Nail April 2013 New Release Book

APRIL 2013 NEW RELEASES STREET DATES 4.9.13 AND 4.23.13

A DIVISION OF ALLEGRO MEDIA GROUP

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Blue Stahli, Anthony Braxton, :Wumpscut:, Hasil Adkins, Xiu Xiu & Eugene S. Robinson, Soft Reeds, Snog

New york

INSIDE Arkam Records.................. 13 AUM Fidelity....................... 5 ConSouling Sounds.............. 4 Denovali Records............... 23 Durty Mick Records............ 13 Ex-Fed Records................. 15 File Under: Music.............. 20 Firehouse 12 Records.......6–7 FiXT................................... 3

Important Records........ 16–19 Lentonia Records................. 9 Malignant Records............... 9 Metropolis Records...10–12, 22 Ripple Music..................... 12 Small Stone Recordings...... 20 The Record Machine.......... 21 Wide Hive Records........ 14–15 WTII Records.................... 19

WELCOME to the nail family CONSOULING SOUNDS

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Embedded in the platform for art beyond boundaries, ConSouling Sounds is acting out its own beliefs. The mailorder and the label have taken up the mission to promote all “post” or “doom” music, and to help it find its way to the audience. Why? A simple reason: these innovative types of music continue to hold only a shadowy position in the entire musical landscape. Many interesting bands and unique undertakings never even get the chance to develop. Through the label, ConSouling Sounds offers them the chance to step into the spotlight they deserve. The label is continuously updating and expanding its catalog to make it into a tasty dish for fans as well as those new to the scene.

FIREHOUSE 12 RECORDS

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Firehouse 12 Records is the label arm of Firehouse 12, an award-winning bar, state-of-the-art recording studio, and unusually intimate music venue located in New Haven’s historic Ninth Square District. Co-founded in 2007 by Firehouse 12’s chief engineer Nick Lloyd and acclaimed cornetist/composer Taylor Ho Bynum, Firehouse 12 Records was created to ambitiously document the creative ethos of some of improvised music’s most innovative practitioners. Firehouse 12 Records has an extensive and growing catalog of releases by legendary creative musicians like Anthony Braxton and Bill Dixon, as well as releases by younger groundbreaking artists like Taylor Ho Bynum, Mary Halvorson, and Tyshawn Sorey.

THE RECORD MACHINE

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The Record Machine is an independent record label, established in 2003 and based in Kansas City, Missouri. In the 10 years since, they have worked with bands from all over the U.S. The goal of The Record Machine is to make an organic community of artists and help connect them with listeners. Tim Finn of the Kansas City Star remarked that the label has “assembled a stable of diverse artists who are making music that deserves national attention.” In 2011, the label founded and curated the inaugural Middle of the Map Fest in Kansas City. The festival, which has featured artists like Fun., Two Door Cinema Club, Neon Indian, Mates of State, Daniel Johnston, Cursive, and Raveonettes, has been an overwhelming success in its first few years!

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John Paul White The Long Goodbye (AKM 2013) The Growlers Hung At Heart (ELR 36) Front Line Assembly AirMech (MTP 831) Hanzel und Gretyl Born To Be Heiled (MTP 800) Celldweller Vol. 02 Soundtrack for the Voices… (CDW 71) Five Horse Johnson The Taking of Blackheart (SSO 135) Texas Is The Reason Do You Know Who You Are? (RHQ 151) Knowbody Else Soldiers of Pure Peace (ARF 102) Play Date Imagination (FFN 2) David Virelles Continuum (PIE 46)

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Blue Stahli

Antisleep Vol. 3

Selling Points

• Single “ULTRAnumb” has sold 30,000+ copies!

• Recently remixed BT, Celldweller, and My Brightest Diamond.

• Recent film/TV/game music features include Expendables 2, “The Big Bang Theory,” Underworld Awakening, Tron Legacy, “America’s Next Top Model,” Colombiana, Sucker Punch, Victoria’s Secret, “Criminal Minds,” “CSI: NY,” NBA, FOX Sports, Dead Rising 2, Twisted Metal, MTV’s “The Challenge,” Premium Rush, and Men In Black 3.

• RIYL: Celldweller, The Prodigy, The Glitch Mob, Noisia, Muse, Excision, Tool, Kill The Noise.

Media & Marketing

• Full press campaign by in-house PR, with service to blogs, print & online magazines, and radio.

If the Blue Stahli who created the first two volumes of Antisleep was the fun-loving master of funk who crashed your Hollywood Hills garden party to cannonball off the roof into your pool, the Blue Stahli who made this third volume is the one who, clad in black and backlit by one flickering exit sign, appears in your rearview mirror as you get into your car late one night in a dimly lit and otherwise empty parking garage.

Is he there to warn you of imminent danger? Is HE the imminent danger? All you know is that the funk is gone and a sinister chill in the air is making the hair on the back of your neck rise. Better get your key into the ignition … whatever happens next, your life won’t be the same after Antisleep Vol. 3!

These 13 new cinematic pieces of instrumental action will be indispensable during YOUR next car chase, dangerous escape, or alien encounter.

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Bret Autrey: all noise Track Listing: Suit Up • Awaken • Retribution • Transmission from Hell • Atom Smasher • The Destroyer of All Things • Something in the Woods • Ready for Battle • Hell Arrives • Reverse Tension • Chaser • Death Hammer • The Ritual

ALSO AVAILABLE Antisleep Vol. 01

Antisleep Vol. 02

CD: CDW 8 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Number of Discs: 1

CD: CDW 47 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Number of Discs: 1

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Key Markets: Hometown: Detroit. Also: Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles, New York, Denver, Phoenix

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NAIL WELCOMES Consouling Sounds TO OUR ROSTER! Selling Points

• Previously released as a sold-out vinyl release on Destructure Records; now in a brand-new CD new edition!

• Features members of Monarch!, Déjà Mort, Nexus Sun, Metronome Charisma, and Mains de Givre.

• Both bands have extensive back catalogs on respected labels.

• Limited to 200 copies in North America (500 copies worldwide).

• Promo copies to targeted magazines and radio stations.

• Online promotion through social media and specialized news groups.

• RIYL: Nadja, Alcest, Isis, Rosetta, Russian Circles.

Previously released as a sold-out vinyl release on Destructure Records, the Year of No Light split with thisquietarmy sees a shiny brand-new edition on CD! Where thisquietarmy operates within the register of dreamy doom/drone soundscapes, infused with krautrock, post-rock, doom, and even black metal, Year of No Light uses a heavier vocabulary, with their music firmly rooted in sludge and doom/done metal.

Year of No Light & thisquietarmy Split Release Genre: Metal Label: Consouling Sounds CD: CSD 22 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Number of Discs: 1 EcoWallet, Box Lot TBD Street Date: 4/9/13 D

Track Listing: Year of No Light: Vous êtes un nada mort marchant autour du visible • Year of No Light & thisquietarmy: Une odeur que je capte quand leur yeux explosent • thisquietarmy: Aphorismes • thisquietarmy & Year of No Light: Langue de feu Key Markets: Hometown: Montreal. Also: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Austin, Toronto

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Extensive back catalog on respected labels.

Lavish, heavy 2x10” gatefold.

Limited to 100 copies in North America (250 copies worldwide).

Promo copies to targeted magazines and radio stations.

Online promotion through social media and specialized news groups.

RIYL: Aderlating, Abruptum, Beherit, Swans, Merzbow.

Brutally cathartic and impossibly suffocating, this is doom and noise with a seriously terrifying cinematic edge. This is the 2x10” vinyl reissue of the 2011 album by Gnaw Their Tongues, originally unleashed into the world of the living by Crucial Blast. Finding itself among an extensive discography of pitch black ritual noise chaos, Per Flagellum Sanguemque, Tenebras Veneramus is among some of Gnaw Their Tongues’ most affecting work: an apex of dramatic, nightmarish violence where the doomed distortion and clattering percussion intermingle with alien string squeals and hopeless, depraved shrieks.

