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Updated 4/23/04 Release dates [among other things] subject to change. Our mailorder pages feature all the titles below-- and more-- sorted by release date at the following links: Our March 2004 new release page can be found here. If you need to brood over the present and/or fret about the future, Revolverwise, there's no better starting point than our news page.  DEVENDRA BANHARTRejoicing In The Hands (YOUNG GOD YGR024) CD Released the week of April 26th, 2004 Order from Midheaven mailorder
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With songwriting and guitar-playing that have progressed since Oh Me Oh My The Way The Day Goes By The Sun Is Setting Dogs Are Dreaming Lovesongs Of The Christmas Spirit, and determined not to be ghettoized as a low-fi crank, Devendra Banhart and Michael Gira agreed it was best to move on to professional recording studios. Lynn Bridges, who works with Jimmy Johnson (of Mussel Shoals fame), invited them to his old, southern house with tall ceilings and wood floors on the Alabama / Georgia border, where they recorded 32 songs (culled from something like 57 initial submissions), using the best possible vintage gear. Banhart sat on a stool in that living room for ten days, twelve hours per, playing constantly, sometimes with a chorus of cicadas when they recorded at night with open windows. Overdubs were later added back in NYC. The title tune-- a duet with the legendary '60s English folk gamin (one of Banhart idols) Vashti Bunyan-- is an obvious highlight, but Banhart's uncanny ability to transport the listener through words, voice, and pretty amazing finger-picked acoustic guitar is where the album's magic lies. Gira was immediately struck by Banhart's home recordings (which he eventually released on Young God), especially his voice, "a quivering high-tension wire [that] sounded like it could have been recorded 70 years ago-- these songs could have been sitting in someone's attic, left there since the 1930s." Following Oh Me Oh My's tidal wave of acclaim, three or four US tours, tours in Europe, and a feature on NPR, Banhart remains the most genuine, least cynical and calculated artist Gira has ever known, one of the most innately talented, magical performers he ever heard. Whether the songs are pained, twisted, whimsical, or even sometimes weirdly silly, aside from being fantastically musical and expertly played, they are also utterly sincere, and devoid of postmodern irony. He's the real thing.
 BRIGHTBLACKAla.cali.tucky (GALAXIA GLX020) CD/LP Released the week of April 19th, 2004 Order from Midheaven mailorder
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Brightblack goes well with ghostly, bow-legged travels in a cheap old pick-up truck. Songwriter Nathan D. Shineywater is in fact bow-legged and drives an old pick-up truck. Rachael Hughes, whose haunty whispers add a great harmony on every song, plays Rhodes and acoustic piano. The instrumentation on Ala.cali.tucky complements plush canyon vocals. Paul Oldham engineered and helped produce some of the songs. He also played the bass guitar. Brother Will Oldham (Bonnie Prince Billy, Palace) even stopped by one day to sing a high harmony. Every song on Ala.cali.tucky has a floaty quality that never becomes tiresome. These are songs to travel by. The title of the album refers to the process of how the recording took place: the songs were written in Alabama and California (and rehearsed in an old wood barn on a friend's ranch) and recorded in Kentucky (one song per day). Claimed influences range from My Bloody Valentine to the Grateful Dead's early records, but who knows what Alabamans really listen to? "The songs were written by a rural person about rural decisions," snaggles Shineywater, "while being high on reefer or just spent on this tired system we all live in." Does that sound MBV-meets-the-Dead enough for you? The music is as friendly as it is stony, full-to-thebrim of Southern drawl charm. From the opening track "New Mexico," the marijuana smoke rolls out the truck cab window following the drift of the pedal steel guitar. It's not as lazy as it is easy-going. Later in the record, "Old Letters," a little Willie Nelsonesque camp-fire ballad, remembers a friend. Brightblack has opened for and/or toured with Will Oldham, Papa M, and Rachel's.
 CATALPA BOYSs/t (ANYWAY ANY059) CD Released the week of April 26th, 2004 Order from Midheaven mailorder
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Named after a variety of tree in their front yard as kids, Catalpa Boys showcases the off-center-yetforthright singing, songwriting, and playing talents of the brothers Housh-- J.D.'s finger-picked, country blues and J.K.'s more wily, playful approach-- on a variety of noisemakers, gitboxes, saws, and train whistles. Each has carved out time in other combos-- J.D. in Columbus indie veterans Moviola, and J.K. in San Francisco's Our Lady of the Highway, Nickel Beer Riot, and as a hired gun on different instruments in countless other Bay Area combos. Together these two brothers put a beautiful new twist on the ages-old family musical tradition (Delmore Brothers, Carter Family), joining their voices and instruments in perfect, genetic harmony. Lebanon, Ohio, is landlocked in the Miami Valley north of Cincinnati, equal parts northern and southern, city and country, and it's where the Housh clan grew up. The Housh boys trolled around these parts until they entered adulthood, when each went their separate ways. During once-a-year get-togethers, the wine flows, the instruments come out, and the songs (new and very old) fill the air. The two finally got together long enough to record some of those songs (which only their wives, parents and grandparents had heard) so that other folks could listen in on the brotherly love.
