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NEW RELEASES APRIL 2006 StreetDates 4-11-06 & 4-25-06 A Division Of Allegro Corporation

INSIDE 2Mex & Life Rexall pg 2 • AWOL One pg 3 • Vijay Iyer pg 4 • Standard Recording Co. – New Label! pg 6-7 Norfolk & Western pg 10 • My Cat is an Alien pg 14 • Tom Brosseau pg 17 • St.Thomas pg 18 The Koffin Kats pg 21 • Rose Melberg pg 24 • Calvin Keys pg 25 • Avarus pg 26

2Mex & Life Rexall Are $martyr Money Symbol Martyrs File Under: Hip-Hop CD: CRS 51 (O) 7 8 83 77 1 0 402 5 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

FILE UNDER: 2MEX Featured Artists 2Mex – MC Life Rexall – MC, beats

Guest mcs Busdriver (Project Blowed)/Xololanxinxo (OMD)/Die (The Shapeshifters)/Existereo (The Shapeshifters)/Akuma (The Shapeshifters)/Sondoobie/Lord Zen/Los Vegas/Mestizo

Overview Hailing from mid-city Los Angeles, indie-rap heavyweight 2Mex began building his name at the legendary Good Life Café, which has spawned tons of luminaries such as Freestyle Fellowship, Abstract Rude and Jurassic 5, just to name a few.

2Mex is coined by many as the “hardest working man in underground hip-hop.” Now, he has enlisted the efforts of superior beatmaker/rapper Life Rexall for $martyr. A lifetime member of the L.A. underground legends The Shapeshifters, Life Rexall has reached a new level in the game with his bright-vibed production and thought-provoking word wizardry.

Press Quotes “The Los Angeles hip-hop artist known as 2Mex spouts complex lines of verse as naturally as if he were breathing and his freestyle during live shows defines the ease with which he slides the world’s tensions and issues into narrow caverns of rhyme and repetition.” – Dusted “L.A. underground hero!” – Mean Street

Selling Points • $martyr consists of Los Angeles underground MCs 2Mex and Life Rexall (a member of the world famous Shapeshifters crew) • 2Mex has recorded/performed with members of Mars Volta, Fiona Apple, Stephen Perkins (Jane’s Addiction), Sublime, Murs (Living Legends), Fishbone and many more • 2Mex soundscanned over 6,000 units on each of his last two releases, and has shared the stage with such touring acts as Jurassic 5, Dilated Peoples, Atmosphere, Living Legends, Eyedea, Galapogus 4, Non Phixion, Jean Grae, GZA of Wu-Tang, Nas, Cypress Hill, Ozomatli, Busta Rhymes and Beatnuts • Life Rexall’s highly developed rhyming and beat-production skills are on full display • Service to press outlets through indie publicist Score Press • Service to hip-hop specialty and college radio stations through SPECTRE • Reviews will run in Slap,Thrasher, Mean Street, Revolver and LA Weekly & OC Weekly • Ads will run in URB, Elemental,Vice, Mean Street and Vapors

Key Markets Hometown: Los Angeles. Also: San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Minneapolis,Austin, Dallas, Denver, Boulder, Phoenix,Tucson, Santa Fe

Track Listing Haters in the BK Lounge • Green Grass • 3-Day Eviction Notice • So Money • Money Doesn’t Matter • Jerry Reuss • International • Call You Later • Full Court Pressure • Here to Help • Freeway Series • Get Up • Money in the Form of a Woman

Also Available

The Shapeshifters Was Here CD: CRS 41 (M) 7 8 8377 1 0282 3 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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AWOL One The War of Art File Under: Hip-Hop CD: CRS 52 (O) 7 8 8377 1 041 2 4 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists AWOL One – MC

Guest mcs KRS-One/2Mex/Eyedea (Rhymesayers)/Grouch (Living Legends)/ C-Minus (Fantastic 4our)/Pigeon John/Transducer/Mascaria/M-Fusion/ Jizzm/Doeboy/J Zone

Overview AWOL One is a member of the Shapeshifters, longtime underground hip-hop legends.The L.A.Weekly nailed his style when they called him “beguiling, bizarre and bottomlessly imaginative.” And KRS-One had it pegged when he said “AWOL, you’re true hip-hop for real!”

Honestly, where does an MC go from there?

Press Quotes “One of rap’s most original voices…[a] Los Angeles MC who offers up throaty, free association jams about solitude and agony.” – Spin “AWOL One’s beguiling, bizarre and bottomlessly imaginative concept record Souldoubt is one of the year’s best albums, a weird mix of pathos and sci-fi, humor and depression; a collection of stabs at stability in a disturbed world.” – LA Weekly “When this L.A. rapper opens his mouth, laconically cryptic verses tumble out in a drowsily narcotic timbre.The lyrics he rambles are deceptively direct, yet there’s always the nagging feeling that something far more sinister lurks beneath the surface, a hunch he likes to encourage.” – URB

Selling Points • AWOL One’s first studio album on Cornerstone RAS • Features hip-hop legend KRS-One & L.A. underground pioneer 2Mex • AWOL One has performed for nearly 15 years on multiple continents with virtually every hip-hop artist • AWOL One and the Shapeshifters have collectively sold over 100,000 records worldwide • A testament to the status and respect he has gained in hip-hop, many artists stepped up to the plate to work with AWOL on this new record: KRS-One, J Zone, 2Mex, Pigeon John, Team Sleep, Eyedea (Rhymesayers), DJ Rhettmatic (Beat Junies, Visionaries), Grouch (Living Legends), Doeboy (Temple of Hip Hop), M Fusion (Dead Air), The Transducer, Jizzm High Definition, Josh Martinez & Sleep (Chicharones), C-Minus (Fantastic 4our) and more • Service to press outlets through indie publicist Score Press • Service to hip-hop specialty and college radio stations through SPECTRE • Reviews will run in Slap,Thrasher, Mean Street, Revolver and L A Weekly & OC Weekly • Ads will run in URB, Elemental,Vice, Mean Street and Vapors

Key Markets Hometown: Los Angeles.Also: San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Minneapolis, Austin, Dallas, Denver, Boulder, Phoenix,Tucson, Santa Fe

Track Listing Seeds Grow • Breathe Today • For the Drums • Casting Call • Evil Prevails • Underground Killz • This Far • Get You • Knowbody Cares • Stand Before • Looking Back • Everythings Perfect • Nose Job Also Available

AWOL One

Various Artists

AWOL One & Daddy Kev

Rebirth

Look at All the Love We Found

Souldoubt

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CD: CRS 46 (M)

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Vijay Iyer Blood Sutra File Under: Avant Jazz CD: PIE 901 (Q) 8 0 871 3 09 01 2 3 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Vijay Iyer – piano Rudresh Mahanthappa – alto sax Stephan Crump – bass Tyshawn Sorey – drums

Overview The Vijay Iyer Quartet’s stunning follow-up to Panoptic Modes now re-released on Pi Recordings! The word “blood” conjures up a series of symbolically charged associations: health, kinship, identity, race, violence, liquidity and desire. “Sutra” is a Sanskrit term meaning “thread,” and it is used to denote ancient sacred and scholarly texts on the healing arts, mathematics, yoga, Buddhist practice, love, and many other subjects.Thus, this album is the quartet’s multi-threaded conversation on the densely clotted subject of blood, the fluid process of associative meaning and the flowing, pulsating collective meditation. All 12 pieces are Iyer originals – with the exception of “Because of Guns (Hey Joe Redux)” – and feature the band’s rhythmic hallmarks as well as the well-documented interplay between Iyer and Mahanthappa.This generation’s version of Monk and Coltrane, Blood Sutra showcases what is now recognized as one of the most fruitful relationships in jazz today. Reimagining, released in 2005, was listed in JazzTimes’ Top 10 of 2005, and continues the documentation of the duo’s relationship.

Press Quotes “The cohesive group’s ethos is at once reflective and kinetic...this is exciting and eminently listenable stuff, intuitive in bearing and dynamic in execution. An essential for adventurous listeners, [it] could also serve as an ideal introduction to Iyer’s burgeoning oeuvre.” – JazzTimes “Raises Iyer’s writing and playing to the next level...Blood Sutra finds him engaging in sharply diverse but well-balanced forms on each track and coming up a winner every time...not simply a great jazz record, Blood Sutra is a statement of purpose from an artist whose youth stands in contrast to his irrefutable skill.” – Jazziz

Selling Points • Vijay Iyer’s most recent quartet release Reimagining has received critical praise from all corners of the jazz world. It is his highest soundscanned CD and has brought him a much larger audience • Blood Sutra is the second of three critically acclaimed quartet recordings by Iyer. Its re-release is sure to garner interest from new fans of his music who were not previously able to find it in stores • Recent tours by Iyer’s quartet, as well as Raw Materials and his projects with Mike Ladd, have introduced him to a wide audience and a fan base outside of jazz • Service to CMJ and JazzWeek stations • Press service by Pi Recordings • Ads will run in Down Beat, JazzTimes,The Wire and more

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

Track Listing Proximity (Crossroads) • Brute Facts • Habeas Corpus • Ascent • When History Sleeps • Questions of Agency • Kinship • Stigmatism • That Much Music • Imagined Nations • Because of Guns (Hey Joe Redux) • Desiring Also Available

Vijay Iyer/Mike Ladd

Vijay Iyer

Fieldwork

In What Language?

Panoptic Modes

Simulated Progress

Your Life Flashes

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Hallelujah Chicken Run Band Take One File Under: Africa CD: ALU 2002 (Q) 6 1 6498 2 0 02 2 0 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Thomas Mapfumo – drums, vocals Robert Nekati – bass, vocals Patrick Kabanda – drums Daram Karanga – trumpet Wilson Jubane – guitar Abdulah Musa – guitar Joshua Hlomayi Dube – guitar Robson Boora – sax

Overview “The Lion of Zimbabwe,” Thomas Mapfumo, is Zimbabwe’s biggest star, one of the most legendary and best-selling African artists of all time. In 1973, Mapfumo helped form the Hallelujah Chicken Run Band and, for the first time, began to shift his music away from Western-influenced rock and explore the traditional music of his Shona people, transcribing the scale of the traditional instrument mbira (or thumb piano) to guitar with his guitarist Joshua Dube.The HCR Band was one of the first to develop the staccato style of guitar for which Zimbabwe is known today, and was also one the first modern groups to sing in the traditional Shona language – a major act of liberation and an act of protest against the Rhodesian government.

This compilation presents 18 of the Hallelujah Chicken Run Band’s biggest and most influential hits, recorded from 1974-1979 and all painstakingly remastered. It also 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.

Press Quotes “Thomas Mapfumo is one of his country’s most influential musicians, with hard-driving rhythms, politically tinged lyrics, and gutsy vocals.”

– Music Hound World “Thomas Mapfumo made revolutionary changes in Zimbabwe’s pop-music scene by recording a song for which he’d written his own music. Before Mapfumo, songs in the traditional style were always based on tunes that had been handed down for generations. Mapfumo’s music, chimurenga (‘music of struggle’), became popular during the civil war against white minority rule, but his popularity made the government unhappy [and] in 1977 he was sent to a prison camp for subversion.” – All Music Guide

Selling Points • Presents 18 of the Hallelujah Chicken Run Band’s biggest and most influential hits, recorded from 1974-1979 and all painstakingly remastered, as well as a carefully prepared 24-page booklet 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 • Take One is a wonderful mixture of songs of liberation alongside poignant love songs • A series of singles in Shona by the HCR Band recorded by Teal Records (many of which are found here) produced eight gold records in a row beginning in 1974!

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

Track Listing Mudzimu Ndiringe • Kare Nanhasi • Ngoma Yarira • Manheru Changamire • Tamba Zimba Navashe • Mutoridodo • Mukadzi Wangu Ndomuda • Sekai • Gore Iro • Murembo • Mwana Wamai Dada Naye • Musawore Moyo • Alikulila • Ndopenga • Ngatiende Kumusha • Shumba Inobva Mu Gomo • Tinokumbira Kuziva • Chaminuka Mukuru

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The Green Arrows 4-Track Recording Session CD: ALU 2001 (Q) 6 1 6498 2 0 01 2 1 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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NAIL WELCOMES STANDARD RECORDING CO.To ITS ROSTER Based in Indianapolis, this peddler of fine tunes was established in 2001 betwixt two cornfields and a strip bar.

