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NEW RELEASES NOVEMBER 2007 STREET DATES 11-6-07 & 11-20-07 A DIVISION OF THE ALLEGRO GROUP

INSIDE His Name Is Alive • Albert Ayler • Billie Holiday Zookeeper • Blitzen Trapper • Laura Veirs • Circle Jerks Clipd Beaks • Oh Astro • Loren Connors Minmae • Fred Thomas (of Saturday Looks Good To Me) Steve Lehman Quintet • MGR (Mike Gallagher of ISIS) • Christina Kubisch

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Living Legends Almost Famous [Reissue+Bonus Tracks] Genre: Hip-Hop Label: Legendary Music CD: LGM 1 Price Code: O NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Murs/The Grouch/Eligh/Luckyiam/Scarub/Bicasso/Sunspot Jonz/ Aesop the Black Wolf/Arata

Guest MCs Slug/JC/N8 the GR8/Krush/Pep Love/Jo Wilkinson

Overview

Special re-issue of the crew’s first collective album as a whole. Re-packaging and bonus tracks have been added to this fan favorite as an added bonus. Special remixes created by hip-hop heavyweights Daddy Kev and Pigeon John also appear. If you haven’t heard this yet and are a fan of the Living Legends, this is what you should get before anything else.

Press Quotes “Almost Famous proves a valiant spawning of collective collaborations, with each rapper offering a new door of wildly different stylings to explore in great depth.” –— Peter Agoston “With an ironic ostentatious appeal, Almost Famous should go a long way toward establishing the members of this oversized crew as legitimate underground hip-hop heroes. Living Legends is too real for an industry that, at times, favors fantasy and fortune. Its music reflects a love and commitment missing in much of today’s money-driven rap landscape and becomes the prototype for a struggling independent success story.” — The Badger Herald

Selling Points • Expanded reissue of first ever Living Legends CD (previously out of print).

• Bonus remixes by Daddy Kev and Pigeon John.

• National major market tour with hip-hop heavyweights Murs, Slug, Felt, Brother Ali, and more including three Rock the Bells shows, probably the biggest hip-hop festival ever, featuring Rage Against the Machine, Wu-Tang Clan, The Roots, Mos Def, De La Soul, Public Enemy, and plenty more.

• Living Legends have sold over a quarter of a million records collectively.

• National indie press campaign has already started, targeting major hip-hop outlets like URB, Source, XLR8R, Vice, and more.

• Brand new Living Legends web page and MySpace page recently launched.

• Major internet blog blitz campaign thru The Orchard Press Dept. to start in mid-July.

• Ads with URB, XLR8R, LA Weekly, and Mean Street.

Key Markets Hometown: Los Angeles. Also: San Francisco, Sacramento, San Diego, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Portland, Seattle, Austin, Dallas, Minneapolis, St. Paul

Track Listing Gotta Question For Ya • Night Prowler feat. Slug • That Looks Good • Black Glass • Rabbit Hole • Common Ground feat. JC • Flawless • What Would I Be feat. N8 the GR8 and Krush • Anything You Want • Gift Wrap • War Games • Forces of Nature • Osaka Tales • Soap Boxn • Not Here feat. Pep Love and Jo Wilkinson • Nothing Less feat. Slug • Nothing Less (Daddy Kev Remix) • Night Prowler (Pigeon John Remix) • That Looks Good (Monsieur Leroc Remix)

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His Name Is Alive Sweet Earth Flower: A Tribute to Marion Brown Genre: Alt Rock Label: High Two CD: HGH 14 Price Code: P NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Warn Defever: guitar, piano/Elliot Bergman: tenor saxophone, Rhodes Jamie Saltsman: double bass/Justin Walter: trumpet Jamie Easter: percussion/Dan Piccolo: drums, percussion Michael Herbst: alto saxophone/Erik Hall: Wurlitzer, electric piano Olman Piedra: congas, cajón

Overview

Originally conceived as a free concert at the University of Michigan Museum of Art in 2004, recording for Sweet Earth Flower began shortly after that successful evening. Although the connection between His Name Is Alive and Marion Brown may not be obvious to some, this is a very special release in either artist’s varied catalog. HNIA collaborates with members of NOMO and Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra to create both studio and live recordings, and Marion Brown has given the project his blessing.

Press Quotes “Just the fact that one of our favorite bands dedicated a show to honoring the music of one of the greatest and most overlooked free jazz saxophonists and innovators of New Music that we know of was enough to make our list.” — Salon.com “HNIA, whose trademark has been mixing paradise with purgatory, have made an odd little Eden that’s both peaceful and disorienting.”

— SPIN “His Name Is Alive is one of the most remarkable creations of the pop underground … it will stand the test of time.” — Dusted

Selling Points • His Name Is Alive is one of most respected indie bands of the past fifteen+ years, and Marion Brown is well recognized as a hugely influential jazz saxophonist and composer.

• Opportunities for marketing to both jazz and independent rock markets.

• Released in succession with new His Name Is Alive album XMMER, available in September 2007 (Silver Mountain/Sony BMG).

• Features most of the Detroit-based band NOMO, one of the best of the current crop of American Afro-beat bands, as well as members of Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra.

• Full service to rock, jazz, and experimental music press by High Two and AAM. • Full service to rock, jazz, and experimental webzines by High Two. • Service to college and NPR radio by High Two and AAM. • Ads with Signal To Noise, The Wire, Magnet, and more.

• Some limited joint advertising opportunities with Sony BMG have been made available in conjunction with new His Name Is Alive album released in September 2007.

Track Listing Sweet Earth Flying • Juba Lee • Capricorn Moon (Live) • November Cotton Flower • Bismillahi ‘Rrahmani ‘Rrahim • Geechee Recollections (I) • Geechee Recollections (II) • Sweet Earth Flying (Live)

Key Markets Hometown: Livonia, MI. Also: Detroit, Ann Arbor, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Austin, Seattle

STREET DATE NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Normal Love Normal Love Genre: Alt Rock Label: High Two CD: HGH 15 Price Code: P NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Overview

Amnon D. Freidlin: guitar Evan Lipson: bass Carlos Santiago, Jr: violin Eli Litwin: drums Alex Nagle: guitar

Formed in 2006, Normal Love is a Philadelphia-based instrumental quintet comprised of amplified violin, two electric guitars, electric bass, and drums. Normal Love’s music generally has a loud and brutal aesthetic, with compositional influences ranging from African minimalism to serialism and death metal, but rarely within the same piece. The quintet’s frenzied live shows have earned them a large following in their native Philadelphia, as well as invitations to play in various US and Canadian cities including appearances at John Zorn’s new artists’ space The Stone (February 2007), Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches Festival (December 2006), and the first annual Philadelphia POPPED! Festival (April 2007).

Normal Love has been awarded an American Composers Forum grant for its innovative and compelling compositions. Members of the band have performed and/or recorded with RUINS, Man Man, Dr. Dog, Pauline Oliveros, Kayo Dot, Dynamite Club, SATANIZED, Make a Rising, Illuminea, Mat Maneri, Jamie Saft, Andrew D’Angelo, and Mike Pride. The band has shared the stage with Make a Rising, Dysrhythmia, Daughters, Zs, Chinese Stars, Ocrilim (Mick Barr), Ex-Models, Cheer-Accident, Aa, James Plotkin, Weasel Walter, and Genghis Tron.

Press Quotes “Normal Love is messy. Rock ‘n’ roll messy. Spontaneous-combustion messy.” — Philadelphia City Paper “Off the hook! … [Normal Love’s] music is the kind that’s just so perfectly discordant, so assaulting and soothing at the same time. And the thing that amazes me about these guys is the fact that they play with this totally controlled abandon, as if the perverse manipulation of their instruments is the most natural thing in the world.” — Phawker.com

Selling Points • Joint marketing campaign with Sweet Earth Flower [HGH 14].

• Plans for complete Eastern US tour in Fall 2007.

• Members of Normal Love have performed and/or recorded with RUINS, Man Man, Dr. Dog, Pauline Oliveros, Kayo Dot, Dynamite Club, SATANIZED, Make a Rising, Illuminea, Mat Maneri, Jamie Saft, Andrew D’Angelo, and Mike Pride.

• Full service to rock, jazz, and experimental music press by High Two. • Full service to rock, jazz, and experimental webzines by High Two. • Service to college and NPR radio by High Two. • Ads with Signal To Noise, The Wire, and Magnet.

Key Markets Hometown: Philadelphia. Also: New York, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Washington DC, Providence, Toronto, Chicago

Track Listing Severe Confection • The Signal’s Coming From Pittsburgh… [Part One] • The Signal’s Coming From Pittsburgh… [Part Two] • Ndugo • The Final Sarcophagus of Darkness • Hooks

STREET DATE NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Albert Ayler Holy Ghost: Rare and Unissued Recordings (1962–70) Genre: Jazz Label: Revenant Records 9XCD: RVN 213 Price Code: 9I Previously Available NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Albert Ayler: saxophone

Also Featured Herbert Katz Quintet, Cecil Taylor Quartet, Burton Greene Quintet, Pharoah Sanders Ensemble, Don Ayler Sextet, Birger Jorgensen, Daniel Caux, Kiyoshi Koyama, Don Cherry

Overivew Albert Ayler: heard about, more than heard. But that’s all about to change.

Revenant Records has granted ESP-Disk’ exclusive distribution rights to its Grammy nominated Albert Ayler nine-CD box set entitled Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962–70). An internationally recognized jazz saxophonist and protégé of John Coltrane whose untimely death has been the subject of many conspiracy theories, Ayler returns to ESP-Disk’, the label for which he recorded four groundbreaking albums in the mid-’60s. Commenting upon the alliance, ESP founder Bernard Stollman said, “ESP provided an unique environment that helped incubate artistically ambitious projects. The Ayler material in the box set draws heavily on Ayler’s most productive period on ESP. Revenant’s empathetic treatment of the material, and our partnership with them, has allowed for an exciting exchange of resources between two fiercely independent labels.”

Seeking nothing short of Truth In Music, Albert Ayler became the catalytic force in defining the sound of the tenor in Free Jazz, and was a heavy influence on John Coltrane’s later work. Holy Ghost is the first comprehensive attempt to build a monument in sound to Albert Ayler. The settings—radio and TV sessions, studio demos, private recordings, and live concert footage—find his music at its most liberated. And with the sponsorship and assistance of Ayler’s family, friends, and colleagues, Holy Ghost documents his neverbefore-heard first and last recordings, bookending rare and unissued music from every stage of his career.

Press Quotes “Eye-popping and mind-boggling, the Holy Ghost box treats Ayler with religious devotion. It’s a reliquary replete with replicas of a childhood photo, a handwritten note, a real pressed flower, and a weighty hardbound book of photos, timelines, and essays. A beautiful object, a trove of rare music, and a triumph of jazz scholarship, it’s a bargain at under $100.” — NPR, Fresh Air “As Sun Ra so aptly put it, ‘It’s a motherfucker, don’t ya know?’ Seems quite unlikely that there will be another release with such gushing importance and pleasure, mixed so sweetly, in our lifetime or the next.” — Arthur, reviews by Byron Coley and Thurston Moore, #1 on the list Good Goddamn Things in 2004 “The Everest of all jazz boxed sets in 2004. A major event. Holy Ghost represents a long overdue restoration of Ayler’s art to a listening public that has had scant chance to hear it.” — Chicago Tribune “Housed in a gorgeous spirit box, Holy Ghost is overwhelming in its size, breadth, packaging, and even its affordable price. It’s a small price to pay for salvation.” — Creem “A landmark new box ... As you claw through the gorgeous packaging and fetishistic inserts, you may feel like a miner on a mission. You will find gold.” — L.A Weekly

Selling Points • Nine CDs of rare & unissued recordings and a 208-page color hardbound book housed in lavish spirit box cast from handcarved original.

• New essays by Amiri Baraka, Val Wilmer, and other Ayler scholars.

• Unpublished photos and family memorabilia.

• Artist testimonials of first encounters with Ayler’s music.

• Exhaustive chronology of Ayler performance activities.

• Available now through NAIL via ESP-Disk’.

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Billie Holiday Rare Live Recordings 1935–1959 Genre: Jazz Label: ESP-Disk’ 5XCD: ESP 4039 Price Code: 5U NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Billie Holiday: vocals

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Overview

Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Lester Young, Freddie Green, Louis Armstrong, Roy Eldridge, Jack Teagarden, Barney Bigard, Coleman Hawkins, Art Tatum, Teddy Wilson, Red Norvo, Lionel Hampton, and many more!

In 1972, thirteen years after her death, Congress extended copyright protections to include recorded musical performances. Billie Holiday would have benefited greatly from such protection: during the more than twenty-five years of her career, Holiday gave an unknown number of live performances on TV & radio and in clubs & concert halls, many of which were recorded both officially and unofficially by sound engineers, fellow musicians, and fans. Today ESP-Disk’, which for many years has been assembling unofficial recordings of several artists from before 1972, has released one of the most comprehensive collections of live Billie Holiday recordings to date, some previously available but most not. These recordings, laid out in chronological order, not only demonstrate the arc of Holiday’s development as a vocalist but give a rare behind-the-scenes look into how the singer approached her musicians and her audience.

The first disc of this compilation opens with a twenty-year-old Billie Holiday performing with Duke Ellington in 1935, followed by a radio broadcast from the Savoy Hotel in New York two years later in which Holiday fronts the Count Basie Orchestra. The next four discs cover Holiday’s career from 1949 to her death in 1959. During those ten years, advances in radio and TV technology changed the way Americans consumed entertainment, and the mass proliferation of recorded media from that time leaves us with dozens of examples of Holiday’s live performances. Set in the context of other early recorded media presentations, it is easy to imagine how revolutionary Holiday’s singing sounded to mainstream American audiences, with her plaintive voice, blues inflections, and uncensored delivery.

This magnificent set includes a portfolio of photographs and performance data detailing a historical timeline of rare radio/television broadcasts and concert performances—and the events and situations that lead to these powerful performances—along with explanations of some of her most popular material. The set also includes a rare and private recording of she and some friends in an impromptu setting, with Holiday singing “My Yiddisha Mamma.”

