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Released
January 22nd:
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Black Mountain – In
the Future [deluxe edition] DCD $11.50
The Evangelicals – The
Evening Descends CD $11.50
Pelican – After
the Ceiling Cracked DVD $15.50
Super Furry Animals – Hey
Venus! CD $13.25
Baby Dee – Safe
Inside the Day CD $13.25
Times New Viking – Rip
It Off CD $12.50
Complete
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Tuesday.
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Tyler
Ramsey
- A
Long Dream About...
(Echo Mountain)
CD $13.75
Listen:
A
Long Dream
• Birdwings
Debut album from Tyler Ramsey (the
new guitarist for Band of Horses) is full of
moody guitar romanticism and Smokey Mountain
melancholy, Fahey/Kottke-esque guitar caress
and spectral M. Ward/Neil Young "moments",
along with the occasional bonfire reverie. Think
Red House Painters, it’s uncanny. [more
detail]
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Released
January 22nd:
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Sambassadeur –
Migration CD $15.75
MGMT – Oracular
Spectacular CD $13.00
Buddy Revelles – American
Matador CD $15.50
Cat Power – Jukebox
[deluxe edition] DCD $15.00
Hello, Blue Roses – Portrait
Is Finished… CD $13.00
Mono – The
Sky Remains the Same As Ever DVD $14.25
Complete
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Tuesday.
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Jaqee
- Nouvelle D'Amour
(Enjovu) CD $14.00
Listen:
Sugar
• Zion
Jim's
Pick: Recently
nominated for a Swedish Grammy this ambitious
new album from Swedish/Ugandan soul siren finds
Jaqee (Jaqueline Nakiri) partnered with Swedish
rock icon Mattias
Hellberg (Nymphet Noodlers, Hederos
& Hellberg) who voodoos up some killer
songs and crafty arrangements , as well as some
rambunctious and rootsy psych-country-dub-ragga-folk-blues
grooves. [more
detail] Check out Jim's
Pick Page for more sound samples, etc.
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Three
Hour Tour - B
Side Oblivion (Martian Record Corp)
CD $15.00
Listen:
A
Girl That I Once Knew
• What
Made You Change
Brand
new album from former Choo
Choo Train/Stupid Cupids/Artificial Limbs
guitarist Darren Cooper's Three Hour Tour, the
long-awaited follow-up to his 90s
output on Parasol Records. Darren is joined
by Brad Steakley (Elvis Brothers, Big Hello,
Handcuffs) on drums; and Adam Schmitt, who also
produces; Velvet Crush duo Paul Chastain &
Ric Menck... Power pop in maximum melodic mode,
for fans of Beatles, Badfinger, Raspberries,
Velvet Crush, and The Posies! [more
detail]
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Released
January 15th:
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Rings - Black
Habit CD $14.25
Friska Viljor – Bravo!
CD $14.00
Boris & Sunn0))) – Altar
3LP $29.00
S.T. Mikael – Mind
of Fire CD $16.25
Magnetic Fields – Distortion
CD $15.00
Marah – Angels
of Destruction CD $14.75
Jason Currie – What
Is Love For CD $16.25
Complete
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Tuesday.
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Lovecup
- Greefus, Groinks
and Sheet (12 Inch) CD $10.00
Listen:
Even
When I Sleep •
Hi
Pazoo
Saturday
Shift 1/19:
First CD in the player is local heroes
Lovecup’s one and only album, released
in 1994. This CD, an out-of-print single, and
a slew of borrowed/blown amps are all that's
left of the band's legacy. Heavy is as heavy
was, and Lovecup made grungy guitar-rock into
something crushingly beautiful, all the while
rocking harder and weirder than any of their
peers. Without Lovecup would there have been
a guitar supernova in Hum’s "Stars",
or kickass Cadillac commercials? We wonder.
[more
detail]
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Menck
- Hey War Pigs (Action
Musik) 45 $2.50
Listen:
Hey
War Pigs
New
from Parasol Label Group: On
his new limited vinyl single Velvet Crush
rabble-rouser Ric
Menck (and co-conspirator Matthew Sweet) covers
former Soft Boys and Katrina & The Waves
guitarist-songwriter Kimberly Rew’s pissed-off
protest anthem, backed with a dry-hump version
of "Teenage Head" by The Flaming Groovies.
Black wax in a plain paper sleeve, limited
to just 300 copies. Take action!
Visit
the release page for a free mp3, the best press
photos of 2008, etc.
