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INSIDE David J pg 2 The Ohsees pg 3 Kidd Jordan, Hamid Drake & William Parker pg 4 Dave Burrell & Billy Martin pg 5 Loren Connors pg 6 Punk Off! Vol. 1 pg 8 Greydawn – New Label! pg 11 Twelve Gauge Records – New Label! pg 15 Sublime Tribute LIVE pg 19 Nick Castro & The Young Elders pg 20 Merzbow pg 22 Zanzibara 1 & 2 pg 28

David J V for Vendetta File Under: Alt Rock CDEP: PLR 123 (I) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists David J – vocals, piano, organ, bass guitar, bowed guitar Bill Thorp – violin, viola, string arrangement Josie Abbot – cello Kevin Haskins – drums Ego Plum – guitars, bass, drums, percussion

Overview Bauhaus’ David J teamed with V for Vendetta creator and fellow Northampton, UK hipster Alan Moore in 1983 to write a “soundtrack” to Moore’s graphic novel V for Vendetta. At turns dark and atmospheric, then edgy and thrilling, this EP is the perfect sonic partner to Moore’s futuristic tale. From David J’s notes: “In 1983 my friend Alan Moore approached me with the intriguing idea of composing some music to go with a set of his lyrics which would comprise the entire text to an episode of his serialized graphic novel, V for Vendetta.The story was an Orwellian vision of a dystopian near future set in a tyrannized England – the hero V being a mysterious vigilante with a certain vaudevillian bent.When the lyrics dropped in my letterbox, I immediately opened them up, sat down at the piano and played the song through. It was a magical moment; the music came to me in a flow.The original demo is included here and was recorded a couple of days following the song’s composition. Later on, I made a more fully-realized recording incorporating strings expertly arranged by Bill Thorpe. This track, ‘V’s Theme,’ and ‘Incidental’ were released as a 12” EP on Glass Records in 1984. The ‘Overture’ was realized by Ego Plum in 2005, the same year that he and I collaborated on ‘Song from the Kitty Kat Keller.’ Also included in this package are Alan Moore’s original typed lyrics (with my notation) and his letter of instruction, as well as a letter from David Lloyd, the artist who drew the strip.”

Press Quotes “On his solo albums, David J (of Bauhaus and Love and Rockets fame) gets back to his art school roots. His haunting sound collages make use of film noir jazz, snippets of Rubber Soul acoustic pop, the disorienting synth textures of early Pink Floyd and, of course, chiaroscuro Goth shadings.” – Rolling Stone “Warm & meandering, each track stamping its own identity on the mind, the music’s structure is pared down to basics … David J has secured an individual, if confusing, talent.” – Melody Maker “Not actually a David J solo album but a fascinating collaborative effort … the prose for the entire piece comes from past collaborator and longtime Bauhaus/David J supporter and friend Alan Moore. Known predominantly for his inventive, striking comic book work in such classics of the form as V for Vendetta and Watchmen, here he creates an extended, mysterious narrative, half rumination and half invocation … a striking artistic achievement.” – All Music Guide

Selling Points • V for Vendetta is one of 2006’s top-grossing movies – the buzz is overwhelming! • Features songwriting by Alan Moore, the creator of the V for Vendetta graphic novel, and contains a reproduction of Moore’s original typed lyrics • David J’s profile has risen sharply in 2006 due to the Bauhaus reunion and the re-release of his solo albums

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

Track Listing Overture • This Vicious Cabaret • V’s Theme (Intro) • Incidental • V’s Theme (Outro) • Song from the Kitty Kat Keller • This Vicious Cabaret (Demo)

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David J

On Glass

Crocodile Tears & The Velvet Cosh

CD: PLR 122 (Q)

CD: PLR 121 (Q)

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The Ohsees The Cool Death of Island Raiders File Under: Alt Rock CD: NNK 7036 (N) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists John Dwyer – guitar, vocals Patrick Mullins – drums Bridget Dawson – backing vocals

Overview After the release of 2004’s double-disc album 3 & 4, The Ohsees (formally OCS) return with a new slab of utter innocence. The Cool Death of Island Raiders features eleven tracks of a pure acoustic/folk/synth-pop with a bounce – tunes only a soulless vampire couldn’t enjoy, like snappy teddy bear anthems for the lingering ten-year-old in us all. Here, the band turned to Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio to work his production magic, taking The Ohsees down a more refined, pop-sensible route. It’s as if they threw a sheet of fresh, pathological playfulness over a dusty loft mattress, creating by far the best goo-rock/bedroom folk our world has ever heard. It’s hard to imagine that something so innocent could spawn from the mind of America’s underground trash-rock king, John Dwyer. After the demise of his legendary garage threesome The Coachwhips late last year, Dwyer decided to center The Ohsees as his numero uno. Along with Dwyer’s distant vocals and guitar, The Ohsees features Patrick Mullins (Burmese) on percussion and newcomer Brigid Dawson, a UK native who adds loads of soft and delightful backing vocals to the band’s signature hushed ‘n’ mushed sound.

Press Quotes “Offers a cracked view of acoustic roots music.” – Time Out NY “John Dwyer carefully builds hypnotic soundscapes with a repetitive, acoustic strumming rooted in primitive, dark country music. He adds an echo of strange static sound effects that are equal parts train rumble and wind whistle to occupy the blank canvas space.The effect is mesmerizing.” – Punk Planet “Tiny fragments of rock ‘n’ roll curl around themselves, reverberating, leaving a trail of sparkling miniature harmonies behind.” – Plan B “Evokes scratchy-voiced singer-songwriters in the ilk of M.Ward only to turn around two tracks later and give the impression of a Velvet Underground B-side.” – Rockpile

Selling Points • Produced by Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio • The new full-time project of former Coachwhips frontman John Dwyer • Includes brand-new dreamy backing vocalist Brigid Dawson • Radio handled in-house and by AAM • Press handled in-house and by Force Field PR • Ads will run in Harp,Tokion, Magnet, Rockpile, and Arthur

Key Markets Hometown: San Francisco. Also: Manhattan, Austin, Seattle, Portland, Chicago

Track Listing The Gilded Cunt • The Dumb Drums • Turn Off • Losers in the Sun • Drone Number One • Island Raiders • Cool Death • Broken Stems • We Are Free • Drone Number Two • You Oughtta Go Home Also Available

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Kidd Jordan, Hamid Drake & William Parker Palm of Soul File Under: Jazz CDL AUM 38 (P) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists Kidd Jordan – tenor sax Hamid Drake – drums, tablas, frame drum, vocals William Parker – bass, guimbri, gongs, talking drum

Overview For some time, AUM Fidelity has wanted to produce an album featuring legendary New Orleans saxophonist Kidd Jordan with fellow master musicians William Parker and Hamid Drake. Finally, everything came together last summer – and then Hurricane Katrina hit. A week later, when AUM finally reached Jordan by phone and asked if he would still be able to make the session, he said, “Yeah man, let’s do it!” Kidd Jordan is the patriarch of one of New Orleans’ three principal contemporary families of music (along with the Marsalis’ and the Nevilles). A partial list of artists he has performed with over the last 40+ years includes Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, The Supremes, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra Arkestra, Ellis Marsalis, The Temptations, and Cecil Taylor. From the gorgeously gentle space-search “Forever” and the epic saga “Living Peace” to the deep North African grooves on “Unity Call,” Palm of Soul presents three master musicians in intimate musical conversation at the highest levels, rendering songs and trance pieces that elicit the full gamut of emotions. A major, utterly distinct and distinguished album work, this is, most definitely, foreground music.

Press Quotes “Other than it being wicked strong, there’s no telling what Kidd Jordan will blow next.” – New York Press “Jordan launches his solos by building them layer by dynamic layer. He circles as a bird of prey, absorbing all the positives flowing from the band, and then he plunges into the heart of the tunes with an exhilarating display of creative genius. [He ignites] the atmosphere with an overwhelming abundance of innovation and musicality.” – One Final Note “William Parker and Hamid Drake redefine the notion of a powerhouse free jazz rhythm section.Two of the most soulful and spiritual voices in avant-garde jazz.” – Other Music

Selling Points • First trio meeting of three master musicians: legendary New Orleans saxophonist Kidd Jordan, NYC bassist William Parker and Chicago drummer Hamid Drake • Recorded three weeks after Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans (Kidd Jordan’s home included) • Packaged in deluxe six-panel digipak with gorgeous artwork • Full service & promotion to national press and e-media by AUM Fidelity • Full service & promotion to college, non-commercial, and NPR radio by AUM Fidelity • Ads will run in Signal to Noise, Arthur, Point of Departure, and more

Key Markets Hometowns: New Orleans, New York, Chicago. Also: San Francisco, Austin, Portland, Baton Rouge, Los Angeles, Philadelphia

Track Listing Peppermint Falls • Forever • Living Peace • Unity Call • So Often • Resolution • Last of the Chicken Wings

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William Parker Quintet

Sound Unity

O’Neal’s Porch

CD: AUM 34 (P)

CD: AUM 22 (P)

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Dave Burrell & Billy Martin Consequences File Under: Jazz CD: AME 22 (M) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists Dave Burrell – piano Billy Martin – percussion

Overview An extreme, improvised, live musical journey that resembles modern classical and free jazz – and what makes it work is the unique chemistry between the two musicians! This recording documents the second impromptu meeting of two unique musical personalities during one week in October 2005. Dave Burrell has forged his own unique avant-garde style of playing since the 1970s in New York, where he played with Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders, and David Murray. Billy Martin, best known for his percussion work and drumming with avant-funk bands Medeski Martin and Wood and John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards, is also well known for his experimentation with many forms of experimental, African, jazz, funk, and classical music.

