PARTING GIFTS - 'S/T'

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• ITR201 - LP

  759718520118

• ITR201CD - CD

  759718520125

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What began as a one-off split 45 by songwriters Greg Cartwright (The Oblivians, Compulsive Gamblers, Reigning Sound) and Coco Hames (the Ettes, Coco Motion) quickly evolved into The Parting Gifts. "I thought, I'd write a song, Greg would write a song, we'd record them together, and that would be that," says Hames. "Luckily, Greg's prolific awesome switch was on, and we got this whole record instead." Offers Cartwright, "I was just so impressed with how easily things went that I was inspired to write more material for the project." And so we have their debut fulllength on In The Red. As if the talents of Cartwright and Hames aren't enough, the album features intense performances from Dan Auerbach (the Black Keys, BlacRok), Patrick Keeler (The Greenhornes, The Raconteurs), Jem Cohen and Poni Silver (the Ettes) and Dave Amels (Reigning Sound, Daptones). The result is an impressive fourteen original songs penned by Cartwright and Hames, as well as a haunting cover of the Rolling Stones' "(Walkin' Through the) Sleepy City." Catch the Parting Gifts at Goner Fest 7 this year in Memphis, TN, just in time for their Strychnine Dandelion to make its way into your record collection. DL code with the vinyl!

Tracks

1. Keep Walking
2. Bound to Let Me Down
3. Strange Disposition
4. My Mind?s Made Up
5. Shine
6. Born to Be Blue
7. Staring
8. Don?t Stop
9. My Baby Tonight
10. (Walking Through the) Sleepy City
11. Don?t Hurt Me Now
12. Hanna
13. I Don?t Want to Be Like This
14. Strychnine Dandelion
15. This House Ain?t a Home

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Already debut'd on the latest Uncut covermount, yes, press..NOW...and its Greg Cartwright...ya dig

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HANK IV - 'III'

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• SB139 - LP

  N/A

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I don't care how many goddamn cute hobo bands there are out there right now. Not two runny shits. There's something Hank IV knows that few other current "of interest" bands realize, and it's a painfully simple thing: guitars were meant to sound like this, not that (pick something). That's as plainly as it can be put. This is twin-guitar punk rock in a class of its own, driving more than dueling and hot-sauce-free. I'd say "power with taste" but then I'd have to kill myself. I will say that III is Hank Baby's third and finest album yet and they are, in short, a band whose every move is worthy of your utmost attention. "For this record (their second for Siltbreeze), Thee Hanks opted to spend zero dollars and buried themselves deep inside their very own Shill Building studio for a good, long while. Sightings became scarce. Promises of "work" being "done" were made but who really knew what was going on? To be fair, The Shill has its fair share of distractions. Imagine Plato's Retreat, except like a basement in the Tenderloin. I think they only went outside for sandwiches from the East Coast West Deli on Polk Street, like that one time in the street when Bob McDonald told me about that Venom single he owns for the seventeenth time. Pffft? Bob, playboy, inventor (of "The Full Compliment") and as powerful and confounding a front-man as you're likely to find ambulating in today's scene. Hawnk Quatre (as they're called in France) is both an exercise and exorcism for this hardcore guy from Bum Kon all grown-up. "Anyway, the result of their self-imposed exile is this album bearing the aroma of fuck you coupled with a faint flutter of fuck me. It's eight songs in 25 minutes of loud, angry, intelligent, rock 'n' roll punk and it's from San Francisco. Beyond that, the rhythms actually have a rhythm-a loud, all-rock rhythm, in fact. It's shocking and practically akin to reinventing the wheel 'round these un-rocking parts. Great-and now the world'll probably explode. Do I gotta pick a cut to exalt? "Down in the Dumps" springs forth. Hopefully the punks follow suit. Portfolio played it for me when I visited and he just sat back, smiling. I was too. It was creepy." -Mitch Cardwell "Hank IV plays desperate man-style punk in the vein of Minute to Prayera Flesheaters. Throw in some of the sociopathic scorch of The Pagans and touches of earlier Siltbreeze satellites like Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments and you got a great pro-rock primitive, one that combines accelerated jams with gut-busting vocals and the kinda furious delivery that makes it sound totally non-contemporary." -Volcanic Tongue DL code with the LP! San Francisco band's third album. Recorded for $0.00 and mastered by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Services- the highest-fidelity shit in the Siltbreeze exosphere! Music video for "Garbage Star" this October; there's even a freaking Stereolab cover on the album, for crying out loud

