2013-05-24T17:18:39Z Tonevendor Labels List Owner dan@tonevendor.com http://tonevendor.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi Dada Mail 2.10.12 tag:tonevendor.com,2008-08-19:%2Fcgi-bin%2Fdada%2Fmail.cgi%2Farchive%2Ftv_labels%2F20080819214417%2F 2008-08-19T21:44:17Z 2008-08-19T21:44:17Z <p>(Mailing list info at the end of this message.)<br /> <br /> Hi folks,<br /> <br /> Time for another tV ad in The Big Takeover! We placed ads in the last two consecutive issues, and they are great! We'd like to continue the love for one of the best mags out there. Bear in mind this mag prints only twice a year! So any forthcoming releases in the next 6 months, you'll want to consider. The best part about that -- the ad sits on newsstands for 6 months too! Now that's value for your dollar!<br /> <br /> The ad will be black &amp; white, full-page, and featuring 10 releases. The breakdown:<br /> <br /> What: a full page B&W Tonevendor ad<br /> Publication: The Big Takeover<br /> Issue: #63<br /> Street Date: Oct/Nov 2008<br /> Mag features: Johnny Rotten, Pt. 2, Death Cab For Cutie, Mudhoney, Fleet Foxes, Spiritualized, the reunited Swervedriver, Sloan, Devo, New Model Army, Calexico, Feelies (and Wild Carnation), MGMT, Jealous Girlfriends, Deerhunter, V. Vale (Search and Destroy, Re/Search) pt. 2, The Zombies Pt. 2 (Hugh and Chris this time), Band of Holy Joy, Dropsonic, Corleone Records, and more!<br /> Magazine Circulation: 19,000+<br /> Cost: $65 per featured title in the ad<br /> Ad Reservation Deadline: ASAP<br /> Materials Deadline: September 12, but as always, please try to get materials to me well in advance if you can!<br /> <br /> Materials needed:<br /> - artist<br /> - title<br /> - label<br /> - 300 dpi image of the album cover, measuring 3&quot; square<br /> - 20 words or less description to be featured under the title<br /> - $65 payment<br /> <br /> Payment accepted: Paypal is preferred (ask for details before sending), but credit card, check, money order, and cash are all just dandy too. If you are totally strapped, we might be able to work out a product trade for ad space too! Just ask.<br /> <br /> You can check out info on the magazine at www.bigtakeover.com.<br /> <br /> Let me know if you have any questions!<br /> <br /> Thanks!!<br /> Dan-<br /> <a href="http://www.tonevendor.com">http://www.tonevendor.com</a></p> <!-- begin feed_subscription_form_widget.tmpl --> <hr /> <p> Subscribe to <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/list/tv_labels/"> Tonevendor Labels </a> via email by entering your email address below: </p> <!-- begin list_subscribe_form.tmpl --> <form action="http://tonevendor.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi" method="post"> <p> <input type="radio" name="f" value="subscribe" id="subscribe" style="background-color:transparent" checked="checked" /> <label for="subscribe">Subscribe</label> | <input type="radio" name="f" value="u" id="u" style="background-color:transparent" /> <label for="u">Unsubscribe</label> <br /> <input type="text" name="email" value="" maxlength="1024" /> <input type="hidden" name="list" value="tv_labels" /> <input type="submit" value="Submit" class="processing" /> </p> </form> <!-- end list_subscribe_form.tmpl --> <!-- end feed_subscription_form_widget.tmpl --> tag:tonevendor.com,2008-03-17:%2Fcgi-bin%2Fdada%2Fmail.cgi%2Farchive%2Ftv_labels%2F20080317110432%2F 2008-03-17T11:04:32Z 2008-03-17T11:04:32Z <p>(Mailing list info at the end of this message.)<br /> <br /> Hey folks,<br /> <br /> We have an unprecedented opportunity to advertise in Wax Poetics at a fantastic rate. This magazine is my favorite magazine on the planet, but it is understandably out of the scope of many - if not all - of the labels receiving this message. Regardless, if you are unfamiliar with this magazine, take note that it is more or less a record collectors magazine. In addition, these magazines are collectors pieces as well!! Issues regularly fetch large sums on eBay as folks like to keep them as reference mags. So the potential impact of the ad will be long lasting for years to come. In addition, like I mentioned, readers of this mag love collecting records. People like you and me. Think about it.<br /> <br /> The deal:<br /> <br /> The ad = full page, full color ad<br /> Rate = $150 per slot<br /> Featuring 10 slots per ad, as usual<br /> Circulation = 64,500<br /> Issues come out bimonthly<br /> <br /> These rates are unheard of -- a full page ad for someone like a car manufacturer or major clothing brand would cost nearly $6000 in this magazine. A quarter page ad normally runs about $2000. Needless to say, the rates I have quoted you above are a remarkable savings, and a worthy investment, to say the least.<br /> <br /> If you are unfamiliar with this magazine, check it out at www.waxpoetics.com<br /> <br /> If you have interest in advertising in this fantastic piece of music history, please let me know.<br /> <br /> Thanks!<br /> Dan-</p> <!-- begin feed_subscription_form_widget.tmpl --> <hr /> <p> Subscribe to <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/list/tv_labels/"> Tonevendor Labels </a> via email by entering your email address below: </p> <!-- begin list_subscribe_form.tmpl --> <form action="http://tonevendor.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi" method="post"> <p> <input type="radio" name="f" value="subscribe" id="subscribe" style="background-color:transparent" checked="checked" /> <label for="subscribe">Subscribe</label> | <input type="radio" name="f" value="u" id="u" style="background-color:transparent" /> <label for="u">Unsubscribe</label> <br /> <input type="text" name="email" value="" maxlength="1024" /> <input type="hidden" name="list" value="tv_labels" /> <input type="submit" value="Submit" class="processing" /> </p> </form> <!-- end list_subscribe_form.tmpl --> <!-- end feed_subscription_form_widget.tmpl --> tag:tonevendor.com,2008-03-01:%2Fcgi-bin%2Fdada%2Fmail.cgi%2Farchive%2Ftv_labels%2F20080301231720%2F 2008-03-01T23:17:20Z 2008-03-01T23:17:20Z <p>(Mailing list info at the end of this message.)<br /> <br /> Hi folks,<br /> <br /> Time for another tV ad in The Big Takeover! Our last ad for them in the current issue turned out great, so we'd like to continue the love for pone of the best mags out there. Bear in mind this mag prints only twice a year! So any forthcoming releases in the next 6 months, you'll want to consider. The best part about that -- the ad sits on newsstands for 6 months too! Now that's value for your dollar!<br /> <br /> The ad will be black & white, full-page, and featuring 10 releases. The breakdown:<br /> <br /> What: a full page B&W Tonevendor ad<br /> Publication: The Big Takeover<br /> Issue: #62<br /> Street Date: April 2008<br /> Mag features: R.E.M. (probably on the cover), Band of Horses, Johnny Rotten (Sex Pistols) Brian Jonestown Massacre, Ray Davies (Kinks), Nada Surf, Stephen Malkmus (Pavement), British Sea Power, New Pornographers Pt. 2, Radar Bros., Bob Mould, 1977 L.A. punks The Flyboys, My Morning Jacket, Awesome Color, Robert Forster (Go-Betweens), Rock Writer V. Vale (Search & Destroy and Re/Search), Grand Archives, Pointed Sticks Pt. 2, Sky Drops (ex-Smashing Orange), Mike Viola (Candy Butchers/"That Thing You Do"), Nardwuar the Human Serviette, Trolleyvox, and more!<br /> Magazine Circulation: 19,000+<br /> Cost: $65 per title<br /> Ad Reservation Deadline: ASAP<br /> Materials Deadline: March 17 but as always, please try to get materials to me well in advance if you can!<br /> <br /> Materials needed:<br /> - artist<br /> - title<br /> - label<br /> - 300 dpi image of the album cover, measuring 3" square<br /> - 20 words or less description to be featured under the title<br /> - $65 payment<br /> <br /> Payment accepted: Paypal is preferred (ask for details before sending), but credit card, check, money order, and cash are all just dandy too. If you are totally strapped, we might be able to work out a product trade for ad space too! Just ask.<br /> <br /> You can check out info on the magazine at www.bigtakeover.com.<br /> <br /> Let me know if you have any questions!<br /> <br /> Thanks!!<br /> Dan-<br /> <a href="http://www.tonevendor.com">http://www.tonevendor.com</a></p> <!-- begin feed_subscription_form_widget.tmpl --> <hr /> <p> Subscribe to <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/list/tv_labels/"> Tonevendor Labels </a> via email by entering your email address below: </p> <!-- begin list_subscribe_form.tmpl --> <form action="http://tonevendor.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi" method="post"> <p> <input type="radio" name="f" value="subscribe" id="subscribe" style="background-color:transparent" checked="checked" /> <label for="subscribe">Subscribe</label> | <input type="radio" name="f" value="u" id="u" style="background-color:transparent" /> <label for="u">Unsubscribe</label> <br /> <input type="text" name="email" value="" maxlength="1024" /> <input type="hidden" name="list" value="tv_labels" /> <input type="submit" value="Submit" class="processing" /> </p> </form> <!-- end list_subscribe_form.tmpl --> <!-- end feed_subscription_form_widget.tmpl --> tag:tonevendor.com,2008-02-26:%2Fcgi-bin%2Fdada%2Fmail.cgi%2Farchive%2Ftv_labels%2F20080226085217%2F 2008-02-26T08:52:17Z 2008-02-26T08:52:17Z <p>(Mailing list info at the end of this message.)<br /> <br /> Hey all,<br /> <br /> I'm checking in to see if you can help us out: one of our (Clairecords) bands - IFWHEN - is doing a small tour of the east coast on their way down from NYC to see us here in Gainesville. We are looking for help booking shows, and also for help with letting the band crash at your pad (or maybe your friend's pad, your mom's couch, whatever you got!). The band ain't fussy, and is up for house shows, VFW shows, clubs, private parties, bar mitzvahs... send us your ideas!<br /> <br /> The proposed (and somewhat-flexible) itinerary of some sample cities is as follows:<br /> <br /> M 5/5 Somewhere not too far from NYC<br /> Tu 5/6 Norfolk, VA<br /> W 5/7 Mt Pleasant SC/elsewhere in SC<br /> Th 5/8 Gainesville FL<br /> Fr 5/9 Atlanta/Athens GA<br /> Sa 5/10 Chapel Hill/Raleigh/Durham/Greensboro NC<br /> Su 5/11 Anywhere between NC and NYC<br /> <br /> Can you help us out?<br /> <br /> Thanks!<br /> Dan-</p> <!-- begin feed_subscription_form_widget.tmpl --> <hr /> <p> Subscribe to <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/list/tv_labels/"> Tonevendor Labels </a> via email by entering your email address below: </p> <!-- begin list_subscribe_form.tmpl --> <form action="http://tonevendor.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi" method="post"> <p> <input type="radio" name="f" value="subscribe" id="subscribe" style="background-color:transparent" checked="checked" /> <label for="subscribe">Subscribe</label> | <input type="radio" name="f" value="u" id="u" style="background-color:transparent" /> <label for="u">Unsubscribe</label> <br /> <input type="text" name="email" value="" maxlength="1024" /> <input type="hidden" name="list" value="tv_labels" /> <input type="submit" value="Submit" class="processing" /> </p> </form> <!-- end list_subscribe_form.tmpl --> <!-- end feed_subscription_form_widget.tmpl --> tag:tonevendor.com,2008-01-22:%2Fcgi-bin%2Fdada%2Fmail.cgi%2Farchive%2Ftv_labels%2F20080122084908%2F 2008-01-22T08:49:08Z 2008-01-22T08:49:08Z <p>(Mailing list info at the end of this message.)<br /> <br /> Hi everyone,<br /> <br /> Time for another Tonevendor ad - this time in the great Under the Radar magazine! The ad will be black & white, full-page, and featuring 10 releases. The breakdown:<br /> <br /> What: a full page B&W Tonevendor ad<br /> Publication: Under the Radar<br /> Issue: #20<br /> Street Date: early April<br /> Mag features: current issue has M. Ward and Zooey Deschanel on cover, and features on Black Mountain, Spiritualized, Mew, Hot Chip, Death Cab, Flaming Lips, My Morning Jacket, Camera Obscura, British Sea Power, lots more<br /> Magazine Circulation: 160,000 (!)<br /> Cost: $65 per title<br /> Ad Reservation Deadline: Feb 1<br /> Materials Deadline: Feb 7, but as always, please try to get materials to me well in advance if you can!<br /> <br /> Materials needed:<br /> - artist<br /> - title<br /> - label<br /> - 300 dpi image of the album cover, measuring 3" square<br /> - 20 words or less description to be featured under the title<br /> - $65 payment<br /> <br /> Payment accepted: Paypal is preferred (ask for details before sending), but credit card, check, money order, and cash are all just dandy too. If you are totally strapped, we might be able to work out a product trade for ad space too! Just ask.<br /> <br /> You can check out info on the magazine at <a href="http://www.undertheradarmag.com/">http://www.undertheradarmag.com/</a><br /> <br /> Let me know if you have any questions!<br /> <br /> Thanks!!<br /> Dan-<br /> <a href="http://www.tonevendor.com">http://www.tonevendor.com</a></p> <!-- begin feed_subscription_form_widget.tmpl --> <hr /> <p> Subscribe to <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/list/tv_labels/"> Tonevendor Labels </a> via email by entering your email address below: </p> <!