iris Dement, Patty Griffin.

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“The third album from this five-piece Dublin string band sees them further hone their increasingly confident and distinctive blend of American bluegrass and Irish sensibility into something special.”

— Irish Times HHHH Track Listing: All Souls • Don’t She Run • Souvenirs • Now You’re Gone • The Captain • Grand Hotel • Don’t You Cry My Honey • Springtime • Valentine • Hide & Seek • Whiskey Mirrors • Bread & Butter • Old Wars Key Markets: Nashville, Greenville, Asheville, Washington DC, Portland, Seattle, Austin, Knoxville

I Draw Slow White Wave Chapel

Genre: Americana Label: Pinecastle Records CD: PRC 1187 Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 7/8/14 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

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“An interesting mix of American and Irish folk styles, blending the traditional music of both cultures with a contemporary Americana/ Celtic sensibility.” — BLUEGRASS TODAY

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Everything Goes Cold Black Out the Sun

Genre: Alt Rock/Electronica Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 944 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 7/8/14 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Brainchild of Eric Gottesman, former member of Psyclon Nine.

Facebook and Google ad campaigns coinciding with the release.

Press servicing by Another Reybee Production.

Additional in-house servicing to press, radio, and club DJs. RIYL: Psyclon Nine, Left Spine Down, 16Volt, The Gothsicles.

Between the distant moons of Kronulos, one man fights against the tyranny of The Ant-Lords… But that man hasn’t been born yet. Now in their 8,000th decade, Everything Goes Cold chronicle a completely unrelated story about a wooden donkey and a guy in an ugly purple hat with Black Out the Sun, their first new full-length album in five years. At long last, EGC bring together the universally held basic human desire to weaponize kitchen appliances, and the immense worldwide popularity of industrial music. A sweeping 11-part epic replete with screaming and bleepy 8-bit video game sounds, Black Out the Sun makes a questionable foray into local politics and winds up getting tossed out of a city council meeting after repeatedly trying to take a bite out of the podium. It’s not a pretty scene, but maybe if you truly believed in yourself it could be.

Track Listing: SL.R1S • The Joke • Crawl of the Nameless Beast • The Iron Fist of Just Destruction • IAMERROR • Serpent Crown • When the Sky Rips In Two You Are Free • Ice Brigade, Part II • Henchman Follows Hand • All Sculpt Evil from the Clay Beneath Their Lips • Conqueror Key Markets: Hometown: San Francisco. Also: New York, Los Angeles, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh

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STREET DATE JULY 8, 2014

• Marks the return of one of the most well respected and recognizable dark ambient artists!

• First full-length since 2008’s Disintegration.

• Mastered by James Plotkin.

• Features collaborative track with Rasalhague.

• Nearly 60 minutes of massively scaled and sweeping soundscapes.

• Service to all relevant webzines, podcasts, and magazines dedicated to dark ambient, metal, and noise.

• Audio samples and promo videos on YouTube, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, and ReverbNation.

• RIYL: Yen Pox, Lustmord, Phelios, False Mirror, Kammarheit.

Terra Sancta Exile

Genre: Alt Rock/Ambient Label: Malignant Records CD: MGN 69 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) Number of Discs: 1 Eco Wallet, Box Lot 50 Street Date: 7/8/14 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

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Three years after the release of the CDEP Sunken|Buried|Forgotten, Exile finds Australia’s Terra Sancta in fine form, having delivered another sweeping, dark ambient epic. Expanding on the sounds explored on previous releases, Exile pushes the levels of intensity to new heights, featuring seven long and texturally turbulent emissions of formidable power and depth.

“Words just can’t describe how huge it sounds … extraordinary in every way.” — CHAIN DLK Track Listing: Empire of Ashes • Kingdom of Dust • Celestial Extinction • The Desolate Land • Descent II • Vanishing Point • End Path Key Markets: Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, Boston, New York, San Francisco

Selling Points

• Sixth studio album, with an all-new sound.

