May08 nail

NEW RELEASES MAY 2008 STREET DATES 5-13-08 & 5-27-08 A DIVISION OF ALLEGRO MEDIA GROUP

performed by members of:

Bad Religion • Buzzcocks • Pennywise • Circle Jerks • Strung Out Subhumans • The Damned • Conflict • Porno For Pyros • The Screamers • NinA Hagen Morrissey • Glass&Ashes • Naked Aggression • Le Meu Le Purr • V.C.C.

INSIDE Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog Grails Dan Friel (of Parts & Labor) Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. HEALTH Cardboard Records – New Label!

Esperanza Plantation – New Label!

Pomegranates Hocico The Botticellis Lau Nau Daniel Givens Shot x Shot Kaia Knw-Yr-Own – New Label!

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nail welcomes mental records to its roster!

Mental Records was established in 1995 as an upstart indie label with its roots planted in punk and hardcore music. Since 2005 the label has been growing their roster and is currently positioned to unleash a full array of dynamic multimedia entertainment that inspires, informs, incites, and empowers audiences into dramatic action for generating sweeping social change. Welcome to the Revolution!

THE T4 PROJECT

STORY-BASED CONCEPT ALBUM Press Quotes

“Captures the spirit of a punk rock revolution in its powerful collection of songs, compelling background story concept, and the impressive array of musicians called together to collaborate on the idea … The dark and powerful storyline on the resulting full-length, Story-Based Concept Album, ultimately has a positive message—inspire, celebrate, believe, and, above all, don’t give up.” — WonkaVision

Selling Points

The T4 Project Story-Based Concept Album Genre: Punk Label: Mental Records CD: MTL 16 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

• Features members of Pennywise, Bad Religion, Circle Jerks, Buzzcocks, The Damned, Strung Out, Porno for Pyros, Nina Hagen Band, The Screamers, Subhumans, Naked Aggression, Glass & Ashes, Le Meu Le Purr, and more.

• Stickered with 2” round sticker highlighting the above bands plus 24page story/art booklet.

• Hotly anticipated title with a pre-existing fan base hungry for this release.

• Featured cover story in WonkaVision #36.

• Concert dates in the works for Summer 2008 in Los Angeles and London.

• Three-month publicity campaign to mainstream and alternative media and related online music publications through Another Reybee Productions PR (Rey Roldan).

• Syndicated radio network interviews in key markets.

• Official street team promotion and contests through Fancorps.

• National mailing to college and specialty alternative radio.

• Ads with WonkaVision, Alternative Press, AMP, Verbicide, and more.

NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Shannon Saint Ryan: guitar, vocals Tony Barber, Jay Bentley, Mike Carter: bass Jason Cruz, Kirsten Patches: vocals Peter Distefano, Fletcher Dragge: guitar Greg Hetson, Armand Tambouris: guitar Paul Roessler: keyboards Spike T. Smith, Trotsky: drums

Track Listing Opening Sample • Introduction • Military • Underground • Censorship • Protest • Environment • 15 Minutes • Jumped • Health Care • Interrogation • Homophobia • Back Alley • Pharmaceuticals • The Plot To Avenge • Food Industry • Break In • Resolution

Key Markets Hometown: Los Angeles Also: San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Portland, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Washington DC, Austin, Denver, Phoenix, Las Vegas, St. Louis, Atlanta, Kansas City, Salt Lake City, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, Minneapolis, Miami 2

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Overview Watch out for the virus! The T4 Project’s Story-Based Concept Album captures the true spirit of punk rock revolution on an exceptionally unique and dynamic release. Over two and a half years in the making, the album was recorded in seven studios on two continents and features over a dozen established artists from a host of seminal punk bands and some of the most hard-hitting musicians from today’s hottest alternative acts including Pennywise, Bad Religion, Circle Jerks, Buzzcocks, The Damned, Strung Out, Porno for Pyros, Nina Hagen Band, The Screamers, Subhumans, Naked Aggression, Glass & Ashes, Le Meu Le Purr, and more. Conceived and produced by musical visionary Shannon Saint Ryan, with lyrics by Strung Out’s Jason Cruz, the album includes a riveting 24-page graphic novel story-booklet that delivers a darkly sobering yet ultimately inspiring and transcendent message for the modern age.

“The T4 Project captures all that punk was meant to be.”

— WonkaVision

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 such musicians such as T-Bone Burnett, Tom Waits, and John Zorn. Recently, he was featured guitarist on the Grammy-winning 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 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 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 montuños; 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

Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog Party Intellectuals

NEW STREET DATE: JUNE 24, 2008

Genre: Rock Label: PI Recordings CD: PIE 27 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 40 File Under: Mark Ribot NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Marc Ribot: guitar, vocals, trumpet, E-Flat horn, melodica Shahzad Ismaily: bass, synth, vocals Ches Smith: drums, vocals

Track Listing • Break On Through • Party Intellectuals • Todo El Mundo • When We Were Young and We Were Freaks • Digital Handshake • Bateau • For Malena • Fuego • Girlfriend • Midost • Shhh Shhh • C#

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

Marc Ribot Spiritual Unity CD: PIE 15 Price Code: Q NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

STREET DATE JUNE 24, 2008

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GRAILS

TAKE REFUGE IN CLEAN LIVING Press Quotes “Grails’ Middle European music exudes a dark occult mystery few are capable of achieving. Like some East German ensemble of the early ’70s, their heathen Ur-klang combines acoustic guitars, banjos, and bouzoukis with drums and samples that summon up the Ancients.” — Julian Cope

Selling Points

Grails Take Refuge In Clean Living Genre: Avant Rock Label: Important Records CD: IPT 190 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Deluxe Digipak; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

LP: IPT 190 Price Code: V (SRP $22.99) Deluxe LP Jacket; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Emil Amos: synth, piano, guitars, marksaphone, tapes, voice Alex Hall: guitars, sampling William Slater: bass, organ, harpsichord, guitar Zak Riles: saz, guitars, feedback washes Ben Nugent: drums

Track Listing • Stoned at the Taj Again • PTSD • 11th Hour • Take Refuge • Clean Living

Key Markets Hometown: Portland Also: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington DC

• CD packaged in deluxe digipak with 5th color spot gloss.

• LP packaged in deluxe tip-on style heavy-duty jacket with bonus poster and 5th color spot gloss.

• Will be supported by a European tour in Summer 2008 where Grails will play the Roadburn Festival and tour with Boris, returning to the US to play at Terrastock in Kentucky.

• First record since the highly acclaimed Burning Off Impurities on Temporary Residence. Grails’ last two records have received Album of the Year accolades from a number of sources.

• Grails member Emil Amos recently joined Om as replacement drummer for Chris Haikus.

• Promotional mailing by Important Records.

• Ads with The Wire and Pitchfork.

Overview The 2006–07 touring incarnation of Grails included good friend and drummer Ben Nugent, allowing Emil Amos to switch to third guitar for the band’s live instrumentation. The DNA of this “guitar-dense” lineup allowed for new types of songs and bigger melodies. In early 2007, the then-five-piece entered Steven Lobdell’s (Faust) Audible Alchemy to document the new songs written with this augmented sound, and the resultant sessions make up Take Refuge In Clean Living.

(The group has since returned to the original four members). Opening with a nod to Syd Barret’s Pink Floyd, the album begins with Morse Code before dropping into one of the heaviest slow-burn grooves in the Grails canon. Sounding something like Hawkwind and Ravi Shankar scoring Bladerunner, it’s lysergic and earthy in a new way. The rest of the album moves from blissful Eno-inspired ambience and epic Morricone rock hymns to an unexpected take on a Ventures tune that returns the listener back to the very beginnings of instrumental rock music.

“Rock, jazz, free-form freakouts, droning soundscapes, plodding dubbed-up and out bass—they are all here, making for one of the most adventurous records … and perhaps, when all is said and done, one of the very best.”

— All Music Guide ALSO AVAILABLE

Grails Black Tar Prophecies 1, 2, 3 CD: IPT 105 Price Code: P NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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STREET DATE MAY 13, 2008

DAN FRIEL Press Quotes

GHOST TOWN

“Burning with ideas, he has a knack for making his cheap drum machines, blipping remote controls, and preprogrammed toys sound like injured robots stumbling through a raging fire … Throughout, each track feels both organically real-time and inevitably prefabricated … an intoxicating friction, lit with the energy of bombed-out machinery and loose-limbed brainpower.” — The Wire “Strange and wonderful, and best of all, unlike anything we can think of.”

— Time Out New York “You know almost exactly how much it took to make this, money-wise, but you’ll be surprised at how damn good metal-electronic-lo-fi-folk actually sounds.” — Stylus

Selling Points • Dan Friel’s Ghost Town has a rare sort of universal appeal that crosses scenes and generations.

• Has played shows with Thurston Moore, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Interpol, Oval, The Evens, and Lightning Bolt, and performed in Glenn Branca’s Symphony 13: “Hallucination City” and with Damo Suzuki (Can).

• Friel is a member of the band Parts & Labor.

• Eye-popping artwork by renowned artist Shawn Reed (Racoo-oo-oon, Night People Records).

• Promotional mailing by Important Records.

• Ads with The Wire and Pitchfork.

Overview Ghost Town is the first full-length solo release from Parts & Labor singer/ electrician Dan Friel. Characterized by its anthemic melodies, complex electronic arrangements, and huge distorted beats, Ghost Town is an indie record the noise kids will love and a noise record that will inspire the indie kids to pick up some busted electronic gear and strive for immortality.

Comparisons are tough, but perhaps if In the Aeroplane Over the Sea was sculpted out of distorted noise you might be getting close.

Warning: if you plan on playing this in the record shop you work at during open hours you’d better make sure you’ve got plenty in stock. This is one of those records you can sell to everyone from the noise-heads in the corner to fitness moms looking for something to work out to. Dan Friel’s Ghost Town has universal appeal.

“Sounds like little else out there, a heaving mass of static beats, monolithic distortion, and bending, diving tones … a unique and uncompromising sound that ultimately transcends its limitations.”

— Pitchfork

Dan Friel Ghost Town Genre: Avant Rock Label: Important Records CD: IPT 187 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

LP: IPT 187 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) 12” LP Jacket; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Dan Friel: electronics, 24-year-old toy keyboard, assorted profoundly mediocre guitar accessories, crippled Peavy brand practice amplifier

Track Listing • Ghost Town Pt.1 • Desert Song • One Legged Cowboy • Appliances of Bremen • Buzzards • Ghost Town Pt.2 • Singing Sand • Horse Heaven

Key Markets Hometown: Brooklyn Also: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Cleveland

STREET DATE MAY 13, 2008

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Press Quotes “God bless you AMT.” — Pitchfork

Selling Points • Double LP edition packaged in a heavy-duty deluxe tip-on style gatefold double jacket and includes two bonus tracks not on the CD. • AMT will tour coast to coast in support of this record.

• Heaviest Acid Mothers record yet.

• Amazing cover art by Seldon Hunt.

• Promotional mailing by Important Records.

• Ads with The Wire and Pitchfork.

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Recurring Dream and Apocalypse of Darkness Genre: Rock Label: Important Records CD: IPT 188 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

2XLP: IPT 188 Price Code: 2O (SRP $27.99) Deluxe Gatefold Jacket; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview Recurring Dream and Apocalypse of Darkness is the by far the heaviest Acid Mothers Temple record yet. So heavy, in fact, that Kawabata Makoto jokingly said, “The album is really heavy, maybe a bit like Sunn O))).” The limited edition double LP version is packaged in a deluxe gatefold tip-on heavy-duty jacket and contains two bonus tracks. Both the CD and LP feature remarkable artwork by Seldon Hunt. Acid Mothers Temple will embark on a coast-to-coast tour to support the album.

Track Listing CD: Eternal Incantation or Perpetual Nightmare • Recurring Dream and Apocalypse of Darkness LP: Eternal Incantation or Perpetual Nightmare Pt. 1 • Eternal Incantation or Perpetual Nightmare Pt. 2 • Recurring Dream and Apocalypse of Darkness Pt. 1 • Recurring Dream and Apocalypse of Darkness Pt. 2

Key Markets San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Boston, New York, Providence

Selling Points • The first Cluster release of new material in quite some time.

• Cluster’s status as a legendary German group is indisputable.

• Promotional mailing by Important Records.

• Ads with The Wire.

Overview Berlin 2007 was a monumental performance for Cluster, as it marked the first time that they had performed live in Berlin since their 1969 twelve-hour concert in the Europacenter’s Galerie Hammer. The performance was a massive success, and a soldout crowd cheered loudly for Cluster to return to the stage. Fortunately, the concert was preserved for posterity and is proudly presented here on Important Records. Cluster was formed around 1971 when Roedelius and Moebius left Conrad Schnitzler’s group Kluster. Along with Kluster, the group has had a tremendous influence on the development of contemporary electronic music. Julian Cope has placed three Cluster albums in his Krautrock Top 50, and The Wire included the first Cluster album in their list of 100 Records That Set the World On Fire. Along with Neu! co-founder Michael Rother, the members of Cluster formed the remarkable group Harmonia.

Between 1976 and 1979 one of Cluster’s most frequent collaborator was Brian Eno.

Track Listing Part One • Part Two

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

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Cluster Berlin 07 Genre: Electronic Label: Important Records CD: IPT 191 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Press quotes “From an outsider’s perspective the distinction between Kawabata Makoto’s various groups can seem pretty much academic, since they have each undergone continuous personnel shifts and they all direct their flightpaths towards the same general regions of interstellar lunacy. Nevertheless, there seems to be a special level of expansive, fullthrottle improvisation that Kawabata is only able to fully achieve with the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. at his back.” — Pitchfork

selling points • Repressed, remastered, and featuring expanded artwork.

• Collects three out of print AMT EPs released on Important, with an added bonus track.

• Originally released in 2003; out of print for the last couple of years.

overview Repressed, remastered, and featuring expanded artwork! Magical Power From Mars collects three out of print Acid Mothers Temple EPs released on Important Records with an added bonus track, making for a massive full-length album. Originally released in 2003 and out of print for the last couple of years.

Track listing Ziggy Sitar Dust Raga • Diamond Doggy Peggy • Aladdin Kane • Cosmic Funky Dolly

Key Markets

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Magical Power From Mars Genre: Avant Rock Label: Important Records CD: IPT 17 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Boston, New York, Providence

Selling Points • A mixture of punked-out electronic music that recalls the likes of Six Finger Satellite, Glass Candy, and The Chromatics, this great post-punk album is one of the most anticipated ever in Montreal.

• Duchess Says is known for its infernal live show. Currently the band has tours planned for Europe, with Canada and the US to follow in Fall 2008.

