July08 nail by Allegro Media Group

NEW RELEASES JULY 2008 STREET DATES 7-8-08 & 7-22-08 A DIVISION OF ALLEGRO MEDIA GROUP

INSIDE

Awake, My Soul • Arclight Records – New Label! • M. Ward The Coke Dares • Circle Jerks • Lou Barlow • Nadja Canadians • Bass Communion • Dredd Foole

BOSS MARTIANS

PRESSURE IN THE SODO

Press Quotes “Fucking fantastic!” — Maximum Rock ‘n’ Roll “Another power-pop masterpiece.” — Punk Planet “Singer and guitarist Evan Foster sounds uncannily like a sneering Elvis Costello in prime mode and the tunes bounce along like the exuberant power-pop nuggets they are, all Cheap Trick flash and Supersuckers rawness.” — Kerrang! (KKKK)

Selling Points

Boss Martians Pressure in the SODO Genre: Alt Rock Label: MuSick Records CD: MSR 30 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Evan Foster: vocals, guitar NickC: keys Scott Myrene: bass Tommy Caviezel: drums Iggy Pop: vocals

Track Listing • Power of Doubt • Mars Is For Martians (feat. Iggy Pop) • No One To No One • If You Only Knew • Don’t Wanna See You Again • Go On • And She’s Gone • Stiletto (Need Some Action) • Hey Hey Yeah Yeah • You’ve Taken Everything • Living, Dying • Crime • Elsie

Key Markets Hometown: Seattle Also: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Austin, New York, Atlanta, Nashville, Miami

• Featuring Iggy Pop on vocals. • “Hey Hey Yeah Yeah” featured on 6 E-Trade TV commercials running through 2009, one of which was recently announced as being one of the most popular ads of Super Bowl XLII! • Produced by Jack Endino (Nirvana, Mudhoney). • Recently returned from most successful European tour yet, where the band appeared live on Rockpalast and was voted Best Concert of a four-day concert series. • Full national press campaign by Lisa Vega Group. • Radio campaign; MySpace and Fuzz.com blitz. • Ads with Magnet, Big Takeover, CMJ, and MRR.

Overview Fronted by guitar-smashing, soul-shouting, anthem-writing buzzbomb Evan Foster, Seattle’s Boss Martians are the rock ‘n’ roll band to look for in 2008! These Northwest garage punkers are back with their first album in over five years, and all thirteen tracks on Pressure in the SODO are lessons in how to play rough yet ready unadulterated rock ‘n’ roll. Taking the album over the top is the Godfather of Garage Punk and the Rock Iguana himself: Iggy Pop! He wrote the Detroit-style hard rocker “Mars Is For Martians” especially for Boss Martians, and the tune features a titanic vocal duet between Iggy Pop and Evan Foster, with guitars so explosive they sound like a street fight between Ted Nugent and Wayne Kramer. Other highlights from Pressure in the SODO include the prog punk-infused “Don’t Wanna See You Again” (with the Jon Lordlike work of Martians’ keys man NickC), the Cheap Trick-inspired power ballad “And She’s Gone,” and the huge-sounding epic rocker “Elsie,” with its Thin Lizzy-meets-The Who guitar heroics.

“Rising stars.” — David Fricke, Rolling Stone ALSO AVAILABLE

Boss Martians

CD: MSR 19 Price Code: O

CD: MSR 21 Price Code: O

Making the Rounds

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Evan Foster Instrumentals

CD: MSR 22 Price Code: O NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

STREET DATE JULY 8, 2008

The Set-Up

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nail welcomes awake productions to its roster! Awake Productions is committed to producing fine documentary films and specialty CDs. Based in Atlanta, the label is especially focused on early American music and its intersections with modern music.

AWAKE, MY SOUL

THE STORY OF THE SACRED HARP Press Quotes “Awake, My Soul features some of the most raucous group vocals that have been recorded.” — Pitchfork “As an introduction to Sacred Harp, it’s as amazing as the music itself.” — Birmingham Weekly “A fascinating history of a raw, overwhelming, unconventional form of Southern hymn singing.” — The Oregonian

Selling Points • Playable in all regions. Approx run time: 5+hrs. • As featured in TIME Magazine. • Currently airing on public television; slated to air on over 150 stations. • Special edition includes original documentary Awake, My Soul as seen on American public television as well as interviews, deleted scenes, and commentary by stars and filmmakers—over 5 hours of bonus features in all. • Forthcoming soundtrack will include Sacred Harp songs performed by Sufjan Stevens, John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), Richard Buckner, and Jim Lauderdale. • Has been featured by Paste, NPR, and XM Satellite Radio as well as many other newspapers and magazines. • Publicist will pursue all forms of press (reviews, interviews, and more).

Overview The first feature documentary about Sacred Harp singing, a haunting form of a cappella shape note hymn singing with deep roots in the American south. Shape note singing has survived over 200 years tucked away from notice in the rural deep south, where in old country churches, singers break open “The Sacred Harp,” a 160-year-old shape note hymnal that has preserved these fiercely beautiful songs, some of the oldest in America. The film offers a glimpse into the lives of this Lost Tonal Tribe, whose history is a story of rebellion and tradition. Filmmakers Matt & Erica Hinton spent seven years documenting this yet largely unknown art form.

Awake, My Soul The Story of the Sacred Harp [Special Edition] Genre: Documentary Director: Matt & Erica Hinton Studio: Awake Productions 2XDVD: AWP 2 Price Code: 2N (SRP $25.99) Double Digipak Amaray; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Matt Hinton: producer, director, editor Erica Hinton: co-director Jim Lauderdale: narrator

aLSO Featuring

“Spectacular … Get enough people singing weird harmonies at the top of their voices and you start feeling a little sorry for the devil.” — Washington City Paper

Hugh McGraw, Raymond Hamrick, Richard Delong, Rodney Ivey, Warren Steel, Jim Carnes, Joyce Walton, Judy Caudle, Elene Stovall, Charlene Wallace, Terry Wootten, Ted Mercer, Jeff Sheppard

Key Markets Hometown: Atlanta Also: New York, Boston, Nashville, Knoxville, Chicago, Birmingham, Austin, Houston, Dallas, Tallahassee, Portland, Seattle, St. Louis, Athens, Washington DC, Baltimore, Kansas City, Charlotte, Denver, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto, Richmond, Memphis, Philadelphia, Chapel Hill, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Greenville, Charleston STREET DATE JULY 8, 2008

nail welcomes arclight records to its roster! Arclight Records is an independent record label based out of Austin that prides itself on the philosophy that its artists’ music is “made out of love, not out of a lust for fame or fortune.” Dedicated to releasing records by artists who would otherwise be unheard—from avant-garde heaviness to punk, metal, or altcountry—Arclight is not limited by genre or sound.

Press Quotes “Amplified Heat evokes the glorious, damaged tradition of Tex-induced mayhem of everyone from the 13th Floor Elevators to Scratch Acid.” — Harp

Selling Points • Regional buzz due to continuous touring throughout the Midwest and Southwest. • US tours scheduled for Summer 2008. • Copies to press, radio, and blogs via Arclight.

