June13_Nail

JUNE 2013 NEW RELEASES STREET DATES 6.11.13 AND 6.25.13

A DIVISION OF ALLEGRO MEDIA GROUP

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BlackMask pg 3, Alison Moyet pg 5, Neshama Carlebach pg 8–9, Eri Yamamoto pg 11, Master Musicians of Bukkake pg 15, Peccadilloes pg 25

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INSIDE AUM Fidelity..................... 11 Chicken Ranch Records...... 17 ConSouling Sounds............ 20 Crossroads of America........ 17 Cyclic Law........................ 22 Denovali Records............... 24 Firehouse 12 Records........ 10 FiXT................................... 4 Frame Up Music................ 10 Go-Kart Records................ 21 Important Records........ 14–15 Malignant Records............. 19 Metal Postcard.................. 16

Metropolis Records...5–6, 23–24 Mr Bongo Recordings.... 12–13 Naim Edge Records............ 22 Pitch Black Records........... 18 Platinum City Entertainment...3 Reality Entertainment....26–27 Rusty Knuckles.................... 7 Sailor’s Grave Records........ 21 Small Stone Records.......... 25 Sojourn Records...............7–9 SquidHat Records.............. 25 WTII Records.................... 19

NEWS & REVIEWS Dana Falconberry

Dana Falconberry is headed out on the road in May with Paper Birds (see page 29 for dates). She had a great SXSW, receiving accolades from the New York Times (“gentle yet intricate”), NPR (“amazing”), Washington Post, and many more!

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Steve Coleman

“Coleman delves into the connection between human biology and music with Functional Arrhythmias, perhaps his most accessible release in recent memory. With a vast discography that has covered everything from unadulterated funk in 1988’s Sine Die (Pegasus) to advanced concepts in 2011’s The Mancy of Sound (Pi), his curiosity and influence continue to expand.” — ALL ABOUT JAZZ Steve Coleman Functional Arrhythmias CD: PIE 47 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) D

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Permanent Makeup

“Arty, roiling post-punk veers on the dissonant, gale-swept precipice where noise kites like Sonic Youth fly.” — ORLANDO WEEKLY Permanent Makeup The Void…It Creeps CD: NGR 32 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) D

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

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BlackMask Guillotine Rap

Selling Points

• New album from BlackMask, leader of Wu-Tang affiliate group Watchmen.

• Features Young Dirty Bastard, son of rap legend Ol’ Dirty Bastard.

• Performed at the 2012 B.E.T Hip-Hop Awards.

• Upcoming touring in the U.S. and Europe.

• Watchmen’s previous album was an All Music Guide Top Album Pick.

• Multiple video features on BET website.

• Produced by Platinum producers The Grim Reaperz.

• Starred in 2012 film Bully.

• RIYL: Wu-Tang Clan, Watchmen, Method Man, Rakim, Kendrick Lamar.

Media & Marketing

• Twenty-two-city U.S. tour, set up by Larry Cook Touring, will include radio station stops in each city.

• Gold recording artist Ras Kass will be on the tour to help promote the album.

• PR and radio rep to oversee magazine reviews, interviews, and radio spins.

• Promotional giveaway in Miami week of release.

• Ads/promo with various urban magazines as well as BET and World Star Hip-Hop.

This album marks the return of hip-hop music in its rawest form. Each artist and producer was handpicked, and then paired together to best fulfill the album’s overall vision. The result is a product so deadly that it can only be called Guillotine Rap… “The Watchmen are on a mission to restore the faith in the Wu brand.”

— WU-INTERNATIONAL.COM HHHH “The New Wu Superheroes.”

— BOOTSLAPRAP.COM HHHH

Watchmen Watchmen Wu-Tang Management Presents Power CD: PCE 6 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 1 D

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Young Dirty Bastard: vocals Judha Priest: vocals Sav Killz: vocals NoEmotion: vocals Masta of Ceremoniez: vocals DLAH: vocals Righteous Da Goddess: vocals Dungeon Masta: vocals Prox: vocals Jon Murdock: vocals Aslaam Mahdi: vocals Eternal: vocals Wize Mathematiks: vocals Sltr Dvn: vocals DJ Trickalome: turntables Track Listing: Guillotine • Illest Story • Quiet As Kept • Unrealistic Vision • Mirror Mirror • Vietnam • Parlor Tricks • Fortified • Still Alive • Buddha Bless • Olympus Has Fallen • Your Gone • Decapitation • Executions By Guillotine • After Party Key Markets: Hometown: Miami. Also: Orlando, Boston, New York, Chicago, Houston, Atlanta, Los Angeles

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Genre: Hip-Hop Label: Platinum City Entertainment CD: PCE 32 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 6/11/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Celldweller

Deluxe 10 Year Anniversary Edition Selling Points

• Deluxe edition of the debut album that started it all!

• Double disc version features a second disc of B-sides, remixes, demos, and rarities.

• Every track has been licensed for film, TV, or games.

• Hundreds of cumulative licensing credits include Spider Man 2, Constantine, Crackdown, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, Enter the Matrix, “CSI,” and “The Shield.”

• Climbed to #17 on the Billboard Internet Sales Chart upon original release.

• Track “I Believe You” reached 11th place on the R&R Alternative Specialty Show Chart.

• RIYL: Infected Mushroom, Pendulum, Linkin Park.

Media & Marketing

• Full-scale press campaign via FiXT Publicity.

• Service to print and web magazines, music blogs, and select radio stations.

• Ads with Facebook & Google as well as online mags and blogs.

• Print ads in select music magazines.

Genre: Alt Rock/Electronica Label: FiXT CD: CDW 101 Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) Number of Discs: 2 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 6/11/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

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DISC ONE: Cell #1 • Switchback • Stay With Me (Unlikely) • The Last Firstborn • Under My Feet • I Believe You • Frozen • Symbiont • Afraid This Time • Fadeaway • Cell #2 • So Sorry to Say • Own Little World • Unlikely (Stay With Me) • One Good Reason • The Stars of Orion • Cell #3 • Welcome to the End • Uncrowned

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The self-titled debut that started it all has turned ten, and to celebrate its anniversary Celldweller has been reissued as a Deluxe Edition, with updated artwork and a second disc of B-sides, remixes, demos, and rarities including “Uncrowned,” a song from the original sessions now fully completed.

While Klayton busies himself in his Detroit studio preparing the future of Celldweller for 2013, celebrate the past with this monumental work!

DISC TWO: Ghosts (feat. Tom Salta, previously unreleased) • Uncrowned (previously unreleased) • Atmospheric Light (unreleased demo) • Blood from the Stone (unreleased demo) • Waiting (unreleased demo) • IRIA (unreleased demo) • 06-06-06 (unreleased demo) • Tragedy (Bee Gee’s Cover) • Shapeshifter feat. Styles of Beyond • Goodbye (Klayton Revision) • Shapeshifter (Klayton Revision) • Switchback (Klayton Revision) • Switchback (Drop’s Wave Remix) • Frozen (CPR Remix by Copy Paste Repeat) • Own Little World (Remorse Code & Blue Stahli Remix) • Switchback (Dead By Dawn Mix by no i’m not) Key Markets: Hometown: Detroit. Also: Chicago, Atlanta, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Denver, St. Louis, Toronto

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Celldweller Celldweller 10 Year Anniversary Edition Genre: Electronica Label: FiXT CD: CDW 100 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 6/11/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

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Alison Moyet The Minutes

Selling Points

• Grammy® nominee Alison Moyet has sold over 20 million records as a solo artist, and with Yazoo.

• Video for “When I Was Your Girl” to be released.

• Produced by Guy Sigsworth (Robyn, Björk).

• Full U.S. tour planned to coincide with the release.

• RIYL: Yazoo, Paul Young, Howard Jones.

MEDIA & MARKETING

• Press service by Another Reybee Promotions.

• In-house servicing to press, radio, and club DJs. • Targeted Facebook and Google AdWords campaigns.

Metropolis Records, under license from Cooking Vinyl, is proud to present The Minutes, a new album by world-renowned musical icon Alison Moyet, who has achieved sales of more than 20 million units both as a solo artist and half of influential duo Yazoo. Her first album since 2007, The Minutes was written with and produced by Guy Sigsworth, known for his work with Robyn, Frou Frou, Björk, Goldie, and Madonna. Experimental, captivating, and entirely cohesive, this is beauty with an edge.

“A musical resurrection in the making.”

— THE HUFFINGTON POST “An extraordinary, modern-sounding, and effortlessly stylish comeback.” — POP JUSTICE

Genre: Alt Rock/Electronica Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 876 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 6/11/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

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Alison Moyet: vocals, music Guy Sigsworth: music, vocals Track Listing: Horizon Flame • Changeling • When I Was Your Girl • Apple Kisses • Right As Rain • Remind Yourself • Love Reign Supreme • A Place to Stay • Filigree • All Signs OF Life • Rung by the Tide Key Markets: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh

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Clearly indicating a new artistic lease of life, The Minutes is arguably Alison’s most creative album. It has subtle parallels to her synth-pop past but is also bang up-to-date, taking in elements of high-end pop smashes, R&B, modern club sounds, and electronic experimentation. Panoramic strings and icy electronics start proceedings on album opener “Horizon Flame” before the massive-chorusmeets-jerky-robotic-R&B of “Changeling” kicks in.

