WOUNDED LION - 'IVXLCDM'

Formats

• ITR220 - LP

  759718522013

• ITR220CD - CD

  759718522020

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Something is skulking through the toxic runoff of the entertainment capital of the world. With several 45s and last year's debut LP, Wounded Lion established themselves as Los Angeles' catchiest art-punk band. Fans love their exciting and weirdly direct live shows as well as their strange and original music videos, and the group is proof that genuine and cool music is alive in today's LA underground-no longer must one rely on rad memories of the Urinals, Suburban Lawns or Wall of Voodoo. The group's sophomore album IVXLCDM is a total ripper. The Lion has grown smarter and meaner with the addition of Lars Finberg (chief Intelligence officer, original pounder for the A-Frames, and current drummer #2 for Thee Oh Sees) nailing it behind the drum kit and adding rich, fucked-futurist guitar action. Recorded by the singular Chris Woodhouse (Mayyors, Karate Party, etc.), the LP sounds dense and purposeful, with clattering, duel-Telecaster strum, tubeamp hum and feel-it-in-your-chest kick drum. IVXLCDM is without a doubt one of the best records of 2011-not just from Los Angeles or the underground, but from the entire spectrum of activity of living things in the universe.

Tracks

1. Monkeys
2. Roman Values
3. Wyld Parrots
4. Black Ops
5. Going into the Unknown
6. Sacagewea
7. I?m Sad
8. Raincheck Vibrations
9. Oh, Jim

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JEFF THE BROTHERHOOD - 'WHATEVER I WANT'

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• TMR110 - 7"

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Produced by Jack White, the a-side is a droning 6 and 1/2 minute jam called "Whatever I Want" and the b-side is a killer version of the Tiger B. Smith rocker "Everything I Need." Both tunes are incredible and we are overly-excited to be working with the fellas who are one of the best bands out there working today.

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BOOZE - 'BOOZE 1/2'

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• ATL05 - 12"

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BOOZE is the illegitimate offspring of MILO SMEE (Chrome Hoof, Binary Chaffinch) and DEMIAN CASTELLANOS (The Oscillation). Conceived during a few sweaty evenings in the studio whilst they took respite from their main projects, BOOZE channels the infidel urges of two musicians at the peak of their deviant prowess. From the wild flailing thrust of 'Mescal Talking' to the fevered dervish of "Bronze Release", the prog stupor of "The Last Straw" to the nocturnal locomotion and spontaneous combustion of "Insanity Drive" (which featured on DC Recordings "Death Before Distemper 2" compilation a few years ago), BOOZE is an untameable beast, swaggering uncontrollably through musical moods like a sordid beast intent on unknowable deeds. This BOOZE Lp is the first part in a series of two releases and comes as a run of 300 limited edition vinyl. Part two will arrive early in 2012 and will be followed by a CD release. BOOZE will also appear LIVE in 2012!

Tracks

Side 1.
1. Mescal Talking (2.53)
2. Bronze Release (4.18)
3. The Last Straw (2.46)
4. Side Effect (4.03)
5. Falling Down (3.02)

Side 2.
1. Insanity Drive (4.29)
2. Depressafunk (4.07)
3. Prayer For Rabbit (8.41)

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HOT KNIVES - 'HOT KNIVES'

Formats

• GUW!CD002 - CD

  9326425805824

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Forte is really pleased to be working with the Re-Activated Grown Up Wrong! record label: (this label released several key records in the late 80s, before it evolved into Dog Meat records..) AMAZING UNRELEASED '60's-STYLE SAN FRANCISCO FOLK-ROCK ALBUM RECORDED IN 1976, FEATURING DANNY MIHM & TIM LYNCH OF THE ORIGINAL FLAMIN' GROOVIES. This stunning album is one of the archeological rock finds of the century! Recorded in '76, never released and not even rumored to exist, this is classic stuff from a band that combined '60s folk rock with muscular rock'n'roll in a sound that was simultaneously a throwback to a more innocent time (think Beau Brummels, early Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape) and a raw and rockin' alternative to the pop-smart mid-'70s Fleetwood Mac. The 14-track album, has languished in a cupboard for over 30 years. Only two singles from it ever saw the light of day at the time; the second one, 'I Hear The Wind Blow', prompted the greatest of pop pickers, the late Greg Shaw, to declare in his Bomp! newsletter that "The Hot Knives are the best thing happening in San Francisco right now; their second self-made 45 is just out... They're not punk rock, it's folk-rock with female vocals ala early Jeff. Airplane, with warm harmonies and gorgeous Byrds guitar." Includes stomping covers of Moby Grape's 'Hey Grandma' and the Knickerbockers' 'Lies'. International excitement building for this amongst fans of the San Francisco Sound, the Flamin' Groovies and 60's/70s rock arcana.

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Reviews / features confirmed in Shindig,
Ugly Things, Bucketful of Brains,
Record Collector and more.

?The Hot Knives comprised former Flamin?
Groovies Danny Mihm and Tim Lynch,
bassist Ed Wilson and folk-singing siblings
Mike and Deborah Houpt.....
Mike and Deborah?s strident harmonies
combine with that inherent early Groovies
roll to create an amped-up mid-70s
manifestation of the folk-rock originally
propagated by the likes of the Beau
Brummels and early Airplane.....
Mike Koupt?s originals, which form the bulk
of the album, more than hold up, tracks like
the majestic ?I Hear The Wind Blow? and
stomping ?Take Me Back? sending shivers
down the backbone.
A seriously exciting discovery.?
- Kris Needs, Shindig, Sept 2011

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YOUNG MODERN - 'LIVE AT THE GRACE EMILY 22.12.10'

Formats

• GUW!CD001 - CD

  9326425805923

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Definitive new live album the legendary late 70's Adelaide band! Includes 'She's Got the Money', 'Countdown', 'Sportsgirls', 'Girl of Mine', covers of 'The Singer Not The Song' (Rolling Stones), 'On Top Of The World' (Bluesbreakers) and more, including definitive version of 'Don't Go To Sydney' from Young Modern singer John Dowler's subsequent band The Zimmermen. Young Modern played their first gig in Adelaide supporting Radio Birdman in 1977, and quickly became the hottest band in town. They moved to Sydney the following year, where they were briefly a 'next big thing' before splitting in '79. Their classic 7" 'She's Got The Money'/'Automatic' remains a much-loved artifact of the early days of Australian independent releases, and their posthumous album 'Play Faster' was indeed one of the first local albums of the indie era. This stunning 18 song live album, recorded in Adelaide late last year, finds the band sounding EXACTLY like it's 1978 again. With definitive versions of all their classic tunes, this is masterful power pop that will appeal to fans of Big Star, the Flamin' Groovies, Badfinger and the Nerves.

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?... the first power pop band from Down
Under.? - Bomp! Magazine, Jan. ?79

?...captured live last year but sounding like it
could have been recorded back in their day,
such is the energy and passion.... Of course,
they most recall the Flamin? Groovies, which
can never be a bad thing.? - Kris Needs,
Shindig! Magazine.

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