Gnaw Their Tongues Per Flagellum Sanguemque, Tenebras Veneramus Genre: Metal Label: Consouling Sounds VINYL: CSD 18 Price Code: 3L (SRP $35.99) Number of Discs: 2 Gatefold LP Jacket, Box Lot 5 Street Date: 4/9/13 D

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Track Listing: Hic Est Enim Calix Sanguinis Mei • Human Skin for the Messengers Robe • Urine Soaked Neophytes • Tod, wo ist dein Licht • Fallen Deities Bathing in Gall • Bonedust on Dead Genitals • The Storming Heavens as a Father to All Broken Bodies • Per Flagellum Sanguemque, Tenebras Veneramus Key Markets: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Austin

Little Women

Lung

Selling Points

• The highly anticipated new album from Brooklyn’s genre-defying Little Women is an epic long-form composition that incorporates tone poem evocation, pop group melodicism, all-vocal intonation, and unparalleled shrapnel-sharp shredding as some of its sonic vista.

• Following Throat, their highly acclaimed 2010 release, Lung surprises again in the group’s extreme commitment to transform the listener with their impeccably sculpted sound.

• Cover art by renowned underground guitar maestro Mick Barr (Orthrelm/Ocrilim).

• RIYL: Lightning Bolt, Little Dragon, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Alice Coltrane, The Thing, Death Grips.

Media & Marketing

• Service/promotion to national press/e-media and targeted regional press by AUM Fidelity.

• Service/promotion to college/non-commercial radio by AUM Fidelity.

• Ads with Point of Departure, All About Jazz, and more cross-genre online sites.

Lung, the highly anticipated new composition from Brooklyn’s genre-defying Little Women, is an epic without precedent. Where their astonishing and critically acclaimed 2010 suite Throat grabbed listeners by their necks from the first seconds, Lung arises slowly from silence to embrace and entrance. Tenor saxophonist Travis Laplante, alto saxophonist Darius Jones, guitarist Andrew Smiley, and drummer Jason Nazary collectively composed and refined this piece over more than a year. It is a collaborative work at the purest level, and is by far their most dynamic work to date.

“Staggering. It has structure and elegance in a tornado of noise, and beauty that cuts through the maelstrom like a ray of light.” — CHICAGO TRIBUNE

“Little Women toggle between extremes with impressive fluidity, and the transitions consistently make sense.” — CHICAGO READER “Little Women make blistering horns vs. guitar music that blazes past the crossroads of jazz and rock to raise dust on the scenic routes of metal and noise.” — IMPOSE

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Travis Laplante: tenor saxophone Darius Jones: alto saxophone Andrew Smiley: guitar Jason Nazary: drums Track Listing: Lung Key Markets: Hometown: New York. Also: Chicago, Washington DC, Philadelphia, San Francisco

ALSO AVAILABLE Throat

Throat

CD: AUM 61 Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) Number of Discs: 1

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“A timely battle cry for both the unstoppable force of experimental musics and the fact that no mode of domination can ever fully conquer the wild energy and potentiality that blooms inside the body, waiting to explode out into the world and shatter that which must be shattered.” — TINY MIX TAPES

Genre: Avant Rock Label: AUM Fidelity CD: AUM 76 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 45 Street Date: 4/9/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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NAIL WELCOMES FIREHOUSE 12 TO OUR ROSTER! Firehouse 12 Records is the label arm of Firehouse 12, an award-winning bar, state-of-the-art recording studio, and unusually intimate music venue located in New Haven’s historic Ninth Square District. Co-founded in 2007 by Firehouse 12’s chief engineer Nick Lloyd and acclaimed cornetist/composer Taylor Ho Bynum, Firehouse 12 Records was created to ambitiously document the creative ethos of some of improvised music’s most innovative practitioners. Firehouse 12 Records has an extensive and growing catalog of releases by legendary creative musicians like Anthony Braxton and Bill Dixon, as well as releases by younger groundbreaking artists like Taylor Ho Bynum, Mary Halvorson, and Tyshawn Sorey.

THE CRITICS AGREE: “One of the most interesting and innovative labels this side of the Atlantic.” — CADENCE “A forward-thinking model for success in the conglomerated, post-Napster recording industry.” — NEW HAVEN ADVOCATE “A fast-developing reputation for left field offerings recorded in luminous sound which handsomely repay in-depth listening.”

— ALL ABOUT JAZZ “Provocative [and] cerebral.” — JAZZTIMES

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Anthony Braxton 12+1tet 9 Compositions (Iridium) 2006

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Genre: Jazz 9XCD+DVD: FHR 403001 Price Code: 10T (SRP $149.99) Number of Discs: 10 Box Set, Box Lot 12 D

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Anthony Braxton’s 9XCD+DVD set documenting what Time Out New York called “last spring’s epochal run” at the Iridium Jazz Club! Described by Braxton as “THE point of definition in my work thus far,” these concerts featured the world premieres of Compositions 350 through 358, the final works in his Ghost Trance Music series, recorded over the course of this rare four-night stand on an American stage.

The package includes a Braxton documentary interspersed with live concert footage, and an extensive collection of essays, commentary, and biographical information.

Bill Dixon Tapestries for Small Orchestra Genre: Jazz 2XCD+DVD: FHR 403008 Price Code: 3P (SRP $50.99) Number of Discs: 3 Digipak, Box Lot 16 D

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Tapestries for Small Orchestra, eminent trumpeter/composer Bill Dixon’s multi-disc set, includes two audio CDs of specially commissioned original music plus a documentary film featuring exclusive interviews and session footage, available only with the physical release. Made possible in part by a grant from the LEF Foundation’s Contemporary Work Fund and the support of the Festival of New Trumpet Music, this project thoroughly documents the three-day recording session at Firehouse 12’s state-of-the-art recording studio, offering unprecedented access into Dixon’s creative process.

TOP SELLERS FROM FIREHOUSE 12 NOW AVAILABLE THROUGH NAIL See order form on page 29 for a complete list of available titles!

Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Ensemble Xenogenesis Suite Genre: Jazz CD: FHR 401006 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 35

Myra Melford’s Be Bread The Whole Tree Gone Genre: Jazz CD: FHR 401012 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 45 D

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The studio recording of Chicago-based flutist/composer Nicole Mitchell’s extended work inspired by Afro-Futurist writer Octavia Butler (1947–2006), the first science fiction author to receive the MacArthur “Genius” Grant. The piece, realized by her decade-old group Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Ensemble, received its world premiere in June 2007 at the 12th annual Vision Festival in New York and was performed again at the Chicago Cultural Center in December 2007. It has been called “dense, dramatic, and daring” (JazzHouse), “haunting and extraordinarily moving” (All About Jazz), and “reminiscent of some of the best work of Sun Ra.” (JazzReview).

Firehouse 12 welcomed esteemed pianist/composer Myra Melford to its roster with the release of The Whole Tree Gone, her first recording as a bandleader since 2006. Recorded in the label’s own state-of-the-art studio, this is Melford’s second release featuring her eclectic ensemble Be Bread, a longstanding collection of frequent collaborators that currently performs as an all-acoustic sextet. The Whole Tree Gone documents the latest evolution of eight original compositions she has been performing with this ensemble, and others, for the past five years. Most of the music on this record came from a suite titled The Whole Place Goes Up, written in Fall 2004 with the support of a Chamber Music America grant.

Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet Apparent Distance

Mary Halvorson Quintet Bending Bridges

Genre: Jazz CD: FHR 401014 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 40

Genre: Jazz CD: FHR 401016 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30

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Bending Bridges is Brooklyn-based guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson’s second recording with her working quintet, and third consecutive title as a leader on Firehouse 12. As on 2010’s Saturn Sings, which appeared on nearly 100 Best of the Year lists, she is joined by trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson, saxophonist Jon Irabagon, bassist John Hébert and drummer Ches Smith for a program of new original compositions written specifically for this ensemble. Among other accolades, Halvorson has been described as “hugely inventive” (DownBeat), “daringly unpredictable” (The New Yorker), “a distinct voice” (Slate), “the most original jazz guitarist in a generation” (Washington City Paper), and “one of today’s most formidable bandleaders” (Village Voice).