“Apple Kisses” highlights the versatility of Alison’s singing; having defined dancefloor synth-pop in Yazoo, this track sees her voice equally at home soaring over a snarling bass line that wouldn’t sound out of place tearing from the Fabric sound system. Equally schooled in club culture is the punchy house/bass squelch of “Right As Rain,” while the brighter “Love Reign Supreme” recalls Chris & Cosey’s “October Love Song.” The darkly beautiful, emotionally fraught torch song “A Place To Stay” precedes the positive and uplifting “Filligree,” which is indicative of the whole album’s cohesive pendulum swing from darkness to light and back again.

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Selling Points

• cEvin Key is a founding member of the electro-industrial pioneering band Skinny Puppy.

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

• Coordinated social media push by Metropolis, cEvin, and Skinny Puppy.

• Full servicing to press, radio, and club DJs. • RIYL: Skinny Puppy, cEvin Key, PlaTEAU, The Tear Garden, Aphex Twin, Autechre.

Download LingAM

Genre: Electronica/Experimental Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 873 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 6/11/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

In Hindu scripture, the lingam is the beginning-less and endless cosmic pillar symbolizing the infinite nature of Shiva, and such infinity can be sensed in Download’s latest album, entitled LingAM. The duo of cEvin Key and Phil Western use their impressive repertoire of skills, synthesizers, and sequencers to create a transcendent work of experimental electronica. Analog squelches and percussive grooves blend seamlessly with elements of trance, noise, IDM, and postindustrial to create a beat-driven epic. Centered, as with all Download releases, around a pillar of percussion and rhythm, LingAM stands as an enchanting sonic expression.

Track Listing: LingAM • AAARD • DUPPY • SAW CRUST • YONI • BLOTCH • KUNDI • JirAFFE from the planet Sanders • INAGE Mantra • PiLLAR Key Markets: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh

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Covenant Last Dance EP

Genre: Electronica/Industrial Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 871 Price Code: D (SRP $6.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 6/11/13 D

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Preview of the upcoming full-length Leaving Babylon (release date TBA).

U.S. tour will be scheduled to coincide with the album release.

Facebook and Google AdWords campaigns coinciding with release.

Extensive back catalog on Metropolis Records.

Full servicing to press, radio, and club DJs. RIYL: VNV Nation, Assemblage 23, Apoptygma Berzerk, De/Vision.

Summer comes, with it daylight, growth, and hope. For long-running and highly revered Swedish electronic act Covenant, the long dark of the Scandinavian winter was spent in the studio preparing the upcoming album Leaving Babylon. The first taste of the upcoming album, Last Dance, is a six-track EP featuring four new songs, one written by each member of Covenant, including new live member Andreas Catjar, keyboardist Daniel Jonasson, and founding members Eskil Simonsson and Joakim Montelius. Majestic synths, quirky noises, unexpected harmonies, scary singing machines, foghorns, massive beats, and of course, Eskil’s incomparable vocals make this EP a brilliant prelude to Leaving Babylon.

Track Listing: Last Dance • We Go Down • Last Dance (Modulate Remix) • I Scan the Surface • Last Dance (Version) • Slowdance Key Markets: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh

Selling Points

• Produced by Kenny Olson (Kid Rock, Jimi Hendrix Experience).

• Features Brent Mason (George Strait, Brad Paisley), Kenny Olson (Les Paul, Sheryl Crow), Dave McAfee (Jamey Johnson, Toby Keith), “Cowboy” Eddie Long (Jamey Johnson), Eerie Von (Danzig), Wayd Battle and Peter Keys (Lynyrd Skynyrd).

• Serviced to Outlaw country radio, including XM-Outlaw Country.

• Summer U.S. tour dates TBD. • RIYL: Hank Williams, Drive-by Truckers, Guns N’ Roses, Hank III.

Unconventional and unconstrained, Nashville’s Kara Clark hits hard with her badass, old-country-rockin’ sound. When asked to describe her genre of music, Clark either flips the bird with a loving smile or quotes her favorite description from a fan: “a twisted orgy of Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Janis Joplin, and Guns & Roses.” Her old-country lyrics and genre-bending country-rock sound are a woven tapestry of troubled times, hidden passion, haunting ghosts, hope, hypocrisy, empowerment, and gritty, gut-checking truth.

“A new, soulful energy … her style and talent are just what country music needs.” — Edwin McCain Track Listing: Relapse • Lonely • Memory Loss • Preacher’s Hands • The Devil Don’t Cry • Southern Hospitality • Living Proof • I’m Not Country • Kill Me • Whiskey and Cigarettes • 1925 • I’m Not Lisa Key Markets: Hometown: Nashville. Also: Memphis, Louisville, Austin, Atlanta, Charlotte, New York

Kara Clark Kara Clark

Genre: Alt Rock/Country Label: Rusty Knuckles CD: RTK 20 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 50 Street Date: 6/11/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

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Tour dates on page 29!

Featured on Sirius/XM’s The Loft: Live From The Living Room.

October 2011 Singer Universe’s Vocalist of the Month.

NSAI/CMT Country Music People’s Choice Award nominee for “Long Day, Good Night.”

Touring in Summer 2013; full dates TBD. Service to radio and national press outlets.

Additional tour press as needed.

RIYL: Ben Harper, Ray LaMontagne, Keb Mo, Jack Johnson.

Track Listing: Hopali • Good Mind To Keep You (If You’ll Stay) • One More Soul • Long Day, Good Night • This Ain’t Life • If I Need a Woman • Gone Baby Gone • Can’t Call You Again • Blind Man’s Blues • Wishin • I Know You Love Me

Robinson Treacher Porches

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Sojourn Records CD: SOJ 38 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 6/11/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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At the crossroads of blues, folk, and Americana lies Robinson Treacher.

Whether in the studio or in live performance, Robinson’s emotionally dramatic songwriting style is matched only by his deeply passionate vocals. Steeped in what can only be labeled as a “traditional” songwriting format, he has taken fibers from all genres and woven them into a distinct tapestry, clearly distinguishable within the singer/ songwriter genre. On the heels of his 2010 release Chrome, Robinson is set to release Porches in June 2013, a purposefully “stripped-down” collection of songs that rarely contains more than an acoustic guitar, an upright bass, and of course, his powerfully distinct vocals.

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Selling Points

• This disc presents final recordings of Shlomo Carlebach, who passed away on tour in 1994.

• The only recording of father & daughter together!

• One of the top selling titles in either artists’ catalog.

With a photograph on the cover taken just prior to her beloved father’s passing, Ha Neshama Shel Shlomo is a classic recording featuring the effortless interplay of Neshama and Shlomo singing together. As popular now as it was upon its 1997 release, this recording provides a last glimpse at a master songwriter, performer, and spiritual leader as he passed the torch to his nineteen-year-old daughter.

Shlomo & Neshama Carlebach Ha Neshama Shel Shlomo Genre: Jewish Label: Sojourn Records CD: SOJ 12 Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 6/11/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

Track Listing: L’Olam • Cracow Nigun • Haneshama Lach and Story • The Mirror • K’vakorat • Gam Ki Elech • Ein K’Elokeinu • B’shaim Hashem-The Angel Song • Ana Hashem • T’naim Nigun • Y’Hi Shalom • Shifchi Kamayim • Al Aileh Ani Bochea and Story: The Ocean of Tears • Amen (A Medley): Tov l’Hodot, l’Hashem, Asher Bara, David Melech Yisrael • Shlomo’s Blessing Key Markets: New York. Also: Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Houston, Dallas, Austin, Phoenix, Atlanta, Nashville, Memphis, Miami, Tallahassee, Orlando, St. Louis

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• Neshama Carlebach’s fourth solo release originally saw limited release in 2004.

• Produced by acclaimed jazz artist David Morgan (CBS TV, Peter Himmelman).

• Features 11 compositions by Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach.

• Features 12 songs in Hebrew and one in English.

• RIYL: Kina Grannis, Laura Nyro, Ingrid Michaelson.

Neshama Carlebach’s fourth solo CD, Journey, combines a sweet mix of the simplicity of her father’s melodies with jazz and earthy folk sounds. Neshama’s musical growth is evident. Of Journey’s 13 acoustic songs, 11 were composed by Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach.

All songs on the album are in Hebrew except for Shlomo’s English classic “Return Again.”

