tUnE - yArDs - 'TUNE YARDS AS YOKO'

Formats

• CHIM14 - 10"

  N/A

Details

tUnE-yArDs record Yoko Ono's "We're All Water" and remix Yoko's "Warrior Woman."? Limited edition of 1,000. ? Beautifully pressed one-side 10" vinyl with a Yoko etching on the flip side. ? Packaged in a clear plastic sleeve. ? Proceeds to benefit a charity TBD.

Tracks

1. We're All Water
2. Warrior Woman (remix)

Press

N/A

Audio & Video

GIBBY HAYNES - 'PAULS NOT HOME'

Formats

• TMR179 - 7"

  N/A

Details

The three-song single features two originals "You Don't Have To Be Smart" and "Horse Named George," and a cover of Adrenalin OD's "Paul's Not Home," a lost classic (cough cough... ahem) that originally appeared on the 1982 New York Thrash compilation alongside the first ever recorded material by Beastie Boys and some of the earliest known recordings by Bad Brains, Kraut and others. Gibby Haynes is a legend!! Produced by Jack White, you will thrash!

Tracks

1. Paul's Not Home
2. You Don't Have to Be Smart
3. Horse Named George

Press

N/A

Audio & Video

DVA DAMAS - 'NIGHTSHADE'

Formats

• DNA1 - CD

  789577702424

Details

Nightshade is the debut full-length from Los Angelesbased duo Dva Damas. Recorded between 2010 and 2012 by composer / producer team Taylor Burch and Joseph Cocherell, the album follows up the group's sold-out 10- inch on Downwards, Brand New Head. Nightshade mixes the western sounds of Ennio Morricone, the processed mechanics of late-'70s industrialists, and the heavy heartbeat and conceptual production of dub, exploring a territory somewhere between the spacious vistas of a Sergio Leone film and the claustrophobic, menace- filled spaces defined by masters like Stanley Kubrick.

Tracks

1. Nightshade
2. Babes in Boyland
3. Half-Mask
4. Interlude
5. Out of Thin Air
6. Time Dilation
7. Nightshade (Reprise)
8. Living Again (Hawkline)

Press

N/A

Audio & Video

MONSIEUR JEFFREY EVANS & HIS C.C. RIDERS - 'CC RIDERS'

Formats

• SCR003 - LP

  N/A

Details

C.C. RIDERS were: MONSIEUR JEFFREY EVANS (vocals, guitar), JAMES ARTHUR (guitar), JAY REATARD (guitar) and ALICJA TROUT (drums). The band was something of a Memphis super group. Jeffrey Evans had formerly fronted the GIBSON BROS. and was winding down '68 COMEBACK when C.C. Riders formed in 2000. James Arthur, who had recently moved to Memphis from Los Angeles, was an ex-member of FIREWORKS and THE NECESSARY EVILS, Jay Reatard (REATARDS) and Alicja Trout (ex-CLEARS, MOUSEROCKET) were just getting LOST SOUNDS off the ground when Jeffrey asked them to round out the C.C. Riders lineup. In 2001, Alicja and Jay recorded C.C. Riders' self-titled CD. The CDR was released on Trout's Contaminated label; it was hand numbered and limited to only 100 copies. Among the album's highlights is a flushed out version of Evans' stellar original, "Long, Long Ballad of the Red-Headed Girl." C.C. Riders played their last shows and wound down around 2002. Edition of 500 copies.