Press Quotes “Dave Burrell’s unaccompanied recital of new compositions astonished with his range of expression and emotional depth. His sound was admirably fat [and] his articulation was incisive.” – New York Times “Dave Burrell [is] a consistently insightful pianist [and] a scintillating solo performer.” – Village Voice “Dave Burrell’s solos are pianistic pearls.” – Down Beat “Medeski Martin and Wood bridge the gap between the New York downtown jazz scene, which features the avant-garde guru John Zorn, and the New England jam-band touring circuit, led by the popular improv-rock group Phish … drummer Billy Martin consistently strikes loose-limbed, flexible grooves.” – Rolling Stone

Selling Points • The debut from this duo, who plan to tour worldwide • Dave Burrell and Billy Martin will open the Vision Festival NYC on June 13, 2006 • Expected press in major jazz publications

Key Markets Hometown: Philadelphia, New York. Also: Boston,Washington DC, Baltimore, Amherst, Atlanta, Knoxville, Madison, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit, Providence, Syracuse, Buffalo, Rochester,Toronto,Winnipeg, Montreal,Vancouver, Austin, Houston, Miami, Chapel Hill, Raleigh/Durham, Cleveland, Columbus

Track Listing Monsoon • New Species • Moonbows • Suspension • Kuliana

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Billy Martin & G. Calvin Weston Billy Martin & Socket

Billy Martin & Bob Moses

Live at Houston Hall

January 14-15, 2005

Drummingbirds

CD: AME 19 (M)

CD: AME 17 (M)

CD: AME 10 (M)

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Loren Connors Night Through: Singles and Collected Works 1976-2004 File Under: Avant Rock 3XCD: FVR 36 (3J) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists Loren Connors – acoustic & electric guitars Suzanne Langille – vocals Robert Crotty – acoustic guitar, vocals Andrew Burns – electric guitar Neel Murgai – Persian daf Mary Mazzacane – vocals

Overview The essential collection of singles by guitarist Loren (nee MazzaCane) Connors, one of America’s most unique and challenging voices. Night Through spans four decades of Connors’ recordings, from the first solo 7” (Ribbon o’ Blues on St. Joan) and critically acclaimed, rare singles issued by Table of the Elements, Road Cone, Father Yod, Menlo Park, Gyttja, and Union Pole to his late nineties band Haunted House and recent acoustic recordings. In all, this 3XCD set contains three and half hours of music: twelve 7” singles, private CD-R releases, collaborations with Suzanne Langille and Robert Crotty, compilation appearances, and twenty-two unreleased pieces including a two-part tribute to Miles Davis and a 1959 recording by Connors’ mother Mary Mazzacane.The twenty-four-page color booklet contains detailed notes and cover art for each single, plus never-before-seen photographs, a biographical and critical essay by renowned blues scholar Dr.William Ferris, and commentary from Connors, Langille, Road Cone’s Mike Hinds, and more. Remastered from the original tapes by Jim O’Rourke, this is the definitive overview of Connors’ journey as a consummate solo artist.

Press Quotes “Outside of Derek Bailey and John Fahey, I’ve never heard such purity in guitar playing.” – Jim O’Rourke “[Connors] is an American original in much the same sense as John Fahey or Jandek, in that he’s chosen a classically American form, in this case the blues, and in true pioneer spirit, taken it off somewhere else.” – The Wire “One of my generation’s finest and most fervently iconoclast musical voices.” – Byron Coley

Selling Points • Loren Connors is an avant-garde guitar legend along with the likes of John Fahey, Derek Bailey, and Keiji Haino • Contains twelve rare and out of print solo 7”s, twenty-two unheard recordings, and a detailed twenty-four-page booklet • Includes essay by renowned blues scholar and former National Endowment of the Humanities chairman Dr.William Ferris • Press by Family Vineyard; radio service by AAM Sunday Service • Ads will run in Arthur, The Wire, Signal to Noise, and select websites

Key Markets Hometown: New York. Also: Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, San Francisco, Houston

Track Listing Come On in My Kitchen • Ribbon o’ Blues 7” • Mother & Son 7” • Five Points 7” • The Stations of the Cross 2x7” • Deirdre of the Sorrows 7” • Battle of Clontarf Pts. 1-6 • Betty Mae • Night Through • Exile 7” • The End,The Afternoon,The Light 7” • Desire 7” • Adonais 7” • Spirit 7” • In A Street Full of Rain 7” • Air • Oh Bonny Doone • Woman Taken in Adulter • For NY 9/11/01 • Pretty As Ever • The Departing of A Dream Vol. 4 • Moon Gone Down 7” • Peace • Why We Came Together • Suzanne’s Rain • I’ve Had Trouble, I’ve Had Joy • Untitled • Haunted House CDR Single • Shadows • Only When You Sleep • I Love You Porgy • Star of Bethlehem Pt. 1 • Star of Bethlehem Pt. 2 • Earth • Stars • Night in Vain • Untitled • Untitled • Untitled • For Miles Davis • For Miles Pt. 2 Also Available

Loren MazzaCane Connors

Departing of a Dream

Departing of a Dream Vol. III

CD: FVR 11 (O)

CD: FVR 34 (M)

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Lucky Dragons Widows File Under: Alt Rock LP:WED 27 (P) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists Luke Fischbeck – guitar, recorder, recording, sax, vocals, percussion Sarah Anderson – dulcimer, recorder, shakers, vocals Peter Fischbeck – banjo Annelise Grimm – shakers, bowls, vocals Joseph Grimm – fiddle, trombone, vocals Tom Van Buskirk – percussion George Langford – percussion Daphne Carr – cello

Overview Luke Fischbeck has been making Lucky Dragons music for almost seven years. He is an industrious tinkerer, and very clever with words. He has made so much great music in the past seven years that States Rights Records recently released a retrospective of his work entitled Sewing Circle. Fischbeck’s latest album, Widows, was recorded on three separate occasions, then endlessly torn apart and mashed together over the course of a year. One of the things Fischbeck discovered with this album was “a tradition of American culture that I agreed with, even felt inspired by.This is my attempt at making American music – music that describes and remembers and criticizes and embraces and expresses and illustrates and ornaments and digests and shits out what it means to be American.” With an impressive array of instrumentalists and Fischbeck’s established talent, Widows is truly mythical, mystical, and amazing.

Press Quotes “Under the name Lucky Dragons, Luke Fischbeck creates ecstatic music that completely transcends genres. My attempts to describe what his music actually sounds like always falls short of the magic he is making. I guess you could say it sounds like ecstatic magic. Challenging stereotypes that electronic music is cold and sterile, Fischbeck’s live show … is a truly great celebration of the human spirit, giving real hope for the techno-future our society is racing toward.” – Art Forum “A line between the handmade and the distanced digital … a successful forging of the personal detritus [and] the mic-ed moments between moments.” – All Music Guide “Lucky Dragons craft some of the most humane, confused, and staggeringly beautiful lap-pap I’ve ever had the pleasure of hearing.” – Portland Mercury

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National tour planned to support this album Comes with a poster designed by Luke Fischbeck Follow-up to the recent retrospective Sewing Circle, published by States Rights Records Full press and radio service by Marriage Records Reviewed in Art Forum March 2006, and on several music websites Service to writers as well as college and nonprofit radio stations

Key Markets Hometown: Providence. Also: Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Austin, Denver, Houston, Baltimore, Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Milwaukee, Miami

Track Listing New Alium • Aluvum Te Na Hagaru • Sheep and Sneezes • The Sound of Waves • Dissolve Yourself • V Pattern • Death Friends • Summer Swans • Dark Falcon • Peasantries • Pleasantries • Care For • Hello New Friend • Complement Song • Snowing Circle • Returner

STREET DATE JUNE 13, 2006

Various Artists Punk Off! Volume 1 File Under: Punk CD: NSR 126 (A) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Overview After six years of hard work and dedication, New School Records has made a remarkable presence in the punk music scene with their multi-genre roster of hard-working bands across the U.S. and Canada. Not only does their catalog consist of 25 releases to date, they have manned booths at major festivals such as Warped Tour and had numerous artist showcase tours nationwide. So, due to the continued success of the label, New School has decided to release an artist sampler to please their current fans and wow a new group of listeners. Punk Off! Volume 1 is the first installment of their new sampler series, a collection of songs by every artist that has been released on the label over the years. Before you label this CD as just another overrated compilation, take a moment to realize that it is the blood and sweat of New School Records.The compilation contains an album track by each of fourteen New School artists, plus additional unreleased bonus tracks by eight of them. Priced at only a few dollars, how could you go wrong?

Selling Points • Suggested retail price set at $2.99 to move units – not to make a profit! • Featuring all New School artists, this sampler includes fourteen album tracks and eight exclusive unreleased tracks • Contains songs from well-known producers such as Ryan Greene (NOFX, Lagwagon), Marc McClusky, Dusk Bennett, Conrad Uno, and more • Each CD comes packaged with a free sticker enclosed in the jewel case • Sticker on cellophane reads: “By the label that brought you Shut the Punk Up!” along with the contents of the release • Ads will run in Alternative Press, Skratch, AMP, Highwire Daze, Fat City, Punk Planet,Thrasher, Mean Street, Rockpile, East Coast Rocker, Aquarian, and Illinois Entertainer • All of the artists included have agreed to sell and push these while on tour • Colorful, hand-drawn, eye-catching cover screams “buy me!” to customers • Ads will run on artist websites and select punk websites • Promo copies will be sent to magazines, websites, and select college radio stations

Key Markets Hometown: Portland. Also: Seattle, Sacramento, San Francisco, Hollywood, Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Denver, Salt Lake City, Dallas, Nashville, Atlanta, St. Petersburg,Tampa, Miami, Jacksonville, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Indianapolis, Grand Rapids, Chicago

Track Listing 7-10 Split – The Battle of Shiloh • 800 Octane – Apology to You • Glasshead – Hydrophobic Mermaid • Hospital Food – Blackout • In Stereo – Waking Up • Makeshift3 – The Darkest Night of the Soul • Mourningstar – Dead to Me • My Hostage – Revenge is Therapy • Not Long After – The Guy Who Lost His Girl • Nuclear Saturday – Starless • Off the Record – Losers Never Win • Spare Lead – Giving Up On Breaking Down • Top of the Fair – The All American Girl • Twenty2 – Isolation • 7-10 Split – Your Mom (Exclusive) • 800 Octane – Beachhead (Exclusive) • In Stereo – Fashion Show (Exclusive) • Mourningstar – Andromeda (Exclusive) • Not Long After – She Wants You (Exclusive) • Nuclear Saturday – My Back Hurts (Exclusive) • Top of the Fair – West Coast Export (Exclusive) • Twenty2 – Countdown To Disaster (Exclusive) Also Available

Various Artists Shut the Punk Up! Volume 3 CD: NSR 113 (C) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Overview “Stumbling somewhere between Bob Seger and Nick Cave, Antler provide the perfect soundtrack for blackouts, bad news, breakups, and breakdowns.” – CMJ Born under a bad sign in 2002, Antler is the newest addition to the Small Stone stable. Steeped in classic rock heritage, their rustic eloquence is gleaned from oily rags, dented chrome, empty bottles, and dingy motel rooms.Their six-man roster and blue-collar soul are throwbacks to the nights when Skynyrd and the Allmans took over the Fillmore ‘cause they needed the legroom. Featuring 3/4 of the mighty Roadsaw, the members possess both the road-warrior pedigree and sonic wherewithal of true rock champions. As such, they deliver an album devoid of crass, retrograde romanticism. Dark lyricism, rough & tumble twin guitars, weeping organ riffs, and whiskey-throated vocals lock together like the callused fingers of a hangman’s fist lowering the noose over the throat of the condemned.

