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NEW RELEASES APRIL 2007 STREET DATES 4-10-07 & 4-24-07

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INSIDE: Billy Martin & John Medeski • David S. Ware Quartet • William Parker / Hamid Drake • Lesbians on Ecstacy The Flying Luttenbachers • Growing • AWOL One • The Toasters • The Teeth • Smegma • Pauline Oliveros

Billy Martin & John Medeski Mago Genre: Jazz/Rock Label: Amulet CD: AME 26 Price Code: M File Under: MMW

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Featured Artists John Medeski: Hammond B3 organ Billy Martin: drums

Overview

John Medeski and Billy Martin started their historic musical partnership over fifteen years ago when Martin invited Medeski to come to his Brooklyn loft studio and play duets. This session resulted in the formation of Medeski Martin and Wood in 1991. But, the two never forgot that initial two-hour jam session, and discussed making a duet record in the future. This is their first duet album together, and Medeski uses the Hammond B3 foot pedals as bass accompaniment to their unique, soulful groove inventions. The album contains several hooky funk tracks and a few intense exploratory improvisations that will blow anyone’s socks off.

Press Quotes “John Medeski [is an] organist extraordinaire.” — NPR “With a steady base as one-third of the renowned experimental jazz trio Medeski, Martin and Wood, drummer Billy Martin has become one of the most forward-thinking, innovative, and influential percussionists in the music world.” — All Music Guide “Call us crazy, but MMW may be one of the great untapped resources in hip-hop. They develop ideas coolly and carefully, have an incredible sense of space, and when they improvise—with Medeski’s keys skipping and dancing flirtatiously through Martin’s drums and Wood’s elastic low-end—they do so together, pushing and teasing each other’s solos rather than merely framing them.” — Associated Press “Medeski, Martin and Wood presents the possibilities of jazz to a generation familiar with the iPod, text messaging, and dubs. While traditionalists minimalize their musical merit, it remains difficult to ignore the trio’s profound connection with contemporary culture.” — All About Jazz “MMW choose their ingredients carefully, having honed their search-and-deconstruct techniques to razor sharpness. The resultant … flavors—complicated, spicy, sweet, and sour—offer much to savor.” — Rolling Stone

Selling Points • The first funky-free duets CD from these famed champions of the organ and drums. • A Medeski Martin & Wood fan’s cream dream! • John Medeski and Billy Martin will tour as a duet in support of this album. • Hysterical fans will wander the streets wondering, “Is this the end of MMW?!?” As press picks up the story, hype will build. • Radio interviews and in-store/in-studio performances. • Possible Bonnaroo Festival appearance in June 2007.

Key Markets Hometown: New York. Also: Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Burlington, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Austin, Atlanta, Chicago, Madison, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Raleigh/Durham, Denver, Boulder, Ft. Lauderdale, Miami, Tampa, St. Petersburg, Montreal, Toronto,Vancouver ALSO AVAILABLE

Billy Martin

3XCD:AME 24 (3J)

3XLP:AME 25 (3N)

illyB Eats Box Set (Volumes 1-3)

STREET DATE APRIL 10, 2007

illyB Eats Box Set (Volumes 1-3)

David S. Ware Quartet Renunciation Genre: Jazz Label: AUM Fidelity CD: AUM 42 Price Code: P

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David S. Ware: tenor saxophone Matthew Shipp: piano William Parker: bass Guillermo E. Brown: drums

Recorded live at Vision Festival 2006, Renunciation was the last US performance by David S. Ware’s revered quartet. Featuring three brand-new compositions—the beauty ballad “Ganesh Sound,” the epic title suite centerpiece, and the condensed encore—this concert, and exquisite recording thereof, offers the quartet at the very height of its powers as the members collectively say goodbye.

Press Quotes “Let’s be bold: the David S. Ware Quartet is the best small band in jazz today. I realize that I will almost certainly hear another quartet, or trio or quintet or octet, this week or next, that will make me want to backpedal. But every time I see Ware’s group or return to the records, it flushes the competition from memory.” — Gary Giddins, Village Voice “This record is the deepest, most coherent, and most accessible DSWQ disc I’ve heard, and the best record of the year by far. Consider that a recommendation.” — All About Jazz Publisher’s Pick “Another absolutely killer and essential release for your pathetic and puny music collection from this seemingly possessed avant-jazz giant of the sax. He’s taken the torch of Coltrane and not just carried it, but he threw the damn thing into an active volcano.” — Alternative Press “Visceral, relentless, cathartic, squalling—many of the words that have long been associated with saxophonist David S. Ware’s recordings and performances apply as well to his new album. The sheer force of his tone—and his seemingly superhuman ability to sustain and manipulate its raw emotional power—are a marvel to behold, perhaps more so now than ever.” — Washington Post

Selling Points • The last US performance by the mighty David S. Ware Quartet. • Exquisitely recorded and mixed, featuring three profound new compositions. • Beautiful digipak packaging. • 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 in Signal to Noise, Stop Smiling, Arthur, Point of Departure, and more.

Key Markets Hometown: New York. Also: Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Portland, Atlanta, Austin, Seattle

Track Listing Introductions • Ganesh Sound • Renunciation Suite Part 1 • Renunciation Suite Part 2 • Renunciation Suite Part 3 • Mikuro’s Blues • Ganesh Sound (Reprise) • Saturnian

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David S. Ware Quartet

CD: AUM 23 (P)

CD: AUM 19 (P)

CD: AUM 1 (P)

Freedom Suite

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Corridors & Parallels

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Wisdom of Uncertainty

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STREET DATE APRIL 10, 2007

William Parker & Hamid Drake Volume 2: Summer Snow Genre: Jazz Label: AUM Fidelity CD: AUM 41 Price Code: P

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Featured Artists William Parker: doson’ngoni, shakuhachi, dumbek, talking drum, water bowls, bass Hamid Drake: tabla, frame drum, gongs, drums

Overview

Volume 2: Summer Snow represents the second immaculate studio session of two of the greatest musical beings America has to offer the world. The recent expanded issue of their first duo meeting—First Communion + Piercing The Veil: Volume 1 Complete—displayed their eternal prowess via intensity in full, redefining drum & bass in any music. Summer Snow reveals Parker and Drake in a more meditative state, with Parker focusing on the doson’ngoni (Mali hunter’s guitar) and shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute). Five years have passed since their first meeting, and a whole lot has changed, so catch up!

Press Quotes “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 “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 “With any luck, Piercing the Veil isn’t just a [one-off] day trip for these guys, because this is a crucial free-jazz advance.” — Washington City Paper “Not since Don Cherry and Ed Blackwell joined forces have two musicians so organically wedded world music influences with free jazz. The resultant music is connected to history and culture yet true to its contemporary American roots. And the rhythms groove so deeply that if dance-club DJs got hold of this CD, all America would be moving to it.” — Jazziz

Selling Points • Brand new über-high-fidelity studio recordings of William Parker and Hamid Drake. • Follow-up to their widely acclaimed 2000 duo release, Piercing the Veil. • Beautiful digipak packaging. • 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 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, Atlanta

Track Listing Awake, Arise • Sky • Earth • Pahos • Sifting the Dust • Edge of Everything • Traces of the Beloved • Anaya Dancing • Konte • Faces • Hadra ALSO AVAILABLE

William Parker & Hamid Drake

William Parker Quartet

2XCD: AUM 3940 (2J)

CD: AUM 34 (P)

CD: AUM 22 (P)

First Communion + Piercing the Veil

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STREET DATE APRIL 10, 2007

Sound Unity

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O’Neal’s Porch

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The Spiritualaires Singing Songs of Praise Genre: Gospel Label: CaseQuarter CD: CQU 103 Price Code: P

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Featured Artists Robert Marion: vocals Willie J. Smith: vocals Rufus Jordan: vocals Sam Relf: vocals Jimmy Anthony: vocals Curtis Harris: guitar

Overview

The Spiritualaires of Hurtsboro, Alabama are one of the last still-active gospel quartets, with origins in gospel’s Golden Age of the 1950s. Weaving together influences from blues and country & western, the Spiritualaires have nevertheless remained faithful to their ever-distinct yet traditional sound. Drawn from recent studio recordings and live radio broadcasts, Singing Songs of Praise reveals the Spiritualaires as both a supa-fine harmony quartet and a unique guitar-driven ensemble. What a treat it is to have—after almost six decades together—the group’s debut recording!

Press Quotes “A force to be reckoned with … inventive, raw, and potent.” — Time Out New York “Gospel meets blues at the level of raw passion.” — New York Times “It’s rough, brutal, and sweet at the same time. This is sanctified gospel, untamed, untainted, and beyond the pale.” — All Music Guide “A mainline to the Truth.” — The Wire “Hmm. If CaseQuarter digs up some more gospel music like this, I might have to consider actually going to church some Sunday … Godlovin’ fervor that can’t be faked.You’ll feel it. Quite recommended!” — Aquarius Records “Fire-breathing proof that the distance between blues and gospel is less than a razor’s edge.” — Boston Phoenix [HHHH]

Selling Points • The return of the CaseQuarter label after three years in absentia! • Debut recording of the Spiritualaires, together for almost six decades. • Part one of a one-two punch from CaseQuarter; part two will be the Reverend Utah Smith book+CD set. • 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 in Signal to Noise, Stop Smiling, Arthur, Point of Departure, and more.

Key Markets Hometown: Hurtsboro, AL. Also: New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Austin, Atlanta, Birmingham, Montgomery

Track Listing I’m Going To Tell On You • Packing Up Our Clothes • Spiritualaires Radio Program Introduction • I’ve Got Somewhere To Lay My Head • Come Over Here • When the Gates Swing Open • The Lord’s Prayer • Spiritualaires Radio Program Announcements • Trouble • I’m On My Way To Heaven Anyhow • Some Folk Say • I’ve Done What You Told Me To Do ALSO AVAILABLE

Isaiah Owens

Rev. Charlie Jackson

CD: CQU 102 (P)

CD: CQU 101 (P)

You Without Sin Cast the First Stone

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God’s Got It!

