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Live at Houston Hall INSIDE: Jad & David Fair pg 3 • Eclipse Records – New Labell! pg 4-5 • Marissa Nadler pg 4 • Lucky Madison – New Label! pg 6-7 • Kind of Like Spitting pg 8 • Billy Martin pg 10 • Charles Manson pg 16 • Sun Ra pg 16 • Albert Ayler pg 16 • Turn Records – New Label! pg 17 • Joyful Noise – New Label! pg 18-19 Forever Free (Ozomatli, No Use For a Name,Voodoo Glowskulls, etc) pg 20

Licorice Roots Licorice Root Orchestra File Under: Alt Rock CD: SPA 12 (M) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists Edward Moyse – piano, guitar, vocals David Silverman – flute, glockenspiel Kim Benner – finger cymbals Dave Milsom – drums

Overview Yes, this album is from the past – and not just because it was recorded in the ‘90s; this goes much deeper then that. Licorice Root Orchestra by Licorice Roots is an audio time capsule. Calling out from a numinous tunnel somewhere in the ‘60s, the group often draws comparisons to T-Rex or Syd Barret. But Licorice Roots draw more influence from Fra Filippo Lippi or H.P. Lovecraft than from obvious musical sources. Edward Moyse, the spiritual leader of Licorice Roots, conjures a kind of runic chamber pop where ghostly piano and mystical lyrics ride together on an old carousal in a haunted amusement park. Licorice Roots are truly magical – kind of an “everyday supernatural.” The 10-year anniversary re-release of Licorice Roots’ first album includes the original 13 studio tracks as well as 13 additional demos. Originally featured in Melody Maker, Pop Culture Press, Exclaim,Time Out NY, NME, Ptolemaic Terrascope, Salt for Slugs, CMJ – and Sassy’s “Cute Band Alert” – fans and newcomers alike will enjoy this re-introduction to an amazing band. Licorice Roots continue to work their magic and will be releasing new material on Essay Records later this year!

Press Quotes “Songs with a gentle near-orchestral eloquence which falls somewhere between Daniel Johnston’s trembling 1990 and Harold Budd’s soulful Music for Three Pianos…Licorice Root Orchestra is a delicate work of weird genius; violet-tinted, sherbet-sweet and lonely as Coney Island on a wet Sunday.” – Melody Maker “Syrup-sweet flute and piano ditties offer simple, magical, childlike tones.” – NME “Released in 1993, Licorice Root Orchestra is knee-deep in reverb and drenched in magical, phantasmagorical imagery; a creepy, beautiful thing that has inspired devotion among its cult.” – Snowglobe

Selling Points • 10th anniversary re-release includes 13 original demos • Over 200 copies to press; targeted radio campaign • RIYL: Syd Barret, Flaming Lips, Swell Maps, United States of America, Brian Eno

Key Markets Newark (Hometown). Also: Philadelphia, Chicago, New York

Track Listing September in the Night • Cloud Symphonies • Saturn Rise • Lemon Peel Medallion • Tangled Weeks • Ocean’s Long Floor / Spell on this Room • Sunday Theme of Petals • Coronation Day • Let Darkness Fall • Everyday Supernatural • Garden of Chalcedony • BlackEyed Susans • Firmament

Bonus Demos Cloud Symphonies • Spell on this Room/September in the Night • Coronation Day • Tangled Weeks • Everyday Supernatural • Nether Reaches • Ocean’s Long Floor • Black-Eyed Susans • Let Darkness Fall • Black-eyed Susans • Garden of Chalcedony • Nether Reaches (Piano Version) • Firmament

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Jad & David Fair Six Dozen Cookies File Under: Avant Rock CD: SPA 18 (N) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists Jad Fair – sound effects, musical direction • David Fair – sound effects, spoken word • Peter Fair – bass • Nancy Kangas – organ • Anne Watts – piano, organ, accordion • Barbara Weber – percussion, electric piano • Pam Kreamer – percussion • Thomas Sterner – didgeridoo, percussion • Mark Jickling – guitar • Paul Jickling – guitar • Bob Greenberg – guitar, strings • Tom Wingate – guitar

Overview Six Dozen Cookies is a selection of stories written and read by David Fair and put to music with help from his brother Jad Fair. For years, the two recorded albums and toured as über-important underground rock duo Half Japanese. Now, the brothers are together again and, as always, this is no ordinary collaboration. Six Dozen Cookies features a dystopian world where Lake Michigan is substituted for Lake Wobegon and David Fair sports a well-trimmed black goatee, serving as the world’s bizarro Garrison Keeler. He crafts short, simple, personal tales about small-town family life – growing up, growing old, and how long it really takes to find grandpa a new pair of shoes.This is no spoken word album to be filed separately from your collection of ‘90s indie rock; destined to spend all eternity sharing space next to your dusty Henry Rollins, Jerky Boys and Jello Biafra. CDs. No! This CD will serve to glue the rock, jazz, old-time radio show, and spoken word records all together in one big happy family. Like Jad and David’s previous collaborations, this project is fun, lighthearted, and a style all their own.These genius iconoclastic antiheroes of outsider art, the most loveable and awkward sons of Michigan, share light, entertaining stories about their family and backgrounds. And they are certainly a prolific pair: in total, they have recorded more albums than the Beatles and the Rolling Stones combined. Collaborations include work with Yo La Tengo, Daniel Johnston, J. Mascis, Mosquito, Kramer, Teenage Fanclub, John Zorn, Fred Frith and Moe Tucker. Just like Midas had the touch of gold, these brothers have the touch of music – they have changed the course of modern music, and acted as a beacon for others to follow.

Press Quotes “I can’t help but marvel over the joys one human’s perceptions can bring another.” – Splendid “Solidly entertaining.” – Trouser Press “A truly primitive and prolific talent.” – Epitonic

Selling Points • Collaboration between the two founding members of Half Japanese • Jad Fair has released records on Iridescence, Shimmy Disc, UK Powerhouse, Kill Rock Stars, Jagjaguwar, Drag City, Alternative Tentacles, Emperor Jones and Matador • Press and radio service by Essay Records

Key Markets Glen Rose/Dallas/Fort Worth (Hometown). Also: New York, Austin, Chicago

Track Listing Grandpa’s New Shoes • 100 Yellow Pencils • R. Sanders Anderson • Four Leaf Clover • Six Dozen Cookies • Big Deck of Cards • Grandpa Feeds the Birds • Lost Glasses • Grandpa’s Room • Presidential Pancakes • Card Games • Henry Penny • Peanut Museum • Grandpa’s Songs • Grandpa’s Books • Telephone Manners • Lost Wallet • Automatic Bird Feeder • Asleep in Grandpas Arms

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Discount through StreetDate The Framed Countless Ways RECORDS of SelfNAIL WELCOMES ECLIPSE TO ITS ROSTER Eclipse Records represents artists whoDestruction are uncompromising with their craft.The music varies from folk and psychedelia Punk to shamanic and absurd – but Eclipse isFile alsoUnder: all about substance. All titles are on vinyl (some also available on CD) and CD: RCL 17 (O) no expense is spared, so you know all releases are top quality, using heavy vinyl and superior packaging.

Marissa Nadler The Saga of Mayflower May

Marissa Nadler Ballads of Living and Dying

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Featured Overview Artists Marissa Nadler – guitar, bells, ukulele, organ, keyboard, The Framed, hailing from vocals, Minneapolis, bring a breath of fresh airbanjo to fashion-minded punk.The boys in The Framed are here to play music, Nick Castrohairstyling – tin whistle, piano not discuss tips.To that end, they have focused on writing songs for their debut album on Reality Clash. 11 original, catchy tunes Brian McTear – Hammond written to evoke the ghosts organ of past punk à la Generation X, early Social Distortion and the Swingin’ Utters will certainly have you listening Myles electric e-bow prepared guitar, keyboard to thisBaer album– over andguitar, over. Drawing several hundred kids per show,The Framed show no signs of letting up.This is not a band to be taken Kendra lightly. Flowers – vocals

