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Artist: A. H. KRAKEN Title: S/T
Format: LP+CD Catalog
Number:		 ITR154LP
Price: $12.00 Label: In The Red
Release
Date:		 5/5/08
***Out of Metz, France comes the ugly and brutal noise-punk of A.H. Kraken. Their name is an amalgam of a facist dictator and a sea monster, and their sound is a wild, intense blur of bludgeoning rhythms, industrial clatter, scraping guitars, and caterwauling vocals. Citing influences as disparate PiL, Motoerhead, US Maple, Suicide, Flipper, The Shaggs, and Chrome, A.H. Kraken could implode or explode at any given second. Everything is yelled in barely intelligible French, so it's impossible to say what they're bellowing about, though one song is titled "Kevin Costner Est Un Acteur Americain." When bassist/vocalist S.J. was asked, he assured that the lyrics are "all about peace and love." Be skeptical.

A.H. Kraken are pure, unrestrained throttle-burn. They create landscapes of sound with instruments that are obviously getting the shit beat out of them. This mega-decibel audio destruction at its most overwrought is not for the faint of heart.

"A.H. Kraken are the best band in France." --Jack from Volt

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Allan Mueller
Cette Fille Est A Genoux
De Type Caucasien
Axe Vertical
Les Murs Des Bunkers
Kevin Costner Est Un Acteur Americain
Black Borny
She Plays Loud
Verschwende Deine Jugend
Ahmed
Drop Sex

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Artist: BASSHOLES Title: Deaf Mix Volume 3
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ITR49CD
Price: $12.00 Label: In The Red
***Former Gibson Brother Don Howland and drummer Bim go live to 4-track; raw, rank and raging.

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Bassholes "Deaf Mix Vol. 3" (In the Red)

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Artist: BASSHOLES Title: Deaf Mix Volume 3
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 ITR49
Price: $8.25 Label: In The Red
Artist: BASSHOLES Title: Haunted Hill
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ITR25CD
Price: $12.00 Label: In The Red
***

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Bassholes "Haunted Hill" (In the Red)

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Artist: BASSHOLES Title: When My Blue Moon Turns Red Again
Format: 2xLP Catalog
Number:		 ITR059
Price: $12.00 Label: In The Red
Release
Date:		 10/19/98
Artist: BASSHOLES Title: When My Blue Moon Turns Red Again
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ITR059CD
Price: $12.00 Label: In The Red
Release
Date:		 10/19/98
***Their fifth album of gritty, weird, punkified blooz scuzz-- but this 24-track recording may surprise those who pigeonhole this two-man band as lo-fi. Potent trans-genre party-people soundtracks.

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When My Blue Moon Turns Red Again

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Artist: BLACK LIPS Title: Let It Bloom
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ITR129CD
Price: $12.00 Label: In The Red
Release
Date:		 11/14/05
***The Red Records is proud to be home to the latest full-length from Atlanta's Black Lips. Though barely in their 20's, the Black Lips have already toured the US and Europe several times, released two albums on Bomp! records, lost a lead guitarist in a car crash, built a rabid cult following and earned a well deserved reputation one of the wildest live bands around due to onstage fist fights, nudity, violence, arson, projectile vomiting and other body fluids. You don't want to stand to close to the stage at a Black Lips performance. This grimy and chaotic four-piece garage-punk band truly don't give a fuck and will unintentionally prove it live time and again.

Formed with the intention to cross the sound of the Back From The Grave 60's garage compilation series with the Germs, the Lips have developed a sound unlike anyone else. Anyone familiar with the group will no doubt be a bit surprised by the sound of their latest "Let It Bloom" album which, while still skuzzy and raw, contains their catchiest and most melodic moments to date. If Royal Trux had listened to the Troggs instead of the Rolling Stones, they might sound like this (though the album does sound quite Stonesy at times).

The Black Lips are the only current garage band that matters. --Mick Collins

Like Creedence crossed with gauze-wrapped early '90s garagists the Mummies. --Village Voice

Think '70s sloppy punks like Flipper or The Germs bashing out some '60s garage from the Nuggets series. This is punk on the front porch - damaged rock for damaged people. --Alternative Press

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Sea Of Blasphemy
Can't Dance
Boomerang
Hippie, Hippie, Hoorah
Not A Problem
Gung Ho
Everybody's Doin' It
Feeling Gay
Take Me Home (Back To Boone)
Gentle Violence
She's Gone
Fairy Stories
Dirty Hands
Workin'
Punk Slime
Empassant

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Artist: BLACK LIPS Title: Let It Bloom
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 ITR129
Price: $8.25 Label: In The Red
Release
Date:		 11/14/05
Artist: BLACK TIME Title: Blackout
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ITR130CD
Price: $12.00 Label: In The Red
Release
Date:		 10/17/05
*** Black Time hails from London, England. They are skinny, black-clad boys and girls with bad attitudes and a desire to make intrusive, obnoxious rock'n'roll music.