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STREET DATE APRIL 10, 2007

Lesbians on Ecstasy We Know You Know Genre: Alt Rock/Electroclash Label: Alien8 Recordings CD: ALI 69 Price Code: M NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

LP: ALI 69 Price Code: M NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Bernie Bankrupt: electronics, keyboards, samplers Fruity Franky: vocals Véronique Mystique: bass, guitar Jackie the Jack Hammer: drums, percussion

Overview

Following two years of touring and general party-starting, Lesbians on Ecstasy’s much-anticipated sophomore release is set to drop in early spring 2007. They’re back and surfing the giant third wave of wimmin’s lib, but amongst the optimistic slogans and hopes for a liberated future, corporate interests and inequality reign, turning feminist dreams to stone and casting dark clouds over the land. L.OE. has retaliated with a collection of songs that hearken back to activist hope—seems like wishful thinking in this day and age. We Know You Know touches on similar themes as the band’s debut, but delves deeper into some of the clichés and tropes of iconic lesbian music. This time around, the band blends more melodic elements with hooks that might remind the listener of campfire sing-a-longs at some mythical womyn’s event in the ‘70s—several tracks even feature a chorus. However, the group has managed to maintain the heavy beat aspect of its debut. The result is a danceable album that is both uplifting and very dark, but with the sense of humor and fun that make Lesbians On Ecstasy unique. For this upcoming year, the Lezzies plan to keep the love going. The group will perform a rock opera at Montreal’s International Contemporary Art Biennale in May in addition to appearances at SXSW and the WMC in Miami.

Press Quotes “An impressive maelstrom of dark distorted techno, glitchy pop, and electropunk that subverts and perverts a slew of dyke classics.” — San Francisco Bay Guardian

Selling Points • Follow-up to their debut, named Album of the Year (2004) by The Advocate. • L.O.E. have a die-hard following throughout the US due to multiple successful tours (including one in support of Le Tigre). • US tour dates throughout Spring and Autumn 2007. • College radio mailing; publicist hired for traditional music media. • Web publicist will focus on blogs and MySpace promotion. • Additional publicist will focus on gay print and web media. • Ads in music and gay media outlets.

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

Track Listing Cold Touch of Leather • All Broke Down • Sisters (In the Struggle) • Left-Overs • Sedition • Party Time • Song of the Soul • It’s Practically Freedom • $30,000 Cash Money • Can You Find Yourself

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Lesbians on Ecstasy

CD: ALI 51 (O)

CD: ALI 56 (I)

Lesbians on Ecstasy

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Giggles in the Dark: The Remixes

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The Shaky Hands The Shaky Hands Genre: Alt Rock Label: Holocene Music CD: HCM 5 Price Code: M

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Nick Delffs: vocals, guitar Colin Anderson: drums Mayhaw Hoons: bass Jeff Lehman: bass

Holocene Music is beyond stoked to present the debut full-length from Portland jangly-pop wunderkinds the Shaky Hands. Sliding bouncy go-go beats under shambling guitars and reedy, swooning vocals, Shaky Hands make the kind of catchy, soulful indie rock tailormade for brokedown car stereos and river-rat boomboxes. This debut album’s thirteen tracks glow with a sloppily romantic warmth that’s equal parts summer sunshine and candlelit mellow, pre-party buzz and scruffy day-after fuzziness. The result is a fully formed and confident debut; a big-hearted, starry-eyed bear hug of a record full of youthful energy and tumbling vigor. Shaky Hands formed in Portland in Fall 2003. The group began as a three-piece, with Nick Delffs (Castanets) playing guitar and singing, Colin Anderson playing drums, and Paul Culp on bass. Following Culp’s departure in 2004, Mayhaw Hoons and his hair joined the band, soon followed by second guitarist Jeff Lehman. In 2006 the band recorded this debut at Portland’s Sidecar Studios before bringing on Nathan Delffs as an official member that spring. Now five strong, Shaky Hands is a visceral, life-affirming live experience that will totally make you hug the person standing next to you.

Press Quotes “Fans of The Walkmen and Broken Social Scene will love this band, which employs some of the same held-note meditations on melody and harmony … Shaky Hands is the best rock band in Portland.” — Willamette Week “There’s this band called Shaky Hands … I still haven’t met those guys, so we have no affiliation, but I hope we will be affiliated soon, in the future. I think eventually we’ll probably have to play a show together. They played a house show a couple months ago, and it was fucking awesome.” — Hutch Harris, The Thermals, Pitchfork

Selling Points • National tour dates in May/June 2007. • Named Best New Band in The Thermals’ recent guest list on Pitchfork. • Called Portland’s Best New Band by local alt-weekly Willamette Week. • Forthcoming video for “Why & How Come” directed by Whitey (Band of Horses, The Thermals, The Shins, Mudhoney, Panther). • Full national/tour press campaign by Matt Wright PR (Gang of Four, Acid Mothers Temple, Cex, Talkdemonic, Horse Feathers, Alela Diane). • Full college radio campaign by SPECTRE (Built To Spill, Ladytron, Psapp). • Ads in Pitchfork.

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

Track Listing Whales Sing • The Sleepless • Why & How Come • Maker Make • We Will Rise • Another World Pt. 1 • Another World Pt. 2 • I’m Alive • Sunburns • Host Your Day • Whirling Wind • Hold It Up • Summer’s Life

STREET DATE APRIL 10, 2007

The Flying Luttenbachers Destroy All Music Revisited Genre: Avant Rock Label: Skin Graft Records CD: GRA 85 Price Code: M

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Featured Artists Weasel Walter: percussion Chad Organ: saxophones Ken Vandermark: reeds Jeb Bishop: bass, trombone Dylan Posa: electric guitar

Overview

Skin Graft Records proudly presents a fully re-mastered, extended edition of The Flying Luttenbachers’ landmark 1995 album Destroy All Music. This special edition, which features notorious drummer/multi-instrumentalist Weasel Walter and renowned jazz saxophonist Ken Vandermark, captures the band at the height of the internal struggles that would soon dissolve the quintet line-up. In addition to the ten tracks featured on the original release, this comprehensive edition includes seven never-before-heard vintage recordings, all painstakingly re-mastered by bandleader Weasel Walter. Destroy All Music Revisited contains eighty minutes of wild, unhinged cacophony, fusing fiery free jazz improvisation with modern post-punk and noise-rock structures. This is an integral part of Chicago’s underground musical heritage, a milestone in adventurous jazz, and a key component of the neo-no wave movement.

Press Quotes “Destroy All Music lets you continue to follow this incredible band’s evolution from a freak-out jazz/spaz group to the conceptual beast of musical destruction that they are today … Here, as always, the Luttenbachers are pushing limits.” — Pillowfight “Recorded when some fellas from the Vandermark Five were in the lineup, records like this are the new classics of adventurous jazz. No gimmicks, just intense exploration.” — Popwatch

Selling Points • This definitive version massively improves upon all previous issues. In addition to being extensively re-mastered, the album includes seven additional tracks and comes complete with a retrospective booklet. • The Flying Luttenbachers’ Skin Graft debut Revenge was named one of the 25 Essential Local Albums by the Illinois Entertainer and pegged as one of the Ten Best Metal Albums of the ’90s by Alternative Press. With no signs of letting up, the band continues to gather steam in the underground music scene, frequently touring major European and US markets. • In 1998 Ken Vandermark won the Cadence poll for Best Artist and Best Recording, and shortly thereafter received the MacArthur “Genius” Grant. Previous recipients include Cecil Taylor and Anthony Braxton. • Bandleader Weasel Walter is eternally active, from free jazz projects with Henry Kaiser and William Winant to post-hardcore band XBXRX and heavy metal act Lair of the Minotaur. • Ads in Skyscraper, Signal to Noise, Punk Planet, and The Wire.

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

Track Listing Demonic Velocities/20,000,000 Volts • Fist Through Glass (94A) • Sparrow’s Thin Ict • Splürge • (In Progress...) • Verlag aus den ‘Turbo Scratcher’ • The Necessary Impossibility of Determinism • Dance of the Lonely Hyenas • Tiamat en Arc • Final Variation on a theme entitled “Attack Sequence” • One-Two Punch • Improvisation • The Critic Stomp • Clammer + Sprint • Coffeehouse in Flames • Eaten By Sharks • Throwing Bricks ALSO AVAILABLE

The Flying Luttenbachers

CD: GRA 37 (M)

CD: GRA 46 (M)

CD: GRA 61 (M)

Revenge

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Gods of Chaos

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The Truth is a Fucking Lie

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The Chinese Stars Listen to Your Left Brain Genre: Avant Rock Label: Skin Graft Records LP: GRA 86 Price Code: P

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Eric Paul: vocals Paul Vieira: guitar Craig Kureck: drums, percussion Rick Pelletier: bass, synth, vocals Josh Kemp: synth, vocals

With Listen to Your Left Brain, the Chinese Stars declare a new cold war. Formed in 2003, the band’s pedigree reaches back to legendary acts Arab On Radar and Six Finger Satellite—seeds that inform this new efflorescence—but now the group has filled out in all the right places, having honed their chaotic four-on-the-floor post-punk dance style into an unequivocal signature. Here, the Chinese Stars set in motion a tsunami of new waves, crafting an atmosphere of propulsive sonic escapism fueled by noodlestringed guitar riffs, seat-of-your-pants lyrics, and hallucinatory synths. This is a fast-forward audio movement, taking music back to the base pleasures. Razor-sharp, aural pop art: the overblown are busted.

Press Quotes “Out-punking Radio 4, out-funking !!!, and out-rapturing The Rapture, the Chinese Stars’ brazen four-on-the-floor propulsiveness flexibly blends elastic guitars over stabby snares and jived-up bass … while former AOR singer Eric Paul peppers songs with salacious commentary, exuding depraved, lascivious lyrics.” — CMJ “The music on their Skin Graft debut, Turbo Mattress, keeps the beats as jerky as a racecar driver with the e-brake on, with guitar noise as jumper cables and Eric Paul’s surreal lyrics as a hallucinogen—fans of a more fucked Ex Models aesthetic, take note.” — The Stranger

Selling Points • Features members of Arab On Radar and Six Finger Satellite. • Limited edition vinyl LP designed by Fort Thunder artist Matt Brinkman. • The Chinese Stars’ debut CD Turbo Mattress sold out immediately upon release and will be back in a stunning new edition from Skin Graft Records this summer. • Extensive press and radio mailing courtesy of Three One G and Blueghost Publicity. • Ads in Skyscraper, Signal to Noise, Punk Planet, and The Wire.

