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NEW RELEASES OCTOBER 2008 STREET DATES 10-14-08 & 10-28-08 A DIVISION OF ALLEGRO MEDIA GROUP

DARK DEVELOPMENTS

VIC CHESNUTT

ELF POWER THE AMORPHOUS STRUMS

INSIDE Help Me To Sing (feat. John Paul Jones, Elvis Perkins, The Innocence Mission, Danielson + more) • The Organ Army Navy • Cool Hand Luke • Wax Fang • C-Rayz Walz & Kosha Dillz • William Parker Quartet Stephen Duffy & The Lilac Time • Nadja • Genghis Tron • Pas Chic Chic • Arthur Russell Risil (feat. members of Prefuse 73, Tortoise, The Sea and Cake) • No-Neck Blues Band

VIC CHESNUTT, ELF POWER, & THE AMORPHOUS STRUMS DARK DEVELOPMENTS

Press Quotes “Because of Chesnutt’s idiosyncratic appeal, there is usually something to love on every album. He’s an amazing influencer and sponge for whatever group of individuals he collaborates with and on any particular recording session.” — Tiny Mix Tapes

Selling Points • Unique collaboration between renowned artists.

• Appeals to fan bases of both artists.

• Plans to tour extensively in US and Europe.

• Radio, press, and internet promotion by Fanatic Promotion.

Overview

Vic Chesnutt, Elf Power & The Amorphous Strums Dark Developments Genre: Alt Rock Label: Orange Twin Records CD: OTW 31 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Digipak; Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

LP: OTW 31 Price Code: T (SRP $16.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 25 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Vic Chesnutt: vocals, guitar, keyboard, etc Laura Carter: vocals, keyboard, clarinet, etc Derek Almstead: vocals, bass, tambourine Andrew Reiger: vocals, guitar Jimmy Hughes: vocals, guitar Josh Lott: vocals, drums Curtiss Pernice: vocals, guitar Sam Mixon: vocals, acoustic guitar, etc Eric Harris: bells

Track Listing Mystery • Little Fucker • And How • Teddy Bear • We Are Mean • Stop the Horse • Bilocating Dog • The Mad Passion of the Stoic • Phil the Fiddler

A tuneful collision of Athens institutions finds fruition this fall when Orange Twin releases Vic Chesnutt’s collaboration with Elephant 6 originals Elf Power. As intriguing as this combination may seem for hardcore fans of either act, the final sonic results reveal a daunting sum much greater than even the involvement of such esteemed parts would imply. The Elves’ lived-in dexterity as a live band goads Chesnutt’s vocal delivery to a menacing new muscularity, imbuing this batch of songs with a sinister vibe not dissimilar to John Cale’s black classic Fear, the harsh & articulate sleaze of Lou Reed’s Street Hassle, or the defeated low-key soul music of Nick Lowe’s last few records.

Chesnutt’s songwriting retains its trademark literary bent—central songs carry the narrative weight, sturdy construction, and lexical mystery of a long lost Raymond Carver story. And as he woos you with his squelched, beautiful melodies, his sonic turns-in-the road take an even stranger tack with the aid of psych-pop veterans Elf Power. Recorded over the course of a winter by Vic Chesnutt and Derek Almstead in Chesnutt’s own attic studio, Dark Developments revels in the intimate, home-recorded atmosphere you’d expect from an Athenian union like this.

Elf Power’s tripped-out pop smarts provide the contradictory musical notions that never allow the album to sway too far in one bleak direction or another: it’s that friction extant between Chesnutt’s shadowy worldview and the inventive bounce and bray of the band’s joyful chemistry that buoys the album, provides freshness, and makes for highly rewarding repeated listening. Dark Developments stands as a classic addition to the legendary local pantheon.

“[Vic Chesnutt’s] harrowing storysongs strike somewhere between a Flannery O’Connor novel and a junkie’s lament.” — Rolling Stone

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Hometown: Athens Also: Brooklyn, New York, Chapel Hill, Omaha, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin

Elf Power

Elf Power

CD: OTW 11 Price Code: O

CD: OTW 18 Price Code: M

Nothing’s Going to Happen

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Walking with the Beggar Boys

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VARIOUS ARTISTS

AWAKE MY SOUL/HELP ME TO SING

Press Quotes

“To quote Leonard Cohen, ‘God is alive, magic is afoot’ in the soaring magnificence of Southern sacred-harp choirs, a robust, harmonically intricate blend of country joy and unearthly drone.” — David Fricke, Rolling Stone

Selling Points • A 2XCD set with over 40 tracks of previously unreleased music.

• The critically acclaimed documentary Awake, My Soul aired on PBS stations and has been featured by NPR, TIME, Pitchfork, Chicago Tribune, Paste, and more.

• Features John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), Rayna Gellert (Uncle Earl), The Innocence Mission, Murry Hammond (Old 97’s), Doc Watson, Richard Buckner, Mac Powell (Third Day), and Rick Moody, novelist of Garden State and The Ice Storm.

• Beautifully packaged with a 32-page booklet and a limited edition handbill, hand-printed on an early 20 th century letterpress.

• Produced and compiled by Matt Hinton, co-director of Awake, My Soul.

• Publicity by Daniel Gill at Force Field PR.

Overview A 2XCD set made up of the soundtrack for the acclaimed Sacred Harp documentary Awake, My Soul:The Story of the Sacred Harp and a compilation of artists performing their arrangements of Sacred Harp songs. The soundtrack CD contains some of the finest recordings of traditional Sacred Harp singing, a beautifully haunting and powerful form of a cappella shapenote singing. Help Me to Sing, on the other hand, features such diverse artists as John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), Rayna Gellert (of all-female old-time string band Uncle Earl), The Innocence Mission, Murry Hammond (Old 97’s), Danielson (subjects of the awardwinning documentary Danielson: A Family Movie), Doc Watson, Richard Buckner, Elvis Perkins, Grammy-winning bluegrass artist & songwriter Jim Lauderdale, Mac Powell (singer of the multi-platinum selling and Grammy-winning band Third Day), Rick Moody (novelist of Garden State and The Ice Storm), and many more. Help Me to Sing is noteworthy in that it contains 19 tracks commissioned especially for this album, and it will certainly free Sacred Harp from any perception of being “difficult music.”

Indeed, the fact that stands out most strikingly on this record is the utter beauty of the melodies. Though most of these songs were written over 100 years ago, their melodies and lyrical themes are certain to resonate profoundly with our generation.

“Outstanding … an important addition to any library of those interested in American music and culture.”

— Dirty Linen ALSO AVAILABLE

Awake, My Soul [Special Edition] 2XDVD: AWP 2 Price Code: 2N

Various Artists

Awake My Soul/Help Me To Sing Genre: Soundtrack/Americana Label: Awake Productions 2XCD: AWP 3 Price Code: 2I (SRP $21.99) Double Slim Digipak; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Track Listing

Awake My Soul: Original Soundtrack China 163b • Russia 107 • Stratfield 142 • Jordan 66 • Marlborough 228 • Bear Creek 269 • Abbeville 33b • Corinth 32t • Lloyd 503 • Eternal Day 383 • New Britain 45t • Delight 216 • Panting For Heaven 384 • New Jordan 442 • Restoration 312b • Prodigal Son 113 • Schenectady 192 • America 36t • Antioch 277 • Norwich 362 • Consecration 448t • Poland 86 • Idumea 47b • Cowper 168 Help Me to Sing: Songs of the Sacred Harp Rayna Gellert & John Paul Jones: Blooming Youth • Elvis Perkins In Dearland: Weeping Pilgrim • The Good Players: David’s Lamentation • The Innocence Mission: Africa • Jim Lauderdale w/ Jeni & Billy: The Christian’s Hope • Mac Powell: Help Me to Sing • John Wesley Harding: Columbus • Cordelia’s Dad: The Traveler • Liz Janes: Abbeville • All Things Bright & Beautiful: China • Tenenment Halls: Essay • Richard Buckner: Windham • Danielson: Sermon on the Mount • Doc Watson & Gaither Carlton: And Am I Born to Die? • Sam Amidon: Kedron • Woven Hand: Consecration • Rick Moody w/ Nina Katchadourian: The Grieved Soul • Tim Eriksen: Vernon/Wrestling Jacob • DM Stith: Christian’s Farewell • Murry Hammond: Bound For Canaan

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THE ORGAN THIEVES EP

Press Quotes “Soul-saving, ’80s indie-sodden soundtrack to the gloomy underground parties your mum never warned you about.” — NME “More than coming off as rote homage to British post-punk, The Organ feels like the genuine article, forgotten for decades, but finally unearthed.”

— Ink19 “Anchored by a pumping Hammond organ, the songs on Grab That Gun are often quirky and unconventional, a record for daydreaming about breaking hearts and basement suites in the winter.” — New York Times (from Tegan and Sara’s playlist) “Grab That Gun is a fine debut that captures The Organ’s knack for writing strangely timeless, and beautifully sad, songs.” — All Music Guide

The Organ Thieves EP Genre: Alt Rock Label: Mint Records CD: MRI 113 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) Digipak; Box Lot 25

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Featured Artists Katie Sketch: vocals, acoustic guitar Schmoo: bass Shelby Stocks: drums Deborah Cohen: guitar Jenny Smyth: organ

Track Listing • Even in the Night • Oh What a Feeling • Let the Bells Ring • Fire in the Ocean • Can You Tell Me One Thing • Don’t Be Angry

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

Selling Points • Final recordings of international touring act The Organ.

• Follow up to successful full-length debut Grab That Gun. • Full college radio mailing. Mailing to blogs, newspapers, and magazines.

• Ads with Magnet, Under the Radar, and Arthur.

Overview Fans of The Organ, bittersweet melodies, and sad songs take note: on October 14th Mint Records will unveil Thieves, a six-song EP that serves as the band’s final farewell.

After an all-too-brief but wildly successful stint in the spotlight—to the dismay of legions of fans worldwide—Vancouver’s The Organ called it quits in 2006, with Katie, Jenny, Schmoo, Debra, and Shelby heading their separate ways. At the time of the breakup, the band had been working on several new songs, and some months later the members began discussing the possibility of bringing these remaining gems to life.

In 2007, The Organ briefly regrouped and headed back into the studio to quietly record these six remaining unrecorded songs, originally meant to be part of a follow-up to their 2004 debut full-length Grab That Gun.

“They are the rare Vancouver act that trumps the system, belonging everywhere and nowhere at once.The ambiguous, Le Tigre-tinged sex appeal of their five female members only serves to deepen The Organ’s mystery further still.” — SPIN ALSO AVAILABLE

The Organ

The Organ

CD: MRI 76 Price Code: M

LP: MRI 76 Price Code: F

Grab That Gun

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Grab That Gun

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Press Quotes “Nuanced, delicate pop music, with textures and sweet melodies.” — Erasing Clouds

Selling Points • LP comes with digital download of full album.

• Features Ida Nilsen (Great Aunt Ida, Violet Archers) and Tim Vesely (Violet Archers, Rheostatics).

• Full college radio mailing. Media mailing to blogs, newspapers, and magazines.

• Ads with Magnet, Indieclick, Facebook, and Under the Radar.

Overview The Buttless Chaps recently celebrated their 10th anniversary with a concert broadcast nationally in Canada on CBC Concerts On Demand. Recorded at Hive Studios by Jesse Gander, Cartography combines acoustic rural and cold war electronic influences in carefully orchestrated songs brought together with imagery that encapsulates the isolation of the modern world and the quest to find a little patch of green for oneself.

Track Listing Broken Transit Broken Soil • Complications May Arise • The Opera • Coal Grey Sky • Cartography • Total Amounts Left Are Not Enough • Water by the Wayside • Are We Forgiven Now? • For The Night It Buries You • The Front • When It’s Cold Outside

Key Markets Seattle, Portland, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tucson, Austin, Nashville, Denver, Chicago, New York, Detroit

The Buttless Chaps Cartography Genre: Alt Rock/Americana Label: Mint Records CD: MRI 126 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 25

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LP: MRI 126 Price Code: Z (SRP $20.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 50

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Press Quotes “It takes a truly independent artist and help from members of Of Montreal to come out with a record like this.” — Just Add Noise

Selling Points • First release on Orange Twin Records.

• Former members of Of Montreal and the Elephant 6 collective.

• Members of Circulatory System and Elf Power.

• Full US tour August–November 2008.

• Press by Soft Magic PR. • Radio by Orange Twin Records.

The Visitations The Conundrum Tree Genre: Alt Rock Label: Orange Twin Records CD: OTW 32 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview Psychedelic pop meets electronic folk songs. Poetic bedroom recordings.

Track Listing Bonuy Maurine • The Conundrum Tree • Jonathan Asshole • There Was Sunshine • Fresh Dog • Drugged Out Angel • The Ogre • Ms. Brown’s Robot • Dada • You Can Sing a Silly Song

Key Markets Hometown: Athens, Washington DC. Also: Brooklyn, Chapel Hill, Chicago, Portland, Bloomington, Providence

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nail welcomes THE FEVER ZONE to its roster!

Kind offerings of happy fun sound from the Army Navy band. Pleasure for ears and mind. Celebration awakenings for friends.

ARMY NAVY ARMY NAVY

Press Quotes “Songs you need to download now! Army Navy ‘Saints’: a splashy jangle of distorted guitars and winsomely defiant vocals—like Teenage Fanclub’s Bandwagonesque all jacked up on Mountain Dew—that’s the feel-good nonhit of the winter.” — SPIN “Army Navy follow in a direct line from The Zombies to Teenage Fanclub, with brief detours for The Posies, Redd Kross, My Bloody Valentine, Blur, and the like, layering heavy, distorted guitars, pounding rhythms and oh-so-sad and sweet vocal melancholy into rock and roll bliss.”

— Other Music

Selling Points

Army Navy Army Navy Genre: Alt Rock Label: The Fever Zone CD: FZN 1 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30

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Featured Artists Justin Kennedy: vocals, guitar Ben Gaffin: bass Louie Schultz: guitar, keyboard, vocals Doug Randall: drums, vocals Pete Thomas: drums

Track Listing • Dark as Days • My Thin Sides • Saints • Slight Of Hand • Unresponsive Ears • Snakes Of Hawaii • Ignite • Pocket Boys • Jail Is Fine • In The Lime • Golden Fisted Pony • BONUS TRACK: Get Right Back

Key Markets Hometown: Los Angeles Also: Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, New York, Athens, Jacksonville, Austin, Atlanta, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Providence, Dallas, Phoenix

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• Contains “Slight of Hand” as heard in the film Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist starring Michael Cera and Kat Dennings. The band will also appear on the film’s soundtrack.

• Produced by Adam Lasus (Yo La Tengo, Helium).

• Features drumming by the legendary Pete Thomas of Elvis Costello & The Attractions.

• First album release from Justin Kennedy (of Pinwheel, co-fronted by Ben Gibbard).

• Full press & online campaign by Big Hassle (Nirvana, Blur).

• Full college and specialty radio campaign by Pirate! Promotions.

Overview The music of Army Navy is best described as impeccably crafted melody over blankets of guitar fuzz that create a delicate balance between melancholy and joyful resignation. For inspiration, the band looks to groups from the past like Teenage Fanclub, The Smiths, The Posies, and The Libertines while still keeping a firm eye on the future.

