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Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Gentrification IV: Suspended From Gallery Rails

Street Sects

7" | 2019 | US | Original

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Spittle)

Comix

7" | 2019 | US | Original (Feel It)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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One of the most treasured French minimal wave records is back on vinyl (and first time on CD!)
Comix, a duo of guitarist/composer André Demay and DJ/singer Natan Hercberg, are a one album project. Their first single “Touche Pas Mon Sexe”, recorded in 1979, has been refused by several record companies, but duo finally found home on French branch of Virgin. They released two singles and one full length LP in 1981, and appeared on “BIPPP: French Synth-Wave 1979/85” compilation a few decades later. The music was composed by André with a legendary Roland TR-808 (Marvin Gaye, Kraftwerk and Afrika Bambaataa used the same drum machine for their hits at the same time). Natan wrote the lyrics, filling comic speech bubbles. Their production was somewhat different to mainstream “nouvelle vague” artists: much more positive and ironic than their chart mates. However, Comix didn’t have much success with their songs in 80s, but was rediscovered in 21st century with the strong interest in original minimal wave/coldwave artists. Here they are again, young and bold, as nearly 40 years ago.

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Power

The Fool

Good For Health Bad For Education

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Power is—and has been the real deal for quite some time. This single serves not only as a testament to that fact, but showcases two of Power's best creations yet. Like thunder rips across the sky, the pounding drums on ‘The Fool’ signal the oncoming storm of slashing rock and roll. The single sees Power explore a side of band which has always been simmering beneath the surface—and it seems the time was right for them to unleash these raw new tunes without holding back. Pure electric guitar damage from this most formidable three-piece. With the ‘The Fool’ cutting a figure which could’ve been found backstage at a show headlined by Venom and The Stooges, the flip, 'Give It All To Me’ displays a range of heavier melodies intoned by 80’s cult groups such as Wicked Lady and Iron Claw. Power have stayed true to themselves and continued to ride towards to the storm.

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Nowaves

LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Phantom)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2019 | US | Original (GBV Inc.)

Guided By Voices

Umlaut Over The Ozone

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2019 | US | Original (GBV Inc.)

Guided By Voices

1901 Acid Rock

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Moded)

Kirkis

Kirkis 2

Etchings From Francis Trouble

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Melbourne's Kirkis is back. Exposing his talents further in more obvious ways across this album - the musical ability that runs through this man is incredible. Check the post punk blast "Dark Room" if you need convincing quickly. Get one. Self released.

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Albert Hammond Jr.

10" | 2018 | EU | Original (Red Bull)

LP | 2017 | US | Original (Electric Cowbell)

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Limited edition for Record Store Day 2018!

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Drunken Foreigner Band

White Guy Disease

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard x Mild High Club

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Drunken Foreigner Band is a Brooklyn-based ensemble that makes a sprawling electrified iteration of the Akha and Lam Lao musics of Thailand and Laos. The majority of the band's music was learned from cassette tapes of the largely-vocal music traditions, gathered by keyboardist Dave Kadden on his trips to Southeast Asia. Comprising members of Sunwatchers, Invisible Circle and other experimental Brooklyn outfits, they are releasing their debut LP "White Guy Disease" on Electric Cowbell Records and we're over the moon about it!

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Rolling Stoned

7" | 2018 | US | Original (Stones Throw)

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (EOM)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Limited edition 7inch vinyl single release including “Rolling Stoned” as featured on their collabo album “Sketches Of Brunswick East”!

Split 7” of “Rolling Stoned,” a composition written by Alexander Britton. Recording on side 1 by Mild High Club and side 2 by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. Artwork by Kyle Field (Little Wing).
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard is an insanely good, prolific, psych rock band from Melbourne, Australia. Mild High Club is Alexander Brettin, insanely good, freakishly mellow dude on Stones Throw. They got together and made an album called “Sketches Of Brunswick East”.
The two bands formed a friendship touring together across Norther America, Europe, and Australia the last couple of years. King Gizzard’s Stu Mackenzie says, "I think we hit it off because our approaches are very different … Alex has studied music, whereas my approach is to fling shit at the wall and see what sticks. I can’t read sheet music at all. But we’re like the two ends of a horseshoe coming to meet in the middle."

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Hundreds

Wilderness Akustik EP

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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10" | 2017 | EU | Original (Buback)

Die Mausis

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2017 | US | Original (Darla)

V.A.

Drum & Bliss Volume 2

Release: 2017 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The New Generation Of Turkish Psychedelic Volume 1

V.A.

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Ironhand)

LP | 2016 | US | Original (Suburban)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Comprised of previously unpublished psychedelic songs by contemporary Turkish bands, 'The New Generation Of Turkish Psychedelic Volume 1' is the first compilation album released by Ironhand Records. On this collection you will find new and mind blowing sounds of Turkish psychedelia. Included are tracks by Yarimada, Irtifakaybediyoruz!, Help! The Captain Threw Up, Balina, Milankundura and Lopenstraat.

