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INSIDE The Unicorns • Nadja • Brazos J. Tillman • Loch Lomond

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Press Quotes “The Unicorns continually and effortlessly sap the drama from rock’s favorite, most maudlin topics, and transform them into simple, charming, light-hearted fun. It’s a big part of what separates them from all those careerist indie rockers getting by on everyday hooks and affected disinterest; even at their goofiest, The Unicorns’ level of comfort with their material—and the obvious confidence that engenders—makes it all seem totally natural and new.” — Pitchfork

Selling Points

The Unicorns Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone? Genre: Alt Rock Label: Alien8 Recordings LP: ALI 41 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Gatefold LP Jacket; Box Lot 10 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

NEW PRICING! Featured Artists Nick Thorburn: drums, synth, keys, percussion, toy piano, echoplex, bass, guitar, recorder, glockenspiel, accordion, vocals, and more Alden Penner: drums, synth, keys, percussion, drum machine, echoplex, bass, guitar, melodian, recorder, glockenspiel, accordion, vocals, and more J’aime “Jamie” Tambour: drums

Track Listing

• New deluxe edition of 1,000 copies in a gatefold jacket pressed on gloriously moody brown vinyl. • Vinyl version has been out of print throughout 2008; this special edition celebrates its sixth pressing. • Over 60,000 units sold! • Band consists of Clue’s Alden Penner and Islands’ Nick Thorburn. • Scored 8.9 in Pitchfork upon original release in 2003. • Small-scale print and electronic media run will accompany this reissue.

Overview Get yourself ready and put your hands together for the “blow-up” sensation of the rest of your lives: The Unicorns have arrived to save you, to let you save them, and to consequently make up the face of modern music. Having blossomed in Montreal, The Unicorns have packed their things and are heading to all the roads in all the world for an unforeseeable amount of time, backing up their reputation as Canada’s most promising band and planet Earth’s next big thing. FACT: The Unicorns have a gift for blending a morbid sense of humor with irresistible pop melodies caked with beautiful vocals employing thoughtful, near-sacred lyrics. FACT: The Unicorns don’t push the envelope—they sign, seal, and deliver their work to the north, south, east, and west in limited edition holographic 3-D! Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone? features 13 tracks deeply rooted in careful songwriting and lo-fi pop experimentalism that screams “fresh,” “incomparable,” “haunting,” “charming,” “sexy,” and “brilliant.”

• I Don’t Wanna Die • Tuff Ghost • Ghost Mountain • Sea Ghost • Jellybones • The Clap • Child Star • Let’s Get Known • I Was Born (A Unicorn) • Tuff Luff • Inoculate the Innocuous • Les Os • Ready To Die

Key Markets Austin, San Francisco, Brooklyn, Seattle, Los Angeles, Boston, Portland

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The Unicorns

Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone? CD: ALI 41 Price Code: O

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STREET DATE NOVEMBER 10, 2009

ALAN LOMAX IN HAITI SELLING POINTS • Produced in collaboration with the estate of Alan Lomax and the Library of Congress. • Each CD represents a different genre of music, all previously unreleased • Original source recordings transferred at the Library of Congress and de-noised using state of the art equipment for a crystal clear timetraveling sound experience. • Includes a hardcover book (over 100 color pages) with notes and photos for each CD, plus an extensive introduction by Haiti expert Gage Averill. • Contains Lomax’s transcribed and annotated Haiti Journal (over 130 pages), with drawings from the original documents as well as a full-sized reproduction of his map of Haiti, including his notes and annotations. • CDs feature author Zora Neale Hurston (Their Eyes Were Watching God) singing children’s songs as well as a disc dedicated to Francilia, a Haitian chanteuse whose voice has never been heard before now. • Features a look into Haitian Voudou through period color film footage. • Promotion through interactive blog TheHaitiBox.blogspot.com, featuring special box set info, items not in the box set, and more. • National campaign by Howlin’ Wuelf PR will hit national & local magazines and public & specialty radio. • BoingBoing.net is producing a “making of,” available on their website and the in-flight Virgin Airlines channel. • A 20-second “movie trailer” produced for the box will be available on YouTube for viral marketing. • Release parties in select major cities around the country.

OVERVIEW From the time that Alan Lomax left his position as head of the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress in 1942 through the end of his long career, he amassed one of the most important collections of ethnographic material in the world. It includes more than 5,000 hours of sound recordings, 400,000 feet of motion picture film, hundreds of photographic prints and negatives, over 120 linear feet of correspondence, field notes, research files, and much more. While recording for the Library of Congress in the 1930s, Lomax made trips to Haiti and the Bahamas. The recordings made in Haiti in 1936–37 provide a window on Haitian expressive culture recorded soon after the departure of the American Marines, while Haiti was in the throes of a nationalist and africentric movement. This groundbreaking production of the story, the sounds, and the sights of the legendary musicologist’s trip to Haiti features 10 CDs, two books containing extensive notes and Lomax’s journal, a replication of the map he used (with added notations), color video footage, and hours of amazing, never-before-heard music that no longer exists on earth!

Various Artists Alan Lomax In Haiti [10 CDs+2 BOOKS] Genre: World/Haiti File Under: Alan Lomax Label: Harte Recordings 10XCD+2XBOOK: HRT 103 Price Code: 10N (SRP $129.99) Box Set; Box Lot 10 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Ludovic Lamothe: piano Alberto Pierre: vocals Louis Forvilice: vocals Baptise Pierre: vocals Loume Freice: violin Zora Neale Hurston: vocals …and hundreds of others! Disc 1: Urban Music Disc 2: Music Under the Arbor: Haiti’s Rustic Troubadour Music Disc 3: Marti Gras Disc 4: Rara Disc 5: Children’s Songs Disc 6: European Son/Romances Disc 7: Francilia Disc 8: Kraze Gato Disc 9: Work Brigades and Worship Disc 10: Zondo Ceremony/Sosyete Workbook

Key Markets New York, Boston, San Francisco, Austin, Chicago

“Alan Lomax was capturing the human spirit in song … The music moves us … not only because the traditions it documents are disappearing, but because it lives and breathes anew each time it’s heard.” — David Greenberger, NPR’s All Things Considered NEW STREET DATE NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Press Quotes “It’s not quite an indie hip-hop Postal Service, nor is it necessarily Ebony and Ivory, but the new collaborative LP from Jewish MC Kosha Dillz and beloved backpack favorite C-Rayz Walz is both a statement of cultural solidarity and creative open-mindedness.” — CMJ

Selling Points

Kosha Dillz Beverly Dillz Genre: Hip-Hop Label: Modular Moods/Shemspeed CD: MMD 48 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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Kosha Dillz & C-Rayz Walz Freestyle vs. Written CD: MMD 41 Price Code: P

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• A completely sample-free album that is already charting on college radio! • Currently on tour with Rza of the Wu Tang Clan. • Producer Belief is known for work with Murs and Wordsworth. • Follow-up to Freestyle vs. Written, featured in SPIN and received four stars from URB. • Publicity campaign will include print media, radio service, viral marketing, and ads with various web outlets.