Selling Points • Produced by Craig Riggs (Five Horse Johnson, Scissorfight, Waltham) • Mixed by Andrew Schneider (Scissorfight, Cave In, Throttlerod, Blue Man Group) • Antler will tour the U.S. and Europe in Fall 2006.Their European tourmates will consist of both Five Horse Johnson and Honky • Antler performed at CMJ 2005 and SXSW 2006 as part of the coveted Small Stone showcase • Major media mailing in conjunction with release date • Spots on Viva La Bam,Wild Boys, Fuel TV, and other extreme sports shows

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Antler Nothing That a Bullet Couldn’t Cure File Under: Alt Rock CD: SSO 64 (O) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Hometown: Boston. Also: New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Austin, Los Angeles, Seattle, Detroit, Cleveland, Louisville, Atlanta, Richmond, Baltimore,Washington DC

Track Listing The Gentle Butcher • Deep in a Hole • A Little Goes a long way • Behind the Key • They Know I’m the One • Frozen Over • Reminds Me of a Way • Black Eyed Stranger • See Me Hang • My Favorite Enemy • A River Underground

Overview “Mene mene is uneasy listening for sure, and perhaps a touch on the esoteric side, but its dark, difficult demeanor only masks a white-hot purity that brave souls will discover and appreciate.” – Splendid

Melk the G6-49 Mene mene tekel parsin

Joyful Noise presents a reissue of the gritty, all-improv debut from Midwestern noise rock outfit Melk the G6-49, originally released in 2001 on Ol’ Gravy Records. In this forty-two-minute piece, the duo composed of John Spencer and Karl Hofstetter unleash the first fruits of their spiritual havoc into the world.Though still for the most part unknown, Melk the G6-49 would go on to achieve critical acclaim with 2002’s self-titled album and 2004’s Glossolalia, which was featured as one of 2004’s Best Records on NPR. Mene mene tekel parsin captures the earliest stage in the evolution of Melk.With this recording, we see the duo in their most introverted and uncompromising form.The pieces are just three of many lost recording sessions from the primitive Melk.This is the recorded history of two young men experimenting in the only way they knew how, and we can’t help but feel that they stumbled upon something remarkable.

File Under: Alt Rock CD: JNR 11 (H)

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• Upcoming national tour in Summer 2006 • A rare re-release of some of Melk’s first recordings! • Press campaign by Joyful Noise • Ads will run in Copper Press,Verbicide, and Punk Planet

Key Markets Hometown: Indianapolis. Also: Bloomington, Columbus, Lansing, Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, Rochester

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Melk the G6-49 Melk the G6-49 CD: JNR 1 (N)

Track Listing Mene: God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought them to an end • Tekel:You have been weighed in the balances and found wanting • Peres:Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians

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Discount through StreetDate Overview The Framed Countless Ways ofNirvana Self- channeling the MC5.” – Austin Chronicle “A loud, fast-moving Tokyo trio channeling Destruction File Under: Punk The Rodeo Carburettor is a three-piece rock trio consisting of guitarist Takeshi Kaji, bassist CD: RCL 17 (O) Makoto Takizawa, and drummer Nobuya Sakai.The band released their first mini-album, Moonlight Dance, in November 2004, immediately followed by their Hello Baby Tour. A second mini-album, Pissed Off, was released in March 2005.They were the first Japanese artists to perform at the UK’s number one music convention, In the City 2005. Using extremely refined distortion noises and a raging tension as their primary arsenal, The Rodeo Carburettor puts on an astonishing performance that leaves the audience dazzled with utter amazement and excitement, spitting out some of the most fascinating rock music Japan has seen since Guitar Wolf.

The Framed Rodeo Carburettor Countless of SelfThe RodeoWays Carburettor Destruction File Under: Alt Rock File CD:Under: DKS 2Punk (O)

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Selling Points • Debut U.S. release • Performed at SXSW 2006 and Japan Nite Tour 2006 • Service to college and community radio stations • Promos to music publications and websites • Ads will run in Punk Planet, MRR, Razorcake, and more

Key Markets New York, Austin, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Baltimore Overview The Framed, hailing from Minneapolis, bring a breath of fresh air to fashion-minded punk.The boys in The Framed are Track Listing here to play music, not discuss hairstyling tips.To that end, they have focused on writing songs for their debut album on … • Taxicatchy Drivertunes • Mink Oil • Bonnie Love R&Rof• Pissed Off à• R.B.B. (Rude Boy Bob) Social • Fly High • 8 • Reality Clash. 11 original, written to evoke• Ithe ghosts past punk la Generation X, early Motorhead Distortion and the Swingin’ Utters will certainly have you 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.

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Track Listing Disposition of Desperation • Airwaves • The Way It Isa family • Run Away • Whiskey • From theanAshes Born in the Okayama Prefecture, Umekichi is from of pedigree. Her Bottles ancestors played of the Underground • Rock’n’Roll • Sunfrom Never • The Last Kissnamely • Bleedfrom Us Dry Battle important role in expediting Japan’sRip-Off emergence its Sets period of isolation, the •Edo era Songs • Vengeance to the modern Meiji period in the mid-1800s. Being brought up in a strict family, the teenaged Umekichi was especially talented in classic ballet and piano. Late in her teens, she visited Tokyo and had a chance to see the Azuma Odori Concert, a huge once-a-year event hosted by the geisha girls.This experience had a great impact on her life. She learned to play the shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument played with a plectrum), enrolled in a state-operated academy of traditional Umekichi Japanese music, and trained for two years. She then started her professional career as a house The Voice of Geisha shamisen player in various rakugo theatres. In 2001, she made her debut as a “pop artist with a File Under: Alt World Japanese coiffure” and ever since, has been widely recognized as a missionary to communicate the CD: BTY 5 (O) Edo culture and its music to a contemporary audience.

Selling Points • Debut U.S. release • Recently performed at SXSW 2006; touring in major U.S. cities after SXSW • Service to college and community radio stations • Promos to music publications and websites • Ads will run in Japanese cultural magazines

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

Track Listing Iso Bushi • Kirigirisu • Shamisen Boogie Woogie • Otemoyan • Horete Katou • Kagoshima Ohara Bushi • Toukamachi Kouta • Ikina Karasu • Soran Bushi • Sangai Bushi • Nagasaki Burabura Bushi • Chakkiri Bushi • Yamanaka Bushi 32 10

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NAIL WELCOMES GREYDAWN RECORDS

TO ITS ROSTER

Greydawn Records is a DIY imprint operated by Greyday Records. Designed to allow self-producing Portland artists to gain North American distribution while still maintaining control of their releases, Greydawn exists solely as a resource.This is truly artist-controlled, Portland DIY music.

Overview “Sketch out a triangle with space rock, orch pop and Americana as its points;TMTR roam freely across the vast, three-cornered space between them, shifting easily from string-assisted melodic dirges to drawn-out minimalist piano figures to gently soaring steel guitar licks.” – Splendid The Mouse That Roared croons and drones to suggest a snapshot of time where you can meditate on the concept of becoming nothing, harkening back to sixties British pop tempered with American folk sensibilities and seventies progressive rock. Excommunicator is the product of two years of attempting to deconstruct conventional pop songs and reassemble them into a coherent organism. While the bulk of the album contains tight pop melodies framed in Americana transmitted from the future ghost of Juice Newton, the beginning and end are sprawling psych landscapes that define the entire journey.

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Selling Points • Targeted campaign to college radio stations and independent music magazines • Summer West Coast tour • Ads will run in Pitchforkmedia and Status

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Key Markets: Hometown: Portland. Also: Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento,Tucson, St. Louis, Austin, Athens, New York

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Track Listing Evel Knievel • The Non-Coporeal Motorcade • Master of Seasons • Southside • When the Moment is Right • My Gold is Paid • The Incredibly Nimble Fingers of Walter Cringely • Ride out the Wave • The Bells • Excommunicator • The Grifter

Overview “Pieces that began as alt country songs move farther and farther away from their origins, evolving into a combination of Americana, jazz, and ambient that could no longer be put into any category … [it] never touches the dusty, pothole-filled streets, but instead seems to float, to the effect that, as in David Lynch’s Lost Highway, you see the yellow-painted median lines flying by … 4 stars.” – Rolling Stone Like You Believe It is the second album from Seattle’s Downpilot, whose personnel include members of the Wedding Present, Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter, Laura Veirs, and Tortured Souls. Their debut, Leaving Not Arriving, received high praise from national magazines like Rolling Stone, No Depression, and Harp, as well as strong support regionally. Influential Seattle radio station KEXP has already been championing Like You Believe It, and will add the album to coincide with its release.

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Selling Points • Sophomore album from critically lauded Seattle band whose debut received glowing press in Rolling Stone, Harp, No Depression,The Stranger, Splendid, In Music We Trust, and more • KEXP is already championing the album and has committed to rotation • Paul Hiraga has toured extensively with Ian Moore, building a grassroots audience • Publicity campaign through Barbara Mitchell at Deluxxe Media will focus on regional outlets, No Depression, Harp, Paste, Amplifier, and more • Service to key radio stations (KCRW, KALX) upon release • Ads will run in Big Takeover, Amplifier, Pop Culture Press, and No Depression

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

Track Listing Mars and the Moon • Jumpstart • Cataracts • Slipstream • Antwerp • Careless • Perfect Day • A Wave • Like You Believe It • Tiny California

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The Framed Still Flyin’ Countless WaysEPof SelfTime Wrinkle Destruction File Under: Alt Rock File Under: Punk CDEP: ANT 517 (G)

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File Still Under: Punk was assembled in late 2004 by singer/songwriter Sean Rawls. San Francisco supergroup Flyin’ CD: RCL 17 (O) By the time he arrived on the West Coast, he was already a veteran of various Athens, GA bands, including Masters of the Hemisphere and Je Suis France. For the latter band, Rawls wrote a reggae song, “Never Gonna Touch the Ground,” which quickly became a live show staple and a crowd favorite. Soon, the song seemed to have a life of its own and demanded to be jammed. Rawls decided he needed to form a band based on that song, and the dream of Still Flyin’ was born. Rawls asked virtually everyone he knew in his new city to join the reggae-inspired project, and to everyone’s surprise the first practice included fifteen people.What began as a lighthearted nod to good times soon became a juggernaut, and before long the band had become a San Francisco phenomenon. Of course, it didn’t hurt that the nascent supergroup counts members of Track Star, Aislers Set, Ladybug Transistor, Love Is All, Maserati, and Red Pony Clock amongst it’s rotating collective. The band’s hybrid of rocksteady, roots reggae, and dub plays out in energetic and joyfully chaotic live shows that have gotten even the most skeptical indie rock asses shaking.The party atmosphere is infectious!

