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NEW RELEASES FEBRUARY 2007 STREET DATES 2-13-07 & 2-27-07

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A DIVISION OF ALLEGRO CORPORATION

INSIDE:

The High Strung pg2 • The Eternals pg3 • William Parker/Hamid Drake pg 4 • The Dark Romantics pg5 Trulio Disgracias pg6 • Quit Your Dayjob pg7 • Slow January – New Label! pg8 • Henry Grimes/Perry Robinson/Tom Price pg 10 Dr. Dog pg14-15 • Baikal pg16 • The Vanishing Voice pg16 • V/A: Sucking the 70’s pg20

The High Strung Moxie Bravo Genre: Alt Rock Label: Park the Van CD: PTV 13 Price Code: N

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Josh Malerman: vocals, guitar Derek Berk: drums Chad Stocker: bass

Moxie Bravo is a sneaky album. If it were playing in the background, or blasting at a bar, a listener might mistake its energy and bombastic sound for one hell of a party record. But if that listener were to allow his ears to fasten onto the songs, he would discover that The High Strung is onto something wholly unique.

The High Strung is not garage. The members do not have a bluesy bone in their bodies, and Moxie Bravo reflects that. Josh Malerman, the band’s singer and writer, alternates his lyrics between Lewis Carroll-ish character sketches and songs about sexual triumphs. Musically, the band is clearly led by their rhythm section. Chad Stocker plays a lead bass, and Derek Berk matches him.

But The High Strung are a “songs first” band, and it is impossible to form an opinion about them without considering their subject matter.

Malerman’s lyrics sound more like an eerie children’s novel than they do the traditional canon of be-my-girl rock ‘n’ roll. And for this, and for the sheer originality of their arrangements, Moxie Bravo is something to be experienced rather than felt.

Press Quotes “A masterpiece.” – Bob Pollard, Guided By Voices “Motown, Iggy Pop, Eminem–now Detroit has given us The High Strung. And we’re better for it.”– KEXP “The New Wave revival has produced its first acolytes who love life as much as it drives them crazy. Isn’t that why people write songs, anyway?” – Rolling Stone

Selling Points • Heralded as a “masterpiece” by Bob Pollard of Guided by Voices, this is the extended version of Moxie Bravo, including three unreleased songs. Never readily available to the masses until now!

• Review in Rolling Stone, full-page feature in Entertainment Weekly, and the Washington Post named “The Songbird” the second best song of the year.

• Three features have run on NPR. • Stuff named “Never Saw It As Union” as the song to download, ahead of Kanye West’s enormous hit “Gold Digger.”

• The High Strung tours it’s ass off, and has a great booking agent to help: Andrew Colvin at Ground Control Touring.

• MySpace street team campaign with banner posting, blogging, and nonstop bulletins.

• Advertising and tour marketing along tour routes.

• Ads will run in Magnet, DIW, Harp, Arthur, and Pitchfork.

Key Markets Hometown: Detroit. Also: New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, Los Angeles, Denver, Seattle, Portland, Milwaukee, St. Paul, Boston, Austin, Dallas, Atlanta, Durham/Raleigh, San Francisco, Baltimore, Orlando

Track Listing Never Saw It As Union • Truce • On Your Feet • A Real Meal Ticket • N Over C • You Can Hurry Up • Seems It’s One Thing • Here It Comes Again • Sit Up Straight • The Luck You Got • Deck the Boy with Mettle and Manhood • Anything Goes • The Gentleman • Last Night Was… • At the Same Time

STREET DATE FEBRUARY 13, 2007

The Eternals Heavy International Genre: Alt Rock Label: Aesthetics CD: AES 44 Price Code: M

2XLP: AES 44 Price Code: 2J

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Damon Locks: vocals, keyboards Wayne Montana: bass, keyboards Tim Mulvenna: drums, percussion

International sounds homogenize through twisted dirty avenues, where the high-rolling boom-box dub kings cruise tropical boulevards, tops down, stereos ablaze at twilight. This Chicago trio’s strange rawar style stretches the sonic palette like Reed Richards (Fantastic Four), whose creator Jack Kirby plays influence to vocalist Damon Locks’ intricately woven album covers depicting dark, rugged cityscapes.

The group’s third album ups the ante with all chips on the table. Diving deeper into uncharted waters, the musical monsoon continues to saturate the players’ diverse sounds in their own unique vision. The new “Chicago calling” is here, pulsating through the windy city’s turbulence. But why bother with labels? Play it loud, and ride fast.

Press Quotes “An eccentric, genre-defying sound.” – Chicago Reader “Dirty disco-punk, filthy dub reggae, and filthier funk.” – Grooves “N*E*R*D meets The Specials. A mission against political apathy.” – The Wire “Pre-digital dancehall and a patina of modern hip-hop.” – Seattle Weekly “Making art out of punk, jazz, soul, and dub.” – Magnet

Selling Points • Free sticker & poster included in each 2XLP; free sticker with each CD. • Have toured with Tortoise, Beans, Brokeback, and Califone.

• Have performed with or contributed to releases by Jeb Bishop, Smog, Vandermark 5, Fareed Haque, Via Tania, and Joan of Arc. • Past album was featured on two different NPR programs.

• Spring 2007 tours of North America, Europe, Brazil, and Japan.

• Live on-air performance & interview scheduled for Chicago NPR station.

• Press promotion by Biz3 Publicity.

• Full college radio mailing.

Key Markets Hometown: Chicago. Also: New York, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Montreal, Boston, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Detroit, Cleveland, Louisville

Track Listing The Mix Is So Bizarre • Astra 3B • Patch of Blue • Beware the Swordbat • Remove Ya • Feed the Youth (Stage a Coup) • Heavy International • Crime • The Origin of the Heatray • Too Many People (Do the Wrong Thing) • It Is Later Than You Think (Pt.1&2) • Scorpion • M.O.A.B. ALSO AVAILABLE

The Eternals

The Eternals

The Eternals

The Eternals

CDEP: AES 42 (I)

CD: AES 30 (M)

12”: AES 27 (G)

LP: AES 14 (N)

High Anxiety

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Rawar Style

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Black Museum

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The Eternals

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STREET DATE FEBRUARY 13, 2007

William Parker/Hamid Drake First Communion+Piercing the Veil (Volume 1 Complete) Genre: Jazz Label: AUM Fidelity 2XCD: AUM 3940 Price Code: 2J

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Featured Artists William Parker: bass, shakuhachi, slit drum, balafon, bombarde, dumbek Hamid Drake: drums, tabla, frame drum

Overview

William Parker and Hamid Drake have been called the best rhythm section in jazz today. Let’s go one step further and call them simply the best. Piercing the Veil was originally issued on AUM Fidelity in 2001 and gave rise to giant amounts of praise and attention. It has been out of print for far too long. So, in re-issuing it, AUM decided to up the ante. First Communion has never been issued and is an equally extraordinary recording of this duo in their first-ever meeting, two days before the studio session that gave rise to Piercing the Veil. The meeting took place in Brooklyn at AUM HQ to a rapt audience of eighty people. This is one of those rare moments where the Godhead was captured, and is being shared anew and afar. Volume 2: Summer Snow (their new studio recording) is coming in a few short months…

Press Quotes “These two high priests of free improvisation can rock ‘n’ roll with the best of ‘em. They come together to create sounds, images, and ideas that transcend time and place.” – All About Jazz “Displaying a full spectrum of sound, Piercing the Veil is a magical recording of two of the most soulful and spiritual voices in avant-garde jazz.

