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The Black Angels' classic sophomore album
Pressed at RTI
Triple LP housed in a Stoughton tri-fold gatefold jacket
Originally released on April 15th, 2008

_'The Black Angels bring the aura of mid-1966 the drilling guitars of early Velvet Underground shows, the raga inflections of late-show Fillmore jams, the acid-prayer stomp of Austin avatars the 13th Floor Elevators everywhere they go, including the levitations on their second album, Directions to See a Ghost. Mid-Eighties echoes of Spacemen 3 and the Jesus and Mary Chain also roll through the scoured-guitar sustain and Alex Maas' rocker-monk incantations. But he knows what time it is. 'You say the Beatles stopped the war,' Maas sings in 'Never/Ever.' 'They might've helped to find a cure/But it's still not over.' Even so, this medicine works wonders.' - *David Fricke, Rolling Stone*_

Last time we met The Black Angels, they were staring into the desert sun somewhere outside of Austin, Texas. Two years later, night has fallen and the spirits have come out. It's time for The Black Angels to provide _Directions On How To See A Ghost_.

If you're familiar with _Passover_, the band's 2006 debut, you'll know that The Black Angels's music alone is enough to invoke spirits. There's a name for the band's sound; they call it 'hypno-drone 'n roll'. It's the sound of long nights on peyote, of dreams of a new world order, and of half-invented memories of the seamy side of '60s psychedelia.

While the Iraq war is still a major influence on the band's lyrics, there are new forces at work here, including Eugene Zamyatin's dystopian novel We and in Christian Bland's words 'psychic information from the past and future.' See, The Black Angels really are in contact with ghosts.

'Civil War battlefields are prime spots for seeing ghosts,' says Bland. 'One time at Kennesaw mountain in Georgia, I was climbing the mountain in the middle of June and it must have been close to 100 degrees, but in this one particular spot it was very cold. The hairs on my neck stood up and I knew something strange was happening. Then the wind whispered something like 'retreat,' and I did. I later learned that the spot where I was on the battlefield was known as 'the dead angle', the place where the fiercest fighting took place. The confederates ended up retreating from the mountain towards Peachtree Creek.'

The Black Angels formed in Austin, Texas, in 2004, comprising from six people (now five) from very different backgrounds. Singer/vocalist Christian Bland is the son of a Presbyterian Pastor and was raised in a devoutly religious household. Bassist / guitarist Nate Ryan was born on a cult compound and drummer Stephanie Bailey claims she's a descendent of Davy Crocket. She and Alex Maas (vocals/guitar) believe a little girl in a red linen dress haunts the group's home.

The band released _Passover_ in 2006 to critical acclaim for both the album and the song 'The First Vietnamese War'. Most of all, _Passover_ established The Black Angels as a band with brains, balls and a strong message. And this time around, the message is there to read in a 16-page booklet that comes with the album.

'Our central theme is that people need to open up their minds and let everything come through, and to learn from past mistakes,' says Christian. 'Only then will we understand the reality of this world and progress beyond where we are now as humans. We've built upon that theme with _Directions to See a Ghost_. We want people to study the booklet we are providing with the album in hopes that they will be able to relate each song to something in their life.'

_'War is Peace.

Freedom is Slavery.

Ignorance is Strength.

Keep Music Evil.'_

The Black Angels' classic sophomore album
Pressed at RTI
Triple LP housed in a Stoughton tri-fold gatefold jacket
Originally released on April 15th, 2008
Special Triple LP Color Edition includes:
Record 1 (a/b) Pressed on Opaque Red Marble Wax
Record 2 (c/d) Pressed on Opaque Green Marble Wax
Record 3 (e/f) Pressed on Clear Wax