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Apparent Distance is a four-part suite commissioned through a 2010 grant from Chamber Music America and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Since the composition’s premiere in August 2010, the sextet has performed the work on tour and at the Saalfelden Jazz Festival, Banlieues Bleues, and New York’s Crosscurrents Festival. The Village Voice’s Jim Macnie wrote: “Whether they’re lines that swirl upward, chasing their own tail, or lines that spill downward, like a Slinky on a staircase, the elemental motifs of the composer’s pieces are full of springy kinetics. But they’re more than mere nu-jazz puzzles. Bynum wrings emotion from his crew. His use of texture and trajectory has to do with his appreciation of passion.”

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Anticipated follow-up to debut cult indie hit Contact! Contact!

Filled to the brim with fun, intelligence, melody, beauty, and sadness.

Produced by Peter Miles (Futures, Frank Turner, We Are The Ocean).

E-blast & social networking; four promo videos available on YouTube.

RIYL: Gaslight Anthem, Jimmy Eat World, Bruce Springsteen, Mumford & Sons, Minus the Bear.

West London’s cult indie four-piece Tellison returns with their sophomore album The Wages of Fear, a bible of bruises, literary split lips, and the kind of shiver-inducing depth of feeling you haven’t experienced since you first heard Bruce Springsteen!

“With a sing-along chorus that grabs through your chest to your heart and gives it a little squeeze, London’s Tellison are doing what they do best.” — NME

Tellison The Wages of Fear

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Naim Edge Records CD: NAI 163 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 40 Street Date: 4/9/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

Track Listing: Get On • Say Silence (Heaven & Earth) • Know Thy Foe • Collarbone • Freud Links The Teeth And The Heart • Horses • Rapture • Tell It To Thebes • Letters From Pre-Med • Vermont • Edith • My Wife’s Grave Is In Paris Key Markets: New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Detroit

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An allegro crossover title

SELLING POINTS

• Special edition fifth anniversary remixed and remastered release.

• Includes previously sold-out bonus CD Contact! Contact! Remixed.

• Features two extra tracks previously unavailable on CD: “Wasps’ Nest” and “Gibraltar.”

• E-blast & social networking; two promo videos available on YouTube.

• RIYL: Gaslight Anthem, Jimmy Eat World, Bruce Springsteen, Mumford & Sons, Minus the Bear.

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Tellison release a special edition, remastered version of their totally barnstorming cult debut album Contact! Contact! through Naim Edge Records celebrate the fifth anniversary of the original UK release through Gravity DIP/Banquet Records in Fall 2007.

“A summery haze of sing-a-long vocals and buoyant drums … magic.”

— Q MAGAZINE

Tellison Contact! Contact! (5th Anniversary Edition) Genre: Alt Rock Label: Naim Edge Records CD: NAI 183 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 2 Digipak, Box Lot 25 Street Date: 4/9/13 D

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DISC ONE: Track Listing: Hanover Start Clapping • Reader • Gallery • Tender Is The Night • Fire • New York New York New York • Amory • Ambulance • Architects • Henry Went To Paris • Disaster! Disaster! • Hospital • Gibraltar • Wasps’ Nest • DISC TWO: Hanover Start Clapping (Ginface Remix) • Reader (Hankulator Remix) • Gallery (Dave House Remix) • Tender Is The Night (Zach Lipkins Remix) • Fire (Elastik! Remix) • New York New York New York (Arcom Remix) • Amory (Pipe + Slippers Remix) • Ambulance (Tellison vs Room 253 Remix) • Architects (Toby Benson Remix) • Henry Went To Paris (Maybeshewill Remix) • Disaster! Disaster! (Sonolmoss-London Found Remix) • Hospital (Dr. D s Stray Remix) • Wasps’ Nest (Pierce Remix) Key Markets: New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Detroit

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A Turkish all-female pop group, extremely rare in that country!

Will tour the East Coast in June (dates TBD).

Extensive tours in support of Jens Lekman and The Radio Dept.

Promo will start in February, with service to all major independent magazines and blogs.

• RIYL: Sterolab, Nite Jewel, Maria Minerva, Lush.

Female duo kim ki o represents the vanguard of a new generation of Turkish musicians. Their influence is British pop, but their melodic Turkish-language lyrics and retro-analog instruments take the sound to a totally new place, and their sensual pop songs have won them a devoted international following.

“Their slender tracks made from vintage synth and beats take on a dream pop quality.” — MTV IGGY “A blend of Cure-ish melancholy, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone stirringness, and a hint of My Bloody Valentine in the way the woozy vocals intertwine with the music.” — ROUGH TRADE Track Listing: dogs • insan insan • william chisholm • biz senle esit degiliz • bugun yok ki • yanlis yonde, farkli turde • siddet, kin ve yuk • yer teorisii Key Markets: New York, Washington DC, Atlanta, Portland, Providence, Chicago, Detroit, Boston, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal

kim ki o grounds

Genre: Alt Rock/Electronica Label: Lentonia Records CD: LEN 9 Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) Number of Discs: 1 MINT Pack, Box Lot 40 Street Date: 4/9/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

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Selling Points

• Limited to 500 copies, this is the first full-length Caul release for Malignant since their 1996 debut.

• Unique compositions of cinematic isolationism and noir ambience.

• Well respected and highly regarded within the dark ambient community.

• Will be sent to all electronic-based magazines and webzines, podcasts, and radio shows.

• Streaming online via the Malignant website, Caul’s website, ReverbNation, and SoundCloud.

• Exclusive videos will be posted to Malignant’s YouTube channel.

• RIYL: Tor Lundvall, Bohren & Der Club of Gore, early 4AD.

“To listen to [Caul] is to willingly immerse yourself in the artist’s incredibly potent emotional currents as he moves effortlessly through changing styles.” — HYPNAGOGUE Track Listing: Wires • Relic • Anointing • Sea of Fossils, Desert Buoy • The Long Dust • Veil of Sand • Pilgrimage • Red Lightning • The Road • Dunelight • The Unwept Waste Key Markets: Hometown: Kansas City. Also: Seattle, Denver, Minneapolis, Boston, San Francisco, New York

Caul The Long Dust

Genre: Alt Rock/Ambient Label: Malignant Records CD: MGN 62 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 50 Street Date: 4/9/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

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The latest offering from this long-standing and highly regarded ambient composer sees Brett Smith continuing to evolve his sound, moving away from the purely atmospheric textural drift of earlier works into more structured plains, where arching tones intersect with jazz-noir percussion, ethereal ambience, and solemn melodies.

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Facebook and Google ad campaigns to run prior to release.

Full U.S. tour being planned (dates TBA).

Sound samples will be available on Metropolis’ website.

Full servicing to radio, press, and club DJs. Digital single for “Born To Lie” currently charting in clubs.

RIYL: De/Vision, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Apoptygma Berzerk, Hurts.

After meeting in 1991, Bristol-based Mark Hockings and Richard Silverton formed Mesh, and released their first EP in 1994. Since then, the band has become one of the most beloved acts in the synthpop scene. Unafraid to experiment, the band excels at pushing themselves musically while staying true to their sound. The long-awaited new album Automation Baby is yet another giant step forward for Mesh. The album has a huge sound and big songs. It’s fresh, cutting-edge, complex, deep, and emotional. Featuring the duo’s newest single “Born To Lie,” Automation Baby is one of the most anticipated releases of the year!

Mesh Automation Baby

Genre: Alt Rock/Electronica Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 859 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 4/9/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

Track Listing: Just Leave Us Alone • Taken For Granted • You Want What’s Owed To You • Automation Baby • AB Incidental No. 1 • This Is The Time • The Way I Feel • Adjust Your Seat • Born To Lie • AB Incidental No. 2 • Flawless • Never Meet Your Heroes • When The City Breathes • You Couldn’t See This Coming Key Markets: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh

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Originally hailing from Ljubljana, Slovenia, Torul surprised many electronic music fans with the 2011 release of the album In Whole. The band established itself with the singles “Try” and “Partially Untamed,” both of which climbed into the alternative charts such as DAC, GEWC, DAT20, and EAC. International press and media praised the band as one of the next big things in innovative electro. Torul creates a strong, unique spin on trance-influenced, highly danceable electro-pop, much in the vein of bands such as De/Vision, Mesh, and Iris. Hook-laden and lush, with highly danceable beats, Tonight We Dream Fiercely shows the band continuing where the last album left off.

