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Pato Banton Never Give In (20th Anniversary Edition) Genre: Reggae Label: Cornerstone RAS CD: CRS 62 Price Code: M

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Overview

Pato Banton, Ranking Roger: vocals/Steel Pulse/David Foreskins, Raymond Walker: drums, percussion/Lenford Hare: bass/Donavon Newell: guitar/Glasspole Thompson: keys/Steve Morrison: trombone/ Alan Francis: trumpet/Bryan Bailey, James Renford: saxes

In the mid-1980s a young, hungry Pato Banton was making noise in the UK as an integral part of the move to establish a vital reggae culture in the European nation. After rehearsals and shows around the UK and Europe, and a classic Mad Professor collaboration already under his belt, Banton went on to record his second album, Never Give In. It remains his best-selling album to date, and the most celebrated by the numerous American musicians who have come to proclaim him among their greatest influences. The Beastie Boys famously sampled his lyrics on their Paul’s Boutique record, and Queen Latifah’s biggest hit, “U.N.I.T.Y.”, was a direct interpolation of his original lyrics as well. Everyone from Sublime to Jack Johnson and Damian Marley, as well as countless others, continues to hold Pato Banton in the highest regard. After years of chart success and continuous touring, Banton decided to step away from the music business and continue on his path of “Positivity.” In the comfort of his own home studio, he acquired the help of longtime friend and top producer Paul Horton to record his tenth album, Life is a Miracle, which gained a Grammy nomination and clearly defined the lyrical, musical, and spiritual growth of this outstanding artist. Now, Pato Banton has gained back the rights to his masterpiece Never Give In, and has selected independent reggae-loving SoCal label Cornerstone Recording Arts Society to re-release a 20 th anniversary edition of the gem, with updated special packaging and bonus tracks. And, with great enthusiasm, Banton continues to tour relentlessly, backed by the Mystic Roots Band (voted Top Reggae Band by the Los Angeles Music Awards). 2007 dates with Matisyahu, 311, Michael Franti & Spearhead, and The Wailers are fine examples of the clout this legend carries, and signs of where his triumphant return is headed.

Press Quotes “Pato Banton has been a force on the reggae scene for almost twenty-five years and continues to inspire.” — Orange County Register

Selling Points • The original version of Never Give In scanned 88,000 units in its lifetime. It has been out of print for over five years. Pato Banton’s catalog has scanned over 250,000 units. • This new version features two bonus tracks not on the original release. • Life is a Miracle received a Grammy nomination for Best Reggae Album in 2001. • Over the years, Pato Banton has collaborated with Sting, UB40, David Hinds (Steel Pulse), Steve Morrison (Reggae Revolution), and more. • Servicing all key press outlets across the US (reggae and music magazines). • Servicing all reggae radio stations and internet radio stations. • Heavy promotion on MySpace. • Ads with Relix and Reggae Festival Guide.

Key Markets Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, Seattle, Portland, Eugene, Boulder, Denver, Colorado Springs, Phoenix, Tucson, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Dallas, Houston, Austin, Minneapolis, Cleveland, Chicago, New York, Albany, Boston, Asheville, Atlanta, Miami, Orlando

Track Listing Pato and Roger Come Again • Never Give In • Don’t Sniff Coke • Settle Satan • Hello Tosh • Absolute Perfection • Don’t Worry • Handsworth Riot • Gwarn • Too Much War • Pato’s Opinion • King Step • Drive By Shooting (Bonus Track) • Everybody Has a Dream (Bonus Track)

STREET DATE OCTOBER 9, 2007

NAIL WELCOMES AMORE PHONICS TO ITS ROSTER!

Sounds of love and love of music: Portland-based Amore!Phonics exists purely for this reason. A true mom & pop operation, Amore!Phonics offers psych-rock, trash-hop, and authentic audio gems.

Viva Voce Lovers, Lead the Way/The Heat Can Melt Your Brain Genre: Alt Rock Label: Amore!Phonics CD: AMO 2 Price Code: 2G

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Featured Artists Anita Robinson: vocals, electric, guitars, bass, keyboards, kazoo, percussion Kevin Robinson: vocals, keys, guitars, banjo, dulcimer, saw, kazoo, percussion Matt Fine: clapping, percussion Jason Brouwer: bass, guitar, keys

Overview

Anita & Kevin Robinson have been making music as Viva Voce for nearly a decade. Their landmark albums Lovers, Lead the Way and The Heat Can Melt Your Brain are now finally reissued in this 2XCD release. Originally released in 2003 and 2004 respectively, both albums have long been out of print. Now they are together at last, available with bonus material, live favorites, unreleased tracks, and original demos. This is the release old fans and new converts have been waiting for!Viva Voce has been a constant presence and a driving force in indie rock since the group first started making music. Touring relentlessly, receiving accolades, and sharing the stage with compatriots Built to Spill, Death Cab For Cutie, Steve Malkmus, and Sleater Kinney, Viva Voce are signed with indie powerhouse Barsuk Records, who recently released Get Yr Blood Sucked Out to international acclaim. Recent fans The Shins asked Anita to sing on their latest record, Wincing the Night Away. The tracks she sang on became their largest hits, which landed her alongside the band on Saturday Night Live, the Late Show with David Letterman, and Late Night with Conan O’Brian. Currently, Viva Voce is recording the follow-up to Get Yr Blood Sucked Out, and will once again hit the international touring circuit in a few short months.

Press Quotes “Perfectly skewed rock.” — New York Times “Sharp, smart stoner-rock!” — Rolling Stone “[Lovers, Lead the Way is] one stunner of an album.” — Pitchfork [7.6]

Selling Points • Long-awaited reissue of two classic indie rock albums with bonus material unavailable anywhere else. • Consistent touring and international exposure drives back catalog sales. • Currently signed to Barsuk Records. • Current online campaign includes banner ads, blogs, internet radio, and more. • Solicited to college and satellite radio.

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

Track Listing DISC ONE: Lovers, Lead the Way! Fashionably Lonely • One In Every Crowd Red D-Lish • Wrecking Ball • That’s Right,…Watch Out! • Birds on the Wing • N Luv W/ U • Brightest Part of Everyone • Yr Epic Heart • Best Thing Ever (Maybe Not) • The Tiger & How We Tamed It • Perpetual No • Salsalito • Someplace Worth Being • Let’s Bend Light DISC TWO: The Heat Can Melt Your Brain + Bonus Tracks Alive With Pleasure • Lesson No.1 • Business Casual • The Lucky Ones • High Highs • Daylight • The Center of the Universe • Free Nude Celebs • Mixtape = Love • They Never Really Wake Up • Paper Doll (Unreleased) • Wrecking Ball Tunng Remix (Mike Lindsay) • Lesson No.1 (Original Demo) • Red D-Lish (Live) • Fashionably Lonely (Live) • Wrecking Ball (Live) • Doo-Wap Death Trap (Unreleased) • Tonight You Belong To Me (Live) STREET DATE OCTOBER 9, 2007

NAIL WELCOMES CHICKEN RANCH RECORDS TO ITS ROSTER! “Devil Music from the Bible Belt” is the longtime Chicken Ranch motto. Founded in the indie rock petri dish of Ruston, LA and based in Austin, TX, the Ranch has evolved and expanded while still flying its eclectic flag high.

Overview “Snappy hooks, grabby vocals, chipper chops—y’know, all that good old-fashioned stuff. But the way these spunky songs were fashioned, they never seemed old.” — Sound and Vision Tiger! Tiger! roars back with their new album! Sixteen sexy, catchy songs carry the noir-ish theme of debut album Collisions while managing to rock even harder than it’s predecessor.

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Tiger! Tiger! The Kind of Goodnight Genre: Rock/Garage Rock Label: Chicken Ranch Records CD: CHX 1018 Price Code: O NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

• Rabid fan base in and around the Southwestern US. • East Coast and Southern tours planned for 2007–08. • Includes current and former members of garage bands The Subsonics, Lust, White Lights, and Catfight. • Two videos (included on CD) will be sent to national/regional music video shows. • Major new media push. • National/regional press to be solicited. • College radio push. • Ads with Stomp and Stammer.

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

Track Listing Stand In • The First Thing • Black Daggers • Two By Two • The Kind of Goodnight • Fake It • Cheap Imitation • How Much Can You Take • Seaside Romance • Misfortune, Bad Weather & Debt • So You Won’t Deceive Me • Sometimes • Every Word Is True • Pretty Perjury • Windows • Substantial Difference

Overview “The Clutters clearly revel in making fun, rebellious, and catchy rock songs … it’s hard not to get onboard, and immediately chime in.” — NPR The Clutters grew organically out of a garage in Nashville. Their sound is vintage, hooky, and more than anything, fun. On their second long-player, The Clutters sound like a polished ’70s rock ‘n’ roll act—poised to rock your face off or destroy a hotel room. Like Tennessee colleagues Kings of Leon, The Clutters produce raucous and catchy tunes appropriate for running from the cops, bar fighting, breaking out of jail, or similar illicit activity. Thunderous guitar and drums are bolstered by controlled-angst vocals. Antique keyboard sounds outline hooky melodies. The raw, country-tinged tracks on Don’t Believe a Word will undoubtedly be the most fun listening experience you’ve had in ages. Any critic who has recently etched the words “rock ‘n’ roll is dead” has yet to hear the classic sound of The Clutters.

Selling Points • One of the most renowned acts of the burgeoning Nashville indie rock scene. • The track “Fire” is featured on Camel’s The Farm compilation. Several fly-in shows will promote this compilation disc. • Reviews in SPIN, Vice, Blender, Village Voice, and CMJ. • Large college radio push; album chart in CMJ Top 150.

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

Track Listing 9999 (Ways To Hate Us) • Radio • Living Thing • Rockaway • Fire • The Way Home • On Repeat • The Short One • Aww, C’mon • Let It Roll • Temperature • Surrender

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The Clutters Don’t Believe a Word Genre: Rock Label: Chicken Ranch Records CD: CHX 1016 Price Code: O NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

The Woggles Soul Sizzling 7” Meltdown

Tiger! Tiger! Collisions

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Chicken Ranch Records CD: CHX 1001 Price Code: O

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Chicken Ranch Records CD: CHX 1006 Price Code: O

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Collects tunes off various 7”s, 45s, and EPs from the last ten years. Re-mastered by the legendary Rodney Mills, four tracks feature Jeff Walls of Guadalcanal Diary.

The Clutters T&C Genre: Alt Rock Label: Chicken Ranch Records CD: CHX 1003 Price Code: O

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Prowls through sixteen tracks like its namesake—a creature of awesome beauty and power. Conjures an exotic, dangerous vibe with shuffling beats and confident attitude.

