June08 nail by Allegro Media Group

NEW RELEASES JUNE 2008 STREET DATES 6-10-08 & 6-24-08 A DIVISION OF ALLEGRO MEDIA GROUP

INSIDE Bladen County Records – New Label! • The Builders and the Butchers • My Education • The Awkward Stage The Holy Modal Rounders • The Quadrajets • Nadja • G.G. Elvis • Podington Bear • Bill Dixon

nail welcomes bladen county records to its roster! Compelling music from underground acts with a focus on Portland, Oregon buzz bands; unearthing timeless music and artists from whence the indie rock was forged.

THE BUILDERS AND THE BUTCHERS THE BUILDERS AND THE BUTCHERS Press Quotes “The Builders and the Butchers initially turned heads with their immersive performance style—employing singing in the round sans mic, recruiting the crowd as back-up vocalists, traipsing off into the street in the middle of the closing song. But shorn of the theatrics, the band’s music easily holds its own. The record traces the course of a traditional Butchers set, from stripped-down crowd-grabbing opener ‘The Night, Pt. 1’ to lovely sing-along gospel closer ‘Find Me in the Air.’ In under a year, the band’s gone from Mississippi Pizza party band to Crystal Ballroom opener, and this album shows why.” — Willamette Week (Best Local Albums of 2007) “A brand of dark folk with intense vocals and an instrumental setup that is all over the map—strings, banjo, washboard, tambourines, mandolin, etc. are in the mix, along with the traditional guitar and drums.” — Cable and Tweed

The Builders and the Butchers The Builders and The Butchers Genre: Alt Rock/Americana Label: Bladen County Records CD: BCO 4 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Arigato Pak; Box Lot 20 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Ryan Sollee: guitar, vocals Ray Rude: drums Paul Seeley: drums, trumpet Alex Ellis: bass Harvey Tumbleson: banjo, mandolin

Track Listing • The Night, Pt 1 • Red Hands • Spanish Death • Black Dresses • Bottom of the Lake • The Gallows • Bringing Home the Rain • The Coal Mine Fall • Slowed Down Trip to Hell • The Night, Pt 2 • Ten Miles Wide • Find Me in the Air

Key Markets Hometown: Portland Also: Seattle, Los Angeles, Austin, Chicago, San Francisco

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“Their music harkens back to a time of great wide open western coastal state expansion. There’s more of a gospel/Tom Waits feel to it all, though, and under the dark folk stories, there’s lots of banjo, washboard, and fiddle. It blends to create gothic Americana-folk-rock with a little more ‘umph!’ than your average Decemberists song.” — My Old Kentucky

Selling Points • Arigato pak with original art by Lukas Ketner. • Recorded by Mike Anzalone. • Guest spots by Annalisa Tornfelt of Bearfoot and Adrienne Hatkin of Autopilot. • Recent tour with Sub Pop recording artist Helio Sequence. • Next album to be produced by Chris Funk of The Decemberists. • Publicity by Romo PR. Booking by BigShotTouring. Strategic spots at NoisePop and SXSW.

Overview Alaskan native and fish biologist Ryan Sollee started the Builders as a funeral songwriting project. The resulting album is a Tom Waits-ian, gospel-infused, call-and-response rave-up of despair. Legendary live shows have solidified the group as the best new up & coming band in Portland.

“Liberally grabbing from bluegrass, country, and punk—armed with just about any instrument they came across—this band has accidentally stumbled upon something incredible: a very distinctive and interactive way to create and present music.” — Portland Mercury

The Builders and the Butchers/Loch Lomond Split

Anders Parker 14th & Division: Live In Portland, OR

Genre: Alt Rock/Americana LP: BCO 7 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 25

Genre: Alt Rock/Americana CD: BCO 6 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

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The Builders and the Butchers are Portland’s next big thing, sounding like The Decemberists took Tom Waits’ advice about how to cover up a double murder. Loch Lomond started as a solo recording project of Ritchie Young in 2003. In the later half of 2006, they solidified into a nine-piece band, and have stayed busy rehearsing, writing, and touring.

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Live at the Bladen County Records house, Parker powers through a set of folk-pop and noise collage. The kind of set where you actually see people crying in the crowd. Recorded August 2 & 24, 2005. In his own words: “This is a bootleg recording that the fine folks at BCR had spruced up. Guy Burwell created the cool cover.”

Dakota Slim Hitherto the Aminals

Marco Pistorello Marco Pistorello

Genre: Alt Rock/Alt Folk CD: BCO 5 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

Genre: Alt Rock/Pop CD: BCO 3 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

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Twenty-one-year old Travis Keats Ross delivers another Beck-inspired collection of bedroom-recorded masterpieces. Dakota Slim’s third full-length, Hitherto the Aminals, is a sympathetic commentary about ignorance and neglect towards our woodland friends. A young San Francisco-based songwriter, Ross uses animals as a starting point for his meditation on human morality.

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Django Reinhardt meets Elliot Smith on this Italian dose of acoustic Euro-pop. Twenty-seven-year-old Marco Pistorello grew up in Venice, lived in Paris, and has since developed an on-and-off relationship with California, specifically San Francisco and Los Angeles. For now he lives in London, where he is currently working on his next album.

Kurt Hagardorn Ten Singles

Montauk Ghost Montauk Ghost

Genre: Alt Rock/Alt Country CD: BCO 2 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Digipak; Box Lot 25

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Longtime NC power-pop Gumption frontman goes solo on this Big Star-tinged, Kinksian collection of singles. When he was growing up, his mom vacuumed to Neil Young & Crazy Horse, then dusted to Lou Reed. His pop songs draw their inspiration from those perfect records from the ’60s and ’70s, listened to over and over again in New Orleans.

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Garage band pop from Matt Brown of Ashley Stove and The Comas. He moved out west to go solo with My Code Name Is Blue, released one record under that moniker on Pidgeon English, and then moved to Portland, where he went on to form both Montauk Ghost and Bladen County Records.

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MY EDUCATION BAD VIBRATIONS

Press Quotes “The conversation between drums, piano, and viola [takes] on an immediate cinematic quality, as if excerpted from an Italian film score.” — Austin Chronicle

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My Education Bad Vibrations Genre: Alt Rock/Instrumental Label: Strange Attractors Audio House CD: SAA 55 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30

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Featured Artists Brian Purington: guitar, organ Chris Hackstie: guitar, pedal steel James Alexander: viola, percussion Kirk Laktas: piano, organs, accordion Christopher Stelly: drums Scott Telles: bass Sarah Norris: vibraphone

Track Listing • This Old House • Arch • Britches Blanket • Mother May I • Aria • Sluts and Maniacs • Bad Vibrations

Key Markets Hometown: Austin Also: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Berkeley, Portland, Seattle

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• Recorded at Bubble Studios by engineer Chris “Frenchie” Smith, who has worked with Built to Spill, Meat Puppets, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, and more. • North American tour this summer in support of the new album. • RIYL: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mono, Mogwai, Explosions in the Sky. • Featured in Rolling Stone as Senior Editor David Fricke’s “surprise find” at SXSW 2006. • Comprehensive new media, print, and radio campaign coordinated by Fanatic Promotion. • Ads with Arthur, The Wire, and Signal to Noise.

