Alternative

Artist: Golden Suits Label: Yep Roc (Cargo Records)

Jacked heavy Paper, Printet innersleeve, BLACK Vinyl incl FREE CD. The Monsters where formed in Bern Switzerland back in 1986 , they recorded 'MASKS' as their 1st Album in 1989, a year after they released a EP called 'nightmares'. After many shows in Switzerland they decided to go to LUZERN in the SCHWEINESOUND STUDIOS to record a Full Lenght and spend 3 DAYS RECORDING it and was 1ST LP RELEASED on Bernese Record Label and Shop 'RECORD JUNKIE RECORDS' in a edition of 666 records, they where sold out pretty fast and never reprinted again, record junkie stopped releaseing records after a couple years of existence , Beat-Man was working at record Junkie in the Shop so when it collapsed he formed Voodoo Rhythm records and after 24 jears of silence and hours in the Cellar digging trou original 2" Master Tapes and transform it into 2013 sound format that TRASH BILLY DESASTER Is Available and Reborn Again, the LYRICS are as STUPID as its get and on the Instruments they Have a Standard of some RETARDED CAVEMEN, and i think that makes that Album interesting. TEENAGERS with the Attitude to Go in A Studio and no Borders just the Love of ROCKABILLY And GARAGE PUNK and that Album was Born, PURE TEENAGE TRASH A BILLY !!! Style: Garage Rock

Brand new album from LA hellions, the Icarus Line, is quite possibly their best album yet. Harking back to the fury of Mono, the fire of Pennance Soiree and dragging the swagger out of the Black Lives / Wild Life albums, "Slave Vows" is quite simply a fearsome vitriolic rock and roll outpouring that starts, and never lets up for every 45 minutes of Stoogian styled glory. Evoking Funhouse, Everything Went Black, Goats Head Soup and Maggotbrain in one fell swoop, it could be said that the Icarus Line have finally made the album they set out on making in 2001... this is not for the fainthearted! Some of these songs were blooded on their support slot with Killing Joke on their European tour in 2012, this album also features the best rhythm section the band have had (new drummer Ben Hallett and original bassist Lance Arnao completely NAIL IT!), underpinning the white hot guitar flow from singer/leader Joe Cardamone, the songs..ebb, and flow, slash and burn...cauterizing any that stand in their way. This is pure rock and roll hellfire distilled onto vinyl and CD... Record Label: Agitate Style: Garage Rock

Special Edition in CD-bookformat incl. 28pp booklet, 3 Bonustracks and studio-documentary. Limited to 2000 copies! Style: Independent

Alienation by writer Juli Zeh Chris Neuburger (SLUT singer and guitarist) once said that talking about music is about as fruitful as trying to dance architecture. One could add: talking about SLUT's new album "Alienation" is the same as trying to suck in zeitgeist through a straw. SLUT's new album tastes of magnum opus. Authors have their books; directors have their films. In their 20-year-history SLUT have never gone wrong. On the contrary: they act with the sort of confident professionalism that remains a singular phenomenon in the field of German-but-with-English-lyrics alternative rock. With "Alienation", however, SLUT have once more raised the bar. Music and lyrics pulse with that most fitting of German leanwords in English: zeitgeist. The impact of this century's paradox and perfidious motto "create yourself and then be yourself" resembles a mental paraplegia. Instead of responsibly and creatively exploiting our freedom, "most of us turn petit bourgeois" - to quote from SLUT's title song "Alienation" that simultaneously criticizes their car-obsessed hometown Ingolstadt (an Audi production site): "As long as the cars stay running they stay amused". There's two ways to alienation. It's either desperately clinging to what you know while the rest of the world moves on. Or it's losing one's footing in the desperate attempt to stay up to date in one's compulsive struggle to re-define oneself anew every single day. How could one possibly be oneself in an era that constantly demands moving forward? SLUT answer this question all over their musical oeuvre. They square their authenticity-circle by utilizing the familiar as a starting point for new explorations. In between records SLUT interpret a new version of Brecht's "Three Penny Opera" or take me and my novel "Corpus Delicti" on "Schallnovellentour". This is what "Alienation" is trying to say: Do not ever decide between staying put or setting off or even between hiding-place or escape. Don't get lost in "either-or" but find the power in "as well as". Once more quoting from "Anybody Have A Roadmap" off of "Alienation": "Go one and drive" and "Keep your eyes fixed on anything you seem to know". "It's that love and hate relation that keeps us hanging on" ("Alienation"). Musically, this attitude finds its expression in a confident sweep through styles and genres. In art theory "Alienation" stands for a new look on familiar things that allows for critical distance. This is exactly what the album does without relying on mere quotations. The band's typical style remains distinctive and has developed into a musical personality that nonchalantly turns into every direction it pleases. This is how SLUT enter the next level of polyvalency. The songs dispense with classical structures, change direction, surprise on all fronts and still find their way straight into the listener's head. The basis to this is something I would like to call "modest opulence". SLUT show what SLUT got without drowning the audience in orchestral waves. The means remain recognizable, each voice is distinguishable, each sound completely justified, each sound panorama accurately layered reaching the precision of electro-minimalism ("Broke My Backbone") that builds an anthem loop on loop only to end with the sound of a bone saw. There a many ways to grow older most of which, quite frankly, suck. Each and every decision is a massacre of missed opportunities. SLUT and "Alienation" underline that a proper maturing process goes hand in hand with growth of vitality. "Alienation" is a volume of many chapters - all of which tell the story of how to remain sane of mind and body on our journey through the 21st century and through one's own biography. This music is a home - without the smell of stuffy cushions. Buy this, be amazed, enjoy. Gotta go. Gotta dance myself a townhouse. Style: Independent