• Promotion to radio & club DJs as well as social media.

• RIYL: Trust, The Knife, Chvrches.

On this new album, the trio continues to evolve and develop, opening new doors and kicking them down when needed, especially if a door is stubborn or weather-warped. They are not of the shy persuasion, be it on stage or in their remixes, consciously choosing not to repeat themselves, but to expand like a swelled gut over a cinched waist-belt. Their eyes are always on the horizon, chasing a sun they will never let fall.

Track Listing: Lights • Tiny Wars and Quiet Storms • Horizon Slide • Stars • Gift Horse • Will We Tear You Apart? • Quiet Crimes • Tundra • Poltergeist • Leviathan Key Markets: Hometown: Phoenix. Also: Tucson, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Denver, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Portland, San Francisco, New York, Boston, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, San Diego, Miami, Austin, San Antonio, Orlando

UPCOMING DATES July July July July

17 San Diego, CA – Therapy 18 Tucson, AZ – The Surly Wench 19 Los Angeles, CA – The Complex 23 Seattle, WA – The Highline

Alter der Ruine I Will Remember It All Differently Genre: Alt Rock Label: Negative Gain Productions CD: NEG 81003 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 7/8/14 D

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Selling Points

• Playing festivals and dates through Summer/Fall 2014.

• Guests include members of Riverboat Gamblers, Octopus Project, and Black Joe Lewis’ Honeybears.

• DVD contains five music videos and an hour of bonus footage.

• Interviews and public appearances in major markets.

• RIYL: The Ramones, The Banana Splits, The Riverboat Gamblers, Guitar Wolf, Shonen Knife.

The greatest children’s album of 2010, now on LP with bonus DVD! Perfect for kids of all ages!

DVD Specs: NTSC, Region 0, 4:3 (Full Screen), Color, English (Stereo), Not Rated, Run Time: 60 min.

“Peelander-Z is the sonic and mythical equivalent of the Sex Pistols reincarnated as the Power Rangers meets Sun Ra.” — SANTACRUZ.COM Key Markets: Hometown: New York. Also: Austin, San Francisco, Washington DC, Nashville, Tampa, Baltimore

Peelander-Z P-TV-Z

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Chicken Ranch Records VINYL+DVD: CHX 1036 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 2 LP Jacket, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 7/8/14 D

STREET DATE JULY 8, 2014

Track Listing: P-TV-Z Theme • Go! Rio! • E-I-E-I-O • Ice Cream! • Red-Aka-Ika • Taco Taco Tacos • No More Cavities • Dial Ring Ring Phone Pho Pho • Peelander-Z Theme • Be My Friend Tonight • How Are USA • O! Sha! Re! • Happee Birthday • 2-4-6-8 Rock and Roll • Hey! Tokyo! • Wasabi Man

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Established act with a large fan base.

Follow-up to highly successful 2012 debut album.

Features guest appearance by Richard Sjunnesson (The Unguided).

Promos sent to print and online publications, underground webzines, blogs, and radio stations.

• Online promotion including heavy use of social media.

• Song samples at Pitch Black Records website and various other locations through SoundCloud.

• Album teaser and clips on YouTube.

• RIYL: Nickleback, Papa Roach, Metallica, AC/DC, Edguy.

Hard Riot The Blackened Heart

Genre: Metal Label: Pitch Black Records CD: PTB 30 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 Street Date: 7/8/14 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

“Locked and loaded, ready to go! Harder, faster, stronger!” Heavy riffing, a remarkable voice, and pure adrenaline and passion fuel this band, formed 2006 in the city of Heilbronn, Germany. The follow-up to their successful 2012 debut sees the band becoming even tighter and more explosive. With superb production by Vagelis Maranis of Maranis Studios, this album begs the question “Are you HARD enough to start a RIOT?!”

