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This Issue: Jeanette Wall (US Label Manager) & Christof Ellinghaus (Label Founder)
to create a community around music – that has managed to run through the heart of the label for over 30 years.
We know you can’t choose, but what’s been your favorite label release, and why?
JW: This is a little bit of a copout, but when I went to the City Slang Berlin office for the first time, the first thing to catch my eye was a promotional poster on the wall for a compilation City Slang released in 1992, as a fundraiser for Planned Parenthood. The title is Freedom Of Choice (Yesterday’s New Wave Hits As Performed By Today’s Stars) — and the tracklist is unreal. Superchunk covering Devo, Chia Pet (the Sassy Magazine house band) covering The Human League, The Muffs covering John Fogerty. Sonic Youth covering Plastic Bertrand! It’s such a special slice of rock history that represents the underlying ethos of the label. I knew when I saw that poster, I was exactly where I was supposed to be.
What’s the wildest marketing promotion you’ve ever worked on for any release?
How did you personally get started in the music industry?
Jeanette Wall: At the risk of aging myself in the most cringe way possible, I got my start on MySpace when I was in high school. I managed my best friend’s solo project after our middle school band broke up. I connected him to enough people on the platform til he was the #1 unsigned artist streaming on MySpace (it was cool, I promise).
When and where did the label begin?
JW: Christof Ellinghaus, our fearless leader, founded the label whilst promoting shows and tour managing in Berlin. The imprint offered a European home to a number of influential indie bands from across the Atlantic. Releases included Yo La Tengo, Sebadoh, Cell, The Flaming Lips, and Hole to name a few. The records released through City Slang have helped shape and embellish the last three decades of alternative music.
What is the meaning behind the name for the label?
JW: The name is a reference to Fred “Sonic” Smith’s Rendezvous Band’s heater, “City Slang.” Christof has a copy of the 7” above his desk.
How has the label changed since it started?
JW: It’s been 33 years of City Slang! With offices in Berlin, New York, Paris and London, I think the biggest change is how far the label has outgrown the borders of the European continent. We’re everywhere, working with wonderful artists from everywhere, with good people from everywhere.
Describe the general makeup of your team at the label.
JW: The HQ is in Berlin, where the nucleus resides, with a handful of satellite offices that connect the dots. Berlin is where the production meets the product management, as they say. We have an amazing digital team, in-house licensing, German PR and our warehouse space in the Berlin office as well. There is Simon who heads up the UK office out of London City, and Aymeric who runs the French HQ out of Paris. Then there is the New York office, now, that’s where the PARTY is! Bianca and myself hold it down for the USA, alongside Local Rep, in Brooklyn.
What has been the biggest challenge for you and the label during the Pandemic?
Christof Ellinghaus: Well, we work with a lot of brand new artists, and when the pandemic hit, they were unable to strut their stuff. To show what they got. So this has been a real problem indeed, yes.
Is the label tied to a specific geographical area? How is this reflected in your releases?
JW: Berlin of course is at the heart of the unapologetic, raucous punk energy the folks who make up the label exude. But I think with such an international label, both in roster and staff, it’s difficult to pin down. Have you ever been to the Island of Misfit Toys? We’re serving that energy.
Where do you go to search for new music? Who or what has been a new find you’d like to rave about?
CE: We align the carefully researched data points from TikTok and Youtube as well as other socials, then draw our conclusions… Not. Somehow, weirdly, they keep finding us...
Is there a genre that you would consider to be the label’s “signature style,” or is it a mix?
JW: Absolutely a mix. I’ll borrow from the beautiful description on our website: The label’s roster now encompasses everything from imaginative twists on dance music (Caribou, Gold Panda, Boy Harsher, Waleed, Coma, Sinkane, Junior Boys, Roosevelt) to inventive instrumental productions (Hauschka, Grandbrothers) multiple forms of ingenious songwriting (José Gonzaléz, Son Lux, KAINA, McKinley Dixon, Anna B Savage) genre-bending masterpieces (Noga Erez, Zouj, Sen Morimoto, Lambchop) and of course the kind of raucous guitars with which it first launched (Los Bitchos, King Hannah, Pom Pom Squad, Sprints, Nada Surf, Calexico).
How would you describe your overall ambitions and goals as a label from when you first started compared to now?
CE: Well, back in the early days, we first and foremost wanted to be a home away from home for all these amazing US bands in Europe. That has obviously now shifted. We are now trying to be their global release partner and career builder all while we attempt
JW: There’s this German word our staff has been throwing around a lot, “die schnapsidee” — which basically means a wild idea, or an idea that comes about when drinking (“Schnapps”). We have a lot of those, I am not sure if one sticks out as the wildest. I will say, many of our schnapsideen come to fruition, or the ones worth remembering anyways. One of my favorites to witness was a live event City Slang hosted in Berlin with Sooper Records and Secretly where we brought together three artists who all share the same band and are deeply connected: Sen Morimoto, NNAMDÏ, KAINA all brought Chicago to this club sweet club that sits on the Spree, Marie-Antoinette. Here is to many more schnapsideen!
What is your stance on color vinyl? What’s the most unique color LP or overall packaging you’ve ever seen or released?
JW: Listen to what you want, how you want to listen to it. My favorite packaging trick City Slang pulled recently came from the mind of Softee. Jean Goode designed the packaging, and Nina thought to have the back of her LP be donned with a letter and a track by track, taking note from old school Decca records with lots to read and absorb on the jacket. Nina wanted the listener to really be able to connect with the music even when combing through the stacks at the record shop. It turned out beautifully.
How would you describe the average fan of the label?
JW: They throw impeccable dinner parties. Not necessarily the most lavish, but thoughtful and warm. They pick up their favorite natural wine, a new candle, and the stinkiest cheese from the grocery store. They plan out their vinyl playlist in advance, and make everything from scratch. Even if the food is simple, it’s the most delicious when shared around a table. The conversation goes late into the night, and usually involves a joyous debate about a mysterious sample hidden on one of the records. I think this is also the average person who is employed at the label (brag).
Before working at the label did you have any experience playing in bands or making music of your own?
JW: Shameless self promotion, but you can check out my band Band Practice. I once ate a bowl of fettuccini on stage at Silent Barn (RIP) while playing a set. We are on indefinite hiatus.
How important are issues like mental health and social justice to you and the label?
JW: Music is what connects us, how we communicate our desires, joys, needs, dreams, pain, suffering. This connection holds the hand of ensuring the well-being of our fellow humans. That empathy, that ability to see each other’s experiences reflected back at us, is the whole point of putting out music in the first place. So, similarly to the health of the Earth, the health of each other is equally essential to what we do.
What in your opinion has been the biggest change in the music industry from when you first started compared to now?
JW: Remember MySpace? Just kidding. I think the biggest change is essentially the barrier to entry. Maybe it was never really there at all, but we know now more than ever that anyone can press record and have their song up available for the world on a million different platforms. The myth of it being something only certain people can do has dissipated.
If you had to start a new sub-label, what would it be called and what kind of music would it be geared towards?
JW: I have always wanted to start a drag artist sub-label, and release beautiful 12” club mixes, like Gold Panda remixes Alaska 5000, featuring a McKinley Dixon verse. I think there are so many fun spaces where drag and indie music can connect. Just another excuse for Bianca and I to throw some amazing parties.
Want to shout out a personal favorite record store or retail establishment?
Now’s your chance:
JW: This is a tough one (I love you all!!!), but I really have to give this space to my hometown store, Luna Records in Indianapolis. I learned so much from those folks, and I still have the first record crate I ever got that has the Luna logo all over it. Whenever I see an order from them, teenage Jeanette is smiling like a maniac.
They say our sun will explode in about 5 billion years or so- how would you like the label to be remembered?
JW: I think folks will remember the dinner parties, those we hosted and those we soundtracked.
ARRIVING IN 1978, X-DREAMS IS AN INFATUATING AND RESOLUTELY FEMININE FREE-FORM EXPLORATION OF THE POLITICS AND DYNAMICS OF SEX. IN THE PURSUIT TO RECONCILE THE DUALITY OF ATTRACTION & REPULSION AND LOVE & CRUELTY, THE ALBUM OSCILLATES BETWEEN AN ASSERTIVE OPENING SIDE AND A SWEETER SIDE
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Title: X-Dreams
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B. ASSEMBLING A CREW OF 22 MUSICIANS (INCLUDING MICK RONSON ON GUITAR AND BILL BRUFORD ON DRUMS), PEACOCK DELIVERS IMPASSIONED VOCAL PERFORMANCES ALONGSIDE AN IMPROVISATIONAL JAZZ-ROCK FUSION MASTERPIECE OF MUSICIANSHIP, ALMOST ALL OF WHICH WAS RECORDED IN ONE TAKE.
MY MAMA NEVER TAUGHT ME HOW TO COOK
RELEASED IN 1979, THIS PROPHETIC STEW OF SPOKEN WORD, JAZZ, AND FUNK FROM ANNETTE PEACOCK WAS WILDLY AHEAD OF ITS TIME AND IS STILL SALIENT TODAY. HER UNFLINCHING EXAMINATIONS OF CAPITALISM, SEX, RELIGION, ET AL. ARE UNDERSCORED BY LENGTHY, GORGEOUS GROOVES.
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PEACOCK WIELDS HER VOICE WITH WILD ABANDON, AT TIMES DELIVERING A MELODY LIKE A BEAT POET WHILE OTHER TIMES WAILING OUT OF HER THROAT LIKE A SAXOPHONE, HITTING BLUE NOTES AS SHE PLEASES. WHERE MOST MUSICIANS RIFF, SHE CREATES SONIC SPACE. PERHAPS TOO ESOTERIC TO GARNER COMMERCIAL PRAISE AT THE TIME, WITH THIS REISSUE WE’RE PROUD TO ENCOURAGE THE DISCOVERY AND PRAISE THAT THE PERFECT RELEASE DESERVES.
INCLUDES: LOVE’S OUT TO LUNCH • SOLAR SYSTEMS
• AMERICAN SPORT • A LOSS OF CONSCIOUSNESS • RUBBER HUNGER • THE SUCCUBUS • SURVIVAL
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Emperor Of New Orleans
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Love Letters:
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That’s All Right (Mama)
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Let Us Get Together
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SCREAMIN’
Because You’re Mine: Hits & Rarities
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JOHNNY
Only Want To Be With You
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LIGHTNIN’ HOPKINS Mojo Hand: The Complete Fire Sessions
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Z Grammy Award for Best Americana Album 2021
Z The band performed on Jimmy Kimmel Live on August 16th
“Even when they’re playing songs from other artists, Los Lobos sound like no other band.” - Pitchfork
“Mainstays on the LA scene since the early 1970s, the band showcase their wide range on this imaginative and timely covers album…” 8 out of 10 Stars - Uncut Magazine
“The Best Albums of 2021” - AllMusic
”Readers’ 50 Favorite Roots Music Albums of 2021” - No Depression
“Los Lobos makes almost all other bands look like novelty acts.” - Marc Maron
“Pin Ups en Espanol: East LA’s greatest dance band hosts a ‘covers’ party. 4 Stars” - Mojo
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LOS LOBOS HAS BEEN SINGING SONGS AND PLAYING MUSIC TOGETHER FOR 50 YEARS! IN CELEBRATION OF THE BAND’S ILLUSTRIOUS CAREER, NEW WEST RECORDS IS RUNNING A 50% OFF SALE ON NATIVE SONS THROUGH THE END OF JUNE
ANOHNI and the Johnsons release ‘My Back Was a Bridge for You to Cross’ on July 7th. Blacklips Bar: Androgyns and Deviants — Industrial Romance for Bruised and Battered Angels, 1992–1995 showcases ANOHNI’s earliest recordings from her time with Blacklips Performance Cult, the extraordinary theatrical collective initiated by a cabal of artists, drag queens, punks, nightlife veterans and students that performed a new play every Monday night at 1:00 a.m. at New York’s Pyramid Club from 1992 to 1995, in the midst of the AIDS crisis in NYC. Blacklips never courted mainstream attention. However, the group left a sustaining impression within New York’s late night subculture by melding hysterical drag, surreal horror, and disconcerting tenderness. The compilation also features favorite DJ tracks alongside original recordings by other members of Blacklips Performance Cult.
“...a testament to cross-generational solidarity as the AIDS crisis persisted. Long before she achieved international renown, Anohni and her cohort fortified themselves against a brutally inadequate world by creating their own.” - The New York Times
“Looking for forebears, or trying to bring forward what otherwise feels lost takes persistence and work. And the silence around the work of Blacklips during its time demonstrates the fragility of such underlying structures; they are not immune to censorship, erasure, or reductive historicization. This is perhaps why Blacklips now resonates with people so much.” - Document Journal
“From the perspective of performance art, Blacklips seemed to arrive just after the peak of a polymathic Downtown scene that blurred drag, cabaret, theater, and activism. Musically, their capacity for earnestness separated them from precedent, imbuing their mourning with an openhearted, connective consonance that would become more common in the post-9/11 era. Of course, the album sets us in a much earlier period—one of punk, camp, and the fury of ACT UP. ” - Pitchfork
“As states outlaw drag and trans people’s presence in public spaces, it’s on us to make sure this world gives artists time and space to build a better one.” - Surface
“Before the internet, young creatives seeking community had to physically go out on the street to find other like-minded people. Anohni’s alarming T-shirt and bizarre fliers — with their fevered slogans, ‘Defy god’s natural plan’, ‘Be beautiful, worship the devil’, ‘Annihilate gender’ — were fine-tuned to attract rare and precious kindred spirits, while repulsing and repelling everyone else. It worked.” - i-D
“The authenticity and energy of the compilation comes from its inherent eclecticism” - The Wire
The East Village of the 1980s and early ’90s, when ANOHNI landed in New York, was a graveyard. Death notices for people in their 30s, 40s and 50s filled the papers, and memorials were held almost daily – at St. Mark’s, at Judson Memorial Church, in homes, in parks. Blacklips was for young people and survivors, the sick, the barely-hanging-on. - Frieze
“The collective retain a singular power, speaking to a new generation of creatives within the present day LGBTQIA community.” - CLASH
Past Press / Promo Highlights:
• Instagram Post from Michael Imperioli (The Sopranos, The White Lotus; 235k followers)
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
TRACKLISTING:
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
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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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May 23 • Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room
May 24 • San Diego, CA @ Casbah
May 25 • Los Angeles, CA @ Genghis Cohen
May 26 • San Francisco, CA @ The Knockout
May 31 • Chicago, IL @ Subterranean
Jun 1 • Cleveland, OH @ Mahall’s Apartment
Jun 2 • Toronto, ON @ The Monarch
Jun 3 • Kingston, ON @ Hotel Wolfe Island
Jun 4 • Montreal, QC @ Diving Bell
Jun 6 • Washington, DC @ Pie Shop
Jun 7 • Philadelphia, PA @ Dolphin Tavern
Jared Mattson’s Peanut didn’t originally come from a need to break away. As the pandemic hit stateside, Jared holed up in his home studio and kept developing the new music. And during that process it became increasingly clear to him that this wasn’t shaping up to be the next Mattson 2 album. This was a Mattson 1 album.