Overview

Amplified Heat How Do You Like the Sound of That Genre: Rock Label: Arclight Records CD: ACL 21 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

From their father’s passing in 2005 to the street altercation that led to Gian & Chris Ortiz being stabbed multiple times, Amplified Heat has endured quite a bit since their 2003 debut. Despite these setbacks, the band was able to persevere to release their best album to date. How Do You Like the Sound of That brings a more collaborative effort to the table. From Jim Ortiz’s in-your-face “Tough Guy” to Chris & Gian’s catchy title track, this album presents an array of bluesy rock ‘n’ roll nothing short of heavy swagger.

Track Listing Tough Guy • Rambler • Man on the Road • She Drank That Wine • What Went Wrong • S.A.P.O. • Moonshine • Through and Through • How Do You Like the Sound of That • Amplified Boogie • Sickness

Key Markets Hometown: Austin. Also: Dallas, Houston, Oklahoma, Little Rock, Chicago, New Orleans, Baton Rouge, New York, Cleveland, Wichita, Atlanta

Press Quotes “Four Austinites infuse their bar-band anthems with tangy rhythmic flourishes and slather on the psychedelia like it was barbecue sauce.” — SPIN

Selling Points • Featured reviews in SPIN, Big Takeover, Outburn, Lollipop, and more. • Austin Chronicle’s Band of the Month for April 2008. • Includes a cover of Swervedriver’s “Never Lose That Feeling.” • Mailing to press, radio, and blogs via Arclight. Ads with various magazines.

Overview Magnet School formed in April 2004 by bringing together four members who played, or continue to perform, with such bands as Experimental Aircraft, 10 Percenter, Coco Candissi, and Schatzi. With Magnet School’s debut, you’ll be recalling the days when independent labels were actually independent, “alternative” and “music” were mutually exclusive, and you were looking forward to acts like SHINER, Jawbox, or the Jesus Lizard coming to your town.

Track Listing XX • Seventensplit • Crush • Colettalicious • Never Lose That Feeling • Angeldust • Beneath My Station • The Ghost of Duane • Sweetheart in German • Curtain Call

Key Markets Hometown: Austin. Also: Houston, Dallas, Oklahoma, Norman, Lawrence, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Chicago

STREET DATE JULY 8, 2008

Magnet School Tonight We Drink…Tomorrow We Battle The Evil At Hand Genre: Alt Rock Label: Arclight Records CD: ACL 22 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Press Quotes “All roars and manes, Lions blends heavy riffs and explosive attitude for a head-twisting take on ye olde denim rock … a mix of explosive psychedelia and Texas-sized riffs, like a tab of LSD chased with Southern Comfort.” — The Onion

Selling Points • Limited to 250 copies. Tours planned throughout 2008. • In the past year, Lions have shared the stage with Toadies, Blue Cheer, Misfits, Burning Brides, and Local H. • “Metal Heavy Lady,” from Lions’ debut EP, was featured on Guitar Hero III. • Nominated for a High Times 2008 DOOBIE Award for Best New Artist. • Press and blogs being worked via Arclight. Ads with Decibel.

Overview Lions is an Austin-based band that formed in August 2005. Their music is influenced by ’60s and ’70s hard rock with ’90s-era fever. The band creates a blend of retro riffage, artful noise, melodic interludes, and revolutionary attitude with a live show that has been described as “furious” with “a full-frontal assault” that will leave you “half-deaf and disoriented.”

Lions No Generation Genre: Rock Label: Arclight Records LP: ACL 23 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 5 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Track Listing SIDE A: Start Movin • No Generation • Can You Hear Me • White Angel • Evil Eye SIDE B: Machine • All Hail • She Gets Around • Witch and the Star • Get Out Alive

Key Markets Hometown: Austin. Also: Denton, Dallas, Des Moines, Boston, St Louis, Columbus, Toledo, Chicago, Atlanta, Oklahoma City, Forth Worth, Philadelphia, New York, Kansas City, Wichita

Amplified Heat Amplified Heat EP

Amplified Heat In For Sin

Genre: Rock Label: Arclight Records CD: ACL 18 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

Genre: Rock Label: Arclight Records CD: ACL 7 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

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Re-release of self-titled debut. Re-mixed and re-mastered, featuring two previously unreleased songs. Blues-inspired hard rock. See how this trio of brothers got their start.

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Debut showcases the band’s loud, intense take on the blues. The kind of high-energy boogie rock that immediately brings Cactus’s finest moments to mind. For fans of early Hellacopters, ZZ Top, and Motörhead.

Tia Carrera Heaven/Hell EP

Tia Carrera You’re the War

Genre: Rock/Stoner Rock Label: Arclight Records CD: ACL 19 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) Digipak; Box Lot 45

Genre: Rock/Stoner Rock Label: Arclight Records 7”: ACL 20 Price Code: H (SRP $8.99) 7” Folder; Box Lot N/A

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Recorded in one live session on one reel of one-inch tape. A three-track release from the masters of blissed-out, swirling, driving psychedelia.

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Limited vinyl release of 250. 12-minute version of Lungfish’s “You’re the War.” First and only vocal recordings of this Austin trio. White vinyl with silk-screened cover.

STREET DATE JULY 8, 2008

Phonograph Phonograph

Freshkills Creeps and Lovers

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Arclight Records CD: ACL 17 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) Digipak; Box Lot 45

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Arclight Records CD: ACL 16 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

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Debut release. “Balancing synths and pedal steel with a twangy, roots-pop sensibility.” — NPR’s World Café. Will play at this year’s Bonnaroo Festival.

SuperHeavyGoatAss 60,000 Years Genre: Rock Label: Arclight Records CD: ACL 9 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

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While the Freshkills’ sound is often compared to Nation of Ulysses, Fugazi, At the Drive-In, and Drive Like Jehu, it is their raw power and drunken honesty that makes them a great band.

Southern Gun Culture/ SuperHeavyGoatAss Split CDEP Genre: Rock Label: Arclight Records CD: ACL 1 Price Code: N (SRP 12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

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“SuperHeavyGoatAss may sound funny, but their mix of Texas two-step, stoner-rock shimmy, monolithic metal, and whiskey-soaked wisdom ain’t nothing to mess with.” — Metal Maniacs

The Book of Knots The Book of Knots

Players Club Coextinction

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Arclight Records CD: ACL 5 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

Genre: Rock Label: Arclight Records CD: ACL 12 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30

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Debut! Formed by Matthias Bossi (Skeleton Key, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum); Joel Hamilton (Shiner, Sparklehorse, Elvis Costello); and Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu, Frank Black, They Might Be Giants).

These guys are bursting with original songs, amazing arrangements, and a unique sound that is unmistakable. Members of Unsane, Made Out of Babies, and The Book of Knots.

Speedloader Steady Hookin’

Genre: Metal Label: Arclight Records CD: ACL 13 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

Genre: Metal Label: Arclight Records CD: ACL 2 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

Cardinale focuses on writing dynamic songs with melodies and layered arrangements that not only knock listeners to the ground with heaviness, but carry them on an epic journey over varied aural landscapes.

STREET DATE JULY 8, 2008

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Cardinale 31:13

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SGC’s sound is innovative and retro, calling to mind early Black Sabbath or southern rock with Beatles vocal harmonies. If you like southern rock, punk, ’70s rock, or metal you won’t be disappointed by SHGA.

