Kelley Stoltz / Caroline - 4067493

Kelley Stoltz – “Caroline” b/w “Marcy”

“The inimitable Kelley Stoltz arrives with two songs using woman’s names as the titles. “Caroline” motors on like a new wave song without the dated production and is a nice curveball from what can usually be expected from Kelley. The b-side “Marcy” is a beautiful, understated acoustic ballad that will be sure to make any woman weak in the knees. For an artist who always kills it on full-length LPs, it can be easy to forget Stoltz’s prowess in the single world. These two songs are a welcome reminder."

Ben Blackwell

Released: May 22, 2012

Sub Pop Records / - still the most indie of the sellouts!-natural - T-SELN

natural with black and red front and back print.

Pissed Jeans / Pissed Jeans Owl - 2073099

The design on this Pissed Jeans shirt is an owl barber (owl clutching a comb & scissors) on navy blue American Apparel 100% cotton shirts. He’s gonna cut ya (hair)!

XS IS AMERICAN APPAREL LADIES LARGE, STYLE 2102!

Released: May 29, 2007

Sub Pop / Spanning the Globe Green w/ Yellow - 2000061

Sub Pop Records “Spanning the Globe for Profit” design printed in Yellow on Green American Apparel 50/50 shirts.

Released: April 9, 2012

Sub Pop / Spanning the Globe Navy Blue w/ Blue - 2000082

Sub Pop Records “Spanning the Globe for Profit”. Light blue print on navy blue American Apparel 50/50 shirts. XS is a ladies large.

Released: August 6, 2008

Mudhoney / Big Muff Pedal Silver - 2004495

Classic Mudhoney design printed in black and red on a silver American Apparel 100% cotton tee.

Released: May 17, 2012

Sub Pop / Loser, White w/ Black - 2000088

White shirt with black print and large black sub pop logo on back. American Apparel 100% cotton.

Released: January 1, 2000

Sub Pop / White w/ Black Logo - 2000091

White with large black Sub Pop logo print. American Apparel 100% cotton goodness.

Released: January 1, 2004

Sub Pop / Black w/ White Logo - 2000090

Black with large white Sub Pop logo print. American Apparel 100% cotton goodness.

Released: January 1, 2004

Sub Pop / Green w/ Green Logo - 2000069

Printed on American Apparel 50/50 t-shirts.

Released: March 16, 2011

Sub Pop / Silver w/ Light Grey Logo - 2000070

Printed on American Apparel 100% cotton t-shirts.

Released: March 16, 2011

Sub Pop / Heather Blue w/ Blue Logo - 2000072

Printed on American Apparel Tri-blend t-shirts.

Released: March 16, 2011

Sub Pop / Heather Grey w/ small chest logo - 2000067

Printed on American Apparel tri-blend Track Shirts for the luxurious feel only a blend of three things can bring to you.

Released: May 12, 2011

Sub Pop / Heather Black w/ Black Logo - 2000071

Black print on American Apparel 50/50 t-shirts.

Released: March 16, 2011

Sub Pop / Heather Black w/ Light Grey Logo - 2000064

Sub Pop logo shirt on an American Apparel 50/50 t-shirt.

Released: October 6, 2011

Sub Pop / Black w/ Black Logo - 2000063

Large Black Sub Pop logo printed on the front of a Black 50/50 American Apparel tee.

Released: April 6, 2012

Niki & The Dove / Niki & The Dove Logo - 2093099

This Niki & The Dove t-shirt is printed on American Apparel’s 50/50 blend t-shirts.

Released: August 7, 2012

Jaill / Jaill Logo - 2089198

This new Jaill t-shirt is printed on the highest quality, American Apparel tri-blend t-shirt. If there’s a shirt softer, we haven’t worn it.

Released: June 12, 2012

Beachwood Sparks / Beachwood Sparks Cream - 2050399

Brand new Beachwood Sparks t-shirt printed on American Apparel.

Released: June 28, 2012

Niki & The Dove / Instinct - SP930

Kaleidoscopic in the studio and a force majeure on stage, it’s no surprise that Malin Dahlström (vocals) and Gustaf Karlöf (keyboards) of Sweden’s Niki & The Dove’s met while writing music for the theatre. While their roots are in theatre (their live show includes three drummers, a bassist and two dancers flanking Malin’s costumed, exuberant presence), they ultimately straddle the pop and dance worlds with a devastating musical hybrid that incorporates electronics and beats spanning from tribal to synth-pop to R&B. It is a riddle to work out exactly what the pair are–as it should be. “In our heart, we are a soul band, not an electronic band,” says Malin.

Niki & The Dove’s pop and dance sides are both evident from the very first moments of Instinct, their debut album, as the opening track “Tomorrow” unfolds a subtle pulse with pan-Pacific textures underneath Malin’s aching vocal, rising to a series of euphoric peaks as the vocals ramp up the feeling of a tribal ceremony. This was also the case with “DJ, Ease My Mind,” the duo’s debut single released in February 2010. Malin’s vocal has the urgency and vulnerability of epic ‘60s girl-group pop (The Shangri La’s, say) fused to Niki & The Dove’s unique version of joyful dance-floor release. Time and again, Instinct follows the same blueprint of intent–a blend of tenderness, explosion, hypnosis and elation–but never the same routine. Instinct is an exhilarating experience, like stepping into a piece of art.

Is expectation weighing on Niki & The Dove, now that they are receiving international acclaim, including placing in the BBC Sound of 2012 poll? Not according to Gustaf: “It’s wonderful, an extremely big honour, and also unreal. But we just make the music that we want to, and never compromise, so no pressure. It’s not like we can change anything anyway!”