Overview Described as “advanced ecstasy” by David Fricke in the pages of Rolling Stone, Austin instrumentalists My Education create sweeping, cinematic music evocative of the high-lonesome expanse of the Texas Hill Country landscape they call home. Formed in 1999 by members of Stars of the Lid, ST37, and Cinders, the band has since played over 300 shows all over the United States alongside like-minded artists Pelican, The Black Angels, Six Organs of Admittance, A Place to Bury Strangers, ISIS, and many others. The band has three full-length albums, several compilation appearances, and multiple singles to their credit, including a must-have 12” vinyl collaboration with avant hip-hop act Dälek released last year. Additionally, My Education have received the remix treatment by Kinski, Pelican, Red Sparowes, and the aforementioned Dälek, and even composed an original score to the F.W. Murnau 1927 silent film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, which premiered at the famed Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in March 2007. In short, the band has gotten around. Behind this slow-burning momentum, the band delivers their beautiful fourth full-length Bad Vibrations. Here, My Education’s sonic flights are sharply honed into highly melodic mini-epics. Layers of guitar swell and sway over propulsive rhythms while viola spins yearning melodies ever skyward, sprinkled with delicate color by vibraphone and keyboards. Bookended by ambient passages pillowing heavy-lidded acoustic strumming, languid strings, and lap-steel, Bad Vibrations is the finest summation of My Education’s highly textured and emotive music yet.

“This Austin sextet expands on the arc-riff grandeur of local travelers Explosions in the Sky with John Calelike viola and simple, rising melodies that take you up and out. My surprise find at SXSW this year. My Education are advanced ecstasy.” — David Fricke, Rolling Stone

Press Quotes “With smart lyrics, thoughtful arrangements, lots of hooks, and an early autumn mood, Heaven Is For Easy Girls is a sure winner for lovers of indie pop everywhere.” — Pop Matters

Selling Points • Band has received exposure through US touring with the New Pornographers. • Features Shane Nelken (A.C. Newman, Ronnie Hayward). • Full US college radio service. Full US media mailing. Digital promotions by Toolshed Media.

Overview What began as a recording project for songwriter Shane Nelken (pianist/guitarist for New Pornographer A.C. Newman) has morphed into one of Canada’s most promising super-bands featuring former members of The Beans, Bossanova, and Sparrow, among others. The Awkward Stage toured North America in support of their debut, 2006’s acclaimed Heaven Is For Easy Girls. Garnering heaps of praise along the way, they opened for the New Pornographers as well as ’60s legends The Zombies. Several appearances at CMJ were followed by a show at SXSW, where the Austin Chronicle selected the band as a “Must-See Act.” With the addition of more reflective elements, this disc improves on the infectious pop of Heaven. No sophomore slump here.

Track Listing Girlsville • Heart Serves Only You • Anime Eyes • Prettier • Skeletal Blonde • Hey Modern Schoolgirl • Only Good Days Caught On Camera • Than • True Love On Three With Feeling • We Dreamt of Houses • I Hurt The Ones That Love Me • Them • Youth • Miniskirt of Christmas Lights • Dandelion

The Awkward Stage Slimming Mirrors, Flattering Lights Genre: Alt Rock Label: Mint Records CD: MRI 118 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Digi E-pak; Box Lot 30

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Key Markets Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Austin, Denver

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Press Quotes “Pages of brutal, pulverizing desert metal torn from the klassic Kyuss playbook, rolled up into fatties of fuzzbox doom, and blown sky-high.” — Salt Lake City Weekly

Selling Points • US tour in Fall 2008. Strong buzz after recent performances at SXSW and SHOD. • Has shared stages with Brant Bjork, Eternal Elysium, The Glasspack, Witch Mountain, and more. • Recorded by Andy Patterson (Inside Out, State of the Nation, and Sunn)))Burn, a yet-to-be released Iceburn/SunnO))) collaboration. • Copies to college radio, e-media, press, and retail via Small Stone HQ.

Iota Tales Genre: Rock Label: Small Stone Records CD: SSO 81 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

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Overview Formed in 2002 as your typical band of drunks making noise on the weekends, Iota has evolved into a unique blend of melody and psychedelic bliss. Many shows, demos, and lineup changes later, the band is still shaking walls with a spaced-out brand of rock steeped in blues, coated with vintage psych guitar rock, and rolled in metal for extra flavor. Ranging from high-speed madness to lumbering space jams, Iota’s live shows never disappoint. The band’s first EP was included in SLC Weekly’s Top 50 of 2004, and their second was included in the Top 75 of 2006.

Track Listing New Mantis • We are the Yithians • The Sleeping Heathen • Dimensional Orbiter • Opiate Blues

Key Markets Hometown: Salt Lake City. Also: Phoenix, Albuquerque, Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Louisville, Minneapolis, Seattle

STREET DATE JUNE 10, 2008

Selling Points • Over 9 hours of viewing pleasure including a short film by Jason Farrell (Swiz, Retisonic, Bluetip), a full live set by The Body, bonus videos, a poster gallery, two commentary tracks, and a 12-page color booklet. • Mailing to reviewers. Currently planning screenings in the US. • Ads with Big Takeover, Modern Fix, CMJ, and Pitchfork.

Overview This DVD documents what Corleone Records has been doing the last ten years, featuring a video—live, animated, or MTV-style—by nearly every band the label has worked with.

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Various Artists Everything I Own Is Broken Or Bent Genre: Alt Rock Label: Corleone Records DVD: DON 731 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Amaray; Box Lot 30

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Featured Artists WORK/DEATH Jacob Berendes Get Killed Mindflayer Uke of Spaces Corners Fang Island V.Majestic Mahi Mahi Colin Langenus Night Wounds Landed Lorna Doom Tiny Hawks Black Pus Fred Thomas Lazy Magnet Snake Apartment Bonedust The Body Pines of Rome Jason Farrell Alec K. Redfearn & The Eyesores Barnacled

Key Markets Providence, Boston, New York, Gainesville, Arkansas, Portland, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Ann Arbor, Portland ME, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Los Angeles 6

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• WORK/DEATH: Another New Refutation of Time • Jacob Berendes: Ad For Twin Elephants Brand Canned Bananas • Get Killed: Troglodytes In A Minor • Mindflayer: Live at Fort Thunder • Uke of Spaces Corners: Cold Rolled Door Well • Fang Island: Chompers • V.Majestic: Sampler • Mahi Mahi: Goodbye, Boy • Colin Langenus: He’s Hung • Night Wounds: Less Dead • Landed: Live Midwest USA 1998 • Lorna Doom: Doom is in the Room • Tiny Hawks: Tornado Children • Black Pus: Live In New York • Fred Thomas: Wingspan • Lazy Magnet: Werewolf of Olneyville • Snake Apartment: Paint the Walls • Bonedust: Live at Art Damage, Cinn 2006 • The Body: Anti-Life • The Pines of Rome: The Early Death of Athletes • Lazy Magnet: Munk & Monster

Bonus Features • Jason Farrell: North Route One • Mahi Mahi: To the Left (Live) • The Body: Full Live Set at AS220 • Tom Tom Show: trailer for a public access show featuring local drummers • Lazy Magnet: Rabbit Magicians Creation Fable • Alec K. Redfearn & The Eyesores: Live at AS220 • Barnacled: Revenge of Barnacled (a clip from their public access show) • Poster Gallery (29 silk-screened posters) • Commentary by Aj Barillaro, Brambo Amorin, Lee Buford • Commentary by Mike Taylor, Jacob Berendes, Mike Leslie