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Nasty, thick-necked muscle rock from Austin by way of Brooklyn, Steady Hookin’ is spot-on music if something is about to get smashed, fucked up, and/or broken. Fans of early AMREP bands take note.

Hognose El Sombrero Genre: Rock Label: Arclight Records CD: ACL 10 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

Various Artists Treatin’ ‘Em Right Since ‘69: A Tribute To Handsome Joel Svatek Genre: Rock Label: Arclight Records 2XCD: ACL 11 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Double Slimline; Box Lot 30

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Avoiding the sophomore slump, Hognose proves its debut wasn’t a fluke. Everything you dug about Longhandle is reinforced and stronger then ever. A strong combination of riffs and hooks, all drenched in Texas boogie.

In January 2003 Joel Svatek (stage manager for Emos and all-around great guy) was killed by a drunk driver. This tribute features songs from Mastodon, Honky, Magnet School, Tia Carrera, The Bulemics, Players Club, and more. Sales benefit the HJ Saferide Program in Austin.

Dresden 45 Paradise Lost [Expanded]

Hognose Longhandle

Genre: Punk/Hardcore Label: Arclight Records CD: ACL 3 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

Genre: Rock Label: Arclight Records CD: ACL 4 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 3025

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Re-release of 1989 LP with eight additional tracks and new artwork, all previously unavailable on CD. “This album blows Crossover (their genre-defining album) out of the water.” — Punk Planet

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Debut full-length proves this band is a force to be reckoned with. Hard-driven riff rock, heavy hooks with trippy vocals, and a rock-solid rhythm section. This is what would happen if Black Sabbath and the Butthole Surfers had a picnic.

RPG Fulltime/High Performance

The Out_Circuit Burn Your Scripts, Boys

Genre: Punk/Hardcore Label: Arclight Records CD+DVD: ACL 8 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Double Slimline; Box Lot 30

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Arclight Records LP: ACL 6 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 10

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Re-release of the band’s self-released debut includes a bonus DVD that was unavailable originally. High-energy rock ‘n’ roll in the vein of the Stooges, MC5, and AC/DC.

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Limited vinyl release (300 copies) of debut CD. Features former members of DC band Frodus. Combines the energy and punctuality of DC punk with an attention to mood and atmosphere à la The Smiths or Radiohead.

Dixie Witch Smoke & Mirrors

Speedloader/The Bulemics Shut Your Mouth/Fuck You

Genre: Rock Label: Arclight Records LP: ACL 14 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 5

Genre: Rock Label: Arclight Records 7”: ACL 701 Price Code: H (SRP $8.99) 7” Folder; Box Lot N/A

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Vinyl version of their third release. Smoke & Mirrors packs the punch of six long years on the road into just under an hour of the loudest, dirtiest rock ‘n’ roll the boys could muster.

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Loud, crass, unpretentious, and uncaring rock. The Bulemics cover Alice Cooper’s “Cold Ethyl” and give us “In the Name of Satan.” Speedloader covers Motörhead’s “I’ll Be Your Sister” and brings us “Born to Lose.”

STREET DATE JULY 8, 2008

M. WARD

TRANSFIGURATION OF VINCENT Press Quotes

“M. Ward’s Transfiguration of Vincent album is a house filled with ghosts, from the spirits of friends who have passed away to the departed legends of American roots music.” — PopMatters “This is a dark night of the soul record, a distant country cousin of Young’s Tonight’s The Night.” — The Wire “Another masterclass in deft guitar picking smudged with piano, harmonica, and a voice like honey drizzled onto a dry creekbed.” — Uncut

Selling Points

M. Ward Transfiguration of Vincent Genre: Alt Rock/Alt Folk Label: Jealous Butcher LP: JLO 70 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 60 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists M. Ward: voice, guitars, piano Mike Coykendall: bass, shakers, percussion Jill Coykendall: bass Esperanza Spalding: bass Howe Gelb: piano Adam Selzer: mandolin, drums Kate Simer: vocals

Track Listing • Transfiguration, No. 1 • Vincent O’Brien • Sad, Sad Song • Undertaker • Duet For Guitars, No. 3 • Outta My Head • Involuntary • Helicopter • Poor Boy, Minor Key • Fool Says • Get To the Table On Time • A Voice at the End of the Line • Dead Man • Let’s Dance • Transfiguration, No. 2

Key Markets Hometown: Portland Also: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, Omaha, New Orleans, Chicago, Detroit, New York, Boston, Austin, Tucson, Minneapolis

• First time available on vinyl! • 180 gram audiophile quality vinyl with expanded artwork by original album artist John King. • CD released by Merge Records in 2003 has sold over 100,000 copies. • Current member of She & Him with Zooey Deschanel. • Announcements through website/blog campaign. • Ads with prominent web publications.

Overview M. Ward’s third album places him in the forefront of a modern movement that is clearly progressive while simultaneously sounding regressive, manifesting a genius that is pure and untempered. His music defies description except to say it is coming from somewhere steeped in early blues with a Neil Young overlay and the feel of country, blues, pop, and folk. People point to Tom Waits and others as Ward’s forbearers, but the muse here is genuinely unique and the sounds are those that only a budding genius could make. The opening riff of “Fool Says” feels like it came from Abbey Road, but by the song’s end you have been dipped in Young and Dylan. M. Ward makes beautiful music—sounds like you have never encountered—and sings along with the melodies as if he can’t help himself. Who could if they had this much soul? It is all coming from a very deep place, and you owe it to yourself to hear these songs because they are the most soulful and melodic tunes you will have heard in quite some time. If you put this album on your turntable it will be a long time before you take it off. The more you listen, the deeper it gets—just like M. Ward himself. This is genius—pure genius—and you need to hear it.

“Some time in 2035, I’m going to pull this album out, and it’s going to sound just as good as it does now.There’s something running through it that broadcasts timelessness and defies genre constraints.” — Pitchfork [8.3] ALSO AVAILABLE

M. Ward

Duet For Guitars #2 LP: JLO 61 Price Code: O NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

STREET DATE JULY 8, 2008

Selling Points • Sophomore effort from this venerable Indiana three-piece. Recorded live, no mixing. • Features members of Magnolia Electric Co. and The Impossible Shapes as well as former members of John Wilkes Booze, Panoply, Scout Niblett, Jens Lekman, Ativin, and Turn Pale. • Full late summer tour covering most of the US. • AAM Sunday Service radio campaign. Outside PR company will be hired.

Overview The three men of The Coke Dares like to play music. A lot. They aren’t political, but they are egalitarian—so they all sing. They take turns, or they sing at the same time. The songs are short, but they’re full songs with lots of lyrics. These guys will sing about anything from signing contracts to chasing rats.