Key Markets Hometown: Providence. Also: Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Austin, New York, Atlanta, Chicago

Track Listing Drugs and Sunshine • Cold, Cold, Cold • All My Friends Are Getting High • Left Brain • Bored with This Planet • Shake Off the Nurse • Teeth Marks • T.V. Grows Arms • The Drowning

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The Chinese Stars

Arab On Radar

CD: GRA 69 (M)

CD: GRA 60 (M)

CD: GRA 66 (M)

Turbo Mattress

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Soak the Saddle

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Yahweh or the Highway

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STREET DATE APRIL 10, 2007

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

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Overview

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 melodies 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 its music promises it won’t be their last.

Press Quotes “Sure, they share their name with a synthesizer, but The Moog are making sonic waves in their own right. The Budapest quintet is the first Hungarian rock band to land on an American label, and MuSick Recordings will begin selling their upcoming debut, Sold for Tomorrow, April 10. The album boasts rough-around-the-edges garage pop tunes, and that album’s ‘Everybody Wants’ is a particularly catchy three-chord gem.” — SPIN.com “Another band taking an audible cue from the early ’60s is Hungarian dance rockers The Moog. The Budapest quintet, which makes its American debut at South by Southwest in March, finds the tuneful common ground among the Beach Boys, Blondie, and Brit pop bands of late.” — SF Gate.com “The Moog, the latest hot indie-rock act to surface in Budapest, has announced details surrounding the release of their debut album, Sold for Tomorrow, which is set to appear April 10 on MuSick. That will provide them with the curious distinction of being the first Hungarian band to ever sign to a US-based label. And we think we can safely say it’s about damn time … Will Budapest become the next Montreal? Only time will tell.” — CMJ

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 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

STREET DATE APRIL 10, 2007

No Trigger Extinction in Stereo Genre: Punk Label: New School Records CD: NSR 130 Price Code: D

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Tom Ciesluk: bass Mike Przygoda: guitar Tom Rheault: vocals Jon Strader: guitar Mike Ciprari: drums

In 2000, three guys from Massachusetts formed an aggressive punk band called No Trigger. The team quickly put together enough songs to play a full live set, took their first tour from Boston to Chicago, and recorded their first demo CD. Since then, No Trigger has put out two independent releases, gone on multiple tours, and amassed a great deal of experience. The band signed a deal with Nitro Records and released their debut full-length in March 2006. Nowadays, No Trigger continues to aggressively push on and has absolutely no plans to stop doing what they love. Extinction in Stereo is a combination of the two demos No Trigger independently released before they signed with Nitro Records in late 2005. In late 2004, the admired Japanese punk label BigMouth JPN initially released the EP exclusively in Japan after having the songs digitally re-mastered. With the success of the EP in Japan and the band’s swiftly growing national fan base, a growing demand for this EP has sprouted in the US. Because of this, No Trigger has teamed up with New School Records to bring it to the US, repackaged and ready for retail. The seven songs found on Extinction in Stereo are a mix of aggressive yet melodic punk highlighted by socially relevant lyrics. This is a definite must for any current fan of the band, or for fans of aggressive punk in the vein of Rise Against, Good Riddance, or Strike Anywhere.

Press Quotes “No Trigger is one of the bands to watch out for in 2006.” — Alternative Press “No Trigger is a balls-to-the-wall fusion of punk, melody, and hardcore. No Trigger possesses the unique gift of creating instantly memorable songs without sacrificing a bit of artistic integrity, energy, or uniqueness.” — AbsolutePunk.net

Selling Points • Currently signed with Nitro Records; receiving huge marketing/advertising push. • Sales history of over 10K units on Nitro Records. • Music video played regularly on The Fuse. • Has toured with Aquabats, None More Black, Bigwig, Paint It Black, Glasseater, A Wilhelm Scream, and many more. • Includes a compilation containing tracks from all other New School Records artists. • Service to college & city radio as well as magazines, websites, and promoters. • Ads in Alternative Press, Skratch, Modern Fix, Chord, Highwire Daze, Fat City, AMP, and more.

Key Markets Hometown: Central, MA. Also: Boston, New York, Seattle, Portland, Tacoma, Longview, Bend, Los Angeles, Sacramento, Redding, Modesto, Fresno, Santa Barbara, Hollywood, San Francisco, San Jose, San Diego, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Denver, Reno, Provo, Mesa, Tucson, Tulsa, Oklahoma City, San Antonio, Houston, Fort Worth, Las Vegas, Kansas City, Chicago, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Miami, Baltimore, Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Nashville, Raleigh, Philadelphia, Washington DC

Track Listing What We Became • North American • Earthtones • Map and Compass • Domesticated • On Fire • Call It a Day

STREET DATE APRIL 10, 2007

The Gena Rowlands Band Flesh and Spirits Genre: Alt Rock Label: Lujo Records CD: LUJ 49 Price Code: I

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Featured Artists Bob Massey: guitar, vocals Jean Cook: violin, vocals David Durst: keys, vocals Erik Axelson: bass Vin Novara: drums, vibes Jason Caddell: lead guitar

Overview

Flesh and Spirits is The Gena Rowlands Band’s third full-length recording for Lujo Records. It follows The Nitrate Hymnal, the 2006 collaboration with Anti-Social Music, and the band’s 2005 debut La Merde et Les Etoiles. Flesh and Spirits is the band’s most focused, cohesive, and catchy work yet. To create the best album of his career, GRB mastermind Bob Massey assembled a virtuosic band of Washington DC’s most acclaimed musicians. GRB regulars Jean Cook and David Durst were joined by Vin Novara (formerly of CrownHateRuin, Oswego, and Canyon) as well as Jason Caddell and Eric Axelson (formerly of The Dismemberment Plan). The result features eleven instantly memorable songs built on Massey’s trademark lyrical formula that combines dry wit, a grappling with darkness, and glimmers of love and light. If La Merde was the soundtrack for a night of heartache and The Nitrate Hymnal was its fever dream, Flesh and Spirits is the jolt of energy to get you out of bed the next morning.

Press Quotes “Tragic, hilarious, brilliant writing.” — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “The music could qualify as chamber pop if it had any pretense of wanting to be pop—instead the violas, vibes, clarinets, and cellos drift along behind Massey’s wine-stained baritone, forming a sort of stream-of-consciousness backdrop that drifts in and out of dissonance, occasionally dissolving to a minimalist wisp.” — Pitchfork [7.1] “Musically kaleidoscopic, simultaneously lush and choppy, this ambitious experiment succeeds on pretty much every level.” — Splendid

Selling Points • Features two former members of indie heroes Dismemberment Plan. • Other GRB contributors have played with Fugazi, Mary Timony, Beauty Pill, Ida, Tsunami, Jenny Toomey, Jon Langford, Maritime, CrownHateRuin, and Oswego. • Recorded and produced by Chad Clark of Beauty Pill (Dischord) and TJ Lipple of Aloha (Polyvinyl) at Silver Sonya and Washington DC’s legendary Inner Ear studios. • The GRB has toured with Andrew Bird, Enon, Dismemberment Plan, and more. • In March 2007 the band will make their third appearance at SXSW as part of a West Coast/Southwest tour. US tour will follow in May 2007. • PR being worked by Guerilla Public Inflations. • Featured song on the Vice CD & DVD comps; music video on Insound. • Ads in Synthesis, Alarm, Chord,Vice, Under the Radar,WonkaVision, Arthur, Big Takeover, Skyscraper, Copper Press, Status, Modern Fix, Pitchfork, and more.

Key Markets Hometown: Los Angeles. Also: Washington DC, New York, Dallas, Austin, New York, Seattle, Chicago

Track Listing Fuckups of the World Unite • Love, For Want of a Lesser Word • Flesh and Spirits • The Joke I Play on Washington • Althea • God and the Way Women Walk • Hope, For Want of a Greater Word • The Dead President’s Wife • Johnny Hearts June • These Windows on the World • Mercy ALSO AVAILABLE

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The Gena Rowlands Band The Nitrate Hymnal CD: LUJ 38 (I) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview Sur la mer is the brainchild of Atsu Nagayama (The Boredoms, The Prescriptions), who wrote and arranged all of the material for this debut EP. Nagayama enlisted the help of friends Dino, Julie Liu (Rex, Tortoise), Jason McDermott, Kim Ambriz (Rabbit Rabbit), and Fred Erskine (June of ‘44, Hoover) when it came time to record. The results speak for themselves—provocative, captivating, and ambient instrumental bliss. Prelude to the Sea was recorded in Chicago in 2002 at Doug Sharin’s studio and Nagayama’s basement. The wheels are in motion to release another eight songs previously recorded by this wonderful bunch in the near future.

Selling Points • Features members of Tortoise, The Boredoms, June of ‘44, and Hoover. • Recorded by Doug Sharin. • Sur la mer will play some shows with My Education around SXSW 2007. • Print & radio promotion.

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

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Sur la mer Prelude to the Sea Genre: Alt Rock Label: Thirty Ghosts Records CDEP: THG 4 Price Code: D NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Adagio • Lento • Andante • Allegro

Overview “The melding of bombast and beauty, this is what Caspian does best. On their first release You Are the Conductor, perhaps the best instrumental EP of 2005, Caspian maintains a firm melodic foundation while not forgetting to bring the rock. This record displays maturity well beyond the band’s years. The songwriting, cohesiveness, and grandiose sound all point to a promising future. If Caspian progress from the admirable debut of You Are the Conductor they could easily become a powerhouse in the postrock scene.” — Delusions of Adequacy

Caspian The Four Trees Genre: Alt Rock Label: Dopamine Records CD: DOP 1017 Price Code: O

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Caspian’s first full-length album for Dopamine Records finds one of instrumental rock’s most promising young bands rising to new levels of creativity, execution, and sonic prowess. The Four Trees is a majestic journey deep into the imagination—the kind of record that won’t quit until it has carefully probed the parts of your soul that delicately ask to be understood and discovered for the very first time. This is sonic storytelling at the height of its powers.

Selling Points • Debut full-length CD will be eagerly sought in the Northeastern US, as 2005’s EP You Are the Conductor has garnered the band a gigantic following in this region. • Caspian will tour the US in Spring & Fall 2007. • AAM Sunday Service radio campaign will coincide with release. • Digital marketing campaign through various blogs. • Ads in Punk Planet, Skyscraper, MRR, Copper Press, Heart Attack, and more.