Vinyl includes mp3 download code.

If you pre-order Instinct by August 7th, you’ll receive a limited Niki & The Dove tote bag! Also, if you pre-order Instinct on vinyl LP, you’ll receive the limited, Loser Edition version—a colored-vinyl copy of the record, in this case, it’s on crystal-clear colored-vinyl. Sure, clear-colored is kind of an oxymoron, but it’s really cool and limited nonetheless. Both of these things, as we’ve mentioned, ad nauseum, are limited, so first come, first serve—order soon!

Released: August 7, 2012

Magic Trick / Ruler of the Night - SBL-73053

Ruler of the Night is acclaimed songwriter Tim Cohen’s second LP under the Magic Trick portmanteau. Together with vocalists Noelle Cahill and Alicia Vanden Heuvel (Aislers Set), and James Kim (Kelly Stoltz’s band), Cohen has crafted a lush, absorbing, and alternately uplifting and devastating pop tapestry. All LPs include a download code.

Released: March 13, 2013

Les Thugs / Strike Tshirt - LESW

Damon and Naomi / Playback Singers Tshirt - T-DNNT

The Supersuckers / Must've Been High Tshirt - T-SSKH

Mike Ireland and Holler / Learning How To Live Tshirt - T-MIKE

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K-Holes / Dismania - SBL-73059

NY’s K-Holes have returned with Dismania, the group’s second full-length and first for Hardly Art. Dismania comes packed with the same kind of sinister, feverish punk skronk the New York quintet (featuring former members of Golden Triangle and the Black Lips) is known for. It’s a dark, brutal, menacing trip; the sound of escape with the sheen of redemption, fueled by the low, thundering beat of tribal divination. All LPs include a download code.

Released: May 1, 2012

Debo Band / Debo Band - SBL-72003

Debo Band is the new full-length album from Debo Band.

Deep Time / Deep Time - SBL-73061

Austin’s Jennifer Moore and Adam Jones are truly one-of-a-kind. For years you’ve known them as YellowFever, but now, know them as Deep Time. The same singular brand of oddball art-pop is still here, striking as ever, with a new name and renewed energy. Listen in and join their psychedelic coccoon. All LP orders will receive opaque green vinyl, while it lasts!

Released: July 10, 2012

Obits / Let Me Dream If I Want To - SP997

The rock band Obits is from Brooklyn, NY, and so far we’ve
managed to release both of their full-length records on Sub
Pop: 2009’s I Blame You and 2011’s Moody, Standard and
Poor. On this new single, Obits have provided us with daring new interpretations of well-loved near-standards by Mink DeVille and The Kids. Includes mp3 download code.

Released: May 15, 2012

Beachwood Sparks / The Tarnished Gold - SP784

Some albums were made to be played on a Saturday night. The Tarnished Gold was meant to be played on a Sunday afternoon. Listening to Beachwood Sparks’ first album in 11 years is like being under cobalt blue skies and smelling the night-blooming jasmine on a perfect spring day in Los Angeles.

The world has caught up to Beachwood Sparks since they came out of nowhere in 2000 with their self-titled debut album, bringing new life to what Gram Parsons famously described as “cosmic American music,” and recapturing L.A.‘s laidback but vibrant heyday back in the late ’60s and early ’70s. At the time, this kind of harmony-rich, irony-free music was rare. After their second album, 2002’s trippier Once We Were Trees, and the decidedly offbeat 2003 EP Make the Cowboy Robots Cry, Beachwood Sparks called it quits. But during the subsequent half decade, the indie music scene began to change with the appearance, and wholesale acceptance, of multi-voiced throwback groups from Fleet Foxes to Bon Iver to Grizzly Bear. Clearly, the time is right for an album that stands as the purest expression of this hallowed form to appear in the 21st century, as the planets at long last align for this single-minded band.

The Tarnished Gold is the work of the classic Beachwood Sparks lineup: singer/guitarist Chris Gunst, singer/bassist Brent Rademaker, singer/multi-instrumentalist Farmer Dave Scher, and drummer Aaron Sperske, with invaluable support from guitarist and longtime friend Ben Knight (The Tyde). For the sessions, the band added guitarists Knight and Neal Casal (solo artist and former member of Ryan Adams and the Cardinals), Dan Horne on pedal steel, Gunst’s wife Jen Cohen, Sparks’ very first drummer Jimi Hey, Brent’s brother Darren (leader of The Tyde) and L.A. indie-rock maestro Ariel Pink. Once We Were Trees producer Thom Monahan returned to his familiar spot behind the console.

The album finds the band, chemistry as strong as ever, pushing themselves to make a truly memorable record. “We’re treading in areas that we never thought we’d go on this record,” says Rademaker. “It’s great to be making the kind of music that I like with my best friends and favorite musicians. The triumph was not only that it came out so listenable and good but also that we made the most of just being together. And if this turns out to be the last Beachwood Sparks record, we can take satisfaction in the fact that we went out on a high note. At any rate, I know I’ll be listening to this record for the rest of my life.”

Vinyl includes mp3 download code.

People who pre-order The Tarnished Gold from us will receive a free Beachwood Sparks totebag (while supplies last!). Also, if you pre-order the LP from us, you’ll receive the very limited, colored-vinyl, Loser Edition of the vinyl LP—in this case, it’s appropriately on tarnished gold-colored vinyl! Act quickly!

Released: June 26, 2012