Press Quotes “The first popular jazz singer to move audiences with the intense, personal feeling of classic blues, Billie Holiday changed the art of American pop vocals forever.” — All Music Guide “Considered by many to be the greatest jazz vocalist of all time, Billie Holiday lived a tempestuous and difficult life. Her singing expressed an incredible depth of emotion that spoke of hard times and injustice as well as triumph. Though her career was relatively short and often erratic, she left behind a body of work as great as any vocalist before or since.” — PBS.org, “American Masters”

Selling Points • A five-CD compilation of extremely rare live performance recordings from 1935–1959, plus a detailed timeline of performance information.

• Digitally re-mastered live performances, manufactured in the US by the original label.

• Radio campaign will target college and independent stations.

• Review copies submitted to numerous jazz publications.

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

STREET DATE DECEMBER 4, 2007

Overview Lester Young is one of the most influential tenor saxophonists of the bebop era. ESP-Disk’ is now releasing previously unavailable 1950s broadcasts recorded at Birdland, with an array of stellar side performers. It is our pleasure to pay homage to the “Prez” with this disc! Features Lester Young along with Jesse Drakes on trumpet, Earl Knight on piano, Aaron Bell on bass, Lee Abrahams on percussion, the Steve Allen House Band, and the Count Basie Orchestra.

Selling Points • Digitally re-mastered and manufactured in the US by the original label.

• Radio campaign will target college and independent stations.

• Review copies submitted to numerous indie/avant publications.

Lester Young Live at Birdland

Track Listing Oh, Lady Be Good • A Foggy Day • In a Little Spanish Town • Lester Leaps In • Theme: Lullaby of Birdland • Announcement • Lester Leaps In • Announcement • Polkadots and Moonbeams • Up ‘n Adam • In a Little Spanish Town/Theme• Theme: Lullaby of Birdland • Announcement • Three Little Words • Lester and Announcer Speak • These Foolish Things • Announcement • Blues in G • Tea for Two

Genre: Jazz Label: ESP-Disk’ CD: ESP 4040 Price Code: M NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview The original ESP-Disk’ recording, digitally re-mastered with bonus interviews featuring Burton Greene.

Includes Burton Greene on piano, piano harp, and percussion as well as Marion Brown on alto saxophone, Henry Grimes on bass, Dave Grant and Tom Price on percussion, and Frank Smith on tenor sax.

Selling Points

Burton Greene Bloom in the Commune Genre: Jazz Label: ESP-Disk’ CD: ESP 4038 Price Code: M

• Digitally re-mastered and manufactured in the US by the original label.

• Includes bonus interviews.

• Radio campaign will target college and independent stations.

• Review copies submitted to numerous indie/avant publications.

Track Listing Interview: His Early Band/His First ESP Recording • Cluster Quartet • Ballade II • Bloom In Commune • Taking It Out of the Ground • Interview: Recap of Session (Bernard Stollman) • Interview: Recap of Session (Burton Greene) • Interview: How He Got Involved with ESP • Interview: The Music Scene • Interview: Music is Life • Interview: The Mindset of That Time • Interview: Albert Ayler at Slugs’ Saloon

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Overview Exodus Bulldornadius is Philadelphia multi-instrumentalist Eric Carbonara’s contribution to Locust Music’s ongoing Wooden Guitar series. Carbonara’s playing draws on rich musical styles, from Andalusian Roma-Flamenco to Hindustani and North African folk, to form a kind of exalted pidgin style of playing that covers a wide emotional terrain from meditative calm to restless unease.

Selling Points • East Coast tour throughout November and December 2007.

• Full press & radio campaign.

Track Listing The Apparition • Naked Jade • Lullaby for a Setting Sun • Caravan of the New Thorn • Dead Trees in the Life of Speed • By The Sound of Your Voice, I Will Swim To You • Exodus Bulldornadius

Eric Carbonara Exodus Bulldornadius Genre: Avant Rock Label: Locust Music CD: LST 104 Price Code: M

STREET DATE DECEMBER 4, 2007

NAIL WELCOMES FILE UNDER:MUSIC TO ITS ROSTER File Under: Music, based in Vancouver, BC, is an independent label, artist manager, tour manager, production house, merch supplier, promoter, and whatever else it needs to be for its artists. No musical genre is overlooked because good music is simply that. So don’t pigeonhole what you do—just File Under: Music.

Dan Mangan Postcards and Daydreaming Genre: Alt Folk Label: File Under: Music CD: FUM 1 Price Code: M NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Overview

Dan Mangan: vocals, guitar, Rhodes piano Simon Kelly: guitar, Rhodes piano Amy Arsenault: backing vocals Randal Stoll: drums Kerry Galloway: bass Finn Manniche: cello Ryan Naso: trumpet Richard “Rags” Michaelski: harmonica

At the tender age of seven, Dan Mangan’s first goal was to memorize and recite Abbey Road’s Side B. At seventeen, it was to record his first EP. Now, twenty-four years old and living in Vancouver, his next goal is to meander into the stereos and hometowns of music lovers worldwide. Plan of attack? Release his debut album Postcards and Daydreaming and tour—a lot. With two recently completed tours of the US and UK, a feature in British tastemaker magazine NME, umpteen festival performances, three US West Coast tours including sold–out showcases at Los Angeles’ Viper Room and The Roxy—topped off with a crammed SXSW 2007 performance—one could definitely say he’s off to a good start. Tying together acoustic folk and subtle symphonic pop, Postcards and Daydreaming is unabashedly mellow. However, Mangan’s powerful, weather-beaten vocals hint at something epic lurking in the undertones. Think Kurt Vonnegut with a gravelly sweet singing voice.

Press Quotes “This folk singer may only be twenty-three, but he sings with the soul of Woody Guthrie—if Woody Guthrie had listened to Godspeed! You Black Emperor.” — NME “Dan Mangan’s music is what you’d expect from a lovechild of Harry Nilsson or Tom Waits.” — The Fly “Deliciously downbeat … perfect for anyone who has invested in the works of Hayden or Crooked Fingers.” — Georgia Straight “Successfully creates a hazy hungover atmosphere you can feel on every song … a Canadian performer who has a knack for the kind of sad songs that could potentially drive you to drink.” — Metro

Selling Points • Debut album from Vancouver singer/songwriter.

• Includes the debut single and video for “Journal of a Narcoleptic.”

• Full servicing of album and video to press, radio, retail, online, and new media contacts.

• Extensive US touring in Fall/Winter 2007 and Spring 2008.

• RIYL: Bright Eyes, M. Ward, Mark Lanegan, Nick Drake, Damien Rice.

• Artist development list price and marketing sticker.

• Hiring independent publicist and radio servicing company.

• Majority of advertising will be done online, including mp3 giveaways.

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

Track Listing Not What You Think It Is • Unnatural Progression • Above the Headlights • Journal of a Narcoleptic • Don’t Listen • So Much For Everyone • Western Wind • Fabulous • Come Down • Some Place To Come Home To • Reason To Think Aloud • Ash Babe

STREET DATE NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Hot Little Rocket How To Lose Everything Genre: Alt Rock Label: File Under: Music CD: FUM 2 Price Code: M

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Overview

Andrew Wedderburn: vocals, guitar Aaron Smelski: guitar, vocals Joel Nye: drums, percussion, piano Patrick May: bass, vocals

Hot Little Rocket is one of the longest running and most beloved bands ever to emerge from the Western Canadian rock scene. For almost nine years, the band’s unforgettable songs and jarring live performances have stuck in the ears and hearts of indie rockers all across the country. In 2006, Hot Little Rocket spent a week in Chicago with legendary recording engineer Steve Albini (Nirvana, Pixies, Stooges) and came out with How To Lose Everything—not only their best album to date but the benchmark of a long-running band finally coming into its own. Hot Little Rocket has piled up road experience like some kind of loud, skinny hockey franchise, traveling back and forth across Canada and sharing the stage with Spoon, Modest Mouse, The Weakerthans, and Hot Hot Heat, to name a few. After the initial Canadian release of the Laika EP in 2000, the band’s debut full-length Danish Documentary (2001) reached #17 on the Earshot national charts. The next album, 2003’s Our Work and Why We Do It, peaked nationally at #9. How To Lose Everything marks the group’s first formal release in the US. That signature “Albini sound” finally captures the strength of Hot Little Rocket’s gob-smackingly energetic live show like never before. Features the singles “Like Killers” and “Sleep Today.”

Press Quotes “Hot Little Rocket is Calgary’s hottest band, and their unique and catchy sound is quickly becoming well known throughout the country.”

— MTV.com “An epic energy … denser guitars and epic walls of drums support Andrew Wedderburn’s vocals. From the infectious build of ‘Like Killers’ to the clicking rhythm of ‘Sleep Today,’ Hot Little Rocket have created an album worthy of its big name producer [Steve Albini].”

— Exclaim Featured Album Review “An example of no-nonsense rock songwriting. Wedderburn’s vowel-laden phrasing is still as idiosyncratic as ever. How To Lose Everything is worth picking up just to hear ‘It Gets Dark,’ a slow-moving ode to being in a movie about a band. Sure, Hot Little Rocket has been around for a long time, but ’90s throwback indie rock this isn’t.” — Edmonton Journal (HHHH) “At the core of the album is near flawless songwriting … unassumingly brilliant storytelling. With massive guitars, a jaw-dropping stereo spread, and surprisingly effective dry vocal treatment, [How To Lose Everything] sounds fantastic.” — FFWD

Selling Points • Hotly anticipated fourth album, with Steve Albini at the helm.

• Full servicing of album and video for “Like Killers” to press, radio, retail, online, and new media contacts.

• Extensive touring in the US for Winter 2007/Spring 2008, including SXSW 2008.

• RIYL: Blonde Redhead, Modest Mouse, Jawbox, My Bloody Valentine.

• Artist development list price and marketing sticker.

• Hiring independent publicist and radio servicing company.

• Majority of advertising will be done online, including mp3 giveaways.

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

Track Listing Like Killers • Do the Hustled • Cough Me Out • Spill It • This Decade • Let’s Play In Traffic • Trouble • Call the Wedding Off • Sleep Today • It Gets Dark

STREET DATE NOVEMBER 6, 2007

NAIL WELCOMES BELLE CITY POP TO ITS ROSTER! Devoted to the wanton proliferation of quality rock and roll, Belle City Pop is a company based in Brooklyn, NY. Its founder, Brian Malone, was raised in Racine, WI, affectionately known as the “Belle City” of the Great Lakes. “Pop” could be identified as the categorical zenith of modern day music, or an obvious reference to the unfairly maligned U2 record of that same name (1997).

Overview On this release, Chris Simpson (Mineral, The Gloria Record) moves away from his influential brand of emotionally captivating indie rock to a brighter but equally expressive folk/pop/rock sound. There is a feeling of freedom, new birth, and joy in these tracks as Simpson and his band Zookeeper quite literally let loose. Hotly anticipated, the ten tracks take the listener on an eclectic expedition. Raucous slices of acoustic jangle-pop align in epic form. At times tender and cathartic, discordant and melodic, the album lyrically and sonically reveals an influential artist in his prime. In all, a most welcome, rewarding, and exciting return!

Press Quotes “Zookeeper shows a natural maturation for Simpson, who expands his sound while retaining elements that made his previous bands so memorable. With 2007 promising a full-length from the Zookeeper camp, sullen ex-teenagers and pop-minded indie folks all over the world have something to look forward to.” — HarmoniumMusic

Zookeeper Becoming All Things

“Combines the emotional power of Simpson’s previous bands with a Jon Brion-like pop whimsy, creating a wonderful pop symphony that’s not to be missed.” — Treblezine

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Belle City Pop CD: BCP 4 Price Code: N

“Shows an impressive diversity and a polished pop sensibility.” — Lost At Sea [7/10]

Selling Points • Debut album from lead singer of legendary bands Mineral and The Gloria Record.

• Mineral has sold over 40,000 records since 1996.

• The Gloria Record has sold over 25,000 records since 1999.

• East and West Coast tours are currently being scheduled for Fall 2007 and 2008.

• Five-month radio campaign began in June 2007 with the promotion of the Zookeeper EP, flowing into radio promotion for Becoming All Things, coordinated with Fanatic Promotion.

• Online and print press efforts executed through Fanatic Promotion.

• Ads with Magnet, Daytrotter, Transform Online, and more.

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NEW BAND BY LEADER OF MINERAL & THE GLORIA RECORD

Key Markets Hometown: Austin. Also: Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Orlando, Boston, Milwaukee, Atlanta, San Francisco, Denver, San Diego, Portland, Houston, Dallas

Track Listing Snow In Berlin • On Madison Way • Trumpets • Ballad of My Friends • Boy & The Street Choir • Al Kooper’s Party Horn • Everyone’s a DJ • On High • Becoming All Things • Born With Things To Do

Zookeeper Zookeeper Genre: Alt Rock Label: Belle City Pop CDEP: BCP 1 Price Code: E Previously Available NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview “A brisk set of tracks that ably represent what Zookeeper can do in a live setting, although more polished and understandable. The inherent loudness of the live shows is somewhat tamed, but the energy and emotions are not. The Zookeeper EP is a fantastic first look at the greatness that the Simpson-led loose collective can turn out.” — Hybrid Magazine Zookeeper is the name Chris Simpson, assured crooner of indie rock legends Mineral and The Gloria Record, has chosen for his most current musical endeavor. This is the band’s debut EP!

Track Listing I Live in the Mess You Are • Tax Collector • Flood of Love • Two Part Invention • Delivery Room

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Alex Dupree and the Trapdoor Band Las Meridanzas Genre: Alt Rock Label: Belle City Pop CD: BCP 3 Price Code: N Previously Available

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Belle City Pop CD: BCP 5 Price Code: N Previously Available

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Alex Dupree and the Trapdoor Band’s debut patiently unravels to reveal compact, melodic folk. Interspersing traditional folk renderings with the lo-fi and dust-strewn, Dupree’s voice sits in the foreground against a mix of banjos, acoustic guitars, fiddles, and percussive incentives. At thirteen songs, the album blossoms as a long player, climaxing on a gorgeous recital imbued with subtle notes of romance and rebellion. A confident and tender debut, this album shines for its simplicity, its nimble acoustic foundation, and its precocious storytelling.

Alex Dupree and the Trapdoor Band rejoices with the anticipated release of this second full-length recording! Picking up where their debut left off, the singer and players have trumped themselves with this epic exploration. Recorded in the summer of 2006, Las Meridanzas builds upon the stirring briskness of their folk-acoustic debut, this time boldly executing movements into chamber pop and rock grandiflora. The Trapdoor Band has a year of activity afoot, with a tour scheduled to coincide with this album’s release in addition to future recording sessions and releases.

