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NEW RELEASES SEPTEMBER 2006 Street Dates 9-12-2006 & 9-26-2006 A Division Of Allegro Corporation

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Dr. Dog pg 2 • The Capitol Years pg 3 • Holocene Music – New Label! pg. 4-5 • Gorch Fock pg 6 • Dirty Projectors pg 8 • The Brother Kite pg 10 Arthur Russell pg 11 • Arling & Cameron pg 11 • Chairkickers’ Union Music - Welcome Back! pg 12 • Nardwuar the Human Serviette vs. Bev Davies: A Punk Rock Calendar pg 17 • Hard-Ons pg 19 • Rudresh Mahanthappa pg 25 • Holy Smokes pg 26 • KK Null pg 31

Dr. Dog Takers and Leavers File Under: Alt Rock CDEP: PTV 9 (J) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists Toby Leaman – bass, vocals Frank McElroy – rhythm guitar, vocals Scott McMicken – lead guitar, vocals Zach Miller – keyboards, guitar, vocals Juston Stens – drums, harmonies

Overview Dr. Dog has been creating music in various incarnations in their hometown of Philadelphia for nearly four years now, starting with their humble first release The Psychedelic Swamp, a concept album realized in the damp ruin of a flooded basement, through to the recently recorded Easy Beat, which finds the band much more lyrically and musically complex. Most recently, the band has compiled Takers and Leavers, a dramatic step up in terms of production and fidelity, and a grand preview to the LP in stores early 2007. Although Dr. Dog has as many as twenty honorary “members” who have assisted in various capacities throughout the years, the core of the collective consists of five musicians all from various musical backgrounds. Imagine the Beach Boys, The Beatles, Tom Waits, David Bowie, and Neil Young as acknowledged influences that have been interpreted through the eyes of Pavement, Palace Brothers, R. Stevie Moore, or Roy Wood. Still with us?

Press Quotes “Philadelphia’s psychedelic tradition extends from Bardo Pond to Sun Ra, and Dr. Dog add a swampy impermeability and White Album fixation to that signature sound.” – Spin “Sure to attract a rabid cult of indie rock fans.” – New York Times “Last year was a pretty good one for Philadelphia’s Dr. Dog: an opening slot on two My Morning Jacket tours and a glowing profile in the New York Times … with a mix of Philly blue-eyed soul harmonies, Supertramp-strength hooks, and Neutral Milk Hotel’s sense of balance, Easy Beat bears the mark of genius–it all sounds effortless.” – Time Out New York ”Guaranteed to charm indie-poppers and graying hippies alike.” – Magnet “Lush Pet Sounds-y production made with a budget and some intangibles that bring it more in line with early Elliott Smith.” – CMJ

Selling Points • Highly anticipated follow up to 2005’s Easy Beat, which made Dr. Dog one of the year’s biggest buzz bands with critical acclaim from NPR, New York Times, Rolling Stone, Alternative Press, Spin, Mojo, NME, CMJ, and Village Voice • Music video shown repeatedly on MTV2 show Subterranean • Previous album listed in 2005 Top 10 lists in Emusic,Village Voice, and CMJ NMM • Dr. Dog, a touring machine, has played with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Architecture in Helsinki, My Morning Jacket, The Strokes, Sun Volt, Of Montreal, The Spinto Band, New Pornographers, and Sound Team • Promotion by Big Hassle PR (Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Metric, Sound Team) • Ads will run in Pitchfork, Magnet, DIW, and Philadelphia City Paper; regional advertising along tour routes

Key Markets Hometown: Philadelphia. Also: New York, Boston, Detroit, Chicago, Austin, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Atlanta,Washington DC, Baltimore, Cleveland, Denver, Phoenix, San Francisco

Track Listing Ain’t It Strange • Goner • Mom Song • Die Die Die • California • Livin’ a Dream

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The Capitol Years Dance Away the Terror File Under: Alt Rock CD: PTV 8 (N) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists Shai Halperin – guitar, vocals Dave Wayne Daniels – bass Jeff Van Newkirk – guitar, vocals Sir Kyle Lloyd – drums Adam Granduciel – guitar, keyboards Doug Kirby (National Eye) – piano

Overview Shai Halperin first introduced The Capitol Years to the music world in July 2001 with his homemade full-length release Meet Yr Acres (Full Frame/Poor Poor Records). Urged to leave the bedroom and share his music with a live audience, Halperin recruited Dave Wayne Daniels, Jeff Van Newkirk, and Sir Kyle Lloyd on bass, guitar, and drums, respectively.With collective backgrounds in noiserock as well as Beatles-esque pop, this full-band incarnation of The Capitol Years immediately generated a buzz in Philadelphia’s growing music scene. Continued touring and television appearances, as well as a handpicked opening slot for The Pixies’ first show in twelve years, have helped generate a significant buzz. Dance Away the Terror is perhaps the most realized collection of songs the band has ever recorded.This new album is a return to the home studio, fully encapsulating both the lo-fi studio nerds and the roaring, high-flying, and harmonizing rock ‘n’ roll band.

Press Quotes “The quartet kicks here are a big leap in thrills: a dash of Beck in Halperin’s voice and hooks, the twin-guitar grind of the Strokes.The six songs were cut in a week.The pleasure lasts much longer.” – David Fricke, Rolling Stone “The riff-driven sound of a loose-limbed rock band taking the stage by storm in a strange town after several stiff drinks with the locals.

Honking chords and opaque mod-rock lyrics … are what this very raw–and so very rock ‘n’ roll–affair is all about.” – Magnet “If Beck had infiltrated The Beatles’ camp during the Abbey Road sessions, the result might have sounded like this worthy … product of Philadelphia’s minor indie-rock resurgence.” – CMJ “A cohesive blend of intelligent sixties rock and power pop that sounds like an extension of New Pornographer A.C. Newman’s Slow Wonder as played by Cheap Trick.” – All Music Guide

Selling Points • The Capitol Years are media darlings and have received glowing reviews from Rolling Stone, Magnet, Pitchfork, CMJ, All Music Guide, Entertainment Weekly, and more • In 2004, The Capitol Years spent one week as the house band on Last Call with Carson Daly • National touring in Fall/Winter 2006 and Winter/Spring 2007 • The Capitol Years were the first band to open for the Pixies when the band reunited • Promotion by Magnum PR (Gnarls Barkley, Art Brut, The Streets) • College radio promotion by AAM • Ads will run in Pitchfork, Magnet, DIW, Philadelphia City Paper, and more

Key Markets: Hometown: Philadelphia. Also: New York, Boston, Detroit, Chicago, Austin, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Atlanta,Washington DC, Baltimore, Cleveland, Denver, Phoenix, San Francisco.

Track Listing Dance Away the Terror • Revolutions • Long Time • Mirage People • Chandelier • You Can Stay There • It’s Only Loveless • As the Terror Dances Your Way • Seven Songs • Oh Lord • It’s Not Okay

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NAIL WELCOMES HOLOCENE MUSIC

TO ITS ROSTER

Since opening in the summer of 2003, Portland’s Holocene club has seen countless world-class electronic and underground musicians perform within its artfully designed walls, quickly establishing itself as a focus point for the city’s burgeoning music and arts community. Now, Holocene has taken next logical step in its role as supportive home base and active participant in this movement, creating Holocene Music, a new record label devoted to fostering boundarypushing musical talent regardless of genre and geographical lines.

Various Artists It’s Importland To Me To Be One Step Further Than One Step Beyond: Holocene Remix Volume 1 File Under: Alt Rock/Electronica CD: HCM 2 (O) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Overview The debut release from Portland’s Holocene Music label is a unique collaboration in which a selection of the city’s most talented electronic musicians were asked to reinterpret the music of their favorite Portland bands.The result is a post-millennial blend of electropunk, indie rock, and outsider folk, digitally spliced and mutated to form a cohesive album of genre-screwed electronic music.

Press Quotes “★ ★ ★ ★ Who’s On It? In terms of Portland’s indie rock and digipop, who isn’t? A solid survey of genre spasms centered on ‘post-everything’ warehouse venue Holocene. Any Good? Indubitably. Percussive and persuasive, these recontexturalized collaborations are a real serious showcase.” – URB “The Portland, Oregon club Holocene hosts the latest and hottest in indie and electronic music, so it’s only fitting that the brains behind the club have decided to start their own record label specializing in the latest and hottest in indie and electronic music.” – Pitchfork “Title zaniness aside, the disc is a real solid listen. Stumptown indie faves (who you might’ve read about) like The Blow and Y.A.C.H.T. get remixed with additional bleeps and thumps and Casio-tones courtesy of their friends and neighbors, and the whole thing captures the digi-DIY, northwestern bedroom beat spirit Holocene strives to cultivate.” – The Fader

Selling Points • Artists have appeared on such diverse labels as Sub Pop, K Records, Tigerbeat 6, Kranky, Arena Rock, Orac, Audio Dregs, Audraglint, and Hush • Debut release from Holocene Music, the new label from Portland’s internationally acclaimed club Holocene • Full national & tour press campaign by Matt Wright PR (Gang of Four, Acid Mothers Temple, Cex) • Full college radio campaign by Spectre Music (Built To Spill, Ladytron, Psapp)

Key Markets Hometown: Portland. Also: Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Minneapolis, Gainesville

Track Listing Menomena:Twenty Cell Revolt (Talkdemonic Remix) • Blitzen Trapper:Whiskey Kisser (Kittenz Remix) • The Blow:The Love That I Crave (Strategy Remix) • YACHT: SHTML (Emergency Ghost Remix) • Point Juncture,WA:The Siesta Movement (Dizzy Starhouse Remix) • Alan Singley: On Leaving (DJ Tant Remix) • Snuggle Ups: Ferris Wheel (PGE Remix) • The Thermals: No Culture Icons (Ovian Remix) • Point Line Plane: Descender (Solenoid Remix) • Hustler White: Deadly Toe Ring (DJ ASSCLAPP Remix) • 01 (Pop Music): Don’t Tell Me (E*Rock Remix) • The Kingdom: Love Is My Nation (Copy Remix) • Bobby Birdman: Holiday the Ghost (Toothfairy Remix) • Talkdemonic: June Song (Spleenless Remix) • Thanksgiving: Get Married (World Remix) • Plants: Acorn Child (Strategy’ Remix)

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Swan Island The Centre Will Hold File Under: Alt Rock CD: HCM 3 (O) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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10.24.06 Featured Artists Brisa Gonzales – vocals Torrence Stratton – guitar Aubree Bernier-Clarke – guitar Vera Domini – drums, vocals Bob E. Kendrick – bass, vocals

Overview Swan Island is an all-female pop/prog/metal crew founded in Portland, OR in March 2004. Clearly situated within the grand tradition of Pacific Northwest feminist rock (Sleater-Kinney, The Gossip), Swan Island boldly encompasses Heart’s heart, Sabbath’s chug, and The Au Pair’s political disco.

The Centre Will Hold captures this unique fusion with the kind of crackling, raw energy that has made their live shows legendary, resulting in a confident opening statement with soul and style to spare.

Press Quotes “There is a lineage in Portland, but young women have always sought out role models that appeal to them, and there are girls plunking on guitars all over the world. And you can bet they will show up at the Swan Island show.” – Corin Tucker, Sleater-Kinney “[Like] Heart crashing an orgy between the B-52’s and Black Sabbath.” – Willamette Week “[Swan Island] mixes dark, jangly melodies and striking guitar sounds, creating a sonic place to dance the apocalypse away.” – San Francisco Bay Guardian

Selling Points • Will tour with The Gossip for two weeks in September 2006 • Named one of Portland’s Top Three Best New Bands by leading alt-weekly Willamette Week • Remix by JD Samson of Le Tigre will be featured on an upcoming 12” • Lead guitarist Aubree Bernier-Clarke played in Half-Seas-Over with Kristina Davies of Davies vs. Dresch, and stars in the recent Sleater-Kinney music video for “Jumpers” • Bassist Bob E. Kendrick played in Shemo • Full national & tour press campaign by Matt Wright PR (Gang of Four, Acid Mothers Temple, Cex) • Full college radio campaign by Spectre Music (Built To Spill, Ladytron, Psapp) • Ads will run in Venus, Bust, and Pitchfork

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

Track Listing Crumble • Night Owl • Flew the Coup • Junk Parade • Home • Tracks • Centre Will Hold • Grey Matter • [Hidden Track – Centre Will Hold (Intrumental)]

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Gorch Fock Thrilller File Under: Avant Rock CD: ACG 8 (O) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists Joey Ficklin – trombone, vocals Bryan Nelson – guitar, drums, vocals Aaron Seibert – drums Jeffrey Swanson – drums, electronics, samples, vocals Mote – guitar, electronics, samples Kevin Stack – guitar, vocals Win Wallace – bass

Overview “The new record is primarily about fire,” frontman Joey Ficklin answered in response to a question from the Austin Chronicle’s Chris Gray during a pre-SXSW 2005 interview. Ficklin couldn’t have known how right he was.Well into the recording of Thrilller, the building housing their rehearsal space, as well as Austin’s Sweatbox Studio, fell victim to that most feared of the elements. In an after-dark rescue mission beyond the police tape, complete with lookouts and secret signals, the master tapes of Thrilller were miraculously found in perfect condition.While not necessarily about fire in subject matter, Thrilller is a towering inferno in spirit.With complex riffs, layered horns, their signature double drum attack, and effected vocals, Gorch Fock have created their most intense and focused album to date.With this third offering, the band reflects the length of time they’ve been working together with tighter, more defined compositions and a unique pop sensibility wherein hooks develop from the layered mayhem.