Overview Selling Points Hailed a smoky chanteuse both sultryX,and captivating, Marissa Nadler’s songs are mostly mournful dirges and melancholic ballads. • Haveasbeen compared to Generation Social Distortion and Swingin’ Utters Delving intooninfluences old-timey Americana folk, Portuguese fado, psychedelia and country, the songwriting is gripping and unique. • #1 song Radio K of (Minneapolis) for two weeks running Pursuing the persona most of the Lower songs are stories tragic Lewis deaths,&forbidden suicides, and as well as • Have shared stages poem, with Street Dogs, Class Brats,ofJuliette The Licks,fates, jilted love affairs and stormySoviettes more some introspective first-person In concert, the melodrama is obvious, each performance dripping with vaudevillian nostalgia. Nadler’s • Print promotion via postcards,songs. posters and flyers intricate fingerstyle guitar comes through on six-string, twelve-string, banjo, ukelele, and autoharp. Her voice is velvety, resonant and soaring • College radio service with • Adsethereal will runreverberations. in Razorcake, Amp and Pulse • KEY MARKETS: Minneapolis (Hometown). Also: Los Angeles, San Diego, New York, Chicago, Boston and Press Quotes St. Louis “The beautiful, sad love songs on Marissa Nadler’s tremendous sophomore effort The Saga of Mayflower May are surprisingly even better than those on last year’s widely acclaimed Ballads of Living and Dying. Her mysterious voice…is gorgeous and evocative, especially when it’s Track Listing layered in multi-tracked harmony. She may be Way a contemporary folkie,• Whiskey but she seems removed from current trends…there’s Disposition of Desperation • Airwaves • The It Is • Run Away Bottlessomewhat • From the Ashes of the the Underground • Rock’n’Roll something a lotNever more Sets classic andLast old-fashioned about her approach, which• Vengeance makes The Saga of Mayflower May seem quite a bit more timeless Rip-Off • Sun • The Kiss • Bleed Us Dry • Battle Songs than many of the other records that have been coming out of this genre.” – Other Music “Marissa Nadler’s emotional vibration of a voice, drawing comparisons as wide as Karen Dalton, Judy Dyble and Hope Sandoval, shimmers over cyclical Leonard Cohen-esque fingerpicked compositions for acoustic guitar, the proceedings fleshed out by tasteful use of organ, chimes and recorder.” – Comes With a Smile

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Reviewed in Mojo, Magnet, Pitchforkmedia, Uncut, Comes with a Smile, Skyscraper and more; promo copies still being submitted for review Promotion to radio stations for charting and airplay; upcoming tours of the U.S. and Europe Ads have run in The Wire, Arthur and Dream Performed at Arthurfest 2005 alongside Sonic Youth,Yoko Ono, Sleater-Kinney and Cat Power; selected to perform at Terrastock 6 in April 2006

Key Markets Brooklyn (Hometown). Also: New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Cleveland, Chicago, Nashville, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Detroit, Boston, Atlanta, Austin, Houston, Northampton

Track Listing – The Saga of Mayflower May Under an Old Umbrella • The Little Famous Song • Mr. John Lee (Velveteen Rose) • Damsels in the Dark • Lily, Henry, and the Willow Trees • Yellow Lights • Old Love Haunts Me in the Morning • My Little Lark • In the Time of the Lorry Low • Calico • Horses and Their Kin

Track Listing – Ballads of Living and Dying Fifty Five Falls • Hay Tantos Muertos • Stallions • Undertaker • Box of Cedar • Bird Song • Mayflower May • Days of Rum • Virginia • Annabelle Lee 432

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Overview “Though the live, impromptu nature of these recordings means they contain some of the group’s slackest, most loosely-organized performances yet – certainly no mean feat – the album also captures several peaks of the spontaneous joy and inspired mutual discovery that typify the group’s best work.” – Pitchforkmedia Imagine Funkadelic playing German Oak and you’ll get an idea of the sort of Kraut-flecked folk funk we’re talking about here…a confusing swirl of tripped-out effects, manic percussion, tweaked vocals, wah guitar and a throbbing, simple rhythm beneath it all.The whole thing comes packaged in a thick gatefold sleeve, with a full color insert featuring photos from the wedding and the Alaska trip as well as a reproduction of the original invitation.

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Sunburned Hand of the Man has a rabid fan base Wedlock was named one of the best double LPs ever by The Wire (September 2005) Recent month-long U.S. tour in support of this release Ads have run in The Wire and Arthur; more ads planned

Sunburned Hand of the Man Wedlock File Under: Avant Rock 2XLP: ECP 46 (2I) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Key Markets Boston (Hometown). Also: New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta, Houston, Madison, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Philadelphia

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Overview “There’s no denying Jack Rose’s command of the guitar…not only does Rose make good on the record’s name, staking his claim farther into the hinterland of the Indo-blues territory than any of his Takoma forebears did, he does it with unsurpassed aggression…it’s the weight in his playing that makes this album stand out in a year packed with solo acoustic guitar records.” – Dusted Raag Manifestos sees American punk primitive guitarist Jack Rose expand his tonal armory to include huge harvesting drones and showers of hand percussion while still retaining a deep iron anchor to the vibration of the earth as channeled by cemeteries full of long-gone moonshiners. A monumental collection!

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Limited edition vinyl release Jack Rose is considered to be among the finest guitarists on the planet Perfect for fans of John Fahey and Robbie Basho Founding member of avant drone group Pelt

Key Markets Philadelphia (Hometown). Also: New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta, Houston, Madison, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Boston

Overview “Last year, Jack Rose stepped out from behind the dense, droning walls he and his bandmates had erected in Pelt. His first solo LP proved to be among a rare class of acoustic guitarists, propelling him to the fore of the swelling avant garde folk scene that largely revolves around the Northeast U.S.With Fahey gone and Kottke collaborating with members of Phish, Jack’s two LPs have placed him at the head of a small (but very welcome) pack of acoustic guitarists (Steffen Basho-Junghans, Glenn Jones, Sir Richard Bishop, Ben Chasny), who are pushing themselves towards a thrilling revolution.” – FakeJazz.com Opium Musick is the second Jack Rose album recorded and released in 2003. It features Rose playing 12string, 6-string, and lap guitar with guests Mike Gangloff (Pelt) and Glenn Jones (Cul de Sac).

Jack Rose Opium Musick

Selling Points • Limited edition vinyl release • Jack Rose is considered to be among the finest guitarists on the planet • Founding member of avant drone group Pelt

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Key Markets Philadelphia (Hometown). Also: New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta, Houston, Madison, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Boston

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NAIL WELCOMES LUCKY MADISON TO ITS ROSTER Lucky Madison was born during the fall of 2003 and has quickly become Portland’s most celebrated label.The roster runs the gamut, with folktronic phenomenon Talkdemonic, the psych-folk of Alan Singley, the dance-off friendship of The Snuggle Ups, the familiar expansiveness of Pt Juncture WA, and much more!

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Featured Artists Kevin O’Connor – guitars, drums, synths, piano, bass, electronics Lisa Molinaro – viola

Overview Talkdemonic melds the primal, the classical and the modern to create songs that are as sweeping in scope as they are shattering in intensity.The band calls its music “folktronic hop,” and has created a fan base on a national level sans the help of any sort of distribution – a fan base that grows with each performance as spectators witness Talkdemonic’s ability to capture the most human emotions with only drums, viola and an iBook. Mutiny Sunshine is a wonder of Kevin O’Connor’s meticulous mind, featuring a sweeping orchestra of instruments – humming synth lines, plaintive acoustic guitar, dead-steady programmed beats, mournful concertina and soaring viola all tethered by O’Connor’s drumming and the enchanting string orchestrations of Lisa Molianaro.

Press Quotes “Talkdemonic have the most scrumptious sound in music today.With Kevin O’Connor’s hip-hop aesthetic and Lisa Molinaro’s classic viola, the two create a sound that is dynamic and textured, as if you could run your hands along the melodies and feel the undulating forms beneath.They are equal parts gypsy and technology, playing to audiences who watch with rapt attention, swaying close under O’Connor’s powerful rhythm and Molinaro’s intoxicating strings.” – Daily Vanguard “Mutiny Sunshine ebbs and flows with the murmur of mellow acoustics, East Asian drones and digital pop.There are no vocals in this eclectic mix and, really, no need for them.The entirety of Talkdemonic is rich and textured enough to stand alone, and when Molinaro’s viola is featured, she conveys a tension and emotion few crooners could match.This is a delightful new stew.” – Missoula Independent

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Voted Portland’s Best New Band in 2005 by the Willamette Week New album will be released in February 2006 by Arena Rock Recording Co. Recently toured the nation with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and The National Extensive 2006 tours in the U.S. and Europe booked by Bigshot Touring Honored on many Best of the Year lists Ads will run in Magnet, Pitchforkmedia,The Wire and more

Key Markets Portland (Hometown). Also: New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle,Washington DC, Denver, Boston, Los Angeles, Omaha, Austin, San Diego