Selling Points • Has sold over 500 copies, primarily locally. Great room for expansion!

• Dates on the West and East Coasts are being coordinated for Fall 2007 and Spring 2008.

Selling Points • Dates on the West and East Coasts are being coordinated for Fall 2007 and Spring 2008.

• Three-month radio campaign coordinated with Fanatic Promotion.

• Online publicity efforts executed through Fanatic Promotion.

Overview “A hidden treasure that deserves a wider listen.” — All Music Guide

Lightning 1968–1971 Genre: Rock/60s Label: Arf! Arf! Records CD: ARF 100 Price Code: M NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

A severe stoner hard rock thunderstorm from 1968–1971, Lightning was an offshoot of Minneapolis ’60s legends Litter and featured guitar wizard Tom Zippy Caplan, who left after recording their 1966 garage classic Distortions and 1968 psych masterpiece $100 Fine. The band started out as a power trio and cut one fierce Cream-inspired single, William b/w Of Paupers and Poets, under the White Lightning moniker with Twin Cities record producer Warren Kendrick.

The band regrouped into a quintet and scored a record deal with P.I.P., who issued an eight-song album that, over time, has become a highly collectable LP. Lightning became one of the Midwest’s hardest working rock acts, touring extensively throughout the region during their three-year tenure.

This authorized CD reissue includes the entire LP and the aforementioned 45, plus six more bonus tracks (including edited 45 mixes of two album tracks), all wrapped in an archival twelve-page booklet with lots of photos and liner notes by Litter scribe Doug Sheppard. Fans of Blue Cheer, Cream, Hendrix, and Arf !Arf!’s four psychedelic Dose comps will really dig this new disc.

Selling Points • Reissue of legendary 1970 album plus bonus tracks also features an archival twelve-page booklet featuring photos and liner notes by Litter scribe Doug Sheppard.

• A must for fans of hard psych rock, and a follow up to the White Lightning Strikes Twice CD on Arf! Arf! There is a built in audience for these high-quality reissues.

• Extensive promotional mailing to radio and media.

Key Markets Hometown: Minneapolis. Also: New York, Boston Los Angeles, San Francisco, Des Moines, Chicago

Track Listing Prelude To Opus IV • Hideaway • When a Man Could Be Free • Madame Sunrise • 1930 • Freedom (Is Life Worth Living) • They’ve Got The Time • (Ghost) Riders in the Sky • Bonus Tracks: William • Of Paupers and Poets • (Under the Screaming Double) Eagle • What Have I Now • Rat • Hideaway (edited 45 mix) • Freedom (edited 45 mix) • William Tell Overture (The Lone Ranger Theme) STREET DATE NOVEMBER 6, 2007

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NAIL WELCOMES CHERCHEZ LA FEM ME PROJECTS TO ITS ROSTER! Cherchez La Femme Projects is a music label and art distribution company focusing primarily on work made by ladies and queers. The label is run by Sarah Dougher, who has been involved in the independent music business for over ten years, having put out records on K, Kill Rock Stars, and Mr. Lady.

Various Artists Voices from the Siren Nation Genre: Alt Rock Label: Cherchez La Femme CD: CFE 6 Price Code: N NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

FEATURED ARTISTS INCLUDE PINK MARTINI, THE GOSSIP, MIRAH

Overview Voices from the Siren Nation is the result of a year spent preparing to bring Portland a new kind of women’s music and art festival—Siren Nation! The result is a CD that shines the spotlight on the fantastic homegrown talent in Portland—from international darlings Pink Martini to rising star underground electronica wunderkind Sugar Shortwave. Not just the province of folk singers and acoustic music (though the compilation features some), women’s music in Portland is as difficult to categorize as the music scene itself. Voices features some of the best musicians in almost every genre: old-time, punk, folk, jazz, rock, electronica, lounge, and Latino music.

Press Quotes “Far from a one-shot event, Siren Nation is envisioned as an ongoing annual festival that may eventually expand beyond the borders of Portland.” — Just Out

Selling Points • Showcase of the best talent Portland has to offer.

• Siren Nation Music Festival takes place in November 2007.

• Follow-up live CD planned.

• National press mailing including Bust, Ms. Magazine, Velvet Park, Bitch, fanzines, blogs, and more.

• Service to college and specialty radio.

• Ad will appear in the Siren Nation program available to 3,000 festival-goers.

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

Track Listing The Flat Mountain Girls: Meeting in the Air • The Gossip: Holy Water • Myshkin’s Ruby Warblers: Moon Water • Swallows: Flight • Kaia: Jasper • Pink Martini: Clementine • Jamie Stillway: Stout Street Rag • Ashleigh Flynn w/ Sneakin’ Out & Tracy Grammer: Deep River Hollow • Amelia: All But the Sea • Sugar Shortwave: Brawd • Virginia Lopez: Eromaile Awa • Lara Michell: House On Fire • Heather Perkins: Can • Swan Island: Night Owl • The Stolen Sweets: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea • Marisa Anderson w/ Mirah: Song For Emma

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Sarah Dougher Harper’s Arrow Genre: Alt Rock Label: Cherchez La Femme CD: CFE 1 Price Code: N Previously Available NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

This sixteen-track album began as a retelling of the Odyssey, but turned out to be a sonic experiment in pop form. “Listen to Harper’s Arrow for Dougher’s ruddy, mournful vocals, her evocatively minimalist instrumentation, the album’s wise, nimble commentary on war, death, and hope.” — SF Weekly

Various Artists Safe Haven for SMYRC

Katastrophe Fault, Lies and Faultlines

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Cherchez La Femme CD: CFE 2 Price Code: N Previously Available

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Cherchez La Femme CD: CFE 3 Price Code: N Previously Available

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This benefit CD supports Portland’s queer youth center: original tracks by some of Portland’s up-and-comers mixed with previously released tracks from well-known artists including Sleater-Kinney, Indigo Girls, The Decemberists, Pink Martini, Alix Olsen, and Tara Jane O’Neil.

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Crafting dark anthems of anxiety and righteous rage as well as ass-shaking poppy rap hits, Katastrophe is poised to change the face of hip-hop. “Katastrophe mixes elements of rap, ghettotech, spoken word, electro, and other beat-heavy sub genres for a danceable, deftly-worded delight.” — Curve

Sara Jaffe Salt and Water

Swallows Me With Trees Towering

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Cherchez La Femme CD: CFE 4 Price Code: N Previously Available

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Cherchez La Femme CD: CFE 5 Price Code: N Previously Available

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Formerly of the much-praised Erase Errata, Jaffe steps out to create quiet but characteristically complex solo work. Recorded

by Quarterstick recording artist Tara Jane O’Neil. “Salt and Water’s five acoustic folksy numbers are ultra intimate and Spartan. Wistfully pretty.” — Aquarius Records

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The first full-length from this Portland duo! “Debut full-length Me With Trees Towering is not a prettified record. It’s a pimply, gangly adolescent with knees knocked and elbows akimbo, and that’s a good thing … On a label with plenty of fresh talent, Swallows demands and deserves attention.” — Skyscraper

Sarah Dougher The Walls Ablaze

Sarah Dougher The Bluff

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Cherchez La Femme CD: CFE 7 Price Code: N Previously Available

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Cherchez La Femme CD: CFE 8 Price Code: N Previously Available

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Originally released on Mr. Lady Records. “The artfulness of Sarah Dougher’s The Walls Ablaze comes disguised in offhand gestures, half-buried in the casual swirl of low-budget guitars, throwaway symmetries, and quietly seething emotion.”

— Salon.com

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Originally released on Mr. Lady Records. “The Bluff is a long, wild leap into even stronger music with songs that are hot out of the box.” — Greil Marcus, New York Times

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Blitzen Trapper Wild Mountain Nation Genre: Alt Rock Label: LidKerCow LP: LKC 4 Price Code: M NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Eric Earley: guitar, vocals Erik Menteer: guitar, synth Brian Adrian Koch: drums, vocals Michael VanPelt: bass, cowbell Drew Laughery: organ, keys, synth Marty Marquis: guitar, synth, vocals

Overview

Long-awaited vinyl release of Blitzen Trapper’s much-acclaimed third album! Garnering rave reviews everywhere from Pitchfork (Best New Music!) to Rolling Stone, Wild Mountain Nation is poised to go down as one of the best albums of 2007. From outer space to down on the farm, campfire sing-along to atonal dystopia, Wild Mountain Nation is a raucous constellation of favorite souvenirs from the Trapper’s gamut-running musical adventures. A sextet of old friends whose youths were spent wandering the hoary forests and high desert plateaux of the Pacific Northwest, Blitzen Trapper has long been a stalwart of the Portland music community, rocking audiences of all ages, socioeconomic groups, and species with its unique sonic blend of Zane Grey, Darjeeling tea, candy wrappers, and Choose Your Own Adventure. Though you may mistake the members for can collectors or immigrant day laborers, they love you very much and promise to slave away at the office to keep Wild Mountain Nation and the other kids well fed and tastefully attired.

Press Quotes “One the year’s most likable indie rock records.” — Rolling Stone “A revelation from beginning to end.” — Pitchfork, Best New Music “Awesome … madcap, literate, rootsy indie-Americana psychedelics.” — Stereogum

Selling Points • First time available on vinyl!

• Over 7,000 copies soundscanned to date.

• Features in Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, The Fader, and Harp.

• Recipient of Pitchfork’s coveted and influential Best New Music tag.

• Recent radio in-studios on Sirius Satellite Radio, NPR, KEXP, and Minnesota Public Radio.

• Recent tours alongside The Hold Steady and David Vandervelde.

• Full national tour in Sept/Oct 2007 supporting Two Gallants.

• National press campaign via Force Field PR (Panda Bear, Sufjan Stevens).

• College radio campaign via SPECTRE (Bright Eyes, Built To Spill, Norah Jones).

• Ads with Pitchfork, Insound, and Other Music.

Track Listing Devil’s A-Go-Go • Wild Mountain Nation • Futures & Folly • Miss Spiritual Tramp • Warp & Woof of the Quiet Giant’s Hem • Sci-Fi Kid • Wild Mtn. Jam • Hot Tip/Tough Cub • The Green King Sings • Summer Town • Murder Babe • Country Caravan • Badger’s Black Brigade

Key Markets Hometown: Portland. Also: Seattle, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Omaha, Hattiesburg ALSO AVAILABLE

Blitzen Trapper

Blitzen Trapper

Blitzen Trapper

Blitzen Trapper

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CD: LKC 3 (N)

CD: LKC 1 (N)

7”: LKC 5 (J)

Wild Mountain Nation

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Field Rexx

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STREET DATE NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Blizten Trapper

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Cool Love #1

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Laura Veirs Carbon Glacier Genre: Alt Rock Label: Jealous Butcher LP: JLO 64 Price Code: O NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists

Overview

Laura Veirs: vox, guitars, banjo-uke, glockenspiel Steve Moore: piano, organs, vibraphonette, trombone Karl Blau: bass, vox, guitar, synth, sax Tucker Martine: drums, percussion, treatments Eyvind Kang: viola Lori Goldstein: cello

Laura Veirs’ songs are steeped in natural imagery, blending influences ranging from folk and blues to punk. A Seattle resident by way of Colorado, Veirs’ background in geology, and her kinship with the rugged landscape in which she grew up, meld together with her punk performing roots to form an unusual musical outlook.

Her collaborators on Carbon Glacier, The Tortured Souls, reflect this vision of a style that spans rock, jazz, and avant-garde: producer/ drummer Tucker Martine has collaborated with Bill Frisell, Jim White, and Modest Mouse; viola player Eyvind Kang performs with Beck and Bill Frisell while leading his own ensemble; Lori Goldston, who toured with Nirvana, plays cello; Steve Moore adds trombone and keyboards; and Karl Blau contributes bass, guitar, and vocals (both Moore and Blau are veterans of the Northwest underground folk and rock community).

Press Quotes “The most enthralling album of the year thus far … it has the air of an instant classic, a benchmark by which future Americana releases will be judged.” — The Independent “Incantatory, contemplative, literate … Laura Veirs might be the bridge between the alt-country ghetto and the Sheryl Crowrevering mainstream.” — Mojo “[Viers’] first masterpiece … the unmistakable sound of a songwriter hitting her stride, pouring herself into each syllable.” — Uncut [HHHHH]

Selling Points • Contains bonus track “Cliff Driver” from the original sessions.

• CD released by Nonesuch Records has sold over 6,500 copies.

• LP pressed on 180-gram audiophile quality vinyl.

• Extensive Fall 2007 tour opening for The Decemberists.

• Ad placement in major media outlets.

Key Markets Hometown: Seattle. Also: Portland, Omaha, Boise, Denver, Austin, Tucson, Chicago, Boston, New York, San Francisco, Athens, Nashville

Track Listing Ether Sings • Icebound Stream • Rapture • Lonely Angel Dust • The Cloud Room • Wind Is Blowing Stars • Cliff Driver • Shadow Blues • Anne Bonny Rag • Snow Camping • Chimney Sweeping Man • Salvage a Smile • Blackend Anchor • Riptide

STREET DATE NOVEMBER 6, 2007

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Ifwhen We Will Gently Destroy You Genre: Alt Rock Label: Clairecords CD: CLE 72 Price Code: M NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists

Overview

Kentaro: bass Mary MacDowell: keyboards Merc: guitar, programming, vocals

Formed by Merc—a founding member of post-shoegaze band All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavors—Ifwhen has been spreading their somewhat noisy, melodic, and oddly structured music throughout NYC and beyond. ANL+LF received worldwide acclaim with three LPs released in the US, Europe, and Japan. The band’s sound was considered unique due its complexity, both sonically and compositionally. That band disbanded in early 2000, and Merc rose from the ashes to form Ifwhen, taking complexity and sonic attitude to the next level. With a live show that includes a real-time visual artist creating live projections and an immense arsenal of sound, Ifwhen is not meant to be “listened to.” It is meant to be experienced.

We Will Gently Destroy You, mixed by Dälek’s Oktopus at Deadverse Studios in early 2007, marks the band’s first US release.

