Release date March 11, 2016

We are very excited to be releasing Rumours 2, the second album by Pony Time, the best band going in Seattle. Luke Beetham plays bass/guitar and sings, Stacy Peck plays drums. Together they make a very cool minimalist, hook-laden, avant garage pop. Think ESG steeped in the Troggs. (Ss Records SS083)

Pony Time - Don't Mind If I Dew

The Twinkeyz sole LP was originally released in 1979 on Plurex Records but unfortunately what should have been a psychedelic punk classic got a bad mix and a worse mastering job. Well, that has all been fixed! Ss Records is proud to reissue the corrected mix/remastered version of this great album by one of Sacramento's best bands. Street date is May 20. Distributed by Revolver. Pre-order now. 

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The Twinkeyz - Aliens In Our Midst

The Twinkeyz sole LP was originally released in 1979 on Plurex Records but unfortunately what should have been a psychedelic punk classic got a bad mix and a worse mastering job. Well, that has all been fixed! Ss Records is proud to reissue the corrected mix/remastered version of this great album by one of Sacramento's best bands. Mail order from Ss Records. Distributed by Revolver. Order nowW

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The Twinkeyz - That's The Way It Goes

The Proletariat's Soma Holiday was the legendary Boston band's first album. Released in 1983, it is a classic of American hardcore punk. On October 21, 2016 it gets its first official reissue on S-S Records.  http://s-srecords.com 

B4 The Proletariat - Subsidized

A3  The Proletariat - Famine



The first and only vinyl edition of the FM-BX Society Tape 001. Originally released in 1981 only on cassette, with a limited run of 200, FM-BX 001 was the first in a series of compilation tapes released by the staff of a radio station in Brussels, Belgium. Needless to say, not many tapes made it around, and very few survive today. I'd say that is a shame but with this vinyl release, the word will get out about the bands on this tape, albeit a few decades after its initial release!

FM-BX 001 features three bands, two from Belgium, one from Scotland. The Belgium bands are Isolation Ward and Unit 4. Isolation Ward are known in underground synth collector circles, as they had a bit of a run after their debut on this release. Bleak and futuristic, Isolation Ward fuse post punk with early 80s synth sounds and a DIY approach.

The big surprise of FM-BX are the all-woman foursome Unit 4. Little is known about the band or their current whereabouts. No problem because their music is all you need to tell you that they had something special going. By their sound, the influences are obvious: Kleenex, Delta 5, and the Raincoats all reverberate here though less "slick" than any of those bands. Unit 4's aesthetics are more akin to the Petticoats and, at times, the Shaggs. Fans of current day lady singers Titmachine and the Dead Clodettes will dig. This is truly wonderful punk rock.

From Scotland comes the Topplers. If the name sounds familiar, it is doubtful that it is because of the band. One of the Topplers is a guy named Allan Henry, who runs the excellent DIY label Topplers Records. In fact, it is Allan who turned me on to FM-BX to begin with. His band The Topplers? Great stuff. Teens with an ear towards the TV Personalities, The Times, and Subway Sect. They only existed for a couple years but wound up on this tape and, as a result, with an opening slot for Golden Earing! These are the only recordings that exist. Had they come out at the time on a 7"s, I have no doubt DIY collectors would be fighting over copies.


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Unit 4 - Hidden Faces

bAd bAd - s/t LP/CD
bAd bAd started in 2012 when Christian Zamora and Eli Maness started making noise in the foggy outskirts of San Francisco’s Sunset District. After a year or so of playing hyperactive spaghetti western instrumentals and now based in Oakland, bAd bAd started incorporating other influences: the pop-infused punk of Jay Reatard, one-chord Hawkwind power jams, Soft Boys-style psych, and the highbrowed playfulness of the Suburban Lawns. Disparate sounds, yes, but bAd bAd turns them into exciting buzzsaw pop with Barrett/Floyd interludes. bAd bAd started recording their debut album in 2015, perfecting it until it became a seamless psychedelic pop piece of punk energy. This is addictive stuff! Digitally mastered by Mikey Young. Vinyl mastered by John Golden. Pressed at RTI. Artwork by Bert Bergen.

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Dead Ends

The small towns of California’s northern Central Valley have an eerie loneliness to them. Cinematically, take Two-Lane Blacktop and fuse it with Neil Young’s Human Highway. Fix that into music and you’d get something like Ghostwriter. Odd rock & roll from Orland, home of the dearly departed Nothing People, Ghostwriter lurks in the dust-caked shadows of rusted old cars and “obsolete,” solidstate, electronic instruments. The Chrome-meets-psych sounds of the Nothing People is there, with some haunted rockabilly ala Alan Vega, Residents-like wooziness, and something that makes me thing of the words “paranoid closet.” Top quality on its own, but especially excited will be you Nothing People fans who keep bugging me about “their next album.” These outsider/loner rock sounds will be listened to for years to come. Limited pressing of 300. (SS087)

Unit 4 - Hidden Faces

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