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INSIDE The Beautiful Girls pg 2 • I Killed the Monster pg 3 • Derek Bailey/Cyro Baptista pg 5 • Tia Carrera pg 6 • Larkin Grimm pg 9 Kultur Shock pg10 • Daedelus pg16 • Muhal Richard Abrams/George Lewis/Roscoe Mitchell pg 21 • Atari Teenage Riot pg 22 Robert Lippok pg 23 • Norfolk & Western pg 24 • Cul de Sac pg 26 • Conrad Schnitzler pg 30

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Featured Artists Mat McHugh – vocals, guitar Clay McDonald – bass Mitch Connelly – drums Felipe – harmonica

Overview The Beautiful Girls are back with Water, their second U.S. release on Cornerstone RAS. After releasing last year’s We’re Already Gone to amazing reviews and touring the nation to support it, the guys from down under knew a follow-up album and another tour was a nobrainer.Taking songs from their extensive Aussie catalog, they put together this eleven-song gem that takes you on a kiwi holiday filled with smooth guitars and soothing vocals. Singer/songwriter Mat McHugh really shows off his range, with feel-good tracks “Music” and “Good Times” alongside a track like “Need to Give This Broken Heart Away,” which expresses personal heartbreak. Songs for every mood await you on this triumphant sophomore release from everyone’s favorite Australian import since Yahoo Serious … ok, Russell Crowe … ok, Fosters. Hey, what do you know–The Beautiful Girls ARE everyone’s favorite Australian export after all!

Press Quotes “With melodies full of sunshine & lyrics dipped in darkness, Australia’s Beautiful Girls graft a heady modern groove onto something Black Uhuru and others began.” – Relix “I have had an opportunity to play with the Beautiful Girls over the last few years and they always connect with a cool, groovin’, summertime vibe!” – G Love “With the melodies of Ben Harper and the sheer power of Bob Marley in moments, you can listen to the vocals of Mat McHugh all night.” – Snap (Australia)

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The Beautiful Girls have amassed two Gold records in their native Australia Sold over 5,000 units of 2004 release in U.S. with no marketing or label support Have toured with Mason Jennings (and recorded a track with him), as well as Ben Harper and Jack Johnson The Beautiful Girls have had a presence in every Australian Independent Records chart since their first release, Morning Sun. Learn Yourself,TBG’s debut album, has been in the AIR charts since its release–over seventy weeks! • Toured the U.S. five times, with another U.S. tour (with Mofro) scheduled for September 2006 • Features will run in August Relix and October Surfing Magazine • Service to Top 150 CMJ college reporters • Ads will run in Surfing Magazine, Mean Street, Slap, and Relix

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

Track Listing Periscopes • Morning Sun • Clear Day • Good Times • Water • First Sign of Trouble • Music • La Mar • Freedom • Weight of the World • Need to Give This Broken Heart Away Also Available

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NAIL WELCOMES SECOND-SHIMMY TO ITS ROSTER After a five-year hiatus from the music business, one of indie music’s most celebrated artists/producers returns with a twenty-first century Shimmy-Disc called Second-Shimmy! Kramer, producer of classic recordings from Galaxie 500, Low, Will Oldham’s Palace, Urge Overkill, Daniel Johnston, and more, is finally back. As with Shimmy-Disc, Second-Shimmy will release music that stretches and redefines boundaries, continuing Kramer’s tradition of locating and developing unique musical artistry from around the globe.

Various Artists I Killed the Monster: 21 Artists Performing the Songs of Daniel Johnston File Under: Alt Rock CD: SES 100 (O) -File Crossder un nston l Joh Danie

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Featured Artists Sufjan Stevens/Kramer/Mike Watt/Jad Fair/Kimya Dawson/ The Electric Ghosts/Dot Allison/Daniel Smith/Joy Zipper/R. Stevie Moore/Lumberob/Rope, Inc./Chris Harford/Mad Francis/Jeffrey Lewis/ Major Matt Mason USA/Toby Goodshank/The Dick Panthers/ The Sutcliffe’s/Kickstand/Emily Zuzik/Tess

Overview I Killed the Monster marks the triumphant return of Shimmy-Disc, reborn for the twenty-first century as Second-Shimmy. After a fiveyear hiatus, Kramer returns with a brilliant twenty-one-song compilation of tunes written by his good friend Daniel Johnston, whose classic LPs 1990 and Artistic Vice Kramer produced in the late eighties. Each track features standout performances by some of indie music’s brightest stars, and many feature Kramer’s unmistakable prowess as one of his generation’s most celebrated producers/arrangers. Few artists have been where Kramer has been, or worked with the variety of artists he has, and this debut release on his new SecondShimmy label marks the birth of a new era of great music to come.

Press Quotes “One of the few thriving, truly independent small labels devoted to the preservation of non-mainstream rock, Shimmy-Disc … has set a standard for underground survival and idiosyncratic musical vision in a pop age of cookie-cutter video stars, copycat heavy metal, and billion-dollar record company mergers. Kramer is a force of nature, and one of the few true icons of the American Underground.” – David Fricke, Rolling Stone

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Each and every song is a Daniel Johnston masterpiece Features Sufjan Stevens on track two Debut release on Kramer’s new Second-Shimmy label Coordination of CD release with DVD release of award-winning Daniel Johnston documentary The Devil & Daniel Johnston Huge PR campaign for Daniel Johnston coincides with the documentary DVD release–every Daniel Johnston fan on earth will know about this CD’s release • Attention focused on the return of Shimmy-Disc will center on this CD

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

Track Listing Dot Allison: Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Your Grievances • Daniel Smith & Sufjan Stevens:Worried Shoes • Joy Zipper: Held The Hand • Kramer: Bloody Rainbow • R. Stevie Moore: Cathy Cline • Kimya Dawson: Follow That Dream • Lumberob: Honey I Sure Miss You • Jad Fair & Kramer:True Love Will Find You in the End • Rope, Inc.:Tears Stupid Tears • The Electric Ghosts: Blue Skies Will Haunt You From Now On • Chris Harford: Going Down • Mad Francis: Rowboat • Jeffrey Lewis:The Adventures of God as a Young Boy • Major Matt Mason USA: Mind Contorted • Toby Goodshank: Now • The Dick Panthers: Go Fast and Go Some More • The Sutcliffe’s: Foxy Girl • Kickstand: Cosmic Kid • Emily Zuzik: Love Wheel • Mike Watt:Walking the Cow • Tess: It’s Over

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Various Artists Cursed:The Head Trauma Music Project File Under: Alt Rock CD: PTV 10 (N) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists Bardo Pond/Dr. Dog/AWOL One/The Capitol Years/Greg Weeks (Espers)/National Eye/The A-Sides /Brian McTear/Amy Morrissey/BC Camplight/Steve Garvey (Buzzcocks)/Neilsen/The Novenas/Steven Bissette/Bitter Bitter Weeks

Overview You may have heard of the idea: you and your friends get together with a copy of The Wizard of Oz and a copy of Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon.You press play when the Lion roars, and you’re off on a wonderful synchronized odyssey of light and sound. Well, this time we took Head Trauma, an indie horror film by Lance Weiler (The Last Broadcast), and asked our friends to either write a song, or give us an existing tune, that would sync perfectly. Park the Van Records lent both the roster and the staff, and the result is this wonderful soundtrack companion–a compilation that includes new songs from Bardo Pond, The Capitol Years, AWOL One, National Eye, and many other great musicians who spent their own time with Head Trauma.

Press Quotes “[Head Trauma] works its way under the skin, raising neck hairs while teasing us to pry open its psychological puzzle box.” – LA Weekly “A horror outing that revives the under-appreciated monster of the id to great effect.” – Movie City News “Elicits effective creeps … a well-executed haunted house exercise that treads the psychological vs. supernatural line.” – Ain’t It Cool News

Selling Points • An alternate soundtrack that syncs up with full-length motion picture Head Trauma • Amazing collection from the bubbling Philadelphia scene: Dr. Dog, The Capitol Years, Bardo Pond, Greg Weeks (Espers), National Eye, and more • DVD release of Head Trauma includes information about Cursed within the menu • Head Trauma just debuted at the LA Film Festival to rave reviews! Theatrical screenings are now scheduled in over sixteen cities across the U.S. from mid-August through October • This project is both fun and frightening, adding new depth to an already expansive and delusional horror/thriller movie • Advanced service to over 200 publications, blogs, and e-zines • PR handled by Riot Act Media (David Bazan, Bouncing Souls, Minus the Bear) • Massive amounts of MySpace blasting throughout both the Park the Van and Head Trauma spaces, and also through the MySpace of each artist • Posters, postcards, and more will be sent to indie retail across the country in conjunction with DVD release of Head Trauma September 26, 2006

Key Markets Hometown: Philadelphia. Also: Los Angeles, New York, Austin, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco,Tucson, Albuquerque, Providence, Chicago, Dallas, Boston, Baltimore

Track Listing Bardo Pond & S.R. Bissette: Dead Structure/Haunted Past • The A-Sides: Here or There • Brian McTear, Diana Prescott, Henry Sandrini: Backyard Unwind • The Capitol Years:You Won’t Be There • Bardo Pond: Nightmare #5 • Brian McTear, Amy Morrissey, Diana Prescott:Wake Up • Dr. Dog: Oh No • Brian McTear & Amy Morrissey: Nothing But Grief • AWOL One:Welcome Cemetery • The Novenas: Reason • Nielsen:Time To Go • National Eye: Mechanisms of Cell Death • Greg Weeks, Diana Prescott, Henry Sandrini: Dream of a Dry Cellar • Steve Garvey, Octopi & Friends: Beneath Still Waters • Nielsen: Blaze • National Eye: Abwehr • BC Camplight, Amy Morrissey, Diana Prescott: Awakening • Brian McTear, Amy Morrissey, Greg Weeks, Patrick Marsciel: Leaving the House on Grimes • Brian McTear, Amy Morrissey, Greg Weeks, Diana Prescott: Finale • Bitter Bitter Weeks:Water In the Basement • Bardo Pond & S.R. Bissette: Cinema Solariens 4

STREET DATE OCTOBER 10, 2006

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Featured Artists Derek Bailey – guitar Cyro Baptista – percussion, vocals

Overview Snaking through unknown musical landscapes, discovering paths and creating new dialects along the way, these two masters have a connection unparalleled in the new avant-garde world, and they celebrated it for the last time at legendary New York performance space Tonic. Twenty-one years ago, Derek Bailey asked Cyro Baptista to record an improvised duet session and soon after released Cyro–one of Bailey’s first titles on his own independent Incus label.Three years ago, Bailey and Baptista had a reunion concert at NYC club Tonic to celebrate their creative musical partnership, and Bailey gave Baptista his blessing to release this special edition CD on Amulet several months before his untimely death last year. Derek Bailey is one of the icons of the avant-garde musical community. A fiercely independent artist, he has influenced many musicians throughout a career that spans over five decades. He has released hundreds of recordings, many on his own Incus label as well as on John Zorn’s Tzadik. He has collaborated with Fred Frith, Anthony Braxton, John Zorn, Cecil Taylor, Lee Konitz, Pat Metheny, Suzie Ibarra, Bill Laswell, Tony Williams, Han Bennik, and The Ruins. Cyro Baptista has recorded with a wide range of artists including John Zorn, Wynton Marsalis, Herbie Hancock, Sting, Paul Simon, Cassandra Wilson, and Trey Anastasio.

Press Quotes “[Cyro Baptista is] the man the stars call when they want that otherworldly flavor in the mix.” – Time Out New York “[Derek Bailey] casts a giant shadow over improvised music … being treated with huge respect and affection by several generations of free improvisers. It is virtually impossible to imagine what this music would be like without the influence he has exerted over the past thirty-five years.” – All About Jazz

Selling Points • Blessed by one of the greatest and most influential guitarists of the twentieth century • Special packaging; limited edition series • Cyro Baptista’s Beat the Donkey was selected one of the Top 10 Alternative Records of 2002 by the New York Times • Promotion to email lists for fans of Cyro Baptista, Derek Bailey, Amulet Records, and Medeski, Martin & Wood • Interviews & reviews in Fall 2006 • Ads will run in Signal to Noise, Magnet, and All About Jazz

Key Markets Hometown: New York. Also: Boston, Philadelphia, Chapel Hill, Austin, Denver, Ann Arbor, Chicago,Toronto, Montreal,Vancouver, Burlington, Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Madison

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Tia Carrera Tia Carrera File Under: Avant Rock CD: ACG 12 (O) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists Erik Conn – drums Andrew Duplantis – bass Jason Morales – guitar

Overview With this third offering, Tia Carrera depart slightly from the “press record and go” method of documentation that they employed on 2005’s The November Session and 2003’s 6-03-03 (Emperor Jones Records). On this untitled release, the band focuses on songs rather than twenty-minute jams.While still improvised to a large extent, these songs are shorter and structurally tighter. Mixing influences from Hendrix to Sabbath and the Melvins, Tia Carrera are a heavy metal band with soul and a jam band with balls.