Operated by two bearded chaps with an affinity for music they like, Standard prides itself on its fierce independence and penchant for alternative packaging concepts, with a varied catalog that includes folk, Americana, indie pop, horror punk, and experimental.

More Animals of the Arctic An Appendix of Whaling Terms File Under: Alt Rock CD: STD 1026 (L) 6 6 6973 1 0262 4 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Mike Tapscott – guitars, vocals, drums, bleeps & bloops

Overview Odawas’ songwriter and vocalist, Mike Tapscott, releases a solo album under the More Animals of the Artic moniker! An Appendix of Whaling Terms is a natural progression of The Aether Eater, Odawas’ debut released in 2005 on Jagjaguwar Records. More Animals of The Artic creates a mysterious and alluring atmosphere on An Appendix of Whaling Terms, with overlapping harmonies and dilatory, carefully arranged instrumentation.The songs on An Appendix of Whaling Terms are like waves crashing down upon themselves; elements of minimalism and scarcity give way to a wall of crescendo before falling back again.

Press Quotes “Indiana is a state that’s brimming with intelligent indie rock. Odawas, named after the Odawas Indians native to Beaver Island, are one of those bands. Intriguing stories abound…adopting Dante’s and restructuring their own, Odawas offer some real rich tunes laden with cerebral fossils of music’s past. Lo-fi enthusiasts will be smiling from ear to ear and rushing out to share this journey with their friends, while others who may be scratching their heads…but in the end, we’ll all turn ourselves over to Odawas and allow them to play with our minds and souls.” – Smother “This Indiana-based outfit serves up an appealingly strange blend of eccentricity and accessibility. Odawas definitely are not playing with a full deck, but deal from it, top and bottom, with undeniable skill.” – Dusted “Odawas sound much like fellow low-fi prog-poppers Mt. Eerie. But where Mt. Eerie often sound like a reverberating old growth forest, Odawas appear much grander and remote, as though they are being beamed in as a far away signal.” – Brainwashed

Selling Points • Solo album from Mike Tapscott of Odawas • Creative jewel case-sized packaging • Retail promotion and marketing through Fanatic Promotion • Publicists will be hired for media and tour in Summer 2006 • Ads will run in Under the Radar,Verbicide, Nuvo Newsweekly and The Machine

Key Markets Hometown: Indianapolis/Bloomington.Also: Chicago, Cincinnati, Columbus, Louisville, Seattle, New York, Kansas City, Omaha

Track Listing Midnight in the Arctic Circle • John the Baptist • Frozen Animals • King David • Coyoter • Row • O! Vanderhoek • The Peacock’s Dream • Tom’s Death • Sunset (Aside)

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Overview “Few bands consider an ever-changing membership a strength, but the creative burst that Everything, Now! gains with each lineup shift provides bandleader Jonathan David Rogers and his fans with a fresh approach to the group’s experimental material…Rogers is clearly interested in the big picture, as each song on Police, Police will pull you in multiple directions without forsaking his larger vision.The pieces work well on their own, often morphing several times over the course of their run time, but always muster enough stylistic consistency to form a coherent album.That’s why Everything, Now!’s grand pop experiment succeeds.” – Splendid Police, Police! is the debut album from Muncie, IN-based Everything, Now!, an eclectic blend of instruments ranging from guitars, keyboards, broken bottles and tubas to trombones, car crashes, xylophones and vocal chants. Coupled with intelligent lyrics from songwriter Jon Rogers, Police Police draws from a number of different influences and makes a grand statement on pop music.

Everything, Now! Police, Police

Selling Points

File Under: Alt Rock CD: STD 1021 (I)

• Named a Band of the Week by Paste • Glossy CD wallet packaging • Debuted at #19 CMJ Most Added; charted in CMJ Top 200 • College radio promotion through Pirate Promotion • Commercial specialty service • Retail and publicity through Fanatic Promotion • Ads will run in Under the Radar, Verbicide, Nuvo Newsweekly and The Machine

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Key Markets Hometown: Muncie/Indianapolis. Also:Atlanta, Bloomington, Louisville, Chicago, Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, New York,Atlanta, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Seattle, Portland,Toronto, Boston, St. Louis, Kansas City, Omaha, Austin, Dallas, Ft.Worth

Track Listing Intro • Massacre at Birdshit Carwash • I Live in a Trailer Park • Double Bath • The Ritual • Rocketship, IN! • Fishbowl Prank

Overview “If you were ever a fan of the Violent Femmes, The Dead Milkmen or Calibretto 13, then you won’t want to miss Harley Poe. Lyrically, the songs cover a gamut of stories, from cheating lovers to transvestite cannibals…all in manner that will either leave you laughing out loud or wondering just what the hell is wrong with this guy.” – Urban Tulsa Weekly In the Dark is more than an audio CD. Packaged inside a 50-page, full-color, hardcover book, In the Dark is a collection of psychotic children’s stories about zombies, evil clowns, loners, cheating spouses and homicidal maniacs.The hand-constructed book, complete with illustrations and stories from Joseph Whiteford himself, comes with a CD of upbeat songs about the same subject matter.

Selling Points

Harley Poe In the Dark File Under: Alt Rock CD: STD 1019 (L) 6 6 6973 1 01 92 4 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

• Packaged with a hardcover 50-page book (the size of a jewel case) • Established sales history of songwriter Joseph Whiteford through Calibretto 13 (Tooth & Nail Records) and Calibretto (Standard Recording Co.) releases • Publicist will be hired for Spring/Summer 2006 tours • Press publicist will be hired for press reviews • Ads will run in Rue Morgue,Verbicide,The Machine and Nuvo Newsweekly

Key Markets Hometown: Kokomo/Indianapolis.Also: Chicago, Louisville, Cincinnati, Columbus,Tulsa, St. Louis,Ann Arbor, Kansas City, Omaha, Jacksonville, Dallas, Ft.Worth, Austin, Philadelphia, Denver, Boulder

Track Listing I’m Coming For You • Transvestites Can Be Cannibals Too • Vampires Night Out • Corrupting My Better Half • Prom Night • I Could Always Eat Your Brain • The Girl Had Syphilis • Homicidal Maniac • Date with the Undead • The Uglies • I’m Coming For You (LIVE) • Prom Night (LIVE) • Corrupting My Better Half (LIVE) • Homicidal Maniac (LIVE)

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mise en abyme Jesquibel File Under: Alt Rock CD:WED 7 (P) 8 5 1 43 1 00 1 07 0 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists M. L. Mae – guitar, keys, vocals, programming Ahn Mae – bass, vocals, programming “Chesty” Mae – turntables, keys, vocals, programming Jonathan Esquibel – guitar

Overview mise en abyme’s music has often been called “organic,” an odd but accurate description for this electronic band. Jesquibel is a stimulating mix of electronica and rock, and, as their second release on Marriage Records, firmly establishes mise en abyme’s unique mix of analog instrumentation and digital mutation. mise en abyme’s first album, Crochet, was released on Marriage Records in 2003 and is a mellow collection of sample-driven arrangements. In 2004, mise en abyme created the soundtrack for Gideon Klindt’s video art piece Cat and Cake, which was featured at the 2005 Portland Film Festival.The band was also one of many much-admired groups – including Thanksgiving, Y.A.C.H.T., Little Wings, Mount Eerie, The Blow and White Rainbow – to be collected on Marriage Records’ first compilation, Is Orange Birds. In August 2005, mise en abyme toured with Adrian Orange of Thanksgiving, performing as his back-up band and featuring Orange on drums during their own set.

Press Quotes “Fabulously weird, and just fabulous.” – The Wire UK “...Hitting varied but consistently thoughtful grooves that allow these mechanized compositions to grow into a delightfully organic whole.”

– Resonance “…mise en abyme are messing with music standards enough to warrant laborious classifications like ‘post-electronic-post-rock-postlyrical-deconstructed-lounge.’ The band’s latest album, Jesquibel, is a continuous back-and-forth trade between digital and analog that somehow maintains remarkably organic, meticulously splicing samples among skittish beats and both key and guitar melodies that unfurl into (post-) ambience.” – Willamette Week “mise en abyme’s sound is very rich, very refined, and a joy to take part in.” – Tiny Mix Tapes

Selling Points • Touring in Summer 2006 • Features hand-screened covers • “Reaching” was featured on BBC 3’s Mixing It • Positive reviews in The Wire UK and Resonance • Full press and radio service by Marriage Records • Ads will run in Arthur

Key Markets Hometown: Portland.Also: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Seattle, Las Vegas, Reno, Philadelphia, Boise, Anacortes, Pittsburgh

Track Listing Reaching • Onslaught • A Life of Sequence • The Magicians • Parts Attack • Norm • Parachutes • Reaching (Reprise) • Aldalido • Glass • Bitty

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LKN Postulate I File Under: Alt Rock CD: GDP 22 (L) 6 1 9981 1 7 5 72 2 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Lauren K Newman – vocals, guitars, bass, drums, various instruments

Overview “Jill-of-all-trades” doesn’t even begin to describe Lauren Kathryn Newman, but it’s going to have to do until a more appropriate word is invented. Newman is the brains and beauty behind LKN; on her third full-length, Postulate I, she wrote and played every single second of music. When she first began writing music, Newman said she wanted to write what she wanted to hear but no one else was doing. The first incarnation of this was Pensacola-based StellaMarie, which began as a 4-track recording and became a touring band that lasted four years.Then, in 2003, Newman moved to Portland and began performing as LKN, writing and recording all of her own material and taking friends & fellow musicians on the road to bring the albums to life. LKN’s recordings are infused with the passion of a woman with a purpose. Postulate I is an epic album full of intensely moving vocals, heavy layered chords and powerful hammering beats that hit right in the gut. From the opening of the first song, LKN’s Postulate I puts the listener in an inescapable trance, and as the album closes with a beautiful and almost unexpected piano ballad, the listener is left wanting more.

Press Quotes “Whether navigating the hazy minimalism of drawn-out guitar feedback, pushing light speed with riff work, or coughing up a gut-wrenching and conflicted wail, Newman’s composition puts the class back in swinging moods and the glamour back in swinging fists.” – Bettawreckonize “A supreme rock performer.” – SXSW.com “Newman let loose a short and intense display of jagged heavy-metal acrobatics, miraculously resuscitating the set as her able rhythm section pushed her on.” – Willamette Week

Selling Points • Two previous LKN releases still in print • First in a series of three connected albums • Extensive West Coast tours in April, followed by full U.S. tours in late Spring/Summer • Full national/tour PR campaign by Yarrr! PR • College/specialty radio and tour campaigns • Full retail/street team support • Ads will run in MRR, Amplifier, Punk Planet and more

Key Markets Hometown: Portland. Also: Seattle,Tacoma, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Pensacola, New York, Buffalo, Phoenix,Washington DC, Baltimore, Pittsburgh

Track Listing A Formed Supply of Chaos and Harmony • Hope/fiction • Prognosis • Circumstance • Long Road Psalm • Odyssey Into a Void • Facilitator • I Can Think of a Better Question • Traveling Quiet In Crowds • Draw the Curtain • Once Very Long Ago • Freeze • Close the Door Also Available

LKN

LKN

January 2005, 10 Songs

In the Leap Year

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Norfolk & Western A Gilded Age [Enhanced] File Under: Alt Rock CD: HSH 61 (J) 7 5 1 937 28 41 2 3 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Adam Selzer – guitar, vocals Rachel Blumberg – drums Dave Depper – bass Amanda Lawrence – viola Cory Gray – trumpet,Wurlitzer

Overview The only band on the circuit with a Victrola in tow, Norfolk & Western has long embraced the mystery of music with a timeworn patina.

