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ALTERNATIVE TENTACLES
Artist: BIAFRA, JELLO Title: Machine Gun In Clown's Head
Format: 3xCD Catalog
Number:		 VIRUS 290 CD
Price: $17.50 Label: Alternative Tentacles
Release
Date:		 11/18/02
***JELLO BIAFRA follows his critically acclaimed Big Ka-Boom album with another in-depth spoken word explosion. This time in, Jello takes on the current war on terrorism--and how it's gone wrong--and then unloads on the 2000 Florida election. Eyebrows will be raised, conceptions will be altered, and, three discs later, consciousness will be challenged.

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Artist: BIAFRA, JELLO Title: Machine Gun In Clown's Head
Format: 3xLP Catalog
Number:		 VIRUS 290
Price: $21.50 Label: Alternative Tentacles
Release
Date:		 11/18/02
Artist: CHOMSKY, NOAM Title: New War On Terrorism
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 VIRUS 293 CD
Price: $13.00 Label: Alternative Tentacles
Release
Date:		 11/18/02
***"In his most anticipated lecture ever, US foreign policy expert NOAM CHOMSKY dissects the "war on terrorism," focusing on the historical love-hate relationship between the United States and so-called terrorists. Facts neglected by news outlets and self-contradictions within US policies themselves serve as Chomsky's ammunition in his cutting analysis of why the atrocities of 9/11 occurred, and why military coercion won't end terrorism in our 'homeland' and beyond."
Artist: ZINN, HOWARD Title: Artists In A Time Of War
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 VIRUS 292 CD
Price: $13.00 Label: Alternative Tentacles
Release
Date:		 11/18/02
***"In a lecture delivered on October 10, 2002, noted radical historian HOWARD ZINN provides an alternate perspective on war focusing on writers and artists such as Mark Twain and Langston Hughes. While blind patriotism dominates post 9/11 America, Zinn gently reminds us that pride in one's country comes not from the words and deeds of government, but from the action of working people."
BROKEN REKIDS
Artist: TRAMPS Title: S/T
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 SKIP98CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Broken Rekids
Release
Date:		 11/18/02
***The debut album from this up-and-coming San Francisco punk trio comprised of former members of WORKIN' STIFFS, THE SHRINKS and KILLSWITCH. Male and female vocalsóboth singing and screamingóover some terrifyingly catchy garage and pop-punk riffing. Recorded and produced by KEVIN ARMY.

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go to iTunes to browse downloads for The Tramps "The Tramps"

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COG SINISTER
Artist: FALL, THE Title: Early Singles
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 COGVP136
Price: $13.00 Label: Cog Sinister
Release
Date:		 11/18/02
***Features all the early singles from the FALL's time at Step Forward Records, encapsulating the first two years of the band's existence. From 1978's "Bingo Masters Breakout" to the vicious rockabilly of "Fiery Jack," the material on this album spent years out of print, changing hands on increasingly scratchy vinyl. Two bonus tracks are included which were previously only available on the long deleted Live At The Electric Circus compilation. They might have got louder but they never got any stranger than this.
Artist: FALL, THE Title: Extricate
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 COGVP142
Price: $13.00 Label: Cog Sinister
Release
Date:		 11/18/02
***An immediate Fall album; cosmetically impressive, even on first spin, it grabs your lapels and itches your feet. Inevitably, as you gently open your ears to its host of subtexts, you'll find the specifics equally as satisfying. Mark's suffering was obviously worth it. Three different producers - Coldcut, Adrian Sherwood and Craig Leon. --NME

When Brix divorced Mark E. Smith and left the Fall in 1989, it marked a shift back to the darker, more chaotic (though "boldly dance-oriented") sound of their early albums, as shown on this first post-Brix album from 1990.

SCAT
Artist: GUIDED BY VOICES Title: Cd Box
Format: 5xCD Catalog
Number:		 SCAT40CD
Price: $40.00 Label: Scat
Release
Date:		 11/18/02
***The question about The Guided by Voices Box is always, "Is it different than the original?" Yes and no. It contains the same music, still contains five discs, and has pretty much the same art on the slipcase. The art has been redone out of necessity, but any visual changes are minor. Nothing from the original pressing has been lost, aside from poor-quality upside-down scans. The biggest change is a switch from five digipaks to three jewel boxes.

Box compiles the first four Guided By Voices albums, namely Devil Between My Toes, Sandbox, Self Inflicted Aerial Nostalgia, and Same Place the Fly Got Smashed. Each is different in character, but all are quite recognizably GBV. They were originally released on vinyl only on various invented record labels in pressings of 300 to 1000 copies.

Box also includes a fifth disc, King Shit and the Golden Boys, material on which is an equal division of the best Bee Thousand outtakes and the best tracks from the lost "shit-canned" albums Back to Saturn X and Learning to Hunt.