Aided in the studio by producer Adam Lasus (whose previous credits include Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Helium, and Yo La Tengo), the band eschewed the major label process to release its eponymous debut in the US under its own label, The Fever Zone, in the Fall 2008. With a firm lineup, an explosive live show, and a fair smattering of internet and magazine press, the band is beginning to attract a steady following in their adopted hometown of Los Angeles. They’ve shared the stage with such acts as The Arctic Monkeys, Wolfmother, and Teenage Fanclub, and have recorded an exclusive song to be on the soundtrack of the new Michael Cera movie Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist. The band’s advice to fans of indie pop everywhere can be echoed by a review in Pitchfork, which urges people to “catch a whiff of Army Navy’s sweet jangle.”

“There’s sunshine in those guitars, but their melancholia can only stem from souls rooted in a country where tinned meat is considered family food.”

— NME

COOL HAND LUKE Press Quotes

THE SLEEPING HOUSE

“Wake Up O Sleeper may be the sleeper album of the year. Moody and transitory, literate and poetic, emotional and outspoken, this is postmodern rock that really rocks. And more than that, it communicates.” — True Tunes

Selling Points • Have sold 40,000+ records (two albums and one b-sides collection on Floodgate Records/East West).

• Previous album, Fires of Life, debuted at #6 on the Billboard Internet Sales Charts in 2004.

• Produced by Matt Goldman (Meg & Dia, Copeland, Cartel).

• Former members of the Chariot and The Kick.

• Have toured with The Myriad, Norma Jean, Switchfoot, and As Cities Burn.

• PR handled by Biscuit PR. • Ads with Paste, Relevant, HM, Wonka Vision, Under the Radar, Skyscraper, Big Takeover, and Verbicide.

• Tracks on CD samplers from Paste, Vice, Wonka Vision, Indievision, and Long Beach Music Magazine.

• Active web presence with 40,000+ MySpace friends and 160,000+ plays on Last.fm.

Overview The Sleeping House is the third studio album from Cool Hand Luke. Darker and more aggressive than past recordings, The Sleeping House holds to the melodic-art-rock sound the band has become known for over the last 10 years and builds on it, bringing a newfound depth of music and lyrical maturity.

Centering thematically around faith and physically around the piano, the album features 12 tracks of raw, powerful instrumental rock and roll.

Produced and mixed by Matt Goldman (Meg & Dia, Copeland, Cartel, Underoath, Anathallo).

Cool Hand Luke The Sleeping House Genre: Rock Label: Lujo Records CD: LUJ 62 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

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Featured Artists Mark Nicks: vocals, drums Casey McBride: bass Joey Holman: uitar

Track Listing

“The Balancing Act chronicles Cool Hand Luke’s evolution from their early days up through two lineup changes and a slightly new direction … Assembled in this retrospective collection, CHL stand unchallenged as a sound-alike to Radiohead.

Atmospheric dream rock propelled by metal and punk-pop influences swells to impressive proportions at times.”

— All Music Guide

• Fast Asleep • Cast Your Bread • Failing In Love • Buy the Truth • The Mirror • Eye of the Storm • The City Prevails • Spirit Sing • Wondertour • The House • The Incomprehensible Sleep • Wide Awake

Key Markets Hometown: Nashville Also: Knoxville, Memphis, Atlanta, St Louis, Cincinnati, Orlando, Chicago, Charlotte, New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle

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nail welcomes DON'T PANIC RECORDS to its roster!

Don’t Panic Records is an independent label created by the members of Wax Fang to preserve the DIY aesthetic of independent music. The Louisville-based label is dedicated to like-minded artists in this age of a struggling music industry.

WAX FANG LA LA LAND

Press Quotes “The three-piece possessed a Who-like grandeur and psychedelic bent, and kept me parked in one venue for the hour. Wax Fang is epic guitar rock, with melodic solos breaking free from hypnotic loops.”

— LA Times, SXSW Review “Wax Fang … demonstrated their incredible capability and candor, defining the image and sound of the token rock power trio.”

— SPIN, SXSW Review “Wax Fang has been the band you had to see. Now La La Land is the record you need to hear.” — The Tennessean

Selling Points

Wax Fang La La Land Genre: Avant Rock Label: Don’t Panic Records CD: DPC 2 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Scott Carney: vocals, guitar, piano, kazoo Kevin Ratterman: drums, synthesizer Jake Heustis: bass, synthesizer Doug Easley: pedal steel Ben Sollee: cello, viola Cheyenne Mizzei: violin Dave Cronin: backing vocals Louisville Bach Society: choir Heather Floyd: trumpet D.W. Box: tuba

Track Listing Majestic • World War II (Pt. 2) • At Sea • Cannibal Summer • The Doctor Will See You Now • Can You See the Light? • Avant Guardian Angel Dust • Oh, Recklessness • Black & Endless Night Revisited • Wake Up, Sleepyhead!

Key Markets Hometown: Louisville Also: Nashville, Lexington, Bloomington, Chicago, Milwaukee, Columbus, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Asheville, Chapel Hill, Knoxville, Athens, Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, Memphis, St. Louis

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• Engineered by Doug Easley (Sonic Youth) at Ardent Studios.

• Mixed by Mark Nevers (Will Oldham, Silver Jews).

• Have shared the stage with My Morning Jacket, The Whigs, Spoon, Black Mountain, and Man Man. • Voted Kentucky’s Best New Band in the Boston Phoenix “50 Bands/50 States” list.

• Will appear in the Indie Rock Travel Guide alongside Sonic Youth, Art Brut, and Tokyo Police Club.

• Will be featured in the October SPIN and the Oct/Nov Fader.

• La La Land will be reviewed in Under the Radar.

• New media, print, and college radio campaign by The Planetary Group.

• Ads with Magnet.

Overview Imagine Stephen Malkmus impersonating Neil Diamond covering The Pixies, playing a guitar like Chuck Berry one second and Robert Fripp the next … and you have Wax Fang. Their debut full length, La La Land, is an epic masterpiece filled with delicate sound collages and soaring guitar riffs. The 100 tracks of kazoos swell like a swarm of ten thousand bees on “At Sea.” The thunderous, avant pop of “The Doctor Will See You Now” unites the noble families of Led Zeppelin and Brian Eno through an unadulterated marriage of sound. The instrumental fury of “Avant Guardian Angel Dust” bends your mind into an aural oblivion while the politically charged “World War II (Pt. 2)” and “Wake Up, Sleepyhead!” will leave you ready for a revolution.

ALSO AVAILABLE

Wax Fang

Black & Endless Night

CD: DPC 1 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

“An aggressive cacophony of bass, drums, and guitar reminiscent of midcareer REM, morphs in Neutral Milk Hotel territory with the addition of horns and frenetic keys. These are erratic, well-executed songs.”

— The Fader

nail welcomes MODULAR MOODS to its roster!

Based in Brooklyn, Modular Moods and sister company Shemspeed provide the perfect home for artists such as C Rayz Walz and Kosha Dillz. The label is globally conscious, producing a variety of hip-hop, rock, klezmer-jazz, and Middle Eastern music. Other acts on the roster include Y-Love, Diwon, Smadar, Balagan, and Yuri Lane. The company’s M.O. is promoting racial tolerance through music.

C-RAYZ WALZ & KOSHA DILLZ Press Quotes

FREESTYLE VS. WRITTEN

“Freestyle vs.Written is a hip-hop album meant to foster cultural solidarity between black and Jewish communities, much like Michael Lerner and Cornel West’s 1995 bestseller Jews and Blacks: Let The Healing Begin.” — Plug One “Kosha Dillz is not only a clever play on words, but also presents a rarely seen culture clash in music. He voices his political opinions on foreign affairs and oppression with fresh rhymes. This makes him a universal voice.” — URB

Selling Points • A very different kind of album, and a fresh style for the seasoned C-Rayz Walz.

• With a ’70s rock feel and a classic hip-hop vibe, this album bridges cultural and racial divides through hip-hop.

• 10% of the album sales will go to charity.

• Print and new media promotion by Modular Moods and Shemspeed.

• Radio promotion by Foundation Media.

• Ads with various Jewish and hip-hop oriented outlets.

Overview Indie hip-hop icon C-Rayz Walz teams up with fresh-faced, yeshiva-trained wordsmith Kosha Dillz for twelve tracks that mix freestyle and written rhymes; classic and new-school beats; and the frantic, fast-paced energy of a manic 24-hour recording session to produce Freestyle vs.Written, the first collaboration of its type. It’s an album that breaks borders and pushes boundaries. Songs like “I Love Jews” and “Ariel Sharon” are packed with classic hip rock samples and party moving sounds.

C-Rayz Walz is indie hip-hop’s savior, king, and master freestyle legend.

He has performed with everyone in the biz and has loads of fans around the world. Kosha Dillz is an upcoming Israeli-American hip-hop artist who has put the Zionist swagger back in being Jewish. A flashy pinky ring style and gold-star dress code, using crowd-moving beats and profound lyrics in Hebrew, English, and Spanish to shift the listener’s homeostasis, this unorthodox boom-bapist’s knowledge of emceeing brings back the pride that you might have once lost.

“Both a statement of cultural solidarity and creative openmindedness.” — CMJ

C-Rayz Walz & Kosha Dillz Freestyle vs.Written Genre: Hip-Hop Label: Modular Moods CD: MMD 41 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists C-Rayz Walz: vocals Kosha Dillz: vocals Kentron Da Mastadon: guitar, keys, bass, drums

Track Listing • Unheib • Freestyle vs. Written • Calouses of a Hustler • Holiday • Bong Bong • I Love Jews • The Foolish Path • Babywipes • Ariel Sharon • The Evolution of Fan • March to the Death • Sof

Key Markets Hometown: Indianapolis, New York Also: Boston, Chicago, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco, Atlanta, Austin, Minneapolis, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Indianapolis, Detroit, Portland STREET DATE OCTOBER 14, 2008

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WILLIAM PARKER QUARTET PETIT OISEAU

Press Quotes “Balance and teamwork distinguish every album on this list, but only a great bassist can hold your attention up against this much firepower on trumpet, sax, and drums.” — Village Voice, 2005 Jazz Year-End Top Albums “These four create palpable magic from the bubbling cauldron of empathic ensemble playing and daring solo work backed by masterful technical skill.”

— All About Jazz

Selling Points

William Parker Quartet Petit Oiseau

Genre: Jazz Label: AUM Fidelity CD: AUM 50 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 40 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists William Parker: bass, cedar flute Rob Brown: alto saxophone, B-flat clarinet Lewis Barnes: trumpet Hamid Drake: drums, balafon, frame drum

• The long-awaited new album from this incomparable quartet.

• Previous albums by this group have been hailed as “Album of the Year” by the New York Times, JazzTimes, DownBeat, Amazon.com, and more.

• In March 2007, Time Out New York named William Parker one of the 50 Greatest New York Musicians of All Time.

• Service/promotion to national press, e-media, targeted regional press, and college/non-commercial radio by Improvised Communications.

• Ads with All About Jazz, Signal To Noise, Wax Poetics, and Point of Departure.

Overview William Parker’s Quartet is the premier outlet for many immense and timeless talents. The group’s first two albums are universally recognized as exemplars of modern music masterpieces. Their third album—Petit Oiseau a.k.a. “Little Bird”—is a wholly new set of melodically, harmonically, and rhythmically advanced new Parker compositions rendered by one of the greatest jazz bands the world has had the good fortune to know. The band uses the launching pad of Parker’s indelible tunes to explore the far reaches of collective improvisation. The music is delivered in a beautiful sixpanel digipak featuring liner notes by William Parker and cover art by renowned painter David Kroll.

Track Listing • Groove Sweet (Groove #7, Hamid’s Groove, Daughters Joy) • Talaps Theme • Petit Oiseau • The Golden Bell • Four For Tommy • Malachi’s Mode • Dust from a Mountain • Shorter For Alan

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

“Riveting, nimble and innately listenable, the quartet never falters.”

— DownBeat ALSO AVAILABLE

William Parker Quartet O’Neal’s Porch CD: AUM 22 Price Code: P

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William Parker Quartet Sound Unity

CD: AUM 34 Price Code: P NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

William Parker/Raining On The Moon Corn Meal Dance CD: AUM 43 Price Code: P

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Press Quotes “Limitless in its possibilities.” — Rolling Stone “Post digital, post industrial psychedelia.” — The Wire “An amazing display of a brilliant mind at work.” — Pitchfork “Another gripping, adventurous set.” — Jazz Weekly “The results are both wonderfully mysterious and meditative.” — BBC

Selling Points • Led by Rob Mazurek, leader of such free-spirited groups as Isotope 217, Chicago Underground, Mandarin Movie, and Exploding Star Orchestra.

• Toured worldwide and performed at such festivals as Sonar, Vancouver Jazz Festival, Chicago World Music Festival, Festival Musique Actuelle, and ATP. • Mazurek has been on the cover of The Wire and received press in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, SPIN, AP, XLR8R, Chicago Tribune, Signal To Noise, Magnet, and more.

• Members also perform in the band Hurtmold, which has toured internationally and will make their debut North American release available from Aesthetics in 2009.

• Service to retail, radio, press, and music venues.

• Track #6 appeared on XLR8R’s sampler CD with issue #120 (street date August 20 th).

Sao Paulo Underground The Principle of Intrusive Relationships Genre: Electronica Label: Aesthetics CD: AES 46 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) CD Wallet; Box Lot 80 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists

Overview To describe this quartet’s music is as futile as explaining the cosmos itself.

Highlights of Mazurek’s cornet resume include Isotope 217, Mandarin Movie, Chicago Underground, the mighty Exploding Star Orchestra, and the cover of The Wire. The three Brazil natives are all percussionists, thus explaining the group’s dynamic nature. Both Mauricio Takara and Guilherme Granado additionally control samplers and electronics, as well as perform in the band Hurtmold. Granado, a true original, fronts the São Paulo band Bodes and Elephantes (Submarine Records), and has the ear of a free jazz player with the arranger’s mentality of Gal Costas.

And then there’s Richard “Hollywood” Ribiero, who drives this quartet in fifth gear similarly to Albert Ayler or Funkadelic, and also leads the power trio Sao Paulo Debate.

Starting off as a project between Mazurek and Takara with their debut release in 2006, the duo’s “walls of sound” could not be contained. Additional members joined, creating a mammoth quartet whose sound became comparable to a psychedelic walk on another planet, orbiting the cosmos near Sun Ra’s intergalactic Arkestra. After a short pause, the planetary dragons breathed fire into their free samba, thus creating a juxtaposition of texture, rhythm, and psychedelia. Brazil’s tropicalia had launched full throttle into the new millennia, where melody had morphed into a new medium of expression. Drums and horns collided at a new crossroads, and the new beast never looked back.