It is this service to song craft and willingness to step out of the spotlight that has perhaps has kept their name from the being writ with the tallest letters on the marquee. Both Selzer and partner Rachel Blumberg have played supporting roles in other well-known acts, as backing band for like-minded troubadour M Ward, and Blumberg as the winsome drummer for The Decemberists and Laura Veirs. A Gilded Age signals the dawning of a new era for N&W. Selzer has long demonstrated the ability to craft exquisitely defined, sonically arresting songs, but with A Gilded Age (recorded at Type Foundry Studios), he helps Norfolk & Western flex their songwriting muscles with dramatic, singular results. The songs on A Gilded Age cascade dynamically and unrelentingly – elevating the long-form EP format to new heights – from the trademark Victrola opening to the positively invigorating, overdriven guitar and banjo attack of the title track.

Perhaps more so than any band in recent memory, Norfolk & Western have distilled their strengths with a collection of songs so undeniably strong they are virtually assured a spot in the canon of indie-folk legends.

Press Quotes “…The kind of album that rewards multiple listens, revealing details slowly but surely, and once it captures you, it’s hard to escape its grasp.

But then, it’s hard to imagine why you’d want to.” – Pitchforkmedia “There is an overarching visceral and sustaining appeal to this album.” – PopMatters “A glorious, hallucinatory piece of work.” – All Music Guide

Selling Points • Norfolk & Western recently toured with M Ward, performing both as openers and as his backing band • Rachel Blumberg was a member of The Decemberists for several years • Full PR campaign by Pitch Perfect PR (Iron & Wine/Calexico, Dirty Three) • Full college radio mailing and PR service through AAM • Ads will run in Readymade, Magnet, Resonance,Venus, Under the Radar, Pitchforkmedia, Skyscraper, Rockpile and more

Key Markets Hometown: Portland.Also: Eugene, Seattle, Olympia, Bellingham, Spokane, Pullman, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Omaha, St. Louis, Austin,Tucson, Phoenix, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chapel Hill, Madison, Providence, St. Petersburg,Tampa, Reno, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Cheyenne

Track Listing Porch Destruction • A Gilded Age • Watch the Days Slowly Fade • There Aint No Places Left For Us • Minor Daughter • Clyde and New Orleans • We Were All Saints • A Voice Through the Wall

Also Available

Norfolk & Western Dusk in Cold Parlours CD: HSH 42 (N) 7 5 1 937 23 5 82 8 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Blanket Music The Love/Love Translation File Under: Alt Rock 2XCD: HSH 58 (2D) 7 5 1 937 27 932 7 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Chad Crouch – lead vocals, guitar Dave Depper – bass, vocals Greg Lind – drums Michael Johnson – Rhodes, vocals

Overview For their fourth proper album, Portland quartet Blanket Music gathered in the former South Portland Library to self-record a collection of love songs rooted wholly in earnestness.They came away with not only their fourth, but their fifth album as well – collected here in a two-disc set entitled The Love/Love Translation. The Love weaves through a pastiche of pop idioms while showcasing the intrinsically unique artistry of the four members, embracing their strengths and limitations confidently.They continue to build on their reputation for pop eclecticism, each song representing an artistic metamorphosis in the tradition of The Beatles and David Bowie. Love Translation collects love songs written by friends, largely presented as “interpretations.” Well-known ballads from The Decemberists and M Ward have equal footing among the up-and-comers and underexposed alike, all of who bear some relation to Crouch’s HUSH label. With this disc, Blanket Music have not only memorialized their music community, but created a compelling album in the lost tradition of covering contemporaries unabashedly, offering up alternate versions with gusto.

Press Quotes “Often compared to Belle & Sebastian, Blanket Music differs by channeling the influences of Motown, country and even swing. It blends these genres well, creating an eclectic brand of pop. Crouch’s vocals resemble a more lucid Conor Oberst, but he’s got a unique, almost foreign, way of phrasing his lyrics.” – Magnet “Crouch understands the difference between getting in people’s faces and inviting them to come to him.This style of indie pop often takes the latter route, making it easy to overlook but that much more seductive…a perfect balance, and this is his most compelling album.” – Pitchforkmedia

Selling Points • Cultural Norms reached #20 on the CMJ Top 200 in January 2004 • Blanket Music will perform at SXSW; upcoming West Coast tours • Mailing to media outlets; college and commercial radio service via AAM • Ads will run in Magnet, Resonance,Venus, Under the Radar, Pitchforkmedia, Skyscraper, Rockpile, Big Takeover and more

Key Markets Hometown: Portland. Also: Seattle, Amherst, Providence, Washington DC, Chicago, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Nashville, Chapel Hill, Indianapolis, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego,Tucson, Phoenix, Boulder, Denver, Dallas, Austin, Houston

Track Listing DISC ONE: Slide • Insurrection • I Noticed You • I Love You • Kiss • Love Police • Stand to Love • Day By Day • Backdrop • Reno • Come To Me • DISC TWO: I Take On Your Days (Corrina Repp) • That’s How Love Is (Jeff London) • Collecting Rocks (Super XX Man) • Connection Time (Graves) • Red Right Ankle (The Decemberists) • Impossible (Norfolk and Western) • 43C (Kind of Like Spitting) • Undertaker (M Ward) • Yours (Reclinerland) • I Must Admit That I Love You (Bobby Birdman) • Love is a Many Splintered Thing (Amy Annelle) Also Available

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Overview The Framed

Countless Ways of Self“Garred seems to channel Leonard Cohen, singing with deadpan mystery and grave tone.”

Destruction – The Oregonian File Under: Punk

The Super Framed XX Man Countless Ways of SelfX Destruction File Under: Alt Rock

CD: RCL 17 (O) It takes a unique skill set to work as a music therapist at the Oregon State Hospital maximumsecurity wing. By day, Scott Garred works with the castoffs of society in drum circles, sing-alongs and rock bands. By night he is Super XX Man, bolstered by the spirit of camaraderie in a gentle band consisting of wife Michelle “Polka Queen of NE Portland” Garred sprinkling salt and pepper on accordion, Zach “Fingers” Boyle casting a waterfall of sound on guitar, and Ali “Little Sister” Wesly lending backup vocals, flute and brushed drum. Built on simple melodies, these songs have classic appeal recalling Buddy Holly or early Willie Nelson. Couched in major chord harmonies, the lyrics have an optimistic halo, beckoning the listener to sing along. In so doing, one will sing narratives of life and love that, while not shying away from spirituality, illuminate the dilemmas of being human. In the world of Super XX Man, we are encouraged to find someone to call “darlin,” we’re inspired to “stroll on through,” and we’re reminded that amazing grace is a sweet sound.

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Selling Points • Full PR campaign to media; full college radio mailing via AAM • Ads will run in Readymade, Magnet, Resonance,Venus, Under the Radar, Pitchforkmedia, Skyscraper, Rockpile and more

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Overview

Key Markets The Framed, hailing from Minneapolis, bring a breath of fresh air to fashion-minded punk.The boys in The Framed are Hometown: Eugene, Olympia, Bellingham, Spokane, Pullman, San Francisco, Loson here to play music, not discussPortland.Also: hairstyling tips.

To thatSeattle, end, they have focused on writing songs for their debut album Angeles,catchy San Diego, Boston,X, Philadelphia, Reality Clash. 11 original, tunesOmaha, writtenSt.toLouis, evokeAustin,Tucson, the ghosts of Phoenix, past punkNew à laYork, Generation early Social Pittsburgh, Chapel will Hill,certainly Madison,have Providence, St. Petersburg,Tampa, Reno, Vegas, Salt Lake City, Distortion and the Swingin’ Utters you listening to this album over and Las over.

Drawing several Cheyenne hundred kids per show, The Framed show no signs of letting up.This is not a band to be taken lightly.

Selling Points Track Listing Collecting • Up and Up Up • Usual Way • Garage Apartment • I Can’t Figure Out These Bottle Caps • Have been compared to Generation X, Social Rocks Distortion Swingin’ Utters • Hearts and Stars • Grace • Coulee City • Generosity • Stroll On Through New Orleans • See You in • #1 song on Radio K (Minneapolis) for two weeks running the Evening • 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 • Ads will run in Razorcake, Amp and Pulse Overview “A • KEY lovely MARKETS: blend of catchy Minneapolis pop hooks (Hometown). and indie-rock Also: Los instrumentation Angeles, San Diego, that runs Newthe York, gamut of influences from Chicago, Elvis Boston Costello andto…Built St. Louis to Spill.” – KCSR, Los Angeles

TrackTheListing Milwaukee’s Five Mod Four have spent the last several years beaming a snide smile filtered through Disposition anxious of Desperation pop melodies • Airwaves pumped •out ThebyWay loudIt‘70s Is • AM Runradio.

Away It• Whiskey was no accident Bottles •that From Thethe Onion Ashes declared of the Underground The Five Mod • Rock’n’Roll Four descendents Rip-Off • Sun of England’s Never Sets “Angry • The Young Last Men” Kiss •asBleed theyUs resonated Dry • Battle with like-minded Songs • Vengeance folk courtesy of 2004’s Portnoy and their split EP with The Wrens. Now, Whiskers picks up where bands such as Miracle Legion and The dB’s left off – a mixture of keen observations related through jangly pop melodies and crisp, light rhythms wrapped up in a nostalgic blanket. From the full-bodied rocker “Somebody Failed” to the Orange Juice cover “Poor Old Soul,” The Five Mod Four translate their influences and songcraft into something uniquely their own – a pop record of lazy perfection that spans a record collector’s most prized LPs, a bookworm’s favorite texts, and a seeker’s latest thrill.

The Five Mod Four Whiskers

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File Under: Alt Rock CD: CTP 47 (I)

• Split EP with The Wrens has sold over 3,000 copies, mostly via word of mouth • Touring planned for Spring/Summer 2006 • National college radio campaign through AAM • Contraphonic will service national print & online magazines • Ads will run in Pitchforkmedia, Aversion, Indie Workshop and more

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

Track Listing Hot Wax Weekend • The Sound of My Own Wheels Has Driven Me Crazy • Somebody Failed • Ghosts (And Masks) • There Will Be No Cahoots • Poor Old Soul • That’s Why I Didn’t Like 1996 • That Was No Phantom • The Laws We Break • Lust • Second Hand Smoke • We Sure Are Lucky I Wrote This Song 32 12

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Overview “A bewitching fusion of slowcore, dream pop and post rock.” – All Music Guide Swelling in haze of Hammond organs, Rhodes piano, trembling bells and hypnotic guitars, Seekonk sets the mood for another album that takes you on a journey. Full of slow-blooming melodies, heavy pop concoctions and majestic twists & turns, Pinkwood is a collection of expansive pop songs. Seekonk is the sort of band that avoids easy categorization while they remain immanently listenable and engaging throughout all their phases, and Pinkwood traces their trajectory with the warmth of good oldfashioned analog recording. Continuing down an atmospheric and strangely nostalgic path, Seekonk returns with eight gracefully powerful songs about fuckin’ up, fuckin’ off and killin’.This is Pinkwood.

Selling Points • Recorded on 2” analog tape for maximum audio quality • Coast-to-coast U.S. tour planned for Spring 2006 • Debut album, For Barbara Lee, received rave reviews and charted at #23 on the CMJ Core Charts • Full publicity and radio campaign planned • Tour support with full mailing to media outlets along tour route • Ads will run in The Wire, Signal to Noise, Under the Radar and more

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Key Markets Hometown: Portland, ME. Also: Boston, Providence, New York, Philadelphia, Northampton, San Francisco, Chapel Hill, Columbus

Track Listing Love • Orange and Blue • Armstrong • Power Out • Mar • Take My Wife • Air • The Great Compromise

Overview “...Old space rockers never die... they just decide to leave Earth for good and go permanently into space. Nuff said...buy this album.” – Aural Innovations

F/i A Question for the Somnambulist File Under: Avant Rock CD: SAA 40 (O) 7 8 985 6 3 0 402 8 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Along with Die Kreuzen, Boy Dirt Car and sister band Vocokesh, Milwaukee psychedelic rockand-sound legends F/i spawned a space-rock scene in the ‘80s unlike any other around. By harnessing the ghosts of Hawkwind and Blue Cheer, extracting the German avant rock scene from the early 1970s as defined by Guru Guru, Ash Ra Tempel and Agitation Free, and sifting it through industrial sounds akin to Throbbing Gristle and Nurse With Wound, over time it has become evident that F/i have quietly influenced a whole new generation of exploratory instrumental freakers.

