Good Day Friends,
Man, do we have a lot to share with you this week. We're currently in the middle of a serious new release season and bands/labels are making it rain this year, hard. So many quality tunes. We'll get to those releases shortly, but first we want to thank Hollows for allowing us to host their
PlusTapes release show here on Saturday. They totally rocked and their tape is great as well. It's available exclusively from us, by the way and they're selling like hotcakes. Speaking of hotcakes,
Brain Idea was awesome as well. Their new eponymous tape release kills as well and comes highly recommended, especially for fans of the
Clean and/or
Tyvek. DIY Punk at it's finest. While you're at it, check out the
NOi! tape (krautrockin' covers of classic Oi! punk cuts) featuring two members of Brain Idea. That's a brain idea we wish we'd thought of, pure genius. Next week, our in-store is with Bruiser (featuring Pat Kopine, ex-member of
Warhammer 48k) which we couldn't be more stoked about. We loved Warhammer so much that we decided to start a label to put out
their second record. Pat's real fond of stuff like
Unwound and
Steel Pole Bath Tub and we're sure Bruiser will be nothing short of intense. It'd be really cool if fans of Warhammer, or any of the aforementioned bands would blindly come out to show your support. Thanks to those of you who came out this past weekend. Good times were had by all. As for the web store, we're still working on it. There were some weird glitches and things that forced us to delay the launch. When it's up, you'll be the first to hear about it. Now on to the goods...
Among many, many other sweet items, we're super into the new Mississippi Records releases, the Raincoats debut reissue LP, a couple new Fashionable Idiots releases, another new Oh Sees LP, two new Boris 7"s. Seriously, we received more new releases this week than we've had time to really digest, so check the full list below. We'll get around to telling you about the ones we recommend sooner than later.
If it seems like we discuss
Mississippi Records more than most stuff, it's because we do. They give us a lot of reasons to: they lay quality new reissues on us regularly, they do a really nice job with the packaging, and they make them affordable. Who could ask for anything more? Just as a refresher, Mississippi was recently responsible for the the
Clean compilation LP, the
Rats reissues, the
Abner Jay,
Cecil Barfield, and
George Coleman reissues as well as a slew of compilations of rare international 78s, early blues, and gospel jams. In short, if it's on Mississippi, it's worth checking out, if not buying blindly. That's why we get so excited when a box arrives with the Mississippi Records Portland return address in the upper left hand corner. Yet again, Mississippi does not disappoint. This week we received their latest batch of reissues by De Kift, Joseph Spence, and Michael Hurley.
De Kift is a Dutch band with ties to
The Ex that formed in 1988. It was then that they released they're debut eponymous 7" and they followed up with their debut LP shortly thereafter, in 1989. Both of these original releases are rarer than a four-eyed albino ostrich, but now, thanks to Mississippi they're readily available again for your listening pleasure. Both of these records are filled to the gills with angular Dutch post-punk in the same vein as the Ex records from the same period. Amazing stuff. De Kift went on to record many records over the course of the next 20 years, including the recently reissued
Krankenhaus, but these first two records stand as definitive Dutch punk classics.
Krankenhaus is good in it's own right, but it's much less confrontational and would probably appeal more to fans of the more baroque, junk-band, accordion-laden, eastern-european influenced side of rock.
Joseph Spence was a Bahaman singer and folk-blues guitarist born in 1910. At 61, Spence recorded
Bahaman Guitarist: Good Morning Mr. Walker for the
Arhoolie label. It's a great outsider folk-blues record with some gnarly vocals that almost sound Cajun in their incomprehensibility. It's packaged beautifully in a hand screen printed,
Folkways-style paste-on over textured red pleather jacket. Fans of those George Coleman, Abner Jay, and Cecil Barfield will definitely want to take this one seriously. The material on
Parsnip Snips by
Michael Hurley consists of unreleased material from sessions between 1964 and 1972. The tracks were originally released in this form in 1997 in Germany but were seized (why?) by the German government and only 150 copies have been known to exist, until now. Fans of outsider singer-songwriter folk will dig this for sure. All of these releases, as with all Mississippi releases, come with the Permanent stamp of approval.
The
Raincoats were a seminal post-punk group. They happened to be all female, but that has nothing to do with the staying power of their records, especially their eponymous debut. If you haven't heard this record, it's probably not your fault, the record companies haven't made it easy to get a hold of. Aside from the original LP and the CD reissues in the early '90s (thanks to Kurt Cobain's insistence) the Raincoats records have sadly been out-of-print, until now. Thanks to the fine folks over at
Kill Rock Stars, you can now own a copy of the Raincoats LP (conveniently packaged with a free digital download code) for a mere $15. This is one of those records we've been waiting for a reissue of for years now. If you dig the Slits, post-punk, or off-kilter bedroom pop, this is a must own. It actually features Palmolive from the Slits on drums and the production assistance of
Red Krayola's Mayo Thompson. Classic stuff, man. Highly recommended.
