The Rapture / Out of the Races and Onto the Tracks - SP505

Having previously released an LP on seminal San Diego art punk label, Gravity Records, and a single on Gold Standard Laboratories (complete with a cover of the Psychedelic Furs’ “Dumb Waiters”), The Rapture returns with their newest EP. Blending influence from visionaries such as PiL, Television, and Chrome with an ear for dance and pop music, The Rapture continue to perfect their particular brand of “sonic deathfuck groove.”

Released: May 22, 2001

Mudhoney / Superfuzz Black - 2004496

This is an old take on a new shirt. This new Superfuzz Bigmuff shirt features the iconic cover of Mudhoney’s opus or whatever. On American Apparel.

Released: August 23, 2010

No Age / No Age Black - 2077294

Brand new No Age shirt featuring artwork from their new record, Everything in Between. The front has a small view into a nice beach scene, and the back has the name of the new record. This shirt is totally awesome. Printed on American Apparel’s 50/50 blend for maximum touchability—style BB401.

Released: August 23, 2010

No Age / No Age White - 2077295

A brand new, two-sided No Age t-shirt featuring art from their new record, Everything in Between. On luxurious American Apparel blended shirts—style number BB401.

Released: August 23, 2010

CocoRosie / Grey Lettering (T-Shirt) - 2088099

Herewith, a type treatment of “CocoRosie” somewhat similar to that used on the cover of CocoRosie’s 2010 release Grey Oceans album, printed in gray ink on a black American Apparel 100% cotton t-shirt. This shirt is modeled in the accompanying photo by one half of the band Jaill.

Released: August 22, 2010

Blitzen Trapper / Destroyer of the Void (t-shirt) - 2075597

You are gazing at a Blitzen Trapper shirt featuring artwork from their new record, Destroyer of the Void. Printed on American Apparel’s soft-to-the-touch 50/50 blend.

Released: August 5, 2010

Carissa's Wierd / Songs About Leaving - 73022

Long OOP, now back in print, this is the third and final release from seminal northwest band Carissa’s Wierd.

Carissa's Wierd / You Should Be at Home Here - 73021

Long OOP, now back in print, this is the second release from seminal northwest band Carissa’s Wierd.

Carissa's Wierd / Ugly But Honest - 73020

Long OOP, now back in print, this is the first release from seminal northwest band Carissa’s Wierd.

Wolf Parade / 86 - 2065593

A brand new Wolf Parade t-shirt featuring artwork from their celebrated 3rd record EXPO 86. On luxurious American Apparel 50/50.

Released: August 5, 2010

Carissa's Wierd / Carissa's Wierd Poster - 30002990

This here 3-color poster was designed by Sasha Barr of The New Year in honor of the Carissa’s Wierd reunion show at the Showbox in Seattle, WA on July 9th, 2010. Limited edition run, individually signed and stamped by the designer, 18″ × 24″ and printed on high-quality 100lb stock.

Released: August 4, 2010

The Vaselines / Vaselines Skull - 2014599

This is a classic Vaselines shirt featuring art from The Way of the Vaselines on luxurious American Apparel cotton.

Released: August 3, 2010

No Age / Glitter (12" single) - SP904

Everything in Between, the new album from the Los Angeles-based art-punk duo No Age, is due out on September 28, 2010. In celebration and anticipation of this new album, we’re putting out two “Glitter” singles! Both the 12-inch and the 7-inch feature the album track “Glitter,” but each single has different, non-album b-sides (the 7-inch has one called “Inflorescence,” and the 12-inch has “In Rebound” and “Vision II”).

Released: August 24, 2010

No Age / Glitter (7" single) - SP899

Everything in Between, the new album from the Los Angeles-based art-punk duo No Age, is due out on September 28, 2010. In celebration and anticipation of this new album, we’re putting out two “Glitter” singles! Both the 12-inch and the 7-inch feature the album track “Glitter,” but each single has different, non-album b-sides (the 7-inch has one called “Inflorescence,” and the 12-inch has “In Rebound” and “Vision II”).

Released: August 24, 2010

Michael Yonkers / Lovely Gold - 4050897

Unreleased Michael Yonkers tunes from 1977.

Released: July 26, 2010

Jaill / 5 Song CD - 4089195

2006 Demo CD Jaill recorded in their attic, dead of summer, in between spurts of rebuilding the back porch. They tied belts and towels around their heads to make the headphones fit tighter, and overall a tight 5 song Ep is what you got here.
1. Dodo 2. Rocker (Now In Stores) 3. Light Like Dice 4. Hurts and Burns 5. Everyones Hip

Released: July 26, 2010

Jaill / Kept Me Spitting - 4089196

2004? recorded in the attic with an 8 track reel to reel with 7 working tracks. And it was our first time using the machine so most of the best licks were recorded over on accident, but overall another catchy album!