Rob Mazurek: cornet, electronics Mauricio Takara: percussion, electronics Guilherme Granado: percussion, electronics Richard “Hollywood” Ribiero: percussion

Track Listing • Final Feliz • Barulho de Ponteiro 1 • Barulho de Ponteiro 2 • Pulmões • Entre Um Chão e Outro • Cosmogonia • Imã • Só Por Precaução

Key Markets Hometown: Chicago Also: New York, Los Angeles,Vancouver, Montreal, Boston, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Detroit, Atlanta, Austin

ALSO AVAILABLE

São Paulo Underground

Mandarin Movie

CD: AES 38 Price Code: M

CD: AES 41 Price Code: M

Sauna: Um, Dois,Tres

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Mandarin Movie

NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Press Quotes “Don’t let the name fool you … there is nothing light about Light FM. Their debut album is loaded with enough catchy hooks to sink a battleship.”

— RockInsider.com “Light FM is a huff of cosmic dust from a planet far, far away. Led by Josiah Mazzaschi, the crackpot mastermind behind the legendary Chicago unit Motorhome, this hypnotic array of perky zingers are fueled by maddening keyboards and gooey electro-pop that combines for a sizzling salvo like The Cars crashing a surprise party for Devo. Light FM is the quintessential fuse of ’80s synth-pop, disassembled and rearranged in the 2008 digital age with all of the glamour and celebrity of the smoking hot stars in Los Angeles as its supernatural backdrop.” — TheTripWire.com “Mazzaschi has long been a talent worth watching—a sharp songwriter with memorable melodies and a distinctive guitarist.” — Chicago Sun Times

Light FM Black Magic Marker Genre: Alt Rock Label: Devil in the Woods CD: DIW 113 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Josiah Mazzaschi: guitar, vocals Kim Haden: keyboards, vocals Brian Barbier: bass Harry Trumfio: drums

Track Listing • The High • Black Magic Marker • Golden SUV • Trick • Loneliest People • Glory Daze • Shame • What Good is a Man? • IJWUTBM • Try to Make you Happy

Key Markets Hometown: Los Angeles Also: San Francisco, San Diego, Portland, Seattle, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Austin

Selling Points • Nonstop touring, with an amazing and energetic live show.

• Will appeal to fans of sensibly made, guitar-driven rock.

• RIYL: The Cars, Grandaddy, Tommy Keene, Mitch Easter.

• Press by Riot Act Media.

• Focused national radio campaign by The Lower Class Revolt.

• Targeting local websites (Bay Bridged, Deli SF, Wiretap Music) as well as national outlets (Pitchfork, Stereogum, Rock Insider, Gorilla vs. Bear, Idolator).

Overview Light FM is trying to play a trick on you. In fact, there is absolutely nothing light about this band. Buried underneath the hooks that refuse to leave your head and singer Josiah Mazzaschi’s perfect pop songwriting lurks a monster—a dark, amplified, fuzzed-out monster who can sing just as easily about depression and suicide as he can about love and California sunshine.

But what sets Light FM’s music apart is that there’s no hipster sarcasm in Mazzaschi’s voice when he sings about death and body bags while surf rock guitar riffs shimmer over three-part Beach Boys harmonies. In fact, if you’re paying attention, it’s so earnest that it’s downright disturbing.

And that’s Light FM’s secret weapon: in an era awash with brain-numbing irony and I-don’t-give-a-fuck music personas, here comes a band who is unafraid of sincere emotion, even if it swings back and forth from a chemically imbalanced preoccupation with death to a fragile romantic idealism so tender it makes your heart hurt. Light FM is a band devoid of hipster self-awareness, either by nature or by design; a band that proudly wears its heart on its sleeve. It’s a credit to Mazzaschi’s talent that his combination of dark humor and tenderness blends so effortlessly to evoke bands like The Pixies, The Kinks, and The Cars—bands who wrote pop songs but who never shied away from noise or unconventional instrumentation.

Light FM has been playing in and around Los Angeles for the past year, sharing bills with The Spinto Band, Great Northern, Parsons Redheads, Division Day, Earlimart, and Jason Lytle (Grandaddy).

They recently completed the much-coveted Monday night residency at the Silver Lake Lounge, and have been featured in Kevin Bronson’s Buzz Bands column in the LA Times.

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Press Quotes “Rare candor, telling details, and sparse but exciting arrangements bring out the best in Stephen Duffy’s wounded but resolute confessionals. Wake up and smell the Lilacs.”

— Daily Mirror

Selling Points • Service to press, television, and radio.

• Packaged in a gorgeous 36-page hardcover book measuring approximately 7¼” tall and 5½” wide that includes lyrics, photos, and more. CD is housed in a sleeve attached to the inner back cover.

Overview Stephen Duffy releases his first album since writing for Robbie Williams!

Track Listing Another Time • Driving Somewhere • A Dream of a Girl • Desert Shore • Dark Squadrons • Until I Kissed You • Aldermaston • Pruning the Vine • Happy Go Lucky • Parliament Hill Fields • No Direction • The Kite and The Sky

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

Stephen Duffy & The Lilac Time Runout Groove Genre: Folk Label: Fulfill CD+Book: FCD 104 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Hardcover Book; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Press Quotes “Stephen Duffy is a craftsman who combines easygoing pop tunes with a piercing turn of phrase. This is an album that pop fans will fall in love with.” — The Mail On Sunday

Selling Points • Service to press, television, and radio.

• Stephen Duffy is well known for his work with Robbie Williams and Barenaked Ladies.

Overview

Stephen Duffy & The Lilac Time Happy Birthday Peace EP Genre: Folk Label: Fulfill CD: FCD 107 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

Stephen Duffy & The Lilac Time release an EP from the album Runout Groove. Stephen Duffy is a legendary singer-songwriter who recently co-wrote Robbie Williams’ new album and has contributed tracks to most of the Barenaked Ladies’ albums. The Lilac Time was formed by Stephen Duffy with his brother Nick Duffy.

Track Listing A Dream of a Girl • Aldermaston • The Bird Call & The Sensitive Flame • Talkin Pessimism & Pain Blues • Runout Groove

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

NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

STREET DATE OCTOBER 14, 2008

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Press Quotes “Tim Hecker plays with pink-into-white noise, tinkling synths that float between the speakers, the occasional over-the-airwaves voice, and knotty samples of guitar with the Earth-drone pedal pushed to the jet-black metal.”

— Pitchfork “Tim Hecker’s deft hand at creating textural masses where melodic beauty, even tenderness, and granular noise coexist in a manner that inevitably invites comparison to Fennesz.” — Stylus “[Aidan Baker creates] an intriguing exploration of worlds of tactile sensualism … and a deeper look at the inner forces and powerful unseen drives that lurk below. It’s a dense and prickly world.” — Dusted

Selling Points

Aidan Baker & Tim Hecker Fantasma Parastasie Genre: Avant Rock Label: Alien8 Recordings CD: ALI 81 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 45 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

LP: ALI 81 Price Code:V (SRP $22.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Aidan Baker: guitar, electronics Tim Hecker: electronics, guitar

Track Listing CD: untitled tracks 1–66 LP: untitled tracks 1–7

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

• Tim Hecker is one the major figures in the genre of experimental electronica. His last full length, Harmony in Ultraviolet, was voted #14 in the Pitchfork list Top 50 of 2006.

• Aidan Baker is the founding member of ambient doom band Nadja.

• Extensive promo materials will be sent out to print and electronic media outlets as well as college radio.

• Ads with various outlets.

Overview This release sees the pairing of Aidan Baker and Tim Hecker, two of Canada’s brightest musicians currently operating in the world of abstract electronic music.

Tim Hecker has been enjoying the rewards of a stellar career and discography, void of filler, due to his incredibly high quality control. His most recent full length, Harmony in Ultraviolet, was viewed as a major release in the genre of experimental-electronic music.

Aidan Baker works under very different circumstances, releasing material both as a solo artist and as a member of the duo Nadja—in abundance on par with that of Merzbow or the late Muslimgauze. Thankfully, Baker has the ability to record and write new music quickly without sacrificing the quality of his art.

One listen to this release and it is fairly evident how these two artists came to collaborate in the first place. It is immediately apparent that both artists have a penchant for creating an incredibly powerful blend of ambient noise.

ALSO AVAILABLE

Nadja Radiance of Shadows CD: ALI 72 Price Code: Q

NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

CD: ALI 67 Price Code: M NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Tim Hecker

CD: ALI 47 Price Code: M

CD: SBS 3 Price Code: M

NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Touched

Tim Hecker Mirages

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Nadja

Haunt Me

NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Selling Points • A quick follow up to critically acclaimed debut Cult of Ruins.

• Mastered by James Plotkin (Khanate).

• Service to college radio as well as print and electronic media outlets.

Overview Not long ago, we announced the birth of this fantastic new band from Montreal, whose debut release fused black metal and noise to astonishing results. Their sophomore release sees the duo eschewing howling vocals and blast beats, replacing them with majestic songs based around Genevieve’s vocal style and an anthemic medieval music that bears more resemblance to neo-folk.

Track Listing One Too Many • This Place of Power • The Die Is Cast • Surface Vessel • Dismantling • Utterly Destitute • The Bosom of the Earth

Menace Ruine The Die Is Cast Genre: Metal Label: Alien8 Recordings CD: ALI 82 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 45 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Selling Points • First-time collaboration by two old-school pioneers of heavy electronics.

• Service to college radio, print, and electronic media outlets.

Overview

Zbigniew Karkowski & Daniel Menche Unleash Genre: Experimental Label: Alien8 Recordings CD: ALI 78 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 45

Daniel Menche, long regarded as one of the heaviest hitters in the North American noise movement, has been riding a wave of well-received records over the last few years. Zbigniew Karkowski is an ex-member of the Hafler Trio and a student of legendary composers Iannis Xenakis and Pierre Boulez. When asked about the outcome of their recent collaboration, Menche remarked that it was over the top, with an old-school feel, and went on to make comparisons to a sound akin to an instrumental Whitehouse.

Track Listing untitled tracks 1–6

NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Selling Points • Part of an ongoing series that has included Bonnie Prince Billy, Robert Lippok, Papa M, Tren Brothers, Oren Ambarchi, Goldmund, and more.

• Radio promotion and national press campaign by Western Vinyl.

Overview Pierre Bastien is well known for his orchestra of musically gifted robots. Driven by electric motors, the machines deliver stuttering rhythmic loops imbued with an emotional, honest quality not found in much of today’s loop-based music. The nine tracks here have been selected from Bastien’s soundtracks to Karel Doing’s films.

Track Listing The American on the Highway • Visions of Shanghai • The Girl from Surinam • Energy Energy • Turkish Boys at the Harbour • Tides • The Thermodynamic Orchestra • South African Lady • Bubblin’

Pierre Bastien Visions of Doing Genre: Experimental/Jazz Label: Western Vinyl CD: WVR 53 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) CD Wallet; Box Lot 40 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

STREET DATE OCTOBER 14, 2008

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Press Quotes “A whole lot of beauty and sadness … and the blast/breakbeats have been substantially modulated in favor of oozing synth melodies. “ — Village Voice “A record shop in a blender, and the juxtapositions are giddy, energetic, and smart.” — New York Times “At its core, House is a record about the psychology of claustrophobia, about feeling uncomfortable in that tiny box this band calls home. Here, characters are trapped in horrible lives, hiding from endless wars, boarding themselves up in houses and eventually, NSFW, rotting to death (check the album-opener).” — Pitchfork

Genghis Tron Board Up the House Remixes 2 Genre: Metal/Electronica Label: Lovepump United LP: LPU 20 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Mookie Singerman: vocals, keyboards Michael Sochynsky: keyboards, programming Hamilton Jordan: guitar, programming Dntel: programming CFCF: programming Circle: live remix instrumentation Tobacco: keyboards, programming

Track Listing • Tobacco: Relief • Circle: Recursion • CFCF: Recursion • Dntel: The Feast/Ergot

Key Markets Hometown: Philadelphia Also: New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Denver, Atlanta, Austin

“With its fat-ass layered Moog and screamo-belto alternations and sixminute length and tension-building ascent to its mountainous closing riff, the title track off Board Up the House is the most epic song I’ve heard this year … Without compromising a bit of the trio’s uniqueness, Board Up the House catapults Genghis Tron past any accusations of gimmickry and establishes them as a fucking great metal band, whichever modifier you attach to the term.” — Prefix

Selling Points • Second volume of a five-part series on Relapse Recoords, Anticon Records, Temporary Residence, and Crucial Blast.

• Remixes of Genghis Tron’s critically acclaimed Board Up the House.

• Limited to 1,000 copies.

• Features Dntel (Postal Service), Tobacco (Black Moth Super Rainbow), Circle, and CFCF. • Colored vinyl with exclusive artwork by Jon Beasley of OSK Design.

• Relapse Records will handle all promotion for the five-volume project.

Overview This is the second of five super limited 12” remix records that Genghis Tron is releasing in 2008. By participating in this project, Lovepump United finds itself in the staggering company of Temporary Residence Ltd, Relapse Records, Anticon Records, and Crucial Blast. Each volume will be limited to 1,000 copies, pressed on colored vinyl. Board Up the House cover artist Jon Beasley will be providing each remix album with alternative artwork.

The second volume features Black Moth Super Rainbow mastermind Tobacco, The Postal Service’s Dntel, Finnish psych-metal legends Circle, and Montreal’s remix extraordinaire CFCF (HEALTH, The Teenagers, Crystal Castles).

ALSO AVAILABLE

Genghis Tron

Board Up the House 2XLP: LPU 16 Price Code: 2F

NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Press Quotes “Indian Jewelry’s music is surprisingly coherent. Underneath the rowdy synthesizers and absurdist lyrics, a steady pulse prevails.” — Washington Post “Indian Jewelry have invented their own sonic language through which to pump all their endless paranoia, panache, and aplomb. Must be scary to be the competition.” — Tiny Mix Tapes “The band brings some disparate sounds together to create an album that works really well as a whole, twisting and turning and even cavorting on a spacey trip to nowhere and everywhere.” — Prefix

Selling Points • Indian Jewelry’s debut LP Invasive Exotics sold out on LPU in less than 6 months.

• Free Gold is available on CD from We Are Free (Yeasayer, Ponytail).

• Indian Jewelry has been on tour nonstop since March 2008!

• We Are Free pushed a full PR and college radio campaign in May 2008.

• LPU ads in Skyscraper, Impose, Pitchfork, and Insound.

Overview It may have been a while since you last heard from Indian Jewelry. In 2006, several members of the band’s songwriting and performance team found the bitch of fame licking them on the hand. Blinded by vanity, easy fame, self-love, and the internet, they went into an early retirement.

For the last two years, they have holed up between a private compound in Chicago and a private residence in Houston. There, they put a light to the holes in their shoes and set to work on a perfect vision of the future. In this time, many people have attempted to wear their clothes and walk their dogs.

Stop! These dogs can walk themselves.

Keep your ears open for the dulcet thunder. Free Gold is just a key. A key to a perfect vision of the future. This vision is known by many names. Dog Cult.

Many-Headed Persons. Blockhead. Free Gold was made to show you one simple thing: you have the power! It is in your hands, within your reach.You don’t have to walk alone. Indian Jewelry was gone, but now they’re coming back and there’s going to be a bloodbath.