The album taps into our rattled world, where anxiety, loss, violence, and regret are sometimes pierced by the promise of love. Mattson’s solo debut unfolds like a string of fascinating clouds: These are not songs in a hurry; they shift around as they float by, and, most notably, they carry their unique kind of electric charge.
Jun 8 • New York, NY @ Berlin
Jun 9 • Brooklyn, NY @ Trans Pecos
Jun 10 • Lancaster, PA @ The Temple
Jun 12 • Atlanta, GA @ 529 Bar
Jun 13 • Savannah, GA @ Over Yonder
Jun 14 • Jacksonville, FL @ Walrus
Jun 15 • New Orleans, LA @ Santos
Jun 16 • Austin, TX @ The Ballroom
Jun 17 • San Antonio, TX @ Paper Tiger
Jun 20 • Phoenix, AZ @ Valley Bar
** Tickets at mattson2.com
“The debut solo album from this San Diego-based member of The Mattson 2 is a solid album of atmospheric psych-pop inflected with jazz, reggae and other styles, combining a bassheavy, sometimes spare sound with hazy vocals and lyrics juxtaposing anxiety, loss and violence with hope and love” –
KEXP
“Mattson’s debut is a colorful indie pop gem”
– Under The Radar
New album Peanut out now
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PJ Harvey’s tenth studio album I Inside the Old Year Dying marks her first release in seven years, following UK #1 album The Hope Six Demolition Project. On this album, which was recorded with long-time creative collaborators John Parish and Flood, PJ Harvey builds a sonic universe somehow located in a space between life’s opposites, and between recent history and the ancient past. Scattered with biblical imagery and references to Shakespeare, all of these distinctions ultimately dissolve into something profoundly uplifting and redemptive.
PJ Harvey has commanded attention since the start of her career and is the only musician to have been awarded the UK’s Mercury Music Prize more than once, winning first in 2001 for Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea and again in 2011 for Let England Shake. An accomplished poet and visual artist, as well as a musician and songwriter, her work is striking in its originality: vivid, absorbing and distinct. Since the release of The Hope Six Demolition Project, which went to #1 album in her native UK, she has contributed compositions for stage and screen; most recently for Sharon Horgan’s acclaimed Bad Sisters mini-series. Throughout her career, Harvey has always ensured that each phase of her progress has taken her somewhere new, but her latest music is audacious and original even by her own standards. Full of a sense of a cyclical return to new beginnings, it combines its creative daring with a sense of being open and inviting, in the most fascinating way. The new songs, Harvey says, offer “a resting space, a solace, a comfort, a balm - which feels timely for the times we’re in.”
The first new album from PJ Harvey in 7 years, and her first on an indie since 1992’s Dry
This album sees a continuation of PJ Harvey’s 30-year creative partnership with fellow musician John Parish and producer Flood Spotify - 1.4M monthly listeners, Facebook - 1M followers, Instagram440K followers, YouTube - 164K subscribers, Twitter - 131K followers, TikTok - 9K followers and growing
She has more than 2 million in album sales and 16 million track streams in the US across her recording career
Three pre-album release singles with official videos to be released alongside a shortform video plan, which combines album creative and archival footage in order to reach new and existing audiences
Triple A/Non-Comm, Alt Specialty, and College radio campaign
PJ Harvey and her collaborator, Tim Phillips, were nominated in April of this year for an Ivor Novello Award in the category of Best Television Soundtrack for the Apple TV+ series Bad Sisters
Recent syncs on Peaky Blinders, The Walking Dead and Yellowjackets
Her previous label just completed a 4 year career retrospective of remastered reissues that reconnected her to her devoted audience and created a wave of new fans via the vinyl reissues
SIDE A
1. Prayer at the Gate
2. Autumn Term
3. Lwonesome Tonight
4. Seem an I
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SIDE B
1. All Souls
2. A Child’s Question, August
3. I Inside the Old I Dying
4. August
5. A Child’s Question, July
6. A Noiseless Noise
Release Date: July 7, 2023
The iconic Swedish 4-piece Little Dragon – spearheaded by vocalist Yukimi Nagano – return with a new and utterly beguiling blend of avant pop on their album “Slugs of Love” on Ninja Tune, inviting outright legend Damon Albarn (Gorillaz, Blur) and rapper JID (J Cole / Dreamville) for collabs. The universally loved and GRAMMY-nominated band paved the way for the likes of Billie Eilish, Steve Lacy, Solange and The Internet with their experimental and utterly compelling approach to pop music, inspiring the new generation to push boundaries and explore new sonic territories. Unsurprisingly then, Little Dragon are referenced as the benchmark for electronic pop by a host of totemic artists such as Tyler The Creator, Kaytranada and Anderson .Paak.
● Little Dragone recently released their Opening the Door EP in tandem with the band’s sold out 26 date North American arena tour as special guests of Leon Bridges.
● In support of Slugs of Love, the band will be playing key US festival dates followed up by their first headline US shows since 2018 .
● An NPR Tiny Desk performance has been confirmed for July 2023
● Their previous album New Me, Same Us landed at #5 on the Billboard Dance/Electronic chart and received stellar press from NPR (Tiny Desk At Home), Pitchfork, The Guardian, Crack, Mixmag, Line of Best Fit, NME, KCRW, KEXP (At Home Session), Bandcamp and many more.
● Previous festival highlights: Coachella, Glastonbury, Lollapalooza, Bestival, Sonar, All Points East, Dimensions Festival, Parklife, Melt and Dour…
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￫ Translucent blue vinyl LP
￫ 3mm spined outer sleeve w/ artworked inner sleeve
￫ Includes poster & MP3 download
￫ Clear vinyl LP w/ orange/black/blue splatter
￫ 3mm spined outer sleeve w/ artworked inner sleeve
￫ Includes poster & MP3 download
￫ CD housed in a gatefold sleeve.
SIDE A
1. Amöban
2. Frisco
3. Slugs of Love
4. Disco Dangerous
5. Lily’s Call
6. Stay (feat. JID)
SIDE B
1. Gold
2. Kenneth
3. Glow (feat. Damon Albarn)
4. Tumbling Dice
5. Easy Falling
Genre: Electronic Key Markets: Los Angeles, New York City, Atlanta, Chicago, San Francisco
Recommended if you like… SAULT, Toro y Moi, Gorillaz, Christine and the Queens
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Release Date: 7th July 2023
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The legendary collaboration between master percussionist Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah and producer Adrian Sherwood return with their first new studio album in twelve years.
Originally conceived in 1981 as an attempt to make Brian Eno’s “vision of a psychedelic Africa” exist in musical form, the project has evolved and mutated over the years but all the hallmarks of their classic sound are present and correct on this record: hypnotic hand drums driving rhythms to move your head and feet; coupled with mind-bending arrangements and dubwise production. Inimitable guest vocals by the award winning Ghanaian kologo master, King Ayisoba lend an extra dimension.
An act of cultish proportions, African Head Charge have been compared to Sun Ra “for their same ability to head into the unknown” - Echoes magazine.
Recorded between Ghana and the UK, A Trip To Bolgatanga is a triumphant comeback.
CD Tracklist:
1. A Bad Attitude
2. Accra Electronica
3. Push Me Pull You
4. I Chant Too
5. Asalatua
6. Passing Clouds
7. I’m A Winner
8. Trip To Bolgatanga
9. Never Regret A Day 10. Microdosing
• The Donnas Were One of the Greatest Punk Bands of the ‘90s, Male or Female
• Brought a Uniquely Hedonistic Yet Feminist Viewpoint to the Male-Dominated Genre
• Featured a Formidable Frontwoman in Brett Anderson, a Guitar Heroine in Allison Robertson, and a Pummeling Rhythm
Section of Bassist Maya Ford and Drummer Torry Castellano
• Now, Real Gone Music Is Releasing Their First Four Classic Albums, All Recorded for the Lookout! Label
• Each Includes an Insert Featuring Band Commentary
• Recorded When They Were Still in High School, The Donnas’ Self-Titled 1997 Debut Remains One of the Most Infectious, Sing-Along Albums Ever Waxed
• Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll Dials Turned Up to Eleven, Except It’s the Girls This Time Who Are Looking for Some Action
• All Fueled by Blistering, Ramones-Style Riffs
• Real Gone Music Was Able to Locate the Original ¼-Inch Two-Track Master, So This Reissue Is ALL-ANALOG, Raw and Unfiltered!
• Pressed on Natural with Black Swirl Vinyl
• Next Year’s American Teenage Rock ‘N’ Roll Machine Displayed Improved Production and Musicianship
• But the Attitude Didn’t Change
• Songs Like “Checkin’ It Out” and “Leather
on Leather” Confirm The Donnas’ Libidos Remained Healthy…and Large
• More Glam-Style Tempos and Riffs a la The Runaways and KISS
• And, Like All Donnas Records, Catchy Hooks Galore
• Fire Orange with Black Swirl Pressing
• Remastered for Vinyl from the Original Master by Mike Milchner at Sonic Vision
• Let’s Go Mano!
THE DONNAS: The Donnas (All-Analog Natural with Black Swirl Vinyl Edition)
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THE DONNAS: American Teenage Rock ‘N’ Roll Machine (Remastered Fire Orange with Black Swirl Vinyl Edition)
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Blessed with a formidable front woman in Brett Anderson, a guitar heroine in Allison Robertson, and a pummeling rhythm section in bassist Maya Ford and drummer Torry Castellano, The Donnas were one of the greatest punk bands of the ‘90s, male or female, bringing a uniquely hedonistic yet feminist viewpoint to the genre. Now, with the full cooperation of the band, Real Gone Music is reissuing their first four albums on vinyl, a quartet of pop-punk classics that were originally released on the Lookout! label. And we’re doing ‘em right, with band commentary and some sonic TLC. Here are the first two…Let’s go mano!
Recorded when they were still in high school, The Donnas’ 1997 debut was and will forever be one of the most infectious, sing-along slabs of punk ever waxed. Owing no small debt to the Ramones (all the way down to their sharing of “anonymous” names), the girls gleefully turn the sex, drugs, and rock and roll dials up to 11, except this time it’s the females that are looking for some action (“I wanna huff all night” and “I’m gonna get in his pants tonight” are two representative lyrical lines). And for our Real Gone reissue of this classic, you are getting The Donnas raw and unfiltered…that’s right, we actually scored the original quarter-inch 2-track master tape to the album, so you’re getting an all-analog version of this punkrock masterpiece. Band commentary just adds to the fun. Natural with black swirl vinyl pressing!
SIDE ONE
1. Hey I’m Gonna Be Your Girl
2. Let’s Go Mano!
3. Teenage Runaway
4. Lana & Stevie
5. I’m Gonna Make Him (Tonight)
6. Huff All Night
7. I Don’t Wanna Go SIDE TWO
1. We Don’t Go
2. Friday Fun
3. Everybody’s Smoking Cheeba
4. Get Rid of That Girl
5. Drive In
6. Do You Wanna Go Out with Me
7. Rock ‘n’ Roll Boy
Better production? Check. Better musicianship? Check. A more mature attitude? $#@! no! Released just a year after The Donnas’ first, self-titled record, American Teenage Rock ‘N’ Roll Machine slowed the tempos a bit—think more Runaways and KISS, less Ramones—but, with songs like “Checkin’ It Out” and “Leather on Leather,” the libidinous lyrics remained unchecked. Nor did The Donnas’ penchant for crafting catchy hooks, supercharged by the budding guitar heroics of Allison Robertson. Our reissue comes with a fresh remastering for vinyl from the original masters by Mike Milchner, and features band commentary along with the original “pin-up” calendar. Fire orange with black swirl pressing…shake in the action!
