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INSIDE Billy Martin pg 2 • William Parker pg 3 • FCS North pg 4 • Roy pg 8 • Pepe & The Bottle Blondes pg 12 Gamelan Son of Lion pg 14 • Pearls Before Swine pg 21 • Sun Ra pg 21 • David J pg 22 • Major Stars pg 24 Daniel Johnston/Electric Ghosts pg 25 • Piano Magic pg 27 • The Eternals pg 28

Billy Martin illy B Eats Volume 3 File Under: Hip-Hop CD: AME 20 (M) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists Billy Martin – drums

Overview This third volume of breakbeats from Medeski Martin & Wood drummer Billy Martin is the final installment – and funkiest collection – of beats produced by Wu-Tang and Prince Paul producer Scotty Hard.

Billy Martin will continue to invite artists to contribute mixes using beats from this and previous illy B Eats records.The past two volumes resulted in two illy B Eats Remixed CDs (Drop the Needle and Antidote), and artists involved included Miho Hatori (Gorillaz, Cibo Matto, Smokey & Miho), Jennifer Charles (Lovage, Elesian Fields), John Medeski, Chris Wood, DJ Olive, Scotty Hard (Wu-Tang Clan, Cyro Baptista) and Calvin Weston (John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards, James Blood Ulmer).

Intended for DJs, songwriters and fans of Martin’s drumming, this collection will also be included in an upcoming 3XLP box set.

Press Quotes “…An enthralling collection of beautiful noise grooves.” – Village Voice “Comprised of loops, odd-metered rhythms, scratch-turntable fare and intermittent stabs at humor…Martin is a groove merchant.”

– Down Beat “The second M in MMW steps to the front of the live hip-hop game by blazing beats heard round the world. illy B has enough to feed the world; come take a taste of the best soulfood a DJ can find – fresh cooked beats...not like your momma makes.” – DJ Logic “Check the vibe – live drums meet the breakbeat era – you definitely wanna check in with two copies of this joint…illy B flips drum rolls, snare fills, all that ill shit that make breaks so dope. I repeat: two copies.” – DJ Spooky

Selling Points • Medeski Martin & Wood fans need this bad!

• DJs and wannabes will be hyping up dance floors, studios and basements across North America • The illy B Eats Remix “Contest” has always interested press and website blogs • Truly the most accessible and super-funky installment in the series • Radio service; notice to MMW mailing lists • Plans to podcast an interview with Billy Martin, Scotty Hard and more

Key Markets Hometown: New York. Also: Buffalo, Birmingham, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Ann Arbor, Detroit, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Atlanta, Nashville, Memphis, Los Angeles, Houston, Austin,Washington DC, Denver, Boulder, San Diego, Seattle,Tacoma, San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Lexington, Burlington,Toronto, Montreal,Vancouver

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illy B Eats Vol.2

Drop the Needle

Antidote

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William Parker Long Hidden:The Olmec Series File Under: Avant Jazz/World CD: AUM 36 (P) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists William Parker – bass, 8-string doson ngoni Todd Nicholson – bass Dave Sewelson – baritone sax, alto sax Omar Payano – congo, güiro, voice Gabriel Nunez – timbale, bongos Luis Ramierez – accordion Isaiah Parker – alto sax

Overview William Parker’s new album, Long Hidden, explores and expands on the ancient DNA/cultural codex that connects Africa to the Americas – reflecting Parker’s long-abiding interest in, and study of, the continental connection between the Manding people of West Africa and the Olmec of ancient Mexico.

The album opens with an arrestingly spacious solo bass performance of the traditional hymn “There is a Balm in Gilead,” one of Parker’s favorites, and continues with music from three different sessions. It also features, fully off the grid, four tracks by The Olmec Group, composed of veteran sax player Dave Sewelson, formidable bass player and Billy Bang collaborator Todd Nicholson, and Omar Payano, Isaiah Parker, Gabriel Nunez and Luis Ramierez – all under 23 years old.These four tracks are the crux of the album – mysterious and entrancing sound poetry embracing the Caribbean and Middle Americas via inspiration drawn from the Great Stone Head of the Olmec.

This first-edition deluxe package features illustrations and design by John FELL Ryan (Excepter) and liner notes by William Parker.

Press Quotes “…Heading to a place where ecstasy supercedes intellect. A fascinating exploration of multiple sound worlds.” – Alternative Press “A common myth says that holy men must speak in tongues.Take a quick tour through the world of William Parker, and you’ll learn that this high priest of free improvisation can rock ‘n’ roll with the best of ‘em…creating sounds, images and ideas that transcend time and place.” – All About Jazz

Selling Points • Unique release from William Parker featuring music that will warm the cockles of your heart in preparation for the next world • Packaged in a deluxe, limited edition six-panel digipak with illustrations and design by John FELL Ryan (Excepter) and liner notes by William Parker • Full service/promotion to national press and web media by AUM Fidelity • Full service/promotion to NPR, college and non-commercial radio by AUM Fidelity • Ads will run in Signal to Noise, Arthur, Point of Departure and more

Key Markets Hometown: New York. Also: Chicago, Austin, Atlanta, Portland, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Boston, Seattle

Track Listing There is a Balm in Gilead • Long Hidden Part Two • Codex • El Puente Seco • Long Hidden Part Three • Cathedral of Light • Compassion Seizes Bed-Stuy • Pok-A-Tok • Espirito • Long Hidden Part One • In Case of Accident

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William Parker Quartet

William Parker Quartet

Sound Unity

O’Neal’s Porch

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FCS North Say Go File Under: Electronic CD: ITR 36 (N) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists Joshua Warren – bass, vocals, keyboards Andy Sells – drums, percussion, guitar Mune Yamakawa – Akai MPC,Yamakawa synth, turntables

Overview 10 tracks that blend old FCS with new FCS! With live energy, Japanese hip-hop & more vocals, Say Go was produced with the dance floor in mind.This direct follow-up to the 2004 FCSSA EP continues FCS North’s energetic style of inspired drumming, rolling low bass, funky italo guitars & clipped synths. Say Go might come as a surprise to longtime FCS North fans.There are vocals, the kick drum will ruin your speakers, and the keyboards, no longer ambient, might threaten your stereo. But whether you’re breaking a sweat or listening with headphones, the rhythm, groove and epic songs are all still here, and the band’s use of cut-up playing and samples continues to push forward.

Andy Sells and Joshua Warren started FCS North in 1997. Mune Yamakawa moved to Seattle from Tokyo and has been playing/producing with Sells and Warren since 2001. Members of FCS North have spent time in Satisfact and United Schach Corporation, and DJ’d as AMS + Mugfrosty and FSCS.The group has toured and shared stages with DJ Krush, !!!, Modest Mouse, Garage a Trois, Ztrip and Kid Koala.

Press Quotes “Seattle’s FCS North continue to blur the lines between highbrow rock and hedonistic dance music.” – The Stranger “With their eponymous debut and its aquatic overtones afloat between Weather Report, To Rococo Rot and LTJ Bukem, Pacific Northwest post-rockers FCS North prove themselves fluid.” – XLR8R

Selling Points • The third full CD from FCS North – and the first to feature full vocals!

• Several club/DJ orientated 12” singles are planned for 2006.The first is a Japanese-only 12” of ALYNYLA with remixes featuring guest MC DJ Collage (Ghislain Poirier, Meat Beat Manifesto).The second is Arc, featuring a remix by Berlin club favorite Ruede Hagelstein (Freundinnen) • Produced and recorded by FCS North, whose recent work includes dance remixes for the upcoming LP from A Gun Called Tension (Dan Galucci of Modest Mouse) • Members of FCS North are featured on the new Riow Arai + Nongenetic LP • Reviews/features have run in XLR8R, CMJ, URB, New York Times and The Stranger • Full press campaign to print, radio and web • Ads will run in The Stranger and Portland Mercury

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

Track Listing Hello • Arc • Dbeat • vers_us • Fifteen Minutes Fast • Yuu Gou • ALYNYLA • 19 Ninety Seven • Captain Banana • Lines White Also Available

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Adam Arcuragi Adam Arcuragi File Under: Alt Rock CD: HGH 6 (P) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists Adam Arcuragi, vocals, guitar/Charlie Hall, drums, keyboards,Wurlitzer, backing vocals/Mike Kennedy, guitar, percussion/Janet Kim, guitar, backing vocals/Rick Flom, bass, backing vocals/Eve Miller, cello/Peter Wonsowski, singing saw/Rob Spiece, guitar/Warren Snyder, organ /Michael Spinka, vibraphone/Ryan McLaughlin, guitar, lap steel/Derek Zglenski, bass

Overview In an era where it has become popular for singers to take cover behind band name aliases (Palace, Songs:Ohia, Iron & Wine, Bright Eyes), it has become more of a statement when a songwriter sets out with his real name. For Adam Arcuragi, hiding behind an alias would belie the nature of his songs – highly epic and simultaneously sensitive, intense and subtle. Arcuragi’s debut full-length is an introduction to a bright new lyricist who combines the icy melancholy of Red House Painters, the classic Americanism of Tom Petty, the sincerity of Elliott Smith and literature references typical of the Mountain Goats. His unique form of free-flowing introspective lyrics and compelling harmonies are certain to make fans of those who like My Morning Jacket, The Shins and The New Pornographers.

Recorded in fits and starts over the past three years, Adam Arcuragi features contributions from members of Audible, Mazarin, Bitter Bitter Weeks, National Eye, Matt Pond PA, The Rachel’s, The Trouble with Sweeney and Ink & Dagger. A demo version of “The Song the Sinner Sings” was featured on the Urban Outfitters/Filter tsunami relief compilation alongside rare tracks from Interpol, Death Cab for Cutie, Franz Ferdinand and more.