CD: comes in double gatefold cover (no plastic exept the CD) with 12 Side Booklet. The Monsters where formed in Bern Switzerland back in 1986 , they recorded 'MASKS' as their 1st Album in 1989, a year after they released a EP called 'nightmares'. After many shows in Switzerland they decided to go to LUZERN in the SCHWEINESOUND STUDIOS to record a Full Lenght and spend 3 DAYS RECORDING it and was 1ST LP RELEASED on Bernese Record Label and Shop 'RECORD JUNKIE RECORDS' in a edition of 666 records, they where sold out pretty fast and never reprinted again, record junkie stopped releaseing records after a couple years of existence , Beat-Man was working at record Junkie in the Shop so when it collapsed he formed Voodoo Rhythm records and after 24 jears of silence and hours in the Cellar digging trou original 2" Master Tapes and transform it into 2013 sound format that TRASH BILLY DESASTER Is Available and Reborn Again, the LYRICS are as STUPID as its get and on the Instruments they Have a Standard of some RETARDED CAVEMEN, and i think that makes that Album interesting. TEENAGERS with the Attitude to Go in A Studio and no Borders just the Love of ROCKABILLY And GARAGE PUNK and that Album was Born, PURE TEENAGE TRASH A BILLY !!! Style: Garage Rock

Brand new album from LA hellions, the Icarus Line, is quite possibly their best album yet. Harking back to the fury of Mono, the fire of Pennance Soiree and dragging the swagger out of the Black Lives / Wild Life albums, "Slave Vows" is quite simply a fearsome vitriolic rock and roll outpouring that starts, and never lets up for every 45 minutes of Stoogian styled glory. Evoking Funhouse, Everything Went Black, Goats Head Soup and Maggotbrain in one fell swoop, it could be said that the Icarus Line have finally made the album they set out on making in 2001... this is not for the fainthearted! Some of these songs were blooded on their support slot with Killing Joke on their European tour in 2012, this album also features the best rhythm section the band have had (new drummer Ben Hallett and original bassist Lance Arnao completely NAIL IT!), underpinning the white hot guitar flow from singer/leader Joe Cardamone, the songs..ebb, and flow, slash and burn...cauterizing any that stand in their way. This is pure rock and roll hellfire distilled onto vinyl and CD... Record Label: Agitate Style: Garage Rock

Artist: Men Among Animals Label: Tapete

Artist: Loden Label: Circle Into Square/Fake Four

Artist: Moondoggies Label: Hardly Art

Style: Independent

BACK IN STOCK .. after beeing out of print for almost a decade! Long overdue repress of this rawassed 1996 45 rpm BLASTER with 3 non-lp tracks! Record Label: Crypt Records Style: Garage Rock

The A-side of the new 7" from Fresh & Onlys' guitar player Wymond Miles opens with a beautiful anthemic post-punk song, "Passion Plays." The B Side is a cover of a legendary Flying Nun band, The Terminals. Miles' previous full length was critically acclaimed and showcased a side of the artist with very different output than Fresh & Onlys, one who was exploring his 70's glam roots and early 80's post punk influences. Record Label: Sacred Bones Style: Independent