Fashionable Idiots has laid a bunch of sweet new records on us lately. We were introduced to the Mineapolis micro-label by the
Drunkdriver Fire Sale 7", which is probably one of our favorite singles of the year (and Drunkdriver's best release so far). Brutal repetitive noise rock, just punishing. And our interest in Idiots releases just grew from there. The Condominiums 7" is an intense stoner rock slab and the Fresh Meat single that just rolled in sounds a lot like the
Francis Harold & the Holograms records we raved about earlier in the year, but with less reverb on the vocals. The
Herds LP is full of brutal hardcore jams and that pretty much rounds out the labels discography. Every noise rock fan should own the Drunkdriver single. The Fresh Meat and Condominiums singles should come next, followed closely by the Herds LP. Seriously, this stuff kills and it's all pretty limited. Can't wait to hear what's next from Fashionable Idiots (great label name by the way).
Of all the bands we've discussed this year,
Thee Oh Sees have got to be the most often referenced. They've released more records this year than any other band we can think of. The
Help LP will probably come close to topping our Best of '09 list, but the other records they've laid on us ain't exactly chopped liver. The
Hounds of Foggy Notion LP is great, as is the
Sucks Blood reissue. Their split single with
Ty Segall is pretty awesome as well. Anyhow, they're back, or at least he (John Dwyer) is, with another full-length of previously unreleased material. The new LP on
Blank Dogs dude's
Captured Tracks label entitled
Dog Poison is basically a solo John Dwyer record, but since he's been recording solo and otherwise under the Oh Sees/Ohsees/OCS moniker(s) for over a decade now, there's no reason why it shouldn't have been released as such. Don't read too much into the
solo record thing though, as this is not an acoustic guitar only, bedroom recorded affair. John plays all the instruments on this one, and aside from lacking backing vocals, this thing is a full-on Oh Sees-type affair. John sings a little less falsetto and there aren't any
Help-style psychedelic rave-ups, but it's a great record nonetheless. Fans of Thee Oh Sees will want to (even though they may not want to buy yet another Oh Sees record) splurge for this one. When will the prolificacy bring them down? All we know is that it hasn't happened yet.
Boris is one of the best heavy bands of our generation. Their one of the best because when they're at their heaviest (see 2006's
Pink) their one of the heaviest, but they're no one-trick pony. Boris can drone on just as well as
Sunn O))) (
Altar is an incredible collab record) and they know how to get the party started as well (see the 9dw split). The record they did with
Michio Kurihara,
Rainbow, is amazingly beautiful as well. Anyhow, Boris' latest releases are coming in the form of a series of 3
Heavy Rock Hits limited edition 7"s on
Southern Lord. Volumes 1 and 2 have arrived! Volume 1 hits hard, but in a more '90s alt-rock, shoegaze-y kinda way. Can we get Boris and
Sonic Youth on a bill together please? Volume 2 contains
H.M.A. (Heavy Metal Addict) which is heavy as fuck while the B-side
Black Original is more of the dancy pop stuff. Both are good in their own right, but not necessarily what we'd call their heaviest material. We'd recommend them, but we probably don't need to. Boris fans are gonna get these anyways and non-Boris fans should skip 'em and try a copy of
Pink or their latest
Smile on for size instead. These 7's are limited and going way too fast, though.
We've also done a significant amount of restocking lately the
No Age and
Pissed Jeans records on
Sub Pop are back in stock as is
Tim Cohen's (of
Fresh & Onlys) solo LP. We also scored a bunch of new LP compilations that look pretty great as well. Check out the full lists below for all the newly released and restocked goodies. We also loaded the LP, CD, and 7" recent arrivals bins with quality used stuff and we added about 500% more stuff to the 99 cent 7" section. Come on in and check out the sitch for yourself real soon.
