Thursday, September 22, 2011

Hi everyone,
The mail-order will be closed until mid- to late-October. I will be on tour on the East coast. Please come say "hi" if I'm coming through your town. Also, if anyone in NASHVILLE knows of a place that will host the show we set up with R Stevie Moore, Betty's Bar has fallen through and we would really, really like to make that show happen. And if anyone in either NEW BRUNSWICK or BALTIMORE knows of or wants to set something up for October 2nd, we are down. Or if you live in ATHENS and play in a rad band and are not playing Athens Pop Fest, we are looking for local support.
The tour is in support of the new Polyps LP coming out on Hello Sunshine, and I will have a limited edition tour tape and art zine in tow.

Polyps tour
(all dates with Lame Drivers except the first two)
Sept 23 — Waltham, MA Brandeis University w/ Mount Eerie
Sept 24 — Providence, RI – City Effect w/ Japanther, Cat Vet, Jacob the Terrible
Oct 1 — Rad Town tour kickoff show, Bed-Stuy Brooklyn, w/ Ed Schrader's Music Beat
Oct 2 — New Brunswick NJ or Baltimore
Oct 3 — Live on WXYC/ Live on WFMU 91.1-FM NY/NJ | wfmu.org (Liz Berg’s show)
Oct 4 — Nashville TN @ Betty’s Bar & Grill TBA w/ R. Stevie Moore
Oct 5 — Athens GA live on WUOG + Farm 255
Oct 6 — Asheville NC @ BoBo Gallery w/ Coppertone & Weyes Blood
Oct 7 — Durham NC w/ Brainbows and Useless Eaters
Oct 8 — Washington DC @ The Cherch w/ The Cheniers
Oct 9 — Philadelphia @ Pi Lam w/ Pet Milk

If you still want to browse the mail-order while I am away, the catalog is still up on the previous post.
Thanks!

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Beer Séance, Vol 1
Beer Seance Vol 1
Beer Seance p 1, 2
Beer Seance p 7, 8
Beer Seance p 9, 10
xeroxed, 11x17, 12 pages, edition of 20, $6, available from me on tour:

Polyps tour
(all dates with Lame Drivers except the first two)
Sept 23 — Waltham, MA Brandeis University w/ Mount Eerie
Sept 24 — Providence, RI – City Effect w/ Japanther, Cat Vet, Jacob the Terrible
Oct 1 — Rad Town tour kickoff show, Bed-Stuy Brooklyn
Oct 2 — New Brunswick NJ or Baltimore
Oct 3 — Live on WXYC/ Live on WFMU 91.1-FM NY/NJ | wfmu.org (Liz Berg’s show)
Oct 4 — Nashville TN @ Betty’s Bar & Grill TBA w/ R. Stevie Moore
Oct 5 — Athens GA live on WUOG + Farm 255
Oct 6 — Asheville NC @ BoBo Gallery w/ Coppertone & Weyes Blood
Oct 7 — Durham NC w/ Brainbows and Useless Eaters
Oct 8 — Washington DC @ The Cherch w/ The Cheniers
Oct 9 — Philadelphia @ Pi Lam w/ Pet Milk

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Eggy HQ 1
Eggy HQ 2
WELCOME TO MY LIFE
It's Labelmates time again at Holocene tonight, and as per usual Eggy Records will be hanging out. Gnar Tapes will also be representing again, plus Mississippi and Sublime Frequencies this time around. It will be great. And it's free. Archers are going to play, Scott from Exiled is going to DJ a little bit, as is Hisham from Sublime Frequencies. SEE YOU THERE.

Monday, September 5, 2011

Sky Needle - Neckliner - Albert's Basement
Sky Needle - Neckliner - Albert's Basement
My friendship with the Australian Albert's Basement label has been long-standing and buoyed by a good deal of mutual respect. That said, in the last year or so they have truly hit their stride, release upon release further articulating their vision of Australian music from the fringe. Frequent reviews at Volcanic Tongue and at the Siltblog provides further evidence that heads are beginning to turn. So I present you with Neckliner, the new tape by this Brisbane four-piece. Have not heard anything from Brisbane in recent memory, which leads me to believe this group has been free to develop their wholly unique sound free from the usual pressures to conform to a scene. Pop music in that the snare lands on the downbeat and that the vocals are upfront, but what a strange beast Sarah Byrne's vocals are, lithe and wordless, making strange figures in the air, and there's also that saxophone to account for, freely providing dissonance and skronk. But aside from some passages of scrabbling improvisation, this isn't wild, indulgent music -- actually reminds me a lot of a looser, more organic Art Bears, minus their rock and roll indulgences. Fresh new sounds from Australia, cool stuff for sure.

