ANGRY SAMOANS - 'BACK FROM SAMOA'

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• SRLP3550058 - LP

  0021075103410

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**BLUE VINYL**Destructive, mischievous, and politically incorrect are just some of the words to describe L.A.'s Angry Samoans. And with their second album Back From Samoa, they remain to have that inability to care about who's toes they step on; as long as they continue to blast out their aggressions, it's all good. The results are pretty tasteless and without shame with songs like "They Saved Hitler's Cock" and the cuss ridden "Ballad of Jerry Curlan." Then there's the hit-you-from-behind "Lights Out," "Steak Knife," and "You Stupid Jerk," each clocking in under a minute. With this amount of nihilism, "Back From Samoa" can instigate the trouble-maker out of anyone. And give additional credit to the Samoans for being this blunt, PC activists will be screaming for the doors upon hearing this. - AllMusic 

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ANGRY SAMOANS - 'INSIDE MY BRAIN'

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• SRLP3550059 - LP

  0021075103311

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**RED VINYL**This is the album that started it all! Right from the opening guitar chords of "Right Side of My Mind" to Metal Mike's high-pitched vocals -which always sound funny when he's trying to come across all angry, "Inside My Brain" is a non-stop psycho analysis backed up by blaring, tongue in cheek anthems suitable for all those who can't seem to express their anger. Being one of the pivotal bands that fueled the early Southern California punk scene, The Angry Samoans were one of the first bands to prove that one can express their frustrations of day to day life and still have a sense of humor about it; as evident with songs like "You Stupid Assholes" and "My Old Man's a Fatso." And to top it all off, this album was produced by Fear vocalist and all around jerk Lee Ving, who did a decent job capturing The Samoans raw energy. - Allmusic

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A1. Right Side Of My Mind A2. Gimme Sopor A3. Hot Cars A4. Inside My Brain A5. You Stupid Asshole A6. Get Off The Air B1. My Old Man's A Fatso B2. Carson Girls B3. I'm A Pig B4. Too Animalistic B5. Right Side Of My Mind

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UNREST - 'IMPERIAL f.f.r.r.'

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• TB077 - LP

  792487007718

• TB077CD - CD

  792487007725

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Imperial f.f.r.r. was Unrest’s breakthrough album in 1992. It has withstood the test of time and is now considered an indie-rock classic and one of the best albums of the 1990s. Formed in 1984, at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia, the band started releasing homemade cassettes on their own Teenbeat label. Imperial f.f.r.r. is their sixth album and marked the arrival of original Velocity Girl vocalist Bridget Cross joining drummer Phil Krauth and singer/guitarist Mark Robinson. It was recorded by Wharton Tiers (Sonic Youth) at his home studio in Manhattan. After the release of Imperial f.f.r.r., the band released singles on Sub Pop and K and soon thereafter signed to legendary U.K. indie 4AD, releasing their final studio album Perfect Teeth in 1993. This limited edition features the original design and layout of the very first pressing from 1992. All the details have been recreated including the lyric sheet, the blue box around the amplifier on the front, the label art, and even the Ajax and No.6 Records logos. The original didn't have a barcode, so we've created a spiffy new removeable OBI card for that featuring a photograph by Mike Galinsky (The Decline of Mall Civilization) of the band playing at New York's Spiral club in 1991.

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Volume Reference Tone
Suki
Imperial
I Do Believe You Are Blushing
Champion Nines
Sugarshack
Isabel
Cherry Cream On
June
Loyola

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8.2 Unrest loomed as large as Pavement in the '90s. - Pitchfork

?A near-perfect album of indie pop. - All Music Guide

?One of the top 10 albums of 1992.? ? Spin

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ELECTRIC EELS - 'SPIN AGE BLASTERS'

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• SCAT89X - 2xLP (COLOURED)

