Released the week of July 22nd, 2002

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Etc. is the long-anticipated collection of A-sides, B-sides, covers and outtakes by the band Jawbreaker. Maybe you've heard of these guys.

As one can imagine, the founding fathers of emo have quite a collection of tracks that never made it to any of their four studio albums. There's something for every mood on this Alpha-Omega of rare and previously-impossible-to-find songs.

Presented chronologically, the journey begins in November '88 with a track recorded on the first Jawbreaker demo (before they were even known as Jawbreaker), and ends 20 songs later with the trio's final studio recording, a version of "Boxcar" re-worked at the end of the DGC Dear You sessions (hey, the studio was paid for). There's plenty of creme filling in the middle and it's all good, brother.

The artwork for Etc. is warmly inviting to the familiar legions, who will revel in the band's track-by-track commentary and printed lyrics (courtesy of Aaron Cometbus).

• Features numerous A-sides, B-sides, comp tracks, and outtakes from all 4 studio albums
  
• These tracks are either very hard or impossible to find at this point in history
  
• Many people grew up listening to Jawbreaker and rightfully demand the satisfaction and closure this collection provides
  
• Big fans of Bitch Magnet and close personal friends with Lance Hahn of J Church
  
• Copious liner notes and the lyrics in the Cometbus typeface
  
• Finally hear Blake really do Richard Butler
  
• Ever get the feeling these guys just missed having their own episode of Behind the Music?

  Free MP3s from Jawbreaker's Etc:

  To download:

  Kiss The Bottle
  Housesitter
  

  To stream (high bandwidth connections only):

  Kiss The Bottle
  Housesitter

  30-second RealAudio excerpts:

  Shield Your Eyes
  Equalized
  Caroline
  Better Half
  Split
  Gutless
  With or Without U2
  Fantastic Planet
  Rich
  Peel It the Fuck Down
  Pretty Persuasion
  Kiss the Bottle
  First Step
  Friends Back East
  Sea Foam Green
  Housesitter
  Into You Like a Train
  Sister
  Friendly Fire
  Boxcar

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Released the week of August 12th, 2002

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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.

• 100% negative energy rock'n'roll
  
• Misunderstood, overlooked, misanthropic, confrontational... and they're from Ohio

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Released the week of July 8th, 2002

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The Blackout is the third album from New York City's Speedball Baby. Fifteen brand new originals of honed-to-near-perfection psycho-no-wave-rockabilly. Here Speedball Baby is joined by James Chance, Mick Collins (Dirtbombs and half the In The Red catalog), Cristina Martinez (Boss Hog) and Jon Spencer (Blues Explosion, Pussy Galore) to make this by far their finest effort to date. Like the Velvets, New York Dolls, Suicide and Contortions before them, Speedball Baby are truly the sound of New York City. Tales of pimps, players and hustlers, set to the background of jagged and fractured rhythms. Their music is dark and gritty. This music could have come from nowhere else.

Fusing the primordial slurp of rockabilly with a broken, homegrown hybrid of gospel testimony and punk mayhem, Speedball Baby cuts a swath through the rotting cane fields of contemporary music. Their shows have earned them the loyalty of music lovers and emergency room ghouls on both coasts and between. The notoriously fickle crowds in their home parish of NYC have stuck to Speedball Baby like feathers on a tarred heretic.

Martin works the traps like a cocktail forge, loading syncopated coal like the port town native he is. Ali curls around the beat with blunt grace, by measures a gamin then a pit boss. Together, they're more a twin barrel riot gun than a rhythm section. Matt wrestles fractured jabs of twang and slur from a singed encyclopedia of guitar don'ts. Ron flails, feints, and careens with the teethmarks of Burroughs biting Beefheart. He works the crowd like Lawrence Ferlinghetti hosting a game show or a midwife's blood-spattered husband. His antic destructive pageant has blanched unsuspecting soundmen and cold-cocked audiences.

• With guest appearances by the upper echelons of In The Red's scuz royalty - Mick Collins of the Dirtbombs, Cristina Martinez of Boss Hog, and Jon Spencer
  
• Touring in autumn 2002

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