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OCTOBER 2011 NEW RELEASES

I STREET DATES 10.11.11 & 10.25.11

A DIVISION OF ALLEGRO MEDIA GROUP

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Electric Six.............................................................. 5 D.L.A.H. Deja wu..................................................... 12 Wooden Finger...................................................... 13 Darius Jones Trio................................................. 19 Amir ElSaffar........................................................ 21 Kathryn Calder..................................................... 23 TOUR PAGE............................................................... 29 ORDER FORM...................................................... 30–31

Rich Masio, General Manager, NAIL & Digital (516) 686-6053 • rich.masio@allegromediagroup.com Damon Sgobbo, Senior VP of Sales & Marketing x2139 • damon.sgobbo@allegromediagroup.com

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NAIL WELCOMES CROSSROADS OF AMERICA

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What began in 2006 as a public relations scam quickly turned into a labor of love that has lasted five years and counting! Crossroads of America Records (XRA, for short) specializes in the interesting sounds of the Midwest, with a focus on the symbiotic and often inexplicable relationship between sincerity and artistic expression.

With over 30 releases already under its belt, Crossroads of America is turned on by people, and fueled by great songs.

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“Army Navy’s jangly chords, insistent rhythms, and lyrical treatises on love cop copiously from the heroes of the form: Teenage Fanclub, The Posies, and Big Star, with even a little Superchunk-ian heft.”

Mike Marshall, Director of Special Markets Sales x2071 • mike.marshall@allegromediagroup.com Virginia Papaia, West Coast Account Mgr. x2066 • virginia.papaia@allegromediagroup.com Brian Poore, National Accounts Mgr. x2075 • brian.poore@allegromediagroup.com Bobbi Lee, Special Markets Account Mgr. x2016 • bobbi.lee@allegromediagroup.com

THE BIRTHDAY MASSACRE MTP 735 “The Birthday Massacre might just be The Cure of today, only a bit heavier at times … this is a great EP to whet your appetite until a new The Birthday Massacre album comes out.”

Don Spielvogel, Director of DVD Sales (215) 860-5533 • don.spielvogel@allegromediagroup.com

CANADA P: 289-316-0513 Bill Ott, General Manager x1153 • bill.ott@allegromediagroup.com Tim Hay, Manager of Studio Product Development x1152 • tim.hay@allegromediagroup.com

TYPHOON TLE 28 & TLE 24 Recent performance on the Late Show with David Letterman! “Their energetic live shows can feel as though the band and the audience have achieved a deep connection.”

Kim Pullen, National Sales Manager x1151 • kim.pullen@allegromediagroup.com

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1. The Birthday Massacre Imaginary Monsters (MTP 735) 2. Deceased Surreal Overdose (PTA 14) 3. Hollie Cook Hollie Cook S/T (MRB 79) 4. Steve Coleman Five Elements The Mancy of Sound (PIE 38) 5. Graham Wright Shirts vs Skins (FUM 13) 6. Juno Reactor Inside the Reactor (MTP 727) 7. Thea Gilmore John Wesley Harding (FCD 132) 8. Army Navy The Last Place (FZN 3) 9. Ware/Cooper-Moore/Parker/Ali Planetary Unknown (AUM 68) 10. Steve Roach & Erik Wøllo The Road Eternal (PJK 259)

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Fishbone Crazy Glue

Selling Points

• All-new material recorded in celebration of the band’s 25th anniversary!

• Coincides with Fishbone documentary Everyday Sunshine. Narrated by Laurence Fishburne, the film features appearances by Tim Robbins, Flea, Ice-T, Gwen Stefani, Perry Farrell, George Clinton, Branford Marsalis, Vernon Reid, Mike Watt, Les Claypool, Keith Morris, ?uestlove, and more.

• LA release party and shows to coincide with the film premiere; has already been featured in dozens of film festivals including SXSW, Los Angeles, Ventura, Mill Valley, Texas, and Little Rock.

• Extensive press and promotion campaigns around the CD, film, and tour.

Overview

From the shifting fault lines of Hollywood fantasies and the economic and racial tensions of Reagan’s America, Fishbone rose to become one of the most original bands of the last 25 years. With a blistering combination of punk and funk, they demolished genre walls and challenged the racial stereotypes and political order of the music industry and the nation.

Formed in 1979 in South Central Los Angeles, Fishbone landed a major label record deal soon after the members graduated from high school.

However, after this early success the band struggled for acceptance in a racially stratified music industry while their unabashedly hybrid style kept them proudly out of fashion. When the group emerged in the ’80s, America’s melting pot was being stirred by a mosh pit of disenfranchised youth confronted with lingering racial and economic issues left unresolved by previous generations.

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Featured Artists

Norwood Fisher: bass Angelo Moore: vocals, saxophone, theremin Rocky George: guitar Dre Gipson: keyboards, vocals John McKnight: guitar, trombone, accordion John Steward: drums

Track Listing

Deepshit Backstroke • Afukafoo • Crazy Glue • Dui Friday • Flutter Butter • Gittin’ In That Ass • Weed Beer And Cigarettes

Key Markets ALSO AVAILABLE Live (Double Picture Disc) LP: DCR 31 Price Code: 2X (SRP $63.99) Number of Discs: 2 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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

STREET DATE OCTOBER 11, 2011

Today, the band members are increasingly recognized as pioneers, and younger musicians often cite them as big influences in creating new musical possibilities in a blooming multicultural world. As Gwen Stefani of No Doubt remembers, “Fishbone was the band that gave us the inspiration to be a band. They are just so unique and that is what I love … that they were super underground.”

Genre: Alt Rock Label: DC-Jam Records CD: DCR 48 Price Code: G (SRP $8.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 Street Date: 10/11/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Selling Points • • • • • •

A side project to Project Pitchfork.

Follow-up to the successful debut Crucifix Powerbomb.

Beautiful six-panel digipak with 28-page booklet.

Promo copies will be sent to DJs, radio stations, and print/web media.

Social networking campaigns via Facebook and MySpace.

RIYL: Project Pitchfork, Hocico, Combichrist.

Overview

Santa Hates You Jolly Roger

Genre: Industrial Label: COP International/Trisol CD: COP TRI 436 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 10/11/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Lock up your women and children, and best put the men in there too—the Santa Hates You barge has been sighted at sea! Sailing the Jolly Roger, the anarchistic electro pirates are aimed directly at you … and this time, mercy is entirely out of the question. Over the last few years, Peter Spilles and Jinxy have worked their way up to become an undefeatable electro fleet, whose appearance recently caused P.A.N.I.C. far and wide. Still, this was only a taste of the missions they have written in their logbook this time. Beautiful, cruel, and superior as the sea; malignant, perfidious, and somber as a giant squid; Jolly Roger makes all the other electro projects look like bloody amateurs. Hoist the colors!

Track Listing

Pack Your Bags Honey, We’re Going To Hell • Prepare To Be Boarded • Nothing’s Gonna Be Alright • We Need You Alive • The Monster In The Maze • Fire The Cannon • Raise The Devil • Das Leben fügt Ihnen und den Menschen in Ihrer Umgebung erheblichen • Schaden zu • The Mad Scramble • Domina Mors • Watch Out Motherfucker, I Know Karate (feat. Brian Graupner of The Gothsicles)

Selling Points • • • • • •

An amazing album from this exceptional trailblazer.

Includes club hit “Radical Business.”

Gorgeous six-panel digipak with 28-page booklet.

Promo copies will be sent to DJs and radio stations.

Social networking campaigns via Facebook and MySpace.

RIYL: Hocico, Suicide Commando, Wumpscut.

STREET DATE OCTOBER 11, 2011

Overview

Project Pitchfork Quantum Mechanics

Genre: Industrial Label: COP International/Trisol CD: COP TRI 437 Price Code: R (SRP $17.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 10/11/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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After their wild ride through the continuum, Project Pitchfork dedicates itself to quantum mechanics—and casually discovers time travel on the way! As was the case with 2010’s surprising dark electro smasher Continuum Ride, the band started its engines in utter secrecy to continue its unparalleled history of success. Here, the dark electro titans take the festivities surrounding their 20th anniversary one step further to deliver a massive meltdown that travels through the past, present, and future of dark electronica. From the radical, edgy, and aggressive “Radical Business” to the melancholic title track and the iconic “Freeze In Silence,” Quantum Mechanics is a dark transition into a new era. Superior, visionary, and deeply fascinating—Project Pitchfork gets better every year!

Track Listing

Freeze In Silence • Lament • Run For Cover • Radical Business • Mute Spectators • Quantum Mechanics • The Queen of Time and Space • Splice • We Will Descend • You Rest In My Heart

Electric Six

Heartbeats and Brainwaves Selling Points

• Major North American tour to support the album—dates on page 29.

• Facebook ad campaign to coincide with release.

• Street teams will distribute materials in select markets.

• Press handled by Another Reybee Production.

• Full servicing to radio and club DJs. • RIYL: Evil Cowards, Weezer, Franz Ferdinand.

Overview

They say that man is the animal who laughs. But man is also the only animal that is cursed to know that someday … he gonna die. How funny is that?

Very funny? Not so funny? Since when is death funny? We have all been to funerals where someone implores on behalf of the recently deceased, “Laugh.

He would have wanted it that way.” Why do we care about what a dead guy wants? Not everything has to be funny. I don’t want to die. Do you?