Mr. Lewis and The Funeral 5 Murder and the Art of the Dance Genre: Alt Rock Label: Chicken Ranch Records CD: CHX 1020 Price Code: J

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It’s too messy for polite company, but too fun to keep to yourself. The Clutters bash out rock ‘n’ roll with the glee and rebellion of ’70s punk but without the posed angst.

Mr. Lewis and The Funeral 5 is a band that has set out to prove that funerals can be fun if thrown by the right party planner.

LAMPS Please Come Down EP

Various Artists Stomp! Shout! Scream! Soundtrack

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Chicken Ranch Records CDEP: CHX 1015 Price Code: C

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Chicken Ranch Records CD: CHX 1011 Price Code: O

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LAMPS’ goal was to write and record music that was noisily quiet. Or perhaps gracefully chaotic. Or even spaciously dense. And they have done just that!

Willie Heath Neal Lonesome Genre: Country Label: Chicken Ranch Records CD: CHX 1012 Price Code: O NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Quickly becoming famous for his scorching live shows, Willie Heath Neal tones down the raucous country rampage to create original songs about heartache and heartbreak.

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Jay Wade Edwards’ loving homage to all things B-movie. Includes The Fleshtones, The Woggles, Tiger! Tiger!, Catfight, The Hatebombs, and The Clutters.

Automusik

The Hound Dog Remix Genre: Electronica Label: Chicken Ranch Records CDEP: CHX 1009 Price Code: K NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Automusik begin their quest for pop supremacy with this debut: remixes of “The Hound Dog” by Robbie Hardkiss and QBurns Abstract Message + four studio tracks.

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Overview “Vini Reilly has always been a genre mixer, and here he plays with the usual suspects of folk acoustic guitar, soul vocalists, world music textures, scuzzy beats, sonic explorations, and his own melancholic voice.” — All Music Guide

The Durutti Column Idiot Savants Genre: Alt Rock Label: Artful Records CD: AFL 62 Price Code: Q

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Factory Records released Durutti Column’s debut album, The Return of the Durutti Column, in 1979. Produced by Martin Hannett, this edgy, primitive LP showcased Vini Reilly’s “honey wrapped in sandpaper” guitar playing and set the tone for twenty years of meditative and fearless music. Reilly has drawn on influences as diverse as Fats Waller and heavy metal, experimented with samplers and chamber music, and collaborated with other Manchester luminaries such as Morrissey and Peter Hook (New Order). The album opens with the gorgeous “Better Must Come,” which is built around a sample from an African hip-hop track that, in turn, is based on an old Jamaican children’s song. The nine-minute “Please Let Them Sleep” is one of the album’s most ambitious tracks, opening with Spanish guitar before twisting into a bleakly observational mood, while the closing “That Blows My Name Away” was written for Reilly’s girlfriend. One of the album’s highlights, “Gathering Dust,” was co-written with Poppy Roberts, who will be performing many of the songs live when the band tour later this year.

Selling Points • Reviews confirmed in Q, Mojo, DJ Magazine, Uncut, Record Collector, Clash Magazine, The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, and Word.

Track Listing Better Must Come • Interleukin 2 (For Anthony) • Please Let Me Sleep • 2 Times Nice • No Last Surprise • Gathering Dust • Whisper to the Wind • That Blows My Name Away (For Rachel)

Overview “Quirky indie-pop … a handful of rockers that bristle with raucous post-Guided By Voices abandon.” — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [HHHH] A ringing attribute of Jim Willingham’s songwriting is that it manages to be exuberant and highminded all at once. Combining the terse acoustic propulsion of the late-model Feelies with the breezy, half-stoned-on-the-beach pop ambiance of Dean Wareham’s Luna, Willingham brings distinctive Athenian warmth to The Captain’s Table. There are horn charts and string sections, burst veins of Link Wray-ish guitar play, pastoral keyboard drones, tremulous bits of Hawaiian slackkey guitar, and some country-fried saunter up under the rhythm section. Chiefly, though, there’s that friendly storytelling voice—half-sung, half-spoken—that escorts the listener through broken waltzes, atmospheric ballads, and jittery rockers. For his first Orange Twin release, Willingham HAM1 recruited a couple of longstanding Elephant Six luminaries: former Olivia Tremor Control member Eric Harris, Pete Erchick, Jacob Morris, and Chris Sugiuchi make key contributions The Captain’s Table to the disc. Andy Baker’s shimmering, vibrant production serves each song with minimal intrusion, Genre: Alt Rock Label: Orange Twin Records lending an airy, informal atmosphere that makes for rewarding repeated listening. CD: OTW 27 Price Code: M Selling Points • Features Eric Harris of Olivia Tremor Control. • Radio promotion by Team Clermont. NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA • Press promotion by Orange Twin. Preorder

Key Markets Hometown: Athens. Also: Boston, Portland, Minneapolis, New York

Track Listing Clown-Shoed Feet • Hare Lipped Bust • Saluki • White Rat • Moonie • I Had a Good Idea, But It Passed My Mind • How Can You Watch TV with a Dead Person? • Methmouth • Hubcap Frisbees • Another Flipped Lid Pt. 2 • The Captain’s Table

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Overview “After Tulsa’s set a couple of weeks ago upstairs at the Middle East, we weren’t the only ones who walked out of the club convinced that we had just seen the best rock band in Boston. Their combination of songwriting and musicianship and an eargasm of sound rendered jaws unfunctional.” — Boston Phoenix Tulsa took its name from a book of photographs by Larry Clark, whose pictures seem to be largely about a group of people who have a hard time maintaining their curiosity for life. And that’s the intent of Tulsa’s songs—staying hungry for life. I Was Submerged is the first Tulsa release to find its way into the physical world (i.e. not a digital release). As comforting and timeless as the songs are, they retain a melodic eeriness that could leave the listener feeling unsettled were they not so impeccably crafted. A dreamy concoction of reverberated vocals and sepulchral guitars layered Tulsa upon fervent percussion and the defining touch: the asymmetrical tones of a Fender Rhodes, which I Was Submerged cascade throughout the recordings. It’s often the Neutral Milk Hotel or Neil Young tag that is Genre: Alt Rock pinned to Tulsa’s sleeve, and they won’t deny that. But there’s actually much more that they try to accomplish. If there’s a middle ground between the Carter Family and Can, Tulsa has discovered it. Label: Park the Van Records CD: PTV 19 Price Code: J Selling Points • Heavy touring throughout 2007 and early 2008 in preparation for the band’s debut LP. • Features Carter Tanton, who released a solo album on Park the Van in 2005, as well as Marc NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA Pinansky (Runner, The Thermodynamics). Preorder Discount • National press campaign with heavy focus on East Coast media. through StreetDate • Regional college and specialty radio campaign. • Digital and e-media press blitzing on a regular basis.

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Key Markets Hometown: Boston. Also: New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Baltimore, Atlanta, Raleigh, Austin, Los Angeles, Detroit, Dallas, Houston, Nashville, Louisville, Indianapolis, Cleveland, San Francisco

Track Listing Breath Thin • Shaker • Mass • Rafter • #2 • I Feel Great • There Goes a Man

Carter Tanton Birds & Rain

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Overview “One of those rare artists who just might be able to add something to the American folk tradition.” — Devil in the Woods

BEVEL Phoenician Terrane Genre: Alt Rock Label: Contraphonic CD: CTP 63 Price Code: O

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BEVEL is the solo project of Via Nuon, a Chicago-based artist who employs a uniquely literary approach to the music he creates. A contributor to Edith Frost and Simon Joyner, and a member of the groups Drunk and Manishevitz, Nuon executes his dreamlike psych-folk with the care and fragility of a cartographer. Phoenician Terrane, BEVEL’s first release for Contraphonic, is an album of densely orchestrated American wonder. This is the Great American Songbook as discovered by the descendants of Harry Partch and Charles Ives upon a rock in the sand. Languidly plucked guitar lines pave trails amongst violin and flute embellishments, and transient Gypsy-laden tones swash about warm synthesizers, with everything cast in a soft, psychedelic haze. Assembled with a cast of contributors featuring members of Califone. Boxhead Ensemble, and Manishevitz, Phoenician Terrane is BEVEL’s finest work to date.

Selling Points • Features members of Califone, Boxhead Ensemble, Manishevitz, and Drunk. • The first BEVEL release since 2004’s highly-lauded EP Down the Puppet String, Marionettes, and the first full-length since 2002’s Where Leaves Block the Sun. • Service to magazines, blogs, online writers, and e-zines. Will utilize IODA’s Promonet Pro for further digital promotion. National college radio campaign through AAM. • Ads with Signal To Noise, The Wire, Ptolemaic Terrascope, Pitchfork, Pop Matters, and Textura.

Key Markets Hometown: Chicago. Also: New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Richmond, Boston, Charlottesville, Providence, Los Angeles, Bloomington

Track Listing Paradiso 1491 • Low Income Glade • Mirandola Suite • Little Red One • Since the World • In Solitude, Without Sickness • The Purchase • A Forest Ends • Balustrada • Lezah Rof • Vice Versa (Protect What You Love) • Crime Produces Prejudice • Coronation Day • Quiet Resort II STREET DATE OCTOBER 9, 2007

Morning Recordings The Welcome Kinetic Genre: Alt Rock Label: Loose Thread CD: LTR 19 Price Code: O

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Eric Bandurski: cellos/Chris Erin: trumpets/Edith Frost (Drag City Records): vocals/Venessa González: vocals/Jon Hensley: bass guitar/Justin Mayer: alto sax, shakers, electric piano/Barry Phipps (The Coctails): vocals, upright bass, baritone guitar, hammered dulcimer, tape machine, banjo, organ, vibes, Japanese table harp/Thomas Stanley: drums, synth, bells, shakers/Pramod Tummala: vocals, guitars, vibes, pianos, organs, drums, synths, shakers, violimba, drum machines, electronic tamboura, musical saw, field recordings

Morning Recordings returns with its second full-length, The Welcome Kinetic, which finds the Pramod Tummala-led ensemble (now including The Coctails’ Barry Phipps as vocalist and multi-instrumentalist) eschewing the intimate monotones of the first record in favor of a broader aural palette. Dub-inflected Latin, underwater Bachrach-ian pop, waltz-time sound collage, and warped ’70s funk are all rendered with a balladeer’s touch. Drag City artist Edith Frost joins the group to sing on three of the tracks, including the bewitching lead vocal on “Songs from a Hotel Bar.” Utilizing a talented group of musicians and eclectic instrumentation (vibraphone, pianos, cellos, horns, tape machine, acoustic and electric bowed metal, upright bass, Japanese table harp, and field recordings), Morning Recordings has created a work that is sonically bold and sweepingly cinematic.