Originally issued in a miniscule run in 2003, A Question for the Somnambulist traverses dark and hazy landscapes, hypnotic textures laced with electronics and exploratory guitar riffs dripping with effects.

Resuscitated from the annals of uber-obscurity for another suckerpunch to your third eye, this reissue includes one bonus track from the sessions and comes in a limited edition of 1,000 housed in a deluxe letterpressed and recycled paperboard package.

Selling Points • F/i virtually defined the space-rock scene of the latter ‘80s with releases and many reissues found on RRRecords and Lexicon Devil • Marks the return of founding member and Vocokesh leader Richard Franecki • Limited reissue in deluxe letterpressed cardstock package printed by Stumptown Press • Strange Attractors Resurrection Series,Vol. 4

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Hometown: Milwaukee. Also: Madison, Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis, Austin, Philadelphia, Boston, New York, Atlanta, Portland, San Francisco

Track Listing Uber-Wizards of the 88th Meridian • Hit The Kill Switch, Eugene • Keep the Third Eye Open • Surgical Procedures on the Ship • Using Enemy Weapons • No Pepsi in Kabul • Prelude to the Afternoon of the Daisy Cutter • A Question for the Somnambulist • The Hot Shop (Bonus Track) STREET DATE APRIL 11, 2006

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My Cat is an Alien Cosmic Light of the Third Millennium File Under: Avant Rock CD: IPT 77 (P) 7 9 3447 5 0772 9 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Maurizio Opalio – electric alien guitar, mini-xylophone, cosmic percussions Roberto Opalio – alien vocals, electric astral guitar, space toy, piano toy, cosmic percussions

Overview Like some kind of droned-out Sun Ra, My Cat is an Alien landed only long enough to drop off the masters and artwork at Important Records before vanishing into the cosmos (or Torino) once again.This new full-length album, recorded April 2005 at MCIAA’s Alien Zone, consists of three tracks with a total length of 49:20 minutes. Cosmic Light of the Third Millennium is the sum of My Cat is an Alien’s myth-poetic imaginary. Here, the Opalio space-brothers push their improvised music of the spheres into new cosmic territories, where the use of wordless vocals impresses a still-unheard lyricism inside the sublime complexity of their unique musical textures. My Cat is an Alien is the improv duo formed by brothers Maurizio and Roberto Opalio.They both primarily play electric & acoustic guitars, various toy instruments and percussion. Since forming in late 1997, they have released several CD-Rs and vinyl on their own Opax Records.

MCIAA’s debut recording immediately thrilled Sonic Youth, and two months later the brothers made their live debut supporting Sonic Youth’s 1998 Italian tour. During the past six years, MCIAA have been invited to perform live on Sonic Youth European tours as well as at Kim Gordon and Jim O’Rourke’s solo shows. In July 2004, MCIAA started on a series of special ART-split LPs called From the Earth to the Spheres featuring the Italian duo alongside outsider artists such as Thurston Moore, Jim O’Rourke, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Christina Carter (Charalambides), Thuja and Glands of External Secretion with Nels Cline. Because of the great success of the project, Very Friendly is issuing the whole series in CD format!

Press Quotes “Roberto and his brother Maurizio are the highly advanced lifeforms crewing the mysterious starship that goes by the name of My Cat is an Alien (MCIAA), plotting a quixotic course through three millennia of cosmic music, from the celestial drones of the Pythagorean monochord onwards, to land up in the gravity-free realm of the No-mind.” – The Wire “Italy’s My Cat is an Alien is the finest two-brother band from Italy since the end of the Great War. Their sounds move through the air the way that a tub of fine Roman butter moves through a circus ape.” – Byron Coley & Thurston Moore, Arthur “This is proper minimalism, the art of LaMonte Young; only while Young longed desperately for a trance-state, MCIAA start in one and work from there…it is so staggering, so mesmerizing, and makes music on its own terms so definitely, that it has a certain menacing, willfully unpretty and monolithic grandeur, like some intractable slab of rock or a vast, empty desert.” – Stylus

Selling Points • MCIAA’s debut recording immediately thrilled Sonic Youth and two months later the brothers made their live debut supporting Sonic Youth’s 1998 Italian tour • In 2002, MCIAA took part in the Torino BIG Festival, curated by Christian Marclay • Thurston Moore released MCIAA’s international debut on his own Ecstatic Peace label; since then, they have released albums on Eclipse Records, Very Friendly/Cargo UK, Last Visible Dog, Starlight Furniture Co., Free Porcupine Society, U-Sound Archive and many more • Press & radio service by Important Records • Ads will run in Signal to Noise,The Wire, Brainwashed and more

Key Markets Boston, Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Cleveland, Milwaukee

Track Listing Section I • Section II • Section III

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Overview “While his countless post-punk contemporaries wallow in self-misery and miserable poetry, Michael Gira – the former leader of avant-noise-droners Swans – creates a ruptured synthesis of blues, folk, and rock with his new acoustic-based group.” – San Francisco Weekly This is the third Angels of Light album to be released in limited edition on Important. Like the first two, it is limited to 500 copies on deluxe double virgin vinyl.According to Michael Gira, this album “started, innocently enough, with the intent of being a simple collection of well-written songs performed by the musicians who played them live for the last few years, with the addition of a few acoustic songs, lightly colored. Instead, as things often seem to go around here, I ended up saturating every available molecule of the recording tape with sound, then hacked, cut, poured sonic fertilizer/salt on the resultant wounds, and it finally metastasized into this raging/weeping beast, which in the end succeeded in slowly biting off my head, leaving this album behind as evidence.”

Selling Points • Michael Gira formed Angels of Light in the immediate wake of The Swans’ breakup • Vinyl has been in demand for these releases since their initial release on CD. New Mother and How I Loved You sold out instantaneously!

• Ads will run in Signal to Noise,The Wire, Brainwashed and more

The Angels of Light Everything is Good Here/ Please Come Home File Under: Alt Rock 2XLP: IPT 79 (2R) 7 9 3447 5 0791 0 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Key Markets Hometowns: New York.Also: Seattle, Los Angeles, Portland, Boston, Chicago, Austin

Track Listing Palisades • All Souls Rising • Kosinski • Nations • The Family God • Because She Was • Rose of Los Angeles • What You Were • Sunset Park • Wedding • What Will Come

Overview “Moving with the slow, inexorable force of some gargantuan sea-beast from Norse mythology, Ocean marry heaving riff tectonics with expansive rockscapes, straddling doom metal and post-rock with their colossal, continent-eclipsing sound.” – Mojo Since the CD release of Ocean’s Here Where Nothing Grows three months ago, the band has toured the U.S. and garnered massive international press – described as “monolithic” (Pitchforkmedia),“soon-to-be classic” (Stylus) and “cinematic to say the least” (Terrorizer).This version of the album is pressed onto 200-gram vinyl (for deep bass tracking) and packaged in a deluxe letterpressed black-on-black dust jacket. The D-side features an exclusive cover of “Siamese Twins” from The Cure’s Disintegration.

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Ocean Here Where Nothing Grows File Under: Metal 2XLP: IPT 91 (2L) 7 9 3447 5 091 2 9 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

• Here Where Nothing Grows has sold over 2,000 copies on CD, and the buzz is still growing • This deluxe double set is pressed on 200-gram vinyl and packaged in a letterpressed black-on-black dust jacket • Special vinyl edition is limited to only 500 copies and has a bonus D-side cover of The Cure’s “Siamese Twins” • Ocean tours regularly and has shared stages with Lair of the Minotaur, Grief, Unearthly Trance, Dove and Buried Inside • RIYL: Neurosis, Burzum, Buried at Sea, Sunn 0))), Earth, Electric Wizard, downers, absinthe, molasses, sloths • Ocean generated an immediate buzz in the metal underground with their self-released demo CD-R • Press & radio service by Important • Ads will run in Signal to Noise,The Wire, Brainwashed and more

Key Markets Hometowns: Portland, ME. Also: Boston, Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Cleveland, Milwaukee

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Overview “It’s as though Laurie Anderson’s vocoder had been infected by a gleefully disruptive software virus.”

– BBC

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Renowned international composer Maja Ratkje is a founding member of two of Norway’s most respected improvisational units – Spunk and Fe-Mail.While her solo work on the Rune Grammofon release Voice lacks the electronic and instrumental elements of these projects, Stalker finds Ratkje merging elements of her other projects into her solo endeavors. Ranging from furious to tender, Stalker was recorded in Paris and at various live dates around Europe. This live material was then brought back to a studio in Norway and laboriously edited for release. Like much of Ratkje’s work, Stalker flawlessly contrasts these two distinct emotional and audio extremes.While Stalker is influenced the most by Japanese noise, it is also a quiet emotional drift based around Bertold Brecht’s story of a drowned girl who floats down a river while her body slowly dissolves.With this dichotomy hanging in limbo, Ratkje fills in the blanks with her signature compositional attention to detail and balance.This vinyl-only picture disc is limited to 500 copies worldwide.

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• As a founder of both Spunk (Rune Grammofon) and Fe-Mail (Important, Asphodel), Ratkje is an internationally recognized figure in experimental music • Stalker is a limited edition full-length picture disc limited to 500 copies worldwide • Fe-Mail’s debut full-length was released on Important to much critical acclaim • Ads will run in Signal to Noise,The Wire, Brainwashed and more

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Boston, Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Cleveland, Milwaukee

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Track Listing Stalker Pt 1 • Stalker Pt 2 • Stalker Pt 3

Overview Introducing the Cosmic Blues, the fifth release in Important’s Arts & Crafts series, is also My Cat is an Alien’s introduction to their full-length on Important Records.This 7” is limited to only 300 copies and comes in deluxe screen-printed packaging with an individual Polaroid photograph taken, altered and signed by the Opalio Brothers.

Selling Points • Fifth release in the Arts & Crafts series, which pairs sound art with original physical art. Other artists in the series have included Dresden Dolls, Jad Fair and Hafler Trio • Limited edition of 300 with hand screen-printed covers by Neil Burke at Monoroid

Key Markets New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Detroit, Springfield

My Cat is an Alien Introducing the Cosmic Blues File Under: Experimental 7”: IPT 93 (L) 7 9 3447 5 0932 7 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview The sixth installment in Important Records' Arts & Crafts series is this 7" from Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo, recorded with Alan Licht on guitar, Christian Marclay on turntables and William Hooker on drums. Pressed on white vinyl and packaged with a screen-print designed and signed by Ranaldo, this is strictly limited to only 500 copies.

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• Sixth release in the Arts & Crafts series, which pairs sound art with original physical art. Other artists in the series have included Dresden Dolls, Jad Fair and Hafler Trio • Ads will run in The Wire, CMJ, Brainwashed, Signal to Noise and E/I

Key Markets Hometown: New York.Also: San Francisco, Providence, Montreal, Portland, Seattle, Northampton

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Overview “A life-changing moment fixes the beginning of Brosseau’s brilliant album…a love letter to what was lost [and] a series of snapshots from a childhood that ended when the dikes gave way.The understated melody [and] plaintive voice…sound as if they come from some faraway time.” – Chicago Tribune Since the 2005 release of What I Mean To Say Is Goodbye, Tom Brosseau has garnered much acclaim from media and celebrity alike, including Chord and Harp as well as John Doe and Bonnie Raitt. On the heels of this success comes a re-release of Brosseau’s 2001 CD The Blue Record, which has been unavailable for several years.All the songs have been re-mastered, and Brosseau has added five bonus tracks, three of which are previously unreleased. “Used to Own a Rowing Boat” is an outtake from the Goodbye recording sessions with Sam Jones, while “The Young and the Free” is a 2003 on-air recording from KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic with Nic Harcourt.