Electric Six is pleased to announce the release of its eighth studio album, Heartbeats and Brainwaves, to be released on Metropolis Records October 11, 2011. That’s right: 10-11-11. With it, Electric Six has created a work of art that confronts existential crises head-on while it manages to be so entertaining that you completely forget that your limits of time/space comprehension render you completely unable to answer why you are really here.

You’re too busy falling in love with Electric Six to realize that you are being fucked with.

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 745 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 10/11/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Featured Artists

Track Listing ALSO AVAILABLE Zodiac

KILL

CD: MTP 679 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1

CD: MTP 614 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1

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Flashy

I Shall Exterminate…

CD: MTP 559 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1

CD: MTP 508 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1

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Psychic Visions • French Bacon • Gridlock! • It Gets Hot • The Intergalactic Version • Interchangeable Knife • Food Dog • Hello! I See You! • Bleed for the Artist • We Use The Same Products • Eye Contact • Free Samples • I Go Through Phases • Heartbeats and Brainwaves

Key Markets

Hometown: Detroit. Also: New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh

STREET DATE OCTOBER 11, 2011

The Colonel: lead guitar Johnny Na$hinal: lead guitar John R. Dequindre: bass Tait Nucleus?: keyboards, synthesizers Percussion World: drums Dick Valentine: vocals

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Selling Points

• Will be on the Triptych Tour with Imperative Reaction and God Module—he is playing in all three bands! See dates on page 29.

• Facebook ad campaign to coincide with release.

• Street teams will distribute materials in select markets.

• Full servicing to press, radio, and club DJs. • RIYL: VNV Nation, Imperative Reaction, God Module, Combichrist.

Overview

System Syn All Seasons Pass

Genre: Electronica/Industrial Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 746 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 10/11/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

System Syn mastermind Clint Carney has shown a unique combination of prolific musical output and compelling artistic vision. All Seasons Pass tells the true story of the final days of a young woman as seen through her eyes, and through the eyes of those around her. From the opening electronic hum of “God Damn,” the haunting opening lyrics of “Mercy,” the echoing pain of “Homecoming,” and the danceable “Confession,” All Seasons Pass stands as a masterful work of art from one of the genre’s most unique and inspiring talents.

Track Listing

God Damn • Path of Least Resistance • Ordinary Life • An Excuse Never Received • Mercy • Good Night • Homecoming • Absence • The Lesson • Funeral • Confession

Key Markets

Hometown: Los Angeles. Also: New York, Detroit, San Francisco, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis

U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Selling Points

• Follow-up EP to the critically acclaimed debut album Worlds Collide, featuring seven brand new tracks.

• Facebook ad campaign to coincide with release.

• Sound samples available on Metropolis Records website.

• Full servicing to press, radio, and club DJs. • RIYL: Neuroactive, Haujobb, Lights of Euphoria.

STREET DATE OCTOBER 11, 2011

Overview

Binary Park is an intriguing blend of different electronic styles, from darkstep and industrial to electro and deep, noisy, ambient, glitchy, intelligent electropop. Elements of early Haujobb, Lights of Euphoria, and Neuroactive intermingle with a sound that is compelling and sure to garner attention worldwide. After the success of their debut album Worlds Collide, the band returns with a massive new 10-track EP featuring seven new songs and three remixes!

Binary Park The Deviated

Genre: Electronica/Industrial Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 749 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 10/11/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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Track Listing

The Hidden Room • Into the Deep • She’s Insane • The Deviated • Not in Love • Lick the Blade • Keep on Falling Down • Worlds Collide (Impact Mix) • Into the Deep (Liquid Divine Remix) • Into the Deep (Architect Remix)

Key Markets

New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh

Selling Points

• Tour planned for late 2011.

• Strong online presence, including frequent uploads of behind-thescenes and tutorial videos on the band’s YouTube page.

• Facebook ad campaign to coincide with release.

• Full servicing to press, radio, and club DJs. • RIYL: Combichrist, KMFDM, Skinny Puppy, Nine Inch Nails.

Overview

Since 2004, Angelspit has been one of electronic music’s most prolific acts, thrilling audiences around the world with their concoction of industrial-strength guitar riffs, clever hooks, and pathologically disturbed synths. Hello My Name Is shows that the band has no intention of relenting the glorious pounding brutality that has earned them a reputation as one of the most innovative alternative bands in the current crop. Synthesizers are slain, drum machines burn, and samplers are tortured as viscous guitars and corruptive beats are added to the mix.

Track Listing

Cubicle • Counterfeit • Vermin • Catatonic • Monkey Byte • Defibrillator • Bullet Proof • Static • Jailbait • Deadly • Violence

Key Markets

New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh

Angelspit Hello My Name Is

Genre: Electronica/Industrial Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 750 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 10/11/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Selling Points • • • •

Facebook ad campaign to coincide with release.

Sound samples available on Metropolis Records website.

Full servicing to press, radio, and club DJs. RIYL: Front Line Assembly, Combichrist, Wumpscut.

Overview

Track Listing

Entrée • Pharmaceutical Grade • God is Art • Incision • Hollow Mask • This World Erase • Blind Mice • Deafening • This Fix • Stripped • Alpha Omega • Lingerie • Arise

Key Markets

New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh

Shiv-r This World Erase

Genre: Electronica/Industrial Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 751 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 10/11/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

STREET DATE OCTOBER 11, 2011

Following up the innovative Hold My Hand, Metropolis Records presents the second album by this unique UK/AUS-based industrial electro band. Haunting and elegant, Shiv-r extends their gossamer presence with the release of This World Erase. As their unsettling influence extends through a society comprised of the desensitized and the apathetic, the group’s objective remains: to leave listeners unnerved, elated, and affected.

U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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Selling Points • • • • •

Newly recorded versions of Absolute Body Control’s best tracks.

Facebook ad campaign to coincide with release.

Street teams will distribute materials in select markets.

Full servicing to press, radio, and club DJs. RIYL: Suicide, D.A.F. Nitzer Ebb.

Overview

Absolute Body Control Wind[Re]Wind

Genre: Electronica/Ebm Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 753 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 10/11/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Dirk Ivens formed Absolute Body Control in the early 1980s.

Achieving an underground cult following, the band took influence from bands such as Suicide, D.A.F, and the UK electronic scene. After a few years, the band members all went their separate ways, with Ivans and Eric Von Wonterghem finding successes in other influential acts such as The Klinik, Dive, Sonar, Monolith, and Insekt. Twenty-two years after splitting up, ABC have re-formed to release Wind[Re]Wind, which contains newly recorded versions of their best tracks. Modern sound recording techniques blend seamlessly with the classic roots of low-fi electro.

Track Listing

Figures • I Wasn’t There • Give Me Your Hands • Is There An Exit? • So Hard • Do You Feel It Inside • Love at First Sight • Did You Do It? • Automatic • I’m Leaving • Melting Away • Touch Your Skin • So Obvious

Key Markets

New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh

Selling Points • • • • •

First time on CD! Includes tracks from the Growing Pains cassette release.

Members worked with Frank Black, Pete Yorn, and Throbbing Gristle.

Metal radio & press worked by Catharsis PR. RIYL: Dead Kennedys, Social Distortion, Black Flag, Crucifix, Tang.

STREET DATE OCTOBER 11, 2011

Overview

Though only active for a couple of years, Executioner helped pioneer the early ’80s hardcore crossover sound in West Coast punk. The young group floored audiences, sharing the stage with Social Distortion, Bad Brains, Crucifix, Fang, and more. They disbanded in 1983, and sadly the only official release was a handful of demo tracks on the Growing Pains skate cassette. Now, for the first time, this disc presents all of Executioner’s 1982–83 recordings, brilliantly remastered, as well as a re-recorded track and a new rager from 2008!

Executioner The Anthology: A Call to Arms Genre: Metal Label: Patac Records CD: PTA 16 Price Code: J (SRP $9.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 10/11/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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Track Listing

Fix Me • Hellbound • Why War? • Pack Of Lies • Kraft • Marked To Die • Crime Through Corruption • St. James Park • Love at First Sight • The Only Way • I Miss You • Flatlands • Cease Fire • The Bum • 1984 • We Don’t Need It • Bible Bangers • Obliteration • Nagasaki • State Executioner • War Machine • All The Dead • 1984 • Love At First Sight • Fix Me • Marked To Die • The Bum • The Only Way • Fade With The Dawn

Key Markets

Hometown: San Jose. Also: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Boston, Washington DC

Selling Points

• For the first time ever, the Quiet Music series is available in its entirety in a 3-CD digipak release.

• Originally released in the mid-’80s on cassette, and later in a truncated 2-CD edition.

• RIYL: Harold Budd, Brian Eno, Eric Satie, Steven Halpern.

Overview

In this collection of pieces created between 1983 and 1986, gentle synthesizers mix with flute, electric piano, and nature sounds to envelop the listener in a sustained, delicate, translucent atmosphere.

Much of this music began as a series of early-’80s recordings commissioned by healing-arts programs, and later used for everything from personal meditation to birthing music. Today the pieces still stand as a cornerstone in bodywork, yoga, and healing therapies.

PRESS QUOTES

“Quiet Music is the essence of pure, meditative ambience.”