Press Quotes “A refreshing blast for any hard rock fan.” – Time Out New York “Rude lyrics and rowdy but structured post-punk noise, with thrashing guitars and horns.” – New York Times

Selling Point • Will tour the West Coast in September 2006; extensive touring in October–November 2006 with more touring in 2007 • Last album had significant college radio charting in all regions of the country, including being a Top 5 album at WRBB Boston for April 2005 & #49 in their Best of 2005 chart • Have shared the stage with NoMeansNo, Mono, Alice Donut, Helios Creed, Fantomas, Black Dice, Animal Collective, Polysics, Melt Banana, and more • Played SXSW 2003–2006, with two official showcases in 2005; also played CMJ 2005 • Included on Crustacean’s upcoming Killdozer tribute with Season to Risk and more • Service to college & community radio stations • Service to national & regional music press as well as webzines and new media • Ads will run in Punk Planet, Copper Press, Razorcake, Arthur, Pop Culture Press, Magnet, CMJ, and more

Key Markets Hometown: Austin. Also: Boston, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, Birmingham, Philadelphia, Baltimore,Washington DC, Oklahoma City, Kansas City, St. Louis, Salt Lake City,Tacoma, Atlanta, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Madison, San Antonio, Indianapolis

Track Listing Executive 3000 • Megumi Miyazato • Sink Star • Cary Michael Jackson • One of Five Sisters • Fitzcarroldo • Patience for the Swede • Youth at Risk • Mary Had a Little Drug Problem • Bourbon Country • Randall J. Biscuit Turner (A Country Gentleman) • Running Out of Gas in Prairie View Parish • The River Also Available

Gorch Fock

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Lying and Manipulating

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The International Playboys Cobra Blood Hangover File Under: Alt Rock CD: ACG 9 (O) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists Monty Carlo – vocals Captain Sextastic – guitar, vocals The Count – bass, vocals Joe Danger – drums

Overview The International Playboys have been one of the country’s hardest working unsigned acts since 1999. Hailing from big sky country, they’ve put in over 80,000 miles in the last four years supporting their two self-released albums and a self-released EP, most recently coming to Austin for SXSW 2006 to play the Australian Cattle God Records showcase. Musically, these guys are straight up rock ‘n’ roll with a good sense of humor and a passionate delivery.There is no need for hyphenated sub-gentrification here.

Cobra Blood Hangover continues the Playboy’s legacy of gritty, sexy rock with plenty of swagger as it takes you through heartbreaks, hangovers, work-a-day complacency, and the outright destruction of an entire town.Their performances are wildly animated, with drummer Joe Danger flailing like Animal the Muppet, singer Monty Carlo gesticulating and genuflecting madly, guitarist Captain Sextastic stroll-soloing through the audience, and bassist The Count holding it all together from his place stage right.

Press Quotes “Hide your daughters. Preoccupied with sex and rock ‘n’ roll, The International Playboys make irresponsibly entertaining rock.”

– Punk Planet “Shades of Alice Cooper and the MC5 updated for the masses.You would have a hard time going wrong.” – Razorcake “The International Playboys play raw, sex-addled rock ‘n’ roll.There don’t seem to be any gimmicks, just five guys and a whole pile of killer riffs and catchy tunes … singer Monty Carlo … somehow manages to sound like Bon Scott, Janis Joplin, Taime Downe, and the guy from Nazareth rolled into one.” – Roadburn.com

Selling Points • RIYL: The Riverboat Gamblers, MC5, Rolling Stones, The Makers, Guitar Wolf • Mastered by Jerry Tubb at Terra Nova Digital Audio in Austin,TX • Have toured the entire country, logging over 80,000 miles in the last four years • Touring on two legs of the September 2006 NoMeansNo tour; two additional U.S. tours in the first half of 2007 • Have shared the stage with NoMeansNo, The Makers, The Riverboat Gamblers, The Fucking Champs, The Drive-By Truckers, Captured By Robots, 76 Charger, The Black Keys, Fireballs of Freedom, Cherry Valence, Rocket from the Tombs, Thrones, Guitar Wolf, and many more • Service to college & community radio stations • Service to national & regional music press as well as webzines and new media • Ads will run in Punk Planet, Copper Press, Razorcake, Arthur, Pop Culture Press, Magnet, CMJ, and more

Key Markets Hometown: Missoula. Also: Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Salt Lake City, Denver, Laramie, Austin, Phoenix, Lawrence, Kansas City, Dallas, Oklahoma City, Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul, St. Louis, New Orleans, Cleveland, Boston, New York, Vancouver, San Antonio, Indianapolis, Bozeman

Track Listing He Misplaced You • The Ballad of the International Playboys • The Life and Times of Monty Carlo • Mysterioso Furioso • The Cougar vs.The Silver Fox • Say She Don’t Mind • The Give a Shitter is Broken • Cobra Blood Hangover • Young Man Blues • Bandit

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Dirty Projectors New Attitude File Under: Alt Rock CD:WED 29 (P) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists Dave Longstreth, acoustic, electric, & twelve–string guitars, vocals, percussion, programming, orchestration/Adam Forkner, ring modulator, drum machine, vocals, programming/Nat Baldwin, double bass/Jon Davenport, double bass/Ezra Seltzer, cello/Meara Palmer-Young, cello/Tim Keiper, drums, percussion/Nathan Michel, Hohner electric piano/Ezra Koenig, Rhodes electric piano/Rostam Batmanglij, flute, percussion/Wes Miles, percussion/Sarah Moulton, alto voice/Eli Clark, alto voice

Overview In between a massive national tour in support of The Getty Address and relocation to Brooklyn, chief Dirty Projector Dave Longstreth wrote an EP’s worth of crazy new songs. Playing the electric counterpoint to The Getty Address, New Attitude is a refreshingly pared-down disc: simple, beautiful, and focused. It is dominated by the sound of chiming microtonal guitars, sub-bass dragon breaths, a sextet of cellos and double-basses, and most of all, Longstreth’s singing, which has never been so varied or so wonderfully weird.

Few musicians have been called “genius” by Phil Elverum (Mount Eerie) and inspired Prefuse 73 to declare that he is “quitting music.”

Few musicians can count Devendra Banhart and Alan Pierson, conductor of New Music collective Alarm Will Sound, among their admirers. Accolades for The Getty Address continue to roll in, and songs from the album have been featured on The Wire’s Wiretapper 14 and on Salon.com.

In 2005, Dirty Projectors shared stages with Tyondai Braxton, Akron/Family, CocoRosie, Kip Malone (TV on the Radio), Six Organs of Admittance, Yo La Tengo, Oneida, and more.This is how Dave Longstreth describes New Attitude: “For me, this EP was all about full-spectrum. I tried to make completely hit songs that each created a rainbow of sound by defining poles of extreme low–for that I used sine waves–and extreme high, like the disco car ad three-part falsetto harmony choruses in ‘Imagine It.’ If you like rainbows, this record is for you.”

Press Quotes “Spellbinding in its complete originality.” – Venus “Odd, engrossing, and gorgeous.” – Chicago Reader “[Longstreth] is … a no-brow genius, who claims to find similar solaces in the work of Beethoven, Wagner, Zeppelin, and Timberlake.” – Pitchfork

Selling Points • Several national tours have been booked in support of this album • Follows last year’s critically acclaimed The Getty Address on Western Vinyl • Promotion will be handled by Force Field PR

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

Track Listing Fucked For Life • Two Sheep Asleep • Imagine It • Likeness of Uncles • Two Young Sheeps • Darkened Car • To the Mall Also Available

Dirty Projectors New Attitude 12” 12”:WED 19 (P) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Lucky Dragons Widows File Under: Alt Rock CD: SRS 1 (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 fall 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

Selling Points • A Marriage Records sub-label • National tour planned to support this album • Follow-up to the LP released by Marriage Records and the Sewing Circle retrospective released by States Rights Records • Full press and radio service by Marriage Records/States Rights Records • Reviewed in Art Forum March 2006, and on several music websites • Service to writers as well as college and nonprofit radio stations • Ads will run in Arthur and Yeti

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 • Pleasantries • Care For • Hello New Friend • Complement Song • Snowing Circle • Returner Also Available

Lucky Dragons Widows LP:WED 27 (P) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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The Brother Kite Waiting For the Time To Be Right File Under: Alt Rock CD: CLE 64 (M) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists Jon Downs – guitar, vocals Patrick Boutwell – guitar, vocals Andrea Mason – bass, vocals Mark Howard – guitar, vocals Matt Rozzero – drums, vocals

Overview Providence’s The Brother Kite began crafting their shoegaze-inflected rock sound in 2001. After a split 7” with Vaguely Starshaped on Losing Blueprint Records, The Brother Kite released their first full-length album on Clairecords, a self-titled and self-recorded serving of layered guitars and buoyant melodies.With the success of thebrotherkite, the band was poised to take a bold step, but knew the restrictions of traditional studio recording wouldn’t allow for the creative freedom they needed. So they did what any band would do: built their own studio! Waiting For the Time To Be Right is the long-awaited result of this endeavor, a brave new rock album astonishing not only for its depth and maturity, but also for its willingness to stray from the shoegaze sound that defined their previous works. Layered guitar textures remain an important ingredient, but Boutwell’s impassioned vocals are now pushed to the forefront, showcasing a Brian Wilsonesque gift for melody hinted at in earlier songs.The result is an album of dynamically orchestrated pop, equal parts Loveless and Smile, Quadrophenia and The Soft Bulletin.With Waiting… The Brother Kite respectfully pays homage to some of rock’s great achievements while carving out an innovative spot for themselves in the world of today’s independent music.

Press Quotes “There is a lot going on, and it shows that their diversity and talent have been brought together into a masterful piece of shoegazing beauty.” – SomewhereCold “The is the up-and-coming band with the run-on name Phil Spector should’ve produced instead of Starsailor.” – Splendid

Selling Points • At press time, three Japanese labels are engaged in a bidding war for rights to license this album to Japan; likewise, four large UK indie labels have requested an advance copy of the album for licensing consideration • Will play Popfest New England 2006 this October alongside The Orchids, Secret Shine, Asobi Seksu, and tons more • One of the only Clairecords bands to consistently tour, The Brother Kite will be hitting the road in support of their new album both pre- and post-release • Core radio will be serviced by AAM Sunday Service; national media campaign by prominent marketing company (as yet to be determined by press time) • Ads will run in major independent and target-specific magazines • NOT EXPORTABLE TO JAPAN!

Key Markets Hometown: Providence. Also: Boston, New York,Washington DC, Chicago, Chapel Hill, Austin, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Lexington

Track Listing The Coat of Arms • Out Of Sight • I’m Not the Only One • Hopeless and Unsung • The Finest Kind • Bringing It Back Home • November/December • Get On, Me • Waiting For the Time To Be Right • Hold Me Down • Lay Down Your Burden • Never In Years

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The Brother Kite thebrotherkite CD: CLE 55 (M) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Overview “Audika’s reissue program is an act of devoted, some might say obsessive, scholarship and curatorship that deserves every bit of acclaim it’s received.” – Pitchfork Springfield is a companion mini-album to the critically lauded Calling Out of Context.The title track is a previously unreleased electro-dance piece recorded by Arthur Russell in the very late eighties.

Culled from over four and half hours of tracking, “Springfield” has now been edited and remixed by the DFA. Also features the previously unreleased tracks “See My Brother,” “He’s Jumping Out (Let’s Go Swimming #1),” “Corn #3,” “Hiding Your Present From You,” and “You Have Did the Right Thing When You Put That Skylight In” from the unreleased album Corn.

Selling Points • • • •

Previously unreleased rhythmic material from the albums Corn and Springfield Exclusive DFA remix of the title track College and NPR radio service Blog, internet, and press service

Track Listing

Arthur Russell Springfield File Under: Alt Rock CD: ADK 1007 (N) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Springfield (DFA Remix) • Springfield (Demo) • Springfield (Detail) • See My Brother, He’s Jumping 2XLP: ADK 1007 (2L) Out (Let’s Go Swimming #1) • Corn #3 • Hiding Your Present From You #3 (CD Only) • You Have Did the Right Thing When You Put That Skylight In LP Delayed NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Overview “Gerry Arling and Richard Cameron have a solid handle on all things amusing and eccentric, as well as a penchant for genre hopping.” – Splendid The last Arling & Cameron album came out in September 2001. In October, a tour van crash snapped Cameron’s back and broke up the band. So, call it poetry that this album opens with an “I Will Survive” for our century! Arling & Cameron are obsessively pan-eclectic.They are so posteverything that they’re not even a band. After years of toiling in acclaimed obscurity, providing mutant soundtracks to the lives of the hipper dance floors and denizens of this world, their solid songs have now officially entered global consciousness through extensive use in some mighty mass media.They are the Netherlands’ pride and joy.

Arling & Cameron Hi-Fi Underground File Under: Electronica CD: CHR 77045 (P) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Selling Points • Arling & Cameron have released albums on Emperor Norton and Drive-In, written songs for Pizzicato Five and Fantastic Plastic Machine, and had their songs appear in TV commercials and shows like The Sopranos • Media campaign by Andy Reynolds at Penetration, Inc. (NYC) • MySpace page: myspace.com/arlingandcameron

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

Track Listing Shake It • I Don’t Need It • Walk That Way • Open • Words • Change • We Can’t Be Somebody Else • You Make It Real • Computer • Popcorn 2006 • Games • Slow Food llegro This A d title te u ib tr our dis om y ble fr availa sales rep!