Track Listing: Blackout • Suicide Blues • Devils BBQ • The End • Count On Me • Not Alone • The Enemy Within • Dirty Games • Last Goodbye • High Society Bitch • Hit The Ground • The End (Bonus Track feat. Richard Sjunnesson of The Unguided) Key Markets: New York, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, Boston, Detroit

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STREET DATE JULY 8, 2014

• First U.S. release of this highly acclaimed debut.

• Unique mix of smoky vocals and sophisticated backing tracks with an electronic touch and pop appeal.

• Nominated for the Czech Grammy®.

• Thick matte gatefold cover with special 3-D printing.

• Full album stream premieres at target media.

• Print and banner ads with various outlets.

• Facebook and email campaign with over 100,000 targets.

• RIYL: Cat Power, Fiona Apple, Jessie Ware, Bat For Lashes.

Never Sol Under Quiet

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Denovali Records CD: DNV 195 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 7/8/14 D

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Sara Vondraskova, known by her stage name Never Sol, is a Czech singer and composer based in Prague. Writing her first songs at the age of 15, and studying music for eight years at the conservatory, in 2011 she started to play her songs at one of the most vibrant Bohemian venues in Prague, Cafe V Lese. Shortly after her first concert, producer Jan P. Muchow contacted her and the two-year composition process of debut album Under Quiet began.

Track Listing: Lake • Hands • Run with the Wolves • Places • Breathe • Lay Down • The Dive • Eyes Skin Moves • Burning • Saint Fly (Kaca & Sara) • Zero • Femme Fatale • Hands (Acoustic Version) • Places (Roman Fiordmoss Remix) Key Markets: New York, Los Angeles, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Seattle, Austin

Selling Points

• A melodic, alluring album from one of the leading artists of West Coast avant garde music.

• The next shoegaze/dream pop classic!

• Full album stream premieres at target media.

• Print and banner ads with various outlets.

• Facebook and email campaign with over 100,000 targets.

• RIYL: Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins.

Ensemble Economique is Brian Pyle of Starving Weirdos and RV Paintings. His solo project (hence the slightly ironic moniker) released various albums, splits, and EPs on labels such as Digitalis, Amish, Not Not Fun, Dekorder, and Clan Destine before joining forces with Denovali Records in 2012.

“Gloomy drones, disembodied textures, crumbling film samples, and crunching field recordings are smashed together in Pyle’s refreshingly modest fashion, and the result is disarming and delightfully seasonal.”

— FACT Track Listing: Your Lips Against Mine (feat. Sophia Hamadi and Denmother) • Make-Out In The GDR • Hey Baby • Fade For Miles • Never Gonna Die • Melt Into Me Key Markets: Hometown: San Francisco. Also: New York, Los Angeles, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Seattle, Austin

Ensemble Economique Melt Into Nothing

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Denovali Records CD: DNV 200 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 7/8/14 D

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Now on CD due to high demand!

Previously released as a three-song digital-only EP. Includes four remixes and new artwork.

Intelligent electronica with an organic feel.

Full album stream premieres at target media.

Print and banner ads with various outlets.

Facebook and email campaign with over 100,000 targets.

RIYL: Boards of Canada, Pole, Hauschka, Four Tet, The Notwist.

Track Listing: Walizka • Kompass • Drift • Walizka (Piano Interrupted Remix) • Kompass (SaffronKeira Remix) • Kompass (Everyday Dust Remix) • Drift (Petrels Remix) Key Markets: New York, Los Angeles, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Seattle, Austin

John Lemke Walizka

Genre: Electronica Label: Denovali Records CD: DNV 201 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 7/8/14 D

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Refining John Lemke’s blend of prepared piano and field recordings with hand-crafted beats and swampy bass lines, this deeply moody and danceable release bends genres with refreshing ease. Working across a variety of media, Lemke explores all things sonic through live performance, sound design, and his work as a documentary film composer. The Walizka EP is his latest solo release on Denovali Records.

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Compilation of two long tracks from one of Europe’s leading experimental/ambient artists.

180-gram heavyweight vinyl includes free download.

