John Grant‘s Queen of Denmark was Mojo Magazine‘s 2010 Album of the Year! So, the fine folks at RedeyeUSA (and Bella Union) were kind enough to set up the the album for official release in the U.S. This double 180 gram LP will be available for the first time in North America at indie retailers nationally on May 10. Be sure to hit up your local store to grab one!
Just out the door for Fast Weapons – FW#10: Nu Sensae Tea Swamp Park b/w Gumbo 7″. If you are in Portland, be sure to hit up the record release party at The Saratoga on May 19. Plenty of fresh wax will be there. Also playing will be Arctic Flowers and White Lung.
After releases with both Night People and Chapter Music, Australia’s Twerps bring their dark dream-pop to Brooklyn label Group Tightener. This three song 7-inch works as a companion piece (same art split into two) to their recently released 7-inch on Under Water Peoples.
“She Didn’t Know,” begins with a roar of vocals and steadily swings through delicate guitar riffs, rollicking organ jams, and playful puppy dog yelps. The first few moments of the second track, “Anything New,” are a gentle lullaby until the vocals crash in with classic the suburban conundrum of being bored but dreading change. It’s full of delightful wallowing in the desire of an impossible paradox: “I’m gonna be more than a backyard boy” but I also don’t want anything new to happen in my life. The B-side wraps up the record with a devastatingly saccharine winding ballad called “Peculia.” Limited to 500 copies. Get it from Group Tightener.
This Ripple Music compilation double gatefold 7″ features Stone Axe, Mighty High, Sun Gods in Exile, and Grifter.
Shining the spotlight on a musical movement that’s ready to blast the world back four decades, the Heavy Ripples double 7” compilation features the sonic delights of four up and coming acts who embrace the sounds of rock n’ roll the way it used to be played: aggressive, uncompromising, honest, gritty, and most of all, fun! More than just an ode to the old school ways of rock n’ roll, these four bands embrace the lifestyle and the sounds of a bygone era.
70’s rock preservationists Stone Axe contribute a cover version of the Mos Generator tune, “Nightwolf;” Sun Gods in Exile, on loan from the incomparable Small Stone Records, turn in the southern-tinged “Over My Broken Bones;” the UK’s dirty grit-rockers Grifter offer up two tracks, “Small Man Syndrome” and the tongue-in-cheek nod to porn legend Ron Jeremy, “Hey Ron;” and Brooklyn’s favorite sons of punkified debauchery Mighty High drop the beastly “Hempaphobic.” First pressing is limited to 500 copies — grab one today!
Things Are Really Weird Right Now is the 7″ follow up album to You, Me, And Everyone We Know‘s critically acclaimed debut LP Some Things Don’t Wash Out. This first pressing of this record is limited to 1,000 records split between 100 White, 150 Translucent Blue, 250 Clear, and 500 black. Thank you so much to Topshelf Records for hitting us up on this project! Pre-order a copy for yourself — one random pre order will receive a FREE Test Pressing of this release!
We got to press Megachurch‘s last LP in 2010, and we just learned that we will be pressing their new album coming out soon….thanks guys! Megachurch are funding the new record via Kickstarter, and you can pre-order a copy of the new album while assisting them with their Kickstarter funding.
Among other options, supporters of the Kickstarter campaign can get an exclusive pre-release copy of the new album, a free MEGACHIP EP (the entire first Megachurch album recreated using only sounds generated from a Nintendo Entertainment System), and a few other limited edition items. Every pre-order will receive the album 2 weeks prior to release. Hit them up!
Finally available on wax (courtesy of Electric Mountain), Raised b/w Drunken Hearts was originally released only digitally in July 2010. You can soon grab a copy of the limited edition wax from Asylum Digital or Electric Mountain! Stay Tuned!
Thanks to Paper & Plastick for another pressing! This special limited pressing of Rustbelt Lights‘ These Are The Good Old Days features no-label records!
With 12 brand new tracks, These Are The Good Old Days is a record about overcoming, outlasting, and moving on. “It seems like people as they get older are always reflecting back on a previous time in their life with nostalgic feelings instead of moving forward and doing everything they can to make their present days their best ones.” says guitarist Tom Mayer. “We are all guilty of it. We are guilty of it in songs on this record. Responsibility is inevitable as we get older, but the title is about how we are going to make these days we spend together now our best ones and put the past where it belongs.” If you like catchy punk rock in the vein of this band, that band, and that other band you’ll want to be sure to have a listen to Rust Belt Lights. Catch them on tour now!
The lead single from Kindest Lines‘ forthcoming debut LP, ‘Destructive Paths to Live Happily’, is nothing short of a small Southern miracle. This New Orleans trio knows exactly how to craft a dance-floor anthem, and this track announces their darkly elegant arrival into the Wierd Records family with thumping rhythms, seductive vocals and chiming dream pop guitars. The b-side, ‘Colors Treasured,’ adopts a slightly more abstract and apocalyptic industrial approach before opening up into a lilting, almost hopeful refrain.
This is the follow up EP to Oakland’s Big Kids amazing debut LP Hoop Dreams (also pressed here at GGR — thanks guys!). This 7″ features three brand new tracks! The first pressing of this album is limited to 500 and is split between three limited edition colors. Hit up Topshelf Records to pre-order yours (available individually and as a package deal).
