Delay are midwest rockers from Cleveland, Ohio. We were pumped when Shout Out Loud Prints and Ryan Eilbeck from the band contacted us about pressing their new LP, Rushing Ceremony.
The official release party is January 21, and you can catch their release show at Carabar in Columbus, Ohio with Annabel, The Dopamines, and Tin Armor. But, be sure to pre-order the LP from Shout Out Loud Prints now — pre-orders begin shipping January 18!
GGR is proud to be a sponsor of the new Sleepless zine! Sleepless focuses on heavy underground music from the Rust Belt, and is made by people who play in bands and who have been involved in the creative arts all their lives. This is a place to document, share, and collaborate: send articles, show and record reviews, photos, and comics to us and we’ll try and get it into the print zine and also onto the online version of it (coming soon!).
Sleepless does take subscriptions, which are $20 per year or $6 per issue. You’ll get a hard copy of the zine plus a free tape comp in the mail. You can also grab it at various regional record stores and venues. If you are a fan of heavy underground music, we highly recommend checking out this new publication!
Comprised of Joseph Raglani (Kranky) and Mike Pollard (Arbor), Bryter Layter is a collaborative unit that focuses on the lyrical faculties of analog synthesis. For the most part, these recordings find the pair eschewing the at-times unfocused, long-form drone techniques that have become fixtures in the scene in favor of short, melodic compositions that are strikingly rich in detail. Listeners familiar with the oeuvres of Raglani and Pollard will find much to love here. As the pillow-soft, analog tone-clouds that characterize the latter’s work as Pale Blue Sky find themselves wed to the highly structured, dynamic arrangements that one associates with the former’s solo output.”Two Lenses” is rich and cinematic, rife with evocative motifs which ebb and flow from one piece to the next creating, over the course of the album, a masterfully composed, unified whole.
Recorded live and meticulously arranged by Raglani at his home studio, and mastered by Greg Davis to supreme effect, Two Lenses (released by Students of Decay) builds upon and extends the qualities established on the pair’s 2009 cassette release “Imprinted Season” in every way. Their work here runs the gamut from maudlin and picturesque to profoundly hopeful always with an eye towards the beautiful.
Algernon Cadwallader is Tank Bergman, Peter Helmis, and Joe Reinhart — three friends from Philadelphia that grew up playing loud, sloppy, fun music. They have all played together in different bands, with different people, but this lineup seems to stick. They like to do things themselves. Pete makes the t-shirt designs. They print all the shirts in their warehouse. Joe records and mixes all the music in his studio. They book our own tours. Tank likes drums. The best way to get in touch with them about playing (they love to play) is emailing them.
We pressed their new Parrot Files LP last month, and they already sold out of the first pressing! Not to worry though, we’ll be pressing up another 1,000 LP’s early in the New Year, so be sure to hit them up if you haven’t grabbed one yet.
The Graduate‘s Horror Show is their first EP, and first release ever. The record was written and recorded in just 3 short months, and it features the first 6 songs the band ever wrote including early versions of “Sit & Sink” and “Justified” (which later appeared on Anhedonia). After much demand, the record is finally available on vinyl for the first time!
This pressing was limited to 250, and is available directly from the band now through January 15, 2012!
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.
Kimono Draggin’ is an American avant-garde Indie Rock band formed in 2003 from New Haven, Connecticut. The lineup consisted of Joseph Nolan (Guitar,vocals), Yossi Hatton (Bass,vocals), and Chris Swirski (Drums,vocals). Their version of progressive rock is strongly influenced by bands of the 1970s and 1980s including The Stooges, The Mothers of Invention, Talking Heads and Minutemen. We just finished pressing their Kimono Gold LP on gold wax, and you can pre-order it now!
The band is currently in the final Top 30 of the Verbicide Magazine Unsigned Band Contest, so if you get a minute, feel free to give them a vote!
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!
Shipped this week for Bocca Lupo Records! pulse/flow by jazz improv duo John Kotchian & Kevin Pike unfolds as an inspired, and at times impromptu, musical conversation between the artists. The albums third track, “Birth of a Movement” serves as the perfect metaphor for the course charted by the album. A slow triumph of a song, the melodic interplay of Kotchian’s drums coax forth a gentle, at first bashful, saxophone. As the two instruments become more acquainted, a “birth” is made manifest in the rush of life and energy pounded forth in the pulse of drums and reed. pulse/flow comes numbered in hand silkscreened jackets, featuring original art by New York painter and illustrator Lui Shtini.
Be sure to hit up the Bocca Lupo Records Showcase on December 20 at The Waiting Room Lounge in Omaha to see this duo, as well as two other Bocca Lupo artists.