Thick covers and printed inner sleeves.

Full album stream premieres at target media.

Print and banner ads with various outlets.

Facebook and email campaign with over 100,000 targets.

RIYL: Tim Hecker, Fennesz, Hans-Joachim Roedelius.

Petrels The Silver Chimney Club/Wat Tyler comprises two long-form tracks written between Onkalo and The Silver Chimney Club/ the latest Petrels album Mima. Originally released digitally, they are now presented here, reWat Tyler mastered with new artwork for this release. Since releasing his debut Haeligewielle in 2011, Genre: Avant Rock/Ambient Label: Denovali Records VINYL: DNV 197 Price Code: 2O (SRP $27.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket, Box Lot 50 Street Date: 7/8/14 D

Petrels has toured across Europe and shared stages with the likes of Tim Hecker, FIRE!, Nate Young (Wolf Eyes), Trouble Books, Fennesz, Nadja, and Hans-Joachim Roedelius (Cluster).

Having also collaborated with and provided remixes for artists as varied as Duane Pitre, Brassica, Talvihorros, and Max Cooper, Petrels’ output is proving to be thrillingly eclectic and unpredictable.

Track Listing: The Silver Chimney Club • Wat Tyler

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Moon Zero Tombs

Genre: Avant Rock/Ambient Label: Denovali Records VINYL: DNV 198 Price Code: 2O (SRP $27.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket, Box Lot 50 Street Date: 7/8/14 D

Debut of this enigmatic experimental music project, including three remixes.

180-gram heavyweight vinyl includes free download.

Thick covers and printed inner sleeves.

Full album stream premieres at target media.

Print and banner ads with various outlets.

Facebook and email campaign with over 100,000 targets.

Moon Zero is the enigmatic and ethereal project of London-based Tim Garratt. Composed and recorded entirely in churches, Moon Zero’s compositions explore the harmonic chaos of competing frequencies. Denovali Records is pleased to announce the release of Moon Zero’s first EP Tombs, now on vinyl! Tombs is a bold and confident musical statement that reimagines the possibilities of processed organ and vocal sounds in a live context. A remarkable listen!

Track Listing: Dalyan • Endless Palms • Winter Dreams • Shadow Den • Endless Palms (Bruised Skies Remix) • Endless Palms (Zvuku Remix) • Winter Dreams (The Cyclist Remix)

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Moon Zero Loss

Genre: Avant Rock/Ambient Label: Denovali Records VINYL: DNV 199 Price Code: 2O (SRP $27.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket, Box Lot 50 Street Date: 7/8/14 D

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Moon Zero’s second EP, now on vinyl!

180-gram heavyweight vinyl includes free download.

Thick covers and printed inner sleeves.

Full album stream premieres at target media.

Print and banner ads with various outlets.

RIYL: Tim Hecker, The Haxan Cloak, Grouper, Barn Owl.

Moon Zero is the enigmatic and ethereal project of London-based Tim Garratt. His second EP, Loss, is the result of a year spent working out how to play Moon Zero live, and then going on to play concerts. Using a wide range of instrumentation such as drawbar organ, bass synth, vocals, FX processors, and guitar pedals, Loss was written and recorded over two days at St. George in The East Church in London, October 2013. Whereas Tombs was more concerned with exploring melody in an ambient space, Loss explores pulse and movement in sound.

Track Listing: Youth • Nosema Ceranae • Lara Witchcraft • The Industrial Sadness

Blind Thorns

Blind Thorns

Selling Points

• New project from members of avant-prog legends Ahleuchatistas.

• Vinyl edition is super limited, with only 100 copies available in the U.S. • Heavy touring throughout North America in August + September 2014.

• Layout by the legendary Designer’s Republic.

• RIYL: Ahleuchatistas, Earth, John Zorn’s Naked City, Swans, Tortoise.

MEDIA & MARKETING • Promotion/publicity via Solid PR.