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The Framed Overview Countless Ways of Self“The songs … capture Destruction the heart with their lyricism and effervescent melodies.” – Pitchfork

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RCL 17 (O)About You, Chairkickers’ Union Music deals up another With the release of NoCD: Wait Wait’s glowing sign of Duluth’s dense and entrenched music scene. About You is a straight-up, literal diary of one relationship, reminiscent of Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks and similar in tone to Robbie Fulks’ Couples in Trouble. About You is a difficult, honest record that curdles your blood and makes you cringe (in empathy), just as it wallops your heart and makes you dance.The album was recorded and mixed by Brent Sigmeth (Big Wu, Jayhawks, Kim Deal) in just over a week, at Pachyderm Studio (Nirvana, PJ Harvey) and Sacred Heart Recording Studio (Crash Test Dummies, Low).

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• Features Low’s Alan Sparhawk on track eight • Live shows Fall 2006 with The Retribution Gospel Choir (Low side project) and Trampled By Turtles (voted 2006 Minnesota Bluegrass Band of the Year) • Guitarist/vocalist Marc Gartman was a key member of New York outfit Pale Horse and Rider (Darla Records) • Full service to college radio and NPR through Secretly Canadian • New media campaign spearheaded by Fanatic Promotions (Sufjan Stevens, Deerhoof)

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The Framed, hailing from Minneapolis, bring a breath of fresh air to fashion-minded punk.The boys in The Framed are here to play music, Hometown: Duluth, MN. Also: Minneapolis, Chicago, St. Louis, Cleveland, New York, Boston,Washington not discuss hairstyling tips.To that end, they have focused on writing songs for their debut album on Reality Clash. 11 original, catchy tunes DC, San Francisco, Los Angeles Also written toAvailable evoke the ghosts of past punk à la Generation X, early Social Distortion and the Swingin’ Utters will certainly have you listening toNo thisWait albumWait 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 Track Listing No Wait Wait lightly.

Lost in the Bottle • Don’t Give Up (On Your Man) • Amends • About You • For What • Knight in CD: CKU 16 (M) Shining Armor • How to Fake it • All That There Was • Alabama • The Bull’s Horns • On Your Own

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• Have beenINcompared to Generation X, Social Distortion and Swingin’ Utters NOT AVAILABLE CANADA • #1 song on Radio K (Minneapolis) for two weeks running • Have YOUR shared stages with Street Dogs,REP Lower FOR Class Brats, Juliette Lewis & The Licks, Soviettes and more ASK NAIL SALES A COMPLETE Chairkickers ’ Union music CATALOG • Print promotion via postcards, posters and flyers • College radio service • Ads will run in Razorcake, Amp and Pulse Overview • KEY MARKETS: Minneapolis (Hometown).

Also: Los Angeles, San Diego, Newrecordings, York, “Loose, jazz-inspired, down-home, soulful band from the Netherlands … great lyrics, Chicago, Boston and St. Louis instrumentation, and overall feel. Like going to a party in someone’s living room.Welcome home.”

– Joey Burns (Calexico), Dusted

Track Listing Disposition Desperation • Airwaves • The Way Itthe Is first-ever • Run Away • Whiskey Bottles • From the Ashes North Eastof Indie is extremely proud to present North American release of the of the group Underground • Rock’n’Roll Never Sets •ofThe Kissrecords: • BleedVlaskoorts Us Dry • (1998) Battle Dutch De Kift.The self-titledRip-Off De Kift• isSun a combination twoLast great Songs • Vengeance and Koper (2001). A greatest hits, but not quite. In 1988 De Kift emerged from the punk waves of the late seventies/early eighties (think Wire, Crass, Minutemen).With their heavily involved music and intelligent articulation, these art-folk-punkers arrived on the forefront of Holland’s fringe political, musical, and theatrical movements. De Kift have influenced a whole generation of Dutch musicians with their combination of punk angst, world literature, and their village’s Crescendo Music De Kift Ensemble, of which Jan (the father and oldest member of De Kift) has been a member for over De Kift fifty-three years.Today, De Kift remains fully active, with two generations onstage.They continue to File Under: Alt Rock tour throughout Europe, their creativity is relentless, and they are yet to be discovered in the sense CD: EIR 45 (P) of their importance to contemporary musical, lyrical, political, and theatrical traditions.They are unparalleled both in their own country and internationally.

Selling Points • First North American release from this influential Dutch group • Percussionist/illustrator Wim ter Weele was the original drummer for The Ex • De Kift shares a strong connection with Dutch peers The Ex and label/distributor Konkurrent, being chosen as one of four groups to perform at The Ex’s twentieth anniversary celebration • Full press and radio mailing

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

Track Listing Narrow Miter • The Miller • Woe is Me • Oo • Wall,Wall • B3 • Bulging Eyes • Lame Nightingale • So Long • Rolfie • The Village Tree • Almanac • Copper 32 12

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Overview “Ben Schulman has a penchant for peppering soft melodies with deceptively cynical lyrics … if Interpol is incandescent Joy Division, Branches is adolescent Wilco. And it sure will be fun to watch them blossom.” – Rockpile Some bands make it look too easy. After day jobs and family commitments led to a brief hiatus, the four men of Branches returned to the studio, stronger and more focused than ever before.These sessions produced the rolling grooves and breezy folk-rock charm of Grown in You, their second album for Contraphonic. Although the band doesn’t split the frontman duties as much, the song arrangements are more collaborative.Thus, each members’ strengths become part of the whole – John Byce’s jazzy stickwork and upbeat vibes, Ben Schulman’s honey warble and pointed strumming, Seth Bohn’s bubbly guitar lines and cheery harmonies, Tim Joyce’s understated coloration and expert ear for arrangement. Recorded in just three days by Barry Phipps (Coctails), Grown in You is the sound of Branches planting their flag.

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• October 2006 tour of the Midwest & East Coast • Branches have a strong Chicago following thanks to members doing time in The Fruit Bats (Sub Pop), The Lesser Birds of Paradise, and Mannequin Men • National college radio campaign through AAM • Contraphonic will service national print & online magazines for review • Ads will run in Pitchfork, Rockpile, PopMatters, Innocent Words, Amplifier, and more

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Key Markets Hometown: Chicago. Also: Milwaukee, Cincinnati, Athens, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Bloomington, Nashville, Louisville,Washington DC, Arlington, New York

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Track Listing A Lot You Got to Holler • All Appeal • Garbage Pile • Dance a Little Closer • Digital Dance • An October City • Wailing Wall • Loaded Guns • Sixteen Hours to Georgia • Bundled Up in Covers

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Overview “Jon Crocker combines country, folk, and pop and out comes a perfect mix that goes under the skin … this is great music and definitely something for mind, body, and soul. Fantastic music, fantastic voice, fantastic recording … great stuff.” – Daredevil

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Jon Crocker’s beard has been growing nicely since he started touring as a folk musician. “I remember the day well,” he recalls. “I was in Wyoming, and this old guy at the end of the bar said that it was a state law that all musicians had to have a beard as a sort of identifying feature. I believed him and immediately drew one in with a Sharpie so as to avoid trouble.” On Crocker’s newest release, the beard is nearly out of control.The singing turns to growling at times, then to moaning, then to a tender whistle.The dull guitars and buckets bang like a good axe against spruce; the songs climax and take you down the canyon in a flash flood. “These songs are not so much about death as they are about life, and also about wagon wheels and fictional saints.There’s something for everybody,” Crocker says. “Except for Pietists.They’ve got no business listening to my music.” Not only did Crocker play all the instruments on the album, he also produced, engineered, and mixed it. But he doesn’t want to take all the credit. “It has nothing to do with me.The beard deserves credit for all of it.”

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• Building on several national and international tours, with upcoming fourteen-week Fall 2006 tour in support of this release • 3000+ in sales of previous self-released albums • Regional & national press and radio campaigns

Key Markets Hometown: Portland. Also: San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Omaha, Kansas City, Sacramento

Track Listing State Route 17 • California • Long Time • St. Ramon • Museum • Dopamine • How to Tie a Knot • Moving Right Along • Nocturne #7 • At the Edge of the Ocean • Now It Happens Every Day

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Overview The Framed Countless “A headphone masterpiece.”

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File Under: Punk and moods come with the music of Stationary Odyssey.

An intensely broad spectrum of sounds CD: RCL 17 (O) While not entirely avant-garde or wholly conventional, Stationary Odyssey carries the passion and honesty of folk music in a package composed of the heady aspects of experimental electronica and the explosive bombast of indie rock. Stationary Odyssey began in 2002 as the home recording project of Aaron Tanner; in their four-year history they have released two previous albums on Boyarm Records and The Great Vitamin Mystery. On this third effort, his Joyful Noise debut,Tanner teams up with Brett Siler to produce their most aggressive and guitar-driven album to date.

Stationary Odyssey has a sound that is extremely difficult to categorize without being overtly bizarre. Godspeed-esque guitar squeals run throughout some songs, while in others the music borders on electro noise-pop.This is a band unafraid to cross into new musical territory, and as diverse as their sound is, it somehow always ends up being startling and strangely beautiful.

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• Amazing, eye-catching artwork by Aaron Tanner (Ween, Moistboyz, Magnolia Electric Co, Chris Harford). Includes a twelve-page book NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA • Features the mixing and production work of the legendary KRAMER Preorder • Touring in September 2006 Discount through StreetDate • RIYL: Mogwai, The Red Sparrows Overview • Press

by Track Media The Framed, hailing fromcampaign Minneapolis, bring aStar breath of fresh air to fashion-minded punk.The boys in The Framed are • Radio campaign by Advanced Alternative here to play music, not discuss hairstyling tips.To that end, theyMedia have focused on writing songs for their debut album on Ads willcatchy run intunes Copper Press,Verbicide, Planet Reality Clash. 11 •original, written to evokeand the Punk ghosts of past punk à la Generation X, early Social

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Hometown: Evansville, IN. Also: Detroit, Bloomington, Indianapolis, Nashville, St. Louis, Rochester

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Track Listing • Have been compared to Generation X, Social Distortion and Swingin’ Utters Me two and You andrunning Gummie Bears • Lost, Lonely and Vicious • Nobody Does it Better • Cosmic Eddie, • #1 song on Radio K (Minneapolis) for weeks Oceanographer • Terror on the Hell&Loop • Skeletons • The Pink Axe • My Baby isSoviettes Black and more • 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 poses MARKETS: Minneapolis (Hometown).

Also: Los Angeles, “Rock to make Rod Stewart blush, microphone twirling,San andDiego, directNew eye York, contact with an Chicago, Boston and St. audience.The Louis understandably transfixed songs … are descended from new wave, rock opera, pop, reggae, and punk, and while the spectacle can make new audiences titter, there’s a deep sense of Track– PopMatters Listing earnestness.”

Disposition of Desperation • Airwaves • The Way It Is • Run Away • Whiskey Bottles • From the Ashes of the Underground • Rock’n’Roll Rip-Offunder • Sunthe Never Sets •All TheCity LastAffairs, Kiss • Bleed Usfirst Dryfor • Battle Bees is Peter Andreadis’ second album moniker and his Lujo Songs • Vengeance Records – and this is in addition to playing drums for Baby Teeth.With a multitude of instruments, acoustic and otherwise, the result is high-energy pop/rock with a heavy emphasis on the beat.The songs have been sculpted and recorded by Andreadis at home with drum machines, guitars, keyboards, and vocals, then rounded out by some of Chicago’s young jazz scene. Lyrically, it’s a mix of the emotional and the absurd, with song topics ranging from cloning to the ghost of a high school All City Affairs football player. If you like Paul McCartney, Flaming Lips, and early De La Soul (minus the Bees rapping) you’ll definitely be a fan of All City Affairs’ Bees.

File Under: Alt Rock CD: LUJ 31 (I) Selling Points • All City Affairs is the solo project of Baby Teeth drummer Peter Andreadis • Massive press campaign by Guerilla Public Inflations NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA • Radio promotion by Tricycle PR Preorder Discount • Featured MP3s on MySpace, Pure Volume, and Insound through StreetDate • Ads will run in Wonkavision, Modern Fix, Amplifier, Insound, Uprise Zine, Copper Press, Big Takeover, Status, Skyscraper, Hyperactive, Skratch, Punk Planet, Under the Volcano, Pitchfork, Decapolis, and more

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Key Markets Hometown: Chicago. Also: Kalamazoo, Columbus, St. Louis, Cleveland, Grand Rapids, Lansing, Bloomington, Austin,Washington DC, New York, Los Angeles, Seattle

Track Listing Send Yourself To Work • Fake Soul Singer • Man of Modern Times • Accidental Death of a High School Football Player • Fuss and Fight • Bees • How to Sell a Product • Grease Up the Rod • Almighty Dollar • The Park 32 14

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Overview “Surprisingly precise.” – Time Out New York This release is an unnervingly assured introduction to two of Brooklyn’s most exciting experimental bands. Miracle of Birth employs synths, sequencers, and other electronic instrumentation to create something that sounds like a long-lost science fiction movie soundtrack from the year 2456.The music’s density and technical proficiency are made all the more astounding in light of the following fact: Jade Larson is the only member. Child Abuse delivers four no-nonsense tracks that bring together playfully wild keyboards, stuttering pile-driver percussion, and demonic vocal fits. References to John Surman, Suffocation, and Miles Davis are noted, but the group manages to let its individuality shine. A full-length CD on Lovepump United will follow in early 2007.

