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NEW RELEASES MAY 2007 STREET DATES 5-15-07 & 5-29-07 A DIVISION OF ALLEGRO CORPORATION

pink martini HEY EUGENE!

INSIDE: The High Strung • Artful Records: Donovan, Peter Murphy, The Fall,Veruca Salt + More Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers • The Weeds • Audio Eagle - New Label! • Ruins • Chinese Stars • XXL (Xiu Xiu + Larsen) Piano Magic • Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. • Pleasure Forever • Decemberists Vinyl

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FEATURED ARTISTS

China Forbes: vocals Thomas M. Lauderdale: piano Robert Taylor: trombone Gavin Bondy: trumpet Phil Baker: bass Timothy Nishimoto: vocals, percussion Brian Davis: congas, percussion

“This is rich, hugely approachable music, utterly cosmopolitan yet utterly unpretentious. And it seems to speak to just about everybody … from gradeschoolers to grandmothers to the young and hip and beautiful.”

— Washington Post Derek Rieth: percussion Martin Zarzar: drums Dan Faehnle: guitar Paloma Griffin, Nicholas Crosa: violins Pansy Chang: cello Maureen Love: harp

SPECIAL GUEST Jimmy Scott: vocals

OVERVIEW

Pink Martini—the genre-bending, best-selling, supremely talented, and raucously fun twelve-piece ensemble that the New Yorker calls simply “beautiful,” “sophisticated,” and “breathtaking”—returns with Hey Eugene!, a twelve-track sonic journey anchored by deft songwriting and a no-holds-barred dose of cabaret showmanship. “We’re kind of like musical archaeologists, bringing melodies and rhythms from different parts of the world together to create something that is modern,” explains bandleader, artistic director, and founder Thomas Lauderdale.

Delivered with sultry grace by lead singer China Forbes, Hey Eugene! shines throughout—from the golden-era Hollywood melody of “Everywhere” to the French cabaret of “Ojala.” Other collaborations anchor the set as well: the pan-world “Dosvedanya, Mio Bombino” with its Latin-meets-Russian beat and globetrotting subject matter, plus the Forbes-Lauderdale-penned sexy sway of “City of Night.” Peruvian percussionist Martin Zarzar debuts the romantically complex “Mar Desconocido” and bassist Phil Baker adds the quiet beauty of “Cante e Dance.” The group also mines the past for hidden gems, including the Japanese-language track “Taya Tan” and their first-ever recording in Arabic, “Bukra wba’do.” Meanwhile, clever lyricism leads to an empowering dose of pop perfection on the title track by Forbes (about a boy she met at a party who asked for her number and never called). Finally, jazz legend Jimmy Scott makes a stunning vocal guest appearance in a duet with Forbes on the closing song “Tea for Two.” With Hey Eugene! Pink Martini has returned with an exhilarating album full of uncompromising musicianship, hope, beauty, and joy!

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HEY EUGENE!

PRESS QUOTES

“This ensemble from Portland, Oregon, wowed the fabulous on the Cannes party circuit … but that accomplishment hardly addresses the beautiful and sophisticated music of Pink Martini … breathtaking.” — The New Yorker “[Pink Martini] delivers a knowing sophistication backed by skillful arrangements … Ms. Forbes is an unpretentious, pitch-perfect chanteuse who can be breathy and girlish or sultry … she tempers heartbreak with savoir-faire.” — New York Times “No matter how Pink Martini gets described, there’s always an element being overlooked, a reliance on phrases such as lounge, cosmopolitan rumba or neo-classical that only tells part of this rich story. Impressive at every musician’s station, this ensemble produces music that’s charming and elegant.” – Variety

SELLING POINTS

• Huge fan base already established in key markets.

• US touring throughout 2007, in support of album release, at prestigious venues nationwide.

• New York-based independent PR firm Shore Fire Media hired.

• Major print publication interviews taking place nationwide and in key markets.

• Coordinated radio and TV appearances in conjunction with release.

• Huge fan base mailings: color postcards mailed nationwide + email announcements leading to release.

• Advance solicitation to TV/film supervisors to follow up successful campaign that resulted in previous Pink Martini songs being used in The West Wing,The Sopranos, and in the films Hitch, Nurse Betty, Josie & The Pussycats, and In the Cut, among others.

• Solicitation in advance of release to follow up successful campaign that resulted in appearances on numerous compilations, including Starbucks/Hear Music, Putumayo, Buddha Bar, Hotel Costes, Façonnable, Williams-Sonoma, Nordstrom, Bergdorf Goodman, and KCRW. • Print ads to support release in key markets.

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KEY MARKETS

Hometown: Portland. Also: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Boston, Washington DC

TRACK LISTING

Everywhere • Tempo Perdido • Mar Desconocido • Taya Tan • City of Night • Ojala • Bukra wba’do • Cante e Dance • Hey Eugene • Syracuse • Dosvedanya, Mio Bombino • Tea for Two (feat. Jimmy Scott)

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Pink Martini Hang On Little Tomato

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Pink Martini’s two previous recordings, Sympathique and Hang On Little Tomato, have sold over 1.3 million records worldwide combined, with platinum or gold records in France, Canada, Switzerland, Turkey, and Greece. Hang On Little Tomato, released in 2004, climbed to #1 on Amazon.com, #2 on StreetPulse, #3 on Billboard’s Heatseekers, #5 on Billboard’s Top Internet Albums, #7 on Billboard’s Top Independent Albums, and #53 on the Billboard 200.

BIOGRAPHY

Somewhere between a 1930s Cuban dance orchestra, a classical chamber music ensemble, a Brazilian marching street band, and Japanese film noir is the twelve-piece Pink Martini. Part language lesson, part Hollywood musical, the Portland-based “little orchestra” was created in 1994 by Harvard graduate Thomas M. Lauderdale to play at political fundraisers for progressive causes such as public broadcasting, clean water, libraries, civil rights, and affordable housing.

Pink Martini’s debut CD Sympathique was released on the band’s own label, Heinz Records. Originally released in 1997, Sympathique met with rave reviews, finding a place in the hearts of many. Building a legacy though unstoppable word of mouth, select high-profile symphony dates, prominent placement in film & television, and fashionable private appearances, Pink Martini set the stage for the release for their highly-anticipated follow-up.

Hang On Little Tomato, Pink Martini’s sophomore album, featured mostly original songs written by the band and its extended family. Drawing on themes articulated in the first album, Hang On Little Tomato was the result of the group’s diverse collaborations and inspirations. From an advertisement for Hunt’s Ketchup from a 1964 issue of Life magazine to a dance sequence in the 1950 Italian film Anna, Hang On Little Tomato includes songs in French, Italian, Japanese, Croatian, Spanish, and English.

TRACK LISTING – Sympathique

Amado Mio • No Hay Problema • Sympathique • Que Sera Sera • La Soledad • Donde Estas,Yolanda? • Andalucia • Song of the Black Lizard • Never On Sunday • Brazil • Lullaby

TRACK LISTING – Hang On Little Tomato

Let’s Never Stop Falling In Love • Anna • Hang On Little Tomato • Gardens of Sampson & Beasley • Veronique • Dansez-Vous • Lilly • Autrefois • U Plavu Zoru • Clementine • Una Notte a Napoli • Kikuchiyo • Aspetta Mi • Song of the Black Swan

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The High Strung Get the Guests Genre: Alt Rock Label: Park the Van CD: PTV 15 Price Code: O

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

The High Strung did not set out to write and record its “defining” album but, call it an accident or dub it luck, it has. Get the Guests is surely one of the most original albums released in 2007, and some of its wonder lies in the fact that it doesn’t sound like a band trying to do anything …it just sounds like a band that is. In all aspects, Get the Guests is a far cry from the band’s previous two releases (These Are Good Times and Moxie Bravo), but it also makes you listen to those albums and think, “ah, now I see where they were headed this whole time.” Character sketches have adorned the band’s canon before, but never as much as they do now. “Rimbaud/Rambo” introduces a narrator trying to decide which titular man is a better romantic model, while “The Curator” exposes a malicious museum curator covering the museum walls with his own work. The harmonies are striking, the bass and drums are creative as hell, and Josh Malerman’s voice is as unique and convincing as it’s ever been. The High Strung’s self-abusive tour schedule took them to sixty libraries last summer, a juxtaposition documented by NPR’s This American Life and an irony not lost on the hundreds of teens who got to see them for the first time. Bob Pollard called the band’s 2005 release Moxie Bravo a “masterpiece” … a sentiment that frightened the members into thinking that they might not be able to do better. But with Get the Guests, they surely have.

Press Quotes “Joyful, uptight, cymbal-bashing sound that borrows as much from the Motor City’s recent garage-rock scene as from the Beatles. The New Wave revival has produced its first acolytes.” — Rolling Stone “The High Strung is worthy of the legendary Nuggets box set.” — Blender “We vouch that The High Strung is actually geeky in a cool way.” — Village Voice

Selling Points • Engineered & produced by Jim Diamond (White Stripes, Dirtbombs).

• The High Strung has played over 1,300 shows in the last five years, with more touring to come. The group is an NPR favorite.

• The High Strung has toured and/or performed with Robert Pollard, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Mates of State, and more.

• Working with Girlie Action (My Morning Jacket) for a national PR campaign.

• College/specialty radio campaign by Pirate Radio (Tom Waits, Dr. Dog, Lily Allen).

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

Key Markets Hometown: Detroit. Also: Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Cleveland, Boston, Milwaukee, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, San Diego, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Orlando, Nashville, Baltimore, Raleigh, Denver, Phoenix, Omaha

Track Listing What a Meddler • Maybe You’re Coming Down With it • So Dry • The Baddest Ship • Raise the Bar • He’s Got No Soul • Childhood • Rimbaud/Rambo • Watch Me Sustain the Early Days • She’s Not Even Mad At You • The Curator • There Was No One Before You, There Was No One Before Me • I Recognize That Voice • Arrow • Grave Digger • Missed Easily • The Meddler ALSO AVAILABLE

The High Strung Moxie Bravo

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Donovan Best of Live Genre: Folk Label: Artful Records CD: AFL 9 Price Code: Q

Previously only available overseas, these Artful imports are now available at domestic prices!

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The legendary folk singer runs through his greatest hits! Seventeen tracks include “Jennifer Juniper,” “Sunshine Superman,” “Hurdy Gurdy Man,” “Catch the Wind,” “Sadness,” “Universal Soldier,” “Cosmic Wheels,” “Atlantis,” “Wear Your Love Like Heaven,” “To Susan on the West Coast,” “Colours,” and more.

Veruca Salt Resolver

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Few have the gift to create music that inspires and enriches our lives, but ex-Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy is an artist known for doing just that. Unshattered embodies the musical evolution of one of the most enigmatic and influential artists of our time.

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Veruca Salt’s last release, Resolver, is an angry album that encapsulates Louise Post’s wrangles with her partner in Veruca Salt and her ex, Dave Grohl. “Resolver fuses Breeders buzz pop with heavy-metal histrionics, but Post’s songwriting has acquired some spontaneity.” — Rolling Stone

The Fall The Permanent Years

The Fall A World Bewitched

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Legendary indie rock band The Fall released five albums on Permanent Records, and this collection features the best tracks produced during that time. “Out of all the late-’70s punk and postpunk bands, none were longer-lived or were more prolific than The Fall.” — All Music Guide

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This double album, which includes their best songs from 1990– 2000, features thirty-six tracks with guests Edwyn Collins, Damon Gough (Badly Drawn Boy), The Clint Boon Experience, The Inspiral Carpets, Tackhead, Long Fin Killie, D.O.S.E., and more.

Gary Numan Resonator

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Kicked off by the track “Hell Above Water,” featured on the cinema trailer for Spider-Man, Gift is Curve’s first album since 1998’s corrosive, bruising Come Clean. It will be followed by the album’s first single, the double A side of “Want More Need Less” and “Hell Above Water.”

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Peter Murphy Unshattered

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Produced by Alan Moulder (Nine Inch Nails, Coldplay), Flood (U2, Depeche Mode), and Andy Gray (Paul Oakenfold), the result is an album featuring huge-sounding versions of old favorites, two new hit singles, and an orchestral version of the classic “Cars.”

The Durutti Column Keep Breathing Genre: Alt Rock Label: Artful Records CD: AFL 52 Price Code: Q

Stephen Duffy & The Lilac Time Keep Going Genre: Folk Label: Artful Records CD: AFL 18 Price Code: Q

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Produced by Martin Hannett, this edgy, primitive LP showcases Reilly’s “honey wrapped in sandpaper” guitar playing and sets the tone for twenty years of meditative and fearless music.