Blind Thorns conjures a hypnotic and horrifying dreamscape of sounds, simultaneously entrancing and pummeling listeners into ecstatic acquiescence! Wordless saccharine vocals, ethereal guitar, and meditative percussion evolve into brutal growls, crushing riffage, and relentless polyrhythmic pulsations. The uneasy serenity of a deserted cemetery, wind whistling on the breeze, leaves rustling, a train in the distance…

Blind Thorns is brimming with images that seem to manifest just before reality is peeled back, and the sound of warped tape and backwards incantations cross fade into an echoic (torture?) chamber. Amorphous, telepathic, controlled communication between the instruments makes for dark impressionistic and textural listening that is unafraid to show its backbone. This record explodes, rocks the fuck out, burns, and sings — and thankfully, it does not take itself too seriously.

“Music doesn’t get much closer to the edge than this.”

Genre: Avant Rock Label: New Atlantis Records CD: NAL 13 Price Code: J (SRP $9.99) Number of Discs: 1 Custom Wallet, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 7/22/14 D

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“Knotty, instrumental rock that blends punk, prog, jazz, non-Western music, and improv into something exhilarating and even awe-inspiring.”

COVER STICKER: Debut of Blind Thorns, electronics/vocalist wizard Antoine Läng + The Ahleuchatistas

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Antoine Läng: vocals, electronics Shane Perlowin: guitar Ryan Oslance: drums Track Listing: Blindfolded Sleeplessness • Engulfing the Epigone • Porque Eu So Sei Gostar • Orbital • A Railway Diversion • An Explanation of the Birds • Gambling with the Wrong Dice Key Markets: Hometown: Asheville. Also: New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philly, Detroit, Dayton, Cincinnati, Chicago, Boston, Baltimore, Richmond, Pittsburgh, Washington DC, Seattle, Portland

STREET DATE JULY 22, 2014

“Remarkably tight, with the ability to turn complicated and seemingly unrelated phrases on a dime.”

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VINYL: NAL 8717 Price Code: 2J (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket, Box Lot 10 Street Date: 7/22/14

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Selling Points

• Clear vinyl edition with download card.

• Includes free bonus CD bursting at the seams with remixes from Charles Hayward (This Heat), Jerry Busher (Fugazi), James Plotkin (Khanate), KK Null (Zeni Geva), and many, many more!

• Extensive touring throughout Fall 2014.

• Promotion/publicity via Solid PR. • RIYL: Fugazi, Shellac, Unwound, Sun Ra Arkestra, Slint, US Maple.

Hyrrokkin Pristine Origin

Genre: Avant Rock Label: New Atlantis Records VINYL: NAL 1000 Price Code: 2J (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 + Bonus CD LP Jacket, Box Lot 20 Street Date: 7/22/14 D

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Pristine Origin is the debut LP from Hyrrokkin, an instrumental avant-rock power trio with boundless energy and a knack for navigating off-kilter, polyrhythmic arrangements. The album features seven sprawling, energetic compositions, marked with the influence of serialism, free jazz, and the creative rock output from labels like Dischord, Homestead, and Touch & Go. Just two months after forming the band in June 2011, Hyrrokkin recorded their well-received cassette debut, Astrionics, and embarked on a six-week tour of North America.

The group has since shared the stage with Mick Barr, William Hooker, Many Arms, and collaborated as members of Kid Million’s Man Forever (Thrill Jockey), and with Black Flag guitar legend Greg Ginn.

“Don Cab/Hella–ish guitar meets a punk-fusion rhythm section.”

— TIME OUT NEW YORK Track Listing: Eightfold Way • Hydronyms • HAARP • Cosmic Influencer • Astrionics • Anacoluthon • Tamariz Key Markets: Hometown: Dayton. Also: Washington DC, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Baltimore, Seattle, Portland, Pittsburgh, Boston, Columbus, Detroit, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles

Selling Points

STREET DATE JULY 22, 2014

• Free-wheeling improv from rising stars of the creative underground!