Their debut, Blackout, was recorded, mixed and mastered entirely in analog and pressed on heavy-weight virgin vinyl in a limited edition of several hundred. Immediately heralded by hipsters in the know as the latest, greatest rockiniroll band that matters, the album quickly soldout, becoming fodder for collector scum the world over.

Black Time play out very rarely and when they do itis quite an event. The select few who have been initiated into this cult of sound have reported a loss of speech, hair and bowel control after witnessing a performance. The band plans to bring their act stateside in 2005, to the Deep South in particular, with a revue featuring leather biker-boys, wall-projected homemade slasher films, whip-cracking tiger-girls and well-respected media professionals eating their own shit live on stage.

This is the heavy vampire sound. The sound of the undead stumbling through the twilight, feeding off broken, youthful dreams, unable to stop their endless march or neutered howling. Black Time stands between us and the things which soothe but do not heal -- the magnet-pull of American rockiniroll records, cheap tobacco, tea, beer, movies and radio -- the things George warned us about.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

First Strike
Black Time Pt. 1
Catholic Discipline
This Is A Curse
Young Professionals
Ambulance
Shadows
Cold Lips Taste Better
Falling Down
Back Door Man
Mass Production Of Corpses
White Heat Returned
Nighttime
Safe In Heaven Dead

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Artist: BLACK TIME Title: Midnight World
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ITR135CD
Price: $12.00 Label: In The Red
Release
Date:		 5/1/06
***The point is talent over ability, ideas over proficiency, energy over competence-- action, time, and vision. Add some musical instruments to this confusion and the resulting mess is Black Time-- shambolic but passionate, hollerin' and wailin' at the dying of the red light. If you pay attention to zines, blogs and websites dedicated to sub-underground rock, then no doubt you are aware that Black Time have been getting favorably compared to Crime, Pussy Galore, The Electric Eels, The Cramps and The Fall. A string of hopelessly limited edition vinyl 7-inches and 12-inches have stoked the fire. The hype is justified in this case, as Midnight World, the band's second full-length, is the perfect marriage of chug-a-lug, primeval drumming, opaque layers of guitars, new wave cinema references, '60s and '70s punk, lo-fi static and overwrought vocals from frontman Lemmy Caution. The best UK export since The Country Teasers, Black Time will be touring the US Summer 2006, and they are not to be missed.
Artist: BLACK TIME Title: Midnight World
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 ITR135
Price: $9.75 Label: In The Red
Release
Date:		 5/22/06
***The point is talent over ability, ideas over proficiency, energy over competence-- action, time, and vision. Add some musical instruments to this confusion and the resulting mess is Black Time-- shambolic but passionate, hollerin' and wailin' at the dying of the red light. If you pay attention to zines, blogs and websites dedicated to sub-underground rock, then no doubt you are aware that Black Time have been getting favorably compared to Crime, Pussy Galore, The Electric Eels, The Cramps and The Fall. A string of hopelessly limited edition vinyl 7-inches and 12-inches have stoked the fire. The hype is justified in this case, as Midnight World, the band's second full-length, is the perfect marriage of chug-a-lug, primeval drumming, opaque layers of guitars, new wave cinema references, '60s and '70s punk, lo-fi static and overwrought vocals from frontman Lemmy Caution. The best UK export since The Country Teasers, Black Time will be touring the US Summer 2006, and they are not to be missed.
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: BLOODLOSS Title: Hated In My House
Format: 7" Catalog
Number:		 ITR36
Price: $3.50 Label: In The Red
Artist: BLOODLOSS Title: Live My Way
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 ITR39
Price: $8.25 Label: In The Red
Artist: BLOODLOSS Title: Rutland Explained
Format: 7" Catalog
Number:		 ITR53
Price: $3.50 Label: In The Red
***The best Australian band ever to come out of Seattle. Mark (Mudhoney) Arm fronts the post-Birthday Party/Scientists swagger. Snappy mylar sleeve.
Artist: BOSS HOG Title: Whiteout
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ITR68CD
Price: $12.00 Label: In The Red
Release
Date:		 2/14/00
***Album number five finds Cristina Martinez (one-time member of Pussy Galore) and company in full, full force. Ten songs, every single second of every single one total rock'n'roll. 2000 didn't start until we'd all sung along with Cristina as she cooed "whoa-oh-ah-oohhhh" on "Chocolate"! Yup, smart, sexy, sassy, and very much of-the-moment, "Whiteout" is two tons of emotion-- happy, sad, ambivalent, moody, celebratory, dark around the edges, and, dare we say it, conducive to butt-shaking, provided with help from the Blues Explosion's Jon Spencer (guitar, vocals), Mark (the Goats) Boyce on keyboards and one of the sauciest the rhythm sections ever, Jens Jergensen and Hollis Queens. Also present in the studios, limos, and dressing rooms were producers Tore Johannson and Andy Gill, mixers Jim Sclavunos and Jim Thirlwell, and engineer Bill Emmons.
Artist: BOSS HOG Title: Whiteout
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 ITR68
Price: $8.25 Label: In The Red
Release
Date:		 2/14/00
Artist: CHEAP TIME Title: S/T
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ITR152CD
Price: $12.00 Label: In The Red
Release
Date:		 4/28/08
***Henderson, Tennessee's Jeffrey Novak is a name familiar to those who pay attention to the whole lo-fi-garage-punk underbelly of today's indie scene. He's released a handful of singles and at least one album on labels in the US and Europe as a one-man-band and with his former group, The Rat Traps. He's been at it for nearly five years and he's barely in his twenties. Cheap Time is his newest and most serious endeavor to date. Founded with Jemina Pearl and Nathan Vasquez of Be Your Own Pet, Cheap Time set out to recapture the essence of teenage schlock rock scuzz of such heroes as Redd Kross and The Runaways. Along the way, members shifted, as did the band's direction. An obsession with '70s glam power pop a la Sparks, The Quick, and Milk 'n' Cookies grew, and the music took on a twisted new slant never hinted in any of his previous projects. The results are the current line-up of Cheap Time and this full-length album.

