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THE PAPER CHASE "We Know Where You Sleep"
http://www.killrockstars.com/bands/p...eKnowWhere.mp3
from the upcoming album Now You Are One of Us
The Paper Chase's signature sounds--strangled guitars,
bombastic percussion, terror-stricken strings, bizarre
samples and crashing pianos--are firmly in place on their
latest endeavor, Now You Are One of Us. Here, the Dallas
quartet creates the sonic equivalent to George A. Romero's
classic zombie films, in which one and all inevitably
become "one of them." Songwriter/singer/producer John
Congleton examines the ways fear can be utilized as an
instrument of control, even as it spreads like a plague
across the land. Possessed by fear of pacification,
domestication and ultimate dissolve, the songs' characters
struggle to retain their identity. Layers of trepidation
are aurally peeled away and scrutinized while a looming
unknown lies just below the surface. Beyond the fear of
death, is the characters' dreadful realization that
perhaps they never even existed. The sound of ghostly
forces opening and closing squeaky doors becomes eerily
significant, and Congleton's trademark desperation is at
its most crucial as he exclaims, "We will show this cruel
word we were here."

THE ROBOT ATE ME "Djien"
http://www.killrockstars.com/bands/t...udio/Djien.mp3
Good World, the follow-up to 2005’s Carousel Waltz, was
recorded by Ryland Bouchard alone in a near-freezing
firehouse with a thrift store clarinet, an eighties drum
machine, an eighties synth, and an out of tune 1800s
piano. With 17 tracks in under 23 minutes, Ryland Bouchard
presents the listener with a imaginative world that
presents mythical characters like Djien (a monster spider
the size of a man whose heart is buried in the ground
causing it to survive the most critical attacks), the
Stone Giants (who are invulnerable except on the soles of
their feet) and She Owl (the wife of Bloody Knife).
Musically, the arrangements are simple and delicate, with
harmonized falsetto vocals and staccato clarinet lines
floating above minimal percussion and the occasional
synth. Choruses and verses blur into musical interludes
that travel with the characters they represent. Songs
become puzzle pieces as parts of a much larger narrative
that is alluded to but ultimately left up to the
listener’s imagination.

MECCA NORMAL PODCAST
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This week's podcast is from Mecca Normal. It features
their video for “Attraction is Ephemeral”, directed by
Jean Smith, as well as an interview and a live
performance!

It's up now at:
http://podcast.krs5rc.com


DANIELSON I'm Slow But I'm Sloppy 7" $5 (Anticon)
http://www.buyolympia.com/killrockstars/Item=ABR0062
Anticon inches its gates ever wider with the limited
edition 7-inch-only release of the Danielson Famile's "I'm
Slow But I'm Sloppy" and "Did I Step On Your Remix." The
Danielson Famile has been confounding the indie rock
establishment and wooing fans of dynamic, unpredictable
music since 1995's A Prayer for Every Hour. This single is
part of a concerted Danielson Famile attack comprised of
two additional 7-inches-- one each on Kill Rock Stars and
Sounds Familyre (lead singer Daniel Smith's own label)--
and the Danielson Famile's new album, Ships. The upcoming
full-length, to be released in April '06 on Secretly
Canadian, is an intensely collaborative effort featuring
Sufjan Stevens, Edith Frost, and extensive work from
Deerhoof and others.

DANIELSON Ships LP $11/CD $13 (Secretly Canadian)
http://www.buyolympia.com/killrockstars/Item=SC103
The anticipated new album from DANIELSON, and a stunning
work of orchestral pop magic. Eleven majestic songs rich
in musicality, imagery, and performance. Includes a
tremendous cast, including the usual DANIELSON FAMILE
members, along with DEERHOOF, WHY?, SUFJAN STEVENS,
SEREENA MANESH, LEOPULDE, and HALF-HANDED CLOUD. Touring
May through September, 2006.

MAGIK MARKERS A Panegyric To the Things I Do Not
Understand CD $13 (Gulcher)
http://www.buyolympia.com/killrockstars/Item=Gulcher604
The latest from East Coast psych-rock heavyweights MAGIK
MARKERS. “In spite of their punk roots, the Markers' form
tends toward extended breakdowns: this disc is divided
into two "sides"--two long tracks--the first running to
19:41, and the other is 19:38. No rules is the rule here.
For instance, dig the near-a capella section on the first
"side"--whistlin', odd voices, clappin', just an
occasional rattle or beep--very casual and simple but
mesmerizing. Then there's the part on the second "side"
where it sounds like everything is moving in outta-focus
slow-mo, like after you've drank waytoomuch cough syrup
(DXM)--'n yr legs 've turned t' melted, oooozing plastic.
But my favorite part (swoon!) is when Elisa begins an
erotic gutter-cat rant: "I'm your ramblin' rose...I'm your
Sister Anne," obvious references to the MC5. Imagine THAT
band jammin' with Yoko Ono--and yer about halfway to here.
Elisa raves against the torrent of Quimby's roaring
feedback and Nolan's exploding skins in an intuitive way
that recalls Patti Smith's lost-in-the-whirlpool moments
and/or Damo Suzuki's most tongue-driven gestures with Can.
Whew.”--Eddie Flowers

