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NEW RELEASES MARCH 2007 STREET DATES 3-13-07 & 3-27-07

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INSIDE M80 Music – New Label! • Dengue Fever • Baby Teeth Glenn Jones • Minmae • Loch Lomond • Night Canopy • The Fall • Larsen & Friends • Merzbow Walker Kong • Label Spotlight: Contraphonic & No Karma

Nail welcomes M80 Music to its roster M80 Music was founded by music industry veterans who wanted to get behind artists making true, unique music. Dengue Fever and Morning 40 Federation, two bands featuring exceptional musical prowess and vision, are creating genres instead of filling them.

Dengue Fever Escape from Dragon House Genre: Alt Rock/Alt World Label: M80 Music CD: M80 100 Price Code: Q

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Ch’hom Nimol: vocals Ethan Holtzman: Farfisa organ Zac Holtzman: guitar, vocals David Ralicke: horns Paul Dreux Smith: drums, percussion Senon Gaius Williams: bass

Fronted by Cambodian pop star Ch’hom Nimol, who sings in Khmer, Los Angeles sextet Dengue Fever blends the rhythms of sixties Cambodian pop–heavily influenced by American surf, rock, and early psychedelic garage bands–with their own eclectic mix of American and international styles. Unlike the world music bands of the late eighties, Dengue Fever is more concerned with a universal groove and breaking down musical barriers than with notions of authenticity. There are echoes of Bollywood soundtracks, Ethiopian soul, American R&B, Cambodian folk, Spaghetti Western weirdness, and girl-group angst in the mix, but the resulting concoction is the band’s own. On Escape from Dragon House, the sound is denser, thicker, and richer than on the group’s 2003 self-titled debut. Escape from Dragon House is also darker, both musically and lyrically, with a fully-realized style that melts all of the band’s influences into one voice that is pure Dengue Fever.

Press Quotes “If you can imagine a band where a Cambodian beauty queen shares the stage with Rasputin, Barry White, Allen Ginsberg, Michael Hutchence, and Brian Wilson, you’d have a pretty good idea of the group Dengue Fever.” – L.A.Times “Her voice is swathed in reverb, becoming instantly mythic.” – The Wire “The culture clash inherent to this band gives its debut a dynamic flair.” – Time Out New York “Dengue Fever is at the vanguard of an emerging global pop sensibility, making familiar yet eerily unique music.” – KEXP

Selling Points • Brand new version of this 2006 release includes a new song (“Remix of 1000 Tears”) and a video (“Sni Bong”) not included on the first issue. • Named Best New Artist by L.A.Weekly. • Extensive touring. • Appeals to fans of alternative, jam band, and world music. • Re-servicing to college and public radio, with focus on the new track. • It’s Alive! Media will head the re-release, sending to national and local magazines. • Ads will run in Arthur.

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

Track Listing We Were Gonna • Sni Bong • Tip My Canoe • Tap Water • Sleepwalking Through the Mekong • One Thousand Tears of the Tarantula • Escape from Dragon House • Made Of Steam • Lake Dolores • Saran Wrap • Hummingbird • Remix of 1000 Tears • Video: Sni Bong

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Morning 40 Federation Ticonderoga Genre: Alt Rock Label: M80 Music CD: M80 147 Price Code: Q

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Josh Cohen: sax, vocals Ryan Scully, Bailey Smith: guitar, vocals Steve Calandra: bass Mike Andrepont: drums Rick Shaw: tuba, trombone

Morning 40 Federation is a ragtag team of New Orleans musicians that creates a rock ‘n’ roll sound unlike any other. It is deeply rooted in the New Orleans style, yet the groove and soul conjure up Detroit circa 1975 while the rock feels like something out of New York in the early part of this century. The band’s live shows are the stuff of legend, and the members cannot walk down the streets of the still-surviving New Orleans without Beatles-esque fan acknowledgement. This new album was the last to be recorded in New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina. Like the band, it is a survivor that carries with it deeper qualities than just fun music to party to … although that is there as well (it would not be Morning 40 without it). Ticonderoga is more primal than any of their previous releases, and shakes all genres up with a refreshing punk attitude.

Press Quotes “Ticonderoga is a ribald blast of drunken revelry in the flamboyant form of pimped-out funk rock grooves and soulful Super Fly schmaltz. It’s a musical fuzzy-dice Mardi Gras celebration.” — Under the Volcano “Morning 40 Federation lets its freak flag fly fantastically on Ticonderoga … New Orleans’ irreverent musical tradition will outlive Katrina just fine.” — Prefix “Lean and low-slung … as crudely funny as it is musically tight.” — New York Times “These Ninth Ward convivialists have finally made a recording that captures some of the bacchanalian madness of their live performances … calling this feel-good music wouldn’t do the band justice. It’s a wonder this stuff is even legal.” — Playboy

Selling Points · Last Morning 40 Federation CD recorded in New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina. · New CD produced at Piety Street Studios with legendary producer Mark Bingham (R.E.M.). · Extensive Southern US tours. · Inspired by Tom Waits, The Pogues, and The Replacements. · Named a Blender Editors Pick, Best CD by Times Picayune & Offbeat, Best Rock Band in New Orleans at the Big Easy Awards, and Best Unsigned Band in New Orleans by Citysearch. · National and local tour press handled by It’s Alive! Media. · National radio promotion effort by Team Clermont. · Blog outreach and MySpace goodness.

Key Markets Hometown: New Orleans. Also: Los Angeles, New York, Brooklyn, San Francisco, Chicago, Austin, Houston, Memphis

Track Listing Gin Instead of Whisky · Intuition · White Powder · A + P · God Help Me · Corkscrew · Washing Machine · Skin · Toodle · Lancaster · Dumpster Juice · Conversation Whore

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Baby Teeth The Simp Genre: Alt Rock Label: Lujo Records CD: LUJ 50 Price Code: I

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Featured Artists Abraham Levitan: vocals, keyboards/Jim Cooper: bass, guitar, vocals, percussion/Peter Andreadis: percussion, guitars, vocals/Andrea Kulans: violin/Tomeka Reid: cello, vocals/Nick Broste: trombone/Dave McDonnel: saxes, clarinet/Patrick Newbery: trumpet/Blue Hawaii: percussion, vocals/Bobby Conn: guitar/Dylan Ryan: percussion/Andrea Bauer, Alex Valentine, Lara Marsh: vocals

Overview

Baby Teeth’s new album, The Simp, proves yet again that bedroom pop and huge hooks belong together. The band has been compared to a host of legendary pop eccentrics: Elvis Costello, Andy Pratt, and Queen. But it’s Baby Teeth’s unique appropriation of classic rock icons that sets it apart from other indie-pop acts. The new album’s lavish arrangements nod to the pop of the sixties and seventies, while lyrics are direct and emotionally bare. Meticulously crafted with outside producer Blue Hawaii (a member of Bablicon, Need New Body, and Icy Demons), The Simp counters every big pop chorus with a left-of-center twist. An album of remarkable refinement, The Simp will only take a few spins to carry you away … or take you back, as the case may be.