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Mercury-nominated album by legendary a singer-songwriter who has recently co-written a Robbie Williams album and has contributed tracks to most of the Barenaked Ladies’ albums.

Shirley Bassey Classics

John Foxx Tiny Colour Movies

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The legendary singer runs through her greatest hits, backed by a forty-eight-piece orchestra. Eighteen tracks include “S’Wonderful,” “Diamonds Are Forever,” “Big Spender,” “Lady is a Tramp,” “New York, New York,” “Hey Jude,” “I Wanna Know What Love Is,” “This Is My Life,” “I Am What I Am,” and more.

Fifteen electronic instrumental tracks that are a fascinating mixture of Neu!, Brian Eno, The Future’s The Golden Hour of the Future, old Gary Numan B-sides, Kraftwerk, Cluster, the soundtracks to Blade Runner and Forbidden Planet, the Radiophonic Workshop, and even Jean Michel Jarre!

John Foxx/Louis Gordon Sideways

John Foxx From Trash

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John Foxx and electro DJ Louis Gordon’s fifth album combines sci-fi themed electronic pop songs with trash psychedelia and film music to create the pair’s most adventurous recordings to date.

Collaborative projects with Robin Guthrie (ex-Cocteau Twins) and actor Vincent Gallo are due later in 2007.

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John Foxx and Mancunian electro artist/DJ/producer Louis Gordon release From Trash, their fourth album since meeting up just over ten years ago. This release follows in the footsteps of Shifting City (1997), The Pleasures of Electricity (2001), and Crash and Burn (2003).

John Foxx Cathedral Oceans III

Electrofear Nation 12

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John Foxx’s Cathedral Oceans is a twenty-year project combining ambient music with his own photographs that slowly morph into each other to create the effect of a “moving stained glass window.”

He recently performed an improvised excerpt from the project with pianist Harold Budd and guitarist Bill Nelson.

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A collaboration between electronic pioneer John Foxx and Bomb the Bass’s Tim Simenon. Thanks to Martin Heath’s support, Nation 12’s fragments have finally been assembled into seventyseven minutes of music, described as a mixture of “film noir dance routines, electropunk, and psychedelic chant songs.”

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Nail welcomes AUDIO EAGLE RECORDS to its roster Audio Eagle Records, based in Akron and run by Black Keys drummer Patrick Carney, is committed to releasing records by bands that are good.

Beaten Awake Let’s Get Simplified Genre: Alt Rock Label: Audio Eagle Records CD: AER 1046 Price Code: L Previously Available

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Joel McAdams: vocals, guitar, drums Jon Findley: vocals, guitar, drums Ryan Brannon: drums, bass, keyboards Allen Karpinski: lead guitar

Beaten Awake is a rock band from Kent, Ohio. After cutting their teeth in legendary art bands such as the Six Parts Seven, The Party of Helicopters, and Harriet the Spy, the band’s four members decided to get back to basics and explore their folk and rock roots.

Let’s Get Simplified is the group’s Audio Eagle debut and first proper album. The title says it all: the members getting down to brass tacks and baring their souls with heartfelt, beautiful songwriting that touches on friendship, love, desperation, and hometown pride.

Time flies, and we always notice too late. Beaten Awake knows that all too well. This is music about holding on to the moment and making the most of things. Let’s Get Simplified was recorded and produced by Patrick Carney of The Black Keys.

Press Quotes “The foursome’s arresting debut has an amplitude of movement, wonder, and heartache.” — Boston Globe “The album has a strange beauty to it that, come to think of it, is not unlike the late, great Drake.” — Cleveland Free Times “Beaten Awake’s melodies drift like a riverboat ride over jangling guitars and sympathetic peals of organ.” — Scene Magazine “New bands aren’t supposed to sound this good.” — Akron Beacon Journal

Selling Points • Features members of Six Parts Seven, The Party of Helicopters, and Harriet the Spy. • Record and mixed by Patrick Carney of The Black Keys in his basement studio.

• Extensive tours with The Black Keys and Heartless Bastards.

• In-house servicing to CMJ’s top fifty reporting stations.

• In-house publicity and marketing to national/regional print and internet media.

Key Markets Hometown: Akron. Also: Minneapolis, Columbus, Chicago, Atlanta, Gainesville, Louisville, New York, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Chapel Hill, Austin, Boston, Ann Arbor

Track Listing Browns Town • It’s a Bubble Bath Full of Sharks • Ghost Bought a Bicycle • Broken Fang • Goin’ Nowhere • All Up All Close • A&E • The Tiger’s Tale • Boat Shoes • Tree of Woe • Endless Boo • Secular Ankh

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Houseguest High Strangeness Genre: Alt Rock Label: Audio Eagle Records CD: AER 1047 Price Code: L Previously Available

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Ted Mallison: vocals Gabe Schray: bass Dave Whited: rhythm guitar Dave Rich: lead guitar Steve Clements: drums

Houseguest is a famous pop rock band from Akron, Ohio. Houseguest’s live shows have, in the past, turned into debacles, with shirt removal, sing-alongs, and drunken arguments between band members as par for the course. Tales grow with the telling, and now such unruliness is often expected of the band. The members are more than willing to comply, but Houseguest is much more than just five badly behaved college bums. The songwriting is well honed, and the sound is the band’s own. The group has seen much of the horror of life, but would rather instill hope than coddle despair. Save your grief for the funeral! Houseguest is here for the party.

High Strangeness is the first album by Houseguest on Audio Eagle Records. It was recorded and produced by Patrick Carney of The Black Keys at the Eagle’s Nest in Spring 2006. The album’s fourteen tracks range from frenetic pop barnburners to heartfelt, anthemic ballads.

Press Quotes “While the abandon of their stage presence is something to behold, what they are capable of committing in the studio is staggeringly beautiful, skewed pop.” — PopMatters [8/10] “Houseguest is simply the best pop band in the country.” — McSweeney’s “Akron’s Houseguest is the kind of visitor you can receive into your home without reservations. High Strangeness will quickly become a permanent resident, filling your quarters with music that’s relentlessly catchy and smart, tight but jittery, muscle toned but not bulging. Grade: A.” — Columbus Alive “Houseguest is a bunch of smart guys making smart, fun music.” — Akron Beacon Journal

Selling Points • Debut album on Audio Eagle Records from acclaimed indie rock band Houseguest.

• Recorded and produced by Patrick Carney of The Black Keys.

• Nominated for Cleveland Scene and Cleveland Free Times awards for Best Indie Rock Band in 2006 & 2007.

• Specialized in-house publicity and marketing by Audio Eagle.

• In-house servicing to CMJ’s top fifty reporting stations.

• In-house publicity and marketing to national/regional print and internet media.

Key Markets Hometown: Akron/Cleveland. Also: Minneapolis, Columbus, Chicago, Atlanta, Gainesville, Louisville, New York, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Chapel Hill, Austin, Boston, Ann Arbor

Track Listing Fashionable Living Room • Gone for the Season • Dive Deep • On Walden Software • It’s Not You (But That’s Just Me) • Are We Us? • King of Crystal Skies • Galapaghost Island • Muted Mesa • Silereye • Where We Left Off • Gravy Shift • Heliport Impressions • Where My Body’s From

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Overview “Terrible to witness, uncontrolled power that will make you scream.” — Punk Planet

Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers Lower Broad Lo-Fi Genre: Alt Rock Label: Arkam Records CD: AKM 30 Price Code: N

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Downtown Nashville, just off the dirty Cumberland River, is a wayward home for junkies, poets, homeless buskers, and starving musicians. In the watering holes that line the neon-studded Broadway Street, music is played twenty-four hours a day by the hardest, tightest, hungriest gentlemen. Each a master at his trade, they fight and wrestle with the sounds of an ever-changing world, hoping to someday master the blues and perform honky tonk ballads like the gone-but-not-forgotten country angels of old. For years there was one band that shone brighter than the rest: Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers. As time has passed, the lineup has changed and the band’s fan base has grown worldwide, but the quartet captured here was the best, sharpest group of villains to ever play under the name. This is a recording dating back to the year 2000, when they were unknown and fighting to live.

Selling Points • This rough live demo is the only existing recording of this classic lineup.

• Chris Scruggs, grandson of legendary Earl Scruggs, has played in BR-549 and performed at the Opry countless times.

• Joe Buck now plays bass for Hank Williams III, and also tours and plays solo.

• Chris Detlaf plays drums in many Nashville sessions, and plays behind Rosie Flores.

• Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers have toured the world countless times with such acts as Robert Plant, Junior Brown, Southern Culture on the Skids, and the Reverend Horton Heat.

Key Markets Hometown: Nashville. Also: Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Austin

Track Listing 21 Days • Don’t Start Cryin • Dump Road Yodel • Hip Shake • Bullfrog Blues • Yer Gonna Need Me • Wild Wild Lover • Doin’ My Time • Roll In My Sweet Baby’s Arms • Ghost Riders in the Sky • Devils Night Auction • I Ain’t Home

Overview First official reissue of The Weeds (a.k.a. The Lollipop Shoppe), authorized by Fred Cole of Dead Moon fame! Life for a young band on the road & on the way up is a merry chaos. When “You Must Be a Witch” proved to be a hit single, The Weeds were hot. The group regularly opened for The Doors, The Seeds, and Moby Grape as well as a few one-offs with the likes of Buffalo Springfield, Janis Joplin, and Jefferson Airplane. This is ’60s garage/psychedelia as its best. A long-awaited re-issue, the album has been beautifully re-mastered by Mark “Bosshoss” Taylor. Limited edition LP on 180-gram audiophile vinyl.

Selling Points • First official reissue of The Weeds, authorized by Fred Cole (Dead Moon).

• Limited edition LP on 180-gram audiophile vinyl.

• Includes cult hit “You Must Be a Witch.”

• Re-mastered by Mark “Bosshoss” Taylor.

• Reviews in all major independent magazines and fanzines.

Key Markets Hometown: Portland. Also: Las Vegas, Seattle, San Francisco, Austin, New York

Track Listing

The Weeds AKA The Lollipop Shoppe Genre: 60s Garage Label: Wayback Records CD: MMN 66026 Price Code: M NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

It’s Your Time • Little Girl • You Must Be a Witch • Underground Railroad • Baby Don’t Go • Who’ll LP: MMN 66026 Read the Will • It’s Only a Reflection • Don’t Look Back • Don’t Close the Door On Me • It Ain’t How Price Code: M Long • It’s Makin’ It • I’m Gonna Be There • You Don’t Give Me No More • Sin • Mr. Madison Avenue • Who’s It Gonna Be • Stop • No Good News NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Overview “Plants play a mystical brand of psychedelic folk whose solemn, droning beauty and stately pace recall Six Organs of Admittance and Pearls Before Swine at their most pastoral and intense.” — Dave Segal, The Stranger Formed by wedded musical partners Joshua & Molly Blanchard to explore delicate acid-folk terrain, Plants has evolved well beyond its sparse, mystical roots to sail along a rich and diverse confluence of mind-enhancing streams. 2006 bore witness to a trilogy of recordings, from the quivering folk of debut The Mind is a Bird in the Hand to music captured in yurts and bunkers along the Oregon coast (Totem CD-R) and the pillow-prog odyssey Double Infinity. Photosynthesis, the group’s fourth album, is aptly named, illustrating the subtle skill with which Plants extracts and blends a variety of sounds to concoct a heady elixir of minimalist psychedelia. A rotating cast of support offers a diverse array of instrumentation, including acoustic/electric guitars, cello, harpsichord, organ, electric tones, and a guest Plants Photosynthesis appearance from Jason Buehler of the band Nice Nice on banjo and “piano box.” Gently swirled together, Plants invokes images of a quiet solstice ritual involving early Tangerine Dream, the fusion- Genre: Avant Rock/Folk Label: Strange Attractors Audio House folk of C.O.B., and a flower-powered V.U.-era John Cale.

CD: SAA 51 Price Code: O Selling Points • Guitarist/vocalist Josh Blanchard was a member of Point Line Plane (Skin Graft Records); multi-instrumentalist Molly Griffith has performed with Portland notables The Decemberists NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA Preorder and 31Knots.

Discount • Guest appearance by Jason Buheler of Warp Records & Temporary Residence Ltd. recording through StreetDate artists Nice Nice.

• Full press mailing to online ‘zines, blogs, and print magazines; radio mailing by AAM.