• College radio service. Publicist will be hired for national and regional media coverage.

overview

Duchess Says Anthologie des 3 Perchoirs Genre: Alt Rock Label: Alien8 Recordings CD: ALI 76 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Montreal’s Duchess Says fuses the fury and intensity of punk rock comprised of screaming guitars, moaning bass, and relentless drumming with keyboards and the explosively sexy stylings of vocalist Annie-C. While the band may not be reinventing the wheel with their blend of electronics and post-punk, there is something breathtakingly original about Duchess Says. One listen to Anthologie des 3 Perchoirs will cement that impression. Despite the lack of a full-length release, Duchess Says has become one of the poster bands of Montreal, having performed at most of the major festivals in their native Quebec as well as representing Montreal at the prestigious Montreal showcase at SXSW. During this time they also performed alongside the likes of Depeche Mode, Sonic Youth, Juan Mclean, Dinosaur Jr., and Les Georges Leningrad.

Track Listing Teneu non neu • A Century Old • Cut Up • La Friche • AEAE • I’ve Got the Flu • Melon • Black Flag • C.H.O.B. • Les Residents • Rabies • Lip Gloss Babyla • Gilbert

Key Markets New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Portland

STREET DATE MAY 13, 2008

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HEALTH

HEALTH//DISCO “HEALTH music can be harsh and grating, of course, but also sensually smooth and sexy and electronic and also metallic and all Fodderstompfy.”

— LA Weekly “LA’s newest adjunct professors of art punk.” — Skyscraper “Los Angeles’ answer to New York’s avant garde noise scene.” — CMJ New Music Report

Selling Points

HEALTH HEALTH//DISCO Genre: Alt Rock Label: Lovepump United CD: LPU 19 Price Code: E (SRP $7.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Jacob Duzsik: vocals, guitar, zoothorn John Famiglietti: bass, zoothorn, percussion Jupiter Keyes: guitar, percussion, zoothorn Benjamin Miller: drums

Track Listing • Triceratops (Acid Girls Rmx A) • Lost Time (Pictureplane Rmx) • Triceratops (Acid Girls Rmx B) • Triceratops (CFCF Rmx) • Heaven (Narctrax Rmx) • Lost Time (C.L.A.W.S. Rmx) • Tabloid Sores (Nosaj Thing Rmx) • Heaven (Pink Skull Rmx) • Perfect Skin (Curses Rmx)

Enhanced Data CD • Zoothorns (Nastique Rmx) • Tabloid Sores (Lovely Chords Rmx) • The Power of Health (Captain Ahab Rmx) • Glitter Pills (Toxic Avenger Rmx) • Tabloid Sores (Mae Shi Rmx) • //M\\ (Ian Hixxx Rmx) • Triceratops (War Tempo Rmx) • Lost Time//Heaven (Philip Sherburne Rmx) • Glitter Pills (Passions Rmx)

Key Markets Hometown: Los Angeles Also: Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Austin, Atlanta, Boston 8

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• Remix record of HEALTH’s much loved debut LP includes remixes by Acid Girls, CFCF, Pink Skull, Narctrax, and more.

• Enhanced CD features MP3s of even more remixes by the likes of The Mae Shi and Captain Ahab. It can play on MP3-compatible CD players, or you can copy it from the disc to your hard drive.

• Full new media campaign by Fanatic Promotions.

• Full college radio campaign by AAM. • Ads with Skyscraper and Pitchfork.

Overview By now you’re likely familiar with the (barely) contained chaos of HEALTH. The band’s debut album (September 2008, Lovepump United) and relentless touring with the likes of Crystal Castles and White Williams has cemented their status as one of the most exciting bands in independent music—publications like XLR8R, The Fader, and Pitchfork agree. In addition to evoking grand hyperboles from every blog under the sun, HEALTH’s album inspired several other musicians to match the band’s creativity. They reimagined, recut, and remixed, and the result is HEALTH//DISCO. Featuring remixes from Acid Girls, CFCF, Pink Skull, Narctrax, and more, these tracks take HEALTH’s ethereal chanting, screeching noise, and gauzy atmosphere and forcefully apply them to the dance floor. The CD also contains an enhanced data portion with even more remixes from The Mae Shi, Captain Ahab, and others.

“They come close to making something uniquely their own— something that can’t be said for all of their similarly minded peers.”

— Alarm ALSO AVAILABLE

HEALTH & Crystal Castles Crystal Castles/HEALTH 7”: LPU 13 Price Code: H NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

press quotes “The self-titled debut by LA quartet HEALTH begins deceptively, opening in complete silence … But once the band announces itself with a huge, reverberating crash, the album rarely returns to such quietude.

Sprinting through eleven tracks of orchestrated chaos in a breathless halfhour, HEALTH mixes the bombastic pound of Boredoms, the skewed structures of Deerhoof, the tribal thump of Liars, and even the synth squirts of Black Dice and Excepter.” — Pitchfork “It’s a challenging, loud vision of rock, yes, but it’s not nearly as tough as it at first seems.” — NME [8/10] “It’s far too convenient to overlook the panoramic melody underneath.”

— The Onion AV Club “HEALTH makes extremely pleasant noise music.” — Vice [Album of the Month]

Selling Points • 180-gram white vinyl.

• Nominated for a Plug Award for Best Avant Album of 2007.

• CD received rave reviews in Pitchfork, The Fader, The Onion, Paper Thin Walls, and more. Peaked at #57 on the CMJ Top 200.

• Features/interviews in Vice, Pitchfork, XLR8R, Skyscraper, and many more.

• Full US tour in March/April 2008 with Crystal Castles.

• Full Fanatic Promotion campaign.

• Ads with Pitchfork, Skyscraper, and Impose.

HEALTH HEALTH Genre: Alt Rock Label: Lovepump United LP: LPU 14 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 50 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview Lovepump United is proud to release the second pressing of HEALTH’s debut record on 180-gram white vinyl. A beautiful presentation of an astounding debut! Their precise, contained chaos has earned them glowing reviews from Pitchfork, The Onion, and Vice, as well as a Plug Award nomination for Best Avant Album of 2007.

Featured Artists Jacob Duzsik: vocals, guitar, zoothorn John Famiglietti: bass, zoothorn, percussion Jupiter Keyes: guitar, percussion, zoothorn Benjamin Miller: drums

Track Listing • Heaven • Girl Attorney • Triceratops • Crimewave • Courtship • Zoothorns • Tabloid Sores • //M\\ • Glitter Pills • Perfect Skin • Lost Time

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

ALSO AVAILABLE

HEALTH HEALTH CD: LPU 14 Price Code: O NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

STREET DATE MAY 13, 2008

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nail welcomes cardboard recordsto its roster!

Cardboard Records is an independent record label based in Brooklyn, NY and run by members of the band Parts & Labor. The label releases some sonically adventurous punk, rock, folk, and beyond. Releases to date include Gowns, Pterodactyl, Ecstatic Sunshine, Big Bear, Aa, and Parts & Labor.

Press Quotes “One of the best introductions to oddball music you could hope for … guitar melodies—guitar riffs even—arc above ambient sounds and substrata rhythms, built from an effects rack rather than a laptop — and the sun reappears from the sludge in distinctly pretty guitar lines that twist and swirl into a gorgeous finish.” — Baltimore City Paper “The disciplined timing and deliberate restriction to small tonal palettes recalled vintage Steve Reich, and a noticeably all-American strain (their unavoidable country roots) frequently gave the overall sound a vibe like a hoedown in a parallel universe. In this way, they tip their hats to guitar visionaries such as John Fahey.” — LA Weekly “They could actually be Ebenezer Obey discovering Lightning Bolt or a Rhys Chatham tribute band formed by subway mice, but whatever they are Ecstatic Sunshine have formulated a delightful riposte to the underground’s predilection for sweaty noise-offs.” — Plan B

Ecstatic Sunshine Way

“Still a perfectly apt band name for these two freaky guitar pickers … who practically snort sunshine and then shoot it out their hands.” — Paper Thin Walls

Genre: Avant Rock Label: Cardboard Records CD: CBR 9 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30

“Ecstatic Sunshine is a group comprised of two guys who play guitars, but please note that it’s not just your average lackadaisical coffeehouse-style busking … it’s all about the riffs as the two players rip through section after section in their slightly math-like electric guitar fueled songs.” — Almost Cool

NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

featured artists Dustin Wong: guitar Matthew Papich: guitar, electronics Kieran Gillen: electronics

Track Listing • Herrons • Perrier

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

“While some might remember ES as a delicate, guitar-leaning project based in unconventional melody, the outfit, now numbering three members and only one on guitar, have moved towards a loop-heavy wall of noise that, while still maintaining Matt Papich’s bright, tumbling guitar melodies, seems to have become a band more concerned with textures and intensity.”

— Impose

Selling Points • Have toured with Dan Deacon, White Williams, and Parts & Labor.

• The Baltimore music scene has recently received national media attention, including an article in Spin.

• Radio mailing through AAM. • Press campaign by Solid PR.

Overview The second full length by Ecstatic Sunshine is an album of skewed minimalism and true, uplifting positivity. Recorded in Summer/Fall 2007, Way stretches to a point fully beyond expectation. The riffs that ES explored in the past are deconstructed, reconsidered, effected, and processed into melodic noise and chiming rhythm.

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Selling Points • 77.2% exclusive material!

• Includes songs from Matt & Kim, Oneida, Japanther, Oh Sees, Parts & Labor, High Places, and 49 more.

• Features a remix track of the entire compilation from Tre Told ‘Em (Girl Talk and Hearts of Darknesses).

• AAM Sunday Service mailing to 300 radio stations.

Overview This 57-band scene report collects a variety of punk, noise, experimental, folk, and electronic music. Of special note is the contribution from Trey Told ‘Em (a new remix project from Girl Talk and Hearts of Darknesses)—a mash-up of all 56 submissions!

Track Listing DISC ONE Aa: Who’s The Boss • Action Beat: More Hookie • Best Fwends: Skate Or Live • Big Bear: 19 • Bilge Pump: Rise and Fall of the Alpha Male • Bipolar Bear: Gaza Striptease • Books On Tape: Orphann • Collin Mel: Bump In My Throat • Craig Colorusso: #43 Greg McCarthy • Crime In Choir: Broken Before a Frozen God • Crito & Doily: Magpies • Double Dagger: Ruby • Dynamite Arrows: Systems • Ecstatic Sunshine: Crystal in the Sky • Fat Day: I Smell Poop Gub • Fathers Day: I Have So Much Respect For Women • Flying: Minors • Fuck Buttons: Ribs Out • Golden Error: Hunted • The Good Good: Look Hello • Gowns: What If Not You • High Places: Canary • Ho-ag: Handsome • Hunting Lodge: (k)Palixio, Nature Wyzered • Insect Factory: Meditation (With Wind) • Japanther: Charlie Hustle (Free Pete Rose) • Jerk: Cobra • Justice Yeldham: 062 Tienen 080304 • Leaders: Lightheart

Various Artists Love and Circuits: A Cardboard Records Compilation From Aa to Zs Genre: Alt Rock Label: Cardboard Records 2XCD: CBR 8 Price Code: 2D (SRP $13.99) Double Slimline; Box Lot 25 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

DISC TWO: Lovid: 40 Winks • Lucky Dragons: Where’s Adam • Maps and Atlases: Songs For Ghosts To Haunt To • Matt and Kim: Silver Tiles • Monster Dudes: No New School • Mr. Baby: A Death in the Family • Necking: Swinging Ear • Neptune (feat.

Can’t): 23 • Numbers: Can’t Remember • Oh Sees: The Killer • Oneida: Winter Mind • Parts & Labor: No Night • Pope: Milk Faced Whitey • Pterodactyl: 5 Minutes In 2 Minutes • Raccoo-oo-oon: Garden Suns • Shooting Spires: Sailin’ On • The Show is the Rainbow: How Do You Spell Success? • Shy Child: Down On Yourself • These Are Powers: The South Angel • Trey Told ‘Em: All of the Other Songs Remixed • Tunnel of Love: P.T.K. • Tuxedo Killers: Don’t Get Me Started • The USA Is A Monster: Okeepa Ceremony Acoustic • Vaz: Birth of the Universe • Voltage: Phil Taylor • When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth: It’s Not The Heat It’s The Humidity • Wilderness: Beautiful Alarms (Live In Slovenia) • Zs: In My Dream I Shot a Monk

ALSO AVAILABLE FROM CARDBOARD RECORDS Shooting Spires Shooting Spires

Gowns Red State

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Cardboard Records CD: CBR 7 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30

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Parts & Labor Stay Afraid

Pterodactyl Pterodactyl

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Cardboard Records LP: CBR 4 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 25

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Cardboard Records LP: CBR 6 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 25

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nail welcomes esperanza plantation to its roster!

Founded in 2003, Mississippi-based Esperanza Plantation has established itself in the independent music world as a strong and diverse voice for the “New South.” Esperanza’s roster is highly eclectic in nature, but unified in its promotion of the label’s ethos of hope. From the sweeping soundscapes of Questions In Dialect and the angular indie rock of Bear Colony to the piano pop stylings of Allie Peden and the brooding folk tinge of Wooden Finger, the music of Esperanza Plantation speaks great volumes through a colorful variety of voices.

Press Quotes “Without Vincent Griffin’s dramatic back story, Bear Colony’s We Came Here To Die is still a compelling and engaging collection of songs created at the crossroads of emo and electronica, but considering its difficult birth, the album becomes a statement of the artist’s ability to transcend physical challenges and the overwhelmingly redemptive nature of music itself.” — Amplifier “These are some sweet tunes. I could easily see myself with a nice woman, walking between the trees around some kind of forest or something.

Good feelings—therefore I like it.” — Vice

Selling Points

Bear Colony We Came Here To Die Genre: Alt Rock Label: Esperanza Plantation CD: ESZ 9 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Vincent Griffin: guitar, vocals Adam Putman: guitar, backing vocals Chase Pagan: guitar, vocals Brooks Tipton: keyboards Matthew Depper: bass Matthew Putman: drums Kyle Smith: drums

Track Listing • Sharks • Hymnal (A Declaration of Loss) • Hospital Rooms Aren’t For Lovers • Suffocation • (At) Breakneck Speeds • Holidays/No Feelings • I’m Not Brave • Sinking Ships • Blips/Bleeps • The Boy With Broken Arms • Aeroplanes and Cocoons

Key Markets Hometown: Little Rock Also: Nashville, Memphis, Atlanta, Birmingham, Baton Rouge, Dallas, Austin

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• Touring extensively in 2008.

• Former featured MySpace artist and SPIN.com Artist of the Day. • Reviewed by Magnet, Alternative Press, Amplifier, and Vice.

• Artwork by Grammy-nominated artist Jesse LeDoux.

• Features former members of Lovedrug and Unwed Sailor.

