VARIOUS - 'GROUP FLEX VOL. 1 - CASTLE FACE PRESENTS:'

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• CF008 - 5x7" FLEXI/BK

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Actually to order now...we will only fullfill confirmed orders: its not cheap, but its possibly one of the most incredible artefacts of recorded music we have seen....Group Flex Volume 1 is a compilation of five Bay Area bands who are all globe trotting Bay Area dominators. It's a fully playable book of flexi discs and art by WILLIAM KEIHN (resident artist at Castleface) with ten exclusive, burning tracks by BLASTED CANYONS, BARE WIRES, FRESH & ONLYS, THEE OH SEES, and TY SEGALL & MICHAEL CRONIN. Pressed on multi- colored flexi discs with holographic images adorning each page. This is a one of a kind creation produced by hand in the caves of Pirates Press. The first pressing has a nice little secret buried in its pages somewhere too, so don't wait. Holy smokes, and have a nice day! Includes a download...

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BLACK MILK - 'BRAIN / ROYAL MEGA'

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• TMR101 - 7"

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Will actually arrive next week....Out of Detroit, Black Milk is one the most vital hip hop artist around. More then just an MC, Milk is brilliant producer who's worked with hip hop notables from J Dilla, Slum Village, and Lloyd Banks to his recent collaborative work with Sean Price and Guilty Simpson in Random Axe. Out today on Third Man Records is a Jack White and Black Milk co-production available on 7" single. Performed with a live 9-piece backing band, both tracks "Brain" and " Royal Mega" are classic funk and soul imbibed slices of classic head nodding hip hop. Mr White helped in production, and played guitar on side A, Drums on Side b....

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BLACK MILK
TMR101
A SIDE: ?Brain?
Written by Black Milk [Nottyhead Music/ASCAP]
Black Milk - Vocals
Aaron Abernathy ? B3
Malik Hunter - Bass
Daru Jones ? Drums
Fats Kaplin - Fiddle
Keith Smith ? Trumpet
Justin Carpenter ? Trombone
Chris Gregg ? Saxophone
Jack White - Guitar

B SIDE: ?Royal Mega?
Written by Black Milk [Nottyhead Music/ASCAP]
Black Milk ? Vocals/B3
Aaron Abernathy ? Keys/Clavinet
Malik Hunter ? Bass
Jack White ? Drums
Fats Kaplin ? Fiddle
Keith Smith ? Fugel Horn
Justin Carpenter ? Trombone
Chris Gregg ? Clarinet

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SECRET COLORS - 'WATER MIRROR'

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• GT09 - 12"

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Very excited to announce that Group Tightener will now be exclusively distributed in the UK via Forte, we will list the catalogue this week and the first new release is this one: Secret Colors is the project of Seattle's Matt Lawson. Water Mirror, his first vinyl full length, was pulled from various tape releases over the past couple of years and re-mastered by Pete Swanson, formerly of D. Yellow Swans. This pressing is limited to 500 tie dyed, splattered paint vinyl 12" records.

Tracks

1. Bells
2. Heavy Sleeper
3. New Lens
4. Cirrus
5. Rewinder
6. Wish

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BOSTON SPACESHIPS - 'LET IT BEARD'

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• GBVI15 - 2xLPs

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• GBVI15CD - CD

  655035081526

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Robert Pollard has called the epic double-LP Let It Beard "a subconscious concept album about the sorry state of rock and roll." A 75-minute thrill ride through the many forms Pollard has mastered in his three-plus decades of writing and recording, it's "the White Album meets Quadrophenia meets Jesus Christ Superstar," in his words. "Meets Same Place the Fly Got Smashed," adds guitarist Chris Slusarenko. Let It Beard features strings, horns, keyboards, a female soul singer and guest turns from such luminaries as Colin Newman from Wire, J Mascis from Dinosaur Jr, Steve Wynn from the Dream Syndicate, Mick Collins from The Dirtbombs, Dave Rick from Phantom Tollbooth and Mitch Mitchell from Guided By Voices. Deluxe double vinyl version...the biggest, and best Boston Spaceships yet...

