May10 nail by Allegro Media Group

MAY 2010 NEW RELEASES

I STREET DATES 05.11.10 & 05.25.10

A DIVISION OF ALLEGRO MEDIA GROUP

A Tribute To Graham Nash’s

Songs For Beginners FEATURING

BRENDAN BENSON • VETIVER • ROBIN PECKNOLD (FLEET FOXES) • BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY • ALELA DIANE

8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT: APRIL 1–30, 2010 SA #885432

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CHICO TRUJILLO............................................................ 3 Rachel Grimes............................................................ 7 X’s wild gift.............................................................. 12 Graham Nash Tribute.............................................. 13

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Nail welcomes AEROBIC INTERNATIONAL PG. 5

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Aerobic International: promoting health and good living through fitness of the mind and body. Challenging post-apocalyptic consciousness with futuristic aerobic dance culture. Music, Fashion, Fitness! Aerobic International comes to NAIL via Antenna Farm.

Nail welcomes BEEHOUSE RECORDS

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PG. 6–7 Jason Bays and Colleen Coffey formed Ventura-based Beehouse Records in 2004 to release the records of their newly-formed band, The Spires. A mixed bag in the truest sense of the term, the Beehouse sound swings wide, from The Spires’ reverberating washed-out jangle, and Tall Tales’ Byrds/Dylan-inspired folk to the droning noise-guitar landscapes of Isley Banks and Deep Magic’s improvised ambient cassettes. Now up 25 releases and counting, many future plans are being hatched for 2010 and beyond.

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Nail welcomes karate body RECORDS PG. 7

CANADIAN SALES STAFF

Karate Body Records, LLC, founded in 2009 in Louisville, specializes in limited edition vinyl releases.

Nail welcomes GRASSROOTS RECORD CO. PG. 13 Grass Roots Record Co. was founded in Nevada City, California in 2006 by Marc Snegg to support the vibrant rock & roll and folk music culture of California artists and songwriters. In December 2008, ((folkYEAH!!)) founder Britt Govea joined GRRCo as visionary partner. GRRCo is now a bicoastal operation with offices in San Francisco, Nevada City CA, and Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Nail welcomes projekt records

PG. 14–15 Projekt is America’s premier independent label specializing in passionately intense introspective music across a variety of darkwave genres. Begun in 1983 and celebrating its 245th release in 2010, Projekt is proudly distributed by NAIL. Projekt is home to a diverse roster including label founder Sam Rosenthal’s own Black Tape For A Blue Girl as well as Steve Roach, Voltaire, Unto Ashes, Lycia, Love Spirals Downwards, and Android Lust. For over 25 years Projekt has focused on discovering new talent, always adding to the label’s collection of beautifully spellbinding masterpieces. New signees for 2010 include The Twilight Garden and WEEP, the return to music by Doc Hammer, co-writer of the Adult Swim show The Venture Bros, and world renown ambient artist Erik Wøllo. The successful Projektfest (held in ‘96, ‘97, ‘98, ‘02, and ‘07) will be held this year in July in Philadelphia; the fest serves as an opportunity for fans and bands to meet in one spot and celebrate the music they love.

Attention NAIL customers

US SALES STAFF

Vinyl sales continue to rise and as audio lovers ourselves, this is a great thing! As we broaden our vinyl catalog selection we can no longer accept returns on sensitive, easily damaged vinyl products. Effective May 1, 2010, we will no longer accept returns on vinyl. Please contact your NAIL sales rep with any questions regarding this policy. Thank you for your continued support and interest in NAIL label partners and artists.

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INDEPENDENCE FOR

INDEPENDENTS

CHICO TRUJILLO

CHICO DE ORO

Selling Points

• RIYL: The Clash, Los fabulosos Cadillacs, The Specials, Chicha Libre. • First release in the US after a very successful ten-year career in Chile, where they are superstars. • The group will embark on its first North American tours in June and September. • Chico Trujillo is one of the torchbearers of the worldwide Cumbia movement that is starting to make waves in the US, and is already in full swing in Europe and North America. • Can be marketed to rock and world music fans alike. • Publicity firm Pressjunkie PR has been retained to work on the release, focusing on NPR magazine shows, world music press, and wide circulation music and culture press.

Overview

Started ten years ago as an offshoot of the Chilean ska-punk band Lafloripondio, Chico Trujillo has become an institution in Chile, where their national brand of Cumbia is the soundtrack to every party. Their big band arrangements owe as much to the Cumbia bands of yesteryear as to rock and ska. They have shared the stage with every major South American rock band, including Los Tres and Los fabulosos Cadillacs, and they perform at every major Chilean festival where they routinely draw crowds of 50,000.

Genre: Alt Rock/Latin Label: Barbés Records CD: BRS 26 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number Of Discs: 1 Digipak; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 5/11/10 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Chico de Oro, which will be released in South America and Europe at the same time, is their first US release. Its mix of rocking cumbias, classic Chilean party music, and pop tunes makes it the strongest album in the band’s ten-year history.

Featured Artists Juan Gronemeyer: drums Michael Magliocchetti: guitar, voice Tuto Vargas: bass Sebastian Cabezas: trumpet Tio Rodi: percussion Luis Tabilo: trombone Macha Asenjo: guitar, voice

Varga-Varga • Maria • Loca • Ahora Quien • Polera Amarilla • Conductor • Medallita • La Escoba • Lanzaplatos • Los Sabanales • Calentones • No Me Busques • La Cosecha De Mujeres • Cabildo • Sombrero

Key Markets

New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Boston

STREET DATE MAY 11, 2010

Track Listing

Selling Points • • • •

RIYL: Grizzly Bear, Beach House, Animal Collective, Nurses, Loch Lomond. Always on tour! Tour press by Riot Act Media. College radio campaign by AAM. Full scale in-house media campaign.

Overview

Hosannas Then & Now & Then

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Hush Records CD: HSH 93 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Number Of Discs: 1 Digipak; Box Lot 40 Street Date: 5/11/10 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Collecting the first fruits of brothers Richard & Brandon Laws’ songwriting with the mellifluous accompaniment of Christof Hendrickson, this is a slightly warmer and more comprehensive introduction to the band (formerly known as Church) than their well-received Song Force Crystal, which in addition to their intense tour ethic and consistent presence in the Portland scene, helped Hosannas amass a sizable following. Culling from two short-run CD-R EP releases and adding three previously unreleased songs, this collection has been wholly reinvigorated with a much-needed mastering from Carl Saff and a song sequence that takes the listener on a journey.