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Black Bottle Riot

III: Indigo Blues

Release: 2016 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2014 | JP | Original (EM)

Noahlewis' Mahlon Taits

Tenderly

Release: 2014 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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She's Got You / The Zakary Thaks Sing For Jax Beer

The Zakary Thaks

7" | 2013 | UK | Original (Big Beat)

7" | 2013 | EU | Original (Staatsakt)

Release: 2013 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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One of the most popular 60s garage bands, deliver the unissued monster that is ‘She’s Got You’, as good as anything they ever released at the time, backed with a noisy ad for Gulf Coast tipple Jax Beer set to the tune of their classic ‘Face To Face’.

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Stereo Total

We Don't Wanna Dance

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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10" | 2013 | UK | Original (‘a’ Records)

Dirty Beaches

OST Water Park

12" | 2011 | US | Original (Secretly Canadian)

Release: 2013 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Soundtracks

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7 track mini album. 'Waterpark' is a film score written for Director Evan Prosofsky's same titled film, and explores the neutral element of sound in a massive indoor water park located in west Edmonton Mall, in the province of Alberta. A vacation home to countless stranded Canadians with no vacation in sight.

The instrumentation of oscillators, heavily reverberated strings, mellotron/chamberlain, and experimental electric guitar sets the mood for this bizarre plastic tropical paradise thats within a shopping mall.

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Jens Lekman

An Argument With Myself

Release: 2011 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Cold Diamond & Mink & Emilia Sisco

Let Me In Opaque Yellow Vinyl Edition

7" | 2024 | FI | Original (Timmion)

Teenage Kicks / Nothing Can Stop

Release: 2024 / FI – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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One of the prominent growing voices in Timmion Record'sroster, singer Emilia Sisco blesses your turntable withanother deep soul ballad. Joining hands with ColdDiamond & Mink, Emilia pours a generous helping of deepsoul magic into "Let Me In", gliding over the southerntinged beat with melodic grace.It's almost impossible to remain ambivalent to Emilia'stalent when the spine-tingling chorus with its clever twistsrolls in. The bittersweet love song's timeless feel poursover the listener like the flooding Mississippi, anthemic butunderstated. Flipping the single, we get to revisit Emilia'sprevious single "Love Can Carry Me" but this time ininstrumental mode, titled as "Way Past Midnight". It's notjust a vocal strip down, but this time Cold Diamond & Minkhas equipped the track with a jazzy Grant Green styledlead guitar. Tasty.You would have to be a cold-blooded robot not to feelsomething from this soulful double sider. Forget the dancefloors and bedrooms for a minute, these songs are the bestfertilizer for your personal mind garden.

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Lone Justice

7" | 2024 | UK | Original (Fire)

Release: 2024 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Festa Di Frankenstein The Dedication Song

The Fleshtones

LP | 2024 | US | Original (Yep Roc)

Memory Lane Dead / Airman Shuffle

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The hardest working band in punk rock, The Fleshtones, return with "Festa di Frankenstein" and "The Dedication Song," two anthemic tunes done in the band's inimitable "Super Rock" style that they've been championing since 1976. The former is a haunted hip-shaker about a party at the Frankenstein residence (sung entirely in Italian!) and the latter is frontman Peter Zaremba saluting all of the bands across the USA who influenced them and continue to play the gin joints and dive bars to this day. "The Dedication Song" was originally a hit by the great Freddy Cannon back in 1966, whereas the Fleshtones' brand new rendition serves as a sequel to their smash hit "American Beat" that put them on the map over four decades ago. "Festa di Frankenstein" is a reworking of the under-appreciated Halloween track "Frankenstein's Party" by the Swinging Phillies from 1967. While the original recording is a soulful horn-filled tune, the Fleshtones' version is a far grittier recording that will be a staple of all garage rock Halloween hootenannies to come. Both songs are pressed on a 45 single that is limited to 500 copies worldwide. This is a one-time only pressing!

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The Convent / Buchwald

7" | 2024 | EU | Original (Sireena)

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Minimum)

Cloroform

Grrr

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2024 | US | Original (Chunklet)

Peel Sesion 1997

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The band’s fourth session for famed DJ John Peel is their second with Dexter X from Planet Q. Famously, John Peel who was one the earliest, most visible and most vocal supporters of the band, had an Astro shrine set up at his house. Five songs were recorded, but four are being released on this final installment of seven singles. V in the band's R/o/y/g/b/i/v series.

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7" | 2024 | US | Original (Chunklet)

Peel Sesion 1996

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The band’s third session for famed DJ John Peel is their first with Dexter X from Planet Q. And for completists, "Welcome to the Wicky Wacky World of John Peel" is credited that way in the BBC archive, but we all know it's "The Wayward Meteor." For John Peel, who was one the earliest, most visible and most vocal supporters of the band, all four songs that were recorded are being released on this sixth of seven singles. I in the band's R/o/y/g/b/i/v series.