Press Quotes “As [Arcuragi’s] music reminded me of Hayden and Nick Drake upon the first few listens, it hit me that there was another aspect I was missing. Adam takes the songwriting formula of other folk mainstays, but layered underneath are haunting melodies and noises.”

– IndieWorkshop.com “[Goes] nuts with references to bones, Jesus and grass. Not for those with an aversion to the mellow.” – Philebrity

Selling Points • Featured on Urban Outfitters/Filter compilation alongside Interpol, Death Cab for Cutie, Franz Ferdinand and more • Backing band features members of Audible, Mazarin, Bitter Bitter Weeks, National Eye, Matt Pond PA, The Rachel’s, The Trouble with Sweeney and Ink & Dagger • Previous split EP with Audible (Father Records) now out of print • Full national/tour press by Pitch Perfect PR (Silver Jews, Iron & Wine/Calexico) • Full college radio service and web promotion by High Two • Ads will run in Magnet, Copper Press, Harp, No Depression, DIW, Pitchforkmedia and Insound

Key Markets Hometown: Philadelphia. Also: New York, Chicago, Atlanta, Boston,Washington DC, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Madison, Athens, Los Angeles

Track Listing All the Bells • 1981 • Delicate • Little Yellow Boat • The Song the Sinner Sings • RSMPA • Part of the Sky • Broken Throat • ‘The Dog is Dead, Amen’ • The Screen • The Christmas Song

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Leaving Rouge Elsewhere File Under: Alt Rock CD: GDP 21 (O) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists Sean Madigan Hoen – vocals, guitar Nick Marco – drums Sean Bondareff – bass Mark Victor – guitar

Overview After releasing the White Houses EP in 2004, Leaving Rouge locked themselves inside a Detroit warehouse for over a year to write and compose.The result is Elsewhere, the band’s third release and first fully realized album. Elsewhere sees Leaving Rouge focusing more on songs and less on the atmospherics and textures that marked their first releases, resulting in a rich, well-crafted piece of Midwestern damage (à la The Replacements or Red House Painters) with nods to indie rock’s roots (The Smiths, REM) while retaining the band’s hard-earned sound and naked lyricism.

Press Quotes “Caught somewhere between the frustration and anguish of Pearl Jam and the inconsolable heartbreak of Nick Drake, White Houses is, in fact, a memorable affair; a fleeting yet poignant encounter that, given the chance...promises not to leave you unmoved.” – Amplifier “Leaving Rouge adeptly twist atmospheric melodies and distorted guitars into a cocoon full of Hoen’s richly descriptive vocals. Sonically, they rise, fall, twist, contort, spiral and contract with breathtakingly perfect symmetry.” – Ink 19 “With its wafting melodies and patient hooks, White Houses is light, genial and entrancing enough to demand ears of all ages – it’ll win with emo twentysomethings as well as their mid-management parents.” – Real Detroit Weekly

Selling Points • Second full-length following the success of 2004’s White Houses EP • Upcoming tours of Midwest & Northeast; full U.S. tour planned for late 2006 • Have shared the stage with Avril Lavigne, Karate, Dave Dondero and more • Acclaimed tracks appear on Deep Elm’s This is Indie Rock (2005) and Greyday’s 20 Nights (2005) • Initial 2000 pressed will include special web release promotion • Full CMJ, AAA and specialty commercial radio campaign by SPECTRE • 500+ piece press campaign • Ads will run in Magnet, Amplifier, CMJ NMM, Make, New Reform and more

Key Markets Hometown: Detroit. Also: Portland, Ann Arbor, Chicago, Omaha, Iowa City, Cleveland, Kansas City, Lawrence, Minneapolis

Track Listing Skeleton Girls • In the Ceiling • Elsewhere • Arrow • Baby I’m Haunted • Chain Letters • Airports • Sleep Now Forever • Words Aflame • Angels of the Rouge

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Casey Dienel Wind-Up Canary File Under: Alt Rock CD: HSH 57 (N) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists Casey Dienel – piano, vocals Peter Bitenc – bass Ben MacDonald – guitar Christopher MacDonald – percussion Juliet Nelson – cello Mike McDuck Olson – pocket trumpet, mellow-horn Ethan Philbrick – cello Rachel Price – vocals, amusing quips Djim Reynolds – banjo Michael Winograd – clarinet, saxophone

Overview Even those who think they’ve heard it all haven’t heard anything like Casey Dienel. Wind-Up Canary is literally her first-ever recording, and it finds her matching prodigious musical talent with a lyrical point-of-view that’s wild, odd and sharp as brass tacks. A thousand quirky songwriters couldn’t imitate her style if they tried.

Wind-Up Canary is the result of an invitation to record for free at an abandoned caretaker’s house on a farm in Massachusetts.With some friends and a piano borrowed from the lobby of a local hotel, these songs were recorded in the dead of winter 2004. Dienel finished the songs and put them away, figuring that was that. It wasn’t until a friend of a friend sent a copy to HUSH that any plans were made to release Canary to the world at large!

Press Quotes “[For] arresting young singer/pianist Casey Dienel…comparisons with the Dresden Dolls are inevitable, but she’ll get over them. Note to local college DJs: will make pleasant segue into Jolie Holland, CocoRosie or Joanna Newsom.” – Boston Phoenix “With her witty sincerity, Casey Dienel writes songs that meander into their own form…while she has the gentle nuances that make Joanna Newsom immediately distinctive, she sings with a power that’s at least equally reminiscent of Olivia Newton John.” – Performer Magazine

Selling Points • Coverage is already confirmed for NPR’s All Songs Considered, Jane (photo spread), CMJ (feature), Amplified, Giant and Boston Phoenix • Touring throughout 2006 • Casey Dienel was featured on the cover of Performer Magazine in late 2005 • Publicity by 230 Publicity (The Decemberists, Fiery Furnaces) • College radio service by AAM • Service to a list of over 50 webzines and blogs • Ads will run in Magnet, Resonance,Venus, Under the Radar, Pitchforkmedia, Skyscraper, Rockpile, Big Takeover and more

Key Markets Hometown: Boston/New York. Also: Portland, Seattle, Amherst, Providence,Washington DC, Athens, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Charlottesville, Nashville, Chapel Hill, Ann Arbor, Indianapolis, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Denver, Dallas, Austin, Houston

Track Listing Doctor Monroe • Everything • Baby James • Cabin Fever • Frankie and Annette • The Coffee Beanery • Embroidery • Old Man • Stationary • Tundra • All Or Nothing • The La La Song

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Featured Artists Brian Cook – guitar, vocals Ben Verellen – guitar, vocals Dave Verellen – drums Mike Cooper – bass, vocals

Overview Overview The Framed, from Minneapolis, breath of freshBig airCity to fashion-minded boys inthe Themelodies, Framed are here to play Killed John Trainhailing is a significant leap from bring Roy’sa last full-length Sin (Fueled Bypunk.The Ramen).While smart lyrics and music, genrenot discuss hairstyling tips.To that end, they have focused on writing songs for their debut album on Reality Clash.

11 original, catchy tunes hopping of their previous work are still present, Roy has pushed ahead into new territories. Favoring fucked-up chords, sparse drumming written to evoke the ghosts of past punk à la Generation X, early Social Distortion and the Swingin’ Utters will certainly have you listening and ‘60s and ‘70s artists for inspiration while quietly sowing seeds instead of crashing out of the gates, Roy has taken a new approach to 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 their band. lightly.

Press Quotes Selling Points “Roy toes the introspective indie-rock/alt-country line without tripping over it.” – The Stranger

• Have been compared to Generation X, Social Distortion and Swingin’ Utters • #1 songknow on Radio K (Minneapolis) for Roy two weeks running “If I didn’t better and you told me was made up of members from such hardcore outfits as Botch and Harkonen, I’d say you • Have shared stages with Street Dogs, Lower Class Brats, Juliettegears Lewis The Licks, and piping out an album of country-tinged Soviettes and more were full of shit.Who ever heard of metalcore maniacs switching so&dramatically, indie • Print promotion via postcards, posters and flyers rock tunes? It sounds far-fetched, but somehow Roy’s members have come up with some truly moving and beautiful tunes; add a dash of • College radiopop service twang-touched and college-rock guitar flair and suddenly we’re talking incredible electrified magic. “ – Splendid • Ads will run in Razorcake, Amp and Pulse • KEY MARKETS: Minneapolis (Hometown).

Also: Los Angeles, Santhat Diego, New York,want to see how it comes out in the Chicago, andit “It’s fresh, it’s new, and though you’ve been here before, you know you’re gonna end. IfBoston anything, St. Louis is certainly evidence that these Roy boys have come up with a band that deserves to be much more than a side project.”