Press Quotes “A time machine to 1975 AM-radio-pop nirvana. Pramod Tummala has a honeyed drawl that’s an ethereal instrument all its own.” — Magnet “A warm base of guitars, bass, and slowly clocking drums is fleshed out with airy touches of piano, vibraphone, Rhodes, and strings … the result is a gentle lushness. Tummala’s vocals are welcoming and soothing, a match for the Sunday evening serenity of the album’s mood.” — Punk Planet “Mellow music for laid-back lovers.” — Insound “With sparse, gentle vocal melodies that evoke the ghost of Elliott Smith on top of intricate but subdued instrumental arrangements, Tummala succeeds in creating a record that is both relaxing and compelling, sort of like Iron & Wine but with organs and harmonium instead of acoustic guitars.” — Pop Culture Press “Another notable chapter in Chicago’s post-rock scene opus.” — Chicago Free Press

Selling Points • Features The Coctails’ Barry Phipps as well as vocals from Drag City artist Edith Frost. • Follows 2005 debut Music for Places (Better Looking Records/ADA). • Midwest and East Coast touring. • Extensive print, new media, and radio publicity by Fanatic Promotion. • Strong online presence and grassroots campaign through Loose Thread, MySpace, Fanatic Promotion, and No Karma. • Ads with The Wire, Pitchfork, Magnet, Signal To Noise, Insound, and more.

Key Markets Hometown: Chicago. Also: New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Knoxville, San Francisco, San Diego, Philadelphia, Boston

Track Listing The One Hundred Hills • Sugar Waltz • We Loved the City Years • Join the Curtains • You’ve Been Letting Go • In Twilight • The Welcome Kinetic • This Is Motion • Songs from a Hotel Bar • I Wish I Met You Sooner

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Nadja Radiance of Shadows Genre: Avant Rock/Metal Label: Alien8 Recordings CD: ALI 72 Price Code: Q NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Overview

Aidan Baker: guitars, piano, flute, vocals, drum machines Leah Buckareff: bass, vocals

Canadian ambient doom band Nadja returns with Radiance of Shadows, the follow-up to the critically acclaimed Touched. Radiance of Shadows is a mammoth monster of an album, spanning well over an hour with three tracks that are more epic and heavier than ever. Nadja’s constantly increasing fan base will not be disappointed with this outing; it’s classic Nadja. Radiance of Shadows has the feel of the super-saturated, dense recordings favored by the likes of Fennesz and Tim Hecker, but with the bite of metal. Nadja is one of the most respected outsider metal projects, with two previous releases on Alien8 Recordings, as well as Body Cage on Profound Lore and a number of limited edition offerings on labels such as Archive, Equation, and Conspiracy. Radiance of Shadows opens rather gently, taking its time to give birth to an amazing ISIS-like riff that becomes completely washed out by Nadja’s trademark wall of ambient noise. Just when you think it cannot get any louder or more saturated, it begins to subside into another subdued section of ambience and occasional riffing. This eventually gives way to a brutal tandem of guitar and drums that recalls early Swans. The band recently completed a small European tour with Troum and, in the past, has performed with artists such as ISIS, Tim Hecker, Ocean, Fear Falls Burning, and Bloody Panda. The band plans to continue supporting their recorded output with live shows and touring whenever possible.

Press Quotes “Toronto duo Nadja—drone explorer Aidan Baker and bassist Leah Buckareff—may be the best band in the world doing something exciting right now with Jesu/Godflesh/Napalm Death/etc.” — Pitchfork “Toronto duo Nadja play ambient doom that channels My Bloody Valentine more than My Dying Bride. But despite the obvious similarities with Jesu’s shoegazy organ sounds and drum machinery, Nadja have evolved in their own right.” — Decibel “With enough subterranean dirge to please a room of Sunn O))) fanboys, Nadja are a Toronto-based duo (Aidan Baker & Leah Buckareff) who delight in the kind of debased and caliginous excursions which match shoegaze aesthetics to a rimy style which can’t help but evoke the spectre of Earth et al.” — Boomkat

Selling Points • Follow-up to 2007’s critically acclaimed Touched and 2005’s Truth Becomes Death. • Radiance of Shadows is beautifully packaged in a digipak and will be heavily promoted via college radio and online/print media outlets.

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

Track Listing Now I Am Become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds • I Have Tasted the Fire Inside Your Mouth • Radiance of Shadows

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Overview “CPC made it seem like permanent midnight at 10 p.m. They’re like Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet when he says ‘Now it’s dark,’ and you know some ugly shit is going to happen. Actually, they are that ugly shit. It made me drink whisky.” — Pestilent Splendour

CPC Gangbangs Mutilation Nation Genre: Alt Rock/Garage Label: Alien8 Recordings LP: ALI 73 Price Code: Q NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Announcing the vinyl edition of CPC Gangbangs’ killer debut Mutilation Nation! CPC Gangbangs rose from the ashes of garage punk architects Les Sexareenos, Daylight Lovers, and Spaceshits to create a new punk weirdo hate trip that spews forth from the Franco-Anglo petri dish of Montreal. With five vinyl-only EPs under its belt, CPC Gangbangs has solidified its status in the subterranean abyss that is the new punk underground railroad. Although the band’s sound is celebratory and consuming, it is often full of the promise of self-destruction boosted by copious amounts of cocaine, LSD, and Canadian Maple Whiskey. This sound is part Warsaw, part 13th Floor Elevators, part Flamin’ Groovies, part Turkish psychedelic rock, and part primal punk deconstruction. Guitars are broken, amps are on fire, drums avalanche off the stage, and someone gets hurt. It’s no wonder that Vice, Horizontal Action, Victim of Time, and other fine institutions that promote reckless, irresponsible action hail CPC Gangbangs as the best value for your money when it comes to wildly entertaining, subversive rock ‘n’ roll. Never has the sound of something falling apart sounded so perfect.

Selling Points • The cream of the crop of Montreal’s famous garage rock scene!

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

Track Listing Jeff Starship • Teenage Crimewave • One More Girl • Mechanical Man • PCP • Gone Black • I Want Blood/Life Support • Driving Me To Habit • I Want It All • What Love Is • Suicide Ride • Coke Blues

Overview For the past twelve years or so, KEXP Radio in Seattle has broadcast Sonarchy Radio, a special one-hour program comprised solely of music recorded live in the studio at Jack Straw Productions. With the focus being “new music and sound art made by Pacific Northwest artists,” the concept of capturing the musicians raw in a studio setting for the intent of radio broadcast has resulted in some one-of-a-kind moments. Saxophonist Wally Shoup, inspired by his collaboration with avant guitarist extraordinaire Nels Cline (Wilco, Nels Cline Singers/Trio, Scarnella) and Chris Corsano (today collaborating with Bjork, among others), wrestled Cline up to the Emerald City for the Earshot Jazz Fest in 2005, and brought in percussionist Greg Campbell—who Cline had admired very much—for the ride. In the span of twenty-four hours, they managed to play the fest, an in-store at Tower Records (RIP), and a session for Sonarchy. The results are now immortalized in vinyl as Suite: Bittersweet, a breathtaking document of this fantastic trio in full flight.

Selling Points • Nels Cline is the lead guitarist for Wilco, was a member of Geraldine Fibbers, leads his own Nels Cline Singers, and has collaborated with such folks as Thurston Moore, Mike Watt, Carla Bozulich, and dozens more. • Wally Shoup is an underground jazz mainstay. With a feature in The Wire under his belt, Shoup has collaborated with Thurston Moore, Chris Corsano, John Oswald, and shared the stage with Sonic Youth. • Limited edition LP pressing; Direct Metal Mastering (DMM) on 150 gram Czech virgin vinyl.

Track Listing Flame Guard • Dragout • Floored • Heat Seekers • Suite: Bittersweet (a) Contretemps (b) Slow Burn (c) Letting Go • Heal Up

STREET DATE OCTOBER 9, 2007

Nels Cline, Wally Shoup & Greg Campbell Suite: Bittersweet Genre: Jazz Label: Strange Attractors Audio House LP: SAA 53 Price Code: P NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview “Splintered, jumpy, incessantly quick-changing noise-hardcore.” — New York Times Sounds documents the improvisational side of XBXRX. Over the past decade, the band has built a reputation for singularly high-energy live performances and a commitment to pushing the limits of rock music forms, and Sounds is the next step in this progression. Through the years, improvisation has been a major part of the XBXRX live show, but it has remained unrecorded until now. This album features seven improvisations of distinctive character and mood, ranging from frenzied storms of white noise to pointillist chamber music. XBXRX has constantly toured the US since 1999, and tours are scheduled through 2007. The band has garnered a strong profile in recent years through its association with Polyvinyl Records, who released the acclaimed albums Sixth In Sixes (2005) and Wars (2007). Sounds will definitely appeal to those attracted to the experimental aspects of XBXRX, and reconfirms the band’s long-running solidarity with the noise scene. Also available in a limited edition LP pressed in an edition of 500 copies with 100 on yellow vinyl and 100 on green vinyl.

Selling Points • Also available in a limited edition LP pressed in an edition of 500 copies with 100 on yellow vinyl and 100 on green vinyl. • XBXRX has toured with admirers such as Sonic Youth, Peaches, Unwound, Mr. Quintron, Deerhoof, and Q and Not U. • XBXRX has worked with producers like Steve Albini, Ian MacKaye, Vern Rumsey, Don Zietrara, and Tim Kerr. • Promotional mailing by Important Records. • Ads with The Wire.

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

Track Listing Infancy of Millions Pt. I • Asymbal • Chaired • Infancy of Millions Pt. II • Sentido Roto • NA Lata • Oceaned

Overview “Having emerged from a fairly lengthy period of obscurity, LSD March’s psychedelic credentials are not in question.” — Dusted Constellation of Tragedy is the sixth full-length album from Japan’s LSD March, often described as a cross between the Velvet Underground and Les Rallizes Denudes. Constellation of Tragedy is their most well recorded and refined album to date, coming to a climactic close and featuring leader Shinsuke Michishita playing guitar, theremin, musical box, bass, harmonium, and harmonica. Recorded by Richard Horner at Snowflake Sound in Sapporo, Japan. Cover artwork by Darryl Norsen.

LSD March Constellation of Tragedy Genre: Rock Label: Important Records CD: IPT 164 Price Code: P NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Selling Points • LSD March has released numerous sold-out underground records. This is the first widely available full-length release. • Members of LSD March have played with Fushitsusha, Miminokoto, and High Rise. • Promotional mailing by Important Records. • Ads with The Wire.