SIDE ONE
SIDE TWO
1. Rock ‘N’ Roll Machine 2. You Make Me Hot 3. Checkin’ It Out 4. Gimmie My Radio 5. Outta My Mind 1. Looking for Blood 2. Leather on Leather 3. Wanna Get Some Stuff 4. Speed Demon 5. Shake in the Action (Remastered Fire Orange with Black Swirl Vinyl Edition)• Hans Zimmer Is One of the Most Acclaimed Screen Composers of Our Time
• His Score to the 2003 Film The Last Samurai Was His 100th Score and Perhaps His Best
• The Movie Followed Civil War Veteran Tom Cruise to Japan, Where He Became Embroiled in the Struggle Between the Imperial Japanese Army and Traditional Samurai Culture
• This East-Meets-West Plotline Allowed Zimmer to Showcase His Signature Ability to Fuse Orchestral, Westernized Elements with Indigenous Motifs
• Zimmer Utilized the Traditional Japanese Taiko Drum for Action Sequences and the Shakuhachi Flute and Koto for More Pastoral Passages
• The Result Was That Rare Action Film Soundtrack That Also Contained Long, Contemplative Soundscapes
• Reminiscent of Zimmer’s Masterful Work on Terence Malick’s The Thin Red Line
• Vinyl Debut
• 2-LP Set
• Gatefold Jacket Featuring Credits and Production Stills
• Gold Vinyl Pressing
• Limited to 1000 Copies
• “The Last Samurai Suite” Is Featured
on Zimmer’s New Live Album
(LIMITED 2-LP GOLD VINYL EDITION)
STREET DATE: JULY 7, 2023
The Last Samurai marked master screen composer Hans Zimmer’s 100th score, and it was and is perhaps his best. The 2003 film starred Tom Cruise as a Civil War soldier who travels to Japan and becomes embroiled in the clash between the Imperial Japanese Army and traditional Japanese samurai culture, lending Zimmer ample opportunity to display his unparalleled ability to fuse orchestral, Westernized elements with indigenous motifs (in this case, utilizing the traditional Japanese taiko drum for action sequences and the shakuhachi flute and koto for more pastoral passages). Fans of his work in The Thin Red Line will particularly enjoy this soundtrack, which, for being a score for an action film, includes long stretches of beautifully contemplative soundscapes (Zimmer liked it too, as “The Last Samurai Suite” appears on his new live album). We at Real Gone Music are proud to bring this soundtrack to LP for the first time, in a double-album housed inside a gatefold jacket and pressed in gold vinyl limited to 1000 copies. Highly recommended!
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• Alfonso Cuarón’s 1998 Film Version of Great Expectations Changed a Few Things from the Original Charles Dickens Novel
• Abel Magwitch Became Arthur Lustig, Miss Havisham Became Nora Dinsmoor, Poor Old Pip Became Finn
• And Early 19th Century London Became 1990s New York…with a Soundtrack to Match
• With Tunes by Chris Cornell (the Rare “Sunshower”), Pulp, Scott Weiland, Iggy Pop, and The Verve Pipe, Its Finger Was Firmly on the Pulse of the Late 20th Century Music Scene
• Included Some Unexpected Artists, Like Cesaria Evora and the Grateful Dead
• And Some Rarities, Like the Song (“Siren”) That Tori Amos Recorded for the Film, and Poe’s “Today”
• Soundtrack Fans Have Been Clamoring for Release of This on Vinyl, and It’s Finally Here
• 2-LP Set
• Gatefold Jacket
• Pressed in Emerald Green Vinyl to Match Gwyneth Paltrow’s Gorgeous Dress in the Film
• Limited to 2000 Copies
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• Alabama-Born Multi-Instrumentalist Will Owsley Played in the Bands of Shania Twain and Amy Grant During the Mid-‘90s
• He Then Recorded His Own Album and Shopped It Around to Major Labels Just Like Tom Scholz Did with Boston’s First Album
• The Giant Label Signed Him and Released Owsley in 1999
• Easily One of the Best Debut Albums and Power Pop Records of the Decade
• Influences Include the Cars, Todd Rundgren and Owsley’s One-Time Bandmate Ben Folds
• But the Crunch of Owsley’s Guitars Ensure That the “Power” Gets as Much Play as the “Pop”
• Highlights Include “Oh No the Radio,” “Coming Up Roses,” and “Good Old Days”
• A Remarkably Consistent Album with Unexpected Sonic Flourishes
• Nominated for a Grammy for Best Engineered
Album, Which Is Further Testimony As to Owsley’s Many Talents
• Vinyl Debut
• Includes Full-Color Inner Sleeve
• Tan Vinyl Pressing
• Limited to 1000 Copies
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STREET DATE: JUNE 2, 2023
Alfonso Cuarón’s 1998 film changed a few things from the original Charles Dickens novel: Abel Magwitch became Arthur Lustig, Miss Havisham became Nora Dinsmoor, poor old Pip became Finn…and most importantly for our purposes, early 19th century London became 1990s New York! And so did the soundtrack— featuring tunes by Chris Cornell (the rare “Sunshower”), Pulp, Scott Weiland, Iggy Pop, and The Verve Pipe, its finger was firmly on the pulse of the late 20th century music scene, with a few welcome curveballs (Cesaria Evora, Grateful Dead?) to boot. Collectors will also note that Tori Amos wrote “Siren” for the movie, and that “Today” by Poe—which, like several other songs in the score, did not appear in the film—makes its only appearance here. Great Expectations: The Album was originally released only on CD, so vinyl soundtrack collectors have been lobbying for years to see it out on wax, and we are obliging with a 2-LP set inside a gorgeous gatefold jacket, pressed in emerald green vinyl to match Gwyneth Paltrow’s ravishing dress from the film. Limited to 2000 copies!
(LIMITED TAN VINYL EDITION)
STREET DATE: JUNE 2, 2023
You probably heard Alabama-born multiinstrumentalist Will Owsley before you heard of him; he was a mainstay in the bands of Amy Grant and Shania Twain during the mid-‘90s. He then pulled a Tom Scholz of Boston-style maneuver and recorded his own album, which he shopped to the major labels as a take-it-or-leave-it deal. The Giant label bit, as well they should have; Owsley is one of the better power pop albums of the ‘90s and certainly one of the best power pop debuts ever to come down the pike (that this self-recorded album got a Grammy nom for best engineered album is further testimony as to Owsley’s many talents). You’ll hear a little Cars, a little Todd Rundgren, and a healthy helping of Owsley’s former bandmate Ben Folds, but the crunch of Owsley’s guitars makes sure the “power” gets as much play as the “pop.”
Highlights include “Oh No the Radio,” “Coming Up Roses,” and “Good Old Days,” but really this is a remarkably consistent album, full of hooks and some sonic surprises (cello! organ!). Owsley makes its LP debut in a tan vinyl edition limited to 1000 copies, complete with a full-color inner sleeve. You’ll be playing some of these songs on repeat in your head after a couple of listens.
SIDE ONE
1. Finn (Intro)—Tori Amos
2. Siren—Tori Amos
3. Life in Mono—Mono
4. Sunshower—Chris Cornell
SIDE TWO
1. Resignation—Reef
2. Like a Friend—Pulp
3. Wishful Thinking—Duncan Sheik
4. Today—Poe
SIDE THREE
1. Lady, Your Roof Brings Me Down— Scott Weiland
2. Her Ornament—The Verve Pipe
3. Walk This Earth Alone—Lauren Christy
4. Breakable—Fisher
SIDE FOUR
1. Success—Iggy Pop
2. Slave—David Garza
3. Uncle John’s Band—The Grateful Dead
4. Bésame Mucho—Cesaria Evora
SIDE ONE
1. Oh No the Radio
2. I’m Alright
3. Coming Up Roses
4. Good Old Days
5. The Sky Is Falling
6. Sentimental Favorite
SIDE TWO
1. Zavelow House
2. Sonny Boy
3. The Homecoming Song
4.
Uncle John’s Farm 5. Class Clown/Class Clown (Reprise)• Real Gone Music Presents One of the Lost Classics of the Golden Age of Hip Hop, Ill Biskits’ 1995 Release Chronicle of Two Losers
• The Album Barely Saw a Proper Release Before Being Deleted
• But Its Reputation Has Steadily Grown Since
• The Only Album by the German-born, Virginiabased duo composed of Deeda and Kleph Dollaz
• Introverted, Existentially Deep Rhymes Set Over Hypnotic Beats Courtesy of D.I.T.C. Producer Superstars Buckwild and Lord Finesse
• Lyrical and Musical Layers Unpeel with Every Listen to This Masterful Recording
• Even CD Copies Go for Big Money
• First Legit Vinyl Release
• Includes Printed Inner Sleeve
• Coke Clear Pressing
• Limited to 1000 Copies
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• Hamza El Din Is the Most Famous Oud Player of All Time
• His Role in Popularizing the Instrument in the West Is Comparable to Ravi Shankar’s Exposure of the Sitar
• First Gained Widespread Notoriety with an Appearance at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival That Captured the Attention of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez
• Wound Up Playing with Everyone from the Grateful Dead to the Kronos Quartet
• Was Signed to the Vanguard Label in the Mid-‘60s Along with One-Time Roommate Sandy Bull
• Al Oud Is His Second (1965) Album for Vanguard, and It Is Seminal
• Features El Din’s Skills as a Composer and Vocalist Along with his Exquisite Work on the Oud
• Nine Original Compositions Based on Nubian Folk Traditions
• First-Ever LP Reissue
• Features Original Album Art That Includes Liner Notes from Jamal Mohammed Ahmed, at the time Sudan’s Ambassador to the United Nations
• Clear Vinyl Pressing
• Limited to 900 Copies
STREET DATE: JUNE 2, 2023
By popular demand, this lost classic the Golden Age of Hip Hop is finally getting a vinyl release! And when we say lost, we mean really lost; 1995’s Chronicle of Two Losers barely even saw a legit release before being deleted, which explains why even CD copies go for triple figures (this is its first legit release on LP). Ill Biskits was a one-and-done, German-born, Virginia-based duo composed of Deeda and Kleph Dollaz (R.I.P.) whose undeniable abilities on the mic and introspective, deep rhymes were mixed into hypnotic beats courtesy of D.I.T.C. producer superstars Buckwild and Lord Finesse. This album captures hip hop really coming of age as an art form; Chronicle of Two Losers has lyrical and sonic layers that unfold with repeated spins. Highly, highly recommended…so grab our coke bottle clear vinyl pressing while you can. It’s limited to 1000 copies, and includes an inner sleeve displaying the original CD booklet’s dreamy artwork.
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STREET DATE: JUNE 2, 2023
• A Richly Rewarding Listen
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It’s fair to say that what Ravi Shankar did for the sitar, Hamza El Din did for the oud (the short-necked Arabian lute): bringing a little-known instrument to the attention of the West and popularizing it. Indeed, he ended up playing oud with everybody from the Grateful Dead to the Kronos Quartet to his one-time roommate Sandy Bull. But El Din’s gifts went beyond that of an oud virtuoso; he was also an accomplished singer and composer, and you will hear all of those talents on full display on this seminal album, released on Vanguard in 1965 soon after his star-making appearance at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival that attracted the attention of Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. Meditative, mesmerizing, and haunting, Al Oud features nine original compositions based on Nubian folk traditions; at first it’s the exotic sound of the oud that draws you in, but it’s the rhythmic pulse of the music and the expressive quality of El Din’s voice that keeps you riveted. Our first-ever American LP reissue of this classic record comes in a clear vinyl pressing limited to 900 copies, complete with original artwork featuring liner notes by Jamal Mohammed Ahmed, at the time Sudan’s Ambassador to the United Nations. A richly rewarding listen.
SIDE ONE
1. CHILDHOOD (Assaramessuga)
2. THE SPIRITS (Shortunga)
3. GRANDFATHER’S STORIES (Annun Sira’)
4. DID NURA REMEMBER? (Gillina Nura)
SIDE TWO
1. THE MESSAGE BEARER (Hoi To Irkil Fa Giu)
2. THE GONDOLA
3. CALL FOR UNITY (Nuban Uto)
4. THE FORTUNE TELLER (Kogosh)
5. GREETING CARD (Abdin)
• Winner Of The Rhythm & Blues Foundation Career Achievement Award (1989)
• Inductee Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame (2005)
• Greatest Hits & Rarities—
5 Tracks Previously Unreleased on CD / Recorded in the Late ’70s & Early ’80s
Percy Sledge will forever be associated with “When a Man Loves a Woman,” a pleading, soulful ballad he sang with wrenching, convincing anguish and passion. Sledge sang all of his songs that way, delivering them in a powerful rush where he quickly changed from soulful belting to quavering, tearful pleas. It was a voice that made him one of the key figures of deep Southern soul.
WHEN A MAN LOVES A WOMAN • HARD LOVING WOMAN* • IT TEARS ME UP • BLUE WATER IF LOVING YOU IS WRONG (I DON’T WANT TO BE RIGHT) • TAKE TIME TO KNOW HER DARK END OF THE STREET • I’VE BEEN LOVING YOU TOO LONG • WARM & TENDER LOVE (1980 VERSION)* SPOOKY* • SWEET SOUL MUSIC* • BRING YOUR LOVIN’ TO ME • IF SHE WERE MINE THAT DIDN’T HURT TOO BAD • SAVE ME FOR LAST • DO ME BABY • SHE’S TOO PRETTY TO CRY IT TEARS ME UP (SECOND VERSION) • HONEST AS DAYLIGHT (WITH CARLA OLSON) • TWINE-TIME*
*Version Previously Unreleased On CD
Budget Available For Online & Retail Marketing
Includes Extensive Campaigns On Facebook, Instagram And YouTube Reviews In Mojo, Blues Review, Goldmine And More
RELEASE DATE: JULY 7, 2023
ARTIST: PERCY SLEDGE
TITLE: HONEST AS DAYLIGHT: HITS & RARITIES
CONFIGURATION: DIGI PAK / ONE CD
CAT #: CD-SBR-7037
UPC: 708535703723
BOX LOT: 45 UNITS
GENRE: R&B / POP
Formed in 2019, Lifeguard is Asher Case (bass, vocals), Isaac Lowenstein (drums, percussion), and Kai Slater (guitar, vocals). The trio is young – they met in junior high – but have already found a place at the forefront of an important emerging music community in their hometown.
They are also prolific. In just three years, the trio have put out a full-length, two EPs, and two 7” singles – on their own and also through the labels Chunklet Industries and Born Yesterday. Each release has been sharper than the last, with the band honing a distinct balance of melody and noise, rhythm and drone.
1. NEW AGE (I’VE GOT A)
2. I KNOW I KNOW
3. FIFTY SEVEN
4. TYPECAST
DRESSED IN TRENCHES
1. 17-18 LOVE SONG
2. ALARM
3. TEN CANISTERS (OFB)
4. SHUTTER SHUTTER
5. TELL ME WHEN
Lifeguard have announced a new five song EP ‘Dressed In Trenches’ alongside their 2022 ‘Crowd Can Talk’ EP, pressed on vinyl together for the first time this summer as the band embarks on a North American tour with labelmates Horsegirl.