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Track Listing Disposition of Desperation • Airwaves • The Way It Is • Run Away • Whiskey Bottles • From the Ashes of the Underground • Rock’n’Roll Selling Points • Sun Never SetsCook • The(ex-Botch,These Last Kiss • Bleed Us Dry Are • Battle Songs Dave • Vengeance • Rip-Off Roy consists of Brian Arms Snakes), Verellen (ex-Botch), and Ben Verellen (ex-Harkonen, These Arms Are Snakes) • Roy has released records on Initial and Fueled By Ramen • Roy has been praised everywhere from Buddyhead to Alternative Press • Roy has toured with The Weakerthans, Black Cross,These Arms Are Snakes, Rocky Votolato and more • Riot Act Media has been hired for a full press campaign • Radio promotion by Tricycle PR • Featured MP3s on MySpace, Pure Volume, Insound and Pitchforkmedia • Ads will run in Vice,Wonkavision, Modern Fix, Amplifier, Copper Press, Skyscraper, Big Takeover, Status Hyperactive, Skratch, Punk Planet, Under the Volcano, Heart Attack, Insound, Pitchforkmedia, Decapolis, Adapt and more

Key Markets Hometown: Seattle. Also: Portland, Los Angeles,Tacoma, Olympia,Washington DC, New York, Chicago

Track Listing Reno I’m Coming Home • So Alive • The Last Climb Up Indian Hill (For Leon) • In My Defense • Jesus Drives a Trans Am • The Middle Son • The Redcoats are Coming • Fresh Lies from the Patron Saint of Liars • Hotel Congress • Neurotic Dive Bar Pirate • Fucked and Forlorn • Mob Riot Everybody’s a Winner

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The Gena Rowlands Band & Anti-Social Music The Nitrate Hymnal File Under: Alt Rock CD: LUJ 38 (I) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists Caleb Burhans, violin/Hai-Ting Chinn, voice/Paula Cho, viola/Paul Chuffo, percussion/Ty Citerman, guitar/Jean Cook, violin, viola/Leanne Darling, viola/David Durst, piano, keyboards/Andrea La Rose, flute/Bob Massey, vocals, guitar, sounds/Pat Muchmore, cello/Susan Oetgen, vocals/Eric Rockwin, bass/Philippa Thompson, violin/Ken Thomson, clarinet/Alex Weinstein, guitar/Andy Zipf, vocals

Overview The Gena Rowlands Band follows their Lujo debut Le Merde et Les Etoiles with a joint recording with Anti-Social Music called The Nitrate Hymnal, taken from the hit indie opera of the same name. Anti-Social Music is a collective of musicians and composers from New York that includes members of the Hold Steady (French Kiss), Ida (Polyvinyl), Gutbucket (Cantaloupe) and World/Inferno Friendship Society (Gern Blandsten).The two bands met three years ago during the creation of the original production of a multimedia opera by Bob Massey and David Wilson.The opera, inspired by 50 years of home movies given to Massey by his grandfather, told the fictional story of a couple who obsessively filmed their own lives. For this recording, the score was cut into songs and reorchestrated, then recorded in three days powered by passion and caffeine.

Press Quotes “The music could qualify as chamber pop if it had any pretense of wanting to be pop – instead the violas, vibes, clarinets and cellos drift along behind Massey’s wine-stained baritone, forming a sort of stream-of-consciousness backdrop that drifts in and out of dissonance, occasionally dissolving to a minimalist wisp.” – Pitchforkmedia “Tragic, hilarious, brilliant writing.” – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “Beautifully dissonant; unsettling and enrapturing in equal measures…succeeds on pretty much every level.” – Splendid

Selling Points • The original Nitrate Hymnal production brought together a hybrid orchestra of classical and post-punk musicians including members of Circus Lupus (Dischord), Out_Circuit (Lujo) and Crownhate Ruin (Dischord) • ASM members also participate in Gutbucket,The Hold Steady, Ida, Songs:Ohia, New York City Opera and much more • Gena Rowlands Band members have played with Fugazi, Mary Timony, Ida and Tsunami; they have toured with Enon, Dismemberment Plan and Andrew Bird • ASM recently started a commissioning program in which they will collaborate with avant hip-hoppers Dalek, experimental rocker Warn Defever and more • Press campaign by Team Clermont; radio promotion by Tricycle PR • Featured MP3s on MySpace, Pure Volume, Insound and Pitchforkmedia • Ads will run in Vice, Modern Fix, Amplifier, Copper Press, Skyscraper, Big Takeover, Skratch, Punk Planet, Pitchforkmedia and more

Key Markets Hometown:Washington DC. Also: New York, Baltimore, Richmond, Los Angeles, Seattle

Track Listing The End • I Had a Dream • The Mountain is Gone • Pictures from Her Perfect Life • Dear Posterity • Dreams • Bloodsong • The Body Wants More Than Skin • Secrets • Finale Also Available

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Karl Larsson The Framed Countless Ways of SelfPale as Milk Destruction File Under: Alt Rock

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Featured Artists Karl Larsson – vocals, guitars, bass Carl Wikman – drums

Overview Overview

The Framed, hailing from Minneapolis, bring a breath of fresh air to fashion-minded punk.The boys in The Framed are here to play music, After several international releases and constant touring with his band Last Days of April, Karl Larsson wanted to try a different not discuss hairstyling tips.To that end, they have focused on writing songs for their debut album on Reality Clash. 11 original, catchy tunes approach for his solo album by scaling down the production and not worrying too much about the timing or the expectations that written to evoke the ghosts of past punk à la Generation X, early Social Distortion and the Swingin’ Utters will certainly have you listening automatically accompany each new LDOA release. During 2004, LDOA played over 150 shows worldwide and as the bandleader and main 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 songwriter, Larsson had to take on the responsibilities of band spokesperson and organizer. In counterpoint to this, Pale as Milk is a very lightly. different project, sprung solely out of personal preferences and desires.

Selling Points Press Quotes

• Have been compared to Generation X, Social Distortion and Swingin’ Utters “It’s just a nice little collection of nice songs from a nice Swedish boy named Karl.That’s nice.” – IndieWorkshop.com • #1 song on Radio K (Minneapolis) for two weeks running • Have shared stages with Street Dogs, Lower Class Brats, Juliette Lewis & The Licks, Soviettes and more “Larsson is an amazing songwriter.” – The Dance of Days • Print promotion via postcards, posters and flyers • College radio service “Last Days of April avoids the pitfalls of mediocrity through brilliant songwriting, sharp production, and the incorporation of numerous • Ads will run in Razorcake, Amp and Pulse string instruments to give their sound a unique, spiritual quality. It’s very rare when an isolated band can break new ground and become • KEY MARKETS: Minneapolis (Hometown). Also: Los Angeles, San Diego, New York, Chicago, Boston and leaders in a movement whose major bands are thousands of miles away. Catchy and inventive.” – Skratch St. Louis “Pleasant, slow emo that should please fans of The Promise Ring…[and] pretty punk for a release with a glockenspiel.” – Punk Planet

Track Listing

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 • Recorded by Karl Larsson; mixed & produced by Grammy award winner Pelle Gunnerfeldt (who produced and mixed both Hives albums) • Karl Larsson’s band Last Days of April’s previous albums have been licensed to both Deep Elm and Crank! Records • LDOA has toured extensively with Promise Ring, Chris Cornell (Soundgarden), Sense Field, Superjesus and more • Full press mailing • Mailing to key radio • Ads will run in Modern Fix,Vice and more

Selling Points

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

Track Listing (I Wanna Know) All You Know • Off The Cliff • Is It Cold In Here? • The Stalker • Devil’s Strings • Found Half, Lost All • Lion’s Escape • Wind In Tree • Do You Know My Name?

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If You Lose It

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All Systems Go! Mon Chi Chi File Under: Alt Rock CD: BTR 62 (M) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists John Kastner – vocals, guitar Mark Arnold – guitar Dean Bentley – drums Tom D’Arcy – bass, vocals

Overview All Systems Go! are back with a new album so beautiful and mighty that it could only be named Mon Chi Chi. But why the long, lonely wait? After all, it’s been more than three years since 1999’s self-titled debut.Well kids, the story is…

After original bassist and contributing songwriter Frank Daly left the band (due to a hatred of touring), the remaining three members vowed they would not record until they found their missing link.To this end, they played with many different, talented men, but somehow it was never quite right. And then, one day, there was Tom D’Arcy, a young man who could play bass like an old pro, sing with the best of them, and write pop hits as well!

Mon Chi Chi was recorded at famed stoner chateau Donner & Blitzen by Daniel Ray (Ramones, Misfits, Entombed) in two weeks and captures a band at the peak of their powers doing what they love.

Press Quotes “Accomplished, eclectic and packed with wonderful songs, this is the old dogs teaching the pups how to do the tricks RIGHT.” – Kerrang “All Systems Go are on full-throttle, delivering blistering rock anthems... Mon Chi Chi is a valuable lesson in how to write good stimulating rock songs without the burden of a genre boundary.” – Drowned in Sound “For any fan of the Descendents or Big Drill Car school of punk rock. I wish there were more bands like this.” – Punk Rock Parents “With all the slutty chick singers, boy bands, ‘70s garage rock bands and Blink 182 wannabes that are being thrown at you, this album is a refreshing diversion.” – PunkBands.com

Selling Points • Guest musicians include Melissa Auf Der Mar (Hole/Smashing Pumpkins), Jonathan Cummins (Doughboys/Bionic), Greg Dulli (Afghan Whigs), Leonard Phillips (The Dickies) and Pete Stahl (Scream) • The first single, “Fascination Unknown,” features a remix by Alex Lifeson from Rush • Recorded at Donner & Blitzen Studios; produced by Daniel Ray (Ramones, Misfits, Entombed) • Mixed by Dave Ogilvie at The Warehouse • All Systems Go! features Mark Arnold from Big Drill Car and John Kastner from The Doughboys • Have played the North American Warped Tour and shared stages with Pearl Jam, Swervedriver, Lagwagon, Bouncing Souls and the Lemonheads • Full press mailing • Mailing to key radio • Ads will run in Modern Fix,Vice and more

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

Track Listing Taking Up Space • All These Things • Fascination Unknown • Roll Your Eyes • Running Blind • Motorbikes • Tell Vicki • Robots • Normal Doesn’t Live Here Anymore • Record Of Hate • Sweet Revenge • Megan’s Law

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Featured Artists Pepe Raphael, vocals/Nadine Stanton, vocals/Jessica Hollyfield, vocals/ Sid Bos, piano/Justin Durrie, bass/Ken Ollis, drums/Lewis Livermore, trumpet/Scott Hall, saxophone/Lars Campbell, trombone/Reinhardt Meltz, percussion/Toby Kelly, percussion/Mehdi Farjami, flamenco guitar/David Franzen, flamenco guitar/Sean Norton, electric guitar/ Skip vonKuske, cello

Overview Pepe & The Bottle Blondes was created in February 1997 to bring back the “Copacabana”-style dinner theater enhanced with the percussion and beat of Latin rhythms. An eclectic ensemble of saxophones, congas, percussion, trumpets and three-part harmonies combine talent and visually arresting performances that echo the indulgence of the 1950s nightclub chic.