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The
Fine Arts Showcase - Sings
Rough Bunnies (Adrian)
CD $14.00
Listen: Modern
Love
•
Rough
Bunnies Saved My Life
Jim's Pick: At long last, one of 2007’s
best Swedish albums, from one of our fave artists,
finally arrives here at HQ in early 2008…sorry
it took so long! The Fine Arts Showcase, led
by post-modern popsmith Gustaf Kjellvander,
makes magical, melodic rock music. When covering
an album's worth of Rough
Bunnies tunes Gustaf shines as
a vocalist and arranger, creating polished art-rock
baubles from the cult-cultivating Rough Bunnies’
melancholic lo-fi uncut gemmage.
Read all about it.
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Released
January 8th:
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The Illiad - A
Sad Day On Pluto CD
$17.00
Eric Malmberg - Verklighet
& Beat CD $13.75
Habibiyya - If
Man But Knew [re-issue] CD $15.75
Jaqee (w/Mattias Hellberg) -
Nouvelle D'Amour CD $14.00
Various - Lagg
av! Ni…Göteborgsprogg 1970-80
DCD $18.00
Various - Rubble
Collection Vol. One-Ten 10xCD Boxset
$88.00
Complete
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Alcest
- Souvenirs d'un
autre monde (Profound Lore)
CD $14.25
Listen:
Souvenirs
d'un autre monde
Saturday
Shift 1/12: First CD in the player
is by French one-man-post-rock-dynamo Alcest,
founded by a Monsieur Neige to explore colossal
neo-psychedic shoegaze guitar-rock vastnesses.
Think Jesu, M83, My Bloody Valentine, even Hum!
Sung in French but like Sigur Ros (alot like
them actually) it's more about evocation than
translation. [more
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Various
- The Essence of Swedish Progressive
Music, 1967-79
(Premium Publishing)
4CD BOX/BOOK $54.25

Artists:
Life
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International
Harvester •
Mats
Glengård
Subtitled:
Pregnant Rainbows for Colourblind Dreamers,
this five hour, four-CD set documents a far-gone
age, in a far-off land, and explores in depth
the far-out genesis of a musical genre. Mindbending
prog, rock and psychedelia spread evenly amongst
instrumentals, songs sung in English and those
in Swedish. 71 bands, 71 songs (a majority unreleased
on CD previously), the audio companion to the
esteemed reference bible, The
Encyclopedia Of Swedish Progressive Music 1967-1979,
edited by Ulf Henningsson, who also created
the liner notes (all in English) for the boxset.
[more
detail]
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Mattias
Barjed - Upp Till Kamp OST
(Razzia) DCD $18.00
Listen:
Set Us Free •
Stay
With Me Forever •
Coming
Down Cold
Mattias
Barjed, guitarist for The Soundtrack of Our
Lives, creates and curates this original soundtrack
(to a hip new Swedish TV miniseries) that plays
out like a retro-rock opera! Features contributions
from Barjed's TSOOL mates, plus members of Elope,
The Hip Whips, The Jan Martens Frustration and
many more. Also includes a brand new, unreleased
song by The Tallest Man On Earth. [more
detail] Check
out Jim's
fave Scandinavian releases of 2007.
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DeVotchKa
- How It Ends (Cicero)
CD $15.00
Listen:
How
It Ends
Saturday
Shift 1/5: I was waylaid by this album
while standing in line at the local
indie video store, totally spellbound by
the title track, a gorgeous lament, one of several.
Thus began my better late-than-never love affair
with Gypsy-Desert-Americana-Rock act DeVotchKa’s
haunting worldly and otherworldly pop. Think
Calexico meets Antony & The Johnsons meets
16 Horsepower. [more
detail] I can also recommend
the band’s most recent offering, the Curse
Your Little Heart EP form
2006, laden with covers of The Velvets, Siouxsie,
Sinatra, etc.
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Laakso
- Mother, Am I Good Looking?
(V2 Scandinavia)
CD $14.25
Listen:
Worst
Case Scenario
•
Italy
vs Helsinki
2007 album from Swedish/Finnish elemental rockers
Laakso, one of Scandinavia's most beloved acts.
We’ve charted their promise from a freaky
and frenetic elemental-folk band to the high
drama, heroic-pop juggernaut they’ve become.
Another Swedish late-arrival that would've easily
cracked Jim's
Best Of 2007 list had it arrived earlier!
[more] Also available:
Laakso's
new EP
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Bonny
Billy & Dawn McCarthy - Wai
Notes (Sea Note)
CD $13.25
Listen:
I
Called You Back
Special,
sneaky, 11th hour mystery release from Drag
City subsidiary Sea Note: The beardy Bonny Prince
and Faun Fables' Dawn McCarthy dueting and dueling
across the demos for last year's Letting
Go, backed by guitar and cozy tape hiss.
