B.Fleischmann/E*Vax split - 7"

Another great release from Audio Dregs finds E Vax and B.Fleischmann each contributing lush, gorgeous electronica that will break your heart. Highly recommended.

Baby 63 - Quiver - 7"

In the 1980s, the cassette underground was something to be into. Thousands of bands had access to cheap recording and duplication equipment for the first time in music history. What resulted was a cornucopia of oddness and wonderful sounds. Baby 63 was an active part of that underground. Started in the early 80s in suburban Washington DC, Karin Fletcher recorded a half dozen cassettes and released them to the world. These two songs - Quiver and Shark Watcher Maker - are from her first recorded in 1984. What you get is a mix of the Residents, Birthday Party, early Fetus, and pre-dance Industrial. Though the music is made from loops and primitive instruments, the result is songs, not pure noise or endless drone. Forget hype, forget fact that I am trying to sell you a record by someone you never heard of. This is great stuff.

Baby Shakes - 7"

SS-14 BABY SHAKES- "Stuck On Blue" b/w "Boys Talk"

From Seattle to Atlanta to New York City.
The Baby Shakes are Mary on lead vocals and rhythm guitar, Judy on lead guitar and vocals, and Claudia on bass. Claudia sings lead on a couple of songs and Judy plays keys. They've played together since Feb. 05, and after going through a series of drummers who just couldn't keep up with 'em, they presently have Murat from the Electric Shadows serving as drummer and Token Guy. Their first 45 came out in Jan. 06 on Douchemaster Records and has been heralded as an instant classic. Their second single, new on Shit Sandwich, is only gonna kick the raves into overdrive.

Watch out boys and gals, the Baby Shakes are coming!!

Barbez- Mexico City Impressions - 7"

his 7" is limited to 400 copies and was designed, signed and numbered by Barbez's Dan Kaufman. 100 are on red vinyl and 100 are on white vinyl. These two intense numbers were inspired by both a pleasant trip through a small historic neighborhood in Mexico city and the detestable Iraq war. Cover art was inspired by the abuse of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. Look for the next Barbez record sometime soon on Tzadik. These two songs were recorded and mixed by the great Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, John Zorn, Swans) at B.C. studios near the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn, NY in 2006. They were mastered by Fred Kevorkian (White Stripes) at Avatar Studios. The first song, Mexico City Impressions, was conceived on a trip to Mexico City while strolling through a lovely neighborhood called Coyoacan where Frieda Kahlo, Leon Trotsky and Diego Rivera once lived some 60 years ago. There's a kind of Parisian feeling to the neighborhood and to a little park there with a carousel and people selling little bags of Mexican sweets. It's an extremely vibrant place, full of Meso-American sounds and colors floating about. This short pulsating song is my impression of that vibrancy, color and heartbeat of Mexico City, and an homage to the enchanting sound of the marimbas you hear everywhere in that city. The second song, Somebody Get Rid of the King, is an angry lament that comes out of a great fury at the Iraq War and especially at the cruelty of the United States towards the detainees it holds in Guantanamo and in the tortures it perpetrated at the Abu Ghraib prison. The subject was close to my heart as I spent several years working as a researcher with famed journalist Seymour Hersh on his book, Chain of Command, which detailed these outrageous war crimes. The song begins in a slow and mournful vein only to transform into a punk-rock blowout full of rage.

Battle - 'The Longest Time' - 7"

Great up and coming band from England who write thoughtful lyrics a la Morrissey without the whinging mannerisms.

Battle/Kubicheck - tour single - 7"

Limited tour single from these two great British bands..think Smiths, Joy Division meets Talking Heads

Billy Bao - Fuck Separation - 10"

Don’t tell the INS, but Billy Bao is here. These internationalists destroy all boarders with the grinding bludgeon of pummeling sound. Two lonnnnnnggggg songs churn relentless riffs into wretched pounding and go back. Sub-metal, dirt dirge primitivism that attacks the shit nation state. For one from Billy Bao’s last one check out “Bilbo’s Incinerator” Embrace the degeneration of rock & roll! Fans of Brainbombs, Stickmen with Rayguns, Pissed Jeans, Drunk with Guns, etc. take note. White vinyl. Screened sleeves.