Track Listing The Coke Dares Theme One • Buyin’ Shit • Oh No Mailman! • Emergency Room Blues • RPB • Mask Maps • Blind Seventeen • Close the Fucking Window • Ronald McDonald • Rockin’ Dave • There’s a Meth Lab On My Street • Radiator Hose • Overcommitted and Underloved • Fuck You I Quit • The Coke Dares Theme Five • No Pictures • Bland Hands • Mobile (Keep Me Movin’) • Slo Mo Cats • American Boy • No Tomorrow’s Parties • I Wish I Could Get as High as Neil Young Does • Martinsville Blues • Tour Rot • Nazi Rock • Spring Fever • Satellite Space Stations • Everybody’s Got Some Time To Die (Unless You’re a Zombie) • My Car is a Multitrack Recording Studio • Come Hell or High Water the Proof’s in the Pudding • Sleeping With Somebody Else’s Girlfriend • Tryin’ to Drink to Get Some Sleep • The Coke Dares Theme Three

Key Markets

The Coke Dares Feelin’ Up Genre: Rock Label: Essay Records CD: SPA 24 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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The Coke Dares Here We Go With…. CD: SPA 14 Price Code: M

Hometown: Bloomington. Also: Chicago, Austin, Indianapolis, Atlanta NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Press Quotes “An altogether excellent post-generic slab of summer-oriented nonsense.” — Harp

Selling Points • Highly anticipated debut full length. • LP pressed on 145 gram virgin vinyl comes with a code for full album digital download. • Recorded at JC/DC studios with David Carswell (Bella, Tegan & Sara). • College radio service though Pirate Promotions. Full publicity service to print and online media. Digital media marketing by Toolshed. • Ads with Magnet, Big Takeover, and Under the Radar.

Vancougar Canadian Tuxedo Genre: Rock Label: Mint Records CD: MRI 114 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) E-pak; Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

LP: MRI 114 Price Code: Z (SRP $20.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

Overview Half indie pop, half garage rock, all girl! Ten catchy, riff-tastic, driving original tracks you’ll love to sing along with. Megan Johnson’s pulsing keyboards, Becca Stewart’s overdriven bass, and CC Rose’s urgent drumming explode from the speakers, making the listener wish she could hearken back to the burgeoning mid-’80s Venice Beach scene while Eden Fineday belts out literate, melodic lyrics that reflect upon the fragility of life, the struggle of relationships, and how to live each day to the fullest.

Track Listing Distance • Every Car • Let It Go • Lonely Life • (I Hope Your) Money (Keeps You Warm) • Philadelphia • Phone Calls • Unmanned • Vanity

Key Markets Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Boston, Austin, New York

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Press Quotes “Lake of Dracula manages to create a big noise that’s not soon forgotten.” — All Music Guide

Selling Points • New edition of this studio album has been augmented with four legendary tracks from the infamous SINRAFT bootleg 7” recorded live at Chicago’s Fireside Bowl! • Ads with Skyscraper, Signal To Noise, and more.

Overview

Lake of Dracula Lake of Dracula Genre: Alt Rock Label: Skin Graft CD: GRA 39 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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US Maple Long Hair In Three Stages

Relive No Wave’s summer of love! Lake of Dracula layers vicious, angular guitar and obtuse, howling vocals over propulsive, throbbing dance beats in an unprecedented mélange of excitement and alienation! Assembled from the lineups of The Flying Luttenbachers, Couch, Scissor Girls, and US Maple, Lake of Dracula raises the wooden stakes for all them so-called “super groups.” It’s clobberin’ time!

Track Listing Lake of Dracula • Plague of Frogs • Biographers of the Flaming Druglords • Cherries and Socks • Blues Fantastique • The Servo-Motor • Green-Glassed Moves • Violators • Dracula Killed Frankenstein • Coconut Wine • The Carpet (Old Ghost) • Henry Clay • The Arctic Cats • Memories of Me • Piss II • Lake of Dracula • Blues Fantastique (Live) • Plague of Frogs (Live) • Biographers of the Flaming Druglords (Live) • Henry Clay (Live)

Key Markets Hometown: Chicago. Also: New York, San Francisco, Boston, Seattle, St. Louis, Austin

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Press Quotes “If Christian Bale’s character from American Psycho had a band, this could be it.” — Kittenpants.org

Selling Points • Featured on Maximum Rock and Roll’s Best of Podcast. • Appeared live on XM Radio. • New media/press push will accompany the album release. • Touring in late Summer/early Fall 2008. • Several music videos will be released to music video shows and web outlets. • Service to NPR, XM/Sirius, MRR Podcast, and select college radio punk/alternative shows. • Band will conduct “Campaign 2008” interviews. • Music and viral videos released to YouTube and other outlets.

Overview Yuppie Pricks return from the golf course with Balls, ten tracks of wealthy punk rock. The Pricks put their spin on covers of the Big Boys “Frat Cars,” The Undertones’ “Male Model,” and The Chumps “Fuck You, I’m Rich.” Pricks manifesto “Collars Up” appears alongside live favorites “Donkey Show” and “Loser.”

Track Listing Collars Up • Greed Is Good • Donkey Show • Frat Cars • Fraternity Days • Fuck You, I’m Rich • Male Model • G.O.P. • Loser • PRICK4LIFE

Key Markets Hometown: Austin. Also: New York, Dallas, Houston, Washington, Atlanta, Nashville, San Francisco

STREET DATE JULY 8, 2008

Yuppie Pricks Balls Genre: Punk Label: Chicken Ranch Records CD: CHX 1024 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Press Quotes “A highly developed, uniquely skewed aesthetic.” — Urban Honking

Selling Points • Press campaign by IODA music team will focus on blogs and online press. • Ads with Pitchfork and more.

Overview The anomalous pop of Jordan Blum is an ecstatic revelation—an exalting, singular, upbeat half-hour of music where instruments weave in and out of falsetto vocals that act as golden anchors. This is the most complete work to date for Dykeritz, the latest in a line of fourteen albums he has created since the age of 13. Bordering on jubilant and teetering on bizarre, the album is an aurally sprawling experimental pop masterpiece with moments akin to the instrumentation of the Zombies, the vocals of the Bee Gees, and the arrangements of Animal Collective. The ultimate summer BBQ, swimming in the lake, camping out with your friends, dancing under the stars celebration of life that music can be, but rarely is.

Track Listing The Apple Is Blue • Don Juan’s Son • George Washington • Look At My Hands, Look At My Knees • Wild Went Grey • Too Many Chefs • Braceletless Wrist • 1922 • Big Drapes

Dykeritz Rearrangerologyistics Genre: Alt Rock Label: Lucky Madison CD: LMD 38 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Key Markets Hometown: Portland. Also: San Francisco, New York, Louisville, Chicago, Austin, Seattle, Los Angeles

Dykeritz

Purple Switzerland CD: LMD 31 Price Code: O NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Press Quotes “Don’t let their young looks fool you. Their music is maturing—and fast.” — Clarion Ledger

Selling Points • Recorded with producer and former Squirrel Nut Zipper Jimbo Mathus (Elvis Costello, The Hives) at his Delta Recording Services. • Top 20 finalist in 2007 Lollapalooza Last Band Standing contest. • Named Best Live Act and Best Original Rock Band in the Jackson Free Press Best of 2008 Awards. • Featured on the front page of Mississippi’s Clarion Ledger (circ. 97,421) in July 2007.