• Mixed by Jesse Cannon (Say Anything, Lifetime) and mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music.

• College radio and new media by Pirate PR.

Overview No band in the Esperanza Plantation fold embraces “hope” with open arms more than Little Rock’s Bear Colony. If the listener follows the lyrics closely throughout their debut, We Came Here To Die, it is apparent that underlying themes of coping and healing connect each of the songs into a cohesive composition.

The unfortunate inspiration behind the album came from songwriter Vince Griffin’s troubled experiences in 2005. Misdiagnosed with Crohns Disease, Griffin was bedridden for several months and began writing the songs as an outlet. The frightening uncertainty surrounding his condition spurred him to channel his frustrations into creativity, and the songs that comprise this debut full-length present a chronicle of the fear he endured.

Press Quotes “Allie Peden’s sacred/profane voice could only be American—as redolent of church choir practice in lemon-oil-polished pews as scratched blues 45s or stolen kisses in belly-high prairie grasses. Peden massages vowels like skin pressed to skin, fingers clenched fervently in prayer, or the slow crawl of a lover’s exploratory hand. She has an old voice, but the Nashville-based musician is still in her teens.” — Shake Your Fist “Allie Peden is an amazing artist in her own right … beautifully tragic.”

— Listen!Nashville

Selling Points • A mainstay in Nashville’s performance scene, Allie Peden has shared the stage with Matt Pond PA, Jesca Hoop, and others.

• Contributors here include Colour Revolt members Patrick Addison and Jesse Coppenbarger.

• Currently recording with John Mark Painter (Ben Folds) for a 2008 follow-up to her 2006 debut.

• Opening track is a Dolly Parton cover song.

• Past performer at Cornerstone Music Festival.

• Will provide press and radio campaigns in support of Peden’s 2008 release.

Overview Recorded when she was still a teen, the nine tracks of melodious, pianodriven pop that compose Allie Peden’s debut highlight the piano skills and vocal poise of a young artist creating the craft of a writer with twice her life experience.

With This Love was recorded at Sputnik Studios in Nashville with the assistance of producer Mike Odmark. What began as a girl and a piano several years ago has matured into a full-fledged sound colored with innovative horn parts, jazzy guitar tracks, and masterful piano arrangements. She is now a band—making noise and being heard.

Allie Peden With This Love Genre: Pop Label: Esperanza Plantation CD: ESZ 8 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Allie Peden: vocals, piano, electric piano, synth Erick Evans: trombone, euphonium Patrick Addison: bass guitar Steven Bevilaqua: electric guitar Bill Peden: percussion

Track Listing • When Someone Wants to Leave • Burrow • Eulogy • Highway • Nashville • Beneath the Soldier’s Feet • Preacher Man • Scoundrel • Coretta

Key Markets Hometown: Nashville Also: Memphis, Birmingham, Jackson, New Orleans, Mobile, Pensacola, Atlanta

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Press quotes “Chase Pagan may look the part of a bearded indie rock darling, but his confident vocals paired with stylistic dexterity bring a classic rock edge to his musical theatrics.”— SPIN.com

Selling Points

Chase Pagan Oh, Musica!

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Esperanza Plantation LP: ESZ 10 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 30

• Constant touring through 2008, including stops at SXSW and CMJ. • Cover painting by actor Vincent Gallo (Buffalo ‘66, The Brown Bunny).

• Guest musician Gretta Cohn (ex-Cursive) plays cello on various tracks.

• Press/radio by The Militia Group, which released the CD version and is Pagan’s label home.

overview From the off-kilter waltz of lead single “Spanish Tongue” to the saloon romp of “Push My Buttons,” Chase Pagan smashes genres and effortlessly sews the pieces back together into a colorful songbook. His soaring vocal range complements each instrument, be it the light strumming of acoustic guitar or the classical strokes of piano keys. Pagan makes his debut an album to come back to, as each listen leads to a new discovery … and it sounds especially soothing on vinyl!

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ALSO AVAILABLE FROM ESPERANZA PLANTATION Wooden Finger All This Time…Still We’re Lost Genre: Alt Rock/Alt Folk Label: Esperanza Plantation CD: ESZ 6 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30

Arkitekt What Makes Your World Go Round Genre: Alt Rock Label: Esperanza Plantation CD: ESZ 5 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

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Questions In Dialect As You May Know Genre: Alt Rock Label: Esperanza Plantation CD: ESZ 4 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30

Fletcher Friends Don’t Speak Genre: Alt Rock Label: Esperanza Plantation CD: ESZ 3 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Bellador The Day’s Intent Genre: Alt Rock Label: Esperanza Plantation CD: ESZ 2 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Press Quotes “The comparisons to early Modest Mouse are pretty spot-on so long as that’s not the last word. Pomegranates’ sonic template is much wider [and] their pop, poppier.” — KEXP Blog “This Ohio-based four-piece brings to mind visions of Transatlanticism-era Death Cab For Cutie and ’90s Britpop with their big, bright sound. The lyrics themselves are intelligent without being pompous or overbearing, drawing from literary sources that are mythological and biblical in nature.”

— Amplifier “All the softly swooping melodies the blog-and-tunnel indie fashion victims love without any of that lingering aftertaste of melodrama. It’s almost as if indie kids learned to have fun again.” — Aversion “Pomegranates hail from Ohio and play a beautiful mixture of enticing styles … the band has a reckless and infectious abandon with their songwriting. Yet, all seems perfectly in place.” — Sound As Language

Selling Points • 2007 Cincinnati Entertainment Awards nominee for Best Alternative/Indie Band and New Artist of the Year.

• Featured as KEXP Song of the Day; #38 rank on KEXP charts.

• WOXY Lounge Act, charted on WOXY charts.

• Sounds As Language Band of the Day. • Have shared the stage with Peter, Bjorn and John; Jimmy Eat World; and Islands.

• Fanatic PR handling radio and new media.

• Bear Trap PR handling print and online press.

• Ads with Wonka Vision, Vice, Under the Radar, Alarm, Verbicide, Big Takeover, Skyscraper, and more.

Overview After self-releasing the critically acclaimed EP Two Eyes, the boys put together a highly anticipated second release. Everything Is Alive, the band’s debut full-length, is pure pop ecstasy from start to finish. Drawing on influences like the Beach Boys and The Kinks, Everything Is Alive has been compared to early Modest Mouse. Melodic guitar lines, gusto vocals, unorthodox song structures … what more could a kid want?

Pomegranates Everything Is Alive Genre: Alt Rock Label: Lujo Records CD: LUJ 59 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Joey Cook: vocals, guitar, keys, percussion, bass Isaac Karns: guitar, bass, sampling, vocals, keys Karl Spaeth: bass, guitar Jacob Merritt: drums, percussion

Track Listing • Transportation • Whom/Who • In the Kitchen • Late Night Television • The Bellhop • Appreciations • Desert Hymn • Thunder Island • The Uncanny Terrance Treeclimber • Honey Moon Pie • Thunder Meadow

Key Markets Hometown: Cincinnati Also: Seattle, New York, Richmond, Washington DC, St. Louis, Boston, Philadelphia, Nashville, Knoxville, Louisville

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Press Quotes “Is there any doubt left in anyone’s mind that Hocico is the best harsh EBM act in the world? They’ve got the aggression, the tortured vocals, the starkly modern programming, the beautifully creepy introductions, and to top everything else off, they don’t even resort to Hellraiser, Alien, or Full Metal Jacket samples … If you haven’t heard Hocico and you’re even remotely into bands like Suicide Commando, Psyclon 9, or yelworC, you should be ashamed of yourself. Put down whatever it is you’re doing right now and go buy this album.” — Grave Concerns “For those familiar with the Mexican duo’s brutal electro sledgehammer sound, this latest material continues the successful formula founded by the last few releases … dark trance merges with relentless electro to overtake the atmosphere.” — Sideline.com

Hocico Memorias Atrás Genre: Industrial Label: COP International CD: COP 113 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Erk Aicrag: vocals Racso Agroyam: programming

Track Listing • A Fatal Desire • The Shape of Things to Come • Stop My Madness • About a Dead • Fed Up • Metamorphous • Spirals of Time • Doomed to Perish • Blindfold • Taste the Waste • Drowning • Escapando de los recuerdos

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

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“An album as incendiary and as decrepit as the city from which this band originates, making for a harsh yet honest effort … The beats are blistering, the vocals are venomous, and the subject matter is as uncomfortably honest and real as ever.” — ReGen Magazine

Selling Points • US tour in June/July 2008.

• 190,000 page views and plays on MySpace.

• Highly anticipated sixth studio album.

• One of the Top 3 sellers in the terror/EBM genre.

• Last album, Wrack and Ruin, sold 5,000 copies in the US alone.

• Promo copies sent to DJs, radio stations, and print media.

• MySpace campaign with 200,000 contacts.

• Ads with Vampire Freaks

Overview Memorias Atrás is a sonic trip to Hell … and, like two horsemen of the Apocalypse, Erk and Racso are riding high on thudding beats, solid bass, and sounds straight out of purgatory, unleashing an electronic earthquake at maximum power. The Mexican electro-maniacs have returned to the raw, in-your-face sound of their early days—only darker, more massive, and way more intense!

Memorias Atrás consists of 12 striking club burners straight out of the abyss of human existence. The album is jam-packed with tracks that have the words “club hit” written all over then.

press quotes “I’d be mistaken not to mention Soil & Eclipse in my top ten list … masculine operatic vocals coupled with good lyrics are the hook for me here, layered over good dance beats and sometimes heartbreaking acoustic guitar. Yum.” — Starvox.net

Selling Points • Highly anticipated fourth album from a well-established band.

• Amazing production by Reason developer G.W. Childs.

• 50,000 plays on MySpace; campaign with 50,000 contacts.

• Promo copies sent to DJs, radio stations, and print media.

• Ads with Vampire Freaks

Soil & Eclipse The Mirror

Overview Soil & Eclipse returns with an opulent sonic dimension filled with unrivaled specters and beauty. The group’s long-awaited fifth release combines the experimental beats and lush melodies of G.W. Childs with Jay Tye’s breathtaking vocals.

Track Listing Violin • Elysium Rain • She Flies with Angels • Grace • Breathless • Herself • I Was Proud • Lie • Black • Ages

Key Markets Hometown: San Francisco. Also: Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh, New York, Washington DC, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Miami

Genre: Electronic Label: COP International CD: COP 112 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Press Quotes “In a time when the American public is showing discontent with the current political regime and overall social state in their country, Carphax Files appears ready to meet the issues at hand aggressively. Their live performances are as uncompromising as their music, seeming to bring each message to life, beat by beat.” — VampireFreaks

Selling Points

Carphax Files Revolutions Vol. 1: Dirt Genre: Electronic Label: COP International CD: COP 111 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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• Strong fan base in the industrial market.

• A powerful message that resonates deeply with America’s youth.

• Promo copies sent to DJs, radio stations, and print media.

• MySpace campaign with 50,000 contacts.

• Ads with Vampire Freaks

Overview After their highly acclaimed first album, this politically-charged band comes back with a second studio album, and revolution is indeed on the menu. Jay Sin screams, whispers, and harmonizes his message of rage and despair: “We kill for profit, destroy our planet for personal convenience, and it is about time to stop!” Mr. Sin is supported by cohorts who provide the sonic texture to support his vocal mayhem: dense keyboard layers mixed with heavy beats and pumping bass lines coagulate into a powerful groove.

Track Listing Constitutionalize • Landmines • Murder • No More Man • Kill Your Crush • System Collapse • Godmakers • Laser Beams • Sanity Clothes • God 3.0

Key Markets Hometown: Salt Lake City. Also: Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh, New York, Washington DC, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Miami

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Press Quotes “Simple, addictive. Pure California Music.” — Oakland Tribune “Nice, melodic, free-flowing progressive pop. The Botticellis are a California-based quintet whose music recalls 1960s pop but is flavored and threaded with twenty-first century sounds and ideas.” — BabySue “Look for the Big Star influence … airtight hooks and dark, cheeky lyrics.” — Noise Pop

Selling Points

The Botticellis Old Home Movies Genre: Alt Rock Label: Antenna Farm CD: ANT 525 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Alexi Glickman: guitar, vocals Burton Li: guitar, keys Ian Nansen: bass, vocals Zach Erlich: drums, vocals Blythe Foster: vocals Anton Patzner: violin Jason Quever: drums Matt Cunitz: keybaord

Track Listing • Old Home Movies • Stay With My Brother • When I Call • Up Against the Glass • The Reviewer • New Room • Flashlight • Tongue Is Blue • Who Are You Now • Table by the Window

Key Markets Hometown: San Francisco Also: Berkeley, Santa Cruz, Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, Olympia, Portland, Eugene, New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Detroit, Ann Arbor, Austin, El Paso, Tucson, Athens, Chapel Hill, Memphis, Nashville, Bloomington, Madison, Providence, Denver, Salt Lake City

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• Have shared stages with Feist, Au Revoir Simone, Grizzly Bear, Mates of State, Asobi Seksu, Citay, Viva Voce, John Vanderslice, Horse Feathers, and Papercuts.

• Numerous Noise Pop appearances.

• Daytrotter session scheduled for March 2008.

• Album produced with Anton Patzner (Bright Eyes) and Jason Quever (Papercuts), who also plays on several songs.

• Full US tour for Summer 2008 booked by Mongrel Music.

• Print and new media publicity campaign by Force Field PR (Panda Bear, St Vincent). Early confirmations include a Harp feature, SF Bay Guardian cover story, and reviews in Dusted and Crawdaddy.

• Radio promotion by Team Clermont (Chris Walla, Sons & Daughters, Widespread Panic).

• Ads with Resonance, Magnet, Vice, Daytrotter, and various blogs.

Overview The Botticellis have an obsession with pop music, melodic songwriting, and the cinematic sounds of yesteryear, but they’re not lost in some oldies Neverland. On Old Home Movies, the quintet gives us ten luminous snapshots of sun-bleached memories. The vision is uniquely Californian, and while their music basks in the warmth of the Golden State as personified by the Beach Boys, it’s also steeped in the shadows and queasy uncertainty of Raymond Chandler.

The band produced the album with the help of Anton Patzner (Bright Eyes) who plays violin on “Who Are You Now”; Matt Cunitz, whose museum of vintage keyboards colors the music; and Jason Quever (Papercuts), who plays drums on “Flashlight” and helped capture the band’s balmy sound on analog tape. Old Home Movies promises to bring burnished, finely crafted pop to the people, filling their heads with vibrant memories and California daydreams.