Press Quotes “Packs enough earthshaking riffs, goofball showboating, and anthemic bluster to fatten the entire fifth grade at the School of Rock.” – Pitchfork “We’ve never played with a band that sounded so much like Queen, although they’re not quite that batty.” – Eleanor Friedberger of The Fiery Furnaces in Pitchfork “Indie pop that sounds like the Silver Jews on seventies AM radio.” – Harp “A joyous mix of roller-derby-themed dance funk, MIDI-enhanced eighties pop, and twangy disco rock.” – Paste “A welcome addition to Chicago’s roster of rock bands … combines soulful R&B with kisses of seventies jam rock–a different sound when compared to the band’s peers in The Changes or The M’s.” – New City Chicago

Selling Points • Features members of Bobby Conn and the Glass Gypsies, All City Affairs, and The Detholz. • Upcoming full-page feature in March issue of Harp. • Title track is part of Pitchfork’s exclusive “Infinite Mixtape.” A positive review will run in February. • 2007 US tour booked by Satellite Booking Agency. • PR by Riot Act Media. • Featured on the Vice CD & DVD compilations; 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: Chicago. Also: Kalamazoo, St. Louis, Washington DC, New York, Dallas, Austin, New York, Seattle

Track Listing The Simp • Swim Team • The Birds Are Crying • Taste the Wine • Looking for a Road • God Girlfriend • Diaghalev Was Right • Prove It on the Stage • Intolerable • Wolves ALSO AVAILABLE

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Nadja Touched Genre: Avant Metal Label: Alien8 Recordings CD: ALI 67 Price Code: M NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Aidan Baker: guitar, vocals Leah Buckareff: bass, backing vocals

The avant metal genre has really taken off over the last couple of years, and while some projects may suffer from its over-saturation, Nadja’s versatility will allow it to escape this fate. Aidan Baker, the project’s founder, is an insanely prolific musician under his own name, releasing solo works for such prestigious labels as Germany’s Die Stadt as well countless CD and CD-R releases all over the world. Leah Buckareff rounds out the band on bass guitar and backing vocals. While credit is owed to the likes of pioneering legends Earth and current kingpins Sunn O))) & Boris for defining the genre, Nadja takes more inspiration from artists hailing from the dark ambient and electronica fields. Passages on this latest release can be compared to saturated wall-of-ambient-noise perfected by the likes of Tim Hecker and Fennesz or Justin K. Broadrick’s Jesu project. Like earlier release Truth Becomes Death, Touched is ambient music being pushed to its breaking point, yet the overall feel is slightly gentler. Parts of the album feature the use of clean, undistorted vocals–rather unique in the genre–hinting at the sounds of such bands as Codeine, Swans, or Joe Preston’s Thrones project. In a very short time, Nadja has established itself as a band to watch due to its work ethic, prolific output, and live performances. In the past year, Nadja has managed to tour with (or open for) ISIS, Khanate, Tim Hecker, Troum, Fear Falls Burning, Helios Creed, and The End, among others.

Press Quotes “Imagine Jesu, but dosed to the gills on Prozac, a shiny happy Godfleshian dirge, or a My Bloody Valentine riff looped and repeated forever, underpinned by some Can drum loop at 16 rpm, or a Teenage Filmstars 45 played at 33. This is epic ultradoom metal, but with the metal replaced by soft billowy clouds of fuzzy distortion, the howling fury twisted into dreamlike tranquility, the blasting beats pulled apart and sprinkled here and there like percussive raindrops. This is as soft and pretty as a dirge-y drone can get while still retaining its inherent doomic mass. Utter and absolute loveliness drenched in a thick patina of crushing heaviness. Impossible but perfect.” – Aquarius Records

Selling Points • One of the forerunners of the avant metal genre. • Follow-up to 2005 debut Truth Becomes Death. • College radio mailing.

Key Markets Hometown: Toronto. Also: San Francisco, Portland, New York, Chicago, Boston

Track Listing Mutagen • Stays Demons • Incubation/Metamorphisis • Flowers of Flesh ALSO AVAILABLE

Nadja

Truth Becomes Death CD: ALI 58 (M) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Glenn Jones Against Which the Sea Continually Beats Genre: Alt Rock/Folk Label: Strange Attractors Audio House CD: SAA 46 Price Code: M

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Glenn Jones: acoustic 6 & 12-string guitars, resonator guitar

Since 1989, Glenn Jones has led Boston’s “avant-garage” instrumental rock band Cul de Sac, whose musical adventures are documented on nine albums to date. A thirty+-year devotee of the so-called “Takoma school,” Jones has written extensively on two of the steel-string guitar’s leading lights: John Fahey, with whom he was friends for nearly twenty-five years, and Robbie Basho. In 2004, Jones stepped out of the long shadow cast by Takoma’s guitar visionaries and offered his own “new possibility”–This Is the Wind That Blows It Out, an impeccable album of acoustic 6 & 12-string beauty released to rave review. Against Which the Sea Continually Beats, Jones’s second album, is an indisputable triumph of acoustic guitar composition, a reverential and innovative melding of sound and form. The eleven tunes on Against Which the Sea Continually Beats travel from Delta to Appalachia, from classical to a cinematic sort of folk sound in a language that is purely imbued in the artist’s own dialect. Graceful and subtle, resonating with confidence and power, Against Which the Sea Continually Beats is a masterpiece of “guitar soli” by a truly singular talent.

Press Quotes “Sensitivity and power that instantly communicates.” – Brainwashed “A lean and lively hound among the sheep.” – Bill Meyer, Dusted “His gorgeous, luminous settings are scored across a series of open tunings, which he threads with beautiful rolling melodies, his slide work sounding like the flutter of tiny metal butterflies.” – David Keenan, The Wire

Selling Points • Glenn Jones’s Cul de Sac is a long-running instrumental avant-rock band with ravenous cult status. • Anticipated follow-up to critically acclaimed debut. • Recently toured the US and Europe with Jack Rose, appeared both solo and with Cul de Sac at 2006’s Terrastock VI, and performed with the likes of Steffen Basho-Junghans, Max Ochs, Matt Valentine/Erika Elder, Peter Lang, Harris Newman, and James Blackshaw. • Jones contributed a track to the widely praised guitar anthology Imaginational Anthem Vol. 1 (Tompkins Square Records). • Jones penned the notes to many John Fahey reissues on Fantasy, and is curating the forthcoming Fahey 5XCD box set The Fonotone Years, slated for release on Revenant Records. • Full media campaign coordinated by Howlin’ Wuelf Media (Devendra Banhardt, Vetiver). • Radio promotion by AAM Sunday Service. • Ads will run in Arthur, The Wire, Signal to Noise, and Pitchfork.