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

Track Listing Photosynthesis • Seedling • Seedling 2 • Tumbleweed • Roots • Birdflowers • Seedling 3 • A Hidden World Exposed

Overview “Using loops built from piano, clarinet, and accordion lines, Dwinell creates a base for his chugging, probing guitar and gently sung poetry. Although Dwinell’s electric guitars do the occasional cameo to provide color, acoustic guitar is the album’s dominant instrument, where he makes like another of his heroes, the late acoustic-six-string guru John Fahey.” — Boston Phoenix Nonloc is the solo guise of Mark Dwinell, the guitar-slinging ringleader of East Coast spontaneous trance rockers Bright. Between Hemispheres is a heady excursion into repetition and the unyielding strength of unrepentant melody. Fascinated by minimalist composers such as Steve Reich and Terry Riley, Nonloc seeks to focus on the microtonal universes and hypnotic netherworlds minimalism awakens from repetition, while constructing ivory towers of melody ever upwards. Guitars provide focus, but the elaborate color accumulation of Between Hemispheres is dominated by alternate layering Nonloc of acoustic instruments such as piano, accordion, mandolin, and cello. Whereas Bright will use vocals Between Hemispheres sparingly as instrumental color, Nonloc spices up the instrumental forays by peppering tunes with Genre: Avant Rock lyrics that are direct and at times strikingly personal. Impeccably recorded, Between Hemispheres is a Label: Strange Attractors Audio House long-playing lullaby for intimate, contemplative twilight stares into candlelight.

CD: SAA 47 Price Code: O Selling Points • Nonloc is Mark Dwinell of underground cult kraut-psych rockers Bright.

• Second Nonloc album; debut was released on Ba Da Bing! Records to great response.

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Key Markets Hometown: Brooklyn. Also: Boston, Providence, Philadelphia, Austin, San Francisco, Portland

Track Listing Corpus Callosum • Candide • Processional • The Golden Apple Pie • Piano Stream • Sentry at Eleusis • My Song Before the Gates • A Popular Tune • Lost in the Desert, Near Death • Clearing • Two Dreams • Between Hemispheres STREET DATE MAY 15, 2007

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Ruins Refusal Fossil [Special Edition] Genre: Alt Rock Label: Skin Graft Records CD: GRA 87 Price Code: M

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Featured Artists Yoshida Tatsuya: drums, vocals Sasaki Hisashi: six-string bass, effects, vocals

Guest Artists Masuda Ryuichi: bass Kikuchi Navuyoshi: saxophone Yamamoto Seiichi: guitar Emi Eleonda: vocals

Overview

The members of Japan’s Ruins have extensive experience and tireless commitment! A furious barrage of explosive and intricately composed drum(s) and bass, Ruins covers all stops between hardcore’s hysteric intensity, metal’s pummeling dynamics, and the confounding inscription of progressive rock. No slack. No slop.

Absolute masters of quick-change, stop-start tempos and time signatures, Ruins crafts an unprecedented amalgam of originality, all sung in a peculiar language of the group’s own invention. The first album to feature bassist Sasaki Hisashi, Refusal Fossil [Special Edition] re-issues the long out-of-print Refusal Fossil full-length, plus five previously unreleased tracks, all remixed and re-mastered by the band’s Yoshida Tatsuya (Koenjihyakkei).

Also featuring a host of guest musicians from the Japanese avant scene (including Yamamoto Seiichi of Boredoms), Refusal Fossil [Special Edition] boasts twenty-five cuts in all—over an hour-long blast of zig-zag calisthenics!

Press Quotes “Fiendish and crazed, Ruins explore string-popping ideas only to degenerate into complex whirlpools of distortion, then regroup into a new version of their original idea with surprising grace. Ruins grow on you like a cancerous cell, and are killer.” — CMJ

Selling Points • Ruins has a tremendous worldwide following from an incredibly diverse group of music enthusiasts. The group has sold tens of thousands of records, with releases on Skin Graft, John Zorn’s Tzadik, Shimmy Disc/Knitting Factory, and Mike Patton’s Ipecac label.

• Yoshida Tatsuya’s band Koenjihyakkei will perform their first North American dates this May in conjunction with the release of this special edition of Refusal Fossil.

• Ads in Skyscraper, Signal to Noise, Punk Planet, and The Wire.

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

Track Listing Refusal Fossil • Uskilsdos Zaimm • Stara Planina • Eccentric Ditch • Etymology • Empty Hands • Der Strudel • Still Life • 7th Dimension • Faux Numero • Calnac • Heraklion • Ramification • Misconduction • Reckless Stone • You Know What You Like • Heaven and Hell • Hyderomastgroningem • Burning Stone • Plexus • Dhaskrive • Gravestone • Del Fanci Kant • Infect • Prog Rock Medley

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Overview “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 Paul’s surreal lyrics as a hallucinogen—fans of a more fucked Ex Models aesthetic, take note.” — The Stranger Hot on the heels of the Chinese Stars’ new album Listen To Your Left Brain, Skin Graft proudly represents the band’s debut CD Turbo Mattress in a new edition. Previously available as a “weaponized, Chinese throwing-star-shaped CD,” Turbo Mattress was quick to sell but proved problematic for those wishing to play the disc in front-feed CD players, CD changers, or darn near anything other than a tray-loading disc player. So for this new edition, Turbo Mattress has been pressed on a transparent CD, maintaining the illusion of a Chinese throwing star with the added bonus of being playable on all CD players and drives!

Selling Points

The Chinese Stars Turbo Mattress

• New version—a special, collectible transparent CD playable on all CD players and drives!

• Includes members of Arab On Radar and Six Finger Satellite (Sub Pop).

• The Chinese Stars will tour the US, Canada, and Europe in 2007.

• Extensive press and radio mailing for the band’s new album by Blueghost Publicity.

• Ads in Skyscraper, Signal to Noise, Punk Planet, and The Wire.

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Skin Graft Records CD: GRA 69 Price Code: M

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

Track Listing Sick Machine • Eyes of the Secret North • Loose Traffic • Arson Hotline • The Fastest Horse Yet

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Overview ellul’s self-titled debut is, unlike much contemporary vocal music, genuinely surprising. Recorded up and down the California coast in a vaulted hilltop church, an industrial warehouse, a community center, and a living room, the album was produced and engineered by Chris Schlarb (Liz Janes & Create (!), Castanets, I Heart Lung). Over the course of a year the group added contributions from Adam Garcia (Timonium, Imaad Wasif) on drums and Anthony Shadduck (Nels Cline, I Heart Lung) on acoustic and electric bass. Lyrically, the group examines the painful history of a transplanted Haitian son confronting a nation for its second-degree murder of a people; lovers asking the questions of the age; and a heart longing to be known. ellul asks for reasons—for calm and coups, love and hatred—and brings the listener into each movement with honest, inventive music. Sometimes subtle, sometimes raw, the vocal harmonies are both unsettling and sweetly evocative. Dueling live/ programmed drums, shimmering guitar distortions, and looped electronics converge with choral harmonies and dark electronic textures. ellul has made a fiercely creative debut … now let’s see who’s listening.

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Selling Points • Full US tour scheduled for July–August 2007.

• Strong, growing support based on solid live sales and performances in San Francisco.

• Full press, blog, and college radio campaign via Sleepless P.R. (Asthmatic Kitty).

• Pre-release promotional remix EP featuring Thavius Beck (Saul Williams), Bevin Blectum (Sagan), Siamese Sisters (My Brightest Diamond), and more.

• Ads in Arthur, Signal to Noise, and Copper Press.

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

Track Listing Ballet Faces • Maniacs Collide • Blood • Esophagus • Listen • Freedom • Swamp King • Around the Bend • Fragrance • Enamel On Iron

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Bleach 03 The Head That Controls Both Right and Left Sides Eats Meats and Slobbers Even Today Genre: Alt Rock/Punk Label: Australian Cattle God CD: ACG 15 Price Code: O

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Kanna: guitar, vocals Miya: bass, vocals Sayuri: drums, vocals

Bleach 03 is made up of three young Japanese girls who shred like Primus meets Slayer, with female shrieks and melodies scattered about. It has been an internationally touring band for several years, shocking audiences in the UK, Japan, and all over the US. The group’s newest CD, The Head That Controls Both Right and Left Sides Eats Meats and Slobbers Even Today, displays strength and maturity while retaining the excitement and rambunctious attitude of a new band. The disc is very well conceived, and the songs are catchy, hard-hitting, and precise.

Anyone who has ever seen the band live will tell you that Bleach 03 is the fastest, loudest, and most brutal Japanese girl band ever seen, and this CD is a firm representation of that chaotic, powerful idea.

Press Quotes “Bleach 03 show the rare ability to play hardcore that is melodically driven without being emo, screamo, or even remotely pop-punk.”

— Tiny Mix Tapes “Kanna, Miya, and Sayuri waste no time raising Canaan once again, conjuring their barrage of marginally refined garage rock that has earned the girls from Okinawa a small cult following.” — Sea of Tranquility “Get blasted by three tiny Okinawan girls … They hit this death metal stride that was sprung from the loins of Death Angel or The Melvins and maintained this pace for thirty brutal minutes … Collect your broken teeth, eardrums, and stereotypes and proceed to the back. Super highly recommended.” — Metroactive San Jose

Selling Points • Second US release on Australian Cattle God Records.

• Upcoming May West Coast tour with Lozen.

• Has previously toured US major markets annually since 2001, including several Japan Nite, CMJ, SXSW, and Japunks appearances.

• Mastered by Chris Athens @ Sterling Sound (Coldplay). Mixed by Daniel Wyatt @ Temple of Soul (Norah Jones).

• Service to college radio stations as well as print magazines and websites.

• Ads in Razorcake,Verbicide, Punk Planet, and more.

Key Markets Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, New York, Burlington, Chicago, San Diego, Las Vegas, Atlanta, Dallas, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston

Track Listing Samurai Jungle • The Head That Controls Both Right and Left Sides Eats Meats and Slobbers Even Today • Head Cleaner • Torch • The Rule of the Peacock • Get You Human • Not Peter • I Am in a Fantasy Recently • Pulse • Rock Is Calling Me • Sketchbook • Slant • Skull Trial • Fascinating Dream

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Overview “A combination of calm guitar atmospherics and epic-scale cascades of feedback.” — All Music Guide Lebanon is a primarily instrumental band from Tel Aviv that blends metal, prog, and psychedelic elements into its layered and complex compositions. Many things influence the band: records, beer, art, women, philosophy, and the political catastrophe that is their country. The group’s first album, Sunken City, has been widely praised in Israel. Many reviewers describe Lebanon as a “post-rock montage”—a very diversely influenced, impatient, and dense version of “epic” post rock. Planet Rubble was recorded in September 2006 at Bellingham’s Mars Studio at the peak of the band’s first US tour. Much like its predecessor, Planet Rubble is a math-rock journey into destruction. Songs are even more dense and deconstructive, and some songs add vocals.

Selling Points • Has toured the US twice, covering both coasts, the Southwest, and the Midwest.

• Will return to North America for two months in late Summer/early Fall 2007.

• Has shared stages with Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Sunn O))), and more.

• Service to college & community radio stations, music press, webzines, and new media.

• Ads in Punk Planet, Copper Press, Razorcake,Verbicide, Pop Culture Press, Magnet, CMJ, and more

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Lebanon Planet Rubble Genre: Alt Rock Label: Australian Cattle God CD: ACG 16 Price Code: O

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Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Austin, Dallas, Oklahoma City, Cleveland, St. Louis, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago, New York

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Finland • Buried in the Avenue • The Dying Dying Man • No More • Megalith • We Never Sleep • Joan of Arc • Know Hope • Poltergeist • Peter Pan Man

Overview “Pure, aggressive, balls-to-the-wall rock … During setup, Lozen’s drummer Justice and singer/guitarist Hozoji looked like two cool chicks about to play what could have been decent college/grrl rock. But after witnessing Justice running in place to warm up for the set, it was evident the audience was about to get something altogether different.” — TheOwlMag.com

Lozen Enemies Against Power Genre: Alt Rock Label: Australian Cattle God CD: ACG 14 Price Code: O

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Lozen is a heavy art-rock duo from Tacoma that sounds like what might have happened if Nancy & Ann Wilson from Heart grew up listening to The Melvins and Black Sabbath. Lozen is made up of two girls, Hozoji and Justice, who sing scary/beautiful harmonies over heavy riffs and pounding drums. Their music is thought–provoking, mysterious, rhythmically hypnotizing, and dynamically flowing. They have a variety of historical and musical influences that shape their unique sound—from Lozen herself, an Apache warrior woman, to blues, jazz, classic rock, hip-hop, and the underground music scene. These two beautiful women can usually be found in their tour van on the West Coast, occasionally as far east as Austin. Lozen likes to focus on live performance, and each tour’s goal is to venture to as many new cities as possible. Catch their upcoming May 2007 tour with Bleach 03!