Sounding like carefully orchestrated chaos, dense walls of sound create multiple rhythms. Gentle vocals and melodic hooks float through the songs, managing to consistently keep them pretty around the edges. Somehow it all makes just enough sense—convincing you that normalcy is just another part of the equation. Influences and elements are certainly present, though difficult to put a finger on—not quite as twisted as Syd Barrett, not as monstrous as Glenn Branca, not as abrasive as the Velvet Underground, and not as technical as King Crimson—but it is certainly all in there.

Press Quotes “Ifwhen will overwhelm your senses and dazzle your eardrums with their brand of sonic bliss. Walls of sound wash over you as percussion dances in between washes of fuzz.” — SomewhereCold “Somewhere between lush instrumentation and experimental noise lies the rather jarring but intriguing sound of Ifwhen. How three people can make so much noise is the first question that comes to mind.” — Delusions of Adequacy “Uncanny combination of floating vocal melodies, distorted guitars, sound wall of keyboards, digital drum beats, and progressive bass lines is very hypnotizing and contagious.” — MarCreation

Selling Points • Highly anticipated first official US release!

• Ifwhen is the new project from core ex-All Natural Lemon & Lime Flavors member Merc!

• Mixed by Dälek’s Oktopus at Deadverse Studios.

• Ifwhen vs. Dälek 12” will be released in early 2008.

• Core radio service by AAM Sunday Service.

• National retail promo campaign by NAIL Media.

• Additional mailing to national and international press outlets by Clairecords.

• E-media promotion through Clairecords, Tonevendor, MySpace, and more.

• Dälek will cross-promote this album along with the forthcoming 12” on their website and MySpace page.

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

Track Listing Fantastic Maneuver • Only Faster • Just Fine Today • A Furious Kind • Interference • Safe To Cross • Escape Method • Not The Same Time • Incidental Contact • Nothing Left To Avoid

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The Brother Kite Moonlit Race EP

The Brother Kite Waiting for the Time to be Right [LP+CDR]

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Clairecords CD: CLE 67 Price Code: J

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Clairecords LP+CDR: CLE 64 Price Code: Z

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Overview

Overview

Over a year in the making, The Brother Kite’s Moonlit Race EP has undergone several conceptual changes. The final product is one to cherish. Originally conceived as a single for “Get On, Me”—arguably the catchiest song on the band’s masterful sophomore album Waiting for the Time To Be Right—the EP stays true to form by leading off with that track. From there on, the listener is treated to five exclusive tracks: alternate versions and mixes of two album tracks from WFTTTBR, including the title cut and “Hopeless and Unsung”; a never-before-released live version of “Never in Years” from a WERS 88.9 radio session in Boston; a song from DJ Potter’s creepy child-zombie short film Of All That Is Unearthed, and a track originally recorded for the most recent Adult Swim download compilation. In addition, the CD has enhanced content featuring three videos!

2006’s masterpiece is now available for the first time on vinyl— and in extremely limited quantity! Limited to a pressing of just 300 copies worldwide, collectors take note: these are sure to sell fast! The album will include a bonus CDR entitled Inside Waiting for the Time To Be Right, an exclusive set of alternate mixes of every song on the album! This is a brave rock record, astonishing not only for its depth and maturity, but also for its willingness to stray from the shoegaze sound that most easily defined the band’s previous works. Layered guitar textures remain an important ingredient; however, Patrick Boutwell’s impassioned vocals are now pushed to the forefront, showcasing a Brian Wilson-esque gift for melody hinted at in earlier songs.

Selling Points

• Limited to 300 copies. Includes an exclusive bonus CD, featuring alternate mixes of the entire album!

Selling Points

• Five tracks exclusive to this release, and three bonus videos!

Overview The Los Angeles-based Circle Jerks have been at it for over twenty-five years, forging a path that many others have followed. From the early days as hardcore punk pioneers to later releases, the band has continually influenced all who have been exposed to its music. Porterhouse now brings a one-of-a-kind collector’s item to the market in the form of the band’s first picture disc release!

This is a totally new product in 12” format that features the now-legendary cover art from the groundbreaking release printed directly on the vinyl.

Selling Points

Circle Jerks Group Sex Genre: Punk Label: Porterhouse Records LP: PRT 2003 Price Code: Z NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

• New picture disc format never before released!

• Classic title equals perennial sales.

• Large print ad campaign will support release.

• Tie-in campaign with Vans Shoes in selected markets.

• Massive press mailing to fanzines, e-card campaign, and press releases to all relevant music websites.

• Ads with Big Takeover, Mean Streets, Skratch, Alternative Press, and Wonka Vision.

Key Markets Hometown: Los Angeles. Also: New York, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Miami, Chicago, Dallas, Austin, Las Vegas

Track Listing Deny Everything • I Just Want Some Skank • Beverly Hills • Operation • Back Against the Wall • Wasted • Behind the Door • World Up My Ass • Paid Vacation • Don’t Care • Live Fast, Die Young • What’s Your Problem • Group Sex • Red Tape

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Clipd Beaks Hoarse Lords Genre: Avant Rock Label: Lovepump United CD: LPU 15 Price Code: O NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists

Overview

Nic Barbeln: vocals Ray Benjamin: drums Greg Pritchard: guitar, keyboards Scott Ecklein: bass

The creation of Hoarse Lords began in the summer of 2005, when Clipd Beaks relocated from Minnesota to Oakland. Influenced by hobo culture, the drugged-up hyphy sounds currently dominating Bay Area airwaves, and underground “Neu San Francisco” warehouse parties where techno bangers fade into tribal noise jams, everything on Hoarse Lords is turned up to 11. Harsh and distorted, it’s a fitting new sound for a band that references “clipping” in their name, and feels every bit as sick and violent as a severed, bleeding beak.

On Hoarse Lords, the band sounds like it’s pushing itself further and further into some unknown and terrifying black hole. Song titles like “Melter,” “Wrathscapes,” and “We Will Bomb You” set the scene: these are the end times, and Clipd Beaks is right there with you, banging drums in a tornado. As the album builds to a ferocious conclusion, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel and a feeling of peace beyond the point of pain. We can’t escape, so we submit, and are consumed.

Press Quotes “Spectacular … Clipd Beaks glimmer in their highly futuristic hybridization of glossy modern rock.” — Skyscraper “Profoundly psychedelic … makes you feel grateful just for being alive.” — XLR8R “Supermax-tight monolith monsters of psychedelia.” — L.A. Weekly “Dark and noisy and messy. Which is cool, if you like strange shit.” — Vice “Groovy … abrasive with the synthesizers. It’s like, if you can’t see the direct lines between This Heat and DJ Screw, then maybe you need to do a little more homework.” — The Fader

Selling Points • Hoarse Lords is the follow-up to Clipd Beaks’ acclaimed 2006 EP Preyers (Tigerbeat6).

• Clipd Beaks are featured alongside Broken Social Scene, Madlib, and others on the soundtrack to Gardens of the Night, an independent feature starring John Malkovich and Tom Arnold.

• Full November US tour booked by Panache (The Slits, AIDS Wolf, Mika Miko).

• Deluxe CD gatefold packaging with artwork by Eric Luken (Blood Brothers’ Young Machetes, Headwound City).

• Recorded by Shawn Porter (Xiu Xiu, Jim Yoshii Pileup).

• Mastered by Kramer (Butthole Surfers).

• National, regional, online, and print publicity by Kasey Price at Fanatic Promotion.

• New media by Fanatic Promotion.

• Radio promotion by AAM. • Ads with Skyscraper, Pitchfork, Alarm, and Insound.

Key Markets Hometown: Oakland. Also: San Francisco, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Atlanta, New York, Chicago, Providence, Austin, Houston, Portland, Seattle

Track Listing Melter • Wrathscapes • Manipulator • High on Charms • Hoarse Lords • We Will Bomb You • Woo Melodies • Black Glass • Let It Win

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Oh Astro Champions of Wonder Genre: Electronica Label: Illegal Art CD: ILL 115 Price Code: M NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Jane Dowe: computer, vocals Hank Hofler: laptop, controllers Stefen Robinson: computer Lucy and Ella: vocals

Overview Married duo Jane Dowe and Hank Hofler are both rooted firmly in experimental music, but with the Oh Astro project they continue their move toward odd interpretations of popular forms. Club music, children’s songs, and fragmented samples of pop/rock all intersect on their first full-length album, Champions of Wonder. Jane Dowe has previously released on Mille Plateaux in collaboration with Terre Thaemlitz. She has also exhibited as a sound artist and appeared on countless compilations, including the infamous Deconstructing Beck. She returned to Illegal Art (home of Girl Talk) in 2005 with the debut Oh Astro mini-album, Hello World. Hank Hofler has performed electronic music internationally alongside artists such as Otomo Yoshihide, Oval, Merzbow, Alva Noto, Ikue Mori, Philip Jeck, Sawako, and others. Part-time member Stefen Robinson releases glitch-hop music under the Yea Big moniker for Jib Door. Two of Dowe and Hofler’s children also sing on Champions of Wonder.

Press Quotes “Mimicking the loop-based strategies of pop but giving them her own unique twist, Dowe trades her former ambient experiments for something that’s at the same time accessible and mind boggling, and always enjoyable to hear.” — XLR8R “Shimmering truncated melodies flirting jaggedly like two butterflies dancing until it winds down and tips off.” — Exclaim “Jane Dowe jerry-rigged her own software to create music that mirrored the ghostly clicks, piercing pops, and quark-sized samples of experimental electronica, but loops all the little blurbs as if she were making pop songs.” — CMJ

Selling Points • Oh Astro’s debut received praise from XLR8R, CMJ, Venus, Grooves, Exclaim, and more. The album charted nationally on college radio, in the Top 30 on several stations.

• Artwork done by internationally acclaimed artist/producer Terre Thaemlitz.

• Includes bonus surround sound mixes.

• Press, radio, and new media campaigns via Fanatic Promotion.

• Free mp3s will be highlighted on CMJ, XLR8R, and other sites.

• Part of a national advertising campaign for Illegal Art (including releases from Realistic, Girl Talk, Oh Astro, and Steinski) throughout Fall/Winter 2007 in Pitchfork, XLR8R, Under the Radar, The Wire, CMJ, Resonance, and more.

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

Track Listing Snow Queen • Hello Fuji Boy • Lucy Sees the Moon • Candy Sun Smiles • Empty Air • Xanadu • Journey to the Center • Itch Box • Robot Love I Love You • Quiet Mouth • Pet Apples ALSO AVAILABLE

Oh Astro Hello World

CDEP: ILL 112 (J) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Loren Connors As Roses Bow: Collected Airs 1992–2002 Genre: Avant Rock Label: Family Vineyard 2XCD: FVR 54 Price Code: 2J NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Loren Connors: electric guitar Suzanne Langille: vocals

Overview

As Roses Bow is an assembly of Loren Connors’ most melodically rich and stunning miniature compositions. These forty-five pieces are Connors’ complete airs culled from ten albums (eight that are out of print) and two singles, including his groundbreaking Hell’s Kitchen Park (Black Label, 1993), the rare Moonyean (Road Cone, 1994), obscure titles like St. Vincent’s Newsboy Home (Item Recordings, 1998) and Lullaby (Carbon, 2001), plus four unreleased airs. Nearly the entire critically heralded Airs (Road Cone 1999) is re-mastered and included as well.

Press Quotes “Loren Connors isn’t a cult hero for no reason. His music is awe-inspiring … a one-person gentle tornado, Connors can get deep into human feelings with a single guitar.” — Pop Matters “[Connors] is an American original in much the same sense as John Fahey or Jandek, in that he’s chosen a classically American form, in this case the blues, and in true pioneer spirit taken it off somewhere else, crossed it with other forms … and shaped it into a uniquely individual vision of the modern American myth.” — David Keenan, The Wire

Selling Points • A timeless collection of Loren Connors’ most gorgeous and accessible work will please both the diehard fan and the newcomer.

• Features four previously unreleased pieces.

• Nearly all pieces are culled from out of print albums. Contains almost the entire critically heralded full-length Airs (Road Cone, 1998).

• Re-mastered by Jim O’Rourke (Wilco, Sonic Youth).

• Feature confirmed for The Wire’s November 2007 issue.

• Tentative feature on NPR’s Weekend Edition to coincide with release.

• Full press mailing to magazines and blogs by Family Vineyard.

• Radio promotion to college and NPR stations by Chouette Shop.

• Ads with Signal To Noise, The Wire, and Arthur.

Key Markets Hometown: New York. Also: Brooklyn, Boston, Atlanta, Boston, Houston, Portland, Providence, Chicago, Austin, San Francisco

Track Listing DISC ONE: An Air • Child • Sorrow In The House • St. Brigid’s Air • Moonyean No. 3 • Moonyean No. 7 • O’connor’s Last Air • Moonyean No. 9 • Onora’s Kid • Moonyean No. 13 • Frozen Star • O’carolan’s Air • Little Shoes • Brigid’s Air • No Way Home • Air For Bobby Sands and the Hunger Strikers • Evangeline • Dance Acadia • A Boy’s Day at the Fair • Along The Way • The Cart Ride DISC TWO: Airs No. 1 • Airs No. 2 • Airs No. 3 • Moonyean • Airs No. 4 • Airs No. 5 • Airs No. 6 • Airs No. 7 • Airs No. 8 • Airs No. 9 • Airs No. 10 • Airs No. 11 • Airs No. 12 • Airs No. 13 • Airs No. 14 • Airs No. 17 • Airs No. 18 • Death of Shelley • On Patrick Hill • O’connaira’s Air • Silent in the Soul • Stephen Foster’s Art • Untitled Air • As Roses Bow ALSO AVAILABLE

Loren Connors

Loren Connors

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The Departing of a Dream Vol. II

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The Departing of a Dream Vol. III: Juliet

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STREET DATE NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Overview “These [songs] could be the whispers of lovers, the reassurances of parents to sleeping children, the prayers of the lost and lonely, or the tremulous breaths of the finally redeemed. It is heady and intoxicating stuff.” — The Wire Over two full-lengths and an EP, Tokyo-based guitarist/singer Hisato Higuchi has shaped an inimitable sound sphere of solitary electric notes that drape across his unearthly moan. Channeling loneliness and desires as elegant six-string tone poems, Higuchi has reached the heights of fellow travelers from Meredith Monk to Charalambides, though Butterfly Horse Street adds an unexpected snarl as Higuchi erupts into a free/noise, wall-of-sound guitar style that echoes the most ecstatic string manipulation of Masayuki Takayanagi or Donald Miller (Borbetomagus).