Selling Points • Child Abuse songs recorded by Colin Marston of Dysrhythmia (Relapse Records) and Behold…The Arctopus (Black Market Activities) • Child Abuse has toured with Genghis Tron and played extensively with the likes of Dead Meadow and Coachwhips • Child Abuse bassist Timothy Dahl was in legendary grindcore band Siege • Miracle of Birth’s Jade Larson has played in the Link Wray Band, Spaceboy, and The Nausea Quartet with legendary free jazz musicians Daniel Carter and Ninni Morgia • Publicity by Blueghost (The Locust, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) • Ads will run in Pitchfork, Insound, and Skyscraper

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Key Markets Hometown: Brooklyn. Also: San Francisco, Philadelphia,Washington DC, Los Angeles

Track Listing Miracle of Birth:Thirst For Hunger • Damn You All I Told You So Child Abuse: Kalahari • Pre-Emptive Priapism • God’s Lightning • Grey Lump

Overview “Indian Jewelry plays the kind of music I want to hear in my head during sex, invoking visions of wild animals–a lunging cobra, a snarling mountain lion–and erupting volcanoes. Mortal coil be damned! It was a full-on spiritual ascension, a powwow hosted by the kind of people you don’t want to fuck with–the kind of people who make me think bands are cool again.” – Chicago Reader Indian Jewelry is a group from Houston,Texas currently working in Los Angeles, California. Prior to August 2004, the band toured and released records under the following names: NTX-Electric, Swarm of Angels, Turquoise Diamonds, Corpses of Waco, and Perpetual War Party Band.

Indian Jewelry’s membership is open-ended by design, and brings to mind the paranoid sounds of Suicide and the dark cacophony of The Birthday Party.

Indian Jewelry Invasive Exotics

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• CD out on Monitor Records File Under: Avant Rock/Experimental • Full U.S. tour in Fall 2006; band has already cultivated a large following thanks to several 12”: LPU 8 (N) national tours • Sold out two self-released EPs • Extensive publicity and marketing campaign launching in mid-July 2006 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA • Service to press, zines, blogs, and college/web radio Preorder Discount • Giveaways/contests by record stores and independent radio through StreetDate • Ads will run in Pitchfork, Insound, and Skyscraper

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Key Markets Hometown: Los Angeles. Also: Houston, Austin, Chicago, Providence, Philadelphia, Detroit, San Diego, San Francisco, Portland, Olympia

Track Listing Lesser Snake • Powwow • Dirty Hands • Ratnoise • Come Closer • Going South • Health and Wellbeing • Partying with Jandek • Lying on the Floor • Lost My Sight

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Less Pain Forever/ Peachcake Now We Have Something To Celebrate

Stefan Pruett and John O’Keefe are Peachcake, a couple of really good-looking vigilantes who use their mutant-based powers to protect the world from audio terrorism. Peachcake has battled alongside Ambulance LTD, Elf Power, Explosions in the Sky, The Go! Team, Minus the Bear, Of Montreal, Ratatat, and many more.The visionary duo Less Pain Forever went into the Sonic Youth studio with Sonic Youth engineer Aaron Mullan for their first full-length. From 2001 until a year ago, Less Pain Forever recorded and released their own music and booked their own tours, which found them eventually selling everything they owned and traversing the states in a huge black RV, in which they also lived.The duo has played shows with Modest Mouse, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Frank Black, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Ween, Deerhoof, Jimmy Eat World, Yo La Tengo, Mates of State, and many more.They have been called everything from musical arsonists to rock ‘n’ roll saviors.

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• Peachcake and Less Pain Forever have extensively toured the U.S. for the last three years • Both groups will be featured in the NEMO Music Fest two weeks after album’s release • Full press campaign; indie service to college radio

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Overview “Highly recommended, but not for the weak.” – Giant Robot Seize the Time marks Flattbush’s pile-driving follow-up to their debut CD Smash the Octopus, an album described by Barney Greenway of Napalm Death as “savage.” On this new release, the riffs have become uglier, the bottom end deeper, the chaos factor more intense, and the message more direct than ever. And, somehow, they’ve even thrown in a couple of hooks and more than a few left turns.This band operates with military precision and will not be stopped.This is not merely metal, merely punk, or merely political. It is a sonic and cultural onslaught.

Selling Points • Produced by Billy Gould (Faith No More); mixed by Colin Davis (Vile) • Have shared the stage with Fear Factory, Mike Patton, Napalm Death, Asesino, and Melt-Banana • Full U.S. tour planned for September–October 2006 • Media promo mailing; publicity handled by Yarrr! PR • Targeted metal/college radio campaign • Ads will run in Modern Fix

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Key Markets Hometown: Los Angeles. Also: San Diego, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, St. Louis, Reno

Streetside Prophet Talking to Walls

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Streetside Prophet, from Scottsdale, AZ, was formed in 2004 and has shared the stage with such bands as Set Your Goals, The Queers, The Phenomonauts, The Eyeliners, and Glass and Ashes.They play music that combines the sounds of East Bay and Midwestern punk, comparable to bands like Jawbreaker and The Lawrence Arms. Emotional, intelligent, and upbeat, their new EP features seven songs about growing up and lessons learned.

Content for CPP 27 includes pieces on Tortoise, Band of Horses, Built to Spill, Mudhoney, Maritime, Two Gallants, Witch, Yakuza, Talkdemonic, Can, Dirty on Purpose, The Gathering, [the] caseworker, Haram, Christian Kiefer, Listing Ship, Lewis & Clarke, Venice is Sinking, Spirit of the Stairs, The North Atlantic, Headlights, Paper Airplanes, Mia Doi Todd, artist James Wolanin, artist Mark Price, photographer Beth Herzhaft, The Abner Trio, AM Syndicate, Apoloo Up!, Al Duvall, and more…

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Overview Join inquisitive punk rock journalist Nardwuar the Human Serviette as he digs through legendary photographer Bev Davies’ photo vault and presents to you the best of her timeless unseen archival photos! Each month includes an interview with Davies about that particular month’s photo. No photos were taken after 1982! Also includes extras like a Mint Records discography and additional fun schnippets. Bev Davies grew up in Toronto, almost went to California with Neil Young on his famous hearse ride to hell, and then relocated to Vancouver, where she basically shot everything that moved.Whether joining D.O.A. on groundbreaking tours or talking to John Lennon on the phone, it all had to be documented. She worked for a few years at Vancouver’s entertainment weekly Georgia Straight and was a contributor to Slash, Damaged, and tons of other fanzines.This calendar is not the final word on Bev Davies’ photos, but the first step in the examination of one of the great chroniclers of our generation. Her photos help document both the famous and unknown rock ‘n’ rollers of the twentieth century, and without a doubt provide a valuable resource for even the casual musicologist.

Featuring: The Subhumans, Motörhead, Avengers, Black Flag, Adam and the Ants, D.O.A., Johnny Thunders, The Clash, Pointed Sticks, Go-Gos, Dead Kennedys, Gang of Four, and The Ramones.

Nardwuar the Human Serviette vs. Bev Davies A 2007 Punk Rock Calendar File Under: Alt Rock MISC: MRI 95 (I) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Selling Points • Calendar runs from December 2006 to December 2007 • Definitive collection of one of the Pacific Northwest’s premiere rock photographers • Interviews by Nardwuar on every page focus on each month’s photo; also includes an extensive, extended interview after the December 2007 page • Contains full Mint Records discography • Promos distributed to college radio stations, publications, and websites • Ads will run in Loud Fast Rules, Punk Planet, Razorcake, MRR, Big Takeover, Skyscraper, Under the Radar, and many more • Both Nardwuar and Bev Davies will be available for interviews • 11x17 full color posters available

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Overview “Though undeniably heavy, Paik draws only tangentially from traditional metal.Their gradual, surging currents can dovetail nicely with some of the more shoegazerly moments of Boris or Jesu, but more often the trio advances with a uniquely limber, propulsive symmetry.” – Pitchfork Follow Paik though the trenches on a mesmerizing nine-year trip of mind-expanding live performances. Magnesium Fire spans 1996-2005, including an entire set at New York City’s Irving Plaza which features “Dirt for Driver,” “Phantoms,” “Monster of the Absolute,” and “Satin Black.”

Experience the full spectrum of Paik as they hone their signature brand of neuron acceleration and progress to new levels of musicality. Also included as a special bonus is Paik’s ultra-rare 1998 “Spacer” single on a 3” CD, which was pressed in a miniscule run of eighty copies in 1999 and immediately went out of print.

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Selling Points • A Strange Attractors Audio House sub-label • Over eighty minutes of footage spanning nearly a decade, including their “Spacer” single repressed as a bonus 3” CD and a special hidden bonus featurette!

• Includes an entire live set from 2005 tour with Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks at New York’s Irving Plaza, as well as ten selected performances of songs from each of their albums, spanning a decade of severe psychedelic meltdown • Performance at Terrastock 6 in April 2006 (with Bardo Pond, Kinski, Ghost, and more) was one of the fest’s highlights • Hot on the heels of their fifth full-length, Monster of the Absolute, released earlier this year, which received accolades in Pitchfork, Brainwashed,The Wire, and more

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

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– JazzTimes Destruction

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The Framed Jon Blum Countless Ways of SelfJon Blum Astrogeny Quartet Destruction File Under: Jazz File Punk CD:Under: ERE 49 (Q)

There are few sessions to rival this one for sheer urgency and gusto. It’s as if something pent-up in these four musicians waited for this combination of players to unleash it – and the music explodes into action. Pianist John Blum is a secret hero of New York’s free jazz community, known as a proficient & forceful improviser in the tradition of his mentors, Borah Bergmann & Cecil Taylor. Blum’s performance on Astrogeny is his shining moment on disc to date. Bassist William Parker is nothing less than the living oak of American free jazz.The legendary Denis Charles was at his best when paired with Parker; together they formed one of the great, yet under-documented, rhythm sections in the music. Antonio Grippi, a shadowy figure in free-jazz history, makes an appropriately rousing contribution on alto saxophone.

Selling Points • Denis Charles & William Parker are legendary figures in jazz • John Blum was a featured performer at the 2006 Vision Festival in New York • Full promotional service to print & e-media, college & community radio, and NPR by Eremite

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Hometown: New York. Also: Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Montreal, New York, Portland, The Framed, hailing from Minneapolis, bring a breath of fresh air to fashion-minded punk.The boys in The Framed are San Francisco, Seattle here to play music, not discuss hairstyling tips.To that end, they have focused on writing songs for their debut album on Reality Clash. 11 original, catchy tunes written to evoke the ghosts of past punk à la Generation X, early Social Track Listing Distortion and the Swingin’ Utters will certainly have you listening to this album over and over. Drawing several hundred kids per show, Simultanium • Astrogeny • Encomia • Dieci • Astrogeny Reprise Also Available The Framed show no signs of letting up.This is not a band to be taken lightly.

Denis Charles Selling Captain of the DeepPoints 9 (Q) • CD: HaveERE been compared to Generation X, Social Distortion and Swingin’ Utters • 723721178659 #1 song on Radio K (Minneapolis) for two weeks running • Have shared stages with Street Dogs, Lower Class Brats, Juliette Lewis & The Licks, NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA • Print promotion via postcards, posters and flyers • College radio service • Ads will run in Razorcake, Amp and Pulse Overview • KEY Minneapolis (Hometown).

Also: Losinvisible Angeles,release San Diego, New York,is the exact fruit “If everMARKETS: a record was ripe for reissue, Khan Jamal’s on Dogtown Chicago,should Bostonbeand St. Louis everyone trying to harvest.” – Wax Poetics

Track Listing There’s not another album on the planet that sounds even remotely like vibraphonist Khan Jamal’s Disposition of Desperation • Airwaves • The WaytoItthe Is •Motherland.

Run Away In • Whiskey Bottlesfusion • From eccentric, one-of-a-kind masterpiece, Drumdance its improbable of the freeAshes jazz of the Underground • Rock’n’Rolland Rip-Off Sun Never Sets • Thetechniques, Last Kiss •Drumdance Bleed Us Dry • Battle expressionism, Black psychedelia, full-on• dub-like production remains a Songs • Vengeance bracingly powerful outsider statement thirty-four years after it was recorded live at the Catacombs club in Philadelphia in 1972. Comparisons to Sun Ra, King Tubby, Phil Cohran, and BYG/Actuel merely hint at the cosmic otherness conjured by the band and by recording engineer Mario Falana’s real-time “enhancements.” The first edition of 300 copies, issued by Jamal in 1973 on the local Philadelphia label Dogtown, was barely distributed outside the city’s limits. Since then, Drumdance has assumed a mythic status among the very few aficionados, eBay mutants, and heads that know of it at all. Hallelujah that it can finally be heard outside their murky inner sanctums!

Selling Points • Drumdance was recently featured in Wax Poetics’ Left Field Americana column • Comes lavishly packaged in an eight-panel digipak with new & original cover art as well as an exhaustive history of the album • Full promotional service by Eremite to NPR, college & community radio, print, and e-media

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

Track Listing Cosmic Echoes • Drum Dance • Inner Peace • Breath of Life

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Overview “Club d’Elf combines the roaring avant-funk of electric-era Miles with the legato drift of the Grateful Dead … heady music that doesn’t neglect the tail.” – Time Out New York This legendary underground dub/jazz/Moroccan/trance/electronica group led by bassist Mike Rivard (Morphine, The Story) has held an eight-year residency at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge.The group has garnered critical praise, drawn sold-out crowds, and topped local polls in jazz, DJ, electronica, and jam band categories. Features John Medeski & Billy Martin (Medeski, Martin & Wood), DJ Logic, Reeves Gabrels (David Bowie), Mat Maneri, Duke Levine (Shawn Colvin), Alain Mallet (Paul Simon), Mister Rourke (Soulive), and more!

