PLOSIVS - 'S/T'

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• SWA156 - LP

  733102725211

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Plosives—denoting consonants that are produced by stopping the airflow by using the lips, teeth or palate, followed by a sudden release of air, the misspelling of PLOSIVS is intentional. In audio recording it refers to the loud, vocal pop created by the hard consonant that overwhelms the microphone and causes it to distort. So what does this have to do with a new, angular and melodic punk band from San Diego? Perhaps their affection for this anomaly is celebrated and is symbolic of their appreciation for imperfection. Or maybe the word just sounds cool to them. Although PLOSIVS is a new outfit of very young, handsome men, personally, they have accomplished much in their early careers. Vocalist / guitarist Rob Crow is known for being in Pinback, Heavy Vegetable, Thingy, Physics and hundreds more. The length of drummer Atom Willard’s résumé rivals a CVS receipt and is a who’s who of alternative rock royalty: Against Me!, The Offspring, Rocket From The Crypt, Danko Jones, Social Distortion and Angels And Airwaves. Jordan Clark played bass with Mrs. Magician and guitar for The Frights and The Soaks. And prior to PLOSIVS, guitarist John Reis was and still is associated with Hot Snakes, Drive Like Jehu, Rocket From The Crypt, Night Marchers, The Sultans. Together, they independently isolated during what then seemed like the height of the pandemic (October 2020). After a short duration of ideas passed back and forth, they convened as a group for the very first time at Singing Serpent Studio in San Diego with Ben Moore at the controls and recorded this ten-song self-titled record. A foundation of guitar dissonance, velocity and harmonic interplay is the basis for its concept in creating tension and release. The rhythm section is not content to merely fortify the bedrock. Instead, jet propelled, accents lash and Earth is moved. Crow’s voice is the guide that illuminates the implied melody. His easy tone contradicts the hectic atmosphere yet its compatibility invents the entire mood. Together, PLOSIVS is something only this assemblage of “road dawgs” could develop and create during these uncertain times.

Tracks

1. Hit The Breaks
2. Rose Waterfall
3. Thrown Clear
4. Never Likely
5. Broken Eyes
6. Pines
7. See You Suffer
8. Iron Will
9. Pray For Summer
10. Bright

Press

PLOSIVS is a new band with some very familiar faces. Their debut
single is a fired- up, punky indie rock song that basically sounds like
the middle ground between Pinback and Hot Snakes.
- Brooklyn Vegan

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PINHEAD GUNPOWDER - 'GOODBYE ELLSTON AVENUE'

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• GO81 - LP

  767870665776

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The third album by Pinhead Gunpowder. What began as a recording project had become an enduring band, and this 1997 release is proof. The members brought the sounds of their other groups—Redmond Shooting Stars, Uranium 9 Volt, The Big Cats, and Green Day— but joined together to make something new and unique. Originally released on Lookout Records, this thirteen-song LP has been recut at 45 RPM and comes on limited exclusive color vinyl

Tracks

1. Life During Wartime 2. Without Me
3. High Maintenance 4. Backyward
Flames 5. Song Of My Returning
6. Once More Without Feeling
7. I Walk Alone 8. Train Station
9. Homesick Hopes 10. Brother
11. Swan Song 12. Work For Food
13. The Great Divide

Press

Reissue of Bay Area punk supergroup with Aaron Cometbus,
Billie Joe Armstrong, Jason White and Bill Schneider
'Billie Joe at his punk-rock best' - Kerrang!