Ferocious and howling, Higuchi still paints desolation, whether bleeding into the red or as hushed beauty.

Selling Points • Second US Family Vineyard release by Japanese musician Hisato Higuchi.

• Higuchi’s previous Dialogue CD (Family Vineyard) was praised by The Wire, Mojo, Signal To Noise, and Resonance.

• Full press mailing to magazines and blogs by Family Vineyard.

• Radio promotion to college and NPR stations by Chouette Shop.

• Ads with Signal To Noise, The Wire, and Arthur.

Hisato Higuchi Butterfly Horse Street Genre: Avant Rock Label: Family Vineyard CD: FVR 53 Price Code: O NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Key Markets New York, Brooklyn, Boston, Providence, Athens, Houston, Chicago, San Francisco, Portland

Track Listing A Hundred Signs of Light • Grow • Blood and Leaves • Melody in the Mud • Electric Guitar Light • Monster on the Street • In the Mud • Kind Line • Guitar Six • Dawn • Cry Baby Flowers

ALSO AVAILABLE

Hisato Higuchi Dialogue

CD: FVR 44 (M) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview “Specializes in pastoral folk music marked by hushed drums, quiet piano, occasional saws, and xylophones … heady and sometimes overwhelming.” — NPR, Song of the Day Due to increasing requests, and with an eye towards the Library of Congress, Contraphonic releases an incredibly limited edition vinyl version of The Lesser Birds of Paradise’s Space Between. Preserving the highly lauded 2006 release into grooves and wax, the limited edition Space Between will come equipped with a free mp3 download of the record. Coupled with tapestries of American Gothic narratives, sly humor, animal characters, and Robert Creeley-cum-Charles Olson poetics, Space Between is a record of lasting impression and importance that has garnered accolades everywhere from NPR to the Washington Post Express.

The Lesser Birds of Paradise Space Between Genre: Alt Rock Label: Contraphonic LP: CTP 64 Price Code: N NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Selling Points • Limited edition vinyl version of 2006’s highly praised Space Between, due to increased fan requests.

• Comes with instructions on how to obtain a free download of the entire album.

• Space Between has garnered acclaim from outlets such as Chicago Public Radio, NPR, Chicago Reader, Signal To Noise, Spare Change, Pop Culture Press, Time Out New York, Time Out Chicago, PopMatters, Dish, and All Music Guide, where it was heralded as a “pysch-folk gem.”

• Contraphonic will team up with IODA to push the record through the Promonet Pro digital press program.

• Ads with Pitchfork, The Wire, and Signal To Noise.

Key Markets Hometown: Chicago. Also: New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Athens, Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle, Milwaukee, Providence, Los Angeles, Bloomington

Track Listing My Refrain • A Rehearsal • Paint Your Fingernails • Do You Remember When (We Overthrew the Government) • Always the Sound • I Envy the Photons • Claire Danes, If You Ever Get a Nose Job, I Swear to Jesus I’ll Hang Myself • Spider Outside • So the Bear Wipes His Ass with the Rabbit • The Devil’s Rope • Take the Leaves • A Mother’s Arms • You Are My Sunshine STREET DATE NOVEMBER 6, 2007

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Mouse Fire Wooden Teeth Genre: Rock Label: Lujo Records CD: LUJ 53 Price Code: I NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists

Overview

Joey Bruce: guitar, vocals Shane Schuch: guitar, bass, keys, vocals Justin Cason: bass Aaron Venrick: drums Jeremy Griffith: guitar

Somewhere between Interpol’s Turn On the Bright Lights and Minus the Bear’s Menos El Oso is where you’ll find Mouse Fire’s Wooden Teeth. This is a debut album from the band, but make no mistake, the members’ musicianship is markedly mature. Wooden Teeth is a pièce de résistance boasting a caliber of artistry found few other places in independent music today.

The band has fused the best of its somber-chic forefathers (Modest Mouse, Cursive) with modern rock ideas, and the result is a striking soundscape ripe with danceable rhythms that will leave you in a delightful state of shock. Put your dancing shoes on, kids. You can’t possibly stand still to music like this.

Press Quotes “Mouse Fire takes the modern touches of indie-pop and applies them to traditional pop song structure. You can hear influences of middle-of-the-road ’70s pop with dancey rhythms, plus the Beatles mixed with contemporary bands as disparate as No Knife and the Dismemberment Plan.” — Tampa Bay Times “The new album features such songs as the haunting ‘To Celebrate a Suicide,’ which is rich with quick drum beats and fast-paced guitar strumming backed by Shuch’s breathy vocals and lyrics … new-age Beatles that everyone can listen to and enjoy.” — Lakeland Ledger “These musicians create moody dance-rock while waving their fret boards and kicking their feet to a synchronized science.” — Reax Magazine

Selling Points • Mouse Fire has played the Ernie Ball Stage on the Warped Tour, won the Bodog Battle of the Bands Round 1, and placed in the Top 15 (out of thousands) in the Calling All Bands Online Contest.

• The band has shared the stage with Annuals, Tapes ‘n Tapes, Riddle of Steel, Discover America, and more.

• Features two former members of Anderlin (Tooth & Nail).

• Promotion by Bear Trap PR. • Featured song on the Vice CD & DVD comps, and music video on Insound.

• Ads with Vice, Under the Radar, Harp, Wonka Vision, Alarm, Big Takeover, Skyscraper, Copper Press, Status, Modern Fix, Sentimentalist, Synthesis, and more.

Key Markets Hometown: Tampa. Also: Tallahassee, Orlando, Miami, Brandon, Lakeland, Washington DC, New York, Dallas, Austin, Atlanta

Track Listing Curvularia • Feel Good Drag • What Comes Around Goes Around • Mexican Weather • To Celebrate a Suicide • Unknown • Fear the Worst • Started a Fire • Chicago Aint the Answer • Friendship Song • Flash Floods • This Is How I Throw My Slider

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Overview “Geneviève Castrée, a Francophone poet, artist, and singer from Canada, possesses a voice as beautiful and petulant as any major female singer around today … While her sound is the very epitome of lo-fi, and the message of her lyrics inscrutable to my unfortunate English-speaking self, any listener can imagine the lush musical accompaniment that would best suit her tunes … I strongly suggest catching her this time around, before she has the chance to pull a Salinger or Rimbaud on us all.” — PopMatters After having written many war songs and having avoided popular songwriting, Geneviève Castrée decided to write dramatic love songs inspired by the music of Jacques Brel and the novels of Québec writer Réjean Ducharme. The result is eleven love songs, mostly depressing ones.

Sometimes comical, mostly bitter.

Selling Points • Features vocals by Phil Elverum.

• Geneviève Castrée will release a book and new album on K Records as Woelv.

• Follows 2006 release Gris and a performance on PW Elverum & Sun Ltd. • Released concurrently with The Watery Graves’ new full-length Portland.

• Promotion handled by Marriage Records.

Key Markets Hometowns: Portland & Anacortes. Also: Vancouver, Victoria, Bellingham, Montreal, Seattle, San Francisco, Arcata, Eugene, Philadelphia, New York, Minneapolis, Chicago, Omaha, Charlottesville

The Watery Graves of Portland & Genevieve The Watery Graves of Portland & Genevieve Genre: Alt Rock Label: Marriage Records CD: WED 47 Price Code: P NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview “An enjoyable romp that mixes jazz with other experimental acoustic touches.” — PopMatters Available in limited edition LP+CD format only, the new Watery Graves album Portland is a kind, subtle post-jazz whisper, suitable for after-dinner grooves and cocktail pool parties.

Selling Points

The Watery Graves Portland [12”+CD] Genre: Alt Rock Label: Marriage Records LP+CD: WED 39 Price Code: P NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

• Released concurrently with The Watery Graves & Geneviève’s self-titled collaboration on Marriage Records.

• Follows closely on the heels of new Adrian Orange and Her Band K Records debut, released in September 2007.

• Adrian Orange has a strong following under his late moniker Thanksgiving.

• Curtis Knapp is president of Marriage Records and co-founded the Portland label with Adrian Orange.

• Promotion handled by Marriage Records.

Key Markets Hometown: Portland. Also: Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Austin, Providence, Vancouver, Victoria, Bellingham, Montreal, Seattle, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Omaha, Charlottesville

Track Listing 12”: Drakkar Sauna • Timid Virgins Make Dull Company at Weddings • Portland • Can Dead Men Vote Twice at Elections? • What You Thought Was The World • Sinking Dinghy • Jazzy Jeff • The Dancing Raindrop • Rolling Thundara CD: Drakkar Sauna • Timid Virgins Make Dull Company at Weddings • Portland • Can Dead Men Vote Twice at Elections? • What You Thought Was The World • Sinking Dinghy • Jazzy Jeff • The Dancing Raindrop • Rolling Thundara • White Donut

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Overview “Mico de Noche may be a duo, but they’re a voluminous mass together, reminding you that it usually takes four guys to make the commotion they create with two.” — The Stranger

Mico de Noche Cherries Genre: Rock/Metal Label: Australian Cattle God CD: ACG 17 Price Code: O NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

How the hell do two people make so much noise?!?! Simply put, they try harder and, according to MdN Industries, quality is job one. Formed in early 2001, Mico de Noche has made a point of doing more with guitar and drums than most people do with their entire, pathetic lives. The band’s heavyhanded yet tuneful approach and energetic live show have won fans throughout the states and as far abroad as Sweden and Italy. They have been called metal, punk, sludge, heavy, and dicks. While all of these are at least partially true, no one term (or string of terms, for that matter) can truly describe the Mico de Noche experience. Buy a disc and feel the dark warmth of the band’s sexy magick take over your body.

Selling Points • Most-produced Mico de Noche album to date.

• Featured on KEXP. • Highly anticipated album from Seattle’s underground.

• Features members of Migas, Helltrout, TNA, Lozen, Black Elk, Trail of Dead, and Quan Fi. • Extensive radio promotion by Apples and Cats Media LLC. • 120+ print and web media will be serviced with promotional items.

• Ads with Verbicide, Razorcake, Wonka Vision, Magnet, AP, CMJ, and more.

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

Track Listing Dirty Unicorn • Marijuana Party • Tu’s Place • Mower • Out of Control • Le Strut • Untrevention

Overview “Emo’s own Bill Corsello jostles early nineties noise rock with Good Times Crisis Band.”

— Austin Chronicle This is songwriter Bill Corsello (Emo’s) in his apologist phase. A complete misanthrope with a universalistic voice, he has assassinated characters—his own and other people’s—in past musical efforts (Monkeyspank, Stress Magnets, Ye Olde Castletons, Vodka Family Winstons).

Select a Gather Point is an olive branch extended to those living, dead, sick, young, cuckolded, and raked. A departure from the assembly line of “product,” this recording delivers depth in solid number after number. An intellectual’s brand of rock with a wide array of ideas and interesting structures. A Scrabble players’ brand of rock with a peculiar prolixity and many obscure references all placed on a bed of good, clean post-punk instrumentation.

Selling Points • Lyrics included.

• Debut album from well respected Austin songwriter and musician.

• Features former members of Monkeyspank, Ye Olde Castletons, Vodka Family Winstons, and Queens of the Stone Age predecessors Stress Magnets.

• College radio service by Apples and Cats Media.

• 120+ print and web media will be serviced with promotional items.

• Ads with Verbicide, Razorcake, Wonka Vision, Magnet, AP, CMJ, and more.

Key Markets Hometown: Austin. Also: Washington DC, Baltimore, New Brunswick, New York, Boston, Birmingham, Chicago, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle

Track Listing Cyber Freee • Unpopular Man • This Will Pass • Luddites • Nose and Chin • Did You Forget? • Not Afraid • Shiftless • Chautauqua • Z.Z.Zephyr • Lamb Take Lion • Lows and Highs • Dead Man’s Float

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Good Time Crisis Band Select a Gather Point Genre: Rock Label: Australian Cattle God CD: ACG 18 Price Code: O NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview Lick Lick is a five-piece progressive punk band from Austin that features members of 30ftFALL (Texas punk legends), Middlefinger (Mr. Bungle-influenced skacore), Brown Whörnet (perverted classically-inspired art rock), and the Fence Cutters (genre-hopping Americana).

Influenced by Devo, The Melvins, The Minutemen, Ruins, and Shellac, the members of Lick Lick share a love of power chords, off-kilter changes, feedback, twang, and new wave throb. Lick Lick’s eponymous debut CD, produced by Tim Gerron (Björk, Snoop Dogg, The Monkees, M.O.D.) is a captivating, unpredictable journey—the songs, which both rock and confuse the listener, feature the intelligent and absurd vocals of Mo Perce and Matt Kelly, the psychotic psychedelia of guitarist Eric Roach, the crispness and complexity of bassist Jason Davis and drummer Philip White, and an occasional burst of Deep Purple-esque organ growl. In a matter of months the intensity and sharpness of Lick Lick’s live shows have earned the group a strong reputation in the competitive Austin club scene, and this is one of the most highly anticipated CD debuts Austin has seen since Spoon.

Selling Points • Engineered and co-produced by Tim Gerron (Björk, Snoop Dogg, The Monkees).

• Former members of Brown Whörnet, Sprawl, Middlefinger, and 30ftFALL. • College radio service by Apples and Cats Media.

• 120+ print and web media will be serviced with promotional items.

• Ads with Verbicide, Razorcake, Wonka Vision, Magnet, AP, CMJ, and more.

Lick Lick Lick Lick Genre: Rock Label: Australian Cattle God CD: ACG 19 Price Code: O NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Key Markets Hometown: Austin & Houston. Also: New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Kansas City, Dallas, San Antonio, Portland

Track Listing The Bad Pet • Rolling Pin • Male Pattern Drunkassness • One of Us • The Drinking and The Drunk • The Imprecationist • Clownselling • The Misery of Aplenty • Squib • Dirgy • Team Thong

Overview “Minmae continue to explore the value in ’90s indie rock and its antecedents, rejecting emo and the NPR-ized mainstream for something a little more ragged but right.” — All Music Guide

Minmae ¿Ya te vas?

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Greyday Productions CD: GDP 30 Price Code: G NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Minmae’s ¿Ya te vas? is the equivalent to listening to a band’s ascent to sonic rock brilliance.