Indian Jewelry Free Gold Genre: Alt Rock Label: Lovepump United LP: LPU 21 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Tex Kerschen: vocals, guitar, drums, synth Erika Thrasher: vocals, guitar, synth Jimi Hey: guitar Brandon Davis: guitar, drums, synth Michael Belfer: guitar

Track Listing • Swans • Temporary Famine Ship • Seasonal Economy • Pompeii • Walking on the Water • Too Much Honkytonking • Nonetheless • Bird Is Broke (Won’t Sing) • Everyday • Hello Africa • Overdrive

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

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nail welcomes SEMPRINI RECORDS

to its roster!

Semprini Records is a Montreal-based label founded by an avid collector of rare soundtracks. His label has grown to become one of the most unique record companies in Canada due to each of the releases defying categorization through genre crossbreeding. The cinematic quality of the albums hearkens to music of the past and responds with music that pushes ahead.

Press Quotes “A swirling experimental take on ’60s French pop. There’s a lot going on here … repeat spins reveal an adventurous and dramatic record that puts the band on par with some of their more famous Montreal homies (Arcade Fire, Malajube).” — Gorilla vs. Bear “Trippy Francophone pop purveyors conjure a tilted landscape of sound—a bold debut with strains of avant-garde musical elements battling for space within the heady compositions.” — Exclaim “The band’s exciting, experimental synth-pop borrows liberally from French chanson, turbo-charging it with lush psychedelia, soul, swooning ambience, and noise.” — The National Post “A beautiful blend of seductive ’60s French pop and Farfisa/Mellotron wonky psychedelic delight … a treat of an album.” — The Organ UK

Pas Chic Chic Au Contraire Genre: Alt Rock Label: Semprini Records CD: SEM 7872 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

LP: SEM 7992 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Roger Tellier-Craig: vocals, guitar, keyboards Marie-Douce: vocals, Farfisa, mellotron Radwan Moumneh: guitar, keyboards Eric Gingras: bass Eric Fillion: drums

Track Listing • Haute Infidélité • Tes Clichés Déclenchés • En Chaine Et En Vogue • Mlle Mille • Aude Aux Ondes • Vous Comprenez Pourqoui • Se Mirer Mare • Haydée Morcelée • Brise Méprise • Plein Soleil

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Selling Points • Former members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Set Fire To Flames, Fly Pan Am, and Cursed.

• Nominated for Canada’s Polaris Prize and Gamiq Awards.

• LP on 180-gram vinyl.

• US tour dates in early 2009. Performance at this year’s CMJ Festival.

• College radio mailing. Publicist hired for web and print media.

• Ads with US and European web and print outlets.

Overview Pas Chic Chic is a band apart, formed in Autumn 2005. After the release of their first 7” single in 2006, they quickly gained the reputation as one of Canada’s brightest new acts and found themselves embraced by the online tastemakers worldwide, despite their lyrics being in French. The Montreal quintet’s lineup features former members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Set Fire To Flames, Fly Pan Am, and Cursed, and sees the group venturing in new directions previously unexplored in their rich musical past.

Debut album Au Contraire was released in Canada on the 50th anniversary of the BBC founding the Radiophonic Workshop that was created for the purpose of experimenting with new ways of using electronics to create new forms of music. Pas Chic Chic now continues where the BBC left off.

With echoes of Roxy Music, Neu!, Os Mutantes, Francois de Roubaix, and My Bloody Valentine, the band weaves through their influences while creating a whole new vein of pop. The enigmatic French male vocals evoke a darkened Serge Gainsbourg, only for the ethereal singing of MarieDouce to bring back the Technicolor. Their fractured melodies, cinematic arrangements, driving rhythms, and retro-futuristic synths simultaneously bring to mind psychedelia, shoegaze, and tropicalia.

This is pop music with one foot in the past and the other in the distant future.

Press Quotes “Pas Chic Chic’s sound is at once huge and ethereal.” — Eye Weekly

Selling Points • Black vinyl packaged in a cardboard cover and plastic sleeve.

• Former members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Set Fire To Flames, Fly Pan Am, and Cursed.

• Video available, directed by Adam Gollner.

• College radio mailing. Publicist hired for web and print media.

• Ads with US and European web and print outlets.

Overview The first single off Pas Chic Chic’s highly anticipated debut album! “Haydée Morcelée” blends avant-garde electronic swirls, ’60s French pop, and shoegaze with an expertise rarely heard in today’s indie music scene. The exclusive non-album track “Blindé D’Attention” is equally as daring, with it’s Krautrock-meets-Sixties pop sensibility. Although sung in French, these two songs validate all the praise the band received and demonstrate their ability to win over English-speaking fans.

Track Listing

Pas Chic Chic Haydée Morcelée Genre: Alt Rock Label: Semprini Records 7”: SEM 7972 Price Code: D (SRP $6.99) 7” Sleeve; Box Lot 50 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Haydée Morcelée • Blindé D’Attention

Key Markets New York, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, Seattle, San Diego, Washington DC, Boston, Austin, Cleveland, Miami, Portland, Baltimore, Minneapolis

Press Quotes “An album fans of Björk, Joanna Newsom, and Jolie Holland will love without reservation … appropriating French chanson, Weillian cabaret, Waitsian noir, tango, eastern European folk, twisted jazz, and Broadway musicals.” — Sunday Times

Selling Points • Black vinyl packaged in a cardboard cover and plastic sleeve.

• Video for the single “The Owl Moans Low” pushed through online media.

• Full US publicity and radio tracking done through Crammed Discs.

• Digital marketing campaign through blogs and webzines.

Lonely Drifter Karen The Owl Moans Low Genre: Alt Folk Label: Semprini Records 7”: SEM 8002 Price Code: D (SRP $6.99) 7” Sleeve; Box Lot 50 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview The Owl Moans Low is a Semprini Records-only release available for everyone south of the border. “The Owl” is the first single from Lonely Drifter Karen’s album and the extremely limited 7” vinyl also features two exclusive non-album tracks. Lonely Drifter Karen revolves around Austrian born singer/guitarist Tanja Frinta. Bewitched by the musicals she saw as a child, she started writing her own songs after listening to a lot of folk, German cabaret music, and punk rock.

Track Listing The Owl Moans Low • Stray Melodies • River

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

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nail welcomes SIGNED BY FORCE to its roster!

Signed By Force Records is a new Montreal label that caters to the louder side of the indie music scene. Every release pushes the envelope through a different vein of punk and hard rock, and shows that there is still plenty of room for innovation. This is forward-thinking rock ‘n’ roll that rips holes through the ozone layer without even trying.

Press Quotes “This is enlightened, intelligent primitivism without the shtick, and this band sounds ever more like it’s one focused song away from the dreaded breakthrough hit.” — Montreal Gazette “A forceful, no bullshit stomper that comes off like the Strokes fucked up on whiskey and uppers. Loud, brash, and full of fire, Cold Burns is an accomplished record from a band that deserves to be heard.”

— Now Magazine “It’s adventurous enough to make the case that the Arcade Fire, Besnard Lakes, and Wolf Parade aren’t the only reasons to move to Montreal.

That the disc also rocks like fuck is no accident.” — The Georgia Straight “There’s not nearly enough sex-crazed blues punk in this world, so we’re damn lucky to have Montreal’s Starvin Hungry flying the flag—and with style.” — Toronto Star

Starvin Hungry Cold Burns Genre: Rock Label: Signed By Force CD: SBF 7432 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

Selling Points • Recorded by Jace Lasek of The Besnard Lakes.

• US tour in early 2009.

• Nominated for Canada’s Gamiq Awards for Best Rock Album.

• LP on 180-gram vinyl includes digital download card.

• Cover artwork by comic artist Billy Mavreas.

• College radio mailing. Publicist hired for web and print media.

• Ads with US and European web and print outlets.

• Promotion via MySpace and Last.fm.

NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

LP: SBF 8012 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists John Milchem: vocals, guitar Scott Mucklow: guitar, backing vocals Dave Lavoie: bass, backing vocals Spencer Warren: drums

Track Listing • Ghost Witness • Chicken Fly • Left Hand Endeavor • Some Kind Solution • More • The Triumph of Non • Yr Punk Rock • Pink/Black • Well Below the Bottom • The Hammer • P.B.

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Overview “Punk rock” is too small a phrase to contain Starvin Hungry’s second album. The Montreal quartet has consumed influences from every era of rock to cook up something that recalls the highly individualized “thinking man’s punk” of early pioneers like the Voidoids, Wire, and The Wipers, as well as the ferocious sexual splatter of The Stooges and Pussy Galore.

Cold Burns brings something new to the table through the use of alternately tuned guitars and unusual chord changes served on a warm plate of classic hooks and danceable punk. Recorded by the infinitely versatile Jace Lasek of Besnard Lakes fame, this is the sound of rock ‘n’ roll moving backward and forward.

Originally formed as a two piece by singer/guitarist John Milchem and his twin brother Glen Milchem (drummer of Blue Rodeo), Starvin Hungry gradually expanded the formation to a four-piece that has had members of D.O.A., SNFU, Deadly Snakes, Soft Canyon, and Tricky Woo in its evolving lineup. The band’s current incarnation has cemented their reputation as one of Canada’s hottest live acts, and recently toured the US with the Besnard Lakes.

Press Quotes “They find the previously nonexistent common ground in your CD collection between Big Black and Bis, crafting a perfect radio-ready hook and then burying it in screeching noise that ensures the song will come nowhere near an actual radio, coming off like Fountains of Wayne Kramer.

These days, music this fun is usually made by assholes in cheerleader costumes—find it with four guys who look like IT dudes instead.”

— Paper Thin Walls “Post-punk fractures and rhythms plus frantic enthusiasm label this music as very ‘modern’ indeed. Layers of fuzz ride out on rapid waves from feedbackheavy guitars, landing in the lap of percussion so violent that they blend with it, softening edges but creating new shapes and suggestions of edge in the spaces between the guitars, the synths, the drums, and the singer’s frantic, feverishly earnest voice.” — Splendid

Selling Points • Mixed by John Congleton (The Paper Chase).

• Mastered by Devin Ocampo at Silver Sonya.

• US tours throughout Fall 2008.

• Multiple videos planned to accompany release.

• Publicity by Yarr! PR. • Radio by Fanatic Promotion.

Overview Put Brainiac, Orson Welles, Pere Ubu, Prince, Mick “Cactus Jack” Foley, and Nikola Tesla into a wrestling ring for a battle royale. Who’d win? Well, Mick Foley, because he actually has the training. But the real answer is “the listening public,” because the gigantic universe-defending robot that would rise from the sum of these parts like the vehicle-based Voltron would be IfIHadAHiFi, a wall of noise hiding instantly infectious hooks, dance beats, and broken bones.

Things never come easy for an antagonistic lot trying to write pop songs about weird science, roadside Wisconsin, and true crime. But since 2000, HiFi have slowly built a loyal core following via two full-length CDs, a split LP with Modern Machines, five national tours, gobs of college radio play and positive press—including a spot in Alternative Press’ 100 Bands You Need To Hear In 2005—as well as an always-captivating and combustible live show. If IfIHadAHiFi were a recently canceled Joss Whedon TV series, the letter-writing campaign to bring them back on the air would be fervent, long-sustaining, and a bit vulgar. But that’s the HiFi all over—too annoying and stubborn to go away.

2008 brings the release of the band’s third full-length, Fame By Proxy, which ups the pop-noise ante as far as it’s ever been upped in the group’s eight-year history. Recorded by Shane Olivo in Milwaukee, mixed by John Congleton (The Paper Chase) in Texas, and mastered at Silver Sonya in DC, the disc brings more hooks, more obtusely nerdy subject material, and more tinnitus. More touring is in the works, too, and it’s sure to bring more chaos, and more cacophony. Just another year in the life of IfIHadAHiFi.

IfIHadAHiFi Fame By Proxy Genre: Alt Rock Label: Latest Flame Records CD: LTF 22 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists DJ Hostettler: drums, vocals Christopher Van Gompel: guitar, vocals Josh Davis: basses, vocals, keys, guitar Michael Marchant: guitar, keys, bass, vocals

Track Listing • Defenestrate Me • Paradise By the Paulding Light • Your Head on a Ratings Spike • Black Holes Resonate (In B-Flat), Baby • Get Killed, Get Noticed • Creative Lessons In Accounting • Science Depends On Us • You Can Dig a Thousand Holes, But It Takes a Body To Make a Grave • Song for the Dead Millionaire • Success! Success! Success!

• 99 Probalos

Key Markets Hometown: Milwaukee Also: Madison, Chicago, Bloomington, Oakland, San Francisco, Columbus, Cincinnati, Seattle

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Troubled Hubble A Happy Day Went Off the Cliff

Troubled Hubble Penturbia

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Latest Flame Records CD: LTF 9 Price Code: D (SRP $6.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Latest Flame Records CD: LTF 1 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

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Quirky indie-pop rarely feels this fun and carefree. Includes a demo version of “I’m Pretty Sure I Can See Molecules,” which later appeared on Making Beds in a Burning House.

Debut full-length from Chicago indie-pop band features “I Love My Canoe” and “Nancy.” Sugary pop bliss.

The Gunshy There’s No Love In This War

The Gunshy Souls

Genre: Alt Folk Label: Latest Flame Records CD: LTF 20 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

Genre: Alt Folk Label: Latest Flame Records CD: LTF 11 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

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From 1943 until 1945, Paul Arbogast spent his days preparing for, fighting, recovering from, and again fighting a war. The songs that comprise The Gunshy’s (Matt Arbogast) There’s No Love In This War are based on 17 letters Paul wrote to a girl he met at the Ukranian Club the year before he left.

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An intense tour schedule of over 200 shows in 2004 led The Gunshy to the purging, emotional Souls. From the whispered opener to anthemic, soaring violins and vocals, The Gunshy has created an amazing album about love and desperation.

The Gunshy No Man’s Blues

Testa Rosa Testa Rosa

Genre: Alt Folk Label: Latest Flame Records CD: LTF 8 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Latest Flame Records CD: LTF 19 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

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The Gunshy’s second full-length, and first with Latest Flame.

Ten dark and sometimes vicious songs steeped in depression and anxiety. Recorded over six months in Chicago and Lancaster, PA.

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Testa Rosa’s 10-song debut disc has been gaining a ton of praise. Beautifully arranged vocal harmonies over infectious, orchestral pop arrangements that remain in your head.

Mustangs and Madras La Lechuza

Protest Hill The City Echoes Our Hearts

Genre: Punk Label: Latest Flame Records CD: LTF 18 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

Genre: Alt Folk Label: Latest Flame Records CD: LTF 17 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

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Proud rock: at times chaotic and anthemic; always determined.

Mustangs and Madras are what guts, sweat, and blood are supposed to sound like.

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Debut solo record from Ryan Heise (System and Station).

Stripped-down arrangements, falsetto vocals over piano, and acoustic guitar with bass drum/tambourine accompaniment make this a contemplative, beautiful soundtrack for a Sunday afternoon.

Skull Time Skull Time

System and Station Here Is Now

Genre: Punk Label: Latest Flame Records CD: LTF 16 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Latest Flame Records CD: LTF 15 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30

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An incendiary live show, manic vocals, and more guitar hooks than your older brother’s vinyl collection could possibly contain.