The Weeks Comeback Cadillac Genre: Alt Rock Label: Esperanza Plantation CD: ESZ 11 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview From the punchy staccato chords of the opening track to the arena-rock posturing of the epic closer, The Weeks’ debut displays the talents of a band playing on a level that eclipses peers who clock in at twice their collective age. Musically, the band taps into its Southern roots (and parents’ vinyl collection). Raised on a Deep-Southern-fried diet of the Marshall Tucker Band, Allman Brothers, and Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Weeks proudly showcase the musical heritage of their home state. Sonically akin to Southern neighbors Kings of Leon, The Weeks are ready to take the stage as a Southern juggernaut to be reckoned with.

Track Listing Comeback Cadillac • Teary-Eyed Woman • Altar Girl • Hold It, Kid (Your Heart Just Skipped a Beat) • Buttons • Mississippi Rain • Dog Days • The House That We Grew Up In • Wishin’ My Week Away • Sailor Song • The Ballad of Tonto Higgins

Key Markets Hometown: Jackson, MS. Also: Memphis, Nashville, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Birmingham, Austin, Pensacola STREET DATE JULY 8, 2008

Press Quotes “Group Sex … barrels through 14 songs in just under 16 minutes, and pretty much defined the state of the art in SoCal hardcore, circa 1980.” — All Music Guide

Selling Points • Collector’s edition features hot pink vinyl. • Limited pressing capped at 10,000 copies. • Ads with Big Takeover, Mean Streets, Wonka Vision, Modern Fix, and more. • Press releases to all relevant music websites.

Circle Jerks Group Sex [Colored Vinyl] Genre: Punk Label: Porterhouse Records LP: PRT 3003 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Overview A new format for a classic punk release! The Circle Jerks broke ground in 1980 with the release of Group Sex, and now Porterhouse Records releases the band’s first album on colored 12” vinyl. This collector’s edition in hot pink vinyl will be capped at 10,000 copies, ensuring that the release will hold collectible status for many years to come.

Key Markets Hometown: Los Angeles. Also: San Diego, San Francisco, Las Vegas, New York, Chicago, Austin, Dallas, Miami, Boston

Track Listing Deny Everything • I Just Want Some Skank • Beverly Hills • Operation • Back Against the Wall • Wasted • Behind the Door • World Up My Ass • Paid Vacation • Don’t Care • Live Fast Die Young • What’s Your Problem • Group Sex • Red Tape

CD: PRT 1003 Price Code: O NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Selling Points • Highly anticipated second album features great club tracks. • Entry in the German Alternative Charts. • Promo copies will be sent to DJs, radio stations, and print media. • MySpace campaign with 50,000 contacts. • Ads with Vampire Freaks.

Overview US-based “harsh electro” project Retractor, founded by Milton Sanchez, returns with its second full-length album. After a well-received debut album on Black Flames and the great club EP Edge Of Incision (Infacted Recordings) the band returns with a real masterpiece. Strong club tracks, great ballads, and deep lyrics show the variety of the band’s musical potential—a strong combination of bands such as Grendel, Life Cried, Supreme Court, and even Feindflug. Retractor is one of the hottest bands to grace the industrial scene in some time, unleashing the fury of their musical mandate with harsh, dark electro and EBM stylings. Their music represents many years of experience, with a culmination of influences ranging from agro-tech rage to military pop and old-school EBM. Get infected by the strong sound of Retractor!

Track Listing Bless the Enemy • All Children Go To Heaven • Victims of Flesh • We Are the New Blood • Resurrect My Glory • Annihilation • Sacred Law • Where You Belong • Fire In Me • In Another Life • Will of the Union • The False Memory • Children Go To Heaven [Electro Mix By Hermonic] • M.O.T.U [United Mix By Life Like]

Key Markets Hometown: Ft. Lauderdale. Also: New York, Los Angeles, Seattle

STREET DATE JULY 8, 2008

Retractor The False Memory Genre: Industrial Label: COP International CD: COP 110 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

nail welcomes spiralchords records to its roster! Spiralchords was born out of an idea to set a countersign to the stagnating, mediocre state of darker rock and metal music. Spiralchords is an international platform for talented and original artists found within the dark rock/metal genre—a reservoir for music that offers freshness, diversity, and intriguing consistency. Spiralchords comes to NAIL via COP International.

Press Quotes: “Plenty of relentless guitar riffs … a promising new talent.” — Side-Line magazine

Selling Points • New and exciting Cold Wave act à la KMFDM. • Named Newcomer of the Month by prestigious German magazine Zillo. • Promo copies will be sent to DJs, radio stations, and print media. • MySpace campaign with 50,000 contacts. • Ads with Vampire Freaks.

Overview Canada’s MDM serves up an aggressive yet melodic guitar-driven industrial rock album with political anti-war anthems such as “Das Ist Krieg (American Reich)” and “Demander & Thief” as well as the introspective, emotional titles “Collapse” and “Silence & Pressure.” The album hits hard and heavy from the get-go and maintains its high energy throughout. Modern Digital Militia blends mega-hard verse lines with huge melodic choruses and catchy hooks. An exceptionally thrilling aural attack for industrial rock lovers!

Track Listing Das Ist Krieg (American Reich) • Nothing • Demander & Thief • Collapse • Silence & Pressure • Theocracy • Bitter End • Smothered Hope • Freedom? • Silence & Pressure (Alex P Remix) • Collapse (Daniel X Remix)

MDM [Modern Digital Militia] Modern Digital Militia Genre: Industrial Label: Spiralchords Records CD: SPI 1 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Press Quotes “Imagine Type O Negative, Seigmen (Radiowaves era), Sisters of Mercy, Paradise Lost (One Second era) and God Lives Underwater having a date. Artifact’s music could eventually be their child.” — VIRUS! magazine

Selling Points • Named Newcomer of the Month by prestigious German magazine Zillo. • Invited to play the European WTG Festival. • Promo copies will be sent to DJs, radio stations, and print media. • MySpace campaign with 50,000 contacts. • Ads with Vampire Freaks.

Artifact The Only Salvation Genre: Industrial Label: Spiralchords Records CD: SPI 2 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview With The Only Salvation, Norway’s Artifact offers a multifaceted adventure that blends gothic, rock, metal, and industrial elements. Juicy riffs, crunchy synths, and huge choruses mix with varied atmospheres ranging from aggressive volcanoes (“Dead Eyes,” “New Messiah”) to emotional, thoughtful beauty (“Scapegoated & Demonized”). A highly tasty gateau for all those addicted to exciting guitar-vs-electronic switchbacks!

Track Listing The Only Salvation • New Messiah • Dead Eyes • Weeping for a Suicide • Senseless • Truth Forgotten (New Version) • One More Shot • Revolution • Scapegoated & Demonized • The Machine • Bled

Key Markets New York, Los Angeles, Seattle

STREET DATE JULY 8, 2008

Selling Points • Solo effort from Sebadoh/Folk Implosion/Dinsosaur Jr. member Lou Barlow. • Upon its original release, the album sold over 11,000 copies worldwide. • Original cover art by Lou Barlow. Includes a cover of Bryan Adams’ “Run To You.”