Overview After two full US tours, numerous appearances with Grammy-nominated Matisyahu, and a collaboration album with C-Rayz Walz, Kosha Dillz finally brings his freshman solo album. Produced entirely by Belief (Murs, Beanie Man, El-P), Beverly Dillz is an uptempo, sample-free introduction to the fast life of the Hollywood underground through an East Coast perspective, sprinkled with a special touch of “kosher” heritage and culture.

Track Listing Doo Doo • LA Ish • Fat Love • Dillywonka • Cellular Phone • Jungle • See What I’m About (Interlude) • Puddles (Feat. Yak Ballz) • Tastes Good • Friends • Bubble Gum Pop • Pray • Kol Ha Kavod Lirkod

Key Markets Hometown: New Jersey. Also: New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Cincinnati, Ann Arbor, Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Dallas, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Kansas City, Chicago, Orlando, Miami, Salt Lake City

Selling Points • Includes guest appearances from industry heavyweights and icons Masta Ace, Dilated Peoples, Saigon, Heltah Skeltah, Inspectah Deck, Wordsworth, R.A. The Rugged Man, and DJ Revolution. • Enlists an A-list roster of producers such as hit-maker J.R. Rotem, The Alchemist, Illmind, Marco Polo, DJ Babu, Shuko, BeanOne, Street Orchestra, and more. • Video for “Brooklyn Bridge” began a viral marketing campaign in August. Will compete in MTVu’s Freshmen Friday contest in the weeks prior to the album’s release. • Print & radio promotion campaigns by Modular Moods. • Full scale print & web ad campaign, including ads with XXL, Murder Dog, and more.

Overview Over the past few years, Bekay has created a loyal cult following in the underground hiphop community. Known for his complex imagery, shock value, and clever wordplay, Bekay has established himself as a controversial figure in the hip-hop game. Hunger Pains, which took several years to complete, enlists several noteworthy guests and producers. From hit maker J.R. Rotem’s cinematic production on “Visions” to the legendary Masta Ace on the DJ Babu-produced summer anthem “Brooklyn Bridge,” Hunger Pains showcases the rare unification of an underground rapper with a major label soundscape.

Track Listing Intro • I Am • Pipe Dreams • Bloodsport • Young • Rapstar (Hunger Pains) • Crazy • Brooklyn Bridge (Skit) • Skemers • Realest That Run It • Pops • The Raw • Visions • I Am (Remix)

Key Markets New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, Miami, Orlando, Phoenix, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Atlanta, Minneapolis, Portland, Las Vegas, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Memphis, Baltimore, Denver, Louisville, Omaha, New Orleans, Pittsburgh 4

STREET DATE NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Bekay Hunger Pains Genre: Hip-Hop Label: Modular Moods/Coalmine CD: MMD 702 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

THE HARMONIC SERIES

A COMPILATION OF MUSICAL WORKS IN JUST INTONATION PRESS QUOTES “Pauline Oliveros has been a figure of the classical and electronic avantgarde for decades … her careers as writer, composer, and performer have been dedicated to the exploration of music as a psychosomatic means of expanding consciousness … Her music is a fine example of eschewing artifice as a means of arriving at richer art: the persistent, undulating mass of sound that she elicits from her accordion brings to mind the image of a raw sine wave—the simplest visual avatar of sound.” — Tiny Mixtapes “A unity of purpose and multi-hued sound that renders an engrossing listening experience.” — Textura (review for Duane Pitre) “The music scrapes and rattles along beautifully, the musicians interacting with sympathy and precision, creating images of lonely marshlands, desolate yet captivating. Abstract voices add another layer to the compositions, wringing yet more emotion from the pieces.” — Terrascape (review for Teresa Wong) “Listening to it, you feel like you are inside some cyclopean subterranean grotto … its bejeweled walls glistening with an alien luster [and] sounding like something that shimmers … iridescent shapes bend conventional pulse-based time and impose their own paradoxical temporality, where constant movement teems within a vast stasis.” — The Wire (review for Ellen Fullman)

Selling Points • A fascinatingly educational compilation including some extremely significant modern composers working within the parameters of an underappreciated tuning system. • Curated by Duane Pitre. • Major promo push by Important Records. • Ads with The Wire.

Overview The Harmonic Series is a compilation of musical works in Just Intonation created by three generations of contemporary composers who utilize this tuning system. The compilation, curated over the span of two years by Duane Pitre, has the goal of educating listeners about the origins and use of Just Intonation as well as portraying the unique beauty of this tonal “color palette,” which is heard by relatively few in the Western world and explored by even fewer. Although all the artists on the compilation work within the avant-garde or experimental genres, each lends something unique to the collection, and each employs a different approach toward how to utilize Just Intonation. Within The Harmonic Series you’ll find an array of instrumentation such as piano, cello, accordion, electronics, guitar, ukelin, saxophone, violin, koto, and more.

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Various Artists The Harmonic Series: A Compilation of Musical Works In Just Intonation Genre: Alt Classical/Experimental Label: Important Records CD: IPT 272 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Featured Artists Ellen Fullman: long string instrument Theresa Wong: cello Greg Davis: computer, electronics Michael Harrison: piano R Keenan Lawler: bowed resonator guitar Pauline Oliveros: accordion Duane Pitre: ukelin Charles Curtis: cello

Track Listing • FULLMAN & WONG: Blue Tunnel Fields • DAVIS: Star Primes (for James Tenney) • HARRISON: Tone Cloud II [from Revelation] • LAWLER: Bowshock • OLIVEROS: The Beauty of Sorrow [excerpt] • PITRE: Comprovisation for Justly Tuned Ukelin No. 1 • WATKINS: Country Western [excerpt] • CURTIS: Stanzas Set Before a Blank Surface

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

Duane Pitre Pilotram Ensemble Organized Pitches Occurring In Time CD: IPT 154 Price Code: P

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Press Quotes “I love [The Hidden Folk]. [Robin is] eliciting moments of minimal and artful gestures that have genuine resonance with mystic love sound. I find it all very gentle yet moving.” — Thurston Moore

Selling Points • New full length from legendary ex-D.N.A./Dark Day/No-Waver Robin Crutchfield. • Has collaborated with Brian Eno, Nina Canal, Tuxedomoon, and Jim Jarmusch. • Promo mailing by Important Records. • Ads with The Wire.

Robin Crutchfield The Hidden Folk Genre: Folk Label: Important Records CD: IPT 274 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Overview Critically acclaimed performance artist Robin Crutchfield moved to New York in the ’70s, only to crossover from art into music with his no-wave band D.N.A., recording tracks for Brian Eno’s historic No New York album. This was followed by Dark Day, a series of collaborations with Nina Canal, Nancy Arlen, Tuxedomoon, Jim Jarmusch, and others. Trading plastic transistors and wires for wood and strings in 2000, he went green, taking up ancient instruments, harps, drums, lyres, and psalteries. He currently pursues and explores acoustic trancelike daydream-scapes of the mysterious and elusive inhabitants of an otherworld most have only experienced through folktale and fable.