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7" | 2024 | US | Original (Chunklet)

Radcliffe Session 1996

LP | 2023 | Original (Beach Community)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Chunklet Industries is proud to announce a breakthrough in broadcasting technology. For the first time, the BBC working hand-in-hand with intergalactic audio pioneers Man…or Astro-man? present to you seven volumes of their famed U.K. radio sessions. The band’s second session for famed UK DJ Mark Radcliffe is the broadcasting debut of Dexter X from Planet Q. 1996 was a great year for Astro-Man? Not only were they touring the world supported by the Touch & Go label, Dexter X's inclusion had a band far sharper and tighter. Four songs were recorded and, except for all the interview back'n'forth, all four tracks are being released on this fifth of seven singles. B in the band's R/o/y/g/b/i/v series.

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Ill / His & Hers

Split 10

Release: 2023 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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10" | 2024 | EU | Original (SoulForce)

H.I.T.

Die Band

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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10" | 2017 | EU | Original (Wallace / Shove)

Moe / Gerda

Karaoke

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Yes No Maybesun's Holiday

Ev Kain

7" | 2018 | US | Original (ORG Music)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Io Sono Quel Che Sonomenina Mulher Da Pele Pr

Pluralone

7" | 2019 | US | Original (ORG Music)

Release: 2019 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2018 | US | Original (Slumberland)

Suncharms

Red Dust

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2016 | Original (Pnk Slm)

Anti Pony

I Go Places

Release: 2016 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Atmosphere / Disorder Black Vinyl Edition

Codeine & Bedhead

7" | 2024 | US | Original (Numero Group)

LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Danse Macabre)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Twin readings from Joy Division's post-punk gospels, on 7" for the first time. Codeine's 1994 take on "Atmosphere" were the New York slowcore band's final recorded moments, a glum, if not melodic, take on the Salford quartet's requiem to solitude. On the flip, Dallas' Bedhead tackle the opener for Unknown Pleasures, reimagining "Disorder" as jangly indie rock. Housed in an elegant black and silver sleeve, with embossed braille lettering for the visually impaired.

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Wintry

Ausweg

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Macelleria Mobile Di Mezzanotte

This Savaging Disaster

LP | 2024 | EU (Subsound)

Release: 2024 / EU

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Words Come Back Bone White Vinyl Edition

Skullcrusher / The Hated

7" | 2024 | US | Original (Numero Group)

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (RCA International)

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Never said it'd be like this, right? Skullcrusher's 21st century rendering of The Hated's 1985 early emo blueprint "Words Come Back" reinvents the song as subtle, ambientfolk music. The flip features two versions of the original, including Dan Littleton's home demo, cut in a maddening double groove, and housed in an elegant black and silver sleeve,with embossed braille lettering for the visually impaired. "This is my way of making a punk song," Skullcrusher'sHelen Ballentine said, "ignoring structure and letting everything just pour out_though quite a bit quieter."

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H.E.R. & Foo Fighters

The Glass

Seven Miles To Pittsburgh

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Off the back of Foo Fighters amazing Saturday Night Live performance with a surprise from H.E.R, we will be releasing H.E.R.’s cover of “The Glass” next Friday, November 17th. The track will be part of a two-song bundle that also includes Foo Fighter’s original version of the track. H.E.R.’s version also includes guitar played by Dave Grohl.

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LP | 2019 | EU | Original (Suburban)

Release: 2019 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Suburban)

E.T.Explore Me

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Suburban)

Tony Clifton

Love Nordic Women

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Suburban)

Bartek

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2013 | EU | Original (Suburban)

Black Bottle Riot

Soul In Exile

Release: 2013 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2011 | EU | Original (Suburban)

Gingerpig

Ways Of The Gingerpig

Release: 2011 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2018 | EU | Original (Suburban)

St.Tropez

Release: 2018 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Luciferian Light Orchestra

Black

LP | 2016 | EU | Original (Svart)

Release: 2016 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Svart)

Bathsheba

Servus

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2017 | EU | Original (Suburban)

Death Alley

Live At Roadburn

Release: 2017 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2023 | US | Original (Chunklet)

Radcliffe Session 1994

Not Enough Poison / Smile Please

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Chunklet Industries is proud to announce a breakthrough in broadcasting technology. For the first time, the BBC working hand-in-hand with intergalactic audio pioneers Man…or Astro-man? present to you seven volumes of their famed U.K. radio sessions. The band’s debut for famed DJ Mark Radcliffe marks the final BBC session with original member DR. Deleto. Although the band did a complete interview with Mr. Radcliffe, only the four tracks recorded that day in 1994 are presented on this third of seven singles.

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Novak's Kapelle

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Bachelor)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Bachelor)

Novak's Kapelle

Hypodermic Needle

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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I Wanna Be A Winner Green White Marble Vinyl Edition

Vicki & The Van Dykes

7" | 2023 | US | Original (Numero Group)

7" | 2023 | US | Original (In The Red)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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New York's Cleopatra label gets theNumero treatment. Hailing fromTommy Falcones swarm, Beehive leadVickie & The Van Dykes were the soundof the coming youth revolt_Vickiehad rock `n' roll in her bones andrawhide in her voice. "I Wanna To Bea Winner," and "Outcast." were songstailored to her rebellious personality.

