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FEATURING BILL CALLAHAN (SMOG), ALAN SPARHAWK (LOW), MARK KOZELEK (RED HOUSE PANTERS), JAMIE STEWART (XIU XIU), AND MORE

43 SONGS FOR 43 U.S. PRESIDENCIES

INSIDE AIDS Wolf • Radar Recordings – New Label! The Mommyheads • D+ • The Dark Romantics The Vietnam Veterans • Radiohead V/A: The Roots of Hip-Hop • Partisan Records – New Label! The Standard • Holy Sons • Conifer • Peter Broderick All Girl Summer Fun Band • Label Spotlight – Conspiracy Records

OF GREAT AND MORTAL MEN

43 SONGS FOR 43 U.S. PRESIDENCIES Selling Points

• Musical overview of each US presidency features 43 commissioned works from an international group of visual artists including members of Cake, Califone, Low, Red House Painters, Smog, Xiu Xiu, Charalambides, Wooden Wand, and more. • Packaged in a hardcover full color book featuring original portraits of each US president accompanying the song lyrics. • Publicity through Daniel Gill and Force Field Publicity. • Ads with Pitchfork, Arthur, UTNE Reader, and Paste.

Overview

Of Great and Mortal Men 43 Songs for 43 U.S. Presidencies Genre: Alt Rock Label: Standard Recording Co. 3XCD+Book: STD 1043 Price Code: 3J (SRP $29.99) Box Set; Box Lot 25 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Vince DiFiore: trumpet Marla Hansen: vocals, viola Denison Witmer: vocals Rosie Thomas: vocals These United States: music The Radar Bros: vocals, music Califone: vocals, music Tom Brosseau: vocals Tom Carter: vocals Bill Callahan: vocals, guitar Monahans: vocals, music James Jackson Toth: vocals Magnolia Summer: vocals, music Jamie Stewart: vocals Alan Sparhawk: vocals Mark Kozelek: guitar, vocals Steve Dawson: vocals

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

STREET DATE SEPTEMBER 9, 2008

Rock balladeers Christian Kiefer, Matthew Gerken, and Jefferson Pitcher have performed a remarkable feat. They have composed and recorded 43 songs, one for each of the past and current presidents of these United States. Most songs were written as part of the 2007 RPM “Album in a Month” Challenge, but after the challenge ended they decided to finish the songs and sought out other artists to assist with the endeavor. They also plan on writing a song about our 44th president, available for free download from Standard’s website, once we know who it is going to be.

Track Listing DISC ONE: George Washington: Washington Dreams of the Hippopotamus (Feat. Vince DiFiore of Cake) • John Adams: Armed with Only Wit and Vigor and the U.S. Navy (Feat. These United States) • Thomas Jefferson: The Mouldboard of Least Resistance • James Madison: Zinger • James Monroe: The Last Cocked Hat (Feat. Marla Hansen) • John Quincy Adams: Death In The Speaker’s Room • Andrew Jackson: Benevolence (Feat. Califone) • Martin Van Buren: The Little Magician (Feat. Tom Brosseau) • William Henry Harrison: So You Don’t Have To • John Tyler: Hindsight Falls On Deaf Ears (Feat. Bill Callahan) • James Polk: The Other Is Better/The Landscape to Transform (Feat. Monahans) • Zachary Taylor: Rough and Ready • Millard Fillmore: The Proof is in the Pudding • Franklin Pierce: My Only Enemy Is Myself DISC TWO: James Buchanan: God Will Strike You Down (Feat. Marla Hansen) • Abraham Lincoln: Malice, Charity, and the Oath of God (Feat. James Jackson Toth) • Andrew Johnson: Was Ever Alone? • Ulysses S. Grant: Helicopters Above Oakland • Rutherford B. Hayes: The Beard of God • James Garfield: Seven Months • Chester Arthur: The Epitome of Dignity • Grover Cleveland: Bees and Honey • Benjamin Harrison: Kid Gloves Hands Surplus to Big Sugar • Grover Cleveland: Rubbermouth • William McKinley: Czolgosz’s Dream (Feat. Magnolia Summer) • Theodore Roosevelt: The Sherman Act Does Not Care • William Howard Taft: There Was No Longer Use to Hide the Fact That It Was Gout (Feat. Marla Hansen) • Woodrow Wilson: A Life Among Men (Feat. Jamie Stuart of Xiu Xiu) DISC THREE: Warren Harding: An Army of Pompous Phrases • Calvin Coolidge: On Silence (Feat. Radar Bros.) • Herbert Hoover: Woe is a SpoonShaped Heart (Feat. Marla Hansen) • Franklin D. Roosevelt: Illuminating the Bright Lines • Harry S. Truman: Suits and Fine Trousers Vs. Hiroshima (Feat. Denison Witmer) • Dwight D. Eisenhower: When Ike Walked the Land (Feat. Alan Sparhawk & Mark Kozelek) • John F. Kennedy: There Is No Plan • Lyndon B. Johnson: Ladybird Take Me Home (Feat. Steve Dawson) • Richard Nixon: 2 Under Par Off the Coast of Africa (Feat. Tom Carter) • Gerald Ford: Now You See It, Now You Don’t See It (Feat. Vince DiFiore) • Jimmy Carter: A Great Beam of Light (Feat. Rosie Thomas) • Ronald Reagan: Such a Marvelous Dream (Feat. Califone) • George H.W. Bush: It Was Foreshadowed Here: The Beginning of the End • William J. Clinton: The Mighty Lion Will Not Roar Again • George W. Bush: Though the Night

AIDS WOLF

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CITIES OF GLASS

“AIDS Wolf are easily one of the best bands in the city right now. Discordance still rules their roost, but more prog is rearing its head—that both teases and startles.” — Montreal Mirror

Selling Points • Produced by Weasel Walter (The Flying Luttenbachers, XBXRX, Lake of Dracula). • AIDS Wolf will be touring throughout 2008. • Promotional posters available for display. • International press and radio campaign. • Ads in Signal To Noise, The Wire, Skyscraper, and more.

Overview The Nine Principles of AIDS Wolf: 1. Maintain A Daily Ritual. Music is like breathing, eating, sleeping, pissing, and, with any luck, fucking. Music must be a physical need and a mental compulsion. 2. Live Aesthetic Immersion. There is no reason a sonic composition cannot be inspired by or contribute to a drawing, a tasty curry, or one’s choice of socks. 3. When In Doubt, Bum Them Out. If you can’t convert ‘em, make ‘em run crying and holding their ears. 4. Get In The Van. 5. Seek Strength Through Strength. Gear’s gotta be carried, sleep must be forsaken, and tours have to be survived. 6. Join The Family. Camaraderie with other bands is not only inspiring but also serves as a vital metrics by which to measure one’s own perceived worth. 7. Allow For Sonic Fields Of Nothing. The use of negative space in music creates new dynamics, abstracts the obvious, and challenges both the creator and the audience. 8. Lift Anchor And Set Sail. De-anchoring compositions by dispensing with a bass guitar allows AIDS Wolf to make rhythm the central feature of its performances. 9. Become The Weird Punks. Remember when punk was weird and weird was punk? Destroy genre straitjackets and move out of the comfortable. Now that you have committed these principles to memory, we encourage further study through Cities of Glass, the second album from AIDS Wolf. Once immersed in these tenets, you can be assured of finding failure and misery as you bring them with you into the wider world.

“Rock can still sound threatening.” — PopMatters

AIDS Wolf Cities of Glass Genre: Punk/Experimental Label: Skin Graft Records CD: GRA 91 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Label: Lovepump United 2XLP: LPU 18 Price Code: 2G (SRP $17.99) Gatefold Jacket; Box Lot 40 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Andre: guitar Chloe: vocals Myles: guitar Yannick: drums

Track Listing • M.T.I. • Tied-Up In Paper • Cities of Glass • Ch-ch-ch-chatter • Down, Holy Ground • Gnarly Tooth • General _ _ • A Sacrificial Drone • Relevant Issues • So Many Plastic Pearls

Key Markets New York, Boston, Minneapolis, Austin, San Diego, Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Seattle, Detroit, San Francisco

STREET DATE SEPTEMBER 9, 2008

nail welcomes radar recordings to its roster! Radar Recordings is a collective of independent artists founded in Boston by Will Benoit and Mike Repasch-Nieves, who draw from their experience at labels such as TVT Records, Hydra Head Records, Century Media, and Vagrant Records to represent this family. The artists who make up the Radar community can be found all over the map, brought together by common beliefs, goals, and a hope to remind people that something else is out there.

Press Quotes “Adai defies any preconceived notion of a two-piece anything: hellishly loud, terrifically slow, strikingly abrasive, yet wholly and implacably melodic.” — The Onion

Selling Points • A priority artist for Radar Recordings. • Cornerstone Publicity targeting metal, punk, rock, and mainstream sites including Pitchfork for an MP3 world premiere and a Stereogum Band to Watch feature. • Posters and other POP promotional items available upon request. • Over 80,000 plays/downloads courtesy of online music sites. • Ads with Alarm.

Adai I Carry Genre: Metal Label: Radar Recordings CD: RDE 115 Price Code: G (SRP $8.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview Adai is a textbook example of how to do it right in today’s tumultuous music business. After recording I Carry with one of metal’s most in-demand producers, Kurt Ballou (Converge, Cave In, Genghis Tron), Adai has been hitting the road hard, touring with label mates Caspian, Junius, and Constants. From working with Ballou to tracking down Seldon Hunt (The Melvins, ISIS, High On Fire) to design their album art, this band clearly loves what they do.

Track Listing The March... • And Termination • Home • Mark of Ownership • Hawkins

Key Markets Hometown: Denver. Also: Boston, Albuquerque

press Quotes “With crushingly pretty melodies, Thor-approved feedback, loops, and guitar hooks, [Caspian] transcends post-rock clichés with meticulously crafted songcraft.” — SPIN

Selling Points • Over half a million plays and downloads to date, with an average of 500 plays per day courtesy of online music sites. • This record is being promoted on metal, rock, punk, alternative, indie, and mainstream sites via blogs, A/V links, and reviews.

Overview Following a co-headlining tour in Fall 2007, Boston’s definitive post-rock bands Constants and Caspian decided to commemorate the successful outing by recording two previously unreleased tracks. To show solidarity, Philip Jamieson of Caspian appears on “…Passage” and both songs were recorded by Constants’ guitarist/vocalist Will Benoit. To celebrate the release, both bands, along with label mates Junius, reunited for a spring tour down to SXSW. They performed at the Radar Recordings/Sargent House finale party at Red 7, headlined by Constants and Russian Circles (Suicide Squeeze).

Track Listing Caspian: La Cerva • Constants: ...Passage

Key Markets Hometown: Boston. Also: Brooklyn, Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles

STREET DATE SEPTEMBER 9, 2008

Caspian/Constants Caspian/Constants Split Genre: Alt Rock Label: Radar Recordings 7”: RDE 120 Price Code: D (SRP $6.99) 7” Jacket; Box Lot 20 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Selling Points • Over 100,000 plays/downloads courtesy of online music sites. • Debuted at #11 on the Boston radio charts. • Band featured on CBS News in a feature about its vegetable-oil-fueled tour bus. • Publicity and tour press handled by Pirate! Promotions and Radar PR.

Overview The follow-up to Constants’ acclaimed 2004 debut Nostalgia for the Future, produced by Daryl Rabidoux (The Cancer Conspiracy, Drowningman, Irepress) with Matt Squire (Thrice, Hot Water Music, Panic! At The Disco) and mastered by Ue Nastasi (Killswitch Engage, Clutch).

Track Listing Walking Dead In East Texas • Robotica and Lobotomy • The Murder of Tom Fitzgerril • When Stars Dilate

Constants The Murder of Tom Fitzgerril Genre: Alt Rock Label: Radar Recordings CD: RDE 113 Price Code: G (SRP $8.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Selling Points • Features members of the Cancer Conspiracy. • New media, print, and radio campaign by Radar PR. • Ads with Alarm.