  753417089013

• SCAT89 - 2xLPs

  753417008915

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***ON LIMITED CLEAR WITH BLACK SWIRLS VINYL AND STANDARD BLACK VINYL The electric eels were the first punk band, full stop. They may not have “started” the genre, but they were the first to tick all the boxes. The eels rejected every 1970s rock convention—professionalism, virtuosity, subject matter, image. Dave E.’s caustic vocals, complete with an aggressive lisp and a head full of snot, would become de rigeur a few years after the group disbanded. Meanwhile, the songs’ focus on car crashes, suicide, neuroses, and generally hating people were as far out of the mainstream as possible. The two eels tracks that do approach the subject of romance couch it in terms of not really caring that much about it (“Jaguar Ride”) or placing it in the context of a grisly murder (“Silver Daggers”). Also consider John Morton’s signature guitar sound, a nails-on-chalkboard tone with brutally free soloing inspired more by Albert Ayler than the blues or aspirations to technical facility. Ditto Dave E.’s clarinet playing and affection for lawnmowers and vacuums during live performance. They were notoriously violent not only among themselves, but towards audiences, police, and anyone unfortunate enough to be around them when things went south. Then of course there are the leather jackets, the clothing festooned with rat traps or safety pins. And no bass player, why bother. There is simply no other “proto” band to have had all these pieces in place circa 1973- 1975. Yet it is a mistake to consider the eels exclusively in such a context. Yes, the eels could and did shock anyone who encountered them, but they also had great songs. While both Dave and John were visionary writers, they also had rhythm guitarist Brian McMahon, a melody and riff machine who wrote many of the band’s signature songs. And they were no one-trick pony. Although much of the band’s material is appropriately high-energy, there is also the downer eels—morbid, harmonically risky, and in full existential crisis. Although it’s not a focus of this compilation, the eels also had a penchant for completely free improvisation. Over the last forty plus years, there have been several electric eels compilations. Spin Age Blasters is quite simply the best one ever assembled, every single key track is here in its best version, properly mastered by John Golden, and sequenced with an eye towards both flow between tracks as well as individation between sides. A true monster of an album.

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1. Splitterty Splat 2. Wreck And Roll
3. You?re Full Of Shit 4. Tidal Wave
5. Refrigerator (alt) 6. Cold Meat
7. Spinach Blasters 8. Jaguar Ride
9. Zoot Zoot 10. Giganto (Cyclotron)
11. Bunnies 12. Roll On, Big O
13. You Crummy Fags 14. No No
15. Sewercide (alt) 16. Silver Daggers
17. As If I Cared 18. Natural Situation
19. Cards And Fleurs 20. Agitated (orig)
21. Cyclotron 22. Black Leather Rock
23. Dead Man?s Curve 24. Safety Week
25. Accident 26. Anxiety
27. No Nonsense

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Essential comprehensive compilation of
proto-punk band active 1972-1975

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WEITE - 'ASSEMBLAGE'

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• PSYCHOBABBLE131LP - LP

  4046661768718

• PSYCHOBABBLE131CD - CD

  4046661768626

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Weite is a new band featuring Nicholas DiSalvo (Elder, delving) and Michael Risberg (Elder) alongside colleagues Ingwer Boysen and Ben Lubin. Assemblage is their first record, an effortlessly eclectic album of lightly psychedelic instrumental music. Winter 2022: Hamburg/Berlin, Germany. Out-of-work musicians litter the streets, tumbling about like so many discarded face masks and empty beer bottles. Amongst this backdrop of boredom and monotony, guitarist/bassist Ingwer Boysen conceived the idea of wrangling some likeminded friends and writing and recording a record within a short period of time. Being a live member of Nick DiSalvo's new band delving together with guitarist Michael Risberg, the two were obvious choices as a certain musical chemistry between the three was already evident. The group recruited Berlin-based English guitarist Lubin to round out the quartet and proceeded to bunker in for a week of intense songwriting in the basement of an old brewery. Sharing their diverse musical interests and swapping instruments frequently, a body of songs was quickly created that channeled a collective love for 60's and 70's psychedelic music, krautrock, jazz and listening to one motorik beat for 20 minutes straight. The troupe set off to record in a short session at Big Snuff Studio with frequent collaborator Richard Behrens and within a few days Assemblage was born. Recording live, Behrens captured the essence of the session, at times mellow and times intense, with the five together then embellishing the raw recordings with a hearty dollop of experimental overdubs. Assemblage is an expression of total creative freedom from four artists exploring music outside the sphere of the projects for which they are known. It is also the beginning of what looks to be a fruitful collaboration reaching into the future, with the first live dates for the band already planned this year. Available on 180gr. black vinyl including download code and on CD