Overview

Lou Barlow and Friends Another Collection of Home Recordings Genre: Alt Rock Label: Mint Records CDEP: MRI 4 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) E-pak; Box Lot 30

Another Collection of Home Recordings is a mid-length CDEP solo release from lo-fi pioneer Lou Barlow, considered to be among the most prolific and groundbreaking indie musicians of all time. Culled from home tapes made over a period of four years. Fans of Barlow’s highly personal and introspective folkcore songwriting will not be disappointed.

Track Listing Run To You • Puffin’ • Queen of the Scene • Blonde in the Bleachers • What Would It Be Like • Feel Good • Symbiosis • Option • Alone To Decide • Cranky • Machinery • Synthstrument

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Selling Points • Features members of We be the Echo, Last of the Blacksmiths, Planets, and Impaled. • Recorded by Aaron Prellwitz (Mountain Goats) at Tiny Telephone, the studio of John Vanderslice (who appears on an upcoming release as an “irregular” member of The John Francis). • Mailing to magazines, online review sites, and blogs.

Overview As on his previous releases, John Francis’ remarkable baritone stands out across every track, guiding the listener through songs that soar away on bold flights of fancy. Second release from Rerum Novarum.

Track Listing Riding on the Plain, Gliding in a Dream • Dracula Music • Because All Is Sold • A Night at the Movies • The Postmodern Prometheus • Future Americana • Seduction Scene In Distinguished Grey • The Astronaut and the Balladeer • Or Space Cowboy • Riding on a Rainbow STREET DATE JULY 8, 2008

The John Francis Impostors Sunkfrancisco Frankenstance Genre: Alt Rock/Alt Folk Label: Rerum Novarum CD: RER 2 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Selling Points • Originally released by Alien8 Recordings in 2005. Re-mastered by James Plotkin. • Limited edition of 750 copies. 250 on gold vinyl, 500 on black. • Special artwork includes embossed outer sleeves with cutout and heavy full-color inner sleeves with pictures by Seldon Hunt. Special etching on side D.

Overview

Nadja Truth Becomes Death Genre: Experimental Label: Conspiracy Records LP: CNS 65 Price Code: 2S (SRP $37.99) Deluxe LP Jacket; Box Lot 30

The final release in a small series of three, including Touched and Radiance of Shadows. From a distant drone that escalates into a murky wall of sound to tranquil ghostly murmuring, Truth Becomes Death is a graceful yet ominous offering.

Track Listing Bug/Golem • Memory Leak • Breakpoint

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nail welcomes Ghost Records to its roster! Ghost Records is an independent record label based in Northern Italy that was founded in 2002, with a roster that includes Hot Gossip, Franklin Delano, Ronin, and The Mojomatics. Warner Chappell handles the publishing of all Ghost Records bands.

CANADIANS

Press Quotes

A SKY WITH NO STARS

“A Sky With No Stars marks the band’s debut effort, which is making enough waves in their native Italy to cross the big Atlantic wave for their first stateside appearance at SXSW ’08.” — SPIN.com “Canadians play sunny and well-recorded pop music that reminds me of West Coast music, that kind of music that goes from The Beach Boys to Weezer.” — Rolling Stone (Italy)

Selling Points • Performed at SXSW 2008. • Won the MTV Italy Award for Best New Artist in 2007. • Won Best New Artist at the Italian Independent Music Awards. • Spin.com Artist of the Day. • Canadians’ video for the single “Summer Teenage Girl” was one of 12 videos chosen by MTV Italy to be broadcast during MTV Music Week. Other videos chosen included Timbaland, Kaiser Chiefs, Babyshambles, and Jennifer Lopez. • New media, print, and radio campaign by Fanatic Promotion.

Overview Canadians was born in Verona, Italy in 2005. The band released its selfproduced debut EP The North Side of Summer in 2005, and immediately gained huge critical acclaim. Blogs and webzines were the first to realize how catchy and interesting Canadians’ tunes were, and soon print magazines followed suit with amazing reviews. Although the EP was selfreleased and never got official distribution, the band sold out and had to reprint it. Canadians was featured in NME as a Breaking Band and played at the 2007 International Pop Overthrow Festival in Liverpool. The band was also featured in the US TV show Project My World, raising their profile among thousands of American indie fans. Canadians’ debut album A Sky With No Stars showcases this band’s great ability to play catchy indie-pop anthems that are unforgettable and timeless.

“While it seems a little unorthodox for a bunch of Italians to call themselves Canadians, playing music that sounds right out of California, there’s not a whole lot to scoff at when they manage to pull off a debut that is so unyielding and well rounded.” — PopMatters

Canadians A Sky With No Stars Genre: Alt Rock Label: Ghost Records CD: GHS 24 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Duccio Simbeni: guitar, vocals Michele Nicoli: guitar Massimo Fiorio: bass Vittorio Pozzato: keyboards, vocals Christian Corso: drums

Track Listing • Find Out Your 60’s • Out of Order • Last Revenge of the Nerds • Venus • The North Side of Summer • Love Story on the Moon • Ode to the Season • Good News

Key Markets New York, Chicago, Austin, Los Angeles, Seattle

STREET DATE JULY 22, 2008

Press Quotes “The audio equivalent of an Edgar Allen Poe compendium, ranging from the darkly beautiful to stark bleakness.” — Dusted

Selling Points

Bass Communion Moltov and Haze Genre: Experimental Label: Important Records CD: IPT 193 Price Code: T (SRP $16.99) Deluxe CD Sleeve; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

• Packaged in a Japanese-style mini gatefold card sleeve designed by Carl Glover. • Bass Communion has collaborated with leading experimental musicians such as Muslimgauze, Robert Fripp, Fear Falls Burning (on the ongoing Continuum project), Jonathan Coleclough, Colin Potter, and more. • Steven Wilson is also the leader of British rock band Porcupine Tree, which has sold over one million records worldwide and was nominated for a Grammy for their last album, Fear of a Blank Planet. • Promotional mailing by Important Records.

Overview Bass Communion is a project dedicated to Steven Wilson’s recordings in the ambient, drone, and/or electronic veins. Most of the pieces are experiments in texture made from processing recordings of real instruments and field recordings. The atmosphere of the music tends towards the dark and melancholic, but is expressed with an almost Zen-like beauty. Recently, Wilson has started working with a guitar and laptop configuration, and the first material in this style is contained on this album. Bass Communion has released several CDs, LPs, and singles, many of them issued in handmade or limited editions (which sell out very quickly). The most recent release was the super-low end Pacific Codex, which contained just one 40-minute piece issued in a limited edition of 975 copies packaged in a deluxe box containing a CD, DVD-A, and a book.

Track Listing Molotov 1502 • Glacial 1602 • Corrosive 1702 • Haze 1402

Key Markets Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Portland, San Francisco

Press Quotes “A dense soup of thunderous roars, crackles, and landscapes that are rich with visual imagery. Speakers warble, objects in the room vibrate, earwax loosens, roommates come wandering in, but nothing can disturb the serenity.” — Brainwashed

Selling Points • Packaged in a deluxe screen-printed jacket. • Side project of Steven Wilson, best known for his lead role in the rock band Porcupine Tree and his work with the bands No-Man, Blackfield, and Incredible Expanding Mindfuck (IEM). • Bass Communion’s albums have often featured collaborations from other musicians, including Robert Fripp of King Crimson, saxophonist Theo Travis, Muslimgauze, and Vidna Obmana. • Ads with The Wire.