“Lifeguard summon waves of ear-splitting feedback with the intent focus of cavemen discovering fire.” - RollingStone
“In 2022, the crowd can talk, and they will. In all likelihood... they’ll still have the crowd talking decades later.” - Bandcamp
“They may be young, but the teenage local band Lifeguard knows what it’s doing. Perhaps that speaks to their emerging genius, which can be heard in their latest release, ‘Crowd Can Talk.’ Intelligent, motivated and just really, really talented.” - ChicagoTribune
RELEASE DATE: JULY 7, 2023
STREET DATE: JULY 7, 2023
SIDE A
At the Corner of Dude and Party
Snow Dusted Ponies
These Old Haunts
Slowly Like Strangers
SIDE B
Mile by Mile
Wesley Crusher
Memorizing the Horizon
And Just like that, Life as you Knew it Ended Peter and David
SIDE C
Island Maniacs
Purple Minvians
In My Own Time
Like You’ve Always Been Same Old Story
SIDE D
Queer Fire
The Nothing
Rattlesnake Lake
Do you dare to dream with me?
Where Rejects Reign
• FEATURING CONTRIBUTIONS FROM KIMYA DAWSON, R. RING, COMET GAIN, WEAKERTHANS
• DOUBLE LP PRESSED ON TEAL AND PURPLE VINYL
In the summer of 2022, the Your Heart Breaks studio band, made up of Eli Moore and Ashley Eriksson from the band LAKE and Katherine Paul from Black Belt Eagle Scout, gathered at the Unknown Studio in Anacortes, Washington with producer Nicholas Wilbur to record the songs that would eventually become The Wrack Line
On planet Earth, the wrack line is a collection of organic material and debris left behind on the shore after a high tide. Walking the wrack you’ll find kelp, seagrass, shells, driftwood, dead sea creatures, agates, remnants of humanity and, once in a while, secret treasures thrown overboard from a container ship caught in a storm. Clyde Petersen’s The Wrack Line holds true to this natural phenomenon–a summation of the past few years, a lifetime of friendships, feelings and memories, broken free of a gyre and left upon the artists’ shoreline. The album was written as a collaborative effort between Petersen, occasionally known as Your Heart Breaks, and a slew of many special guests across the world. These songs were created through numerous exchanges of concepts, hooks, riffs, and emotional conversations, processed through tin-can telephones, carrier pigeons, twilight dreams, and shooting stars. Take your shoes off and walk the beach.
KINGS HIGHWAY is the seventh recording by Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band and it features drummer and composer Brian Blade, pianist and composer Jon Cowherd, bassist Christopher Thomas, saxophonists Myron Walden and Melvin Butler and guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel. The Fellowship Band creates a sound of its own genre, encompassing jazz, gospel and folk music that continues to uplift and inspire listeners worldwide.
KINGS HIGHWAY will be available on vinyl and digital formats through the label founded by Brian Blade, Stoner Hill Records and Press
TRACK LIST
1 Until We Meet Again 4:44
2 Catalysts 5:04
3 People’s Park 5:03
4 Kings Highway 13:00
5 Look To The Hills 4:21
6 Migration 15:06
7 God Be With You 2:34
Available on Apple Music, Spotify Music and other online platforms July 7, 2023.
Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band marks its 26th anniversary in 2023 with the release of their seventh studio album, Kings Highway. The band formed in 1997, the band released their eponymous Blue Note debut in 1998, but the bond among the musicians goes back to when drummer/composer Brian Blade first met pianist/composer Jon Cowherd in 1988 while attending Loyola University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Along with bassist Christopher Thomas and saxophonists Myron Walden and Melvin Butler, The Fellowship Band has developed a sound together that echoes grace and unity for everyone who hears their music. Their albums are: Brian Blade Fellowship (1998), Perceptual (2000), Season of Changes (2008)/Re-release 9/2/2022, Landmarks (2014), Body And Shadow (2017), Live From The Archives (2022) and Kings Highway (2023).
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Photograph by Mimi Chakarova
DC839 LP Street Date: July 7, 2023
In addition to his day job transforming pop music with his own records, as well as those of Gastr del Sol, Loose Fur and Sonic Youth over the past few decades, Jim O’Rourke has been contracted for several dozen film scores over the years as well.
It makes sense his abilities as an improviser, composer and producer allow him to interpret cinematic moments with a unique understanding for their construction and how they work. It doesn’t hurt that Jim’s a well-versed cineaste, a complete and total fan of watching films, which has given him a preternatural understanding of the role of music in movies.
What doesn’t make sense is how Hands That Bind is the first film soundtrack of Jim’s to ever receive worldwide release! He’s worked with filmmakers of international repute, like Olivier Assayas, Allison Anders, Werner Herzog and Kôji Wakamatsu! He served as music consultant on Richard Linklater’s 2003 laff-fest, School of Rock! He’s played in ensembles of award-winning documentaries and films alike! Throw the guy an internationally-promoted soundtrack LP every more often, why doncha?
It was left to the “suits” of Drag City Records to innovate, once again, by taking a leap on an O’Rourke work. Made for an indie film that’s been seen by festival audiences and not enough others, the soundtrack for Hands That Bind is a moody, atmospheric delight.
Track Listing Go Spend Some Time With Your Kids
Wasn’t There Last Night
He’s Only Got One Oar in the Water
That’s Not How the World Works
A Man’s Mind Will Play Tricks On Him
Here is Where I Seem to Be / The Good Lord Doesn’t Need Paperwork
You Have No Idea What I Want One Way or Another I’m Gone
Your Hands are Bound From Exporting to UK/EU, Australia/NZ But You Are Free to Sell to All Other Known Territories
Jim’s roots in composition via tape-editing have evolved into a sophisticated assembly of found-and-processed sounds that achieve highly musical, near-orchestral majesty as they hang in the very air of the drama that unfolds in Kyle Armstrong’s Hands That Bind Described as a “slow-burn prairie gothic drama” set in the farmland of Canada’s Alberta province, and starring Paul Sparks, Susan Kent, Landon Liboiron, Nicholas Campbell, Will Oldham, and Bruce Dern, Hands That Bind is a spellbinding trip to the existential bone of rural working life in North America. As conflict rises over the hardworked patches of land that provide a mere and mean existence, a desperate air settles in, as a series of mysterious, often supernatural occurrences rock the small community. O’Rourke’s vaporous, serpentine musical backdrops and atmospheres reflect the obsessions and distractions of the film’s principles; moods of all sorts seen or otherwise implied. Additionally, the music highlights cinematographer Mike McLaughlin’s closely observed accounting of the farmers’ environment, as well as the striking widescreen images of the big sky country with unnerving flair.
For fans of Jim’s ongoing steamroom series as well as collectors of soundtracks, Hands That Bind will provide hours of engrossing listening. And if you get a chance, see the movie projected in a movie house, please farmers aren’t the only ones struggling these days!
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GENRE: Rock
PACKAGING: Digipak
BOX LOT: 30
EXPORT: World
The Great Escape
Realize
She Might Look My Way Here’s How We Start Again I Will Try Dear Friend
Greensboro Days
Back in New York
The Sweetheart of the Video
The Catherine’s Wheel (I’m a Prisoner of This) Hopeless Love Bonus Tracks
The One and Only (Van Dyke Parks) Back in New York (Electric Mix)
FEATURES CONTRIBUTIONS FROM:
Members of The dB’s, Chatham County Line & Mipso, Alongside Eric Heywood, Allyn Love & Caitlin Cary with Terry Manning & Mitch Easter on a Classic Chilton/Hoehn Tune, “She Might Look My Way”
CHAPEL HILL, N.C — On his new album, The Great Escape, Chris Stamey — known for his work in The dB’s, the Big Star’s Third concerts, and numerous solo recordings including recent forays into jazz and neo–Tin Pan Alley — returns to the electric guitar sounds and melodic lyricism that informed his classic ’80s solo records It’s Alright, Fireworks, and 2004’s Travels in the South — but with a twist!
This time out, alongside adroit pedal-steel aces Eric Heywood (Jayhawks, Pretenders, Alejandro Escovedo) and Allyn Love, Mipso’s Libby Rodenbough, and Chatham County Line’s John Teer and Dave Wilson, he’s found a distinctive spin on the ’70s Southern California country-rock flavors of the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers. Soaring harmonies from Brett Harris (Big Star’s Third), Peter Holsapple (The dB’s), and Matt McMichaels (Mayflies USA, Surrender Human) fill out the picture on many tracks. And there’s an A-team of Caitlin Cary (harmonies), Don Dixon (acoustic bass), Will Rigby (The dB’s, drums), and Rodenbough (fiddle and background vocals) on “(A Prisoner of This) Hopeless Love.”
There’s also a vibrant version of a lost classic, the Alex Chilton / Tommy Hoehn composition “She Might Look My Way,” remembered fondly by Stamey from his late ’70s live performances with Chilton and the (unreleased) studio recording of it they did together for Elektra Records at Todd Rundgren’s studio. Here, it features two world-class fellow producers: Mitch Easter (Let’s Active), on drums and Terry Manning (Ardent Studios producer/engineer/guitarist; Staples Singers, Led Zeppelin, ZZ Top). Most tracks, however, are expertly anchored by Rob Ladd (The Connells) or Dan Davis (Six-String Drag) on drums, often accompanied by co-producer Jeff Crawford on bass.
The Great Escape, the first release in decades on seminal indie label Car Records (on which Stamey had issued recordings by Chris Bell, Mitch Easter, and himself in the late ’70s and early ’80s), will be available on CD, digital downloads, and streaming platforms, via a joint venture with Schoolkids Records / Redeye Distribution, and includes two bonus tracks: an “electric” version of “Back in New York,” augmented à la Tom Wilson’s electrification of “The Sounds of Silence,” and a stream-of-consciousness celebration of a surprise early-morning phone call with “the one and only” Van Dyke Parks
FOR FANS OF: THE DBS, BIG STAR, MIPSO
STEPHEN H. JUDGE
SCHOOLKIDS RECORDS schoolkidsrecordsnc@gmail.com
RIYL
File under
“America’s Radiohead”
Release date: 7/14/2023
If
7/07/2023
Gay?
Separation Anxieties If
Selling Points:
• First 12 Rods album available on LP Lost Time
Separation Anxieties
• “12 Rods is like everything and nothing, occupying a special nook in my head where music is wonderful and I believe in superheroes again.”
• “a truly unique record that is sonically adventurous, but is as accessible and rewarding as a classic AOR album.”
Catalog #: 69 ADR
Black LP: 727431749123
Indie retail LP: 727431749512
Box lot of 30
Perpetual Groove
Sweet Oblivious Antidote LP
HAR-051V
Gatefold. Printed sleeves. Colored vinyl.
Perpetual Groove continues to conquer the jam scene with its dynamic presence both on and off stage. The group’s breakout album, Sweet Oblivious Antidote (released in 2003) has been praised internationally and is widely regarded as one of the most quintessential works in the canon. To commemorate its impending milestone, Perpetual Groove releases a remixed and remastered 20th anniversary run of Sweet Oblivious Antidote. The double LP will be two newly recorded bonus tracks.
MARKETING
• Ads in Relix/Jambands.com, Jambase, Live for Live Music, Home Grown Music Network and more
• Radio PR and Print / Tour Publicity in Nationwide Markets
• Key Markets Include: Denver, Atlanta, Chicago, NYC, Dallas, Los Angeles, Charlotte, Houston, Seattle, Cleveland, San Francisco, Portland, DC, Philadelphia
• Digital marketing campaign via Intagram and Facebook
Three Weeks
Perihelion
Walking in Place
Playground
Release date July 7, 2023
Release date May 26, 2023
Digital version at streaming services now.
UPC: 710184765410
Export: Worldwide
Sun Dog
TSMM
Teakwood Betz
Astro Monkey
Robot Waltz
Also available from Harmonized Records:
Perpetual Groove (2019) 710184756821
All This Everything (2004) 710184767322
Sweet Oblivious Antidote
Suburban Speedball Out Here
US RECORD LABEL
Harmonized Records 6520 Oak Grove Church Road
Mebane, NC Tel: 919.619.2192
www.harmonizedrecords.com
SELLING POINTS
Facebook: 55,000 followers
Multiple Tracks with over 1 Million Streams
National Touring Band
Artist: Batty Jr
Album: Do A U E!
Format: LP
LP UPC: 8435631250
CAT #: EL370
Genre: Alternative / Indie / Folk / Power Pop / Singer Songwriter
Hometown: Austin, TX
Selling Points: Artwork designed by Darr yl Norsen. Top-Tier PR and Radio. Coverage from key outlets like Brooklyn Vegan, Glide, Americana Highways, Psychedelic Baby, Ones To Watch, and others Heavy college radio play across the USA UK tour in the summer/fall of 2022. Mastered by Carl Saff.
Tracklisting: Fool For You / Table is Gone II / Cocoons / The Dirge / Marionettes Jr / Doggies / Lazy Bones / Zephyr / Friendship Song / Marionettes
Distribution: jillw@redeyeworldwide com
Label: bryant@earthlibraries com
PR: sophie@earthlibraries.com
"You can ’tpullaway from the naturalgroovepresented , withthatrhythmicpulsepushing things up anddown andbackagain. ” - Austin Town Hall
A1: Each Day
Label: Slumberland Records
Catalog Number: SLR 278
Street Date: July 7, 2023
A2: What The Echoes Say
B: Tilt In Your Eye
Territory: World ex Europe
File Under: Alternative/Indie - J
TL; DR: Super well-crafted DIY pop with distinct flavors of 60s folk-pop and 80s indiepop.