Torul Tonight We Dream Fiercely Genre: Alt Rock/Electronica Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 860 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 4/9/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

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Debut release on Metropolis Records.

Sound samples will be available on Metropolis’ website.

Facebook and Google ad campaigns to coincide with the release.

Full servicing to press, radio, and club DJs. RIYL: Wolfsheim, De/Vision, Iris, Mesh.

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Track Listing: The Sun! • Wake Up • The Fall • I’m Still Here • All In • Mad World • Glow • A Leak • Always Embraced • All Over Again • End of Story Key Markets: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh

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Madman Szpital Selling Points

• One of the most-played artists in the industrial and dark electro genres!

• Companion remix album by DJ Dwarf XIII being released concurrently (see below).

• Facebook and Google ad campaigns coinciding with the release.

• Full servicing to press, radio, and club DJs. • RIYL: Skinny Puppy, Suicide Commando, Combichrist, Grendel, Hocico.

:Wumpscut: mastermind Rudy Ratzinger returns in 2013 with the latest offering from the bunker, Madman Szpital (“szpital” is Polish for “hospital”).

Dark, menacing, and as evil as ever, :Wumpscut: is one of the most prolific and popular bands in the dark electro music scene. Ratzinger has established one of the strongest and most reliable fan bases out of any band in the genre, and Madman Szpital demonstrates exactly why!

Track Listing: Der Liebe Gott Sieht Alles • Tod Essen Leben Auf • Madman Szpital • The Duke of Death • We Are Immortal • Ich Bin Der Tod • Gabi Grausam • Moshe Tokoloshe • Du Neger • Vegan Witch Key Markets: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh

Genre: Electronica/Industrial Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 857 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 4/9/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

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companion remix album also available Genre: Electronica/Industrial Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 858 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 4/9/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

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Track Listing: Tod Essen Leben Auf (Dwarf Edit) • Gabi Grausam (Dwarf Edit) • Du Neger (Advent Resilience Remix) • Tod Essen Leben Auf (Reactor7x Remix) • Madman Szpital (Emergency Room Dwarf Edit by Instinct Primal) • Tod Essen Leben Auf (Deetloss Remix) • We Are Immortal (Splitter Remix) • Gabi Grausam (Miserable Remix) • Grobian (Sinthetik Messiah Remix) • Ich Bin Der Tod (Advent Resilience Remix) • Gabi Grausam (Advent Resilience Remix) • Ich Bin Der Tod (Desmodus Remix) • Madman Szpital (Advent Resilience Remix) • Gabi Grausam (Alkemic Generator Remix) • Gabi Grausam (Menok Remix) • Gabi Grausam (Ustkraltor Remix)

STREET DATE APRIL 9, 2013

Wumpscut & DJ Dwarf 13 Madman Szpital Special Edition

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Kristoph Bathory has been creating music under the name Dawn of Ashes since 2001. Starting off as a horror-industrial act, the sound of DOA has evolved over the years, embracing elements of metal, rock, industrial, and other aggressive music. The new album, Anathema, combines visions of horror, hatred, sexual perversion, and other shocking content, spewed forth in the form of a unique blend of industrial-metal and shock-rock. Featuring guest appearances by Nero Bellum of Psyclon Nine and Gary Zon of Dismantled, Anathema is a catastrophic symphony that stands as a new twist on evil.

Dawn of Ashes Anathema

Genre: Alt Rock/Industrial Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 854 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 4/9/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

Debut release on Metropolis Records.

U.S. tour being planned to coincide with release (dates TBA).

Previously toured with Dimmu Borgir, Enslaved, and Blood Red Throne.

Features Nero Bellum (Psyclon Nine) and Gary Zon (Dismantled).

Facebook and Google ad campaigns to coincide with the release.

Sound samples available on Metropolis’ website.

Full servicing to press, radio, and club DJs. RIYL: Marilyn Manson, Cradle Of Filth, Dimmu Borgir, Psyclon Nine.

Track Listing: Anathema (Part I – Scorned Upon) • A Breathing Holocaust • Poisoning the Steps of Babel (feat. Nero Bellum) • Insidious (Of the Judas Breed) • Sex, Blood, & Black Magic • Anathema (Part II – Burned at the Stake) • Ending a Harrowing Wish • Morphine Addiction • Torture Device (The Final Formula for Torment) • Systematic Guillotine • Scars on Scars (feat. Gary Zon) • Anathema (Part III – Primordial Abomination) Key Markets: Hometown: Hollywood. Also: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit

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Devil To Pay’s fourth full-length album, and debut with Ripple Music, Fate Is Your Muse is an introspective lyrical journey that careens from the metaphysical, to the absurd, to the pragmatic (and back again), all set to bone-crushing heaviness wrapped in elaborate vocal melodies and elegant guitar phrases.

“The magic of Devil To Pay is that … they pump out a song with care and devotion, and then warp it into a whiskey-fueled blast.

These songs have the heart, soul, and passion that many modern heavy musicians lack.” — NUVO NEWS

Devil To Pay Fate Is Your Muse

Genre: Rock Label: Ripple Music CD: RPL 2287 Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 Street Date: 4/9/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

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Recorded by Ryan Adkins at Azmyth Recording, Indianapolis.

Devil To Pay’s fourth full-length album, and debut with Ripple Music.

Exclusive album premieres on the largest genre blogs.

Promos to all genre-specific publications and websites.

Will circulate videos through appropriate outlets.

Ads with appropriate publications and blogs.

RIYL: Black Sabbath, Corrosion of Conformity, Monster Magnet, Down, Orange Goblin, Clutch, Tool.

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VINYL: RPL 2294 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket, Box Lot 10 Street Date: 4/9/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

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Track Listing: Prepare To Die • Wearin’ You Down • Ten Lizardmen and One Pocketknife • Yes Master • Already Dead • This Train Won’t Stop • Savonarola • Black Black Heart • The Naked Truth • Mass Psychosis • Tie One On • Beyond The Ether Key Markets: Hometown: Indianapolis. Also: Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison, Detroit, Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, New York City, Boston, Kansas City, Springfield, Richmond, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Dallas

Selling Points

• Produced by Phil Caivano (Blitzspeer), Lars Fredrickson (Rancid), and Mike Gallo (Agnostic Front).

• LP pressed on color vinyl; includes digital download code.

• Online marketing to include banner ads, contests, exclusive streams, and more.

• RIYL: Agnostic Front, Madball.

Vinny Stigma’s name is synonymous with not only New York hardcore, but with hardcore and punk rock in general. “The Godfather of Hardcore” has been a pillar of the punk community since the early ’80s. Not only did he co-found the legendary Agnostic Front, he has also played guitar with NYHC stalwart Madball. In 2009, Vinny stepped to the forefront and released his first solo record, New York Blood. Since then he’s been busy touring with Agnostic Front internationally, yet also found time to record his sophomore solo effort, entitled For Love & Glory.

Track Listing: Average Man • I Am • Don’t Lose Faith • Heroes of Our Time • Days of Old • Dead Wrong • Battle • Lost and Found • Forgotten Generation • The Spirit Remains • Free Your Mind • Big City • These Times Key Markets: Hometown: New York. Also: Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angles, Washington DC, San Francisco

Stigma For Love & Glory

Genre: Punk/Hardcore Label: Durty Mick Records CD: DTY 29 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 4/9/13 D

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VINYL: DTY 29 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 4/9/13 D

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• The last known recordings that Hasil Adkins ever made!

• Known all over the world as a pioneer of weird, pure, amazing music, Adkins has a cult following of very devoted fans!

• Comes with a full interview, first printed in Razorcake.