Black & Whites - You're The Only Girl - 7"

Black & Whites - DMR 008
You're the Only Girl 7"

Three new smokin tunes from Oxford, Mississippi's Black and Whites. The Black and Whites operate their machinery heavily under the influence of Memphis rock n roll and come off sounding like The Real Kids at their best. "Gonna Move All Night Long" will have you dancing around the house in your skivvies.

Black Sunday - Cut Out ! - 7"

The "cut-out" 7" is really sort of a mini-album with 4 great tracks. Bedroom-recording feel to it, but high strung and clean. Big beats by Ryan Wong back Alicja's delivery. A little like the early Lost Sounds stuff. Less polished. It fits nicely in between Black Wave and S/T without being Rats Brains an Microchips + w/ only Alicja's songs...make sense? Enjoy with anti-anxiety meds, pabst tall cans and your favorite mario bava film.

Black Sunday / Le Jonathan Reilly - Something To Tell You - 12"

Black Sunday (Alicja Trout's bedroom, solo, mad-science project) births a new and increasingly experimental collection of recordings, all risen from the loose soil of her Tronic Graveyard in Memphis, TN. Which by the way always seems to be producing some real hits lately (Feelers, Goodnight Loving, etc.). This record pushes Alicja Trout's sound forward, straight from the brain with total control, while weaving all the boundary pushing through a format that also embraces her trademark synth-heavy (ballsy) atmospheres, with those punk and garage rock n roll tendencies. Metallic and quasi-schizo writing ideas all wrought in decayed iron instrumentation glued together in mid-air by Alicja's particular brand of brutal and beautiful vocal magic. A must have for any fans of Black Sunday, Lost Sounds, River City Tanlines, Destruction Unit, Blank Dogs etc. A nice effort and a unique addition to her encyclopedic career catalog.

Black Wire- See The Blood - 7"

Fresh, fun and fucked-up, Black Wire make being in a band seem like the best idea in the world and piss all over their peers by virtue of giving the impression of being recklessly irresponsible while creating a brilliantly scabrous, quasi-seditious cacophony that annihilates dancefloors. What more do you want? Blood? That'll come, you sick bastards. Thick and fast.

Blamstrain - Sansi Sampler - 12"

Blamstrain's 12", Sansi Empler, is a sampling of tracks from the full-length Ensi CD, and it is a warm envelope of their "splatterfuck smooth electronic soundscapes." "Batman" eschews modern mythology of the Dark Knight for more ambient fare, as crystal tones pervade an atmosphere that has but a hint of menace to it. Beats lightly patter the track like soft rain against the hard city streets. "Alive in Arms" beeps and squiggles with an undercurrent of particle movement while synths roil and boil in the foreground like a pool of enraged squid.

"Linja" is the soundtrack to a cross-polar flight, a machine-guided arc across the cold top of the world. You are wrapped in analog warmth as Tthe rarified air streaks past you with a hiss of ice crystals and the atmosphere lights up with streamers of solar radiation. "Goodbye p10" follows you to the frigid noise, the streamers of the Aurora Borealis still lighting the sky overhead while hot springs bubble and foam through the frigid landscape. A cross between Biosphere and less noise-inflected Gridlock, "Goodbye p10" captures both the miniscule drifts and the sweeping horizon of the arctic landscape. Samplers are for those who are curious but not foolish with their coin and, if the four tracks on Sansi Empler are any indicator, you would do well to spend your dollars on the full-release, though the thirty minutes here isn't a bad way to go either.

Blank Dogs - ST -SOLD OUT! - 7"

Blank Dogs is a mysterious synth-post punk duo from points unknown who conjure the spirits of Sparks and the Spits in tracks like “Doorbell Fire” and “Outside Alarmer.” Robotic without sounding monotonous, quirky without sounding campy, they’ve caught the ear of a few labels already, the most noteworthy being heavyweights In the Red Records, which plans to release an album’s worth of Blank Dogs’ material in the coming months. For the now and the curious, check this single out

Blank Dogs - Yellow Mice Sleep b/w Housefly SOLD OUT! - 7"

Unknown and unloved by this rotten
world, Blank Dogs offer cheerfully
apocalyptic lullabyes to pacify even the most hardened criminals, all
without ever showing their faces. We still don't know who they are, or
what they look like, but sometimes the music is so good, it really doesn't
matter. Glue Wave goth-pop or Devo-toned noise nervosa, it all comes
together so well that you'll be crying in your soup if you don't jump on
this train before it leaves town forever. Three songs of disconsolate
despair, destined to stick in your mind until your inevitable demise,
including the hit "Yellow Mice Sleep," anonymity has never been so
respectable.

