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Artist: BLACK LIPSTICK Title: Converted Thieves
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 BOO1212
Price: $12.00 Label: Peekaboo
Release
Date:		 4/21/03
***Pardon the gratuitous pop-culture reference, but Converted Thieves is the record the Royal Tenenbaums might've made if they were 20-something Texans living dangerously close to the poverty line. Like a chorus of punch lines without a joke, the voices on this record are inevitably preoccupied with getting loaded and just getting by, and strive to create something meaningful, tender and true. Beneath a deliberately dated, stylized veneer lurk some of the wittiest "rock" lyrics since the demise of The Smiths. Puns crack at every beat. Low jokes mesh with high motives to craft a tone that is more serious for its refusal to take itself seriously, like 1965 Bob Dylan fermented and distilled.

Reviews of Black Lipstick's debut EP place the band on par with its vaunted influences, a short list of rock's great trash-poets (VU, TV, Modern Lovers, The Fall). On Converted Thieves, Black Lipstick progresses from these starting points to find a voice all its own. Chock full of stoned-Stones wailers, southern rock chooglers, sardonic ballads, post-punk dirges, soaring Marquee Moon guitar solos and even the occasional (and occasionally convincing) drunk Nicky Hopkins impersonation on rock piano, Converted Thieves' depth sets it apart from garage rock contemporaries without sacrificing an unpretentious, all-too-Texan party spirit. It is made to matter by people who care, deeply, passionately and truly. A voice from the present urging one to live in the now. So roll the tops down and turn the AC on. This is one for the Jeeps, friends.

A makeshift junk-jam boogie for greased hips and painted lips, with the foursome melding rock, neo-country, and piano into their own charming brand of floozy fun and bar-band noir. -Seattle Weekly

Like that magic New York moment when wry lyrics and dirty guitar united in Warholian unison more than 30 years agoOe. cleanly combining melodic guitar, groovy bass lines, kinky keys and Jonathan Richman-style vocals into a thick, rich makeup of post-post-art-wave. -CMJ

Artist: BLACK LIPSTICK Title: Four Kingdoms Of Black Lipstick
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 BOO1002
Price: $6.75 Label: Peekaboo
Release
Date:		 10/8/01
***When not hanging out in food courts, drinking spiked Icees or huffing spray paint behind the laundromat, Black Lipstick finds the time to make some of the most serious, heartfelt and contemplative par-tay rock in recent memory. These guys are the geeky white answer to Nellie, except with Charlie Watts drums and huge, VU-inspired guitargasms all over the place. Few have said "We rule, so lets get fucked up and party" with greater eloquence and sensitivity. -Pinchelada Fanzine

Black Lipstick - the greenhorns who, at least on this critic's notepad, stood out most impressively at this spring's SXSW music conference - have refined taste buds that indicate a strict diet of the Velvet Underground, Modern Lovers, Television and early Talking Heads. The Austin, Texas-based outfit traces the work of its forerunners with aplomb. Listeners feeling nostalgic for VU should find this prime feastin' material. -Time Out New York

Austin quartet The Black Lipstick - all clad in black button-downs and trousers - were strumming carefully through a set of cool-headed retro-pop. I'm certain these guys (and girl) have a few Television and Velvet Underground albums at home. They even closed with a tidy version of "Sister Ray." -Athens Flagpole

Black Lipstick, a new four-piece featuring former Kiss Offs Phillip and Travis, couldn't make [the weather] any warmer, but musically they brought a steaming batch of happy-go-lucky garage sunshine. They set the tone with a ramshackle version of the Stones' "Let it Bleed," and followed with nearly an hour of melodic, upbeat basement noise loosely knitted together by Travis' guitar. A lot of it smacked of the Velvet Underground, but that could have been the skeletal drum kit and the trenchcoat-and-shades-clad young woman behind it. The audience was visibly disappointed when Phillip announced time constraints prevented the group from unfurling its 15-minute version of "Casey Jones." -The Austin Chronicle

  • The new band by the two guitar slingers from The Kiss Offs
  • Melodies, upbeat garage noise / retro pop with a NYC flavor
  • Played with the Rock*A*Teens, Country Teasers, Bratmobile
  • So, yeah, The Velvet Underground...