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

Track Listing Aka I Yoru • Musuu No Taiyo • Kimi Wa Tengoku • Moeru Pyramid • Kanashii Seiza

STREET DATE OCTOBER 9, 2007

Overview “The group’s sound runs from massively distended nod-outs that recall parts of the first Fushitsusha album through weird duo tracks that orbit a parallel universe where late-period John Fahey was the prime influence on Charalambides, infernal Dead C/Gate style guitar abuse, and achingly beautiful comedown ballads … Simply one of the greatest out-of-nowhere groups to come out of the Tokyo underground in years and the undisputed stars of PSF’s recent Tokyo Flashback 5 compilation.” — Volcanic Tongue

Shishou No Fune The Shining Star Live Genre: Rock Label: Important Records CD: IPT 165 Price Code: P NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Suishou No Fune was formed in 1999 by guitarists Pirako Kurenai and Kageo. They were quickly acknowledged in Japan for their unique take on Japanese psychedelic traditions, but it wasn’t until their inclusion on PSF’s Tokyo Flashback 5 that their international prominence began to grow. Heavy lyrical emotion transcends linguistic barriers, and Kurenai’s blown-out, fuzzy, free-dream guitar work resides in an alternate universe of psychedelic Japanese shoegaze. Awash in waves of fuzz, Suishou No Fune’s control of detail amidst chaos is their greatest asset. Here’s to the past. Here’s to the future. Somewhere between Fushitsusha and Windy & Carl there is Suishou No Fune.

Selling Points • Suishou No Fune has been active in the Japanese underground for the last eight years. With releases on Holy Mountain and Important, and compilation tracks released by PSF, awareness of the group has been surging. • Suishou No Fune has included members of Les Rallizes Denudes and has jammed with Keiji Haino and members of Kosokuya, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, and Che-Shizu. • Promotional mailing by Important Records. • Ads with The Wire.

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

Track Listing Your Tears Drop from the Sky • You Look at the Night Sea • A Rain • The Storm of Light–Cherry

Overview “‘Cool Love #1,’ an outtake from the sessions that spawned their forthcoming album, Wild Mountain Nation, stuffs three or four melodies into less than three minutes of breezy pop and backporch twang, racing through choruses, verses, and bridges at break-ass speed.” — Pitchfork Following on the heels of Blitzen Trapper’s wildly acclaimed Wild Mountain Nation album, Cool Love #1 collects four of the Nation’s most beloved outtakes. Ranging from blissed-out pop to epic country-rock and electro-bluegrass weirdness, all of these tracks are live favorites and have already received wide praise from blogs and websites far and wide.

Selling Points • First time available in any format + first-ever Blitzen Trapper release on vinyl—this has major collector’s appeal! • Featuring outtakes from the acclaimed Wild Mountain Nation album as a warm-up to the vinyl release the album in November. • Features in Rolling Stone, The Fader, Anthem, and Pitchfork. • National tours with The Hold Steady, David Vandervelde, and Two Gallants. • In-studio performances on KEXP, Indie103, and Top 30 ranking on CMJ college radio charts. • Already received wide online push via Force Field PR (Sufjan Stevens, Panda Bear). • Tracks have been featured on Pitchfork, SPIN.com, Gorilla vs. Bear, and Paper Thin Walls. • Ads with Pitchfork and Insound.

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

Track Listing Cool Love #1 • Boss King • Jericho • Jesus on the Mainline

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STREET DATE OCTOBER 9, 2007

Overview This is the fifth proper album from Portland’s Graves. The band revolves around songwriter Greg Olin’s unique vision, blending accessible, melodic songwriting with skewed lyrics, breezy arrangements, a mid-fi production aesthetic, and Olin’s earnest guy-next-door vocal delivery. On this outing, Graves spices up the mix with tints of soul, Latin, and Cambodian rock. Recorded with friends at Olin’s home studio, the album comfortably reflects Graves’ signature disheveled sound. There’s percussion in spades, pop-ballad female backups, and organ flourishes, but the secret weapon may be the cache of mellow grooves. The rhythm section hits an appealingly amateurish Motown stride and rides it through much of the track list. The band includes Cory Gray (Norfolk & Western, Desert City Soundtrack) and Nate Ashley (Left Handed, Knw-Yr-Own) as well as the usual smattering of Portland indie ninjas: Amanda Lawrence (Norfolk & Western, Loch Lomond), Kyle Field (Little Wings), Brian Wright, and Tommy McDonald.

Selling Points • Graves will be building momentum for this release with a September tour booked by Invisible Cities Booking. • Features multi-instrumentalist Cory Gray (Norfolk & Western, Desert City Soundtrack) as well as K Records artists Karl Blau (Laura Veirs) and Nate Ashley. • Full PR campaign servicing; service to over 250 blogs. • Full college radio mailing by AAM. • Ads with Daytrotter, Magnet, Venus, Under the Radar, Pitchfork, and Skyscraper.

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Graves Seldom Slumber Genre: Alt Rock Label: HUSH Records CD: HSH 72 Price Code: O

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

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Yes Yes Okay Okay CD: HSH 46 (O)

Straight Nine • Kampu Blues • R.V. Love • G. Sinclair • Dead Dog • Television • Be Lee • Evil Stacking • Cash You In • I’m Feeling Tuff • Grupe Park • Televicion

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Overview “Imagine Neutral Milk Hotel crashing into Sufjan Stevens and you’ll almost get the idea.” — Everybody Cares

Loch Lomond Paper the Walls Genre: Alt Rock Label: HUSH Records CD: HSH 73 Price Code: O

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The third official recording from Loch Lomond, Paper the Walls, could just as well be a debut. It is one of those rare albums that has the power to leave a deep imprint on the listener. Recorded at Portland’s Type Foundry with Adam Selzer (Norfolk & Western), and at Skyler Norwood’s (Point Juncture, WA) picturesque SE Washington studio, the album is rich with detail while retaining an uncommon sense of space. The songs have a pastoral quality; they are simple in form but saturated with tone and texture, conjuring a sense of wonder and bemusement. Long a popular fixture of the Portland music landscape, Loch Lomond finally has an album that matches the lush intensity of its live performances. This is a respected band that is gathering force to bring its gorgeous tidal waves of sound to a much wider audience.

Selling Points • Loch Lomond is utterly captivating onstage, selling out Portland’s mid-sized venues. • Features members of Norfolk & Western and Horsefeathers. • Loch Lomond, booked by Invisible Cities Booking, toured nationally in Spring 2007. • Full PR campaign servicing; service to over 250 blogs. • Full college radio mailing by AAM. • Ads with Daytrotter, Magnet, Venus, Under the Radar, Pitchfork, and Skyscraper.

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Loch Lomond

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

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Lament for Children

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Carl Sagan • A Field Report • Northern, Knees, Trees, and Lights • Witchey • A Warning (All Your Friends Are Smiling) • Scabs On This Year • Stripe II • Song in ¾ • All Your Friends Are Smiling STREET DATE OCTOBER 9, 2007

Overview “edIT shows how to warm the blood of technological music, scissoring his way thru the math of sound.” — Gridface Enter the world of edIT, a pioneer in the world of glitch-hop music. He’s spent the last four years touring the world nonstop, exhibiting his signature sound of IDM-based hip-hop. Over the same time period, he’s been hard at work on Certified Air Raid Material, his sophomore opus of deafening proportions. Certified Air Raid Material is chock-full of dance floor anthems, with some of the most complicated drum chops and sample cuts you’ve ever heard. Once edIT finished the beats, he invited some of the world’s top underground rappers to join the party. The result: perhaps the most futuristic-sounding “hip-hop” album in history.

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Selling Points • Highly anticipated sophomore album from edIT. • Features hip-hop luminaries Busdriver, The Grouch, Abstract Rude, and TTC. • Executive produced by Daddy Kev. • Aggressively worked to college radio by Terrorbird Media. • Massive online campaign via MySpace and Facebook.

Key Markets Hometown: Los Angeles. Also: San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Phoenix, Honolulu, Austin

Track Listing I Slay Crowds • Battling Go-Go Yubari In Downtown L.A. • Artsy Remix (feat. The Grouch) • Certified Air Raid Material • Night Shift (feat. Abstract Rude) • Straight Heat • The Sirens • Back Up Off the Floor Pt. 2 (feat. The Grouch) • Fire Riddim • If You Crump Stand Up • Crunk De Gaulle (feat. TTC, Busdriver and D-Styles) • Strip Club 3000

Overview “Maximized minimalism that encourages the listener to don the headphones and philosophize out.” — URB This is the second album in a series of three by ex-post-rock pioneers Jason Soares and JFRE “Robot” Coad. Ditching the guitars of their first two CDs, MIF2 acts as a bridge between the softer indie-electronic sound and the upcoming full-live-rock-band album MIF3. With bleeps and blips aplenty, MIF2 represents a more robotic and mechanical sound that evokes a futuristic vision of where music may one day be headed. For fans of Autechre, Steve Reich, AFX, Stockhausen, Monolake, Kraftwerk, ones, and zeroes.

Selling Points • Second album in the series, and a springboard into the final installment, which will feature Rob Crow (Pinback). • Full tour planned upon completion of series. Recently completed US tours supporting The Album Leaf and Pinback. • Features ex-members of Physics, Thingy, Lesser, and Rice. • Robcore Records (subsidiary of Touch & Go) will handle full promotion campaign upon completion of series.

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

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Aspects of Physics Marginalized Information Forms Two: Cummulative ErRror Genre: Electronica Label: Imputor? CD: ITR 42 Price Code: J

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STREET DATE OCTOBER 9, 2007

Overview “Spirited punk with new wave and sweet power-pop flavors. Hooky choruses and guitar breaks that reference the best ’80s So-Cal and Chicago punk. Sharp on many levels!” — Big Takeover Died True is the second full-length from Chicago’s Das Kapital, offering up eleven new tracks of classic, melodic punk rock forged in the houses, basements, and garages of the Midwest. Following in the footsteps of Naked Raygun, Hüsker Dü, and The Replacements, Das Kapital not only rocks but also tackles mature lyrical themes and events. Songwriters Marc Ruvolo and Casey Olin combine their thirty-odd years in the punk scene to create music that’s new and vital but sure to please the purists, as well.

Selling Points • LP pressed on colored vinyl and limited to 500 copies. • Recorded by Greg Norman (Pelican, Shellac, Mclusky, 90 Day Men) at Studio Greg Studios II and Steve Albini’s Electrical Audio in Chicago. • Marc Ruvolo has had a twenty-plus-year career in music, releasing eighteen albums of original material and launching the careers of The Smoking Popes and Alkaline Trio. • PR handled by Johann’s Face PR. • Radio handled by AAM. • Ads with Magnet, Punk Planet, Alarm, Copper Press, Big Takeover, Skyscraper, MRR, Razorcake, Modern Fix, and Verbicide.

