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ALTERNATIVE TENTACLES
Artist: PANSY DIVISION Title: Total Entertainment
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 VIRUS 304 CD
Price: $9.50 Label: Alternative Tentacles
Release
Date:		 8/11/03
***The seventh full-length album from San Francisco's queer punk faves, and the band's first new material in five long years. Total Entertainment is just that, a wide array of entertaining styles that runs from balls-out garage rock to Motown strut to danceclub grooves to banjo-soaked bluegrass, all delivered with humor, mischief, and personal politics.
Artist: ROY, ARUNDHATI Title: Come September - In Conversation With Howard Zinn
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 VIRUS 303 CD
Price: $13.00 Label: Alternative Tentacles
Release
Date:		 8/11/03
***ARUNDHATI ROY--author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The God of Small Things--offers her unique perspective on the US "war on terrorism" as a woman born, raised and educated in India. With lyricism and passion, Roy contextualizes the recent invasion of Iraq with her unflinching analysis of US-sponsored interventions around the globe. Come September also features her conversation with HOWARD ZINN on the writing process and politics of being an artist.
BA DA BING
Artist: COMETS ON FIRE Title: Field Recordings
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 BING 034
Price: $13.00 Label: Ba Da Bing
Release
Date:		 8/11/03
***NOW AVAILABLE ON VINYL!!! The second album from West Coast skull-peelers and daisy-wilting psychedelic stormtroopers COMETS ON FIRE. Joined by an armada of friends and hangers onoincluding TIM GREEN of the FUCKING CHAMPS (who also produced) and BEN CHASNY of SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCEothe band creates towering tombs of natural ethereal beauty and pure sonic destruction set above a cosmic freight train of unhinged riffs and jagged grooves. The band's drummer is more than happy to perform naked, you don't even have to ask.

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go to iTunes to browse downloads for *Comets On Fire "Field Recordings From the Sun"

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BIRDMAN
Artist: MODEY LEMON Title: Thunder + Lightning
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 BMR046CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Birdman
Release
Date:		 8/11/03
***Modey Lemon are a two-man hurricane of sound and a genuine force to be reckoned with. Hailing from Pittsburgh, PA (home of George Romero) and clocking in at barely 20 years of age, The Modey Lemon have developed a sound unlike anyone else's. Guitar, drums and Moog synthesizer, equal parts late '60s hard rock, early '70s hard rock, and early '90s grunge filtered through punk from all three decades. This inventive, creative duo are caked in gritty, high-wattage garage punk and B-movie rock'n'roll, a twisted influence of greaser / garage rock sounds, adjusted with an art punk mentality, channeled through some big amp rawk. This album is packed full of rock nuggets with dirty boogie tempos and challenges the listener with nontraditional ideas. Everything from The Cramps to Iron Maiden to Beck goes into the blender, gets distilled, and comes out one very lethal brew.

Drummer Paul Quattrone is a human whirlwind - the best since Keith Moon or Neil Peart. Frontman Phil Boyd wails like a Banshee and looks like a Calvin Klein model. Hello, ladies, NME says they're "hearththrobs." They've toured the UK to rave response with the Von Bondies, have toured the US extensively, and will do it again in support of this doozy of an album.

Two-man trash rock never sounded so trashy. Rough and raw from the steel jungle of Pittsburgh, these guys bring a new twist...with their low-rent musical ruckus. There's a whole lot going on here, in terms of how this drums, guitar, and moog outfit bring the noise as they bridge the gap between some of Led Zeppelin's raunchier material and early Jesus Lizard. --Rob Ferraz, Exclaim

COMMUNION LABEL
Artist: BITCH MAGNET Title: Ben Hur
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 COMM21CD
Price: $11.00 Label: Communion Label
Release
Date:		 8/11/03
***Masterful pre-emo blast of proto-prog from folks who would go on to form SEAM and VINELAND. Certain fans of Slint and Jawbreaker often site this release as something very special. Includes the King Crimson-esque epic "Dragoon." Engineered by that Albini guy.