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Kid Congo Powers

Sings The Subsonics

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Born Bad)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Kid Congo Powers has seen fit to cover two songs by Atlanta garage rock legends the Subsonics and release them on seven inch vinyl—the way God intended rock 'n' roll to be heard. Kid’s scuzzy, noisy renditions do the originals proud and are guaranteed to make one want to get up, dance and behave badly. Housed in a gaudy full color sleeve and pressed on kaleidoscopic tricolor vinyl.

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Jean Claudric

OST Jeu De Dames

LP | 2023 | EU | Original (Improved Sequence)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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French Psych-JAZZ-Soul-FUNK original soundtrack for initial soft erotic drama from 1973, later re-edited into "Sex Revolution" hardcore!"Jeu de Dames, la libération des femmes" (1973), a film by director Christian Lara, is a vaguely subversive charm flick that won't be remembered for a long time. An amusing detail, however, is that Georges de Caunes, father of Antoine de Caunes, the famous French TV personality, plays the lead role alongside Danielle Palmero. It's just one of a number of naïve films that, without being erotic, is sufficiently olé-olé that it failed to find a place in theaters on the traditional circuit. Faced with this commercial failure, the unscrupulous producer at the time, anxious to save his investments, decided to re-edit the film so that it could be screened in the X-rated circuit. He rechristened the film "Sex Revolution" in a more racy style, inserting more hardcore scenes to appeal to fans of the genre. Although Georges de Caunes is no longer credited on the poster or in the credits of "Sex Revolution", he finds himself, in spite of himself, promoted to lead actor in a porn movie, much to the delight of his son Antoine de Caunes, who is still dreaming 50 years later of finally being able to watch this forgotten masterpiece of the 7th art. The film seems to be a dud (pn: the author haven't seen it), but as for the music, Jean Claudric is particularly inspired and offers us one of the best French jazz funk soundtracks, which would not blush at the comparison with the best of the genre, such as Michel Legrand's "Un homme est mort", or Jean-Pierre Mirouze's "Le mariage collectif", previously released by Born Bad.Four short tracks, one with pyschedelic touches, the secomd more funky, the third a bit soul-jazzy, the fourth a French typical melancholic-melodic one makes a hot 7"-EP.

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Splatterpink

Best Of Italian Music

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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7" | 2023 | EU | Original (All City Dublin)

Blurt

Cry / I'll Be There Now

Monday, In A Small Dull Town

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Following on from the recent Elegiac release - a meeting of two mavericks Blurt's Ted Milton and Wire's Graham Lewis we have teamed up with Blurt for a double sided 45 featuring two new tracks "Cry" & "I'll Be There Now". Milton is a poet, with several volumes under his belt, as well as an avant-garde puppeteer. Yet he's probably best known as vocalist/saxophonist with psycho-funk afro punk fake no-wave pogo jazz trio Blurt. Milton's group has produced an impressive string of albums, not to mention his numerous solo recordings. Brimming with the pogo punk energy the band are known for, the lead side "Cry" is a mesh of raw drums and piercing sax slowing down on the flip side to a head nodding pace with Milton's echoing refrains backed by the raw bounce of the band.

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The Smashing Times

7" | 2023 | US | Original (K)

7" | 2023 | US | Original (Innovative Leisure / Calico Discos)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Monday, In a Small Dull Town, Familiarity breeds contempt. And everything in a small town is familiar The Smashing Times spend the day listening to the radio. Billy Liar plays guitar. Rowan Morrison on DrumsD. Dan Treacy calls on the telephone. Monday, Monday, Monday. Town poets need patience, even when their friends are out of breath "The trains don't run on time and nobody gets out alive" But you can still get by in Baltimore with a 12 string and a few tight rhymes Oh so surreal. 2 tracks 45RPM. Featuring Thee Jasmine Monk and Zelda-Anais (The Smashing Times, Midden Heap) as well as scene stalwarts Britta Leijonflycht (Almond Joy, Children Maybe Later, Galore), Paul Krolian (Expert Alterations), Blake Douglas (Corduroy, Midden Heap). Recorded by JAZ and Miles Waltuck, the band in Baltimore, MD. Mastered by Amy Dragon.

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Mapache

Lonesome La Cowboy

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Grand Chess)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Mapache consists of Clay Finch, Sam Blasucci, Cam Wehrle, and Steve Didelot. Born and raised in Glendale, California, the groups's breathtaking harmonies and heartfelt sound verges on cosmic West Coast Pop Americana. Their sound is not an exercise in pop nostalgia, but rather a distinctly independent link in a chain that stretches far behind and ahead of them.

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Sometimes With Others

Untitled / Know It

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2023 | JP | Original (Pink Layke Audio)

Sky Mata

Smile Hotel

12,99 €* 25,99 € -50%

Release: 2023 / JP – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The '21 album by Sky Mata (Yūtai Bijin), a prodigious bedroom folk S.S.W. from Sapporo, is now on LP!

The latest work by the Sapporo-based home recording project Sky Mata is now available in analog form. Each side consists of seven or eight songs on this nostalgic, cinematic, and stunning lo-fi avant-pop suite.