Pepe Raphael’s piquant pulsations have taken him from Madrid (where he was born) to New York to Portland (where he now lives).

Raphael has performed leading roles with Music Theatre of Oregon, the Musical Theatre Company and the Portland Opera. He successfully blends dance, opera and musical theatre with his original songwriting and comedic wit to deliver a fresh and innovative performance.

Nouveau Latin and swing with a humorous twist, Pambrosia is beautifully produced and totally made for dancing. In a time when music is trying to define life, Pepe & The Bottle Blondes want you to get up and shake your booty with songs sung in a variety of languages including French, Spanish, Russian, Caló (Gypsy Spanish) and English.

Press Quotes “Five years have passed since Pepe & The Bottle Blondes issued their last album, Latenight Betty.That’s enough time to forget how Pepe, the flamboyant, cheeky crooner, used his voice to express a driving urgency, one that can get your hips to rotate and your libido to levitate.

Now the Madrid native and his band have returned to turn up the heat, releasing a new recording that evokes a Latin-influenced robustness, nutty flavors and a hint of melodrama.” – Willamette Week “If you’ve never seen Pepe & The Bottle Blondes, then you are missing one of the truly best live acts in all of Oregon.This twelve-piece Latin/swing band will have you swaying to their repertoire of tangos, boleros, rumbas, sambas, salsa and many other exciting dance forms.”

– Best of Oregon Music Festival

Selling Points • Sexy, eclectic and very danceable!

• Pre-CD release show on OPB’S Live Wire December 14 at the Aladdin Theatre • Write up in the Oregonian’s A&E section December 16 • Ads will run in the Portland Mercury

Key Markets Hometown: Portland. Also: Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Minneapolis, New York, Boston,Washington DC, Miami

Track Listing Outta This World • Desmayarse • Bonito y Sabroso • On & On • Ajo y Sal • Youkali • Donde Estabas Tu • Russian Love • El Paso De Encarnacion • Sere Serenito • Unnamed Remix Also Available

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Featured Artists Zexie Manatsa – bass, vocals Stanley Manatsa – lead guitar Givas Bernard – rhythm guitar Fulton Chikwati – rhythm guitar Raphael Mboweni – drums

Overview The Green Arrows, led by the immortal Zexie Manatsa, dominated the Zimbabwean music scene in the 1970s.This extraordinarily progressive group took the country by storm, fusing the different rhythms of the region into one unique and ebullient sound. The Green Arrows, “discovered” by celebrated South African producer West Nkosi, were the first Zimbabwean band to record an LP, which was released in February 1976.The band was so popular in the ‘70s that when Zexie Manatsa got married, a crowd of about 60,000 thronged Rufaro Stadium, and some of the performers at his wedding included Oliver Mtukudzi and Thomas Mapfumo.This exciting compilation presents 20 critical tracks that the Green Arrows recorded from 1974-1979, all painstakingly remastered. The song “Musango Mune Hangaiwa” still holds the record for the longest stay at #1 in Zimbabwean music history!

Includes a carefully prepared 24-page booklet absolutely overflowing with a complete history of the band (edited by renowned critic Banning Eyre), a full detailed discography, and numerous extremely rare photographs and artifacts.

Selling Points • A milestone in Zimbabwean music history!

• The Green Arrows were the first Zimbabwean band to record an LP, released in February 1976 • After a long absence from performance, the band reunited on stage on the last day of the Harare International Festival of the Arts (HIFA) on May 1, 2005

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

Track Listing Mwana Waenda • Bambo Makwatila • Chitima Nditakure • Amai Mandida • Towering Inferno • Nkosi’s Intro • Chipo Chiroorwa • Doro Renyu Rinonaka • No Delay • Nhengure • Infalilibe Chisoni • Madzangara Dzimu • Nherera Zvichengete • Musango Mune Hangaiwa • Nyoka Yendara • Hurungwe • Chechule Wavala Botom • Chimamuna Chamimba • Vaparidzi Vawanda • Wasara Wasara

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Overview “…Continues to draw inspiration from a mythic American heartland, mining the rich vein of iconography inscribed by countless dime store novels and Saturday matinees…the sound of this imaginary landscape is the classic accompaniment of pedal steel, Mariachi brass and lonesome percussion.The idea of an ersatz soundtrack is well-worn, yet the musicianship here is so accomplished and the atmosphere so vividly rendered that any clichés are avoided.” – PBS.org

Fazzini Sulphur, Glue the Star

Locust is pleased to welcome West Yorkshire artist Fazzini aboard their growing roster of new outre rock & inward psych folk artists. Sulphur, Glue the Star is Fazzini’s debut (following long-running stints as 1/3 of the acclaimed trio A Small Good Thing) and it’s an enchanted song cycle detailing a rich interior world of homegrown lullabies and attic songs that eerily drift through tales of ghostly encounters, underwater dreamscapes, morbid jealousies and karmic return.To our ears, Sulphur, Glue the Star is at once one of the most elliptical, playfully warm, and brilliantly hopeful records to emerge this year.

File Under: Alt Rock CD: LST 77 (M)

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RIYL: Wicker Man, Lau Nau, Kevin Ayers, Current 93 2006 U.S. tour planned Fazzini was part of the critically acclaimed group A Small Good Thing Reviews anticipated in The Wire, Pitchforkmedia,Time Out New York, Signal to Noise, Neumu, Dusted, Skyscraper and Magnet • Promotional posters & postcards • Full service to college radio & NPR outlets

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

Track Listing Beloved, Lost to Begin With • Wooky • Zone • 03 • Duplex • Dell • 06 • Urge • 08 • Glare

Overview “Wonderfully fragile, childlike recordings: beginner’s mind or luck, backed by a fierce determination not to produce anything remotely resembling traditional Indonesian music.” – The Wire Metal Notes resuscitates a long-lost, decades-old cassette-only release by the great New York collective Gamelan Son of Lion and brings to the fore the incredible metallic drones of a group whose innovative minimal music has rightfully earned them a place among the likes of La Monte Young, Tony Conrad, Steve Reich & Charlemagne Palestine – to name a few. At almost 80 minutes, this collection of eight songs is nothing if not totally spellbinding & hypnotic. Features founding members Barbara Benary (early collab w/ Philip Glass), Fluxus pioneer Philip Corner, David Demnitz, Daniel Goode, Peter Griggs, Michael Byron, and half a dozen other composer/performers.

Selling Points • GSOL’s previous release on Locust, Complete Gamelan in the New World, made The Wire’s Best Of 2004 list • Philip Corner was a pioneer of the Fluxus movement • Reviews anticipated in The Wire, Pitchforkmedia,Time Out New York, Signal to Noise, Neumu, Dusted, Skyscraper and Magnet • Promotional posters & postcards • Full service to college radio & NPR outlets

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Hometown: Stony Point. Also: Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Boston, Portland, Los Angeles

Track Listing Gamelan NEA • Either/or-or/either • Gamelan STEINN • Keith Rays • Gamelan IX “evening of evennesses” • Through the Looking Glass • Hear the Sound of Random Numbers • Random Chords

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Overview “More than thirty years after the death of Albert Ayler, Flaherty and Corsano’s music is the most compelling evidence I’ve heard in some time that music like this still needs to be played.” – Dusted The Beloved Music is the most thoroughly realized blueprint for a post-hardcore take on improvised jazz to date from the duo of legendary long-serving New England saxophonist Paul Flaherty and young firebrand drummer Chris Corsano. Forsaking the call-and-response modes of countless improvising ensembles, the duo deal more in a simultaneity of sound – an elemental non-stop gush of ideas, rhythms and epiglottal forms that at points feels like a small-group response to the orchestral conceptions of the Peter Brötzmann and John Coltrane big bands. Between collaborations and tours with Wolf Eyes, Nels Cline (Wilco), Joe McPhee, Six Organs of Admittance, Dream/ Aktion Unit (Jim O’Rourke, Thurston Moore) and their own band Cold Bleak Heat (Greg Kelley, No Neck Blues Band’s Matt Heyner), Flaherty and Corsano have coalesced and elated serious jazzbos alongside noise fans and freak-folk followers.

Selling Points

Paul Flaherty & Chris Corsano The Beloved Music File Under: Avant Jazz CD: FVR 39 (M)

• Most widely available release since 2001’s The Hated Music and two limited edition LPs • Extensive U.S. tours will follow release • Service to magazines, writers and webzines as well as select jazz outlets • Full service to college and non-commercial radio by Family Vineyard • Ads will run in The Wire, Arthur and Signal to Noise

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Key Markets Hometown: Northampton/Boston. Also: New York, Louisville, Chicago, Atlanta, Seattle

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Track Listing The Great Pine Tar Scandal • A Lean and Tortured Heart • What Do You Mean This is a Dry County?

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Overview “The music, like the wit and whimsy of singer Alex Lukashevsky, is at once alien and familiar; accessible yet difficult to wrap your head around.” – Montreal Mirror

Alex Lukashevsky Connexions

For some 10 years, Alex Lukashevsky has been filling Toronto clubs with surreal sounds and wondrous words, most notably as bandleader for boisterous improv-rock ensemble Deep Dark United. But as a solo performer, Lukashevsky plays with silence instead of noise, and this new album is a document of a solitary man having a private conversation with his instrument. Recorded over the span of two years by Sandro Perri and Jeff McMurrich, Connexions features instrumental accompaniment from the Deep Dark United extended family (saxophonist Brodie West, bassist/flautist Ryan Driver, clarinetist Julia Hambilton and lap-steeler Myk Freidman). But here, their subtle contributions help illuminate the qualities that were sometimes obscured in the band’s circus of cacophony: Lukashevsky’s incomparably soulful, cigar-smoky voice, his amorphous approach to guitar playing and his profound lyrical witticisms.