Selling Points • Club d’Elf has previously released live albums, but this is their first studio album • Features John Medeski & Billy Martin (Medeski, Martin & Wood), DJ Logic, Reeves Gabrels (David Bowie), Mat Maneri, Duke Levine (Shawn Colvin), Alain Mallet (Paul Simon), Mister Rourke (Soulive), and more • Appeals to a young electronica and DJ audience, but contains enough musical substance for the hip end of the jazz crowd • Extensive radio mailing and promotion • Ads will run in Relix, Bass Player, Signal to Noise, Blender, JamBase, Glide, and electronica/DJ magazines

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Hometown: Boston. Also: New York, Atlanta, Athens, Philadelphia

Track Listing Introduction • Bass Beatbox • Hungry Ghosts • Quilty • Vishnu Dub • A Toy for a Boy • Luminous Things • What Would Cthulhu Do? • Now I Understand • Then Shadow Saw the Gods • Wetbones (Extended) • Vision of Kali • Just Kiddin

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Overview “Man! These guys are great!” – Iggy Pop Everybody knows that the Hard-Ons have always been a pop band, right? That links to folks like Henry Rollins and bands like Poison Idea aside, they’ve always harbored a not-so-secret fetish for the enormous and soaring melodies of Big Star? However, this tendency has always been tempered by their equal love of thrash, hardcore, and metal. So, for their tenth full-length studio album, the Hard-Ons – Ray Ahn, Blackie, and Pete Kostic – decided to try something a little different.They decided to make a pop record: a pure power pop record, but done in that unique Hard-Ons way.

They’re still playing with the same irreverent fury that has made them perennial live favorites around the globe, but they’re doing so with a batch of songs that, in a perfect world, would be FM radio hits.

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Selling Points • Thirty-five-date U.S. tour with The Queers scheduled for September-October 2006 • Hard-Ons have sold more than 200,000 records worldwide, and over eleven years they have produced an unbeaten run of seventeen consecutive #1 independent singles, EPs, and albums in Australia • Have shared the stage with Faith No More, The Ramones (at Joey’s request), Red Hot Chili Peppers, Butthole Surfers, and Foo Fighters (at Dave Grohl’s request) • Full press mailing; possible full radio campaign • Ads will run in key magazines in connection with touring

Track Listing What Would Stiv Bators Do • I’m Hurt I’m In Pain • There Goes One of the Creeps That Hassled My Girlfriend • Crack • Knowing My Luck • I’ll Get Thrush or Something • Bubble Bath • Stop Crying • Poorest Kid on the Block • But Officer I Was Just Doing My Job • Her Smile is a Wish I Can’t Obtain • The Ballad of Katrin Cartlidge • Cockroach

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Featured Artists Jonh Genier – vocals Frank Chartrand – guitar Jonathan Vallee – drums Daniel Cole – bass

Overview Since day one in early 1997, Twenty2 have been rocking stages all over Canada with their unique skate-style punk rock. Months after their first performance, they were asked to open for top national acts such as Blink 182, Good Riddance, AFI, No Use For A Name, Diesel Boy, and more.The band signed with New School Records in early 2003 and released The Dudes of Hazzard, which gained them national television exposure throughout Canada and landed them on tour with Ten Foot Pole. In late 2004, Twenty2 released Unstable, which led to a three-week tour with Rise Against and regular airplay on Quebec’s Musique Plus. In late 2005, New School released Still Busy, a compilation of Twenty2’s first three CDs.With this release keeping their fans busy, the band was preparing to record their new full-length, Defective. Twenty2 is back in action with a new fourteen-track album that has enough melodic catches to claim itself as the band’s finest release to date! With producer/engineer Marc McClusky, Twenty2 were able to capture the raw punk sound the album needed to fill the fans’ expectations. From the first track to the last, listeners will find themselves drawn in by the technical guitar riffs, fastpaced drums, and unique vocal style that only Twenty2 can deliver. Defective shows that the band has a bright and successful future ahead of them, and this piece of work will not disappoint their listeners.

Press Quotes “Experience shows in their execution, tightness and musicianship.This is a solid-as-hell disc.” – Skratch “This is balls-to-the-wall, hard rockin’ melodic hardcore! Think of All and NOFX with a monster thick rock guitar sound. Sounds pretty good, huh?” – AMP

Selling Points • Produced by Marc McClusky; mastered by Rodney Mills • Enhanced with a music video and unreleased MP3s • Will tour on the nationwide New School tour from August–October and on the East Coast in November with Mourningstar • Twenty2 was a supporting act on tour with Rise Against in March 2005.They have also shared the stage with Propagandhi, Ten Foot Pole, Cigar, Blink 182, Good Riddance, AFI, No Use For A Name, Diesel Boy, and more • Interviews and reviews scheduled for October, November, and December • Service to college & city radio as well as magazines, websites, and promoters • Ads will run in Alternative Press Warped Tour Guide, Alternative Press, Chord, Skratch, Highwire Daze, Fat City, AMP, and more

Key Markets Hometown: Quebec. Also: Portland, Seattle, Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Mesa,Tucson, Denver, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, Los Vegas, Kansas City, Chicago, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Miami

Track Listing One Minute • Angelina • Envy Evil • Never Healing • Shattered • Delusional • I Don’t Care Anymore • Not Like You • Caught • Might Be Real • Bad Influence • Time on the Ceiling • Just Perfect • Die Young Also Available

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Featured Artists Jesse Cole – vocals, guitar Marc McClusky – guitar Josh Baker – bass Tom Bruno – drums

Overview Members of Nuclear Saturday and the ever-popular Atlanta act Lights Out formed In Stereo in early 2005. Since all four members have previously been lead players in other serious bands, they had the knowledge of what it takes to make it! And with only a few months of existence under their belts, they were off to a quick start–receiving endorsements from clothing companies, sponsorships from amp manufacturers, and enough motivation to take on the world. In early 2005, In Stereo signed with New School Records and released their debut record, Death Before Emo, which landed them licensing deals, getting their hit song “Waking Up” on a Discovery Channel special and in multiple movie soundtracks. In mid 2005, Trolley Bus Records picked up the EP for distribution in Japan and have successfully moved over 9,000 units to date! When 2006 approached, the band was ready to move forward with the release of a new fulllength. In Stereo is back with their second national release, Return to Alternative.This exceptional twelve-track collection of pop-punk tunes embeds inimitable song organization and heartfelt lyrics that only frontman Jesse Cole could produce. Compared to their previous release, the songs show a more mature side of the band while still maintaining the one-of-a-kind sound their fans have grown to love.

Press Quotes “This is one fun freakin’ record! Bouncy pop-punchy songs jam-packed with tons of catchy hooks, driving melodies, and heartfelt, inspired lyrics. Kinda like a more upbeat Jawbreaker mixed with Weezer … this is pure power pop in the best sense of the term with right musicianship and fantastic, punchy production to match.” – Fat City “Highly infectious, presenting to the world a thrilling new chapter in well written melodic punk music … In Stereo is destined for rock and roll greatness.” – Highwire Daze

Selling Points • Produced, engineered, and mixed by Allan Ploth • Will tour on the nationwide New School tour from August–October 2006 • Interviews and reviews scheduled for August, September, October, and November • Service to college & city radio as well as magazines, websites, and promoters • Ads will run in Alternative Press Warped Tour Guide, Alternative Press, Chord, Skratch, Highwire Daze, Fat City, AMP, and more

Key Markets Hometown: Atlanta. Also: Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Denver, Reno, Provo,Tucson,Tulsa, Oklahoma City, San Antonio, Houston, Fort Worth, Los Vegas, Kansas City, Chicago, Minneapolis, Jacksonville, Miami

Track Listing Scars • Sweet Relentless • A Moment In Time • Digging Up the Bride • Just So You Know • P.H.D. • Pigeon • Meteor Shower • Another Beautiful Day • California Song • Watered Down • A.M. Love Song

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Overview This release will make any As I Lay Dying fan jealous.With so many meaningless metal bands in the Windy City, how does a band of value rise above the clutter? Well, they release quality music and put on show after show, a formula that Chicago’s Until I Bleed Dry seems to have perfected.With their electrically charged, crazy stage antics and a passion for their listeners, Until I Bleed Dry have made plenty of fans, including shout-outs from members of Hatebreed and other big name artists. Having previously taken their sonically crushing sound on the road supporting such metal and hardcore heavyweights as Hatebreed, Damageplan, and He Who Corrupts, this band’s future seems bright.

In 2004, Until I Bleed Dry caught the interest of the ever-growing Milwaukee indie label Snapdragon Records, who will release the band’s sure-to-be devastatingly brutal debut in Summer 2006.

Selling Points • • • • •

Until I Bleed Dry I Dream of Angels & I Wake Upon Demons

Performances on Vans Warped Tour Produced by Shane Olivo (Fall Out Boy, 7 Angels, 7 Plagues) Mastered By Trevor Sadler (Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, Live) Full-time touring – 180 shows in 365 days Promotion by Moxie Star PR

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Key Markets Hometown: Chicago. Also: Madison, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Detroit, New Jersey, Cincinnati, Miami, New York, Los Angeles, Connecticut

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Track Listing Electric Dialog for the Weary • Lungs Collapse • Powder Lines Burn Paper Bridges • The Departure • Escort To The Dance (Prom Date) • Nothing Left To Say • For The Gyno To Know (And For You to Cry About) • Comatose Lover • Lights & Mirrors *Best For Last*

Overview Greetings and welcome to the wonderful world of A Billion Ernies, who are either a ska band with hardcore break-downs or a hardcore band with ska and reggae grooves … whichever description makes you the least confused or angry. A Billion Ernies, formed in 2002, have been on two national tours and a UK tour. Stop Calling Us Ska, their second full-length, is self-written, produced, recorded, mixed, and mastered. In fact, this is its second recording – the band didn’t like the first one, so they decided to do it over, and it paid off.

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A Billion Ernies Stop Calling Us Ska! File Under: Punk/Ska CD: SNP 10 (J)

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Performances on Vans Warped Tour Rated #1 Best Unsigned Ska Band by PureVolume Have completed two national tours and a UK tour Influences include Reel Big Fish, Norma Jean, Blindside, Extol, Dillinger Escape Plan, Incubus, Refused, Mad Caddies, Cursive, RX Bandits, and Five Iron Frenzy • Promotion by Moxie Star PR

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Hometown: Los Angeles/San Diego. Also: Anaheim, Oakland, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Detroit, New Jersey, Cincinnati, Miami, New York, Los Angeles, Connecticut, Milwaukee, Madison, Houston, Austin, Dallas, Miami, New York

Track Listing Effect of the Scene • All for the Money • Stop Calling Us Ska • Go Karate II • Persecution • Starcia Hates Her Day Job • This Time Around • Xelda Theme Song • TWH • Anonymous

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– Maximum Rock ‘n’ RollFile Under: Punk CD: RCL 17 (O)

The Framed National Razor Countless WaysGod of SelfNaked Before Destruction and Country File File Under: Under:Punk Punk

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The latest blasts for Baltimore’s punk stalwarts! National Razor has resided in the shadows of the East Coast punk rock scene for almost ten years. Founded in 1998 from members of previous Washington DC and Baltimore bands, National Razor has been an ever-present staple in the region’s scene.The band’s sound is an uncontrived, surly blend of the Ramones, Stiff Little Fingers, The Beatles, Johnny Cash, and The Clash; a thinking man’s punk band, their songs are awash in contradictions: abrasively melodic, visionary but destructive, callused yet vulnerable. Lead singer Erik Sunday’s scalpel-sharp lyrics are socially incisive, politically corrosive, and leavened with sarcasm and wit.

Selling Points • National Razor has been a cornerstone of the Baltimore scene for almost a decade • The band’s third release is a follow-up to their split release with the legendary UK Subs • National Razor’s blend of melodic punk, garage rock, and sociopolitical commentary is topical and appeals to a wide segment of alt rock audiences • Recorded by Pierre Sprey at Mapleshade Studio, whose label and recording methods receive extensive media exposure through print, radio, and television

The Framed, hailing from Minneapolis, bring a breath of fresh air to fashion-minded punk.The boys in The Framed Key are here to play music, Markets not discuss hairstyling tips.To that end, they have focused on writing songs for their debut Hometown: Also: Boston, New York, Atlanta, Austin, San Francisco, album on Reality Clash. 11Baltimore. original, catchy tunes written to evoke thePhiladelphia, ghosts of past punkLos à laAngeles, Generation X, early Portland, Seattle, Chicago 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. llegro This A d title te u distrib om your able fr scompared rep!

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Selling Points Depression • 123 Let’s Go • Policies of Life • Avoiding You • Self-Defenseless • TV Song • Duped • Do You Get High Tonight?

• TearUtters Me Down • Fool Or Fucking Creep • Teenage Truce • Dead • to Generation X,Wanna Social Distortion and Swingin’ Heroes Out of Control • Fortune Tellers • Car Wreck • Borrowed Time • Saw You Come Over • #1 song on Radio K (Minneapolis) for two •weeks running • Have shared stages with Street Dogs, Lower Class Brats, Juliette Lewis & The Licks, Soviettes and more • Print promotion via postcards, posters and flyers • College radio service • Ads will run in Razorcake, Amp and Pulse Overview • KEY MARKETS: Minneapolis (Hometown).