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Bitch Magnet "Ben Hur" (The Communion Label)

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GALAXIA
Artist: AMALGAMATED SONS OF REST Title: S/T
Format: 12" Catalog
Number:		 GLX16
Price: $7.50 Label: Galaxia
Release
Date:		 8/11/03
***A porch-warbler's wet dream as WILL OLDHAM (PALACE, BONNIE PRINCE BILLY), JASON MOLINA (SONGS: OHIA), and ALASDAIR ROBERTS (APPENDIX OUT) join forces for some good old fashioned singing and songwriting. Six tracks recorded by PAUL OLDHAM at Rove Studios in September, 2001. Includes a B-side etching for added enjoyment.
IN THE RED
Artist: BLACKTOP Title: I Got A Baaad Feelin' About This
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ITR727
Price: $12.00 Label: In The Red
Release
Date:		 8/11/03
***Blacktop was the first in a series of post-Gories bands led by Mick Collins. In the summer of 1994 he traveled south to Denton, Texas, to collaborate with Darin Lin Wood, Alex Cuervo and Janet Walker and create the band that would be dubbed Blacktop. They wanted a heavier sound than the Gories or Darin's band Fireworks (both bass-less), so they added a bass and plenty of bottom in the production. The result is a mutant cross between The Gories' raw R'n'B skronk and the Birthday Party's overwrought squeal. The record was received warmly by fans and the press alike when it was first released, and tours soon followed. This is about the time everything started to go horribly wrong. Problems with chemistry and chemicals soon ravaged the band and they imploded on the eve of their debut European tour.

I've Got A Baaad Feeling About This - The Complete Recordings collects everything done by the band during their brief existence onto one CD-- their entire album, single sides and tracks found only on the Australian issue of their album. Both the artwork and the mastering have been given serious overhauls to make this an essential purchase for any Detroit garage aficionado.

Artist: COUNTRY TEASERS Title: Secret Weapon Revealed At Last Aka Full Moon Empty Sports Bag
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ITR106CD
Price: $12.00 Label: In The Red
Release
Date:		 8/11/03
***Secret Weapon Revealed At Last aka Full Moon Empty Sports Bag is The Country Teasers' first proper full length album in four years (not counting Science Hat Artistic Cube Moral Nosebleed Empire, a collection of odds and sods released by In The Red last year). On Secret Weapon Revealed At Last/FMSB we find the band at their rawest and most uncompromising-- an unlikely marriage of post-punk, industrial clatter, country, and roots music that is damaged to such a degree that Johnny Cash don't know but Gibby Haynes understands. Oh, we should also mention that the Country Teasers records are designed to offend those with PC values...mainly because those with PC values certainly deserve to be offended deeply. Demented and always unpredictable, the Country Teasers are a true original and one of the last bands that matters.
Artist: FUSE! Title: Breaker Breaker
Format: 7" Catalog
Number:		 ITR104
Price: $4.00 Label: In The Red
Release
Date:		 8/11/03
***THE FUSE!...must be seen to be believed. Described by one local writer as "Crass meets The Who" these three razor sharp hispanic kids from Downey (known mysteriously as F-1, F-2, and F-3) instantly surpass all revolutionary rhetoric by literally attacking their instruments as well as physically assaulting the audience. Fuck spending all day perfecting your chops - this guitar is going RIGHT THROUGH YOUR FUCKING SKULL!!! as you dance uncontrollably to this insane racket of total discontent. But there is actual SONGS there too - and anyone that has peeked into F-2's journal while he's frantically scribbling over sips of that pink tropical shit he's always drinking at Three of Clubs knows that he's nothing short of a mad (re: pissed) genius. The Fuse! are way too impatient to be part of the nameless trendy masses currently aping the Gang Of Four/P.I.L. sound and are way too violent to be any kind of boring punk-blues scholars, so breathe a sigh of relief!!! They are the sound of the new frustration. Two years into their chaotic career and they've already had a local documentary made about them - BEFORE any actual recording have been released!!! Full-length on In The Red in November 2003
Artist: HOSPITALS Title: S/T
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 ITR103
Price: $8.25 Label: In The Red
Release
Date:		 8/11/03
***The mind-numbingly violent sounds of The Hospitals are among the ugliest ever to creep out of Portland, Oregon. This remarkable guitar-and-drums duo assault their instruments and audience in a way that could be described conservatively as wildly aggressive and frantically crazed, deliberately harsh and unapologetically brutal. Drummer / vocalist Adam Stonehouse attacks his kit in a style that has to be seen to be believed (any description would only trivialize it), all the while screaming as if he were passing kidney stones. Guitarist Roddy thrashes away with kinetic and spastic riffs that would make Greg Ginn proud. Influenced by the likes of Flipper, The Scientists, Electric Eels, Japanese noise bands, power tools and pro wrestling, the "music" of The Hospitals is not for the squeamish or feint of heart or eardrum. Brevity is the order of the day here, because, really, how long does one need for the aural equivalent of a knife assault? Seriously.
  • Guitar-and-drums assault for Portland, Oregon
  • In!
  • The!
  • Red!
  • They're no White Stripes, but then again, they're no Happy Flowers, either