Press quotes “If I may be so bold, records like [this] are the reason I play music for strangers on the radio, and write about it for strangers on the internet. It’s an utter mindfuck that doesn’t defer to any ‘scene,’ any genre, or even any ‘rules’ about song structure. Most of the songs on the album are under two-and-a-half minutes long, with many being way under. Some of the shortest tracks are no more than bits of noise, fuzz, or pretty little instrumental flourishes. These segues add to the ‘mixtape’ feel of the album, a feeling supported even more by the way many songs are comprised of multiple suits, sometimes stylistically disparate from one another, or broken up by injections of noise or tiny snippets of completely different sounding music.” — Blogarhythms “This is what I believe they call whacked-out shit—not terribly surprising, given the sheer number of players … and the pedigrees involved (some of the players here include present or former members of bands like White Mice, Xerxes, USAISAMONSTER, Rare Youth, and the What Cheer? Brigade) … the 19 songs here sample freely from just about every genre imaginable (but most often offbeat pop and fractured jazz), often switching gears into wildly disparate genres within any given song. Despite the Providence connection, this is not the kind of wildly hyperactive spazzmusic commonly associated with that area; there are moments of that kind of wildness, yes, but mostly the songs are dominated more by catchy, poplike guitars and jazzy passages.” — One True Dead Angel

Selling Points • Has completed one major US tour in the past year; plans to tour again in Spring/Summer 2008. • Features members of USAISAMONSTER, Throne of Blood, Urdog, Black Forest/Black Sea, and Barnacled. • Service to radio and media by Corleone Records. • Ads with Big Takeover, Signal to Noise, Give Me Back, and CMJ.

Overview Jeremy Harris is ten epic bands trapped in one man’s body. This is his first proper CD release. On this album, Harris put down his broken guitar and picked up sheet music, taking the time to compose an album that more skilled musicians could perform on instruments like flute, cello, upright bass, and piano. This has allowed him the space needed to destroy music as only Bobby Conn and Joe Preston could. Jeremy Harris has been putting on the mask of Lazy Magnet for over a decade. He has been slaying the proverbial dragon we call music with his electronic saber, which takes the shape of 7”s, cassettes, and many US tours. He has dominated the country with his epic, ever-changing live persona, be it with charming acoustic sets, jarring electronic warfare, fullfledged Judas Priest-in-the-red riffers, or just plain fucking weird mayhem. Harris has also been a member of other epic groups such as the original lineup of USAISAMONSTER, Throne of Blood, Buddy Ship, and infamous noise rock terrors Dynasty. Despite this notable company, he remains a solo visionary with a mission to outdo and destroy—or at the very least pay homage to—the likes of Karp, Thrones, Flipper, Ween, and Anton Levay!

Lazy Magnet He Sought For That Magic By Which All Glory and Glamour of Mystic Chivalry Were Made To Shine, Or, Is Music Even Good? Genre: Rock Label: Corleone Records CD: DON 730 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

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Featured Artists Jeremy Harris: guitar, vocals, drums, effects Miriam Goldberg, Joe Grimm: strings Meagan Grundberg: flute Scott Reber: upright bass Erin Rosenthal, Dave Lifrer: vocals Ashleigh Carraway, Jo Dery: vocals Jason McGill: sax Sakiko Mori: piano

Track Listing Conquest America • Trumpets • Black Cloud Part Two • Masters of Science Fiction • Awesome Colors • Wilder Climes • Un Coco Pour Dejuner • Species Wide Mass Suicide • Weird Bummer of a Spiritual Shield • Look Into the Eyes of Your Lord And Tell Him No • Constant Comment • Your Hidden Adversary Is Rising Part 3: A Flower Fighting a Dragon • Doomed Chambers • Hissing Whisper Power Voice • A Vessel Blessened • My French Reply • Fierce Beard • Fighting To Survive (Live)

Key Markets Hometown: Providence Also: Boston, Pittsburgh, Worchester, Virginia Beach

STREET DATE JUNE 10, 2008

Selling Points • First live recording! Digitally remastered; new digipak format. • Booklet includes an essay by John Kruth. • Service to college and independent radio. Copies to indie/avant publications. • Ads with The Wire.

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The Holy Modal Rounders Live In 65 Genre: Folk/Rock Label: ESP-Disk’ CD: ESP 4045 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30

A rousing live album from the Rounders featuring songs spanning their careers on both the ESPDisk’ and Prestige labels. A must-have for any fan!

Track Listing Fishin’ Blues • Rum Mountain • Hold the Woodpile Down • Random Canyon • Skin Game • Indian War Whoop • Uncle Joe • Flop Eared Mule • Crowley Waltz • Going to Memphis • Monday Morning • Baltimore Fire • Sugar in the Ground • Melinda • My Mind Capsized • Black Eyed Suzy

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Selling Points • Digitally remastered; new digipak format. • Service to college and independent radio. Copies to indie/avant publications. • Ads with The Wire.

Overview 1967 proved strong year for the ever-growing NY underground music scene, with the likes of David Peel & The Lower East Side, Velvet Underground, The Godz, The Fugs, and The Holy Modal Rounders. This music is reflective of the time, and would prove to be the setting of a musical foundation for the group.

Track Listing Jimmy and Crash Survey the Universe • Indian War Whoop • Sweet Apple Cider • Soldier’s Joy • Cocaine Blues • Sky Divers • The Second-Hand Watch • Radar Blues • The I.W.W. Song • Football Blues • Bay Rum Blues • Morning Glory

The Holy Modal Rounders Indian War Whoop Genre: Folk/Rock Label: ESP-Disk’ CD: ESP 1068 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Selling Points • Digitally remastered; new digipak format. • Service to college and independent radio. Copies to indie/avant publications. • Ads with The Wire and All About Jazz online.

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Giuseppi Logan The Giuseppi Logan Quartet Genre: Jazz Label: ESP-Disk’ CD: ESP 1007 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30

In November 1964, Giuseppi Logan went to Bell Sound Studios to record his first album for the newly formed ESP-Disk’ label. He added Don Pullen and Milford Graves, and bassist extraordinaire Eddie Gomez. Research, accurate session date information, and analog tape transfer by Michael D. Anderson.

Track Listing Tabla Suite • Dance of Satan • Dialogue • Taneous • Bleeker Partita

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Selling Points • Digitally remastered; new digipak format. • Service to college and independent radio. Copies to indie/avant publications. • Ads with The Wire and All About Jazz online.

Overview Percussionist Milford Graves recorded his first and only ESP title in August 1966 with fellow percussionist Sonny Morgan. The unique combination of percussion conversations is a welcome addition to ESP’s new series of digipak reissues. Research, session date information, and analog tape transfer by Michael D. Anderson.

Track Listing Nothing 5–7 • Nothing 11–10 • Nothing 19 • Nothing 13 • Nothing

Milford Graves Percussion Ensemble Genre: Jazz Label: ESP-Disk’ CD: ESP 1015 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Selling Points • Digitally remastered; new digipak format. • Service to college and independent radio. Copies to indie/avant publications. • Ads with The Wire and All About Jazz online.

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Henry Grimes Trio The Call Genre: Jazz Label: ESP-Disk’ CD: ESP 1026 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30

As one of the most-recorded bassists in the ESP-Disk’ catalog, Henry Grimes made his debut on ESP with Perry Robinson on clarinet, lending his unique Klezmer approach to the New Music. This adventurous album is motivating and inviting to the listener, and falls in line with the diversity of the ESP-Disk’ catalog.

Track Listing Fish Story • For Django • Walk On • Saturday Nite What Th’ • The Call • Son of Alfalfa

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Selling Points • New digipak format includes liner notes. • Service to college and independent radio. Copies to indie/avant publications. • Ads with The Wire and All About Jazz online.