PRESS QUOTES

“The best, most unfuckwithable avant-pop I’ve heard … One of Portland’s finest indie outfits.” — Portland Mercury

Track Listing

The Sea • Hugs • Bee Cave • Cloud • Happiness • King Crow • Seen You But See Through • Islands • Walrus • Asleep In The Weeds • Catch Up To You • Onward With Bravery • Right As Rain • Song Force Crystal

Key Markets

Hometown: Portland. Also: Seattle, Eugene, San Francisco, Denver, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles

Selling Points

• RIYL: Moldy Peaches, Irving Berlin, Scott Joplin, Devendra Banhart. • Limited edition release from songwriter of the Juno soundtrack—only 500 copies! • Musik for a Play is the soundtrack to a play from the renowned German Zimmertheater. • Full three-month PR campaign via Skyscraper Press. • Contraphonic PR campaign via IODA Promonet Pro. • Exclusive show engagements with full band scheduled for Chicago and New York. • Ads with The Wire and Signal To Noise.

STREET DATE MAY 11, 2010

Overview

Adam Green Musik for a Play

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Contraphonic LP: CTP 86 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number Of Discs: 1 LP Jacket; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 5/11/10 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Musik for a Play is acclaimed singer/songwriter Adam Green’s most complete musical output to date, penned for the production of the theatrical adaptation of Paul Auster’s novel Timbuktu. Filled with swirling arrangements—where clarinets rub elbows with rock drums & classical guitars are picked against vaudeville rhythms—Musik for a Play is a steadfast testament to Green’s ever-evolving talents as a composer and arranger.

Press quotes

“[A] queasy mix of super-sharp realism, clammy surrealism, and elegant melody.” — Mojo

Track Listing

Gallop • Sailor Shirts • Big Lips • Lazy Dog • Twins • Ellington • Lasers • Sticky Ricki (Remix) • Ron Asheton • Sailor Shirts (demo) • Big Lips (demo) • Gallop (demo)

Key Markets 4

Hometown: New York. Also: Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Toronto, Vancouver, Boston, Portland, Seattle

Selling Points

• RIYL: Valerie Collective, Keenhouse, DFA, Glass Candy, Chromeo, Sugar & Gold. • The new couture label series from Nicolas Dobbratz (Sugar & Gold) introduces a series of underground electronic pop singles, super-limited to 250 pieces each. • Includes remix by critically acclaimed electronic artist Loose Shus. • Produced and co-written by Baron von Luxxury, Razor & Tie songwriter with recent placements for Pontiac and The Hills. • Promoted in conjunction with Sugar & Gold’s Get Wet! via Antenna Farm and Terrorbird Media.

overview

Strength recently toured with Starfucker/Pyramiddd and are currently at work mixing a new full-length in the Dandy Warhols studio. “Metal,” an ode to the cross-genre love affair, captures the inscrutable magic of a post-remix femme fatale with cut & paste imagery that moves through taunts and barks into a large, echoing rally cry. Falsetto is a collaboration between San Francisco dance underground stars Baron von Luxxury, Painless, and Loose Shus. Achieving a sound both menacing and transcendent, the A side uses phasing synths and a dirty bass line to propel paranoid verses of psychedelic funk into a pulsating chorus of uptempo house. The B side, a remix by producer Loose Shus, crystallizes the warped hypnosis of “San Francisco Nights” into a lean, dark dance track, stripping away washes of texture to reveal a clean interstate soundtrack.

Track Listing

ANT AER 1: San Francisco Nights • San Francisco Nights (Loose Shus remix) ANT AER 2: Metal • Overheat

Strength Metal

Genre: Electronic/Pop

Label: Aerobic International 7”: ANT AER 2 Price Code: C (SRP $5.99) Number Of Discs: 1 7” Sleeve; Box Lot 20 Street Date: 5/11/10 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Falsetto San Francisco Nights

Genre: Electronic/Pop Label: Aerobic International 7”: ANT AER 1 Price Code: C (SRP $5.99) Number Of Discs: 1 7” Sleeve; Box Lot 20 Street Date: 5/11/10 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Selling Points

• RIYL: The Byrds, Neil Young, Little Wings, Grateful Dead. • Have played with Kimya Dawson, Langhorne Slim, Tom Brosseau, Richard Buckner, Little Wings, Whispertown 2000, and Akron Family, among others. • Featured on NPR’s All Songs Considered.

Overview

Press Quotes

“The songs of Tall Tales & The Silver Lining ramble down leafy paths through cool forests and dive headlong into the ocean. It’s a carefree mix of country folk, with simple guitar strums that mingle playfully with spare rhythms and sweet harmonies.” — NPR, All Songs Considered

Track Listing

The Understanding • Hey Sunshine • Endless Road • A Little Hope For Everyone • Western Sky • Lonely Bird (Moonlight Part 3) • Moonlight • Shine Down (Moonlight Part 2) • Land ‘n’ Sea • Sweet Pea • Hightide • Beat On a Drum • In Your Mane • Into The Night • My New New Song

Tall Tales & The Silver Lining The Understanding Genre: Folk/Americana Label: Beehouse Records CD: BEE 24 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number Of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 Street Date: 5/11/10 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

STREET DATE MAY 11, 2010

Tall Tales & The Silver Lining is the reified vision of singer/songwriter Trevor Beld-Jimenez. The Understanding, the band’s third release on Beehouse Records, is the result of months of writing and recording. Tall Tales’ sound can be described as an amalgam of Americana Revivalist and sun-soaked, multiinstrumental experimentation with a focus on ethereal yet rationalized lyrics surrounding the themes of love, nature, and friendship.

Key Markets

Hometown: Ventura. Also: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, San Diego, Portland, Seattle

Selling Points

• RIYL: The Chills, Velvet Underground, Pavement, The Clean. • Included on multiple year-end 2009 Best of the Year lists, including Radio Free Silverlake, Finest Kiss Blog, and Otra Dimensión. • The best-selling Spires release to date! • Upcoming West Coast tour in Summer 2010. • Eco-friendly two panel green wallet.

Overview The Spires A Way of Seeing

Genre: Alt Rock/Brit Pop Label: Beehouse Records CD: BEE 23 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number Of Discs: 1 CD Wallet; Box Lot 25 Street Date: 5/11/10 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

The Spires is a band formed in 2004 by core members Colleen Coffey and Jason Bays. They have since added bass player Catelyn Kindred. The Spires create effortless melancholy pop on their sixth release, A Way of Seeing, which garnered much praise and earned deserved comparisons to Robyn Hitchcock, The Clean, and post-Cale Velvet Underground. The Spires have just finished their follow-up EP, Curved Space, due out in early Summer 2010.

Press Quotes

“The Cali trio has been kicking around for a bit but the lovely blend of UK guitar pop, New Zealand jangle, and indie rock scruffiness they dish out makes them worth checking out anytime.” — All Music Guide

Track Listing

Start At The Ending If You Can’t Begin • TAM • The Afterlife • Lowercase • Famous Last Words • Everything and Nothing At Once • Ballad of the Spires • David Wild • History of the Off-Ramp • What Was I Saying? • All You People

Key Markets

Hometown: Ventura. Also: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, San Diego, Portland, Seattle

Selling Points

• RIYL: Wilco, Beach Boys, Modest Mouse. • Included in Filter’s Top 10 of 2009 list, compiled by Eirik Glambek Boe of Kings of Convenience. • East Coast tour in June 2010 with Kings of Convenience (dates on page 21). • Features guest vocalist Simone Rubi of The Rubies. • Produced by Jon Debaun, producer of Mars Volta.