Track Listing I Am the Son and the Heiress • Dec27 • Final Russian • In the Machinery of Night • Indian Angel • Blood Dripped From Yr Eyes • Mutiny Sunshine • Versus the Above • Starry Dynamo • Andean Twilight • The Last Untouched • Eardrum Symphony • When I Spent October With Erik • The Snow Melted, It Was Goodnight ASK YOUR NAIL SALES REP FOR A COMPLETE Lucky Madison

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Dykeritz Purple Switzerland

Alan Singley Audio Bicyclette

File Under: Alt Rock CD: LMD 31 (O)

File Under: Alt Rock CD: LMD 30 (O)

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Overview

“A lush junkyard orchestra swells around the songs on Dykeritz’s debut, Purple Switzerland, an album filled with jaunty and absurd pop songs that so desperately beg to be sung along to. Dykeritz is a spiritual relative of Modest Mouse, excelling in the juxtaposition of humor and clever turns of phrase with songwriting and musicianship strong enough to carry some serious emotional weight.” – Portland Mercury

“…Charming, quirky folks like Alan Singley, disciple of Burt Bacharach – play on. His all-ages appeal includes kindergarteners as his autumnal piano and folky psych harmonies create Charlie Brown-ical whorl, though there’s nothing cartoonish about it. Rather, a willful innocence penetrates his sweet melodies in the same way it does Phil Elvrum’s.What sweet talent…” – Portland Mercury

Dykeritz have mastered a summertime, wide-open, feel-good pop sound with their debut, Purple Switzerland.The album wanders in and out of refreshingly inverted audio production, highlighting the flanged-out vocal stylings of Jordan Blum and pushing them into the realm of a young Modest Mouse or a sugary Superchunk.

The visceral psychfolk songwriting of Alan Singley reverberates strongly on Audio Bicyclette, as if an entire army of Burt Bacharachs started riding bicycles through a park in Portland, picking flowers and riding musical strings like a panther on a tightrope. Audio Bicyclette is an offering from the deepest of boxes; a lo-fi messenger of the darkest and loveliest hours.

Key Markets Portland (Hometown). Also: Seattle, San Diego, New York, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Austin, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Omaha, Boston

Key Markets Portland (Hometown). Also: Austin, Seattle, Chicago, San Francisco, Gainesville, New York, Baltimore, Omaha, Boston

The Snuggle Ups Extremely Popular

Modernstate Highwater Moonboot

File Under: Alt Rock CD: LMD 27 (O)

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Overview

“A showcase of the energetic, gleeful style that their shows have become known for…bright, dance-inspiring, shamelessly adoring love songs sung with wide-open arms.” – Portland Mercury

“…Melancholic recitations over flower-picked guitar parts dominate much of the album. Modernstate, a.k.a. Sam Schauer, employs a looping device as the foundation for his guitar-driven songs, using it as a rail as he explores winding melodic passages with a series of electronic and guitar parts.” – Willamette Week

Childhood friends from the small town of Prineville, Liam Kenna and Brett Whitman played music together for ten years before setting down their guitars and forming The Snuggle Ups in Portland in 2003.The next year, they released their debut album on Lucky Madison, combining heartfelt lyrics about love and friendship with thick electro beats and uber-catchy melodies.Their live show, a sweaty mass of dancing, smiling and life-affirming positivity, has quickly become one of the most beloved in Portland.

Key Markets Portland (Hometown). Also: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, San Diego, Salt Lake City, New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC

Modernstate is the folk-looping music of Sam Schauer. Wielding a baritone voice, an old guitar, a glockenspiel, and a drum set, Schauer creates untraditional folk leanings in an untraditional manner. Highwater Moonboot is an album that lyrically reflects the sincerity and honesty of the world of humans.

Key Markets Portland (Hometown). Also: San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Diego, Austin, New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, Madison,Tucson, Washington DC, Milwaukee

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Kind of Like Spitting One Hundred Dollar Room File Under: Alt Rock CD: HSH 55 (N) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists Ben Barnett – guitar, vocals, drums Brian Grant – bass P.J. Aylward – drums Corrina Repp – backing vocals Elizabeth Elmore – backing vocals Sandy Shockley – backing vocals

Overview Like Weezer’s Blue Album, One Hundred Dollar Room became the underground touchstone for a generation of young musicians who gravitated toward the dynamic mish-mash of punk rock, scorched pop and balladry. Suddenly, Kind of Like Spitting was listed in band descriptions, classifieds, and reviews as an influence on younger bands, not unlike The Pixies, whose legacy was the scattering of seeds and musical ideas to garage bands the world over. Recorded in June of 2000 at Typefoundry studios by Adam Selzer (The Decemberists, M.Ward, Norfolk & Western), the rights to this hard-to-find classic recording were recently acquired by HUSH for reissue One Hundred Dollar Room was a watershed release for Kind of Like Spitting, cementing Ben Barnett’s reputation as a musical auteur, able to ply his songwriting successfully over a myriad of styles while uniting them under the umbrella of an album with a classical composer’s flair for dynamics, motif, and drama.That One Hundred Dollar Room sounds as fresh today as it did in 2000 is a testament to the both the staying power of Barnett’s understanding of melody and his rare vision for dynamic song arrangements.The interplay of loud and soft textures on this recording, often in the space of a single track, are as dazzling to the accomplished musician as they are instantly satisfying to anyone in earshot. Considered by many to be the best release from that era, One Hundred Dollar Room is ripe for rediscovery on its fifth-year anniversary.

Press Quotes “Many of the songs fit existing Kind of Like Spitting tropes, but in almost every case there’s something identifiably more mature or ambitious about them…”– The War Against Silence “Smattered with raw feelings, get set for some serious self-contemplation after a deep listen. Despite everything, Barnett remains true to his emo-tions, delivering a compelling record and forcefully making it clear that he is not just a stereotype.” – CMJ

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Kind of Like Spitting has sold 30,000 copies of their former full-length releases Kind of Like Spitting will tour nationally in support of this release College radio service through AAM Press campaign by MAD Publicity Ads will run in Readymade, Magnet, Resonance,Venus, Under the Radar, Rockpile, Pitchforkmedia, Skyscraper and a smattering of indie rags

Key Markets Portland (Hometown). Also: Seattle, Olympia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago, St. Louis, Austin, Phoenix, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chapel Hill, Providence

Track Listing Hook • One Bird. One Stone • Scene • Hoax • This Life, So Unlike The Last • 26 Is Too Soon • B-Side Poetry • Yes,You’re Busted • Free Advice • Pick a Town, Find a Box, Live Alone • 11:11 • Sex Ruins Everything • Cater • Little Time Bomb Also Available

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Micah Blue Smaldone Some Sweet Day File Under: Alt Folk CD: EIR 33 (P) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists Micah Blue Smaldone – 6-string guitar, vocals

Overview Some Sweet Day marks the solo debut of Micah Blue Smaldone, a young musician from the wilds of Maine with a curious mastery of prewar music styles. His fresh rendering of country-blues and ragtime idioms is at once unique and familiar, steeped in the melancholia of heartbreak, the companionship of lonely hours, and the weight of the workingman’s grind. Some Sweet Day is laden with astounding guitar work, recalling the dazzling syncopation of Blind Blake, the delicate touch of Mississippi John Hurt, and the clever arrangements of fellow Maine native Craig Ventresco (guitarist on the Crumb and Ghost World soundtracks). Smaldone’s distinct voice almost bypasses categories of race or genre, as did many performers of the 1920s such as yodeling cowboy Jimmie Rodgers, minstrel man Emmett Miller, or songster Robert Wilkins. Smaldone’s songwriting draws from old vernacular, regional styles, and topics of the day that are often analogous to current sentiments and events.The sincerity, dearness, and good humor of these songs, along with his authentic approach to performing and recording them, serves to resurrect an era of music all but lost to young music enthusiasts.