Cheap Time's self-titled debut is 28 minutes of snotty punk pop perfection. From the New-York-Dolls-via-Germs screech of "Tight Fit" to the anglophile power pop of "Ginger Snap" to the bubblegum bounce of "Trip To The Zoo," this debut has instant classic stamped all over its bratty face.

Catch Cheap Time on tour with Jay Reatard during spring '08!

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Too Late
Glitter & Gold
Zig-Zag
People Talk
Push Your Luck
Living In The Past
Tight Fit
Permanent Damage
The Ballad Of Max Frost
Falling Down
Over Again
Ginger Snap
Back To School
Trip To The Zoo

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Artist: CHEAP TIME Title: S/T
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 ITR152
Price: $9.75 Label: In The Red
Release
Date:		 5/19/08
***Henderson, Tennessee's Jeffrey Novak is a name familiar to those who pay attention to the whole lo-fi-garage-punk underbelly of today's indie scene. He's released a handful of singles and at least one album on labels in the US and Europe as a one-man-band and with his former group, The Rat Traps. He's been at it for nearly five years and he's barely in his twenties. Cheap Time is his newest and most serious endeavor to date. Founded with Jemina Pearl and Nathan Vasquez of Be Your Own Pet, Cheap Time set out to recapture the essence of teenage schlock rock scuzz of such heroes as Redd Kross and The Runaways. Along the way, members shifted, as did the band's direction. An obsession with '70s glam power pop a la Sparks, The Quick, and Milk 'n' Cookies grew, and the music took on a twisted new slant never hinted in any of his previous projects. The results are the current line-up of Cheap Time and this full-length album.

Cheap Time's self-titled debut is 28 minutes of snotty punk pop perfection. From the New-York-Dolls-via-Germs screech of "Tight Fit" to the anglophile power pop of "Ginger Snap" to the bubblegum bounce of "Trip To The Zoo," this debut has instant classic stamped all over its bratty face.

Catch Cheap Time on tour with Jay Reatard during spring '08!