RIYL: Marine Girls, The Aislers Set, Dolly Mixture
7” Vinyl UPC: 749846027870
Packaging: 7” vinyl in poly bag
Box Lot: 20
Over the course of two well-received albums and numerous singles and compilation appearances, Jeanines have captured the ears of discerning listeners with a sound that recalls a diverse swathe of pop history, from 60s folk-pop and girl-group tunes to 80s DIY pop to solid gold 90s touchstones like The Aislers Set, The Cat's Miaow and the postBlack Tambourine bands of Pam Berry.
Now they're back with their first new tunes since 2022's Don't Wait For A Sign and the hits just keep on coming. "Each Day" is moody jangler that delivers melodic and emotional heft that belies its brief 1:43 length. Destined for 1,000 indiepop mixtapes, it's exactly the kind of song that the 7" was invented for. "What The Echoes Say" is a strummy delight, showcasing Alicia Jeanine's lovely vocal harmonies to maximum effect. "Tilt In Your Eye" wraps up this ace single -- it was Jeanines' contribution to Where It's At Is Where You Are's ace 2019 compilation The Moon And Back and appears here on vinyl for the first time.
Also available:
LTD EDITION CLEAR VINYL
CAT NO: MI0121LPX1
UPC: 5056340105337
STREET DATE: 7 July 2023
LABEL: Memphis Industries
The Week That Was, a one off concept album with a murder mystery subtext from Peter Brewis of Field Music was released by Memphis Industries in 2008.
Inspired by the novels of Paul Auster and written after a period of self imposed retreat from the glow of screens whether televisual, handset or monitor, The Week That Was was the first of Field Music’s extra curricular releases and features some of the Brewis brothers’ finest works, including the singles The Airport Line, Scratch the Surface and the beautiful Come Home. It’s a record that added to the brothers’ burgeoning reputation as some of the UK’s finest writers and producers of music. Mojo made it album of the month and it received great reviews from Pitchfork, Uncut and the Guardian. Such was the acclaim for the record that Peter put a band together and toured the UK, USA and Europe. But it was only ever intended to be a one off and, come the end of 2008, The Week That Was was no more with the vinyl deleted and no prospect of the songs ever being played live again.
So it is with great pleasure that Memphis Industries announces that The Week That Was will be reissued for the first time to celebrate the 15 year anniversary of the album’s release It has been remastered by David Brewis for additional audio clarity and comes on clear vinyl.
“In these crop-to-fit times, omnivorous, visionary pop is at a premium, and there's all the more reason to prize an omnivorous visionary pop record like the Week That Was”.
***** MOJO
“Brewis constructs songs with architectural scale and precision in its own prim, nostalgic, English way, it’s dazzling stuff”. 8/10 Uncut
“Never mind the retro-gazing moniker The Week That Was is a band you need to hear now” 8.2 Pitchfork
Catalog #: MD321
Label: n5MD
Format: CD
Box lot: 25
Street Date
JULY 7 2023
File under: Ambient, IDM, Leftfield, Electronica
Reflections Revisited is the remix companion release to the Reflections from the Road album by Italian ambient duo ILUITEQ. The original album, released in Feb of this year, was inspired by Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel The Road. This remix chapter features thoughtful reworks from n5MD mainstay's Ocoeur and Tangent, Italian sonic sculptor Eraldo Bernocchi, Grecian electronic producer Miktek, experimental soundscape composer Giulio Aldinucci, Berlin electronica artist Martina Bertoni, Giuseppe Verticchio's NIMH explorations, and ILUITEQ member Andrea Bellucci's experimental electronics nom de plume Ithaki. The album also features two previously unreleased tracks from the Reflections from the Road sessions.
CD • 702224132122
TRACKLISTING
The Passage (Ocoeur remix)
Long Way, New Home (Miktek remix)
In Danger (Tangent remix)
Runaway (Giulio Aldinucci remix)
Don't Runaway
Things Are Not What They Seem (E Bernocchi rmx)
It Happened In July (Martina Bertoni remix)
Before And After (Ithaki remix)
Long Way, New Home (NIMH remix)
New Reality (Ithaki remix)
The Road
FOR FANS OF Eraldo Bernocchi, Ocoeur
Catalog #: MD322
Label: n5MD
Street Date
JULY 7 2023
Format: Transparent Copper LP
Box lot: 20
File under: Ambient, Drone, Isolationism
Shedir is Sardinian ambient producer Martina Betti and Before the Last Light is Blown is her 3rd full-length. The album follows her two previous collections released by French-Canadian shadow ambient imprint Cyclic Law. Betti's output has been strongly shaped by the juxtapositional nature of the island she calls home. A beautiful Mediterranean island that is also home to a petroleum refinery's and its significantly haunting presence. There is conflict in that ideal, and Betti's music has always displayed a sense of beauty, yet with ominous undertones. With Before the Last Light is Blown, Betti focused on the transience of life as a means of inspiration. It is human nature to move forward, consume, and always reach the next goal and to never give much thought to the briefness of our time here. The impermanence of life may seem like a dark topic, but to the contrary, pausing to think of such brevity could allow us to see the beauty we are missing in our endless need to fulfill and consume. Betti takes us to a dark place only to show us the beauty within, a vital constant in her output as shedir.
LP • 702224132214
TRACKLISTING
Spikes
The Bald-faced Sun
The Companionable Ills
Deer Fluent in the Wind (Feat. Guido Tabone)
The Dreaming Skull
This Fever
A Time Gone Out of Mind
HIGHLIGHTS
Limited editon transparent copper lp with HQ download
FOR FANS OF William Basinski, Rafael Anton Irisarri, Raime
Karisma Records
Nygårdsgaten 2
5015 Bergen
Norway www.karismarecords.no post@karismarecords.no
Band: Lars Fredrik Frøislie
Title: ”Fire Fortellinger”
Label: Karisma Records
Catalogue no: CD-KAR-253 / LP-KAR-253LP
Barcode: 7090008312536 / 7090008312628 /
Format: CD / LP
Tracklist:
01. Rytter av dommedag
02. Et sted under himmelhvelvet
03. Jærtegn
04. Naturens katedral
Debut solo album from Wobbler’s Lars Fredrik Frøislie! Fitting perfectly into the 70s prog-rock tradition where the keyboardist makes a solo album between the band albums, this is music Frøislie has been doing, mostly alone, during the pandemic. Had it not been for the pandemic, much of the material would probably have ended up on a new Wobbler album - but then run through the Wobbler grinder and with English lyrics. In other words, this is unpeeled and raw, as spontaneous as possible without going through too many rounds of processing. Trying to preserve the impulsive - much of what you hear is improvised, and one-takes (preferably with playing errors and piano strings that break and the like). Trying to preserve the human aspect to a large extent, avoiding click tracks, auto-tune, MIDI or too much technology. Expect lots of old analogue keyboards such as cembalo, Mellotron, MiniMoog, Yamaha CP70 and Hammond organ.
Four tunes; Four stories. The first song "Rytter av dommedag" is themed around Ragnarok, when King Rakne awakens in his large burial mound outside Romerike and, together with the old gods, creates real mischief. The second song “Et sted under himmelhvelvet” is dreamy, possibly set in a Renaissance garden near Florence or Arcadia. But in principle it can be anywhere where it feels good to be. It is partly about travelling to a place and feeling that you have been there before - only to find out that you had ancestors who lived there long ago.
The third song "Jærtegn" opens in a frenzy, with a horse and cart speeding through the forest. The wagon overturns at the same time as there is a solar eclipse, and the riders become eternal wanderers in the dark forest, only visible to us now and then like the northern lights, as they vainly stretch their arms towards the sun in the hope of finding their way home. The final song “Naturens Katedral” is a depiction of the Norwegian mountains in winter where the cold is bitter, and blizzards and avalanches abound. It is also a search for bygone times when life was more basic out in the wilderness.
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Limited LP versions on Dark Green vinyl (500x) and Blue/Turquoise colour-in-colour vinyl (500x)
Featuring Nikolai Hængsle (Elephant9, Needlepoint, Bigbang + + +) on bass
Digital single: Et sted under himmelhvelvet (March 29th)
Band website: https://www.facebook.com/larsfredrikfroislie
Label website: www.karismarecords.no
For interviews, info & promo material, contact Karisma Records and Martin Kvam: e-mail: post@karismarecords.no / tel: +47 95 74 92 19
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UPC 77393210524972
01.Roam
02.Language Of The BIrds
03.s There Anyone Out There?
04.Swi�, As One Designed For Flying
05.Albatross
06.Prometheus, Please
07.The
08.Rumble
12.It’s A Reckoning
14.Fall In Love With Everything
15.A�er The Rain
16.A Conference Of Birds
17.Swallow Dear Swallow
Wri�ng and researching over a three year period, Canada-born McNeill ponders how humanity can be so disconnected from the vast natural network that maintains us, and challenges us to acknowledge that we surely will not save what we do not love.
She observes that �Birds epitomise that no�on for me, with their fascina�ng traits. Their senses and skills are superior to ours in so many ways.”
Cleverly blending personal story and wry observa�on amidst myth and legend throughout. also available - her backcatalogue; Such A Common Bird (2004)
CD UPC 778224174424
Wonder Show (2006)
CD UPC 7393210171039
A Dreamers Guide To Hardcore Living (2008)
CD UPC 7393210171015
For the Wolf, A Good Meal (2011)
CD UPC 7393210171046 LP UPC 7393210171053
One Colour More (2014)
CD UPC 7393210171060
Hunger Made You Brave (2018)
CD UPC 7340169402837
James Yorkston , the gentleman-songwriter of the East Neuk of Fife, has released (with or without The Athletes) a series of albums of tenderness and melody, insight and empathy. His eye for the details in life and the richness of his brogue make a Yorkston song instantly recognisable.
• James Yorkston is a prolific writer who has worked with a wealth of talent over his two decade career, including Four Tet, Alexis Taylor, KT Tunstall, Rustin Man, Simon Raymonde, Norma and Mike Waterson, Martin Carthy, Max Cooper, David Wrench and others.
• James Yorkston and The Secondhand Orchestra’s The Wide, Wide River (2021) was named a Guardian Top 10 Folk Album of 2021.
• All LP formats include a download card
JAMES YORKSTON AND THE ATHLETES MOVING UP COUNTRY
JAMES YORKSTON AND THE ATHLETES JUST BEYOND THE RIVER
JAMES YORKSTON
THE YEAR OF THE LEOPARD
JAMES YORKSTON WHEN THE HAAR ROLLS IN
James Yorkston and The Athletes Moving Up Country
CATALOG NUMBER: WIGLP107S
RELEASE DATE: March 25, 2002
REISSUE DATE: July 7, 2023
LP w/DOWNLOAD : 887828010714
Vinyl is non-returnable.
James Yorkston
The Year Of The Leopard
CATALOG NUMBER: WIGLP183S
RELEASE DATE: September 11, 2006
REISSUE DATE: July 7, 2023
2xLP w/DOWNLOAD: 887828018314
Vinyl is non-returnable.
James Yorkston and The Athletes Just Beyond the River
CATALOG NUMBER: WIGLP142S
RELEASE DATE: September 20, 2004
REISSUE DATE: July 7, 2023
LP w/DOWNLOAD: 887828014217
Vinyl is non-returnable.
James Yorkston When The Haar Rolls In
CATALOG NUMBER: WIGLP221
RELEASE DATE: September 1, 2008
REISSUE DATE: July 7, 2023
2xLP w/DOWNLOAD: 887828022113
Vinyl is non-returnable.
TV Smith, frontman of The Adverts and Richard Strange, frontman of Doctors of Madness release “A DFFRNT WRLD”, a DOUBLE CD set of songs for the Digital Age. A collection of fist-pumping, toe-tapping rants by two of Britain’s finest songwriters. The two met in 1976 and were firm fans of each other’s bands. They started writing together in 1977, and Record Store Day 2021 saw the release of their sell -out vinyl album 1978, a collection of songs written by the two when their respective bands hit the buffers in that year. Encouraged by the success of the vinyl release, the two discussed the possibility of re-imagining and re-recording the songs in a world that has changed beyond recognition since 1978. Produced by Strange and with some tracks mixed by Martyn Ware and Tom Gillieron, A DFFRNT WRLD flexes its musical and lyrical muscles like a digital-age superhero, and speaks loud and clear to all generations.. Their fans are as diverse as their music from Henry Rollins, Joe Elliott and Julian Cope to Vic Reeves, Tom Robinson, Neil Gaiman and Atilla the Stockbroker. This release shows beyond argument they were two of the most visionary artists of their generation. (“GREAT…” Joe Elliott, “GREAT…” Henry Rollins, “GREAT…” Tom Robinson, “GREAT…” Robin Denselow).
Disc 1: 1 The Big Break 2 Kings Of The Wreckage 3 Making Machines 4 Last Human Being In The World 5 Summer Fun 6 Some Kind Of War 7 Torpedo 8 Dance Of Death. // Disc 2: 1 A Dffrnt Wrld 2 The Big Break 3 Making Machines 4 Some Kind Of War 5 Torpedo 6 Last Human Being In The World 7 Kings Of The Wreckage 8 Dance Of Death 9 Don ’t Panic England
LP TLV159LP 5055869549745
CD TLV159CD 5055869549752
1. No Fuss
2. Reactor
3. Right Time
4. Riled
5. Get Wrecked
6. Regardless
7. Cahoots
8. Casual Radicals
9. Big Limit
10. Her Own Private Multiverse
To call Current Affairs a Glasgow band may initially seem misdirection. Though Joan Sweeney (ex-Rose McDowall’s Band, Aggi Doom, The Royal We) is a lifer, Sebastian Ymai (Comidillo Tapes, Pissy, Anxiety) came from Chile via York, recently relocating to Berlin in 2021, and new member Gemma Fleet (The Wharves, Order of the Toad, Dancer) alongside Andrew Milk (Shopping, Pink Pound) were persuaded to leave London for the ‘second city’ after touring through with previous bands. However, Glasgow is the heart and hub of the band ’s music, musical life and the place where Off the Tongue was solidified and produced.
