Shoot a telescope

Tracks taken from the September 29th reissue of The Heads' favourite album, Everybody Knows We Got Nowhere.  The album represents the full force of The Heads’ psychedelic pummel, their trippiest most psyche collection of tracks, brutal yet beautiful.
  
The Heads have been confirmed as Artist In Residence For Roadburn Festival 2015
(9th - 12th April in Tilburg, The Netherlands.)  For more info on this, please visit: www.roadburn.com 



Legavaan Satellite (taken from 'Everybody Knows We Got Nowhere' Original Album track Remastered)

From the Zig Zags self-titled album, June 2014.

Zig Zags - Down The Drain

Ty Segall & Mikal Cronin - Drop Dead Baby

The Oblivians -  I'll Be Gone

Nashville, Tennessee band TURBO FRUITS have made their name with notoriously wild live shows and frenetic rock songs about girls, drugs and frying their brains. On No Control (in stores 4/20/15) their fourth and most self-aware album, the band emerges from their teenage haze of pot smoke with a fresh perspective, directly addressing the uncertainties and fear of serious relationships, real life and the chaos that can be created by life on the road …

“Turbo Fruits are one of my favorite bands from Nashville and they are also some of my favorite people from Nashville. I'm excited about their new album and glad they let me help out in making some of it.”  -Patrick Carney, The Black Keys

"By a mile, my favorite rock band right now.”  - Todd Snider, Hard Working Americans

The Way I Want You

Rose Windows

Glory, Glory

Rose Windows - Glory, Glory

Rose McDowall’s trajectory from punk provocateur to chart-subverting pop star to underground neo-folk legend has been one fraught with strain and adventure. In 2015, Night School Records is attempting to tell the story of this wayward daughter of Glasgow through a schedule of reissues and unreleased material. Record Store Day 2015 sees the first fruit of this collaboration, an official release of the unapproved 12” single of Don’t Fear The Reaper, originally waxed by McDowall in 1988.

Don’t Fear The Reaper has been remastered and re-edited by legendary engineer and selector Sean Pennycook for 2015. McDowall’s clear-as-crystal vocal performance sails above a latin-flavoured disco beat with the original’s doomy chord changes revitalized into a shiny, gloriously hedonistic brew. Accompanying is the original “Crystal Days,” a track that featured on McDowall’s self-released “Cut With The Cake Knife” demos, a set lost, until now, to history. On the flip Sean P cuts up the original Reaper into an Italo-ized disco re-edit before the instrumental plays out. 

McDowall’s treatment of Don’t Fear The Reaper speaks volumes of where her head was at in 1988. It was the singer’s first solo release after the break up of Strawberry Switchblade and even then it was unapproved. Rush-released by a collaborator and without her consent, “Reaper” quickly vanished and has become the stuff of legend for pop, disco and Strawberry Switchblade fanatics alike. Now fully approved and with new, minimal artwork by Russell Elder, Rose invites us to take her hand.


Rose McDowall - Don't Fear The Reaper (from Don't Fear The Reaper 12'' - LSSN030)

Cut The With The Cake Knife was recorded by Rose McDowall in 1988/89 following the break up of her group Strawberry Switchblade. Produced with the aid of several musicians in several studios, the album features songs written for the fabled second Strawberry Switchblade album. More importantly perhaps it showcases the honest, direct and life-affirming songs of one of the greatest unsung songwriters of the modern pop era at a tumultuous time in her career.

Tibet opens the set and could be one of the best pop songs you’ve never heard. The innate sadness of the songs’ content – the loss of a friendship, impending sorrow – is heightened to heart-melting level by McDowall’s pop nous and melodic sensibility. Choruses and hooks are everywhere on Cake Knife, from the outsider take on stadium 80s pop in Wings Of Heaven to the spiraling, ecstatic So Vicious, a glorious anthem that highlights the human fragility in McDowall’s vocal performance, an instrument that has never lost the naïve purity it first exemplified in Strawberry Switchblade’s early 80s recordings. The centerpiece of the album, the title-track, is the greatest Switchblade pop chart hit that never was. Like the veiled melancholy of her former group’s hits, Cut With The Cake Knife hints at a darkness beneath the gloss, a darkness that saw McDowall delve into more esoteric territory with her subsequent recordings and collaborations. Cut With The Cake Knife serves as the bridge between the pop music McDowall had been making with her friends Jill Bryson, Lawrence from Felt and Primal Scream to what became a more extreme, deep sound informed by neo-folk and post industrial music.