-- begin list_subscribe_form.tmpl --> <form action="http://tonevendor.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi" method="post"> <p> <input type="radio" name="f" value="subscribe" id="subscribe" style="background-color:transparent" checked="checked" /> <label for="subscribe">Subscribe</label> | <input type="radio" name="f" value="u" id="u" style="background-color:transparent" /> <label for="u">Unsubscribe</label> <br /> <input type="text" name="email" value="" maxlength="1024" /> <input type="hidden" name="list" value="tv_labels" /> <input type="submit" value="Submit" class="processing" /> </p> </form> <!-- end list_subscribe_form.tmpl --> <!-- end feed_subscription_form_widget.tmpl --> tag:tonevendor.com,2007-09-05:%2Fcgi-bin%2Fdada%2Fmail.cgi%2Farchive%2Ftv_labels%2F20070905085916%2F 2007-09-05T08:59:16Z 2007-09-05T08:59:16Z <p>(Mailing list info at the end of this message.)<br /> <br /> Hi folks,<br /> <br /> Time for another tV ad - this time in one of our fave publications, The Big Takeover! The ad will be black & white, full-page, and featuring 10 releases. The breakdown:<br /> <br /> What: a full page B&W Tonevendor ad<br /> Publication: The Big Takeover<br /> Issue: #61<br /> Street Date: November 2007<br /> Mag features: New Pornographers, Shins, Emma Pollock (ex-Delgados), Little Steven's Underground Garage, Don McGlashan (ex-Mutton Birds) pt. 2, Fields, Hazey Janes, Maximo Park, reunited Pointed Sticks (original<br /> 1979 Vancouver punkpop), and more.<br /> Magazine Circulation: 19,000+<br /> Cost: $65 per title<br /> Ad Reservation Deadline: ASAP<br /> Materials Deadline: October 1 but as always, please try to get materials to me well in advance if you can!<br /> <br /> Materials needed:<br /> - artist<br /> - title<br /> - label<br /> - 300 dpi image of the album cover, measuring 3" square<br /> - 20 words or less description to be featured under the title<br /> - $65 payment<br /> <br /> Payment accepted: Paypal is preferred (ask for details before sending), but credit card, check, money order, and cash are all just dandy too. If you are totally strapped, we might be able to work out a product trade for ad space too! Just ask.<br /> <br /> You can check out info on the magazine at www.bigtakeover.com.<br /> <br /> Let me know if you have any questions!<br /> <br /> Thanks!!<br /> Dan-<br /> <a href="http://www.tonevendor.com">http://www.tonevendor.com</a></p> <!-- begin feed_subscription_form_widget.tmpl --> <hr /> <p> Subscribe to <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/list/tv_labels/"> Tonevendor Labels </a> via email by entering your email address below: </p> <!-- begin list_subscribe_form.tmpl --> <form action="http://tonevendor.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi" method="post"> <p> <input type="radio" name="f" value="subscribe" id="subscribe" style="background-color:transparent" checked="checked" /> <label for="subscribe">Subscribe</label> | <input type="radio" name="f" value="u" id="u" style="background-color:transparent" /> <label for="u">Unsubscribe</label> <br /> <input type="text" name="email" value="" maxlength="1024" /> <input type="hidden" name="list" value="tv_labels" /> <input type="submit" value="Submit" class="processing" /> </p> </form> <!-- end list_subscribe_form.tmpl --> <!-- end feed_subscription_form_widget.tmpl --> tag:tonevendor.com,2007-08-07:%2Fcgi-bin%2Fdada%2Fmail.cgi%2Farchive%2Ftv_labels%2F20070807094933%2F 2007-08-07T09:49:33Z 2007-08-07T09:49:33Z <p>(Mailing list info at the end of this message.)<br /> <br /> Hi folks,<br /> <br /> It's been forever and a day since we have done a Tonevendor ad, so it's high time we start promoting ourselves, as well as your great releases, once again!<br /> <br /> We are gearing up for an ad in Skyscraper Magazine - the ad will be black & white and the size will depend upon the number of slots filled by labels like yourself. A full page ad would accommodate 10 slots. If we get half that many, we'll do a half page ad. And so on. Here's the skinny:<br /> <br /> What: a full page or half page B&W Tonevendor ad<br /> Publication: Skyscraper<br /> Issue: #26<br /> Street Date: October 11, 2007<br /> Magazine Circulation: 10,000+<br /> Cost: $50<br /> Ad Reservation Deadline: ASAP - I need to know by this Monday, if possible!!<br /> Materials Deadline: August 20 at very latest! Please try to get to me well in advance if you can!<br /> <br /> Materials needed:<br /> - artist<br /> - title<br /> - label<br /> - 300 dpi image of the album cover, measuring 3" square<br /> - 20 words or less description to be featured under the title<br /> <br /> Payment accepted: Paypal is preferred (ask for details before sending), but credit card, check, money order, and cash are all just dandy too. If you are totally strapped, we might be able to work out a product trade for ad space too! Just ask.<br /> <br /> You can check out info on the magazine at www.skyscrapermagazine.com.<br /> <br /> Let me know if you have any questions!<br /> <br /> Thanks!!<br /> Dan-<br /> <a href="http://www.tonevendor.com">http://www.tonevendor.com</a></p> <!-- begin feed_subscription_form_widget.tmpl --> <hr /> <p> Subscribe to <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/list/tv_labels/"> Tonevendor Labels </a> via email by entering your email address below: </p> <!-- begin list_subscribe_form.tmpl --> <form action="http://tonevendor.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi" method="post"> <p> <input type="radio" name="f" value="subscribe" id="subscribe" style="background-color:transparent" checked="checked" /> <label for="subscribe">Subscribe</label> | <input type="radio" name="f" value="u" id="u" style="background-color:transparent" /> <label for="u">Unsubscribe</label> <br /> <input type="text" name="email" value="" maxlength="1024" /> <input type="hidden" name="list" value="tv_labels" /> <input type="submit" value="Submit" class="processing" /> </p> </form> <!-- end list_subscribe_form.tmpl --> <!-- end feed_subscription_form_widget.tmpl --> tag:tonevendor.com,2006-08-04:%2Fcgi-bin%2Fdada%2Fmail.cgi%2Farchive%2Ftv_labels%2F20060804133413%2F 2006-08-04T13:34:13Z 2006-08-04T13:34:13Z <p>(Mailing list information, including unsubscription instructions, <br /> is located at the end of this message.)<br /> <br /> <br /> *** Your title featured in a full page color ad for only $50!! ***<br /> <br /> Hi folks,<br /> <br /> We have this great, special deal with the swell magazine "Pop Culture Press" that boils down to featuring your release in a full page full color ad on the inside cover for only $50!! However, if we don't get enough slots filled, that means the ad is reduced to half page, is b&w, on the inside of the magazine, AND the cost goes up to $60. So let's get all these slots filled!!<br /> <br /> What: a full page full color Tonevendor ad, featuring 10 titles!<br /> Publication: Pop Culture Press<br /> Issue: #63 Fall/Winter 2006<br /> Cost: $50<br /> Ad Reservation Deadline: ASAP - I need to know by this Monday, if possible!!<br /> Materials Deadline: August 14 at very latest! Please try to get to me well in advance if you can!<br /> <br /> Materials needed:<br /> - artist<br /> - title<br /> - label<br /> - 300 dpi image of the album cover, measuring 3" square<br /> - 20 words or less description to be featured under the title<br /> <br /> BONUS DEAL:<br /> <br /> If you are interested, we can get a track from your release included on the free CD that is included with each issue! The cost is $200 (a savings of $50) and available to the first one interested ONLY! Let me know if you want to jump on that!<br /> <br /> Here's some info on the magazine:<br /> <br /> "PCP is a music and pop culture magazine published in Austin, Texas. We have a readership of approximately 6,000, and our broad demographic covers 18-45 year olds with an editorial focus on independent music. PCP’s circulation has increased steadily over the last few years, thanks to our national and international distribution through Borders, Barnes and Noble, Tower Records, Books-A-Million, and countless mom-and-pop independent book and record stores nationwide."<br /> <br /> Let me know if you have any questions!<br /> <br /> Thanks!!<br /> Dan-<br /> <a href="http://www.tonevendor.com">http://www.tonevendor.com</a></p> <!-- begin feed_subscription_form_widget.tmpl --> <hr /> <p> Subscribe to <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/list/tv_labels/"> Tonevendor Labels </a> via email by entering your email address below: </p> <!-- begin list_subscribe_form.tmpl --> <form action="http://tonevendor.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi" method="post"> <p> <input type="radio" name="f" value="subscribe" id="subscribe" style="background-color:transparent" checked="checked" /> <label for="subscribe">Subscribe</label> | <input type="radio" name="f" value="u" id="u" style="background-color:transparent" /> <label for="u">Unsubscribe</label> <br /> <input type="text" name="email" value="" maxlength="1024" /> <input type="hidden" name="list" value="tv_labels" /> <input type="submit" value="Submit" class="processing" /> </p> </form> <!-- end list_subscribe_form.tmpl --> <!-- end feed_subscription_form_widget.tmpl --> tag:tonevendor.com,2006-08-04:%2Fcgi-bin%2Fdada%2Fmail.cgi%2Farchive%2Ftv_labels%2F20060804132537%2F 2006-08-04T13:25:37Z 2006-08-04T13:25:37Z <p>(Mailing list information, including unsubscription instructions, <br /> is located at the end of this message.)<br /> Hey all!<br /> <br /> Just a reminder that THE BROTHER KITE begin their northeast tour tomorrow!! They'll be playing tracks from their forthcoming album "Waiting For The time To Be Right", which is release September 12 -- be the first on your block to hear the tunes, and maybe you'll even be able to pick up their new album a month early! Go see them!! Here's tour dates again:<br /> <br /> Aug 5 2006 9:00P The Century Lounge Providence, RI<br /> Aug 6 2006 9:00P Great Scott Allston, MA<br /> Aug 8 2006 9:00P Sin-e New York, NY<br /> Aug 10 2006 9:00P Pianos New York, NY<br /> <br /> Meanwhile, we are rocking out ourselves to all kinds of excellent new tunes - that new SIANspheric 7" is kiiiiiiillllllllerrrr!!!! Read on and bust out the ole credit card! <br /> <br /> Lastly, as if there wasn't enough technology to keep up with, now there's this thing:<br /> <br /> <a href="http://mog.com/toneVENDOR">http://mog.com/toneVENDOR</a><br /> <br /> We just discovered it today, so don't make fun yet if you are some kind of Mog pro...<br /> <br /> Enjoy! <br /> <a href="http://www.tonevendor.com">http://www.tonevendor.com</a><br /> <br /> <br /> ** ATTENTION RECORD SHOPS! THIS UPDATE LISTS OUR PRICES FOR OUR DIRECT CUSTOMERS. FOR WHOLESALE PRICING LOG-IN TO THE WEBSITE WITH THE PASSWORD WE PROVIDED YOU **<br /> <br /> --->> Too lazy to scroll through this update? Check out all the latest arrivals from the past 14 days here:<br /> <a href="http://www.tonevendor.com/catalog/justin">http://www.tonevendor.com/catalog/justin</a><br /> <br /> *-*-* NEW OR NEW-TO-US ADDITIONS TO OUR DATABASE *-*-*<br /> <br /> <B> TONEVENDOR EXCLUSIVES AND/OR RECOMMENDED TITLES! </B><br /> <br /> A NORTHERN CHORUS-Before We All Go To Pieces REISSUE CD (Black Mountain Music-$11.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24037">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24037</a><br /> Those of you who are real, true die-hard hardcore Tonevendor customers should remember this one. Let's reminisce, shall we? Remember waaaaay back, 5 years ago, when nobody knew who the heck A Northern Chorus was? And Tonevendor had their excellent debut album in stock, and it was so good that we sold a veritable ton of them on our good word alone? Well, please welcome it back - complete with a gorgeous artwork rehaul, a full remastering job, and two new bonus tracks!<br /> A Northern Chorus’ first release, Before We All Go To Pieces was originally released on Black Mountain Music in 2001, and quickly cemented the band a position as one of the leaders of the Canadian ‘space rock’ scene; it should be pointed out that the band never actually considered themselves a space rock band, preferring to be called ‘orchestral rock’ or ‘space country pop’. During its initial release, the album garnered great reviews across the country and eventually sold out of its initial run of 1000 copies within the first year. Since that time, A Northern Chorus has continued to grow and expand musical horizons, releasing two albums on the Sonic Unyon label, while touring Canada countless times (well, 8 to be exact) and the United States on 5 separate occasions. Throughout all of this, fans have pestered the band for copies of their debut album and now, 5 years later, it is finally back. This re-release features two songs recorded for but not included on the original al<br /> bum, Until These Seams Are Sown Again and These Days, and was remastered by Sean Pearson. On top of this, the album features beautiful new artwork done by up and coming Halifax design team, Yo! Rodeo.<br /> <br /> SIANSPHERIC-I Wouldn't Expect You To Understand 7" (Black Mountain Music-$4.