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    White Jazz
    Cat Piss Blues
    W.W.D.Y.D.
    The Dawn of a New Error
    Our Gilded Thrones

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Artist: BLACK LIPSTICK Title: Sincerely, Black Lipstick
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 BOO1215CD
Price: $13.00 Label: Peekaboo
Release
Date:		 2/28/05
***Both an open letter and a tribute to a profound, human experience, the aptly titled Sincerely, Black Lipstick explores the passing of loved ones. Sincerely also retains and reinforces many of the traditional values Black Lipstick upholds, like living for the moment and appreciating it more than most. Listen to the swelling, crashing crescendos at the end of "All Night Long Forever"-- one can't help but flick one's Bic. Other highlights include the bombastic, driving "Bob Fosse," a life-affirming celebration that would definitely have Tom Cruise sliding around on a hardwood floor in his underwear.

Having grown musically and emotionally, Black Lipstick has recorded an album that is more confident, emotional and personal than ever before. The most notable difference between this and previous releases is the increased presence of renaissance elf Steven Garcia, who set aside his bass and stepped to the mic and guitar to contribute three songs and majestic riffage. Nowhere does he shine more brightly than on "Grandma Airplane," which boasts some of the most intricate, dense guitar layering on the record. Yes, Black Lipstick loves ZZ Top and the Fucking Champs-- plop that shit in the blender, sparkie.

Black Lipstick has been widely lauded by the independent press for raunchy riffs, tasteful beats, a fouroctave monotone and clever lyrical wit, centered on topics which seemed important at the time. Some stoner dude from a liberal arts college once said they sound like a cross between the Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, The Clean and The Feelies on acid, while having Tom Verlaine and Moe Tucker's Modern Love child. Don't laugh; the dirthead now pulls down close to two mil a year at one of Austin's top advertising firms.

Artist: BLACK OCTOPUS LIPSTICK PROJECT Title: Foam Party
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 BOO1004
Price: $6.75 Label: Peekaboo
Release
Date:		 6/21/04
***Peek-A-Boo Records labelmates Black Lipstick and The Octopus Project team up for a joint effort after intensive laptop market tests by DJs at random Texas parties yielded booty-shaking results. An alternate title for this EP might be Converted Converted Thieves, as the Octopus Project take select tracks from Black Lipstick's hot-selling Converted Thieves and dissect them on their laptops, tinkering with 'Lipstick's hot lix to craft new sounds and songs.

Using 'Lipstick's rock beats and squalling guitars, The Octopi create something original and entirely thumpin'. Amid hypnotic bass and drum loops, guitar riffs, piano riffs, and even voices are recycled, reversed and reverberated; in fact, 'Lipstick's "off-tune" poetic stylings yield a new alien language. Like rusted bicycle parts in a beautiful scrap-metal sculpture, the end product bears little resemblance to the original except for the parts from which it was constructed.

The four remixes are of course cool and dance-y, Octopus Project-style, and are annexed by an unreleased Black Lipstick bonus track from the Thieves sessions: "Funky Soldiers," featuring lead vox by bassist Steven Garcia.

Artist: JUNIOR VARSITY Title: Bam, Bam, Bam!
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 BOO1206CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Peekaboo
Release
Date:		 3/13/00
***Houston's purveyors of the Go-Gal beat, Junior Varsity has been the Gulf Coast's premiere frat-hop combo for some time now. Combining '50s clean teen sounds with rally squad stage shenanigans, these two gals and a goof produce the kind of piston-twistin' tunes that'll make any torso wanna move a little more.

Bam Bam Bam!, Junior Varsity's debut reelin' and rockin' tortilla grande, was recorded by producer Ivan Klisanin, who brought down bits and pieces of his "Bob's Records-To-Go" Studio from Lafayette, Louisiana, to Houston to capture the JayVee sound in its element. With cables and vintage mics spread throughout the Junior Varsity house, the recording was done in a couple of days.