Press Quotes “This instrumental power trio from Austin jams with A-bomb quality, like … Guru Guru shredding Jimi Hendrix’s ‘Machine Gun’ at halfspeed.” – David Fricke, Rolling Stone “Like Cream filtered through Sabbath, Tia Carrera pummeled the air with sound waves, riffs as thick as dictionaries, and reams of feedback … the band moved from long stoner rock improvs to horrendous feedback and back again … it was louder than God, vibrating palettes and ribcages throughout the club.” – High Bias “Like Jimi Hendrix jamming out with Dale Crover after smoking a big, fat spleef.” – Austin American Statesman

Selling Points • Andrew Duplantis has backed Bob Mould and Alejandro Escovedo, played in the Meat Puppets, and is currently the bass player of Son Volt • Jason Morales was a touring member of the Butthole Surfers • Both Jason Morales and Andrew Duplantis played on Richard Buckner’s Dents and Shells and have backed him live, notably at the Austin City Limits Festival • Tia Carrera has played at SXSW for the last three years • Fall/Winter 2006 tours planned • Service to college & community radio stations, regional music press, 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: Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Portland, Seattle, Boston, New Orleans, Houston, Dallas, Salt Lake City, Chicago, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, San Diego, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Pittsburgh,Washington DC, Baltimore

Track Listing Tones, Levels & THC • Eastside Jive • Carrera (As In Fast Or To Race) • Valentine Blues • Countdown, Lift Off • At Altitude • End Transmission

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Overview The Snake Trap is an instrumental rock band from Austin,TX. Formed in Winter 2004, they made their live debut at a private party for the Fender Guitars corporate staff in Scottsdale, AZ followed by a performance the next day at the Tempe Music Festival. Since then, they have been playing extensively in Austin and throughout Texas. Most recently, they’ve toured the Midwest with labelmates Gorch Fock. The Snake Trap’s music draws on influences ranging from the melodic and layered NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA post-rock of The Redneck Manifesto to the heavy rock riffs and dynamic shifts of Engine Kid and Preorder the mathy, raucous time-shifting of Dazzling Killmen. Combining Discount these influences and countless through StreetDate others, The Snake Trap composes music that can be melodic and idyllic, and then in an instant become a furious, rapid-fire punk onslaught.

Selling Points • RIYL: Explosions in the Sky, Gone, Don Caballero, Kinski, Oxes, The Redneck Manifesto, Floor, Mono, Lightning Bolt • Recently toured the Midwest with Gorch Fock • Features professional BMX rider Taj Mihelich on bass, lending a high awareness of the band in the BMX community • Extensive touring in Fall 2006 and Winter/Spring 2007 • Service to college & community radio stations, regional music press, webzines, and new media • Ads will run in Punk Planet, Copper Press, Razorcake, Arthur, Pop Culture Press, Magnet, CMJ, and more

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Hometown: Austin. Also: Dallas, Ft.Worth, San Antonio, New York, Chicago, Memphis, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Madison, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Boston, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, San Diego, San Antonio, Oklahoma City, Louisville, Missoula, Atlanta, Nashville, Phoenix, Tempe

Track Listing Redheaded Manual Festival • Red Bug • Four Sores and Seven Beers Ago: Part I • Hiroshi’s Ebay Bike • Four Sores and Seven Beers Ago: Part II • Frau Schmidt • Twenty-eight and Seven Eighths • Untitled • Four Sores and Seven Beers Ago: Part III

Overview “A remarkably and predominantly instrumental album.” – Indieville

Diane and the Shell 30,000 Feet Tarantella

These four musicians from Catania, Italy are in love with the loudest volume of their amps and have a passion for angular and geometric, yet organic, song structures.The music brings to mind images of a lilting and sensuous dance thousands of feet above terra firma, caressing the outer limits of our atmosphere and roaring back down to earth like a jet airplane. 30,000 Feet Tarantella is a work full of moody irony, joy, and passion. Diane and the Shell illuminates a direct, powerful, and clear sound rich with allegorical metaphors, given life in haunting orchestral arrangements.The grace and sensitivity of their playing belies a maturity and wisdom far beyond their young ages.Their debut, The Red EP, churned forth progressive structures and mutant-disco provocations foreshadowing the fully realized work expressed with this release. 30,000 Feet Tarantella was recorded and mixed by Sacha Tilotta with the artistic production of Agostino Tilotta (Bellini, Uzeda) in one week of amusing and exhilarating delirium.

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• Fall 2006 debut U.S. tour • Recorded by Sacha Tilotta with the artistic production of Agostino Tilotta (Bellini, Uzeda) • RIYL: The Redneck Manifesto, Tortoise, Don Caballero, Slint, Bellini, Captain Beefheart • Service to college & community radio stations, regional music press, webzines, and new media • Ads will run in Punk Planet, Copper Press, Razorcake, Arthur, Pop Culture Press, Magnet, CMJ, and more

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

Track Listing Last Call • \\\\\\\ • India Tango • \\\\\\\ • Instruments? Set as Required! • \\\\\\\ • 30,000 Feet Tarantella • Petras • \\\\\\\ • 10,000 Feet Tarantella • Suite for Bancomat • Scandinavian Landing NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Spires That in the Sunset Rise This Is Fire File Under: Avant Rock/Avant Folk CD: EYE 28 (M) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists Kathleen Baird – vocals, guitar Georgia Vallas – vocals, mbira, bul bul tarang Taralie Peterson – vocals, cello, guitar Tracy Peterson – percussion, bells

Overview The ladies are back with their third full-length, and are gearing up for twin U.S. and European tours to support it.Trading off instruments, vocals, and songwriting, this album is a dizzying incantation, rich in texture and utterly transfixing.

Press Quotes “Spires That in the Sunset Rise are a Chicago-based, all-female quartet whose ecstatic, communal psych-folk draws on the same fragrant smoke that fed the otherworldly likes of such vintage acts as Comus, Jan Dukes De Grey, or COB, as well as on the cryptoethnicity of the Sun City Girls’ Carnival Folklore Resurrection series or the gothic spiritualism of Current 93. On their second album … the foursome emit such inspired gusts of collective fire that they resemble a witches’ coven almost as much as a band, their shadowdraped music seeming to issue forth organically from the soil like a sulfurous hot spring.” – Pitchfork “Intoxicating and intense.” – The Wire “[Spires] navigate an empathic terrain that veers between acid-damaged Comus-inspired witchery and more mild-mannered areas that resemble Bridget St. John suffering from ergotism, or the Raincoats as a coven.” – Dream “Generally, Spires are more jarring than comforting, reveling in dissonance and ramshackle percussion.Their compositions tend to be performed with the type of intensity that could tear apart a song at any moment.” – Dusted

Selling Points • Insane live performances consistently slay and terrify audiences • Killer live set at the 2006 Terrastock festival brought the house down • Will be touring Europe in Fall 2006 (including several major festivals), followed by extensive U.S. touring in support of this CD • Lovely artwork by Chicago artist Dewayne Slightweight • Upcoming reviews in The Wire, Dusted, Magnet, Mojo, Signal to Noise, and Pitchfork • Kathleen Baird has released two solo CDs, also on Secret Eye, under her own name and the moniker Traveling Bell • Full radio service through AAM • Full press service through Secret Eye • Ads will run in Magnet, Signal to Noise, Dream, and Arthur

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

Track Listing Spike Fiddle Song • Clouds • Sleeplike • Morning Song • Sea Shanty • Let The Crows Fly • Bee Forms • Desert Mind

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Larkin Grimm The Last Tree File Under: Avant Rock/Avant Folk CD: EYE 29 (M) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists Larkin Grimm – vocals, dulcimer, guitar, drums, pennywhistle, bells

Overview Larkin Grimm abducts you into her dreamscape/homeland, hidden behind veils of kudzu and falling water, populated by old friends and deadly monsters. Urgently direct, she is offering us a New World couched in old Georgia sounds: thunderstorms, dulcimers, foot stomps, handclaps, and pleading soul-blues.This is not precious forest-pixie music–this is the beautifully flawed sound of the force of nature, a Siren call to bind all souls and draw them into the deep woods.This year, Larkin Grimm has mesmerized audiences across Europe with a snowballing troupe of fans following her from town to town, and at the Terrastock 6 festival in Providence, where she has been noted as a festival highlight by almost every blogging ‘Scopehead on the planet. Grimm has shared bills with Devendra Banhart, Spires That in the Sunset Rise, Espers, Mi and L’au, and Brightblack Morning Light. Nomadic by nature, she’ll be touring around the U.S. and Europe for the foreseeable future, continuing to win converts everywhere she goes.

Press Quotes “Equally steeped in Georgia stomp and Georgian chant, capturing the sound of songs played and passed down through generations, moldy and pungent with age and meaning.” – Dusted “Guiding her way with little more than guitar, dulcimer, and multi-tracked vocals, Grimm here quilts together Born Heller’s icy, backwoods songcraft; Jana Hunter’s homespun, lo-fi shimmer; and the ecstatic vocal peaks of Christina Carter … the influence of Grimm’s roots in the Georgia foothills frequently creep through, lending the music a deep-set, handed-down fiber that sounds at once staunchly traditional yet still somehow quite unearthly.” – Pitchfork “Her voice not only soars high, but swings low and earthy under itself.” – The Wire

Selling Points • A dynamic live performer, Larkin Grimm captivates audiences far and wide. She mesmerized everyone at the 2006 Terrastock festival, and then led folks down the street in song • Upcoming West Coast tour followed by another extensive European tour in Fall 2006 • Deluxe six-panel digipak covered with the amazing artwork of Antonia Dixon • Upcoming reviews in The Wire, Dusted, Magnet, Mojo, Signal to Noise, and Pitchfork • Full radio service through AAM • Full press service through Secret Eye • Ads will run in Magnet, Signal to Noise, Dream, and Arthur

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

Track Listing The Last Tree • Rocky Top • The Waterfall • There is a Giant Panther • I’m Just Saying Yes • He Said Maybe I Am a Monster • These Big Hands Were Never Meant To • The Sun Will Shine • I Found a Way • Little Weeper Also Available

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Discount through StreetDate Overview The Framed Countless Ways of by Self“It’s System of a Down finally consumed their folkisms; it’s a Romany campfire gathering where gypsies turn amps up toDestruction eleven. It’s six languages spilling over rock, hip-hop, samba, balladry, and punk. File Under: Punk ★★★★” – Kerrang! But most of all, it will rock your world. CD: RCL 17 (O)

The Framed Kultur Shock Countless We Have Ways ComeoftoSelfTake Destruction Your Jobs Away File File Under: Under:Punk Alt Rock

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Seattle’s adopted stepchildren Kultur Shock return true to form with their fourth release, We Have Come to Take Your Jobs, once again characterized by their unique brand of Balkan folk music denoted by heavy guitars, relentless rhythms, searing violins, and sometimes irreverent, always impressionable vocals. In the words of singer Gino Yevdjevich: “After ten years, we’re naming our new album what we should have named our first one. It took us ten years to mature so that we could enjoy who we are and what we are doing, to realize that we don’t have anything to lose if we offend, and to learn to just do what we are doing without feeling like we have to apologize for it.This recording is, so far, the closest to KS’s live sound.What you see is what you get.The second revelation, the thing that bleeds throughout the whole album, is that we are a live band of blue-collar immigrants … it was important for KS to realize that and start enjoying being ourselves, belonging nowhere, having been ripped from our old worlds and never becoming a part of the new one … but loving every second of it.”

Selling Points • Full U.S. tour planned with Gogol Bordello in Fall 2006 • Produced by Billy Gould (Faith No More) and mixed by Adam Muñoz (Bill Frisell, John Zorn, Hank Williams III, Dwarves) • Press campaign Yarrr! PR The Framed, hailingbyfrom Minneapolis, bring a breath of fresh air to fashion-minded punk.The boys in • College radio/specialty rock radionot campaign The Framed are here to play music, 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 Key Markets ghosts of past punk à la Generation X, early Social Distortion and the Swingin’ Utters will certainly have you listening to this album over Hometown: Seattle. Also: Portland, Francisco, York,Vancouver,Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles and over. Drawing several hundred kids per show,The Framed show noSan signs of lettingNew up.This is not a band to be taken lightly.

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Kultur Shock Kultura Diktatura Points Track Listing Selling 17 compared (O) God Is BusyDistortion (May I Help • Tango La Victoria • Duna • Zumbul • Gino Loves Me • Istanbul • Poor • CD: HaveKAC been to Generation X, Social andYou?) Swingin’ Utters Mantwo • Mano Mirunning Hermano • Sarajevo • Hashishi • #1 song on Radio K (Minneapolis) for weeks NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA • 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 • KEYprecise MARKETS: Minneapolis (Hometown). Also: Los Angeles, San Diego, Newpercussive York, “Each combination of drawing room piano, gossamer guitar, whispering noise, and Chicago, Boston and St. Louis human voice is distinct from the last, but each asks to be listened to at night, with hands and legs folded.” – Dusted

Track Listing Once every big blue moon you hear an •album thatItmakes youAway feel as if you’d just stepped outthe of Ashes a Disposition of Desperation • Airwaves The Way Is • Run • Whiskey Bottles • From crisp morning shower–emotionally refreshed and completely revitalized.You can’t explain why the of the Underground • Rock’n’Roll Rip-Off • Sun Never Sets • The Last Kiss • Bleed Us Dry • Battle impact this record is so intense, and you don’t have to. Women and Children can handle that. Songs •ofVengeance With eighteen glorious tracks, Paralyzed Dance Tonight showcases a wide variety of folk-pop panorama. Women and Children began their existence when Californian Kevin Lasting crossed paths with Canadian Cheryl June Serwa. After jotting his telephone number across the length of her forearm, a love affair was born, spontaneously relocating the couple to Paris. Soon they united with fellow American/old friend Jamie Moon and new French pal Olivier Robert.The four joined forces in Women and Children concocting an almost endless roster of tunes; songs that ended up in the right hands and ultimately Paralyzed Dance Tonight landed the band a supporting spot on Cat Power’s UK tour and a personal selection by Vincent File Under: Alt Rock Gallo for his All Tomorrows Parties Festival. CD: NNK 7041 (N)

Selling Points • Supported Cat Power on their 2005 UK tour • Handpicked by Vincent Gallo to perform at his 2005 All Tomorrows Parties Festival • Press will be handled by Narnack and 2:30 Publicity • College radio service by AAM • MySpace features and exclusive tracks • Ads will run in Magnet, Harp, Arthur, Bust, and more

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

Track Listing Born TP • A Bigger Graveyard • Your Honor • Feed A Fire • General Winter • Mary Blues • Ugly • My Bad • My Head In Your Dirt • Oranges • Polly Ann • Virginia Creepers • A Sweet Spirit • Rolly Fingers