 THE CUTSs/t (BIRDMAN BMR048) CD Released the week of April 26th, 2004 Order from Midheaven mailorder
Modern day psychedelia-- coming right at you with
lightning speed. The Cuts' self-titled LP is finally
available on everyone's favorite digital format!
Several years ago rock scribe and all around tastemaker
Mark Murman released this album on vinyl on his
superb Rock'n'Roll Blitzkrieg label. The Cuts had
already released a single for Lookout Records that displayed
a straight-ahead punk/garage/rock'n'roll style a
la DMZ or the Real Kids (and no one currently alive
on Earth does not absolutely adore DMZ and the Real
Kids), but by the time they recorded their first full-length
they had already moved on to a more psychedelic
sound (by way of late '70s NYC). Did someone
say "13th Floor Elevators meets Television"? The
Cuts stand apart from any contemporary garage rock
purveyors. Tough as nails, neurotic, simplistic, big,
deep, catchy and devastating all at the same time.
Genuine decathlon scorch.
Set free after one EP and left to their own devices,
The Cuts retreated to a muddy woods where they
stumbled across Sky Saxon declaring himself as
their own personal Yoda. Taking what they needed
and ignoring his cosmic declarations they wandered
back to the bright streets.... This ain't the fake "look
at my white belt" garage rock. It's dirty fuzz invented
the day before psychedelic rock (the war and
LSD terror, not the flowers-and-weed scene). Even
when they sound like they wannna have a good time,
you're waiting for someone to sneak up from behind
and stick a knife in your back.
--Smashin' Transistors
30-second streaming MP3 excerpts: Do the Sleeper Released the week of April 5th, 2004 Order from Midheaven mailorder
Having lurked in the break-core maximum-fuckedbeat
underground for years, Boston's Dev/Null finally
releases a debut 12-inch; extreme rave noise is the
rule here, where bits and pieces of classic rave hardcore
and old-school jungle (including Human
Resource, The Prodigy, Joey Beltram, Sub Base
Records, and 2 Bad Mice) are yanked from their surroundings
and forced to share the frequency spectrum
with ultra-jarring, obsessive-compulsive blastbreaks.
The result is a noise/beats extravaganza on
par with Venetian Snares.
This isn't nostalgia or nudge-nudge-wink-wink
irony bullshit. Unlikely as it may seem, this is one hundred-
percent dance music. It may be mutant
dance music made for brains eroded by years of
exposure to harmful sounds, but it's dance music
nonetheless.
Coming from the grind/crust world (where he
played drums in bands like Grief) Pete Dev/Null got
into breakcore around 1997 via Ambush Records' first
few releases, and has been actively producing tracks
since 2001. As Dev/Null he has toured Europe twice,
released two split seven-inches and numerous compilation
tracks, and is scheduled to release a full-length
album on Jason Forrest's (aka DonnaSummer's) Cock
Rock Disco label this year. Dev/Null is also working
on split releases with Electromeca and Terminal11,
and a remix for Agoraphobic Nosebleed for Hydrahead.
Released the week of April 5th, 2004 Order from Midheaven mailorder
The Bidoun Sessions commemorates performances with
The Bidoun Crew in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
(Mutamassik in 2002, Rupture in 2004). Available outside
the Middle East for the first time, this CD inaugurates
Violent Turd's Shotgun Wedding split DJ mix
series.
Easy labels such as "postcolonial party music" or
"hardcore world beat" fail to describe DJs Rupture and
Mutamassik's forward-looking Diasporal breakbeats.
Hip hop, dancehall, and drum'n'bass meet in Beirut
while chopper blades whir overhead. Bump this in your
car for instant street cred, whether you're cruising Cairo,
Brooklyn, or Harare. World-class and world-conscious.
Rupture's blazing half-hour Bidoun session fuses
hot new orientalist dancehall and battle-grade hiphop
with Arabic vocals and instrumentation, soul
divas, and a dusting of break-core grit. Mutamassik's
Bidoun session scratches and mashes Upper Nile
Sa'aidi, old-skool rap instrumentals, hardstep D-and-
B, and underground rai hits into a serious, rooted mix
of relentless rhythms from pan-AfroArabic immigrant
sound sources.