This album is nothing short of essential.” – Other Music “Parker and Drake visit under-explored territory here–the junction between the deepest riches of jazz and the many improvisatory traditions around the world that came before it.” – NPR “Piercing the Veil’s opening cut is pure dance music–the pair never lose the groove, but they crank it up and out, heading to a place where ecstasy supercedes intellect … a fascinating exploration of multiple sound worlds.” – Alternative Press

Selling Points • A stunning combination: the finally-back-in-print first studio recording Piercing the Veil plus the first-time issue of the duo’s massive first performance, First Communion.

• Beautiful 2XCD digipak.

• Full service/promotion to national press and e-media by AUM Fidelity.

• Full service/promotion to college, non-commercial, and NPR radio by AUM Fidelity.

• Ads will run in Signal to Noise, Stop Smiling, Arthur, Point of Departure, and more.

Key Markets Hometowns: New York, Chicago. Also: San Francisco, Portland, Austin, Houston, Seattle

Track Listing DISC ONE: Piercing the Veil: Black Cherry • Chatima • Heavenly Walk • Japeru • Nur al Anwar • Piercing the Veil • Loom Song • Chaung Tzu’s Dream • Bodies Die/Spirits Live DISC TWO: First Communion: First Communion I • First Communion II • First Communion III ALSO AVAILABLE

Organic Grooves

William Parker Quartet

William Parker Quartet

CD: AUM 21 (P)

CD: AUM 22 (P)

CD: AUM 34 (P)

Black Cherry

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O’Neal’s Porch

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Sound Unity

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The Dark Romantics Some Midnight Kissin’ Genre: Alt Rock Label: Lujo Records CD: LUJ 47 Price Code: I

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Featured Artists Eric Collins: guitar, vocals, bass, keyboards Dean Lorenz: guitar, bass, keyboards Carla Jones: bass Amanda Jones: keyboards Stephanie Salomon: percussion

Overview The voice and brains behind the bands Denison Marrs and The Party People, Eric Collins has combined what he learned from both projects with some of his favorite music to create The Dark Romantics, a darker, sexier, groovier sound with enough blues and twang mixed in that you can’t help but get down. With brother-in-law Dean Lorenz, who also did time as Denison Marrs’ drummer and lead guitar god of The Party People, The Dark Romantics recorded their debut out west with Jason Martin of Starflyer 59 behind the wheel.

Press Quotes “Like a mysterious temptress who savors the flickering half light of an underground club, Lakeland’s Dark Romantics revel in sexy rock and roll noir. The group’s producer, Jason Martin of the band Starflyer 59 … calls its sound ‘haunted house’ music, but that might suggest there isn’t anything there to bob your head to. In fact, the DR’s songs have plenty of simmering energy.” – The Ledger “The Dark Romantics combine their previous bands’ sounds–the Christian pop acts of Denison Marrs and the John Ralston Band– with the tastiness of ABBA, electronic influences from Jason Martin’s Starflyer 59, and even some melodic New Pornographers thrown in as well. The result is a darkly delicious indie sound with a dance backbone.” – Racketscan

Selling Points • Produced by Jason Martin of Starflyer 59.

• The Dark Romantics were formerly known as The Party People and Denison Marrs, the latter of which sold 70,000+ records.

• Features members of the John Ralston Band (Vagrant).

• Have toured with Copeland, Murder By Death, Discover America, and Unwed Sailor.

• Will tour for six to eight months in 2007 (booked by Noise Problem Booking Agency).

• Recently received a clothing line deal with Evil Needles.

• MTV play on Next and Pimp My Ride.

• Featured on CD compilations by Vice and Initium Eyeware.

• Featured music video on Insound.

• Ads will run in Vice, Under the Radar,Wonkavision, Arthur, Big Takeover, Skyscraper, Copper Press, Status, Modern Fix, Pitchfork, and more.

Key Markets Hometown: Orlando. Also: Tampa, Pensacola, Tallahassee, Miami, Dallas, Austin, New York, Seattle, Chicago

Track Listing So Confused • A Million Bucks • Another Song for Another Night • Of Loving Me • Hey Love • Where Do We Go From Here? • She’s A Fire • This is the Sound • Baby Boy…Bay Girl • I Gotta Feeling ALSO AVAILABLE

The Dark Romantics Another Song EP CDEP: LUJ 43 (E) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

STREET DATE FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Trulio Disgracias Nuttin’s Gonna Git’choo If U Don’t Look Out Genre: Rock/Funk Label: Nuttsactor 5 CD: NSF 6 Price Code: M

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Norwood Fisher: bass, vocals/James Grey: bass, drums, vocals/H.R., Vicky Calhoun, Neb Luv, Overton Loyd, Audra Nishita, Mark Cross, Bronx Style Bob, Donald D, Durga McBroom, Derek Breakfields: vocals/Mary Harris: drums, vocals/Lonnie Marshall: bass, vocals/John Steward: drums/ John Bigham: guitar, vocals/Dirty Walt: horns, vocals/Tracey “Spacey T” Singleton, Phil “Harmonic” Cheval, Byron West: guitars/Ravi: drums/Asdru, Ulysses, Crunchy, Fernando Pullum, I Timothy, Danny Moynahan, Tracey Wannomea: horns

Nuttin’s Gonna Git’choo If U Don’t Look Out is a massive sack of good-natured, danceable Nuttness designed to upgrade your listening experience in every aurally pleasurable manner imaginable. With Sun Ra, P. Funk, Grateful Dead, and Fela Kuti as inspirations, these musicians represent the outcome of funkin’ for many years.

Produced by the Nuttness Monster (Fishbone bassist and co-founder Norwood Fisher), these recordings sport an amazing amalgamation of musicians–members of legendary musical trailblazers including H.R. of Bad Brains/Soul Brains; Spacey T and John Bigham of Fishbone; Mark Cross and Audra Nishita of Weapon of Choice; Danny Moynahan and I Timothy of The Untouchables; Bronx Style Bob and Donald D of The Rhyme Syndicate; Asdru; Ulysses, and Crunchy of Ozomatli; Overton Loyd of P. Funk … the list goes on forever and a few years.

A legendary phenomenutt in it’s own right, Nuttin’s Gonna Git’choo introduces a mainly live occurrence to a brand new world. More than a super group and deeper than a jam band, this is the sound of dedication to something called Nuttin’. After twenty years of doin’ it for Nuttin’, this is only the beginning of something musically mystical and intrinsically earthy–from the guts, go on ahead and get a Nutt!

Press Quotes “In 1998 at the Roxy on Sunset, Trulio Disgracias gave one of the best shows in memory–it started with a marching band entering in costume from Sunset, and ended with a walk-on jam led new star-style by ... George Clinton ... good lord, people, Trulio is what we need, not Brand X and Boy Band Z.” – Hollywood Five 0

Selling Points • Features members of Fishbone, Spearhead, Weapon of Choice, Joe Strummer Band, The Coup, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Year of the Dragon, P. Funk, Rhyme Syndicate, Black Uhuru, Pink Floyd, The Untouchables, Bad Brains, Ozomatli, and many more!

• The musicians that have been a part of Trulio Disgracias number in the hundreds.

• Trulio Disgracias is an incredible live experience and plans to tour as much as possible.

• Two songs will be prominently featured in the upcoming film Have Love Will Travel.

• Cross promotion with the upcoming new Fishbone release in 2007.

• Ads will run in High Times and other drug culture zines.

Key Markets Hometown: Los Angeles. Also: San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, San Diego, Boulder, New Orleans, Chicago, Washington DC, New York, Austin, San Antonio, Salt Lake City, Phoenix, Atlanta, Tallahassee, Birmingham, Nashville, Miami, Detroit, Minneapolis

Track Listing Hoo N’Tha Fuck R U • Mo’ 2 Glo • Nutt Now • Much Love • Whole Lotta Love • Nuttin’ Sells Like Sex • Got Neb-Luv

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The Friendliest Psychosis of All CD: NSF 1 (J) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

STREET DATE FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Quit Your Dayjob Open Up, Coconut!