_'The Black Angels bring the aura of mid-1966 the drilling guitars of early Velvet Underground shows, the raga inflections of late-show Fillmore jams, the acid-prayer stomp of Austin avatars the 13th Floor Elevators everywhere they go, including the levitations on their second album, Directions to See a Ghost. Mid-Eighties echoes of Spacemen 3 and the Jesus and Mary Chain also roll through the scoured-guitar sustain and Alex Maas' rocker-monk incantations. But he knows what time it is. 'You say the Beatles stopped the war,' Maas sings in 'Never/Ever.' 'They might've helped to find a cure/But it's still not over.' Even so, this medicine works wonders.' - *David Fricke, Rolling Stone*_

Last time we met The Black Angels, they were staring into the desert sun somewhere outside of Austin, Texas. Two years later, night has fallen and the spirits have come out. It's time for The Black Angels to provide _Directions On How To See A Ghost_.

If you're familiar with _Passover_, the band's 2006 debut, you'll know that The Black Angels's music alone is enough to invoke spirits. There's a name for the band's sound; they call it 'hypno-drone 'n roll'. It's the sound of long nights on peyote, of dreams of a new world order, and of half-invented memories of the seamy side of '60s psychedelia.

While the Iraq war is still a major influence on the band's lyrics, there are new forces at work here, including Eugene Zamyatin's dystopian novel We and in Christian Bland's words 'psychic information from the past and future.' See, The Black Angels really are in contact with ghosts.

'Civil War battlefields are prime spots for seeing ghosts,' says Bland. 'One time at Kennesaw mountain in Georgia, I was climbing the mountain in the middle of June and it must have been close to 100 degrees, but in this one particular spot it was very cold. The hairs on my neck stood up and I knew something strange was happening. Then the wind whispered something like 'retreat,' and I did. I later learned that the spot where I was on the battlefield was known as 'the dead angle', the place where the fiercest fighting took place. The confederates ended up retreating from the mountain towards Peachtree Creek.'

The Black Angels formed in Austin, Texas, in 2004, comprising from six people (now five) from very different backgrounds. Singer/vocalist Christian Bland is the son of a Presbyterian Pastor and was raised in a devoutly religious household. Bassist / guitarist Nate Ryan was born on a cult compound and drummer Stephanie Bailey claims she's a descendent of Davy Crocket. She and Alex Maas (vocals/guitar) believe a little girl in a red linen dress haunts the group's home.

The band released _Passover_ in 2006 to critical acclaim for both the album and the song 'The First Vietnamese War'. Most of all, _Passover_ established The Black Angels as a band with brains, balls and a strong message. And this time around, the message is there to read in a 16-page booklet that comes with the album.

'Our central theme is that people need to open up their minds and let everything come through, and to learn from past mistakes,' says Christian. 'Only then will we understand the reality of this world and progress beyond where we are now as humans. We've built upon that theme with _Directions to See a Ghost_. We want people to study the booklet we are providing with the album in hopes that they will be able to relate each song to something in their life.'

_'War is Peace.

Freedom is Slavery.

Ignorance is Strength.