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• Features members of Track Star, Aislers Set, Ladybug Transistor, Dear Nora, Love Is All, Maserati, and Red Pony Clock • Still hasofbeen by Jens Lekman Helsinki The Framed, hailing from Minneapolis, bringFlyin’ a breath freshjoined air toonstage fashion-minded punk.The and boysArchitecture in The Framedinare here to play music, Preorder • Named 2005’s Best Noise Pop Discovery by SF Weekly Discount not discuss hairstyling tips.To that end, they have focused on writing songs for their debut album on Reality Clash. 11 original, catchy tunes

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written to evoke the ghosts of past punk à la Generation X, early Social Distortion and the Swingin’ Utters will certainly Key Markets have you listening to this album over and over. Drawing several hundred kids per show,The Framed show no signs of Hometown: Francisco. Also: Athens, Seattle, Portland, Austin letting up.This is not a band to San be taken lightly.

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Track The dense urbanListing clutter of Detroit instills in its denizens a certain can-do ethic, either with a scream Disposition Desperation • Airwaves • The Waythat It Iscelebrates • Run Away • Whiskey Bottles • chooses From thethe Ashes to rise aboveofthe surroundings or an innovation them. New Grenada of the Underground • Rock’n’Roll Rip-Off • Sun NeverofSets • The rhythms, Last Kissthundering • Bleed Usriffs, Drysoaring • Battle latter.The Detroit four-piece is a bold conglomeration dynamic Songs •and Vengeance synths, lilting vocals that alternate between male melodicism and female snarling. Formed in early 2000, New Grenada has ascended the ranks of the indie scene in every conceivable corner. In those few short years, the band has amassed a back catalog to fill a career, including compilations such as Narnack’s Confuse Yr Idols: A Tribute to Sonic Youth, from which their cover of “Eric’s Trip” earned a stamp of approval from the late DJ John Peel.They’ve recorded with Brendan Benson, shared the stage with illustrious counterparts, and extensively toured the U.S. and Canada including a stop at the 2005 Athens Popfest.

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• New Grenada have toured the U.S. and Canada extensively, sharing the stage with Thunderbirds Are Now!, Of Montreal, The Walkmen, Rainer Maria, and more • Recorded by Steve Albini • National college radio campaign through AAM • Contraphonic will service 150+ national print & online magazines • Press in the greater Detroit area will cover CD & local shows like crazy! • Ads will run in Rockpile, Punk Planet, Magnet, Pitchforkmedia, Aversion, and more

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

Track Listing Emergency Brigade • El Paso • Parting Shots • Meat is Murdermobile • Chumps • Borderline Cougar • You Said It • Infections • Episode • Leigh 32 12

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Overview “Pzychobitch did a fantastic job with this album.The way it was mixed was phenomenal. Frank Klatt and Stefan Böhm do a great job with the drums, bass, and synths, but the mysterious, powerful voice and stunning good looks of Sina Hübner really provide the group with a certain aura that sets them aside from the others. Buy this and you will not be disappointed!” – Shazam A new German sensation is emerging from the electronic underground to make its way directly into the alternative indie charts! After the success of The Day After, Pzychobitch is back with their third studio album, and this time the music is even more mature and complex. Cool electro beats mesh with smooth bass lines to create a heavy pulse and give frontwoman Sina Hübner the perfect backdrop for her incredible vocal range. Morphing from sultry to outright angry, Hübner’s voice is both strong and sexy. Electrolicious is a sonic landmark for the genre, shamelessly pillaging the world of electronic music and recombining the loot into a powerful, seamless electro cocktail that will rock the floor!

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Pzychobitch Electrolicious File Under: Electronica/Industrial CD: COP 92 (M)

Pzychobitch has achieved cult status in the industrial/electronica genres Strong back catalog sales U.S. tour planned for Fall 2006 Service to radio stations and print media

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

Track Listing Electrolicious • Cold Comfort • Strom aus Fantasie • Go Pussy Go • Whisper • Eyes Off! • Pussy Gang (vs Electrixx) • Lotus-Eater • Maschinerie • Pzycho-Pop-Groove • Atem-Heart • Method of Mêlée

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Overview “One of the wonders of flamenco is the way the most elemental human sounds – raw vocal utterances and handclaps – are wedded to the most sophisticated and virtuosic music. Guitarist Paco de Lucía is one of the international high-profile heroes of flamenco, deeply immersed in idiom, yet always willing to stray from the path … [features] beautiful vocals by La Tana and the emotive, Pastoriusinfluenced fretless bass of Alain Perez.The rhythmic rapport between de Lucia’s guitar and Piraña’s percussion is a constant delight.” – The Guardian

La Tana & Paco de Lucía Tú, ven a mí File Under: Alt World CD: COP 3027 (M)

It is no exaggeration to say that Paco de Lucía revolutionized the role of the guitar in flamenco music and today stands as its most revered figure. After 30 years of earning international acclaim, winning legions of devout fans worldwide, and exerting a towering influence on a generation of young flamenco guitarists, the maestro now breaks new ground once again! La Tana is a young flamenco singer from Seville whose early professional experience involved accompanying the dancing of Farruquito and Joaquín Cortés. Paco de Lucía discovered her in a bar in Seville, and immediately made her part of the team for his album Cositas Buenas. Her debut, Tú ven a mí, features Paco de Lucía, Javier Limón, Alain Pérez, Piraña, and Caramelo de Cuba. One of the most interesting recent offerings from a new generation of flamenco musicians!

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Selling Points • The new generation of flamenco meets the old guard! • Produced by Paco de Lucía, and his first album in nearly five years • Service to radio stations and print media

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

Track Listing Tú, ven a mi (Rumba) • Por olvidar (Bulería) • Asomada a mi balcón (Tangos) • Tus consejos (Siguiriya) • La causa de todos mis males (Rumba) • Enamórame (Bulería) • Cuando paso por tu puerta (Soleá) • La bombonera (Tangos) • Pasan los días (Bulería)

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Samsara Sound System The Framed Tales of the RedofDawn Countless Ways SelfDestruction File Under: Alt Rock

The latest project from Professor Shehab (a.k.a. Sassan Ghahri) and Alan Kushan, Tales of the Red Dawn continues to push the boundaries of electronic world music, building on the worldwide critical acclaim garnered by Samsara Sound System’s first release, Ritual of Carousel.Tracks from Ritual of Carousel have been featured on many international compilations, including Arabian Travels 2 (Six Degrees Records).This new album features guest contributions from the legendary Bill Laswell, GrandMixer DXT (the first time Laswell and DXT have appeared together in over five years) and Mark Pistel (Meat Beat Manifesto), and introduces the mighty talents of Mark Deutsch on the bazantar.The rhythms and grooves on Tales of the Red Dawn are unlike anything heard from the underground world electronic music scene, and will cement Professor Shehab’s reputation as one of its leading innovators!

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• Features guest appearances from Bill Laswell and GrandMixer DXT • RIYL: Six Degrees Records Preorder Discount • Professor Shehab is recognized as one of the leading producers in world electronic music through StreetDate • Targeted national press and college radio campaign by Massive Music America Overview • Press tied into Fallbring 2006a tour The Framed, hailingsupport from Minneapolis, breath of fresh air to fashion-minded punk.The boys in The Framed are here to play music, not discuss hairstyling tips.To that end, they have focused on writing songs for their debut KeyClash. Markets album on Reality 11 original, catchy tunes written to evoke the ghosts of past punk à la Generation X, Hometown: New York. Also: Losthis Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Denver, Boulder, early Social Distortion and the Swingin’ Utters will certainly haveSan youFrancisco, listening to album San overDiego, and over. Drawing several hundred kids Also Available per show,The Framed show no signsChicago, of lettingPhiladelphia up.This is not a band to be taken lightly. NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Samsara Sound System Ritual of Carousel Points Track Listing Selling 4 (M) Orchid Go Distortion To Heaven and • Sataya • Shiraz • Between Copper Walls • Dawn at The Devils Tower • Ahoura • CD: HaveBAB been compared to Generation X, Social Swingin’ Utters & Ahriman • Witnessed • #1 song on Radio K (Minneapolis) for two weeks running by the Owl • Suspended Desires • Baanaa • Pendulum Precision • Round the Corner Anthem • Fight • Cycle in Progress • Annar • Encircled NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA • Have shared stages with Street Dogs, Lower• Kung Class Fu Brats, Juliette Lewisfor& Flight The Licks, Soviettes and more • Print promotion via postcards, posters and flyers • College radio service • Ads will run in Razorcake, Amp and Pulse Overview • KEY Sacramento, MARKETS: Minneapolis Also:this Losdedicated Angeles, San New York, “From California’s (Hometown). capital, you’ll find and Diego, full-of-passion hardcore act. Fresh Chicago, and St. Louis music, with Boston great sing-along parts and driven melodies.The perfect soundtrack for a night of stage dives and high fives.” – Sell Our Soul

Track Listing Disposition of Desperation Airwaves from • TheNorthern Way It Is •California Run Awayis •the Whiskey Bottles • From Our the Ashes In-your-face, politically aware•hardcore best way to describe of the Underground • Rock’n’Roll • Sun Never Sets • Theand Laststraightedge Kiss • Bleedlife Usthat Drymost • Battle Discontent. Not wanting to coverRip-Off the usual topics of friendship Songsin• Vengeance bands the genre deal with, Our Discontent lyrically has more in common with a band like Anti Flag. Musically, however, they are hardcore to the bone, with hints of the mighty Black Flag showing up along with elements of Comeback Kid. Our Discontent is sure to make a splash on the hardcore scene!

Selling Points • Mastered by Bill Stevenson (ALL, Descendents, Black Flag) • Features ex-members of popular Northern California band Actions Aside • Great eight-page booklet includes lots of contacts for political groups • Service to college radio by AAM • In-house service to retail, internet, and press • Ads will run in AMP, Loud Fast Rules, Skratch, MRR, and more

Key Markets Hometown: Sacramento. Also: Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, Portland, Las Vegas, Seattle, Boston, New York, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Chicago, Baltimore

Track Listing Have We Lost • Dogma and Deceit • Shark Bit • Wave Goodbye • Ephedra Death March • The Plague • Telecast Oblivion • Curtains • Dissonance • The Name of Patriotism

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Our Discontent The First Necessity of Progress File Under: Punk/Hardcore CD: NBR 4 (L) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Twelve Gauge Records is an up-and-coming record label based out of San Jose, California.With interests in hardcore, metal, and punk, Twelve Gauge has already put out a wide range of releases to gain a name in different scenes, and strives to put out the best quality music for the fan.