Key Markets Hometown: Boston. Also: New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Seattle, Providence, Burlington, Portland, ME

Track Listing Moksha • Some Are White Light • Sea Lawn • Crawlspace • Book IX • The Dropsonde • Brombie • Our Breath in Winter • The Dove • Asa • ...Reprise

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Overview “Recorded live in 2004 and mastered by James Plotkin (Khanate, Phantomsmasher), this live disc is almost eighty minutes of alternating drift and pummel, sludgy slow motion dirges that crystallize into sparkling sonic fields of glisten and glimmer. Even when they’re heavy, Growing manage to be delicate and ethereal … While Growing continually return to that near-ambient tranquility, the record is a series of meandering excursions into massive slow motion, melted-riff soundscapes, notes and chords unfurl impossibly slowly, as if someone had doubled the gravity and the sound waves were actually visible, drizzling lazily to the floor like molasses or honey, rich golden globs of thick distorted throb.” — Aquarius Records

Growing Live Genre: Avant Rock Label: Conspiracy Records 2XLP: CNS 47 Price Code: 2O NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Growing is a band from Olympia, WA formed in 2001 by Kevin Doria, Joe Denardo, and Zack Carlson (who left the band following the release of their first album). The band plays instrumental drone rock with elements of noise and ambient music. Its live shows are known for being incredibly loud, playing straight through without break or pause. The band has released albums on Kranky, Animal Disguise, Archive, and Megablade, and currently has a new full-length out on Troubleman. Live, originally released on CD by Archive in 2005, contains 180-gram vinyl inside a full-color gatefold double LP sleeve. All artwork by Joe Denardo.

Selling Points • Live 2XLP contains two complete live shows (seventy-two minutes total). • Mastered by James Plotkin. • Growing has released albums on Kranky, Animal Disguise, Archive, and Megablade. • Brand new full-length currently out on Troubleman.

Key Markets Hometown: Olympia. Also: New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Seattle

Track Listing Live 1 – Side A • Live 2 – Side B • Live 3 – Side C • Live 4 – Side C • Live 5 – Side D

Overview “A band but not a band. There is the crux: Attack Formation is everywhere and nowhere, rocking your face off while subliminally giving your mind a colonic.” — Austin Chronicle Attack Formation consists of an ever-changing group of contributors and participants built around the core members. We Are Alive in Tune continues the band’s legacy of breaking boundaries and redefining itself aesthetically. With songs that range from electronic breakbeat blasts to lovelorn acoustic songs and high-energy tension storms, Attack Formation is still able to infuse each tune with an unforgettable hook or an infectious melody. And, despite the eclectic and diverse styles of the songs, We Are Alive in Tune feels like a whole rather than the thirteen parts that comprise it.

Selling Points • RIYL: Broken Social Scene, Erase Errata, Animal Collective, TV on the Radio. • Showcase at SXSW 2007; Midwest tour in April 2007 will coincide with release. • East & West Coast tours and several regional outings planned for Summer 2007. • Has toured with …Trail of Dead and Redneck Manifesto. • Service to college and community radio stations. • Service to print and web music publications. • Ads in Arthur, Pop Culture Press, Magnet, Punk Planet, Razorcake, Copper Press,Verbicide, and CMJ, as well as Austin publications surrounding SXSW 2007.

Key Markets Hometown: Austin. Also: New York, Boston, Chicago, Baltimore, Cleveland, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Milwaukee, Dallas, Oklahoma City, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle

Track Listing The New State of Sound • Black Magic • Similar Sideways Glance • Two Daughters • Gardens • Hours • Let’s Play Immature • Football • We Were (Always) Often w/o Money • Night • The Truth Moves Out • Girl, What’s Wrong? • Study Break Dancing

Attack Formation We Are Alive in Tune Genre: Alt Rock Label: Australian Cattle God CD: ACG 13 Price Code: O

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Overview “For each lightning bolt, there are moments of incalculable serenity and reflection where the storm is nowhere in sight … a continuously satisfying listening experience from start to finish.” — One Final Note Cold Bleak Heat is the dream-team East Coast avant jazz line-up of alto/tenor saxophonist Paul Flaherty (Dream/Aktion Unit), drummer Chris Corsano (Sunburned Hand of the Man, Vampire Belt), trumpeter Greg Kelley (nmperign, Heathen Shame), and acoustic bassist Matt Heyner (No Neck Blues Band, Test). While as explosive as their 2005 debut, Simitu brings a melancholic, sensitive feel to these improvisations. CBH wages between the melodic centers/ghostly solos of Flaherty/Kelley and the loose, free blowouts you’d expect, all while maintaining the grand swell of a hardcore jazz symphony. Liner notes and drawings by Christina Carter (Charalambides).

Selling Points • Follows critically praised 2005 debut It’s Magnificent, But It Isn’t War. • Saxophonist Paul Flaherty is considered a legendary blower in the jazz underground. • The Wire placed Chris Corsano’s solo album in its Top 50 of 2006. • Liner notes and drawings by Christina Carter (Charalambides). • Service to North American/oversea press and web outlets by Family Vineyard. • Radio service to college, non-commercial, and jazz radio by Family Vineyard. • Ads in Arthur,The Wire, Signal to Noise, and more.

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Cold Bleak Heat Simitu Genre: Jazz Label: Family Vineyard CD: FVR 41 Price Code: O

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Track Listing The Voice of the People is the Voice of God • Should We Destroy the Hubble? • Mugged by a Glacier • Pound Cake • A White Bandaged Head in the Shadow of Death • To Understand All is to Forgive All

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It’s Magnificent, But It Isn’t War CD: FVR 35 (M) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview “The new breakthrough of music is here! I’ve never heard anything like capitalSTEPS before. Picture Super Mario Brothers on acid.” — Notes from the Underground

capitalSTEPS I’m Not Listening Genre: Electronica Label: Go Midnight Records CD: GMD 5 Price Code: L

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Over the past couple of years, capitalSTEPS (a.k.a. Matthew Kenall) has infiltrated the Seattle club scene with his rocking eight-bit electronica composed and performed entirely on Gameboys. capitalSTEPS has a unique stage presence that says, “The party is here!” Audiences are curious when they first see him dancing on stage, then astonished when they realize he is using a Gameboy to produce intricate electro melodies with a heavy beat. The unique and intuitive music sooner or later gets the audience dancing. capitalSTEPS hints of influences like Kraftwerk, Einstürzende Neubauten, and a multitude of video game soundtracks. I’m Not Listening, capitalSTEPS’ debut release, is packed with eight-bit explosions, hard-hitting kicks, and blazing melodies. The future of music is here, and capitalSTEPS holds it in the palm of his hand.

Selling Points • Growing fan base in the electronic music community. • Upcoming West Coast tours. • Has shared the stage with MC Chris. • Promotion within the eight-bit community & video game circuit. • National press and college radio by AAM. • Ads in Alternative Press, Buzzgrinder,The Stranger, and WonkaVision.

Key Markets Hometown: Seattle. Also: Spokane, Portland, Sacramento, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Dallas, San Diego

Track Listing Barbera • Broketoe • Evelyn’s Ride • How’s that Going for You • Real Classy • See You Later • Stars • Stinky • Sure, Sure, Sure • Who Can Say?

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Overview “Not since American Music Club released California has a band tapped so potently into a type of sound that tastes good with liquor but can also make you drunk with melancholy even if you’re on the straight and narrow.” — SF Bay Guardian

The Dying Californian Coarsegold Genre: Alt Rock Label: Turn Records CD: TUN 21 Price Code: N

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The town of Coarsegold is the geographic center of California, and it is appropriate that The Dying Californian chose to name their third release after it since Nathan Dalton was in Coarsegold when he began writing the album. The members of The Dying Californian have been playing together for well over ten years, and yet they continue to refine their sound: part indie rock, part folk, part country, but with a distinct melody all its own. Sure, the band’s influences can be detected in early R.E.M., CCR, The Band, and Neil Young, but The Dying Californian’s sound, lead by the charismatic voice of Nathan Dalton, is blazing its own West Coast trail. The band has shared the stage with American Music Club, Ladyhawk, Love as Laughter, Magnolia Electric Co., Mystic Chords of Memory, Sufjan Stevens, and countless others.

Selling Points • Foldout poster artwork courtesy of acclaimed graphic artist Hannah Stouffer. • Regional touring will take place throughout 2007 on both coasts. • Radio promotion by AAM; service to press & web outlets as well as blogs. • Ads in Skyscraper, Harp, Big Takeover, and TinyMixTapes.

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

Track Listing The Cry Inside the Stone, Part I • Second Shadow • Blurred Just the Same • The Martyrdom of Perpetua • Ghosts of Dreams • Forest for the Trees • Wageless War • Blue Handed • Half Staff Stomp • The Ballad of Coarsegold • The Last Spectacle • The Cry Inside the Stone, Part II

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Overview “I’ve been listening to Make/Believe on repeat shuffle with Blood on the Tracks, Roberta Flack’s First Take, and that Velvet Underground album everybody has, and I have to say, it holds up.” — Caren Beilin, Not For Tourists Philly Make/Believe is a new full-length solo recording featuring duet compositions for the banjo and upright bass. The songs are both easy to listen to and hard to forget, as the subtle melodies deliver potent lyrics in an inviting manner that inspires the listener to sing along. As a founding member of Like Moving Insects and Fan of Friends, Joshua Marcus’s songwriting is powerful and astonishingly honest, evoking beauty from life’s many juxtapositions. Marcus has performed over 200 shows in the US, sharing the stage with the likes of Okkervil River, Shearwater, The Lesser Birds of Paradise, and Mike Wexler. He has performed live on WPRB in Princeton and WXPN in Philadelphia, and has been featured on NPR’s All Songs Considered. He has been the subject of considerable praise, including a feature-length piece in Philadelphia Weekly.

Selling Points • Featured artist on NPR’s All Songs Considered. • Extensive East Coast following due to incessant live shows as a solo artist and with Like Moving Insects and Fan of Friends. • Contraphonic will target online & print press outlets, regional & local press outlets for touring purposes, and East Coast college radio with extensive follow-up. • Ads in Pitchfork, PopMatters, Philadelphia Weekly, and Philadelphia City Paper.