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Bad Taste Records CD: BTR 901 Price Code: N

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Jonass: guitar, vocals Marcass: synth Drumass: drums

A special US-only release featuring the best tracks from Quit Your Dayjob’s two previous efforts! The Quit Your Dayjob reform school has been on a pilgrim journey through Europe since their debut mini album was released into the world in 2004. The prisons around Europe opened their gates so that QYDJ’s crazy rock show could enlighten the lost souls and invite them to a new way of living. The newborn freaks were dubbed “asses” and took it upon themselves to spread the Freak Gospel to those who wished to step out of the boring cell of inhibitions and rightfully claim their rights to freak out...

Press Quotes “Man, this is brilliant, they are like the Kraftwerk of punk rock!” – Blag Dahlia, The Dwarves “Definitely check this out if you’d like to hear the B-52’s at warp speed, or Devo in a punk package, or if you just simply want to rock out to twenty-first century punked up new wave.” – PunkNews “Love The Fall but haven’t got the time to sit through one of their albums, never mind the whole months-consuming back catalogue?

Then this could be the record for you … this is one of the stoopidest, wildest trawls you can lay your hands on, all cheap bleeps, ruinous technobilly, and universal yargling, and, yes, that is as much fun as it sounds.” – PlayLouder

Selling Points • A special US-only release featuring the best tracks from Quit Your Dayjob’s two previous efforts!

• Toured the US with OK Go in November 2007 – all shows were sold out.

• Press and radio results have been incredible in Europe, and the band has toured across the continent both as headliners and with bands like The Hives, Juliette & The Licks, and Gogol Bordello.

• Full press mailing and radio campaign by Planetary Group.

• Heavy promotion online through MySpace, Buzznet, and more.

Track Listing The Freaks Are Out • Vlado Video • Wasted • Sperms Are Germs • Coconut • Evil Ray • Look! A Dollar • Man Power • Erase My Face • I Need a Tourguide for My Own Head • Sweden We Got a Problem • Pissing on a Panda • Pigs from Hell

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Quit Your Dayjob Quit Your Dayjob CD: BTR 86 (J) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

STREET DATE FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Nail welcomes Slow january records to its roster Slow January was founded in 2003 by Christopher Sapone following a freak accident on the streets of Los Angeles. After much rehabilitation, Sapone went on to Portland to make a home for Slow January. The current roster includes Alan Singley & Pants Machine, The New Lows, Summerbirds in the Cellar, and Rob Schrab.

Overview “Rambunctious pop in a post-Sufjan world … for a closer approximation, try Ben Kweller or Ben Lee admiring the Architecture in Helsinki, or serving as the foundation of Tilly’s Wall. Look out, Portland: this band could wear the pants in your pop town.” – Portland Mercury

Alan Singley & Pants Machine LovingKindness Genre: Alt Rock Label: Slow January CD: JAN 105 Price Code: J NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

In a musical climate hooked on irony, cynicism, and superficiality, Alan Singley & Pants Machine are a refreshing change. Their latest, LovingKindness, is their most bravely optimistic album to date. Previously, Singley was in Orlando playing under the moniker Missouri Loves Company. Stepping down as frontman, he also added keyboards to Pilots Vs. Aeroplanes, a band that toured nationally in 2003. PVA played five dates on the Warped Tour and released Our Desire is Wind and Motor on Good Bye Blue Skies Records in 2000.

Selling Points • National radio promotion through SPECTRE Entertainment Group.

• National publicity targeting CMJ, Pitchfork, Spin, Paste, Harp, blogs, and more.

• Voted # 7 in Willamette Week’s Top 10 New Bands in Portland.

Key Markets Hometown: Portland. Also: Austin, Seattle, Chicago, San Francisco, Orlando, Gainesville, New York, Baltimore, Omaha, Boston

“Here comes the chorus, here comes the western poetry, here comes greatness … spectacular and from out of nowhere.” —WBAI FM Summerbirds in the Cellar’s debut has garnered a wide array of comparisons to REM, Clinic, and Depeche Mode, called “genuinely astounding” by the Orlando Citybeat. The architecture is complex, the impression is abstract, and though not spacey, there is a certain otherworldliness about their music.

When not on the road themselves, two of the Summerbirds (Brad Register and Curtis Brown) can be seen on tour as backing musicians for Now It’s Overhead (Saddle Creek Records).

Selling Points • Two members also play in Saddle Creek band Now It’s Overhead.

• Recorded by Andy Lemaster (Now It’s Overhead, Bright Eyes) at Chase Park Transduction.

• Guest vocals by Neely Jenkins (Tilly and the Wall) and Andy Lemaster.

• Named one of the Top 10 Acts to Watch in 2006 by Creative Loafing.

Key Markets Hometown: Athens. Also: Austin, Seattle, Chicago, San Francisco, Orlando, Gainesville, New York, Baltimore, Omaha, Boston

Summerbirds in the Cellar With the Hands of the Hunter It All Becomes Dead Genre: Alt Rock Label: Slow January CD: JAN 102 Price Code: J NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

LP: JAN 103 Price Code: M

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Various Artists Less Paul, More Rock Genre: Alt Rock Label: Slow January CD: JAN 106 Price Code: J NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Features New Roman Times, Summerbirds in the Cellar, The New Lows, Alan Singley & Pants Machine, The Boy Bathing, The Attack, and Long Distance Vans.

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Overview “An Athens collective that’s part blues-rock, part Motown, and part Mardi Gras parade.” – Tiny Mixtapes Dark Meat is an Athens ensemble mixing elements of blues, punk, psychedelic jams, jazz, and Zappa/ Beefheart-style explosions. Imagine The Stooges meets Crazy Horse with killer marching band horns, wailing gospel-style female backing vocals, ripping guitar leads, and free jazz freakouts. Singer/ guitarist Jim McHugh and bassist Ben Clack moved to Athens from North Carolina two years ago and met guitarist Kris Deason and drummer Forrest Leffer while working together at a downtown restaurant. When second drummer Spirit Bird left town, cymbal master Jason Robira filled his chair.

The group features a powerful backing vocal ensemble called the Subtweeters, which can rival the vocal intensity of the earth-shaking performances on Big Brother and the Holding Company’s classic LP Cheap Thrills. The group’s massive horn section, led by Charlie Estes and Aaron Jollay, Dark Meat comes across like a Salvation Army mariachi brass band–and with waves of reeds, the songs become Universal Indians wildly fluid in the exploratory sections. Dark Meat’s debut, Universal Indians, showcases the wildly Genre: Alt Rock eclectic outfit at their full-throttle frenzied best.

Label: Orange Twin Records CD: OTW 27 Selling Points Price Code: M • Extensive press and radio promotion through Team Clermont.

• Ads will run in Magnet, Arthur, Pitchfork, AP, and Mojo.