Matt Murillo (drums) and Kim Hammond (bass and vocals) met in the small East Texas town of Nacogdoches, where they quickly realized they shared a mutual affinity for beach movies and local rock'n'roll DJ Butchie Cordell. When the budding rock'n'rollers announced a move to the action town of Houston, Butchie gave his word he'd help kick start any band the two got going. Well, they finally got the JV express rolling and played their first gig in Nacogdoches in front of 600+ Falstaff-fueled frat boys (no lie!). Butchie was impressed, and staying true to his word, dropped a bug in the ear of Peek-A-Boo Records, who released Junior Varsity's debut single "GO! To The Ice Cream Social." JV got busy wowing fans in their Houston homebase and coast to coast in places like Lafayette, Portland, Vancouver, San Francisco, Las Vegas, New Orleans and Athens. The kids also appeared on a slew of singles and compilations for labels like Lance Rock, NGOO (Japan), Dizzy, Remedial, Twist Like This, Kindercore and Emperor Norton.

The latest addition to the pep squad is teen rock'n'roll sensation Rebecca (whose hair is the only thing better than her playing). A bass-player for Houston garage hot-shots The Jewws, Rebecca was the natural first choice for the available opening in the JV guitarist department. So make way for two cute girls, one dumb guy, three dumber chords and a whole lotta fun! Anyone who slaps this platter (or coaster) onto a turntable (or into a CD player), and turns some knobs way over to the right, is in for a real gone time!

"This is a ding-dang-doozy of a frisbee, jack!"
- DJ Butchie Cordell, KPOP 1220 AM radio
Artist: JUNIOR VARSITY Title: Bam, Bam, Bam!
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 BOO1206
Price: $8.25 Label: Peekaboo
Release
Date:		 3/13/00
Artist: KISS OFFS Title: Goodbye Private Life
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 BOO1203CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Peekaboo
Release
Date:		 2/22/99
***Texan Rock Power advocates fly high the unconventional flag of no wave Casio post-punk. Subject matter: trashy dates, peeping toms, kissing techniques and desperation. Prepare to have the sixties slungshot into the eighties like a sizzling swordfish stake from a hot grill, with innocent sincerity sprinkled like a subtly complex cilantro/lemon juice/fennel marinade. To put it (more) simply: The Fall filtered through the Make-Up/Delta 72.

Artist: KISS OFFS Title: Goodbye Private Life
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 BOO1203
Price: $8.25 Label: Peekaboo
Release
Date:		 2/22/99
Artist: KISS OFFS Title: Rock Bottom
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 BOO1209CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Peekaboo
Release
Date:		 2/26/01
***If it wasn't evident enough on 1999's trashy and glamorous Goodbye Private Life, The Kiss Offs don't just love rock and roll, they have a destructive, co-dependent relationship with the genre and feel compelled to sing about it whenever possible. Rock Bottom is about, for, and because of rock. It directly addresses what it has done to their otherwise mundane middle class lives - they're poor, they're unemployed, they're dirty, they're continuously intoxicated, they're willfully destructive and they often sleep on floors, despite the fact that each is somewhat educated and comes from a good, loving family.

"Prolonged Adolescence" captures the drunken nights roaming Austin on old bikes with friends to cheer on local bands. "Love You Hardcore" is about missing those bands when they inevitably break up and missing those friends when they leave. "The Freedom of Rock" and "Pleather Pantz" expound on the redemptive, disfiguring, and humbling power of rock and roll. "Broken Fingers for Talented Singers" is a meta-rock doctrine, a shout-out to rock fans everywhere with lines like, "So you can't sing, then scream and shout," and "Three chords are great, but one will do." Another verse grants license to rip off influences - then blatantly cops a few lines from The Fall's "Copped It," a song about plagiarism no less, after declaring such robberies "the building 'Brix' of a 'Mark E.' (marquee) career."

Other songs revert to the tried-and-true Kiss Offs' topics such as love, sex and, of course, kissing. As usual, the guitars skronk and spurt, the bass rumbles and belches, the drums pound like a polyrhythmic migraine, and the keyboards... sound pretty good, considering they use a Casio bought on sale at Sam's Club.