Key Markets Hometown: Philadelphia. Also: Chicago, Pittsburgh, Brooklyn, Boston, Worcester, Austin, Athens, Minneapolis, Burlington

Track Listing The Calm and the Storm • Nostrils Break or Create Silence • Shiny or Sharp Rocks • Coal or Smoke • Man Threatening Pipe Wrench • This House or This House • Change is a Slow Constant • Ooh

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Joshua Marcus Make/Believe Genre: Alt Rock/Folk Label: Contraphonic CD: CTP 62 Price Code: J

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Overview “Tight and fast, melodic, and filled with whoa-whoa harmonies. From Sweden, where they know their shit.” — Lollipop Venerea started out as Venereal Disease in Falkenberg, Sweden back in 1991, covering classic eighties punkers such as the Hard-Ons, Gang Green, Bad Religion, and The Ramones. The first thirty or so self-penned numbers were cut for two legendary demos: From Beer to Eternity (1992) and The Second Cuming of Venereal Disease (1993), which attracted enough attention to get the band its first record deal with now-defunct Swedish label Brööl. After shortening their moniker to Venerea, the group went on to record for German label Gift of Life as well as tour with Ten Foot Pole and the Vans Off the Wall tour with Ignite, SNFU, Deviates, and Powerhouse. According to popular website PastePunk.com, “One Louder is a throwback to the days when Ten Foot Pole, Pulley, Pennywise, Propagandhi, Strung Out, Lagwagon, and NOFX ruled the scene, and everyone was Venerea One Louder sporting board shorts and tees with the Fat Wreck Chords logo on the back … fourteen songs of masterfully crafted, speedy, forbidden-beat punk fucking rock, and every morsel of it hits with the fury Genre: Punk Label: Bad Taste Records of a band playing their instruments until they’ve reduced them to piles of ash.” CD: BTR 89 Price Code: M Selling Points • The Bad Taste debut from one of Europe’s best melodic punk bands! • Full press and radio mailing. NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Track Listing Calling Card • Guantanamo • All Washed Up • St. Christopher • Throwing Bricks • Implosive • Homefires • Rearview • Libertine • Small Town Romance • Sound of Muzak • Staying Underground • Ten Years • This Time Around

Overview “They’re Akron/Family with different screws loose and altered mores in the foreground: like Crosby, Suzuki, Rollins & Young in halves, they roar in confrontational salvos before drifting into pastoral hums, those bents occasionally merging in the form of technical but jarring prog-and-psyche excursions.” — Pitchfork Brooklyn duo The USA is a Monster takes a break from its prolific, terrifically noisy Load Records catalogue to release two acoustic songs with Lovepump United. This surprisingly “quiet” release from the normally skronktastic band is a lush, psychedelic exploration recorded with a seven-piece ensemble at The Werehouse in Winston-Salem, NC. The vinyl itself is an extremely limited, beautiful full-color picture disc 7” with artwork by the band.

The USA is a Monster Geronimo Genre: Avant Rock Label: Lovepump United 7”: LPU 10 Price Code: I NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Selling Points • Full-color 7” picture disc with artwork by the band is limited to only 500 copies. • The USA is a Monster tours relentlessly around the world. 2006 included several US, European, and Japanese tours, and a full US Summer tour is in the works for 2007. • One of Load Records’ most prolific and active bands. • Track reviews pitched to Pitchfork, Paper Thin Walls, and more. • Extensive viral marketing campaign via e-mail and message boards. • Ads in Skyscraper.

Key Markets Hometown: New York. Also: Portland, San Francisco, Providence, Charlottesville, Los Angeles, Baltimore

Track Listing Geronimo • Dimensions Dementia

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NAIL WELCOMES STOP DROP RECORDS TO ITS ROSTER! Stop Drop Records is a homerun label out of Menlo Park headed by Cole P. Miller. Focusing on sub-standard music and super-par releases, Stop Drop exceeds in all categories. Batters up! Stop Drop comes to NAIL via Marriage Records.

Overview Amidst the busy production of dozens of other releases, four amazing bands have each given one exclusive song to this split 7”. The songs range from the infectious sea-shanty accordion-piano pop of Belly Boat and the soft swishing of Sneakypines to the alluring heavy metal of Mount Eerie and the beautiful, sweet singing of Thanksgiving’s Adrian Orange. Mount Eerie (previously The Microphones) has gone on numerous national tours and has dozens of releases, most of which have sold out or been repressed. Thanksgiving has also gone on nearly a dozen national and several international tours, with a massive arsenal of releases and devout fans. Belly Boat has a very loving fan base in New England and Northern California, and Sneakypines (a.k.a. Cole Miller) has loyal Northwestern and Southeastern fan bases.

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Various Artists Four Band Split 7”

• Adrian Orange’s Bitches is Lord recently picked as one of alt-weekly Willamette Week’s Top Albums of 2006.

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Stop Drop Records 7”: SDP 99 Price Code: K

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Hometowns: San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Portland, Anacortes. Also: Seattle, Olympia, New York, Boston, Oakland, Myrtle Beach,Vancouver, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Middletown, Providence, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Chicago, Atlanta

Track Listing Belly Boat: Give Me a Pot to Piss In and I’ll Give You Something to Drink • Sneakypines: Shelter Cove • Mount Eerie: Let’s Get Out of the Romance (Black) • Thanksgiving: In the Cavez of the Night

Overview “AWOL One has one of rap’s most original voices.” — Spin Some have called AWOL One “the Tom Waits of hip-hop.” Some have called Factor “the John Peel of underground hip-hop.” AWOL One and Factor certainly make no legitimate attempts to fit into such gigantic and legendary shoes, but their kicks are lookin’ pretty smooth on their latest collab, Only Death Can Kill You. AWOL One (a.k.a Tony Martin) explains, “This album is all about life cycles (life-death-day-night-alpha-omega), opposites, and confessions. I love this project because it is a consistent vibe and sound. It’s like waking up early hung over, having a revelation, and recording it.” A natural eclectic in life and music, AWOL One tends to deliver consistently creative projects that take twists and turns throughout. Along with being an accomplished emcee, he is a producer, video director, fledgling label owner, painter, graffiti writer, graphic artist, DJ, and proud father. This record, on the contrary, has one fluid feel anchored by the beat-crafting and engineering of a single producer: Factor.

Selling Points • AWOL One has performed for nearly fifteen years with virtually every hip-hop artist. He and the Shapeshifters camp have collectively sold over 100,000 records worldwide. • AWOL One and Factor plan to tour extensively together to support this release. • Ads and/or reviews in Slap,Thrasher, Mean Street, Revolver, L.A.Weekly, and OC Weekly.

AWOL One & Factor Only Death Can Kill You Genre: Hip-Hop Label: Cornerstone RAS CD: CRS 58 Price Code: O FILE UNDER: AWOL One

Hometown: Los Angeles. Also: San Diego, Orange County, San Francisco, Sacramento, Portland, Seattle, Austin, Phoenix, Tucson, Santa Fe, El Paso, Dallas, Minneapolis, Denver, Boulder

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Sunrise Sandwich • Old Babies • Meat Trunk • Digital Angel • Sunday Mourning • One More • Alpha Omegatron • Woke Up • Smokin’ Coffee • Only Death STREET DATE: APRIL 24, 2007

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The Toasters One More Bullet Genre: Rock/Ska Label: Stomp Records CD: STM 55 Price Code: O

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Rob “Bucket” Hingley: guitar, vocals Larry “Ace” Snell: drums Jason “Jah Son” Nwagbaraocha: bass, vocals Jeff Richey: saxophone Chris Rhodes: trombone

Ska is definitely back and there is no better proponent than icons of the scene The Toasters! The band has carved out its own niche in history, amassing a humongous catalog of music including fifteen albums and DVDs; countless videos, singles, and EPs; and innumerable compilation appearances. Consummate outsiders, the group has turned down major record deals from the likes of Danny Goldberg and Polygram, instead opting to run down their own indie track. The band has logged a staggering 4,000 concert appearances on stages around the world. In 1997, Billboard’s lead article dubbed them “New York’s Ska Pioneers.” With their eclectic, instantly recognizable and idiosyncratic sound, the group has also been branded the “Miles Davis of Ska” and the “Ramones of Ska.” One More Bullet was recorded in Valencia, Spain at RPM Studios by renowned producer Cubo, and engineered by the great Roger Garcia. Featuring eleven huge tracks of trademark Toasters ska, the album also features guest appearances from Greg Robinson (Mephiskapheles), Bufford O’Sullivan (Slackers, Easy Star Allstars), Claude Robillard (Daze of Dawn) and various yet-to-be-identified members of Los Skarnales. Hardhitting, catchy as hell, and upbeat, Bullet is proof positive that America’s longest running ska band can kick out the jams like no other.

Press Quotes “One of the most important American ska bands ever.” — PunkNews “The Toasters’ sound is aggressively working class, built on the big horns and brawny rhythms of the first ska revival. They sing of fighting and drinking and bad jobs and the limited prospects that the early ska bands—most recording on the Two-Tone label—also made their bread and butter.” — PopMatters “Jumping and running around on stage, these guys got the crowd sweating and dancing up a storm. Nobody could resist the third wave ska pioneers’ set. Everyone watched in amazement as these guys showed everyone how it was done.” — In Music We Trust

Selling Points • Jagermeister Music will come in with major tour support including posters, promotions, and a plethora of freebies. The Toasters are also powered by Sam Ash Music and supported by ProMark Drums. • Full US tour April-May 2007. • Features guest appearances from Bufford O’Sullivan, Greg Robinson, and more. • Full album mailing to all print press; full radio service. • Ads in AMP, Alternative Press, Skratch, Punk Rock Confidential,WonkaVision, and more.

Key Markets Hometown: New York. Also: Boston, Washington DC, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Miami, Chicago, Columbus, Minneapolis, Austin, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego

Track Listing What a Gwan • Night Train to Moscow • Where’s the Freedom • Life in a Bubble • Run Rudy Run Redux • You’re Gonna Pay • Bits and Pieces • When Will I Be Loved • One More Bullet • Step Up • El Chopo ALSO AVAILABLE

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The Teeth You’re My Lover Now Genre: Alt Rock Label: Park the Van Records CD: PTV 14 Price Code: O

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Aaron MoDavis: guitar, vocals Peter MoDavis: bass, vocals Brian Ashby: guitar Jonas Oesterle: drums

Philadelphia’s infamous foursome, The Teeth, spent the better part of 2006 locked away in a Northeast Philadelphia warehouse/studio. After spending most of 2005 and early 2006 touring the US in support of its 2005 EP Carry the Wood, the band was nearly out of sight. While the studio sound of The Teeth has been compared to the Beatles, early Bowie, and Elvis Costello, the band’s live performance has been likened to the Minutemen, Pavement, and even the Stooges. Thunderous bass lines, roaring brass sections, hand claps, foot stomps, jangly guitars, growls, screams, and of course those ever-so-beautiful harmonies that Teeth fans know and love—not to mention enough ideas to drive you insane. Recorded and produced by The Teeth and mixed by Nick Krill of the Spinto Band, You’re My Lover Now will be ready for your embrace in late April 2007. It will be backed by extensive touring, lots of publicity, and of course, a “strong will to succeed.”

