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BIRDMAN
Artist: WARLOCKS Title: Phoenix
Format: 12" Catalog
Number:		 BMR040
Price: $6.75 Label: Birdman
Release
Date:		 8/12/02
Artist: WARLOCKS Title: Phoenix
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 BMR040CD
Price: $8.25 Label: Birdman
Release
Date:		 8/12/02
***The Warlocks have been making a name for themselves for several years with their own brand of psychedelic rock - a swirling grind that conjures the Velvet Underground, The Stooges, Spaceman 3, Neu!, Can, and early Pink Floyd. They deliver the sounds and sights from their powerful, hallucinatory world that these synthetic times need and would do well not to ignore. At the vortex of The Warlocks's cross-fire hurricane - two drummers, four guitarists, bass and keyboards - is guitarist / bassist / lead vocalist Bobby Hecksher. He writes all of the band's songs, which range from fourteen-minute gotterdammerung assaults to pastoral acoustic-strummed meditations; from amazing pop songs to addictive guitar mayhem that anchors the trip. Hecksher was in the Brain Jonestown Massacre for a while, a few years ago, and also played on Beck's Stereo Pathetic Soul Manure album, so you know he's not just blowing smoke up your ass.

They've toured the US extensively and released two fine EPs on the Bomp label, but Phoenix is by far their finest work to date. This EP collects two songs from the full length album (upcoming in September or October 2002) - "Baby Blue" and "Stone Hearts," as well as a number of otherwise unreleased trance-inducing jams and sonic psychedelic wonders. The eight-track CDEP clocks in at over an hour.

FOAD
Artist: THE COUP Title: Steal This Double Album
Format: 2xCD Catalog
Number:		 FOAD4600
Price: $13.00 Label: Foad
Release
Date:		 8/12/02
***Nothing but praise for Steal This Album from all corners:

"A masterpiece of a slow-rolling west coast funk" -Rolling Stone

"Hands down, this is the hip hop album of the year" -URB

"These Bay Area-based cats deserve to be in the same league as Outkast and oodie Mob" -The Source

"Revolution hasn't sounded this good in a while" -XXL "Their best work to date" -Rap Pages

"A funky montage designed to revive our dormant social consciousness" -Hits

"Their most conceptually unified, musically funkified, lyrically hellafied record" -Blaze "A longevity classic" -Rap Sheet

"A tour de force" -Village Voice

IN THE RED
Artist: CHEATER SLICKS Title: Yer Last Record
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ITR087
Price: $12.00 Label: In The Red
Release
Date:		 8/12/02
***The Cheater Slicks have been responsible for some of the raunchiest racket around for more than fifteen years. Atonal and hateful. Music for misanthropes. Fuzzed out, freaked out and bummed out. Psychedelic-garage-noise-pop for miscreants. Music made by misfits for misfits. Tales of transsexuals, suicide attempts and bad acid trips. Eleven brand new slices of sludge so thick it'll clog your stereo speakers.

Started in Boston in 1987, the Cheater Slicks have built a huge body of recorded trash-garage-noise-melancholy pop-psychedelic dementia-rock'n'roll that has gone largely unrecognized by the music press and has made many garage rock purists run for the door. Their music is sometimes abstract and always intrusive and confrontational. Real connoisseurs of truly intense music have recognized the brilliance of this criminally over-looked band.

The Cheater Slicks began as a four piece that included a bass player - first with Merle Allin (GG's brother) and then with Alpo (former member of The Real Kids). After a couple of years the band decided to scale their line up down to a three piece - doing away with bass altogether. The Cheater Slicks recorded for a series of independent labels until in 1992 they called In The Red their home with their third album Whiskey. In 1995 they recorded their fourth album, Don't Like You, with Jon Spencer as producer. The band toured heavily behind this album with The Blues Explosion, Mudhoney and the Red Aunts. Their live shows are played at deafening volume. Mudhoney and the New Bomb Turks have covered their songs. In 1996 the band relocated to Columbus, Ohio where they remain to this day, more reclusive and misanthropic than ever.

Artist: HUNCHES Title: Got Some Hate
Format: 7" Catalog
Number:		 ITR92
Price: $4.00 Label: In The Red
Release
Date:		 8/12/02
***Loud, noisy, aggressive rock n' rollothis is what THE HUNCHES are all about, and they deliver it in spades. Hailing from Portland, Oregan and averaging 21 years of age, The Hunches have knowledge of rock n' roll's heritage that betrays their youth. They draw on all the classic influences one would expect from any great rock n' roll band (Stones, Saints, Captain Beefheart, New York Dolls, Stooges, Cramps, '60s punk, '70s punk, blues, etc.) and manhandle it with an irreverent abrasiveness. A lot of bands are claiming similar influences, but The Hunches sound is totally their own. Pure nastiness filtered through rock n' roll romanticism. Just check out "Got Some Hate" for a dose of unadulterated punk rock bile. Their live shows are the things of legendothey tear shit up with reckless abandon. This is raw rock bliss. This is the debut single from The Hunches.