Black American expat DJ /Rupture is best known for
Tigerbeat6 and Violent Turd CD mixes. Minesweeper
Suite earned four stars from hip-hop bible Vibe, an A-
from Entertainment Weekly, was a Rolling Stone "Hot
Pick,"and a Wire "Top 10 of 2002." Anticipation is high
for more of Rupture's provocative turntablism skills that
brought him over a hundred gigs in eighteen different
countries during 2003.
Based in Brooklyn, Egyptian-American DJ/producer
Mutamassik has performed across the globe with artists
such as Butch Morris, Natascha Atlas, Vernon Reid, and
Arto Lindsay. She has appeared on releases for Luaka
Bop, Warner Bros., Soundlab, Sound-Ink, and Soot. She
is also no stranger to critical acclaim, from the likes of
Urb, Alternative Press, Le Monde, and many others.
Released the week of April 5th, 2004 Order from Midheaven mailorder
This limited edition vinyl edition of Walking with
the Beggar Boys (CD released by Low Transit
Industries) contains a bonus CD single.
The album marks a definite change in sound
and style for Athens, Georgia s underground cult
favorites. New members guitarist Eric Harris (formerly
of The Olivia Tremor Control) and bassist
Craig McQuiston (formerly of the Glands) join
longtime members singer/songwriter Andrew
Rieger, multi-instrumentalist Laura Carter, and
drummer Aaron Wegelin for a reinvention of the
band for their sixth release. Part hippies, part
punks, Elf Power follows no trends or rules, they
simply rock.
Musically they're all over the map from
sleazy, T-Rex rockers to psychedelic electronica,
to blown-out Southern boogie romps. The lyrics
forego the abstract supernatural imagery of past
releases for a more straightforward approach, with
songs about the effects of advertising and media
on modern America, love songs, and even strange,
autobiographical stories about a gang of beggar
children in Warsaw.
Elf Power formed in Athens in 1994 and have
spent the last decade releasing albums, touring the
globe from America to Europe to Japan and Brazil,
playing with REM, Wilco, Guided By Voices, and
Neutral Milk Hotel (with whom Carter also recorded
and toured), and building a rabid underground
following.
Elf Power also runs Orange Twin, a record
label and land conservation group. The label
releases records by Elf Power, Neutral Milk Hotel
and many others, proceeds from sales of which go
toward supporting the land conservation group,
which involves 150 acres on the outskirts of Athens,
formerly an old girl scout camp, currently being
turned into a self-sustaining, low-impact village and
nature preserve.
Released the week of April 5th, 2004 Order from Midheaven mailorder
Three years after the first volume of Music For The Home,
Rob Ellis returns with a new, intensely personal solo album
which opens a treasure chest of archive recordings from the
last decade, documenting a turbulent period in his domestic
life. Where volume one was created and edited almost entirely
inside a computer, this album includes many piano pieces
recorded live. A self-taught pianist, Ellis's idiosyncratic
approach to composition has drawn comparisons to Messaien,
Reich and Cage, among others. The album also utilizes
domestic recordings and concrète techniques, notably on
"Church Opposite," which uses the sounds of church bells to
startling effect.
Better known for collaborative work as performer and
producer, Ellis has been involved with a wide range of projects
since his last solo record. Perhaps his most widely acknowledged
work is with PJ Harvey, with whom he has worked
since 1991. In the last year, Ellis has worked with Marianne
Faithfull, Charlotte Hatherley from Ash, Martina Topley-Bird,
David Holmes' Free Association vocalist Petra Jean
Philippson, Marlene Kuntz, Kitty Wu, and Madrugada. 2004
will see him spending time on tour with PJ Harvey.
Pianist, percussionist and long-time friend of PJ Harvey ...
part Lalo Schiffrin, part Erik Satie, but mostly unique ... Ellis
weave[s] together seemingly disjointed fragments of sound.