Press Quotes “This band has Official High Pop Harmonies and you actually should listen to them and make them your new favorite band.” — The Fader “The vocals on Carry the Wood, the third recording by Philadelphia-area rockers The Teeth, suggest what Alex, the protagonist in Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 film A Clockwork Orange, might have sounded like had he been a sunny, loopy petty criminal rather than a vibrantly bitter sociopath.” — Washington Post “Ostensibly born with identical vocal cords, twin brothers Aaron and Peter MoDavis’s harmonies on Carry the Wood are thicker than blood as they cull Brit rock from the Kinks to Costello.” — CMJ New Music Monthly

Selling Points • Will tour the majority of 2007, with support slots for Dr. Dog’s first headlining tour. • Fans include RJD2, Al Kooper (Bob Dylan’s keyboardist and founder of Blood, Sweat, & Tears), WXPN, The Fader, and CMJ. • The Teeth has performed with Sunset Rubdown, Of Montreal, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Grandaddy, Why?, and more. • Major PR campaign coordinated by Biz 3 (Lady Sovereign, RJD2, Def Jux, Bonnie “Prince” Billy/Tortoise). • National college radio/specialty radio campaign coordinated by Pirate Radio Promotions. • Ads in Magnet, DIW, Pitchfork, and Arthur.

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 Molly Make Him Pay • The Trumpets Blared • Shoulderblade • A Fight in the Dark • Yellow • It’s Not Funny • The Coolest Kid in School • Walk Like a Clown • Ball of the Dead Rat • It’s Over, It’s Over • You’re My Lover Now • Rabbit Run • Your Feelings On Life • That Light Always Goes Out ALSO AVAILABLE

The Teeth

Carry the Wood CD: PTV 3 (N) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

STREET DATE APRIL 24, 2007

Riow Arai + Nongenetic Riow Arai + Nongenetic Genre: Hip-Hop Label: Mass Mvmnt CD: MVM 13 Price Code: N

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Featured Artists Riow Arai: beats, edits, programming Nongenetic: vocals

Guest Artists Breaff (ShadowHuntaz)/Dream (ShadowHuntaz)/Lady Dragon/ Akika da hun/Adam Shchraft/Rafealla/DJ Duct/AMS + Mugfrosty

Overview It’s your international collaborative dream—Riow Arai, Japan’s premier breakbeat maestro, and Nongenetic, a key member of the West Coast hip-hop scene & member of intercontinental beat and rhyme collective ShadowHuntaz. Two artists known for pushing hip-hop’s core boundaries: no drum left unedited, no word left undivided. Guest spots include Nongenetic’s ShadowHuntaz collaborators Breaff & Dream, the vocal talents of Lady Dragon, Akika da hun, Adam Shchraft, and Rafealla, plus turntables via DJ Duct and AMS + Mugfrosty. More reasons for this disc to never leave your DJ bag!

Press Quotes “One of the most innovative hip-hop opuses ever to emanate from outside the US.” — Stylus Magazine [on Riow Arai’s Mind Edit] “A truly mind-blowing experience.” — The Milk Factory “Signed to the erstwhile home of Boards of Canada and Autechre, ShadowHuntaz are on rap’s brainiac fringe, emitting beats and rhymes as dense and intricate as streams of computer code.” — The Guardian

Selling Points • Riow Arai’s first hip-hop album to feature live MCs! One of Japan’s premiere hip-hop producers, Arai has released albums on Libyus Music, Soup Disk, and Leaf. • Nongenetic is a member of the critically acclaimed ShadowHuntaz, a collective that also includes American MCs Breaff & Dream, with Funckarma handling production. • RIYL: Riow Arai, ShadowHuntaz, DJ Krush, Scientific American, Dabrye, Cannibal Ox. • Press campaign to print & web. • Radio campaign to college and hip-hop stations.

Key Markets Hometown: Los Angeles, Tokyo. Also: Seattle, New York, New Orleans, Miami, Chicago, Minneapolis, Atlanta, San Francisco, Portland

Track Listing Travel the Night • Mrsmr • Neo Con • Betterdayz • Oh Snap • Kiss • One Dolla • Scared • Parallel Lines • Stop Lying • Dolla (Remix) • Incredible • Dead or Alive • Change

STREET DATE APRIL 24, 2007

Smegma 33 1/3 Genre: Avant Rock/Experimental Label: Important Records CD: IPT 137 Price Code: P NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

LP: IPT 145 Price Code: R NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Dr. Id: piano, harp, vocals, samples, remco, samples, toys, duck calls, gongs, record player/Ju Suk Reet Meate: vibraphonette, vocals, record player, Sidrassi organ, alto horn, pocket trumpet, slide guitar, effects, Uzbek horn/Conroy: vocals, vibraband, ju-per, lil sidrassi/Burned Mind: trombone, drums, electronics, ju-per, lil sidrassi/Oblivia: record player, homemade records, toys, ju-per, lil sidrassi

Overview 33 1/3 is Smegma’s tribute to their twentieth-century avant-garde and out-jazz influences. The title is one part reference to the happy revival of passionate vinyl listening in the twenty-first century, and one part celebration of over thirty-three years of being one of the most freethinking and original American underground groups. Its focus, ideas, and determination has brought the group through more than three decades and to this day it remains unparalleled, original, and highly influential. Smegma. Seriously. They’ve been at it for so long now that you can’t really even say they sound like anyone else. They’re all here on 33 1/3—Oblivia, Ju Suk Reet Meate, Burned Mind, Conroy, Dr. Id—the core group drumming up their influences and pulling off another burning album of magnificent proportions. While Smegma has never really fit in anywhere, the group’s influence on the modern avant-garde and improvised noise scene is absolutely undeniable. While it has had two feet firmly planted in avant-garde & free jazz, one must not forget its rock roots. Influences aside, no matter how much everyone else sounds like Smegma, you can bet that Smegma is always going to sound like nobody else. It may just be the greatest American band. Ever.

Press Quotes “A group improvisation with a heap of unfinished sixties business factored in. Free Music in its grandest and least superficial sense. A ritual of fusing all musics and non-musics at the level of the hum, the blap, the tink, and the boom.” — Richard Metzger “Once again, the times seem to have conspired to situate Smegma’s consistent refusal of static generic form as the central working paradigm for a whole new generation of musicians.” — The Wire

Selling Points • Celebrates 33 1/3 years of Smegma! • CD enhanced with videos of “Happy Holidays” live at End Times Festival (with Spencer Yeh and Twig Harper) and “Grubsteak” live at the Three Million Tongues festival in Chicago. • Smegma has had a close association with the Los Angeles Free Music Society and has collaborated with Merzbow, Wildman Fisher, Lee Rockey, Perry Robinson, Stooges saxophonist Steve Mackay, Carlos Giffoni, and Wolf Eyes. • Also available in a limited edition vinyl format. • Full press mailing by Important Records. • Ads in The Wire.

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

Track Listing: CD Percrash • Glossolalia • Antics • World of Plugs • The Door • Not Right • Up There • Over and Out • Videos: Happy Holidays (Live @ End Times Festival) • Grubsteak (Live @ Three Million Tongues Festival)

Track Listing: LP Up There • Glossolalia • Antics • The Door • Not Right • Up There 22

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Asa Irons & Swann Miller Asa Irons & Swann Miller Genre: Avant Rock/Folk Label: Important Records CD: IPT 143 Price Code: P NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Overview

Asa Irons: guitar, vocals Swann Miller: vocals

This record is forever. After listening to it you’ll realize that it doesn’t matter that Asa Irons plays in Witch with J Mascis as well as the acclaimed folk outfit Feathers. This record needs no associations and its songs are so timeless that they feel as if they’ve been passed around for generations and hardly need any recording medium at all. This is the first release from Asa Irons and Swann Miller, but it sounds like they’ve lived in each other’s voices for a million years. Irons’s deep-breath voice lays down a mossy hill for Miller’s beautiful voice to tread upon. His guitar work is simply intricate, and his fingerpicking perfectly suits the way their voices combine to become one. This record always has been and always will be. This record is forever. In Asa Irons’s own words: “After spending years in New Hampshire and Nova Scotia, I began writing songs about my Northeastern window through which I view the world. Most of the pieces represent strong fundamentals in my life, such as living without comfort resources like electricity and running water, the building trends of carpentry and masonry with which I make my living, and the slow-paced rural life in which I grew up. The land of Northeastern North America is very important to me and compelled me to describe it in the form of music … One of the people connected to me through music and lifestyle is Swann Miller. She is the daughter of a man who was a good friend of my father’s. Through the seventies our fathers built houses together around NH and also played a lot of music. So, I have known Swann my whole life and perhaps it was inevitable that we made music together … The album is a quick glimpse of a worldview from Southern New Hampshire through the voices of two old friends whose fathers were friends before them.”

Selling Points • Asa Irons is a member of the acclaimed folk group Feathers and plays guitar in Witch with J Mascis. • A stark, beautiful, and timeless album. • Originally released in a tiny vinyl-only pressing. • Full promotional mailing by Important Records. • Ads in The Wire.

Key Markets Hometown: Barrington, NH. Also: Northampton, Brattleboro, Boston, San Francisco

Track Listing Frost Line Blues • To Ellis Pass • A Fourfold Offering • Only the Chosen • The Wounded Grouse • Whitwill • A Bardrock Pattern • Silent on the Wind

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Overview “Oliveros’s music makes you listen afresh to the simplest sounds.” — New York Times

Pauline Oliveros Accordion & Voice Genre: Experimental Label: Important Records CD: IPT 140 Price Code: P NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Pauline Oliveros (b. 1930) is an accordionist and composer who currently resides in Kingston, New York. Her instrument is tuned in Just Intonation and she often includes it in her meditative improvisational music. Her music is not meditative in the sense that it is intended for listening to while meditating; rather, each piece is a form of meditation, such as her aptly titled Sonic Meditations. A central figure in post-war electronic art music, Oliveros is one of the original members of the San Francisco Tape Music Center (along with Morton Subotnick, Ramon Sender, Terry Riley, and Anthony Martin), which was the electronic music resource on the US West Coast during the 1960s. The center later moved to Mills College, where she was its first director, and it is now called the Center for Contemporary Music. In her performances and recordings, Oliveros often improvises with the Expanded Instrument System, an electronic signal processing system she designed.

