MELVINS - 'DALE CROVER'

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• BR33CD - MCD

  N/A

• BR33 - LP

  038161003318

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**VINYL REPRESS**In 1992 the Melvins’ fascination / adoration / denigration of the mighty KISS rock and roll universe compelled them to excrete out three solo masterworks inspired by the KISS solo LPs. The first in the series is King Buzzo, from the Melvins’ giggling guitar grumpus. Four songs of atmospheric clanging and rockin’ banging. Also features the many talents, drumming and otherwise, of a famous Grunge™ superstar, whose name sort of rhymes with New Wave Asshole. The second in the series is Dale Crover, from the Melvins’ sleepy drum caveman. Four songs of gloomy heaviness, with Dale doin’ the drummin’, singin’, guitarin’, and dancin’. The third in the series is Joe Preston, from the Melvins’ electronic beard warlord. Three songs of fuzz bass computer drone temper tantrum. All three 12-inches reissued on vinyl after 100,000 years out of print.

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MELVINS - 'KING BUZZO'

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• BR32CD - MCD

  N/A

• BR32 - LP

  038161003219

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**VINYL REPRESS**Whether conceived as a well-crafted musical prank, homage, or method of seeing what each member could cough up, the Melvins mirrored Kiss in endeavoring solo albums by everyone in the band. And, like Kiss, the Melvins employed the same cover art style and lettering. Hmmm? Perhaps an homage, or joke, it's tough to tell. King Buzzo is the strongest of the three, and certainly the most akin to an actual Melvins album. "Isabella" opens with a pummeling, repeated drum line, some distorted guitar chugging, and Buzzo vocalizing something over the maelstrom. Track two is a strange, quasi-industrial loop; while "Annum" is a slight piece of understated pop. The final track, like track one, benefits from similarly loud drumming, although the vocals are in narrative form. Who provides that narration and drumming? Why, Dave Grohl of Nirvana and Foo Fighters, who had known Buzzo for quite some time. Oddly enough, here he is credited as Dale Nixon, due to legal issues with Nirvana's label, Geffen. As an interesting note, Dale Nixon was the name Black Flag used on My War for the bass player who wasn't: Greg Ginn played both guitar and bass, but credited the mysterious, non-existent Dale Nixon with that duty.

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MELVINS - 'JOE PRESTON'

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• BR34CD - MCD

  N/A

• BR34 - LP

  038161003417

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**VINYL REPRESS**In 1992 the Melvins’ fascination / adoration / denigration of the mighty KISS rock and roll universe compelled them to excrete out three solo masterworks inspired by the KISS solo LPs. The first in the series is King Buzzo, from the Melvins’ giggling guitar grumpus. Four songs of atmospheric clanging and rockin’ banging. Also features the many talents, drumming and otherwise, of a famous Grunge™ superstar, whose name sort of rhymes with New Wave Asshole. The second in the series is Dale Crover, from the Melvins’ sleepy drum caveman. Four songs of gloomy heaviness, with Dale doin’ the drummin’, singin’, guitarin’, and dancin’. The third in the series is Joe Preston, from the Melvins’ electronic beard warlord. Three songs of fuzz bass computer drone temper tantrum. All three 12-inches reissued on vinyl after 100,000 years out of print.

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DUDE YORK - 'SINCERELY'

Formats

• HAR099 - LP

  098787309911

• HAR099CD - CD

  098787309928

• HARCS099 - MC

  098787309942

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The Seattle-based trio Dude York—Peter Richards on guitar and vocals, Claire England on bass and vocals, and Andrew Hall on drums—is announcing itself with an album that couches its themes of anxiety and eroding mental health in rock tracks that amp up the sweetly melodic crunch of power pop with massive distortion and bashed-to-heck drums. Sincerely is a loud,sweaty rebuke to those moments in life when it seems like nothing is working, a testament to the power of friendship, staring problems directly in the face, and finding solace in art. Longtime Sleater-Kinney and Bikini Kill producer John Goodmanson and The Blood Brothers’ Cody Votolato helped Dude York craft a more straightforward draft of Sincerely, one based on the energy of their live show but without any superfluous flourishes.The band’s thoughtful approach to putting together Sincerely's songs echoes the album's overarching themes of almost-punishing inward focus. Bringing England's straightforward drawl into the mix underscores that idea, and its contrast to Richards' excited yelp heightens the tension on Sincerely, a chaotic, yet ultimately triumphant album that's a vital tonic for these increasingly confused times. Dude York’s first full-length for Hardly Art • Produced by John Goodmanson (Bikini Kill, SleatKinney) and Cody Votolato (The Blood Brothers)