Overview

Carrigan Young Men Never Die Genre: Alt Rock Label: Radar Recordings CD: RDE 114 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

Since their inception seven years ago, Carrigan’s journey from instrumental post rock to vocally driven songwriting has crested with their sophomore effort, Young Men Never Die. Carrigan are longtime collaborators with prog visionaries the Cancer Conspiracy, whose guitarist Daryl Rabidoux recorded Young Men over the course of two years.

Track Listing We Give No Quarter • Valladolid • Sunshine through the Waves • Talk To My Horse • Theodore • Moving Bones • Davey Jones Locker • The Dwarf • Chin Music • Tinderboxes

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Selling Points • Next album being recorded at Henson Studios (AFI, Weezer) in Los Angeles. • Limited edition packaging! • Promoted on metal, punk, indie, and mainstream sites via blogs, A/V links, and reviews.

Overview Characterized by spacey walls of guitar, driving rhythms, and haunting vocal hooks, Junius blurs the line between dark New Wave and cinematic art rock. Forcing Out the Silence is the band’s debut EP, reissued as a limited edition in its original packaging. The album was produced by Will Benoit (Constants, Caspian) and mastered by Zick Zampiello (ISIS, Cave In, Pelican).

Track Listing [Elan Vital] • Hiding Knives • From the Isle of the Blessed • [Elan Fatale] • Forcing Out the Silence

Junius Forcing Out the Silence Genre: Alt Rock Label: Radar Recordings CD: RDE 105 Price Code: G (SRP $8.99) Eco-Wallet; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

STREET DATE SEPTEMBER 9, 2008

Press Quotes “Bursting with Beatlesque harmonies and chunky ’70s grooves (check out the horn work on ‘Wake Up Irene’), the Don Was-produced Mommyheads is a fab intro to these up-and-comers.” — Entertainment Weekly “Plaintive, genuine pop music featuring superb vocals and great arrangements.” — Babysue “Put simply, it is a sorry shame that this [band] did not receive greater recognition at the time of its release and any fan of power pop, progrock, or indie pop should make every effort to search out this superlative [band].” — All Music Guide

Selling Points

The Mommyheads You’re Not a Dream Genre: Alt Rock Label: Bladen County Records CD: BCO 9 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Digipak; Box Lot 25 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Adam Cohen: guitar, vocals, mandolin, keys Michael Holt: keyboards, vocals Oy Fisherman: drums, percussion, vocals Jeff Palmer: bass, saw, guitar

Track Listing • Work • Help Me • Angels and Weathermen • You’re Not a Dream • Washing Machine • Stupid Guy • Fork in the Road • (Waiting For A) Remedy • Dirt • Corky

Key Markets Hometown: New York Also: Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chapel Hill, Minneapolis, Chicago

STREET DATE SEPTEMBER 9, 2008

• First album in 10 years from these underground cult pop favorites, featuring the original lineup. • Produced and engineered by Adam Cohen. • Three-month press and radio promotion through Bladen County Media.

Overview First Mommyheads album in 10 years! Last album was the self-titled Geffen release in 1997, produced by Don Was. You’re Not a Dream features the same lineup, and the same great pop music. The Mommyheads released five albums between 1989 and 1997, each on a different label and each marking the upward progression of the band, from inchoate Beefheart-esque odd pop to a solid boom of Beatlesesque grandeur. This new album sees the band in top form and is a perfect complement to the Geffen release. The band will play a string of shows in September, culminating in their appearance at Portland’s MusicFestNW. The Mommyheads were an American indie pop band circa 1987–1998. Starting in New York City as the brainchild of singer Adam Cohen (later changed to Adam Elk), the band produced a string of quirky and highly inventive releases on various independent labels, most notably Simple Machines. Their music has been compared to XTC. They relocated to San Francisco in 1990, released one of the best pop albums of the decade—Bingham’s Hole—in the mid-’90s, and were subsequently signed to Geffen Records in 1997, producing a single album for the label before breaking up in 1998.

Press Quotes “The sound of D+ stumbling on clarity, an emphasis on music-making over the music product: more verb, less noun please. Wit and intellect are rarely wrapped in such sluggish, minimalistic beauty.” — Tiny Mix Tapes “Lunsford, Blau, and Elverum are too creative to let one album sum up the work of D+. Consider On Purpose more of a refresher on what makes D+ infectious as you sit and wait for a sign of new life from the notsupergroup.” — Electronic Voice Phenomenon “These 15 tracks may qualify as ‘shambling’—an irresistibly overused term when it comes to indie rock—but there’s enough charm, sincerity, and insight throughout On Purpose to smooth over the rough patches.” — Seattle Sound

Selling Points • D+ is Karl Blau, Phil Elverum (Mt. Eerie/The Microphones), and Bret Lunsford (Beat Happening). • Blau will release a new solo album, Nature’s Got Away, through K Records in September 2008. • Gorgeous silk-screened and letter-pressed recycled packaging. • Doublescoop PR hired to promote the album to national and independent press. • Ads with Arthur and Yeti.

Overview

D+ What Is Doubt For? Genre: Alt Rock Label: Knw-Yr-Own CD: KNW 84 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Arigato Pak; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

With their sixth proper release (seven if you include the rarities, hits, and live tracks comp On Purpose), D+ continues further down their path of minimalism. Each record strips bare another layer of Bret Lunsford’s musings on the world in which we live in. What Is Doubt For? is perhaps the barest and darkest incarnation of D+ yet. Recorded mostly in Phil Elverum’s living room, the songs were played into one microphone—one track—mono. What Is Doubt For? lives up to its title and asks you to do the same.

Featured Artists Karl Blau: vocals, instruments Phil Elverum: vocals, instruments Bret Lunsford: vocals, instruments Genevieve Castree: guest vocals

Track Listing • Attention • Never Sense a Thing • What Is Doubt For? • Certainty • How Easily Love Can Be Found • Wishful Thinking • Regret Not • Ancient Drawer • Manipulate Me

Key Markets Hometown: Anacortes Also: Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Miami, Baltimore, New York, Chicago ALSO AVAILABLE

D+

CD: KNW 81 Price Code: O

CD: KNW 61 Price Code: O

On Purpose

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Deception Pass

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D+

Various Artists

CD: KNW 51 Price Code: O

CD: KNW 83 Price Code: G

Mistake

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No Band is an Island

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STREET DATE SEPTEMBER 9, 2008

Press Quotes “A daydream wrapped up in an existential crisis wrapped up in the perfect summer melody.” — SF Chronicle “A marriage of sour memories and sunny melodies.” — RollingStone.com “The best one-man-and-guitar performer there is.” — Erland Øye, Kings of Convenience “Unguarded snatches of pop bliss, bald-faced, tender, and delivered winningly by Davenport.” — SF Bay Guardian

Selling Points

Bart Davenport Palaces Genre: Alt Rock Label: Antenna Farm CD: ANT 526 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Digipak; Box Lot 36 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Bart Davenport: vocals, guitar, bass Tony Sevener: drums, percussion Kelley Stoltz: glockenspiel, vocals, guitar, bass Dan Eisenberg: Hammond organ, piano Cris Armijo: vocals, percussion Angelina Moysov: vocals Herve Salters: piano Amber Lamprecht: oboe Ben E. Riesman: strings Tom Heyman: pedal steel Marc Capelle: celeste, piano, organ Jessica Vohs, Miranda Zieger: vocals

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

Key Markets Hometown: San Francisco Also: Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, New York, Chicago, Boise, Omaha, Boston, Minneapolis, Kansas City, St. Louis, Austin, Tucson, Atlanta, Boston, Philadelphia, Chapel Hill, Ann Arbor, Madison, Providence, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City

STREET DATE SEPTEMBER 9, 2008

• First solo release since Honeycut’s 2006 debut The Day I Turned To Glass (Quannum Projects). • Produced by Bart Davenport and Kelley Stoltz (Sub Pop). • Numerous 2007 festival appearances as frontman of Honeycut, including Bumbershoot, Treasure Island, Virgin, Download, Noise Pop, and SXSW. • Honeycut song “Exodus Honey” was used for a 2007 iMac ad campaign and Apple’s OS X Leopard. • Previous guest appearances on albums by Preston School of Industry, Persephone’s Bees, and Greyboy, the latter including a duet with Sharon Jones. • Print and new media publicity campaign by Press Here PR (Bright Eyes, Rilo Kiley). • Radio promotion by Terrorbird PR (Goldfrapp, Animal Collective). • Ads with Magnet, Vice, Daytrotter, and assorted blogs.

Overview You may have seen West Coast rock institution Bart Davenport fronting Quannum Records electro future-funk trio called Honeycut, or heard their song “Exodus Honey” in a recent iMac ad. Davenport is a singer-songwriter troubadour who wears his passionate love of West Coast pop on his sleeve. His songs have captivated audiences worldwide for years, dating back to his time as a front man for Oakland garage/ blues combo The Loved Ones. On Palaces, his fourth solo album and third for Oakland indie Antenna Farm, 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 music-making. The album also features stellar contributions from some of the Bay Area’s top musicians, including Stoltz, Angelina Moysov (Persephone’s Bees), and Tony Sevener & Hervé Salters (Honeycut). Drawing from Brit folk, bossa nova, and even a touch of Philly soul, Davenport’s rich, nuanced vocals capture a cohesive fusion of traditional and indie pop, with lyrics that sparkle with plainspoken poetry and offer telling insights into the minds and hearts of his subjects. ALSO AVAILABLE

Bart Davenport

CD: ANT 501 Price Code: N

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Game Preserve

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Bart Davenport Seal the Deal EP CD: ANT 512 Price Code: I

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Maroon Cocoon

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Press Quotes “Unambiguously focused on ’80s dance-rock … the Romantics execute this propulsive style as well as, say, Interpol.” — Washington Post “Yes, this is sweet candy … likely to feel either illicit or familiar, a guilty pleasure or a foregone conclusion. The Dark Romantics aren’t without a certain experimental element, but they flaunt some of the best hooks in indie-pop. “ — Alarm “A slithery pop effort that combines the nightlife’s frisson-producing energy, though without any of its smarmy underbelly, with slick modern indie-pop sounds.” — Aversion

Selling Points • Toured with Copeland, Murder By Death, the Mooney Suzuki, New London Fire, Scissors For Lefty, Discover America, and John Ralston. • Features Eric Collins and Dean Lorenz formerly of Denison Marrs (Floodgate Records), The Party People, John Ralston Band, Dashboard Confessional, and Starflyer 59. • Tours scheduled to cover Midwest (September), East Coast (October), and West Coast (November) upon release. • Songs played on MTV’s Next and Pimp My Ride, ABC’s Big Shots, FX’s Dirt, and CBS’s Moonlight. • Dave Clifford at Fanatic Promotion hired for print media PR. • Andy Silva at Fanatic Promotion hired for new media PR. • Dan Yocom at Fanatic Promotion hired for college/non commercial radio PR. • John Warden at Rive Video Promotion hired for video PR. • Extremely active MySpace page with 14,000+fans and 130,000+views. • Ads with Wonka Vision, Under the Radar, Big Takeover, Skyscraper, Paste, indie click banner ads, and more.

Overview The Dark Romantics is the brainchild of Eric Collins (ex-Denison Marrs, The Party People). With help from brother-in-law Dean Lorenz (ex-Denison Marrs, The John Ralston Band, The Party People), Collins combined what he learned from both projects to create The Dark Romantics: a darker, sexier, groovier sound. Heartbreaker is the bands’ highly anticipated sophomore effort—13 tracks of the rollicking guitar rock we’ve come to expect from this Lakeland, FL quintet. Heartbreaker boasts the most impressive vocals we’ve seen from Collins so far, and matches this with epic instrumentation and some crazyas-hell hooks that will absolutely find their way into your indie-rock head. Building on themes of love, pain and—ahem—heartbreak, this new record explores and perfects the very thing that make The Dark Romantics so romantic. Heartbreaker is powerful and bracing—quite possibly the most beautiful record of 2008.