“A rockabilly singer who became a cult figure among record collectors and musicians for his raw, idiosyncratic music and outsize personality.” — NEW YORK TIMES

Track Listing: Leaves In August • It’s Ah Comin...It’s Gone Key Markets: Hometown: West Virginia. Also: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago

Hasil Adkins Last Recordings

Genre: Alt Country Label: Arkam Records 7”: AKM 52 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) Number of Discs: 1 7” Sleeve, Box Lot 25 Street Date: 4/9/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

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“Hasil Adkins was a one-of-a-kind rockabilly lunatic whose life and music were bizarre enough that if they had been a work of fiction, no one with any sense would have ever believed it. A frantic one-man band who bashed out ultra-crude rock & roll tunes about sex, chicken, and decapitation into a wheezing reel-to-reel tape machine in a West Virginia shack, Adkins spent most of his life making music in utter obscurity until he was discovered in the 1980s and became a cult favorite in the last two decades of his life.” — ALL MUSIC GUIDE

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• Vinyl release of Larry Coryell’s newest album on Wide Hive Records.

Larry Coryell’s third album on Wide Hive Records is simply astounding.

On this throwback-style rock trio record, Larry delivers quintessential performances throughout all 12 tracks. Offering rock, blues, and soul-infused jazz, Larry is on his game with skills so amazing, it will make you seriously question how they could be the one-take performances they are. Guitarists take note: Larry’s got game!

“You don’t even have to be a fan of his or a guitar aficionado to dig this disc; anyone who likes that old school funky rock-jazz with a few delectable diversions will find a lot to like about it. The old Larry Coryell, the Father of Fusion Guitar, is back.” — SOMETHING ELSE!

Larry Coryell The Lift

Genre: Jazz Label: Wide Hive Records VINYL: WID 310 Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 4/9/13 D

Track Listing: Going Up • Arena Blues • The Lift • Clear Skies • Rough Cut • Broken Blues • Counterweight • Lafayette • The First Day of Autumn Key Markets: New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles

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SELLING POINTS

• Vinyl release of a recent Larry Coryell album, released on CD in April 2011.

• CD spent 10 weeks in the Top 10 CMJ Jazz and reached Top 40 on the JazzWeek charts.

• Includes three new cuts from the session, not found on the CD!

STREET DATE APRIL 9, 2013

Larry Coryell returns to Wide Hive for a full album with the Wide Hive Players. The new collection of 11 original compositions spanning indie jazz, funk, and rock was a spontaneous creation crafted by the phenomenal Players, Coryell, and producer Gregory Howe at Fantasy Studios and Wide Hive Records in December 2010.

“A refreshing soul-jazz classic that basks in West Coast sunshine.”

— BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE

Larry Coryell Larry Coryell with the Wide Hive Players Genre: Jazz Label: Wide Hive Records VINYL: WID 306 Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 4/9/13 D

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“As one of the pioneers of jazz-rock — perhaps the pioneer in the ears of some — Larry Coryell deserves a special place in the history books … [bringing] a nearly alien sensibility to jazz electric guitar.”

— ALL MUSIC GUIDE Track Listing: Torchlight • Terco • Return of Shirtless • January Blues (not on CD) • One for T.G. • Running On Tree Tops (not on CD) • Beauty and Failure • Departure of the Robed (not on CD) • The Last Drop

Key Markets: New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles

SELLING POINTS

• Vinyl release of Throttle Elevator Music, released on CD in April 2012.

• Features award-winning saxophonist Kamasi Washington, who has performed with artists ranging from Billy Higgins and Wayne Shorter to Snoop Dog and Mos Def.

Cross Coltrane with The Clash and it would resemble the sound of this record! Instead of a vocalist, saxophone legend-to-be Kamasi Washington takes the lead and raises the bar for instrumental intensity. The compositions range from short, punk-minded flurries to thematic uptempo romps, rounded out with a few expansive journeys.

Kamasi’s tonality is comparable to that of a young Pharoah Sanders and bonds well with the electric undercurrent laid down by punk drummer/guitarist Lumpy and bassist/keyboardist Matt Montgomery.

“Bandleader and saxophonist Kamasi Washington is one of the exciting young players on the jazz scene today.” — LOS ANGELES MUSEUM OF ART Track Listing: Thrill Seeker • Bass In The Sublime • GTFO • Violet Revolutionary • Ratchet • Breather • Inner Spatial Dub • Throttle Rocket • Chilton Alley • Dancing Dust Moat • Capital Rumble • Elevator Shaft • Sacred Rights Key Markets: New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles

Throttle Elevator Music Throttle Elevator Music

Genre: Jazz Label: Wide Hive Records VINYL: WID 307 Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 4/9/13 D

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• Vinyl release of New Corporate Resistance, released on CD in September 2012.

Matt Montgomery and Gregory Howe, who have written music together for more than a decade for both Wide Hive Players and Variable Unit, have now formed their own group, Neomythics. Their debut album New Corporate Resistance is a rock/ska-oriented blend featuring six tracks with rock legend Harvey Mandel, best known for recording and performing with the Rolling Stones.

Track Listing: Leah • Climbing Out • Barefoot Bandit • Beautiful Black-Out • Phoenix • End of the Fifth Sun • G.T.F.O • Now We Know • Roller Coaster Key Markets: New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles

Neomythics New Corporate Resistance Genre: Alt Rock Label: Ex-Fed Records VINYL: WID EX 802 Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 4/9/13 D

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“Neomythics defy both convention and description. Their debut album New Corporate Resistance honors those who have always used music to fight The Man, and it reminds us that the fight continues with a ‘now’ generation empowered by new tools and techniques. It’s an album that would fit in just as well a generation ago, and will still be relevant in another generation.” — RUST ZINE

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Selling Points

• Emil Amos is also in the bands Grails and Om. • Represents a major piece of Holy Sons’ mission statement, and contains some of Amos’ most soulful songs and best moments of imaginative lo-fi production.

• Serves as a parallel world to the Grails’ Black Tar Prophecies series, having been etched with the same tools and sense of sonic freedom.

• Promo mailing via Important Records.

• RIYL: Grails, Om, Gunter Schickert.

Holy Sons My Only Warm Coals

Genre: Rock Label: Important Records CD: IPT 372 Price Code: P (SRP $16.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 4/23/13

My Only Warm Coals neatly sums up a 15-year span of Emil Amos’ basement home recordings in 19 songs. Using the four-track like a mirror in LSD therapy sessions, Amos disassembles himself and leaves the puddle on the floor for the listener to contemplate without easy resolution. The record also arcs a period of “lo-fi” recording technique and sonic experimentation that has largely gone undocumented in the larger underground culture, while epitomizing a supremely alienated sound from a person who wouldn’t set foot on a stage for most of these 15 years.

Track Listing: Station ID #1 • More Flophouse Blues • Bed of Nails • Blank Sheet • The Bad Sleep Well • Natural Courses • My Lot in Life • Underdog Cringe • The Fact Facer • More Voodoo • Station ID #2 • Aged Wine • Things On My Mind • Mind’s Eye • Stairwell • Don’t Boil Me • More Suburban Shamanisms • Wasted, Warped • Detached in Ways Key Markets: Hometown: Portland. Also: Seattle, New York, Boston

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STREET DATE APRIL 23, 2013

• On CD for the first time, a classic overlooked Krautrock album first released on Brain.

• Promo mailing via Important Records.

• RIYL: Can!, Amon Duul, Polol Vuh, Neu!, La Dusseldorf.

Gunter Schickert Samtvogel

Genre: Krautrock Label: Important Records CD: IPT 380 Price Code: P (SRP $16.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 4/23/13 D

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There are records that come from the soul. No matter how primitive the recording techniques may be, the soul makes its way to the heart and mind of the listener. Samtvogel is one of those records. Günter Schickert recorded this amazing piece of human greatness in 1974, using the media he had at the time, putting his brain to work to find the best way of taping everything he had to say. After three months of work, between June and September 1974, Samtvogel was privately issued that same year. It would later be issued on the Brain label, with a small change in the artwork — titles added to the front cover, which weren’t on the original private pressing. Brain also reissued it on the label’s Rock On Brain LP series, this time with a completely different sleeve.

The album contained two tracks on side one and just one on side two, and its sound has often been compared to the most explorative works of Syd Barrett. However, it must be pointed out that Schickert did not need any mind-spreading substances to allow his sounds to float out of his mind and soul; they just came out in the most natural way.