Limited to 10,000 worldwide. [more]
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Noah
Harris - The Sea & Age EP
(Self-Released) CD5 $7.00
Listen:
Lion
& Lamb
New
solo offering from
Elanors' Noah Harris. Live studio recordings
of five songs of solo piano (bedecked with classical
motifs) and voice (likened to noted carolers
Rufus Wainwright, Thom Yorke and Jeff Buckley)
recorded in a three hour window of time on a
blustery Monday morning in March of 2007. Plaintive
piano and a gorgeous voice. [more]
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Various
- Plum (Thrill Jockey) 10
x 45 Boxset $40.00
Extra-special release celebrating
Thrill Jockey’s 15th year in existence,
and just in time for stuffing stockings! Contains
ten 7'' vinyl singles all in full-color jackets,
housed in a box with removable lid. Features
exclusive and previously unreleased tracks
from most/all of the TJ roster each covering
a song by another TJ artist, and will not be
released on CD. Limited to 2000 copies, worldwide,
which just adds to the drama, don’t it?
Out of print by 2008, get yours now.
[full
tracklist]
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Society
Of Rockets - Our Paths Related
(Underpop Records)
LP Vinyl & Digital Download Ticket $10.00
Listen:
Mountain
Magic •
Time
All
new kozmic soul-psych opus from The Society
of Rockets, formerly known as iconic San Francisco
psych-pop collective The Shimmer Kids Underpop
Association. Part 70s fuzz-soul, part bleary-eyed
shoegaze, part California sunshine-pop = dizzying
psych-rock gems. LP vinyl in gatefold
jacket includes coupon for free digital download
of the entire album plus exclusive bonus track.
[more]
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Released
December 4th:
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Aloha - Light
Works CD5 $8.50
Growing - The
Social Club Nº 8 45 $5.50
Destroy The Heart - Self-Titled
CD $9.00
Nick Drake - Fruit
Tree [2007 boxset] 3CD+DVD $60.00
Garrison Starr - The
Girl That Killed September CD $12.00
Bodies of Water - Ears
Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink CD $11.50
Complete
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Tuesday.
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M83
- Digital Shades Vol. 1 (Mute)
CD $20.50
Listen:
Coloring
the Void
An
import-only in-betweener to keep fans glassy-eyed
between albums 3 and 4. This new instrumental
release from M83 honcho Anthony Gonzalez finds
him in oldschool ambienteer mode, more minimalist
than maximalist. He's obviously influenced and
fluent in krautrock's motorik kosmische and
Brian Eno's classic aéroport atmospherique
and streams both together in one awesome headtrip.
[more]
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Black Cab - Altamont
Diary (Interstate
40) CD $12.50
Listen:
Summer
Of Love
•
New
Speedway Boogie
BETTER PRICE! A full-immersion
2004 concept album based on one of the darkest
days in rock-n-roll history, from Aussie electro-psychedelic
duo Black Cab. Uncut Magazine called it "The
kind of psychedelic noir that Primal Scream
or Spacemen 3 always strived to achieve,"
and we'll throw in The Beta Band at their slowburn
trippiest along with echoes of The Stones and
The Grateful Dead, naturally. [more]
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Black Cab - Jesus East
(Interstate
40) CD $12.50
Listen:
Hearts
On Fire •
Jesus
East
BETTER PRICE! As incredible as
their conceptual drone-rock debut, Altamont
Diary, was, Jesus East
finds Australian duo Black Cab’s psychedelic
hypno-grooviness in supernova mode. From the
motorik, otherworldly "Hearts On Fire",
to the shambling avant-pop anthem of a title
track, to the spoken-word discourse (by Altamont-era
Stones/Dead manager Sam Cutler) that closes
the set, there are myriad worlds to explore
here. Think Neu!, Joy Division, Primal Scream,
Spacemen 3, The Beta Band...
[more]
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Husky
Rescue - Ghost Is Not Real (Cat
Skills) CD $16.25
Listen:
My
Home Ghost •
Hurricane (Don't Come Knocking)
Finally
a decent import price for these Finnish snow-folkies'
second album, issued earlier this year elsewhere
on the planet. With Ghost Marko Nyberg
and radical chic chanteuse Reeta-Leena Korhola
get all spacey and sensual; like Air meets Mazzy
Star with a little extra rock-n-roll smolder
infusing the frosty dream-pop haze. [more]
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Husky
Rescue - Other
World: Remixes & Rarities
(Cat Skills)
CD $17.75
Listen:
Summertime
Cowboy [Mocky Remix]
Also available and hot off the
presses is this brand new European collection
of exclusive name remixes by Tunng, Fink, Serge
Santiago, Emperor Machine, Evil 9 and Vector
Lovers; plus unreleased acoustic material and
b-sides, including a Alice Cooper cover! The
sample track above is a long bonus remix that
does not appear on the CD.
[more]
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