Released: July 26, 2010

Jaill / Pardono - 4089197

The advance single to the There’s No Sky (Oh My My) LP featuring the hit songs Pardono and Always Wrong. The tracks feature altered mixes and a lower fi approach to mastering than their LP counterparts.

Pardono b/w Always Wrong

Released: July 26, 2010

Jaill / Semaine De Quatre Jeudis - 4089198

“Original 7” recorded in our [Jaill’s] basement with funny tea and freak outs, ya see? it was a real good start and still stands on its own as a head bangin release. 4 songs!

SIDE A: 1. Suddenly Bad 2. Intensity SIDE B: 1. All It Was 2. Worked"

Released: July 26, 2010

Jaill / There's No Sky (My Oh My) - 4089199

The debut LP from Milwaukee’s Jaill. On Burger Records. Includes a digital download of the entire record.

Released: July 26, 2010

Wipers / Out Takes - SBL-JPR828

Featuring 13 rare and unreleased cuts, “Out Takes” collects unheard songs, demo recordings, and alternate mixes. Handpicked by Greg Sage, the songs date from 1979-1983, the same years as their landmark first three LPs. Side one focuses on the era of their debut LP, “Is This Real?”, a desperate, energetic masterpiece, considered by Kurt Cobain as the blueprint for grunge. Included are raw, sparsely arranged 4-track demos, two unreleased songs from 1979, and the forceful, youthful track “Rebel With A Cause” which was cut from the LP.
The second half of the LP presents a live recording of “Mistaken Identity”, originally intended for the Wipers’ third LP, “Over the Edge”, a rare B-side, and alternate mixes of songs from “Youth of America”. “Out Takes” is an incredible new window into the career of one of the greatest American punk bands.

Tracklisting:

1. Let’s Go Away
2. Mystery
3. Is This Real?
4. Tragedy
5. Misfit
6. Rebel With A Cause
7. Born With A Curse
8. Mistaken Identity
9. No Solution
10. Scared Stiff
11. Youth Of America
12. Pushing The Extreme
13. Romeo

Release Date: June 22, 2010 on Jackpot Records.
Catalog # JPR82804
LP Reissue

Released: July 26, 2010

Michael Yonkers / Goodby Sunball - 4050896

Secret Seven Records is proud to release the first ever reissue of the lost psych-folk LP ‘Goodby Sunball’ by cult favorite, Michael Yonkers. Privately released in 1974, ‘Goodby Sunball’ was recorded at Yonkers’ home studio a few years after ‘Microminature Love’ and just before ‘Lovely Gold’. Remastered from the original LP by Ben Tuttle.

Limited to 500 copies.

“The music for ‘Goodby Sunball’ was written during the recovery period following serious spine surgery. The surgery had not gone well, i was laid up for months, and had to learn to walk again. So, the music was written using an acoustic guitar, while laying in bed. When i was able to be up and around more, i started recording the songs…a little at a time.It took about 7 months. i recorded the tracks in the little studio i had in my place. It was all recorded on two-channel, tube type machines (back and forth between machines). The vocals were done in the bathroom, to give an expanded sound.” – Michael Yonkers

Side One: Goodby Sunball / Tell Me Of Love / The Day Of Jubilee / Angel Of The Snow / The Swamp Of Love / Anne Is My Lassie / Another Day / Morning Of Love / Someone Like You

Side Two: Early Wakin’ Morning / Strange And Lonely Land / Oh Can You Tell Me / Time Honored Love / Goodby Sunball

Released: July 26, 2010

A Frames / 333 - 4066897

This expansive triple LP A-Frames comp comes from SS Records, and they explain this release at length. Here’s the cut & paste:

“For S.S. Records fiftieth release we are very, very, very proud to announce the A Frames 333 triple album. Back in 2000, when SS, Sr. first saw the A Frames, he knew he had to start a new record label to release their stuff. And with the help of SS, Jr., that is what he did. From the Plastica 45 to two critically aclaimed full lengths and a couple more 45s, the A Frames/S.S. relationship remained so solid that when the A Frames jumped to Sub Pop records, the S.S. production team of Chris Woodhouse and Scott Soriano went along for the ride. So now, after years of talk, SS and the A Frames have gathered their singles and e.p.s together with a whole bunch of demo recordings, outtakes, and unreleased tracks for a 42 song, triple album set.

“Wow! Forty two songs, that is a lot!” you are thinking, “Is all of it good?” Damn it, yes! First off, 333 comps all the songs that appeared on 7"s released by S.S. and Royal Records, plus one compilation track. Second, almost every A Frames song was demo’d on 4-track before it was played out and recorded proper. By the time the public got to hear the demo’d songs, some of them had been radically altered or rearranged…and some never made it past demo. We listened to dozens and dozens of demos and cherry-picked the best and most unique. And, third, from the A Frames first recordings in 2000 and those with Woodhouse to the abandoned AF4 LP, the band has generated plenty of outtakes, quality music that didn’t quite fit on an album or never got paired with a B-side for a 45. We also dug through those. All in all, the A Frames and SS sorted through nearly 80 songs in order to create this statement of a set.