Overview TOTEM> is a benchmark in the world of experimental sound and contemporary improvisation. With guitarist Bruce Eisenbeil, bassist Tom Blancarte, and drummer Andrew Drury, this trio makes music that is fresh, impossible to categorize, and at the frontiers of understanding.

Track Listing Blooming Ore • Austenized • Hephaestus’ Wrath • Annealed

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Solar Forge Genre: Jazz Label: ESP-Disk’ CD: ESP 4046 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Press Quotes “One of the most influential bands to emerge from the dirty south.” — Pat Hood, Drive By Truckers

Selling Points • The greatest hits of the Quadrajets, who have influenced Drive By Truckers, Rocket From the Crypt, and more. • College radio service. • Ads with Razorcake and MRR.

The Quadrajets WFO Genre: Rock Label: Arkam Records CD: AKM 34 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30

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The Quadrajets If the Good Lord’s Willin… CD: AKM 7 Price Code: I

Overview The Quadrajets is an oft-overlooked band, in regards to loud rock and southern transcendence through sound. Triple guitar, noise, nowhere blues, and free jazz all reign supreme in the band’s recordings and live shows. Members went on to play in the Immortal Lee County Killers, The Wednesdays, and The Pine Hill Haints. This is a loose assortment of greatest hits, spanning the band’s recording career when they recorded for Estrus Records and Sympathy for the Record Industry, in the years 2000–2005.

Track Listing Lets Go To Outer Space • Queen of the Twist • Automatic Knife • She Likes It • Dixie Speedway • Bad Mother Fuckin Bitch • I Wanna Do Everything To You • Gr-rrr • Didgit • Punkinhead Motherfucker • 61 Blues • Goin Down • Ten High • All My Rowdy Friends Are Dead • If You Ain’t Down With Ronnie V, Then You Ain’t Down With Me

Key Markets Hometown: Auburn, AL. Also: Atlanta, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Birmingham, Austin, Cleveland

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Press Quotes “Personal, direct attacks on the dark times we live in.” — Huntsville Times

Selling Points • Great music and songwriting from the new incarnation of the Natchez Shakers. • A variation of the Irish/Scottish Pogues style. • Members have played with The Wednesdays, The Pine Hill Haints, The Quadrajets, Revelationiest Project, and Shoot ‘Em Down. • Heavy touring in Summer– Fall 2008. • Ads with Razorcake.

Overview Appalachian punk, the result of touring the underground Woody Guthrie-style with bands like This Bike Is A Pipe Bomb and Against Me! as well as with the Pine Hill Haints.

Track Listing Canaan USA • Johnny • The Mission Statement • I Ride My Bike in the Rain • The American Way • Last Night On Earth • Roughshod • The Shakers vs. The Bell Witch

Key Markets Hometown: Florence, AL. Also: Mobile, Gainesville

Revival Now At the First Revelationiest Project Genre: Rock Label: Arkam Records CD: AKM 26 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

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Press Quotes “A little bit They Might Be Giants with a splash of The Pixies for good measure, these Bloomington sons blend sardonic humor and pop harmonies to create the kind of quirky, suburban pop that will be in your head for days.” — The Herald Times

Selling Points • Has shared the stage with Sunset Rubdown, Mirah, Laura Veirs, Page France, Bishop Allen, and more. • East Coast and Midwest tours scheduled for June 2008. • PR by Soapbox Promotion includes service to print, college radio, and e-media. • Ads with Skyscraper, Verbicide, Ghettoblaster, Modern Fix, New Scheme, and many more.

The Delicious Postcard to My Sewing Circle

Overview With accessibility and sincerity as its goals, The Delicious crafts strangely accessible indie-art-pop in a complex, honest, light-hearted, and ridiculously well equipped fashion. A freakishly disjointed pop sensibility combined with high-minded, jazz-degree-carrying musicianship results in music that is complex and mathematic, yet always tasteful, unpretentious, and addictive. The group’s first release for Joyful Noise is chock-full of elegantly constructed experimental indie-pop able to impress math-rock enthusiasts, jazz purists, and indie snobs alike.

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Joyful Noise Records CD: JNR 22 Price Code: H (SRP $8.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

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Track Listing Hokusai • Time & Energy • Cryptozoological Allstars • Accelerated Dickery • The Tangible

Key Markets Hometown: Bloomington. Also: Indianapolis, Boston, Louisville, Kansas City, Lawrence, Chicago, Rochester, New York

nail welcomes RC legacy to its roster! A label with the opinion that artists from Indianapolis and the Midwest have an important view on life, and a duty to make their art scream of its precious strangeness. RC Legacy appreciates artists with a genuine concern for a new understanding of their medium, giving way to experimental recordings though not rejecting creativity through more popular notions of songwriting. RC Legacy comes to NAIL via Joyful Noise Records.

Selling Points • Recorded by singer/songwriter and Bloomington collaborator Justin Vollmar (HalfHanded Cloud, Mt. Gigantic, Matty Pop-Chart). • Nathan Vollmar has contributed live drumming for Jandek and Rivulets. • 100% recycled arigato pak, distinctly hand-printed and limited to 500 copies with insert. • Full press and e-media campaigns by Soapbox Promotions.

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Bronze Float Notice Genre: Alt Rock Label: RC Legacy CD: RCY 4 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Arigato Pak; Box Lot 25

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A self-styled slice of life from Hoosier singer-songwriter David Brant, with backing arrangements by fraternal journeymen Vollmar. The debut album by Bronze Float is affecting and addicting, in the spirit of K Records’ finer moments. With arrangements inspired by those found on Leonard Cohen’s first albums, most tracks feature the bass as a strong rhythm behind a soft nylon-stringed guitar sound. Occasionally the title, Notice, becomes a warning of heavy objects dangling from a tree just above the listener’s head. Though this object is dangerous, the fact that the tree is falling toward you seems much more urgent. Dust in a corner of the room is soon cast away. What, if anything, can it offer? Perhaps just noticing the dust is an interesting awareness. The soft-spoken words and sounds of Notice are an attempt to describe this.

Track Listing Person People • This American Negative Pulse • Spirit of Days Events Missed • Talks to Dust • Wedding Riding Horses • Serious Tree • Coin Lullaby • Her Way with Words • Notice • Exit STREET DATE JUNE 10, 2008

Press Quotes “Cellist Hank Roberts is one of the most accomplished jazz improvisers on his instrument, working mostly in the avant-garde and modern creative fields.” — All Music Guide

Selling Points • World renowned cellist Hank Roberts’ debut album for Winter & Winter. • Roberts has been recognized in Down Beat’s International Critics Poll and hailed by the New York Times for his ability to “shift the best elements of classical music, pop, and jazz into something new.” • Allegro Media service to top 100 jazz print magazines. • NPR and college radio blanketed nationally.

Hank Roberts Green Genre: Jazz Label: Winter & Winter CD: WTR 141 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Smartpak; Box Lot 20 an allegro-distributed title

Overview In the 1980s and ’90s in the downtown New York jazz scene, Hank Roberts recorded various albums for JMT with colleagues such as Bill Frisell, Tim Berne, Joey Baron, David Sanborn, and more. Here, with guitarist Marc Ducret and drummer Jim Black, Roberts adapts and recomposes musical elements from avant-garde and traditional jazz as well as funk, R&B, rock, gospel, and traditional Native American music.