Sky Mata has been releasing works since the mid-2010s, and their self-titled EP under the name Ghostly Beauty, which was released in analog form in 2021, has also made a big splash. It is now available in analog form. The album has a unique sound that combines the romanticism of folk music from half a century ago with an inorganic, futuristic world. The improvisational and flowing performance that intersects jazz, lounge music, and exotic, and the unique vocal style that spins pop melodies in a humorous way are also filled with a mysterious charm. If I had to name an artist of the same era, I would cite Sam Gendel as a great masterpiece.

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Cyanna

The Undressed

LP | 2012 | Original

Release: 2012 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Bartees Strange / Ohmme / Eric Slick / Anjimile

Province / Ever New

7" | 2022 | US | Original (Psychic Hotline)

Free From Hardtimes Transparent Yellow Splatter Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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TV on the Radio's "Province" and Beverly Glenn-Copeland's "Ever New" were released more than 20 years apart, with little in common sonically, but here, they're intrinsically linked as studies in formative musical heroes for artists with dazzling voices. For Bartees Strange, TV on the Radio is an inspiration for where he could take his own genre-bending brand of guitar-driven rock. For Anjimile Chithambo, Glenn-Copeland is a reflection of themself in every way - a Black trans musician writing profoundly resonant songs focused on identity and rebirth, and the expansiveness you can find within."Province" began with Eric Slick, who was the producer behind the track. The multi-instrumentalist, solo musician, and Dr. Dog drummer had been obsessed with Return to Cookie Mountain, TVOTR's third record, as a kid, and found himself revisiting it again and again. This past year, he made his own rough acoustic cover of "Province," before deciding to reach out to Bartees Strange and having him contribute vocals. TV on the Radio was pivotal for Bartees -- the moment he saw the band perform is seared into his memory. He came across their performance on The Late Show with David Letterman while channel surfing one night when he was a kid, and was immediately enraptured by their performance. He hadn't known what he wanted to do musically until he saw them perform, and it changed the possibilities of his life. Here, in his interpretation of the song, his voice is cavernous here, fleshed out atop a bed of Mellotron, Moog, and MPC instrumentations from Slick and celestial swells added by Ohmme's Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart.Anjimile's interpretation of Glenn-Copeland's "Ever New" came together in a more solitary way, recorded alone in their Boston apartment. In his cover, the original seven-minute new age ballad from Glenn-Copeland's revolutionary 1986 album Keyboard Fantasies is trimmed down, sonically simplified to its core. Anjimile moves it more into a folk territory, building out the sonic world with the delicate,...

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Twin Void

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Electric Valley)

Free From Hardtimes Red Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The Pacific Northwest-based Twin Void is a formidable rock and roll machine that has steadily become credible contenders in the regional scene. The band features road-tested musicians, including frontman & founder Nathan Bidwell on vocals & guitar. The band plays with an energy and ferocity that has gained them the reputation as a must-see live act! They believe in what they do and continue to deliver memorable heavy music on their terms. Twin Void is just returning home from their recent U.S tour dates, including a mainstage performance on Judas Priests' Warlando Fest in Florida. These determined heavyweights continue to write, record, and play select national dates as they work on the next batch of tunes. Catch them live and discover what the others already know!

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Twin Void

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Electric Valley)

Atmosphere / Disorder Ozone Blue Vinyl Edition

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Codeine & Bedhead

7" | 2024 | US | Original (Numero Group)

Miss Chain & The Broken Heels

Release: 2024 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Storms Colored Vinyl Edition

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Wild Honey)

Magma Tres Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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One of those bands forever in between. Too pop for punks, too punk for pop. Too clean for garage nostalgia, and too weird for Americana. Hard to classify, their sound is a mixture of Sixties Beatles-esque melodies, sunshine-pop atmospheres, punk attitude, country, rhythm and blues, surrounded by dreamy landscapes, folk-revival lyricism and sometimes even bordering on psychedelia. All the records they grew up with, or bought during their travels, are in the cocktail. 'Storms', their brand new full-length record, is a step forward to this brave non-concept concept. A labor of DIY, recorded by their former drummer Brown Barcella and Alessio Lonati, produced and mastered by their best friend Riccardo Zamboni and released on their own Wild Honey Records.

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Wet Cactus

LP | 2024 | EU | Original (Electric Valley)

Swept Out To Sea Black Vinyl Edition

Release: 2024 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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“Wet Cactus” is an heavy rock band with psychedelic hints created in Cantabria (Spain) during the summer of 2013. The band is formed by Daniel Pascual (Voice & Bass), Ernesto Díez (Guitar), Óscar Sánchez (Guitar) and Jaime Pérez (Drums). They have two studio albums: "Wet Cactus" (2015) and "Dust, Hunger & Gloom" (2018). During their career, they carved out a place in the Nothern Spanish rock scene playing with bands like Yawning Man as well as in festivals like Resurrection Fest. "Magma Tres" is the band's third project. This conceptual album delves into the consequences of Earth's depletion as a life-sustaining planet due to human inaction in reversing their actions. Eight tracks recorded live in February 2022, showcasing a gritty and explosive atmosphere. It is set to be released in November 2023 through Electric Valley Records.

