The Black Swans are Jerry DeCicca, Canaan Faulkner, Chris Forbes, Keith Hanlon, and Noel Sayre (R.I.P). They reside in Columbus, Ohio.
The Fishermen Three is the music of Simon Beins (Brooklyn, NY) and Raphi Gottesman (Berkeley, CA) and a revolving case of other characters.
Their new split 7” — Knives b/w Up Here is now available through Shelved Records. The Black Swans and The Fishermen Three will be going on a short west coast tour in January to celebrate. Check out their dates!
Thanks to Clifton Motel Records, Train’s Save Me San Francisco is now available on vinyl for the first time!
Over the course of 15 years, Train has made its mark on music history with their Grammy Award-winning song ‘Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)’ and other chart-topping singles. Since forming in San Francisco in 1994, the multi-platinum selling band has traveled a long, successful and sometimes arduous journey. Now, with their fifth album, Save Me San Francisco, Train has channeled their early days, revisiting the Roots Rock sound that has made the band such a tour de force and, in turn, the band is united stronger than ever before. This special 180 gram pressing is very limited, so be sure to pre-order your copy soon!
The Offset: Spectacles relocated to Beijing, China over two years ago, bringing their dusty Velvet Underground-influenced Cantonese noir garage sound into the city’s most obscure weird music scene. After jump-starting their homegrown imprint with releases from fellow outlying comrades Hot & Cold, Soviet Pop, and Canada’s Dirty Beaches, they traveled to Manchester, UK last November to record their debut album at Analogue Catalogue studio with Rob Ferrier (Clinic) behind the desk. The sonic critique of modern alienation is condensed into a 45-minutes-long meditation on wax, disregarding international rules of popular music to compose its very own hollow spectacle of information.
Compressed, self contained, and brazenly unique, each song by the Offset: Spectacles hits like a short, sharp shock. Percussive guitar and organ scrape at the surface of the left eardrum, and the bass hits like a combination of a synthesizer and a bongo. Get ready to be hectored by the ghosts of Cantonese poets and the Kowloon King.