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Little Motor People

CD: WTR JMT 919062 Price Code: Q

Hometown: Ithaca. Also: Chicago, Boston, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle

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Selling Points • RIYL: Weezer, Motion City Soundtrack, Fountains of Wayne, Green Day, Mr. T Experience. • Several songs have been featured in the television series Degrassi: The Next Generation. • Ex-members of The Killjoys, Wact, and Sometimes Why. • Touring in Canada and the US throughout 2008. • Promo CDs to all major press, radio, and e-media in North America.

Overview Junior Achiever frontman Gene Champagne began playing the drums when he was only eleven. He co-founded The Killjoys, who won a Juno Award, toured Canada and the US extensively, and recorded three records for Warner Music before disbanding. Joining Champagne in Junior Achiever is like-minded musician Dave Fritz, formerly of British pop-punksters Wact. Holding down the rhythm section are bassist/vocalist Steve Scott and drummer Jeremy Knowles, a team that has played together often in the past. All the Little Letdowns is a bittersweet tale of lost love, disillusionment, and regret; a summer album that reflects the sparkle of the grass and the warmth of the sun, all with a wry sense of humor and an honest longing for something more.

Track Listing Another Stupid Love Song • Scoot • Better Than This • Suburbs • Dumb It Down • Underrated • Lick Me, Suck Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me • Say What You Want Me To Say • California • She’s So Mean • Daytona • How Does It Feel • Gutless Wonder

Key Markets Hometown: Toronto. Also: Montreal, Vancouver, Quebec, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, Detroit, Indianapolis, San Francisco, Columbus, Austin, Memphis, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Fort Worth, Charlotte, Boston, Seattle, Washington DC, Denver, Portland, Atlanta, Miami 12

STREET DATE JUNE 10, 2008

Junior Achiever All the Little Letdowns Genre: Pop Punk Label: Engineer Records CD: ENG 115 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30

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Selling Points • Hot follow-up LP to Chesterfield’s 2005 debut. Tight, driving power-punk reminiscent of early Descendents, Face To Face, and Strung Out. • Regularly plays throughout the Pacific Northwest including opening for live cage fight matches. • National promo service to college and specialty alternative radio by Airplay Direct. • Targeted national publicity mailing to press, media, and related online music publications. • Street team promotion and contests through Fancorps.

Overview Chesterfield delivers once again with Death Grip, the scorching follow-up to their 2005 Mental Records’ debut Destination Nowhere. The Oregon-based power-punk trio is back—louder, tighter, and grittier than ever—on this intense line-up of 10 smoking hot tracks that are certain to set your ears ablaze. Powerfully smoldering vocals and razorsharp harmonies ignite, generating an emotionally charged, feverish pop sensibility that is perfectly offset by Jesse Belcher’s searing guitars, T.J. Ayer’s sizzling rhythms, and Shane Vargas’ blistering beat. Pop this into your CD player and prepare for detonation!

Track Listing Sunrise • Easier • Fireflies • Death Grip • Questioning It All • Make It Through the Day • Right Before Your Eyes • Chasing Dreams • Wasting Time • Running Out Of Breath

Chesterfield Death Grip Genre: Rock/Punk Label: Mental Records CD: MTL 14 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Double Slimline; Box Lot 25

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Key Markets Hometown: Medford, OR. Also: Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Portland, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Washington DC, Austin, Denver, Montreal, Vancouver, Tucson, Las Vegas, St. Louis, Atlanta, Kansas City, Salt Lake City, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, Minneapolis, Miami

Press Quotes “Melodic, mid-tempo punk rock that’s the bastard child of London Calling and the So-Cal scene of a decade ago.” — Aversion

Selling Points • Highly anticipated follow-up to Automatic 7 (1995, BYO) and Beggars Life (2000, Vagrant). • Hot breakout single of Bruce Springsteen’s “Atlantic City.” • National mailing to press, media, and web outlets by Stephanie Kouvelakis PR. • National promotion to college and specialty alternative radio by The Syndicate. • Ads with AMP, Razorcake, Verbicide, Loud Fast Rules, and more.

Automatic 7 At Funeral Speed Genre: Punk/Rock Label: Mental Records CD: MTL 13 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

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Overview An undeniably edgy album oozing with hard-driving pop sensibilities and featuring breakout tracks such as “40 Blocks,” “All the Happiness You Can Buy,” and a blistering version of Bruce Springsteen’s classic “Atlantic City.” The band has built a solid reputation in the independent music scene with previous releases through BYO and Vagrant Records, and At Funeral Speed offers further proof that they are true originals in a sea of copycats.

Track Listing 40 Blocks • All the Happiness You Can Buy • Start Over • As I Am • Atlantic City • Sunday Eyes • Ghost-Like • Greasy (Revisited) • Fall In Line • The Better Part of Me • Not Enough • Bad Tattoo

Key Markets Hometown: Los Angeles. Also: San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Portland, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Washington DC, Austin, Denver, Montreal, Vancouver, Tucson, Phoenix, Las Vegas, St. Louis, Atlanta, Kansas City, Salt Lake City, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, Minneapolis, Miami

STREET DATE JUNE 10, 2008

Selling Points • Oh Laura has been featured by BBC Radio 2, The Guardian, and The Independent. • The band’s single “Release Me” was featured in a Saab advertisement.

Overview

Oh Laura A Song Inside My Head A Demon In My Bed Genre: Pop Label: Fulfill CD: FCD 8101 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

“It’s all about Frida’s voice, really. It’s why we started and it’s why we keep going.” So says Jörgen Kjellgren, founding member of Oh Laura. Like Twin Peaks, which inspired the band’s name, the alluring eeriness of Frida Öhrn’s voice is serene and beautiful yet dark, fragile, and brooding.

Track Listing A Call To Arms • It Ain’t Enough • Release Me • Black N’ Blue • Fine Line • Raining In New York • Out of Bounds • Killer on the Road • The Mess You Left Behind • Thunderbird Motel

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Selling Points • Limited to 500 copies—no repress! Clear vinyl in a see-thru package. • Reviews in print and web magazines. Airplay on college and indie stations.

Overview An idea hatched during the recording of Plumerai’s Without Number CD on Silber Records: strip away the electricity, and focus on the intimacy and power of Elizabeth Ezell’s voice. After consideration, they sought out The Brother Kite to record a track for the flipside. A Clairecords staple known for its shoegaze influences, TBK seemed like a perfect match.

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Plumerai/The Brother Kite Split 7” Genre: Alt Rock Label: Clairecords 7”: CLE 77 Price Code: C (SRP $5.99) Clear Bag; Box Lot 20

Plumerai: Vacant Eyes • The Brother Kite: We Can Never Be Friends

STREET DATE: JUNE 10, 2008

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Selling Points • Limited edition of 750 copies, 250 on white vinyl and 500 on black. Special etching on side D. • Embossed outer sleeves with cutout and heavy, full-color inner sleeves with pictures by Seldon Hunt. • Originally released by Alien8 Recordings in 2007.

Overview

Nadja Radiance of Shadows Genre: Avant Rock/ Experimental Label: Conspiracy Records 2XLP: CNS 64 Price Code: 2S (SRP $37.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

A mammoth monster of a record spanning well over an hour with three tracks that are more epic than ever. Radiance of Shadows has the feel of the super-saturated and dense recordings favored by the likes of Fennesz and Tim Hecker, but with the bite of metal.

