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Record Highlight — Tift Merritt

For Traveling Alone, Tift Merritt‘s Yep Roc Records label debut, Merritt put together her dream cast to make a record that was real, raw and live off the ﬂoor. Recorded in Brooklyn in eight days, this album was produced by Tucker Martine (The Decemberists, My Morning Jacket), features a guest appearance by Andrew Bird and a band that includes Marc Ribot (Tom Waits), Eric Heywood (Pretenders, Son Volt), John Convertino (Calexico) and longtime collaborator Jay Brown. These songs were written and traveled by Tift Merritt.

Record Highlight — Flatliners

We were extremely excited when Fat Wreck Chords enlisted GGR to press The Flatliners debut 2005 album Destroy To Create on vinyl for the first time ever! While the color copies are sold out, you can pre-order the black vinyl while they last at Fat Wreck. Don’t hold up too long!

Read what vocalist & guitarist Chris Cresswell had to say about the release below:

“Ever unearthed an old drawing you did as a child at your parent’s house? Ever gone back and read the weird shit people wrote in your High School year book? Feels odd doesn’t it? You’re proud of what you’ve accomplished, but for some reason, you can’t help but laugh. Well this October, we will be releasing our first album Destroy to Create on vinyl for the very first time ever. The lovely folks at Fat Wreck Chords have reluctantly agreed to allow our die-hard fans to finally snatch up these songs on a piece of wax. And we think it’s a pretty cool way to celebrate the band’s 10th Anniversary.”

Check The Flatliners tour dates here!

Record Highlight — Psy Ants

PSY ANTS - Bit Tongue Prik 12" cover art

Based in Brisbane and originally called Science, Psy Ants began as a two piece in late 2009 with Mitchel Perkins on bass/vocals and Aiden Hilcher on drums. They became a three piece when Sebastian Hew (The Seizures) joined. He played guitar in the band for most of 2010, leaving by the years end. In early 2011, Glen Schenau stepped in on six strings. They have now called it a day, moving on with various established acts such as Per Purpose, Knee Chin, Cured Pink, et al.

BIT TONGUE PRIK will be their only release, and is limited to 300 copies on vinyl from Vacant Valley.

Record Highlight — Litanic Mask

Litanic Mask - Kabuki

Litanic Mask are celebrating the release of their full-length record on Fast Weapons with Miracles Club & Midnight Magic on Halloween at Mississippi Studios in Portland, OR. LP’s and CD’s will be for sale, along with a limited run of colored vinyl. Stay tuned to Fast Weapons and Litanic Mask for pre-order info if you can’t make the show…

Check out some tracks here!

Record Highlight — T.H.White

T.H. White‘s music is a delightfully eclectic mix of sounds and influences ranging from instrumental prog-rock and jazz to groove-driven tracks that recall Thievery Corporation or LCD Sound System. He’s one of those rare artists who can, and does, do everything, from writing and arranging to producing and remixing. White’s previous four releases (More Than Before, The Private Spotlight, The Company Book, The Company Book Remixes) have been lauded by SPIN Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Fader, Time Out New York, Paper Magazine, Filter, Remix, URB and Stereogum, but White is not content to just stop there. “I want to do it all.” he says. “I want to write and produce for other artists, score films, mix lifestyle compilations, and continually move my career behind the scenes.”

Catch T.H. White at CMJ if you are in NYC, and stay tuned to grab his latest LP – Scene & Modify.

Record Highlight — Wovenhand

The Laughing Stalk cover art

One could never accuse David Eugene Edwards of being idle; he is a man of purpose, a man of mission, a man consumed. In the two years since the release of Wovenhand’s critically acclaimed The Threshingfloor, he has toured the US three times and Europe four; has created a 110-page hand-illustrated book of lyrics (Black of the Ink); released a double-live album/DVD (Live at Roepaen); was recruited for a new album and reunion tour of Australian indie legends Crime and The City Solution; and now, has revealed an extraordinary new Wovenhand album, The Laughing Stalk.

The Laughing Stalk mines the bottomless chasm of a desperate man at the mercy of an inscrutable God; of one standing at the foot of a great mountain, the top of which is shrouded in cloud and mystery. What is there but power and terror? The urgency to reckon is palpable, is unavoidable. The rhythms are insistent, the guitars unyielding, and melodies are potent and unrestrained. David Eugene Edwards is as much a force of nature as ever, pulling the entire band forward with the strength of his voice, as if it had its own gravitational field. One can’t quite grab ahold of a singular style—each note is informed by the royal heritages and traditions of punk, of country, of rock & roll, industrial, and Native American music. The hues and colors in the music are rich and deep.