You want punk with a touch of Thin Lizzy? It’s Skull Time.

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An exuberant rock record that blends Jehu-esque guitar, melodic and lilting vocals, and an unrelenting rhythm section.

The Slats Boom Patrol

The Slats Pick It Up

Genre: Punk/Pop Label: Latest Flame Records CD: LTF 14 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Latest Flame Records CD: LTF 7 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

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Boom Patrol is the latest rollicking offering from the Minneapolis skronk masters. Brimming with anthems that create a unique territory somewhere between GBV-type shortakes, Beastie shouts, and Archers-esque rock squall.

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Fifteen tracks of punky, hard-rockin irreverence from this Iowa City trio.

Brief Candles They Live We Sleep

The Dials Flex Time

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Latest Flame Records CD: LTF 13 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30

Genre: Punk/Pop Label: Latest Flame Records CD: LTF 12 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

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A loud-as-hell indie rock band with a rhythm section built by the gods and guitars so graceful and melodic they make your ears actually cry.

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Thirteen kinetic, punky songs with a pop edge comprise this supercharged debut. An indelible debut for a band with limitless potential.

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Press Quotes “[Jaina’s songs] are carved from nostalgia, but with polished, adult themes.

His voice is urgent yet ultra-melodic.” — The Oregonian “The blend of clarinets, accordion, violin, keyboards, random percussion, and guitar sounds like the anthems made for the most glorious hobo nation on earth—sort of Tom Waits playing at a kangaroo carnival, with brief interruptions for the funeral of Paul Simon and Elvis Perkins.”

— Seattle Weekly

Selling Points

Nick Jaina A Narrow Way Genre: Alt Rock/Folk Label: Hush Records CD: HSH 85 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) CD Wallet; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

LP: JLO 72 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Nick Jaina: guitar, piano Nathan Langston: violin William Joersz: upright bass Jason Leaonard: vibraphone, percussion Sean Flynn: electric guitar, lap steel Scott Magee: drums, clarinets John Whaley: trumpet

Track Listing

• Touring nationwide.

• Recorded live to two-track analog tape.

• Featuring members of Loch Lomond, Run On Sentence, and Shoe Shine Blue.

• 180-gram audiophile quality vinyl pressing limited to 500 copies.

• LP has expanded artwork and comes with a coupon for a free digital download of the album!

• Ads with vinyl-centric blogs/sites.

• Full PR campaign servicing to over 100 media outlets.

• Full college radio mailing from AAM. • Serviced to a list of over 250 blogs.

Overview 2008 will have seen the release of two Nick Jaina albums. The first, in the spring, was Wool, an album of piano ballads and lullabies. Now, from Hush Records, comes his second album of the year: A Narrow Way, a full-band album featuring aggressively memorable songs recorded in a unique way in order to capitalize on the energy of the live performance skills of Jaina’s band.

This album was played entirely by ten musicians in the same room at the same time, all mixed live to 1/4” analog tape. If one person out of the ten missed a note or played the wrong part, the whole take had to be done over. This lack of a safety net gave the recordings a heightened sense of focus and purpose, similar to the manner in which albums were recorded in the fifties and sixties, before the Beatles inspired everyone to overthink everything.

On A Narrow Way, every instrument leaps off the tape with immediacy and humanity. Meanwhile, the lyrics deal with the narrow path that people must take to do right in the world. There is fear all around—fear of being different, fear of being the same—and in the middle is the narrow way, a small path that may be hard to stay on, but that leads to very good things.

• A Narrow Way • Walking Into a Burning House • That’s the Kind of Fruit You Leave on the Vine • Battleground • Eleanor • Winding Sheet • I Forget My Name • That Tired Tired Lie • Singing The Devil’s Tune • Planters Field • I Know I’m Your Man

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

Nick Jaina

Nick Jaina

CD: HSH 75 Price Code: O

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Wool

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The 7 Stations

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Press Quotes “Try not to like this! You will fail.” — The Big Takeover

Selling Points • Run On Sentence will do a two-month US tour.

• Features members of Nick Jaina, Loch Lomond, and Laura Gibson’s band.

• Full PR campaign servicing.

• Full college radio mailing from AAM.

Overview Based on the songs of Dustin Hamman, Run On Sentence involves a rotating cast of musicians and can easily be a one-man show or a 12-piece extravaganza. Although band members come and go, William Joersz (double bass) has been a regular member and a major influence on the music. Other Portland artists such as John Vecchiarelli, Nick Jaina, Loch Lomond, Heroes and Villains, and Shoeshine Blue have donated band members to the project, and have been tremendously influential.

Track Listing Carrie Pt. I • Carrie Pt. 2 • November Nights • The Only Joy • The Afterlife Pt. I • Stonewall • 8th St. Music Co. • Foreign and Awkward • The Afterlife Pt. II

Run On Sentence Oh When the Wind Comes Down Genre: Alt Rock Label: Hush Records CD: HSH 84 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) CD Wallet; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Key Markets Hometown: Portland. Also: Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Omaha, Austin, Phoenix, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chapel Hill, Ann Arbor, Madison, Providence, St. Petersburg, Tampa, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City

Press Quotes “Without much effort, Tommy and the Whale strike upon a winning combination—a ramshackle blend of music-hall pop and bluesy, piano-based rock.” — All the Rage

Selling Points • “Next Twenty Years” featured prominently in ad campaign for 2009 Toyota Corolla.

• Band appears on the Sony/ATV Nashville Classic Covers Vol. 1 compilation alongside Leigh Nash (Sixpence None the Richer) and Jon Foreman (Switchfoot).

• Spotlight feature in Southeast Performer and “Band To Watch” feature in Tennessean.

• College radio and online press campaigns will promote the release.

• Ads with Magnet and CMJ.

Tommy and the Whale Shot for the Moon Genre: Alt Rock Label: Esperanza Plantation CD: ESZ 12 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Digipak; Box Lot 45 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview Three years ago, Tommy Hans left his native Florida (and former band Arkitekt) to start a new musical journey in Nashville. What began as a solo project soon turned into a “whale,” with the addition of four players who helped write and record Shot for the Moon. With Hans’ piano at the core, the pop gems that comprise this debut flourish with Americana-tinged accordion, lap steel, and brass arrangements.

Track Listing Watertowers • Fight for Our Lives • Next Twenty Years • Bright New Smile • Brothers • Crooked and Blue • For You I Did Die • Great Escape • Giving Up the Ghost • World Gone Mad • Blackout

Key Markets Hometown: Nashville. Also: Pensacola, Jackson, Memphis, Atlanta, Birmingham

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Press Quotes “A rich character assessment [by a] sharp eye.” — American Songwriter

Selling Points • Touring throughout Fall/Winter 2008.

• Special guests galore, including Justin Townes Earle (Bloodshot Records), Billy Mercer (Ryan Adams), Garrison Starr, Rollum Haas (The Features, Brendan Benson), John Deaderick (Patty Griffin, Michael McDonald), and more.

• Press, college radio, and new media promotion campaigns.

SPECIAL GUESTS

Blue Eyed Blacks Black Eyed Soul Genre: Rock Label: Chicken Ranch Records CD: CHX 1025 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99)

Digipak; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Jason Moon Wilkins: vox, guitar, bass, percussion Neilson Hubbard: guitar, keys, vox, loops Lex Price: guitar Kirk Yoquelet: drums, percussion Betsy Roo: vox John Deaderick: keys

Track Listing • Summer Scarf • The Trouble With Kate • Goldrush Heart • Wrong Thing • Black Cat Bums • OK 23 • Feeling Number 3 • Race to the Runway • Shooting Turtles • Status: In a Relationship • The First To Fall • It Ain’t Over

Key Markets Hometown: Nashville Also: Austin, Birmingham, Chicago, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Louisville, Memphis, New Orleans, Asheville, Lexington, Knoxville, Little Rock, St. Louis, Milwaukee, Oxford, Athens

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Craig Krampf: drums, percussion Billy Mercer: bass Kris Donegan: guitar, vox Judd: keys Rollum Haas: drums Eamon McLoughlin: strings Garrison Starr: vox, guitar Ryan Malina: guitar Josiah Holland: bass Justin Schipper: steel guitar Justin Townes Earle: guitar Aaron Robinson: vox

Overview Nashville-based singer-songwriter collective Blue Eyed Blacks (a name originally derived from The Jesus & Mary Chain lyrics), release their debut album on Chicken Ranch. The band is fronted by Louisiana native Jason Moon Wilkins, a fixture of the Nashville music scene for years in various roles: as an artist (with former Dedicated records band toybean), a bassist (for Josh Rouse, Garrison Starr, and others), a DJ, a tour manager, a festival organizer, and more. After a lengthy hiatus away from the spotlight, Wilkins brings his own songs back to the fore with an amazing debut album produced by Neilson Hubbard (Glen Phillips, Matthew Perryman Jones).

Jason Moon Wilkins has certainly seen some ridiculous incidents during his music career. Back in his first band, The Rest, he experienced everything from major label attention to a tour cancellation after the drummer’s girlfriend sold his drum kit for crack and lead singer Kevin Travis’ incarceration as an accomplice to second degree murder (whew...).

At the climax of it all, Wilkins decided to make the move to Nashville and made himself a regular fixture in the Nashville music scene. After a long break from the music scene he has finally returned, this time forming his own music project and recruiting many artists he had worked with in the past to help him with his dream.

Two years in the marking, this record features special guests that include folk-rock artist Garrison Starr, vocalist Betsy Roo (who co-wrote the Dolly Parton song “Jesus & Gravity”), Justin Townes Earle (Bloodshot Records), Billy Mercer (Ryan Adams), Rollum Haas (The Features, Brendan Benson), John Deaderick (Patty Griffin, Michael McDonald), and a slew of others.

Press Quotes “This baby is a scorcher. Taking a cue from two of my favorite bands—The Misfits and Hagfish—800 Octane don’t skimp on the rock or the whoawhoas.” — Fat City

Selling Points • Fifth national release. Catalog sales history of over 7,000 units.

• Produced, engineered, and mixed by Conrad Uno at Egg Studios (Mudhoney, Supersuckers, Nashville Pussy, Zeke).

• Constantly tour OR, WA, CA & MT. • Have shared the stage with known punk artists Guttermouth, Face To Face, ALL, Saves the Day, The Deviates, Sum 41, Tiger Army, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, New Found Glory, and more.

• Multiple magazine interviews and reviews scheduled for Oct–Dec 2008.

• Ads with Alternative Press, Skratch, AMP, Highwire Daze, Punk Planet, Thrasher, Mean Street, Rockpile, East Coast Rocker, Aquarian, and Illinois Entertainer.

• Have appeared on numerous compilations with artists like NOFX, Strung Out, Bouncing Souls, Millencolin, No Use for a Name, RX Bandits, Starting Line, New Found Glory, and more.

• Full color postcards handed out at all venues played.

• Heavy marketing in Portland, OR. Thousands of color postcards and posters distributed to select venues and stores.

• Service to college & city radio.

• Service to magazines, online sites, and promoters for review.

Overview 800 Octane is probably one of the hardest-working bands you’ve never heard of. Every independent band strives to make that claim, but 800 Octane has been playing nonstop for well over 14 years in a genre that goes in and out of style as often as the tide changes. Respect has been slowly earned by sheer willpower, and in return 800 Octane has been given the chance to play with many of their influences and idols including The Misfits, Tiger Army, The Living End, Guttermouth, UK Subs, H2O, Strike Anywhere, New Found Glory, ALL, Strung Out, TSOL, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Bigwig, Sum 41, Saves The Day, The Loved Ones, Poison Idea, Face To Face, Gwar, and even three appearances on the Warped Tour. Not bad for a DIY punk band that prefers zombies to politics.

800 Octane’s fifth studio album completes a trilogy of CDs recorded with Conrad Uno (of Seattle’s legendary Egg Studios). Although the title may suggest a somber series of songs to honor the dead, it’s ironically their most lively album to date, with more speed, more melody, and more variety than prior albums. With 18 tracks in just under 44 minutes, the songs and hooks come at you fast and furious. Topics range from movies and girls to monsters, and then back again before you realize it. These songs aren’t meant to change the world. They are intended to give anyone with a pulse (or without one) a chance to get their blood flowing a little bit faster.

800 Octane

800 Octane

CD: NSR 109 Price Code: N

CD: NSR 118 Price Code: N

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Genre: Punk Label: New School Records CD: NSR 133 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Dave: vocals, bass Eric: guitar Justin: guitar Dustin: drums

Track Listing • Shadows in the Night • Dial Tone • Destroy Tokyo!!!

• All American • The Hills Have Eyes • ‘Til Death • Big City, Small Scene • Death Race 2000 • T-Minus • Creature Double Feature • Dead End Road • Repercussions • The Survival Guide • Lonely • Old People • Missile Command • Great Unknown • Requiem

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The Return

800 Octane Requiem

Rise Again

Hometown: Portland Also: Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Denver, Reno, Atlanta, Tucson, San Antonio, Las Vegas, Chicago, Minneapolis, Miami

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Press Quotes “Transcendent jams that tremble with melancholic grandeur.” — Flavorpill

Selling Points

Pillars & Tongues

Protection Genre: Avant Rock Label: Contraphonic CD: CTP 74 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Arigato Pak; Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

• Features members of former BlueSanct recording artists Static Films.

• A fixture of Chicago’s free-music scene, P&T has shared stages with Tim Kinsella, Frank Rosaly, Emmett Kelly, The Cairo Gang, Princess Princess, and more.

• Have been profiled twice on Chicago Public Radio and written up in Flavorpill, Foxy Digitalis, Time Out Chicago, and Chicago Reader.

• Two-month US tour in Fall 2008.

• Extensive press & digital media campaign via Contraphonic.

• AAM radio digital servicing to college stations.

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

Overview Recalling the aesthetic employed by icons such as Pharaoh Sanders, Pillars & Tongues utilizes an organic “spontaneous composition” design. On Protection, their debut for Contraphonic, P&T presents a portrait of how the trio’s musical history has grown, peppered with considerable representations of distinctly American art and music: there is gospel and there is blues, there is folk, and there are even hints of Tonalism.

Track Listing Hall of Bliss • Dead Sings • Protection (I) • Protection (II)

Key Markets Hometown: Chicago. Also: Detroit, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Boston, New York, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Santa Fe, Albuquerque

Press Quotes “Gentleman Caller can stake an honest claim to the Velvet Underground rhythms that run through its music.” — Indianapolis Star

Selling Points • Has toured the US several times, sharing stages with Spoon, The National, Richard Swift, Juliana Hatfield, and Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s.

• Features members of Mysteries of Life, Velo-Deluxe, Brando, Brown Betty, Jorma and Movie Bare, Throwing Stars, Uvula, and Fabric.

• Full press mailing by MFT Records.

• AAM Sunday Service campaign to top 100 college radio stations.

• Ads with MusicalFamilyTree and Nuvo.

Overview With a croon that breaks hearts and a poet’s pen, Kenny Childers guides his quirky cohorts through his most skillful set of songs to date. Gentleman Caller picks up where 2006’s Until We Are Missing (Affirmation Records) left off. The epic stories and brutal truths hide in plain sight among some of the catchiest music being created today.