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by TacticalAlso: SektLos to Angeles, date.TheSan beats are New heavier than a ten-ton Chicago, Louis of variety … once again shows why Tactical Sekt are in the upper boulder, andBoston offer a and niceSt. amount echelon of the harsh electro genre.” – Virus-mag.com

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Disposition of Desperation • Airwaves • The Way ItSekt Is • Run • Whiskey • Fromband the has COP International is proud to present Tactical and Away their new albumBottles Syncope.The Ashes of the Underground Rock’n’Roll • Sun • The Last in Kiss Bleed Us Dryis •a established themselves in the• last couple ofRip-Off years as oneNever of the Sets top ten bands the• genre.There Battledeal Songs • Vengeancefor this album, and it certainly will not let anyone down! Tactical Sekt’s great of anticipation newest offering of harsh electro is already burning up alternative dance floors worldwide. Syncope (named for a loss of consciousness caused by a sudden reduction in blood to the brain) is the amazing follow-up to the extremely popular Geneticide and Burn Process CDs, and features twelve tracks with ultimate club compatibility – thundering, razor-edged, complex, and well-structured songs with strong distorted vocals, precise breaks, pounding bass drums, and their trademark catchy melodies. Syncope is Tactical Sekt a superb album that easily exceeds expectations and strongly underlines why Tactical Sekt is Syncope considered one of the hottest artists in the dark electro scene.

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• Syncope is a powerful album that has already received great reviews and is currently #4 in the German Alternative Charts • Service to DJs, radio stations, and print media • MySpace campaign to 30,000 contacts

Key Markets Hometown: Los Angeles. Also: Detroit, Chicago, Pittsburgh, New York,Washington DC, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Miami

Track Listing Snycope • Dark Sky • American Me • Awaken the Ghost (Final Awakening) • Waiting For the World To End • Bring Me Violence • Not Going To Work That Way • Chosen One • 4 Steps To Dysfunction • Not Entertained • Beslan • Your’re Fired

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Featured Artists Rudresh Mahanthappa – alto sax Vijay Iyer – piano Francois Moutin – bass Dan Weiss – drums

Overview Since the release of Mother Tongue in 2004, Rudresh Mahanthappa has moved to the forefront of the new generation of composers and alto players in jazz.The time in between has seen him take honors in the DownBeat Jazz Critics Poll, receive the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for excellence in composition, and receive a Rockefeller grant to compose music for his Dakshina Ensemble featuring Kadri Goplanath, amongst other things.The time has also allowed Mahanthappa to once again look to the outside world and draw from a system of order for his next project. Mahanthappa has composed the music on Codebook stemming from ideas and concepts related to cryptography.The varied systems provided the groundwork for him to approach the DNA of the compositions on this CD from fresh and previously unexplored angles. A well-known standard could be transformed into an entirely fresh piece, notes could be associated with words and ordered as such, and rhythms further coded and ordered. All of this is to say that another system of order has been applied to music, but has been done so with such care and thought that the result sounds in no way formulated.

Instead, it is the work of a composers’ hand deftly working within a system, but creating something entirely organic.This CD is a beautiful addition to Mahanthappa’s growing catalog of releases and a mature statement from a voice that we now see scaling new heights.

Press Quotes “Mahanthappa and Iyer are emblematic of their generation of jazz musicians.They have found ways to tweak conventional forms to find their voices, rather than laying waste to the structures that preceded them.” – Wall Street Journal “A fine test of the comparisons between Mahanthappa and Steve Coleman.While Mahanthappa shares Coleman’s ability to effortlessly stream unusually shaped phrases, their respective sounds are quite different.” – Down Beat “Mahanthappa, the commanding presence at the helm, has a tone that is hard, biting, and emotionally alive. He plays with blinding speed but also draws upon the ardent legato cries associated with Indian double-reed instruments or Hindustani vocalists.” – JazzTimes

Selling Points • Mahanthappa is a key figure in the current New York scene that also features Vijay Iyer, Steve Lehman, and Liberty Ellman • The highly anticipated follow up to 2004’s Mother Tongue • East Coast tour planned for Fall 2006 • Articles will appear in Jazziz and Global Rhythm in Fall 2006 • Pi Recordings will do a full press mailing to the top music publications and a full radio mailing to CMJ, Jazz Week, and NPR stations • Ads will run in Down Beat and JazzTimes as well as on music websites

Key Markets Hometown: New York. Also: San Francisco. Seattle, Los Angeles, Portland, Austin, Dallas, Denver, Boulder, Chicago, Boston

Track Listing The Decider • Refresh • Enhanced Performance • Further and In Between • Play It Again Sam • Frontburner • D (Dee-Dee) • Wait It Thourgh • My Sweetest Also Available

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Featured Artists Zach Hill – drums, vocals, guitars, synth, sampler, harmonica, piano, trumpet Dan Elkan – vocals, guitars, piano, keyboard Rob Crow – vocals, various instruments Carson McWhirter – guitars, sampling Jonathan Hischke – bass, screams, synth Ian Hernandez – bass J.R.Thompson – recording, bass

Overview Talk To Your Kids About Gangs is the culmination of a recording process that began in 2003, with the line-up of Zach Hill, Dan Elkan, Rob Crow, Carson McWhirter, Jonathan Hischke, Ian Hernandez, and J.R.Thompson.The group first assembled for the album Masculine Drugs, a soundtrack to a book penned by founder Zach Hill and released by Suicide Squeeze Records.

On their Skin Graft debut, Holy Smokes arrive fully formed with an album that operates on its own terms, lines drawn, standing assuredly on it’s own.Where the band’s debut offered a discordant free-jazz-noise-rock shock, Talk To Your Kids About Gangs emerges as a harmonic tangle of pitches and thunder claps that, as they unravel, come into focus as intelligible, infectious oddments of grooving sonance.

Make no mistake, these are songs.

Press Quotes “Holy Smokes are a supergroup better than the sum of its incalculably impressive parts. A balancing act of incredible dexterity … a scorching mangle of instruments igniting waves of dreamily emotive melodies upon a dizzying volcanic terrain.This is barefoot shoegazing on a bed of hot coals.” – Independence Now “Worth telling and re-telling, moody enough for a post-midnight mass blowout and subtle enough to dampen the darkened corners of a sullen Sunday morning. Read with feeling, listen with guileless regard.” – Splendid

Selling Points • Advance MP3 is up now at: www.skingraftrecords.com/audio.html • Holy Smokes feature members of Hella, Pinback, The Advantage, and The Flying Luttenbachers • Members of Holy Smokes have performed with bands ranging from Yowie to System of a Down • Holy Smokes made their live debut at 2004’s CMJ Music Festival, and will be touring in support of this album • International press and radio campaign spearheaded by Four Paws Media • Ads will run in Punk Planet,The Wire, Skyscraper, and more

Key Markets Hometown: Sacramento. Also: New York, San Diego, Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Seattle, Detroit, San Francisco

Track Listing The Big Picture • Too Many Wives (All You Need Is Blood) • Pretty Much None Of Us Know Anything • Missed Connections • Don’t Squab On God’s Tracks • Young Accent • Upsidedown • Quantum Leaper Of Los Angeles County • No Dice • If You Pull It Out,You Better Use It • Welcome To Say You’re Welcome • Afternoon • I Wasn’t Scared, He Couldn’t Feel His Hands • Universes N.A.R.C. • Young Man’s Blues • The Big Picture (Reprise)

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Featured Artists Yoshida Tatsuya – vocals, drums, keyboards, reeds Kubota Aki – vocals, keyboards Sakamoto Kengo – vocals, bass Harada Jin – vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar

Overview Following the release of 2005’s Angherr Shisspa, Skin Graft proudly presents Koenjihyakkei’s second album, Viva Koenji!! to western listeners.With the original issue on Japan’s God Mountain label largely unheard and fetching enormous prices on the collector’s market, Viva Koenji!!, generally considered the band’s heaviest album, returns to print in a deluxe remastered edition. Headed by vocalist/composer/ drummer extraordinaire Yoshida Tatsuya (of the bass & drum duo Ruins), Koenjihyakkei boasts a fan base comprised of zuehl prog fans, no-wavers, and adventurous music enthusiasts – and has proven itself the most exciting contemporary progressive rock act on the planet.

Press Quotes “Koenjihyakkei towers over most modern progressive rock because of an attention to detail and an overwhelming force of conviction.

No irony here: this rocks with the teeth and heart to cut through the ‘scenes’ and the ‘overground’ like a knife … Koenjihyakkei may go down as Tatsuya Yoshida’s greatest achievement: the most perfect fusion of straight prog, the avant-garde, and hardcore punk. Amen.”

– Pitchfork “I’m probably going out on a limb here, but from my vantage point, this is not only the most brilliant of all of contemporary Japanese bands, but perhaps the greatest group currently operating in the world.” – Alternative Press

Selling Points • An advance MP3 is up now at: www.skingraftrecords.com/audio.html • Yoshida Tatsuya has a tremendous worldwide following as the leader of Koenjihyakkei and Ruins, and a player in renowned bands Acid Mothers Temple and Painkiller • Koenjihyakkei has received rave reviews and garnered a strong cult following since the release of their debut CD, 1994’s Hundred Sights of Koenji • Viva Koenji!!, never before released in the United States, will be stickered to alert customers of the Ruins connection • Yoshida Tatsuya will be touring the U.S. this September in the Japanese New Music Festival • International press and radio campaign • Ads will run in Punk Planet,The Wire, Skyscraper, and more

Key Markets New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Detroit, Minneapolis, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle

Track Listing Grembo Zavia • Graddinoba Revoss • Sllina Vezom • Quidom • Aramida • Cembell Rotta • Brahggo • Rissenddo Rraimb • Guoth Dahha • Pamillazze

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Featured Artists Matt Menovcik – keyboards, programming, vocals Kramer – guitar, electronics, keyboards

Overview Kramer ran Shimmy Disc Records until 2000. He has produced over 500 bands including Low and Galaxie 500. He was the engineer/arranger/producer of Urge Overkill’s cover of “Girl,You’ll Be A Woman Soon.” Recently, he has been composing music for theater productions, still producing great bands, and releasing solo albums on the Tzadik label.

Matt Menovcik is the lead singer/songwriter for the band Saeta, whose last album, We Are Waiting All For Hope, garnered much critical acclaim. He is also the bass player for the pop-punk band Ms. Led. Recently, Saeta’s album has been released in Europe on Italian label Ghost Records, the band signed a publishing deal with Warner Chappell Italia, and Ms. Led has been promoting their latest record with much critical and commercial success.

For this collaboration, Matt Menovcik wrote and recorded the songs in Seattle and then sent the files to Kramer, who added parts and touches before mixing and producing the final product.

Press Quotes “Menovcik sounds like a younger, more emotive Tom Waits.” – Venus “Matt Menovcik … has a voice and tone not heard since Morrissey’s days in The Smiths.” – Smother “Matt Menovcik is a top-rate songwriter.” – Seattle Weekly

Selling Points • Kramer was Rolling Stone’s 1995 Producer of the Year • Matt Menovcik is the singer/songwriter of Saeta and bass player for Ms. Led • This is the first release by this duo, which will be closely followed by an appearance on a Daniel Johnston tribute CD and a full-length release on Kramer’s new label Second Shimmy • Aggressive publicity campaign through Canary Promotions • Radio promotion through Fish the Cat Records • Aggressive web campaign with focus on MySpace • Ads will run in Magnet, Amplifier, and Big Takeover

Key Markets Hometown: Seattle/Miami. Also: New York

Track Listing Leave Me • Send Me Away • Only Breath • This World Alone • Is That All?

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Featured Artists Adrienne Robillard – vocals, guitar Chris Groves – vocals, bass Dan Lowrie – guitar Chris Wetherell – drums

Overview The intense urgency that soars throughout the dark, alluring sophomore album from San Francisco indie rock quartet Citizens Here and Abroad catches the ear and the whole heart. Waving, Not Drowning’s layered guitars fly over driving drum beats while dueling vocals move from dreamy to alarmed as they convey exactly what it feels like to uncover hidden secrets, hold your breath, and gamble everything to make something happen.

Since the band’s debut, Ghosts of Tables and Chairs, was released in 2004, they have honed their sound on tour across the U.S. and Europe.

Last year a track off Ghosts was featured on the Fox TV show The OC, and the band’s stylish videos continue to receive airplay on MTV Europe’s 120 Minutes and MTV.com.With the completion of Waving, Not Drowning and the growing buzz, you get the feeling that Citizens Here and Abroad are on the brink of exploding.

Press Quotes “San Francisco’s Citizens Here and Abroad are heartbreaking in the very best way … [they] eschew a weird Cardigans vibe, but gentler and more early ‘90s, like before Lush’s Miki Berenyi got all crazy with the Candy Apple Manic Panic.” – The Stranger “An album that instantly speaks to me and beckons me to listen over and over again … Citizens’ music is dark and brooding without going over the edge – a silver lining outlines the songs, providing a sense of hope.” – Venus “Gelling from the remnants of psych-woolgatherers Secadora and dulcet noise-poppers Dealership, Citizens Here and Abroad blend their interests into something containing a little of both, and quite a bit of neither … what an exceptional debut this is!”