Tracks

1. Garbage Star
2. Down in the Dumps
3. Security System
4. Patient Zero
5. SFU
6. Don?t Count On It
7. The Noise of Carpet (orig. Stereolab)
8. 2X Quit

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THE GHOST OF A SABER TOOTH TIGER - 'ACOUSTIC SESSIONS'

Formats

• CHIM05 - LP

  616892107767

• CHIM05CD - CD

  616892107668

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Acoustic Sessions is the debut from The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger (Sean Lennon & Charlotte Kemp Muhl) on their own home-grown label Chimera Music. Like a chimera itself ? a mythical two-headed creature ? The G.O.A.S.T.T. work from one heart despite having two separate minds. Acoustic Sessions shows their love of quirky and whimsical '60s folk pop, reminiscent at times of Syd Barrett, Incredible String Band and Simon & Garfunkel. G.O.A.S.T.T. weaves narratives around a metaphysical geography of their own devising, finding a surrealist beauty in the mundane. Like Dali's imaginary landscapes, G.O.A.S.T.T.'s world is a beguiling Wonderland and one stunning debut.

Tracks

1. Lavender Road
2. Jardin du Luxembourg
3. Candy Necklace
4. Schroedinger?s Cat
5. Rainbows in Gasoline
6. Dark Matter, White Noise
7. Robot Boy
8. The World Was Made For Men
9. Song For James

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GREENHORNES - '★ ★ ★ ★'

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• TMR053 - LP

  093624960300

• TMR053CD - CD

  093624960317

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**Price change alert: New CD price because first pressing of the CD will be packaged in a deluxe diecut fold out sleeve, then housed in a Slipcase, we wil lemail out images of the pacakge of which we get 1000 for Europe only. Future CDs will be of Jewel case nature.. **AND CORRECTED CD barcode*** The trio of Craig Fox, Patrick Keeler and 'Little' Jack Lawrence--heretofore known as The Greenhornes-have been churning out the highest quality rock n roll for well over a decade. Formed in the late 90s in Cincinatti, Ohio, The Greenhornes have toured the world over (and over and over) and released 3 full length albums, an ep and a boat load of singles across a multitude of record labels. What to say about the sound?pure, straight up Nuggets inspired rock and roll. And by straight-up we mean sans revisionist new wave of snotty garage rock posturing. These guys have been weened on a diet almost solely consisting of the finest r+b and rock innovators: The Kinks, The Who, The Zombies and The Easybeats are immediately recognizable in their sound. This isn't a hobby or something these guys are doing between projects--it's their life. Good, old-fashioned rock 'n' roll, plain and simple. Their most recognizable tune, 'There Is An End', was featured throughout Jim Jarmusch's 2005 feature 'Broken Flowers'. After a five year hiatus, The Greenhornes are very excited to have Jack White's Third Man Records release their brand new full length album, the aptly titled '****' in the late autumn of this year. Members of The Raconteurs and the Dead Weather. Fourth Full-length studio album from the Cincinnati band First new recordings in 5 years. LP comes with free MP3 dl. LP will be pressed on four different colors of vinyl (all sealed, no picking and choosing, and NO returns). Liner notes by Jim Jarmusch. UK/EU touring in November confirmed (dates below). Its good to have them back, now, lets cut some rug!

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