Track Listing The Locusts • Dress for Yourself • They Found Rita • Hotel Key • When I Am Traveling • War Drum • Honorable Mention • Mood Ring • You Should Know Better • Flaming Arrows • Lake Haunt (You’ve Still Got Me) • Tiger • A Tennessee Sky (As It Dies) • Dead Language

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

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Gentleman Caller Gentleman Caller vs.

The Elephant Genre: Alt Rock Label: MFT Records CD: MFT 106 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Digipak; Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Selling Points • For fans of Clutch, Lamb of God, and Helmet.

• Ironweed will perform at CMJ 2008 and SXSW 2009.

• Recorded at Mad Oak Studios by Benny Grotto (Roadsaw, Solace).

• Features several former members of Greatdayforup.

• Finished copies to retail, press, and college radio.

• Songs will be featured on Fuel TV, MTV, and other action sport outlets.

Overview There has got to be something in the water. That’s the only way to explain the high levels of consistently excellent, sludgy bands to come oozing out of Albany, NY. Born from the ashes of the critically acclaimed Greatdayforup, Ironweed is a veritable supergroup of local veterans. With the demise of GDFU, the core group of Mike Vitali, Brendan Slater, and Jim Feck began the arduous task of putting a band back together. Due to the concurrent demise of Albany favorite Held Under, the boys were able to add Jeff Andrews’exceptional vocal chords. The considerable skills and second guitar of Ryan Rapp (Endicott) filled out the Ironweed sound. Since 2007, Ironweed has earned nationwide recognition on the metal/stoner rock circuit, tearing up stages both big and small. Their anticipated Small Stone debut shows a band at the peak of its game.

Track Listing

Ironweed Indian Ladder Genre: Metal/Rock Label: Small Stone Records CD: SSO 85 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

This Faithless Will • Lost and Forgotten • Disconnect • A World Away • Thorn • Rid the Earth • Penny For Your Prayers • Lifeless Coil • Vertigo • Death of Me • Moth

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

Press Quotes “They have a rougher energy than [Shonen Knife]—more rock, less pop, more shouting, less harmonizing—and a more frenetic repertoire … They’re cute and noisy and I love them to pieces, not only for the warped-kawaii subject matter, but also for the balls-out enthusiasm with which they deliver it.” — PopMatters

Selling Points

Tsu Shi Ma Mi Re No-Miso Shortcake Genre: Rock Label: Benten Tokyo CD: BTY 6 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

• Highly anticipated sophomore US release.

• High quality artwork and audio production.

• College radio promotion through Apples and Cats Media.

• US tour scheduled for September/October 2008.

• Will appear at anime conventions in Atlanta (Sept 18–21) and New York (Sept 30).

• Ads with MRR, Verbicide, Razorcake, Wonka Vision, and more.

Overview This Japanese all-girl trio blends elements of punk, avant-garde, free jazz, ska, surf, and funk.

Their live show is invigorating and exciting, and audience members from all walks of life fall in love with them instantly. These girls are talented and driven to play their music in front of audiences all over the world!

Track Listing Air Control & Remote Control • Baka Ex-boyfriend • No-miso Shortcake • Yoi Tempo Desu • Cutie Beauty Kewpie • Mommy’s Song • Mr. PUNK

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

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Selling Points • Debut CD release from this established classic LA punk band with a devoted fan base.

• RIYL: The Cockney Rejects, Sham 69, Stiff Little Fingers, The Weirdoes.

• Regular show dates in and around the greater Los Angeles area.

• Publicity campaign to mainstream/alternative press and web media by Mental Records.

• Service to college and specialty alternative radio by Airplay Direct.

• Ads with Wonka Vision, Alternative Press, and AMP.

Overview

Killroy Football Chants & Angry Rants Genre: Punk Label: Mental Records CD: MTL 18 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Whoever said punk is dead hasn’t heard the all-new release from Killroy. It’s been 25 years since these young hooligans first sported their foot-high liberty spikes around the Los Angeles hardcore scene, but you’d never know it because their sound is as fresh and furious as ever. Originally inspired by early 1980s British Oi! invasion bands such as The Cockney Rejects and Sham 69 mashed up with early LA punk influences like The Weirdoes, these raucously retro sing-along classics will have you polishing up those old Doc Martens and breaking out your studded leather jacket to hit the streets for some seriously rollicking fistraising and boot-stomping action.

Track Listing Fighting in the Stands • Rush The Door • D-Generation • 99 Bottles • So What • Here We Go • Last Resort • Late Again • Heads Kicked In • Out of Control • Gas Mask • Scream/Say It With Soul • Al’s Favorite Song • Bad Man • West End Kids

Key Markets Hometown: Los Angeles. Also: San Francisco, New York, Seattle, Portland, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, Washington DC, Austin, Denver, Montreal,Vancouver, Tucson, Phoenix, Las Vegas, St. Louis, Atlanta, Kansas City, Salt Lake City, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Dallas, Houston, New Orleans, Minneapolis, Miami

Selling Points • Budget price sampler. All killer, no filler!

• Mandatory for fans of ’60s garage/psychedelia and outsider music.

• Heavy promotion to all forms of media. Anticipate heavy college radio airplay.

Overview This 30-track sampler features one representational boss track from each one of the 30 most recent Arf! Arf! CD releases. On it, you’ll hear exceptional ’60s garage and psychedelic rock, outsider music, and radically fresh soundz—the genres that comprise the musical focus of the label. This budget-priced collection is a must for anyone who wants to check out an overview of the archival label, and is a companion disc to the previously released Arf! Arf! Blitzkreig 32-Track Sampler and Arf! Arf! [El Cheapo] 2-CD Sampler.

Track Listing Starlites: I Can’t See You • Flowerz: Flyte • Pat Farrell & The Believers: Bad Woman • The Triumphs: Triumphs Theme • James & The Incredible Showmen: James Brown Boo-Ga-Loo • 6 Feet Under: Inspiration In My Head • The Five Emprees: Little Miss Sad • The Lost: When I Call • Rising Storm: Love Starvation • The Legends: High Towers • Maniacs: Now I Know • Kings Ransom: Without You • Sound Apparatus: Travel Agent Man • Peter Pan & The Good Fairies: Kaleidoscope • Animated Sounds: [Sock It To Me Baby] In The House Of Shock • 5 P.M.: How Many Days • Electrified People: Electrified People • Changin’ Tymes: Blue Music Box • Litter: Mindbreaker • Litter: Soul-Searchin’ • White Lightning: William • Victors: Little Girl • Litter: Substitute • Litter: Action Woman • James “Rebel” O’Leary: Rebel Star • Tangela Tricoli: Stinky Poodle • Caveman: Cookbook • Frankenstein Consort: Frankenstein • Erik Lindgren: No Other Way • Route 28: American Kids [Still Wanna Rock] • Bonus Track

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Various Artists Arf! Arf! 30-Track Audio Relic Sampler Genre: Garage Rock Label: Arf! Arf! Records CD: ARF 101 Price Code: B (SRP $3.99) Mini Jacket; Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Selling Points • Limited edition with deluxe embossed/debossed cover.

• Sonic Boom is Pete Kember, former member of the seminal Spacemen 3.

• Active since 1994, Julie’s Haircut is a six-piece collective hailed by Italian critics as one of the best debuts in Italian indie rock in 1999.

Overview In late September 2005, Pete Kember—historical founding member of Spacemen 3 and Spectrum/Experimental Audio Research—met Julie’s Haircut at Studio Alpha in Bologna to collaborate on the final editing of their new album After Dark, My Sweet. N-Waves/U-Waves contains, for the first time, two takes produced in that session.

Track Listing Gemini pt. 1 & pt. 2 • Scarfo Spanks DC • Sister Pneumonia • Ingrid Thulin

Julie’s Haircut/ Sonic Boom N-Waves/U-Waves [Bonus] Genre: Avant Rock Label: A Silent Place CD: SPL 19 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Slimline; Box Lot 50 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Selling Points • Fabio Orsi is one of the most talented Italian artists of the independent scene.

• Valerio Cosi is a saxophonist recently signed to US label Porter Records.

Overview

Fabio Orsi & Valerio Cosi We Could For Hours Genre: Avant Rock Label: A Silent Place CD: SPL 26 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Slimline; Box Lot 50

We Could For Hours represents the will to open the gates of the unknown. It is dark, whispered sounds and hidden truths. Everything takes form, sensations rise, objects acquire colors—a vision, distorted or not, of reality.

Track Listing We Could For Hours: Part One • Cold Fusion (In Our Fingers) • Pink Sheep Blood • We Could For Hours: Part Two

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Selling Points • Alessio Gastaldello (a.k.a. Mamuthones) was a founding member and drummer of Jennifer Gentle until late 2006.

• Fabio Orsi is one of the most talented Italian artists of the moment.

Overview The First Born is, quite aptly, the first collaboration between Fabio Orsi and Mamuthones, better known to friends and family as Alessio Gastaldello and a founding member of Jennifer Gentle, the Italian psych band signed to Sub Pop Records. Four long tracks of dark, brooding modern psychedelia.

Track Listing A Whisper • The First Born • The Battle • Infinity Within

Fabio Orsi & Mamuthones The First Born Genre: Avant Rock Label: A Silent Place CD: SPL 29 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Slimline; Box Lot 50 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Selling Points • Received four stars from All Music Guide when originally released in 2002.

• Re-released in tandem with new studio album Palaces.

• Daytrotter session scheduled for August 2008.

• Davenport will be featured on the cover of September issue of Mini magazine.

Overview

Bart Davenport Bart Davenport Genre: Alt Rock Label: Antenna Farm CD: ANT 504 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

Originally released in 2002, Bart Davenport’s self-titled solo debut album is a tour-de-force collection of songs that showcases a creative freedom bubbling over after more than a decade of writing and performing as part of band ensembles.

Track Listing Chimes • Miami Afternoon • New Cool Shoes • Terri’s Song • Sugar Pie 1&2 • A Clever Girl • Vox 1 • Beg Steal Borrow • Mannequin Bride • Art Thieves • Wheel of Love • Vox 2

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Selling Points • Includes a single-use mp3 download code for the entire album.

• Produced by Bart Davenport with help from Kelley Stoltz (Sub Pop).

Overview On his fourth solo album, Bart Davenport collaborates with kindred spirit Kelley Stoltz to deliver a work befitting an artist who has assimilated the influences of a lifetime’s worth of musicmaking. The album features stellar contributions from Stoltz, Angelina Moysov (Persephone’s Bees), and Tony Sevener & Hervé Salters (Honeycut).

Track Listing Palaces • Jon Jon • A Young One • When My Dream • Strangelife • Yoshi • Born To Suffer • Freeway Flowers • Yerba Buena • Dangerous One • Wombat’s Room • Lil’ Bunny

Bart Davenport Palaces Genre: Alt Rock Label: Antenna Farm LP: ANT 526 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 15 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Selling Points • Color vinyl limited to 500 pieces with a deluxe reverse-board jacket.

• CD version selling well.

• Fresh off US tour.

Overview

The Botticellis Old Home Movies Genre: Alt Rock Label: Antenna Farm/ Rocinante LP: ANT 525 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Deluxe LP Jacket; Box Lot 15

The Botticellis produced Old Home Movies with the help of Anton Patzner (Bright Eyes), who played violin on “Who Are You Now;” Matt Cunitz, whose museum of vintage keyboards colors the music; and Jason Quever (Papercuts), who played drums on “Flashlight” and helped capture the band’s balmy sound on analog tape.

Track Listing Old Home Movies • Stay With My Brother • When I Call • Up Against the Glass • The Reviewer • New Room • Flashlight • Tongue Is Blue • Who Are You Now • Table by the Window

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Selling Points • Featuring members of the band Pelican.

• Sending out copies for regional and national reviews.

Overview A discriminating all-instrumental compound of bubbling electronics, buzzing bass guitar, hypnotic beats, and ambient noise, Oak City is the sound of a band on the precipice of the unclassifiable, effortlessly straddling genre divisions and far-flung artistic/psychic terrain. From buoyant to buzzing, cracking to crackling, Teith run the gamut of vaguely abstracted human emotion like only musicians with computers can: carefully.

Track Listing Coffee is a Cruel Mistress • Writing With Bloody Mary • Thanx But I’m Not the Cannible • Breathe Baby Breathe

Teith Oak City EP Genre: Avant Rock/ Experimental Label:Thirty Ghosts Records CD: THG 7 Price Code: H (SRP $8.99) CD Wallet; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Selling Points • All tracks previously unreleased and unique to this release.

• Two unique collaborations: We’re All Broken, Thursday, and The Gaslight Anthem on track nine, and members of The Receiving End of Sirens and Moneen on track three.

• Contains Seaweed live footage circa 1992, submitted by fans, as a QuickTime video.

Overview

Various Artists Hours and Hours: A Tribute to Seaweed Genre: Alt Rock Label: Engineer Records CD: ENG 110 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

Seventeen bands pay tribute to the mighty Seaweed: from post-punk to metal, hardcore to indie rock, and even singer-songwriter.

Track Listing Ryan Mills: Start With • Four Star Alarm: Squint • The Company We Keep: Steadfast Shrine • Favez: Free Drug Zone • Stephen Brodsky: Chalk the Cracks • Nora: Clean Slate • Elemae: Magic Mountainman • The Action Design (ex-Tsunami Bomb): Kid Candy • The Porter: Common Mistake • Killwhitneydead: Baggage • Look What I Did: One Out of Four • The Fire Still Burns: Crush Us All • The Story Changes: Antilyrical • Worlds Between Us: Card Tricks • Joshua: Stargirl • Kane Hodder: Stagger • Rob Avery (of Boysetsfire): Losing Skin

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Selling Points • Features ex-members of #1 Defender, Slingshot Around the Moon, and Shibby.

• North American tour in 2009.

• RIYL: Saves the Day, Get Up Kids, Piebald, Hot Water Music, Weezer.

• Promos sent to press, websites, radio, promoters, and all key media.

Overview Debut EP release from The Sketch, who provide energetic, passionate live shows with melodic, catchy songs and more hooks than an eighties horror flick. The band has been compared to Saves the Day, Jimmy Eat World, and Weezer, but uses their varied influences to make a distinct sound and unique mixture all their own.

Track Listing Rotting Away • Superman Take 3 • A Thousand Times Before • Make Sure You Use It Well • It’s Gone Wrong • The Best Kid In Town + Superman Take 3 video

The Sketch Best Kid In Town Genre: Pop Punk Label: Engineer Records CD: ENG 118 Price Code: H (SRP $8.99) Digipak; Box Lot 35 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Mahmoud Ahmed The Best of Mahmoud Ahmed Vol. 2

Express Band Tiwiwik [Introduction] Genre: Alt World Label: AIT Records CD: AIT 199022 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Digipak; Box Lot 40

Genre: Alt World Label: AIT Records CD: AIT 103052 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Digipak; Box Lot 40

5% PREORDER DISCOUNT AN ALLEGRO-DISTRIBUTED TITLE

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Selling Points

Selling Points

• Volume 2 of greatest hits from this Ethiopiques superstar!