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Too Late
Glitter & Gold
Zig-Zag
People Talk
Push Your Luck
Living In The Past
Tight Fit
Permanent Damage
The Ballad Of Max Frost
Falling Down
Over Again
Ginger Snap
Back To School
Trip To The Zoo

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Artist: CHEATER SLICKS Title: Don't Like You
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ITR30CD
Price: $12.00 Label: In The Red
***

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Cheater Slicks "Don't Like You" (In the Red)

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Artist: CHEATER SLICKS Title: Don't Like You
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 ITR30
Price: $8.25 Label: In The Red
Artist: CHEATER SLICKS Title: Forgive Thee
Format: 2xCD Catalog
Number:		 ITR54
Price: $12.00 Label: In The Red
Release
Date:		 10/27/97
***Cheap double CD; over 95 minutes of material. No vinyl. Why merely be unfocused when you can achieve unmitigated sprawl? Foward-looking psyche/noise/garage/punk/pop/roots from Boston trio.

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Cheater Slicks "Forgive Thee"

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Artist: CHEATER SLICKS Title: Refried Dreams
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ITR063CD
Price: $12.00 Label: In The Red
Release
Date:		 10/18/99
***The Cheater Slicks have been scratching out their brand of rock'n'roll for more than 10 years. Too noisy and abstract for garage rock purists, too loud and too rock'n'roll for the indie rock crowd, but at the end of the day, too good to be ignored. This Boston band, now relocated to Columbus, Ohio, been described as everything qualified by something- psychedelic music for manic depressives, garage rock for serial killers, indie pop for ill-tempered hillbillies-but it's a lot simpler than that. The Cheater Slicks are the undisputed kings of misfit melancholia, anarchic amplification, and free-range low-end rumble. For their seventh album, the band trashes their own boundaries and refines their sound while remaining true to their primal spirit. Eleven new tracks, no two alike. No wonder bands like New Bomb Turks and Mudhoney cover 'Slicks tunes on their respective new albums. This is music as genuine and sincere as it gets.

Artist: CHEATER SLICKS Title: Refried Dreams
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 ITR063
Price: $8.25 Label: In The Red
Release
Date:		 10/18/99
Artist: CHEATER SLICKS Title: Whiskey
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ITR13
Price: $12.00 Label: In The Red
***

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Cheater Slicks "Whiskey" (In the Red)

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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: CLONE DEFECTS Title: Shapes Of Venus
Format: 7" Catalog
Number:		 ITR097
Price: $4.00 Label: In The Red
Release
Date:		 2/24/03
***The teaser single from the upcoming album by the scourge of Detroit punk rock'n' roll. The A side is taken from the album as well as being said album's namesakeoan uncharacteristically melodic tune for this knuckle-dragging bunch. A song about making it with a babe from another planet, which Timmy Vulgar says was his attempt to write a song that sounds like Sparks (don't worry, it doesn't), and came out being the band's catchiest to date. The B side is exclusive to this single and is a pummeling track of pure caustic punk rock.
Artist: CLONE DEFECTS Title: Shapes Of Venus
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ITR098CD
Price: $12.00 Label: In The Red
Release
Date:		 2/24/03
***The Clone Defects have come crashing out of the current Detroit rock'n'roll scene like a comet penetrating the Earth's atmosphere. Lead by wildman-about-town Tim Vulgar, The Clone Defects have earned quite a reputation over the last several years for their no-holds-barred live shows and their uncompromising recordings. The Clone Defects are rock'n'roll to the core: foul-mouthed, dirty, alcohol-fueled aggression that rightfully blasts out of the hi-fi at a pill party. They've released three singles (the first of which was recorded and produced by White Stripes' Jack White) and one album-- monoliths of pure rock action all. On Shapes Of Venus, they continue to blaze the same trail as their previous releases with even sharper songwriting skills. The sound is a biting mix of glam rock, Killed-By-Death-style punk, and some natural born midwest insanity. Some bands go out of their way to act weird, wild and fucked up, whereas the Clone Defects can't help it. This is the real article.
Artist: CLONE DEFECTS Title: Shapes Of Venus
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 ITR098
Price: $8.25 Label: In The Red
Release
Date:		 3/17/03
***The Clone Defects have come crashing out of the current Detroit rock'n'roll scene like a comet penetrating the Earth's atmosphere. Lead by wildman-about-town Tim Vulgar, The Clone Defects have earned quite a reputation over the last several years for their no-holds-barred live shows and their uncompromising recordings. The Clone Defects are rock'n'roll to the core: foul-mouthed, dirty, alcohol-fueled aggression that rightfully blasts out of the hi-fi at a pill party. They've released three singles (the first of which was recorded and produced by White Stripes' Jack White) and one album-- monoliths of pure rock action all. On Shapes Of Venus, they continue to blaze the same trail as their previous releases with even sharper songwriting skills. The sound is a biting mix of glam rock, Killed-By-Death-style punk, and some natural born midwest insanity. Some bands go out of their way to act weird, wild and fucked up, whereas the Clone Defects can't help it. This is the real article.
Artist: CONSUMERS Title: All My Friends Are Dead
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 ITR29
Price: $12.00 Label: In The Red
Release
Date:		 1/14/02
***Much of what is passed off as "punk rock" these days is pathetic and limp - no secret there. The Consumers were the real deal antithesis of pathos and limpness. Formed in early 1977, The Consumers were probably one of the very first in Phoenix, Arizona, to play punk rock. Influenced by punk scenes in England and New York, The Consumers cooked up a sound that was fast and hate-fueled. You will not find lyrics like "I'm going to find a way to drive you mad like piss on you or fuck your dad" on a Pennywise album, no sir.