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The Dark Romantics

CD: LUJ 47 Price Code: I

CD: LUJ 43 Price Code: E

Some Midnight Kissin’

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The Dark Romantics Heartbreaker Genre: Alt Rock Label: Lujo Records CD: LUJ 63 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Eric Collins: guitar, vocals Dean Paul: guitar Carla Jones: bass Amanda Jones: keyboards Stephanie Salomon: drums

Track Listing • Heartbreaker Pt.3 • Love & Pain • Hush Your Mouth • The Death Of You • This Is Young Love • Let’s Ride • Never Been Loved • She’s Loaded • Heartbreaker Pt.2 • Gimme a Kiss • W.G.L.Y. • The Perfect Place • Heartbreaker

Key Markets Hometown: Tampa Also: Orlando, Tallahassee, Gainesville, Ft. Worth, Dallas, Austin, Washington DC, New York, Birmingham, Nashville, Memphis, Chicago, Cincinnati, Columbus, Atlanta, Athens, Columbia, Charlotte, Chapel Hill, Baltimore, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle

Another Song EP

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STREET DATE SEPTEMBER 9, 2008

Press Quotes “oRSo is more akin to a motley assemblage of New Orleans players and Appalachian hillbillies given the field-recording treatment by Brian Eno … taking in the whole recording is as fascinating as watching a documentary travelogue of exotic backwaters.” — Magnet “It’s not country, though it was recorded using all of the instruments you might find on a country album. It’s more like an attic barroom lullaby, the kind that evokes images of falling asleep under the stars above the prairie—or upon the wooden floors of a musty bordello.” — Splendid “Confidently but humbly swirls and hops on the periphery of musical pigeonholing, waiting especially and specifically for you.” — PopMatters

oRSo Ask Your Neighbor Genre: Alt Rock Label: Contraphonic CD: CTP 72 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Phil Spirito: guitars, banjo, bass, vocals Libby Reed: banjo, keyboards, cello, more Karl Runge: violin Joe Adamik: piano, clarinet, celeste, more Jim McGranahan: bass, percussion Ben Massarella: percussion Tim Rutilli: guitar, vocals, piano Jim Becker: violin, guitar, banjo, vocals Griffin Rodriguez: bass, vocals Dave McDonnell: clarinet, organ, vocals Nick Macri: bass Carlo Cennamo: alto sax Dave McGranahan: horns, euphonium Dylan Ryan: vibes Rob Stephenson: guitar, handclaps, vocals

Track Listing • All Suffer Fools • Anniversary • Warm Up • I’m High • Not Likely To • Nice to See You • Protest Song • See Me • To Be Held • The Hope • Egg • Way Way

Key Markets Hometown: Chicago Also: New York, Austin, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle 10

STREET DATE SEPTEMBER 9, 2008

“oRSo creates a beguiling sound on their third release, a challenging mix of slippery violin, banjo, and saxophone with a warm folksiness at its center. It’s an open-ended type of music without clear resolutions, more often floating by on pensive clouds with loose, elastic elements of jazz and a painterly sense of sound.” — Stylus

Selling Points • oRSo is the project of Phil Spirito, former principal member of rex as well as a member of Loftus and HiM. • Features members of Califone, Icy Demons, Coast, and Herculaneum. • First Contraphonic album after a series of releases for Califone’s Perishable Records, and first album since 2004’s acclaimed My Dreams are Back and They Are Better Than Ever. • Extensive tours with Califone in US and Italy, resulting in large domestic and international following. • Full three-month national campaign by Skyscraper Media. • Full digital press campaign by Skyscraper Media and Contraphonic. • Extensive tour press to alternative weeklies and local media outlets. • National radio campaign by AAM. • Ads with Signal To Noise, The Wire, and Arthur.

Overview oRSo is the project of ex-rex member and oft-time HiM & Loftus contributor Phil Spirito. After a series of releases for Perishable Records, oRSo has teamed up with Contraphonic in this year of their decennial celebration. Building on the success of their previous release, which earned nearly universal acclaim and saw the band support Califone on extended domestic and Italian tours, oRSo’s hypnotic mix of tenor banjos, soft organs, muted brass, and calm harmonies are in full force on the majestic Ask Your Neighbor—like talking a walk in the woods while music drips off every leaf.

Press Quotes “Souls must have been sold for a performance like this.” — Bucketful of Brains “One of the best albums ever recorded from the post-psychedelic garage scene of the ’80’s.” — Perfect Sound Forever

Selling Points • Vietnam Veterans were one of the main attractions of the Neo-Psych movement and a major event in the psych scene of the mid-’80s. • This is likely the only Vets reissue, now available for the first time in the US and Canada. • The band’s legendary first two LPs were never available on CD. • On the Right Track Now, the band’s first real album, was recorded in 1983 and mixed in just three days. • Crawfish for the Notary, recorded in 1984, was originally released on Lolita Records.

Overview The Vietnam Veterans were the best psychedelic punk band of their time. Some people even said that they were the only real psychedelic group. When the Vets first emerged on the scene at the beginning of the ’80s, they were unlike any other band. To them, psychedelic music meant free human beings playing for free human beings. Eventually, the Vets decided to split after five years of communal life, six albums, and a series of unforgettable gigs. Mark Enbatta was the originator, the voice, the guitar, and the pen of the Veterans. Raised on LSD, he believes in a world of love and freedom. This man is a fighter, an anarchist, and everything the right wing doesn’t like. He gives his life every time he writes or sings, and anyone with a heart and a soul can feel it.

Track Listing • Don’t Try To Walk On Me • Dreams of Today • I Can Only Give You Everything • You’re Gonna Fall • I Walked with a Zombie • Back From Hell • Out From the Night • Critics • That’s Love • Dogs • Hey Gyp • Right Track Now • Is This Really the Time • What Are You Hiding • Masters of Time • This Life Is Your Life • Gary Cooper’s Trip • Burning Temples • I Heard the Wind Blow • I Give You My Life • Children Eyes • My Trip • Liars • Be My Baby

The Vietnam Veterans On the Right Track/Crawfish for the Notary Genre: Rock/Garage/Psych Label: Music Maniac/Wayback CD: MMN 660045 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Mark Enbatta: guitar, vocals Greg Jones: guitar Angelo Jupp: bass Martin Joyce, Steve Palermo: drums Lucas Trouble: keyboards D.D. Richardson: harmonica

Key Markets Austin, Washington DC, New York, Chicago, Columbus, Atlanta, Charlotte, Baltimore, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Boston

STREET DATE SEPTEMBER 9, 2008

Press Quotes “Weston lays down a ferocious groove with ecstatic shouts … tugging rhythmic displacements that tease like thunder and lightning throughout.” — All About Jazz “Calvin Weston is wild enough by himself; he gets even crazier when he’s joined by other percussionists … [achieves] a rare cohesion, fusing jazz, hip-hop, African rhythms, and funk into an invigorating and exploratory sound that’s both enjoyable and intellectual.” — Philadelphia Weekly “Fierce grooves, torrid worldbeat percussion vamps, and raucous soloing escapades … a mind-altering exposition.” — eJazzNews

Grant Calvin Weston Nassira Genre: Jazz Label: Amulet Records CD: AME 28 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30

“Calvin is one of my biggest influences. He has been a huge inspiration to many musicians and a portal into Ornette Coleman’s funky harmolodic world. This recording is a culmination of music made on the West Coast and in his Philadelphia hometown. The intense wild alchemy utilizing acoustic and electronic sounds in combination with other Philadelphia musical mavericks makes this a very special (and fun!) trip into the world of Grant Calvin Weston.” — Billy Martin (Medeski Martin & Wood)

Selling Points • Has performed with Ornette Coleman, James Blood Ulmer, John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards, Marc Ribot, John Zorn, Derek Bailey, and James Carter. • Promotion to Medeski Martin & Wood fan base and jazz media.

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Featured Artists Grant Calvin Weston: drums, trumpet, more Walter Weasel: guitar Dion Pac: guitar Jeff Monjack: guitar Tom Spiker: bass Elliote Levin: saxophones, flute Brian Marsella: keyboards

Overview Grant Calvin Weston has blazed a harmolodic, funkadelic trail through modern jazz. This record is a culmination of recordings made on the West Coast and his hometown of Philadelphia. Weston puts his Midas touch on electronics and acoustic instruments that blow the socks off any jazz-rock poser out there. Listen to the man who funked-up Ornette Coleman in the 1970s.

Track Listing • Earth Mover • Space Boy • Pop Goes the Weasel • Let’s Funk • That’s It • Area 51 • What It Look Like

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

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Martin/Weston

CD: AME 1 Price Code: L

CD: AME 19 Price Code: M

Percussion Duets

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STREET DATE SEPTEMBER 9, 2008

Live at Houston Hall

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Press Quotes “An extraordinarily rich compositional sensibility—to say nothing of a delicate touch.” — Time Out New York “Without exception, Yamamoto’s compositions are emotionally arresting and appealingly original.” — All About Jazz “Yamamoto’s ensemble work combines buoyancy and brawn, and her solos pivot effortlessly between blues-infused grittiness and lyrical brightness.” — Point of Departure

Selling Points • Eri Yamamoto’s second 2008 release as leader on AUM Fidelity is a rapid follow-up/partner to her exquisite Duolugue released in June 2008. • Redwoods features her immediately compelling and original compositions performed with her fully committed working trio. • When Yamamoto is not touring around the world, she and her trio perform every weekend at Arthur’s Tavern, a historic jazz club in New York’s Greenwich Village. • Service/promotion to national press/e-media, targeted regional press, and college/non-commercial radio by Improvised Communications. • Ads with All About Jazz (New York), Signal To Noise, and Point of Departure.

Overview Eri Yamamoto moved to New York from Kyoto in 1995. After hearing Tommy Flanagan perform in Central Park, the classically trained piano prodigy had a momentous revelation that her future would be with jazz music. She entered the prestigious jazz program at the New School and began playing regularly at the Avenue B Social Club, a popular spot among jazz musicians in the East Village. It was there that she deeply impressed Matthew Shipp (who recorded her last trio album on his Blue Series/ Thirsty Ear) and William Parker (who recently invited her into his Raining on the Moon ensemble). Her growth as a jazz player and composer over the last 10 years is truly phenomenal. AUM Fidelity quickly recorded two albums with her in early 2008, the first of which was the exquisite Duologue, released in June. The second, Redwoods, features her regular working trio of longtime compatriots David Ambrosio and Ikuo Takeuch. Yamamoto’s distinctly invigorating approach to the jazz trio, and her remarkable gift for indelible melodies, reaches yet another track-for-track high.

Eri Yamamoto Trio Redwoods Genre: Jazz Label: AUM Fidelity CD: AUM 49 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 40 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Eri Yamamoto: piano, compositions David Ambrosio: bass Ikuo Takeuchi: drums

Track Listing • This is an Apple • Wonder Land • Bumpy Trail • Redwoods • Bottled Water Princess • Magnolia • Story Teller • Dear Friends

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

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Eri Yamamoto

William Parker/Raining on the Moon

CD: AUM 48 Price Code: P

CD: AUM 43 Price Code: P

Duologue

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Corn Meal Dance

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STREET DATE SEPTEMBER 9, 2008

Selling Points • An original freak folk classic. New digipak format. • Press and radio campaign. Ads with The Wire.

Overview

MIJ Yodeling Astrologer Genre: Folk/Psych Label: ESP-Disk’ CD: ESP 1098 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30

When Bernard Stollman found MIJ (a.k.a. Jim Holmberg) yodeling by the fountain in Washington Square Park on a hot summer afternoon in 1969, Holmberg explained that an auto accident had impaired his hearing. But it had also altered his perception, enabling him to do things he did not understand, but that worked musically. With Onno Scholtze’s help, he explored multiple reverb to provide a series of echoes for his yodeling.

Track Listing Two Stars • Grok (Martian Love Call) • Romeo and Juliet • Little Boy • Lookin’ Out Today • Door Keys • Planet of a Flower • Never Be Free • Look Into the (K)night

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Selling Points • A unique piano trio recording in the tradition of Cecil Taylor and Herbie Nichols. • Manufactured in the US. New digipak format. • Press and radio campaign. Ads with The Wire and online with All About Jazz.