— All Music Guide

Track Listing

DISC ONE / QUIET MUSIC 1: The Green Place, Part I • The Green Place, Part II • DISC TWO / QUIET MUSIC 2: See Things • Towards the Blue • Something in Tears • A Few More Moments • Air and Light • DISC THREE / QUIET MUSIC 3: Dreaming and Sleep • Quiet Canon • Sleep and Dreaming

Key Markets

Steve Roach Quiet Music: The Original 3-Hour Collection Genre: Ambient/Rock Label: Projekt Records CD: PJK 263 Price Code: 2J (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 3 Double Digipak; Box Lot 15 Street Date: 10/11/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Hometown: Tucson. Also: Los Angeles, San Francisco

Selling Points

• A mix of virtuoso Tuvan throat-singing and exquisite darkwave guitars & electronics.

• On tour in September 2011—tour dates on page 29.

• RIYL: Huun-Huur-Tu, Steve Roach, Dead Can Dance.

Overview

Press Quotes

“A moving, absorbing blend of world music and atmospheric soundscaping … the chanting and drumming have a shamanistic feel, the consciousness-altering quality of the music also being found in the ambient electronic additions.” — Bliss Aquamarine

Track Listing

Iix • Ticochitlehua • Eztica • Nica Anahuatl • Ehecatl • Chocatiuh • Ximehua • Temicteopan • Xiuhcoatl • Omeyocan • Amochantzinco

Key Markets

Soriah with Ashkelon Sain Eztica Genre: Alt Rock/World Label: Projekt Records CD: PJK 264 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Eco Wallet; Box Lot 80 Street Date: 10/11/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

STREET DATE OCTOBER 11, 2011

Eztica, brethren follow-up to 2009’s Atlan (PJK 232) draws a heavy, hungry breath like that of the first man, Quetzalcoatl, created from maize. Soriah’s virtuoso Tuvan throat-singing, Central Asian stringed instruments, and hand percussion are perfectly melded with the neo-ancient airs of Ashkelon Sain’s exquisite darkwave guitars, celestial electronics, and hypnotizing poly-rhythms. With roots in ritualism and shamanism, Eztica is a deeply organic experience.

Hometown: Portland

U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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Bro. Stephen Baptist Girls

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Crossroads of America CD: XRA 33 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

LP: XRA 33 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket; Box Lot 15 Original Street Date: 1/1/11

Primarily recorded in a converted chicken coop in rural Indiana, Baptist Girls is stark but hopeful; haunting but beautiful. The sounds of incidental rain and the crack of the wood-burning stove do as much to inform the experience as the writing.

Occasional help from Cheyenne Marie Mize (Bonnie “Prince” Billy) certainly doesn’t hurt, either!

TRACK LISTING: Easy Love • Tears On Tape • Patrons Of The Arts • Jacob • Without Effort • This June • Under Your Feet • Domino • Bare Wood • Prayer Pose • Shepherd’s Cane • When You Find Out

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husband&wife Proud Flesh

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Crossroads of America CD: XRA 30 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

LP: XRA 30 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket; Box Lot 45 Original Street Date: 10/26/10

Proud Flesh is husband&wife cranked up to 11!

It’s the same Midwestern sincerity, introspection, and folksy wisdom you’ve come to expect from these indie rock vets, but this time it’s delivered through powerful Built To Spill-style rock jams and anthemic Jeremy Enigk-style hooks.

TRACK LISTING: Begone Long One • Market Fresh • Not Every Bird Can Fly • Proud Flesh • 6 Little Indians • They Should Give You Medicine • Extendo Jam • Low Profile • I Have Been Made Huge • Belong Gone One • Class War

U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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Doug Burr O Ye Devastator

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Genre: Alt Rock Label: Crossroads of America LP: XRA 29 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket; Box Lot 45 Original Street Date: 8/1/10 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

“O Ye Devastator is a stirring collection of eleven new songs dotted with slide guitar, banjo, and Burr’s spectral vocals—a surefire pleaser for fans of both the Son Volt/Jayhawks school of rootsy alt-country as well as those partial to the folksy reinventions of artists like Devendra Banhart and Mark Kozelek.”

— One-Track-Mind.com TRACK LISTING: A Black Wave Is Comin’ • Chief of Police In Chicago • At the Public Dance • Red, Red • You’ve Been A Suspect All Your life • I Got This Fever / O Ye Devastator • Topeka • Do You Hear Wedding Bells • All Our Lives (instrumental) • And When We Awoke • High Blood And Long Evening Dresses

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Frank Schweikhardt Life But No More

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Crossroads of America LP: XRA 28 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket; Box Lot 15 Original Street Date: 8/18/09

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Crossroads of America LP: XRA 20 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket; Box Lot 15 Original Street Date: 11/17/09

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Jason Martin, Jeff Cloud, Frank Lenz, AND Richard Swift together for this one single album that finds SF59 at perhaps their most accessible and catchy, and also their most experimental. It’s the same steady cool that you can absolutely rely on from a Starflyer record, twisted up in a trippy, rocking, T-Rex-meets-Floyd haze.

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Frank spends a lot of his time thinking about life’s heavy questions. He can do this without sinking into depression, because Frank is undeniably cool. His music is the perfect reflection of these two sides of himself: the weight of impossible questions balanced against the hopeful, steady pulse of everyday life.

Rodeo Ruby Love Vs. The Great American Cities

husband&wife Dark Dark Woods

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Crossroads of America CD: XRA 18 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Number of Discs: 1 CD Wallet; Box Lot 35 Original Street Date: 2/24/09

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Crossroads of America CD: XRA 13 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 Original Street Date: 7/15/08

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Rodeo Ruby Love has seen a lot as they’ve developed from a piecemeal indie-folk project into a well-oiled power-pop machine. Moving from Indiana’s basement scene to touring with Reel Big Fish isn’t easy, but through it all they have maintained their uncanny ability to write meaningful hooks while coaxing butts to shake.

For a complete listing of XRA titles, see page 30

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As the title suggests, Dark Dark Woods is the moodier, brooding side of husband&wife. It’s Midwestern to the core, pleasant and sinister. husband&wife specialize in interacting with the people and the world around them, and then interpreting and understanding those interactions through song.

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Selling Points

• Cover Sticker: Featuring Wu-Tang Killa Beez, Cappadonna, SilkSki (Brooklyn Zu), Njeri Earth (Eminem, 8 Mile), Watchmen, and many more.

• Original boom-bap production from an official Popa Wu 10th Chamber producer.

• Music videos, college radio play, press releases, in-store autograph signings, event promotions and tours, and promotions with hip-hop magazines and websites.

• RIYL: Wu-Tang Clan, Killarmy, Sunz of Man, RZA.

Overview

The true story of the trials & tribulations of D.L.A.H.’s affiliation with one of the greatest hip-hop groups in history.

PRESS QUOTES D.L.A.H. Deja Wu: Hellkeydoe Part 2

Genre: Hip-Hop Label: Platinum City Entertainment CD: PCE 23 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 10/11/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

“Based loosely off his love for sci-fi movies and kung fu flicks, [D.L.A.H.] caught the ears of listeners who enjoy listening to hip-hop for creativeness and edge. Deja Wu is an album that isn’t trying to bringing hip-hop back … it’s bringing hip-hop forward.” — Hip-Hop Press

Track Listing

Enternet • DeJa Wu • Miami Heat • White Diamondz • Phantom/ Illgates • Thundapalm • Hellkeydoe’s Theme • LooseWirez • Wicked Dem • Audubon; Don’t bite da... • ColdSore • The Hajj • Arctica • Mancini • Revenge of the 7 Archorz • P.E.A.C.E • GotGunz • Log Off

U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Selling Points

• An early Bob Marley feel infused with the futuristic sounds of modern-day Flo Rida.

• A Hennessey Beats production (Monica, Lupe Fiasco, Briscoe).

• Email blasts, DJ record pools, radio promotions, and press releases.

• RIYL: Flo Rida, Wyclef Jean, Bob Marley.

Overview

STREET DATE OCTOBER 11, 2011

Jean Thervens brings together the sounds of the streets with the rich culture of his island heritage. Island Boy is a brilliant release with a little something for every urban ear.

Track Listing

Island Boy • That’s My Song • Ms. Millionaire • She Is Playing Me • Mo Money • Hit Maker • Goes Around • Can’t Wait • I Am Feeling You • Techno For Michael • Independent Woman

Jean Thervens Island Boy

Genre: Hip-Hop Label: Platinum City Entertainment CD: PCE 26 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 Street Date: 10/11/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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Key Markets

Hometown: Miami. Also: New York, Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston

Wooden Finger

Take and See and Do What You Want Selling Points

• Mixed by Roger Moutenot (Yo La Tengo, Rogue Wave) at Haptown Studios in Nashville, TN. • Pitched to tastemaker blogs including Pitchfork, Stereogum, Magnet, and Paste.

• RIYL: Low, Yo La Tengo, Arcade Fire.

Overview

Wooden Finger’s music is an eclectic, genre-skipping blend of influences ranging from classical/baroque to indie-rock/folk that creates an amalgam of sound and a unique musical identity. The thematic content takes the listener on a poignant journey through human emotions of loss, hope, and redemption that is ultimately brought together in a cohesive fashion best described as “eerie stories disguised brilliantly as songs.”