Their debut album, Yes. No. Shut It will be out November 18th, 2002 on In The Red Records.
Artist: REIGNING SOUND Title: Time Bomb High School
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ITR84CD
Price: $12.00 Label: In The Red
Release
Date:		 8/12/02
***The Reigning Sound hails from Memphis, Tennessee and is the latest group from Greg Cartwright - formerly known as Greg Oblivian of the Oblivians. In the Reigning Sound Greg has shed some of his previous outfit's lo-fi blues/punk leanings in favor of a sound that is more lowkey and sincere. On Time Bomb High School Greg sings soulful ballads, countrified dirges and somber songs of heartbreak and unrequited love - the man's heart is clearly on his sleeve. It's not all ballads, however, as the band also blasts out butt-shaking rockers that will please any fan of Greg's previous outfits. The Reigning Sound pays tribute to their Memphis musical heritage with absolutely stomping versions of The Counts' "Stormy Weather," The Guilloteens' "I Don't Believe," and "Brown Paper Sack" by The Gentrys (who featured WWF wrestling manager Jimmy "Mouth of the South" Hart). This is instantly classic Memphis rock'n'roll that ranks up there with the very best work of Alex Chilton.

With [Greg Cartwright's] new band, Reigning Sound ... the man who seemingly has the Midas touch continues to not only exceed lofty expectations but flat-out obliterate them. The sound and style of Reigning Sound ...is definitely not as angry as the Oblivians, nor is it as quirky as the Compulsive Gamblers. That's not to say there isn't a "darkness" to the music - it's just more melancholy than furious or sinister. Any "darkness" evident in these sounds is surprising, considering the cleanliness of the production. It's not what you'd expect but it couldn't be any other way. This is absolute perfection, just the way it is. The astonishing thing is that through ... tales of heartbreak and love lost, these songs still somehow project a spirit of hope. It's inexplicably wonderful. The songs exude such class it's almost like these guys were channeling the spirit of Roy Orbison.... Don't be fooled, though - this definitely isn't a one-man-show. The chemistry between these four musicians is nothing short of frightening. It's even more apparent when you see them play live. Reigning Sound is a machine.- Uncle Dan's House of Smut

Artist: REIGNING SOUND Title: Time Bomb High School
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 ITR84
Price: $8.25 Label: In The Red
Release
Date:		 8/12/02
LATINO BUGGERVEIL
Artist: BUTTHOLE SURFERS Title: Humpty Dumpty Lsd
Format: 2xLP Catalog
Number:		 LBV07LP
Price: $19.50 Label: Latino Buggerveil
Release
Date:		 8/12/02
***A central Austin warehouse is site of the Butthole Surfers' 278-tape archive. Even when living out of a van in the '80s, they managed to hang on to boxes and boxes of tapes. The van was never stolen, miraculously, and the tapes survive unheard until now. Humpty Dumpty LSD contains 16 cherry-picked rare and unreleased recordings from the band's most productive period - 1982 to 1992. From early four-track demos ("Night of the Day") and punk rock anthems ("Just a Boy") to Morricone-ish western theme music ("Eindhoven Chicken Masque") and free form acid freak outs ("Space"), the music here is as messed up as any of the band's finest material.

Humpty Dumpty LSD sounds like a lost Buttholes album from somewhere between Locust Abortion Technician and Hairway to Steven. For those who weren't there when the Buttholes, their pit bull, and a bank of strobe lights then, toured the country playing their own brand of acid punk for those who grew up listening to hardcore but wanted something more, Humpty Dumpty LSD is the next best thing.

  • 69 minutes of previously unreleased or hard-to-find material, from original master tapes
  • A sterling-sounding virtual "lost album" from one of the band's most loved periods
  • More archival material is promised
  • Lovely watercolor cover art by Gibson Haynes

    30-second RealAudio excerpts:

    Night of the Day (1983 four-track recording)
    One Hundred Million People Dead (1987 home eight-track, longer than the earlier P.E.A.C.E. compilation version)
    I Love You Peggy (1985 studio recording from the Detroit sessions whence came "Sea Ferring" and "Eindhoven Chicken Masque")
    Space I (home recording ca. 1987)
    Perry Intro (Rembrandt Pussyhorse outtake recorded at the BOSS in San Antonio, 1985)
    Day of the Dying Alive (A 1987 home recording of "Jimi" recorded months before the Hairway To Steven version)
    Eindhoven Chicken Masque (Originally released on the God's Favorite Dog comp)
    Just a Boy (Recorded at the BOSS, 1982, from the same session as "I Hate My Job")
    Hetero Skeleton (Rembrandt Pussyhorse outtake from 1985)
    Earthquake (1989 studio recording, originally released in 1990 on Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye: A Tribute to Roky Erickson)
    Ghandi (1992 practice space recording)
    I Hate My Job (1982 studio recording originally released on the Cottage Cheese from the Lips of Death comp)
    Space II (home recording ca. 1987)
    Concubine Solo (four-track recording ca. 1983)
    All Day (1987 home recording, originally released on the Buttholes-produced A Texas Trip compilation, with Daniel Johnston on guest vocals)
    DADGAD (1994 practice space recording)