Tom Brosseau Tom Brosseau

Selling Points • The first 10 tracks of this release are re-mastered gems from Brosseau’s previously unavailable release, The Blue Record, which has been out of print for several years • Extended liner notes by Gregory Page • Radio service by Planetary Group; press service to various publications

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Key Markets Hometown: Los Angeles. Also: San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Boston

Track Listing No Reason • I Have Been a Prisoner, O Lord • The Young and the Free • Broken Hearted Love • Rose • Josephine • Never Had Much Luck • Yodeling for You • The Apple Girl • I Tuned My Guitar to the Hum of the Train • I Live With Other People In Mind • Ballad of a Wandering Farmhand • My Bonnie Brae • Used to Own a Rowing Boat • The Young and the Free

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Overview “…Feverish new wave romps rub elbows with clever, introspectively twangly epics, and there’s an expansive DMZ between the two extremes where The Chaps mix ‘n’ match the bits & pieces and tinker to their hearts’ content. The results are sublime.” – Splendid

The Buttless Chaps Where Night Holds Light File Under: Alt Rock CD: MRI 91 (M)

Put on your cloak, light your candles and prepare to writhe to the backwoods sounds of The Buttless Chaps’ newest excursion into the realms of the unknowable. Formed in Victoria eight years ago, until very recently the Chaps were Dave Gowans, Lasse Lutick, Morgan McDonald and Torben Wilson, but were recently enhanced by the addition of Ida Nilsen (Great Aunt Ida).

Where Night Holds Light picks up hot on the heels of The Chaps’ most recent Mint release, Love This Time, and takes the obsession with animals, insects, gardening and human suffering to its (musically) logical conclusion. Imagine if Depeche Mode had recorded The Byrd’s Sweetheart of the Rodeo, or if The Handsome Family had done a version of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Where Night Holds Light sounds like nothing you have come across before, even if you are already familiar with The Buttless Chaps!

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• Features such Canadian music luminaries as Martin Tielli and Tim Vesely of The Rheostatics, JP Carter of The Inhabitants, Jesse Gander of Operation Makeout/Black Rice, Roger Dean Young and Lyndsay Poaps • Includes new member Ida Nilsen, who is also in Radiogram, Beans and The Gay • Exhaustive North American tour planned for 2006 • Nationwide advertising push • College radio promotion through AAM • Ads will run in Vice, Big Takeover, No Depression, Arthur, Rockpile, Magnet and Harp

The Buttless Chaps

Track Listing

Love This Time

Caboose • Blanket of Pain • Cornered and Jaded • Master and Commander • Movements • Migratory Birds • Insects • The Poacher • Where Night Holds Light • Occupations of Freedom

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Overview The Framed

Countless Ways of Self“A quietly compelling collage of Norwegian folk, Appalachian country, scratchy blues and distorted Destruction pop.” – Uncut File Under: Punk

CD: RCL 17 (O) This is St.Thomas’ warmest album to date – his fifth in total – and the Norwegian singer/songwriter known for his crazy live shows gets serious in the studio this time! Over a five-day period in January 2005, Children of the New Brigade was recorded at Athletic Sounds with producer Kai Andersen, and features guest appearances by David-Ivar Herman Düne, André Herman Düne and Néman Herman Düne.The first taste of the album came in the form of the four-song Morning Dancer EP released in Norway on June 13th, which got great reviews in the press and showed terrific promise for Children of the New Brigade.

The St.Thomas Framed Countless of SelfChildren ofWays the New Brigade Destruction File Under: Alt Rock File Punk CD:Under: RJU 33 (M) CD: RCL 17 (O) 7 0441 7 6 05 02 2 6 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Selling Points • St.Thomas has toured with Of Montreal in the U.S. and has supported Will Oldham, Ryan Adams and Arab Strap • He has collaborated with Lambchop, Calexico and Howe Gelb, performing an improvised show at Gelb’s request • Featured on Magnet’s cover (with Kings of Convenience) as Best New Norwegian Sound • Press and radio service with a focus on East Coast,Texas and Chicago

Key Markets Overview New York, Boston, Brooklyn, Nashville The Framed, hailing from Minneapolis, bring a Austin, breath Atlanta, of fresh Chicago, 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 Reality Clash. 11 Track original, catchy Listing tunes written to evoke the ghosts of past punk à la Generation X, early Social LASwingin’ Man • Last Word Of Course Youyou Were Thereto • Morning Dancer • Instrumental Sound • The Long Distortion and the Utters will• certainly have listening this album over and over. Drawing several Also Available Goodnights • Children of the New Brigade • Dream On • Twisted Cowboy • Sheer Wonder hundred kids per show,The Framed show no signs of letting up.This is not a band to be taken lightly.

St.Thomas Let’s Grow Together Points Selling 24 (M) • CD: HaveRJU been compared to Generation X, Social Distortion and Swingin’ Utters • #1 song on Radio K (Minneapolis) for two weeks running 7 2 3724 67 1 42 3 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA • Have shared stages with Street Dogs, Lower Class Brats, Juliette Lewis & The Licks, • Print promotion via postcards, posters and flyers • College radio service • Ads will run in Razorcake, Amp and Pulse Overview The • KEY Donkeys MARKETS: areMinneapolis four dudes from (Hometown).

San Diego.They Also: Loslike Angeles, makingSan music Diego, together.

New York, Sometimes their music Chicago, is loud, Boston and sometimes and St. Louis it’s quiet, but it is always awesome. The Donkeys are Sam, Jessie,Tim and Anthony.This is what The Donkeys told me and they also said they didn’t want me to make Track them sound tooListing retro or ‘60s and I’m gonna try not to, because it wouldn’t be fair. The Donkeys basically Disposition just of write Desperation great songs.

• Airwaves At one time • TheorWay another, It Is •various Run Away members • Whiskey of The Bottles Donkeys • Fromhave the Ashes been the of the backing Underground band for Cass • Rock’n’Roll McCombs, Rip-Off Casiotone • Sun Never for Sets the Painfully • The LastAlone Kiss • Bleed and Papercuts.

Us Dry • Battle On their Songsown, • Vengeance they’ve got the ramshackle tightness of The Band, or Jerry Jeff Walker, or Will Oldham.The raw power of Ronnie Hawkins, or Neutral Milk Hotel.The pop chops of Beulah, or Of Montreal.The psychedelic mystery of Gris Gris, or Skip Spence.While none of these comparisons fully does it, and the fellas will probably hate my choices, it’s a starting point. The Donkeys do country-rock, The Donkeys do pop, The Donkeys do indie-rock, The Donkeys do psych. The Donkeys do.

Selling Points • U.S. tour in Spring 2006 supporting Casiotone for the Painfully Alone • Recorded and engineered by Jason Quever (Cass McCombs, Papercuts) • Excellent psych-pop and country-rock from San Diego • Radio promotion by AAM • Extensive press promotion

Soviettes and more

The Donkeys The Donkeys File Under: Alt Rock CD: ANT 516 (O) 6 4 631 5 45 1 62 7 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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

Track Listing She’s a Wolf • Come On Virginia • Blood Hill • Paisley Patterns • Lower the Heavens • Don’t Leave My Heart Alone • Black Cat • No Need for Oxygen • In the Morning • Put Into a Pail

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Antenna Farm

Overview “The band strikes upon a notably individualistic chord, honing their crunchy hard rock into a taught, unified wall-of-Les Paul…the fact is that with all the stoner rock nodding-off going on these days, Throttlerod’s focused assault and admirable songwriting economy are clearly their greatest weapons.” – All Music Guide The history of music has shown time and again that losing a member can mean a band’s instant death.

Thankfully, Richmond’s Throttlerod had a skilled guide when making the transition from quartet to trio. Andrew Schneider, producer of Cave In and The Blue Man Group, has been with the band every step of the way, chronicling every new incarnation with a corresponding release. Nail not only follows the natural progression Schneider has cultivated, but takes the boys into musically uncharted territory – the album is aggressively abrasive, with more emphasis on the punk & metal that inspired them to start a band in the first place. Producer aside, the one characteristic each of their releases share is the fact that the band couldn’t have made a better album if they tried…that is, until the next one.

Selling Points

Throttlerod Nail File Under: Alt Rock CD: SSO 63 (O) 7 09764 1 0632 3 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

• Produced by Andrew Schneider (Cave In, Scissorfight, Roadsaw, Blue Man Group) • Throttlerod songs have been featured on Viva La Bam and several other MTV shows, as well as on a multitude of video games including NHL 2K6 Hockey • Major media mailing in conjunction with release date

Key Markets Hometown: Richmond. Also: Boston, New York,Washington DC, Charlotte, Greensboro, Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Atlanta, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Rochester Also Available

Track Listing Prizefighter • Stand ‘Em Up • Horse Paw • Big Name • A Fly on the Fault Line • Nail • Rabbit • Shovel • Teething • Indian Head

Throttlerod Hell and High Water CD: SSO 39 (O) 7 09764 1 0392 6 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview “Dixie Witch’s…‘Southern by the grace of God’ rock is a welcome respite from plebe rock.” – Austin Chronicle

Dixie Witch Smoke & Mirrors File Under: Alt Rock CD: SSO 62 (O) 7 09764 1 0622 4 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

With thousands of miles under their belts, Dixie Witch has honed their talent to a razor-sharp point, culminating in the epic Smoke & Mirrors. Produced, engineered and mixed by considerable talent Joel Hamilton (who has worked on recordings by everyone from Unsane & Mike Patton to Elvis Costello & Gil Scott Heron), Smoke & Mirrors packs the punch of six long years on the road into just under an hour of the loudest, dirtiest rock ‘n’ roll the boys could muster. Southern charm comes oozing through the thick riffs and powerful percussion of what can only be called classic American songwriting.With this masterpiece under their belts, the tour that never ends will rise up again this spring, bringing the explosive fury that is Dixie Witch back where the boys feel most comfortable...on the road again.

Selling Points • Full U.S. tour booked for Spring 2006 • Dixie Witch has a very loyal fan base built during previous tours with Clutch, Alabama Thunderpussy, Acid King, Fu Manchu, Halfway to Gone and more • Dixie Witch songs have been featured on Viva La Bam and several other MTV shows, as well as on a multitude of video games including NHL 2K6 Hockey • Major media mailing in conjunction with release date

Key Markets Also Available

Dixie Witch

Hometown: Austin.Also: Dallas, San Antonio, Houston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Portland, Eugene,Tacoma, Seattle, Bellingham, Albuquerque, New York, Brooklyn, Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, Kansas City, Lawrence, Phoenix, Denver, Boulder

Into the Sun

Track Listing

CD: SSO 43 (O)

Set the Speed • Shoot the Moon • S.O.L. • Out in the Cold • Ballinger Cross • Getaway • Bridges • What You Want • Thursday • Gunfight • Last Call

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Overview The Framed

CountlessTime WaysPromises of Self- Power is the unlikely grouping of Dan Haugh Did The Orb hire a drummer?

(Smoke and Smoke,Destruction godheadSilo) and Alec Vance (Chef Menteur).Although this album may Punk surprise those familiar File withUnder: the backgrounds of both members, these lads are adept at wearing many CD: RCL 17 (O) musical faces, and are explicitly unafraid of exploration.With Tomorrow Grieves Today, Time Promises Power delivers an album that unrepentantly drifts from the smoky dance floor to the adjoining rock club. Produced in New Orleans soon after the horrific wake of Hurricane Katrina, this 13-track release abandons the concept that an electronic album needs to be strapped to a specific genre. From the dub-influenced “NINEZERODAWG” to the Kraut rock-inspired “Tonight the Stars Revolt,” TPP brings us songs that reference a familiar universe while laying their own unique and mysterious foundation of synth-injured hooks, solidly fumbled beats and atmospheric hypnosis.

The TimeFramed Promises Power Countless of Today SelfTomorrowWays Grieves Destruction File Under: Electronic

Selling Points

• Second full album from Time Promises Power • Features members of rock/noise band godheadSilo (Sub Pop, Kill Rock Stars) File • Special guest vocals by Spencer Moody (Murder City Devils, Dead Low Tide) CD:Under: ITR 35Punk (N) CD: RCL 17 (O) • Club/DJ-oriented 12” single planned for Spring 2006 will feature remixes of “Tonight the Stars 7 2 3721 21 425 8 Revolt!” by Caro, Carlos De Silva, FCS North and DJ Fucking in the Streets NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA • Daily radio play on local New Orleans station WTUL • Full press campaign to print, radio & web Overview • Ads will run in The Stranger, Portland Mercury and more The Framed, hailing from Minneapolis, bring a breath of fresh air to fashion-minded punk.The boys in The Framed are here Key Markets to play music, not discuss hairstyling tips. To that end, they have focused on writing songs for their debut album on Reality Hometown: New Orleans.