Press Quotes “Manages to take a million-and-one risks while keeping things subtle, understated, aesthetically intriguing, and emotionally resonant.” — Pitchfork “Much like the stateside phenomenon that has been questionably labeled ‘New Weird America,’ the current folk and psych scene that has cropped up over the last few years in Finland spreads its wings over a variety of sounds, textures, and styles ranging from the noise freakouts and mantra-like drone minimalism of groups like Avarus to more straightforward, singersongwriter based material such as the aforementioned Kiila. Naukkarinen’s work falls somewhere in between these two extremes, segueing effortlessly between abstract experimentation and gorgeously delicate folk harmonies.”

— Dusted “Finnish folkster Laura Naukkarinen (Lau Nau) arrives just in time for the freak-folk craze, though her particular freak flag flies truer because she’s an outsider—she hails from a close group of Finnish musicians. Kuutarha is heavy on weird vocal interplay and light on audibility. Listen extra closely and you’ll hear an artist who’s begging to be heard … seemingly not of this world, yet very much grounded in its ancient sounds.” — Splendid “This new offering from the Finnish clan is a smattering of gentle melodies cloaked in the shambolic memories of the first buds of spring … something that transcends language and culture.” — Foxy Digitalis

Selling Points • 2008 North American tour planned.

• 2005s Kuutarha named one of the 50 Albums of the Year by The Wire. Received high praise from Pitchfork, Dusted, and numerous other publications.

• 2005 tour chosen as one of the 60 Concerts That Shook the World

by The Wire.

• Extensive collaborations on soundtracks and prestigious multimedia collaborations with Magnum Films and more.

• Full new media, press, and radio campaigns.

• Ads with Signal To Noise, Dream, and The Wire.

Overview Nukkuu (Finnish for “sleeps”) is the long-awaited sophomore album by celebrated femme folk fave Lau Nau. Psychedelic, abstract, and emotionally captivating, Nukkuu is an album of changes. In the years since her celebrated debut album Kuutarha, Laura became a mother, moved to the Finnish countryside, and took valuable time to carve out a space for her enchanted art in the newfound tranquility of her remote surroundings.

Conceived in tight attics and vacant dens when her young son Nuutti was fast asleep, this is an intimately crafted nine-song collection that unfolds like dreamlike musical ribbons for the senses and delivers the listener to a place of unhurried contentedness.

Lau Nau Nukkuu Genre: Avant Rock Label: Locust Music CD: LST 111 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Track Listing • Lue Kartalta • Painovoima Valoa • Ruususuu • Rubiinilasia • Lahtolaulu • Maapahkinapuu • Mooste • Jouhet • Vuoren Laelle

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

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Press Quotes “An album rich in idiosyncratic imagination, oddly charming discordance, and strangely realized beauty.” — Irish Times “Barrett and Hag’s original recordings collide, continually retaining a sense that it is all going to fall apart at some point as tumbling military drums collide with crumbling bass like a wasp and bumblebee locked in a mid-air conflict. Its insistent ambition is inspired.” — Drowned In Sound “Bouncing from experimental pop to punkish noise-pop, Giraffe Running show that musicians can be as avant-garde as they like so long as they remember to bring some tunes to the party.” — Metro

Selling Points

Giraffe Running Giraffe Running Genre: Alt Rock Label: Australian Cattle God 2XCD: ACG 20 Price Code: 2G (SRP $17.99) Cardboard Sleeve; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Hag: drums, guitar, bass, keyboards, trumpet, harmonophone.

Greg Barrett: bass

Track Listing DISC ONE: • Shoot the Mute Newt • Giraffic Bark • You’ve Got Some Neck • Infidel Gastro • Chewing On Eggshells DISC TWO: • Sharp Light • Fuckin’ Funny Fire/Dudeen • The Second Wave • Piss Off Back To Nottingham • Shafted by the Light • Drimnagh Castle/Gimme Shelta • Feline In Full Effect • Comic Strip • I Reach For Pictures • A Vaguely Distant ‘Oh Yeah’/Fratrified/ Fight and Repeat • The Fever Hospital • Babington • Liars Tears • When Michael Jackson Started Celtic Frost • Lionisation of the Squishy Hoops

Key Markets Austin, Chicago, Brooklyn, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Boston, Philadelphia

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• Features Ian Williams (Battles), Max Tundra, Agata (MeltBanana), Luca T. Mai (Zu), and many more.

• Packaging printed by Jeff Mueller (Shipping News, June Of ’44) at Chicago’s Dexterity Press.

• Radio promotion through Apples and Cats Media.

• Extensive promotion to web and retail.

• Ads with Verbicide, Razorcake, and Wonka Vision.

Overview Giraffe Running is a two-piece instrumental band featuring Greg Barrett and Hag. In December 2003, they recorded five instrumental compositions featuring drums and bass. The tracks were sent to a group of friends and admired musicians with the hope that each person would add their own idea(s) to the original tracks. The resulting double CD was released in Europe in May 2007 on Red-f Records and Learn To Love Records.

Guest artists Mike Stevens: guitar, violin, vocals Ian Williams, Agata, Andrew Clarke: guitars Matthew Bolger, Bryn Cloke: guitars, keyboards United Bible Studies: drums, bass, guitar, vocals Eoin Dillon: Uileann pipes Rebecca Collins: guitar, vocals, computer Hugh Holmes, Sadie Outlaw: vocals Max Tundra: piano Paul Roe: bass clarinet Miriam Ingram: vocals, computer Somadrone: synth, banjo, guitar, piano, percussion, computer Luca T. Mai: sax Diarmuid MacDiarmada: computer

Press Quotes “A challenging and practically unclassifiable masterpiece.” — The Advocate “A compelling intersection of the cerebral and the sensual.” — Chicago Reader “A thoughtful foray into friendly improvisation and self-conscious spoken word.” — XLR8R “A soundtrack for walking home alone late at night.” — Village Voice “Draws on improv, hip-hop, electronica, and jazz to create meditations of dimensional sound and movement in soul. Recommended.” — Other Music “Daniel Givens proceeds with no rules of genre, form, formula, audience or radio programming expectation. The record is cohesive merely by having all the pieces there sitting together. Unification by self-declaration.”

— Junkmedia “Most of the tracks are based around drum parts or looped fragments of drum parts played by Givens himself. Often, the loop is centered on an off-beat so the rhythm of the loop takes on a tumbling quality with no discernable time signature or downbeat. Other times, the beat steadily chugs but is kept by a seemingly random series of drum sounds. This unique approach is somewhat refreshing and comparable to few, besides maybe Tricky.” — Pitchfork

• Artist’s third album, and sixth release.

• Has performed with Tricky, Femi Kuti, Liquid Liquid, and Tortoise.

• Features original artwork and lyric booklet.

• Service to NPR, community & college radio, and press.

Overview Egress arrives just in time for summer. The New York producer’s surprising third album for Aesthetics interweaves new moon rhythms and vocal collages thanks to the mixing of Fred Ones (Beans, Mike Ladd) and Rusty Santos (Animal Collective, Ariel Pink). Named one of URB’s Next 100, Givens has toured throughout Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Denmark, and the Netherlands.

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Freedom’s Myth 12”

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Genre: Electronic/Hip-Hop Label: Aesthetics CD: AES 45 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) CD Wallet; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Selling Points

Dayclear & First Dark

Daniel Givens Egress

The Ideas of Space 12”

Featured Artists Daniel Marcellus Givens: production, vocals Semay Wu: cello

Track Listing • All Actions • You Know It • Abstraction • Oath • Handle It • Earthbound • Jungle • Are You My Love • Walk the Night • Seasons • Melts Your Skin Like Gold • Run Against the Wind • Sneakers • Windbreaker • Possibilities • Palms-Psalms 2007 • City Waves • In Bloom • Child of Mine • Blues #2-My Baby • He Went Into the Water

Key Markets Hometown: New York Also: Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington DC, Minneapolis, Montreal, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Detroit, Cleveland

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Press Quotes “Lovely sounds … lovely guitars.” — Robin Guthrie, Cocteau Twins “Out of all the shoegaze acts popping up, The Daysleepers hands down are one of the best around.” – Built on a Weak Spot “The Daysleepers have produced two extremely excellent EP’s in the last two years … both are incredible and both forebode good things from this incredible shoegaze band extraordinaire.” — Somewhere Cold “Harks back to the early 1990s with its Cure-like guitars (watery, highly reverb-guitar notes), flat echoed drum beat, airy drifting vocals by Jeff Kandefer, and empty sonic feel … Propulsive guitars briefly take on shoegazer grandeur on the chorus bits, amid rolling, crashing cymbals that lift the song up from its melancholy vibe.” — Delusions of Adequacy

The Daysleepers Drowned in a Sea of Sound Genre: Alt Rock Label: Clairecords CD: CLE 71 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Jeff Kandefer: vocals, guitar Elizabeth Kandefer: vocals, guitars Scott Beckstein: bass, keyboard, programming Mario Gimbrone: drums

Track Listing • Release the Kraken • Twilight Bloom • Distant Creatures • Summerdreamer • Tiger in the Sea • Megaton Supernova • Space Whale Migration • Lovesparkles • The Secret Place • Run

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

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“A tie for EP of the year. Along with Eluvium’s EP, The Daysleepers bring current shoegaze to another level. The hooks, composition, and execution of these songs demonstrate this band’s artistic brilliance and impressive sound. Their music is an example of what pure shoegaze sounds like and ought to be. Dreampop elements along with Cure-style influence are infused into walls of sound.” — Somewhere Cold “The Daysleepers are brilliant.” — This Twilight Garden

Selling Points • First full-length following two successful sold out self-released EPs. • Long anticipated by fans of shoegaze and dreampop music worldwide.

• Produced by shoegaze/darkwave artist Doug White of Tearwave (Projekt Records).

• Core radio service by AAM Sunday Service.

• Promo campaign with follow-up to national and international press outlets by Clairecords.

• Ads with Signal to Noise, Skyscraper, Under the Radar, and more.

Overview The Daysleepers return with their full-length Clairecords debut—a year in the making! Drowned in a Sea of Sound takes the best elements of the band’s highly acclaimed EPs and blends them with some entirely new experimental soundscapes.

The Daysleepers’ trademark sound—mixing dreampop, post-punk, and new wave—is still very much present, but now the band pushes beyond those boundaries. Imagine the sounds of The Cure, Cocteau Twins, The Chameleons, and Slowdive all rolled into one.

These 10 tracks touch on a wide variety of sounds and emotions, ranging from spacey ethereal drones to blissful up-tempo dreampop beauty. For fans of the early out-of-print EPs Hide Your Eyes and The Soft Attack, this is a must have.

Press Quotes “A superior shoegaze band … adorable as all get out.” — Trouser Press

Selling Points • Produced, mixed, and mastered by the legendary Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub, BMX Bandits, The Pastels).

• First US release by Pia Fraus since 2003’s Plastilina EP. • Core radio service by AAM Sunday Service.

• Promo campaign with follow-up to national and international press outlets by Clairecords.

• Ads with Under the Radar, Skyscraper, The Big Takeover, and more.

Pia Fraus After Summer

Overview Clairecords is extremely proud to present Pia Fraus’ new album After Summer. After five long years, the label welcomes these Estonian pop geniuses back with open arms. Pia Fraus and legendary Glaswegian Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub, BMX Bandits, The Pastels) kept file transfer programs busy for months to exchange sound files, and this relationship has created something magical. After Summer is the fourth proper album from the Pias, and quite possibly their best to date. For fans of My Bloody Valentine, Stereolab, Chicago Underground Quartet, The Pastels, The Beatles, and—of course—Pia Fraus!

Track Listing Springsister • Yenissey • Sailing Yes • Doctor Optimism • House Eaten • After Summer • Late Again • Mute the Birds • Loveloops • Far Fade Whisper

Key Markets

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Clairecords CD: CLE 76 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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CD: CLE 37 Price Code: J

San Francisco, Portland, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Austin, Seattle, Boston NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Press Quotes “Ghost of the Russian Empire are shoegazing indie rock that has the pop elements of Radiohead and My Morning Jacket but the jangled fuzzy guitars of My Bloody Valentine. Brilliantly recorded and delivered.” — Smother.net

Selling Points • Tour planned for late Spring 2008.

• Press and radio service through AAM.

Overview

Ghost of the Russian Empire The Mammoth Genre: Rock Label: Thirty Ghosts CD: THG 6 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Ghost of the Russian Empire was created in late 2004 in the frigid tundra of central Texas. Its members are dedicated to bringing voice to the suspicions and astonishments of past, present, and future worlds. Pulling themes from the historical, political, and science fiction realms, the band attempts to transport its ideas through engaging and intricate songs. The Mammoth was recorded with producer Erik Wofford (The Black Angels, Voxtrot, Explosions in the Sky) at Cacophony Studios in Austin. The band currently plays shows in and around Austin, and is eager to tour in support of its second release.

Track Listing A Decade Without a Death • Hammer Hands • Mandroid • Dark • The Winter Soldier • Dresden • In the Borough of a Beast • Bleeding Machines • The Black Mark • Mammoth • The White Sea • The Butcher

Key Markets Hometown: Austin Also: Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, Oklahoma City, New Orleans, Baton Rouge

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Press quotes “With heavy influences in ’70s pop, Young and Sexy would sit nicely in a collection of old Zombies and Mamas & Papas records.” — Fensepost “What all your favorite male/female pop duos would sound like if they added a few members and did more drugs.” — Music Missions “Any way you look at it … an accomplished work.” — Pop Culture Press “An awestruck tone that is at once deliberate, casual, and appropriate.”

— Static Multimedia “This album has a very summery, back porch, Pink Floyd-ish feel.” — Columbia Journal “It’s a winter album with Beach Boys harmonies, and truly remarkable.”

— Erasing Clouds

Young and Sexy The Arc Genre: Alt Rock Label: Mint Records CD: MRI 116 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

LP: MRI 116 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 40 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Track Listing • Saucerful of Fire • Peer Through the Lock • The Poisoned Cup • Young & Sexy vs. The Arc • Step Inside • The Shadow • The Fog • Demon Dreaming • The Echo • Spill the Sky • Up in the Rafters

Key Markets

“The difference between the new album and its predecessor like that between summer and autumn. The days get shorter, the shadows get longer, and there’s more of a bite in the air.” — Pop Matters

Selling Points • Recorded and produced by Colin Stewart at The Hive Studios (Black Mountain, Cave Singers, Ladyhawk).

• Fourth release on Mint Records.

• US college radio service by Pirate Promotions.

• Full US media mailing by Mint Records.

• Blog and web promotion by Toolshed.

Overview With the release of their fourth record, Young and Sexy find themselves entering their tenth year as a band. Their expansive arrangements and heavily melodic sound draws diverse comparisons to acts such as Pink Floyd, Fairport Convention, The Zombies, Led Zeppelin, and The Go Betweens.