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Das Kapital Died True Genre: Punk Label: Johann’s Face Records CD: JFA 80 Price Code: L

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LP: JFA 80 Hometown: Chicago. Also: San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Carbondale, Price Code: N St. Louis, Memphis, Austin, New Orleans, Atlanta, Gainesville, New York, Philadelphia, Boston

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A Drunken Wager • Junk Food Medicine • Died True • The Scavenger of Toulouse • Lions In Winter • Blacklick, OH • Farouk Bulsara • El Bebe Elegante • Blood On Snow • The Miserable Human Race • Promises Made To Stone

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Overview “Everything’s here: vocals on fire, melodies on the razor’s edge, precarious equilibrium between power and mildness.” — Abus Dangereux

Headcases Castaway But Blessed Genre: Rock Label: Ascetic Records CD: ASC 19 Price Code: O

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Created in the late ’90s by three thirteen-year-old grunge addicts lost in the country, Headcases soon became a local UFO with its exacting noise pieces. Introducing more pop melodies and classical song structures, Headcases has the energy of ’90s Sub Pop bands as well as the spirit of Touch & Go or Dischord bands. The trio played with No Means No, Chokebore, The Paper Chase, and Q and Not U while composing the explosive tunes of Castaway But Blessed. It was spring in Chicago when the band entered Electrical Audio Studio with John Congleton to record these songs. Six days were enough for the three French rednecks to discover American junk food, junk wine, and non-alcoholic junk beer while putting a dozen titles on tape. And how to define Headcases’ music … Power post grunge? Noisy pop core? Post this? Pre that? Regardless, the trio plays good amplified music and hits the road with fury, all for the sake of rock ‘n’ roll.

Selling Points • US tours throughout 2007–2008. • Progressive songwriting with high energy and a great display of skill. • Beautiful digipak packaging. • Tracks will appear on several samplers including Magnet and Copper Press, as well as on an Ascetic sampler that will be inserted into 2000 copies of Alternative Press. • Press and radio publicity by Planetary Group. • Ads with Copper Press, Amplifier, Lollipop, and more.

Key Markets St. Louis, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Dallas, Austin, San Francisco

Track Listing Castaway But Blessed • Tales of Far Lands • White Dreams on a Honeymoon • Anxious Precious, Help Dear Lover! • Forgot the Recipe • Horses On Parade • Juggernaut Friend • Razor Breaker • Twisting of the Sharks • Stretchers in the Hall • Until It Shines Bright • Bilious Boys STREET DATE OCTOBER 9, 2007

Overview “Bi Kidude is still going strong. Like many elderly African women, the wrinkles of age are slight and her bird-like figure becomes animated with the rhythms of her music.” — The Guardian

Bi Kidude Zanzibara 4: The Diva of Zanzibari Music Genre: World/Africa Label: Buda Records CD: BUD 860141 Price Code: Q NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Bi Kidude is a ninety-three-year-old Zanzibari singer who is considered the undisputed queen of taarab music. Her exact date of birth is unknown, and much of her life story is uncorroborated, giving her an almost mythical status. This installment of the Zanzibara series features recordings by this “diva of Zanzibari music,” with a great set of material sung in her haunting, powerful voice over instrumentation that includes accordion, keyboards, violins, and a host of African instruments. The series, from the same folks who brought us the fantastic Ethiopiques series, presents popular music from the eastern coast of Africa—Tunisia, Lamu, Mombasa, Tanga, Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar, and more. The recordings on this collection date from 1988 through 2006.

Selling Points • Recent recordings by Bi Kidude, the “diva of Zanzibari music,” feature her haunting, powerful voice over instrumentation that includes accordion, keyboards, violins, and a host of African instruments. • Extensive twenty-eight-page booklet with liner notes in English and French. • At the 2005 WOMEX conference, in the company of luminaries such as Peter Gabriel, Bi Kidude was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her contributions to world music. • Music from Buda Records’ various series on under-documented African pop music has received enthusiastic acclaim from NPR, WNYC, Pitchfork, All About Jazz, All Music Guide, Dusted, and more.

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Alaminadura • Beru • Khaifu (Khaifakolil) • Kijiti • Msondo • Jua Toka • Ya Laiti • Muhogo wa Jang’ombe • Pakistani • Suhuba ya Dai

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STREET DATE 10/9/07

Overview “Sweetly harmonized vocals, guitars that jangle and roar, and hummable melodies all set to a fast beat.” — All Music Guide [HHHH] Upon its initial release, Box of Hair was full of sonic buzz that won over self-proclaimed “Cubbites” everywhere. Now offered again at a special low price following the re-mastered and expanded re-issues of Betti-Cola and Come Out Come Out, this repackaging of Box of Hair includes a limited edition Cub patch! In the band’s heyday, Cub played side by side with the likes of The Muffs, The Queers, Sebadoh, Rancid, Southern Culture on the Skids, Pansy Division, and The Smugglers. Cub’s third and final release, Box of Hair features twelve pop songs produced by Mass Giorgini that showcase the band’s most thoughtful, ferocious, and beautiful album yet.

Selling Points • Comes with special, limited edition Cub patch! • Cub has recently appeared in the press again, with articles in Pitchfork and more. • Produced by Mass Giorgini (Screeching Weasel, Queers, Riverdales). • Sold 7,000 copies upon its original release in 1996. • By far Cub’s best album ever, tighter than anything they’ve ever done! • Servicing of Cub re-issues by AAM Sunday Service. • Press campaign to internet media and blogs.

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

Freaky • Pillow Queen • Magic 8 Ball • Loaded • Main and Broadway • Box of Hair • One Last Kiss • Way To Go • Mom and Dad • S.G. • Riverside • Not What You Think (Live)

STREET DATE 10/23/07 STREET DATE OCTOBER 9 & 23, 2007

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Mint Records CD: MRI 21 Price Code: N

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Overview Before being crowned an alt country goddess, Neko Case was familiar to Mint fans from her drummin’ thunder in Maow. Here, she has stepped out from behind the kit and into the spotlight to release twelve amazing songs that stretch from out ‘n’ out hillbilly stompers to Loretta Lynn-like lovesick ballads. And, she has collected a jamboree of indie rock and bluegrass legends as her backing band, including Brian Connelly (Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet), Matt Murphy (Superfriendz), Carl Newman (Zumpano, Superconductor, New Pornographers), Rose Melberg (Softies, Tiger Trap), and Beez (Smugglers), among others.

Press Quotes “Neko Case wails with a remarkable intensity that merits all of the comparisons to the best work of the classic women of country music.” — Pitchfork “Comparing originals and covers becomes pointless in light of Case’s voice, a soaring Brenda Lee-ish instrument, which makes every song sound like something on a Nashville jukebox circa 1967.” — The Rocket “Her vocal bitch-slap completely demands your attention. From the moment she parts her lips, Case is Jeannie C. Riley, Rose Maddox, and Mae West all rolled into one glorious gal.” — New York Press

Selling Points • Debut solo recording from Neko Case, essential listening for any fan! • Features a “who’s who” of alt country and indie rock: members of The Softies, New Pornographers, Smugglers, Carolyn Mark, and Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet. • Includes some of Neko Case’s first traditional/alt country compositions.

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

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Neko Case The Virginian Genre: Alt Rock/Alt Country Label: Mint Records CD: MRI 27 Price Code: Q

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Maow

The Unforgiving Sounds of Maow

Timber • Bowling Green • Jettison • High On Cruel • Karoline • Lonely Old Lies • Honky Tonk Hiccups • The Virginian • Duchess • Thanks a Lot • Somebody Lead Me Away • Misfire

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Overview “A spooky, sexy, cool concoction.” — Detroit Metro Times

Neko Case Blacklisted Genre: Alt Country Label: Lance Rock Records LP: LRR 41 Price Code: Z

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And now the release of Neko Case’s Blacklisted on the truest of mediums, vinyl! You won’t have to imagine what that classic cover would look like in LP format anymore. This special record is being released in a limited edition hard stock full-color gatefold sleeve. The Stoughton Printing Company handcrafts the jackets they way should be: heavy, substantial, and drenched in a sense of history. They creak when you open them. Think of the majestic Impulse jackets of the ’60s––you knew you were getting something of stature that would last a lifetime. This is the first of several Neko Case back catalog titles that Lance Rock Records will be releasing in conjunction with Mint Records and Lady Pilot. Be on the lookout for another gem of the new vinyl age to cross your path soon!

Selling Points • The first in a series of re-released Neko Case titles on vinyl! • Attractive gatefold jacket and 150 gram high quality pressing. • Limited to 2,000 copies. • Vinyl from Lance Rock Records comes to NAIL via Mint Records.

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

STREET DATE OCTOBER 23, 2007

Overview “Interviews are boring but Nardwuar pulls so much obscure shit out of his ass he makes them way more interesting than the guy he’s interviewing … Brilliant.” — Vice Only Vancouver, BC could produce a media personality like Nardwuar the Human Serviette— notorious for his interviews of celebrities and politicians. He has a way of thinking up unusual questions, and the fearlessness to ask them, even if he knows it’ll get him thrown out of the room. Nardwuar’s one of those forces that gets unleashed with unpredictable results, but it’s usually only the people who are full of pretension and self-importance who end up squirming on the hook. A “prequel” to last year’s Doot Doola Doot Doo Doot Doo DVD, Welcome To My Castle is an interviewonly compilation featuring two of Nardwuar’s public access TV specials from the 1990s. Also includes a bonus DVD, Nard Raw, of stimulating bonus interview material.

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Nardwuar the Human Serviette Welcome To My Castle! Genre: Comedy/Spoken Word Label: Mint Records 2XDVD: MRI 109 Price Code: 2L

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• NOTE: this DVD does NOT include any music by any of the artists interviewed. • Total run time: approx 5 hrs, 30 min. • Includes sixteen-page booklet and an entire section devoted to Nardwuar’s band, The Evaporators, containing twenty minutes of new Evaporators tunes from their new CD/LP Gassy Jack and Other Tales. • Prequel to Nardwuar’s 2006 DVD Doot Doola Doot Doo Doot Doo. • National press and college radio promotion.

Key Markets Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles

DVD Chapters Interviews with: The Junos • Gilligan • Prime Minister John Turner • Mayuko Hino + Nimrod • Jello Biafra • President Gerald Ford • Sonic Youth • Jimmy Pattison • Micky Dolenz • Kim of the Muffs • Tom Vu • Ernest Angley • Anthony Robbins • Flea • Pierre Berton • Degrassi Kids • Tommy Chong • Timothy Leary • Cynthia Plaster Caster • Ron Jeremy • Nirvana • Krist Novoselic • Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau • and much, much more!

Overview “An absolute must-have.” — Echo Weekly Led by college radio legend/celebrity marauder Nardwuar the Human Serviette, The Evaporators sling out one wildly infectious tune after another, luring listeners into their frenetic and slightly surreal world. Named after Vancouver pioneer Captain John Deighton, who got the nickname “Gassy” because he talked nonstop, The Evaporators’ new release attempts to school the listener on such topics as how to shake with the Shaggy Shaker, how to do the Eggbeater, and why it’s important to care about E.J. Hughes and Evatone Soundsheets!