This band is a mass of contradictions in both process and execution. Formed in 2004, the musical marriage of classically trained vocalist Allison Jenkins and self-taught multi-instrumentalist Matthew Magee began as a loose collection of basement tapes. Together they crafted haunting music rooted deeply in traditional folk and classical themes while continuing to explore contemporary structure and instrumentation. The product of their often cinematic collaboration was 2005’s All This Time....Still We’re Lost, a dark and emotional journey rife with themes of Southern Gothicism in the literary vein of Flannery O’Conner. The band has since expanded in both range and instrumentation, and the end product is an emotional journey founded in rock and baroque pop that leaves the listener both haunted and enthralled.

Press Quotes

“Songs as sad and haunting as ghosts rising from the delta … there is a distinctly Southern sadness in her low, echoing voice that is as hypnotic as a siren’s call … A true Southern gothic sound, their music has elements of old folk songs combined with indie rock.” — Tiger Weekly

U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Featured Artists

Allison Jenkins: vocals Matthew Magee: guitar, accordion, keyboard Ryan Baucum: bass Chip Burr: drums, percussion

Track Listing

Todos Santos • Walk Me Down • The Box • Hangnail • The Flood • Christopher Robin • Pretty Baby • A French Twist • My Palace • Marjoram • Rock ‘n’ Roll Kids • The Piano Song (Music for an Unfinished Film)

Key Markets

Hometown: Jackson. Also: Nashville, Memphis, Atlanta, Baton Rouge

ALSO AVAILABLE All This Time...Still We’re Lost CD: ESZ 6 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Number of Discs: 1 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

STREET DATE OCTOBER 11, 2011

“If Annie Lennox and Nico were in Low and scoring a David Lynch movie, Wooden Finger would surely be the result.” — Jackson Free Press

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Esperanza Plantation CD: ESZ 20 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Number of Discs: 1 Slimline Digipak; Box Lot 80 Street Date: 10/11/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Selling Points

• On tour opening for the Meat Puppets in September—tour dates on page 29!

• Vinyl-only format on audiophile quality 180-gram vinyl, cut at 45 RPM (stickered).

• Recorded with Winn McElroy in the former Fat Possum studios of Water Valley, MS. • RIYL: My Morning Jacket, Cage the Elephant, Wilco, Arctic Monkeys.

Overview

Gutter Gaunt Gangster builds on the successes of The Weeks’ debut LP Comeback Cadillac and sophomore EP Rumspringa with six new tracks road-tested throughout the Southeast in 2010. Extensive time spent on the road as a new four-piece, after losing guitarist Chaz Lindsay, has pushed this young band into an expansive new sound that is still strong on hooks. Vocalist Cyle Barnes grows stronger with each release, so look for continued good vibes from The Weeks in 2011 and beyond.

The Weeks Gutter Gaunt Gangster

Press Quotes

“A complicated blend of blues music and southern rock.”

— St. Louis Music

Genre: Alt Rock

Label: Esperanza Plantation LP: ESZ 21 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 10/11/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

Track Listing

Stigmata • Slave to the South • I’ve Broken All Your Windows • Mountains Make Me Crazy • Harmony • I’m Not Dead Yet

Key Markets

Hometown: Nashville. Also: Jackson, Memphis, Atlanta, Birmingham

U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Selling Points

• Engineered by Seth Manchester and Keith Souza at Machines With Magnets in Pawtucket, RI. • Review copies submitted to top indie publications, major weeklies, and blogs/webzines such as Signal To Noise, The Wire, Pitchfork, and Tiny Mix Tapes.

• Radio campaign targets college and indie stations in major US cities.

• RIYL: This Heat, Faust, Rhys Chatham, Oneida, Lightning Bolt.

STREET DATE OCTOBER 11, 2011

Overview

Neptune Silent Partner

Genre: Rock Label: Northern-Spy Records CD: NSE 13 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak; Box Lot 40 Street Date: 10/11/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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LP: NSE 13 Price Code: U (SRP $19.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket; Box Lot 25 Street Date: 10/11/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT U.S. ORDERS ONLY

There’s not much to say about punk’s continued existence. Like jazz or sitcoms or party politics, it just carries on eating and breathing and propagating. And this would be relevant if Neptune were a punk band, which we’re not sure is the case. They create a sense of undermining the status quo, which is pretty punk, but then they screw things up by undermining the punk status quo. Recorded at Machines With Magnets, the same studio employed by Battles, The Psychic Paramount, and The Skull Defekts, Silent Partner finds the band continuing to push their electrified, rhythmic sound while staying true to what has always made them evocative. They’re too musical to be a noise band, and yet the noises they make are never quite recognizable.

Track Listing

#35 • Cash Mattress • Triple your Money • Canine Spaces • Collection Plate • #36 • Rest From Breathing • #37

Key Markets

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

Selling Points

• • • • •

Upcoming tours of the East Coast & South; will appear at SXSW 2012.

Mixed by Benny Grotto (Lo-Pan, Roadsaw, Sasquatch).

Finished copies to press, radio, and retail.

Two free promo tracks will be made available on Promonet.

RIYL: Fu Manchu, Lo-Pan, Clutch, Sasquatch, Roadsaw, Kyuss.

Overview

Hailing from the barrier dunes of Virginia, this quartet blends heavy riffs, a rolling groove, and soulful guitar melodies to produce a unique sound. Their brand of heavy rock coupled with a high-energy live show leaves many wondering if they’ve stepped through a time warp that has taken them to rock’s heyday of the ’70s.

Press Quotes

“East Coast’s answer to Fu Manchu, keeping it simple and thick with harmonious metal groove.” — Performer magazine (live review)

Track Listing

Thunderfoot • Living For Days • Edge Of Destiny • Her Addiction • Zelda • Nomad • Magic Lady • Bandito • Flat Tire • North Swell • Standing In Line • Faded • Indian Summer

Key Markets

Hometown: Virginia Beach. Also: Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Atlanta, Ft. Lauderdale, Orlando, New Orleans, Austin, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle

Freedom Hawk Holding On

Genre: Rock Label: Small Stone Recordings CD: SSO 117 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 10/11/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Selling Points

• Produced by Eric Hoegemeyer (Giant Brain, Luder).

• Have appeared on no less than six tribute albums, several television programs (including The Sopranos, Sons of Anarchy, FOX Sports, Fuel TV, MTV, and others), and two indie horror movie soundtracks.

• Finished copies to press, radio, and retail.

• Two free promo tracks will be made available on Promonet.

• RIYL: Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Cult, Five Horse Johnson, Allman Bros.

Overview

Track Listing

Black Fire • Ride With Me • South • Love Of The Vampire • Bleed Black • Do Me Wrong • Born To The Highway • Feel Alive • Shining Star • When I Die • Come And Howl

Key Markets

Hometown: Charlotte, NC. Also: Atlanta, Austin, Memphis, St. Louis, Louisville, Austin, Washington DC, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles

Gideon Smith & The Dixie Damned 30 Weight Genre: Rock Label: Small Stone Recordings CD: SSO 118 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 10/11/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

STREET DATE OCTOBER 11, 2011

Recorded once again at Rustbelt Studios, this new full-length careens from delta blues and creepy doom to classic rock and hippie psychedelica. Gideon called in all the heavy hitters from the Small Stone team to pinch-hit while he puts together another band, so 30 Weight features the added talents of Phil Durr (Big Chief, Five Horse Johnson), Eric Hoegemeyer (Giant Brain), and Sue Lott (Slot, Luder).

Blending a lifelong love of old-school rock, spacey ’60s psychedelic biker blues, and swampy bayou jams, Gideon and his ever-changing band of desperados have created a timeless classic that could have just as easily been produced in 1968.

U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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Selling Points • • • • • •

Twelve classic Waylon Jennings songs.

Follow-up to the critically acclaimed Sad Bastard Songs (2010).

Originally from the metal band Kilgore Smudge (Warner Bros).

Has toured with Slayer, Artimus Pyle, Ozzy Osbourne, Tool, and more.

Serviced to alt/outlaw country radio & press.

RIYL: Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Steve Earle.

Overview

Driven by the need to write, record, and produce his own music, Jay Berndt started Moto Destructo Studio and now presents Jay Berndt Sings Waylon For Jessica, a labor of love, heartbreak, anger, sadness, and peace. At last the obsession that had taken possession of Jay’s soul has an outlet, and an audience. Only time will tell where the obsession with drive him next, but if history is any indicator one thing is certain: it will consist of some of the best damn songs you have ever heard.

Jay Berndt Sings Waylon for Jessica Genre: Rock/Country Label: Rusty Knuckles CD: RTK 10 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak; Box Lot 25 Street Date: 10/11/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

Track Listing

Lonesome On’Ry & Mean • Only Daddy That’ll Walk The Line • Black Rose • Cedartown, GA • The Door Is Always Open • Ramblin’ Man • Loving Her Was Easier • Ain’t No God In Mexico • The Taker • Rainy Day Woman • Freedom To Stay • You Can Have Her

Key Markets

Hometown: Providence. Also: Boston, Austin, Chicago, Nashville, Los Angeles, Philadelphia

U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Selling Points

• Upcoming US tour dates in Fall 2011.

• Ads in Maximum R&R, Punk Globe, and OxZine.

• RIYL: Horror Pops, Devil’s Brigade, Koffin Kats, Mad Sin.

STREET DATE OCTOBER 11, 2011

Overview

In 1994 Seattle, Kurt Cobain’s death signified the beginning of the end of the corporate grunge scene. Seattle punks were taking back their city, block by block, and a small but loyal rockabilly scene was growing.