Their current line up formed in 2020, but the four have been circling each other for years, touring and playing with their previous bands within the close UK network of DIY music.
Following on from 2019’s singles collection, Object & Subject, the wait for their debut full-length may belie the urgency of its sound. Songs that were written in pieces over a long time and distance, but fully formed in the instant of the recording room across just a few days by producer Ross McGowan at Chime Studio. These new songs feel a little brighter than their previous offerings, yet still hold true to their propulsive and caterwauling sound. Still embryonic in the most exciting way that that can be. Current Affairs ’ music straddles new-wave pop and gothic post-punk in the way that you should expect a Glasgow-Berlin band to do so: with grit and panache.
Written from within the world of crumbling services, broken bonds and wounded spirits, Off the Tongue rolls off an ecstatic rage, filled with hope for you, them and everyone else. It ’s a rallying cry away from hopelessness, forgiving your fears and laying them to waste. Their album holds a place for you to be angry and to be focussed. In lieu of having anything else, we ’ve always got each other, and an uncertain future is open game for us too.
Street Date: 7.14.23 | Order Date: 6.23.23
Modern day Chicago blues warriors are led by the stinging fretwork of singer/ guitarist Nick Moss and the tour de force harmonica playing of Dennis Gruenling. The band has won Blues Music Awards (the Grammys of the Blues) for Traditional Blues Album, Band of the Year, Song of the Year, Traditional Blues Male Artist of the Year and Best Instrumentalist—Harmonica.
Hard-touring blues band has played thousands of crowd-pleasing gigs. Touring in support of 2019’s Lucky Guy included shows in the U.S., Canada, Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France and Denmark. U.S. tour dates begin the week of street date and run through July and August, with a European tour planned for late August into early September.
Promotion to over 600 print and internet media contacts around the world. In the U.S., the band has been featured in Mojo, DownBeat, AllMusic.com, Goldmine, NoDepression.com, Living Blues and Blues Music Magazine. Outside the U.S., Lucky Guy earned reviews or features in the UK, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Japan.
Over 1000 radio contacts worldwide will be serviced. Lucky Guy was in the Top 10 of The Living Blues Radio Chart’s Top 50 Albums of 2019. The title track was one of the most played songs on SiriusXM’s Bluesville in 2019 and he and the band performed live on the nationally syndicated public radio program Woodsongs Old-Time Radio Hour. Internationally, the album reached blues chart peaks at #1 in Australia, #3 in France and #7 in the UK. Songs from Lucky Guy were also prominently featured on BBC2 and the CBC.
Get Your Back Into It! features 14 original songs inspired by the electrifying blues sounds of 1940s through 1960s, and performed with taste, sly humor and pure joy. From locomotive shuffles to deep, slow blues, Moss shines with a Willie Dixonlike ability to write and sing the blues’ honest truth.
V Advertising includes a Facebook ad campaign, plus placements in Living Blues, Blues Music Magazine, Blues Matters (UK), Blues in Britain (UK), Soul Bag (FR), Maple Blues (CA) and Bluesnews (DE), plus email blasts with Living Blues and Blues Blast Magazine
V In-store play copies
RELEASE DATE: JULY 14th, 2023
ARTIST: THE NICK MOSS BAND
FEATURING DENNIS GRUENLING
TITLE: GET YOUR BACK INTO IT!
LABEL: ALLIGATOR RECORDS GENRE: BLUES
FORMAT: CD CATALOG NO: ALCD 5013
UPC: 0 14551-50132 9 BOX LOT: 50
FORMAT: CLEAR RED LP CATALOG NO: AL 5013
UPC: 0 14551-50131 2 BOX LOT: 40
TRACK LIST:
1. The Bait In The Snare 2. Aurelie
3. Get Your Back Into It 4. Man On The Move
5. Living In Heartache 6. It Shocks Me Out
7. Out Of The Woods 8. Choose Wisely
9. Your Bark Is Worse Than Your Bite
10. Losing Ground 11. Bones’ Cantina
12. Lonely Fool 13. The Solution
14. Scratch ‘N’ Sniff
ALLIGATOR RECORDS, LLC
P.O. Box 60234, Chicago, IL 60660 (773) 973-7736 info@allig.com alligator.com
DISTRIBUTED BY REDEYE WORLDWIDE Perry Harrell: harrellp@redeyeworldwide.com 505 Eno St., Hillsborough, NC, 27278 redeyeworldwide.com
WORLDWIDE RELEASE DATE CD/LP: JULY 14, 2023
Yep Roc Records celebrates the 40th anniversary of Marshall Crenshaw’s Field Day with a deluxe reissue available July 14. The expanded CD and LP anniversary edition features previously unreleased bonus tracks and recently discovered behind the scenes photos. Remastered by Greg Calbi, the reissue also features Crenshaw-penned liner notes and an exclusive interview about the album.
Of the 40th anniversary reissue Crenshaw says, ”Out of all my albums, ‘Field Day’ was by far the most fun to make. It really occupies a zone of its own and has a special place in my heart. Big thanks to Yep Roc Records- this 40th Anniversary reissue will elevate your record collection!”
The follow up to his successful self-titled debut, Field Day was produced by legendary producer Steve Lillywhite and engineered by Scott Litt at New York’s Power Station Studios. The album includes “Whenever You’re on My Mind,” “Our Town,” and “Monday Morning Rock,” which was “about this sorta fast-paced life that I lived for a short time. I’m sure you’ve had the experience, where you walk out of the club and find out that it’s the next day, that the sun is out, and you didn’t know,” Crenshaw says.
HIGHLIGHTS:
☛ Remastered by Greg Calbi
☛ 6 bonus tracks, 4 previously unreleased
☛ Limited edition 2xLP pressing of 1,000 copies worldwide
☛ Marshall Crenshaw will be touring the US this summer and fall to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Field Day
Marshall Crenshaw On Tour
7.12-13 – SPACE – Evanston, IL
7.15 – Parkway Theater – Minneapolis, MN
7.16 – High Noon Saloon – Madison, WI
7.17 – The Ark – Ann Arbor, MI
7.18 – Natalie’s Grandview – Columbus, OH
7.19 – City Winery – Pittsburgh, PA
9.21 – Spire Center – Plymouth, MA
9.22 – The Center for Arts – Natick, MA
9.23 – The Rex Theater – Manchester, NH
9.27 – Elkton Music Hall – Elkton, MD
9.28 - The Kate – Old Saybrook, CT
9.29 – Sellersville Theater – Sellersville, PA
9.30 – Rams Head Tavern – Annapolis, MD
10.1 – The Birchmere – Alexandria, VA
ALSO AVAILABLE:
LP
LP-YEP-3027
ARTIST NAME: Marshall Crenshaw
TITLE: Marshall Crenshaw (Remastered)
UPC: 634457071780
PACKAGING TYPE / FORMAT: Single LP BOX LOT: 20 CD
CD-YEP-3027X
ARTIST NAME: Marshall Crenshaw
TITLE: Marshall Crenshaw (40th Anniversary Expanded Edition)
UPC: 634457071797 PACKAGING TYPE/FORMAT: CD
STREET DATE: JULY 14, 2023
Barsuk Records is pleased to reissue Death Cab for Cutie’s Narrow Stairs, the band’s sixth studio album, on standard weight vinyl Released in the spring of 2008, Narrow Stairs is the follow-up to the band’s classic major-label debut Plans. Debuting at #1 on the Billboard 200, the album was a commercial and critical success with Pitchfork calling it “one of the darkest and most muscular in the band’s discography”.
LP:
NON-RETURNABLE catalog #: LP-BARK-75E
upc: 655173307519
packaging: standard jacket w/ die cuts and printed inner sleeve box lot: 25
bark96LPE LP
STREET DATE: JULY 14, 2023
Originally released as a companion to 2008's Narrow Stairs, Barsuk is excited to get The Open Door EP back into print on standard weight vinyl. This release features 4 studio tracks (“Little Bribes”, “A Diamond and a Tether”, “My Mirror Speaks”, “I Was Once a Loyal Lover”), plus a demo version of the Narrow Stairs track “Talking Bird”.
• Death Cab for Cutie will be everywhere this fall. Not only have they released a new critically acclaimed album (Asphalt Meadows) which includes “Here to Forever,” a No. 1 hit on both Billboard‘s Alternative and Adult Alternative Airplay charts, and “Pepper,” also a AAA No. 1 and climbing the Alternative Top 5 at press time, but they have been on tour supporting the album constantly since its release.
• This fall, they will set off on tour for the double-bill Postal Service Give Up / Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism tour, celebrating the 20th anniversary of these generation defining albums. Bandleader Benjamin Gibbard will pull double-duty each night of the tour, fronting each band as they perform these beloved albums front-to-back. The 23-date tour is almost completely sold out months in advance, including two nights at Madison Square Garden in New York, two dates at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles (with a third show nearly sold out), and sold-out multiple date stands in San Francisco, Boston, Washington DC, Seattle and Denver.
Asphalt Meadows LP (bark206)
UPC 655173120613
Kintsugi 2xLP (bark152)
UPC 655173115213
We Have the Facts And We’re Voting Yes LP (bark11lp)
UPC 655173101117
Plans 2xLP (bark47)
UPC 655173104712
LP:
NON-RETURNABLE catalog #: LP-BARK-96E upc: 655173309612
packaging: standard jacket box lot: 25
Thank You For Today LP (bark180)
UPC 655173118016
The Photo Album (Deluxe Edition) LP (bark21lpe)
UPC 655173982112
Something About Airplanes LP (bark5lp)
UPC 655173100516
Benjamin Gibbard Former Lives LP (bark130lp)
UPC 655173113011
Benjamin Gibbard & Steve Fisk
Kurt Cobain About A Son: Original Score 2xLP (bark72)
UPC 655173107218
Ana Roxanne and DJ Python met in New York City in the winter of 2020. They’d respectively put out critically acclaimed albums but due to extenuating global circumstances, the real-world implications of those records were yet to be seen. Ana’s debut LP, Because of a Flower, released in fall 2020, trades in both ethereality and directness, stretching timeless pop and R&B forms into shimmering ambient magic. When the Bay Area-born, Mills-trained artist sings, on record or live, time slows down and we enter a languorous yet ecstatic present. The second album from Queens-based deep reggaeton innovator DJ Python, Mas Amable, also subverts easy temporality. Released in spring 2020, Mas Amable floats in liminal space—not quite a dance record, a downtempo record, nor an ambient record—unfurling at a wistful pace, naturally suited for a strange period when each day felt the same yet wildly different. Well-loved albums aside, no one was playing shows, and a general listlessness and disconnection prevailed. Roxanne had recently moved to New York, and while the pair had previously interacted online and expressed admiration with each others’ work, they were now able to meet in person for the first time. A quiet understanding developed between the two artists on their initial hangs – they drove around the outskirts of NYC, listening to Telegram by Björk, HTRK, Portishead, all manner of melancholy acoustic indie songs. They pulled over in Filipino neighborhoods to eat. Periods of volubility were punctuated by silence, laughter interspersed with wide-eyed pondering. For Brian and Ana, studio experimentation was the instinctive extension of a friendship finding its feet. The songs were taking shape. Dreamy, densely layered drum programming and atmosphere, redolent of Seefeel and Boards Of Canada, washed against jungle and oddball ambient landscapes. The writing process was entirely collaborative. Later that fall, the duo traveled back to Brooklyn for a last round of sessions with engineer and producer Al Carlson (Oneohtrix Point Never, Jessica Pratt). Their longtime friend CZ Wang (Parquet Courts, Huerco S.) mixed and finalized the songs in early 2023, and then a name for the project materialized. Natural Wonder Beauty Concept was “something Ana saw in the universe.” The self-titled album does not resemble the previous work of either artist – Ana’s celebrated ~~~ EP and album; Piñeyro’s various releases as DJ Python and DJ Wey or his recent EP with Ela Minus . Instead, it’s a sui generis work built block by block over two years. It’s the longest DJ Python has ever worked on a record, and the shortest period of time Ana has ever dedicated to a project.
• Natural Wonder Beauty Concept will build upon both artists’ leftfield dance / electronic audiences to crossover into broader spheres via the worldbuilding we’re doing – the narrative is two compelling artists functioning at the height of their powers together.
• Press Quotes:
Anna Roxanne:
Pitchfork Rising - The Radiant Slowness of Ana Roxanne
Them - How Ana Roxanne Made the Most Soothing, Meditative Album About Being Intersex
Wall Street Journal Review - Calming Records for Troubled Times
The Guardian - Because of a Flower review – a magical popambient mirrorworld
BUST - Ana Roxanne Expertly Creates an Enchanting, Full Soundscape in “Because of a Flower”Cate Le Bon on US / UK / EU tours in 2022
DJ Python:
Pitchfork Top tracks of 2022 (two tracks)
Pitchfork Rising New York Times playlist
2020 Resident Advisor Album Of The Year (Mas Amable)
2020 Boomkat Top Release Of The Year
• Live: Both artists have toured globally and extensively with key markets being the US, EU, UK, and JP. There will be NWBC release shows in New York and Los Angeles, Japan tour dates in Q4 2023, and we’re aiming for festival offers in EU for Q3 and Q4 2023. DJ Python and Ana Roxanne are also each touring in their own solo capacities throughout 2023.
• Partnerships / Sync: Ana Roxanne played live for the Lemaire Summer 2023 fashion show. DJ Python has done collaborative work with Gucci and Stone Island, and helped score the Rosalía radio station for Grand Theft Auto’s GTA Online. This year he is playing/featuring at an event in Milan hosted by Kiko Kostadinov & CP Company.
• Profile: Ana Roxanne (23.3k IG followers), DJ Python (18.1k IG followers), 55k Spotify followers
• For Fans of: Tirzah, Seefeel, Boards of Canada, Everything But The Girl, Bjork, HTRK, Portishead, Mica Levi
Artist: Natural Wonder Beauty Concept
Album: Natural Wonder Beauty Concept
Street Date: July 14, 2023
Genre: Electronic / Indie
Format: Standard LP
MEX326-1: Standard LP
UPC: 184923132618
Specs: Black vinyl LP housed in full color jacket with printed insert and digital download card.