The Consumers recorded their one and only album in a small Phoenix studio in December of 1977 - eleven scorching tracks delivered in nineteen minutes, all loaded with anger and pure nihilism - and immediately moved to Los Angeles. Once in L.A., the band hit the live circuit, playing clubs like the Masque and the Whiskey A Go Go. Their sets were often violent; in an incident documented by Slash magazine, the entire band once beat vocalist David Wiley bloody onstage for no good reason! It didn't take long for them to be banned from clubs all over town. Legendary punk record label Dangerhouse agreed to release their album, but within a few short months, the label folded and the band imploded. Eventually the band members went on to other things: guitarist Paul Cutler formed 45 Grave and later joined Dream Syndicate, vocalist Wiley formed the Human Hands and the rest went on to lives of drugs, the military or dead end jobs. Presently, only two members of the band are still living.

The Consumers album remained unreleased until 1994 when In The Red Records issued it as a limited-edition LP which sold out quickly. Now, for the first time, it is being issued on CD, newly re-mastered and sounding louder and nastier than ever. This is real punk rock - the kind FM radio is too chickenshit to deal with and video network lunkheads are paid handsomely to ignore.

  • Shocking early works by psychos who would go on to 45 Grave, Dream Syndicate, and Human Hands
  • Loud and nasty punk rock from 1977, on CD for the first time
  • Initial limited pressing of the vinyl sold out immediately

    30-second RealAudio excerpts:

    Teen Love Song
    Anti, Anti, Anti
    Consumers
    Concerned Citizen
    Your Problem
    Ballad to the Son of Sam
    My Type
    Dream Hits
    Get Out
    Media Ogre
    Punk Church

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    All My Friends Are Dead

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    Artist: COUNTRY TEASERS Title: Live
    Format: CD Catalog
    Number:    		 ITR116
    Price: $12.00 Label: In The Red
    Release
    Date:    		 4/25/05
    ***London, England's Country Teasers' long overdue live album documents the sheer splendor of what is the Country Teasers live experience. Recorded in various locations across the UK and the USA, the imaginatively titled Country Teasers Live Album captures the band at its rawest, most powerful, most spontaneous and most drunken. Painstakingly assembled from the vast archives of Country Teasers live recordings by frontman Ben Wallers, Country Teasers Live Album collects some of the finest gems from the combo's various live broadcasts, board tapes, handheld audience bootleg recordings, and a couple of surprises. Off the cuff cover versions from the likes of the Butthole Surfers, Randy Newman, New Order and The Brainbombs can all be found here as well as curse words, false starts, song fragments, abrupt edits and audible tape hiss.
    Artist: COUNTRY TEASERS Title: Science Hat Artistic Cube Moral Nosebleed Empire
    Format: 2xLP Catalog
    Number:    		 ITR32
    Price: $19.50 Label: In The Red
    Release
    Date:    		 6/10/02
    Artist: COUNTRY TEASERS Title: Science Hat Artistic Cube Moral Nosebleed Empire
    Format: CD Catalog
    Number:    		 ITR32CD
    Price: $12.00 Label: In The Red
    Release
    Date:    		 6/10/02
    ***The Country Teasers are best known for their stunning output on the Crypt and Fat Possum labels. How a band of Scots and Londoners crazily influenced by the likes of The Fall, Joy Division, Devo, Bauhaus, hip hop and country & western music wound up recording for labels best known for American rootsy-down-home-style output is anyone's guess. But here they are again with their most expansive and eclectic endeavor to date.