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24036">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24036</a><br /> W-H-A-T---T-H-E---F-L-I-P---?-!-?-! The first SIANspheric release <B>EVER</B> and it is limited to just 300 copies?!?! On white vinyl? And all three tracks are brand new?! Helllloooo!!! Get your clicking finger ready to tap that buy button pronto!!<br /> Hamilton space rock legends SIANspheric are back with their first release in 3 years and their first vinyl release ever. 'I Wouldn't Expect You To Understand' features three new SIAN tracks- the A side is a blistering, feedback driven song that will transport the listener back to hazy days of '93, while the B side, 'Knowing Where You Are' is a simple, beautiful and fragile acoustic song. Limited to 300 copies on white vinyl with provocative hand-screened sleeves by Yo! Rodeo, this is a must have for SIANspheric fans and anyone who spent some time gazing at their shoes.<br /> <br /> SIBYLLE BAIER-Colour Green LP (Isota-$13.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24059">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24059</a><br /> NOW AVAILABLE ON SUPERIOR-FORMAT VINYL! One of our top records of the year! <br /> During a particularly dark and moody period of her young life in Germany, a friend of Sibylle Baier’s dragged her out from under the bed and took her on a road trip, ending up across the Alps in Genoa. Upon returning from this trip, Baier felt her sprits renewed. Grateful to be alive, she set out to write her first song,“Remember the Day.” Baier’s music is simply amazing in its intimacy and closeness. Recorded in the late seventies on a reel-to-reel recording device, the songs on Colour Green are dear portraits of life’s sad and fragile beauty. It is a gem of an album, and it will blow your mind. Isota Records is proud to be releasing this album on vinyl for the first time.<br /> <br /> VARIOUS ARTISTS-Tiny Idols Volume 2 CD (Snowglobe-$9.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24066">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24066</a><br /> Tiny Idols, Vol.2 is here!! For those who don't know, Tiny Idols is a collection of obscure and out-of-print gems from the fertile '90s indie rock scene. Sort of like the classic "Nuggets" collections, but for indie fans. These songs all deserve to be heard by a wider audience, and one of the goals of the project is to give these great, yet forgotten tunes new life.<br /> TRACKLIST: 1. LMP / "Beautiful Noise " / 1996 2. The Multiple Cat/ "Little Pieces " / 1996 3. Lenola / "Jet Row " /1998 4. Mazarin / "Wheats" / 1999 5. Sukpatch / "Bucked Hide " / 1996 6. The Triggers/ "Bomb Shelter " / 1999 / 7. Guppyboy / "Holiday" / 1997 8. Suede Chain/ "Departure and Arrival " / 1995 9. Chantigs / "Three Times a Day " / 1998 10. Hula Hoop/ "The Last Part " / 1996 11. Casper and the Cookies/ "Country Girl " / 1996 12. Fashioncolt / "Transmit Her " / 1999 13. Red Dye #5/ "Hope" / 1995 14. Ponyride / "Hazel" / 1995 15. Sugarboom / "Rock Star " / 1996 16. Pennies / "Neptune Drive " / 1999 17. Galaga / "Arilang" / 1997 18. John T. Baker/ "My Pet Smiles " / 1996 19. Madison Electric/ "Heavy Petal" / 1996 20. Teach Me Tiger/ "Won't U Come Around " / 1997<br /> <br /> TAPE OP-Issue #11: Winter 1998/99 MAG ($12.00)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24054">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24054</a><br /> Oh my!! A warehouse find!! This old rarity now available in limited supply. Butch Vig, DJ Shadow, Royal Trux, Ray Carmen in the cassette corner, Neutral Milk Hotel, Abbey Road pictorial (a week with Elliott Smith in London), Knitting Factory Studio, Recording 1960's Avante-Garde Jazz in Chicago, and an intro to analog tape splicing and editing. Relive the glory days with Issue #11 while you can!<br /> <br /> <br /> <B> COMPACT DISCS </B> <br /> <br /> BE YOUR OWN PET-s/t CD (Ecstatic Peace-$10.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24051">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24051</a><br /> BE YOUR OWN PET like: caffeine, sugar, candy, spicy food, vinyl records, XTC, Television, T Rex, tar pits, sea creatures - octopi, giant squid, sea horses, submarines, bicycles, climbing trees, skateboarding, asthma inhalers, fungi, making stuff up, making kids dance, Waffle House...<br /> BE YOUR OWN PET facts: Average song length 2:20; Average live set length 15-30 minutes; Formed 2004 and have played close to a hundred shows. Toured with The Kills, Le Tigre, and Electrelane. All four bandmembers have asthma. All four members draw their singles covers with crayons. They make their t-shirts in the kitchen with a silk screen (and once started a fire drying freshly painted shirts in the oven) and then personalize them with magic markers. Jonas and Jamin doubled up classes to graduate high school a year early. Jemina dropped out. Nathan is taking senior English on the internet. The band argued with their UK label over what the first single off the album would be - and the band picked the frenzied 58 second “Let’s Get Sandy.”<br /> <br /> BE YOUR OWN PET-Summer Sensation CD (Ecstatic Peace-$5.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24052">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24052</a><br /> Teenage punk band Be Your Own Pet formed in early 2004 playing their first gigs in their hometown at a pizza joint called Guido’s. The band played their 10th show ever at the CMJ festival that year after which London-based label XL offered to put out a single "Damn Damn Leash". BBC Radio One and MTV2 started playing the single and by SXSW 2005, kids from both sides of the Atlantic were freaking over Be Your Own Pet. Since then the band has conquered Glastonbury Festival, Summersonic Festival in Japan, Reading and Leeds Festival, Village Voice Siren Festival, done extensive touring with Le Tigre and The Kills, released their second single “Fire Department” on Rough Trade Records UK and recorded lots more songs. This EP combines the Rough Trade single tracks(never before released in the US) + 2 tracks from a session recorded with Steve McDonald (The Donnas, Red Kross). The band is touring extensively this spring and summer in support of their debut full length released on Ecsta<br /> tic Peace/ Universal on 6/6/6.<br /> <br /> BOAT-Songs You Might Not Like CD (Magic Marker-$12.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24043">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24043</a><br /> "Imagine a sea odyssey (and oddity) that merges lo-fi Shins/early Kinks undertows, crests of cascading reverb, and a hefty dose of ahoy-matey DIY spirit. The as-yet relatively unknown Seattle quartet Boat also make their live shows adventure-worthy; past performances have included audience participation sessions with children's instruments and Jell-O pudding cups for all."--Dana Bos--Seattle Weekly. "The local band's keyboard- and melodica-tinged pop would work well being sung while waiting for rescue in the middle of the sea—a little sad but still hopeful and quite romantic in sound. Organic melodies reminiscent of Neutral Milk Hotel meet easy, flowing harmonies that take the edge off the lo-fi recording. Fans of Quasi and the Shins, take note, as you'll surely be pleased."MEGAN SELING--The Stranger. "Get into them, and they'll live at your house for a week ortwo. Their lo-fi-ness sometimes gets in the way like a great book written in comic sans.Get a little clearer recordin<br /> g, Boat, and Wes Anderson might consider you for the nextmovie".---Said the Gramophone---Jordan Himelfarb. I was recently asked to write about my favorite band, BOAT. I will keep it short or at least try. Their sound is indeed unique and because of that I have coined the phrase sloppy pop to describe their sound. From here on out please credit me H. Fozzelberry with the invention/coinage of this new genre of pop music. From what I understand, BOAT began as a basement dream of one D. Crane when he moved back to Seattle from a miserable stint in Chicago. Initially armed with good friends/cheap guitars/cheap microphones/a half broken Wurlitzer/a squeaky drumset/a few melodicas/pizza/burritos/fragile egos/and diet soda. It has since blossomed into a reality of good friends/a brother in law/better guitars/morecheap microphones/calzone and pizza/burritos/a half fixed Wurlitzer/a half broken theremin/a non squeaking drumset/still relatively fragile egos/a few cheap keyboards/and ridiculous amounts of diet soda and hand claps. This dream began taking shape with the release of a handmade album and EP "Life is a Shipwreck," and "After All." After several trips to the Paper Zone and Kinkos the band found themselves selling out of their homemade hand crafted albums and EPs as they began playing shows from Vancouver to San Francisco. Be it a house show or a biker bar the band is known for never playing the same show twice and never leaving the stage without sweat soaked shirts. BOAT's current lineup is the epitome of sloppy/poppy three piece rock. It features J. Goodman playing maniacal drum fills/tasteful tambourines/shakers and bells/and keyboards/all this while shouting backup vocals and la las/M. McKenzie playing McCarteney-esque bass and guitar as well as having the most silky smooth backup vocals in all of music/ and D. Crane playing guitars and keyboards and shouting and singing lyrics about lanterns, rainbow shoelaces, his hatred of Chicago, and ninjas. The touring lineup of BOAT features Ian Bone of Sacramento, CA as the utility man. They have put together a 17 song collection of their finest recorded moments entitled "Songs That You Might Not Like." The album features newly recorded versions of songs from their first two homemade releases as well as several new unreleased songs. Recorded in basements/living rooms and one very structurally questionable warehouse in Seattle, "Songs That You Might Not Like" has something for everyone. It has clapping/snapping/whistling/guitar solos/saxophone sounding accordians/bleeping keyboards/distorted piano/oohs/la la's/shouting/singing/even some broken theremin sounds. These songs are guaranteed to get stuck in your head and make you feel cooler than you really are. --H. Fozzelberry <br /> <br /> DIANE CLUCK-Monarcana CD (Very Friendly-$12.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24044">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24044</a><br /> "These songs were recorded at home from 2001-2004. Spontaneous songs, not like those worked on/ recreated for live shows. For me they are direct communication. I have no idea what, if anything they might mean to other people. It feels good to offer them that way. Sometimes I'm asked why or it's assumed i intend to make "lo-fi" recordings - it's really just that when the baby's coming you don't always have time to sterilize the rags. When i hear a recorded song the music rises up & out from any tape hiss, digital clicking, etc... In my experience it doesn't interfere with what's happening / being conveyed. What is happening? An attempt to share & to connect thwarts & acceptances" - Diane Cluck “Just a voice, a guitar, and some of the most spellbinding words you’ll hear anywhere.” – Mojo “My favorite singer/songwriter in all of New York City. I’m so happy to be alive at the same time she is because I get to see her perform. It’s her and guitar, or her and piano, or her and harm<br /> onium. Her lyrics are so good; when I play this for people they stop doing everything and are quiet for hours after.” – Devendra Banhart.<br /> <br /> COMETS ON FIRE-Avatar CD (Sub Pop-$12.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24077">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24077</a><br /> After 2004's critically acclaimed Blue Cathedral, one might have expected Comets on Fire to blast off into the cosmos in an infinite flurry of lysergic spasmodicism. Surprising, then, that they should turn in an earthy, more accessible and downright beautiful album as their follow-up. Then again, it is a completely logical progression, but in reverse, sort of. On Avatar their astonishing new album, Comets display development in every direction: as musicians, as songwriters, as arrangers and as singers (?!), without sacrificing one ounce of the intensity that is expected from our heroes. As on Blue Cathedral, the diversity of the material is staggering. Avatar veers from swinging, bluesy explorations to piano-laced, progressive power balladry, to pure tribalism, evoking everyone from the Allmans, to Quicksilver, to Procol Harum, to some insane Fela/Sun Ra/Crazy Horse hybrid, yet remains wholly Comets on Fire. Though they play cleaner and clearer, their firepower is evident and<br /> abundant. They have shifted gears and opened themselves up completely. You should do the same. <br /> <br /> THE DEAD C-Vain, Erudite And Stupid: Selected Works 1987-2005 CD (Ba Da Bing-$9.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24069">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24069</a><br /> There’s no “correct” way to respond to The Dead C’s music. With a catalogue that oscillates between subverting traditional song structures and stomping out and obliterating the very notion, New Zealand’s Michael Morley, Bruce Russell and Robbie Yeats have continually made the most crushing, expansive and intelligent rock noise ever to be heard. The number of their peers who are also fans -- Yo La Tengo, Sonic Youth, Comets On Fire, Black Dice -- shows the league in which they play.