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Daddy - For A Second Time

"Daddy is Americana at its roots-rockingest best - honest music that makesits case with equal parts chops and smiles." --Billy Altman Los Angeles Daily News

Dead Snares - Speak The Language Limited Edition LP

For many artists, creativity flows and ebbs, streaming out one minute and trickling the next. Jeffrey Cain, however, has demonstrated the innate ability to mine deep within himself and unearth a constant spring of ideas, melodies, and songs and still have much more from which to draw.

A guitarist by nature and by talent, Cain lives with music in his blood. Based in Birmingham, AL, Cain’s first foray into the music world was through the critically acclaimed and commercially exalted alt-rock band, Remy Zero. Through three excitingly fresh and musically expansive albums – their debut LP Remy Zero, followed by Villa Elaine and The Golden Hum - the band presented the music world with haunting ballads like “Hollow,” their breakthrough soaring single “Prophecy,” and their anthemic “Save Me,” which ultimately went on to become the theme song to Smallville, the #1 rated show on the WB Network. Remy Zero music has also been featured in the films/soundtracks to Suicide Kings, Crazy Beautiful, Just Married, Stigmata, She’s All That, Never Been Kissed and Garden State, among many others.

Deranged Diction - No Art, No Cowboys, No Rules/Life Support

Deranged Diction, Montana’s First Hardcore Band

Missoula, Montana, 1981-83.
Jon Donahue and I met Bruce Fairweather skateboarding the brick banks at the University of Montana in September of 1981. Within a month, we were rehearsing as Deranged Diction with Bill the drummer, playing songs by Black Flag, 999, the Dead Kennedys, the Ramones and the Clash. We played a half dozen shows that school year, mostly with new drummer Sergio Avenia, with a summer assignment to write some of our own songs. Fall quarter 1982, Jon moved back to California, so we needed a new singer. Tom Kipp approached us and we wrote and recorded our first batch of songs which included “Pruning” which ended up on a compilation called We Got Power and the Flipper-inspired “Periscope.” Tim Healy took over vocals in March of 1983 and we wrote and recordedsix new songs, including “Only” and “I’m an Amerikan.” We put these songs on a cassette called No Art, No Cowboys, No Rules and sold and traded them through fanzines like Maximum Rock and Roll and Flipside.

Deranged Diction, Seattle Era

Seattle, Washington, 1983-84.
Sergio, Bruce and I decided to move to Seattle in May of 1983 with the idea of finding a new singer for our band. We put a “singer wanted” ad in the Rocket and our first tryout with Rod Moody was a great fit, and he played guitar which gave us a bigger heavier sound. We wrote 10 new songs with Rod and played shows at the Metropolis with the Butthole Surfers, Husker Du, Ill Repute, Stalag 13 and local Seattle bands the Accused, Malfunkshun, the Rejectors and the Silly Killers. In early 1984, I quit the band to start Green River with Mark, Steve and Alex.
Unfortunately, we never recorded a song.

Seattle, Washington, 2008.
I ran into Rod at Easy Street Records and reminisced about our days in Deranged Diction and he mentioned having a rehearsal tape of the songs we wrote together. I listened and we thought it was a shame that we never recorded those songs. Rod and I approached Bruce and Sergio about recording those songs. We went into Avast studios and recorded and mixed it in 4 days in the spirit of how we might have done it 24 years earlier. It was a blast playing with my old friends again and it’s sounds pretty damn good, if I say so myself.

Jeff Ament, formerly Jeff Diction

Kevin Devine - Put Your Ghost to Rest

Put Your Ghost to Rest is 27-year-old Kevin Devine’s latest album following three widely-acclaimed albums - Circle Gets the Square (2001), Make the Clocks Move (2003), and Split The Country, Split The Street (2005). These twelve songs, produced by Rob Schnapf (Elliott Smith, Beck, The Vines) and featuring Devine’s friends and colleagues known as the Goddamn Band, represent the culmination of several different strains in his musical upbringing, ranging from his love of Pavement to Bob Dylan; Patsy Cline and Sonic Youth.

In the last few years, Kevin Devine has toured extensively alongside a wide range of artists, building up his own following in the process. This work demonstrates the widespread appeal and breadth of his songs – the potential now being focused and realized on Put Your Ghost to Rest. This stage experience has also helped reshape some of his thinking: "Coming up in the hardcore scene in Staten Island, where I grew up, we always cultivated a real us-against-them thing and I’ve learned that’s really narrow and defeatist. I learned that I can go and play with these different kinds of people - with Corinne Bailey Rae, Tom McCrae or Cursive and Bright Eyes - and I’m lucky I can do that. You just do your thing, present yourself your way, and you’ll be fine."

Dj Shadow - Bay Area EP (Explicit Version)

The Bay Area EP by DJ Shadow, a limited release that features the finest Bay Area hyphy rappers over slammin' DJ Shadow beats. Originally Only 2,000 copies of this album were pressed. However, Universal Music erroneously included the CLEAN, ie "edited" versions of the album tracks on the initial run. Shadow was apparently livid enough to demand a revised repress, and here it is, the Bay Area EP Explicit version, as it was originally supposed to be. The clean version is also still available in the CDs section.