Along The Kiss Offs' well-worn tour route, the band is known for their beer-soaked live shows, which often include climbing on amps, tables and other obstacles. They've hurled guitars, drums and themselves at stages, roofs, the audience and each other on numerous occasions, and on others they simply hurled. They've set themselves and others on fire and have outstanding warrants in at least three states. They've ordered fast-food from drive-through windows on foot. And they hide their heads in shame when these exploits are mentioned, because rock made them do it.

  • Second Peek-a-Boo rock chestnut from Austin garage swillers
  • Love, sex, and kissing (not necessarily in that order)
  • Rips off a Fall song about ripping off songs
  • Three chords are great, but one'll do

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    Rock Bottom

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Artist: KNIFE IN THE WATER Title: Crosspross Bells
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 BOO1003
Price: $6.75 Label: Peekaboo
Release
Date:		 4/15/02
***Knife in the Water's unique mix of bleak Texas pop and country creates the perfect soundtrack for downing a fifth of bourbon alone in your car, parked outside your ex's house in the dead of winter. You also may or may not be loading a gun. With a subtle blend of organ, guitar, pedal steel, bass and drums, they conjure the barren stretches of Texas plains, the faces in dusty bars and the smell of cheap perfume and sleazy motel rooms.

An Austin five-piece with an academic background in avant-garde minimalism and blood-bucket honky tonk, Knife in the Water is capable and serious in executing their boundary-blurring vision of unusual modern American sounds. The band is comprised of Aaron Blount (vocals, guitar), Laura Krause (vocals, Hammond organ), Bill McCullough (pedal steel), Mark Nathan (bass) and Cisco Ryder (drums), all Texans by birth.

Crosspross Bells finds them moving into more psychedelic-abstract territory than their previous long-players, Plays One Sound and Others and Red River. A resigned spiritual feel is evident on "Crosshair Chapel," and "From the Catbird Seat" bears the lysergic influence of the Thirteen Floor Elevators. The five songs on this EP share the themes of indifference and decay, and find a strange natural calm in both states.

With several US and European tours under their belt, including stints with Calexico and Rhythm of Black Lines, the band is scheduled to crawl the US again this March/April with NYC's Mendoza Line.

Artist: OCTOPUS PROJECT Title: Identification Parade
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 BOO1211
Price: $12.00 Label: Peekaboo
Release
Date:		 4/15/02
***Drums vs. Drum Machines. Samplers vs. Guitars. Take these oppositional elements, add a willingness to start a band first and learn how to use the gear later, crank it up to 25,000, and that's somewhere in the neighborhood of The Octopus Project, who create a unique style of music for people who like the experimentation of progressive music, the blips and bleeps of electronic music and the raw animalism of rock.

The Octopus Project is the latest development between longtime collaborators Josh Lambert, Yvonne Lambert and Toto Miranda, filling the gap between electronic and rock musics. Having added drum machines, samplers and keyboards to their standard guitar/drums/bass setup, they just turn everything on at once and end up with what has been best described as "ambidextrous equipment failure junk-tronica." Perhaps something like the rock-plus-electronic sounds of IQU, The Flying Lizards, Stereolab or Cornelius, but way more rock (larger, rougher, more collar-grabbing). The recent arrival of Dustin Kilgore and Nik Snell, both of whom play various instruments, adds to the confusion on stage.

Their reputation as the band that "hooks up their half-broken electronic shit all wrong" first attracts the attention, but actually seeing and hearing half-broken electronic shit played way, way too loud seals the deal.

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Artist: OCTOPUS PROJECT Title: One Ten Hundred Thousand Million
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 BOO1214CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Peekaboo
Release
Date:		 1/24/05
***One Ten Hundred Thousand Million may be more subtle and emotional than Identification Parade, but it's just as hooky, just as energetic and sometimes a whole lot noisier. Like the Young Marble Giants if they really were giants, with giant marble instruments-- charming, young, eccentric, honest, true, gentle giants among men.