STREET DATE MAY 11, 2010

Overview Franklin For Short Swell

Genre: Alt Rock/Pop Label: Beehouse Records CD: BEE 19 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number Of Discs: 1 Digipak; Box Lot 25 Street Date: 5/11/10 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Franklin For Short hails from Ventura, California, a quiet little beach town 75 miles north of L.A. Living off a diet of burritos, coastal fog, and reverb, the result is a 14-song epic that winds its way through a landscape half ethereal and half earthbound. The band has been touring on this, their latest release, for the past year and a half.

Press Quotes

“Swell blends the sweet sounds of melodic ’60s pop with arrangements reminiscent of bands like Modest Mouse, and a bit of Wilco-style twang.” — Santa Barbara Independent

Track Listing

In a Little While • Red Tide Rad Ride • Like a Feather • Coyote III • Fast and Soft • Quiet Room (Waiting) • Shot Like a Bird • So Long • Superstition Mountain • Brother Bird • Until the Twilight • Basement Ghost • Honey, Yer Sweet • Whiskey River

Key Markets 6

Hometown: Ventura. Also: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, San Diego, Portland, Seattle

RACHEL GRIMES BOOK OF LEAVES

Selling Points

• RIYL: Rachel’s, Erik Satie, Kronos Quartet. • Gatefold LP with letterpress printed jackets. • Named one of Time Out Chicago’s Top 10 Classical Albums of 2009. • MTV.com: Owl City’s Favorite New Artist of 2010. • Blake Zidell & Associates hired to promote album last fall. Successful in year-end lists and concert reviews with New York Times, BBC, Venus Zine, and MTV.com.

OVERVIEW

At turns ambient, dense, and rich with patience and narrative, Book of Leaves reveals Rachel Grimes at a new level in her artistic evolution. Following the years of recording and touring with Rachel’s, this album of piano solos invites the listener to settle in.

Press quotes

“Like a warm embrace from an old friend.” — Pitchfork “Simply an absorbing turn from a true pioneer.” — BBC “Book of Leaves’ piano essays are distinguished by an intimate lyricism, invoking autumnal wistfulness without recourse to maudlin soundtrack cliché.” — Mojo “Offered glimpses of an alternate universe in which expansive, unified projects are everything.” — New York Times “The gorgeous tones and deep swells of her grand piano radiate. The result is so intimate you feel as if you are alone with her in a room—or in a field when she injects the somber drama of her compositions with field recordings of birds and insects.” — Time Out Chicago

Genre: Alt Rock/Classical Label: Karate Body Records/Mossgrove Music CD: KBR 700 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Number Of Discs: 1 Gatefold; Box Lot 10 Street Date: 5/11/10 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

LP: KBR 7 Price Code: 2E (SRP $15.99) Number Of Discs: 1 Gatefold; Box Lot 10 Street Date: 5/11/10 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Featured Artists Track Listing

Long Before Us • Every Morning • The Corner Room • She Was Here • On The Morrow • My Dear Companion • Far Light • Mossgrove • Bloodroot • At The Pond • Starwhite • The Side View • Every Morning, Birds • Bed of Moss

“ONE OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENT MUSIC’S FEW TRULY INSPIRED TECHNICIANS.” — THE WIRE

Key Markets

Hometown: Louisville. Also: New York, Chicago, Nashville, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Cincinnati, Atlanta

STREET DATE MAY 11, 2010

Rachel Grimes: piano

Selling Points

RIYL: Kings of Convenience, M. Ward, Paul Simon, Everly Brothers. Two weeks of NYC shows begins days after the album’s release. Remixes of “Paper Chains” (Secret Mommy) and “Hands” (Kevvy Mental). Live performance to be filmed in late April for upload to Vimeo & YouTube. Full album stream will be available two weeks before release, and will be serviced to bloggers and web outlets along with the video and single for “Paper Chains.” • All relevant CMJ reporting stations will be serviced by Vitriol Radio Promotion. • Soft Punk Media will service print and web media.

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Overview Christopher Smith The Beckon Call

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Boompa Records CD: BPA 37 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number Of Discs: 1 Ecosleeve; Box Lot 150 Street Date: 5/11/10 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Christopher Smith’s songs have that timeless sound that makes you nostalgic for days gone by—days both you and Smith are too young to have even known. The dreams and reflections he relays in song were recorded almost exclusively in bedrooms, a natural environment for such lovely reveries. With a dreamlike intimacy, he sings love songs so soft and gentle they could be adult lullabies.

Press Quotes

“The generically named songwriter makes music that is anything but … recalling Kings of Convenience or Paul Simon at his most isolationist.” — Georgia Straight

Track Listing

Gently Gently • Paper Chains • Middle of the Night • Just As Sure • The Beckon Call 1 • Two Strawberries in a Jam • The Beckon Call 2 • Hands • White Knuckle • Hit the Ground Running

Key Markets

New York, Seattle, Portland

Selling Points

• RIYL: Apples In Stereo, Beach Boys, Guided By Voices. • Recorded by Colin Stewart (Black Mountain, Pretty Girls Make Graves). • Have been featured on two Yo Gabba Gabba compilations, and appeared as a musical guest on the show. • Have toured the US a half dozen times, performing at SXSW, CMJ, and Bottom of the Hill. Have shared stages with Apples In Stereo, The Rentals, Ben Kweller, Hot Hot Heat, and Mates of State. • Press, radio, and online media will be serviced by Soft Punk Media.

STREET DATE MAY 11, 2010

Overview

The Salteens Moths

Genre: Indie Pop Label: Boompa Records CD: BPA 38 Price Code: G (SRP $8.99) Number Of Discs: 1 Ecosleeve; Box Lot 150 Street Date: 5/11/10 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Moths is pulled together from a number of Salteens recording sessions that took place during 2007 and 2008. Amidst several attempts at completing a fulllength album, the band was taken off task by numerous personal upheavals, artistic misdirects, and an appearance on Yo Gabba Gabba—clearly a confusing time. The songs assembled here are a document of songwriter Scott LD Walker’s angers and frustrations, and a typically Salteens-like call to arms in attempt to overcome life’s hardships.