Track Listing We Find Our Way In • Conjuring • Zither Madness • Insect Machines • Gnomes Underground • Song For Apollo • The Hollow Oak My Humble Home • Poison Splinter • Winkies Wake Up Call • Mind the Dwarves • Pearl Sorting Pixies • Cricket Thicket • Trolling the Tin Mines • Wood Mallet Knockabout • Rockinghorsefly • Stoke the Bellows Fellows • Faerie Lights • It All Ends Here • A Bowl is a Bell

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Hometown: New York. Also: San Francisco, Boston, Portland

SELLING POINTS • Eleventh volume of a 13-CD series of limited edition albums from the king of noise music. • Ads with The Wire.

OVERVIEW Merzbow’s 13 Japanese Birds is a 13-month series of releases inspired by Olivier Messaien’s Catalogue D’Oiseaux. Begun in January 2009, one volume will be released each month. The 13th and final volume will be released in January 2010. Each will be a one-time pressing of 1,000 copies, with cover art by Jenny Akita. Author, activist, painter, and sound artist Masami Akita has been at the foreground of experimental music for over 25 years. Inspired by psychedelic rock, free jazz, early electronic composition, and the physical arts—especially Kurt Schwitters’ Merzbau—he has created a unique musical language.

TRACK LISTING 13 Japanese Birds Vol. 11

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

Merzbow 13 Japanese Birds Vol. 11 Genre: Experimental Label: Important Records CD: IPT 275 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

STREET DATE NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Press Quotes “Nadja somehow churns out ‘doom metal’ for the post-rock and noise sets … Nadja can be as heavy as the best industrial or doom band you’ve ever heard. Then again, sometimes they sound like they’ve taped a contact mic to some great abyss and let the tape roll with the soft murmurs of souls. That liminal space is perfect and magnetic.” — Pitchfork

Selling Points • Deluxe vinyl issue. • First pressing of 500 copies. • Double LP packaged in a gatefold jacket designed by Seldon Hunt. • Ads with The Wire.

Nadja Thaumogenesis

Overview “One single 62-minute long track—bass, guitar, and drum machine all woven into a slowly undulating soundscape of blissy drone and monstrous pummel … It’s like some Frankensteinian collage of Godflesh, Jesu, Sunn O))), and old Swans. It’s heavy and bleak and doomy, but like Jesu, the sound is imbued with a strange warmth, and emotional mystery, that makes this much more than an exercise in guitar drone. And the sound is not static; it wavers and shifts, the melody subtly changing shape, all without the rhythm ever wavering … Like Merzbow filtered through M83 and played by Philip Jeck, a glorious blast of spectral majesty, radiant and absolutely breathtaking.” — Aquarius Records

Genre: Rock Label: Important Records 2XLP: IPT 273 Price Code: 2P (SRP $31.99) Gatefold LP Jacket; Box Lot 30 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Track Listing Thaumogenesis

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

Selling Points • Deluxe vinyl issue limited to 500 copies. • Features Don Dietrich (Borbetomagus), Ben Hall (Graveyards), and C. Spencer Yeh (Burning Star Core). • Promotional mailing by Important Records. • Ads with The Wire.

Overview

The New Monuments The New Monuments Genre: Jazz/Experimental Label: Important Records LP: IPT 276 Price Code: 2I (SRP $21.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 30 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

At Glasgow’s Instal Fest 2008, at David Keenan’s suggestion, the idea for a trio of Don Dietrich, Ben Hall, and himself was hatched. As the idea for the tour came together, Keenan unfortunately had to step out for personal reasons. C. Spencer Yeh graciously agreed to take his place, and what was originally to be an acoustic Babi Music cover band became the electro-acoustic behemoth The New Monuments. Sharing a common head for so-called “abstract sound” constructions, the members come from related though diverse musical backgrounds. With saxophone, violin, and trapset, they attempt to soundtrack the maiden voyage of a luxury cruise ship constructed solely out of granite cement and ball bearings.

Track Listing All Our Cathedrals Are Unfinished • Ram Ventilators • Village of Empty Nests

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

STREET DATE NOVEMBER 10, 2009

LOCH LOMOND NIGHT BATS

PRESS QUOTES “Portland’s Loch Lomond recalled Sufjan Stevens’ noisemakers, with each member providing a vital piece to a seamless collaboration. The well dressed seven-piece utilized maracas, violins, and even mouth clicks to build a pop orchestra beneath angelic harmonies.” — SPIN “Singer Ritchie Young’s earnest demeanor belies his enormous voice, and the band’s varying instruments flesh out his songs perfectly.” — Ear Farm “Loch Lomond deserves all the accolades they are getting.” — Brooklyn Vegan

Loch Lomond Night Bats Genre: Alt Rock Label: Hush Records CD: HSH 89 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Featured Artists Ritchie Young: vocals, guitar, percussion Scott Macgee: clarinets, percussion, vocals Jade Eckler: vocals Dave Depper: bass, guitar, keys, vocals Jason Leonard: vibraphone, banjo, guitar, percussion

TRACK LISTING • Ghost of an Earthworm • Night Bats • Spine • Holiday • Wax & Wire

KEY MARKETS Hometown: Portland Also: Chicago, New York, Austin, Seattle, Eugene, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Salt Lake City, Boise, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Iowa City

“Perhaps ‘circus folk’ would be a more appropriate description. The songs certainly tumble and swoop, while Young’s voice acts as ringleader for the multitalented cast of performers he has gathered around him … Together they conjure up a joyful sense of youthful innocence and wide-eyed magic, one that suggests endless possibilities, unconstrained by such earthly concerns as dull conformity or cynical calculation.” — KQED

SELLING POINTS • The buzz band to watch in Portland! • Fresh off tours with The Decemberists and Blitzen Trapper. • Full scale publicity campaign managed by PR firm Riot Act Media. • Nationwide tour in October/November booked by Windish Agency. • Full college radio mailing and tracking campaign.

OVERVIEW The first recorded material released by Loch Lomond since the much-loved Paper the Walls, Night Bats captures the Portland band at its most creative and focused. Coming off national tours opening for The Decemberists and Blitzen Trapper, Night Bats features a directness and pop sensibility merely hinted at previously. The EP includes three joyous and shimmering pop gems; a fresh and dramatically different reading of an old fan favorite; and an ethereal cover of the classic Bee Gees ballad “Holiday.”

“A gifted ensemble that manages to sound intimate despite the band’s sprawling size … brilliantly crafted chamber folk that’s lush and richly textured, but cozy.” — NPR ALSO AVAILABLE

Loch Lomond Paper the Walls CD: HSH 73 Price Code: O

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Press Quotes “[Hobbs’s] quietly alluring music possesses the seemingly incidental beauty that can arise in music composed under self-enforced restraints.” — The Wire

Selling Points • Cover sticker includes acclaim from The Wire, Howard Skempton, and Kyle Gann. • This spare, beautiful, spacious 20-minute piece for eight pianos was composed utilizing systems derived from sudoku puzzles and GarageBand software. • Review copies (with press releases and detailed fact sheets) will be sent to all appropriate newspaper, magazine, and e-magazine reviewers. Copies will be sent to NPR, PRI, and all appropriate radio programmers and stations. • Ads will run in The Wire, Signal To Noise, Fanfare, Gramophone, and more.