SONIC YOUTH Koncertas Stan Brakhage CD $13 (Sonic Youth
Records)
http://www.buyolympia.com/killrockstars/Item=SYR6
The sixth edition of the SYR series is a live recording of
the April 12, 2003 benefit concert held at and for The
Anthology Film Archives, the international center for the
preservation, study, and exhibition of avant-garde and
independent cinema. In addition to screening films for the
public, AFA houses a film museum, research library and art
gallery. The event, which raised money for the Archives
and celebrated the life and work of avant-garde film maker
Stan Brakhage, featured Sonic Youth providing a 61-minute
improvisation to Brakhage's silent films. The band
performed with drummer/percussionist Tim Barnes (Essex
Green, Jukeboxer, Silver Jews).

VARIOUS ARTISTS Zum Audio 3 CD $13 (Zum)
http://www.buyolympia.com/killrockstars/Item=ZUM020
The Zum Audio compilation series returns with their third
all-star edition. You get the hots from CHANNELS 3 & 4,
BEAK FULL OF RUBIES, COUGHS, CHILD ABUSE (NYC), JOHN
WIESE, SILVER DAGGERS, LAKES (AUSTRALIA), DEERHOOF, YELLOW
SWANS, SHOPLIFTING, GHOST TO FALCO, and others.

TELEPATHE Farewell Forest CDEP $9 (The Social Registry)
http://www.buyolympia.com/killrockstars/Item=TSR025
The debut EP from NYC process-oriented outfit TELEPATHE, a
band which features former members of WIKKID and BLOOD
LINES. Four chanty-chaotic yet perfectly structured
compositions which bring to mind such outfits as CAN, AMON
DULL or perhaps even GANG GANG DANCE.

COMET GAIN Beautiful Despair 12" $10 (What's Your Rupture)
http://www.buyolympia.com/killrockstars/Item=WRY07
COMET GAIN return with a limited edition 12-inch produced
by WOODIE TAYLOR (Love Is All, Realistes). Three exclusive
tracks?"Beautiful Despair," "Never Die" and “Mainlining
Mystery." Pulp romance read loud by guitars, colored in
memory. Free of ambition/stability. All from the label
that brought you Love Is All, Long Blondes, and Cause
Co-Motion. Dusted says: "For anyone who has ever gotten
lost in underground music, this one's for you. A dour
history lesson, Part II for a different but equally
monumental time, keeping mixtapes & shy, defiant first
kisses alive for the next generation as it collapses into
detuned synth heartstoppage

EXCEPTER/VACATION Forget LP 12" $11 (Fusetron)
http://www.buyolympia.com/killrockstars/Item=Fuse033
"For the second time in a row now, one of Brooklyn's
grandest experimental entourages have presented us with a
sonic totem whose jaunty and bright packaging belie an
almost certain palpable sense of unease. Here Excepter
have perhaps crafted a treatise on nothing less than the
uncomfortable aspects of having to leave ones home. Or
they may well have been channeling the soundtrack to a
particularly bizarre road trip I once went on involving an
Indian burial ground, a cross eyed woman Xeroxing chain
letters at a supermarket, and an extremely sadistic
alligator farm outside of Hot Springs, Arkansas where I
witnessed a stuffed Fiji Merman. Unease indeed. But of
course, like on any worthy and good vacation, once you've
become used to new unsettling sensations like foot
blisters and sunburn you realize how sublime the landscape
is. And sublimity is what Excepter trades in spades."

EXCEPTER KA CD $13 (Fusetron)
http://www.buyolympia.com/killrockstars/Item=FUSE038CD
CD compiling the previous 2 Fusetron vinyl-only releases.
"Excepter is the new group spearheaded by J F Ryan, former
electric tree-branch swinger for the No-Neck Blues Band.
Using a mutating system of synchronized electronics
engineered to ensure live sequencing, Excepter seeks to
carry freestyle composition from the tip of the tongue on
down to the ones and zeros. All tracks on this LP were
performed and mixed live to stereo. Digital editing was
only used to arrange the phantasmagoric second side, a
tribute to HP Lovecraft's novella Dreamquest of Unknown
Kadath. Excepter also marks the singing debut of
dancer/choreographer Caitlin Cook. Guaranteed to make you
dream in color." Also includes the Vacation 12".