Press Quotes

“A compact, energetic, and joyous barrage of guitar-pop punches, snappy lyrics, and sing-along choruses.” — Splendid

Track Listing

Frequency • Sunnyside St. • Hallowed Ways • We Can Go On • All We Want Is What You’ve Got • Don’t Break My Heart

Key Markets 8

Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Grand Rapids

Selling Points

RIYL: Milford Graves, Sunny Murray. Unique recycled letterpress packaging; audiophile mixing/mastering. Full service/promotion to national and international press by ESP-Disk’. Upcoming Fall 2010 Mid-Atlantic regional tour. Review copies submitted to top jazz publications, major weeklies, and blogs/webzines such as All About Jazz, Signal To Noise, The Wire, Pitchfork, and Tiny Mix Tapes. • Radio campaign targets college and independent stations in major US cities. • Ads with Signal To Noise and The Wire. • • • • •

Overview

It is too simplistic to categorize William Hooker as a fiery drummer who constantly explores structure and genre. Rather, his playing is connected to an emotional world, and the world at large. Joined by multi-instrumentalists David Soldier and Sabir Mateen, the William Hooker Trio is both tender and thunderous on Yearn for Certainty.

Press Quotes

“Hooker has ceaselessly expanded not only the vocabulary of his instrument, he’s defied rigid categories by breaking down genres into universal music expression—in short, he has the mad chops and humanistic empathy to play with any musician on the planet.” — JazzTimes

William Hooker Trio Yearn For Certainty

Genre: Jazz Label: Engine Studios CD: EGR 32 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Number Of Discs: 1 Chipboard Jacket; Box Lot 50 Street Date: 5/11/10 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Track Listing

Ingratiated Beam – Leroy • Century’s Soles • Commonplace Travel • Magistrait • Yearn for Certainty

Key Markets

Hometown: New York. Also: Hartford, Chicago, Washington DC

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RIYL: Rolling Stones, Small Faces, Humble Pie, Stone Axe, Shame Club. Produced by Andrew Schneider (Cave In, Keelhaul, Unsane, Throttlerod). Have played with The Supersuckers, Unsane, Nebula, and Them Crooked Vultures. Will tour the US in support of this release, including an appearance at SXSW 2010. Service to press & college radio. Promo tracks available via IODA Promonet.

Overview

Press Quotes

“Full-blown rocker[s] that’ll have you checking the release date more than once, all with a hook that’ll piledrive itself into your consciousness.” — Lollipop

Track Listing

Old Century • Everybody Loves A Whore • The Kelly Rose • A Thousand Miles Away • My Favorite Waste of Time • Matthew’s Grave • Blow Out Your Candles • Last Man Alive • Slow Your Roll

Key Markets

Hometown: New York. Also: Boston, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Columbus, Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Milwaukee

The Brought Low Third Record

Genre: Rock Label: Small Stone Recordings CD: SSO 102 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Number Of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 5/11/10 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

STREET DATE MAY 11, 2010

Three records in, with countless shows under their belts, this New York City powerhouse trio has set the benchmark for the sort of classic hard rock that the mainstream has long forgotten. Recorded with producer Andrew Schneider, this is the album that finally matches the band’s live energy, and a new chapter in The Brought Low’s continuing reign as the heavyweight champs of classic hard rock.

ALSO AVAIL ABLE The Brought Low Right On Time CD: SSO 65 Price Code: O U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Selling Points • • • • •

RIYL: Suicide Commando, Velvet Acid Christ, Grendel, Combichrist. Street teams will distribute materials in select areas. Servicing to clubs, press, and radio (including college radio). Sound samples available at Metropolis website. Twitter contest; MySpace & Facebook promotion.

Overview

Menschdefekt The Human Parasite

Genre: Electronic/Industrial Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 655 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number Of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 5/11/10 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

A relative newcomer to the scene, Menschdefekt (roughly translated as “Broken Man”) is an excellent harsh electro act. Though stylistically the sound mainly moves between electro and industrial, the influences of genres such as trance, future pop, and gothic shine through. While the vocals are dark, aggressive, and significantly distorted, the lyrics are deliberately constructed to be socially critical and provocative in order to reflect the term “menschdefekt.” The human psyche plays a major role in the development of the lyrics, as do such topics as war, nationalism/fascism, murder, consumer consumption, and our wasteful society. Compelling electro rhythms are mingled with media samples, adding to a sense of insanity and absurdity in the overall compositions. With The Human Parasite, Menschdefekt has laid out its manifesto with driving force.

Track Listing

Plague (The Human Parasite) • Dedicating Hate • Psycho Bitch • Instincts Of Corruption • I Am The Way • Fragile Existence • Mind Control • Piggy • Black Harvest • Trigger • Flawed • The Darkside In Us • Schizophrenia • Dekadenz

Key Markets

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

Selling Points • • • • • • •

RIYL: Suicide Commando, KMFDM, Grendel, Wumpscut. New album coming in Fall 2010. Other projects by Andy LaPlegua include Icon of Coil, Panzer AG, and Scandy. Highly successful European tour with Rammstein concluded this spring. Complete servicing to club DJs and radio. Strong presence through website, MySpace, and fan club (The Combichrist Army). Twitter contest; MySpace & Facebook promotion.

STREET DATE MAY 11, 2010

Overview

Combichrist Scarred

Genre: Electronic/Industrial Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 653 Price Code: K (SRP $5.99) Number Of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 5/11/10 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

ALSO AVAIL ABLE Combichrist Today We Are All Demons CD: MTP 574 Price Code: Q

U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Combichrist is a juggernaut when it comes to getting things done. Along with releasing an album and two EPs in the past year, they have also played over 100 concerts around the world. To further show that they cannot be stopped, Combichrist has returned with their third scorching single off Today We Are All Demons, entitled Scarred. Alongside an explosive retooled version of the title track featuring Wes Borland of Limp Bizkit, four other floor-smashing remixes are included along with a brand-new song, “Parental Content.” Scarred is a perfect teaser to whet the appetites of fans hungry for the next album, expected to drop early this fall.

Track Listing

Scarred (Single Version Featuring Wes Borland) • Scarred (Club Mix) • Scarred (Album Version) • Scarred (Pull Out Kings Remix) • Scarred (Shok’s Zeitmahl Remix) • Scarred (Imperative Reaction Remix) • Parental Content

Key Markets

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

Selling Points

• RIYL: Combichrist, Hocico, Funker Vogt, Suicide Commando. • Several tour dates are in the works for 2010. • Past releases on Metropolis include Combustion, Shockwave, Mechanical Horizon, EVOlution, Bio-Vital, and Technophoby. • Street teams will distribute promotional materials. • Servicing to press, clubs, and radio. • Sound samples available at Metropolis website. • Twitter contest; MySpace & Facebook promotion. • Release parties in select clubs.

Overview

Throughout their 17-year career, Decoded Feedback has managed to stay true to their industrial roots while at the same time experimenting with various new sounds and techniques. The band has now returned with their much-anticipated follow-up to Combustion, entitled Aftermath. Picking up where its predecessor left off, the album is a striking barrage of hard-hitting bass lines, acidic synths, and distorted vocals, all fueled by emotion. Fans have braved the Combustion, but can they survive the Aftermath?