Overview Live In Mexico city was pressed in an edition of 500 copies and comes packaged in a deluxe screen-printed jacket. Recorded live at Laboratorio de Arte Alameda in February 2008, this is a collaboration with the live action/improv group PIG. Available on vinyl, it is the companion release to the Bass Communion album Moltov and Haze.

Track Listing 2.29 • 17.12 • 18.54

Key Markets Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Portland, San Francisco

STREET DATE JULY 22, 2008

Bass Communion/PIG Live In Mexico City Genre: Experimental Label: Important Records LP: IPT 194 Price Code: V (SRP $22.99) Deluxe LP Jacket; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Selling Points • Companion release to limited edition Astro LP Live at Muryoku Muzen Temple. • Packaged in oversized cardboard sleeve. • Hiroshi Hasegawa is a legendary figure in the Japanese underground as a member of C.C.C.C. and for his solo project Astro. • Ads with The Wire.

Overview The Echo from the Purple Dawn is a brand new full-length from C.C.C.C. member Hiroshi Hasegawa’s solo project Astro. Using a battery of oscillators, ring modulators, and field recordings, Hasegawa has created an engaging and versatile album that masterfully drifts between spaced-out analog dream drone and a more extreme form of harsher droning. As Astro, Hasegawa is able to combine some of the harsher influence of C.C.C.C. into the world of analog space music to create his signature sounds. Includes a live track recorded at a festival at the Tokyo Keizai University organized by Tetsuo Kogawa. Cover art designed by John Brien, Jr.

Track Listing

Astro/Hiroshi Hasegawa The Echo from the Purple Dawn Genre: Experimental Label: Important Records CD: IPT 197 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Deluxe Cardboard Sleeve; Box Lot 30

Live at Art’s Birthday 2008 • Cobalt Insect/Artificial Lake • Violet Pulse NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Key Markets Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Portland, San Francisco

Selling Points • Limited edition vinyl only release. 500 copies; first 100 on colored vinyl. • Packaged in offset printed LP jacket. • Companion release to Astro CD The Echo at the Purple Dawn. • A legendary figure in the Japanese underground, Hiroshi Hasegawa was a founding member of C.C.C.C. • Ads with The Wire.

Overview

Astro/Hiroshi Hasegawa Live at Muryoku Muzen Temple Genre: Experimental Label: Important Records LP: IPT 198 Price Code: V (SRP $22.99) Deluxe LP Jacket; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Live at Muryoku Muzen Temple is limited to 500 copies, with the first 100 on colored vinyl. This vinyl-only release was created using ring modulator and vocals, which are rare these days in Astro recordings. Astro, of course, is the analog/space project of Hiroshi Hasegawa of the legendary Japanese group C.C.C.C. Born in 1963, Hasegawa began his improvisation with his voice and drums. In 1990, he created C.C.C.C. around the concept of improvised mass-noise with a very loud sound. Members included Mayuko Hino, Ryuichi Nagakubo, and Fumio Kosakai. Though C.C.C.C. is no more, Hasegawa has continued with Astro and his numerous collaborations, drifting between dreamy spacedout bliss and full-on waterfalls of beautiful noise. Cover art designed by John Brien, Jr.

Track Listing Part 1 • Part 2

Key Markets Los Angeles, New York, Boston

STREET DATE JULY 22, 2008

nail welcomes mft records to its roster! MFT Records is dedicated to presenting and preserving the best in Indiana-based music from the past and present with an emphasis on punk, rock, indie, and experimental. Founded by the online MP3 archive MusicalFamilyTree.com, MFT Records hopes to expose the wide variety of quality music being produced by Indiana musicians to a national audience—and beyond!

Press Quotes “Action Strasse [is] an unapologetically electric guitar orgy … the guitar-god blood that runs through this band keeps the volume loud and the body rocking.” — Nuvo

Selling Points • Members of The Lemonheads, Ice Nine, United States Three, Zero Boys, The Pieces, Burn It Down, Antenna, and Velo Deluxe. • Midwest tour in July 2008. • Full press and radio campaign by Soapbox Promotion, with service to top print and online zines plus top college radio stations.

Overview

Action Strasse American Gas Jive Genre: Alt Rock Label: MFT Records CD: MFT 105 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 LP: MFT 105 Price Code: V (SRP $22.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 25 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Vess Ruhtenberg: guitar, vocals John Zeps: guitar, vocals Tony Reitz: vass, vocals Tommy Roosa: drums

Track Listing • Shame • Impatient Love • Calling Bejing • Childlike • Developing Fear • Kids in a Hurry • American Gas Jive • People You Live With • Undone Button

Key Markets Hometown: Indianapolis Also: New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington DC, San Francisco, Portland

STREET DATE JULY 22, 2008

Action Strasse is an Indianapolis-based rock outfit featuring local legends Vess Ruhtenberg and John Zeps on dueling lead guitars. Ruhtenberg also doubles as the lead singer and main songwriter. Action Strasse is true rock ‘n’ roll with a splash of punk and metal; not the copycat crap you hear on the radio, but the kind of music your weird uncle would play when he came to visit. Heavy riffs, great songwriting, and stellar playing all around. The only thing Action Strasse could have done to improve their debut was to release it on cassette. Action Strasse, a quintessential Midwestern rock ‘n’ roll band, came about in an odd way. Former members of Majhas (John Zeps, Tony Reitz, Tommy Roosa), finding themselves without a singer, called on Vess Ruhtenberg, who was between projects. Ruhtenberg, who was in architectural design school and pressed for time, wrote a song an hour before each rehearsal and before long (10 rehearsals!) the group had an explosive batch of songs. Recorded and mixed in five days, American Gas Jive is a tribute to the golden age of the rock album. Songs about girls, petrol, and how religion and war are destroying humanity all fit annoyingly well together in these troubling times. All the members of Strasse have participated in other notable projects, some of which eclipse this band’s humble standing, but that is likely to change as soon as this inspiring set of songs is heard.

Press Quotes “A channeling of more than four decades of American musical evolution and revolution.” — Dusted

Selling Points • Fourth album and first 2XCD features Matt Valentine & Erika Elder (Bummer Road). • Packaged in a deluxe gatefold cardboard sleeve. • Originally issued in an edition of 200 CD-Rs. • The Wire singled Dredd Foole out as the root of the New Weird America folk scene. • Dredd Foole has collaborated with J Mascis, Cul de Sac, Pelt, Mission of Burma, and Thurston Moore. • Full mailing to magazines, blogs, and college/non-commercial radio by Family Vineyard.

Overview For over 30 years troubadour Dan Ireton has called upon the spirit of psychedelic Stooges ‘n Velvets ‘n ’78 shellac blues to fuel his guttural, pure soul ethos of the song. Produced in multi-dimensional spectrasound by Matt “MV” Valentine (Bummer Road, Tower Recordings), Kissing the Contemporary Bliss kicks up outward approaches to Gus Cannon’s “Walk Right In” and Robert Johnson’s “Stones In My Passway” while offering originals colored by Erika Elder’s jug blowin’ and Coot Moon’s ecstatic, reverbdosed banjo.

