DRIVE LIKE JEHU - 'YANK CRIME'

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• SWA115CD - CD

  823777011525

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A reissue of the fan-favorite Yank Crime album originally released in 1994 on Interscope from San Diego rock-action heroes DRIVE LIKE JEHU. Includes all the tracks from the original release, along with three bonus tracks-"Bullet Train to Vegas" and "Hand Over Fist" from the out-of-print Merge single, and the original version of "Sinews" from the Head Start to Purgatory compilation.

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1 Here Come The Rome Plows 5:45
2 Do You Compute 7:13
3 Golden Brown 3:15
4 Luau 9:28
5 Super Unison 7:25
6 New Intro 3:32
7 New Math 4:06
8 Human Interest 3:24
9 Sinews 9:13
10 Hand Over First 4:24
11 Bullet Train To Vegas 2:40
12 Sinews (Original Version)

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HOT SNAKES - 'AUTOMATIC MIDNIGHT'

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• SWA113 - LP

  823777011310

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BACK IN PRINT!!! A sinister and swaggering debut blast of fierce and turbulent all-star punk rock'n'roll from JOHN REIS (ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT, BACK OFF CUPIDS, DRIVE LIKE JEHU), RICK FORK a.k.a. ERIC FROEBERG (DRIVE LIKE JEHU), and JASON KURKOUNIS (DELTA 72, MULE). Guitars attack, drums pound, vocals destroy.

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ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT - 'CIRCA NOW!'

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• SWA125 - CD

  823777012522

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A reissue of the 1992 sophomore album from San Diego scene-firing revolutionaries ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT. A romp of post-hardcore, post-punk, and next-style rock action, blasted with baritone skronk over a twin-guitar assault. Includes four previously unreleased bonus tracks that were left off the original release. Remastered off the quarter-inch transfers, and packaged with additional photos.

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1 Short Lip Fuser 4:38
2 Hippy Dippy Do 2:43
3 Ditch Digger 4:49
4 Don't Darlene 1:41
5 Killy Kill 2:43
6 Hairball Alley 4:02
7 Sturdy Wrists 2:08
8 March Of Dimes 2:32
9 Little Arm 2:34
10 Dollar 2:34
11 Glazed 8:22
Bonus Tracks
12 Lamps For Sale 2:25
13 Crazy Talk 1:22
14 Flight Of The Hobo 3:27
15 Over The Rail

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ROSALI - 'OUT OF LOVE'

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• SB180 - LP

  655030118012

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The stunning debut LP from Philadelphia-based artist Rosali Middleman, Out of Love is hard to pin down. It rolls like an omnipotent fog through the canyons of Topanga, smothering the once-bohemian enclaves of East / West Village NYC, all the while blinding every vibrant peak ’n’ hollow from the Ozarks to the Appalachian Mountains. The guitars are sublime, with occasional flickers of higher-key psychedelia punctuating the breathless, reflective cadence that is Rosali’s transcendent delivery. While drawn from personal catharsis, Out of Love achieves that uncanny ability to speak to us all. It’s LZ IV, stripped of its pomp and circumstance. This time it’s more about the triangle / pyramid symbol found on the inner sleeve than the man with the bundle of sticks on the cover. And if you know what I’m talking about, then twist ’em up, ’cause summer ’16 is the year Out of Love takes on a whole lotta love. Rosali has shared the stage with Meg Baird, Kurt Vile, Mary Lattimore, Purling Hiss, as well as many other local luminaries. Look for her on the nation front throughout this year.

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MOUNTAINS AND RAINBOWS - 'PARTICLES'

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• CF074 - 2xLPs

  814867021296

• CF074CD - CD

  814867021371

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Last summer, John Dwyer came back from an Oh Sees tour talking about a fantastic band he’d played with in Detroit called Mountains and Rainbows. What followed him home was a double-LP’s worth of shopworn weirdness and a delightfully loose attitude that must have something to do with the ecstasy of a Midwestern summer. These backyard freaks jam into the twilight, led by a vocal quaver belted to the cheap seats, a groove and a grin and a heaping spoonful of “damn, aren’t you glad we came out tonight?” Vibrant and confusing like the insane-o cover artwork that appears to be constructed of many layers of fluorescent duct tape. Careening from the mellow chugger vibe on “How You Spend Your Time” to the tightly wound twitch of “Dying To Meet You,” Mountains and Rainbows stretch their legs deep into the strange, with a dark oddness lurking in the corners of tunes like weirdo highlight “With Beefheart.” Particles is a great addition to a little journey of one’s own, perhaps, and just in time for the sunlit afternoons to come.