Seattle,ofSan Francisco, Angeles, San Diego,Social NewDistortion York, Portland, Clash. 11 original, catchy tunes written to evokeAlso: the ghosts past punk à laLos Generation X, early and the Washington Swingin’ Utters will certainly haveDC, youChicago listening 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 lightly.

Track Listing Consenting to the Condition • Smells Like FEMA • Captain Mountaintop • NINEZERODAWG • Tweak Selling Points

theX,Rich • Tonight the Stars Revolt! Utters • Calhoun • Fuck You Grey Ghost • I Dream of Hovercraft • The • Have been compared to Generation Social Distortion and Swingin’ Future of Immortality • Recognizer • Rope of Gloves • Buy 2 Maggots Get 10,000 Free • I Am a • #1 song on Radio K (Minneapolis) for two weeks running Fashion God • 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 • Ads will run in Razorcake, Amp and Pulse Overview “Rejects • KEY MARKETS: the motifsMinneapolis that have congealed (Hometown). into cliché, Also: Los andAngeles, comes up Sanwith Diego, a music New York, where intuitive rhythm Chicago, andBoston analytical andintellect St. Louisjostle each other and become one... ludicrously superb.” – Village Voice

Track Shot X Shot isListing an improvisational acoustic quartet performing original compositions steeped in jazz tradition, Disposition butofwith Desperation experimental • Airwaves sensibilities.

• TheFormed Way It Isin•2003 Run Away while •the Whiskey members Bottles were• students From theatAshes Philadelphia’s of the Underground University • Rock’n’Roll of the Arts, Rip-Off Shot • Sun X Shot Neverhas Sets quickly • Theestablished Last Kiss • itself BleedasUs a Dry • Battle groundbreaking Songs • Vengeance band in one of jazz’s most important cities. Having been exposed to (and performed) all sorts of eclectic music, the group infuses its compositions with diverse, modern influences and a daring spirit.With Dan Scofield and Bryan Rogers on dueling saxophones, ballasted by drummer Dan Capecchi and bassist Matt Engle, the band’s multidimensional sound relies on each musician’s unique contribution. Both Scofield and Engle are key members of African percussion-infused jazz Shot X Shot group Sonic Liberation Front, whose 2004 High Two album Ashé A Go-Go was highly praised by the Village Voice, Jazz Times and The Wire. Scofield is also a member of noise-improv band Wolf Vs. and Shot X Shot File Under: Avant Jazz performs, alongside Rogers, in Bobby Zankel’s large ensemble. Capecchi, a recent transplant from CD: HGH 7 (P) Minnesota, is a former member of indie rock band Triangle and folk ensemble Jackaroo.

Selling Points • Liner notes by distinguished jazz author and critic Francis Davis • Features members of Sonic Liberation Front, Triangle, Jackaroo and more • Shot X Shot will tour the East Coast in April/May 2006 • Full service to press, webzines and radio by High Two • Ads will run in JazzTimes, Arthur, Signal to Noise, Copper Press, All About Jazz, Pitchforkmedia and more

Key Markets Hometown: Philadelphia. Also: Boston, New York, Minneapolis, Chicago, Providence, Washington, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, San Francisco

Track Listing Bee Assassins • One Point Three Full Breaths • Two Improvisations • Volzalisle • Chains of Agree

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Overview “Psychobilly brilliance!” – Rock n’ Roll Purgatory The Koffin Kats are HairBall8 Records’ best-selling artist for a reason: these three Motor City madmen know the value of touring and also happen to write songs that make the guys slam dance and the girls lose their underpants. On Straying from the Pack, the Detroit trio dives deeper into rich melodies and vocal harmonization. Razor-sharp, wicked lyrics permeate these soon-to-be-classic Kats tunes!

Selling Points • The Koffin Kats are rapidly gaining more exposure through their recent appearances on The Psychobilly Sickness DVD, the Psychoward compilation and an AMP psychobilly sampler currently available on countertops at over 600 Hot Topic stores • Full U.S. tour planned for March/April 2006 with labelmates Uncle Fucker • Full press solicitation by Tallman PR • National college and specialty radio mailing • Ads will run in AMP, Skratch, Rue Morgue, Punk Planet, MRR and Rock n’ Roll Purgatory

Key Markets

The Koffin Kats Straying from the Pack File Under: Punk CD: HBL 22 (O) 7 3 3792 64 642 1 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Hometown: Detroit.Also: Orange County, Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Riverside, San Bernardino, Corona, Los Angeles, Hollywood, Las Vegas,Tucson, Phoenix, Seattle, Portland, Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, El Paso, New York, Chicago, Houston, New York, Philadelphia, Boston

Track Listing March of the Waynos • Splatterhouse • Setting Her Free • Mechanical Youth • Graveyard Tree III • Crack Rock • Buzzkill Bitch • For Hire

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Koffin Kats Inhumane CD: HBL 7 (O) 6 8 02 1 5 3 4 642 3 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview “The perfect band for psychobillies who also dig street punk. The Wrecking Dead sound like The Business meets Nekromantix and that’s a good thing!” – TexasPsychobilly.com The Wrecking Dead recently moved from Copenhagen to New Jersey, and The New Breed is the first release since their self-titled debut on Germany’s Crazy Love Records in 2003. The Wrecking Dead play loud and fast psychobilly with healthy doses of tight street punk and oi! mixed in – perfect beer-drinking music for punks, psychos, greasers and football hooligans! For fans of Cocksparrer, Klingonz, Cockney Rejects and The Living End.

Selling Points

The Wrecking Dead The New Breed File Under: Punk CDEP: HBL 23 (I) 7 6 4942 07 692 8 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

• Sold 5,000 units of their debut on Crazy Love; 2,000 in the U.S. • Appeals to street punk, psychobilly and oi! fans alike • Full U.S. tour planned for April 2006 • Full press solicitation by Tallman PR • National college and specialty radio mailing • Ads will run in AMP, Skratch, Rue Morgue, Punk Planet, MRR and Rock n’ Roll Purgatory

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

Track Listing Copenhagen • Rodeo Riot • Go Psycho • Wrecking Dead Psychos • Commando

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Overview The Framed

Countless Self- with colorfully descriptive lyrical content about “Down ‘n’ dirty Bowery-style rockWays ‘n’ rollofcrunch Destruction drugs, heartbreak, boredom, decadence, and barely surviving the sleazy seduction of the dog-eat-dog Under: Punk mean streets of NYC.”File – Razorcake CD: RCL 17 (O) This is Rockin Roll Dynamite, rocker Kevin K’s 14th album and his last with French band The Real Kool Kats.This time around, Kevin K’s sound is at its most mature and thoughtful, featuring ‘50s gang swagger, ‘70s bowery sleaze and ‘80s drug-fueled frustration all molded into one great rock album the world needs to hear.

Selling Points • Kevin K has played alongside the greatest rockers in the genre since the late ‘70s, from Johnny Thunders and Dead Boys to The Ramones • Kevin K often tours the U.S. with The Trash Brats’ guitarist Ricky Rat • Feature interview in upcoming Loud Fast Rules, plus one track on their sampler • Ads will run in Razorcake, Loud Fast Rules and Rock ‘n’ Roll Damnation • Updates and press through FullBreach77.com and MySpace

The KevinFramed K Countless of SelfRockin RollWays Dynamite Destruction File Under: Punk File CD:Under: FBK 9Punk (O) CD: RCL 17 (O) 6 431 5 7 37 5 67 8 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Key Markets Hometown: New York/Tampa. Also: Orlando, Miami, Fort Lauderdale,West Palm Beach, Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, Detroit, Ann Arbor, Overview

Portland, Seattle, The Framed, hailingBoston from 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 Track writing songs for their debut album on Reality Clash.Listing 11 original, catchy tunes written to evoke the ghosts of past punk à la Generation X, Down in the • Call • Rockin Roll Dynamite • Going Nowhere Fast • Life in a Ditch • I Waskids a Also early SocialAvailable Distortion and the Swingin’ Utters willSewer certainly have you listening to this album over and over.

Drawing several hundred Teenage Pig • For You My Love • Hillbilly Man • Old School • All Fixed Up • She • Death Trip per show,The Framed show no signs of letting up.This is not a band to be taken lightly.

Kevin K & The Real Kool

Kats Selling Points Perfect Sin 3 (O) • CD: HaveFBK been compared to Generation X, Social Distortion and Swingin’ Utters • #1 song on Radio K (Minneapolis) for two weeks running 6 7 6941 77 1 22 6 • 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 “…A • KEYmore MARKETS: than promising Minneapolis outbreak (Hometown). for this Also: exciting Losband Angeles, that San I canDiego, imagine New burning York, life at both ends, Chicago, from the Boston earlyand morning St. Louis make-up sessions to the shows at night. Heartening.” – Veglam

Soviettes and more

Track The Soda PopListing Kids have been making quite a name for themselves in recent years. Formerly the charismatic DispositionKill of Desperation City Thrillers, • Airwaves this fun-lovin’ • The Way bunch It Isof• riff-raff Run Away relocated • Whiskey to Portland, Bottles •hooked From the up Ashes with former of the Underground Riffs frontman• Tony Rock’n’Roll Mengis Rip-Off & The• Weakling’s Sun Never Sets Stevie • TheKix, Lastand Kisswere • Bleed reborn Us Dry as The • Battle Soda Pop Songs Kids.

• Vengeance SPK seamlessly combine the guitar pop of the New York Dolls, the snotty punk edge of The Stooges and the infectious R&B rhythms of Chuck Berry. Throughout the glammed-up Write Home, they unleash their bubblegum garage punk full-force upon eager fans like one big temper tantrum.

Selling Points • First release since the Kill City Thrillers’ sold-out 7” single • Feature interview in upcoming Loud Fast Rules, plus one track on their sampler • Ads will run in Razorcake, Loud Fast Rules and Rock ‘n’ Roll Damnation • Updates and press through FullBreach77.com and MySpace

Key Markets Hometown: Portland. Also: Denver, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Diego, Boise, San Francisco, Austin, Detroit, Seattle, Colorado Springs, Salt Lake City

Track Listing Put On Your Tight Pants • Bop It Up! • Chained With Your Love • Shots of Whiskey • Electric Blood • Mona (Stay Away) • Paper Rose • Memory Lane • Get Tight! • Leavin’ Kill City

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The Soda Pop Kids Write Home File Under: Punk CD: FBK 7 (O) 6 431 5 7 375 76 0 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview “On their very short list of musical influences, each of the fine gentlemen that makes up the HS Dropouts list The Ramones. And it shows! From the vocals to the lyrics to the music, it’s three chords, gabba gabba hey, all the way. Quite enjoyable.” – Candy for Bad Children Among today’s most important Italian punk rock bands, the Highschool Dropouts strike with the follow-up to their excellent self-titled debut. No longer in search of the ‘70s Ramones style that marked their previous works, Rivalry sounds like plain and simple rock. Fuzzed-out guitars, distorted bass and mammoth-stomp drums are the recipes for an astonishing new full-length effort – 10 brandnew tunes recorded during the blizzard of February 2005 at the infamous Elfo Studios in central Italy.