<br /> The Dead C have been creating the greatest of squalls for twenty years now, and to mark the anniversary, Ba Da Bing is proud to present this double CD retrospective, with tracks hand-picked by the band members themselves, collecting old and new faves and out-of-print rarities. All this at a price so nice, you’d think you were picking up a ten-song Supertramp greatest hits package.<br /> This release serves long-time fans and the curious alike, as chances are few people have heard everything on these discs. The band chose critical highlights as well as material they felt deserved wider exposure. While classics like “Constellation,” “Power,” and “Bitcher” are present, so are obscurities like “Mighty” from their Forced Exposure 7-inch, “All Channels Open” from the limited, double-disc DC record and “3 Years” from the Xpressway Pile-Up compilation. The real thrill is listening to the band’s development over time, from the deconstructed skeletal rock of their early output to the eventual, cosmic marriage of reason and squalor that is as crushing as it is indescribable. There’s no “correct” way to respond to The Dead C’s music. With a catalogue that oscillates between subverting traditional song structures and stomping out and obliterating the very notion, New Zealand’s Michael Morley, Bruce Russell and Robbie Yeats have continually made the most crushing, expans<br /> ive and intelligent rock noise ever to be heard. The number of their peers who are also fans -- Yo La Tengo, Sonic Youth, Comets On Fire, Black Dice -- shows the league in which they play.<br /> The Dead C have been creating the greatest of squalls for twenty years now, and to mark the anniversary, Ba Da Bing is proud to present this double CD retrospective, with tracks hand-picked by the band members themselves, collecting old and new faves and out-of-print rarities. All this at a price so nice, you’d think you were picking up a ten-song Supertramp greatest hits package.<br /> This release serves long-time fans and the curious alike, as chances are few people have heard everything on these discs. The band chose critical highlights as well as material they felt deserved wider exposure. While classics like “Constellation,” “Power,” and “Bitcher” are present, so are obscurities like “Mighty” from their Forced Exposure 7-inch, “All Channels Open” from the limited, double-disc DC record and “3 Years” from the Xpressway Pile-Up compilation. The real thrill is listening to the band’s development over time, from the deconstructed skeletal rock of their early output to the eventual, cosmic marriage of reason and squalor that is as crushing as it is indescribable. <br /> <br /> ECHO IS YOUR LOVE-Humansize CD (Stickfigure-$13.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24070">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24070</a><br /> After eight years, three albums and several tours around Europe, Finland's Echo Is Your Love are back with their finest album. Humansize is a tight and unique mix of no-wave guitar madness, dreamy indiepop melodies, hardcore aggression and danceable post-punk rhythms. Haunting female vocals, sometimes angry, sometimes heavenly, wash over shards of guitar noise and shuddering drums, like if the girls from the B-52s were invited to sing with the one band that wants to save the world with its noise.<br /> <br /> ROBIN GUTHRIE-Everlasting CDEP (Darla-$7.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24040">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24040</a><br /> A companion piece to Robin's Continental CD. A four new, lush tracks from THE COCTEAU TWINS producer/guitarist. “Coming only moments after Guthrie’s second full length solo album, Everlasting is a simply lovely four track EP of totally exclusive material brand new to this release. The ex-Cocteau Twin has managed across these four tracks to accomplish something he’s been hinting at for quite some time now : to write perfect ‘dream pop’. ‘Bordertown’ which opens the EP reflects this perfectly, with a shimmering post-Cocteaus pop lilt that is simply impossible to resist, and shortly after we’re treated to ‘A Sigh Across the Ocean’ which wouldn’t sound out of place on the heartstopping ‘Victorialand’ album. Ending on the glacial beauty of ‘Everlasting’, this EP is evidence not only of Guthrie’s unsurpassable talents, but also of his waves of influence across the music scene – first with shoegazer music and then with the post shoegazers such as Ulrich Schnauss and Manual. Guthrie’<br /> s work sounds more contemporary than ever thanks to these revivalists, and hopefully they will help introduce him to a fresh audience. Highly recommended.” --Boomkat Track list 1. Bordertown, 2. A Sigh Across the Ocean, 3. Fountain, 4. Everlasting.<br /> <br /> HOTELS-Thank You For Choosing... CD (Pralaya-$9.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24048">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24048</a><br /> No pussyfooting. No buildup without delivery. No chin stroking or watch glancing because Hotels is not your friend’s band. Hotels makes hook heavy Sci-fi film soundtrack synth rock that goes for the jugular, both sonically and melodically. Picture the bastard children of DEVO and Joy Division, pushed down the street in a stroller by Claude Debussy, tucked in at night by Cocteau Twins, read bedtime stories by Kraftwerk, and baby-sat by your sister’s cooler older friends Stereolab and The Pixies, while they tore out the blood and guts of old synths in the garage. The result is the most relentlessly paced, hauntingly melodic, damn catchy pop music you’ve never heard, each song an end credit for the weary traveller or the romantic dancer; a tune you can listen to just before you die.<br /> <br /> LARVAE-Dead Weight CD (Ad Noiseam-$14.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24045">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24045</a><br /> With their second album, Larvae strip their music out of the genres they had been associated with, and focus on a sincere reflection on their musical roots, their position as a band, and their place in the musical landscape. Integrating guitars on most tracks and vocals (by Jessica Bailiff, Shadowhuntaz, Hope For Agoldensummer and Scalper), Larvae give here birth to a very soulful and wonderfully produced album which can not be overlooked, a work of great substance and talent. "Dead Weight" is an album Larvae can be very proud of, and one which will leave its mark.<br /> <br /> THE LEGENDS-Public Radio 2xCD (Recordhead-$12.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24071">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24071</a><br /> In 2003 and 2004 The Legends received recognition around the world with their debut release Up Against The Legends. Public Radio is bound to generate worldwide hype all over again. Echoing the sounds of '80s indie-pop and upbeat Motown productions, Public Radio has a familiar feel yet sounds futuristic at the same time. The band mixes influences like New Order, Felt, The Feelies and The Cure with their own pop aesthetics to create something utterly wonderful and new.<br /> Up until now, The Legends masqueraded as a nine-piece pop orchestra. That was the official story, anyway. The truth is that both Up Against The Legends and Public Radio were recorded, written, played and produced by arranger, studio wizard and one-man band Johann Angergard (Acid House Kings / Club 8), who explains, “When I start recording an album I have a very clear idea of what I want to do, and by doing everything myself the album comes out exactly the way I want it to. Involving other people might only blur the vision.”<br /> Recordhead has packaged this North American version of Public Radio with a bonus disc featuring eight remixes and B-sides, many exclusive to this release. <br /> <br /> THE LEGENDS-Lucky Star CD (Labrador-$8.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24041">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24041</a><br /> The most eclectic single from The Legends so far. They’ve borrowed bits from every corner of the musical history and turned it into a 2 minute pop smash. Contains two non album tracks; a splendid remix by Jimahl and the almost Sarah nostalgic, jangly pop gem "This heart's not made of stone". Just back from their successful US tour with Acid House Kings, The Legends are right now putting the finishing touch to their 3rd album ”Facts and figures”. It will come as no surprise to fans that they’ve, once again, changed musical direction. So, what will it sound like? ”Lucky star” might give you some ideas. It’s playful, poppy, dancey and totally brilliant! Download MP3 at www.labrador.se A selection of musical influences in chronological order (1983 and on) The Exploited, Depeche Mode, Fad Gadget, Fancy, Pet Shop Boys, The Cure, Lloyd Cole,The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Smiths, Go-Betweens, Television Personalities, Felt, McCarthy, Field Mice, Orchids, My Bloody Valentine, Shop Assi<br /> stants, Would be goods, The King of Luxemburg, Spacemen 3, Shoestrings, Softies, Halo Benders, Sukpatch, Kahimi Karie, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Denim, Astrud Gilberto, Brigitte Bardot, Leonard Cohen, Stina Nordenstam, Avalanches, Bonnie ’Prince’ Billy, Múm, Comet Gain, Kraftwerk, The Russian Futurists, Hot Chip, DAF.<br /> <br /> THE LESSER BIRDS OF PARADISE-Space Between CD (Contraphonic-$12.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24060">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24060</a><br /> Since 1998, The Lesser Birds of Paradise have evolved from charming folk-pop to a more ambitious, textured craft. Over the last few years, their sound has been refined to its most organic elements, and their appeal has developed beyond the Chicago indie rock scene. Space Between, the trio’s third album, is their strongest and most focused work yet.<br /> The Lesser Birds’ subtle experiments and arrangements, which acted as flourishes on previous releases, developed into integral muscle on the mesmeric Space Between.With emphasis on every detail, Space Between opens up secret passageways of sound in which melodies aren’t so much played as naturally grown; where single notes, pump organs, xylophones, muted drums, and echoing voices layer in a warm, seductive embrace. Coupled with tapestries of American Gothic narratives, sly humor, animal characters, and Robert Creeley-cum- Charles Olson poetics, The Lesser Birds of Paradise have created a record of lasting impression and importance, and emerge as one of the more original bands today. <br /> <br /> MONOCLE-Lounge Act CDEP (Pralaya-$4.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24047">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24047</a><br /> Monocle fuses droning, hypnotic sounds, catchy melodies and subtle shifts in harmony with thoughtful composition. Lounge Act, Monocle's debut EP, showcases the songwriting and arranging talents of Rich Bennett. Influenced by a jazz education and the experience of years of playing with the avant-rock group FRIENDLY BEARS, Bennett drops his guitar for a synthesizer and a new pop sound.<br /> <br /> MY CAT IS AN ALIEN / CHRISTRINA CARTER / ANDREW MACGREGOR-From The Earth To The Spheres Vol. 4 CD (Very Friendly-$14.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24072">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24072</a><br /> Space brothers MAURIZIO and ROBERTO OPALIO split the fifth release of their ongoing series with CHRISTINA CARTER (CHARALAMBIDES, SCORCES), whose "We Know When We Are Thinking About Each Other" is a previously unreleased duet with ANDREW MACGREGOR (GOWN, AMARILLO STARS), recorded in Canada late in 2004. The side-long track meanders through very low-key guitar clang with meowing vocals drifting alongside. MCIAA's "The Circle of Life & Death" delivers more of the slippery dream-caught drones studded with coughed-up noise-tumors that have made the Italian brothers more desirable than vodka gelato.<br /> <br /> VINCENT OLIVER-s/t 3" CD (Loaf-$12.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24074">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24074</a><br /> VINCENT OLIVER is a name you can hear a lot `round the Loaf offices. The label thinks he is just a terrific bloke. Oliver seems to have it all, a talented visual artist and a highly accomplished self taught musician who has kindly offered his debut release (check out Vincent's remix of Nathan Fake's remix 12”). A lovely mix of beautifully orchestrated folktronica. Pressed on 3-inch CDs packaged on 12-inch card sleeves with artwork by IVAN ZOURAVLIOV (UNCLE VANNA). Hand-numbered edition of 400.<br /> <br /> PATIENCE PLEASE-Parallel Plots CDEP (Jigsaw-$6.