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• Runner-up in Best Songwriter category of Toronto’s Now Magazine Best of 2005 • Alex Lukashevsky is lead singer/songwriter of Canada’s Deep Dark United • Full publicity and radio campaigns planned • Tour support with full mailing to media outlets along tour route • Ads will run in The Wire, CMJ NMM and more

Key Markets Hometown:Toronto. Also: Montreal, Boston, Portland ME, New York, Philadelphia

Track Listing Sarcastic Blues • Angels of Equality • I Saved a Junky Once • Horsetail Feathers • La Donna é Mobile • Party in Pain • Innocent Blues • Terror of Compassion • Butterknife Night • I Gotta Right • In a Milky Way

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Overview “Adam Forkner is arguably the king of the hill when it comes to the Northwest psychedelic music scene.”

– Portland Mercury Box features 5 CDs of the purest ambient trips, deep soundscapes, weird remixes, soundtrack work and pure psychedelic head music – the product of over three years of continual recording, exploration and process by Adam Forkner. It also introduces a DVD with over an hour of live performance and installation footage, including collaborations with cutting-edge video artists E*rock and Alex Hubbard. Live footage from a special event inside a geodesic dome and footage from the 2005 White Rainbow Full Spectrum Healing Center installation round out the disc.

White Rainbow Box

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• Weeklong installation performances planned for Arthurfest 2006 File Under: Avant Rock 5XCD+DVD:WED 17 (5H) • Forkner is featured on the latest releases by Jackie-O Motherfucker and Devendra Banhart • Full press and radio service by Marriage Records • Ads will run in Arthur and Yeti NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Key Markets Hometown: Portland. Also: New York, Oakland, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Montreal, Chicago, New Haven, Big Sur, Seattle

Overview “Disarming front-porch folksiness.” – Pitch This two-man band (Jeff Stolz and Wallace Cochran) makes a sound wrought from long ago. Like the White Stripes’ latest album, Drakkansasauna tinkers, experiments and plays games with many forms of old-time American music – delta blues, country blues, mountain gospel, country folk and Appalachian vaudeville – giving each a dark twist of nonsense, levity, sadness and drunken dementia.

Selling Points • National tours planned • Follows recent U.S. tours and a 7” teaser as well as sold-out debut Rover • Full press and radio service by Marriage Records • Ads will run in Arthur and Yeti

Drakkar Sauna Drakkansasauna File Under: Alt Folk CD:WED 24 (P)

Key Markets Hometown: Lawrence. Also: Portland, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Bloomington, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Chicago, New Haven, Las Vegas, Madison,Wichita, Kansas City, Cincinnati, Knoxville, Athens, Charlottesville, New York

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Overview “Spellbinding in its complete originality.” – Venus In between a massive national tour with a nine-piece band in support of The Getty Address and relocating to Brooklyn, chief Dirty Projector Dave Longstreth has written an EP’s worth of crazy new songs. New Attitude is a refreshingly pared-down record – simple, beautiful and focused. It is dominated by the sound of chiming microtonal guitars, sub-bass dragon breaths, a sextet of cellos and double-basses – and, most of all, Longstreth’s singing, which has never been so varied or so wonderfully weird.

Selling Points

The Dirty Projectors • Several national tours booked in support of this album New Attitude 12” • Follows last year’s critically acclaimed The Getty Address on Western Vinyl File Under: Alt Rock 12”+CD:WED 19 (P)

• Includes a CD version of the album!

• Full press and radio service by Marriage Records • Ads will run in Arthur and Yeti

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Key Markets Hometown: New York. Also: Portland, Providence, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin,Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Chicago, New Haven, Las Vegas, Boston

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Overview “A strong taste of dark eyeliner electronica, dance floor indie rock and unabashed pop.” – PopMatters When a guitarist departed from a recording session originally intended for the band Camden, the other members were forced to try other ways of producing their music. The New Sense’s self-titled debut EP, recorded by guitarist Kristian Riley, exhibits a band ready to burst! Along with Riley, DJ Brooks (exCitizen King), Ryan Weber, William Seidel (ex-Camden, Decibully) and Nolan Treolo (Paris, Texas) make up the Milwaukee dance-pop outfit.Their latest effort, Flowers Before Hours, is a step in a slightly different direction.With the addition of a live drummer and a different approach to writing music, the EP exhibits a tighter feel overall.

The New Sense Flowers Before Hours

Selling Points • Features members of Decibully (Polyvinyl) and former members of Camden, Citizen King (Warner Bros), Promise Ring (Jade Tree, Anti) and Paris,Texas (New Line) • First time available through major distribution; major label debut due in 2006 • Upcoming tour dates with Astralwerks artist Phoenix • College radio promotion • Ads will run in Big Takeover, Innocent Words and Subject

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Key Markets Hometown: Milwaukee. Also: Chicago, Madison, New York, Austin, Atlanta

Overview “This is often quite lovely and always impressive, and the EP has rapidly become a favorite. Highly recommended.” – Delusions of Adequacy This self-titled EP features a band in the studio working on different interpretations of what were originally intended to be rock songs.The rhythms are striking and quite organic for an electronic record. In fact, the EP was actually released before the Postal Service debut Give Up, to which it has received many comparisons.

A great debut by a band on the rise!

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The New Sense The New Sense EP File Under: Alt Rock CDEP: BRI 2 (E)

• Features members of Decibully (Polyvinyl) and former members of Camden, Citizen King (Warner Bros), Promise Ring (Jade Tree, Anti) and Paris,Texas (New Line) • First time available through major distribution; major label debut due in 2006 • College radio promotion • Ads will run in Lost at Sea and Stop Smiling

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Key Markets: Hometown: Milwaukee. Also: Chicago, Madison, New York, Austin, Atlanta

Overview “Beautiful, glistening rock with sullen and melodic overtures like violent, emotional windstorms; a shoegazer-influenced spin on experimental Top 40 radio.” – Lost at Sea In the summer of 1998, longtime friends and bandmates William Seidel, Ryan Weber and Brian Zimmerman met with Eric Osterman and founded the Milwaukee band Camden. Soon after forming, Camden recorded their first EP with Chris Rosenau (Telecognac, Loomis) in Spring 1999 and began touring with bands such as Pele, The Gloria Record and Antarctica. In December 1999, they recorded the well-received Reel Time Canvas (Grand Theft Autumn) with Chris Walla (Death Cab for Cutie).

Throughout 2000, Camden toured with Death Cab for Cutie and Promise Ring while headlining a few tours of their own.They recorded four of the six tracks on Pieces of Places with Chris Walla and then suddenly found themselves without a guitarist. Camden imploded and this EP turned into the last release by the band!

Camden Pieces of Places EP File Under: Alt Rock CDEP: BRI 1 (E)

Selling Points • Features members of Decibully (Polyvinyl), Promise Ring and The New Sense • Recorded and mixed by Christoper Walla (Death Cab for Cutie)

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Kickball The Framed ABCDEFGHIJKickball Countless Ways of SelfFile Under: Alt Rock Destruction File Under:29 Punk CD:YOY (H)

Hello and welcome to Kickball’s new album, ABCDEFGHIJKickball. Kickball makes the kind of songs a slow bear might hum while collecting some breakfast berries.Their shit is heavy like mice whispering in kitchen cupboard caves. But with this, their third album, the slow bear and whispering mice have started to beat it up much faster, and Olympia’s Kickball has created a dirt-stomping dinosaur that comes bearing the gifts of Lisa Schonberg’s rattlesnake drums ticking like bombs that never explode, Jacob Wilson’s guitars like pebbles bouncing around in glass jars, and Adam Oelsner’s bass like the abominable snowman swinging a gigantic fish onto a pan pipe. It is hard to be sad and cold when Kickball’s songs are around us, lurking in the corners with some ghosts baking treats.

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• Extensive U.S. touring in February/March 2006 • Kickball tours California frequently and has an active fan base • Targeted press and radio promotion Overview run in Punk Planet The Framed, hailing• Ads fromwill Minneapolis, bring a breath of fresh air to fashion-minded punk.The boys in The Framed are here to play music, not discuss hairstyling tips.To that end, they have focused on writing songs for their debut album on Keycatchy Markets Reality Clash. 11 original, tunes written to evoke the ghosts of past punk à la Generation X, early Social Olympia.

Also: Portland, New York, Bloomington, Francisco Distortion and theHometown: Swingin’ Utters will certainly have you listening to this albumSan 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 lightly.

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Track Listing Selling PointsLittle Things • Brown • Shoulders • Take • Skinnydipping • Party • Sway • Mud • Have been compared to Generation X, Social Distortion and Swingin’ Utters • #1 song on Radio K (Minneapolis) for two weeks running • Have shared stages with Street Dogs, Lower Class Brats, Juliette Lewis & The Licks, • Print promotion via postcards, posters and flyers • College radio service Overview • Ads will run in Razorcake, Amp and Pulse “This quartet Minneapolis is fond of drones, disembodied live-to-tape recording, and looming • KEYlocal MARKETS: (Hometown).

Also: sounds, Los Angeles, San Diego, New York, ambience.The groupand employs guitars and tuned suspension cables among other instruments on the Chicago, Boston St. Louis album, but damned if I can tell which is which. Get it while it’s hot: Ink has been released in a numbered edition of 100, with spooky cover art to match the music inside.” – Chicago Reader Track Listing Disposition of Desperation • Airwaves • The Way It Is • Run Away • Whiskey Bottles • From the Ashes Inofthe years Chicago’s Zelienople have• been an actual experimented variety thefew Underground • Rock’n’Roll Rip-Off Sun Never Setsband, • Thethey’ve Last Kiss • Bleed Us with Dry •a Battle ofSongs configurations.