Selling Points • Pauline Oliveros’s first recording as a soloist. • Oliveros is an internationally respected and influential twenty-first century composer. • Promotional mailing by Important Records. • Ads in The Wire.

Key Markets Hometown: Kingston, NY. Also: Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Portland, Oakland, San Diego, Austin

Track Listing Horse Sings from Cloud • Rattlesnake Mountain

Overview “A knockout piece given a knockout performance.” — Option The Wanderer is based on a single modal scale (B C# D D# E F# G#) and rhythmic modes based on a meter consisting of 3/4 and 3/8. Part I, Song, is intended to explore the unique resonant qualities of accordion reeds through long sounds. Subtle variations come about from differences in tuning and air pressure. Part II, Dance, demonstrates the sharp accenting power of the accordion bellows in a mixture of cross rhythms characteristic of jigs, reels, batucadas, Bulgars, klezmer forms, Cajun dances, and music of other diverse cultures. The Wanderer was composed in November 1982 especially for the Springfield Accordion Orchestra, directed by Sam Falcetti. This recording documents The Wanderer’s world premiere, as it was performed on January 27, 1983 at Marymount Manhattan Theatre. The orchestra consists of twenty accordions, two bass accordions, and five percussionists, with Pauline Oliveros as soloist and Falcetti conducting. Horse Sings from Cloud, written in 1975, is one of Oliveros’s best-known works. Like most of her Sonic Meditations, it can be performed vocally and/or instrumentally, solo or in collaboration. This time, Horse Sings from Cloud is performed in ensemble. Joining Pauline Oliveros (bandoneion) are Heloise Gold (harmonium), Julia Haines (accordion), and Linda Montano (concertina). This quartet version incorporates the microtonal differences in tuning of the selected instruments, creating reed sounds somewhat similar to the shimmering of a Balinese gamelan.

Selling Points • Pauline Oliveros is a highly recognized twenty-first century composer. • Promotional mailing by Important Records. • Ads in The Wire.

Key Markets Hometown: Kingston, NY. Also: Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Portland, Oakland, San Diego, Austin

Track Listing The Wanderer • Horse Sings from Cloud

STREET DATE APRIL 24, 2007

Pauline Oliveros The Wanderer Genre: Experimental Label: Important Records CD: IPT 141 Price Code: P NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview “There is no need to argue: Merzbow stands as the most important artist in noise music.” — All Music Guide Over sixty minutes of total analog destruction by noise king Merzbow and Brooklyn noise boss Carlos Giffoni. This live collaboration was recorded during Giffoni’s Synth Destruction Japan Tour in September 2006. This is sound totalism, and is as heavy as it comes: totally brutal, totally ugly, totally beautiful, totally intense, totally classic, totally analog, totally synth, total destruction. 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’ Merzbau—Akita has created a musical language all his own. Carlos Giffoni, despite his young age, has been an in-demand Brooklyn collaborator for many years. He has worked with Jim O’Rourke, Thurston Moore, Nels Cline, Chris Corsano, Fe-Mail, and many more. In 2005 he released his first solo record, Welcome Home, on Important Records. This is Merzbow and Carlos Giffoni’s first collaborative release.

Selling Points • Merzbow with Carlos Giffoni! Both have released numerous albums and collaborations on Important Records. • Intense artwork by Jenny Akita. • Carlos Giffoni is one is the organizers of the genre-defining No Fun Festival. • Merzbow is recognized as the crowned king of noise music. • Promotional mailing by Important Records. • Ads in The Wire.

Merzbow & Carlos Giffoni Synth Destruction Genre: Experimental Label: Important Records CD: IPT 131 Price Code: P NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Key Markets Hometown: Brooklyn, Tokyo. Also: New York, San Francisco, Boston, Detroit, Lowell, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Austin

Track Listing Synth Destruction (Live @ Super Deluxe in Tokyo)

Overview

Conifer/Ocean Untitled Genre: Avant Rock/Metal Label: Important Records LP: IPT 144 Price Code: P NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Ocean

Here Where Nothing Grows CD: IPT 73 (P) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

This split 12” release is limited to 1,000 copies and pressed on rust and gray colored vinyl. It is packaged in a screen-printed Mylar jacket with a screen-printed Mylar insert and a screen-printed paper insert. Cover artwork is of a nineteenth-century statue located at the center of Portland, MN, the dramatic coastal home of both groups. This is the sound of a musical brotherhood entirely unique to Ocean and Conifer. Over the years, Ocean and Conifer have shared vans, stages, members, practice spaces, apartments, beers, a city, and a kindred musical spirit. In a lot of ways it’s a shock that this split hasn’t happened already, but perhaps it was so obvious that nobody noticed it needed to happen. Sometimes the truth is right beneath your nose. With original drummer Nate Nadeau back in the group, Conifer is heavier, tighter, and more united than ever before. The band has toured and player with Mono, Black Dice, High On Fire, Asva, Mouth of the Architect, and many more, and Summer 2006 saw the group embark on an ambitious twenty-six-city tour. Ocean’s twentyminute epic was recorded in the same sessions that birthed their next album, currently untitled, for Important. Containing all of the epic minimalist intensity and robust heaviness that has gained them international attention, “Durance Vile” is a whole new level.

Selling Points • A deluxe vinyl-only release from two of the heaviest bands in America. Packaging includes two layers of screen-printed Mylar and a screen-printed 12” insert. • Ocean is Important’s top-selling band. Their debut album Here Where Nothing Grows has accumulated a tremendous amount of praise in the international music press. • Ocean’s sophomore album, currently untitled, will be released on Important in May 2007. • Conifer’s next record will be released on Important in 2007. • Ads in The Wire.

Key Markets Hometown: Portland, MN. Also: Boston, Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Cleveland, Milwaukee

Track Listing Ocean: Durance Vile • Conifer: Building State Empire STREET DATE APRIL 24, 2007

NAIL WELCOMES JANE AWESOME REcords TO ITS ROSTER! Jane Awesome Records is made up of awesome women and men doing awesome creative things like finding great music and doing their part to share it with the world. The label’s primary focus is to promote inspiring women artists, because women rock. Jane Awesome comes to NAIL via Australian Cattle God.

Overview The Little Bicycles’ debut album, Broken Hearts and Tired Legs, is packed full of energetic melodies paired with Nadia Kean’s bittersweet reflective stories of young heartache, broken homes, and innocence lost. Every song gets stuck in your head—there’s no filler on this album. Singer-songwriter Nadia Kean has been singing and writing music as a solo artist for most of her life. Andrea Hendel grew up playing violin and attended the Manhattan School of Music for five years. She started playing bass after meeting Kean through roller derby. Hendel’s classical background, evident in her melodic & flowing bass lines, serves the pop-rock format of the band perfectly. Bryan Nelson is a seasoned and respected Austin musician/engineer who has worked at Austin’s Sweatbox Studio for the past twelve years. He also currently plays drums for The Snake Trap, and guitar for Gorch Fock.

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The Little Bicycles Broken Hearts and Tired Legs Genre: Alt Rock Label: Jane Awesome Records CD: JNA 1 Price Code: O

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• Nadia Kean and Andrea Hendel are veteran skaters for the TXRD Lonestar Rollergirls. • Nadia Kean was featured performing on the A&E reality TV show Rollergirls. • Performance at CMJ 2006; upcoming performance at SXSW 2007. • Service to college radio stations and print media. • Ads in Razorcake and Punk Planet.

Key Markets Hometown: Austin. Also: Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio, San Francisco, Portland, Phoenix, Baltimore, Minneapolis, Detroit, New Orleans, Orlando

Track Listing Inexperienced • Barcelona • Daddy Song No.5 • We Were Gone • Portland • The Cheatin’ Song • Long Distance December • Spain • Whiskey and Cigarettes • Patrick Moves to N.Y. • Sometimes the Truth Hurts

Overview “Sugar & Gold, a San Francisco combo made up of ex-members of Dura-Delinquent, sound perfectly at home slipped in beside selections by Call and Response and a tranquilized Tower of Power.” — SF Bay Guardian Sugar & Gold take classic harmony-based songwriting and yacht rock and kick them into the twenty-first century with a healthy dose of Rick James and Young Americans-era David Bowie. Like contemporaries Scissor Sisters and Phoenix, Sugar & Gold reap the benefits of the last three decades in electronic and soul music, blending sampled beats, live drums, and an array of classic funk and electro instrumentation. With the little money they could scrape together, the members bought a van instead of a producer, toured the US, and ended up recording everywhere along the way. The result is Crème, their eleven-song debut, which reflects the moods and characters of many neighborhoods across the country, blending them all into a harmonious whole by finding the common denominator. In Sugar & Gold a country that has been continually polarized by politics and economics, S&G finds that music is still the Crème Genre: Alt Rock language of the soul and the greatest uniting force. Label: Antenna Farm CD: ANT 521 Selling Points Price Code: O • Band core of Phillip Minnig and Nicolas Dobbratz were formerly chief songwriters for Connexion and Dura-Delinquent, who shared stages with the likes of White Stripes, BJM, BMRC, and have served as backing band for Neil Haggerty. NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA • SXSW 2007 appearance. TITLE DELAYED: • Mastered by JJ Golden. AVAILABLE • Radio by AAM; national press promotion TBD. JUNE 12, 2007 • Ads in Arthur.

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Hometown: San Francisco. Also: New York, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, San Diego, Santa Cruz

Sugar & Gold

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12”: ANT 519 (D)

Do It Well • Burnin’ • Workout • Neighborhood • Sex in the City • Shadow People • What Kind of Lover Are You? • On Time • Sometimes • Diamond Tears • Technical Difficulties 26

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Workout b/w Do It Well

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Overview “2005’s Best Noise Pop Discovery. Kids, here is the group you’ve been waiting for.” — SF Weekly San Francisco-based supergroup Still Flyin’ was assembled in late 2004 by Sean Rawls. What began as a lighthearted nod to good times soon became a juggernaut that no one in the band expected, and before long the group had become a San Francisco phenomenon. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that the band counts members of Track Star, Aislers Set, Ladybug Transistor, Love Is All, Maserati, and Red Pony Clock amongst it’s rotating collective. Za Cloud is the second EP in a thematic series that started with Time Wrinkle, and like the first it’s filled with indie-pop and twee jams gone rocksteady.