It will appeal to fans of the echoed atmospheric guitar work of other Krautrock innovators such as Ash Ra Temple, Manuel Götsching, or A.R. & The Machines, and some may find on the vocal passages certain resemblances to Damo Suzuki in Can!’s Tago Mago era.

Track Listing: Apricot Brandy • Kriegsmaschinen, Fahrt Zur Holle • Wald Key Markets: Seattle, New York, Boston

Xiu Xiu & Eugene S. Robinson Sal Mineo

SELLING POINTS

• Emotionally deep new work from Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart and Oxbow’s Eugene Robinson.

• RIYL: Xiu Xiu, Oxbow, Rivulets, Larsen, Conifer.

MEDIA & MARKETING

• Promo mailing via Important Records.

Sitting at the crossroads between Oxbow’s Eugene S. Robinson and Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart, Sal Mineo is a pure/impure distillate of experimentalism based on 30-second to three-minute-long focused bursts of sonic crime, which plumbs the cooling depths of a pleasure-cruise death trip. These two undisputed heavyweights of musical and emotional non-compromise, whose music leaves tender bruises by whatever sweet blow is rendered, are ready to crack rooms in two with their high-precision silencer of a duo show, combining the best and most free-roaming of both their artistic domains.

Eugene S. Robinson puts the work in. From past collaborative efforts with Lydia Lunch, Marianne Faithfull, Gus Van Sant, Steve Albini, DJ Rupture, Bill Cosby, Kathy Acker, Allen Ginsberg, Jarboe, Old Man Gloom, and a passel of side projects passing from electronica to post-punk, Robinson’s work with his primary group Oxbow covers two decades of chaotic complexity, several releases, a few soundtracks, and even a few books.

Jamie Stewart has embraced a stevedore’s dedication to the “work harder than any others” ethos over the course of eight records and even more compilations and collaborations — Michael Gira, Devendra Banhart, Deerhoof, Carla Bozulich, Larsen, Shearwater — plus splits, singles, live albums, and an endless touring schedule that covers the globe. Stewart’s multi-instrumentalism and obsession with structural chaos and clarity seals whatever deal needs sealing.

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Important Records CD: IPT 381 Price Code: P (SRP $16.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 4/23/13 D

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Eugene s. Robinson: vocals, lyrics Jamie Stewart: music

Key Markets: Seattle, New York, Boston ALSO AVAILABLE XXL (Xiu Xiu & Larsen) Ciautastico!

XXL (Xiu Xiu & Larsen) Spicchiology?

CD: IPT 65 Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) Number of Discs: 1

CD: IPT 130 Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) Number of Discs: 1

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Track Listing: The Great Expanse • Sad, Snowy & Slick • Brutish • Promise Every Night • Lingual • The Girl Everyone Loves • The Hand, The Bush • A Sharp Dressed Man Who Looks Like That • No One Likes You • The Primary Bell • Strategic Thermal Unit • Arrondisement • Glass • A Nice Guy • Absolutely No Dispute • Sex + Cash • Menagerie In Munich • Who Do We Love? • Glum Chum • Dollars On Demand • Anywhere But Here There • Bits Of Habits • Sunset ‘69 • A Crying Clown With A Knife

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Jozef Van Wissem Nihil Obstat

Selling Points

• New spiritual work from Jozef Van Wissem, well-known for his collaborations with filmmaker Jim Jarmusch.

• CD includes an extended 11-minute version of the title track.

• LP version pressed in an edition of 500.

• RIYL: Arvo Pärt, Erik Satie, John Fahey.

A gorgeous new full-length from Dutch lutenist Jozef Van Wissem features long-form, graceful melodic lute layers preceded by suspenseful deep bass movements to create a transcendental and pastoral world, where hypnotic minimalist figures are repeated to slow the act of listening. Nihil Obstat (“Nothing Hinders”) is performed on Wissem’s custom black lute built by Michael Schreiner.

“New classical lute music that sound as if it always existed, as if it has been studied and practiced and performed for ages.” — FOXY DIGITALIS “A strong sense of magic and mystery, all delivered with a beautiful simplicity … This is material with a firmly contemplative edge to it, casting a spell only broken with the occasional fluffed note or lapse into accidental dissonance.”

— PITCHFORK

Genre: Alt Classical Label: Important Records CD: IPT 379 Price Code: P (SRP $16.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 D

“Simultaneously austere and lush, Van Wissem’s music draws inspiration from the repeating patterns of minimalism, provoking for listener and performer alike a transcendental state — meditative, but exciting.” — NPR MUSIC, Favorite Studio Sessions

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VINYL: IPT 379 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 12” Jacket, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 4/23/13 D

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Jozef Van Wissem: lute

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Track Listing: how you must have suffered • apology • where you lived and what you lived for • nothings stands between us • whatever she lacks she turns to with diligence • patience in suffering is a living sacrifice Key Markets: Seattle, New York, Boston

ALSO AVAILABLE Concerning the Entrance Into Eternity

Ex Patris

CD: IPT 348 Price Code: P (SRP $16.99) Number of Discs: 1

CD: IPT 267 Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) Number of Discs: 1

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Selling Points

• Beautiful live recordings from La Monte Young collaborator and mathematician Catherine Christer Hennix.

• RIYL: Eliane Radigue, La Monte Young, Eleh.

Exemplary work from Catherine Christer Hennix’s ensemble! This disc is the beginning of a series of collaborative work between Hennix, her ensemble, and Important Records. The disc contains two works: “Blues Dhikr Al-Salam (Blues Al Maqam)” for voice, brass, computer, and live electronics in the mixed-media environment; and “Nur / Soliton(E) Star,” the world premiere of the infinitary computer animation Nur and the accompanying infinitary computer sound composition Soliton(E) Star, given at Diapason Gallery (NYC) for the celebration of La Monte Young’s 70th birthday in 2005. Catherine Christer Hennix has now extended this installation in the venerable tradition of the pentatonic blues for a live-electronic ensemble, recorded live on August 14, 2011 at the Grimm Museum in Berlin.

Track Listing: Blues Dhikr Al-Salam (Blues Al Maqam) • Nur / Soliton(E) Star Key Markets: New York, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles

Catherine Christer Hennix Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage: Live at the Grimm Museum Volume One Genre: Alt Classical Label: Important Records CD: IPT 3541 Price Code: P (SRP $16.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 40 Street Date: 4/23/13 D

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North American debut from this UK powerhouse!

Includes three previously unreleased remixes!

Features the international club hit “Wreckhead.”

Headlined a 20-date U.S. tour in Fall 2012.

Follow-up tour in the works for Fall 2013.

New Deviant UK album coming in Summer 2013.

Full media and radio servicing.

Full social media blitz to build on the momentum of Fall U.S. tour.

Ads with Gothic Beauty, Outburn, and Coma Magazine.

RIYL: Project Pitchfork, And One, Method Cell, Combichrist, KMFDM.

Track Listing: Egomaniac • My Black Heart • You Know My Name • Maid of Plastic • Bad Influence • Wreckhead • Crazy Loves You • Angel One • What Have I Become • Find Me • Why So Serious • Without a Shadow • You Will Burn • Wreckhead (Grendel Remix) • You Will Burn (NG Pro Remix) • Wreckhead (2013 Orchestral Movement Version w/ Method Cell Key Markets: Chicago, Milwaukee, Columbus, Detroit, Pittsburgh, New York, Los Angeles, Denver, Wilmington DE, Atlanta, Indianapolis

Deviant UK Very Bad Things

Genre: Industrial Label: WTII Records CD: WTI 84 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 4/23/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

STREET DATE APRIL 23, 2013

Deviant UK makes their WTII debut with the North American release of their acclaimed album Very Bad Things. With this release, Deviant UK mastermind Jay Smith demonstrates the new Deviant sound: bigger, better, and harder. Loaded with killer riffs and insanely catchy choruses, the thirteen tracks on Very Bad Things raise the stakes in terms of both songwriting and production. The album is an amphetamine-fuelled joyride that takes in EBM, synthpop, dark electro, and more, including three previously unreleased remixes.