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Key Markets Hometown: Athens. Also: New York, New York, Chapel Hill, Nashville, Austin, Chicago, Toronto, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle

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Track Listing Freedom Ritual • Well Fuck You Then • Dead Man • Birdsong + Footsteps, Flute, Horn • Three Eyes Open • Angel of Meth • One More Trip • In the Woods • Disintegrating Flowers • Assholes for Eyeballs • Retard on Acid

Overview “Vocokesh continue with the Pink Floyd swirl, krautrock bleeps, and Tangerine Dream’s sense of cinematic dynamics. People digging the joys of Ash Ra Temple and SubArachanoid Space are going to love this—strictly for headphone heads!” – Montreal Mirror

The Vocokesh …All This and Hieronymous Bosch

The Vocokesh formed in 1991 when guitarist Richard Franecki spun out of orbit from F/i, the legendary Milwaukee psychedelic veterans he co-founded. …All This and Hieronymous Bosch,The Vocokesh’s eighth long player, displays some departures from previous formulas, resulting in some of their finest and freshest sonics yet. Synthesizers and electronics, prominent throughout The Vocokesh’s catalog, adopt more of a backseat role while the sitar, only sparingly used in the past, bubbles strongly to the surface.Masterful guitar work is still in rich abundance, but many of the dark psych passages The Vocokesh regularly navigate is offset by sunnier trajectories. As implied by the title, …All This and Hieronymus Bosch hosts a surrealistic depth rarely matched in instrumental rock these days–a fantastic entry into The Vocokesh’s ongoing psychedelic experiments.

Genre: Avant Rock Selling Points Label: Strange Attractors Audio House • RIYL: Ash Ra Tempel, Can, SubArachnoid Space, F/i, Bardo Pond, Pink Floyd, Popol Vuh, CD: SAA 48 Erkin Koray.

Price Code: O • Sister band to F/i, one of the longest running instrumental/experimental/psych bands in the business.

• Discography includes vinyl and discs for Drag City, RRRecords, and Lexicon Devil.

• Full mailing to press; AAM Sunday Service to college radio.

NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA Preorder • Ads will run in Arthur,The Wire, and Signal to Noise.

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Vocokesh Through the Smoke CD: SAA 34 (O) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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

Track Listing Eddie Makes the Scene • Gazing at the Dust • Once More Near the Beginning • The Truth Regarding Sunspots • Blue Light Dharma Shuffle • John’s Fuzz Theme • Eddie’s Freakout • Standing in the Ruins • Vibe #8 • All This and Hieronymous Bosch • Eddie Makes an Exit STREET DATE FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Overview “There’s an ardor to [Henry Grimes’] playing that feeds the spirit of his work.” – Village Voice Renowned bassist Henry Grimes–who has played with Thelonious Monk, Cecil Taylor, Sonny Rollins, Albert Ayler, Mose Allison, and Marc Ribot–teams up with famed clarinetist Perry Robinson and drummer Tom Price in this adventurous December 1965 exploration, recorded by engineer Richard L. Alderson.

Selling Points

Henry Grimes/Perry Robinson/Tom Price The Call Genre: Jazz Label: ESP-Disk’ CD: ESP 1026 Price Code: R NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

• Re-issue of Henry Grimes’ first and only studio session as a leader.

• After a thirty-year absence from music, Grimes recently returned to recording and performing, to unanimous praise.

• Chosen as All About Jazz’s 2003 Musician of the Year.

• Radio campaign will target college and independent stations.

• Review copies submitted to numerous indie/avant publications.

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

Track Listing Fish Story • For Django • Walk On • Saturday Night What Th’ • The Call • Son of Alfalfa

Overview “[Hans Tammen is] clearly one of the best experimental guitarists to come forward during the 1990s.” – All Music Guide Drawing from their extensive experience of playing with virtually every household name in the experimental and avant-garde jazz areas, this quartet featuring Hans Tammen, Alfred 23 Harth, Chris Dahlgren, and Jay Rosen delivers a real thrill ride with new release Expedition. Members have played with John Zorn, Sonny Sharrock, Jaco Pastorius, Peter Brötzmann, David Murray, Fred Frith, Peter Kowald, Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, Keith Rowe, Günter Müller, Paul Lytton, William Parker, Herb Robertson, and many others.

Selling Points • Previously unreleased live set at the renowned Knitting Factory, New York.

• Each member is also well known in other areas of music and art.

• Radio campaign will target college and independent stations.

• Review copies submitted to numerous indie/avant publications.

Tammen Harth Dahlgren Rosen Expedition: Live at the Knitting Factory

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Genre: Jazz Label: ESP-Disk’ CD: ESP 4031 Price Code: R

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

Track Listing Setting Out With Aggressive Intent • Taken at a Leisurely Pace • Many Have Passed Rigorous Courses • A Considerable Amount of Time and Distance • Retained Notions of Speed and Purpose • A Brief Pleasure Trip • From One Place To Another • A Long Trip By Water • A Place That Has Emotional Significance • Returning to the Place Where It Began

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The Dead Science Frost Giant Genre: Alt Rock Label: Marriage Records LP: WED 36 Price Code: P

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Sam Mickens: guitar, vocals Jherek Bischoff: bass Nick Tamburro: drums Korum Bischoff: drums Gust Burns: organ Josh Stewart: trumpet

Like experimental pop running mates Blonde Redhead, Deerhoof, and Xiu Xiu, The Dead Science infuse their songs with sometimes abrasive, sometimes unsettling doses of avant classical, free jazz, and other musical esoterica while maintaining a heady pursuit of the perfect pop moment. Featuring Sam Mickens on guitar and vocals, Jherek Bischoff on upright bass, and Nick Tamburro on drums, The Dead Science present art songs of harrowing passion and palpable intimacy.

Combining the hyperactive looseness of improvised music with the economical arrangements of classic pop, The Dead Science have achieved a new and strange model of the “power trio” that owes equal debts to Prince, Einstürzende Neubauten, and John Coltrane.

Recorded with dark pop über-producer Ryan Hadlock (Black Heart Procession, Blonde Redhead, Stephen Malkmus), Frost Giant is a nine-song litany of crushing forces, sexual longing, and the well of misery.

Press Quotes “The Dead Science breathe in an ethereal mire, a soaring swoon that’s merely a pancake-makeup film above the wicked stratum beneath.”

– The Stranger “The Dead Science strike contemplative awe in those who see them live, but Frost Giant takes them to a new level of mutually adorable and disquieting recorded music–perfectly balanced between the devil and the deep blue sea … Frost Giant sounds like an album Bowie would have died to make between Low and Scary Monsters, perfectly integrating Brian Eno’s ambient play and improvisational studio experimentation with the glamorous madness of a strikingly charismatic voice.” – Three Imaginary Girls “Borrows the best ideas from rock, punk, ragtime, blues, neo-classical, fusion, and jazz.” – Splendid “The Dead Science have proven themselves as a band to watch.” – PopMatters

Selling Points • Currently on a European and West Coast tour with Casiotone for the Painfully Alone.

• Have shared bills with Blonde Redhead, Deerhoof, Interpol, Xiu Xiu, and Rasputina.

• Personalized mailers to writers; packages to college and non-profit radio stations.

Key Markets Hometown: Seattle. Also: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Portland, Phoenix, Houston, Atlanta, Minneapolis

Track Listing Last Return • In the Hospital • Drrrty Magneto • Sam Mickens’ Dream • The Future, Forever (Until U Die) • Blood Tuning • Black Stockings • Lil Half Dead • Lead to Gold in the Hour of Chaos

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Overview “The agenda of Carlos Niño seems to be one that is simply about love and a sense of duty to the music.”

– RE:UP Magazine Fill the Heart Shaped Cup is the newest offering from Carlos Niño, the acclaimed producer of Ammoncontact, Build An Ark Hu Vibrational, and The Life Force Trio. Fill the Heart Shaped Cup is an uplifting new collection of inspired, instrumental soul tracks. Together with multi-instrumentalist/composer Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Carlos Niño celebrates his thirtieth birthday (February 16, 2007) by offering some of his best musical work to date.

Carlos Niño/Miguel Selling Points Atwood-Ferguson • Ten tracks of gorgeous instrumentation and composition.

Fill the Heart Shaped Cup • Mixed by Elvin Estela (a.k.a. DJ Nobody).