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WYATT E - 'āl bēlūti dār'

Formats

• SBR088 - LP

• SBR088CD - CD

Details

: āl bēlūti dārû (“The Eternal City” in Akkadian language) features two 19 minutes tracks recorded in our Karl-EhmannStrasse home studio, mixed by doom godfather Billy Anderson (Sleep, Om, Melvins,...) and mastered by Justin Weis at Trakworx. The composition of the album results of a challenging use of techniques and instruments never used by the band before: Saxophones, Saz, an unusual use of voices, effects and percussions. 2 drum kits have been tracked simultaneously during most of the album to create some sort of messy vibration coming from a huge crowd. A-side Mušḫuššu (Name of Marduk’s sacred animal) is a well-balanced track driven by a bass groove & featuring Y. Tönnes on the saxophone, ending up in a traditional acoustic outro. B-side Šarru Rabu (“The Great King”) is a military march and shows the band at its best in terms of slowly building up layers to a climax and starting all over again until the final sonic explosion. 

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CHRIS ROBINSON AND HOWLIN RAIN - 'SUCKER / DEATH MAY BE YOUR SANTA CLAUSE'

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• SC48 - 7"

  733102722272

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** SHIPPING NOW FOR 22ND APRIL**April 23rd (RSD US) Silver Current Records releases Chris Robinson and Howlin Rain’s studio-recorded debut together in the form of a special limited edition 7-inch of two sleazy, rip-roaring Mott The Hoople covers: “Sucker” and “Death May Be Your Santa Claus.” “In 2019 CR came and sat in with Howlin Rain in San Francisco at a performance at the Chapel and we played ‘Sucker’ and it was a blast. As the pandemic came in the following year, sit-ins and live gigs were a thing of the past for a while and we turned our heads toward the studio for these kinds of endeavors of kinship and collaboration. CR chose one more of his favorite Mott songs and we were off to the races!” —Ethan Miller

Tracks

1. Sucker
2. Death May Be Your Santa Claus

Press

Chris Robinson (The Black Crowes, Chris
Robinson Brotherhood) guest fronts Bay
Area hard rock giants for two Mott The
Hoople covers!

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THE HEADS - 'FOR MAD MEN ONLY / BORN TO GO (EDIT)'

Formats

• ROOSTER27-7G - 7"

  ORANGE RED

• ROOSTER27-7O - 7"

  GREEN RED

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*****SHIPPING NOW FOR 22ND APRIL RELEASE DATE****** ** TWO VERSIONS: ORANGE AND RED SLEEVE / GREEN VINYL x450 OR GREEN AND RED SLEEVE / ORANGE AND RED VINYL x450 ** Bristol's sike merchants the Heads have a 20 year anniversary to celebrate this week with their THIRD STUDIO album , "Under Sided", originally released in March 2002! . They've decided (!) to release a 4LP/plus boxset of that double album, with a double album of demos, their third peel session, and other such unreleased gems. Thats going to be released at the end of August /September. we'll send more details on that soon, once certain elements of that set are finished! Whilst trawling through the cassettes, CDrs, and ephemera in order to create the forthcoming "Under Sided" 20th anniversary reissue boxset.. the Heads found their cover of May Blitz's "For Mad Men Only", originally released as part of a 70s tribute comp LP on SMALL STONE Records. Also unearthead was their version of Hawkwind's "Born To Go" ..a full on 13 minute unedited version.. (a version of which appeared on the ROCKET Records 10" Out Demons Out. ) how about doing a limited 7" single to announce the boxset's impending release... ideal, once Born To Go was edited down (full version in the boxset, of course!) Simon Price came up with a suitable wraparound sleeve idea.. and the 2 tracks were pressed to vinyl.. 900 (450 of two colours!) have been made. This is a full on, pedals set to stun, grooves set to vibrate sike assault, with the Heads at this point in time revelling in the peak of their psychedelic rock powers, and pretty much obliterating all around, then, and now. This aint no gentle-whimsy-psych indie rock this is the real brown-acid-gobbling mind-melting beast you were warned about..get on board! The Heads will perform a one off show later this year as special guests to friends and peers MUDHONEY at the Electric Ballroom in London September 10th.. tickets on sale now.

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The Heads will perform a one off show later this year as special guests to friends and peers MUDHONEY at the Electric Ballroom in London September 10th.. tickets on sale now.

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