Originally recorded in late 2003, it is a fantastically complex yet minimalist experience akin to sitting in a large bubble and watching projections of somebody else’s thoughts unfold around you. The music ebbs and flows as the words and melodies soar when they have no apparent business doing so, and, as it is, can sound touchingly dejected. Greyday Records is proud to reissue these eleven songs, tracing Minmae’s trajectory along the law of accelerating returns, as time is speeding up and chaos has begotten new models of perfection. Four years is an eternity in Minmaeland, and ¿Ya te vas? represents the start of the rebirth from solo project to full band, and a move from the esoteric to the accessible—or at least, the less esoteric.

Selling Points • RIYL: Television, Archers of Loaf, Robyn Hitchcock, Songs: Ohia.

• Fall Southwest tour booked by the Crow Agency; fall/early winter East Coast dates planned.

• Numerous national and regional tours in the past five years.

• Have shared the stage with Magnolia Electric Company, Mono, and Geoff Farina.

• Aggressive digital and physical press campaign.

• Focused regional radio campaign. Full retail and street team support.

• Tour PR by Yarrr! PR.

Key Markets ALSO AVAILABLE

Minmae 835

CD: GDP 26 (O)

Hometown: Portland. Also: San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, New York, Denver, Austin

Track Listing The Previous Show • Forget To Mention • Straight from the Box • Circumspect. I Followed It • Just Take Me As I Am • Kelly In SE • The Unfettered Idealist • The Lover’s Snatch • My Conviction • I Was Buoyant • Setting Sun Turns Blue

NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

STREET DATE NOVEMBER 6, 2007

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Overview “This science-fiction flavored B-movie soundtrack material summons the shrieks of malfunctioning machinery and echoes the angst of tortured carnival workers crying out into the void … morphing from bizarre to sad.” — Punk Planet

Human Host The Halloween Tree Genre: Alt Rock Label: Fall Records CD: FLL 20 Price Code: L NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Human Host began in December 2002 in Baltimore. The band’s work is a combination of punk, crunk, psychedelia, folklore, and theatre. Led by Mike Apichella, the creative core of Human Host also includes Rick Weaver, Jeff Duncan, and Josh Marchant in addition to a rotating ensemble of diverse musical and non-musical contributors and collaborators. They have released three CDs: a split with the Baltimore band Fridge A on the Baths of Power label in Summer 2003, a collection of eleven tracks titled Invisible Arteries released by MT6 Records in October 2004, and their third full-length Exploding Demon, released on MT6 in February 2006. Over the past three years, the band has promoted it’s work through seven different tours of the continental US, which have found the members performing in every major American city and region at a wide variety of venues. In fall 2007 Human Host will embark upon their eighth US tour.

Selling Points • Full US tour planned for Fall/Winter 2007.

• Big hometown following! Rated as 2005’s Best Live Band in Baltimore by the City Paper.

• Full press campaign (indie & major). Grassroots blog-focused press campaign.

• Full CMJ and specialty radio campaign.

Key Markets Hometown: Baltimore. Also: New York, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Detroit, Seattle

Track Listing Thunder Moth • Vision Drug • Ghosts & Talking Fire • Underground Rainbow • Out of State • Nocturnal Quadruped • Bathtub Blast • The Realm

Overview “The sound would have you believe he’s being backed by a super group made up of members of Arcade Fire and Grizzly Bear.” — Quick Before It Melts At only twenty-one years old, this is Peter Silberman’s fifth release, though only his second under The Antlers moniker. After moving to Manhattan last year, he set up a cramped, makeshift recording studio in his apartment and set to work on what would become The Antlers’ first proper LP, Uprooted, exploring claustrophobia and sleepwalking against a fuzz-folk backdrop. He spent 2006 performing throughout his new home in support of the album, and in Fall 2006, sprawled his equipment on the floor and set to work on In the Attic of the Universe, a concept EP in which he ups the instrumentation to introduce a full rhythm section, Moog, accordion, piano, and a host of others. The result is a sound that revolves around swelling ambience and climactic explosions The Antlers in the vein of Arcade Fire and Sigur Rós alongside Silberman’s voice, a sort of cross between In the Attic of the Jeff Mangum and Jeff Buckley. Recently, The Antlers expanded into a full band, with Nick Shelestak on guitar, keyboard, and laptop; Justin Stivers on bass and backing vocals; and Michael Genre: Alt Rock Label: Fall Records Lerner on drums. Everybody does handclaps.

CD: FLL 21 Price Code: L Selling Points • Demo version of songs posted online created a buzz among blogs and received a write-up in CMJ. • US tour planned for Fall/Winter 2007.

NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA • Has received a lot of good press from NYC blogs, including Brooklyn Vegan.

• Full press campaign (indie & major). Grassroots blog-focused press campaign.

• Full CMJ and specialty radio campaign.

Key Markets Hometown: New York. Also: Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, Seattle, Detroit, San Francisco

Track Listing In the Attic • Look! • On the Roof • Shh! • The Universe Is Going To Catch You • The Carrying Arms • In the Snow • Stairs to the Attic 26

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Universe

NAIL WELCOMES SOLITAIRE RECORDS TO ITS ROSTER Founded in 2000, Solitaire Records stormed the scene releasing records by some of the best and brightest of the Midwest free jazz and improvised music world. After a three-year hiatus, Solitaire is back and is branching out into the realms of indie rock and beyond. Solitaire comes to NAIL via No Karma.

Overview “The band sounds like a cross between Chicago post-rock, the best Galaxie 500 material, and the hope of a better future … these guys’ll rock your house with just over an hour’s worth of the sweetest, most hummable pop this side of perfection.” — Pitchfork After almost ten years since their formation and seven years since their last full-length release, The Buddyrevelles have emerged from the shadows with a carefully crafted album full of driving rhythms, subversive melodies, and thoughtful songs about life, death, love, and the pursuit of middleaged happiness. Don’t Quit represents the refinement and subsequent augmentation of a band that has been under the radar for a bit too long.

Selling Points • Former Pitchfork favorites (September/November received a 9.1 rating, American Matador received an 8.0). This is their first full-length album in seven years!

• Features members of Chicago-based Sunday Runners.

• Recorded at Smart Studios in Madison and Erie Sounds in Chicago.

• Fanatic Promotion will handle press and radio promotion.

• Machine Records will handle licensing for TV and commercial applications.

• Online & print ads will be scheduled for many indie-friendly mags.

Key Markets

The Buddyrevelles Don’t Quit Genre: Alt Rock Label: Solitaire Records CD: SLT 6 Price Code: O NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Hometown: Chicago. Also: Milwaukee, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Madison

Track Listing Verrill Luck • Stuffed with Proverbs • Moods of… • The Best is Ready to Begin • The Foreigner • I Dream of Rodney • Aggravated Robbery • The Way of Enchanted Falls • Greatest Romantic • Tradition Calls

Overview “A cross between the spazztastic Transformer Lootbag, an aggro Polvo, and Haymarket Riot … a blast.” — Copper Press

Push Pull 3 Genre: Alt Rock Label: Joyful Noise CD: JNR 19 Price Code: H NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

In a universe of infinite bounds, a band of Mikes (Bridavsky, Hoggatt, Notaro) had the sheer talent and purpose of finding the non-existent edge. This Bloomington three-piece sticks out like a sore thumb in a world of binary song structures and stale, uninspired musical vision. Immediate sounds and complete obliviousness to hipster rock simultaneously offend, seduce, repel, and violate the music snobs of our time. Imagine Cream’s pop structures arranged for the Mahavishnu Orchestra, probing areas untouched by The Wipers, King Crimson, Big Star, or Shellac.

Prepare for a space walk or the 1918 flu: hosts, humans, books, films, love, sex, fire, power, and water are all developed into mantras fused within voice, electricity, and air particles. The sonics become tightly wedged between a rock and the roll. Fresh and piping hot, but hard and compact, the direct and spastic onslaught descending from contemporaries thirty years previous leaves room for modern rock absurdity. For better or worse, the band looks to no one else for approval. This Indiana trinity is elemental; the members dig deeper and Push-Pull harder. They say, “Hey, let’s just do this!” We here at Joyful Noise say, “Thank Yahweh.”

Selling Points • Mastered by Bob Weston (Shellac, Rodan, Sebadoh).

• Recently completed a tour with Austria’s Valina (54˚40’ or Fight!).

• East Coast and Midwest tour in November 2007.

• Massive press and radio campaign by Joyful Noise.

• MySpace and e-media promotion.

• Ads with Verbicide, Modern Fix, Copper Press, Amplifier, The New Scheme, Nuvo, and many more.

Key Markets Hometown: Bloomington. Also: Indianapolis, Chicago, Louisville, New York, Detroit

Track Listing Brain Fever • Sandford Eubanks • You Are Dead • Indiana • Mike and Bob • Union Songs STREET DATE NOVEMBER 6, 2007

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Overview Standard Recording Co. is proud to release its first Christmas album! Featuring twelve tracks from Standard artists and friends, A Very Standard Christmas is anything but. Instead, it is a collection of Christmas songs that appeals equally to the holiday sentimentalist and anti-consumerist.

A Very Standard Christmas contains nine original songs in addition to two covers: Big Star’s “Jesus Christ” (done by Everything, Now! and Elephant Micah) and Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas (Is You)” (performed by BIGBIGcar).

Selling Points

Various Artists A Very Standard Christmas Genre: Alt Rock/Holiday Label: Standard Recording Co. CD: STD 1033 Price Code: N NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

• A Christmas-themed album from the artists and friends of Standard Recording Co. • Features an amazing reinterpretation of Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas (Is You)” by BIGBIGcar.

• Radio focus on college and high school stations in the Great Lakes region.

• National specialty radio campaign.

Key Markets Hometown: Indianapolis. Also: Fort Wayne, Chicago, Madison, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Nashville, Louisville, Lexington, Ann Arbor, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Toledo, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Cincinnati, Denver, Boulder

Track Listing BIGBIGCar: All I Want for Christmas (Is You) • Everything, Now!: Jesus Christ/Nuclear War • Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band: Plasma for Christmas • Arrah and The Ferns: Merry Christmas, Not X-mas • Elephant Micah: Jesus Christ • This Story: Themes From Christmas • More Animals of the Arctic: I Tell Lies • Red Queen Hypothesis: Crock Pot Barbeque • Dean Plays Hardball: Little Retail Boy • Everthus the Deadbeats: Deadbeat Christmas • Chad Serhal: When the First Snow Comes • Harley Poe: It’s Christmas Time Again

Red Queen Hypothesis Dr. Roll Call

BIGBIGcar & Grampall Jookabox Grab, Grab, Grabe, Grab

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Standard Recording Co. 7”: STD 1039 Price Code: D

Genre: Avant Rock Label: Standard Recording Co. 7”: STD 1038 Price Code: D

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Overview

Overview

Right on the heels of Contorted in Deep Space, Red Queen Hypothesis releases a follow up 7”! Dr. Roll Call features a completely re-worked version of “Underlines” plus two completely new tracks, all recorded by Tyler Watkins from Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos. The limited edition Dr. Roll Call 7” comes packaged in a letterpress jacket and includes a code that allows the purchaser to download a high-quality digital version of the 7” directly from the Standard Recording Co. website.

Two of Indiana’s premiere labels, Joyful Noise and Standard Recording Co., have teamed up to release the final composition from BIGBIGcar alongside work from Grampall Jookabox, Indianapolis’s newest offering to the world. This limited edition 7” split comes packaged in a letterpress jacket and includes a code that allows the purchaser to download a high-quality digital version of the split directly from the Standard Recording Co. website.

Selling Points • Packaged with unique code and instructions for superior quality digital download of all tracks directly from label’s website.

• Letterpress packaging.

• Radio focus on college and high school stations that play vinyl.

• Focus on internet promotion through LastFM and IODA Promonet.

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Selling Points • Packaged with unique code and instructions for superior quality digital download of all tracks directly from label’s website.

• Letterpress packaging.

• Radio focus on college and high school stations that play vinyl.

• Focus on internet promotion through LastFM and IODA Promonet.

The Soulshake Express Heavy Music

Apple of Dischord You’re Not the Answer

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Beatville Records CD: BVR 1027 Price Code: M

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Engineer Records CD: ENG 90 Price Code: N

NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Overview

Overview

The debut full-length release from Sweden’s latest musical export The Soulshake Express! Drawing on influences as diverse as MC5, Deep Purple, Wolfmother, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, these retro rockers infuse their grooves with thundering guitars and a swirling organ. Encompassing all aspects of a great rock record, Heavy Music is sure to please. Having just signed to French label Bad Reputation, the band continues its assault on Europe and is ready to storm the US shores.

Apple of Discord couples winding indie rock guitars with artful dynamic shifts and heartfelt vocals. Lyrically, songwriter James Cuartero mines the stories and experiences of the people in his life: a perspective that has provided plenty of inspiration since Apple of Discord first formed in 1996. The group’s sound has thrived for over a decade, albeit not without a few member changes, and thus Apple of Discord remains an active member of southern New Jersey’s dynamic D.I.Y. scene. The band will tour strategically in 2007 and 2008 to support the release of You’re Not the Answer.

Selling Points • Just finished a string of festival dates in Europe.

• Service to relevant college & specialty radio as well as press and media outlets.

• Digital download and MySpace campaign.

• Video for “Perfect Combination” will be serviced to relevant video outlets.

• Ads with Razorcake, MRR, and more.

Selling Points • RIYL: Death Cab For Cutie, American Music Club, Penfold, Ted Leo. • Ads, interviews, and reviews in most alt rock and punk mags in North America.

• Radio airplay at college and indie stations.

Overview “Detroit indie rocker Fred Thomas recast Brill Building pop the way his Motor City ’80s contemporaries revised ’60s garage rock—lo-fi, but lovingly crafted.” — SPIN, Band to Watch

Fred Thomas Flood Genre: Alt Rock Label: Magic Marker Records CD: MMK 44 Price Code: O NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

STREET DATE NOVEMBER 20, 2007

Though more renown for the work he’s done with his band Saturday Looks Good To Me, Michigan insomniac Fred Thomas has been slowly chiseling out a solo career for the last five years by way of living room tours, awkward opening spots, and late-night CD burning marathons.