Overview Brought to the attention of ESP-Disk’ by Ornette Coleman, Lowell Davidson recorded this singular session on July 27th, 1965 with Gary Peacock and the ever amazing Milford Graves. The only recording ever released by Davidson, it remains fresh and exciting 40+ years later.

Track Listing “L” • Stately • Dunce • Ad Hoc • Strong Tears

Lowell Davidson Lowell Davidson Trio Genre: Jazz Label: ESP-Disk’ CD: ESP 1012 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Selling Points • Manufactured in the US. New digipak format. • Press and radio campaign. Ads online with All About Jazz.

Overview

Gunter Hampel Group Music from Europe Genre: Jazz Label: ESP-Disk’ CD: ESP 1042 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30

Recorded in Holland on December 21, 1966, Music From Europe was a strong statement of European free jazz from one of its first and strongest leaders. Over the beautifully structured compositional suites are strong blowing and improvising by both the reedmen (Hampel, Breuker) and the elastic rhythm section (Veening, Courbois).

Track Listing Assemblage: Dissociation/Consolation/Renunciation/Modul/ Esotheric/Epiphany/Turbulence • Heroicredolphysiognomystery • Make Love Not War To Everybody

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STREET DATE SEPTEMBER 9, 2008

Selling Points • Manufactured in the US. New digipak format. • Press and radio campaign. Ads online with All About Jazz.

Overview Early recording (1967) of Eastern European free improvisation, which maintained a strong tension between restraint and the all-out blowing of its Western relatives. Though more traditional postbop inspirations are evident, there is the beautiful sound of struggle and attainment of a very free, individual sound. A must for anyone interested in European jazz and the history of its relationship with the ’60s American New Thing movement.

Track Listing The Uhu Sleeps Only During the Day • Joachim Is Our Friend • Beetles on the Head • Waldi on the Castle Steps • Andulko Safarova

Karel Velebny SHQ Genre: Jazz Label: ESP-Disk’ CD: ESP 1080 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Selling Points • Booklet with liner notes written by Kevin Whitehead. • Manufactured in the US. New digipak format. • Press and radio campaign. Ads with The Wire and online with All About Jazz.

Overview

Speed/Cheek/ Leibovici Jugendstil Genre: Jazz Label: ESP-Disk’ CD: ESP 4048 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30

Composed by bassist/composer Stephane Furic Leibovici (Soul Note Records) this session was recorded with longtime collaborators Chris Speed and Chris Cheek, produced by Jim Black, and recorded by Joey Marciano in NYC on June 20 th 2006.

Track Listing Carter Variations I • Carter Variations II • Carter Variations III • Carter Variations IV • Carter Variations V • Therego • A Music of Tranquility • Daffodils • Three Kinds of Folks • Feuillage des gestes • Les nuits de La Chapoulie

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Selling Points • Limited edition of 500. • Select college radio mailing. Streaming songs on MySpace and Facebook.

Overview When you get compared, in the same breath, to Daniel Johnson and the Talking Heads, you know you have a sound that’s hard to pin down. Brit pop, gypsy swing, opera solos, Robert Pollard-style lo-fi jangles, glammy Roxy Music keyboards, and “melodies that will be impossible to dislodge from your temporal cortex” (ChartAttack) all find a home in the music of Hot Panda … sometimes all in the same song!

Track Listing Cold Hands/Chapped Lips • Good Christian Children

Hot Panda Cold Hands/Chapped Lips b/w Good Christian Children Genre: Rock/Pop Label: Mint Records 7”: MRI 123 Price Code: D (SRP $6.99) 7” Jacket; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

STREET DATE SEPTEMBER 9, 2008

Press Quotes “Reminiscent of the Faces gorging themselves on ‘Green Onions.’” — Georgia Straight

Selling Points • Sophomore effort from this high-energy act. • Guest appearance by Keri Latimer of Nathan on vocals. • Novillero appeared in an episode of the hit TV series Monk. • Service to college radio and print media. • Digital servicing by Toolshed PR. • Ads with Vice, Magnet, Venus, and Under the Radar.

Novillero A Little Tradition Genre: Rock/Pop Label: Mint Records CD: MRI 122 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 25 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

LP: MRI 122 Price Code: Z (SRP $20.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 50 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview All the way from Manitoba, Novillero is a tight unit of mod pop soulsters with an explosive sound that harkens back to the days of the ’70s UK explosion and the solid production of the Motown era. Imagine The Jam traversing the soul tune “River Deep, Mountain High” alongside The Small Faces and The Who. A Little Tradition goes to a new level via the talents of the seasoned members of Novillero.

Track Listing Life In Parentheses • A Little Tradition • Shadowboxing • Stand Up For Our Side • Daydreams & Distractions • Plastic Flag • Lost Possibilities • The Prank Note • Paco Rabanne • The Printed Word (Sucks For Inflection) • Daydream Reprise • Far From Too Far • Camaraderie or Bust

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

Press Quotes “And then there is Kellarissa. She is small and sits behind what looks like a large set of keys … the magnification of her voice seems to border on the unholy, as if there truly is a chorus, a choir, a floor full of women possessed, looping around her in collapsing circles.” — Discorder

Selling Points • Debut release on Mint Records. • Former vocalist & songwriter of P:ano and The Choir Practice. • Service to college radio and print media. • Digital servicing by Toolshed PR.

Overview You may already know Kellarissa from her stunning vocal and songwriting contributions to previous Mint releases from P:ano and The Choir Practice. Now, she’s taking center stage with a new solo project. With synthesizer and vocal loops smothered in a haze of reverb, Kellarissa asks eternal questions disguised as pop songs. Flamingo is her Mint Records debut, a stunning kaleidoscope of haunting vocals, her prized Candied Yam(aha SK15) synthesizer, bits of colored glass, and other surprises.

Track Listing I’ll Sing of Kings • Night Wind • Flamingo • Pienet Sanat • Carrying On • Tiny Things • When Did I Become... • Virta Vie • Sun Song • Taivas on Sininen ja Valkoinen

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

STREET DATE SEPTEMBER 9, 2008

Kellarissa Flamingo Genre: Pop Label: Mint Records CD: MRI 124 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 25 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Press Quotes “Despite the abrasiveness, [their] accessibility allows listeners to nod their heads and slip comfortably into the rhythmic onslaught.” — Vox magazine

Selling Points • West Coast tour scheduled for August/September 2008. • RIYL: The Melvins, Mastodon, Jucifer, Nomeansno. • Press and web promotion. College radio by Apples and Cats Media. • Ads with Razorcake, Wonka Vision, Verbicide, and MRR.

Overview This is the debut release from Columbia, MO’s finest rock duo, MegaZilla. These two guys make most four-piece bands wish that they could turn up and play just a little bit harder. The album was recorded at four different studios across the country, yet still retains the cohesiveness and linear experience of a live show. MegaZilla has had the privilege of opening for Mastadon, Nomeansno, Harvey Milk, Jucifer, Torche, Priestess, and many other amazing and influential bands.

Track Listing Gay Is The New Straight • Dead Sun • Puffy Fuzzy Cheeks • Grave Robbing in Texas • Shanghaied • High Hard One

MegaZilla Please, Please, Sorry, Thank You Genre: Rock Label: Australian Cattle God CD: ACG 22 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Key Markets Hometown: Columbia, MO. Also: Austin, Houston, New Orleans, Chicago, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles

Press Quotes “Fast, loose, and slightly trashy … these tracks are refreshingly effective.” — Babysue

Selling Points • Sixth and final posthumous release has great sentimental value for the band’s fan base. • Features a full color six-page wrap-around booklet. • Mixed by famed Seattle-based grunge producer Jack Endino. • Targeted publicity campaign via In Music We Trust PR. • Promotion to college and specialty alternative radio via Airplay Direct. • Ads with Wonka Vision, Alternative Press, and AMP.

Touchers Blithe Genre: Punk/Rock Label: Mental Records CD: MTL 17 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Overview Completed in Summer 2007 just months before the untimely demise of inimitable frontman “Bi-Polar” Ben Brisini, Blithe is a sonic shotgun loaded with passionate rage and fury. With flares of kick-ass country twang fueled with elements of grunge and a twist of ’50s rock, the Touchers’ sound evokes shades of Frank Black, The Pixies, Nirvana, and Johnny Cash—yet their sound is decisively their own.

Track Listing Galveston Giant • Martin Luther King • History of Strange Fruit • In the End • Always Up For Selling • That’d Be Great! • Not Right in the Head • Big Worry • The Left Hand Is Unclean • Made & Sold • Vampire • The Tale of Nothing • Black Wall Street • There’s a Dollar at the Bottom of the Pool

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

STREET DATE SEPTEMBER 9, 2008

Selling Points • Have performed with Dan Deacon, Akron Family, Dirty Projectors, and more. • Features members of Flaws, Denimvenom, Halo Perfecto, Hungry March Band, and Reanimator (who recently played at The Wire’s 25th anniversary party). • Recorded/co-produced by Keith Souza (Battles, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah). • Mastered at Peerless Mastering (Magnetic Fields, Battles). • Radio & press promotion handled by Western Vinyl.

Overview

Callers Fortune Genre: Alt Rock/Folk Label: Western Vinyl CD: WVR 52 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Cardboard Wallet; Box Lot 40 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

The 11 songs on Fortune channel a temporal sense of place and hope over despair. Throughout the album Sara Lucas’ voice and Ryan Seaton’s guitar are seamlessly interwoven, creating a haunting and soulful kind of magic. With the wounded perseverance of Karen Carpenter and the vulnerable, tough-as-nails courage and acceptance of Heart’s Ann Wilson, Lucas’ voice is rich and unforgettable. Seaton’s guitar work is equally engaging, as he masterfully delivers beautiful and unusual chords, gritty distortion, and even intricate flourishes that call to mind the ever-impressive Tinariwen.

Track Listing Valerie • More Than Right • Rone • Fortune • O Family • Meet Between • Debris • In Blighted Gold • The Upper Lands • Tied About • St. Genevieve

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

Press Quotes “They transform studio-centric creations into live songs that are both towering and incandescent … in concert Radiohead are as organic and explosive as any band playing today.” — PopMatters

Selling Points • Live performance, Germany, June 2001. • Features popular songs from a variety of Radiohead albums.

Overview Radiohead’s live performance in Germany in June 2001 was a masterpiece of aural symmetry. Beginning with the National Anthem, the band gave the audience nearly two hours of otherworldly experimentation in electronic rock. Filmed at the peak of their popularity, the concert conjures moods of loss and alienation in the modern world.

Songs Include National Anthem • Morning Bell • Lecky • Talk Show Host • In Limbo • My Iron Lung • Packt Like Sardines in a Crushd Tin Box • Exit Music • No Surprises • Dollars and Cents • Street Spirit • You and Whose Army • Karma Police • I Might Be Wrong • Pyramid Song • Paranoid Android • Idioteque • Everything In Its Right Place • Airbag • Just • The Bends • How To Disappear Completely

Radiohead Live Genre: Rock/Electronica Label: Hudson/Street DVD: HUD DVD 9930 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Amaray; Box Lot 25 An allegro-distributed title

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STREET DATE SEPTEMBER 9, 2008

Press Quotes “When you hit Mamoud Ahmed, you know you’ve struck gold. With his extraordinary vibrato, he sounds like Lennon through a Leslie speaker.” — Mojo

Selling Points • Winner of the BBC Radio 3 Award for world music in 2007. • Has worked on behalf of Nelson Mandela’s struggle for South African freedom and unity. If there were a single artist who personifies the rich history of Ethiopian music, it would be Mahmoud Ahmed. • Featured on Buda Records’ popular Ethiopiques series. • Working with a PR firm for e-media which will include press releases, social networking sites, blogs, podcasts, e-zines, and more. • Has been featured on NPR. Service to NPR’s Afropop radio/internet program. • Press and college radio service; service to Ethiopian radio programs across the US.

Overview This collection of the greatest hits of one of the best-loved singers in Ethiopia includes many of the songs that have made him a legend on the world music scene.