Overview Christopher Hobbs is an English experimental composer, a pioneer of British systems music, founder of the Experimental Music Catalogue, and an early member of both the Scratch Orchestra and AMM. A combination of strict rigor and audiencefriendly surfaces is typical of most of his work since 1970, as is his use of toy or amateur electronics. Sudoku 82 is performed via overdubbing (eight pianos) by noted Los Angeles pianist Bryan Pezzone, who has been featured on numerous Cold Blue CDs.

Christopher Hobbs Sudoku 82 Genre: Alt Classical Label: Cold Blue Music CD: CBM 33 Price Code: J (SRP $9.99) Digipak; Box Lot 25 AN ALLEGRO CLASSICAL TITLE U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Track Listing Sudoku 82

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

Press Quotes “An elegantly reverberant, harmonically rich, and gracefully delineated composition for resonant strings.” — The Wire

Selling Points

Christopher Roberts Last Cicada Singing Genre: Alt Classical Label: Cold Blue Music CD: CBM 34 Price Code: J (SRP $9.99) Digipak; Box Lot 25 AN ALLEGRO CLASSICAL TITLE U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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Christopher Roberts Trios for Deep Voices CD: CBM 30 Price Code: R

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• Cover sticker includes acclaim from John Schneider, host of KPFK’s Global Village. • A unique and beautiful suite of four pieces for solo qin, an ancient Chinese zither. • Previous release received acclaim from The Stranger, All Music Guide, Sequenza21, and more. • Review copies (with press releases and detailed fact sheets) will be sent to all appropriate newspaper, magazine, and e-magazine reviewers. Copies will be sent to NPR, PRI, and all appropriate radio programmers and stations. • Ads will run in The Wire, Signal To Noise, Fanfare, Gramophone, and more.

Overview Performed by the composer, this delicate, quietly emotive work bridges the gap between traditional Chinese qin music and contemporary American musical sensibilities without compromising either culture. Upon receiving his doctorate from Juilliard, Christopher Roberts set off to the jungles of Papua New Guinea to study the “natural prosody of music.” Later, as a Fulbright Scholar in Taiwan, he studied and mastered the qin, an ancient Chinese zither. After years of living in Asia, Roberts returned to the States a most unusual “world” musician who now lives and works in Washington state.

Track Listing Remote Stories • The Channel • Travelling Alone • Last Cicada Singing

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

STREET DATE NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Press Quotes “[A] freight train of a band … Their sound is HEAVY as a warship and yet goes down smooth … A must for anyone who craves their rock with a touch of metal.” — All Access

Selling Points • Features ex-members of Unida (which also featured John Garcia of Kyuss fame). • Will appear at SXSW 2010, and tour both the US and Europe in support of this release. • Service to press, radio, and retail. Three promo tracks to be included on Promonet. • Video world premiere (and live band performance) on JackassWorld.com. • Tracks from the new album will be featured on MTV’s Nitro Circus.

House of Broken Promises Using the Useless Genre: Rock/Metal Label: Small Stone Recordings CD: SSO 99 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Overview If we were to compile a list of all that’s useless in modern rock music, we’d be here for days. In fact, it’d probably be easier, and quicker, to rattle off the few undeniably great things roaring up from the underground. Take Indio’s House of Broken Promises. With their Small Stone debut, this trio is leading the charge against mediocrity and watereddown tepidness. Formed from the ashes of the late, great, and woefully underappreciated Unida (which also featured John Garcia of Kyuss fame), HOBP is a no-holds-barred double shot of classic hard rock. You’re going to get your rock’s worth. That’s a promise this house won’t break.

Key Markets Hometown: Indio, CA. Also: San Diego, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Denver, San Francisco, Austin, Portland, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Chicago, Minneapolis, Baltimore

Track Listing Blister • Obey the Snake • Physco Plex • Highway Grit • Justify • Torn • Buried Away • Walk On By • Ladron (Spanish Version) • The Hurt (Paid My Dues)

Selling Points • Small Stone’s 100th release! • Luder will appear at SXSW 2010 as part of the Small Stone Records Showcase • The band will play all around the Midwest in Fall 2009. • Members of Five Horse Johnson, Slot, Giant Brain, Novadriver, and Big Chief. • Recorded at Rustbelt Studios with Eric Hoegemeyer (Giant Brain). • RIYL: Slot, Giant Brain, The Birthday Party, Soundgarden, Portishead. • Finished copies to press, radio, and retail. College radio campaign via Team Clermont. • Extensive online push via Promonet to both alternative/rock bloggers and podcasters.

Overview Luder’s formation harkens back to 2006, when Small Stone undertook the task of issuing Slot’s lost recordings after the untimely passing of its founding member and guitarist, Billy Rivkin. After a successful show at SXSW 2007, the band decided it might be worthwhile to continue playing and writing music under a different moniker. Staying true to their musical passions and running up a hefty electrical bill in the process, Luder’s debut was etched out in the dwelling once known to insiders as The Slot House. Recorded at Rustbelt Studios with Eric Hoegemeyer over the course of six months, Sonoluminescence is organic and dynamic, an orgasmic whirlwind of rock recording sure to turn a few heads, cause a spit-take or two, and clean out a few eardrums in the process.

Track Listing Sing to Me • S-Words • Selfish and Dumb • Cold Hands, Warm Pants • Hot, Girl-On-Girl, Vampire Action • In Love with Love • The Pox • Points West • Sewn Together • Soledad y Onanismo

Key Markets Hometown: Detroit. Also: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Baltimore, Washington DC, Austin, Cleveland, Columbus, Chicago, Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego 10

STREET DATE NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Luder Sonoluminescence Genre: Alt Rock Label: Small Stone Recordings CD: SSO 100 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Press Quotes “A wittily engaging songwriter who’s just weird enough to achieve true brilliance.” — NPR

Selling Points • Six to eight months of US touring planned. Recent tour with Clem Snide. • Features former singer/songwriter of Troubled Hubble (Lookout! Records). • Has been profiled several times by NPR’s All Songs Considered. • Press and radio campaigns by Greyday. Full digital/blog campaign.

Overview Newly relocated to the Pacific Northwest and fresh off their recent US tour with Clem Snide, The Heligoats follow up the critically acclaimed End of All-Purpose EP with Goodness Gracious, another weird stop for musical adventurer Chris Otepka. Teaming up with Chicago psych-folk band Ulysses S. Grant just long enough to have a few parties and interpret a record, they formed in Summer 2009. The new collaboration has been wild and exciting, fusing meticulously worded songs and spaced-out jams to make the most interesting Heligoats listen yet. Live, the songs are dynamic and energetic, building sonic force around Otepka’s acoustic-based tunes, adding colorful settings to the stories within, and fleshing out the universe of this recording. And “universe” is apt: with each track its own little world, all 10 songs come together to take the listener on a wild safari and have them home by dinner.