TIGERBEAT 6
Artist: CRACK: W.A.R. (WE ARE ROCK) Title: Silent Fantasy
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 MEOW066CD
Price: $6.75 Label: Tigerbeat 6
Release
Date:		 11/18/02
***Morbid dance music. Inspired as much by Titicut Follies as Black Sabbath, this is the death of disco (or metal - same thing, anyway). Crack: W.A.R. presents six tracks of haunted carnivals, socially retarded cabaret and the loneliness of being lost at sea. Drum machines and synths, sure, but Crack: W.A.R. is a band; innocence up front and something a little more impish in the back. King Riff, Obscuratron, Le Kim and L'Erin all create a cacophonous din of electro-smash complemented by L'Erin and Le Kim's schoolyard taunt vocals. Their sold-out self-released debut 12-inch split with Ann Arbor's Wolf Eyes gave only a slight indication of the misery to come. Silent Fantasy is their first release for Tigerbeat6 and fits in well with the work of the other inmates. Next time someone decides to take over the teen center or burn down the local theater, Crack:W.A.R. will be off to the side taking notes. Death Disco? Electro-chaos? Punktronica? Sure, call it whatever you want. Nobody is listening to you anyway.
  • Aesthetically not unlike ABBA... a scary mental patient named ABBA, that is
  • Recently toured the U.S.; Detroit, New York City and Shreveport will never be the same
  • Strong female-to-male musician quotient
  • Disco for Andrew W-K fans, or metal for Blondie fans, or Adult as re-tooled by Throbbing Gristle-- much farther beyond electro-kitsch and drooling computer nerds eager for any electronic band with a girl in it

    30-second RealAudio excerpts:

    Hooker Leg
    Cold as Ice
    The Sabbath
    Cave
    Sailor
    Animal Trap

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    Crack:WAR "Silent Fantasy" (Tigerbeat6)

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Artist: V/A Title: Paws Across America
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 MEOW067CD
Price: $6.75 Label: Tigerbeat 6
Release
Date:		 11/18/02
***To commemorate its first label tour of the United States and Canada (over 40 dates in 45 days), Tigerbeat6 presents a full-length compilation of all new and exclusive tracks by the artists on the tour. That's two or three tracks tracks each from Numbers, Cex, and Stars As Eyes, all of whom who are doing the entire tour, and one track each from other Tigerbeat6 artists playing at least once along the way. Expect thrills and chills from Cex's folky, Neptunes-type song and a track that can only be described as "industrial IDM hiphop." Numbers' official Tigerbeat6 tour anthem "Go To Show" proclaims repeatedly how one must go to every show. Stars As Eyes truly impress with a full-on guitar-vocals-and-laptop cover of Jessamine's "Cellophane," as well as a grand and sweeping new instrumental. Also included are the sweet and tuneful electronica of Nudge, Electric Company, and Nathan Michel, and the absolutely twisted, mind-numbing, beat-infused electronics of Knifehandchop, Uprock and Zeigenbock Kopf.

Track listing

1. Numbers Go To Show
2. Stars As Eyes Cellophane
3. Original Hamster Notorious DSP
4. Cex Wrist Elbow 2
5. Electric Company Tu M'ennuis
6. Numbers I'm Shy (Dwayne Sodahberk Remix)
7. Knifehandchop Taking The Soul Out Of Music vs. Vertical
8. Zeigenbock Kopf Sex With A Man
9. Cex Hate The Game
10. Numbers Prisonlife/Caro's Prison Yard Mix
11. Stars As Eyes Northern Waste
12. Nathan Michel Magellan
13. Nudge Mouthed
14. Uprock (Rhiz) Ruckus Addict

VHF
Artist: FROM QUAGMIRE Title: Caught In Unknowing
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 VHF71
Price: $12.00 Label: Vhf
Release
Date:		 11/18/02
***Working from Dorothy Geller's assured finger-picked and plucked nylon-string guitar, and James Wolf's elegant violin lines, From Quagmire explores a kind of hushed, terse chamber song that is so unlike anything else it's hard to draw comparisons. V2G2's unorthodox interruptions of sawing bowed guitar, free-"jazz" drumming, and other unlikely audio splatter is the wild card that keeps things from getting too austere. Usually it's totally beside the point, but it's worth mentioning that unlike most underground folk/outsider weirdness, the music here is superbly recorded in close-up detail.

The Tropic of Barren [presents] slowly unfolding songs that are full of mystery and suspense. "Suite of Windmill and Sycamore" open things with raw and bluesy guitar work played as if every note would be the last one ever played. In the distance a drone starts building up and unorthodox percussion jumps in and out of the speakers.... Dorothy Geller [known, along with From Quagmire violinist James Wolf, for work with chamber rock ensemble Laconic Chamber] plays the nylon string guitar throughout the whole record and it's truly spectacular in the sadly flowing "Suite of Atoms and Media." This drifts right into the aptly titled "Fragment of Watching," which veers off into a slightly more experimental neighborhood, but the nylon guitar just keeps on floating in profoundly sad sound structures as if nothing would have happened. On all six of The Tropic of Barren's tracks, there's space for every tone to breathe and every instrument to speak, resulting in a detailed sonic conversation that'll keep you going well into the endless night. --Mats Gustafsson, Broken Face

Artist: YOUNGSBOWER Title: Relayer
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 VHF72
Price: $12.00 Label: Vhf
Release
Date:		 11/18/02
***The second collaboration between these two stalwart titans of the true UK underground comes eight years after their first pairing on the Site/Realm LP. The title no doubt a nod to the odd resemblance of seven-year-old Rosalie Bower's cover art to another LP of the same title, this Relayer throws out the live methodology of the earlier LP for a dense set of layered studio recordings. Like the music of Matthew Bower's Sunroof! group, the tracks are rainbows of colors and textures with string drone, percussion, bleeps, and the unidentifiable, competing in a mix devoid of the traditional "lead with backing" schema. Many tracks have the kind of welcoming electronic bed seldom heard since the demise of Harmonia, with ring-modulated fuzz bleeping away over a chugging, but non-oppressive beat. Elsewhere, there's Richard Youngs' Riley-style organ ping-pong, a little virtuoso Kalimba, thick wads of analog synth... you know where this is going. So tightly edited and accessible that this would be the perfect summer top-down CD, but what with it being released in November, you'll have to keep it safe until the thaw. Or cruise Australia for Thanksgiving.

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