Tracks

01. Black Jack 2:50
02. The Way I Feel 3:03
03. Something in the Way 3:01
04. Life Worth Living 4:17
05. Sincerely I 0:56
06. Tonight 3:10
07. Paralyzed 3:35
08. Giving Up 4:23
09. Bit Saloon 2:56
10. Sincerely II 0:27
11. Love Is 5:14
12. Twin Moons 5:02
13. Time?s Not on My Side 2:35

Press

?Best New Thermals? ? Willamette Week
?Sounds like Bruce Springsteen kissing The Strokes? ? Seattle Weekly
"The eternal malcontent younger sibling of the Seattle music scene" ? Seattle Met Magazine

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TINY HAZARD - 'GREYLAND'

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• BING126 - LP

  600197012611

• BING126CD - CD

  600197012628

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Greyland, Tiny Hazard’s debut, is a raw, jagged treasure— a testament to the group’s masterful intuition for pop songs in chaos. This jagged, unpredictable, celestial music is filled with terrestrial pain. The Brooklyn-based five piece, who formed when the group met at The New School, is anchored by the vocals of songwriter Alena Spanger. She recorded the vocals in the solitude of her bedroom, carving out a space that allowed her to explore the nuances of her voice. Her songwriting process began with gibberish and stream-of-consciousnessstyle thoughts sung over melodies, eschewing the clumsiness of real words in favor of tone or timbre. Then she focused on the language, a slow process, to “try and get it just right.” Trained in opera, Spanger prefers “voices that are not perfect,” and was moved to explore vocal possibilities when she heard Meredith Monk. Spanger plays keyboards, Ryan Weiner wields a guitar that is often sonically unrecognizable, while Ronald Stockwell’s drumming and Derek Leslie’s bass playing are painterly in softer moments, but drop unexpectedly into immense grooves, while Anthony Jillions colors Spanger’s vocals with synths and occasional effects. The album was produced by Jillions under the creative direction of the group, and recorded in studios and bedrooms, in an organic, all-hands-on-deck fashion. Each song is its own vivid capsule independent from the next, but they unite on Greyland to convey something viscerally human.

Tracks

1. Sesame
2. Like A Child
3. Sharkwhirl
4. Lynx
5. Baby
6. Ekon
7. Little One
8. Thirsty Sponge
9. Ink
10. Greyland

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GAILES - 'SEVENTEEN WORDS'

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• BING119 - LP

  600197011911

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While they’ve released records on their own, and even collaborated in the past (Orcas), Rafael Anton Irisarri and Benoit Pioulard have never made music quite like they do with Gailes. This is a pure winter doldrums soundtrack, when the stillness after a snowstorm ends elongates into deep contemplation. It’s not surprising that Seventeen Words was conceived, composed and recorded as the duo weathered a brutal winter squall, the remains of which can be viewed on the album’s artwork. This is bottomless music, minimal in sound yet majestic in presentation. Snow slows, time freezes. This is the world of Gailes, just a fragment of our own writ large for eternity.

Tracks

1. Requiem For An Airport Television
Newsreader
2. That Name (Again)
3. Surface Variations In The Snowfall
4. On Distant Fields

Press

? Collaboration between Rafael Anton
Irisarri (The Sight Below) and Benoit
Pioulard, who previously worked together
as Orcas
? Soundtrack to pure winter doldrums

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BLANK SQUARE - 'ANIMAL I'

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• CF084 - LP

  814867022620

• CF084CD - CD

  814867022644

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When squirming black mold in a dingy Bayshore, CA, warehouse became sentient, creaked and took humanoid form it created Blank Square and their singularly oddpunk debut, Animal I — sounding like the weirder end of Flesheaters but with a sterility that can only be contemporarily compared to Total Control’s Aussie hardcore no-wave and then with a pinch of what made DNA and Mars amazing. This album is captured with plenty of concrete and sheet metal kept in the mix and a highlight towards dissonant syncopations, as if it was recorded in a empty room minus one chair and definitely down a flight of wet, cement stairs. Featuring saxophone with a mild but nauseating-at-times rippling slap delay, the band cruises on a rhythm section that sounds like the they’ve got another house show to play tonight after this one. Rectangular in all the right places, it’s uncomfortable, like sleeping in a car. For listeners who love art in their sax punk, reaching waaaay back into California’s punk history (SST would’ve undoubtedly dug this). There you go, weirdos.