Los Gatos Locos blurred the line between rockabilly, punk, and thrash, throwing in the visuals of a good ol’ fashioned drive-in horror flick. Over the last 17 years, the band has worked hard to build and maintain their reputation as Razorcake’s “undisputed kings of American Psychobilly,” carving out their place in the sonic universe and kicking audiences from coast to coast with their exhausting live show. Even Sociopaths Get The Blues captures that brutality on disc … and the wait is finally over.

Los Gatos Locos Even Sociopaths Get The Blues Genre: Punk Label: Zodiac Killer Records CD: ZKR 107 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 Street Date: 10/11/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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Track Listing

Dog Eat Dog • Until I Gain Control • The Sociopaths Blues • Stark Raving Normal • Climbing Texas Tower • Carnivale • American Gods • Running Free • Cut You Into Pieces • Psychobully • When I Go

Key Markets

Hometown: Seattle & Newark. Also: Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington DC

Selling Points • • • • • •

The very best tracks from six LPs & five EPs. Upcoming US tour dates.

Coincides with an album of all-new material.

Seminal West Coast hardcore/oi! band.

Ads with AMP, Razorcake, OX, Punk News, and Maximum Rock ‘n’ Roll.

RIYL: Anti-Flag, The Addicts, The Dickies, The Casualties.

Overview

One of the most admired and influential punk bands compiles their very best material spanning almost 20 years, including a brand-new track! The band has been cited as influencing such acts as The Unseen, Anti-Flag, The Casualties, and A Global Threat, and is considered to have been at the forefront of the genre.

Track Listing

You Got It All Wrong • Fuck This City • No Future No Hope • Burn • Hands of the few • Spoils Of The Last War • Into The Dust • Nowhere • Doing What Your Told • Dead And Gone • It’s Too Late • Still Got Fuck All (CD Bonus Track)

Key Markets

Hometown: Portland. Also: Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Austin, Phoenix, Las Vegas

Defiance The Very Best and We Don’t Care Genre: Punk Label: Jailhouse Records CD: JHS 37 Price Code: L (SRP $11.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 10/11/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

Label: Sixty Nine Apple LP: SNA 17 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 LP Jacket; Box Lot 25 Street Date: 10/11/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

U.S. ORDERS ONLY

U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Selling Points

• Unique letterpressed sleeves printed on environmentally friendly recycled chipboard.

• Full service/promotion to national and international press. Review copies submitted to top indie publications, major weeklies, and blogs/webzines such as Signal To Noise, The Wire, Pitchfork, and Tiny Mix Tapes.

• Radio campaign targets college and indie stations in major US cities.

• RIYL: Derek Bailey, Camper Van Beethoven, Frank Zappa.

Overview

Track Listing

New New War War • Mourning of the Praying Mantis • Checkers of blood • Xubitunt • Water Song • Odd Time for Two (free improv) • Put Me Back in the river • Choppin’ Down Weeds

Key Markets

Hometown: Greensboro, NC. Also: New York

Eugene Chadbourne & Warren Smith Odd Time Genre: Punk Label: Engine Studios CD: EGR 43 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Letterpressed Sleeve; Box Lot 50 Street Date: 10/11/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

STREET DATE OCTOBER 11, 2011

Eugene Chadbourne is like a banjo-slinging 21st-century incarnation of Mark Twain. He underlines the absurdity of the war on drugs with his classic “Choppin’ Down Weeds,” and of the war on terror with “New New War War.” But he’s far from a one-dimensional songwriter, as he also delivers a melancholic song for his father with “Put Me Back in the River” and an apocalyptic fable of greed and struggle with “Checkers of Blood.”

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Selling Points

• Unique letterpressed sleeves printed on environmentally friendly recycled chipboard.

• Full service/promotion to national and international press.

• Radio campaign targets college and indie stations in major US cities.

• RIYL: Pharoah Sanders, Ornette Coleman, Fred Anderson.

Overview

Kidd Jordan On Fire

Genre: Jazz Label: Engine Studios CD: EGR 42 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Letterpressed Sleeve; Box Lot 50 Street Date: 10/11/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Bitter folks make bitter music, sad folks the same. During this session Kidd Jordan talked about overcoming health problems as well as coming out of a gig and encountering a Ku Klux Klan rally; Warren Smith talked about going to a sandwich shop in Illinois with some college friends and being told he couldn’t eat inside with the white folks. This is not political music, but there is a defiance to the playing that comes out of those experiences. In addition to waving the freak flag, there is the blues and New Orleans voodoo, and there is a lot of intelligence, humor, and awareness between the players. The record is called On Fire for a reason.

Press Quotes

“A master of [the free jazz] tradition.” — Nate Chinen, New York Times

Track Listing

Officer, That Big Knife is to Cut My Sax Reeds • The Evil Eye • We Are All Indebted To Each Other • Harrison Carries Out the Coffin

Key markets

Hometown: New Orleans. Also: Chicago, New York

Selling Points

• Unique letterpressed sleeves printed on environmentally friendly recycled chipboard.

• Full service/promotion to national and international press.

• Radio campaign targets college and indie stations in major US cities.

• RIYL: Bill Dixon, Anthony Braxton, Oval.

STREET DATE OCTOBER 11, 2011

Overview

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Always looking to drag the genre of jazz music out of its self-imposed ghetto, Engine Studios presents a split CD that connects it to the punk and indie worlds. The first half, by Trio Caveat, is a bass/sax/guitar recording in the spirit of Oval’s O, released on Thrill Jockey in 2010.

The second half is a solo effort by Josh Sinton called Pine Barren.

Track Listing Trio Caveat & Josh Sinton Introspective Athletics & Pine Barren Genre: Jazz Label: Engine Studios CD: EGR 44 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Letterpressed Sleeve; Box Lot 50 Street Date: 10/11/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Trio Caveat: Clicks, Beeps, Buzzing • Shimmering Hiccups • Introspective Athletics • Fluttering Clicks, Fractured Hisses • Granulated Nuance • Fluttering Beeps, Mumbling • Dramatic Flare • Mellifluous Chirps • Fractured Flakes, Torrent of Frantic • Josh Sinton: Water for My Father • Deeper in the Woods Than You • The Earth for My Father • My Clarinet Teacher • I’m Still Trying • Dizknee Justice Abounds • Five • Full of It. Love, That Is • Starfuckers • Through the Trees I Saw Stone Caves on a Beach

Key Markets

Hometown: New York. Also: Boston

Darius Jones Trio

Big Gurl (Smell My Dream) Selling Points

• The highly anticipated follow-up to Darius Jones’ widely acclaimed 2009 debut Man’ish Boy, chosen among the Best Jazz Albums of 2009 by the Village Voice Critics Poll, NPR’s A Blog Supreme, JazzTimes, All About Jazz New York, Boston Globe, Destination: Out, Boston Phoenix, and many more.

• Features Jones’ long-standing trio with bassist Adam Lane and drummer Jazon Nazary.

• Promotion to national press, e-media, and college/non-commercial radio by Improvised Communications.

• RIYL: Parliament-Funkadelic, Henry Threadgill/ Air, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, MF Doom.

Overview

Big Gurl (Smell My Dream) is the highly anticipated follow-up to Darius Jones’ widely acclaimed 2009 debut Man’ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing), which drew inspiration from his childhood years growing up in the South and was chosen among the Best Jazz Albums of 2009 by the Village Voice Critics Poll, NPR’s A Blog Supreme, JazzTimes, All About Jazz New York, Boston Globe, Destination: Out, Boston Phoenix, and many more. This album features his long-standing trio with bassist Adam Lane and drummer Jazon Nazary, a new book of Jones’ indelible compositions (inspired by his years at university in Richmond, VA), and musical influences that range from the liberating power of Parliament-Funkadelic to the fluid dynamics of Henry Threadgill’s Air.

Press Quotes

“Darius Jones has the capacity for a proud, rafters-raising tone on alto saxophone, and as an improviser he’s fearless but disciplined.”

— New York Times

“Brimming with intricacy and raw, soulful invention.”

— Signal To Noise

U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Featured Artists

Darius Jones: alto saxophone, compositions Adam Lane: bass Jason Nazary: drums

Track Listing

E-Gaz • Michele Heart Willie • A Train • I Wish I Had A Choice • My Special “D” • Chasing The Ghost • Ol’ Metal-Faced Bastard

Key Markets

Hometown: New York. Also: Chicago, Boston, Washington DC, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, Richmond

ALSO AVAILABLE Man’ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing) CD: AUM 57 Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) Number of Discs: 1 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Cosmic Lieder CD: AUM 66 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

STREET DATE OCTOBER 11, 2011

“A head full of ideas and a heart full of talent. He never wastes a note or a breath.” — JazzTimes

Genre: Jazz Label: AUM Fidelity CD: AUM 69 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak; Box Lot 40 Street Date: 10/11/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Selling Points

• Performed at the Newport Jazz Festival in August 2011.

• Voted Alto Saxophonist of the Year in the 2011 DownBeat Critics Poll, and by the Jazz Journalists Association 2009–2011.

• Fuses Mahanthappa’s Indian ancestry with myriad influences to create a truly groundbreaking artistic vision.

• An independent promoter will be hired for press and radio promotion.

Overview

Samdhi represents a new direction in combining the complex melodic and rhythmic elements of Carnatic (South Indian) music with the traditions of jazz within an electro-acoustic format consisting of alto saxophone with electronics, electric guitar, electric bass, and drums.