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Overview “Forget your age, forget you’re clever; the awkward stage, it lasts forever.” That’s a mantra that serves to remind us that we never truly shed our painfully insecure and ignominiously crushed youth. It is with us always. The Awkward Stage serves as a musical backdrop for those universal feelings of shame, inadequacy, anger, failure, and loneliness–a revenge of sorts in the form of the most intelligent and brilliantly crafted pop songs to come along in quite some time. Born in Winnipeg and raised in Vancouver, Shane Abram Nelken, leader/songwriter for The Awkward Stage, has long been considered one of Vancouver’s best-kept secrets.Where some play hard to get, he has taken it a step further and played “hard to find.” Much like TV Fall Guy Lee Majors, he’s the unknown stuntman who made Vancouver’s indie scene sound so fine. Nelken’s ability to seamlessly shift among a wide variety of musical styles (and instruments) has made him a much sought-after “hired ringer” by many of Vancouver’s elite acts: A.C. Newman (New Pornographers), Sparrow, Vancouver Nights, The Ronnie Hayward Trio, The Come Ons, The Buzzards, and The Blue Lodge Quartet, to name The Awkward Stage but a few.The debut album on Mint Records, Heaven is for Easy Girls, was co-produced and Heaven is for Easy Girls engineered by New Pornographers’ drummer Kurt Dahle, and possesses that distinctive intangible File Under: Alt Rock musical essence–some say “The Vancouver Sound”–initially spearheaded and made famous by those CD: MRI 96 (M) notorious New Pornographers. NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Selling Points • Shane Nelken performs in New Pornographer AC Newman’s band • Features guest appearances by Duplex!’s Shaun Brodie, The Gay/The Tennessee Twin’s Coco Culbertson, The New Pornographers’ Kurt Dahle, and more • Print media promotion by Mint publicist Yvette Ray • College radio promotion by AAM • Ads will run in Magnet, Big Takeover, Skyscraper, Under the Radar, CMJ NMR/NMM, and Vice

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Track Listing The Morons Are Winning • So Stupid, So Smart • Heaven Is for Easy Girls • Sad Girl Radio • I Drive • We’re Going for a Ride • T-rexia Nervosa • I Love You, Hipster Darling • 1000 Teenage Hearts • The Room Tone • The Circus Ends in Tears • West Van Girl

Overview “The Transmissionary Six’s Terri Moeller plays harmonica, drums, and percussion, but her voice is what gives this album its indelible print. Like the Cowboy Junkies’ Margo Timmons and Wild Colonials’ Angela McCluskey, her alto has a languid, droopy-lidded quality. Moeller (of Walkabouts fame) and guitarist/pianist Paul Austin (Willard Grant Conspiracy) enmesh those vocals with airy vibes, Mellotron burbles, sweet pedal steel slides, and a warm cello, creating an alluring, Morcheeba-like veil of sonic beauty.” – Rolling Stone The Transmissionary Six are a collective built around vocalist Terri Moeller and multiinstrumentalist Paul Austin. Radar is their fourth release since their inception in 2001, and the band has played their unique brand of sci-folk and narcoticized rock in seventeen countries and eight states during that time!

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• Produced by Tucker Martine (Laura Veirs, Jesse Sykes, The Decemberists) • Guest appearances by members of Trespassers William, Jesse Sykes’ Sweet Hereafter, and Laura Veirs’ Tortured Souls • Co-songwriter Terri Moeller has been The Walkabouts’ drummer for ten years • Co-songwriter Paul Austin was a founding member of Willard Grant Conspiracy • Influential Seattle radio station KEXP has been hugely supportive and is excited about the new album; fantastic press has run in Harp, Rolling Stone, and more • Publicity campaign through Deluxxe Media • Regional radio service and tour press • Ads will run in The Stranger, Big Takeover, Amplifier, and more

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

Track Listing In Spades • Radar • The Burglar • Broker • Pod Bay Doors • Transmission Line • Wires to Rust • That Wednesday • When Rowan and Martin Saved the Day • Infrared • Take It On the Chin • Top of Your Lungs • Bye Bye Blackbird STREET DATE OCTOBER 10, 2006

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The Framed Poison Dart Countless Get Hot Ways of SelfDestruction File Under: Alt Rock File Under: Punk CD:WED 31 (P)

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File Under: Punkcollaboration between members of the Department of Safety dose of frog venom. A cross-border CD: RCL 17 (O) project in Anacortes and International Falls in Langley, BC, The Poison Dart crafts songs about things both material and immaterial.This collaboration has recently produced the band’s first album, Get Hot, an indie-pop delight.The vast majority of the album was recorded in the analog realm: a oneinch sixteen-track tape machine in the basement of a farmhouse in rural British Columbia.The album includes a host of instruments and musical happenings such as harmonies, gang vocals, epic guitar, piano, drum fills, handclaps, and horns. The Poison Dart’s influences are varied, and include Neil Young, Elvis Costello, Bob Marley, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Fleetwood Mac, and Thrush Hermit. The Poison Dart has played throughout the Northwest with bands such as The Microphones, Thanksgiving, Laura Veirs, The Forms, Run Chico Run, Y.A.C.H.T., and Sound Stories.The members of the band can also be found backing up Phil Elverum (Mt. Eerie, The Microphones) live and on record.

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Reality Clash. 11 original, catchy tunes written to evoke the ghosts of past punk à la Generation X, early Social Key Distortion and the Swingin’Markets Utters will certainly have you listening to this album over and over. Drawing several Anacortes & no Langley, Also:Vancouver, Philadelphia, Francisco, Phoenix hundred kids per Hometown: show,The Framed show signs BC. of letting up.This is Portland, not a band to be takenSan lightly.

Selling Points Track Listing I Was Not Made to Reproduce • LayUtters Low (Lay Low) • I’ll Bend My Will • Mark of a Man • Occupations • Have been compared to Generation X, Social Distortion and Swingin’ • Fragments • Bands Keep Playing • Pamphleteers • Lady, I’ve Been Hoping Long • Rise ‘N Shine • Yamsi • #1 song on Radio K (Minneapolis) for two weeks running • Stereophobic All Things Said Must&Pass Crazy Horce • 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 Los Angeles,asSan Diego, New York, “An interest in backcountry folk(Hometown). and blues is Also: not prerequisite Drakkansasauna is seedier, funnier, Chicago, Boston andthan St. Louis and ultimately fresher O Brother and its modern-day siblings.” – UrbanPollution.com

Track Listing Drakkar Sauna is Wallace Cochran and Jeffrey Stolz, two gentlemen from Lawrence, Kansas Disposition of Desperation • Airwaves • The WayThe It IsLaudermilks • Run Away • Whiskey Bottles •and From the Ashes who list among their influences everything from to Pete Seeger Mandy of the Underground Rock’n’RollasRip-Off • Sun one Never Setsand • The Last Kiss •like Bleed Dry • Battle Patinkin. Describing •themselves “two brains, mind” harmonizing theUs Louvin Songs • Vengeance Brothers, Drakkar Sauna makes old-time country and folk music for everyone, especially people who do not like old-time country and folk music. Rover is Drakkar Sauna’s first album, being rereleased after the first pressing sold out.The album is divided into two main parts: the “Very Much Alone Pentateuch” and the “Coalition Bear Force.” Since Rover’s first pressing in 2004, Drakkar Sauna has released a full-length album, Drakkansasauna, and a 7”, Pirate Treasure, both through Drakkar Sauna Marriage Records.Whether it is the quirky lyrics or the toe-tapping, good-time feeling that makes Rover them so fun, Drakkar Sauna should remain a proper soundtrack for your particular slice of File Under: Alt Rock Americana, whether it’s porch-rocking, camping, or s’mores in the microwave. CD:WED 30 (P) Selling Points • First pressing of Rover released through Marriage Records sold out • Service to writers, college radio, and nonprofit radio stations

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Track Listing Also Available Stamp Her Out of My Mind • Very Much Alone Pt. 2:The Coke Binge • Very Much Alone Pt. 3: If I Can’t Escape Why Should You? • Very Much Alone Pt. 1: O, Fuck, I’m Fucked. Fuck • How to Approach Drakkar Sauna An Accident Victim • Groovebox-76 • Lessons to Teach a Child • Drakkar Sauna Says Motherfuck John Drakkansasauna Ashcroft • Spear for When the Bear Comes • Seduction Turns Deadly • O, God, I Have a Canoe • CD:WED 24 (P) Song of Serious Injury NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Featured Artists Jenette Mackie – cello, vocals Jesse Sprinkle – drums

Overview Jenette Mackie built Polly Panic on the back of an electrified and often distorted cello married to manic-depressive drums. Her vocal stylings owe as much to Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf as they do to PJ Harvey and Tori Amos; Mackie wails out powerfully in raw, charismatic tones. Hardly delicate, the music of Polly Panic draws heavily upon themes of powerlessness, control, fear, and abuse without rejecting the idea of hope or redemption.The result is a sound truly beautiful, dark, and unforgettable. Jenette Mackie was trained classically at the Crane School of Music in New York, but chose to Polly Panic leave her curriculum early to pursue her own independent study with a private tutor in Rochester, NY. Painkiller Soon after, she began building on her vision of twisting the classical cello to a darker aspect of music. File Under: Alt Rock In Fall 2005, Mackie finished work on a self-titled three-song demo, which received regular airplay on CD: GDP 25 (O) WBER, the premier independent radio station in Rochester. As of May 2006, Mackie had finished preproduction work her upcoming full-length, Painkiller, and fled the dismal wastes of western New York NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA to make a new home in sunny Portland, Oregon. Preorder

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Selling Points • Cello-based indie/metal/prog two-piece • Extensive Northwest, East Coast, and West Coast touring planned for the second half of 2006 • Extensive press campaign by Yarrr! PR • College and specialty radio campaign • Ads will run in Modern Fix, Impose, Amplifier, and more

Key Markets Hometown: Portland. Also: Rochester, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Asheville, New Orleans

Track Listing Soft Witness • Plathian Fashions • Mother • Red Dress • Little Girl • Inside Your Heart • Bones • Pretty Pissing • Royal • Paint • Picture Day • Acid Rain

Overview “Curious Hands have great pop hooks with Ramones-like energy.” – Go Magazine Curious Hands have been performing and developing their sound in the underground circuit of the Pacific Northwest for several years. After releasing several CD-R releases on their own DIY label, Love Harder, they bring their adrenaline-fueled live show intensity onto 1/2” analog, recorded live in studio.The music is a sixteen-track, thirty-two-minute bombast of garage pop hooks with slacker-punk mentality. Musical themes range from political to romantic, with an eye for storytelling.

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Curious Hands Sea Monster File Under: Alt Rock CD: GDW 4 (L)

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Debut release with sixteen short, hook-driven songs High-energy live performances Recent in-studio interview with KPSU Portland Focused Northwest press and radio campaigns Shows planned for the Northwest throughout Summer/Fall 2006

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Track Listing Black Out Man • Better Nation • Leaders • 22/7 • Elliott • Pity • In Defiance • Detachable • Only Son • Orion • Oglala • Stars, Already • Surfacing • Beloved Brave • Persephone • Time Bomb

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Under: PunkConnors, moving from chords that sing like guts of pianos as oratonical as LorenFile Mazzacane CD: RCL 17 (O) through slouched single notes, propping up song forms as nod-out beautiful as anything conceived by Kendra Smith and David Roback.” – The Wire

The Framed Hisato Higuichi Countless Dialogue Ways of SelfDestruction File Under: Avant Rock File Punk CD:Under: FVR 44 (M)

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Dialogue is the first American release by Tokyo’s new rising power, Hisato Higuchi. Originally a puppeteer, Higuchi has transformed his glacial, shadow box-inspired hand movements to six-strings. Flickering between beautiful melodic/melancholic space-blues and haunting verbal aches, Higuchi’s tones of electric guitar and hushed vocals fan out from the burning embers of Keiji Haino’s quieter, introspective work or even the haunted torch songs of Patty Waters. His seemingly wordless Japanese croon is a smoky, after-hours call of loss.The music manifests itself in a unique and singular conception. It breathes slowly, almost to the point of stillness, an eerie voice and flinty guitar searching for quiet revelation that carries the deep grace of Charalamabides or even Mazzy Star.The perfect introduction for stateside listeners.

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• RIYL: Keiji Haino, Christina Carter (Charalambides), Loren Connors • Hisato Higuchi’s first American release, and first album not issued by his own Ghost Disc imprint Discount through StreetDate • Previous CD was critically praised by The Wire and Dusted; it is still gaining accolades in mid-2006 Overview • Service to North American and overseas press & web outlets by Family Vineyard The Framed, hailing from Minneapolis, bring a breath of fresh air to fashion-minded punk.The boys in • Radio service by AAM Sunday Service The Framed are here to play music, not hairstyling tips.To that end, they have focused on • Ads will run in Arthur,The Wire, Signal todiscuss Noise, and select websites 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 Distortion and the Swingin’ Utters will certainly have you listening to this album over Key Markets and over. Drawing several hundred kids per show,The Framed no signs of letting up.This is not a band to be taken lightly. New York, Chicago, Boston,show Atlanta, San Francisco

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Selling Points Track Listing • Have been compared to Generation X, Social Distortion and Swingin’ Himitsu • Guitar #4 • Manazashi NoUtters Saki E • Watashi Wa Asa O Matteita • Guitar #2 • Hajimari No • #1 song on Radio K (Minneapolis) for two weeks running Bamen • Guitar #5 • Ai No Tanjyo • Kizuato • Breath #2 • Guitar #3 • Mitsumeau Sekai Ni • Borei • Have shared stages with Street Dogs, Soviettes and more NoLower Ude Class Brats, Juliette Lewis & The Licks, • Print promotion via postcards, posters and flyers • College radio service • Ads will run in Razorcake, Amp and Pulse Overview • KEY MARKETS: Minneapolis Also: Losthe Angeles, Diego, New York,jazz and no-wave “Rope’s sonic excursions meet(Hometown). somewhere between seedySan intersection of free Boston and St.and Louis …Chicago, the result is a chilling delightful mess of cacophony that should elicit much excitement from fans of the avant-garde.” – Resonace

Track Listing Disposition of Desperation • Airwaves • The Way It Isis• now Run Away • Whiskey Bottles • From therock Ashes Originally a 1998 Poland-based guitar/bass duo, Rope Chicago’s most flummoxing avant of the Robert Underground • Rock’n’Roll Rip-Off • Sun Never Sets • The Last Kiss • Bleed Dry • Battle group. Iwanik (bass, vocals), Przemyslaw Krzysztof Drazek (guitar), andUs Michael J. Songs • Vengeance Kendrick (trap set, percussion, electronics) blend deconstructed strains of Swans, Last Exit, and minute aspects of early Black Sabbath into Krzysztof Komeda’s classical suspense, no-wave’s uncompromising abrasion, and the explosiveness of free jazz for a singular, wholly unique vision. Hovering in brutal slow motion, Iwanik hisses lyrical diatribes over the constantly evolving ocean of sound before it implodes into ultra-dynamic group force, surpassing even Boris or Om in intensity. Guest vocalists Euguene Robinson (Oxbow) and Grazyna Auguscik add to the complex layers of sound, each taking on conflicting, growling, and ghostly personas.