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Kenton Loewen’s The Crackling brings unmistakable darkened warmth to the sometimes bleak, often challenging, mostly hopeful subject matter found on 2013’s Mary Magdalene. Lush with texture, deep with color, and free in its unbound expression, The Crackling maintain their emotional musical vocabulary in this evocative creation. The musical diversity found within the members of the group puts them in demand by several different projects, from Mother Mother and The Be Good Tanya’s to the Gord Grdina and Tyson Naylor Trios. A handful of the best free jazz musicians in the Vancouver scene join the group here, including JP Carter, Peggy Lee, and Jesse Zubot. Josiah Boothby and Eyvind Kang, both from Seattle, also join on their respective instruments. Debra Jean Creelman was responsible for backing vocals, and special guest Dan Mangan sings on two tracks. The Vancouver Children’s Choir, under the direction of Rupert Lang, also joins the group on one song.

The Crackling Mary Magdalene

Genre: Alt Rock/Folk Label: File Under Music CD: FUM 26 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 70 Street Date: 4/23/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

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Sophomore album features guest vocals by Dan Mangan.

Orchestral arrangements by Eyvind Kang (Beck, Lou Reed, Bill Frisell).

PR handled by Tijuana Gift Shop.

RIYL: Dan Mangan, Pedro The Lion, Sun Kil Moon, Nick Cave.

VINYL: FUM 34 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 4/23/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

Track Listing: The Harm • Keep Me Drunk • You’re Sure That I’m Wrong • The Crackling • Suicide Is Painless • Ashen; I Ask You For The Courage • The Cold Sky • Sold The Children • I Love You Tonight Key Markets: Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Chicago, Boston, New York, Dallas, Austin

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Following the success of 2010’s Locust Season, Gozu returned to Mad Oak Studios and The Bridge Sound and Stage in 2012 to put their second album to tape with engineer Benny Grotto and Owen Curtin.

The Fury of a Patient Man sees Gozu still driven by Gaff’s melted-butter melodies and Doug’s ultra-thick riffs, but the scope has expanded, and whether it’s the 24-minute deconstructed jam of “The Ceaseless Thunder Of Surf” or the High on Fire-style gallop of “Charles Bronson Pinchot,” the band has opened up new musical avenues.

Gozu The Fury of a Patient Man Genre: Rock Label: Small Stone Recordings CD: SSO 136 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 4/23/12 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

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Recorded by Benny Grotto (Lo-Pan, Roadsaw, Dixie Witch).

Mixed by Pete Peloquin (Government Mule).

Tour dates TBA; has played SXSW and toured the Eastern U.S. Press campaign via No Other PR, Gordeon Music, and Small Stone.

RIYL: Helmet, Quicksand, Faith No More, Lo-Pan, High On Fire.

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“Crafting the perfect amalgamation of the griminess of Kyuss and the swagger of Queens of the Stone Age, this Boston-based quartet maintains a cavernous bottom end while dispensing contagious stoner metal melodies that combine tasty guitar lines and clever vocal devices.” — EAR CANDY Track Listing: Bald Bull • Signed, Epstein’s Mom • Charles Bronson Pinchot • Irish Dart Fight • Salty Thumb • Disco Related Injury • Traci Lords • Ghost Wipe • Snake Plissken • The Ceaseless Thunder Of Surf Key Markets: Hometown: Boston. Also: New York, Philadelphia, DC, Pittsburg, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Dallas, Austin, New Orleans, Tampa, Atlanta, Baltimore

NAIL WELCOMES THE RECORD MACHINE TO OUR ROSTER! Selling Points

• Multiple placements on MTV show “16 and Pregnant,” and in product videos for Roxy and Quicksilver.

• Participated in Kansas City’s Middle of the Map Festival.

• Have performed at multiple showcases at both CMJ and SXSW. • Runner up for Best Emerging Act (Pitch Music Awards 2010).

• Have opened for David Bazan, Civil Twilight, The Raveonettes, Tamaryn, Cotton Jones, and more.

• PR through Banter Media.

• RIYL: David Bowie, Wire, David Byrne, Talking Heads.

Soft Reeds is the brainchild of Ben Grimes (formerly of Astralwerks’ The Golden Republic), a Chicago native whose influences are rooted firmly in the ’77 Berlin sounds of Brian Eno, David Bowie, and Iggy Pop, but who embraces the ethos and attack of early English indie rock and post-punk.

Originally started as Grimes’ post-TGR solo project, Soft Reeds became a full band in late 2009, and the critically acclaimed Soft Reeds Are Bastards was released the following year. With a new album in the works for early 2013, they continue to forge ahead with their nervy, glammy post-punk sound, relying on their strength of collaboration, a unique sonic vision, and a shared interest in the roots of art and popular music.

Track Listing: 17 • Pregnant Actress • Nothing Changes • Funky Friends Breathe, Ok? • Supper + Knives • Hospitality • Moving In Time • Stranded • Funny Patterns • A Casual Waste Of Time • A Hysterical Woman Key Markets: Hometown: Kansas City. Also: Chicago, St Louis, New York, Austin

Soft Reeds Blank City

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Three-time winner of Best Indie Pop Act at Pitch Music Awards.

Played over 150+ shows in 2011 and 2012.

Have played at Middle of the Map Festival and SXSW. Have opened for Jeremy Enigk, Daniel Johnston, Margot and the Nuclear So & So’s, and more.

• PR handled by Goldest Egg. • RIYL: Death Cab For Cutie, Broken Social Scene, TV On The Radio.

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“Packed with falsetto refrains, thrumming bass lines, and bouncy guitars that recall Broken Social Scene’s prime.” — THE PITCH Track Listing: Washing • Does Anybody See You Out? • Barcelona • Seventeen • Live Old, Die Old (IV) • I Could Believe in Anything • I Want a Stranger’s Heart • Cloth into Clothing • Let It Down • Live Old, Die Old (I) • Jennifer • Your Favorite Son, Methuselah • The Hunter and the Hunted Key Markets: Hometown: Lawrence, KS. Key Markets: Kansas City, St Louis, Louisville, Tulsa, Chicago, Austin, Lincoln, Omaha

Cowboy Indian Bear Live Old, Die Young

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Lawrence, Kansas’ favorite sons (and daughter), Cowboy Indian Bear make both a reaffirmation and a grand leap forward with their second full-length album Live Old, Die Young. It was captured alongside producer/engineer Joshua Browning over three years that included a grueling touring regimen through multiple blizzards, blown tires, shouting matches in art galleries, travels to exotic locales, and the loss of beloved family members. Trust that the joys and adversities of that period all find their way onto LO,DY in multiple ways.

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• Limited edition digipak.

• Song placements include The Matrix Trilogy, The Animatrix, and Once Upon a Time in Mexico.

• Facebook and Google ad campaigns to coincide with the release.

• Sound samples will be available on Metropolis’ website.

• Live performance dates TBA. • Full servicing to press, radio, and club DJs. • RIYL: Infected Mushroom, Crystal Method, Solar Fields, Banco De Gaia, Man With No Name.

Juno Reactor The Golden Sun of the Great East Genre: Electronica Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 848 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 4/23/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

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The Golden Sun of the Great East, the eighth Juno Reactor album, hones the exotic mix of surging trance beats, cinematic vision, and lustrous world music flavors that characterized its predecessors, from propulsive turbo-opener “Final Frontier” to evocative satellite serenade finale “Playing With Fire” and its panoramic chorale of synths, strings, and haunting voices. In between, tracks such as “Invisible,” “Guillotine,” and “Trans Siberian” surge on mammoth waves of sparkling riffs, turbulent drums, and diva vocals, all directed by Watkins’ unique sense of drama. While “Tempest” and “Zombie” introduce darker atmospherics, “Shine” and “To Byculla” hop off the pounding-beats express to deliver a subtler strain of exotic, emotional flow. Studded with future classics, the album seems built for a stratospheric live show.

Track Listing: Final Frontier • Invisible • Guillotine • Trans Siberian • Shine • Tempest • Zombie • To Byculla • Playing With Fire Key Markets: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh

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Snog Babes In Consumerland Genre: Alt Rock/Electronica Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 850 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 4/23/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

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Snog celebrates over 20 years of left-field dance hits!