Press Quotes “Micah Smaldone should, by the sound of it, be dead. Seemingly held over from the era of vaudeville and ragtime, Some Sweet Day does what most albums can’t: it touches on the strength of a small, nasal voice and finely picked guitar. When he yodels his Dustbowl-beggar blues about outlaws, in-laws and old-fashioned hurtin’, you can’t help but wonder where all the good music has gone.” – Magnet “It’s startlingly old-fashioned and would be more jarring if Smaldone didn’t pull it off with such grace and depth of feeling.” – Acoustic Guitar “Jimmie Rodgers meets Mississippi John Hurt meets Ian Whitcomb on this wonderful time-machine debut project. Crank up the old Victrola and listen up!” – Sing Out

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Re-mastered audio and re-designed artwork from initial pressing Smaldone has shared the stage with Big Huge, PG Six, Jolie Holland, and Bonnie “Prince” Billy Recent appearance in “Magnified” section of Magnet, with a track from recent CD Hither and Thither on the accompanying sampler Ads will run in The Wire, Skyscraper and Splendid

Key Markets Portland, ME (Hometown). Also: Boston, New York, Providence, Northampton, Baltimore, Charlottesville,Winston-Salem, Nashville, Louisville

Track Listing Springtime Blues • Old Dog Blues • It Ain’t No Good • Ice Cream Socialist • My Angel’s Wings • Some Sweet Day • Blind Boy Rag • Across the Shore • Miss Mollie • Pine Needle Rag • In the Jailhouse Now • Root Hog or Die • A Sunny Place (For Shady People) • Boats Up the River

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Discount through StreetDate Overview The Framed Countless Ways meaning of Self- he lays down scattergun jazz-funk jammage with “Billy Martin is a drummer’s drummer, Medeski Martin andDestruction Wood and uses his own Amulet Records imprint to explore breakbeat

File Under: science (the Illy B Eats series) andPunk tribalistic solo drum circling (Black Elk Speaks). But rarely has this inCD: RCL 17 (O) the-pocket explorer proven himself to be so unbelievably nasty as on his latest solo venture…” – CMJ

Following Billy Martin’s first solo CD Black Elk Speaks, he set out on a one-man tour of the Northeast U.S. to refute the myth that he is only a jazz-funk drummer.This CD, which contains live interpretations of some of the Black Elk music, is a testimony to Martin’s immense talent. Extremely dynamic and more intimate than the studio recording – audiophiles take note.

Selling Points • Medeski Martin and Wood fans love this guy! • Billy Martin recently premiered his short film A Path to Ogun to critical acclaim at the NY Film and Video Festival File Under: Avant Jazz • In addition to being a member of Medeski, Martin and Wood, Martin has played with Bobby CD: AME 18 (M) Previte’s ensemble at Next Wave, Sam Bennett’s Chunk, Ned Rothenburg’s Double Band, Oren Bloedow’s band, John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards, John Zorn’s Masada (an electric version) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA and the Sweet Lizard Illtet Preorder • Medeski, Martin and Wood will tour the U.S. extensively from December 2005 – February 2006 Discount through StreetDate • Promotion via the Medeski Martin and Wood lists, website and concert merchandise table as a Overview word-of-mouth resource The Framed, hailing from Minneapolis, grassroots, bring a breath of fresh air to fashion-minded punk.The boys in The Framed are here to play music, • Radio interviews scheduled while Martin is ondebut tour with not discuss hairstyling tips.To that end, they have focused on writing songs for their albumMMW on Reality Clash. 11 original, catchy tunes • A U.S. will be scheduled around the release this title Utters will certainly have you listening written to evoke the ghosts of past punk à latour Generation X, early Social Distortion andof the Swingin’

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to this album over and over. Drawing several hundred kids per show,The Framed show no signs of letting up.This is not a band to be taken

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New York (Hometown). Also: Austin, Atlanta, Boston, Portland, San Francisco, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Billy Martin Seattle, Ann Arbor, Chicago, Chapel Hill, Miami,Tampa, Boulder, Denver, Baltimore,Toronto, Montreal, Selling Points Black Elk Speaks

Vancouver • CD: Have been compared to Generation X, Social Distortion and Swingin’ Utters AME 7 (L) • #1 song on Radio K (Minneapolis) for two weeks running • Have shared stages with Street Dogs, Lower Class Brats, Juliette Lewis & The Licks, NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA • Print promotion via postcards, posters and flyers • College radio service • Ads will run in Razorcake, Amp and Pulse Overview • KEY MARKETS: (Hometown). Also: Los Angeles, San Diego, New York, “A veritable feast ofMinneapolis rhythmic improvisation/extrapolation/sensation in the hands of masters who just Chicago, St.ofLouis wanna haveBoston fun; twoand sets trap drums, hand percussion and vintage drum machines can rock the world…playful go-go swing-to-drum battle-to-funky soft-shoe shuffle.” – JazzTimes

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• Airwavesof• The Way It Is • Run • Whiskey Bottles •Duets), From and the Ashes ADisposition celebrationofofDesperation the 10th anniversary this percussion duo’sAway first release (Percussion of the Underground • Rock’n’Roll Rip-Off • Sunformer Never John Sets •Lurie The Last Kiss • Bleed Us Dry • Battle testimony to the unique creative force of these National Orchestra/Lounge Songs • Vengeance Lizards percussionists! A powerful mix of textures, grooves, blood and guts from Africa to South Philly.The sound quality is excellent and you can really lose yourself in this “otherly” dimension, which these two artists create every time they perform together. Many people showed up for this dynamic duo’s show at Houston Hall, which recalls those famous “drum battles” staged in the 1950s.This special mixture of intensity and beauty proves Martin & Weston to be one of the great drum duos of our time.

Selling Points • Medeski Martin and Wood fans love this shit! • Former members of John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards • Grant Calvin Weston is a legendary drummer who has played with Mark Ribot, Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time and James “Blood” Ulmer • Promotion via the Medeski Martin and Wood lists, website and concert merchandise table as a grassroots, word-of-mouth resource • Radio interviews scheduled while Martin is on tour with MMW • A U.S. tour will be scheduled around the release of this title

Billy Martin & Grant Calvin Weston Live at Houston Hall File Under: Avant Jazz CD: AME 19 (M) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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New York, Philadelphia (Hometowns). Also: Austin, Atlanta, Boston, Portland, San Francisco, Berkeley, Los Angeles, Seattle, Ann Arbor, Chicago, Chapel Hill, Miami,Tampa, Boulder, Denver, Baltimore,Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver

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Overview “Seductively simple with a twisted surf sound that takes a bit from Vic Mizzy and merry-go-rounds. A blast from the past like those old radio shows, this one’s a keeper.” – Rue Morgue In 2006, Mercury Radio Theater will release their second album, much to the delight of a fervent cult fan base.The release of this CD, aptly titled The Blue Eyed Model, will be a fan favorite as well as a joy to the uninitiated. The Blue Eyed Model chronicles the story of Gregor, a young collegiate with a penchant for making his own coed out of the leftovers of his blind dates. The album features expeditious punk and instrumental songs that illuminate the narrative, a continuation of Mercury Radio Theater’s The Death and Life of the Undead Boy, released in 2003 to critical and fanatical praise, selling well over 2500 copies.

Selling Points • Features 24 pages of original artwork by underground artist Becky Havens and a remarkable narrative performance by cult legend Otto Bot (vocalist for Blaster The Rocketman) • Mercury Radio Theater will tour throughout 2006, hitting every stop from Philadelphia to Seattle • Massive press campaign by AAM; radio promotion by Riot Act Media • Ads will run in Wonkavision, Modern Fix, Amplifier, Copper Press, Big Takeover, Skratch, Status Hyperactive, Punk Planet, Under the Volcano and Heartattack

Mercury Radio Theater The Blue Eyed Model File Under: Alt Rock CD: LUJ 39 (I) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Key Markets Philadelphia (Hometown). Also: New York, Hartford,Washington DC, Chicago, New Orleans, Baltimore, Richmond, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Orlando

Track Listing The Blue Eyed Model • Narration • We Put The Fun Back In Funeral • Narration • Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler • Narration • Girl in a Box • Narration • Spare Parts • Narration • The Very Merry Unbirthday Song • Narration • Who Shot Whistler’s Mother • Narration • Bad News Comes in 3’s • Narration • A Hero and His Friends • Narration • Blue Eyed Model (Reprise)

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L’Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio Suite Ninderli File Under: Alt World CD: COP 3009 (M) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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In Autumn 2002, to prevent Rome’s Apollo Cinema from becoming a huge bingo hall, resident musicians aligned with local artists to create a workshop of writing, music and film. Agostino Ferrente and Mario Tronco founded L’Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio (named after a square in central Rome where Italians are a minority), formed entirely of immigrants from Tunisia, Morocco, Senegal, Cuba, Ecuador, Argentina, India, Romania, Hungary, and the U.S. Soon after, production began on the upcoming “documusical” Prove d’Orchestra, which documents this fascinating project.With outstanding solo artists, L’Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio has aroused the curiosity of music critics, journalists and sociologists around the world.The outstanding group plays an explosive mix of South Asian worldbeat, Andean melodies, North African rhythms, and jazz. Each musician has his own cultural background, and this meshing of traditions and cultures leads to a fusion of different styles, melodies and voices from all over the world.