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SPRAY PAINT - 'FEEL THE CLAMPS'

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• 128GONE - LP

  600385264112

• 128GONECD - CD

  600385264129

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2015’s quick succession of two full-length albums by Austin, TX, trio Spray Paint—Punters on a Barge in June on Australia’s Homeless Records followed by Dopers via Austin’s Monofonus Press— showed the band repeatedly visiting some proverbial “next level” relative to the steady developmental trajectory framed by their preceding 2012-2014 arrival-and-vision-quest phase (itself a three-album, three- 7-inch chunk of catalog not appropriate for dismissal). At the risk of corniness in conveying the sterling truth, Feel the Clamps could be considered to represent drummer Chris Stephenson, guitarist Cory Plump and other guitarist George Dishner arriving at a “next level,” but next after what? They appear to have skipped a few. It would be inaccurate to call Feel the Clamps the band’s “definitive” document because it only “defines” where the band is at this stage, and the impressive distance between right now and the trio’s genesis less than five years ago. Spray Paint is hyper-prolific because these guys have something that needs to stay up in the world’s grill. A rapid-fire output is sometimes confused with “worth a shit.” You know why the world is choked with aggressively mediocre music? Because the aggressively mediocre are really, really prolific and have amazing work ethics. But Spray Paint is no relation to the stylistic transients who couch-surf sub-genres in what should be a new movement tagged “try-too-hardcore.” Their linear path of inspiration suggests there won’t even be a language to describe what the trio is making five years from now. Feel the Clamps will clear the fence of any remaining solitary butts and if not, it’s recommended said body part be checked for its owner’s head. —Andrew Earles, 2016

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1. Don?t Get Sick
2. Burn Barrel
3. ATXHC (Dangly Earring)
4. Shoveling
5. Country Thumbs
6. Styrofoam Garbage
7. Feel the Clamps
8. Brat Beater
9. Bin Man Dreams
10. Heaps of Ice
11. George Finally Shows Up

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DAVID NANCE - 'MORE THAN ENOUGH'

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• BING113 - LP

  600197011317

• BING113CD - CD

  600197011324

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David Nance lives in a world where rock has been influenced as much by This Kind of Punishment and The Pin Group as by The Velvet Underground and The Rolling Stones. Omaha’s best-kept secret, up to now known primarily to DIY tape collectors and record club subscribers, Nance welcomes all with More Than Enough, his first fullband full-length, which follows the stellar but criminally under-heard 2013 Actor’s Diary LP on Grapefruit Records, as well as a string of limited-edition, over-modulatingly intense and emotionally destructive cassette releases. Recorded in Los Angeles, scrapped, then re-recorded after a move back to his Omaha hometown with his wife, More Than Enough sounds like the very last record to have undergone any process longer than a few hours of recording. It’s that immediate and on fire. The recipe: (a) get a shithot group of musicians; (b) cut songs down to their most “on” moments, or alternately let them ride a groove into the sun; (c) capture it all on actual tape. That’s the Nance approach, and it’s as much an ode to home-recorded brilliance as it is to whoop-ass inspiring rock. Nance will be touring this summer with Itasca, and later on with Simon Joyner and The Renderers. Blare on.

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1. More Than Enough
2. Pure Evil
3. Never Gonna Fall
4. Unamused
5. Isn?t That the Case?
6. Fully Automatic
7. Stuck on the Funny Side of Hell
8. (All I Want to Know Is When You?re)
Coming Home

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HOT SNAKES - 'AUDIT IN PROGRESS'

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• SWA127 - LP

  823777012713

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NEW TO FORTE!!! The third and final album from the HOT SNAKES originally released in 2004. Led by John Reis (ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT, DRIVE LIKE JEHU), Audit In Progress elaborates on the band's downstroked rhythms and subsonic pulses with more fire to the mix than ever

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Braintrust 1:59
Hi-Lites 2:41
Retrofit 2:54
Kreative Kontrol 2:22
Think About Carbs 2:13
Audit In Progress 2:30
Hatchet Job 3:40
This Mystic Decade 3:03
Lovebirds 3:13
Reflex 3:02
Hair And DNA 2:30
Plenty For All

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