Selling Points • Upcoming May 2007 West Coast tour with Bleach 03.

• Recorded by Don Stewart at Buttermilk Studios in Seattle.

• Mastered by Bryan Nelson at The Typewriter Museum in Austin.

• Lozen performed at the Vice Magazine Party at SXSW 2007, and will perform at the ninth annual Fuck By Fuck You 2007.

• Features former members of Tacoma band TNA. • Service to college radio stations as well as print magazines and websites.

• Ads in Razorcake,Verbicide, Punk Planet, and more.

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

Track Listing Breech • Made With Love • Unspeakable Truths • Erleichda! • Heart of Filth • Wet Nightmare • So Long STREET DATE MAY 15, 2007

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Flash Hawk Parlour Ensemble Plastic Bag in a Tree Genre: Alt Rock/Folk Label: HUSH Records CD: HSH 70 Price Code: O

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George T. Drag: guitar, sound shapes/Fang: interruptions/Chris Funk: Moog, banjo, mandolin, dobro, pedal steel, hurdy-gurdy, omni chord/Merle Funk: vocals/Ruby Janes: violin, glockenspiel, mandolin, piano, Mellotron/“Heavy” Don: tenor banjo/Helga Meyerventhrope: lap & hammered dulcimer/Arthur Murphy: tuba/Janis Murphy: drums, banjo, mandolin, dobro/Victor Paul Nash: trumpet/Mark Petty: bassoon, English horn/“Poor” Michael: Moog, viola, guitar/Scout: beats/Choi Stevens: cello, bass, sax/Jerry Watson: ARP string machine

Chris Funk, lead guitarist for The Decemberists and special guest of the season-closing spectacular episode of The Colbert Report, has made a gorgeous, instrumental space-folk recording with a little help from his friends.

In 2005, Chris Funk and his family moved into their new home in Portland’s historic Mississippi neighborhood. He would play various instruments on his porch during hot summer nights, which caught the attention of his neighbors. He soon found out there was an unusual amount of musical activity on his block, and that he was surrounded by closet folksmen and recovering band geeks.

Funk invited his neighbors in for weekly living room hootenannies, and this recording documents those times in an array of cover songs and original “jams” written in a haze fueled by fellowship, libations, and other unmentionables.

Selling Points • Side project of Capitol Records recording artists The Decemberists.

• Bandleader Chris Funk was recently a featured guest on Comedy Central’s Colbert Report.

• May 2007 West Coast tour booked by Bigshot Touring.

• Includes covers of songs by Radiohead, Fleetwood Mac, Massive Attack, Pseudosix, and more.

• Full PR campaign to over one hundred media outlets and blogs.

• Full college radio mailing by AAM. • Ads in ReadyMade, Magnet, Resonance,Venus, Under the Radar, Pitchfork, Skyscraper, Rockpile, and more.

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

Track Listing Chained to a Pole (Slow Dive) • Texola Waltz • Teardrop • Can’t See the Moon? • Amnesiac/Morning Bell • Give Back the Recycle Bin Now! • That’s All For Everyone • Sleep At Last • Run Rabbit • Not Always Your Best Friend • I Go To Sleep • In Christ There Is No East Or West • Chris Walla: Duet for Moog and Hurdy-Gurdy in G Major-ish • The System of Your Choice 3 • The Turtle’s Voice Rests In Peace Just Outside Salem • Untitled (Secret Track)

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Overview “Jeff London excels in crafting just the kind of achingly honest folk-tinged songwriting that is capable of breaking down unconscious barriers … Music has always served the function of helping its performers heal themselves, and London may just help me balance the ugly memories associated with his namesake with far more positive associations.” — Delusions of Adequacy A folk triumph years in the making, The Bane of Progress is a quiet, reflective, stirring album with all the right touches. Bolstered by a cast of ringers including members of The Decemberists and Norfolk & Western, these smoldering, literate ballads are evocative—human, forlorn, and searching are all apt descriptions. But there’s a silver lining to these cloudy songs, and Jeff London charms listeners with his classic melodies and earnest tenor.

Selling Points • Guests on this record include a veritable who’s who of the Portland music scene: Chris Funk and Rachel Blumberg of The Decemberists, five members of Norfolk & Western, Mike Johnson of Parks & Recreation, and Cory Gray of Laura Gibson/Car Crash Lander.

• Full PR campaign to over one hundred media outlets and blogs.

• Full college radio mailing by AAM. • Ads in ReadyMade, Magnet, Resonance,Venus, Under the Radar, Pitchfork, Skyscraper, Rockpile, and more.

Key Markets

Jeff London The Bane of Progress Genre: Alt Rock/Folk Label: HUSH Records CD: HSH 68 Price Code: O

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Overview “Think Stereolab with flute loops and breakbeats, or Standards-era Tortoise with a veil of hookahlounge sensuality, and you’ve almost got a feel for this local duo’s pretty damn unique experiments in funk.” — Seattle Weekly Seattle’s Velella Velella makes music that is blissed-out, tonal, enthusiastic, and grooving. At the band’s disposal is a mess of instruments: drum machine, drum kit, snarly bass, ‘tremmy’ vibes, clean guitar lines, bassy Roland and overdriven Fafisa keyboards, drippy guitar washes, and vocals. Somewhere in this sonic mélange there are influences being pulled out of a hat—The Sea and Cake, Out Hud, Stereolab— but after spending some time with The Bay of Biscay it becomes abundantly clear that, like the jellyfish it is named after, Velella Velella swims in its own sea.

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Selling Points • May 2007 West Coast tour.

• Has toured with Pt. Juncture WA, played to packed houses at Bumbershoot & SXSW, and shared the stage with Girl Talk, Crystal Skulls, Karl Blau, and more.

• In rotation on the influential KEXP; reached #4 on electronica chart.

• Full PR campaign to over one hundred media outlets and blogs.

• Full college radio mailing by AAM. • Ads in ReadyMade, Magnet, Resonance,Venus, Under the Radar, Pitchfork, Skyscraper, Rockpile, and more.

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

Track Listing Do Not Fold/Do Not Bend • The Bread is Hard as Crackers • Man What a Stupid Slogan • If You Can’t Figure Out How To Work It Maybe You Don’t Need Another Drink Bay of Biscay • Telephone Poles for Sale • Hard Egg Timer • A Bit of the Whirlwind Buddy • 3 to the 6 to the Oh • Hunter • Sharpie • We Should Outsource This To Those Kids Over There • So Much for What’s-His-Face • That’s a Terrible Name for a Song • Let’s Launch Over It • Charlie and the Great Friday Sailing Adventure • Casio’ed STREET DATE MAY 15, 2007

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Southerly Storyteller and the Gossip Columnist Genre: Alt Rock Label: Greyday Records CD: GDP 27 Price Code: O NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Krist Krueger: vocals, guitars, bass, accordion, banjo, piano, organ, keyboards/ Ryan Heise: drums/Ann Marie Hoffman: violin/Jana Misener: cello/Cory Gray: trumpet, piano/Ryland Bouchard: clarinet/Craig Martin: vibes, xylophone

Portland’s Krist Krueger is a rare talent. As a solo artist under the name Southerly, he branded himself a dedicated DIY recording artist and unrelenting touring performer. Now, as a full band, Southerly carries on these traditions—as well as a dedication to beautiful, melodic, rhythmic tunes with heartfelt naked lyricism. Their new album, a fourteen-song masterpiece of indie music, could not possibly display this any better.

Southerly began in June 2003, releasing short runs of hand-packaged cassette tapes on Krueger’s previous imprint (dharmakayamusic/ DKM). In 2006, Southerly re-formed as a full band, and is currently gearing up for the release of its sophomore full-length as well as prepping for two full US tours and a proposed European tour in 2007.

Press Quotes “Southerly’s acoustic music treads a fine line between lush and minimal, his linear guitar shifting in and out of intense percussion and pastoral orchestrations.” — Billboard “The songs are especially well written and very original … a great CD to listen to if you want to sit back and reflect on your life.”

— Punk Planet “Krist Krueger is a boundless talent hiding among our ranks. The Portland artist’s lush, orchestral pop is reminiscent of Richard Ashcroft, Elliott Smith, Brendan Benson, and Stuart Staples, and, yes, his songs are often even better than theirs.” — Willamette Week “Immaculately captured with ultra–vivid production tricks, the songs found here, and on Southerly’s other discs, manage to be both introspective and highly accessible. Who knew that you could make bitter pills go down so smoothly!” — Portland Mercury

Selling Points • LP available from People in a Position to Know Records via Greyday Records.

• Second full-length, following sixteen months of aggressive touring.

• Full regional and US tours planned for 2007, including a May release-oriented tour.

• Southerly was featured on the Kill Rock Stars comp The Song the Hare Heard.

• Full indie & major press campaign, CMJ and specialty radio campaign, and aggressive digital/blog/new media campaign by Fanatic Promotion.

• Ads in Magnet, CMJ NMM, Modern Fix, and more.

Key Markets Hometown: Portland. Also: Seattle, San Francisco, New York, Washington DC, Baltimore, Madison, Omaha

Track Listing Visage Sans Expression • Close to the Crime • Soldiers • A Coarse Design • Taking Stock • For the Speechless Coward • How To Be a Dreamer • If We All Forget • Pistols In Paradise • Cold Caller • Dreams That Make Men Free • Breath Of My Youth • When We Have To Go • Simple Simon

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Overview “Every bit as raw as PJ Harvey’s Rid of Me … if you’re wearing out Boris’s Pink but still want a hardrocking album with a monochromatic color scheme and some killer tunes, Postulate I is well worth a peek.” — Daily Californian Portland’s LKN is known for overpowering audiences with her live show, and has developed an extremely loyal following as a result. Postulate II follows the pattern set forth by its predecessor, effortlessly blending the indie, alternative, punk/hardcore, and singer-songwriter worlds with such ease and comfort that each song leaves the listener more elated than the previous one. Newman has garnered a reputation for being a consummate performer and, as her latest release aptly displays, it is very well earned.

Selling Points • Fourth album from Lauren K. Newman (StellaMarie, Vanishing Kids).

• West Coast, Northern US, and East Coast regional tours planned.

• Aggressive in-house radio and press campaigns.

• Digital and blog promotion.

• Full street team support.

Key Markets

LKN Postulate II Genre: Alt Rock Label: Greyday Records CD: GDP 28 Price Code: L

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Hometown: Portland. Also: San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, Olympia, Pensacola, Buffalo

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Postulate I • On My Back in the June Sun • Fractured Sun, Fractured Heart • Mattanza • Size of Fit • On the Ride • Facts That Frustrate and Attract • Bruises • Stratagem • Sarah • Passenger and Crew • Exit Mistakes • 7.20.06

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Nail welcomes FALL RECORDSto its roster Fall Records is a Baltimore-based independent record label. The label formed in Grand Haven, Michigan in 2001 to support the acoustic projects of various friends. Fall Records features a diverse offering of bands ranging from experimental to pop, and comes to NAIL via Greyday Productions.

Southerly Best Dressed and Expressionless

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“Southerly sounds more like Damien Rice’s O or Jeremy Enigk’s solo album The Frog Prince, with the sound firmly rooted in acoustic guitars and folk while sidestepping the usual pitfalls of folkrock.” — The Pulse The 2005 full-length from Portland’s Southerly, Best Dressed and Expressionless is a concept album dedicated to four close friends and family members who all passed away around October 2003. Each “Accidental” track is about one of the four individuals, personalized by the memories remaining after their passing.

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“Coaxing ballads out of indie rock noodlings, Southerly smelts perfect timing and enlightening guitar riffs with temperature rising vocals that are smooth and elated. On the flip side is The Conversation, with their five songs of alienated indie rock that’ll make you crave their full-length.” — Smother Editor’s Pick A spectacular early release from Portland’s Southerly, this split LP contains five songs from Southerly, including two rare live tracks, and another five from The Conversation.