The Arc is full of classical, baroque pop, and prog rock influences. Songs move from one movement to another cradling lyrics that focus on medieval and pagan imagery with a touch of spiritualism. The band that released Stand Up For Your Mother (their Mint debut) has now moved into dark and mysterious passages.

Recorded and produced at Vancouver’s Hive Studios by Colin Stewart (Black Mountain, Cave Singers, Ladyhawk, Swan Lake), The Arc fits securely into Young and Sexy’s ever-changing musical canon.

Seattle, Portland, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco

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Press Quotes “Blend[s] elements of surf music and spaghetti western with modern rock to create a sound that is intoxicatingly friendly.” — BabySue

Selling Points • Features Brent J. Cooper (Huevos Rancheros) on guitar.

• US college radio service by Pirate Promotions.

• Full US media mailing by Mint Records.

• Blog and web promotion by Toolshed.

Overview Almost five years have passed since the Ramblin’ Ambassadors’ critically acclaimed album Avanti, and now the band is back! This new release boasts eight new high-octane instrumental originals as well as covers of The Surftones, The Bel-Airs, and The Sadies. Vista Cruiser Country Squire explores the true core of the surf and cow-punk sound: stinging guitar lines, aggressive rhythm passages, and just enough laid-back West Coast feel.

This is an album that balances tremolo and twang within an instrumental presentation. It was recorded live off the floor, with minimal overdubs, in their Calgary rehearsal studio

by Russell Broom (Chixdiggit, The Dudes). Following its release, the Ramblin’ Ambassadors are preparing a split 7” with garage rockers Heavy Trash (Jon Spencer Blues Explosion).

Track Listing Camino Real • Cecilia Ann • Frank Slide • Speed Wobble • The Lonesome Rambler • Cupcakes De Milo • March of Dimes • Besame Bottom Turn • Kamikaze • Cabbage Diablo • Rat Creek • Cecilia Ann Mk II

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

The Ramblin’ Ambassadors Vista Cruiser Country Squire Genre: Alt Rock/Surf Label: Mint Records CD: MRI 120 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Press Quotes “Nick Jaina weaves a diverse instrumentation through his songwriting with ease … To think this guy was stuck behind the kit for the Be Good Tanyas seems a waste.” — Two Way Monologues

Selling Points

Nick Jaina The 7 Stations Genre: Alt Rock Label: HUSH CD: HSH 78 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Arigato Pak; Box Lot 30

• A proven seller. This is a reissue, self-released and out of print for months.

• Touring nationally March–June 2008.

• On the heels of the well received Wool.

• Full PR campaign to press and blogs.

• Full college radio mailing from AAM • Ads with Daytrotter, Magnet, Venus, Under the Radar, Pitchfork, Skyscraper, and more.

Overview The 7 Stations is like a handy map of the unconscious mind. The album features some of the most talented musicians in Portland, all playing for the love of song, including members of Point Juncture WA, Sounds Like Fun, Heroes & Villains, Horse Feathers, The Maybe Happening, and The Kitchen Syncopators.

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Track Listing

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7 Stations • Maybe Cocaine • One Hand Washing the Other • The Red Queen • No Direction • The Whim of the Ruling Class • Barleycorn & Toblerone • We Are All Alone In This World • I Will Swallow the Sea • Life Falling on Soldiers • Seems to Calm the Baby

Nick Jaina Wool CD: HSH 75 Price Code: O NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Key Markets Hometown: Portland. Also: Seattle, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Bloomington, Iowa City, Boise, Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louis, Austin, Tucson, Phoenix, New York, Athens, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Greensboro, Chapel Hill, Ann Arbor, Madison, Providence, St. Petersburg, Tampa, Reno, Las Vegas STREET DATE MAY 13, 2008

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Press Quotes :

“Shot × Shot takes deceptively simple, bare-bones structures and turns them into spacey, infinitely layered improvisations.” — Down Beat [HHH ] “A unique album, and an auspicious debut.” — Exclaim!

“All [tracks] leave an impression, upon completion, of being neither solipsistic nor beholden to cliché–a small miracle, these days. This calmly assured debut bodes well for the future of all involved.” — The Wire “One of the year’s most striking and satisfying jazz albums.” — Chicago Reader

Selling Points

Shot × Shot Let Nature Square Genre: Jazz Label: High Two CD: HGH 19 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Dan Capecchi: drums Matt Engle: bass Bryan Rogers: tenor sax Dan Scofield: alto sax

Track Listing • Scans • Triple Double • Overlay • Oh No • Autobonsai

Key Markets

• Debut album listed among 2006’s best jazz debuts by Village Voice, All About Jazz (NY), and Chicago Reader.

• Debut earned praise from Francis Davis, Howard Mandel, Down Beat, The Wire, Signal to Noise, and others.

• Features members of Sonic Liberation Front.

• First studio recording.

• Full service to music press and web outlets by High Two. • Service to college and web radio by High Two. • Ads with Signal to Noise, The Wire, and All About Jazz.

Overview Let Nature Square is the first studio album from Philadelphia acoustic jazz group Shot × Shot. The quartet’s self-titled album, recorded live at the historic St. Mary’s Church at the University of Pennsylvania, was heralded as one 2006’s best debuts by a jazz band. Critic Francis Davis wrote, “It’s been ages since I’ve heard a debut recording this adventurous and assured,” and the album received praised in the pages of Down Beat, The Wire, Signal to Noise, All About Jazz, and more.

Let Nature Square is a giant leap forward for the band. The album documents the evolution of young players growing into their own individually and stretching the boundaries of a collaborative relationship.

The music of Shot × Shot has always been nuanced and innovative, but now it has earned the distinction of being truly extraordinary. Shot × Shot is one of the country’s best young jazz groups, squarely pushing on jazz’s boundaries.

Hometown: Philadelphia Also: New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, Montreal, Toronto, Boston, Providence

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Shot × Shot

Sonic Liberation Front

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Shot × Shot

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Change Over Time

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Press Quotes “Top 21 Albums of 2006: For those who prefer their regret rock dappled with sunlight and hope (think Nick Drake or Hope Sandoval).” — Philadelphia City Paper

Selling Points • Limited edition vinyl release.

• Features members of BC Camplight, National Eye, War on Drugs, Fan of Friends, and Buried Beds.

• Publicity by Go Team US. • Limited service to college and NPR radio.

• Appearance at SXSW 2008.

• Tour with Geoff Farina (Secret Stars, Karate, Glorytellers).

• Ads with Magnet and various blogs.

Overview After the release of his self-titled solo album and the ensuing tour, Adam Arcuragi began the arduous task of sorting through all the songs, sketches of songs, and half-songs that he wrote in the time since his debut was recorded in late 2005. The five songs that make up the Soldiers for Feet 12” were recorded during a break from working on Arcuragi’s yetuntitled second proper album. Originally conceived as a home-recorded documentation of his new material, the sessions flourished into a portrait of the artist in his most intimate situation—at home, with friends in tow.

Track Listing Sin Is Just An Old Archery Term • The Old Sears & Roebuck Catalogue • Go With Them • The Belgian • Almost Always

Key Markets Hometown: Philadelphia. Also: Atlanta, New York, Boston, Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington DC

Adam Arcuragi Soldiers for Feet 12” Genre: Alt Rock Label: High Two LP: HGH 20 Price Code: J (SRP $9.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 25 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Press Quotes “Joshua Marcus’ voice is sweetly open, endearingly warm and wavery; it fashions these Spartan folk songs into something powerfully intimate.” — Slightly Confusing to a Stranger

Selling Points

Joshua Marcus Reverse the Charges Genre: Alt Rock/Folk Label: Contraphonic/High Two CD: CTP HGH 68 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Cardboard Sleeve; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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• Joshua Marcus is a member of popular Philadelphia group Fan of Friends, who will have a record released by Contraphonic/High Two later this year.

• Features an array of special guests including Jack Ohly, Amy Pickard, Megan Williams, and members of The Lesser Birds of Paradise, Joy, and Big Blood.

• US tour in Summer 2008.

• National press and regional tour press by Contraphonic.

• Radio service by via AAM Promo Digital Radio Promotion.

• Ads with State of Mind, Pop Culture Press, No Depression, and Harp.

Overview On his latest full-length, a co-release from Contraphonic and High Two, banjoballadeer Joshua Marcus elevates all of the high points of his solo debut, Make/Believe, and confidently enlarges the scope and range of his songbook. On Make/Believe, Marcus collaborated with a dozen Philadelphia musicians; for Reverse the Charges, he broadened that community, employing the services of just the right artists for just the right song.

Track Listing

Joshua Marcus Make/Believe

Part In It • So Low So Love So Long • Oh Metal Bird • A Whale Wash Out • Business As Usual • To Keep • River (To Hold) • What We Find Is Gone • For You Two, To Us All • Lay Me Down • Breathe Easy • The Tiny Wonder Song

CD: CTP 62 Price Code: J

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Hometown: Philadelphia. Also: Chicago, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Boston, Providence, Portland ME, Burlington, Brattleboro, Northampton, Baltimore, Athens, Washington DC, Portland, Seattle STREET DATE MAY 13, 2008

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Press Quotes “Guitarist/vocalist/songwriter/label boss Kaia Wilson has much to be pleased about these days. Her band, The Butchies, goes from strength to strength, maturing onstage and on record (last year’s 3 was their finest yet) into one of N.C.’s finest bands. The band is so respected that they’re nearly as high profile as Le Tigre, the biggest catch on Wilson’s nine-artist strong Mr. Lady label. As busy and/or satisfied as that should keep her, Wilson has also made three solo albums, and her new release, Oregon, is pretty much what you’d expect a sensitive rocker to do with her free time: an acoustic album. And not a bad one either—when Wilson raises her voice above the intimate, sweet, adolescent singing that may make you feel like you’re intruding on something private, she snatches your drifting attention right back.” — IndyWeek “Kaia’s latest solo album, the largely acoustic confessional Oregon, is an exemplary representation of the under-the-radar, user-friendly female folkpop genre … a solid, well-written, well-executed release.” — Pitchfork

Kaia Godmakesmonkeys Genre: Alt Folk Label: Jealous Butcher CD: JLO 66 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) Cardboard Sleeve; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Kaia Wilson: guitars, keyboards, vocals

Track Listing • 1,000 Wells • Logical List of Confidences • Dogs/Trucks • Matter/Molecules/Thrills • The Most Beautiful Thing • Montana • The Rings • Systems/Theory • The Great Ice Storm (of Durham NC 2002) • Everything/Everywhere • I Got You • Breaks the Bowl • Girl in a Suit Made Out of Clay • Get the Ball Snackie!

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

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“Kaia Wilson is both a musician and activist who manages to operate within the dominant music culture as a truly underground artist who is able to maximize her power.” — New York Times

Selling Points • First pressing comes in a hand-silk-screened cardboard folder.

• CD comes with free digital download album of outtakes and rarities.

• Current member of recently rejuvenated queer core legends Team Dresch.

• Co-founder Mr. Lady Records (Le Tigre, The Butchies).

• Promo mailing to radio, press, and web outlets.

Overview Lovely. Sparse. Intimate. Subtle. Hushed. Enveloping. Building. Cathartic.

This is the record that Jealous Butcher has wanted to put out for years.

All of the emotion and spirit that made you fall in love with The Butchies and Team Dresch, hushed and distilled down into this collection of 14 songs, the narrative of a girl being in love with a girl. Never hitting you over the head, merely giving you enough to imagine the rest of the story, and presented through deceptively simple acoustic guitars, a few electric guitars, some keyboards, and beautiful building vocal harmonies.

Acoustic pop songs, country ballads, atmospheric anthems. The mood is up then down, sly then serious, confessional then playful. Kaia has been telling us about her life for 15 years now, creating a long string of stunning vignettes. This is the closest she’s come to writing a complete novel, and it was well worth the wait.

Press Quotes “A nerd fantasia, a robo-rhythmic onslaught.” — Metro Pulse “Ingenious, and brutally catchy.” — Knoxville Voice “After the guitars are finished dueling, they’re happy friends holding hands, sharing milkshakes from the same straw, and playing rambling, orchestrated Frank Zappa melodies.” — The Morning News “Blazing energy, abstractly hook-laden songs, and skinny, middle-class guitar soul.” — High Country News “Akron’s Audio Eagle Records has a spotless reputation so far after releasing three of Ohio’s finest rock releases in recent years … Now, joining Audio Eagle’s ranks is the label’s first non-Buckeye band, Knoxville’s Royal Bangs. The peppy, poppy indie rock fivesome impressed Columbusites last summer at Café Bourbon Street, and judging by the quality of the free MP3 Audio Eagle distributed yesterday, We Breed Champions … is just as impressive.” — Columbus Alive “Knoxville, Tennessee’s Royal Bangs may be the first artist outside of the Buckeye State signed to Akron’s Audio Eagle Records, but they aren’t entirely out of place on their new home. They share their labelmate Houseguest’s quirkiness and offbeat sense of humor, and label head Patrick Carney’s affinity for old style garage rock … easy rhythm and a vocal drawl reminiscent of The Strokes or The French Kicks … musically unpredictable.” — I Rock Cleveland

Royal Bangs We Breed Champions Genre: Alt Rock Label: Audio Eagle Records CD: AER 5 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Selling Points • Debut from the most talked-about Knoxville export since Superdrag.

• On tour throughout Summer and Fall 2008.

• Noisy, dancey post-post-indie rock in the vein of Modest Mouse, TV on the Radio, or Architecture in Helsinki (though Royal Bangs is better than all three put together).

• Extensive service to print and web media, including over 50 music blogs.

• Extensive service of CMJ-reporting radio stations throughout the US. • Ads with Magnet, Under the Radar, and Pitchfork.

Overview From Knoxville, Royal Bangs is a laser-fueled, turbo-pop destroyer of bad stuff; a musical group sent down from burger heaven. Previously called “like Radiohead vs. fifteen bottles of Southern Comfort,” “nerd fantasia,” and “awful” by members of the press.

The band recorded We Breed Champions, their debut full-length on Audio Eagle Records, on their own. They sound awesome, like a wall of beats from a computer blasting dueling guitar wizards into hot dog hell, and sheets of red-hot synth slam dunk singing together as a dangerous old/new pop octopus.

Featured Artists Ryan: revolving instruments Sam: revolving instruments Chris: revolving instruments Danny: revolving instruments Jason: revolving instruments

Track Listing • New Scissors • Cat Swallow • Handcuff Killa • Japanese Cars • Let’s Get Even • Brother • Broke Calculator • Russia Goodbye • Little Switzerland • Hyundai

Key Markets Hometown: Knoxville Also: Nashville, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Columbus, Athens, Philadelphia, Asheville, Kansas City, Boston, New York, Washington DC

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PRESS QUOTES “Sweetly fluid, dreamily orchestrated folk-pop.” — Time Out New York

Selling Points • Heather McIntosh is currently touring as a member of Gnarls Barkley.