Track Listing Rudresh Mahanthappa Samdhi

Genre: Jazz Label: ACT Music+Vision CD: AMV 9513 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 10/11/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

Cover Sticker: 2011 DownBeat Critics Poll Winner: Alto Saxophonist of the Year

Parakram #1 • Killer • Richard’s Game • Playing with Stones • Parakram #2 • Ahhh • Meeting Of The Skins • Still-Gas • Rune • Breakfastlunchanddinnner • For My Lady • For All The Ladies

Key Markets

Hometown: New York. Also: Chicago, Boston, Washington DC, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle

U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Selling Points

• Second volume in master saxophonist David S. Ware’s planned series of solo recordings, and the concert/recorded debut of his work on the sopranino.

• Pressed in a strictly limited CD edition of 1,000.

• Promotion to national press, e-media, and college/non-commercial radio by Improvised Communications.

STREET DATE OCTOBER 11 & 25, 2011

Overview

David S. Ware Organica (Solo Saxophones, Volume 2) Genre: Jazz Label: AUM Fidelity CD: AUM 70 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak; Box Lot 40 Street Date: 10/25/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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Every David S. Ware solo concert performance is a rare and magisterial happening. This happened twice in 2010, and both concerts are presented here in their entirety. The first took place in March at an intimate, invite-only event in Brooklyn (at the former site of AUM Fidelity HQ); the second took place at the Umbrella Music Festival in Chicago in early November. Further to his tenor, Ware added the sopranino to his arsenal (pitched one full octave above the alto), and these concerts were his public debut on the new horn.

As Tim Niland wrote in his Music and More blog: “There is nothing rushed here, the music is patient and distinguished, and Ware’s beautiful golden tone, echoing the masters like Hawkins, Coltrane and Rollins, shines like the light from a powerful star.”

Track Listing

Minus Gravity 1 • Organica 1 • Minus Gravity 2 • Organica 2

Key Markets

Hometown: New York. Also: Chicago, Philadelphia, Washington DC, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland

Amir ElSaffar Inana

Selling Points

• Follow-up to Amir ElSaffar’s critically acclaimed Two Rivers (2007), which combined elements of the Iraqi Maqam with jazz.

• A virtuoso on his instrument, and one of very few microtonal trumpeters in the world, ElSaffar’s compositions are some of the first in the history of jazz to make use of Arabic modality and its non-western tunings.

• Last release, Radif Suite (2010), was named a New York Times Critics’ Pick.

• Full press mailing to newspapers, music critics, jazz magazines, and influential blogs.

• Full radio servicing to CMJ and JazzWeek panel stations and NPR programming.

• RIYL: John Zorn Masada, Dave Douglas.

Overview

Inana is the follow-up to trumpeter Amir ElSaffar’s critically acclaimed 2007 release Two Rivers, which All Music Guide called “as impressive a debut as we’ve had in America in the 21st century.”

In the four years since that release, ElSaffar’s compositional voice and palette have only advanced. While Two Rivers was about combining elements found in Iraqi music with the rhythms and aesthetics of modern jazz, Inana expands on that concept to include a microtonal harmonic and melodic language that combines the pitch-flexibility of Middle Eastern modality with the modulating melodic sensibilities of modern jazz.

U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Featured Artists

Press Quotes

“It’s hard to hear any Iraqi music today and rare to get a glimpse into the country’s incredibly rich cultural history. Two Rivers provides that, and it’s also a great modern jazz album.” — Pitchfork

“A staggering accomplishment that subtly erases the lines between his two chosen disciplines … while plenty of horn players have tapped into Middle Eastern modalities since John Coltrane became fascinated with Eastern sounds in the late ’60s, it’s rare to hear it done with such conviction and authority.” — Chicago Reader

ALSO AVAILABLE Two Rivers

Radif Suite

CD: PIE 24 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1

CD: PIE 32 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Amir ElSaffar: trumpet, vocal, santour Ole Mathisen: tenor & soprano saxophone Zafer Tawil: oud, percussion Tareq Abboushi: buzuq Carlo DeRosa: bass Nasheet Waits: drums

Track Listing

Inana Suite: Dumuzi’s Dream • Venus, the Evening Star • Inana’s Dance (Part I, II, III) • Inana’s Dance (Part IV) • Lady of Heaven • Infinite Variety • Journey to the Underworld • Venus, the Morning Star • Al-Badia

Key Markets

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

STREET DATE OCTOBER 25, 2011

“Ambitious and deftly executed.” — Boston Globe, Best CDs of 2007

U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Genre: Jazz Label: Pi Recordings CD: PIE 41 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak; Box Lot 40 Street Date: 10/25/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

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Tommy Bryan Ledford Butcher Bird

Selling Points

• Butcher Bird is TB’s debut record, but features songs he debuted as far back as the late 1990s during his tenure with the Thacker Mountain Radio Show.

• Former outfit, the Taylor Grocery Band, was featured in Joey Lauren Adams’ feature film Come Early Morning starring Ashley Judd.

• Video for “Cold Red Clay” was recently screened at the Oxford Film Festival, and awarded Best Music Video.

• Working on press campaign with multiple PR firms.

• RIYL: Gillian Welch, Steve Earle, T-Bone Burnett.

Overview

Tommy Bryan Ledford is a journeyman musician who was born in the Mississippi delta and raised in the piney hills on the Louisiana side, where his childhood was spent in creeks, woods, and Baptist churches.

Genre: Alt Rock/Folk Label: Esperanza Plantation CD: ESZ 19 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak; Box Lot 45 Street Date: 10/25/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

After spending some formative time in the New Orleans area, he settled in North Mississippi’s Lafayette County, where he was fortunate enough to perform in numerous bands of local fame and regional renown (including the Sincere Ramblers, the Kudzu Kings, and the Taylor Grocery Band).

Along the way, he and some friends accidentally created the Governor’s Award-winning Thacker Mountain Radio Hour, a statewide southern culture radio program that features musicians, authors, and more in front of a live audience. The program is now in its 13th season.

U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Featured Artists

STREET DATE OCTOBER 25, 2011

TB Ledford: guitar, banjo, accordion, vocals Dirk Powell: bass, violin Glenn Fields: drums

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Track Listing

Cold Red Clay • The Old Tallahatchie • Palestine, TX 1979 • Jericho Mile • Yocona • Dark is the Color of My Love • Wild Onions • The Judge’s Daughter • Blues for Jesus • The Butcher Bird • Hallelujah Morning • 100 Ways to Go

Key Markets

Hometown: Jackson. Also: Oxford, Hattiesburg, Memphis, Nashville, Baton Rouge

Currently, Tommy resides in Fondren, Mississippi and plays “electric catfish music,” a collision of traditional jug band, bluegrass, country blues, and gospel stylings with his latest outfits, the Dixie Nationals and Horse Trailer. Butcher Bird, his first solo record, is an original Southern Gothic assemblage of waylaid love songs, murder ballads, and brush arbor hymns recorded with Dirk Powell at the Cypress House in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana.

Kathryn Calder

Bright and Vivid

Selling Points

• Second solo album from Kathryn Calder (New Pornographers, Immaculate Machine).

• Promotion by Daniel Gill, Force Field PR. • RIYL: New Pornographers, Immaculate Machine, Feist, Ingrid Michaelson, Kristin Hersh.

Overview

Life is full of surprises, and nobody knows this better than Kathryn Calder. After years of performing with indie darlings Immaculate Machine, she found herself unexpectedly asked to record and tour with The New Pornographers and was almost immediately inducted as a full-fledged member of that group.

In 2010 she released her first solo album, Are You My Mother?, which garnered glowing reviews and foreshadowed the vast array of sonic experimentation the songwriter was capable of exploring.

Now, just one year after the release of her debut (which was dedicated to the memory of her late mother), Calder has returned with another full-length record. Written and recorded in a relatively short amount of time, the appropriately titled Bright and Vivid is a masterfully refined piece of work that illustrates a maturation that can only come from intense growth and change.

Backed by a newly minted band consisting of Lane Arndt, Stefan Bozenich, and Marek Tyler, Kathryn also worked with friends & fans including Jon Wurster (Superchunk, Mountain Goats), Dean Tzenos (Odonis Odonis), Barry Mirochnick & Paul Rigby (Neko Case), Jesse Zubot, and Ford Pier.

PRESS QUOTES

“Alluring sparkle and lilt … Members of The New Pornographers, Ladyhawke, and Frog Eyes chip in, but Calder’s confident voice and commanding presence anchors it all.” — Paste

U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Featured Artists

Kathryn Calder: vocals, keyboards Lane Arndt: guitar Stefan Bozenich: bass Marek Tyler, Jon Wurster: drums Dean Tzenos: percussion, programming Barry Mirochnick: drums Paul Rigby: mandolin, guitar Jesse Zubot: violin Ford Pier: guitar, French horn

Track Listing

One, Two, Three • Who Are You? • Turn A Light On • Walking In My Sleep • All The Things • Right Book • New Frame Of Mind • City Of Sounds • Five More Years • Younger Than We’ve Ever Been

ALSO AVAILABLE Are You My Mother?