Neshama Carlebach Journey

Genre: Jewish Label: Sojourn Records CD: SOJ 5 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 6/11/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

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“One need not even be Jewish to love the music of Neshama Carlebach, though after hearing her sing, one might want to be.” — JWEEKLY.COM Track Listing: Adon Olam • HaTov • Ata Hu • Asher Bara • Min Hametzar • Niggun Neshama • Baal Hayeshuot • Hinei Yamim Ba’im • Od Yishama • Return Again • V’shamru • L’shana Haba • Shomer Yisrael Key Markets: Hometown: New York. Also: Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Atlanta, Miami, Orlando, Tallahassee, Chicago, Minneapolis

SOJOURN RECORDS PRESENTS THE REMAINDER OF Neshama Carlebach’s CATALOG! Neshama Carlebach Dancing With My Soul

Genre: Jewish Label: Sojourn Records CD: SOJ 8 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 6/11/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

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Neshama Carlebach’s second album, which saw limited release in 2000, is a mystical blend of classic Hebrew folk songs and contemporary original music that will uplift your soul. Featuring four tracks written by her father Shlomo, which were never recorded before his death, the album was roduced by noted jazz recording artist David Morgan (CBS TV, Peter Himmelman, Kelly Mittleman).

Track Listing: Belief • Melech Rachaman • Soulmate • Dancing With My Soul • Gam Ki Elech • Before You Go • Nachamu Ami • Burdened • Evan Ma’asu • B’nai Vaitcha • Exclusion • Restoration • Tshuasam

Neshama Carlebach Soul

Genre: Jewish Label: Sojourn Records CD: SOJ 10 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 6/11/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

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Track Listing: Hu Elokenu • Esah Ainai • Orech Yamim • Kraticha Ka • Hinei Kel Yeshuoti • Uvenai Otah • Im Eshkachech • V’nisgav • Ki Lishu’atcha • Mimkomcha • David Melich Yisrael

Genre: Jewish Label: Sojourn Records CD: SOJ 9 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 6/11/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

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Neshama Carlebach’s third release, originally released in 2001 and recorded in Hebrew, includes both pop and mystical Hebrew folk songs. Continuing her progression toward creating a new platform to celebrate her father Shlomo Carlebach’s music, she is passionate about her interpretation and promotion of her father’s songs and his spiritual message. This disc features a version of Shlomo’s most well-known song, “Am Ysrael Chai.”

Track Listing: Ani Shelach • Pe’ero Alay • Simon Tov • Asay L’ma’an • Intro-The Mojitz Niggun • Chasdei Hashem • Zug Zug Zug • City of Walls • Eishet Chayil • Am Yisrael Chai • Ma Tovu • Barcheinu Avinu • Avi • Ani Shelach Reprise

Neshama Carlebach One and One

Genre: Jewish Label: Sojourn Records CD: SOJ 11 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 6/11/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

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Neshama’s fifth solo CD, One and One was released in 2008. This recording consists of all-original music with English lyrics. The title track, “One and One,” showcases the Green Pastures Baptist Church Choir. Neshama writes, “My father said the greatest downfall of humankind is our inability to connect to all people in this world. We think One and One is Two, but One and One is One.” Track Listing: One and One • Sometimes • Wishing Well • Tightrope • Step Inside • The Best Thing • I Just Want • It’s Time • Finest Hour • Only Now • Keeper of the Flame • Soulmate • I Just Want (Bonus Track)

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Released in 1996, this is Neshama’s first record and features traditional Hebrew folk “soul” music sung in Hebrew. A remarkable debut!

Neshama Carlebach Ani Shelach

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Selling Points

Features 15-time Grammy® winner Michael Brecker.

Remastered & remixed in December 2012.

National press, radio, and advertising campaign.

Online marketing campaign.

Reviews in JazzTimes, Jazziz, and Village Voice.

New bio by Walter Kolosky, author of the best-selling book Power, Passion, and Beauty: The Story of the Legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra.

• RIYL: Michael Brecker, Pat Metheny, Wes Montgomery, Branford Marsalis, Robben Ford, Brad Mehldau.

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Wolfgang Schalk The Second Third Man (Remastered) Genre: Jazz Label: Frame Up Music CD: FRU 610529 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 50 Street Date: 6/11/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

This special remix of The Second Third Man, featuring 15-time Grammy® winner Michael Brecker, was remastered and remixed in December 2012. The collaboration with Brecker was a dream come true for Wolfgang Schalk, whose compositions and performances are wholly impressive. This 2013 version includes a new bio written by Walter Kolosky, author of the best-selling book Power, Passion, and Beauty: The Story of the Legendary Mahavishnu Orchestra.

Track Listing: High Up to the Sky • Schwarzbraun Ist Der Hasenfuss • One for Us • The Second Third Man • Wendepunkt • Frank • 150 Miles • No Smoke on the Water Key Markets: Hometown: Los Angeles. Also: New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Washington DC

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• Limited edition; 500 copies featuring exquisite audiophile sound.

• New liner notes by Clifford Allen.

• First vinyl release for both Mary Halvorson’s flagship ensemble and the Firehouse 12 Records label.

• RIYL: Anthony Braxton, Tomas Fujiwara, Taylor Ho Bynum.

Bending Bridges is Brooklyn-based guitarist/composer Mary Halvorson’s second recording with her working quintet, and third consecutive title as a leader on Firehouse 12 Records. As on 2010’s Saturn Sings, which appeared on nearly 100 Best-of-the-Year Lists, she is joined by trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson, saxophonist Jon Irabagon, bassist John Hébert, and drummer Ches Smith for a program of new original compositions written specifically for this ensemble.

“One of the year’s most eagerly anticipated albums.” — JAZZTIMES

Mary Halvorson Quintet Bending Bridges

Genre: Jazz Label: Firehouse 12 Records VINYL: FHR 408016 Price Code: 3T (SRP $44.99) Number of Discs: 2 Dual Gatefold LP Jacket, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 6/11/13 D

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“One of the most exciting and original guitarists in jazz—or otherwise.”

— WALL STREET JOURNAL Track Listing: Sinks When She Rounds The Bend (No. 22) • Hemorrhaging Smiles (No. 25) • Forgotten Men In Silver (No. 24) • Love In Eight Colors (No. 21) • The Periphery Of Scandal (No. 23) • That Old Sound (No. 27) • Sea Cut Like Snow (No. 26) • Deformed Weight Of Hands (No. 28) • All The Clocks (No. 29) Key Markets: Hometown: New York. Also: Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco

Eri Yamamoto Trio Firefly

SELLING POINTS

• Deeply lyrical pianist/composer Eri Yamamoto offers a new collection of indelible songs performed with her devoted trio of bassist David Ambrosio and drummer Ikuo Takeuchi.

• First-ever live album, recorded by renowned jazz photographer Jimmy Katz at Klavierhaus in NYC. • RIYL: Keith Jarrett, Matthew Shipp, Bill Evans.

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• Press, e-media, and radio service by AUM Fidelity.

• Ads with Point of Departure and NYC Jazz Record.

Deeply lyrical pianist/composer Eri Yamamoto returns with Firefly, a new collection of indelible songs performed with her devoted trio. Following her excellent release The Next Page, Eri’s prolific and consistently compelling writing — and her trio’s telepathic performance thereof — is astonishing.

This is Eri’s first-ever live album, recorded by renowned jazz photographer (and recording engineer) Jimmy Katz at high-end piano showroom Klavierhaus in NYC. The live setting finds the communion with the audience suffusing the performances, and the band stretches out accordingly, with Eri’s improvisations floating on the essence of both her melodies and the rhythm of a larger collective heartbeat.

“They make sophisticated interplay seem effortless, without resorting to showy effect … a wealth of musical detail to savor.” — ALL ABOUT JAZZ “Eri Yamamoto weighs exploratory instincts against a reflective temperament, and her trio supports her at every turn.” — NATE CHINEN, NEW YORK TIMES

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Eri Yamamoto: piano, compositions David Ambrosio: bass Ikuo Takeuchi: drums

ALSO AVAILABLE Eri Yamamoto Trio The Next Page

Eri Yamamoto Trio In Each Day, Something Good

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Key Markets: Hometown: New York. Also: Baltimore, Washington DC, Hartford, New Haven

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Track Listing: Memory Dance • A Few Words • Around on the Way • Firefly • Heart • Echo • Playground • Real Story

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Selling Points

• Having stood the test of time for close to 40 years, Peter King’s Shango is a lost classic!

• Reissue on Mr Bongo’s Classic African Recordings series.

• LP features fully reproduced original artwork and heavyweight vinyl.

Shango is an album loaded with history. Originally recorded in 1974 in a Camden studio session funded by money from a TV soundtrack recorded by Peter King a few years earlier, it remained unreleased for close to 30 years — despite King releasing five albums in the years that followed; the band touring America, Europe, and Japan; and King establishing himself in the West as one of Nigeria’s finest multiinstrumentalists. The album finally saw release in 2002, by which point King had returned to his homeland to found the Peter King College of Music and continue his lifelong dedication to seeing “how far I can go with highlife fusion.” Musically the album is loaded, fusing funk, jazz, and Afrobeat with hard-hitting vocal messages including calls for freedom in Africa and references to African history and the Yoruba religion. “Shango” is the foremost Yoruba deity, god of thunder and storms, and on this album his energy is clearly channeled into the horn lines and devastating grooves found throughout the eight tracks.