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    Butthole Surfers "Humpty Dumpty LSD" (Latino Buggerveil)

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SCRATCH
Artist: BUGSKULL AND BIG WHITE CLOUD Title: S/T
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 SCR36CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Scratch
Release
Date:		 8/12/02
***This is the first release in three years from Portland, Oregon's revered Bugskull (no longer a band, now the solo efforts of Sean Byrne). Big White Cloud is the name used by Byrne's collaborative partner on this release, Phil Quistlund, formerly of the also-revered and also-from-Portland Sone, whose 1995 album Holiday & Sport certainly was ahead of its time in merging an assortment of fresh sounds. Earlier Bugskull albums on labels such as Road Cone, Scratch, and Shrimper were all critically championed. Bugskull has made music that has fit in the camps of indie rock, sound collage, space rock, etc., but there is an undeniable spirit and humanity in the work of Sean Byrne that elevates his records to a special level that makes use of such genre-specific labels not entirely accurate.

Bugskull's Sean Byrne is just one of a great many lo-fi space rock obscurists committed to documenting the intergalactic travels of their narcotized minds. Byrne is clearly committed to boldly going where Stars of the Lid, Sabalon Glitz, Windy & Carl, et al., have already been.... What marks this Portland-based act out from the competition is an other-worldly variant on that most treasured of qualities, namely soul. This, in turn, may stem from a disconcerting mix of sparse, non-humanistic live playing and organically gritty electronics. Either that or it comes from the Byrne's laconic vocals which evoke the stoned mumble of Spacemen 3 / Spectrum / E.A.R. mainman Sonic Boom.... -The Bubblegum Cage

Sone definitely cross paths with Bugskull with their noise bursts and non-conformist construction. Some-where between ... Pavement and vintage Ubu... a bit like Dead C., too.-Broken Guitar

Artist: BUGSKULL AND BIG WHITE CLOUD Title: S/T
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 SCR36
Price: $12.00 Label: Scratch
Release
Date:		 8/12/02
TIGERBEAT 6
Artist: ERASE ERRATA / NUMBERS Title: Split
Format: 3" CD Catalog
Number:		 MEOW047CD
Price: $6.00 Label: Tigerbeat 6
Release
Date:		 8/12/02
*** Fresh off their respective US tours, Erase Errata and Numbers have already proven themselves essential to the new school of rock with their deft cross-breeding of no wave, punk, and disco to create a brilliant ass-shaking hybrid. This release brings you these two purveyors of punk alchemy in its finest form. The four women who comprise Erase Errata started playing together in 1999, yet their uncanny inter-responsiveness makes it sound as if they've been playing together forever. The songs are rhythmically layered concoctions of shimmying, sweaty disco-beats and clean, bright bass lines that wrap their jerky, dance-y energy around distorted, sawing guitar. In perfect counterpoint to the music is singer Jenny's charismatic, declarative voice. Think Au Pairs, The Raincoats, or The Slits on a date with The Contortions and you're just starting to get it.

If this record was a race between two machines, Erase Errata would be an artfully jury-rigged go-kart and Numbers would be the robot craftily constructed out of leftover buzzers, re-wired circuits and obsolete industrial parts. Translated into music, this means: danceable architecture constructed of stuttering analog buzzes and beeps; crisp, sparse drumming; and staccato blasts of guitar and keyboards. Claustrophobia is palpable in the terse drums beats, short, sharp guitar attacks, and dry vocal delivery. The mechanics of these propulsive, beat collapsing, manic songs have hailed comparisons to Units, Melt-Banana, and Chrome before, but really, it's a sound all its own.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Numbers - Goin' Insane
2. Numbers - Palo Alto
3. Erase Errata - Retreat, The Most Familiar, Extensive, I Bet!
4. Erase Errata Thief Detests The Criminal

Artist: KID 606 Title: Why I Love Life
Format: 3" CD Catalog
Number:		 MEOW035
Price: $4.00 Label: Tigerbeat 6
Release
Date:		 8/12/02
***A collection of moody, predominantly treated guitar and synth-heavy work recorded between 1997 and the present, this seven-song EP is a snapshot of the Kid sampling his own musical history, picking pieces out of 100+ unreleased and unfinished songs. Given his prolific output over the past three years, fans and newcomers alike will appreciate this highly personal collection of thoughtful instrumentals centered around family, best friends, ex-girlfriends and avoidance of stagnation. Still completely fresh sounding, even for intimately familiar with Kid606's oeuvre.

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