    Science Hat Artistic Cube Moral Nosebleed Empire collects obscure singles, demos, outtakes and home recordings spanning the band's seven-year existence. 'Teasers front man Ben Wallers painstakingly pored through nearly twenty hours of material to find the best forty selections for the vinyl, and twenty for the CD, the concept being that each set of ten tracks represents a complete album. All together: "huh?" Wallers insists the double-vinyl set is actually four albums - pressed in an edition of one-thousand in a beautiful color gatefold jacket, by the way - and the compact disc, with twenty tracks extracted from that collection, is actually two albums.

    Science Hat Artistic Cube Moral Nosebleed Empire offers the broadest range of the Country Teasers' styles, from the most savagely raw post-punk stomps to experimental electronic blow-outs. This collection is absolute proof that the Country Teasers are one of the most original bands around today.

    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: COUNTRY TEASERS Title: Secret Weapon Revealed At Last Aka Full Moon Empty Sports Bag
    Format: LP Catalog
    Number:    		 ITR106
    Price: $8.25 Label: In The Red
    Release
    Date:    		 9/8/03
    ***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.

    30-second RealAudio excerpts:

    Success
    Hairy Wine 2
    Young Mums Up for Sex
    Deaths
    TODTTLL
    Life is a Rehearsal
    Boycott the Studio
    Full Moon Empty Sportsbag
    Wizmo!
    Please Stop Fucking Each Other
    Man v Cock
    Sandy
    Ehwpsa
    [?]
    [??]

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    Artist: COUNTRY TEASERS Title: The Empire Strikes Back
    Format: CD Catalog
    Number:    		 ITR132CD
    Price: $12.00 Label: In The Red
    Release
    Date:    		 5/1/06
    ***"In the industry, I am the only complete man..." sang Country Teaser's B.R. Wallers, quoting Naked Lunch, back in 1995. If modesty didn't forbid, he might've been speaking of his own band. Is there another current group operating at such a high level musically or lyrically? Evolving out of a prolific home recording project in the late '80s influenced by The Cure and Butthole Surfers, The 'Teasers debuted as a beguiling mixture of deconstructed country and dissonant post-punk. "Boycott the Studio" was their manifesto: "You will not find music where it is shown, only where it is hidden..."

    The Empire Strikes Back, the group's eighth full-length, was recorded in Oregon-- 90,000 kilometers from the band's homein London-- when In the Red made good on a promise to find the band a live-in studio with an amenable engineer (Rich Wells of Portland's Supreme Reality Studios). Far from a sanitized "studio recording," the album is as damaged and unpredictable as any Teasers album (only with better microphones). The band's humor remains as strangely contradictory as ever, with Wallers juggling a cast of personae as far-flung as P.G. Wodehouse, Ice Cube, Winston Churchill, and Bill Hicks.

    Is The Empire Strikes Back a concept album about race, England, and Star Wars, or did the band just find something unwholesomely amusing about the juxtaposition of fascism and Industrial Light and Magic? Via fax, all five members answer "Definitely."

    Artist: COUNTRY TEASERS Title: The Empire Strikes Back
    Format: LP Catalog
    Number:    		 ITR132
    Price: $9.75 Label: In The Red
    Release
    Date:    		 5/22/06
    ***"In the industry, I am the only complete man..." sang Country Teaser's B.R. Wallers, quoting Naked Lunch, back in 1995. If modesty didn't forbid, he might've been speaking of his own band. Is there another current group operating at such a high level musically or lyrically? Evolving out of a prolific home recording project in the late '80s influenced by The Cure and Butthole Surfers, The 'Teasers debuted as a beguiling mixture of deconstructed country and dissonant post-punk. "Boycott the Studio" was their manifesto: "You will not find music where it is shown, only where it is hidden..."

    The Empire Strikes Back, the group's eighth full-length, was recorded in Oregon-- 90,000 kilometers from the band's homein London-- when In the Red made good on a promise to find the band a live-in studio with an amenable engineer (Rich Wells of Portland's Supreme Reality Studios). Far from a sanitized "studio recording," the album is as damaged and unpredictable as any Teasers album (only with better microphones). The band's humor remains as strangely contradictory as ever, with Wallers juggling a cast of personae as far-flung as P.G. Wodehouse, Ice Cube, Winston Churchill, and Bill Hicks.