Selling Points • Performed at the Roma Europa Festival in Winter 2002 • Profiled on Arte TV and CNN • The film Prove d’Orchestra hits European cinemas in June, with further appearances at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Summerstage Festival and Pop D’Europe • Recently received the German Record Critics Prize • Import at a domestic price! • Service to DJs, radio stations and print media

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

Track Listing Intro • Ninderli • Tarareando • Moon Suite • Tre Quarti Di Luna • Lammabede • Sahara Blues • Ao Gi • Mambo De Machahuai • Ya Baba Maragia • To No Kenone

STREET DATE JANUARY 10, 2006

Glasshead Daydreams on Jupiter File Under: Punk CD: NSR 125 (N) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists J. Parkes – vocals, guitar Eric Chisholm – guitar Ian Chisholm – bass Murf – drums

Overview Glasshead is a four-piece pop-driven rock band born roughly six years ago in British Columbia. Unlike most bands, Glasshead began touring BC & establishing a name for themselves only a few months after coming into existence.With numerous live shows under their belts, they independently recorded and released their first album, Thirteen, in March of 2000. In late November 2001, the band toured Japan under one of the country’s most popular punk labels, Big Mouth JPN. In early 2002, they recorded a self-titled album with producer/engineer Blair Calibaba (Sum 41, Bif Naked, Gob). A few months after its release, Glasshead reached #3 in Canada on the MP3.com charts and received regular airplay on Vancouver’s two largest rock radio stations.They also won New Music West’s Galaxie Rising Star Award, and their music was featured in Disney’s MXP: Most Extreme Primate. Glasshead is now pleased to bring you their third exhilarating release, full of the spacey sounds and dreamy choruses that have become trademark ingredients in their formula.Taking two years to reinvent their attack and deliver a refreshing new approach, this powerhouse pop group leaves no one guessing why they are still at the top of their game. Daydreams on Jupiter is a thoroughly complete rock album in the truest sense of the phrase. Dynamic, lovely and loud, it is sure to be one of the year’s finest.

Press Quotes “Glasshead…has been one of Vancouver’s most essential live acts since they made the move to the city. Once Glasshead has rightfully conquered British Columbia, they’re bound to have the rest of the planet wrapped around their fingers as well.” – PunkInternational.com “One of BC’s most successful independent punk acts!” – PunkNews.org

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Western U.S. tour in January 2006; have toured the U.S. and Canada multiple times Enhanced with a music video and unreleased MP3s Service to college & city radio as well as magazines, websites and promoters Multiple magazine interviews and reviews scheduled for January-March 2006 Ads will run in Alternative Press, Skratch, HM, Punk Planet, Thrasher, Mean Street, Rockpile, East Coast Rocker, Aquarian and Illinois Entertainer

Key Markets Vancouver BC (Hometown). Also: Portland,Tacoma, Seattle, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose, Hollywood, Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Mesa,Tucson, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, Las Vegas, Kansas City, Chicago, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Miami

Track Listing Jupiter • Blood • Bullet • C+ • Hydrophobic Mermaid • Words That Kill • Idiot • Charger ‘74 • Peachfuzz • Puddle • Wasted Summer • Deadair • Ocean

STREET DATE JANUARY 10, 2006

Overview “Tokyo’s greatest unknown band.” – RockinJapan.com Red Bacteria Vacuum is an all-female punk rock band from Osaka.They have appeared on several compilation albums, including a Green Day tribute featuring all-female Japanese bands and 2004’s We Ain’t Housewife Material on Dionysus Records. Roller Coaster captures the ferocity of Red Bacteria Vacuum’s live performances, with six tracks incorporating everything as loud, upbeat and aggressive as their influences, which run the gamut from hardcore punk to garage and psychobilly.

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Played the 2005 ROCKRGRL Music Conference in Seattle Upcoming U.S. tour in Spring 2006; toured major West Coast markets in November 2005 Service to college radio and music reviewing publications/websites Ads will run in Punk Planet, Razorcake, MRR, Pop Culture Press, Bust and Venus

File Under: Punk CD: BTY 2 (O)

Key Markets Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Austin, Minneapolis, St. Paul,Washington DC

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Overview “Running along with the likes of The Dillinger Escape Plan and Drowningman, Switzerland’s Shora are neck and neck with the aforementioned groups’ use of uncanny tempo changes and vicious percussive swings – not to mention the distorted mayhem that results…” – Splendid

Shora Malval File Under: Alt Rock CD: CNS 27 (Q) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Grounded by precise rhythmic movements and pulsing guitars, Malval is a shape-shifting blend of the beautiful and the uncertain, with the elegant, unusual and subtle melodies always swaying toward an almost unreachable closure.The songs lull you towards comfort and security before erupting into yet another phase, leaving you to wonder how, when, what and why. Simultaneously comforting and cold, Malval is a mysterious instrumental voyage that will, for the foreseeable future, intrigue and occupy the mental depths of all who care to listen.

Selling Points • Shora has played approximately one hundred shows with bands such as Boris, Black Dice, Melt-Banana, Suicide, Converge and The Dillinger Escape Plan • Shora have collaborated with Merzbow, releasing split album Switching Rhetorics in 2001 • One of Europe’s most fierce and energetic live bands! Shora bombard with intense, angry and energetic riffs – approach with caution and prepare to be utterly mindfucked • U.S. press service through Permanent Teeth

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

Overview Bulldozer rock ‘n’ roll is here! Rock ‘n’ Roll Stormtroopers, always seen at their fashionable best in tight denim shorts and cut-off vests, have come to tread on your senses with their all-out German punk attack. They deliver 100% straight-ahead, uncompromising, raucous rock ‘n’ roll at an energy level that is nothing short of amazing. Now, the AC/DC-inspired Stormtroopers, with frontman Tex Torpedo, bring their great energy to their U.S. debut On Fire. Fans of broad punk genres and good loud music – including bands like Rose Tattoo, Turbonegro and The Heartbreakers – will find this album fresh and exciting, guaranteed!

Selling Points • 2005 German release of this album on Hulk Rackorz has done very well in Europe • Features a great bonus track exclusive to this release • Featured on the Pelado Records compilation 3 Minute Heros alongside Dimestore Haloes, American Heartbreak, and The Trash Brats • Feature interview in upcoming Loud Fast Rules, with a track on their sampler • Ads will run in Razorcake and Loud Fast Rules

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Rock ‘n’ Roll Stormtroopers On Fire File Under: Punk CD: FBK 6 (O) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Austin, Detroit, Portland, Seattle

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Overview Santa Cruz-based Hayride to Hell is credited with being one of the first psychobilly bands on the West Coast. Originally formed in 1994, Hayride to Hell has toured the West Coast repeatedly and performed at major psychobilly festivals around the world.The band released their debut on British label Nervous Records in 1997 and have appeared on numerous compilations ever since. Now, they’re back with a new full-length stomper – 13 tracks of rockabilly punk madness with over-the-top horror motifs to spare. Not for the timid!

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Hayride to Hell And Back File Under: Punk CD: HBL 18 (O) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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• Touring West Coast and Southwest in early 2006 • Sold 5,000 copies of their debut! • Appeared in American Rumble documentary (Raven Films, 2002) • Tallman PR will handle active solicitation of interviews, features and CD reviews • Ads will run in AMP, Skratch, Rock ‘n’ Roll Purgatory, MRR, Gearhead,Varla, Highwire Daze, Rank & Revue, The Edge and AP

Key Markets San Jose (Hometown). Also: Orange County, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Riverside, Los Angeles, Hollywood, Las Vegas,Tucson, Phoenix, Seattle, Portland, Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, El Paso, New York, Chicago, Houston, New York, Boston

Overview Trashy, disturbed psychobilly from the bleak desert landscape of Phoenix, this is voodoobilly punk rock for kids who threw their lives away long ago, including fans of Demented Are Go!, Frantic Flintstones, Misfits, Hank III and GWAR. Stitch Hopeless & The Sea Legs have been sweating and cursing for the last several months to put together this lo-fi bonanza of garage country thrashabilly – 16 tracks of selfloathing, revenge and utter despair.These songs are well written; you’ll find the guitar riffs rallying your membrane long after your stereo speakers have gone to sleep. Ultimately, you’ll have no choice but to dance to the sick psychobilly riffs and rhythms!