In the two years between records, Octopus Project have taken the barely controlled chaos of their live performance from coast to coast, playing hundreds of shows. When it came time to record again, the band had a clear idea of what they wanted-- a full-on, surround sound, 3-D, Technicolor studio amalgamation injected with the wild energy they felt in those noisy, tightly-packed clubs. Parts of One Ten Hundred Thousand Million were recorded in concrete stairwells. Other sounds were captured in nice rooms with padded walls and fancy recording equipment.

Their reputation as the band that "hooked up their half-broken electronic shit all wrong" first attracted the attention of Peek-A-Boo Records in 2001, but actually seeing the band play their halfbroken electronic shit way, way too loud sealed the deal, and by the end of the weekend the label had agreed to release the band's brilliant debut, Identification Parade. To date they hold the honor of being the only band recruited to the label after only one show.

30-second MP3 excerpts:

Exit Counselor
The Adjustor
All of the Champs
Bruise
Responsible Stu
Music is Happiness
Tuxedo Hat
Malaria Codes
Hold the Ladder
Six Feet Up
Lots More Stairs

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Artist: PALAXY TRACKS Title: Cedarland
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 BOO1213
Price: $12.00 Label: Peekaboo
Release
Date:		 4/21/03
***A gentle, half-concept album about the ghosts of lead singer Brandon Durham's hometown of Cedar Park, Texas, Cedarland sleepily mixes crystalline pop and delicate instrumentation. It's an American rock record that channels-- almost accidentally-- the spring-rain melancholy of every British LP you clung to for dear life in the early '80s. Cedarland recalls the depth of Joy Division with the quiet, ethereal luster of Galaxie 500, Bedhead, and even Brian Eno circa Another Green World, while Durham's overarching theme is calmly and resolutely worked out through the course of these 11 picture-perfect pop songs. Palaxy Tracks' first record, The Long Wind Down (Grey Flat, 2000) was alternately wispy and angular, swimming with shimmering hooks, and shot through with searing, Bedhead-esque starbursts of distorted guitar; it earned the band an avid local fanbase and was named the best Texas record of 2000 by The Austin Chronicle.

After the band relocated to Chicago, guests from The Sea and Cake, Archer Prewitt, Poi Dog Pondering, Okkervil River, and Shearwater were enlisted to help with Cedarland. The result further textures their supple indie-rock grooves with such chamber-pop trimmings as Mellotron, singing saw, lap steel, mandolin, and Wurlitzer, creating a record whose lush instrumentation and intimate, pillowy warmth should share the shelf with early Belle and Sebastian or recent Yo La Tengo.

Durham's wistful croon mixes a timbre close to Ian Curtis's with a smoother, breathier tone that recalls Neil Halstead, or maybe K.J McKillop of Moose. His voice both distinctive and totally unaffected, Durham's singing and lovelorn songwriting invite the listener into a personal space. Cedarland is a vision of rainy English skies, viewed from beneath Texas's wide, clear, blue ones.

Artist: PALAXY TRACKS Title: Twelve Rooms
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 BOO1216
Price: $12.00 Label: Peekaboo
Release
Date:		 5/23/05
***"Like a snapshot taken at twilight, their music is a photograph of a landscape caught at perpetual dusk".

This is an apt observation one reviewer made of Palaxy Tracks' last record. A quick glance through the band's press kit reveals similar praise from critics all over. Their distinctively subtle songwriting and expansive, somber guitar rock perfectly conveys a sense of loss and longing, evoking images of ghosts, memories, empty rooms and endless open roads. The group's latest album, Twelve Rooms, shows a band that has aged gracefully over the course of three records, perfecting a sound more evocative and sweetly heartbreaking with each release.

Palaxy Tracks formed several years ago in Austin, Texas, named after some distinctly human-esque footprints found alongside dinosaur tracks in the limestone beds of the nearby Paluxy River. Their wispy, angular, and effects-laden guitars earned the band an avid local fan base in no time.

On Twelve Rooms the band strips away the electronics of previous efforts and relies upon vintage analog instruments, enhancing their superb songwriting with subtle horns, mellotron, hammond, pump organ and other finishing flourishes. These details combine perfectly to give the listener with a sweeping, expansively lovely listening experience-- Twelve Rooms of swooning, bittersweet perfection.