Earl Greyhound - Soft Targets

In 2005, EG recorded their first album, Soft Targets, but they also hit their first snag when drummer Chris Bear left to pursue his fortunes with the band Grizzly Bear. Reluctant to release the album without a permanent drummer, Matt and Kamara vowed to play relentlessly until their dream drummer found them. Guitar player Kirk Douglass (The Roots) witnessed a show and brought his friend and Gold Crowns band mate Ricc Sheridan to the next few gigs. Ricc says, “I awoke from a dream one night, and I knew this was my band.” A few weeks later, a rockneck-inducing jam confirmed that the band had found its soul mate, and they hit the ground running. Soft Targets and EG’s wrecking ball of a live show earned them oodles of fans and critical acclaim from The New Yorker, SPIN, Rolling Stone, Brooklyn Vegan and Pitchfork, among others. The next three years were spent touring the US, Canada and Japan as well as opening for Gov’t Mule, Chris Cornell and Saul Williams.

Mike Edison - I Have Fun Everywhere I Go

Girlie Action is absolutely thrilled to present Mike Edison: pornographer, punk-rocker, pro-wrestler, former publisher of “that dope rag” High Times magazine, and chronicler of Bourbon Street strippers, nymphomaniac housewives, and motorcycle daredevils for such outlaw broadsides as Penthouse and Hustler. As he confesses gleefully in the lead-off track of his new spoken-word album (produced by Jon Spencer), “That’s not a résumé, that’s a crime scene.”
Edison has distilled over two decades of his illicit adventures into his new memoir, I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World (Faber and Faber), and this beatnik bop and punk-rock boogaloo companion piece of the same name.
Tales of going undercover to Jews for Jesus bible meetings collide head-on with an edgy eulogy for Edison’s friend and former bandmate GG Allin. “Pornography, Part I” recounts Edison’s stint as editor-in- chief of filth-bible Screw magazine, and includes an explicit recap of “Omar’s Anal Adventures,” as well as an over-the-top bashing of George Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Madonna, and more. Not content with taking on the US Government, Edison enters an epic (and side- splitting) feud with “self-righteous do-gooder” Hulk Hogan. (“Frankly,” says Edison, “he’s just not my kind of people.”) Finally, Ozzy Osborne shows up to steal Edison’s pot, and he tells the laugh-a-minute story with obvious delight, pummeling his stoned ex-colleagues at High Times.
I Have Fun Everywhere I Go the album is rife with Jon Spencer’s sonic hoodoo: fuzz guitars and blues explosions, science- fiction synthesizers, swirling church organs, and howling spookhouse theremins percolate behind Edison’s hilarious, no-holds-barrred storytelling and greasy sidewalk preaching. A sick brew of Lenny Bruce and Jack Kerouac, with high notes of Tom Waits, Sun Ra, and Richard Pryor, I Have Fun Everywhere I Go marks a revolutionary turn for the spoken word record.

Kathleen Edwards - Wapsuck 7 inch vinyl

Wapusk, a new 7” from acclaimed musician Kathleen Edwards, will be released on Zoë/Rounder Records autumn 2011 ahead of her 2012 brand new album ‘Voyageur’. Advance copies of the record will also be made available at Edwards’ upcoming shows and at local independent retailers. Recorded in Fall Creek, Wisconsin and Toronto, Ontario, the pair of songs (“Wapusk” and “Change the Sheets”) were produced by Edwards alongside Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), who also provides backing vocals on the title track.

William Fitzsimmons - Derivatives

Derivatives, a new collection from hirsute bard William Fitzsimmons, is a multicolored reimagining of several prominent tracks off of The Sparrow and the Crow, Fitzsimmons' well-received 2009 release chronicling his divorce, and named as iTunes Best Singer- Songwriter Album of that same year. This new assemblage is freshly varied and contains several remixes of the largely folk-inspired tunes revisited in completely divergent electronic fashion, while still retaining the affective core his songs have come to be best appreciated for. In addition to a choir duet rendering and a cover song, among other pieces, the album also contains a short documentary filmed during William's recent two-month long European tour.

Donavon Frankenreiter - Revisited

Aptly titled, Donavon Frankenreiter’s Revisited is not just a re- recording of his 2004 self titled album; it’s a complete reinterpretation...with a Hawaiian twist.

Glitch Mob - Drink The Sea

Drink The Sea is the debut full-length from the Southern California electronic trio The Glitch Mob. While it their first album, their sound is familiar to a large and growing audience of revelers from their extensive touring and popular mixtapes and remixes.

Gomez - How We Operate (180 Gram Double Vinyl LP)

How We Operate is now available as a special edition, limited pressing 180-gram Double Gatefold vinyl. This vinyl piece is only available from the band and select indie stores nationwide!

Jose Gonzalez - Live At Park Ave

In Our Nature, José González' second album, sees González coming into his own as a songwriter – with songs that are as instantly accessible as they are brimming with darkness and brooding intensity. "I like playing with symbolism," says González. "On this album I've wanted to bring out the primitive aspects of human beings." In addition to González on guitar and vocals are Erik Bodin, percussion and Yukimi Nagamo, backing vocals. The album art for In Our Nature is done by Elias Araya, who also did the artwork for Veneer. In Our Nature is the follow up to González' debut album Veneer which went platinum in the UK and Ireland, sold more than 700,000 worldwide, and captured audiences and critics across the globe.

This ep is a very special recording captured at Park Avenue in Orlando Florida. It features live takes on five songs from the new album In Our Nature as well as favorites from his debut album Veneer

Guggenheim Grotto - Universe Is Laughing

Over the past five years Dublin-based alt-folk duo The Guggenheim Grotto has touched audiences in a way members Kevin May and Mick Lynch couldn’t have imagined. From setting out as Dublin songwriter circuit regulars, to building a devoted cult following in the U.S. with warm embraces from media and competitive iTunes charting, the band has captivated audiences and tastemakers on both sides of the pond and undergone considerable personal growth along the way.