Key Markets Hometown: Boston. Also: Portland ME, Providence, New York, Philadelphia, Memphis, Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle

Track Listing Island 1 • David and the Phoenix • Little Dog’s Day • Cady • Richard Nixon Orchid • Freedom Raga • Against My Ruin • The Teething Necklace (For John Fahey) • Heartbreak Hill • Bill Muller on the Erie Lackawanna • Island 2 ALSO AVAILABLE

Glenn Jones

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Overview “Her fragile, intimate voice recalling fellow proud Midwesterner Conor Oberst, Lenee’ leads a Tulsa outfit that’s gaining renown for spare, deeply empathetic alt-folk tunes.” –CNET Download.com Autumn Shade is the nom de plume of Jes Lenee’, a stunning young songstress brimming with unbridled talent. Toting a satchelful of pensively beautiful tunes, Lenee’ possesses a voice as pristine as any your ears have heard in this lifetime. A classically trained piano prodigy, Lenee’ was penning songs at the age of eleven, many of which won award recognition. Ultimately seduced by the craft of songwriting, Autumn Shade is a marriage of her piano prowess and folk-inspired guitar strumming. Set to splash with their full-length debut Ezra Moon, Autumn Shade has concocted a fascinating foray into an ethereal yet emotionally raw netherworld. Ezra Moon is a unique sepia-toned microcosm that intertwines folk, chamber music, psychedelia, rock, and indie singer/songwriter. With additional instrumentation of violin, hammer dulcimer, and percussion–as well as a healthy penchant for sonic Autumn Shade experimentation–the sound is reminiscent of the female artists that helped define the 4AD sound. Jes Ezra Moon Lenee’s classical roots and compositional sense invoke the avant-chamber feel of Rachel’s, if they Genre: Alt Rock were enveloped in the hazy folk atmosphere in which Marissa Nadler resides. Label: Strange Attractors Audio House CD: SAA 49 Selling Points Price Code: M • RIYL: Marissa Nadler, CocoRosie, Kendra Smith, Lisa Germano, Rachel’s, Mirah. • On tour in support of Ezra Moon Spring 2007. NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA • Full press mailing with emphasis on folk and alternative women’s magazines. Preorder • College radio mailing via AAM Sunday Service. Discount through StreetDate • MySpace promotion. • Ads will run in Arthur,The Wire, Signal to Noise,Venus, and Bust.

Key Markets Hometown: Tulsa. Also: Austin, Dallas, Oklahoma City, Omaha, Denver, Lawrence, Portland, Seattle, New York

Track Listing Sparrow • Home • Lilacglass • Violet • River • Seagarden • Spanish Willow • Fly Away • Red • Evelynstar • Ezra Moon • The Oak Tree

Overview “An often-ignored two-piece from Sweden, Last Days of April delivers a hauntingly beautiful collection of songs about love and longing with their sophomore effort. With its delicate melodies, tear-streaked lyrics, and careful layering of piano and string arrangements, Angel Youth forgoes anger for straight-up depression, providing the perfect soundtrack for sitting in your darkened room and sulking.” – Alternative Press

Last Days of April April Youth Genre: Alt Rock Label: Bad Taste Records CD: BTR 39 Price Code: M

Stockholm-based Last Days of April has been around for more than eight years now, and the band’s evolution has been astounding. After one 7” and one full-length on different Swedish labels, LDOA signed with Bad Taste in 1998 and has since released several albums. During this time, the group performed extensively, including tours with the Promise Ring and Sense Field as well as a support gig with Chris Cornell (Soundgarden) in Amsterdam. Having received critical praise worldwide, this classic emo album is nothing short of outstanding, and is finally available again!

Selling Points • Listed in Alternative Press as one of the Top Ten Records for Heartbreak Moments. • Previously released in the US by Deep Elm Records. Sold approx 4,000 copies. • Produced by Per Gunnerfeldt. • Photos and album artwork by Henrik Walse.

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From Here to Anywhere • Aspirins and Alcohol • The Days I Recall Being Wonderful • Will the Violins Be Playing? • Glowing Me Choking You • Make Friends With Time • Two Hands and Ten Fingers • Life Companion Murphy’s Law • Down the Aisle (With You) • Make Friends With Time Instrumental

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

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Minmae 835 Genre: Alt Rock Label: Greyday Productions CD: GDP 26 Price Code: O

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Sean Brooks: shortwave radio, guitar, vocals, keyboard, tenor sax, Korg MS2000 Josh Kempa: bass, vocals Chris Calvert: drums, vocals Reyna Kohl, John Mulvey: vocals

All of Minmae’s songs are facing west, toward the land of the dead. Not because the band has a fascination with the afterlife, but because, when the excavators pry open the tombs and hear the disparate sounds of this prolific band/concept, they will know that there was at least some pattern and meaning to it all. Songwriter Sean Brooks’s penchant for turning the caustic into works of morbid beauty is once again evident on Minmae’s most inspired and cohesive work to date. Following the success of 2006’s Le grand essor de la maison du monstre, Portland indie rockers Minmae return with a new album, a new line-up, and a new mission statement. 835, their ninth full-length (and third on Greyday Records), finds the band at the crossroads of experimental and pop, noise and rhythm, chaos and order. Recorded in the band’s hometown after spending four of the previous six months on the road, the fruits of a very spatially dispersed labor have culminated in a fourteen-song pop detour that documents Minmae at a peak, a phase, a transition, a beginning, and an end, all at once.

Press Quotes “Portland’s Minmae concocts bold, capable indie rock that’s as long on guitar power as it is on inventive arrangements … to put it simply, Minmae makes gold soundz for now people.” – All Music Guide “The move a few years back from San Diego to Portland was a good one for Minmae frontman Sean Brooks, whose dense, oldschool style of indie rock is often offset by moody pacings, atmospherics, and lyrical themes (imagine Smog writing less ironic songs for Pavement).” – CMJ NMM

Selling Points • Ninth full-length (five still in print). • Full three-month US tour starts in March 2006, followed by heavy touring throughout the year. • Have shared the stage with Magnolia Electric Company, Mono, The Headphones, Damien Jurado, Xiu Xiu, The Minders, Thanksgiving, Geoff Farina, Love as Laughter, and many more. • Full release & tour press campaign by Yarrr! PR. • Full college & specialty radio campaign by SPECTRE Entertainment Group. • Aggressive blog and digital service campaign. • Ads will run in Amplifier, Impose, Magnet, CMJ NMM, and more, including a variety of music blogs.

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

Track Listing Pay More • Your Band Controls the Weather • Capitols and Caliphs • Let My Friends In • Goodbye • Next Round’s On Me • He’s Not My Man (He’s Not My Jackal) • Holy Grail, Showstoppers • Recommend Me Someone • Classification Blues • Policy Blues • The Sun and Moon Show • The Sun Favors You • Ride the Lightning

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Minmae Le grand essor de la maison du monstre Genre: Alt Rock Label: Greyday Productions CD: GDP 23 Price Code: L

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New for 2006 from Portland’s Minmae, Monstre is eleven esoteric riddles buried in song–instructions for the road-weary, therapy for the motionless traveler, comprehension of the incomprehensible, form in the void.

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Minmae I’d Be Scared,Were You Still Burning

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Various Artists 20 Nights of Wine and Song

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Greyday Productions CD: GDP 17 Price Code: L

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Minmae’s 2005 opus bobs and weaves through styles and sounds, speeding like a glacier under Bush administration environmental policy. Eleven indie rock anthems will leave you possibly a bit confused but definitely musically sated.

Fourteen tracks from fourteen Greyday artists past, present, and future: Minmae, LKN, Books on Tape, John Larsen, Piney Gir, Leaving Rouge, and several more.

