After countless remixes and guest appearances, DENEIR releases the his debut solo recording. The 7 track Nowhen EP curves acoustic sounds into new electronic shapes. Nowhen features contributions from The Weird Weeds‘ Nick Hennies, Melk The G6-49’s Karl Hoffstetter and Chris Schlarb. Not to be outdone, the EP also features a rare remix by Warp Records legends, Autechre.

Track Listing
1. Quantum Foam and Non-Spagettification
2. Load Universe Into Cannon. Aim At Brain. Fire!
3. n’exprimez rien
4. The Ten Thousand Things
5. Piaf Peeloff [mp3]
6. The Winding Ladder
7. The Winding Ladder (Autechre Mix)

Written and Produced by DENEIR

Kris Castro- guitar on “n’exprimez rien”
Nick Hennies- drums on “n’exprimez rien”
Karl Hofstetter- drums on “Piaf Peeloff” and “Quantum Foam and Non-Spagettification”
Chris Schlarb- electric guitar on “Piaf Peeloff” and “Quantum Foam and Non-Spagettification”
Giovanni Serrato- field recordings on “The Winding Ladder”

Artwork by Jonathan Dueck

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Washing hither and thither through the rip tide of the Los Angeles music scene, Rare Grooves was formed out of break up of The Widow Babies. Guitarist Danny Miller and drummer Tabor Allen launched themselves into fresh ideas and new singing duties, arriving very quickly at a recording date with their hero and bass master Mike Watt. Produced by long-time collaborator Chris Schlarb, Rare Grooves‘ songs are saturated in bay city sunshine and breezy palm tree shade.

Track Listing
01. Cause For Concern [mp3]
02. No Garden

Tabor Allen- drums
Danny Miller- electric guitar
Andrew Pompey- congas
Chris Schlarb- tambourine, electric guitar solo on “No Garden”
Mike Watt- electric bass

Songs by Tabor Allen and Danny Miller
Produced by Chris Schlarb

Recorded at The Compound in Long Beach, CA. on February 3rd, 2010
Engineered by Jeff Lewis and David Macwean

Artwork and Design by Danny Miller and Tabor Allen

A Co-Release with Papermade Records

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“Song For Charles Rocket” is the high energy, debut recording from Los Angeles-based free jazz ensemble, Destroyer Of Brains. The band features members of I Heart Lung (Asthmatic Kitty Records), The Widow Babies (Ol Factory Records), Breakestra (Stones Throw Records) and Ventriloquists.

Tabor Allen- drums
Danny T. Levin- euphonium, trumpet
Danny Miller- electric guitar
David Moyer- tenor saxophone
Chris Nowak- electric bass
Chris Schlarb- electric guitar

Composed and Produced by Chris Schlarb
Engineered by Jeff Lewis at The Compound in Long Beach, CA.
Artwork and Design by Danny Miller

Track Listing
01. Song For Charles Rocket
02. Love Is The New Black

In the winter of 2007, musician Will Donaldson assembled a music festival so ambitious the rest of the country has yet to catch up. In a pastoral field, on the weekend of December 8th and 9th, Donaldson’s Next To Last Fest brought together iconic hip-hop duo Themselves, beat-maestro Daedelus and transcendent singer-songwriter Diane Cluck with psychedelic rock collective Dark Meat, Elephant Six’s Circulatory System and three Asthmatic Kitty artists: Jookabox, Liz Janes and Chris Schlarb.

Highlights include Themselves‘ “Poison Pit” (with DoseOne’s hilarious stand-up banter), Hope For Agoldensummer’s beautiful and delicate “Love Like A Sailor” and former Dirty Projectors guitarist Spenking’s “Bad Blood Bubble-Up”. Daedelus masterfully mixes disparate elements into a massive 10 minute live mix, “Jerusalem” finds Liz Janes in fine voice accompanied only by her acoustic guitar and both Daedelus, Liz and others join Chris Schlarb for a live interpretation of Twilight & Ghost Stories.

Diane Cluck performs three songs (two from her masterful album, Oh Vanille / Ova Nil) while Circulatory System and Long Legged Woman provide fascinating demos recordings. All together, the album features over an hour and half of live recordings, radio performances and unreleased demos.

The recordings on Next To Last Songs Vol. 2 are smudged with distortion, cracked with wind and alive with the electricity of a unrepeatable moment in time.