• Features members of the Anthony Braxton Quartet, Many Arms, Storm & Stress, Talibam!, and more.

• Publicity via Solid PR, focusing on track/video premieres, record reviews, artist features, and tour promotion.

• RIYL: Anthony Braxton, Many Arms, Hyrrokkin, William Hooker, Storm & Stress, Matta Gawa.

Haitian Rail Solarists

Genre: Avant Rock Label: New Atlantis Records CD: NAL 9 Price Code: J (SRP $9.99) Number of Discs: 1 Custom Wallet, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 7/22/14 D

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New Atlantis Records is proud to announce Solarists, the second full-length album by Haitian Rail. This record brashly charts the common spaces between creative noise rock and the jazz avantgarde, while shattering the restrictive barriers between them. Formerly dubbed Ricart/Millevoi Quartet, with a stellar debut LP via Gaffer Records, this new lineup features guitarist Nick Millevoi (Many Arms, Deveykus), bassist Edward Ricart (Hyrrokkin, William Hooker Trio), trombonist Dan Blacksberg (Deveykus, Anthony Braxton), and drummer Kevin Shea (Mostly Other People Do the Killing, Talibam!).

“A wonderfully unhinged stew of avant-garde jazz rock.”

— TINY MIX TAPES Track Listing: Trembler • Overburden • Scintillator • Flare Star • Seven Wastes Key Markets: Hometown: Philadelphia, New York, Dayton. Also: Baltimore, Washington DC, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Richmond, Asheville, Detroit, Cincinnati, Columbus, Louisville, Boston, Providence, Lafayette, Indianapolis

Selling Points • • • • •

Features band member Aidan Baker (Nadja).

Mastered by James Plotkin.

Advertising with Facebook as well as print media.

Promotion via The Black Birch.

RIYL: Aidan Baker, Nadja, Can, Neu, Bardo Pond, Carlton Melton.

This trio — featuring Aidan Baker (Nadja, Whisper Room), Gareth Sweeney (Gout), and Felipe Salazar (Muerte en Pereira) — returns with their second album. Caudal’s particular sound, with lots of guitar overlays and a propulsive rhythm section, constantly echoes, crossing borders between Krautrock, post-punk, and space rock. A rich and imaginative album for fans of fuzzy soundscapes! “[A] mightily relaxing mixture of krautrock repetition and slow-drifting spacerock. The rhythm section holds down sleepy repetitive grooves while Baker carves streaks of neon from his guitar with layered drones and crunchy psychedelic noodling … lots of moody psychedelic spacekraut and the occasional bit of head-bobbing stoner rock.”

— NORMAN RECORDS Track Listing: Uprise • Slow Bow • 451S2 Key Markets: Hometown: Toronto. Also: New York, Washington DC, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle

Caudal Ascension

Genre: Alt Rock Label: ConSouling Sounds CD: CSD 38 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25 Street Date: 7/22/14 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

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Selling Points • • • •

Members of Amenra, Oathbreaker, Hessian, and Treha Sektori.

Advertising with Facebook as well as printed media.

Promotion via The Black Birch.

RIYL: Amenra, Oathbreaker, Hessian, The Black Heart Rebellion.

The 2011 Brethren Bound by Blood split series brought forth the idea of this cooperation. Each individual track was dissected into single instruments, single notes, and distant sounds. When mingled, they seek to become a new language.