Track Listing Mercury • A Guide to the Outdoors • Rubber Stopper • Fish Sticks • Watertowers On Fire • Florida Panther • Reasonable Doubt • Goodness Gracious • Untitled • Heatvents

Key Markets Hometown: Chicago. Also: Seattle, Portland, Omaha, Lincoln, San Francisco, Austin

The Heligoats Goodness Gracious Genre: Alt Rock Label: Greyday Records CD: GDP 40 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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The Heligoats

The End of All-Purpose CD: GDP 33 Price Code: G

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Press Quotes “Anthemic yet earnest jangle synth-pop from these former Tennessee residents storms the mind like a Joggers outtake sprinkled with layers of analog synth.” — DCM

Selling Points • Full press campaign by 2:30 Publicity. • Full college radio promotion by SPECTRE.

Overview

World’s Greatest Ghosts No Magic Genre: Alt Rock Label: Lucky Madison CD: LMD 41 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

World’s Greatest Ghosts is a band born in the sweaty, crowded basements of Portland, but it just as well could have sprung from the skull dungeon lair in A Link to the Past. Equally joyful and anthemic, WGG lives in a world where keyboards and synthesizers collide with spiraling guitar solos, vocals are shouted and quietly whispered, and the pace hardly slows to anything less than a quick jog. No Magic contains songs about evil beasts, secret elixirs, and lost queens, but everything is dorky in the best way possible. Using the mythic to describe the everyday, where things are rough but still always sound triumphant and euphoric, No Magic sounds like the best cuts left off Wolf Parade’s Apologies to the Queen Mary—only skuzzier, born of a place where cheap beer, house shows, and weekend camping trips combine for synth-rock bliss.

Track Listing Phantastes • The Royal Court • Loudest Speaker • Magick Words • Sleepwalkers • Potions • On the Shore • Mazes and Monsters • Put Yr Boots On!

Key Markets Hometown: Portland. Also: Nashville, Memphis, Seattle, San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Austin, Atlanta, Baltimore, Denver

STREET DATE NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Press Quotes “Singer-songwriter Bill Baird has put together a beautifully lo-fi collection of songs he’s calling {{{Sunset}}}. The Austin, TX native imbues his homey tunes with a quirky, playful bounce, helped by instruments like a toy piano. The result is a bare and innocent album that sounds as though a friend were strumming songs just for you in his living room.” — NPR

Selling Points • Vinyl release includes a CD copy in the package! • The song “Fishtown” was released digitally earlier this year as part of the Philadelphia non-profit project Weathervane, which works to create a network of local artists to exchange creative ideas and promote new opportunities for emerging and established artists in the community. • College radio promotion via AAM.

Sunset Gold Dissolves To Gray Genre: Alt Rock Label: Autobus Records LP: ATB 12 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 30 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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The Glowing City CD: ATB 8 Price Code: N

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Overview Sunset follows up this year’s Loveshines II double-A-side single and 2008’s attentiongrabbing trio of albums (Pink Clouds, Bright Blue Dream, The Glowing City) with a set of songs whose character lies closest to Bill Baird’s first solo album, {{{Sunset}}}, and his earliest SOUND team material. The song “Civil War,” well known to longtime fans, finally sees its official album version.

Track Listing Change Comes Slow • Sunshine Hair • Rivers of Babylon • Garden of Eden • Fishtown • Our Dreams Did Weave a Shade • Gold Dissolves To Gray • Green Truck • Civil War • Hill Country Smog • Bones • Pocketful of Debt • Sandy My Love • So Long Farewell Adieu

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

Press Quotes “Brazos is one of Austin’s best new bands. We’ve long been fans of Martin Crane, but the new stuff he’s doing with this band is really special.” — Gorilla vs. Bear

Selling Points • Vinyl version includes a CD copy of the album. • RIYL: Grizzly Bear • College radio servicing via AAM. • Promotion via Tell All Your Friends.

Overview Brazos’ Martin Crane wrote the songs on Phosphorescent Blues during a two-week span of peaceful euphoria. Writing on classic themes—transient love, friendship, communities— Crane evokes the loss of youthful illusion and the calm, uneasy accomplishment of that loss. Like the adapted Adrienne Rich poem The Observer, the album tries to break free from the constraints of the city it’s grown into, escaping by turning inward. Brazos has had a solid two years worth of buzz in Austin since their first EP, opening for Grizzly Bear, Wye Oak, Bowerbirds, and more. Now, Brazos make good on their proven promise with a confident and truly unique first album.

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

Track Listing Buddy • Kid • The Observer • Avignon • Pues • Day Glow • Tell • Downtown Boys • Understand • For So Long Now

STREET DATE NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Brazos Phosphorescent Blues Genre: Alt Rock Label: Autobus Records CD: ATB 10 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

LP: ATB 10 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 30 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Selling Points • First official US reissue of an album that has been out of print for over 40 years. • Pressed on 180-gram transparent virgin vinyl. • Free 320 kbps MP3 download of the album. • Follow-up to the successful Sings reissue from February 2009. • Features Ran Blake and Burton Greene, plus a rare appearance by Giuseppi Logan. • Review copies submitted to top jazz publications, major weeklies, and blogs/webzines. • Radio campaign will target college and independent stations in major US cities. • Ads with Signal To Noise and The Wire.

Overview In Spring 1966, the New York State Council on the Arts gave ESP-Disk’ a grant to tour the five colleges in the state with music departments. Artists for the tour included the Sun Ra Arkestra, Burton Greene, Patty Waters, Giuseppi Logan, and Ran Blake. Accompanied by an all-star backing group from among the participants, Waters’ performances resulted in the album College Tour, her second for ESP. Internationally recognized as one of the first major avant-garde vocalists, her ESP recordings cemented her reputation as a vocal innovator whose influence has extended beyond jazz to Yoko Ono and Diamanda Galas.

Patty Waters College Tour Genre: Jazz Label: ESP-Disk’ LP: ESP 1055 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 25 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Track Listing Song of Clifford • Hush Little Baby with Ba Ha Bad • Wild is the Wind • Prayer • It Never Entered My Mind • Song of Life with Hush Little Baby • Song of the One (I Love) or Love • My Love

Key Markets Hometown: New York. Also: Boston, New Haven, Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Atlanta, Houston

Press Quotes “Silky smooth jazz meets classic breaks, lazy flows, and meticulous scratches on the debut album from this SF hip-bop collaborative … proof that good music will long outlive the shiny, plastic pop crap that major labels are trying to cram down our throats these days.” — SF Examiner

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Wide Hive Players Wide Hive Players Genre: Jazz Label: Wide Hive Records CD: WID 296 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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Gregorio Howe y Compadres Salsa Blanco

CD: WID 280 Price Code: P U.S. ORDERS ONLY

• Most band members actively touring. • Features renowned jazz vocalist Faye Carol. • Radio promotion through Mitchell Feldman & Associates. • Press and email support through Wide Hive Records. • Ads with Wax Poetics, URB, and DownBeat.

Overview Wide Hive Players is a collaboration of composers and musicians who have created a beautiful and complex collection of 13 original pieces weaving together funk and jazz with soulful undercurrents. Guided by producer and Wide Hive Records founder Gregory Howe, bassist Matt Montgomery shows confidence and depth on the piano while trombone virtuoso Mike Rinta adds uniquely resonant horn arrangements. Also features Thomas McCree on drums and organ, Doug Rowen on saxophone, Tim Hyland on trumpet, and guest vocalist Faye Carol on two tracks.