Overview Yet another combination of two bands that bring you one hell of a split.This disc presents the coming together of well-established Los Angeles hardcore band Countdown and upcoming band Tiefighter (formed by ex-members of Your Last Breath and current members of More to Pride).This eightsong split brings you two completely different styles of hardcore, as Countdown reestablishes their remarkable spin on a pure, fun straightedge sound in the vein of Champion and Have Heart, and Tiefighter puts forth a new school hardcore sound for fans of With Honor and Comeback Kid.

Selling Points • Tiefighter features members of Your Last Breath and More to Pride • Countdown’s debut single has received great press worldwide • Service to online and print media as well as college radio • Ads will run in AMP, At Both Ends, Skratch, and more

Key Markets Hometown: Los Angeles. Also: Seattle, Portland, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Pittsburgh, Boston, Redding, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Cruz

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Track Listing Because Weekends Were Made For Fun • Behind the Wheel • The Long Drive Down Magnolia • Blaze It! • You’re the New Metalcore • The Face of a Liar • This Means War • A Bad End to a Worse Story

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Overview The long awaited split CD between Northern California’s favorite straightedge hardcore band Set It Straight and Arizona’s well-established Where Eagles Dare! Appealing to fans of different styles of hardcore, Set It Straight brings forth a positive message with a heavy sound. On the other end, Where Eagles Dare puts their four songs on the table with a sound unlike any other in the hardcore scene today, blending hardcore vibe with punk roots.

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Set It Straight/Where Eagles Dare Set It Straight/Where Eagles Dare Split File Under: Punk/Hardcore CDEP:TGR 3 (H)

• Features guest vocals by Spencer of At Risk • Recent Where Eagles Dare tour with Seven Generations • Set It Straight has toured with Set Your Goals, Lifelong Tragedy, and Allegiance • Service to online and print media as well as college radio • Ads will run in AMP, At Both Ends, Skratch, and more

Key Markets Hometown: Phoenix, Redding. Also: Los Angeles, Orange County,Tempe, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Seattle, Portland, Boston, New York, Austin, Chicago

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Discount through StreetDate Overview The Framed Countless Waysfrom of SelfNew to Mortville – the debut release Seattle’s #1 shit-rock basement sensations! Life Sucks Destruction Trash Fuck was recorded in a swampy basement by infamous producer Eric “Tito Ringtone”

Under: Punkbreathe trash – the double-fisted rhythm section of Ricky Randall.The TrashiesFile live, eat, and CD: RCL 17 (O) “Ricardo Retardo Robot-Dragon” Trash and Billy Goat “Gutter-Garbage-Throat” Trash is like a lo-fi runaway train stumbling it’s way through a landfill.While fucked up on booze, pills, weed, and corndogs, The Trashies got stupid for three days straight, realized it is futile to polish a turd, shrugged their shoulders, then passed out on the record button – what you’ll hear through your speakers is the result. Are we not trashed? No, we are Trashies!

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• Played the Mortville Records showcase at SXSW 2006 • Recent internet radio appearance on Shark Week; airplay on KEXP • RIYL: The Spits, Devo, Dead Milkmen, G.G. Allin, The Pagans • Finished U.S. tour in March 2006 • Radio promo through Sunday Service • Service to various weeklies, magazines, punk zines, and websites • Ads will run in Razorcake and MRR

Key Markets Hometown: Seattle. Also: Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Los Angeles, Portland, Austin, New York, San Overview Francisco, Cleveland, Brooklyn,Tempe The Framed, hailing from Minneapolis, bring a breath of fresh air to fashion-minded punk.The boys in The Framed are here to play music, not discuss hairstyling tips.To that end, they have focused on writing songs for their debut Track album on Reality Clash. 11Listing original, catchy tunes written to evoke the ghosts of past punk à la Generation X, early Bad Check • Science Sucks • Dumb & Ugly •have Sweatpants Bonerto• this Plasma Date • Discount • I’m Social Distortion and the Swingin’ Utters will certainly you listening album over and over.Meat Drawing High, kids So What • I’m a Creep • In show the Gutter • I of H8letting You Motherfuckers several hundred per show,The Framed no signs up.This is not•aAborted band to be taken lightly.

Selling Points • Have been compared to Generation X, Social Distortion and Swingin’ Utters • #1 song on Radio K (Minneapolis) for two weeks running • Have shared stages with Street Dogs, Lower Class Brats, Juliette Lewis & The Licks, • Print promotion via postcards, posters and flyers • College radio service • Ads will run in Razorcake, Amp and Pulse Overview • KEY The MARKETS: Minneapolis (Hometown). Losyou’re Angeles, San back Diego,toNew York, in time when When Bad Rackets explode from yourAlso: stereo, thrust a moment Chicago, Boston rocked and St. Louis punk rock actually … when the power in power pop came from snarling guitars and adolescent fury … when music from the garage was not retro, but faced forward with a fresh sneer. Track With the releaseListing of Full On Blown Apart, the debut CD from The Bad Rackets, that moment is right Disposition of melodies Desperation • Airwaves • TheofWay It Ramones Is • Run Away Whiskey Bottles • guitar From echoes the Ashes now. Featuring written at the altar The and• The Buzzcocks, ofCheetah the Underground • Rock’n’Roll • Sunand Never Sets • section The Lastthat Kisscould’ve • Bleedbelonged Us Dry •to Battle of Chrome and JohnnyRip-Off Thunders, a rhythm The Songs • Vengeance Damned or The Saints, The Bad Rackets have delivered a timeless thirteen-track joyride.

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Selling Points • Features ex-members of G.G. Allin’s band, Gun Crazy, The Convulsions, The Lusties, Daddy’s Drunk, and Suburban Terror Project • Played the Mortville Records showcase at SXSW 2006 • Radio promo through Sunday Service • Service to various weeklies, magazines, punk zines, and websites • Ads will run in Razorcake and MRR

Key Markets Hometown: Austin. Also: Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, New York, San Francisco, Cleveland, Brooklyn

Track Listing Couple Million Miles • Porno Magazines • Just Another Girl • Fashion Show • Traci • Cult • Everybody’s a Loser • Eye On You • CandyDish • High School Love • Shut It Off • Atom Smasher, Part I • Atom Smasher, Part II

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Overview “Louisville, KY band Squarewell has a melodic, indie rock, no-frills punk and emotional hardcore sound.The album is eleven tracks and each one is different from the other … an album for fans of Thursday, Boysetsfire and Sunny Day Real Estate.Very similar to the new sound that Hopesfall has acquired, but Squarewell does it better.” – Plastic Noise Hugging a unique, raw sound, Squarewell has achieved a lot during their existence. Spanning 2003 to the present, they have participated in many projects including a Dischord Records tribute comp, a full-length with Germany’s Millipede Records, a self-released EP, a 7” through Engineer and Koi Records, and a handful of singles. This self-titled release is the pinnacle of their achievement and growth as a band!

Selling Points • East Coast and Midwest tour in Fall/Winter 2006 • Recorded at the infamous Black Lodge (Get Up Kids, Appleseed Cast, Limbeck) • RIYL: Fugazi, MeWithoutYou, Rye Coalition, Q and not U, The Blood Brothers • Service to press, websites, and radio • Ads will run in MRR, Heartattack, Status, Flipside, Jersey Beat, and more

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Track Listing Disappearing Act • Did We Have a Choice? • We’re Only Lost at Sea • It’s Fall But Nothing Has Changed

Overview “It’s almost impossible to find a good rock band these days. Kover are an incredibly refreshing take on what has become an incredibly stale genre.They’re loud, talented and a genuinely great band … the variety in style, vocals and tempo is enough to keep anyone interested and every song is as good as the one before it. A real gem.” – Ambush the Night Featuring members of Canada’s beloved Blue Skies at War, Heroes for Sale, Going Nowhere, and Hope to Die, Kover will instantly hit you in the heart, gut, and head with just the right amount of classic post-hardcore, classic rock, and classic songwriting.With razor-sharp guitars, gruff yet melodic vocals, and a tight rhythmic foundation reminiscent of Leatherface or Seaweed, Assembly is one of their best!

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Selling Points • Features ex-members of Blue Skies at War, Alexis On Fire, Hey Mercedes, Goldfinger, Boys Night Out, Billy Talent, Death From Above 1979, Small Brown Bike, Fifth Hour Hero, Sainte Catherines, A Static Lullaby, 3inches of Blood, The Honor System, Lawrence Arms, Choke, The Exit, The Bled, Silverstein, The Black Maria, Catch 22, By a Thread, Nora, and18 Visions • Produced by Greg Dawson at BWC Studios in Ontario (Moneen, Choke) • RIYL: Hot Water Music, Small Brown Bike, Leatherface, Grade, Samiam, Seaweed, Farside, Fugazi, Failure, Hundred Reasons • Service to press, websites, and radio • Ads will run in MRR, Heartattack, Status, Flipside, Jersey Beat, Skyscraper, and more

Key Markets New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, Dallas, Detroit, San Jose, Indianapolis, San Francisco, Columbus, Austin, Memphis, Baltimore

Track Listing Intro • Buying Time • Deathbed Reflections • Blinded and Alone • Asphalt and Stone • Extinguisher • It Girl • Can’t Hide the World • Givin’ In • w/o • Frozen • Light the Sky STREET DATE JUNE 13, 2006

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FileNick Under: Punk Osbourne and guitarist Dittmeier pursued their dream of drinking beer and listening to CD: RCL 17 (O) Black Flag every weekend. After their respective hardcore groups disbanded in the summer of 2005, the two started writing songs with bassist Matt Kovarovic.The three men set out to build a heavy technical machine that brought together their collective influences, which included classic metal stalwarts Black Sabbath and Motörhead along with early nineties heavyweights Unsane and Helmet as well as a touch of modern day metal, à la Converge and Mastodon.