“There is something so dark and disturbing and yet glorious in the Church of Ra.” — CVLT NATION

Key Markets: New York, Washington DC, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle

Church of Ra Church of Ra

Genre: Alt Rock/Ambient Label: ConSouling Sounds CD: CSD 37 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Number of Discs: 1 Eco Wallet, Box Lot 25 Street Date: 7/22/14 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

STREET DATE JULY 22, 2014

Track Listing: COR1 • COR2

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UPCOMING TOUR DATES SURGYN Envy

AESTHETIC PERFECTION Til Death

KOO KOO KANGA ROO Whoopty Whoop

CD: VEN DWA 330 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Number of Discs: 1 UPC: 4582237829020 June 1

CD: MTP 927 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 UPC: 782388092722 June 3

CD: FFN 4 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Number of Discs: 1 UPC: 612851080423 July 11

June 3

June 4

July 12

June 4

June 5

July 13

June 5

June 6

August 21

June 6

June 10

Omaha, NE – The Hideout Denver, CO – Casselman’s Salt Lake City, UT – Area 51 Boise, ID – The Bouquet Seattle, WA – The Highline

Denver, CO – Casselman’s Salt Lake City, UT – Area 51 Boise, ID – The Bouquet Seattle, WA – The Highline San Francisco, CA – DNA Lounge

June 8

Portland, OR – Tonic Lounge June 10

MOVING UNITS Neurotic Exotic

June 12

CD: MTP 874 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 UPC: 782388087421 June 3

San Francisco, CA – DNA Lounge Glendale, CA – Complex JEN KIRKMAN Hail to the Freaks

Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle

Winnipeg, MB – Winnipeg Folk Festival Winnipeg, MB – Winnipeg Folk Festival Wassau, WI – 400 Block KOFFIN KATS Born of the Motor CD: SLG 28 Price Code: 2D (SRP $13.99) Number of Discs: 1 UPC: 603111977225 June 1

Eugene, OR – Luckies June 3

Medford, OR – Johnny B’s

CD: ATG 21 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Number of Discs: 2 UPC: 884501525862 June 7 Chicago, IL – The Hideout June 13 Vancouver, BC – Comedy Mix June 14 Vancouver, BC – Comedy Mix August 1 Palm Beach, FL – Palm Beach Improv August 2 New Orleans, LA – New Movement Theatre September 12

June 4

June 4

June 14

June 5

June 15

June 8

THE CREEPSHOW Life After Death

SEAN PATTON Standard Operating Procedure

CD: SLG 29 Price Code: 2D (SRP $13.99) Number of Discs: 1 UPC: 603111977324 STARRED DATES WITH REV. HORTON HEAT June 18

CD: ATG 35 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Number of Discs: 1 UPC: 884501813129 July 25–28

September 13

Newport, KY – Southgate House*

September 25

Columbus, OH – Shrunken Head

September 26

Ann Arbor, MI – Bling Pig

Las Vegas, NV – The Venetian Las Vegas, NV – The Venetian

Minneapolis, MN – Acme Comedy Club Minneapolis, MN – Acme Comedy Club

St. Louis, MO – The Firebird Seattle, WA – Barboza Portland, OR – Alhambra Theater Lounge

June 20 June 21

June 22

Grand Rapids, MI – Pyramid Scheme* June 23

BLESSING OFFOR Loving Each Other 7-INCH: SOJ 41 Price Code B (SRP $4.99) Number of Discs: 1 UPC: 896520002460 June 14

Saugerties, NY – John St. Jam

Fort Wayne, IN – Brass Rail June 24

Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom* June 25

Brooklyn, NY – Knitting Factory June 26

Collinsville, CT – Bridge Street Live* June 27

Bethlehem, PA – Musikfest Café* June 28

Stanhope, NJ – Stanhope House* June 29

Harrisburg, PA – Fed Live*

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Winnipeg, MB – Winnipeg Folk Festival

San Francisco, CA – Slims Santa Cruz, CA – The Catalyst Long Beach, CA – Ink and Iron

Denver, CO – The Improv August 7–10

Austin, TX – Cap City August 13–17

Minneapolis, MN – Acme Comedy Club MARC MARON WTF with Marc Maron DVD-A: ATG 38 Price Code: 2U (SRP $39.99) Number of Discs: 2 UPC: 884501853248 May 31

Albuquerque, NM – National Hispanic Cultural Center June 14

Chicago, IL – 26th Annual Comedy Festival June 26–28

Bloomington, IN – The Comedy Attic

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