Selling Points • Touring West Coast and Southwest in early 2006 • Tallman PR will handle active solicitation of interviews, features and CD reviews • Service to press, radio and e-media • Ads will run in AMP, Skratch, Rock ‘n’ Roll Purgatory, MRR, Gearhead,Varla, Highwire Daze, Rank & Revue, The Edge and AP

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Stitch Hopeless & The Sea Legs Stuffin’ Coffins Since ‘77 File Under: Punk CD: HBL 17 (I) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Phoenix (Hometown). Also: Orange County, San Francisco, Las Vegas,Tucson, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, El Paso, New York, Chicago, Houston, Boston

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Overview It is a breath of fresh air when a band comes along and masterfully creates not just a batch of songs, but a body of music with such control that the listener has a hard time absorbing it in pieces. New Jersey’s The Moirai have done just that with their long-playing EP Bury Yourself – eight dynamic tracks spanning 40 minutes of music cohesive in both tonality and structure. The Moirai’s music can best be described as a monologue; their songs are snapshots of real people coming to terms with insecurity, tragedy, and extraordinary circumstances.The music is dark, cathartic, sonic, melodic and dynamic.

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The Moirai Bury Yourself File Under: Hardcore CDEP: ENG 75 (H)

• Features 3/4 of defunct yet highly sought-after indie-emo darlings Penfold • U.S. tours planned for Summer/Fall 2006 with Outsmarting Simon (Triple Crown), December Drive and more • Service to indie/college/online radio • Ads will run in MRR, Heartattack, Status, Flipside, Jersey Beat, Skyscraper, Highwire Daze, Attention Deficit Disorder,Verbicide, Kerrang, Rock Sound and more

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Key Markets New Jersey (Hometown). Also: New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, San Diego, Dallas, Detroit, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, Denver, San Francisco, Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Seattle, Portland

STREET DATE JANUARY 10, 2006

Overview Boston-based Ringers play some of the most direct, driving, anthemic, honest and heartfelt punk that you’re likely to hear this year. Ringers have everything you look for in a band – poignant lyrics you can identify with, rough-hewn melodies that move you, and an amazing live show to bring it all together. Fans of bands like Against Me, Hot Water Music, Kid Dynamite and Dillinger Four will definitely take notice.

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Features former members of The Insurgent, Speakeasy and Melee Recorded by Will Killingsworth, of acclaimed band Orchid, at Dead Air Studios Ringers released two EPs under the name Sirens which sold out of their press runs in just three months! Upcoming East & West Coast tours in 2006; large East Coast following Service to magazines and indie/internet radio stations Ads will run in Punk Rock Confidential, MRR, Punk Planet, Razorcake and Heartattack

Ringers Curses File Under: Punk CD: GOR 13 (O)

Key Markets Boston (Hometown). Also: Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego,Washington DC, New York, Chicago, Salt Lake City, Denver, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Buffalo, Gainesville

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Overview “Merges streetpunk power with melodic male vocals and emotional lyrics…and the interest being generated from the reports of their outstanding live performances is already making this a much anticipated album.” – Gangup.net

The Switch Ups The Switch Ups File Under: Punk CD: RCL 16 (O) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Hailing from Long Beach, CA these guys play a brand of pop-styled street punk.You get the big choruses and gang vocals of street punk, all done to a catchy-as-hell sound – as if the Cockney Rejects and Green Day had a child together and named it The Switch Ups! After a solid demo, we couldn’t let these guys go by the wayside.The band’s influences run the gamut, from Hank Williams and ‘50s doo wop to ‘80s music, The Who, Rose Tattoo, Rancid, Descendents and Weezer…but mainly they’re influenced by each other.This poppy oi is a must for fans of Bouncing Souls, Vanilla Muffins, Green Day or Cock Sparrer.

Selling Points • Frequent shows in Los Angeles, Orange County and Long Beach • College and punk radio service • Ads will run in LFR, Razorcake and more

Key Markets Long Beach (Hometown). Also: Orange County, Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco

Overview The Vents play a distinct form of pop punk, mixing harmonies, hooks and romance.Wearing their emotions on their sleeves and telling stories of lost love, found love, and identity crisis, The Vents give the listener a blended mix of pop hooks and thoughtful lyrics.This split was recorded at the world-famous Sonic Iguana Studios with Mass Giorgini, who sculpted their sound to reflect their immediate influences: The Ramones, Screeching Weasel and The Teen Idols. Although this is the band’s debut, they bring the rock like veterans. Meanwhile, The Teen Sensation Glasses pick up right where they left off on their 2002 fulllength, layering harmonies and humor in their blend of pop punk, taking cues from The Ramones, Beach Boys and Devo.Their use of synths and vocal harmonies create a quirkiness that will make you tap your foot all day long.Wearing matching geeky outfits, the band knows how to have fun and entertain – the perfect way to brighten anyone’s day!

Selling Points • Both bands tour regularly • Ads will run in Razorcake, MRR and Go Metric!

The Vents/The Teen Sensation Glasses Split:The Vents/The Teen Sensation Glasses File Under: Punk CD:WOR 109 (O)

Key Markets New York (Hometown). Also: Pittsburgh, Charleston

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Overview Charles Manson visited New York in the early ‘60s with his guitar and his songs in a vain search for recognition. In Beverly Hills, famous musicians gave him use of their studio to produce this album, featuring vocal backup from the women of the “family.” During a stay in a San Francisco prison, he met a fellow inmate, and gave him the album to release.While Manson was being tried and convicted of participation in the murder spree, the government attempted to discredit the hippie movement by citing him as an example, hoping to defuse the rising tide of anger among the population over the war in Vietnam. Because his songs were considered musically and historically significant, this record was released briefly by ESP-Disk’ in 1974, and is now being reissued. All royalties are paid to the son of one of the victims, who obtained a judgment against Manson.

Charles Manson Lie

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File Under: Alt Folk CD: ESP 2003 (R) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

New, original liner notes by Manson acquaintance, Lie producer, and veteran road manager Phil Kaufman Digitally remastered by veteran studio wiz Joe Phillips Radio campaign will target college and independent stations Review copies submitted to numerous publications

Key Markets Los Angeles (Hometown). Also: New York, San Francisco, Boston, Austin, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis

Overview “A major innovator…Sun Ra started off playing advanced bop, but was early on open to the influences of other cultures, experimenting with primitive electric keyboards and playing free long before the avant-garde got established.” – All Music Guide Recorded on December 22, 1973 in New York at the famous Town Hall, this eclectic ESP-Disk’-sponsored celebration of the Comet Kohoutek featured a fire eater, talking drums, and dancers in platform shoes in addition to Sun Ra’s Arkestra. After taking the stage 90 minutes late, the band expertly navigated its way through cosmic free playing, big-band romps, and didactic vocal numbers.

Selling Points • Sun Ra was elected to the Down Beat Hall of Fame in 1983 • Features Kwame Hadi, Ahktal Ebah, John Gilmore, Marshall Allen, Danny Davis, Danny Thompson, James Jacson, Alejandro Blake, Cliford Jarvis, Lex Humphries and June Tyson • Radio campaign will target college and independent stations • Review copies submitted to numerous publications

Sun Ra Concert for the Comet Kohoutek File Under: Avant Jazz CD: ESP 3033 (R) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Key Markets Philadelphia (Hometown). Also: New York, San Francisco, Boston, Austin, Chicago, Portland, Los Angeles, Seattle, Minneapolis

Overview “Spirits Rejoice is proof that there was an underlying logic even to Ayler’s most extreme moments, and that’s why it remains a tremendously inspiring recording.” – All Music Guide Judson Hall (now Cami Hall), on West 57th Street in New York, was chosen by engineer David Hancock for its acoustics. On the afternoon of September 23, 1965, this private session was recorded at 30 IPS, rather than the customary 15 IPS, to achieve the highest possible fidelity.

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Albert Ayler Spirits Rejoice File Under: Avant Jazz CD: ESP 1020 (R) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Rare double saxophone, double bass band configuration – Albert Ayler’s largest aggregation on ESP-Disk’ Features Donald Ayler, Charles Tyler, Sunny Murray, Call Cobbs, Henry Grimes and Gary Peacock Second of two Ayler studio sessions recorded for ESP-Disk’ Radio campaign will target college and independent stations Review copies submitted to numerous publications

Key Markets New York (Hometown). Also: San Francisco, Boston, Austin, Chicago, Portland, Los Angeles, Seattle, Minneapolis

STREET DATE JANUARY 24, 2006

NAIL WELCOMES TURN RECORDS TO ITS ROSTER From an idea formed outside a convenience store in 1999, Turn Records has developed into one of the Bay Area’s finest boutique labels, releasing and supporting a wide variety of artists and sounds, all with two things in common: quality music and good people.