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Fixed Lens

7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Unterschall)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Cleopatra)

Sid Vicious

My Way

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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LP | 2012 | EU | Original (Skuld Releases)

Countdown To Armageddon

Through The Wires

13,49 €* 14,99 € -10%

Release: 2012 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2023 | EU | Original (Decor)

The Delines

Christmas In Atlantis

13,49 €* 14,99 € -10%

12" | 2022 | EU | Original (Prah)

Release: 2023 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Recorded in 2022 for the BBC Gideon Coe show whom put The Delines previous album The Sea Drift as his best album of 2022. This is the band"s first Christmas track, and a classic Willy Vlautin one it is too, released just in time to battle it out for a Christmas Number 1. The single features two other exclusive tracks that will also not feature on the next album.

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Pozi

Typing EP

13,59 €* 15,99 € -15%

12" | 2023 | UK | Original (Natural Sciences / Harsh Reality Music)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The nightmare continues. Last summer, Pozi's 176 EP came out just as the coronavirus pandemic was offering us its first false dawn. Fast forward twelve months and another devastating wave later, we're still a disorientated, shell-shocked mess; moving once again towards normality, but with the energy-sapping tension of continued restrictions. A grimly perfect time then for the south London three-piece to return with new EP 'Typing' on Prah Recordings. The five tracks here reflect another stage in Pozi's evolution. Since coming out of the gate they've been a bristling, frenetic presence, toeing the line between dissonance and pop sensibility. As the 176 EP was a refinement of what they did on PZ1, Typing sees the trio becoming yet more comfortable in their relationship as a band and increasingly confident in how far they can push their sound. Typing isn't a lockdown record, but it has been informed by it. More importantly, though, it's yet another significant step forward from a band who've so far felt like something of an underground secret, despite being championed by BBC Radio 6 Music and in various places by contemporaries such as Sleaford Mods, Squid and Sports Team. Once restrictions do finally lift, that may no longer be the case.

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Henry Hektik

Motion P Music

13,59 €* 15,99 € -15%

LP | 2023 | CA | Original (Telephone Explosion)

Release: 2023 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Electronic & Dance

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Natural Sciences Recs and Harsh Reality Music team up for the first reissue of Henry Hektik's Motion P. Music, booted up as a 12" sampler for DJ's not yet consumed by the candyfloss. A figure who collaborated with M. Finnkreig and active in the 80's German underground and tape trading circuit, he disappeared off the grid, leaving few documents of his music behind, with the handful of remaining tapes swallowed by mould or fried in electrical accidents. What is left is true unhinged tracks from the edge, with six cuts of jacking proto-house (Haiwasa, T.B.A), night-stalker surveillance wave jams (Hong Kong Wedding Night), Black ops narco paranoia (Private Apocalypse) and static knuckle-dragging workouts (Here Comes Escape). A snapshot into a man on the edge!! Limited to 300 copies worldwide with insert and fanzine.

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Symphony Orchestra

Radiant Music

13,79 €* 22,99 € -40%

Quarter Century Classix Colored Vinyl Edition

Release: 2023 / CA – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Symphony Orchestra is a new group from Maximilian Turnbull and Michael Rault. Both Rault and Turnbull are accomplished songwriters, performers and producers in their own right, with Turnbull leading The Badge Epoque Ensemble, playing with the group Darlene Shrugg, and once releasing records under the name Slim Twig and Rault having released several psychedelic rock & roll classics under his own name in the past decade. The pair have worked together in various capacities for many years, writing and recording together on U.S. Girls' In A Poem Unlimited, and contributing to each other's releases, but the debut LP from Symphony Orchestra (due out May 12th on Telephone Explosion) marks their first release as an official entity.

Needless to say, there is a potent creative chemistry between Rault and Turnbull and Radiant Music showcases the alchemy between their distinct skill sets. The album is an exercise in pure collaboration. After years spent focusing on solo projects and working as hired guns on other projects, the duo came together with no specific intentions other than to work free of boundaries and direction. Freeing themselves from the familiar pressures of deadlines and expectations, they found a sense of discovery through togetherness. Duties on this project were split between Rault acting primarily as a one-man rhythm section and lead vocalist with Turnbull bringing chord sketches and his trademark aphoristic lyrical musings to the table. Trading off roles on guitar and keys from song to song, the duo's deft approach to melody bleeds through their instrumental parts as much as it does through Rault's vocal melodies. The majority of this album was self-engineered over the course of three sessions in 2018, at Michael's Montreal studio. Dormant during the pandemic, Rault's move to Los Angeles and the birth of Turnbull's twin sons, work reignited in 2022. The latterly tracked instrumental 'Concerto' and ballad 'Unthink The Thinkable' provide a dynamic depth to the album perhaps attributable to this tumultuous pause. Mixing came courtesy of Steve Chahley & Tony Price (U.S. Girls, BÉE, Jane Inc, etc).