Overview “His voice ranges from almost a full-on yell at times to a near whisper at others, propelling his powerful and complex lyrics. He breathes life into forgotten museum articles, state routes, and fictional saints, among many other things in these tales … this is a meditative, thoughtful record you can also play loud and smile with at times, and that’s a true accomplishment.” — Centerfuse.net

Jon Crocker 7 Days, 6 Nights Genre: Alt Rock Label: Greydawn Records CD: GDW 5 Price Code: L

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Jon Crocker’s newest release has taken many years to complete. The amount of care is evident, with songs ranging from short to very long, the instrumentation from a solitary voice to an orchestra of moaning guitars, clanging pianos, and surging organ. The songs are passionate and well-crafted pieces dealing with frustration, fear, hope, celebration, and the loss of innocence. The concept of the album is very simple: there is a song for every day of the week, each of which is followed by a nocturne (an instrumental piece of night music). The songs are not about the days themselves, but aim to capture the feeling and character of each day. The album definitely falls on the experimental side of the fence, treading a fine line between rock ‘n’ roll, folk, and classical styles.

Selling Points · Extensive tours planned for 2007. · Regional press and college radio campaign. · Tour press and radio campaign.

Key Markets Hometown: Portland. Also: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Kansas City, Omaha, Chicago, Milwaukee

Track Listing Monday + Nocturne · Tuesday + Nocturne · Wednesday + Nocturne · Thursday + Nocturne · Friday + Nocturne · Saturday + Nocturne · Sunday STREET DATE MARCH 13, 2007

Loch Lomond Lament for Children Genre: Alt Rock Label: HUSH Records CD: HSH 69 Price Code: I

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Ritchie Young: vocals, guitar, percussion/Peter Broderick: drums, violin, mandolin, saw, theremin, vocals/Jonathan Drews: bass, guitar, vocals/Laurel Simmons: piano, celeste, vocals/Heather Broderick: cello, piano, celeste, vocals/Evan B Harris: banjovi, celeste, accordion, melodica, vocals/Justin Ringle: trumpet, vocals/Jade Eckler: vocals/Amanda Lawrence: viola, vocals

Loch Lomond started as Ritchie Young’s solo recording project in 2003. With the help of engineer/producer Rob Oberdorder,Young crafted the first Loch Lomond album, When We Were Mountains (In Music We Trust Records). Over the next few years, Loch Lomond performed around Portland and the Pacific Northwest in various incarnations. Live performances ranged from Young by himself to a tenperson band. During this time, many different recording sessions took place in various studios and homes. These recordings were eventually compiled on an EP called Lament for Children in early 2006. In the latter half of 2006, Loch Lomond solidified into a nine-person band, and the group is now busy rehearsing, writing, and scheduling dates to record its second full-length album. Loch Lomond will be on the road between recording times, with some shows utilizing the full line-up and others as a condensed but equally powerful version of the band.

Press Quotes “The hopeless tone in Ritchie Young’s voice tells of a terrible life of unfortunate circumstances. Even the old Scottish folk song from which Loch Lomond takes its name is the story of a broken heart and the springtime weather that does nothing to heal it. It works, though, because Young’s voice–with its gloomy, morose manner–needs the subhuman relief that noise readily provides. Ultimately it is a record wallowing in its own despair as much as it is a record that took great, inspired care to make–and it’s definitely a record to avoid after a breakup.” – Rolling Stone “Heavy, melancholic, and truly a thing of beauty. Each song is wrapped around Ritchie Young’s distinctive lilt, the most beautiful vocal of any male singer in this city. Look out for ‘Virgin Mountain,’ which not only explores the idea of leveling towering, craggy masses, but probably could do so itself.” – Willamette Week “Slow, deliberate, and tense, Loch Lomond creates a dark yet pretty audio picture … sounds a bit like Smashing Pumpkins in their heartfelt moments … [but also] resembles a cross between Supertramp and Elliott Smith on the acoustic opening moments.” – All Music Guide HHHH

Selling Points • Loch Lomond is utterly captivating onstage, selling out Portland’s mid-sized venues. • Features members of Norfolk & Western and Horse Feathers. • Booked by Seattle’s Invisible Cities Booking, Loch Lomond will tour nationally in Spring 2007. • Full PR campaign to over one hundred media outlets. • Full college radio mailing by AAM. • Service to over one hundred blogs. • 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, Iowa City, Boise, Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louis, Austin, Denton, Tucson, Phoenix, New York, Athens, Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Chapel Hill, Ann Arbor, Madison, Providence, Tampa, Reno, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City

Track Listing Bird and Bear • Tic • Spine • Grandad and Toothache • Nelson • Virgin Mountain • I Love Me • Mother’s Turned to Salt

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Novi Split Pink in the Sink Genre: Alt Rock Label: HUSH Records CD: HSH 66 Price Code: N

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Featured Artists David Jerkovich: guitar, vocal, drums, bass, percussion, piano, keyboards Jens Fleming: drums Jeff Rolfredo: upright bass Michael Rozon: pedal steel guitar

Overview

David Jerkovich has done something rare. Over the last three years, while variously working as a longshoreman and a touring band member, he has created a radiant jewel of an album in near obscurity. Well, okay, he is an outright sensation in Adelaide, Australia, and he recorded the imminently likable debut Keep Moving on Sunset Alliance, but damn! This is the kind of album that can cure today’s hypershort attention span the nation over. The songs just don’t get old. Why? It’s that je ne sais quois that beguiles every hopeful songwriter. Is Jerkovich the next Dylan or Bright Eyes or Springsteen? No. Does he have a magnetic, classic songwriting style? You bet. Does he have more raw musical talent in his pinky than most So-Cal hipsters have in their fashionably clad bodies? Probably. But Novi Split is not about differences. It is an olive branch. And for all its meticulous production, the songs still feel simple, reliable, and refreshing. Themes of infatuation, love, addiction, betrayal, co-dependence, and isolation are treated with tenderness and the clarity of hindsight. Jerkovich has performed as one half of Kind of Like Spitting, and is now a secret weapon in L.A.’s Ill Lit. He has learned a lot from traversing the country’s stages, and while his amiable demeanor is a foil for other songwriters, he holds his own songs close to the chest until they are 100% done.

Press Quotes “Distinctly potent pop nuggets. The songwriting is calm but deceptively intricate–the lyrics, meanwhile, are heartfelt and emotional. At times the band sounds like Guided By Voices, while at others they tend towards Sparklehorse tendencies.” – Indieville “Elliott Smith is gone, but Novi Split has skillfully taken his place as the new ‘great acoustic hope,’ returning honesty, passion, and skillful songwriting to the acoustic guitar.” – Independent Clauses “Novi Split prominently features two members of Kind of like Spitting, and while it’s clearly not exactly the same music, the general sound should be familiar to fans of the other band. It’s a similarly stripped-down style of nakedly emotional music–the kind of stuff that all the pop-punkers with shaggy hair have given such a bad name.” – In Your Ear

Selling Points • Novi Split is the solo project of David Jerkovich, a member of L.A.’s Ill Lit and Portland’s Kind of Like Spitting. • Novi Split will tour internationally throughout 2007. • Full PR campaign to over one hundred media outlets. • Full college radio mailing by AAM. • Service to over one hundred blogs. • Ads will run in ReadyMade, Magnet, Resonance,Venus, Under the Radar, Pitchfork, Skyscraper, Rockpile, and more.