Track Listing

01. I’m Not Who You Think I Am (Live at the Next To Last Festival)
Artist: Diane Cluck

02. Ponta (Live at the Next To Last Festival)
Artist: Grampall Jookabox

03. Night Court (Live at the Next To Last Festival)
Artist: Deaf Judges

04. Love Like A Sailor (Live at the Next To Last Festival)
Artist: Hope for Agoldensummer

05. Boy Moses (Viking Moses cover, live at the Next To Last Festival)
Artist: Spenking

06. (untitled) (Unreleased demo)
Artist: Circulatory System

07. Live at the Next To Last Festival [mp3]
Artist: Daedelus

08. (excerpt) (Live at the Next To Last Festival)
Artist: Geoff Reacher

09. The Southern Suite (Unreleased demo)
Artist: Here Comes A Big Black Cloud

10. You Devil You (Live at the Next To Last Festival)
Artist: themselves

11. Sandy Ree (Live at the Next To Last Festival)
Artist: Diane Cluck

12. Bad Blood Bubble-Up (Live at WUGA, Athens) [mp3]
Artist: Spenking

13. Home of the Brave
Artist: Ishues

14. Poison Pit (Live at the Next To Last Festival) [mp3]
Artist: themselves

15. Jerusalem (Live at WUGA, Athens)
Artist: Liz Janes

16. My Ghost (Unreleased)
Artist: Long Legged Woman

17. Fourth Night (Live at the Next To Last Festival)
Artist: Hope for Agoldensummer

18. 1/2 A Million Miles From Home (Live at the Next To Last Festival)
Artist: Diane Cluck

19. Twilight and Ghost Stories (Live at the Next To Last Festival)
Artist: Chris Schlarb

20. Pony Express
Artist: Daniel Clay

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Sound expansion + destruction + resurrection from Nels Cline (Wilco, Geraldine Fibbers) and G.E. Stinson (halfmonk, Shadowfax). Elevating Device is the first volume of extreme sonic manipulation from these two legendary guitarists.

Presented as a single an expansive 44-minute track, Elevating Device is unique look into the electronic rabbit hole of avant guitar improvisation. Cline and Stinson attack, stab, sample and soothe their instruments in this one-of-a-kind recording.

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Track Listing

1. Elevating Device [mp3 excerpt]

Nels Cline- electric guitar, electronics
G.E. Stinson- electric guitar, electronics

Produced by Ronan Chris Murphy, G.E. Stinson and Nels Cline

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Ronan Chris Murphy at Veneto West (Los Angeles)
Artwork by Matias Coduri

Holy Roller, Shiny Around the Edges’ debut, is both jaggedly bleak and crushingly beautiful. Recorded with Matthew J. Barnhart (Shearwater, The New Year) at The Echo Lab deep in the Blackland Prairie of North Texas, Holy Roller serves as a reflection of the band’s wide-ranging musical influences. Taking cues from the ambient noise, jazz, metal, folk, and country records they listen to while living in the fertile music scene of Denton, Texas, Shiny Around the Edges deliver an album boiling with schizophrenic guitar work, pummeling rhythms, and vocals both impassioned and soothing.

The core of Shiny Around the Edges is Michael and Jennifer. For more than seven years, the duo has released limited edition CDRs, digital downloads, and 7”s to an increasing audience around the world. Committed to exploring differing sonic textures, they have often been joined by musicians looking to explore as well. Members of bands such as the Baptist Generals (Sub Pop), Castanets (Asthmatic Kitty), The Paper Chase (Kill Rock Stars), and If Thousands (Chairkickers) have joined Shiny Around the Edges live and in the studio. Holy Roller sees the addition of Justin from the Texas noise rock bands, Notes from Underground and Geistheistler, plus Josh and Ed of Denton’s post-hardcore, Last Men.

Credits
All songs written by Jennifer and Michael

Produced by Shiny Around The Edges
Recorded by Matthew J. Barnhart
Mixed by Matthew J. Barnhart, Michael, Jennifer and Justin
Mastered by Carl Saff

Track Listing
01. Every Hunter Needs A Kill
02. Crosses
03. Come Closer [mp3]
04. Devil’s River
05. Avoidance Theory
06. This Apocalypse
07. Glory Glory
08. I Hover Above You
09. Elizabeth Ascending
10. Utah

Press
“with both raw sexuality and sweet tenderness—Shiny Around the Edges has found a way to channel all its ghosts, energy and talent into a collection that truly showcases what everyone in Denton has buzzed about for so long.”- Merritt Martin, Dallas Observer

“We all need a wedge to separate us from what’s happening in the now, and Shiny Around the Edges has provided the crowbar.”- Justin Spicer, Electronic Voice Phenomenon

“We’re taken with the pair’s ability to conjure tumbleweeds and desert space with distortion and velvety vocals on the just-released Holy Roller.”- Lyndsay Knecht Milne, NBC