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History Invades In Vision Vanish Invisible Genre: Alt Rock Label: Lujo Records CD: LUJ 42 Price Code: I

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Daniel Scott Mayberry: drums, percussion, microkorg, vocals Jeremy Allan Vollman: bass, sang, drums, guitar, photo theramin, kp2 Paul Albert Harper: guitar, sang, played bass, drums, microkorg, kp2 Michael Norman Williams: bass, vocals, percussion

“Post Modernist Trap: The Stalkers Guide to the Universe,” which opens up In Vision Vanish Invisible, is a solid, almost radio-friendly anthem that showcases History Invades’ talent for turning electronic noise and chaotic repetition into a groove no soul can refuse. The rest of the album follows suit, sometimes veering into dark, electronic ballads or diving into songs rooted in a more brooding and epic rock.

With such a wide variety of sounds, In Vision Vanish Invisible could never be pigeonholed as a rock record or an electronic record or even the all–encompassing “indie” record. The word to name the sound isn’t available, so finding a term is futile. History Invades is in constant motion, and won’t ever doubt your desire and ability to keep up.

Press Quotes “Everything about History Invades exudes attitude. From the chopped up, transmedia-inspired artwork to the circumlocutory song titles, they demand attention.” — Splendid “History Invades exudes an eloquent way of telling us that the world we live in is not at all the world we live in.” — DecoyMusic “Pure genius right from the get-go, History Invades breaks ground into new territory while maintaining an edge and holding hooks throughout the entire record to create an all-encompassing masterpiece.” — Hybrid

Selling Points • History Invades has played with The Velvet Teen, Starflyer 59, The Fall of Troy, Damien Jurado, Denali, The Beautiful Mistake, and more.

• PR by Guerilla Public Inflations.

• Featured songs on compilations by Vice, XLR8R, and Insound.

• Ads in Synthesis, Alarm, XLR8R, Chord,Vice, Under the Radar,WonkaVision, Arthur, Big Takeover, Skyscraper, Copper Press, Status, Modern Fix, Pitchfork, and more.

Key Markets Hometown: Redding. Also: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago

Track Listing Post Modernist Trap: The Stalkers Guide to the Universe • Intensity in Ten Cities • Ravage; A True Illusion in the Air of Magic • Check That Figure! With Digits Like That Who Needs Cell Phones? • The Romance of Sand and the Salts/Snakes and the Consequential Epilepsy • Let’s Make Like Knives and Cut Loose! • Of Transparency in Disposition; The Fear of Dilution Upon Reflective Eyes • I Speak in Imperatives: I Feel on Impulse • The Solution is in the System? The System is the Solution! • Skies of the Times, Colonnades of the Modem: A Vanishing Synapses

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Overview “YACHT’s Jona Bechtolt makes glitched-out pop dance experiments that neither digress into monotonous beats nor get weighed down by vocal filler.” — SF Bay Guardian Jona Bechtolt is a Young American Challenging High Technology, known as much for his effeminate, wildly sexual “dancing” as for creating damaging beats and weird visuals. Hot on the heels of the release of The Blow’s Paper Television, which Bechtolt co-wrote and played all of the instruments on, I Believe In You.Your Magic Is Real. is the next step for YACHT. His twelve new catchy creations boast addictive beats and positive, memorable lyrics, including lyrics by David Shrigley, Deerhoof ’s designer. Jona Bechtolt has toured with or created music for We Two, The Blow, Devendra Banhart & The Hairy Fairy, Devendra Banhart & The Queens of Sheeba, The Badger King, Bobby Birdman, Little Wings, Thanksgiving, The Microphones/Mt Eerie, The Watery Graves, ((VVRSSNN)), The Graves, Jason Anderson, Wolf Colonel, Dear Nora, Mirah, and more.

Selling Points • Features guests Bobby Birdman and Eats Tapes.

• Sometime member and collaborator with Devendra Banhart & The Hairy Fairy.

• Played all instruments on and co-wrote The Blow’s Paper Television.

• Press handled by Force Field PR; radio handled by Terrorbird Media.

YACHT I Believe In You.Your Magic Is Real.

Genre: Electronica Label: Marriage Records CD: WED 40 Price Code: P

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“When he’s at his best, Blau resembles a prophet scarfing honey in the desert, a John McPhee speaking in tongues, chanting in a whisper from Lord Byron’s Vision of Judgment about out-of-tune angels.” — Pitchfork

Karl Blau Dance POSITIVE Genre: Alt Rock Label: Marriage Records CD: WED 42 Price Code: P

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According to Karl Blau, the world needs a little more Bret Lunsford, guitarist for Beat Happening and member of the band D+. So on his latest release, Blau takes the words to D+ songs and runs them through dance beats and echo machines, metamorphosing the style to give Lunsford’s words new positions. And though the lyrics are the same, Blau often embellishes the vocal melodies, sometimes completely changing them. Dance POSITIVE is light-hearted and sometimes silly, but always keeps Lunsford’s thoughtfulness in mind, and is designed to inspire movement.

Selling Points • Karl Blau’s critically acclaimed album Clothes Your I’s was ranked #2 on Richie Unterberger’s Rolling Stone Top Ten and received an 8.0 from Pitchfork.

• Features Steve Moore (Sunn, Earth, Laura Veirs’ Saltbreakers), James McAlister (Sufjan Stevens, Ester Drang), Clyde Petersen (Your Heart Breaks), Nate Ashley, Dave Matthies (Gift Machine), Curtis Knapp (The Watery Graves of Portland), Adam Forkner (White Rainbow, (((VRSNN)))), and more.

• Toured Europe and North America with Nonesuch artist Laura Veirs.

• Press handled by Force Field PR; radio handled by Terrorbird Media.

Overview “Orange has summoned an effortless crop of melodies and, moreover, an adult’s surefootedness to buoy his journeyman musings.” — CMJ Thanksgiving’s eleventh release, Bitches Is Lord, is a revelation of the highest order as Adrian Orange sets out to capture the energy, presence, and full-bodied force of a Thanksgiving live performance. This new album has more of the meaningful songs that Orange does so well, but this time around things just sound fierce. Hints of Johnny Cash and Crazy Horse-era Neil Young are touchstones. Minimal dirges and cloaked political blues butt up against triumphantly colorful anthems. Bitches Is Lord lyrically drafts propositions for a new era of humanity while exploring the painful beauty of what it is to be a human. This is, notably, the first album completely performed, recorded, mixed, and produced by Adrian Orange himself. Drums smack Adrian Orange Bitches is Lord 12” with simple, raw intensity while guitars curl and bounce around Orange’s deep, older-than-his-age voice, Genre: Alt Rock sounding out cries, laments, and triumphs unto the dawn of this troubled world.

Label: Marriage Records 12”: WED 22 Selling Points Price Code: P • Vinyl version of the popular CD, picked as one of Willamette Week’s Top Albums of 2006.

• Adrian Orange has appeared on compilations from Kill Rock Stars, States Rights Records, Kelp Monthly, UF Records, and Marriage Records.

• Has shared stages with Sleater-Kinney, Devendra Banhart, and more.

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Overview “It’s all deeply melancholic; piano chords play a slow lament that could make the birds cry, a gossamer beat shimmers way off in the distance,Vadim slips in all sorts of eerie scratching, and Tessa’s voice slips through the whole thing like the last ghost left in the cemetery. Simply a classic.” — Muzik

Little Aida Mad Country

Little Aida celebrates the chaotic nature of collective “reality,” rummaging through the madness of contemporary life in search of the spirit. Creating a soundtrack for the apocalypse, Little Aida frames its unique vision of the world with enigmatic imagery that frees the imagination. The weird, wonderful, and profoundly spiritual lyrics meander between a childlike wonder of the world and the dark solace of earthy wisdom. Written by two sisters on their travels, the music is instilled with memories of the disturbed European fairytale, the vast Australian desert skies, and the California dream. Mad Country is Little Aida’s first release since Confessions (produced by Ninja Tunes’ DJ Vadim.)

Selling Points

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Second-Shimmy CD: SES 103 Price Code: O

• Debut American release by this amazing Australian band, mixed and mastered by Kramer, producer of Bongwater, Galaxie 500, Low, and Daniel Johnston.

• Features guitar-driven slow pop with ultra-sultry vocal performances by Tessa Rubinstein.

• Debut LP will be re-released in 2007 on Second-Shimmy.

• Publicity by NAIL Media.

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New York, Chicago, Boston, Washington DC, Austin, Los Angeles, Seattle

Track Listing Like It Was Before • The Dam Is Broken • Dream Pony • Played • Horses • Sleep Machine • Ten Walls • No Reason at the Hollywood Hotel • Each Measure • Shadow in the Sand

Overview “Modernstate is beautifully delicate and, at the same time, strong with lyrical invention. Schauer’s dramatic ability to tell an honest story is what carries through and keeps you. It is sure, rudder-like, balanced, and moves forward with honest human emotion. It’s folk, but it’s also punk, experimental, lo-fi rock, and blends all of this into some sort of mutant confessional pop.” — Portland Mercury Three years in the making, Modernstate’s sophomore album The Burning Beard guides us through all facets of its creator, Sam Schauer. Recorded in a large room overlooking Portland’s darkest avenue, the sound of a working class city embeds itself in the content of the record. The Burning Beard is a desperate record, a living and breathing testament to self-denial, determination, and regret. Schauer’s stark musical candor surfaces with lyrical honesty that is easily mirrored by brooding melodic drums and understated glockenspiel. As his baritone journeys through the sharply tragic doom-folk of the album, the city is perched on his windowsill, somehow accompanying his pocket symphony and hinting at the notion that there is a light at the end of the tunnel.

Selling Points • The long-awaited sophomore release from Modernstate.

• Sam Schauer is also a member of the Marriage Records noise band …Worms.

• Full press campaign by Matt Wright PR. • Ads will run in Magnet, No Depression, DIW, and Paste.

Key Markets Hometown: Portland. Also: Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Louisville, Denver, Tucson, San Diego, Austin, Philadelphia

Track Listing The Hated • Windows and Walls • SSMF • Angular Perfection • Little Light • Street Smarts • Call to Arms • Oh, Lord • Fastness • Burn Town • Blood Money • Sasha

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Chad Serhal The Last Picture Show

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Jackpine Social Club CD: JSC 12 Price Code: Q

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Overview “Like Neil Young and Beck joining Jane’s Addiction or Fountains of Wayne.” — Mojo This Sacramento four-piece, which treads roots-rock and experimental pop à la Grandaddy or Chuck Prophet, is best known for its ripping live sets and audience of faithful followers.

This outing is co-produced by Tape Op magazine founder John Bacciagalupi, and his influence is noted in the odd and wistful instrumentation that defies any sort of “Americana” tag.

Selling Points • Co-produced and mixed by Tape Op magazine founder John Bacciagalupi.

• Enhanced CD features twelve bonus tracks!

• Service to local newspapers and magazines.

• Extensive regional touring.

• Ads in Harp.

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Overview Although this is Chad Serhal’s debut release, he is no stranger to album recordings. Serhal spent years touring and recording with Calibretto, and his bass instrumentation can be heard on In the Dark, the first album from Harley Poe. Additionally, he played guitar in Everything, Now! and traveled with the band on their 2006 national tour in support of Police, Police! The Last Picture Show, a collection of stories shaped by geography and happenstance, is foremost a folk album, reminiscent of very early Bruce Springsteen or Paul Simon and on par with contemporary artists such as Denison Witmer and Damien Jurado.

Selling Points • Eleven debut tracks from an artist central to numerous recognized Indiana bands.

• Packaging printed with 1897 C&P letterpress to produce an antiqued look with an embossed feel.

• In-house promotion and radio campaign; tour publicity through NAIL Media.

Overview “This is hard-hitting industrial EBM that just makes me want to stand up and dance from the first song to the last … I really hope to see many more releases from this project in the future. Hats off to Vasi Vallis.” — Moving Hands [9/10] After the break-up of NamNamBulu, producer/songwriter Vasi Vallis dedicated himself to solo project Reaper. The sound of his new band is completely different from that of NamNamBulu: while the former produced great synth pop, Reaper produces catchy, dance floor-friendly electro/EBM. The group’s first EP, Angst, was extremely well-reviewed, stayed in the German Alternative Charts for eight weeks, reached #5 in the Dutch Alternative Charts, and was chosen for the Top 10 of 2006 in Virus Magazine. Here, the amazing songwriting skills of Vasi Vallis are supported by guest vocals by Mark Jackson (VNV Nation) and John van Roy (Suicide Commando).

Selling Points

Reaper Hell Stars with an H

• Excellent debut full-length from an established act.

• Guest vocals by Mark Jackson (VNV Nation) and John van Roy (Suicide Commando).

• Includes remixes by Painbastard, SAM, NVMPH, and more.

• Promo service to DJs, radio stations, and print media.

