HEAVE BLOOD AND DIE - 'VOL: 2'

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• BFTRS014 - LP

  4046661533019

• BFTRS014CD - CD

  4046661532920

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Music for happy people this ain’t. Heave Blood and Die’s second full length is a sorrowful yet beautiful soundtrack to the fast approaching apocalypse.Seemingly eternal darkness, frosty winds and bleak landscapes - winter in the north is the perfect season for metal. Given this, it comes as no surprise that Scandinavia has the most metal bands per capita in the world. Enter Heave Blood and Die, a quartet from the city of Tromsø, Norway, within the snowy realms of the Arctic Circle. Though hardly in their twenties, this is already the band’s second offering on Blues For The Red Sun Records and a fierce step forward. Vol. II is a breath of fresh air in the doom scene, blending both the familiar and strange in its dual guitar- and synth-driven sound. While the songs plod heavily at doom metal tempos, synth player Marie Sofie Langeland Mikkelsen interweaves epic melodies, biting saw waves and subtle ambiance into their dark sound. Heave Blood And Die most obviously draw inspiration from contemporaries such as YOB, Pallbearer, Sunn O))) and Converge, but echoes from the past can still be heard in their music, from Black Sabbath to Joy Division and Black Flag. Vol. II captures all this along with their unique energy and catchy desperation. This concept album will be released digitally in two parts: Part I: Daggers and Part II: Flowers. Completed and reinforced by fantastic original cover art, the music lets listeners into a cold and dark parallel universe. Vol. II is released by Blues From The Red Sun Records and distributed in Europe by Stickman.

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DICK STUSSO - 'IN HEAVEN'

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• HAR103 - LP

  0098787310313

• HAR103CD - CD

  0098787310320

• HARCS103 - MC

  0098787310344

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That old blues hound dog Bonnie Raitt probably sang it best and most lucid in her timeless, pedestrian hit “Nick of Time": “Life gets mighty precious when there's less of it to waste.” And so now, her wise lyrical turn seems to be ringing true for Oakland muso Dick Stusso. When we last caught up with this Bay Area BBQ gaucho on his debut, Nashville Dreams, he'd hit that special zen layer of loserdom. He’d thrown up his hands into the folly of failure. He was the affable, bumbling red-cheeked drunk lurking around the edges of the cookout — bumming smokes, putting down all the white wine and cocktail shrimp he could get away with. But now, a couple years on, that early-30s existential dread has crept its way into Dick’s purview. With his sophomore long-player In Heaven, Stusso's numbered human days are on his mind. Without stumbling into pomposity, Dick has taken back the wheel on his life and is doing a bit of hotdogging. The album sounds so assured, you'd never guess the whole endeavor was almost completely down the tubes. “I was about 75% done with the album and then my apartment got burgled,” Stusso said of In Heaven’s bummer origins. “They took it all.” Having laid it almost exclusively to tape, there weren’t even files to pull from. But what seemed like another sour turn for Dick actually ended up being a little lemon zest in his G&T. He ended up teaming with psych visionary producer Greg Ashley in a defunct old church, making for a leap in fidelity on In Heaven. The new peacock strut to Dick's vague longing and malaise suits his countrified T. Rex sound quite well. Exhibit A: album standout “Modern Music,” a sort of State of the Union and State of the Soul all set over a warm, gauzy glam bass line. “Nobody wants to look at the dark heart, I don’t blame you/Nobody wants to look at the dark heart, myself included,” he sings a low-register Orbison sneer. “I’m just looking for a good time and a little cash-uh.” Employing deft songcraft, which includes a wide open ambient midsection to really get you thinking about The Void, Dick manages to take down both capitalism and the bullshit conditions of human mortality without sounding all that put out by either.

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01. Well Acquainted 2:55
02. The Bullshit Century Pt. 1 3:01
03. Up the Stream 2:44
04. Modern Music 4:51
05. Addendum 1:07
06. Phasing Out 2:06
07. Getting Loose 3:13
08. Terror Management 3:21
09. The Big Car Commercial Payout 3:25
10. In Heaven 3:12

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LAUGHING HYENAS - 'MERRY GO ROUND'