Rose McDowall’s role in the canon has always been one of an outsider. Beginning in Glasgow’s East End in the avant proto-noise group The Poems, achieving fame briefly in the 80s and then disappearing into counter-cultural folklore, the emphasis in the internet-age has been skewed towards her image and cultural significance. Unseen to many, her solo work, her groups Sorrow and Spell and her collaborations with a whole host of underground luminaries have still touched lives. As McDowall elucidates: “They're real sad songs, about real life. I've had people come up to me to say I'd connected with them and helped them. I remember a gig in America when we made a whole room cry. It was bizarre. A couple at the front of the stage started crying and then these two boys beside and  suddenly everyone was crying. And I thought, "that's power."

Night School’s issue of Cut With The Cake Knife includes unpublished photographs, extensive sleeve notes from Rose McDowall and 2 bonus tracks culled from the bootleg 7” “Don’t Fear The Reaper.”


ROSE MCDOWALL - Cut With The Cake Knife (from Cut With The Cake Knife LSSN027)

Wand - Melted Rope

Rat Race from Fuzz's upcoming album "II". Available October 2015 on In The Red.

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Fuzz - Rat Race

Pollinate from Fuzz's upcoming album "II". Available October 23, 2015 at www.intheredrecords.com.

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Fuzz - Pollinate

Recorded at the Second Ave Sleep-out and Bach 62 
By Maggie Magee with Alexander Knight 

Drums ~ Catherine Cumming 
Noise guitars ~ Sean Kelly 
All else ~ Maggie Magee 
Mixed and mastered by Sean Kelly at Bach 62 

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There is an incident on the edge of town; all the local lawnmowers drown it out. Brown paper bags barricade the drain; white feathers turn grey in the rain.

It doesn't take a full room to be crowded out!! 

I saw something on the green; something caught beneath the wheels; and a body smiling shouts - it's ONE MORE IN & ONE MORE OUT.

Looking back on all those teenage nights; two of us the small ones were forced to fight... walking home from school; black hair on the grass, she doesn't say a word, she only runs as fast as she can! 

It doesn't take a full room to be crowded out; it doesn't take a full moon to act insane.......

I saw something on the green; something caught beneath the wheels; and a body smiling shouts - it's ONE MORE IN & ONE MORE OUT....

In the passenger seat, there's a hanging head; as though it's attached to a taut and jerking thread. There's a shop en route that sells mannequins... 
I will take one home 
just to eat with it.


An Incident on the Edge of Town

Rising

TW: murder, abuse, child abuse 

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Recorded at New Bond Street by Maggie Magee & at Wine Cellar by Rohan Evans. Mixed & mastered by James Goldsmith.

Country Justice

As it stands………..I am turning the wheel
As it stands………..there’s nothing left here for you to steal
As it stands………..I haven’t seen you for weeks
As it stands………..you’re doubling through these sewer stained streets
As it stands………..I shoot it down, you know you don’t mean a thing
As it stands………..I step slow motion from the flaming machine
As it stands………..you know that I don’t want it to die, but
As it stands………..I know I’ll never leave this alive

It’s got nothing to do with you
Just the fear of forgetting
The bodies & nights that I’ve been used
& I used you too
……………….......……..like a cheap perfume

As it stands………..the only teacher is time, but
As it stands………..this lesson will be my whole life
As it stands………..I know that it is all in my head, 
As I stand…………..a rising escalator to a cliff edge, &
…………………….........I know I’m being obvious, a whale on the beach, but
As it stands………..we both know who is wearing the leash
As it stands………..I’m walking with my head in my hands, just
…………………......…...waiting for the moment when you stab me right back

It’s got nothing to do with you
Just the fear of forgetting
The bodies & nights that I’ve been used
& I used you too
……………………..........like a cheap perfume
……………………...........like a blow-up doll in a backstreet brawl
……………………...........like strangers sharing a bathroom stall
……………………...........gives me panic stabs from a casual glance
……………………...........gives me swollen glands from uncertain chance
……………………...........& I’m seeing stars in a boxer’s hand
……………………...........a one-night stand with a pension plan

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Recorded by Maggie Magee between Tāmaki Makaurau & Ōtepoti, Aotearoa/New Zealand, & Leipzig, Deutschland/Germany.
Mixed & mastered by James Goldsmith.
Written & produced by Maggie Magee, with exception of featured samples from the films "Like Crazy" (2011), "Titanic" (1997) & "The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant" (1972).

As It Stands

from the album 'because of a flower' available 11/13

Legavaan Satellite (taken from 'Everybody Knows We Got Nowhere' Original Album track Remastered)

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