Genre: Electronica Label: Alpha Pup Records CD: ALP 16 Price Code: N

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• Amoeba Los Angeles in-store confirmed for February 14th, 2007.

• First album produced by Carlos Niño under his own name.

• Booklet contains original poems by Niño, written to accompany the music.

• Radio service to CMJ RPM reporters throughout North America; will be worked aggressively by Terrorbird.

• Press mailing to journalists and bloggers around the globe.

Key Markets Hometown: Los Angeles. Also: San Francisco, San Diego, Portland, Seattle, Phoenix, Denver, Chicago, New York City, Atlanta

Track Listing Oasis • Extended Hands of Giving • All for Love • Triumph • The Tides • Cup • Changes • Into the Depths • High Heavenly • Through a Child’s Eyes

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This Story Darling, It’s War

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The intensity of harmonic power that emerges when Jessie & Layla’s voices join together has not been experienced with this level of potency since the glory days of the sixties.Voices and instruments rise and fall between lyrical cadences that bring the listener back to a time when voices really meant what they sang.

Lush string arrangements by producer Liam Mulvaney and a forceful re-mastering by Second Shimmy’s Kramer bring out the hidden nuances in this magnificent release, surely destined to be looked upon as one of the finest debuts in modern pop history.

This Story is a band that is not afraid to play with the spiders and mice that live in the cupboards. They break bread with friend and foe while enjoying tales of faraway travels and sunsets. All eight members of This Story load into their converted SWAT bus to tour the country, and are planning to start their third national tour this March. Members of Arrah and The Ferns were all members of This Story, and two thirds of The Ferns are featured on Darling, It’s War.

Selling Points • Kramer’s first signing to his new Second-Shimmy label.

• Producer Liam Mulvaney’s lush string arrangements make this CD stand out.

• Press and radio promotion by Allegro Media.

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Selling Points • National tours scheduled for 2007 through AR Booking.

• Six-week publicity campaign through Allegro Media.

• College and high school radio mailing will focus on Great Lakes region and tour routes.

• Ads will run in Nuvo Newsweekly, Pitchfork, and more.

Overview “FGFC820 is perhaps the best example of pure, beat-driven EBM to be unleashed onto the scene in years. The rhythms pound their way into your psyche with militaristic grandeur, stomping like a Teutonic march the likes of which have been mostly lost in this new age of synthpop wannabes.” – ReGen Magazine Formed in 2004, FGFC820 is the new tribal EBM project from well known and respected New York DJs Rexx Arkana and Dräcos. Drawing on influences ranging from old school industrial to modern gabber, Arkana and Dräcos combine to create a sound that is at once melodic and relentlessly rhythmic.

In addition to twenty years of experience as both a DJ and promoter–having worked with everyone from industrial stalwarts Skinny Puppy and Ministry to newer stars Covenant and VNV Nation– Rexx Arkana is also the founder of scene super group Bruderschaft. As DJs, it’s not surprising that FGFC820’s compositions inspire movement, nor that their messages have been enslaved by the beat. FGFC820 FGFC820 creates bone-crushing dance floor anthems, drawing early comparisons to such legends as Urban Audio Warfare Genre: Electronica/Industrial Front 242 and Nitzer Ebb. Label: COP International CD: COP 98 Selling Points Price Code: M • Amazing new band bound to take the dance floor by storm!

• Licensed from German cult label Noitekk.

• Major MySpace campaign.

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

Track Listing Intro March • Children of Decay • Pray • Martyrdom • Resolution 3 • World of God • Victim • Resolution 4 • Perfect War • Comatose • Existence • Resolution 5 • Anthem • Society • G.B.A.

Overview “Blending blasphemous hard electro EBM with the futuristic sounds of epic hard techno and trance to form a style of industrial more intense, dark, and danceable than your average modern industrial clones.

Burning Heaven is fresh, inventive, and will breathe new life into the tired, repetitive industrial music scene.” – DarkElectro.net

Distorted Memory Burning Heaven Genre: Electronica/Industrial Label: COP International CD: COP 99 Price Code: M

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Searching for a hefty dose of anger, harsh electronics, driving beats, and lush pads infused with a touching sense of sensibility? Look no further–Distorted Memory has it all! This Canadian band revitalizes the best of the famous Vancouver sound of the late eighties and early nineties, eternalized by bands like Skinny Puppy and Frontline Assembly.Yet they still add enough new elements–like techno and breakbeats–to make the whole mix sound fresh and alive. This powerful blend of raw emotion and epic soundscapes makes Burning Heaven a sonic landmark that can easily stand on it’s own!

Obey the machine!

Selling Points • Amazing new band bound to take the dance floor by storm!

• Licensed from German cult label Noitekk.

• Major MySpace campaign.

• Copies will be sent to DJs, radio stations, and print media.

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

Track Listing Disciples of the Watch • God’s Wrath • Sweet Evil • Loss of Faith • Hellion’s Fall • Confession • Burning Heaven • Sons of Perdition • Ask the Dying • Psalm

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Dr. Dog We All Belong Genre: Alt Rock Label: Park the Van CD: PTV 12 Price Code: O

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Tables: bass, vocals Taxi: guitar, vocals Triumph: drums, vocals Text: keyboards Thanks: guitar

Abandoning their usual method of production and opting for a new experience, Dr. Dog recorded We All Belong on a twenty-four-track, two-inch tape machine as opposed to their previous releases, which were recorded on their faithful eight-track. To a band that thrives on using creative muscle to overcome the inherent limitations of a minimal amount of equipment, the twenty-four-track introduced new possibilities as well as new challenges. Taking full advantage of both, Dr. Dog managed to make an album that captures the organic spirit so important to the band while introducing new layers of vocal harmonies and textured instrumentation the band had only been able to imagine prior. The recording sessions for We All Belong yielded material that the band did not feel worked with the album as a whole, but seemed to work as an excellent bridge between Easy Beat and We All Belong. Dr. Dog released this material in September 2006 as six song EP, Takers and Leavers, which Rolling Stone raved “matches The Shins with smart, retro psych rock.” We All Belong was recorded in between headlining dates, a European tour with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, and US dates with The Strokes.

Press Quotes “Loaded with three-part harmonies, orchestral strings, heavy reverb, and fuzzy guitars.” – Rolling Stone “Continuing a Philly psychedelic tradition that spans from Bardo Pond to Sun Ra.” – Spin

Selling Points • First time Dr. Dog has recorded in a full twenty-four-track studio.

• Music video played over a dozen times on MTV2 program Subterranean.

• Recently featured on IFC program The Dozens alongside artists such as Joanna Newsom, The Hold Steady, and Björk.

• Rolling Stone has confirmed lead “Breaking Artists” story.

• Filter has confirmed feature article.

• Dr. Dog’s “Worst Trip” is featured on the Fast Food Nation motion picture soundtrack.

• Major media campaign coordinated by Big Hassle.

• National college/specialty radio campaign by Pirate Radio Promotions.

• AAA radio campaign to follow release date.

• Major digital ad campaign targeting Pitchfork.

• Ads will run in Magnet, Arthur, ReadyMade, and Under the Radar.

Key Markets Hometown: Philadelphia. Also: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Austin, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Nashville, Detroit, Boston, San Diego, Tucson, Dallas, Orlando, Durham/Raleigh, Pittsburgh, Washington DC, Columbus, Cleveland, Richmond, New Orleans, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, Omaha, Tulsa, Atlanta, Louisville.