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• TMR509 - 2xLPs

  813547025548

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In partnership with seminal punk label Touch & Go Records, we are re-issuing for the first time in 25+ years the full discography of punishing Michigan hardcore punk blues band Laughing Hyenas, remastered from the original analog tapes by Bob Weston. Formed in the mid 80s wreckage of American punk and hardcore, Laughing Hyenas were comprised of staples of the Detroit punk scene, including John Brannon (Negative Approach) and Larissa Strickland (L Seven) along with the locked-in rhythm section of Kevin Strickland and Jim Kimball. Groundbreaking, game-changing and some of the scariest records to come out of Detroit...or anywhere. The Hyenas travelled to Smart Studios in Wisconsin to record Merry Go Round, marking the start of a creative partnership with producer/engineer Butch Vig that would result in three of the most groundbreaking, game changing and scariest records to ever come out of Detroit...or anywhere. BONUS: "Soul Kiss" - originally on tape version (first time on vinyl) "Candy" - 7" b-side "Dedications to the One I Love" (live) "Don't Bouge My High" (live) "Public Animal #9" - from Sub Pop single club 7"

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1. Stain
2. Hell?s Kitchen
3. That Girl
4. Gabriel
5. Playground
6. What Tomorrow Brings
7. Soul Kiss
8. Candy
9. Dedications to the One I Love (Live)
10. Don?t Bouge My High
11. Public Animal #9

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"The scariest band i've ever seen" - Aaron Dilloway

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LAUGHING HYENAS - 'YOU CAN'T PRAY A LIE'

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• TMR471 - LP

  813547025500

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In partnership with seminal punk label Touch & Go Records, we are re-issuing for the first time in 25+ years the full discography of punishing Michigan hardcore punk blues band Laughing Hyenas, remastered from the original analog tapes by Bob Weston. Formed in the mid 80s wreckage of American punk and hardcore, Laughing Hyenas were comprised of staples of the Detroit punk scene, including John Brannon (Negative Approach) and Larissa Strickland (L Seven) along with the locked-in rhythm section of Kevin Strickland and Jim Kimball. Groundbreaking, game-changing and some of the scariest records to come out of Detroit...or anywhere. Taking the name from a Mark Twain line, the Laughing Hyenas went back into Smart Studios with Butch Vig to record their debut full-length You Can’t Pray A Lie. The Hyenas further elaborated on the template that Merry Go Round set. Kevin, Jim and Larissa lay down deceptively simple hillbilly voodoo blues that at the same time is so rhythmically complex you’re never quite sure what’s going on. Brannon’s vocals are as frenzied and intense as ever. With the balance and everything just right on YCPAL, our dear Hyenas recorded and released one of the milestone/ cornerstone albums of the 1980s American underground music scene.

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1. Love?s My Only Crime
2. Seven Come Eleven
3. Black Eyed Susan
4. Lullaby And Goodnight
5. Sister
6. Desolate Son
7. Dedications To The One I Love
8. New Gospel

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"Laughing Hyenas were one of the defining jewels of this era" - Thurston Moore

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SHARK TOYS - 'LABYRINTHS'

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• ITR316 - LP

  759718531619

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“Whether you know it or not, Shark Toys are one of the best bands in LA…and they have been for quite some time. I think the Urinals would agree and now they can finally call them labelmates. Their first single came out back in 2009, but Labyrinths is a far more developed record than that or any of their subsequent releases. Gone are most of Danny Clodfelter’s former band members, but not because of some Mark E. Smith-type drama. The turnover is more likely due to nearly a decade passing and life happening. That said, this current line-up is by far the strongest. “Drummer Emanuel Farias and bass-man Bill Gray (formerly of The Mae Shi, Man’s Assassination Man, and a million other Smell bands) are one of the tightest rhythm sections in 21st century post-punk. They allow Clodfelter to do what he does best: thrash and wail all over his Fender six string. His angular guitar attack is well informed (by thousands of obscure punk and post-punk records) and executed (albeit after no more or less than three beers) and Gray and Farias hold it down so effectively, one might make the incorrect assumption that they’re playing sober. “This album at times reminds one of Weirdo Rippersera No Age on Tyvek uppers. There’s an occasional sax skronk, piano plink-plunk, and the spare synth squiggle here and there, but more often than not it’s a batch of fouron-the-floor pogo-friendly numbers that will have even the most jaded message board lurkers rethinking what the Los Angeles underground has to offer. Shark Toys are proofpositive that the local scene is a hell of a lot deeper than the LA River.” —Lance Barresi / Permanent Records