--The Times
[A]stonishing ... worthy of a large audience, not to mention
critical acclaim --Uncut
Recommended for fans of Cage, Feldman and Ligeti
--The Independent
Ultra minimal, pretty abstract, unflinchingly cerebral and
slightly paranoid. If you ever felt the urge to take an axe to
your dining room table, this could be the appropriate soundtrack
--Bizarre
[E]xcellent and evocative --NME
[C]ourageous stuff, realising complex musical ideas without
getting too uneasy on the ear --Mojo
[A] highly personal tapestry of fragments that veers between
the obsessive control of a classical composer and a more
relaxed attitude toward the accidental --The Wire
30-second RealAudio excerpts: Four pictures with Debussy: No. 1 60 Francs Released the week of April 19th, 2004 Order from Midheaven mailorder
Jason Forrest, an artist formerly known as Donna Summer, is a celebrity among electronic artists; featured by magazines all around the world, he is one one of the most brilliant Plunderphonic artists who has ever walked the Earth. He samples, deconstructs and reconstructs himself into a rage while driving audiences to the verge of madness. Forrest obviously knows his disco and his prog rock; he's a maniac who controls his machines with dreamlike competence. His knowledge of repertoires and styles seems boundless. He mixes the most trashy with the most beautiful and the most rocking elements of th disco-decade into lavish sets, which, believe it or not, are perfectly danceable. Samples sound as if they had been broken three times and patched up four. Big band-like brass sections! Wild guitar solos! And, of course, always disco, Disco, DISCO! All this is combined in such a euphoric mix.
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JASON FORREST "Satan Cries Again
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30-second RealAudio excerpts: Spectacle to Refute All Judgments
Released the week of April 19th, 2004 Order from Midheaven mailorder
What else is available on the Tigerbeat6 label?
Following on the heels of the eclectic and wonderful
Rockstopper CD, Knifehandchop makes excellent
use of a unique ability, in the words of Careless
Talk Saves Lives, to "joyously romp through the various
electronic stylings of the last few years."
The infectiousness of these four new tracks is
impossible to ignore. The A-side begins with the
killer "Tizzy Tixbown Riddim," which comes large
with furious underground reggae bizness that
sends all IDM bandwagon-jumpers running for
cover. "Goin Back to Scarborough" showcases
Knifehandchop's melodic best, meshing hip-hop,
2-step garage and the illegal lyrical stylings of
Snoop and Dre. On the flip side, "Girlfriend" is perhaps
the most creative and unique track on the
record, with its unpredictably perfect mix of ADD,
IDM, jungle, piano melodies and techno. "Return
to Form" is destined to become one of the most
revered and misunderstood tracks heard at jungle
parties for years to come.
Knifehandchop is a true trendsetter, always
working hard to keep underground electronic
music sincere and interesting.
Play this at a party and watch the place explode.
--Vice UK
Genre-busting brilliance. --Logo UK
Track listing:
1. Tizzy Tixbown Riddim Released the week of April 26th, 2004 Order from Midheaven mailorder
Bearded, dirty, and riding the brink of the stoner
rock revolution, the new heroes of thee electric
guitar mayhem, Midnite Snake are a Pittsburgh
power trio who play instrumental acid rock until
death does part. Alexei Plotnicov on electric guitar,
Jim Lingo on electric bass, on drums Paul
Quattrone (of Modey Lemon greatness), and Fog
Hog on electric fog deliver supreme feedback
over-drive psycho rock. These monsters will be
touring the United States (especially the East Side)
upon album release. Already buzzing in Ohio,
Pennsylvania and New York, so look out.
Midnite Snake are no slouches in the business of
overwhelming unassuming audiences with their
fuzzed-out ritualistic jams. Chalk it up to their
extended guitar freakouts, a relentlessly pummeling
rhythm section and a hyperactive smoke
machine that often all but obscures bassist Jim
Lingo, guitarist Alexei Plotnicov and drummer
Paul Quattrone in a pungent issue as thick and primal
as the racket the trio summons up....
Plotnicov [unleashes] psychedelic, bluesy solos
that sizzle like unstable isotopes atop Lingo and
Quattrone's bedrock-solid riff-mantras.
--Adam MacGregor, Pittsburgh Pulp
30-second streaming MP3 excerpts: Nitro-Turbo-Overdrive
Released the week of April 26th, 2004 Order from Midheaven mailorder
There must be an explanation for at least ten outstanding
new, young rock'n'roll bands all currently
working their mojos in Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Definitely at the head of the class, The Mystery
Girls play sloppy, rambunctious, blues-infused...
okay, let's just say it: they play garage rock. For a
musical style that has been around for approximately
forty years and attempted by every social reject
who ever picked up a guitar, very few do it well. The
Mystery Girls do it amazing. Something In The
Water is a timeless blast that lays waste to the current
crop championed by overseas porn rags such
as NME. This is the real dope, daddy-- Midwestern
kids, some still not old enough to drink legally, who
have nothing better to do than get high and study the
riffs and nuances of every '60s and '70s garage punk
album ever recorded and try to master them. The
Mystery Girls are so masterful it's almost scary. A
lot of bands might claim to be inspired by the MC5
and Brian Jones-era Stones, but The Mystery Girls
genuinely sound like a legitimate cross between the
two. Their debut album on Trickknee Records in '03 was an instant classic.