Blevin Blectum - Rapid Cooling - 12"

Breaking a four year silence with her strongest album to date, Blevin Blectum's "Rapid Cooling" 12-inch ( a precursor to the full-length “Gular Flutter” CD) confirms her gift for making electronic music that is allergic to cliche. Blectum's new songs throb with swarms of transient surface details, but they never come off as haphazard. Asked about her title, Blevin notes that "Gular fluttering is the pulsation of the upper esophagus in some species of birds in response to heat-stress," an oblique reference from avian anatomy that stems from her recently completed training as a veterinary technician. It's a title that perfectly captures the mysteriously organic shifts that pulsate across this heavily processed music. On Sife A, "Cygnet" bursts into action, as martial drum rolls and distant horns bend and recombine around keening runs of strings in a manner that cops moves from Middle Eastern music and darkstep jungle but takes them in a wholly other direction (happily, Blevin's background as a classically trained violinist does more hovering than smothering in the midst of such delicate maneuvers). "Foyer Fire" follows, and keeps things bumping with a stomping kick and a lasertag maze of chirping synth patterns. Blevin has said that "99% of my music is about trying to keep your head above water", and that mixture of liquidity, dread and endurance is at the heart of this release. Side B contains the track "Avian Enamel", a remix of Bay Area band Ellul. Threading field recordings and conversation across a lattice of tightly edited rhythm, this tricksy, elastic assemblage provides an an emphatic finale to a work that demonstrates just how personal, brave and autonomous electronic music can still be. Some things are worth waiting for. - Drew Daniel, 2/16/2008

Bonde do Role- Solta O Frango - 12"

Diplo's adopted Brazilian siblings are all grown up, and here's their first release on Domino to prove it! "Solta O Frango(1)" is a certified favela smash (got the ringtone on my cell) and if you missed out when we had the limited tour 7", this is your chance to make right. If you've seen them live, you know this is the Bonde track that really tears it down - everyone chants along to that brainworm of a hook, Marina wrecks it on the verses and Afra from the Incredible Beatbox Band even provides some sick background effects for the head-nodders. And if you're wondering what they're saying in Portuguese over that heavy Playskool beat, "solta o frango" means "release the chicken" - you can connect the dots. Another live favorite, "Rap do CB(2)" is on the flip, along with the instrumental and acapella for "Solta O Frango." Nice full color artwork by Pedro's cousin. Recommended!

Boyracer - It's Not True Grit, It's Real Dirt - 7"

8 tracks. Boyracer, unstoppable as ever, and champions of the indie-underworld spew forth a new EP packed with fizzy pop. This 7" single, (their 17th 7" release if you were counting), is a DOUBLE GROOVED single, (the song you get is depends on where the needle drops). The EP contains 4 fast noisy songs and 4 acoustic 4 track home recordings, including Boyracer’s take on The Softies “Its Love”. Limited to 500 copies worldwide.

Boys Club- Girls Of Today - 7"

he second single by Minneapolis garage rock band Boys Club is here and it’s good, good stuff. If you like your pop filtered through 1960’s garage rock bands (see almost anyone good from the Back From the Dead series), check these folks out. This would even feel at home on the first few Killed By Death records, although Boys Club might stand out as the poppier of the bands. Two tracks here, and the female backing vocals on the chorus of the a-side completely have me hooked… if you don’t have this song stuck in your head after hearing the whole thing then you might not have a musical soul. The b-side, “Are You Gonna Be My Baby” is just as good and I can’t decide which is better so I’m calling it a tie. These are two perfectly crafter pop songs that anyone who likes the word garage in their musical genre, be it pop or rock, should go buy now.