Pre-order the deluxe edition LP from Sounds Familyre now!

Record Highlights — GBV 7 inches

Hot off the presses – three new Guided By Voices singles for your listening pleasure:

Hangover Child 7″

Limited edition of 1000 (400 through Rockathon). Includes non-LP b-side “Urchin Promise” written by Tobin Sprout.

White Flag 7″

Limited edition of 1000 (400 through Rockathon). Includes non-LP b-sides “Casino Model” and “Zebra Film Negative” written by Robert Pollard.

Everywhere is Miles From Everywhere 7″

Limited edition of 1000 (400 through Rockathon). Includes non-LP b-side “The World’s Getting Smaller” written by Mitch Mitchell.

Record Highlight – Superstorms

Superstorms, a new solo project by ex-Tusco Terror/sometimes Trouble Books member Michael Tolan, is born out of creative impulses that are simultaneously subversive of and sensitively attuned to their musical lineage(s). Frustrated and bored with the tropes of contemporary ambient music, Tolan began experimenting with harsh digital samples and clipping source material, finding himself liberated at the prospect of productively using sounds which previously would have been left to lie dormant on the cutting room floor. He began working with a palette comprised of in-the-red, bit-crushed digitalia, setting to work kneading these stubborn blocks of harsh sound into a sequence of five pieces which, despite their considerable barbs, retain the fluidity and pathos of the ambient tradition from which they were inspired. Tolan’s Tusco Terror/harsh noise connections rear their head in the form of both the intensely prickly and pointillistic aspects of each composition and by way of the informal, spontaneous, almost punk sensibilities which they each possess. Indeed, Superstorms is at once organic and robotic, forceful and calm, coherent and unpredictable. In short, it is a meshing of oppositions- binaries smashed together and expertly sculpted into truly powerful sonic miasma.

Record Highlight — Balmorhea

Available from Western Vinyl: On Stranger, Balmorhea continues the cosmic dialog they began with their eponymous debut in 2007. Though the spirit of Texas’ early inhabitants and the weight of the night sky inspired previous albums All is Wild, All is Silent (2009) and Constellations (2010), Stranger shifts the focus from the celestial to the terrestrial, or more accurately, it begins to explore the celestial resonance in all things terrestrial.

Balmorhea’s music has always been guided by the experience of living in Texas, but with Stranger the band moves beyond contemplative reverence for the land and the history of their home state. The most forward-leaning of their catalog, Stranger presents worlds of tenderness, aggression, estrangement, and freedom using an expanded sonic palette including guitar loops, vibes, synthesizers, ukulele, and steel pan drums. In addition to these new sounds, electric guitars and percussion take the stage once occupied by piano and acoustic guitars.

Stranger explores the kinetic rhythms that dictate our day-to-day lives, fascinated by the wanderlust that drove the itinerant hearts of our earliest settlers and that continues to pulse in the kids roaming Texas’ suburban sprawl. Unsettled, but patient, these songs embrace everyday sensuality, youthful discovery, and nomadic reverie…awe-struck by the divine energy that permeates all of our earthly fauna and flora.

Record Highlight — Xenat-Ra

While many bands claim to be eclectic, Xenat-Ra truly lives it. Based in Corvallis, OR, Xenat-Ra is the result of years of shared musical experiences and a rich sonic vocabulary. Xenat-Ra owes allegiance to no particular genre, borrowing sounds from the fringes of hip hop, jazz, progressive rock, dub, metal and any other style that crosses their path. The sound can be spacious or dense, freely improvised or strictly composed, deeply funky or aggressively atonal, all topped by Monk Metz’ rapid-fire, often surreal, poetry. All original material is collectively composed and arranged. Xenat-Ra also pays tribute to a wide range of artists by covering and often radically re-arranging their material, treating Soundgarden’s Black Hole Sun as a free jazz ballad/samba, covering Kraftwerk as a boogaloo, merging an Old Dirty Bastard hit with a Thelonius Monk jazz standard, or covering John Zorn, Led Zeppelin, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Weather Report, Public Enemy, Sun Ra, and Slayer, among others.

The band has been working on its new record, Science for the Soundman for over two years, and they have now shipped. Hit up the record release show on October 6 if you are able!