SXSW In-stores

WED March 17th

3pm - Golden Triangle (Hardly Art)
4pm - Happy Birthday (Sub Pop)
5pm - Pierced Arrows (Vice)

THU Mach 18th
noon - Terrible Twos
1 - River City Tanlines
2 - Holly Miranda (XL)
3 - The Delta Mirror (Lefse Records)
4 - The Beets
5 - Wetdog

FRI March 19th
noon – TBA
1 – 3 Slumberland Records
(Devon Williams, Brown Recluse, Summer Cats)
3 - Blessure Grave (Alien 8 / Captured Tracks)
4 - Dutchess & the Duke (Hardly Art)
5 - Efterklang (4AD)

SAT March 20th
noon - Light Pollution (Car Park)
1 - Toro Y Moi (Car Park)
2 - Dinosaur Feathers
3 - Peter Wolf Crier
4 - Home Blitz

SUN  March 21st
3 - Gun Outfit (PPM)

New Arrivals
Indie / Pop /

• Cause For Applause / Gospel Truth ”Weird Weird Hours, Ours / Our Music is a Secret Order” LP
• Coyote Slingshot ”Vitium” 7″ (Super Secret Records)
• Golden Triangle ”Double Jointer” CD/LP (Hardly Art) Golden Triangle play music that’s loud with the speed and catchiness of the current garage / weird-punk / lo-fi. Playing the shop during SXSW.
• Jawbox ”For Your Own Special Sweetheart” CD/LP (DeSoto Records) 1994 classic, remastered by Bob Weston w/ 3 extra tracks from the Savory EP.
• Lightspeed Champion ”Life is Sweet! Nice To Meet You” LP (Domino) Now in on vinyl.
• Magik Markers ”Inverted Belgium” LP Back in stock
• Matt & Kim ”To / From” 10″ (Team Science Records)
• Ruby Suns ”Fight Softly” CD/LP (Sub Pop) Head-spinning combo of big-picture vision and sumptuous detail veers from the path set by 2008’s Sea Lion.
• Sixx ”Sister Devil” LP (Nuclear War Now!)

Punk

• Airfix Kits ”Playing Both Sides” 7″ (Dirtnap Records) Tense, brittle, working class postpunk from San Francisco. Features 2/3rds ex-members of Giant Haystacks.
• Blacklisted ”No One Deserves To Be Here More Than Me” LP (Deathwish) New full length
• Classics of Love ”Shadows” LP (Asian Man Records) New band from Operation Ivy vocalist Jesse Michaels.
• Complications ”s/t” LP (Feral Ward)
• Crow ”Flock” 7″ (Prank Records)
• Defiance Ohio ”The Fear” LP (No Idea Records)
• Destino Final ”Atrapados” LP (La Vida Es Un Music)
• Hul ”Den Danske Ungdom” LP (hjernespind) This is a re-release of Hul’s only album from 2001, the members later joined bands like No Hope For The Kids, Young Wasteners, Death Token, Leathervein
• Inferiis ”Ngul A Crist” 7″ (Nuclear War Now!) Black Thrash metal
• Insect Warfare ”s/t” LP 625 (Blastcore) One-sided; limited to 1,100! “Blistering, primal noise/grind done by the now defunct Gulf-Coast grind-unit.
• Kieltolaki ”Massahypnoosi” LP (Feral Ward)
• Marked Men / This is My Fist 7″ Split from No Idea records.
• Midnight ”Farewell to Hell” 10″ (Nuclear War Now!) Old school black speed metal from USA.
• Omegas ”Sonic Order” 7″ (High Anxiety) Colored vinyl + download code. First Press of 500. Montreal’s Omegas are the best of all possible worlds – raw and catchy.
• Pinhead Gunpowder ”Carry the Banner” LP (Recess Records) Originally released in 1994 as a 10″ on Too Many Records, then a CD by Lookout Records. Now available on LP
• Pinhead Gunpowder ”Goodbye Ellston Avenue” LP (Recess Records) Originally released in 1997 on Lookout Records, now re-issued on LP
• Pinhead Gunpowder ”Shoot the Moon” LP (Recess Records) Originally released on CD and 10″ by Adeline Records in 1999.
• Raw Power ”Screams from the Gutter” LP (Toxic Shock) Re-Issue from this Italian hardcore band Raw Power debuted in 1985.
• Raydios, The ”Now” LP (Dirtnap Records) Fink from the legendary Teengenerate and Firestarter’s current band. This is their 2nd album, coming about 10 years after their Demo LP on Screaming Apple.
• Screaming Females ”Power Move” LP (Don Giovanni Records) With the intensity of basement punk to a new level with their third and most scorching full-length.
• Sexy ”Por Vida” LP (Thrillhouse)
• Shannon and the Clams ”I Wanna Go Home” LP (1-2-3-4 Go Records) This is their debut full length following hot on the heels of the “Hunk Hunt” 7″ on Weird Hug Records.
• Slang ”The Immortal Sin” LP (Schizophrenic)
• Slowmotions ”Dial Eleven” LP (Partners in Crime) All sorts of Japanese punk, from that eternal ‘77 stance up into heavier hardcore, gets aired out on this collection of EP’s. Significant West Coast influence is suggested by the voracity and expression of guitar leads, and a vaguely surfy backbone.
• Systematic Death ”Systema Six” LP (Feral Ward)
• Total Control ”Retiree/Meds II” 7″(Iron Lung) With Mikey from Eddy Current Supression Ring
• Trash Talk ”Walking Disease” 7″ (Nuclear War Now!)