Selling Points • Anticipated second album from this Polish trio, now residing in Chicago • Guest vocals from Eugene Robinson of Oxbow (Neurot) and Polish jazz legend Grazyna Auguscik • Cover art by famed painter Stanislaw Ignacy “Witkacy” Witkiewicz (1835-1939) • U.S. tour will follow album’s release • Service to North American and overseas press & web outlets by Family Vineyard • Radio service by AAM Sunday Service • Ads will run in Arthur,The Wire, Signal to Noise, and select websites

Key Markets Hometown: Chicago. Also: New York, Milwaukee, Boston, Minneapolis, San Francisco, Indianapolis

Track Listing She the Assassin • Heresy • Blood Stained Lust • The Financial Imperative • Our Beast • This Is Love • Grand Humiliation of Misery 32 14

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Featured Artists Justin Benson – guitar, keyboards, vocals Matt Benham – guitar, keyboards, vocals John Wooster – bass, vocals Kelly Minnis – drums

Overview When dreamy, hooky crunch-pop is done right, it melts your heart without even trying. Even though Seattle’s Argo is notoriously one of the hardest-working bands in town, their preternatural ability to craft immediately perfect rock gems feels completely effortless–and triumphant. Now, armed with a new lineup and the kind of working cohesiveness that playing loads of shows with bands like Aqueduct, Architecture in Helsinki, and Viva Voce brings, Argo is poised for constant positive progression. And why shouldn’t they be? The band’s 2004 release on Ana-them Records, Jet Packs for Everyone, garnered substantial critical acclaim, received great college radio play, and Argo was even named a finalist in the 2005 Emerging Music Awards. Songwriters and multiinstrumentalists/vocalists Justin Benson and Matt Benham played together since childhood before founding Argo in 2001 with drummer, keyboardist, and vocalist Scott Leonard.They were later joined by bassist/vocalist Jon Wooster.When recorded, Argo captures the vivaciousness and loose energy of their live setup; there’s nothing calculated here.

Press Quotes “Argo’s melodic pop enchantments drift out shy and slow but uplifting, and then they trip off into a sweet indie rock jazzy tumble that catches you off balance. Little hints of bands fall through the lush but still sparse notes: raindrops of Death Cab for Cutie, Joan of Arc, Sea and Cake, and Promise Ring.” – Big Takeover “The debut album for this Seattle group is best described as blissful indie rock. It is the sort of music that is best used as a salve for those stressful days when you want the world to go away … if music is your medicine, Argo is the band you don’t want to miss.” – Tablet “Be the first on your block to check out this fine new Seattle band, which makes pop music that is both smart and dumb in all the right ways. Liberal vintage keyboard sounds sit smartly alongside the indie rock textures, until DAMN! Hooks galore.” – The Stranger

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Established fan base in the Pacific Northwest Main rotation radio play 2005 Emerging Music Awards finalist Upcoming tours will take the band through Portland, Minneapolis, Chicago, Cincinnati,Wichita, Louisville, San Francisco, Eugene, Bellingham, Spokane, Missoula, Salt Lake City, and Denver • Experienced PR manager will handles press, radio, e-media, and tour press service

Key Markets Hometown: Seattle. Also: Portland, Minneapolis, Chicago, Cincinnati,Wichita, Louisville, San Francisco, Eugene, Bellingham, Spokane, Missoula, Salt Lake City, Denver

Track Listing Firebot • Waters Red • Alternate Ending • The Fall • Time Away • Believing in Love • All You Do (Pleasurecraft Remix) • Needs

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CD: RCL 17 (O) One of LA’s most daring new artists, Daedelus weaves together a true “love-sound” that falls between honeyed melody and avant-electronics. Daedelus chops and splices disparate acoustic sources into incredible works of staggering resonance. Contrasting IDM-style cut-ups with childlike arrangements from the thirties and forties, he has refined a style that has no imitators.The Daedelus live show, which utilizes a custom-built sample trigger device known as “The Box,” has amazed audiences across the U.S., Europe, and Japan, securing his reputation as one of the most exciting producers in electronic music. On his Throw a Fit EP, Daedelus delivers five instrumentals and one vocal song featuring labelmate Subtitle.

The Framed Daedalus Countless Ways of SelfThrow a Fit Destruction File Under: Hip-Hop

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Guest vocals from Subtitle Mixed and engineered by super-producer Daddy Kev Cover image by world-renowned artists Kozyndan Radio service to Top 100 CMJ electronica reporters Publicity mailing to over one hundred mainstream press outlets and independent journalists

Key Markets Overview Hometown: Los Angeles. Also: Sanbring Francisco, SanofDiego, Portland, Seattle, Phoenix,Tucson, Denver The Framed, hailing from Minneapolis, a breath fresh air to fashion-minded punk.The boys in The Framed are here to play music, not discuss hairstyling tips.To that end, they have focused on writing songs Track for their debut albumListing on Reality Clash. 11 original, catchy tunes written to evoke the ghosts of past punk à Admit • It’s Madness • Remix of Nothing • Unadventurer Subtitle) • Humdrum Headspin la Generation X, early Social Distortion andDefeat the Swingin’ Utters will certainly have you listening to this(feat. album over and over. Drawing • A Complicated Geometry several hundred kids per show,The Framed show no signs of letting up.This is not a band to be taken lightly.

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Track Listing Terrain to Roam is the newest album from Subtitle, one of the most recognizable faces in Disposition ofrap. Desperation • Airwaves • Thehis Way It Is Run Away • Whiskey • From the for Ashes underground Subtitle has been paying dues for• years, touring around Bottles the globe opening of the Underground • Rock’n’Roll Rip-Off • Sun Neverthe Setsworld • Thewith Lastone Kissclassic • Bleed Us Dry groups such as Mars Volta and Islands while blessing album after• Battle Songs • Vengeance another. Now, Alpha Pup is proud to present Terrain to Roam, Subtitle’s most polished work yet featuring production from the likes of Madlib, Dntel (Postal Service), Daddy Kev, Nobody, Omid, and more. Expect massive promotion for this title, as well as a North American tour in Fall 2006 with Islands. Selling Points • All-star production cast includes Madlib, Dntel (Postal Service), Daddy Kev, Nobody, Omid, and more • Subtitle’s most fully realized album yet–fans will be blown away! • Fall 2006 North American tour through over forty cities • Radio service to Top 100 CMJ hip-hop reporters • Publicity mailing to over one hundred mainstream press outlets and independent journalists • Massive online promotion planned

Key Markets Hometown: Los Angeles. Also: San Francisco, San Diego, Portland, Seattle, Phoenix,Tucson, Denver

Track Listing Surrealist Life • Restructure/Reroute • About the Author • I Wonder If • Tell Me When To • H.H. Jesus • H.H. Lucifer • S is for Summer • Let’s Get Lit • Points of Damage • Pill Pop • Wait for It • Off the Clock • True Grit and Mo’

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Featured Artists Joe Con – vocals Jessica Cooke – vocals Pariah – vocals Knows – vocals Sonny James – guitar Michael Smothers – vocal harmony Ken Bausano – trumpet

Overview JRK, Wide Hive Records’ newest discovery, comes directly from the same backyard as the label itself: San Francisco’s Mission District. Following in the well-established footsteps of Variable Unit, DJ Zeph, and DJ Quest, JRK is an illuminating beat designer who crunches soul and rock into a hip-hop envelope with a uniquely raw and inspired touch. After releasing two respected underground instrumental 12” records, JRK has been working on this well-rounded, eponymous debut for the past several years. Joining JRK are MCs Knows (Uspros), Pariah (a.k.a. Neal Rames), and Joe Con. Also featured on the release are several songs with up & coming vocalist Jessica Cooke, who delivers an edgy, rocky performance atop JRK’s scathingly delicious beats. The instrumental half of the album marks comparisons to DJ Shadow and DJ Krush in its articulate combination of influences. Co-producing the album with JRK is Gregory Howe, known for producing Variable Unit, DJ Zeph, Dissent, Phil Ranelin, and Calvin Keys.

Press Quotes “Excellently produced and pressed, this is, well, exactly what the title says it is. May be from Oakland, could be from Guam, who knows? This is one of those beauties that ended up in the bag after another night of hard partying at the red wine social.” – XLR8R “As one of the coolest and most progressive indie labels to rock the SF Bay Area, Wide Hive has quietly amassed a roster of hip-hop, dub, and jazz-minded musicians and DJs whose sole agenda seems to be a challenge of the status quo.” – Remix “For true hip-hop heads and the types of people that enjoy more than just music with their music … a fresh vibe is presented within these songs that are full of substance and take form through a mostly chilled-out, instrumental, and insightful rhyme display that is playful, but manages to come correct at the same time.” – Impact Press

Selling Points • Following the critical acclaim and commercial success of Wide Hive Records hip-hop artists DJ Zeph and Azeem with Variable Unit, JRK is the new Wide Hive find sure to be embraced by both hip-hop heads and indie rock fans alike • Stellar sonics, magnetic vocals, and thick raw energy make this a record that will lace dance floors, DJ crates, and music lovers’ collections across the globe • Press support through Wide Hive and Giant Step • Radio support through SPECTRE Entertainment Group • Ads will run in All About Jazz, Down Beat, and URB

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

Track Listing R.A.W • Come One and All • The Lotus Eaters • One Long Kiss • Cold Chillin • Purple as a Iris • Get a Move On • Signal Flow • Sound of the Beat • Follow • Champagne Jam

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Discount through StreetDate Overview The Framed Waysthings of Self“A Denton band on theCountless verge of great … the music rumbles like storm winds across the West Destruction Texas desert, with a heart that is Joe Tex plus T. Rex. All three sing, with Barton and Wickliffe carrying Filethe Under: the bulk of the load, and lyricsPunk are full of rage and desire, joy and laughter.Wickliffe and Valdez CD: RCL 17 (O) syncopate rough but stylish leads and bass lines over Barton’s urgent, danceable percussion (she steals riffs from James Brown).” – Dallas Observer

The Framed Faceless Werewolves Countless Ways of SelfMedium Freaky Destruction File Under: Alt Rock

The Faceless Werewolves are a rock ‘n’ roll trio based in Austin.The band formed in 2001 in Denton, when the three members met while attending college.They moved to Austin in late 2005 to take advantage of its strong music scene.They played SXSW 2006 and, as a result, were invited to place a song on the Copper Label compilation to be released in Fall 2006.This CD, titled Medium Freaky, was recorded at the Bubble with Frenchie Smith.The band is planning a regional tour to coincide with the release of this CD in October 2006.

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Selling Points Track Listing • Have been compared to Generation X, Social• What Distortion andWaiting Swingin’For? Utters Elevation Are You • Short Term Memory • My Weakness • Pegasus Versus the • #1 song on Radio K (Minneapolis) for two weeks running Unicorn • I Tried to Love You • One Arm Man • Don’t Blow It • Number Nine Train • That Beast • • Have shared stages with Street Dogs, Lower Class Brats, Juliette Lewis & The Licks, Soviettes and more Nothing • Print promotion via postcards, posters and flyers • College radio service • Ads will run in Razorcake, Amp and Pulse Overview • KEY its MARKETS: (Hometown). Also: Loslyrics, Angeles, San Diego, New “With carefully Minneapolis layered melodies and confessional it demands your full York, attention … in an age Chicago, Boston andso St.often Louisfall into categories, like coffee shop kitsch or airbrushed studio pop, when female vocalists La Pieta’s Rachel sounds like the sweet-faced girl next door … La Pieta’s male-female vocals Track achieve a familiarListing indie aesthetic demonstrated by the likes of Mates of State, but the fact that their Disposition of Desperation • Airwaves Thepersonal–this Way It Is • Run Away • Whiskey Bottles • From the Ashes lyrics and their delivery are so heartfelt •and sets La Pieta apart.” – Splendid of the Underground • Rock’n’Roll Rip-Off • Sun Never Sets • The Last Kiss • Bleed Us Dry • Battle Songs Vengeance For the• last six years, Brooklyn’s La Pieta have slowly but surely dug their way into the indie-pop subconscious.The trio’s stripped-down pop sets, delicate boy/girl vocals, and meandering guitars lie against a bubbling undercurrent of dark themes.Their latest release, the Inside Out EP, is their tightest and most confident collection yet. Following a handful of self-released CDs and East Coast shows, La Pieta hooked up with Contraphonic Music for a reissue of their debut, Summer, which earned La Pieta spectacular reviews and quickly sold out. Certain to build upon that success, the five songs on Inside Inside Out Out play like call-and-response love letters–cunning confessionals sprinkled with pop morsels. At a brisk twenty minutes, Inside Out is a kiss that’s over too soon but remembered much longer, leaving a File Under: Alt Rock CDEP: CTP 59 (E) lingering thirst for more.

