***LAST COPIES, WHEN THEY’RE GONE, THEY’RE GONE!!! The Fag Patrol album from Oakland, California anti-pop gloomsters XIU XIU. Three excellent newer tracks performed electronics-free with voice, guitar and harmonium, along with six older tracks that have been reworked into acoustic forms, and are indicative of JAMIE STEWART's "solo" Xiu Xiu performances. Packaged with new artwork courtesy of Stumptown Printers and printed with 100% recycled soy ink.
CD $13.00
03/06/2006
MP3 $8.91
03/06/2006
***LAST COPIES, WHEN THEY’RE GONE, THEY’RE GONE!!! The second full-length release from psychedelic bread bakers and bird whisperers Badgerlore — represented on this release by beard-core ambassadors Ben Chasny (Six Organs Of Admittance, Comets On Fire), Tom Carter (Charalambides), Pete Swanson (Yellow Swans), and Rob Fisk (7 Year Rabbit Cycle, ex-Deerhoof) — Stories For Owls features six beautifully lush, organic pieces that rise and fall with the group’s broke-down, burned-up improv and the interplay of piano, vocals, and dual guitars. The music is organized around the conceptual theme of birds constructing nests, and each track explores this idea differently. Stories For Owls also showcases the talents of two newcomers; Tom Carter, whose playing seems beamed in from some entirely off-kilter universe; and Pete Swanson, who by grabbing and processing live sound, both in real time and through tape-delay, gives the already rickety skeletons of these songs an even greater fragility and tenderness. A vinyl edition will be available from Yik Yak on the same date. Beautiful and devastating.
CD $13.00
10/04/2005
***The debut effort from this star-studded collective featuring DEVIN HOFF (XIU XIU, NELS CLINE SINGERS, GOOD FOR COWS, CARLA BOZULICH), CHES SMITH (THEORY OF RUIN, SECRET CHIEFS 3, GOOD FOR COWS, XIU XIU, CARLA BOZULICH), KARLA KIHLSTEDT (SLEEPY TIME GORILLA MUSEUM, CARLA BOZULICH), and MARIKA HUGHES. Nine tracks of revolution and hope performed with violin, cello, double bass, and drums. Fans of Hanged Up, Musikas, and The Ex will be pleased as punch. Another fine Free Porcupine Society outing.
CD $13.00
08/31/2004
***A crash-and-smash goodtime of brutal improvisation mixed with stark, crushing melodies for a world ruled by giant owls and bitter rabbits from former DEERHOOF guitarist ROB FISK, along with MIYA OSAKI, STEVE GIGANTE (TINY BIRD MOUTHS, THETEETHE) and KELLY GOODEFISK (also ex-DEERHOOF). Packaged with hand painted covers.
CD $13.00
03/04/2003
***LAST COPIES, WHEN THEY’RE GONE, THEY’RE GONE!!! The sophomore album from experimental out-folk troubadours 7 YEAR RABBIT CYCLE. Led by ROB FISK (ex-DEERHOOF), and featuring current and former members of BROTHER JT, OLD TIME RELIJUN, THETEETHE, and ECONOMY, the band delivers ten tracks of super-psychedelic, no wave, beard-core, folk explosion, including two songs featuring JAMIE STEWART of XIU XIU. Packaged in silk-screened triple-gatefold sleeves with 16-page booklets with drawings by Fisk and JEFF NERKUMM of NOISE NOMADS.
CD $13.00
01/08/2001