GRAVE103 ::  Xiu Xiu 'Nina' out Dec 3rd, 2013

The first Xiu Xiu full length on Graveface is an 11 song Nina Simone covers album featuring some incredible musicians: Ches Smith, Tim Berne, Tony Malaby, Mary Halvorson, Andrea Parkins and Jamie Stewart of course. From Jamie: “The idea came being back stage in Austin TX, opening for Swans and feeling like I did not play well. Michael Gira and I had the night before talked about our mutual love for Nina Simone and how her intensity and crazy political truthfulness always pushed us to try harder. After watching the Swans that night and knowing the difficult ups and downs of their history and now their epic and beautiful persistence, they made me want to try harder as well. Nina Simone’s singing is way over my head and while I was back stage feeling like i blew it that night, hearing the swans be amazing and thinking of Nina made me want to not give up. The idea came from wanting to honor her, challenge myself to be better than I think I can be and to say thank you to music. Ches Smith is the only person i know who could understand this in his heart and also handle the technical side of fearlessly reorienting such wonderful music.”

Pre-order here :: http://www.graveface.com/graveface-catalog.html

LP: Graveface Record Club members receive blood red inside clear (color in color) vinyl. All RC copies hand-numbered. First retail/mail-order pressing is baby blue vinyl (limited to 1200). Mail-order only variant is 180gram black vinyl (limited to 100 copies). LP jacket has spot gloss. All customers receive 11x17 promo poster. Will arrive at your house in November, ahead of the release date.

CD: The CD is packaged in an uncoated recycled sleeve. All customers receive 11x17 promo poster. Will arrive at your house in November.

Cassette: The cassette comes with a full color j-card. Limited 500 copies. All customers receive 11x17 promo poster. Will arrive at your house in November.

Xiu Xiu - Don't smoke in bed

Ringo Deathstarr are making no hesitations when it comes to checking things off their 2014 To Do List. The Austin, Texas trio will kick off the new year by both releasing God's Dream,  a 12-inch EP on Neon Sigh / Noyes Records  shortly after completing a 29 date, nation wide tour. The album is set to be released on 25 March 2014. 

Warm guitars and pulsing drums combine to form an aggressively atmospheric bubble, encompassing the listener in an infectious cohesive which blends the sounds of an era when Sonic Youth and Jesus and Mary Chain walked the Earth with a forward thinking and creatively stubborn indie darling. Joined by Adam Franklin of Swervedriver on the track "Nowhere" and Jeff Schroeder of the Smashing Pumpkins on "Chainsaw Morning," Ringo Deathstarr has created a flawlessly crafted sound on God's Dream, destined and deserving to exist on vinyl. 

Thankfully for enthusiasts, that is exactly where God's Dream has ended up. Ringo Deathstarr will release an exclusive run of colorized vinyl, limited to 500 copies. 400 copies of the EP will be pressed in coke bottle, while the remaining 100 copies will be pressed in a mixture of mint green and hot pink. The release will also be available in digital format. 

The band will also begin and end their national tour in Austin, Texas, with the tour kicking off on February 13, 2014 and ending at this year's South By Southwest. 

Ringo Deathstarr, a musical trio from Austin, TX, have been putting out records since 2007.  Consisting of Elliott Frazier (guitar, vocals), Alex Gehring (bass, vocals), and Daniel Coborn (drums, vocals), their sound is born from a love of melody, a love of guitar, and a hatred of pompous vocals.  Finding it to be too much fun, the group has expounded upon the sounds of the masters before them.  This desire to play the music they were too young to witness as children has taken Ringo Deathstarr around the globe, performing in places as far flung as Israel, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, Europe, Canda, and the continental USA, supporting favorites like ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Dean Wareham, The Wedding Present, and The Smashing Pumpkins.  With two full length records (Colour Trip and Mauve) and a handful of EPs and singles in the bag, now is the time  for a new EP, "God's Dream," which was recorded in Austin and on a ranch in Dripping Springs, TX.  For this record, the band reunited with Chris "Frenchie" Smith, who co-produced their debut EP.

Ringo Deathstarr will release God's Dream on 25 March 2014 on Neon Sigh / Noyes Records.  

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Ringo Deathstarr - Bong Load

01 First Exit

faintmantle

Bloomer

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LYSSA was the goddess or personified spirit (daimona) of mad rage, fury, crazed frenzy and, in animals, rabies.The Athenians spelt her name Lytta. Lyssa was a figure of Athenian tragedy.

Written by Melody Lynn
Produced by Melody Lynn and Disraeli Davis

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Lyrics:
(V1)
Close your eyes
praying for someone to save you
lonely child
Inside of the body you cling to
Marrow mouth
Swallowing down what they feed you
What they feed
Without a doubt
they want you the moment they need you
when they need

(Chorus) 
Gather round crowd
The doctors now
the nurses now
Won't you let me out (x2)

I cannot breathe
No curing no curing me
Lay me to sleep
I think I'll be sick
For what feels like eternity 
Eternity

(V2.)
Close your eyes
Moonlight controlling your tide
I will not cry
Mourning the girl that I was
That girl has died
Marrow mouth
Swallowing down what they feed you
What they feed
Without a doubt
They want you the moment they need you
When they need

(Chorus)
Gather round crowd
The doctor's now
The nurses now

won't you let me out

Spaceships

Lyssa's Metamorphosis

"Grace Riders on the Road".
full-length CD/cassette, 10 tracks
release date: October 12, 2012

edition of 300 cds and 50 cassettes. To purchase, paypal $11 for tape, or $13 for CD (both postage included) to cohenkayla@gmail.com, and send an email with your paypal name/address. To purchase an mp3 download send $7 and an email. Purchase of a tape or CD automatically comes with a download link, if you'd like. If you are international send me an email for a shipping quote. 

music written and recorded by Kayla Cohen in Brooklyn, NY and Los Angeles, CA. Mastered by Sean McCann.


Marcy Rain

lyrics:
Just let me die already
Caus' I've been falling for too long
And I just want to hit the ground

And since I've seen what it can take
I'd rather fall and never awake
For I've decided this world is not for me

And it's hard to keep on going when you don't want to
And it hurts to know that there's nothing you can do
To help 
Yourself

Talk to me 
Get me away from the edge once again
And hold me close 
When I don't ask for it

And since I've seen what it can take
I'd rather fall and never awake
For I've decided this world is not for me

And it's hard to keep on going when you don't want to
And it hurts to know that there's nothing you can do
To help 
Yourself






Hit The Ground

It's Been a Long Time

Roses All Around

Roses All Around (Single)

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Lyssa's Metamorphosis

Queen Of The Static Opera