Nihiti‘s rework/remix 12″ compilation – Ghosts & Versions is finally hitting the streets from Lo Bit Landscapes. The record includes remixes from the albums Ghosts & Lovers and For Ostland. Pressed on limited clear with black smoke wax – hit up LBL to grab a copy.
Shlohmo‘s ‘Laid Out’ vinyl will be available April 2nd, pre-order now! Includes immediate download of 5-track album in your choice of high-quality MP3, FLAC, or just about any other format you could possibly desire.
The Friends of Friends stalwart and Wedidit founder has been honing his craft since his debut release in 2009 with a series of EPs, his seminal Bad Vibes LP, guest mixes as well highly touted official & unofficial remixes. Now, Shlohmo returns with his unique blend of dark, brooding, sensual and warped R&B, on his Laid Out EP, featuring a brilliant guest vocal from How To Dress Well.
Sexy Baby Records came on board with us in 2012, and are off to a fast start this year – hit them up to grab these three titles before they are gone!
Tutu & The Pirates – Get Weird – Out Now!
The Queers & Killtime – Alive – Out April 16! (Just shipped from GGR)
MXPX – Left Coast Punk EP – Out May 7!
The noise rock parade that defies definition, set out on a mission of pure volume worship that is the post-decade pilgrimage of NY-based Sightings After eight instinctive albums, the Sightings guys show no mercy with endless annihilation of their newest material on Terribly Well. All parts destruction measured against their abrasive songwriting. Jagged, collapsing rhythm based mayhem, guitars that can be mistaken as a freight train being ripped for scrap metal, only to be held together with panic stricken bass patterns that keep their voice from the edge of insanity. An accessible album for the unacceptable make this their finest to date. Each song saws through the humanity, taking no hostages with this hectic industrial rock masterpiece. Edition of 500 (Dais Records).
Lonely Women’s Club is pressed in an edition of 500 copies and being released by Important Records. Lawrence English is composer, media artist and curator based in Australia. Working across an eclectic array of aesthetic investigations, English’s work prompts questions of field, perception and memory. English utilizes a variety of approaches including live performance and installation to create works that ponder subtle transformations of space and ask audiences to become aware of that which exists at the edge of perception.
The Sunflower Logic pre-order is up at RockathonRecords.com!
Pre-ordering for The debut ep from The Sunflower Logic- Clouds on the Polar Landscape is now live! Sunflower Logic features Robert Pollard, Jimmy Pollard, Greg Demos, and Joe Patterson. The 12″ vinyl is multicolored and completely random. Each ep is truly unique. Very limited!
Ola Podrida‘s new album – Ghosts Go Blind is available for pre-order now! You can also catch the band live at a few different venues in Austin if you happen to be at SXSW. Catch several Western Vinyl bands at the WV official SXSW showcase at the Driskill on March 14, 2013 – the show will include performances by Balmorhea (1AM), Lushlife (12AM), JBM (11PM) Ola Podrida (10PM), and Aisha Burns (9PM).
Baboon Strength: Cool name, huh?
Charlie Hunter & company (Erik Deutsch on keyboards and Tony Mason on drums) recorded Baboon Strength at Trout Studio in Brooklyn. They have an old school set-up where everything happens in the same room, instruments, mixing desk, tape machine, everything.
The album was recorded to 16 track two-inch tape before putting it in the digital realm. Erik brought his 1970s Yamaha combo organ, Casiotone and Echoplex. His sonic aesthetic and abilities as an improviser are impeccable. Go Erik! Tony played Trout’s big ass bass drum, snare and toms. (In Charlie’s words, “He also happens to be, in my opinion, the best pure pocket drummer I’ve ever heard. Science. In terms of groove and time it’s his world, we live in it, act accordingly”). Erik and Charlie both concur that he gets the game ball for this record. Charlie brought some decent songs and tried not to overplay. It’s a never- ending process. Dave McNair did a hell of a job mixing and mastering the disc. Grab the album and see if you concur — the vinyl will be up soon! [Check out the fat drum sound on “Difford-Tillbrook”.]
Oops Baby Records is proud to announce their first release for 2013 — (some of us have) adrenalized hearts by LIVIDS! After taking some time off in 2012, OBR is back in full force with a slate of killer releases for 2013, starting with this 7″ EP from Brooklyn punks, Livids (featuring Eric Davidson from New Bomb Turks and Jami Wolf from Zodiac Killers). This 7″ is limited to 400 black and 100 Blood Splatter vinyl, (color vinyl available first come first serve exclusively through the OBR online store).
The last great San Jose, Calif. band has a debut album at last! Always mentioned in the same breath as the South Bay’s hallowed trio-the Syndicate Of Sound, the Chocolate Watchband and Count Five, The Mourning Reign has been woefully under-represented on wax-until now. Sundazed recently uncovered three powerful 1967 cover versions-the Who’s “Run, Run, Run,” Cream’s “Tales Of Brave Ulysses” and Love’s “Signed D.C.”-to complete a package combining the band’s first, ultra-rare Contour single “Evil-Hearted You”/”Get Out Of My Life, Woman” with all of the fuzz-drenched Golden State Recorders material, like “Satisfaction Guaranteed” and “Our Fate.” Mourning Reign guitarist Steve Canali uncorks the band’s story on the sleeve, assuring that you (and Dionne Warwick) will never again forget the way to San Jose.