Dredd Foole Kissing the Contemporary Bliss Genre: Alt Rock Label: Family Vineyard 2XCD: FVR 56 Price Code: 2G (SRP $17.99) Deluxe Cardboard Sleeve; Box Lot 35 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Track Listing DISC ONE: Dog Star Waltz • Above Ground Friend • I Wuz Born • Lay Lady Lay (Be) • Walk Right In • Lips • Once I Was Not • Raga Moderne #1 DISC TWO: Light at the Ditch of a Spoonful • Jungle Nigh High • The Jug Is Glowin’ • Boom Boom (For Willie Alexander) • Girl from the North Country • Stones In My Passway • Aquarian Wind • Raga Moderne #2

Press Quotes “I feel this album is a little gem … Beach Boys meet Mothers of Invention.” — Bill Fay

Selling Points • John Terrill has been championed by famed cult songwriter Bill Fay. • Terrill was featured on the David Tibet-curated compilation Not Alone alongside Antony, Vashti Bunyan, Shirley Collins, and others. • For fans of Mojo magazine or Julian Cope’s rediscovered lost albums. • Full mailing to magazines, blogs, and college/non-commercial radio by Family Vineyard.

John Terrill Frowny Frown Genre: Alt Rock Label: Family Vineyard CD: FVR 60 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview Between 1988 and 1998, John Terrill (co-founder of the late ’70s new/no wave Dancing Cigarettes) recorded this album and made a few copies for close friends and for mailing to musical heroes. In another era, it could have stood next to Richard Thompson, Scott Walker, or Lee Hazlewood. It’s an out-of-time classic that mixes honey-baked orchestration, acoustic soul, and pop psychedelia into cracked and spellbinding songs. Now reissued for all, remastered with a bonus track from 1984.

Track Listing Crooked Smile • The Worst (That Comes Out of Me) • Forgive & Forget • Angeline • Faces of My Past • Blind • I-65 • Melancholy Mary • Keep It Here • Squeaky Wheel • Ain’t No Folk Singer • Heart In Mind • Floyd • Church Bus Blues • Rotten Old Shack • Stoney Mansion • I’ll Follow In Time • Locked In Your Heart • Lazy Day • I Fell [Bonus Track]

Key Markets Hometown: Bloomington. Also: Indianapolis, New York, Brooklyn, Providence, Chicago, Northampton, Austin, Portland, San Francisco

STREET DATE JULY 22, 2008

Selling Points • Dropsonic’s fifth full-length album. • RIYL: Led Zeppelin, Jesus Lizard, Queens of the Stone Age. • Relentless touring in 2008. • Radio and press service by Good Cop PR. • Ads with CMJ, Magnet, and DIW.

Overview

Dropsonic The Low Life Genre: Rock Label: Ascetic Records CD: ASC 22 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

“Someone’s got to die tonight,” declares Dan Dixon during the rambling shock of “Slit.” His stinging conclusion pulls no punches: “I hope to God it’s you.” Call The Low Life selftherapy via catharsis. Or exorcism. With loose-limbed and aggressive soloing on “God Lies” and wicked slide guitar work on “Paralyzed,” comparisons to Jimmy Page are fair, though Dan Dixon’s forward-thinking creativity also mirrors modern guitar heroes like The Jesus Lizard’s Duane Denison. Listen closely to The Low Life, and you might also catch snatches of Van Halen or cult heroes Shiner. Dixon, however, is nobody’s copycat. Simply consider that players capable of fully tapping the raw potential of a snarling Gibson Les Paul are few and far between. In addition to the jaw-dropping power and whiplashinducing time changes Dropsonic’s cult has come to expect, The Low Life contains some new tricks. “Brain Surgery” and “Going Down” highlight an elevated sense of pop melodicism that might more closely evoke Live at Budokan than Physical Graffiti.

Track Listing Intro • God Lies • Brain Surgery • No Good • Low Life • Intro • Paralyzed • Going Down • Ran

Key Markets Hometown: Atlanta. Also: St. Louis, New York, Kansas City, Tampa, Chicago, Madison, Dallas, Houston, Austin, New Orleans, Boston, Washington DC, San Francisco, Wichita, Charlotte, Baltimore, Philadelphia

Press Quotes “Have been fairly compared to fellow corn-belters Guided By Voices, yet the core songwriting duo of Jorma Whittaker and Dave Jablonski err more toward Syd Barrett than The Who.” — Pitchfork

Selling Points • The first-ever vinyl release of this classic, widely regarded as one of Secretly Canadian’s best releases. • Free digital download included. • Press, radio, and e-media by Soapbox Promotions and Secretly Canadian. • Ads with Skyscraper, Arthur, Verbicide, Nuvo, and many more.

Overview Originally released on CD by Secretly Canadian in 2001, this is the first vinyl release of this eerily addictive, majestically epic album. A near-legendary recording, Record In Red is Marmoset’s finest moment. The music sounds like it comes from that short, golden moment in the ’70s that never really existed, but is recalled and recorded in Wes Anderson films. It is sharply evocative of a hazy, brutal kind of nostalgia and longing.

Track Listing Eyes Are Looking • Golden Cloak • Winter • Torn Cup Fly Up Above • Art-Maker • The City • Lost Days For Ways • Frendamine • Summertime Is Easy • December 4th • The Tuesday Horn • Sound Again • Walking Thru the Lake

Key Markets Hometown: Indianapolis. Also: New York, Chicago, Bloomington, Los Angeles, Boston, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle

Marmoset Record In Red Genre: Alt Rock Label: Joyful Noise Records LP: JNR 24 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Marmoset Florist Fired

LP: JNR 17 Price Code: N NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

STREET DATE JULY 22, 2008

Get nailed... on the road Amplified Heat How Do You Like the Sound of That

Dawn of Ashes The Crypt Injection

Dengue Fever Venus On Earth

CD: ACL 21 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) UPC: 733792746329

CD: COP 106 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) UPC: 703513010626

CD: M80 101 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) UPC: 723721330354

5/31/08 Austin, TX – Emos 7/11/08 Austin, TX – Club Deville 7/12/08 San Angelo, TX – The Deadhorse 7/14/08 Wichita, KS – Barleycorns 7/16/08 Chicago, IL – Reggies 7/18/08 Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom 7/19/08 New York, NY – The Rehab 7/23/08 Atlanta, GA – Star Bar

6/7/08 Allentown, PA – Sterling Hotel 6/12/08 New York, NY – Deconstructed 6/14/08 Albany, NY – Jack Rabbit Slims 6/20/08 Orlando, FL – AKA Lounge 6/21/08 West Palm Beach, FL – Respectable Street

The Builders and The Butchers The Builders and The Butchers

5/29/08 Portland, OR – Ash Street Saloon 6/14/08 Seattle, WA – Skylark Cafe 6/26/08 Portland, OR – Ash Street Saloon 7/2/08 Eugene, OR – Lucky’s Cigar Club 7/3/08 Eureka, CA – The Boiler Room 7/5/08 Oakland, CA – The Stork Club 7/10/08 Las Vegas, NV – The Freakin’ Frog

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