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24038">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24038</a><br /> Patience Please are a pop band from Seattle, Washington. They are highly influenced by -- or wish they could sound like -- Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Superchunk, the Magnetic Fields, and the Weakerthans. Recorded during National Panda Month, the "Parallel Plots" EP, was guided by the immeasurable producing talents of Jackson Long (Racetrack) and realized at Hear Me Shimmer in Bellingham.<br /> <br /> PRINTED CIRCUIT-The Sound Of The Wonderful Technique CD (Catmobile-$14.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24042">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24042</a><br /> Enhanced CD. Claire a.k.a. Printed Circuit returns with her second album, after taking time off for a slew of live shows - including a world tour. Her colourful take on electro-pop has developed even further into pure pop, with lead track 'Movements' set to hit indie and electro clubs in the UK and overseas. CD includes full length 80s-esque video for 'Movements'.<br /> <br /> THE STEVENSON RANCH DAVIDIANS-Psalms, Hymns & Spiritual Songs CD ($12.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24065">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24065</a><br /> The Stevenson Ranch Davidians are a band from Los Angeles, and are inspired by, amongst other things, Psychedelia, Shoegaze, Manchester, Spacerock, The Beat Generation, Greenwich Village, The British Invasion, Los Angeles in the mid to late 60's, etc... As one Myspacer succinctly put it, the band owes "as much to Love as to the SP* bands (vintage Spacemen 3, Spectrum, Spiritualized)..."<br /> “The Stevenson Ranch Davidians is a trip to outer space with stops at the moon and the afterlife. Songs lackadaisically swirl about and envelope your stereo as they lift you skywards into the heavens.” --Paul Zimmerman, First Coast News<br /> “This record is absolutely stunning, The Stevenson Ranch Davidians make beautiful laid back trippy indie rock. They’re from Los Angeles but have a very English sound that is instantly likeable. This band could very easily come out of Manchester which they actually list as one of their influences, at the same time they have a very distinctive sound that is their own.” --Dr. Nick, Britian’s Music Press<br /> <br /> THANKSGIVING-Bitches Is Lord CD (Marriage-$13.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24061">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24061</a><br /> Thanksgiving’s eleventh release, Bitches Is Lord is a revelation of the highest order as Adrian Orange sets out to capture the energy, presence, and full-bodied force of a Thanksgiving live performance. Features more of the meaningful songs that Orange does so well, but this time around things just sound fierce. Hints of Johnny Cash and Crazy Horse-era Neil Young are touchstones. Minimal dirges and cloaked political blues butt up against triumphantly colorful anthems. Bitches Is Lord lyrically drafts propositions for a new era of humanity while exploring the painful beauty of what it is to be human.This is, notably, the first Thanksgiving album completely performed, recorded, mixed, and produced by Adrian Orange himself. Drums smack with raw intensity, and guitars curl and bounce around Orange’s deep, older-than-his-age voice, sounding out cries, laments, and triumphs unto the dawn of this troubled world.<br /> <br /> TRIOSK-Headlight Serenade CD (Leaf-$13.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24073">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24073</a><br /> This apparently harmless phrase masking something altogether darker could also describe Australian trio Triosk's second full-length release The Headlight Serenade. The album's crystal clarity sounds like it's floating on air and yet there's a looming undertow that threatens to pull you under if you let it.<br /> This balance of light and dark is the key to The Headlight Serenade's heady attractions. The title was inspired by the transitory play of headlights as they pass across objects in the night, creating moments frozen in time. Each piece on the album also captures a glimpse of a particular moment, memory or feeling, be it a past-life romance or the sensation of lying in a boat, looking at the stars.<br /> On Triosk's first release, 2004's Moment Returns, the band improvised over pre-recorded loops. On The Headlight Serenade they take the concept a step further, often basing pieces on recordings of their own improvised performances. They morph musical forms usually associated with jazz and present them in entirely new ways.<br /> "We spent a lot longer in the studio for The Headlight Serenade," explains drummer Laurence Pike, "And certainly our intent was to enhance the recorded sound of the band and explore other ways for electronics to be a part of the music, rather than just static layers."<br /> Triosk's inventiveness and enthusiasm for rethinking musical boundaries make The Headlight Serenade a striking, living work. Rarely is such cerebral music so engaging. <br /> <br /> <br /> <B> LP/12"/10" RECORDS </B><br /> <br /> BIRCHVILLE CAT MOTEL-Cranes Are Sleeping LP (Ecstatic Peace-$15.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24050">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24050</a><br /> BCM is one dude from New Zealand Campbell Kneale who's married, teaches school and makes incredible sonorific noise scape records on his own Celebrate Psi Phenomenon label , has been since well into the 90s. Beautiful droning pyche-wind free swoop.<br /> <br /> BLACK DICE-Manoman 12" (DFA-$9.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24075">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24075</a><br /> The latest release from New York avant-garde leaders Black Dice features three brand new tracks that further refine the industrial, beat-driven direction of their last album, Broken Ear. Coinciding with the release of this 12-inch single (which includes a full-color poster designed by Bjorn Copeland), Black Dice team up with longtime friend and photographer Jason Frank Rothenberg on a collection of found images, photographs, and collages. Entitled Gore, this flexi-bound, full-color book (sold separately) documents both the making of the aforementioned album and the cut-and-paste, psychedelic aesthetic that has influenced a whole new generation of artists and musicians.<br /> <br /> CHRIS BROWN-Branches LP (Ecstatic Peace-$13.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24049">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24049</a><br /> Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Chris Brown (1953) combines ancient instruments and modern electronics in his compositions. A pianist educated at the western classical music, and a student of Gordon Mumma and David Rosenboom, he performs pieces which mix home-made electronic instruments and ethnic (Indonesian, Indian, African, Cuban) instruments, and employs the kind of improvisation typical of free-jazz. Brown was a member of Room (with percussionist William Winant, saxophonist Larry Ochs, electronic sound sculptor Scott Gresham-Lancaster), that released Room (Sound Aspects, 1989) and Hall of Mirrors (Music and Arts, 1992), and of the Glenn Spearman Double Trio, that released Mystery Project (Black Saint, 1993), Smokehouse (Black Saint, 1994) and Blues for Falasha (Tzadik, 1999) Branches (2002) contains two pieces for live electroacoustic instruments and improvisors: Branches (2001) for piano, percussion, DJ and computer generated grooves ; and Alternating Currents (198<br /> 3), a triple concerto for home-made electronic percussion instruments, trombone and percussion.<br /> <br /> THE COACHMEN-10 Compositions: New Frontiers In Free Rock LP (Ecstatic Peace-$15.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24055">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24055</a><br /> "Guitarist JD King, the sole remaining original member of the Coachmen (1978-80), is joined by Valerie Boyd (Farfisa organ), Dave Wain (bass guitar) and Simon Quick (drums) for a deft and transcendental blending of Cageian principles, free jazz and psychedelia. it's music that's truly liberating, a sunny avenue of escape from the muck and mire of the illness commonly referred to as 'the music industry'. The LP comes wrapped in neo-Japanese sleeves w/a book of poetry by the beat/avant legend Arthur Childs."<br /> <br /> DARA-s/t LP (Ecstatic Peace-$13.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24053">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24053</a><br /> Detroit/NYC guitarist, singer, songwriter, photographer, filmmaker, artist Dara was a member of His Name Is Alive for a few years. She was part of upstate NY based multi media 'performance art' group Brown Cuts Neighbors doing films, playing drums, guitar, bass, vocals, keyboards, and guerilla street performance. She collaborated through the mail with Warren Defever on a project called Nu Grape. They have a CD available though Time Stereo. She had a group with Ron Asheton called Creature79. She worked w/ artist Steve Cerio on a project called Lettuce Little featuring members of the Residents. She now performs with husband Nick in a duo they call Laudanum. Her influences/interests range from Japanese 'noise' bands/performers such as Masonna and Melt Bananna, jazz of Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Coltrane. The Stooges, Neil Young, 80's hardcore bands, New wave, Harry Partch, artwork of Jackson Pollack. Hammer horror flicks. Film Noir. Spooky stuff. William Blake, William <br /> S Burroughs, Bukowski, Nietzche, Kathy Acker, Nick Cave, Lydia Lunch, Slayer. The Ecstatic Peace record: All of it is Dara playing vintage Farfisa keyboards, Casio keyboards, guitar, radio. Recorded in Dara's kitchen in 1997 on 4 trk. All artwork/photography by Dara. Album was heavily influenced by love of 80's synth pop and heartbreak. Like OMD, Depeche Mode and John Hughes films which she loved as an 80's teenager.<br /> <br /> THE FINCHES-Six Songs +1 LP (Dulc-i-tone / Ulrike - $13.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24076">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24076</a><br /> Now on vinyl, with a bonus track not on CD!! San Francisco Bay Area acoustic duo THE FINCHES (CAROLYN PENNYPACKER RIGGS and AARON MORGAN) have been wowing local audiences with their endearing songs of fantasy architecture, filial love, and travel anxiety. Six Songs will disarm even the toughest of souls, as Pennypacker effortlessly charms any crowd within miles of her deceptively coy approach to musical storytelling. Unabashedly influenced by Leonard Cohen and Francois Hardy (“The House with Two Front Doors” borrows a melody from Hardy’s “La Maison Où J'ai Grandi”), the band brilliantly tread that fine line between pop and folk. On this their first release, Pennypacker already threatens to join that rare club of songwriters, from Vashti Bunyan to Tracy Thorn (Marine Girls) to Mirah, who manage to stay both sweet and poetically mature, warmly innocent but never crossing the line into sugary tweeness.<br /> <br /> Plus these titles, as described above, or on our website on CD (now in on vinyl for the first time!):<br /> <br /> ARAB ON RADAR-Soak The Saddle LP (Skin Graft-$13.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24058">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24058</a><br /> COMETS ON FIRE-Avatar CD (Sub Pop-$12.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24078">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24078</a><br /> LARVAE-Dead Weight 2xLP (Ad Noiseam-$18.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24046">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24046</a><br /> PATIENCE PLEASE-Parallel Plots 12" (Jigsaw-$9.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24039">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24039</a><br /> <br /> <br /> <B> 7" RECORDS </B><br /> <br /> YOSHIMI-Speaker / Tuna Power 7" (Ecstatic Peace-$4.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24056">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24056</a><br /> Yoshimi, as you should know, is the drummer/trumpet player supreme of Japan's most amazing outfits, the Boredoms and UFO Or Die. Yoshimi plays guitar, drums, trumpet and sings like she invented the goddamn planet. She also drew the full color sleeve. Kim Gordon and Julie Cafritz appear as guests.<br /> <br /> YOSHIMI-Two 7" (Ecstatic Peace-$4.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24057">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24057</a><br /> 2nd solo single by this immortal improvising angel. Two sides, no song titles, and an amazing one-person sound spectacle of vocals, trumpet, percussion, detuned stringed instrument, etc.<br /> <br /> <br /> <B> MISCELLANEOUS </B><br /> <br /> APPLE ORCHARD-Last Wednesday CASS (Popgun-$1.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24082">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24082</a><br /> these suave sounds will make you think of gentle warm breezes and perfect weekends. ryan and dale bring us six wonderful tracks of pacific rim pop! <br /> <br /> CASINO ASHTRAYS-Long After The Commercials Have Ended CASS (Popgun-$1.