Track Listing Now I Am Become Death • Destroyer of Worlds I Have Tasted the Fire Inside Your Mouth • Radiance of Shadows

STREET DATE: JUNE 24, 2008

STREET DATE JUNE 10 & 24, 2008

MARC RIBOT’S CERAMIC DOG Press Quotes

PARTY INTELLECTUALS

“Marc Ribot’s new power trio, filled out by the remarkable versatile rhythm team of bassist Shahzad Ismaily and drummer Ches Smith, is his rawest band in ages.” — Time Out New York

Selling Points • Marc Ribot is a widely recognized original on the guitar, with wide fan support across multiple genres. Ceramic Dog is his first project that will appeal to his entire diverse fan base. • Ribot is a first-call guitarist for T-Bone Burnett, Tom Waits, and John Zorn. Recently, he was featured guitarist on the Grammywinning Robert Plant & Alison Krauss collaboration Raising Sand. • Ribot is also well known for his work on a variety of film scores including Walk the Line, The Departed, and Everything Is Illuminated. • Pi Recordings will hire a nationally recognized publicity firm to handle outreach to rock and pop press. Jazz press, which comprises Ribot’s traditional support base, will be covered in-house • Service to CMJ Top 200, NPR, and independent radio stations in-house.

Overview Party Intellectuals is the debut recording from Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog, a post-everything band combining the energies of two masters of downtown New York mayhem: guitarist/vocalist Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, John Zorn, Robert Plant, T-Bone Burnett, Marianne Faithful, Lounge Lizards, Elvis Costello) and bassist Shahzad Ismaily (Laurie Anderson, Will Oldham, Jolie Holland, Secret Chiefs 3). Also features West Coast indie/experimental genius drummer Ches Smith (Xiu Xiu, Secret Chiefs 3, Trevor Dunn’s Trio Convulsant). Ribot is a widely recognized original on the guitar, with influence across multiple genres of music including rock, jazz, punk, Latin, soul, ’80s no-wave, avant-garde, and noise. Ceramic Dog draws all of this, along with Ismaily and Smith’s indie/electronica experimentation, into the power-packed Party Intellectuals.

“A blast of sound that [is] variously ominous, crude, and sly. There were handclaps and Cuban montunos; there was numbskull punk and roadhouse blues; there was the odd doom-metal drone … Prickly but popular, with a mood both breezy and intense.” — New York Times ALSO AVAILABLE

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Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog Party Intellectuals Genre: Rock Label: Pi Recordings CD: PIE 27 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 40

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Featured Artists Marc Ribot: guitar, vocals Shahzad Ismaily: bass, vocals, moog Ches Smith: drums, percussion, electronics, vocals

Track Listing • Break on Through • Party Intellectuals • Todo El Mundo Es Kitsch • When We Were Young and We Were Freaks • Digital Handshake • Bateau • For Malena • Fuego • Girlfriend • Midost • ShSh ShSh • Never Better

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

Spiritual Unity CD: PIE 15 Price Code: Q

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STREET DATE JUNE 24, 2008

G.G. ELVIS AND THE TCP BAND BACK FROM THE DEAD

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G.G. Elvis and The TCP Band Back from the Dead [CD+DVD] Genre: Punk Label: Mental Records CD+DVD: MTL 15 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Double Slimline; Box Lot 25

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Featured Artists G.G. Elvis (Eric Lara): lead vocals Elvis of Nazareth (Tony Cortez): guitar Has Been Elvis (Larry White): drums Elvis Vicious (Dave Casillas): lead guitar Elvis ’56 (George “Horhay” Snow): bass Little Sister (Sarah Jo Merin): backing vocals

Track Listing • Intro/That’s All Right Mama • Viva Las Vegas • In The Ghetto • Don’t Cry Daddy • Suspicious Minds • Burning Love • Blue Suede Shoes • Devil In Disguise • A Little Less Conversation • Little Sister • Wonder of You • Love Me Tender • My Way/Outro

Key Markets Hometown: Los Angeles/Oxnard Also: San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Portland, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Washington DC, Austin, Denver, Montreal, Vancouver, Tucson, Phoenix, Las Vegas, St. Louis, Atlanta, Kansas City, Salt Lake City, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, Minneapolis, Miami 16

STREET DATE JUNE 24, 2008

• Stickered with 2” round sticker: “Featuring members of: NOFX, Agression, Ill Repute & Bad Samaritans” plus “Includes Controversial Never-Before-Seen DVD/Limited Premiere Scratch ‘n’ Sniff Edition.” • Also features well-known Nardcore musicians including members of Stalag 13, Jughead’s Revenge, and Dr. Know. • Includes controversial never-before-seen DVD exposé with shocking videos, rare interviews, photos, extras, and special features as well as a full-color 10-page barrel-fold booklet with hilarious band photos and a special exclusive scratch ‘n’ sniff surprise! • Actively play dates on the West Coast and in the greater Los Angeles area, including a recent performance at SXSW. • Summer 2008 US and European tour in the works. • Publicity campaign to mainstream/alternative press and media. • Shooting for possible TV appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. • Syndicated radio network interviews planned for key markets. • Official street team promotion and contests through Fancorps. • National promotional submission to college and specialty alternative radio by Airplay Direct. • Ads with AMP, Verbicide, Razorcake, and Wonka Vision. Six-week online advertising campaign.

Overview Just when you thought it was safe to go back to Vegas … along comes G.G. Elvis & The TCP Band, deftly combining the very best (and worst) of “King of Rock” Elvis Presley and self-professed “King of Punk” G.G. Allin into a smash-up, punk-rock Elvis tribute the likes of which the world has never witnessed. G.G. Elvis & The TCP Band will rock you silly with an explosive, gut-wrenching blend of outrageously tight punk-infused covers of your favorite Elvis classics. Featuring some of Nardcore’s finest— including members of NOFX, Agression, Bad Samaritans, Ill Repute, Stalag 13, and Dr. Know—this exclusive scratch ‘n’ sniff limited edition also includes a controversial never-before-seen DVD exposé with shocking videos, rare interviews, photos, extras, and special features.

“A great new band is amping up the songs of ‘The King’: G.G. Elvis & The TCP Band, a group of musicians who helped begin the ‘nardcore’ music movement in Southern California, are out to rock audiences with their punk interpretations of Elvis Presley classics. They are tight and sound great, and they really know the genre … creating a raucous hybrid of punk rocker G.G. Allin and Elvis Presley.” — The Mail Tribune

Press Quotes “Podington Bear may be heavily indebted to the Aphex Twins and Brian Enos of the world, but he or she shares their ability to inject heart into a genre that can be icy and clinical by nature … when programmed correctly, robots can convey the soul-sick pathos of grieving poets.” — NPR Song of the Day “If you make music yourself, you’ll probably either feel inspired by or grow jealous of Podington Bear … I gave a listen, and the songs are not bad— inventive, not-in-your-face instrumental music that reminded me a bit of early-ish Múm.” — Wired “Simple, ambient instrumental tracks provide a beautiful background … that never comes off overbearing or distracting. The music, and rate at which Podington Bear is pumping out the tunes, puts him in contention for the ‘hardest working man in showbiz’ title.” — Muzzle of Bees “Here’s the kicker … this stuff is good.Very good, as a matter of fact. ” — Kinky Origami “The cutest thing to ever happen to your iPod.” — The Money Shot

Selling Points • Specially priced limited edition. Letter-press box artwork. • Licensed to the popular This American Life TV series on Showtime. • Featured on NPR, Wired, and iTunes. • Full PR campaign to media outlets and blogs. • Full college radio mailing by AAM. • Ads with Daytrotter, Magnet, Under the Radar, Pitchfork, Skyscraper, and more.