Track Listing

Decoded Feedback Aftermath

Genre: Electronic/Industrial Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 652 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number Of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 5/11/10

Silent Killer • Eternity Falls • Death Control • Affliction • Proteus Syndrome • Dark Reflections • Decompress • Shelter Me • Translucent • Demons

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Key Markets

Decoded Feedback Combustion

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

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CD: MTP 392 Price Code: L U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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RIYL: Sneaker Pimps, The Faint, Muse. Featuring Chris Corner of the Sneaker Pimps. North American tour this year; new album coming in late Fall 2010. Press, radio, and club promotion will be worked in-house.

Overview

Track Listing

Nature Of Inviting (Black Light Odyssey Remix) • Tear Garden (Unfall Chocolatefurwine Remix) • You Can Be Happy (Combichrist Remix) • Kingdom Of Welcome Addiction (Aesthetic Perfection Remix) • The Great Shipwreck Of Life (Pull Out Kings Remix) • Tear Garden (Unfall Art Deco Remix) • Think Of England (Miss Derringer Remix) • The Stupid, The Proud (Index Remix) • My Secret Friend (Omega Man Remix) • I Am Terrified (Alec Empire Remix) • An I For An I (Unfall X-Mess Remix) • Nature Of Inviting (Terrence Fixmer Remix) • Running (Cook/Kirby Remix)

Key Markets

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

IAMX Dogmatic Infidel Comedown OK Genre: Electronic/Pop Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 650 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number Of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 5/11/10 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

STREET DATE MAY 11, 2010

Following up last year’s Kingdom of Welcome Addiction, the Sneaker Pimp’s Chris Corner continues his foray as IAMX with Dogmatic Infidel Comedown OK. The 13-track remix album features every song from Kingdom of Welcome Addiction in completely new versions. Treatments are rendered by such notables as Combichrist, Alec Empire, Terrence Fixmer, and many more. With past IAMX releases still garnering so much attention, Dogmatic Infidel Comedown OK is an exceptional addition to the stables.

ALSO AVAIL ABLE IAMX Kingdom of Welcome Addiction CD: MTP 597 Price Code: Q U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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RIYL: KMFDM, Fear Factory, Nine Inch Nails, Hate Dept. Spring 2010 tour begins April 30. Servicing to press, clubs, and radio. Sound samples available at Metropolis website.

Overview

16Volt American Porn Songs // Remixed Genre: Alt Rock/Electronic Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 644 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number Of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 5/11/10 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

ALSO AVAIL ABLE 16Volt American Porn Songs CD: MTP 600 Price Code: Q U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Since the early nineties, 16Volt’s Eric Powell has been one of the leading influences in the American industrial rock scene. This is the first official remix CD from these legendary underground machine rockers. Featuring songs from their latest album remixed by a menagerie of established legendary artists and winners of the 2009 American Porn Songs Remix Contest, the album is packed with 18 tracks of sonic battery.

Track Listing

Alkali (Mirror Remix) • Somebody To Hate (Hate Hegel Remix) • American Porn Song (Skold Remix) • Become Your None (Sparrow Remix) • Useless People (Villainous Remix) • Alkali (Left Spine Down Remix) • American Porn Song (Black Remix) • To Hell (Heroin Jazz Remix) • Blackbird (The Gunnery Remix) • It Turns All Bad (Drone Remix) • Become Your None (Silent Strangers Remix) • Enjoy The Pain (Novus Anesthetic Remix) • Alkali (Everything Goes Cold Remix) • Can You Find God? (Torsion / Solex Remix) • Enjoy The Pain (Orko13 The Attitude Remix) • American Porn Song (Team Cybergeist Remix) • Become Your None (SMP Vs. Stiff Valentine Remix) • It Turns All Bad (Unter Null Remix)

Key Markets

Hometown: Portland. Also: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit

Selling points

• Cover Sticker: X Approved Prime Vinyl Certified 180 Gram (Includes Band Member Autographs). • Finally available after being out of print for 15 years! • Re-mastered to today’s standards; includes all original liner notes and lyric sheet. • Limited print ad campaign including The Big Takeover. • Press service to top 50 zines/e-zines in America.

STREET DATE MAY 11, 2010

Overview X Wild Gift

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Porterhouse Records LP: PRT 2006 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number Of Discs: 1 LP Jacket; Box Lot 30 Street Date: Available Now

The quintessential Los Angeles punk rock act! Founded in 1977, the band has blazed a trail that has influenced and inspired countless others. Their collaboration with producer Ray Manzarek (The Doors) led to the creation of what some critics cite as L.A.’s greatest punk rock recordings, and the band was even honored with an Official Certificate of Recognition from the City of Los Angeles in acknowledgment of their important contributions to Los Angeles music and culture.

Press Quotes

“The finest American punk record ever.” — Rolling Stone

Track Listing

The Once Over Twice • We’re Desperate • Adult Books • Universal Corner • I’m Coming Over • It’s Who You Know • In This House That I Call Home • Some Other Time • White Girl • Beyond and Back • Back 2 the Base • When Our Love Passed Out On the Couch • Year 1

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Hometown: Los Angeles. Also: Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Orange County, New York, Boston, Washington DC, Atlanta, Chicago, Madison, Austin

VARIOUS ARTISTS BE YOURSELF: A TRIBUTE TO GRAHAM NASH’S SONGS FOR BEGINNERS Selling Points

• RIYL: Graham Nash, CSNY, Neal Young, Fleet Foxes, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy. • Executive Produced and co-curated by Graham Nash’s daughter Nile Nash. Co-Executive Produced by Britt Govea of ((folkYEAH!!)) • First released solo track from Robin Pecknold (Fleet Foxes). • Special packaging includes a book featuring an interview between music writer Sylvie Symmons and longtime CSNY photographer Joel Bernstein. Booklet contains never before released photos of Graham Nash from Songs for Beginners sessions, and a quote from Nash about this album. • First 1,000 vinyl sold 180-gram in a tip-on jacket that contains a bonus 7”. CD in mini tip-on jacket. • Percentage of proceeds goes to Wavy Gravy’s Camp Winnarainbow. • Independent PR by Jensen Communication. • Already received press in Pitchfork, AOL Spinner, Rolling Stone online, Jambase, Paste, and more. • Upcoming features for Mojo, Uncut, and more. • Radio documentary special for NPR and community stations around the country.