• Winner of the 2007 BBC Radio 3 Award.

• Working with a PR firm to promote via e-media.

• Produced by Ethiopia’s premier producer Abegasu Kibrework Shiota.

• Working with a PR firm to promote via e-media.

Overview

Overview

Mahmoud Ahmed’s timeless and time-tested songs in one CD— a must buy!

The daring Express Band is credited with changing the sound of Ethiopian music. Drawing on their experience with some of the most renowned bands in Ethiopia, they pioneered their own unique sound and are currently the leading band in Ethiopia.

Track Listing Derra/Ye-selalëwa • Tizita Garedew • Gichamuë • Yeshegga Lij Neger • Ney Dennun Tiseshi • Ere Mela Mela • Tiz Tiz/ Mekeran Sichilew/Eneman Neberu • Alawekshilignim

Track Listing Chinkim Mekerayë • Ye-Harr Shererit • Mignotë • Innatë Nesh• Alchalkum • Set Alamnim • Kurtun Nigerign • Ye-Hiywotë Hiwot • Sira • Libesh Kabashin • Hallo Hallo • Ye-Fikir Migib

Roha Band Best of Roha Band,Tour 90

Various Artists Sounds of Contemporary Ethiopian Music

Genre: Alt World Label: AIT Records CD: AIT 190012 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Digipak; Box Lot 40

Genre: Alt World

Label: AIT Records CD: AIT 199052 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Digipak; Box Lot 40

5% PREORDER DISCOUNT AN ALLEGRO-DISTRIBUTED TITLE

5% PREORDER DISCOUNT AN ALLEGRO-DISTRIBUTED TITLE

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Selling Points

Selling Points

• One of the most renowned bands in Ethiopia.

• Recorded during their first North American tour.

• Having produced over 250 recordings with famous singers like Mahmoud Ahmed and Alemayehu Eshete, Roha Band is a major influence on Ethiopian music.

• Features legendary Ethiopiques superstar Alemayehu Eshete as well as renowned singers like Theodros Tadesse and Neway Debebe.

• Produced by Ethiopia’s premier producer Abegasu Kibrework Shiota.

Overview

Overview

One of the best bands in Ethiopia. A must-have collection!

This superlative album offers world music lovers a glimpse into the heart of Ethiopian music. Ethiopia’s most influential singers have joined with their country’s leading musicians to bring you a wonderful collection of their greatest recordings.

Track Listing Yetikimt Abeba • Abeba Abeba • Fetieki Ile • Maebel • Kiya Kiya• Ferait Weyni • Yamral Tiletish • Gelayë Zemedë • Shew Beli Bileney • Ambasel

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Track Listing Ende Amora • Zarëm Mengedegna • Ketemaw • Yamral Tiletish • Geezzë • Lottery • Zebnanu • Ye-Minjarua Loga • Idda • BeGuddë Ewotana • Kolel • Anchiw Dereshiligne • Efoyehu

ARTHUR RUSSELL LOVE IS OVERTAKING ME

Press Quotes

“Audika’s reissue program is an act of devoted, some might say obsessive, scholarship and curatorship that deserves every bit of acclaim it’s received.”

— Pitchfork

Selling Points • Previously unreleased folk, pop, and country material (including demos cut for John Hammond Sr.).

• College and NPR radio service.

• Blog, e-media, and press service.

Overview Hailed by a two generations of listeners as one of the most important (and overlooked) songwriters of the last 25 years, Arthur Russell’s music remains as contemporary today as when it was first recorded. Over the last four years, Audika Records has diligently mined Russell’s vast archive of previously unreleased music with the critically lauded albums Calling Out of Context, Springfield, World of Echo, and First Thought Best Thought. Now, the label completes the oeuvre, showing Russell’s singer-songwriter side. Love Is Overtaking Me collects the best of the previously unreleased folk, pop, and country stylings from Arthur Russell’s archive. Compiled from over eight hours of material and three years in the making, the album includes some of Russell’s earliest ’70s compositions through to his very last at-home recordings in 1991. Several of these tracks are featured prominently in Matt Wolf ’s film Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell, including “Close My Eyes,” “Eli,” The Letter,” and “Love Is Overtaking Me.” The album is compiled from several sources, including the legendary demos made for John Hammond Sr., a demo of a country song written for Randy Travis, and the late ’80s collaboration with Steven Hall recording as Bright & Early.

Extensive liner notes from Russell’s longtime companion Tom Lee provide perspective into the intimate nature of Arthur’s process and songwriting.

“Visionary NYC composer and cellist Arthur Russell tied together the strands of classical minimalism, Eastern mysticism, and dreamlike disco pop, leaving behind a legacy of confoundingly beautiful and idiosyncratic recordings.” — Plan B ALSO AVAILABLE

Arthur Russell

Arthur Russell

CD: ADK 1001 Price Code: Q

CD: ADK 1002 Price Code: Q

Calling Out of Context

World of Echo

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Arthur Russell

Arthur Russell

2XCD: ADK 1005 Price Code: 2L

CD: ADK 1007 Price Code: N

First Thought Best Thought

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Springfield

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Arthur Russell Love Is Overtaking Me Genre: Alt Rock Label: Audika Records CD: ADK 1010 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Arthur Russell: vocals, guitar, keyboards Ernie Brooks: bass Joyce Bowden: vocals Steven Hall: guitar, vocals

Track Listing • Close My Eyes • Goodbye Old Paint • Maybe She • Oh Fernanda Why • Taking Time Away To Dream • Nobody Wants a Lonely Heart • I Couldn’t Say It To Your Face • This Time Dad You’re Wrong • What It’s Like • Eli • Hey! How Does Everybody Know • I Forget and I Can’t Tell (Ballad of the Lights Pt.1) • Habit of You • Janine • Big Moon • Your Motion Says • The Letter • Don’t Forget About Me • Love Is Overtaking Me • Planted a Thought • Love Comes Back

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RISIL

NON METERS VOL. 1 Selling Points • Risil’s revolving membership includes Guillermo Herren (Prefuse 73, Savath & Savallas), Zach Hill (Hella),Tyondai Braxton (Battles), John McEntire (Tortoise), Alejandra Deheza (School of Seven Bells), and Eva Puyuelo Muns (Savath & Savalas).

• Available as CD and limited edition LP. • Press and radio mailing by Important Records.

• Ads with The Wire and Pitchfork.

Overview Resilient: re·sil·ient Function: adjective

Risil Non Meters Vol. 1 Genre: Rock Label: Important Records CD: IPT 218 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

2XLP: IPT 218 Price Code: 2P (SRP $31.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 30

Etymology: Latin resilient, resiliens, present participle of resilire to jump back, recoil, from re-salire to leap Characterized or marked by resilience: a: capable of withstanding shock without permanent deformation or rupture b: tending to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change Risil is a collective of musicians that are all connected to each other in some form or fashion. Risil’s membership includes Guillermo Herren (Prefuse 73, Savath & Savallas), Zach Hill (Hella), Tyondai Braxton (Battles), John McEntire (Tortoise), Alejandra Deheza (School of Seven Bells), and Eva Puyuelo Muns (Savath & Savalas). The project started as a chance for a large number of people to freely collaborate without a set goal. Within a year, this turned into about 50 songs, with five different versions of each.

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Featured Artists Guillermo Herren: guitar, bass, vocals, etc Zach Hill: drums John McEntire: drums Alejandra Deheza: vocals, flute Benjamin Curtis: guitar Laurence Pike: drums Tyondai Braxton: beat boxing Robert Carlos Lange: electronics, guitar, etc Ryan Rasheed: sounds, electronics Eva Puyuelo Muns: vocals Jennipa Sola Han: field recordings

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

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Therefore, this is the first volume of Risil recordings, which will be split into three volumes based on the time each piece was made. Also available in a limited vinyl pressing of 1,000 copies.

Track Listing • Exit Risil • Breathe • Everyone Else’s World • This Air • For Zano • Better Run • Hers • Son of Yucatan • To Slow Down • Daughter of Yucatan • These Kids Will Learn Mantra • We Were Ruined Before We Began • 13th Day Cycle

Selling Points • Zak Riles is one of the four members of Grails. He was also a member of M. Ward’s band. This is his first solo record.

• Promotional mailing by Important Records.

• Ads with The Wire.

Overview Zak Riles is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist in the Important band Grails (as well as M. Ward’s band). His creative contributions to the group are immeasurable, and can be heard clearly on this self-titled debut solo outing. In fact, some of the pieces on this record have been reinterpreted into Grails favorites. As in his work with Grails, Riles’ solo work is an elaborate mansion built of inspiration, with so much strength and originality that it stands firmly on its own. On these rocky shores come crashing waves of Sandy Bull, Mogolar, Deuter, Popol Vuh, and the Ventures while Persian breeze drifts by wafting the melodies of Hossein Alizadeh. Essential listening for followers of Important Records who favor the likes of Grails and James Blackshaw.

Track Listing

Zak Riles Zak Riles Genre: Avant Rock/Instrumental Label: Important Records CD: IPT 213 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

Pacific Siren • Confluence • Res Extensa • Before the Refuge • Sand • Slack Key • Chloe NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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

ALSO AVAILABLE

Grails

Take Refuge In Clean Living CD: IPT 190 Price Code: P

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Press Quotes “Seeps into your subconscious, where it flutters like a trapped and burning moth at the back of your brain. Ghostly sounding and ominously rumbling with atmospheric threat, The Creep is an undeniably effective chunk of subterranean echo, whose quaking aftershock could cause sleepless nights.” — The Wire

Selling Points • Follow up to The Creep, originally issued by Julian Cope and reissued on Important Records after considerable accolades.

• Large promotional mailing by Important Records.

• Ads with The Wire.

Slomo The Bog Genre: Avant Rock/Experimental Label: Important Records CD: IPT 212 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Deluxe CD Wallet; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview The Bog is the second full-length release from Slomo, honing the ritual clatter of their first album, 2005’s The Creep, into a more cumbersome affair, ever heading downwards into the Northern Underworld upon slurries of unsignposted mung. Core duo Holy McGrail and Howard Marsden once again create a lumpy bed of bass-heavy synthesizer and guitar drones while Arch-drude Julian Cope provides a coda to the proceedings with the recital of his poem Land, written especially for this album.

Track Listing

ALSO AVAILABLE

The Bog

Slomo

Key Markets

The Creep

CD: IPT 85 Price Code: P

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

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Press Quotes “Aidan Baker has established a reputation as a prolific and talented guitarist in the same tradition as Fear Falls Burning’s Dirk Serries or even Robert Fripp, his many releases encompassing a wide array of styles ranging from droning metal to ambient minimalism.”

— Re:Gen

Selling Points • Double CD compiling rare and out of print solo work from Nadja leader Aidan Baker.

• Promotional mailing by Important Records.

• Ads with The Wire.

Aidan Baker I Wish Too,To Be Absorbed Genre: Avant Rock/Experimental Label: Important Records 2XCD: IPT 214 Price Code: 2E (SRP $15.99) Double Slimline; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview Aidan Baker’s I Wish Too,To Be Absorbed is a two-disc compilation of tracks from various out-of-print, limited edition releases spanning the last 10 years of Baker’s output, ranging from his very first release to material that was featured on the soundtrack to a book of his poetry.

Track Listing DISC ONE: Melusine • Esken • I Wish Too, To Be Absorbed • The Shape of Your Damage • Skein of Veins DISC TWO: Elehment #1 • K • Merge • Calibrate • Reversion • Pretending To Be Fearless • Summer Chill • Speed of Thought

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

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 • Limited edition of 500 copies, with the first 200 on color vinyl. Will not be re-pressed.

• Leah Buckareff’s riveting track is her first solo outing.

• Ads with The Wire.

Overview Trinitarian represents an attempt to break down the essence of Nadja by offering a solo track from each of its two members plus one Nadja composition: two stripped-down ambient pieces featuring single instruments (guitar and bass, respectively), plus a full Nadja composition.

Track Listing Aidan Baker: Ousia • Leah Buckareff: Hypostasis • Nadja: Perichoresis

Key Markets Toronto, New York, Montreal, San Francisco, Portland

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Aidan Baker, Leah Buckareff & Nadja Trinitarian Genre: Avant Rock/Experimental Label: Important Records LP: IPT 215 Price Code:V (SRP $22.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Selling Points • CD version, available from Stromland, has received an immense amount of critical praise in publications ranging from Pitchfork to SPIN. • Limited to 500 copies, with 200 on color vinyl.

• Ads with The Wire.

Overview This first pressing is limited to 500 copies, with 200 on color vinyl. The deluxe vinyl pressing is expanded over two records, with bonus tracks. Gatefold LP artwork by Kim Hiorthoy. Dominique Leone is a songwriter, producer, singer, lover, fighter, and musical auteur with more than a slight command of pop history and theory chops.

Track Listing Kaine • Sim • Goodbye • Nous Tombons Dans Elle • Tension • duyen • The Return • Blist • Claire • Left, The Other Left • Conversational

Dominique Leone Dominique Leone Genre: Rock Label: Important Records 2XLP: IPT 219 Price Code: 2P (SRP $31.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Selling Points • Limited edition of 700 copies housed in a gatefold jacket.

• Matthew Bower is the main member of Skullflower and Sunroof!

• Marcia Bassett is a member of Un and Double Leopards.

• RIYL: Sunroof!, Double Leopards, Skullflower, Wolf Eyes.

• Ads with The Wire.

Hototogisu Pale Fatal Sister Genre: Experimental Label: Important Records 2XLP: IPT 210 Price Code: 2P (SRP $31.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 30

Overview A Nabokovian and visceral garden of delights spread over four sides of vinyl. Recorded at Black Dirt Studios over a three-day period of hermetic isolation, this work is more detailed than any previous Hototogisu release, and conjures a heavier occult atmosphere.

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

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Selling Points • Drawings and design by acclaimed artist Aaron Turner, who toured with both Jesu and Envy as ISIS. • CD released by Daymare (Japan) and Hydrahead (US).

Overview Over 37 minutes of newly recorded music from two forward-looking bands who are entering a new phase. Both bands are unafraid of taking risks and doing new things. Envy’s three songs are even more diverse than previous classics, while Jesu mastermind Justin K. Broadrick wrote, recorded, mixed, and produced his two tracks at Avalanche from January–May 2008.

Track Listing Envy: Conclusion of Existence • Envy: A Winter Quest for Fantasy • Envy: Life Caught in the Rain • Jesu: Hard To Reach • Jesu: The Stars That Hang Above You

Envy/Jesu Envy/Jesu Genre: Avant Rock Label: Conspiracy Records LP: CNS 68 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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No-Neck Blues Band CLOMEIM

Press Quotes “A fluid orgiastic masterpiece of free-jazz and folk-drone that is flecked with raga and juju. NNCK consistently goes beyond noise and mess with an astoundingly musical improvisation that is miles from the average drum circle or tiresome jam band.” — PopMatters “This is essential listening … for anyone wishing to explore the best of what was once new and weird in America.” — Dusted “Totally infectious.” — Pitchfork “An acidhead’s powwow.” — Dream

Selling Points

No-Neck Blues Band Clomeim Genre: Rock Label: Locust Music CD: LST 113 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

2XLP: LST 113 Price Code: 2O (SRP $27.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 25 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists No-Neck Blues Band

Track Listing • Silurist 1 • The Coach House • Ministry of Voices • Walking Wind • Salai Widnalas • Ialas Salandiw • Make Love, Again • WOAIHB • La Promesse Mirucco • Silurist 2

Key Markets Hometown: New York Also: Brooklyn, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles

• First studio album since 2001’s Sticks & Stones release for John Fahey’s Revenant.