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1. Let?s Follow (City Lights) 2. Start Over Again 3. Far Away From You 4. That?s How I Escaped My Certain Fate 5. No Escape 6. Negativity 7. In Between 8. Maze 9. Time Signatures 10. Confusion 11. Three Dogs 12. Walking 13. How I Got Here 14. Jazz Suss

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? LA post-punk band featuring member of The Mae Shi, Man?s Assassination Man, and a million other Smell bands ? For fans of Weirdo Rippers-era No Age, Tyvek, and the Urinals

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SIMPLY SAUCER - 'CYBORGS REVISITED'

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• ITR300 - 2xLPs

  759718530018

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Simply Saucer’s Cyborgs Revisited is an explosive time capsule from one of the great Canadian cult rock ‘n’ roll groups. Formed in Hamilton, Ontario, these sci-fried proto-punks created a sound fusing Hawkwind, The Kinks, Pink Fairies, Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, and the omnipresent Velvet Underground. Originally recorded from 1974-1975, the album became a critically revered classic when it was finally unearthed in 1989 by Mole Records. Now, In The Red is proud to release the definitive, remastered double album edition featuring new liner notes by band biographer Jesse Locke, unseen images, and the complete live recordings available as a second album for the first time ever. As a means to escape his oppressive experiences while living in a practice space surrounded by biker gangs, singer and fretboardshredding guitarist Edgar Breau wrote a set of songs filled with dystopian visions of the future, conjuring metalloid thugs, Eva Braun’s cyanide love affair, and “dancing the mutation.” With nimble-fingered bassist Kevin Christoff, clatterwauling drummer Neil DeMerchant, and electronic cosmonaut John “Ping Romany” LaPlante (Breau’s foster brother and answer to Pere Ubu’s Allen Ravenstine), his lyrics were launched into a sonic supernova. Their first recording session took place in the basement of brothers Bob and future superstar producer Daniel Lanois and was initially intended as a demo. Naturally, interest was non-existent for the sneering six-song set. It’s shocking how anyone could have overlooked “Bullet Proof Nothing,” an undeniably catchy VU-swiping anthem for the used, abused, and confused. Shelving these sessions, the band ascended into the future with 15-year-old drummer Tony Cutaia. This set off a series of gigs before the band touched down on the roof of a local shopping center! Following their 2006 reformation, Simply Saucer continue to tour and perform to ecstatic fans while being celebrated with a belated wave of releases, reissues, and documentation, including a rarities compilation, Jesse Locke’s book Heavy Metalloid Music: The Story of Simply Saucer (Eternal Cavalier Press), and an upcoming 7-inch. At long lost and at the top of this towering stack, In The Red’s expanded reissue of Cyborgs Revisited gives the Canadian cult classic the deluxe treatment it so greatly deserves.

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1. Instant Pleasure 2. Electro Rock 3. Nazi Apocalypse 4. Mole Machine 5. Bullet Proof Nothing 6. Here Come The Cyborgs Pt.1 7. Here Come The Cyborgs Pt.2 8. Dance The Mutation 9. Illegal Bodies 10. Here Come The Cyborgs (live) 11. Dance The Mutation (live) 12. Gonna Throw It All Away (live) 13. Limitless Love (live) 14. I Can Change My Mind (live) 15. Illegal Bodies (live) 16. Rock ?n? Roll Brain Cells (live) 17. Sweet Jane / I?m Waiting For The Man (live) (bonus digital track)

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Expanded deluxe reissue of the sci-fi proto-punk classic from 1974-1975 For fans of Hawkwind, The Kinks, Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, and The Velvet Underground ? Includes digital download with bonus track

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WAXAHATCHEE - 'LIVE AT THIRD MAN RECORDS'

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• TMR464 - 7"

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Waxahatchee is the solo project of Katie Crutchfield, an Alabama songwriter long steeped in the Rutgers/Philadelphia scenes with releases on Don Giovanni and Merge Records. Crutchfield has carved out a distinct name for herself as a devastating and whip-smart writer and performer. The B-side is her original “La Loose”, showcasing her soaring crystal vocal chops a la Anne Briggs, and the A-side is a powerfully stark cover of Lucinda Williams’ “Greenville” that has been a staple of her live set for years

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PILL - 'LIVE AT THIRD MAN RECORDS'

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• TMR449 - 7"

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Hot on the heels of a groovy and unglued no-wave full-length on well-lauded Mexican Summer, Pill rolled into the illustrious Blue Room in Nashville, TN to play a show and use a couple recorded tracks for a live 7". In fact, sax player Ben Jaffe was celebrating his birthday that night, and, fueled by Third Man hospitality and tequila, he played some of the most out there horn the band had seen in their time together. These recordings fully capture that energy. The A-side “Afraid of the Mirror" you’ve gotta hear to believe. While the eponymous mantra drills into your head, the equally churning upfront bass line is sewn into an expert-level percussive fracas. Not for beginners. “T.V. Wedding” is an downhill, apocalyptic kraut jam driven forward by pulsating saxophone improvisation taking lead all over the track.