Thanks for reading,
New ReleasesFormat Artist - Title Price
CD Bob Dylan - Christmas In The Heart $14.99
CD Cococoma - Things Are Not All Right $11.99
CD Digital Leather - Warm Brother $11.99
CD Do Make Say Think - Other Truths $13.99
CD Elvis Perkins in Dearland - The Doomsday EP $6.99
CD Espers - III $13.99
CD Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport $11.99
CD Jay Farrar & Benjamin Gibbard - One Fast Move Or I'm Gone: Music From Kerouac's Big Sur $15.99
CD Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights $13.99
CD Oh Sees - Dog Poison $9.99
CD OOIOO - Armonico Hewa $14.99
CD Russian Circles - Geneva $11.99
CD Shrinebuilder - Shrinebuilder $12.99
CD Spiral Stairs - The Real Feel $12.99
CD Sufjan Stevens - The BQE (CD+DVD) $14.99
CD Thomas Function - In The Valley of Sickness $11.99
CD Various Artists - Can You Dig It - The Music And Politics of Black Action Films 1968-1975 $21.99
CD Various Artists - Ouled Bambara: Portraits of Gnawa (CD + DVD) $17.99
CD White Rainbow - New Clouds $12.99
7" Akron/Family - River b/w Morning On Michigan Avenue [Thinking Of Old Friends] $5.99
7" Andrew Bird - Anoanimal $4.99
7" Boris - Japanese Heavy Rock HIts Vol. 1 $5.99
7" Boris - Japanese Heavy Rock HIts Vol. 2 $5.99
7" De Kift - De Kift $5.99
7" Fresh Meat - Problem Fixer [on Fashionable Idiots] $4.99
7" Static Static - Witchmouth (Limited Hand Numbered Edition of 100 on Clear Vinyl) $4.99
10" Jack Oblivian - So Low/American Slang (2x10") $12.99
12" Elvis Perkins in Dearland - The Doomsday EP (2x12") $9.99
LP Widow Babies - Jetpacks $12.99
LP Atlas Sound - Logos $12.99
LP Black Heart Procession - Six (2xLP) $14.99
LP Built to Spill - There is No Enemy [2xLP+CD] $23.99
LP Cococoma - Things Are Not All Right $12.99
LP De Kift - Yversucht $11.99
LP Death Proof - Original Soundtrack $12.99
LP Digital Leather - Warm Brother $12.99
LP Dirty Three - Ocean Songs $23.99
LP Dirty Three - Whatever You Love, You $17.99
LP Do Make Say Think - Other Truths $21.99
LP Espers - III $17.99
LP Factums - Flowers (Limited Edition) $23.99
LP Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace $23.99
LP Former Ghosts - Fleurs $14.99
LP Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport $15.99
LP Glenda [Snake Dancer] - Original Soundtrack $21.99
LP Gossip - Music For Men $19.99
LP Herds - Herds [on Fashionable Idiots] $11.99
LP Inbred - Legacy Of Fertility Volume Two Kissin' Cousins $12.99
LP Jay-Z - The Blueprint 3 $21.99
LP Joseph Spence - Bahaman Guitarist $12.99
LP Life Partners - Men Are Talking $13.99
LP Lucero - 1372 Overton Park $13.99
LP Majeure - Timespan (member of Zombi) $14.99
LP Mars Volta - Is Anybody There? $21.99
LP MIchael Hurley - Parsnip Snips $11.99
LP Mountains - Etching $13.99
LP My Bloody Valentine - Things Left Behind $14.99
LP My Bloody Valentine - This Is Your Bloody Valentine $14.99
LP Oh Sees - Dog Poison $12.99
LP OOIOO - Armonico Hewa $14.99
LP Pontiak - Sea Voids $13.99
LP Rain Machine - Rain Machine [Kyp Malone of TV On The Radio] $19.99
LP Raincoats - Raincoats (KRS Reissue with Download Code) $14.99
LP Shudder To Think - Live From Home $13.99
LP Sound - Permanent $19.99
LP Spiral Stairs - The Real Feel $23.99
LP Sufjan Stevens - The BQE $22.99
LP Thomas Function - In The Valley of Sickness $12.99
LP Various Artists - Anagram Jam $19.99
LP Various Artists - Can You Dig It Vol.1 - The Music And Politics of Black Action Films 1968-1975 $23.99
LP Various Artists - Can You Dig It Vol.2 - The Music And Politics of Black Action Films 1968-1975 $23.99
LP Various Artists - Congo 70 Rumba Rock [African Pearls series] $25.99
LP Various Artists - Dirty French Psychedelics $21.99
LP Various Artists - Gilles Peterson presents Brazilika $22.99
LP Various Artists - Mali 70 Electric Mali [African Pearls series] $25.99
LP Wau Y Los Arrrghs - Viven $12.99
LP White Rainbow - New Clouds $17.99
RestockFormat Artist - Title Price
ACC 45 RPM Poly Bags - 100 Pack $9.99
ACC Audio Technica Universal Turntable Cartridge (AT90CD) $24.99
ACC RCA Discwasher - LP Cleaning Kit $15.99
CD A Frames - 2 $11.99
CD A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Ashes Grammar $12.99
CD Alias - Resurgam $9.99
CD Arbouretum - Song Of The Pearl $13.99