Selling Points

Highschool Dropouts Rivalry

• Highschool Dropouts have received U.S. exposure through split singles with Texas band Darlington • Featured on AMP’s pop punk compilation (10,000 plus sold) • Debut sold 2,500 in the U.S. • Service to key press and fanzines • New release features in Alternative Press and AMP • Ads will run in Punk Planet, Caffe!ne, PureVolume, AbsolutePunk, PunkUnited and more

File Under: Punk CD:WYN 35 (O) 8 03 2 87 2 792 5 2 5 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Key Markets New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Cincinnati, Miami, Fort Worth, Tampa

Track Listing Peter Criss • Reptile • (I’m) Headed Downtown • New Granada Kid • Maximum Overdrive • Rulers of the City • Firing Line • Destination • The Dead are After Me • Hit the Foxx

Overview “Red & Gold is a DIY band, with a DIY mentality. The indie was practically dripping off of them as they set up to play. It was clear this band wasn’t there to sell records; they were there to rock their instruments and to rock them hard.With a driving drumbeat, their set took off and soared into disarray. Dual vocals screamed back and forth across the stage amidst crashing cymbals, deep-cutting bass lines, and insane guitars that picked you up and threw you back down in one intensely melodic hook.” – Philadelphia Weekly Resembling a hit and run more than an album, this EP will hurt you and leave you. Five quick, abusive songs feature multiple desperate vocals and crass guitars with secret melodies buried somewhere in the wreckage. Sing along and sing aloud, because it won’t last long, and soon you’ll be craving more from Red and Gold.

Red & Gold Your Napoleon File Under: Punk CDEP: LUJ 24 (E) 7 5 1 937 2825 2 5 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Selling Points • Red & Gold have played with Breather Resist, These Arms are Snakes, Me Without You, Pedro the Lion and Lords • Features ex-members of Veronica (The Militia Group) • East Coast tour in Summer 2006 • RIYL: Drive Like Jehu, Rites of Spring, Fugazi • Press campaign by Riot Act Media • Radio promotion by Tricycle PR • Featured MP3s on MySpace, Pure Volume, Insound and Pitchforkmedia • Ads will run in Wonkavision, Modern Fix, Amplifier, Copper Press, Big Takeover, Status Hyperactive, Skratch, Punk Planet, Under the Volcano and Heart Attack

Key Markets Hometown: Philadelphia. Also: New York, Baltimore,Washington DC, Seattle, Chicago

Track Listing Beg For Water • My House, My Shepard, Etc. • I Learned War • Darkest Day (My Hope and Song) • Sins of the Father STREET DATE APRIL 11, 2006

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Rose Melberg Cast Away the Clouds File Under: Alt Rock CD: DAG 22 (M) 6 5 6605 88 62 2 0 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Rose Melberg – vocals, guitars, piano, flute, ukulele, drums Nick Krgovich – vocals, piano Saundrah Humphrey – violin

Overview Straight out of a Sacramento high school, Rose Melberg entered the indie-pop 7” scene in 1992 with the first of her many successful bands, Tiger Trap, and the all-girl foursome quickly became the stars of a burgeoning indie-pop/punk movement centered in Olympia,WA and labels like K Records and Kill Rock Stars. Too good to last, Tiger Trap split after their second U.S. tour, leaving one classic album and an EP on K Records. Melberg quickly teamed with Jen Sbragia to form The Softies, possibly her best-known project. With just guitars and angelic voices, The Softies debuted with a 7” and mini-LP on Slumberland Records, toured the U.S. five times (once with Elliott Smith) and released three amazing albums and singles, also on K Records, from 1994-2001. At the same time, Melberg managed to front Go Sailor, who collected their sought-after pop singles on Lookout Records and had two songs featured in the campy film But I’m a Cheerleader. Melberg also recorded various duets and solo tracks while on tour, compiled on Portola and released by Double Agent Records in 1998. After giving us an avalanche of mellifluous albums to treasure, Melberg kept quiet for five years while she started a family in a small Canadian town. Now, she is back with her solo masterpiece, and her maturity is immediate – long after graduating from Indiepop University, she emerges as a developed singer/songwriter akin to Nick Drake, Tracey Thorn, Elliott Smith and Isobel Campbell (Belle & Sebastian).

Press Quotes “File Under: simply beautiful indie-pop. Rose Melberg is best known as half of The Softies, an understated, sparkling acoustic two-guitar and two-voice group whose albums bring to mind rose petals, rosy blushes, rock roses and summer afternoons on a crushed-out best friend’s roof, watching the roseate sun as it sets without you. If you’re already in love with Melberg’s voice, or with her simply moving lyrics, all you need to know is that this exists.” – CMJ “With the gauzy innocence and childlike simplicity of Moe Tucker’s moment in the Velvets’ spotlight…Melberg’s voice has the proud yet vulnerable quality of a spurned teenager in love.” – Boston Phoenix

Selling Points • First new material since 2001! Rose Melberg has a huge cult following from past bands Tiger Trap, The Softies and Go Sailor • Performers include Nick Krgovich (P:ano) and Saundrah Humphrey (Math & Physics Club) • Full U.S. tour in 2006 • National press promotion by Girlie Action • Ads will run in Magnet,Venus, Pitchforkmedia, Exclaim and more

Key Markets Hometown:Vancouver, BC. Also: Sacramento, Portland, Olympia

Track Listing Take Some Time • The Orchard • Cold Sea • Cast Away the Clouds • Irene • Spin • Little Bird • Something Else • Four Walls • Constant and True • Your Tears • Each New Day Also Available

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Calvin Keys Vertical Clearance File Under: Avant Jazz CD:WID 269 (M) 6 9 8873 02 692 2 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Calvin Keys – guitar Matt Montgomery – bass Babatunde – drums Sonny Fortune – saxophone Doug Carn – organ Phil Ranelin – trombone Kat Ouano – keys Headnodic – beats

Overview Calvin Keys returns to Wide Hive for his seventh solo release, Vertical Clearance! The Bay Area virtuoso guitarist is well known for his performances and recordings with greats such as Ray Charles, John Handy, Bobby Hutcherson, Eddie Marshall, Sonny Stitt, Pharaoh Saunders, Joe Henderson and Leon Williams.

With outstanding contributions from jazz legends Sonny Fortune, Phil Ranelin, Doug Carn and Babatunde, guitarist Calvin Keys’ new album draws upon their collective roots (which span classic cult labels Strata East, Tribe and Blackjazz) to create an authentic and inspiring recording. Highlighted by dark melodies and driving rhythms, Keys’ playing has somehow become more precise and edgier over time.

Also features a new beat by Headnodic (Crown City Rockers)!

Press Quotes “Calvin is a natural. His playing is so deep in the pocket, it comes off elegant and effortless.” – Mercury News “At times, his fluid fingerpicking threatened to free itself completely from its rhythmic moorings and escape the building into the night sky.”

– East Bay Express “This man can list such sterling greats as Ray Charles, Ahmad Jamal, Carmen McCrea, Bobby Hutcherson, Joe Henderson, Gloria Lynn, M.C. Hammer, Sonny Stitt, Tony Bennett and Luther Vandross as just a few of the folks he has performed and/or recorded with.” – Pacifica Tribune

Selling Points • Currently touring with Taj Mahal • Features jazz greats Doug Carne, Sonny Fortune, Phil Ranelin and Babatunde • Local press service by Wide Hive • Radio support through SPECTRE • Ads will run in All About Jazz and Down Beat

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

Track Listing MRGY • Spreading Spirit • Maximum Height • Seacaucus S. Rutherford • Vertical Clearance • Seven and Sonny Straight Up • Vertical Clearance • Drunk Monk • Blue D • Proceed with Caution ‘06

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Calvin Keys Detours Into Unconscious Rhythms CD:WID 233 (M) 6 9 8873 02 3 3 2 7 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Overview The Framed

Countless Ways of “Using a muse found deep in the woods, thisSelfcollective base their sound on fumbling lurches of folkDestruction rock drug groove interspersed with weevilly keyboard stuff and quite extraordinary, persistent yowling.” – The Wire File Under: Punk CD: RCL 17 (O) 49 minutes of gooey new goodness from Avarus – spread over just three tracks! From the same tattered coven of piss drinkers who alternately refer to themselves as Kemialliset Ystävät, Lau Nau, Pylon, Islaja, Es, Kiila or the Anaksimandros comes this, another Secret Eye release and a follow-up to last year’s Jättiläisrotta.These fumbling Finns conjure a smoky, shit-drunk forest of noise, folk and unsurpassable tribal improv…a delicious Yahowha soup with a spicy, burnt Amon Düül crust. Oh so highly recommended.

The Avarus Framed Countless Vesikansi Ways of SelfDestruction File Under: Avant Rock File Punk CD:Under: EYE 25 (M) CD: RCL 17 (O) 7 7 721 5 1 0992 6 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Selling Points

• Features guest vocals and noise from Tara Burke a.k.a. FURSAXA (ATP Reocrdings, Ecstatic Peace) • Avarus have received extensive coverage in both The Wire and Pitchforkmedia • In 2005, Avarus played The Wire’s Subcurrent Festival (Glasgow). In 2006 they are scheduled to perform at Dramarama (Belgium) and the Terrastock 6 festival in Providence (which will mark their first-ever U.S. performance) • Upcoming reviews in The Wire, Dusted, Signal to Noise and Pitchforkmedia • Radio service via AAM; full promo mailing to press Overview Ads will runMinneapolis, in Magnet, Signal Noise, Dream Terrascope punk.The boys in The Framed The Framed,•hailing from bring to a breath of freshand airPtolemaic to fashion-minded

are here to play music, not discuss hairstyling tips.To that end, they have focused on writing songs for their debut Key album on Reality Clash.Markets 11 original, catchy tunes written to evoke the ghosts of past punk à la Generation X, early Chicago, San Francisco, York, Boston, Portland, Providence Social Distortion and the Swingin’ Utters will certainly have Philadelphia, you listeningNew to this album overSeattle, and over.

Drawing several hundred kids per Also Available show,The Framed show no signs of letting up.This is not a band to be taken lightly.

Track Listing Avarus Jättiläisrotta Selling Points Lapsivesi • Löylyvesi • Vissyvesi

13 (M) • CD: HaveEYE been compared to Generation X, Social Distortion and Swingin’ Utters • #1 song on Radio K (Minneapolis) for two weeks running 7 7721 5 1 075 6 4 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA • Have shared stages with Street Dogs, Lower Class Brats, Juliette Lewis & The Licks, • Print promotion via postcards, posters and flyers • College radio service • Ads will run in Razorcake, Amp and Pulse Overview “On • KEY herMARKETS: drony, elegant Minneapolis solo debut, (Hometown).

KathleenAlso: Baird…sounds Los Angeles,steely San Diego, and fierce New –York, like a dryad in a spiked Chicago, tree Boston waiting and for aSt.lumberjack Louis to make her day.” – Chicago Reader

Soviettes and more

Track Kathleen Listing Chicago-based Baird, a member of the Comus-channeling freak-folk outfit Spires that in Disposition the Sunset of Desperation Rise, previously • Airwaves recorded • The soloWay under It Isthe • Run name Away Traveling • Whiskey Bell.

Bottles Lullaby • From for Strangers the Ashes is aofdelightful the Underground follow-up •toRock’n’Roll her critically Rip-Off acclaimed • Sun2005 Never debut, Sets Scatter • The Last Ways.Kiss Baird’s • Bleed voice UsisDry deep, • Battle sleepy and Songs Nico-esque, • Vengeance her instrumentation exotic and imaginative. Her lush arrangements include bells, mbira, guitars, flutes and synthesizers, all orchestrated to outline her careful, but never fussy, song craft. Baird has shared bills with Incredible String Band, Comets on Fire, Acid Mothers Temple and, in late 2005, played Chicago’s Two Million Tongues festival, sponsored by The Wire.