Peter King Shango

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Track Listing: Shango • Prisoner of Law • Mr. Lonely Wolf • Freedom Dance • Go Go’s Feast • Mystery Tour • Now I’m a Man • Watusi Key Markets: New York, Washington DC, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles

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• A perfect example of the experimentation rife in the ’70s which, when done well, proves quite simply timeless!

• Title cut heavily sampled by Liquid People for “The Dragon.”

• Reproduced in original style packaging with heavyweight vinyl.

Nico Gomez Ritual

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Belgium is not the first place you’d think of when it comes to Latin or Afro-funk. Yet, one of the greatest records to blend both styles came from the small northern European country, masterminded

by Nico Gomez and his Afro Percussion Inc. Ritual was originally released in 1971 on the Dutch label Omega International and is now reissued by Mr Bongo, bringing its blazing funk grooves to new ears and those already tuned in to this masterpiece’s legacy. Across its 11 tracks Ritual delivers the kind of production, arrangement, and musicianship that rightfully belong in a dictionary next to the definition of professional. Gomez’s band was tight and they knew it, showing it off on their covers of Perez Prado’s “Caballo Negro” and “Lupita” by injecting the originals with a deep funk that blends both Afro and Latin influences.

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Track Listing: Caballo Negro • Naci Para Bailar • Cuba Libre • Samba De Una Nota So • Baila Chibiquiban • El Condor Pasa • Lupita • Pa! Pa! Pa! Pa! • Ritual • Eso Es El Amor Key Markets: New York, Washington DC, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles

Selling Points

• Fans of Afrobeat and Ghanaian music can finally experience this album in all its glory!

• Track “Heaven” sampled by Usher for his song “She Don’t Know.”

• Reissue on Mr Bongo’s Classic African Recordings series.

• LP features artwork restored from original release, and is produced on heavyweight vinyl.

Originally released in 1977, Ebo Taylor’s self-titled album is a rarity that truly exposes the genius of the Ghanaian producer and arranger.

Having spent most of the 1970s involved in Ghana’s Afro-funk output, Taylor put forward his own unique blend of Ghanaian highlife and Afrobeat with this self-titled release. The six songs exemplify Taylor’s desire to experiment and move beyond the constraints of colonial influences on highlife and African musical traditions. “Heaven” is perhaps the album’s highlight, widely recognized as one of the finest examples of Ghanaian Afrobeat from the late ’70s. Its popularity has endured through the decades, and the song even found a new lease on life after Usher sampled it for his song “She Don’t Know.”

Track Listing: Saana • Ntsir A • Bra • Ohye Atar Gyan • Heaven • Amponsah Key Markets: New York, Washington DC, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles

Ebo Taylor Ebo Taylor

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Selling Points

• A standout opus of Ghanaian Afro-funk ripe for rediscovery!

• Reissue on Mr Bongo’s Classic African Recordings series.

• LP features artwork restored from original release, and is produced on heavyweight vinyl.

Track Listing: You Need Love • Love and Death • What Is Life? • Christ Will Come • Victory Key Markets: New York, Washington DC, Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles

Ebo Taylor Conflict

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One of Ghana’s finest producers and arrangers, Ebo Taylor was involved in a lot of the Afro-funk to emerge from the country in the ’70s, working with bands such as Apagya Show Band and fellow musicians C.K. Mann and Pat Thomas. Conflict was originally released in 1980 and is finally seeing a long-overdue reissue on Mr Bongo, following a partial remake as part of Taylor’s 2009 Love and Death album. The five tracks that make up Conflict are a perfect example of Taylor’s trademark approach, which saw him inject a heavy dose of funk into Ghana’s traditional highlife grooves in an attempt to move away from what he saw as the music’s more traditional qualities.

Taylor’s arrangements and funky grooves, combined with lyrics that touch on subjects ranging from love to religion, make Conflict a standout opus of Ghanaian Afro-funk ripe for rediscovery.

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Duane Pitre Bridges

Selling Points

• Previous release Feel Free was a tremendous critical success for Important Records.

• Elaborate promotional effort via all outlets.

• RIYL: Terry Riley, Pauline Oliveros, Morton Feldman.

Duane Pitre’s new album, Bridges, features two pieces taken from a suite of analogous compositions by the same name, and was composed by Pitre in 2012. The two pieces that comprise the album are meant to work together in sequence as a composite work, or they can be isolated and listened to on their own. The title derives its name from the original concept for this work, which was to bring together aspects of traditional Eastern music (such as compositional form and tuning) with Western musical traditions (such as in the church music of the Middle Ages and modern classical music). The result is an album that merges the ancient with the new, while creating a sound that is wholly its own.

“The music proceeds without conflict into a threedimensional fractal framework of curved contours and bright pulsating nodes … it’s gorgeous stuff.”

— THE WIRE

Genre: Avant Rock Label: Important Records CD: IPT 390 Price Code: P (SRP $16.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 D

“A weirdly perfect piece of music … it can probably be endlessly looped without ever becoming boring.”

— BRAINWASHED Track Listing: Bridges: Earth/Ember/Serpent • Bridges: Cup/Aether/Crane

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Key Markets: Hometown: New Orleans. Also: San Diego, New York, Los Angeles

UPCOMING PERFORMANCE June 13 Detroit, MI – MOCAD solo set + premiere screening of Bridges video

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Born of Six Svapiti

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Selling Points

• Lead by members of Catherine Christer Hennix’s ensemble, and also features Hennix herself.

• Promo mailing via Important Records.

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

Born of Six — featuring Amelia Cuni, Catherine Christer Hennix, and Werner Durand — create exemplary drone compositions rooted in the traditions of Dhrupad, Early Minimalism, and Just Intonation.

Composed by Durand, Cuni, Hennix, and Svapiti is one long composition measuring 55 minutes in length.

Track Listing: Svapiti

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

Master Musicians of Bukkake Far West

Selling Points

• A brilliant new work from MMOB. • First pressings are housed in deluxe tip-on style Stoughton record jackets.

• LP pressed in a first edition of 1,000 copies.

• Features backing vocals by Sub Pop recording artists Rose Windows.

• Tours regularly around the globe.

• Promotion handled in-house via Important Records.

• Ads with The Wire.

• RIYL: Grails, Sun City Girls, Sublime Frequencies.

On Far West, Master Musicians of Bukkake mark a turn from their Totem Trilogy; if the Totems were an expression of yang energy, then the Far West cycle is the yin that took seed within the trilogy. What happens when you travel so far east looking for enlightenment that you pass your destination and are headed west again?

Far West is the soundtrack to this expedition to the caves of light we all travel into with hopes of acquiring redemption only to realize our bodies have dissolved, gone like rain from the sky, snow from the ground, thoughts from the mind. The sound of Far West is a progressive folk inspired by Paul Giovanni’s Wicker Man soundtrack, early Canterbury prog folk, the suspenseful soundtracks of Goblin and Ennio Morricone, Gerry Goldsmith’s interwoven dark orchestrations, and Pacific Northwest folk rock. Master Musicians of Bukkake take an earthly and shamanistic approach to these influences, and infuse them with Krautrock pulses interwoven with acoustic guitars, intricately layered rhythms, hazed-out modular analog synths, brassy stabs, and cultish choirs. Far West also features a deluxe cover illustration by Simon Fowler, and the amazing photography of Alison Scarpulla.

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Additional Guests Samantha Boshnak: trumpet, flugelhorn Naomi Siegal: trombone White Mountain Voices: Nils Petterson, Rabia Quazi, Richie Rico Keith Lowe: contra bass Craig Flory: baritone & tenor saxophone Track Listing: White Mountain Return • Gnomi • Arche • Cave of Light: The Prima Materia • You Are a Dream Like Your Dreamer: The Dark Peace • Circular Ruins Key Markets: Hometown: Seattle

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David Abramson: percussion, drums, tef, shaman shakers, green fog B.R.A.D: percussion, vocals, candles, sights unseen Don McGreevy: percussion, drums, guitars, mellotron, bass Randall Dunn: korg analog synths, mellotron, divining rod Milky: guitars, synths, vocals, mossy fuzz Timm Mason: guitar, serge modular synth, electric bass, insects

Master Musicians of Bukkake Master Musicians of Bukkake Live Totems 2009–2011 Totem 3 VINYL: IPT 342 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1

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Listener-friendly experimental rock from China.

Promo to college radio via Planetary Group.

Service to U.S. print & web press.

RIYL: Swans, The Birthday Party, James White & The Blacks.

The debut album from Shanghai-based band Stalin Gardens is influenced by the New York no-wave scene of the late 1980s. The band quotes Swans and The Birthday Party as major influences.