Track Listing You Got Served • Voices Carrie • California Skies • Crazy in Love • Doctor • Leaving It • Julie • Open • Settled Down • Lights Out • Young Girls

STREET DATE MARCH 13, 2007

Dat’r Turn Up the Ghosts Genre: Alt Rock Label: HUSH Records CD: HSH 67 Price Code: N

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Matt Dabrowiak: laptop production, drums, synth, percussion, retro game controller Paul Alcott: guitar, bass, synth, vocals, dual shock controller

Dat’r has set the school on fire! Who needs school when you can have Dat’r! Who needs religion when you can have science! Who needs boredom when you can have fun! Dat’r takes all the ones and zeroes floating in the air from wireless phones and satellite transmissions and puts all that data into its machines, mixing it with dirty samples of copy machines! And funnnnnnnky snare beats! They’ll teach you all you need to know about how the world works! Dat’r! Featuring Binary Dolls members Matt Dabrowiak and Paul Alcott, Dat’r operates like an assembly line for funk. Data goes in, the skronk gets turned up, the “fucking around” gets turned down, and a steady stream of dance music vibrates the air all the way to your eardrums. The band has rave-y, circular rhythms, as if Talking Heads, !!!, and Midnite Vultures-era Beck all met in a meth lab and threw a party. Dat’r is a two-person band with a laptop, keyboards, electric guitar, and live percussion. If you are the immovable object, they are the irresistible force … and they will win.

Press Quotes “Electro-funk two-piece Dat’r led four or five dozen sandaled and bare feet into literally dancing up a dust cloud while a fog machine covered the band in the back yard. Occasional old-school instruments like live cymbals kept the performance raw, as did Paul Alcott’s ability to vocally match an extremely high-pitched, electronically generated squeal, breaking away from his gadgets to shake a leg with a mic whenever possible.” – Willamette Week “See some of Portland’s most marketable exports … [including] openers Dat’r, whose music is appealingly infectious and air-headed, like a high-kick contest fueled by Sparks.” – Portland Mercury

Selling Points • Dat’r is two-thirds of the well-regarded Binary Dolls, who have released two lauded albums and toured extensively. • Dat’r will tour in Spring 2007. They have shared the stage with Portland notables Talkdemonic, The Joggers, Boy Eats Drum Machine, and many more. • Dat’r is the only band on the circuit with three game controllers manipulating the playback sounds during their exciting live sets! • Full PR campaign to over one hundred media outlets. • Full college radio mailing by AAM. • Service to over one hundred blogs. • Ads will run in ReadyMade, Magnet, Resonance,Venus, Under the Radar, Pitchfork, Skyscraper, Rockpile, and more.

Track Listing Turn Up the Ghosts Part I • Turn Up the Ghosts Part II • Yellow Cake • Innercom/Inner Calm • !Um !Hot • Steam Room • Silica • The Bloody Lump • Choice Cuts in Sauce

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Overview “Hands-down one of our new wintry pop favorites.” – Seattle Weekly Night Canopy is the desolate, radiant concoction of Amy Blaschke and Pretty Girls Make Graves drummer Nick DeWitt. Live, they also add Jenny Jiménez, formerly of The Catch. The group’s songs are dusky and swell in a lucid dreaming way, holding you with Patsy Cline’s quaint isolation. Also present are remnants of Cat Power and Azure Ray’s stylistic tics. Live, Blaschke’s vocals cut with a songbird’s clarity as her partner DeWitt alternates between almost all the instruments onstage.

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Night Canopy Of Honey and Country

• Features Pretty Girls Make Graves drummer Nick DeWitt. • Amy Blaschke has a solid fan base due to her solo albums on Luckyhorse Industries. • 2006 tours with Pretty Girls Make Graves and She Wants Revenge. • Radio and press promotion through AAM. • Ads will run in Alternative Press,Venus, and Bust

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Go Midnight CD: GMD 4 Price Code: L

Key Markets Hometown: Seattle. Also: Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Chicago, Lawrence, Omaha, New York, Atlanta, Cleveland, Detroit

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Rope, Inc. Songs of Love & War Genre: Alt Rock Label: Second Shimmy CD: SES 102 Price Code: O

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This collection of eleven songs composed by Matt Menovcik (Saeta) and produced by Kramer are brutally quiet and perfectly presented–a deftly assembled marriage of seventies-era Eno and Beck at his very best. The ultra-eroticism of Menovcik’s vocal performances form the bedrock of this collaboration, focused and drawn to a series of subtle points by Shimmy-Disc founder Kramer’s production genius. Although remembrances of Neu! and Joy Division will pepper the listener’s experience upon first listen, the graphic sound-poems found on Rope, Inc.’s haunting debut full-length find a haunting originality in both voice and production. With Menovcik recording his electric piano, vocals, and loops in Seattle and Kramer adding arrangements, instrumentation, and some of his most stunning guitar work in Florida, Songs of Love & War will keep the listener’s attention long past bedtime.

Selling Points • Matt Menovcik is the composer & singer for Saeta, produced by Steve Albini and Kramer. • Producer/arranger Kramer is ex-Bongwater, Galaxie 500, Low, Daniel Johnston. • Debut EP Is That All? released on Fish the Cat Records in October 2006. • Publicity by NAIL Media.

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Overview “Jumps the fence of Rock & Roll High School, the ATX quartet bruising runaways all, shaving when The Donnas were still leading cheers.” – Austin Chronicle Sparkle Motion is a new band from Austin composed of former members of Slum City and The Applicators–great, female-fronted punk reminiscent of Nikki and the Corvettes on the sugary tracks and hardcore elements on other tracks. The album contains ten original songs and one cover, “Kill Someone You Hate” by Red Kross. A vinyl EP released in late 2006 provided a preview of this great album, and received very good press from Maximum Rock ‘n’ Roll, Now Wave, and the Austin Chronicle.

Selling Points • Radio promotion through AAM Sunday Service. • Regional tour in Summer 2007. • Reviews in Austin Chronicle, MRR, Punk Planet, and more. • Ads will run in MRR, Razorcake, Punk Planet, and Pop Culture Press (with a track appearing on their compilation).

Key Markets Hometown: Austin. Also: Dallas, Houston, El Paso, San Antonio, Oklahoma City, Kansas City, Albuquerque, Chicago, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Omaha, Seattle, Portland

Sparkle Motion Sparkle Motion Genre: Punk Label: Super Secret Records CD: SSE 19 Price Code: O

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Overview “If you were ever a fan of the Violent Femmes, Dead Milkmen, or Calibretto 13, then you won’t want to miss Harley Poe. Lyrically, the songs cover a gamut of stories, from cheating lovers to transvestite cannibals … all in manner that will either leave you laughing out loud or wondering just what the hell is wrong with this guy.” – Urban Tulsa Weekly Harley Poe continues its tradition of hand-clapping, foot-stomping gothic sing-alongs by teaming up with Dead Vampires to deliver a follow-up to recent live disc The Dead and The Naked. This split CD features pristine studio recordings and new variations of four tracks contained on The Dead and The Naked, along with six brand-new tracks from Seattle’s Dead Vampires.