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24085">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24085</a><br /> a bit of spring cleaning at Popgun HQ yields this three-song collection. it features a couple of unreleased songs, including an upbeat cover of a cat’s miaow song. one part bossa nova, one part wistful pop, it’s a little bit of everything you’ve come to expect from casino ashtrays!<br /> <br /> THE LIL' KICKERS-A Little Teaser CASS (Popgun-$1.50)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24080">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24080</a><br /> rachel sings and picks her way through a couple of old-timey tunes while raoul embellishes with a few trumpet licks. a little bit country, a little bit bluesy, a little bit jazzy, but a whole lotta loveable.<br /> <br /> PAINT YOUR WAGON RED-An Afternoon With Your Libraness CASS (Popgun-$1.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24081">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24081</a><br /> a long-distance collaboration between canadian teresa and californian raoul. seven lovelorn tunes including beat happening and rose melberg covers! <br /> <br /> TEST PILOT-From Fall To Fall CASS (Popgun-$1.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24089">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24089</a><br /> raoul and an acoustic guitar punch out seven songs about love, death, eternal youth, and covers the velvet underground and tina turner to boot! <br /> <br /> THE THRIFT SHOP-Nothing Says LOVE Like Karaoke CASS (Popgun-$1.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24088">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24088</a><br /> neal (the skywriters/the snow fairies) sings three heartfelt songs about love then has the audacity to record them on a broken karaoke machine. get some lo-fi love right here...<br /> <br /> WINNEBAGO-Brass Knuckle Beach! CASS (Popgun-$1.50)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24086">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24086</a><br /> three of the more punkier songs culled from the cuz we're winnebago cassette originally released on the ((tape-tape)) label. totally bratty and totally fun to shout along too. uh huh!<br /> <br /> WINNEBAGO-Girl On Girl CASS (Popgun-$1.50)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24087">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24087</a><br /> two songs - one, a rambunctious rendition of the tom petty classic, “american girl”, and the other, an original song called “scope girl” which has a little bit to do with tom petty. more shambling, irreverent fun from Shannon and Raoul!<br /> <br /> VARIOUS ARTISTS-It's A Yoko Ono House Party! CASS (Popgun-$1.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24079">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24079</a><br /> a compilation of six instrumentals that have nothing to do with yoko ono at all. or maybe this is an imaginary soundtrack to an imaginary art exhibit featuring her artwork? this comp features tunes from my music atlas, imitation game, the love letter band, the escargo-go’s, winnebago, and cat and dog dialogue.<br /> <br /> VARIOUS ARTISTS-Zip-Locked + Loaded Vol. 4 CASS (Popgun-$1.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24083">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24083</a><br /> six more tunes in the ever growing comp series, featuring the camera casanovas, automat, kim++, the fresas, craig + teresa, and the diskettes.<br /> <br /> VARIOUS ARTISTS-Zip-Locked + Loaded Vol. 5 CASS (Popgun-$1.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24084">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=24084</a><br /> the fifth installment in the acclaimed comp series featuring this american wilderness, photobooth, me low, the easy outs, andrew spitser, and sugar cookie. spice up your next mixtape with these wonderful songs!<br /> <br /> <br /> <B> RESTOCKS </B> <br /> <br /> RADIO DEPT-Pet Grief CD<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=22930">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=22930</a><br /> SOUNDPOOL-On High CD<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23890">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23890</a><br /> <br /> Plus lots more restocks on the website! 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Check out all the latest arrivals from the past 14 days here:<br /> <a href="http://www.tonevendor.com/catalog/justin">http://www.tonevendor.com/catalog/justin</a><br /> <br /> *-*-* NEW OR NEW-TO-US ADDITIONS TO OUR DATABASE *-*-*<br /> <br /> <B> TONEVENDOR EXCLUSIVES AND/OR RECOMMENDED TITLES! </B><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <B> COMPACT DISCS </B> <br /> <br /> ANOICE-Remmings CD (Important-$12.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23403">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23403</a><br /> Let's get this straight immediately. Anoice is not another instumental group with strong rock tendencies and an armchair association with classical music. Unlike numerous contemporaries which they will undoubtedly be compared to, their goal is not to follow the trends and make the soft/loud/soft/loud juxtapositions in every song, but to carefully craft each song with a strong attention to melody, solid accompaniment, and courteous counterpoint. One of the remarkable qualities of Anoice is that they truly work as a group, with members who aren't afraid to remain quiet while others play. Through meticulous composition Anoice has achieved an unrivaled quality. While the band isn't intentionally attempting to be cinematic, the recordings achieve something breathtaking and emotive: imagine the Rachel's scoring a film by Ang Lee. Anoice's music is anthemic and rich while being introspective and personal. Each track is preceeded by brief and dense ambient tracks to clense the audio<br /> palate much like ginger in your sushi boat. Anoice are a six-piece group based in Tokyo. The band was formed in January, 2004 by members Ricco (guitar/keyboards) and Taku (guitars and mandolin), who were soon joined by Yuki (piano), Utaka (viola), Matsu (bass), and Yossy (drums).While each member cites different musical influences, it's fairly evenly split between rock (think My Bloody Valentine meets King Crimson), classical and modern composers (Perhaps Debussy and Shostakovitch writing together after drinking heavily from Phillip Glass), jazz and electronic ( Autechre meets Mum maybe?). Combining all of these influences with their obvious Japanese heritage Anoice has created an album with an emotional arc, climaxing magnificently as it ends and leaves the listener determined to press play once again. Pronounced "a noyce," the name comes from the Celtic word for "now" (Anois). Remmings is their debut release and contains four named songs and five unnamed songs. Cover art by Non Format. Mastering by Jeff Lipton (Flaming Lips, Magnetic Fields) "Anoice have produced something entirely different and original, a mature record of great beauty and attention to detail that rises above any clichés and should by all accounts establish them as one of the leading artists today." Rock-A-Rolla (UK) “Even when all of them are going at it hammer and tongs they act more like an orchestra with each player adding their own element to the melody. Anoice hit all the blissful and joyous emotions and only rarely dip into melancholy like most bands of the same ilk. “ Brainwashed “The bass isn’t afraid to groove, the drums do ‘Bolero’ behind the cascades of passionate viola and hammered piano. Anoice, in fact, are as adept at approaching the rock/classical thing from the rock end as the classical end, which gives them more than one string to their bow and potentially makes for some celestial live performances. If track 6 doesn’t astound you, you are a glacier. There’s a ready-made market for evocative, anthemic, cinematic stuff like this, of course, be it on the bill of All Tomorrow’s Parties or sound tracking some intense French film noir, with Emanuelle Beart running down the steps of la Basilique du Sacre Coeur in torrential rain. Anoice have that something special that could elevate them even beyond that. This is not a group, as such. These people are modern composers. “ Glen Johnson - Piano Magic<br /> <br /> CAMERA OBSCURA-Let's Get Out Of This Country CD (Merge-$13.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23399">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23399</a><br /> Finally, the full-length follow up to 2004's wildly successful Underacheivers Please Try Harder is here. Quite upbeat and optimistic with a very Phil Spector influenced sound. No doubt, this band will continue to please their older fans while grabbing the attention of new ones. The LP of this comes with an MP3 download coupon for the ipod'ers. <br /> <br /> TOM CARTER-Glyph CD (Digitalis-$10.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23374">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23374</a><br /> "Since the early '90s, Tom Carter has played as one-half of the essential Charalambides. During that time, Carter also released a handful of solo albums on his own Wholly Other imprint as well as a recent reissue on the seminal Kranky Records. Glyph was originally issued as a limited-edition CD-R on the aforementioned Wholly Other. It is long-since out-of-print. This reissue of these remastered tracks breathes new life into the pieces. What is most striking is the warmth that pervades this entire album. With one piece for steel string acoustic guitar, another for lap steel, and the final (and shortest) on nylon string acoustic, there is diversity amongst the cogent thread that holds it all together. Carter's improvisations speak volumes without saying a word, and Glyph is one of his finest achievements to date. It is an ode to the last year of his life in Austin, Texas and all that it contained."<br /> <br /> KETTEL-My Dogan CD (Sending Orbs-$14.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23401">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23401</a><br /> Reading back various reviews of Kettel releases like ‘Cenny Crush’ (dub, 2003), ‘Volleyed Iron’ (U-cover, 2004), ‘Cuddle and then leave EP’ (dub, 2004) and ‘Through Friendly Waters’ (Sending Orbs, 2005), one thing attracted our attention: every release is called Reimer’s finest, best or most impressing release to date. A remix job for Depeche Mode is one of his latest highlights and can be seen as a confirmation of his talent. Starting in 2001 with the album ‘Dreim’ on Kracfive and singles on Planet Mu and Neo Ouija, Reimer Eising now brings his sixth and latest album. ‘My Dogan’ finds Reimer piercing – and here we go again – his most beautiful album to date. He continues the musical journey he once started, resulting in a climax. We consider Kettel as one of the most creative and musical artists of today’s electronic music scene. My Dogan combines two of Reimer’s trademarks: his melodic and playful style of music known from the ‘Through Friendly Waters’ and the ‘Cuddle and t<br /> hen leave’ releases and the moody and warm ambient style from the ‘Volleyed Iron’ album. On My Dogan, tracks like ‘Mauerbrecher’, ‘Follow me!’ and ‘Afwezig’ have already proven their effect on the dance floor during live performances in the past months. Wonderful, yet treacherous detuned 303 melodies are mixed with sharp beats and beautiful chord progressions. Whereas, tracks like ‘Halt him’, ‘Choo Choo Charlie’ and ‘He’s his own man’ are compelling, heart warming and supported by samples from Reimer’s cats, surrounding and favourite TV series. The other tracks are in between these two styles. The beautiful artwork is supplied by the Finnish FTHR. The 18 (!) tracks listed on the back of the jewel case sum up to a length of over 70 minutes. …an instant ‘classic’!<br /> <br /> MIMI SECUE-Forst CD (Karate Joe-$16.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23380">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23380</a><br /> "Forst is the companion piece to Naila which was the most recent album from blissful Austrians Mimi Secue. Written at the same time, both albums were envisaged as a set, a double pack if you will yet both have a very different sentiment. Forst showcases the slow, sentimental side of the band, and it absolutely excels on every level. With slowcore ballads to rival the masters of the genre Low, and gorgeous shoegazing soundscapes punctuated with tearful shimmering vocals that would make Slowdive shudder, they have come up with a something truly masterful. Also similar in structure to the recent album from Hälma, there seems to be something of a rebirth for slowcore indie in central Europe, but this is no negative thing -- these bands are doing it just right. From the orchestral cinematic opener 'Bekaen' to the gorgeous closing ballad 'Forst' each track is a pleasure to behold. This album comes as a huge recommendation and is an essential part of the Karate Joe catalogue. If yo<br /> u have any interest in any of the bands mentioned, or in good old fashioned heartfelt guitar ballads, check this now and you won't be disappointed."<br /> <br /> MV/EE WITH THE BUMMER ROAD-Mother of Thousands 2xCD (Time-Lag-$20.