    Is The Empire Strikes Back a concept album about race, England, and Star Wars, or did the band just find something unwholesomely amusing about the juxtaposition of fascism and Industrial Light and Magic? Via fax, all five members answer "Definitely."

    Artist: DEADLY SNAKES Title: I Can't Sleep At Night
    Format: 2x7" Catalog
    Number:    		 ITR111
    Price: $7.75 Label: In The Red
    Release
    Date:    		 3/1/04
    ***This beautiful double-gatefold 7-inch release is to serve as a reminder that the DEADLY SNAKES' Ode To Joy was one of the best rock'n'roll releases of 2003. This single features "I Can't Sleep At Night" from Ode To Joy (a favorite on Little Steven's Underground Garage radio show) as well as three previously unreleased tracks from the bando"Nasty Boots" (a very Rolling Stones inspired original), "Big Bird" (originally done by Eddie Floyd), and "Shot Down" (an early Neil Diamond track).
    Artist: DEADLY SNAKES Title: I'm Not Your Soldier Anymore
    Format: CD Catalog
    Number:    		 ITR77CD
    Price: $12.00 Label: In The Red
    Release
    Date:    		 7/23/01
    ***Hot new Memphis-style barbecued soul coming at you by way of Toronto, Canada: meet The Deadly Snakes. In 1999, some youngsters invited Greg Oblivian, formerly of the Memphis garage/soul/punk band The Oblivians, to Canada to produce an album by their six-piece rock'n'roll band. They perfectly blend rock, punk and soul - they even have a horn section. Naturally, Greg was so taken with their music that he not only wanted to be their producer, but he wanted to be in the band. They completed the album, later released by Sympathy for the Record Industry, with Greg as producer and soon after hit the road with him in tow as their second guitarist/lead vocalist. Now they are seven.

    Featuring all original material, I'm Not Your Soldier Anymore shows off the band's maverick musicianship and songwriting skills, and how could it not? With no fewer than three different lead vocalist/songwriters, influences run the gamut: Stax-style soul, Rolling Stones-style R&B raunch, the backwoods blues of Bob Dylan with The Band, the slinky growl of Van Morrison with Them, and loads of others.

    Their live shows are testimonials to the power of rock and soul music. I'm Not Your Soldier Anymore sounds classic and timeless. This is rock'n'roll music performed as the Almighty commands.

    Balancing frenetic, hand clapping, foot-stomping madness with plenty of swampy harmonica notes, vintage organ and a becoming drunken squalor, the Deadly Snakes give a warm welcome to rock'n'roll from the '60s...These Deadly Snakes rely on raw, mid-tempo numbers to shoulder their gritty and soulful call-and-response...Reminiscent of an inebriated, confused Neil Young, André St. Clair's vocals...lurch coolly from verse to verse with a demeanor that's unmistakably carefree, yet carefully crafted for a perfect fit that sounds like a gospel church choir gone haywire. Simple enough for the hoi polloi to sink their teeth into, yet still cool enough to satiate the planet's garage rockers.
    -Andrew Magilow, Splendid

    Artist: DEADLY SNAKES Title: Ode To Joy
    Format: CD Catalog
    Number:    		 ITR102CD
    Price: $12.00 Label: In The Red
    Release
    Date:    		 4/7/03
    ***From the word go, Toronto's Deadly Snakes were a big band. While most high-school rock aspirations begin with groups of friends playing in trusty three- or four-piece lineups, the Snakes got off the ground as a six-piece ensemble. Kid rockers with a horn section, for Christ's sake. Start young with that kind of firepower at your disposal, stick with it six long years-- practicing, playing out, and digging deep into the Rolling Stones, electric Bob Dylan, early Van Morrison and the entire canon of soul music-- and, yeah, you do earn the word "deadly" in your name. The 'Snakes now have a well earned reputation as one of the most soul-shaking live acts on the circuit today.

    Ode To Joy is The Deadly Snakes' third album and it's their finest moment to date, even hotter than their first two albums. It refines their attack with galloping rhythms, weeping turns to gospel, and the horn section leans into New Orleans funk. These guys have got a Memphis soul-gone-punk rock sound nnnnnnailed. Not bad for a bunch of white guys in their early '20s from Canada.