– Skyscraper “The music is amazing – tight, innovative, and modeled on the best of early-1990s songwriting, such as Sonic Youth or My Bloody Valentine.” – SF Weekly

Selling Points • Sophomore album; follow-up to their successful Ghosts of Tables and Chairs • Full radio and press promotional campaign • Extensive touring in the U.S. and Europe through 2006-2007 • Ads will run in Magnet, Skyscraper, Copper Press, and more

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

Track Listing Stranger • In the Dark • Accelerator • Evening News • Secret • What Goes On the Heart • Deer in the Headlights • The Neighbors Called the Police • Sometimes My Head Bleeds • Drop Off the Radar

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Featured Artists Patrick Porter – vocals, guitar, bass, drums, keyboards

Overview Twenty-eight-year-old singer/songwriter/poet/author Patrick Porter wears so many hats his head is likely badly chafed.The southern-born wanderer (who currently makes his home in NYC) has recorded several albums over the years, starting at age fifteen when he left his father’s biker bar band to start up his own project. He has recorded countless albums as Patrick Porter, and with combo projects like Phineas Gage and various bands. His most recent album, Lisha Kill (recorded for Australian label Camera Obscura), was widely acclaimed both domestically and abroad. His new album, Die Wandaland, is his first with Portland’s Greyday Records and is an astounding feat of DIY musical architecture, recorded in an isolated studio outside Denver over the span of two weeks. Porter played all instruments; he is a relative virtuoso who learned to play a plethora of instruments after finding several of them dumped in “donation” points on the streets of New York.

In addition to writing albums, touring, and generally being the nicest guy in music ever, Porter is also an accomplished writer, having published four poetry volumes as well as a novel (Kristallnacht) and a collection of short stories. His newest novel, Apocalypse Later, is due out around the same time as this release. Porter’s literate background shines through in his lyrics, which do not suffer from the same vapid blandness as many of his contemporaries; indeed, Die Wandaland ebbs, flows, and crescendos both lyrically and musically through ten tracks of new pathos in old worlds.

Press Quotes “Porter’s delicate and often deceptively simple arrangements display a great deal of depth and variety. His subjects are disoriented, embattled, and embittered by the day to day grind of life in the modern world … the melodies lie in wait in the back of your mind only to be remembered days later.” – FakeJazz.com “A masterpiece created with so little financial means opens the door for more of the same, and makes other gifted but poverty-stricken artists feel that their greatest visions are within the reach of their ability, the way punk once did.” – The Inappropriate

Selling Points • Third album in three years • U.S. & UK tours planned throughout Fall 2006 • Release will coincide with the release of Porter’s second novel, Apocalypse Later • Full national and tour PR campaigns run by Yarrr! PR • Full national radio campaign run by Spectre Entertainment Group • Ads will run in Amplifier, Magnet, CMJ, Impose, Pitchfork, and more

Key Markets Hometown: New York. Also: Denver, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, Omaha, Lincoln, Louisville, St. Louis, Chicago, Athens, San Francisco, San Diego, Baltimore

Track Listing Lite Sleeper • Sears Tower • Esso Station (Marmite Blues) • Reality Row • Bond Funeral Home • Dealin’ Doug • Hey Lindsey • Afraid To Die • Hayseed Highway • Made of Stone

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Overview “Kazuyuki Kishino Null has been whirling out all manner of head-slicing blades of noisy sonic experimentation for well over two decades now, both as a solo artist and with his rock assault unit Zeni Geva.These feats have earned him an esteemed place among Japanese noise royalty like Merzbow, Masonna, and Boredoms.” – Skyscraper Kosmista Noisea (Finnish for “cosmic noise”) consists of live recordings from three different locations during a European tour in 2003-2004. “Kosmista Noisea 1” is taken from two separate live recordings and uniquely combined into one piece with Talcent, Italy on the left channel and St. Etienne, France on the right channel.This technique is designed to provide depth and multiple dimensions. “Kosmista Noisea 2” is a forty-five minute non-edit of an entire live performance in Antwerpen/Belgium, showing the diversity of KK Null’s music from intense clashing waves of noise to structured electro-acoustic ambience. KK Null, born in Tokyo, is a composer, guitarist, singer, mastermind of Zeni Geva, and electronic wizard. He is one of the top names in Japanese noise music, and in a larger context, one of the great cult artists in experimental music since early eighties.

KK Null Kosmista Noisea File Under: Avant Rock/Experimental CD: IPT 111 (O)

Selling Points • KK Null is a legendary underground figure in Japanese music who recently toured and released a split LP with Earth • KK Null was the leader of Zeni Geva and has collaborated with Jim O’Rourke, John Zorn, James Plotkin, Zbigneiw Karkowski, and many more • Press and radio promotion by Important Records • Ads will run in The Wire

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Overview “Null and Murayama concoct a visceral brew of pulverizing free rock improvisation and Merzbowstyle white noise power electronics, as guitars and the mysteriously titled ‘nullsonics’ duel it out with primitive pugilistic percussion, all accompanied by Null’s truly terrifying guttural growls and banshee screams.” – Dusted KK Null and Seijiro Murayama both get full chapters in the book of legendary underground Japanese musicians. Null started Zeni Geva, spent two years collaborating with Merzbow, released records by Melt-Banana, recorded twice for John Peel, and collaborated with Daniel Menche, James Plotkin, Jim O’Rourke, John Zorn, and many more. Murayama is a founding member of Keiji Haino’s Fushitsusha and has worked with Fred Frith, Tom Cora, and KK Null since 1982.

Null and Murayama formed Absolut Null Punkt in 1984. In 1987, they broke up, and then seventeen Absolut Null Punkt years later reformed for some live performances and released the singular Live in Japan on Important Metacompound Records. Metacompound, their first studio recording in over nineteen years, is indescribable.

File Under: Avant Rock/Experimental Combining free jazz, heavy rock, industrial noise, glitch, and free improvised dynamics, ANP creates a CD: IPT 110 (O) sound that is entirely unprecedented.

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Selling Points • Features KK Null and Seijiro Murayama, two highly respected underground Japanese artists • Cover artwork by Sunn O))) member and brilliant designer Stephen O’Malley • ANP’s first studio album in seventeen years • Press and radio promotion by Important Records • Ads will run in The Wire

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File Under:collaboration Punk Northern Stains is the inevitable between experimental phenomenon Carlos Giffoni and CD: RCL 17 (O) Spunk/Fe-Mail members Maja Ratkje & Hild Tafjord.This trio finally met when Giffoni booked Fe-Mail to headline a night of his genre-defining, Brooklyn-based, three-day No Fun Festival in 2005.

Early in 2006, Giffoni boarded a flight to Norway, and Northern Stains was born in Spunk’s Oslo studio. Individually and together, Carlos Giffoni and Fe-Mail make records that are rich, detailed, dense, and complex, constantly straddling the line between improvised noise and modern composition.

It’s this attention to detail and warmth that make Fe-Mail & Carlos Giffoni such celebrated artists and kindred collaborators. Northern Stains is an absurd combination of live sounds, feedback, and hilarious sampling with a genuine sentimental touch that nods towards both the northern glaciers and the beauty and brutality of nature.Tomorrow’s music today.

The Framed Giffoni Fe-Mail/Carlos Countless Stains Ways of SelfNorthern Destruction File Under: Avant Rock/Experimental Selling Points File Under: Punk CD: IPT 112 (P) CD: RCL 17 (O) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Beautiful artwork by Maya Miller of Double Leopards Fe-Mail, Carlos Giffoni, and Maja Ratkje have all released successful records on Important Fe-Mail’s most recent release, Blixter Toad, was put out on Asphodel Important recently released 4 Guitars, Carlos Giffoni’s collaboration with Thurston Moore, Nels Cline, and Lee Ranaldo • International press and radio mailing through Important Records Overview • Ads will run in The Wire 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 Key Markets songs for their debut album on Reality Clash. 11 original, catchy tunes written to evoke the ghosts of past punk à la Generation X, early Hometown: New York.

Chicago,to Santhis Francisco, Los Angeles,Washington DC, Boston, Social Distortion and the Swingin’ Utters will certainly haveAlso: you listening album over and over. Drawing several hundredMiami, kids per Baltimore, Pittsburgh, show,TheAvailable Framed show no signs of letting up.This is not aSeattle, band toMontreal,Toronto be taken lightly.

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Welcome Home Moral Heritage • Come,You Are • Daymare •CD: Have been compared to Generation X, Social Distortion and Swingin’ Utters Blues • Northern Stains • Not In Santa’s Land?

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Also: Los of Angeles, New York, “Smith’s solitary vibrations are punctuated with bouts guitar San grindDiego, reminiscent of Neil Young’s Chicago, Boston and St. Louis Dead Man film soundtrack, winding sublimely into knots of raga formation and wispy ethereal folk drone.” – The Wire

Track Listing Disposition of Desperation Airwaves • The Way It Is • Run Away Whiskey Bottles • From the Ashes This is the seventh release in• Important Records’ ongoing Arts &• Crafts Series, which includes of the Underground • Rock’n’Roll SunAnchorite Never Sets The Last vinyl-only Kiss • Bleed Us Dry • Battlein handmade packaging created by theRip-Off artists. •The is a •full-length release packaged • Vengeance aSongs handmade linocut created and printed by Stephen R. Smith. Multi-instrumentalist Smith has released eleven full-length solo releases. In contrast to the more labored arrangements of many of his solo records, The Anchorite was recorded in Winter 2005 without the use of overdubs straight to stereo two-track using three separate amplifiers and a combination of loops, tapes, and live performance. As the title suggests, the record focuses on the nature of solitude and draws upon a Stephen R. Smith black spaciousness seemingly born in the spirit of Popol Vuh, Arvo Part, and Medieval troubadour The Anchorite music. Smith also releases records under the Hala Strana moniker and is a member of San File Under: Avant Rock/Experimental Francisco improvisational group Thuja. He has recorded for numerous labels including Catsup LP: IPT 108 (R) Plate, Soft Abuse, Emperor Jones, Last Visible Dog, Jewelled Antler, and Darla.

Selling Points • Part of the ongoing Arts & Crafts Series; vinyl-only, limited to 500 copies • Features hand-printed linocut covers • Stephen R. Smith is a member of the honored Jeweled Antler Collective as well as Thuja and Hala Strana • Previous artists in the series have included Lee Ranaldo, Dresden Dolls, Jad Fair, The Hafler Trio, and My Cat Is An Alien

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

Track Listing Jonah of the Desert • Procession • Paths in the Bower • The Anchorite • Vine • Ampulla • Moss Landing • Anastasis • Closing • Ascension 32

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Overview “If you took the idiosyncrasies of Throwing Muses and infused them with post-punked, angled rhythms, a captivatingly textured guitar patchwork, and a mélange of evocative melodies and harmony quirks, your Frankenstein’s monster would sound something like four-piece Arcade (now known as Killjoy Confetti) from Muncie, Indiana.” – Cincinnati City Beat Once upon a time in Muncie, Indiana, there was a band of four named Arcade, who made wonderful, melodic, and edgy music; played to sold-out crowds; and toured the nation in their GMC Safari.They were ready to record a follow-up to their debut, Into the Light, when their label (Wooden Man Records) received an ominous cease and desist letter.The author of the letter claimed to have rights to the Arcade band name and threatened drastic action.Thus Killjoy Confetti was born, and plans were made to record another album. The Fun Is was recorded in January at Semaphore Recording Studios with Bob Weston, and mixed and mastered by John Golden. A few tours afterwards, the Killjoy Confetti gang went their separate ways. Being good friends with Wooden Man Records and Killjoy Confetti, the folks at Standard Recording Company pestered both of them for months to allow Standard to re-release The Fun Is to a national audience.

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Full color jewel-less packaging in a CD wallet Extensive tour history, with focus on the Great Lakes/Midwest region Online promotion will be coordinated through IODA, Indie Music Project, and AMP Limited service to radio and press by Standard Recording Company

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Key Markets Hometown: Muncie/Indianapolis. Also: Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Champaign, Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland,Toledo, Milwaukee, Madison, Minneapolis, Nashville, Louisville, Lexington, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia,Toronto

Track Listing Stanford Prison Experiment • Excuse the Blood • German Percussion • Things I Wanna Do • Try Danielson • Shirts of Fire • Neer Neer • My Lip Is Bleeding, But I Am Fine • Song Poem • Crooked Teeth • Film Negatives

Overview Everything, Now! teams up with fellow Hoosiers Everthus the Deadbeats to create a 12” split follow-up to Police! Police! Side A contains three new tracks from Everything, Now! while Side B hosts three debut songs from Everthus the Deadbeats. Each copy of the 12” will contain a coupon that can be used to download a digital copy of the split album from Standard Recording Company’s website.This split will not be made available on CD.

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Contains three new songs from Everything, Now! Everything, Now!’s debut album, Sunshine of Doom, scheduled for a limited vinyl release on St. Ives Each LP contains a code for a free download of all songs on the split Full-color record sleeve Service to select media, retail, and radio outlets (emphasis on Great Lakes region) Banner ad and free mp3 download on Pitchfork Marketing will focus on online mediums, coordinated through IODA, Indie Music Project, and AMP

Key Markets Hometown: Muncie/Indianapolis/Bloomington. Also: Athens, Atlanta, Nashville, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, St. Louis, Louisville, Lexington, Ft. Lauderdale, Dallas, Ft.Worth, Little Rock, Baltimore, New York, Detroit, Kansas City, Boston, Columbus, Milwaukee, Madison, Ann Arbor, Portland

Track Listing Everything, Now!:The Gospel of Water • The Last Vegetable in Our Verb Salad • Fight Corruption, Share Drugs Everthus the Deadbeats: Human Paraquat • She • Some Terry’s Also Available

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Discount through StreetDate Overview The Framed Ways of Self“Please Step Out of Countless the Vehicle is a big team of Portland kids playing things like flute, glockenspiel, Destruction farfisa, and all the standard guitar/bass/drums action … it has the lazy, crowded, behind-the-beat stoned

File Under: Punk (long-abandoned) junkyard folk, but mostly plays its own game shuffle of Pavement, some of Beck’s CD: RCL 17 (O) … upbeat and organic sounding – a great listen when it’s damn cold outside and going out for a drink means gloves, hat, two sweaters, and frozen fucking feet.” – Portland Mercury

The Framed Please Step Out of the Countless Vehicle Ways of SelfDestruction Sleeping Right and the Best in File Under: Punk Magic Homeopathic CD: RCL 17Alt (O) File Under: Rock CD: LMD 36 (O)

Hands down one of the best records you will listen to this year! An insane amalgamation of lo-fi orchestral psychedelic pop gems from Portland-based Please Step Out of the Vehicle, this album takes you through free jazz freakouts, Game Boy outbursts, layered moog synth-based songwriting, and pop anthems that ring through your brain for days. Please Step Out of the Vehicle are a large band with a textured, triumphant sound that borrows lightly from the best moments of Pavement and the Flaming Lips, squishing together classic psychedelia, video game beeps, folk, summertime pop, and left-leaning lyrical blankets. Sleeping Right and the Best in Homeopathic Magic runs together like an album should, blending song to song and linking lyrical themes.The album is their debut, and a very special one indeed.