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Bodies The Framed HurricaneWays Bodiesof SelfCountless Destruction File Under: Punk/Hardcore File Under: Punk CDEP: ENG 92 (H)

• East Coast and Midwest tour in Summer 2006 • RIYL: Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Unsane, Mastodon, Converge, Every Time I Die, Jesus Lizard • Service to press, websites, and radio • Ads will run in MRR, Heartattack, Status, Flipside, Jersey Beat, Skyscraper, and more

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Track The Framed, hailing from Minneapolis, bring a breathListing of fresh air to fashion-minded punk.The boys in The Framed are here to play music, The Rabbit the Snake • Heaven Shines Bright on your Eyes Back to thecatchy Gutter • not discuss hairstyling tips.To that end, they haveand focused on writing songs for their debut album on Right, RealityLouisa? Clash.•11 original, tunes Big Hands written to evoke the ghosts of past punk à la Generation X, early Social Distortion and the Swingin’ Utters will certainly have you listening to this album over and over. Drawing several hundred kids per show,The Framed show no signs of letting up.This is not a band to be taken lightly. Selling Points

• Have been compared to Generation X, Social Distortion and Swingin’ Utters • #1 song on Radio K (Minneapolis) for two weeks running • Have shared stages with Street Dogs, Lower Class Brats, Juliette Lewis & The Licks, • Print promotion via postcards, posters and flyers • College radio service • Ads will run in Razorcake, Amp and Pulse Overview • KEY MARKETS: Minneapolis (Hometown). Also: Botch Los Angeles, San Diego, New York, “Ark is beauty as redefined by spazzcore pioneers and further redefined by England’s very own Chicago, St. Ark Louis Nine DaysBoston to Noand One. is nothing less than six tracks of total immersion into something shockingly sublime, from the gutteral screams and distant melodies to the jazz/grind fusion that’s as Track Listing refreshingly different as it is reassuringly hardcore. 9/10.” – Terrorizer Disposition of Desperation • Airwaves • The Way It Is • Run Away • Whiskey Bottles • From the Ashes of thecreativity Underground • Rock’n’Roll Rip-Off Never Sets • The Last Kiss • Bleed Us DryNine • Battle With to rival the blunt force of its• Sun grinding rhythms and machine-gun drumming, Songsto • Vengeance Days No One are not afraid to show their brains along with their muscle. Combining elements of grind, metal, jazz, hardcore, and prog-rock, this is technical hardcore at it’s very finest. Nine Days to No One formed in 2001, and has been obliterating stages ever since, starting with their homeland of Southeast England. Released in 2003, their debut Disrecordings garnered them much critical praise. Now, the expectations are even higher! Musically Ark is very different from Disrecordings – more stripped down, more mature and a lot heavier.

Selling Points • Upcoming split vinyl release with Spitfire and The Cursed • Debut EP Disrecordings sold out both pressings • RIYL: Neurosis, Converge, Botch, Isis, Bane, Dillinger Escape Plan, Canaan, Eden Maine, Poison the Well, Terror, At the Drive-In, Red Roses for a Blue Lady • Recorded at City of Dis with Ben Phillips (Converge, November Coming Fire) • Artwork by David Ince • Service to press, websites, and radio • Ads will run in MRR, Heartattack, Status, Flipside, Jersey Beat, Skyscraper, and more

Key Markets New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, Dallas, Detroit, Indianapolis, San Francisco, Columbus, Austin, Baltimore

Track Listing Twilight of the Idols • Jadoo • Venus On Fire • Tacit • So My Inferior,This Ends • And Then Came the Floods • Gala Contemplating (Video) 32 18

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Overview The evening of October 24, 2005 was one very special night in music. The Music Box at Fonda Theater played host to Look at All the Love We Found: A Tribute to Sublime LIVE, a benefit concert to honor and celebrate the legacy of one of most influential bands of the nineties as well as to raise funds for those in need. Artists like Los Lobos, Unwritten Law, Ozomatli, Blackalicious, Fishbone, and The Ziggens came together for one night only to put on a show for the ages. And, to top it off, many of the artists from the evening (as well as some surprise special guests) teamed up to belt out Sublime classics in the ultimate jam session. Now, everyone can relive that magical night with this special CD+DVD combo! The audio CD contains never-before-heard covers of Sublime hits and fan favorites, from a brand-new studio recording of “Ebin” by The Banned with Chuck D (Public Enemy) to a rockin’ live version of Fishbone’s “Date Rape.” These incredible tracks were not featured on the Look at All the Love We Found CD, and can only be found here! The DVD features include a performance of “Pawn Shop” with original Sublime member Bud Gaugh on drums, a music video for Fishbone’s version of “Date Rape,” and backstage interviews with Los Lobos, MURS, Unwritten Law, and more. It also includes an in-depth photo slideshow and a behind-the-scenes look at the all-star jam rehearsal that included Stephen Perkins (Jane’s Addiction), Ikey Owens (The Mars Volta), Eric Wilson (Sublime), and many more.

Press Quotes “An impressively diverse cast of musicians from a wide range of genres … nothing short of stellar.” – All Music Guide “Deliciously eclectic.” – CMJ

Selling Points • CD has scanned over 95,000 units in the U.S. in the first seven months and debuted on the Billboard Top 200 chart at #105 • HDV footage taken from a sold-out show at Hollywood’s Fonda Theater • Music Video Distributors will work national press for this release • Service to CMJ college reporters • Ads will run in Spin, Rolling Stone, AP, Eastern Surf, CMJ, Magnet, Surfing,Thrasher, Mean Street, and Slap

Key Markets Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, Reno, New York, Boston, Detroit, Cleveland, Kansas City, Austin, Dallas, San Antonio, New Orleans, St. Louis, Philadelphia, Seattle, Portland, Miami, Orlando, Jacksonville

Track Listing DVD: Bargain Music – Get Out • Long Beach Shortbus – Badfish • The Ziggens – Paddle Out • Unwritten Law – Saw Red/Save Me • Blackalicious – Alphabet Aerobics • Awol One, Abstract Rude & Josh Fischel – Waiting for My Ruca • Fishbone – Date Rape • Ozomatli – Saturday Night • Los Lobos – Pawn Shop • Jam Session – Santeria • Jam Session – Doin Time • Jam Session – What I Got \ CD: The Banned feat. Chuck D • Dr. Israel – Had a Dat • Bedouin Soundclash – Waiting for My Ruca • Mishka – Roots of Creation • Mystic Roots Band – Don’t Push Transducer Remix • Brain Failure – Burritos • Bargain Music – Get Out (Live) • Fishbone – Date Rape (Live) • Awol One, Abstract Rude & Josh Fischel – Waiting for My Ruca (Live) Also Available

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Featured Artists Nick Castro, vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, piano, saz, oud, harmonium, whistle, percussion, organ/Wendy Watson, vocals, harmonium, bells, chimes/Ryan Kirkpatrick, vocals, contrabass, fuzz bass, gong/B’eirth, vocals, whistle, harmonica/Brian Dyson, dumbek, rik, frame drums/Chris Guttmacher, nyabinghi drum, mbira, court drum/Tom Wunder, mountain drum, Moroccan tabla/Julia Cunningham, Celtic harp/Martin Salisbury, trombone/John Contreras, cello/Joolie Wood, tenor recorder

Overview West Coast psychedelic folkie Nick Castro is currently making some of most dynamic and truly original sounds to emerge from the much-ballyhooed new folk movement. Gracefully balancing sixties/seventies British Isles acid balladry and Middle Eastern traditional music with heady, pan-cultural communal jams, Castro succeeds in reaching otherworldly vistas and ocean-spanning folk transcendence. Following up 2005’s lauded Further from Grace, Nick Castro unfurls his sprawling third album Come Into Our House, easily his most far-reaching and deeply molecular outing yet. Previously backed by The Poison Tree, which included Josephine Foster and members of Espers, Castro has assembled a new band of players under the moniker The Young Elders, a truly stellar cast of musicians whose combined resumes include folk and avant rock ensembles Current 93, In Gowan Ring, Damo Suzuki’s Network, and Cul de Sac. Castro has found a lineup in The Young Elders that fully articulates his vast and grandiose visions, and subsequently Come Into Our House shimmers brightly in sound and scope. An East-meets-West melting pot of instrumentation – from acoustic guitars, upright bass and piano to Celtic harp, Moroccan tabla and nyabinghi drum – Come Into Our House is at once primitive and polished, elaborate yet elusive, seamlessly tying Bert Jansch or Vashti Bunyan-style folk song, California psychedelic folk rock and Middle Eastern traditional music to a kind of organic studio musique concrete that Can forged on albums like Tago Mago.The results are astonishing and utterly psychedelic. A modern acid-folk masterwork.

Press Quotes “Positively shimmers with willowy, sun-dappled ensemble playing, and firmly establishes Castro as yet another noteworthy voice of the present acid folk resurgence.” – Pitchforkmedia “A wonderfully soft-spoken and masterfully crafted folk album, ornamented with cautiously created traces of experimental passages, organic drones and Amon Düül-like communal trance.” – Ptolemaic Terrascope

Selling Points • Highly anticipated follow-up to 2005’s Further from Grace, which received accolades in Pitchforkmedia, The Wire, Vice, Skyscraper, Village Voice, Harp, and more • Features members of Current 93, In Gowan Ring, Damo Suzuki’s Network, and Cul de Sac • Nick Castro was featured on three magazine CD compilations in 2005: Vice, Arthur’s Million Tongues festival comp and The Wire’s Wire Tapper, spreading his profile through a combined 150,000+ circulation worldwide • Castro can be found performing on Marissa Nadler’s The Saga of Mayflower May breakthrough record, and has collaborated with members of Espers and Josephine Foster on Further from Grace and other projects • Previous tours with Vetiver, Espers, Josephine Foster, In Gowan Ring, Feathers and a slot at the first Million Tongues festival in Chicago • Packaged in a deluxe full-color six-panel foldout digipak with spot color overrun on cover • Full press campaign by Forcefield PR (Sufjan Stevens, Ariel Pink, Growing) • Ads will run in The Wire, Pitchforkmedia, Arthur, Skyscraper, Magnet, Signal to Noise, and more

Key Markets Hometown: Los Angeles. Also: San Francisco, San Diego, Portland, Seattle, Austin, Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Sacramento, Davis

Track Listing Winding Tree • Sleeping in a Dream • Picolina • One I Love • Attar • Voices from the Mountains • Standing on the Standing Stone • Lay Down Your Arms • Promises Unbroken

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Featured Artists Masami Akita – electronics, EMS synth

Overview Minazo is Merzbow’s tribute to a beloved male elephant seal that lived life in captivity at a Tokyo aquarium. Masami Akita often visited Minazo, and was allowed access to him behind the scenes. Minazo was the only male elephant seal in Japan, and became very popular through several TV appearances. He was forced to perform various stunts before audiences at each mealtime.This hard work made him exhausted, and might have caused his early death. Minazo died in October 2005 at eleven years old, still young for an elephant seal whose life expectancy is twenty years on average. According to Masami Akita, “Many of the aquariums in Japan have become mere amusement establishments. I believe that they should eventually end the exhibition of animals in the name of academic research, and instead start functioning as animal shelters only … whatever the cause of death, I feel sad and angry each time I hear about animals dying in captivity far away from their natural habitat.”