Selling Points

Still Flyin’ Za Cloud Genre: Alt Rock Label: Antenna Farm CD: ANT 522 Price Code: G

• Members of Masters of the Hemisphere, Ladybug Transistor, and Aislers Set. • Recorded by Jason Robert Quever of The Papercuts (Gnomonsong). • East Coast tour with Je Suis France in Summer 2007; performance at SXSW 2007. • Radio by AAM; national press promotion by Yum Yum Publicity. • Ads in Arthur.

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

Overview “A rousing debut, ranging from sloppy/grand guitar gestures to kinetic, indie-pop funk.” — Magnet

Je Suis France Afrikan Magik Genre: Alt Rock Label: Antenna Farm CD: ANT 523 Price Code: O NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Athens, GA’s Je Suis France perfectly embodies the town’s reputation for whimsical yet adventurous indie rock experimentation. The group’s only agenda is to bring the jammz in as many ways possible, and to that end it plays a constantly evolving stream of psychedelic rock, drawing on influences like Gong, Superchunk, Outkast, and Spaceman 3. Je Suis France’s third full-length, Afrikan Majik, tips its hat to the mighty Krautrock but doesn’t stop there. Balancing slowly building jams with shorter bursts of melodic aggression, JSF takes listeners on a guideless tour of normally pretentious rock sub-genres like prog, fuzz pop, psychedelic, and even techno.

Selling Points • Members of Masters of the Hemisphere, Mendoza Line, and Still Flyin’. • Upcoming split 12” with Acid Mothers Temple on Nokahoma Records. • East Coast tour with Still Flyin’ in Summer 2007; performance at SXSW 2007. • Radio by AAM; press by Team Clermont. • Ads in Arthur.

Key Markets Hometown: Athens. Also: San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Chapel Hill, Boston

Overview “A fine example of truth and beauty all rolled into one.” — Copper Press Goodbye East, Goodbye West is the second album from Madagascar, a group of musicians from Baltimore. Both live performances and first album Forced March have been compared to music as disparate as Balkan folk, post-rock, Black Heart Procession, Explosions in the Sky, Devotchka, and Sigur Rós. Goodbye East, Goodbye West documents the refinement and growth of Madagascar’s unique sound. From playful waltzes and clanky dirges to minimalist scrapes and drones, Goodbye East, Goodbye West is a uniquely satisfying and mystifying collection of songs.

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Madagascar Goodbye East, Goodbye West

• Madagascar completed a successful US tour in 2006, including a triumphant show at SXSW 2006. • Debut received critical acclaim from PopMatters, Stylus, and Copper Press. • Forced March was featured on NPR’s All Songs Considered. • Radio promotion through AAM. • Full national press campaign by the Western Vinyl press team. • Ads in Pitchfork and Copper Press.

Key Markets Hometown: Baltimore. Also: Portland, Austin, Washington, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Madison, St. Louis, Minneapolis, Atlanta.

Genre: Alt Rock/Folk Label: Western Vinyl CD: WVR 45 Price Code: M

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Nail news

Announcing two new releases from your favorite “little orchestra” — the brand new studio album Hey Eugene! and the group’s first-ever DVD release (Title TBA)!

Get nailed... on the road Billy Martin & John Medeski Mago

CD: AME 26 Price Code: M UPC: 680490102622 3/3/07 Memphis, TN – New Daisy Theatre 3/6/07 Raleigh, NC – Lincoln Theatre 3/7/07 Asheville, NC – The Orange Peel 3/8/07 Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse 3/9/07 Jacksonville, FL – Freebird Live 3/10/07 Sunrise, FL – Langerado Music Festival 4/27/07 Princeton, NJ – McCarter Theatre

Tom Brosseau Grand Forks

CD: LVL 24 Price Code: L UPC: 688610002241 3/1/07 Cambridge, MA – Passim 3/2/07 New York, NY – Joe’s Pub 3/3/07 Philadelphia, PA – World Café Live Upstairs 3/4/07 New Haven, CT – Bar 3/9/07 Birmingham, AL – The Bottletree 3/10/07 Dallas, TX – Bend Studio

The Dark Romantics Some Midnight Kissin’

CD: LUJ 47 Price Code: I UPC: 751937300328 3/2/07 Tampa, FL – Transitions Art Gallery 3/3/07 West Palm Beach, FL – Respectable Street 3/9/07 Lafayette, LA – Chi Alpha 3/10/07 Dallas, TX – Ellum Onstage 3/30/07 Tallahassee, FL – Beta Bar

Grails

Black Tar Prophecies Vols. 1,2,3 CD: IPT 105 Price Code: P UPC: 793447510521 4/26/07 Portland, OR – Doug Fir 5/3/07 Austin, TC – Emo’s 5/4/07 Houston, TC – Mink

Dr. Dog We All Belong CD: PTV 12 Price Code: O UPC: 723721265557 3/1/07 New Orleans, LA – The Paris 3/2/07 Houston, TX – Walter’s on Washington 3/3/07 Austin, TX – Emo’s 3/4/07 Dallas, TX – Gypsy Tea Room 3/6/07 Norman, OK – Opolis 3/7/07 Little Rock, AR – Juanita’s 3/8/07 St. Louis, MO – Creepy Crawl 3/9/07 Columbia, MO – The Blue Note 3/10/07 Lawrence, KS – The Bottleneck 3/13/07 Tucson, AZ – Solar Culture 3/14/07 West Hollywood, CA – The Troubadour 3/15/07 San Francisco, CA – Café du Nord 3/16/07 Portland, OR – Doug Fir Lounge 3/17/07 Seattle, WA – Crocodile Café 3/20/07 Denver, CO – Larimer Lounge 3/21/07 Omaha, NE – Sokol Underground 3/22/07 Minneapolis, MN – 400 Bar 3/23-24/07 Chicago, IL – Schuba’s 3/25/07 Detroit, MI – Majestic Theater 3/27/07 Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom 3/28/07 Columbus, OH – Little Brothers 4/5/07 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom

Baby Teeth The Simp

CD: LUJ 50 Price Code: I UPC: 751937296225 3/8/07 Dekalb, IL – The House 3/9/07 Iowa City, IA – The Picador 3/10/07 Rock Island, IL – Rock Island Brewing Co. 3/17/07 Chicago, IL – Schuba’s 4/5/07 Ames, IA – Maintenance Shop 4/7/07 Bloomington, IN – Hospital

Pink Martini

Hang On Little Tomato CD: HNZ 2 Price Code: S UPC: 723721038557 4/12-15/07 Ft. Worth, TX – Bass Hall 4/21/07 Richmond,VA – Landmark Theatre 5/3-5/07 Nashville, TN – Schermerhorn Symphony Center 6/17/07 Boston, MA – Symphony Hall 6/23/07 Minneapolis, MN – Orchestra Hall

Girl Talk

Unstoppable CD: ILL 109 Price Code: M UPC: 613285963221 3/2/07 Athens, OH – Casa Nueva 3/1 1/07 Sunrise, FL – Langerado Music Festival 3/23/07 Milwaukee, WI – Stonefly Brewery 3/24/07 Madison, WI – Union South 3/30/07 Pittsburgh, PA – Andy Warhol Museum 3/31/07 Princeton, NJ – Terrace F. Club

The Teeth

You’re My Lover Now CD: PTV 14 Price Code: O UPC: 723721279950 3/1/07 New Orleans, LA – The Paris 3/2/07 Houston, TX – Walter’s on Washington 3/3/07 Austin, TX – Emo’s 3/4/07 Dallas, TX – Gypsy Tea Room 3/6/07 Norman, OK – Opolis 3/7/07 Little Rock, AR – Juanita’s 3/8/07 St. Louis, MO – Creepy Crawl 3/9/07 Columbia, MO – The Blue Note 3/10/07 Lawrence, KS – The Bottleneck 3/12/07 Shreveport, LA – Little Joe’s 3/14-17/07 Austin, TX – SXSW 3/20/07 Phoenix, AZ – Modified 3/22/07 Los Angeles, CA – The Fold

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illyB Eats Box Set (Volumes 1-3)

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Ware, David S./Quartet

Renunciation

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Ware, David S./Quartet

Freedom Suite

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Corridors & Parallels

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Wisdom of Uncertainty

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Volume 2: Summer Snow

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First Communion + Piercing the Veil

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Sound Unity

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Singing Songs of Praise

CQU

103

642623410325

Owens, Isaiah

You Without Sin Cast the First Stone

CQU

102

642623410127

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Jackson, Rev. Charlie

God’s Got It!

CQU

101

642623410226

n/a

Lesbians on Ecstasy

We Know You Know

ALI

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Lesbians on Ecstasy

We Know You Know

ALI

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Lesbians on Ecstasy

Lesbians on Ecstasy S/T

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Lesbians on Ecstasy

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Destroy All Music Revisited

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Revenge

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Gods of Chaos

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Truth is a Fucking Lie, The

GRA

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Listen to Your Left Brain

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Turbo Mattress

GRA

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Soak the Saddle

GRA

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Arab On Radar

Yahweh or the Highway

GRA

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Sold for Tomorrow

MSR

612645002822

No Trigger

Extinction in Stereo

NSR

130

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Flesh and Spirits

LUJ

751937301929

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La Merde Et Les Etoiles

LUJ

751937260929

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751937283225

n/a

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Prelude to the Sea

CDEP

THG

881266002300

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1017

711574615025

Caspian

You Are the Conductor

CDEP

DOP

1016

711574571628

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Growing

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2XLP

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FVR

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It’s Magnificent, But It Isn’t War

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I’m Not Listening

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Only Death Can Kill You

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In Retrospect

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Little Hidden Secrets

DVD

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145

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143

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131

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141

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140

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Unititled

IPT

144

793447514420

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Here Where Nothing Grows

IPT

793447507323

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Broken Hearts and Tired Legs

JNA

733792731226

Still Flyin’

Za Cloud

ANT

522

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