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• Honored in the Top 10 of the 2006 Portland Best New Band Poll by the Willamette Week • College radio campaign by Spectre Entertainment Group NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA • Press and media mailings by Matt Wright PR Overview Preorder • Ads run in of DIW andairSkyscraper Discount The Framed, hailing from Minneapolis, bringwill a breath fresh to fashion-minded punk.The boys in The Framed are here to play music, through StreetDate not discuss hairstyling tips.To that end, they have focused on writing songs for their debut album on Reality Clash. 11 original, catchy tunes Key written toMarkets evoke the ghosts of past punk à la Generation X, early Social Distortion and the Swingin’ Hometown: Portland.

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Selling Points Track Listing I Could Move • …Every Pitch • We Will Go Everywhere Part One • We Will Go • Have been compared to Generation X, Social Distortion andMolecule Swingin’• Utters Everywhere Part Two • Jellyfish As Fluxus Directory • Special Logic • Mountainz • Clouds Question • #1 song on Radio K (Minneapolis) for two weeks running Their Existence • Sillyhead • InLewis Thee,&Fall • Paint By Numbers • Have shared stages with Street Dogs, Lower Class Brats, Juliette TheSky Licks, Soviettes and more • Print promotion via postcards, posters and flyers • College radio service Overview • Adsmusic will run in Razorcake, Amphints and Pulse “The of Horse Feathers at a folk songwriting genius on par with the likes of Elliott • KEY MARKETS: Minneapolis (Hometown).

Also: Los Angeles, Sanneatly Diego,arranged New York, Smith’s Either/Or, or the honesty of Nick Drake’s Pink Moon, all into a whole new Chicago, Boston and St. Louis puzzle.”

– DCM Magazine

Track Words are Dead Listing is a stunning debut album from Portland folk songwriter duo Horse Feathers.

Disposition of Desperation • The Way It results, Is • Runcarrying Away • Whiskey • From the Ashes Justin Ringle’s voice fills out• Airwaves a room with startling a strengthBottles and confidence that of the Underground • Rock’n’Roll Rip-Off • Sun Never Sets • Thepersonal Last Kissdealings.The • Bleed Us Dry • Battle elaborates on the burdens of broken relationships and estranged album’s stark Songs • Vengeance honesty and open-wound vocal deliveries are as personally effecting as they are orchestrated musically, and for that credit is due to prodigal multi-instrumentalist Peter Broderick. By using a variety of instrumental arrangements including guitar, banjo, percussion, piano, musical saw, and strings, Horse Feathers draws from a palette of sounds that is old in approach yet fresh in execution.

Relying on an unusual mix of stark arrangements with dynamic accents, their sound glistens with efficiency. Influenced by the mood of such artists as Nick Drake, Nebraska-era Bruce Springsteen, Will Oldham, and Cat Power, Horse Feathers evokes the sound of being optimistically broken.

Simultaneously dour yet beautiful, they offer the listener an unflinching glimpse into moments of personal reflection.

Selling Points • Peter Broderick plays with Norfolk & Western, Dolorean, and Loch Lomond • College radio promotion by Spectre Entertainment Group • Press and media mailings by Matt Wright PR • Ads will run in No Depression, DIW, and Skyscraper

Key Markets Hometown: Portland. Also: Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Austin, Montreal, New York, Chapel Hill, Nashville, Louisville, San Diego, Baltimore, Chicago

Track Listing Hardwood Pews • Finch On Saturday • Dustbowl • Blood On the Snow • Honest Doubters • In Our Blood • Untitled • Falling Through the Roof • Like Lavender • Walking & Running • Eyes Full of Rose • Mother’s Sick 32 34

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Overview Justin Sconza is like light. At his intimate performances, it is difficult to take your eyes and ears off him. He immediately captures his audiences’ attention with his charismatic personality and musicianship. Sconza’s melodies are timeless, his ragtime and European classical influences apparent. He is a classically trained pianist, which gives him extensive knowledge of cornerstone chord changes in western music and allows his songs to be limited only by what’s in his mind. His unique and smart lyrics often inspire audiences to reflect deeply.When he started playing music, Sconza learned everything from ragtime to Nirvana. Currently, he fronts the popular electro/pop group Walter Meego, whose sound has spread from Chicago to Japan.

Justin Sconza’s debut EP, Paint By Numbers, will introduce his unique voice and songwriting prowess to audiences around the globe. His first recording showcases the start of what promises to be a fantastic musical career!

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Justin Sconza Paint By Numbers File Under: Alt Rock CDEP: BRI 21 (J)

• Debut EP by Chicago singer/songwriter and member of up & coming Chicago band Walter Meego • Tour slated for October–November 2006 • Service to press outlets, both online and traditional; college radio campaign in Fall 2006 • Ads will run in Big Takeover and Insound

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Key Markets Hometown: Chicago. Also: Milwaukee, Madison, St Louis, Champaign, New York, Austin, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Portland, Seattle

Overview “Classic, raggedly beautiful, made lovely by its flaws; it’s a voice that sounds like it was made to tell stories, and it’s the most important instrument in every song she does.” – Epitonic

Sarah White & The Pearls White Light File Under: Alt Rock/ Alt Country CD: ANT 518 (O) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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White Light is the latest release from Virginia singer/songwriter Sarah White. Like her previous Jagjaguwar release Bluebird, cleverly slated as “not quite country, not quite folk, not quite rock,” White’s sound remains difficult to pigeonhole.The genre is rock, but with a strong dose of country throughout.

Some songs veer towards punk, while others are melodic waltzes.This recording with her stripped-down band The Pearls (Steve Ingha on drums and Jeffrey Grosfel on bass) has a simple, natural sound. Bareboned snare, bass notes, and a background of vocals provide ample space for White’s distinctive voice, compared to Cat Power’s Chan Marshall and Edith Frost and described as “delicately bare and pretty” by the SF Bay Guardian.

Selling Points • Received excellent press in San Francisco Bay Guardian, New York Press, Epitonic, and more • Promotion via MySpace

Key Markets Hometown: Charlottesville,VA. Also:Washington DC, Richmond, San Francisco

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Overview “The impassioned fervor with which they attack every song comes in part from an old, enduring rage, but more than that, it smacks of optimism. ” – Splendid Campground is a band of three; a trio if you must.They might be from Alaska, Jersey, or perhaps even Tennessee. Doesn’t even matter. Campground plays rock music.The good kind–not premeditated or contrived. Pastor Pasture was recorded off and on throughout 2005. Unbeknownst to the band, the majority of the songs barely crept past the two-minute mark. But don’t let the concept of short songs fool you.

Campground surely is not rehashed old punk, or new-wave pop.The songs aren’t really part of a specific breed. Rock music, for sure. But what kind? Who knows and who cares. If you like the songs, then there’s no need for explanation or description, right?

Selling Points • Summer 2006 tour to kick-off and promote the album • Featured on upcoming Anodyne Records compilation • College radio by Groov Marketing • Ads will run in Big Wheel, OC Weekly, and more

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Discount through StreetDate Overview The Framed Countless Ways of SelfDan Yemin may not be a household name, but he’s been the driving songwriting force behind some of Destruction the most critically acclaimed and biggest selling independent bands in recent history. Now, the Paint it File Under: Punk Dynamite guitarist has handpicked some of his favorites from Black frontman and ex-Lifetime/Kid CD: RCL 17 (O) all three of those bands for this exclusive vinyl-only release brought to you courtesy of Devil in the Woods.Yemin channels the emotionally charged “Revolution Summer”-era Dischord bands like Embrace or Rites of Spring as equally as he does Black Flag or Negative Approach, while taking note of several other noise and indie pioneers like Sonic Youth and My Bloody Valentine along the way. Skinned Knees, Sutured Hearts is a definitive collection from one of rock’s premiere songwriters.

Selling Points • Dan Yemin’s bands Lifetime, Paint It Black, and Kid Dynamite have tallied over 100,000 The Framed Dan Yemin Countless Ways Sutured of Self- Hearts units sold Skinned Knees, Destruction • Promotion via IODA outlets File Under: Alt Rock File Under:95 Punk LP: DIW (P)

• Front page mention on the Jade Tree Records site • Aggressive word-of-mouth via blogs • Ads will run in Big Takeover, Razorcake, and Magnet

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Key Markets Hometown: Philadelphia. Also: New York and Chicago Overview The Framed, hailing from Minneapolis, bring a breath of fresh air to fashion-minded punk.The boys in The Framed Track Listing are here to play music, not discuss hairstyling tips.To that end, they have focused on writing songs for their debut Lifetime: *69 • Daneurysm Rodeowritten Clownto • Anchor • Knives, New Tatsà •laYoung, Loud and album on Reality Clash. 11 original, catchy• tunes evoke the ghostsBats, of past punk Generation X, early Snottywill • Francie Cutlistening the Tension • The Verona Social Distortion and the Swingin’ Utters certainlyNolan have •you to this album overKings and over. Drawing several hundred kids per Kid Dynamite: Pause • K05-0564 • Sweet Shop Syndicate • Table 19 • Bookworm • Heart a Tact • show,The Framed show no signs of letting up.This is not a band to be taken lightly.

Two for Flinching • Death and Taxes • Copout • Living Daylights Selling Points Paint It Black: Cannibal • Void • Head Hurts Hands On Fire • The New Brutality • Athiests in Foxholes • Have been compared to Generation X, Social• Memorial DistortionDay 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

Soviettes and more

Get Nailed. . .on the road •Dr. College Pink Martini Dogradio service •Takers Ads willand run Leavers in Razorcake, Amp and Pulse Hang On Little Tomato •CDEP: KEY MARKETS: Los Angeles, CD: HNZ 2 (S) San Diego, New York, PTV 9 (J) Minneapolis (Hometown). Also: St. Louis UPC: 723721038557 UPC: 723721239558 8/27/06 (w/ The Walkmen)

Brooklyn, NY – McCarren Pool Track Listing

Hard-Ons Most People Are a Waste of Time CD: BTR 97 (M) UPC: 7330169666971

Chicago, Boston and

8/4-5/06

9/6/06

Portland, OR – Oregon Zoo

Des Moines, IA – Hairy Mary’s

Disposition of Raconteurs) Desperation • Airwaves • The Way It Is • Run Away • Whiskey Bottles • From the Ashes of the Underground • Rock’n’Roll 9/8/06 9/14/06 (w/ The 9/7/06 Chicago, IL •– Battle House Songs of Blues• Vengeance Houston,TX Wireless Theater Denver, CO – Bluebird Theater Rip-Off • Sun– Verizon Never Sets • The Last Kiss • Bleed Us Dry 9/15/06 (w/ The Raconteurs)

9/13/06

9/10/06

Grand Prairie,TX – Nokia Live

Montreal, QC – Montreal Jazz Festival

Salt Lake City, UT – Burt’s Tiki Lounge

9/19/06 (w/ The Raconteurs)

9/15/06

9/11/06

Atlanta, GA – The Tabernacle

Quebec City, QC – Théâtre de Québec

Boise, ID – Blues Bouquet

9/20/06 (w/ The Raconteurs)

9/17/06

9/12/06

Orlando, FL – Hard Rock Live

Boston, MA – Sanders Theatre

Seattle,WA – Studio 7

9/22/06 (w/ The Raconteurs)

9/20/06

9/13/06

Norfolk,VA – Norva Theater

Philadelphia, PA – Keswick Theatre

Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theater

9/23/06

Richmond,VA – Gallery 5 9/24/06 (w/ The Raconteurs)

Atlantic City, NJ – House of Blues 9/25-26/06 (w/ The Raconteurs)

New York, NY – Roseland Ballroom 9/28/06 (w/ The Raconteurs)

Providence, RI – Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel

The Brother Kite Waiting For the Time To Be Right CD: CLE 64 (M) UPC: 808804006422 8/6/06

Allston, MA – Great Scott 8/8/06

New York, NY – Sin-e 8/10/06

New York, NY – Piano’s 10/6/06

Northampton, MA – The Elevens

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2006 STREET DATE JANUARY 4, 2006

9/16/06

Berkeley, CA – Gilman Street 9/17/06

San Francisco – Bottom of the Hill 9/21/06

Los Angeles – Knitting Factory 9/22/06

San Diego, CA – Casbah 9/23/06

Tempe, AZ – Club House 9/25/06

San Antonio,TX – White Rabbit 9/26/06

Austin,TX – Emo’s

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Now I Understand

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I Dream of Angels & I Wake Upon

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Paint By Numbers

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