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"Afraid of the Mirror" b/w "T.V. Wedding"

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MARCHING CHURCH - 'LIVE AT THIRD MAN RECORDS'

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• TMR435 - 7"

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Formerly the solo project of Iceage frontman Elias Bender Rønnenfelt, Marching Church has since blossomed into a full band, found a home on Brooklyn’s Sacred Bones record label, and cultivated a following all its own. The sounds are darkly romantic and rife with an angst that can be traced back the post-punk caterwaul of Bauhaus and The Birthday Party. These songs, with heavy-breathed conflict and desperation fully intact, will be the first live document of Marching Church’s full-audience command of attention

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THE SUNSET STRIP - 'THE ENDLESS SEA'

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• GREV03 - LP W/ CD

• GREV03CD - CD

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**INSTOCK AND SHIPPING LIMITED STOCK **The Sunset Strip returns in 2018 to the psych instrumentals that dotted the band's earlier releases. Billed as "Soundtracks from unreleased films.' Take a pinch of moog-mellotron moodscape, a dash of Can-influenced Krautrock and a soupcon of Set The Controls freak out and you have the psychedelic gumbo that is The Endless Sea. Melbourne/Geelong elders the Sunet Strip soar out into the stratosphere with this album, blissful and as siked as you want. 200 copies presson blue vinyl (we got 25!) and limited CD version too. 

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Side A
The Ascension Into The Endless Sea 19:18

Side B
Song Of Love 2:52
The Vanishing Nothing 1:48
The Pilgrim / Dogs Of War 9:51
The Light 1:45
Blue Star 0:47
The Disappearing Distance Between Us 2:46

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O - 'LIVE AT THIRD MAN RECORDS'

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• TMR437 - 7"

  813547025371

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Ó (formerly Eskimeaux) is the recording project of songwriter and producer Gabrielle Smith. In it’s earliest days, the project was markedly experimental, the work of an artist with a knack for ambience and a fascination with sound. The next wave of material, most of what landed on 2011’s Two Mountains, didn’t quite read as a solo project anymore and represented a shift toward traditional song structures, albeit still happily atmospheric, nature-centered musings on how to fi nd one’s place in the world. Their live 7” features two intimate yet momentous songs, “Alone at the Party” and “Broken Necks”, both from 2015’s O.K., the bedroom pop tour de force released on Double Double Whammy Records. “Broken Necks” is notably arresting as the fi rst 40 seconds is a fi nger-picked invitation to the audience to join in singing the chorus, only to explode into full band ferocity with Smith’s saccharine, solid vocals uniting naturally with her backing band, Oliver Kalb (synthesizer), Felix Walworth (drums), and Jack Greenleaf (bass).

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A1. Broken Necks
B1. Alone at the Party

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VIVA L'AMERICAN DEATH RAY MUSIC - 'LIVE AT THIRD MAN RECORDS'

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• TMR398 - 7"

  813547025463

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Viva L’American Death Ray Music began in 1999 as “American Death Ray,” the brainchild of Memphis garage scene stalwart Nicholas Ray. Since then, the project has twisted, turned and head-tripped nominally, to its current moniker, and sonically, from Velvets-infl uenced jams into an amalgam of truly exploratory punk, no wave, electronic and psychedelic rock music. This live 7” will be their fi rst music since their 2013 single, a 7” split released by Memphis big wigs Goner Records. The tracks featured are “The Painter” and “Falling”, both previously unreleased! A highlight is during the A-side, whose repetitive mantra “I am the painter, not the paint”, channels a damaged, American Mark E. Smith, defi nitely for fans of his work. The B-sde showcases what could be an outtake from Alex Chilton’s addled masterpiece “Like Flies on Sherbet”, a barroom song if there ever was one.

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A1. The Painter
B1. Falling

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