Mio / Duct Hearts 7inch on brokenglasses

We are proud to announce that we will be part of an upcoming 7inch release. Two German bands uniting on one little piece of wax: The two-piece Mio from Leipzig is contributing the song “Ungenügend”, whereas Daniel from Wishes On A Plane adds his song “Schlafen” under his one-piece-band-alias Duct Hearts.
As we are only a part of this release there are several other great labels we are joint-working: Lala from Leipzig, Canot Pneumatique from Cologne, Russian Folk Stories from UK and Time As A Color from Munich.
There will be 500 copies with hand-screened covers, we are back mid-90s and love it for sure. Expect this to be out soon.

Beginning of fall = Smog appreciation

OK, it’s getting cold and stormy outside, lots of rain and grey clouds all over my head. This is the right time for one of the greatest songwriter i know, Bill Callahan. To tell you the truth i do not really like his new record called “Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle” released on Drag City, so it is not a bad record at all, but the records he released under his alias Smog are way better, they are brilliant!
As i love to share great music with you i post some videos i just recently found during my still ongoing “Smog-mania”, enjoy.

See Sunny Day Real Estate performing “Seven”!

I do not need to tell you anything about the band, Sunny Day Real Estate are one of the most influential bands of the mid-90s from Seattle. After 15 years they are again touring in the USA with the original members.

somewhat 1993 (taken from SDRE homepage)

All these memories about classics like “Song About An Angel”, ugh, the whole “Diary” is such a fucking great record, one of the best Sub Pop has ever released. Due to SDRE’s new tour the label has re-issued “Diary”, get it on 2 x 12″ if you haven’t until now!
Go on reading to see them playing live.

Cry Me A River Fest 2009 DVD

That’s right, you thought it would never happen, but it is nearly completed: The DVD documenting the Cry Me A River Fest 2009! You get to see performances of all bands of this years fest, it is compiled by Sean of the lovely Dolcim (who will soon have some new tunes out, perpare yourself for them!).

You can get it soon for 5 Euros plus postage either from Lars of React With Protest Records or directly by Sean for people living outside Europe

Preorder Titan’s new album at React With Protest

React With Protest Records has just announced a new preorder deal: You can get the new LP of the Canadian Titan called “Colossus” on coloured vinyl for 10 Euros plus postage. The record should be done just in time for their release party on November 13th. This is even better than the glorious 4-song EP “The Chrysanthemum Pledge” which was released on React With Protest Records in 2007.

New collection of Silent Cries Clothing

The lovely people from Silent Cries Clothing have done a new collection for 2009. They are printing animal right stuff to wear, shirts and zippers for boys and girls.

flower zipper

They print on fair traded, climate neutral produced and organic cotton. Support them and order some stuff, I love the zipper above!

Records you ordered long ago…

…which seemed to be never released at all and you even forgot about them, until you finally get them from your mailman are always make me happy. This record is something really special as I ordered it like years ago, I think it was 2003. Moreover it contains one of my favourite bands, Takaru.

Takaru / The Assistant / This Ship Will Sink

I think the CD version of this 3-way split of Takaru, The Assistant and This Ship Will Sink was released in 2003 or 2004, but the vinyl version never saw the light of day. 3 really great bands, possibly not with their best songs, but a damn nice release and lovely reminder of the “old days”.

Watch some videos of the bands (sorry, I haven’t found a better one for This Ship Will Sink) in the following.

Utarid Discography anyone?

Arwith just emailed me about the idea to release the discography of the great Utarid from Malaysia. They were one of the first bands from sout asia known also in Europe and the USA, delivering a great mix of Orchid-like hardcore and heartfelt lyrics with some new ideas.

Utarid

Their “De[ad]mo Tape” as well as their split floppy disk with the also no longer active Am I Dead Yet! from Belgium were the first two releases on Broken Glasses Records.
After a long delay of a planned discography it should now finally be released, Hugues from The Flying Worker/Puzzle Records will design the artwork. They are still in the search for labels which want to be part of this release, so anyone interested in this should just get in contact with Arwith.

You can listen to Accent Fall On The First Syllable from their 4-way split 12″ with A Fine Boat That Coffin, Am I Dead Yet! and The Mock Heroic.

Crucificados + 2 * Australian awesomeness = 7 inches

Germany’s Crucificados Records will release a really great little split 7inch in the next weeks: Two of the best bands in Australian grind are team up for this piece of wax, namely Roskopp and the almighty Agents Of Abhorrence.

Agents Of Abhorrence / Roskopp Split 7inch

AOA delivers 5 new songs, Roskopp smashes 3 new tracks on the vinyl. You can preorder it right now, expect 2-3 weeks until the records are done.