“China’s Stalin Gardens have a pretty impenetrable and tortured postpunk album on their hands with Shanghai Void. The band rips through the nine tracks on this new album with the dissonant, narrated swagger of The Fall and the artistically informed depression of Joy Division.” — THE NEEDLE DROP

Stalin Gardens Shanghai Void

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“The voice of postmodern Shanghai is Stalin Gardens, and it’s fuckin weird … they take the China-brand no-wave/post-punk thing and shove it down a deep k-hole into the grimiest parts of the Shanghai metropolitan subconscious.” — TINY MIXTAPES Track Listing: A Night Apartment • Osteosarcoma • Porcelain • Sex Bomb • Under the Black Moon • Politique de Minuit • Procrastination Bulbs • Last Days • Inside the Shanghai Void Key Markets: New York, Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Baltimore, Athens

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• Homemade organic electronica; great original dub styles for 2013.

• College radio and media promo via Planetary Group.

• RIYL: Beta Band, Soma Records, King Tubby, 8 Bit Boy.

The debut album from Scotsman Dub Chieftain (Eddie Coleman) sounds like the bastard electronic grandchild of fellow Scots The Beta Band, featuring Scottish rap, GameBoy samples, and ’70s Jamaican dub styles.

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Track Listing: In Amongst It • Increase The Dose • Diverting Dub • Four Track Mind • Erraweetrack • New To Me • Orca Vision • Fitness Fanatic • African Space Race Key Markets: New York, Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Portland, Athens, Las Vegas, Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit, Chicago San Diego Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle

Dub Chieftain Skill, Stamina & Luck

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• Neal Pollack is a world-famous and prolific author with mass hipster appeal and crossover to the rock world.

• Features Jim Roll, Neal Cleary, Peel member Dakota Smith, and the Yuppie Pricks.

• Limited to 400 copies.

• Includes bonus oral history of The Neal Pollack Invasion.

• High-visibility return to the spotlight at a pair of SXSW 2013 shows.

• Publicity by Fanatic Promotion (NYC).

• RIYL: The Ramones, Yuppie Pricks, Dead Kennedys.

Because no one demanded it, here is Neal Pollack’s punk rock album re-issued with a bonus track for its 10th anniversary!

Track Listing: New York City • Do the Ostrich • Memories of Times Square (The Dildo Song) • Never Mind the Pollacks • Racism Number 5 • I’m a Seeker • Jenny in the Car, 1972 • Coney Island • I Wipe My Ass On Your Novel • Beer and Weed • Vein Key Markets: Hometown: Austin. Also: Los Angeles, New York, Chicago

The Neal Pollack Invasion Never Mind the Pollacks

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• One of the most popular and critically well-received independent acts in American music.

• All versions of the songs are unique to this record.

• Recorded and mixed by Mike Bridavsky at Russian Recording (Magnolia Electric Co).

• Full in-house promotional campaign with outreach to print and online media outlets.

• RIYL: The Microphones, Twin Peaks OST, No Kids.

“Inscrutable and transfixing, plainspoken and unknowable, it feels like a collection of secrets Elverum has cupped in his palm to pour directly, and privately, into your ear alone, a rich meditation on the many meanings of the word ‘home.’” — PITCHFORK (Best New Music, Clear Moon) Track Listing: Introduction • House Shape • Between Two Mysteries • Ancient Questions • Karl Blau • No Inside, No Out • The Place I Live • Lone Bell • See Me • Stone’s Ode • The Place Lives Key Markets: Hometown: Anacortes. Also: Portland, Chicago, New York, Bloomington, Seattle, Athens, Champaign, Louisville

Mount Eerie Live in Bloomington, September 30th, 2011 Genre: Rock Label: Crossroads Of America VINYL: XRA 43 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 6/11/13 D

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This live recording documents the unique touring lineup of the Mount Eerie band just prior to the release of the popular Clear Moon album.

Live in Bloomington features interesting, one-of-a-kind live versions of songs from such hit Microphones/Mount Eerie albums as Clear Moon, Wind’s Poem, It Was Hot We Stayed In The Water, No Flashlight, and 11 Old Songs of Mount Eerie.

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• Powerful, very melodic epic/power metal.

• Crystal-clear contemporary production by Vagelis Maranis at Maranis Studios (Germany).

• Includes bonus track exclusively for the CD version of the album.

• Promos to all major print and web publications, as well as webzines, blogs, and radio stations.

• Online promotion including heavy use of social media.

• Song samples streaming at Pitch Black Records website.

• Album teaser and clips on YouTube.

• RIYL: Rhapsody of Fire, Hammerfall, Blind Guardian, Dark Moor.

Arrayan Path IV: Stigmata

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This is the fourth album from increasingly popular melodic epic metal powerhouse Arrayan Path, whose previous albums received ecstatic reviews and ratings making it into several “Best of the Year” shortlists. What all this means, of course, is a highly anticipated and very promising new album! This is a fiercer, darker album, but everything that defines Arrayan Path is still there: superb compositions full of melody, passionate performances, excellent atmospheric parts, and some of the best metal vocals ever!

Track Listing: Clepsydra • The Bible Bleeds • Midnight and the First-Born Massacre • Judas Iscariot • Stigmata • Cursed Canaan • Pharaoh’s Wish • Harbingers of Death • Disguising your Soul • The Storyteller • Mystic Moon (Bonus Track) Key Markets: New York, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, Boston, Detroit

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• Guest appearances by Sakis Tolis (Rotting Christ) and George Charalambous (Winter’s Verge).

• Mastered by Russ Hepworth-Sawyer at MOTTOsound.

• Artwork by Seth Siro Anton (Septic Flesh).

• Promos to all major print and web publications, as well as webzines, blogs, and radio stations.

• Online promotion including heavy use of social media.

• Song samples streaming at Pitch Black Records website.

• Album teaser and clips on YouTube.

• RIYL: Sodom, Slayer, Sepultura, Septic Flesh, Amon Amarth.

BLYND Punishment Unfolds

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BLYND’s massive thrash/death sound gets everybody moving right from the first note, and this is evident from the crowd reaction during their many live shows in Cyprus and abroad. The new album Punishment Unfolds simply … unfolds (pun intended) as a smack-in-the-face-don’tknow-what-hit-you! The record includes 10 tracks of utter brutality with melody infused throughout, with guest appearances by Sakis Tolis (Rotting Christ) and George Charalambous (Winter’s Verge).

Track Listing: Divine Gathering • Arrival of the Gods • As Punishment Unfolds • Never for the Fallen • The Chosen Few • Convicted in the Devil’s Land • Sins to the Cross • The Final Resistance • Divine Conspiracy • Infinity Race • The Chosen Few Video (CD bonus) Key Markets: New York, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, Boston, Detroit

Selling Points

Seventh studio album from SMP. Features the soon-to-be-hits “In Your Blood” and “Metal Madness.”

Demo of “Metal Madness” appears on 2013 WTII digital sampler.

Jason Bazinet has worked and toured with Front Line Assembly, 16 Volt, Chemlab, Left Spine Down, Christ Analogue, and 64k.

• Interviews in RE:GEN, COMA, and Grave Concerns.

• Reviews in Outburn, Gothic Beauty, COMA, and RE:GEN. • Full servicing to college radio and club DJs. • Full social media blitz (Facebook, Myspace, Google+, Twitter).

• RIYL: KMFDM, Rage Against the Machine, Stromkern, Chemlab, 16 Volt, Left Spine Down.

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Industrial veterans SMP (a.k.a. Sounds of Mass Production) release their seventh studio album, Death of the Format. Two years in the making, this is one of SMP’s most complete albums to date. Jason Bazinet, the band’s mastermind, returns to his roots and delivers an album that can be described as industrial rock with heavy influences of rap and punk, building on SMP’s legacy and sure to garner the accolades they deserve!

Track Listing: In Your Blood • Metal Madness • Endlust • Somebody Dissin’ You feat. Benn Tranq • I’m Falling • Earthlight • Still Sick • What’s Wrong With You? feat. Jason Porter • In the City Key Markets: Hometown: Seattle. Also: Vancouver, Calgary, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Portland, Milwaukee, New York, Tampa, San Francisco, Los Angeles

SMP Death of the Format

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• First full-length release since 2008’s Atrocitizer.

• Widely recognized as one of the premier death industrial/power electronic acts in the U.S. • Extensive discography of small-run, highly sought-after releases.

• Six-panel digipak with gruesome handcrafted artwork and paintings.

• Appeals to both the power electronics/noise crowd as well as those into death and black metal.

• Extensive promotion to all relevant underground metal and noise websites, zines, and podcasts.

• Exclusive videos for multiple tracks available on YouTube.

• RIYL: Brighter Death Now, S.P.K., Skinny Puppy, Navicon Torture Technologies, Atrax Morgue.

Track Listing: Rendering Human Tallow • Leprosaria Dross • Sadomedica • Debrided Necrotic Tissue • Gula • Emaciated Angel • Disfiguring Aesthetics • Decrepit Hands Emerge • Scald • Disease Incubator • The Blood Cough • Antiquus Morbus Key Markets: Hometown: Dallas. Also: Houston, Portland, New York, Boston, Seattle, Austin, Minneapolis, Philadelphia

Steel Hook Prostheses The Empirics Guild

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The first full-length release since 2008’s Atrocitizer finds this Texas death industrial duo digging even deeper into the depths of depravity, creating 12 tracks of grim, necro-horror atmospheres and disturbing, hallucinatory soundscapes, where charred waves of electronic filth meet heavily distorted, sadistic vocalizations. The perfect marriage of dark, cinematic ambience and power electronics.