Record Label: Strut Style: New Wave

Recorded within the realms of MEDIUM FIDELITY at HANGING TREE - Tim Done's home/studio/archaic equipment museum - using all the 1950s equipment available has resulted in a record where almost all the instruments can be heard. Add in Brent Griffin/SPOD to the mix with his injection of fuzzed out reverberating budget psychedelia and IT?S HAPPENING! was born. Straight Arrows began with Owen Penglis yelling about getting dumped and kicked out of bands into a four-track cassette. He was soon joined by Alex Grigg, Angela Bermuda and Adam Williams - all friends with colourful musical pasts. Slowly the four honed their reverb-laden, fuzzed out, punk garage into scrappy perfection. Finding it tough to get shows, Straight Arrows went down the DIY path and decided to put on their own raucous parties at New South Wales? notorious (and now abandoned) gay bar, The Newtown Hotel. Around the same time they put out their first 7? ?Something Happens/Can?t Count? on their newly formed label Juvenile Records. Figuring the only way to sell these records (and make their money back) was to force them, photocopied sleeve ?n all, into the hands of drunks and connoisseurs. Straight Arrows started driving up and down the east coast of Australia, playing parties, warehouses, bars - wherever they could - and in the process gained an outstanding reputation for being ??the band that will make you start your own band??. By late 2010 Straight Arrows sold out two more 7s, toured with friends Thee Oh Sees, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, The Black Lips, Jay Reatard (RIP) and Ty Segall amongst others and released their debut album It?s Happening to a flood of praise, landing them an invite to perform at the Goner Fest in Memphis, Tennessee playing alongside garage punk royalty The Gories. Bands began to queue-up for Owen Penglis to record and produce their music at his home studio and in 2012 Owen produced and recorded the who?s who of Sydney / Brisbane Garage scene for the 40th Anniversary tribute album to the seminal Nuggets compilation, originally compiled by Lenny Kaye (Patti Smith band). Record Label: Agitated Style: Garage Rock

Kino I - IV " is a massive four CD retrospective of SKULLFLOWER's early works from 1986 - 1990, featuring all the material previously released on Broken Flag, Shock, Majora and Forced Exposure, plus around two hours of previously unheard music - 14 tracks spread across the series. This is essential early SKULLFLOWER providing further insight into their uniquely twisted musical world. All material has been digitally mastered by Richard Whittaker at FX, and each CD comes in a deluxe gatefold card cover and inner sleeve with newly unearthed artwork by Matthew. Booklets feature extensive notes and previously unseen flyers, posters and photos. "Kino I: Birthdeath" Comprises the remastered first 12" EP, available in its entirety for the first time since 1987, plus six previously unreleased, unheard and undreamed of tracks Style: Independent

Tides End" is the second MINKS album, but you could say it's a world away from the first. Moving out of New York City to try and cure a bout of writer's block, frontman/songwriter Sonny Kilfoyle wound up in the East End of Long Island. Surrounded by water on three sides, it's the same place that drew Warhol, Pollock, de Kooning, Steinbeck and more to escape the constant barrage of information of the urban landscape. The result is not just a romantic trip into isolation, but a melodic and warm experience to immerse yourself in. It's a pop record, with all the hooks and harmonies you'd expect from that, delivered with experience, depth and hope Record Label: Captured Tracks Style: Independent

Record Label: Hellion Records Germany Style: Heavy Metal

Friends and fans of THE LOVE LANGUAGE songwriter and frontman Stuart McLamb have learned to expect a lot, but rarely in a timely manner. Completing a triumvirate of spiritual transmissions spent lost (2009's "The Love Language") and found (2010's "Libraries"), 2013's "Ruby Red" exorcises the transient brilliance fostered by McLamb within the sheetrock walls of the album's namesake artist space. Featuring over twenty musicians and straddling several time zones, THE LOVE LANGUAGE's lone puppeteer borrowed heavier equipment, and held on to it longer. Initiated in a windowless unit at the fabled Ruby Red, several failed attempts and false starts at a songwriting spree landed McLamb and his engineer/case worker/boxing coach BJ Burton in Black Mountain, North Carolina, consuming every square inch of a carpeted bungalow located a few acres too close to their skittish neighbors. Soon after, Burton's relocation to Minneapolis effectively thrust McLamb from their shared nest, helping "Ruby Red" discover its inherent propensity for flight. "Ruby Red" produces new standards for the Carolina pop songbook, finding THE LOVE LANGUAGE as an extroverted community art project made by responsible citizens of a loosely packed scene who know that McLamb will match whatever they contribute. The heartbreak is over. Now we're getting somewhere. Record Label: Merge Style: Independent

A brand-spankin' new band featuring a pretty unbelievable cast of characters. DUMB NUMBERS is Australian songwriter Adam Harding with Lou Barlow (SEBADOH, DINOSAUR JR., FOLK IMPLOSION), Dale Crover (MELVINS), Murph (DINOSAUR JR.), Bobb Bruno (BEST COAST), CR Matheny (EMPEROR X). The band's debut self-titled LP walks a line between the aggressive and the emotional. Not heavy enough for metal, and not tame enough for indie rock, the music of DUMB NUMBERS is at once feedback-drenched and catchy, touching on everything from doom-metal to Kim Deal covers. Record Label: Joyful Noise Style: Alternative Rock