Regardless of scale, the scope of his work makes it hands-down the best—eleven songs played almost entirely by Thomas, with some friends and neighbors helping out. A step away from the ultra-bubblegum glitter of SLGTM, but still rooted in the magic of the pop song, the music on Flood is heartbreakingly serious, ridiculously personal, and will stick in your head all day. Akin to the hyper-wordy, spiritual side of Neutral Milk Hotel or the experimental lo-fidelity alchemy of The Animal Collective, these songs clatter and shake with hope and pain, always on the verge of falling into themselves, coming out of a two-minute pop song into a fuzz explosion or a five-minute drum circle. The album is strong and deliberate, honing years of four-track sonnets to bring this special breed of basement heartstring pop music into a new, bold place.

Selling Points • Fred Thomas is the lead member of popular band Saturday Looks Good To Me. • Tour will follow album release.

• Full radio mailing and follow up by Vitriol Promotion.

• Full press mailing and follow up in-house.

• Ads with Big Takeover, Magnet, Insound, and Pitchfork.

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

Track Listing Flood • Snow Bight • No Money • Little Songs • No, Thank You! • At the Start of the Sun • There Was a Flood • Re-Dream • Ocean Of • Sunburn Peel • Last One

STREET DATE NOVEMBER 6 & 20, 2007

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Steve Lehman Quintet On Meaning Genre: Jazz Label: Pi Recordings CD: PIE 25 Price Code: Q NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Steve Lehman: alto saxophone Jonathan Finlayson: trumpet Chris Dingman: vibraphone Drew Gress: bass Tyshawn Sorey: drums

Overview

Pi Recordings is pleased to announce the release of On Meaning, the highly anticipated new recording from Steve Lehman’s critically acclaimed quintet. Widely regarded as one of today’s bracingly original young composers, Lehman combines groove-oriented musical content with highly contrapuntal, asymmetrical, and non-repetitive structural devices. Imagining his music in this way, Lehman creates elaborate formal works that remain rooted in the physicality of live performance and the visceral nature of urban rhythm. Each of On Meaning’s eight compositions addresses the challenge of creating fresh environments for modern improvisers and advances a unique and meticulously crafted vision of compositional form, harmony, rhythm, and orchestration. Throughout the disc, Lehman’s cutting-edge compositional voice is brought to life by his remarkable quintet, featuring performer/improvisers who represent the absolute stateof-the-art on their respective instruments. Lehman’s own performance, on alto saxophone, bristles with the unique combination of explosiveness and precision that has been his trademark since he exploded onto New York’s creative music scene in 2004. Much like the abstract and darkly compelling compositions of On Meaning, Lehman’s work as a saxophonist—combining a highly advanced harmonic language, microtonal playing, extended techniques, and a deeply rooted rhythmic sense—positions him, at twenty-eight, as one of the most significant voices to emerge in creative music in recent memory.

Press Quotes “One of the most exciting saxophone voices on the current scene.” — The Wire “It is difficult to think of another musician in Lehman’s age group (or a generation ahead) that is making music at this level.”

— Signal To Noise “Bracing and fiercely imagined.” — New York Times

Selling Points • Features two members of Steve Coleman’s current working band: Jonathan Finlayson and Tyshawn Sorey.

• Down Beat named Steve Lehman a Rising Star on Alto Saxophone for two consecutive years.

• Pi Recordings will send out a full press mailing to all relevant magazines and freelance journalists, and a full radio mailing to all relevant radio stations including CMJ and NPR stations.

• JazzClinic Media will specifically target music websites, blogs, and podcasts.

• Ads with Down Beat, JazzTimes, Magnet, and The Wire.

Key Markets Hometown: New York. Also: Brooklyn, Middletown, Boston, Santa Fe, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Chicago, Washington DC

Track Listing Analog Moment • Open Music • Haiku d’Etat Transcription • Curse Fraction • Check This Out • On Meaning • Great Plains of Algiers • Process ALSO AVAILABLE

Steve Lehman

Fieldwork

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Demian As Posthuman

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Simulated Progress

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STREET DATE NOVEMBER 20, 2007

Overview “The Fathoms delight with reverb-drenched Fender guitars and moody sax solos.” — Washington Post

The Fathoms Fathom This!

Genre: Alt Rock/Surf Label: Musick Recordings CD: MSR 29 Price Code: Q NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

It’s time once again to quiver and shake with the East Coast kings of surf ‘n’ stomp, as The Fathoms return with their first album in almost ten years! Known to many as one of the best modern surf bands in the world, The Fathoms take the classic 1960s surf sound (think The Astronauts) and infuse it with early UK beat (think The Shadows), rockabilly (think Johnny Burnette & His Rock ‘n’ Roll Trio), fuzz-garage (think Davie Allan & The Arrows), and even a bit of ’50s Latin rock (think Ritchie Valens’ early instro sides). Coming from Boston, a city known more for clam chowder than for “hangin’ ten,” the group is the brainchild of guitarist Frankie “Crankie” Blandino, whose infectious guitar picking is simply amazing with its wet-reverb tones and southern-fried twang. Blandino is joined by the rest of The Fathoms, who are all musicians of the highest caliber: Jerry Miller on rhythm guitar, Paul Tomasello on bass, Doug Hinman on drums, and the band’s secret weapon: Dave Sholl on saxophone. Sholl’s distinctive sleazy sax gives the band a layer of R&B that not only sets it apart from the run-of-the-mill surf groups, but also makes it the most authentic-sounding band in the genre. You’ll swear it’s the summer of 1963 all over again!

Selling Points • The Fathoms’ first album in almost ten years!

• Goldmine lists The Fathoms as one of the Top 40 Best Surf Bands of All Time.

• Comprehensive press campaign directed at both national and regional publications.

• Comprehensive radio campaign directed at college stations and specialty shows.

• MySpace and online blitz.

• Ads with Big Takeover, Amplifier, MRR, Carbon 14, Dagger, The Continental, and more.

Key Markets Hometown: Boston. Also: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Washington DC, New York, Cleveland, Chicago, Atlanta, Nashville, Austin, Seattle, Vancouver, Toronto

Track Listing Fathom This! • Aqua Beat • She’s the One • The Palomino • Castle Island Dream • Dagger Bones • Dark Secret • Leap Froggin’ • Mimi’s Theme • Midway A-Go-Go • Panito • Pony Expresso • Rat Bike • Tail Waggin’

MGR Wavering on the Cresting Heft

Maninkari Le Diable Avec Ses Chevaux Genre: Avant Rock/ Experimental Label: Conspiracy Records 2XCD: CNS 57 Price Code: 2I

Genre: Avant Rock/Ambient Label: Conspiracy Records CD: CNS 56 Price Code: Q

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Overview

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MGR guitarist Mike Gallagher—of renowned dirge architects ISIS—unveils a compendium of sparse ruminations culled from years of underground musical experience. Gallagher has developed a style characterized by dense, sustained textures coupled with a penchant for the subtle melodicism associated with the postSabbath riff. MGR (an acronym for Mustard Gas and Roses, which Gallagher borrowed from a line of Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five), is an emotionally charged amalgamation of sounds that, much to its credit, refuses to fit neatly into any particular category.

Selling Points • Vinyl version limited to 500 copies.

• Mike Gallagher, who plays guitar in ISIS, has released two records as MGR on Neurot: Nova Lux and Impromptu (feat.

David Scott Stone).

• US promotion campaign by Speakeasy PR.

Overview Maninkari’s’ first full release is no less then a gorgeous soft cacophony of epic post rock drift and minimal jazzy shuffle. Using light tribal percussion clouds and swirling melodies, songs subtly and dynamically build, flow, and spiral. Maninkari adds more textures and tonalities with various Middle Eastern instruments— like cymbalom and santoor—resulting in adventurous, exploratory new soundscapes. This is truly something unforeseen and thoroughly special!

Selling Points • First Maninkari CD, released in September of this year, featured remixes by Justin Broadrick of Jesu and Robin Rimbaud of Scanner.

• Maninkari’s previous band, Bathyscaphe, got its start doing soundtrack work for film directors such as Lionel Delplanque, Georges Zsiga, and Dan Salzmann.

STREET DATE NOVEMBER 20, 2007

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“The Buda label’s Ethiopiques reissues prove that this 3,000-year-old civilization has much more to offer than bad news.” — Austin Chronicle

Overview Alèmayèhu Eshèté is no less than one of the great voices of the heyday of modern Ethiopian music—the Swinging Sixties that, in Ethiopia, went on until the fall of Emperor Haile Sellassie I in 1974. On par with Tlahoun Gèssèssè or Mahmoud Ahmed, Eshèté is a star at the top of the constellation that once lit up the wild nights in Addis Ababa.

Alèmayèhu Eshèté Ethiopiques 22: More Vintage!

Genre: Alt World Label: Buda Records CD: BUD 860144 Price Code: Q

Selling Points • Thirty-two-page booklet features notes in English and French, photos, and more.

• Music from this wonderful series on under-documented African pop music has received enthusiastic acclaim from NPR, WNYC, Pitchfork, All About Jazz, All Music Guide, Dusted, and many more.

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Overview Much like the bamboo plants that dominate Japan’s landscape, Shuta Hasunuma’s piano work on his new album OK Bamboo has an enduring, simple elegance. OK Bamboo’s title and compositions are the result of Hasunuma’s interest in the ancient relationship between Japan and bamboo. Each track flits and twitters, growing and changing without warning. The result is a collection of enchantingly beautiful compositions full of meticulous details. This perfectly executed collage of digital and organic sounds immediately feels familiar and intimate, as it demands your attention.

Selling Points • RIYL: Ryuichi Sakamoto, Fennesz, The Books, Colleen, Eluvium.

• Hasunuma’s first record received many great reviews from publications including Fake Jazz and Textura.

• Radio promotion through AAM. • Full national press campaign will be handled in-house by Western Vinyl.

• Ads with Pitchfork, The Wire, and Signal To Noise.

Shuta Hasunuma OK Bamboo Genre: Electronica/ Experimental Label: Western Vinyl CD: WVR 46 Price Code: M NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview Two Point Discrimination marks Goldmund’s (a.k.a. Keith Kenniff) third release after his highly praised debut Corduroy Road. Part of Western Vinyl’s Portrait Series, this collection features eleven short pieces for solo piano, focusing on the sensation of touch and its relationship to sound. With emphasis on restraint and space, at times almost crossing into the inaudible, Kenniff’s focus is not only on the sounds that are presented to the listener in an auditory environment, but how those sounds are manifest physically. Such detail is brought out by the close micing of the piano, so as to bring the listener right up to the hammers as they strike the strings in the spirit of composers such as Howard Skempton and Morton Feldman.

Selling Points

Goldmund • Goldmund’s debut Corduroy Road received massive critical acclaim and continues to sell well throughout Two Point Discrimination the US and Europe.

Genre: Avant Rock/ Experimental Label: Western Vinyl CD: WVR 48 Price Code: M

• Type Records will release the second Goldmund full-length in early 2008.

• Will tour in late 2007 and early 2008.

• Radio promotion through AAM. • Full national press campaign will be handled in-house by Western Vinyl.

• Ads with Pitchfork, The Wire, and Signal To Noise.

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STREET DATE NOVEMBER 20, 2007

Overview Christina Kubisch is a first generation sound artist of the highest order. She may now be most famously known for her Electrical Walks, which she started in 1981. Invisible/Inaubible: 5 Electrical Walks is her first collection of compositions utilizing material recorded during Electrical Walks, public walks with custom-made sensitive wireless headphones by which aboveground and underground electromagnetic fields are detected, amplified, and made audible. The transmission of sound is accomplished by a built-in set of induction coils that respond to the electromagnetic waves in our environment. The palette of these noises, their timbre, and their volume vary from site to site and country to country. They have one thing in common: they are ubiquitous, even where one would not expect them. Wireless communication systems, anti-theft security devices, surveillance cameras, cell phones, streetcar cables, automated teller machines—all these things create electrical fields that are hidden under cloaks of invisibility, but have incredible presence. Electrical Walks is an invitation to a special kind of investigation of city centers (or other locations). With the magnetic headphones Christina Kubisch and a map of the environs, upon which possible routes and especially interesting electrical fields are Invisible/Inaudible: 5 Electrical marked, the visitor can set off on his own or in a group. The five compositions on this CD are based Walks Genre: Experimental on numerous live recordings of electromagnetic fields, made between 2003 and 2007, in the cities of Birmingham, Chicago, Taipei, Paris, Bremen, Riga, Tokyo, Madrid, London, New York, Berlin and Label: Important Records CD: IPT 167 others. The sounds have not been altered electronically or by other means.

Price Code: P

Selling Points

• Christina Kubisch is most well known for her Electrical Walks, and the source material for these recordings was taken from walks done around the globe.

• NPR’s Weekend Edition recently did a big piece on Kubisch’s Electrical Walks.

• Ads with The Wire.

• Large promotional mailing by Important Records.

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Track Listing Homage With Minimal Disinformation • E-Legend II • Gates • Atocha • Night Shift

Overview “The most consistently rewarding of the first-generation sound-artists.” — Keith Fullerton Whitman

Christina Kubisch Night Flights Genre: Experimental Label: Important Records CD: IPT 168 Price Code: P NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Christina Kubisch belongs to the first generation of sound artists. Trained as a composer, she studied painting, music (flute and composition), and electronics in Hamburg, Graz, Zürich, and Milan, where she graduated. Her work can be described as the “synthesis of arts”—the discovery of acoustic space and the dimension of time in the visual arts on the one hand, and a redefinition of relationships between material and form on the other. Kubisch is best known for artistically and innovatively using techniques such as magnetic induction and ultraviolet light to create and realize her work. Since the 1970s, Kubisch has been experimenting with electromagnetic induction and was one of the first to use this method for creating sound installations. Some of her most well-known works include the Electrical Walks series, where audience members wear magnetic headphones, specially designed by Kubisch, with built-in coils that respond to electrical fields in the environment. Tapping into the electrical fields that result from light systems, anti-theft security devices, surveillance cameras, cell phones, computers, antennae, automated teller machines, and other electric devices, she uses these visible sources to create unique and new sensory environmental experiences.

Selling Points • As a first generation sound artist, Christina Kubisch’s historical relevance and influence is immeasurable.

• Kubisch has shown work at major international exhibitions and festivals (Venice Benniale, documenta 8, Kassel, Ars Electronica, Linz, Sydney Benniale, Sonar, Barcelona, and Sonic Boom, London). She has received numerous grants and awards, and has released music on Cramps Records and Edition RZ.