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• Mixed by Tony Doogan (Mogwai).

• Online promotion through social media (with Facebook campaign) and specialized news groups.

• RIYL: Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mogwai, Pink Floyd, Nadja.

Labirinto & thisquietarmy Split CD Genre: Avant Rock/Drone Label: ConSouling Sounds CD: CSD 29 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 40 Street Date: 6/11/13 D

Once again, Montreal’s one-man drone machine thisquietarmy teams up with another sonically different experimental post-rock band, Labirinto, from Sao Paulo. While the two acts are from different hemispheres, they both have a mutual admiration for each other’s sound and work ethic, as well as shared influences of textured sounds such as ambient, psychedelic, post-rock, and black metal. As an ambitious seven-piece band, Labirinto’s instrumentation includes a combination of orchestral guitar riffs, synthesizers, bass, cello, and percussion. Their critically acclaimed 2010 debut Anatena was mixed

by Greg Norman (Pelican, Russian Circles). This time, they asked Tony Doogan (Mogwai) to mix the tracks. And as for thisquietarmy, the artist showcases the different sides of his staple drone buildups and dark ambient soundscapes.

Track Listing: Labirinto: Tahrir • Diluvium • 11 Palmos • thisquietarmy: Eclipse • World Protest • Abandonment Key Markets: Hometown: Toronto. Also: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Austin, Montreal

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Mastered by Tom Kvalsvoll (Dødheimsgard, Virus) at Strype Audio.

Intro and outro by Mories from Gnaw Their Tongues.

Features ex-members of Serpentcult, Headmeat, and Leng Tch’e.

Video clip available for “Hessepikn.”

Targeted promo campaign; online promotion through social media and specialized news groups.

• RIYL: Darkthrone, Burning Witch, Wolves In The Throne Room, Beherit, Mount Eerie.

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Alkerdeel Morinde

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After a few successful demos and EPs, these Belgians are upping the ante. It’s clear that Alkerdeel has progressed quite a bit since the release of Luizig. Although the familiar elements are still present — raw sludge/doom infused with filthy black metal — the compositions have matured and gained more depth. The lo-fi approach of the previous albums made room for a more thoughtful recording process, making it more accessible but also allowing the sound to reveal all its sluggish nuances. But rest assured that Alkerdeel remains Alkerdeel: a mean, putrid steamroller that takes no prisoners.

Track Listing: Winterteens • Horsesaw • Hessepikn • Du levande Key Markets: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Austin

Selling Points • • • • • •

Strong regional Northeast dates surrounding release (TBA).

East Coast mini-tour with Dead Kennedys in Winter 2013.

Releases consistently sell between 2,500–5,000 units worldwide.

Publicity by Secret Service PR (Weezer, Social Distortion).

Strong ad campaign with key online outlets.

RIYL: Street Dogs, Flatfoot 56, Dropkick Murphys, Cock Sparrer.

The Welch Boys are a street punk band from Boston featuring members of Slapshot and The Blue Bloods. Raised and bred on the many great Boston punk and hardcore bands, The Welch Boys emerge with a sound that is a perfect mix of punk rock, Oi!, and East Coast hardcore.

The band was formed in 2004 by guitarist and Blue Bloods founding member T.J. Welch; seven-year Slapshot veteran Ed Lalli handles the vocals. Bring Back the Fight is their third full-length album, and second for Sailor’s Grave Records. The band has been bringing their Beantown punk consistently to their loyal fans for almost a decade.

Track Listing: Bring Back the Fight • Flesheater • Where Have All the Boot Boys Gone? • Hand Grenade • Belly of the Beast • Hit It and Quit It • Can’t Let Go • Whiskey and Beer • Your Worst Nightmare • Writing on the Wall • I Feel Like Drinkin’ • Welcome to the U.S.A. • Sudden Death • Someone’s Gonna Die Key Markets: Hometown: Boston. Also: New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Francisco

The Welch Boys Bring Back the Fight

Genre: Punk Label: Sailor’s Grave Records CD: SLG 25 Price Code: 2D (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 6/11/13 D

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Selling Points

• Debut full length produced by Jesse Cannon (Say Anything, The Cure).

• The Menzingers have scanned over 10,000 units in their career.

• Have toured with Against Me!, Rise Against, Hot Water Music, and The Gaslight Anthem, as well as headlined their own shows.

• Pressed on limited edition color vinyl.

• Radio ads with PunkRadioCast.

• RIYL: Rise Against, The Clash, Operation Ivy, Anti-Flag, Against Me!

Track Listing: Alpha Kappa Fall of a Balcony • Sir Yes Sir • A Lesson in the Abuse of Information Technology • Ave Maria • Coal City Blues • Keychain • Even for an Eggshell • Richard Coury • Straight to Hell • ...And We’ll Drink Victory Gin at the Ministry of Love • Cold Weather Gear • Clap Hands Two Guns • No Ticket Key Markets: Hometown: Scranton, Philadelphia. Also: New York, Washington DC, Boston

The Menzingers A Lesson in the Abuse of Information Technology Genre: Punk Label: Go-Kart Records VINYL: GKR 131 Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 6/11/13 D

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The Menzingers formed in the wake of Scranton ska-punk/pop-punk bands Bob And The Sagats and KOS MOS. Their first release was a self-titled demo tape made in 2006, which made its way onto many Top 10 lists that year. Their debut full-length, A Lesson in the Abuse of Information Technology, was produced by Jesse Cannon (Say Anything, The Cure, Lifetime). According to Cannon, “I record bands every day and almost all of them are missing something. The Menzingers have it all: the songs, the aggression, the heart, and the passion that most only dream of.”

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Selling Points

• New project from Frederic Arbour (Visions) featuring Harlow MacFarlane (Funerary Call) and Sarah Rosalina Brady (Amber Asylum).

• Limited edition of 600 copies in a six-panel digpak.

• Promos sent to magazines and radio stations for airplay and reviews.

• Album release date announced on label’s mailing list, Facebook, SoundCloud, and YouTube.

• Ads with Obskure, Rock A Rolla, and Zero Tolerance.

• RIYL: Visions, Funerary Call, Amber Asylum.

Havan Yajna

Genre: Alt Rock/Ambient Label: Cyclic Law CD: CYC 55 Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 25 Street Date: 6/11/13 D

The new project from Frederic Arbour (Visions), Havan (“Fire Sacrifice”) aims to explore spontaneous forms of aural explorations through instinctive sound manipulations, balancing improvisation with the channeling of sonic energies. It is also meant as a mainly collaborative endeavor, so for this first recording Frederic is joined by Harlow MacFarlane (Funerary Call) and Sarah Rosalina Brady (Amber Asylum).

The album was recorded during a live ritual in November 2012 using analog synths, guitar, gongs, bells, voice, and electric violin, and the result is a stirring elemental foray into the transforming powers of sound and ritual.

Track Listing: Yajna Key Markets: New York, Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago

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• Lead singer Yolanda Quartey has sung lead spots with Nitin Sawhney and Chase & Status, spent the summer of 2008 touring with Massive Attack including their Glastonbury headline performance, has written for Will Young, and has performed backing vocals for Adele and Dizzee Rascal.

• Band leader Stew Jackson has written for Massive Attack, contributing to two tracks on 2010’s Heligoland: the Hope Sandoval-sung “Paradise Circus,” and the Damon Albarn-fronted “Saturday Come Slow.”

• Produced by Marc Ford of the Black Crowes.

• Nominated Best New Band 2012 by UK’s Classic Rock Magazine.

• Naim e-blast; social networking; targeted press mailing.

• Two YouTube promo videos, for “Gravy Train” and “The Pines.”

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Phantom Limb The Pines

Genre: Alt Rock/Country Label: Naim Edge Records CD: NAI 166 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 25 Digipak, Box Lot 30 Available Now

An allegro crossover title

Phantom Limb sits at the exceptional crossroads between country and soul music. The massive Aretha Franklin-esque voice of Yolanda Quartey blends with a super-talented country blues band and some CSN&Y harmonies to form a unique sound that you would never expect to come from Britain, of all places!

“A damn fine blend of harmony-drenched country-meets-soul.”

— TIME OUT Track Listing: The Pines • Tumbling Down • Give Me a Reason • I’ll Have Mercy • It’s the Only Way • Laugh Like You’re Mad • Gravy Train • Badge of Descension • Hollow Eyes • Missy • Harder Than Stone • High and Dry • Angel of Death (bonus track) Key Markets: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Nashville

Selling Points • • • • • •

Full U.S. tour planned to coincide with the release.

Facebook and Google ad campaigns to coincide with the release.

Sound samples available on www.metropolis-records.com.

Extensive back catalog on Metropolis Records.

Full servicing to press, radio, and club DJs. RIYL: The Cruxshadows, Ego Likeness, Carfax Abbey.