Track Listing Anchi Bale Gammë • Yenuro Metenshin • Teyikesh Tereji • Ashkaro • Tizita • Tew Limed Glayë • Teresash Woy • Engedayë Nesh • Yeshi Haregitu • Endegena

Mahmoud Ahmed Best of Mahmoud Ahmed Vol. 1 Genre: Alt World Label: AIT Records CD: AIT 103042 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Digipak; Box Lot 40 An allegro-distributed title

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Key Markets Washington DC, Austin, Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Madison, Memphis, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, St. Louis

Selling Points • Well known for having composed and produced many memorable songs, especially socially conscious tunes like “Tikur Gissila” (“Black Panther”), recorded in the ’60s. • Featured on Buda Records’ popular Ethiopiques series. • Winner of a Tchaikovsky Composition Award at the International Music Festival. • Produced/arranged by top Ethiopian producer Abegasu Kibrework Shiota. • Working with a PR firm for e-media which will include press releases, social networking sites, blogs, podcasts, e-zines, and more. • Has been featured on NPR. Service to NPR’s Afropop radio/internet program. • Press and college radio service; service to Ethiopian radio programs across the US.

Alemayehu Eshete Best of Alemayehu Eshete Genre: Alt World Label: AIT Records CD: AIT 198032 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Digipak; Box Lot 40 An allegro-distributed title

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Overview The songs on this CD have made Alemayehu Eshete an icon of Ethiopian music. Known as the “Abyssinian Elvis” or the “James Brown of Ethiopia,” Eshete is recognized for his many memorable songs. He is especially well known for socially conscious tunes like “Tikur Gissila” (“Black Panther”), recorded in the ’60s to protest injustice, and “Temar Lijë” (“Educate Yourself, My Child”), which emphasized the benefits of education.

Track Listing Ye-Minjarua Loga • Temar Lijë • Ende Amora • Kehak Atsewirugn • Be-Hilmë New BeEwunë • Filiklikë • Tikur Gissila • Habeshia • Mishitu Demeke • Yihew Deretish New

STREET DATE SEPTEMBER 9, 2008

Selling Points

Various Artists Ethiopian Millennium Collection Genre: Alt World Label: AIT Records 6XCD: AIT 107072 Price Code: 6G (SRP $53.99) Box Set; Box Lot 25 An allegro-distributed title

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• Performances by Mahmoud Ahmed, Alemayehu Eshete, and many more! • Includes six CDs, each with a different theme: Ballads, Dance, Chic-Chic-Ka, Traditional, Instrumental, and Memories of Ethiopia. • This collection immerses the listener in an eclectic mix of signature ballads, dance tunes, and music that blends Ethiopian and Western instruments to create a totally unique and mesmerizing sound. • Produced by Ethiopia’s premier producers and musicians: Abegasu Kibrework Shiota, Dawit Yifru, Elias Melka, and Abiyou Solomon. • Working with a PR firm for e-media which will include press releases, social networking sites, blogs, podcasts, e-zines, and more. • Has been featured on NPR. Service to NPR’s Afropop radio/internet program. • Press and college radio service; service to Ethiopian radio programs across the US.

Overview Breakthrough performances by Mahmoud Ahmed, winner of the 2007 BBC Radio 3 Award; Alemayehu Eshete, dubbed the “James Brown of Ethiopia”; the renowned Muluken Mellesse; the amazing Theodros Tadesse; the legendary Roha Band; and many more. Delight your musical senses! Immerse yourself in this eclectic mix of ballads, chic-chic-ka, dance, instrumental, and traditional Ethiopian music.

Selling Points • A diverse set of entertaining blues with unique musical riffs and universal lyrics for anyone aged 8 to 80. • Distribution of promo CDs to over 350 radio stations in the US and abroad. • Continued press for all upcoming concerts. • Active community fundraising appearances and donations.

Overview Bobby “BlackHat” Walters—blues harmonica player, vocalist, and songwriter—hails from Cleveland and has been playing the harmonica for over 30 years. Walters brings together the finest blues musicians in Hampton Roads to perform classic, modern, and original blues tunes that will keep your toes tappin’ and your hips shakin’ all night long.

Track Listing You Changed Your Mind Again • Put On Your Red Shoes • Help Me • No Room For You • Nursery Rhyme Shuffle • Please Give Me a Clue • Out Late With The Devil • I Hear Mama’s Voice • Grim Reaper

Key Markets Hometown: Cleveland. Also: Columbus, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Memphis, Chicago, Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Richmond, Williamsburg, Chesapeake, Washington DC, Charlotte, Fayetteville, Raleigh, Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Charleston

STREET DATE SEPTEMBER 9, 2008

Bobby “BlackHat” Walters You Changed Your Mind Again Genre: Blues Label: ESP–gem CD: GEM 2 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

THE ROOTS OF HIP-HOP

Various Artists The Roots of Hip-Hop

Genre: Hip Hop Label: Harte Recordings CD: HRT 101 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30

Genre: Hip Hop Label: Harte Recordings 2XLP: HRT 101 Price Code: Z (SRP $20.99) Double LP Jacket; Box Lot 25

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Selling Points • Connects the past to the present, showing where hip-hop came from and where it is headed. • Features famous artists showcasing their rap styles. • CD available in a beautiful digipak with a thick booklet of pictures and detailed info about the artists and the songs. • LP available in a limited edition heavy double LP package. • For fans of Snoop Dogg, Bear Family, Moby, Revenant Records, and Run DMC. • Extensive mailing to college radio and NPR stations. • Mailing to press writers and magazines. • Extensive blog outreach.

Overview Hip-hop did not develop in a vacuum. Its roots can be traced back to the earliest Afro- American music, and the white folks who were influenced by these sounds. This CD compiles some of the great hip-hop from the 1920s through the 1960s. The themes will be familiar—religion, politics, black experience, gangsta rap, speed, sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll. Listen to the lessons that the hipsters of the past taught the rappers of today.

CD Track Listing Katie Webster & Ashton Conroy: Baby Baby • Mamie Ree & Young Wolf w/ Gus Jenkins Band: Caught • Rev. J.M. Gates: These Hard Times • Soul Stirrers: Why I Like Roosevelt Pt. 1 • Soul Stirrers: Why I Like Roosevelt Pt. 2 • Jimmie Lunceford & His Chickasaw Syncopators: In Dat Mornin’ • Famous Hokum Boys: Terrible Operation Blues • Dirty Red: Mother Fuyer • Butterbeans: Hello, Sue • Dan Pickett: Number Writer • Harmonica Frank Floyd: Swamp Root • Champion Jack Dupree: Slow Boogie • Red Saunders w/ Dolores Hawkins & The Hambone Kids: Hambone • Slim Gaillard Trio: Puerto Vootie • Dr. Jo Jo Adams w/ Maxwell Davis All Stars: When I’m In My Tea • Big Jay McNeely: Road House Boogie • William “Thunderbird” Walker: Thunderbird • The Treniers: Uh Oh (Get Out Of The Car) • Brother Woodman & The Chanters featuring Ethel Brown: Hot Mama • Little Caesar: You Can’t Bring Me Down • Little Caesar: Goodbye Baby • Vernon Green & The Medallions: The Letter • The Shaweez: No One To Love Me • Joe Hill Louis One Man Band: Gotta Let You Go • Willie Nix & His Combo: Just Can’t Say • Richard Berry: The Big Break

LP Track Listing Includes four songs not on the CD: Slim and Slam: Chinatown, My Chinatown • Slim Gaillard: African Jive • Arlen Spector: Hopped Up Mustang • Dennis Binder: The Long Man

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

STREET DATE SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Nail welcomes partisan records to its roster! Partisan Records is a Brooklyn-based, artist-run independent label dedicated to the unique visions of those we are so privileged to represent. We believe that artistry in its many forms essentially has a singular purpose: to create and share the next new story. At Partisan, our artists create the stories that others will tell.

THE STANDARD SWIMMER

Press Quotes “HHHH” — Blender “Further refining its American gothic sound and moving its plangent songwriting to a higher level … smartly sculpted compositions.” — Amplifier “Gripping, sparkling stuff.” — Big Takeover “Draws new lines connecting dynamic bands like Mogwai to the sedate moments of Neil Young.” — The Onion

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The Standard Swimmer Genre: Alt Rock Label: Partisan Records CD: PTS 2 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Tim Putnam: vocals, guitar Rob Oberdorfer: bass, guitar Jay Clarke: keys, guitar Robby Duncan: percussion

Track Listing • The Swimmer • Through the Walls • Sunday Eyes • Into The Fall • Hotel • A Different Skin • Lines • Absent Miles • The Contenders • Virgin Royalty • Solomon’s Song

• Fourth album from established, highly respected Portland band. • Compelling back-story is pitch-worthy to mainstream and music outlets. • Superb press history, with positive coverage in nearly every major US music magazine. • Live appearances handled by William Morris Agency. • Excellent tour history including dates and tours with The Shins, The National, Nine Inch Nails, Wire, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, and more. • Full national press and online campaigns through Indie Outlaw. • National college radio campaign by Fanatic Promotion. • Creation of video assets for mainstream outlets and viral use.

Overview The long-awaited album from one of music’s most uniquely inventive and best kept secrets! Following releases on Touch and Go and Yep Roc Records, and shows with the likes of Wire, Nine Inch Nails, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The National, The Shins, Stephen Malkmus, and Slint, The Standard signed to V2 Records (White Stripes, Grandaddy) in 2007. They worked tirelessly throughout the year to record their fifth full-length effort, Swimmer. In January 2007, V2 Records’ US and Canada branches announced that they were “undergoing restructuring.” Now, The Standard’s much anticipated Swimmer in one of the first releases on Partisan Records. Swimmer reflects the wholly distinctive collaborative songwriting of Jay Clarke, Rob Oberdorfer, Robby Duncan, and Tim Putnam. The album is centered on Putnam’s emotive disarming vocals/guitar, Clarke’s beautiful constructed keyboards/piano, and Oberdorfer and Duncan’s accompanying rhythmic movements, at once minimal and full. Like many of their previous albums, it is a slow burn that, over time, reveals a dark, poetic, innovative body of work that is hard to ignore.

Key Markets Hometown: Portland. Also: Chapel Hill, New York, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Boston, Chicago

STREET DATE SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

“Adventurous and inventive.” — Rolling Stone

HOLY SONS

Press Quotes

DECLINE OF THE WEST

“Uniquely dark songs.” — Time Out New York “Holy Sons consists only of Emil Amos, and his music is full of gorgeous keening and emotional subtlety—every quiet wail, guitar strum, and tap on the high hat is delicately balanced and perfect.” — Portland Mercury “A musician right at home in a psychedelic maelstrom.” — PopMatters

Selling Points • Features Emil Amos of Om and Grails. • Strong presence via touring and collaboration with well-known artists. • First release of expanded 15-song apocalyptic masterpiece. • Supporting Scout Niblett on tour in Fall 2008. • Full national press and online campaigns through Indie Outlaw. • National college radio campaign by Fanatic Promotion. • Cross-promotion with Sub Pop Records and Important Records via Om and Grails releases, respectively.

Overview Decline of the West represents a vital intersection of style and method in Emil Amos’ (Om, Grails) songwriting and production, combining his genre-hopping tendencies and no-rules mixing methods with the more hook-driven, straight-to-the-jugular phrasing that he has been honing for the last 15 years. Holy Sons’ minimalist avant-folk sound journeys through formats as varied as dub, church-hymn, slow-jam, tape-collage, and hip-hop beats ornamented with obtuse banjo-sitar runs, all performed with an inspired punk spirit. The music is organic, dark, and beautiful, documenting a constantly evolving songwriter who possesses a unique gift for distinctive and prolific artistry. His musical resume reads like a dream wish list for most musicians. Outside of Holy Sons, Amos is the new member in the globally renowned Om (Sub Pop/Southern Lord), and a producer/songwriter of his other band Grails (Important Records/ Temporary Residence/Neurot Recordings). He has performed both on stage and collaboratively with the likes of Daniel Johnston, Will Oldham, Damo Suzuki, Jandek, J Mascis, Smog, Polvo, Quasi, Sir Richard Bishop, Scout Niblett, Six Organs, Devendra Banhart, and Mark Kozelek. Decline of the West is named after and conceptually began with Oswald Spengler’s pessimistic assessment that the Western culture is revealing the classic signs of a societies’ decay and end. The record was recorded at Amos’ home studio in late-night recording sessions that stretched over three years, during which he played every instrument and then mixed and re-mixed each track. Decline of the West is his most stylistically varied effort to date, and a linchpin of Amos’ catalogue.