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    The Hospitals s/t (In the Red)

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Artist: MYSTERY GIRLS Title: Circles In The Sand
Format: 7" Catalog
Number:		 ITR091
Price: $4.00 Label: In The Red
Release
Date:		 8/11/03
***Knock-out new 7" from these Green Bay whippersnappers. The Myster Girls splatter like the early Yardbirds if they'd hallucinated the future through the eyes of the Stooges & Pagans while guzzling, smoking and snorting everything in sight at the Marquee club just before 6am closing.

And they're barely of drinking age.

Not yer typical teenage fun & games either, these guys have depth and soul & song-writing prowess that few bands reach at any age. Their debut album (self-titled on Trickknee Records) from last year is one of the strongest debuts in eons. The Mystery Girls' sophomore album will be out in early 2004 on In The Red. This band is one in a million folks.

ROBOTIC EMPIRE
Artist: CRESTFALLEN Title: S/T
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ROB027CD
Price: $9.25 Label: Robotic Empire
Release
Date:		 8/11/03
***A mighty new EP from Virginia punk demolition team CRESTFALLEN. A fast, heavy, and soul-exploding stench of metal, thrash, screamo, and grind odors, brought on an epic melodic wind, and shredded in a tornado of pit-inducing mosh energy.

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Go to iTunes to browse downloads for Crestfallen "Crestfallen"

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Artist: DAUGHTERS Title: Canada Songs
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ROB029CD
Price: $9.50 Label: Robotic Empire
Release
Date:		 8/11/03
***THE DAUGHTERS burst forth, middle fingers flying, with a debut album of ultra-brutal, grind-influenced, screaming chaos. Combining thunderous drums with inhumanly fast blasts of squealing high-pitched guitars, manic screams, noise, and huge breakdowns, the band delivers a form of heavy music that is simply crushing.

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Go to iTunes to browse downloads for Daughters "Canada Songs"

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For a complete listing of Midheaven exclusive albums available for download from the iTunes Music service, please visit the Midheaven Mailorder/Revolver USA Downloadables page.
Artist: STOP IT Title: Self Made Maps
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ROB032CD
Price: $8.25 Label: Robotic Empire
Release
Date:		 8/11/03
***The debut full-length offering from Richmond, Virginia rock blasters STOP IT. Dual shouted and yelled vocals accompany frantic yet jangly guitars, intricate bass lines, and manic drumming. Complex, melodic, and heavy.

If you have a recent version of iTunes software on your computer, clicking on the link immediately below should open the iTunes application and take you to that album's iTunes page-- where you can listen to samples and buy this album, or individual tracks:

Go to iTunes to browse downloads for Stop It !!!"Self Made Maps"

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For a complete listing of Midheaven exclusive albums available for download from the iTunes Music service, please visit the Midheaven Mailorder/Revolver USA Downloadables page.
TIGERBEAT 6
Artist: PIMMON Title: Snaps &* Crackles * Pops
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 MEOW053
Price: $6.75 Label: Tigerbeat 6
Release
Date:		 8/11/03
***Snaps*Crackles*Pops is a refreshing take on the idea of pop music by highly acclaimed Australian electronic/ambient musician Pimmon. The elements and original vision of what people have come to love in Pimmon's music-- as well as obvious rhythms, melodies and song structures-- are at the core of an otherwise experimental framework. Overall the tracks reflect an emotional rollercoaster ride from exhilaration to frustration, melancholy and anger. It's very much a personal journey, using an idiosyncratic definition of the term "pop music"-- joyously melodic and catchy, but also chaotic. Similar to Eno's ambient work, Fennesz's Endless Summer or Mike Ink's Gas albums, Snaps*Crackles*Pops unites the freedom of early prog rock with the likes of Flying Saucer Attack, AMM, Amon Düül, Christian Marclay and Sonic Boom's E.A.R. Pimmon manipulates old vinyl records, tapes found at thrift shops, and his young children letting loose on a Korg MS20 synthesizer. He mixes up things with a variety of unconventional sound sources, and gets so lost in file manipulation and mixing that when the final product is complete, there is little recollection as to how it all came together. Talk about a trademark of quality.
Artist: STARS AS EYES Title: Loud New Shit
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 MEOW086
Price: $6.75 Label: Tigerbeat 6
Release
Date:		 8/11/03
***With Rhode Island a few years behind them and Austin soon to be in their rear-view, Steve "Ferrari" and Craig "Four" give you a clattering investigation of what is beautiful. Using warm, reverberating synthesis, shitted-up guitars and dirty microphones, Loud New Shit continues where Enemy Of Fun left off but is a poppier affair altogether. Imagine a Disco Inferno record as produced by Phil Collins, with Faust as the house band. Or the record Dead C never got to make for Teenbeat.