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Harley Poe and the Dead Vampires Split Genre: Punk Label: Standard Recording Co. CD: STD 1034 Price Code: N

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• Split CD release appeals to the fan bases of two hard-touring bands. • Follow-up to Harley Poe’s The Dead and The Naked and In the Dark. • Full-color digipak. • Service to retail, college & high school radio, and commercial specialty stations. • Tour publicity will focus on news outlets in tour cities February–June 2007. • In-house publicity will target key national publications (Rue Morgue, Decapolis), podcasters, and blogs.

Key Markets Hometown: Indianapolis, Seattle. Also: Ft. Wayne, Chicago, Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Austin, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Phoenix, Denver, Boulder, Portland, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Boise, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Detroit, Ann Arbor, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Louisville, Knoxville, Nashville, Memphis, St. Louis, Kansas City

Track Listing Harley Poe: Olivia • What’s a Devil to Do? • I Could Always Eat Your Brain • Corpse Grinding Man • Dead Vampires: Maria and the Country Exorcism • Halloween Town • Monster Radio • Blood Poisoning • Grave Danger • Closed Casket

Overview “Absolutely beautiful and moving, at times soaring, at times hushed … this is a fantastic work.” – Delusions of Adequacy 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. The band has come into its own, and this is the landmark album that the recent EP hinted at: eclectic and ambitious, enthralling and intimate.

Selling Points • US tour in Spring 2007. • Recently toured with M. Ward, and are currently performing as his backing band. • Have also toured with Sparklehorse, The Decemberists, and Devotchka. • 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.

Norfolk & Western The Unsung Colony Genre: Alt Rock Label: Jealous Butcher LP: JLO 58 Price Code: N NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Key Markets Hometown: Portland. Also: Madison, Spokane, New York, Minneapolis, Chicago, Washington DC, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle

Track Listing The Longest Stare • The Shortest Stare • Barrels On Fire • How To Reel In • The New Rise of Labor • Rehearsing La Dolce Vita • Arrangements Made • Drifter • Banish All Rock • Atget Wealtz • From the Interests of Few • The Longest Stare (Reprise)

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The Fall Reformation Post T.L.C. [Enhanced] Genre: Alt Rock Label: Narnack Records CD: NNK 7044 Price Code: N

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Featured Artists Mark E. Smith: vocals Eleni Poulou: keyboards, vocals Rob Barbato, Dave Spurr: bass Tim Presley: guitar Orpheo McCord: drums

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Take a step back to the boiling summer of 2006. The Fall had just successfully completed three out of sixteen US tour dates when suddenly, controversy struck. As Mark E. Smith and keyboardist/wife Eleni Poulou slept soundly in their Phoenix hotel, the band’s guitarists and drummer hopped on an international flight back to the UK in an angry huff. It’s still uncertain what happened in the desert that May, but whatever it was, it helped take The Fall in a refreshing new direction. Smith and Poulou decided to move on with the tour, a new group of backing musicians were dispatched (a group of Americans?!), and eventually the puzzle pieces fell into place. The tour continued, their scheduled recording session in L.A. was completed, and the end result was The Fall’s latest full length, Reformation Post T.L.C. Featuring twelve brand-new tunes set comfortably in angst-soaked garage rock mortar, Reformation Post T.L.C. stands as proof that it takes a lot more than some screwy controversy to stop the fate of Mark E. Smith. Emerging from working-class Manchester, The Fall formed in 1976 after vocalist and incomparably acid-tongued lyricist Mark E. Smith decided he wanted a more personal vessel for his words, ideas, and obsessions with literature. Many albums and member changes later, Mark E. Smith has lead The Fall into becoming what many critics consider to be the most prolific band of the British punk movement. With his philosophical wordplay, knowledge of appealing song structure, and bitterly controversial personality, Mark E. Smith has managed to front a band with not only a cult following, but an impressive record of success on both the UK and US charts.

Press Quotes “A furious rhythmic juggernaut of churning guitar, bass, and drums while the free association of images really sticks.” – Under the Radar “Overall The Fall remain, ever shockingly, in excellent form.” – Pitchfork “A brutal, head-banging rock beast.” – BBC

Selling Points • Enhanced CD includes live videos for “My Door,” “Scenario,” “Hungry Freaks Daddy,”and “Mountain Energei” (all from the Hiro Ballroom in NYC November 2006), as well as “Blindness” (taken from their Southpaw show in June 2006). • Received amazing pre-release coverage from Pitchfork, Spin, and Rolling Stone, all of which are greatly anticipating the new album. • 2005 track “Blindness” currently featured in Mitsubishi ad campaign. • Sold out almost every venue on last summer’s US tour, as well as the Hiro Ballroom during this year’s CMJ Marathon. • Press will be handled by Narnack and an outsourced publicity team. • College radio by AAM. • Ads will run in Magnet, Harp, Arthur, Bust, and more.

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

Track Listing Over! Over! • Reformation • Fall Sound • White Line Fever • Insult Song • My Door Is Always Open • Coach and Horses • Scenario • Das Bootuboat • Tim Song • Systematic Abuse • Enhanced Video Content: My Door • Scenario • Hungry Freaks Daddy • Mountain Energei • Blindness ALSO AVAILABLE

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Jessica Rylan Interior Designs Genre: Experimental Label: Important Records CD: IPT 134 Price Code: P NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Jessica Rylan: Serge Modular synth, various homemade synths

Jessica Rylan (you may know her better as Can’t) is finally releasing her first officially published instrumental work for synthesizer. Titled Interior Designs, these compositions are more “classic” in nature than her work as Can’t. Inspired by Pauline Oliveros, Eliane Radigue, Iannis Xenakis, and especially Thomas Lehn, Rylan confidently takes her place among these monumental artists with a collection of strikingly original pieces recorded on a Serge Modular in addition to analog synthesizers that Rylan built. Jessica Rylan is a sound artist and electronic musician who lives and works in the Boston area. She builds unique synthesizers for installations and live performance. Her music incorporates the intuition of folk music with the techniques of the avant-garde. Rylan was featured in the PBS documentary Greater Boston Arts in March 2003. She has created sound installations at the List Visual Arts Center at MIT, the Boston Center for the Arts, Harvard University, and the Berwick Research Institute. She earned an MFA in electronic music from Bard College and has received grants from the Penny McCall Foundation and LEF Foundation. She is currently a Research Affiliate at MIT’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies. Rylan has performed across the US, Eastern Canada, Scandinavia, and Western Europe. She has shared the stage with Thurston Moore, Wolf Eyes, Lightning Bolt, Emil Beaulieau, Prurient, Hrvatski, Magik Markers, Mouthus, Tim Barnes, Charalambides, Amps for Christ, and Chris Corsano.

Press Quotes “A revelatory marriage of avant-garde form and intuitive, almost diarist-style folk documentation.” – The Wire

Selling Points • Jessica Rylan is a highly respected member of the American experimental underground as well as a studied and active modern composer. • Debut recording under her own name. • Interior Designs is Rylan’s first official documentation of her work for solo synthesizer, which falls historically in a lineage of pioneering minimalist artists including Pauline Oliveros, Eliane Radigue, Iannis Xenakis, and Thomas Lehn. • Promotional mailing by Important Records. • Ads will run in The Wire.