Press Quotes “There’s no need to argue. Merzbow stands as the most influential figure in noise music.” – All Music Guide “There is likely no better-known noise artist than Masami Akita, a.k.a. Merzbow … a trance-inducing rumble, a vaguely rhythmic pulse with rising and falling fuzz, playful sounds dropped in here and there.” – Dusted “An hour of good Merzbow certainly has a transformative effect.” – Pitchforkmedia “One of the acknowledged overlords of this extreme genre, there seemed few avenues which [Merzbow] hadn’t explored with the palette he’d set himself.Then, with 2005’s barrage of more rhythmic work, Merzbow opened up a whole new dimension to explore … Merzbow has become an altogether different musical animal; you haven’t heard it all before.” – Stylus

Selling Points • Merzbow is widely recognized as a massive figure in modern electronic music • Merzbow has released albums on critically heralded experimental labels such as Mego, Sub Rosa, Alien8, and Tzadik • Press mailing by Important Records • Ads will run in Signal to Noise,The Wire, and more

Key Markets New York, San Francisco, Boston, Detroit, Lowell, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Austin

Track Listing Land of Sea Mammal • Sea Breeze • Voices from the Sea • Destructive Funeral

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The Hafler Trio, Colin Potter & Andrew Liles 3 Eggs File Under: Avant Rock CD: IPT 94 (P) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists Andrew McKenzie – electronics Colin Potter – electronics Andrew Liles – electronics

Overview Three is not a crowd.Three Blind Mice,Three Little Pigs,Three Musketeers,Three Mile Island,The Big Three,The Third Sefira. In the Life Path, “three” indicates a strong sense of creativity with wonderful communication skills. Achievement most likely comes through engaging ingenious expression. A truly gifted “three” possesses the most exceptional innovative skills, normally in the verbal realm. Here, we are apt to find the entertainers of the world – bright, effervescent, sparkling people. A recording divided into three by three – the Egg came first. 3 Eggs is the first collaboration between The Hafler Trio, Colin Potter, and Andrew Liles, originally recorded to be a tour-only item. Unfortunately, the tour had to be cancelled, but the disc lived on and is now available in a limited edition of 1,000.

Press Quotes “Prolific and enigmatic, The Hafler Trio masterminded some of the most challenging and innovative sonic experiments of their time – defining music as simply organized sound, their unique synthesis of electronics, samples and tape loops probed the psychoacoustic power of noise, exploring not only its sensory effects but its physical ramifications as well.” – All Music Guide “Hiding behind a misleading name, Andrew McKenzie is a sort of legend when it comes to electronic music. He formed The Hafler Trio with ex-Cabaret Voltaire member Chris Watson in the early eighties, and has since produced some of the most challenging experimental electronic music around, with a body of work spread over countless releases.” – The Milk Factory “The art of the sound collage and drone music has a group of key members. Mirror, Christoph Heemann, Andrew Chalk, William Basinski, and perhaps just a few more are known and loved and create music that invokes images from other worlds; be those images frightening, sublime, or esoteric, it is impossible to deny their visceral impact. Andrew Liles has been added to that list of elusive and wonderful musicians.” – Brainwashed

Selling Points • All three artists on 3 Eggs are highly recognized sound artists • Colin Potter has been involved in the world of underground music since the late seventies. He founded one of the earliest cassette labels in the UK (ICR) and was a key figure in the production of work by Nurse With Wound, Current 93, and Organum • Andrew Liles has been recording eclectic, minimalist music since the mid-eighties and has worked with Bass Communion, Steven Stapleton, Darren Tate, and more • Press mailing by Important Records • Ads will run in Signal to Noise,The Wire, and more

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

Track Listing False Soap • Sticky Tin • Bloody Two Wrists • Going to Work • Eggs Benedict • Of Feminine Proportions • Exclusivity on an Aquatic Theme Also Available

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Overview The Belly of the Whale project was brilliantly conceived by two of the prime movers in the Natural Art scene: Interspecies and Greenmuseum.The goal was to create digital music from underwater sound samples of creatures like orcas, dolphins, beluga whales, sperm whales, humpback whales, bearded seals, lobsters, shrimp, and more.Together, Interspecies and Greenmuseum compiled a sample CD of 350 captured sounds and sent it out to many of their favorite electronic artists. Nineteen composers responded.The eclectic group included Scanner, commissioned to compose the National Anthem for the European Union; Petri Kuljuntausta, recently honored as Finland’s Artist of the Year; Christina della Guistina & Jayne Fenton Keynes, who have won awards for their music worldwide; Merzbow, well-known for his noise art; Kent Clelland, a senior programmer for Native Instruments in Berlin; and even drummer John Hanes, whose credits include the theme music for the film Grizzly Man. What’s most compelling about this project is the thoughtful way that the artists have listened and responded, both individually and as a community, to the sounds of our environment. It is a unique blend of modern electronic music and underwater educational experience that includes some of the foremost electronic composers in the world making music for two of the foremost groups in the Natural Art world. Further emphasizing the various artistic perspectives is the brilliant source material, which is included as a special bonus disc.Those who purchase Belly of the Whale are encouraged to send in their own versions, the best of which will be uploaded to the Important, Interspecies, and Greenmuseum websites for download.

Press Quotes “Sublime … this is music that transports you to another world.” – Discover “Genuine 21st century music.” – The Guardian

Selling Points • An educational deep-sea dive through underwater sounds and modern electronic music that includes many high-profile artists • Conceived by prestigious environmental art groups Interspecies and Greenmuseum • Features Scanner, commissioned to compose the National Anthem for the European Union; Petri Kuljuntausta, recently honored as Finland’s Artist of the Year; John Hanes, whose credits include the theme music for the film Grizzly Man; and more • Press mailing by Important Records, Greenmuseum, and Interspecies • Ads will run in Signal to Noise,The Wire, and environmental publications

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

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Overview “A gorgeous collection.The voice echoes Van the Man, Jagger and Dylan at their soulful, musical best. But Jesse DeNatale somehow remains his own man, with his own memories, stories, and visions. They’re not only well worth hearing, they’re well worth hearing again and again.” – Ben Fong-Torres, former Rolling Stone senior editor Jesse DeNatale’s second release highlights the Bay Area songwriter’s eloquent merging of musical heritage – both folk & Tin Pan Alley – and contemporary song structures.This album is a paean to San Francisco and a simple meditation on life and death. DeNatale has described his music as “troubadour soul,” a mix of the folk story tradition with an inspired sense of rhythm & blues. Always feeling a strong influence from the geography specific to the area he is in, and the history of its people, DeNatale’s songwriting is imbued with optimism and humor, refreshingly free of sarcasm and irony. His fanbase includes Rambling Jack Elliott, U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins, and Tom Waits, who described him as “a unique and original American voice.”

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• Second release from Jesse DeNatale, whose profile is rising rapidly • DeNatale has opened for Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Neville Brothers, Andy Preiboy, Ray Wiley Hubbard, Carlos Guitarlos, Allison Moorer, Kim Richey, and Jay Bennet (Wilco) • Well-regarded by World Café, KPFA, KEXP, and more • National and local press service; non-commercial AAA and American service

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Track Listing Children of the Sun • Shine Your Light • Dreamer’s Holiday • Montgomery Street • Nightingale • Keep On Walkin’ • The Bell • Soul Parade • Carry Me • Baby Joe • Lucinda • The Follies of Don Calandro

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Overview “Kicking out diamond-hard mid-tempo space-blues that crackle with trip-hop loops and freaked-out fuzz guitar, Missing Numbers evoke strange but intriguing descriptions: Howling Wolf fronting The Bad Seeds, or King Tubby remixing The Faces with J. Mascis on lead guitar. This is modern electric blues for a grimy urban reality – broken yet beautiful, bummed but proud.” – City Pages Top 10 Bands of 2004

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No Anecdote is the new album from Missing Numbers. Led by songwriter and instrumentalist Jimmy Peterson, this Minneapolis band is already creating a sound and vibe totally its own. No Anecdote is a collection of songs that are dark, melodic, and totally modern, yet evocative of distant and dangerous times. Peterson’s songs traffic in disenchantment, disillusionment, damaged dreams, and threadbare silver linings. He writes a sort of modern blues for a world where the cubicle is the new cotton mill and white-collar sharecroppers toil for the mortgage man.Yet the mood of the material never falls into self-pity, and there are always twisted, maddeningly catchy pop hooks hidden in the tracks. Peterson, whose utterly unique and beautifully world-weary singing style won him a Minnesota Music Award for Vocalist of the Year, has assembled his strongest collection of songs to date.

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• New band featuring Jimmy Peterson of alt-roots favorites Bellwether also includes Bobby McCreedy (Volebeats) and John Crist (Dashboard Saviors) • National press by Press Darling • Susstones will handle e-media promotion in-house • Service to key college outlets as well as NPR, Sirius, and XM programs • Ads will run based on tour markets

Key Markets Hometown: Minneapolis. Also: Chicago, Madison, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Detroit

Track Listing The Game • A Real Realizer • Write It On the Back of My Hand • Cheaper By the Ton • Nothing Lasts • Call It Alone • No Anecdote • My Alibi • Lifelike • Lifelike (Infinite Reprise) STREET DATE JUNE 27, 2006

Discount through StreetDate Overview The Framed Countless Ways Self“Balún have created some elegant, folky,of tranced-out atmospherics … echoing percussive pops and sputters bounce acrossDestruction stereo time, mingling with accordion and guitar to create tempestuous gems.” – Badger Herald

The Framed Balún Countless of SelfSomethingWays Comes Our Way Destruction File Under: Alt Rock File CD:Under: BRI 20Punk (O)

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Balún is an electro-acoustic pop outfit that composes soft and sweet rhythmic sound collages – simple guitar riffs and subdued glitchy beats with bells, violin, and accordion.The product of Balún’s sound is one of nostalgia or, better yet, daydreaming – music for when you realize you’ve wandered into an unfamiliar place, but you don’t mind that you’re lost. Along with acts such as Superaquello and Phasmid, Balún are developing a cult following in the blossoming San Juan underground scene. Although influenced by American and European indie bands (Ulrich Schnauss, Múm, Boards of Canada, I Am Robot and Proud), they still exhibit a sonic attachment to their native Puerto Rico. Their waterfalls of sound, with hollowed-out melodies and haunting rhythms, have been showcased on a number of EPs and compilations released by various labels around the globe.