Selling Points • Previous releases have sold out thanks to strong word of mouth and appearances on Emo Diaries (Deep Elm) and Test Tones (Clairecords) compilations • Midwest & East Coast tours planned 2006-2007 • National college radio campaign through AAM • Technical Echo will service national print & online magazines for review • Ads will run in Pitchfork, Rockpile, Pop Matters, Innocent Words, Amplifier, and more

Key Markets Hometown: Brooklyn. Also: Milwaukee, Chicago, Athens, Atlanta, Portland, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia,Washington DC, Baltimore

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Overview “Hush. Now. Ready. Dance.” These are the commands of The Drugstore Cowboys.Their debut album, Chapter 3006 of Dance Moves for the Apocalypse: If the Octamaiden was a Diabetic Joykill Addict, is a mouthful, but Jeff Scott and Philippe Grenade have a lot more to offer you than imperatives and verbiage.This two-piece comes at the listener from every angle possible, filling ears with hip-hop vocals and piercing screams over piano, horns, and funky beats by way of electronic mayhem. It’s fun, and the fun is catching on quick. For fans of Depeche Mode, Blood Brothers, Jay-Z, Botch, and Underoath.

Selling Points • In their first six months of existence The Drugstore Cowboys have been selected to open for Depeche Mode, She Wants Revenge, Mindless Self Indulgence, Brandtson, and Kill Hannah • Ernie Ball selected The Drugstore Cowboys to play the first date of the Warped Tour 2006 The Drugstore Cowboys • Completed one East Coast tour; will tour consistently throughout the year Chapter 3006 of Dance • Massive press campaign by Riot Act Media Moves for the Apocalypse: If • Radio promotion by Tricycle PR the Octomaiden was a • Service to major & independent press and e-media Diabetic Joykill Addict • Featured MP3s on MySpace, Pure Volume, Insound, and Pitchfork File Under: Alt Rock • Ads will run in Wonkavision, Modern Fix, Amplifier, Insound, Uprise, Copper Press, Big Takeover, Status, CD: LUJ 46 (I) Skyscraper, Hyperactive, Skratch, Punk Planet, and Under the Volcano NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Track Listing Horror Flick Scene 1: Introduction to Chaos • These Clouds will Never Catch Us • Penguin Tuxes at the Disco Bar • The Elegance of the Dance • Mind of a Sales Man • Eulogy to a Friendly Foe • Horror Flick Scene 2: Interlude of a Masked Man • Coyote Confessions • Only Fire Drives Away The Rats • Pornographic Fruitstands • Murderpiece Composit • Evil 247

Overview “The lost sound of kids in America! Ahhh, when did we lose sight of that honest, piercing howl, the scream we all once felt when we were younger, to make a change in this sick world we live in. A true band in every sense of the word!” – MRR

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From the coastal town of Mobile, Alabama comes anarchist/political punk band Hush Hush Revolution (formally known as Criminal Class USA) with their debut album! With the oil wars looming over us, mass consumerism sucking the blood out of everyone, and the ever-present threat of nuclear war, Hush Hush Revolution channel the energy of our current times into a brutal, real sound that reflects the need to resist, make a change, raise a fist, and start a band.Wielding a tripleguitar attack in classic southern rock fashion, the band aggressively rips through honest songwriting in a way that will move you.They have toured the U.S. and Europe more than once, winning fans with active, dance-friendly shows and hard work.This is the sound of modern day resistance at its finest.

Selling Points • Formally known as Criminal Class USA; GMM release sold well over 6,000 copies • Have toured with Rancid and U.S. Bombs • Interviews have run in MRR • Ads will run in Razorcake, Punk Planet, and MRR

Key Markets Hometown: Mobile, AL. Also: New York, Pensacola New Orleans, Atlanta

Track Listing Grizzly • Green Mark/Rise • Back to Alabama • Freedom Hills • Feeding Again • F.Y.B. • Southern Justice • Many Weapons Many Men • Jamie’s Song • Unnamed Expression • Run and Hide

STREET DATE OCTOBER 10, 2006

Discount through StreetDate Overview The Framed Ways of Self-at least that’s all it took for the members of the One One taste of ska is all itCountless takes to get hooked–or Destruction Night Band, a Montreal sextet that was initially supposed to be a one-event act.That was three years Filehas Under: ago. Since then, the band beenPunk on stage night after night, luring spectators out of their seats and CD: RCL 17 (O) onto the dance floor with its sizzling grooves. Striving to live up to its name, the One Night Band always performs as if each show were the last. Since its beginnings (2003), the ensemble has toured extensively, seducing audiences with its infectious blend of reggae, ska, calypso, and dub.The One Night Band is a completely independent group that has built its reputation by adding its own flavor to Jamaican classics (Bob Marley, Toots and the Maytals, The Skatalites, Prince Buster, Ken Boothe) while yielding compositions in English and French. Highly accessible, the band’s music is sure to satisfy anyone seeking to unwind and escape the monotony of the daily grind.

The One Framed Night Band Countless Way BackWays Homeof SelfDestruction File Under: Ska/Punk File Punk CD:Under: STM 51 (O)

Selling Points • Traditional ska for fans of The Slackers, The Aggrolites, or Pietasters • Full service to campus and community radio

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Hometown: Montreal. Also: New York, Boston, Chicago, Grand Rapids, Gainesville, Miami, Los Angeles, San Francisco

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Track Listing Overview Crazy Way Back Home Low •ofCan’t • Houdini • When I Fall In Love • Right On • are The Framed, hailing from• Minneapolis, bring•aSo breath freshStand air toItfashion-minded punk.The boys in The Framed Interlude • Rolling the Dice • Rescue Me • Le Monde a Nos Pieds • No No No • Old (er) 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 Distortion and the Swingin’ Utters will certainly have you listening to this album over and over. Drawing several hundred kids per show,The Framed show no signs of letting up.This is not a band to be taken lightly.

Selling Points • Have been compared to Generation X, Social Distortion and Swingin’ Utters • #1 song on Radio K (Minneapolis) for two weeks running • Have shared stages with Street Dogs, Lower Class Brats, Juliette Lewis & The Licks, • Print promotion via postcards, posters and flyers • College radio service • Ads will run in Razorcake, Amp and Pulse Overview • KEYofMARKETS: Minneapolis Los Angeles, San Diego, New York, “One our favourite singles of(Hometown). last year wasAlso: the incessant Weddoes-style jangle of The Faintest Chicago, Boston … andhints St. Louis Ideas ‘Nastacular’ at the base of pop with their ba-ba-ba’s, but also with an early REM-like nod towards Celtic and gypsy folk … indie-pop with a clattering spirit, rather than being twee-ish Track Listing wallpaper.” – Vanity Project Disposition of Desperation • Airwaves • The Way It Is • Run Away • Whiskey Bottles • From the Ashes of the Underground Rock’n’Roll Rip-Off • Sun Setsguys • Thewho Lastlive Kiss Usdiet Dryof• The Battle The Faintest Ideas •are what happens when youNever find four on• aBleed steady Songs • Vengeance Fall, Television Personalities, Fugazi, Beat Happening, The Ramones, and Buzzcocks added to the pop-friendly country of Swedish acts like Love Is All, Jens Lekman, and El Perro Del Mar. Then, just to throw off the balance, add in The Lucksmiths, Dear Nora, The Wedding Present, and British C86 bands. After self-releasing several CD-Rs and a single, the band brings us the simple and exciting What Goes Up Must Calm Down. Although most members of the band are nearing age thirty, the songs contain a youthful enthusiasm. Breakneck speed, blue-collar themes, and references to “the kids” have an authenticity and an absolute charm.

Selling Points • Debut album for a band with an international following • This Swedish band from hotspot Gothenburg was known as Javelins, but changed their name to avoid confusion with a U.S. band by the same name • Full press & radio mailing • Ads will run in Magnet, Pitchfork, and Big Takeover

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

Track Listing You’re Beautiful • All Stars • Capitol Between Brackets • Gun Tootin Hooligans • Mountain of Tics • Decapitated • Missed Misses • Everything is Black • Dear Leibniz • Try Too Hard • I Hear It But I Don’t Like It • Nosebleeders on the Tracks • Dexter’s Got a Sinister Heart • Nothing Will Ever Happen • Lose the Downside

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Featured Artists Muhal Richard Abrams – piano, bell, bamboo flute, taxihorn, percussion George Lewis – trombone, laptop Roscoe Mitchell – soprano & alto sax, percussion

Overview A recording by Muhal Richard Abrams, George Lewis, or Roscoe Mitchell is occasion for notice and celebration. A recording by all three of them together is a historic musical moment. Abrams, founder of the AACM; Mitchell, founder of the Art Ensemble of Chicago; and Lewis, recipient of the MacArthur Grant’s “Genius Award”–together on record for the first time as a trio! Enough has been written about these three men to fill volumes of jazz and creative music history books, but it is the musical documents that tell us the most. Here, we have five pieces recorded in Spring 2005 that explore elements of interest for all three composers: electronics, open playing, contemporary classical, jazz, and the use of space. “Scrape” features each artist performing on his instrument of notoriety: piano, trombone, and sax. “Bound” is a duet between Mitchell and Lewis, with the latter working on his sampling and electronics gear. As the music segues into “Dramaturns,” Abrams opens with a playful descending line beginning a duet between himself and Lewis.The final two tracks feature trio music that incorporates percussion and bird sounds, and all three men embrace the moment as the historic occasion that it was. Pi Recordings takes great pleasure in releasing this music.The label hopes that it is not the last time that they have the occasion to do so, but they are happy to say that there is enough here to satisfy.

Press Quotes “George Lewis has been working the wavering line between jazz and contemporary classical thinking, and that potentially dangerous polystylistic attitude rings triumphant here … his own voyage continues to be compelling, and, thankfully, impossible to pigeonhole.” – JazzTimes “A brief glimpse into the rich world and mind of Muhal Richard Abrams.” – Down Beat “The master conceptualist of the AACM, [Roscoe Mitchell] has a firm empirical base even at his most outlandish; he always gives you a clear view of the formal problem he’s trying to solve.” – New York Times

Selling Points • This recording is Muhal Richard Abrams’ first release of jazz/creative music in a decade–and the first time that he, George Lewis, and Roscoe Mitchell have recorded as a trio! • Lewis’s history of the AACM, Power Stronger Than Itself, will be released in Fall 2006 • George Lewis is a 2002 MacArthur Grant “Genius Award” recipient • Upcoming cover story in Signal to Noise, feature in Down Beat, and more • Pi Recordings will do a full press and radio mailing • Ads will run in Down Beat, JazzTimes, and more

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

Track Listing Scrape • Bound • Dramaturns • Soundhear • Streaming Also Available

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Discount through StreetDate Overview The Framed Countless Ways of Self“This compilation is less a nostalgia trip and more a testament to forward-thinking sonic genius–one as Destruction unmatched today as it was at the time. ★★★★” – Kerrang! File Under: Punk

CD: RCL 17 (O) In the late nineties Atari Teenage Riot (ATR) was seen as part of the electronica genre, but in reality the band had nothing in common with it. It was too avant-garde, too radical in its views, simply too loud and noisy to fit in. Between their inception and their eventual dissolution after the death of the band’s MC Carl Crack, ATR existed as the true alternative for Generation X, kicking down the doors of mainstream music and sexual/racial stereotyping. Even now, the political and social messages that focused the band’s near-apocalyptic sound resonate even stronger than before, as a new generation of punk-influenced youth find Atari Teenage Riot via the internet and good old-fashioned word of mouth.This release stands as a testament to the years 1992-2000, when anything seemed possible.

The AtariFramed Teenage Riot Countless WaysRiot of SelfAtari Teenage 1992-2000 Selling Points Destruction • The definitive collection from the founders of Digital Hardcore File Under: Alt Rock/Punk File CD:Under: DHX Punk 42 (M)

• In their short existence, ATR toured with (amongst others): Beck, Rage Against the Machine, Wu Tang Clan, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Ministry, and even Moby • “Speed” is featured in the recently released film The Fast and The Furious:Tokyo Drift

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Key Markets New York, San Diego, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland, San Francisco, Boston, Detroit, Austin Overview

The Framed, hailing from Minneapolis, bring a breath of fresh air to fashion-minded punk.The boys in The Framed are Track Listing here to play music, not discuss hairstyling tips.To that end, they have focused on writing songs for their debut album on Speed • Destroy 2000written Years oftoCulture Revolution • Deutschland Has Got to Die • Rage • Reality Clash. 11 original, catchy tunes evoke •the ghosts ofAction past punk à la Generation X, early Social Intocertainly the Death • Riot 1995 • Midjunkies • Start The Riot • Too Deadseveral for Me hundred • Atari Teenage Riot • Get Distortion and the Swingin’ Utters will have you listening to this album over and over. Drawing kids per show, Also Available WhileisYou • You Holdlightly. Us Back • Delete Yourself • Sick to Death • Western Decay • Kids The Framed show no signs of lettingUp up.This notCan a band to Can’t be taken Are United • Hetzjagd Auf Nazis! Atari Teenage Riot Redefine the Enemy Selling Points (M) • CD: HaveDHX been34compared to Generation X, Social Distortion and Swingin’ Utters • #1 song on Radio K (Minneapolis) for two weeks running NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA • Have shared stages with Street Dogs, Lower Class Brats, Juliette Lewis & The Licks, • Print promotion via postcards, posters and flyers • College radio service • Ads will run in Razorcake, Amp and Pulse Overview • KEY MARKETS: (Hometown). Also: Los San Diego, York, rock music “Empire has tappedMinneapolis into something vital, dangerous, andAngeles, all-too-absent fromNew so much Chicago, Boston St. Louis today … turn it up.”and – Kerrang!