“Emil Amos’ utter disregard for anything close to musical commercialism springboards his work to another possible purpose: transcendence of the confines we have all brought upon ourselves.” — Dusted

Holy Sons Decline of the West [Expanded] Genre: Avant Rock/Psych-Folk Label: Partisan Records CD: PTS 1 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Emil Amos: all instruments and vocals

Track Listing • Gnostic Device • The Feral Kid • I’m Healed • Evil Falls • More Therapy • Things You Do While Waiting for the Apocalypse • More Noise Pollution • Satanic Androids • No Claws • Nothing Left • Saccharine Trust • Slave Morality • Kindred Spirit • Bleakest Picture • Song from the Conscience

Key Markets Hometown: Portland. Also: New York, Seattle, Chicago, Chapel Hill, Athens, Denver, San Francisco

STREET DATE SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Press Quotes “Conifer engage in slow-burning, gradually building metallic indie postrock exercises. Somewhere between the creeping epic dirge of Neurosis, Pelican, and ISIS, Seam/Slint-esque post-rock, and the wonky sludge of Harvey Milk and Cable, these guys also bust out some wicked prog dexterity, complex riffs and brontosaurus-stomp stoner pummel, massive monstrous downer gunk à la Khanate and Buried At Sea, bizarre goblin vocals, pretty melodic indie passages, gorgeous celestial electronics, and so much more. It’s fucking earth shaking, that’s for sure.” — Crucial Blast

Conifer Crown Fire Genre: Avant Rock/Metal Label: Important Records CD: IPT 209 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

LP: IPT 209 Price Code: V (SRP $22.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Zachary E. Howard: baritone guitar Nate Nadeau: drums, Hammond, electronics Sean K. Hadley: bass, melodica Leif J. Sherman Curtis: guitar, xylophone

GUEST artists Shannon Allen: cello, flute Todd Hutchisen: pedal steel Eugene Robinson: vocals

Track Listing • Surface Fire • Cruciform Empennage • A History of Disappointment • Song for Krom • Breathe Hold • Into the Gauntlet • Crown Fire

Key Markets Hometown: Portland, ME Also: Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland OR, Austin, Baltimore, Providence, New Haven, Rochester

STREET DATE SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

“Conifer sleepily trawl through the dark recesses of post rock, taking the languorous slow burning churn of bands like Slint or Seam or Bastro, all dark and brooding, simple and insistent, and stretching the riffs and melodies into expansive stretches of moody melancholy, swathed in Pink Floydian swoosh and whirl before dropping the bomb. Massive downtuned guitars explode, splitting post rock atoms into clumps of corrosive riffage, peppered with raspy howls and screeching banshee melodies, sometimes gaining momentum and becoming unstoppable exercises in epic doomy drone-metal à la Neurosis or ISIS, sometimes becoming glacial explorations into slow motion doom à la Khanate, and other times employing distorted ghostly computer vocals and buzzing psychedelia into Butthole Surfers-like sonic freakouts.” — Aquarius Records

Selling Points • LP limited to 500 copies, with 200 on colored vinyl. • Over the last six years Conifer have established a substantial underground buzz. Crown Fire is their first record to receive the substantial attention that the band deserves. • The only vocals on the record are Oxbow’s Eugene Robinson fronting the album’s final 13-minute epic. • Large-scale press campaign. • Ads with The Wire.

Overview Though Conifer has received quite a bit of critical praise, they’ve somehow managed to live off the grid for the past six years. With Crown Fire, the band will finally get the exposure they deserve. Mixing post-rock, kraut-rock, metal, and psychedelia, Conifer has created a relentlessly driving and hypnotic masterpiece. Crown Fire’s only vocals are Oxbow’s Eugene Robinson fronting the album’s final 13-minute epic. Conifer has been writing primarily instrumental music with a lawless take on the styles from which they’ve taken cue. New content is found by way of augmenting brutality and suspense with time. The band seems to reckon with the notions of bands like Enemymine, Mogwai, or Grails while taking an approach that is entirely meditative (as opposed to premeditated). Minimal, ethereal passages are narcotically lengthened and crescendos of distortion are sustained well beyond the boundaries adhered to by many of their peers. Hailing from the capital of the heavy state of Maine, Conifer has an extremely close relationship with fellow travelers Ocean. These two groups have shared a lot over the years, including members, tour transportation, and practice spaces. Though different in sound, they’re quite kindred in spirit and obviously Conifer is essential for anyone who loved Ocean’s Here Where Nothing Grows.

Press Quotes “This is the perfect metallic drifting off music, almost like they’ve discovered some new genre—sludge-ambient, doom-age, whatever you decide to call it, it’s pretty amazing, and fans of all things slow motion, downtuned and yes, heavy will dig this big time.” — Aquarius Records “The sound is sludgy and the pace snail-like but subtle. Within its monochrome scheme of blackness, and yet more blackness as its slow, slow, riffs unfurl, there are small variations in tone. Such is the hermetically sealed inwardly directed feel of Tecumseh’s sound that these tiny variations are like tiny rafts in an otherwise empty sea. And in the end the listening experience isn’t some feat of endurance but strangely calming, it’s blackness like a vast lake of crude oil with only the faintest of ripples disturbing it’s surface.” — The Wire

Selling Points • LP limited to 500 copies, with the first 200 on colored vinyl. • Tecumseh has toured with Thrones, Acre, and Pussygut and shared bills with Yellow Swans, Sixxes, Michael Gondreau, Damion Romero, Andrea Parkins, Wolves in the Throneroom, and many others. • Promotional mailing by Important Records. • Ads with The Wire.

Overview Heavy drone/heavy meditation. Be inside the sounds. Formed in 2004, Tecumseh creates drone metal of the heaviest variety, although with more forward movement than some of their peers and with the addition of cold electronic hiss. Using two basses, electronics, percussion, and guitar Tecumseh wrap themselves and their listeners in a warm sonic meditative slow motion blanket woven from their skilled use of sound and space. Avalanche and Inundation was recorded in Winter 2008 with Jeremy Romagna (Yellow Swans, Trees, Silentist).

Tecumseh Avalanche and Inundation Genre: Metal/Drone Label: Important Records CD: IPT 211 Price Code: P (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

LP: IPT 211 Price Code: V (SRP $22.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Ian Hawk: bass Jeremy Long: guitar John Krausbauer: bass Bob Bellerue: electronics Matt Mcdowell: percussion

Track Listing • Skies of Joy and Sorrow • Traveling Alongside Death • Cascadia

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

STREET DATE SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Selling Points • Handmade and assembled letter-pressed jackets. Limited edition. • Pauline Oliveros is an internationally respected and influential 21st-century composer. • Eleh’s vinyl-only releases on Important Records have each sold out immediately. • Ads with The Wire.

Overview

Pauline Oliveros & Eleh Pauline Oliveros & Eleh Split Genre: Experimental Label: Important Records LP: IPT 206 Price Code: V (SRP $22.99) Deluxe Jacket; Box Lot 30

Important Records is quite pleased to present this split release consisting of two new drone works from Pauline Oliveros and Eleh. Oliveros, an early American minimalist who has pioneered the technique of Deep Listening, has created a new work exclusively for this release. “Drifting Depths” is a new improvised piece made on a harmonica processed through Oliveros’ Expanded Instrument System. Eleh’s side, also exclusive to this vinylonly release, is a super-slow melodic drone full of stillness, tension, and relief.

Track Listing Eleh: The Harmony of the Steel Skeleton • Pauline Oliveros: Drifting Depths

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

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Press Quotes “The subterranean ripples of tone and the glacial pace at which they unfold calls to mind Earth and Sunn O)))’s mute explorations of the dark dynamics of depth when extracted from rock’s edges.” — The Wire

Selling Points • Deluxe pressing of 600 copies packaged in letter-pressed covers designed by Important and printed by 23rd Parallel. • Mastered by James Plotkin. Cut/pressed at RTI. Hand-numbered and assembled. • Eleh releases are deluxe and limited edition. They are not repressed and will never be available on CD. • Ads with The Wire.

Overview This third release in Eleh’s Intuitive Synthesis. Eleh was formed to specifically to pay tribute to early experimental minimalist pioneers, especially La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Eliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros, and Charlemagne Palestine. The group creates highly minimal and deeply spiritual pure analog drone music with emphasis on the physical ultra-low end.

Track Listing Phase One: Sleeps Golden Drones Again • Phase Two: Bass Pulse In Open Air

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

STREET DATE SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Eleh Floating Frequencies/Intuitive Synthesis III Genre: Experimental Label: Important Records LP: IPT 207 Price Code: V (SRP $22.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Press Quotes “At times the record approaches pop bliss (albeit Sigur Rós style, not Beach Boys), or cinematic soundtrack vibes, but the album also has fully-conceived orchestral underpinnings with recurring themes running throughout. Brimming with pastoral beauty, Float proves 21-year-old Broderick to be one of the most promising modern classical composers on the scene, his emotive soundscapes comparable to the works of Michael Nyman, Max Richter, and Harold Budd. Esteemed company for sure, but he is that good.” — Other Music “Peter Broderick is the embodiment of ‘gifted.’ A true multiinstrumentalist, he can be heard playing everything from piano and violin to saw and theremin on records by everyone from Laura Gibson, Loch Lomond, and Dolorean to Norfolk & Western and his own chamberfolk outfit (with Justin Ringle and sister Heather Broderick), Horse Feathers.” — Willamette Week

Selling Points • Peter Broderick is a prolific rising star, one-third of the Horse Feathers, and the secret multi-instrumental weapon of popular Danish electro-acoustic troupe Efterklang. • Has played with M. Ward, Laura Gibson, Loch Lomond, Norfolk & Western, and Dolorean. • Released several solo instrumental records in the past year on influential labels Type, Kningdisc, and Rumracket. • Upcoming US tour. • Full PR campaign servicing over 100 media outlets. • Full college radio mailing via AAM. • Serviced to a list of over 250 blogs. • Ads with Daytrotter, Under The Radar, Pitchfork, Skyscraper, and more.

Overview Home is a collection of folk songs recorded at the end of 2007 and the beginning of 2008. In late 2007, Peter Broderick toured all around Europe with the Danish ensemble Efterklang, playing violin and opening the shows as a solo act. His recorded work up to this time had been primarily instrumental, but as he began to play live shows, he discovered that he also had a passion for singing. And so, when he had a break from touring at the end of the year, he set out to make an album that was the opposite of his previous piano and string-based recordings. With Home, he has made an album with neither of these instruments. The result is based around layers of vocals and guitars. Recorded in various places in various parts of the world, it is an album about finding a home. Written, performed, recorded, and produced by Broderick himself, and mixed with his good friend and sound wizard from Efterklang, Mads Brauer.