Selling Points • First Evaporators release since 2004! • Led by college radio legend Nardwuar the Human Serviette! • Features members of the New Pornographers, Destroyer, Zumpano, Smugglers, Canned Hamm, and Slow. • Enhanced CD includes several Evaporators videos. • Nardwuar the Human Serviette has written for CMJ, POPsmear, Flipside, Roctober, Request, Razorcake, Chunklet, Chart, and more. • US radio service by AAM Sunday Service.

Key Markets Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles

Track Listing Where’s the Butterknife? • You Got Me Into This, Now You Get Me Out! • Gassy Jack • Float Plane • E.J. Hughes • Shakin’ with the Shaggy Shaker • Do the Eggbeater • Sasquatch and Me Ate Berries for Free • Desolation Sound • Tellin’ Youth the Truth • Crispy Space Bacon • Evatone Soundsheets • St. Roch • What If I Care About The People Who Live in the Seas Around Me? • Interview: Nardwuar vs. Paul Gallagher

STREET DATE OCTOBER 23, 2007

The Evaporators Gassy Jack and Other Tales Genre: Alt Rock/Pop-Punk Label: Mint Records CD: MRI 110 Price Code: Q

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Puny Human Universal Freak Out Genre: Rock Label: Small Stone CD: SSO 76 Price Code: O

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Josh Diamond: guitar Jason Diamond: bass John Bongiorno: drums, vocals Jim Starace: vocals

Puny Human has always been one of the staples of “heavy” in the Small Stone camp, but when the drummer’s seat emptied in late Summer 2004, the three remaining members were unsure about what to do with the band, and with themselves. Meanwhile, longtime Puny Human admirer and out-of-work drummer John Bongiorno had found himself in a similar position. Needless to say, neither side was looking forward to the agonizing and often humiliating prospect of finding new people with whom to play, but a casual encounter, a bit of conversation, and some comparing of notes later, the two parties decided to join together and make some noise … Puny Human style. Three years of marriage, baby making, career pursuits, and endless schedule conflicts will take their toll on a man (or four) and as a result, the new Puny Human is in full-on-rage mode on their new album, Universal Freak Out. This “Second Coming” of the band is stronger, more focused, and higher-octane than ever before. With the addition of Bongiorno, the group has reinvented itself as a band that cannot be pigeonholed. With equal parts Deep Purple and Devo, and a whole mess of in-your-face ass kicking, Universal Freak Out will feed the hunger of all famished heavy music fanatics.

Press Quotes “Stoner rock fans, here comes your latest reason to fog up the van: this NYC quartet will satiate all of your ‘needs’ with its thick ‘n’ heavy riffs, sludge-laden grooves, ridiculous lyrics, and a low-end that’ll blow the dust out of your favorite bong.” — Splendid “Places them quite a few notches above the legion of stoner outfits currently doing the rounds by virtue of impressive musicianship, outstanding production, and an epic sense of ambition.” — Rocksound

Selling Points • Co-produced and engineered by Andrew Schneider (Cave In, Pelican, Scissorfight, Milligram). • Has toured with CKY and Fireball Ministry; been featured on MTV’s Viva La Bam. • Puny Human will tour in Fall 2007/Winter 2008, and will perform at SXSW 2008 as a part of the Small Stone Showcase. • Service to retail, press, and college radio via Small Stone. • Limited edition silk-screened posters available for retail and clubs.

Key Markets Hometown: New York. Also: Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Dallas

Track Listing Wake Up Williamsburg • Up Not Out • The Real Johnny Charm • The Bus Will Eventually Crash • Number of the Beauty • Planting My Impatience • Every Brain Cell Is Immense • You Can’t Clap With Your Drink In Your Hand • Made On Mars • Northern Drawl • Party on the 13th Floor • Twin Fever ALSO AVAILABLE

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Revenge Is Easy

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It’s Not the Heat, It’s the Humanity

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STREET DATE OCTOBER 23, 2007

Overview “Superb, attitude-heavy tracks driven along by rattling drums, fine percussion, and Joy Division bass lines, showcasing Weatherall’s excellent voice and first-class lyrics.” — Mojo

Two Lone Swordsmen Wrong Meetings Genre: Electronica/Rock Label: Rotters Golf Club 2XCD: RGC 15 Price Code: 2G

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Wrong Meetings compiles eighteen tracks from Wrong Meeting and Wrong Meeting II, previously only released in limited collector’s formats, plus two new exclusive remixes! With elements of garage and rockabilly, but also the more familiar layer of electronica, this double album promises a whole new direction. What is particularly striking is Andrew Weatherall’s growth in stature, not only as a singer and frontman but also as a sharp wordsmith. Here we find tales of love and rejection that rip open a seething underbelly of mistrust, tension, revenge, and redemption along the way. Like Robert Johnson’s appointment with the devil, Two Lone Swordsmen find themselves in a clandestine engagement at Dante’s Inferno, pulling up a stool while St. Nick pours from the bottle and take a hearty swig.

Selling Points • Eighteen tracks previously only released in limited collector’s formats from legendary artists/ producers Andrew Weatherall and Keith Tenniswood (Radioactive Man). • Includes all tracks from the highly acclaimed limited vinyl box set Wrong Meeting. • National press campaign by NAIL Media.

Key Markets New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Austin, Atlanta, Boston, Toronto, Seattle

Track Listing DISC ONE: Patient Saints • Rattlesnake Daddy • No Girl In My Plan • Puritan Fist • Nevermore (Than Just Enough) • Wrong Meeting • Evangeline • Work At Night • Get Out Of My Kingdom DISC TWO: Mountain Man • Shack 54 • Glories Yesterday • Blue Flame • The Ghosts of Dragstrip Hollow • Born Bad/Born Beautiful • In the Shadow of a Dark Heart Sun • Hey Deborah Anne • Lose Control of Yourself

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Overview “It is precisely Flynt’s lack of interest in a musical ‘career’ that ensures his music remains fascinatingly personal.” — The Wire Taste the magic! Nova’Billy is another edible audible from Henry Flynt’s dusty lower Manhattan bunker, and it stands as one of the fullest documents of his tenure with a full working rock band to date. For less than one calendar year, between 1974 and 1975, Henry Flynt’s hard-driving, heavyjamming agit country rock band Nova’Billy embraced bare-knuckled deep-fried groove attacks, bearded hippie jam band workouts, and a monstrous mélange of blues, boogie, and free jazz squeal into a musical soufflé that could only have come together with Flynt cooking. If the Insurrections laid the foundation for Flynt’s anti-war garage rock sound, the emergence of Nova’Billy is the realization of his vision of obtuse personal politics, provocative leftwing posturing, and a gleefully recombinant spin on Southern music.

Selling Points • When Locust Music’s sumptuous archival endeavors began, Henry Flynt immediately had the eyes and ears of the music intelligentsia. This quickly led to extended features in The Wire and Signal To Noise, and accolades from musicians the world over. • Henry Flynt has longstanding associations with LaMonte Young, Tony Conrad, Yoko Ono, and a veritable “who’s who” of the downtown New York art rock scene from the mid-1960s through the ’80s. • Full press campaign; promotional posters. • Ads with Signal To Noise, Big Takeover, Skyscraper, and Ugly Things.

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Henry Flynt & Nova’Billy Nova’Billy Genre: Avant Rock Label: Locust CD: LST 101 Price Code: M

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

Track Listing Conga • The International • Amphetamine Rhapsody • Virginia Trance • I Was a Creep • Lonesome Train Dreams • Left Ear • Portrait • Twist Out • Sky Turned Red • Good Morning • Double Spindizzy • Stoned Jam 20

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Overview “Paul Metzger has graced Minneapolis with his guitar and banjo playing in various contexts for over twenty years, but this is the first time I’ve encountered him. On the strength of his side-long performance here, that’s a serious deficit. Many Westerners borrow a few elements from raga styles, and a few musicians from other disciplines are serious students of Hindustani and Carnatic lore, but Metzger’s guitar playing sounds like the real thing. And yet it’s true to the what-the-fuck spirit that’s motivated the best punk, jazz, and free music of any stripe.” — Signal To Noise Minnesota’s Paul Metzger is an unsung hero of the unaccompanied string instrument and a master musician of an instrument of his own invention. On Deliverance—a real-time performance on his overhauled twenty-one-string banjo—the listener will be treated to some of the most deeply satisfying and impulsive outer cosmos ragadelia he is ever likely to hear. Clocking in at nearly sixty colossal minutes, Deliverance contains three tracks of unfiltered aural transcendence—a hypnotic raga epic that is both a slow, burning meditation and an urgent mind/body duel. Metzger’s playing may summon up the spirits of Sandy Bull’s searching inventiveness, Billy Faier’s out Tacoma sides, J.P. Pickens’ tweaked Americana, Henry Flynt’s searing harmonic drones, or Big Jim Sullivan’s psychedelic exotica, but at the end of the day, he is no idolater and we’re all a little luckier to have him around to occupy his own singular spot in this post-Fahey world.

Selling Points • East Coast and Midwest tours throughout Fall 2007, including live spots with Low. • Full press and radio campaign.

Key Markets Hometown: St. Paul/Minneapolis. Also: Chicago, Brooklyn, Boston, Manhattan

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Paul Metzger Deliverance Genre: Avant Rock/Psych Label: Locust CD: LST 103 Price Code: M

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Orans • Bright Red Stone • Deliverance

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Overview The Family Elan is the intuitive, devotional project of Glasgow’s free-wheeling folk dervish Chris Hladowski (Nalle, The One Ensemble, Scatter), built around his gently lilting vocal offerings and the absorbing, droning, modal sounds of his long-necked lute. Stare of Dawn is one of those special little records—searchingly beautiful, seemingly effortless, deeply enchanting, and completely hypnotic. The Family Elan draws on a vast array of folk musical traditions, from the Greek rebetes of the 1920s, the tanbur playing of Kurdish Sufi mystic Ostad Elahi, and the Âshyq songs of Azerbaijani sâz master Edalat Nasibov to revivalist offerings from Anne Briggs’ bouzouki inventions, early Incredible String Band, and Hungarian revivalist Muzsikás, to name just a few.

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The Family Elan Stare of Dawn Genre: Alt Rock/Folk Label: Locust CD: LST 102 Price Code: M

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• Chris Hladowski was a founding member and songwriter of Scatter, who released Surprising Sing Stupendous Love (Pickled Egg/Cenotaph) and The Mountain Announces (Blank Tapes). • He also performed on Lucky Luke’s debut album Patrick the Survivor (Invada), plays with The One Ensemble, and was a founding member of Nalle, whose new album is due out on Locust in Winter 2008. • Full press and radio campaign. • Ads with Signal To Noise, Big Takeover, Skyscraper, and Ugly Things.