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KING KHAN - 'THE NATURE OF THINGS'

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• EJRCKK199 - LP

  0600064799911

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The Nature of Things is King Khan's follow up to his jazz debut The Infinite Ones, and is titled after a nature television show he grew up watching hosted by David Suzuki. The album by King Khan also features John Convertino (Calexico) on drums, percussion and marimba, Alex White (Fat White Family) on sax and flute, Torben Wesche (King Khan and The Shrines) on saxophone, Davide Zolli (Mojomatics) on percussion and Brontez Purnell (Younger Lovers) on drums and percussion and Maureen Buscareno on Harp.

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01. HANUMAN ALL I NEED IS HER 02. SUZUKI STRUT 03. THE NATURE OF THINGS 04. BRONTEZ BOOTY BEAT 05. TWIN TOWERS 06. SNARLIN' LIL MALCOM 07. SLIVER OF SILVER 08. SPARKLE OF TRUTH 09. THE PARADOX OF LOVE

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MIRANDA AND THE BEAT - 'MIRANDA AND THE BEAT'

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• EJRCKK207 - LP (COLOURED)

  600064800716

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* Debut LP from NYC Garage Rockers * Produced by Nick Zinner from Yeah Yeah Yeahs! Miranda and The Beat are a Rock and Roll band, with all that the term might entail. Drawing from the traditional rock music, as performed by the likes of The Dirt Bombs, The B-52's, MC5, and Ronnie Spector, Miranda and The Beat operate from a clear eyed appreciation of the greats and a healthy, barn-burning disregard for tropes or traditionalist limitations. Garage, soul, punk, classic rock_ pick your poison; the band has plenty to spare. Arriving in New York City in 2018, the band have, through songwriting and performance, proved themselves to be both an essential spark and spearhead to a scene of new blood rockers bringing a much needed renewal of energy to the New York City (garage, rock, whatever) scene. Originally a duo of 21 year old guitarist/vocalist Miranda Zipse and 21 year old drummer Kim "The Beat" Sollecito, the pair quickly added a full band of Kate Gutwald on bass and Dylan Fernadez on organ and soon became known for their tireless, wheel-on-fire live sets driven by Miranda's captivating stage presence, vocal prowess, and her pyrotechnic (but never indulgent!), melodically slashing guitar work. Their live reputation (and a reputation for being neither pushovers nor scumbags) led to collaborations with such childhood idols as The Mystery Lights and Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Soon there was the release of their 7" single Such A Fool, on Jack White's Third Man Records and an extensive North American tour supporting The King Khan and BBQ show. One pandemic later, between days/nights spent sweating out piss, vinegar, and trackloads of tears in the studio, and a rigorous, borderline ridiculous, rehearsal schedule, Miranda and The Beat are, at this juncture, practically monstrous in both sound and vision, and ready to meet the world.

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01. SWEAT 02. OUT OF MY HEAD 03. CONCRETE 04. I'M NOT YOUR BABY 05. NOT MY GUY 06. ODR 07. WHEN ARE YOU COMING HOME 08. TOO AFRAID 09. LET YOU GO 10. DON'T FEEL THE SAME

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"I never thought I would see someone be able to play guitar with the ferocity of Link Wray, and sing like Lydia Lunch had a nuclear meltdown and morphed into Etta James and Yma Sumac. Miranda in the Beat ARE the quintessential heirs to our rock n' roll throne_ May the circle remain unbroken. Consider the torch has not only been passed but its fiery tale is ready to set the whole world on fire all over again." - King Khan "Emperor of RnB"

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