Tracklisting
1. Fallen Angel
2. Sword
3. III
4. The Veil I
5. Natural Wonder Beauty Concept
6. The Veil II
7. Young Adult Fiction
8. Driving
9. Clear
10. World Freehand Circle Drawing
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Dear Departed, the second album from Burton, arose from a time of rebirth. In the last few years, the Los Angeles-based singer basically started over. He temporarily abandoned the life he’d built in LA to live in Utah where he grew up, moving again to hole up in a cabin on a rural northern California farm. Sam describes the album as being wracked with pain and loss, and he spends much of the time saying goodbye to a version of himself.
With production from Jonathan Wilson (Angel Olsen, Father John Misty, Margo Price), Burton achieves a sound that never descends into retro pastiche, but rather becomes an evocative echo, a dream of the past. Like Sam and his band are crammed onto the corner stage of a smoke-filled bar in a long-lost time. Exemplified best by lead single Long Way Around, smoldering melodies are met again and again with ripples of piano and swells of orchestration – headlined by Sam’s evocative, velvetlined vocals.
Produced by Jonathan Wilson (Angel Olsen, Dawes, Father John Misty, Margo Price)
Dear Departed is the follow up to Burton’s acclaimed 2020 debut I Can Go With You.
Four pre-album release singles with official videos & visualizers
Triple A/Non-Comm, Alt Specialty, and College radio campaign
Touring US in the late Summer and Fall with Kate Bollinger
Previous support for Loving, Jose Gonzalez, Weyes Blood, Bonny Doon, and Indigo Sparke
The white vinyl is a limited edition of 1000 for the world (750 for North America)
5K Instagram Followers
Confirmed Aquarium Drunkard session
Sam Burton
Dear Departed
July 14th, 2023
Limited Edition White LP
CAT # - PTKF3031-3
UPC - 720841303138
Standard Black LP
CAT# - PTKF3031-1
UPC - 720841303114
Compact Disc CAT# - PTKF3031-2
UPC - 720841303121
The Definitive Vinyl Reissue Of The Definitive Jazz Cult-Classic
Features legends Ron Carter, Max Roach, and Eric Dolphy
Bernie Grundman
Recorded in , just months before his shocking death at age , Out Front is considered a masterpiece that mapped out a new future for rising star Booker Li le . . . and jazz music itself. Praised as “ one of the great records of its period” in The Penguin Jazz Guide and called “ one of the most creative and technically accomplished trumpet-players of all time” by Terence Blanchard, the reputation of this album and its creator have taken on near mythical proportions since its release
Booker Li le was a conservatory-trained composer and trumpet player whose education and first-hand experiences with Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, and Max Roach gave him a rare confidence to develop his own style and push music’s boundaries at an age when most musicians would still be imitating their idols and developing their chops. We can only imagine where he would have taken jazz had he lived longer, but Out Front remains his parting gift to the jazz canon
• Little Richard Was and Is One of the Greatest Rock ‘N’ Roll and Gospel Singers
of All Time
• His Career Constantly Teetered Between the Sacred and Profane, but Everything He Did Was Profound
• Real Gone Music’s New Collection The Complete Atlantic & Reprise Singles Puts
Both Sides of the Man’s Immense Talent on Display
• His Four, Self-Produced Single Sides for Atlantic Were Recorded in 1962
• Only One (“Crying in the Chapel”) Has Been Previously Reissued
• The Rest, Including Such Uptempo Gospel Gems as “Hole in the Wall” and “Travelin’ Shoes,” Make Their First Appearance Since the Original 45s
• Little Richard Then Recorded for Reprise from 1970 to 1972
• These Recordings Reunited Him with His Specialty Label Producer Bumps Blackwell
Along with Such Legends as Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd, and Quincy Jones (“Money Is” from the Soundtrack to The Heist)
• Sidemen Include Lee Allen and Earl Palmer from the Specialty Days
• Features the Non-LP Side “Shake a Hand (If You Can)”
• “Freedom Blues,” Its B-Side “Dewdrop Inn,” and “Mockinbird Sally” Testify That Richard’s Brilliance Remained Unabated
• 15 Tracks, Most of Them Making Their First Appearance on Vinyl Since Their Original Release
• Remastered by Aaron Kannowski, Who Has Worked with Real Gone Music on Many of Their Acclaimed Singles Collections
• Liner Notes by Little Richard Expert Bill Dahl
• Ruby Red Vinyl Pressing
• A Timely Release to Go Along with the New Little Richard Documentary
COMPLETE ATLANTIC & REPRISE SINGLES
(RUBY RED VINYL EDITION)
STREET DATE: JULY 14, 2023
UPC: 848064015505
FORMAT: Regular Weight Ruby Red Vinyl
PACKAGING: Album Jacket
BOX LOT: 30
Little Richard’s one-of-a-kind career veered wildly from the sacred to the profane, but everything he did was profound; he was one of the greatest gospel and rock and roll singers of all time. And you can scale the dizzying heights of both sides of the man’s mountainous talent on this 15-track collection, which brings his Atlantic and Reprise singles back to vinyl, almost all for the first time since they originally came out on 45s. Richard recorded and self-produced the Atlantic material in 1962 and leased it to the label for release the following year, right before his return to rock and roll with two triumphant UK tours. Only “Crying in the Chapel” has seen reissue since; the other three tracks (esp. “Hole in the Wall” and “Travelin’ Shoes”) hit that glorious balance between spiritual fervor and emotional frenzy that only he could pull off. The Reprise material dates from 1970 to 1972 and was helmed by famed Specialty producer Bumps Blackwell as well as by Jerry Wexler, Tom Dowd, and Quincy Jones (“Money Is” from the soundtrack to The Heist), with musical contributions by legendary Richard sidemen Lee Allen and Earl Palmer as well as folks like Travis Wammack. The non-LP side “Shake a Hand (If You Can)” is the rarity, but tracks like “Freedom Blues,” its B-side “Dewdrop Inn,” and “Mockinbird Sally” testify that Richard’s brilliance remained unabated. Mastered, like many of our Real Gone singles collections, by Aaron Kannowski, The Complete Atlantic & Reprise Singles features liner notes by Little Richard expert Bill Dahl, and comes in ruby red vinyl. A timely release to go along with the new Little Richard documentary!
Long out of print (10 years!), this new edition of Soul Jazz Records' classic Delta Swamp Rock, features a killer all-star line-up of seminal artists who all first blended rock, soul and country together to create a stunning new sound of southern American music in the 1970s.
Featuring the Allman Brothers, Dan Penn, Leon Russell, Tony Joe White, Johnny Cash, Bobbie Gentry, Big Star, Link Wray, Area Code 615 and loads more!
This album comes in a classic black vinyl edition and as a superb indies exclusive limited-edition double gold vinyl release, complete with extensive original sleevenotes, interviews and exclusive photography, all spread over a 12-page full-size magazine and two bespoke inner sleeves. The works!
Delta Swamp Rock is an interstate southern road-trip through the United States of America where country, rock and soul met at the crossroads - an exploration of the musical and cultural links between the cities of Memphis, Muscle Shoals and Nashville in the 1960s and 70s.
At the start of the 1970s, a new type of music emerged out of the southern states of Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi and Florida. Southern rock, the creation of young blue-collar white Americans, blended rock, soul, country and blues music together to present a new vision of the south – a post-civil rights southern identity complete with a celebration of the regions natural landscape and its way of life.
The Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd epitomised the definitive southern rock groups – a mixture of bluesrock and country with a southern rebelliousness and attitude. Unfortunately both The Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd were to be struck by tragedy, which would affect the movement’s rise and fall.
The backstory to southern rock is the fact that a number of the people involved in its creation had been central to the production of southern soul music in the 1960s mainly in Memphis, Tennessee, and the small town of Muscle Shoals (population around 10,000) deep within the bible-belt, liquor-free, deeply segregated state of Alabama, creating 100s of R&B hits on an almost daily basis.
Here in Muscle Shoals, with its proximity to Memphis and Nashville, an all-white group of in-house musicians, (famously referred to by Lynyrd Skynyrd in the song ‘Sweet Home Alabama’ as the ‘Swampers’), created countless classic soul records for the likes of Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Etta James, Clarence Carter and more during the 1960s.
This album charts the rise and fall of southern rock from its funky swamp roots in southern soul to its phenomenal success in the first-half of the 1970s, including its influence on Nashville’s ‘outlaw’ country and tracing it right back to the arrival of rock and roll in the 1950s - the first meeting of black and white American music at the crossroads.
"An impeccable collection of Southern Rock" THE GUARDIAN (*****)
"Soul Jazz Records compilations are always worthwhile because of the care and detail they put into these nuggets of musical archaeology. There is not a bad track on Delta Swamp Rock. Southern rock continued the tradition of racial integration through music, that began in Memphis with rock and roll, combining soul, gospel, country and rock to come up with something thatwas, frequently, groovy in the extreme."
THE TIMES
"An ambitious document of the tension between conservative musical aesthetics and breakout rock’n’roll styles that characterised the early 1970s inhe ritance of blues, soul and Country in the post-psychedelic South."
THE WIRE
1. Lynyrd Skynyrd – The Seasons
2. Barefoot Jerry – Smokies
3. Joe South – Hush
4. Bobbie Gentry – Papa, Won’t You Let Me Go To Town With You
5. Area Code 615 – Stone Fox Chase
6. Cher – I Walk On Guilded Splinters
7. Cowboy – Please Be With Me
8. The Allman Brothers – Ain’t Wastin’ Time No More
9. Link Wray – Be What You Want To
10. Boz Scaggs – I’ll Be Long Gone
11. Lynyrd Skynyrd – Comin’ Home
12. Bobbie Gentry – Seasons Come, Seasons Go
13. Leon Russell – Out In The Woods
14. Tony Joe White – Polk Salad Annie
15. Barefoot Jerry – Come To Me Tonight
16. Dan Penn – If Love Was Money
17. Linda Ronstadt – I Won’t Be Hangin’ ‘Round
18. Waylon Jennings – Big D
19. Big Star – Thirteen
20. Bobbie Gentry – Mississippi Delta
21. Travis Wammack – I Forgot To Remember To Forget
22. Johnny Cash & June Carter – If I Were A Carpenter
23. Billy Vera – I’m Leavin’ Here Tomorrow, Mama
Street date: 14th July 2023
Artist: Soul Jazz Records Presents
Title: DELTA SWAMP ROCK – Sounds Of The
South: At The Crossroads Of Rock, Country & Soul
Label: Soul Jazz Records
Format 1: 2xLP gold vinyl
UPC: 5026328205205
Cat. No. LP-SOJR-520IE
Format 2: 2xLP black vinyl
UPC: 5026328005201
Cat. No. LP-SOJR-520
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No shipments outside of North America
Topshelf Records TSR169 Home market: San Francisco, CA
Track List:
1. Yam Yam
2. You're Not with Me
3. Intermission
4. Reaper
5. Mind Fields
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• LP UPC 6 34457 06356 3
• CS UPC 6 34457 78524 3
• Export Worldwide
Info:
No Vacation began their wavy-gravy dream-pop journey in 2015 with a pair of successful mixtapes that quickly established a cherishable sonic identity of twangy nostalgia and cruisey shoegazing Not long after the release of the Amo XO and Summer Break mixtapes, the budding San Francisco group disbanded inde nitely, playing among different lineups under various monikers before rebanding in 2017 under the name No Vacation
Although previously identi ed as "novice" in spite of the band’s enviable resume, No Vacation's surf-tinged talents and overall career clearly shatter such terse illusions Impressively, No Vacation has maintained its core lineup over the years, keeping in tact the quintessence of their sound a calm, warm exuberance draped with Sab Mai's signature subdued vocal style
Featuring album artwork by vocalist of No Vacation, Sab Mai. Insert sleeve picturing photo of band leaning on each other next to a No Vacation logo on a pink and yellow background. Lyrics on back of sleeve, along with a dedication.