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• Highly anticipated debut full-length, and first official release by Balún • First tour slated for late July 2006 with focus on Chicago/Midwest NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA • Balún tracks will be featured on compilations by Ambulatore and EXP, as well as on University Preorder of Puerto Rico station WRTU Discount through StreetDate • Service to online and print press outlets as well as college radio Overview • Video for “Be Careful When You Walk” going for adds late Spring 2006 The Framed, hailing a breath of fresh air to fashion-minded punk.The boys in The • Ads will runfrom in BigMinneapolis, Takeover andbring more Framed are here to play music, not discuss hairstyling tips.To that end, they have focused on writing songs for their debut albumMarkets on Reality Clash. 11 original, catchy tunes written to evoke the ghosts of past punk à la Key Generation X, early Social Distortion and the Swingin’ Madison, Utters will have you New listening toAustin, this album Hometown: San Juan. Also: Chicago, Milwaukee, St certainly Louis, Champaign, York, Los 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. Angeles, Atlanta, Portland, Seattle

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Selling Points Track Listing • Have been compared to Generation X, Social and Swingin’ Utters Opening theDistortion Box • A Surprise • People • Moving Pictures • I Shouldn’t Do This • Squared Triangles • • #1 song on Radio K (Minneapolis) for two weeks running Snol • To My Room • Everything’s Alright • Be Careful When You Walk • They’re Calling Us • • Have shared stages with Street Dogs, Lower Class Soviettes and more Disappearing ActBrats, Juliette Lewis & The Licks, • Print promotion via postcards, posters and flyers • College radio service • Ads will run in Razorcake, Amp and Pulse Overview • KEYYork’s MARKETS: Minneapolis (Hometown). Also:and Los Southern Angeles, San New York, “New Brought Low enhance their classic rockDiego, evocations with a Queens-bred, Chicago, Boston and St. Louis punked-out, broken-muffler rumble and roar led by frontguy Ben Smith’s encyclopedic guitar licks.” – Boston Phoenix

Track Listing Disposition of Desperation • Airwaves Way rock It Is •“Wild Run Away • Whiskey • From New York’s Brought Low come on like• The a boogie Bunch,” clothes Bottles sullied with thethe dirtAshes of a of the Underground Rock’n’Roll • Sun as Never Setsthat • The Last Kiss • Bleed Us Dryis•rooted Battle thousand dive bars, as• turbulent andRip-Off unassailable the city birthed them.Their music • Vengeance inSongs the vintage hard rock of The Stones, The Who, and Humble Pie and delivered with the boisterous zeal of a Big Apple street choir. Singer/guitarist Benjamin Howard Smith and drummer Nick Heller have been the nucleus of the band from the first loud, passionate shows to the universally lauded 2001 debut full-length on Tee Pee Records. Following its release, the band set off on myriad low-rent tours, making a memorable appearance at 2002’s SXSW, and was featured on Small Stone’s Sucking the ‘70s compilation. 2003 saw the addition of second guitarist Kevin Eleven The Brought Low Right On Time and bassist Bob Russell, whose low-end rumble anchors a raucous performance style that would File Under: Alt Rock make the MC5 proud. CD: SSO 65 (O)

Selling Points • First full-length in four years from the band, whose debut gained universal acclaim • Fall 2006 U.S. tour in support of their split CD with Dixie Witch • Have shared the stage with High On Fire, The Supersuckers, Mike Watt, Nebula, and Unsane, and were a featured act on the local stage at New York’s Amster Jam Music Festival headlined by Red Hot Chili Peppers and Wyclef Jean • Major media mailing in conjunction with release date

Key Markets Hometown: New York. Also: Boston, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Baltimore, Chicago,Washington DC, Austin, Louisville, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles

Track Listing A Better Life • Hail Mary • This Ain’t No Game • Tell Me • Dear Ohio • Throne • Vernon Jackson • Shakedown • Blues for Cubby • There’s a Light 32 26

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Overview “A glorious, hallucinatory piece of work.” – All Music Guide 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.The LP release of this album collects three new tracks: “Border, Oklahoma,” previously found on the Centralia album, as well as covers of “Marie” by folk hero Townes Van Sandt and the unlikely “Seven Seas” by Echo & The Bunnymen.

Selling Points • LP contains three tracks not available on the CD, released in April 2006 • Audiophile quality LP pressing with expanded artwork • N&W recently toured with M.Ward, performing as openers and as his backing band • Rachel Blumberg was a member of The Decemberists for several years

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Key Markets Hometown: Portland. Also: Seattle, Olympia, Bellingham, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Omaha, St. Louis, Austin,Tucson, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chapel Hill, Madison, Chicago, Providence, Tampa, Reno, Salt Lake City, Cheyenne

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Overview “By juxtaposing brutal, math-metal-infused hardcore with the mellowest of trip-hop ambience and crisp new wave electronica, the trio of Genghis Tron has transcended all esoteric genres to create something strange and wonderful. 9/10 “ – Outburn As the genre-splicing creativity bomb of 2005’s Cloak of Love EP continues to build Genghis Tron’s reputation as one of heavy music’s most exciting bands, the Poughkeepsie trio is preparing to unleash their ferocious and unnervingly innovative first full-length upon the world. Recorded by Kurt Ballou of Converge, Dead Mountain Mouth plays on the same disjunctive metal & electronic elements that made Cloak of Love so intriguing while solidifying the band’s sound into a fluid, chaos-riddled monster.

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• Clear vinyl; beautiful full-color gatefold packaging features the artwork of Jon Beasley (Coco Rosie, 90 Day Men) • Features guest appearances by Greg Weeks and Gunface of The Red Chord (Metal Blade Records); recorded by Kurt Ballou of Converge • Full U.S. tour in July 2006 • CD released on Crucial Blast Records • Full publicity run by Blueghost (The Locust, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) • Heavy radio promotion by Sirius Satellite Radio’s metal station Hard Attack • Ads will run in Punk Planet, Decibel, and Status

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Cloak of Love 10”

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Ways of the Self-eastern coast of Africa and features archive “The new Zanzibara series presents SwahiliCountless popular music from Destruction recordings from the 1920s-1980s supplemented by contemporary recordings of special interest. Zanzibara opens the File Under: lid on the region’s musical past – there’s nothing else Punk in the world like this phenomenal stuff!” – Wordly Disorientation CD: RCL 17 (O) Overview

“This is a beautiful recording from Zanzibar, extremely refreshing and haunting. A very unique mixture of sounds and traditions – East Mediterranean music, Arabic music and so obviously African at the same time. Female and male vocals are superb and the choir responding to each singer is just wonderful!” – Amazon.com The first disc of this excellent series pays tribute to the storied Ikhwani Safaa taarab orchestra, which celebrated its centenary in 2005! The Ikhwani Safaa Musical Club was founded in 1905 following the Sultan’s intention to create recreational associations on the island.The name means “brothers who love one another,” and reflects the egalitarian and supportive aims of the club.The group is the oldest in Zanzibar, and has been one of the main currents in Zanzibari music throughout this century – sales of their cassettes comprise the bulk of the cassette copy-shops’ trade! After the revolution in 1964, the name was changed to the Malindi Musical Club, but it has recently reverted Ikhwani Safaa Musical to the original name. Swahili taarab music bears strong similarities to the classic Egyptian orchestras, Club with influences from India and Africa. Ikhwani Safaa’s violins, ud, quanun, nai, keyboards, bass, guitar Zanzibara 1: A Hundred Years Overview and percussion make up a sound that swells like the ocean while their celebrated vocalists – including of Taarab in Zanzibar The Framed, hailing from Minneapolis, bring a breath of fresh air to fashion-minded punk.The boys in The Framed are here to play music, Maulidi Mohamed and Rukia Ramadhani – lead a selection of the club’s favorite classic songs. File World tips.To that end, not Under: discuss Alt hairstyling they have focused on writing songs for their debut album on Reality Clash. 11 original, catchy tunes CD: BUD (Q)ghosts of past punk à la Generation X, early Social Distortion and the Swingin’ Utters will certainly have you listening written to860118 evoke the

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to this album over and over. Drawing several hundred kids per show,The Framed show no signs of letting up.This is not a band to be taken • The Zanzibara series has received early press accolades from Songlines, fRoots and Worldly NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA lightly. Disorientation; confirmed review in Global Rhythm July issue Selling Points • The group recently recorded with Taj Mahal as the Zanzibar Culture Musical Club • Booklet includes great liner notes and wonderful photographs • Have been compared to Generation X, Social Distortion and Swingin’ Utters • #1 song on Radio K (Minneapolis) for two weeks running Key Markets • Have shared stages with Street Dogs, Lower Class Brats, Juliette Lewis & The Licks, Soviettes and more New York, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago,Washington DC, Portland, Seattle, Austin • Print promotion via postcards, posters and flyers • College radio service Track Listing • Ads will run in Razorcake, Amp and Pulse Vingaravyo Vyote Si Dhahabu • Cheo Chako • Hofu Yako Iondoe • Waache Waseme • Zinduna • Mpenzi • KEY MARKETS: Minneapolis (Hometown). Also: Los Angeles, San Diego, New York, Chicago, Boston and Wangu Hawezi • Pendo Kitu Cha Hiyari • Naomba Kwako Bibiye St. Louis

Overview Track Listing “Prepare to be blown away! The second volume of the excellent new Zanzibara series focuses on Disposition Desperation • The Way It Is • Run…Away • Whiskey Bottles • From1965the Ashes taarab music of recorded on the• Airwaves tiny island-city of Momabasa for the Mzuri label between of theUnlike Underground Rock’n’Rolllanguorous Rip-Off • Sun Never Sets The Last Kiss • Bleed Us Dry • Battle 1975. the more• traditional, taarab made in •nearby Zanzibar, Mombasa taraab Songs •aVengeance reveals stronger African rhythmic attack and a diminished Arabic feel. But the real charm is the strong Bollywood influence!” – Chicago Reader Golden Years of Mombasa Taarab, which features Mzuri Records’ sixties and seventies recordings, was curated by Werner Graebner, one of the foremost authorities on this music, who has been documenting it for decades – including a series of work for Globestyle and releases on his own short-lived Dizim imprint.

Selling Points • Explores the sound of Mombasa taarab, culled from singles produced by Mzuri Records in the late sixties and seventies – sixteen tracks from Matano Juma & Morning Star Orchestra, Yasseen Mohamed, Zuhura & Party, Ali Mkali & Mvita Orchestra, Zein Musical Party, Maulidi Musical Party, and Bin Brek • Both volumes featured on Charlie Gillet’s Sounds of the World show • Heavy rotation on WFMU and KEXP world music programs

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Track Listing Dada • Ndege Kaa Ufikiri • Ya Zamani • Masikini Macho Yangu • Musiwe Na Mshangao • Risala • Yaatika • Mpenzi Azizi • Nalikuwa Na Mpenzi • Mpelekee Muhibu • Kuratu Ayini • Ni Wewe • Moyo Lia Lia • Hasidi • Nimechoka Kulima • Sheria Yatukataza

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V for Vendetta

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On Glass

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Widows

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Nothing That a Bullet Couldn’t Cure

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Look at All the Love We Found

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Cloak of Love 10”

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