Extensive touring of the US has earned a legion
of young fans and proved them to be a real force in
the world of underground rock. Something In The
Water was recorded at the fashionable Ghetto
Recorders in Detroit by the producer of the moment
Jim Diamond.
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Released the week of April 26th, 2004
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Few familiar modern garage rock'n'roll would find
fault with the view that Greg Cartwright is one of the
today's brightest talents. His singing and songwriting
are second to none, as demonstrated in his previous
bands The Oblivians and The Compulsive
Gamblers. The Reigning Sound, his current vehicle,
was born in Memphis, Tennessee, sired by a Flash &
The Memphis Casuals 45 and nursed by a Barbara
Pittman single. Childhood was not easy for this musical
what-not. Kids shunned it for its rock'n'roll sensibility
and obvious lack of polished shtick. In true
stepchild fashion, though, the band continued to develop
a unique sound all its own that didn't really focus
on preconceived genres. Rock'n'roll, R&B, gospel,
pop and soul all melt into their The Reigning Sound's
distinctive Memphis sound.
Their debut album on Sympathy For The Record
Industry demonstrated their talents for crafting great,
moody soundscapes. Their second album, Timebomb
High School on In The Red, captures their full spectrum,
from rockers to ballads. On Too Much Guitar,
Cartwright goes for the throat with their hardest
edged, toughest recording to date. Half recorded at
Memphis's famed Easley Studios and half recorded
by Jay and Alicja of the Lost Sounds inside Cartwright's
own Legba record store, the album is a powerhouse
that at times recalls the garage punk energy
of The Oblivians-- no doubt what a lot of his fans
have been waiting for.
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REIGNING SOUND "If You Can't Give Me Everything"
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REIGNING SOUND "If You Can't Give Me Everything"
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30-second streaming MP3 excerpts: We Repel Each Other
Released the week of April 19th, 2004 Order from Midheaven mailorder
Strategy comes correct with two new dub reggae
burners. "Going Street Dub" is a tribute to both
Going Street (the notoriously hazy Portland residence
of Strategy, Nudge, and Nice Nice), and to
early-to-mid-'80s electronics-augmented reggae
(e.g. Sly & Robbie, Scientist, early On-U Sound,
and the currently spot-lit Bullwackie productions).
Tumbling Simmons drum fills and glittering hihats
simmer up against crispy chords on the backbeat,
and, of course, loads of spring reverb. The B-side
is a more spacious track, so named because it
debuted at the infamous 420 Dub Night last year at
Portland's most crucial underground nightspot,
Dunes. The spring reverb returns here-- the vibe is
half purist '80s reggae, half out-there electronica.
Strategy's dubs pay respects to the best elements of
the old school, while still bringing his own distinctive
beat-shifting, layered sound fragments, and
signature soupy production style.
Well respected for his dynamic live PAs and
general enthusiasm for local music, Strategy is a
mainstay of Portland's burgeoning explorative
electronica scene. His debut CD, Strut came out
last year on Outward Music Co., and with multiple
remixes and upcoming releases in the works for
labels like ORAC, Kranky, and Shockout, he is
poised to become one of Cascadia's main electronic
music exports.
Released the week of April 26th, 2004 Order from Midheaven mailorder
Hailing from the heart of the Midwest, The Whiles
(formerly known as Mrs. Children) eschew the
punk rock and lo-fi sounds for which "Cowlumbus"
has been more (in)famously known, in favor of a
softer approach that reflects the sound of the seasons.
Taking their cues from the spiritual side of
their collective hearts (principal songwriter Joe
Peppercorn is a professional organ player and Latin
teacher) Colors of the Year touches on the gentler
side of love and longing, with wonderful threepart
harmonies, distant echoes of Nick Drake,
Zombies and Eric Anderson, and neo-old-fangled
sounds such as Belle and Sebastian, Ron Sexsmith
and The Smiths-- all meshed into their own wonderful
noise.
Self-produced with some engineering duties by
Jon Chinn (New Bomb Turks), Colors of the Year
is a great leap forward from their self-released EP
Break Your Back, which garnered a mention in
Rolling Stone's "Ten Most Rocking College Towns"
issue. Their demo at that time landed them on the
cover of Columbus Alive and they have managed to
create a fairly rabid following in the Midwest.
The band formed in 1998 by high school classmates,
but it wasn't until brother Matt Peppercorn
joined that Joe felt the musical strings loosen and
made the epic leap into the breathtaking songwriter
he now is-- another voice of the Y generation-- no props, no gimmicks, no screaming.
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REINGING SOUND
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