• First serious endeavor into multi-tracking and mixing a self-produced album for the legendary improvisers.

• Select advertising.

• Radio and press promotion.

Overview Locust is proud to announce the release of Clomeim, the new studio album from New York’s No-Neck Blues Band.

Clomeim is an evolution, and a vital document of change in the No-Neck Blues Band’s 15+ years of para-musical activity. This pivotal recording is a creative distillation of the collective at a new and startling saturation point.

For three rainy days in March 2007, the seven-headed hydra that is NNCK holed up in Black Dirt Studios, their newly outfitted recording studio in the foothills of upstate New York. With a discipline and a clarity of vision they’ve rarely displayed before, the collective channeled all of their energies into hours of recording live, real-time improvisation.

After months spent sculpting and recasting the raw material, Clomeim emerged—a distinct whole, recalling in its parts the communal howl of Algarnas Tradgard, the dead spirit channeling of Geino Yamashiro Gumi, the glacial shadowplay of Heresie-era Univers Zero, and Krautrock zenith Faust at their finest hour.

Clomeim is that rare hybrid—a rock exterior with a cryptic, experimental core; a dense groover; and a burning, exploratory psychedelic grimoire for the new dark ages.

“A trance masterpiece.” — The Wire ALSO AVAILABLE

No-Neck Blues Band

NNCK Meets the Clear People 2XCD: LST 98 Price Code: 2I

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Press Quotes “Flynt rethreads the sounds of early rock ’n’ roll—the rude bleat of Big Jay McNeeley’s sax, Chuck Berry’s briar patch guitar riffs, the slapback shuffle of Carl Perkins, and the propulsive piano of Jerry Lewis—and swings it overhead for his own unruly lariat. That an avant-garde thinker created music this glaringly unpretentious and wholly alive in the conceited environs of pre-punk New York is accomplishment enough … one intuits that this is how rock ‘n’ roll felt at the beginning: a sputtering, barely-controllable cyclone of dance floor energy and joyful noise.” — Stop Smiling

Selling Points • Another shining moment from the vaults of Henry Flynt.

• Print and digital press promotion.

• Full radio servicing.

Henry Flynt Dharma Warriors Genre: Rock Label: Locust Music CD: LST 114 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

Overview Dharma Warriors was the elemental guitar/drum rock concoction of Henry Flynt and C.C. Hennix. In 1983, the pair hooked up in Woodstock at Hennix’s rented house and let freedom ring with two lengthy boombox recordings. “Warriors of the Dharma” and “Mount Fuji On My Mind” are classics of unrefined blues boogie and unhemmed stoner rock.

Track Listing

NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

LP: LST 114 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25

Warriors of the Dharma • Mount Fuji On My Mind

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

NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Press Quotes “Flynt sure is one inspired performer. His plaintive lines emulate the microtonal charm of the sitar to a surprising extent.” — All Music Guide

Selling Points • Back in print for the first time since its release in 2001!

• Limited repress. First batch in special silk-screened package.

• Limited radio, print, and electronic media.

Overview

Henry Flynt C Tune Genre: Experimental Label: Locust Music CD: LST 3 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Henry Flynt is a seasoned tourist of The World of the Other Ear, and C Tune is his ringing, psychedelic meditation on/from the cosmos. Call it a sonic postcard, or call it late-night head music, or even call it ecstatic minimalism if you have to. On this 47+-minute foray, our man Flynt takes his electrified fiddle and blends droning sonic calisthenics with lonesome swing melodies and high-decibel screech with the somnambulistic playing of his expat mathematician pal Mr/Mrs. C.C. Hennix on Pran Nath Tamboura. Recorded in 1980 in an undisclosed pocket of the galaxy and now available for blissful consumption. 2008 limited release of this drone classic originally released in 2001.

Track Listing C Tune

BACK IN PRINT!

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

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Press Quotes “Remember when Guided By Voices were really good? Well, forget that for a sec because Houseguest are really good right now. Like GBV, they’re chronically catchy, and they have a similarly frayed set of production values, but they don’t leave you with that lingering sense that you’re a sucker and will listen to anything.” — Boston Phoenix “Houseguest is simply the best pop band in the country.” — McSweeney’s “While the abandon of their stage presence is something to behold, what they are capable of committing in the studio is staggeringly beautiful, skewed pop.” — PopMatters “There’s a fine line between sounding intelligent and sounding grating, particularly when lyrics are involved, but Houseguest soft-peddle the jokes and, perhaps more important, the irony. The most obvious precedent is Kurt Wagner’s work in Lambchop—all bemusement and understated intelligence.” — Dusted

Houseguest Welcome, All That’s Difficult Genre: Alt Rock Label: Audio Eagle Records CD: AER 6 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Digipak; Box Lot 45 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

Selling Points • Fourth album from Northeast Ohio’s second-favorite band.

• 14 tracks of hook-laden indie rock that recalls XTC, Guided By Voices, and Ted Leo & The Pharmacists.

• Massive publicity campaign to magazines, newspapers, websites, blogs, and freelance writers through Pirate! Promotions.

• Extensive in-house servicing to CMJ radio stations.

• Ads with Pitchfork, Stereogum, Daytrotter, and more.

NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Stephen Clements: drums, keyboards Theodore Mallison: vocals, keyboards David Rich: guitars Gabriel Schray: bass, keyboards David Whited: guitars

Track Listing • Iron Oar • Proud Utility Infielder • Over the Falls • Medieval (Af)Faire • Self-Eviction • Difficulty Club • Spiritual CPR • Carla!

• Blizzard of Jazz • Little Brother Nautilus • Our Mess (restructured) • Our Mess • Heir of the Dawg • Ex-Gentlemen

Overview Houseguest is an “adventure rock” band from Akron comprised of five awesome cuties who are all Best Friends Forever! People have told them they sound like Big Country crossed with the Minutemen, or Peter Murphy’s solo career crossed with Dire Straits. That probably doesn’t make much sense, but anyway, people seem to like it. And they are pretty funny when they get a few drinks in them. They like to take their shirts off onstage, and sometimes there’s wrestling involved.

Oh, and girls really dig them. I know five girls in particular who think these guys are God’s gift to the world of, well, everything. Seriously, you can’t get these broads to shut up about how wonderful and perfect their sons are.

Houseguest writes bad-ass songs about bad-ass shit like baseball, oceanography, haunted forests, the migration period, Native Americans, girls that aren’t their moms, and more. All sorts of cool crap. This is their fourth album, titled Welcome, All That’s Difficult. It is very, very good!

Key Markets Hometown: Akron/Cleveland Also: Chicago, Columbus, Cincinnati, Detroit, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Washington DC, Athens, Nashville, Knoxville, Atlanta, Chapel Hill

ALSO AVAILABLE

Houseguest

Various Artists

CD: AER 1047 Price Code: L

CD: AER 4 Price Code: L

High Strangeness

NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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A Compilation of Bands from Ohio

NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Press Quotes “One of the year’s most accomplished and stunning debuts.” — Stephen Thompson, NPR

Selling Points • Critically acclaimed debut available for the first time on vinyl. Limited edition of 500.

• New album, House with No Home, released by Kill Rock Stars in September.

• CD version received a 7.5 rating from Pitchfork upon its release.

• PR by Proxy Media. Ad campaign for new record by Kill Rock Stars.

Overview LP version of the stunning debut from Portland folk-songwriter duo Horse Feathers!

Justin Ringle’s voice fills a room with startling results, carrying a strength that elaborates on the burdens of broken relationships. The album’s stark honesty and open-wound vocal deliveries are as personally effecting as they are orchestrated musically, and for that credit is due to prodigal multi-instrumentalist Peter Broderick, who jumps from instrument to instrument. Influenced by such artists as Nick Drake and Nebraska-era Bruce Springsteen, Horse Feathers evokes the sound of being optimistically broken.

Track Listing Hardwood Pews • Finch on Saturday • Dustbowl • Blood on the Snow • Honest Doubters• In Our Blood • Untitled • Falling Through the Roof • Like Lavender • Walking & Running • Eyes Full of Rose • Mother’s Sick

Horse Feathers

Words Are Dead

Genre: Alt Rock/Folk Label: Lucky Madison LP: LMD 40 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

ALSO AVAILABLE

Key Markets

Horse Feathers

Hometown: Portland. Also: Austin, Nashville, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago

CD: LMD 35 Price Code: O

Words Are Dead

NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Press Quotes “Chris Otepka sounds somewhat like Built To Spill’s Doug Martsch, but also like the Mountain Goat John Darnielle with his sincere and nasal voice … a sense of perspective that trumps most navel gazing indie rockers.” — SPIN

Selling Points • Full national tours throughout Fall/Winter 2008.

• Full-length album to follow in first quarter 2009.

• Chris Otepka won a songwriting award from the National Academy of Recordings Arts and Sciences, placing second out of 1,000 finalists for the city of Chicago.

• National and tour PR by Yarrr! PR.Aggressive in-house new media and radio PR.

The Heligoats The End of All-Purpose Genre: Alt Rock Label: Greyday Records CD: GDP 33 Price Code: G (SRP $8.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview We all know that “long-awaited” is overused in band bios, but ask any hardcore Heligoats or Troubled Hubble fans and they will tell you they’ve worn out the edges of their seats waiting for the newest release from Chris Otepka, the man behind The Heligoats. On this EP, Otepka takes you to a deeper, darker place than on any of his previous endeavors. With the help of veteran musicians such as Kenny Aronoff, Michael Levin, Kara Eubanks, and more, The Heligoats’ arrangements become alive, growing and moving with the vocals and melody.

Track Listing Morning Gloree • Movieguns • Been a Drill • Kind/Brutal • You Win

Key Markets Hometown: Chicago. Also: Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, St. Louis, Louisville, Detroit, Baltimore, Madison, Minnesota, Olympia

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Get nailed... on the road Genghis Tron Board Up the House Remixes 2

Nick Jaina A Narrow Way

Rudresh Mahanthappa Kinsmen

LP: LPU 20 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) UPC: 879198002086

CD: HSH 85 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) UPC: 884501028691 LP: JLO 72 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) UPC: 751937340218

CD: PIE 28 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) UPC: 808713002829

9/19/08 Portland, ME – The Station 9/20/08 Durham, NH – University of New Hampshire 9/25/08 Grand Rapids, MI – Skelletones 9/28/08 Seattle, WA – Studio Seven 10/4/08 Portland, OR – Satyricon

800 Octane Requiem CD: NSR 133 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) UPC: 678277160729 10/31/08 Seattle, WA – The Funhouse 11/7/08 Portland, OR – Ash Street Saloon

Eri Yamamoto Trio Redwoods CD: AUM 49 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) UPC: 642623304921 10/11/08 Hartford, CT – Hartford International Jazz Festival

The Dark Romantics Heartbreaker CD: LUJ 63 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) UPC: 751937336624 9/12/08 Jacksonville, FL – Murray Hill Theatre 9/18/08 Lakeland, FL – Tuesday Music Club 9/19/08 Orlando, FL – Backbooth 9/20/08 Ybor City, FL – New World Brewery 9/26/08 Cincinnati, OH – Midpoint Music Festival

AIDS Wolf Cities of Glass CD: GRA 91 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) UPC: 647216609124 9/12/08 Montreal, QC – Sala Rossa 9/13/08 Toronto, ON – Whippersnapper Gallery

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TOURDATES

9/10/08 (early) Boise, ID – Modern Hotel 9/10/08 (late) Boise, ID – Pengilly’s 9/11/08 Salt Lake City, UT – Kilby Court 9/13/08 Denver, CO – Meadowlark 9/15/08 Wichita, KS – Fisch Haus 9/16/08 Lawrence, KS – Replay Lounge 9/19/08 Madison, WI – Forward Music Festival 9/20/08 Eau Claire, WI – The Grand Little Theatre 9/28/08 Fremont, MI – The Church 9/26/08 Burlington,VT – Monkey House 9/28/08 Boston, MA – Lily Pad 10/1/08 New York, NY – Rockwood Music Hall 10/3/08 Nashville, TN – The Basement 10/4/08 Bowling Green, KY – The Bread & Bagel 10/6/08 New Orleans, LA – Dragon’s Den 10/9/08 Santa Fe, NM – College of Santa Fe 10/11/08 Prescott, AZ – The Raven 10/12/08 San Diego, CA – Lestat’s 10/13/08 Long Beach, CA – Di Piazza’s 10/16/08 San Francisco, CA – Amnesia 10/17/08 Modesto, CA – Café Deva 10/18/08 Merced, CA – The Partisan 10/19/08 Davis, CA – Primary Concepts

Dengue Fever Escape from Dragon House LP: M80 100 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) UPC: 723721188917 9/20/08 San Diego, CA – Street Scene

9/20/08 New York, NY – Clean Feel Records Festival 10/3/08 San Francisco, CA – SF Jazz Festival 10/10–11/08 Pittsburgh, PA – International Festival of Firsts 10/24/08 Philadelphia, PA – Museum of Art, Art After 5 12/3/08 New York, NY – Le Poisson Rouge 12/4/08 Rochester, NY – The Bop Shop 12/6/08 Philadelphia, PA – Painted Bride Arts Center

My Education Bad Vibrations CD: SAA 55 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) UPC: 789856305520 9/14/08 Morrison, CO – Monolith Festival

Conifer Crown Fire CD: IPT 209 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) UPC: 793447520926 9/12/08 Portland, ME – GENOS 9/13/08 Rochester, NY – The Bug Jar 11/7/08 Seattle, WA – Comet 11/8/08 Seattle, WA – FunHouse 11/9/08 Vancouver, BC – Cobalt 11/10/08 Portland, OR – Tube 11/11/08 San Francisco, CA – Knockout

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Freestyle vs. Written

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Runout Groove [CD+BOOK]

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Happy Birthday Peace EP

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Touched

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Unleash

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Visions of Doing

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Board Up the House Remixes 2

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Board Up the House

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Au Contraire

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Cold Burns

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Cold Burns

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Happy Day Went Off the Cliff, A

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There’s No Love In This War

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Testa Rosa

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Mustangs and Madras

La Lechuza

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City Echoes Our Hearts, The

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Skull Time

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Here Is Now

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Boom Patrol

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Pick It Ip

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They Live We Sleep

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Narrow Way, A

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Oh When the Wind Comes Down

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Shot for the Moon

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Football Chants & Angry Rants

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Arf Arf 30-Track Audio Relic Sampler

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We Could For Hours

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First Born, The

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Palaces

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Oak City EP

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Hours and Hours: A Tribute to Seaweed

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Tiwiwik [Introduction]

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Sounds of Contemporary Ethiopian

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C Tune

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Welcome, All That’s Difficult

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High Strangeness

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