Key Markets Hometown: Boston. Also: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Providence, Albany

Track Listing Extraordinary • Timeless • Phantasia • Interior Designs

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Larsen & Friends Abeceda Genre: Alt Rock Label: Important Records CD+DVD: IPT 129 Price Code: 2E NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists David Michael Tibet: vocals Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo: guitar, electric viola Jòhann Jòhannsson: electric organ, laptop Baby Dee: harp, piano Julia Kent: cello Marco “il Bue” Schiavo: drums, glockenspiel Paolo Dellapiana: electronics, accordion, shruti-box, theremin Roberto Maria Clemente: guitar Overview This CD+DVD set captures an extremely special evening for Larsen–one that places them in a perfect visual and musical perspective, revealing more than a little about this enigmatic quartet from Torino, Italy. For one night only, Larsen assembled their closest musical friends to play to a sold-out crowd at the Teatro Colosseo in Torino. The purpose of the performance was to pay tribute to the work of Czech avant-garde designer, typographer, founder of Devestil, and cultural radical Karel Teige and his Abeceda, a 1926 collaboration with poet Vitoslav Nezva that minimalized text down to its basic components, establishing a poetic dialogue between text and images. Larsen brings minimalist beauty and melody with a live performance incorporating music, dance, and projections. Joining the group are friends David Tibet (Current 93), Baby Dee (Current 93), and Jòhann Jòhannsson (Touch/4AD). The music swells in gentle pulses of softly stated melody, and emotion clings to each note while glistening shimmers of electronics dance quietly in the mix. The DVD reminds us of what a rich visual experience Abeceda was, and still is. As The Wire so perfectly put it, David Tibet’s performance “provides a vital link between the music and the visuals.” Thanks to Larsen’s definitive discipline and kindred visual & musical collaborators, Abeceda is an event of great subtlety and complexity. It is truly a gift that this performance was so perfectly documented in both an audio and visual format. Where the work of Karel Teige was a tremendous gift for the eyes, Larsen & Friend’s Abeceda is a gift for both the eyes and the ears.

Press Quotes “While Larsen themselves sit impassively as their compositions unfurl it’s clear that their onstage collaborators are strongly affected by the richly emotional music emerging, with their own contributions seeming to articulate its latent drama and passion. A fascinating and frequently beautiful event.” – The Wire

Selling Points • Features David Tibet of Current 93 as well as Jòhann Jòhannsson, who has released acclaimed recordings on Touch and 4AD. • Also features Baby Dee (Current 93) and Julia Kent (Antony & The Johnsons). • Promotional mailing by Important Records. • Ads will run in The Wire.

Key Markets Austin, Albuquerque, Las Vegas, Tucson, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Montreal, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Asheville

Track Listing Part 1 • Part 2 • Part 3 • Part 4 • Part 5 • Part 6 • Part 7 • Part 8 • Part 9 ALSO AVAILABLE

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Overview “If you’re troubled by the retrograde state of guitar-based music, Larsen warrants your attention.” – All Music Guide

Larsen MUSM II Genre: Alt Rock Label: Important Records CD: IPT 135 Price Code: P NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Originally released as a limited edition CD for Larsen’s 2003 US tour, then re-issued one year later on vinyl by Seattle-based label Enterruption, MUSM has since been out of print. Finally, Important Records is making it officially available again in a new revised and expanded version with six extra tracks and brand new artwork. MUSM II includes all the non-album tracks that Larsen has released since their first full-length. No Arms, No Legs, Identification Problems was recorded and produced by Martin Bisi in 1996, and is now almost impossible to find. Two ambient tracks and a brand-new editing of some sounds from the album represent it here. Also includes four previously unreleased mixes from the album Rever (produced by Michael Gira), the award-winning soundtracks to short animated movies by Winsor McCay, compilation tracks, collaborations with Julia Kent (Antony & The Johnsons), and an odd version of Syd Barrett’s “Vegetable Man.”

Selling Points • Contains out-of-print album MUSM as well as many impossible-to-find Larsen tracks. • Includes contributions from Julia Kent (Antony & The Johnsons). • Features tracks produced by Michael Gira. • Promotional mailing by Important Records. • Ads will run in The Wire.

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Austin, Albuquerque, Las Vegas, Tucson, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Pittsburgh, Montreal, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Asheville

Track Listing Montage • Heidi 037 • Rebirth • Impro #2 (alt mix) • Mentre (alt mix) • Intermezzo (alt mix) • Impro #1 (instrumental mix) • Little Nemo • How a Mosquito Operates • The Sinking of the Lusitania • Gertie on Tour • The Centaurus • Vegetable Man • Ogham the Melody • Il Sogno di Momi • Rehearsal #1

Overview “There is no need to argue: Merzbow stands as the most important artist in noise music.” – All Music Guide Author, activist, painter, and sound artist Masami Akita has been at the foreground of experimental music for over twenty-five years. Inspired by psychedelic rock, free jazz, and early electronic composition as well the physical arts (especially Kurt Schwitters’s Merzbau), Masami Akita has created a musical language all his own. Merzbear, the sixth Merzbow release in his utterly essential Merz series for Important Records, pulses and pounds with distorted droning guitar feedback, pulsing noise blasts, and the swirling analog sounds of Akita’s distinct EMS Synthi. Like most of Merzbow’s recordings, Merzbear is a significant document of his ever-evolving improvisational style. Slowly, he’s been moving away from his pure laptop era and re-incorporating elements of his pre-laptop analog days with a homemade junk guitar, EMS Synthi, and electronics. This hybrid sound brings the past Merzbow Merzbear into the present and pounds with total junk-collage Dada urgency as only Masami Akita can do it. Genre: Experimental Cover art by Jenny Akita. Label: Important Records CD: IPT 136 Selling Points Price Code: P • Merzbow is widely recognized as a massive figure in modern electronic music. • Part of Merzbow’s ongoing Merz series on Important Records. • Merzbow also releases albums on critically heralded experimental labels such as Mego, Sub Rosa, NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA Alien8, and Tzadik. • Press mailing by Important Records. • Ads will run in The Wire.

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

Track Listing Merzbear Pt 1 • Merzbear Pt 2 • Merzbear Pt 3 • Merzbear Pt 4

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Merzbow Merzbuta

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Overview Poste E Telegrafi is the debut solo album from Italian guitarist Alessandro Stefana. Featuring an allstar cast including Mark Ribot and Leo Abrahams, Stefana creates a dreamy world of instrumental perfection and beauty. Inspired by the work of Ennio Morricone, Ry Cooder, Simon Jeffes, Steve Reich, and Brian Eno, he has created a thoroughly modern Western world within his compositions and arrangements. With constant references to traditional music and rural blues, he utilizes electric and acoustic instrumentation with tremendously compelling results. Acoustic, electric, and pedal steel guitars along with banjo, kalimba, baliphones, and found objects were all carefully combined with primitive electronic instruments such as an arpeggiator, omnichord, and homemade vinyl loops. Stefana’s sound is entirely original, yet clearly rooted in traditions such as film music, blues, experimental, ambient, and avant-garde. Most tracks on Poste E Telegrafi are duets, with his guests keeping the sounds and arrangements simple and pure. To call this a “promising debut” would be to dismiss the tremendous success delivered by Poste E Telegrafi.