• Major MySpace campaign.

Genre: Electronica/Industrial Label: COP International CD: COP 101 Price Code: M

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Track Listing Intro • Urnensand • Das Grauen • Twisted Trophy Hunter (w/ Mark Jackson of VNV Nation) • Altum Silentium • Execution of Your Mind • Weltfremd (w/ Johan van Roy of Suicide Commando) • Robuste Maschine • Memento Mori • Totengräber 07 • Ancient Tragedy • Twisted Trophy Hunter 2.0 (feat.

NVMPH) • Urnensand Remix (SAM) • Execution of Your Mind Remix (Modulate) • Urnensand Dämonie Remix (Painbastard) • Twisted Trophy Hunter (XP8) • Urnensand Remix (Schallfaktor)

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Andrew Russo Dirty Little Secret Genre: Avant Classical Label: Endeavour Classics CD: END 1019 Price Code: N

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Featured Artists Overview

Andrew Russo: piano

2007 Grammy nominee Andrew Russo rides his supercharged piano into the twenty-first century with fourteen dirty little secrets packed with verve and humor, crankiness and delight, sweat and sarcasm, attitude and acrobatics, power and peril, joy and turbulence, punch and grace—fourteen short masterworks by twelve of today’s most relevant composers!

A number of classical albums feature recitals of short ‘encore’ piano pieces, mostly nineteenth-century trifles. Dirty Little Secret has a similar structure—that is, it is a piano album with many short tracks. However, it reflects both a repertoire and attitude that belong to this century of sound bites, downloads, and the cynical sarcasm of Generation X. A versatile, prolific artist both onstage and in the recording studio, American pianist Andrew Russo has made a name for himself through his work with many of today’s leading composers in the US and Europe. As a recitalist, Russo’s programs frequently feature premieres.

Trained classically at the Juilliard School and the Hochschule fur Musik und Theater Mendelssohn in Leipzig, he pursued further specialized training in Paris with Frederic Chiu. In addition to his extensive solo activities, Russo is a member of the piano/cello/percussion trio Real Quiet, a group much involved in commissioning new music.

Press Quotes “A pianist who knows no limits.” — London Times “Andrew Russo is by no means just ‘another pianist.’” — Gramophone

Selling Points • Fourteen short piano masterworks by twelve of today’s most relevant composers.

• Russo was a 2007 Grammy nominee for his Black Box recording of the music of popular American composer John Corigliano.

• He was the first pianist to play inside the piano (plucking the strings) at the Van Cliburn competition when he performed a work by George Crumb there in 2001.

Key Markets Hometown: New York. Also: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Ann Arbor, Philadelphia, Boston, Minneapolis, St. Paul

Track Listing Jacob TER VELDHUIS: The Body of Your Dreams • Gerard BELJON: Beat • Derek BERMEL: Carnaval Noir • Jaunt • Lullaby • Daniel FELSENFELD: A Dirty Little Secret • JOPLIN: Maple Leaf Rag • Morton GOULD: Boogie Woogie Etude • John ADAMS: China Gates • György LIGETI: Fanfares • William BOLCOM: Poltergeist Rag • Amonte PARSONS: Me BuTo-So • Marc MELLITS: Medieval Induction • Aaron Jay KERNIS: Superstar Etude #1 ALSO AVAILABLE

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XXL [Xiu Xiu/Larsen] Spicchiology?

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Important Records CD: IPT 130 Price Code: P NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Caralee McElroy: synth, gongs, cymbals, flute, vocals Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo: guitar, electric viola, vocals James Stewart: guitar, banjo, Farfisa, gongs, upright piano, vocals Marco “Il Bue” Schiavo: drums, glockenspiel, electric piano Paolo Dellapiana: electronics, accordion Roberto Maria Clemente: guitar

Overview

Spicchiology? is the sophomore release from supergroup XXL, comprising all members of mutated pop project Xiu Xiu and Italian experimental cult band Larsen. Recorded in late 2006 in Torino, Spicchiology? is the result of a profoundly creative friendship that spans the globe, translated into music.

“If the last XXL record was romantic and fun, this one is broken and superior. Look at yourself! Your mattress is embarrassed that you give it a job. The Farfisa is a real one, not a sampler. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!” — James Stewart

Press Quotes “An impossibly natural handshake between the two groups. Glockenspiel, synth, accordion, and theremin all remind you that Xiu Xiu are present, but their usual glaring, forward sound is burnished by a gentle Mediterranean pace.” — The Stranger “Xiu Xiu and Larsen slip into a methodical mind-meld, shuffling melodies and countermelodies toward their logical conclusions.”

— Pitchfork “An unholy alliance between the Italian experimental band Larsen and James Stewart’s weirdo pop band Xiu Xiu.” — All Music Guide “Whoa, you won’t be mistaking this CD for a super size t-shirt! No, this is a collaboration between Xiu Xiu and Larsen! An intriguing combination? That’s putting it mildly. Think, the aural equivalent of a darkening storm cloud billowing forth with flashes of fork lightning, thunderous crashes and rumbles … Here’s hoping these two groups get together more often!” — Aquarius Records

Selling Points • XXL is a collaborative band created by the members of Xiu Xiu and Larsen.

• Major press mailing by Important Records.

• Ads in Magnet, Pitchfork,The Wire, and Big Takeover.

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

Track Listing So Easy, So Cheap • Daydrinking • Little Mouse of the Favelas • King of Koalas • The Green Count Tapes • Last in the Society • …Nothing About Dwarves? • The Tale of Brother Cakes and Sugar Dust

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Piano Magic Part Monster Genre: Alt Rock Label: Important Records CD: IPT 151 Price Code: P

Featured Artists Franck Alba: guitars Glen Johnson: vocals, guitars Cedric Pin: keyboards Alasdair Steer: bass Jerome Tcherneyan: drums, percussion, bass, thumb piano

Overview

Part Monster, Piano Magic’s seventh “proper” album, easily lives up to its title. Though Piano Magic is generally tarred with the brushes of “ambient,” “coldwave,” or even “ghost rock,” Part Monster has its fill of all-out, near-brutal dynamic intensity. Indeed, anyone who’s witnessed PM live over the past two years will testify that the shadowy introspection of the group’s records is camouflage for a beast of many teeth.

Bringing in Guy Fixsen of Laika as producer clearly marked the band’s intention for a more raw, powerful sound, as Fixsen has taken the production and/or engineer chair for such luminaries as The Pixies, Moonshake, The Breeders, Joy Zipper, Stereolab, Lush, and most notably, My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless. That’s not to say that Piano Magic has entirely turned the amps up to eleven. Part Monster gracefully balances cathartic noise with romantic paeans to the band’s favorite subject—the cruel, tragic side of London and the city’s most graceful outcast, Joseph Carey Merrick (The Elephant Man). In its tenth year of existence, Piano Magic can look back on a varied and accomplished discography most bands wouldn’t manage in a lifetime of trying. Records for 4AD, Darla, Morr Music, Important, and many more mark the band’s way, in addition to the soundtrack to Bigas Luna’s Son De Mar (2001) and performances at some of the biggest festivals in Europe (Benicassim, Primavera, BAM).

Press Quotes “A band confident with seemingly limitless quality craftsmanship and recurrent reinvention.” — Delusions of Adequacy “Stealthy witching hour atmospherics are utterly overwhelming.” — Uncut “Splendidly ethereal.” — Brainwashed

Selling Points • First album in two years from this “cult” group celebrating its tenth year of existence.

• Cathartic, romantic, dynamic album will appeal to fans of Radiohead, The Smiths, Joy Division, 4AD, and Factory Records.

• Produced by Guy Fixsen of the band Laika (My Bloody Valentine, The Pixies).

• Features guest appearances by Angèle David-Guillou of KLIMA, Simon Rivers of Vic Godard collaborators The Bitter Springs, and Terry Edwards, who has appeared on records by everyone from Nick Cave to Spiritualized.

• Full press mailing by Important Records.

• Ads in The Wire, Pitchfork, Magnet, and Big Takeover.

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

Track Listing England’s Always Better (As You’re Pulling Away) • The Last Engineer • Saints Preserve Us • Cities & Factories • Great Escapes • Soldier Song • Halfway Through • The King Cannot Be Found • Incurable (Reprise) • Part-Monster ALSO AVAILABLE

Piano Magic

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Overview “God bless you AMT.” — Pitchfork Brand new full-length album from Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. features the recent addition of female vocalist Kitagawa Hao. Recorded over a period of four months at The Acid Mothers Temple, this is a very clean-sounding and polished AMT. Frontman Kawabata Makoto admitted, only half joking, that this has the “cleanest sound in AMT history!” More controlled than many of their speaker-destroying, fuzz-blasted speed-guru jams, Crystal Rainbow Pyramid is focused on mystic ambient passages leading into Makoto’s head-heavy echo-riffs. Crystal Rainbow Pyramid is clearly one of the new classic AMT recordings. Prepare to have your mind blown slowly with evolving heavyweight jams and climactic peaks of exquisite ecstasy. Artwork by Seldon Hunt.

Selling Points • Previously only available on Acid Mothers Temple’s Crystal Rainbow Pyramid US tour.

• One of AMT’s most well produced albums to date.

• Press mailing by Important Records.

• Ads in The Wire.

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

Track Listing

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Crystal Rainbow Pyramid Under the Stars Genre: Alt Rock Label: Important Records CD: IPT 146 Price Code: P NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Pussy Head Man From Outer Space • Crystal Rainbow Pyramid • Electric Psilocybin Flashback ALSO AVAILABLE

AMT & The Cosmic Inferno Just Another Band from the Cosmic Inferno CD: IPT 58 (O) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview “Weaving shimmering phrases and drones, Makoto brings to mind the soundscapes of Robert Fripp’s more recent solo releases, especially Fripp’s collaboration with Jeffrey Fayman, A Temple in the Clouds.”

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Kawabata Makoto Hosanna Mantra Genre: Experimental Label: Important Records CD: IPT 152 Price Code: P NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Inspired by Popol Vuh and originally released in a tiny pressing of 550 on vinyl from the inimitable Acid Mothers Temple frontman. Guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and leader of Acid Mothers Temple, Kawabata Makoto expresses all his mantric cosmical vocations and spins them into space sonorities! He took inspiration from the Popol Vuh album Hosianna Mantra during his visit to A Silent Place headquarters in late Winter 2006. A few days later, back in Japan, Makoto recorded the Hosanna Mantra album at the Acid Mothers Temple between March 12th and 13th using electric guitar, bouzouki, and sitar. The result is this new fantastic sound coming from the cosmos, a simple gem of crystalline beauty. Licensed from A Silent Place.

Selling Points • Kawabata Makoto is the leader of legendary Japanese psych-cult group Acid Mothers Temple.

His solo releases, few and far between, are things of enormous spiritual beauty.

• Promotional mailing by Important Records.

• Ads in The Wire.

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

Track Listing ALSO AVAILABLE

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Overview “Tracing a lineage from the post-punk sensory overload of The VSS to the Swans-and-Televisionenamored crawl of Slaves, Pleasure Forever may be a relatively new moniker, but this trio is actually a group of vets … the trio’s film noir cabaret palette, (pleasurably) forever alternat[es] between tautly tense melodrama … and equally tense yet looser Gallon Drunken semi-skronk.” — Ink 19 This new album includes five previously unreleased Pleasure Forever tracks as well as two B-sides previously released on Sub Pop and one track from the out-of-print Buddyhead Gimme Skelter compilation.

Selling Points

Pleasure Forever Bodies Need Rest Genre: Alt Rock Label: Conspiracy Records CD: CNS 50 Price Code: Q NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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• Pleasure Forever has toured with The Damned, Les Savy Fav, Murder City Devils, Dead Low Tide, and more.

• Once known as SLAVES, all three members played in The VSS. • June 2007 is the tenth anniversary of The VSS’s Nervous Circuits. GSL plans to re-release the re-mastered album with a DVD of live footage and photos.

• Andrew Douglas Rothbard recently released his first solo album, Abandoned Meander, on Smooch.

• Dave Clifford currently plays drums with Red Sparowes.

• Promotion through Fanatic Promotion.

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

Track Listing King Cobra in the Guts of Valhalla • Capricorn Blue • Miles Underneath • Right Back Down in the Middle • Black Juju • The Bars • Our Way • Honey Honey

Overview “Nadja, a long time AQ fave who traffic in SUNN O)))-like dirge, manage to infuse their glacial soundscapes with surprising warmth as well as all sorts of unlikely glisten and shimmer. Teamed up with Fear Falls Burning, who recently gave us a super limited LP called The Amplifier Drone, which was, as the title suggests, a disc of amp drone and rumble, distorted guitar smeared into dark ambient whir. So what happens when the two team up? Hard to explain exactly. It’s definitely dark and dirgey and droney.