Keep Music Evil.'_

Aus der Pandemie heraus blicken Placebo auf eine Landschaft der Intoleranz, der Spaltung, der technischen Übersättigung und der drohenden Öko-Katastrophe. Dabei kommt das Talent des Duos, ein kolossales, herzzerreißendes Stück Musik zu erschaffen, mit voller Kraft zum Einsatz. 'Never Let Me Go' erwacht mit unbändiger Dringlichkeit zum Leben. Die ersten drei Tracks kommen mit der Energie einer Teenager-Punk-Combo daher. Aber es hat auch meisterlich vollendete Pop-Songs wie 'Beautiful James' zu bieten, eine mitreißende Hymne für nicht-heteronormative Beziehungen von einer Band, die sich erstmals 1996 mit 'Nancy Boy' inmitten der amorphen Britpop-Kultur für Vielfalt einsetzte, lange bevor die heutige offene, kämpferische Atmosphäre entstand. Nach dem rasanten Triple-Song-Hammer öffnet sich 'Never Let Me Go' mit vielen Stimmungen und Musikstile. In ihnen steckt eine Wut, die zwar nie polemisch ist, sich aber spürbar am Wahnsinn und den Ungerechtigkeiten des täglichen Lebens entzündet. Molko mag ein eigenwilliger Rockstar sein, wie es sie heute nicht mehr häufig gibt, aber wie jeder echte Künstler sieht er sich als Sprachrohr für die Gefühle der breiten Öffentlichkeit. Mitte der 1990er, als an nicht-binäre Ikonen noch nicht zu denken war, sprach er für all jene, die sich vom Britpop entfremdet fühlten, und kanalisierte Glam-Goth-Androgynie, Grunge-Sound und Pop-Verständnis zu einer alternativen Vision, die internationale Resonanz fand. Mit mehr als 13 Mio. verkaufter Alben, darunter fünf Top-10-Entries in den UK LP-Charts und fünf Top-5-Platzierungen hierzulande, haben Placebo eine Stimme, die weder ignoriert noch zum Schweigen gebracht werden kann. 'Never Let Me Go' ist Musik für Engagierte und Enttäuschte, für Schlaflose, Aktivisten und Trolle, die in Ruhe darüber nachdenken können. Es zeigt aber auch eine neue aufregende Stil- und Sound-Bandbreite der Band, ein weiteres 'bestes Album, das sie je gemacht haben', in einer langen Reihe. Hält man es einmal in der Hand, wird man es nicht mehr loslassen wollen.

CD Premium Box Set, Limited Edition = Black Vinyl 2LP Gatefold, CD Deluxe, Cassette (grün), exklusives Slipmat, exklusives Art Print - Maße: 316mm x 316mm x 25mm, Gewicht: 1290g

Under the Bushes Under the Stars is the ninth Guided by Voices album overall, and the last until 2012's Let's Go Eat the Factory[6] to feature the "classic" lineup including Tobin Sprout, Mitch Mitchell, and Kevin Fennell in addition to leader Robert Pollard. The album is noted as Guided by Voices' first stab at professionalism, being recorded in 24 track studios rather than their customary 4 track. Sessions for the album were reportedly arduous, spread as they were across at least four studios and as many sets of producers, and many titles and configurations were vetted before a final sequence was reached.

Zur Feier des 21-jährigen Jubiläums des ersten Live-Doppelalbums der Band, wiederveröffentlicht Fu Manchu das erste Mal nun Go For It...Live, welches seit der ersten Pressung vergriffen ist. Die 22 Songs wurden auf der 2002er California Crossing World Tour der Band aufgenommen, die auch das Debüt des Schlagzeugers Scott Reeder markierte, der dann Brant Bjork ersetzte.. Fu Manchu ist bekannt für Live-Auftritte, und dieses Set enttäuscht nicht, mit fiebrigen Darbietungen von Fan-Favoriten wie "Hell On Wheels", "Mongoose", "King Of The Road", "Evil Eye" und die stets gefragte Coverversion von "Godzilla". Wie AllMusic.com meint: "Go for It...Live! ist ein absolutes Muss für alle, die von Fu Manchus mitreißendem Sound begeistert sind, und eine großartige Einführung für alle, die neugierig auf eine Band sind, die von Radiosendern und Videokanälen kläglich ignoriert wird." Die auf 2000 Stück limitierte Auflage besteht aus einer LP, die auf neongelbem und einer auf neonorangem Vinyl gepresst wurde, und ist in einer Klapphülle mit brandneuem Artwork verpackt, das noch nie zuvor gezeigte Fotos der Band und Flyer der dazugehörigen Tour enthält, sowie bedruckte Schutzhüllen mit zusätzlichen neuen Bildern. Diese neue Pressung wurde von Carl Saff speziell für Vinyl neu gemastert, um optimalen Klang zu gewährleisten. Die auf 1000 Exemplare limitierte 2CD enthält ebenfalls das aktualisierte Artwork und ein digitales Remastering.