Bruce Peninsula - Lift Them Up - 7"

Featuring reworked versions of two recordings of anonymous origins (collected as part of the Alan Lomax archives) and a song from Texan pastor/dolceola-player Washington Phillips, this record is meant to commemorate the humble beginnings of Bruce Peninsula's ever-morphing brand of secular gospel music. The release, which comes courtesy of Toronto's Escape Goat Records, is limited to 500 hand-numbered copies and features beautifully printed cover art by Standard Form. Bruce Peninsula are currently putting the finishing touches on a full-length of original material, entitled A Mountain Is A Mouth, which should surface in the Fall.

Brutal Kinghts - Feast of shame - 12"

When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. Similarly, when Brutal Knights hands you a new album called Feast Of Shame, make piss in your pants, because you should be excited. The Toronto fivesome, whose debut LP(The Pleasure Is All Thine, also on Deranged Records) established them as being immature for their age, has continued making music, resulting in the 14 songs recorded by Jon Drew at Toronto’s Signal To Noise studios (FUCKED UP ‘hidden world’, Career Suicide ‘attempted suicide’) and then mixed by musician Jay Reatard in Memphis. The arduous kampf that went into this release is probably what sent drummer Msgzus packing, although not before laying down awesome drumwork for the LP. Feast of Shame features BRUTAL KNIGHTS at their best – faster, rawer and dumber than before with the production to boot! By the way, there are songs about food on this album (“The Perfect Buffet”). There are also songs about haters (You’re Fired[I Quit]).There are also songs about being randy(every song on the album). There are also songs about not being emotionally or physically strong (“So Weak”). There are also songs about losing weight (“Bikini Diet”). The way the songs sound is like a peanut butter and white bread sandwich being eaten Lady and The Tramp-style by Joel Madden and Wendy O. Williams, while Jon Sharron sits and lets the image inspire riffs, and Nick Flanagan is also there, writing a rhyming article about the whole thing. Sorry, it will not cure your STDs.

Brutal Kinghts - Living By Yourself - 12"

After a new line-up and a one and half month tour of Europe, BK now delivers a new 10 song 12” EP. This is the North American version of their sold out euro tour picture disc ep originally released on Germany’s Ptrash records. The DERANGED version offers 4 bonus exclusive tracks not included on the Ptrash edition. These new tracks were recorded by the band themselves in their practice space and dare I say it is their most suitable recording to date. Besides the production, this new album is easily BRUTAL KNIGHTS best material to date. ‘Living by yourself’ continues in the retarded auditory tradition that is BRUTAL KNIGHTS and this time around, they are also complimented by a stunning full color gatefold sleeve designed by the just as unbalanced SERIPOP . For the third year in a row, BK were voted as the best ‘punk band’ in Toronto by NOW magazine!

Brutal Knights - My Life, My Fault - 7"

As the band says....
"We stand by this recording as it sounds like 7 year olds playing oi! music too fast. These new joints were lovingly crafted with only 2 notes each and we hope you fucking hate them."

Burdocks - What We Do Is Secret - 12"

The band that pulled Black Mountain Music out of dormancy and back into the constant hang over that is the music industry.

We're often told it's our best release ever and who are we to argue?

Get it now on vinyl and wear out your own copy.

Burning Pilot - You Stay Cool - 7"

Ultimate single from the initial trilogy of burningpilot releases. This glorious and hugely limited 7” features “You Stay Cool”, a contemplative yet danceable tale of panic attacks and interior design. Backed with “Stage Fright”.

Busy Signals - "Can't Feel a Thing" - 7"

SS-11 THE BUSY SIGNALS - "Can't Feel a Thing" 7"

The Busy Signals are a supergroup in the most literal sense: they're super! Never mind that their lineup consists of past and present members of the Carbonas, the Krunchies and the Tyrades. All that stuff falls away as soon as the needle hits the groove and you immediately realize that The Busy Signals are the greatest band you've ever heard.

This new two song 7" follows up their amazing debut single on Douchemaster without missing a step.

Busy Signals - Love and Dust ((SOLD OUT!!!)) - 7"

Busy Signals - DMR003
Love and Dust 7"

Chicago's Busy Signals feature members of The Tyrades, The Carbonas, and The Krunchies. Fast, clean guitars over a throbbing yet catchy rythm section. Raspy female vocals reminiscent of the Rezillos.

Currently out of print from Douchemaster, so get yours here!