Overview Calling All Monsters make their hometown in San Francisco. Led by Matthew Troy, former cofrontman and songwriter for SF indie legends Track Star, Calling All Monsters crank up the volume with their new takes on the old-school indie rockin’ sound.With former members of Dipt and Cinematic, the band has been playing the West Coast for the past few years before releasing this, their debut. The Traps That Work Best is instantly exciting and familiar at the same time – indie rock with emphasis on the rock. Big guitars, huge riffs, and the intensity of Troy’s vocals throw you back to a time when underground bands played with a passion and a purpose, rather than trying to hop on the hype machine. Simply put: it’s rock music for people who like rock music.

Selling Points • Matthew Troy was co-frontman of successful indie legends Track Star (Better Looking Records, Die Young Stay Pretty/SubPop) • Bill Chartier and Matt Yetka played in SF band Cinematic • AAM Sunday Service will handle radio promotion • Press service by Solid PR • Ads will run in Splendid, Lost at Sea, Pitchforkmedia, Skyscraper and Modern Fix

Calling All Monsters The Traps That Work Best File Under: Alt Rock CD:TUN 16 (N) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Track Listing We Are: Special Forces • Conventions of Wizards • The Uneasy Life • The Station Agent • The Is The Hand You Shoot With • Baby Bear • Western Style Town • Everyone And Every Other One • Saturday Afternoon • Waterside Down • Sometimes I Wish You Weren’t Dead

Overview “More Deep Cuts is as enchanting and seductive as the quietly beckoning madness of everyday life.” – CMJ

Thee More Shallows More Deep Cuts File Under: Alt Rock CD:TUN 15 (N) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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More Deep Cuts, the second album by San Francisco band Thee More Shallows and their first for Turn Records, arrives some time after their debut A History of Sport Fishing received glowing reviews likening the group to a diverse host of extraordinary bands including Yo La Tengo, Grandaddy and GSY!BE, while also lauding them for being far more than the sum of their influences. After touring the U.S. and UK, songwriter Dee Kesler retreated to the studio to work on the follow-up to their success.What was supposed to be mere weeks of recording turned into months of fine-tuning, then years of obsession. After almost three years of tireless work and Kesler’s seclusion from the world, More Deep Cuts emerged, showcasing a massive evolution in Thee More Shallows’ sound and producing an album that is beautiful, epic, haunting and devastating.

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More Deep Cuts is critically acclaimed, hailed as one of the best of 2005 by various sources Spent over eight weeks on CMJ’s Top 200 National publicity with the assistance of Solid PR Regional, national and international touring will coincide with promotion Ads will run in Skyscraper, Splendid and Pitchforkmedia

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Key Markets San Francisco (Hometown). Also: Berkeley, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Diego, New York

Track Listing Post-Present • Pre-Present • Freshman Thesis • Int #1 • Ave Grave • Cold Dis • Cloisterphobia • 2am • Int #2 • Walk of Shame • Ask Me About Jon Stross • House Break

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STREET DATE JANUARY 24, 2006

NAIL WELCOMES JOYFUL NOISE

TO ITS ROSTER

Joyful Noise is the thin cellophane wrapping protecting you from the rotten sludge of the decomposing mainstream.The Indianapolis-based label, begun in 2002, features everything from psychotropic ambience and mathy-prog-core-hyperexperimental rock to symphonic noise.This is music that is heavy, beautiful, clever, moving and absurd.

Abner Trio Distant Thunder of the Sacred Force File Under: Avant Rock CD: JNR 8 (N) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists Clinton Hughey – guitar, vocals Daniel Paquette – vocals, bass Karl Hofstetter – drums

Overview Abner Trio’s new album puts the “nert” back in the grim inertia of our collective doom! Abner Trio is composed of some of the most formidable talent in the geographical region, and its sound is a surprising recombinant mutation of the members’ respective abilities. It’s like nothing any of them have done before – it’s more like something they’re doing now. The Indianapolis based group includes Clinton Hughey, the melodic-indiedream-rock guitarist of Manners for Husbands; Karl Hofstetter, the deafening and horrifying drummer of Melk the G6-49; and scarecrow-skinny Old Testament prophet Daniel Paquette on bass. Hughey’s hypnopompic melodies, Paquette’s clairvoyant lyrics, and Hofstetter’s idiot-savant drumming all add up to the grind-folk/sleepsoaked/mystic-schizophrenic-post-monastic-trance-rock album of the year. Paquette’s lyrics have a childish intelligence and a juvenile sensitivity to the perilous exigencies of the human conditions. The whole album is kind of a hybrid wedding of down-home bluesy strumming and hyper-conceptual French postmodernism. But this will all make sense when you hear it, we promise.

Press Quotes “Comprised of some talented folks whose other projects include Melk the G6-49 and Manners for Husbands, Abner Trio transposes quick, frenetic indie rock tunes. Lyrically, it’s psychedelic and mortifyingly bizarre.The backing music is compositionally solid but never holds anything concrete for more than these fellas’ attention deficits will allow. I’m a big fan of time-signature-changing post-rock indie weirdness, and these guys deliver the goods with the biggest bow tie and odd wrapping I’ve ever had the pleasure of witnessing.” – Smother

Selling Points • Features three members of semi-legendary bands from the Indianapolis/Bloomington area: Manners for Husbands, Melk the G6-49 and A.P.E. These bands have all received critical acclaim from such noteworthy sources as NPR, Delusions of Adequacy, Splendid, Bandoppler and more • Upcoming East Coast tour in Spring 2006; the band has signed with Map Ref Booking, frequently touring the Midwest • Joyful Noise has an aggressive radio campaign underway, and will be working with a promotional company, pushing for press to hit around late January • Ads will run in Copper Press, Punk Planet,Verbicide, Razorcake and more

Key Markets Indianapolis (Hometown). Also: Bloomington, Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Champaign, Lansing, Grand Rapids, Columbus, Philadelphia, Boston

Track Listing One • These • France • Godzilla • Three • Chair • Spain ASK YOUR NAIL SALES REP FOR A COMPLETE Joyful Noise

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Overview “The metal equivalents of Matthew Shipp and William Parker...beneath the layers of difficulty, the duo fucking rock.” – Splendid The self-titled album from acclaimed midwestern “noise rock” duo Melk the G6-49 was recorded in seven hours – and all songs are first takes, with no overdubbing. All the traditional melodies and musical conventions have been stripped away, leaving the bare bones of an epic hard-rock opus. It’s relentless, loud, mathy and symphonic – all without being rigidly structured. Melk the G6-49 can’t properly be considered a “noise” band, because this is not shapeless distortion. Beneath the pirouetting curlicues of feedback and the convulsive pulse of the drums, there is geometry and a message. If you could run an MRI on this album, it would look like a brain in the grips of a religious seizure.The most common side effects include headache, rapture, salvation, arrhythmic heartbeat, and total brain death.

Selling Points • Melk the G6-49 received substantial critical acclaim for this album and 2004’s follow-up Glossolalia, featured on NPR as one of the Best Albums of 2004

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Indianapolis (Hometown). Also: Bloomington, Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Lansing, Grand Rapids, Columbus, Cincinnati, Albany, Milwaukee, Los Angeles, San Francisco

Overview “A great split that unfortunately only has a 300-copy pressing so if you can get your grimy hands on one do so immediately and without a second thought!” – Smother

Melk the G6-49/ Manners for Husbands Split

This split 7” is kind of like sexual intercourse: equal opposite components, but somehow everything fits together quite well.The track from Manners for Husbands is mathy, indie, fairly straightforward and groovy; kind of like the texts of medieval alchemists. However, the Melk the G6-49 side is somewhat more complex. Drop the needle down in one spot and the record will play “Henry,” which sounds like postapocalyptic blues-funk. Drop the needle down in another place and it will play “Tekel,” which sounds more like the collapse of a biblical city.This is what people in the industry call “the double-groove method.”

Selling Points • Manners for Husbands is the best-kept secret in indie rock.The group expertly delivers the best in mathy indie rock that any fan of technical, honest music will love

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Overview “More of a soundtrack to nightmares than a cozy electronic ambient piece, Cycles and Connections fire off synapses and tantalize optic nerves with acid jarring noise manipulations…‘music for intellectuals’ would sound confining, but it just might fit here.” – Smother If you enter one hypnagogic state of bodiless illumination this year it should be Receptor Sight’s new album Cycles and Connections! This would be a good soundtrack to a neuroscience textbook, any movie made in Japan, or an isolated sequence of hallucinations that occur spontaneously while you’re walking alone after midnight on 22nd Street.The album accomplishes its objective perfectly, taking the listener to a place beyond the normal perception of reality. Synchronicity is the theme here; the energy that permeates the universe will flow from your speakers.