Overview The definitive Podington Bear collection includes 10 CDs, 135 songs, and over 8 hours of music. Podington Bear is a modern music internet phenomenon. Profiled on NPR, Wired, heaps of blogs, and selected as a Best of 2007 podcast by the iTunes Music Store, P. Bear’s original method of music delivery has reached listeners far and wide. He serves up thousands of songs every day via his podcast on iTunes, cycling through the parade of music now contained in The Box Set. The music itself is 100% instrumental, inventive, delightful, and accessible. The sonic palate varies widely, juxtaposing acoustic instrumentation with synthesized and distorted sounds. The songs are constructed of simple melodies that mutate modally with surprising twists of composition. Touchstones would be Hot Chip, Björk, The Album Leaf, or early Múm. Little is known about this character except that he lives in Portland and prefers to work anonymously and alone. The body of work is represented uniformly by a simple line drawing of a bear, invoking a legacy and an ethos that surrounds the music. It is a collection that works in the foreground or the back. In this age of media saturation and attention deficit disorder, the Podington Bear box set is not unlike that novel or film that completely pulled you in, leaving you a little bit changed.

Podington Bear The Box Set Genre: Electronic Label: HUSH 10XCD: HSH 82 Price Code: 10B (SRP $39.99) Box Set; Box Lot 15

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featured artists Podington Bear: performance, composition

track listing 135 songs on 10 CDs: • Meet Podington Bear • Liquid Gold • Said Lion To Lamb • Haplessly Happy • Homage Fromage • The Hump • Everything Comes Around • Mixed Bag • Make-out Music • The End

Key Markets Hometown: Portland. Also: Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Bloomington, Boise, Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louis, Austin, Phoenix, New York, Athens, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chapel Hill, Ann Arbor, Madison, Providence, St. Petersburg, Tampa, Reno, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City

STREET DATE JUNE 24, 2008

Press Quotes “Highly recommended, especially for fans of bands like Tunng or the Octopus Project.” — Gorilla vs. Bear

Selling Points • Podington Bear’s most ambitious recording, previously unreleased in any format. • Handsome letter-pressed paper packaging. • Licensed to the popular This American Life TV series on Showtime. • Featured on NPR, Wired, and iTunes. • Full PR campaign to media outlets and blogs. Full college radio mailing by AAM.

Podington Bear The End Genre: Electronic Label: HUSH CD: HSH 81 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Board Case; Box Lot 30

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Overview The End is the ambitious swan song from internet phenomenon Podington Bear. It is an instrumental album that loosely addresses the classic stages of response to death and dying: achingly human but paradoxically made with machines. The seven songs serve up a 40-minute sonic journey of valleys, vistas, and turning corners. The songs themselves refuse classification, yet somehow go together as a collection. It’s a moody, panoramic, Technicolor album with melodies as simple as the instrumentation is complex.

Track Listing Change • Denial • Bargaining • Fury • Ebullience • Grief • Acceptance

Press Quotes “Flat-out, high energy improv, undulled by candy-ass melodic resolutions or riffic formalism.” — Byron Coley, Forced Exposure

Selling Points • First new recordings by this legendary avant jazz duo in over a decade! • Liner notes by Nick Cain (The Wire, Opprobrium). • Flaherty and Colbourne’s self-released LPs from the ’80s and ’90s are highly collectible. • Full press mailing by Family Vineyard. Heavy emphasis on New England press and radio.

Overview Don’t call it a comeback. This first release in almost a decade by Paul Flaherty and Randall Colbourne is a reawakening of a collaboration that has lain dormant for too long. Joining forces in the late 1980s, the two New Englanders released over a dozen uncompromising, raw albums of avant-garde jazz. Since then, Flaherty has expanded in the improv, out-rock, and noise camps (with Thurston Moore, Chris Corsano, and Sunburned Hand of the Man) while Colbourne pursued private study. Now, they’ve created eight compositions of coiling sax lines and polyrhythmic patterns that commemorate the past and celebrate the new.

Track Listing Scorched Onslaught • Marauding Toxic Fungus • Ice Spike • Rhubarb • Gilded Plague • Thirsty Thorns • More Lasting than Bronze • Spiders In Her Hair

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

STREET DATE JUNE 24, 2008

Paul Flaherty & Randall Colbourne Bridge Out! Genre: Jazz Label: Family Vineyard CD: FVR 55 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

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Press Quotes “Trumpeter Bill Dixon has proved himself to be one of the most dedicated vanguardists in jazz, honing an instantly recognizable language on his instrument while composing at a furious rate.” — Time Out New York “Starkly removed from history and tradition, and yet eerily and achingly redolent of its revolutionary moments, Dixon’s compositions form an equally disparate and unified body of work that ranks among the finest this country has offered the world.” — All About Jazz

Selling Points • First album-length orchestral work by legendary composer/trumpeter Bill Dixon since 1967. • Specially commissioned by Arts for Art, Inc. (producers of the Vision Festival), 17 Musicians made its incredibly well received debut at Vision Festival XII in 2007. That performance is presented here in its entirety. • This album, in combination with the Thrill Jockey release of Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra, makes 2008 a watershed year in the rich lifetime work of Bill Dixon. • Service/promotion to national press/e-media and targeted regional press by Improvised Communications. • Service/promotion to college/non-commercial radio by Improvised Communications. • Ads with All About Jazz (New York), Signal to Noise, Stop Smiling, and more.

Overview 2008 marks the magnificent return of the legendary Bill Dixon: composer, trumpeter, teacher, and all-around musical force. His contributions to the body of great Black American Music first began in the 1960s: performing and recording with Archie Shepp and Cecil Taylor; producing the groundbreaking October Revolution concert series in NYC 1964 (which featured John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, and many others); and as architect of the Jazz Composers Guild. In the late ’60s he left “the scene” but continued to leave an indelible mark on music by devoting himself to teaching from 1968 onward, creating the Black Music Division at Bennington College in 1973. While he has never stopped composing (prolifically at that), and has produced a series of rarified small ensemble recordings, his work for expanded orchestral ensemble has gone unrecorded and/or unreleased since his momentous album Intents and Purposes (RCA, 1967). Bill Dixon with Exploding Star Orchestra, a well-received collaboration with Rob Mazurek (Exploding Star Orchestra), was released by Thrill Jockey in February. And now, this album—a tour de force of orchestral composition, conduction, and improvisational exploration—fully composed by Bill Dixon and performed with the Bill Dixon Orchestra. 17 Musicians in Search of a Sound: Darfur was specially commissioned by Arts for Art, Inc. (producers of the Vision Festival). It is one of three such commissions that made their concert debuts at Vision Festival XII in 2007. Roy Campbell’s Akhenaten Suite was the first released (in March) and the next shall be William Parker’s orchestral work Double Sunrise Over Neptune (due in August). ALSO AVAILABLE

Bill Dixon 17 Musicians In Search of a Sound: Darfur Genre: Jazz Label: AUM Fidelity CD: AUM 46 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

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Featured Artists Bill Dixon: trumpet, composer Graham & Stephen Haynes: cornet, flugelhorn Taylor Ho Bynum: cornet, flugelhorn Dick Griffin, Steve Swell: tenor trombone Joseph Daley: tuba Karen Borca: bassoon Will Connell, Michel Côté: clarinets Andrew Raffo Dewar, John Hagen: saxes JD Parran: bass sax, bamboo flute Andrew Lafkas: bass Glynis Loman: cello Jackson Krall, Warren Smith: percussion