Tracks

1. One Way
2. Bangers
3. Empty My Head
4. Fuc?d
5. Bad Acid
6. Quark
7. Put A Lid On It
8. I Was High
9. Charmer
10. Exit Saint
11. Tape Measure
12. Youth Trash

Press

? Debut of Bayshore, California odd-punk
band
? For fans of UV Race, Useless Eaters, The
Fall, the 80s and young Greg Ginn

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VARIOUS - 'THE HIRED HANDS: A TRIBUTE TO BRUCE LANGHORNE'

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• SCTR43CD - 2xCDs

  086547999991

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Compiled by Dylan Golden Aycock, Loren Connors, and Suzanne Langille, The Hired Hands is an homage to one of the greatest and most infamous guitarists alive, Bruce Langhorne. His music has influenced and touched a lot of lives over the years, either through his soundtrack work with Peter Fonda or his studio work in the 1960s as the go-to hired hand for Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Richie Havens, Odetta, and many others. Browsing his wikipedia page, one is informed of the volume of work he accomplished throughout the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s. Scissor Tail Editions was lucky enough to release Langhorne’s score to Peter Fonda’s 1971 anti-western The Hired Hand on vinyl in 2012. Artists were asked to cover or reinterpret a song of their choice from the soundtrack. No rules were made on whether the music should be derivative of a certain song — if the soundtrack inspired a mood, then the artist could use their intuition. Langhorne has come on hard times in recent years, having suffered a stroke that prevents him from playing the guitar. A large percentage of the profits for this tribute go to Langhorne and his family. Bruce Langhorne Hired Hand OST (SCTR007) 784682083185 LP $19.98 • Tribute to Bruce Langhorne features Lee Renaldo, Scott Tuma, Alan Licht & Steve Shelley, John Fahey, Eugene Chadbourne, Daniel Bachman, and many more • Liner Notes by Byron Coley

Tracks

1. Paul Metzger ? Opening
2. Lee Ranaldo ? Harry And Hannah
3. Susan Alcorn ? Hello Goodbye Hello
4. Steve Gunn ? For Bruce
5. C Joynes ? No Further
6. Loren Connors ? Response to Windmill
7. Laura Ortman ? Spring
8. Talk West ? Riding Thru the Rain
9. Padang Food Tigers ? Left Me For Harry
10. Tim Rutili ? in the clearing when the deer comes
and the kid tries to keep as still as possible
11. Nathan Bowles ? Windmill
12. Scott Tuma ? Song in B
13. James Jackson Toth ? Stumpranchers
14. Greg Anton ? Three Balls Blues
15. Tom Carter ? Spring
16. Alan Licht & Steve Shelley ? Ending
17. House and Land ? Ocarine
18. Wes Tirey ? Horsedreamer
19. Chris Corsano ? For Bruce Langhorne
20. John Fahey ? Red Cross, Disciple Of Christ Today
21. Eugene Chadbourne ? Graveyard (Dead Girl)
22. White Out ? Another Windmill
23. Daniel Bachman ? The Sound of the Sun
24. Nathan McLaughlin ? Dust Clouds for Bruce
25. Matthew De Gennaro ? The Payador?s Dream
26. Marc Edwards ? Riding Thru The Rain (Response)
27. Elliott Sharp ? Eon Blur Changer
28. Dylan Golden Aycock ? Three Teeth
29. Andrew Burnes ? Arch Leaves
30. Boxhead Ensemble ? The Eleventh Hour
31. Lake Mary ? In The Garden (No Further Need)
32. Chuck Johnson ? Mastic

Press

Tribute to Bruce Langhorne features Lee Renaldo, Scott Tuma, Alan
Licht & Steve Shelley, John Fahey, Eugene Chadbourne, Daniel
Bachman, and many more

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R.I.P. - 'IN THE WIND'

Formats

• EZRDR073 - 2xLPs

  603111715513

• EZRDR073CD - CD

  603111715520

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Operating on the belief that heavy metal didn’t come from the forest or beam down from outer space, but rather that it crawled up out of the sewer and writhed to life in the grit and grime of the streets, the four rock n roll freaks of R.I.P. call their sound ”Street Doom” and spread the message with heavy touring across the United States. Obsessed with death and disgusted with the scene, they dragged their knuckles into the studio in 2016 and excavated a debut LP dedicated to fear and trembling, calling it In The Wind . R.I.P. is defined by fast, regressive riffs, terrified vocals, live shows akin to near-death experiences, and steadfast adherence to the notion that doom isn’t how slow or de- tuned you can play, but the combination of fear, death, and leather. In The Wind is just the right level of down ’n’ dirty guttural rock that cuts and chews with raw fury. The Portland, OR quartet — guitarist Angel Martinez, vocalist Fuzz, bassist John Mullett and drummer Willie D. — echoes the grimy vibe of legends like Saint Vitus, Pentagram and Motorhead , with the no b.s. aesthetic of the early Metal Massacre compilations.

Tracks

The Scythe

Into The Wind Part 1

Tremble

Black Leather

Smoke And Lightning

Into The Wind PT. 2

The Tombstone

Bereaved

Brave In The Grave

Into The Wind Part 3

Press

Metal Injection raves, "It's anything but your standard doom record.
R.I.P.'s sonic signature sounds like an old school rock 'n' roll band that takes its cues
from the likes of Dead Kennedys and Ghoul."

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