CD Atlas Sound - Logos $12.99
CD Avett Brothers - I And Love And You $13.99
CD Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band [2009 remaster, enhanced CD] $17.99
CD Bruce Springsteen - Working On A Dream $17.99
CD Flaming Lips - Embryonic [Deluxe 2xCD+DVD] $27.99
CD Fools Gold - Fools Gold $9.99
CD Former Ghosts - Fleurs $13.99
CD Girls - Album $12.99
CD Harmonia & Eno '76 - Tracks and Traces (Remaster + Bonus) $15.99
CD Hawkwind - In Search of Space $12.99
CD Hope Sandoval - Through the Devil Softly $11.99
CD Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care $13.99
CD Lucero - 1372 Overton Park $11.99
CD Modern Lovers - S/T $13.99
CD MV & EE - Barn Nova $11.99
CD Richard Youngs - Under Stellar Steam $12.99
CD Spacemen 3 - Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To $15.99
CD Trad Gras Och Stenar - Gardet 12.6.1970 $14.99
CD Very Best - Warm Heart Of Africa $13.99
7" Drunkdriver - Fire Sale b/w It Never Happened [on Fashionable Idiots] $4.99
7" Sneakers - Children Into People $4.99
10" Alela Diane (Featuring Alina Hardin) - Alela & Alina $12.99
10" Cave / California Raisins - Split $9.99
LP A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders $13.99
LP Anals - Total Anal $14.99
LP Black Keys - The Big Come Up [ltd. white vinyl] $15.99
LP Boredoms - Super Roots 10 $14.99
LP Cacaw - Get a Brain EP $14.99
LP David Bowie - Aladdin Sane $28.99
LP Diminished Man - Shadow Instrumentals $17.99
LP Heads - Tilburg $25.99
LP Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold As Love [Back To Black 180gm] $30.99
LP Joy Division - Complete Peel Sessions $13.99
LP Joyce - Visions Of Dawn [w/Nana Vasconcelos & Mauricio Maestro] $22.99
LP Justice - Cross $25.99
LP Mako Sica - Mayday At Strobe $14.99
LP My Bloody Valentine - Before Loveless $21.99
LP Neko Case - Middle Cyclone $23.99
LP Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left $23.99
LP Place to Bury Strangers - A Place to Bury Strangers $13.99
LP Sandy Bull - Inventions For Guitar, Banjo, Oud, Electric Guitar And Electric Bass $17.99
LP Scott Walker - Scott 1 $17.99
LP Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman $17.99
LP Spits - S/T IV $11.99
LP Spoon - A Series Of Sneaks $15.99
LP Tim Cohen - The Two Sides of Tim Cohen $13.99
LP Townes Van Zandt - Delta Momma Blues $12.99
LP Various Artists - An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music / First A-chronology - Volume #1 $39.99
LP Various Artists - Dub Echoes $22.99
LP Warhammer 48K - An Ethereal Oracle $14.99
LP Wild Beasts - Two Dancers $15.99
Featured Listening Station Titles (On Sale NOW!!)Format Artist Title Sale Price
CD Bellini The Precious Prize of Gravity $11.99
CD Lisa Germano Magic Neighbor $12.99
CD Digital Leather Warm Brother $11.99
CD LCD Soundsystem 45:33 Remixes $12.99
CD Volcano Choir Unmap $11.99
CD Jack Penate Everything Is New $11.99
CD Mission Of Burma The Sound, The Speed, The Light $11.99
CD Pins Of Being Pure At Heart Higher Than The Stars $7.99
CD Califone All My Friends are Funeral Singers $11.99
CD Antlers Hospice $11.99
CD Girls Album $12.99
CD Why? Eskimo Snow $12.99
Format Artist Title Sale Price
CD Sufjan Stevens / Osso Run Rabbit Run $11.99
CD Kurt Vile Childish Prodigy $11.99
CD Times New Viking Born Again Revisited $12.99
CD Thomas Function In The Valley Of Sickness $11.99
CD Shrinebuilder Shrinebuilder $12.99
CD Cococoma Things Are Not All Right $11.99
CD Castanets Texas Rose, The Thaw & $11.99
CD Dutchess & the Duke Sunset/Sunrise $10.99
CD Early Day Miners The Treatment $11.99
CD A Hawk And A Hacksaw Deliverance $12.99
CD Mountain Goats Life Of The World To Come $11.99
CD Big Pink A Brief History Of Love $12.99
Upcoming In-store EventsArtist/Event Date Time
Bruiser (former member of Warhammer 48k!) 10/24/09 6:00 PM
P-Rex Cubed: Three Years And Going Strong Anniversary Party! Featuring Mako Sica/Black Math/Cacaw/Cave + Cool Prizes/Freebies/Cookies And Goodtimes! Live @ The Hideout 8:30 PM to 11:30 PM-ish (Party will be followed by the usual "Hideout Saturday Night Dance Party" so stay late and shake yer booty!) 11/21/09 8:30 PM to 11:30 PM-ish
Axemen (New Zealand!) / Bitchin' Bajas (Cave side project!) 11/28/09 6:00 PM
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