But it’s also soft, focused and moody, dreamy and dense, with strange melodies and drifting percussive elements hovering below the downtuned trudge.” –— Aquarius Records On their first full-length collaboration CD, Fear Falls Burning and Nadja display their willful approach to drones with four epic songs full of sustain, pulses, and dynamics. Grand in theme, sound, and atmosphere, this album draws inspiration from the critically acclaimed Conspiracy Records LP while pushing the boundaries of the bands’ sound as separate entities.

Selling Points • Nadja has released records on Alien8 Recordings, Profound Lore Records, and Utech Records.

• Fear Falls Burning has released records on Projekt/Ikon, Tonefloat, Soleilmoon, Equation Records, Auf Abwegen, and Small Voices.

• The first collaboration between Nadja and Fear Falls Burning, a 12” called We Have Departed the Circle Blissfully, was a limited to 250 copies and sold out in a few weeks.

Key Markets Hometown: Toronto. Also: New York, Chicago, Boston, Austin, Los Angeles

Track Listing Untitled 1 • Untitled 2 • Untitled 3 • Untitled 4

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Fear Falls Burning & Nadja Fear Falls Burning & Nadja Genre: Alt Rock Label: Conspiracy Records CD: CNS 49 Price Code: Q NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview “Je Suis France has managed a rousing debut, ranging from sloppy/grand guitar gestures to kinetic, indie-pop funk.” — Magnet Athens-based band 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 as 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 • Includes 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.

• Previous records on Orange Twin and Pitch-a-Tent.

• Radio by AAM; press by Team Clermont.

• Ads in Arthur.

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

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

Track Listing Sufficiently Breakfast • Virtual Heck • Whalebone • That Don’t Work That Well For Us • Digital Shrimp • Wizard of Points • 101 Miles and Runnin’ • Chemical Agents • Feeder Band • The Love of the France • California Still Rules • Never Gonna Touch the Ground

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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.

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

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Track Listing • Sticking My Head In Ice Water (Almost For Too Long) • The Bird Is Aware • Fuck the Stress • Earthquake Body • The Art of Jamming

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Overview “Night Wounds lives and breathes a kind of punk that’s getting harder to find these days … Their untamed fury and drive will make anyone love underground punk again, with their mistakes adding to the charm, like coincidences that spring forth into new creative sound territory and bizarre circumstances.” — Boise Weekly A new wave of skuzzed-out no-wave punk à la Contortions and Teenage Jesus & The Jerks. The album is heavily populated with solid throngs of danceable beats and head banging, interlaced with a distorted piercing sound and two long doozers that make you want to clean your toaster violently in a rain storm wearing only ear muffs and welding goggles.

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Night Wounds Allergic to Heat Genre: Alt Rock Label: Corleone Records CD: DON 28 Price Code: N

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• First full-length release after a handful of 7”s and tapes (two of which were splits with The Coughs and Shearin Pinx).

• Has completed one full US tour as well as several jaunts; will tour US again this year.

• Service to radio stations and magazines.

• Ads in Big Takeover, Punk Planet, Give Me Back, and Skyscraper.

Key Markets Hometown: Los Angeles, Portland, Denver. Also: Gainesville, San Diego, Goleta, San Francisco, Boston, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Portland ME

Track Listing Allergic To Heat • Less Dead • Nineteen • Untitled As Of Now • Caving In • Hex Appeal • Damage • X.O.T. • Untitled Jam • Untitled Jam 2

Overview “This is pretty fucking dope. Woven together from simple drum machine beats, weird post-rock guitar lines, jazzy horns, bizarre samples, and AWESOME loops (the first track is made from a loop of Rob Base’s ‘It Takes Two’!) and of course some bad-ass white boy rapping … some seriously solid, funky, outsider, homemade hip-hop. Cool stuff for sure.” — Aquarius Records Lorna Doom is where worlds collide.Yes, they are punk kids.Yes, they are hip-hop kids. No, this isn’t an attempt to be the weird white rap band at a punk show. No, this isn’t gimmicks, costumes, or faux gangster foolery. This is an attempt to take musical pioneers from all genres, slam them together, and spit out something authentic. Despite sonic similarities, this has more to do with Def Jam than Def Jux.

Selling Points • Featured in Top Ten of 2006 lists by PopMatters and Perfect Sound Forever.

• Includes members of The Body, Anton Bordmen, and Bucket Full of Teeth, as well as cameos

by One AM Radio and Tiny Hawks • Beautiful silk-screened covers.

• Service to radio stations and magazines.

• Ads in Big Takeover, Punk Planet, Give Me Back, and Skyscraper.

Key Markets Hometown: Providence. Also: Gainesville, San Diego, Goleta, San Francisco, Boston, Pittsburgh, Chicago, Portland

Track Listing Doom Is In the Room • How Cool Can Two White Kids Be?/Playa Hatin’ (Player Hating) • A Political Song for Beyonce to Sing • Lorazepam • Clash of the Titans

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Lorna Doom The Diabolical EP Genre: Hip-Hop Label: Corleone Records CDEP: DON 23 Price Code: N NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Overview Dan Beckman is a man known for his years spent touring solo under the name Uke of Philips—not to mention many years touring with weird noise punk band Impractical Cockpit and taking part in the new incarnation of the Six Dude Touring Band. On So Far On the Way, Beckman officially changes his solo plunderings from Uke of Philips to Uke of Spaces Corners County. And with a little help from Amy Moon O.S. and a bunch of other friends, he has produced an awesome mix of weird in-between-world anthems, Dylan-esque folk songs, an epic soundtrack for tea drinking, and a Sun Ra cover.

Selling Points • Newest release from Dan Beckman.

• Beckman is also a member of Impractical Cockpit and Six Dude Touring Band.

• Features an awesome Sun Ra cover!

• Service to radio and media.

• Ads in Big Takeover, Punk Planet, Give Me Back, and Skyscraper.

Uke of Spaces Corners County So Far On the Way Genre: Alt Rock Label: Corleone Records CD: DON 26 Price Code: N

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Side A is a “dubalanche” of horrible renderings, complete with jail breaks and mutated gorilla corpses all tied up sweetly with an AM radio sportscast and weather report. Side A also features the 2006 Foo Fest lineup, which includes members of Six Finger Satellite, Forcefield, Pleasurehorse, Mindflayer, La Machine, Olneyville Sound System, and Megafucker. Side B is an older track that has been reworked and dates back to the band’s original lineup featuring John Dwyer (Coachwhips).

Selling Points

Landed Limited 12” Genre: Alt Rock Label: Corleone Records 12”: DON 24 Price Code: N

• Newest release from this noise monolith.

• Limited edition of 500 with crazy demon covers by Gunsho.

• Features members of Six Finger Satellite, Forcefield, Pleasurehorse, Mindflayer, La Machine, Olneyville Sound System, Megafucker, and Coachwhips.

• Select radio and media service.

• Ads in Big Takeover, Punk Planet, Give Me Back, and Skyscraper.

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Overview Thrashy, fun hardcore that will make old punks like punk again. These five youngsters shred through seven songs with hooks like Swing Kids covering Led Zeppelin. In the fall of 2002, Alex and Jess put together Die Motherfucker Kill with Pete on drums, Phil singing, and Dre on guitar. The group then recorded the noisiest demo ever under a new name, Get Killed. Large breaks continue to pop up due to other band commitments and Dre’s roadie profession, but the band plays regularly around Providence, Boston, and New York.

Selling Points • Second release (previous was a split with Doomsters the Body).

• Limited to 500 copies on hot pink vinyl with hand-cut sleeves.

• Has shared the stage with Tragedy, Dropdead, Bruce Banner, Uncurbed, Tiny Hawks, Mahi Mahi, Short.Fast.Dead., Neoprophets, Straight to Hell, The Body, Cursed, Daughters, White Mice, Yaphet Kotto, Municipal Waste, Brody’s Miltia, Voetsek, Its a Fucking Trap, Another Dead Juliet, Vicebus Eruptum, The Rites, Mental, Every Time I Die, and Some Girls.

• Service to MRR, More Then Music, Suburban Voice, Punk Planet, and more.

• Ads in Big Takeover, Punk Planet, and Give Me Back.

Get Killed No Substitutes EP Genre: Alt Rock Label: Corleone Records 7”: DON 19 Price Code: C

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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. Each track uses crisscrossing accordion, saw, and glockenspiel melodies—anchored by bass, acoustic guitar, and percussion. 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 Genre: Alt Rock/Folk Label: Western Vinyl CD: WVR 45 Price Code: M

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• 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.

• A song from 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

Track Listing When Last We Heard of Gentlemen • The River In Its Sunday Garb • Imperium In Imperio • S’vivon • The Innocence of Facts • Goodbye East, Goodbye West

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Overview “Pounding, fuzzy, unpredictable noise rock.” — Copper Press Detroit’s freak-wave outfit Child Bite meets up with our favorite easy listening noise-rockers Stationary Odyssey for a lesson in Phys Ed. The split EP, aptly titled Physical Education, contains two songs from each of the aforementioned bands, with music ranging from post-rocky Slint-ish ballads to horn section no-wave freak outs. Child Bite’s music combines punk vigor with avant-garde ideals, infusing unconventional sounds with palatable arrangements for an end product that Paper Thin Walls describes as “Devo or Talking Heads going no-wave.” Stationary Odyssey has achieved critical acclaim for its unique, unpredictable blend of noise-rock. However, unlike the band’s previous efforts, this EP contains vocals and lyrics, channeling a Faith No More/Ween component. The revolving lineup now includes vocalist Mike Farmer, a.k.a. Kentucky Prophet, a.k.a. the “Music Geek” from Comedy Central’s Beat the Geeks.

Selling Points • Limited edition release of 400 hand-numbered retail copies.

• Special circular tin packaging will fit in standard CD racks while still jumping out to buyers from among the jewel cases.

• Stationary Odyssey vocalist Mike Farmer just finished a national tour with his good friend Frank Black of The Pixies.

• Massive press campaign by Joyful Noise; e-media by Fanatic Promotion.

• Radio campaign by Suburban Sprawl with service to top college stations.

• Ads in Copper Press,Verbicide, Modern Fix, Magnet, Nuvo, and more.

Key Markets Hometown: Detroit, Evansville. Also: Indianapolis, Bloomington, Chicago, St. Paul, Cleveland, Lansing, Nashville

Track Listing Stationary Odyssey:Your Sex Is Pet • Child Bite: Beef Up! • Stationary Odyssey: Education Breakdown • Child Bite: Do the Physical 32

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Stationary Odyssey/ Child Bite Physical Education EP Genre: Alt Rock Label: Joyful Noise CDEP: JNR 15 Price Code: H

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Overview “Better riffs for better days.” If there’s a driving force behind Hackman, it’s that simple statement.

Guitarist and occasional vocalist Darryl Sheppard’s resume touches just about every great local band.

To name them all would take days, so we’ll give you just the big ones: Roadsaw and Milligram. The former was one of the few bands of the early “stoner rock” revolution to deftly pick up where Kyuss left off, and the latter’s metal-meets-punk-meets-hardcore assault was so incendiary that it’s no surprise they burnt out after the classic This Is Class War. Bassist Jase Forney and drummer Todd Bowman lived fast in the died-too-young Lamont, the undisputed kings of Motörhead-inspired shitkicker boogie metal. Together, the three crank out the sort of crushing riffs that make you realize that what you previously thought was good was just okay. Tracks like “Chin Music” and “The Anthem” manage to come straight at you even though the music is decidedly left of center, and the end result twists your brain while you bang your head. Though the band has only been together since 2005, Hackman Hackman is rapidly showing more established local bands how it’s supposed to be done. With debut The New The New Normal Normal (produced by Marc Schleicher of Antler/Quintaine Americana/Cracktorch fame), the Genre: Rock/Stoner rest of the world will learn the same lesson. All you need in this life are better riffs for better days.

Label: Small Stone Records CD: SSO 73 Selling Points Price Code: P • Features members of Milligram, Roadsaw, and Lamont.

• Produced by Marc Scleicher of Antler, Quintaine Americana, and Cracktorch.

• Hackman will tour the US later this year, with an appearance at SXSW 2007.

NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA • Major media mailing in conjunction with release date.