Tracks

N/A

Press

N/A

Audio & Video

JEFFREY NOVAK - 'BARON IN THE TREES'

Formats

• ITR183 - LP

  759718518313

Details

In The Red is proud to announce the second solo album from Cheap Time front man Jeffrey Novak. This album was on the shelves for several years where it aged like a fine wine, and the results are the audio equivalent of an excellent Amontillado. Novak is the rock underworld's most adept chameleon. Take one look at the Tennessee man's band history and you'll see a series of quick genre switches. There was the one-man garage band record under his given name back in 2005, the classic '77 trash-punk of Rat Traps, and his current, most well-received project, the weirdo pop punk power trio Cheap Time. Between touring and recording with that band, Novak returned to the world of solo records. His debut solo album, the self-released After the Ball, stroked all the remaining '60s and '70s rock fantasies he'd yet to tackle in his oeuvre. Baron in the Trees carries on in much the same tradition with Novak's anglophilia on full display here-flashes on Syd Barrett, Ray Davies, Kevin Ayers, David Bowie and Sparks. There's a fine line between homage and imitation and Novak straddles it with nearperfection; most importantly, he doesn't look back and he writes in a quick enough manner to keep the naysayers eating dust. Composed and recorded on piano with sparse bass, guitar, drums and strings at Jay Reatard's Shattered Studios, Baron in the Trees also marks one of the last projects that Reatard participated in, having recorded, produced and played on the album. Much like Reatard's own trajectory, Novak is not afraid to explore and expand his musical territories; Baron in the Trees leaves you excited to hear what might come next.

Tracks

1. Parlor Tricks
2. Clarabelle
3. Whatever Happened
4. So Long Mr. Crow
5. Backseat Driver
6. Watch Yourself Go
7. Here Comes Snakeman
8. Meadow View
9. Baron in the Trees

Press

N/A

Audio & Video

GUIDED BY VOICES - 'TRASH CAN FULL OF NAILS'

Formats

• GBVI31 - 10 x 7"

  655035083179

Details

Third single "Trash Can Full of Nails" offers propulsive, offkilter rhythms that underscore a melancholic melody, delivered with characteristic Pollard aplomb. The Sprout-penned psych-pop flip side is titled "Build a Bigger Iceberg," which is solid advice.

Tracks

1.Trash Can Full of Nails
2.Build a Bigger Iceberg

Press

N/A

Audio & Video

HERBCRAFT - 'THE ASTRAL BODY ELECTRIC'

Formats

• WOODSIST066 - LP

  N/A

Details

Three years on from the initial Herbcraft blurt, The Astral Body Electric sees the sonic seeds sown in previous wax transmissions blossom in full. Once the isolationist bedroom-psych project of Matt Lajoie, Herbcraft has in recent years sprawled out in many different fullband incarnations-duo, trio, quartet, sextet-for tours and heady super-sessions at their HQ in Maine. Their third album finds the most enduring lineup of the band at its peak: songs half-composed, halfimprovised, and played with freewheeling first-take intensity. Recorded direct to tape by Doug Tuttle (Mmoss) in an 18th-century New England barn, The Astral Body Electric captures the Herbcraft soundworld in its most-natural habitat by focusing on analog recording techniques (spring reverb, tape delay, hands-on flange). Lajoie's unhinged electric guitar swirls around Dawn Aquarius's wah'ed organ riffs, Nicholas Barker's kosmische-inspired drums and synth, and Corinna Marshall's trilled-out flute and circular bass, complete with nebulous group vocals and auxiliary support from Doug and Aaron Neveu (Woods). "Aurally massaged" into the 4th dimension by Matt "MV" Valentine via his signature "Spectrasound" mastering technique, The Astral Body Electric is psychedelic, mantric, freerock

Tracks

N/A

Press

N/A

Audio & Video

THE WOOLEN MEN - 'S/T'