After the shifting eclecticism of Pajama Avenue and the hushed, almost melancholy • Vengeance focus of Sleeper Coach, Zelienople have arrived with the most well-integrated statement of their divergent threads. Ink was recorded on two separate days in May and April 2005.The instrumentation is quite different from Zelienople’s previous releases, with most of the instruments being invented.

Boxes with springs were used for percussion, and many of the “string” sounds were made with tuned suspension cables.

Selling Points • Limited European CD version of Ink sold out almost immediately • Ink has already garnered rave reviews in Europe and the U.S. • Strong presence in Midwest (especially Chicago) • Touring planned for 2006 • National college radio campaign through AAM • Loose Thread will service national print & online magazines • Ads will run in Pitchforkmedia, Splendid, Aversion, Indie Workshop and more

Key Markets Hometown: Chicago. Also: New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco,Washington DC, Athens, Austin, Milwaukee, Madison, Indianapolis

Track Listing It’s Still Hard to Steal Cars • Ink • The Nod Squad • Pace Car • Rehabilitation • Life is Simple • Seroquel • Boxes on Shores

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Overview Formed in December 1998 in Japan, Ellegarden made their explosive debut with the 2001 release of their self-titled album. Over the next six months, the band did an amazing four nationwide tours, managing to insert countless street and in-store performances in between. Music festivals have been a major part of their music resume, with appearances at top-level Japanese events such as the Rising Sun Festival and Summer Sonic (which also featured Oasis, Weezer and The La’s).They also appeared as the opening act for Sum 41’s Japanese tour in early 2005.Vocalist/guitarist Takeshi Hosomi utilizes both English and Japanese, adding an extra touch to the positive lyrics and punkish power-pop that defines the band. An instant hit among Japanese youth, achieving extreme popularity almost equal to that of major-label bands, Ellegarden are undoubtedly the premier power-pop band in Japan.

Selling Points • Fourth single “Missing” ranked #2 on the ORICON Indies chart in its first week and was #16 on the Overall chart (majors + indies) • Extensive U.S. tours throughout 2006 • Riot on the Grill has sold over 200,000 copies in Japan on the band’s Dynamord label • Supported Sum 41’s 2005 Japanese tour • Service to college and commercial radio • Promos to music publications • Ads will run in Alternative Press and many more

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Key Markets Los Angeles, San Francisco,Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, New York, Boston, Philadelphia,Washington DC, Baltimore, Atlanta, Austin, Minneapolis, Chicago

Track Listing Red Hot • Monster • Snake Fighting • Marry Me • Missing • Bored of Everything • TV Maniacs • Rainbow • I Hate It • BBQ Riot Song

Overview “Denying the West begins with waking up and ends with death. It’s an intriguing, beautiful work of art.” – MammothPress.com Denying the West, the powerhouse debut from Chicago’s Das Kapital, features ten melodic, raw rock ‘n’ roll tracks that hearken back to the greats of Midwestern punk such as Hüsker Dü and The Replacements. Singer/guitarist Marc Ruvolo is known for interesting lyrical subjects, and he certainly does not disappoint here, offering up sincere meditations on freedom, religion and death alongside urgent, insistent tunes.

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• Marc Ruvolo was guitarist and frontman for Traitors and No Empathy, respectively • Recorded by Greg Norman (Pelican, Shellac, Mclusky, 90 Day Men) at Studio Greg Studios II and Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio • U.S. tours throughout 2006 • Ads will run in Magnet, Rockpile, Punk Planet, Copper Press, Big Takeover, Skyscraper, MRR, Razorcake, Amplifier, Alarm, Roctober and more • Radio service handled by AAM • CD compilation insertions in Copper Press and Lollipop

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

Track Listing Awake and Rise! • Crimson Teeth (On a Dirty Page) • Set Adrift Again • Last Run Out Last Saturday Night • Old Blue • Denying the West • La Vieja • St. Rachael and the Sodomite • Chains on the Hellespont • The Tenacity of Rope

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The FramedTrain Westbound Countless Five to TwoWays of SelfDestruction File Under: Ska File Punk CD:Under: STM 48 (O)

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Westbound Train, fresh out of Boston, have been bringing their sweet dance music to the masses since 2001 and have already left an indelible mark on the scene through incessant touring and several recordings.Their 2005 release, Five to Two, has been described as soulful, flowing and well-rooted, with melodic and yearning lyrics combined with a beat to which you can’t help but move. Originally released independently by Westbound Train, Five to Two was picked up by Stomp Records after the band’s phenomenal live set on the national Ska is Dead tour. Features 11 tracks of ultra-soulful roots ska music with special guest appearances from Alex Desert, of the now-legendary Hepcat, and Hellcat recording artists King Django (of Stubborn Allstars fame).

Selling Points • Features Alex Desert of Hepcat and Hellcat Recording artists King Django • Forthcoming CD will be released on Hellcat Records later in 2006 • Full service to ska, punk and alternative publications • Service to select specialty campus and community radio • Ads will run in Skratch, Amp, Punk Rock Confidential, Punkradiocast and more

Key Markets Hometown: Boston. Also: New York, Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego

Track Listing Forever • Talk Loud • Can You Please? • A New Hope • Bigger Things in Mind • Waiting for Tonight • Soap Box feat. Alex Desert • To Know feat. Alex Desert • When I Die • Lyric Architect feat. King Django and Alex Desert • One Day

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Overview “Kelley Stoltz has spoken – Beck, it’s over to you. 4 stars.” – Mojo Kelley Stoltz’s critically acclaimed second record available now! Stoltz grew up in suburban Detroit and started his first band in 8th grade. He moved to NYC in 1994 to work as an intern for Jeff Buckley, sorting his fan mail. It wasn’t long until the Bay Area called, and Stoltz bought a 4-track. He recorded The Past Was Faster for the Telegraph Company in 1999. Antique Glow, weaving a tapestry of ‘60s psych influences, drone, garage rock and classic pop into something singular and all its own, was self-released to friends two years later on vinyl, with hand-painted covers. And now, the CD version can be in your hands!

Selling Points • New album out this month on Sub Pop! • Mojo Top 20!

• Kelley Stoltz cites his biggest influences as Echo & The Bunnymen, The Monks, Nick Drake, The Beatles, David Bowie and Lee Hazelwood

Key Markets San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle

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Kelley Stoltz Antique Glow File Under: Alt Rock CD: JSC 4 (Q) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview “[Rapp’s] voice could sound thin and doofy like Rudy Vallee, or rich and rumbly like Neil Diamond, or tremulous like a man weeping at his child’s grave. Critics called his music acid folk. It trod the familiar 1960s floorboards: anti-war, pro-drug, get-inside-your-mind kindergarten Zen. But upon this floor he built a minaret, a windswept, rococo structure with spooky echoes and forbidding shadows.” – Washington Post

Pearls Before Swine Radio Pearls File Under: Alt Folk CD: ESP 4027 (R) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Recorded in the fall of 1970 for WBAI, on Bob Fass’ legendary Radio Unnamable, this release finds Tom Rapp in an intimate live trio setting. Producer & engineer Joe Phillips says, “I recall playing the original tape for Tom Rapp in his living room in Woodstock, NY. He would periodically lean in closer to the speakers, as if studying the nuances of his vocals, and the underlying implications of his voice and the interpretations of the musical arrangement. He commented that, ‘this could be an album.’ Indeed, 35 years later, it finally is.”

Selling Points • • • •

Previously unreleased Remastered by Joe Phillips Radio campaign will target college and independent stations Review copies submitted to numerous publications

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

Track Listing Also Available

Pearls Before Swine

Biography • Intro One • Another Time • Intro Two • If You Don’t Want To (I Don’t Mind) • Intro Three • There Was a Man • Intro Four • When the War Began • Margery • Intro Five • Suzanne • Intro Six • The Flower • For Free • Dorothy Parker Story • Fire and Rain • Nancy

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Overview “…Considered to be among Sun Ra’s most groundbreaking [albums]…the compositions that comprise Heliocentric Worlds are examples of the free or anti-structure jazz that became synonymous with a majority of Sun Ra’s extensive cannon – boasting well over 100 titles. One unifying factor is the percussive nature of not only this particular band, but also on the seemingly unduplicable compositions that Ra and company were exploring in the mid-‘60s…one of Sun Ra’s best recordings.” – All Music Guide 1965 was an important year in the shaping of the definitive music formula for the Sun Ra Arkestra.

These recordings brought Sun Ra to the forefront of the free improvisation movement as a leader and an innovator. Features Jimhmi Johnson, Robert Cummings, Chris Capors, Bernard Pettaway, Danny Davis, Pat Patrick, John Gilmore, Marshall Allen, Ronnie Boykins, Teddy Nance, Marshall Allen, Walter Miller, Roger Blank.

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Sun Ra Heliocentric Worlds Vol.1&2 File Under: Avant Jazz CD: ESP 4026 (V)

Remastered, with new artwork and improved sound quality Heliocentric Worlds Volume 1 was included in Vibe’s 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century Sun Ra was elected to the Down Beat Hall of Fame in 1983 Radio and press campaign

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

Track Listing Heliocentric • Outer Nothingness • Other Worlds • The Cosmos • Of Heavenly Things • Nebulae • Dancing in the Sun • The Sun Myth • A House of Beauty • Cosmic Chaos

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Sun Ra Heliocentric Worlds Volume 3 CD: ESP 4002 (R) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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David J On Glass File Under: Alt Rock CD: PLR 122 (Q)

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Featured Artists David J – vocals, bass, acoustic guitar, producer

Overview David J began his illustrious career as a founding member of Bauhaus, one of the most influential British bands of the 1980s. Following their termination in ‘83, David J joined up with The Jazz Butcher for a brief stint, producing and playing in the group.Then came Love and Rockets, who scored a Gold Record with their first release, Ball of Confusion, and their biggest hit to date with the single “So Alive,” which reached #2 in the U.S. charts in 1989.The band then embarked on a distinctly more experimental style, eliciting great critical acclaim for their three albums released during the 1990s.