Narshardaa Records: New release & single series

First of all the Lybians discography LP is finally released on Narshardaa Records. You can get all songs of this Boston hardcore punks on blue vinyl (100) and black vinyl (400), all records are packed in a full colour jacket with inserts and include download codes of all songs.

Lybians - Discography

There is also a special pre-order package limited to 50 pieces: You can get the record on blue vinyl with a shirt for 18 euros without postage.

As a second, perhaps already older news, there is the Narshardaa Single Club no. 1 which starts in september 2009 and includes 4 7inches, each of which is limited to 350 pieces. German subscribers will get one record of the following bands each month from september to december (subscribers outside Germany will get it in one package due to high postage rates and the low price of the single club as stated below):

1. The Now-Denial
2. Idle Hands
3. Planks
4. Trend

The package costs 20 euros including shipping worldwide, so this is a great deal if you ask me. I’m a fan of such single club things for sure.

Her Name Is Calla – Heritage CD out now on Denovali Records

The British Her Name Is Calla, consisting of at least 7 members if I’m right, have released their album called “Heritage” on Denovali Records.

Her Name Is Calla - Heritage

The CD version is available right now, the vinyl version is a bit delayed, but still planned to be released somewhat soon. If you like the more postrocking way of life with piano, cello and sad voices check this out, it is really great and can help you to survive the first autumn depression this year.

Lightning Bolt: New record in October 2009

Lightning Bolt will release a new record on 13th of October 2009. The record is titled “Earthly Delights” and it will be released in a CD and a gatefold vinyl version. The tracklist is as follows:

1. Sound Guardians
2. Nation of Boar
3. Colossus
4. The Sublime Freak
5. Flooded Chamber
6. Funny Farm
7. Rain on Lake i’m Swimming in
8. S.O.S
9. Transmissionary

You can listen to “Colossus” here. Love these guys!

Ordination of Aaron Discography 2xLP pre-order starts today

Robert from Adagio 830 Records has announced the start of the pre-order of the Ordination of Aaron (nearly) discography double 12inch. Yes, finally it is done, after all the years of waiting we can listen to the songs of the great mid90s band on vinyl again.


The record comes on white vinyl (sides a & b) and black vinyl (sides c& d).
All records come with lovely patches and booklets, whereas only the pre-order version comes with a tote bag, of which only 130 pieces are made (100 for sale with the pre-order, 30 for people who have helped making this record possible. Pre-ordering can be done via mail or by an order in the Bis Aufs Messer Webstore.
The record includes the following releases of Ordination of Aaron:

1. s/t LP
2. s/t 7inch
3. Split 7inch with Indian Summer

Note that it will NOT include the acoustic 7inch songs! I can’t wait to get this on my turntable.

Cry Me A River Fest 2009 roundup

After our first news about the Cry Me A River Fest 2009 we give you another roundup with new information on pricing and the schedule so far.

As every year you have to reserve your tickets in front, so no way to get tickets at the fest if you haven’t pre-ordered one of the 300 tickets! Both days cost 15€, friday 8€, saturday 10€. You can get a vegan breakfast on saturday morning for 4€ done by the lovely Ulbrich family. Due to littering stuff in the last years there is a camping and trash fee of 5€ per tent. The schedule so far is the following:

Friday, 26th of June 2009:

Trainwreck
Battle Of Wolf 359
Dolcim
The Third Memory
Me And Goliath
Alpinist
Hammers

Saturday, 27th of June 2009:

Shikari
Graf Orlock
Louise Cyphre
June Paik
Danse Macabre
Ghostlimb
Zann
Ghostchant

New Denovali Releases – February 2009

Denovali Records has announced two new releases coming in the next weeks (and yes, the Neil On Impression 2x LP is still not there, but this is not a problem of Denovali, but of the other labels included in this release!):

1. In two weeks there will be a Split LP of France’s The Third Memory and Norway’s Dominic. Both bands have two new songs on this record.
   
   
   There will be 200 pieces on white wax for pre-orders only, the rest (300 pieces) is on black vinyl. The record costs 10,50€ without shipping. You can stream and also download the whole record here.
2. The second lovely piece of wax is the previously on vinyl unreleased debut record of the instrumental rockers of Daturah. Being released on double vinyl you get 3 sides full of music and the 4th side being a screenprinting.
   
   
   Again pre-orders can get white vinyl (150 pieces), whereas the rest of 350 pieces is on black wax. It costs 17,50 € without shipping and you can stream the whole record and/or download one song of it here.

If you want to pre-order any of these, just go to Denovali’s Webstore.