Track Listing Old News • My Old Ways • Don’t Pretend • The Girl • Alaska • Weekend • Ain’t It Strange • Worst Trip • The Way the Lazy Do • Die Die Die • We All Belong ALSO AVAILABLE

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Overview “Sure to attract a rabid cult of indie-rock fans.” – New York Times It’s easier to compare and contrast than it is to take something for face value, love it, and never let it go. Easy Beat is the debut album from Philadelphia’s Dr. Dog. Fans of My Morning Jacket, Neutral Milk Hotel, and The Band should pay close attention as they cruise through the desert (at 113 mph) listening to Pet Sounds. Rarely does a record change the course of one’s life … well, until now.

Selling Points • Re-issue of Dr. Dog’s first album.

• Critics all loved this album–NY Times, Mojo, CMJ, Rolling Stone,The Fader, and NPR. • Ranked in yearly Top Ten lists for Village Voice, CMJ, and Emusic.

• Received 5/5 stars from Alternative Press.

• Dr. Dog tours all the time, including recent tours with the Raconteurs, The Black Keys, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Strokes, The Magic Numbers, Architecture in Helsinki, My Morning Jacket, and more.

Dr. Dog Easy Beat Genre: Alt Rock Label: Park the Van CD: PTV 1 Price Code: N

Key Markets Hometown: Philadelphia. Also: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Denver, Nashville, Detroit, Boston, San Diego, Tucson, Dallas, Orlando, Durham/Raleigh, Pittsburgh, Washington DC, Columbus, Cleveland

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The World May Never Know • The Pretender • Oh No • Easy Beat • Dutchman Falls • Fools Life • Say Something • Today • Wake Up

Overview The Bark Haze is primarily a guitar duo of made up of Gown (Andrew Macgregor) and Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), although auxiliary members have been known to include Pete Nolan (Magik Markers, Virgin Eye Blood Brothers, Cops). The group’s name came from a mishearing of the name of radical early seventies R&B group the Bar-Kays, and from that moment the concept of mis-hearing as some open-ended musical course became The Bark Haze’s identity. So far, all concerts have taken place in Western Massachusetts, once in the confines of Cambridge’s Twisted Village record emporium. The group anxiously awaits its debut gig in the UK at the Nightmare Before Christmas event curated by Moore. As the heroic and potentially bonkers Carpenters refrained, “We’ve Only Just Begun.” Damn straight.

The Bark Haze The Bark Haze Genre: Avant Rock Label: Important Records CD: IPT 127 Price Code: P NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Selling Points • Limited edition LP, pressed in an edition of 500 with letter-pressed covers by Manifesto, presents completely different recordings than the Bark Haze CD. • Collaboration between Gown & Thurston Moore.

• Upcoming European debut at Nightmare Before Christmas curated by Thurston Moore.

• Promotional mailing by Important Records.

• Ads will run in The Wire.

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

Track Listing CD: Total Joke Era • Stimulation LP: Innocent Yet Doomed • Shit Monitor Kicker • What Do You See?

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Overview Baikal is a new burner from Bardo Pond brothers John & Michael Gibbons along with fellow Bardo Pond members Clint Takeda and Jason Kourkonis. This time, they ventured down the route of heavy freeimprovisation and a Last Exit-style hard rock approach coupled with a hard psych bend. With two tracks, each weighing in at over thirty minutes in length, it’s clear that Baikal is a deep voyage undersea with yet another mind-blowing Bardo Pond side project–and it’s a heavy trip indeed. Dive in.

Selling Points

Baikal Baikal Genre: Avant Rock Label: Important Records CD: IPT 119 Price Code: P

• Features four members of Bardo Pond.

• John & Michael Gibbons are members of Alasehir & Alumbrados, both of which released albums on Important in 2006.

• Promotional mailing by Important Records.

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

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Overview “Imagine the Animal Collective clambaking to Planet Caravan–perfect for campfire D&D sessions!” – CMJ Total Can-style audacity from Brooklyn drone stew Edward Gorey-esque broken house wanderers The Vanishing Voice, who head down from the mountain for another dip in a lake of elephant seals. Whatever Kraut or Swede compatriots may be a part-time relation, The Vanishing Voice mines the sound of the naughties in a subterranean part of Brooklyn.

Selling Points • Features acclaimed members of the new American noise-folk underground.

• Pete Nolan is also a member of the Magik Markers.

• Promotional mailing by Important Records.

• Ads will run in The Wire.

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Hometown: Brooklyn. Also: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, New York, Tucson, Phoenix, Seattle, Olympia, Austin, Louisville, Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo, Charleston, Asheville, Baltimore, Chicago, Boston, North Hampton

The Vanishing Voice Stone Tablet Genre: Experimental Label: Important Records CD: IPT 122 Price Code: P NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview “Intimate on first listen, creepy on the second, something both and in between after.” – Village Voice Nordic Visions was originally released in a tiny vinyl edition of 525 copies, which sold out immediately. It is back by popular demand, resurrected as a digital tiki for the original vinyl release. While Wooden Wand and Satya Sai jammed with the Sky High Band in beautiful California, The Vanishing Voice dug in deep in the frozen northeast. Snowed in with utopian texts and mounting paranoia, Steven the Harvester, Heidi White Diamond Diehl, and Pete Wolfy Nolan joined Nonhorse in an abandoned textile factory, boiling out these ballads of suspended disbelief and hope for a better world.

The Vanishing Voice Selling Points Nordic Visions • Originally released as a tiny vinyl-only edition, which sold out instantly.

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• Promotional mailing by Important Records.

• Ads will run in The Wire.

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Hometown: Brooklyn. Also: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, New York, Tucson, Phoenix, Seattle, Olympia, Austin, Louisville, Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo, Charleston, Asheville, Baltimore, Chicago, Boston, North Hampton

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Overview “A spiral stillness that hovers at slowly shifting altitudes.” – Exclaim Rameses III are architects of the most beautiful swathes of blissful ambience, whose releases have previously found homes on labels like Celebrate Psi Phenomenon, Music Fellowship, Scarcelight, MYMWLY, Barl Fire, and Type. On Honey Rose, the group’s first release for Important, the South London trio builds a bucolic soundtrack to Jon Spira’s mysterious short film Suityman. While the influence of Bruce Langhorne, Boxhead Ensemble, and much of the 4AD roster can be keenly felt on this EP, so too can the wondrous drone narratives that were such a feature of Rameses III’s previous works. More structured and melodious then much of their output, Honey Rose is the perfect place for a newcomer to begin exploring the music of one of the finest purveyors of ambient drone operating in music today.

Selling Points

Ramses III Honey Rose Genre: Avant Rock Label: Important Records CDEP: IPT 126 Price Code: J

• The soundtrack to Jon Spira’s film Suityman.

• Promotional mailing by Important Records.

• Ads will run in The Wire.

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San Francisco, New York, Boston

Overview “The more stuff that the prolific Karl Bauer (now the sole member of Bay Area outfit Axolotl) puts out, the higher his hypnotic drones seem to rise.” – Pitchfork

Axolotl Memory Theater Genre: Experimental Label: Important Records CD: IPT 120 Price Code: P NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Memory Theater is an absolutely essential collection of the best of Axolotl’s out of print CD-Rs and vinyl-only releases. Karl Bauer spent quite a bit of time collaborating with Black Dice, Mouthus, Double Leopards, and various other acclaimed members of the noise underground before heading off on his own as Axolotl.

In the last couple of years Axolotl has released numerous CD, CD-R, and vinyl titles, many of which quickly went out of print and started demanding some serious coin on eBay. Memory Theater collects the best of these into one convenient package designed by Karl Bauer.

Selling Points • Collects hard to find and in-demand Axolotl material.

• Karl Bauer has collaborated with Double Leopards, Religious Knives, Mouthus, Magik Markers, and various other members of the American noise underground.

• Promotional mailing by Important Records.

• Ads will run in The Wire.