Track Listing • Prelude • Intrados • In Search of a Sound • Contour One • Contour Two • Scattering of the Following • Darfur • Contour Three • Sinopia • Pentimento I • Pentimento II • Pentimento III • Pentimento IV

Roy Campbell Ensemble

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CD: AUM 45 Price Code: P

Hometown: Bennington & Burlington, VT Also: New York, Chicago, San Francisco

Akhenaten Suite

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STREET DATE JUNE 24, 2008

Press Quotes “It almost sounds like she had no jazz training before she came [to New York]. How is that possible? Wow … This is her tune, so that means that she can write, too. This is just the beginning, and already she’s found her own voice.” — Herbie Hancock “Yamamoto’s maturity is instantly evident on the title cut/opener of Up & Coming, her self-produced debut … The five originals included here demonstrate an extraordinarily rich compositional sensibility—to say nothing of a delicate touch.” — Time Out New York “Rich chordal voicings, tender dynamics, and a supple touch on ballads makes Yamamoto an essential presence.” — All About Jazz

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Eri Yamamoto Duologue Genre: Jazz Label: AUM Fidelity CD: AUM 48 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 40

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Featured Artists Eri Yamamoto: piano, compositions Daniel Carter: saxophone Federico Ughi: drums William Parker: bass Hamid Drake: frame drum

Track Listing • Thank You • Conversation • Subway Song • Circular Movement • Violet Sky • Midtown Blues • Muse • You Are Welcome

Key Markets Hometown: New York Also: Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles

• Featured on William Parker’s immensely beautiful Corn Meal Dance, this is Eri Yamamoto’s first release as leader on AUM Fidelity. • A remarkably inviting and compelling series of compositions in duo with some of the most creatively gifted musicians today—Daniel Carter, William Parker, Hamid Drake, and Federico Ughi. • Service/promotion to national press/e-media and targeted regional press by Improvised Communications. • Service/promotion to college/non-commercial radio by Improvised Communications. • Ads with All About Jazz (New York), Signal to Noise, Stop Smiling, and more.

Overview Eri Yamamoto moved to NYC from Japan a little over a decade ago. A classically trained piano prodigy, she initially came to visit her sister, but after hearing Tommy Flanagan perform in trio in Central Park, she had a momentous revelation that her future would be in jazz music. When William Parker recorded his first album of compositions for piano trio, he chose Yamamoto to occupy that seat (Luc’s Lantern, 2005). He then brought her into his Raining on the Moon ensemble, and the wisdom of that decision is in full evidence on their recent album, Corn Meal Dance. She fully impressed Matthew Shipp as well, who brought her to the Blues Series/Thirsty Ear label to record her trio album Cobalt Blue in 2006. Duologue is Eri Yamamoto’s first album as a leader outside of the piano trio format. She composed each piece specifically with each duo partner in mind, and each piece is informed and suffused by his or her respective musical and personal essence. Contemplative, jubilant, and mesmerizing songs, they are increasingly rewarding with each successive listen. Her improvisations within them, guided by the rhythm as much as the melody, are invitingly exploratory while remaining in service to the song at hand.

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William Parker Corn Meal Dance CD: AUM 43 Price Code: P NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

STREET DATE JUNE 24, 2008

Get nailed... on the road The Builders and The Butchers The Builders and The Butchers

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Dawn of Ashes The Crypt Injection

CD: BCO 4 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) UPC: 634479505034

Cat # HNZ 4 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) UPC: 723721335953

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

5/17/08 Portland, OR – Aladdin Theater 5/22/08 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge 5/23/08 Denver, CO – Hi Dive 5/24/08 Lawrence, KS – Replay 5/25/08 Minneapolis, MN – 400 Bar 5/26/08 Madison, WI – Hi Noon 5/27/08 Milwaukee, WI – Mad Planet 5/28/08 Chicago, IL – Schubas 5/29/08 Chicago, IL – Hide Out 5/30/08 Pittsburgh, PA – Club Cafe 5/31/08 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg

Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog Party Intellectuals CD: PIE 27 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) UPC: 808713002720 * dates for Marc Ribot 5/15/08 w/ John Zorn Victoriaville, QC – Festival Musique Actuelle 6/4/08 Brooklyn, NY – Issue Project Room

William Parker Quartet Corn Meal Dance CD: AUM 43 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) UPC: 642623304327

* dates for William Parker 5/17/08 Ukiah, CA – Penofin Jazz Festival 5/19/08 Santa Cruz, CA – Kuumbwa Jazz Center 5/20/08 San Francisco, CA – Yoshi’s

Colin Meloy Colin Meloy Sings Live! LP: JLO 65 Price Code: 2L (SRP $23.99) UPC: 751937326113

* dates for The Decemberists 5/2/08 Seattle, WA – Showbox 5/3/08 Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom 5/24/08 Bend, OR – Les Schwab Amphitheatre

* dates for Pink Martini 5/5/08 Thousand Oaks, CA – Civic Arts Plaza 5/6/08 Irvine, CA – Irvine Barclay Theatre 5/8/08 Temecula, CA – Pechanga Resort 5/10/08 Napa Valley, CA – Lincoln Theater 5/13/08 Scottsdale, AZ – Scottsdale PAC 5/14/08 Flagstaff, AZ – Pine Mountain Amphitheater 5/15/08 Santa Fe, NM – Lensic PAC 5/16/08 El Paso, TX – Plaza Theatre 5/19/08 San Antonio, TX – Majestic Theatre 5/20/08 Austin, TX – Paramount Theatre 5/21/08 Dallas, TX – House of Blues 5/23–25/08 Houston, TX – Jones Hall

Yea Big & Kid Static Yea Big & Kid Static CD: JIB 105 Price Code: M ($14.99) UPC: 656605816821 5/7/08 W. Columbia, SC – New Brookland Tavern 5/10/08 (day) Chatham, MA – WTF Fest! 5/10/08 (night) Yarmouth, MA – After Prom Party @ DY High School 5/12/08 Brooklyn, NY – Union Hall 5/14/08 Pittsburgh, PA – Garfield Artworks

Head of Femur Great Plains CD: GDP 31 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) UPC: 619981253321 5/15/08 Minneapolis, MN – The Uptown 5/16/08 Chicago, IL – Schuba’s 5/17/08 Dubuque, IA – Busted Lift 5/18/08 Iowa City, IA – Yacht Club 5/19/08 Lincoln, NE – Box Awesome 5/20/08 Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room 5/23/08 Kansas City, MO – The Brick

5/12/08 Portland, OR – The Fez 5/13/08 Seattle, WA – El Corazon 5/24/08 Tijuana, MX – Necropolis Festival 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

Hackman The New Normal CD: SSO 73 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) UPC: 709764107320 5/10/08 Cambridge, MA – The Middle East 5/13/08 Williamsburg, NY – Trash Bar 6/21/08 Cambridge, MA – The Middle East

Never Enough Hope The Gift Economy CD: CTP 67 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) UPC: 616892951025 5/8/08 San Francisco, CA – 12 Galaxies 5/9/08 Oakland, CA – Uptown 5/10/08 Berkeley, CA – Amoeba Records 5/10/08 Berkeley, CA – Secret Café

The Botticellis Old Home Movies CD: ANT 525 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) UPC: 654399009047 5/16/08 Berkeley, CA – Starry Plough 5/17/08 Davis, CA – Sophia’s Thai Kitchen

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Postcard to My Sewing Circle

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Little Motor People

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Radiance of Shadows

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