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Track Listing Fresh from the release of Alec Empire’s latest album, Futurist, Digital Hardcore proudly unveils Disposition Desperation • Airwaves • TheRiot Wayalbum, It Is • Run Away •and Whiskey Bottles • From the Ashes the release ofofhis first post-Atari Teenage Intelligence Sacrifice. Originally shelved in of the Rip-Off Sunalbum Never Last domestically Kiss • Bleed Us Dry • Battle the U.S.Underground in the wake of• Rock’n’Roll September 11, now •the is Sets finally• The available so America can Songs Vengeance feel the• full effect of Alec Empire! Includes two discs: one of blistering electro-singed metal, another of beautiful, minimal, ambient electronic pieces. Features former Atari Teenage Riot member Nic Endo on electronics. Selling Points • • • •

Originally delayed from September 2001, this release finally gets a welcome U.S. release! Alec Empire will be touring the U.S. with his band in support of his latest release Features former Atari Teenage Riot member Nic Endo on electronics Alec Empire won the Spirit of Independence Award at the 2002 Kerrang! Awards

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

Track Listing DISC ONE: Path of Destruction • The Ride • Tear It Out Remix • Everything Starts with a Fuck • Killing Machine • Addicted to You • Intelligence and Sacrifice • Death Favours the Enemy • Buried Alive • …And Never Be Found • New World Order DISC TWO: 2641998 • The Cat Women of the Moon • Two Turntables and a Moog • Parallel Universe • Vault Things of the Night • Silence and Burning Ice • Alec’s Ladder • Electric Bodyrock • 2641998

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Overview “Robert Lippok plays with audio space, leaving the listener amazed at how rich and simple the whole thing (process and result) sounds.” – All Music Guide We’ve all felt like robots–working alienating jobs, engaging in scripted conversations with others, and even at home with our repetitive daily rituals. Robert Lippok successfully captures the experience of robotic life on his Robot EP. As it begins, we hear the distant sound of a robot at work, sounding both mechanical and lonely.With the fluttering ambient tones and gently repetitive bass patterns of “Unexpected Behavior No. 7” and the arpeggiating synthesizers of “Silent Movement,” Lippok continues to develop the feelings of isolation and solace found in a predictable existence. “After Work” breaks the established mood with one of Lippok’s trademark catchy synth melodies, but the final track, “Sweet Servo,” could easily be the soundtrack to a robot’s dreams: isolated in the sterile and melancholy world of repetition.

Selling Points • Robert Lippok is a member of To Rococo Rot and has been involved in many collaborations, including recent work with Barbara Morgenstern • Lippok will perform throughout 2006/2007, including an October show in New York to celebrate the release of Robot • Features original artwork by Robert Lippok • Full press campaign by Western Vinyl • Radio campaign by AAM and Western Vinyl • Ads will run in Copper Press,The Wire, Signal to Noise, Pitchfork, Copper Press, Brainwashed, and more

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

Track Listing Tracking • To the Zero Movement Point • Unexpected Behavior No. 7 • Silent Movement (No Servo) • After Work • Closed Loop 3 • Pick and Place • Sweet Servo

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Like broken, incomplete memories of dreams, Shuta Hasunuma’s compositions string together erratic electronic textures and field recordings from Japanese streets with emotive guitar and piano melodies.Throughout the album, he does an amazing job of using simple, sometimes child-like melodies to evoke a feeling of melancholy that’s both cinematic and intimate. Hasunuma’s studies of Environmental Science led to his deep appreciation for the relationship between urban life and nature. He illustrates this relationship on tracks like “Green Repair” and “Morning Fanfare,” both based around contrasting field recordings of Japan’s urban and rural soundscapes.With diverse influences including nineties hip-hop, Terry Riley, Fugazi, No Neck Blues Band, 54-71, lo borges, Tony Conrad, Alice Coltrane’s piano, Somei Satoh, and Haruomi Hosono, Hasunuma has developed a unique ability to communicate the personal and universal aspects of our relationship with our environment. In the end we get something akin to an audio diary, shifting from deeply moody tracks like “Prelude” and “Double Navaho” to playful, whimsical tracks like “Long Road Home” and “Eurikago Afternoon.”

Selling Points • RIYL: The Books, Fennesz, Boards of Canada, Múm, Bibio, Mountains • Shuta Hasunuma has already played several shows in Japan in support of his debut, and will continue to play shows in Japan and the U.S. in support of this release • Full press campaign by Fanatic Promotion • Radio campaign by AAM and Western Vinyl • Ads will run in Copper Press,The Wire, Signal to Noise, Pitchfork, Copper Press, Brainwashed, and more

Track Listing Departure • Green Repair • Double Navaho • Ikumono • Rec Shop • Hammock • Long Road Home • Morning Fanfare • Karma Fulcrums • Prelude • Repeat Cycles • Eurikago Afternoon

STREET DATE OCTOBER 24, 2006

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Featured Artists Adam Selzer – guitar, vocals Rachel Blumberg – drums, percussion Dave Depper – bass Peter Broderick – viola, saw, percussion, string arrangements Amanda Lawrence – violin Cory Gray – trumpet, trombone,Wurlitzer, horn arrangement

Overview With vast cinematic scope, Norfolk & Western’s anticipated full-length The Unsung Colony leaps out of the speakers with an epic song cycle that winds up unprecedented peaks and cascades down fertile valleys, testing the limits of the band’s collective arrangements, creativity, and musicianship. From musical embers to sonic wildfires, these songs place a band already known for their dynamic range on a whole new level reserved for the likes of Pink Floyd and Camper Van Beethoven. Norfolk & Western have come into their own, and this is the landmark album that their recent EP hinted at: eclectic and ambitious, enthralling and intimate. Having built support for their unique brand of indie rock on tour with Sparklehorse, M.Ward, The Decemberists, and Devotchka, the launch of The Unsung Colony will find the band finally headlining their own tours. Adam Selzer and Rachel Blumberg are joined by bassist Dave Depper, multi-instrumentalists Peter Broderick and Cory Gray (Desert City Soundtrack), and violinist Amanda Lawrence to deliver their strongest performances to date. The Unsung Colony was recorded in the storied halls of Selzer’s Type Foundry studio, with a field trip to a Portland high school for symphonic embellishments.

Press Quotes “The kind of album that rewards multiple listens, revealing details slowly but surely, and once it captures you, it’s hard to escape its grasp. But then, it’s hard to imagine why you’d want to.” – Pitchfork “There is an overarching visceral and sustaining appeal to this album.” – Pop Matters “Absolutely beautiful and moving, at times soaring, at times hushed … this is a fantastic work.” – Delusions of Adequacy

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

Key Markets Hometown: Portland. Also: Eugene, Seattle, Olympia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Bloomington, Boise, Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, Austin,Tucson, Phoenix, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chapel Hill, Ann Arbor, Madison, Providence, St. Petersburg,Tampa, Reno, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City

Track Listing The Longest Stare • The Shortest Stare • Barrels on Fire • How to Reel In • The New Rise of Labour • Rehearsing La Dolce Vita • Arrangements Made • Drifter • Waltz • Banish All Rock • From the Interests of Few • The Longest Stare (Reprise) Also Available

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Dusk in Cold Parlours

A Gilded Age

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STREET DATE OCTOBER 24, 2006

Overview “Cushiony, hot-weather indie rock.” – Pitchfork It’s no secret that Graves have garnered a loyal underground following.With bandleader Greg Olin’s winning laissez faire vocals and melodic sensibility, Graves have a growing catalog of consistently satisfying releases. His croon is understated, with a timbre not dissimilar to breakout mainstream artist Jack Johnson, but his sonic palate is decidedly experimental, and his penchant for off-the-cuff, rickety solos and scrappy R&B grooves turn otherwise pretty, laid-back ballads on their ear. A number of songs on Easy/Not Easy are downright dirty, as Graves ratchet up the sex appeal with Nate Ashley’s bubbling bass lines, Brian Write’s easygoing Motown-styled rhythms, and Cory Gray’s delicate piano lines and Wurlitzer keyboard arpeggios alternating with sensual, Latin-flavored trumpet solos.

Selling Points • Features Cory Gray (Norfolk & Western, Desert City Soundtrack), Corrina Repp, and K Records artists Karl Blau and Nate Ashley • Graves will be building momentum for this release with a September 2006 tour, booked by Invisible Cities Booking • Full PR campaign, including tour press, by Pitch Perfect PR (Iron & Wine/Calexico) • Full college radio mailing and PR service by AAM • Ads will run in Readymade, Magnet, Resonance,Venus, Under the Radar, Pitchfork, Skyscraper, Rockpile, and more

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Track Listing Nowhere • Pulling Out • Dirty Bird • Val K. • Breaking Up Is Hard To Do • Lincoln Continental • Never Mind My Love • Alan W. • Consumption Junction • New Re-treat • Hotel Motell • And In My Doorway • Death Left a Message • When I Grow Up I Wanna Be a Scientist • I Bleeded the Blood

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Overview “Dreamy yet tuneful explorations of nervous loneliness, but also a testament to the powers of both nature and human creativity.” – Pop Matters

Dear Nora There Is No Home File Under: Alt Rock/Alt Folk CD: MMK 37 (O)

Katy Davidson has been Dear Nora since the summer of 1999. Dear Nora, occasionally a full band, features a cast of rotating members.The band was born in Portland, and is currently based in San Francisco. Dear Nora has released two full-length albums and an EP on Magic Marker Records. There is No Home, Dear Nora’s newest–and final–release, is the follow-up to 2004’s Mountain Rock, an introspective, metaphorical odyssey through a mountainous wilderness. There Is No Home, which was recorded by Davidson in San Francisco between 2004 and 2006, is the delinquent cousin of Mountain Rock. It takes place in a landscape of modern ruins: empty lots full of broken glass, crusty California hills, and smoggy desert. In all the ways that Mountain Rock was about magic in nature, There Is No Home is about nature in ruin.Whereas Mountain Rock was stripped-down, simple, and acoustic, There Is No Home is often loud and raucous. Drawing from influences as diverse as the Roches and Alice Coltrane, Davidson’s style is, as always, heady, ethereal, awkward, beautiful, sarcastic, and kind.

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• Dear Nora’s final release • The band tours extensively with Mates of State; full U.S. tour in October/November 2006 • Full in-house press mailing and follow up • Full radio promotion through Vitriol Radio

Key Markets Hometown: San Francisco. Also: Portland, Los Angles, New York Also Available

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Track Listing The Dream Five • Nora in Berlin • My Friend and I (for Gretchen) • Defeated and Lonely • Emily • I’m an Outcast • What a Weird Cactus • The Flats of Irony • Frank, the Witchdoctor • Nora in Berlin II • The Freeway • (I Can’t Believe I Left) California • Solo Wanderer • The Call • I Know You

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Featured Artists Robin Amos – electronics Chris Fujiwara – bass Chris Guttmacher – drums, percussion Glenn Jones – guitars, bouzouki, contraption

Overview 1991: “The Year Punk Broke.” The smell of teen spirit was emanating out of the Pacific Northwest, from coast-to-coast the youth were proudly flyin’ the flannel, and the term “alternative” had firmly taken root in the rock critic lexicon. In Boston, however, guitarist Glenn Jones had a radically different agenda brewing. Drawing inspiration from sixties psychedelia, surf guitar, American and Middle Eastern folk music, Krautrock, and the more industrial elements of the avant-garde, Cul de Sac developed and honed this formula as an instrumental quartet. As it stands today, the band has long-since cemented their status as one of the leading lights of the avant rock underground. But it was the out-of-left-field splash they made in 1992 with their debut ECIM that started the whole undercurrent. Clearly, there was nothing like it at the time.Today, ECIM almost seems prophetic; its fully realized sound is certainly more in step with recent underground activity than it ever was previously. A crucial chapter in the development and actualization of the American avant rock underground, ECIM has been out of print for many years. Proudly resuscitated, the reissue of ECIM boasts an impeccable digital remastering job, beefed up with three previously unreleased tunes from the period and rounded out with archival photos and liner notes by Glenn Jones and Byron Coley. Features the Cul de Sac live staples “Death Kit Train” and “Nico’s Dream,” plus their original take on the Fahey classic “The Portland Cement Factory at Monolith, California” and guest appearances by the inimitable Dredd Foole.

Press Quotes “Phenomenal debut … Cul de Sac navigate this realm like enlightened nomads.” – Spin “There’s a group called Cul de Sac–very ambient, very cool.” – Lou Reed in Mojo

Selling Points • Multiple tours, collaborations, and recordings with legendary musicians John Fahey and Damo Suzuki (CAN); a soundtrack for cult filmmaker Roger Corman; nine albums and countless singles have brought rapturous testimonies to bear from critics and fans alike • Recently played Terrastock 6 in Providence, RI (Bardo Pond, Ghost, Damon & Naomi) • Featured on the recent John Fahey tribute I Am the Resurrection (featuring Calexico, Sufjan Stevens, Lee Renaldo, and more), with an alternate live-in-the-studio take of “The Portland Cement Factory of Monolith, California” originally found on ECIM • Guitarist Glenn Jones is very visible in the burgeoning interest of John Fahey’s legacy, having penned liner notes for many of his releases and reissues, and is chief in curating the forthcoming 5XCD box set to be released on Revenant • Promotional campaign by Forcefield PR (Sufjan Stevens, Aerial Pink); full radio mailing by AAM • Ads will run in Arthur,The Wire, Signal to Noise, and Pitchfork; NAIL-branded co-op ads in Magnet and DIW

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

Track Listing Death Kit Train • The Moon Scolds the Morning Star • Stranger at Coney Island • Homunculus • The Portland Cement Factory at Monolith, California • Nico’s Dream • The Invisible Worm • Song to the Siren • Electar • Lauren’s Blues Also Available

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Featured Artists Steffen Basho-Junghans – acoustic six & twelve steel string guitars

Overview By every account, Steffen Basho-Junghans is a true master of the acoustic steel string guitar. As a player, composer, scholar, teacher and trailblazer, no living player has a resume as vast as he, nor has anyone so bravely and diligently challenged the tradition by pushing it radically forward. Over the course of nearly thirty years, Basho-Junghans has released fourteen albums, founded festivals, taught seminars, and claims the most thorough archives on the planet of his mentor, the late Robbie Basho.Through it all, Basho-Junghans has secured his own distinct language, one that often speaks many dialects but is anchored in a clear vision of his own design. Multiple streams of singing steel have flowed across many landscapes, but with Late Summer Morning, Basho-Junghans guides a confluence of them all into one glimmering, gorgeous river of sound. Much in the vein of his pastoral epic Rivers and Bridges, Steffen Basho-Junghans harkens back to the heyday of American Primitive guitar as defined by Robbie Basho and John Fahey circa Fare Forward Voyagers.The title track is an unabashedly beautiful extended composition for twelve-string guitar, stretching out languidly and effortlessly like a morning raga saturated in crisp, warming hues.Themes of tone and minimalism are to be found, while glistening guitar lines wrap into circular patterns to create lovely trance-inducing color wheels. Basho-Junghans’ ability to strike out into the unknown while keeping the sounds and tones grounded sets Late Summer Morning apart, something that is evident as multiple sound forms hit the ear with calming bliss. American folk and classical, East Indian Raga, Native American linearity, the resonance of Middle Eastern folk, and melodic Minimalism (i.e. Steve Reich) meld together in a fashion that is tremendously cinematic and vivid. Basho-Junghans has tethered his elaborate language into a pristine wedding of sound, resulting in what surely is the most actualized summation of his musical quest to date.