On Glass, a revamped version of David J’s On Glass compilation, draws from rare 12” EPs released on the Glass label in the mid-‘80s.

Some of these tracks sound like preparation for his later songwriting with Love & Rockets!

Crocodile Tears and the Velvet Cosh, David J’s second solo outing originally released in 1985, has folky and jazzy elements in direct counterpoint to the glammy goth thud of Bauhaus. Outstanding songwriting displayed on 13 original tracks and 5 bonus cuts.

Press Quotes “On his solo albums, David J (of Bauhaus and Love and Rockets fame) gets back to his art school roots. His haunting sound collages make use of film noir jazz, snippets of Rubber Soul acoustic pop, the disorienting synth textures of early Pink Floyd and, of course, chiaroscuro Goth shadings.These paintings in sound provide an elaborate backdrop for J’s surrealistic spoken word musings.” – Rolling Stone

Selling Points • Bauhaus are on the road and will soon release a new studio album • David J has collaborated with celebrated graphic novelist Alan Moore (From Hell,The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen); renowned author Hubert Selby Jr. (Requiem for a Dream, Last Exit to Brooklyn); producer/musician/label owner T Bone Burnett (Down from the Mountain); MC5 founder/guitarist/vocalist Wayne Kramer and more • Crocodile Tears and the Velvet Cosh, which has been unavailable on CD for many years, includes five bonus tracks never before on CD!

Key Markets New York, Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle

Track Listing – On Glass I Can’t Shake This Shadow of Fear • The Promised Land • Saint Jackie • A Seducer, A Doctor, A Card You Can Not Trust • Crocodile Tears and the Velvet Cosh (Revisited) • Ship Of Fools • Night Of She Silver Veil • 4 Hours • The Conjurers Hand • This Vicious Cabaret • Fear is a Man’s Best Friend • War Game • The Party’s Over • Man of the World

Track Listing – Crocodile Tears and the Velvet Cosh Crocodile Tears and the Velvet Cosh • Too Clever by Half • The First Incision • Imitation Pearls • Light and Shade • Rene • Stop This City • Justine • The Ballad of Cain • The Vandal and the Saint • Boats • Slip the Rope • Greener • A Day in the Life of the One that Got Away (bonus track) • Small Death of a Broken Doll (bonus track) • Frosted Glass (bonus track) • Heaven Knows Hell Can Wait (bonus track) • Penelope’s Web (bonus track)

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The Moore Brothers Murdered by The Moore Brothers File Under: Alt Folk CD: PLR 120 (Q) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists Thom Moore – vocals, guitar, piano Greg Moore – vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards Neal Morgan – occasional drums

Overview Murdered by The Moore Brothers isn’t exactly a “whodunit.” It’s obvious from the first track that these boys are guilty as sin, but fourteen tracks later, there’s no jury in the world that would convict them. Not only do the brothers walk, they might just get a pat on the back and the key to the city. Nobody’s swinging for this crime!

And yes, they really are brothers.The oblique folk-pop duo of Thom and Greg Moore has been slaying SF Bay Area audiences for the past few years with unexpected songs and note-perfect fraternal harmonies. Murdered by The Moore Brothers confirms that these boys are bad (and now they’re nationwide)!

Press Quotes “Tempting as it is to invoke comparisons to CS&N and the mid-‘60s folk explosion, they don’t do justice to this follow-up to Tom and Greg Moore’s Colossal Small. Operating in a minimalist vacuum, their engaging songs are melt-in-the-mouth without being twee. Hardly psych, their quiet charms are all about the basics of life…idiosyncratic and utterly immediate.” – Uncut “A near-perfect confluence of folkie charm and indietronic mystery.” – SF Weekly “Compared with The Moore Brothers’ slightly eccentric debut of folky indie rock, there’s a noticeably calmer atmosphere here…with the duo’s instrumentation stripped down to only guitar and Thom and Greg’s pretty harmonies, there’s an uncanny resemblance to folk icons Simon & Garfunkel.Whatever the case, the brothers funnel a path directly from the school of ‘70s folk-pop…lovely.” – All Music Guide

Selling Points • • • •

Fourth full-length CD Nationwide touring in 2006 Press promotion by Howlin’ Wuelf Media Radio promotion by AAM

Key Markets Hometown: Oakland/Berkeley. Also: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, New York, Portland, Seattle, Chicago

Track Listing Wish You’d Say • Fresh Thoughts of You • The Face • Sing Today • The Auditorium Birds • Star of Confusion • Old Friend of Mine • At Terror • Pyramid • Bury Me Under the Kissing Teens • Girl with a Light • Now is the Time to Chill • I Let Myself Go • Pham

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Major Stars Syntoptikon File Under: Alt Rock CD: IPT 89 (P) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists Wayne Rogers – guitar Kate Village – guitar Tom Leonard – guitar Sandra Barrett – vocals Dave Dougan – bass Casey Keenan – drums

Overview The Major Stars finished their most recent U.S. tour in May 2003, and returned in June to make their definitive studio record.They headed to NYC a week later to record the Live in Europa split with Comets On Fire and, unexpectedly, lay low for the next 18 months after losing longtime drummer Dave Lynch and ending up with an empty bass spot when Tom Leonard joined Kate Village and Wayne Rogers in the guitar frontline. In this unraveling of sorts, Major Stars mach two started to come together.

Casey Keenan (drummer-turned-guitarist of local pop heros Carlisle Sound) was roped into resuming his place behind the drumkit.

Dave Dougan, already a veteran of the band as bass understudy (he was the unfamiliar figure on stage at their Terrastock '02 performance), returned to claim the position permanently. The new sextet is completed by the arrival of lead singer Sandra Barrett, formerly of local art-punk legends LA Drugs. By the time Major Stars finally appeared to universal acclaim in April 2005, the new band was awake and pummeling the locals with renewed fervor.

Synoptikon is the newer, heavier Major Stars who have been dumping amp-loads of heft onto Boston stages and are now bringing it to your home audio system. A record like this just wouldn’t sound right on your dumpy little mp3 player!

Press Quotes “The full-on blowout Wayne and Kate fanatics have been drooling for: hardcore lysergic guitar sputter in actual rock form.” – Spin “Listening to anything Major Stars has done is refreshing; there’s a sense that whatever this rock stuff is, they got it right.” – Magnet “Not only is it awe-inspiring to see how founding members Wayne and Kate…have reinvented their already great band right as its future sound would come into question, but to connect with a younger generation of musicians already anointed with the same dank spiritual moisture has resulted in their rawest, most uglified blats of roaring hot jet-black noise under this name, ever.” – Dusted “Simply put, it sounds a cross between Black Sabbath and Bikini Kill…by any measure, it fucking owns.” – Boston Phoenix

Selling Points • The Major Stars will tour the U.S., including a stop at Terrastock, to show how hot they are • Press and radio mailing by Important Records • Ads will run in The Wire, Brainwashed and CMJ

Key Markets Hometown: Cambridge. Also: New York, Boston, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles

Track Listing Cinnamon and Lightning • The Ravager • Collapsing • Pocket • Fake Date • Black Road • Syntoptikon

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Daniel Johnston’s Electric Ghosts The Electric Ghosts File Under: Alt Rock CD: IPT 81 (O) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists Daniel Johnston – vocals, guitar Jack Medicine – vocals, guitar, keyboards Jade Nuss – lead guitar Chris Bolluck – keyboards

Overview 2006 is sure to be a big year for Daniel Johnston. A Sony Picture Classics documentary of his life is being released internationally on March 31, and is currently in the final stages of being chosen for an Academy Award nomination. His fan base has, once again, swollen substantially, and gallery showings of his artwork in the U.S. and Europe are establishing him as a highly collectible physical artist. The Electric Ghosts is a side project that Johnston and his tour manager/Hyperjinx Tricycle bandmate created while touring the U.S., playing shows and searching for salvation.

Press Quotes “Though one is a Motown legend and the other is an indie schizoid, Daniel Johnston has the same psychic aches and pains as the late Marvin Gaye. ‘The Trouble Man’ was torn between the sacred and profane; Johnston is scared of girls and God. Both men lived with their parents beyond the age of 30.” – Spin “The iconoclastic Johnston has long been a favorite on the alternative rock scene.” – Rolling Stone “He’s my favorite songwriter.” – Matt Groening, creator, The Simpsons “Most songwriters would give anything to have written one song as good as any Daniel Johnston tune…and he has hundreds.”