In all of their work, Rault and Turnbull have made a hallmark of elaborately precise production and arrangement, Radiant Music is no different, though its pared-back simplicity provides a streamlined directness. The pairing of Rault's soulful, elastic vocal with Turnbull's evocatively cerebral lyrics provides a thrilling sensation unlike anything else in their respective catalogs. With an explosive, groove-forward approach, kaleidoscopic walls of vocal harmony and technicolor displays of guitar work, these 31 minutes of music will most certainly stimulate the mind of any fan of classic pop rock and funk. The blown-out breakbeats, winsome woven vocal melodies and propulsive wah-wah guitars of the title track evoke memories of an after-school cartoon special that never really existed outside of a lysergic daydream. "Harp In The Wind" is a perfect moment of overcast melancholy complete with ribbons of weeping synthesizers and velcro-fuzz guitar that could rip a clean line through Kevlar. "Know Thyself" and the harmony-rich "Intersection" are standout tracks that find a kinship in Stereolab's space-age effervescence. "Concerto" is a slab of beaming, mischievous funk that nods to Billy Preston's extraterrestrial keyboard explorations.

Radiant Music, like the best pop music, is life-affirming, confectionary, and enticing. Symphony Orchestra have created an album that hits you right where you need it, anchoring heady, adventurous sonic ideas down to a solid foundation of masterful songcraft, virtuosic instrumental performances and undeniable groove. Not a bar, nor beat is wasted.

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Ben Lee

LP | 2019 | Original (New West)

13,91 €* 23,99 € -42%

Release: 2019 / Original

Genre: Rock & Indie, Pop

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Fiona Coyne / Fall Harder

Skylar Spence

7" | 2023 | US | Original (Carpark)

La Ricerca Dell' Imperfezione

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Following a collection of self-released internet mixtapes and albums as Saint Pepsi that garnered a cult internet following amongst the vaporwave community, Ryan DeRobertis signed to Carpark Records and changed the project’s name to Skylar Spence, cementing the legitimacy of his young recording career. For his Carpark Records debut in August 2014, Skylar Spence took a step away from the more genre-shuffling styles of his Internet releases to focus his skills on high-power pop. The title track of the “Fiona Coyne” 7-inch is an uplifting tribute to fantastical romance and the joyous dreams pop culture can provide. Mastermind Ryan DeRobertis lays down a funky guitar riff and bass line of Chic-quality to tease our senses before tickling us silly with the chorus’ ecstatic horns. “My love’s on the silver screen/ she’s always playing make believe,” sings the then 21-year-old songwriter, playing a bit of make-believe himself. The song, named after a certain graduate of Degrassi Community School, acts out the fantasy of dating a TV star and plays with the idea that music can be something of a catalyst for romance.

The b-side, “Fall Harder,” is a lovelorn hit about a somewhat unattainable beauty. “You’ve got me under your spell/ and baby, I couldn’t fall harder,” DeRobertis sings over an Orange Juice-worthy riff and electronic subtleties like the sound of a Galaga battle. For this 7-inch, DeRobertis wrote danceable love songs with a nostalgic aesthetic to the production “because I think nostalgia is inherently narcissistic and I’m currently very into the idea of exploring the connection between nostalgia and narcissism,” he says.

These two singles would later appear on his debut album, Prom King, which was met with widespread critical acclaim. The buzz led to international touring, transforming Skylar Spence from a home-recording project to a four-piece live band, sharing stages with Madeon, The Knocks, and several festival appearances. Long out-of-print, “Fiona Coyne/Fall Harder” is finally available again on blue vinyl.

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Alessio Trapella

CD | 2022 | EU | Original (Self Release)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2023 | US | Original (Meritorio)

The Telephone Numbers

Weird Sisters

7" | 2023 | US | Original (Sooper)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Following on from 2021's The Ballad Of Doug LP, San Francisco’s THE Telephone Numbers are back with a brand new 7inch entitled 'Weird Sisters.' "I often feel like I can only write one song over and over. 'Weird Sisters' was a conscious attempt of reconciling myself with this sense. To me the song is a grab-bag of many of the songwriting tricks I’ve picked up over the years and a celebration of my limitations."—Thomas Rubenstein (The Telephone Numbers).

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Nnamdi

Black Plight EP

Tape | 2023 | US | Original (Sub Pop)

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Written and recorded in three days during the tumultuous summer of 2020, the Black Plight EP is Chicago multi-instrumentalist NNAMDI's response to the police murder of George Floyd and the subsequent ignition of protests and demands for racial justice that swept the globe.In three explosive post-punk tracks, NNAMDI leans into the heavier noise-rock tendencies of his musical language to explore fundamental political questions of justice for Black Lives in "My life" ("My life / What's it worth to you?"); his mounting anger against racist police violence in "Rage" ("They kill us dead in the street / Outside so everyone sees / They stand and watch while we bleed / Black with a capital B"); and an internalization and reverberation of a call to action in "Heartless" ("Can't sit around and wait for something to change").The EP was Released as a Digital-only project exclusive to Bandcamp on Friday June 5, 2020 in order to raise money for racial justice organizations and community members in immediate need of financial support. It went on to become the Best-Selling album on that Bandcamp Friday, raising over $10,000.00 in 24-hours. The Chicago Tribune named NNAMDI Chicagoan of the Year in 2020, citing_amongst other things_ his public leadership role in raising money for racial justice movements in his hometown of Chicago via the Black Plight EP.NNAMDI wrote, performed, and recorded the Black Plight EP by himself in 3 days.