From the onset the A Frames have blown away fans and critics. Their first two singles received much praise, setting up their 2002 debut album for many mentions as the record of the year, called “one of the few great American rock records” by Thurston Moore and Byron Coley. Their second album received even more praise, as did the handful of singles they after, as well as their third album Black Forest. The A Frames are one of the few bands never to have released a bad or mediocre record. We thought about that when assembling 333, for we didn’t want this one to be a dud. We are very confident that like the neutron bomb that blasted the A Frames off, we have one hell of a post-punk explosion here."

Released: July 26, 2010

Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni ba / I Speak Fula (vinyl) - 4000499

Initial pressing of I Speak Fula on Outhere Records. Featuring different cover art than the Sub Pop/Next Ambiance release of the same record.

For the CD and MP3 version go here.

Released: February 10, 2010

The Vaselines / Sex with an X (single) - SP901

“Sex with an X,” the a-side of this new single from The Vaselines, is found on and the title of Sex with an X, the beloved and influential Scottish band’s first new album in over 20 years. “Roaster” is neither of those things, but it is quite good!

Released: August 24, 2010

Dum Dum Girls / Blissed Out Cassette - 4084095

Limited Edition Blissed Out Cassette on Art Fag Records—blue cassette!

Released: July 13, 2010

Kelley Stoltz / To Dreamers - SP890

Kelley Stoltz, now a veritable godfather to the burgeoning San Francisco under/over-ground (folks like Thee Oh Sees, Sonny & the Sunsets, The Fresh & Onlys), has blazed a path since the late ‘90s as a home-recording guru and multi-instrumentalist. And, while Stoltz’s nigh-religious reverence for all things Beatles, Beach Boys and Kinks has been at the fore on recent albums Below the Branches, Sub Pop) and Circular Sounds, Sub Pop), his new album, To Dreamers, blends a bit more post-punk abandon into its layered everyman pop. This new album maintains the kaleidoscopic core of sounds heard on Kelley’s previous records, while making inroads into new sonic terrains.

No slouch on the live front, he was asked to open the Raconteurs first US tour in 2006, toured the USA and Europe with the Dirtbombs in 2008, and through a twist of volcano ash-cloud karma, was the support act to childhood heroes Echo and the Bunnymen, in 2010.

It’s not unreasonable to suggest that the entire reason behind music itself is to dream. From the young kid strumming a tennis racket along with the Ramones, to the box seats at the opera, the goal is the same. What music does and should do is allow us to lose ourselves and be transported, to find the mystical land where milk and honey meets Xanadu. See where you go with this new Kelley Stoltz record—an album of tunes oddly familiar and yet surprising, like a dream itself.

Released: October 12, 2010

Jaill / Jaill Yellow - 20891999

This Jaill t-shirt is on American Apparel and features a variation of the That’s How We Burn record cover.

Released: July 9, 2010

Male Bonding / Laying Down - 2085499

This Male Bonding shirt is printed on American Apparel’s 50/50 blend in order to maximize touchability.

Released: June 29, 2010

No Age / Everything in Between - SP892

Recorded in Los Angeles from the end of 2009 and into 2010, Everything in Between is the new album from No Age, the duo of Dean Spunt and Randy Randall. They emerged from former band Wives in 2005, to become No Age, worldwide glowing talismans for the DIY art-punk scene in LA, now famously known as having its epicenter at The Smell, a clubhouse where art-life/music-life welded and inspired a creative movement and attitude which has fertilized a purple patch of likeminded punkers and artists around the globe. Since the release of Weirdo Rippers, their 2007 debut album (on FatCat Records), through Nouns, the band’s 2008 follow-up on Sub Pop, and beyond, No Age has earned enthusiastic notice from an incredibly wide array of sources; from Pitchfork to The New Yorker (“Let It Rip,” Nov. 19, 2007), and found themselves unlikely Grammy nominees (for Best Recording Packaging in 2008). No Age have risen from sweaty basement shows and art galleries to having their songs blast off the walls of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), to performing at unconventional spaces both close to home and abroad.

And Everything in Between is a bold step in their creative evolution. It is a culmination of reflecting upon life’s ruptures and triumphs; the process of moving through these moments banged and bruised, yet better off for the wear and tear. They’ve pushed themselves in challenging and different directions, deconstructing their weird-out pop songs while still maintaining their original aesthetic and intent. Everything in Between sees No Age expand on the emotional force at the core of their catchy song-writing through tone, structure, noise, and samples. And, it’s their best record yet.

Released: September 28, 2010