Formats

• WOODSIST067 - LP

  655035036717

Details

The Woolen Men are three-two Oregon natives and a Washingtonian. They play punk-influenced DIY music in the Pacific Northwest tradition of Dead Moon and The Wipers. More than a sound or style, that means a kind of work ethic-do-it-yourself and do it a lot. The band is happiest touring up and down the I-5 or bunkered in their practice space with the cassette 4-track rolling. And it shows. Live, The Woolen Men are thunderous and energetic and the trio's magnetic chemistry shines through in the recordings. Their debut LP, released by Woodsist Records, follows a handful of largely self-released EPs. Instead of straying from their fast-and-loose recording technique to capture the live energy of their sound, they simply recorded and recorded and recorded until they had enough songs to make up an album comprised only of material with that elusive spark. The ten tracks here represent five different sessions, and as many songs made the cut as were left behind. The LP was made to endure, with little attention paid to current trends or "in" sounds-what matters is that the songs are well written and executed with integrity. The whole thing was recorded to analog tape. The Woolen Men are Alex Geddes, Lawton Browning and Raf Spielman. They live and work in Portland, OR. Spielman previously released an album of solo material under his Polyps moniker for the Woodsist sister label Hello Sunshine.

Tracks

1. Mayonnaise
2. Hold It Up
3. Submission
4. Her Careers
5. Hazel
6. Head on the Ground
7. I Was Wrong
8. Drunkard?s Dream
9. Magic Tricks
10. Ode to an Hour

Press

N/A

Audio & Video

LEADFINGER - 'NO ROOM AT THE INN'

Formats

• CITLP569 - LP

  N/A

Details

Leadfinger is the nome de plume (and band name) for songwriter/guitarist Stewart 'Leadfinger' Cunningham. Born in Glasgow, Scotland and raised in the southern NSW city of Wollongong, Cunningham has been a fixture on the Australian underground scene for over 20 years. He first plied his guitar-slinger trade in the late 80's with the pre-grunge Proton Energy Pills before heading to Sydney to play in seminal underground guitar bands - Asteroid B-612, Brother Brick and Challenger-7 ? and a stint in Melbourne with The Yes-Men ? all of these bands released highly sought after records in Australia and overseas. After forming Leadfinger in 2006 as a solo project, Cunningham returned to home town Wollongong, recruited some young acolytes to the cause and morphed the project into a classic twin guitar rock n' roll band that to date has released 3 albums and 3 EP's. February 2013 sees the release of the 4th Leadfinger album No Room at the Inn on Citadel Records. Recorded and produced by the band at Sydney's Defwolf Studios and Leadfinger's own Rendezvous Studio, No Room at the Inn revisits classic seventies rock (think Tom Petty, Big Star, Flamin Groovies) without forgetting the band's seminal roots (MC5, Radio Birdman, The Saints). Eschewing modern-day gadgetry and production tricks, the band relied on vintage recording gear and great songs to create an album that could easily be mistaken for a lost seventies masterpiece. No Room at the Inn is Leadfinger's most complex and strongest album to date with opening track You're So Strange taking listeners on a soul trip to Muscle Shoals via Detroit! Cruel City has the venom lyrics and twisting riffs that give this bitter hometown ode an incendiary pitch whilst Pretty Thing is like hearing a long lost Replacements track, a song that should probably be all over radio like a rash. Leadfinger will tour the East Coast of Australia with legendary Australian guitarist Deniz Tek in February/March to promote No Room at the Inn before continuing to spread their gospel of righteous and dangerous rock'n'roll to the unconverted heathen masses. Reviews for the previous album, We Make the Music "The portents were there that it was going to be a very good album but Leadfinger's "We Make The Music" makes a convincing claim for greatness in the space of 49 minutes. From the Who-like title track that opens it to the Hendrix-tinged finale, "Beside Me, Against Me" (with its shades of "Castles in the Air") this is a bona fide Australian classic." ? The Barman, i-94Bar, April 2011. "There are any number of tropes you might expect to hear on a classic rock album... The important thing is what you do with them - are you going to go by the numbers or are you going to really go for it? Is it just going to be all present and correct or is it going to be all the energy you have, the sound of total commitment ? heart and soul and rough times and rocking till you can't rock anymore and then still dragging one more encore out? Leadfinger fall into the latter category - they rock and they rock hard." ? Jonathan Aird, Americana UK, May 8th 2011.

Tracks

N/A

Press

N/A

Audio & Video