Selling Points • Featured on several movie soundtracks and contributed a central track on the upcoming compilation Strata: A Young Person’s Guide to Experimental Music (Sounds Are Active/ Joyful Noise)

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Key Markets Mt. Shasta, CA (Hometown). Also: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Indianapolis

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Overview “Blame it on Kyuss or Black Sabbath…but there is currently an abundance of bands favoring music that’s short on chord changes and long on oppressively heavy, fuzzed-out riffs. Swedish quartet Dozer easily fits into this skuzzy grouping, pummeling listeners with grinding guitars that sound meaner than an ill-tempered Mack truck…another stoner-rock highlight.” – CMJ

Dozer The Framed Countless Ways Through the Eyesof ofSelfHeathens Destruction File Under: Alt Rock File Punk CD:Under: SSO 61 (O)

Its time to crack open a fresh bottle of vodka and tip one back to Sweden’s most under-appreciated export! Better make this one a double, because there’s plenty to celebrate. First, it’s Dozer’s anniversary: ten years of touring shitty bars, playing for devoted rock worshipers, and making the most melodic & bone-crushing rock Europe has ever seen. And, if a band making it for ten years in relative obscurity isn’t reason enough for a celebration, then we’ve got another one: Dozer are ready to offer the world their fourth full-length, Through the Eyes of Heathens.This release begins a new chapter in the life of the band. A world tour is in the works, and as anyone who has ever seen Dozer live can tell you, this is a group that always gives 110%.With more than 300 live shows under their belts – including countless support slots for bands like Mastodon, Rollins Band, Hellacopters, Clutch and Unida – the men of Dozer have proven one fact over and over: they are not to be missed.

CD: RCL 17 (O)

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• First domestic release since 2000! • Dozer will tour the U.S. and Europe in support of this release, including an appearance at SXSW 2006 as part of the Small Stone Label Showcase Overview • Service to press and bring college radio via SmallairStone The Framed, hailing from Minneapolis, a breath of fresh to fashion-minded punk.The boys in The Framed are • Ads will run in AP, Magnet, Lollipop, Rock Rockpile, Caustic Takeover, here to play music, not discuss hairstyling tips.To that end,Sound, they have focused on Truths, writingCleveland songs forScene, theirBig debut album Exclaim, Motel, Gearhead and regional weeklies on Reality Clash. 11 original, catchy tunes written to evoke the ghosts of past punk à la Generation X, early Social Distortion and the Swingin’ Utters will certainly have you listening to this album over and over. Drawing several Markets hundred kids perKey show,The Framed show no signs of letting up.This is not a band to be taken lightly. New York, Boston, Philadelphia,Washington DC, Austin, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, Portland

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Track Listing • Have been compared to Generation X, Social Distortion and Swingin’ Utters Drawing Dead •running From Fire Fell • Born a Legend • Until Man Exists No More • Days of Future Past • • #1 song on Radio K (Minneapolis) for two weeks Omega Glory Blood Juliette UndoneLewis • The&Roof,The • Big Sky Theory • Have shared stages with Street Dogs, Lower Class• Brats, The Licks,River,The Revolver • Man of Fire Soviettes and more • Print promotion via postcards, posters and flyers • College radio service • Ads will run in Razorcake, Amp and Pulse NAIL WELCOMES THE Also: BASELINE MUSIC ROSTER • KEY MARKETS: Minneapolis (Hometown). Los Angeles, San Diego, New York,COMPANY TO ITS Chicago, Boston and St. Louis After seeing firsthand how major labels treat smaller bands, Baseline Music Company decided to create an independent label that would work for bands instead of treating them as a tax write-off. With upcoming releases including Track Listing Stray Cats tribute album Go Cat Go, Baseline is primed to take over the world! Disposition of Desperation • Airwaves • The Way It Is • Run Away • Whiskey Bottles • From the Ashes of the Underground • Rock’n’Roll Rip-Off • Sun Never Sets • The Last Kiss • Bleed Us Dry • Battle Songs • Vengeance Overview

A punk rock tribute to Sublime featuring Grammy-winning band Ozomatli and top punk acts No Use for a Name, Guttermouth & Voodoo Glow Skulls along with some of punk’s favorite underground bands – O.C. all-star ska group The Forces of Evil (featuring Aaron Barrett of Reel Big Fish and members of Jeffries Fan Club), old-school faves The Skeletones, and up & comers Up Syndrome and If All Else Fails.

Selling Points • Includes the song “Forever Free,” originally a poem written by Bradley Nowell’s cousin and put to music here for the first time • All-new covers of Sublime songs!

Key Markets Los Angeles (Hometown). Also: San Francisco, Sacramento, San Diego, Anaheim, Chico, Seattle, Denver, Las Vegas, Austin, New York

Various Artists Forever Free: A Sublime Tribute Album

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No Use For a Name – Badfish • Never Heard of It – Same in the End • Voodoo Glow Skulls – Caress Me Down • Up Syndrome – Doin’ Time • Guttermouth – April 29 1992 • If All Else Fails – Wrong Way • The Toast – Pawn Shop • Ozomatli – Ebin • The Forces of Evil – Ball & Chain • The Skeletones – Seed • Ballyhoo! – 40 Oz. to Freedom • The Line – Pool Shark • 1208 – Boss DJ • If All Else Fails – Forever Free

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Overview “46 Short basically deliver a return to early ‘80s So Cal hardcore in the vein of Circle Jerks, T.S.O.L., and The Adolescents.The best thing is…they deliver a much tighter performance than most of those bands!” – Now Wave TKO Records is proud to bring you the latest full-length CD from Long Beach’s 46 Short! For years, this band has been hammering out their faithful, straight-ahead style of classic hardcore punk in the vein of Circle Jerks, Black Flag and early Poison Idea.With a circle-pit-inducing sound straight out of ‘82 and politically/socially conscious lyrics with their sights set on today’s issues, Truth Denied is destined to be a modern punk classic.

Selling Points • Features ex-members of Final Conflict • Full press and college radio service • Ads will run in AMP, Skratch, Under the Volcano, Big Takeover, Left of the Dial,Thrasher, Razorcake, Lollipop,Varla, Caustic Truths, Loud Fast Rules, Punk Planet, Carbon 14, Fat City and more

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Overview “Nick Palatucci banged his acoustic and shouted out rambling tunes about dead mailmen as though he were an angry dad and there was a kitchen table bearing an undercooked meatloaf between him and the crowd. Fun stuff.” – East Bay Express

Readyville Readyville S/T File Under: Alt Rock/ Americana LP: ANT 511 (I)

Like a stripped down Old 97’s (back when they ruled), a more country Mountain Goats or a less goofy Loudon Wainwright III, Readyville’s songs will rope you in with witty turns of phrase and catchy melodies. Musically, Readyville’s debut consists of a crudely played acoustic guitar and much more proficiently played accompaniments – lap steel, electric guitar, and reed organ are all prominently featured. The lyrics relay bitter vignettes about love lost, love found too late, or love not found at all – all tinged with a mixture of hope and irreverence that keeps it from ending up in your standard “sad bastard with guitar” shit pile. Don’t tell us country isn’t hip anymore – this shit is timeless!

Selling Points • Debut album from San Francisco duo • Extensive touring in Spring 2006

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Overview “Pardon the embarrassingly corny shorthand, but Oakland’s The Cuts (who astonished an unsuspecting crowd at Beerland) come off like the Darkness if they worshipped Steppenwolf instead of Queen – i.e., if they were punk record collector dudes who had no patience for bombastic arena-rock choruses or hooks. Mutton-chop falsetto vocals, twisted stop-start rhythms, concisely squalling guitar solos, whew! It’s beyond me how they’re still one of the lesser-known acts on barely-known garage-punk label Birdman.”– Spin Oakland’s The Cuts blend old-school psychedelic garage with late ‘70s NYC proto-punk and power-pop.The I’m Not Down 7” is the single from their upcoming Birdman release From Here On Out, due in January 2006, with a B-side featuring two non-album cuts!

Selling Points • New album on Birdman Records in January 2006 • First new material from the band in two years! • Birdman Records will handle full press and radio promotion for new album

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The Cuts I’m Not Down b/w I Love You/Your Old Man File Under: Alt Rock 7”: ANT 513 (C) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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