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23390">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23390</a><br /> Double CD digital version with the same tracks/sequence as the 2LP. Miniature LP style heavy gatefold covers just like the vinyl version, plus a nice insert, and woven Japanese inner sleeves. First edition of 1000 copies. "After piles of privately released CD-Rs & long gone vinyl only releases, here's the MV/EE album for the masses, who are no doubt quivering for it... don't be fooled though, this is neither the medicine show zone of recent years, nor a mere echo of the tower recordings flame, but a new beast stirring awake in the beaming sun of now. Aided by the Bummer Road and the omni present Erika Elder, MV has here pushed his cosmic sounds beyond the apex of high. No doubt there's plenty of lifted rural raga vibrations, and big woozy doses of haunted folk-blues as well, but the mix of flat-out killer 'songs' and extended electric psych-outs is something of a revelation. 'Beautiful Mountain' & 'Sunshine Girl' are tantalizingly close to being something like modern undergro<br /> und hits, while the side-long album closer 'Death Don't Have To Mercy' is an epic head-spinning trip loaded with moments of fragile piano lull, layers of serpentine acid guitars, and all-around smoky late-night jam vibes... features Matt Valentine & Erika Elder with Mo' Jiggs, Sparrow Wildchild, Nemo Bidstrup, Tim Barns & Samara Lubelski adding harmonica, percussion, flute, electric guitar, tambura, violin, ukelin, and more to the usual assortment of mystic strings..."<br /> <br /> ZEENA PARKINS-Necklace CD (Tzadik-$15.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23392">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23392</a><br /> "A remarkable new CD of compositions from one of the world's most radical harpists, who has worked with Björk, Fred Frith, John Zorn, Bang on a Can and many many others. Including two dynamic new string quartets, a piece for sixteen feet and cello and a brilliant composition for harp solo, this is one of Zeena's most important and ambitious releases."<br /> <br /> PORTASTATIC-Who Loves The Sun Original Film Score CD (Merge-$12.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23398">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23398</a><br /> Mac McCaughan continues to explore the subtle yet complicated art of film scoring. His first film effort under the moniker of Portastatic was also a collaboration with film maker Matt Bissonnette (2001's Looking For Leonard soundtrack). Who Loves The Sun is slated for a fall theatrical release and promises to be an intriguing film about love, sex, and relationships. <br /> <br /> THE ROBOT ATE ME-Good World CD (5RC-$13.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23395">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23395</a><br /> The fourth album from RYLAND BOUCHARD under his THE ROBOT ATE ME banner. An imaginative album featuring simple, delicate arrangements, harmonized falsetto vocals, floating clarinet lines, minimal percussion and an occasional synth. Challenging, surreal, and vibrant.<br /> <br /> ROOMMATE-Songs The Animals Taught Us CD (Plug Research-$13.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23381">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23381</a><br /> "Songs the Animals Taught Us is an album populated with a vast array of characters, most of them archetypes of our Bush-era landscape: young, idealistic lovers who aren't afraid to die; war profiteers; middle-class workers fretting about the economy; upper-class society 'status hounds.' Few artists have been willing to shine a light so candidly on modern America, but Kent Lambert (from Chicago, IL), doing business as Roommate, does so with aplomb. Following in the lyrical footsteps of David Byrne, Roommate trains a quirky eye on life's minutia, using the mundane to explore larger issues, from war and the economy to social status and young love. Roommate's production draws on an eclectic array of influences, both past and present: The skewed pop of Xiu Xiu and Jens Lekman, the down-home instrumentation of Neil Young and The Band, the electronic flourishes of Broadcast and M83, the ethereal beauty of My Bloody Valentine and Cocteau Twins -- all are adopted by Roommate and refr<br /> acted through his own distinctive lens."<br /> <br /> SCANNERS-Violence Is Golden CD (Dim Mak-$13.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23397">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23397</a><br /> New imported band on Dim Mak, Scanners are a 2 girl, 2 boy piece from the UK. The singer sounds a bit like a young PJ Harvey, and their overall style is on par with other Dim Mak discoveries like Bloc Party and The Kills. This band will be touring globally throughout the year and certainly has the potential to be one of those "buzz" bands if all goes well.<br /> <br /> SCARLET'S WELL-Black Tulip Wings CD (Siesta-$17.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23402">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23402</a><br /> “A rich, lush and densely layered confection of instantly charming and infectious songs. Become intoxicated.” Drowned In Sound. “Escapist pop music of the highest calibre; a tapestry of delights... " NME Recently tagged by The Independent On Sunday as ‘minor indie royalty’, the enigmatic artiste and accomplished fop-pop pioneer known only as Bid comes full circle with an astounding new Scarlet’s Well album. “Black Tulip Wings” is the fifth SW release, but represents something of a rebirth, if not an outright debut of sorts. It’s the first to be recorded with a full eight-piece London-based live band, drawn from varying younger generations, diverse backgrounds and musical sensibilities. Additionally, it’s the first to feature a substantial songwriting content from others. The result is the most consistent, rounded-out, best-dressed and fully-realised SW album to date; part indie supergroup, part stylish soundtrack to a fantasy world steeped in literary tradition. The first fou<br /> r SW albums were dominated by Bid’s own witty and arcane compositions, but now with “Black Tulip Wings”, there is a more substantial injection of songwriting blood. Of the eleven tracks, five are written or co-written by Martin White (famed for his accordionist appearances on the London comedy & cabaret scene), and one by guitarist Peter Momtchiloff (of the bands Talulah Gosh, Heavenly, The Would-Be-Goods). There’s also lyrics based on poems by Tennyson and Poe, plus an original lyric by writer and self-styled London flaneur, Dickon Edwards (Orlando, Fosca). “Black Tulip Wings” also marks Bid’s first album conceived with a full working band since the final Monochrome Set long-player in 1995. The eight-piece London-based band version of Scarlet’s Well was born when Bid decided to return to the international concert circuit in 2004, and a local group was required to perform the SW back catalogue (with the occasional Monochrome Set classic thrown in). Of the many ingénue female singers featured on past SW albums, live band member Alice Healey is the only constant. Her distinctive and pure tones are now as synonymous with the Scarlet’s Well sound as Bid’s own sly croon. The aforementioned Martin White and Peter Momtchiloff, keyboardist and singer Kate Dornan (Fosca), drummer Jennifer Denitto (Linus), bassist Marcus Miller, and violinist Helena Johannson (The Debutantes) complete the heavily-rehearsed line-up, resulting in a genuinely fresh and dynamic genre-hopping sound: always pulling the songs into dimensions anew, always glittering, always vibrant and colourful, never stale, muso or ‘rockist’. From the brooding, smoky, multi-layered opening track ‘Savage’ to jaunty call-and-response pop songs ‘You Can’t Get The Staff’ and ‘The Stars That Fall On Hairy Tim’, Bid’s songs continue his tradition of vocabulary-enhancing eccentric melodies: how many other albums released this year contain words like ’voudisant’ and ‘glaucous’ in their lyric sheets? Vaudeville Disco might be a way of describing the strange, almost ska-like genre invented by such danceable ditties as ‘Hairy Tim’ and ‘The 364th Quest Of Gerald The Eerie’, while the opium-heavy Maghreb-based title track is a jazzy and winning soft-shoe-shuffle of a tune, complete with what sounds like a drunken badger on broken piano, causing the rest of the band to suddenly stop and glower at him in the instrumental break. Mr Momtchiloff’s ‘My Tender Years’ is a fast-paced indie-folk joy, laden with catchy hooks, references to Picasso, Walter Raleigh and Shakespeare, all sung with a confident swagger by Alice Healey. The contributions by prolific songwriter Martin White, include the Beatles-esque ‘Mermaid’, the Gilbert & Sullivan-like ‘Narcissus In The Maze’ (about a dandy who finds his vanity has a practical use when lost in a huge outdoor maze, despite the hectorings of a scruffy crow urging him to mend his ways), ‘To One In Paradise’, featuring a fragile, dormouse-like lead vocal from Kate Dornan, the out-and-out John Barry-inspired James Bond theme, ‘Salamander’, and on the restful folk closer, ‘Evening Star’ (a prime tune for gargling mouthwash to). The Scarlet's Well songs are so classic-sounding, so infectious, and so unlike everything else around the musical firmament right now. The group remains defiantly anti-fashion and anti-rock, while pro-vocabulary, pro-wit and pro-beauty. As Martin White adds: “Scarlet’s Well is my favourite kind of band: where the dreamy and the romantic and the whimsical can exist side by side without anything ever seeming out of place.” Ethelred The Unseemly. Highgate, Spring 2006.<br /> <br /> THE SERVANTS-Reserved CD (Cherry Red-$13.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23403">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23403</a><br /> The Servants were formed in London in 1985 and were based around the carefully crafted guitar work of David Westlake, Phil King who went onto play with Felt and Biff Bang Pow, was also in the band. Their first two singles, 'She's Always Hiding' and 'The Sun, A Small Star,' both on The Head label, attracted good press interest and both made the independent singles chart. Westlake then went on to a solo deal with Creation Records while The Servants reformed around future Auteurs and Black Box Recorder man, Luke Haines. Also involved in the new line up was Hugh Whitaker who had previously been with the Housemartins. Luke Haines wrote the sleeve notes for this release.<br /> <br /> SILVANIA-Naves Sin Puertos CD (Elefant-$16.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23375">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23375</a><br /> Back in stock!! "Naves Sin Puertos ("Ships With No Harbour") turns out to be their most basic and enthralling yet. Quiet, gliding minimalist noise. More personal than anything they've done so far.Fot the first time since Paisaje III, they use vocals again, this time as sampled loops full of their characteristic wounding lyricism. The rhythms have been softened, slowed down, while over them an ocean of unmatched beauty is woven. Their way, the one which links Brian Eno and Autechre, has consolidated them as one of the most personal and brilliant Spanish electronics acts." Referenced influences include: My Bloody Valentine, A Flock of Seagulls, Dif Juz , Beach Boys, Human League, Left Banke, Durrutti Column, Suicide, etc.<br /> <br /> TV-RESISTORI-Serkut Rakastaa Paremmin CD (Fonal-$17.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23377">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23377</a><br /> "TV-Resistori's debut album came out in 2004. With their childlike melodies and cheezy synthesizer tunes names like Stereolab, Raymond Scott and Mouse On Mars might pop up. If we ever have a hit single it might very well come from TV-Resistori. Yrjö's and Päivi's male/female vocal duets have become more and more the center of the songs. Now with the apt record engineering skills of the drummer Aleksi they have truly found their own sound. They will release their follow up Serkut Rakastaa Paremmin (translates as Cousins Love Better)."<br /> <br /> WHITE BIRCH-Come Up For Air CD (Rune Grammofon-$15.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23385">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23385</a><br /> This is the fourth full-length release from this Norwegian trio led by singer, guitarist and main songwriter Ola Fløttum. Come Up For Air shows a band growing with confidence and maturing as writers since their debut album Self-Portrayal ten years ago. First appearing as angry young men with lo-fi Sonic Youth-like riffing, then exploring industrial prog and more structured songwriting, they found their current sound with their previous record, Star Is Just A Sun (2002). Come Up For Air is once again produced by Helge Sten, the sonic magician of Deathprod and Supersilent fame. This time the songs are more focused, the melodies clearer and the atmosphere brighter. But this is still a highly melancholic set of dreamy rock that some will say has a "Nordic" feel to it, whatever that really means. Others have compared The White Birch to Sigur Rós, Talk Talk and A-Ha without any of those references hitting the spot. We say this is a collection of original and personal songs, some o<br /> f which will grab you straight away, like the captivating "Seer Believer" and "June" (with Susanna Wallumrød from Susanna and the Magical Orchestra guesting on vocals) and others are certain to sneak under your skin after a few more rounds. Originally released in Europe in November 2005 by German label Glitterhouse, this Rune Grammofon CD issue has exclusive artwork by Kim Hiorthøy.