Key Markets Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Portland, Los Angeles

Track Listing All Around • Monumental • The Wide Eyed Fox • Cascade/Danse of Airs • Over the Hills and Fields I Wander

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Tullycraft Every Scene Needs a Center Genre: Alt Rock Label: Magic Marker CD: MMK 42 Price Code: O

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Featured Artists Sean Tollefson: bass, vocals Chris Munford: guitar, piano, vocals Corianton Hale: guitar, vocals Jeff Fell: drums Jenny Mears: vocals

Overview

Tullycraft is known for writing indie pop anthems. Over the years, the band has penned a handful of songs that practically define the twee movement in America. It would be a safe statement to say that the new album, Every Scene Needs a Center, picks up where the band’s fourth album, Disenchanted Hearts Unite, left off, but that would also be selling Tullycraft short. This new album, recorded entirely on analog tape, is not simply a collection of wonderfully snarky pop songs with one or two anthems thrown in, but is an entire record of ultra-catchy, smart indie pop anthems that takes aim at vampires, the English class system, goth waitresses, and much more. This time around, Tullycraft may have actually crafted a twee masterpiece.

Press Quotes “Yes, it’s the esoteric world of too-clever, self-referential indie-pop, but hey, you can dance to it too … Tullycraft kick[s] some twee ass.” — Pitchfork “Tullycraft has never been shy about being a twee pop band, and while they still are quite twee, this is the first record that sounds like it was made by grown-ups. Growing up but not growing old is a neat trick to pull off, and Tullycraft have just about got it down.” — All Music Guide “Decidedly extroverted, Seattle’s Tullycraft took a punk approach to its indie-pop aesthetic … like a group of kids covering the Violent Femmes.” — Magnet

Selling Points • Popular with critics; large fan base in hometown. • Touring will follow album release. • Heavy rotation on KEXP, KCMP, and KCRW. • Full press & radio mailing and follow up by Vitriol Promotion. • Ads with Big Takeover, Magnet, and Pitchfork.

Key Markets Hometown: Seattle. Also: San Francisco, New York, Portland, Minneapolis

Track Listing Georgette Plays a Goth • Clique At Night Vandals • A Cursed Miss Maybellene • Fangs On Bats • The Lonely Life of the UFO Researcher • Misgiving • If You Take Away the Make-up then the Vampires They Will Die • Bored To Hear Your Heart Still Breaks • The Neutron • One Essex Girl • Dracula Screams of Tiger Style Pt.1 & 2 • The Punks Are Writing Love Songs • The Secret History of Devil’s Paw • We Know You’re Cute, You Told Us

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Tullycraft

CD: MMK 20 (O)

CD: MMK 31 (O)

Beat, Surf, Fun

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Disenchanted Hearts Unite

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STREET DATE OCTOBER 23, 2007

The Owls Daughters and Suns Genre: Alt Rock Label: Magic Marker CD+DVD: MMK 43 Price Code: O

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Brian Tighe: guitar, vocals Maria May: guitar, piano, vocals Allison LaBonne: bass, vocals John Jerry: drums

Three songwriters—Brian Tighe, Maria May, and Allison LaBonne—come together with drummer John Jerry and special friends to create an unlikely musical voyage aboard ships, carnival rides, and airplanes, trespassing through backyards, into human resources departments, and down perilous roads into the distance. Bitter yet life-affirming, The Owls console comic strip characters, invent the perfect man, party on the eve of the apocalypse, explore the notion of empire, pay their bills by candlelight, and send flowers into sewers before bidding listeners a rousing adieu. Rich with melody and male/female harmonies, Daughters and Suns tenders buoyant, laid-back pop with gentle strikes of lightning. While The Owls’ sound is hard to pin down, LaBonne and May’s songs seem reminiscent of the Velvets combined with the vocals of Laetitia Sattier and Mary Hansen of Stereolab. Tighe and Ittner’s songs seem to honor McCartney and Lennon, respectively, and all of this lends to the best thing you’ve drank your coffee to in a while.

Press Quotes “Sunny, pretty, sexy ambient pop from co-vocalists Maria May and Allison LaBonne and the latter’s husband, Brian Tighe of HangUps fame. It’s like Stereolab melded with the Kinks’ Village Green.” — Minneapolis Star Tribune “Gracefully explores the vacuum left behind when they escape, like helium from a popped balloon afloat somewhere between Sarah Records and Past Masters Volume Two.” — Pitchfork

Selling Points • Featured on NPR’s All Songs Considered. • Popular with critics; large fan base in hometown. • Touring will follow album release. • Heavy rotation on KEXP, KCMP, and KCRW. • Debut EP sold 4,000 copies. • Full press & radio mailing and follow up by Vitriol Promotion. • Ads with Big Takeover, Magnet, Insound, and Pitchfork.

Key Markets Hometown: Minneapolis. Also: San Francisco, New York, Portland, Seattle

Track Listing The Way On • Yellow Flowers • Welcome To Monday • Peppermint Patty • All Those In Favor • Bury Your Mind • The Lucky Ones • Apocalypse • Isaac Bashevis Singer • Peaceful Place • Little Stranger • Black Hands of Time • Airplane • Channel

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Our Hopes and Dreams CD: MMK 26 (J) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

STREET DATE OCTOBER 23, 2007

Realistic Perpetual Memory Loss Genre: Electronica Label: Illegal Art CD: ILL 114 Price Code: M

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James Towning: computer

Realistic’s third album, Perpetual Memory Loss, features sixteen tracks of intricate sample-based compositions: a beautifully sophisticated celebration of found sound, recorded media, technology, and electronic composition. Slices of field recordings mesh with surreal electronic melodies to create enjoyably odd multi-layered musical fun. James Towning recorded as Fact TwentyTwo (Emigre Music) before debuting his Realistic project on Negativland’s Seeland label. Following that were a 12” EP, Smells Like Teen Disco, and a full-length album, Private Moments, both on Illegal Art. Realistic has appeared on releases with (or been remixed by) The Evolution Control Committee, The Bran Flakes, Wobbly, Sawako, Pimmon, and Monochrome (Charles Noel).

Press Quotes “Following the esthetic of Negativland and John Oswald, Realistic borrows material from every possible source: classic rock, disco, self improvement records, soap operas [and more].” — All Music Guide “Realistic brings you pop-culture-aware, experimental music that is at once interesting and entertaining.” — Splendid “A humorous and lively collection of sample-driven electro.” — Incursion “Realistic provides us a very enveloping aural feed—and quite a solid meal, in fact.” — Absorb

Selling Points • Includes detailed full-color digipak artwork designed by James Towning, who has a rich history as a producer of electronic music dating back to the early ’90s. • The debut Realistic album was released by Negativland. • Has worked side by side with The Evolution Control Committee over the years. • Free digital EP made available for download preceding the album’s release. • Press, radio, and new media campaigns via Fanatic Promotion. • Part of a national advertising campaign for Illegal Art (releases from Realistic, Girl Talk, Oh Astro, and Steinski) throughout Fall/Winter 2007 in XLR8R, Under the Radar, The Wire, CMJ, Resonance, and more.

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

Track Listing The Camera Track • Music in the Round • Conversation Hearts • Post-Corporate Fantasy • Amazing Fall • Welcome To Heaven • Brandname Sunday • Library Music • Wandering Aimlessly • Have a Nice Trip • April and August Sixth • There Is Always More • In Loving Memory • Snowday Plaything • The Numbers Test • Uneventful Fall ALSO AVAILABLE

Realistic Private Moments CD: ILL 103 (M) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

STREET DATE OCTOBER 23, 2007

Overview “If amazing experimental hip-hop that involves phat damaged beats and guitar twangs is your bag, then Yea Big has it all.” — Amp Camp Ever wonder what happened to the fun in hip-hop? What happened to the Digital Undergrounds, the Biz Markies, and the De La Souls? With all this serious rap, who fills in the gap for the people who just want to get their dance on? The answer: the dauntless duo of DJ Yea Big and emcee Kid Static! Yea Big and Kid Static make comic book sci-fi hip-hop for the stationarily challenged—the soundtrack for your next dance-off or the preamble to your next good-times coup. When the duo is not hijacking your brain piece, Kid Static travels the country jumping off buildings as a Hollywood stunt double, while Yea Big practices mind control techniques on a pack of designer breed dogs. Separately, these two heroes are a force to be reckoned with, but together they are two ingredients in a recipe for world domination.

Selling Points • PR campaign by Fanatic Promotion. • Ads with Signal To Noise, Big Takeover, Skyscraper, and Ugly Things.

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

Track Listing The Screaming Starts At Sundown • We Built a Time Machine That Runs Only On Beats. We Shall Only Use It For Good • Static Leads the Coup • Transmission Ended • Joining Forces • Speaking the Facts • Low Budget Battle Scene • The Basement/Enfant Terrible • On the Blink • Repairs Are Needed • Duck Motherfuckers! • Revel in the Aftermath • The Life Here • Things Have To Change, Pete • Why the Fuck Does This Keep Happening • Back Into the Sleeve

Yea Big & Kid Static Yea Big & Kid Static Genre: Hip-Hop Label: Jib Door CD: JIB 105 Price Code: M

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Yea Big The Wind That Blows the Robot’s Arms CD: JIB 102 (M) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview “Nick Castro and his backing band The Young Elders blend the sensibilities of experimental, psychedelic rock with folk music. Their music is solemn, serene, and beautiful.” — NPR’s All Songs Considered

Nick Castro & The Young Elders A Day Without Disaster 10” Genre: Avant Rock/Folk Label: A Silent Place LP: SPL 25 Price Code: O

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A Day Without Disaster is the newest chapter in the musical adventures of Nick Castro & The Young Elders. The group has spent the last year recording and touring the world while honing its skills both in the studio and on stage. This EP is a glimpse into the ever-evolving mind of the group, which dwells somewhere between the romantic male/female duets of Richard & Linda Thompson and the exotic worldly arrangements of the Incredible String Band. With a focused touch, unusual acoustic textures, gentle wordplay, and ensemble interaction, The Young Elders are traversing the folk world and leaving large shoes to fill. The band is currently comprised of members Wendy Watson, Ryan Kirkpatrick, Christof Certik (Winter Flowers), and guest Jeb Lipson. Though often lumped in with the “freak-folk” genre, Nick Castro has been transcending such labels since most of these new folkies were still playing indie rock.

Selling Points • Limited edition pressing in a deluxe cover with foil stamping includes a poster and postcard. • Service to various radio stations and magazines in the US. • Ads with The Wire and Dream.