Overview

Press Quotes

“The freak-folk scene, a scene that loves to pay respects to forgotten forebears, is about to bestow tribute-album shine upon Songs for Beginners, Nash’s 1971 solo debut … various luminaries will cover each song on Nash’s record. Fleet Foxes frontman Robin Pecknold, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Vetiver, Brendan Benson, and Nash’s daughter Nile Nash will all make contributions.” — Pitchfork

U.S. ORDERS ONLY

LP: GRC 17 Price Code: X (SRP $31.99) Number Of Discs: 1 Deluxe LP Jacket; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 5/25/10 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Track Listing

Port O Brien/Papercuts: Military Madness • Brendan Benson: Better Days • Nile Nash: Wounded Bird • Vetiver: Used To Be A King • Robin Pecknold (Fleet Foxes): Be Yourself • Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy: Simple Man (Hombre Sencillo) • Moore Brothers: Man In The Mirror • Alela Diane: There’s Only One • Mariee Sioux (W Greg Weeks Of Espers): Sleep Song • Sleepy Sun: Chicago • Various/Nile Nash: We Can Change The World (Reprise) • Jonathan Rice: On The Line • Tyson Vogel: Hey You (Looking At The Moon) • Jonathan Wilson: And So It Goes (Music Gets You High)

Key Markets

Seattle, Nevada City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, Nashville

STREET DATE MAY 25, 2010

Legendary singer-songwriter Graham Nash’s emotionally charged solo debut Songs for Beginners was first released in 1971. The album was a hit, climbing to #15 on the Billboard chart and introducing the now-classic songs “Military Madness,” “Simple Man,” “Used To Be A King,” and the Top 40 single “Chicago.” Now, flash forward to 2010: Nile Nash & Britt Govea of (((folkYEAH!))) have assembled an all-star line-up of contemporary music leaders to honor and celebrate Nash’s first solo LP. The artists put a unique spin on each song, making them their own while honoring the timeless vibe of the original recordings. A few selections from Graham’s classic second solo release Wild Tales have also been recorded: Jonathan Rice handles “On The Line,” Tyson Vogel (Two Gallants) takes “Hey You (Looking At The Moon)” to another place, and Jonathan Wilson (Chris Robinson’s Wooden Family, Jenny Lewis, Elvis Costello) recreates the now-classic jam “And So It Goes (Music Gets You High)” with an all-star Laurel Canyon line-up.

Genre: Alt Folk/Rock Label: Grassroots Records CD: GRC 17 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number Of Discs: 1 Deluxe CD Jacket; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 5/25/10

Projekt records catalog now available through nail Ask your account manager for a complete list Voltaire The Devil’s Bris

CD: PJK 83 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number Of Discs: 1

Steve Roach Structures From Silence (2001 Remastered Edition) CD: PJK 119 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number Of Discs: 1

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1998 debut direct from the underground New York goth scene: a strange brew of gypsy violins, driving rhythms, sardonic wit, and turn-of-the-century mayhem. Features “When You’re Evil” and “Ex Lover’s Lover.”

Various Artists Projekt: Gothic

CD: PJK 137 Price Code: D (SRP $6.99) Number Of Discs: 1

This breakthrough release introduced a new sound for its time (1984), and has become a classic of the ambient/ new age genre. In December 2000, Yoga Journal voted it one of the Top 10 all-time CDs for yoga.

Steve Roach Space and Time: An Introduction

CD: PJK 151 Price Code: D (SRP $6.99) Number Of Discs: 1

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“A perfect starter kit … 13 tracks of impressive choices by the most influential bands and their most defining moments.” (Musictap.net). Features Voltaire, Lycia, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Mira, and more.

Various Artists Summoning the Muse: A Tribute to Dead Can Dance CD: PJK 173 Price Code: 2C (SRP $11.99) Number Of Discs: 1

Excerpts from 20 tracks melted into a continuous mix, Space and Time offers a unique overview of nearly 20 years of groundbreaking recordings from the noted ambient pioneer Steve Roach.

Various Artists Dark Cabaret

CD: PJK 176 Price Code: D (SRP $6.99) Number Of Discs: 1 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

STREET DATE MAY 25, 2010

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Eleven of the world’s most respected ethereal/heavenly voices/darkwave artists lovingly recreate the master’s songs. Features Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Rajna, Arcana, Faith & The Muse, and more.

Black Tape for a Blue Girl Remnants Of A Deeper Purity (10th Anniversary) CD: PJK 186 Price Code: 2E (SRP $15.99) Number Of Discs: 2

Taking a visual cue from the decadence of 1920’s Weimar Republic, this release tweaks cabaret sensibilities, mixing in elements of rock, punk & death rock to create an exciting new movement.

Voltaire Ooky Spooky

CD: PJK 201 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number Of Discs: 1 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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Black Tape for a Blue Girl’s achingly beautiful neoclassical darkwave classic is given a 10th anniversary rerelease with a bonus disc of additional music!

“It’s a Halloween party in a jewel box,” Voltaire says about Ooky Spooky, his most hilariously irreverent CD to date. Contains a duet with The Dresden Dolls’ Amanda Palmer and a track from a Cartoon Network movie!

RECENT RELE ASES FROM PROJEKT RECORDS Black Tape for a Blue Girl 10 Neurotics Genre: Alt Rock/Dark Cabaret Label: Projekt Records CD: PJK 229 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number Of Discs: 1 Digipak; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 10/25/2009 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

“The soundtrack to a cabaret hosted by Caligula.” (Sepiachord). 10 Neurotics re-imagines the passion of Black Tape for a Blue Girl (and visionary founder/ songwriter Sam Rosenthal) in a rock/dark cabaret setting. The all-new band features Brian Viglione (ex-Dresden Dolls), Athan Maroulis (ex-Spahn Ranch), and Nicki Jaine. “Housed in a beautiful digipak packaging with a fullcolor, 28-page booklet, 10 Neurotics is Black Tape for a Blue Girl’s finest moment. From concept to creation, every aspect of this release was thoroughly thought-out and because of that; 10 Neurotics is an inimitable tour de force that shows the full power of Black Tape for A Blue Girl.” — Amped

The Twilight Garden A World We Pretend

Genre: Alt Rock/Electronic Label: Projekt Records CD: PJK 236 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number Of Discs: 1 Jewel; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 1/12/2010 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

“Like the gorgeously haunted music of bands like the Horrors and Bell Hollow, the Twilight Garden’s songs are devoid of ironic detachment, which gives each one a refreshing immediacy, despite the overall melancholic tone of this album.” — Westword

Genre: Rock/Ambient Label: Projekt Records CD: PJK 228 Price Code: 2J (SRP $19.99) Number Of Discs: 2 Digipak; Box Lot 25 Street Date: 5/5/2009 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Dynamic Stillness is a vast new work that has progressed over the past three years. The opening for these pieces was accessed through long periods of solitude at Roach’s high desert studio and beyond. The record reaches into a realm of amorphous soundworlds filled with a sense of unresolved expansion and mystery, blooming into cloudlike form. “A moving meditation on the quiet power inherent in vast spaces. Roach has come back around to the slow-motion terraforming of soundworlds that seem to go on forever, pulling skeins of light through layers of cloud to describe gorgeous imaginary landscapes … Dynamic Stillness is Roach at his contemplative best, a sure and silent guide coaxing us to follow him into the endless realms inside ourselves.” — Hypnagogue

Various Artists Under the Weight of Light Genre: Alt Rock Label: Projekt Records CD: PJK 240 Price Code: D (SRP $6.99) Number Of Discs: 1 Jewel; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 2/2/2010 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Includes previously unreleased tracks! This compilation opens the Pandora’s Box of Projekt founder Sam Rosenthal’s current eclectic music obsessions, diving into neo-folk, dark-pop, and shoegaze territory. Unreleased tracks from Doc Hammer’s WEEP (of the Adult Swim show The Venture Bros), Marakas Pen (the new band evolved from Tearwave), Black Tape for a Blue Girl, and Unto Ashes. Also features music from Spiritual Front, Rome, Lux Interna, and new signee The Twilight Garden. Under the Weight of Light is a beautiful sampling of the captivating new sounds on the poppier side of Projekt’s world.