For Fans of: Boyscott, Eerie Summer, Gingerlys, Good Morning TV, In nity Girl, Jay Som, JYOCHO, Lunarette, No Joy, Poppies, Sobs, Wild Ones, Wildhoney, Zenizen
Selling Points:
• US college radio campaign through Pirate Promotions
• Press campaign handled by Will Osiecki
• 1 6 Million monthly listeners on Spotify (May 2023)
• Management: Repped by Dan Kasin at Another Planet Entertainment
• LP features OBI strip, marketing sticker, download codes, and pink/yellow vinyl
• Booked to perform at Outside Lands music fest in August 2023
• This EP has nearly 120 million combined streams on Spotify
"A misty rock song
with dreamy hooks " -The Fader (on "Mind Field")
" uttery,
• Box Lot 30 LP / 15 CS / 30
instrumentals " -SF Weekly
fuzzy memory 14, 2023
dream-like melodies in sonorous
of moments Topshelf Records 540 NE Tillamook Street Portland, OR 97212 United States info@topshelfrecords com
July Thank you for your interest in our catalog! Over the last thirteen years, Topshelf has released 250+ albums by 100+ artists from all around the world Our roster’s catalog spans a wide and eclectic array of musical styles and genres To check out hand-picked suggestions for other artists on our roster we think you might also enjoy, visit: topshelfrecords com/like
chill-out jam that feels
like a
past..." -Earmilk (on "Yam Yam") Redeye Distribution 505 Eno Street Hillsborough, NC 27278 United States harrelp@redeyeworldwide com
2 Changes
3. Out of Place
4 Days
5. Last Dance
Info:
Phasing is the latest collection of songs from the wavy-gravy dream-pop group No Vacation, comprised of ve tracks that laconically capture the band’s evolution and compositional acumen While some cuts took only a couple months to complete, others had years-long gestation periods, showing the band’s awareness that patience can be a powerful artistic tool The collaborative writing process on Phasing further demonstrates No Vacation’s growth, wherein each member made contributions outside of their primary instrument Emboldened by this experimentation, each title on Phasing features a distinct structural turn, either breaking up a song entirely in half, or deftly transitioning to an unexpected mood or phrase The result is an instrumentally dynamic, multigenre foray that calls on the sounds of shoegaze and 90s alternative rock, even boasting string arrangements which hearken back to the Romantic Era
For Fans of:
Sales, Men I Trust, Hot Flash Heat Wave, Crumb, and other Topshelf artists: Boyscott, Eerie Summer, Gingerlys, Good Morning TV, In nity Girl, Jay Som, JYOCHO, Lunarette, No Joy, Poppies, Sobs, Wild Ones, Wildhoney, Zenizen
Selling Points:
• US college radio campaign through Pirate Promotions Press campaign handled by Will Osiecki
• 2 million monthly listeners on Spotify (March 24, 2023)
• Spotify Editorial support: Bedroom Pop (1 1m followers); Feel-Good Indie Rock (1 9m followers) "Days" music video
• Audiotree Live
• Management: Repped by Dan Kasin at Another Planet Entertainment
West Coast US Tour (March 2023)
• LP features OBI strip, marketing sticker, download codes, and blue/white cloudy vinyl
"Last year's
Phasing EP was
their early days
-The FADER
easily their best yet,
in favor of smart,
ex her
able to
eschewing the
beguiling dream pop
"
promising but
semi-ironic beachpunk of
"On "Phasing", Nat was
classical skills by
adding strings and
writing a gorgeous, lofty
piano piece
while
(“Last Dance”) Harrison’s guitar and drums parts are woven
Sab’s chilled out
into the work
like a corkscrew,
guitar riffs and buttery
voice drift through the work
like a warm
breeze " -i-D
"Hearkening back to
the shoegaze-y
in uences that marked the band's
earlier work
while leaning into new
experimentations, "Estrangers"
"
-Pop Dust
" uttery,
-SF
is a groovy
slice of dream-pop that unfurls
in wonderfully unexpected ways
dream-like melodies in sonorous
instrumentals "
Track List:
1. Dræm Girl
2. Sad Valentine
Info:
No Vacation began their wavy-gravy dream-pop journey in 2015 with a pair of successful mixtapes that quickly established a cherishable sonic identity of twangy nostalgia and cruisey shoegazing Not long after the release of the Amo XO and Summer Break
mixtapes, the budding San Francisco group disbanded inde nitely, playing among different lineups under various monikers before rebanding in 2017 under the name No Vacation
Although previously identi ed as "novice" in spite of the band’s enviable resume, No Vacation's surf-tinged talents and overall career clearly shatter such terse illusions. Impressively, No Vacation has maintained its core lineup over the years, keeping in tact the quintessence of their sound a calm, warm exuberance draped with Sab Mai's signature subdued vocal style
Originally released as the Summer Break Mix Tape in 2015, this was released on vinyl for the rst time in 2017 and sold out shortly after This second press is now available in a limited quantity.
For Fans of:
Sales, Men I Trust, Hot Flash Heat Wave, Crumb, and other Topshelf artists: Boyscott, Eerie Summer, Gingerlys, Good Morning TV, In nity Girl, Jay Som, JYOCHO, Lunarette, No Joy, Poppies, Sobs, Wild Ones, Wildhoney, Zenizen.
Selling Points:
• Press campaign handled by Will Osiecki.
• 1 9 million monthly listeners on Spotify (May 1, 2023)
• Management: Repped by Dan Kasin at Another Planet Entertainment
• LP features marketing sticker, download codes, and blue vinyl.
• This EP has a combined 45 million listens on Spotify
• Booked to perform at Outside Lands music fest in August 2023 •
Side A
1 - Sempre Cantei (borboleta)
2 - TapesTree of the Soul
3 - Fuego Sagrado
4 - Everybody´s looking (tus miedos)
5 - Peneir-ar
6 - Árvore Voadora ft. Larie
7 - Só o amor
Side B
2 - Sangue da Mulher
3 - Slicka på såren / Pássaro ft. Bom Beijo
4 - Quarto Escuro
5 - Vento do éter (cosmic lounge)
XIV A Integração - Digital + 12” Yellow Vinyl
Catalogue number: ShSh056
1st single “Fuego Sagrado”: April 28, 2023
2nd single “Sangue da mulher”: May 12, 2023
Meta_ is Mariana Bragada, a singer, composer, and producer from the region of Trás-os-Montes in Northern Portugal.
Her debut album, XIV - A Integração, is intimate and organic, with deeply emotive vocals and acoustic instrumentation, yet at the same time heavily features electronic production with deep bass and atmospheric soundscapes. She brings together elements of organic downtempo and trip-hop with ancestral wisdom and yearning vocals that express her hardships and fantasies
XIV — A Integração is the sonic journey of Meta_, born in Trás-os-Montes, Portugal, from her roots to South America.
July 14, 2023
Street date: May 19 , 2023
UPC:
Mixing: Cláudio Tavares / Mastering: Yosi Horikawa
Shika Shika 2023 ®
Press Inquiries: shikashikacollective@gmail.com
In 2019 she traveled to Pucallpa, Peru, where she had the opportunity and honor to connect with the Ayahuasca medicine plant and be in the presence of a family of Maestros and Maestras from the Shipibo tribe. Coincidentally, in the following 2 weeks, she performed Live Sound Design for Theatre shows of UmColetivo in Belo Horizonte, Brazil and Montevideo, Uruguay.
Shika Shika is a label for music without borders. The label was founded in 2015 between Berlin, Mexico City, Buenos Aires and Paris to give a platform to emerging artsts from around the world, focussing on artists exploring global folk roots, organic sounds and electronica. Since then, the label has released music from over 60 culture that inspire us can come together in service of the social and environmental issues we are passionate about.
Redeye Distribution
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Haw River, NC 27258
JULY 14TH, 2023
Big Thief exploded onto the scene in 2016 with their debut album Masterpiece and quickly cemented their stature with their follow up Capacity just one year later. But prior to all of that, Big Thief’s front-woman Adrianne Lenker had been quietly writing songs for years, both on her own and with Buck Meek.
Adrianne Lenker and Buck Meek’s two releases are available together as a double CD or single LP, simply entitled a-sides and besides. This marks the rst time that any of these songs will nd their way onto vinyl and onto the record store shelf
The summer after graduating from Berklee College of Music, Adrianne Lenker moved to New York City. She met Buck Meek the day she moved there, at a corner market called Mr. Kiwi (although, technically they had already played a show together in Boston, so they recognized each other but weren’t sure from where). The two explored the city by bicycle and eventually began to play songs together. "It was one of those friendships that developed extremely fast where suddenly you're each other's best friend," Lenker says. "We hung out every day from the moment we met.”
Meek’s o -kilter, piercing guitar licks and solos are the perfect juxtaposition to bring Lenker’s melodic and stirring vocals and lyrics to fruition. "I guess what struck me as a songwriter then was that her songs all seemed to be really human, and really emotional, and really honest — vulnerable — but at the same time they all somehow had this ine able quality," Meek says. "Like, all of that human content was serving as a medium for something beyond.”
Soon they picked up a white conversion van, named her Bonnie, and made touring their whole lives. In 2014, songs crafted on the road were captured on two EPs released under the Buck and Anne moniker: one called a-sides and one called b-sides. Both warm, acoustic a airs.
In the ensuing years, Adrianne and Buck joined with Max Oleartchik and James Krivchenia to form Big Thief, one of the most beloved bands in music today. a-sides and besides provide an early glimpse at what was soon to come, while standing on their own as a documents of a deeply meaningful time in the creative lives of Lenker and Meek.
14.
Artist: Adrianne Lenker & Buck Meek
Title: a-sides and besides Catalog #: LBJ-281
Formats: CD / LP
Street Date: July 14th, 2023
Box Lot Quantity: 30 CD / 50 LP
Genre: Alternative
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BASA BONGO / BLACK PEPPER
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14 July 2023
7”
SNDW7027
Soul, Caribbean, African
United States, Canada, Mexico
Guyana
OVERVIEW:
Guyana folk music reinterpreted and infused with Afroroots and culture, reissued on vinyl for the first time.
A year after their debut album ‘Ojinga’s Own’, the Yoruba Singers from Guyana released the singles ‘Black Pepper’ and ‘Basa Bongo’. These two songs were recorded in Barbados and released on the Green Shrimp label and became extremely popular throughout the Caribbean and South America. The music also became an integral part of the very beginnings of what was later to become the Champeta Criolla sound in the Caribbean coast of Colombia.
FOR FANS OF:
Sir Victor Uwaifo, Francis Bebey, Fela Kuti
TRACKLIST:
SIDE A
1. Basa Bongo
SIDE B
1. Black Pepper
LISTEN LINK:
https://soundcloud.com/ soundway-records/sets/yorubasingers-basa-bongo/s-MqYApToS6vH
SNDW7027
5060571362360
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14 July 2023
1 LP
SNDWLP170
Soul, Caribbean, African
United States, Canada, Mexico
Guyana
REISSUE OF THE DEBUT ALBUM FROM GUYANA’S LONGEST RUNNING BAND
OVERVIEW:
The 1974 debut album Ojinga’s Own and single Basa Bongo/Black Pepper by Guyanese Afro-Folk band The Yoruba Singers has been remastered for vinyl and digital.
The Yoruba Singers formed in Georgetown, Guyana in 1971. Despite their name they were not from Nigeria, but identified strongly with the area from which so many of the African diaspora in Guyana and neighbouring regions were originally descended.
The group started adapting Guyanese traditional folk music as well as writing their own - blending a mixture of protest, social commentary, blues, and genres inspired by the times. Beginning with about 12 people sharing vocal duties, most of the early repertoire was inspired by folk songs that started life on plantations or in religious settings accompanied by a few sparse musical instruments.
Integral to the Yoruba Singers’ sound are echoes of Obeah traditions which are very closely related to the Santería religion of Cuba and the Orisha and Shango traditions of Trinidad and Tobago. Calypso and steelband culture from nearby Trinidad and Tobago was to some extent part of the musical DNA of the group, but they were naturally also influenced by the massive volume of rocksteady and roots-reggae coming from Jamaica.
FOR FANS OF:
Sir Victor Uwaifo, Francis Bebey, Fela Kuti
For
TRACKLIST:
SIDE A
1. Ojinga’s Own
2. What To Do
3. Stay Away
4. Uncomprehensidensible Radio-Matic Woman
5. Neighbour Jean
6. G.o.-Go
SIDE B
1. Massacura Man
2. Woman A Dead Ya Fuh Man
3. Ka Duma
4. I’ve Got To Be Somebody
5. No Intention
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tracklis�ng(s); Wasteland
A Lethal Energy
Revolu�on For Fools
My Baby
On The Edge Of A Knife
Waltz For Love
The Furies
King Of The Hill
Gravy Train
To The Boy With The Big Heart
Army Of Freaks
Big Sleep
Aus�n City Limits Serenade
CD bonus tracks
Charlie, A Woman Of The World
Into My Heart Of Darkness
My Sweet Enemy
A Heartache Is Coming
Grind Me Down
Game Over
Ian Person,
former guitarist and songwriter in Union Carbide Produc�ons and The Soundtrack Of Our Lives;a several Swedish Grammy Award winning act and who was also nominated for an American Grammy for best Indie/Rock act, release his new solo album.
It was mainly recorded and mixed by producer Don Alsterberg (Graveyard, Jose Gonzales) at Don Pierre Studios. Recorded old school on 24 track , got Don’s signature earthy sound. With his new killer album and with the reforma�on of TSOOL this summer with big fes�val gigs; the future looks bright for Ian!
Jasper Blom is one of the Netherlands' most revered musicians and a leading figure on the contemporary jazz scene.
He's known as a versatile soloist, a forward- thinking composer and an expert leader, having fronted his long-time quartet of guitarist Jesse van Ruller, bassist
Label: WHIRLWIND RECORDINGS Frans van der Hoeven and drummer Martijn Vink for over 20 years.
Cat. no: WR4800
Format: CD
Together, they present Polyphony 3, the newest instalment of Blom's Polyphony
Barcode: 655498298356 cycle, which follows the widely acclaimed 2019 Whirlwind release Polyphony. Cologne based pianist Pablo Held, joins the line - up as a guest throughout this record and saxophonist Ben van Gelder and bass clarinettist Joris Roelofs feature on one track.
Jasper Blom: tenor saxophone
Jesse van Ruller: guitar
Frans van der Hoeven: bass
Martijn Vink: drums
Pablo Held: piano/wurlitzer
Ben van Gelder: alto saxophone
Joris Roelofs: bass clarinet
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Tracks: Midding / Zuri / Jouska / Lumen / Chrysalism / Insomnia / Des Vu (Bonus Track)
Hot off the back of this year's critically-acclaimed new album 'New York City', Brooklyn punk institution The Men are back already with a Fuzz Club Session album due out digitally and on limited double LP vinyl Recorded live to tape at Brooklyn's Serious Business Studio by Travis Harrison, the live session sees the Men storm through three tracks from 'New York City', one from 'Devil Music', a cover of English punk band Blitz and nine-brand new tracks that have never seen the light of the day until now, ranging from blistering noise-rock and cathartic rock'n'roll to lo-fi country-rock and hypnotising drones. This is the 20th release in the Fuzz Club Session series from London-based label Fuzz Club, which has previously hosted the likes of A Place To Bury Strangers, Night Beats, Holy Wave, The Entrance Band and more.
Tracklist: 1) Big Hair - Live 2) Through The Night - Live 3) Nothing - Live 4) Give You What You Came For - Live 5) Attack - Live 6) Fire - Live 7) Heart Strings - Live 8) Trapped InsideLive 9) Right About You - Live 10) Driver - Live 11) Shake It - Live 12) Anyway I Find YouLive 13) River Flows - Live 14) Sacred Ground - Live
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