BOX ELDERS - 'ALICE AND FRIENDS'

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• 48GONE - LP & DL

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• 48GONECD - CD

  880270286324

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Box Elders is the brainchild of brothers Clayton and Jeremiah McIntyre, who began making music in Friday night goof-off sessions that originally featured their mom on drums. Adopting a name from the bugs that infested their house, they started gigging around Omaha, Nebraska, and soon added drummer Dave Goldberg, who signed on after catching the band at a free performance in a local park. Rather than search for a fourth band member, the McIntyres suggested Goldberg play both drums and organ simultaneously. It took some practice. In January 2008, Box Elders released their debut 7-inch on Grotto Records and spent much of the year touring the USA. The fuzzy, off-kilter pop of the record caught the attention of Memphis, Tennessee's Goner Records and earned them a slot at the label's annual music festival, Goner Fest, as well as a spot on the Goner roster, alongside acts ranging from Guitar Wolf and Jay Reatard to Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Ty Segall, and Reigning Sound. As soon as they returned to Omaha, Box Elders began working on their first full-length, Alice and Friends, named after their favorite cult-run vegan Korean BBQ joint. Featuring fourteen tracks and cover art drawn by Michael Gruber, Alice and Friends is destined to be one of the most-talked about debuts of 2009.

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?Crackles with a kind of rambunctious, infectious pop energy
you just can?t fake?. One of the most impressive bands
at this year?s SXSW festival.? ?Tripwire

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TV GHOST - 'COLD FISH'

Formats

• ITR174 - LP

  759718517415

• ITR174CD - CD

  759718517422

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In The Red is proud to announce the debut full-length album from Lafayette, Indiana, creepers TV Ghost-a band who ushers in a vile and squalid new disposition to ugly art punk and carves out a black hole of pestilence that will delight its sufferers to no end. If one can swim through the murky grime long enough to let one's frazzled senses adjust, it's clear how effectively TV Ghost incorporates the licentious nuances of The Cramps' earliest scuzz, no wave's cacophony, and Suicide's terrifying throb alongside cavernous bellows from the depths of the third layer of hell. With their 7-inch and 12-inch EP on Die Stasi Records as evidence of their shambolic songwriting and inhuman creativity within rock's static-laden low-end sound spectrum, TV Ghost now have aligned their belligerence with In The Red and delivered Cold Fish-ten tracks of a teethshattering, unhinged, and thoroughly penetrating version of what's lurking in punk's darkest corners. "This record sounds like a nightmare." -Tom Shannon, Cheater Slicks

Tracks

1. The Consumption
2. The Network
3. The Drunkard
4. Seasick
5. The Singularity
6. The Recluse
7. Bastille
8. Greek
9. Paradigm
10. Cold Fish

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ROBERT POLLARD - 'ELEPHANT JOKES'

Formats

• GBVI06 - LP

  655035080611

• GBVI06CD - CD

  655035080628

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"I'm sick and tired of all you backward-looking crybabies. You know who you are: 'If only it were 1994...' 1994? Were you even alive then? How alive? "Not as alive as Robert Pollard is right now-working the boards, finding the words still jump when he says jump and the guitar chimes when he forms the chords on the six-string with his honest-to-God DIY, home-made calluses. A clutch of these songs started out live in the studio, with Mr. Pollard on guitar, and they buzz with the charge of on-the-spot generation. All the secret ingredients go into the mix- even Mr. P's brother, the estimable outside shooter Jimmy Pollard, returns to tweak a few knobs-and the result is music that comes alive with that sui generis Dayton grit and sparkle. Check out the needling, obsessive riff on the intro to "When a Man Walks Away"- no mistaking the Pollard touch there-or the distortion-drenched start of "Epic Heads" where one can just about smell the heat rise from the solid state circuit board. "You want nostalgia? OK, here's some nostalgia. Think music as real and unselfconscious as anything since Same Place the Fly Got Smashed or songs alive with Alien Lanes' aesthetic but even hookier and smarter. Music that sounds just like friends playing for the fun of it in the family basement (so the family's grown up and moved away, it's a different house, and it's not exactly a basement anyway, but I defy one to hear the difference)." -Marc Woodworth, author, Bee Thousand (33 1/3 Press)

Tracks

1. Things Have Changed (Down in Mexico City)
2. Johnny Optimist
3. When a Man Walks Away
4. Parts of Your World
5. Symbols and Heads
6. I Felt Revolved
7. Epic Heads
8. Stiff Me
9. Compound X
10. Accident Hero
11. Tattered Lily
12. Hippsville (Where the Frisbees Fly Forever)
13. Newly Selected Dirt Spot
14. Jimmy
15. Pigeon Tripping
16. Spectrum Factory
17. Perverted Eyelash
18. Cosmic Yellow Children
19. Blown Out Man
20. Desiring
21. (All You Need) To Know
22. Architectural Nightmare Man

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AXEMEN - 'SCARY! PART III'

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• SB119/120 - 2xLPs

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The second entry in Siltbreeze's Axemen reissue series, Scary! Part III originally saw light as a cassette-only release in 1989. Most bands and fans active in the Christchurch and Dunedin scenes at this time could tell you, sans embellishment, how the prolific Axemen blazed through the '80s (new cassettes seeming to come into existence on an almost daily basis), and, in classic Rashomon style, a different story would be told by all willing to reminisce, though it's safe to say everyone would agree that Scary!'s beguiling je ne sais quoi is some of the band's most intriguing blat to date. Unlike the hyper-punk-charged pastiche of Big Cheap Motel, Scary! operates from a gestalt concept and sensibility. While on the surface the contents might sound fragmented, ruminative, or obfuscatory, dig deeper (or listen better) and you'll see (and hear) the mystifying ooze lactating out of the four sides of Scary! not as individual, insurmountable constructs of bizarreness, but as a coherent pattern of brilliant phenomena that is- in a word-scary! Novice ears that have made it though this Bunyanesque giant find themselves making comparisons to a mixture of S.Y.P.H., Royal Trux, and Pt?se. All one can say, really, to such hodgepodge is "congratulations." After 20 years and counting, this release refuses to be aptly pigeonholed. Hell, even a seasoned horror chomper such as Shirley Jackson (were she still croaking) would advise giving these guys a wide berth. They mean business and their business is mean. Or as the poet (and bartender) Bing McFreud once scribed as an ode to this collection of doozies: "Be Very Afeared Cause This Ain't No Beard And You Have An Aversion To Clean." Scary! Part III. It's for real. Again. Finally!

Tracks

1. Heart Bullet
2. Church of the Loosely Brethren
3. 10 Miles (as the Crow Flies)
4. That Must Be Hell
5. Shacked Up in Yr Egypt Tomb
6. Join the RAF
7. You, You Cabinet
8. The Virgin
9. Animals Have Rights, Too
10. Accusation of Murder
11. Free World
12. Intermission
13. Sun Und Moon
14. Beer Und Flintstones
15. The Wreck of the Whistling Maree
16. The 2-Bit Star
17. Must Love Die
18. No Look Back
19. Nasty Moon Shine

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