"Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you."
— Roger Ebert 

“I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.”
— Michel Foucault

"I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything."
— Nikola Tesla 

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Snorri Helgason - Summer Is Almost Gone

A Violent Sky

from their self-titled album, released October 15 | Available now at http://stonesthrow.com/boardwalk

LOS ANGELES RECORD RELEASE PARTY: October 17 at Eagle Rock Center for the Arts, 2225 Colorado Blvd, Los Angeles CA | $5 advance, $7 door

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Boardwalk - Crying

"Needles" from The Pack A.D.'s upcoming album Do Not Engage available January 28, 2014

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The Pack A.D. - Needles

Doris Duke - To The Other Woman (I'm The Other Woman)

Pierre Raph
Le Rose De Fer
DIM008

A true enigma in French exploitation cinema and a key exponent in JeanRollin’s expansive family of forward thinking French creatives, Pierre Raph delivered four soundtrack commissions to the ABC film company between 1971 and 1974 commencing with Requiem Pour Un Vampire and ending with the bizarre Les Démoniaques. The lost score for the film Le Rose De Fer from 1972 presented a new challenge for both director and composer marking Rollin's departure from his vampire movie comfort zone to this surreal melodramatic ghost sex story and resulting in perhaps the duo’s most unique collaboration. Combining bizarre vocalisations, stripped down minimal piano and subtle Parisian funk themes (echoing the likes of Alain Goraguer's La Planete Sauvage and Karl Heinz Schäfer's Les Gants Blancs Du Diable) Le Rose De Fer arguably hears Raph at his most accomplished, adhering to a solid consistent theme tune and using a varied range of disciplines to convey it via the films precarious schizoid screenplay. For fans of Rollin regulars Acanthus, Philippe d'Aram and Francois Tusques this release is essential, but as a stand alone piece Le Rose De Fer is totally unique and, like the film itself, succeeds as the tortoise champion taking first place on many long-term Rollinades lists while his trademark vamps dodge the sunlight.

Pierre Raph - Song For Francoise

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PLEASE NOTE: THIS ALBUM WILL BE RELEASED ON MARCH 25, 2014. 

Widely recognized as the first openly gay country music album—and cited as such even by Nashville institutions like the Country Music Hall of Fame and CMT—the landmark self-titled 1973 LP by Lavender Country stands as nothing less than an artifact of courage, a sonic political protest document of enormous power, clarity, and grace. 
	At once a scathing indictment of the injustices perpetrated on the homosexual community, a proud proclamation of gay identity, and a love letter of bracing intimacy and eroticism, the album radically appropriates the signifiers of the conservative country genre, queering its heteronormative vocabulary into a deeply personal language. Songwriter, singer, and guitarist Patrick Haggerty, a fearless first-generation gay liberation activist and artist, seasons his songs with Yippie deviousness; in the manner of the Cockettes, the laughs both sharpen and sweeten the impact. To our ears the inimitable aesthetics and glimpses of cockeyed humor recall some ethereal psych-folk nexus of the Flatlanders and the Holy Modal Rounders as much as any standard country and western forebears, rendering the biting poetry in an even more otherworldly and timeless light. 
	The record reflects Haggerty’s experiences: his upbringing on a tenant dairy farm in rural Washington, on the Canadian border; his dismissal from the Peace Corps on the spurious grounds of his sexuality; and his righteous struggles as an outraged young gay man navigating the Pacific Northwest in the immediate aftermath of Stonewall. He designed Lavender Country as a vehicle for what he deems “The Information”: valid cultural communications intended to resonate with those unable to access similar resources. (Playing “Cryin’ These Cocksucking Tears,” one of the indisputably great country song titles ever, cost a brave Seattle DJ her FCC license.) 
	This deluxe reissue includes includes a 32pp chapbook with an oral history by Haggerty, never before published color photos, a download code (vinyl version only), and full lyrics to these ten moving songs of gay liberation. 

+ The first openly gay country album
+ First-ever vinyl reissue of this countercultural classic 
+ Includes 32 pp. chapbook with an oral history by Patrick Haggerty and never published color photos
+ Available on 150g virgin vinyl, in a deluxe limited edition, as well as on CD and digital formats
+ Vinyl edition includes digital download coupon
+ Preview album tracks & check out exclusive pre-order bundles at http://www.paradiseofbachelors.com/shop/pob-012

Lavender Country

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Lavender Country - S/T/ (1973/2014, PoB-12): Cryin’ these Cocksucking Tears

Emma Tricca - All The Pretty Flowers | Relic | Bird Records

All The Pretty Flowers

Kevin Morby
"My Name" 7"/DIG
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Release Date: August 5, 2014
Label: Suicide Squeeze Records
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My Name by Kevin Morby

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01 Memories Of War Feat Laetitia Saddier

Taken from "Don´t ever listen" EP - out Oct 30th 2015 on Morr Music
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Eternal Consumption Engine

"Unknown Rooms: A Collection of Acoustic Songs" will be available everywhere October 16th, 2012 via Sargent House
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Appalachia

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Stripped of all noise influences and focusing on straight-up songs, Little Death Shaker is a record evocative of late nights and dusty parking lots, long drives and boozy hookups. This is the work of a dude who’s spent his youth and young manhood on tour and it comes through in both the music and the lyrics. 

This is the most lyric-heavy Raposa’s been and it’s also the most playful and humorous, and you get the feeling some of these songs would be the ones that would go down best near 2am at some weird sports bar dive in southeast Alabama/Iowa/Mississippi. 

We can just see some big biker dude/fallen NASCAR star/Gary Busey lookalike sitting back-to-bar, Bud in hand, having a good-natured laugh over the punchline from “Some of My Friends” or the WTF premise of the Dan Reeder penned “You’ll Never Surf Again.”

Raymond Byron & the White Freighter, "You'll Never Surf Again"

From the new album 'Hymnal', released 4 March 2013 on kranky as krank178.
Recorded July 2012 in Ramsgate, Kent, UK.

Margin

I'd Prefer is a bonus track from the forthcoming Serengeti album, 'Saal', out Feb 12th, 2013. 'Saal' is Serengeti's first record for the Savannah based label & store, Graveface Records & Curiosities (The Appleseed Cast, Whirr, The Casket Girls, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Jason Molina, Xiu Xiu etc).

Produced by Sicker Man.  Remixed by Mokke.

To pre-order the LP or CD, go to www.graveface.com/graveface-catalog.html

LP: Record Club members receive blood red and baby blue haze vinyl. All RC copies hand-numbered. First retail pressing is on electric blue and blood red a side b side vinyl. All customers receive an 11x17 promo poster. Vinyl will be in your hands by 2.12. Mp3s will be emailed when the vinyl goes out.

CD: The CD is packaged in an uncoated recycled sleeve. All customers receive an 11x17 retail poster. CDs will be in your hands by 2.12. Mp3s will be emailed when the CDs go out.

Serengeti - I'd Prefer

The Ash & Clay

Snake Eyes

The Milk Carton Kids - Snake Eyes

From their new LP "How Far Away" out May 2013 on Woodsist Records

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ALEX BLEEKER AND THE FREAKS - Don't Look Down

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Do not forsake me

Professional ranter since 2004. Words in PopMatters, Bandcamp and Exclaim!, among other outlets. Longtime Polaris Prize juror.

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Alan Ranta