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EXCEPTER Throne CD $13 (Load)
http://www.buyolympia.com/killrockstars/Item=LOAD038CD
"Like a group-groped Helen Keller all too smacked out to
protest, the New York City based Excepter weaves a
dangerous course through the orange cones of cortex-
caressing sound. Drawing from boom-box emitters as
disparate as Chrome, Comus and that weird-ass Indian
techno music you heard eating that samosa. Frequently
lumped in with bands in their zip code like Gang Gang
Dance, Sightings, and Animal Collective and the No Neck
Blues Band, they are actually much more of a
confrontational question mark. Lots of floor crawling
stage exclamations make the band more slippery than a
greased watermelon. With a lineup jamming out unclear
instrumentation but perhaps including detritus of Casios,
battery needin' samplers, six string part catalogs and
occasional percussion, they manage to craft a deeply and
creepily eerie sound that includes sounds from all over
the radio dial. One could easily relax to this record and
have one's heart forget to stop beating."

LIZZY MERCIER DESCLOUX Best of CD $14 (Ze Records)
http://www.buyolympia.com/killrockstars/Item=ZE025CD
Ze Records presents a compilation of some of the best work
from Lizzy Mercier Descloux. Having already established
herself as Paris' punk muse as a correspondent for Rock
News, in 1978 Lizzy Mercier Descloux moved permanently to
New York City and took a huge empty loft in Soho with
friends Patti Smith and Michel Esteban, who would later go
on to found Ze Records. They used the space as a workshop
to play guitar, produce art and music. Under this
incredibly influential umbrella, Lizzy and DJ Banes
started a pretty obscure and nervous combo called Rosa
Yemen. Drawing from the fertile grounds of punk, new wave
and avant garde from the likes of Arto Lindsay, Lydia
Lunch, James Chance/White and the rest of the new Ze
Records signings, Lizzy eventually produced her own
infamous first full-length Press Color (1979), which
sounded like nothing that came before it, with angular
guitar raves, feminine punk scrawls, and
African-influenced dance beats, all liberated by Lizzy's
yelps. Her versions of "Fire" and "Mission Impossible"
would soon fill the dance floors in Tokyo, London, Paris
and Berlin, signalling the transition from the grit of
punk to the cheekiness of New Wave. Lizzy continued to
expand her palette by recording in the Bahamas, South
America and South Africa, recruiting musicians who would
bring their diverse worldbeat influences to develop
soul/funk/dance/no wave crossbreed records of inimitable
originality. For her second record, Mambo Nassau (1981),
Lizzy would work with Steve Stanley (who would also work
with Grace Jones, and the Tom Tom Club) and employ the
talents of Wally Badarou (Herbie Hancock, Level 42, Black
Uhuru) as well as no wave founding father Arto Lindsay.
After much acclaim for her next record Gazelles (1984)
which won Album of the Year award in Paris, she then went
on to record One From the Soul, in which she collaborated
with Brazilian musicians and jazz trumpeter Chet Baker.
After one more somewhat unsuccessful release, and some
appearances in films, Lizzy moved to the West Indies,
devoting herself to her painting, though she would record
one last, unreleased album in 1995. Best Off is a
compilation of the most riveting of Lizzy's work,
showcasing worldbeat, discordant punk, celebratory no
wave, boisterous Latin-infused funk, to comprise a joyful,
frenetic celebration of this pioneering, unforgettable
artist.

LIZZY MERCIER DESCLOUX Zulu Rock CD $15 (Ze Records)
http://www.buyolympia.com/killrockstars/Item=ZE026
This is the third record Lizzy Mercier Descloux recorded,
originally released by CBS Records (France-only) as
Gazelles in 1984, now repackaged by Ze Records, including
five bonus tracks. After having spent the previous few
years promoting the Mambo Nassau album, Lizzy became
enamoured of her trips to Africa and its music: highlife,
Zairian rumba, Manu Dibango's makossa, King Sunny Adé's
Juju music and Fela Kuti's Afrobeat and Julius Levine's
African pop. The music you will hear on Zulu Rock is as
diverse as the blend of ethnic groups in South Africa
itself: it is mbaganga -- which literally means "the poor
South-African stew," a musical blend of different local
styles and Anglo-Saxon pop. A heavy and emphatic bass line
characterizes this sound, with a technique inspired by
Zulu guitars. Against all expectations, the record was
very well received in France, both by the critics, who
awarded it Best Rock Album of the Year, and by the public.
"Mais oét Passé Les Gazelles?" went on to be the unlikely
hit single of summer 1984.

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Woooot! A new 12" from Comet Gain, thanks for the info hg.

awesome.

and they just signed mary timony too.

(ps - love your reference to the d. )

Kielbasa sausage your butt cheeks is warm.

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