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

Track Listing The Cat’s Dream • Night Flights • Circles STREET DATE NOVEMBER 20, 2007

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Overview “There’s something both timeless and very new about the masses of controlled and overdubbed noise laid down by this unit; it’s loud and glorious and it somehow seems to actually have a physical glow when it’s coming out of stereo speakers, like the atmosphere of 1972 vintage space rock, the sludge-of-the-earth amptones of Black Sabbath, and the endless buzzing hum of The Theater of Eternal Music all rolled into one.” — Perfect Sound Forever

Birchville Cat Motel Seventh Ruined Hex Genre: Experimental Label: Important Records CD: IPT 169 Price Code: P NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

A further step in Birchville Cat Motel’s ruminations on time-space distortion, featuring the additional mystikal talents of fellow gravity destroyer Matthew Bower (Hototogisu/Sunroof!).

Seventh Ruined Hex presents like a lonesome planet occasionally struck with super-sized fragments of space detritus, but for the most part just haning around, spinning on its axis, and doing fuck-all. Like the deepest love, it is warm yet tenuous, filled with the ever-present potential for loss and brutality.

More in line with the estranged love-tangle of the Birchville classic Chi Vampires than the most recent befuddling hyperspace rock-overload of recent albums like Our Love Will Destroy the World and Birds Call Home Their Dead.

Selling Points • Birchville Cat Motel has toured extensively in the US, UK, Scandinavia, France, Germany, Australia, Japan, and New Zealand.

• Promotional mailing by Important Records.

• Ads with The Wire.

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

Track Listing Ghastly Star • Werewolf Shorn of Its Hell • Iron Goddess O’Mercy • Seventh Ruined Hex • Bee

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 CD reissue of the third installment in the Cosmic Debris split art/LP series set up by Maurizio & Roberto Opalio, a.k.a. My Cat Is An Alien, on Opax Records. Volume three sees the two space brothers from Torino alongside Japanese cult musician and dark shaman Keiji Haino. Imagine a cosmic bomb exploding in your brain, and you’ll have an approximate idea of this collaborative release. With two long tracks recorded during live performances in their hometowns, MCIAA and Haino conspire to offer you totally uncompromising music. Haino’s track is one of the highlights of his long career, and MCIAA’s track is one of the brothers’ most ass-kicking for sure.

Selling Points • Comes in a special textured cardboard digi-sleeve.

• Keiji Haino’s track recorded live in November 2005 at Koenji Show Boat.

• The five-volume Cosmic Debris series features My Cat Is An Alien alongside Text Of Light, Steve Roden, Keiji Haino, Mats Gustafsson, and Loren Connors.

• Each CD cover reproduces an acrylic painting created by Roberto Opalio for the original vinyl edition on Opax Records.

• Service to All Music Guide as well as radio stations and magazines in the US. • Ads with The Wire and Dream.

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

Track Listing Keiji Haino: Whither goes it? That which canst not but be described As my prayer, Nowhere held in common, Lunatic, unknowable • My Cat Is An Alien: Everything crashes like cosmic debris

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My Cat Is An Alien & Keiji Haino Cosmic Debris Vol. III Genre: Avant Rock Label: A Silent Place CD: SPL 28 Price Code: Q NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview “Fabio Orsi structures a piece of crystalline beauty, embedding the themes of collected worldwide folk music beneath a mire of harmony and emotion.” — Boomkat In only two years, Fabio Orsi has become one of the most promising and representative voices of the entire Italian independent scene. This began with the excellent vinyl LP Osci (SmallVoices, 2005) and was followed by the famous split CD For Alan Lomax (A Silent Place, 2006) with Italian duo My Cat Is An Alien, as well as a collaboration with Gianluca Becuzzi called Muddy Speaking Ghosts Through My Machines (A Silent Place, 2006). Today, as final confirmation of his talent, A Silent Place is proud to present this new Fabio Orsi solo venture. Find Electronica is a wonderful album structured as a long drone/ambient suite divided in two portions that are frames of the articulated central track. Abstract and emotional, deep and dreamy, Find Electronica is a great album and an essential step in Orsi’s ascending career.

Selling Points • Released in an elegant cardboard digi-sleeve.

• Service to All Music Guide as well as radio stations and magazines in the US. • Ads with The Wire and Dream.

Key Markets

Fabio Orsi Find Electronica Genre: Avant Rock Label: A Silent Place CD: SPL 21 Price Code: Q NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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

Track Listing Find Electronica (Part 1) • Find Electronica (Part 2) • Find Electronica (Part 3)

Overview “Brad Rose’s atmospheric instrumentals get more spacious and naturalistic as well as the usual delayed guitar sprays … lovely.” — Boa Melody Bar The North Sea changes course on Archaic Spines, opting to focus solely on a single instrument rather than an entire arsenal. Archaic Spines is, for all intents and purposes, composed and improvised entirely on an Irish bouzouki, though played with a certain degree of Indian and Middle Eastern influence.

Selling Points

The North Sea Archaic Spines Genre: Avant Rock Label: A Silent Place CD: SPL 20 Price Code: Q NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

• The North Sea is the solo project of Digitalis Industries main man Brad Rose.

• CD comes packaged in an elegant cardboard digi-sleeve.

• Limited to 500 copies.

• Service to All Music Guide as well as radio stations and magazines in the US. • Ads with The Wire and Dream.

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

Track Listing Splendor • Oh Velveteen • Silent Order of the Shrouded Tombs • We Salute the Sand-Blasted Turrets • The Feather’d King, the Bluejay Queen

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Overview “Keith Wood of Hush Arbors works with Brad Rose in this band and it sits at their mid-point, halfway between Keith’s more song-based approach and Brad’s atmospheric instrumentals … A feeling of warm enclosure in the pink skies of autumn dusk settles in The Golden Oaks’ Autumn Testament. A perfect blend of folk-inspired guitar, sighing atmospheres, and almost-heard sung voices.” — The Unbroken Circle

The Golden Oaks Autumn Testament Genre: Avant Rock Label: A Silent Place CD: SPL 17 Price Code: Q NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Comprised of Brad Rose (The North Sea) and Keith Wood (Hush Arbors), The Golden Oaks features road show magicians springing forth candles from wooded sanctuaries. Composed via the postal system, Autumn Testament is a hymn to the season of red, gold, and orange. A canopy of leaves shelters the proceedings from the fog that threatens to obscure these sounds. This is a glorious combination of organic grace, blessed by the forests of past centuries and those still in their infant stages. The trees will put tears in your eyes!

Selling Points • The Golden Oaks are Brad Rose and Keith Wood.

• Autumn Testament was recorded in Tulsa and Asheville at various points in late 2004, then compiled and composed via the US Postal Service.

• Service to All Music Guide as well as radio stations and magazines in the US. • Ads with The Wire and Dream.

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

Track Listing Autumn Testament • Candles Dangling From Boxwood Branches • Arise! Arise! • Hushed By Bells • A Fog Has Lifted

Overview Black Magic Disco is a new all-star band featuring Tom Greenwood (Jackie-O Motherfucker), Maurizio & Roberto Opalio (My Cat Is An Alien), and Ramona Ponzini (Painting Petals On Planet Ghost, Praxinoscope). The project was born when Greenwood invited the Opalio brothers and Ponzini to perform with him for two months, touring throughout Europe, in May/June 2005. As one can imagine, the result was killer. The music that came out of these live performances was totally explosive, combining Ponzini’s Japanese vocals and hypnotic chimes with Greenwood’s psych-blues guitar attitude and wild turntablism, all layered over MCIAA’s alien cosmic flux of electric guitars, space toys, and percussion. This debut CD represents a unique chance to experience almost eighty minutes of that pure, magical live action, divided into four long tracks taken from the original live recordings. Black Magic Disco’s logo comes from the pencil of Roberto Opalio; the gatefold jacket CD artwork, curated by MCIAA, contains band photos taken during the live performances.

Selling Points • Vinyl version of the CD released by Important Records in Summer 2007.

• Black Magic Disco is an all-star band featuring Tom Greenwood (Jackie-O Motherfucker), Maurizio & Roberto Opalio (My Cat Is An Alien), and Ramona Ponzini (Painting Petals On Planet Ghost, Praxinoscope).

• Packaged in a gorgeous gatefold cover; includes a poster.

• Service to All Music Guide as well as radio stations and magazines in the US. • Ads with The Wire and Dream.

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

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Black Magic Disco Black Magic Disco Genre: Avant Rock/Psych Label: A Silent Place 2XLP: SPL 27 Price Code: 2I NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Get nailed... on the road Living Legends

Blitzen Trapper

CD: LGM 1 Price Code: O UPC: 788377109228 10/4/07 San Luis Obispo, CA – Downtown Brewing Co. 10/5/07 Bakersfield, CA – The Dome 10/6/07 Santa Cruz, CA – The Catalyst 10/8/07 Bend, OR – Midtown Ballroom 10/9/07 Bellingham, WA – Nightlight 10/10/07 Boise, ID – Venue 10/11/07 Salt Lake City, UT – In the Venue 10/12/07 Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre 10/13/07 Aspen, CO – Belly Up 10/15/07 Milwaukee, WI – Pabst Theater 10/16/07 Madison, WI – Barrymore Theatre

LP: LKC 4 Price Code: M UPC: 751937302711 10/4/07 Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian 10/5/07 Boston, MA – Middle East Downstairs 10/6/07 Baltimore, MD – Sonar 10/7/07 Washington, DC – Rock and Roll Hotel 10/8/07 Chapel Hill, NC – Local 506 10/9/07 Atlanta, GA – Drunken Unicorn 10/10/07 New Orleans, LA – The Parish 10/12/07 Beaumont, TX – The Vortex 10/13/07 Austin, TX – Mohawk 10/15/07 Tucson, AZ – Solar Culture 10/17/07 San Diego, CA – The Casbah 10/18/07 Los Angeles, CA – El Rey

Almost Famous [Reissue+Bonus Tracks]

Laura Veirs Carbon Glacier

LP: JLO 64 Price Code: O UPC: 633913014811 * on tour w/ The Decemberists 10/28–29/07 Chicago, IL – Vic Theater 11/1–2/07 New York, NY – Terminal 5 11/3–4/07 Boston, MA – Orpheum 11/6–7/07 Winston-Salem, NC – Millennium Center 11/9–12/07 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club 11/15–16/07 Columbus, OH – Lifestyle Communities Pavilion 11/18–19/07 Milwaukee, WI – Riverside Theater 11/23–26/07 San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore 11/29–30/07 Los Angeles, CA – The Wiltern 12/1–2/07 San Diego, CA – Spreckels Theatre 12/5–7/07 Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom 12/8–9/07 Seattle, WA – Moore Theatre

Fred Thomas Flood

CD: MMK 44 Price Code: O UPC: 678277149922 * w/ Saturday Looks Good To Me 10/4/07 Washington, DC – Black Cat 10/5/07 New York, NY – Blender Theater 10/6/07 Boston, MA – Museum of Fine Arts

Wild Mountain Nation

Steve Lehman Quintet On Meaning

CD: PIE 25 Price Code: Q UPC: 808713002522 10/19/07 Troy, NY – Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 10/24/07 New York, NY – The Stone 12/13/07 New York, NY – The Stone 12/18/07 New York, NY – The Stone

Pato Banton

Never Give In (20th Anniversary Edition) CD: CRS 62 Price Code: M UPC: 788377105121 10/26/07 Fort Pierce, FL – Sunrise Theatre

Billy Martin & John Medeski Mago

CD: AME 26 Price Code: M UPC: 680490102622 * dates for Medeski, Martin & Wood 10/13/07 Phoenix, AZ – Celebrity Theatre 10/17–18/07 Ft. Lauderdale, FL – Culture Room 10/19/07 Jacksonville, FL – Freebird Live 10/20/07 Clearwater, FL – Clearwater Jazz Holiday

His Name Is Alive

Sweet Earth Flower: A Tribute to Marion Brown CD: HGH 14 Price Code: P UPC: 642623501429 10/19/07 New York, NY – CMJ 10/23/07 Milwaukee, WI – Shank Hall 10/25/07 Chicago, IL – Schuba’s 10/26/07 Minneapolis, MN – 400 Bar 11/27/07 Boston, MA – Brainwashed Festival

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Epic Fits

CD: GRA 89 Price Code: M UPC: 647216608929 10/9/07 Boston, MA – O’Brien’s 10/10/07 Providence, RI – AS220 10/11/07 Poughkeepsie, NY – Vassar College 10/12/07 Annandale-on-Hudson, NY – Bard College 10/13/07 Asbury Park, NJ – Asbury Lanes 10/14/07 Mystic, CT – Mystic German Club 10/17/07 Bethlehem, PA – Unitarian Universalist 10/18–20/07 New York, NY – CMJ Music Marathon 10/21/07 Philadelphia, PA – Johnny Brenda’s 10/22/07 Washington DC – Civilian Art Space 10/23/07 Pittsburgh, PA – Garfield Artworks 10/24/07 Cleveland, OH – Parish Hall

Polly Panic Painkiller

CD: GDP 25 Price Code: O UPC: 619981205924 10/5/07 Birmingham, AL – Base Camp 10/10/07 Memphis, TN – Rally Point 10/11/07 Nashville, TN – Springwater 10/12/07 Chattanooga, TN – JJ’s Bohemia 10/20/07 St/ Louis, MO – 2 Cent Plain 10/23/07 Tulsa, OK – Mooch and Burn 10/24/07 Amarillo, TX – E.O.S

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Almost Famous [Reissue+Bonus Tracks]

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Living Legends

Legendary Music Vol. 1

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Living Legends

Crappy Old Shit

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Creative Differences

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His Name Is Alive

Sweet Earth Flower: A Tribute to Marion Brown

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Normal Love

Normal Love 2007

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Ayler, Albert

Holy Ghost: Rare and Unissued Recordings (1962-70)

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Holiday, Billie

Rare Live Recordings 1935-1959

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Young, Lester

Live at Birdland

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Greene, Burton

Bloom in the Commune

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Carbonara, Eric

Exodus Bulldorandius

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Mangan, Dan

Postcards and Daydreaming

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Hot Little Rocket

How To Lose Everything

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Zookeeper

Becoming All Things

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Alex Dupree and the Trapdoor Band

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Alex Dupree and the Trapdoor Band

Las Meridanzas

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Lightning

1968-1971

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Various Artists

Voices from the Siren Nation

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6

751937298526

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Dougher, Sarah

Harper’s Arrow

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Dougher, Sarah

Bluff, The

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Walls Ablaze, The

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