Artist: PRIMA DONNAS Title: Drugs, Sex, Discotheques
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 BOO1210
Price: $12.00 Label: Peekaboo
Release
Date:		 10/8/01
***Punk rock without guitars? Yep, a few kids who wore out their Huggy Bear and Nation of Ulysses records wanted to do something different and traded their guitars for keyboards, adopted pseudo-British accents, and began their US invasion in Austin, TX, during the winter of 1995. The Prima Donnas deliver dark, keyboard-driven Eurotrash with the raw punk energy of The Stooges, more pompous rock attitude than the Rolling Stones, and a conspicuous fashion sense that can't be blamed on anyone. This is no boring '80s nostalgia revival-- just catchy tunes, danceable beats and witty lyrics about sex, drugs, suicide and depravity that want people to sit back, open their minds and spread their legs for a special kind of British Invasion. It's no coincidence they decided they were from Sussex.

Originally part of a manifesto calling for the creation of a new musical movement called "Nance," The Prima Donnas were only one of three bands Otto, Julius, Nikki and Nigel (RIP) had planned to further this cause. While The Prima Donnas were techno, they also had plans for a garage band (The Pilsner Kings) and a mod/punk outfit (Angels With Dirty Faces). The Prima Donnas toured the USA with The PeeChees in March 1998, and they played a few West Coast shows with Bratmobile in 1999, including the YoYo Pop Festival in Olympia. They also released a seven-inch as part of the Kill Rock Stars singles club last year.

Artist: SILVER SCOOTER Title: Goodbye
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 BOO1001
Price: $6.75 Label: Peekaboo
Release
Date:		 11/6/00
***Singer/guitarist Scott Garred's farewell in the title track from this new EP is more comforting than absolute certainty about what awaits just over the horizon. Small wonder that it's slated as the lead-off track on Silver Scooter's forthcoming album, The Blue Law, scheduled for February release on Peek-A-Boo Records.

Silver Scooter began as a deceptively simple pop trio with the uncanny ability to hit as many emotional chords as musical ones. With their third full-length, the band has evolved into a sophisticated pop quartet that now hits those chords with articulate precision. This four-song EP precedes The Blue Law by several months and offers a sample of what's to come with three Scooter originals, plus a stunning rendition of New Order's "Run."

Following the release of their previous album, Orleans Parish, Garred, bassist John Hunt, and drummer Tom Hudson added longtime friend Shawn Camp to Silver Scooter's permanent line-up on guitar and keyboards. Shawn played bass with Scott and Tom in their PacNW college band. He also created the painting on the cover of Silver Scooter's first album, The Other Palm Springs, as well as the photo assemblage that graces the cover of The Blue Law.

As always, Silver Scooter uses the studio as a tool to silken, not slicken, a tasteful sound that was already tight, controlled and in many ways, perfect. However, beneath the studied polish of their new record breathes a beast. Bass lines rumble with a nearly unperceived menace, the way powerful ocean currents are felt by pleasure cruise passengers on an otherwise placid sea. Guitars churn out chunky chords, occasionally stepping to the front for a subtle melody. And, in the midst of a groove so steady it defies metronomes, hints of organ and additional percussion embellish Silver Scooter's elegant pop songs.

  • Four new songs - three originals plus a New Order cover - from Peek-a-Boo's flagship band
  • A deceptively gentle pop taster that primes the palate for a delicious February 2001 full-length
  • Austin by way of the PacNW

    30-second RealAudio excerpts:

    Goodbye
    Amateur Actors
    It's Not Real
    Run

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Artist: SILVER SCOOTER Title: Orleans Parish
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 BOO1204CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Peekaboo
Release
Date:		 2/22/99
***Lots of Bests for this Austin band: the city's Music Awards has presented Silver Scooter with trophys for Best LP ("The Other Palm Springs"), Best Pop Band, Band of the Year, and Best Producer. "Other" was also picked as one of the best albums of 1997 by the Austin Chronicle and the Austin American-Statesman. and Silver Scooter won the hearts and minds of local popsters with "Palm Springs'" simple-yet-lush, guitar-driven songs and lyrical storytelling. Going national is a full-time job, though, and "Orleans" will sway non-Austinites the world over with its mature focus and atypical studio-skewed angle.