This is an EP, but a generous one, boasting four new originals recorded after their North American tour with Numbers and Cex, as well as carefully selected remixes by other artists, who chose their favorite songs from Enemy of Fun: Icelandic indietronica phenomenom Múm (Fat Cat), New York's Shy Child (El Guapo, ABCs and Touchdown), Los Angeles' Electric Company (Tigerbeat6, Medicine), Portland's Strategy (Kranky, Omco, Nudge), midwest IDM hero Casino Versus Japan (Carpark, City Centre Offices, Wobblyhead). Highlights include a brilliant eight-minute epic reworking of "Our Light" by ambient isolationist originator Main, and Enemy of Fun's most poignant track "Suspension Days" newly reworked by Stars as Eyes themselves.

Stars As Eyes drift further into rocktronica than any of their contemporaries...striking a perfect balance between sunny, anaesthetized tones and post-punk skree. --Skyscraper

Refreshingly various and consistently intriguing. --The Wire

Track listing:

1. Some Life
2. Rotten
3. Guardian Of Cemeteries
4. Song With The Word Disco In The Title
5. Falling Picture (Shy Child Remix)
6. Indelicate Mix (Electric Company Mix)
7. Suspension Days (OK Grades Remix by Stars As Eyes)
8. "Delicate" 1995 Version (Strategy)
9. Our Light (Casino Versus Japan Remix)
10. La Methode Francaise (Dwayne Sodahberk Remix)
11. Resistance Days (Múm Nostalgia)
12. Time Dilation (Main "Our Light" Remix)
VIOLENT TURD
Artist: PUZZLEWEASEL Title: Farvel Til Slaegt Og Venner!
Format: 12" Catalog
Number:		 TURD08
Price: $4.00 Label: Violent Turd
Release
Date:		 8/11/03
***Puzzleweasel is 22-year-old Peter Dahlgren: born in Zürich, lived in Amsterdam and Stockholm, now residing in Aarhus, Denmark. Awakened early one somber Monday morning by a guy muttering about some Music-n-MIDI class starting a few minutes later, the Puzzleweasel was dragged into an in-depth study of Logic Audio (his current software weapon of choice) and studio technique. Combining this newly acquired knowledge with early musical influences (the twistedness of Texas Faggott, Nam Shub of Enki, the beats of Noia DnB, and the intensity of harsh noise), his ambition was to create what was then lacking in the Scandinavian scene: a full-frontal attack on the dancefloor. Mixing crispy sounds with harsh schizophrenic beats, this tight, four-track EP is an excellent showcase of Puzzleweasel's skillz. Soundwise, these tracks fall somewhere between Richard Devine and Venetian Snares, with a playful sci-fi edge and an unabashed love of throbbing jungle basslines and snarerushes * la Squarepusher and Aphex Twin.

Puzzleweasel has worked with the electronica genius Sofus Forsberg (Jenkamusic.dk), and Sara Saxild of the highly acclaimed Danish instrumental experimental group Underbyen. Recent Puzzleweasel productions delve into more experimental realms; expect a full length album later this year.

Track listing:

1. En Aften Med Hr. Ryan
2. Skrot Råddent
3. Hi3Si2RO Mix
4. 93% Knas Fätt!

  • Swiss (by way of Denmark) cross-genre alchemists' first werk for Violent Turd
  • Sure to win the love, affection and respect of Squarepusher and Aphex fans

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Go to iTunes to browse downloads for Nurse With Wound "Homotopy for Marie"

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