Press Quotes “Junghans’ solo acoustic pieces, written for both six and twelve-stringed instruments, are nothing if not deeply bound to the earth. He’s so sure-fingered on the fretboard that it frequently sounds like there are two or three people picking away at the steel string, but it’s always just him and his craft, which by this point he’s completely mastered … solo acoustic music doesn’t get much better than this.” – Pitchfork “[Steffen Basho-Junghans] works his newly discovered modes and styles into a convincing and highly personal vocabulary.” – The Wire

Selling Points • One of the four guitarists featured on the widely acclaimed Wooden Guitar compilation on Locust Music, with Sir Richard Bishop, Jack Rose, and Tetuzi Akiyama • Impressive press and features in The Wire, Foxy Digitalis, Pitchfork, Signal to Noise, and more • RIYL: Robbie Basho, Jack Rose, Tetuzi Akiyama, John Fahey, James Blackshaw, Imaginational Anthem Vol. 1 & 2 • Press campaign spearheaded by Howlin’ Weulf Media; radio mailing by AAM Sunday Service • Ads will run in Arthur,The Wire, Signal to Noise, Pitchfork, and more

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

Track Listing Late Summer Morning • In a Secret Garden • Woodland Orchestra • Sky Dreamer’s Gold • Azure No. 3 • Northern Winds Also Available

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RCLsinger 17 (O)of The Ziggens, Bert Susanka has finally recorded his first After over fifteen yearsCD: as lead solo album. Onward Christian Slater has been a dream album for Susanka over the past year and a half. By taking his time and doing things his way, he was able to make an album that showed off his diverse writing styles, genre-busting song structures, and pain-numbing guitar riffs. Such a departure from a typical Ziggens release, Onward tackles song topics that vary from heartbreak and inadequacy to life’s daily struggles and daily departures. Of course, there’s a surf song or two, but since Susanka is a Ziggen at heart that’s not surprising. Hear for yourself why he’s been heralded as an amazing singer/ songwriter and why he’s so proud of this release.

The BertFramed Susanka Countless Ways of Slater SelfOnward Christian Destruction File Under: Alt Rock

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• First-ever Bert Susanka solo album is a personal release that differs greatly from most Ziggens albums • Bert Susanka and multi-platinum band Sublime started Skunk Records in 1990 CD: RCL 17 (O) • The Ziggens’ career spans over sixteen years and nine albums NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA • Cornerstone RAS core street teams in key markets nationwide • Pitching a feature/cover article to OC Weekly Title Delayed • Ads will run in Pitchfork, Mean Street, Surfing, Eastern Surf, OC Weekly, and various other New Street: February 2007 Overview regional publications The Framed, hailing from Minneapolis, bring a breath of fresh air to fashion-minded punk.The boys in The Framed are here to play music, not discuss hairstyling tips.To that end, they have focused on writing songs for their debut album on Reality Clash. 11 original, catchy tunes Key Markets written to evoke the ghosts of past punk à la Generation X, early Distortion and Swingin’ UttersCounty, will certainly have you listening Hometown: Long Beach. Also:Social Huntington Beach, Losthe Angeles, Orange San Francisco, to this album over and over. DrawingSacramento, several hundred show,The Framed show noYork, signsBoston, of letting up.This is not a band to beSeattle taken Also Available Chico,kids Sanper Diego, Phoenix, Denver, New Philadelphia,Washington DC, lightly. File Punk CD:Under: CRS 56 (O)

The Ziggens Track Listing The Ziggens Selling Points Onward Christian Slater • Surfin All the Time • So Many Tears • I’m Goin’ Fishin’ • Livin Check To CD: CRS 29 (L)

• Have been compared to Generation X, Social and Swingin’ Check • TheDistortion Trip That Needed To BeUtters Took • You Cannot Count On Me • The Vicissitudes of Life • They • #1 song on Radio K (Minneapolis) for two weeks running Don’t Want Me In the NBA • I’m In Love • When All the Beer is Gone • I Am So Sorry • Let’s Go NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA • Have shared stages with Street Dogs, Lower Class Brats, Lewis & The Licks, Soviettes and more Fishing • The River andJuliette the Tree • Print promotion via postcards, posters and flyers • College radio service • Ads will run in Razorcake, Amp and Pulse Overview • KEYhair–amazing.The MARKETS: Minneapolis (Hometown). Also: Los Angeles, San Diego, New York, “The new wave aesthetics–genius.The music–unstoppable.When are they moving Boston and St. Louis to Chicago, New York?” – Yoko Ono

Track Listing Scream Club is the queer-electro-sex-hop-hip-pop-punk-rock-rap duo hailing from Olympia, Disposition of Desperation • Airwaves • TheWonderful Way It Is • Run Bottles • From the Ashes Washington. Over the last few years, Cindy and Away Sarah• Whiskey Adorable have been slowly of thethe Underground • Rock’n’Rolltwo Rip-Off Sun Never Setsevery • Theinch LastofKiss • Battle taking world by storm.These have •songs to touch your• Bleed heart, Us andDry all the right Songs on • Vengeance places your body.With influences from literally every music genre and a love for pop music evident in their sound, you can’t help but have fun as you watch them on stage.With three European tours and numerous U.S. tours under their belts, Scream Club has developed a cult following around the world.Their new album, Life of a Heartbreaker, features esteemed guests like Peaches, AWOL One, and Busdriver, and promises to satisfy even the most demanding music snobs. Selling Points • • • •

Guest vocalists include Peaches, Busdriver, Existereo, AWOL One, and Nicky Click Production from Daddy Kev, Paris Zax, Omid, edIT, and more Radio service to Top 100 CMJ hip-hop reporters Publicity mailing to over one hundred mainstream press outlets and independent journalists

Key Markets Hometown: Olympia. Also: Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, San Diego, Phoenix,Tucson, Denver

Track Listing Life of a Heartbreaker feat. Electrosexual • You Make Me Smile feat. Nicky Click • I’m Going Crazy • Drunk • Fine as Fuck (Joey Casio Remix) feat. Peaches • You Fucked Up • Protege (Genuine Guy Remix) feat. Nicky Click • International • How Bad feat. Nicky Click • Intoxicating feat. Busdriver, Existereo, Life Rexall & AWOL One • On My Mind feat. Tender Forever & The Seamstress • Fine as Fuck (Ben Adorable Goth Disco Remix) feat. Peaches

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Featured Artists Bizzart – vocals, electronics, percussion, tapes Chris Schlarb – electric and acoustic guitar, electronics, percussion, keyboard Tom Steck – acoustic drums Demon Slayer – electronics AWOL One – vocals Fourever – vocals Yarah Bravo – vocals Dulok Shaman – vocals Justin Vollmar – acoustic guitar, vocals

Overview Between 2003’s Ear Drung and 2006’s Bloodshot Mama, Bizzart has become something altogether new. A spoken word artist turned MC turned abscratch expressionist, Bizzart now resides in a circuit-bent performance art-hop space that none before him have occupied. A reformed poet who has lost faith in words alone, Bizzart has tucked Alkalyne’s boom bap into bed with Accident’s live noise improvisations, and together they dream of childhood and pray to a sometimes distant God.

Press Quotes “On Ear Drung, Bizzart and producer Accident weave jazz, hip-hop, trip-hop, glitch, spoken word, and about a dozen other styles … who knows what to call this, except fucking good.” – XLR8R “[An] honest arrangement of a passionate artist’s deeply personal work.” – Metro.Pop “It’s compelling enough to listen to Ear Drung as primarily the work of a producer, but Bizzart is a capable MC, sounding like a Bay Area transplant, his style falling somewhere directly between the Hieroglyphics and Anticon camps.” – LA Alternative Press “A unique, label-defying album … Bizzart’s preference to offer substance rather than ironic plasticity alone makes this record a rare find and worthwhile listen.” – Rockpile

Selling Points • First full-length album since 2003’s critically acclaimed Ear Drung • Produced by Alkalyne and Accident • Features guest appearances from AWOL One, Yarah Bravo, and I Heart Lung • Full U.S. tour in support of album • Press promotion by Force Field PR • Radio promotion by Sleepless PR • Ads will run in Arthur, Signal to Noise, XLR8R, and The Drama • Massive stickering and street team promotions • Audio/visual trailer directed by Adriana L. Schlarb • Art gallery installation and album release events scheduled

Key Markets Hometown: Los Angeles. Also: Seattle, Portland, New York, St. Louis, Rochester

Track Listing Suicide Bomber’s Parade • Stumbling Blocks • Drifter • Shark Skin Humans • Liquid Beast • Dreams of Sparrows • Bloodshot Mama • Mount Washington Blue and Red • Blank Forest Also Available

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Discount through StreetDate Overview The Framed Ways Self- from hundreds of hours of Conrad Schnitzler’s Trigger Trilogy consists ofCountless three discs, each of selected private recordings. EachDestruction represents one of the unique approaches that he takes to recording, each FileSchnitzler. Under: Punk identified and defined by Trigger One consists of what Schnitzler calls his Solo Voices or Solo CD: RCL 17 (O) Electronics, Trigger Two is what he refers to as Free Concert Mix Solos, and Trigger Three is a Con-Cert. Within each of these recordings one can hear how Schnitzler influenced a generation of artists not only in Germany but also around the world, and how he’s brought those sounds into the modern day. It’s also apparent that Schnitzler is thoughtful and enlightened, a total pioneer floating freely in a world of sound.

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The Framed Conrad Schnitzler Countless Ways of SelfTrigger Trilogy Destruction File Under: Avant Rock/ File Under: Punk Experimental

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• Trigger Trilogy is a 3XCD box set limited to 1,000 copies • A comprehensive look at this dynamic and highly influential legendary figure • Conrad Schnitzler helped shape the sound of Tangerine Dream as well as his own groups Kluster and Eruption • Though often overlooked because of his reclusiveness, Schnitzler is an absolute Krautrock legend • Press mailing by Important Records • Ads will run in The Wire

Key Markets Boston, Los Angeles, New York

The Framed, hailing from Minneapolis, bring a breath of fresh air to fashion-minded punk.The boys in The Framed are Listing here to play music, Track not discuss hairstyling tips.To that end, they have focused on writing songs for their debut album on Trigger One: 5:07 • 3:25 • 3:34 5:17 •the 3:24 • 4:06of• past 3:12punk • 3:45à •la3:42 • 5:29 • X, 3:21 • 5:07 • 5:32 • 5:31 Reality Clash. 11 original, catchy tunes written to •evoke ghosts Generation early Social Distortion Triggerwill Two: 7:54 • 2:08 1:44listening • 3:56 •to 3:47 3:13 • over 3:30 •and 3:10 • 3:33 • 3:21several • 3:46 •hundred 3:05 • 1:52 2:21 • and the Swingin’ Utters certainly have•you this• album over. Drawing kids •per 2:16 •no 2:27 • 3:35 • 4:32up.This is not a band to be taken lightly. show,The Framed show signs of letting Trigger Three: 4:07 • 3:54 • 3:23 • 3:29 • 3:31 • 3:33 • 3:25 • 4:05 • 3:49 • 3:36 • 3:24 • 3:37 • 3:36 • 4:06 3:32 • 3:58 Selling • Points

• Have been compared to Generation X, Social Distortion and Swingin’ Utters • #1 song on Radio K (Minneapolis) for two weeks running • Have shared stages with Street Dogs, Lower Class Brats, Juliette Lewis & The Licks, Overview Soviettes and more “Striking … a modernist polygot.” – The Wire • Print promotion via postcards, posters and flyers • College radio service Conrad Schnitzler is a genuine legend in the Krautrock and electronic music worlds. He studied • Ads will run in Razorcake, Amp and Pulse under Joseph Beuys before joining an early Tangerine Dream.Their first album, Electronic • KEY MARKETS: Minneapolis (Hometown). Also: Los Angeles, San Diego, New York, Meditation, shows a band highly influenced by Schnitzler’s unique, singular approach. Schnitzler left Chicago, Boston and St. Louis Tangerine Dream to form Kluster with friends Dieter Moebius and Hans Joachim Roedelius. When he left Kluster, the band changed their name to Cluster, eventually merging with Michael Track Listing Rother (of Neu!) to form Harmonia 76, a group Brian Eno once called the most important rock Disposition of Desperation • Airwaves • The Way It Is • Run Away • Whiskey Bottles • From the Ashes group on the planet. Schnitzler also founded Eruption in 1970 with Klaus Schultz, Manuel of the Underground • Rock’n’Roll Rip-Off • Sun Never Sets • The Last Kiss • Bleed Us Dry • Battle Gottsching (Ash Ra Tempel), and Klaus Freudigmann. Looking back at his career, it becomes Songs • Vengeance obvious that Schnitzler was an architect who helped draw the blueprints for some very significant Conrad Schnitzler musical movements. Perhaps overlooked, or at least desperately under-appreciated, but it hasn’t Klavierhelm slowed Schnitzler down. Since leaving Kluster, he has composed diligently for electronics and piano. File Under: Avant Rock/ The piano is certainly an instrument with which Conrad Schnitzler is not often associated. However, his compositions on Klavierhelm exhibit his highly expressive and free approach to the piano, Experimental CD: IPT 113 (O) calling to mind Erik Satie, John Cage, Cecil Taylor, and even Carl Stalling. Limited edition of 1,000. Cover design by Conrad Schnitzler.

