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Obnox reissue, New Unholy Two 7″ and some big plans for 2013

2) our reissue of the 2011 Obnox LP, ‘I’m Still Bleeding’ (12XU 039-1), originally released in 2011 by Smog Veil, comes out at the end of August.

3) Rebecca Gates and the Consortium just completed their 2nd batch of US touring in support of ‘The Float’. There’s a great live session taped by OPM Music available for streaming.

4) Cruddy are currently touring the western US and they’ve got an 8 song casstte of new material that you’d better snap up before some label forces an overproduced, overpriced version out of them.

4) The Golden Boys are playing Goner Fest, preceded by Eastern U.S. dates with The Spider Bags and the Limes.

5) Unholy Two’s first recordings as a quartet will be available on a new 12XU 7″ in mid-September.

6) on the horizon : a debut 7″ from Melbourne’s Ratsak, the first first studio offerings from Dustin Pilkington & Anthony Davis’ slaytastic Burnt Skull, the debut album from Austin’s Sweet Talk, the first new recordings from Austin’s The Gospel Truth in way too long, and that oft-promised, but not yet delivered full length from James Arthur’s Manhunt. And some surprises. Please act surprised.

The Golden Boys – “Dirty Fingernails” video

The Golden Boys – “Dirty Fingernails”, from the LP, ‘Dirty Fingernails’ (12XU 033-1). Directed by James Parker and Jeremy Ward.

The Golden Boys are playing a free show for the Austin Chronicle’s Paper Cuts series on Tuesday, May 15. This is terrific news because we’ve been sitting around for weeks wondering what chain of events would have to occur for the band to allowed to play in front of Quiet Company fans. You might even say it’s a lifetime dream come true.

If, however, a promotional event for the local weekly isn’t to your liking, you can see The Golden Boys on June 16 at Austin’s Scottish Rite Theatre, supporting Quintron and Miss Pussycat.

We’ll have news shortly about Chris Brokaw’s forthcoming autumn full-length, along with new albums from Burnt Skull, James Arthur’s Manhunt and a reissue of Obnox’s ‘I’m Bleeding Now’ (Smog Veil, 2011). Early next year, we’re looking forward to new albums from a pair of Austin bands, The Gospel Truth and Sweet Talk.

Rebecca Gates and the Consortium – ‘The Float’ LP – coming June 12

‘The Float’ is the first album from Spinanes founder Rebecca Gates since 2001’s ‘Ruby Series’, recorded in fits and starts since from ’04 onwards. Featuring members of Califone, Godspeed You Black Emperor, The Jicks, Iron and Wine, Los Lobos, Tortoise, Silver Mt. Zion, The Sea and Cake, Wild Flag, Eleventh Dream Day, The Decemberists, Blue Cranes and Portland Cello Project, this is by far, Gates’ most ambitious work and an early best-of-2012 candidate. In stores, June 12.


Rebecca Gates and the Consortium: “& & &” from The Float by parcematone

Limited quantity of first pressings on white or pink vinyl (150gr.), all copies include download code.

CD version available from Parcematone.

April/May dates :

4/17 – Bunk Bar, Portland OR

4/18 – Revival Drum Shop, Portland OR (solo)

4/24 – Gaite-Lyrique, Paris France (w/ Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Michael Hurley)

5/15 – Mohawk, Austin TX

5/16 – Ocho at Hotel Havana, San Antonio TX (solo)

5/18 – Solar Culture, Tucson AZ

5/20 – Echo Country Outpost, Los Angeles CA

5/23 – Hotel Utah, San Francisco CA (w/ Swansea)

5/24 – Cafe Coda, Chico CA

5/25 – Sophia’s, Davis CA

5/26 – Alex’s, Ashland OR

June 13 – Portland, Oregon – Holocene with Clea Partridge

June 15 – Seattle, WA – Sunset Tavern with Clea Partridge

April 17 – our LP reissue of David Kilgour’s ‘Left By Soft’ ; Record Store Day Commemorated With Slow-Moving Compilation

On April 17, we’ll be reissuing David Kilgour & The Heavy Eights’ 2010 album, ‘Left By Soft’ (12XU 034-1) under license from Merge (CD and digital versions are still available from them). Though a career that’s included The Clean, Stephen and a succession of amazing solo recordings, Dunedin, NZ’s Kilgour has long been one of our favorite songwriters. ‘Left By Soft’, previously unavailable on vinyl save for a limited edition run on Arch Hill, ranks as one of his finest works. First 300 copies on purple vinyl (150gr.).

The Clean are doing a bunch of US dates in June, and we’re happy to announce David will be playing solo at Austin, TX’s End Of An Ear Records on Sunday, June 2.

On April 21, our poorly-kept-secret of a Record Store Day compilation LP, ‘Bring Beer’, will be in selected stores. They’re the ones doing the selecting, by the way. ‘Bring Beer’ features new songs by Cruddy, The Golden Boys, Chris Brokaw, James Arthur’s Manhunt, The Flesh Lights, Naw Dude, Carolee, Marriage, Philip Sambol, Followed By Static, Nazi Gold, G.Green, Rhett And Dean and Air Traffic Controllers. The first 300 are on blue vinyl. All profits will benefit Austin, TX’s Trailer Space Records. It’s an actual record store that sells records, though we have nothing against establishments that specialize in action figures, black light posters, bacon-flavored mints or any other stupid fucking trinkets people seem to prefer to real audio art. MAN, FUCK THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE.

The Golden Boys – March US Dates

(taping for The Travel Channel’s “No Reservations”, Trailer Space, 3/19/12)

(“California”, from ‘Dirty Fingernails’, directed by John Wesley Coleman)

The Golden Boys on tour :

Tuesday March 20 Sam’s Lounge Jackson MS w/ Electric Jellyfish
Wed March 21 Pilot Lite, Knoxville TN w/ Electric Jellyfish
Friday March 23 Duke University Coffee House, Durham NC w/ John Wesley Coleman III and Spider Bags
Saturday March 24 The Earl, Atlanta GA w/ Mind Spiders, Barreracudas, Skin Job
Sunday March 25 Goner Records, Memphis TN (4pm, free)