Hailing from Kansas City, Missouri, Red Kate has been pounding the pavement in the name of high octane rock and roll since 2007. Formed out of the remnants of such regional and national acts as Truck Stop Love, Wayback Machine, Squadcar, and the River City Revelator’s, Red Kate’s experience has helped them persevere in an industry that can love you one minute and spit you out the next.

Sonically, the band tips a cap to the beer soaked barroom floors of the short lived early 70’s British Pub-Rock scene and the modern blues-punk sounds that have since taken root in the Midwest’s dive bars and basements. Hard working both on and off the stage, the band’s locale has lent its perspective in sound, lyric, and work ethic. Straight off the factory line, Red Kate hearkens back to a time when musicians played hard, stayed up late, and carried a union card.

Red Kate and Bad Ideas split 7 inch release party is Saturday, May 31 at Harling’s in Kansas City!

Up first this year in Max Recording‘s Spring release schedule is Canehill Engagement — a debut 45 single featuring two songs; one from Jeremy Brasher, the other sung by Kevin Kerby.  The jackets are printed on a new material comprised of recycled chipboard with a coated white outer shell.  Limited to 250 copies.

The Mole People is a psychedelic punk/power pop band from Austin, Texas who have built a reputation for balls-out, raucous live rock n’ roll shows over the past four years.

Friends since their days as college DJs at KVRX 91.7 FM at the University of Texas in Austin, their radio background contributes to a unique sound. Compared to the destructively soulful noise grooves of The Stooges and the live frenzy of James Brown, their new record owes more to The Byrds, Big Star, or The Raspberries while displaying Ramones-like muscular pop tendencies. Filtered through musicologists’ brains, The Mole People produces something that sounds like the 13th Floor Elevators playing surf guitar backing Arthur Brown on a Beach Boys song produced by Brian Eno. 

Grab their new record – Lost Age – from Punctum Records.

New from the Helen Scarsdale Agency:  “Here be the final drone / hypnogogic statement from Taiga Remains. The man behind Taiga Remains has now shelved this moniker; but he’s far from hanging up his hat, as he now works under his given name Alex Cobb — also known as the philosopher king who benevolently reigns over his Students Of Decay. There are those at the Agency who can claim to speak with the poetics of corrosion, and we have long admired the sympathetic aesthetic in Cobb’s gorgeously elegant compositions for guitar, bells, tape hiss, and whatnot. A sadness of things hangs in the air for Cobb’s suspended mantras as these pieces evolve through a state of perpetual (un)becoming. For Cobb, the decaying sound is a steady dissolution of one chromatically rippling pattern into another which in turn diffuses into another and the cycle continues; but for every slippery note that pools into watery aquifers, Cobb distances himself from discursive and didactic languages that affix specific meanings onto work. He prefers a mystery and an ambiguousness to hang upon his crepuscular minimalism where the audience can entertain guided excursions of subjective thought. For us, these radiant guitar drones flecked with impressionist melodies bath in the snow of a thousand radios placed throughout Easter Island offering forth their eerie, luminous and beautiful sound that floats amongst those stoic heads that gaze beyond the horizon of the pacific ocean towards infinity, or oblivion if you prefer a more sublime reading. As the title to the album states, this album originally published in small cassette editions, long out of print.”

The material has been gloriously mastered for vinyl by James Plotkin. Those with an ear for Andrew Chalk, William Basinski and those long-form passages from Natural Snow Buildings will find much to celebrate in Taiga Remains.

As Eu’s Arse is going on tour in May – Black Water Records is reissuing both the full EP and split w/ Impact! — both 7 inches have been long out of print.  Also, catch Eu’s Arse Live! One day only at Black Water in Portland, OR on May 9, 2014!  

Thanks to Original Recording Group for enlisting us to press audiophile reissues of both classic Roy Orbison titles In Dreams and Sings Lonely and Blue.

Both titles were lovingly cut at 45 rpm and packaged into GGR’s deluxe tip-on jackets.  The signature doo-wah sound never sounded so good on wax.  Limited edition, numbered, will not be around for long.