STREET DATE MAY 25, 2010

European synth-pop, cold wave, and post-punk mixed into a modern, atmospheric darkwave sound. The Twilight Garden blends catchy synth melodies, hypnotic drum beats, lush guitar work, and elegantly powerful vocals from sole band member Todd Loomis, who previously cowrote and performed on Velvet Acid Christ’s 2006 Lust for Blood. For fans of Disintegration-era Cure.

Steve Roach Dynamic Stillness

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RIYL: Blutengel, In Strict Confidence, Lights of Euphoria. Release parties in select cities. Street teams will distribute promotional materials. Complete servicing to press, clubs, and radio. Sound samples available at Metropolis website. Twitter contest; promotion via MySpace & Facebook.

Overview

Suicidal Romance Shattered Heart Reflections Genre: Electronic/Industrial Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 656 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number Of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 5/25/10 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Suicidal Romance makes entertaining and original electro-industrial, seamlessly blending male/female vocals and harsh electronic undertones with pop melodies. The band’s first song, “Cold Kiss,” received positive feedback and fueled the band to become a more serious project. With the line-up solidified, the band set about recording and releasing a demo, which quickly garnered the attention of Infacted Recordings. After several high-profile live appearances, the debut CD Love Beyond Reach was released. Now, for 2010, Suicidal Romance joins the Metropolis Records family for the release of Shattered Heart Reflections. This album sees Suicidal Romance creating a whole new direction for the band, playing more with modern sounds and leaving its more gothic style—and Dmitry’s depression—behind.

Track Listing

Interlude • Touch • Words That Change Everything • Make Me Blind • Love Stays The Same • Her Song • We’re Wanting More • Dreamers • Build Me a Heart • Shattered Heart Reflections

Key Markets

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

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RIYL: Combichrist, Angelspit, Skinny Puppy, Negative Format, Terrorfakt. Release parties in select cities. Street teams will distribute promotional materials. Complete servicing to press, clubs, and radio. Sound samples available at Metropolis website. Twitter contest; promotion via MySpace & Facebook.

STREET DATE MAY 25, 2010

Overview

Shiv-R Hold My Hand

Genre: Electronic/Industrial Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 657 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number Of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 5/25/10 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Australia’s Shiv-r is the new force in the field of dark electronic music. Consisting of Lee Bulig (music) and Pete Crane (vocals), neither member currently resides in their home country—or even remotely close to each other. Despite the geographical distance, the duo is in tune enough to write music as if they are in the same room. The key characteristics of the Shiv-r sound are haunting neoclassical melodies, harsh percussive club sounds, clean male vocals delivered in shouts and whispers, sparse rhythm guitars, and an overwhelming dark atmosphere. Metropolis was so impressed by their music that they are pleased to release Hold My Hand in 2010.

Track Listing

Buried • Parasite • The End (Pt. 1) • Corruption • Blood Spatter • Happiness • Burning Chrome • Map The Feedback • Taste • Suffer • Open My Vein • The End (Pt. 2)

Key Markets

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

Selling Points

• RIYL: Popol Vuh, Sun City Girls, Grails, early Vangelis. • Featuring members of Earth, Asva, Burning Witch, The Diminished Men, and more plus special guests from Secret Chiefs 3 and the thriving Istanbul music scene. • Artwork by Seldon Hunt. • Deluxe vinyl pressing via RTI in an edition of 500. • Promo mailing by Important. Ads with The Wire.

Overview

Echoing like a long lost Werner Herzog soundtrack, Totem 2 is a record of subtle meditations and deep electric hallucinations from the crystal caves of the Northwest to the orchestral desert portals of Turkey. Like a reverse dark side of the new age sound, on the Totem series Master Musicians of Bukkake perform ritualistic electric excursions into the outer and inner reaches, relying more on the electric power of psyched guitars, analog synth chants, and exotic heavy percussion. Outer space gamelan, dusty fuzz rock from celestial deserts, meditations of a deranged Krishna gathering, and the blurry acoustic guitar majesty of the Cascade mountains all reveal themselves here, in epic form.

Press quotes

“They meld a deep respect and studious love for traditional Eastern music with a wild-eyed wackiness that pokes fun at the same things they idolize.” — Dusted

Track Listing

Bardo Chonyid / Master Of All Visible Shapes • Perde Kaldirma • The Heresy of Origen • Coincidentia Oppositorum • Patmos

Key Markets

Hometown: Seattle. Also: Portland, Eugene, Mt. Shasta, San Francisco, Sedona

Master Musicians of Bukkake Totem 2 Genre: Experimental/World Label: Important Records CD: IPT 301 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number Of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 5/25/10 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

LP: IPT 301 Price Code: 2L (SRP $23.99) Number Of Discs: 1 Deluxe Jacket; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 5/25/10 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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The debut release from MMOB, never before available on LP. B side includes two bonus tracks not found on the original CD. Features Charles Gocher and Alan Bishop of the Sun City Girls. Deluxe LP pressing in heavy-duty tip-on jackets, pressed at RTI.

Overview

Press Quotes

“An enchanting album that never falls prey to predictability.” — Brainwashed

Track Listing

Enter The Wang • Bukkake Sunrise • Yellow Bile/Desperate Ground • Lucky Duck • Pipestone Octopus With Horseheart • Access Of Evil • The White Death • Invisible Order • Horseheart Revolution • Pillow Of Green Light • My Dust Will Be What I Am • Hidden From The Hidden Ones • Custody’s Last Battle/Secret Wars • Black Bile • Circular And Made Of The Earth • Babi Gulling • Turning To Face The Setting Sun

Master Musicians of Bukkake Visible Sign of the Invisible Genre: Experimental/World Label: Important Records LP: IPT 296 Price Code: 2P (SRP $31.99) Number Of Discs: 1 Deluxe LP Jacket; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 5/25/10 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

STREET DATE MAY 25, 2010

At last, the long awaited reissue of a West Coast outsider death cult classic! From the forests of the Northwest, an uncharted document of shamanistic psychedelia. Recorded mostly during rituals deep in Cascadia and filtered through destructive electronic meditations, this record is a trace down the tributaries to the origins of MMOB’s No-Age mystery. Featuring members of Sun City Girls, Earth, Asva, Eyvind Kang, and more. This deluxe reissue contains 20 minutes of lost, unreleased music from the original sessions presented in glorious gatefold vinyl.