Track Listing Unstoppable • Point Conception • Long Shot • Chrome Attic • New Take On Old Friends • Push and Pull • Adeline • Snitch • Fair Grounds • Maybe Baby • Always in a Jam • Good Natured Inebriate • Follow My Lead

Key Markets Hometown: Berkeley. Also: San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago STREET DATE NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Press Quotes “Mesmerizing audio collages.” — Austin Chronicle

Selling Points • West Coast tour in November/December 2009. • Has shared stages with Beach House, Efterklang, Stars of the Lid, Octopus Project, Kid Kowalla, Les Savy Fav, Album Leaf, Balmorhea, Tiny Vipers, Lymbyc Systym, and many more. • Features Paul North (Sunnybrook) and Spencer Stephenson (Abacus). • Color Pitchfork banner; Insound banner, mp3 player, and front-page feature. • Ads with The Wire, Signal To Noise, Stereogum, PopMatters, and more.

Sleep Whale Houseboat Genre: Alt Rock Label: Western Vinyl CD: WVR 55 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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Overview Since 2006, Sleep Whale has become a mainstay of the fruitful north Texas music scene. With its first full-length release, Houseboat, the band solidifies its position as creative leaders and innovators among its peers. Much like the first EP Little Brite, this album pairs Joel North’s deft guitar work and fluid cello playing with Bruce Blay’s impeccable ability to weave percussion, field recordings, guitar, bass, and violin into hypnotic and whimsical dreamscapes. However, unlike Little Brite, Houseboat’s songs show how the band has grown, offering more sonically complex and ambitious compositions.

Track Listing

Sleep Whale

Green Echo • Cotton Curls • We Were Dripping • Roof Sailing • Summer Sick • Dissolved • Still Drumming • Sleep Reprise • Make Another Picture • Icicles • Ferry Whistle • Light Tunnel • Giant Wings

LP: WVR 65 Price Code: P

Key Markets

Little Brite

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Hometown: Denton, TX. Also: Dallas, New York, Seattle, Chicago, Baltimore, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Austin, Houston, St. Louis, Chapel Hill, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Madison, Minneapolis, Atlanta

Press Quotes “A lone wanderer battling solitude with sound.” — SPIN

Selling Points • Vinyl version of the newest release from Fleet Foxes member Josh Tillman. • Includes mp3 download card. • Will embark on his first US tour in years in November 2009. • Radio promotion by AAM. Full national press campaign by Tell All Your Friends. • Digital press/promotion by IODA and Western Vinyl.

Overview Unraveling some kind of galactic wilderness, J. Tillman’s sixth album lyrically borders on the mystic, proffering a transcendent union and a sense of effortlessness. Strange and honest, this song cycle inhabits its own idea-scape, seemingly obsessed with wrestling death. Hammered dulcimer, banjo, recorder, cymbals of varying size, and wheezing air organs all feature heavily. The string arrangements, performed by Jenna Conrad and transposed from Tillman’s sung direction, were intended to rest on chords almost counterintuitively, bringing to bloom complex, decontextualized tones. Far and away Tillman’s most joyful work, the album is disinterested in communicating much beyond a meditation for the few who allow themselves to listen with an open heart.

Track Listing Year in the Kingdom • Crosswinds • Earthly Bodies • Howling Light • Though I Have Wronged You • Age of Man • There Is No Good In Me • Marked in the Valley • Light of the Living

Key Markets Hometown: Seattle. Also: New York, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Austin, Houston, St. Paul, St. Louis, New Orleans, Chapel Hill, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Madison, Minneapolis, Atlanta 14

STREET DATE NOVEMBER 10, 2009

J. Tillman Year in the Kingdom Genre: Alt Rock Label: Western Vinyl LP: WVR 68 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 50 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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J. Tillman

Year in the Kingdom CD: WVR 68 Price Code: P

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OLA PODRIDA Press Quotes

BELLY OF THE LION

“A cohesive, confident album full of folky, quiet guitars and thoughtful lyrics that coalesce into complete songs.” — Pitchfork [8.0] “This is what I’d hoped Grizzly Bear’s Yellow House would sound like … Ola Podrida isn’t just a strikingly accomplished debut—it’s near-essential listening for anyone who’s been taken with the recent turn in some parts of the indie cosmology towards folkier and more countrified sounds.” — Stylus “Instruments layer together subtly and deftly, creating an atmosphere that brings to mind the wide Western plains or old, not-quite-forgotten lovers.” — SPIN

Selling Points • Will tour throughout 2009/2010, likely performing with Wooden Birds and Balmorhea. • Has shared stages with Fleet Foxes, Explosions in the Sky, She & Him, Beach House, and more. • Album has already received praise from Pitchfork, Gorilla vs. Bear, Stereogum, Brooklyn Vegan, Spin, Pop Matters, NPR, and many more. • David Wingo is well known for his gorgeous soundtracks for films by David Gordon Green (George Washington, All the Real Girls, Snow Angels) and Todd Rohal (Guatemalan Handshake). • Pitchfork banner; Insound banner, mp3 player, and front-page feature. • Ads with The Wire, Signal To Noise, Stereogum, PopMatters, and more.

Ola Podrida Belly of the Lion Genre: Alt Rock Label: Western Vinyl CD: WVR 67 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Overview

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Belly of the Lion is David Wingo’s much-anticipated sophomore effort under the name Ola Podrida. Chock-full of unsentimental love songs, the album pulses with the burgeoning sexuality borne of feral adolescent summers spent in the sprawling suburbs of the South. It’s hard not to be wooed, as the songs gingerly lay to rest the calamities that inevitably befall an adventurous heart.

Track Listing

The album sounds so organic and well balanced, it’s hard to believe Wingo wrote and recorded most of it alone in his apartment. Rather than creating overwrought studio jams, Wingo’s years of recording soundtracks seem to have taught him how to use the perfect amount of restraint while still delivering rich guitar textures that complement his unforgettable vocal melodies and magnify the impact of his abstract narratives. If Pink Floyd had been influenced by Bedhead and Flying Saucer Attack, they might well have crafted gorgeous shimmering gems like “We All Radiant” and “Monday Morning.” As tracks like “Donkey” swell almost to the point of bursting, it’s easy to be reminded of Jeff Mangum’s heartbreaking croon. And, the gently driving rhythm and fragile vocals on “Lakes of Wine” project a hypnotizing mood that seems to summon the spirit of Nick Drake, while the pastoral shoegaze rock of “Roomful of Sparrows” feels like the best song Kevin Shields never wrote.

David Wingo: guitar, vocals, banjo, bass, drums Matthew Frank: drums • The Closes We Will Ever Be • We All Radiant • Your Father’s Basement • Belly of the Lion • Monday Morning • Lakes of Wine • Sink or Swim • Roomful of Sparrows • This Old World

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

“Ola Podrida excels at creating a beautifully atmospheric mood, as well as gentle beauty that’s both spacious and deceptively complex.” — NPR STREET DATE NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Selling Points • First recording of this rare trio. • Select live dates in the Midwest. • Milo Fine has recorded for Hat Art and Emanem, among other free music labels.