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Mudhoney

Plastic Eternity

Cliff Rockin Hellfire Edmonds

Release: 2023 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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The world is filling up with trash. Humanity remains addicted to pollution. People are downing horse dewormer because some goober on television told them it cured Covid. The apocalypse is stupider than anyone could've predicted.Fortunately, the absurdities of modern life have always been prime subject matter for Seattle-based foursome Mudhoney, and the band take aim at all of them with typical barbed humor and muck-encrusted riffs on on 11th studio album, Plastic Eternity, which was recorded over nine days at Crackle & Pop! in Seattle with longtime producer Johnny Sangster. From taking on climate change from the perspective of the climate if the climate tried to play guitar like Jimi Hendrix ("Cry Me An Atmospheric River") to a driving rock and roll song about taking drugs meant for livestock ("Here Comes the Flood") to a classic punk attack on treating humans like livestock ("Human Stock Capital"), Plastic Eternity is a run through all the proto-genres of guitar rock with a keen eye on the inanities of the world in the 2020's. It also contains a genuine love song in closing track "Little Dogs," an ode to the simple joys of hanging out with tiny canines. Mudhoney (vocalist Mark Arm, guitarist Steve Turner, bassist Guy Maddison, and drummer Dan Peters) remain the ur underground group, their gnarly primordial punk stew and Arm's sharply funny lyrics as potent a combination as they've been since the band's formation in the late 1980s. When asked why they continue making records nearly four decades after forming, Arm's answer is simple. "We like

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I Love My Job

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (Rebel Music)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Carlos Two (Velvet) Candles Slap

Two Candles Sing Carlos Slap

7" | 2022 | EU | Original (El Toro)

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2022 | EU | Original (El Toro)

Scotty Slap Baker

Screamin' Bop

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2022 | EU | Original (El Toro)

Charlie Feathers

Alternatively Brown

Release: 2022 / EU – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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What It Means B/W The Perilous Nigh

Drive-By Truckers

7" | 2018 | US | Original (Ato0417)

Release: 2018 / US – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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7" | 2022 | UK | Original (Lovemonk)

Bart & The Bedazzled

People Person

LP | 2022 | EU | Original (Blue Collar)

Release: 2022 / UK – Original

Genre: Rock & Indie

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Bart & THE Bedazzled: People Person + Carboard MAN (7") Bart & The Bedazzled return with a sensational AA-side 45 with the highlife-vibed-plaintive pop of 'People Person' and the layered 'Cardboard Man', featuring the gorgeous guest vocals of Earth Girl Helen Brown. "World dance pop meets '80s indie" LA's northeast side is home to a dizzying number of independent artists and bands. One of the scene's most distinctive sounds emanates from Bart & The Bedazzled, a collaborative group led by talented songwriter Bart Davenport. After debuting in 2018 with the Blue Motel album Bart reconnects with the stellar musicians that make up the Bedazzled for two exclusive new songs of, what he terms, "world dance pop meets 80s indie". Consisting of Los Angeles' highly respected players, the collective are undoubtedly a "musicians' band" playing for joy, performing for and with other artists that inhabit underground haunts such as Zebulon or Permanent Records Roadhouse. This is their sound! With these new tracks The Bedazzled usher in a new phase, adding a small dose of drum machinery to the mix, resulting in an uplifting, danceable endeavour. On top of this, hand played congas and shakers blend with ultra clean guitars to form a rich context for Bart Davenport's patented, smooth vocal. Newcomer band member and producer Nic Hessler (Catwalk, Captured Tracks) fits these pieces together in seamless mixes. People Person celebrates the collective human experience, while subtly acknowledging that people often are "the worst". It's an upbeat ode to a beautiful world that sadly may never be saved. Meanwhile, the semi-fictional Cardboard Man critiques a society desperate for truth and a way out of dark times only to find omnipresent, puppet-like heroes offering nothing real. Featuring guest singer Heidi Alexander aka Earth Girl Helen Brown her distinctive tone and phrasing add a much needed weirdo energy to a decidedly consonant pop track. It comes as no surprise the group have gravitated towards world-dance-ish sounds. Andrés Renteria is an accomplished crate-digger and DJ, as is bassist Jessica Espeleta. She kicks off People Person with a dubby bass line, setting the stage for Wayne Faler's African highlife inspired guitars. It's still Bart & The Bedazzled, but this time they come with a sound somewhat reminiscent of '80s bands that also incorporated international flavors, such as the post Young Marble Giants project Weekend or French electro-obscuros Antena. Like those bands, Bart & The Bedazzled have a wide range of influences and the artistic intention to make something contemporary with them. Above all, they're a group of friends who enjoy the creative process together. For them the journey is as important as the finished work.

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Iz.M.B.

Nowhere Town