Tracks

1. Blind 20-20 2. Juggernaut vs. Monolith
3. Tourist UFO 4. Minefield Searcher
5. Make a Record for Lo-Life
6. Let More Light in the House
7. You Just Can?t Tell 8. Chevy Marigold
9. Earmarked for Collision
10. Toppings Take the Cake
11. Tabby and Lucy
12. (I?ll Make It) Strong for You
13. A Hair in Every Square Inch of the House
14. The Ballad of Bad Whiskey
15. I Took on the London Guys
16. Red Bodies 17. A Dozen Blue Overcoats
18. Pincushion 19. Christmas Girl
20. Let It Beard 21. The Vicelords
22. German Field of Shadows
23. Speed Bumps 24. No Steamboats
25. You in My Prayer
26. Inspiration Points: Shove Thy Neighbor /
Human Amusements at Hourly Rates / Man
of a Thousand Worlds / Inspiration Point

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Bob is King!!!

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LIMES - 'TARANTULA'

Formats

• 65GONE - LP

  600385215015

• 66GONECD - CD

  600385215022

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In a town full of musical hermits and legends, it may seem trite to call anyone the town's best kept secret. But truck-driving rocker Shawn Cripps and his revolving cast of characters collectively known as Limes have been making lovable late-night rackets at midtown dives for nearly a decade with very little to show for it. A couple of singles (one from France, one from Italy) and two homemade CDRs were all that existed until Goner released Rhinestone River last year. Well, that's not entirely true-as is typical with many Memphis iconoclasts like Alex Chilton, Jim Dickinson and Tav Falco's Panther Burns, Limes clicked with overseas listeners before Americans caught on, and Cripps's first album Tarantula did receive a limited CD release in 2005 on the Melbourne label Death Valley. Somehow that made more sense than it should have, as Limes' brand of quirky pop and rock wouldn't be out of place on a Flying Nun comp from the mid-'80s. Cripps has had a crazy life. For a while, he lived on a boat in the Mississippi River; there were rumors he went a little kooky at some point and wouldn't listen to anything but Exile on Main Street for months. He was a frequent collaborator with Harlan T. Bobo-the two are both reclusive songsters with more than their fair share of talent and bad luck. Catching Limes live, you never knew who will be there or how it'll turn out. Could be the best show of the year-or the worst. Sometimes the worse they play, the better the show is. The CD version tacks on the second Limes CDR, 2006's Blue Blood, a somewhat more laid-back and sly slide through Cripps's sideways take on life. Long live Limes!

Tracks

1. Into a Tree 2. Under My Head
3. North Dakota 4. Merrily Down the Road
5. Old Evil 6. 5 Years Today 7. Pop Music
8. Little Red 9. Poor Boy
10. Die in a Motorcar 11. Radio Star
Blue Blood (CD only)
12. I Don?t Have a Car 13. Without You Now
14. Melbourne Blues 15. Empty Bar Blues
16. Dying Superman 17. Write You a Letter
18. Instrumental in D
19. Living Alright Tonight
20. Blow this Town
21. Cowboy 22. Handsom

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Recent album Rhinestone River got some good people talking:
?Rhinestone River takes its time with everything, its riffs, its songs, its
sketched-out vistas of Americana on the skids... and, a few listens in,
its slow disequilibrium starts to take hold, its tempo makes sense, its
mumbled observations start to sound like truth.? ?Dusted

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JOHN WESLEY COLEMAN III / TIMMY'S ORGANISM - 'SPLIT'

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• 70GONE - 7"

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There's a million ways to go crazy, which is one reason it's so depressing to hear so many bands that sound alike. Two fellows with no problem getting outside themselves are John Wesley Coleman and Timmy Vulgar. Coleman's been bashing out demented pop songs buried in fuzz and blather for about a decade; here he provides a track that sounds like The Buzzcocks pretending to be a drunk Bruce Springsteen trying to play a Nick Lowe song that he hasn't written yet. Guaranteed to be stuck in your hair for a week. Vulgar began his career as a punk in Michigan but his bands Human Eye and Timmy's Organism quickly moved from angry personal attacks to more epic attacks on the entire universe. "Mind Over Matter" continues his quest to musically shoot out the sun. Jimi Hendrix, Timothy Leary and a whole bunch of musical lizards like this.

Tracks

1. John Wesley Coleman III ? A Clown
Gave You a Baby
2. Timmy?s Organism ? Mind Over Matter!

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