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Record Highlight — Lovedrug

Available today (03.06.12)!  Lovedrug‘s fourth studio album – Wild Blood.

We really had fun putting this one together with the artist and label – one of the most elaborate packages we have worked on to date.  Includes a fold-out poster insert, and die cut jacket with a window revealing beautiful black-and-white photography.  Not to mention, 10 new tracks and an alternate take on an older song.  Hit up the band’s website for a variety of ways to purchase the record today – including two extremely limited edition color variants available only through American Dream Records.

Record Highlight — How To Wreck A Nice Beach

Earlier this fall, we were approached to press a bonus 7 inch to be housed in the new full color edition of the book by Dave Tompkins – How To Wreck A Nice Beach.  The book, a history of the Vocoder, is published by Chicago-based Stop Smiling Books.

From the publisher:

The vocoder, invented by Bell Labs in 1928, once guarded phones from codebreakers during World War II; by the Vietnam War, it had been repurposed as a voice-altering tool for musicians and soon became the ubiquitous voice of popular music.

In How to Wreck a Nice Beach—from a mis-hearing of the vocoder-rendered phrase “how to recognize speech”—music journalist Dave Tompkins traces the history of electronic voices from Nazi research labs to Stalin’s gulags, from the 1939 World’s Fair to Hiroshima, from artificial larynges to Auto-Tune.

We see the vocoder brush up against FDR, JFK, Stanley Kubrick, Stevie Wonder, Neil Young, Kraftwerk, the Cylons, Henry Kissinger, and Winston Churchill, who boomed, when vocoderized on the morning before V-E Day, “We must go off!” And now vocoder technology is a cell phone standard, allowing a digital replica of your voice to sound human.

From T-Mobile to T-Pain, How to Wreck a Nice Beach is a riveting saga of technology and culture, illuminating the work of some of music’s most provocative innovators.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Customer Highlight — You & I

Thanks to How Soon Is Now Records, You & I’s 1998 gem Saturday’s Cab Ride Home (originally released by Spiritfall Records) is available on wax again, this time with a printed jacket, updated insert, and colored vinyl!  If you didn’t grab a copy at RTF Fest last week, you still have [limited] time to grab a copy while they last.  Hit up How Soon Is Now Records!

Customer Highlight — Art Fraud Records

Thank you Art Fraud Records for sending us two new 7″ projects — Confidence Men and Broken Neck.  You can purchase copies directly from Art Fraud here!

Broken Neck —  Paranoid 7″ — 6 song EP of rocking Pittsburgh hardcore.  Think of a cross between DEATH WISH KIDS and THE SUICIDE FILE.

Confidence Men — Funnypapers 7″ — Debut single from this Pittsburgh band.  Dark sounding mid-tempo punk with nods to TSOL, RUDIMENTARY PENI, and POISON IDEA.

Customer Highlight — Canyons/Tigon/Foreign Theaters

From the hot-boxed catacombs of mathcore-meets-stoner-metal, comes the heaviest 3-way split this year from Missouri’s Canyons and Foreign Theaters, and the Bay Area’s Tigon. Sharing influences that range from Coalesce and Kylesa to Black Sabbath and The Melvins, these three “math-sludge” virtuosos deliver a formidable testament to how grimey, raw, and technical the recesses of hardcore can go.

This limited edition pressing of 500 copies is a result of the collaboration between Melotov Records and Mayfly Records. Grab a copy today!

Customer Highlight — Blood Warrior

Blood Warrior is the culmination of a life long collaborative desire between Greg Jamie (O’Death), Joey Weiss (Super Monster), Kristin Kellas and Rubin Berger (Musee Mecanique, Laura Gibson, Mirah).  Based in New York but made up of members who spend most of their time on the road internationally, Blood Warrior is a unique take on indie-folk and more traditional music of the Americas. Started as a recording project at Greg Jamie’s childhood home and finished at a home studio in Portland, OR, the band has now realized their music in a live setting. Blood Warrior’s distinct sound, consisting of guitars, casios, chord organs, autoharp, marching drums, lots of percussion and four part vocal harmonies, is ripe with unexpected hooks while nodding to roots in folk, gospel and psychedelia.

Our friends over at Safety Meeting Records made this great record come to market, and we are proud to have pressed all 300 limited edition LPs (hand numbered, and including a CD version of the album).  The record is available through independent retailers nationally, or directly from the band at one of their live shows!

Customer Highlight — Brandston

Thanks to Dreamover Records for having GGR press their Kickstarter-funded vinyl project for Brandston‘s Send Us A Signal LP.

Cleveland Ohio’s BRANDTSON recorded several ground breaking and influential albums for Deep Elm records in the late 90’s and early 2000’s. In 2004, BRANDTSON and Deep Elm parted ways, when they found a new home with The Militia Group. Then came “SEND US A SIGNAL”, which many consider to be their finest work.

This special limited edition pressing is available on a variety of short-run color wax.  Hit up Dreamover to grab a copy!

Customer Highlight — Paper & Plastick Records/Stephen Egerton

Check out one of the latest vinyl releases from the prolific Paper & Plastick Records — The Seven Degrees of Stephen Egerton.  Egerton is best known for his work with The Descendents and All, but since both bands announced hiatuses, he has still been hard at work and is very much involved in the punk community.  This record is available in limited runs of 3 different colors — you can grab them at select indie record stores, and from Paper & Plastick direct.

Customer Highlight — The Streets On Fire

Check out this Chicago post-punk band and their hot new [GGR pressed] LP — This Is Fancy. You can grab a copy at the band’s website.

Check out a taste of them here:

Customer Highlight — Stone Axe

All it took was one listen, and everyone here at GGR became huge fans of this band.  Get yourself a copy here!

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STONE AXE was formed in Bremerton Washington in 2008
by Tony Reed(Mos Generator/Treepeople) and Dru Brinkerhoff
(The Swinos)with the intention of recreating and preserving
the sounds of rock music from the 1970s. In 2009 Stone Axe
released their first full length ‘STONE AXE’ and then the tour EP
‘EXTENDED PLAY’ in time for their first US tour which included
Mykey Haslip(drums) & Mike DuPont(bass). During the first year
they also released three 7” singles and a 10” vinyl ep. The new album
‘STONE AXE II’ keeps the spirit of the 1970s fully intact. If ‘self
titled’ is 1968-71, then ‘stone axe II’ is ‘71-’74.
 
If you were to hear this album without the aid of any background information on its origins, your instincts would probably tell you it was 60’s-era rock, carefully unearthed from the vaults of an overlooked rock band along the lines of Free or Cream. The fact that it’s a new recording is a testament to the precision with which the group crafts not only their songs, but their sound. If you feel like you’ve exhausted your classic rock options, this is a great place to get a fresh start.

Dru Brinkerhoff and Tony Reed of Stone Axe

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