CD: FUM 9 Price Code: T (SRP $14.99) Number of Discs: 1 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

STREET DATE OCTOBER 25, 2011

“Always intriguing … There is still levity in her voice—a crisp, bright alto that’s reminiscent of Jenny Lewis—but it has far less bounce and naivety here.” — Pitchfork

Genre: Alt Rock Label: File Under: Music CD: FUM 17 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak; Box Lot 50 Street Date: 9/13/11 8% RESTOCK DISCOUNT

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Selling Points • • • •

Recorded at JC/DC studios by Dave Carswell & John Collins.

Upcoming 2011 tour dates.

New album from one of Vancouver’s most lauded indie rock bands.

Marketing support via the Flea Marketing Co.

Overview

In Medias Res It Was Warm and Sunny When We First Set Out Genre: Alt Rock Label: File Under: Music CD: FUM 14 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Digipak; Box Lot 50 Street Date: 10/25/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Formed over a decade ago, Vancouver-based In Medias Res has risen from a fledgling act full of potential to one of the most lauded indie rock bands in the city, and their brand-new release has them poised to reach new heights. Three years ago, after touring extensively, selling out multiple pressings of their Intimacy EP and debut Of What Was, and establishing a passionate fan base across the country, the band went into the studio. Re-teaming with esteemed local producer Jonathan Anderson (Aidan Knight, Stablio), the quartet intended to best their previous effort, which was met with glowing reviews. But then life intervened. Rumors spread of the band’s demise as the album was slow in coming; meanwhile, the band rewrote, re-recorded, and remixed. In the assured hands of Dave Carswell and John Collins the album finally found its form: It Was Warm and Sunny When We First Set Out. Already garnering significant buzz—including ranking as the #1 seller on Bandcamp with over 20,000 total plays to date—the album will be released in 2011, with a national tour to follow in support.

Track Listing

The Final Flight of the Bees • This Could Be the One • Come Back Down • Bears • Slow Motion Clarity • Fight Song • This is the Night • Hollis • Tonight I Am New • No Words Came Down

Selling Points

• Facebook ad campaign to coincide with release.

• Full servicing to press, radio, and club DJs. • RIYL: Depeche Mode, Mesh, Iris, Seabound.

STREET DATE OCTOBER 25, 2011

Overview

This jam-packed double-disc release showcases two remixes of each track from Popgefahr, in the same order that they were first released.

With remixes from artists such as tour mates Mesh and Iris (from the recently completed North American Legends of Synthpop tour), Popgefahr: The Mix is sure to remind everyone what has made De/Vision a club favorite for well over 20 years.

Track Listing De/Vision Popgefahr: The Mix

Genre: Electronica/Pop Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 747 Price Code: S (SRP $18.99) Number of Discs: 2 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 10/25/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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DISC ONE: mAndroids (Intuition’s Automatischer Mix) • Rage (Mesh – Tantrum Mix) • What’s Love All About (Raytracer Mix) • Time To Be Alive (Iris Mix) • Plastic Heart (SideChain Moog Mix) • Be A Light To Yourself (Abysmal Mix) • Ready To Die (Hearhere Remix) • Flash Of Life (Backscatter Remix by Solitary Experiments) • Twisted Story (Rob Dust Remix) • Until The End Of Time (Renegade Of Noise Stomp RMX) • DISC TWO: mAndroids (Nydhog Remix) • Rage (Naweed Mix) • What’s Love All About (Kant Kino Remix) • Time To Be Alive (BLITZMASCHINE Pre-Build Mix) • Plastic Heart (Neuroplastic Mix by Cold In May) • Be A Light To Yourself (Subsonique – Flashlight Remix) • Ready To Die (Remix by ROTOSKOP) • Flash Of Life (Intuition’s Perfect Life Remix) • Twisted Story (Tkach Rogue Mix) • Until The End Of Time (Timeless Rmx by Technomancer)

Selling Points

• Debut album on Metropolis Records.

• Featuring John Fryer, legendary producer of artists such as Nine Inch Nails and Depeche Mode.

• Full servicing to press, radio, and club DJs. • RIYL: Curve, Garbage, Halou, Stripmall Architecture.

Overview

Legendary producer John Fryer (Depeche Mode, Cocteau Twins) and enchanting vocalist Rebecca Coseboom (Stripmall Architecture, Halou) are DarkDriveClinic. While John spent the better part of three decades helping sculpt the sound of classic albums that defined labels like 4AD and Mute, the seeds for the songs found on Noise In My Head were taking root. Ethereal, emotive, heartbreaking, and powerful, Rebecca’s stunning voice seethes and undulates through the music as the perfect balance of vocals and production creates one of the most accomplished releases we’ve heard in years.

Track Listing

Crawl • The Offering • Mercury Head • Litmus Heart • Find the Flaw • Love’s Lost Cross • Breathe Shallow • Still Contagious • Angel of Malcontent • Bite My Tongue • Silhouettes • Don’t Give Up On Me • Noise In My Head

Key Markets

New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh

DarkDriveClinic Noise In My Head

Genre: Electronica/Industrial Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 748 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 10/25/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Selling Points • • • •

Facebook ad campaign to coincide with release.

Sound samples available on Metropolis Records website.

Full servicing to press, radio, and club DJs. RIYL: VNV Nation, [:SITD:], Rotersand.

Overview

Track Listing

Mainstream Sellout Overground • Turbo • Die Neue F-Klasse • Forward Ever • The Bass Below • Biftek De Lincorn • The Enchantment • Fuer Die Kinder • Monkey Do, Monkey Say • Alle Redden Vom Wetter • Du Stirbst Aus • Weltzeitvernichter

Key Markets

New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Tampa, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio, Boston, Denver, Houston, Seattle, Portland, Cleveland, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, Pittsburgh

Straftanz Mainstream Sellout Overground Genre: Electronica/Industrial Label: Metropolis Records CD: MTP 752 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 10/25/11 5% PREORDER DISCOUNT

STREET DATE OCTOBER 25, 2011

We are Straftanz. We scream freedom, yet we are not free. We are without morale and discipline, yet you adore us. We are the soft concrete that offers good rest for your weary brains. We piss on graves to show you that parables are sometimes parabolic. We know the hand that held the chisel, but that does not mean the words engraved in stone have meaning for us. The elite tremble in fear, even though they have no idea what we hung up above their heads. We are not crazy, not wise, not original, not ironic, and not abstract. But we will drown your hierarchies in sweat. Get ready. Mainstream. Sellout. Overground.

U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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Selling Points

Recorded at Format Audio with Ryan Stack (Late Nite Wars).

Features on PropertyofZack.com, Absolutepunk.net, and more.

Punknews.org full album stream on release date, with contest.

Promos sent to college radio stations specializing in punk/hardcore.

Gratitude PR has already given a big push, and will be doing a follow-up push once the EP hits stores.

• RIYL: Integrity, The Hope Conspiracy, Ringworm.

• • • • •

Overview

Powerwolves You Won’t Find Peace

Genre: Punk/Hardcore Label: Panic Records CD: PNC 38 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 10/25/11 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Hailing from the Merrimack Valley region of Massachusetts, Powerwolves unleashes a unique brand of heavy, metallic hardcore.

With the release of their demo in Spring 2010, the band played any and every show they were offered, appearing nonstop throughout the Northeast and garnering themselves a solid following. They began recording their debut full-length in early 2011 at Format Audio with Ryan Stack (Late Nite Wars, The Effort), entitled You Won’t Find Peace. The records displays everything you’ve come to love in a hardcore band—brutality, heaviness, aggression, and intelligent lyrics.

From beginning to end, it is sure to wreck your life.

Track Listing

Behind This Face • The Chaos You Made • You Won’t Find Peace • Heavy Lies The Crown • Yesterdays • My Eyes Are Open • Welcome The End • They Keep Us • Night Of The Long Fangs

Key Markets

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

Selling Points

• Gearing up for a full US tour in September/October 2011.

• Gratitude PR has already given a big push, and will be doing a follow-up push once the EP hits stores.

• Features on PropertyofZack.com, Absolutepunk.net, and more.

• Punknews.org full album stream on release date, with contest.

• Promos sent to college radio stations specializing in punk/hardcore.

• RIYL: Polar Bear Club, Hot Water Music, Small Brown Bike.

STREET DATE OCTOBER 25, 2011

Overview

Pentimento Wrecked

Genre: Alt Rock Label: Panic Records CD: PNC 37 Price Code: J (SRP $9.99) Number of Discs: 1 Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 10/25/11 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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From Buffalo, NY, Pentimento strives to create a sound focused on the raw emotion of the punk scene that birthed them. The band entered the studio earlier this year to record their newest EP, Wrecked. The goal was to bring the most genuine experience possible to the listener, with the hopes that the same experience that is put across in their live show comes out on their recordings. As one of the most honest EPs to come out this year, Wrecked has surpassed that goal.

Track Listing

Rules Of Attraction • Walking Calmly In Your Wake • Words With Friends • Everything’s Eventual • Maybe • Just Maybe • Isn’t It Obvious

Key Markets

Hometown: Buffalo, NY. Also: Boston, New York, Los Angeles, San Diego, Seattle, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Gainesville

Selling Points • • • • • • •

Jump-off-the-screen characters and the visual cool of Guy Ritchie’s crime comedies!

Includes free digital copy.

Press releases will go out to 4,600 entertainment & news sites and film magazines.

Links to the press release and trailer will go to hundreds of reviewers and bloggers.

Paid display ads on high-traffic entertainment websites.

National radio promotion through All Star Radio Networks and their 400 affiliates.

NTSC, Region 1, 16:9, Color, English (Stereo), Not Rated, Run Time: 104 min.