Artist: SILVER SCOOTER Title: Orleans Parish
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 BOO1204
Price: $8.25 Label: Peekaboo
Release
Date:		 2/22/99
Artist: SILVER SCOOTER Title: Other Palm Springs
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 BOO1202CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Peekaboo

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Silver Scooter "The Other Palm Springs"

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Artist: SILVER SCOOTER Title: The Blue Law
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 BOO12008CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Peekaboo
Release
Date:		 2/26/01
***The Blue Law is the much-anticipated third full-length release by a quartet which began as a deceptively simple pop trio with the uncanny ability to hit as many emotional chords as musical ones, and has evolved into a subtly sophisticated pop group that now hits those chords with an articulate precision. Silver Scooter uses the studio as a tool to silken, not slicken, a tasteful sound that was already tight, controlled, and in many ways, perfect. Under the wellgroomed coiffure of their new record breathes a beast.

Singer/guitarist Scott Garred tells us in perfect pitch about the urge to smash his car into an old lover's fender (that unwitting ex-lover might even be singing along). New guitarist Shawn Camp, who played bass with Scott and drummer Tom Hudson in their college band in the Pacific Northwest, painted the artwork on the cover of Silver Scooter's first album, The Other Palm Springs, as well as the cover of The Blue Law. John Hunt's bass lines rumble with a nearly unperceived menace. And, in the midst of a groove so steady it defies metronomes, seemlingly random guitar lines careen in and out of control, as if the guitar was played by two people instead of one.

In fact, that guitar was actually played by two people in one case. Scott wrestled for control of a Gibson Les Paul with longtime producer Dave McNair during the taping of "Terrorism Lover." Likewise, Silver Scooter recorded much of The Blue Law in such a grab-bag fashion, using what most bands call finished songs as mere starting points. Not surprisingly, it works well, and The Blue Law might not only be Silver Scooter's best album to date, but also its most touching, dense, and rewarding. This album realizes the promise of Orleans Parish and will surely entrench itself in record collections everywhere as the album that never leaves, no matter how many times it says, "Goodbye."

Artist: SILVER SCOOTER Title: The Blue Law
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 BOO1208
Price: $8.25 Label: Peekaboo
Release
Date:		 2/26/01
***The Blue Law is the much-anticipated third full-length release by a quartet which began as a deceptively simple pop trio with the uncanny ability to hit as many emotional chords as musical ones, and has evolved into a subtly sophisticated pop group that now hits those chords with an articulate precision. Silver Scooter uses the studio as a tool to silken, not slicken, a tasteful sound that was already tight, controlled, and in many ways, perfect. Under the wellgroomed coiffure of their new record breathes a beast.

Singer/guitarist Scott Garred tells us in perfect pitch about the urge to smash his car into an old lover's fender (that unwitting ex-lover might even be singing along). New guitarist Shawn Camp, who played bass with Scott and drummer Tom Hudson in their college band in the Pacific Northwest, painted the artwork on the cover of Silver Scooter's first album, The Other Palm Springs, as well as the cover of The Blue Law. John Hunt's bass lines rumble with a nearly unperceived menace. And, in the midst of a groove so steady it defies metronomes, seemlingly random guitar lines careen in and out of control, as if the guitar was played by two people instead of one.

In fact, that guitar was actually played by two people in one case. Scott wrestled for control of a Gibson Les Paul with longtime producer Dave McNair during the taping of "Terrorism Lover." Likewise, Silver Scooter recorded much of The Blue Law in such a grab-bag fashion, using what most bands call finished songs as mere starting points. Not surprisingly, it works well, and The Blue Law might not only be Silver Scooter's best album to date, but also its most touching, dense, and rewarding. This album realizes the promise of Orleans Parish and will surely entrench itself in record collections everywhere as the album that never leaves, no matter how many times it says, "Goodbye."