Peter Broderick Home Genre: Alt Rock/Alt Folk Label: Hush Records CD: HSH 83 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Eco Wallet; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Peter Broderick: guitars, vocals, banjo, saw, clay whistle, organ, celeste, bass synth, drums, percussion, harmonium, glockenspiel, vibraphone

Track Listing • Games • And It’s Alright • With the Notes In My Ears • Esbern Snares Gade 11, 2tv • Below It • Sickness, Bury • Not At Home • There And Here • Maps • Games Again

Key Markets Hometown: Portland Also: Spokane, Seattle, Olympia, Bellingham, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Chico, San Luis Obispo, Arcata, Bloomington, Iowa City, Boise, Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louis, Austin, Denton, Tucson, Phoenix, NYC, Albany, Athens, Boston, Amherst, Cambridge, Philadelphia, State College, Pittsburgh, Greensboro, Chapel Hill, Ann Arbor, Madison, Providence, Tampa, Reno, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Cheyenne

STREET DATE SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Press Quotes “An outlandishly good CD and one of the best local debuts in recent memory … Picture Squarepusher and Enya collaborating on songs for In Utero.” — Boston Phoenix “Hooray for Earth plays an exciting blend of raw rock & roll with keyboard and laptop elements that work together and make you say, ‘Fuck this is good.’ And then you like them forever.” — Weekly Dig “Dirty-as-shit guitars, bubbletechno synths, and anthemic moping. Quite possibly the missing link between Magnetic Fields and Andrew W.K.” — Boston Phoenix “Styles collide in a fuzzy mash up. Like the Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan, Heroux touches on grunge in the ambitious process of achieving pop grandeur.” — Improper Bostonian

Hooray for Earth Hooray for Earth S/T Genre: Alt Rock Label: Dopamine Records CD: DOP 1020 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Chris Principe: bass Noel Heroux: vox, guitar, programming Seth Kasper: drums Gary Benacquista: guitar, synth

Track Listing • Want Want Want • How Are You Here • Heartbeat • Magazines • Carefree • Oh No • So Happy • Party • Take Care • This All Fades • Everything We Want • Something Strong

Selling Points • Upcoming feature in SPIN. • In just one year HFE christened themselves at SXSW, completed a three-week East Coast tour, toured and played with underground legends Mission of Burma and Bang Camaro, and rocked for crowds of more than 6,000. • Listed in a number of year-end lists including Boston Phoenix’s “Boston’s Ten Best,” Boston Metro’s “Best Boston Picks,” and the 2006 Noise Poll for “Best Song,” “Best Drummer,” and “Best Keyboardist.” • Came in a close second for WFNX/Boston Phoenix’s “Best Local Album” award, placing ahead of Mission of Burma, Bon Savants, and Piebald. • US tour in July 2008. • Press promotion handled externally. Service to 150+ publications (print and digital). • College radio campaign.

Overview Hailing from Boston, Hooray for Earth plays giant dinosaur rock with huge-ass guitars and synths sort of like Nirvana, Squarepusher, and Enya breaking things at a video arcade in hell. This is the international rerelease of the band’s critically acclaimed, self-released debut album, now re-mastered with new artwork.

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

ALSO AVAILABLE

Hooray for Earth Cellphone

CD: DOP 1018 Price Code: G NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

STREET DATE SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Selling Points • Baltimoroder is a DJ and producer in south Boston holding down residencies at Middlesex Lounge as part of Heartthrob and Make It New. He is also a founding member of Thunderdome, which has hosted guests such as Trouble & Bass, The Bangers, Scottie B, and Flosstradamus. • In addition to six years experience DJing, he has recently remixed Alter Ego + Lil Keke, Big Boi, Crime Mob, Trina & Luda, and Quad City DJs. • DJ Die Young holds down residencies at three prominent Boston events (Basstown, Solid! and Make It New), and is one of the most sought-after DJs in Boston, opening for Robyn, Lifelike, Alan Braxe, Drop The Lime, The Field, and Diplo. • US tour for Fall 2008. • Numerous remixes planned for release in coordination with the record. • Press promotion handled externally. Service to 150+ publications (print and digital). • College radio campaign.

Overview Producing original tracks and tweaking remixes to perfection, Boston’s DJ Die Young (née Jamie Michalski) has come a long way in the last seven years.“I’ve always loved ’80s pop since my mother played it to me to get me to go to sleep when I was a little kid,” he says. And although his DJ name may seem morbid, it actually comes from the ’80s song “Don’t Let Me Die Young” by Duran Duran guitarist Andy Taylor. What usually comes off the 24-year-old’s table today is French touch, house, electro, and minimal—party music. He’s good with a sequencer, a keyboard, midi triggers, and lately, the tambourine. Fans of Low and Slowdive would certainly be proud. Lately, there’s been an eruption of talent in Boston, the city that hovers between the sonic skyscrapers of New York and Montreal—and one in which you’re not considered a “DJ” just for spinning records. Personality and productions skills are a major part, as well as getting involved with local promoters, photographers, and other artists. Being a fundamental part of Basstown and a resident at both Make It New and Solid! with his friend and fellow DJ Baltimoroder, DJ Die Young is the kind of DJ that constantly observes and absorbs with precision. Aiming high and hitting his marks one by one, Die Young is now advancing his efforts to become more than just a hot Boston DJ.

DJ Die Young/Baltimoroder DJ Die Young/Baltimoroder Split Genre: Electronica Label: Dopamine Records LP: DOP 1019 Price Code: J (SRP $9.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists DJ Die Young (Jamie Michalski) Baltimoroder (Erik Pearson) Kate Radio: vocals

Track Listing • DJ Die Young: Back Around • Baltimoroder: Cat

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

Fellow DJ Baltimoroder was born out of necessity. The story begins in Illinois, where Baltimoroder (a.k.a. Erik Pearson) abused cheap Yamaha keytars and Fisher-Price turntables. In high school, punk shows, record stores, and raw performance spaces filled his time. Then it was off to college, Los Angeles, and the mighty KXLU radio station, where he absorbed avant-garde sounds, ambient music, and experimental artists. The turning point came after a cross-country trek to Boston and a lowkey house party. He took the decks, mixing tracks he had never heard into a swell that kick-started a dance floor. From that night on, the floor never stopped growing. Baltimoroder mixes aggressively and flawlessly in any genre, and a chance meeting with David Day—local promoter and European techno aficionado—took him from the bedrooms to the clubs.

STREET DATE SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Nail welcomes AGSFB Music to its roster! AGSFB Music is a new independent label based out of Portland created by the ladies of the band All Girl Summer Fun Band for their own releases.

Press Quotes “Fast and furious, the All Girl Summer Fun Band really packs a punch.” — Greil Marcus, Interview Magazine “AGSFB glues the ironic quirkiness of Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers to the upfront rock ‘n’ roll rumble of The Ramones, wind it all the way up and set their creation free.” — The Wire “There’s a substantial progression from AGSFB’s first outing; the playing’s more forceful, the harmonies more confident, the lyrics more sophisticated. Truly, in AGSFB’s realm, summer lasts all year.” — Mojo

Selling Points

All Girl Summer Fun Band Looking Into It Genre: Alt Rock Label: AGSFB Music CD: AGS 1 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Kim Baxter: guitar, vocals, bass, keyboard Kathy Foster: drums, vocals, guitar Jen Sbragia: bass, guitar, vocals

Track Listing • Not the One For Me • Something New • Oh No • Trajectory • Lost • Everything I Need • The Only Ones • Rewind • Looking Into It • Plastic Toy Dream • This Will Never End

Key Markets Hometown: Portland Also: Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Cleveland, New York

• Established fan base over the past ten years with previous releases All Girl Summer Fun Band and 2 (K Records) as well as Summer Of ’98 (Magic Marker). • Has toured the US and Europe and played with bands such as Mates of State, Sleater Kinney, The Gossip, The Shins, Modest Mouse, The Thermals, The Softies, Dub Narcotic Sound System, and Puffy Ami Yumi. • CD packaged in a full color digipak (no plastic used). • Photos by Todd Baxter and design/layout by Jen Sbragia. • Will play in the US, Europe, and the UK in support of the album. • Publicity handled by Joan Hiller of Riot Act Media.

Overview For ten years, the All Girl Summer Fun Band has blasted gritty, sunny pop gems out of rainy Portland with a fervor, enthusiasm, and stamina that is quintessentially Pacific Northwestern. Their newest LP, Looking Into It, follows 2003’s 2 (K Records) and is distilled, concentrated AGSFB. Jen Sbragia (The Softies), Kim Baxter (Cherry Ice Cream Smile), and Kathy Foster (The Thermals, Hutch & Kathy) don’t hold back the jams. Looking Into It is not only a stunning pop album filled with the band’s signature crunch-fuzz guitars and dead-on melodic sense, but lyrically, AGSFB bravely confronts issues such as greed, death, getting fired, relationship dynamics, and new love. This is AGSFB at their rawest, brightest, and best—and they know it. The band worked on several of these songs for years, meticulously writing and rewriting until they knew they had accomplished what they set out to do. Recording the album entirely in Baxter’s basement studio gave the band the ability to do without constrictive studio schedules and the monetary demands that come with studio recording, and allowed the band members to push themselves musically, especially in terms of handling songwriting with a new emphasis on total collaboration. The album’s conception, execution, capture, and release embody what is incredible and vital about DIY creation—AGSFB has made a stunning record exactly the way they wanted. Enjoy. ALSO AVAILABLE

All Girl Summer Fun Band Summer Of ’98 CD: MMK 24 Price Code: J

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STREET DATE SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Press Quotes “Such songs as ‘Wait a While,’ ‘Miss Me When I’m Gone,’ and ‘Down My Spine’ are simply amazing.” — Rolling Stone (Italy) “Italian duo The Mojomatics blends the sounds of rockabilly, rock & roll, and the darker pop of the fifties with knowingly fuzzy guitars … think Gene Vincent produced by Steve Albini and you’re heading in the right direction.” — Subbacultcha (UK) “Damn best record I’ve heard in a long, long time.” — Maximum Rock ‘n’ Roll

Selling Points • Comprehensive new media, print, and radio campaign coordinated by Fanatic Promotion. • Band has received exposure through supporting acts like Arctic Monkeys, Black Lips, Gogol Bordello, Radio Birdman, Klaxons, and the Fleshtones in Europe. • RIYL: Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The White Stripes, The Fuzztones, Detroit Cobras, The Hives.

Overview The Mojomatics are a two-man band based in Venice, Italy, formed in 2003 by MojoMatt (vocals, guitar, harmonica) and DavMatic (drums, percussion). Soon after the band formed, they released an EP called Devil Got My Woman on Shake You Ass Records and began to tour Europe relentlessly, opening for such incredible bands as Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, and Old Time Relijun. In 2004, The Mojomatics got in touch with German label Alien Snatch, who agreed to release their debut album A Sweet Mama Gonna Hoodoo Me, sixteen swampy, blues-encrusted punk tunes with a lot of rootsy pop harmonies and rambling country edges. Songs For Faraway Lovers was their second full-length, self-produced and released by Alien Snatch in 2006. The Mojomatics poured out even more hooks on this record, revealing their folk and blues roots with some typical American folk ballads. The band also embarked on a great European tour, opening for such bands as Black Lips, Arctic Monkeys, Gogol Bordello, and Radio Birdman. The band’s new record, Don’t Pretend That You Know Me, will be released by Ghost Records in September 2008. The Mojomatics heap together hillbilly blues, old country, folk, and bluegrass; inject it with the melodies of British Invasion pop; and fire it all out with the break-neck energy of the best garage/punk/rock ‘n’ roll.

The Mojomatics Don’t Pretend That You Know Me Genre: Alt Rock/Garage Rock Label: Ghost Records CD: GHS 26 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Matteo Bordin: guitar, vocals, harmonica Davide Zolli: drums, percussion

Track Listing • Wait a While • Miss Me When I’m Gone • Clean My Sins • Askin’ For a Better Circumstance • You Are Not Me (Fortunately) • Complicate My Life • Stars Above • She Loves • Losin’ Time • Down My Spine • Hole In My Heart • Winter Got No Eyes

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

STREET DATE SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Press Quotes “The Aimless Never Miss create a giddy atmosphere with soaring vocals, densely layered guitars, bass, and keyboards. It’s the sort of music that makes it impossible to sulk as your muscles twitch involuntarily into something resembling dancing.” — Flavorpill “Seriously worthy of a good, long listen … [the] quintet, originally from Sonoma County and now based in San Francisco and Oakland, makes an epic indie racket dusted with the dark, dreamy drone of My Bloody Valentine.” — San Francisco Chronicle “Experimental indie rock at its finest.” — Santa Barbara Independent

Selling Points

The Aimless Never Miss The Aimless Never Miss S/T Genre: Alt Rock Label: Devil in the Woods CD: DIW 112 Price Code: I (SRP $10.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Featured Artists Jon Latimer: guitar, vocals Andrew Macy: bass Rosie Steffi: moog, keys, vocals Ross Giffen: guitar, keys, moog, vocals Winston Goertz-Giffen: drums, trumpet

Track Listing • The Point of Playing • The Bright Side • The Obvious • Dresden • Bound • Trip and Fall • Nothing to Gain • Peter Rabbit Would Do Well To Stay Out Of Mr. McGregor’s Garden • Suburban Seas

Key Markets Hometown: Cotati, CA Also: San Francisco, Oakland, Santa Rosa, Los Angeles, San Diego, Portland, Seattle, Austin

STREET DATE SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

• Nonstop touring; amazing and energetic live show includes visuals. • Strong connections with every band of importance on the West Coast. • Press by Riot Act Media. • Radio by The Lower Class Revolt. • Touring by Wicked Annabella. • Targeting local websites (including The Bay Bridged, Deli SF, Wiretap Music) as well as national outlets (Pitchfork, Stereogum, Rock Insider, Gorilla vs. Bear). • Ads with various national and regional publications.