$7, email eggyrecords@gmail.com to order it.
Idea Fire Company - Postcards - No Basement Is Deep Enough
Idea Fire Company - Postcards - No Basement Is Deep Enough
JUST IN FROM BELGIUM! Very excited to have these in stock -- Eight new tunes (and one old) from a band soon to be universally hailed as legendary, I have no doubt. Excellent follow up to their recent LP on Kye (Music From The Impossible Salon, I'm not stocking it but I highly recommend you track down a copy!). It's a slight return from the dream-land excursions of that record, still heavy on the piano and trombone but with synthesizers and radio once again prominent, darkness and weirdness pushing forward a little bit again. Now is as good a time as any to introduce yourself to these Massachusetts stalwarts, and definitely recommended for fans of Impossible Salon (the piano and trombone number "Fiume" would have been a standout on that LP). By the way, I highly recommend sacrificing a little bit of your precious time right now, and periodically in the future, by finding your way to Scott Foust of IFCO's Swill Radio website. A good read. This is a great tape!

$10, email eggyrecords@gmail.com to order.

Saturday, September 3, 2011

Jonas Palm - De-Compositions - Borft
Jonas Palm - De-compositions LP - Borft
Rescued from two old cassette tapes, De-compositions is a collection of bedroom-recorded ambient synthesizer music from 1981, made in Sweden by Jonas Palm. Slated to be his second album(his first, Ze Wormnest, is rare and beloved enough for Keith Fullerton Whitman to do an edition of it on his deftly curated Creel Pone imprint), the record slipped through the cracks and was never released until now. And now is certainly the time for it; these Cluster-influenced 80s jams mellowed by tape hiss sound eerily contemporary. Which would all be fluff if the material weren't as good as it is. Much more open than his dark, focused first record, this LP has been on my turntable a lot lately and when it's good, it's really, really good, riding the epic, propulsive vibe of classic Harmonia/Cluster but tempered by the charm of home-recorded warmth and his economy of means(two synths and a rhythm box). Fans of the contemporary synth scene will find a lot to like here, although the appeal is certainly not limited.

$20, email eggyrecords@gmail.com to order it.

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Two From Sun Foot
Sun Foot - A & B - Folding Cassettes
Sun Foot - A & B - Folding Cassettes
Very happy to have two releases from the mighty Sun Foot in the mail-order. Easily one of my favorite bands around, describing their sound is not so easy. Minimalist Free Punk. Minimalist in that they leave as much space between the sounds as Young Marble Giants, Free as in they improvise or leave the song structures loose, and Punk as in the Minutemen, as in they are punk but they are also funny and real humans. A & B, on Mike Donovan's Folding Cassettes label, is made up of two side-length jams. One is an inscrutable instrumental that starts out in frictionless, drum-machine land, veers into good ol' martian rock and roll and somehow ends up in a gentle organ and bass pop-style very reminiscent of the previously mentioned YMG. The other is a "song" whose lyrics deal in the kind of surreal politics of the everyday which is a Sun Foot thing, and start to almost make sense by the end of the ten-ish minute duration. It's zonked for sure. I mean it's zonked even before the clarinet comes in.

This tape costs $8 and can be purchased by sending an email to eggyrecords@gmail.com

Sun Foot - Songs In the Key of R, B, C LP - Teenage Teardrops/Awesome Vistas
Sun Foot - Songs In the Key of R, B & C - Teenage Teardrops/Awesome Vistas
R, B and C being the first initials of the three Feet; Ron Burns, playing drum machine pads completely sans sequencing, and the occasional pot lid; Brian Mumford and Chris Johanson, switching up on guitar and bass, and someone plays a keyboard from time to time. Further explorations of Abstract Figurative Music, sounding super good on groovy vinyl. A-side is one long one, fuller sound and more psychedelic than I've heard from Sun Foot, nice chanted vocals swooping around in there. B-side is a cut and paste of shorter, impish jams and a few proper Songs, my favorite being "Sun Foot" -- bona fide Pop with lyrics like, "I have an electronically illuminated interior lifestyle/Does that mean that I don't have a Sun Foot?" Surreal politics of the everyday, I think I said before. This music exists more-or-less outside of any scene I can think of, for that reason it will strike some as exhilarating, might leave others scratching their heads. I know they've got some great material up their sleeve, looking forward to the next LP.

This record costs $15 and can be purchased by sending an email to eggyrecords@gmail.com