Facebook and Google ad campaigns to coincide with the release.

Sound samples will be available on Metropolis’ website.

Extensive back catalog available through Metropolis.

RIYL: Nine Inch Nails, Haujobb, Download, Edge of Dawn

Babes In Consumerland is the new Snog album. It is also the best album the band has ever recorded. Coming a full 21 years after their debut left-field dance floor hit “Corporate Slave,” Babes In Consumerland sees the band in transition as never before. Though not mentioned explicitly lyrically, band mastermind Dee Thrussell’s long journey to recently arrive as a transgender woman informs every musical gesture and plaintive lyric. Joined by dear friends and collaborators Atom TM, Felix Kubin, Ash Wednesday, John Justin Stewart (Grace Jones), and the City of Prague Philharmonic Choir, this is electronic music as you’ve never heard it before: blindingly articulate, fearless, and yet strangely accessible. This year’s incarnation of the legendary Snog is an all-female powerhouse trio delivering slyly subversive electronic pop. You have been warned.

Track Listing: The Plug-In Drug • Everything Is Under Control • Adolph’s Library • Bleak Is My Favourite Chic • Otto Rahn • The Corporate Homoerotic Cyclists • The New Cocksucker Blues • Soul Invictus • 21st Century Lullaby • Apocalypse Fatigue Key Markets: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh

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Ingenious synthesis of a classical composer and an electronic producer.

Both CD and LP come with heavy covers.

LP comes on heavy 180-gram vinyl and includes free download.

Print and banner ads with various outlets.

Facebook campaign with over 10,000 targets.

Email campaign with over 15,000 targets.

RIYL: Cinematic Orchestra, Portico Quartet, Moritz von Oswald Trio.

Two By Four is some kind of musical summation of the evolution of Piano Interrupted over the past three years, from an exclusively studio project centered around the manipulation of Tom’s piano by Franz’s computer, to a fully-fledged live band with the addition of Greg Hall on the cello and Eric Young on percussion. Some of the tracks on the album have appeared in various forms on previous releases, but the spirit of the band is one of exploration, mutation, recycling, and reinventing, and the album documents this journey and how the music has evolved though the years.

Track Listing: You Don’t Love Me Yet • Hobi • Étude • Hédi • Son Of Pi • Son Of Foug • London Waltz • Bulbus • 7 Ages Key Markets: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Seattle, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Austin

Piano Interrupted Two By Four

Genre: Avant Rock Label: Denovali Records CD: DNV 166 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 4/23/13 D

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Selling Points

• Switchblade have been nominated for the Swedish Grammy® for Best Metal Album of 2012!

• Re-release of a long sold-out, seminal early album.

• LP comes on heavy 180-gram vinyl and includes free download.

• Print and banner ads with various outlets.

• Facebook campaign with over 10,000 targets.

• Email campaign with over 15,000 targets.

• RIYL: Neurosis, Isis, Cult of Luna, Pelican, Godflesh, Swans.

Key Markets: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Seattle, Austin

Switchblade [2003]

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This celebrated and long sold-out 2003 release is finally available again on both CD and vinyl, and with modified artwork! A six-song, 47-minute journey, this album is the definition of epic: a dense sonic storm of ambient soundscapes, driving repetition, and dark instrumental passages that builds to an immeasurable wall of sound and power, all with spare use of vocals. Switchblade have been seething and writhing within Sweden’s prolific underground music community since 1998.

Ten years later, with three more albums plus a Swedish Grammy® nomination under their belt, Switchblade are still titans of minimalism, and [2003] marks an integral part of their discography.

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When it comes to raw, uncompromising punk music, U.K. Subs are the genuine article! This DVD features a barrage of in-your-face songs filmed live at the Camden Palace. Includes extensive sleeve notes and photo gallery. DVD Specs: NTSC, Region 0, 4:3 (Full Screen), Color, English (Stereo), Not Rated, Run Time: 55 min.

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Few musicians benefited from the MTV revolution as much as Billy Idol. This stunning live concert performance, recorded at the famous London Astoria, was captured during his No Religion Tour in 1993. DVD Specs: NTSC, Region 0, 4:3 (Full Screen), Color, English (Stereo), Not Rated, Run Time: 50 min.

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The undisputed queen of heavy metal storms through an amazing set of classic Warlock tracks! Includes extensive sleeve notes and never-before-seen photo gallery. DVD Specs: NTSC, Region 0, 4:3 (Full Screen), Color, English (Stereo), Not Rated, Run Time: 60 min.

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Emerging from the punk explosion of the late seventies, The Stranglers proved to be one of the most durable groups of that era. This concert includes the hit singles of one of the most successful British acts of all time. DVD Specs: NTSC, Region 0, 4:3 (Full Screen), Color, English (Stereo), Not Rated, Run Time: 90 min.

John Martyn Live from the Camden Palace DVD: SFM 151 Price Code: S AVAILABLE NOW D

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Accompanied by Foss Paterson, Jeff Allen, and Danny Cummings, this 60-minute concert highlights the remarkable skills of a man who left us too soon. DVD Specs: NTSC, Region 0, 4:3 (Full Screen), Color, English (Stereo), Not Rated, Run Time: 60 min.

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When London’s Marquee Club celebrated its 25th Anniversary in 1983, Wishbone Ash were invited to perform and the concert was captured as part of the amazing Live From London series. DVD Specs: NTSC, Region 0, 4:3 (Full Screen), Color, English (Stereo), Not Rated, Run Time: 55 min.

Haight Ashbury:

The Beat of a Generation

A wonderful slice of American history that changed the country forever!

In a brief four-year span in the late 1960s, in a quaint San Francisco neighborhood less than a mile square, a creative movement emerged that would ignite a musical genre. What would come to be coined “the San Francisco Sound” served as the soundtrack for a counter-culture revolution that would forever challenge the perception of the American ideal. This movement climaxed in a single California season known as the “Summer of Love,” in a neighborhood that provided a canvas for this artistic burst of imagination: Haight Ashbury.

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Documentary Ytinifni Pictures DVD: YTN 50025 Price Code: Z Number of Discs: 1 Amaray, Box Lot 30 NTSC, Region 1 16:9, Color English (Stereo) Not Rated Run Time: 58 min Director: Del Feltz Production Year: 2012 Street Date: Available Now ISBN: 978-1-61704-138-9

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THE GROWLERS SPIN ALBUM PREMIERE

“Unlike history’s biggest bands, these first-gen post-hardcore mavericks have reconvened for all the right reasons.”

“If there’s a band that marches to its own woozy, slippery beat, it’s the one fronted by Brooks Nielsen … you should ride with these boys wherever they wanna take you.”

Texas Is The Reason Do You Know Who You Are? The Complete Collection

The Growlers Hung At Heart

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DAVID VIRELLES NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 OF 2012

“As dynamic as they get, the foundations and sonorities they generate are of anchoring comfort, especially in music as complex as this. The sum effect is of surfing on an information overload without drowning in it.”

“Intuitive and original, it’s equally of the American experimental jazz tradition, Afro-Cuban religious culture, and modern non-jazz composition. It’s got nerve and soul and memory.”

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David Virelles Continuum

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“The band is fronted by the lead singer of New Jersey punk stalwarts The Bouncing Souls, but … gone is the rebellious attitude of punk — Imagination features songs about numbers, letters, and daydreaming.”

“That her work can be simultaneously dystopian and luminous speaks to Spiegel’s talents. She can evoke the chilling cosmos while also crafting something small-scale and warm.”

Play Date Imagination

Laurie Spiegel The Expanding Universe

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“This intrepid young guitarist has an arresting and stylish new album that reflects a contemporary roil of interests: streamlined post-bop, super-articulate jazz-rock, texturehaunted electronics, chilled-out chamber music.”

“Made their mark with their 2010 debut LP, a heartfelt collection of jagged pop gems. With Developer, however, the band is taking a much more measured, stripped-down approach and focusing on evoking a particular mood.”

Rafiq Bhatia Yes It Will

Social Studies Developer

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Mike Park Smile [CD + coloring book]

Pink Martini A Retrospective

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Nashville, TN – Schermerhorn Symphony Cntr.

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