Key Markets Hometown: San Francisco. Also: New York, Boston, Detroit, Seattle

Overview Eleh was formed to specifically to pay tribute to early experimental minimalist pioneers like La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Eliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros, and Charlemagne Palestine. This record is pressed in a deluxe edition of 400 on audiophile quality 180-gram vinyl, mastered and pressed at RTI with letter-pressed jackets. Eleh creates highly minimal and deeply spiritual pure analog drone music with emphasis on the physical ultra-low end. Incorporating tones as low as .05 hz (well below the range of human hearing), Eleh is as much of a physical experience as an audio one. This engaging record was created as a tool for meditation and should be listened to with ears at speaker height, at least seven feet away from the speakers.

Noise-canceling headphones are also recommended for the optimum listening experience.

Selling Points • Eleh is a tribute to La Monte Young, Eliane Radigue, and other early minimalist drone pioneers.

• Deluxe audiophile pressing of only 400.

Key Markets New York

Eleh Floating Frequencies/ Intuitive Synthesis I Genre: Experimental Label: Important Records LP: IPT 125 Price Code: P NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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The Sirens More Is More Genre: Alt Rock Label: Musick Records CD: MSR 27 Price Code: O

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Muffy: vocals Melody Licious: guitar, backing vocals Miggy Starcrunch: guitar, backing vocals Miss Leann: bass, backing vocals Malarsh: drums, codpiece

If you walked into a seedy drag bar and found The Sweet, The Shangri-Las, and Slade all onstage together, drinking heavily, they would sound something like The Sirens. This Detroit-bred all-covers group–who has been produced by the illustrious Jim Diamond and the Flaming Lips’ Michael Ivins–formed in 2000 and subsequently released their first full-length album on the Get Hip label. The members are so firmly entrenched in their city that the band didn’t play outside the 313 area code until well into its fourth year of existence. And yet, to quote Sirens leader Muffy Kroha, “we were getting buttloads of fan mail from everywhere in the world before we had ever even played north of 8 Mile.” The band’s “buttloads” of fans were graced with a tour in 2005, with dates supporting Nashville Pussy and The Bellrays, and then The Sirens returned to the road in 2006 for more touring, to debut a new batch of killer covers for what would come to be this new album: More Is More!

More Is More isn’t just the name of The Sirens’ new album–it has been the band’s credo from the beginning. The band’s most excessive and glittery album to date features impressive versions of glam-rock killers by such luminaries as Slade, The Shangri-Las, Girlschool, The Bay City Rollers, David Bowie & The Spiders, and The Sweet. And, if that wasn’t enough to pass the glam rock exam, how about Poison’s “Talk Dirty To Me” as a bonus track?! Excess in excess is what The Sirens are all about. Prepare to experience glitter, corsets, gold lamé suits, eighteen-inch heels, codpieces, and voluminous hair. Indeed! More Is More!

Press Quotes “What the Detroit Cobras are doing to sixties R&B, these foxy ladies seem to be doing to seventies glam rock. Definitely on my Top 10 of the year.” – LowCut “Kids, if covering Suzi Quatro, Hollywood Brats, and Ike Turner ain’t a show of class (and passion) then please show us the door.”

– Detroit Metro Times “Wham bam, thank you glam!” – Village Voice

Selling Points • Detroit’s premier almost-all-girl, all-covers, all-glam-rock band!

• Past Sirens alumni have included members of Detroit’s rock elite: The Dirtbombs, The Gore Gore Girls, Come Ons, Outrageous Cherry, and The Paybacks.

• US touring planned for 2007.

• Full press & radio campaign; MySpace blitz.

• Ads will run in Magnet, Big Takeover, Amplifier, Under the Radar, MRR, and more.

Key Markets Hometown: Detroit. Also: New York, Boston, Miami, Nashville, Cleveland, Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago

Track Listing Hellraiser • 1-2-3-4 Rock and Roll • Go Back • High School • Saturday Night • Right Now, Not Later • Rock and Roll Preacher • Wig Wam Bam • Tear Me Down • Tonight • Tumble With Me • Fox on the Run • Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide • Talk Dirty to Me (bonus track)

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The Moog Sold for Tomorrow Genre: Alt Rock Label: Musick Records CD: MSR 28 Price Code: L

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Tonyo: vocals, keyboards Adi: guitars Norbi: guitars Csabi: bass Gergo: drums

Sold for Tomorrow is the debut release by Budapest-based alternative rock band The Moog, Hungary’s hottest new export (musical or otherwise). The album, mixed by Nirvana and Hot Hot Heat producer Jack Endino, will undoubtedly get the attention of press, radio, and indie rock fans alike–not only because of the band’s unique Eastern European roots (the press calls them the Hungarian Strokes), but simply because Sold for Tomorrow is an amazing album full of immediately catchy pop songs.

The Moog takes their inspiration from sixties rock ‘n’ roll bands (The Beatles, Beach Boys, Kinks, Sonics) and late seventies punk (Ramones, Blondie), as well as an assorted variety of rock groups (Nirvana, Muse, Blur, Libertines). “I Like You”–the album’s first single–recalls the classic pop feel of early Lennon-McCartney songwriting with an innocent-yet-direct pop style, while “Survive” brings to mind The Passenger-era Iggy Pop with its hypnotic melody and clipped guitar chords. The Moog is causing big waves on MySpace, where the band enjoys much adulation from their ever-growing number of fans in both Europe and the US. Sold for Tomorrow is the first musical statement from this young Hungarian rock band, and the music promises it won’t be their last.

Press Quotes “This great band finally has the chance to conquer the world.” – Wan 2 “The Moog is one of the most popular new bands in Hungary for two reasons: 1. They can write hits; 2. They look like models.” – Flyerz “Amazing music and stage presence. The Moog is poised to be very successful.” – Zenész “How can this barely two-year-old band capture everyone’s attention? The fact is that they can write hits–which should make them huge at commercial radio in any country.” – Pesti Est

Selling Points • Mixed by Jack Endino (Nirvana, Hot Hot Heat, Zeke, Soundgarden).

• First Hungarian rock band to sign to an American label.

• Top MySpace band.

• Extensive US and Canadian touring planned for 2007.

• Ads will run in AP, Magnet, Big Takeover, Amplifier, Under the Radar, and more.

Key Markets Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington DC, New York, Boston, Miami, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta, Nashville, Austin, Seattle, Vancouver, Toronto

Track Listing Your Sweet Neck • Everybody Wants • I Don’t Want You Now • I Like You • Never Hide! • If I Died • Anyone • Survive • Goodbye • Xanax Youth

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Overview “The Glasspack have got to be one of the dirtiest, nastiest, kick assenest rock ‘n’ roll bands to ever come out of the bluegrass state of Kentucky.” – Aural Innovations

The Glasspack Dirty Women Genre: Alt Rock Label: Small Stone CD: SSO 71 Price Code: O

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Formed in the new millennium by singer-songwriter and frontman “Dirty” Dave Johnson, The Glasspack is the answer to the worn-out southern rock of the classic rock airwaves and the sudden staleness of modern hard rock radio. Distinctly of Louisville, this creative and unique Kentucky band has pulled its influences from the best of sixties jam rock and seventies hard rock/punk, obtaining a wide variety of fans. They have been seen playing guitar behind their backs, with their teeth, and any way humanly possible. Johnson has even been known to set his crotch on fire, as well as his guitar, which gained him a Fender Music endorsement in 2005. Dirty Women is the most powerful Glasspack recording ever. The band has been told countless times that they sound like Monster Magnet and The MC5. Not a bad combination if you ask us.

Selling Points • Recorded on a two-inch vintage analog tape machine with vintage musical equipment.

• Features Adam Neal (Nashville Pussy, The Hookers, Blade of the Ripper).