Overview

Milo Fine, Paul Metzger & Davu Seru Medusa’s Lair Genre: Jazz Label: Locust Music LP: LST 121 Price Code: Y (SRP $24.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 20

Filleted over two sides of wax, here we have a rare meeting of three of the brightest lights in the Twin Cities’ musical orbit. On March 21, 2009, Paul Metzger—best known for his transcendental gypsy raga guitar and banjo meditations—jumped in the ring with percussionist Davu Seru and veteran multi-instrumentalist Milo Fine for an evening of uncompromising spontaneous composition. Medusa’s Lair is stunning, inscrutably wily, living music.

Track Listing Medusa’s Lair

Key Markets Hometown: Minneapolis/St. Paul. Also: Chicago, New York, San Francisco

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Press Quotes “Retro-nuevo slap-happy geek-hop in the vein of the Cool Kids and Spank Rock.” — MTV

Selling Points • Three separate videos circulating the web. • Select performances in the Midwest.

Overview That’s right, they’re back! Back with 11 bangy glitchers full of cacophonous synths, syllabic tumbling, and enough boom-bap and flow for even the most staunch heads. The blend of Kid Static’s old-school narratives with Yea Big’s affinity for high-speed low-bits makes for quite the delicious, caffeinated beverage. Grim gets all kinds of dark, with themes of death, nightmares, corporate greed, vehicular homicide, the Bible Belt, killer robots and … sandwiches!

Track Listing Grim • Stomp the Pedal • The Nameless • Bots Down the River • Middle America • Long Night • Dollar Bill Hat • Rock Bottom Rock • Eatchyo Samwich • Off a Fraction

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

STREET DATE NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Yea Big & Kid Static The Future’s Looking Grim Genre: Rap/Hip-Hop Label: Jib Door CD: JIB 106 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Press Quotes “This is the sound of globalization.” — New York Times

Selling Points • Upcoming tour of major venues in the Midwest and East Coast. See page 21 for details. • One of the hottest world music albums of 2000, and widely considered their best to date. • Radio campaign, email blasts, and blog service by Barbès Records. • Print ads in local markets.

Overview The fourth album from the much-lauded band that Songlines called the “Polish Pogues” is deeply rooted in Polish traditional village music, but mixes these tunes with fresh, cuttingedge compositions. The band manages to build on influences as varied as African rhythms, funk patterns, and Jewish music without ever losing authenticity. The result is a rare album whose vibrant energy transcends its roots and comes close to achieving true universality. The Warsaw Village Band’s previous album won them much acclaim in Europe and the US, including a prestigious BBC Award.

Track Listing Wise Kid Song • 1.5hOver • The Forrest • Skip Funk • Is Anybody In There? • Heartbeat • Polska Fran Polska • Lazy Johnny Dance • Polka Story • I’ve Met a Girl • Little Baby Blues • Circle No. 1

Warsaw Village Band Infinity Genre: Alt World/Poland Label: Barbès Records CD: BRS 21 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Key Markets Chicago, New York, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Toronto, Minneapolis

Press Quotes “Manikin’s metronomic punk aggression manifests a disciplined, restrained attack, lying in wait rather than charging.” — Austin Chronicle

Selling Points

Manikin Stop the Sirens Genre: Punk Label: Super Secret Records CD: SSE 29 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

• Will play live on WFMU in late November 2009. • Over eight years, Manikin has established itself as a consistently evolving band with a loyal following. • Reviews of this record (from the recently released vinyl version) have all been very positive. • Ads with Maximum Rock ‘n’ Roll, Razorcake, and a variety of online outlets. • College radio service by AAM. • Print and media service by Super Secret.

Overview Manikin’s fifth release, and third on Super Secret Records, continues the band’s evolution from a Joy Division sound to a more unique approach, which can be described as spare, efficient, and disciplined yet aggressive. The Joy Division influence is still there, but Manikin has grown into its own sound.

Track Listing

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Rule the World • Leaders • Fumes • First React • Grinding Halt • Death March • Sirens • Mirrors • Perfect Pictures • Self Inflicted • Later Days

Manikin

Key Markets

CD: SSE 13 Price Code: O

Hometown: Austin. Also: Dallas, San Antonio, Houston, Oklahoma City, Kansas City, Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis, Atlanta, New Orleans, New York, Detroit, Cleveland, Boston, Philadelphia

Still

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Press Quotes “Like a Brian Jonestown Massacre fueled by speed, The Sonics, MC5, and The Damned.” — Brooklyn Vegan

Selling Points • New project from Roy “Choyce” Vucino (CPC Gangbangs), current collaborator of Sub Pop’s Mark Sultan. • Vinyl version comes with free mp3 download card. • US tour dates in late November/early December 2009. • RIYL: Os Mutantes, The Damned, MC5, Jay Reatard, The Stooges, Devo. • Features guests from CPC Gangbangs, Demon’s Claws, Chocolat, Hot Springs, and Sunday Sinners. • Online and print media by 2:30 Publicity. Radio promotion by AAM. • Ads with The Big Takeover, Stereogum, Gorilla vs. Bear, and more.

Red Mass Red Mass Genre: Alt Rock Label: Semprini Records CD: SEM 7294 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 3 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

LP: SEM 7304 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 30 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Overview The brainchild of Roy Vucino, Red Mass took shape in 2008 following the inevitable implosion of the volatile yet legendary CPC Gangbangs. His new group consists of an ever-evolving line-up with contributors from such bands as Demon’s Claws, Chocolat, Hot Springs, Black Feelings, and Sunday Sinners, to name a few. Their psychedelic space rock blends elements of garage, psychedelia, punk, folk, and electronic music with dark poppy hooks and otherworldly sound effects.

Track Listing Saturn • Success For Crime • Weird Mess • Lord of the Rats • Party Till I Die • I’m On Fire • Skank

Key Markets New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Baltimore, Portland, Athens, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, Dallas, Austin, Seattle, Raleigh, Washington DC

Selling Points • A lost rarity from April 1965, now on CD and 180-gram virgin vinyl! • Only 750 copies of this record were ever made. This is the first repress ever! • Guaranteed feature in late September issue of Ugly Things. • Will be featured on 60tsgaragebands.com.

Overview This lost, classic mid-Sixties garage beat album, originally released in April 1965, had a range of influences from the UK beat to the Everly Brothers. The album opens with one of five impressive Nomadd originals, the catchy, sublime “You Can Fall In Love.” As it continues, listeners are treated to a flawless cover of “Shame, Shame, Shame”; rockers that pay tribute to Little Richard and Chuck Berry; a slow, last-dance take on “Tragedy”; and much more.

Track Listing You Can Fall In Love • Shame, Shame, Shame • I’m In Transit • Lucille • Roll Over Beethoven • There Is No More • Ain’t That Just Like Me • Don’t Cheat On Me • Tragedy • Love Potion No. 9 • W.P.L.J. • Enter Into My Life

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

The Nomadds The Nomadds Genre: Rock/Garage Label: Music Maniac/Wayback CD: MMN 66036 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

LP: MMN 66036 Price Code: T (SRP $16.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 30 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

STREET DATE NOVEMBER 10, 2009

HOT NAIL VINYL ACTION – STOCK UP NOW ! Deer Tick War Elephant

Deer Tick Born On Flag Day

Label: Partisan Records 2XLP: PTS 3 Price Code: 2L (SRP $23.99)

Label: Partisan Records 2XLP: PTS 5 Price Code: 2I (SRP $21.99)

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NEW LOWER PRICE! Limited edition red, white, and blue etched vinyl makes this an instant collector’s item. Comes with a free digital download card.