<br /> <br /> KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN-Track4 Twowaysuperimposed CD (Room40-$15.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23376">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23376</a><br /> "Over the past few years, Keith Fullerton Whitman has been responsible for producing some of the most engaging electronic music to emerge from the United States. Informed by traditional musique concrete as much as contemporary DSP, his work remains provocative without relying on overt actions or grandiose sonic statements. A bass heavy journey through processed guitar and electronics -- a refined statement of intent from one of the USA's finest. From Keith Whitman: 'Here's a 10:32 piece from 2002, re-worked, turned into a 21:04 piece in late 2005, released in spring of 2006 to correspond with my second Australian tour. Much like 'track3a (2waynice),' (the first piece on the Playthroughs album), this piece is entirely bi-directional, meaning that it plays the same forwards as backwards (just try to get your head around that...) by far the most woofer-rattling piece of music I've ever made.'"<br /> <br /> YELLOW6-The Beautiful Season Has Past 3xCD (Rroopp-$19.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23402">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23402</a><br /> Rightly regarded as one of best artists of his genre, Yellow6 has released a consistently stunning range of material on an array of over 20 international independent labels, including Enraptured Records, Ochre Records, Awkward Silence Recordings, Rocket Racer, and Make Mine Music. In total, since 1998, Yellow6 has released five full-length albums, twelve mini-albums and EPs, eight singles, five live albums, one remix album, and eighteen compilation tracks. ‘The Beautiful Season Has Past’, a compilation of Yellow6’s singles, compilation tracks and unreleased material on RROOPP, brings this extraordinary tally to 50 releases. Of the 40 tracks on ‘The Beautiful Season Has Past’, 10 are previously unreleased, 24 are out of print, deleted or otherwise unavailable, and three more have never before been released on CD. The package includes comprehensive liner notes, carefully detailing each track’s original release along with other salient details. The title makes a grammatical pun <br /> on a French review of the fourth Yellow6 LP, ‘Disappear Here’. The reviewer noted that “la belle saison est derriere”, inferring that he preferred Yellow6’s earlier work; ‘The Beautiful Season Has Past’ suggests that Yellow6’s journey beneath the surface of our lives is still just beginning.<br /> <br /> VARIOUS ARTISTS-Soul Gospel 2 CD (Soul Jazz-$18.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23388">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23388</a><br /> "Soul Gospel 2 mixes elements of soul, gospel, rare groove funk and New York Underground Disco. In this second volume of Soul Gospel, Soul Jazz Records once again brings you celebrated gospel artists such as The Staple Singers , Clara Ward and Marion Williams, alongside many lesser known gospel artists like The Sensational Cymbals, and The Lovers of God, who you're unlikely to find mentioned in any discography of either gospel or soul music. All the artists on this album are unique in that they grew up in the church and their music includes the emotional and spiritual depth and soaring vocals of what would become the defining ingredients of gospel's secular counterpart -- soul music. This depth comes from a vocal schooling in the environment of the church, against a background of social hardship and political change. This specific characteristic is present in many different performers, and is in many ways unique to Afro-American culture. Funk, soul, New York disco and more co<br /> mbine in the music of Soul Gospel. The album comes with extensive text, exclusive photos, slipcase and super-loud double vinyl."<br /> <br /> <br /> <B> LP/12"/10" RECORDS </B><br /> <br /> ANNIE-Crush 12" (Dim Mak-$4.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23396">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23396</a><br /> Last year, Annie made quite a splash on the global-indie-pop-dance-scene with her widely embraced debut full length on Vice. Now this Norweigan critic's darling returns with a 12" for Dim Mak, featuring a remix by Junior Sanchez. For fans of Madonna, Goldfrapp, and general bubblegum dance pop.<br /> <br /> AUTECHRE-LP5 aka Autechre 2xLP (Warp-$22.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23394">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23394</a><br /> UK-only double vinyl version. The fifth album from Manchester's duo of Sean Booth and Rob Brown is Autechre's most detailed and insane collection of electronic specification. Number crunching at a new fully realized peak, sledding past the masses of insignificant humanity at an alarming rate. Some people have been waiting their entire life for just this album. Exponentially the next step from Incunabula, Amber, Tri Repetae & and it's most significant forebearer, Chiastic Slide. One of the records that defined 1998.<br /> <br /> JUNIOR BOYS-High Come Down 12" (Kin-$9.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23379">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23379</a><br /> "The first 12" from Ontario's Junior Boys, sounded utterly unlike anything else in the pop spectrum, fusing falsetto crooning, delicate electropop arpeggios, and the wide open syncopations of US R&B and UK Grime; Fennesz's shoegazing remix made you wonder if there was any limit to the sounds they could call their own. On their second EP, they expand the range yet again, essentially redefining in a single stroke the limits of electronic pop. The title track takes off from where 'Birthday' left off, smoothing over a stuttering, pothole-ridden beat with icy synthesizers and Jeremy Greenspan's bedroom croon. But the six minute epic 'Under the Sun' sounds like another group entirely, fusing a grinding electro disco groove with the sun-kissed harmonics of 4AD's Dif Juz. Deep in the mix, a sampled yelp punctuates every beat, and brooding chicken-scratch guitar carves a deep, indelible funk, but it's the airy, billowing feedback that captures you. Taking yet another direction, Manito<br /> ba reprises 'Birthday' in his own fashion, pasting the original vocals over a scuffed beat battered with bells and scuffed vinyl."<br /> <br /> BETTY PAGE-Jungle Girl LP (QDK-$16.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23382">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23382</a><br /> LP version in full color gatefold sleeve. "Jungle Girl is naturally the exotica set. Here, the mood ranges from high spirited Latin numbers (Roses Roses' 'Rubanita') to Moog exotica (Nino Nardini's 'Jungle Jazz') to psycho pop swing ('X cest' by Hawksworth). Like Danger Girl, this compilation features few marquee names, but still offers cool tracks. It's 24 tracks of leopard skin bathing suits, beach and boudoir & will fill out your exotica collection nicely."<br /> <br /> BETTY PAGE-Private Girl LP (QDK-$16.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23383">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23383</a><br /> BETTY PAGE-Private Girl PIC DISC LP (QDK-$16.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23384">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23384</a><br /> LP version in full color gatefold sleeve or pic disc format. "Private Girl offers the sub-title/description 'Spicy Music'. 24 quirky tracks from the '50s, including cuts by John Barry, Mel Young, Pete Thomas, Roger Roger, Malcolm Lockyer and Jack Dorsey. So Betty is now a 'private girl'. Judging from the photos enclosed, this means you the listener may enjoy a private moment with Betty. Contains a 20 page booklet of photos of the legendary risque '50s pin-up girl, both color and black & white."<br /> <br /> PAN AMERICAN-Renzo 12" (Vertical Form-$8.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23393">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23393</a><br /> "In preparation for Pan American's River Made No Sound album (released on Kranky in the US), 'Renzo' has been put together as a subtle taster of what is soon to come from this highly acclaimed production project. Three tracks are included, each exclusive to this EP, clocking in at just under thirty minutes playing the time. Each track drifts effortlessly through the varying emotions and feelings that the Pan American project has become synonymous with, whilst also providing a calculated glimpse of what is yet to come. The EP opens with 'Running Dog (Reborn)', a deep and spatial visionary journey that plays heavily with dub based sound aesthetics whilst maintaining a balance with techno and electronic production techniques. 'Toy Triggers', is a short ambient piece that drifts through the motions of melancholia and hopeful melody, allowing for change and pathing the way for the closing groove. 'Renzo', which is essentially the key track here, provides a valuable insight into w<br /> hy Pan American has become such a highly acclaimed production project. Containing all the classic trademarks of early Pan American productions by combining the ever present elements of warmth, groove and feeling, the track drifts further and further into the use of haunting melodies and atmospherics, an element very much at the heart of forthcoming River Made No Sound album."<br /> <br /> VARIOUS ARTISTS-Until Human Voices Wake Us And We Drown 5x10" (Rune Grammofon-$79.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23387">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23387</a><br /> The label Rune Grammofon celebrates 50 releases with this collection of 19 tracks from their catalog, showing the variation of music they have put out since their first release in January 1998. This committed, consistent label seeks to document the development of the most creative and adventurous young Norwegian talent within the areas of electronica, improvisation, ambient, free music and most things in-between and beyond, promoting a scene that is finally getting the international recognition it deserves. This compilation spans the timeless melancholia of Fartein Valen, the pioneering electronic music of Arne Nordheim, the magical pop diamonds of Susanna and the Magical Orchestra to the restless youth improv that is MoHa!, taking in some traditional music, free rock, jazz, ambient, contemporary experiments and various shades of electronica along the way. Some are cornerstones in the catalog, but this is not a "best-of" collection -- this compilation seeks to show the differ<br /> ent aspects of Rune Grammofon while still displaying each record's common theme or base. There are five 10" vinyl records, all in their own sleeve with an exclusive Kim Hiorthøy design, as well as a 16-page catalog, also specially designed by Kim that includes a descriptive overview of the first 50 Rune Grammofon releases. All come in a nice cardboard box, also designed by Kim. Being limited to 1000 copies, this is bound to be a collector's item in no time, not only because of the limited aspect but also because of the fantastic design work at show, quite possibly the best record design work Kim has ever done.<br /> <br /> <br /> Plus these titles, as described above, or on our website on CD (now in on vinyl for the first time!):<br /> <br /> CAMERA OBSCURA-Let's Get Out Of This Country LP (Merge-$13.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23400">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23400</a><br /> LE VOLUME COURBE-I Killed My Best Friend LP (Honest Jon's-$14.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23378">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23378</a><br /> MV/EE WITH THE BUMMER ROAD-Mother Of Thousands 2xLP (Time-Lag-$30.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23391">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23391</a><br /> WHITE BIRCH-Come Up For Air LP (Rune Grammofon-$16.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23386">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23386</a><br /> VARIOUS ARTISTS-Soul Gospel 2 2xLP (Soul Jazz-$22.99)<br /> <a href="http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23389">http://tonevendor.com/cart.php?add=23389</a><br /> <br /> <br /> <B> RESTOCKS </B> <br /> <br /> AFX-Chosen Lords CD<br /> RADIO DEPT-Pet Grief CD<br /> RAYMOND SCOTT-Soothing Sounds For Baby 3xLP<br /> <br /> <br /> Plus lots more restocks on the website! 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