• Members of Elf Power, Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control, and Clientele.

• Heather McIntosh has toured as a member of Bright Eyes, performed on recordings

by Superchunk and Shannon Wright, and is a sought after studio and live performer.

• Third release on Orange Twin.

• Radio promotion by Team Clermont.

The Instruments Dark Smaland Genre: Alt Rock Label: Orange Twin Records CD: OTW 29 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview The mysterious sounds of Dark Smaland, the third album from Heather McIntosh’s songwriting project The Instruments, evokes thoughts of Nico’s ethereal vocal stylings and Nick Drake’s sense of intimacy. The album finds largely the same lineup we have seen in previous releases—Derek Almstead (Elf Power), Eric Harris (Olivia Tremor Control, Elf Power), and Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel), with a couple of new faces including Alasdair Maclean (The Clientele). The album has a poppier yet somehow more sophisticated sound than was heard on previous recordings. Heather McIntosh is currently occupied with touring as a member of Gnarls Barkley, but a national tour is planned for Fall 2008.

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Track Listing

The Instruments Cast a Half Shadow

Ode to the Sea • Ode pt. 2 • Sounds Electric • M’obesque • Mountain Song • Pastorale • First Signs • Paths of Low Flying Birds • Cello Ballad • Early Nights • Northern Skies • Pap Lost

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Hometown: Athens. Also: Brooklyn, New York, Chapel Hill, Omaha, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin

PRESS QUOTES “Nana Grizol provides a new and intriguing sound over songs that can have you singing the chorus at only your second time hearing ‘em.” — Flagpole

Selling Points • Features members of Zumm Zumm, Madeline, and Elf Power.

• East Coast tour May 2008. National tour Fall 2008.

• Future tours with Dark Meat and Japanther.

• “Circles ‘Round the Moon” covered by Your Heart Breaks on the Plan-It-X release New Ocean Waves.

• Radio and press promotion by Orange Twin.

Overview Nana Grizol is a pop band from Athens reminiscent of such bands as Arcade Fire and The Weakerthans. Since 2002, Nana Grizol has been the songwriting and home recording endeavor of one Theodore Hilton (Zumm Zumm, Defiance Ohio). Love It Love It features Laura Carter (Elf Power, Neutral Milk Hotel), Madeline Adams (Madeline), Robbie Cucchiaro (The Music Tapes, Neutral Milk Hotel), Patrick Jennings (Hot New Mexicans), Matte Cathcart (Landlord), Jared Gandy (Zumm Zumm), Ian Rickert (Folklore), and Margaret Child.

Track Listing Circles ‘Round the Moon • Tambourine -n- Thyme • Less than the Air • Motion in the Ocean • Voices Echo Down the Halls • Stop and Smell the Roses • Tiny Rainbows • Everything You Ever Hoped or Worked For • Broken Cityscapes • The Idea That Everything Could Possibly Ever Be Said

Key Markets Hometown: Athens. Also: Brooklyn, New York, Asheville, Gainesville, Austin, Portland ME, Bloomington, San Francisco 30

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Nana Grizol Love it Love It Genre: Rock Label: Orange Twin Records CD: OTW 30 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Madeline

The Slow Bang CD: OTW 26 Price Code: M NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Press Quotes “Once you’ve eased into the trip, the shoegazing acoustic indie-pop of Americans Scott & Bill Weigel mingle with the distinctly French vocals and violin of Julie Bonnie like a flaming sugarcube dripping into a green glass of Van Gogh’s favorite drink.” — Santa Cruz Sentinel

SELLING POINTS • Over 320,000 plays on Pure Volume.

• Produced by Alex Bonnie, who has played on records by Kid Loco, Cornu, Julie Bonnie, and Jarvis Cocker.

• West Coast shows being planned; plans to perform on select Californian college stations.

• Videos and MP3s will be made accessible via the band’s blog and extensive mailing list.

• Album sent to publications, websites, and blogs.

• Mailing to core college radio stations throughout the US and Canada.

OVERVIEW Absinthe Glow recorded La Guitarra at their Santa Cruz studio using the most basic, time-tested techniques. Electric instruments, percussion, and the electronic wizardry of producer Alex Bonnie (Kid Loco, Cornu, Julie Bonnie, Jarvis Cocker) give the music an angry edge, tempered by accordions, violin, and cello. A multi-layered listening experience that continually surprises and challenges—every trip through these fourteen songs will present the listener with a new, unique musical journey.

The Absinthe Glow La Guitarra Genre: Alt Rock Label: Isota Records CD: ISO 38 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Track Listing Solitude • L’enterrement • The Last Words of Padre Soledad • Chaos • Moisés Begins • Los Muchachos • Don’t Fall Asleep • Bookend #2 • Me Llamo Innocencia de las Flores • Something Wicked This Way Comes • Fait Accompli • Hangover • Fermín’s Last Call • Innocencia Perdida

Key Markets Hometown: San Francisco, Santa Cruz. Also, Denver, Seattle, Portland

Press Quotes “Equal parts rock & roll spirit and serious minimalism.” — All Music Guide

Selling Points

Alan Licht & Aki Onda Everydays Genre: Avant Rock Label: Family Vineyard CD: FVR 58 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

• Debut collaboration by two renowned experimental artists.

• Alan Licht is highly regarded for music spanning the genres of experimental (Jim O’Rourke, Thurston Moore), rock (Run On, Lovechild), and free jazz (Derek Bailey, Rashied Ali). Previous albums have been issued by Drag City, Siltbreeze, Phil Niblock’s XI Media, and Corpus Hermeticum.

• Aki Onda has worked as a producer for Mono and Noriko Tujiko.

• Full press mailing to magazines, blogs, and radio by Family Vineyard, with heavy emphasis on NYC area.

Overview Debut collaboration of New York artists Alan Licht and Aki Onda, whose combined history connects artists straddling the pop and experimental worlds including Fennesz, Loren Connors, Takemura Nobukazu, and Lee Ranaldo. Everydays features five grandly formed soundscapes that mix Onda’s cassette memories and the rhythmic/lyrical pull of Licht’s guitar with poetic and complex textures. Morphing from recognizable structures to dissonant hammered chunks and rapid cut-ups, the album perfectly weaves their signature applications of sound diaries, minimalism, grainy fidelity, looping, and free blues into a dynamic and ambitious statement.

Track Listing Tick Tock • Ship Shape • Tiptoe • Chitchat • Be Bop

Key Markets Hometown: New York. Also: Brooklyn, Providence, Chicago, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Austin, Portland, San Francisco STREET DATE MAY 13, 2008

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PRESS QUOTES “Stoner rock with a twist, ideal for those willing to risk something new.” — All Music Guide

Selling Points • Mixed by Al Sutton (Kid Rock, Sheryl Crow).

• Members of Five Horse Johnson, Novadriver, Antiseen, Big Chief, and Giant Brain.

• Music has been featured on The Sopranos as well as Fuel TV and MTV. • Copies to press and retail via Small Stone.

• Ads with Lollipop, Metal Hammer, and AP.

Gideon Smith & The Dixie Damned South Side of the Moon Genre: Rock Label: Small Stone Records CD: SSO 79 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview If you had never seen Gideon Smith, you might imagine a seven-foot giant with flowing Gregg Allman hair wearing a beat-up jean jacket stolen from Lynyrd Skynyrd and shit-kicking boots that would look right on a Circus of Power album. You wouldn’t have an accurate picture of Smith, but you pieced together a fair grouping of his influences.

Recorded once again at Rustbelt Studios with Eric Hoegemeyer under the watchful eye of Al Sutton (Kid Rock, Sheryl Crow), the new full-length swings easily between all of Smith’s traditional influences, careening from delta blues into creepy doom and meshing classic rock with hippie psychedelia. Features Phil Durr (Big Chief, Giant Brain), Eric Miller, and Billy Reedy (Novadriver) as well as Small Stone owner Scott Hamilton.

Track Listing Indian Larry • Blacklight Wizard Poster • Save a Dollar for the Dead • Daughter of the Moon • Black Cat Road • Feather’s Shadow • My Darling Black Rose • Magic Queen • Shimmering Rain • Lay Me Down In Ecstasy • Devil’s Night • Way of the Outlaw • The Wolf Will Survive

Key Markets Hometown: Charlotte. Also: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Baltimore, Atlanta, Detroit, Chicago, Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Minneapolis

Press Quotes “An honest, hardworking album that draws from a long list of classic rockers and fits in comfortably against contemporaries like The Brought Low, Mule, Roadsaw, The Rubes, and RPG.” — StonerRock.com

Selling Points • Will hit the road in support of Come On. • Performed at SXSW 2008 as part of the Small Stone Records showcase.

• Already has a regional buzz in the center of the country due to touring and press.

• Has shared the stage with such luminaries as Brant Bjork, The Makers, Electric Frankenstein, and Jucifer.

• Copies to press and retail via Small Stone.

• Music featured on MTV’s Jackass and Fuel TV.

Overview Shame Club is a real, honest to god American rock ‘n’ roll band. Like Aerosmith when they still did drugs, KISS before they took off their makeup, or ZZ Top before MTV. Mixing a love for volume, all things ’70s, and the punk rock ethos of Loud Fast Rules, Shame Club comes across as a thundering barrage of their influences. Come On is the band’s third album, and first for Small Stone. Mixing just a hint of Southern influence with their trademark riff-heavy, eardrum-bleeding rock ‘n’ roll, this is the album the boys were destined to make.

Track Listing Transamerica • I Just Want You To Be Free • How Far • Don’t Feel Like Making Love • Light Shines • Can You Feel It • Alicia Circles • Jonestown • Chasm • Ten • I Ain’t Surprised • Lurch

Key Markets Hometown: St Louis. Also: Chicago, Louisville, Austin, Oklahoma City, Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Detroit 32

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Shame Club Come On Genre: Rock Label: Small Stone Records CD: SSO 80 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

nail welcomes 8 bit records to its roster!

8 Bit Records is a Bloomington-based record label dedicated to releasing albums from the most electrifying acts around. Since 2001, the label has released the best in punk, synth pop, bit core, anti-wave post punk, and psychedelic syncopated post grunge. 8 Bit Records comes to NAIL via Joyful Noise Recordings.

Press Quotes “These guys take what the Poster Children have learned from Kraftwerk and add a healthy dose of snot-nosed hardcore punk to the mix.” — Nuvo

Selling Points • Bloomington’s near-legendary Sump Pumps have supported such acts as The Faint, Man or Astroman?, Enon, Tub Ring, and Murder by Death.

• Full press and radio campaigns by Soapbox Promotion.

• US tour in support of Revenge.

• Ads with Skyscraper, Razorcake, Modern Fix, The New Scheme, Verbicide, and Wonka Vision.

Overview Specializing in high-energy, ass-kicking anthems and frenzied pop, this Bloomington group has been hypnotizing and pulverizing audiences across North America for the past seven years. Revenge of the Sump Pumps is the third official release from the band, and their finest work to date. With the help of Mike Bridavsky and Russian Recording, they have cultivated the perfect storm of intense, retro synth, and shredding guitars.

Track Listing Space Camp • Stimuli Giver • The Mechanical • Pon Farr • Famous Last Words • Underwater • State of the Art • Shortest Fuse • Continuity • Project Celebrity

Sump Pumps Revenge of the Sump Pumps Genre: Alt Rock Label: 8 Bit Records CD: 8BR 5 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Press Quotes “Like so much contemporary US psychedelic folk, Fern Knight takes its cues from the dark underground UK folk of the late ’60s and early ’70s … dark magic is here, the kind that is celebrated by ritual gatherings in hidden glades.” — Ptolemaic Terrascope

selling points • Numbered edition of 800 copies; hand-screened covers by Monoroid.

• Recorded at Hexham Head by Espers’ Greg Weeks.

• CD version released by VHF Records in November 2006.

Fern Knight Music for Witches and Alchemists Genre: Alt Folk Label: Eclipse Records LP: ECP 57 Price Code: V (SRP $22.99) Double LP Jacket; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

overview Music for Witches and Alchemists is a dark, beguiling collection of neo-psychedelic songs. Beautifully recorded at Hexham Head by Espers’ Greg Weeks, the songs are cast in rich, detailed arrangements featuring Alec K. Redfearn, Greg Weeks, Jesse Sparhawk, Otto Hauser (Espers, Devendra Banhart, Vetiver), and other Philadelphia-area luminaries.

Track listing Song For Ireland • Awake, Angel Snake • W. Memphis • Murder of Crows • Lintworme, Pt. I • Marble Grey • Shingle River • The Dirty South • Summer of Throg • What the Crows Left Behind • Lullaby

Key markets New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle

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Press quotes “Few artists are as adventurous, imaginative, and uncompromising, and even fewer could hope to find a home, as Ribot has, in such diverse realms as jazz, pop, rock, blues and klezmer. And so fans can now satisfy their curiosities with the release of Anaïs Prosaïc’s documentary …The film, much like Ribot’s career, hops from place to place with spirit and ambition, along with a sense of faith and conviction that what feels right artistically is all that really matters … And if, by the end, more music is needed, fret not, for a bonus is included, with four full tracks from a solo performance in Lampli, France.” — All About Jazz

selling points

Marc Ribot The Lost String Genre: Jazz Label: La Huit DVD: LAH DVD 1 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Amaray; Box Lot 25 AN ALLEGRO-DISTRIBUTED TITLE NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

• This first DVD about Marc Ribot is directed by reputed French filmmaker Anais Prosaic.

• Has received amazing media and retail responses in France and Europe.

• Includes bonus solo pieces: “I’m Confessin’ (That I Love You),” “Recuerdos de la Alhambra,” “Etude (John Zorn),” and “St James Infirmary.”

• Features Anthony Coleman, Brad Jones, EJ Rodriguez, Los Cubanos Postizos, Catherine Jauniaux, Christine Bard, Ted Reichman, Ned Rothenberg, Sim Caine, Bruce Cox, Dave Hofstra, and Arto Lindsay.

• Approx run time: 82 min. Region 0 (playable in all regions).

overview A discreet legend of the New York scene and the composer, improviser, and accompanist most sought-after by the biggest international pop stars, Marc Ribot is one of the most inventive guitarists of his generation. Composed of excerpts from concerts in New York’s Lower East Side clubs—as well as from his European tour, archival footage, and conversations—this film explores the variety in the musical universes of this inspired virtuoso artist.

Press quotes “A consistently adventurous trumpeter who has stuck to playing avant-garde jazz throughout his career, Wadada Leo Smith’s dry, introverted style (which makes extensive use of space) is a strong contrast to the more jubilant flights of Lester Bowie.”