– Dean Ween,Ween

Selling Points • A Sony Picture Classics documentary on Daniel Johnston titled The Devil and Daniel Johnston will open nationally on March 31, 2006 • Daniel Johnston is widely recognized as the father of lo-fi, and has been championed by Tom Waits, Kurt Cobain, David Bowie and Sonic Youth • A tribute to Johnston was recently released featuring Death Cab for Cutie, Mercury Rev, Tom Waits, Beck and Jad Fair • Cover art by famed billboard subverter and Hyperjinx Tricycle member Ron English • Mastered by Shimmy Disc guru and Johnston producer Kramer • Press and radio mailing by Important Records • Ads will run in The Wire, CMJ and Magnet

Key Markets Hometown: Austin & Brooklyn. Also: Colorado Springs, Denver, Ft. Collins, Boulder, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Portland, Springfield

Track Listing Frito Lay • Goodbye to that Girl • Pain in My Heart • Summer Jazz • Another F*cking Song About the Rain • Row Boat • Blue Skies will Haunt You From Now On • Scary Monsters Also Available

Daniel Johnston & The Hyperjinx Tricycle Daniel Johnston & The Hyperjinx Tricycle CD: IPT 6 (O) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Larsen SeieS File Under: Alt Rock CD: IPT 83 (P) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo, guitar, electric viola, vocals, shruti box, percussions/Marco “Il Bue” Schiavo, drums, glokenspiel, vocals/Paolo Dellapiana, electronics, accordion, bass, vocals, glokenspiel/Roberto Maria Clemente, uitar, vocals, sansa

Special Guests Jarboe, vocals, lyrics/Julia Kent, cello/Lustmord, additional sounds

Overview Following Larsen’s critically and commercially successful full-length Play on Important, we bring you SeieS, housed in a deluxe Important Records cardboard gatefold sleeve and printed on matte paper to look almost as good as it sounds.

SeieS is Larsen’s fifth full-length, and work on it began when the band was recording Play. However, where Play was Larsen’s most orchestrated/ambient work, SeieS tends to be quite a bit more song-oriented.Tracks like “The Snow,” “Haula” and “Marzia” are Larsen’s most sinister compositions, disturbing soundscapes that would fit very well in a David Lynch movie.

The remaining tracks feature female vocals thanks to ex-Swans chanteuse Jarboe. Also outstanding is the work of Larsen’s beloved cello player and longtime collaborator Julia Kent (of Antony & The Johnsons).

Press Quotes “If you’re troubled by the retrograde state of guitar-based music, Larsen warrants your attention...” – All Music Guide “They center their songs around the dynamics of multiple guitars, which may erupt in buzzsaw staccato and then glide into sublime arpeggiated chords...” – The Wire “This is the soundtrack for bad dreams and good nightmares; a strange, strange world.” – Erasing Clouds

Selling Points • Before signing to Important, Larsen recorded for Michael Gira’s Young God • SeieS contains contributions from Jarboe, Lustmord and Julia Kent, who also plays in Antony & The Johnsons • Larsen’s previous release, the HMKE EP, contained remixes from Norwegian super-producer Deathprod and Origami Galaktika • Press and radio mailing by Important Records • Ads will run in Signal to Noise,The Wire and Brainwashed

Key Markets Austin, Albuquerque, Las Vegas,Tucson, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Montreal, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Asheville

Track Listing The Snow • Mother • Rever • 2nd • Momi • Haula • Marzia

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Overview “With the whir of keyboards, clicking percussion and the most brittle of voices, Piano Magic create disarmingly pretty and oddly evocative records.” – Alternative Press World-exclusive to Important Records, a five-track EP of brand-new material from London’s Piano Magic! In stark contrast to last winter’s Opencast Heart EP, Incurable brings to mind the mid-‘80s ethereal romanticism of This Mortal Coil, Cocteau Twins and Dead Can Dance. It’s a glacially produced, though spiritually warm, set of songs featuring guest vocals from Angele David-Guillou of Klima, recently signed to the esteemed Peacefrog label, who is currently recording her debut with producer Guy Fixsen (Laika, My Bloody Valentine).

Selling Points • Piano Magic have recently collaborated with ‘60s folk heroine Vashti Bunyan, Low’s Alan Sparhawk and Cornershop’s Ben Ayres • After many releases on big-name independent labels, Piano Magic have a significant international reputation • Piano Magic have performed live with Mogwai, Third Eye Foundation, Low, Fuxa, Amp, Pram, Six by Seven, Alain Bashung and Plone • Many of Piano Magic’s limited edition releases have become highly sought-after collectible artifacts • Press mailing by Important Records • Ads will run in The Wire, Mojo, CMJ and Magnet

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Key Markets Austin, Albuquerque, Las Vegas,Tucson, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Montreal, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Asheville Also Available

Track Listing Incurable • Giant Mirror to Light Up Village • I Have Moved Into the Shadow • Dream of Gentle Monsters • Lights Come On at 3

Piano Magic Opencast Heart EP CDEP: IPT 45 (F) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview “Uneasy, brooding, and honestly unsettling, this disc slowly works its way out of the speakers and into the psyche…it’s impossible to put it down, lock it away, carry it to the street with the beer and Scotch bottles to be recycled. Inactivated, it defiantly surfaces in the cat’s purr, the Volk’s engine knocks [or] a fritzing hard drive.” – Dusted

Slomo The Creep File Under: Experimental CD: IPT 85 (P) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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The Creep is one full-length track packaged in a deluxe Important Records gatefold cardboard jacket printed on both sides with two custom inserts by Slomo. Originally released on Julian Cope’s Fuck Off And Di label in a limited edition of 100, The Creep sold out instantly. Since then, it’s quickly gained massive underground status after being propped up by the likes of Sunn O))) and The Wire, who described it as “ghostly sounding and ominously rumbling with atmospheric threat, The Creep is an undeniably effective chunk of subterranean echo whose quaking aftershock could cause sleepless nights.”

Selling Points • The Creep has quickly become a rare and hard-to-find underground gem • Slomo will follow The Creep with another full-length album for Important Records • Press mailing by Important Records • Ads will run in Signal to Noise,The Wire and more

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

Track Listing The Creep

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The Framed Overview Countless Ways of Self- personal.” “[Create (!)] revamp tradition to construct something strangely new and surprisingly Destruction – Pitchforkmedia File Under: Punk

RCL 17 (O) On the 19th of December 2004, Create (!) – augmented byCD: Raymond Raposa of Castanets, Lynn Johnston and Kris Tiner – recorded its first album since the release of Liz Janes & Create (!) on Asthmatic Kitty. A Prospect of Freedom is a beautifully dense album that births equally stunning musicianship over its eight tracks.The music surprises, seeming to bridge the gap between Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians and Ornette Coleman’s Free Jazz.

Selling Points • Full-length collaboration with Raymond Raposa of Castanets •The Follow-up to 2005’s critically lauded Liz Janes & Create (!) on Asthmatic Kitty Framed •Countless First full-length Waysavailable of Self-from Create (!) since 2001 •Destruction Possible upcoming feature in Signal to Noise Under: •File Live radioPunk performances on KXLU, KSPC and KUCI CD: RCL 17 (O) • Ads will run in Drama, Signal to Noise and Arthur • Midwest/East Coast tour with Liz Janes & Half Handed Cloud in March/April 2006

Key Markets Hometown: Long Beach. Also: Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Portland, Indianapolis Overview

Create(!)

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The Framed, hailing from Minneapolis, bring a breath of fresh air to fashion-minded punk.The boys in The Framed are here to play music,

Track Listing not discuss hairstyling tips.To that end, they have focused on writing songs for their debut album on Reality Clash. 11 original, catchy tunes

Awritten Prospect of Freedom • Sonny Sharrock A Single X, Flower It Is Springand Everywhere • Utters will certainly have you listening to evoke the ghosts of past punk •àWhen la Generation early Blooms, Social Distortion the Swingin’ Circus • Six Dreams/Divided • In (Our) Own kids Backyard • Gutei Holds Upshow a Finger • to thisHammer album over and over. Drawing several hundred per show,The Framed no signs of letting up.This is not a band to be taken Durindana lightly.

Selling Points • • • •

Have been compared to Generation X, Social Distortion and Swingin’ Utters #1 song on Radio K (Minneapolis) for two weeks running Have shared stages with Street Dogs, Lower Class Brats, Juliette Lewis & The Licks, Soviettes and more Print promotion via postcards, posters and flyers • College radio service • Overview Ads will run in Razorcake, Amp and Pulse • “Making KEY MARKETS: Minneapolis Los Angeles, San Diego, New York, art out of punk, jazz,(Hometown). soul and dub.”Also: – Magnet Chicago, Boston and St. Louis Since the release of The Eternals’ last album Rawar Style, the group has been working hard to stay Track active, touringListing the U.S. (with Tortoise & Beans), Europe, Brazil and Japan as well as performing in Disposition • Airwaves • Thefestival Way Itfor Is the • Run Away time.The • Whiskeygroup Bottles Fromfeatured the Ashes London at of theDesperation All Tomorrow’s Parties second has• been on ofNPR the Underground • Rock’n’Roll • Sun Never • The Lastrecognized Kiss • Bleed • Battle twice, interviewed for Italy’sRip-Off national radio RAI Sets Radio 3, and

by Us theDry press in Russia, Songs Vengeance Chile•and Australia.This new EP, which will tide fans over until the release of their third album, features remixes from Prefuse 73 and A Grape Dope (Johnny of Tortoise’s solo project) as well as Birthmark, Exercise Tiger and The Eternals themselves.The release continues to showcase the group’s various musical influences and politicized energy; however, these sounds have now homogenized even further in the mix, eventually transforming into an altogether new sound.

The Eternals High Anxiety File Under: Alt Rock CDEP: AES 42 (I) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Selling Points • Features remixes from Prefuse 73 and A Grape Dope as well as Birthmark, Exercise Tiger and The Eternals • Promos to key press, radio and retail • Ads will run in Waxing Poetics, Grooves and Signal to Noise

Key Markets Chicago (Hometown). Also: New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Philadelphia,Washington DC, Minneapolis, Seattle, Montreal,Vancouver, San Francisco, Austin, Detroit

Track Listing Hi Anxiety (A Grape Dope Remix) • By This Time Today • Black Nuclear Power Bonus Beats (Prefuse 73 Remix) • Silhouette (Eternals Remix) • Exercise Tiger vs The Eternals (Exercise Tiger Remix) • Right to Revenge • Billions of People (Eternals Remix) • Messing Up My Place (Birthmark Remix)

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Complete Gamelan in the New World

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41

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Flaherty, Paul/Corsano, Chris

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81

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