It’s time to celebrate the first 17 years of Bella Morte’s dark, diverse catalog of sounds! Formed in 1996, these beloved goth rockers have released seven albums and two EPs, and played a major role in the revival of Gothic Rock in the late ’90s. This collection features tracks from the earliest inception of the band to their most recent album, Before the Flood. It includes a re-recorded version of “Evensong,” from the band’s debut album, as well as “Flatlined,” which was only available for a short while on a Metropolis/Hot Topic sampler CD. Track Listing: Fall No More • Find Forever Gone • The Rain Within Her Hands • Here With Me • Another Way • Logic • The Quiet • One Winter’s Night • On the Edge • Many Miles • Black Seas Collide • The Coffin Don’t Want Me and She Don’t Either • Winter • Untitled • Flatlined • Evensong (2012) Key Markets: Hometown: Charlottesville. Also: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh

Bella Morte The Best of Bella Morte 1996–2012 Genre: Alt Rock/Goth Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 847 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 6/25/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

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Selling Points

• Founder Edward Ka-Spel is a frequent collaborator with cEvin Key (Skinny Puppy) under the moniker The Tear Garden (with new album planned for later this year)!

• Full U.S. tour planned to coincide with the release.

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

• Sound samples available on www.metropolis-records.com.

• Full servicing to press, radio, and club DJs. • RIYL: The Tear Garden, cEvin Key, Throbbing Gristle, Death In June.

Track Listing: A Star Is Born • The Garden of Ealing • Esher Everywhere • Pendulum • Grey Scale • A Stretch In Time • One More Dimension Key Markets: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh

The Legendary Pink Dots The Gethsemane Option Genre: Alt Rock Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 872 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 6/25/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

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The Legendary Pink Dots is an Anglo-Dutch experimental rock band formed in London in August 1980. Although far outside the mainstream (in terms of their music and career path), LPD have released more than 40 albums, have a devoted worldwide following, and tour frequently.

The band’s debut for Metropolis Records, entitled The Gethsemane Option, is a seven-song, hour-long exploration in textural ambience and rock experimentalism. Featuring Ka-Spel’s distinctive vocals and lyrical imagery blended with hypnotic guitar & synth washes and spellbinding bass pulses, The Gethsamane Option is a musical laudanum-induced fever dream and an enthralling, captivating release.

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Selling Points

• Full headlining tour planned for Summer 2013.

• Previously supported Combichrist on two North American tours.

• Facebook and Google AdWords campaigns coinciding with the release.

• Full servicing to press, radio, and club DJs. • RIYL: Combichrist, This Morn Omina, Juno Reactor.

The story of iVardensphere’s rise begins a few years ago in Edmonton, Canada, where Scott Fox DJs the notorious club nights SICK and Das OOntz. Fox took his expertise in filling the dance floor and applied it to his passion for synths and industrial dance music to create a fresh take on the genre and form iVardensphere. The resulting debut album, Scatterface, is industrial music targeted directly at the dance floor. Metropolis Records is re-releasing the album as Scatterface V3, featuring 13 tracks of mayhem and stomp that span the genres of EBM, tribal, and rhythmic noise. This new version features two bonus remixes of “Bonedance,” from AIMON and Blush Response.

iVardensphere Scatterface V3

Track Listing: Sentient Wave Form V3 • Calibrating the God Machine V3 • Wormtongue • Virus (Outbreak) • Bonedance V3 • Nuke the Site from Orbit • Tesseract • Jigsaw • Diatribe • Box of Monsters • A Message from Our Sponsors • Bonedance (AIMON Remix) • Bonedance (Blush Response Remix)

Genre: Electronica/Industrial Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 864 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 6/25/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

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

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Selling Points

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Alpha Heaven steps through doors previously opened on AUN’s acclaimed 2011 Phantom Ghost album, described as “endlessly intriguing” and “majestic” by Rock-a-Rolla (UK). Walking the line between romantic, sinister, uplifting, and melancholic, Alpha Heaven is AUN’s most living and breathing recording to date. Mostly recorded in one take with little editing — apart from some overdubbed vocals, lounge organ, and creaky acoustic piano parts — the space echoed, using a collection of electric pianos, organ, bass pedals, and tapes to augment AUN’s otherworldly signature guitar, voice, and electronics.

AUN Alpha Heaven

Genre: Experimental Label: Denovali Records CD: DNV 172 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 6/25/13 D

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CD contains two bonus songs not included on the vinyl version.

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

Print and banner ads with various outlets.

Facebook campaign with over 10,000 targets.

Email campaign with over 15,000 targets.

RIYL: This Mortal Coil, My Bloody Valentine, André Mathieu.

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Track Listing: Koenig • Returna • War Is Near • Viva • Vulcan • La Luna • Peacecalm • Alpha • Voyager • Floodland (CD only) • Return To Jupiter (CD only) VINYL: DNV 172 Price Code: 2O (SRP $27.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket, Box Lot 8 Street Date: 6/25/13 D

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

Selling Points

• The first true retrospective of one of Las Vegas’ most influential bands!

• First new Peccadilloes release in over five years.

• Digitally re-mastered version of legendary album Rumor Control, plus unreleased album Chaos Show.

• National print, radio, and social media campaigns.

• Ads with New York Waste, Substream, Vegas Seven, and more.

• RIYL: Rancid, DRI, Exploited, Black Flag, Green Day, AFI, Fear.

Formed in 2003, Peccadilloes quickly became one of the most influential bands in Las Vegas and went on to gain tens of thousands of fans around the world. They released three full-length CDs, were featured on the A&E TV Show Inked, had features in local and national papers, and recorded the title track for the film One Long Day. The most underrated punk band in the United States? You could certainly make that argument. Now, SquidHat Records commemorates 10 years of one of Las Vegas’ most influential punk bands with this special 26-track double CD. A love letter to their legions of loyal fans, this unique retrospective CD set is a dream come true!

DISC ONE: Psykill • Deadblind • Minimum Rage • Stillborn • Liquid Cheers • Hamptons Baby • Desert Rats • Boot N Fists • In My Way • Rumor Control • Sad Sack • Has Been • Down To Earth • DISC TWO: Losing A Shoe • Storm Shadow • Buzzkill • Chaos Show • Powder Monkey • Organic Piranha • Pressed • Decay • Golds • Flophouse Special • Little Girls • Leftovers • Tough Guys • Not One of Them Key Markets: Hometown: Las Vegas. Also: Long Beach, Los Angeles, San Diego, New York, Chicago, Phoenix

Peccadilloes Ten Years ... A Million Beers Genre: Punk Label: SquidHat Records CD: SQD 3725 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) Number of Discs: 2 Digipak, Box Lot 25 Street Date: 6/25/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

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Selling Points • • • • • • •

Isaak will hit North America in support of this release (Fall 2013).

Will be part of the Small Stone Showcase at SXSW 2014.

PR campaign via Small Stone, No Other PR (UK), and Gordeon Music.

Finished copies to press, radio, and bloggers.

Two videos will be produced; marketing via Rive Video Marketing.

College and specialty radio via the Syndicate.

RIYL: Brain Police, Dozer, Abrahma, Miss Lava, Roadsaw.

Track Listing: Haywire • Under Siege • Breaking Balance • Flood • Red (The Colour of God) • Rest of the Sun • Adrift • Hypotesis • Fearless • Wrathchild • The Right Time • Isolation 2.0 Key Markets: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, New Orleans, Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, Chicago, Cleveland

Isaak The Longer the Beard the Harder the Sound Genre: Rock Label: Small Stone Recordings CD: SSO 140 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case, Box Lot 30 Street Date: 6/25/13 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT D

STREET DATE JUNE 25, 2013

Long regarded as a rising force within Italy’s underground stoner rock scene, where they were previously known as Gandhi’s Gunn, Genoa’s newly renamed Isaak is now preparing to bring their bongs across the globe with the help of Detroit’s Small Stone Records. The label is happy to announce the imminent global reissue of The Longer the Beard the Harder the Sound, newly expanded with four tracks (including covers of Pink Floyd’s “Fearless” and Iron Maiden’s “Wrathchild”). The album has also been remixed by Eric Hoegemeyer at Brooklyn’s Tree Laboratory and mastered by Chris Goosman at Ann Arbor’s Baseline Audio Labs, to deliver the utmost stoner rock purity per toke.

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Jam Heavy Metal Guitar: Unleash the Metal God Within Do you dream of playing guitar like your heroes? Stop dreaming, because now it’s your turn to ROCK! Jam Heavy Metal Guitar Vol. 1 is your introduction to the fast track of becoming a Metal Guitar Master Blazer. No boring, old-school lessons here, just the straight-to-the-bone secrets you need to play and sound great. Metal fans are the most dedicated in the world. If you love metal and want to play badass metal riffs and scales, this comprehensive DVD will get you on track FAST! We’ve all got our favorite bands, be it Sabbath, Pantera, System of a Down, or Slayer, but now it’s time for YOU to be the Heavy Metal Guitar Master of your own destiny. In this series of DVDs, you’ll start with the basics and then progress all the way through to advanced playing, copping Van Halen hammer-ons and Zach Wylde harmonic squeals in no time.