Key Markets

Hometown: Seattle. Also: Portland, Eugene, Mt. Shasta, San Francisco, Sedona

Selling Points

• RIYL: Voivod, Earth, Tecumseh, Sunn O))). • Features Michel “Away” Langevin, a founding member of the legendary Canadian metal band Voivod. • Promo mailing via Important.

Overview

AUN VII

Genre: Experimental Label: Important Records CD: IPT 289 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Number Of Discs: 1 Digipak; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 5/25/10

AUN’s bipolar output generally shifts between dreamy, lulling harmonic distortion and sheer gut-wrenching avant black dirge. VII is the latter, comprised of strong melodic and compositional sense alongside impossibly detuned guitars and electric power surges. While demented acid-fueled fiddlers torment the high ends, ghostly cowboy melodies and industrial strength psychedelia are time-kept by Michel “Away” Langevin of prog-speed legends Voivod. Playing an uncharacteristic strain of jazzy, motorik, and tribal rhythms, Away traps the surreal electrocution state of VII, which is complemented by a mystical and symbolic heavy Justin Bartlett adornment.

Press Quotes

“Grandiose drones.” — Rock a Rolla “Breathtaking stuff.” — Losing Today

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Track Listing

Drainbow • Broken Hill • Falcon • Blackhole

Key Markets

Hometown: Montreal. Also: New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seatle, San Francisco

Selling Points

RIYL: Om, Holy Sons, Master Musicians of Bukkake. Deluxe pressing inside and out. Cut and pressed at RTI for maximum fidelity. The LP version of this album has been routinely requested by fans. Grails multi-instrumentalist Emil Amos is also half of Om, and his Holy Sons solo project has released two records via Important Records in the last couple of years. • Limited promotional mailing. Ads with The Wire. • • • •

STREET DATE MAY 25, 2010

Overview Grails Black Tar Prophecies 1,2 3 Genre: Alt Rock Label: Important Records LP: IPT 105 Price Code: 2I (SRP $21.99) Number Of Discs: 1 Deluxe LP Jacket; Box Lot 50 Street Date: 5/25/10 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

The LP version of Grails’ pivotal 2006 release Black Tar Prophecies 1,2,3, released to coincide with the debut of Black Tar Prophecies 4, simultaneously on Important Records.

Press Quotes

“Grails sound like themselves. 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 to come out in 2006 and perhaps, when all is said and done, one of the very best.” — All Music Guide

Track Listing

Back to the Monastery • Bad Bhang Recipe • Belgian Wake-Up Drill • Smokey Room • Black Tar Frequencies • Stray Dog • Erosion Blues • More Erosion • Black Tar Prophecy

Key Markets

Hometown: Portland. Also: New York, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Miami, Chicago 18

GRAILS

BLACK TAR PROPHECIES 4 Selling Points

• RIYL: Holy Sons, Om, Zak Riles. • Includes Secret Chief’s member Timba Harris. • Grails’ first record since the highly acclaimed Doomsdayer’s Holiday. • Grails member Emil Amos has recently joined Om as the replacement drummer for Chris Haikus. • Promotional mailing by Important Records. • Ads with The Wire.

Overview

With Black Tar Prophecies 4, Grails reawaken the series that initially began the run of records that mapped their rise to the forefront of modern instrumental music. While recording their full-length with an eye towards cohesion and epic production, the Black Tar series affords Grails a backdoor to a black lodge where they can explore total head music. In this volume Grails combine backmasked Satanic tape collage with old Emmanuelle soundtracks, pushing them further in the direction of a classical Italian melodrama soundtracked by Nurse With Wound. The Black Tar material is conceived slowly, in between tours and full-length albums, giving the series its own experimental space and keeping its final sum unknown even to its practitioners. As before, the series’ format will consist of two vinyl EPs and an eventual CD version. Like the slab of black slate in the opening of Kubrick’s 2001, Black Tar is an attempt to bring the ritual act of music back to its original mysterious genesis, where the listener and artist both stare into a nebula’s electric cloud before it takes its inevitable shape as a planet.

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, bouzoukis with drums and samples that summon up the Ancients.” — Julian Cope

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Featured Artists

Alex John Hall: moog, juno, mellotron Emil Amos: guitar, synth, drums, tape collage, piano, bass William Slater: crumar, baritone guitar, piano vocals Timba Harris: strings, composition Charlotte Engler: flute

Track Listing

I Want a New Drug • Self-Hypnosis • A Mansion Has Many Rooms • New Drug II • Up All Night

Key Markets

Hometown: Portland. Also: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington DC

ALSO AVAIL ABLE Grails Take Refuge In Clean Living

Grails Take Refuge In Clean Living

CD: IPT 190 Price Code: P

LP: IPT 190 Price Code: Y

U.S. ORDERS ONLY

LP: IPT 302 Price Code: 2I (SRP $21.99) Number Of Discs: 1 Deluxe LP Jacket; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 5/25/10

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STREET DATE MAY 25, 2010

“The quietly prolific Grails have been putting out an album or more a year ever since their first in 2003. Though they are constantly folding new elements into their sound, each record is an enigmatic dispatch from the same basic world. These dudes hail from grey Portland, but they have somehow perfected the art of desert-rock mystery.” — Pitchfork

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Important Records CD: IPT 302 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Number Of Discs: 1 Digipak; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 5/25/10

Eremite Inc. ESP-Disk’ Esperanza Plantation Essay Records Fall Records Family Owned Records Family Vineyard Records Fancy Records The Fever Zone File Under: Music Fish the Cat Records Geisha Boy Records Geist Records Ghost Records Go Midnight Records Grassroots Record Co. Greydawn Records

Koolarrow Records Lance Rock Records Latest Flame Records Latitude LidKerCow Records Locust Music Loose Thread Recordings Lorelei Records Lucky Madison Lujo Records M80 Music Made In Mexico Magic Marker Records Mass MVMNT Meester Records Mental Records Metastasis Records

F A M I LY O F L L I AB NA E

Greyday Productions Harte Recordings Heinz Records High Two Records Holocene Music Hush Records Ici d’ailleurs IKEF Records Important Records Imputor? Isota Records Jackpine Social Club Jasiri Media Group Jib Door Productions Johann’s Face Records Joyful Noise Recordings Karate Body Records Knife Fighting Monkey Records Knw-Yr-Own

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BRS

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HSH

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7”

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7”

ANT AER

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Swell

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700

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Yearn for Certainty

EGR

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102

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655

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2006

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Be Yourself: A Tribute to

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Be Yourself: A Tribute to

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119

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137

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176

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186

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201

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Black Tape For A Blue Girl

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229

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World We Pretend, A

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236

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PJK

240

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Hold My Hand

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296

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302

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