— All Music Guide

selling points • A film of rare and intense intimacy on this legendary musician and member of the AACM. • First-ever DVD on Wadada Leo Smith includes exquisite, close-up live performance footage that makes the viewer feel as though he were sitting right onstage with the allstar quartet.

• Features Vijay Iyer, John Lindberg, and Ronald Shannon Jackson.

• Approx run time: 84 min. Region 0 (playable in all regions).

overview Eclipse gives an outlook both modern and classic on a music that, from blues to socalled free jazz, simultaneously asserts its creativity and history, its structure and free improvisation. All these are born contradictions that feed the music of Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet with energy and rare beauty. The music and the interviews are seamlessly woven together in a subtle manner, and the black & white filming helps one to concentrate on the musician’s performances. This DVD is part of the Freedom Now collection. Each film was shot on location at a performance at the Banlieues Bleues Festival, and total freedom was given to the directors, whose films challenge the conservative codes of shooting musical performances.

Wadada Leo Smith Golden Quartet Eclipse Genre: Jazz Label: La Huit DVD: LAH DVD 2 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Amaray; Box Lot 25 AN ALLEGRO-DISTRIBUTED TITLE NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Press quotes “The Yohimbe Brothers once again deliver their eclectic blend of rock, DJ mixing, rap lyrics, and other elements … The duo, whose name is based loosely on an African herbal aphrodisiac, consists of guitarist Vernon Reid (Living Colour, Vernon Reid & Masque) and turntablist DJ Logic (The Anomaly). Their fertile collaboration began in 2002 with their well-received debut Front End Lifter, and the new music continues on the same path of experimentation with a modern trans-cultural and urban blend.” — All About Jazz

selling points • This first-ever DVD on Yohimbe Brothers can be experienced as an exploration of the particular resonances between image and sound in the tradition of the great psychedelic trips of the ’70s.

• All of the artists are supportive of this film, and interviews are currently being planned.

• Features Vernon Reid, DJ Logic, Jared Nickerson, Latasha Diggs, Leon Gruenbaum, and Deantoni Parks.

• Approx run time: 52 min. Region 0 (playable in all regions).

overview With his group Yohimbe Brothers, guitarist Vernon Reid (ex-Living Colour) joins forces with his New York buddy DJ Logic to create a fusion sound at the crossroads of funk, rap, and Latino rhythms. The film challenges the image/sound relationship using a VJ technique (in postproduction) that recreates the conditions of live multi-cam and treats each song with specific graphics animation. This DVD is part of the Freedom Now collection.

Each film was shot on location at a performance at the Banlieues Bleues Festival, and total freedom was given to the directors, whose films challenge the conservative codes of shooting musical performances.

Yohimbe Brothers Yohimbe Brothers Genre: Jazz Label: La Huit DVD: LAH DVD 3 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Amaray; Box Lot 25 AN ALLEGRO-DISTRIBUTED TITLE NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Press quotes “As the four pieces in the live program progress, the music grows looser, whether due to greater improvisation or the composer’s cleverness in suggesting such extemporaneousness never becoming an issue. Either way, the music is consistently surprising and quite beautiful … such attention to visual elements makes the disc rise above the usual filmed performance. La Huit has made a name for itself by creating films worthy of the music the company documents.” — All About Jazz

selling points • This first-ever DVD on Sylvie Courvoisier is part of the Freedom NOW collection, films that challenge the conservative modes of shooting musical performances.

• Songs performed include “Orodruin,” “Too Speedy,” “Tony Delito,” and “Abaton.”

• Features Mark Feldman and Anja Lechner, along with dancers Marielle Girard and Cyril Davy.

• Approx run time: 42 min. Region 0 (playable in all regions).

Sylvie Courvoisier Trio Abaton Genre: Jazz Label: La Huit DVD: LAH DVD 4 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Amaray; Box Lot 25 AN ALLEGRO-DISTRIBUTED TITLE

overview Swiss pianist-composer Sylvie Courvoisier, New York violinist Mark Feldman, and German cellist Anja Lechner perform music composed by Courvoisier and published in 2004 by ECM Records. Two virtuoso dancers and graphic animation give shape to the daydream conjured up by the bewitching music of these dazzling performers. This DVD is part of the Freedom Now collection. Each film was shot on location at a performance at the Banlieues Bleues Festival, and total freedom was given to the directors, whose films challenge the conservative codes of shooting musical performances.

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SELLING POINTS • Third installment of Buda Records’ new series Ethiosonic!

Overview

Eténèsh & Le Tigre [des platanes] Zeraf!

Genre: Alt World Label: Buda Records CD: BUD 860162 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 AN ALLEGRO-DISTRIBUTED TITLE

Hailing from Toulouse in Southern France, this acoustic quartet has always proudly proclaimed its disorderly musical borrowing, blending, and appropriation of influences from other cultures. In 2001, Le Tigre [des Platanes] discovered the Ethiopiques series, and soon included some chosen Ethiopian pieces in their eclectic repertoire, interpreting them in their own personal fashion. During a trip to Addis Ababa, they met Etenesh Wassie, a husky-voiced singer who is perhaps the Abyssinian sister of Edith Piaf and Billie Holiday.

The five musicians undertook the challenge of playing beautiful Ethiopian standards together, really exploring new musical territories and making the result a true sum of their personalities.

TRACK LISTING Medinanna zelessegna • Muziqawi silt • Ambassel fantay • Tche belew • Yezemed yebaed • Bati • Ney ney weleba • Awash • Man yehon telleq sew • Esti lenurbet • Ambassel • Tezeta • Woub Abeba

Key markets New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle

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Press quotes “John Greaves is one of the finest voices in British music … runs the gamut from vocal caresses to near-shouts in superb ballads.” — Le Monde

Selling Points • Best known as a member of Henry Cow and for his collaborative albums with Peter Blegvad, John Greaves was also a member of National Health and Soft Heap.

• John Greaves regularly tours the US.

Overview John Greaves is a bit of an enigma. Apart from his solo career, he has played bass with Michael Nyman, sung opera with Jack Bruce, collaborated with Robert Wyatt and Carla Bley, and played piano with Robert Crumb. Over the last two decades, he has produced a stack of albums strangely wonderful and wonderfully strange. The new French Dictionnaire du Rock allows him a whole page, yet in the British equivalent you’d be lucky to learn he was a part of the infamous Henry Cow and National Health, or that he continues to collaborate regularly with Peter Blegvad. His newest release features poetry by Paul Verlaine transposed into songs as irreverent and sexy as the old reprobate would have liked.

Track Listing Chanson pour elle • Séguidille • Streets • J’ai peur d’un baiser • Colloque sentimental • La lune blanche • Chanson d’automne • Beams • Le piano que baise une main frêle • Silence, silence… • Triolet à une vertu

Key markets New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle

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John Greaves Verlaine Genre: Avant Rock Label: Zig-Zag Territoires CD: ZIG 80202 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Digipak; Box Lot 25 AN ALLEGRO CLASSICAL LABEL NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Selling Points • Contributions from Laura Gibson, Bart Davenport, and Ritchie Young of Loch Lomond.

• Full PR campaign service to media outlets and blogs.

• Full college radio mailing from AAM. • Ads with Daytrotter, Magnet, Venus, Under the Radar, Pitchfork, Skyscraper, and more.

Overview Tiempo De & Pacífico is a collection of fourteen delicate folk-pop songs presented in a double CD package conceptually designed to present music in two acts: Act I (the need to love) and Act II (the need to be loved). Simple, yet full in texture, the sound involves pianos, brushes, acoustic and nylon guitars, and other instrumentation backing softly sung words. Written and recorded in chronological order, the songs were recorded with the help of friends in Spain (members of Amigos Imaginarios, Pleasant Dreams, Litius) and the Americas. You can hear the beautiful voices of folk singers Laura Gibson, Ritchie Young (Loch Lomond), and Bay Area pop maestro Bart Davenport, plus the mandolin and cello of members of Weinland and Horse Feathers, respectively.

Rauelsson Tiempo De & Pacifico Genre: Alt Rock Label: HUSH CD: HSH 77 Price Code: 2D (SRP $13.99) Cardboard Jewel; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Selling Points • Limited to 500 copies only.

• Features Kathryn Calder of the New Pornographers.

• Hand-drawn comic insert by Brooke Gallupe.

• Blog web promotion by Toolshed.

• Select media and college radio mailing.

Immaculate Machine Won’t Be Pretty b/w Wo Xiang Tanbai Genre: Alt Rock Label: Mint Records

Overview A limited edition 7” single with an A side recorded during the sessions for the band’s latest critically acclaimed release, Fables. No strangers to presenting songs in different languages, (see the French EP Les Uns Mais Pas Les Autres), the flip side “Wo Xiang Tanbai” is a re-working of the single “Dear Confessor” performed in Mandarin!

7”: MRI 119 Price Code: G (SRP $8.99) 7” Jacket; Box Lot 40 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Selling Points • Limited to 1,000 copies. Special two-sided cover.

• Tomlab artist Casiotone for the Painfully Alone has a devoted fan base that quickly snaps up his limited edition vinyl issues.

• Artists have had two successful US tours together, including The Donkeys as the Casiotone backing band. Have also done two Daytrotter sessions together.

• Radio mailing through AAM. • Limited press mailing and blog blast.

Overview With The Donkeys back from their US tour with Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Antenna Farm is pleased to present a limited run split 7” with 2 songs from each band, matching CFPTA’s melancholy electronic pop perfectly with the loose jangly vibes of San Diego’s The Donkeys. Soon to be a collector’s item.

Casiotone for the Painfully Alone/ The Donkeys Split 7” Genre: Alt Rock Label: Antenna Farm 7”: ANT 524 Price Code: D (SRP $6.99) 7” Jacket; Box Lot 20 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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PRESS QUOTES “One of England’s best kept musical secrets.” — Rolling Stone

SELLING POINTS • Front cover sticker: “One of the finest songwriters in Britain.” — The Independent • First time available in North America.

• Produced by Jim Lowe (Stereophonics).

• Includes former members of Black Grape, Son Volt, and Pernice Brothers.

• Mailing to college radio and key media outlets.

Peter Bruntnell Ghost in a Spitfire Genre: Alt Country Label: Loud Folk Records CD: LFR 1025 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 AN ALLEGRO-DISTRIBUTED TITLE NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

overview Although his tent has been pitched in the Americana camp, Peter Bruntnell is a very British songwriter who has more in common with Teenage Fanclub than the likes of usual comparisons Neil Young and Evan Dando. Lyrically, he’s never been tempted to stray from matters close to home, and as a result he’s been praised for the succinct authenticity of his past five albums. The bulk of the songs here were written by Bruntnell and Canadian writing partner Bill Ritchie before a recent tour of the UK with Kathleen Edwards. Features Mick Clunes, former Black Grape member Danny Williams, James Walbourne, and Son Volt’s Eric Heywood, who recorded his pedal steel while on a break from touring with Minnie Driver.

TRACK LISTING K2 • Perfume River • Little Lorelei • Ghost in a Spitfire • Fear of Lightning • Something I Lost • Orange Moon • Love Is On Your Side • World Won’t Wait • Tin Streamers Song • Polar Bear Jail

KEY MARKETS Minneapolis, Chicago, Atlanta, St Louis, Detroit, Los Angeles, Phoenix

SELLING POINTS • Former D6 frontman’s debut solo album, created in the spirit the fantastic punk album of the ’70s, is guaranteed to bring a smile to your face.

• Includes college radio favorite “You Suck You Drank My Beer” and a cover of the Ramones classic “I Wanna Be Sedated.”

• Ranked as high as #9 on American Idol Underground.

• College radio service. Promotion via MySpace.

Overview Raised in Arizona in the basement of a junior tech college, Dude taught himself music by tapping out rhythms on a broken Commodore 64 keyboard. Later he hacked into the college mainframe and downloaded music that changed his life. He pays tribute to this band, The Ramones, with his version of their mega-hit “I Wanna Be Sedated.” Dude has become a legend among college students and MySpace fans around the world. Here, Dude enlisted his close friend and roommate Shawn Armenta to write the songs, play guitar, and sing all the vocals.

Recorded and produced by the award winning Larry Elyea at Minds Eye Digital Recording, this CD is guaranteed to piss off your Mom and Dad.

TRACK LISTING Procrastinator • J.F.J. • Nerd Love • You Suck, You Drank My Beer • Scapegoat • I Want It • Underwater Midget Boxer • Sucks to Be You • Look • I Wanna Be Sedated • What’s That Smell?

KEY MARKETS Hometown: Phoenix. Also: Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, Las Vegas

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Dude Offline Nerd Love Genre: Punk Label: Loud Folk Records CD: LFR 1001 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 AN ALLEGRO-DISTRIBUTED TITLE NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

nail welcomes KNW-YR-OWN to its roster!

Knw-Yr-Own Recordings has been documenting the mysterious brilliance of the Pacific Northwest’s underground since 1987. Founded by the legendary Bret Lunsford, Knw-Yr-Own shoulders on into the millennium with a humble approach: do it yourself, record it at home, hand-screen it, only make 50 copies … whatever it takes to get the music out.

Press quotes “Bret Lunsford’s songs are bursting with likability, both in their easygoing tunefulness and the offhand, nonchalant intelligence of the lyrics.” — All Music Guide

Selling Points • Features members of the legendary Beat Happening and Microphones.

• Exclusive album art and poster by artist Nikki McClure.

• Hand-numbered limited edition of 1,000 with gorgeous hand-screened covers.

• Extensive liner notes written by Phil Elverum and Karl Blau.

• Doublescoop PR will promote the album to independent press, music websites, and blogs.

• Feature interviews scheduled in Seattle Weekly and Pitchfork. Promo copies of the album will be distributed to various writers along with heavy promotion to KEXP. • Ads with Yeti and Arthur.

Overview D+ is almost more of an art project than band. After Beat Happening strummed its last chords, Bret Lunsford returned to his hometown of Anacortes and asked two of the towns’ most gifted musicians (Phil Elverum and Karl Blau) to join him in his new project. On Purpose compiles ten years of experiments, alternate takes, demos, and live tracks from one of the Pacific Northwest’s most important groups.

D+ On Purpose Genre: Avant Folk Label: Knw-Yr-Own CD: KNW 81 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Arigato Pak; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Track Listing Mistake • Green Party • Book • No Mystery • God Beyond God • Our Father • Cut It Out • Deception Pass • Jaywalker • We Could Do Anything • Heatherwood • Put Me Back • Red White & Blue • Blindspot • Take You For Granted

Press quotes “The JC demonstrate real talent in terms of songwriting and performance—they turn the limits of their guitar/drums/bass aesthetic into clear advantages through simple ebullience.”