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Key Markets Hometown: Boston. Also: New York, Philadelphia, Richmond, Chicago, Baltimore, Washington DC, Austin, Minneapolis, Louisville, Cleveland, San Francisco, Los Angles, Seattle, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Detroit

Track Listing Packed Bat • The Anthem • You Can’t Ever Get What You Want • Chin Music • I Don’t Need This Shit, I Played Budokan • Ababac • Fuck You, I Played Altamont

Overview “Good bittersweet pop … the melodies roll out like chocolate, charming and smooth.” — Chicago Reader Aniseed is the fourth full-length from Chicago’s The Atari Star. Half the tracks are sunny, upbeat, indiepop rockers and the other half are lush, acoustic numbers adorned with Hammond B-3, bassoon, and cello. This time around, Marc Ruvolo’s bittersweet vocals and intelligent lyrical themes are abetted by classically trained vocalist Dana Hammett and guitarist Casey Olin (Das Kapital). Additional arrangements and instrumentation supplied by Michael Perkins (Sig Transit Gloria, Far Rad).

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The Atari Star Aniseed Genre: Alt Rock Label: Johann’s Face Records CD: JFA 79 Price Code: L

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• Recorded by Greg Norman (Pelican, Shellac, Mclusky, 90 Day Men) at Studio Greg Studios II and Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio.

• Guest female vocals by Dana Hammett.

• Marc Ruvolo has released eighteen albums of original material and launched the careers of The Smoking Popes and Alkaline Trio, among many others.

• PR handled by 43 Rocket PR. • Radio handled by AAM. • Ads in Magnet, Punk Planet, Amplifier, Alarm, Copper Press, Big Takeover, Roctober, Skyscraper, Pitchfork,Tiny Mixtapes, and PopMatters.

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

Track Listing This Is Where I Often Pause • Astrid! Wie Geht’s? • The Be All End All • Double Predestination • Serpentine • Satyricon Salt • The Vagrant’s Waltz • Aniseed • Letter to Ernst

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The Decemberists on vinyl—re-pressed in deluxe 180–gram audiophile editions!

Overview “The Decemberists stick to the same kind of heavy acoustic folk-rock and freakish lyrical balladry that fueled Neutral Milk Hotel’s rise to power. Fortunately, their music also possesses enough unique twists to distinguish it from simple mimicry. The most obvious is the band’s often baroque instrumentation, which generally makes for more elaborate arrangements than those of their stylistic forbearer. Hammond organ and subtle theremin flesh out the mix, each adding an anachronistic spin on the otherwise quaint jangle of strings and guitars hearkening to some dusty, distant past.” — Pitchfork [8.1]

The Decemberists Castaways and Cutouts Genre: Alt Rock Label: Jealous Butcher LP: JLO 52 Price Code: O NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

As its title would suggest, Castaways and Cutouts is a record populated with an eclectic array of unlikely characters in various states of abandonment and revelry. While the likes of Spanish gypsies, infant specters, and Turkish prostitutes are not common elements in modern pop music, these figures find ample footing within the songcraft of Colin Meloy, supported comfortably by the band’s lush and orchestral instrumentation.

Recorded over a two-month period in a warehouse in Portland’s Industrial Southeast, the record swims gracefully between heart-rending, deftly arranged pop and scrappy off-the-cuff dirge

Selling Points • Has already sold over 3,000 copies.

• Re-pressed on 180-gram virgin vinyl with full-color inner sleeve (and stickered to indicate this).

• Re-mastered specifically for LP by John Golden.

Overview “On [Her Majesty], the whimsy and multicolored narrative threads that represented the best of the Decemberists’ terrific first album are given room to breathe.” — Magnet For all intents and purposes, Her Majesty is best described as the charming older brother to the band’s previous outing. And, while being recognizably related to its sibling, it is an altogether different beast. Present and accounted for are the Victorian literary tropes, the rakish mariners, and the Dickensian downtrodden that slouched their way across the laser imprinted surface of Castaways and Cutouts. But on Her Majesty, a new cast of characters is introduced, giving further depth to the richly bizarre songcraft of the band’s bespectacled leading player, Colin Meloy: an aristocratic Jewess slumming it blindfolded among the exotic avenues of a Chinese bazaar, the coifed and coked-up bon vivants of greater Los Angeles, the writer Myla Goldberg, and a The Decemberists pair of affectionate soldiers celebrating their camaraderie among the mortar blasts and trench mud of WWI Her Majesty, The Belgium. Musically, the band travels over new territory as well, mining deeper into their Beatle-pop influences Decemberists Genre: Alt Rock to create a record that is as lush as it is intricate.

Label: Jealous Butcher LP: JLO 46 Selling Points Price Code: O • Has already sold over 3,000 copies.

• Re-pressed on 180-gram virgin vinyl with full-color inner sleeve (and stickered to indicate this).

• Re-mastered specifically for LP by John Golden.

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Overview “With all the amazing, innovative places music has gone in the past ten years, it still holds fast that there’s nothing quite like a truly talented singer/songwriter … Never wavering in quality, The Decemberists’ folkinfluenced pop is brainy, charming, and sincere.” — Devil in the Woods

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5 Songs is the essential springtime mix. Dispensing with the occasional delightfully macabre narratives of Castaways and Cutouts, 5 Songs collects the feel good’ns. The centerpiece may be Colin Meloy’s tallest tale set to music yet: “My Mother Was a Chinese Trapeze Artist” is a fantastic autobiography with the kind of detail and flight of fancy that you would expect from film director Wes Anderson (The Royal Tenenbaums). The songs are bright, buoyant, and devastatingly pop. As interpreted by Meloy and Co., The Tain is a single eighteenminute song composed of five movements. The Decemberists tell an abstract, impressionist version of The Tain’s events: a tale of bad people doing bad things, flawed heroes, blood, guts, war, adultery, cattle—all of the things that would corrupt today’s youth if they heard word of it.

Selling Points • Has already sold over 3,000 copies.

• Re-pressed on 180-gram virgin vinyl with full-color inner sleeve (and stickered to indicate this).

• Re-mastered specifically for LP by John Golden.

NAIL NEWS WAREHOUSE FINDS Francisco López Untitled #123 Genre: Experimental CD: ALI 31 (O)

Untitled #123 follows the very successful Untitled #104, López’s death metal release. While devoid of any connection to metal, it has the same power and intense climaxes found on Untitled #104—and in López’s live performances. Prepared with sounds recorded in Grain Silo #5 in Montreal, Quebec.

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Tim Hecker My Love is Rotten to the Core Genre: Experimental CD: SBS 4 (I)

Following his Substracif debut release Haunt Me, Tim Hecker continues to explore the boundaries of structured ambient music on My Love is Rotten to the Core. This release is fashioned using different techniques of sabotage, and the outcome is incredibly catchy yet challenging electronica that boasts a great sense of humor.

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NOW AVAILABLE FROM IMPORTANT RECORDS Vanishing Voice Stone Tablet Genre: Experimental LP: IPT 142 (R)

The Major Stars

Portable Freak Factory Genre: Avant Rock 7”: IPT 124 (E)

Limited edition vinyl version of the CD (featured in NAIL’s February 2007 catalog) with a bonus track and different mixes of the CD’s tracks. 500 produced; first 200 on color vinyl. Packaged in screen-printed jackets by Monoroid.

Limited edition of 500, with the first 100 on colored vinyl. Features two brandnew burners (including a Hendrix cover on the b-side) recorded during the same sessions as The Major Stars’ next full-length for Important. Confrontationally loud and recorded flawlessly, this is The Major Stars at the height of its powers.

DR. DOG TO APPEAR ON WORLD CAFÉ!

Indie wunderkinds Dr. Dog recorded a performance and interview in the studios of World Café. This radio feature is due for broadcast over the airwaves of NPR affiliates coast-to-coast in May. Tune in!

We All Belong debuted at #3 according to StreetPulse and #30 on Billboard’s Heatseekers. Press can be found slathered throughout the pages of People, GQ, Rolling Stone,Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, and much more. Dr. Dog performed on the Conan O’Brien show recently, and an appearance on David Letterman is in the works. Stock up now!

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Get nailed... on the road Pink Martini

The Decemberists

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CD: HNZ 3 Price Code: S UPC: 723721289454 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

LP: JLO 52 Price Code: O UPC: 751937259411 4/6/07 Atlanta, GA – Tabernacle 4/8/07 Orlando, FL – Hard Rock Live 4/9/07 Tallahassee, FL – The Moon 4/10/07 Birmingham, AL – Alabama Theatre 4/11/07 Memphis, TN – New Daisy Theatre 4/13/07 Louisville, KY – W.L. Lyons Brown Theatre 4/14/07 St. Louis, MO – Pageant 4/15/07 Urbana, IL – University of Illinois 4/16/07 Milwaukee, WI – Pabst Theater 4/18–19/07 Chicago, IL – Riviera Theatre

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Hey Eugene!

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The Head That Controls Both Right and Left Sides Eats Meats and Slobbers Even Today CD: ACG 15 Price Code: O UPC: 1273379273732 * on tour w/ Lozen 5/8/07 Seattle, WA – The Funhouse 5/10/07 Portland, OR – Towne Lounge 5/11/07 Eugene, OR – Samarai Duck 5/14/07 San Diego, CA – The Casbah 5/15/07 Hollywood, CA – Amoeba Records 5/15/07 Glendale, CA – The Scene Bar 5/16/07 Las Vegas, NV – Double Down 5/17/07 Hollywood, CA – Mr. T’s Bowl 5/18/07 San Jose, CA – Blank Club 5/19/07 San Francisco, CA – Parkside Lounge 5/22/07 San Francisco, CA – Hemlock Tavern

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CD: AME 26 Price Code: M UPC: 680490102622 4/27/07 Princeton, NJ – McCarter Theatre

Baby Teeth The Simp

CD: LUJ 50 Price Code: I UPC: 751937296225 4/5/07 Ames, IA – Maintenance Shop 4/7/07 Bloomington, IN – Hospital 4/12/07 St. Paul, MN – Turf Club 4/13/07 Northfield, MN – The Cave

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We All Belong CD: PTV 12 Price Code: O UPC: 723721265557 4/5/07 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom 4/14/07 Philadelphia, PA – Starlight Ballroom 4/25/07 Portland, ME – Space Gallery 4/26/07 Boston, MA – Middle East 4/27/07 Northampton, MA – Iron Horse Music Hall 4/28/07 Montreal, QC – Main Hall 5/2/07 Toronto, ON – Lee’s Palace 5/5/07 Nashville, TN – Mercy Lounge 5/8/07 Asheville, NC – Grey Eagle Tavern 5/9/07 Raleigh, NC – Local 506 5/11/07 Charlottesville,VA – Starr Hill Music Hall 5/15/07 Washington, DC – Rock and Roll Hotel 6/14–17/07 Manchester, TN – Bonnaroo Festival

Koenjihyakkei Viva Koenji!!

CD: GRA 83 Price Code: M UPC: 647216608325 5/14/07 New York, NY – Tonic 5/15/07 Chicago, IL – Abbey Pub 5/19/07 Victoriaville, QC – Festival International de Musique Actuelle

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The High Strung Get the Guests

CD: PTV 15 Price Code: O UPC: 723721284558 4/20/07 Athens, OH – The Union 4/27/07 Madison, WI – University of Wisconsin 4/28/07 Cedar Falls, IA – The Reverb 4/29/07 Chicago, IL – The Subterranean 5/2/07 Little Rock, AR – The Rev Room 5/3/07 Ft. Worth, TX – Ridglea Theater 5/4/07 Austin, TX – Stubb’s 5/6/07 Houston, TX – Continental Club 5/8/07 New Orleans, LA – House of Blues 5/9/07 Memphis, TN – Young Avenue Deli 5/10/07 Birmingham, AL – Workplay 5/11/07 Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse 5/17/07 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club

XXL [Xiu Xiu/Larsen] Spicchiology?

CD: IPT 130 Price Code: P UPC: 793447513027 * dates for Xiu Xiu 4/6/07 Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church 4/7/07 Cambridge, MA – T.T. the Bear’s 4/8/07 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom 4/11/07 Montreal, QC – Lambi 4/12/07 Toronto, ON – Lee’s Palace 4/13/07 Ann Arbor, MI – Blind Pig 4/14/07 Bloomington, IN – Indiana University 4/16/07 Denver, CO – Hi Dive 4/17/07 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge 4/19/07 Seattle, WA – Neumos Crystal Ball Reading Room 4/20/07 Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom 4/22–23/07 San Francisco – Bottom of the Hill

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