SYNOPSIS

A hypochondriac named Alex and his accomplice Murphy catapult through a series of slapdash capers in an attempt to pacify their newfound obsession to own everything.

But when their crimes turn from petty robbery to kidnapping, their lives take a dangerous turn as they begin spending themselves deeper and deeper into depravity!

PRESS QUOTES

“Gutsy and unapologetic … plays like a low-budget brother of British dark comedies like Snatch or Trainspotting.” — The Fargo Forum “Fargo meets Snatch in this punch-to-the-gut crime caper!” — Hot Buzz Daily

Pinching Penny

Genre: Drama Studio: Xenon Pictures DVD: XNN 8165 Price Code: M Number of Discs: 1 Amaray; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 10/11/11 ISBN: 1-59788-384-0 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Selling Points

• Sensual and stylish characters in a slam bang Pulp Fiction-esque narrative!

• Includes free digital copy.

• Featuring Ed O’Ross (Red Heat, Action Jackson), Ricki Lander, Bart Johnson, and Ahna O’Reilly.

• Press releases will go out to 4,600 entertainment & news sites and film magazines.

• Links to the press release and trailer will go to hundreds of reviewers and bloggers.

• Paid display ads on high-traffic entertainment websites.

• National radio promotion through All Star Radio Networks and their 400 affiliates.

• NTSC, Region 1, 16:9, Color, English (Stereo), Not Rated, Run Time: 84 min.

A hip, evocative, and edgy drama depicting decisive moments in the life of beautiful Veronica Lambert and her disingenuous friends. Writer/director Nika Agiashvili sets the tone of this suspense thriller by interweaving several characters through different storylines as they’re thrown together in an interconnecting plot of sex, betrayal, and addiction.

Press quotes

“An edgy, sexy thriller … Sex and the City with a sledgehammer.” — MovieZone News

5 Nights in Hollywood Genre: Drama Studio: Xenon Pictures DVD: XNN 8164 Price Code: M Number of Discs: 1 Amaray; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 10/11/11 ISBN: 1-59788-385-9

DVD STREET DATE OCTOBER 11, 2011

SYNOPSIS

U.S. ORDERS ONLY

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SELLING POINTS

• Featured on MTV News in September 2010, with a director interview and visit to the set as filming began.

• 2010 Canadian thriller from young director Brooks Hunter.

• Media Blasters’ latest serving in the highly successful Fresh Meat line of horror films featuring the newest and brightest stars of television and screen.

• NTSC, Region 1, 1.78:1, Color, English (2.0), Not Rated, Run Time: 85 min.

SYNOPSIS

There’s something seriously wrong in Kennyville. When a young woman from Toronto goes missing and police mysteriously drop the case earlier than expected, two private detectives are hired to find her. With undercover aliases in hand, they head to the small town of Kennyville for answers. Kennyville is filled with intense action, complex mystery, and acts as a metaphor for director Brooks Hunter’s personal experience with mental illness. A fantastic example of how innovative, independent filmmakers can create an epic adventure on a low budget!

Extras include

Kennyville

Genre: Horror Studio: Shriek Show DVD: SSW 1109 Price Code: V Number of Discs: 1 Amaray; Box Lot 30 Street Date: 10/11/11 ISBN: 1598837850

Trailer • Alternate Ending • Deleted Scenes • Photo Gallery

U.S. ORDERS ONLY

DVD STREET DATE OCTOBER 11 & 25, 2011

Selling Points

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• The 1968 classic, remastered and loaded with extras!

• A must-have for monster fans—features Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, King Ghidorah, Anguirus, Minya, Spiega (a.k.a. Kumonga), Baragon, Gorosaurus, Manda, and Varan all in one movie!

• Never before available on Blu-ray!

• Ninth in the ever-popular Godzilla series, directed by Isiro Honda.

• DVD: NTSC, Region 1, 2.35:1, Color, Japanese w/ English Sub/Dub (2.0), Not Rated, Run Time: 85 min.

• Blu-ray: NTSC, Region A, 2.35:1, Color, Japanese w/ English Sub/Dub (2.0), Not Rated, Run Time: 85 min.

SYNOPSIS

The year is 1999, and all of Earth’s monsters have been captured and detained at Ogasawara Island. All is well in the solar system until one day, a race of alien women brainwashes the monsters and releases them, causing havoc around the world.

Godzilla attacks New York City, Rodan invades Moscow, Mothra lays waste to Beijing, Gorosaurus destroys Paris, and Manda attacks London!

Destroy All Monsters Genre: Science Fiction Studio: Tokyo Shock DVD: TSV 1122 Price Code: V Number of Discs: 1 Amaray, Box Lot 30 ISBN: 1598837885 Street Date: 10/25/11 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

Blu-ray: TSV 1124 Price Code: Z Number of Discs: 1 Blu-ray Case, Box Lot 30 ISBN: 1598837915 Street Date: 10/25/11 U.S. ORDERS ONLY

NAIL ON TOUR Electric Six Heartbeats and Brainwaves

System Syn All Seasons Pass

The Weeks Gutter Guant Gangster

CD: MTP 745 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) UPC: 782388074520 9/16/2011

CD: MTP 746 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) UPC: 782388074629 9/23/2011

LP: ESZ 21 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) UPC: 793573047502 * opening for the Meat Puppets 9/16/2011

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10/8/2011

Birmingham, AL - Bottletree

9/28/2011

10/15/2011

The Green Lady Killers Just Fine

9/30/2011

10/16/2011

10/1/2011

10/18/2011

LP: RTK 6 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) UPC: 022099124320 9/10/2011

10/2/2011

10/19/2011

Barona, CA - The Rumble Festival

10/3/2011

10/20/2011

Raleigh, NC - The Rumble Festival

10/4/2011

10/21/2011

LOWE Evolver

10/6/2011

10/22/2011

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10/25/2011

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10/27/2011

Lansing, MI - The Loft

Ferndale, MI - DIY Festival Covington, KY - The Mad Hatter St. Louis, MO - Firebird Milwaukee, WI - Turner Hall Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue Des Moines, IA - Vaudeville Mews Omaha, NE - Waiting Room Kansas City, MO - Record Bar Columbia, MO - Mojo’s Little Rock, AR - Stickyz Rock N Roll Norman, OK - Opolis Denver, CO - Bluebird Theater Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge Boise, ID - Neurolux Seattle, WA - Neumo’s Portland, OR - Dante’s San Francisco, CA - The Independent Los Angeles, CA - Key Club Santa Ana, CA - Galaxy Theater San Diego, CA - The Casbah

Phoenix, AZ - The Clubhouse Denver, CO - Quixotes Chicago, IL - Reggie’s Milwaukee, WI - Miramar Theater Pittsburgh, PA - Rex Theater New York, NY - Cybertron Philadelphia, PA - Starlight Ballroom Richmond, VA - Fallout Atlanta, GA - Das Bunker Jacksonville, FL - Brewster’s Pit 2011 Gothic Cruise W. Palm Beach, FL - Respectable St St. Petersburg, FL - The Local New Orleans, LA - Howlin Wolf Houston, TX - Mangos Cantina Dallas, TX - Lizard Lounge Austin, TX - Elysium Tulsa, OK - The Marquee Seattle, WA - El Corazon Portland, OR - Fez Ballroom

10/11/2011

Tucson, AZ - Plush

9/17/2011

Crowbar - Ybor City, FL 9/18/2011

Orlando, FL - The Social 9/20/2011

Carrboro, NC - Cat’s Cradle 9/21/2011

Charlotte, NC - Visulite Theatre 9/22/2011

Asheville, NC - The Grey Eagle 9/23/2011

Knoxville, TN - Barley’s Taproom 9/24/2011

Atlanta, GA - The Earl 9/27/2011

Nashville, TN - Mercy Lounge 9/28/2011

10/15/2011

CD: WTI 71 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) UPC: 801676007122 10/14/2011

Pittsburgh, PA - 51st Street Pub 10/17/2011

Ronkonkoma, NY - WRCN Radio

San Francisco, CA - DNA Lounge

10/18/2011

Soriah with Ashkelon Sain Eztica

10/19/2011

10/10/2011

Tempe, AZ - Sail Inn

Tallahassee, FL - Club Downunder

Bordentown, NJ - Record Collector New York, NY - R-Bar 10/20/2011

10/14/2011

CD: PJK 264 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) UPC: 617026026428 9/15/2011

San Antonio, TX - The Ten Eleven

Portland, OR - Star Theater

10/15/2011

9/16/2011

Austin, TX - Emo’s

Astoria, OR - Arts and Movement Center

Lo-Pan Salvador

10/16/2011

9/18/2011

Houston, TX - Fitzgerald’s Downstairs

Seattle, WA - El Corazon

10/17/2011

9/22/2011

New Orleans, LA - House of Blues

San Francisco, CA - Red Devil Lounge

LP: SSO 116 Price Code: M (SRP $14.98) UPC: 709764111624 9/23/2011

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9/24/2011

10/13/2011

Dallas, TX - Prophet Bar

Jacksonville, FL - Jack Rabbit’s 10/20/2011

Orlando, FL - The Social

Hollywood, CA - Bar Sinister

Worcester, MA – Ralph’s Diner 10/21/2011

Portland, ME - Asylum

Philadelphia, PA - The M Room 10/1/2011

Chicago, IL - Double Door

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