Metal

• Abigail ”Sweet Baby Metal Slut” LP (Nuclear War Now!)
• Ascend ”Ample Fire Within” LP (Southern Lord) Gentry Densley’s other project (other than Eagle Twin), this one came out on CD in late 2008 and features Greg Anderson and Steve Moore of Sunn O))). Now in on nice heavy vinyl.
• Bone Awl ”Meaningless Meaning Less” LP (Nuclear War Now!)
• Bone Awl ”Not For Our Feet” LP (Nuclear War Now!)
• Impurity ”The Lamb’s Fury” LP (Nuclear War Now!)
• Slaughter ”Surrender or Die” LP (Hells Headbangers)
• Xibalba ”Ancients” LP

Composers / Experimental

• Bus Ratch ”Tokei Nikki” LP (RRRecords)
• Cathode Terror Secretion LP
• GX Jupitter Larsen / Mr California LP Limited to 300 copies
• GX Jupitter Larsen / Rubber O Cement LP
• Halflings ”Self Esteem” LP
• Jazzkammer / OPEC LP Limited and numbered edition of 300.
• Wiese, John / Open City LP
• X Ray Pop ”Psychedelik Dolls” LP (RRR) An old title, but still in print.

Hip-Hop

• Dam Funk ”Rhythm Trax Vol. 4″ LP (Stones Throw) DJ friendly modern electro productions.

Jazz

• Fuller, Curtis ”The Opener” LP (Blue Note) His 1957 first album for Blue Note, quintet featuring tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley, pianist Bobby Timmons, bassist Paul Chambers and drummer Art Taylor.
• Green, Grant ”Matador” LP (Blue Note) From 1964, this is one of his highest achievements, largely because of support from pianist McCoy Tyner, bassist Bob Cranshaw, and drummer Elvin Jones.

Latin

• Spiteri ”s/t” CD/LP  (Vampisoul) Merges rock, soul and psychedelia with Venezuelan rhythms. Recorded in London in 1973.

Prog / Psych

• Three Souls In My Mind ”Rock & Roll Band, Mexico City 1970-71″ LP (Therapeutic Records) (Spain) Therapeutic Records brings you a selection of their absolute best, all recorded in 1970-71. Entirely sung in English with brutal screaming vocals, this is dirty sounding psych-rock with a bluesy edge, killer guitar all over and controversial lyrics.
• V/A “Atenshion! Refleshion!” LP (Hundergrum) 14 tracks taken from rare and unknown until now Spanish records from the late 60s and early 70s, many of them released on small and private labels, including the Türkish style hard-psych-groove of Pedro González with ‘El Samurai’ and the ultra-rare private pressing EP by Alcy Agüero y Su Orquesta Pop featuring the killer scat-fuzz dancer ‘Quiero bailar’
• V/A “Reportage: Spela Själv” LP (Unknown Label) Reportage: Spela Själv roughly translates to ‘Play Yourself.’ It contains field recordings of amateurs playing/making sounds. Raga Concrète, if you will. A fine, rare, and lovely piece to behold.” Exact reproduction reissue released by Bo Anders Persson from Trad Gras Och Stenar.

Soul / Funk

• v/a “Good God! Born Again Funk” LP (Numero) Lends new ears to a joyful strain of American composers and performers unafraid of expressing their devotion with both inspiration and invention. Now in stock on vinyl.

Techno

• Deadbeat ”Vampire” 12″ (Echochord) aka Scott Monteith, software and interface designer extraordinaire, returns with a new future reggae track and its dub side B.
• Mills, Jeff ”Something in the Sky” 12″ Another new single from Detroit’s premier space-house producer.