Artist: SUPER XX MAN Title: Volume Iv
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 BOO1205CD
Price: $12.00 Label: Peekaboo
Release
Date:		 3/13/00
***While best known as the frontman for Silver Scooter, Scott Garred has stepped away from the indie rock for his first full-length as alter-ego Super XX Man. These touching, country-laced tunes recall the days when a singer earned another drink at the bar with his ability to spin a simple tale. Having recorded Volume IV entirely at home with guitars, ukulele, keyboards, and occasional help from friends, this 11-song album spotlights Garred's broad skills as both a producer and a songwriter, while his bold vocal harmonies and honest songs certainly earn him another night at the saloon.

"I dreamt I was Super XX Man, flying over Texas. Armed with an acoustic guitar, ukulele, and some keyboards, I flew about rescuing old thoughts and feelings from despair. I sang a simple tune even though it might have been dressed up for the occasion. I looked down and saw old friends who didn't come around much anymore. I looked all around and saw that there was love in the air and lots of it. I stared down at the highway and wondered who's going my way?

Super XX is an old black and white film made by Kodak. Around September 1995, the film was discontinued and, when a friend suggested that I do something with my old four-track recordings, my home recording project was born. That first cassette was primarily a documentation of packing up my college home in Pullman, Washington, and heading down a dusty trail to Austin, Texas.

Another September passed, and another cassette emerged. Volume II holds songs about my first year or so in Texas, making new friends and missing my old ones. In 1997, Super XX Man left his cassette home and released a six-song seven-inch on Peek-a-Boo Industries, with more songs about the triumphs and subtleties of my new Texas life.

Volume IV differs from my earlier tapes in some ways. The songwriting and instrumentation is of a more traditional nature, but the songs still share the intimacy and looseness created on earlier releases. Somewhere along the way I realized I was still in love with the music my parents made me listen to on those long drives in the family motor home, and I found myself embracing a style of music where performance and recording quality stands for something."
-Super XX Man, Austin, Texas

Artist: V/A Title: The Peek-A-Boo Book Of Spells
Format: LP Catalog
Number:		 BOO1207
Price: $8.25 Label: Peekaboo
Release
Date:		 11/6/00
***The Peek-A-Boo Book of Spells is a compilation of Texas artists, documenting the underground music scene of Austin and Houston circa 1999 - 2000. All the bands involved contribute songs having something to do with magic, spells, witchcraft, etc., however they chose to interpret it. This record has nothing to do with Halloween, nor is it a tribute to the Wiccan community. Rather, the record was intended as an innocuous mainstream gateway into the dark practice of Satan worship, much like Harry Potter.

As with Peek-A-Boo Records' first full-length release in 1995 (The Peek-A-Boo Bicycle Rodeo, which featured 16 Texas bands - including Spoon, Lord High Fixers, and The 1-4-5s - performing songs about bicycles, and was financed by a series of fundraiser shows by the bands on the record), The Book of Spells is limited to a single pressing of 1,000 copies on clear vinyl with a zine-like booklet of band photos and information. Expect this album to be well-received-- and go out of print quickly.

Port Vale "Witchcraft and Snowfall" Knife in the Water "A Spell for Some Summer Day" The Process "Proceed" The Wontons "The Wizard" Junior Varsity "Voodoo Voodoo" Fivehead "Sit a Spell" Subset "Twelve-Sided Die" Roar! Lion "Witch Hunt" Trail of Dead "Witches Web" The Maulies "Witches Brew" Woozyhelmet "Time Pops" Silver Scooter "Remembering the Middle Ages" The Kiss Offs "Red Underwear/Seductra" Eskimo Kisses "Bloody Mary" Super XX Man "Cast a Spell (live)" The Prima Donnas "Sugar Plum Fairy"

  • Bewitching compendium of the sounds of the Houston and Austin scenes from 1999 to the present
  • All tracks exclusive to ths release
  • Includes zine-like booklet
  • Limited edition
  • Wild, man, wiiiiild

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