Selling Points • Upcoming 2006 tour with Josephine Foster • Chicago Reader chose Traveling Bell’s Scatter Ways as a Best of 2005 • Will perform with Spires that in the Sunset Rise at international psych-fest Terrastock 6 in April 2006 • Upcoming reviews in The Wire, Dusted, Signal to Noise and Pitchforkmedia • Radio service via AAM; full promo mailing to press • Ads will run in Magnet, Signal to Noise, Dream and Ptolemaic Terrascope

Kathleen Baird Lullaby for Strangers File Under: Alt Folk CD: EYE 23 (M) 7 7 721 5 1 0990 2 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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

Track Listing Traps • Breaking the Roofs • Morning Song #1 • Myself as the Shore • The Last Word • Lost Anchors • Morning Song #2 • With Which These Waters Swarm • Bury Deeper • Storms Stay Fine

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Traveling Bell Scatter Ways CD: EYE 15 (M) 7 7 721 5 1 081 8 9 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Overview “Tara Tavi…has a beautiful voice and, put on top of Barnes’ excellent interpretation...stands out like a red nose on a reindeer.” – Foxy Digitalis Auto Da Fe was formed in 2000 in Pomona, CA by Martin Kvisvic (Pyramids on Mars, Amps for Christ) and Tara Tavi (Amps for Christ, Soddamn Inssein, Aye Aye Captain [with Dame Darcy], Blue Silk Sutures, ThunderSnail). Pan-global instrumentation includes yang qin, guzheng, tambur, bouzouki, tablas, Gothic harp, Chinese banjo, Tibetan temple cymbals and bells as well as traditional guitar, bass, trumpet and drums. The Spectre spans a wide range of sounds, from tradflavored freak-folk to Middle Eastern raga and ‘80s gothic minimalist rock.

Selling Points

Auto Da Fe The Spectre

• Only previous release was a track on the False Object Sensor comp (Vermiform) along with Amps for Christ, Men’s Recovery Project, Rah Bras and more • Guest appearances by Henry Barnes (Man is the Bastard, Amps for Christ) as well as Joel Connell and Aaron Kenyon • Upcoming reviews in The Wire, Dusted, Signal to Noise and Pitchforkmedia • Radio service via AAM; full promo mailing to press • Ads will run in Magnet, Signal to Noise, Dream and Ptolemaic Terrascope

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Key Markets Hometown: Pomona/Los Angeles. Also: Chicago, San Francisco, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Seattle, Portland, Providence

Track Listing Past Times • Little Alili • Mao Meow • Child of Typhoon • The Spectre • Bao Ba Cha • Ne’er Do Will • Undun • Just Now • Huar Weishenme • Tea House Tragedy • Amanda Blaine • Monkeyking • Dynasty of Drums • Sophie • Neptune Society Ball • Urum li St.• Haricot Vert

Overview “At times it is nothing but gorgeous…a terrific document of sound.” – Uncommon Folk Chas. Mtn. began in late Fall 2003 in an overpriced, non-soundproofed practice space in the college ghetto of Boston.With influences rooted in gangster rap, dub, punk and films featuring Keith David, Ned Egg and Gary War wanted to start from scratch.The result was an album of simple but honest hardcore-folk songs with lyrical material ranging from the hopelessness of pan-capitalism to the contempt derived from the manipulation of women. Hugs lay idle until Western Vinyl decided that it was, in fact, brilliant and that there was nothing like it created in the world, ever.

Selling Points

Chas. Mtn. Hugs File Under: Alt Folk CD:WVR 37 (M) 6 5 6605 45 3 72 9 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

• Chas. Mtn. is currently working on securing a tour with their friend Ariel Pink, and will be playing SXSW 2006 in support of this release • Chas. Mtn. have shared bills with Sunburned Hand of the Man, Greg Davis and more • Features members of successful hardcore band Bane • Artwork based on a design by Kelly Rakowski, who has also designed for Hank Williams III, the Berkshire Museum, and the Mass MoCA • Service to press & web outlets • Ads will run in Copper Press, Pitchforkmedia, Brainwashed and more

Key Markets Hometown: Boston. Also: New York, Brooklyn, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, Providence, New Haven, Austin, Houston, Baltimore, Madison, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Atlanta, Denver, Boulder, Phoenix,Tempe, Albuquerque

Track Listing We’re Evil,We’re Jazz • Deep Safety • Leveled Mez • Wheels of Space • Nice Mug • Mothure • Cinematic, Unbearable • Salad of Flies • Headstripe Bitches • Jardin Cadaver • Upsidedown Hanging • Straights Riff • Fly Over the City • Sodaz • Somewhat Still and Small • Agog Hallway

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Overview The Framed

Countless of Self- guitarist/violinist. However, rather than embracing It’s tempting to describe Et Ret asWays an experimental Destruction cacophony and cold aesthetics, Et Ret’s compositions achieve warmth and resonance through File Under: Punk rhythmic and melodic repetition.

He complements his confident but restrained guitar melodies with CD: RCL 17 (O) deeply impassioned swirls of violins and cellos, calling to mind the work of Dirty Three violinist Warren Ellis. As a final touch, the compositions are accented with sparse percussion and subtle analog electronics.The final track is possibly the finest example of Et Ret’s talents. Using layers of violins and cellos, Et Ret creates a swooning, seductive tension.The final track captures the overall tone of the album – it feels like morning, like things are changing, and that’s scary and good.

Selling Points

The Et Ret Framed Countless Gasworks Ways of SelfDestruction File Under: Alt Folk File Under: Punk CD:WVR 41 (M) CD: RCL 17 (O)

• RIYL: Dirty Three, Popol Vuh, Godspeed You! Black Emperor • Et Ret will tour this spring with Western Vinyl artists Madagascar • Et Ret will perform at the Western Vinyl SXSW showcase to promote Gasworks • Service to press & web outlets • Ads will run in Copper Press, Pitchforkmedia, Brainwashed and more

Key Markets

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Hometown: Brooklyn. Also: New York, Boston, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, Providence, New Haven, Austin, Houston, Baltimore, Madison, Detroit, Los Angeles, Berkley, San Diego, San Francisco, Gainesville, Athens,Atlanta, Denver, Boulder, Phoenix,Tempe, Albuquerque Overview The Framed, hailing from Minneapolis, bring a breath of fresh air to fashion-minded punk.The boys in The Framed Track Listing are here to play music, not discuss hairstyling tips.To that end, they have focused on writing songs for their debut TheClash.

First Day • The Need Workwritten • Community Runghosts on a Head • Apokalyptein • Won ByX, Walking album on Reality 11 original, catchyfortunes to evoke• the of past punk à la Generation early • It Was Folly • Letting the Balloon Social Distortion andPure the Swingin’ UttersGo willofcertainly have you listening to this album over and over. Drawing Also Available several hundred kids per show,The Framed show no signs of letting up.This is not a band to be taken lightly.

Burd Early Selling Mind and Mother Points 27compared (M) • CD:WVR Have been to Generation X, Social Distortion and Swingin’ Utters • #1 song on Radio K (Minneapolis) for two weeks running 6 5 6605 45 2 72 2 • 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 Voices • KEY MARKETS: and Organs Minneapolis is a musical (Hometown). project thatAlso: started Los in Angeles, Autumn San 2004 Diego, as aNew collection York, of short stories.

These Chicago, stories Boston turned andinto St. Louis songs, and the songs turned into an album called Orphanage.Written in the unstable climate of Sweden and recorded on Japanese machines in the English language,V&O craft Track Listing sonic textures and dramatic melodies reminiscent of Sigur Rós or Múm, but more intimate and more Disposition focusedofon Desperation songwriting.• Airwaves Featuring •Per TheLindmark’s Way It Is • Run vocals, Awayguitar, • Whiskey organs,Bottles samples, • From accordion, the Ashes bass of the andUnderground drums, these• tracks Rock’n’Roll consistRip-Off of several • Sundistinct Neverparts Sets •seamlessly The Last Kiss sewn• together Bleed Us as Dry the• group Battle consciously Songs • Vengeance tells their story sonically, melodically and lyrically. Rooted in Voices and Organs’ love of fiction, Orphanage deals with adolescent isolation through a series of short stories about a young boy and girl in an orphanage. Whether the orphanage is a metaphor for childhood, or the other way around, is up to the listener to decide.

Selling Points • RIYL: Sigur Rós, Múm, Explosions in the Sky, Mogwai, Boards of Canada • Voices and Organs will play at SXSW 2006 in support of this release • Currently working on securing upcoming U.S. tours • Service to press & web outlets • Ads will run in Copper Press, Pitchforkmedia, Brainwashed and more

Key Markets New York, Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, Seattle, Portland, Providence, New Haven, Austin, Houston, Baltimore, Madison, Detroit, Los Angeles, Berkley, San Diego, San Francisco, Gainesville, Athens, Atlanta, Denver, Boulder, Phoenix,Tempe, Albuquerque

Track Listing Melodikka • Any Day Now • Trees Are Bending • Staircase, Attic,Window • Reaching for the Trees • Idle Words #1 • Ghostwriting • Nestlings • Through the City • As We Grew Young • Sundays • Boychild • Screamer • Singer • Back and Forth • Polyphony • Idle Words #2 • Orphans

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Nice, FR – Théâtre National de Nice Promenade des Arts

Albuquerque, NM – NM Burt’s Tiki Lounge

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San Francisco, CA – Hotel Utah

Nice, FR – Théâtre National de Nice Promenade des Arts

Chicago, IL – Empty Bottle

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Paris, FR – Le Grand Rex 3/18

Queven, FR – Les Arcs 3/20

Albion, MI – Albion Coffeehouse

4/16

Mandarin Movie Mandarin Movie

Landing Brocade CD: SAA 37 (O) UPC: 789856303724 4/21-23

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Neuves Maisons, FR – Centre Culturel Jean L’Hote

5/19/06

Victoriaville, QC – Festival Musique Actuelle

Larkin Grimm Harpoon

Colombes, FR – L’Avant Seine

3/22

Zurich, CH – Kaufleuten 3/23

Neuchâtel, CH – Théâtre du Passage 3/25

London, UK – Barbican Hall 3/26

London, UK – Barbican Hall 4/6

Boulder, CO – Boulder Theatre 4/7

Denver, CO – Gothic Theatre 4/8

Park City, UT – Eccles Center for the Performing Art 4/12

Bend, OR – The Tower Theatre 4/13

Bend, OR – The Tower Theatre 4/14

Salem, OR – Elsinore Theatre 4/15

Forest Grove, OR – Pacific University 4/29

Memphis,TN – Cannon Center

The 88 Over and Over

Providence, RI – Terrastock 6

03/03

Spires that in the Sunset Rise Four Winds the Walker

San Francisco, CA – Cafe Du Nord 03/13

El Paso,TX – Devil Bar 03/31

Anaheim, CA – Chain Reaction (Sold Out) w/ Ozma 04/01 04/02

San Francisco, CA – Slim’s w/ Matt Costa 04/04

Portland, OR – Doug Fir w/ Matt Costa 04/05

Victoria, BC – Central Bar & Grill w/ Matt Costa

Chicago, IL – Red Line Tap

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Anaheim, CA – House of Blues w/ The Muffs

5/7

Clearwater, FL – Ruth Eckerd Hall 6/22

Los Angeles, CA – UCLA Live Royce Hall 6/23

Los Angeles, CA – UCLA Live Royce Hall

St. Paul, MN – Big V's

IfIHadAHiFi No More Music CD: CTP 32 (O) UPC: 723721186159 Sat 3/11

Eugene, OR – Hult Center

5/21

CDEP: NOK 51 (E) UPC: 616892667223

4/08

Eugene, OR – Hult Center

St. Petersburg, FL – Mahaffey Theater Times Bayfront Ctr

The Box Social Blown to Bits

04/06

5/6

5/20

Providence, RI – Terrastock 6

3/23

04/07

Tampa, FL – Carol Morsani Hall Performing Art Ctr

4/21-23/06

Seattle,WA – The Crocodile Cafe w/ Matt Costa

Vancouver, BC – Richard’s on Richards w/ Matt Costa

5/19

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Sacramento, CA – Blue Lamp w/ Matt Costa

Longview,WA – Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts

Boise, ID – Morrison Center

4/21-23

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New Radiant Storm King Leftover Blues 1991-2003 CD: CTP 34 (O) UPC: 723721186050

West Allis,WI – Heartbreakers Fri 4/14

Milwaukee,WI – Onopa Brewing Co. Sat 4/15

Madison,WI – Der Rathskellar (Mem. Union)

3/19

Boston, MA – Middle East w/ The Silver Jews

The Lesser Birds of Paradise String of Bees CD: CTP 33 (O) UPC: 876585000021 3/31

Indianapolis, IN – Melody Inn 4/01

Cincinnati, OH – Junior Gallery

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