Selling Points • Klavierhelm is a rare glimpse at Conrad Schnitzler’s work on the piano, an instrument with which he is seldom associated • Schnitzler helped shape the sound of Tangerine Dream as well as his own groups Kluster and Eruption • Though often overlooked because of his reclusiveness, Schnitzler is an absolute Krautrock legend • Press mailing by Important Records • Ads will run in The Wire

Key Markets Boston, Los Angeles, New York

Track Listing 5:55 • 4:43 • 6:19 • 4:42 • 4:37 • 4:26 • 7:13 • 6:15 • 7:15 • 8:14

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Overview “Sounds like listening to the depths of the earth, where cities of dark sounds are being painfully constructed.” – Brainwashed Hototogisu is Matthew Bower (Skullflower/Sunroof!) and Marcia Bassett (Double Leopards).They’ve been laying down billowing sheets of tectonic guitar drone-noise since 2003, with the thickest possible helpings of vocals and electronics. Some Blood Will Stick is a collection of tracks from their ultra-limited self-produced label Heavy Blossom. Songs were taken from Swoon Scream (2004) and Awful Symmetry (2005), with one additional track.What makes this disc more than a simple re-release is the extraordinary re-editing by Matthew Bower and the crushing, invigorating mastering by Scott Hull at Visceral Sound, making this one of the heaviest and most beautiful Hototogisu releases yet.

Hototgisu Some Blood Will Stick

Selling Points • Matthew Bower is the main member of both Skullflower and Sunroof! • Marcia Bassett is a member of both Un and Double Leopards • Both members of Hototogisu are highly regarded in the international noise/drone underground • RIYL: Sunroof!, Double Leopards, Skullflower, Wolf Eyes • International radio and press mailing • Ads will run in The Wire

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

Track Listing Part I • Part II • Part III • Part IV • Part V

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Overview “[Swan Island] mixes dark, jangly melodies and striking guitar sounds, creating a sonic place to dance the apocalypse away.” – San Francisco Bay Guardian 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’s made their live shows legendary, resulting in a confident opening statement with soul and style to spare.

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• Will tour with The Gossip for two weeks in September 2006 • Named one of Portland’s Top Three Best New Bands by 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) • Full college radio campaign by SPECTRE Entertainment Group (Built To Spill, Ladytron) • Ads will run in Venus, Bust, and Pitchfork

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

Track Listing PREVIOUS STREET DATE 9.12.06

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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Featured Artists Alela Diane, vocals, guitars/Marie Sioux, vocals/Tom Menig, vocals, claps, slide guitar/Jeff Thorsby, vocals/Art Echternacht, bass/Miranda Menig, vocals/Kaleb Wilbourne, vocals/Lindsay Clark, piano/Matt Gottschalk, vocals, banjo/Ryan Schwartz, vocals, mandolin

Overview Holocene Music is honored to present the debut release from stunningly talented singer and songwriter Alela Diane. Hailing from the deep woods and winding rivers of Northern California gold-rush town Nevada City, Diane grew up singing songs with her parents (both musicians) and performing in the school choir. In 2003 she began teaching herself guitar and writing her first songs, blending tense, trancelike arpeggios with warm, thick vocals and meditative lyrics about family and nature. These soon caught the attention of friend and fellow Nevada City native Joanna Newsom, who in turn persuaded Diane to play her first live show.The songs on The Pirate’s Gospel were written during a trip to Europe and recorded in her father’s studio in Nevada City. Originally available only in hand-stitched limited runs, this pressing marks the first time The Pirate’s Gospel has been made available to stores.

Press Quotes “[A] promising artist.” – New York Times “Alela Diane sings folk songs about big-bellied whales and rocky ground and tatted lace. Her new record is The Pirate’s Gospel, a handmade, fifteen-track thing brimming with kiddy choirs, banjo, bare harp-like acoustic guitar, and Diane’s big, echoing voice, which fills up a room.” – Portland Mercury “Alela Diane’s soulful folk tunes are so beautiful they hurt … enjoy it while you can, because there isn’t a shadow of a doubt that this talented lady is truly a big fish in a small pond, and it’s gonna take an ocean to hold the massive amount of heart found in her music.” – Willamette Week

Selling Points • National tour throughout October booked by Leafy Green (Devendra Banhart) • Colin Meloy (The Decemberists) recently asked Diane to duet on a forthcoming track • Notable fans include Joanna Newsom, Colin Meloy (The Decemberists), Chris Walla (Death Cab for Cutie), and Will Oldham • Featured on the next Yeti compilation, with Destroyer and more • Full national and tour press campaign by Matt Wright PR (Gang of Four) • Full college radio campaign by SPECTRE Entertainment Group (Built to Spill) • Ads will run in Arthur,Yeti, and Pitchfork

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

Track Listing My Tired Feet • The Rifle • The Pirate’s Gospel • Foreign Tongue • Can You Blame The Sky • Something’s Gone Awry • Pieces of String • Clickity Clack • Sister Self • Pigeon Song • Oh! Mama

STREET DATE OCTOBER 24, 2006

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Featured Artists Jibz Cameron – all instruments

Overview Dynasty Handbag is the one-woman music/comedy/performance/meltdown/portable electro-ballad vehicle of Jibz Cameron. Cameron is originally from Northern California, and is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute. She lived in the Bay Area for many years, performing as Dynasty Handbag and with rock bands Dynasty and The Roofies in addition to acting in various theater productions and independent films. In 2004 she relocated to New York, and within five months she was crowned Miss Lower East Side, speedily launching her into the glamorous downtown performance scene. On stage, Cameron performs with a backing track containing original songs and dialogues of her deranged yet sensitive exploration of personal psychic waste. She is, among other things, a celebrity death car carrying passengers Kool Mo Dee, Yoko Ono, Joan Collins, and Suicide in the trunk. Foo Foo Yik Yik is Dynasty Handbag’s first release on Lovepump United.

Press Quotes “Dynasty Handbag is an irrepressible one-woman show that’s equal parts performance art, high-drama laptop pop, and karaoke run gloriously amok.” – Time Out New York “She is a freakin’ crackpot genius.” – Village Voice “Extremely disturbing and surprisingly familiar.” – Ilene Chaiken, Executive Producer, The L Word

Selling Points • Jibz Cameron has played in Bay Area bands The Roofies and Dynasty (Tigerbeat6) with members of Numbers • Named Miss Lower East Side in 2004 • Has played extensively with Xiu Xiu, Erase Errata, and Numbers • Full U.S. tour in Fall 2006 • Crazed electro pop comparable to everyone from Le Tigre and Sleater-Kinney to Magnetic Fields and Suicide • Full publicity run by Blueghost (The Locust, Yeah Yeah Yeahs) • AAM Sunday Service will handle radio promotion • Ads will run in Pitchfork, Skyscraper, and Insound

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

Track Listing In My Dreams • Break Up Day • I Can’t Wait • Fading Away • What’s Going To Happen? • I’m Afraid! • Life Would Be Easier If We Didn’t Have Feelings • Chinese Immigrant • Oh Baby • Open Up and Bleed • Your Smile • Memories

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Under: Punk variousness of Buckley’sFilevoice–its range, its blues-meets-jazz-meets-wild-man-make-it-up-as-you-goCD: RCL 17 (O) along ravings and stylings.Think early Patti Smith or Van Morrison in their heydays, but even more challenging and ‘experimental.’” – Pop Matters

The Tim Framed Buckley Countless Ways of SelfHappy Sad Destruction File Under: Alt Rock File Under:145 Punk(T) LP: FMN

Tim Buckley was a member of the mid-sixties Southern California band The Bohemians, who came to the attention of Elektra Records honcho Jac Holzman. Rather than inking the band, Holzman singled out the talented Buckley and signed him as a solo artist. Buckley’s 1966 self-titled debut showcased his expressive, multi-faceted, multi-octave voice.While his first album was pure folkrock with psychedelic tinges, his later work moved to the outside with the addition of jazz and avantgarde elements, and gained him a cult audience that has grown considerably since his death in 1975. One of the best albums of the late sixties, and Tim Buckley’s most underrated release, Happy Sad was a change-up pitch for the eclectic L.A. singer/songwriter. Sounding like Fred Neil’s Capitol-era albums, Buckley and his small, acoustic-based ensemble create beautiful, jazz-tinged folk-rock.

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• First time on 180-gram vinyl • Unavailable on vinyl for many years • Features original artwork Overview • Audiophile pressing The Framed, hailing from Minneapolis, bring a breath of fresh air to fashion-minded punk.The boys in The Framed are here to play music, not discuss hairstyling tips.To that end, they have focused on writing songs for Track Listing their debut album on Reality Clash. 11 original, catchy tunes written to evoke the ghosts of past punk à la • Buzzin’ fromhave Room at thetoIslander (On over Pacific Coast • Generation X, early Social DistortionStrange and theFeelin’ Swingin’ UttersFly will• Love certainly you109 listening this album and over.Highway) Drawing several hundred kids per show,The Framed Dream show noLetter signs •ofGypsy lettingWoman up.This• isSing nota aSong bandfor toYou be taken lightly.

Selling Points • Have been compared to Generation X, Social Distortion and Swingin’ Utters • #1 song on Radio K (Minneapolis) for two weeks running • Have shared stages with Street Dogs, Lower Class Brats, Juliette Lewis & The Licks, 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). Angeles, San Diego,nine New York, in nine years, all “When he died in 1975 of a heroin overdose,Also: TimLos Buckley left behind albums Boston and St. Louis of Chicago, them commercial duds.Yet it’s possible to trace a straight line from Buckley’s soul-excavating excursions through the work of Patti Smith, U2, Radiohead, and his own estranged son, the late Track Jeff Buckley …Listing at his most riveting in less grandiose settings [that showcase] the joyous elasticity of Disposition of range.” Desperation • Airwaves his four-octave – Rolling Stone • The Way It Is • Run Away • Whiskey Bottles • From the Ashes of the Underground • Rock’n’Roll Rip-Off • Sun Never Sets • The Last Kiss • Bleed Us Dry • Battle Songs Vengeance One of•the best rock vocalists of the sixties, Tim Buckley used influences from folk, psychedelic rock, and progressive jazz to create an exploratory body of work in his brief lifetime. His vocal range was capable of astounding power and expressiveness, and his eclecticism was rampant: by the time his fans got their hands on his latest release, he was already onto something else. Now, Lorca, Tim Buckley’s 1970 Elektra album, is once again available on vinyl! Continuing his jazz explorations, with Tim Buckley Lorca Buckley created the most “out” album of his career. The 5/4 time signature title track is Lorca strikingly weird, and two faster-paced numbers–the contemplative love song “I Had a Talk with My File Under: Alt Rock Woman” and the funky, blues-based “Nobody Walkin’”–are even fun.The band features Lee LP: FMN 146 (T) Underwood, John Balkin (bass, haunted house pipe organ on “Lorca”), and Carter Collins (congas).

Selling Points • First time on 180-gram vinyl • Unavailable on vinyl for many years • Features original artwork • Audiophile pressing

Track Listing Lorca • Anonymous Proposition • I Had a Talk With My Woman • Driftin’ • Nobody Walkin’

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Overview “Night after night, in the studio and onstage, Wilson Pickett made good on his claims. His music–soul music–as practiced from the mid-to late sixties, drew its power from the live moment. He marauded a stage like a panther, clawing the air, slinking in and out of the light, screaming, gold lamé leather melded to his thighs, shirt hanging open, sweat pouring down his chest.” – Rolling Stone “Wicked” Wilson Pickett is best known for his giant sixties hit “In the Midnight Hour.” Pickett’s southern soul epitomized the sound coming out of Memphis in the mid-sixties, where he was sent by Atlantic Records to record with the Stax crew (Steve Cropper, Donald “Duck” Dunn, Al Jackson, Jr., Spooner Oldham, et al). Pickett had a long career that spanned from the very early sixties until his recent death, but none of his work is as well known as the tracks included on The Exciting Wilson Pickett.This second album from Wilson Pickett, originally released on Atlantic in 1966, contains the hits “In the Midnight Hour,” “Ninety Nine and a Half (Won’t Do), “Land of 1000 Dances,” and “634-5789.”

Wilson Pickett The Exciting Wilson Pickett

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File Under: Soul/R&B LP: FMN 144 (T)

• First time on 180-gram vinyl • Unavailable on vinyl for many years • Features original artwork • Audiophile pressing

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Track Listing Land of 1000 Dances • Something You Got • 634-5789 (Soulsville, U.S.A.) • Barefootin’ • Mercy Mercy • You’re So Fine • In the Midnight Hour • Ninety-Nine and a Half (Won’t Do) • Danger Zone • I’m Drifting • It’s All Over • She’s So Good to Me

Overview “Bill Laswell and Jah Wobble first recorded under the name Divination in the early nineties, issuing Ambient Dub Volumes 1 and 2 in 1993 and 1994.These were extended forays into the spaciest, most psychedelic regions of ambient music, marked by the hypnotic drone of the musicians’ twin basses, gentle dub effects, and subtle ethnic music embellishments.” – Epitonic Bill Laswell & Jah Wobble alter our present state by reinventing a past that’s derived from the future. By combining elements of drum ‘n’ bass, mutant hip-hop, dub, harmolodic fusion, new jazz, world, and out-of-this-world music, the duo expands the potential of our musical experience. Ambient Dub Volume II veers from weightlessly abstract ambience to quasi-dub rhythmic fluctuations and all-out ethno-techno-funk–an irresistible experiment in extreme ambient dub!

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Selling Points • RIYL: Banco de Gaia, Eat Static, Pete Namlook, Deep Space Network • Bill Laswell has collaborated with some of the most illustrious names in music across all genres and boundaries, including Herbie Hancock, Mick Jagger, Laurie Anderson, Pharoah Sanders, Yoko Ono, Iggy Pop, The Last Poets, Buddy Miles, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, Afrika Bambaataa, Tony Williams, Peter Gabriel, and countless others • Divination was one of a number of Bill Laswell’s ambient projects in the early nineties, featuring dub-derived bass lines and beats • A linchpin of the NYC underground music scene, Laswell has been featured in and/or interviewed by Magnet, All About Jazz, VH-1, and more • Service to college & satellite radio

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Track Listing Dead Slow • Baraka • Silent Fields • Evil Eye • Dream Light • Journeys

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9/16/06

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9/16/06

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