— Splendid

Selling Points

Jesus Chords Kelp Bong Genre: Alt Western Label: Knw-Yr-Own CD: KNW 80 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Arigato Pak; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

• Features former members of Sub Pop bands Earth and the Sera Cahoone Band.

• Recorded at the world famous Depatment of Safety.

• West Coast tour for July 2008, finishing with an appearance at the What the Heckfest.

• Doublescoop PR has been hired to promote the album to independent press, music websites, and blogs.

• Promo copies of the album will be distributed to various writers along with heavy promotion to KEXP. • Ads with Yeti and Arthur.

Overview The Jesus Chords’ third album (first on Knw-Yr-Own) follows the country-punk soul of their self-titled debut and the double-disc follow-up Country is a Four Letter Word. Steeped in the roots rock tradition of the West Coast in the late ’60s and the Pacific Northwest punk scene of the late ’70s, their sound draws comparisons to everyone from the Holy Modal Rounders to the Wipers. It’s hard out there for working stiffs these days; jobs are scarce, gas ain’t cheap, and there aren’t any good fishing spots left for hundreds of miles. The Jesus Chords make country music for the modern outlaws our country has left behind.

Track Listing Blood For Oil • Down the Drain • Dump Bear • Friday Harbor • Jon John • The One That Got Away • Shriek Then Silence • Someday • 10’ Tall Rooster • When The Man Gets You Down STREET DATE MAY 27, 2008

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Little Wings The Wonder City

D+ Dandelion Seeds

Genre: Alt Rock CD: KNW 46 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99)

Genre: Alt Rock CD: KNW 44 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99)

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The first of the “Wonder Trilogy,” recorded in New York while on vacation.

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Backwoods socialists remove festering slivers with their trusty old pocketknives. Their second album.

D+ D+

D+ Mistake

Genre: Alt Rock CD: KNW 19 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99)

Genre: Alt Rock CD: KNW 51 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99)

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This debut is as willfully minimalist as any Beat Happening record, with an even looser sense of melody and rhythm.

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Some say the American Communist Party would still be going strong if D+ had played those summer camp shows instead of Paul Robeson.

D+ Deception Pass

Karl Blau Clothes Your I’s

Genre: Alt Rock CD: KNW 61 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99)

Genre: Alt Rock CD: KNW 58 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99)

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If the first two albums showed us the clean-shaven Bret, then this one shows us the bearded Bret.

The one that put Karl on the map, hitting Rolling Stone’s Best of the Year list and a 8.0 on Pitchfork.

The Crabs Jackpot

The Crabs Brainwashed

Genre: Alt Rock CD: KNW 20 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99)

Genre: Alt Rock CD: KNW 22 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99)

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Naiveté, simplicity, and pure-pop bliss spill from hometown super-duo The Crabs. Their first album.

The second album on continues the duo’s unique mix of guitar, drums, and vocals.

The Crabs Sand and Sea

Nate Ashley Where Matter Lives

Genre: Alt Rock CD: KNW 37 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99)

Genre: Alt Rock CD: KNW 33 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99)

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On their fourth disc, the addition of Sarah Dougher on organ and vocals added a new perspective to the sound.

Nate Ashley bares his soul on his debut release and makes us all feel better for doing so. A KYO favorite.

Nate Ashley The Darker Corners of Your Heart

The Gift Machine Don’t Turn Me Off

Genre: Alt Rock CD: KNW 60 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99)

Genre: Alt Rock CD: KNW 54 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99)

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Ashley’s two alter egos mutate into one powerful beast, and the results are astounding

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What summer is complete without a summer album? This is the music you need for BBQs or afternoons at the lake.

STEINSKI

WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? 1983–2006 RETROSPECTIVE Press Quotes “Brilliant.” — URB “A masterpiece.” — Salon.com “Jaw-dropping. Perfectly paced, clever, funny, and down-right funky.”

— The Wire

Selling Points • The first definitive Steinski collection!

• Includes two discs, a slick six-panel digipak, and a 20-page booklet.

• Liner notes by Hua Hsu (The Wire, New York Times, Village Voice, Slate) and Steinski.

• Steinski has produced tracks for Sony, Astralwerks, Ninja Tune, Tommy Boy, Stones Throw, Antidote, and many others.

• With Double Dee, opened sold-out New York shows for the DJ Shadow/Cut Chemist “Hard Sell” tour.

• Tours Europe and the UK as a laptop DJ. Has appeared with DJ Spinna, Coldcut, DJ Food, Afrika Bambaataa, Diplo, Z-Trip, more.

• Press, new media, and radio promotion by Fanatic PR.

Overview Steinski (advertising writer, DJ, and record collector Steve Stein) produced his first record in 1983. In response to a nationwide remix contest by Tommy Boy Records, he and partner Double Dee (engineer and studio wizard Douglas DJ Franco) produced “The Payoff Mix.” A panel of ten judges—including Afrika Bambaataa, Shep Pettibone, Jellybean Benitez, and Arthur Baker—unanimously chose the mix as the winner. Within two weeks “The Payoff Mix” became a Top 10 request on urban radio nationwide, but the release never saw official status and was subsequently bootlegged countless times.

The Payoff Mix became the first record in a series now known as The Lessons. Double Dee and Steinski followed up with cut-and-paste landmark Lesson Two: The James Brown Mix, which Fatboy Slim called “the record that always gets the crowd going.” Then came Lesson 3: The History of Hip Hop. The series quickly became highly sought after collectibles and led to homage records by DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, DJ Format, and others.

Since The Lessons, Steinski has produced a variety of tracks, and this Illegal Art retrospective collects everything from his hip-hop narrative about the Kennedy assassination (originally a white-label promo, also issued as a Flexi-disk for UK music magazine NME) to the 1998 remix of Afrika Bambaataa’s “Jazz” with Double Dee. Besides the completist archive, the release will also includes the critically acclaimed “Nothing To Fear: A Rough Mix,” an hour-long mashup that was produced for Solid Steel/BBC London, described by Salon as, “the closest thing to a masterpiece the genre has yet produced” and perhaps the most obvious precursor (along with The Lessons) to Girl Talk’s Night Ripper.

“Proves the dude still makes wittier mixes in his spare time than most of his beat-smithing offspring.”

— Entertainment Weekly

Steinski What Does It All Mean? 1983–2006 Retrospective Genre: Hip-Hop Label: Illegal Art 2XCD: ILL 116 Price Code: 2G (SRP $17.99) Digipak; Box Lot 25 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Steinski (Steve Stein): vinyl, computer, mixing Double Dee, DJ E.T., Danny See, DJ P-Love, Cut Chemist, Mr. Dolan, The Man in the Blue Bathrobe

Track Listing DISC ONE: The Payoff Mix • Lesson 2 (James Brown Mix) • Lesson 3 (History of Hip Hop) • Jazz • Voice Mail (Sugar Hill Suite) • The Motorcade Sped On • It’s Up To You (Television Mix) • I’m Wild About That Thing • The Big Man Laughs • Vox Apostolica • Is We Going Under? • Ain’t No Thing • Everything’s Disappeared • Number Three On Flight Eleven DISC TWO: Tonight From NY Intro • Swingset • Opening Credits • Greatest Man Alive • The Id • Let’s Get It On • Hit The Disco • Lolita • Hot Spot • It’s A Funky Thing Pt. 1 • Bboy Breakdown • B-beat Classic • Funk Construction • Them That’s Not • Swan Lake • Here We Come • Product Of The Environment • By Any Means Necessary • The Art Of Getting Jumped • I Like It Like That • Solid Air • Country Grammar • Let’s Get It On (Reprise) • Muscles • Easin’ In • It’s Time To Testify • The Acid Test • Silent Partner

Key Markets Hometown: New York Also: Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Austin, Seattle STREET DATE MAY 27, 2008

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Tetuzi Akiyama The Ancient Balance to Control Death Genre: Avant Rock/ Experimental Label: Western Vinyl CD: WVR 49 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) Cardboard Sleeve; Box Lot 30

• Part of an series that has included releases by Bonnie Prince Billy, Robert Lippok, Papa M, and more.

• Frequently invited to play large music festivals such as SXSW; will tour the US and Europe in Spring 2008.

• Has worked with Taku Sugimoto, Tim Barnes, Oren Ambarchi, Alan Licht, Gunter Muller, and more.

• In-house press promotion. Radio promotion by AAM. • Ads with Signal to Noise, The Wire, and Pitchfork.

Overview Tetuzi Akiyama’s contribution to the Western Vinyl Portrait Series is a departure in a career of departures. In addition to Akiyama’s trademark improvised, blues-infused guitar work, The Ancient Balance to Control Death also features intense multi-layered vocals. Much like his guitar work, the vocals flow with a sharp primal urgency, and the end result is a collection of unique and tense Japanese blues that could only have come from one of Japan’s most distinct and creative improvisers.

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Selling Points • Mastered by Justin Broadrick.

• Dave Cochrane plays in Jesu and Grey Machine, used to play in Head of David, Ice, God, and Sweet Tooth.

• Kevin Laska collaborated with Russel Smith and Anthony Difranco (Ramleh, ex Skullflower) as Novatron.

• Vinyl version on Soultheft Records.

Overview Transitional is the new project from musician/producer Kevin Laska (Novatron) and Dave Cochrane (Jesu, Grey Machine). Their debut, Nothing Real Nothing Absent, offers a rich variety in their approach to sound, creating crushing atmospheres through a mixture of electronic ambience, mangling bass lines, and distorted epic layers of textured guitar. Injected with driving rhythms and effected vocal phrasing, Laska and Cochrane build discordant worlds on an immense scale, pulling you down to another level of fear and ethereal bliss before kicking off with more soul dismantling sonic dysfunction.

Transitional Nothing Real Nothing Absent Genre: Avant Metal/ Ambient Label: Conspiracy Records CD: CNS 62 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Selling Points • First in a series of double LP versions of the Nadja CDs released on Alien8 Recordings.

• Special deluxe packaging includes carton-board sleeve with embossment, cut-out, and heavy inner sleeves.

• Pressed on 180-gram vinyl. Side D is etched.

• Limited to 750 copies.

• Artwork by Seldon Hunt.

Nadja Touched Genre: Avant Metal Label: Conspiracy Records 2XLP: CNS 63 Price Code: 2S (SRP $37.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 30

Overview With Touched, Nadja have hit the perfect meld of punishing doom/sludge six-string fuzz, endless militant drum machine bludgeon, and chest-swelling shoegaze/post-rock/ambient-influenced catharsis. Nadja’s brand of doomy ambient metal incorporates beautiful melody into crushing riffs.

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Press Quotes “Frenetic!” — LA Times “Genius!” — OC Weekly “Best of the year!” — Thurston Moore & Byron Coley, Bull Tongue “The bands are alive!” — URB “A timely reminder of Southern California’s long and glorious punk rock tradition!” — Pitchfork “The sheer range of talent is astonishing!” — CMJ “Highest recommendation!” — Mean Street

Selling Points • Featuring bands signed to important labels like Lovepump United, Asthmatic Kitty, Sub Pop, and Deathbomb Arc, this is like buying 50+ albums at once. A sure-fire seller for all music vendors!

• Many of the bands featured on this DVD (No Age, HEALTH, Abe Vigoda, I Heart Lung, Bizzart) consistently tour the US and UK, promoting the DVD at live performances.

• DVD is actively being screened throughout the US. • Clips of many of bands have been posted on YouTube.

• Websites such as Pitchfork have begun featuring clips when championing new LA underground bands.

• Promoted by many of the bands featured in the film, the DVD is receiving residual attention as the groups tour and release new albums.

• Approx run time: 80 min. Region 0 (playable in all regions).

Overview Once in a generation, a music movie comes along that captures the hearts and ears of all music fanatics. 40 Bands/80 Minutes! is that film, a modern classic and a must-buy that instantly inspires. Every fan of modern music wants this DVD, because it celebrates of the universal power of youthful, cutting-edge music.

Recorded all in one night, this is a non-stop party featuring all the hottest LA groups of 2008: No Age (appearing as Wives), HEALTH, Abe Vigoda, I Heart Lung, Anavan, Captain Ahab, Kyle Mabson, and Gowns as well as members of Night Wounds, Mika Mika, and dozens of others.

Has been enthusiastically reviewed by Pitchfork, LA Times, XLR8R, Arthur’s Byron Coley and Thurston Moore, 20 Jazz Funk Greats, CMJ, Carbon 14, and Decibel. Has screened in nearly two dozen cities to overwhelmingly ecstatic response.

Various Artists 40 Bands/80 Minutes!

Genre: Alt Rock/Documentary Label: Sounds Are Active DVD: SAC 1140 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Amaray; Box Lot 50 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Abe Vigoda, The Amazements, Anavan, Asthmatique, Bacon Tears Up Business, Bavab Bavab, Bipolar Bear, Bizzart vs.

Demonslayer, Camarillo Blues Triangle, Captain Ahab, William Caruso’s Wet Hot Social Anxiety, Karen Centerfold, Christ With Braces, Clowns and Fetuses, Creekbird, Debaser, Dog Shit Taco, Dommm, Erebus Nyx & Styx, Explogasm, Extreme Dubble Bubble, Faux For Real, Fireworks, Gowns, Kate Hall & Elijah Forrest, Halloween Swim Team, Harasser, William C. Harrington, HEALTH, The Health Club, I Heart Lung, I Rape Nick Lachey, Lovetongueattack, Mitchell Brown, Naomi, Nosajthing, The Outfit, Parkinsons, Slutty Knuckles, Sykora, Three, Toxic Loincloth, Unwrinkled Doctor, Veer Right Young Pastor, Warm Climate, Weekend Warrior, Rob Williams, White Trash Firecracker, Whitman, Wives, Xanaar

Packed with value! 52 bands recorded with multiple cameras and audiophile sound, two behind-the-scenes featurettes, two audio commentaries, and a slideshow featuring John Wiese, Anthony Kiedis, graffiti master Buffmonster, and the Germs’ Don Bolles.

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Get nailed... on the road HEALTH

Colin Meloy

Fieldwork

CD: LPU 19 Price Code: E (SRP $7.99) UPC: 88027022632 4/8/08 Columbia, SC – 112 Huger St. 4/9/08 Atlanta, GA – Drunken Unicorn 4/10/08 Birmingham, AL – Bottletree 4/11/08 Baton Rouge, LA – Spanish Moon 4/12/08 Houston, TX – The Mink 4/13/08 Austin, TX – Emos 4/15/08 Denton, TX – Rubbergloves 4/16/08 Lubbock, TX – Bash Riprocks 4/18/08 Phoenix, AZ – Trunk Space 4/20/08 Los Angeles, CA – The Smell 4/25/08 Troy, NY – EMPAC at Renssleaer 4/26/08 Princeton, NJ – Princeton University

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Pomegranates Everything Is Alive

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Minmae Ya Te Vas?

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