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

Track Listing Great Divide • Lock & Key • Sirens • Song • Yagmur

STREET DATE OCTOBER 23, 2007

Overview “The Opalio brothers are among the most talented artists on the planet. Roberto and Maurizio are the new kings of the solar system, and their reign will be nothing but superb. This is essential music.” — Brad Rose, Editor, Foxy Digitalis

My Cat Is An Alien/ Steve Roden Cosmic Debris Vol. II Genre: Avant Rock Label: A Silent Place CD: SPL 23 Price Code: Q

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Second installment in the Cosmic Debris split art/LP series set up by Maurizio & Roberto Opalio, a.k.a. My Cat Is An Alien. Volume two sees the two space brothers alongside visual and sound artist Steve Roden. Roden’s contribution features the unique experience of hearing him literally “playing” guitar chords. The first track develops through the minimal and reiterated sound architecture of Roden’s so-called “possible landscapes,” where singular source materials such as objects and field recordings are abstracted through electronic processes to generate new audio spaces, characterizing the artist’s aesthetic in sound works. The following track is a relatively unheard aspect of Roden’s ability to shape a fascinating, intimate piece with only an old electric guitar and his own fingers, and it also demonstrates how a true artist can recreate his own personal universe, no matter what kind of source is utilized. Meanwhile, MCIAA delivers another piece of “cosmic debris” centered on multilayered voice echoes, toy pianos, space drones, and the brothers’ own physical gestures. Their track “Everything Waves Like Cosmic Debris” also features the contribution of Ramona Ponzini on Japanese bells.

Selling Points • Packaged in a special textured cardboard digi-sleeve. • Service to various radio stations and magazines in the US. • Ads with The Wire and Dream.

Key Markets Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Austin, New York, Chicago

Cosmic Debris Vol. I

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CD: SPL 16 (Q)

E-Bows and Rainbows • My Dog Is a Yufo • Everything Waves Like Cosmic Debris

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Overview “The Circle Is Not Round began as a series of live recordings that Baker blurs into a concoction that lays somewhere in between the spiraling melancholy of a non-aggressive Troum and the ’70s progambience of Popul Vuh.” — Aquarius Records ARC formed spontaneously in 2000 at a performance at the Ambient Ping, Toronto’s longrunning live ambient/experimental music series. ARC is a trio made up of Aidan Baker (guitars, flutes, tape loops), Richard Baker (drum kit, percussion), and Christopher Kukiel (percussion). The group’s music is a mixture of Popul Vuh acoustic compositions, Pink Floyd’s Ummagumma era, Voice of Eye, or Subarachnoid Space, with dense, organic drones and hypnotic ethnic rhythms. ARC’s sound is centered on melodic loops, textures, and samples provided by heavily effected guitars and other melodic instruments. This is overlaid with tribal rhythms provided by various percussive instruments: drum kit, djembe, tabla, wood blocks, and more. With this combination, ARC creates a roiling tapestry of both rhythmic and ambient sound, simultaneously primeval and avant-garde. ARC, regular performers in Toronto and Montreal, has released a number of CD-R releases on such labels as Piehead Records, Worthy Records, and the band’s own Arcolepsy Records. The Circle Is Not Round, the band’s debut CD release, is packaged in a special cardboard digisleeve with varnished images.

Selling Points • ARC, formed by Canadian multi-instrumentalist Aidan Baker, also features Richard Baker and Christopher Kukiel. Aidan Baker, also known as Nadja, is one of the most important emergent artists of the moment. • Ads with The Wire and Dream.

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ARC The Circle Is Not Round Genre: Avant Rock Label: A Silent Place CD: SPL 2 Price Code: Q

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Hometown: Toronto. Also: Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Austin, New York, Chicago

Aidan Baker

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CD: SPL 6 (Q)

The Sea Swells a Bit…

The Endless Sequence of Life & Death • The Circle Is Not Round • Desire In Suffering • Prajna NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

STREET DATE OCTOBER 23, 2007

Overview In late September 2005, Sonic Boom (a.k.a. Pete Kember, founding member of Spacemen 3, Spectrum, and Experimental Audio Research) met Julie’s Haircut at Studio Alpha in Bologna to cooperate with the final editing of their new album. This was a new starting point for Julie’s Haircut in the field of music research—only a small portion of the three days of studio recordings were released on that album. N-Waves/U-Waves contains, for the first time, two takes from that session. “Gemini Pt. 1 & Pt. 2” is here in its first take, while “Scarfo Spanks DC” is a completely unreleased improvisation.

Selling Points • Limited edition pressing in deluxe cover with foil stamping. • A full-length CD will follow, featuring more unreleased recordings. • Sonic Boom is Pete Kember, former member of seminal group Spacemen 3 as well as Spectrum and Experimental Audio Research. • Active since 1994, Julie’s Haircut is a six-piece collective from northern Italy that creates a strange mixture of garage rock, noisy psychedelia, and pop melodies. The group’s debut was hailed by Italian critics as one of the best debuts in Italian indie rock. • Service to various radio stations and magazines in the US. • Ads with The Wire and Dream.

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Julie’s Haircut/Sonic Boom N-Waves/U-Waves 10” Genre: Avant Rock Label: A Silent Place LP: SPL 15 Price Code: O

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Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Austin, New York, Chicago

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Overview “Tom Carter and Vanessa Arn contribute two brooding instrumental tracks, which at their most intense moments sound like Ry Cooder’s soundtrack to Paris, Texas run through a blender.” — Dusted

Tom Carter/Vanessa Arn What Is Here For? Genre: Avant Rock/Folk Label: A Silent Place LP: SPL 5 Price Code: Q

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Contains two long, deep duo cuts of univibe-era lap steel/electronic tone generator improvisation, one side recorded live and stamped with the indelible mark of Bullbabe Studios in Austin. The sounds: monolithic serenity infused with a deep breath from the void, as peaceful and violent as a mountain range. Tom Carter is best known for his work with Charalambides, which he co-founded with longtime creative partner Christina Carter in 1991. Since 2002, he has also undertaken solo work and collaborations. His 2003 solo tour, centered around the seminal Brattleboro FreeFolk Festival, featured unaccompanied solo shows and musical excursions with Bardo Pond, Thurston Moore, Dredd Foole, the MVEE Medicine Show, Ian Nagoski, Tower Recordings, and Double Leopards, among others. Vanessa Arn became a member of Boston/California/Texas group Primordial Undermind soon after Carter’s brief tenure in the group. The potential for mountainous difference tones between the lap steel and the triwave tone generator (a custom built synthesizer) was immediately apparent to all parties, and Carter suggested collaboration. A handful of recordings ensued, and the results are here for your perusal.

Selling Points • Limited to 515 copies. First 110 copies are brown solid vinyl with a small insert. • Tom Carter is the co-founder (together with Christina Carter) of Charalambides. • Vanessa Arn has participated in Primordial Undermind and Gourmet Chef. • Service to various radio stations and magazines in the US. • Ads with The Wire and Dream.

Key Markets Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Austin, New York, Chicago

Track Listing Points Before Vanishing • Means To Another STREET DATE OCTOBER 23, 2007

Overview The music of Brooklyn music/art collective Slow Six is the sound of lifelong musicians exploring and sounding out a room together. Amplified strings, guitars, a Fender Rhodes, and drums are joined by homegrown software “instruments” to process the sound live. Often live radio and TV broadcasts are incorporated within these sonic textures and tangled rhythms, acting as unwitting vocal collaborators from afar. The detail and structure of these compositions reveals the band’s background in the world of modern classical music, leaning on NYC’s post-minimalist heritage, while their electrified live energy projects the palpable drive of a long-running band with deep indie roots.

Slow Six Private Times In Public Places

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• Honored as one of Time Out New York’s Top 10 Classical Albums of 2004 and Stylus Magazine’s Album of the Week. • Has received critical acclaim from Exclaim, New York Press, Flavorpill, and more. Genre: Modern Composition • Slow Six is featured regularly on WNYC’s New Sounds, WFMU, and PRI’s Echoes, and has been Label: Western Vinyl featured on the nationally syndicated NPR program Weekend America. CD: WVR 47 • Touring in late September/early October 2007. Price Code: M • Radio promotion through AAM. • Full national press campaign by Western Vinyl. • Ads with The Wire, Signal To Noise, and Pitchfork (with two mp3s!) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Overview Belgium’s Fear Falls Burning teams up with New Zealand’s Birchville Cat Motel for one long track that displays the group’s fascination for the metallic, slow expanding drone. Made with guitars, amps, processing, and subtle percussion, this album brought out the best in each group and is a lively, pulsating, moody, and intense drone manifest.

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Fear Falls Burning & Birchville Cat Motel Fear Falls Burning & Birchville Cat Motel Genre: Avant Rock Label: Conspiracy Records CD: CNS 55 Price Code: Q

• Limited to 1,000 copies. • The second part of a series of collaborative CDs, the first being the Fear Falls Burning/Nadja CD that came out earlier this year. Will be followed by a new Fear Falls Burning full-length in early 2008. • Fear Falls Burning has released records on Projekt/Ikon, Tonefloat, Soleilmoon, Equation Records, Auf Abwegen, and Small Voices, and has worked with Justin K. Broadrick (Jesu, Final), Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree), Johannes Persson (Cult of Luna), and Steve Von Till (Harvestman, Neurosis). • Birchville Cat Motel (Kneale Campbell) has toured throughout the US, Japan, Europe, and Australia. Campbell operates the labels Celebrate Psi Phenomenon and Battlecruiser. He has worked with Lee Ranaldo, Neil Campbell, and Bruce Russell.

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Overview “It opens like an epic march of doom. Slowly the beats rise as the notes rise in intensity. A piano hook enters the fray and the track continues to build. There is a sense of foreboding mixed with a sense of adventure and a very definite feel that something is about to happen [and] all this happens in the first three minutes and fifty one seconds of this album.” — New-Noise.net

Nathaniel Sutton Dramatic Scene Genre: Alt Rock Label: Engineer Records CD: ENG 91 Price Code: N

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Nathaniel Sutton comes via Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and while he delivers mostly folk-based indie rock, you’ll find splashes of alt country, punk, and even electronic music weaving throughout his highly ambitious debut. Comparisons to Folk Implosion or Beck might be a good place to start. He’s created nearly thirty tracks, honed down to fifteen on his debut, Dramatic Scene.

Selling Points • RIYL: The Good Life, Eric Bachmann, Sebadoh, Modest Mouse, Bright Eyes, Damien Jurado, Dashboard Confessional, Kevin Devine, Last Years Diary, Nirvana. • Recorded, mixed, and produced by Nathaniel Sutton. Artwork by Grafficants (No Way Out, Yawn). Mastered by Nettleingham Audio (Spoon, Latterman). • Ads with various alt rock and punk magazines in North America. • Radio airplay at college and indie stations.

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