Selling Points • Brilliant debut recording of an entirely original Italian guitar player and composer. • Features Mark Ribot (Tom Waits, John Zorn, Elvis Costello), Leo Abrahams (Brian Eno, Paul Simon, Grace Jones), Marco Parente (Anne Waldaman, John Giorno, Alejandro Jodorowsky), Enrico Gabrielli (Afterhours, Mariposa), Vinzenzo Vasi (collaborations with John Zorn, Otomo Yoshihide, Cyro Baptista), and Davide Tidoni (composer and electroacoustic musician). • Press mailing by Important Records. • Ads will run in The Wire.

Alessandro Stefana Poste E Telegrafi Genre: Avant Rock Label: Important Records CD: IPT 138 Price Code: P NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Key Markets New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Portland

Track Listing Western Soda • Semi Tostati di Cielo • Sun Motel • Poste e Telegrafi Blues • Fiori Campionati • La Costola di Garopaba • Titoli di Coda

Overview “The Go-Betweens brush up against the Free Design; Belle & Sebastian get tangled up in Blue Aeroplanes. The album delivers heaven from the get-go … a giant-sized pop outfit that proves success doesn’t mean imitation so much as inspiration.” – Magnet Over the last seven years, Minneapolis-based pop group Walker Kong has been on a mission to pour silver icing over a raw collection of mega-hits. Their latest album, Deliver Us From People, brilliantly captures the band’s live shambolic glory while continuing to integrate the highly reflective sound present on their two previous full-lengths. Exploring the relationship between animals and humans in modern times, Deliver Us From People is nothing less than a rave-up brimming with eternal love, fatal sacrifice, and the wonderful tragedy of symbiosis.

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Selling Points • Walker Kong is very popular with critics, and has a large fan base in Minneapolis. • Touring will follow album release. • Full radio mailing by Vitriol Promotion. • Full press mailing by Magic Marker. • Ads will run in Big Takeover, Magnet, Insound, and Pitchfork.

Key Markets Hometown: Minneapolis. Also: Chicago, New York

Track Listing Change Your Mind • We Are the Falling Stars • The Waiting Room • Lonesome Eyes • Andy Warhol & The Honey Bees • Cloudy Girl of the Western World • Metamorphosis Blues • Belmont, 1973 • Las Vegas Son • Don’t Give It Up • Oh Jackie

Transparent Life

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The Wrens/The Five Mod Four Split

Urban Legends Of Old Lost Days

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Three exclusive Wrens tracks–one dark and melodic, one quick and tense, and one dense collage. Four exclusive Five Mod Four tracks, full of jittery Elvis Costello/Modern Lovers pop goodness.

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The pop/folk project founded by Hutch Harris of The Thermals. Singles and home recordings from 1997 to 2002–19 tracks in all– available on CD for the first time!

Lesser Birds of Paradise Space Between

Branches Grown in You

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Contraphonic CD: CTP 56 Price Code: O

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Organic folk-pop, full of sonic experiments and nontraditional instruments. Sparse, yet bold. Third full-length from this acclaimed Chicago trio.

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Second album showcases quirky songwriting, bubbly guitar, jazz drumming, and colorful arrangements that scream “Chicago.” Rolling grooves and breezy folk-rock charm.

New Grenada Modern Problems

Crush Kill Destroy Metric Midnight

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A bold conglomeration of dynamic rhythms, thundering riffs, soaring synths, and lilting vocals that alternate between male melodicism and female snarling. Recorded by Steve Albini.

Aggressive, confident, angular rock music. Guitars strangle one another in an almost telepathic fury. Chicago (via Ann Arbor) quartet’s third album.

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Escape from Dragon House

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Morning 40 Federation

Ticonderoga

M80

147

824247014725

Baby Teeth

Simp, The

LUJ

751937296225

Baby Teeth

Baby Teeth Album, The

LUJ

751937267027

N/A

Baby Teeth

For the Heathers

CDEP

LUJ

751937281528

N/A

Nadja

Touched

ALI

777078916723

N/A

Nadja

Truth Becomes Death

ALI

777078912435

N/A

Jones, Glenn

Against Which the Sea Continually Beats

SAA

789856304622

Jones, Glenn

This is the Wind that Blows It Out

SAA

789856302420

N/A

Autumn Shade

Ezra Moon

SAA

789856304929

Last Days of April

Angel Youth

BTR

7330169666391

Last Days of April

If You Lose It

BTR

7330169666766

N/A

Minmae

835

GDP

619981214223

Minmae

Le grand essor de la maison du monstre

GDP

619981185226

10%

Minmae

I’d Be Scared, Were You Still Burning

GDP

619981159029

10%

Various Artists

20 Nights of Wine and Song

GDP

619981175623

10%

Crocker, Jon

7 Days, 6 Nights

GDW

619981219525

Loch Lomond

Lament for Children

HSH

634479370182

Novi Split

Pink in the Sink

HSH

837101289375

Dat’r

Turn Up the Ghosts

HSH

678277126626

Night Canopy

Of Honey and Country

GMD

751937298922

Rope, Inc.

Songs of Love & War

SES

102

723721274757

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Sparkle Motion S/T

SSE

825479049028

Harley Poe/Dead Vampires

Split

STD

1034

666973103430

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JLO

633914006211

N/A

Norfolk & Western

Gilded Age, The

JLO

633914002824

N/A

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Reformation Post T.L.C. [ENHANCED]

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7044

825807704421

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Real New Fall LP, The

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7018

825807701826

N/A

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Fall Heads Roll

NNK

7033

825807703325

N/A

Fall, The

I Can Hear the Grass Grow

CDEP

NNK

7034

825807703424

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793447513423

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DISC

CD+DVD

IPT

129

793447512921

N/A

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793447504322

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CDEP

IPT

793447507224

N/A

Larsen

MUSM II

IPT

135

793447513522

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136

793447513621

N/A

Merzbow

Merzbuta

IPT

793447507026

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Poste E Telegrafi

IPT

138

793447512839

N/A

Walker Kong

Deliver Us From People

MMK

678277128422

Walker Kong

Transparent Life

MMK

678277074828

N/A

Wrens/Five Mod Four

Split

CTP

723721185855

10%

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Of Old Lost Days

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616892831327

10%

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Space Between

CTP

616892819721

10%

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Grown in You

CTP

616892826323

10%

New Grenada

Modern Problems

CTP

616892809524

10%

Crush Kill Destroy

Metric Midnight

NOK

616892684022

10%

New Radiant Storm King

Leftover Blues 1991-2003

CTP

723721186050

10%

Five Mod Four

Whiskers

CTP

616892695127

10%

Branches

Branches S/T

CTP

876585000014

10%

Ten Words for Snow

D-na

CTP

616892670025

10%

El Oso

Whichever Chapter Covers Now

CTP

876585000007

10%

Sounds Like Braille

Right Out of Left Field

CTP

723721186258

10%

Box Social, The

Blown to Bits

NOK

616892667223

10%

Slackjaw

Darkest Hour

NOK

711574462322

10%

Traindodge

Torch EP + 2

CDEP

NOK

616892648826

10%

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