• Toured with The Frogs, Sick Of It All, Melt-Banana, Cherry Valence, My Morning Jacket, Elliot, AFI, and the Shipping News.

• Mailing to retail, magazines, digital media, college radio, and specialty radio.

• Will perform at SXSW 2007 as a part of the Small Stone showcase.

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Hometown: Louisville. Also: Chicago, Austin, Boston, New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Philadelphia, Detroit, Bloomington, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Nashville, Baltimore, Los Angeles.

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Taming of the Ram • Fastback • My Curse • Lot Lizard • Ice Cream • Fire in the Trailer Park • Super Sport • Play It Loud • Lizard Reprise • Louisiana Strawberry • Farewell Little Girl

Overview It’s time to dust off the vinyl and take your air guitar out of storage, because Small Stone is proud to present Sucking the 70’s: Back in the Saddle Again. Let’s get this straight right up front: these aren’t covers.

What you will find are some of the best and most true-to-life rawk bands of the twenty-first century lovingly re-working, re-interpreting, and in some cases re-defining the music that first inspired them to make music in the first place. This is an incredibly limited pressing and when it’s gone it’s gone, so you’d better get it while you can. Eight-track version not available. Stairway not included.Void in Kansas, Chicago, and wherever the hell the Bay City Rollers are from.

Selling Points • Limited edition of 1,000–when they’re gone, they’re gone.

• Mailing to press, specialty radio, and digital media.

• Features expected on many rock ‘n’ roll websites.

Key Markets Hometown: Detroit. Also: Boston, New York, Richmond, Austin, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Louisville, Cleveland, Chicago, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Dallas, Salt Lake City, Portland

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Various Artists Sucking the 70’s: Back in the Saddle Again Genre: Alt Rock Label: Small Stone 2XCD: SSO 70 Price Code: 2F

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Get nailed... on the road The Dark Romantics Some Midnight Kissin’

Sciflyer The Age of Lovely Intimate Things

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CD: CLE 63 (L) UPC: 808804006323

2/15/07 Orlando, FL – Backbooth 2/16/07 Lakeland, FL – Tuesday Music Club 2/17/07 Brandon, FL – The Porch 2/18/07 Tallahassee, FL – The Beta Bar 2/20/07 Savannah, GA – The Sentient Bean 2/21/07 Columbia, SC – New Brookland Tavern 2/23/07 Tuscaloosa, AL – Pour Cafe 2/24/07 Pensacola, FL – The Venue 2/25/07 Ft. Walton Beach, FL – Downtown Brew

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Tom Brosseau Grand Forks CD: LVL 24 (L) UPC: 688610002241

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TRALALA Is That the TRALALA CD: ADK 1008 (Q) UPC: 880301100827 1/11/07 Washington, DC – Rock and Roll Hotel 1/12/07 Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s 1/13/07 New York, NY – Mercury Lounge 1/14/07 Cambridge, MA – The Middle East

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IfIHadAHiFi No More Music CD: CTP 32 (O) UPC: 723721186159 2/10/07 Madison, WI – King Club

Lucky Dragons Widows CD: SRS 1 (P) UPC: 656605831626 LP: WED 27 (P) UPC: 851431001278 2/16-17/07 New York, NY – The Kitchen

Lafcadio Sham Duvet CD: JNR 10 (N) UPC: 656605887920 1/5/07 Indianapolis, IN – Melody Inn

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High Strung, The

Moxie Bravo

CD

PTV

Eternals, The

Heavy International

CD

Eternals, The

Heavy International

Eternals, The

FEBRUARY 2007>>1

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DISC

13

723721265755

N

5%

AES

44

673431004420

M

5%

2XLP

AES

44

673431004413

2J

5%

High Anxiety

CDEP

AES

42

673431004222

I

n/a

Eternals, The

Rawar Style

CD

AES

30

673431003027

M

n/a

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Black Museum 12”

12”

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27

673431002716

G

n/a

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Eternals, The S/T

LP

AES

14

673431001412

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n/a

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Volume 1: First

2XCD

AUM

3940

642623303924

2J

5%

Organic Grooves

Black Cherry

CD

AUM

21

642623302125

P

n/a

Parker, William/Quartet

O’Neal’s Porch

CD

AUM

22

642623302224

P

n/a

Parker, William/Quartet

Sound Unity

CD

AUM

34

642623303429

P

n/a

Dark Romantics, The

Some Midnight Kissin’

CD

LUJ

47

751937300328

I

5%

Dark Romantics, The

Another Song EP

CDEP

LUJ

43

751937290322

E

n/a

Trulio Disgracias

Nuttin’s Gonna Git’choo If U

CD

NSF

6

723721272357

M

5%

Fishbone

Friendliest Psychosis of All, The

CD

NSF

1

723724375420

J

n/a

Quit Your Dayjob

Open Up, Coconut!

CD

BTR

901

7330169999017

N

5%

Quit Your Dayjob

Quit Your Dayjob S/T

CD

BTR

86

7330169666865

J

n/a

Singley, Alan & Pants Machine

LovingKindness

CD

JAN

105

850103001059

J

n/a

Summerbirds in the Cellar

With the Hands of the Hunter It

CD

JAN

102

850103001011

J

n/a

Summerbirds in the Cellar

With the Hands of the Hunter It

LP

JAN

103

850103001028

M

n/a

Various Artists

Less Paul, More Rock

CD

JAN

106

850103001066

J

n/a

Dark Meat

Universal Indians

CD

OTW

27

656605650920

M

5%

Vocokesh, The

…All This and Hieronymus Bosch

CD

SAA

48

789856304820

O

5%

Vocokesh, The

Through the Smoke

CD

SAA

34

789856303427

O

n/a

Grimes/Robinson/Price

Call, The

CD

ESP

1026

825481010269

R

n/a

Tammen Harth Dahlgren Rosen

Expedition: Live at the Knitting

CD

ESP

4031

825481040310

R

n/a

Dead Science, The

Frost Giant

LP

WED

36

851431001360

P

5%

Nino, Carlos/Atwood-Ferguson,

Fill the Heart Shaped Cup

CD

ALP

16

669158401628

N

5%

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Jessie & Layla

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This Story

Darling, It’s War

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Urban Audio Warfare

Distorted Memory

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101

723721265656

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5%

STD

1029

666973102921

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CD

COP

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703513009828

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5%

Burning Heaven

CD

COP

99

703513009927

M

5%

Dr. Dog

We All Belong

CD

PTV

12

723721265557

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5%

Dr. Dog

Takers & Leavers

CD

PTV

9

723721239558

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Dr. Dog

Easy Beat

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PTV

1

749322100127

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Bark Haze, The

Bark Haze S/T, The

CD

IPT

127

793447512723

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n/a

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LP

IPT

128

793447512822

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Baikal

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119

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Vanishing Voice

Stone Tablet

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122

793447512228

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Vanishing Voice

Nordic Visions

CD

IPT

132

793447513225

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Ramses III

Honey Rose EP

CDEP

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126

793447512624

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Memory Theater

CD

IPT

120

793447512020

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n/a

Eleh

Floating Frequencies/Intuitive

LP

IPT

125

793447512525

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n/a

Sirens, The

More Is More

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MSR

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612645002722

O

5%

Moog, The

Sold for Tomorrow

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MSR

28

612645002822

L

5%

Glasspack, The

Dirty Women

CD

SSO

71

709764107122

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5%

Glasspack, The

Bridgeburner

CD

SSO

41

709764104121

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n/a

Various Artists

Sucking the 70’s: Back in the

2XCD

SSO

70

709764107023

2F

5%

Various Artists

Sucking the 70’s

2XCD

SSO

32

709764103223

2G

n/a

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