In Volume 1, we start at the beginning with string names and tuning, then move straight onto playing. In no time you’ll be playing the five basic open chords, and then we’ll cover power chords, rock scales, licks, riffs, and much more. You’ll get the lowdown on right and left-hand technique, alternate picking, palm muting, and metal gear.

Genre: Instructional/Rock Studio: Reality Entertainment DVD: RYE 8001 Price Code: V Number of Discs: 1 Amaray, Box Lot 30 NTSC, Region 1 16:9, Color English (Stereo) Not Rated Run Time: 120 min Director: Matt Clark Production Year: 2012 Street Date: 6/11/13 ISBN: n/a

STREET DATE JUNE 11, 2013

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And if that isn’t enough, the DVD is loaded with over an hour of special features including close-up views of licks, pentatonic minor and blues scales, and the key chords that matter in Heavy Metal playing. Bonus songs are included with in-depth looks at how to play riffs!

SPECIAL FEATURES

j Two killer, exclusive songs for you to jam along with! j Close-up of Chords, Scales, Licks and More! j Metal tabs on every exercise! j Music videos with hot metal bands!

- METAL “That Metal Show”

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IS HOT! = “Metal Evolution”

have off-the-chart viewership!

Jam Heavy Metal Guitar: The Power to Rock Jam Heavy Metal Guitar Volume 2 is your FAST TRACK to becoming a metal guitar Master Blazer. Do you dream of playing guitar like your heroes? Stop dreaming, because now it’s your turn to rock! No boring, old-school lessons here, just the straight-to-the-bone secrets you need to play and sound great. Metal fans are the most dedicated in the world, so if you love metal and want to play badass metal riffs and scales, this comprehensive DVD will get you on track FAST. We’ve all got our favorite bands, be it Sabbath, Pantera, System of a Down, or Slayer, but now it’s time for YOU to be the Heavy Metal Guitar Master of your own destiny. In this series of DVDs, you’ll start with the basics and then progress all the way through to advanced playing, copping Van Halen hammer-ons and Zach Wylde harmonic squeals in no time.

In Volume 2, we turn it up a notch and show you major and minor open chords, major and minor barre chords, and rock techniques that will take your playing to another level. We’ll show you how to play in key all over the neck, new scales, left and right hand exercises, and white-hot licks so that you can shred with the best of them in no time.

Killer bonus songs written exclusively for this DVD are included with in-depth looks at how to play riffs. These are the essential techniques, scales, and chords the pros use. Now it’s YOUR turn to rock with the best!

SPECIAL FEATURES

j Two killer, exclusive songs for you to jam along with! j Close-up of Chords, Scales, Licks and More! j Metal tabs on every exercise! j Music videos with hot metal bands!

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STREET DATE JUNE 11, 2013

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Genre: Instructional/Rock Studio: Reality Entertainment DVD: RYE 801 Price Code: V Number of Discs: 1 Amaray, Box Lot 30 NTSC, Region 1 16:9, Color English (Stereo) Not Rated Run Time: 120 min Director: Matt Clark Production Year: 2013 Street Date: 6/11/13 ISBN: n/a

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HHH COMING IN SEPTEMBER HHH the highly-anticipated new album “GET HAPPY” from world-renowned “little orchestra”

STOCK UP ON THESE PINK MARTINI CHESTNUTS, NOW AT A NEW LOWER PRICE! new pricing effective June 1, 2013

Pink Martini Hang On Little Tomato

Pink Martini Hey Eugene!

Genre: Pop Label: Heinz Records CD: HNZ 2 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 D

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Pink Martini’s second album features mostly original songs written by the band and its extended family. From a 1964 advertisement for Hunt’s Ketchup to a dance sequence in the 1950 Italian film Anna, Hang On Little Tomato includes songs in French, Italian, Japanese, Croatian, Spanish, and English.

China Forbes ’78

STREET DATE JUNE 25, 2013

Genre: Pop Label: Heinz Records CD: HNZ 4 Price Code: J (SRP $9.99) Number of Discs: 1

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On her long-awaited solo album, vocalist China Forbes dusts off her guitar and returns to her roots, displaying strikingly personal songs in a style all her own recorded in her hometown with producer/drummer Gregg Williams (Sheryl Crow, The Wallflowers, Dandy Warhols).

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The band’s third album shines throughout, from the golden-era Hollywood melody of “Everywhere” to the French cabaret of “Ojala.” Meanwhile, “Hey Eugene” — written by China Forbes and a live favorite for years — finally makes its recording debut!

Pink Martini Discover the World: Live In Concert Genre: Pop Label: Heinz Records DVD: HNZ 5 Price Code: T Number of Discs: 1 D

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Featuring many of Pink Martini’s most beloved songs alongside previously unrecorded rarities, this DVD presents a thrilling full-length concert film in pristine stereo sound as well as never-before-seen bonus films and features that present stories and photos from the band’s vibrant history.

NAIL ON TOUR The Blank Tapes Vacation

Robinson Treacher Porches

Pink Martini A Retrospective

CD: ANT 543 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Number of Discs: 1 UPC: 646315454321 * Dates with Matt Costa April 24

CD: SOJ 38 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Number of Discs: 1 UPC: 896520002439 June 27

CD: HNZ 11 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 UPC: 723721602055 May 24

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June 19

St. Louis, MO – Firebird * April 25

Lawrence, KS – The Bottleneck * April 26

Tulsa, OK – Cain’s Ballroom * April 27

Dallas, TX – House of Blues * April 28

Austin, TX – Stubb’s * April 29

Houston, TX – House of Blues * May 1

Albuquerque, NM – Launchpad * May 3

Pioneertown, CA – Pappy & Harriet’s * May 4

Santa Ana, CA – The Observatory * May 5

Santa Ana, CA – Proof Bar May 9

San Francisco, CA – The Chapel SF May 10

Oakland, CA – Stranded May 11

Los Angeles, CA – Origami May 25

Leggett, CA – Hickey Fest May 29

Santa Ana, CA – Constellation Room May 30

San Diego, CA – The Void May 31

Los Angeles, CA – The Satellite June 6

Houston, TX – Fitzgerald’s June 8

Dallas, TX – Bryant Street Tavern June 11

Kansas City, MO – The Riot Room

Boston, MA – McGann’s Pub Mystic, CT – Captain Daniel Packer Inne Pittsburgh, PA – Club Café Eaton, OH – Taffy’s Lexington, KY – The Red Barn Nashville, TN – The Listening Room Nashville, TN – Bluebird Café Nashville, TN – The Basement

CD: SSO 119 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Number of Discs: 1 UPC: 709764111921 April 25

Dover, NH – Dover Brickhouse April 26

CD: ANT 541 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Number of Discs: 1 UPC: 646315454123 May 1

Omaha, NB – The Slowdown Jr.

Woodbridge, CT – The Winchester April 28

Brooklyn, NY – The Place Bar

Houston, TX – Jones Hall Rochester, NY – Kodak Hall, Eastman Theatre Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles, CA – Hollywood Bowl Chicago, IL – Grant Park Music Festival Aspen, CO – Jas Aspen Snowmass July 12

Bend, OR – Les Schwab Amphitheater August 2

Portland, OR – Edgefield August 3

Portland, OR – Edgefield August 4

May 2

Seattle, WA – Marymoor Park

May 3

Infernal Overdrive Last Rays of the Dying Sun

Minneapolis, MN – Studio B at Skyway Theatre Chicago, IL – Martyr’s May 4

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CD: SSO 121 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Number of Discs: 1 UPC: 709764112126 April 26

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Traverse City, MI – Good Work Collective May 5

Toronto, ON – The Horseshoe Burlington, VT – Monkey House Boston, MA – Middle East Upstairs New York, NY – Mercury Lounge

Somerville, MA – R.A.D.I.O. Brooklyn, NY – The Grand Victory Northumberland, PA – Daddy McFatty’s

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Brooklyn, NY – The Rock Shop Philadelphia, PA – The Tin Angel May 11

Frederick, MD – Cafe Nola May 12

Annapolis, MD – The Metropolitan May 13

Cincinnati, OH – The Comet May 14

Indianapolis, IN – Do317 Lounge

Danny Kalb Moving In Blue CD: SOJ 35 Price Code: 2L (SRP $23.99) Number of Discs: 2 UPC: 896520002408 June 8

Woodstock, NY – Bearsville Theater September 12

New London, NH – Flying Goose September 15

Cambridge, MA – Club Passim

Pawtucket, RI – KC’s Tap April 27

Houston, TX – Jones Hall

July 6

Dana Falconberry Leelanau

May 10

Backwoods Payback Momantha

Houston, TX – Jones Hall

Gozu The Fury of a Patient Man CD: SSO 136 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Number of Discs: 1 UPC: 709764113628 April 18

Cambridge, MA – The Sinclair May 3

Somerville, MA – Radio Bar May 4

Somerville, MA – Radio Bar

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Portsmouth, NH – Red Door

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