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NEW LOWER PRICE! Deer Tick’s anticipated second full-length, and follow-up to acclaimed debut War Elephant (reissued in 2008).

Viva Voce Rose City

Blue Giant Target Heart

Label: Jealous Butcher LP: JLO 80 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99)

Label: Jealous Butcher LP: JLO 78 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99)

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Includes two bonus tracks not available via CD or digital download! 180-gram audiophile quality vinyl includes MP3 download code.

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New project from members of Viva Voce, The Decemberists, Swords, and Circus Lupus features a duet with Corin Tucker (Sleater-Kinney). Two exclusive tracks and digital download card.

Laura Gibson Beasts of Seasons

Horse Feathers Words Are Dead

Label: Jealous Butcher LP: JLO 77 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99)

Label: Lucky Madison LP: LMD 40 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99)

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180-gram audiophile-quality vinyl with coupon for digital download plus bonus tracks. Gorgeous limited edition silkscreened LP jackets.

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Critically acclaimed debut available for the first time on vinyl! Limited edition of 500. CD version received a 7.5 rating from Pitchfork upon release.

Neko Case The Tigers Have Spoken

Various Artists The Roots of Hip-Hop

Label: Lance Rock Records LP: LRR 43 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99)

Label: Harte Recordings 2XLP: HRT 101 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99)

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Indie rock and country star (and New Pornographers member) Neko Case, backed by full band featuring the Sadies and steel guitar whiz Jon Rauhouse.

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Compiling some of the great hip-hop from the 1920s through the 1960s, this record is available in a limited edition heavy double LP package. AVAILABLE NOW

The Wipers Is This Real? Label: Jackpot Records LP: JPT 82801 Price Code: Y (SRP $24.99) U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Glorify Astrological Martyrdom Label: Important Records LP: IPT 226 Price Code: 2I (SRP $21.99) U.S. ORDERS ONLY

First time on vinyl in over 25 years, remastered from original tapes! Audiophile quality vinyl pressed at RTI. Sturdy, old-style tip on jacket and printed insert.

Limited edition AMT vinyl—snap it up quickly! 1,000 copies, available in five different colors of vinyl.

Cave Psychic Psummer

Bardo Pond Gazing At Shilla

Label: Important Records LP: IPT 247 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99)

Label: Important Records LP: IPT 248 Price Code: 2I (SRP $21.99)

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Limited to 1,000 copies, this is Important’s dream come true—a full-length studio album from Chicago’s Cave! Like driving a train full-speed off a cliff, only to discover that it can fly.

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. Lord of the Underground: Vishnu and the Magic Elixir Label: Alien8 Recordings LP: ALI 84 Price Code: 2I (SRP $21.99)

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Limited edition pressing of 1,000 copies on vinyl heavy enough to hold some of Bardo Pond’s headiest jams. Bardo is out. Are you in?

Boris Boris At Last–Feedbacker Label: Conspiracy Records LP: CNS 81 Price Code: 2I (SRP $21.99) U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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Single LP available in a limited edition. The band is captured flying at full speed, dishing out three slabs of Turkish psych meets Krautrock served up AMT style.

Vic Chesnutt & Elf Power Dark Developments

Balmorhea All Is Wild, All Is Silent

Label: Orange Twin Records LP: OTW 31 Price Code: T (SRP $16.99)

Label: Western Vinyl LP: WVR 59 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99)

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A unique collaboration of Athens institutions: Vic Chesnutt collaborates with Elephant 6 originals Elf Power!

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Featured on the soundtrack for new Jim Jarmusch film The Limits of Control. At the Flaming Lips-curated ATP in September, Boris will play Feedbacker in its entirety for the very first time!

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Features Sub Pop recording artist Jesy Fortino of Tiny Vipers on two tracks. First two albums received accolades from Pitchfork, Time Out New York, NPR, and more.

Get nailed... on the road Brazos

Pronto

Slavic Soul Party

CD: ATB 10 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) UPC: 616892059264 10/24/09 Austin, TX – Mohawk 10/31/09 Dallas, TX – Granada Theater 11/2/09 St. Louis, MO – Firebird 11/3/09 Lawrence, KS – Jackpot 11/4/09 Minneapolis, MN – 400 Bar 11/5/09 Madison, WI – High Noon Saloon 11/7/09 Cleveland, OH – Grog Shop 11/9/09 Toronto, ON – Horseshoe Tavern 11/10/09 Montreal, QC – IL Motore 11/11/09 Cambridge, MA – TT the Bears 11/12/09 Brooklyn, NY – Music Hall of Williamsburg 11/13/09 Philadelphia, PA – Kung Fu Necktie 11/14/09 Washington, DC – Rock N Roll Hotel 11/16/09 Nashville, TN – The Basement 11/17/09 Birmingham, AL – The Bottletree 11/18/09 Atlanta, GA – The Earl 11/19/09 Orlando, FL – The Social 11/20/09 St. Augustine, FL – Cafe Eleven 11/22/09 New Orleans, LA – One Eyed Jacks

CD: CTP 76 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) UPC: 656605958828 9/18/09 Rock Island, IL – Rock Island Brewing Co. 9/19/09 Madison, WI – Forward Music Festival 9/20/09 Chicago, IL – Rainbo Club 9/23/09 Brooklyn, NY – Union Hall

CD: BRS 23 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) UPC: 723721443757 9/23/09 Los Angeles, CA – The Echo 9/24/09 Santa Cruz, CA – Kuumbwa 9/25/09 San Francisco, CA – Elbo Room 10/2/09 Brooklyn, NY – Southpaw

Phosphorescent Blues

Warsaw Village Band Infinity

CD: BRS 21 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) UPC: 881626918029 10/29/09 Minneapolis, MN – The Cedar 10/30/09 Milwaukee, WI – Alverno College 10/31/09 Chicago, IL – Old Town School of Folk Music 11/1/09 Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom 11/2/09 Pittsburgh, PA – Synod Hall 11/4/09 Toronto, ON – Lula Lounge 11/6/09 Boston, MA – Somerville Theater 11/7/09 Washington, DC – National Geographic Live! 11/8/09 New York, NY – World Music Institute

All Is Golden

Taketron

Deer Tick

Here We Go Magic

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Splendor in the Grass

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Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re

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HRT

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824247018617

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MMD

702

1832060012174

Various Artists

Harmonic Series: A Compilation of Musical

IPT

272

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IPT

154

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274

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GDP

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End of All-Purpose, The

GDP

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World’s Greatest Ghosts

No Magic

LMD

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Gold Dissolves To Gray [incl. CD]

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Infinity

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881626918029

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Night Bats

HSH

885601201803

Loch Lomond

Paper the Walls

HSH

837101385336

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Red Mass S/T

SEM

7294

705105672946

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Red Mass S/T

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7304

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