Overview San Francisco’s The Aimless Never Miss make their debut with a dynamite package of guitar distortion and bittersweet vocals. Led by the enigmatic Jonny Latimer, this guitar-led outfit delivers a heady pop that’s as subtle as a time bomb. Already making big waves on the West Coast, The Aimless Never Miss is ready to spread that success across the nation. What began as a solo project for singer/songwriter Jonny Latimer soon grew into a full-on band with a rotating cast of musicians and songwriters contributing to the mix. After a 2006 relocation to San Francisco, a more consistent lineup emerged, along with a continuing series of successes. Fans of Kevin Shields will not be disappointed; however there is also an accessibility-meets-epic sound reminiscent of Muse, Wolf Parade, and Arcade Fire. Fans of this sound have likely caught the band’s live show, which engages the audience through visuals created by Luke Judd. But despite their live show extras, music is never a secondary thing to the band. Alongside Latimer is a group of seasoned musicians who all make their mark on the distinctive Aimless sound, including artists who have relationships with other Bay Area projects such as Built for the Sea, Ted the Block, Good City Lie Still, and The Rum Diary offshoot Shuteye Unison. The Aimless Never Miss are the first signing to legendary indie label Devil in the Woods since the label re-launched with the establishment of a new co-operative, the Lower Class Revolt. Through free digital compilations, monthly shows, and providing an easy means for bands to produce merchandise, Devil in the Woods and the Lower Class Revolt are seeking to weather the current music industry storm while providing the means for artists to remain innovative and productive.

Press Quotes “Drawing mainly on artrock and early light-prog aesthetics, O.W.L. deliver an ambitious song cycle which at its best transforms into dazzling psychedelia.” — The Acid Archives

Selling Points • Featured NPR coverage of the O.W.L. story. • Select live performances planned for 2008/2009. • Select radio, new media, and press campaigns.

Overview A Chicago psych folk classic recovered from the dustbins of history, this album has earned comparisons to Tim Buckley, Pearls Before Swine, and ’60s British prog-folk. A founding member of beloved Midwestern hippie jam band Mountain Bus, Stephen Titra left that band in 1968 in order to devote himself to the singular vision of O.W.L. Of Wondrous Legends was recorded at Chicago’s Universal Studios in 1971, but despite interest from a number of major labels, the gem went unreleased. Then, in 2004, a copy of one of the test pressings was unearthed in a Chicago junk shop. Following several years of collaborative efforts, Of Wondrous Legends now sees its first public release after some 35 years of obscurity.

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Legends • A Tale of a Crimson Knight • Be Alive • Renaissance & Rococo • Midnight Carnival • Dawn of Albion • Upon the Wings of Gabriel • Breton Landscape • Everyman and the Philosopher King • Peace of Mind • Salvation Song • Sunsets of Smiles

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

Press Quotes “Flannery O’Connor would be proud … every song is vital. A good all-killer-no-filler folk album is hard to come by, but Dan Smith has aimed for the dark forests of the night and hit the ghoulish-looking trees on every shot.” — Audiversity

Selling Points • Continuous touring throughout 2008. • King’s Curse marks the debut of Begushkin’s full rock band. • Founding member Dan Smith was once a touring member of Will Oldham’s band. • Full radio, print, and new media servicing.

Begushkin King’s Curse Genre: Rock Label: Locust Music CD: LST 112 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Overview Recorded live to tape in two days after a sleep-deprived month of Beefheart-style creative lockdown, Begushkin—Dan Smith’s eight-headed hydra—laid the twilight folk of 2007’s Nightly Things to rest and reemerged with the wicked, strange, hard-rock-gypsyshake of King’s Curse, in which Smith yells and carries on like a man possessed while telling tales of the damnation of a robber king.

Track Listing Convict’s Lament • King’s Curse • Murderer • Redhood • Robbers to the Greenwood • Death Valley • Refugee and The Hag • Joy Is Gone • The Beast & The King • Gone To Hell

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

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press quotes “A collection of drifting, stream of consciousness tracks demonstrating the great hallucinatory possibilities of this tradition-soaked and very American form.” — The Wire

Selling Points • 2008 edition of the critically acclaimed compilation featuring many luminaries of the guitar folk scene. • Available on deluxe 180-gram audiophile vinyl for the first time! • Select radio, new media, and press mailings.

Various Artists Wooden Guitar Genre: Folk Label: Locust Music CD: LST 33 Price Code: M (SRP $14.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 25 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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Overview Fall 2008 marks the fifth anniversary of Locust Music’s inaugural Wooden Guitar compilation, an inspired excursion into the creases and folds of modern deltadelica and a thinly veiled homage to the great Takoma compilations of yore in which guitarists could sit back, work those muscles in their fingers, and go the extra musical distance. Four of the great worldwide guitarists—Germany’s Steffen Basho-Junghans, Seattle’s Sir Richard Bishop (Sun City Girls), Japan’s Tetuzi Akiyama, and Virginia’s Jack Rose—give us a fresh look at a very old instrument with gloriously stretched-out solo compositions.

Track Listing Jack Rose: Red Horse • Steffen Basho-Junghans: A North Thuringian Raga • Tetuzi Akiyama: Time Between • Steffen Basho-Junghans: Smiling Penguins • Sir Richard Bishop: Corpuscle

Key Markets Seattle, Oakland, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Portland, Chicago

Press Quotes “Their so-retro-it’s-fresh sound is a throwback to the storm of raw and rowdy outlaw country that rolled through Nashville in the early ’70s.” — Detroit Free Press

Selling Points • Constantly on the road, averaging more then 200 dates per year. • Have shared the stage with Dale Watson, Jack Ingram, Shooter Jennings, David Alan Coe, and Hank Williams III. • Mixed by Al Sutton (Sheryl Crow, Five Horse Johnson, Kid Rock). • National press, regional press, and e-media will be handled by Yarrr! PR.

Overview The roots of country music are despair, pain, sorrow, and anguish—feelings found in great abundance in the burnt-out ghost town of Flint, MI. With the classic themes of country music (drinking, prison, loving and leaving women) as the only options for the residents of Flint, Whitey and the boys have distilled the essence of country music into 150 proof melodies to help people forget their problems for a few hours. Look for them on the road this fall and remember: there are no flip-flops in country music, and there is no Margaritaville for outlaws.

Track Listing Hold Her When She Cries • Crazy • If It Ain’t Broke • Back to Back • Cheating Again • Honky Tonk Angel • I’m On Fire • Another Round • Goodbye Dixie • Love and Honor • Prove It All To You • Sinner

Key Markets Hometown: Flint, MI. Also: Austin, Cleveland, Chicago, Louisville, St. Louis, Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Memphis, Detroit, Columbus, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Atlanta, Jacksonville, Dallas, Houston 34

STREET DATE SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Whitey Morgan & The 78s Honky Tonks and Cheap Motels Genre: Alt Country/Outlaw Label: Small Stone Records CD: SSO 86 Price Code: O (SRP $13.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Press quotes “Smooth, righteous heavy rock.” — Lollipop

Selling Points • Touring will take place around album release date. • Copies to press, radio, and blogs via Arclight. • Working with NAIL Media to tailor a tour press campaign.

Overview SuperHeavyGoatAss formed as a three piece in the winter of 1999. The band has had quite a run in the Austin music scene, opening for such acts as Nebula, Sunnshine, Dixie Witch, Suplecs, High On Fire, Speedloader, Halfway To Gone, Honky, The Brought Low, and many more. They have also toured the country extensively, adding fans with every stop. Nemesis marks their second release for Arclight Records and the first featuring former Honky and Halfway To Gone drummer Kenny Wagner. An extensive tour schedule is being planned in support of the release, so don’t be surprised when the Goat Ass hits your town!

Track Listing One Hundred Ways • Another Piece • Dirty • Nemesis • Driver • Ice • Take a Drink • Nameless Grave • Down That Road • Tonite • Zodiac

SuperHeavyGoatAss Nemesis Genre: Rock/Hard Rock Label: Arclight Records CD: ACL 24 Price Code: N (SRP $12.99) Jewel Case; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

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SuperHeavyGoatAss 60,000 Years

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Press quotes “Dark and droning, intense and intensely fervent, slipping from loose slithery balladeering to fiery and impassioned swells of soul-laid-bare sermonizing. Really quite amazing.” — Aquarius Records

Selling Points • Mastering by Harris Newman at Greymarket Mastering. • Artwork by Samuele Bastianello. • Previously released albums on K-RAA-K and Public Guilt.

Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat The Nebulous Dreams Genre: Avant Rock/Avant Folk Label: Conspiracy Records CD: CNS 67 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) Digipak; Box Lot 30 NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

LP: CNS 67 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) LP Jacket; Box Lot 30

Overview Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat has always been utterly fascinated with primitive savagery and heathen tactics. On this third full-length endeavor, they explore and recast their horror-filled doom theme in the light of current debates on modernity and globalization. Minimalist instrumentation and hypnotic ultra-dramatic vocals are wrapped in equal parts doom-ridden heresy, while the percussion is stripped down of hazy emotions and stretched into a pure vessel of magical strength. A divine doom folk/rock cloud that shares apocalyptic interests with such visionaries as Current 93, Woven Hand, Richard Youngs, Comus, and other uplifting pagan psych-folk.

Track Listing Between Skylla and Charybdis • Dyptich • Miserere

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

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Pleasure Forever Bodies Need Rest Genre: Alt Rock Label: Conspiracy Records CD: CNS 50 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

A posthumous collection of unreleased and rare Pleasure Forever recordings. Four cover songs, four rare tracks, five previously unreleased tracks, two B-sides previously released on Sub Pop, and one track from the out-of-print Buddyhead Gimme Skelter compilation.

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Valina Vagabond Genre: Alt Rock Label: Conspiracy Records CD: CNS 917 Price Code: Q (SRP $15.99) NOT AVAILABLE IN CANADA

Austria’s best kept secret, Valina is raw, intimate, and ultimately captivating. Falling-apart song structures and harmonic pop songs derail into a unique sound. Recorded by Steve Albini. Mastered in the Abbey Road studios.

Maninkari Psychoide/Participation Mystic

Maninkari Le Diable Avec Ses Chevaux

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Genre: Alt Rock Label: Conspiracy Records 2XCD: CNS 57 Price Code: 2I (SRP $21.99)

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The debut EP from Maninkari features cinematic, mesmerizing music. Dense drumming and frenzied strings wind into tense soundscapes of slow burning shimmer. Like Godspeed plays the Dirty Three, or maybe Angus Maclise jamming with Chris Corsano.

Maninkari’s first full release is a gorgeous, soft cacophony of epic post rock drift and minimal jazzy shuffle. Using light tribal percussion clouds and swirling melodies, songs subtly and dynamically build, flow and spiral.

White Circle Crime Club Written In Black

White Circle Crime Club These are the Secret Sounds of Fear

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Fascinating sonic collages marry post-punk dynamics, experimental energy, exorcist ritual music, and an unusual amount of tender soul. Debut full-length album is more outspoken than ever, with the right amount of hooks, subtlety, and youthful energy.

STREET DATE SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Debut EP brings four beautifully honest songs, where melody seems to be in a constant fight with loud guitars, noise, and vaguely neurotic lyrics. References are varied, but all reviewers agree on one thing: this is a band to keep an eye on.

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